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WYLIE SANDERS - History of Ohio [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #6 GEORGE BANCROFT SMITH - History of [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:25:28 -0500 From: Rich and Chris Carpenter Subject: Surname Kniffin/ Travis, obit 1932, Huron Co Sarah Jane Kniffin was born in Greenwich, Ohio, February 20, 1840, and departed this life November 7, 1932 at the age of 92 years, 8 months and 13 days. She was the daughter of Squire and Sally Kniffin, being the fourth child of a family of twelve children. She was united in marriage to Oscar Travis, Jan. 1st, 1858, who died twelve years ago. To this union were born six children, four girls and two boys, Lillie Plough, Chas. Travis, James Travis, Etta Morton, Daisy Waggoner, all preceding her in death one daughter, Mrs. Hattie Myers surviving. The deceased spent most of her long life in this vicinity. She was a kind and loving mother and known as Grandma Travis to all who knew her. "Oh, Joyfully sweet will the meeting be, When over the river, the beautiful river The angel of death shall carry me." There is a wold above, Where parting is unknown, A long eternity of love, Formed for the good alone, And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that glorious sphere. Card of Thanks We wish to thank the Masonic Order, neighbors and friends, and all those who offered assistance at the time of the burial of our grandmother. Mr and Mrs. Harold Keiser and Family Mr and Mrs. Sherman Tilton and Family Text of Obituary 2: Aged Woman Dies Sarah Jane Travis age 92 years passed away Monday at the Masonic Home in Springfield after an illness of several weeks, caused from a broken hip. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the home of her grand-daughter, Mrs. J.S. Tilton and interment made in Green Lawn Cemetery. Mrs Travis was known in this community having resided here for many years. She leaves to mourn her death one brother John Kniffin, a number of nieces, nephews, several grand children, great grand children and one great great grandson, Douglas Amstutz. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:26:53 -0500 From: Rich and Chris Carpenter Subject: Surname Travis, death notice, 1920, Huron CO Text of Resolution of Respect: In memory of Brother Oscar Travis who died May 7, 1920. Once again a Brother Mason, having completed the designs written for him on life's tressle board, has passed through the portals of Eternity and entered the Grand Lodge of the New Jerusalem and hath received as his reward, the white stone with the new name written thereon. And Whereas, The All-wise and merciful Master of the universe has called from labor to refreshments our beloved and respected brother, And whereas, He having been a true and faithful brother of our beloved Order, therefore be it. Resolved That Greenwich Lodge, No. 543, F. & A.M. That the Charter in testimony of her loss, be draped in mourning for thirty days and that we tender to the family of our deceased brother our sincere condolence in their deep affliction and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family. P.B. Arnold, C.L. Otterbacher, S.P. Dickey, Committee ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:06:04 -0600 From: LeaAnn Subject: RALPH OSBORN History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio Pub by Williams Bros., 1880 RALPH OSBORN was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, in the year 1780. Having completed his legal studies, he removed to Franklinton, in 1806, and commenced the practice of law. He remained here, however, but two or three years, when he accepted an appointment as the first prosecuting attorney of Delaware County, which was organized in 1808. Soon after he removed to Pickaway County, and in December, 1810, he was elected clerk of the house in the Ohio Legislature, which place he held for five consecutive sessions, till he was chosen auditor of State in 1815. He filled the office with much dignity and urbanity, and his great popularity was evinced by the length of time, eighteen consecutive years, during which he was retained in the auditorship. In the fall of 1833 he was chosen to represent the counties of Franklin and Pickaway in the Ohio State Senate, which place also he filled with his usual ability and success, and to the general satisfaction of his constituents. About this time he removed his residence to Columbus where he died, December 30, 1835, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:35:55, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: WILLIS E. HAINES - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume 5, page 86 WILLIS E. HAINES grew up in the village of LeRoy in Medina County, the home for three-quarters of a century of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company. This business is the central institution of the town, and, like nearly every one else there, Mr. Haines on reaching manhood entered the service of the company. He has remained with it in increasing responsibilities and for a number of years has been secretary of the organization. The history of the company is sketched elsewhere. Willis E. Haines was born at Bryan, in Williams County, Ohio, May 16, 1860 only child of Thomas W. and Urania M. (Daniels) Haines. His mother was born in Portage County, Ohio, of an old family there. Thomas W. Haines was born in New Jersey, came to Ohio when a young man, and was a shoemaker by trade. He located at LeRoy in 1869, and lived there until his death. Willis E. Haines was reared and educated in the public schools of LeRoy, and after leaving high school he taught for a brief time. In 1881, at the age of twenty-one, he went to work for the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company, and in later years was appointed assistant secretary, and since 1909 has filled the office of secretary. He has been a member of the Board of Directors for many years. Mr. Haines is a member of the Universalist Church. He is a Knight Templar and Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1885 he married Miss Bertha E. Reynolds. They have two children, Harold A. and Harriet. Harold is an ex-service man, serving in the chemical warfare division, and was overseas. He is now head of the statistical department of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company. ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:35:58, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: J. WYLIE SANDERS - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 361 J. WYLIE SANDERS is one of the vital and successful representatives of the automobile business in the City of Steubenville, Jefferson County, and represented his native county in the national military service at the time of the World war. Mr. Sanders was born on a farm in Jefferson County, August 12, 1896, and in this county his parents, John C. and Annie B. (Shane) Sanders, still maintain their home, the father having been a successful farmer and gardener and having owned and operated a threshing machine, besides having been a contractor in road grading. The parents are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Winterville. Of the children the eldest is Albert C., who married Beulah Burns, their one child being a son, Eugene. Eva is the wife of Stewart McCoy, and they have three children: Gayle, Eunice and Annise, who are twins. Frederick P. married Lucile McCoy, and their children are Maurice and Frederick. J. Wylie, of this review was next in order of birth. Austin married Mary George, and they have a daughter, Geraldine. Floyd and Cecil remain at the parental home. The lineage of the Sanders family is of sterling Scotch-Irish origin, and the first representatives of the family in Ohio came from Pennsylvania. The grandparents of the subject of this sketch were Thomas and Mary Jane (Carr) Sanders. Mrs. Annie B. (Shane) Sanders was born in Pennsylvania, and was young when she accompanied her parents on their removal from that state to Ohio. The district schools of Jefferson County gave to J. Wylie Sanders his fundamental education, which was advanced by his attending the Steubenville High School and by a partial course in Bethany College. He was an ambitious and self-reliant youth when he established himself in the automobile garage and repair business at Steubenville, and from a modest inception he has built up one of the leading enterprises of this kind in this city, with a repair department with the best of facilities for all phases of work, besides which he has become local agent for the Chandler and Cleveland automobiles. His brother Frederick P. has recently become associated with him in the business. On the 5th of September, 1918, Mr. Sanders entered service in the United States Army, in preparation for active military duty in the great World war. At Camp Sherman, near Chillicothe, Ohio, he was assigned to service at the headquarters of the cavalry arm of the Ninety-fifth Division, and after the armistice brought the war to a close he remained at Camp Sherman until he received his honorable discharge, December 15, 1918. He is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccabees, and he and his wife hold membership in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Steubenville. May 28, 1919, recorded the marriage of Mr. Sanders and Miss Margaret Harris, second of the children of William and Anna Harris, who are well known residents of Jefferson County. The other children of the Harris family are: Anna (Mrs. John Floyd), Helen (Mrs. John Martin), Elizabeth, Walter and Robert. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders have a fine little son, Roland William. ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:35:52, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: GEORGE BANCROFT SMITH - History of Ohio HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 224-225 GEORGE BANCROFT SMITH. A large number of his enterprises, institutions, organizations and movements that are fundamental in the character of Dayton acknowledge the vital contact, unity and membership of George Bancroft Smith. He was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, at Phillipsburg, November 16, 1867, and from the age of twelve years lived at Brookville, Ohio, where he attended the village school. Beginning at the age of eighteen he taught in a country district for two years, having sixty-five pupils in his school, some of them older than himself. At the age of twenty he began his career as a Daytonian. Following a twelve weeks' business course in the Miami Commercial College he obtained employment at $6.00 a week in Aulabaugh's Hat and Fur Store, but eight months later became bookkeeper and paymaster at $45.00 a month with the Smith and Vaile Iron Works Company, held him in their service for seventeen years, and when he resigned he was assistant secretary and acting treasurer of a $1,000,000 company. Then for a time he handled and managed the personal investments and other interests of Eugene J. Barney, the well known Dayton capitalist. Mr. Smith in 1907 was elected secretary, treasurer and manager of the Craig Reynolds Foundry Company, one of Mr. Barney's interests. In 1908 he became president and general manager of the Kinnard Manufacturing Company also one of the Barney group but since 1916 in practically all of his many business enterprises he has been associated with with Col. E. A. Deeds and Charles F. Kettering. Some of his active business connections are: Secretary and treasurer of the Domestic Building Company; secretary and treasurer of the Moraine Development Company; director of the Stemco Engineering Company; director of the Grolan Manufacturing Company; second vice president and director of the Kinnard Manufacturing Company; director of The Dayton Fan and Motor Company. In 1907 he was elected vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of Dayton, serving four years and then two years as president, at which time the Chamber of Commerce was merged with the Greater Dayon Association, and he then became vice president of the latter. From 1902 to 1905 he was a member of the Dayton Board of Education. In 1917 he was associated with Col. E. A. Deeds, Charles F. Kettering, Arthur E. Morgan and others, in organizing The Moraine Park School of Dayton, which has since become one of the most famous experiments in progressive education in the United States. Moraine Park School has been described again and again in magazines of popular circulation. Mr. Smith was president and treasurer of the school at its beginning and holds those offices today. Some of the other movements and organizations in the city and of still broader scope that absorb some of his energies and interests and enthusiasm are the Westminster Choral Association of which he is a director; the Central Theological Seminary, of which he is a Trustee; the Young Men's' Christian Association, which he has served as a director for nineteen years and three years as its president; the Door of Hope Association, of which he is president and director; the City Rescue Mission of which he is a trustee; the Dayton Council on Philanthropy of which he is secretary; the Dayton Air Service Incorporated Committee of which he is a director; the Church Education Board of the Reformed Church of United States of American, is a director of the Associated Church of America, is a director of the Associated Church of America, is a director of the Associated Charities of Dayton, and of the Dayton Community Chest Association, secretary and director of Compania Accionista de la India Occidental of Havana, Cuba; is acting member of the board of governors of The Engineers' Club of Dayton and a member of the official board of Hale Memorial Reformed Church. Mr. Smith is secretary and treasurer of the Dayton Chapter of the National Aeronautic Association of the United Sates of America; is secretary of the executive and finance committees of the International Pulitzer Airplane Races and is an official observer in all local aviation events, including the bringing to Dayton of many word records, those in which he has had an active part in promoting including the following: The performance of 1923 by Lieutenants Macready and Kelley in the T-2, including a new world's record in endurance and long distance flight; in the same year Lieutenant Harris in the Barling Bomber set a new world's record made in 1923 in speed flight by Lieutenants Maughan and Maitland; and in 1924 the new world's record of altitude flight set by Lieutenant Macready. Mr. Smith has also found some time for literacy expression, has contributed a number of articles to newspapers and magazines, being the author of a small volume entitled. "Timothy and Red Clover." He married in 1890 Miss Holly Denney of West Alexandria. They have a daughter, Miss Martha Catharine, a leader in a number of Dayton movements of the younger group, including College and Young Women's Christian Association Industrial Department activities. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #55 ******************************************