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The State Board of Equalization.

MEMBERS OF THE TENTH STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION, 1900-1901.

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SAAC B. CAMERON, of Lisbon, Columbiana county, the present Treasurer of State, was born in the city of Nairn, Scotland. When he was yet an infant, his widowed mother emigrated to America to better her condition and provide greater facilities for the education of her family, of which the subject of this sketch was the youngest of six, believing that in so doing she would afford them more abundant opportunities for success in life. Upon arriving in this country the family located on a farm in Jefferson county, a short distance south of Salineville, removing thence about the year 1855, into the village. Here the children of the family were reared. Mr. Cameron attended the public schools there and graduated from the Iron City Business College of Pittsburg. At an early age he accepted a position as a bookkeeper for a local mercantile firm, with whom he remained until 1874. His business ability soon advanced him to a partnership in the business, which was successfully conducted until in 1880, when Mr. Cameron became the sole owner, after which the business continued to grow and prosper until 1893, when he was elected Treasurer of Columbiana county by a majority the largest ever given to any candidate for any office in the county up to that time. He was re-elected in 1895. The business system he introduced and enforced during the four years of his incumbency in that office established a standard and created a model worthy the emulation of all public officials.

The Treasurer of State.

When in 1898 the First National Bank of Lisbon was declared to be insolvent, Mr. Cameron having but a short time previously retired from the office of County Treasurer, was the unanimous choice alike of the creditors and stockholders for appointment as Receiver, such was their confidence in his ability to disentangle the labyrinth of complications resulting from the reckless conduct of its affairs upon the part of its management.

In this work he was engaged for more than a year, during which time he brought order out of chaos. He succeeded in fixing the responsibility for the failure of the bank, and although the books were miserably kept and outrageously falsified he obtained judgments in every suit brought by him having for its object the recovery of funds belonging to the unfortunate institution, thus proving the wisdom of those interested in their selection of him for Receiver.

Mr. Cameron is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar. a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a Knight of Pythias and an Elk. He was married in 1875 to Miss Laura A., daughter of John B. and Mary A. Irwin, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Cameron have one child, a son, Roy MacDonald Cameron, who was born in the year 1883.

Mr. Cameron was nominated for the office of Treasurer of State at the Republican State Convention held in the city of Columbus, June 2, 1899, on the first ballot, and he was elected in November, 1899, by a large majority. He was inducted into office on the first Monday in January, 1900, since which time he has completely remodeled the interior of the office and inaugurated a much-needed system for expediently and safely conducting the large volume of business of the Department, which aggregates in receipts and disbursements many millions of dollars annually. In order that the funds of the State might be safely cared for and the securities required by law to be deposited with the Treasurer of State might be properly classified and securely stored, Mr. Cameron planned and has had constructed in the Treasurer's office a large steel vault, made by skilled workmen, of the best material known to the art, and weighing some twenty tons. In this vault he has built for the storage of bonds and other securities, steel filing cases, all the compartments of which are so numbered and lettered that, in connection with a card index system installed by him, any security or paper of value entrusted to his keeping may be easily located and readily produced. All which demonstrates Mr. Cameron to be a thorough, systematic, business man, eminently well qualified to discharge in an acceptable manner the responsible duties of the position he so ably fills.

At the Republican State Convention held in Columbus in June, 1901, Mr. Cameron was nominated by acclamation for Treasurer of State for

The Treasurer of State.

a second term, and was re-elected at the fall elections of that year by a largely increased majority, running 3,775 ahead of the average vote and 15,612 ahead of the candidate receiving the lowest vote.

In politics he has always been a Republican, and has ever assumed an active share in the party work. Scarcely had he attained his majority when he was chosen a member of the County Central Committee. So well was his work done there that he was soon chosen chairman of the County Executive Committee, and three times honored with a re-election. To his management is largely due the fact that that county of phenomenal Republican pluralities is free from bickering and factional strife. Since he has been chairman, Columbiana county has given the Republican ticket the largest pluralities in its history. He served as a member of the 18th Congressional District Republican Committee for four years, was a member of the Republican State Executive Committee in 1893, and is a member of that committee at the present time.

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HARLES Cameron Green, Cashier of the State Treasury, was born and reared in Columbiana county, Ohio, his birth occuring April 6th, 1873, in the village of Salineville. His father was accidently killed September 1, 1877, leaving destitute a widowed mother and three small children. She removed immediately to East Liverpool, where, by her daily earnings in the factory for the manufacture

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