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At the usual age A. M. Dodds entered the public schools, pursuing his studies through successive grades until he entered upon a course in the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, where he won his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1902. Returning at once to Dayton he was here engaged in the wholesale millinery business for three years and, in 1906 when the Dayton Automobile Company was organized, he was elected president and general manager. He is thus giving his attention to the care- ful direction of its interests, manifesting marked executive force and keen dis- crimination in control of its affairs. He is also a director in the Winters National Bank.
When age conferred upon Mr. Dodds the right of franchise he enlisted in re- publican ranks and has since marched under the party banners. He is prominent in Masonry, belonging to the Knight Templar commandery and to the Consistory
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and is also connected with the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks and to the Owls Lodge, while his religious faith is indicated in his membership in the First United Brethren church. As a repre- sentative of one of the oldest families of the county he is well known and his life record is in harmony with that of an honored ancestry that through successive generations has been closely allied with all the progressive movements relating to the material, intellectual and moral progress of the community.
JOHN THOMAS FOUTS.
John Thomas Fouts, a retired farmer, residing in Germantown, but owning a fine farm of seventy-seven acres on the west side of the Oxford road, about five miles from the city, is the son of Jacob J. and Sarah J. (Bailey) Fouts. The great-grandfather on the paternal side came to Ohio from Lancaster county, Penn- sylivania, accomplishing the journey by wagon. He was the first settler in this part of the county and cleared the land upon which the old homestead was built and stands to this day. He married Miss Elizabeth Stubbs and their son John was born and reared on the old home place. Later he engaged in its operation and was successful beyond the average. John Fouts wedded Miss Mary Judy and they were the parents of Jacob J. Fouts, the father of the subject of this sketch. He also was reared on the old home place on which he had been born and was educated in the public schools of this county. He was a man who was dependent upon himself for his advancement and soon won a foremost place among the farmers of Montgomery county, taking an active part in all matters that concerned the com- munity. He was the father of three children, Thomas, William and U. S. Sarah J. (Bailey) Fouts, the mother of our subject, is the daughter of Thomas and Ann (Denise) Bailey. Her father came here from Clinton county and was one of the early settlers in this locality, where he followed his trade of miller. When he located here he did not have any money, but by hard work and careful management gained for himself a comfortable income. Eleven children were born to him: William and Abe, both deceased; Samuel, who is still living; Sidney, deceased : Sarah J .; Anna Maria, deceased ; George ; Elizabeth, deceased ; Rachel and Kate.
John Thomas Fouts received his early training for life in the common schools and at home under the guidance of his parents. From his youth he has worked on the farm, even during his school period, and has made the best use of the op- portunities afforded him. Until advancing years and a sufficient income suggested the wisdom of retiring from active pursuit, his farms were always well cul- tivated, showing the thrift and diligence of their owner. His crops were plentiful and the returns of his labor good.
On the 31st of January, 1882, Mr. Fouts was united in marriage to Miss Net- tie Whallon, the daughter of George and Sarah (Long) Whallon. William Whallon, her paternal grandfather, was the first of the family to come to this coun- ty from New Jersey, his former home. His son, George Whallon, was born in Hamilton county, in 1826, and was a farmer and a mechanic. He died June 2, 1006, in the eightieth year of his age. To Mr. and Mrs. Fouts were born three
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children, of whom Berdella and an infant are deceased. Grace Ethel, the eldest, is the wife of Ernst Slifer. The family is identified with church work, the lives of its various members evincing a most Christian spirit. The Fouts home is sit- uated on the corner of Market and Walnut streets.
Mr. Fouts has had little taste for organizations of any kind, or, in fact, for any diversions that called him beyond the bosom of his family and from the pursuit of his calling. To this fact may indeed be credited the success of the years in his farming, and also the happiness of his home. He is, however, a good neighbor, and has his friends who wish him a continued enjoyment of many years of ease.
GEORGE P. MICHAEL.
George P. Michael, who was one of the prosperous farmers of Montgomery county before he retired from active life and took up his residence in Germantown, owns one hundred and seventy-three acres of excellent farm land, in two distinct farms, the smaller one, of seventy acres, lying in Jefferson township. He was born in Maryland, December 9, 1834, and is the son of John and Charlotte (Dull) Michael. John Michael came here from Maryland, accompanied his own fainily and also his father, Peter Michael, who had retired from active participation in farm life, and settled first near Sunbury. Later he moved to the land he purchased near Liberty, Jefferson township, upon which he lived and reared his family. There were eight children born to John Michael and his wife, all of those surviving being residents of this county. They are Rowena, George P., John, Mary, Wesley and Enos. Cornelius, the eldest, and Jacob, the fifth child, have passed away.
George P. Michael received his education in the schools of this county, and has all his life been devoted to farming interests, assisting in the work that was carried on at home from the time he was able to perform the smallest tasks, until, having attained his full growth, he could do a man's work in the fields. He owned large tracts, which were under a high state of cultivation, were well improved and bore witness to the thrift, industry and good management of their owner. Having made a marked success of the work to which he had given the best years of his life, Mr. Michael felt justified in committing the greater responsibilities to another and enjoying the rest and comforts that were his due.
Mr. Michael has been married twice, the bride of his first union having been Miss Sarah Myers, to whom he was wedded in February, 1856. To Mr. and Mrs. Michael have been born eight children and several grandchildren have also been granted them. Ella, the eldest, is the wife of Martin Young, and the mother of Etta ; Bessie ; Ruth, deceased ; Russell ; and Esther. Noah, the second in the family, has died. Mary Ann is at home. Lucinda is the wife of Clinton Mathias and has six children: Bertha ; Walter ; Adah; Fay and Ray, who are twins; and Virgie Emma, the fifth of the family, married George Weaver. Amanda married Perry Forrest and is the mother of Maud, Haldon, Leta and Robert. Perry married Miss Lcota Rawheat, who has borne him two sons, Waldo and Ralph. Charles, the youngest of Mr. Michael's children by his first wife, takes full charge of the inter- ests of the family. He was born on the farm in Jackson township, July 25, 1870.
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Upon completing his education in the schools here, he went to Otterbein University and then engaged in teaching. He had, however, always been identified with farming interests from his childhood days and along with his professional work conducted a profitable farm in Preble county. Of late his time has been fully occupied in caring for the many agricultural and other concerns of the family, handed over to him when his father retired from active life. He was married on the 16th of February, 1904, to Miss Dora Fadler, the daughter of John F. and Mary (Saur) Fadler, and they now have one child, Dorothy. He belongs to the United Brethren church and is a member of the Knights of Pythias. When Mr. Michael entered the matrimonial state the second time, his bride was Miss Mary Rauch, the daughter of Peter and Anna (Bowen) Rauch. The marriage was celebrated on the 7th of December, 1876, and has been blessed with three chil- dren ; Jesse, who married Mary Francis ; George Oscar, who married Jennie Law- rence and is the father of a son, George L .; and Albert, who married Laura Wolpers.
Mr. Michael is a consistent member of the United Brethren church and is at present a trustee of the congregation. In the many years that have been allotted to him he has proved his right to the high regard in which he is held among those who have come in contact with him and to the good fortune that attended the period of his activity.
AARON E. SLOUGH.
Aaron E. Slough, a successful farmer of Miami township, Montgomery county, has the reputation of being one of the best tobacco raisers in his county. He lives upon and works the land of Mrs. John Treon, of Miamisburg, which he has ad- vanced to a high degree of productiveness. He was born May 31, 1854, the son of Christopher and Susan (Swar) Slough. The former, who has been dead four years, was born and reared in Springfield, Ohio, his parents having come to this state from Pennsylvania. Following in his father's footsteps he took up the work of a farmer, in which he was very successful, and when he came to this county he became one of its most respected agriculturists. Our subject is a descendant of Ccionel Mathias Slough, who was the first colonel appointed by General Wash- ington when he became commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war.
Aaron E. Slough was reared at home under the guidance of wise parents and received his education in the common schools here. so that Miami township can claim full credit for the lessons taught and experiences gained which made possible his advancement in his line of work. On the 15th of January, 1876, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Slough and Miss Catherine G. Mount, the daughter of John and Hannah (Vandever) Mount, who were very prominent in farming circles in this county. For only a little over nine years were the couple permitted to traverse together life's road, for Mrs. Slough was taken from this world October 31, 1885. She had borne a family of five children, four of whom are living useful lives. They were: May, the wife of Clayton Small and the mother of Delphine and Nellie ;
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Susie, the wife of Milton West and the mother of two daughters, Helen G. and Grace ; Emma, who married J. M. Robinson ; Bert E., deceased ; and Walter Roy, who married Miss C. Eckhart, who has borne him a son, Bert.
Although so much of his time is given to the cares of the farm, Mr. Slough still finds hours to spend in the company of his fraternal brothers of the Knights of Pythias, to whom he is ever most loyal and in whose welfare he is ever most inter- ested. His allegiance in religious matters is given to the Presbyterian church, and he takes an active part in all its affairs. He is the owner of a bible which has been in the Slough family for two hundred and fifty years. Many are the friends he has made in this county, and all who know him can speak highly of his industry, thrift and good principles.
HENRY W. KAISER.
Henry W. Kaiser is numbered among the capable men who constitute the board of review in Dayton. Throughout the period of his connection with public service his record has won the approval of all citizens who have the good of the community at heart for at all times his official duties have been discharged with promptness and fidelity for with him the welfare of the community and advancement of general progress are placed before partisanship or personal aggrandizement. He started upon life's journey in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 21, 1850. He is of German lineage and was educated in both German and English while pursuing his course in the public schools. He remained a resident of Cincinnati to the age of twenty-five years and after putting aside his text-books he devoted some years to learning and following the trade of saddle covering.
On the Ist of November, 1875, Mr. Kaiser arrived in Dayton, coming to this city as city agent for the Fleischmann Yeast Company, which he thus represented for thirty-two years and two months or until 1907. This fact stands in incontro- vertible evidence of ability and fidelity. No higher testimonial of his loyalty and capable service could be given. In the meantime he had become somewhat active in political circles, being first called to office in 1893 when he was elected a com- missioner of Montgomery county for a term of three years. He filled that office so satisfactorily that the public expressed its endorsement in his reelection and he remained in office for six years and eight months, owing to an extension of the term through a process of law. In 1907 he was elected a member of the Dayton board of review and is now acting in that capacity. His interest in the general welfare and his desire for continued progress in all matters of citizenship make him one of the most reliable officials of the city.
On the 17th of September, 1874, in Cincinnati, Mr. Kaiser was married to Miss Emma Rheinhardt, who was born in that city October 17, 1855, and was a daughter of Frederick Rheinhardt. Three children were born of this marriage: Harry F., Maude N. and J. Edward. The wife and mother died December 22, 1895, and her loss was deeply mourned by many who appreciated and enjoyed her friendship.
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Mr. Kaiser is a member of St. John's German Evangelical Lutheran church and is well known in various fraternal relations, belonging to the Masonic lodge, the Knights of Pythias, the Maccabees, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, in which he has been honored with high office, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Garfield Club. He has long maintained an unassailable reputation as a business man and his official record is in harmony therewith.
JOHN L. CARTER, M. D.
Dr. John L. Carter, a young physician of West Carrollton, was born in the town of Sabina, Clinton county, Ohio, in the year 1872. He is the son of Joseph and Margaret (Hall) Carter, who were numbered among the prominent farmers of that county. His grandfather, John Carter, established the family in this part of the country. He was the son of Irish parents, who when they came to America took up their abode in North Carolina. From there John Carter came as a young man to Ohio and took up a considerable tract of land in Clinton county, which has since been known as the Carter homestead. He married Miss Anna Millikin, who was the mother of Joseph Carter. Like his father the latter was a farmer and an owner of land. He lived upon the home place, on which he had been born, until he put aside the active cares of life, and retired to Sabina, Ohio, where he died on the 27th of November, 1904, and lies buried. Two children were granted to him and his devoted wife: Harvey H. and John L., both of whom survive. He was a man of prominence in the concerns of the locality in which he lived and for many years he was a pike contractor.
John L. Carter received his early education in the common schools of Clinton county. He soon decided upon medicine as the profession to which he would devote himself and pursued his school work with that end in view. He prepared first for the medical school in Sabina, and from there went to the Ohio Medical College, entering in 1892. Three years later he received his physician's degree and started upon the practice of his profession. For two years he practiced at Selma, Ohio, and then came to West Carrollton, which has been his home and the scene of his labors ever since. He was physician for the Friend Paper Company ten years, and also surgeon for the Cincinnati Northern Traction Company.
In 1895 Dr. Carter was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Jessie Watt, the daughter of John and Refayma Watt, of Welleston, Ohio, where the father was furnace superintendent for one of the companies that the town supports. But one child has been born to Dr. and Mrs. Carter, a daughter, Winnifred, who is of school age.
As a member of the Oliio State Medical Association and the national society, besides the association formed by the physicians of the county, Dr. Carter keeps abreast of the times in his profession and assists in promoting its interests. His professional duties require the greater share of his time, yet he is not infrequently present at the meeting of the several lodges, to which he gives his fraternal support and in whose interests he is a zealous worker. The West Carrollton Lodge, No. 826, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows numbers him among its members,
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and he is a Scottish Rite Mason. In the twelve years that Dr. Carter has minis- tered to the physical needs of the people of West Carrollton he has built up a practice of considerable size, and a reputation which is the result of his devotion to his profession and the welfare of his patients. As a physician his opinion is held in regard, and as a man and friend he is respected and admired.
HOWARD R. KLEPINGER.
Howard R. Klepinger, county surveyor of Montgomery county, was born in . Madison township, this county, May 25, 1883, and was reared amid rural sur- roundings, working in the fields through the summer months, while the winter season was devoted to the acquirement of an education. He graduated from the high school of his native township at the age of fifteen years, but ambitious to secure a more advanced education he pursued a preparatory course in a school at North Manchester, Indiana, and later entered the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio, there pursuing an engineering course, from which he was graduated in 1900 with the degree of civil engineer. His life has since been devoted to the practice of his profession, which he began in Dayton immediately following his graduation. He has been accorded a gratifying patronage and won public recog- nition of his ability in his election to the office of county surveyor, in November, . 1906. He has made a very creditable record for one of his years and his ability argues well for substantial advance in the future. Aside from his profession he is to some extent connected with business interests, being vice president and direc- tor of the Montgomery County Building & Loan Association.
Mr. Klepinger is interested in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of the community and cooperates in all movements and measures for the city's wel- fare that are instituted by the Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a member. In fraternal lines he is connected with the Knights of Pythias, the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Ma- sonic fraternity, in which he has taken the degrees of the Scottish Rite. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he is one of the active workers in its ranks, belonging to the Garfield Club and otherwise promoting its interests as far as lies within his power. He fears not that laborious attention to detail so necessary to success and in all that he does is actuated by a laudable ambition to perform his duties in such a way as will promote his business interests in both volume and importance.
GEORGE W. MILLER.
George W. Miller, a most enterprising and prosperous agriculturist of Jack- son township, is numbered among the worthy native sons of Montgomery county, his birth having occurred in Madison township on the 29th of February, 1864. His parents, the Rev. George and Catherine (Wampler) Miller, celebrated their
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marriage in 1853, the ceremony taking place in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio. The paternal grandparents were Benjamin and Elizabeth (Bowser) Miller, while the mother of our subject was a daughter of Philip and Catherine (Royer) Wampler. George W. Miller, of this review, is one of a family of ten children, the others being as follows: Benjamin, Philip, Anna, William, Edward, Jesse, Ira, Ezra and Lizzie.
On the 15th of February, 1891, George W. Miller was married to Miss Carrie Calhoun, a daughter of Thomas and Mary Elizabeth (Kuns) Calhoun, of Madi- son township. By this union there are three children, namely: Edith, born in 1893 ; Hugh, whose birth occurred in 1894; and Russell, who was born in 1898.
Throughout his entire business career Mr. Miller has been identified with the pursuit of general farming and by reason of his untiring industry and unremitting energy has gained a measure of success that entitles him to recognition among the most substantial, progressive and representative citizens of the community. He has an extensive circle of warm friends in the county where he has always resided, for the principles that have actuated his life have been such as to win for him the highest esteem and good will of his fellow townsmen.
ERIE J. WEAVER.
While his experience in length of years is by no means equal to that of many members of the Dayton bar, Erie J. Weaver has already attained a reputation in the courts of law which many an older member of the profession might well envy, and is making continuous advancement so that his associates feel no hesitancy in prophesying for him a successful future in which he will reach a foremost place as a representative of the legal fraternity in this city. He was born near Brookville, Montgomery county, January 17, 1872, and pursuing his education through suc- cessive grades of the public school was graduated from the high school with the class of 1891. His more specifically literary course was pursued in Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio, of which he is an alumnus of 1895. Determining upon the practice of law as a life work he began reading in the office and under the direction of Carr, Allaman & Kennedy, of Dayton, and later entered the Cincin- nati Law School from which he was graduated in 1897. Returning to this city he entered upon practice here, first in connection with the firm in whose office he had read law, but since January, 1908, by himself. His understanding of legal principles is comprehensive, his application usually correct, while in argu- ment he is clear and cogent and in his reasoning sound and logical. He won the oratorical prize in the Cincinnati Law School in 1897 and his gift of oratory is one of the salient features in his successful law work, enabling him always to hold the attention of court or jury as he presents his side of any litigated cause.
Mr. Weaver is well known as an active and influential member of the demo- cratic party and does all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of democracy. He has served as secretary of the Democratic City Central Com-
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mittee, and has twice, in 1897 and again in 1901, been the candidate of his party for the state legislature.
In September, 1902, in Dayton, Mr. Weaver was united in marriage to Miss Ida M. Brandt and they have two daughters, Louise E. and Alice M. Mr. Weaver belongs to the Alpha Tau Omega, is a member of the board of directors of Witten- berg College, his religious faith is indicated in his membership in the First Eng- lish Lutheran church and his interest in public welfare is manifest in his active cooperation in many movements for the general good.
JOHN GLASER.
John Glaser, a prominent farmer of Wayne township, Montgomery county, lives upon the one hundred and ninety acres of land he owns in this township, just off the Brandt pike and half way between that thoroughfare and the Troy pike, and about six miles northeast of Dayton. He was born in Mad River town- ship January 21, 1852, and is the son of Anton and Catherine (Hotop) Glaser. Anton Glaser was the first of his family to come to this country from Germany. He was but a young man when he came here and located first in Wayne town- ship. He had learned his trade as a butcher, as well as having received his edu- cation in the land of his birth. For a time after coming here he followed his trade and then took up farming. From the day that he set foot upon the soil of this continent, he was dependent upon his own efforts alone for his success in life. By his own exertion he amassed a considerable fortune and when he died was accounted a man of means for that period. He was the father of nine children. The three eldest, Joseph, Anton and Francis, have passed away. The others, Mary, John, Louise, Catharine and Emma, are all living in or near this county. Franklin, the eighth of the family, however, lives in Greene county. The mother's parents came here from Germany and were prominent farmers.
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