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party often and faithfully. He was Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee Qf Huron County from 1894 to 1896, and also was President of the Young Men's Republican Club of Norwalk. He has often been a delegate to County, Congressional and State con- ventions, and at the State convention of 1902 placed Hon. L. C. Laylin in nomination for Secretary of State for a second term. He has taken part in the campaigns of Huron County as a speaker upon political questions for a number of years, and has upon frequent occasions delivered addresses of a patriotic character on Decoration Day, Fourth of July, and for the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. Judge Thomas was selected by the House of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly to deliver the address on behalf of the Republican members of the House in the Mckinley memorial exercises at the joint memorial meeting of the House and Senate, and again, in 1904, on behalf of the Republican members, in the exercises in memory of Senator Marcus A. Hanna. Judge Thomas was married on the 10th of April, 1880, to Miss Emma J. Miller. They have a son, Alton O. Thomas. Judge Thomas has been a member of the I. O. O. F. for over twenty years. He also is a K. of P. and an Elk.
Charles L. Allen,
Banker of Fayette, Fulton County, Ohio, has the proud distinction of having served not less than four terms in the Legislature of the State of Ohio. He comes from good New England stock, and was born on the 16th of November, 1838, at Clarkson, Monroe County, New York. His parents were Isaac and Mary Allen, both of whom were natives of Con- necticut. His father, a hatter by trade, who had served his country faithfully in the War of 1812, at the age of twenty-one years, soon after the conclusion of hostilities in 1815, left his Connecticut home and settled in Clarkson, New York, where he purchased land and became a farmer, which vocation he pursued until his death at the age of ninety-one, in the year 1885. He had raised a family of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, ten of whom lived past middle age, and six sons and two daughters are still living. Charles L. Allen was the next youngest of the family. He obtained his education in the schools of his CHARLES L. ALLEN native place and in 1858 was graduated from Eastman's Commercial School in Rochester, New York. In 1859, at the age of twenty-one years, he removed to Ohio, taught school one term, after which he clerked in a country store until 1861, when, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He served as Second Lieutenant in Company K of that regiment, was for six months Brigade Ordnance Officer, for twelve months Regimental Quartermaster, and for the same length of time Adjutant. He was in the Fourteenth Army Corps under Major General George H. Thomas, participating in the battles of that corps, until the Ist of January, 1864, when he resigned because of disability. After partially regaining his health he was commissioned as Captain and instructed to enroll the militia
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of Fulton County, where he has lived ever since. Mr. Allen is a Republican from the ground up, and has served his party in many capacities. Prior to the Civil War he was Clerk of Gorham Township, Fulton County. He has been a Justice of the Peace for three terms, and has represented Fulton County in the State Legislature for four terms. From 1865 to 1877 he was Postmaster at Fayette, Ohio. For nine years he was notary public, and for the same length of time School Examiner of Fulton County. While being a member of the House of the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth General Assemblies, Mr. Allen was Chairman and member of a number of important standing com- mittees. For a period of seventeen years he kept a general store, and at present he is cashier and manager of the Bank of Fayette at Fayette, Ohio. He is also a director of the St. Antonio Tel. Company, Treasurer of the Fayette Canning Company and the Gorham Elgin Creamery Company. In 1865 Mr. Allen was married to Susan C. Gamber. He is the father of two daughters, Carrie B. and Elsie M., the latter of whom is married to Dr. C. S. Campbell. His office is located on the corner of Main and Cherry Streets, Fayette, Ohio.
B. W. Baldwin,
One of the principal citizens of Ashtabula County, Ohio, and a member of the lower House of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, is a native of the county in which he resides, being born on the 31st of May, 1854, at Cole- brook Township. He received a very careful education, and became early in life interested in the political affairs of his country, State and county. Identifying himself with the Repub- lican party, he soon became a prominent figure in the ranks of the active workers. When he had reached the age of twenty-eight, in 1882, he was honored with the nomination for the important position of Sheriff of Ashtabula County, and was elected to that office by a large majority. Retiring from his office at the expiration of his term, he became largely interested in business affairs, in building of traction lines, etc. In 1903 he was elected a B. W. BALDWIN member of the State Legislature, in which body he rendered very valuable services on the floor of the House, as well as in different committee rooms. He resides at Jefferson, the seat of Ashtabula County.
James Hartley Beal,
Scio, Ohio, Professor of Chemistry at Scio College, and Professor of Applied Pharmacy at the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was born on the 23d of September, 1861, near New Philadelphia, Ohio. He received a common school education at the public schools of New Philadelphia, and worked during vacation on a farm and in a coal mine. For a period of five years he served as drug clerk in Uhrichsville and Akron,
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Ohio. During these years in which he was engaged in laborious pursuits he accumulated sufficient funds to fulfill his strongest embition-that of gaining a collegiate education. Con- sequently, he entered Scio College and graduated from that institution in 1884 with the degree of Ph.B. Later he took one year in the study of chemistry and pharmacy in the University of Michigan, and also one year in the Law Department of the same institution, from where he entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduating is 1886. While several years of Mr. Beal's life have been devoted to the study of law, he has never practiced that profession, but often had use for his knowledge of the laws pertaining to pharmacy and the adulteration of food and drugs. In the year of 1895 Dr. Beal was awarded the honorary degree of Sc.D. from Mt. Union College; Ph.G. from the Ohio Medical University in 1894, and Phar. D. from the University of Western Penn -- sylvania in 1902. Dr. Beal has been Dean of the Department of Pharmacy of Scio College since 1887, and was Acting President of that college from 1902 to 1904. He was Chairman of the Section of Education and Legislation of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1897-1898; First Vice President of the Ameri- can Pharmaceutical Association in 1900-1901, and President of that association for the year 1904-1905; President of the Ohio State Phar- JAMES HARTLEY BEAL maceutical Association in 1898-1899; Chairman Photo by Baker, Columbus, O. of the Committee on Uniformity in Legislation, Methods of Analysis and Marking of Food Products, at the National Pure Food and Drug Congress in 1898. He is the author of Notes on Equation Writing and Chemical Arithme- tic, Pharmaceutical Interrogations, Interrogations in Dental Metallurgy, and of the Era Course in Pharmacy, and of some lesser publications relating to pharmaceutical science. Dr. Beal is a frequent contributor to pharmacy journals and Association proceedings. At the present writing he is Chairman of the Council and President of the American Pharma- ceutical Association, member of the Board of Trustees of the United States Pharmacopoeial Convention, member of the Board of Trustees of the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy. In politics he has always been an active Republican, and served in the lower House of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly, where he became known all over the State as the author of the Beal Local Option Law and other local measures. While a member of the Assembly he was Chairman of the Committee on County Affairs, a member of the Committee on Claims and the Committee on Common Schools. On the 29th of September, 1886, he was married to Fanny Snyder Young, of Uhrichsville. He is the father of two children, George Denton and Nannie Esther Beal. In religious belief he is a Methodist Episcopal, and attends that church in Scio, Ohio.
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Tom D. Binckley,
Attorney-at-law at New Lexington, Ohio, and member from Perry County in the House of the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth General Assemblies, was born on a farm near Somer - set, Perry County, Ohio, on the 5th of April, 1869. He comes from a family distinguished for their martial record. His great-great-grandfather, Christian Binckley, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution in the Continental Army ; his great-grandfather, Adam Binckley, fought for his country in the War of 1812, and his father, James K. Binckley, enlisted when but fourteen years of age in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in September, 1862, and served for three years in the Civil War. The Binckleys came originally from Maryland. Captain Binckley's mother was Sedora J. Whitter Binckley, a descendant of a Maryland family. Tom D. Binckley's early life was spent on the farm. He worked in summer and attended the rural district school in the winter. When eighteen years of age he began teaching school, following that profession for five years. Later he clerked for two years in a hardware store, and then entered the Law Department of the Ohio Normal University at Ada, Ohio, froni which institution he graduated on the Ist of July, 1896, with the degree of B.L. He was admitted to the bar and became a member of TOM D. BINCKLEY the law firm of Crossan & Binckley. On the Photo by Baker, Columbus, O. 15th of March, 1898, he was commissioned Captain of Company A, Seventeenth O. N. G .; mustered into the United States volunteer service with the Seventh O. V. I., on the 13th of May, 1898, and commissioned Captain on same date. He was appointed Acting Quartermaster and recruiting officer, and detailed on recruiting service at Columbus, Ohio, recruited about one hundred and twenty-five men and returned to Camp Alger, Virginia, joining his regiment. On the 6th of November, 1898, Captain Binckley was mustered out of voluntcer service with his regiment. Captain Binckley has always been an uncom- promising Republican, and in 1897 was elected City Solicitor of New Lexington. He served with such distinction that he was re-clccted to the same position twice, holding his office for three terms. In the fall of 1901 he was elected Representative from Perry County to the Seventy-fifth General Assembly, carrying a close county by a majority of over 600. In that body he was Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, and a member of the stand- ing committees on Federal Relation, Geology, Mines and Mining, and Insurance. The splendid services of Captain Binckley were appreciated by the citizens of his district, the result being that he was re-elected to the House of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly by an increased majority. In that body he was Chairman of the most important Judiciary Committee, and a member of the standing committees on Rules, Mines and Mining, and Military Affairs. He introduced the following bills: To increase the salary of the Lieutenant Governor; to strengthen the uniform accounting bills ; to appropriate $10,000 to build a mon-
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ument for General Sheridan; to aid labor by allowing attachments on labor claims with giving bond. He was appointed a member of the Sheridan Monument Commission by Gov- ernor Herrick. Captain Binckley was united in marriage in December, 1898, to Miss Nellie M. Jackson. Three children, Dora C., James R. and William, are the issue of their union. The Binckley family attends the Lutheran church.
Charles A. Brannock,
Attorney-at-law at Bethel, Clermont County, Ohio, and Representative of that county in the House of the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth General Assemblies, is a native of his home county, where he was born on the 30th of September, 1871. He obtained a good educa- tion in the public schools of Clermont County, after which he studied law. He was admitted to the bar on the 6th of June, 1893, and imme- CHARLES A. BRANNOCK diately became engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, in which he has been very successful. Mr. Brannock has always been a faithful Republican, and always ready to serve his party in any capacity when called upon. He was nominated for the General Assembly by the Republicans of Clermont County in June, 1901. Having served with distinction, he was renominated and re-elected to the House of Representatives in 1903. While being a member of the General Assemblies, Mr. Brannock was a true and faithful servant of his constituents and the people of Ohio in general. He was Chairman and a member of some very important committees, and the author of the famous Brannock Local Option Law, which was passed by both houses of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly. Mr. Bran- nock was married to Miss Mattie Williams on the 30th of October, 1895. He lives in the pretty village of Bethel, Ohio.
W. H. Burnett,
Member of the Seventy-sixth General As- sembly, was born and raised in Highland County. He received his education in the country school, after which he became engaged in farming and in the breeding of fine cattle and horses. He has been a lifelong stalwart Republican, ever ready to serve his party when called upon. His present office was unsought.
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He was nominated by acclamation, and received over 900 majority in a county that has been carried by the Democracy for a number of years by like pluralities. Mr. Burnett is of English-German extraction. His father's grandfather was killed in battle in the Revolu- tionary War, and on the maternal side the grandfather helped to ring the Bell of Inde- pendence in Philadelphia on the 4th of July, 1776, and also served with distinction as a soldier during the war and married a sister of George Ross, one of the signers of the Declara- tion of Independence.
Dr. L. F. Cain,
Member of the lower House of the Seventy- fifth General Assembly, representing the coun- ties of Morgan and Noble, belongs to the best- known Republicans of the State of Ohio. He is a native of Enoch Township, Noble County, Ohio, where he was born on a farm on the 21st of July, 1856. He remained at home, working on the farm and attending the schools of his county, until sixteen years of age, when he began teaching. Through his own efforts he acquired an education at the State University of Indiana, and later graduated in medicine at Louisville, Kentucky. He then settled in Cald- well, Noble County, where he has an extensive practice. Dr. Cain has always been a faithful Republican, who has rendered his party many valuable services. He has been in politics more or less all his adult life, and in the fall of 1901 was elected to represent Morgan and Noble Counties in the Legislature. He at once DR. L. F. CAIN became a prominent figure on the floor of the House, and was among the Republican leaders of that body. He was Chairman of the Com- mittee on Medical Colleges and Societies, and a member of the Committee of Taxation, besides taking a prominent part in all legislation. He made one of the speeches second- ing the nomination of Senator Foraker for a second term in the United States Senate. Dr. Cain did not return to the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, but will represent Noble County again in the next Legislature, and he is a prominent candidate for the important office of Speaker of the next House. In 1877 he married Miss Quintilla J. Wiley, of Sharon Township, Noble County, Ohio. To them were born four boys and one girl. Two of the sons are dead. Dr. Cain's oldest son, Durward C., volunteered in the United States service on the 19th of June, 1898, in the Seventh Ohio, and remained in that command until the close of the Spanish-American War. He re-enlisted in the Ninth Infantry, and was sent to the Philippine Islands. Just previous to the trouble in China he was transferred to the Seventeenth Regiment, and remained there until his regiment was ordered home. Desiring not to leave the service, he was transferred to the Twenty-seventh Infantry, where he served until the close of his term in July, 1902, with an experience of four years on all sides of the globe. Dr. Cain lives with his family in Caldwell, Ohio.
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M. M. Carrothers,
A well-known physician of Findlay, Ohio, and member of the House of Representatives of the Seventy-sixth General Assembly, was born on the 8th of February, 1845, in Crawford County, Ohio. He spent his youth on a farm, and at the age of eighteen years enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Sixty-third O. V. I. After the expiration of his term of service in the army Dr. Carrothers taught school for several winters and worked on his father's farm during the summer. In the fall of the year he attended college. In 1869 he com- menced the study of medicine with Dr. A. E. Jenner, of Crestline, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Wooster on the 20th of Feb- ruary, 1872. The following day he entered upon the practice of his profession at Sulphur Springs, in his native county, where he prac- ticed for fifteen years. Dr. Carrothers was M. M. CARROTHERS married on the 18th of July, 1872, to Mary Photo by Baker, Columbus. O. Wert, of Crawford County. In 1887 he moved to Findlay, where he has since resided. For five years Dr. Carrothers was a member of the Board of Health and for six years 'there- after a member of the City Council. He was again elected as President of the City Council under the new Municipal Code, in 1893. On the 30th of September, 1903, Dr. Carrothers was nominated by acclamation for Representa- tive on the Republican ticket, and was elected by a plurality of 390 votes on the 3d of Novem- ber the same year. Dr. Carrothers has always been a staunch Republican, and has served his party in many capacities. The Doctor has been a member of the English Lutheran Church for the past thirty years.
Thomas Coughlin,
Manager of the Cleveland office of the American Bonding Company of Baltimore, and one of the leading Democrats of the Forest City, was born on the 21st of June, 1876, at Cleveland, Ohio. His parents, John Coughlin and Mary Comyns Coughlin, were both natives of Ireland, and emigrated to this country in 1847. His education was obtained in the Holy Name School at Cleveland, Ohio, and at St. Mary's College, at Dayton, from which latter institution he graduated with honors on the 22d of June, 1893. He early in life became
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prominently identified with the Democratic party, taking a keen interest in the great ques- tions promulgated by that organization, and in recognition of his efforts his party placed his name in nomination as a member of the City Council from the Seventh District of Cleve- land when he was barely twenty-one years of age. His election followed, and he held that position from 1898 to 1900. One year later he was elected to the House of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly, and while a member of that distinguished body was on the standing commit- tees on Insurance, Municipal Corporations, and Library. He was the author of some local legis- lation of interest to his immediate constituents. In 1902 Mr. Coughlin was honored by the Democratic party with the nomination for Sheriff of Cuyahoga County, but was defeated by a small margin. For the past nine years Mr. Conghlin has been manager of the American Bonding Company of Baltimore, a surety company which has offices in all the principal cities of the United States, and whose local managers are all chosen for rare executive ability and absolute integrity. Mr. Coughlin is a Catholic, and attends St. Catherine's Catholic Church. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and other Catholic societies. On the 2Ist of June, 1899, Miss Mary Agnew became the wife of Mr. Coughlin, and by that union they have one child-a girl, Mary. Mr. Coughlin's residence is located at 1265 Woodland Hills Avenue, and his office is to be found at 614 Williamson Building, Cleveland, Ohio.
William H. Crafts,
On account of the financial problems that were up for consideration and settlement in the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth General Assemblies, the post of Chairman of the Finance Committee in the Senate and House were mos timportant and far-reaching in their results. In the House the Western Reserve furnished the man to control the purse-strings of the State, in the person of Hon. William H. Crafts, of Portage County, and how well he discharged the onerous duties of this important post the official record well testifies. Mr. William H. Crafts was born at Auburn, Geauga County, Ohio, on the 9th of December, 1849. In 1853 he removed with his parents to Portage County, where he has resided ever since, and is one of the leading members of the community of Mantua. His early life was spent on a farm, but he later attended school at home, followed by a special course of study WILLIAM H. CRAFTS at Hillsdale, Michigan, and Hiram College. He afterwards engaged in mercantile pursuits, and Photo by Baker, Columbus, O. is to-day known as a conservative and safe banker, and one of the most extensive wool and hide buyers in his section. In 1885 he established the banking house of Crafts, Hine & Co., recognized as one of the foremost private banks in Ohio. Mr. Crafts comes in a direct line from Puritan stock. He has always been a Republican and a leader of his party in Portage County and the Western Reserve. In 1869 Mr. Crafts married Miss Augusta Merriman, of Burton, Ohio, and five children were born to them-three sons and two daughters. Mr. Crafts is a worthy member of the
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Methodist Episcopal Church at Mantua, where he resides, and the new and beautiful school building at that place owes its erection largely to his individual exertions. His efforts have always been along the line of moral and educational advancement. An active worker in the church and Sunday-school, he contributes liberally to the support and maintenance of both. He belongs to the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, having served as W. M. two terms, and is a Royal Arch Mason. In the Seventy-fifth and Seventy-sixth General Assemblies his work as Chairman of the House Finance Committee was of the most satis- factory character. He entered the position of Chairman of this most important committee fortified with experience secured in the Seventy-fourth General Assembly, when he stood next to Representative Mckinnon on the House Finance Committee. Charged with the duty of preparing the appropriation bills, he did so with an eye to the interests of the State, as well as justice to the many institutions involved, and it was a mark of the highest consideration for the correctness of his work when the bills as he reported finally became laws with but little change or amendment. Mr. Crafts undoubtedly has more and higher political honors in store for him.
William Ford,
One of the best-known insurance men in the State of Ohio, and associate manager of the Ohio Department of the Aetna Life Insur- ance Company, having charge of the Toledo branch of that company, was born on the 4th of November, 1866, at Lebanon, Ohio, where his father, Colonel Collin Ford, was at that time Superintendent of Schools, and who is now manager of the Aetna Life Insurance Company for Ohio. Mr. William Ford received a careful education under the guidance of his father, attending the public and private schools of Cincinnati, and Denison University, at Granville, Ohio. Determining, at the age of twenty, to engage in the business in which his father had made a marked success, the son William started in active life as a solicitor in the office of his father. He soon displayed an unusual aptitude for the insurance business, and his progress was steady and rapid unti! at the present writing he has charge of a large WILLIAM FORD and very remunerative territory. In the spring of 1901 the Aetna Life Insurance Company opened offices in Toledo, Ohio, placing Mr. William Ford at the head of them. His success in life has been largely contributed to by his commanding appearance, affableness of man- ner, tremendous business capacity and rare executive ability. In politics Mr. William Ford has always been affiliated with the Republican party, and, in 1891, he was nominated as a member of the General Assembly of Ohio. His election followed. During his term of office Mr. Ford was a valuable member of that distinguished body, and was prominent in all legis- lation enacted by that General Assembly for the public good. In 1888 he was united in mar- riage to Miss Elizabeth B. Simpkinson, and by that union he is the father of one son, named
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