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RICHARD R. REYNOLDS.
R ICHARD R. REYNOLDS, Republican, one of the four Representatives from Franklin County, was born March 26, 1852, in the city of Columbus. He learned the carpenter trade in 1868 and has worked at it ever since. He joined the Carpenters' Union, No. 61, in 1884, and is still a member of that organization. Served one term on the Board of Equalization. Was re-elected to the 77th General Assembly and served on the following Committees: In- stitution for Feeble-Minded Youth, Labor (Chairman), Public Buildings and Lands and Temperance.
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JAS. A. REYNOLDS.
J AS. A. REYNOLDS, Democratic, Cuyahoga County. Born in Wiltshire, England, December 6th, 1871. Attended school until he was a little over nine years old, when he went to work in the coal mines of South Wales. Came to the United States with his parents at the age of fourteen, and learned the machinists' trade.
Became a member of the machinists' union at its formation, and has held every office in the gift of the local lodges, and in 1901 was elected a member of the International Executive Board, was re-elected in 1903, and is still a member of the Grand Lodge Board. Is also an Elk, being a member of No. 41 of Lockport, N. Y.
As a member of the 77th General Assembly he has been an active member of the standing committees on Labor, and Mines and Mining. Was elected by a plurality over all of 5,876.
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H. J. RITTER.
H. J. RITTER, Tippecanoe City, Ohio, member of the 77th General Assembly from Miami County. He was born near Reading, Pennsylvania, March 29th, 1848. Attended Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; leaving college March, 1864, to enlist in the U. S. Signal Corps, with which he served until the close of the war.
On his return home he took a business course in a commercial college; after graduating he went to the West and became interested in a cattle ranch. For twenty years he was engaged in the live stock business; eight years of this time was spent in Europe purchasing horses for breeding pur- poses. In 1894 he entered into the manufacturing business at Tippecanoe City, O., and is General Manager and Treasurer of The Tipp Bldg. & Mfg. Co., manufacturers of furniture, lumber dealers, contractors and builders, and operate a planing mill; President of the Tipp Interurban Telephone Co .; President of the Tipp Printing & Publishing Co., publishers of "The Herald"; President of the Tipp Business Men's Club.
Served twelve years on the Board of Election, most of the time as clerk and president. Director of the Union Association of Retail Lumber Dealers of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. Member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Royal Arcanum, United Commercial Travelers, Masonic Lodge and Knights Templar.
He is a member of the standing committees on Taxation, Insurance, Soldiers' and 'Sailors' Orphans' Home, and Fish and Game.
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JESSE BUNDREN ROBERTS.
ESSE BUNDREN ROBERTS, the son of A. W. and Jane Roberts, was born J May 1st, 1872, at Graveston, Knox County, Tennessee. At the age of two years, his parents moved to Grainger County, East Tennessee, to the old homestead of his grandfather Saunders, where he remained until he was 17 years of age. He then went to Knoxville and entered the service of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia R. R.
He was married October 26, 1896, to Miss Crilla McDermott, daughter of Michael McDermott of Cleveland, Ohio, and granddaughter of Rev. Wm. C. Pierce, one of the founders of Western Reserve. Mr. Roberts moved from Knoxville to Portsmouth, Ohio, in April, 1897, and after assisting in the organization of the McDermott Stone Co., came to Cleveland, where he has since resided. He was elected to the Ohio Legislature November 7, 1905; serving in the 77th General Assembly.
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WILLIAM E. ROLF.
W ILLIAM E. ROLF was born in East Cleveland, Ohio, September 1, 1857, where he attended common and German schools. Mr. Rolf was elected Treasurer of East Cleveland Township and served twelve years. He was a member of the village Council in Collinwood for six years and was elected a member of the 77th General Assembly November 7th, 1905, on the Democratic ticket from Cuyahoga County. He has been engaged in the stone and monumental business since 1880 and has resided in Collinwood since that time.
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WILLIAM Z. ROLL.
W TILLIAM Z. ROLL, Republican, Representative from Warren County, who is serving his third term, was born at Butlerville, Warren County, Ohio, October 14, 1865. His parents being poor, he worked on the farm in summer and attended school in the winter until 1886, when he received a certificate and taught school six years. He then took a year's course in the National Normal University, at Lebanon, Ohio, after which he became principal of the Utica schools, holding this position seven years. He then became gen- eral manager of the Valley Telephone Company, and took up the study of law and was admitted to the practice December, 1903. He was elected to the 75th General Assembly by a majority of 1,279, to the 76th by a majority of 1,818, and to the 77th by a majority of 1,101.
He was married to Miss Frances G. Bird of Butlerville, Ohio, December 22, 1889.
He is a member of the I. O. O. F., having represented Warren County for four years in the Grand Lodge of Ohio. He is also a member of the B. P. O. Elks, I. O. R. M. and K. G. E.
He is a member of the standing committees on Fees and Salaries (chair- man), County Affairs, Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home and Military Committee.
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JOSEPH F. SAWICKI.
J OSEPH F. SAWICKI, Democrat member of the 77th General Assembly of the House of Representatives from Cuyahoga County, was born in Gorzno, German Poland, in March, 1881. Came to Cleveland, Ohio, with his parents in 1886, and has resided there since. He attended Polish parochial schools, and took a classical course at Ignatius College in Cleveland. In 1900 he entered Western Reserve University in the law department, and in June, 1904, completed his law course at Baldwin University, receiving the de- gree of LL. B. Same year he passed the state examination and was ad- mitted to the bar. Since then he has been practicing law in Cleveland.
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D. J. SCHURR.
D. J. SCHURR, Republican Representative from Madison County, was born April 9, 1866. Was raised on the farm. Attended the district school and was granted a certificate to teach at the age of sixteen. Began teaching in district school's at eighteen. Continued teaching and applied leisure hours and vacations in pursuit of advanced studies. Was graduated from Ohio Northern University with degree of B. S. and from Wittenberg College with degree of A. B. Holds common school and high school life cer- tificates by State Board of Examiners. Was superintendent of the Midway schools one year; of the South Solon schools seven years; of the Plain City schools four years. Declined a re-election at Plain City to become candidate for Representative.
Among seven candidates he was the choice of his party. Has always been active in local politics. Was a delegate in almost every county convention for fifteen years.
Is a member of the National Educational Association, Central Ohio Teachers' Association, and has been elected three times president of the Mad- ison County Teachers' Association. At present is member of the Executive Committee of the County Teachers' Institute and serving his ninth year on the Board of County School Examiners.
Was recently chosen cashier of the Farmers' and Traders' Banking Co. of South Solon, of which bank he is one of the directors.
Is a member of I. O. O. F., U. R. K. of P. and F. and A. M.
Of the standing commitees is a member of the Enrollment (Chairman). Boys' Industrial School, Public Ways and Turnpikes, and Common Schools.
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S. D. SHANKLAND.
S. D. SHANKLAND, Republican, Representative from Lake County, was born in Willoughby, Ohio, April 6, 1874. He graduated from Willoughby High School in 1890, and from Adelbert College of Western Reserve University in 1894. He was elected science teacher in Willoughby High School in 1894, principal of the High School in 1895, and has been superintendent of the Willoughby schools since 1896. For nine years he was a member of the Lake County Board of School Examiners.
He is a Mason, and Past Master of Willoughby Lodge F. and A. M .; Past High Priest of Painesville Chapter R. A. M., and Commander of Eagle Com- mandery, Knights Templars. He was married in 1894 to Miss Ethel A. Haskell. In the House he is chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations, and a member of the Committees on Common Schools, Enrollment, and Univer- sities and Colleges.
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CARL F. SHULER.
CARL F. SHULER, Republican, Representative from Montgomery County, was born in Miamisburg, Ohio, March 31st, 1875. Graduated from Adelbert College of Western Reserve University in 1896. Studied law 1896-1899. Admitted to practice of law October, 1899. Enlisted in First O. V. C., May 4, 1898, and mustered out of service October, 1898.
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C. F. SMITH.
C F. SMITH, Democratic member from Wyandot County, was born in Kanan Township, Morrow County, Ohio, December 18, 1862. Was reared on a age. farm in said county; attended the country school until eighteen years of Spent the next two years in college, returning to the farm, pursuing this occupation until the spring of 1889, when he engaged with the Central Ohio Buggy Company as traveling salesman, remaining with them until the spring of 1891, retiring to go in the insurance and loan business at his present home at Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
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JOHN P. SMITH.
J OHN P. SMITH, Democratic Representative from Cuyahoga County, was born April 23, 1867. Received his education in common schools of Cleve- land; also attended business college. Has been engaged in the horse shoeing business in Cleveland for the past twenty years, having at present three shoeing forges located in different sections of the city. Director of Ohio Floral Company, and is identified with other business intersts.
Was elected to the 77th General Assembly in 1905, and is member of com- mittee on County Affairs and Public Ways and Turnpikes.
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D. D. SPANGLER.
D. D. SPANGLER, the Representative of Henry County, was born in Marion township, Henry County, Ohio, May 19, 1868. Till he was eighteen he worked exclusively on the farm, attending a few months each winter the district school. So determined was he to secure an education that it is said of him in his younger years when sent out in the fields by himself he would frequently be found with a book or a newspaper; but the gratification of his desires for a number of years seemed very far distant. However, in the summer of 1886 prospects became brighter. An uncle from St. Paul, Kan- sas, who is a professor, and spent his vacation in Ohio, became interested in his nephew. In August, 1886, the subject of this sketch accompanied his uncle to St. Paul, Kansas, where for two years he applied himself closely and diligently to his books. He always was a model student, and in the monthly tests which were always rewarded by prizes he frequently carried all of them.
The course of studies prescribed by the institution, which was conducted by the Jesuits, embraced four years; but circumstances at home became sucli that with only one year yet to complete the course, he had to abandon his beloved professors and fellow students and return to Ohio.
Upon his return to Ohio he took the county examination, passed it suc- cessfully, and for four terms taught the school where he had been a pupil. Not being satisfied with his education, at the age of twenty-two he resumed his studies again at Pio Nono College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grad- uated in June, 1893, as valedictorian of his class. In the fall of 1893 he ac- cepted a position as principal in the schools at Decatur, Indiana, where he labored successfully for years.
Returning to Ohio, he purchased a farm on which he has since resided, dividing his time between farming and teaching in the South Ridge special school district as principal and superintendent for a number of years.
Being politically inclined, he entered the field for Representative of Henry County in 1899, against the Hon. T. M. Gehrett and James Anderson, and
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came out of the convention as second man. As a man who strictly attends to his own business he was practically unknown in the greater part of the county. Making an honorable and clean campaign, and by his telling and timely talks before conventions he made such an impression upon the peo- ple that at this time he became their choice for Representative by acclama- tion. Neither did his constituents desert him at the election. Where he was best known, people, regardless of party, supported him at the election.
He is a firm and ardent believer and supporter in the principles of Democ- racy, and never lets an opportunity pass in public or private to let himself be heard and felt, and is a staunch friend of labor. The Democratic Ex- ecutive Committee of Henry County invited him to take the stump, which he cheerfully did, and by the close of the campaign he was known as the silver tongued orator of Henry County.
As a member of the 76th General Assembly he served on the important committees of Common Schools, Boys' Industrial School and Elections.
After the expiration of his first term he was a candidate for a second term, nominated by primary without opposition and elected by an increased ma- jority. As a member of the 77th General Assembly he served on the com- mittees of Institution for the Blind, Library and Dairy and Food. He in- troduced the following bills: A bill relating to the qualification of members of county board of school examiners, which never came from the hands of the committee. Anti-treating bill was defeated on the floor of the House after a vigorous fight of two hours. Quoting from the Ohio State Journal: "The discussion on this bill was concluded by Representative Spangler, who made an earnest, sincere and eloquent plea for its passage, but in vain."
The Township Ditch Supervisor bill was the cause of a mirthful session. On March 14, 1906, this bill was up for passage after it had been defeated some days before. Quoting from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune of March 15, 1906, it says: "At no time since the Assembly began its labors has there been more rollicking jollity. The cause of this hilarity was a pretentious set speech made by Mr. Spangler from Henry County. His efforts showed the results of great labor. It was fanciful; it was poesy in prose. The ancients gave up their orators, who loosed their tongues in favor for the drainage system of the northwestern part of the state, the garden spot of Ohio. A week ago the bill was defeated after the author had delivered the same flow- ery speech with which he again amused the House today. The author secured the reconsideration of the bill, to which the members unanimously consented, as a sort of encore for his oratorical effort.
ORATES FOR AN HOUR.
"The wags of the House patted the new Demosthenese on the back and for an hour he plucked bright flowers from the bouquets of language given to posterity by the Greek orators. Amidst shouts and applause of approval, Spangler burnished the brilliance of Cicero and Demosthenese with the re- sult that the bill was passed almost unanimously in recompense for his exertion."
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HOWARD C. SPICER.
H OWARD C. SPICER was born in Copley township, Summit County, Ohio," February 25, 1875. His early boyhood days were spent on the farm. He attended the district school in his neighborhood until he was 16, when he entered the High School at Copley Center, which he attended for two years. He then took up the work of teaching, which he followed until 1896, when he took up the study of law in the office of the law firm of Voris & Pardee in Akron, Ohio. He taught one year after he commenced the study of law to secure funds with which to defray his expenses while preparing for his chosen profession. He took a short course in the law department of the O. N. U., and was admitted to the bar in December, 1900, since which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of law in Akron, Summit County, Ohio.
He was nominated by the Republican party as one of the two candidates for Representatives in his county in June, 1905, and was elected by a large majority in November following.
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DR. YOUNG STEPHENSON.
Y OUNG STEPHENSON, M. D., was born in Union township, Brown County, Ohio, April 19, 1834. He attended the district schools near his home, Ripley High School, and college at Delaware, O., four years. After his. course at Delaware he attended the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, and afterward the Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1865. He was superintendent of the graded schools of Georgetown, Ohio, three years, and of the graded schools of Higginsport, Ohio, two years. He was president of the Brown County Teachers' Institute four years, county school examiner six years, and a member of the Board of Education of the Georgetown special district nine years. He was clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Brown county for more than six years. He has always been an enthusiastic member of the secret fraternal societies of the land, having filled the position of first, or Major Surgeon, of the Third Regi- ment, Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, of Ohio, for twelve years. He was elected to the 76th General Assembly as a Democrat, receiving 3,248 votes to 2,407 for his adversary, and was re-elected to the 77th General Assembly by a majority of 1,320, and still votes the Democratic ticket.
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N. S. STEVENS.
N. S. STEVENS, Republican member from Clermont County, was born in Washington township, Clermont County, Ohio, February 5, 1835. Suc- cessor to Charles A. Brannock, of Clermont County, and brother to Nelson Stevens, who was a member of the 65th General Assembly.
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J. M. STEWARD.
J. M. STEWARD, member of the 76th and 77th General Assemblies, was born March 15, 1841, in Fairfield County. His father of Scotch-Irish and his mother of German descent. They were born and raised in Pennsylvania. They moved to Ohio about the year 1837, and lived on. a rented farm one year in Pickaway County, then moved to Fairfield County, purchased a farm on which they spent the remainder of their days, engaged in general farm- ing. They had fifteen children, seven boys and eight girls, of which they raised eleven, six boys and five girls, to manhood and womanhood, the others dying in infancy before they moved to Ohio. The subject of this sketch was the twelfth in line, and spent his minority years with his father and mother on the farm, attending district school a few months each year when the weather was too inclement for general farm work. When of age he went to Shelby County, Ill., and worked on a farm for two years. Saving his means he re- turned to the old homestead, entered district school, but soon the same year entered the Fairfield Union Academy, where he completed the regular clas- sical course, which admitted him to the junior year of the O. W. U., Del- aware, Ohio. Here he completed the classical course in two years, earning his own means and paying his own expenses for his entire academic and collegiate course. For several years while yet a student, he was employed as assistant teacher of mathematics in F. U. A., which aided him much in securing means to continue his course of study. After completing his col- legiate course, he engaged in educational work for about fifteen years in the capacity of principal and superintendent of various schools, after which he purchased a farm on which he now resides, and with his oldest son is en- gaged in general farming and raising pure bred stock, Shorthorn cattle, Poland China hogs and Shropshire sheep. After completing his collegiate course he took to himself a helpmeet, Miss Amelia Dunnuck. This union was blessed with seven children, three boys and four girls, six of which are yet living, the first daughter dying in infancy.
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EARLE STEWART.
E "ARLE STEWART, the representative from Clark County, resides in Spring- field, where he has been engaged in the practice of law since 1895. He was born August 12, 1870, in the southern part of the county near Clifton. He worked on the farm, in the mill, taught school and read law, in the office of Harrison, Olds & Henderson, of Columbus, before his admission to the bar. He graduated from Clifton High School, attended Wittenberg College for a year, later he entered and graduated in the classical course from Antioch College, and in 1895 he graduated in law from the Ohio State University, where he was honored, as likewise was he at Antioch, by being selected as class orator.
He was elected to the Legislature as a Republican in 1903, and re-elected in 1905. He is chairman of the House Committee on Insurance and member of the committees on Judiciary, Federal Relations and Universities and Col- leges. He is also chairman of the Special Joint Insurance Committee.
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JOHN N. STOCKWELL, JR.
TOHN N. STOCKWELL, JR., Democratic Representative from Cuyahoga County, 33 years of age, was educated in the public schools of Cleveland, graduated from Adelbert College of Western Reserve University (B. L., 1894), and in 1897 received the degree of LL. B. at Cornell University. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1897, and in 1902 married Miss Cornelia Ran- ney, of Cleveland. From 1902 to 1905 he served as a member of the Cleve- land Board of Education under the federal plan of school government. He served upon the standing committees on Cities and on Banks and Banking.
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J. S. STUCKEY, of Van Wert County.
J. S. STUCKEY, Republican, member of the 77th General Assembly from Van Wert County, was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, October 21, 1841, from which place his parents soon thereafter removed to Van Wert County, which has ever since been the home of Mr. Stuckey. His opportunities for attending school were very limited, the only chance being that of a few weeks at the country school during mid-winter, when no work could be done on the farm.
Notwithstanding these disadvantages, Mr. Stuckey has, by diligent and earnest effort, acquired that which many so-called educated men lack, viz., a practical general business education.
Mr. Stuckey enlisted July 26, 1861, as a private in Company I, 27th O. V. I., and after four years' constant service in this regiment, was mustered out by reason of the expiration of the war First Lieutenant of Company F.
Mr. Stuckey was married to Miss Mary F. Gilliland, of Van Wert County, September 14, 1865. To them have been born eleven children, eight of whom are yet living, viz., five sons and three daughters. Immediately after mar- riage he located on his farm near Van Wert, where he has ever since re- sided. Mr. Stuckey for many years has been closely identified with the ag- ricultural affairs of his state and county, serving in the most important duties and positions connected with both state and county boards of agriculture.
For many years he has served as president of the Van Wert Mutual In- surance Company, besides having filled many local places of trust and honor conferred upon him by the people of his county. In the Republican county con- vention of 1903 he was nominated for state representative to the 76th General Asembly and elected November, 1903, over his opponent, J. M. Dull, by 252 majority, a good majority for Van Wert County.
Mr. Stuckey is a member of the following standing committees: Ditches ยท and Drains, Military Affairs (chairman), Soldiers' and Sailors' Home and Tem- perance.
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WARREN THOMAS.
W ARREN THOMAS, Republican, of Trumbull County, the son of Melancthon and Emma Calhoun Thomas, was born at Niles, Ohio, October 27, 1876, and resided there until eight years of age, when the family re- moved to Cortland in the same county, where he acquired his educa- tion, graduating from the Cortland High School in May, 1896. During vaca- tions he worked in the office of H. D. Holcomb, real estate agent and justice of the peace; in October of 1896, commenced the study of law in the office of Tuttle & Fillius, at Warren, and was admitted to the bar in 1899. Mr. Thomas immediately began the practice of law in Warren, where he has since resided.
He has served on the County Central and Executive Committees for sev- eral terms and was elected a member of the 76th and 77th General Assemblies. In the 76th General Assembly he was a member of the committees on Judiciary and Privileges and chairman of the Committee on Enrollment. During his second term he served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and was also a member of the Committees of Fees and Salaries and Girls' Industrial Home.
Mr. Thomas was married March 19, 1902, to Miss Lenore Hall, who died in June, 1905.
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SHERMAN THOMPSON.
SHERMAN THOMPSON, Republican, from Champaign County, was born near Urbana, Ohio, May 8, 1864. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1886, after which he engaged successively in school teaching, civil en- gineering, farming and shipping live stock. Was elected to the 76th General Assembly, and re-elected to the 77th as a Republican.
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