Mary Leonore Jobe was born near Tappan in Harrison County, Ohio, on January 29, 1878, and built a life-long career in exploration and natural history investigation after studying at Scio College and Columbia University. She first explored areas of British Columbia, Canada, in 1905, started Camp Mystic in Connecticut for girls in 1916, married explorer Carl E. Akeley in 1924, and completed an expedition to Africa after Carl died in the Belgian Congo in 1926. Her achievements were recognized by the naming of Mount Jobe in Canada, by Belgium's award of the Cross of the Knight, Order of the Crown, and by her books and contributions to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. She died on July 19, 1966, and is buried in Deersville. Harry F. Hazlett was born in Deersville on April 17, 1884, and pursued a military career that lasted three decades, beginning in 1916 in the Mexican Border War. He served overseas in World War I as a machine gun officer and earned the Belgian War Cross for bravery in action, then became Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of Akron and the University of Dayton. During World War II he served as chief of staff of the Replacement and School Command of the Army ground forces until 1946, then as Post Commander at Yokohama, Japan, until 1947, and after retiring from the military he lived in California.