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Socially Mr. Kehnast is an active working member of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Past Commander of the local Bishop Post No. 22, G. A. R. He has the same interest in the Masonic order, being a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner and Past Commander of Defiance Commandery, No. 30. He has been elected to and has served in local offices of honor and trust, such as member, treasurer and president of the city school board and member of the city council.
Mr. Kehnast has been an extensive and observant traveler through Canada, from the upper lakes to New Orleans, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, and from the prominent cities of the Atlantic coast to the far West, including Washington, California and the National Yellowstone Park. He enjoyed one month's travel through Old Mexico, a six weeks' cruise through the West Indies to Bermuda, Saint Croix, Antigua, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados, Georgetown, British Guiana, St. Thomas, Porto Rico, Santiago de Cuba and Havana, at which point he boarded the hull of the ill-fated Maine still lying in the harbor and secured a piece of her armor plate. He has crossed the Atlantic seven times, and in his travels abroad visited Liverpool, Lon- don, Paris, various cities in Switzerland, Mainz, going down the Rhine to Cologne; Strassburg, Leipzig, Berlin and other cities in Germany. On his last visit abroad he was accompanied by his wife. They have two daughters, Nellie and Minnie.
Mr. Kehnast was re-elected as a member of the 77th General Assembly by a largely increased majority, and he is a member of the Committees on Tax- ation and Board of Public Works.
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RUDOLPH KELLER.
R UDOLPH KELLER, Representative from Seneca County, was born Sep- tember 11, 1856, in Attica, Seneca County, where he has ever since re- sided. By occupation he is a clothing and shoe merchant; in politics he has always been a Democrat, and has been a member of both the County Executive and Central Committees. He has held township and village offices for a number of years. In 1886 he was married to Miss Blanche Huffman, to which union two sons were born, Ralph Huffman and Bruce Vincent. He is a Past Master of Attica Lodge No. 367, F. and A. M.
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ABRAHAM KOLINSKY.
A BRAHAM KOLINSKY was born in Russia in 1881; came over to this coun- try at an early age, and settled in Cleveland, where he has resided ever since; was educated in the Cleveland grammar and high schools. While he was attending the public schools he earned some money by tutoring for- eigners in the English language. He has also taught in the Cleveland public night schools. During the years 1900-1902, he was employed in the City Audi- tor's office in Cleveland.
He received his legal education in the law department of the Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Law School of the Baldwin University, from which he received in 1902 the degree of LL. B., summa cum laude.
He has always taken a great interest in civic matters and is a student of political science. In 1903 he was elected the first president of the Civic Club of Cleveland, from which office he resigned in September, 1905, in com- pliance with the constitution of the club, which requires that no public offi- cial or nominee for office shall hold office therein. The Civic Club is a non- partisan organization which strives for honest and progressive administration of municipal government.
He was the author of a stringent anti-pass bill which the committee to which it was referred refused to report, and a motion by him to relieve the committee from further consideration of the same was lost by a vote of 31 to 48, in spite of his earnest efforts in its behalf. He was elected as a Democrat ..
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JOHN J. LEHMANN.
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JOHN J. LEHMANN.
J JOHN J. LEHMANN, Representative from Sandusky County, was born Oc- tober 4, 1863, on a farm in the county which he represents. He worked for his parents until he was 21 years old, and during his boyhood days experienced many of the hardships incident to early farm life. While on the farm he attended the public school, and at the age of 21 began attending school at Ada, Ohio, in the spring, farming in summer and teaching in the winter. While living on the farm he was elected township clerk of his town- ship and served two terms. He was also principal of the Rising Sun, Ohio, schools for two years. He was admitted to the bar October 4, 1894, and im- mediately began the practice of law, first at Fostoria and afterward at. Fre- mont, Ohio, where he is now located and engaged mostly in prosecuting pen- sion and patent claims.
Mr. Lehmann has always been a staunch Democrat, and a hard worker for his party. In the year 1901 he was nominated by his party for Repre- sentative, but was defeated in the landslide of that year by the Hon. E. R. Tyler, by the small plurality of 31 votes. He was renominated in the year 1903, and was elected, receiving a plurality of 1,015 votes over his opponent who had defeated him two years previous. He was renominated in the year 1905, and re-elected by a plurality of 1,532 votes.
Mr. Lehmann's principal object in the 76th General Assembly was to se- cure legislation to prevent the American Strawboard Company from pollut- ing the Sandusky river. This much sought legislation was secured by him after others had failed for the previous 14 to 16 years. He also is the author of the new line fence law, which revolutionized the line fence laws of Ohio, and which law was unanimously endorsed by the Ohio State Grange at its meeting of the same year. Other laws secured by him are as follows: A law limiting the time of the committee to examine the commissioners' report to thirty days. This law saves the taxpayers of his own county over $400 per year. A law authorizing county commissioners of adjoining counties to act jointly under the Gehrett Road law in building or improving county line roads. A law authorizing a township and a village to join in improving or building a public building. As a member of the 77th General Assembly he introduced House bills Nos. 33, 34, 35, 36, 127, 201, 220 and 586.
He was married October 16, 1894, to Miss Lillian B. Fry of Sandusky County, and they have four children, Lester L. (page in the House of the. 77th General Assembly), Ruth E., Wm. Elbert D. and John.
Mr. Lehmann is a prominent Modern Woodman of America, and also be- longs to the Maccabees, Woodmen of the World, Knights of Columbus, Cath- olic Mutual Benefit Association and Home Guards of America. In the 76th General Assembly he was a member of the following standing committees: Judiciary, Federal Relations and Institution for the Blind.
In the 77th General Assembly he was a member of the Judiciary and Elec- tions Committees.
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ROBERT BOYNTON LERSCH.
R OBERT BOYNTON LERSCH, Republican, Representative from Lorain County, was born in Elyria, Ohio, November 10, 1871. He graduated from the Elyria High school in 1889, and was for a time a student in the law school of Western Reserve University, and is now engaged in the dry goods business as a member of the firm of John Lersch & Co. Mr. Lersch has always taken an active interest in politics, and was for seven years a mem- ber of the City Council of Elyria. He is the son of John Lersch and Pamela Boynton Lersch, and was married in 1897 to Miss Helen Seward.
Mr. Lersch was elected to the House of Representatives of the 76th Gen- eral Assembly and re-elected to the 77th, and served as a member of the following committees: Cities (secretary), Institution for the Blind (chairman) and Public Works.
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GEORGE LITTLE.
G EORGE LITTLE, Republican, Representative from Greene County, was born August 25, 1868, and now resides in Xenia, Ohio. He is a member of the Ohio bar, and is interested in several manufacturing enterprises.
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EDWIN L. LYBARGER.
EDWIN L. LYBARGER, Republican, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Sep- tember 29, 1840; was educated at Milwood Academy, from which school he went into the army at the beginning of the war in 1861, served four years in the 43d Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the close of the war, he moved to Spring Mountain, Coshocton County, Ohio, where he was engaged for twenty- five years in mechanical and agricultural business. He was elected to the 62d General Assembly in 1875; was elected a member of State Board of Public Works in 1891, and served six years in that capacity. He was on the com- mission that built the annex to the state house; was the department com- mander of the G. A. R. of Ohio during the year 1896; was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, F. and A. M., of Ohio during the year of 1900. In 1905, he was elected to the 77th General Assembly from Coshocton County.
At the present time he is engaged to a considerable extent in agriculture, is a director and vice-president of the Commercial National Bank at Coshoc- ton, and connected with some other industries in that city. In the present General Assembly he is chairman of the Agriculture Committee, a member of the Commission of Public Works, Deaf and Dumb Institution and Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home.
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WILLIAM B. McCORD.
W ILLIAM B. McCORD, Republican, Representative from Columbiana County, was born November 20, 1844, in Utica, New York, and came to Ohio when six years of age. Attended the common schools in Steubenville and the McNeely Normal College at Hopedale. He served in the 179th O. V. I. in 1864-5 in the Civil War. From 1872 to 1904 he was in the newspaper busi- ness as editor or editor and publisher in Columbiana county. In 1905 he was given the Republican nomination without opposition for Representative in the 77th General Assembly, and elected with a plurality of almost 4,000. He served on the committees on Common Schools, Military Affairs, Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home and as chairman of Public Printing.
Mr. McCord was married November 6, 1872, to Helen Lydia, daughter of Philip F. Geisse. She, with three children, William R., Mrs. Edith F. Morse and Philip F., were still living in 1906.
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DR. L. M. McFADDEN.
D R. L. M. McFADDEN, Republican, Representative from Fayette County, was born on a farm near New Antioch, Clinton County, June 6, 1868. Re- ceived his early education in the common schools, working on the farm in the summer, attending school during the winter.
Dr. McFadden is in the true sense a self-made man; since he was sixteen years of age, at which time his father died, he has battled with life, and by earnest toil succeeded in obtaining an education.
At the age of nineteen he began the study of medicine with Dr. John Mc- Fadden at Lees Creek, Ohio, and later entered the University of Louisville, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1892. He imme- diately began the practice of his profession in Staunton, and in fourteen years of residence there has built up a large practice and thoroughly established himself in the confidence of the public. He was married June 16, 1895, to Miss Sarepta Luttrell, of Clinton County. They have three children, one boy and two girls.
Dr. McFadden has been an active worker for his party, and has served on the Central and Executive Committees for a number of years. He was active in the organization of the County Medical Society of which he has since been a member; is a Mason, being a Knight Templar, Garfield Commandery, No. 28.
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CLIFF E. MCGINNIS.
CLIFF E. MCGINNIS, Democrat, member from Shelby County, was born in that county November 15, 1875. Elected to the 76th General Assembly in 1903, and to the 77th in 1905. Admitted to the bar in 1901, and is en- gaged in the practice at Sidney. Member of B. P. O. E., K. of P., D. O. K. K., I. O. O. F. and I. O. R. M. Member of the Finance and Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Committees in the House.
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JASPER J. MCLAUGHLIN.
TASPER J. MCLAUGHLIN, Democrat, member from Mercer County, is serv- ing his second term, and after fifty-six years of experience with the am- bitions, vagaries and egotisms of human nature, believes that valuable service as a statesman is demonstrated by preventing obnoxious laws from being enacted, more than by loading down the statutes with voluminous mat- ter that is not practical, and can never be enforced.
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EDWIN STANTON MARTIN ..
E DWIN STANTON MARTIN, son of John D. Martin and Mary Jane Herman, was born in 1855 at Lancaster, O., and educated there in the public schools. He went to New Straitsville in 1871 shortly after its founding, clerked in the Martin and Irving store, and worked about the coal mines, becoming superintendent of the Straitsville Coal Company's mine in 1873. From 1876- 1884 (excepting a year's absence in a business enterprise in Brazil), he was engaged in the coal shipping business in Cleveland. Returning to New Straits- ville in 1884, at the beginning of the great Hocking Valley miners' strike he organized the Straitsville Co-operative Coal Co., opening up a new coal mine. This was succeeded in 1886 by the firm of Martin & Roan.
He has always been active in the improvement of his home town and the development of the Hocking Valley; was one of the organizers of the Martin Bank Company, and of the Social and Athletic Club, whose commodious build- ing and fine equipment would serve as a model for similar enterprises in much larger towns.
He has served on the Board of Education and Town Council and for four years as a township trustee was actively engaged in building turnpikes in Coal township, which now has the best roads in Perry County. This came about after a series of unsuccessful attempts for several years to get the county to pike its main thoroughfares, during which time he twice failed of the nomination for county commissioner, and the third time was beaten at the polls on the good roads issue.
He was elected to the 77th General Assembly as a Republican in November, 1905. He was a candidate for the nomination to Congress from the 11th Dis- trict in February, 1906, with success conceded, when a breakdown in health from overwork compelled him to retire from the contest a few days before the convention.
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HENRY C. MAULBERGER.
H ENRY C. MAULBERGER, Democratic Representative from Cuyahoga County. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, August 17th, 1867. Was elected to the City Council of Cleveland two times and served as president pro tem. two years. Member of K. of P. and I. O. F. Was elected to the House of Representatives on November 7, 1905, by a plurality of 6,372.
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PIERCE D. METZGER.
P IERCE D. METZGER, Representative from Cuyahoga County, was born at Onorge, Iroquois County, Illinois, November 10, 1875. When five years of age removed to state of Kansas with parents; educated in common schools of that state and the Wesleyan College at Salina, Kansas; taught school several years; removed to state of Michigan in 1897; studied law in office of E. A. Cooley at Bay City, Mich .; removed to Ohio in 1899, and en- tered the law school of Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio; grad- uated and admitted to the bar of Ohio in 1901; elected mayor of the village of Bedford, 1902; re-elected mayor in 1903 without opposition; has always been a Democrat; elected Representative to the 77th General Assembly from Cuyahoga County on the Democratic ticket in 1905 by a plurality of nearly 6,000. Married and has two children.
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JOHN H. MEYER.
J OHN H. MEYER, Democratic Representative from Hamilton County, was born December 13, 1840, near the city of Osnabruck, formerly of the king- dom of Hanover, which is now a part of the German empire. On August 28, 1858, at the age of 18 years, with his parents, he immigrated to America, arriving at New Orleans, November 1, the same year, and proceeded directly via steamer to the city of Cincinnati, where he made his future home. After his arrival at Cincinnati he was first employed for about one year as helper on a farm near the city, after which he was employed in the transportation business as driver of a mule team on the Miami and Erie canal. Later he followed the occupation of wood turner. In the year 1868, he was married to Miss Mary Westbrock, also a resident of Cincinnati, and in the same year engaged in the retail grocery and saloon business. He conducted a retail gro- cery and saloon for 36 consecutive years, and retired to private life November 1, 1904. He was an active member in building associations and other mutual and social organizations.
He was elected for three different times to represent the 22d ward in the City Council of Cincinnati, and served his constituents with such marked distinction that he was nominated and elected as state Representative on the Democratic ticket in November, 1906, after having retired to private life for two years.
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FRANK MILLER.
F RANK MILLER, Democrat, Representative from Crawford County, Ohio, was born in Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio, March 11, 1863, where he now resides. He graduated in the public schools of that city in 1881, entered the Ohio State University in the fall of 1881, which institution he attended until 1883. Read law at Crestline, Ohio, from 1884 to 1887 and was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1887. Practiced law from 1887 to 1893, at which time he started what is now known as, The Crestline Live Stock Feed- · ing Station, which business he now owns and manages at Crestline, Ohio. Is also interested in a number of manufacturing enterprises and is one of the Board of Directors of the Bench Plow Works Company.
Was married to Hattie N. Short of Belle Center, Ohio, October 16, 1889. Was elected mayor of Crestline in 1896, served for two years and was re elected in 1898, which office he filled until '1900 ..
He is a member of the standing committees on Elections and Taxation.
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R. H. MINTEER.
BORN in Hopedale, Ohio, January 3, 1870, admitted to the bar in 1894, com- menced to practice law at Cadiz, Ohio, 1896; married to· Elizabeth Stew- art of Sewickley, Pa., 1901, and was elected a member of the House of Representatives from Harrison, County in 1905, and served in the regular session of 1906. He is still practicing law at Cadiz, Ohio.
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A. E. MOON.
E. MOON, Republican, Representative of Clinton County. Member of the 76th and 77th General Assemblies. Appointed on Taxation, Com- mon Schools, Institution for Deaf and Dumb and Prison and Prison Reform Committees.
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JOSEPH A. MULAC.
B ORN in Bohemia, May 4, 1863, came to Cleveland in 1870, educated in pub- lic schools in Cleveland, served as apprentice in the tailoring trade in 1878, and attended the cutting school academy in New York City in 1881 to 1883; then came back to Cleveland and worked for a wholesale clothing firm for almost twenty years, most of that time acting as superintendent of the manufacturing department; elected president of the Vcela Building and Loan Association in 1899; embarked in merchant tailoring business in 1903 under the firm name of Mulac & Bartunek. Always been a staunch Democrat; elected member of the 77th General Assembly from Cuyahoga County.
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L. G. NEELEY.
L. G. NEELY, Democrat, Representative from Auglaize County, Ohio. Borr in Clarion County, Pa., May 31, 1861. Came to Ohio in December, 1885, and has resided in St. Marys, Ohio, until the present time. Has been actively engaged in the oil business since fifteen years of age. Was a mem- ber of the Committees on Public Works, and Hospitals for the Insane.
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DR. GEORGE B. NYE.
G EORGE BURL NYE, Democrat, Representative from Pike County, was born on a farm in Jackson County, Ohio, March 25, 1876. He was ed- ucated in the public schools of his native county and the National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio. When fifteen years of age he began teaching school, teaching two terms. At the age of twenty-one years he was graduated from Rush Medical College, of Chicago, being the youngest member of a class of almost three hundred. He has practiced his profession in Waverly, Ohio, since 1897. He has always taken an active part in Democratic politics, having served continuously for several years as a member of his county executive committee, and at present is the member of the Democratic State Central Com- mittee from the Tenth Congressional District. In 1895 he was the unanimous choice of the Democracy of his county for the office of Representative in the General Assembly, and was elected by a large majority, running ahead of his ticket.
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DANIEL O'ROURKE.
D ANIEL O'ROURKE is one of the Independent members from Lucas County. The movement which he represents stands for the separation of mu- nicipal politics from those of the state and nation. Mr. O'Rourke has never before held a political position. He was born in Toledo in 1870, and was married to Margaret Lehoney in 1903.
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LOUIS H. PAINE.
L OUIS H. PAINE was born at Limaville, Stark County, Ohio, October 1, 1876. Since 1898 he has been engaged in the practice of law in Toledo. He has served as representative from Lucas County in the 76th and 77th General Assemblies.
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THOMAS BARBOUR PAXTON, JR.
T HOMAS BARBOUR PAXTON, JR., B. A. Yale University, 1896; LL. B. Cincinnati Law College, 1899; is one of the Democratic Representatives from Hamilton County and is a practicing attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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HOWARD W. PEARS.
H OWARD W. PEARS, of Lima, Ohio, Democratic member of the 77th General Assembly, from Allen County, was born and brought up on a farm in Mayfield, Cuyahoga County in the year 1868, and from the age of twelve years has made his own way in the world. He was educated in the schools of Cuyahoga and Lake Counties and taught in the schools of Lake County. Began a business career in the year 1890, after completing a business course in the Colorado Springs College, by accepting the position of secretary to the president of the Rio Grande Hotel Company, Denver, Colorado. In 1893 he purchased the Lima Business College, and for fourteen years has been its president. The college was incorporated in 1896 and is now one of the largest in the state.
Was nominated in a primary election by a plurality of 468 votes over two opponents and elected by a plurality of 1,107 votes, being the second highest candidate on the ticket.
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HON. JOHN C. PETTIT.
J OHN C. PETTIT, Democratic member of the 77th General Assembly, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, August 23, 1869; admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one and has since that time engaged in the practice of law and now resides in Logan, Ohio.
He came from the hills of his county; taught school to pay. for his own education.
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A. R. PHILLIPS.
W AS born in Bainbridge Township, Geauga County, on October 5th, 1851, upon the farm which he now owns, and where he has always resided. Graduated from the Chagrin Falls High School and then attended college at Hiram, Ohio, to further fit himself for teaching. He then took up teaching in the country schools, which profession he followed, in connection with farming, for over twenty years.
Mr. Phillips was married in 1880 to Miss Anna E. Bonney of his native town, and they have a family of four boys.
He has done much work at farmers' institutes and farmers' clubs in the interest of the maple sugar industry.
He was elected to the 77th General Assembly, receiving a very large majority of the votes cast, and is the first representative of his county after the adoption of the constitutional amendment providing for each county to have at least one representative.
He is now and has always been a stalwart Republican.
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J. B. PUMPHREY.
J. B. PUMPHREY, Republican, Representative from Hardin County, was born in Fayette County, Ohio, in 1838. Served in the One Hundred and Twenty-third O. V. I. and mustered out in 1865 as first lieutenant. Was for six years County Commissioner of Hardin County. Represented the Thirteenth Senatorial District in the 69th General Assembly. Farmer and stock dealer.
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GEORGE E. REED.
G EO. E. REED, Representative of Wood County, Ohio, was born at Ship- pensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, on February 4th, 1872. His father died when he was two years old and much of his early life he spent with his grandfather and family; moving to Bloomdale, Wood County, Ohio, in 1884. He attended school here for a couple of years, when he went into the blacksmith shop and finished the trade, afterwards taking up clerking in a general store.
At the age of 18 he entered the newspaper work and has filled positions on county papers and the Toledo Blade. In the 72nd General Assembly he was Enrolling Clerk, but went down in the "Anti-Hanna" combine in the 73rd. At the close of the 72d General Assembly he went to Prairie Depot, Wood County, and purchased the "Observer," which he has continued to manage ever since. He was mayor, postmaster and clerk of the village school board when nominated, and although Pattison carried the county by 756, Mr. Reed was elected by 676 votes over a very popular competitor. He is married, his wife being the daughter of Hon. O. P. Norris, who represented Wood County in the 72nd and 73rd General' Assemblies. He is the father of four children.
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