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Daniel M. Hall is a Yankee by nativity, having been born in New Haven, Connecticut, on October 20, 1813, and is the eldest son of nine children born to Avery and Elizabeth (Northrup) Hall, both of whom are now deceased. Of these children three sons, besides the subjeet, survive, namely: Howard H., of Fargo, North Dakota; George W., of Chicago Heights, Illinois, and Newton A., of Wichita, Kansas. Avery Hall was a farmer by voeation, served as a Union soldier during the Civil War, and he and his father became pioneer settlers of Lorain county, Ohio, the grandfather being one of the first three settlers in Brighton township, that county, he naming the town of Brighton.
Daniel M. Hall was about two years of age when the family came to Ohio and he received his early education in the common schools of Lorain county. He was reared on the parental farmstead and was about seventeen years of age when the toesin of the war sounded and, without waiting to unhitch the team with which he was plowing, he hastened to the nearest recruiting point, enlisting in Company H of the Second Ohio Cavalry, with which he went to the front. In 1862 a horse fell upon him and broke his hip and, as it was thought he would never be able to ride again, he was discharged. However, in the summer of 1863 he was so far recovered that he again enlisted. this time in the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry in compliance with his mother's request because of the fact that his younger brother was in that regiment. He served with that command over two years, or until the close of the war, being mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, on November 14, 1865. He saw much hard service and had many narrow eseapes, participating in all the battles, skirmishes and raids in which his regiment had a part, and earning a high reputation as a brave intrepid soldier.
After his discharge from the army, the subject clerked in a general store at Brighton, Ohio, for six years, when he formed a partnership with C. I. Richmond and bought the store. which they operated for six years. At the end of that period Colonel Hall sold out to his partner and became a traveling salesman for the Santley Lumber Company, of Wellington. Ohio. He became an expert judge of timber and eventually entered the employ of the Kirk Christy Lumber Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, buying and selling for them and finally assuming the management of their five mills in Pike county, Ohio. In 1900 Colonel Hall moved to Columbus. with which eity he has been identified ever since. He continued traveling in the
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lumber business until 1909, when he was made superintendent of the Memorial Hall build- ing in Columbus, in which capacity he is still serving.
On May 15, 1870, Colonel Hall was married to Martha M. Burr, of Brighton, Lorain county, Ohio, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Burr. To their union has been born one son, Clarence B. Hall, who has been associated with the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, at Columbus, for fifteen years. Clarence B. Hall married Nora B. Bradley, of Spencer, Ohio, and they have three children, Ralph Gordon, Marion Margaret and Elizabeth.
Colonel Hall first became a member of the Grand Army of the Republic in Wellington, Ohio, in 1884, becoming affiliated with Hamlin Post, of which he became a past commander. In 1905 he transferred his membership to J. M. Wells Post, at Columbus, of which he has been a member ever since. He served from officer of the guard to commander of Wells Post, later on was elected department commander of Ohio, and in September, 1919, he was elected senior vice commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic at the meeting held at Columbus. On the Ist day of the following November he became commander-in-chief of that organization, because of the death of Col. James D. Bell, commander-in-chief. He thus holds a rank which entitles him to four stars, a rank held by only one other person in the United States, General Pershing. The national headquarters of the Grand Army have been moved to Columbus and Colonel Hall is giving his time and energies to the welfare of the organization. Colonel Hall is also a member of the Sons of Veterans.
Colonel Hall is also a member of the Columbus Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and formerly held membership in the Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons and Knights of Pythias at Wellington. He is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce of Columbus. Politically, he has been a lifelong supporter of the Republican party, and at one time was elected infirmary director of Lorain county and, later, declined the nomination for sheriff of that county. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Although a quiet and unassuming man, Colonel Hall has contributed much to the material, moral and civic advancement of his community, while his admirable qualities of head and heart have won for him the esteem and confidence of the circles in which he moves. In the truest sense of the phrase he is a self-made man, for, though his education was cut short by his army service, he has become a well informed man and has succeeded in everything to which he has applied his energies.
JOHN JAY MORGAN. Those who belong to the respectable middle classes of society, being early taught the necessity of relying upon their own exertions, will be more apt to acquire that information and those business habits which alone can fit them for the discharge of life's duties, and indeed it has long been a noticeable fact that our leading men in nearly all walks of life in America sprang from this class. One of the many representatives of this worthy element in the city of Columbus of the present generation is John Jay Morgan, con- sulting engineer.
Mr. Morgan is a native of Indiana, born at Frankfort, April 13, 1884, although he is a descendant of two old Ohio families. His parents, John F. and Laura (Warner) Morgan, were natives of the central part of this state. His paternal grandparents were Newton and Martha (Foster) Morgan, both Ohio pioncers. John F. Morgan engaged in the lumber busi- ness in Ohio and Indiana, but later in life he bought a farm in the latter state, where he passed the remainder of his life. He is deceased as is also his wife.
John Jay Morgan was educated in the public schools of Frankfort and Lafayette, Indiana, and at Purdue University, from which institution he was graduated in 1904 in civil engineer- ing, receiving the degree of Bachlor of Science.
He began his professional work in 1904 in the engineering corps of the Chicago & North- western Railway, with which company he remained until 1907, then was employed by the Kansas City Southern Railroad for a few months. He was assistant city engineer of Grand Rapids, Michigan, from March, 1907 until November, 1908, and in that year he located in Columbus, and was assistant city engineer from 1909 to 1911 and engincer of construction in the department of buildings from 1911 to January, 1912, since which time he has been engaged in private work. He was engaged as consulting engineer on the design and construc- tion of remodeling the city's municipal sewerage reduction plant, which work was completed in 1917. He has handled the construction work of numerous reinforced concrete buildings of
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importance in Columbus, Dayton, Springfield, Canton and Marion, Ohio. His professional repu- tation extends all over the state.
In all the positions mentioned above Mr. Morgan discharged his duties most ably and faith- fully, to the satisfaction of all concerned. His work is always characterized by fidelity, promptness and a very high grade of workmanship. He has remained a close student of all that pertains to his special line of endeavor and his special talents in this line have been regarded as quite unusual from the first, by those who are at all familiar with his work.
Mr. Morgan is a member of the Engineer's Club of Columbus, the Columbus Athletic Club, the Columbus Automobile Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Business Men's Gymnasium Club, the Young Business Men's Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He is deeply interested in everything that is helpful in making a better Columbus.
Since the entrance of America in the World War, Mr. Morgan was very active in the work of raising war funds, in the work of the Red Cross, War Chest, Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps sales.
On April 8, 1908, Mr. Morgan was united in marriage with Elizabeth Martin, a native of London, England, but who at that time lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Mr. Morgan is one of the popular and prominent young men of affairs in Columbus and his friends are limited only by the circle of his acquaintance.
CHARLES CALLOWAY PAVEY. Charles Calloway Pavey was born August 26, 1857, in Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, the son of Madison Pavey, of pure English stock, and Mary L. Dunlap Pavey of Scotch-Irish ancestry. In 1859 he removed, with his parents, to Washington C. H., Ohio, where he was educated in the public schools, graduating from the Washington C. H. high school, in June, 1877. In June, 1882, he graduated in the Arts course from the University of Wooster, at Wooster, Ohio, and in June, 1884, in law, from the Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut. Returning to Washington C. H., Ohio, he was admit- ted to the bar of Ohio, in December, 1881, and at once entered upon the practice of his profes- sion, in partnership with his father, in his home town, and there continued to practice law until September 2, 1899, when he located in Columbus, Ohio, where he opened an office and has ever since continued the practice of law, and is now so engaged with Senator Lloyd and Bert Wolman, under the firm name of Pavey, Lloyd & Wolman.
On October 6, 1887, at Washington C. H., Ohio, Mr. Pavey was married to Miss Eva M. Grove, the daughter of Martin Grove, a farmer, and his wife, Sarah Jane Coffman Grove. To Mr. and Mrs. Pavey, two sons were born, Ralph Madison Pavey, April 2, 1890, and Carl Cal- loway Pavey, December 3, 1891, both of whom are living; both of whom were educated in the public schools of Columbus, and are graduates of the Ohio State University, and both of whom entered the army and served in the World War. Ralph M. Pavey is foreman of the William Hanley ranch in Oregon, and Carl C. Pavey is one of the Electrical Engineers of the Bell Telephone Company in Columbus, Ohio.
Mr. Pavey is a member of Goodale Lodge, F. & A. M .; of Confidence Lodge, K. of P., and of Temple Lodge, I. O. O. F. In 1903-1904, he was Grand Master of the 1. O. O. F. of Ohio. He is also a member of the Athletic and Kit-Kat Clubs of Columbus, but not a member or affiliated with any sectarian organization. In religious belief he is not an atheist, but he does not believe in Divine revelation nor in the Divinity of Christ. As nearly as he can define his religious belief he is a Deist, but nothing more, and so little confidence does he put in this belief that he may possibly be an Agnostic. But his toleration for every kind of religion is as broad as his own beliefs arc wide. Mr. Pavey is an ardent student of the Greek and Hebrew civilizations and in his leisure time has written and published much of his reaction in these fields, as well as on the themes of modern life.
HERBERT BROOKS. Descended from a family which was the first to establish its home on the "high banks of the Scioto opposite Franklinton," and thic members of which bore an active part in the social and business life of the community, Herbert Brooks is playing his part in full keeping with the record. His grandmother on his father's side was Keziah Ham- lin, the first white child born in what is now Columbus. As related elsewhere, she was a favor- ite with the Indians hereabout, and was once playfully carried off that a pair of moccasins they were making might be fitted to her fect. Keziah, grown up, married David Brooks, and to them were born eight children, the eldest of whom David W. Brooks, born in 1828, married
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Anna Maria Simpkins in 1850. He was Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court, County Clerk and a member of the Board of Police Commissioners when the City Prison was erected. For many years he was in the grocery business with Nathaniel Merion and later was president of the bank of Brooks, Butler & Company. Nine children were born to him and his wife, the second of whom was Herbert Brooks, born December 16, 1853.
Herbert was educated in the public schools of Columbus and at 16 entered his father's bank as messenger. He worked his way up through various positions and, at the death of the last of the partners, successfully liquidated the business of the bank. Mr. Brooks then turned his attention to structural steel work, one of his tasks being the superintendence of the steel construction of the judiciary addition to the State House. In 1898 on the organization of the Ohio Building & Loan Company, he became its treasurer and one of its directors-positions which he still holds. He has also been, and still is, identified with numerous other business enterprises.
To Mr. Brooks and his wife (Clara Belle Tate, daughter of John H. Tate, a banker of Rockville, Indiana), there have been born four children: Louise B., Clara, Phillips, deceased, and Herbert, jr.
Mr. Brooks has written much for newspapers and magazines, his favorite theme being the great out-doors, whose beauty and majesty he has often admirably interpreted. Another of his traits is shown in his membership in the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Old Northwest Genealogical and Historical Society. He is also a thirty-third degree Mason.
JOHN JONES PUGH. For nearly forty years now John Jones Pugh has been connected with the Columbus Public Library. Naturally, therefore, when the Library service is mentioned, the name and figure of Mr. Pugh come into the field of vision. What the ser- vice and equipment are is largely due to him.
Born February 29, 1864, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Jones Pugh, both of whom had come to this city from Wales, he was allied with some of the pioneer Welsh families of Columbus. His father was care-taker for a number of years of the Starling Medical College building on East State street and it was while the family was living in that building, associated with some of the literary, as well as medical, traditions of Columbus, that he was born. When he was nine or ten, he was carrying a Journal route and selling the Dispatch on the streets. He was educated in the Columbus public schools and after his graduation in 1881, for a time attended the normal school. In the same year, however, he entered the Public Library as assistant to the venerable librarian, Rev. J. L. Grover, and in 1896, when the latter became incapacitated through age, succeeded him as librarian, a position which he has held continu- ously since.
The library was then housed in the City Hall and was crying for room. An annex to the City Hall was built for its accommodation, but that, too, was soon filled to overflowing. When Andrew Carnegie was giving of his millions for city library buildings, Mr. Pugh entered into negotiations with him, and with the approval and cooperation of the Library Board, secured an offer of $150,000 for a building, under the usual conditions of municipal support. The amount was subsequently increased to $200,000, and the present imposing library was built on a site purchased by the city.
During the World War, Mr. Pugh was supervisor of the American Library Association war work and an active member of the American Protective League. He supervised the gath- ering and transmission of books and magazines for the soldiers in camps and on transports and helped to suppress seditions and anti-American literature.
In 1888 Mr. Pugh married Katherine Fornoff, who had been his classmate in the public schools : and to them three children were born: Elizabeth, now married to Herbert 1. Long; Katherine and Mary Helen. He is Past Grand of Junia Lodge, I. O. O. F .; was State Su- preme Dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose; is a member of the Scottish Rite, 32nd degree, and of Aladdin Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has also been prominent in musical circles, having been a member of the old Arion Club, executive chairman of the Eisteddfod and president of the Columbus Opera Club.
JOHN ADRIAN KELLEY. One of the active and energetie younger men of Columbus is John Adrian Kelley, who was born in New Lexington, Ohio, August 7, 1886, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Kelley. Two years later the family moved to Columbus where Jolin was educated
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in the parochial and publie high schools. The death of his father at that time prevented him from going to college, and to aid his mother in providing for her five younger children, he became a reporter for the Dispatch, where he served till 1909, when he became secretary of the Columbus Builders' Exchange, increasing its membership and moving it into larger quar- ters. From 1913 to 1917 he was manager of the Industrial Bureau of the Chamber of Com- meree which in that period brought nineteen factories to the city and aided many already here. He was one of the founders and secretary of the Export Club of Columbus, one of the founders and seeretary-treasurer of the Franklin County Co-operative Farm Bureau and was for a time secretary of the Manufacturers and Jobbers' Association, executing the plans for the first Columbus Industrial Exposition in the State House square. While thus serving he wrote a number of brochures showing the advantages of Columbus industrially and commercially.
When the United States entered the World War, Mr. Kelley assisted in organizing Colum- bus manufacturers into the Columbus War Industries Board, which sent a representative to Washington to secure war business, and which later developed into the District War Industries Board, a part of a national organization. He presented the brief to the War Department which resulted in the location of the great storage warehouses on the precise site recommended. He was secretary-manager of the Liberty Loan Committee for the Columbus area, consisting of Franklin and fifteen adjoining counties, and continued as such to the end of the second cam- paign for the sale of bonds. Before the third campaign he was ealled to serve as secretary to H. P. Wolfe, Ohio State Director of the War Savings Stamp Campaign, and at this writing he is still serving in that capacity. He also did much of the publicity work for the Knights of Columbus financial campaign and the Boy Scouts associate membership campaign.
In 1910 Mr. Kelley was married to Miss Josephine Nash, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Nash, of Columbus, and they have four children. He is a member of the Knights of Colum- bus and belongs to the Athletic Club.
MAURICE STEWART HAGUE. Representative of that sterling line of artists who have found their inspiration and subjects in the scenery of central Ohio and have reproduced its beauties for the adornment of homes far and near is Maurice Stewart Hague. He was born at Richmond, Ohio, the son of James Russel and Susan (Stewart) Hague. The family soon moved to Columbus and here the son was educated in the public schools. For three years thereafter he studied medicine, but his sensitive nature revolted against the scenes attendant upon that profession and directed him instead to art in which he educated himself, building upon a natural aptitude for drawing and color. He followed portrait painting and modeling until 1895 when he took up landscape painting where he has achieved his greatest successes. He has exhibited at Boston, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Buffalo, Cleveland and Columbus and is represented in private collections in New York, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Cleveland, Columbus and other cities. He is a member of the American Federation of Art.
In music also, Mr. Hague has been prominent, having been one of the charter members of the famous Orpheus Club and a member throughout the existence of that male chorus; also of the Scottish Rite Quartet (1888-1903). He is a Mason, 32nd degree, and a member of the Kit-Kat Club. In 1917 he was appointed a member of the Ohio Board of Motion Picture Censors.
DENNIS AUGUSTINE CLARKE. One of the most faithful and efficient religious workers in Columbus was Father Dennis Augustine Clarke, of the Holy Family Catholic Church, West Side. He was born in Columbus, December 15, 1850, his father's family having come to Columbus as early as 1832, from Virginia, while his mother's family came from Ireland where she was born. He attended the parish school of St. Patrick's Church and later entered the University of Notre Dame, graduating with. honors in 1870 as a Bachelor of Science and later taking Master's degrees in both science and arts. He taught for a time in his Alma Mater and, returning to Columbus in 1871, established the Catholie Columbian which was at first under the management and control of Bishop Rosecrans. On the death of the latter. the entire responsibility for the paper fell on Mr. Clarke, and he continued at the task until he had the satisfaction of knowing that he had placed that means of Catholic publicity upon a sound basis. He then sold the paper and, after a year in Colorado and Utah regaining his health which had been undermined by his severe ordeal, returned to Columbus and, having completed his theological training, was in 1879 ordained a priest. His first assignment was
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as Catholic Chaplain in the Ohio Penitentiary where he served till 1883. In 1884 he assumed charge of the Holy Family congregation, where until his sudden death, May 17, 1920, he re- mained a zealous religious worker, an ardent advocate of temperance, a contributor to news- papers and periodicals and a sterling factor in the civic life.
JOHN HENRY VERCOE was a lawyer of intense energy and application and won a posi- tion in the front ranks of men of his profession in which he was what might be denominated a student lawyer. He was born in Columbus, August 23, 1855, the son of John Cunningham Vercoe and Jemima (Martin) Vercoe, both natives of England, where they spent their earlier years. The father came to America in the early fifties, landing at a Canadian port, then direct to Columbus, making the trip by a boat on the lake to Sandusky, and from there to the capi- tal city by canal boat. He will be remembered as one of the best known stone mason con- tractors in this city. His death occurred in 1911.
John H. Vercoe received his education in the Columbus schools. He began life for himself as a telegraph messenger boy in 1871 and by his own efforts he learned telegraphy. Saving his earnings and being ambitious to secure a higher education, he entered Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity at Delaware, but did not complete the full course. Upon leaving college he returned to Columbus and resumed work as a telegraph operator and while thus engaged he read law and was admitted to the bar in the year 1880, but it was not until five years later that he began the practice of law, ranking as one of the able members of the local bar for over three decades. He died in 1919.
Mr. Vercoc was a member of the Franklin County Bar Association, the Columbus Ath- letic Club, the Scioto Country Club and the Rotary Club.
On June 29, 1880, he was united in marriage with Mary L. Price, daughter of Israel N. Price. Two daughters were born to this union, namely: Helen V., who married Albert E. Jones, of Columbus; and Hester V., who is the wife of Frank C. Huling, also of Columbus.
EDGAR B. KINKEAD. Napoleon said to Marshal Ney: "Perhaps the world be just as v .- il off, if neither of us had ever lived." That might be truly said of a great many other men, and of many others it should not be predicated. The lives of selfish men are hardly worth while; nor are they remembered very long, as a rule. It is not always the most popu- lar man whose life has been of the greatest value to his fellowmen. He may not have had his name written on the pages of history. He may have been a man who has had a modest esti- mate of himself and who has simply performed his duties faithfully and unostentatiously.
Strong lives do not come by chance, or magic. Nor do they come suddenly into being. It is interesting not only to know the deeds of the adult years of such a person, but also the clements that enter into his character and the forces and qualities that combine to make him what he lias become.
These preliminary observations are pertinent to this sketch of Judge Edgar B. Kinkead. We are not vitally concerned whether he has a long lineage, but his immediate parents are of interest because of their dominant force upon their son. His remote paternal ancestors came from the Emerald Isle, coming originally from Scotland. His mother was of English-Scotch origin. These make a mixture of bloods that begets enthusiasm, love, energy, sturdiness, cour- age, character.
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