Fess
SIMEON D., an American educator and congressman, born in Allen co., O., in 1861. He was educated at the Ohio Northern University and studied law at the same institution. He was professor of American history, head of the College of Law, and vice-president of the Ohio Northern University, from 1889 to 1902. From 1902 to 1907 he was graduate student and lecturer of the University of Chicago. In the latter year he was appointed president of Antioch College, ser serving until 1917. In 1910 he was delegate and vice-president of the Ohio Constitutional Convention. He was elected to Congress in 1913 and again in 1915. During this service he was chairman of the committee on education, and during the campaign of 1918 was chairman of the Republican National Congressional Campaign Committee. He wrote "Outline of United States History" (1897); "American Political Theory" (1907); and "Civics in Ohio" (1910).