LOUIS O. SHILLING, secretary of The People's Building and Savings Association Company at Troy, Ohio, is a native of this city and son of the late David Shilling, one of Troy's leading citizens for many years.

David Shilling was born September 16, 1814, in Frederick County, Maryland, and when fourteen years of age went from there to Columbus, Ohio, where he lived until his marriage to Miss Mary Waite in 1836. Shortly after his marriage he moved to Troy, and formed a partnership in the foundry and plow business near the canal on West Main street with the Rev. Richard Brandriff, a Wesleyan Methodist minister. Afterwards the foundry was moved to the extreme end of the then West Main Street, and a partnership formed under the name of Shilling Brothers, and later in life David Shilling succeeded to the entire interest of the business. He was senior deacon. of the First Baptist Church of Troy, Ohio, for over forty years, and up to the time of his death, which occurred August 14, 1888. He was an active citizen and served a number of terms as a member of the City Council, his public spirit at all times being shown in the efforts to increase the city's utilities. It was during this period the millrace was walled and placed in a sanitary condition to afford a healthy drainage through the town.

Louis O. Shilling was born October 25, 1857. In early youth he attended the country school, then known as District No. 4, in the McClung neighborhood. At the age of fourteen he entered the grammar grades in the Troy schools, and about the same time unit ed with the First Baptist Church under the ministry of Rev. M. H. Worrell. While attending school he was employed at odd times in his father's foundry and machine shop. On leaving the high school be entered the law office of J. A. Davy, where he read law and engaged in the business of abstracting of land titles. He afterwards became associated in business with the law firm of Williams & Gantz, and with Hon. M. K. Gantz when the latter was elected Mayor of Troy, and afterward to the United States Congress.

During this time Mr. Shilling was engaged in literary pursuits, and acted as reporter and writer for several papers in other cities. In the year 1891 Mr. Shilling started a free circulating library at his home in the interest of his Sabbath-school class, which enterprise rapidly developed until many other boys of the town (some now grown to mature manhood) became welcomed beneficiaries to his library, which, at the present writing consists of over 3,000 volumes, and where the boys of the city are still welcome to go each Sunday afternoons and enjoy the treasures there freely given in reading and study. In the year 1892 Mr. Shilling entered the law office in business with Hon. George S. Long, who, at that time was the attorney for The People's Building and Savings Association Company of Troy, and in 1893 Mr. Shilling was elected the secretary of that institution, which at that time, had assets amounting to $66,000, with two hundred or three hundred members. This has expanded into the present capital of over $396,800 and the membership increased to over fifteen hundred people, while there is surplus of over $20,000. Mr. Shilling with the efficient members of the Board of Directors, has been untiring in his efforts to make this organization a model one as well as the largest fiduciary institution of its kind in the county.