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Mr. Allen came to Ohio in 1859, taught school one-term, clerked in country store until 1861, then enlisted in 38th O. V. I., served as Lieutenant Q. M. and Adjutant of his regiment until January, 1864, when he was discharged for disability.
He has from that date lived in Fayette, Fulton county, Ohio. He was Justice of the Peace nine years, school examiner nine years, member of the 64th and 65th Gen- eral Assemblies and was re-elected to the 74th and 75th General Assemblies on the last election (1901), having no opposition either in convention of his party or at the polls. He is a member of the standing committees on Corporations, Federal Rela- tions, Institution for Feeble Minded Youth (chairman), and Railroads and Tele- graphs.
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HORACE ANKENEY, OF GREENE COUNTY.
Horace Ankeney, a second-term member from the staid Republican county of Greene, was born on a farm near Alpha, Ohio, in 1850. Completing with honor a literary course in Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, he returned to the farm as a profession by choice. For a few years he divided his time between the farm and the school, having consented to take charge of the Beaver Creek graded schools, giving the school his time during the winter months. He has ever since given considerable thought and energy to school work, and is now serving on his twentieth consecutive year as a member of the Beaver Creek Township Board of Education, being its president until coming to the legislature. He served as trustee of Heidelberg Uni- versity from 1885 to 1900; as trustee of Miami University from 1887 to 1900 (his election to the 74th General Assembly necessitating his resignation), and is still serving as trustee and treasurer of Heidelberg Theological Seminary, being first elected in 1887. He was Infirmary Director of his county two terms, 1883 to 1889, and was the instigator and author of the first pamphlet of collated and anno- tated poor laws of our state. In his zeal for the betterment of the country schools of his township Mr. Ankeney became the leader in the establishment of supervision for her fourteen schools, and later the establishment of a Central Township High School. From this successful beginning in Beaver Creek in 1883, township super- vision and the township high school has steadily grown throughout the state, and he can justly have some pride in the impetus he thus helped to give toward the improvement of the country schools.
In the 75th Assembly he served on the Finance, Common School and Orphan Home committees, and always gave an honest endeavor to further good legislation and rightly represent his constituents and party.
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MR. ARTHUR, OF UNION COUNTY.
Francis T. Arthur, Republican, is serving his second term as Representative from Union county. He was born on a farm in Delaware county, December 26, 1840. He was educated in the common schools and in the Ohio Wesleyan University, but just before his graduation, in 1862, he enlisted and became a lieutenant in the One Hun- dred and Twenty-first O. V. I. He was severely wounded at the battle of Perrys- ville, Ky., October 8, 1862, and was afterward discharged on account of disability. As soon as he regained his health he re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty- fifth O. V. I. After the war he removed to Union county. He was a farmer and merchant until 1868, when he was elected clerk of the courts, serving two terms. In this office he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1873, by the Supreme Court of Ohio, and is now in the active practice of his profession at Marysville.
Mr. Arthur has always been active and earnest in securing good government. He has served as member of the town council and board of education in Marysville and has been a loyal and enthusiastic Republican at all times.
Mr. Arthur is a man of literary taste and study and a prominent member of the M. E. Church. He is a comrade in good standing in Ransom Reed Post G. A. R., No. 113. He is a member of the standing committees on Deaf and Dumb Asylum (chairman), Judiciary.
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MR. BEAL, OF HARRISON COUNTY.
James Hartley Beal, the Republican Representative from the Carroll-Harrison counties District, was born near New Philadelphia, Ohio, September 23, 1861; com- mon school education at public schools New Philadelphia, O. During vacations worked on a farm and in a coal mine. Served as drug clerk at Urichsville, O., and Akron, O., in all about five years. Graduated at Scio College, Scio, Ohio, 1884, with degree of Ph. B .; took one year in the study of chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Michigan; also one year in the Law Department of the same institu- tion. Attended and graduated from Cincinnati Law School 1886; received the degree of Sc. D. from Mt. Union College in 1895, and Ph. G. from the Ohio Medical Uni- versity in 1894. Married September 29, 1886, to Fannie Snyder Young, of Urichsville.
He did not enter practice of law, but has been dean of the Department of Phar- macy of Scio College since 1887; has made a special study of the laws pertaining to pharmacy and adulteration of food and drugs. He is also interested in manufactur- ing, banking and in the construction and operation of waterworks, etc.
Was chairman of the Section of Education and Legislation of the American Phar- maceutical Association 1897-8. First Vice-President of the American Phamaceutical Association 1900-1901. President of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association 1898- '99; chairman of Committee on Uniformity in Legislation, Methods of Analysis and Marking of Food Products, National Pure Food and Drug Congress, 1898.
He is the author of Notes on Equation Writing and Chemical Arithmetic, Pharmaceutical Interrogations, Interrogations in Dental Metallurgy, and of the Era Correspondence Course in Pharmacy, and is a frequent contributor to pharmacy journals.
Is now member of the Council of the American Pharmaceutical Association; member of Board of Trustees of the United States Pharmacopoeial Convention; mem- ber of Board of Trustees of Pittsburg Dental College; member of Board of Trustees Pittsburg College of Pharmacy. His residence is Scio. Mr. Beal is a member of the standing committees on County Affairs (chairman), Claims, Common Schools, Uni- versities and Colleges. ,
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MR. BELL, OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY.
Charles E. Bell, Democrat, is serving his first term in the General Assembly as a Representative from Cuyahoga county. He was born in Madison, Lake county, May 5, 1861, and attended the common schools of Painesville until he was 16 years of age, when he accepted a position in the Fisk House, Ashtabula, and began to sup- port himself. In 1884 he enlisted as a private in Co. A, 6th U. S. Infantry, was stationed at Salt Lake City, Utah, and was promoted to corporal, sergeant and first sergeant, during his period of service. He re-enlisted in June, 1889, on the expiration of his term of service; was re-appointed first sergeant, but was discharged at his own request in the following winter. He returned to Cleveland, worked a short time for the Cleveland Street Railroad Company, leaving their service to enter that of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. He is secretary of Lodge 183, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, is a member of the council of the village of Collinwood, where his family has resided since 1890, and is one of the active pro- moters of the village electric lighting plant, which is in successful operation.
Mr. Bell is a member of the standing committees on Asylum for Insane and Sol- diers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home.
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MR. BELL, OF LICKING COUNTY.
William Bell, Jr., Representative from Licking county, Ohio, was born in Utica, Licking county, Ohio, August 23, 1828, educated in the common schools of that day and at Martinsburg Academy. A farmer's boy, he was elected sheriff of Licking county in 1852, serving two years. Appointed Postmaster at Newark by Franklin Pierce July, 1855, re-appointed by Buchanan, 1856. Elected sheriff in 1858, serving four years; elected auditor in 1863, served seven years; elected to the legislature in 1870, and re-elected in 1872; elected Secretary of State-1874, and served two years; appointed Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs in 1878, and served two years; elected to the legislature from Franklin county, served two years, returned to New- ark and was elected Mayor of Newark in 1892, served two years; elected auditor of Licking county in 1894, served six years; elected to the 74th and 75th General As- semblies, and is now on his fifth term in the House of Representatives. He is a Campbellite in religion and a Democrat in politics. Mr. Bell is a member of the standing committees on Asylum for Insane, Federal Relation, Fish Culture and Game, and Railroads and Telegraphs.
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MR. BERGHEGGER, OF HAMILTON COUNTY.
Herrman H. Berghegger, Republican, Representative from Hamilton county, was born in Hitzhausen, Osnabruck, Germany, December 31. 1853. Within a year after his birth his parents came to this country, landing in Baltimore in November, 1854. Thence the family came to Cincinnati, which city has been his home since then. His education was obtained in the Lutheran Parochial and public schools of Cincin- nati, and in early life he entered the grocery business. Later, however, he went into the commission firm of Pieper & Berghegger, of which he is still a member. In 1880 he was married to Miss Mary Luehrmann, and has a family of four children. He and his family are members of the Lutheran Church.
Mr. Berghegger is now one of the oldest commission men in the city of Cincin- nati, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Taxpayers' Association. In politics he is an active Republican, but never held any public office until elected to the 75th General Assembly in 1901.
He is a member of the standing committees on Asylum for Insane, Boys' In- dustrial School, Dairy and Food Products.
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MR. BERRY, OF KNOX COUNTY.
Patrick A. Berry, Democrat, Representative from Knox county, is serving his second term in the House of Representatives. He was born on a farm in Howard township of the above named county, December 23, 1869. He was educated in the common schools of his native county, the Danville Normal Academy, Bethany Col- lege, West Virginia, and the University of Michigan, graduating from the latter in- stitution in June of 1892, with the degree of LL. B. Immediately after his gradua- tion he took up the practice of law in Atlanta, Georgia, but at the end of five years was, on account of the climate, compelled to abandon it. Returning to his old home, he located in Mount Vernon, where he is again actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Was married to Miss Elizabeth Kirk Cameron of Millers- burg, Ohio, in August, 1899; is a member of Danville Lodge No. 546 F. and A. M., and the Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi college fraternities.
Mr. Berry is a member of the standing committees on Claims, Corporations and Fees and Salaries.
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MR. BINCKLEY, OF PERRY COUNTY.
Tom D. Binckley, Representative from Perry county, was born on a farm four and one-half miles west of Somerset, in Perry county, Ohio, on the 5th day of April, 1869. His early life was spent on the farm, working in summer and attend- ing the rural district school in the winter. He began teaching when eighteen years of age and followed that profession for five years; clerked in a hardware store in Somerset, Ohio, two years, and entered the Law Department of the Ohio Normal University at Ada, Ohio, from which institution he graduated in 1896. Was ad- mitted to practice and became a member of the law firm of Crossan & Binckley the same year. Was elected City Solicitor of New Lexington for three consecutive terms, which office he now holds.
In March, 1898, he was elected and commissioned Captain of Co. A, 17th O. N. G., and reorganized that company for the volunteer service in the war with Spain, com- manding the same during that service.
Was elected as a Republican to the 75th General Assembly by a majority of about six hundred votes. Mr. Binckley is a member of the standing committees on Federal Relations, Enrollment (chairman), Geology, Mines and Mining, and In- surance.
He introduced bills relating to the following subjects: Municipal ownership of street railways; Municipal ownership of telephones; Competitive bidding for supplies for state institutions; State depositories for public funds; Counter-floors for the protection of workmen constructing buildings; Sheds for the protection of car repair- ers from rain, snow, sleet and hail; County salary bill; Minimum salary for teachers in common schools; To prevent adulteration of soaps; To fix a minimum 25 cent scale of wages per hour, and a maximum work day of 8 hours for employes in the service of quasi-public corporations; To prevent discrimination against employes through arbitrary age limits; To compel the complete vestibuling of the front end of electric cars.
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MR. BRACKEN OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Edward J. Bracken, Democrat, one of the Representatives, from Franklin county, was born in New York, N. Y., March 12, 1851, and has resided in Columbus nearly 20 years; attended public and private schools, and lectures in the Wagner Free Insti- tute of Science. Was with the Union army at the siege of Petersburg-"the 100 day battle."
Mr. Bracken has had a large experience in the mechanical trades and some in the field of journalism; his name appears on the roll of American inventors and the roster of international labor officials, also in the list of members of the 73d General Assembly, this being his second term in the House of Representatives though not in succession. He is a member of the standing committees on Deaf and Dumb Asylum and Girls' Industrial Home.
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MR. BRANNOCK, OF CLERMONT COUNTY.
Charles A. Brannock, Republican, Representative from Clermont county, was born September 30, 1871, became a student of law, and was admitted to the bar of Ohio June 6, 1893. Married Miss Mattie Williams October 30, 1895. Became the nominee of the Republican party of his county June, 1901, and at the following No- vember election led both the state and county ticket, being the first Republican elected to the General Assembly from Clermont county in six years. Residence, Bethel Ohio. He is a member of the standing committees on Blind Asylum, Labor and Pub- lic Buildings and Lands.
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MR. BROWN, OF MERCER COUNTY.
Samuel V. Brown, Democrat, is serving his second term as the Representa- tive from Mercer county. He was born near Shelby, Crawford county, Ohio. At the age of three years his parents moved to Wyandot county, Ohio, where he lived on a farm, doing farm work and attending the district school in the winter. He entered the Coldwater Academy on January 1, 1885, and the following winter taught a district school in Butler township. In the summer he entered the Ada Nor- mal University and afterward attended the Portland Indiana Normal School and Business College, where he remained during the summer, returning to Mercer county in the fall to teach. In the spring of 1886 he entered the Coldwater Academy as a student of bookkeeping and teacher of the German language. The next winter he again took up school work and has followed that vocation for the last sixteen years, teaching village and country schools. Was elected Mayor of Coldwater in 1891 and re-elected in 1893. Served as Executive Committeeman of the Democratic party of his county at different times. He was elected to the 74th General Assembly and re- elected to 75th. In April, 1902, while serving in the 75th was elected Mayor of Coldwater a third time. He is a hard worker and a fearless advocate of people's rights. While of late years his time has been constantly devoted to his professional duties, he has given some attention to other matters. Mr. Brown has always been an active Democrat since he has been a voter and has shown his loyalty to the party by his active and effective work in the campaigns. He was married to Miss Josie Rosenbeck of Coldwater, February 14, 1892, and has four children, Parschall. Mary, Ellen and Victor.
Mr. Brown is a member of the standing committees on Enrollment, Girls' In- dustrial School, Feeble Minded Youth, Dairy and Food Products.
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MR. BROWN, OF PAULDING COUNTY.
John D. Brown, Republican, is serving his second term as the Representative from Paulding county. He was born near Jackson, Ohio, in 1840, and moved upon a farm. At the age of eighteen he began his career as a school teacher, teaching and attending school alternately until the breaking out of the Rebellion. He enlisted in the army and served three years. At the close of the war he returned to his studies and by hard work and close application worked his way up through the higher branches and fitted himself to occupy a position as one of the leading edu- cators of his section of the state. In 1874 he was elected to the office of surveyor of Jackson county and was re-elected in 1877. In 1878 he moved to Vinton county to ac- cept the position of superintendent of the Union Schools of Zaleski, which posi- tion he held for six years. He served as school examiner in both Jackson and Vin- ton counties and in 1884-5 he was superintendent of the public schools at Cedarville, Greene county. In 1885 he moved to Paulding county and successfully conducted the public schools at Payne for four or five years, giving his attention between terms to farming.
Prof. Brown has always been a Republican, casting his first vote for that stal- wart patriot, John Brough, in 1863, while on the field of battle, and as such he was elected to the 74th and 75th General Assemblies of Ohio. He is a member of the standing committees on Ditches, Drains and Watercourses (chairman), Elections, and Girls' Industrial Home.
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CLEMENT L. BRUMBAUGH, OF DARKE COUNTY.
Clement L. Brumbaugh, Democrat, is serving his second term as the Represent- ative from Darke county. He was born and reared on a farm in Darke county, Ohio. His father dying when he was young, his life until sixteen years of age was spent as a hired hand working by the day or by the month in summer and attending the district school in winter. Began teaching at the age of sixteen, and taught in the district school in winter and worked as a farm hand in summer until of age. Although dependent upon his own efforts without income or financial help of any kind, he early determined to secure the best education possible. Graduated from the National Normal University, Lebanon, Ohio, 1887. Founded and conducted the Van Buren Academy and Teachers' Normal from 1887 to 1891. Attended Ohio Wes- leyan University, from 1891 to 1893. Entered the Senior class at Harvard Uni- versity, Cambridge, Mass., fall 1893. Graduated from Harvard June, 1894 with A. B. degree, classical course, having received honor grades in four out of five courses. Professor of history and literature in Howard University, Washington, D. C., from 1894 to 1895; Superintendent of city schools of his native city, Greenville, Ohio, 1895 to 1899, resigning the superintendency at the close of the school year, June, 1899, to enter the practice of law. Prior to his resignation, however, he had been elected to the 74th General Assembly, by a majority of thirteen hundred votes, and served on the committees on Judiciary and Common Schools in the last House of Representatives. He was an Alternate-at-Large to the Democratic National Con- vention at Kansas City in 1900. He introduced and led the fight on a resolution ex- tending sympathy to the Boers ; was active in the advancement of educational interests ; favored the bill to create teachers' training colleges ; and with Mr. N. C. DeRau and At- torney-General Monett drew up a formal protest against the adjournment of the 74th General Assembly without passing certain promised anti-trust legislation. Was re-elected a member of the 75th General Assembly and was the unanimous nominee of his party for Speaker of the House, which position made him the leader of the Democratic side of the House of the 75th General Assembly.
ls a member of the Methodist Church and the Knights of Pythias. Was re- elected by one hundred more votes than the rest of the ticket. Resides with his mother in Greenville, Ohio, and is unmarried.
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WILLIAM BUCHTEL, OF SUMMIT COUNTY.
William Buchtel, Republican, of Akron, Summit county, Ohio, born in Green township, November 23, 1822, educated in district schools, raised to farm life, at 22 purchasing his father's farm of 106 acres and engaging largely in wheat growing. In 1856 rented his farm and engaged in milling in Springfield township; served in the 164th O. V. I., in defense of Washington during the rebellion, receiving an honorable discharge in the fall of 1864; after the war for many years engaged in the lumber business, first as a member of the firm of Jackson, Buchtel & Co., and later under the firm name of Wm. Buchtel & Sons, handling during that time over 20,- 000 acres of Government and state lands in Michigan. Is now president of the Akron Savings Bank, president of the Thomas Lumber & Building Co., treasurer of the Akron Building & Loan Association and owner of Hotel Buchtel of Akron, O.
William Buchtel was married to Miss Martha Henderson of Springfield town- ship, Ohio, March 7, 1842, four children having been born to them 'as follows: James H. (deceased), John D., Wm. M., and Catharine Jane. Mrs. Buchtel dying December 17, 1884, Mr. Buchtel was again married to Mrs. Nora Sackett Wilcox in Cleveland, December 3, 1885. Mr. Buchtel was elected a member of the 75th General Assembly November 5, 1901. He is a member of the standing committees on Geologiy, Mines and Mining, Municipal Affairs and Prison and Prison Reform.
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MR. BUELL, OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY.
Samuel Buell, Republican, is serving his second term as Representative from Columbiana county. He was born January 19, 1845, in Salem, Ohio. His early educational opportunities were limited to the Salem School. At the age of seven- teen he enlisted in Company H, 115 O. V. I., and served three years. At the close of the war Mr. Buell returned home and learned the. trade of brick laying, since which time he has been a contractor. In 1899 he was elected as a member of the 74th General Assembly over Thomas Arnold, Democrat, by a majority of 3,500, and in 1901 he was re-elected by an increased majority. Mr. Buell is a member of the stand- ing committees on County Affairs, Fees and Salaries, Public Buildings and Lands, Soldiers' and Sailors' Home (chairman) .
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MR. CAIN, OF MORGAN-NOBLE COUNTIES.
"Make it short and to the point" said Dr. Cain, when asked about his biography. Born July 21, 1856, on a farm in Noble county, Ohio, he remained at home, working and attending country school until 16 years of age, when he began teaching; by his own efforts he was educated at the State University of Indiana, later grad- uating in medicine at Louisville, Ky. Married in 1877 to Quintilla J. Wiley, of his native county, and they are proud that their oldest son is a veteran of the Spanish- American War and is now in the Philippines, closing his fourth year as a soldier. Always active in politics; was elected to 75th General Assembly as a Republican from Morgan-Noble district. In the legislature he has been a forceful character, an effective speaker and a "square fellow." He is a member of the standing commit- tees on Hospital for Epileptics, Medical Colleges and Societies (chairman), and Taxation.
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MR. CANNON, OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.
James A. Cannon, Democrat, one of the four Representatives from Franklin county, was born June 1, 1865, in the city of Columbus. He attended the parochial schools and later attended Prof. White's private school for supplementary in- struction. He afterward learned the trade of cigar making, and is now a manu- facturer in that line of business.
He joined the Union of his craft as soon as his trade was learned, and is promi- nently identified with the cause of trade unions. He has held many positions of responsibility in the ranks of organized labor, and at the time of his election to the General Assembly he was president of the Trades and Labor Assembly of Columbus.
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MR. CARLE, OF SENECA COUNTY.
Seneca county (population 41,165) is represented in the 75th General Assembly by Roscoe Carle, of Tiffin, a Democrat, whose popularity is shown by the fact that he ran two hundred votes ahead of the entire state and county ticket, at the time of his election. He was born in Geneva, Wis., May 20, 1863; his parents, Jonas H. Carle, of Maine and Priscilla (Egbert) Carle, of Seneca county, being descendants, through a Puritan ancestry of ancient Saxon families, Carle and Egbert, of Wessex, and devoted for generations respectively to seafaring and agriculture. He was reared upon a Seneca county farm, attended and taught district school, attended Heidel- berg academy at Tiffin, studied four years at Ohio State University, Columbus, and was graduated at Cornell in 1890. In college vacations was civil engineer with Pan Handle R. R. Co. and Chattanooga Land Co. Was Captain and Adjutant of cadet battalion at O. S. U .; organized and was Captain, 1892-95 of Co. E, 2d O. N. G., at Tiffin; in 1898 recruited and offered Governor Bushnell a company for the proposed 11th O. V. I. in Spanish-American War. Belongs to the Grange, the Masons, the Alpha Tau Omega college fraternity, and the Celibates. By profession a newspaper editor and special writer.
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