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James M. Carr, Republican, Representative from Muskingum County, who also served in the 75th General Assembly, was born of Scotch-Irish parentage, March 7, 1867, near Cambridge, Ohio. His early life was spent on the farm. He began teaching at the age of seventeen. Was Superintendent of the Wash- ington, Ohio, public schools, 1892-1893; Superintendent of the Frazeysburg schools from 1893 to 1901. Is a graduate of Muskingum College. Was ap- pointed School Examiner of Muskingum County in 1899. Was married August 21, 1895, to Miss Annie Mendenhall, of Frazeysburg. He is a member of the standing committees on Common Schools, Universities and Colleges, Villages, and Girls' Industrial Home (chairman).
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DR. M. M. CARROTHERS.
M. M Carrothers was born February 8, 1845, in Crawford County, Ohio. Was raised on a farm and at the age of eighteen enlisted in Company F, 163d O. V. I. After the expiration of his term of service in the army he taught school several winters, worked on his father's farm through the summer and in the fall of the year attended college. In 1869 commenced the study of medicine with Dr. A. E. Jenner, of Crestline, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Wooster, Cleveland, Ohio, February 29, 1872. The following day he entered upon the practice of his profession at Sulphur Springs in his native county, where he practiced for fifteen years. Was married July 18, 1872, to Mary Wert, of Crawford County. In 1887 moved to Findlay, Ohio, where he has since re- sided. For five years was a member of the Board of Health and for six years thereafter was a member of the City Council, the last year of which he was the president of council. Was again elected as president of the City Council under the Municipal Code in 1903. Was nominated by acclamation for Representative on the Republican ticket on September 30, 1903, and was elected by a plurality of three hundred and ninety votes on the 3d of November of the same year. In politics, distinctly Republican. Has been a member of the English Lutheran Church for the past thirty years.
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HENRY CHISHOLM.
Henry Chisholm, Republican, one of the Representatives of Cuyahoga 1 County, was born October. 1, 1878, in Cleveland, Ohio. Prepared for college at the public schools there and graduated from Yale University in class of 1901. Since then he has been engaged in manufacturing business under the firm name of Champion Rivet Company, and in the retail automobile business under the firm name of The Chisholm-Philips Automobling Company.
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WILLIAM W. COCKLEY.
William W. Cockley was born in Lexington, Richland County, Ohio, Sep- tember 21, 1840. He served in the Civil War as First Lieutenant Company C, 86th, Captain of Company C, 163d, and Captain of Company A, 187th Regiments, O. V. I. At the close of the war he returned to Lexington and engaged in the mercantile business. On June 20, 1866, he was married to Mary Beverstock, Mr. Cockley has always been a resident of his native village, is still engaged in the mercantile business and is also interested in other business enterprises in his county. He was elected on the Republican ticket to represent Richland County in the 76th General Assembly, and is a member of the standing com- mittees on Public Ways (chairman), Labor and Taxation.
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W. H. CRAFTS, OF PORTAGE COUNTY.
William H. Crafts, Republican, is serving his third term as Representative from Portage County. He was born in Auburn, Geauga County, Ohio, Decem- ber 9, 1849. He has been a resident of Portage County since 1853. His early life was spent on the farm, and his education was acquired in the common schools, followed by a special course of study at Hillsdale, Michigan, and at Hiram College. In 1885 he established the banking house of Crafts, Hine & Co., which is recognized as one of the foremost private banks in Ohio. He is also president of the Euclid Avenue Trust Co., of Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1869 he was married to Miss August Merriman, of Burton, Ohio, and has five children, three sons and two daughters, whose appearance and accomplish- ments show the result of careful home training and refined surroundings.
Mr. Crafts is a member of the Methodist Church at Mantua where he re- sides, and his efforts have ever been in the direction of moral and educational advancement. The new and beautiful school building at Mantua, owes its erection largely to his exertions. Of pleasing address and good judgment Mr. Crafts gained many friends during his first term in the General Assembly and his influence was more than once exerted on the right side of important measures before the House. He is a member of the standing committees on Finance (chairman), Banks and Banking, Privileges and Universities and Colleges.
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DR. A. J: CRAWFORD.
An able member of the medical fraternity, a member of the 76th General Assembly, is Dr. A. J. Crawford, of Athens County.
Dr. Crawford is a gentleman in every sense of the word; · broad minded and liberal, a true friend and an able legislator; elected by the Republicans of his county to his present seat. He has made an enviable record. He is on the com- mittees of Taxation, Dairy and Food and Medical Colleges.
. Was born in Perry County, near New Straitsville, March 6, 1862. He was reared on a farm. After completing his literary education, he read medicine with Dr. H. C. Allen, of New Straitsville, and later attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Maryland, taking a special course in surgery and graduating from the institution in March, 1887. He immediately began the practice of his profession in Glouster, and in seventeen years of residence there has built up a large practice and thoroughly established himself in the confidence of the public.
He was married February 14, 1889, to Miss Ella Jones, of Glouster. They have one daughter, Helen.
Dr. Crawford is surgeon for the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad, Kanawha and Michigan Railroad, and Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking Railroad.
He is a Mason, Knight of Pythias, Odd Fellow and Elk.
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D. W. CRIST, OF COLUMBIANA COUNTY.
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The subject of this sketch was born November 28, 1857, in Columbiana County, Ohio, near where he now resides. His youth was spent on a farm, at- tending the common schools in the winter; after he became of age he educated himself, graduating at N. W. O. N. U., Ada, Ohio, in 1882. Gave his attention to school teaching until his health broke down, when he turned his attention to music. As a composer he has a national reputation, being the author of many works on music besides the author of over 100 piano compositions, many of which have proven very popular, and he now enjoys the honor of being the proprietor of one of the largest music publishing houses in Ohio. He was united in marriage in 1882 to Mary Reed, to which union were born three children, Myrtie May, James R. and Arthur Dillon. Has always been an ardent Republican and as such was elected in the 75th and 76th General Assemblies to represent Columbiana County.
Mr. Crist is a member of the standing committees on Boys' Industrial School, Public Ways, Temperance, and Taxation (chairman).
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DR. JOHN H. CRISWELL.
Dr. John H. Criswell was born December 22, 1850, in Morrow County, Ohio, near Mt. Gilead. Was educated in the district and high school of Mt. Gilead. Studied medicine with Dr. N. Tucker in Mt. Gilead, and graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and located the same year in Caledonia, Marion County, Ohio. Practiced there until the fall of 1884, when he was elected Probate Judge and served two terms, after which he resumed the practice of medicine. Was elected as a Democrat to the 76th General Assembly. Married in 1874 in Mt. Gilead to Miss Cassie E. Barton.
Is a member of the following committees: Medical Jurisprudence, Hospital for Epileptics, and Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.
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DR. F. F. DeMUTH.
F. F. DeMuth, Republican, Representative from Paulding County, born in Lucas County, 1856. Reared on farm; received common school education. Graduated in medicine from Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati in 1882. First practiced in Waterville, Ohio. Then located in Texas, Henry County, Ohio (both being failures financially). I then went to the wilds of Paulding County, Ohio, when I flung my shingle to the breeze in the beautiful village of Cecil, and in the language of the Psalmist "made a hit."
Am on the standing committees of the House as follows: Dairy and Food Products, Medical Jurisprudence, and Taxation.
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S. G. DOWDS.
S. G. Dowds was born July 18, 1865. His early life was spent on the farm; received his education at the county school; embarked in the mercantile business at the age of eighteen; followed this until in 1891 when he was elected County Treasurer of Knox County, being the youngest treasurer ever elected in the county. In 1903 received the nomination for Representative at the hands of the Republican party by acclamation, being elected by 396 votes.
Was married January 18, 1888, to Miss Aurilla Black, of Amity. Mr. and Mrs. Dowds have three children-two boys and one girl.
He is a member of the firm of J. Hildreth & Company, Wholesale Grocers, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Member of the Finance, Turnpike, Manufacturers and Com- merce Committees, being selected on the special committee to prepare road law looking to State and National aid for the improvement of country roads. Is a member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Royal Arcanum organizations.
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FREEMAN T. EAGLESON.
Freeman T. Eagleson, Republican, Representative from Guernsey County, was born in Center Township, Guernsey County, October 4, 1876. Attended dis. trict school, graduated under the township Boxwell law; later attended Wash- ington High School and Muskingum College. Taught school six years. Began the study of law in 1901 with the firm of Locke & Turnbaugh, Cambridge, Ohio, and is now a student in the law department of the Ohio State University.
Was nominated for Representative May 23, 1903, and was elected by nearly eighteen hundred majority.
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DAVID ELEY.
David Eley, Democrat, Representative from Ashland County, was born at Lake Fork, Ohio, July 29, 1860. His ancestors fought for freedom in the Revolu- tionary War. His youth was spent on the farm, where he now lives, attending school in winter and working on the farm in the summer. He began teaching at the age of eighteen and taught four winter terms. He attended college at Smithville and also at Mansfield Normal School, fitting himself for a civil engineer. Was married in 1882 to Stella May Riffle, and is the father of two children, Pearl May and Josephine; the latter is now sixteen years of age. Pearl May, his oldest daughter, was born September 21, 1883, was married October S, 1901, to T. R. Garn. In the spring of 1902 her health began to fail, and it soon became evident that her stay here would not be long. At her request her par- ents, sister, husband and a neighbor started with her to Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the second day of July, reaching there on the fourth. She died on the 30th of July in sight of the historic Pikes Peak of the Rocky Mountains; a more loving daughter never lived. This was the most trying ordeal the sub- ject of this sketch was ever called upon to pass through, for when he left home with his daughter he realized full well the conditions under which they would return.
He has been president of the school board, justice of the peace, and in the spring of 1903 was one of four candidates for the nomination for Representa- tive for the joint district, composed of the counties of Ashland and Holmes, and was nominated and elected by over 5,000 majority, and is now serving his first term in the House of Representatives. He is a member of several committees, the most important of which is Agriculture.
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H. T. EUBANKS.
H. T. Eubanks was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1858, and at 2 very early age was thrown upon his own resources and compelled to educate and support himself, and was at the same time the main dependence of his aged mother. Though his opportunities for early education were very meagre, by unremitting perseverance and indomitable will, he kept himself to the front at tending school at night and spending all his leisure moments in the acquire- ment of knowledge, and it can therefore be truly said of him, he is a self-made man. He is thoroughly informed on all subjects of importance, a good speaker and ready debater, and all in all, a man of great breadth of view who commands the respect of all classes of people. He possesses the further requisite of honesty and faithfulness. He was elected from Cuyahoga County, Ohio, November 3, 1903, as a member of the 76th General Assembly, and in the halls of the Legis- lature has most ably championed and protected the rights of his constituents.
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GOMER C. EVANS.
Gomer C. Evans, Republican, Representative from Jackson County, who also served in the 75th General Assembly, was born in that county July 19, 1863. He received his education in the common schools and at the Oak Hill Normal Academy. He taught school for a number of years, but is at present engaged in farming and stock raising. He takes an interest in all agricultural and educa- tional matters. Is an active member of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, and has been a resident of his Township Board of Education for a number of years. He is a member of the standing committees on Public Ways, County Affairs, Girls' Industrial Home, Mines and Mining, and chairman of Agriculture.
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CHAS. FARNER.
Chas. Farner, one of the Republican Representatives of Lucas County, was born in Spencer Township, Lucas County, 1867, and has always lived among the people who have elected him to the Legislature. His youth was spent on a farm; he attended district school in winter, came to Toledo seventeen years ago; was employed with the government driving a United States mail wagon; was custodian of the mails for eighteen months; afterwards employed as a storekeeper with the Lozier & Yost Bicycle Company, and was with the Gendron Iron Wheel Company where he learned the trade of screw making, and became a skilled mechanic; is now employed with the Snell Cycle Fittings Company, where he has been for the past ten years; has always taken a great interest in fraternal societies, being now a member of the Modern Woodman of America and Past Council Commander of Evergreen Camp Woodman of the World. He be- came indentified with the labor movement ten years ago by joining the union of his trade; he served his local union as financial secretary for several years and president for four years; was next elected president of the Toledo Central Labor Union in January, 1901, re-elected in January, 1902, which is the highest office in the gift of his fellow workmen in Lucas County; was elected as a dele- gate to represent the Toledo Central Labor Union in the convention of the American Federation of Labor held in New Orleans in 1901. He has made an excellent presiding officer and has a host of friends in organized labor. Mr. Farner is a life long Republican and always took part in the Republican cam- paigns; in 1903 was persuaded by his friends to accept the nomination as one of the Representatives of Lucas County, and was elected by a majority of 10,000 votes. Mr. Farner is a member of the Committee on Common Schools, Committee on Labor and Committee for the Feeble Minded Youth.
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JOHN G. FISCHER.
John G. Fischer, Republican, was born in Parma Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1861, of German parentage, and received a common school educa- tion. He engaged in stock dealing at the age of fourteen years, and still inter- ests himself in that business.
He has held the following political positions: Trustee for Rockport Town- ship, nine years; member of the Board of Education, six years; clerk of the Board of Education, six years; member of the Executive Committee of Cuyahoga Count, two years; secretary of the Executive Committee of Cuyahoga County, one year; member of Deputy State Supervisors of Elections, two years; and was elected as a Representative to the 76th General Assembly for the State of Ohio.
He is chairman of the committee on Ditches, Drains and Water Courses, member of the committee on Elections, member of the committee on Public Ways, and author of the first good roads law of Ohio which bears his name.
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BERT FISHER.
Bert Fisher, Representative from Medina County, was born in Wintersville, Jefferson County, Ohio, August 9, 1854. Received his education in district schools; attended Lebanon, Ohio, University; taught school from 1878 until 1885. Has lived on a farm since 1885; he was elected township clerk two terms. Since 1886 he has been a commercial traveler for a Chicago hardware firm, dur- ing which time he traveled more than 180,000 miles in twenty-seven states. He has always been a strong Republican, intensely patriotic and American. He was elected to the 75th General Assembly of Ohio by a majority of 1,408 votes. Mr. Fisher was chairman of the standing committee on Agriculture and a mem- ber of committee on Federal Relation, Dairy and Food Products.
He was re-elected to the 76th General Assembly of Ohio as a Republican .. by a majority of 1.224, over J. W. Shoemaker, a Democrat. Tom Johnson in his memorable Red Devil Campaign did his best to defeat him, but all to no avail. He is chairman of the standing committee of County Affairs, also mem- ber of the committees on Dairy and Food Products, Manufactures, and Com- merce and Temperance. His speeches nominating Senator Hanna and Senator Dick for the United States Senate established his reputation as a brilliant orator of the House, as well as one of the most effective and hard working members; being especially interested in promoting the welfare of the farmers of the State, and the State at large. He is fond of books and owns one of the best libraries in his county. He has carved his own way to a competence.
On the 9th of May, 1878, he was married to Miss Kate Ogden, of Mt. Carmel, Ill., a delighful brunette of the Wabash.
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B. A. FLEDDERJOHANN.
B. A. Fledderjohann, Democrat, Representative from Auglaize County, was born in St. Marys Township, that county, May 19, 1866. His father, H. H. Fledderjohann, a carpenter by trade, was a pioneer settler long before Auglaize was created, and built locks on the Miami and Erie Canal. The elder Fledder- johann built a saw mill at Lock Six which he operated for more than fifty years. At this place Mr. Fledderjohann, the younger, spent his days at the saw mill and farm until 18 years of age, when he entered the New Bremen High School. After three years of study he graduated from this school and taught a district school for two years, entering the Normal College of Angola, Indiana, thereafter. In 1890 he was appointed as superintendent of New Knoxville public schools, and held this position for ten years, resigning in the spring of 1901. In the same year he became a candidate for Representative on the Democratic primary ticket and was nominated with a large majority over two competitors. In the election of 1901 he received the largest vote on the Democratic ticket, de- feating his opponent on the Republican ticket with a large majority, carrying his own township which is one of the only two Republican townships in the county, and in 1903 was re-elected with a large majority, receiving the largest vote in the county.
Mr. Fledderjohann is secretary of the Fort Wayne and Springfield Railway Company, also a member of the board of directors of the company. He is a member and earnest advocate of the German Reformed Church, and has taken a prominent rank in the charitable work of that denomination. Mr. Fledder- johann is a member of the standing committees on Corporations, Institution for the Deaf, and Public Works.
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JAMES C. FOSTER.
James C. Foster, Republican, Representative from Ross County, was born in that county May 3, 1842. Was raised on the farm and secured as liberal an education as the public and private schools of his neighborhood could furnish, supplemented with a course at a private military school at Chillicothe, Ohio, just prior to the Civil War.
He enlisted as a private in Company F, 53d O. V. I., October 17, 1861; First Sergeant of his company January 1, 1862; promoted to Second Lieutenant Sep- tember, 1862. Was mustered out of service as Major 59th U. S. C. F. January 31, 1866. After a course in commercial college at Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Foster settled down to a farmer's life near his old home, where he still resides. Was a mem- ber of Scioto Valley Agricultural Society for twenty-five years and is now a member of the G. A. R. and Loyal Legion.
Was elected a member of the 75th General Assembly of Ohio and re-elected to the 76th. Mr. Foster is a member of the standing committees on Finance, Public Buildings and Lands, Taxation, Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.
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WILLIAM G. FRIZELL.
William G. Frizell was born in Dayton, Ohio, August 31, 1866. His parents. James Savage Frizell and Mary Givens Frizell, were both Kentuckians and of old Southern families. His father, James S. Frizell, was for over thirty years in the wholesale drug business in Dayton.
William G. Frizell was educated in the public schools of Dayton, and at the Ohio Wesleyan University, graduating there in 1887. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1889. He has been in the active practice ever since In Dayton, Ohio. In politics Mr. Frizell is a Republican. He served four years as a member of the Board of Education and four years as a member of the City Council of Dayton, during two years of which he was president.
Mr. Frizell has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Japan and China, and has lectured frequently on his travels. Mr. Frizell is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Phi Kappi Psi college fraternity and an adherent of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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DR. JOHN W. GUTHRIE.
Dr. John W. Guthrie, Democrat, serving his second term as Representative from Adams-Pike district, was born in Highland County, Ohio, December 22, 1850. Educated at the public schools of Hillsboro, Ohio, and at Richardson College, Maysville, Ky. Studied medicine with his father, Dr. D. S. Guthrie. graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, Ky. Located at Manchester, Ohio, where he has been continuously engaged in the practice of his profession until his election as Representative to the 75th General Assembly. Dr. Guthrie is a member of the I. O. O. F., B. and P. O. of Elks, and I. O. R. M. Mr. Guthrie is a member of the standing committees on Railroads and Tele- graphs, Fees and Salaries, Insurance and Privileges.
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DR. E. B. HARPER.
Dr. E. B. Harper, Representative from Summit County, was born at Sacra- mento, California, February 6, 1866, where he received his early education; at the age of fourteen years he removed with his mother and two sisters to Woos- ter, Ohio, where he attended the high school and Wooster University.
After teaching for five (5) years in the schools of Wayne County he matriculated with the Ohio Medical University of Columbus, Ohio, in 1893; graduating from that institution in 1896, whereupon he immediately located at Clinton, Summit County, Ohio, where he has since practiced his profession.
Dr. Harper is an ardent administration Republican and has been prominently identified with the Republican interests of both county and State for the past . ten years. He was nominated for the office of State Representative by ac- clamation and elected by a majority of two thousand four hundred (2,400) votes. He served as a member of the Public Works, Railway and Telegraphs, and Medical Jurisprudence committees, upon all of which he has been very active for the best interest of the people and many times during the session of the 76th General Assembly his influence has been felt upon the right side of im- portant questions before the House.
In 1897 he was married to Miss Rohama Smith, of Clinton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Harper have three bright children, two boys and one girl, who early show the results of careful home training.
Dr. Harper has been raised a Presbyterian and early identified himself with that church. He is also prominent in Masonic and Maccabee circles.
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GEORGE W. HAYS.
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Mr. George W. Hays, Republican, one of the Representatives from Hamilton County, and serving his second term, was born near St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, November 1, 1847. His mother being a slave and his father free, young Hays, by the laws of Louisiana, became the property of his mother's master. At seven years of age he was taken with the family to Franklin, Ky., where he remained until the fall of Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862, when he was pressed into the Confederate army on General Floyd's retreat, September, 1862, when he escaped and joined the Union army at Fort Negley. Being then but fourteen years of age he was assigned to duty as attendant to the officers; was with General Negley's army when it consolidated with General Sherman's and went with General Sherman's army on its march to the sea. Remained with the Union army until April, 1865, when he went to New York City in search of work and mental improvement. He secured a position as waiter and with the books at his command began at once to acquire an, education which until that time he had been unable to begin. From New York he went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he entered the public schools. In August, 1867, he went to Cincinnati to work as a waiter, and during his leisure moments applied himself to study. January, 1869, he joined a surveying party in charge of Colonel Abert, U. S. Engineers, and assisted in a survey of the Grand River in Indian Territory, and the Arkansas River to Little Rock. After the completion of the field work of the survey he returned to Cincinnati, where he entered the public schools. In October, 1871, he was appointed as an attache of the U. S. Circuit and District Courts. He continued his connection with the court until his nomination for Representative in 1901, nearly 30 years. During his service with the court he has served under Judges Swing, Emmons, Sage, Baxter, Jackson, Taft, Lurton, Stevens, Day and Thompson, all of whom have commended him for his faith- fulness and fidelity to duty. As court crier he had the distinction of opening the first session of the Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, July 1, 1892. In April, 1890, he was appointed by Governor Jas. E. Campbell. as trustee of the Ohio Institute for the Blind, and has been honored by re-appointment by Gov- ernors Mckinley, Bushnell and Nash. In his twelve years' connection with the board of trustees he has served as its secretary. He has also been a trustee of the Orphans' Home for Colored Children in Cincinnati for several years. Mr. Hays, on coming to Cincinnati, connected himself with the Union Baptist Church, and has served as trustee of that body continuously since January, 1872. He is superintendent of the Sabbath schools of both the Union Baptist and the Cal- vary Baptist Church. In fraternal organizations Mr. Hays is quite prominent. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a District Grand Director of the G. U. O. O. F., and an active member of the True Reformers.
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