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He is 59 years of age, and has two sons and two daughters, all grown, and resides in Avondale. He is engaged in the wholesale clothing business and is largely engaged in telephone business through the several states.
Mr. Silberberg has been for many years a director of the Hebrew Relief Association, and has been prominently identified with the Hebrew General Charities. Is a member of the Phoenix Club, the Cincinnati Club, and the Young Men's Blaine Club, all of which are the leading social and political clubs in the city of Cincinnati. He was a member of the 75th General Assem- bly, and proved himself an efficient legislator. His party recognized his valu- able services as a legislator by honoring him with re-election to the Senate of the 76th General Assembly, with a majority of over thirty thousand.
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ALEXANDER SMITH, OF MINERAL CITY.
The Republican Senator from the 18th-19th District, who is serving his first term in the Senate, was born in England, January 10, 1857, and in May, 1878, was married to Miss Elizabeth Clarke, who, with him, came to this coun- try in July, 1879, locating in Salineville, Columbiana County. In December, 1883, they moved to Mineral City, where they still reside with their six chil- dren. Mr. Smith is a miner by occupation and an active worker in the ranks of organized labor; has represented the miners for many years in both state and national conventions; was a member of the National Committee of Oper- ators and Miners for three years; served as president of Sub-district No. 5, U. M. W. of A. for four years, retiring at his own request; served on his village council for five years and is at present a stockholder and treasurer of a cc operative store company doing a business of $25,000 a year.
Mr. Smith was the choice of the Tuscarawas County Republican con- vention for State Senator for the 18th-19th District; received his nomination at the Senatorial Convention at Cambridge by acclamation, and carried his district by a plurality of 1455.
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JAMES W. STEWART.
James W. Stewart, Senator from the 25th District, was born in Mercer County, Pa., in 1848. He received a public school education and received the degree of A. B. from Westminster College, located at New Wilmington, Pa., in 1869. Removing to Cleveland, Ohio, he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He has held no public offices except membership of the Board of Education and of the Ohio Senate.
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THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.
Composed of the Counties of Logan, Union, Marion and Hardin.
SAMUEL H. WEST, OF BELLEFONTAINE.
Samuel H. West, Republican, was born in Lynn County, Iowa, July 7, 1872, where his father was serving as pastor uf a Baptist church. Attended the common schools until sixteen, when he went to work in a postoffice; was employed on the Iowa Central Railroad at various points as station agent and telegraph operator, until 1891, when he came to Bellefontaine, Ohio, and entered upon the study of law in the office of Judge Wm. H. West, his uncle, acting at the same time as clerk and typewriter in the office. Was admitted to the bar in October, 1893, and has since practiced law, a portion of the time as a member of the firm of West and West, and later alone. In 1894, Mr. West was elected City Solicitor of Bellefontaine, resigning a few months later; and in 1896, he was chosen prosecuting attorney of Logan County, which position he filled for six years. In 1903 he was the Republican can- didate for Senator from the 13th District and was elected by the usual ma- jority, serving in the 76th General Assembly.
Mr. West was married in 1900 to Miss Marguerite Miller, a granddaughter of Judge Wm. Lawrence, one of the former pillars of the Republican party in Ohio, who died September 27, 1905. He has three children.
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GEORGE T. THOMAS,
Speaker of the House, Seventy-sixth General Assembly.
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George T. Thomas, Representative from Huron County and Speaker of the House, was born September 11, 1856, in Huron County, and was reared on a farm. He attended the schools of that county, Oberlin College and Buchtel College, at Akron. During the years 1875-1880 Mr. Thomas taught in the district schools of Huron County, and in 1882 began the study of law with Skiles and Skiles, of Shelby, conducting the branch office of the firm at Greenwich. He was admitted to the bar in 1886, when he entered into a partnership with Joseph R. Mcknight. The firm opened a low office at Nor- walk, the partnership continuing until Mr. Thomas was elected Probate Judge of Huron County in 1890. After he had served two terms the partnership was resumed and continues to this time.
Hon. George T. Thomas has always been a Republican. He was Mayor of Greenwich one term; two terms Clerk of the township; member of Green- wich Board of Education and its Treasurer.
Judge Thomas was married April 10, 1880, to Miss Emma J. Miller, of Fairfield township, Huron County, and they have one son, Alton O. Thomas, who is a graduate of Norwalk High School and of Buchtel College, Akron, and also a graduate of the Norwalk Business College in both bookkeeping and stenographic departments.
In 1899 Judge' Thomas was elected to the 74th General Assembly and served in the House of Representatives as a member of the Judiciary Com- mitttee, Committee on Hospitals for Epileptics and Chairman of the Com- mittee on Universities and Colleges. He was re-elected to the 75th General Assembly and was a member of the important Committee on Taxation, and Chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations, which committee had in charge the redistricting of the State for Representatives in Congress; and in the extraordinary session of the 75th General Assembly he was a member of the special committee on the Municipal Code.
Judge Thomas was elected to the Legislature in the 76th General Assembly in 1893, and, at the organization, was unanimously elected to be Speaker of the House.
Judge Thomas, during all the time he has been a member of the Legis- laturė, has taken an important and leading part in the consideration and framing of legislation that has passed into law.
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HOLLIS C. JOHNSTON,
Speaker Pro Tem. House of Representatives Seventy-sixth General Assembly.
Hollis C. Johnston, Republican, Representative from Gallia County, was born October 2, 1861; graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in May, 1886, and began the practice of law at Gallipolis, Ohio, in the summer of 1886. Was married on February 15, 1892, to Nell F. Dages, and has three children, Mabel C., Esther A., and Fred D.
In April, 1895, he was appointed trustee of the Athens State Hospital by Governor William McKinley, and was appointed to the same position by Governor Nash in April, 1900. Has been a lifelong Republican, and was elected a member of the 75th General Assembly on the 5th day of November, 1901, by a ma- jority of 1,659 votes. Was re-elected to 76th General Assembly by a majority of 1,659. Is Speaker pro tem. of House of Representatives of 76th General Assembly, Chairman Fees and Salary Committee, and member of Committees on Epileptic Hospitals, Rules, and Banks and Banking.
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E. W. DOTY, OF CLEVELAND.
E. W. Doty was elected Clerk of the House of Representatives of the 76th Genral Assembly, January 4, 1904. He was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1863; lived in Cleveland since 1868; educated in the public schools of Cleveland; was reporter and editorial writer on the Cleveland World; elected to the House of Representatives of the 70th General Assembly, in which he was chairman of the Committee on Prisons and Prison Reform; and of the 71st General Assembly, of which he was chairman of the Committee on Finance; was chosen secretary of the school directors of Cleveland in 1898; was secretary of the Cleveland Citizens Grand Army committee of 1901. Mr. Doty was married in 1888 to Bertha Grace Bissell, and has two children
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ANDREW JACKSON, OF CEDARVILLE.
Sergeant-at-Arms.
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Andrew Jackson, Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, was born near Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio, December 25, 1845. Received .a common school education at Xenia, Ohio; enlisted in the 94th O. V. I., August, 1862, served three years; was elected as Representative of Greene County to the 68th General Assembly and re-elected to the 69th General Assembly. Was elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the 70th, 71st, 72d, 74th, 75th and 76th General Assemblies. He is a farmer and breeder of fine horses.
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FREDERICK BLANKNER, OF COLUMBUS.
Third Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms.
Frederick Blankner, Third Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, was born in Ger- many, July 28, 1836. One year later his parents moved to America and settled in Columbus, Ohio, where he has since resided. For two years he served in Co. A, 5th Battalion, O. V. I. In 1856 he was appointed porter in the House of Representatives and twice was re-appointed to that position, after which he was elected Third Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, which office he has held continuously to the present time, his valuable services being recognized by both political parties.
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DOW AIKIN.
Dow. Aikin, Republican, Representative from Logan County, was born on a farm in Logan County, Ohio, near Bellefontaine, September 26, 1857. Educated in the common schools of Logan County, and at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pa., from which he graduated in June, 1885, with honors and the deegre of B. A. He took up the study of law after graduating and was admitted to the bar June 6, 1887, since which time he has practiced at his home town, Bellefontaine.
February 25, 1891, he married Jennie Peirsol. One son, Harold, completes the family.
He served on the Election Board and is a member of the Library Board of Trustees, but has held no political office other than membership in the General Assembly.
Is a member of the standing committees of the House: Corporations, Library and Judiciary.
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B. W. BALDWIN.
B. W. Baldwin, Republican member from Ashtabula County, was born in Colebrook, Ashtabula County, Ohio, May 31, 1854.
Elected Sheriff of Ashtabula County in 1882; to the Legislature in 1903, and is still living.
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GEORGE A. BASSETT.
George A. Bassett, attorney-at-law, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 6, 1859. He has lived in Ohio thirty-five years, and in Toledo twenty-four years. He was educated in the public schools and began life as a printer at the age of sixteen. He worked for a time in the mechanical department of the Toledo papers, and was telegraph editor of the Commercial for some time, and later became. financially interested in a couple of county seat papers in Northwestern Ohio.
Mr. Bassett was admitted to the bar in 1890, and the next year was ap- pointed an assistant in the office of the city solicitor of Toledo, which position he held for four years. He is an active worker for the success of the Republican party, being a member of the County Executive Committee several times, and believes in fair play in politics as in everything else. He is one of the charter members of the Lincoln Club, and to that organiation has devoted much of his time.
Mr. Bassett is a member of Sanford L. Collins Lodge, No. 396, F. & A. M., of Toledo.
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TOM D. BINCKLEY.
1 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 attending 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 admitted to practice and became a member of the law firm of Crossan & Binckley the same year. Was elected City Solicitor of New Lexington 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, commanding the same during that service.
Was elected as a Republican to the 75th General Assembly and returned to the 76th by an increased majority. Mr. Binckley is a member of the standing committees on Military Affairs, Rules, Mines and Mining, and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
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CHARLES A. BRANNOCK.
Charles A. Brannock, Republican, Representative from Clermont County, who also served in the 75th General Assembly, 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 November 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 Institution for the Blind, Labor, Military Affairs, and Chairman of Corporations Committee, and is author of the "Brannock Residence District Local Option Bill."
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CARL L. BRAUN.
Carl L. Braun, Republican, one of the four Representatives from Franklin County, was born at Columbus, Ohio, March 18, 1865. He received his edu- cation in the public schools and at the Ohio State University. In 1884 he entered the drug business and in 1887 became a member of the well-known firm of H. Braun Sons & Co. Mr. Braun has always been a Republican, but has never manifested offensive partisanship. In 1896 he came within 70 votes of being elected member of the Board of Education in a ward with a Democratic ma- jority of over 300. In 1903, against his inclinations, was persuaded to become a candidate for Representative and received more votes than any other candi- date on the county ticket and the largest plurality ever given a Republican candidate for Representative from Franklin County. He was married in 1889 to Miss Flora Schmidt and they have three children. Mr. Braun is a member of the standing committees on Cities, Fish Culture and Game, Institution for the Deaf, Prisons and Prison Reforms.
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FRANKLIN BRIGGS.
Franklin Briggs was born in Congress, Wayne County, Ohio, February 15, 1842. When about fifteen years old he moved, with his parents, to Waterville, Lucas County, Ohio, where he lived until the Civil War broke out. He enlisted in Company I of the 14th Ohio Infantry and served with this regiment until its term of enlistement expired. He then enlisted in Company K of the 67th Regi- ment, Ohio Infantry. For three years he was a private, after which time he was made Orderly Sergeant of his company. Promotion rapidly followed until he was made Captain of his company. This was before he was twenty-one years old. He served with the 67th Regiment until his term of enlistment expired, not missing a single battle in which his company took part.
From the army he went to Delta, Fulton County, Ohio, where he engaged in the mercantile business and has successfully carried on this for forty years. He has been an active Republican all his life, has held several offices of trust and was elected to the 76th General Assembly of Ohio in the Autumn of 1903.
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FREDERICK I. BRIGHT.
Frederick I. Bright, Republican Representative from Hocking-Vinton Joint District, was born at Logan, Ohio, May 19, 1875. He received his early educa- tion in the public schools of his native town and afterwards spent two years at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. Mr. Bright spent one year as a teacher in the district schools of Hocking County. In the year of 1900 he graduated from the law department of the Ohio State University, from which institution he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Since that time he has engaged in the practice of his profession at Logan, being the junior member of the firm of Bright & Bright. He is a member of the standing committees on Corporations, Elections, Boys' Industrial School and Fish Culture and Game. Member of the Methodist Church, orders of Knights of Pythias and I. Q. Q. F.
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HIRAM S. BRONSON.
Hiram S. Bronson, Republican, one of the four Representatives from Franklin County, was born in Marquette, Michigan, March 20, 1866. Although not himself a native of Ohio, Mr. Bronson comes of old Ohio stock. His parents moved from Ohio to Michigan before his birth. His great-uncle, Hiram Bronson, whose namesake he is, was a member of the General Assembly from 1866 to 1869, and his great-grandfather, Hiram Oviatt, was one of the Con- necticut pioneers to the Western Reserve and gave the original endowment to the Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio.
Mr. Bronson rceived his early education in the common schools at Mar- quette and was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., in 1889. Called to Columbus, Ohio, by business interests of his father, he came there in the fall of 1889 and was for some time a member of the firm of O. D. Dwyer & Co., successors to E. O. Randall & Co., wall paper dealers. During this time Mr. Bronson read law as opportunity presented itself and finally sold his interst in the wall paper firm and entered the law department of Ohio State Uni- versity. He was graduated from there in 1897 with degree of B. L. and has since been engaged in the practice of law with offices in the Board of Trade Building, Columbus, Ohio.
Mr. Bronson has been an active worker in the Republican party of Franklin County, and has served on Central and Executive Committees for a number of years. He was for four years a member of Columbus City Board of Elections, for two years its president. He resigned the office in summer of 1903 to enter campaign for member of General Assembly. Was elected in November, 1903, and since taking his seat has been actively interested in framing and helping to carry through the 76th Genral Assembly a reform measure for the better and safer conduct of primary elections. Mr. Bronson is married and has two sons. Hiram S., Jr., and Joseph Chandler. He is chairman Election Committee and member committees on Claims and Feeble Minded Youth.
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WILLIAM BUCHTEL.
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William Buchtel, Republican, of Akron, Ohio, is serving his second term as Representative from Summit County. He was born in Green township, Summit County, November 23, 1822, educated in the district schools and trained to agricultural pursuits. At 22 years of age he purchased his father's farm of 160 acres and gave nis attention to the cultivation of wheat. In 1856 he rented this farm and engaged in milling in Springfield, being interested in both flour and saw mills. He enlisted in the 164th O. V. I., served in defense of Washington during the War of the Rebellion, and was honorbaly discharged in the fall of 1864 with the rank of captain.
After the war, he was for many years interested in the lumber business as a member of the firm of Jackson, Buchtel & Co., and as the head of the firm of Wm. Buchtel & Sons, controlling during this time immense tracts of govern- ment and state land in Michigan. Much of his time was spent in the Michigan pineries and his experiences there afford an endless fund of amusing and interesting reminiscences. At this time, in company with W. D. Raymond, he also granted and operated at Akron, Ohio, the Citizens' Savings Bank, E. Stein- bacher, president, William Buchtel vice president, W. G. Raymond, cashier. Later, this bank became a national concern known as the Citizens' National Bank. Disposing of his interest in the Citizens' Bank, Mr. Buchtel accepted the vice presidency of the City National Bank of Akron, and entered largely into building operations. Among the monuments to his enterprise in this direction may be named the Buchtel Hotel, the Akron Savings Bank building and numer- ous residences in Akron and surrounding towns. He resigned as vice president of the City National Bank and organized the Akron Savings Bank in 1888, and has held the office of president of this bank from its organization to the present time. He is also president of the Thomas Lumber and Building Com- pany and treasurer of the Akron Building and Loan Association.
Always greatly interested in municipal affairs, he has served two terms as chairman of the Board of City Commissioners of Akron and was a member of the Decennial Board of Equalization in 1890. He is a man of sterling integrity and his stern adherence to the principles of truth and equity has won for himself the unqualified respect and admiration of all who know him.
William Buchtel was married March 7, 1842, to Miss Martha Henderson, of Springfield township, who departed this life December 17, 1884. Four children were the issue of this marriage, Catharine Jane, James H. (deceased), John D., and William M.
His second matrimonial venture was consummated at Cleveland, Ohio, where · he was married to his present wife, Mrs. Nora Sackett Wilcox, December 3, 1885. Mr. Buchtel was elected member of the 75th General Assembly November 5, 1901. He served on the standing committees on Geology, Mines and Mining, Municipal Affairs, and Prisons and Prison Reforms.
November, 1903, he was elected by a large majority to succeed himself as a member of the 76th General Assembly. He was appointed chairman of the com- mittee on Prisons and Prison Reforms and a member of the standing committees on Banks and Banking, Villages, and Taxation.
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W. H. BURNETT.
. W. H. Burnett, member of the 76th General Assembly, was born and raised in Highland County. His education was received in the country schools.
Occupation-Farmer and breeder of fine cattle and horses. Has been a life- long stalwart Republican. Present office was unsought. Was nominated by acclamation and received over nine hundred (900) majority in a county that had been carried by the Democracy for a number of years, by like pluralities.
Ancestry-English-German extraction; his father's grandfather was killed in battle in the Revolutionary War, and on the maternal side, the grandfather helped to ring the Bell of Independence in Philadelphia, on July 4th, 1776, and also served with distinction as a soldier during the war and married a sister of George Ross, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He served on the following standing committees: Agriculture, Asylum for Insane and Ditches, Drains and Water Courses.
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ROSCOE CARLE.
Roscoe Carle, Democrat, Representative from Seneca County in the 75th and 76th General Assemblies, was born in Geneva, Wis., May 20, 1863, the eldest son of Jonas H. Carle, a native of Maine, and of Priscilla (Egbert) Carle, a native of Seneca County, Ohio. The ancestry on both sides is traceable through the English Puritans who settled in Maine and in Holland to the ancient Saxon families of Ceorl and Egbert.
From the age of eight, when his father died, our subject has resided in Seneca County, attending village and district schools and the academy of Heidelberg University, spending ten years on the farm and teaching one term of school before leaving for college. He attended Ohio State University four years, was employed in vacations as civil engineer on the Panhandle Railroad Company and with land companies at Chattanooga, Tenn.
In 1890 was graduated from Cornell University with the degree of the literary course. He immediately entered the newspaper business, has been employed on newspapers in Tiffin and Fostoria ever since, and is now editor and publisher of the Daily Times at Fostoria. From 1892 to 1895 was Captain of Company E, 2d O. N. G., at Tiffin, and in 1898 recruited and offered the Governor a company of one hundred and twenty-five men for the proposed 11th Ohio regiment in the Spanish-American war.
Was elected and re-elected to the legislature in senatorial years when dis- sensions in the party in his county led to the defeat of a majority of his col- leagues each ume. He led the entire ticket in 1901 by two hundred votes. In avvy when the state went 113,000 Republican and the Democrats in the House were reduced from 42 to 22, Representative Carle was confronted by an opponent picked as "the strongest Republican in Seneca County." Allied with the splendid- ly organized Republican committee and its resources was a desperate clique of defeated Democratic leaders of the county, including an ex-congressman, who determined that Seneca County for the first time in her history should elect a Republican Representative. When the polls closed, Representative Carle was re-elected by a majority of thirty per cent. greater than before. He had carried the strongest Republican precinct in the county, his own in Fostoria, as well as the Republican precinct in Tiffin in which his opponent resides, his majority running over 250 above the head of the ticket.
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JAMES M. CARR.
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