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his permanent residence ever since. Desiring to take a special course in electro-thera- peutics, he attended the Illinois School of Electro-Therapeutics, and became a graduate from that institution. Dr. Hendrickson is the first physician in Ohio who successfully applied the great discovery of Roentgen for the cure of cancer. His patient was H. Hiram Davis, of Greenup, Kentucky. He also discovered and proved the fact that the X-rays could remove albumen and tube cast from kidneys in Bright's disease, and he also was quite successful in treating tuberculosis with the light of the X-rays. On the 12th of February, 1893, Dr. Hendrickson was married to Mattie Clark Blane, and three children have been the issue of this union. Dr. Hendrickson resides and practices in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Martin Hensel,
Librarian of the Columbus Public School Library, was born at Columbus, Ohio, on the 25th of January, 1843. He received his edu- cation in the Columbus Public Schools, the first four years exclusively German; entered the High School, but did not quite complete its course. In 1862 Mr. Hensel entered the army as a member of the One Hundred and Eighth O. V. I., served under Generals Thomas, Grant and Sherman in the West and South, and was at the front when General Johnston surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina. He attended the great review at Washington in May, 1865, after which he was mustered out of the service, and was honorably discharged. Returning home Mr. Hensel entered the book business under Mr. Joseph H. Riley, and continued therein with Messrs. Gleason and Twiss until 1890, when he accepted the position of private secretary to the Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, at that time Dr. T. C. MARTIN HENSEL Mendenhall. Upon the resignation of the latter in 1894, Mr. Hensel entered the service of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, which position he left at the close of 1895. In October, 1896, he was elected Librarian of the Public School Library at Columbus, Ohio, to succeed the late Mr. Spielman. Since then he has been actively engaged in library work. He has seen the library grow from 30,000 volumes to 60,000, an increase of 100 per cent ; while the service of the library has grown from 120,000 issues to more than half a million, an increase of over 400 per cent, during that time. The library in question is both a public and a school library, and its operations necessarily cover a wide field, while its management requires unusual care.
Marion W. Hissey,
Of Zanesville, Ohio, one of the leading financiers and manufacturers of the State, is closely identified with the development of his home city. He is President of the Union Machine Works, a large and flourishing enterprise of Zanesville, and is Vice President of the Commercial Bank of the same city. Being a public spirited man, of broad human
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sympathies, he has always taken an active part in all movements for the betterment of the community in which he resides, and is looked upon as one of the most foremost and influential citizens of Zanesville. Notwithstanding his large commercial and financial interests, Mr. Hissey has found time to become a leader in the political affairs of Ohio, and, being a Republican all his life, has rendered invaluable services to his party. These services have been recognized by the foremost Republicans in the country. He has been a warm personal friend of the immortal Mckinley and the late United States Senator M. A. Hanna. Always active in State politics, he was a member of different Executive and State Central Committees, as well as a delegate to State and National Conventions. He is a married man, and lives with his family at No. 131 O'Neil Avenue, Zanesville. His factory is located on Putnam Street, and the Commercial Bank at No. 502 Main Street, that city.
James W. Keenan,
A member of the City Council of Cincin- nati, Ohio, and a man whose name will be remembered by thousands as one of the great baseball players of the Cincinnati team, "the Reds." He is a native of New Haven, Con- necticut, born in 1858. His education was obtained in the public and High Schools of his native city, as well as in college and com- mercial institutes. When eighteen years of age he joined the ranks of the baseball pro- fession, and for fifteen years continued in that occupation with splendid success. During that time Mr. Keenan was considered one of the most able and efficient men in the baseball world, and largely through his efforts the "Reds" gained a National reputation. Since 1885, Mr. Keenan has permanently resided in the city of Cincinnati, in which, since 1891, he is engaged in business. Mr. Keenan is a man who has a large following of personal JAMES W. KEENAN friends and is widely known in social circles, being a member of the K. of P., Eagles and the Knights of Fidelity. In political belief, Mr. Keenan is an uncompromising Republican of most pronounced views, and is a member and director of the Blaine Club and a member of the Stamina Republican League, two of the most powerful political organizations in the United States. Since 1897 he has been con- tinuously a member of the Cincinnati Board of Legislation, and during all that time he has served the people well and faithfully. He is married since 1886, and resides with his family at Liberty Street and Freeman Avenue, Cincinnati, where also his place of business is located.
Thomas J. Morgan,
A prominent coal operator in the Jackson coal fields, located at Wellston, Ohio, was born on the 4th of December, 1846, at Keystone, Jackson County, Ohio. He is of Welsh descent, both parents -- John E. Morgan, a farmer, and Mary Jones Morgan-coming to
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this country from Wales in 1841. Mr. Morgan received his education in the common schools of his native district, at Ewington Academy, and at Nelson's Commercial School at Cincin- nati, Ohio, from which institution he gradu- ated. When a boy Mr. Morgan worked on a farm; later he was engaged as a bookkeeper. Mr. Morgan occupies a very prominent posi- tion in the industrial and mercantile life of the part of the State in which he resides. He is interested in many coal companies, lumber companies, telephone and banking institutions, in many of which he holds an executive position. He is director and manager of the Wellston Coal Company, the Milton Coal Company, the Dayton Coal and Iron Com- pany, of which he is also President; the Raleigh Coal and Coke Company, of which he is President and Treasurer, and the Raleigh THOMAS J. MORGAN Lumber Company. He is director of the First National Bank of Wellston, Ohio, and also is interested in the First National Bank of Chilli- cothe. In the Home Telephone Company Mr. Morgan is largely interested and belongs to the Board of Directors of that corporation. In politics he is a Republican from the ground up, and is always active in the interests of his party when necessity demands, although he never occupied any political position. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason and a member of the Elks. Mr. Morgan has an enviable record for service in the Civil War, and was a private in Company D, One Hundred and Seventy- ninth O. V. I., enlisting in August, 1864, and was discharged at the termination of the war, in June, 1865. On the 24th of March, 1875, he was united in marriage to Nancy M. Poore. The union has been blessed with two children, one son and one daughter. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of his city. His offices are located on Broadway, Wellston, Ohio.
Samuel W. Rainey,
Mayor of the city of Lancaster, Ohio, was born on the 6th of November, 1842, in the city which has honored him with the first position in the gift of his people. He is the son of John C. and Mary E. (Darst) Rainey, both natives of the United States. His father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother in the State of Virginia. He received a common school edu-
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cation up to the time he was nineteen years old, when he was impelled by an uncontrollable desire to enter the ranks of the Union army and fight for his country, culminating in his running away from the school and home and enlisting in the army as a private in the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, in February, 1862. He served during the war, and was mus- tered out and honorably discharged in 1865. In politics Mr. Rainey has been a lifelong Democrat, and has occupied many important political positions. He was elected a mem- ber of the City Council in 1877 and served two terms of two years each. In 1880 he was appointed real estate appraiser, and again in 1890. He was elected Mayor of the city of Lancaster in 1881, and re-elected to a second term at the expiration of his first term, having served with marked distinction. In 1884 he served as a member of the Democratic State Central Committee. In 1889 he was appointed Natural Gas Trustee and served one year. He was elected as a member of the City Council in 1894, and served two years. In 1903, when the new code for the Ohio municipalities took effect, Mr. Rainey was again honored with the election to the office of Chief Executive of Lancaster, an office he fills to the entire satisfaction of the people. Mr. Rainey is a member of the B. P. O. E. and the Union Vet- eran Legion. He was formerly special agent for the Central Union Telephone Company. In June, 1866 he was united in marriage to Mary A. Koontz, and is the father of seven children, as follows: Ida M., Harry, John C., Gertrude, Clem, George H. and Edith Rainey, the mother of whom died in April, 1888. In 1892 he married Amanda E. Hayes. Mayor Rainey was raised a Presbyterian. He resides with his family at No. 586 East Main Street, Lancaster, Ohio.
William Thomas Perkins,
Auditor of the city of Cincinnati, was born in Xenia, Ohio, on the 8th of December, 1834, and obtained his education in the Xenia Academy and the public and High Schools of Cincinnati. He came to this city when a mere boy and began business life as an errand boy for a dry goods house at $I a week. That was in 1845. He next became a clerk in a white lead concern, and was subsequently a clerk in the banking house of W. S. Groesbeck & Co. In 1862 Mr. Perkins went into banking for himself. Two years later he went to Knoxville, Tennessee, and founded the First National Bank of that city. He afterward returned to Cincinnati and became cashier of the old Central National Bank. Closing out, Mr. Perkins went South and became a cotton planter, but he again returned to Cincinnati and was a newspaper man, connecting himself with the old Times-Chronicle, the forerunner of the Times-Star. He was local and editorial writer, and later Washington correspondent. Under W. E. Davis, Mr. Perkins was Assistant United States Sub-Treasurer, remaining for a time under A. W. Stem. This position Mr. Perkins resigned to enter the grocery firm of John J. Perkins & Co., and on the Ist of Janu-
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ary, 1891, became a partner in the firm, and nas since been active in the management of the concern's affairs. Always a Republican, Mr. Perkins has taken an interest in local politics. In 1856 he was a loyal supporter of Fremont, and was made Secretary of the first Young Men's Republican Club of Cincinnati. His first political office came when he was appointed a Fire Trustee by Mayor John B. Mosby, on the 4th of May, 1893. He has since taken an active interest in municipal and political affairs, and when Paul M. Millikin resigned from the office of City Auditor to become Chief of Police, Mr. Perkins was appointed to fill the vacancy. Mr. Perkins demonstrated his fitness for the position, and was nominated by the Republicans for election. He headed the ticket which was elected in the spring of 1903. His administration of the office of Auditor has been exceptionally clean, he carrying into the office his strict business principles, demanding of all his subordinates their full duty to the city. Mr. Perkins has been a director of the Young Men's Mutual Life Association, of Cin- cinnati; was President of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, and served for years as the executive head of the American District and Telegraph Company. He has held numerous other positions of trust, always being faithful and painstaking.
He was married to Miss Sallie E. DeCamp, daughter of Hiram DeCamp, on the 3d of May, 1859. There were born to them four children, but only one, a son, George, now engaged in business in St. Louis, Missouri, survives. The Perkins homestead is on East Walnut Hills.
H. Warner Riddle, Sr.,
A large coach and hearse manufacturer of Ravenna, Ohio, was born on the 8th of Feb- ruary, 1838, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. His father, Hugh Riddle, was a well-known contractor and a native of Ireland, of Scotch- Irish descent, while his mother, Elizabeth Thornberg, born in Pennsylvania, was of Ger- man stock, and whose ancestors lived for many generations in this country. Mr. Riddle received a common school education, and at the early age of fourteen years he was appren- ticed to a manufacturer of carriages in his home city, and remained in this position for four years. After completing his apprentice- ship he went to Cincinnati, where he was employed until 1860, thoroughly acquainting himself with all the details of the business, which he has continuously followed all is life. In 1860, deciding to enter into business of his own, he settled at Ravenna and formed a partnership with Mr. Charles Merts under the firm name of Merts & Riddle. This partner- ship lasted until 1890, when The Riddle Coach and Hearse Company was organized, which concern at the present writing employs a large force of skilled mechanics. Mr. Riddle is the President of the Company which bears
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political belief, Mr. Riddle is a convinced Democrat, and takes a leading part in the political life of his community. He is a mem- ber of the Democratic County Committee. In April, 1902, he received at the hands of his party the nomination for Mayor of Ravenna, to which office he was elected. His services during his incumbency of office thoroughly satisfied his constituents and the people in general, and as evidence of their appreciation he was returned to the same office in the spring of the following year. Socially, he is a Mason and K. of P. His residence is located in Ravenna, Ohio.
Arthur J. Saalfield,
The city of Akron can boast of no enter- prise rebounding more to its credit to-day than the flourishing and well-known publishing house conducted by The Saalfield Publishing Company. The man who made the company in the raw; the man who alone is responsible
his name, and associated with him are his two sons, his son-in-law and a nephew, all of whom are partners in the enterprise founded by him. He is the owner of many buildings in his chosen city, and is looked upon as one of the leading and most public spirited citizens of his community. He was married in 1866 to Emily H. Robinson, and is the father of four children, two sons and two daughters.
Henry Warner Riddle, Jr.,
Chief Executive of the city of Ravenna. Portage County, Ohio, and associated with his father, one of the leading carriage and hearse manufacturers of the United States, has the distinction of being one of the youngest Mayors ever elected to that position in any Ohio city. He was born September 4th, 1880, in the city which has distinguished him. HENRY WARNER RIDDLE, JR. His parents, H. W. Riddle, Sr., and Emily H. Robinson Riddle, were both native Americans. Mr. Riddle, Jr., received a very careful education, and passed through all the grades of the Ravenna public school, after which he attended Hudson Academy at Hudson, Ohio, and Peekskill Military Academy at Peekskill, New York. At the age of twenty-one he started in active life in the business of his father, being now a member of the firm. In
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for its phenomenal growth and prosperity, who is in fact the company, although conducting the business under the corporate name, is Mr. A. J. Saalfield, than whom there is no one more thoroughly successful in his line of business in the States to-day.
Mr. Saalfield is an Englishman characterized by that singular business sagacity that has made so many of his countrymen on both sides of the Atlantic famous in the commercial world. He was born at Leeds in 1863, and can boast some of the best blood of England in his veins. His father, besides having other extensive interests in Great Britain, was a banker of considerable renown ; but Mr. Saalfield, being the youngest son of a large family, and unusually ambitious, preferred to carve his own way independently in a newer country: Coming to the States, he made his first home in New York City, later going to Chicago, but ultimately returning to the metropolis-gradually and indefatigably pushing towards the one object in view, the establishing of a publishing house unsurpassed by any in the country. The book business was the profession he chose early in life ; and by his far-seeing method of procedure-always working under the best men, gaining experience along every line of the business, making his way through every department, from the lowest to the highest-his ambition seems now in a fair way to be attained.
Mr. Saalfield began business for himself in New York while yet a very young man. Only seven years ago he came to Akron to assume the management of the publishing depart- ment of The Werner Company. The following year he purchased this branch of the business. To-day The Saalfield Publishing Company-although in its infancy-is, owing to the unremitting energy and unusual capabilities of one man, a power to be reckoned with in the publishing world, growing rapidly and steadily.
Personally, Mr. Saalfield is exactly what one would expect from an Englishman of good birth, good breeding and excellent education, added to a keen business ability: alert in action, agile in mind, and with a rare energy and power necessary to create the business of which he is the heart and soul. He is courteous always, and genial, with a kindly eye which holds a cheer and sparkle that all the years of hard work and responsibility have not been able to quench. His jaw and mouth denote a will of steel. Absolutely thorough himself, he is intolerant of any remissness of those around him in his business life, but consideration and kindness itself to those who serve him faith- fully.
In 1885 Mr. Saalfield was married to Miss Adah Sutton, of New York, daughter of the Rev. George Sutton. Mrs. Saalfield is a beauti- ful woman, of marked literary ability. Their children, five in number, are as charming and interesting members of Young America as can be found anywhere.
Robert I. Scott,
Chief Executive of the city of Steubenville, Ohio, was born on the 13th of January, 1860, in the community whose citizens have honored him with the election to the highest municipal
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office in their gift. His parents-John Scott, a lumber dealer and foundryman, and Eliza- beth W. Irwin Scott-were both natives of the Buckeye State. After obtaining a common school education, Mr. Robert I. Scott entered into business life as a laborer in a rolling mill. Later he worked for a number of years in a glass factory until he joined the police force of Steubenville. He was such a splendid and dutiful officer, that the citizens of Steubenville elected him to the office of Marshal, after he had been a member of the force for a period of eight years, and had always made an enviable record. The position of Marshal he occupied for four years, and again manifested the same attention to duty that had made him the best officer of the police force. During his incumbency of the office of Marshal, the lawless element gave Steubenville a wide berth, for it became known that the Marshal was not to be trifled with, and that swift justice followed all malefactors who tried to operate in that community. In March, 1903. Mr. Scott was nominated on the Republican ticket for the office of Mayor of Steubenville, and was elected by an overwhelming majority in the election of April following. He has always been a faithful Republican. Socially, Mr. Scott is a member of the K. of P. In 1890 Miss Mary Griesinger, of Steubenville, became his wife. By the union he is the father of two boys, John J. and Robert Scott.
Louis Seybold,
A representative citizen of Akron, Ohio, and publisher of the Akron "Germania," a tri- weekly and weekly German newspaper of wide circulation in Summit County and the north- eastern part of Ohio, was born on the 22d of September, 1856, in Hohenschwangau, that romantic spot in the Bavarian Alps which has for centuries been the favorite retreat of the popular rulers of that country. He received his education principally in the Suabian College town of Ellwangen, after which, and just before he was called upon to swear loyalty to the German flag and Emperor William I, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Akron, Ohio, in 1875, where he has resided ever since. He became a citizen of his adopted country in 1877. Two years later, in 1879. Mr. Seybold assumed the editorial man- agement of the Akron "Germania," and has, with but few short interruptions, been editor of said paper ever since, acquiring in the meantime the controlling interest of this pub- lication. His energy and ability have suc- ceeded in bringing forward the Akron "Ger- mania" as one of the first and most influential German papers in Ohio, and Mr. Seybold him- self is personally and favorably known among the people of his nationality throughout the State as one of their most fearless and forcible representatives.
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James D. Smith,
The late Secretary and Treasurer of the J. D. Smith Foundry Supply Company, 40 South Water Street, Cleveland, Ohio, was a man well and favorably known in the whole State, especially in the two largest cities of Ohio. Mr. Smith was a Cincinnati product,
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born September 5th, 1858, the son of Sanford D. Smith, a printer, and a native of Pennsyl- vania. Mr. Smith received his education in the public and High Schools of Cincinnati, but owing to the fact that he decided to enter into a business career, he never took a collegiate course. After learning the printing business by serving a long apprenticeship, at the age of 21 he abandoned that trade and became identified with the Fitzmorris & Smith Foun- dry Facing Supply Company, of Cincinnati. This company was later reorganized as the J. D. Smith Foundry Facings and Supply Com- pany. In 1899 the firm was united with the Cleveland Facing Mill, of which F. H. Cham- berlin was the head, the firm name changing to The J. D. Smith Foundry Supply Company. In 1901 Mr. Smith was compelled by business interests to make Cleveland his permanent home, his company being located in that city, JAMES D. SMITH and he remained there until the time of his death, which occurred on the 20th of April, 1904. All his life he had been a staunch Repub- lican, and in 1894 was elected a member of the Board of Education in Cincinnati, and re-elected to that position in 1897. He was a thirty-second-degree Mason, and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Smith leaves a widow, formerly Anna Gorman, to whom he was married on the 20th day of February, 1881. He was the father of five children, four sons and one daughter, of whom Pierce G., James S. and Roger survive. Mr. Smith was a very popular man, beloved by his friends and those he employed. Upon his death-bed he expressed the desire that his remains be cremated at the Cincinnati Crematory, which wish was fulfilled after the funeral exercises at the Cincinnati Scottish Rite Cathedral, under the auspices of the Masonic bodies. A large body of sorrow- ing friends participated in the last sad rites.
John L. Shuff,
One of the best known and most successful insurance men in the State of Ohio, is a native of the Blue Grass State, being born May 21st, 1863, in Bourbon County, the son of native Virginians. Mr. Shuff was raised on his father's farm in Kentucky, his parents having removed to that State from Virginia. In the public schools of Bourbon County, Mr. Shuff received his early education, starting at the age of
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nineteen in active life, accepting a position in a Kentucky railroad company's local agency. After leaving the employment of the railroad company, he became connected with insur- ance interests, for which business he displayed an unusual aptitude. His success has been marked, and has attracted the attention of some of the leading insurance people in the State and country. For a number of years Mr. Shuff has been connected with the Home Life Insurance Company at Cincinnati, Ohio. In political belief, he is a Democrat of pro- nounced views, and has taken part in many campaigns, in the capacity of member of dif- ferent Executive Committees. Mr. Shuff is a public spirited man, who has the interests of the community he lives in at heart. He always was prominently identified with the Cincinnati Fall Festivals, and for two years had charge of the Flower Parades of those fes- tivals, which gained a National reputation for their splendor. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Provident Trust Company, one of the leading financial institu- tions of Cincinnati, of the Fall Festival Association, the Avondale Club and other social and commercial bodies.
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