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STEWART - History of Ohio [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 20:59:20, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: PAUL RAINEY MCLAUGHLIN - History of OH HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 347 PAUL RAINEY MCLAUGHLIN, M. D. Through a period of fifteen years Doctor McLaughlin has given his very best talent and experience to the practice of medicine and surgery in the community of Guysville in Athens County. However, for more than two years he was absent from his home community in army service, coming out of the army at the close of the World war with the rank of major in the Medical Corps. Doctor McLaughlin was born on a farm at Shreve, Wayne County, Ohio, May 20, 1883. His parents, J. W. and Minerva (Rainey) McLaughlin, still live at the old homestead in Wayne County, his father aged sixty-nine and his mother, sixty-six. His father for years has been known as one of the successful and progressive men in the agricultural community of his county. He is a republican. There are two sons, Dr. Paul R. and Ralph. The latter has worked his way from lineman to chief clerk in the Chicago offices of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Paul Rainey McLaughlin was reared in a country community, attended country schools, also high school, and finished his literacy education in Wooster University. He graduated in 1904 from the pharmacy department of Ohio Northern University, and subsequently entered the medical department of Ohio State University, from which he received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1909. Soon after graduating he located at Guysville in Athens County, and has made and sustained an enviable record as a professional man. He spent fourteen years in the Ohio National Guard, becoming a member of the Fourth Infantry in 1904, and in 1909 he was made first lieutenant of the Medical Corps and captain in 1912. In 1916 he went out with the troops sent to the Mexican border, a member of Companies A and B of the Ohio Signal Corps. He was trained for the medical service at Fort Bliss, Texas, also at Fort Sheridan, Illinois and Camp Perry, and Camp Sheridan, Illinois. September, 1917, he was transferred to command Field Hospital No. 146, Thirty-seventh Division, and went overseas with that outfit. He was discharged about the 1st of May, 1919, at Camp Dix, and immediately returned home to take up his practice. He is now a member of the Officers' Reserve Corps and a member of the American Legion, Crossen Post, at Athens. He had ten months of service overseas as administration officer at Camp Hospital No. 51 and Hospital No. 29 in France. Altogether his active service as a soldier and medical officer covered a period of two years and ten months. He is a member of the various medical organizations and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1905 he married Miss Leta Richmond, of Moundsville, West Virginia. They have three children: Claire, Paul R., Jr., and Paulleta. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:24:47, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: CHARLES ORRIN STEWART - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume III, page 316-317 CHARLES ORRIN STEWART. One of the establishments that contribute much to Zanesville's importance as an industrial center is the Kearns-Gorsuch Bottling Company, an industry whose products of bottles and jars are distributed all over the United States. The local Zanesville man primarily responsible for the growth of this industry is Charles Orrin Stewart, now secretary and general manager of the company. Mr. Stewart was born at Zanesville, January 7, 1877, son of Cornelius and Martha (Leasure) Stewart. His parents were born and reared in Muskingum County. His paternal grandfather, Lewis Stewart, was a native of New Jersey, and became a farmer in Falls Township of Muskingum County. Cornelius Steweart likewise was a farmer, and also a dealer, buyer and shipper, of horses, and a man of activity in the public affairs of Zanesville. He served as a soldier in the latter part of the Civil war, and was a member of St. James Episcopal Church. He died in 1912, at the age of sixty-five, and his widow is still living at Zanesville. Third in a family of four children, Charles O. Stewart attended the public schools of Zanesville until he was thirteen and since then has been making his own way in the world. After a brief period as clerk in Brendel's Shoe Store he became an employe of the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad, remaining there ten years, beginning as messenger boy and working up to chief rate clerk. For two years after leaving the railroad he was rate clerk and traffic manager for the Eastern Tube Company of Zanesville. In 1904 he joined the Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Company. This business had been established and incorporated in 1893, but it was still a modest plant when Mr. Stewart entered its service as bookkeeper and office manager. In 1906 he was promoted to secretary, and he has been a factor in the rapid growth and development of the industry during the past twenty years. The company is now a $500,000 corporation, and it is known as the Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Company division of the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company of Wheeling. The offices and works are at 126 Market Street, and plant No. 2 is at Ridge Avenue and the Terminal Railway. This company manufactures flint glass bottles and jars of all kinds, and in normal periods it has on its pay roll 800 workers. Consequently it is a business that contributes directly to the general welfare and prosperity of Zanesville. Mr. Stewart is also a director in the Muskingum Coffin Company, the Clossman Hardware Company, and is a stockholder in the Zanesville Bank & Trust Company and the Old Citizens National Bank. During the World war he was a member of all the local committees for raising funds, and was a member of the War Service Committee of the Glass Manufacturers' Association of the United States. He has for three years been a director in the Glass Container Manufacturer' Association. Mr. Stewart is a director of the Chamber of Commerce and the Zanesville Manufacturers; Association, belongs to the Zanesville Golf Club, the Zane Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Amity Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Zanesville Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Zanesville Council, Royal and Select Masters, Cyrene Commandery, Knights Templar and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine. On June 20, 1906, at Zanesville, he married Miss Florence Neely, a native of Morgan County. Her father, Thomas Neely, is a substantial farmer and merchant at Neelyville, in Morgan County. Mr. Stewart is a member of St. James Episcopal Church. They have two children, Louise Neely and Charles Thomas. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:24:55, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: THOMPSON - History of Ohio THE HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 195 Volume III, page 213 W. T. THOMPSON. A prominent figure in the real estate business at Columbus ten years or more has been W. T. Thompson. Mr. Thompson comes of an old and prominent Ohio family. In early life he was a teacher, and is one of the men of exceptional ability in the Real Estate Association at Columbus. His grandfather, William Thompson, married Nancy Reed, and they came from their native State of Virginia shortly after their marriage, settling at Lebanon in Warren County, Ohio, in 1832. They acquired land just north of Lebanon, and developed a farm from the woods, spending the rest of their days in that community, where they died honored and respected when about seventy years of age. They were members of the old Hardshell Baptist Church of Lebanon. Their son, Joseph J. Thompson, was born at the old homestead, devoted his active career to farming in that locality, and for the past fifteen years has been a retired resident of San Diego, California. While in Ohio he served as the president of the Board of Infirmary Directors. Joseph J. Thompson married Angeline Hoagland, of Fort Wayne, Indiana. W. T. Thompson was born at the old home near Lebanon, attended public schools there, and finished his education at the National Normal University at Lebanon, under Professor Holbrook. Mr. Thompson spent six years in educational work, teaching in district and village schools. His connection with the real estate business at Columbus began in 1912. He is a member of the general brokerage firm of Thompson McClure Company. This firm has a complete organization for real estate service, including brokerage, sales and investment department, and also secretary and treasurer of the Central States Realty Company, a holding company owning an extensive warehouse property in Columbus. Mr. Thompson married Miss Mary Meloy, of Lebanon. She is active in the Woman's Club and the Federation of Woman's Clubs and belongs to the Realtor's Club, made up of the wives of real estate board members. Volume I, page 473, 474, 475, 476 Chapter II - INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING - Ohio State University (I am just forwarding the paragraphs that mention Thompson, there is additional information relating to the University which I am not including.) Page 473 On July 1, 1899, William Oxley Thompson was installed as the fifth president of the university. On his seventieth birthday, November 5, 1925, he retired from office, after a continuous service of over twenty-six years. Doctor Thompson is a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, spent several years in the ministry, but from 1885 his service was the educational field. In 1891 he was elected president of Miami University, and from that institution accepted the call to Ohio State. Thus the best years of his life have been given to the cause of higher education in Ohio. Page 474 with photo "As the history of Ohio State University is written, the growth, development and inspiration of the last twenty-five years will constitute one of its proudest epochs. Upon the foundation so firmly laid by those who preceded him, it has been the privilege and opportunity of William Oxley Thompson to direct the upbuilding of a great institution, worthy of the citizenship it would serve. As an able and far-sighted administrator, he has met and discharged, with increasing success and wisdom, the problems pertaining to a tenfold increase in attendance, and an expenditure commensurate with and attendant upon the ever-widening fields of university service. Upon the lives of a larger number of men and women of the state than any other person, he has, by personal example, set the impress of his own character and ideals. To no one of his generation is the commonwealth under greater obligations; to no one does it accord higher respect. A power for civic righteousness; a lover of his fellowmen; a broad-minded, generous, courteous Christian gentleman: "Truly he has had The heart to conceive, The understanding to direct, And the hand to execute." Page 475 At the beginning of President Thompson's administration the area of the campus and farm was practically the same as when the college was founded. Without provisions for more land the College of Agriculture could not have been retained at Columbus. Such provisions have been made, largely through extensions west of the Olentangy River, until the estate of the university now comprises 1,100 acres being set aside for recreative uses, including the site of the Stadium. Page 476 On the retirement of Doctor Thompson November 5, 1925, the executive administration of the university devolved upon George W. Rightmire, as acting president. Professor Rightmire for some years has held a chair in the college of law, and is both an able and popular figure in university circles. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 23:24:51, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JAMES B. STEWART - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 195 Volume III, page 390 JAMES BLAIR STEWART. In the course of a very active life James Blair Stewart has manifested the characteristics of giving that was in him to every undertaking. In line with that characteristic when he was elected mayor of Cambridge he sidetracked his various business interests, so that all his abilities and business experience could be devoted to his administration, which has been an unusually successful one. Mr. Stewart was born in Cambridge Township of Guernsey County, June 8, 1867. His father, John Stewart, also a native of Guernsey County, was a son of James Stewart, a native of Londonderry, Ireland, who came to the United States when a boy, and on arriving in Guernsey County, Ohio, engaged in farming and also taught school. He died at the age of seventy-six. John Stewart was likewise a substantial farmer of Guernsey County, served a ninety day enlistment as a Union soldier in the Civil war, and was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Margaret Starkey, a native of Otsego, Muskingum County, Ohio. James Blair Stewart was early attending the public schools in Cambridge. Arriving at the age of eighteen, he qualified both as a teacher and farmer, and for twenty years taught in the country school districts of Cambridge, Center and Jefferson Township in Guernsey County, all the while carrying on his farming interests. For a number of years he operated a farm and dairy. Removing to Cambridge in 1911, Mr. Stewart organized the Stewart Feed & Supply Company, becoming secretary, treasurer and general manager of the company. This was a wholesale and retail business, and he was in its affairs until he sold out in 1920. He has several other business investments. It was in 1921 that Mr. Stewart was elected mayor of Cambridge. In a community normally republican he ran far ahead of the other democratic candidates on the ticket and was elected by a handsome majority. In 1923 he was again elected. This is not the first public office he has held with credit, since he represented Guernsey County in the Eighty-second General Assembly in the House of Representatives during 1917-18. As a member of the Legislature he was interested in all measures designed to promote the successful prosecution of the World war, and in his home community he was an effective four minute speaker. He has served as a member of the Democratic County Central Committee, is teacher of the Men's Bible Class in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a lay delegate to church conferences. He was a member of the City Council in Cambridge in 1914-15. A subject that always elicits his enthusiasm is that of good roads. Since 1918 he has been chairman of the Guernsey County Good Roads Association. In 1887 Mr. Stewart married Miss Cora Belle Johnston, of Guernsey county. Their marriage companionship continued for more than a quarter of a century, until her death in April, 1913. Subsequently he married Mr. Fannie E. (Dolman) Cooper, of Cumberland, Ohio. She takes an active part in church and club affairs at Cambridge. Mr. Stewart has five children. The oldest, Charles W., who was a machinist in the Northwest Navy Yard during the World war, is now in the automobile business at Cambridge, and is married and has three children. John, Edgar, a Guernsey County farmer, also has three children. Cecilia M. married Ernest M. Weisenstein, of Cambridge, and they have two children. Miss Mary is in the office of the Ohio Fuel supply Company at Cambridge, James Starkey the youngest son, is employed by the Maintenance Division of the Ohio Highway Department and is married and has one child. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #68 ******************************************