SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 75 28, 1851. His wife, Florence Baldwin, was born in Greene Township, September 13, 1854, daughter of John and Jane McQuality Baldwin. Samuel Buffenbarger and wife were reared and educated in Madison Township, and after their marriage settled on a farm in Green Township. She died on the old homestead, and he passed away at South Charleston in 1921. They were members of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics the father voted as a republican. Warren K. Buffenbarger was the only one of five children to survive infancy. He spent his life on the farm, acquired a district school education, and in 1908 moved to South Charleston, where for twelve years he was active in the lumber business. Since 1920 he has devoted his time to the management of his garage and his farm. November 25, 1903, Mr. Buffenbarger married Della McDaniel, a native of Pickaway County, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Buffenbarger have two children : Elmer Willard, born December 29, 1909, and Warren K., Jr., born in 1914. Mrs. Buffenbarger is a Presbyterian. He is affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics and is a republican. VERNIE NAGLEY is a practical farm manager and owner, and his home is a farm in Madison Township, near Selma. He was born at Fort Wayne, Indiana, January 5, 1879, son of George and Catherine (Gram) Nagley. His parents were both natives of Clark County, his father born in Madison Township, in 1847, and his mother, in Greene Township. Vernie Nagley was only four years of age when his mother died, and he was soon afterward left an orphan. From the age of five he was reared by W. P. Nagley until he was about ten years old. He has spent most of his life on the farm where he lives today. He acquired a common school education, and at the age of eighteen left home and spent three years on a cattle ranch in the West. He then returned and has since been identified with his work as a farmer and stockman. Mr. Nagley, who is unmarried, is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons, at South Charleston. He individually owns a hundred acres, but he operates between 700 and 800 acres for farming and raising purposes. He produces much high grade stock, and he also buys and feeds for the market, shipping cattle by the carload. He has been a member for the past seven years and has served as vice president of the Clark County Agricultural Board. He is a republican, active in the party and has served as judge of elections. LEONARD S. WRIGHT is One of the men who is setting a high standard for the agricultural and stock raising industry of Clark County. He is a man of very good judgment and business ability, and his industry has carried him far toward the achievement of individual success. Mr. Wright for the past ten years has lived on the old McGrew farm, four miles west of South Charleston. He was born on a farm in Fayette County, Ohio, December 13, 1884, son of Allie and Alice (Fannon) Wright. His father was born in Fayette County, March 31, 1861, sOn of Walter S. and Nancy (Allen) Wright, and grandson of Benjamin and Rebecca (Cave) Wright. Allie Wright was reared and educated in Fayette County, 76 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY and after his marriage lived on a farm there for a number of years. He now owns a farm in Greene Township of Clark County, but his home is in Springfield. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a republican in politics. Allie Wright and wife had five children : Leonard S.; Ansel, a farmer in MadisOn County, Ohio ; Samuel, a farmer in Clark County ; Ova, wife of Thomas Winner, a carpenter at Springfield, and Dorothy, attending the Springfield High School. Leonard S. Wright spent his early life on farms in Fayette and Madison counties, and while there made the best possible use of his advantages in the district schools. He was at home until he was twenty-one, and two years later he married Della Foster. She was born in Madison County, November 13, 1887, and had a public school education. After his marriage Mr. Wright rented a farm in Madison County for four years, and then, ten years ago, moved to Clark County and took charge of the extensive property of 577 acres which has been under his capable direction and management. He has made this farm the home of a herd of registered Shorthorn cattle. He and his brother Ansel own together a farm of 207 acres in Greene County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have two children : Ruth, attending the Harmony Township High School, and Benjamin C., who is still in the grade school. Mr. -Wright is affiliated with the Springfield Lodge of Elks, is a republican, and the family are Presbyterians and attend worship at South Charleston. ROBERT A. TINDALL, farmer and land owner, has spent practically all his life industriously engaged on the farm where he now resides in Greene Township. He was born there February 7, 1876, son of Robert and Mary A. (Hartwell) Tindall. The Tindalls are a pioneer family of Clark County. His grandparents, Thomas and Sarah Tindall, were natives of England, were married and some of their children were born in that country, and about a century ago they established their home in Clark County, where they lived out their lives. Robert Tindall was born on the home farm in Greene Township, June 25, 1825, and he had a long life of industry and honorable citizenship. He died November 7, 1907. He was a republican in politics, had served as a school director, and his wife was an active member of the Methodist Church. Mary A. Hartwell was born at Xenia, Ohio, September 21, 1839, and died June 20, 1876, the mother of three sons and three daughters. Robert A. Tindall was the youngest child, and was only a few weeks old when his mother died. He has twO brothers living: Herbert D., born January 5, 1865, who has never married and lives at the old homestead ; and William, born November 16, 1873, a resident of Memphis, Tennessee. Robert A. Tindall during his boyhood attended the district schools, and almost from his earliest recollections he has done some of the work on the farm where he now lives. Mr. Tindall owns a well improved place of 171 acres. He is a republican in politics. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 77 January 20, 1916, he married Marjorie Stuckey, who was born in Xenia, Ohio, June 8, 1897, daughter of Clarence and Blanche (Weddle) Stuckey. She was reared at Xenia, and attended school there and also the Selma High School. Mr. and Mrs. Tindall have twin children, Robert H. and Wanda, born May 5, 1917. J. WILLIAM ROBERTS. One of the modernly-improved and highly-productive farms of Clark County is that known as the Valley View Stock Farm, consisting of 365 acres, which is located on the Springfield and Mechanicsburg Turnpike, ten miles northeast of Springfield. The proprietor of this valuable property is one of the reliable citizens of his community, J. William Roberts, who was born in Champaign County, Ohio, across the road from his present home, January 27, 1859, being a son of John W. and Polina Hamilton (Hodge) Roberts. The Roberts family are of Welsh origin, and the paternal great-grandparents of Mr. Roberts were William and Rebecca Roberts. His grandfather, James H. Roberts, was born in Virginia, and as a young man, in 1810, went to Lawrenceville, Indiana, where he entered a large tract of land. Later he moved to Clark County, Ohio, where he was the owner of a farm, and rounded out a career of industry marked by the attainment of a gratifying success. The maternal grandfather of J. William Roberts was John H. Hodge, who married Polly Baird, and they settled near South Vienna, on the old Columbus Road. He died at the age of thirty-four. His wife remained a widow and raised five children, one of whom married John Wren Roberts, the brother of J. William Roberts. The third child of his father's second marriage, John W. Roberts, was reared in Champaign and Clark counties, and received his education at the old Foley schoolhouse in Moorefield Township, in which community he was born in 1825. In November, 1846, he married Polina Hamilton Hodge, and in 1852 they moved from Clark County to Champaign County and settled on the farm now owned by their son J. William. They were highly respected people of their community, and fully merited the esteem in which they were held. Of their five children four are living in 1922 : Melissa J., the wife of John W. Evans ; Emma C., the widow of William G. McCreary ; Frank M., deceased ; J. William, of this review ; and Sallie, the widow of George Given. J. William Roberts was reared on the home farm and acquired his educational training in the rural district school at Buck Creek. He remained under the parental roof and was associated with his father in the pursuits of farming, and when the elder man died he took over the home property by purchase and has continued its operation to the present time. He carries on general farming and specializes in the breeding and raising of fine livestock, for which his property had achieved something more than a local reputation. Mr. Roberts has made numerous improvements on his farm, and is looked upon as being modern in his tendencies and progressive in his actions. A good business man, he has always acted honorably in his transactions with his fellow-men. In November 26, 1890, Mr. Roberts was united in marriage with Miss Clara Goodfellow, who was born near South Vienna, Ohio, July 7, 1863, and was educated in the public schools of her birthplace. She and her husband are the parents of two sons : Homer, a graduate of 78 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY high school, who is assisting his father with the work of the home place; and Frank G., who attended the Nelson Business College, married Jessie Swaidner, and since her death has been associated with his father and brother in operating the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are members Of the first Baptist Church, Springfield, in the work of which they have taken an active part. Like his father, Mr. Roberts is a republican in his political sentiment and support. He has served as a member of the Board of School Directors, and at all times has evidenced his public spirit as a citizen. JESSE OTIS DAVY, M. D. In the death of Dr. Jesse Otis Davy, on June 23, 1922, the City of Springfield, Ohio, not only lost a citizen Of great worth, but the medical profession One of its best exemplars of all that medical science stands for. He was of old Ohio stock and all his life took pride in his native state. Doctor Davy was born in Delaware County, Ohio, October 18, 1840, and was a son of Rev. Henry Dorsey Davy, born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and Elizabeth (Leatherman) Davy, born in Maryland. His father was born May 4, 1811, united with the Dunkard Church body in 1838, and was called to its ministry in 1845, in which he continued until within a few years of his death in 1893. The mother of Doctor Davy was born March 11, 1809, a daughter of John Leatherman, who also was a Dunkard preacher. After their marriage the parents of Doctor Davy packed their household belongings in a one-horse wagon, and in that way journeyed into what was then the wilderness of Delaware County. The father, whO was of sturdy stock, coming from Welsh ancestors, cleared a farm in addition to looking faithfully after his church flock. He was twice married, and ten children were born to his first union, Doctor Davy being the sixth in order of birth, and four children being born to his second marriage. Jesse Otis Davy spent his boyhood on the home farm, attending a select school in 1858, and later in 1860, went to Navarre, where he read medicine with Dr. J. D. Otis. He remained there until 1861, when he came to Springfield to attend Wittenberg College. He was at college when Fort Sumpter was fired on, and with four of his fellow students he enlisted for military service on April 23, 1861, entering Company C, Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which they served in the battles of Phillipi, Laurel Hill and Carrick's Ford, and were honorably discharged in August, 1861. Doctor Davy returned to his studies at Wittenberg, but on October 23, 1863, re-enlisted, entering Company B, Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Department of the Cumberland, and took part on the first line in the battle of Missionary Ridge. Soon after that he was transferred to the medical corps, and served in that department until his second discharge, August 16, 1865. He once more returned to Wittenberg College, from which he was graduated in 1868, with the degree of A. B., then entered the Cincinnati Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1869 with his medical degree. He was engaged in practice in Miami County until 1882, when he came to Springfield and continued active in his profession here until the close of his useful life. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 79 Doctor Davey was one of the first physicians to use Gimming in the practice of medicine, its use being especially efficacious in the treatment of typhoid fever during the frequent epidemics of that period, and he was famed far and wide for his skill in treating such cases. This was a forerunner of the use Of antitoxin in present day medicine. Doctor Davy married in June, 1868, Miss Susanna A. Hopper, of Springfield, who died here without issue on September 8, 1891. On October 18, 1898, Doctor Davy married Miss Clare Snyder, who was born at Springfield, a daughter of John J. and Josephine C. Snyder, the former a native of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Madison County, Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Davy had one son, John Henry, who was born September 3, 1901, and resides with his mother at Springfield. Doctor Davy was widely known in his profession, and belonged to such representative bodies as the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was considered a man of sound judgment on public questions, and for many years was influential as an advocate of absolute temperance. He was a member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church at Springfield. He gave generously tO charity, and no call fOr his professional ministrations was ever unheeded, no matter what the circumstances might be. His greatest memorial is in the hearts of those he so faithfully served. EDWARD P. HOLMAN is half owner of the fine landed estate known as Cedar .Lawn Farm, the same being situated on the Urbana Turn- pike in Moorefield Township and five miles north of the City of Springfield. He takes pride in maintaining this place of 173% acres as one of the model farms of his native county, and is known as a specially progressive exponent of agricultural and livestock industry. Mr. Holman was horn in the City of Springfield, this county, on the 6th Of March, 1866, and is a son of Robert L. and Martha M. (Hildreth) Holman, both natives of Cherry Valley, Massachusetts, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. The parents of the subject of this sketch came to Clark County in the early '50s, and after here being employed a short time by the Dodge Bedstead Company, Robert L. Holman was for a brief period engaged in the lightning rod business. Thereafter he did effective work as a carpenter, millwright and pattern maker, and during the Civil war he gave his attention largely tO the manufacturing of hominy for the use of soldiers in the field. After the war he engaged in the grocery business at Springfield, and in the spring of 1875 he removed to the farm now owned by his sons Edward P. and W. H., where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1919, his wife having passed away in 1913 and both having been earnest and consistent members of the Church of God. Mr. Holman was independent in political matters, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and became a prominent and influential member of the Ohio State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, for which he served as contracting agent. Of the four children one, Arthur, is deceased ; Walter H. is a prosperous farmer in Moorefield 80 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Township ; Herbert W. is a resident of Salem, Oregon, and Edward P., of this review, is the youngest Of the three. Edward P. Holman was nine years old when the family removed from Springfield to the farm in Moorefield Township, and since completing his studies in the public schOols he has been continuously and successfully identified with farm enterprise. In politics he is not constrained by partisan lines but gives his support to men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment. He has served in the past as master of Tremont Grange and is the incumbent of this office at the time of this writing, in 1922. He and his wife hOld membership in the COngregatiOnal Church of Springfield. June 1, 1893, marked the marriage of Mr. Holman and Miss Eloise Ilges, who was born and reared in MoOrefield Township, and they have three children : ThOmas, who was born October 31, 1895, is a graduate of the University of Ohio and is now in the employ of the Government at Garden City, Long Island, New York, where he is identified with the aerOplane service ; George, who was born October 22, 1897, graduated from the University of Ohio, with the degree of Civil Engineer, and is now connected with the West Virginia Inspection Bureau ; Fred H., born June 9, 1903, graduated from the Springfield High School and thereafter was for one year a student in Wittenberg College and for a similar period in the University of Ohio, he being now at the parental home. BENSON A. BAKER is one of the representative agriculturists and stock growers of the younger generation in Moorefield Township, where he stages his productive activities on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth and which is situated six and one-half miles north Of Springfield. Here he was born March 27, 1895, a son of Charles O. and Irby E. (Rawlings) Baker. The father was born in German Township, this county, October 30, 1858, a sOn of Alexander and Johanna (Baker) Baker, the former of whOm likewise was bOrn in Clark County and the latter Of whom was born in Maryland, she having been young when she came with her parents to Clark County. Alexander Baker became a prosperous farmer in German Township, near Eagle City, where he remained until 1865. He then removed with his family to the farm which he purchased in Moorefield Township, where he passed the remainder of his life, he having been one of the honored pioneer citizens of the county at the time of his death. Of his two children Charles O. was the elder, and Susanna became the wife of Dr. J. M. Kilgore, they having established their home in the City of Chicago, IllinOis. Charles O. Baker was reared On the hOme farm and received his early education in the local schools. December 13, 1888, recorded his marriage with Miss Irby E. Rawlings, whO was born in Champaign County, this state, August 5, 1867, a daughter of James and Laura (Townley) Rawlings. After his marriage Charles O. Baker settled on a farm in Moorefield Township, and he later purchased and removed to the adjoining farm, which constitutes the hOme place of his son Benson A., immediate subject of this sketch. Here he remained until his death, NOvember 30, 1916, and his widOw still resides there. He served as a trustee Of the Moorefield Chapel Meth- SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 81 odist Episcopal Church, of which his widow likewise is a zealous member, his political support was given totOhe republican party, and he was affiliated with the Knights ofOfhe Maccabees. Of the two surviving children the subject of this review is the younger, his brother, Carroll R., who was born April 2, 1892, being a resident of Springfield and the maiden name ofOfis wife having been Effie Geron. Benson A. Baker has wisely continued his allegiance to the great basic industries under the influences of which he was reared, and has proved himself a progressive and. successful farmer in his native county. His early educational advantages were those of the public schools of Moorefield Township. He and his wife are active members ofOfhe Moorefield Chapel Methodist Church, and he is serving as a trustee of the same, being the virtual successor of his father in this office. He is a republican in political proclivities, is affiliated with Lessing Lodge No. 372, Knights of Pythias, at Springfield, and also with adjunct organization, the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. He married, May 26, 1921, Miss Maude Anderson, and they have one child, Roger Eugene. He is associated with his widowed mother in the owOwnershipf the well improved old homestead ofOfinety-four acres. JOHN C. CROMWELL, who has charge of the Sultzbach Farm of 260 acres in Moorefield Township, one mile north of the corporate limits of Springfield, was born at Frederick, Maryland, July 14, 1880, and is a son of William E. and Catherine E. (Crawford) Cromwell, the former of whom was born in Maryland, in 1834, and the latter in Virginia, in 1843. In 1886 William E. Cromwell came with his family to Ohio and settled in Clinton County, where he purchased a farm. He there continued his successful activities as a farmer until his removal to the City of Columbus, from which city he worked as a lolOcomotivengineer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, his early experience in this vocation having been gained before he came to Ohio. He continued in railroad service until his retirement, and he now resides at Springfield, his wife having died in 1915. He is a democrat in politics and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife. Of their six children three are living, the subject of this review being the youngest ofOfhe number : William C. is foreman in an elelevatOranufactory in the City of Columbus, and Catherine E. is the wife of H. H. Hodge, of Springfield. The public schools of Ohio's capital city afforded to John C. Cromwell his early education, which included the discipline of the high scschOol,nd after leaving school he was ememplOyedn the electric light works of Columbus until 1911. He then came to Clark County, where he has the active management ofOfne of the large and fine farm estates of MoMOorefieldownship, as nonOtedn the opening paragraph of this review. He is a leader in the breeding of registered Jersey cattle in Clark County, the fine herd on the farm being headed by "Majestic Star," and the farm being also center for the raising of registered PoPOland-Chinawine, with an average herd of forty head. Though loyal and progressive as a citizen and a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, Mr. Cromwell has had nGno Vol. - II-6 82 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY desire for political activity or public office. He and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church. June 8, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr. Cromwell and Miss Catherine E. McLean, who attended Oxford Female College and later graduated from Danville College. She is a popular factor in the representative social activities of the home community, and is the gracious chatelaine of the pleasant rural household over which she presides. Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell have one son, John McLean, who was born June 22, 1918. ADAM STONER has been a farmer who has wisely and progressively ordered his agricultural and livestock enterprise and made of success a logical result. He is one of the substantial citizens of Moorefield Township, where he is the owner of a valuable landed estate of 250 acres, besides which he is a stockholder in two of the banking institutions in the City of Springfield, is a director of the Clark County Mortgage Finance Company, and has Other capitalistic investments. Mr. Stoner is a republican, has served as township trustee and member of the School Board, and takes loyal interest in all that concerns the welfare of his home community. He is an earnest member of the Methodist Protestant Church and has held important offices in the same. Mr. Stoner has a wide circle of friends in Clark County, and his name is enrolled on the roster of bachelors in the county. He claims the old Keystone State as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1856. He is a son of David and Magdalene (Buckwalter) Stoner, both likewise natives of Lancaster County, where the former was born October 27, 1809, and the latter on the 3d of May, 1815. The parents were representatives of pioneer German families of Pennsylvania, and the father became one of the prosperous farmers of his native county, he having erected on his farm the substantial stone house in which he continued to reside until his death, which occurred in October, 1868, his widow having long survived him and having passed the closing years of her life in Clark County, Ohio, where she died September 9, 1897, both having been zealous communicants of the Lutheran Church and the political allegiance of the father having been given to the republican party from virtually the time of its fOrmation until the close of his life. Of their six children one son and three daughters are living and with the son, subject of this sketch, reside two of the sisters, Misses Amanda E. and Lucy, the eldest sister, Maria, being the widow of Thomas Campbell and maintaining her home at Springfield. Adam Stoner has been a resident of Clark County since he was a lad of nine years, was here reared on the farm and here received the advantages of the district schools. He has remained continuously On the old home farm, in the ownership Of which his sisters are associated, and he has made a record of large and successful achievement as a thoroughgoing agriculturist and stock grower. JOHN S. NICKLIN is numbered among the substantial farmers and representative citizens Of Moorefield Township, and is serving at the present time (1922) as township trustee, a preferment that shows SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 83 the high regard in which he is held in his native township. He was born on a farm near the Village of Moorefield, this county, December 5, 1855. He is a son of John B. and Catherine (Hoffman) Nicklin, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Clark COunty, OhiO. The father was reared and educated in the historic Old Dominion State, and there he remained until he was twenty-two years of age, when he came tO Clark County, Ohio, and settled in Moorefield Township, where he met and eventually wedded Miss Catherine Hoffman, daughter of Jacob V. and Elizabeth (Seibert) Hoffman, sterling pioneers Of the cOunty. After his marriage John B. Nicklin bought the homestead farm on which he prOved most successful in his long continued activities as an agriculturist and stock grower, and on which he continued to reside until his death, his widow having passed the closing years of her life in the hOme of one of her daughters and having been venerable in years at the time of her death in 1914. Both were earnest and zealous members Of the Moorefield Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. Mr. Nicklin was a staunch demOcrat and served as township trustee and as a member Of the School Board. Of their ten children only four are living : Clara, who is the wife of James Crabill, Of Springfield Township ; John S. and Joseph H., both of whOm are representative farmers in MOOrefield TOwnship, and Effie, whO is the wife of Oliver McConkey, of the same township. On the old home farm John S. Nicklin remained until he was twenty-two years of age, and in the meanwhile he had profited by the advantages offered in the district schools. After leaving the parental home he was employed by the month at farm work for two years, and after his marriage, in 1880, he farmed on rented land for a period of eight years. He then, in 1888, purchased his present fine homestead farm which has been the stage of his progressive activities as an agriculturist and stOck grOwer during the long intervening period of more than thirty years. He and his wife are prominent members of the Methodist Protestant Church at Pleasant Hill, of which he is a trustee, besides having served as superintendent of its Sunday SchOol. Mr. Nicklin has been influential in the lOcal councils of the demOcratic party and has been called upon to serve in various offices of community trust. He has been township trustee since 1915, has been a valued member of the School Board of his district, has served as a member of the Clark County Board of Agriculture and is an active member of the Clark County Farm Bureau. He has done well his part in advancing the standard Of farm industry in his native county, and has proved a loyal and progressive citizen. June 1, 1880, recorded the marriage of Mr. Nicklin and Miss Mary C. Beard, who was born in Moorefield Township, December 3, 1859, a daughter of JacOb and Catherine (Seitz) Beard. Mr. and Mrs. Nicklin have two children : Oliver, who was born April 10, 1882, married Miss Ada Otstot, and they now reside in the City of Springfield ; Pealie C., who was born July 21, 1884, is the wife. of Dell F. Creamer, and they reside at the home of her parents, Mr. Creamer having the active management of the Nicklin farm. 84 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY CHARLES W. CONSTANTINE, for forty years a well known and highly respected citizen of Springfield, former mayor, attorney and councillor, died at his home, 15 West Jefferson Street, Friday night at 10 :40 o'clock, February 11, 1916, from paralysis, following an illness of five months. Although Mr. Constantine has been confined to his home during the winter months, unable to give his attention to his personal affairs, his recovery was confidently hoped for until the last Monday, when he suffered a stroke which followed one of September 2nd. From that time on Mr. Constantine grew worse and his recovery was despaired of. Charles William Constantine was known to thousands of Springfield people. His activity in all things pertaining to the advancement and welfare of his city and his interest in affairs political as they pertained to the success of the democratic party had given him an acquaintanceship throughout not only Ohio but with the big men in public life throughout the country. For years his advice was sought by men high in civic life both in this city and in Ohio and other states. Although always active in behalf of others, Mr. Constantine held but one public office in his career, that being mayor of Springfield during the years of 1883 and 1884. It was characteristic of him that his efforts politically were always directed for his friends rather than to his Own advancement or preferment. To Charles W. Constantine friendship was a sacred institution, and many men in Springfield can attest to this fact. Mr. Constantine was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, December 25, 1846, the son of Philip and Louise Constantine. While still a boy Mr. Constantine's parents moved to Cincinnati, where after residing for a short time they came to Springfield, in the late fifties. After a residence here for a time the family removed to a farm near New Albany, Indiana, where Mr. Constantine received his earlier academic education. When about nineteen years of age he returned to Springfield and took employment with the Bushnell and Ludlow drug store. The drug business, however, was not to his liking, and he removed to Chicago, where he studied law in the offices of Charles M. Hadry, an eminent attorney of the Illinois metropolis. In 1872 he was admitted to the Illinois bar, and for a time practiced law in Chicago. During his residence in Chicago Mr. Constantine was united in marriage with Miss Barbara Fassler, a daughter of Jerome Fassler, of Springfield, Ohio, the date of the wedding having been February 22, 1876. Mrs. Constantine survives him. In 1878 he gave up his practice in Chicago and came to Springfield, being admitted to the Ohio bar. It was after taking up his permanent residence in this city that Mr. Constantine became the legal advisor of John W. Bookwalter, late millionaire manufacturer and philanthropist, who died September 26, 1915, in San Remo, Italy. What was begun as a business association gradually grew into a close friendship, and at the time of his death, Charles W. Constantine was counted one of the most personal in all of Mr. Bookwalter's wide acquaintances and friendships. At his death Mr. Constantine was named as executor of the Bookwalter will, a distinction which he shared with Frank M. Bookwalter. Aside from many other activities which caused Mr. Constantine to he reckoned as a man of prominence in his community were those which SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 85 he constantly exercised in behalf of Springfield. He helped choose the sites for the Ohio Knights of Pythias Home and the Ohio Odd Fellows Home, and was one of the men who were foremost in having those homes located in Springfield. He was instrumental in the Organization of the Country Club in this city, and was a member of the Commercial Club. Mr. Constantine was a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Mystic Shrine, an Elk and life member of the Loyal Order Of Moose. Also he was a member of the Lagonda Club, a member and stockholder Of the Springfield Country Club, and he was interested in and worked for the establishing of the Masonic Home at Springfield. The life of Mr. Constantine is closely interwoven with the history of several of Springfield's leading industries. He was associated with O. S. Kelly in the development of the O. S. Kelly Company and also assisted Mr. Bookwalter in the organization of the Bookwalter Steel and Iron Company. He was at one time a director in the James Leffel Company, of this city and a stockholder in that concern. The political activities of Mr. Constantine covered a wide field of endeavor in behalf of many of the most prominent men of the country. He was intimate with such men as William C. Whitney and Daniel Manning, of New York, the men who were credited with having brought Grover Cleveland into prominence. In 1879, in the days of Tom Ewing, Mr. Constantine began to attend state conventions of his party. By 1881 he had risen so high in the councils of his party that he Outmaneuvered the then powerful Senator George H. Pendleton, preventing his election as permanent chairman of the Democratic State Convention of that year. It was by this stroke that Mr. Constantine materially assisted in affecting the nomination of Mr. Bookwalter for the governorship on the democratic ticket over Theodore j. Cook, the candidate favored by Senator Pendleton. It was during the preliminaries of the Bookwalter campaign that Mr. Constantine became associated with Mr. Henry B. Payne, afterward a United States Senator. Mr. Constantine had gone to Cleveland to seek the support of Mr. Payne for Mr. Bookwalter, and likewise the assistance of John H. Farley, then mayor of Cleveland. Mr. Constantine was on his way to call upon Mr. Payne, in company with Mayor Farley, when they learned of the assassination of President Garfield. It was at the conference with Payne that the fear was first expressed that the news of President Garfield's assassination would bring victory to the republican standard at the coming election, which resulted as had been foreseen. Mr. Constantine served on the Democratic State Central and State Executive Committees, during which he became associated with Durbin Ward, George Hoadley and others of the dignitaries of the party in Ohio. It was at a conference held in this city that an agreement was reached among John R. McLean, Mayor Farley and Senator Pendleton that the two last named were to conduct the Bookwalter campaign in Northern Ohio, McLean in the southern part, and Mr. Constantine became treasurer of the State Executive Committee. He was a storng supporter of President Cleveland in the campaign of 1884. The first political defeat to be suffered by Mr. Constantine was when in his fight for the election of John A. McMahon of Dayton in 1889 as United States 86 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Senator, the latter was defeated by Calvin S. Brice. In 1892 Mr. Constantine was a delegate to the national convention which nominated President Cleveland. It was through the efforts of Mr. Constantine that the name of Mr. Bookwalter was withdrawn from the active lists of candidates for United States Senator in 1903, after Mr. Bookwalter had declined to permit the use of his name while the forces of Tom L. Johnson were pleading for him to become a candidate. ALBERT D. HEINDEL, who is, in 1922, giving loyal and effective service as township assessor of Moorefield Township, is not only one of the representative farmers of this township but also claims the same as the place of his nativity, his birth having here Occurred on the 8th of September, 1858. He is a son of Matthias and Mary E. (Ferree) Heindel, both natives of York County, Pennsylvania, where the former was born in 1818 and the latter in 1824. After their marriage the parents continued their residence in the old Keystone State until 1851, when they came tO Clark County, Ohio, and settled on a farm north of Lagonda, where they passed the remainder of their lives and where the father made a record of successful and worthy achievement as an agriculturist and stock grower. Matthias Heindel was a man of sterling character, was one of the substantial and honored citizens of MOorefield Township, was a republican in political adherency, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the United Brethren Church, in which he served as a trustee. Of their eleven children only two are living at the time Of this writing, in 1922, the subject of this sketch being the elder of the two, and his sister, Alice, being the wife of A. B. Swartwout, of Moorefield Township. Albert D. Heindel was reared on the old homestead farm, and after having profited fully by the advantages of the district school he cOntinued his studies in the high school at Urbana, besides taking a normal course at Tremont. His good judgment has been shown in his continuous alliance with farm industry, for in this connection he has achieved marked success and has contributed his quota to the advancement of agriculture and livestock enterprises in his native county. He is a stalwart republican, and his secure place in the confidence and high regard of the people of his old home township is shown in his having served twenty-five years as township assessor and in his having been twice elected land appraiser of the township. He also gave ten years of service as a member of the School Board of his district. He is a valued member of the local Grange, and he and his wife are communicants Of the Lutheran Church in the City of Springfield. November 23, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mr. Heindel and Miss Anna M. Hotz, who was born on a farm north Of Springfield, this county, December 20, 1870, and in the summer following their marriage they established their residence on their present fine home- stead farm, which comprises sixty acres and which is well improved. Of their six children the eldest is Mary E., who graduated from the Springfield High School and who afterward devoted two years to successful teaching in the public schools, she being, in 1922, a student SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 87 in Wittenberg College at Springfield. E. Wesley is associated in the operations of the home farm. Emma G., who is a graduate of the Springfield High School, is now a stenographer in the offices of the American Seeding Machine Company at Springfield. Albert D., Jr., is likewise a graduate of the Springfield High School, and he is now at the parental home. Mildred A. is a graduate of the same high school and is now a nurse in the City Hospital of Springfield. William H. is a member of the class of 1923 in the Springfield High School. JOHN H. DAVIS. In Moorefield Township, four miles north of the City of Springfield, is to be found the well improved and ably managed farm homestead of Mr. Davis, the total area of his landed estate being 202 acres, of which his residence place comprises sixty acres. He has proved his resourcefulness and energy as a vigorous and successful exponent of farm industry, is progressive and liberal as a citizen, is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he is an active member of the Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife. Mr. Davis was born in Greene County, Ohio, October 10, 1873, and is a son of John W. and Priscilla (Davis) Davis, both of whom were born in the vicinity of Columbus, the capital city of Ohio, the former on the 1st of April, 1849, and the latter on the 30th of August, of the same year. After their marriage the parents remained several years on a rented farm near Columbus, and they then came to Greene County and located on a farm near Cedarville. In 1874 they removed to Greene Township, Clark County, where John W. Davis purchased a farm of 126Y2 acres. Later he bought as a little homestead a tract of four acres, and on this place he remained until the death of his wife in 1915. He is now venerable in years and is one of the highly respected citizens of Clark County. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife, and in politics is a staunch republican. Of their ten children all but one survive the loved mother : Cora B. is the wife of F. A. Johnson, of Greene Township ; William F. resides at Beatty, Clark County ; John H., of this review, is the next younger ; Asa B. is a farmer in Greene Township ; Edith is the wife Of John H. Martin, of Greene Township ; Warren E. is a farmer in that township ; Maude is the wife of W. A. Wornstaff, likewise of Clark County ; Floyd resides at Villa, this county ; and Oliver maintains his residence at Springfield. The old home farm in Greene Township figured as the sage Of the rearing and early activities of John H. Davis, and in the meanwhile he did not neglect the advantages offered by the public schools. After attaining tO his legal majority he was employed five years at farm work by the month, and in his later independent activities as a farmer he has achieved substantial success, as shown by his owner, ship of a well improved and valuable farm property. In 1900 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Davis and Miss Bessie P. Kiser, who likewise was born and reared in Clark County, and whO passed to the life eternal in February, 1920. She is survived by five children : Florence H., Ralph, Ruth, Wilma and Marjorie. Miss Florence H. Davis graduated from one of the Ohio State 88 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Normal Schools and is a successful and popular teacher. Ralph is a graduate of the Springfield High School and also of a business college, and the younger children are still attending school. JOHN HENRY KOBELANZ. The Kobelanz family has been one Of the sturdiest and most highly respected in Clark County. Three generations of the name have lived here. As a family they have been distinguished by business initiative and enterprise, by public spirit, by helpful support to educational and religious institutions, and frequently by constructive leadership in local affairs. The founder Of the family was Frederick Kobelanz, who was born in Hanover, Germany. He married Margaret Duhme. In 1830 he came to America, spent one winter at Buffalo, New York, and then by boat and overland arrived in Springfield. A year later he went on to St. Louis, but remained only a year or so and then settled permanently in Clark County. While in the West he was on a Mississippi River steamboat. His principal business in Springfield for a number of years was the operation of stone quarries, and he was a leading contractor in stone and lime. He alsO assisted as a foreman of construction during the building of the National Pike. He was one of the organizers of the Lutheran Church, now St. John's Lutheran Church, and he and a Mr. Ward furnished the first stones for the building of Wittenberg College. He helped .clear the logs and brush from what is now the College Campus, and was an intimate friend of Ezra Keller, founder of the college. He was affiliated with Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons and was a Royal Arch Mason. He was also a staunch friend and gave financial assistance to James Leffel, aiding him in completing his invention of the water wheel. Two other permanent Springfield manufacturers, John H. Thomas and P. P. Mast, soon after starting in business went to Frederick Kobelanz and secured his financial backing. He was recognized as the leading German born citizen of Springfield. About 1844 he removed to his farm of 325 acres situated in sections twelve, six and five in Springfield TOwnship. He lived there, looking after his farm and other interests, until his death on November 24, 1880. His wife died in 1864. Their son, John Henry Kobelanz, Sr., was born on North Fountain Avenue in Springfield, March 15, 1839, and was five years of age when his parents removed to the farm. After the death of his father he came into the possession of 111 acres, including the homestead, and was successfully identified with agricultural operations there until his death on December 11, 1918. JOhn Henry Kobelanz, Sr., married Anna M. Snyder, who was born near York, Pennsylvania, July 11, 1841, daughter of Abraham and May (Kunkel) Snyder, natives of York County. Anna Snyder was induced to come to Clark County to take care of an aged uncle and aunt, and she remained here until her marriage. She died March 29, 1920. She was the mother of five children : Elva K., wife of Dr. P. A. Dillahunt, of West McCreight Avenue ; Charles E., who died at the age of three years ; John Henry, Jr.; Daisy L., Mrs. Glenn Russell, living on West McCreight Avenue, and Anna M., wife of Henry G. Miller, of Springfield Township. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 89 John Henry Kobelanz, Jr., was born in Springfield Township, June 20, 1875, and he acquired a good education in the public schools and had four years in Wittenberg College. He has busied himself with the tasks and responsibilities of a farmer and a citizen alert to the welfare of the community. After the death of his father he came into the possession Of fifty-three acres of the old farm, and still occupies that place on McCreight Avenue, on Rural Route No. 7. He is a republican, while his father was a democrat and served one term as township trustee. Mr. Kobelanz is affiliated with Ingomar Lodge No. 610, Knights of Pythias, and is a member of the First English Lutheran Church. February 15, 1922, he married Mrs. Mary (Burkhart) Gaier, a native of the City of Springfield and widow of Anton Gaier. By her first marriage she has three children, JOhn, Louise and Emily. FRED W. BINNIG has made an excellent success of floriculture in his native county, and his fine greenhouses and nurseries are situated in Springfield Township, three and one-half miles southeast of Springfield, on the Selma Turnpike. Mr. Binnig is a young man who has thoroughly fortified himself in the scientific and practical details of modern floriculture, and his enthusiasm and progressive policies have brought to him both prestige and prosperity. Mr. Binnig was born at Springfield, the county seat, on the 7th of June, 1894, and is a son of Christian and Sophia (Voll) Binnig, the former of whom was born in Germany, January 24, 1870, and the latter of whom was born at Springfield, Clark County, in 1863. Christian Binnig was about fourteen years of age when he came from his native land to the United States, in 1883. He became associated with the nursery business of the Storrs & Harrison Company of Painesville, Ohio, his preliminary training in this line of enterprise having been gained in Germany. He continued his alliance with this concern until 1888, when he came to Springfield and entered the employ of C. A. Reeser, who was here engaged in the greenhouse business. In 1893 he was made superintendent of the plant and business, and after the organization of a stock company to carry forward the business on a large scale he became vice president, of which position, together with that of superintendent, he continued the incumbent until his death, October 6, 1913. His marriage occurred June 21, 1893. Mrs. Binnig died February 19, 1922, an earnest communicant Of St. John's Evangelical Church, as was also her husband, he having served as president of the Church Council. Mr. Binnig was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd FellOws and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was independent in politics and was a substantial business man and loyal citizen who ever commanded unqualified popular esteem. Of the three children Fred W., immediate subject of this sketch, is the eldest ; Carl C. is associated with the florist business of his elder brother, and Harold is engaged in the automobile business at Springfield, as a member of the firm Of Townsley & Binnig. The public schools of Springfield afforded Fred W. Binnig his early education, and after his graduation from high school he was 90 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY for one year a student in the University of Ohio, the death Of his father having interrupted his work at the university. In his independent business career Mr. Binnig has shown marked resourcefulness and progressiveness, his greenhouse plant being established on a tract of thirteen acres and being of the best modern type. He has facilities for the propagating of flowers and shrubbery of all kinds, and has developed a large and substantial business. His residence is at the plant, and the house is modern in architecture and appointments. Mr. Binnig takes loyal interest in all that concerns the communal welfare and the general prosperity of his native county, is independent in politics and is affiliated with Anthony Lodge No. 455, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Springfield. On the 17th of April, 1917, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Binnig and Miss Mabel Corry, who likewise was born and reared in Clark County and whO is a daughter of Riley and May (Garlough) Corry. Mr. and Mrs. Binnig are specially zealous members of St. John's Evangelical Church in Springfield, and in the Sunday School of the same he is teacher of the Young Men's Bible Class. Mr. and Mrs. Binnig have two children : Roger, born November 11, 1919, and Walter, born January 25, 1922. GRANVILLE L. ORT holds the office of cashier of the First National Bank of New Carlisle, which was founded more than twenty years ago and which has a record of most excellent service to its constituent community and which is one of the substantial and important financial institutions of Clark County. Mr. Ort was born in Greene County, Ohio, November 1, 1862, and is a son of the Rev. George B. Ort, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania and who was a young man when he came to Ohio and engaged in teaching school in Montgomery County. Later he completed a theological course in Wittenberg College, at Springfield, and after his ordinatiOn to the ministry of the Lutheran Church he became pastor of the church of this denomination at Osborn, Greene County, where he continued his earnest and effective pastoral service fourteen years and where he remained until his death, at the age of forty-seven years. He whose name initiates this review received excellent educational advantages, including those of Wittenberg College, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1889 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, which later was supplemented by that of Master of Arts. In 1890-91 he was a successful teacher in the public schools of New Carlisle, and for six years thereafter he was cashier in the general passenger agent office Of the Big Four Railroad in the City of Cincinnati, his activities in this connection having covered a period of six years. He then became assistant cashier in a bank at Osborn, Greene COunty, and on the 1st day of January, 1918, he assumed his present office, that of cashier of the First National Bank of New Carlisle, an institution that has been most carefully and ably managed and that is in impregnable financial condition, with deposits of fully $100,000 and with its stock above par and none for sale, a substantial surplus fund adding further to its solidity. This bank was organized twenty years ago, SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 91 and bases its operations on a capital stock of $30,000. Among its stockholders and directors have been numbered representative men of Clark County, and its officials have been able and faithful in the discharge of their executive functions. The bank owns the well equipped building in which its business is conducted. Mr. Ort married Miss Hettie A. Monk, daughter of the late John Monk, who was long numbered among the honored citizens and extensive and representative farmers of Clark County. Mr. and Mrs. Ort have one son, John M., who graduated from the Ohio State University and was a former instructor in chemistry at the Case School of Applied Sciences, in the City of Cleveland.. He is now holding the same position in the Ohio State University at Columbus, OhiO. MRS. JOHN G. NAVE represents the old and prominent Gram family Of Clark County. She owns and occupies with her family a fine farm Of 151 acres in Greene Township, on rural route No. 5 out of Springfield. Her maiden name was Margaret E. Gram. Her parents were Jacob and Catherine (Weller) Gram, and her grandfather was David Gram. Jacob Gram was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1811, and as a young man he left Lancaster County and walked over the mountains to Clark County, Ohio. He subsequently went back to Pennsylvania, and altogether he traveled the distance between the localities six times. In Clark County he married Catherine Weller, a native of Virginia, and after their marriage they settled on a farm in Greene Township. In the Gram family were nine children, four of whom are still living: Mrs. John G. Nave ; Theodore Gram, of Springfield ; Joseph, a farmer in Greene Township ; and Ed Gram, a farmer in Madison Township. John Nave started life with little beyond the labor of his hands. He worked for monthly wages, later rented land from Robert Elder, and finally bought a small place and eventually had a farm of eighty-eight acres, all paid for. He was a democrat and he and his wife were active members of the Free Will Baptist Church at Pleasant Grove. Margaret E. Gram grew up on the home farm, and as a girl she proved her usefulness both in the work of the house and in the field. She had a wonderful constitution, and was able to do a man's work in the harvest field. On August 8, 1861, she became the wife of the late John G. Nave. Mr. Nave enlisted and served a hundred days as a Union soldier. Both took an active part in the Free Will Baptist Church, and he served ten years as superintendent of its Sunday School. Mrs. Nave is the mother of five children: Armenia P., born on May 16, 1862, wife of William B. Todd, of Springfield ; Alpharetta 0., born October 16, 1863, widow of Wiley Howett ; Justinus T., born September 3, 1865, a farmer ; Jacob P., born November 23. 1867, a farmer in Greene Township ; and John C., born October 6, 1870, who operates his mother's farm. The family are members of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. Mr. Nave in 1880 met with an accident on his farm, breaking both legs, and he never fully recovered. J. T. NAVE is one of several brothers whose farming enterprise has brought them substantial material rewards and who are looked upon 92 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY as leaders in the rural cOmmunity of Greene TOwnship. J. T. Nave's farm and home are on rural route No. 5. He was born in the same township, September 3, 1865, son of John G. and Margaret E. (Gram) Nave. The father was born in the same township June 10, 1838, and died May 19, 1918, at the age of eighty years. The mother, still living, was born September 11, 1840. The grandparents were Jacob and Mary (Kanable) Nave. John G. Nave acquired a country school education, served an enlistment as a Union soldier in the Civil war, and devoted half a century or more to the work Of his farm. He was an active member of the Free Will Baptist Church and an independent in politics. His five children were: Armenia, wife of William B. Todd, of Springfield; Alpharetta, widow of Wiley Howett, J. T., Jacob P., and John C., all farmers in Greene Township. J. T. Nave lived with his parents On the old homestead and acquired a common school education, and at the age of twenty-one began earning his living by day and month wages as a farm hand. On October 2, 1889, at the age of twenty-four, he married Jennie B. Jones, a native Of Greene Township. For two years after their marriage they rented land and then, in 1892, Mr. Nave bought his present place, where he has 150 acres, well farmed, well improved and an attractive and profitable home. Mr. and Mrs. Nave have two children : Albert, a graduate of the Pitchin High School ; and Gladys E., who is also a high school graduate and is the wife of C. W. Jacobs, of Yellow Springs, Ohio. The family are members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Nave is affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics, and was a charter member and is a past chancellor of that order. He is independent in politics. CHARLES F. WISE has been an active figure in farming and stock raising circles in Clark County for over forty years. While he has turned over some of the heavier responsibilities tO younger shoulders, he still owns a large amount of valuable farm property and lives on a farm in Greene Township, six miles west of South Charleston. He was born on a farm in Springfield Township, December 26, 1861, son of Lewis and Malinda (Hatfield) Wise. His father was born in Madison Township, near South Charleston, December 14, 1829, son of Jesse and Debora (Strong) Wise. Jesse Wise was a native of Virginia, and came on horseback with his mother across the mountains to the vicinity of South Charleston about 1810. His mother lived there the rest of her life, and he grew up and at the age of eighteen married Debora Strong. The Wise family has therefore been identified with this part of Clark County for considerably more than a century. The three children of Jesse Wise were : Phoebe, wife of John Butcher ; Anna, who became the wife of Hamilton Wade ; and Lewis Wise. Charles F. Wise spent his early life on the old farm in Springfield Township, and while there attended the local schools. At the age of twenty-one he went for himself and on August 1, 1883, married Minnie A. Schukedantz, who was born in Madison Township, November 5, 1863. After his marriage Mr. Wise rented land from his father, and at his father's death he secured 160 acres in Greene Township. He lived on that place thirty-four years, and in 1920 moved to his present SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 93 home of seventy-nine acres. Altogether he owns nearly four hundred acres. Mr. and Mrs. Wise have three sons. Blain C., born June 1, 1884, is a graduate in the Pitchin High School, as are his two brothers, and he is a farmer and married Emma Truesdale. Clarence L., born June 16, 1886, is a farmer and married Daisy Craig. Jesse C., born December 14, 1891, married Louise Skillings. He is a farmer, and is also a well trained and talented vocal and instrumental musician. The entire Wise family are members of the Pitchin Grange. Mr. Wise is a republican, has served as trustee and a member of the School Board, and is a stockholder in the Farmers National Bank at Springfield. In live stock he has specialized in the breeding of Poland-China hogs. Mrs. Wise is a daughter of Christopher and Judith (Clemens) Schukedantz. Her father was born near Frankfort, Germany, and her mother near South Charleston, Ohio. Her father was a boy when his parents came to America, locating near South Charleston, where he grew up and married and became a successful farmer and live stock shipper. Of the nine children in the Schukedantz family five are living: Sarah, wife of Thomas Day, of Lagonda ; Mary, wife of James Littler, of Springfield ; Anna C., widow of John Hess, of Springfield : Mrs. Wise ; and Henry, living near Selma. WARREN R. SHUIRR has devoted long years of study, energy and attention to the important business of growing fresh vegetables for the Springfield market, and has built up one of the successful enterprises of that kind within the city district. Mr. Shuirr was born in the village of Tremont, Clark County, January 11, 1872, son of Frederick and Matilda (Hesselgesser) Shuirr. His father was born in Ohio, of German parentage, and after his marriage located at Tremont. He was a blacksmith by trade. In 1880, moving to Springfield, he bought three acres just north of the city, built on this land two greenhouses, and was successfully engaged in the growing of flowers and in general gardening until his death in 1886. His widow survived him until 1917. They had three children : Elmer, now on the old homestead ; Warren R. and Louisa E., wife of Howard Logan, living on St. Paris Pike near Springfield. Warren R. Shuirr was eight years of age when his parents moved to Springfield, and he finished his education in the Snow Hill district school. In February, 1892, he married Miss Clara V. Derr, a native Of Maryland and daughter of Noah and Henrietta (Gothard) Derr. After his marriage Mr. Shuirr bought a tract of land bounded by McCreight Avenue, First Avenue, Yellow Springs Street and an alley on the west. On this he constructed a greenhouse 70 x 70 feet, and for thirty years has made a specialty of growing vegetables both under glass and in the open for the Springfield market. He sells his produce at a stand on the city market. Mr. Shuirr is independent in politics, is affiliated with Moncrieffe Lodge No. 33, Knights of Pythias, and Springfield Council No. 240, Junior Order United American Mechanics. He has two sons. Walter, in the dairy business in Springfield Township, is operating a milk route. 94 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY He married Nellie Dougal, and they have two children, named John Arnold and Helen. The second son, Roy, lives at home. HARVEY A. BAKER is senior member of the firm of H. A. Baker & Brother, in which his associate is his younger brother, Harry C. Baker, and in the thriving little city of New Carlisle the firm controls a large and prosperous enterprise in the handling of heavy and shelf hardware, agricultural implements, etc., and in maintaining the local agency for the Ford automobiles. This substantial business was established in the year 1906, when Harvey A. Baker came to New Carlisle and opened a modest tin ship. The advance which has marked the history of the enterprise has been made through careful and progressive policies and effective service, and the members of the firm have achieved high reputation as business men of ability and reliability, and as liberal and public-spirited citizens. The business has been definitely expanded in scope since Harry C. Baker was admitted to partnership therein, and at the present time the general operations require the retention of a corps of about ten employes. Harry C. Baker has the general supervision of the business of the Ford agency of the firm, and a well equipped garage and service department are maintained in this connection. The hardware and implement business is established in a building of two stories and basement, and the two floors give to the firm an aggregate floor space of 8,800 square feet, the adjunct warehouse having 5,000 square feet of floor space and the garage having 3,350 square feet. The progressive firm of H. A. Baker & Brother owns all of these properties, and the splendid success that has attended the enterprise stands in evidence alike of the sterling characteristics of the two brothers and their vigorous and well ordered policies in the development of the business. Harvey A. Baker is a director of the New Carlisle Building & Loan Association, and has contributed his share to the development of the successful business of this concern. He is a director also of the New Carlisle Bank, and his civic loyalty and public spirit have been effectively brought into play in his service as a member of the Village-Council and the Board of Education, and the new public school building was erected when he was a member of the board. He served one year as president of the board. He was reared on a farm in Wyandot County, and learned his trade at Osborn, Greene County, whence he came to New Carlisle and instituted his independent business career, as noted earlier in this context. He and his wife hold membership in the Brethren Church. Mr. Baker wedded Miss Anna Wine, who was born and reared in New Carlisle and who is a daughter of Jacob Wine, now a venerable and honored citizen of New Carlisle. Mr. Wine has been a resident of Clark County fully sixty years. He came to this country from Virginia, and was long numbered among the representative farmers in the vicinity of New Carlisle. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have one son, Eugene, whO is, in 1922, a student in the Junior High School of New Carlisle. WILLIAM RILEY BURNETT, former mayor of Springfield and former commandant of the Soldiers Home, represents an old Clark County family, and for many years has been one of Springfield's most substantial and influential citizens and business men. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 95 He was born in Springfield Township, August 17, 1846, son of John and Mary (Jones) Burnett. His great-grandfather was a cousin of Daniel Boone. His paternal grandparents were Richard and Mary (Nolan) Burnett. Richard Burnett, a native of Cynthiana, Kentucky, came to Clark County in early days, driving a wagon overland. For many years he was proprietor of the old Pennsylvania House. John Burnett, father of William R. Burnett, was born in Springfield Township, October 8, 1821. He was well educated, learned the trade of millwright and carpenter, taught school one winter in Indiana, and after returning to Springfield Township followed his trade and for a long period of years was an employe of the T. T. Mast Company. On January 5, 1843, John Burnett married Mary Jones, who was born at Culpeper Court House, Virginia, July 25, 1825. Her father, Wesley Jones, on moving with his family from Virginia, lived for a time in Knox County, Ohio, then in Clark County, and soon left here, his daughter Mary, however, remaining with the Vance family until her marriage. She died April 3, 1907, while John Burnett passed away February 9, 1890. They were the parents of Thomas Henry, William Riley, George, Mary Jane, James Buchanan, Emma, Edward and Lewis, the only two now living being William R. and Lewis. William Riley Burnett grew up in Springfield Township, and had the privilege of attending school in the western school house only until he was fourteen years of age. At that time he began work, and has been largely on his own responsibility ever since, and what he has achieved has been directly due to his ambition and well directed energy. On October 19, 1865, he married Mary Catherine Monohan. She was born in Springfield, June 17, 1844, daughter of John and Eliza (Tuttle) Monohan, both natives of Clark County. Her paternal grandfather, Michael Monohan, was a native of Ireland. Her maternal grandparents, Caleb and Mary (Prickett) Tuttle, came from Virginia to Clark County. The Tuttles were very early pioneers in Springfield Township. In the meantime Mr. Burnett had served a period of nine months enlistment as a Union soldier. He enlisted July 3, 1863, in Company A of the Fourth Independent Battalion of Cavalry, and was on duty in Tennessee until honorably discharged February 16, 1864. Soon after his marriage he took up work as a machinist in the old Champion Shop, and continued to be associated with that prominent local industry for twenty-one years. After this long and faithful service he was an agent for the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati for more than a year, and then engaged in the grocery business at 60 East Main Street. After selling this he was manager of the Springfield Breweries until 1900. A man who had demonstrated his ability in business affairs and his thorough public spirit, Mr. Burnett was called by popular election to the chair of mayor, and by re-election served two more terms, until 1909, when he resigned to accept appointment as commandant of Sandusky's Soldiers Home. His wife was appointed matron of the home. Both gave the best of their ability and service to the management of this institution until July 1, 1921, when they resigned. Since then Mr. Burnett has lived partly retired at 215 West Columbia Street. He also owns the old Burnett home at the corner of High and Plum streets 96 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Mr. Burnett among other public services was for six years a member of the School Board, four years represented the First Ward on the City Council, for four years was on the Board of Public Service and four years on the Police and Fire Board. For another four years he was government gauger at the William Burns Distillery. Mr. Burnett was reared a Lutheran, was a democrat in politics, and is affiliated with Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, Springfield Lodge No. 33, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Division No. 44, Uniformed Rank, Red Star Lodge No. 205, Knights of Pythias, and Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mrs. Burnett was reared in the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett have two sons. Theodore Addison, born December 3, 1869, was the youngest graduate Of the American Veterinary College of New York, and for a number of years has practiced his profession at Columbus, Ohio. He married Emily Morgan, and they have a son, William Riley, Jr., born November 25, 1900. The second son, Levi Herr Burnett, born October 14, 1874, is a graduate of Kenyon College and Columbia Law School of New York City. He has successfully practiced law at Pittsburgh, and is assistant to the president of the Carnegie Steel Company. He married Clara Brown, and they have three children: Elizabeth, born May 30, 1899, and now the wife of Dwight Beer, of Pittsburgh ; William Herr, born in October, 1900 ; and Mary Priscilla, born June 15, 1912. JOHN B. MCCONNELL, one of the retired citizens of Springfield, was at one time a very active figure in the business life of Clark County, and earned then the respect and cOnfidence of all with whom he was associated, which he still holds. He was born in Xenia, Ohio, December 9, 1844, a son of Robert and Anna (Bruscup) McConnell, natives of Virginia and Maryland, respectively. Robert F. McConnell lost his father when he was young, sometime between 1827 and 1830, and his widowed mother came from Virginia to Xenia, Ohio, bringing her children with her. They came to Xenia in 1830. Robert F. McConnell and his wife were married in 1842. In early life he was a painter, but later on clerked in a store at Yellow Springs, taught school for some years, and for fifteen years was auditor and recorder of Hardin County, Ohio. His death occurred in March, 1881, when he was sixty-two years old. His wife died in 1850, aged thirty-five years, and both passed away at Kenton, Ohio. Their children were as follows : JOhn B., who was the eldest ; Robert Henry, who died at Ukiah, California, March 12, 1922. After the death of his first wife RObert F. McConnell married her sister, Mary Bruscup, and they had six children, namely : Anna and Emma, who are both deceased; Finley, who lives at Indianapolis, Indiana ; James E., who lives at Miami, Florida ; Reynolds, who lives at Macon, Georgia ; and Charles, whO when last heard from lived in California. When he was five and one-half years old John F. McConnell was taken to Kenton, Ohio, by his parents, and there he was living when he enlisted, June 13, 1863, in Company L, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery, and was first sent to Frankfort, Kentucky, and later to different points in Tennessee. His regiment was given the work of keeping the road SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 97 open for those actively engaged in fighting, and it participated in the battle at Cleveland, Tennessee, following which the command was rushed to the front at the engagement at Athens, Tennessee, but did not arrive until the battle was over. In December, 1864, at Strawberry Plains, Tennessee, four companies of his regiment and two companies of a Tennessee regiment were engaged in an important battle. On August, 23, 1865, Mr. McConnell received his honorable discharge and returned to Kenton. Like so many of the returned soldiers of those times, Mr. McConnell taught school for a time after returning home, and in the following winter the money he had thus earned was spent in paying his tuition at a private school at Xenia, Ohio. For several years afterward he alternated teaching school in the summer months and attending the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he was finally graduated, and for one year thereafter he taught school. Deciding then upon a business career, Mr. McConnell came to Springfield, Ohio, and entered the employ of the Saint John Sewing Machine Company as general utility man, and continued with that concern for fourteen years, or until it went out of business. Mr. McConnell then went with P. P. Mast & Company, farm implements, and after seven years with them worked for three years for the Superior Drill Company. For several years thereafter he was variously engaged, but since 1912 has lived retired. In September, 1883, he moved into a large double house, corner of Broadway and Isabella Street, which he owns, and in 1901 he built another house, 1314 Broadway, which he rents. On July 15, 1875, Mr. McConnell married Elizabeth Ivins, born near Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, in September, 1847, a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Cliver) Ivins, natives of New Jersey, who came to Warren County, Ohio, about 1830, and in early life Mr. Ivins worked as a wagonmaker, but later on became a farmer. He was born in 1806 and died at the age of eighty-seven years, and his wife, born in 1805, died in 1869. Mr. and Mrs. McConnell became the parents of the following children Ralph Homer, who died at the age of three and one-half years ; Grace and Blanche, who died in infancy ; and Clarence Herbert, who is employed in the Springfield post office, married Ella Russell, and they have two children, Elizabeth and John Hugh. Mrs. McConnell is well educated, having attended the common schools and the National Normal School at Lebanon. Both Mr. McConnell and wife belong to the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield. He is a republican, but not active in politics. Fraternally he maintains membership with Clark Lodge, F. and A. M., and Moncrieffe Lodge, K. of P. He belongs to Mitchell Post No. 45, G. A. R., which he has been quartermaster since 1913, and he served it as adjutant for four years. CHARLES JOHN ALSHEIMER is a prosperous Springfield greenhOuse owner, and in that business he has been successfully engaged for more than twenty years. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 14, 1868, son of John B. and Elizabeth (Lacher) Alsheimer, both of whom spent all their lives Vol. II-7 98 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY in Germany. Charles John Alsheimer was reared and acquired a common school education in Germany, and at the age of nineteen came to America and located at Springfield. During the next nine years he worked in different factories, and then had four years of training and experience in a greenhouse. Having learned the business, he bought, in 1901, five acres in the 2600 block on Columbus Avenue. This was then vacant land, and on it he built a house, barns and greenhouse, and in subsequent years has greatly extended the area under glass. His greenhouse is noted for his floral specialties, and while he is a large contributor to the floral trade he also does general gardening on his open land. Mr. Alsheimer is a republican and a member of the Catholic Church. January 18, 1901, the same year he engaged in business for himself, he married. Miss Anna Belt. She was born at Casstown, Ohio, daughter of Alexander and Matilda Belt. Her father is still living at Springfield. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Alsheimer : Carl, who was killed in a railroad accident at the age of eight years, and Marie and Paul, both at home. THOMAS ROSS MCGREGOR. The McGregor name is well known in Springfield, where for many years it has been associated with the floral and greenhouse industry. One member of this family is Thomas Ross McGregor, a veteran of the Civil war, who has lived practically retired here for a number of years. He was born in Rossshire, Scotland, May 25, 1836. In 1851, when he was fifteen years of age, he accompanied his parents to America and lived with them at Cincinnati. At the age of twenty he went to Benton County, Indiana, worked on a farm, and from there went on to Kansas City, Missouri, and had an experience as a cowboy on a Western ranch for two years. Shortly after his return to Oxford, Indiana, he enlisted, in April, 1861, for the three months term in Company D, of the Fifteenth Indiana Infantry. He received his first drilling at Lafayette, Indiana, and was then sent to Indianapolis, where his term of enlistment expired. On returning to Oxford he helped raise Company D of the Sixtieth Indiana Infantry, enlisted as a first sergeant in December, 1861, and after some drilling at Camp Lafayette was assigned to duty with the First Brigade, Fourth Division of the Thirteenth Army Corps. His regiment went into action in Kentucky to check the advance of the Confederates from the South, and participated in the battle of Murfreesboro, where his regiment was captured and paroled. After three months in Indianapolis Mr. McGregor was exchanged and ordered to Cairo, Illinois, where he joined the main brigade and division and entered upon the campaign to open the Mississippi River. He was in the battle and capture of Arkansas Post, and then for forty days in the siege of Vicksburg, subsequently proceeding down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. During the Red River campaign his regiment was again captured, but at that time Mr. McGregor was serving as a scout and therefore escaped. He returned to Indianapolis, taking the old flag, which he exchanged for a new one, and was then on recruiting duty three months. After the exchange of his regiment he rejoined it in SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 99 Louisiana, and subsequently did duty in Texas, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee. In March, 1865, his command was at Houston, Texas, and, the war being practically over, was soon ordered back to Indianapolis, where Mr. McGregor was discharged. After this long and faithful service as a soldier of the Union Mr. McGregor came to Cincinnati and established a game and fish store at the corner of Sixth and Central avenues. He sold this one year later. On December 24, 1868, he married Mercy Ann Skillman. She was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, a daughter of Elijah Skillman, a native of Pennsylvania. After his marriage Mr. McGregor operated a farm owned by his wife near Cincinnati, and while there erected a substantial new home. His wife died there in July, 1888, leaving no children. Mr. McGregor then continued the operation of the farm of twenty acres, and rented sixty acres besides, but in 1897 disposed of his property interests there and came to Springfield. Since then he has employed his time chiefly in his brother's greenhouse and nursery, and is practically retired. His brother, David McGregor, was born at Cincinnati, in August, 1851. His parents, Peter and Christina (Ross) McGregor, had come to America and settled at Cincinnati shortly before his birth. Peter McGregor was a railroad contractor in Scotland, and he built some of the principal streets in Cincinnati and for the last eight years of his life lived with his sOn David in Springfield, where he died in 1890. His wife died in 1887. Of their ten children six are now living: Thomas and Belle, both living in the home of their brother David at Springfield; Margaret, Christina and Jessie, all living in Cincinnati; and David, who is the youngest of the family. David McGregor came to Springfield in 1872, and was associated with his brother Frank in establishing a wholesale florists business. After half a century the firm is still known as McGregor Brothers, florists, and it is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the city. The business is located on Belmont Avenue, and Mr. David McGregor has a fine modern home at 1923 East High Street. In December, 1875, he married Elizabeth Brown, a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, and daughter of Ira and Olive (Wilder) Brown. Her father was born at Homer, New York, and her mother at Providence, Rhode Island. Both Mr. and Mrs. McGregor were educated in public schOols of Cincinnati. He is a republican, and Mrs. McGregor is a member of the Oakland Presbyterian Church. They have three children: Roy, associated with the floral business, married Mabel Martin and has two children, David and Mary ; Miss Harriett, at home ; and Ross, an employe of the Elwood Myers Company at Springfield, married Belle Cornell and has a daughter, Jean. ROBERT WIGGINS is an old time railroad man of Springfield, now retired and residing at 520 West Mulbury Street. Taking his career with that of his father, it is possible to connect the name Wiggins intimately with the history of practically every railroad in Springfield from the pioneer transportation line of that city. Mr. Robert Wiggins was born in Springfield, February 16, 1849, son of James and Mary Louise (Hutchinson) Wiggins. His parents in