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HIGGINS - History of Ohio [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #5 JOHN LOWREY - History of Ohio [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:00:26, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: MARVIN W. LUTZ - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc. 1925 Volume V, page 69 MARVIN W. LUTZ. In insurance circles of Ashland and Richland counties few names are better known that that of Marvin W. Lutz. While he has been identified with the selling of insuranceas a regular business for only about five years, in the capacity of district manager for these two counties of the Union Central Life Insurance Company, from his headquarters at Mansfield he has just about doubled the insurance in force. Mr. Lutz was born in Stark County, Ohio, where he received a public school education. He was variously employed until the establishment of the rural free delivery system from the Canton Postoffice during the Spanish-American war, and at that time was made superintendent of carriers. After eleven and one-half years in the Canton Postoffice, Mr. Lutz entered the Isaac Harter & Sons Bank at Canton, where he remained four and one-half years. In 1907 he came to Mansfield as secretary of the Aultman & Taylor Manufacturing Company, a concern with which he remained in the same capacity for ten years, and then entered the insurance field, a line in which he had become greatly interested. He is now one of the most successful men in his line in this part of Ohio, and not only represents the Union Central Life Insurance Company, but the National Liberty Fire Insurance Company of America, with offices in the Dickson Building. During 1918, up to the signing of the armistice, Mr Lutz was in charge of the seven counties included in the Mansfield district of the Cleveland division, investigating and tabulating for the United States Government the capacity of manufacturing plants and their ability to supply whatever demand should be made upon them in their special lines. Mr. Lutz married Miss Magdalene King, of Buffalo, New York, and they have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Lutz are members of the Lutheran Church, and Mr. Lutz occupies a place on the official board. ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:00:34, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: EMMONS R. BOOTH - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 442-443 EMMONS R. BOOTH, of Cincinnati, is perhaps the best know osteopathic physician in the Middle West. His career has been one of notable distinction in two fields, school work and osteopathy, and he was among the early graduates of the original school of osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri. Doctor Booth was born in Franklin County, Indiana, March 4, 1851, son of Ebenezer and Margaret (Sering) Booth. His father was a contractor and builder, and died in 1857 while the mother reached the age of seventy-five. Emmons R. Booth was six years of age when his father died. Most of his early education he acquired through his own efforts. he attended public schools in Indiana, a college at Hartsville, Indiana, and in 1874 graduated from the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. He received the degree Doctor of Philosophy from Wooster University. For a quarter of a century his time was almost fully engaged in school work. He was principal of the high school at Sedalia, Missouri, until 1879, was superintendent of schools at Kirkwood, Missouri, until 1884, and then became a teacher in the Manual Training School of Washington University, at St. Louis, remaining there until 1888. Coming to Cincinnati, he was for ten years principal of the Technical School of Cincinnati. In June, 1900, he graduated from the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri. Doctor Booth has been associated with three important educational movements: With the eminent Prof. Alfred Holbrook, president of the National Normal University, who established the pioneer all year school in America, a policy since adopted by nearly every university in the United States; second, was one of the first to advocate and teach manual training, a department of education now found in every first grade high school in the country; and third, his association with Dr. A.T. Still, founder of osteopathy. Doctor Booth is author of the History of Osteopathy, the first edition of which was published in 1904, followed by a second edition, and then by the Memorial Edition in 1924, a beautiful volume of about eight hundred pages. He has also contributed many articles to educational and osteopathic publications. Doctor Booth while in school work was president of the Missouri Sate Teacher's Association, was president of the Southwestern Ohio Teachers' Association, and president of the American Osteopathic. Association in 1901-02, and in addition is a member and former president and secretary of the Society of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons of Cincinnati, has been president of the Ohio State Osteopathic Society, and for fifteen years was on the osteopathic examining committee of the medical board in the State of Ohio. Doctor Booth is a Master Mason, a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club, the School Masters' Club, and several civic organizations. He is an elder in the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian Church, which was organized October 16, 1790, two of his grandparents being among the eight original members. For many years Doctor Booth has been official historian for this church. Doctor Booth's first wife was Clara V. Van Fleet, who died in 1879. The two children by this marriage were: Mary, the deceased wife of Robert C. McConaughy of Cincinnati; and Clarence, who died in infancy. The three children born to Mr. And Mrs. McConaughy were: Francis B., a Cincinnati attorney; Mary Alice, a student in the Osteopathic College at Los Angeles; and Robert C., attending the Walnut Hill High School. In 1883, Doctor Booth married Miss Mary A. Mermod, who was a member of the noted jewelry house of Mermod, Jaccard and King of St. Louis, one of the oldest and most noted institutions of the kind in the Middle West. Mrs. Booth was educated in Lindenwood College at St. Charles, Missouri. She died in 1916. Doctor Booth's only son is Robert M. Booth, an electrical engineer at Cincinnati. This son married Miss Rose Sherwood, of Cincinnati, granddaughter of the late Colonel Finch. The two children of their marriage are Robert M. Jr., born in 1912, and Rose Mary, born in 1918. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:00:29, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: J. M. HIGGINS - History of Ohio THE HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 66-67 J. M. HIGGINS, M.D. A native of Athens County, a practicing physician for thirty years, Doctor Higgins has done most of his professional work in his home county. Since 1902 he has been city health officer of Athens, and has been county health commissioner since 1919. Doctor Higgins was born on a farm three miles south of Athens, October 4, 1861, and is a member of a family that has been in Southeastern Ohio for more than a century. His great-grandfather, Andrew Higgins, was probably, a native of Ireland, and in pioneer times he brought his family from the vicinity of Pittsburgh to Athens County. His son Michael, grandfather of Doctor Higgins, was probably an infant when brought to Ohio, later became famous as a hunter and trapper on all the streams in the southeastern part of the state. He lived to the age of seventy-five. He married Polly McClintic, who reached the advanced age of ninety. Michael Higgins was a democrat in politics. The parents of Dr. J. M. Higgins were Joseph S. and Hannah Ward (Hibbard) Higgins, both born in Athens County. His father was killed by a falling tree in 1902 at the age of seventy-five. The mother died the following year at the age of seventy-six. Joseph S. Higgins was a progressive farmer in Athens County, and always kept fine cattle, hogs and sheep. For six years he held the office of county commissioner. After the Civil war he became a republican. He was father of ten children. The five sons were: Dr. C.H. Higgins, who graduated from Ohio University in 1887, took his Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Louisville, is also a graduate of Southwest College of Homeopathy, is now in practice at Zanesville, Ohio. Joseph is a farmer near Athens, and Cyrus and Daniel are both at the old homestead farm. Dr. J.M. Higgins during his youth on the farm attended the district schools, and for several years was a teacher. He earned the money required for his advanced education. In 1887 he graduated from Ohio University at Athens, and for two years read law and was admitted to the bar. However, he never became seriously engaged in the practice of law. About that time he took up newspaper work in Fairfield and Perry counties, and subsequently went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he joined the force of the late Colonel Watterson's great paper, the Courier Journal. He worked in nearly all the departments of that paper, from linotype operator to reporter. His duties with the Courier Journal required most of his night hours, and during the day he carried on his studies in the medical department of the University of Louisville, until 1899. In the latter year he returned to Athens, and has kept up his continuous duties as a physician and surgeon here for nearly a quarter of a century. Doctor Higgins served four years as school examiner of the county, and has always been active in civic affairs. He is a republican in politics. He is past exalted ruler of the local Lodge of Elks. In 1892 he married Miss Elizabeth Farmer. They have two children. The son, Dr. L.M. Higgins, is a graduate of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The daughter, Louisa, is the wife of Dr. F.C. Langenberg, now associated with the medical staff of the Watertown Hospital. Both Dr. L.M. Higgins and Doctor Langenberg are graduates of Ohio University at Athens. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:00:24, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: JOHN LOWREY - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc. 1925 Volume I, page 251 In Chapter IV of Volume I WAYNE'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INDIANS Under: FIGHT WITH THE INDIANS AT "FORTY-FOOT PITCH" The first issue of the Centinel of the Northwestern Territory, bearing date of November 9, 1793, carries as its most important item of local news an account of an engagement between a detachment of troops under Lieut. John Lowry and Indians about seven miles north of Fort St. Clair on October 17, 1793. This news item, which is a paraphrase of the official report of General Wayne, reads in part as follows: "Many reports having been circulated with respect to the attack made by the savages upon a convoy of provisions, some little time ago, between Fort St. Clair and Fort Jefferson, the following is an authentic account of the affair. "Lieutenant Lowry, of the Second, and Ensign Boyd, of the First Sub-Legions, with a command consisting of about ninety non-commissioned officers and privates, having under their convoy twenty wagons loaded with grain and commissary stores, were attacked between daylight and sunrise, seven miles advanced of Fort St. Clair, on the morning of the 17th ult. These two gallant young gentlemen, with thirteen non-commissioned officers and privates, bravely fell in action. * * *The Indians killed or carried off about seventy horses. * * * In addition to the two officers, Lieut. John Lowry and Ensign Samuel Boyd, the following non-commissioned officers and privates were lost in action: Sergeant William Murray, Sergeant Ezekiel Morrill, Corporal Silas Burret; Privates Nicholas Brooks, Elisha Barrows, Calvin Brown, John Connor, Henry Derris, Enos Hall, Lewis may, John Phillips, Joshua Risley, Thaxter York. Murray, Derris, May, Phillips and York are designated as "missing." The place at which this engagement was fought is near what is called "Forty-Foot Pitch." There is some question as to its exact location. The remains of the men who fell in action were buried near Fort St. Clair, but afterward removed to the cemetery at Eaton, where a monument has been erected to their memory. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #51 ******************************************