BIOGRAPHIES

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* Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio
 by William Alexander Taylor
 - Vols. I  & II -
1909
 

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	H. R. SACKETT (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 66)
	A. E. SARTAIN (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 126)
	W. H. SARTAIN (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 467)
	J. E. SATER (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 636)
	L. F. SATER (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 620)
	C. D. SAVIERS (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 563)
	G. C. SCHAEFFER (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 166)
F. W. Schumacher	F. W. SCHUMACHER (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 94)
	A. P. SCOFIELD (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 805)
	LOVETT TAFT SCOFIELD, who has made continuous advancement since starting in business life as a clerk in a country store, is now president of the Andrus-Schofield Company, dealers in teas, coffees and spices.  He was born in Reynoldsburg, Franklin county, Ohio, Aug. 10, 1858.  His father, Frederick A. Schofield, was a native of the state of New York and in his boyhood days became a resident of Reynoldsburg, where in later years he followed merchandising, continuing in active connection with the trade interests of that place until 1868.  He then removed to Westerville, Franklin county, where he again engaged in merchandising.  He was widely and favorably known throughout the county and in Columbus, and was a successful business man whose enterprise and firm determination constituted the secret of his business progress.  He was a splendid example of the self-made man of the old school, modest and retiring in disposition, yet possessing that force of character which enabled him to win success along the lines of legitimate trade.  He died Nov. 21, 1906, having for about eighteen years survived his wife, who passed away in 1888.  She bore the maiden name of Martha E. Davis, and was a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.      Lovett T. Schofield pursued his education in the public schools of Reynoldsburg, Kirkersville, and Licking county, Ohio.  He left the high school at the age of eighteen years to become his father's assistant in the country store at Kirkersville and at Westerville.  Some time later he was admitted to a partnership in his father's business, and the relations between them continued for fifteen years.  In 1881 Mr. Schofield came to Columbus and purchased an interest in the tea, coffee and spice business owned by W. F. Andrus, and the firm became a partnership arrangement under the style of the Andrus, Scofield & Company.  On the 1st of January, 1905, the business was incorporated as the Andrus-Scofield Company, Mr. Andrus remaining the president until the 1st of June, 1908, when Mr. Scofield purchased his interest in the business of which he is now practically the sole proprietor.  In disposing of his product he handles it through salesmen and jobbers and does an extensive business, represented by a large annual figure.  He specializes in teas, coffees and spices, yet also handles other commodities and manufactures flavoring extracts, bluing, ammonia, et cetera.  The trade has constantly grown and the business is one of considerable importance as an element in the commercial activity of Columbus.  Mr. Schofield is also president of the Federal Manufacturing Company and a director of the North American Lead Company of this city.      In 1892 occurred the marriage of Mr. Schofield and Miss Minnie H. Huffman, of Carey, Ohio.  e votes with the republican party and, as every true American citizen should do, keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day, but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him.  He belongs to the Ohio and Columbus Country Clubs, and in Masonry has attained the Knight Templar degree.  He is also connected with the Elks lodge, and the Knights of Pythias.  He is known locally as a pedestrian and in this exercise finds much of the rest and recreation so necessary as a preparation for the onerous duties of a business career that makes close demands upon his time and energy.  The secret of his success is largely due to  his concentration, combined with clear insight into complex business situations. (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 125)
	ERNEST SCOTT (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 141)
	DR. R. ZENAS SEEDS was born in Jackson township, Franklin county, Ohio, January 12, 1845.  His parents were Dr. John Seeds and Asenath Seeds (Britton), both of whom were born in the United States, the former in Ohio and the latter in Virginia.  When but four hears of age his father died, leaving his mother with a family of seven children, himself the youngest.   His early life was one of privation and hardship.  Until he arrived at the age of fourteen, his education was obtained at the district school, three miles distant, and was consequently very limited.  He spent the winters, from his fourteenth to his eighteenth year, at the Union schools of Mechanicsburg, Champaign county, working on the farm of his uncle, Lewis Britton, during the summer months.  He then went to Antioch college, Green county, Ohio, where he finished his literary education in the fall of 1867.  His early hopes and aspirations were to be a physician, and when a boy he was always, in mimicry, making "pills and powders."  During his college course he had paid particular attention to those branches of study most nearly connected with the science of medicine, and now resolved to adopt that as his profession.      He attended his first course of lectures at Starling Medical college, Columbus, in the winter of 1868-69, and graduated second in a class of seventy-two members, in the winter of 1869-70.  He then returned to his adopted home in Hilliard, and to his uncle, James S. Britton, who had always been his best friend in his attempts to obtain an education and prepare himself for his life work, both pecuniarily and by his sound advice.      He was married to Electa Davis, eldest daughter of Asa Davis, esq., and grand-daughter of Samuel Davis, one of Franklin county's first settlers, who was a comrade of ex-governor McArthur, and several times a prisoner of the Indians.  Asa Davis when but a boy was in the war of 1812, with "Mad Anthony Wayne," in some of his marches against the hostile savages.      Dr. Seeds was in the war of the Rebellion, although but nineteen years of age.  He and an older brother with the General Sherman until after the capture of Kenesaw mountain.  His brother, Dr. S. M. Seeds, remained with the army as assistant surgeon of the Thirteenth Ohio volunteer infantry, until the close of the war.  In the spring of 1870 Dr. R. Z. Seeds commenced the practice of medicine at his present home, in Hilliard, where he has built up a practice and a character that any person might well be proud of.  (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 54
	LOUIS SEIDENSTICKER (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 811)
	J. H. SELLS (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 239)
	J. J. SEXTON (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 798)
	D. B. SHARP (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 195)
	E. R. SHARP (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 273)
	J. A. SHAWAN (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 123)
	FREDERICK SHEDD (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 417)
	BUTLER SHELDON (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 611)
	F. B. SHELDON (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 762)
	R. E. SHELDON (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 197)
A. W. Shields	ALFRED W. SHIELDS.     Following the cessation of the great Civil war, there came into central Ohio many emigrants from the state of Virginia, as there had previously come between 1800 and 1850, at which latter date the tide of migration almost entirely ceased.  Among these latter migrants was Thomas P. Shields, a Confederate soldier and officer and a practicing physician, who, with his family, came from Cartersville, Virginia to Union county, where he began the practice of medicine and soon stood high in public estimation and filled numerous public trusts.      Alfred Watkins Shields, the well known young attorney of Columbus, is the son of this Dr. Thomas P. Shields and, like his father, is a man of strong determination in all that he undertakes.  He was born in Cartersville, Virginia, on the 3d of April, 1866, and was less than one year old when his parents brought him to a new home in what was yet a relatively new commonwealth.  The father, Dr. Thomas P. Shields, of Mill Creek township, was born in Cumberland county, Virginia.  On his father's side he is of Irish and Scotch descent, the family having emigrated to this country, locating first in the state of Delaware and subsequently moving to Virginia.  His grandfather, john Shields, was an officer (a captain) in the Revolutionary war.  His father, David Shields, was raised in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and served in the war of 1812-14.  His grandfather on his mother's side was Joseph Watkins, of Goochland county, Virginia, who was of Welsh descent and of a Quaker family.  His grandmother was Mary Carrington, a sister of General Edward Carrington of Revolutionary fame.  He was with Wahington throughout the Revolution, a member of his staff and an intimate friend of LaFayette.  The Carringtons  were English and settled in Virginia at an early day.      Dr. Shields, after attending the primary schools in his neighborhood took a course in Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia, and then attended lectures in the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  After graduating in 1846 he settled on the farm on which his widowed mother resided and on which he was born, and practiced successfully his profession as physician and surgeon.  For many years before the late war, he had been connected with a volunteer military company with rank of captain.  This company was ordered out early in the war and attached to the Eighteenth Virginia Regiment Confederate States army, which served mostly in the army of northern Virginia.  In the winter of 1862 his health became impaired.  He resigned his position and received the appointment of surgeon and served principally in the hospitals until the close of the war.      In 1867 Dr. Shields removed with his family to Ohio and settled in Union county, where he owned a large farm.  He has practiced his profession since June, 1846, and at the present time answers calls in his neighborhood.      Alfred W. Shields spent his youthful days in his parents' home and was given excellent educational advantages, which he wisely improved.  After at tending the common schools he entered the Ohio Central College, where he pursued his studies for a few terms, and then entered the Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia.  He completed his education in that historic seat of learning that dates back to what were among the proudest days of the Old Dominion.  He was graduated from its law department in June, 1891, under the distinguished statesman, lawyer and jurist, John Randolph Tucker.      Coming to Columbus soon after his graduation, Mr. Shields entered upon the practice of his profession in this city, and energy and industry, in connection with his native ability, enabled him to build up steadily and surely a remunerative practice - a practice that is constantly growing, the result of his own application, laudable ambition and strong mental force.  His offices are in the Capital Trust building and he now has a large law practice that is of an important character.  He is recognized as a safe counsel and able advocate, who in the presentation of his cases before the courts loses sight of no detail bearing upon his case and gives to each point its due relative prominence.  He convinces by his concise statement of law facts rather than by word painting and so high is the respect for his legal ability and integrity that his assertions in court are seldom questioned seriously.  Whatever he does is for the best interests of his clients and for the honor of his profession.      During the years 1901 and 1902 Mr. Shields was assistant director of law under Mayor John N. Hinkle and acquitted himself most becomingly.  In political allegiance he is a democrat-the result of earnest study of the system of government and conscientious convictions.  He is also a member of Joseph Dowdall Lodge, No. 144, K. P., of Columbus and of the Episcopal church.  He was married to Almeda H. Houstle, of Columbus, Dec. 1, 1897. (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 302)
	F. R. SHINN (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 413)
	JOHN SIEBERT (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 626)
	W. W. SIMMONS (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 100)
	W. E. SIMS (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 168)
	RICHARD SINCLAIR (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 564)
	G. W. SINKS (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 67)
	ULRIC SLOANE (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 799)
	E. J. SMITH (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 456)
	I. N. SMITH (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 316)
	SAMUEL SNIDER (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 395)
	W. A. SNOW (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 510)
	G. T. SPAHR (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 667)
	THOMAS R. SPARROW (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 75)
	O. M. SPENCER (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 105)
Albert Standish	ALBERT STANDISH (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page ____)
	I. E. STEVENSON (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 134)
	R. W. STEVENSON (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 353)
	E. K. STEWART (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 808)
	G. H. STEWART (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 300)
	J. J. STODDART (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 583)
	J. A. STOUT (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 497)
	J. E. STRADER (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 737)
	H. S. STRONG (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 693)
	D. E. SULLIVAN (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 621)
	E. J. SWERER (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 764)
	E. W. SWISHER (Source: * Centennial History of Columbus, and Franklin Co., Ohio by William Alexander Taylor - Vol. II - 1909 - Page 503)

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