OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 602 Today's Topics: #1 KENNETH EARL SHAWEKER - TUSCARAWAS [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 ARTHUR A. HOOPINGARNER - TUSCARAWA [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 MAX SHAWEKER - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #4 JAMES A. BARR - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 EDMUND A. WOLF - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #6 GEORGE WASHINGTON REED - TUSCARAWA [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:05:52, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908101705.NAB14432@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: KENNETH EARL SHAWEKER - TUSCARAWAS CO. Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 85-86 KENNETH EARL SHAWEKER, M.D. A World war veteran with a record of service as a medical officer overseas, Doctor Shaweker since the war has practiced medicine and surgery in Dover. He is a son of Doctor Samuel Shaweker, a prominent physician of the same community, whose career is given in the following sketch. Kenneth Earl Shaweker was born on a farm near Baltic, in Tuscarawas County, March 22, 1888, and as a boy lived in Shanesville and Dover, attending the common schools of those localities. He first prepared for professional pharmacy in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, graduating in 1908. After two years as a drug clerk he entered the New York University as a student of medicine, completing the prescribed course and graduating in 1914. For two years after his graduation Doctor Shaweker was employed as a special surgeon in Bellevue Hospital at New York City. For a brief time he was engaged in private practice at New Philadelphia, but soon after America entered the World war he volunteered for service, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps April 24, 1917. He was called to the colors June 15, 1917, at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, was ordered to Camp Sherman in August, 1917, and on May 6, 1918, went overseas, sailing from Hoboken June 12. In France he was assigned to Camp Hospital No. 15 with the American Expeditionary Forces and was in that service until June 30, 1919. Ordered back to the United States, he arrived at New York July 11, and at Camp Sherman was discharged August 2, 1919, with the rank of Major in the Medical Reserve Corps, and is still a reserve officer subject to call. In December, 1917, he was promoted to the rank of captain and in France received promotion to the rank of major on February 17, 1919. Doctor Shaweker is an active member of the American Legion. For the past five years he has had an increasing practice of medicine and surgery at Dover, and is a member of the staff of Union Hospital. He belongs to the Tuscarawas County and Ohio State Medical societies, is a Knights Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Lutheran Church. He married in 1917 Miss Mabel Louise Simms. They have three children: Margaret M., Mary Elizabeth and Kenneth Earl, Jr. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:05:45, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908101705.NAA15168@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: ARTHUR A. HOOPINGARNER - TUSCARAWAS CO. Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 384 ARTHUR A. HOOPINGARNER, newspaper editor and publisher, is a comparatively young man, has made his own way and contributed to the support of others since boyhood, and has some real substantial work and achievements to his credit. His home and business are at Dover, in the same county where he was born and reared. Mr. Hoopingarner was born at Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, March 27, 1893. The Hoopingarner family was identified with the pioneer developments of this Ohio county. His great-grandfather, Jacob Hoopingarner, a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was the first settler of the name in Tuscarawas County. He married a Miss Balsey. The name Hoopingarner is of Holland Dutch origin. Samuel Hoopingarner, a son of Jacob Hoopingarner, was born in Tuscarawas County, and married Susan Fitzgerald, a native of the same county and daughter of Thomas Fitzgerald, who came from Ireland. William U. Hoopingarner, father of the Dover editor and publisher, was born and reared in Tuscarawas County, and died at the age of thirty-five. He married Sadie Smiley, who survives him. She was born in Tuscarawas County and now lives at Columbus, Ohio. Her parents were La Fayette and Mary (Jones) Smiley. Her two children are Arthur A. and Marguerite. Arthur A. Hoopingarner as a boy was under the necessity of going to work for his own support and to assist his mother and sister. He spent his boyhood at Dover, where he attended school to the age of fourteen. Soon afterward he began learning the printer's trade in the newspaper office at Dover Daily Reporter. He early attracted attention as a very skillful reporter and journalist, and served four years on the editorial staff of the Cleveland Press and for a time was managing editor of the Columbus Monitor, and was then at Omaha Daily news until 1920. In that year, returning to Dover, Ohio, he organized the Tuscarawas Publishing Company, which became the owner and publisher of the Dover Daily Reporter and also owns and publishes the weekly newspaper the New Philadelphia Advocate Tribune. Mr. Hoopingarner is president and manager of the company and editor of the Daily Reporter. He is a member of the Moravian Church, is affiliated with the Knight of Pythias, and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Rotary and Union Country clubs. He married in 1915 Miss Viola G. Martin, of New Philadelphia. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:05:54, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908101705.NAB15216@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: MAX SHAWEKER - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 86 with photo MAX SHAWEKER, M.D. A physician and surgeon, pathologist and director of a private clinical laboratory at Dover, Dr. Max Shaweker comes of a family of physicians, being a son of Dr. Samuel Shaweker, one of the senior members of the medical profession of Tuscarawas County, whose career is given in the preceding sketch. Dr. Max Shaweker was a lieutenant in the Naval Medical Corps during the World war, making a brilliant record. He was born at Baltic, Tuscarawas County, September 6, 1889, was educated in the public schools at Shanesville and Dover, and graduated in pharmacy from Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1910. In the fall of the same year he entered the Medical School of Northwestern University at Chicago, and was awarded his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1914. For about three years Doctor Shaweker was in Cincinnati, and was successively in turn house surgeon and receiving physician in the general hospital of that city. During 1917 he engaged in private practice for a few months at Dover, until he entered service with the United States Navy. He was commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Naval Medical Corps, and subsequently was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Regular Navy. For nineteen months he served as pathologist in the naval hospital at Brooklyn, and was then on duty on the United States steamship Connecticut and later on the hospital ship Mercy. He was discharged as a reserve in the Untied States Naval Reserve Corps, Class 1, January 16, 1920. Soon afterward he resumed private practice at Dover. In connection with his work as a physician and surgeon he conducts the laboratory for clinical service, and has made it an indispensable adjunct to the medical fraternity of his city and the entire county. He is connected with Union Hospital, is secretary of the County Medical Society, and a member of the Ohio State and American medical associations. Doctor Shaweker is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias, belongs to the Sigma Chi literary fraternity and the Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity. He is a member of the Moravian Church. Doctor Shaweker married in 1920 Miss Mary Kathryn Keplinger, of New Philadelphia. They have one daughter, Mary Jane. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:05:48, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908101705.NAA14424@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: JAMES A. BARR - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 383-384 JAMES A. BARR, postmaster of the City of Dover, was appointed to that office, but his appointment was in fact in a nature of a deserved promotion, since he had been for many years experienced in the postal service of that city. Mr. Barr is a native of Tuscarawas County, born in the little locality known as Barr's Mill, on December 2, 1868. His grandfather, Samuel Barr, was a native of Pennsylvania, of Holland Dutch ancestry, and a pioneer settler in Stark County, Ohio. The parents of James A. Barr were David and Lavina (Tohm) Barr, both of them born and reared in Stark County. Soon after their marriage David Barr bought a mill in Tuscarawas County, and continued its operation for many years. In addition he built a storeroom, and established and conducted for the convenience of the neighborhood a postoffice. Ever since the locality has been known as Barr's Mill. David Barr was a good business man, strong in character, a staunch supporter of the Union during the Civil war, a republican, and both he and his wife were active Lutherans. David Barr died October 12, 1883, at the age of sixty-four, having survived his wife two years. They had two daughters and two sons, a son and daughter now living. James A. Barr was twelve years old when his mother died, and two years later he was left an orphan by the death of his father. Since fourteen, therefore, he has directed his own career. Growing up at Barr's Mill, he attended common schools there, and afterwards completed a business course at Mansfield, Ohio. For some years he and his brother operated the old mill until the property was sold. From childhood he has been familiar with the business of milling, and this experience afforded him his chief source of livelihood for many years. After leaving his father's old mill he was employed by the Hardesty Milling Company at Dover, and for five years was a traveling salesman, selling flour, first for a Kansas City Milling Company and later for a company at Red Cloud, Minnesota. At the time Dover was given free mail delivery Mr. Barr, in order that he might be at home with his family, sought and secured the position of a mail carrier, later he became mailing clerk, and performed the duties of that position in the Dover postoffice fourteen years. From subordinate position in the postoffice appointments from President Harding in October, 1921, raised him to the office of postmaster. He received his commission November 15, 1921, and has been made his administration a constant source of good service to the community. Mr. Barr is a republican, a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Lutheran Church. He married, December 25, 1890, Miss Mary Hostetler, who died in October, 1892, leaving no children. On November 14, 1894, Mr. Barr married Elizabeth Burkel. They have four children. The oldest, Harold C., was with the United States Army during the World war as assistant pharmacist, with the rank of sergeant, at Debarkation Hospital at Ellis Island. He is a member of the American Legion and is in the drug business at Dover. The second son, Arthur M., was a student volunteer during the World war, is now with a manufacturing industry at Granite City, Illinois. Walter J., the third son is in the tire and automobile accessory business at Dover and Eugene A., aged fourteen, is still in school. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:05:42, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908101705.NAA05680@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: EDMUND A. WOLF - TUSCARAWAS COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 387 EDMUND A. WOLF, M.D. An exceptionally gifted and able physician and surgeon, Doctor Wolf for many years has maintained his offices in the City of Dennison, and the work of his profession has been accompanied by an increasing share in business and civic responsibilities. He was born at Tuscarawas, Tuscarawas County, April 5, 1870, and his parents, John and Elizabeth (Schneider) Wolf, were natives of Germany. The grandparents of Doctor Wolf on both sides were founders of the families in Tuscarawas County. The father of Doctor Wolf was brought to this country at the age of eighteen, and his mother at the age of sixteen. The Schneider and Wolf families established their homes in the vicinity of Port Washington in Tuscarawas County. John Wolf was a prosperous farmer, and died in 1894, at the age of sixty-two. His wife passed away in 1893, aged fifty-three. They had a family of four children, John A., Charles R., Edmund A. and Louisa. The daughter is now deceased. Growing up on a farm, Edmund A. Wolf attended rural schools, graduated from the high school at Tuscarawas, and as a youth shaped his plans for a professional career. Entering the Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery at Atlanta, he was graduated in February, 1892, and in the same year began his professional career at Dennison. He has had an active and constantly increasing practice, being very favorably known for his splendid work as a surgeon. He has kept in touch with the advancing progress in medicine as well as in surgery by post-graduate courses in Chicago, at the Mayo Brothers' Institution at Rochester, Minnesota, and elsewhere. Doctor Wolf is local surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railway company and a member of the Association of Pennsylvania Railway Surgeons. He is also a surgeon at the Twin City Hospital, and is a member of the Tuscarawas County, Ohio State and American Medical associations, and the Ohio and National Eclectic Medical institutes. Doctor Wolf has to his credit three terms of efficient service as mayor of Dennison, from the years 1907 to 1913. He has also been a member of the Board of Education. He was president of the Twin City National Bank before it was merged into the Dennison National Bank. He is now president of the Wolf-Lanning Clay Company, a director of the Dennison Sewer Pipe Company and at the Uhrichsville Ice Company. He is a member of the Rotary Club, was for three terms master of the Masonic Lodge, has served as eminent commander of the Knights Templar Commandery, and is a Lutheran. Doctor Wolf married, in 1921, Miss Mary Jean Robinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Robinson, of Uhrichsville. Doctor Wolf's home is in Uhrichsville, though his professional and business interests are centered at Dennison. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:05:38, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908101705.NAA12832@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: GEORGE WASHINGTON REED - TUSCARAWAS CO. Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, 246-247 GEORGE WASHINGTON REED, who has been established in the successful practice of law at Uhrichsville for more than a quarter of a century and who has gained distinct prestige as one of the representative members of the bar of his native County of Tuscarawas, has extended his practice into the higher courts, including the Ohio Supreme Court and the Federal Courts of the state, and in his profession he was won many important victories in connection with both criminal and civil cases, the while he has maintained high reputation as a well fortified counselor. Mr. Reed was born on the parental homestead farm in Union Township, Tuscarawas County, and the date of his nativity was February 20, 1863. He is a son of John and Jane Reed, both now deceased. John Reed was born on the farm on which was born the subject of this sketch, where he was reared and educated and where he passed the remainder of his life. He became one of the substantial farmers and honored and influential citizens of Union Township, where he owned a well improved landed estate and where he continued to reside until his death in 1919, at the venerable age of ninety-one years. His father, William Reed, was born in Ireland, came to America in 1824, and established his residence first in New Brunswick, Canada, whence he later came, in 1825, to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he developed a productive farm and where he and his wife remained until the close of their lives. George W. Reed gained in his boyhood and earlier youth a goodly measure of fellowship with the work of the home farm, and after having duly profited by the curriculum of the public schools he entered Ohio University at Athens, in which he was in due course graduated, his degree of Bachelor of Arts having been later supplemented by that of Master of Arts, likewise granted him by his alma mater. His preparation for this chosen profession included a course in the law department of historic old University of Virginia, and in 1896 he was admitted to the Ohio bar, as a member of which he has since continued to be successfully engaged in practice at Uhrichsville. He has served as president of the Tuscarawas Bar Association, and in the summer of 1924, as a delegate from this association, he attended the meeting of the American Bar Association, which he accompanied to London, England, where the organization was entertained with distinction by the English Bar Association. Incidental to this trip to London Mr. Reed found opportunity also to visit France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium and Ireland, and while on his visit to the Emerald Isle he had the satisfaction of going to the old home of his paternal ancestors in County Donegal. Prior to engaging in the practice of law Mr. Reed had made a record of successful achievement as a teacher in the public schools, and his income from this source enabled him to pursue his higher academic and his law studies. He first taught in the schools of Ohio, and after his graduation from Ohio University he served in turn as principal of the public schools at Del Norte, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah. He has never abated his interest in educational matters, and is ever ready to aid in advancing the standards of educational work. His final pedagogic service was as principal of the public schools of McConnellsville, Ohio. Mr. Reed is affiliated with the Beta Theta Pi College fraternity, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Masonic fraternity. He has been a most earnest and zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, and has held official positions in the same, is a teacher of the Bible Class in the Sunday school, and on one occasion was honored in being selected a delegate to the General Conference of the church. He has been content to give his undivided attention to his profession, and has had no desire for political activity or public office. His elder son, Paul F., is now associated with him in the practice of law, under the title of Reed & Reed, and of this son more specific mention is made in later paragraphs of this review. The year 1888 recorded the marriage of Mr. Reed and Miss Clara Murtland Baker, who was born in Pennsylvania, and she passed to the life eternal in the year 1922. Mrs. Reed is survived by four children: Hazel, Paul Foster, George E. and Dorothy. Paul Foster Reed, junior member of the law firm of Reed & Reed, as indicated in the preceding paragraph, was born at Athens, Ohio, November 26, 1892. He received the advantages of the public schools and thereafter was for one year a student in Ohio University, in his native city, where also he became affiliated with his father's fraternity, Beta Theta Pi. He was for two years a student in the law department of the University of Ohio, at Columbus, and was there made a member of the Acacia fraternity. He was admitted to the bar in 1920, and has since been associated with his father in active general practice at Uhrichsville. Soon after the nation became involved in the World war Paul F. Reed volunteered, June 4, 1917, for service in the United States Army, and his enlistment took place on the 1st of the following month. He volunteered for service in the medical department, and in the same he has given the rank of sergeant of the first class. He was overseas nine months, in service at the headquarters of the Thirty-seventh Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, and he continued in active service until he received his honorable discharge, April 12, 1919. He took part in two major offensive movements and one major defense. After his discharge he resumed to study of law, and in due time was admitted to practice, as previously noted in this context. Mr. Reed is affiliated with the American Legion, the Elks, and the Masonic fraternity, in which last he is a Knight Templar, besides having received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Uhrichsville, In 1917 Mr. Reed wedded Miss Ruth Brunner, of Uhrichsville, and they have three children: John P., George R. and Richard B. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #602 *******************************************