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TABLE OF CONTENTS - 3

INTRODUCTORY - 11

COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY - 13

COMPENDIUM OF LOCAL BIOGRAPHY - 223


INDEX TO PART I


COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF NATIONAL CELEBRITIES.


Abbott, Lyman 144

Adams, Charles Kendall 143

Adams, John 25

Adams, John Quincy 61

Agassiz, Louis J. R. 137

Alger, Russell A. 173

Allison; William B. 131

Allston, Washington 190

Altgeld, John Peter 140

Andrews, Elisha B. 184

Anthony, Susan B. 62

Armour, Philip D. 62

Arnold, Benedict 84

Arthur, Chester Allen 168

Astor, John Jacob 139

Audubon, John James 166


Bailey, James Montgomery 177

Bancroft, George 74

Barnard, Frederick A. P. 179

Barnum, Phineas T. 41

Barrett, Lawrence 156

Barton, Clara 209

Bayard, Thomas Francis 200

Beard, William H. 196

Beauregard, Pierre G. T. 203

Beecher, Henry Ward 26

Bell, Alexander Graham 96

Bennett, James Gordon 206

Benton, Thomas Hart 53

Bergh, Henry 160

Bierstadt, Albert 197

Billings, Josh 166

Blaine, James Gillespie 22

Bland, Richard Parks 106

Boone, Daniel 36

Booth, Edwin 51

Booth, Junius Brutus 177

Brice, Calvin S. 181

Brooks, Phillips 130

Brown, John 51

Brown, Charles Farrar 91

Brush, Charles Francis 153

Bryan, William Jennings 158

Bryant, William Cullen 44

Buchanan, Franklin 105

Buchanan, James 128

Buckner, Simon Bolivar 188

Burdette, Robert J. 103

Burr, Aaron 111

Butler, Benjamin Franklin 24


Calhoun, John Caldwell 23

Cameron, James Donald 141

Cameron, Simon 141

Cammack, Addison 197

Campbell, Alexander  180

Carlisle, John G. 133

Carnegie, Andrew 73

Carpenter, Matthew Hale 178

Carson, Christopher (Kit) 86

Cass, Lewis 110

Chase, Salmon Portland 65

Childs, George W. 83

Choate, Rufus 207

Claflin, Horace Brigham 107

Clay, Henry 21

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne 86

Cleveland, Grover 174

Clews, Henry 153

Clinton, DeWitt 110

Colfax, Schuyler. 139

Conkling, Alfred 32

Conkling, Roscoe 32

Cooley, Thomas McIntyre 140

Cooper, James Fenimore 58

Cooper, Peter 37

Copely, John Singleton 191

Corbin, Austin 205

Corcoran, W. W. 196

Cornell, Ezra 161

Cramp, William 189

Crockett, David 76

Cullom, Shelby Moore 116

Curtis, George William 144

Cushman, Charlotte 107

Custer, George A. 95


Dana, Charles A. 88

"Danbury News Man" 177

Davenport, Fanny 106

Davis, Jefferson 24

Debs, Eugene V. 132

Decatur, Stephen 101

Deering, William 198

Depew, Chauncey Mitchell 209

Dcknson, Anna 103

Dickinson, Don M. 139

Dingley, Nelson, Jr. 215

Donnelly, Ignatius 161

Douglas, Stephen Arnold 53

Douglass, Frederick 43

Dow, Neal 108

Draper, John William 184


4 - TABLE OF CONTENTS—PART I.


Drexel, Anthony Joseph 124

Dupont, Henry 198


Edison, Thomas Alva 55

Edmunds, George F. 201

Ellsworth, Oliver 168

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 57

Ericsson, John 127

Evarts, William Maxwell 89


Farragut, David Glascoe 80

Field, Cyrus West 173

Field, David Dudley 126

Field, Marshall 59

Field, Stephen Johnson 216

Fillmore, Willard 113

Foote, Andrew Hull 176

Foraker, Joseph B. 143

Forrest, Edwin 92

Franklin, Benjamin 18

Fremont, John Charles 29

Fuller, Melville Weston 168

Fulton, Robert 62


Gage, Lyman J. 71

Gallatin, Albert 112

Garfield, James A. 168

Garrett, John Work 200

Garrison, William Lloyd 50

Gates, Horatio 70

Gatling, Richard Jordan 116

George, Henry 203

Gibbons, Cardinal James 209

Gilmore, Patrick Sarsfield 77

Girard, Stephen 137

Gough, John B. 131

Gould, Jay 52

Gordon, John B. 215

Grant, Ulysses S. 155

Gray, Asa 88

Gray, Elisha 149

Greeley, Adolphus W. 142

Greeley, Horace 20

Greene, Nathaniel 69

Gresham, Walter Quintin 183


Hale, Edward Everett 79

Hall, Charles Francis 167

Hamilton, Alexander 31

Hamlin, Hannibal 214

Hampton, Wade 192

Hancock, Winfield Scott 146

Hanna, Marcus Alonzo 169

Harris, Isham G. 214

Harrison, William Henry 87

Harrison, Benjamin 182

Harvard, John 129

Havemeyer, John Craig 182

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 135

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard 157

Hendricks, Thomas Andrew 212

Henry, Joseph 105

Henry, Patrick 83

Hill,David Bennett 90

Hobart, Garrett A. 213

Holmes, Oliver Wendell 206

Hooker, Joseph 52

Howe, Elias 130

Howells, William Dean 104

Houston, Sam 120

Hughes, Archbishop John 157

Hughitt, Marvin 159

Hull, Isaac 169

Huntington, Collis Potter 94


Ingalls, John James 114

Ingersoll, Robert G. 85

Irving, Washington 33


Jackson, Andrew 71

Jackson, "Stonewall" 67

Jackson, Thomas Jonathan 67

Jay, John 39

Jefferson, Joseph 47

Jefferson, Thomas 34

Johnson, Andrew 145

Johnson, Eastman 202

Johnston, Joseph Eccleston 85

Jones, James K. 171

Jones, John Paul 97

Jones, Samuel Porter 115


Kane, Elisha Kent 125

Kearney, Philip 210

Kenton, Simon 188

Knox, John Jay 134


Lamar, Lucius Q. C. 201

Landon, Melville D. 109

Lee, Robert Edward 38

Lewis, Charles B. 193

Lincoln, Abraham 135

Livermore, Mary Ashton 131

Locke, David Ross 172

Logan, John A. 26

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 37

Longstreet, James 56

Lowell, James Russell 104


Mackay, John William 148

Madison, James 42

Marshall, John 156

Mather, Cotton 164

Mather, Increase 163

Maxim, Hiram S. 194

McClellan, George Brinton 47

McCormick, Cyrus Hall 172

McDonough, Com Thomas 167

McKinley, William 217

Meade, George Gordon 75

Medill, Joseph 159

Miles, Nelson A. 176

Miller, Cincinnatus Heine 218

Miller, Joaquin 218

Mills, Roger Quarles 211

Monroe, James 54

Moody, Dwight L. 207

Moran, Thomas 98

Morgan, John Pierpont 208

Morgan, John T. 216

Morris, Robert 165

Morse, Samuel F. B. 124

Morton, Levi P. 142

Morton, Oliver Perry 215

Motley, John Lathrop 130


"Nye, Bill " 59

Nye, Edgar Wilson 59


O'Conor, Charles 187

Olney, Richard 133


Paine, Thomas 147

Palmer, John M. 195

Parkhurst, Charles Henry 160

"Partington, Mrs." 202

Peabody, George 170

Peck, George W. 187

Peffer, William A. 164

Perkins, Eli 109

Perry, Oliver Hazard 97

Phillips, Wendell 30

Pierce, Franklin 122

Pingree, Hazen S. 212

Plant, Henry B. 192

Poe, Edgar Allen 69

Polk, James Knox 102

Porter, David Dixon 68

Porter, Noah 93

Prentice, George Denison 119

Prescott, William Hickling 96

Pullman, George Mortimer 121


Quad, M. 193

Quay Matthew S. 171


Randolph, Edmund 136

Read, Thomas Buchanan 132

Reed, Thomas Brackett 208

Reid, Whitelaw 149

Roach, John 190

Rockefeller, John Davison 195

Root, George Frederick 218

Rothermel, Peter F. 113

Rutledge, John 57


Sage, Russell 211

Schofield, John McAllister 199

Schurz, Carl 201

Scott, Thomas Alexander 204

Scott, Winfield 79

Seward, William Henry 44

Sharon, William 165

Shaw, Henry W. 166

Sheridan, Phillip Henry 40

Sherman, Charles R. 87

Sherman, John 86

Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow 202

Sherman, William Tecumseh 30

Smith, Edmund Kirby 114

Sousa, John Philip 60

Spreckels, Claus 159

Stanford, Leland 101

Stanton, Edwin McMasters 179

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 126

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton 32

Stephenson, Adlai Ewing 141

Stewart, Alexander T. 58

Stewart, William Morris 213

Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher 66

Stuart, James E. B. 122

Sumner, Charles 34


Talmage, Thomas DeWitt 60

Taney, Roger Brooke 129

Taylor, Zachary 108

Teller, Henry M. 127


TABLE OF CONTENTS—PART I. - 5


Tesla, Nikola 193

Thomas, George H. 73

Thomas, Theodore. 172

Thurman, Allen G. 90

Thurston, John M. 166

Tilden, Samuel J. 48

Tillman, Benjamin Ryan 119

Toombs, Robert 205

"Twain, Mark" 86

Tyler, John 93


Van Buren, Martin 78

Vanderbilt, Cornelius 35

Vail, Alfred 154

Vest, George Graham 214

Vilas, William Freeman 140

Voorhees, Daniel Wolsey 95


Waite, Morrison Remich 125

Wallace, Lewis 199

Wallack, Lester 121

Wallack, John Lester 121

Wanamaker, John 89

Ward, "Artemus" 91

Washburne, Elihu Benjamin 189

Washington, George 17

Watson, Thomas E. 178

Watterson, Henry 76

Weaver, James B. 123

Webster, Daniel 19

Webster, Noah 49

Weed, Thurlow 91

West, Benjamin 115

Whipple, Henry Benjamin 161

White, Stephen V. 162

Whitefield, George 150

Whitman, Walt 197

Whitney, Eli 120

Whitney, William Collins 92

Whittier, John Greenleaf 67

Willard, Frances E. 133

Wilson, William L. 180

Winchell, Alexander 175

Windom, William 138


PORTRAITS OF NATIONAL CELEBRITIES.


Alger, Russell A. 16

Allison, William B. 99

Anthony, Susan B. 63

Armour, Philip D. 151

Arthur, Chester A. 81

Barnum, Phineas T. 117

Beecher, Henry Ward 27

Blaine, James G. 151

Booth, Edwin 63

Bryan, Wm. J. 63

Bryant, William Cullen 185

Buchanan, James 81

Buckner, Simon B. 16

Butler Benjamin F. 151

Carlisle, John G. 151

Chase, Salmon P. 16

Childs, George W. 99

Clay, Henry    81

Cleveland, Grover 45

Cooper, Peter 99

Dana, Charles A. 151

Depew, Chauncey M. 117

Douglass, Fred 63

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 27

Evarts, William M. 99

Farragut, Corn. D. G. 185

Field, Cyrus W. 63

Field, Marshall 117

Franklin, Benjamin 63

Fremont, Gen. John C. 16

Gage, Lyman J. 151

Garfield, James A. 45

Garrison, William Lloyd 63

George, Henry 117

Gould, Jay 99

Grant, Gen. U. S. 185

Greeley, Horace 81

Hampton, Wade 16

Hancock, Gen. Winfield S. 185

Hanna, Mark A. 117

Harrison, Benjamin 81

Hayes, R. B. 45

Hendricks, Thomas A. 81

Holmes, Oliver W. 151

Hooker, Gen. Joseph 16

Ingersoll, Robert G. 117

Irving, Washington 27

Jackson, Andrew 45

Jefferson, Thomas 45

Johnston, Gen. J. E. 16

Lee, Gen. Robert E. 185

Lincoln, Abraham 81

Logan, Gen. John A. 16

Longfellow, Henry W. 185

Longstreet, Gen. James 16

Lowell, James Russell 27


McKinley, William 45

Morse, S. F. B. 185


Phillips, Wendell 27

Porter, Corn. D. D. 185

Pullman, George M. 117


Quay, M. S. 99


Reed, Thomas B. 151


Sage, Russell 117

Scott, Gen. Winfield 185

Seward, William H. 45

Sherman, John 99

Sherman, Gen. W. T. 151

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady 27

Stowe, Harriet Beecher 27

Sumner, Charles 45


Talmage, T. DeWitt 63

Teller, Henry M. 99

Thurman, Allen G. 81

Tilden, Samuel J. 117


Van Buren, Martin 81

Vanderbilt, Commodore 99


Webster, Daniel 27

Whittier, John G. 21

Washington, George 45

Watterson, Henry 63


COMPENDIUM


OF


LOCAL BIOGRAPHY


PART II.


BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM OF DARKE COUNTY.


Adams, George 225

Albright, Daniel T. 243

Albright, Johnson K. 421

Albright, Peter 454

Albright, Philip 242

Alexandre, Joseph 434

Allen, Benjamin M. 654

Allen, James 243

Allen, William 245

Allen, William 653

Allread, James I. 382

Allread, S. William 730

Alter, Henry 355

Anderson, C. M. 286

Anderson, Lewis C. 702

Armacost, Christopher M. 620

Armstrong, Hugh 501

Armstrong, Hugh L. 469

Armstrong, Peter 464

Arnold, George 669

Arnold, Henry 230

Arnold, Isaac N. 241

Arnold, John C. 414

Arnold, Mrs. S. J. 230

Avery, James B. 645


Bailey, John L. 262

Bailey, Martin V. 243

Bailey, Mrs. Samuel 554

Baker, Charles 731

Baker, Thomas 280

Beachler, Henry 583

Beam, R. K. 273

Beem, Ralph D. 736

Beers, Charles 320

Beers, David and Theodore 245

Bell, Hiram 245

Benson, James M. 700

Bickel, Henry M. 684

Bickel, Joseph M. 473

Biddle, John 484

Bigler, Cyrus 261

Bireley, Harvey H. 659

Bireley, William J. 238

Bish, Henry J. 594

Bishop, T. L. 614

Bolles, Charles H. 595

Booker, Isaac N. 649

Bowers, Wilson S. 313

Bowman, David P. 245

Bowman, David W. 637

Bowman, Jonathan 244

Boyd, Samuel 229

Brandon, Riley M. 534

Breaden, John E., Sr. 462

Breaden, John E., Jr. 245, 467

Bristly, Henry C. 695

Brown, Marshall A. 348

Brown, Noah W. 662

Brown, Reuben 305

Browne, William A. 668

Bryson, Morris 619

Bryson, Joseph 328

Bulcher, Joseph J. 697

Burns, Daniel 292

Byrd, Abraham 916

Byrd, George S. 642

Byrd, Japheth 538


Calderwood, Andrew R. 237, 243-5

Calderwood, Elmer E. 490

Calderwood, George 237

Calkins, Charles 245

Carnahan, John 229

Caupp, Daniel 459

Chenoweth, Charles W. 629

Christopher, David o. 578

Clark, Arthur L. 728

Clark, Hiram 567

Clark, John C. 350

Clawson, Henry A. 555

Ciear, David A. 300

Coblentz, Harrison 291

Cole, Henry M. 318

Cole, Joseph 331

Compton, John A. 243

Conover, Ezekiel S. 736

Coppess, Adam S. 712

Coppess, Frederick 513

Coppess, Harmon C. 407

Coppess, John S. 517

Corwin, Joseph W. 401

Cox, William 243

Cranor, Jonathan 242

Creviston, James B. 248

Culbertson, Edmund 478


Darke Co. Children's Home 862

Davison, Oscar F. 357

Dean, Aaron 232

Deardoff, Isaac F. 549

Denise Family, The 608

Detling, Mary E. 365

Devor, Elijah 232

Devor, James 232

Devor, John 229, 232

Devor, William 227

Downing, Andrew J. 312

Drill, Daniel L. 388

Dunkle, Charles E. 252

Dunn, A. L. 689


Eidson, Francis M. 276

Eikenberry, A. L. 548

Emerson, William H. 236

Emrick, George 288

Erisman, Christian 251

Erisman, Henry 621

Eury, Sarah 744

Ewry, William 283


Farra, Eleanor 608

Fischbach, John G. 257

Fisher, Eli A. 424

Folkerth, William 231

Ford, Philip M. 719

Ford, Royston 673

Foureman, David C. 590

Fowler, Hanson T. 406

Frampton, Adam C. 506

Frank, John G. 303

Frankmann, Adam 616

Fritz, John H. 749

Frizell, J. W. 242

Frost, James 453

Fry, Allen 661

Fry, Phebe 723


Garber, Harvey C. 369

George, William E. 746

Gibson, Samuel 700

Glander, Edward 436

Gordon, Frank S. 432

Grillot, Benjamin L. 717

Groff, Christian D. 592

Grusenmeyer, Valentine 633

Guntrum, William E. 591


Halderman, Jacob 302

Harley, George W. 360

Harper, William M. 640

Hart, Solomon D. 704

Harter, Albert 298

Harter, David F. 405

Harter, Elias 244

Hartle, David 634


8 - TABLE OF CONTENTS—PART II


Hartle, Franklin P. 447

Hartman, Samuel V. 534

Hartzell, Daniel J. 529

Hartzell, Jonas W. 437

Hartzell, Philip 631

Heeter, John F. 397

Henne, Daniel 676

Hercules, Jacob L. 322

Hershey, Emanuel 753

Hershey, John T. 315

Hickox, Eli 243

Hill, George W. 513

Hill, Harvey 409

Hill, John R. 505

Himes, John T. 611

Hindsley, William W. 675

Hollinger, Jacob 725

Hoschouer, John 606

Housholder, L. R. 417

Huddle, Levi 570

Hufnagle, John 630

Huhn, Morris 623

Hyde, A. H. 244

Hyer, Jesse R. 588


Irelan, Aaron A. 320

Irwin, William J. 576


Jacobi, Henry C. 445

Jamison, Robert B. 582

Jefferis, William E. G. 617

Jobes, Allen L. 243

Jobes, D. H. R. 239 245

Jones, Alonzo L. 698

Judy, Alfred H. 252

Judy, Swan 246


Kara; Henry 482

Katzenberger, Charles L. 457

Katzenberger, Frances I. 562

Katzenberger, Franziskus M. 559

Katzenberger, George A. 527

Keinble, Samuel R. 326

Kepner, Harrison A. 510

Kerlin, John D. 463

Kerlin, Oscar C. 589

Kerlin, William K. 460

Kester, Philip 290

Kiester, William H. 720

Kipp, Conrad 729

Knoderer, Christian 479

Knorr, Anthony T. 665

Knox, John R. 246, 375

Knox, R. A. 243

Kruckeberg, Herman F. 385


Lansdowne, James M. 475

Larimer, John W. 507

Layer, W. A. 596

Lephart, Henry 258

Litten, Cyrus 718

Livingston, William A. 279

Long, Barton W. 299

Longenecker, Frank 569

Longenecker, Harvey 525

Lot, L. B. 245

Loy, Michael 408

Ludy, Samuel 354

Ludy, William 352


Maher, Thomas C. 435

Mansfield, Lewis 532

Marker, George E. 573

Marker, Isaac 752

Marker, Leonard 622

Martin, D. W. K. 533

Martin, Jacob B. 384

Martin, Luther 727

Martin, Mrs. Robert 229

Martz, George J. 568

Martz, Jacob T. 246

Matchett, C. G. 243, 245

Matchett, William H. 243, 499

Mayer, Charles H. 346

McAlpin, Alexander 244

McCabe, James 255

McClure, George H. 705

McCool, James Y. 358

McDonald, Joseph 245

McDonald, Mark 678

McEowen, Henry H. 399

McGriff, Jesse A. 681

McGriff, Price 324

McGriff, William P. 285

McKay, John W. 326

McKibben, Hugh T. 624

McNutt, John 724

Medford. Uriah 706

Meeker, David L. 245, 626

Meeker, J. T. 246

Meier, Charles 708

Meier, Frederick 707

Menke, Bernhard 581

Miesse, Gabriel 240

Miller, Amos P. 267

Miller, Daniel 557

Miller, John F. 430

Miller, Lewis C. 353

Miller, Thomas B. 751

Miller, Thomas C. 605

Mills, Catharine 564

Mills, Harrod 244

Mills, James 545

Minnich, Samuel B. 281

Mohler, John 757

Monger, Thomas H. 361

Morningstar, John H. 657

Mote, Casville 456

Mote, Irvin 679

Mote, Joseph 571

Mote, William C. 477


Netzley, Allen 427

Netzley, Eli 427

Netzley, Jesse 431

Newbauer, George D. 438

Newkirk, J. M. 242

Niswonger, George F. 710

Noggle, George M. 663

Northrop, C. B. 244

Nyswanger, Alex 404


Ortlepp, E. 493

Otwell, E. W. 524


Parent, John 307

Paulin, Samuel 310

Pearson, William 244

Peters, Abdel 638

Peters, John J. 393

Phillips, Monroe 709

Pierson, Jacob S. 243

Pleasant, William C. 665

Plowman, Mary J. 364

Poe, Andrew 441

Putnam, David. 542

Putnam, Edwin B. 244


Rahn, George W. 603

Rarick, Charles W. 308

Reed, Finley R. 540

Reichard, William 389

Reichard, William J. 691

Replogle, Francis M. 730

Replogle, Jacob 726

Reppeto, William H. 282

Requarth, William 294

Rhoades, Abraham 602

Richardson, Ephraim C. 452

Ries, John H. 382

Ries, William L. 379

Riesley, Gotleap 449

Rike, William H. 485

Roberts, D. Q. 748

Robertson, William L. 341

Robeson, Thomas J. 440

Robeson, William 446

Rogers, Charles C. 755

Rogers, Elmer C. 756

Roland, Charles 691

Roland, Charles W. 613

Royer, Henry J. 343

Ruh, George 721

Runkle, William 523

Rush, Andrew 228

Rush, Andrew W, 363

Ryan, Daniel H. 323

Ryan, Frank L. 317


Sater, J. W. 245

Schaefer, Christian 415

Schlechty, George 579

Scribner, Abraham and Azor 228

Scribner, Rachel (Devor) 229

Sear!, Russell 376

Seitz, Anna E. 744

Seitz, Enoch B. 740

Shafer, Job M. 520

Shelley, Thomas J. 339

Shepherd, Stephen 658

Sherry, Elizabeth 269

Sherry, William H. 597

Shields, Abraham 429

Shields, George 598

Shields, William 337

Shives, Thomas A. 600

Shivly, Jacob W. 243

Shuff, Easam 426

Sigafoos, George W. 470

Sigerfoos, George W. 738

Small, John H. 492

Smith, J. W. 243

Snodgrass, B. F. 243

Snodgrass, Clement 243

Snyder, Daniel 344

Snyder, Elias D. 311


TABLE OF CONTENTS—PART II - 9


Snyder, James A. 503

Spencer, John F. 297

Stahl, Anna W. 552

Stentzel, John J. 367

Stephens, John 314

Stevenson, Walter 244

Stiles, Thomas D. 235

Stocker, Jacob R. 446

Stover, Daniel W. 716

Straker, Henry 455

Stubbs, William Y. 751

Studabaker, Abraham 230

Studabaker, David 231

Suter, John R. 693

Swinger, David 423

Swinger, John 732

Taylor, Delia V. 413

Teaford, Jonathan 578

Teaford, Norman 582

Teegarden, Moses 554

Teegarden, Moses S. 380

Teegarden, William W. 585

Thomas, Samuel S. 488

Thompson, Jeremiah 690

Thompson, William S. 667

Tomlinson, H. A. 243

Townsend, Alfred 244

Townsend, William 714

Turner, Jacob K. 641

Turner, Larkin G. 301


Ullery, Leonard 243


Vail, Aaron 715

Van Mater, Cyrenius 243

Vannoy, David J. 489


Walker, John 419

Wallace, John A. 709

Walters, Lewis P. 334

Ware, Jacob F. 480

Warner, Henry 336

Warvel, Daniel 682

Warvel, Nathan S. 266

Weaver, David 568

Weaver, Elihu 610

Weaver, George 687

Welbourn, George J. 442

Weston, W. A. 233

Wharry, John 238

Whitacre, Frank M. 411

White, Elam 754

Wiley, Francis G. 487

Williams. Henry 713

Wilson Children, The 227

Wilson, Mrs. Samuel 270

Wilson, W. J. 391

Wilson, W. M. 234

Winbigler, George H. 646

Winbigler, John J. 486

Winger, John 688

Winner, John L. 233

Winters, Job M. 650

Wise, Franklin 536

Woods, Addison J. 547

Woods, Jesse 474

Workman, T. H. 243


Young, Calvin M. 494

Young, Jacob B. 470

Yount, Henry L. 584


Zeller, Cyrus 654


INTRODUCTORY


THE greatest of English historians, Macaulay, and one of the most brilliant writers and profound thinkers of the present century, has said: " The history of a country is best told in a record of the lives of its people." This is a fact which is becoming more and more recognized as our people advance in education and intelligence, and our own great Emerson, whose name stands at the head of American writers of his day, in carrying forward and emphasizing the great fact expressed by Macaulay, says: " Biography is the only true history." It was for the purpose of gathering and preserving this biographical matter in enduring form that the design for this volume originated.


COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.


Regarding the fore part of this volume, " Part I," which is devoted to a "COMPENDIUM OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY," but little need be said. The lives of the great men and celebrities of America are so inaccessible to the general public, and are so often in demand without being accessible, that it has been deemed wise to gather together a vast number of the biographies of our nation's greatest men and include them in this work as a fitting preface to the life histories and biographies of the local parties which follow and embrace the latter part of the volume. It is not given to all men to become great in a national sense, but the life history of those who do, makes up the history of our nation, and as such the history of their lives should be in every home and library as a means of reference and education.


COMPENDIUM OF LOCAL BIOGRAPHY.


That portion of the volume devoted to a " COMPENDIUM OF LOCAL BIOGRAPHY," or " Part II," is of the greatest value, and its value will increase as the years go by. In this department of local biography is carried out the object which led to the compilation of this work, in gathering together and placing in enduring form, before it becomes too late, the life history of those who have helped to build up this region and v, ho have taken part in the progress and development in business, political, sccial, and agricultural affairs. The rank that any county holds among its sister counties depends largely upon the achievements of its citizens. Some add 'to its reputation by efficient public service, some by increasing its manufacturing or commercial


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interests, and some by adding to the general wealth and prosperity in cultivating and improving its hinds. To give a faithful account of the lives of old settlers and representative citizens of this region is to write its history in the truest sense. Each year, as it rolls its endless way along the mighty pathway of time, is thinning the ranks of those hardy pioneers and old settlers whose lives are so thoroughly identified with this region. The relentless hand of death, pursuing its remorseless and unceasing avocation, is cutting down, one by one, those whose life histories shoujd be preserved as a part of the history of the growth and development of this region. The necessity for the collection and preservation of this matter, before it becomes too late, is the object of this work.


Instead of going to musty records and taking therefrom dry statistical matter and official generalities, which can be appreciated by but few, our corps of writers have gone direct to the people, to the men and women who have by their enterprise and industry, brought about the development found in this region, and from their lips have written the story of their life struggles. No more interesting or instructive matter could be presented to an intelligent public. In this department, devoted to LOCAL BIOGRAPHY, will be found a record of many whose lives are worthy the imitation of coming generations. It tells how some, commencing life in poverty, by industry and economy have accumulated wealth. It tells how others, with limited advantages for securing an education, have become learned men and women, with an influence widely extended. It tells of men who have risen from the lower walks of life to eminence, and whose names have become famous. It tells of those in every walk in life who have striven to succeed, and records how success has usually crowned their efforts. It tells, also, of many, very many, who, not seeking the applause of the world, have pursued " the even tenor of their way," content to have it said of them as Christ said of the woman performing a deed of mercy,—" they have done what they could." It tells how many, in the pride and strength of young manhood, left the plow and the anvil, the lawyer's office and the counting room, left every trade and profession, and at their country's call went forth valiantly " to do or die," for the cause and principles they held so dear. In the life of every man and of every woman is a lesson that should not be lost upon those who follow after.


Coming generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treasure, from the fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into public records, and which would otherwise be inaccessible and lost forever. Great care has been taken in the compilation of this work, and every opportunity for revision possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written, and the publishers feel warranted in saying that they give to their readers a work with very few, if any, errors of consequence.


In closing this brief introductory the memorable words of Carlyle fittingly express the hope, aim, and desire of the publishers in the compilation of this volume: " Let the record be made of the men and things of to-day, lest they pass out of memory to-morrow and are lost. Then perpetuate them, not upon wood or stone that crumbles to dust, but chronicled in picture and in words that endure forever."