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KEE MAXWELL - SUMMIT COUNTY [Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19800103063514.009494b0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: W. KEE MAXWELL - SUMMIT COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 10 W. KEE MAXWELL, is joint owner and editor of the Akron Evening and Sunday Times, the best local democratic paper in Summit County, and the only Sunday newspaper published in Akron. It is also the only Akron newspaper to carry the Associated Press Service. The Akron Evening and Sunday Times represents a continuous newspaper history in Akron since 1867, when the Akron City Times was established and which with some changes has continued down to the present time. It was a weekly until 1892, when a daily issue was started under the name Times-Democrat. The present owners of the Times came to Akron from Peoria, Illinois, where they were prominent in the newspaper business. W. Kee Maxwell was born at Bardolph, Illinois, January 12, 1879, son of Henry A. and Mary Elizabeth (Kee) Maxwell. He acquired a common school education, and began his newspaper experience as a printer on the Bardolph news. He also had some further experience conducting weekly newspapers at Smithfield, Kane and Oneida, Illinois, and in 1911 moved to Peoria, serving as editor of the Peoria Transcript until 1913, and from 1913 to 1916 was editor of the Peoria Journal. On November 1, 1916, Mr. Maxwell and Ross F. Walker purchased the ownership of the Akron Times, which for nearly twenty years had been published by E.F. Harter and Judge C.R. Grant. They completely reorganized the business, changing the name from the Akron Times to the Akron Evening Times. Mr. Maxwell is a member of the Associated Press and American Editors Association, and is also a member of the American Press Humorists Association. In addition to his routine production through many years through the columns of his own paper, he has been a contributor of fiction and humor to magazines. In Akron he is a member of the Rotary Club, the Akron City Club, the Fairlawn Golf Club, and is affiliated with the Elks and Eagles. He attends the Universalist Church and is a democrat in politics. Mr. Maxwell married, October 12, 1899, Miss Alma Burnett, of Kane, Illinois. Their two children are Burnett K. and Irene. Ross F. Walker, who is manager of the Akron Evening and Sunday Times, was born at Twin Grove in Green County, Wisconsin, January 7, 1877, son of Ed L. and Leah M. (Griffith) Walker. He acquired a common school education, and as a young man went to Chicago, where his newspaper experience began in 1900. In 1902 he took the management of the Peoria Journal, and was prominent in that influential Central Illinois paper until November, 1918, when he and Mr. W. Kee Maxwell came to Akron and bought the Times. Mr. Walker is serving as a member of the Ohio State Prison Commission under appointment from Governor Donahey. He is a director of the Akron Better Business Commission, is a trustee of the Akron Art Institute, a member of the Executive Council of the Boy Scouts, and belongs to the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. He is a democrat in politics and attends the Universalist Church. He has membership in the Akron City club, the Fairlawn Golf Club, the Kiwanis Club, and the Elks and Eagles, fraternities. Mr. Walker married, November 26, 1902, Miss Nettie N. Foster. Their children are Foster, Horace F. and Annabelle. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1980 07:43:42 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19800103070107.0095ec30@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: SUMMIT COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 16-17 THE SUMMIT COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY, is the fourth largest organization of the kind in Ohio, has been in existence more than eighty years, and no medical society in the state presents a finer record of war service. The facts for the brief sketch that follows were furnished by the society's secretary, Dr. A.S. McCormick of Akron. The history of medicine in Summit County begins in 1800 with the founding of Hudson, the oldest settlement in the county. One of the founders of Hudson was Moses Thompson, M.D. (1776-1858). The first physician on the site of Akron was Titus Chapman, who located there in 1815. The Summit County Medical Society, founded in 1842, when Akron had but a population of 2,400, has for its object: An association for mutual fellowship; the maintenance of harmony, unison and good government among members, thereby promoting the character, honor, interests and usefulness of the profession; and the cultivation and advancement of medical science and literature, and the elevation of the standard of professional education. Since its origin the society has had 603 members, the present membership being 324. How various members have influenced the development of Akron is indicated by a street named after S.W. Bartges, M.D. (1814-82), Prof. S.H. Coburn, M.D. (1809-88), E. Crosby, M.D. (1779-1882), A.M. Cole (1855-1922), and the great company founded in 1870 by B.F. Goodrich, M.D. (1841-88). members of the Society who have served in the Ohio Legislature are M. Jewett (1815-89), L.S. Ebright (1844-1917), H.S. Davidson, and associate members, W.R. Price and F.B. Burch. Active in all matters pertaining to the health of the community, the society as an organization or through its individual members was largely responsible for the founding of the Akron City Hospital in 1887, the Children's Hospital in 1905, the People's Hospital in 1914, the Citizen's Hospital in 1915 and other private institutions. The members hold degrees from 112 universities and colleges of seven countries. By birth the members are from Austria, Canada, China, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Roumania, Russia, Syria and the Untied States. The seven honorary members are among the most famous medical men of North America. The fifty associate members include leaders in Akron's business and professional circles who take a special interest in the society and the work of its medical members. The society meets monthly and holds special dinners in the spring and autumn, the speakers on such occasions being leading members of the profession in this country and abroad. In addition, a medical section and a surgical section meet monthly, with speakers from the society. During the summer a series of golf games scheduled by the society, ending with the championship match in September. Throughout the country the Summit County Medical Society has the reputation of being among the very best in its management, program, attendance and all the items that make for efficiency. The war record of the society is specially entitled to recognition in any history of Ohio. During 113 years members of the society have participated in numerous wars. Four members were in service in the War of 1812; twenty-four were in the Civil war, from 1861 to 1865; there was one from Summit County in the Roumanian Army during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877; one in the North West Canadian rebellion of 1885. From the Summit County Medical Society eight members went into service in the Spanish-American war in 1898, one served with the British Army in the South African war of 1899-1902, one was in the Philippine campaign from 1899 to 1904. During the trouble on the Mexican border in 1916-17 twenty-six of the society's members were enrolled. During the period of the World war from 1914 to 1918 a total of 137 members of the Summit County Medical Society were under commission or in active service in some capacity. Seven were with the British Army, three with the Canadian Army, three with the French Army, one with the German Army, one with the Italian Army, while there were 107 in the United States Army, ten in the United States Navy, two with the American Red Cross, two with the Untied States Public Health Services, and one with the Untied States Secret Service. The ranks held by these medical officers included one colonel, one lieutenant-colonel eight majors, forty-eight captains, seventy lieutenants and nine other ranks. There was also a Summit County physician who was with the Untied States Army in the Siberian expedition in 1919. The total war record, unsurpassed by any other county medical society in Ohio, is 204 members. In addition, forty members have served in times of peace in the Canadian, Hungarian, Roumanian, United States Army and Navy, bringing the total military record to 244. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1980 08:29:41 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19800112081327.0095fe80@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: ARTHUR WILLIAM DOYLE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 132 with photo ARTHUR WILLIAM DOYLE, son of the late Judge Dayton A. Doyle, has given a good account of himself in the legal profession. He is the present prosecuting attorney of Summit County, and is a veteran of the World war. He was born in Akron, November 3, 1893. His education was acquired in public schools, then in Cornell University, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1915, and in 1917 received his law degree from Western Reserve University at Cleveland. In July, 1917, he was called to the colors for duty in the World war, being with the One Hundred Thirty-fifth Field Artillery. Becoming first lieutenant of the Sixteenth Field Artillery, in command of the battery, he served overseas, and after the armistice was with the Army of Occupation in Germany until July, 1919. After the war he engaged in private law practice with the firm of Allen, Waters Young and Andress. In 1920 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Summit County, and has also served as a member of the Civil Service Commission, and is a director of the Ohio State Bank and Trust Company. In 1924 he was candidate for the republican nomination for Congress in the Fourteenth Ohio District. Mr. Doyle is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, a charter member of the Tadmor Temple of Akron, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, belongs to the Portage Club and the Akron City Club, and his diversions are golf, hunting and horseback riding. He is a member of the Summit County, Ohio State and the American Bar associations. Mr. Doyle is commander of the Joseph Wein Post of the Veterans of Foreign wars. He also belongs to the American Legion. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1980 08:11:21 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19800112074355.009494b0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: DAYTON A. DOYLE - SUMMIT COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV, page 131-132 with photo HON. DAYTON A. DOYLE was for a quarter of a century one of the prominent attorneys of the Akron bar, being member of one of the most prominent law firms of that section of the state. He also served as judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Judge Doyle was born in Summit County, September 27, 1856, and died February 28, 1920. His parents, William B. and Harriet S. Doyle, were early settlers in Summit County. His father was a pioneer in the lumber business in Northern Ohio. Dayton A. Doyle acquired a public school education, graduating from the Akron High School in 1874, and in 1878 received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Buchtel College of Akron. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, graduating Bachelor of Laws in 1880 and being admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court at Columbus on May 27, 1880. Subsequently Buchtel College bestowed upon him the degree Doctor of Laws. For several years he was one of the trustees of Buchtel College. Judge Doyle opened his law offices in 1885, in partnership with Maj. Frederick C. Bryan. In the same year he was elected city solicitor, an office he held until 1889. Charles Dick became a member of the law firm, and the firm of Dick, Doyle & Bryan was one of the highest standing and continued until Mr. Dick was elected to represent Ohio in the United States Senate. From 1898 to 1906 Judge Doyle was referee in bankruptcy in Summit County, and in the latter year was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Eighth Subdivision of the Fourth Judicial District. He was reelected in 1912, and completed two terms in the office, retiring in 1918. Other activities serve to make his name notable in the citizenship of Summit County. He was the first president of the Summit County Bank, which was later consolidated with the Ohio State Bank and Trust Company, one of the largest banking institutions of Summit County. For many years he was president of the Glendale Cemetery Association, and was a director of a number of other organizations. The social and fraternal organizations in which he was active included the Elks, Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was one of the original members of the Summit County Bar Association and was active in the First Methodist Church. Judge Doyle possessed estimable quantities of mind and heart, and exemplified those attributes found in the successful practitioner and able and important jurist. Equipped with nature's best endowments, supplemented by an intellectual and legal training acquired by a life of industry and study, he brought to his judicial duties all those qualities which served to make for him an enviable record as a judge. He was diligent and painstaking in his work, and was intellectually and judicially honest with himself as well as with the body of the public which he served faithfully and well in various positions of public trust. As a citizen he was patriotic; in his personal relations, of good conduct and example, and he left behind him achievements worthy of the ambition of those who are to succeed him in the fulfillment of the duties and responsibilities of life. On April 23, 1884, Judge Doyle married Miss Ida M. Westfall. He was survived by his wife and six children, the children being Dayton A. Jr., Arthur W., Frank (who passed away January 23, 1924, at St. Augustine, Florida), Mrs. Harold Dalzell, Miss Harriet K. and Miss Ruth. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 03 Jan 1980 07:18:04 -0500 From: Gina Reasoner To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19800109142720.00956ce0@pop.prodigy.net> Subject: GEORGE H. LOWREY - SUMMIT COUNTY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed History of Ohio The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume V, page 69-70 GEORGE H. LOWREY, vice president of the Security Trust and Savings Bank and secretary of the retail merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce of Mansfield, has been identified with a number of leading enterprises of the city, all of which have benefited by his ability, good judgment and industry. He has also acted in a number of official and civic capacities, and has shown himself a citizen of the progressive, constructive type, possessed of the ability and willingness to assist his community. Mr. Lowrey was born at Cuyahoga Falls, Summit County, Ohio, November 20, 1857, and is a son of Deming Norton and Eliza J. (Harrison) Lowrey, natives of the same county. The grandfather of George H. Lowrey, Shubel Howe Lowrey, came in an ox-wagon from New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1809, and settled at Tallmadge, Summit county, where he conducted a blacksmith shop until 1837. In that year he removed to Cuyahoga Falls, where his death occurred in 1871. Deming Norton Lowrey was born at Tallmadge and was a child when taken by his parents to Cuyahoga Falls, where he established himself in business as a merchant. He continued to conduct his modest business until the Civil war, and in 1862 became captain of Company G, One Hundred Fifteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which he had assisted in organizing. At the battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in October, 1864, Captain Lowrey and the greater part of his command were captured by the Confederate troops under General Forrest and were confined in Andersonville prison until exchanged in April, 1865. On his way home he was aboard the ill-fated "Sultana," which blew up on the Mississippi River, just above Memphis, April 23, 1865, and Captain Lowrey was one of those killed, he being but forty years of age at the time. His widow later married Minor H. Howe, and lived at Akron, Ohio, for a long period, dying there in January, 1922, aged eighty-seven years. Captain and Mrs. Lowrey were the parents of four sons and two daughters: Mrs. Helen E. Gray, of New York City; Homer J., who was a clerk in his father's company during the Civil war, and later was engaged in railroad work at Rock Island, Illinois, where he died in 1895; Ernest W., a graduate of Iowa State University, resided for time at Larned, Kansas, and in 1888 became a resident of Denver, Colorado, in the development of which city he played an important part, and where he died four of five years ago; Fred Deming, who joined his brother, Homer J., in railroad work at Rock Island, later joining his brother Ernest W. at Larned, Kansas, where he established a bank, became well-to-do and died in 1920; and Hattie A., the wife of Fred S. Ozier, of Akron, Manger of the Howe Hotel, which was founded by him and George H. Lowrey in 1915. George H. Lowrey accompanied his mother to Akron in 1866, and three years later went to Cleveland, where he attended the public schools. In 1873, at the time of his mother's second marriage, she removed to Mansfield, where Mr. Howe was a commercial salesman in the employ of the Bissman company. In 1887 Mr. Howe returned to Cuyahoga Falls and later went to Akron, where his death occurred. George H. Lowrey remained at Cleveland until 1875, having employment there as clerk in a shoe store. In the year mentioned he came to Mansfield, where he entered the employ of Keyser Brothers, shoe merchants, with whom he remained fifteen years, and in 1890 entered upon an independent career when, with W. W. Lemon, he opened the Lemon & Lowrey shoe store. He was identified with that business for sixteen years, but in 1906 disposed of his interests in that enterprise. In 1915, in company with F.S. Ozier, he built the Howe Hotel of eleven stories and 112 rooms, which is Akron's largest and finest hostelry. Mr. Lowrey served for some years as a member of the City Council, of which he was president for four years, and at the time of the death of Mayor F.S. Marquis succeeded him in office and served two years, from 1914. During the World war he was chairman of the Home Service and Civilian Relief Committee, and still retains this post. Mr. Lowrey has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce since its organization, was its secretary for several years, and since January, 1920, has been secretary of the retail merchants division of the body. He belongs to the Masons and Elks, and has a number of social connections, in addition to which he is identified with several large and important business and financial enterprises of Mansfield, among them the Security Trust and Savings Bank, of which he is vice president. With his family he belongs to the Congregational Church. When twenty-one years of age Mr. Lowrey was united in marriage to a Mansfield young woman, Catherine HIne, whose father conducted a retail meat market, and to this union there has been born one son, Harrison Deming, formerly a dental practitioner, but now connected with the Mansfield Tire and Rubber Company. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 22:43:10 -0400 From: Joyce Brainard To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <38014EBE.5F3E87C1@earthlink.net> Subject: OBIT: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Messenger, Ira E. Died 7/16/89 Medina Gazette Messenger, Gertrude M Died 9/24/85 Medina Gazette Messenger, Rita R. Died 2/10/85 Medina Gazette Messenger, Daniel F. Died 3/11/86 Haury, Theodore D. Died 11/24/95 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #717 *******************************************