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drew very heavy majorities. In the year 1916, he was nominated at the popular primary and elected in November to represent the 18th and 19th District in the Ohio Senate-82nd General Assembly. Through- out his legislative career, Mr. Crawford has been greatly interested in legislation for the agricultural interests of Ohio, and for all measures relating to education and the public schools.
At the regular session of the 82nd General Assembly Senator Craw- ford was author of S. B. No. 193 - relative to agricultural extension work, and S. B. No. 343, to prohibit members of State Board of Agri- culture from competing for prizes or awards at the Ohio State Fair. Both bills became laws. While a member of the House of Represen- tatives, Mr. Crawford was appointed a member of the "State Building Commission" by Governor Willis.
At the regular session of the 82nd General Assembly in 1917, Senator Crawford served as chairman of the committee on Agriculture, and a member of the following committees, namely: Drainage and Irrigation, Common Schools, County Affairs, Military Affairs, Mines and Mining, and Roads and Highways.
HON. GEO. S. CUNNINGHAM. Ninth-Fourteenth District. (Fairfield County)
Fairfield County was formed on Dec. 9th, 1800, by proclamation of Territorial Gover- nor St. Clair, before Ohio had become a State. Its original area was about four times as great as now, as it then included what have since become Licking and parts of Knox, Richland, Pickaway and Hocking, and a corner of Perry. The name of Fairfield given the new county is suggestive of its broad, beautiful lands at the head waters of the Hocking River. Fairfield County has produced many eminent men, the most prominent of whom was Thomas Ewing, who filled out the unex- pired term of Hon. Thomas Corwin, in the United States Senate, and he was again elected in 1850. It also gave Ohio, Governor William Medill, who was elected in 1853, for one term.
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Hon. George Strode Cunningham, who represents the Ninth and Fourteenth District in the Ohio Senate of the Eighty-second General Assembly, was born near Lancaster, in Fairfield County, Ohio, Feb. 26th, 1861. His father, Robert D. Cunningham, was also born in Fair- field County.
The Ninth and Fourteenth Senatorial District is comprised of Athens, Hocking, Fairfield, Washington, Morgan, and parts of Noble and Monroe Counties.
Geo. S. Cuningham was educated in the common schools of Fair- field County, and he attended Lancaster High School one year. He was graduated from the Ohio State University in the class of '86, with the degree of Ph. B. He also was graduated from the Law School of the Cincinnati College, in the class of '87, with the degree of LL. B., and has since followed the profession of attorney-at-law.
In the year 1913, Mr. Cunningham was united in marriage with Miss Sadie McCray of Logan, Ohio. He has two children, Russell Strode Cunningham, and Lillian Cuningham.
Mr. Cunningham has been honored by his fellow-citizens of Lan- caster, through his election as Mayor of the city, serving from 1899 to 190I.
At the popular primary held in August, 1916, Mr. Cunningham was chosen, by the Democrats of his district, as a candidate for State Senator, and at the election which followed in November he was elected by a large majority.
At the regular session of the Eighty-second General Assembly, Mr. Cunningham introduced Senate Bill No. 167, which amends cer- tain sections of the General Code relative to the location of Oil and Gas wells, and the interpretation of "Coal Bearing and Coal producing Township". The bill passed, and is a law. He also introduced Senate Bill No. 355 increasing compensation in cases of an injury resulting in death of employe and other measures which were enacted into laws. Besides being especially interested in Legislation relating to Mining and the gas and oil industry, Senator Cunningham was also active in promoting the best interests of the farmer and the laborer.
Senator Cunningham served as Chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining, and as a member of the following committees, namely : Claims, Commercial Corporations, Fees and Salaries, Insur- ance, Judiciary, Public Utilities, and Public Works.
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HON. HENRY W. DAVIS. Twenty-third District. (Mahoning County)
The Twenty-third Senatorial District con- sists of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties. The settlement of Mahoning County dates from 1797, when John Young purchased from the Connecticut Land Company, which owned the entire western reserve of north- eastern Ohio, a tract of land on which he started Young's Town. - The settlement that has become Youngstown, the county seat of Mahoning County. Mahoning County was created around Youngstown in 1846, and was given its name from that of the river Mahon- ing, or "Mahonnik", as it was known among
the Indians.
Hon. Henry W. Davis, who represents the Twenty-third District in the Ohio Senate of the Eighty-second General Assembly, was born at Youngstown, Ohio, April 11th, 1863. His father, Ebenezer Davis, was born in Wales. The son was educated in the public schools of Youngstown, and in the first years of his manhood, he worked in the rolling mills there. In the year 1885, Mr. Davis engaged in the real estate business, where he is still engaged.
Mr. Davis married Miss Lenora Shullen, and they have two chil- dren, Helen, and Fred H. Davis.
Mr. Davis has held the office of County Recorder of Mahoning County, being elected as a Republican in 1889, and he was re-elected, serving until 1895. In the year 1916, Senator Davis was chosen at the popular primary in his senatorial district, in August, and in November following, he was elected by the usual Republican majority in this district.
At the regular session of the Eighty-second General Assembly in 1917, Senator Davis was much interested in all Labor legislation, as well as that affecting the military forces of the State and Nation. He served as Chairman of the committee on Military Affairs, and as a member of the following committees, namely: Cities, Constitutional
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Amendments, Fees and Salaries, Finance, Industrial Schools, Initiative and Referendum, Insurance, Library, Manufactures and Commerce, Sol- diers' and Sailors' Home, and Taxation.
HON. ASHER A. GALBREATH. Twentieth-Twenty-second District. (Columbiana County)
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The Twentieth and Twenty-second Sena- torial District, comprised of Columbiana, Harrison, Belmont and Jefferson Counties, is a most important section of Ohio, and it contains many of the greatest industrial plants in the State, and, for that matter, in the entire country. The representation of this district in the Ohio Legislature has been uniformly Republican, and a rather unusual fact concerning the representatives of the dis- trict in the present Ohio Senate is, that they were both selects from the one county, (Columbiana).
Hon. Asher A. Galbreath, who, jointly with his colleague, Hon. Charles A. White, represents the Twentieth and Twenty-second District in the Eighty-second General Assembly of Ohio, was born in Fairfield Township, Columbiana County, on June 8th, 1864. His father, Edward P. Galbreath, deceased, was a life-long resident of Columbiana County, and he was an influential farmer and dealer in farm machinery. He ws the father of four sons and two daughters, namely: Hon. C. B. Galbreath, Ohio State Librarian; James E. Galbreath, Lisbon, Ohio; Leonard W. Galbreath, Leetonia, Ohio; Mrs. Edith H. Whitacre, widow of Frank Whitacre, deceased, and mother of Hon. Ernest U. Whitacre ; and Mrs. Alice E. Carr, wife of Rev. George B. Carr, of Erie, Penn- sylvania. He was of Quaker parentage and was one of the pioneer settlers of Columbiana County.
Senator Galbreath is of Scotch-Irish descent. He received his edu- cation in the rural schools of Fairfield Township, the Lisbon High School, and at Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio, from which institu- tion he was graduated in 1888. Mr. Galbreath taught in the common
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schools of Columbiana County, was superintendent of the schools of Washingtonville and Lowellville, Ohio, and Hillsville, Penna. For eight years he was at the head of the colleges at Volant, Penna., and Rogers, Ohio.
Since 1910 he has conducted the College of Correspondence at Rogers. He was admitted to the bar at Springfield, Mo., in 1900, prac- ticed law for a time in St. Louis and also in Oberlin, Ohio, where he served as justice of the peace. While at Volant he was actively inter- ested in real estate business in New Castle.
On June 5, 1888, Mr. Galbreath was married to Miss Anna M. Randolph, of Lowellville, Ohio. They have three sons and three daughters.
Senator Galbreath has always been a Republican. He has served a number of terms as mayor of the village of Rogers and was appointed by Governor James M. Cox as the Progressive member of the liquor licensing board of Columbiana County in 1914. In 1914 he resigned this position to become candidate for state senator. The farmers and rural school teachers of his district were especially cordial in his support and he was nominated and elected.
In the legislature he introduced and supported the bill raising the minimum wage of teachers from forty to fifty dollars per month. He favored other legislation in the interest of education and highway im- provement. He introduced a bill to provide financial relief for munici- palities without changing the essential features of the Smith one per cent law. While this was not enacted it was generally favored by mem- bers of the Senate without regard to party and is still considered a practical solution of the unsolved problem of relief of the debt bur- dened municipalities of the state.
Senator Galbreath was a member of the following committees: Benevolent Institutions, Geological Survey, College and Universities, County Affairs, Enrollment, Initiative and Referendum, Library, Medical Colleges and Societies, Mines and Mining, Public Works, Taxation and Villages. Of the two first of these he was chairman.
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HON. HUGH R. GILMORE. Third District. (Preble County)
No particular reason has ever been given why Preble County was named in honor of Captain Edward Preble, who is said to have been an officer in the United States Navy, during the War of Revolution. It is re- corded that he was born in Portland, Maine, on August 15th, 1761, took part in the Revolu- tionary War, later in the Tripoli War, and died August 25th, 1806. The county was formed by Legislative Act on March Ist, 1808, from the counties of Montgomery and Butler.
Eaton, the county seat, was laid out in 1806, by William Bruce, who owned all the land on which the town was surveyed, and personally conducted the lot sales. He gave the town its name, out of respect to General William Eaton, a native of Wood- stock, Conn., who was a captain under General Anthony Wayne in his Ohio campaign against the Indians.
Hon. Hugh R. Gilmore, who represents the Third Senatorial Dis- trict, comprised of Preble and Montgomery Counties, in the Eighty- second General Assembly of Ohio, was born at Eaton, Ohio, Sept. 27th, 1881. His father, Judge James A. Gilmore, was also a native of Preble County. Hugh R. Gilmore attended the public schools at Eaton, grad- uating from High school in 1900. He read Law in the office of his father, Judge Gilmore, who was prominent in Preble County Democratic politics, and who was a brother of Hon. William J. Gilmore, at one time on the Supreme bench of Ohio.
On May 9th, 1913, Hugh R. Gilmore was joined in marriage with Miss Bertha Filbert, of Preble County.
Senator Gilmore has been active in Democratic politics from the time he became of age. He was Deputy Clerk of Courts in 1903 and 1904. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1908, re-elected in 1910, and elected to a third term in 1912. In the year 1914, Mr. Gilmore was elected as State Senator, by the Democrats of the Third District, to serve in the 8Ist General Assembly, and he was re-elected in 1916.
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At the regular session of the Eighty-second General Assembly in 1917, Senator Gilmore was actively interested to prevent any change in the Vonderheide Law, pertaining to the "Conservancy Act", which is of such vital interest to his district. Senator Gilmore was honored with the chairmanship of the Committee on Judiciary, and he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Drainage and Irrigation, besides being a member of the committees on Cities, County Affairs, Privileges and Elections, and Temperance.
HON. CHARLES F. HARDING.
First District.
The Ist senatorial district of Ohio is repre- sented by three Republicans in the 82nd Gen- eral Assembly one of whom is Hon. Charles F. Harding of Cincinnati. Mr. Harding served as a member of the House of Rep- resentatives from Hamilton County in the 8Ist General Assembly 1915-1916. He was born in Cincinnati May 16th, 1879, and re- ceived his education in the public schools, afterwards graduating from the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy and is today recognized as a highly skilled pharmacist and chemist. Mr. Harding has for several years occupied the chair of theoretical and applied pharmacy in the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. He is engaged in the drug trade and manufactures chemicals in Cincinnati.
Senator Harding never held any public office until he was elected as a Republican to the 8Ist General Assembly, and proving his popularity in that position he was chosen for the Senate in the 82nd General As- sembly. Mr. Harding is married and he is a popular member of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club, also a Mason and a member of other fraternal organizations.
Senator Harding served as chairman of the committee on Industrial Schools, and a member of the following committees: Benevolent Insti- tutions, Colleges and Universities, Fish Culture and Game, Labor and Public Works.
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HON. JOHN E. HOLDEN. Second-Fourth District.
(Warren County)
The Second-Fourth Senatorial District of Ohio is comprised of Butler, Warren, Brown, and Clermont Counties, and the subject of this sketch - Hon. John E. Holden - has enjoyed the unusual honor of representing this district for three successive terms, viz. : a member of the 80th, 8Ist and 82nd Gen- eral Assemblies.
Hon. John E. Holden was born at Mor- row, Warren County, Ohio, January 3rd, 1874. His father, William J. Holden, was born in Ireland. The son, John, received his education in the public schools, and he graduated from Morrow High School. He is also a graduate of Cin- cinnati Business College. Mr. Holden has been for many years an employe of the Pullman Car Company. He was three times chosen Mayor of Morrow, and he was alternate to the Democratic National Convention, at St. Louis, in 1904.
In the year 1907, Mr. Holden was joined in marriage with Miss Alice Winstel, of Morrow, Ohio.
Throughout his service in the Ohio Senate, Mr. Holden has en- joyed the confidence of his colleagues, without respect to party, and he is a conservative and careful legislator. At the regular session of the Eighty-second General Assembly in 1917, Senator Holden introduced a bill which became a law, providing for the granting of badges of honor to the Ohio soldiers who have served on the Mexican Border, and making an appropriation therefor. He served as Chairman of the committee on Temperance, as well as the commit- tee on Enrollment, and as a member of the committees - Common Schools, Drainage and Irrigation, Federal Relations, Finance, Library, Privileges and Elections, Public Utilities, Roads and Highways, and Rules.
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HON. GEORGE W. HOLL. Thirty-second District. (Auglaize County)
Auglaize County was established by act of the Legislature in 1848 from portions of Allen, Shelby, Logan, Darke, Mercer and Van Wert Counties. Wapakoneta, the county seat, was a town of importance long before the formation of the county, and there was a lively dispute with its rival, St. Mary's, as to which place should be selected for the county seat. The legislative act creating the county left the dispute to a vote of the people, and after a very hot campaign and a close election, Wapakoneta won out. The county derived its name from the Auglaize River, which runs through it, and from the old "Fort Au Glaize" which was. said to have been built in 1748, but it has long since disappeared.
The Thirty-second Senatorial District of Ohio comprised of Allen, Auglaize, Defiance, Mercer, Paulding, Van Wert, and Williams Coun- ties is represented, jointly, with his colleague, Senator Berry, of Allen county, in the Eighty-second General Assembly, by Hon. George Wil- liam Holl, who was born at New Knoxville, Auglaize County, Ohio, March 19th, 1877. His father, George Holl, was born at Schwarzen- hasel, Kreis Rothenburg, Germany. The son, George, received his- education in the public schools at New Knoxville, St. Mary's High School, and Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio. He taught school nine years, and worked at the brick-making trade for the support of his widowed mother until of age, and by his own efforts, rose from a. poor shoemaker's son to the position of State Senator, and a very in- fluential citizen. Mr. Holl has been a member of the Board of Educa- tion in New Knoxville, and is now Justice of the Peace of Washington Township, Auglaize County. He is interested in many enterprises at New Knoxville, viz .: The Holl Bros. Ditching Company ; The Auglaize: Tile Company ; The New Knoxville Telephone Company; The New Knoxville Gas Company, and he is a member of the New Knoxville Commercial club, and the German Reformed Church. He has large- land interests both at home, and in the Red River Valley, in North.
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Dakota, and his residence is one of the most complete homes in Auglaize County.
He is also president and heaviest stockholder in the New Bremen and Minster Gas Co., a $50,000 corporation. Also interested in The New Knoxville Electric Co.
On June 17th, 1903, Mr. Holl was joined in marriage with Miss Emily M. Holtkamp, of New Knoxville, Ohio, and they have three children : Olga, 12 years, Carl, 9 years, and Margaret, 6 years.
Mr. Holl represented Auglaize County in the Ohio House of Rep- resentatives of the 80th and 8Ist General Assemblies and he was chosen Senator from his district, as a Democrat, without opposition, to the Eighty-second General Assembly, in 1916.
At the regular session of the Eighty-second General Assembly in 1917, Senator Holl was particularly interested in Legislation pertaining to agriculture, drainage, and the public schools. He served as Chair- man of the committee on Banks and Saving Societies, and a member of the following committees, namely: Constitutional Amendments, Drainage and Irrigation, Finance, Fish Culture and Game, Geological Survey, Prisons and Prison Reform, Public Works, and Villages.
HON. WILLIS HORN. Seventeenth-Twenty-eighth District. (Wayne County)
The 17th-28th Senatorial District has ever been a Democratic stronghold in Ohio politics, and it is represented in the Eighty-second General Assembly by a gentleman who firmly adheres to that faith. The District is com- prised of Morrow, Knox, Wayne, and Holmes Counties.
Hon. Willis Horn was born in Orrville, Wayne County, Ohio, Sept. 20th, 1878. His father, Edward Horn, was born at Buffalo, N. Y. The son, Willis, attended the public schools, and graduated from Dalton High School, Wayne County, and Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio. After leaving the University, he was ad- mitted to the Bar, and has practiced his profession in Orrville since 1902.
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In the year 1915, Mr. Horn was united in marriage with Miss Ida Weiss, of Dalton, Ohio, and they have a daughter, Martha M. Horn.
Mr. Horn never held public office until in the year 1914, he was nominated and elected to a seat in the Ohio Senate, 8Ist General As- sembly, and in the year 1916, he was re-elected to serve in the 82nd General Assembly.
At the regular session of the Eighty-second General Assembly in 1917, Senator Horn was author of S. B. No. 32, requiring railroads to employ full crews for through freight trains and light engines, and penalty for the violation thereof; and S. B. No. 183, providing that federal farm loan bonds issued under the provisions of the Federal Farm Law and Act, shall be lawful investment of insurance companies. Both bills became laws.
Senator Horn served as Chairman of the committee: Taxation, and Villages, and a member of the following committees, namely: En- rollment, Finance, Fish Culture and Game, Initiative and Referendum, Judiciary, Mines and Mining, Rules, and State Buildings.
HON. GEORGE D. JONES. Tenth District. (Franklin County)
Franklin County was authorized by act of the first General Assembly of Ohio, passed March 30th, 1803, to take effect April 30th, of that year. The early residents of Franklin County had many exciting experiences with wild animals, and wolves and panthers were plentiful on the present site of the city of Columbus. On July 20th, 1784, Colonel Rich- ard C. Anderson, who had a brilliant record for service in the Revolutionary War, and who had been appointed to distribute land to the soldiers of Virginia, selected as deputy surveyors, among others, Nathaniel Massie, Duncan McArthur, and Lucas Sullivant. Mr. Sullivant's assignment brought him to the spot where, in August, 1797, he established the town site of Franklinton, the county being given its name in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
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Lyne Starling, born in Kentucky in 1784, came to Franklin County in 1805, and soon became one of the most influential citizens of the county. Dr. Lincoln Goodale, another distinguished pioneer resident of Franklin County, came to Franklinton in 1805. He afterward donated the beautiful "Goodale Park" to' the city of Columbus. Up to the present, this is by far the most valuable, as well as beneficial gift ever bequeathed by an individual, to the city of Columbus.
Franklin County has contributed many eminent men to the service of the people, notably, the "Old Roman" Allen Granberry Thurman ; Hon. George L. Converse ; and Hon. Joseph H. Outhwaite, all of whom reflected great credit upon Columbus and Franklin County by their service in the Congress of the United States. Many other distinguished men have lived and died in Franklin County, among them, Hon. Dewitt C. Jones, counsellor-at-law, and Postmaster of the City of Columbus during the first administration of President Grover Cleveland, and who died in the year 1917.
DeWitt C. Jones was a brother to Hon. George Dudley Jones, who, with his colleague, Hon. E. G. Lloyd, represents the Tenth District in the Ohio Senate, Eighty-second General Assembly. The Tenth District is comprised of Franklin and Pickaway Counties.
Mr. Jones was appointed solicitor of the City of Columbus, by Mayor Hinkle, in 1903, and served out the unexpired term of Hon. Luke G. Byrne, who had resigned. He was President of the City Coun- cil at Columbus for three years, 1903-4-5. He was appointed by Mayor D. C. Badger in 1907, on the Board of Service off the City of Columbus, and served out the term there. Mr. Jones was a member of the House of Representatives in the 8Ist General Assembly of Ohio from Frank- lin County, and declined to be a candidate for re-election to that body. He has also been a member of the Board of Education of the city of Columbus.
Hon. George D. Jones was born at London, Madison County, Ohio, May 25, 1860. Just at the opening of the American Civil War. His father, John C. Jones, was born at Jonesboro, Tenn., in 1817. The mother, nee Sarah H. Taylor, was born in the state of Virginia, in 1820. Both parents were of English ancestry. George D. Jones received his education in the public schools and by private instructors. He studied Law, and since his admission to the Bar, has been in general practice in all of the courts of the State, and in the Federal court. Mr. Jones has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Eva J. Lattimer, who died in 1899. His second wife was Mrs. Deborah H. McDonald. Mr. . Jones has two daughters by his first marriage - Grace Lattimer Jones, and Margaret Fuller Johnson, (wife of Charles C. Johnson).
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Hon. George D. Jones is of that class of citizens whom the people delight to honor, and while never seeking public office, he has served the public with distinction to himself and credit to all concerned when- ever called upon.
In the year 1916, Mr. Jones was chosen at the regular primary, as a Democrat, one of the Senatorial candidates for the Tenth District, and in November, of that year, he was elected by a very large majority.
At the regular sesion of the Eighty-second General Assembly in 1917, Senator Jones took a very active part in the discussion of many bills in the Senate, notably, relating to the Smith One Per Cent. Law ; relating to registration of nurses; relating to the practice of Christian Science as a healing process; relating to the use of trading stamps, and the bill providing for submission of the Constitutional amendment for Woman Suffrage; also for Constitutional amendment for Consolidation of City and County governments, and for an amendment of Section 2, Article 12, of Constitution relating to the taxation of Mortgages.
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