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The subject of this sketch sprang from sturdy German stock. His father, Joseph Sieber, and his mother, nee Sarah Moyer, were born and raised in Pennsylvania, and the Senator was born on February 22 (Washington's birthday), 1858, in Snyder county, Pennsylvania. In 1868 the family removed to Akron, Ohio, and young Sieber at once entered the public schools of that city, in which, and in Buchtel College, he received his education. Later on he entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated with the class of June, 1882, with the highest honors of his class. He at once began the prac- tice of his profession in Akron, where he has ever since been engaged, having been a member of the well-known firm of at- torneys, Green, Grant & Sieber, and afterward of Grant & Sieber, upon the death of Judge Green. He was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, March 25, 1897.
Senator Sieber entered politics in Summit county in 1886, and in the fall of that year was chosen prosecuting attorney, filling the important place with signal ability for two terms, and retiring in 1893. In 1899 he was nominated and elected Senator from the Twenty-fourth-Twenty-sixth district, and served the people honorably and faithfully. On the IIth of Sep- tember, 1883, Mr. Sieber was married to Miss Elise C. Motz, of Middleburg, Pa., there being three children living of the marriage - Joseph B., Florence and Ruth. He has always been an uncompromising Republican and found time in his profes- sional career to take an active interest in politics. He is a thirty- second degree Mason, a member of Akron Lodge Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and connected with the Akron Lodge Knights of Pythias.
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As a member of the Seventy-fourth General Assembly he was Chairman of the Committee on Railroads and Telegraphs, and also a member of the Committees on Judiciary, Finance, Mu- nicipal Corporations No. 2, Common Schools and School Lands, Agriculture and Taxation. He was strong not only on the floor of the Senate, but in the committee room as well, and was considered by his collegues, regardless of party lines, admirably equipped with all the points that go to make up an excellent public servant. He was alert, quick and resourceful. His voice and his vote were always in behalf of the people.
Jonathan H. Clingerman.
Jonathan Byron Clingerman, clerk of the Courts of Clarke County, first saw the light of day on a farm in Logan County, Ohio, on the Ist of October, 1859. He is therefore 43 years of age. His education was received in the public schools of his. native county in common with the history of all boys so situated. His father was a merchant in De Graff, Logan County, and died when the subject of this sketch was but five years of age. Young Clingerman removed to Springfield when but 22 years. of age, or in 1881, and his first service was as clerk and local buyer for eight years, in the office of the P. P. Mast Company, the great manufacturing concern of Sprinfield.
He then turned his attention to politics, and was elected as the Republican candidate for Justice of the Peace, and served as such three terms, or 8 years in all. In 1899 he was nominated and elected Clerk of the Courts of Clarke County and re-elected in 1902. He has always been a staunch and true follower of the precepts of the Republican party, and attended local, State and National Conventions. He represented his district on the Repub- lican State Central Committee, and is at the present time Chair- man of that Committee. He has been at the head of his party's. organization in Clarke County in a number of campaigns, and the quality of his leadership is shown in the large Republican majorities rolled up for the entire ticket. He has been a member- of the Clarke County Republican Committee continuously for
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twenty years, served as Chairman of the County and Executive Committee, each one term and also acted as Chairman of the Seventh District Congressional Committee in 1898, when there was a combined effort made to defeat Hon. Walter L. Weaver, of Springfield, with Hon. John Zimmerman, which, however, happily failed. He is popular with everybody ; his integrity and good citizenship are unquestioned, and in a residence of over 20 years in the Champion City has come to be known as a man whose friendship is to be desired, and whose record is beyond reproach.
Mr. Clingerman was married to Miss Minnie J. Youngman, of De Graff, Logan County, in 1880, and they have four child- ren, three sons and a daughter. He is largely interested in secret society affairs, being a Knights Templar, Knight of Pythias, Junior Order of American Mechanics, Royal Arcanum, Mac- cabees, Independent Order of Foresters, and American Insurance Union.
William C. Wallace.
The subject of this sketch, cashier of the Columbus Postoffice, is one of the best known among the young business men of Columbus, and stands high in the estimation of those who are honored with his acquaintance. William C. Wallace was reared in the village of Kinderhook, Deercreek township, Pickaway county, Ohio, where he was born February 8, 1866. His father, James T. Wallace, and his mother, Virginia Ware Wallace, were pioneers from Virginia, who settled in Pickaway county in 1848, and they have been the most favorably known residents of that section of the state. James T. Wallace, who yet survives, was honored by the Democrats of Pickaway county with two terms as sheriff, a position he filled to the credit of all concerned. The mother of William C. Wallace died in 1876.
Young Wallace lived on the farm in Deercreek township until he was 17 years of age, receiving his education in the dis- trict schools and at Ohio Normal University at Ada, when he removed to Columbus and entered the dairy business. He after-
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ward became a clerk in a grocery, and in 1887 entered the ser- vice of the Union Depot Company as cashier, a position of great trust, which he filled for thirteen years. The implicit confidence he inspired in his employers, served him well when he sought a position in the Columbus postoffice, and in June, 1898, he was appointed assistant postmaster by Robert M. Rownd, and on January II, 1900, was named as cashier of the Columbus post- office, to succeed John R. Malloy, a place he now holds. Both as assistant and cashier he has performed his duties with an eye single to the good of the general service, and the verdict of the business public is that he has been a most popular and successful official.
Mr. Wallace has always been a stalwart Republican, although reared by a Democratic father, and since reaching his majority has been an active factor in party management in Columbus and Franklin county. He was elected a member of the Colum- bus City Council in 1895, and re-elected in 1897, serving his second and last term as president of that body. In 1901 he was chosen to represent the Twelfth Congressional District in the Republican State Central Committee, and in 1902 was elected Secretary of that committee. He has been a member of City and County Central and Executive Committees and his time and means have always been at the command of his party.
On the first of March, 1887, Mr. Wallace was married to Miss Ella Radcliffe, an estimable young lady he had known from his boyhood, and one child, a son, Stanley Creighton Wallace, born June 26, 1890, and died September 24, 1895, was born of the union. Mr. Wallace is a member of York Lodge, F. an A. M., a Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Alladdin Temple Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Junia Lodge, I. O. O. F., Champion Lodge, K. of P., Buffalo Tribe I. O. R. M., Inde- pendent Order of Puritans, and Champion Tent, Knights of the Maccabees. In all the relations of life he is honest and true, and he has been staunch and trustworthy in every respect.
Hon. Charles Kinney.
Hon. Charles Kinney was born in Springville, Ky., July 7, 1850, the son of Charles and Elizabeth (Cox) Kinney, the second
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1 in order of birth of his parents' children. When II years of age his father died, and the widowed mother removed to Columbus, Ind., where Charles pursued his studies in the public schools. He afterward learned the trade of printer in the office of the Columbus Bulletin, where he was employed nine years. He re- moved to Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, in 1871, and clerked in a book and stationery store for four years. He afterward traveled for the Cabinet Makers Union, when he was appointed deputy treasurer of Scioto County, in which capacity he served seven years. In 1883 he was nominated and elected Treasurer of that county, and two years later re-elected for a second term.
At the expiration of his second term he was installed as chief clerk in the office of Secretary of State Ryan, who was a resident of Portsmouth, and with whom he had been associated for a number of years. Mr. Kinney served as chief clerk during Ryan's first term, and thenceforth continuously except the year 1892, when he acted as Mr. Ryan's secretary during the later's incumbency as the Ohio Commissioner of the World's Columbian Exposition.
When Hon. S. M. Taylor was elected Secretary of State, Mr. Kinney was again installed as chief clerk and served for two terms. In 1896, he was nominated and elected Secretary of State, and two years later re-elected by an increased majority. He made a model officer. Upon retiring from that position he began the practice of law in Columbus, Ohio, and is now largely engaged in corporation business. During the campaign of 1888, Mr. Kinney was Chairman of the Republican Committee of Scioto County and made an excellent record. On October 8, 1879, Mr. Kinney was wedded to Miss Letitia H. Yoakley, the daughter of John Yoakley of Portsmouth.
Colonel Wilson O. Tolford.
That Ohio has been unusually successful in the collection of claims against the general government, on account of the Civil and Spanish-American Wars, is largely due to the intelli- gent management of State Claim Agent, Wilson O. Tol-
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ford, who for more than twenty years has represented Ohio at the National Capital in that capacity. A total of $2,690,000, secured within that time is an indication of the thoroughness and success of his work. Of this amount $1,332,000 was a refund of the direct war tax; $458,000 Civil War bonds; $400,000 on the Civil War account and $500,000 for a full settlement of the Spanish War claims.
Wilson O. Tolford was born in Cincinnati, September 25, 1846, and secured his education in the public and private schools of that city. His father, David W. Tolford, was an Episcopal minister, a graduate of Kenyon College, and a Chaplain during the Civil War. The subject of this sketch entered the Union army at the breaking out of the Rebellion, serving with the Tenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry from August, 1861 to the spring of 1862, subsequently in the civil employ of the National and State governments until the close of the war. In 1865 he was em- ployed in the office of the Adjutant General of Ohio and in the office of the Commissioner of Soldiers' Claims. While in the office of the Adjutant General he became familiar with the prose- cution of the State war claims against the general government, and during the administration of Governor Foster was called upon to again take charge of claims which had been allowed to rest after the election of Governor Allen. Under an act of the Legislature in 1880 he was appointed Ohio State Agent for the prosecution of State war claims and has continuously served in that capacity up to the present time. During this period he has secured to the State the large amounts mentioned above.
Col. Tolford has always been a Republican, but never held an elective office. He was considered by his friends in connec- tion with the Congressional nomination for the Twelfth district, but he did nothing to secure the honor, although his popularity among the people might have given him the place if he had entered upon the canvass. He married Miss Mary Olmstead, a grand-daughter of Col. Philo Olmstead, for many years Mayor of Columbus, a pioneer and the original owner of the Ohio State Journal. Two children came from this union, a son and a daugh- ter. Col. Tolford is a member of the Masonic fraternity and belongs to the Loyal Legion. As the representative of the State he has performed splendid service and as a citizen he has ful- *14
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filled every obligation. No man has more friends or has done more to merit and hold the good will of everybody.
John W. McCafferty.
John W. McCafferty was born on his father's farm, near Mt. Sterling, Madison County, January II, 1871, and was edu- cated in the public schools in that section. He became an ex- pert accountant and for several years conducted a Commercial College in the city of Columbus. He has always been a Re- publican. He served as secretary for Ohio at the Indianapolis Monetary Convention held in 1896. Hon. John F. Oglevee was chairman for Ohio, and Hugh Hanna was Fresident. It was a movement in national politics, participated in by both Repub- licans and Democrats. He was assistant Secretary of the Re- publican Congressional Committee in the famous Campaign of 1898 when Hon. E. N. Huggins was the nominee for Congress from the Columbus District.
The father and paternal ancestors of Mr. McCafferty were Scotch-Irish. On the maternal side Pennsylvania Dutch. His father was a soldier in the Civil war, serving with credit for 4 years in the Twentieth Ohio Volunteers. He died Feb. 5, 1901. In the fall of 1900 Mr. McCafferty was nominated for clerk of the Court of Franklin County, and elected by a handsome ma- jority. In 1902 he was re-elected. His administration of the office was endorsed by the people as satisfactory in every way.
Mr. McCafferty is unmarried. He is a 32d degree Mason, Shriner and Royal Arch and belongs to the Benevolent Order of Elks, K. of P. and Modern Woodmen of America fraternities.
Charles A. Pearce.
Mr. Pearce was born and bred in Columbus, having first seen the light of day in that city Dec. 25, 1854. At a very early age, after receiving the rudiments of education in the schools
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of the Capital City, he began to work for what was afterwards the Columbus Buggy Company, a corporation that started in a most unpretentious way, climbing the ladder all the way from an inferior position to the post of superintendent of that great concern, spending 24 years in various capacities. Mr. Pearce has always advocated the principles of the Republican party, but never held any public office, except that of Sheriff of Frank- lin County. In 1897 he was nominated for that office, and after a hot canvass defeated by 400 votes, but running ahead of the ticket 1,500. In 1899 he was renominated and this time elected by a majority of 2,700 votes. In 1901 he was re-elected for a second term by a majority of 1, 500 votes. His administration of the office has been satisfactory to the people and tax-payers generally, caring for the great interests placed in his charge with strict fidelity.
Mr. Pearce has for years been identified with secret socie- ties, being an honored member of the Masonic, Odd Fellow, K. of P., Woodmen of the World and B. P. O. E. fraternities.
Hon. Samuel L. Black.
The name of the gentleman at the head of this biographical sketch, is among the best known citizens of Columbus, Ohio, where he had been a promient figure in the public eye for the past fifteen years. Honored by his party with positions of trust, he has succeeded in securing the good will of citizens at large, and to-day stands among the leaders of the Capital City in all that pertains to good government and right living. Honest and clean in private life, he has won his way triumphantly, and his public career is without a stain or censure, typefying the highest class of citizenship.
Samuel Luccock Black was born in the little town of Kim- bolton, Guernsey County, Ohio, on the 22d of December, 1859. His father, William Black, was one of the famous physicians of that section of the state, who practiced successfully for many years among the people of Cambridge and vicinity. In October, 1893, he removed to Columbus and made his home with his son,
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Samuel L. Black, until his death in June, 1894. The mother of the subject of this sketch, nee Maria Luccock, was one of the strong spirits of Eastern Ohio, and after a long life of usefulness, passed away in Columbus, January 3, 1903, mourned by a wide circle of friends.
Young Black received his education in the public schools of Cambridge, reinforced by a full course at Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity. He graduated from the Cambridge common schools in 1878, and from Ohio Wesleyan in June, 1883. He spent five years learning the jewelers' trade, but soon turned his atten- tion to the law, and began to prepare himself for admission to the bar on June 4, 1884. He was admitted in 1887 and at once opened an office for the practice of his profession in Columbus, the style of the firm being Powell, Ricketts & Black. From that day to February 9, 1903, when he attained the duties of Probate Judge of Franklin County, Ohio, he engaged in the profes- sion, with the exception of two years, 1897-99, when he was Mayor of the city of Columbus. In that time he accumulated a large and lucrative practice and stood high in his profession, having been engaged as an attorney in many of the notable cases tried at the Franklin County bar.
Mr. Black has always been a consistent advocate of the prin- ciples of the Democratic party, and his active political career may be said to have commenced in the fall of 1896, when he was the candidate of his party for the office of Probate Judge of Franklin County. He was defeated by Judge Tod B. Galloway, but his popularity before the people can be judged by the fact that he ran 1,500 votes ahead of his ticket in that campaign.
The next spring (1897) he was urged to allow the use of his name for Mayor of Columbus, and he consented. He made the race against Hon. Emmett Tompkins and was successful in a city that on a normal vote had been Republican for many years. He served one term and during that two years gave the city an administration that possessed many elements of strength.
One of the notable episodes of Mayor Black's administra- tion, was the reception tendered President McKinley, at the Co- lumbus Auditorium, in the fall of 1898, upon which occasion Mayor Black delivered the address of welcome on behalf of the Capital City. The President and Mrs. McKinley had attended
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the Peace Jubilee in Chicago, at the close of the Spanish-Ameri- can war, and Columbus tendered them a wonderful reception. The address of Mayor Black on that occosion was a marvel of good taste and generous hospitality, and endeared him to patri- otic citizens. The President himself expressed his delight at its lofty tone and treatment of himself as a guest of the city.
In the spring of 1899, Mayor Black was a candidate for a second term, and after a most spirited contest was defeated by a small majority. In November, 1902, he was elected Probate Judge of Franklin County, and assumed the duties of this office on the 9th of February, 1903, for a term of three years.
On the 13th of February, 1890, Mr. Black was married to Miss Carrie Nelson, daughter of James Nelson, a retired mer- chant of Columbus, Ohio, and they have three children - Helen, aged 12 years, James Nelson, aged 9, and Samuel L., aged 4 years. They have a happy home on Bryden Road, where Mrs. Black presides with rare dignity and grace, and amid the labors of raising a family finds time to devote to charitable work, and doing good to the unfortunates of the city, she being a moving spirit in several organizations charged with such duties.
Hon. Marcus G. Evans.
The subject of this sketch was born in Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio, and educated in the common schools of that vil- lage.
His ancestors on his paternal side were early pioneers, and settled in Highland County, Ohio, before the admission of the State into the Union. On his maternal side Mr. Evans is of Huguenot descent and his ancestors were closely connected with the early history of the Nation, some of whom were soldiers and fought for the Colonies in the war of the American Revolution.
Marcus G. Evans is the son of Dr. John Baxter Evans and Lucinda (Wilson) Evans, and is the youngest of five children. After his course in the village school, Mr. Evans entered the South Salem Academy, where he remained one year. He then entered Miami University, where he studied a year, and, on
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account of Miami closing temporarily, Mr. Evans matriculated at the University of Wooster, and there graduated in the Clas- sical Course in 1877.
The succeeding year he was principal of the Union schools at his native town of Frankfort. In addition to his duties as teacher, he studied law under the preceptorage of his brother William Edgar Evans, (afterwards Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas), and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1879. He at once began the practice of law at Chillicothe and in 1885 was elected on the Republican ticket prosecuting attorney of Ross County, and re-elected in 1888.
In 1892 Mr. Evans was married to Miss Stella Margaret Nelson of Columbus, at which time, with a view to seeking a wider field for his work, he moved to Columbus and began the practice of his profession.
In 1893 Mr. Evans was invited to, and did, deliver a course of lectures on commercial law to the Senior Class of the law department of the Ohio State University.
In the years 1895-96 he was appointed by the Supreme Court on the commission to examine applicants for admission to the bar.
In 1897 Mr. Evans was appointed as one of the Republican members of the Board of Elections of the City of Columbus, and served until February 1902, when he resigned. He was president of the board for nearly three years immediately pre- ceeding the time of his retirement. He resigned from the Board in order to become a candidate for Common Pleas Judge. He was elected Common Pleas Judge on the Republican Ticket in this (Columbus) the third subdivision of the Fifth Judicial Dis- trict at the November electilon, 1902, and will assume the duties of this office on the first Monday of May, 1903.
Mr. Evans has always been a consciencious and active work- ing Republican. His active political work began in the Garfield Campaign in 1880. During this campaign he devoted most of his time in the councils of his party and on the stump in south- ern Ohio.
He was ardent in the work of The Ohio Republican League Clubs and served as a representative of his district in the direc- tory of the organization in the years 1890-91.
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Mr. and Mrs. Evans have had born to them four children, the eldest of whom died in infancy. The three remaining are James Baxter Evans, aged seven years, Morton Nelson Evans, aged four years, and Richard Harrison Evans, aged two years.
Mr. Evans, in his fraternal relations, is a member of the masonic fraternity, a member of Mt. Vernon Commandery, K. T. of Columbus, and of the Columbus Lodge of Elks.
Hon. Henry Bohl.
A virile, strenuous spirit of indomitable energy ; a first-class business man ; a faithful representative of large interests ; a loyal friend ; wide experience and influential acquaintance ; of tact and untiring potency - these go to make up Hon. Henry Bohl, the subject of this biographical note. In an active career of many years he has impressed himself upon the citizenship, and his po- sition in the business community is assured. But few men have accomplished more in a quiet, unostentatious way.
Hon. Henry Bohl was born in Bavaria, and came to Amer- ica with his parents, Conrad and Catharine (Altvater) Bohl, when he was ten years old. The family settled in Wash- ington county, Ohio, where they lived on a farm near Marietta. In 1864, at Marietta, Ohio, Mr. Bohl was united in marriage to Margaret Radenbach, oldest daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Emrich) Radenbach. Mrs. Bohl was born in Bavaria and came to America with her parents when young. To this union have been born seven children, of whom five daughters and one son are living.
Young Bohl received a good common school education and began his insurance career in Marietta in 1869. In 1872 he was connected with a prominent insurance company at Atlanta, Ga., and in 1873 was elected Secretary of the Underwriters' Insurance Association of the South. Returning to Marietta in 1874, he was in 1875 elected to the Ohio legislature from Washington County. He was elected to succeed himself in 1877, and he was again elected in 1883. It is worthy of note that the nomination was given him each time by acclamation. He was the chairman of
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