850 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. SAMUEL J. ROBINSON. Samuel J. Robinson, a well-known blacksmith and manufacturer at Mechanicsburg, is a native of New York state, but has been a resident of Ohio since he was three or four years of age and of Champaign county since he was seven years of age, having come to this county with his parents from Cincinnati in 1861. He was born on September 16, 1854, son of James A. and Margaret (Sullivan) Robinson, the former of whom was a native of Ireland, born at Stewartstown,. County Armagh, in 1815, and who grew up there, becoming a stonemason, remaining in his native land until he was twenty-four years of age, when he came to this country and located in New York City. Not long after coming to America, James A. Robinson married, in New York, Margaret Sullivan, and after his marriage continued to make his home in that state until 1858. In that year he moved with his family to Cincinnati, where he remained until 1861. When he came to Champaign county, he settled on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Mechanicsburg, living there until his retirement from the farm and removal to Mechanicsburg, where, he bought a home and where he spent the remainder of his life, He was a Republican. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church, in which faith they reared their eight children, of whom six are still living, those besides the subject of this sketch being as follow : Mary J., wife of W. R. Taylor; Elizabeth A., wife of S. F. Snyder; Lucy .E., widow of Henry Waldron ; Ella, wife of Joseph Boler, and William, of Springfield, this state. As noted above, Samuel J. Robnson was but a small child when he came to Ohio with his parents from New York and was ,about seven years of age when the family moved from Cincinnati to Mechanicsburg. He grew to manhood at the latter place, receiving his early education in the local schools. When twenty years of age, he began to learn the trade of blacksmith in the shop of J. N. Shawl at Mechanicsburg, and was engaged in that shop for fourteen years, at the end of which time he bought the place from the proprietor. Later he sold that shop and then built the well-established place just at the edge of the corporation line which he since has been conducting and in the operation of which he has been quite successful. In addition to his general blacksmithing, Mr. Robinson does quite a business in the manufacture of combination racks. and is doing very well. Mr. Robinson is a Republican and takes a good citizen's interest in public affairs, but has not been a seeker after office. CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 851 On March 30, 1879; Samuel J. Robinson was united in marriage to Minnie Owen, who was born in Mechanicsburg. To this union five children have been born, namely: Cherry A., wife of Z. E. Rutan; Nellie, wife of J. W. Lanon; J. Bruce, who married Lulu Neer and is engaged in the blacksmithing business with his father; Effie E., wife of Clay Rutan, and Nancy B., who is at home with her parents. The Robinsons are members of the Methodist Protestant church. Mr. Robinson is a member of the local lodges of the Masons and the Odd Fellows, being past noble grand of the latter lodge, and he and his wife are members of the local lodge of the Daughters of Rebekah. AMASA T. CORBET Amasa T. Corbet, a farmer of Wayne township, was born on the old homestead near Brush Lake, Rush township, this county, July 4, 1849, a son of Amasa and Experience (Walburn) Corbet. The. father was born in the state of New York, but his parents brought him to Champaign county, Ohio, when he was a child, the family locating in the wilderness near Brush Lake, where they began life in true pioneer fashion and cleared and developed a farm. The father of the subject of this sketch had one brother, who died when eight years of age, and one sister, Julia, who married James Bay, of Bloomington, Illinois. John and Matilda Walburn, the maternal grandparents of the subject. of this sketch . were also pioneers of Goshen township, this county, spending the rest of their. lives on a farm there. They had three children, namely : Experience, mother of the subject of this sketch; a daughter, and John. Amasa Corbet, Sr., grew to manhood on the home farm in. Rush township. He received an. excellent education in the home schools, and he lived at home until his marriage. He devoted his life to general .farming in Rush township, dying there in September, 1861, at the age of fifty-eight. years. His wife also died at the age of fifty-eight, January 6, 1863. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church first, but later joined the Methodist Protestant church. Politically, he was. a Republican.' To these parents ten children were born, namely : David, who married Lorenda Stowe, located on a farm in Rush township and died there in May, 1892. John, who engaged in farming near North Lewisburg, this county, married Elizabeth Jordan ; Lewis, who first married Marinda Bonsel, and later 852 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. Rosanna Good and established his home on a farm in Rush township; Olive who married John Swisher, a farmer of Rush township; Martha, who married Oliver Colwell and who, as well as her husband, is deceased; Benjamin; who married Susan Swisher and farmed for some time in Champaign county. finally moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he died; William, a former farmer and teacher of Wayne township, Champaign county, who married Sarah Wilson, and who as well as his wife, is now deceased; Marion, who married Rebecca Wilson and is engaged ..in farming in Wayne township; Mary Eliza, who died when three years. of age, and Amasa T., the subject of this sketch. Amasa T. Corbet grew to manhood on the home farm and received his education in the public schools of his township and in Urbana. He remained on the home farm until the death of his parents, working on the farm during the crop seasons. He followed school teaching for a period of thirteen years, in Rush and Wayne townships, also in Cable and Middleton; giving eminent satisfaction to both pupils and patrons, ranking among the popular and efficient educators of the county during that period, and his services were in demand. On October 17, 1869, Amasa T. Corbet married Nancy J. Wilson, who was born in Wayne township, this county, July 1, 1841, a daughter of David K. and Elizabeth (Creamer) .Wilson, both natives of Clark county. Ohio. The Wilsons came to Champaign county about 1839, locating in Wayne township, where they developed a farm from the wilderness and spent the rest of their lives there. They were members of the Baptist church. To David K. Wilson and wife the following children were born: Sarah, who married William Corbet, of Wayne township; Rebecca, who married Marion Corbet, of Wayne township; Nancy J., who married the subject of this sketch; Laura Alice, who died when eleven years of age; Christine, who married A. W. Devore, of Wayne township; Margaret, widow of James Harris, of Wayne township; Nettie, who married, first, Homer Spain, and, secondly .James H. Beltz, and is living at North. Lewisburg, Ohio, and Emma, who married, first, Oliver T. Haines, and, secondly, Reuben P. Bruce, of Wayne township. After his marriage Amasa T. Corbet located on his present farm, kno as the John Hale place, in Wayne township, and here he has been successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising ever since. He owns one hundred and thirty acres improved and under a fine State of cultivation. He has an attractive home in the midst of beautiful surroundings. He raises fine sheep, Poiand China and Jersey Red hogs. CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 853 Mr. Corbet is a Republican and was justice of the peace for-nine years, discharging his duties in an able, faithful and highly acceptable manner. He has also served as school director and has long been active and influential in local public affairs. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Cable, of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at Mingo and of the Grange at Woodstock. He belongs to the Methodist Protestant Church. He is well and favorably known throughout the locality where he has spent his life. ALBERT CHENEY. Having been successful as a general farmer and stock raiser, Albert Cheney is now spending his declining years in the quiet of his cosy home in Mechanicsburg. He was born in Union township, this county, August 8, 1841, and here he has been content to spend his life, having lived to see many important changes "come over the face of the land" since he was a boy. He is a son of Jonathan and Rachael (Williams) Cheney, the latter a native of Maryland and the former of Vermont, they having removed to Champaign county single, with their respective parents, in their youth. The Williams family located in Goshen township, among the early settlers and the Cheney family in Union township. It was in that neighborhood that the parents of the subject of this sketch were married and established their home on the farm. Both the Williams and the Cheney families became well and favorably known in their respective communities. The older members of these families spent the rest of their lives in Goshen and Union townships. B. F. Cheney, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Vermont. Jonathan Cheney, mentioned above, devoted his active life to general farming in Onion township. His death occurred at the early age of forty-seven, but his widow survived to the age of seventy-three. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. To these parents ten children were born, namely : William, a soldier in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, becoming captain of his company, and who died a few years after the war ; John, also deceased; James Henry, who served in the war between the states in the same company and regiment with his brother William, and who also is now deceased; Albert, the subject of this sketch; Edwin D., deceased; Rachael 854 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. Ann, deceased; Emily, deceased; Jonathan M., deceased; Austin, who is living in Springfield, Ohio, and Minerva J., deceased. Albert Cheney received a common-school education and lived at home until he was twenty-four years old. In May, 1864, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which his brother William was captain. He was sent into Virginia and served under General Butler, seeing service on the James river and at Cumberland, Maryland. At the close of the war he was honorably discharged and returned home, operating the homestead in Union township for two years, then rented a farm a year, then bought a farm of forty-seven and one-half acres north of Mechanicsburg, on which he lived for six years, at the end of which time he sold out and bought one hundred and fifty-seven acres in Clarke county. After living there five years he bought ninety-three acres, apart of his father's old farm in Union township, Champaign county, where he continued farming with his usual success until 1.883, when he moved to Mechanicsburg and has since looked after his farm and the live-stock business. Mr. Cheney was married in Clark county, Ohio, to Ruhamah Bumgardner, who was born and reared in that county. Mr. Cheney is a stanch Republican. He belongs to the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Mechanicsburg. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church there, of which he has served as trustee, and has long been active in church work. He is well and favorably known throughout the county. JACOB W. BARGER The late Jacob W. Barger, for years a well-known and substantial farmer and stockman of Concord township and former township trustee, who died at his home in that township in the spring of 1912, and whose widow is now living at Urbana, was a native son of Champaign county, born in Concord township, and all his life was spent there. He was born on November 14, 1854, son of Mathew and Sarah Barger, the former of -whom was born in Virginia and the latter in this county, whose last days were spent in Concord township. Mathew Barger's mother died when he was but an infant and he was but two years of age when his father came from Virginia to Ohio and settled in Champaign county, becoming a pioneer farmer of Concord township. There Mathew Barger grew to manhood, became a farmer on his own account, married, established a comfortable home and CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 855 spent his last days. He and his wife were. the parents of three children, the subject of. this memorial sketch having had.. two sisters, Belle and Mary. Reared On the home farm in Concord township, Jacob W. Barger received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and early became a valued assistant to his father in the labors of developing and improving the home place. After his marriage he bought a farm of two hundred acres in Concord township and began farming on his own account. From the beginning of his operations he was successful and he later bought an adjoining forty, becoming one of the most substantial farmers in that neighborhood. In addition to his general farming, Mr. Barger gave considerable attention .to the raising of high-grade live stock and did very well, continuing actively engaged in his agricultural pursuits until his death on March 16, 1912; he then being in the fifty-eighth year of his Mr. Barger. took an active interest in the civic affairs.of his community and for one term served as trustee of his home township. Politically, he was an ardent Prohibitionist and an uncompromising foe. of the liquor traffic. He was a member of the Concord Methodist Episcopal church and had served. as class leader, steward, trustee and superintendent of the Sunday school; for many years one of the leaders in the local congregation. In 1887 Jacob W. Barger was united in marriage. to Mary Taylor, who was born in Concord township, this county, daughter of Archibald and Sarah (Hough) Taylor, the former of whom was born in Scotland and the latter in this county, a member of one of the pioneer families of Concord township. Archibald Taylor was but a boy when he came to this country from Scotland with his parents, Donald Taylor and wife, about 1822, the family settling in Champaign county. Not long afterward Donald Taylor moved down into Clark county with his family but presently returned to Champaign county and settled in Concord . township; where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1841. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, of whom Archibald was the third . in order of birth. Archibald Taylor grew up in this county, married here, established his home on a farm in Concord township and there spent the rest of his life, a substantial farmer. He and his wife were the parents of six children, of whom two are still living, Mrs. B.arger having a brother, Daniel H. Taylor, of Urbana.. To Jacob W. and Mary (Taylor) Barger were born three children, namely: Mabel. Who married John C. Baker and has three children, Margaret, Donald and Robert Charles, who married Clara Bodey, and Ruth, who married Arlie Brownfield and has one child, a daughter, Wanda. Since 856 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. the death of her husband Mrs. Barger has been making her home in Urbana. where she is very comfortably situated. She is a member of the Methodist church and has ever taken an interested part in church works, as well as in other local good works. WILLIAM INSTINE. For many years William Instine was actively engaged in general agricultural pursuits in Salem township, Champaign county, and, accumulating a competency, he has retired froth life's strenuous endeavors and is now making his home in the village of Kingston, Ohio. He was born in the above named township on February 23, 1859, a son of Henry and Malinda Instine, both also natives of Champaign county, Where they grew up, attending school and were married, after which they established their permanent home on a farm in Salem township. As a young man the father, worked as a laborer, helping clear land, and also helped build the old Instine "Tavern, which long stood on the state road in Salem township. He burned most of the brick that went into that building: After his marriage he followed farming exclusively for himself, but at the same time conducted the tavern, after his father's death, which occurred in 1854. His father was Michael Instine, a native of Pennsylvania, from which state he came to Champaign county, in an early day, and it was he who started, the Instine Tavern, a well-known hostelry in pioneer times. He also bought and sold live stock, frequently driving droves of hogs to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Henry Instine, father of the. subject of this sketch, was born on February 12, 1824, and died on September 1, 1902. His wife was born on May 19, 1821, and died on August 1893. They were the parents of nine children, seven of whom, Samuel, Joseph, Henry, William, Mary, Catherine and. Malinda,. are still living. Caroline and Elnora are deceased. William Instine grew up on the home place and attended the common schools. He remained at home, continuing to work with his father at general farming until the latter's death, when he bought one hundred and seventy-five acres, which he operated five years, then moved to Kingston and retired. In connection with general farming he carried on stock raising, feeding about one hundred head of hogs annually for the market. He was married in 1887 to Anna. E. Moyer, a daughter of Jacob and Catherine Moyer. She was a native of Snyder county, Pennsylvania, where alsooccurred the birth of her parents, who were married there. Jacob Mover CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 857 was born in 1833. .He was a son of Daniel and Leah Moyer, also of Snyder. county, Pennsylvania, where they spent their last days. Jacob Moyer received his education in the schools of his native county, after which he began teaching, following that profession in the public schools of his native county for six years, and meanwhile serving as justice of the peace. He came to Champaign county in 1881 and engaged in farming until his death in 1884. He was a Democrat and a Member of the Lutheran church. His family consisted of the following children : Anna E., Leah Catherine, Margaret, Martin L., John D., Ida, Mae, Effie and Norah. Mr. and Mrs. William Instine have three children, namely : Ruth, who married Robert Duncan; Jeanette, who married Rush Harvey and lives at King's Creek, and John, who married Florence Yates and has One son, William Joseph, who lives with his grandparents, our subject and wife. SIMEON L. RUSSELL. The older residents of the Mingo neighborhood in the northern part of this county have not forgotten Simeon L. Russell, who in the latter sixties.. was a merchant at Mingo and for some years afterward a farmer in that community, who later moved to Cleveland, where he died in the summer of 1878. His widow, who is still living, for years a resident of North Lewisburg, this county, is a native of this part of the state; and retains very vivid recollections of the earlier days in this section. Simeon L. Russell was born in Belmont county, over in the eastern part of Ohio, August 15, 1841, son of Wesley and Edith Russell, both of whom. were born in that same county and both of Virginian parentage, their respective parents having been early settlers of that county, moving over there from Virginia in pioneer days. Wesley Russell was a substantial farmer and he and his wife were the parents of thirteen children, eleven of whom grew to maturity and four of whom are still living, namely : Luther, who is living near Mingo, this county; Everett, of Iola, Kansas; Jeremiah, who continues to live in Belmont county, Ohio, and Nora, of Iola, Kansas. Reared on the home farm in Belmont county, Simeon L. Russell received his schooling in the common schools of his home county and was living there when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted for service in 1862, in behalf of the Union, and went to the front as a member of Company B, 858 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the army of General Grant, and with that command served until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service, in 1865, Mr. Russell came over into this part of the state and located at Mingo, in this county, where he engaged in the mercantile business. Two years later, in 1867, he married and after being engaged in merchandising for three years rented a farm in the Mingo neighborhood and was there engaged in farming for five years, at the end of which time he moved up to Cleveland and in that vicinity became actively engaged in cultivating a vineyard and was thus engaged until his death on July 26, 1878, he then lacking less than a month of being thirty-seven years of age. Though reared a Quaker, Mr. Russell died in the faith of the Methodist church. On October 8, 1867, Simeon L. Russell was united in marriage to Anna M. Hunter, who was born in the Mingo valley on September 27, 1842, a daughter of Thomas and Nancy ( Johnson) Hunter, the former of whom was born in Greenbriar county, Virginia, and the latter in Guernsey county, this state, who were among the most useful and influential residents of the Mingo neighborhood at that time. Thomas Hunter was but a boy when his parents, Nathaniel and Ann Hunter, natives of Scotland, came from Virginia to Ohio in 1820 and settled in Logan county; where they established their home and where they spent the remainder of their lives, Nathaniel Hunter becoming a substantial farmer. He and his wife reared their children in the faith of the Methodist church. There were six of these children, Alexander, Jane, Thomas, John, Elizabeth and Samuel. Thomas Hunter grew up in the Mingo valley and from the days of his boyhood gave much attention to educational affairs. He became a prosperous farmer and was one of the founders of Delaware College, to the funds of which he was a liberal contributor. He was an earnest Methodist and gave liberally to the establishment of churches, both for white and colored worshipers, and was for years one of the leaders of the Methodist church at Mingo. He was one of the first four persons to vote the Abolition ticket in this section of the state and during ante-bellum days was an acknowledged leader of the Abolition forces throughout this part of the state, ever helpful in the cause of the freedmen. Thomas Hunter was twice married. His first wife, Mary Evans, died eight years after marriage, leaving two children, both of whom are now deceased. In 1840 he married, secondly, Nancy Johnson, who was born in Guernsey county, this state, daughter of James and Margaret Johnson, natives CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 859 of that same county, who later became early settlers and substantial farmers of the Mingo neighborhood in this county. James Johnson and wife were the parents of five children, Nancy, Elizabeth, Margaret, William and Isaac. To Thomas and Nancy ( Johnson) Hunter seven children were born, of whom Mrs. Russell was the second in order of birth, the others being as follow : Margaret, deceased; Sarah E., wife of Col. M. L. Dempsey, of Cleveland, Ohio; Frances, now deceased, who was the wife of Leroy Wright, of Vermont; Thomas, former representative in the Legislature from this district, who married Emma Robinson, of Marion, this state, and is now living the life of a retired farmer ; Hale, a former well-known lawyer at Urbana, who is now practicing his profession at Cleveland, and Agnes, now deceased, who was the wife of Marion Guthridge, a well-known merchant at Mingo. To Simeon L. and Anna M. (Hunter) Russell were born three sons, Harry C., Frank G. and Kirk L., all of whom are living. Harry C. Russell, formerly a farmer in the Mingo neighborhood, is now keeping hotel at Mingo. He married May McCartney, of Mingo, and he and his wife take an active part in the general affairs of that pleasant village. Frank G. Russell married Myrtle Sprinkle, of Huntington, Indiana, and for the past eleven years has been engaged as traffic manager for the International Harvester Company, with headquarters at Akron, this state, where he and his wife make their home. Kirk L. Russell, who married Leola Gilliland, is now living at Washington D. C., where he has been connected with the postoffice department for the past nine or ten years. He formerly was a telegraph operator at Mingo and was afterward for some time an operator in the United States naval service. Mrs. Russell returned to her old home at Mingo not long after her husband's death and has ever since made her home in this county, now a resident of North Lewisburg. She has been a member of the Methodist church since she was sixteen years of age and has ever taken an interested part in church work, as well as in the general good works and the various social and cultural activities of her home community. She was educated at Delaware College and for ten years before her marriage and for several years afterward taught school in her home neighborhood, many of the then youngsters of that community having cause to hold her in grateful remembrance. Mrs. Russell's recollections of former days in the Mingo valley are clear and distinct and there are few thereabout who have a more accurate knowledge of the history of that region since the days of the middle of the past century than she. 860 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. THOMAS McCARTY. Thomas McCarty, well-known farmer of Wayne township, was born near Brush Lake, Rush township, this county, September. 5, 1849,. and he contented has been contented to spend his life in his home county. He is a son of James and Sarah Ann (Leese). McCarty, both natives of Virginia. The father came to Champaign county with his parents, Stephen and Deborah McCarty, when he was young, the family locating in Rush township, among the early settlers. Stephen McCarty developed a good farm from the wilderness near Brush Lake, first building a log cabin, and he and his family endured the usual hardships and privations incident to life on the frontier. Here he and his wife spent the rest of their lives. They were parents of six children, James, Elizabeth, John, Daniel, Enoch and Thomas. The maternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch were William and Susan (Hudson) . Leese, both natives of Virginia from which state they immigrated to Ohio an early day, settling in Rush township, Champaign county, where they cleared a farm and made a home by hard work and perseverance. They were parents of four children, Jacob, Thomas, Sarah Ann and a daughter who died in early life. James McCarty, father of the subject of this review, grew to manhood on the home farm, where he worked hard, as .did all sons of pioneers. He received a meager education, attending school in the old log school house in his community. He lived at home until his marriage, then located on a farm in Wayne township, where his son Thomas, the subject of this sketch, now resides. He moved to this place in 1853. He later went to Auglaize county, Ohio, where he bought a farm on which he resided for a period of sixteen years, then returned to this county, locating on a farm near Cable, in Wayne township, where he spent the rest of his life. His first wife died in Auglaize county while living there, and he subsequently married Nancy Johnson, a native of Champaign county. The following children were born by his first wife : Elizabeth, now deceased, who married A. Stratton; Thomas, the subject of this sketch; John, who died when eight years of age, and Deborah, the widow. of Abner Stansley, of Mechanicsburg. Five children were born by the second marriage, two of whom died in early life, the other three being George, who lives in Bellefontaine, William and Augusta (deceased). Thomas McCarty was reared to manhood on the home farm, where he worked when he became of proper age. He attended school in the old log CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 861 school house in his district, which was equipped with the usual puncheon seats and greased paper for window panes. He continued to live at home until he was twenty-one years old. He has been twice married, first, to Mrs. Martha (Kimball) Chatfield, of Rush township, this county. Her death occurred in 1908. She had two children, Eva, the wife of Lyman Wheeler, of Columbus, Ohio, and Susie, who died in early life. Mr. McCarty was married a second time, on January 17, 1908, to Anna Uncles, of Columbus, this state, a daughter of John H. and Susan A. (Harvey) Uncles, both now deceased. Mr. .Uncles was a mechanic by trade and a fine workman. Mr. McCarty's second marriage has been without issue. After his first marriage Mr. McCarty, in 1891, located on his present farm in Wayne township, known as the Lambern place, consisting of fifty acres, on which he has made a very comfortable living. Politically, he is a Republican. He belongs to the Methodist Protestant church at Jenkins Chapel. JAMES L. SWISHER. The late James L. Swisher, who died at his home in Union township in 1888 and whose widow is still living there, was born in that township and had lived in Champaign county all his life, with the exception of seventeen years spent farming in the neighboring county of Logan. He was born on June 9, 1833, son of John H. and Lucinda (Lowry) Swisher, the former of whom was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and the latter in this county. John H. Swisher came to Champaign county as a young man and was here married about the year 1831. He established his home on a farm and was getting a good start toward the creation of a good farming property when he died in 1838. He and his wife were the parents of three children, of whom James L. was the first-born, the others being Joseph and Eliza J. Reared on a farm in Union township, James L. Swisher received his schooling in the district schools in the neighborhood of his home and early became a practical farmer. After his marriage in the spring of 1861 he became engaged in farming on his own account, renting a farm in this county, but two years later moved to Logan county and for seventeen years thereafter was engaged in farming in that county. He then returned to Champaign county and located on a farm in Union township, later moving to 862 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. what then was known as the Perry farm on the Ludlow Pike; and there he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on February 21, 1888, he then being in the fifty-fifth year of his age. On April 9, 1861, James L. Swisher was united in marriage to Nancy McCulloch, who was born in the neighboring county of Logan, a daughter of George A. and Sophia (Mason) McCullough, both of whom were born in that same county and who spent all their lives there. George A. McCulloch was born on a pioneer farm on the Big Darby, near Zanesfield, and became a successful farmer and extensive stockman. He and his wife were the parents of eleven children, of whom Mrs. Swisher was the first-born, the others being Samuel C., Catherine, John, George, Benjamin, Sidney, Solomon, Mary, Minerva and William. To James L. and Nancy (McCulloch) Swisher eight children were born, six of whom are still living, namely : Clara, who married W. G. J. Clark and had one child, a daughter, Nancy Virginia ; John H., who married Myrtle B. Snyder; George L., who married Emma Capsidal and has one child, a daughter, Ethel; Perry, who married Eva Keef and has three children, Frank K., Hugh and Angus M.; William, who married Ella Snyder and has three, children, Marjorie, Ruth and Lois, and Eliza Jane, who married William Thomas and has one child, a son, John Willis. Perry Swisher, the fourth child in order of birth of the. children born to James L. Swisher and wife, was born in Logan county on November 29, 1868, and was but a boy when his parents returned to this county and established their home in Union township. He completed his schooling in the schools of that township and early took up farming as a, vocation. When twenty-five years of age he began farming on his own account and in 1903 bought the place on which he is now living, his widowed mother making her home with. him and his family, and has ever since made that his place of residence, he and his family being very comfortably situated. Mr. Swisher has a fine farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres, all of which is under cultivation save about twenty-five acres. of woodland, and he has an excellent farm plant, his operations being carried on in accordance with up-to-date . methods. He has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock and is doing well. He makes a specialty of Duroc-Jerscv hogs, having about a hundred head a year, and also raises excellent Red Polled cattle and Percheron horses. Mr. Swisher is a member of the Union Township Grange and has for years, taken an active part in the affairs of that organization and in all movements having to do with the advancement CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 863 of the county's agricultural interests, having served for some time as a member of the county fair board. He is a Democrat and has rendered public service as a member of the school board. Mrs. Swisher is a member of the Union Methodist Episcopal church. ALBERT KINSMAN MOODY. The late Albert Kinsman Moody, who died at his home in Union township, this county, February, 1905, was born in New Hampshire, but had been a resident of this county from the time he was fourteen years of age. He was born on December 6, 1828, son of John and Betsy. Moody, both natives of New Hampshire, who left their home in that state with their family in 1842 and drove through by ox-team to Ohio, settling in Champaign county, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Upon coming to this county, John Moody bought a considerable tract of land in Union township, where Don C. Moody now lives, and became a substantial and influential resident of that part of the county, one of the men who helped make that township one of the banner townships of the county. He and his wife were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this memorial sketch was the first-born, the others being Orin, Moses, Nancy and Eliza, and elsewhere in this volume there are found further references to this well-known family in Champaign county. As noted above, Albert K. Moody was about fourteen years of age when he came to Champaign county with his parents and he completed his schooling in the schools of this county. From the days of his boyhood he was a valued assistant to his father in the labors of developing and improving the home place in Union township and in due time bought one hundred and seventy acres of the home tract and became an extensive farmer on his own account, later increasing his holdings to two hundred and forty acres. He also dealt extensively in land and made a specialty of raising high-grade Jive stock, doing much to promote the introduction of better strains in the herds of this county. On that well-established farm in Union township Albert K. Moody spent his last days, his death occurring there on. February 18, 1905. He was a Democrat. Mr. Moody was twice married, and by his first wife, who was Jennie Groves, was the father of four children, William, of Springfield, Ohio; Frank, of Hamilton, Ohio; Betty, dead, and Harry, dead. Following the 864 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. death of the mother of these children, Mr. Moody married Margaret (Hendricks) Alexander, widow of Robert Alexander, and to that union were born four children, namely : Don C. Moody, a well-known farmer and former member of the school board of Union township, who married Alice Rupert and has three children, Eletha, Lloyd and Hazel; Arthur Moody, also a farmer in Union township, who is unmarried and makes his home with his brother, Don; Albert, a Mechanicsburg farmer and stock buyer, who married Florence Woodward and. has three children, Eva, Christina and James ; Mary, wife of James Mumma, of Clark county. To Mr. and Mrs. Mumma four children have been born,. Harold, Nancy, Margaret and Roland, all of whom are living save Roland. Don C. Moody is successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising and is one of the substantial residents of Union township. He is a Democrat, but has never. aspired to public office. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Mechanicsburg and of the Junior Order of. United American Mechanics at Mutual. ELIAS P. BLACK. One of the best remembered citizens of Champaign county of a past generation, whose name is deserving of perpetuation on the pages of local history, was the late Elias P. Black, of Rush township. He was born in the above-named township, September 3, 1839, a son of Peter Black, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1786. When he was four years of age, Peter Black's parents,: Samuel and Sarah Black, came with their family to this section of Ohio, making the overland trip by ox-team, and settled on a tract of land in what later came to be organized as Rush township, in this county, where Peter Black grew to manhood amid pioneer conditions, the family being one of the first in this part of Ohio, this being still an Indian country at that period. Here he married Marie Ann Hilliard, a native of Vermont, from which state she came to Champaign county with her parents when young. After his marriage Peter Black and wife began farming in Rush township, in partnership. with a neighbor. They had but one team between them, this "team" consisting of a bull and a horse, which they worked for two years. His partner, Mr. Coon, then moved to Union county, locating near Byhalia, and there they engaged in making maple sugar which he hauled to Cincinnati, using the proceeds from the sale of the sugar to pay for his farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He was a partner with CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 865 Samuel Harris and Mr. Coon. After paying for his farm he bought another tract of wild land, containing one hundred acres, which he paid for by making and selling "black salts", which was made from the ash of the timber which he cut from his land. Later he purchased fifty acres more land. He finally went to Kansas and bought seventeen hundred and sixty acres on the Osage river, in Anderson county, which tract was later owned by Judge F. M. Black, of Kansas City, Missouri. His death occurred at the age of seventy-three years. His wife died at the age of seventy-five. They were parents of seven children, five of whom grew to maturity, namely : Mrs. Lydia A. Archer, Judge Francis F., Delilah, Harriet H. and Elias P. of this memoir. Judge Francis M. Black became a prominent attorney in Kansas City, where he was a judge for eight years. He married Susan Geiger, of Dayton, Ohio, and four children were born to them Helen (deceased), Susan, Francis and Arthur. Elias P. Black was the sixth child born to his parents. He was reared on the home farm and attended the common schools, then conducted in a log house, and later was a student at the Urbana high school and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, but owing to his father's failing health he left school before graduation and returned home. After his father's' death he took charge of the estate and remained with his mother until her death in 1885. He carried on general farming successfully and added dairying. At one time he had one hundred head of registered Jersey cows. He was the first man in his township to feed ensilage to cattle. He was a stockholder in the Woodstock Bank and was for some time president of the same. He was one of the most progressive men of affairs in his township. Politically, Mr. Black was a Democrat. He served as trustee of Rush township for a number of years and also was judge of elections at various times. He was active and influential in public affairs in Rush township. In 1872 Elias P. Black married Leah R. White, who was born in Delaware county, Ohio. She is a daughter of Samuel and Rosannah (DeVore) White, both natives of Washington county, Pennsylvania. The Whites were early settlers in Delaware county, Ohio, where Mr. White built a log cabin, cleared and developed a farm by hard work, and there he and his wife spent the rest of their lives, engaged in general farming. They were parents of six children, namely : Mary, who married Henry Fegley, of Delaware county; Catherine, now deceased, who was the wife of John McWilliams, of Independence, Iowa; Sylvanus W., who lives at Charlottesville, Virginia ; Leah R., who married Mr. Black, the subject of this sketch; Jacob D., who (55a) 866 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. married Josephine Hurd and lives at North Lewisburg, and William Wesley, who lives on the old home place in Delaware county. He first married a Miss Knapp, later Emma Wheeler. The death of Elias P. Black occurred on July 12, 1912, he then being nearly seventy-three years of age. Mrs. Black is a taxidermist of considerable note, and was formerly an excellent shot with a rifle and shotgun. She has written several songs and composed music. She has written a great deal of poetry. She is a woman of diversity of talents, well read ; not only along current lines, but is acquainted with the world's best literature and science. She is well preserved in body and mind and her friends are numbered only by the limits of her acquaintance. THOMAS THOMPSON. Thomas Thompson, of Mechanicsburg, one of Champaign county's honored veterans of the Civil War and who is the bearer of a Medal of, Honor voted to him by the Congress for conspicuous service to the Union rendered on the field of battle, is a native son of this. county and has lived here all his life with the exception of the time spent in the service of his country during the sixties. He was born on a farm in Wayne township on May 27, 1839, son of Abraham and Susan (Middleton) Thompson, the former a native of this state and the latter of Kentucky, whose last days. were spent in Wayne township, this county. Abraham Thompson grew to manhood in Brown county, this state, the county of his birth and was there married to Susan Middleton, who had moved with her parents from Kentucky to that county. Some time after their marriage he and his wife came to this county and settled on a farm in Wayne township, where they became useful and influential pioneers and prominent in the work of the Christian (Campbellite) church. Both died in that township. Abraham Thompson is buried in the Roher cemetery and his wife is buried in .the cemetery at Jenkins Chapel. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the seventh in order of birth, the others being as follow : John, Margaret, James, Lettie, Winifred and Tallitha, all now deceased, and William, who is living at Cable, this county ; Edward, living near Mingo; Susan, who lives at Lima, in. Allen .county ; George, deceased, and Abraham, of Wayne township. Reared on the home farm in Wayne township. Thomas Thompson received CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 867 his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and remained at home until he was eighteen years of age, when, in 1857, he went to London, in the neighboring county of Madison, where he learned the trade of plasterer, and was there engaged in working at that trade when the Civil War broke out. Responding. to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers to aid. in the suppression of the rebellion of the Southern states, Mr. Thompson enlisted on April 15, 1861, as a private in Company C, Eagle Guards, and with that gallant command was sent into Virginia. That enlistment was for the three-months service and upon the completion of that term of service Mr. Thompson returned home and at Urbana re-enlisted as a private in Company A, Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was again sent to Virginia. With the gallant Sixty-sixth Ohio Mr. Thompson served until the close of the war, participating in all the battles and campaigns in which his regiment took part, and thus, experienced service in some of the most important engagements of the war. Not long after going to the front he was promoted to corporal, later to sergeant, and on July 13, 1865, two days before his final discharge, the war then being ended, was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant, with which rank he was mustered out on July 15, 1865. At the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2, 1863, Mr. Thompson was one of four volunteers who brought in a number of wounded Confederate soldiers under fire. From these prisoners valuable information was obtained and in recognition of that conspicuous service in behalf of the Union the Congress voted to Mr. Thompson on July II, 1892, the nation's Medal of Honor, a distinction which the brave old soldier prizes beyond the power of words to express. Mr. Thompson served with his command in defense of the upper Potomac and was later on duty for a while in New York City quelling the draft riots. His regiment was in the thickest of'the fray in some of the most important engagements of the war and he thus participated in the battles of Port Republic, Middleton, Cedar Mountain, Kettle Run, Antietam, Charleston, Dumphries, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Kelly's Ford, Duck River Bridge, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Pea Vine Creek, Ringold, on the expedition down the Tennessee river to Gunnstonville, the Atlanta campaign, including the engagements at Rocky Ford Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Pumpkinvine Creek, New Hope Church, Burnt. Hickory, Kenesaw Mountain, Pine Mountain, Pine Knob, Kulp's Farm, Marietta, Chattahoochie River, Pearl Tree Creek and the siege of. Atlanta. He was wounded in the left side at the battle of Chancellorsville, was hit in the left thigh by a fragment of a shell at the battle of Gettysburg, was 868 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. hit in the left knee at the battle of Peach Tree Creek and during the close of the Atlanta campaign was bit by a scorpion and was compelled to lie for some time in a hospital at Atlanta in consequence. During the servic Mr. Thompson contracted rheumatism, which has left him badly crippled in his old age. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Thompson returned home and for thirty years thereafter was engaged at his trade as plasterer, but of late years has not been able to perform active labors and has been living retired. In 1905 he and his wife moved to Mechanicsburg where they are now living and where they are very pleasantly situated. Mrs. Thompson is the owner of a fine farm of one hundred acres in Goshen township and another farm of seventy acres in the neighborhood of Mutual. Thomas Thompson has been 'twice married. His first wife, who was Martha L. Suver, of London, this state, died in 1875, without issue, and in September, 1877, Mr. Thompson married Sarah U. Fudger, who was born in Goshen township, this county, daughter of Peter and Sophia ( Perry) Fudger, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Franklin county, this state. Peter Fudger was but a child when his parents moved from New Hampshire to Ohio and settled on a farm in Goshen township, this county, about two and one-half miles northeast of Mechanicsburg, where he grew to manhood and where he became a substantial and influential farmer in turn. Peter Fudger was twice married and by his first wife, Esthe Davis, was the father of three children, Edward, Minerva and Leroy. By his second wife, Sophia Perry, he also was the father of three children, those besides Mrs. Thompson being Alanson, a well-known farmer and former member of the board of county commissioners of Champaign county who died in July, 1914, and Horace M. Fudger, who is farming the of Fudger farm in Goshen township. To Thomas and Sarah M. (Fudger) Thompson three children have been born, Sophia, who died at the age of six years ; Frederick Earl, a Goshen township farmer, who married Mattie Tway and has) four children, Sarah L., Earl, Pearl. and Martha, and Naomi, who married Fay Anderson and is' living at Springfield. Mr. Thompson is a member of the Methodis Episcopal church and Mrs. Thompson is a member of the Methodist Protestant church. Mr. Thompson is an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic and has for years taken an earnest interest in the affairs of that patriotic organization. He is a Mason and a member of the loca lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in the affairs of thes organizations also takes a warm interest. CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 869 WILLIAM R. SHAUL. William R. Shaul, a well-known retired merchant of Cable, this county, an honored veteran of the Civil War and one of the oldest citizens of Champaign county, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm about twelve miles west of Springfield, in Clark county, February 27, 1836, son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (McMillan) Shaul, both of whom also were born in this state, the former in Clark county and the latter in Trumbull county, who later became residents of Champaign county and here spent their last days. Jeremiah Shaul Was a son of Mathew Shaul, a Virginian and one of the pioneers of Clark county, this state, who became a substantial farmer in that county and a man of local influence in the early days. Mathew Shaul was twice married, his children by his first marriage having been Solomon, Cyrus, Amos, Jeremiah and Lemuel, and by his second marriage, William, Emma, Amanda and Rosanna. Jeremiah Shaul displayed unusual proficiency in his studies in his youth and became a school teacher, teaching school during the winters and farming during the summers. While living in Clark county, where he was reared, he married Elizabeth McMillan, daughter of one of the pioneer families of that section, and after his marriage continued to make his home there .until 1849, when he came up into Champaign county with his family and settled on a farm in Wayne township, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in 1885, he then being seventy-six years of age. His wife has preceded him to the grave about six years, her death having occurred in 1879. They were the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being as follow : John M., for years a merchant at Urbana, who died in 1894; Joseph, a veteran of the Civil War and a farmer in Wayne township, this county, who died in 1869; Minerva, who married Eli Smith, of Clark county, this state, and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased ; Mary Jane, who married Joseph Coe, of Wayne township, and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased, and Lucinda, who married John Nitchman and died in Kansas. William R. Shaul was about thirteen years of age when his parents moved up from Clark county into Champaign county and he grew to manhood on the home farm in Wayne township, completing his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood, and remained at home until he was twenty-one years of age, when he began farming on his own account, and was living 870 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. in that township when the Civil War broke out. In July, 1862, at Cable, he enlisted for service in the Union army as a member of Company E, Ninety-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, joined his regiment at Camp Chase and with that command went South, shortly afterward participating with that command in the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, in which engagement nearly the whole of the Ninety-fifth Ohio was captured or scattered, Mr. Shaul being among those captured by the enemy. He was not exchanged until 1863, and he then, after a furlough of three months, rejoined his regiment, which meantime had been recruited up to fighting strength, at Memphis; later being sent to Grand Gulf, Louisiana, and was with Grant at the battle of Jackson, May 14, 1863, and later at the siege of Vicksburg. At the later battle of Guntown, Mississippi, Mr. Shaul again was captured by the enemy and was confined in Andersonville Prison, where he was compelled to remain for nine months and twenty days, or until March 28, 1865, when he was sent to the rear of Vicksburg, still as a prisoner, and after four weeks in camp there was put on board the ill-fated steamer "Sultana," which blew up in the Mississippi on April 27, 1865, with a loss of more than seventeen hundred lives. When the explosion occurred Mr. Shaul was fortunate in being able to lay his hands on a detached cabin shutter and with this support was able to make his way to the Tennessee shore, where he presently was picked up by the relief boat "Silver Spray" and with other survivors of that dreadful disaster was safely landed at Memphis, which place he left on April 29 and on the steamer "Belle of St. Louis" was transported to Cairo, Illinois, whence, by way of the Illinois Central railroad, he was transported to Mattoon, Illinois, and thence to Indianapolis and from the latter city to Columbus, the capital of his home state, where he arrived on May 6, 1865, and. where he received his final discharge from the army on May 20, the war then being over. Upon the completion of his military service, William R. Shaul returne home and resumed the pursuits of peace, engaging in farming for some time thereafter ; but he presently gave up the farm and moved to Cable, whe he engaged in the mercantile business and where he remained thus engag for thirty years, or until his retirement from business in 1906, since whic time he has continued to make his home at Cable, living there in quiet retir rent. Mr. Shaul was quite successful in business and was also formed the owner of two excellent farms in this county. One of these farms he sol but is still the owner of the other, a well-improved place of one hundr and thirty-one and one-half acres in Wayne township. Though he now well past eighty years of age, Mr. Shaul retains much of his old-time vig CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 871 and continues to take an active interest in current affairs. He is a great reader, is blessed with a clear recollection of the past events of his long and busy life and keeps well posted on passing events. He formerly was a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Urbana and for years took an active interest in the affairs of that patriotic organization, but of late years has not felt the physical inclination to keep up with some of his former forms of activity. In November, 1862, William R. Shaul was united in marriage to Anna McMahill, daughter of James McMahill, of Cable, a farmer and carpenter, of that place, and to that union were born four children, namely : William, James Monroe, Jennie and Frank T., all of whom are still living. The mother of these children died on February 12, 1882. William Shaul is now living in the West, where he has been for years. James M. Shaul, postmaster at Cable, has also for years been engaged as a teacher in the public schools of that place. Jennie Shaul, who also is living at Cable, has been twice married, her first husband, George J. Brown, having died, after which she married Benjamin Madden, a farmer of Cable. Frank T. Shaul, now a resident of Latonia, Kentucky, is engaged in the railway postal service, his run being between Cincinnati and Indianapolis. MICHAEL DORSEY. Michael Dorsey, farmer of Union township, Champaign county, was born in County Wexford, Ireland, December 15, 185o. He is a son of John and Mary (Dawson) Dorsey, both natives of Ireland, where they grew up, married and established their home; in fact, spent their lives in their native land. To these parents three children were born, Michael, Patrick and Sarah. The subject of this sketch was the only member of the family to come to America. Michael Dorsey grew to manhood in Ireland and there attended the common schools. When a young man he located in the city of Dublin, where he drove a delivery wagon for about seven years. He immigrated to the United States in 1871, locating at Morristown, New Jersey, reaching there on May 11th of that year. After working as a farm hand in that vicinity about a year he went to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he found employment in one of the large iron works there, remaining in that work for three years; then went to Buffalo, New York, where he resided two years, and 872 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. from there to Youngstown, Ohio, where he followed his trade in the iron works three years. Upon leaving that city he came to Champaign county and turned his attention to farming in Union township, working out as a farm hand the first five years. He then rented a farm near Lippincott and carried on farming as a renter for eleven years. He then moved to Union township and rented the farm he is now living on for five years, then bought it. The place. consisted of one hundred and thirty acres, which he later added to until he now has a fine farm of two hundred and thirty acres, which he haS brought up to high state of improvement and. cultivation and has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser. Since 1914 he has been living practically retired from active life. Mr. Dorsey was married in 1884 to Mary Lawless, a daughter of Michael and Margaret Lawless. To their union nine children have been born, Anna, Sarah, Joseph, Mary, John, Ellen, Catherine, William and Edward. Only two of these children are married. Mary is the wife of Mahlem Fudger. Joseph married Margaret Gardner and they have two children, Margaret and Ruth. John Dorsey volunteered for service in the national army in May, 1917, and was under instruction in. the officers training camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, in Indiana. Politically, Mr. Dorsey is a Democrat, but he has never been active in public affairs. He and his family belong to the Catholic church. CLYDE H. HOOLEY. The present able and popular representative in the Legislature of Ohio from Champaign county, Clyde H. Hooley, whose chief life work has been in connection with agriculture, is deserving of special mention in a work of the nature of the one in hand, partly because of his public spirit and popularity as a citizen and partly because of his excellent personal reputation. He was born on November 24, 1887, in Salem township and here, by his own efforts, he has forged to the front while still a young man. He is a son of Jonas and Elizabeth (Riehl) Hooley, the mother a native of Union county, Pennsylvania. Jonas Hooley was born in the same locality as was his son Clyde, and here he grew to manhood, received his education in the common schools of his native township and began life for himself as a farmer, remaining on the home place until his marriage, when he bought the homestead of one hundred and thirty acres, later increasing his holdings to two hundred acres. He is, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 873 still successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising, making a specialty of breeding Percheron horses: He is a son of Jacob and Martha Hooley, who came to Champaign county in an early day from Mifflin county, Pennsylvania locating in Salem township, on land which now constitutes the farm of their son. It was in the year 1847 that Jacob Hooley established his home here and here he resided until his death in 1898. His wife died in 1897. They were parents of seven children, Jonas being the sixth in order of birth. To Jonas Hooley and wife six children were born, namely: Clarence, Clyde, Carrie, Clayton, Chester and Bessie. Clyde H. Hooley grew to manhood on the home farm and received his early education in the public schools of his district and in the high school at Kings Creek. He continued to work on the farm with his father until 1912, when he attended the Ohio State University, specializing in the agricultural course. Thus well equipped for a life as a scientific farmer he returned home and bought fifty acres in Salem township which he farmed successfully until the spring of 1917, when he sold most of it. In .1913 he took charge of the exhibits for the state at the county fairs throughout the state, demonstrating the work of the state agricultural experiment stations, a work in which he had been engaged for four years previously, and he has given eminent satisfaction in this connection, having done much to stimulate better scientific farming throughout the state. He has also been instrumental in organizing the Farmers Lecture Course, which was the first attempt along this line ever made in this country, and through his able direction and perseverance he has made it a pronounced success. He has been interested in the state institute work for a number of years, working independently as well as for the state, both as a speaker and as a judge He was employed as judge of fruits and vegetables at a number of county fairs in 1916. He keeps well abreast of the times in all that pertains to advanced methods of agriculture and horticulture, being widely read on all subjects pertaining to these lines of endeavor. He is by nature well equipped for such work and is best content when working with crops along scientific lines. Mr. Hooley has also become prominent in public affairs and is one of the leaders in the Republkan party in this section of the state. He served for some time as central committeeman for his party in Salem township, also served a term as road supervisor in his township. At the general election in November, 1916, he was elected representative to the state Legislature, having the distinction of being the youngest man ever elected to this important office from Champaign county. During the following session of the Legislature he made a most commendable record. He introduced a bill regulating 874 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. the salaries and duties of the county surveyors, which was passed, but was included in the White-Mulcahy bill. Mr. Hooley's bill has for its object a great saving in funds to all the counties of Ohio. While in the Legislature he served as a member of the public highway and agricultural committees, being secretary of each. He was also on the constitutional amendment ( initiative and referendum) committee. He did his work most faithfully and conscientiously in all these positions of trust. He is a member of the Grange. Mr. Hooley is unmarried. Personally, he is a young man of pleasing address and of unquestioned integrity. PETER A. BOISEN. Peter A. Boisen, a substantial landowner of Urbana township, former trustee of that township and now superintendent of the Champaign County Childrens Home at Urbana, is a native of the kingdom of Denmark, but has been a resident of this county since 1881, in which years he came to the United States and with his brother, Hjironimos Boisen, who had come to the United States eight years before, proceeded on out to Ohio and settled in this county. Hjironimos Boisen, who married Ella Koffeberger, bought a farm four miles east of Urbana, in Union township, and there established his home. These two Boisen brothers were the only children of their parents, Hans and Magdalena (Peterson) Boisen, also natives of Denmark, farming people, who spent all their lives in their native land, their home having been in the southern part of the kingdom. Upon coming to this county in 1881, Peter A. Boisen, who then was seventeen years of age, he having been born on June 24, 1864, became engage in farm labor and after some years bought a farm of seventy-one acres, lying two and one-half miles west of Urbana. After his marriage in 1892 he established his home on that farm and there lived until the fall of 1906, when he sold that place and bought another one, in 1909, one mile south east of Urbana, but lived on a rented farm one mile east of Urbana, unti March, 1916, when he was appointed superintendent of the Champaign County Childrens Home at Urbana and entered upon the duties of tha position, a position which he still occupies, he and his wife making thei home at the Home, to the affairs of which they give their most earnes attention, doing all in their power to make comfortable the position of th CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 875 children who are under their charge. Mr. Boisen has for years taken a hearty interest in local political affairs. He is a Republican and during his residence on the farm served for some time as a member of the school board in his local district and also served for some time as trustee of Urbana township. As noted above, it was in 1892 that Peter A. Boisen was united in marriage to Fannie E. Fox, who was born in Union township, this county, a daughter of Amos and Matilda (Diltz) Fox, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families, their respective parents having come here from Virginia at an early day in the settlement of Champaign county. Amos Fox was a well-to-do farmer and he and his wife are now both dead. Mr. and Mrs. Boisen have one child, a daughter, Mary Helen. They are members of the Presbyterian church at Urbana and take an interested and proper part in church work, as well as in other community good works. For several years Mr. Boisen has been an active member of the Grange and he also is a member of the Masonic lodge at Urbana, in the affairs of both of which fraternal organizations he takes a warm interest. THOMAS M. HANAGAN. Thomas M. Hanagan, well-known cement contractor at Urbana and proprietor of an extensive gravel pit there, was born in that city and has lived in Champaign county all his life. He was born on April 9, 1874, son of Thomas and Bridget (O'Melia) Hanagan, both natives of Ireland, who were married in this county and here spent their last days. Thomas Hanagan was born in County Kildare, Ireland, January 26, 1826, a son of Richard Hanagan and wife, the latter of whom was a Doyle, and who were the parents of the following children : Morris, who came to this country in 1848 and settled in Champaign county, where he became a substantial farmer and where he spent the remainder of his life; Thomas, father of the subject of this sketch; Peter, who also became a resident of this county and here died unmarried; Richard, also a resident Of this county, who died unmarried; Mary, who died unmarried, and Patrick, who also came to this county and here enlisted for service in the Union army during the Civil War and while serving with his command died in a Southern hospital. The father of these children died in his native land and in 1853 the Widow Hanagan and her .son, Thomas, and his two younger brothers and 876 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. the sister came to the United States to join the elder son and brother, Morris Hanagan, who had located in this county in 1848. Here the family established their home and here the Widow Hanagan spent her last days. Upon coming to Champaign county Thomas Hanagan became engaged in farming and in 1863 married Bridget O'Melia; also a native of Ireland, born in Kings county, who had come to this country in 186o. After his marriage Thomas Hanagan farmed at several different places before finally establishing his home in Wayne township, where he spent his last days, his death occurring there in 1906, he then being eighty years of age. His widow spent her last days in Urbana, her death occurring there on October 14, 1911, she then being seventy-two years of age. They were earnest members of the Catholic church and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being as follow : Peter J., formerly a Champaign county farmer, now conducting a restaurant and barber shop in Urbana, who married Margaret Curran' and has six children, Frances, Helen, Anna, Morris, Joseph and Thomas ; Mary, who married John Regan and has three children, John, Loretta and Rosa; Frances, who died in infancy; Eliza M., who died unmarried at the age of twenty-one years; Francis P., who is unmarried and who is engaged in the cement-contracting business with his brother, Thomas M., at Urbana, and Rose, who married James A. Hearn and died in 1903, leaving one child, a son, Thomas. Thomas M. Hanagan received his schooling in the public schools of this county and remained at home, assisting in the labors of the farm, until he was thirty-six years of age, when, about 1900, he moved to Urbana and there became engaged in other lines of work and for some years past has been engaged, in association with his brother, Francis P. Hanagan, in the cement contracting business in that city. The Hanagan brothers also have a valuable gravel pit at Urbana and are well equipped for any undertaking in the cement line. In 1913 Thomas M. Hanagan held the office of state inspector of cement work and is widely known among cement contractors throughout the state. Politically, he is a Democrat and takes an active interest in local political affairs. He and his brother are members of the Catholic church and are affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and with the Ancient Order of Hibernians, in the affairs of which organizations they take a warm interest. Thomas M. Flanagan was married on April 26, 191o, to Agnes Gannon a daughter of Michael and Mary (McLaughlin) Gannon, both natives of Ireland, who came to the United States as young people and were married in Champaign county. Michael Gannon became a section foreman on the CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 877 Erie railroad and located at Urbana. He retired several years ago and has his home and a tract of farm land at the edge of Urbana. His first wife died in 1882 and he later married to Margaret Kelly. Mrs. Thomas M. Hanagan was born in Urbana in 1880 and attended St. Mary's parochial school there. Mr. and Mrs. Hanagan have two children, John Joseph, born in 191i, and Angeline Marie, born in 1914. C. EDWIN MOODY. C. Edwin Moody, a former Champaign county school teacher and proprietor of a fine farm of eighty-three acres in Union township, his .home being located on rural mail route No. 1, out of Mechanicsburg, was born on the farm on which he is now living and has lived there the greater part of his life. He was born on August 1o, 1869, son of John R. and Serepta A. (Bowen) Moody, both of whom also were born in Champaign county, members of pioneer families in this part of Ohio. John R. Moody was a son of Moses and Maria (Guy) Moody, the former a native of New Hampshire and .the latter of Canada,. who came to Champaign. county in pioneer days and settled in Goshen township, later moving to Union township, where they established their home and where they spent their last days. Moses Moody was one of the leading men of Champaign county in his generation and was a member of the board of county commissioners at the time of his death. During the days of his young manhood John R. Moody was for some years engaged in teaching school during the winters, farming during the summers, and his wife also was a school teacher for some years during the period of her young womanhood. In addition to his general farming, John R. Moody was extensively engaged in cheese-making and was widely known throughout this and neighboring counties on account of the industry he built up in that connection. He became the owner of two hundred acres of land and was long regarded as one of the substantial citizens of Union township. He and his wife were the parents of six children, those besides the subject of this sketch being Lulu, Margaret, Laura, Earl and Lawrence. Reared on the home. farm in Union township,. C. Edwin Moody received his schooling. in the district school in the neighborhood of his .home and in the high school at Mechanicsburg and for three years after leaving 'school was engaged in teaching during the winters, meanwhile continuing his labors 878 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. on the farm during the summers. After his marriage in 1895 he established his home on a rented farm and began farming on his own account, later buying fifty acres of the old home place. This tract he later added to by the purchase of additional land and is now the owner of a fine farm of eighty-three acres, besides which he farms additional land, now carrying on his operations on a tract of one hundred and seventy-seven acres. In addition to his general farming, Mr. Moody gives considerable attention to the raising of pure-bred Jersey cattle and is doing well. He is a Republican and takes a good citizen's interest in local political affairs, but has not been an office seeker. In 1895 C. Edwin Moody was united in marriage to Nona Carpenter, who was born in Schuyler county, Missouri, daughter of George and Mildred (Coffey) Carpenter, and to this union two children have been born, Earl and Mary Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Moody are members of the Church of Christ (Scientist) and take an active interest in the affairs of the same. Mr. Moody is a Mason and a Granger and takes a warm interest in the affairs of these two organizations. SAMUEL H. ROBERTS. The late Samuel H. Roberts, for years a well-known farmer and stockman in the vicinity of Mutual, this county, who died at Los Angeles, California, in 1912, and whose widow is now residing at Mechanicsburg, was a native son of this county, born on the farm on which he spent all his active life. He was a son of Ephraim and Jane (Harper) Roberts, who came to this county from Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and settled near Mutual, where they spent the remainder of their lives, useful and influential pioneers of that neighborhood. They were the parents of twelve children, nine of whom grew to maturity, those besides the subject of thismemorial sketch having been Joseph, Calvin, John, Mary, Harriet, Jennie, Emily and Ann. Reared on the old home farm near Mutual, Samuel H. Roberts received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and from the days of his boyhood was a valued assistant to his father in the labors of improving and developing the place. After his marriage he established his home there and continued to make that his place of residence, becoming one of the most substantial farmers and stockmen in that part of the county and a landowner of considerable means. During the progress of the Civil War Mr. Roberts CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 879 enlisted for service in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with that command served valiantly until mustered out. He was one of the active members of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Urbana and ever took .a warm interest in the affairs of that patriotic organization. Three of his brothers also served as soldiers of the Union during the Civil War: Mr. Roberts also was a member of the Masonic lodge at Mechanicsburg and took a warm interest in the affairs of that organization. While he and his wife were enjoying a sojourn in the beautiful city of Los Angeles, California, in the winter of 1911-12, Mr. Roberts was taken ill there and died on February 8, 1912, he then being in the sixty-ninth year of his age. His body was brought to his old home in this county and was buried in the cemetery at Mutual, the memory of the deceased there receiving fitting parting tribute on the part of his friends in that neighborhood and formal recognition on the part of his comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic and his brother Masons. Mr. Roberts. not only was a successful farmer and stockman, but he had done well his part in his various relations to the public weal and he left a good memory in the community in which he was born and in which' his long and useful life was spent. It was on November 28, 1894, at Detroit, Michigan, that Samuel H. Roberts was united in marriage to Emma J. Harper, who was born on a. farm in the vicinity of the Roberts farm near Mutual, a daughter of Cunningham and Sarah (Minturn) Harper, both of whom also were born in this state, the former near Lancaster, in Fairfield county, and the latter, near Mutual, in this county. Cunningham Harper was a substantial and well-to-do farmer in the neighborhood of Mutual and he and his wife spent. their last days there. They were earnest members of the Buck Creek, Presbyterian church and their children were reared in the faith of that church. There was six of these children, those besides Mrs. Roberts, the fourth in order of birth, being as follow : Belle, widow of John A. Dowell, of New York City, who has two children, Blanche and Ethel; Edward, of Mechanicsburg, a well-known farmer of that neighborhood; William A., who lives in Virginia; Carrie, of Mechanicsburg, and Minerva L., also of Mechanicsburg, widow of Edward Baumgardner, who has one son, Edgar H. Baumgardner. In 1912, after the death of her husband, Mrs. Roberts left her home in Mutual and moved to Mechanicsburg, where she bought a handsome residence on East:Sandusky street and where she is now living, very comfortably and very pleasantly situated. She is a member of the- Presbyterian 880 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. church, as was her husband, and has ever taken a close personal interest in church work, as well as in other local good works, and has been a helpful assistant in the work of promoting various causes designed to advance the common welfare of the community in which most of her life has been spent. WILLIAM L. STOKES. Having made a success as a general farmer and stock raiser William L. Stokes, of Salem township, this county, is now able to spend his declining years in retirement. He has spent his life in the same vicinity, being content with his. native environment, and is still living in the house in which he was born on November 10, 184.6. He is a son of Samuel and Nancy (Thomas) Stokes. The father was a native of Virginia and the mother was born in this county. Samuel Stokes was born in 1806 and remained in the Old Dominion until 1829 when he came here with his parents and lived with them until his marriage, after which he and his wife established the family home at what was then known as Cabletown, now known as Cable. After remaining there two years, they moved to the place on which their son William L. is now living, in Salem township. Here they endured the privations and hardships of pioneer life, cleared and developed a good farm from the wilderness, and here spent the rest of their lives. The death of Samuel Stokes occurred on November 21, 1879. His family consisted of seven children, only two of whom are living at this writing, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Mary, who married William Russell. The Stokes family made the overland journey from Virginia to Ohio in wagons, the trip requiring weeks, for there were few good roads then. William L. Stokes grew to manhood on the home farm and received his education in the district schools of Salem township. He continued to work with his father on the homestead even after his marriage, and upon the death of his father he took charge of the same. He now has eighty acres of productive land. He has rotated his crops and looked after his land so well in a general way that the soil has not lost any of its original fertility. He has also kept the farm buildings well repaired. Mr. Stokes was married in 1868 to Margaret Petty, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Lippincott) Petty, and to their union six children have been born, namely Fannie, who married E. McDonald and has three children, Charles, Flora and Ruth ;. Laura, who married Samuel Black; Samuel CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 881 Stokes, who married Ida Grubbs and has four children, Lawrence, Norman, Merrill and Genora ; Marv, who married Joe Walker ; Sara, who married Ora Stratton, and. Andrew, who married Elizabeth Plank and has five children, Laura, Gladys, Harold, Joe and Fannie Margaret. Politically, Mr. Stokes is a Democrat, but he has never been an office seeker or active in public affairs. ABRAM M. SPAIN. Another of the retired farmers of Rush township, Champaign county, is Abram M. Spain, who is spending his declining years quietly and in the midst of plenty as a result of his earlier years of strenuous endeavor. He was born on the county line in the edge of Rush township, May 21, 1839, and has been contented to spend his nearly four-score years in his native locality. He is a son of Lemuel and Elizabeth (Millice) Spain. The father was born in Rush township and the mother in Mechanicsburg, this county. They each represented early pioneer families. Lemuel Spain was a son of Willis Spain, who was born in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, from which he came to Champaign county, Ohio, in 1805, driving overland in covered wagons. This country was still a wilderness, when neighbors were few and far between. Thomas Spain, a brother of Willis Spain, had preceded him to this locality and bought one thousand and sixty-three acres at what is now the northwest edge of North Lewisburg. He then returned to Virginia- and brought out several families who desired to settle here. They built .a. block house in the woods to insure safety in case of an Indian attack. The forest was cleared and farms developed.. Each family built a log cabin. Indians were then numerous throughout the country. The Spains were typical pioneers and endured the hardships and privations of the first frontiersmen. Willis Spain lived to be eighty-five years old. During the latter part of his life he bought another one thousand acres of good land. He became one of the leading. citizens of the county in his day and generation, was well-to-do and public-spirited, helping in many ways to introduce the evidences of modern civilization in the wilderness, such as schools, churches, etc. He was a self-made man, having. had little opportunity to obtain an education, but he became well informed, having read extensively in later life. He helped build the first Methodist church in his locality, (56a) 882 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. which was of logs. His family consisted of seven children, namely : Lemuel, Henry; Fletcher, Newton, Wright, Betsy and David. Lemuel Spain, father of the subject of this sketch, grew up amid, pioneer conditions, and he worked hard when a boy helping develop the home farm. He attended, for a short time, the early-day subscription schools. After his marriage to Elizabeth Millice at Mechanicsburg, he .located on a farm in Rush township, the land having but a small clearing on it. He finished preparing the place for the plow, built a home and other substantial buildings and soon had a good place. He built the first frame barn in his locality. He met death by. a runaway team at the age of seventy-five years. His widow made her home with their son, Abram M. Spain, until her death at the age of seventy-six years. Lemuel Spain was a Republican and he and his wife belonged to the Methodist church. Their family consisted of eight children, as follow : Abram M., the subject of this sketch; John, who lives in Union county, Ohio; Christopher W., deceased, David, George, Ross and Ben P., all of North Lewisburg, and Amos, who died in infancy. Abram M. Spain grew to manhood on the home farm and attended the local rural schools, taught in a log school house, equipped with puncheon seats, a chimney built of sticks and mud and with greased paper for window panes. He began working out at the age of sixteen. He worked in Mechanicsburg two years. He hired to his uncle, Fletcher Spain, for fifteen dollars a month. On December 11, 186o, he married Mary Jane Hutchings, a native of Saratoga county, New York, from which she came to North Lewisburg, Champaign county, Ohio, with her parents,. Ephraim Hutchings and wife, when young. They were among the early pioneers here, and the parents spent the rest of their lives in this locality. Mrs. Spain died in early life, leaving two children, Dora, who. married Ross Albright, a farmer of Rush township,. and Ora, who died in 1887. Mr. Spain married a second time, in New York City, to Henrietta DeGroff, a native of the state of New York. When .young she came alone to Champaign county, Ohio. Three children were born of Mr. Spain's last marriage, namely : Lewis, who is engaged in farming near North Lewisburg, married Florence Darrow, and has one daughter, Clift; Ward, .a traveling salesman, with headquarters in Chicago, married Clara Smith, and has two children, Walter and Henrietta, and Chauncey, who is farming on part of his father's place in Rush township, married Zella Lain, and has two children, Mary L. and Ora L. After his first marriage Mr. Spain lived with his grandfather a year, then moved to Logan county, this state, returning a year later to Cham- CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 883 paign county, locating on the farm where he has since resided in Rush township: He has one hundred and two acres in the home place and ninety-nine acres where his son lives, also another farm of seventy-four acres. His home place is known as "Sugar Grove Farm." He has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser, and his land all under a splendid state of improvement and cultivation. He formerly bought and sold live stock in this and adjoining counties extensively. He is now living practically retired. Mr. Spain is a loyal Republican and has long been active in local public affairs. He was trustee of Rush township for nine years. He has attended many political conventions and has been judge of elections. He is her of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a well-preserved man for his age, having retained his faculties, and is as active as many men are at middle age. He has always had a splendid constitution and has lived a careful and upright life. BURTON A. TAYLOR. Burton A. Taylor, cashier of the Central National Bank of St.. Paris, this county, and former auditor of the neighboring county of Madison, is a native son of Champaign county and has lived here and in the adjoining county of Madison all his life, a resident of St. Paris since 1906, in which year he aided in the organization of the Central National Bank of that place and has since been serving as cashier of the same. He was born on a farm in Salem township, this county, August 16, 1867, son of Thomas I. and Hannah (Stewart) Taylor, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families, and who are still living at their home in Salem township, honored old residents of that section of the county. To Thomas I. Taylor and wife seven children were born, namely : Burton A., the subject of this biographical sketch; Cora, wife of O. K. West, of Columbus, this state; Effie, deceased; Frank, of Springfield, this state ; Nellie, wife of C. H. Bentley, of Columbus ; Ploy, wife of W. F. Shrigley, of Springfield, and Blanche, who is at home with her parents. Reared on the paternal farm in Salem township, Burton A. Taylor received his early schooling in the district school in the neighborhood of his home and supplemented the same by a course in the Urbana high school, after which for two years he was engaged as a teacher in the public schools 884 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. of his home township. He then went over to Plain City, in the neighboring county of Madison and there became engaged as a bookkeeper in the Farmers Bank of that place. He presently was promoted to the position of assistant cashier of the bank and later to the position of cashier, remaining with that bank for eleven years, or until his election to the office of auditor of Madison county in 1898. Upon entering upon the duties of that office in 1899 Mr. Taylor, who in the meantime had become married, moved to London, the county seat, where he made his home until the completion of his official service. He was re-elected auditor and thus served for two terms, a period of six years, his term of service expiring at the end of the year 1905. Shortly afterward, in 1906, Mr. Taylor returned to this county and located at St. Paris, where he aided in the organization of the Central National Bank of that place and was made cashier of the same, a position he ever since has occupied. Upon the organization of that bank David McMorran was elected president and G. Lear Smith, vice-president. The present officers of the bank are as follow : President, David McMorran ; vice-president. J. E. Printz; cashier, Burton A. Taylor, and assistant cashier, G. G. Jones. the directors of the bank, besides the officers above named, being J. H. Batdorf, Charles Heck, R. M. Kite and Cephas Atkinson. Mr. Taylor is a Republican and during his residence in Madison county, besides serving as county auditor, was for some time clerk of Darby township in that county. In 1893, at Plain City, Burton A. Taylor was united in marriage to Ada Delano, who was teaching school at that place at that time. She was born in Iowa and is a graduate of the Plain City high school and of Western College at Oxford. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, B. Allen, who was graduated from the St. Paris high school and is now a student at Wooster College, and Martha E., who is a student in the high school at St. Paris. The Taylor are members of the First Baptist church and take an active interest in the various beneficences of the same, Mr. Taylor being one of the trustees of the church and a teacher in the Sunday school. He is a Royal Arch Mason, having affiliated with the Masons while living at Plain City, and is past master of the lodge at that place and a member of Adoniram chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at London. He also is a member of St. Paris Lodge No. 344, Knights of Pythias, and takes a warm interest in both Masonic and Pythian affairs. Since taking up his residence in St. Paris Mr. Taylor has given his earnest attention to the general business interests of that city and is widely known in financial circles throughout this part of the state. CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 885 MARION CORBET. Marion Corbet, a farmer of Wayne township, this county, was born in Rush township, this county, in 1847, a son of Amasa and Experience, (Walburn) Corbet. The father was born in the state of New York, but when young his parents brought him to Ohio, the family locating on a farm at Brush Lake, in Rush township, Champaign county. Amasa Corbet had one brother, who died when eight years old, and one sister, Julia, who married James Bay of Bloomington, Illinois. John and Matilda Walburn, the paternal grandparents of the subject of this sketch, were also pioneer settlers in Rush township, where they spent their last days on a farm. They had three children, Experience, who married Amasa Corbet; a daughter, and John. Amasa Corbet grew to manhood on the home farm in Rush township, amid a pioneer environment. He helped to clear and improve the home farm and attended the early-day schools, receiving an excellent education for those early times. He remained at home until his marriage, then took up farming for himself in Rush township, continuing successfully thus engaged until his death, which occurred in September, 1861, at the age of fifty-eight years. His widow also died at the age of fifty-eight, June 6, 1863. They were originally members of the Methodist Episcopal church, but later became connected with the United Presbyterian church. Politically, Amasa Corbet was a Republican. His family consisted of ten children, namely : David, who married Lorinda Stowe and established his home on a farm in Rush township, died in 1892; John, who married Elizabeth Jordan and established his home on a farm at North Lewisburg, this county; Lewis, who first married Marinda Bonsel, and later Rosanna Good, established his home on a farm in Rush township; Olive, the wife of John Swisher, a farmer of Rush township; Martha, who married Oliver Colwell and who now, as well as her husband is deceased; Benjamin, who married Susan Swisher, devoted his early life to farming and died in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he had located; William, who was a farmer and teacher of Wayne township, Champaign county, married Sarah Wilson and they are now both deceased; Marion, the subject of this sketch; Mary Eliza, who died when three years of age, and Amasa T., who is farming in Wayne township, this county. Marion Corbet was reared on the old home place and received his education in the common schools. He remained at home until the death of 886 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. his parents. In 1867 he married . Rebecca Wilson, of Wayne township, an a. daughter of D. K. Wilson and wife. To this union one child has been born, Wilbert Corbet, now engaged in farming in Wayne township, who married. Ella Blue, and has two children, Marion and Ethel. After his marriage Marion Corbet located on the Wilson farm in Wayne township, later moving to his present farm, known as the Hal place, in that same township, where he still resides. He has a productive an well-improved farm, owning one hundred and fifteen acres of valuable land. on which he carries on general farming and stock raising, making a specialty of Shorthorn cattle and Jersey red hogs. Mr. Corbet is a Republican and has served on the local school boar He is a member of Jenkins Chapel, Methodist Protestant church. EDGAR M. CRANE. In this age brains count for More in farming than brawn, but in pioneer times perhaps the reverse was true. One of the intelligent tillers of the 'soil in Salem township, this county, is Edgar M. Crane, who was born in Urbana, Ohio, March 21, 1870. He is a son of Marcus H. and Effie (Muzzy) Crane. The father was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, November 10, 1843. He was a son of Zenas and Mary (Harrison) Crane an old family of Caldwell, New Jersey, where they lived and died on a farm. Their family consisted of the following children : Marcus H., father of the subject of this sketch ; Caleb, who is still living in Caldwell, New Jersey, and Anna, who still lives in New Jersey, widow of L. G. Lockward. Marcus H. Crane grew to manhood in his native state and there attendedthe public schools and the Plainfield Academy. He remained in mew Jersey until 1862 when he came to Ohio, where he secured a position in the foundry of Moore & Whitehead, at Urbana, later taking an interest in the firm and finally buying out the concern, operating the business himself successfully for some time. He also turned his attention to farming, buying one hundred and sixty-three acres east of Urbana, also a farm of two hundred and seventy acres north of Urbana. He became one of the progressive and well-to-do citizens of this locality. On May 28, 1869, Marcus H. Crane married Effie Muzzy. She was born at New Carlisle, Clarke county, Ohio, February 13, 1848. She was one of five children born to Joseph and Eliza (Hunt) Muzzy, the former CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 887 a native of Springfield, Ohio, and the latter of Whitehall, Vermont. Joseph Muzzy was a boy when his parents removed with their family from New England to Clark county, Ohio, locating near Springfield. There Joseph Muzzy died and his wife married a second time, her last husband being; a Mr. Armstrong. To the first marriage four children were born, Joseph, Horace, Franklin and James. Joseph Muzzy grew up in Springfield, Ohio and there attended school. He engaged in the dry goods business during his earlier years, later conducting a grocery store. His death occurred in 1879. His wife died in 1863. They were parents of the following children : Richard Hunt, deceased ; Lucinda, the wife of Dr. Silas Edgar, of Atlanta, Georgia ; Francis, of Springfield, Ohio, and Effie, who married Marcus H. Crane, and Wallace, who lives in Pennsylvania. Three children were born to Marcus H. Crane and wife, namely : Edgar Melvin,. the subject of this sketch; Frances, wife of Joseph Hitt, of Urbana, and Maria Steel, who died when fifteen years of. age. The death. of Marcus H. Crane occurred in. 1909, and his wife passed away on April 24, 1917, at the age of sixty-nine. She had lived in Urbana forty-eight years. She was a member of the First Presbyterian church and andent worker in all its branches, and was one of the leaders in the missionary movements. She was at one time a teacher in the Sunday school. She was at one time president of the local Literary Club, a prominent member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was closely identified with all forward movements taken up by the women of Urbana. Marcus H. Crane was also an active member of the First Presbyterian church, with which he was affiliated for more than thirty years, and for some time was a deacon in the same. Fraternally, he belonged to the Masonic order, including the Knights Templars. He also belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Urbana. He was well known and respected by all who knew him. Edgar M. Crane, the immediate subject of this review, grew to man-, hood in Champaign county. He received excellent educational advantages, attending the local public schools and the Urbana high school, and later spent two years in the University of Wooster, at Wooster, Ohio. After leaving college he began his business career by accepting a position with the Citizens Bank of Urbana, but he decided that a business career that would keep him indoors was not so fascinating as agricultural pursuits, in which he could lead a simpler and more wholesome life ; so he abandoned banking and turned his attention to general farming on land east of Urbana, where he remained twelve years, or until 1910. He then located on his present 888 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. fine farm of three hundred and seventy-five acres, known as the old Jennings farm, in Salem township. He has made many important improvements on the place, and keeps his fields in excellent condition, everything denoting that a gentleman of industry and good management is at the helm. In connection with general farming, Mr. Crane pays a great deal of attention to stock raising, feeding a large number of cattle annually for the market. Mr. Crane was married in April, 1915, to Goldie Brinnon, who was born in Union township, this county, where she grew to womanhood, a daughter of Charles and Nora Brinnon. To Mr. and Mrs. Crane one child, a daughter, has been born, Dorothy M. Crane. Fraternally, Mr. Crane is a Royal Arch Mason, affiliated with Harmony lodge and the chapter at Urbana.. He belongs to the Presbyterian church and, politically, is a Republican. ISAAC J. KAUFFMAN. Farming is both profitable and pleasant when skillfully done, as in the case of Isaac J. Kauffman of Salem township, this county. He was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1.870, a son of Charles and Keziah (Dunlap) Kauffman, both natives of Pennsylvania, the father of Lancaster county and the mother .of Clearfield county. Charles Kauffman was fourteen years old when he left school and went to work, earning his own living. Later he went to Clearfield county, where he was married and there he worked for some time in the timber and about saw-mills. In 1877 he came to Ohio and settled in Salem township, Champaign county, first living on the Abel North farm one year, also spent a year on the B. M. Madden farm,. then moved to the I. B. Thomas farm where he resided for a period of fifteen years. From there he moved to the William Damon place where he spent two years, then moved to Wyandotte county, this state, where he made his home. for seven years, after which he returned to Champaign county, locating near Woodstock; on the Pete Black place, where he lived three years, then moved to Zanesfield, Logan county, where his death occurred in December, 1914, at the age of sixty-nine years. His widow is still living there. Ten children were born to Charles Kauffman and wife, namely, : Isaac J., the subject of this sketch ; John W., who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, and has been an engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad for the past twenty-one years ; Stephen G., an electrical contractor of Columbus, Ohio; CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 889 Charles M., who is farming in Monroe county, Michigan; Myrtle, who lives in Fremont, Ohio ; Edward, who is a steam-shovel engineer and lives in Newark; Ohio ; Hoad, who is farming in Salem township, this county ; Nora, who lives in Columbus, this state ; Walter, who lives in Columbus,. where he works as an electrician, and Morris, who lives at home with his. mother. Isaac J. Kauffman was reared on the farm and received a common-school education at Kennard. He lived at home until his marriage on January 28, 1892, to Dora A. Wilkins, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio. She is a daughter of Howard and Rebecca (Martin) Wilkins, natives of Virginia, from which state they came to Ohio in an early day, locating in Salem township, Champaign county, where they engaged in farming, the father dying here in 1903. His widow is still living in Salem township. To Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins eight children were born, namely : William G., who is a retired farmer and lives at Kennard, this county; James W., who. lives in Salem township, this county ; Margaret Belle, wife of Jacob Woodruff, of Salem township; Sarah Minerva, wife of C. S. Unkefer, of Salem township; Fred L., who also lives in Salem township ; Dora A., wife of Mr. Kauffman, the subject of this sketch; Anna S., wife of Edward B. Thomas, of Salem township, and Charles G., who also lives in Salem township. To Mr: and Mrs. Kauffman seven children have been born, namely : Freda, who married Marshall Miller, a farmer of Salem, township, and has. one child, John, and Ray, Emmett, Naomi, Ralph, Nellie and Alf red. These children are all at home but the eldest. After his marriage Mr. Kauffman located on the Abel North farm in Salem township, where he spent three years, then moved to Kennard, where he resided for nine years, engaging in teaming and hay bailing. In 1904 he Moved to the place on which he now lives, known as the Fulweider farm, which consists of two hundred and fifty acres, where he has made many important improvements and has been very successful as a general farmer and stock raiser. He has worked hard and managed well and is one of the leading young farmers of his township. Mr. Kauffman is a Democrat and has for some time been more or less active and influential in public, affairs. He has served as trustee of Salem township for the past eight years, his long retention in this office indicating that he, has discharged his duties in a highly acceptable manner, honestly and conscientiously looking after the best interests of the people. He is a member of the Friends church. 890 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. WILLIAM R. YOCOM A venerable agriculturist, now living- in retirement, in Wayne township, being now in his eighty-third year, is William R. Yocom, who has always been a well-known and highly esteemed citizen of Champaign county. He was born December 12, 1834, in the above-named township, and is therefore one of the oldest native-born citizens in the county, which he has.. lived to see develop from a pioneer settlement to one of the leading farming sections of the country. The first member of this family in America was Solomon Yocom of Virginia, who removed to Kentucky in 1802, settling near Mount Sterling, and in 1820 came to Ohio, locating at Urbana. After buying horses and other live stock there for some time he settled two miles east of Granite Hill and opened up Sulphur Springs, clearing and developing the land round about that place. His first building was a log cabin. Later he moved to Urbana on account of the prevalence of malaria at Sulphur Springs. fie finally bought. land near George's Chapel, and later died while living with his son, John W. Yocom, his death occurring there in 1855. His wife, had .preceded him to the grave in 1838. He was a harnessmaker and saddiemaker by trade. He was also a local preacher and often preached to the Indians in the early days, with Sol Hinkle. He was a Methodist. Seven children were born to Solomon Yocom and wife, namely : Kate, Nancy, Sallie M., John Wesley, Betsy, Caroline and Lucy Ann. Kate Yocom married John Miller and three children were born to them, Solomon, who married Pruetta Studebaker ; Nancy, who married Peter Kenny, and Robert. Nancy Yocom married Levi King, and they were parents of two children, Polly, who married Daniel . Baylor, of Union township, and after his death married Thomas Middleton, of Wayne township, and Charles K., who lives in Springfield, Ohio. Sallie M. Yocom married Reuben Adams and these children were born to them : Eliza, who married Levi Elliot, a soldier in the Union army, who established his home in this county ; Mary Ann, who married John W. Diltz, who established his home in Union township, this county; Caroline, who married Alex Miller and located in Goshen township, this county; John W., who died when young ; Lucy Ann, who married James Edge and moved to Indiana; Solomon, who lived at Mutual, and who was killed in a saw-mill; Sarah, who now lives in London, Ohio, the widow of Andrew J. Stone, a soldier in Company C, . Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War, who died in December, 1898. CHAMPAIGN COUNTY; OHIO - 891 John Wesley Yocom, the only son in the family, is mentioned in succeeding paragraphs in this article. Betsey Yocom married John . Worrell, who. located in Urbana, and they had the following children James, who was a machinist in Springfield, Ohio, and later in Richmond, Indiana ; Frank, who was a soldier in the Civil War, and who died at Memphis, Tennessee, after serving in the war ; Adam, also a soldier in the Civil War and, a locomotive engineer,. who died in Indiana ; William, also a Union soldier, and a locomotive engineer, also lived in Indiana; Moses B., a blacksmith, who served in the Union army and after the war located in Ohio. Caroline Yocom married James Bailey, of Urbana, Ohio, and had one child,. Charles, who lived with his grandfather, Solomon Yocom, until he was twenty years old, then went to Madison county, Ohio. He married Sallie Crawford. Lucy Ann Yocom, the seventh and youngest child, married Davidson Bayless, a farmer of Union township, this county, and they became parents of four children : Susie; widow of David Syler, of Miami county, Ohio, now making her home in the city of Cleveland ; Lemuel, who married : Martha Craig and located first in Union township, this county, but now makes his ;home in Logan county, Ohio; Louisa, who married John Syler, of Miami county, Ohio, and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased, and Gould who lives in Michigan. John Wesley. Yocom, father of the immediate subject of this sketch, was the only son of Solomon Yocom and wife, and the fifth child in order of birth. He was born in Kentucky in 1805. He spent his boyhood in the Blue Grass state, being fifteen years of age when. his parents brought him to Champaign county, in 182o. He helped clear. and develop the home farm here, working hard and enduring the usual privaions of pioneers. He remained at home until 1827, when he married Susanna Watson. She was a native of the vicinity of London, Ohio, and a daughter of David and Betsey (Helvestine) Watson. David Watson was born in 1770. When a boy he followed the sea six or seven years; later settling in Virginia, finally came to Madison county, Ohio, where he was one of the first settlers, locating southwest of London, where he cleared and developed a farm in the wilderness, when settlers were few and trading centers far remote. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He and his wife both died in Madison county, this state. Their children were named as follows : Susanna, born in 1808;- Jesse, who lived on a farm in Madison county; Betsy, who married Joseph Surves, who established his home in Madison county; Samuel, who married Nancy Crider and established his home in Madison county ; 892 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. Isabella, who married Samuel Crider, of Madison county; Stephen, who married Alma Dungan, and they also lived in Madison county ; David, who married Elizabeth Jones and also lived in Madison county; Mrs. Josephine Brown, also of Madison county, and the two youngest children, daughters, who died in infanry. John Wesley Yocom had little opportunity to obtain an education, attending for a short time the pioneer rural schools. After his marriage he moved to the old camp ground in Champaign county, where he lived four years ; then to a farm in Wayne township, where he spent the rest of his life. His Widow survived until November 20, I892 He became one of the leading farmers and stockmen of his locality. He was a Republican. He and his wife were members of the Union Methodist Episcopal church, which congregation often held services in their home before the church was built, and he was active in the affairs of the church. His family consisted of eight children : James W., Mary Jane, Hester, William R., Caroline, Isabella, Louisiana and Emily. James W. Yocom, who was for many years a teacher in the schools of Union township and who died in 1898, married Mrs. Hannah (Millice) Elsworth and had five children, namely : Viola, who married James Perry, of Union township ; John, who married Lulu Reams, also of Union township ; Elmer, who married Fannie Corbett and lives in Union township ; Alfred, who married a Miss Beltz and lives in Marion, Ohio, and Jesse, who died when fourteen years of age. Mary Jane Yocom, who died in 1894, was the wife of John Best. They established their home in Wayne township, this county, and three children were born to them, namely : Enola, who married Statin Middleton and lives in Wayne township ; Carrie, wife of David Perry, of Columbus, Ohio, and John Wesley, of Wayne township, who married a Miss Shaul, now deceased. Hester Yocom died in 1845. William R. Yocom, the immediate subject of this sketch, was the fourth child in order of birth. Caroline Yocom married O. S. Barber and lives in Urbana. Isabella Yocom died unmarried in 1858. Louisiana Yocom, now deceased, was the wife of William Yeazell. Emily Yocom married Benjamin Millice and lives near Mechanicsburg. Mr. and Mrs. Millice have two children, Cora, who married William Romanie, of Mechanicsburg, and William, who married Lulu Moody, and lives near Mechanicsburg. William. R. Yocom grew to manhood on the home farm in his native county and attended the old-time subscription schools in his community, receiving a limited education, walking three miles to the school house, which was of logs, about one-half the way . being through the heavy woods. He CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 893 has become a well-informed than on general topics by wide miscellaneous reading. He remained at home, assisting with the work on the farm, until he was twenty-seven years old. On March 26, 1862, he married Martha Chedister, who was born in Wayne township, this county, a daughter of Holdridge and Mary Chedister, pioneers of that township. Mrs. Yocom lived only six months after her .marriage, dying on October 7, 1862, and Mr. Yocom subsequently married Margaret Linville, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1849, and whose parents brought her to Champaign county when she was eight years old. She was a daughter of Thomas Linville and wife. To this second marriage four . children were born, namely : Quinn M., who farming in Mad River township, this county, and who married Grace Hunter and has two children, Helen and Margaret ; Jason C., who is .farming in Union township, and who married Elvie Johnson and has three children, William H., Robert and Clyde.; Jesse, who died unmarried at the age of twenty-two years, and Samuel L., who lives at home, operating the home farm, and who married Laura Cooper and has one son, Raymond. After his marriage William R. Yocom located near the old home farm in Wayne township, buying one hundred acres. Not long after his second marriage. he bought the farm on which he now lives. He was a man of industry, .good management and sound judgment and, prospering with advancing years he has become the owner of one thousand acres of excellent farming land in Wayne and Union townships, and has long been . regarded as among the leading general farmers and stock raisers in Champaign and adjoining counties. He farmed on an extensive scale for many years, but now that old age has come on he has turned the operations of his great estate over to his son, for the most part. He always raised large herds of live stock and fed a number of carloads of stock annually for the market, dealing especially. in hogs, sheep and horses. He has an attractive and commodious residence in the midst of picturesque surroundings, and numerous modern and substantial outbuildings; in fact, his lands are well improved in every respect, everything about his place denoting thrift and good .management. Mr. Yocom is a Republican, but he has never been especially active M political affairs, nor aspired to public leadership. However, he has served as township trustee and as a member of the local school board. He has been a member of the local Methodist Episcopal church for the past sixty-eight years, and has been a liberal supporter of the church and active in fts general affairs, having served as steward and class leader. Mr. Yocom is exceptionally well preserved for one of his advanced 894 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. years. He has lived a careful and abstemious life, been watchful of hi relations with the world in general and lived an honest, upright and clean life. His hearing and sight are good and he has a remarkable memory in fact, he has retained all his faculties. He is widely and favorably known throughout the county. JOHN FRAWLEY. John Frawley, retired farmer of Wayne township, this county, is the possessor of many of the commendable traits of the people with Celtic blood in their veins.. He was born in County Limerick, Ireland, February 28, 1847. He is a son of Edward and Mary (Welsch) Frawley, both natives of Ireland, where they grew up, married and established their home on a farm, where they resided until immigrating to the United States in 1852, first locating in the state of New York, but in a short time they came to Delaware county, Ohio, where the father worked on the section gang of the Big Four railroad for awhile. In 1857 he moved to Cable in this county, and worked on the Pennsylvania railroad for a number of years, then bought ten acres south of Cable. He worked hard and continued to add to his holdings there until he owned eighty acres, on which he carried on general farming until his death in 1893. His wife died later there. They were parents of five children, the subject of this sketch being the only one now living. John Frawley was five years old When his parents brought him to America. He grew to manhood on the farm in Champaign county and received a common school education. When a young man he began working for the Panhandle Railroad Company, with which he remained ten years, during the winter months, working as fireman and brakeman, farming in the summer time the meanwhile. After leaving the employ of the railroad he took up farming in Logan county, Ohio, as a renter, for a number of years, then moved to Wayne township, this county, renting land until 1893. His father dying at that time he inherited the homestead, which he has operated ever since, keeping the place well tilled and well improved, all of the eighty acres. being under. cultivation. He is now living practical retired, his son, William, doing the actual work on the place. John Frawley was married in 1875 to Ellen Powers a daughter of William and Bridget Powers. To their union seven children have been born, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 895 of whom those, Mollie, Edward and Emmett, are deceased, the survivors being John, who married Anna Billock and has three children, Ellen, Robert and William; Nellie, who married William Dorsey and has three children, Kenneth, Catherine and Margaret; William, who married Sylvia Taylor and has two children, Mildred and Richard, and Edward, who married Nellie Dorsey and has four children, Helen, Mary Louise, Madeline, and Edward The wife of Mr. Frawley and mother of the above named children, died on November 27, 1906. Mr. Frawley is a Democrat. He belongs to the Catholic church at Urbana. LAWRENCE CRADLER. Lawrence Cradler, farther, of Wayne township, this county, was born in Union county, Ohio, March 20, 1872, a son of Christian and Mary (Mutlar) Cradler, both natives of Germany. Christian Cradler immigrated to America when a young man and located near Marysville, Union county, Ohio, where he worked out as a farm hand for some time. He saved his earnings and later bought a small farm, which he operated the rest of his life. His family consisted of nine children, five of whom are living at this writing, namely : John W., Ninna, Frederick, Lawrence and Lewis. Lawrence Cradler grew to manhood on the home farm in Union county, where he assisted with the general work when he was of proper .age, and in the winter time he attended the rural schools in his home district. He was the only member of his family to move to .Champaign county. After leaving school Mr. Cradler began life for himself as a teacher, which profession he followed with success for a period of ten years in the public schools of Union county. His services were in demand and he was one of the popular teachers of his county. He remained a close student himself and kept well abreast of the times in all that pertained to his work. Finally deciding that an outdoor life was more to his taste than school teaching, Mr. Cradler came to Champaign county and bought the Newton Diltz farm of ninety-one acres in Wayne township, which he has operated successfully ever since. He has kept his land well improved and well cultivated and engages in general farming and stock-raising. Politically, Mr. Cradler is a Republican. Mr. Cradler has been twice married. In 1902 he was united to Ethel Carren, a daughter of William Carren, and to that union six children were 896 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. born : Frank, Albert, Lucile, Addie, Vivian and Harold. The mother of these children died on March 20, 1914, and in December, 1914, Mr. Cradle :married Hattie B. McFarland, daughter of Thomas S. McFarland. JOSEPH REID. The late Joseph Reid, who was for many years a progressive farmer in Wayne township, this county, was a man whom everybody liked, for he was honest, public-spirited and neighborly. He was born in Ireland and had many of the winning qualities of his Celtic progenitors. He was born in 1845 and spent his childhood in the fair Emerald Isle, immigrating to America with his parents, when twelve years old, the family coming to Ohio and locating on a farm in Wayne township, this county. Here Joseph Reid grew to manhood. He received a limited education in the public schools. Here he married Bridget Bahan, a native of Rush township, this county, and a daughter of Darby Bahan and wife, both natives of Ireland, where they spent their earlier years, finally coming to America and establishing their home on a farm in Rush township, this county. Joseph Reid devoted his active life to general farming. After spending many years on a farm in Wayne township he moved to Madison county, where he farmed for fifteen years, then returned to Champaign county, buying the Sylvester Spain farm in Wayne township, on which he spent the rest of his life. His widow now lives in North Lewisburg. He was a successful self-made man. He managed well and was one of the substantial citizens of his locality, at his death leaving quite an estate. He died on July 3, 1915, at the age of seventy years. To Joseph Reid and wife eleven children were born, namely : Thomas, who lives at Marion, Ohio, and is a conductor on the Erie railroad; Gus, who also left this county ; Joseph, who is engaged in farming in this county; Frank, who lives at Marion, Ohio, and is a conductor on the Erie railroad; Amos, who is farming on the old homestead in Wayne township; Edward P., who is farming in Wayne township; Mary, who lives. in London, Ohio; Nellie, deceased; Annie, deceased ; Emma, who lives in Hamilton, Ohio, and Ruth makes her home with her mother. Edward P. Reid was reared on the home farm and he received a common school education. He assisted his father with the work on the farm until he took up railroading, working one year as brakeman in the railroad yards CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 897 at Youngstown, Ohio. For the past three years he has engaged in farming on part of the old home place in Wayne township. In January, 1913, he married Catherine Connor of North Lewisburg, this county. She is a daughter of Michael and Bridget Connor. Two children have been born to Edward P. Reid and wife, namely : William and Bernard Edward. The Reids are members of the Catholic church at North Lewisburg. MARTIN L. RUSSELL. There is no more painstaking tiller of the soil in Wayne township, this county, than Martin L. Russell, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, August 12, 1849. He is a son of Samuel and Edith (Kirk) Russell, both natives of Belmont county, Ohio, where they grew to maturity, were married and spent most of their lives on a farm there. In 1865 they moved to Iowa, but returned to Belmont county a year later, and in 1867 went to Iowa a second time, spending the rest of their lives in that state, dying there many years ago. They were members of the Baptist church. Their family consisted of twelve children, namely : Simeon L., Rachael Ann, Levi K., Minerva and Sarah A., all now deceased; Martin L., the subject of this sketch; Jeremiah, who lives in Belmont county, Ohio; William A., who is farming in the vicinity of Mingo, this county; Arthur, deceased; Everett, who lives at Bronson, Kansas ; Nora, who lives at Iola, Kansas, and one child, who died in infancy. Martin L. Russell grew to manhood in Belmont county, Ohio, and there attended the common schools. When sixteen years old he started to work out by the month and continued thus for a period of eleven years, at the end of which time he married and located in Salem township, this county, where he farmed two years ; then moved to Wayne township. where he continued farming fourteen years on the Johnson place, then farmed in Logan county four years, and then three and one-half years on the Inskeep place. For the past eleven years he has operated four hundred and eight acres of the Johnson farm in Wayne township, carrying on general farming and stock raising extensively, also feeding considerable stock annually. He raises mixed stock, paying considerable attention to draft horses. Mr. Russell was married in December, 1879, to Elizabeth Hunt, of Logan county, a daughter of John and Phoebe Hunt. Four children have (57a) 898 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. been born to Mr. and Mrs. Russell, namely: Carrie E., who married Morn Hill and lives in Logan county; John W., who is engaged in farming in Rush township, this county, and who married Clara Newman ; William A.,. who lives at home and farms with his father, and Frank, also living with his parents and helping with the farm work. Mr. Russell is a Republican and has for years been actively interested in local public affairs, having served as trustee of Wayne township during the past four years. His wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church at Mount Tabor. JOEL C. ANDREWS. The late Joel C. Andrews, for years a well-known farmer in Urbana. township, who died in the fall of . 1909 and whose widow is still filling in her comfortable farm home in that township, was a native son of Champaign county and had lived. here all his. life. He was born on a farm in the Pisgah neighborhood on January 10, 1847, son of John and Anna (Rawley) Andrews,: natives. of Rockingham county; Virginia, who came to this section of. Ohio in 1844 and after a brief residence in the neighborhood of North Hampton located on a farm in the vicinity of Pisgah, where they spent the remainder of their lives. John Andrews was born in 1814 and. died in 1867. His widow survived him many years, her death occurring in 1899. She also was .born . in the year 1814: They were the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this memorial sketch was the third, in order of birth, the others. being John, Noah, Ezra, Mary and Martha. Reared on the home farm in the vicinity of Pisgah, Joel C. Andrews received his schooling .in the local schools in that neighborhood and from the days of his boyhood was a valued assistant in the labors of developin and improving the home farm. After his marriage in 1874 he began farming on his own account, renting a farm, and in 1881 bought the place of thirt four acres on which: his widow is now living, in Urbana township, an there spent the remainder of his life. In addition to cultivating that tract. Mr.: Andrews tilled considerable adjoining land, renting the same and continued actively engaged in farming until his retirement about two years before his death, his death occurring on October 3, 1909,. lie then being: in the sixty-third year of his age. Mr. Andrews was an independent Democrat in his political faith and by religious persuasion was a Baptist, a member. of the Hickory Grove church, of which his widow also is a member; CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 899 On December 29, 1874, Joel C. Andrews was united in marriage to Sallie Steinbarger, who also was born in this county, daughter of Alfred and Margaret (Myers) Steinbarger. The Steinbargers are an. old family in Champaign county, Alfred Steinbarger's father having been the founder of the old Steinbarger mill which for so many years was a familiar landmark on Mad river, and further and fitting mention of this pioneer family is made elsewhere in this volume. John Andrews, a brother of the subject of this memorial sketch, married Effie Steinbarger, sister of Joel C. Andrews' widow, and to that union were born three children, Flora, Pearl and Margaret, the latter of whom married Freeman Snyder. John Andrews died in 1901 and his widow died on June 29, 1914. Their eldest daughter, Flora, is now making her home with Mrs. Joel Andrews at the latter's pleasant home in Urbana township. W. H. GORDIN. W. H. Gordin, dealer in grain and live stock, Westville, Ohio, was born in Madison county, Ohio, January 11, 1878, a son of R. B. and Amanda (Carr) Gordin. The father and mother are both natives of Ohio, the former born in Madison county and the latter in Fayette county. Both are now living in Springfield, Ohio, where Mr. Gordin is engaged as a dealer in live stock. W. H. Gordin is the second of three children in his father's family. He was reared on the farm and was educated in the district schools of the township and in the South Solon high school. He remained at home and worked on the farm until he was twenty-one years old. Afterward he operated an elevator at Irwin Station in Union county, for five years.. Then he went to Buffalo, New York, where he was employed in the stock yards for two years. Following this he spent one year in Pittsburgh, then came to Westville and purchased the elevator at this. place and has continued the business here since December 1, 1910. He added the live stock business to his other business and has had dealings in that line.. He also deals in wood in season, as a side line. He is married and has two sons, Edwin, a student in the Westville high school, and Dana, in the graded schools. Mr. Gordin is a member of Mechanicsburg Lodge No. 113, Free and Accepted Masons, and of. Magrew Lodge No. 433, Knights of Pythias,