A CENTENNIAL


BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY


OF


CHAMPAIGN COUNTY


OHIO


ILLUSTRATED


NEW YORK AND CHICAGO

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

1902




CHAMPAIGN COUNTY COURTHOUSE, URBANA, OHIO






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PREFACE


OUT of the depths of his mature wisdom Carlyle wrote, " History is the essence of innumerable biographies." Believing this to be the fact, there is no necessity of advancing any further reason for the compilation of such a work as this, if reliable history is to be the ultimate object.


Champaign County, Ohio, has sustained within its confines men who have been prominent in public affairs and great industrial enterprises for almost a century. The annals teem with the records of strong and noble manhood, and, as Sumner has said, "the true grandeur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual." The final causes which shape the fortunes of individuals and the destinies of States are often the same. They are usually remote and obscure, and their influence scarcely perceived until manifestly declared by results. That nation is the greatest which produces the greatest and most manly men and faithful women; nd the intrinsic safety of a community depends not so much upon methods as upon that normal development from the deep resources if which proceeds all that is precious and permanent in life. But such a result may not consciously be contemplated by the actors in the great social drama. Pursuing each his personal good by exalted means, they work out as a logical result.


The elements of success in life consist in both innate capacity and determination to excel. Where either is wanting, failure is almost


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certain in the outcome. The study of a successful life, therefore, serves both as a source of information and as a stimulus and encour agement to those who have the capacity. As an important lesson in this connection we may appropriately quote Longfellow, who said : " We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while we judge others by what they have already done." A faithful personal history is an illustration of the truth of this observation.


In this biographical history the editorial staff, as well as the publishers, have fully realized the magnitude of the task. In the collection of the material there has been a constant aim to discriminate carefully in regard to the selection of subjects. Those who have been prominent factors in the public, social and industrial development of the county have been given due recognition as far as it has been possible to secure the requisite data. Names worthy of perpetuation here, it is true, have in several instances been omitted, either on account of the apathy of those concerned or the inability of the compilers to secure the information necessary for a symmetrical sketch; but even more pains have been taken to secure accuracy than were promised in the prospectus. Works of this nature, therefore, are more reliable and complete than are the " standard " histories of a country.


THE PUBLISHERS.


INDEX.



Abbott, William J., 166

Anderson, James W., too

Anderson, John J., 205

Aughinbaugh, Barnet A., 197


Bailar. Mrs. Julia A., 141

Bailar, William F., 140

Baker, C. A., 355

Baker, Lyman E., 586

Banta, Edgar G., 177

Barger, Frederick N., 665

Barnett, Samuel, 569

Behney, Christopher, 518

Berry, Thomas C., 339

Berry, Thomas H., 336

Black. Charles B., 236

Black, Elias P., 402

Black, James W., 77

Black, John R., 525

Black, Peter, 302

Blose, James I., 416

Blose, 112

Brand. Frank W., 634

Brand, John F.. 637

Brand, Joseph C., 628

Brand, Thomas, 629

Brand, Thomas T., 631

Brand, Thomas T., Jr., 635

Brelsford, Charles, 143

Brittin, Lewis, 22

Butcher, John C., 559


Calland, William, 555

Chamberlin, Joseph, 51

Chance, Frank, 320

Cheetham, James K., 256

Cheney, E. Erwood, 342

Cheney, James H., 42

Clark, John H., 453

Clem, David. 156

Coffey, Joseph, 31

Colbert, Isaiah H., 596

Colwell, Calvin F., 17

Colwell, Peter E., 353

Cook, Harry, 623

Coulson, Joseph, 723

Cowgill, Samuel, 395

Cowgill, Thomas A., 182

Craig, Claude C., 154

Craig, Harrison, 170

Crain, James L., 422

Crane. Marcus H., 713

Crawford, Frank J., 15

Criffield, George W., 406

Crow, Horace M., 607

Crow, Thomas D., 306

Crowl, William, 486


Dagger, Charles, 553

Dagger, Jacob, 105

Daniels, Perry, 657

Davis, J. E., 291

Davis, John R., 546

Davis, Joseph W., 538

Deaton, Sherman S., 428

Dibble, Robert B., 719

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Dickinson, Martin M., 103

Diltz, Isaac N., 529


Eichelberger, George M., 327

Enoch, John, 466


Fairchild, Ora, 710

Fairchild, Simeon D., 698

Frank, David, 592

Fromme, Grant V., 537

Fulton, James W., 252

Funk, Aaron B., 460

Fyffe, Edward P., 11

Fyffe, Joseph, 12


Galligher, Michael, 344

Ganson, Charles H., 440

Gaumer, Edward B., 330

Gaumer, Thomas M., 90

Gehman, William M., 385

Goul, John, 149

Gowey, Hartland D., 548

Gross, August T., 231

Grove, Shepherd B., 234

Guthridge, Marion, 535

Guy, Charles W., 455

Guy, Edward A., 400


Hagenbuch, Edwin, 293

Halterman, Isaac, 86

Hance, John P., 258

Hanna, Elijah, 364

Happersett. Isaac B., 709

Marian, John, 134

Harris, Benjamin F., 282

Hedges, Emory, 66

Heiserman, Clarence B., 677

Henderson, Robert, 309

Hitt, John W., 715

Hitt, Samuel W., 349

Hodge, John H., 567

Hopkins, A. G., 418

Horr, Jacob, 118

Houser, Daniel C., 599

Hull, Benjamin F., 571

Hull, Daniel J., 347

Hunter, Calvin R., 152

Hunter, John M., 221

Hunter, Thomas E., 635

Hupp, George W., 717

Hyde, William F., 76


James, Daniel, 284

Jenkins, Oliver P., 551

Jennings, Absalom C., 46

Jennings, Edward, 59

Johnson, David J., 62

Johnson, James B., 317

Johnson, Nelson B., 124

Johnson, Silas, 495

Jones, Caleb, 431


Kenaga, John W., 408

Kenfield, David, 271

Kenton, Gabriel, 590

Kenton, Simon, 579

Kiser, G. R., 381

Kizer, Isaiah P., 19

Kizer, Jason, 674

Klapp, George S., 261

Knight, John P., 473


Lauppe, Charles, 497

Lee, James A., 449

Logan. John G., 420

Longfellow, Joseph E., 286

Loudenback, Abraham P., 366

Loudenback, Jonas, 684

Loudenback, Lewis C., 243

Loudenback, Washington, 533


Madden, Benjamin M., 94

Magrew, Hamilton, 208

Magruder, Vesalius S., 410

Marvin, Clitus H., 230

Marvin, William B., 231

Marvin, William H., 226

Mast, Joseph K., 379

McCarty, Enoch, 192

McCarty, Thomas, 122

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McClellan, Elwood S., 601

McClellan, Hiram, 605

McConnell, Thomas, 706

McCrea, George G., 652

McDonald, Duncan B., 576

Mcllvaine, James F., 445

McKinney, Miley, 574

McLaughlin, Clarence M., 478

McMorran, Jacob, 188

Middleton, A. H., 669

Middleton, Evan P., 323

Miller, Benjamin F., 110

Miller, Cyrus, 426

Moody, John R., 465

Moore, William, 530

Morgan, Maskell E., 437

Moses, Joseph S., 499

Mosgrove, Adam, 620

Mosgrove, James M., 276

Mosgrove, Samuel M., 372

Moulton, R. C., 661

Murphey, Roger H.. 266


Neer, Adam, 26

Neer, Fred, 362

Neer, John P., 500

Neer, Jonathan S., 694

Noble, Orville, 358

Norman, John C., 688


O'Brine, David, 696

Offenbacher, Charles A., 179

Organ, Charles F., 714

Owen, Thomas B., 563


Pangborn, William C., 296

Patrick, Frank B., 233

Patrick, Mrs. Maria, 164

Patrick, William, 240

Pearce, A. B., 383

Pearce, Henry C., 172

Pearce, Henry M., 176

Pence, Elijah, 72

Perry, D. S., 659

Pickering, George W., 300

Pickering, R. H., 676

Poland, George W., 721

Porterfield, Homer, 664

Powell, James D., 510

Printz, Franklin, 25


Rawlings, Thomas, 580

Ream, George, 523

Ring, William F., 340

Rock, William M., 223

Rouse, William, 557

Runyon, John H., 200

Russell, Joseph G., 703

Rutan, Daniel W., 136


Sanders, Robert, 374

Sarver, Jacob S., 92

Saxbe, Martin B., 681

Sceva, John C., 388

Scots, Asa N., 67

Seaton, John A., 447

Shanely, Christian, 640

Shanely, David, 649

Shanely, Isaac, 651

Shanley, Jacob, 644

Shanley, John, 647

Shockey, Abraham, 595

Shrigley, Winfield T., 68

Sibley, Warren D., 126

Slusser, Samuel, 55

Smith, Azro, 433

Smith, John N., 40

Snapp, Benjamin, 251

Snodgrass, Morton M., 368

Sowers, Samuel K., 33

Spain, James F., 520

Speece, William, 274

Stickley, Philip L., 392

Stone, Ferdinand F., 588

Stone, Samuel L. P., 480


Talbot, Marion, 399

Talbott, George A., 194

Taylor, Alfred F., 74

Taylor, Charles O., 132

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Taylor, Oliver, 129

Taylor, Simeon, 507

Thatcher, Jonathan, 96

Thomas, Ivan B., 81

Thomas, John H., 492

Thomas, Marion W., 614

Thomas, William, 488

Thompson, William, 101

Todd, David, 625

Todd, David W., 36

Todd, John E., 564

Todd, Thomas M., 627

Toomire, John W., 561

Tritt, Randolph, 396


Vance, Alexander F., 279

Vance, Alexander F., Jr., 246


Ward, William, 671

Warnock, William R., 263

Weaver, George A., 701

West, Mrs. Hester, 457

Whetsel, Fenton, 412

Whitmore, Simon W., 312

Williams, Milo G., 214

Williams, Richard Du Val, 603

Wilson, Andrews, 106

Wilson, Ebenezer, 686

Wilson, Willian. H., 692

Wilson, W. W., 609

Woodcock, Elijah T., 611


Yeisley, John W., 83

Young, John H.,


Ziegler, Augustus M., 116

Zimmer, Frank A., 672

Zirkle, Samuel, 667