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He again entered the practice of the law in September 1919, this time in Akron, Ohio, and actively continued that practice until his election as Judge of the Court of Appeals of the Ninth Judical District of Ohio, in November, 1932. He assumed the office in February, 1933, and was elected and served as Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Ohio dur- ing the year 1938. He was re-elected to the Court of Appeals in November, 1938, 1944, 1950 and 1956, and is presently still serving upon that court. He is the second oldest in tenure in office, among the 30 Court of Appeals judges of Ohio.
Judge Stevens is a member of the Akron, Ohio State and American Bar Associations, and of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Phi Alpha Delta Fraternities, as well as numerous civic and fraternal organizations.
On October 22, 1921, he was married to Lucy Sawyer, daughter of former Mayor Wil- liam T. Sawyer, of Akron, Ohio. One child, Bessie Voris, now deceased, was born of this union.
Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have one foster child, Mary Jane Webster.
For recreation, Judge Stevens enjoys hunting and fishing. He and Mrs. Stevens live at 82 Frederick Avenue, Akron, Ohio.
Robert E. Stockdale
Robert Edmonds Stockdale was born August 6, 1916, in Dufur, Oregon. He was the third of four boys born to Harry C. and Garnett (Hamilton) Stockdale. The parents original-
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ly lived at Punxsutawney, Penna. The family, which was of Scotch-Irish descent, moved to Ravenna in 1923.
Robert Stockdale attended Ravenna schools, graduating from the high school in 1936. He then attended Kent State University, graduating there in 1940. After that he taught school in Paris township before entering the U. S. Marine Corps in World War II. He served three and one half years in the States and in the Pacific, being honorably discharged in 1945 with the rank of first lieutenant.
After the war he taught in Newton Falls high school and in Ravenna high school, through the years 1946 to 1950. In the latter year he received his Master's Degree from Kent State University. From 1950 to 1952 he was assistant profes- sor of speech at Kent State University and in this time did graduate work in the speech field at Western Reserve Uni- versity. His first public service was as councilman at large at Ravenna, 1938-1940. He was elected sheriff of Portage County in 1953.
On August 16, 1941, Mr. Stockdale was married to Miss Helen Laura Gray. To them were born three children. These are Susan Leigh, Oct. 20, 1948; Robert Gray, Feb. 17, 1951; and Ann Hamilton, March 1, 1955.
Mr. Stockdale belongs to the Methodist church, Masonic order of Ravenna and is a thirty-second degree member at Canton. He is also a member of the Elks Club and the American Legion.
Sam L. Summers
Sam L. Summers was born December 15, 1907, at New Martinsville, West Va., the son of Lawrence L. and Ruth E. (Long) Summers. The family were life long residents of Portage County. He is a graduate of both Audubon, Jr., High School, Cleveland, and Ravenna High School in 1926. He then attended Ohio Northern University, graduating with L.L.B. in 1930. After admission to the bar in 1931 Mr. Summers started the practice of law in Ra- venna. He became interested in politics and in 1932 was elect- ed Prosecuting Attorney, serving two consecutive terms. He then resumed his law practice.
On September 1, 1944, he was married to Harriette C. Jones, daughter of William R. and Catherine C. (Bumpus) Jones. To them were born two children. A son, William L., now 15, is a student cadet at Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va. A daughter, Mary K., is now 12.
In keeping with his interest in civic affairs Mr. Summers led county drives for the Red Cross from 1948 to 1951; was county chairman United Fund Drive 1943-44; member Honor Court, Boy Scouts, 1952; member Building Commission Port- age County Home; Chairman Municipal Court committee. He has been both Executive and Central County committee- man, Republican party, and campaign chairman, 1948-54. In 1956 he was a member of the Electoral College of Ohio.
He belongs to the Grace Episcopal Church, B.P.O.E., Portage County Bar Assn., being past president; Ohio State Bar Assn., and the Delta Theta Pi fraternity.
Currently he is associated with Paul M. Wilson, Jr. in law practice. The Summers home is located at 441 Lawrence St., Ravenna.
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Theodore Tilden
Theodore Tilden, son of George and Carrie Tilden, was born in Troy Township, Geauga County, Ohio on May 4, 1907. He has three brothers, George, DeWitt, and Robert. He attended Troy Township school for five years and then the family moved to Hiram, Ohio, where he attended school and was graduated in 1925. While a student at Hiram he was active in dramatics, public speak- ing and athletics including football, basketball, and track. He won the state oratorical contest at Kent in April 1924 with his oration "Woodrow Wilson."
After graduation Theodore attended Hiram College for two years and thereafter attended John Marshall Law School in Chicago for one year. He finished his law work at the John Marshall School of Law in Cleveland in 1931.
Mr. Tilden was married in 1935 and has three children, to wit: Theodore D., Nancy, and Robert. In 1951 he was married to Helen M. Ewell, formerly Helen Seidel, of Pal- myra. She has a son, Thomas C. Ewell, by a former marriage.
Mr. Tilden is a great, great grandson of Col. Daniel Tilden, one of the early pioneer families of Hiram and an officer in the American Revolution. In 1936 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Portage County on the Democratic ticket and served for eight years.
Mr. Tilden's hobbies include photography, boating and fishing. He is actively engaged in the general practice of law in the Bietz Block, Ravenna and is a past president of the Ravenna Rotary Club and the present president of the Rootstown Township Lions Club.
Dr. A. D. Turnbull
Alex David Turnbull was born July 27, 1908, in Pennsylvania, eighth child and seventh son of Alex D. and Margaret (Fluellen) Turnbull, both of Scotch descent. When the father died when Alex was two, the mother continued the family florist business.
He attended school in Carbondale but graduated from the Tulsa, Okla. high school, where he starred in athletics. He then attended Penn State University, graduating with a degree of B.S. At Penn he also starred in athletics, particularly in wrestling in which he was undefeated. He attended Stroudsburg (Pa.) State Teachers College after which he taught physical education in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. high school. For a time he was in the florist business with his mother at Carbondale and had a boys club at the same time. In World War II he spent two years with a Naval Fleet Hospital on Samar Island. Following the war he attended the Ohio College of Chiropody in Cleveland, win- ning the degree of Doctor of Surgical Chiropody. Continuing his training he entered Great Lakes College in Cleveland, from which he received a Doctor of Mechano Therapy degree. He then opened an office at 470 S. Chestnut St., Ravenna in the practice of Chiropody and Mechano Therapy. While in Cleveland he met his wife, Ellen, also a student. She main- tains an office for the practice of Chiropody at Alliance.
Dr. Turnbull felt the need of a Boys Club at Ravenna and he first gave some 30 boys the use of his basement. As a result of his efforts and persistence the Club was realized and
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the old Highland school building is its headquarters, with a summer camp on the Fageol Farm-a gift of Mr. Fageol. The purpose of the Club is better citizenship for tommorrow.
Dr. Turnbull belongs to the Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity, Friars and Discohulus, Na- tional Chiropdy Association, Congregational Church, Rotary, Elks, Eagles, Moose and American Legion Post (vice commander). He has been editor of the Ohio Chiropody Journal and in 1956 received the "Man of the Year" award of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, for his Boys Club work. He also received the "Man and Boy" trophy from the District Boys Clubs of America.
Claude Watters
Claude Watters was born September 2, 1898, on a farm in Rootstown Township, in a family of eight children, the son of Bert and Elizabeth (Kissel) Watters. He received his education in Rootstown Schools and an engineering school in Akron. He was employed as Shipping Supervisor at the Cleveland Worsted Mills Com- pany and later as a Manager for the Neikirk Co. retail chain stores, Ravenna.
Mr. Watters in 1932 was elected County Recorder, serving two full terms. He then entered the Real Estate bus- iness. In 1940 he was elected Portage County Commissioner and served for 16 years, a period in which the County erect- ed a new County Home for the aged, new Nurses' Home, two additions to Robinson Memorial Hospital, built several bridges and constructed many miles of improved highways. Elected in 1956, he is now serving in the Ohio House of Representa- tives.
Forestry, soil and water conservation, sports, outdoor life and general county betterment are his main interests. For many years he was active in basketball, baseball, football and is still active in bowling. He has served as County Chairman of the blood donor program and the Heart Fund drive. He is a member of the Methodist Church, Ravenna Unity Lodge No. 12, F. and A.M., Grange, Elks, and Historical Society.
He was married Feb. 6, 1921 to Grace Sheplin of Ravenna. They have one daughter, Betty Mae, wife of William Foulk of Bucyrus, Ohio, and three grandchildren, Stephen, David and Susan. Mr. and Mrs. Watters reside at 165 East Riddle Ave., Ravenna, Ohio.
Walter B. Webb, M.D.
Walter Bosworth Webb was born March 4, 1915, at Atwater, Ohio, the son of Vaughn Manley and Grace (Bosworth) Webb. He was one of three children.
He received his education in the public schools of Richfield, Hudson and Brecksville, Ohio. In 1936, he graduated from Hiram College with the degree of A.B., later attending Western Reserve University, from which he graduated with a degree of M.D. in 1939. His internship and residency was at Youngstown Receiving Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio.
Dr. Webb started his practice in the Cleveland-Brooklyn area in July 1941, being located there until December, 1942. From 1942 until 1946 he was with the U. S. Public Health Service and served with the U. S. Coast Guard. He began the private practice of medicine
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in Ravenna, Ohio, June 1, 1946.
Dr. Webb is a thirty-second degree Mason, Williamsport Consistory, 1945. He joined the Lewisburg Lodge in 1945. He is a member of the First Christian Church, Ravenna, Ohio.
In 1939. Dr. Webb was married to Miss Ada Ann Crafts, daughter of James and Jessie Crafts of Mantua, Ohio. To them were born five children. These are Richard Crafts Webb, 1941; Martha Grace Webb, 1944; Jessica Ann Webb, 1947; Jeremiah Walter Webb, 1950; and Norman James Webb, 1955.
Dr. Webb is a member of the Portage County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medi- cal Association and the American Academy of General Prac- tice. He was president of the Portage County Medical Society in 1949 and was chief of staff at Robinson Memorial Hospital in 1955.
Carl A. Wertenberger
Carl Albert Wertenberger was born July 10, 1893, in Rootstown, Ohio, the third of four children born to Otis and Almeda (Sheehan) Wertenberger.
He attended Rootstown schools, graduating from the high school in 1912. That same spring he went to work for The Penna. R.R. Co. as office boy to the station agent at Roots- town. Continuing in railroad employe he served successively as car checker at Empire, Ohio; Cleveland Davenport freight depot; Euclid Ave. night ticket clerk; and ticket agent at Ravenna. In 1918 he accepted a position as teller in what was then known as the Ravenna National Bank, now the First Savings & Trust Co. In 1928 he established his own insurance agency, which he maintained for ten years.
Mr. Wertenberger was first elected Portage County Treasurer in 1936, taking office in 1937, and at the time of this writing has held the office continuously.
He was married May 12, 1915, to Verla Byrer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. and Louisa Byrer of Rootstown. To them was born one child, Mary Jane, now Mrs. S. Lee Hope.
Mr. Wertenberger has taken an active interest in public affairs, serving as clerk both of the Ravenna City and Ra- venna Township boards of education for ten years and was a Ravenna township trustee for five years, resigning from this as county treasurer.
He has been an active member of the Ravenna Methodist church, serving in many different capacities; financial secretary, on official board and in youth work.
For many years he has been a member of the Masonic Lodge, serving as Master of Unity Lodge No. 12; as High Priest of Tyrian Chapter, 91, R.A.M .; is a member of Akron Council, Akron Commandery, Yusef Kahn Grotto and is a 32nd degree Mason belonging to the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Body of Cleveland.
He has been an active member of the Ravenna Kiwanis club for twenty years and served as president of the Ohio State Assn. of County Treasurers in 1947.
His hobbies are stamp collection and fishing and he loves basketball, football and base- ball, especially the Cleveland Indians, win or lose.
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A. C. Williams
For the last six decades the A. C. Williams Co. has been one of the solid business enter- prises of Ravenna and remains a fine monument to the man whose name it bears.
Adam Clark Williams, descendent of Roger Williams of Rhode Island fame, was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, in 1848. His father, John Wesley Williams, operated an iron foundry, and in 1872, the son joined his father in business. In 1892, when the factory burned, the business was moved to Ravenna.
Mr. Williams was president of the firm, until 1919 when his son-in-law, Jas. H. Bigalow, replaced him.
Mr. Williams' first wife, Jennie Willey Williams, passed on in 1905; Daisy Reed Williams, the second wife, died in 1909; and Edna Buck Williams, his third wife, in 1927. Mr. Williams died in June, 1932, leaving a daughter, Mary Helen Williams Bigalow, "Mate", and family and a son, John W. Williams and family of Hollywood, Calif. The daughter died in September, 1932 and the son in May, 1950. Mr. Bigalow died in 1955, leaving two daughters-Mrs. Anita Heisler and Mrs. Jeannette Fletcher, both of Ravenna. John W. Williams had two sons, Audrey C., who died in California, in Novem- ber, 1938; and John W., Jr., now of Beverly Hills, Calif., as does his mother, Stella Poe Williams, a native of Ravenna.
Mr. Williams was a friendly man of good organizing ability, ready to back any worthy enterprise. He was liberal in his charities.
He was a 32nd degree Mason. Among his many interests were excavating and collect- ing Indian relics and collecting sea shells (now on display at the Cleveland Historical Society museum); owning a farm where he raised prize chickens; and collecting historical China.
John Burton Williard
John Burton Williard was born October 12, 1868, on the family farm near Muddy Lake. He was the son of John Henry and Phoebe E. (Waldron) Williard.
He attended the district school and later attended high school in Ravenna where he graduated. After this he helped his father on the farm.
On April 4, 1896, Mr. Williard was married to Miss Elmira Olin of Ravenna Township. Three children were born to them. They were Marjorie, now Mrs. Samuel Chinn of Ra- venna; Howard Olin, deceased; and Dorothy, now Mrs. Ken- neth Hayes of Cuyahoga Falls.
Mr. Williard followed farming all his life, having a place on the Red Brush Road. After the death of his father he be- came a director in the City Bank of Kent which he remained until his own death September 15, 1934.
He was a member of the Masonic order and belonged to the Congregational church. Mrs. Williard died November 5, 1943.
Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Williard
John Henry Williard was born September 7, 1835, in Ravenna Township just east of
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Muddy Lake. He was the son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Eatinger) Williard, descendents of early settlers.
He obtained his education in the district school and helped his father on the farm. When he reached the age of twenty-one his father presented him with a farm and he also pur- chased an additional farm on the west side of Muddy Lake.
On April 4, 1865, Mr. Williard married Phoebe E. Waldron, daughter of Cornelius and Eliza- beth (Pratt) Waldron of Frank- lin Township. To them were born four children-Effie E. Williard, of Kent; John Burton, deceased in September, 1954; Mildred B., now Mrs. Harry E. Goodman, Los Angeles, Calif .; and Scott Henry, deceased July 24, 1908.
Mr. Williard continued farming until his health failed. In 1886 he built a home on West Main St., Ravenna. He became interested in business affairs and purchased an Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Williard interest in the Kent City Bank. He was President of the bank for several years and was Chairman of the Board until his death in January, 1930.
Mrs. Williard died April 6, 1915.
Mr. Williard was of a generous and helpful nature and gave financial assistance to many through personal loans.
Raymond J. Wise
Raymond J. Wise was born in Suffield township, Nov. 24, 1903. He was the son of Emmet M. and Dorthea (Hunt) Wise.
He attended the Suffield township district schools, St. Joseph's Parochial School and later Suffield township high school.
Until he was 21 he worked on his father's farm after which he was employed by the Albrecht Grocery Co., of Akron. For this company he operated an Acme store over a period of five years. He then bought a grocery store of his own in Akron and operated it for two years.
In 1931 Mr. Wise came back to Portage County and established the Ravenna Oil Co. as a wholesale jobber of petroleum products and automotive accessories, covering the entire county. The year 1956 marked the 25th anniversary of the business.
On May 30, 1934, Mr. Wise married Miss Viola M. Warner of Akron. One child was born to them-Raymond Lynwood, June 1, 1936.
He is a member of the Ravenna Rotary club, Elks Club, Twin Lakes Country Club and is state director of the Ohio Petroleum Marketers Assn., as well as being county chairman
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of the oil industry Information Committee since 1948.
Mr. and Mrs. Wise are members of the Immaculate Conception church in Ravenna. Their home is in Ravenna.
The Wood Family
Walter E. Wood was born in Cleveland, Ohio, October 13, 1868 and spent his early life in Warren. In 1890 he married Bertha Baker of Warren and to them were born three children: Grace W. Baker of Ravenna; Thelma, who died when only twelve years old; and Robert A. Wood of Ravenna.
In 1906 they moved to Chardon where in 1909 he and Henry M. Burr formed a partner- ship and established a funeral bus- iness and furniture store. In 1912 Walter E. Wood purchased the funeral business of the late Paul Hamilton of Atwater. Mrs. Bertha Wood then secured a funeral di- rectors license and they operated the business together.
A new funeral home was built in 1918 on East Main Street in At- water where they conducted the business until his death in 1930. A partnership was then formed between his widow, Bertha Wood and his son Robert A. Wood.
In 1933 they established an- other funeral home on North Chestnut Street, Ravenna, moving Jack Wood to their president location on East Robert Wood Main Street in 1935. This partnership continued until the death of Bertha Wood in 1955. Robert A. Wood then formed a partnership with his son Jack A. Wood.
Robert A. Wood graduated from Atwater High School and attended Case Institute of Technology. Since 1933 he has been very active in civic affairs, having served as chairman of a Portage County War Bond Drive; also as President of the following organizations; Com- munity Chest, Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club and many other civic and fraternal organizations.
Robert A. Wood married Winifred Detwiler of Pittsburgh. They had one son, Jack; and one daughter, Joanne A. of Washington, D.C., now Mrs. David H. Taylor, a teacher at Maryland University.
Jack A. Wood graduated from Ravenna High School and Kent State University. He served three years as a pilot in the U. S. Air Corps, Dec. 1942 to Dec. 1955. He is very active in fraternal and civic affairs.
Jack married Jane McFadden of Mansfield, Ohio. They have three children-Linda Ann, Jack, Jr., and Robert A. II.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Bird
Lewis B. Bird was born at Horsehoe, North Carolina, May 7, 1901. He was the son of
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Thomas W. and Annie (Osborne) Bird. He is a graduate of the Mills River, N. C. High School and later attended Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.
In 1930 he became a member of the Akron, Ohio, police force and served 20 years in that capacity.
Mr. Bird was married August 31, 1933 to Myrtle A. Page, daughter of Everett A. and Erdie (Lewis) Page, who was born May 31, 1907, at Lowell, Mass.
In 1938 the Birds bought the Brown farm of 205 acres in Roots- town which they have operated since. On his retirement from police work in 1950 Mr. Bird specialized in dairying, with 50 head of Holstein cattle. He has been active in the government farm program, milk marketing and is a trustee of the Rootstown Congregational church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to the Shrine and Grotto.
Mrs. Bird is active in school, church, music, and civic organiza- tions and is a Girl Scout Leader. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Bird She belongs to the Eastern Star, Mothersingers, government Home Council and the Democratic Women's organization.
Ward W. Davis
Ward Wendell Davis was born August 2, 1907, in Coshocton County, Ohio. He was the son of John T. and Iva M. (Taylor) Davis.
He attended school at Warsaw, Ohio, graduating there and then attended Kent State University where he graduated in 1929 with a degree of B.S. in Education. Later he received the M.A. degree from Ohio State University (1932).
He began teaching in the Edinburg schools in 1928, where he was principal and in 1929 went to Rootstown, where he was principal until 1939. Meantime he had studied law and in 1938 received the degree of L.L.B. from the Akron law school. He is at present a member of the law firm of Davis & McClelland in Ravenna.
Mr. Davis was married to Miss Helen Louise Parsons of Rootstown in 1934. They have two daughters, Dorothy Jean and Betty Jane. The family still lives in Rootstown where Mr. Davis is active in the First Congregational Church, now acting as clerk. He belongs to the Masonic order and is a member of all York and Scottish Rite Masonic bodies.
He is former chairman of Portage County Chapter of the American Red Cross; Past President Ravenna Kiwanis club and for ten years its secretary; Past President K.S.U. Alumni Association; member Portage County Board of Education and Rootstown Local Board of Education; active in the county Republican organization, serving as Treasurer and Vice Chairman.
Mr. Davis a member of the Board of Directors of the Ravenna Savings & Loan Co .;
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President of the Rootstown Water Service Co., which he organized in 1945; and belongs to Portage County, Ohio State and American Bar Associations.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Horton
Arthur Roe Horton was born at Terrytown, Pa., in 1877, and came to Portage County in 1918. He was the son of John B. and Eva L. (Tupper) Horton.
After graduating from Syracuse University in 1902, for twenty years he was a teacher and Y.M.C.A. secretary in New York and Pennsylvania. For six years he was head of the
Latin and Greek department at Genessee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y. Later he was a high school principal in New York state and Ohio, serving in Ra- venna and Rootstown. In 1920 he established a profitable insurance agency at Rootstown and served 32 years continuously as justice of the peace for Rootstown town- ship.
In August, 1913, he married Miss Grace Lumley, daughter of an early Rootstown family. He helped organize the Portage Coun- ty Historical Society in 1952; was one of its first trustees; and was Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Horton on the publication committee of the 1957 Portage County History. He has always had an active interest in the religious, educational and musical life of Roots- town, and in 1930 helped to organize the first Boy Scout Troop there.
Grace I. Lumley was born in Rootstown in 1883; her parents were Elmer E. and Ettie (Dundon) Lumley. She received her education from Rootstown schools and Mount Union College. For several years before her marriage to Mr. Horton, she was a teacher in the county public schools and at Genessee Wesleyan Seminary. She has been interested in the religious, educational and musical life of the community; teaching a Sunday school class in her teens and is still teaching an adult class. She contributed time and talent to writing the History of Rootstown for the 1952 Sesqui-Centennial there and in re-writing it for the present county history.
Mr. and Mrs. Horton are the parents of four children. They are Dr. Robert L. Horton, a physician accidently killed in 1942 while making a professional call; Dr. Paul B. Horton, professor of Sociology at Western Michigan College, Kalamazoo; Margaret E., now wife of Rev. Duane W. Bell, a Baptist minister in Akron, New York; and Allan R. Horton, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Horton are members of the Methodist church, serving it in various capacities, ranging from custodian to Sunday school superintendent, teacher and choir leader on his part; while she has held offices in the women's societies and choir, being organist at the present time.
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