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Mrs. Amann, their only child, attended the Didnet schools, passing through consecutive grades to the high school, from which in due time she was gradu- ated. In 1889 she became the wife of William O. Amann, who was a jeweler of Sidney, and made his home here until his demise in May, 1930. He was a communicant of the Catholic church, to which Mrs. Amann also belongs. She has membership in the Woman's Auxiliary of the Wilson Memorial Hos- pital, was its first board member and has been president of that society, doing most earnest and effective work for the hospital and contributing generously to its maintenance. She is also a member of the National Council of Catholic
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Women and of the Catholic Ladies Aid, while along more strictly social lines, she has membership in the New Century Club and the Garden Club, which indicates the nature of her recreational interests.
SARAH OHL BAKER
SARAH OHL BAKER is the first and only woman to hold an elective office in Youngstown, having been elected to the board of education, of which she served as president for two years. She has also been an enthusiastic worker in women's clubs for a number of years and is identified with a num- ber of organizations that have promoted the intellectual, social and civic progress of the city.
Mrs. Baker was born at Mineral Ridge, Ohio, August 19, 1867 and is a daughter of Eli J. and Sarah (Herring) Ohl, both of whom were natives of Ohio and her father was a Civil war veteran, who aided in the preservation of the Union. Both were representatives of families long since established in the new world and both families came from Germany. In 1742 the Ohl family was planted on American soil, settlement being first made in Pennsylvania, while in 1805 representatives of the name came to Ohio. The Herrings, also from Germany, located in Pennsylvania in 1758 and came to Ohio about 1815 so that in both paternal and maternal lines Mrs. Baker is a member of old pioneer families of this state, connected with Ohio and her history for much more than a century.
Mrs. Baker entered the public schools of Mineral Ridge and in due course of time became a high school student. She also attended the Northeastern Ohio Normal College and for three years she engaged in teaching in Mineral Ridge. There on the 3rd of September, 1891, she was married to Richard Sylvester Baker, of Columbiana county, Ohio, and they became parents of a daughter and son: Mabel, who is now Mrs. Robert B. Smallwood of Scars- dale, New York and the mother of one daughter, Jane; and Richard Eli Baker, of Canton, Ohio, who married Josephine Thomas of Lancaster, Ohio, and they have one son, Richard Thomas Baker.
Mr. and Mrs. Baker removed to Youngstown in 1902 and his death occurred here July 7, 1923. Mrs. Baker has been quite active in club circles and from 1910 until 1915 was president of the Youngstown Federation of Woman's Clubs, while for two terms she was president of the State Federation of Woman's Clubs. She has membership in the Anne Simpson Davis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Columbus, Ohio and she belongs to the Monday Musical Club of Youngstown and the Colloquium Club, a literary organization.
As stated Mrs. Baker has the distinction of being the only woman elected to a city office and she did splendid service for the schools while on the board of education and during her two and a half years as its president. She has long been deeply and helpfully interested in civic affairs and problems and
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is ever found on the side of constructive work for the public good. For ten years she was a member of the Mahoning County board of visitors. She gives her political allegiance to the Republican party and is well informed on the questions and issues of the day. She belongs to the Westminster Presbyterian church and she is much interested in genealogy and has compiled the gen- ealogies of both the Ohl and Baker families.
SARAH ELIZABETH CHANDLER BARR
SARAH ELIZABETH CHANDLER BARR, a native of Ashland county, is a staunch Daughter of the American Revolution as are her two daughters and a granddaughter. A son, Edwin Barr of Washington, D. C., is affiliated with the Sons of the American Revolution.
Mrs. Barr's Revolutionary ancestor was Joseph Chandler, a Pennsylvanian, 1757-1817, who served with the second battalion of Pennsylvania troops. Joseph Chandler's wife was Eleanor Caples of Mansfield. Mrs. Barr is a daughter of their son Joseph who was born near Black Rock, Md., and Eliza- beth Farnham.
The Chandlers came to Ohio in 1812 and settled in Ashland county, where Sarah Elizabeth was born. She was married in 1870 at Olivesburg, Ohio, to Oliver H. Barr, who was with the Civil War forces four years. Mr. Barr's bent was agriculture, and he followed it until moving to Galion when he entered the railroad freight office.
Mrs. Barr is a charter member of Olentangy chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Galion, as is her daughter Mrs. Gilbert Stiefel, wife of a Galion manufacturer, and a granddaughter, Mrs. Sherman Johnson (Jeanne Henkel) of Wisconsin.
Mrs. Barr's grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier and her great, great, great grandparents, George and Jane Chandler, with their seven children, came to America from Wiltshire, England, in 1687 and settled in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Barr is now living in Mansfield. She has her membership with the Methodist Episcopal church, which her husband once served as Sunday School superintendent, and also belongs to the Aid Society.
RUTH AGNES BARONE
From her girlhood days RUTH AGNES BARONE has been connected with the Pythian Sisters and is now deputy grand chief of the order, having previously filled all the offices in the local lodge. Mrs. Barone is a native of Ohio, a daughter of Walter S. and Mary Catherine (Bonsar) Mcclintock, who are also natives of this state. Her mother has also been quite active in the Pythian Sisters and is now grand mistress of finance of the state organi- zation. Mr. and Mrs. McClintock have always made their home in Toledo, the father being with the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad, a branch of the New York Central. They had a family of five children, as follows: Chester,
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who married Eva Wessendorf of Toledo; Mrs. Barone; Catherine, now de- ceased; Joseph, who married Betty Rummery of Bono, Ohio, and has two children, Donna Jean and Patricia Ann; and Walter.
Mrs. Barone pursued her early education in the Franklin schools of Toledo and afterward attended the Waite High School. In 1932 she was married, becoming the wife of Anthony S. Barone, a native of Jamestown, New York, where he acquired his preliminary education, while later he entered the Ohio Northern College and was graduated on the completion of the law course. He was then admitted to the Ohio bar and at once opened an office in Toledo, where he now enjoys a large general practice. Mr. and Mrs. Barone have one son, Charles Anthony.
When but sixteen years of age Mrs. Barone became a member of the Pythian Sisters, to which her mother belonged and she has since been active in its work. She has held every office in the subordinate temple as one must do to be a member of the Past Chiefs Association, with which she is now connected and she is also ably filling the position of deputy grand chief of the state. She thoroughly understands every phase of the work and its teachings and is quite prominent and active in the organization. She attends the United Brethren Church and she is interested in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of the city in which she has always lived and in which she has a large circle of warm friends who esteem her highly.
MARY BEACH BIDWELL
MARY BEACH BIDWELL was born in Madison County near London, O., on July 9, 1862, the daughter of Dr. William and Lucy Wilson Beach. She was a graduate of Rutger College for Women, specializing in music and painting and was valedictorian of her class.
Her first husband was Edward Evert Cole, a brother-in-law of former vice president, the late Charles N. Fairbanks. Her second husband was her cousin, Forrest Alvin Bidwell.
Mrs. Bidwell was deeply interested in many fields of endeavor and was well known throughout the state for her activities in the Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Society, United States Daughters of 1812. She was organizing regent of London Chapter, D.A.R .; served two years as president of Jonathan Alder Chapter, Daughters of 1812; two years as state president of the Ohio Chapter Daughters of 1812; was a member of the American Colonists; a charter member and officer of the Columbus Circle Daughters of Founders and Patriots; state president of the Campbell Clan of America and president of the Beach Family Association.
Mrs. Bidwell died August 29, 1935.
MRS. WILLIAM A. BLICKE
MRS. WILLIAM A. BLICKE (Nell Hall Blicke), wife of the president of the Bucyrus City Bank is socially prominent and has had an active part
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in various clubs, societies and organizations which figure prominently in the life of her city and state. Born in Bucyrus, she attended the grade and high schools here and with the passing years she has worked in an official capacity in many societies which have had much to do with shaping public thought and action here. She has been outstanding in the City Federation of Woman's Clubs and the Daughters of the Revolution, serving at one time as regent of Hannah Crawford Chapter, D.A.R., and also as president of the State Officers Club of the D.A.R. from 1937 to 1938. Of the City Federation of Clubs, she has been vice president.
Mrs. Blicke has displayed a marked interest in humanitarian projects and has been president of the Woman's Hospital Board. She is identified with various literary and social groups, belongs to the Crocus Club and the Thimble Club and headed the activity of the Red Cross Auxiliary during the World War. Her friends, and they are legion, date back to the time when as Nell Hall, she was one of the school girls of Bucyrus and as Mrs. William A. Blicke she has enjoyed an ever increasing circle of acquaintances, to whom she extends the gracious welcome of a most hospitable home.
MRS. EDWARD BOWER
MRS. EDWARD BOWER, regent of Cincinnati Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 1938-1941, had a business career in her native city, Cleveland, before coming to Cincinnati in 1925.
She was one of the organizers, and was first treasurer of the Cleveland Business and Professional Women's Club. While in Cleveland she was with a noted investment company and was one of the first women there to sell securities.
Before her marriage in 1925 to Edward Bower, investments, she taught school in Pittsburgh.
Her mother, Austia J. Bacon, born in 1853, and a teacher in her native Trumbull County, and her father, Joseph W. Rogers, born in Trumbull County in 1847, were descendants of Connecticut stock settled on the Western Reserve.
Mrs. Bower was eligible to the D. A. R. through her Revolutionary an- cestor, Andrew Bacon. She is a member of the Hyde Park Garden Club, Tuesday Lecture Club and of the Daughters of 1812. She has been active with the League of Women Voters and is a member of New Thought Temple.
The Bower home is at 2921 Van Dyke Drive.
ALICE DAVIS BRADFORD
ALICE DAVIS BRADFORD (Mrs. Lawrence J. Bradford), former regent of Cincinnati Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, was born in Cincinnati, and traces her ancestors back to Revolutionary stock, notably to Benjamin Bassett of Massachusetts.
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Mrs. Bradford's contribution to the civic and social progress of her native city has been made through various organizations that have as their fundamental purpose the welfare of the individual and the development of the city, state and nation.
During her regency of Cincinnati Chapter, D. A. R., the chapter installed long needed markers to show where rest the remains of leaders among the early settlers, notably John Cleves Symmes. They saw to it that the historic church at Cleves, O., where worshiped two presidents of the United States, William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison, was given an inscription to this effect and that the memory of General Arthur St. Clair should be honored by suitable markers on Central Parkway.
Mrs. Bradford's recognition of the basic importance of public recreation has caused her to work steadily and enthusiastically with the Women's Public Recreation Board, of which she is a leading member. She is a past president of the Western Hills Federation of Women's Clubs, of the Westwood Woman's Club of the Mayflower Society, a board member of the Girl Scouts organization for Hamilton Co., a member of the Cincinnati Woman's Club and of the Philomathians Literary Club.
Outstanding success of the Cincinnati celebration, held in the fall of 1938, of the Sesquicentennial of the Founding of the Northwest Territory is in large measure credited to this Cincinnati woman who combines a practical viewpoint with breadth of vision and gives benefit her efficiency to others in gratuitous and willing service.
LOUISA M. DIETZ BRENNER
LOUISA M. DIETZ BRENNER of Youngstown has a wide acquaintance in that great organization, the Ohio Federation of Woman's Clubs and her executive ability and her fitness for leadership are shown in the fact that she has many times been chosen as a member of its most important committees and that she has again and again been elected to office in the different societies in which she holds membership.
Mrs. Brenner was born in Warren, Ohio, July 28, 1867, and is a daughter of George J. and Jennie (Eich) Dietz, both of whom were natives of Ger- many, whence they came to the United States in their childhood days, settling first in Warren, Ohio. The Brenner family removed to Youngstown from Warren. It was in the latter city that Mrs. Brenner was reared and educated, completing her high school studies there in 1884, after which she engaged in teaching in her native city from 1884 to 1890.
On the 10th of July, 1890, Louisa M. Dietz became the wife of Jacob Brenner of Warren and with their removal to Youngstown, Mr. Brenner here engaged in the implement business, continuing a leading merchant of the city until his death, October 17, 1931. To them had been born two sons, Clarence D. and Paul. The former, who is professor of French in the Uni-
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versity of California, is married and has two sons, Frederick Chandler and Richard Graham Brenner, the latter being connected with the Industrial Sales Company of Youngstown. Paul Brenner is also married and has a son and daughter, Paul Thompson and Martha Louise Brenner.
Mrs. Brenner is very active and influential in club circles. She served for three years as president of the Youngstown Federation of Woman's Clubs, becoming its fourth president after serving for three years as its secretary. She has also served on many committees of the State Federation of Woman's Clubs and was president of the Northeast District of the Federation. She filled the position of chairman of the educational committee and chairman of the Americanization committee of the State Federation after the World War and in connection with the Federation work she is a member of the Ohio Citizens Library committee, numbering one hundred men and women of the state. She is a member of the Pioneer Association of the Ohio Fed- eration of Woman's Clubs and has been its president. She organized Miriam Chapter No. 278 of the Order of the Eastern Star in 1908 and for three years was its worthy matron.
Mrs. Brenner helped to organize the National Plumbers Association Auxiliary, of which she was the second president and she organized the Ohio Auxiliary and the Youngstown Auxiliary, and is now honorary president of the National, State and Youngstown Auxiliaries. She also assisted in the organization of the Social Workers Study Club of Youngstown and for five years was its vice president. Since 1917 she has been a member and is now the first vice president of the Visiting Nurses Association of Youngstown and she was one of the organizers of the Baby Welfare clinics and of num- erous other welfare organizations which have rendered signal service to the city. She helped in the organization of the Woman's City Club, has been a board member since 1929 and is also a past president. Her political en- dorsement is given the Republican party and her religious belief is indicated in her membership in the South Side United Presbyterian Church.
MAUDE BASS BROWN
MAUDE BASS BROWN, writer of plays and prominent in the club life of Toledo, is identified with many art, literary and civic groups. She is the wife of Claude W. Brown of the Bostwick-Brown Hardware Company of this city. Born in Warsaw, Indiana, she is a daughter of Albert P. and Helen E. (Bly) Bass, also natives of the Hoosier state. In her early girlhood she was a pupil in village schools of Indiana and later continued her edu- cation in Warsaw, where she was graduated from high school. She then took up the study of kindergarten teaching, attending the Eliza Blakers kindergarten training school, now known as the Indianapolis Teachers Train- ing College, the students getting their practical training in the public schools there. She finished her course in college, but throughout her entire life
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Mrs. Brown has remained a student and from time to time has taken courses in creative writing in Toledo University and is now pursuing a course in the adult art class in oil painting in the Toledo Museum of Art. She had a picture on exhibit at the Art Museum when she had been studying but one year.
In the meantime, however, before coming to Toledo, Mrs. Brown had been a teacher in the public schools of Warsaw, Indiana, where she was also one of the organizers of the Mathias Club and its first president. Now there are three Mathias Clubs in Warsaw and thus the good work of that organization has continually broadened.
In 1896 Maude Bass was married to Claude W. Brown, who has long been associated with the commercial interests of Toledo, and they have one son, A. Stanton Brown of Toledo, who for ten years was advertising manager of the Toledo News Bee.
During her residence in Toledo Mr. Brown has been a recognized leader in many activities having to do with the cultural and artistic development of the city. She has membership in the Woman's Educational Club, of which she is a past president, and for two years she was president of the Federation of Woman's Clubs and also served as state chairman of the department of industry of the Ohio Federation of Woman's Clubs. For eighteen years she has been a member of the Toledo Writers Club, and served as its president for two years. She belongs to the Players Club, is the first vice president of the North Toledo Community Board and is a member of the Toledo Woman's League and the Toledo Woman's Club, being for two years in charge of travel in the latter. Her name is on the membership list of the Samagama Club, the Daughters of 1812, the Lincoln Garden Club and she is the sponsor for the Theta Sigma Phi. These various organizations, so diversified in their scope and so commendable in their purposes, are indicative of the basic principles of her character and the trend of her interests. She has given much time to play writing and while comparatively few achieve distinction in more than one line of art, Mrs. Brown has made steady progress in the different fields in which she has put forth her effort, adding thus to the pleasure of others as well as to her own cultural advancement.
JESSICA A. BRUCKER
JESSICA A. BRUCKER, one of the trustees of the Toledo Public Library and widely known in this city where she has made her home since her mar- riage, is a daughter of Felix N. and Bridget Truckee. The father, a native of Michigan, was of French parentage. The mother, who was born in Cleve- land, Ohio, has a strain of English blood in her veins. The father was engaged in the decorating business in Detroit, Michigan. To him and his wife were born nine children, all born in Detroit, and seven of the number are yet living.
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Their daughter Jessica attended the grade schools of Bay City, Michigan and was graduated from high school there. She married Edward F. Brucker, president of the Karavan Coffee Company of Toledo, and they have become the parents of four children. Edward F., Jr., was graduated from Notre Dame high school at South Bend, Indiana and in 1916 was graduated from the University of Michigan. He was one of the first to enter the Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison and was in the Engineering Corps. He received his commission there and went overseas, serving during the remainder of the war. He married Helen Ann Dailey, and they have five children-Edward Francis, III, Robert James, Richard Paul, Grace Mary and Peter Joseph. Hartford F. Brucker, the second son, is a Jesuit priest now principal of Loyola Academy of Chicago. For six years he was rector of the Detroit (Mich.) University high school. He is a musician who plays both the piano and the organ and he recently organized a band at Loyola. Gertrude M., the only daughter of the family, attended St. Ursuline Academy, then entered Trinity College at Washington, D. C. She also studied in the University of Paris, in France, and she is now at home. James Vincent, the fourth member of the family, is a graduate of St. John's Jesuit high school of Toledo and the University of Michigan. He married Dorothy Alice O'Neil of Toledo in 1937.
Mrs. Brucker is prominent socially in Toledo, where she has a large circle of friends. For seventeen years she has served as a trustee of the Public Library and has aided in bringing it to its present high standard. In politics she is a Republican, giving staunch support to the party and its principles.
MRS. EDMUND C. BRUSH
MRS. EDMUND C. BRUSH was the organizer of Muskingum Chapter of D. A. R. in 1893. Mrs. M. M. Granger was one of the first state regents. Both Mrs. Granger and Mrs. Brush were exceptional and distinguished women and part of the background of Zanesville and the county in the old days.
LUAH MILLER BUTLER
In social, club and church circles of Lima, LUAH MILLER BUTLER has long been prominently known. Provided with liberal educational oppor- tunities, combined with an innate refinement and culture she has been well fitted for work of this character and has made substantial contribution to progress along the lines indicated for the benefit of the city in which she has made her home for sixty-eight years, arriving here when a young girl. Born in Delphos, Ohio, in 1861, she is a daughter of Alexander and Martha (Cooper) Miller, her mother a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father was born in Pennsylvania and was engaged in the flour milling business. The house in which Mrs. Butler was born is still standing, being one of the old landmarks of Delphos.
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The family removed from there to Piqua, Ohio, where Mrs. Butler attended a private school, being at that time five years of age. When she was ten the family came to Lima and here she became a pupil in the grade school, advancing through an orderly progression to her graduation from high school. She also spent four years at Wellesley College and one winter at Amy Sacher's School of Art.
In 1888 Luah Miller became the wife of William Butler, who died at Montreal, Canada, January 18, 1937. They had one child, now Mrs. Gladys Butler Lynd, who completed her education with a four-year course at Dana Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Lynd have a beautiful home in Toronto, Canada and another at Danville, Ohio, and they have two children, Ormonde and Jack. About Thanksgiving of 1937 Mrs. Lynd suffered a serious automobile acci- dent and has since been in a hospital.
Mrs. Butler has long been very active and influential in club and church circles. She is a past president of the Federation of Women's Clubs of Lima and forty-two years ago she became a charter member of the T. and T. Club, which is a purely literary and social club, and with which she is still identified. She likewise belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution. She has membership in the Market Street Presbyterian church, where for the past forty years she has been most active and she wrote the Centennial History of the church, covering the period from 1833 to 1933. For nine years she was also society editor of what is now the Lima News.
Mrs. Butler has always greatly enjoyed travel and in 1913 she made her first trip abroad, while in 1923 she again visited foreign countries. She made the trip through the Panama canal to South America and has spent two winters in California and two in Florida. Wherever she goes she sees all that is of interest and her retentive memory enables her to recall and enjoy these trips throughout the years. She has also lived to see remarkable changes in Lima, since she came here sixty-eight years ago, when a little maiden of ten summers, and few have more intimate knowledge of the development of the city and this section of the state.
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