ings are thoroughly equipped with every kind of machinery that can be used or is needed in this line of manufacturing, and is operated by steam power supplied by engines of colossal proportions. In addition to this great establishment, the incorporated company of Aultman, Miller & Co. operates two others engaged in the same line. One is the Canton or original house, and the other is located at Poughkeepsie, New York. The capacity of the Akron works is one-hundred and twenty-five machines a day; that at Canton is equally as large, while that in the east is from thirty to fifty per day, comprising a total production a day of three hundred machines, or the enormous grand total of ninety thousand per year. This shows that the Buckeye establishment is not only one of the largest of its particular line of manufacture, but also one of the most important of any character in America or the world. The company was organized with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, which has since. been increased to one million dollars. The headquarters and main works are. located at Akron. The various products of the Buckeye works are sold in

all parts of the United States, the principal demand coming, of course, from the great wheat growing regions beyond the Mississippi, and the northwest. A brief summary of the various things produced in this busy series of workshops can be given as follows: The Buckeye mower; the Buckeye single reaper; the Buckeye combined mower and dropper, rear delivery; the Buckeye combined mower and table rake, side delivery; the Buckeye elevator self-binder; and the Buckeye platform binder.

From very small beginnings has all this grown. It is one of the mechanical marvels of the age-this expansion that has come through a legitimate growth in a third of a century. It shows what genius and labor when wedded to opportunity can do, under fostering influences and in a developing land. It illustrates new America in one of its most pleasing and suggestive phases, and stands forever as a guide and incentive to inspiring youth that go forth. to the work of the world armed only with ideas, courage, and a determination to do something or fall manfully in the doing.

J. H. KENNEDY.

HENRY BARNES CURTIS was born near the village of Champlain, New York, November 28, 1799, and lacked but twenty-three days of being eighty-six years of age. He was the second son of Zarah and Phally Yale Curtis, who were natives of Connecticut. In 1809 they removed to Ohio and settled at Newark, Licking county, and subsequently on a farm in Washington township, where the father died in 1849, in his eighty-eighth year. His brother Hosmer died in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1874, and his younger brother, General S. R. Curtis, died December 16, 1866.

Mr. Curtis' early days were spent upon the farm. The opportunities for a thorough education were of course somewhat limited, and the private schools of Roswell Mills, and later of Amos H. Coffee, gave to the diligent and faithful student facilities for an education, and he gained, by hard study, what might be termed a liberal education.

He left his father's farm at the age of seventeen, and on the invitation of his brother Hosmer, then a practicing law yer at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, came to that place to seek his fortune. With the assistance of his brother he secured the appointment of deputy clerk of the courts, which he filled with credit. This connection with the business and records of the county brought Mr. Curtis into

immediate contact and personal acquaintance with the great lawyers of that period, among the number being Charles R. Sherman, Thomas Ewing, William Stanbery, Samuel W. Culbertson, Alexander Harper, and several others, who constituted with two resident lawyers the "bar of Knox county." Familiarized with courts and legal forms of proceedings in this way, Mr. Curtis was naturally directed to the law as a business for life, and he entered his brother's office as a law student in the fall of 1820, and on the ninth of December, 1822, presented himself before Judges Hitchcock and Pease of the supreme court for examination and admission. The examination took place at the old Franklin house, Newark, in the presence of several of the resident lawyers, and the oath of admission was administered by Judge Hitchcock. For several years he held the position of recorder of the county, by the appointment of the judges of the the court. When he entered upon the practice of law there were but two other resident lawyers in the county-his senior brother, Hosmer, and an old man, Samuel Mott, who soon after withdrew from the profession to engage in other business. But the field was soon entered by others who came in later, particularly John W. Warden, Benjamin S. Brown, Columbus Delano, and later Rollin C. Hurd and

John K. Miller. All these became able, astute and successful lawyers. In the In the earlier days of Mr. Curtis' practice his professional circuit embraced, besides Knox county, the counties of Licking, Richland, Delaware, Coshocton, with frequent extensions, in special cases, to the courts in Lancaster, Zanesville, Wooster, Canton, Norwalk, Sandusky, and elsewhere. In addition to these he practiced before the supreme, United States and district courts, and on the eighth of January, 1863, was admitted to the bar of the United States supreme court at Washington.

In December, 1872, he celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his admission to the bar by giving a supper at his "Round Hill" residence to the members of the profession and many oldtime friends. He announced on the occasion that he should decline all new retainers thereafter and leave the field to his younger brethren, that he might give better attention to his own private business.

Mr. Curtis never deserted his profession to seek political preferment. In view of the success that has crowned his career, it is now evident that in the choice of his profession he acted wisely. In politics Mr. Curtis was a Republican, and was present and took part in the convention in which that party was organized in Ohio. Although he has preserved his identity with that party and acted with all its movements, he never but once allowed himself to become a candidate for political office. That was in 1840, when the Whig party nominated him as their candidate for con

gress from the district composed of the counties of Knox, Coshocton, Holmes and Tuscarawas. The district was strongly Democratic, but Mr. Curtis cut down his opponent's majority over one thousand.

Among the public trusts that have been reposed in him may be mentioned that he represented Knox county in the state board of equalization in the winter of 1840-1, a body legislative in form of organization and in which many vital and important questions in regard to the material interests of the state were discussed and settled. For twelve years preceding the dissolution of the board, under a recent law of the state, he held the office of trustee of the Central Lunatic asylum, and for several years was president of the board. This trust involved the care of over five hundred insane, the general government and administration of the institution, and after the burning of the old buildings, the yet more responsible duties of designing and carrying forward the construction of the immense new edifice for the institution. The annual reports made by the board for the last six years preceding its dissolution were written by him and approved and adopted by the board.

About the summer of 1823 Bishop Chase first visited Mt. Vernon, with a view of finding a suitable location for a proposed institution now known as Kenyon college. Through the influence of Mr. Curtis a tract containing about eight thousand acres of land, owned by Mrs. Curtis' uncle, William Hogg of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, was selected and purchased.