300 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO in Xenia, where he since has been located. He is a Republican and during the year 1906-07 served as president of the city council and in 1908 was elected city solicitor, which latter position he held until his election to the office of prosecuting attorney for this judicial district in the fall of 1916. Mr. Smith entered upon the duties of this latter office on January 1, 1917, and is now serving in that capacity, his term of office to expire on January 1, 1919. On June 23, 1904, Harry D. Smith was united in marriage to Mae Prugh, of Xenia, (laughter of V. H. and Mary (Conner) Prugh, both now deceased, and to this union two children have been born, Horace H., born in October, 1905, and Mary Carolyn, August, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Presbyterian church. LEVI M. JONES, M. D. Dr. Levi M. Jones, a veteran of the Civil War and a medical practitioner at Jamestown ever since he located there in 1876, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm in the Mechanicsburg neighborhood, in Union township, Champaign county, September 20, 1842, son of John and Mary (Lafferty) Jones, both of whom were born in that same county and who spent all their lives there. John Jones was born in 1804, son of Abram and Phoebe (Clark) Jones, and was the second white child born in what later came to be organized as Union township, Champaign county, his parents having been among the earliest settlers in that part of the county, they having located 'there in the days when what is now Champaign county was still comprised within the limits of what then was Greene county. Abram Jones died of typhoid fever when thirty-five years of age and his widow continued to make her home in that vicinity. They had two children, John Jones having had a sister, Hannah, who married Stephen Clark and continued to make her home on the farm which her Lather had started to develop. After his marriage to Mary Lafferty, John Jones located on a farm one mile distant from the place on which he was born and reared and there spent the rest of his life, living to the age of seventy-one years. His widow survived him for some years, she being seventy-six years of age at the time of her death. They were the parents of seven children, of whom Doctor Jones was the fourth in order of birth, the others being Zenas B., who served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, a member of Company E, Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was severely wounded at the battle of Ft. Republic, was there taken prisoner and confined in Libby prison, his wounds never GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 301 being dressed by a surgeon ; when he was exchanged, his health broken, he was discharged and returned home, where he spent the rest of his life; John Wesley, who also served as a soldier during the Civil War, a member of Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and upon the completion of his military service went to Missouri, where he engaged in farming and where he spent the rest of his clays; Thomas 0., who served as a soldier of the Union from June, 1862, to the close of the war, a member of Co. H, Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and upon the completion of his military service went to Iowa, where he became engaged in farming and in which state he is now living retired; Sarah Catherine, who married John Hendrick and spent her last days in Columbus, this state; Charles, who for years has been engaged in farming in eastern Kansas, and Edward E., who is a farmer in Oklahoma. Reared on the home farm in Champaign county, Levi M. Jones received his early schooling in the neighborhood schools and supplemented the same by a course in Ohio Wesleyan University, which he attended during the years 1865-68, entering the university upon his return from the army. In the meantime he had been giving his attention to the study of medicine and upon leaving the university entered Miami Medical College, from which institution he was graduated in .1871. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Jones returned home and opened an office at Mechanicsburg, where he was engaged in practice for a year, at the end of which time he came down int0 Greene county and opened an office at Jamestown, where he ever since has been engaged in practice. Before locating at Jamestown, Doctor Jones had married and when he came here he established a home, building a combined residence and office building. That building was destroyed by the memorable cyclone of 1884 and he afterward erected his present residence and office building, which he ever since has occupied. Doctor Jones is a member of the Greene County Medical Society, of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association, ever keeping abreast of the advancement being made in his profession. He is a stanch Republican, of which party his father was one of the original members, and for nine years held the position of local medical examiner for the pension board. Fraternally, the Doctor is a member of the Masonic order, of the Knights of Pythias and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, as well as of Strong Post No. 118, Grand Army of the Republic, at Jamestown, of which for the past ten years he has been the commander. Doctor Jones's military experience as a soldier of the Union began when he was eighteen years of age, he then, on May 2, 1864, at Urbana, having enlisted his services to help preserve the nation's unity. He was attached to Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was 302 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO sent to Cumberland, Maryland, to join General Butler's army, in that command seeing considerable active service before he received his final discharge at Columbus upon the completion of his term of service. In 1873, at Mechanicsburg, Dr. Levi M. Jones was united in marriage to Mary W. Williams, (laughter of William Williams and wife, the former of whom was a merchant at that place, and to this union was born one child, a son, Clement L., who is now a practicing physician at Springfield, this state. Dr. Clement L. Jones was born at 'Winchester, Indiana, but was reared at Jamestown. Upon completing the course in the high school in his home town he entered Washington and Jefferson College at Washington, Pennsylvania, and following his graduation from that institution entered the medical department of Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore, from which he was graduated in 1903. For two years thereafter he served as pharmacist in Mt. Carmel Hospital at Columbus, this state, and then for a year was located at Vicksburg, Mississippi. He then returned home and became engaged in the regular practice in association with his father and was thus engaged for four years, at the end of which time he went to Springfield, where he has since been located. The younger Doctor Jones is serving as the pathologist of the medical staff of the health department of the city of Springfield and is the present president of the Clark County Medical Society. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. Fraternally, he is a Scottish Rite Mason, affiliated with the consistory at Cincinnati, and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Dr. Clement L. Jones married Hazel Labourn, of Springfield, and has a pleasant home in that city. CAPT. MOSES WALTON. Capt. Moses Walton, a retired officer of the United States army, formerly an officer of the quartermaster's department, former member of the Ohio state dairy and food commission, a former deputy state oil inspector, a former member of the common council of the village of Spring Valley, in which village he has had his established home all his life, is a native son of Greene county, born on the farm on which the village of Spring Valley came into being, December 27, 1846, son of Moses and Rachel (Ragan) Walton, the former of whom owned there a considerable tract of land. Upon completing the course in the local schools the younger Moses Walton was sent to Spiceland Academy, an educational institution conducted under Quaker auspices over in Henry county, Indiana, and not long after his return from that school became engaged in association with his father in the manufacture of tow, the elder Walton having established a GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 303 flax-mill at Spring Valley in 1866. He and his brother Samuel a year later opened a store in the village. In 1869 the sons extended their field of labors to include the manufacture of bagging, having also, in 1868, become engaged, in association with Mr. Barrett, in the pork-packing business, this latter industry being continued until in the early '90s. The younger Moses Walton had, however, in 1883, withdrawn from the pork-packing business and had become engaged in the grain business at Trebeins, continuing thus engaged at that station until 1887, in which year he purchased the oil-mill at Spring Valley and continued to operate the same until 1897, when he was appointed to a clerkship in the office of the postoffice inspector at Cincinnati and was thus engaged in that city when the Spanish-American War broke out. On May 25, 1898, he was appointed to service in the quartermaster's department of the First Brigade, Second Division, First Army Corps, with rank of captain, and thus rendered service in getting the camps at Chickamauga and at Camp Poland, Knoxville, Tennessee, organized. When the army was reorganized Captain Walton was made quartermaster of the First Brigade, First Division, First Army Corps, and in October, 1898, went with that command to Cuba, for quartermaster service in Sancti Spiritus, in the province of Santa Clara, where he remained for three months. The brigade then was broken up and Captain Walton was ordered to Cienfuegos as assistant of the quartermaster general of the provinces of Santa Clara and Matanzas, under Gen. John C. Bates. Five months later the Captain was ordered to New York to take charge of a transport as captain, quartermaster and commissary, and for two years thereafter was engaged in the transport service, first in charge of the "Dixie" and then of the "Burnside," which latter vessel, originally the "Rita," was a prize taken from the Spaniards. In July, 190o, Captain Walton was transferred to the "Sedgwick" and on October 21 of that same year was placed in charge of the "Buford," remaining in charge of that transport until May 1, 1901, meanwhile making a trip with that vessel, via the Suez canal, to Manila, with troops, and bringing back with him, to San Francisco, the Twenty-seventh Regiment. Upon his arrival at the port of San Francisco, Captain Walton relinquished his command and after reporting to Washington returned to his home at Spring Valley. In 1903 Captain Walton was appointed a member 0f the Ohio state dairy and food commission and for four years, or until 1907, rendered service to the state in that connection. In 1909 he was appointed a deputy state oil inspector and for four years rendered further public service in that capacity. Captain Walton is a Republican and has served as a member of the common, council of his home village. On September 25, 867; at Spring Valley, Capt. Moses Walton was united in marriage to Ellen B. Hepford, who was born at Dayton, Ohio, 304 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO daughter of J. W. and Elizabeth (Hess) Hepford, and to this union have been born seven children, namely : John Edward, who is farming in Spring Valley; Bessie R., wife of E. C. Van Winkle; J. T., former justice of the peace in and for his home township; Rosella, wife of A. E. Wright, of Dayton ; Samuel M., Joseph H. and Mary L. The family is affiliated with the Society of Friends, of which the Captain is a birthright member. The Waltons are one of the old families in Greene county, the first of the name to settle here having been Edward Walton, grandfather of the Captain, who opened up the land where the village of Spring Valley stands. .Edward Walton was born in Frederick county, Virginia, January 3, 1776, and was there married, remaining there until 1806, in which year he came to Ohio and after a bit of prospecting for a favorable location bought the tract of land in this county above referred to. In 1808 he brought his family here and established his home on that tract, later laying out there the village of Spring Valley, and continued to make that place his home the rest of his life, his death occurring there on April T0, 1867, being then past ninety years of age. Two children, Samuel and Elizabeth, were born to Edward Walton and wife before they left Virginia and Moses Walton, father of Captain Walton, was the first child born to them after their arrival in this county. He was born on June 27, 1809, and died on January 8, 1887. Their other children were Eunice, John, Hannah, Edward and Mary, all of whom reached years of maturity and established homes of their own save the two last named, the Waltons therefore being quite a numerous connection hereabout in the present generation. HON. SAMUEL COLLINS ANDERSON. The late Hon. Samuel Collins Anderson, who was representing this district in the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly at the time of his death in the summer of 1914, was born in the house in which he died on his farm in New Jasper township, and where his widow is still living, and there spent all his life wiht the exception of a period of ten years during which he was engaged in business at Springfield. He was born on May 6, 1859, a son of William and Mary (Collins) Anderson, both members of pioneer families in this county and both born in the state of Pennsylvania, they having come with their respective parents to Greene county, the Andersons and the Collinses becoming influential pioneers, as is noted elsewhere in this volume. Mary Collins was born in York county, Pennsylvania, and was but a child when she came to this county with her parents, Archibald and Ellen Collins, the family settling on a farm on the Jamestown pike, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 305 two miles east of Xenia, where she was living at the time of her marriage to William Anderson, who also had grown up in that neighborhood. William Anderson was one of Greene county's substantial farmers, and for years a ruling elder in the old Caesarscreek Seceder church. In 1849 he bought from David Williamson the farm of three hundred acres on which the latter had settled on coming to this county in 1836 and there spent the remainder of his life. His widow survived him for many years, her death occurring on the old home place on May 7, 1907, she then being eighty-six years of age. Her son, Samuel C., then became owner of two hundred acres of the original tract and the same is now .owned by his widow, a granddaughter of David Williamson, the previous owner. And on that place there still flows, as strong and pure as ever, the clear, cool spring from which the Williamsons drank upon taking up their residence there more than eighty years ago. The Rev. Robert Duncan Williamson, uncle of Mrs. Anderson and the biographer of the Williamson family, some years ago wrote regarding the transfer of the old Williamson homestead place in the following thoughtful vein : "While it was a matter of regret to part with a home which was endeared with so many pleasant associations, yet it is a matter for gratitude that it passed into the hands of one who was most exemplary in character and a help to the church, morally and financially. Though he did not live long to enjoy it, yet it is still in the possession of the widow and her two sons, Samuel and William, Mrs. Anderson occupying the old homestead and surroundings, and the two sons owning equal parts of the remainder. It is also a happy thought in this connection that while the farm has passed out of the Williamson name, one who is a descendant of the family and of the same name still lives on it and is a joint possessor of part of it. The wife of Samuel Anderson, one of the sons, is Nettie Williamson, the second daughter of Jonathan D. and Martha Williamson." William Anderson and his wife had twelve children, three sons and nine daughters, eleven of whom grew to maturity and in the old home there were eleven weddings and receptions, or "infares," marking the progress of this fine family of young people into homes of their own. Of those twelve, but three are now living, William P. Anderson, now living retired at Cedarville and a biographical sketch of whom, together with a comprehensive narrative relating to the Anderson family in this county, appears elsewhere in this volume ; Mrs. James A. Curry, of Springfield, and Mrs. William Smart, of Santa Ana, California. Samuel Collins Anderson was reared on the farm on which he was born and his early schooling was received in what was known as the Anderson district school, the school house being situated on his father's farm, this schooling being supplemented by a course in the old Xenia College (19) 306 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO which then was being conducted on East Church street in the city of Xenia. He was not ten years of age when his father died and, as one of the younger sons, he remained on the farm with his mother after he was grown and after his marriage in the fall of 1885 established his home there. Seven years later he gave up farming and moved to Springfield, where he became engaged in the grocery business, but after ten years of confinement in the store found his health failing. Selling his store to his brother-in-law, William Dean, he returned to the home farm, where his mother was still living, and resumed the manegement of the same. After her death in 1907 he bought the interests of the other heirs in the place and there spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on August 26, 1914. After taking possession of the old home place Mr. Anderson remodeled the house, put on a slate roof, installed an electric-light plant and made one of the most comfortable country homes in the county. In addition to his general farming he paid considerable attention to the raising of live stock. He also was a member of the board of directors of the Greene County Mutual Insurance Association. Politically, Mr. Anderson was a Republican. In 1912 he was elected to represent this district in the state Legislature and in 1914 was nominated to succeed himself in the House, but his death occurred before the day of election. During his term of service in the House of Representatives Mr. Anderson took an especially active part in the promotion of temperance legislation and was recognized as one of the forceful members of that body. He was a member of the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia, as is his widow, and for years served as a member of the session of that congregation. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Anderson has continued to make her home on the old home place, the operations of the farm now being under the direction of her only son, William Wallace Anderson, who completed his studies in Cedarville College in the spring of 1918 and has chosen to continue the work on the farm inaugurated by his father. Besides the son, William Wallace, who was horn on August 4, 1897, Mrs. Anderson has two daughters, Martha Maria, born on August 18, 1890, who completed her schooling in Cedarville College and is now serving as supervisor of music in the schools of New Jasper township, and Mary Lucile, who completed her schooling in Muskingum College and is now teaching domestic science in the schools of Seaman, in Adams county, this state. Mrs. knderson was born, Martha Jeanette Williamson, in this county, December 6, 1859, fourth in order of birth of the eight children born to Jonathan Duncan and Martha Ann (McMillan) Williamson, further reference -to whom, together with a comprehensive narrative relating to the Williamson GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 307 family in this county, is made in a biographical sketch of her elder brother, John C. Williamson, of Xenia, presented elsewhere in this volume. She grew to womanhood on her father's farm and was there married, October 20, 885, to Samuel Collins Anderson, the officiating clergymen being her pastor, the Rev. J. F. Morton, the Rev. J. G. Carson and her uncle, the Rev. R. D. Williamson. To her family and friends she has ever been known as "Nettie," a diminutive of Jeanette. SAMUEL McCULLOCH. The late Samuel McCulloch, who for years was a funeral director at Yellow Springs, was a native of Ohio, born in the neighboring county of Clark on December 5, 1823, and was ten years of age when his parents, Samuel and Agnes (Browne) McCulloch moved down to Yellow Springs and there established their home. He finished his schooling there and when sixteen years of age began to work at the cabinet-making and house-building trade, later, as a young man, giving particular attention to the making of coffins, and when thirty-two years of age, about the time of his marriage, established himself in the undertaking business at Yellow Springs, continuing there thus engaged the rest of his life, his death occurring there in April, 1900, he then being in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and was buried in the cemetery at Yellow Springs, the spot in which he had during many years of service performed a similar office in behalf of those who had preceded him there. Mr. McCulloch was a member of the United Presbyterian church. On October 16, 1855, at Yellow Springs, Samuel McCulloch was united in marriage to Hannah Herrick Blasdell, who was born in the state of Maine in 833, and who was but a girl when she accompanied her parents, John and Mary (Herrick) Blasdell, to Ohio, the family settling in Yellow Springs. Hannah Blasdell entered Antioch College after her parents had located .at Yellow Springs and afterward became engaged as a school teacher, which profession she was following at the time of her marriage to Mr. McCulloch. To that union were born six children, namely : Samuel H., who is living at Yellow Springs ; Mary Agnes, deceased ; Anna D., deceased ; Archibald, who is now living at Ft. Riley, Kansas; one who died in infancy, and Mary, who married Charles Lucas, now a resident of Atlanta, Georgia, and has two children, Joseph and Ruth. After her husband's death Mrs. McCulloch went to Texas and for six years kept house there for her son Samuel. Upon her return to Ohio she located at Dayton, but four years later returned to her old home at Yellow Springs and has since been living there. 308 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO SAMUEL KYLE WILLIAMSON. Samuel Kyle Williamson, a soldier of the Civil War and proprietor of "Maple Lawn Stock Farm," a part of the old Judge Samuel Kyle place in Cedarville township, now living retired from the operations of the farm, the same being carried on by his younger son, Collins Williamson, was born on a farm in the vicinity of the village of Jamestown on. October 26, 1846, son of John S. and Jane (Kyle) Williamson, the latter of whom was a daughter of Judge Samuel and Rachel ( Jackson) Kyle, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Judge Kyle, who was for thirty years associate judge of the court in Greene county, came here from Kentucky in 1805 and bought a tract of thirteen hundred acres of land in the Cedarville neighborhood, and there established his home. He was a member of the session of the old Associate Reformed church at Cedarville and was twice married, becoming, by his first wife, Ruth Mitchell, the father of six children. By his second wife, Rachel Jackson, who was a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (McCorkle) Jackson, also pioneers of the Cedarville neighborhood and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, he was the father of fifteen children. Robert Jackson was the father of ten children and thus the Kyles and the Jacksons became two of the most numerously connected families in the county. The Williamsons are hardly any less numerously connected, for David and Catherine (Duncan) Williamson, the founders of this family in Greene county and of whom further and extended mention is made elsewhere in this volume, were the parents of ten children, of whom John Smith, the father of the subject of this sketch, was the fifth in order of birth. John Smith Williamson was born in the vicinity of Frankford, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1817, and was nineteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to Greene county in 1836. After his marriage to Jane Kyle in the spring of 1842 he bought a farm of one hundred and fifty acres in the immediate vicinity of Jamestown and there set up his home. In 1859 he traded that farm for another, but soon afterward sold this latter place and bought a farm on the edge of the village of Cedarville, where he lived until 1865, when he bought a farm of one hundred and thirty-seven acres on the Columbus-Cincinnati pike, a mile west of Cedarville, and moved onto the same. On December 4, 1872, his dwelling house there was destroyed by fire and he moved into Cedarville, where he became engaged in the grocery and so continued for some years, or until his retirement from business. During the later years of his life Mr. Williamson was an invalid, a sufferer from a paralytic stroke. He died at his home in Cedarville on November 18, 1898, he then being in the eighty-second year of his age. For twenty- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 309 five years he had been a ruling elder in the United Presbyterian church and his children were reared in that faith. John S. Williamson was twice married. On March 17, 1842, he was united in marriage to Jane Kyle, who was born in the Cedarville neighborhood on December 18, 1816, daughter of Judge Samuel and Rachel (Jackson) Kyle, mentioned above, and to that union were born three children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being Catherine, born on July 26, 1843, widow of Robert M. Jackson, and David S., born on December 29, 1851, a retired farmer, now living at Cedarville and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume. The mother of these children died on August 28, 1854, and on December 17, 1855, John S. Williamson married Ellen B. Bryson, a daughter of Robert and Hannah Bryson, and to that union one child was born, a daughter, Flora Jane, born on January 2, 1857, who died on February 6, 1860. Mrs. Ellen B. Williamson died on July 18, 1878; and on February 8, 1883, Mr. Williamson married Mattie Irwin, of Claysville, Pennsylvania, also now deceased. This last union was without issue. Samuel Kyle Williamson received his schooling in the schools of Cedarville, completing the same with a course of two years in the old "select school" conducted there by Professor Fleming. On February 15, 1865, he then being but eighteen years of age, he enlisted as a soldier of the Union for service during the continuance of the Civil War and was sent to the front as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with that company until mustered out on September 26, 1865, the most of that service having been rendered at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, and at Cumberland Gap, at which latter point he was for four months stationed with his regiment. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Williamson returned home and in 1868 bought from his father a tract of one hundred acres, a part of the old Judge Samuel Kyle place, and after his marriage in the fall of 1872 established his home there, occupying the house that D. M. Kyle had erected there in 1849. There Mr. Williamson has ever since made his home. He has 'remodeled and improved the old house and has a very attractive place which bears the name of "Maple Lawn Stock Farm." In addition to his general farming Mr. Williamson has ever given considerable attention to the raising of high-grade live stock, with particular reference to Polled Durham cattle, Delane-Merino sheep and Duroc-Jersey hogs. Of late years he has given over the general direction of the farm to his son, Collins Williamson, who is managing it as well as an adjoining tract of one hundred and sixteen acres, the Joseph Kyle place, which he owns in his own right. Mr. Williamson is a member of the United Presbyterian church at Cedarville and has 310 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO been for many years a member of the board of trustees of the same. Politically, he is a Republican. Mr. Williamson has been twice married. On November 6, 1872, he was united in marriage to Isabella Collins, who also was born in this county, June 14, 1849, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (McClellan) Collins, members of pioneer families and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to that union were born six children, namely : George Smith, born on April 17, 1874, who died on May i0 of the same year ; John Clarence, April 19, 1875, who died on August 23 of that same year ; Emmet Collins, December 9, 1876, who is unmarried and is now living at Lemar, Mississippi, in the vicinity of which place he owns a cattle ranch , Ellen Rebecca, July 7, 1878, who on November 7, 1900, was united in marriage to the Rev. Alfred Dennison, now stationed at New Concord, in Muskingum county, this state; an infant, August 23, 1882, who died on that same day, and Collins, November 11, 1888, who, as mentioned above, is now operating the "Maple Lawn Stock Farm" for his father, as well as farming his own place adjoining, continuing to make his home on the home place. The mother of these children died on October 8, 1899, and on October 14, 1903, Mr. Williamson married Maria Agnes Tarbox, who also was born in this county, daughter of John M. and Rachel (Nichol) Tarbox, the former of whom was for many years engaged in the milling business at Cedarville, he having come here from his native state of Maine in 1849, and further reference to whom is made elsewhere in this volume. MONT MANOR. Mont Manor, a farmer of Caesarscreek township, and the proprietor of the old Ford farm on rural mail route No. 6 out of Xenia, was born on what then was known as the Andrew Baughman farm two miles west of Xenia on April 2, 1864, son of John H. and Catherine (Bagford) Manor, the former of whom was born in Virginia and the latter, at Hagerstown, Maryland, who had come to this county with their respective parents in the days of their youth, were here married and here spent their last clays. John H. Manor was a son of George Manor and wife and was but a child when he came to Greene county with his parents, the family driving through from Virginia and settling on a farm west of Xenia, where George Manor and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of six children, of whom John H. was the last-born, the others being Emma, who married Robert Gowdy; Elizabeth, who married Joseph Nisonger ; Hester, who married Perry Nisonger ; Mary, who married Jacob Elwell, and Alfred, who married and moved to Indiana. John H. Manor GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 311 grew to manhood. on the home farm westof Xenia and after his marriage located on the Andrew Baughman farm, two miles west of Xenia, where he spent the rest of his life in farming, his death occurring there on March 17, -883, he then being fifty-four years of age. He was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the Lutheran church. His widow survived him for some years, she being sixty-nine years of age at the time of her death. For some time' after the death of her husband she made .her home in Delaware county, Indiana, but returned to Greene county on a visit and died at the home of her son Mont, the subject of this sketch. She was born, Catherine Amelia Bagford, at Hagerstown, Maryland, and was but a child when she came with her parents to Greene county. She was the last-born of the six children born to 'her parents, the others having been Calvin, who moved to Indiana ; William, who made his home in the neighboring county of Warren; Mary, who married William McClellan and lived west of Xenia ; Comfort who was twice. married, her firs husband having been John Hollingshead and her second, Jonas Hiney, both of this county, and Julia, who remained unmarried. To John H. and Catherine A. (Bagford) Manor were born six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being as follows : George, who is operating a dray line in Xenia ; William, deceased; Clinton, who is a farmer, living west of Xenia; Minnie, now a resident of Shideler, in Delaware county, Indiana, who has been twice married, her first husband having been William Brown and her second, Frank Shady; and A. B., also .a resident of Shideler, where he is engaged as a stationary engineer. Mont Manor grew up on the farm on which he was born, received his schooling in the Xenia schools and remained on the home farm until his marriage at the age of twenty-four years, after which, for five years, he lived on his mother's farm at Shideler, Indiana, and managed it. He then returned to Greene county, later moving to Dayton, but a year later returned to his home county and for two years thereafter rented a farm near Cedarville, after that becoming engaged in farming on a farm on the Dayton pike, where he remained for something more than three years, at the end of which time he became engaged in teaming in Xenia and was thus engaged for five years. He then resumed farming and was thus engaged in New Jasper township for three years, or until 1911, when he bought the farm of seventy-eight acres on which he is now living, known as the Ford place, in Caesarscreek township.. Mr. Manor is a Republican, and Mrs. Manor is a member of the Reformed church; at Maple Corner. On February 23, 1888, Mont Manor was united in marriage to Margaret E. Dean, who was born in the neighboring county of Montgomery, daughter of David and Cornelia (Darner) Dean, both of whom were born 312 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO in the vicinity of Dayton, in that same county, and who were the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Manor was the fourth in order of birth, the others being as follow : William, who is a carpenter, living at Dean, in Montgomery county ; Lottie, who married Edward Derby and is living at Rochester, New York ; Harry, who died in youth; Daisy, wife of James Hayes, of Dean; Bertha, wife of Samuel Jackson, of Dayton ; Gertrude, wife of Thomas Collins, of Dayton, and Charles, a carpenter, also living at Dayton. David Dean, the father of these children, was a building contractor, for years justice of the peace in and for his home township and for three terms a member of the board of county commissioners of Montgomery county. He was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the United Brethren church. He died in August, 1905, at the age of sixty-nine years. His wife's death occurred on July 27, 1901, at the age of sixty-two. To Mr. and Mrs. Manor have been born three children, namely : Harry Dean Manor, an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, living at Xenia, who married Lila Kildow and has four children, Elizabeth E., Noel Dean, Harry Ronald and Charles.; Cornelia Kathryn, who married Orie F. Clemmer, who is now at Camp Sherman in the National Army, and Charles David Manor, who is at home. HON. ANDREW JACKSON. The Hon. Andrew Jackson, former representative from this district in the General Assembly of the state of Ohio and for years one of the forceful figures in the life of Greene county, was born in this county and has resided here most of his life, the exception being a period of about ten years during which he was engaged in railroad service following his completion of nearly three years of service as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War. He was born on the old Jackson homestead place of Clarks run, west of Cedarville, December 25, 1843, a son of Gen. Robert and Minerva (Eddy) Jackson, prominent residents of that community, whose last days were spent in this county. Gen. Robert Jackson was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1798, and was sixteen years of age when he came to this county in 1814 with his parents, Robert and Elizabeth (McCorkle) Jackson, the family settling on a farm along Clarks run, west of the village of Cedarville. The elder Robert Jackson was born in 1758 at Newtown, Limavady, County Derry, Ireland, son of David and Elizabeth (Reed) Jackson, of Scottish descent, who were the parents of four children, three sons and one (laughter, and was but four years of age when his parents came with their family to the American colonies in 1762 and settled in Pennsylvania, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 313 as is set out at informative length elsewhere in this volume, together with a comprehensive history of the beginnings of the Jackson family in Greene county. David Jackson also was born at Newtown, about the year 1730, the third son by the second wife of Dr. Joseph Jackson, a physician of that place. By a previous marriage Dr. Joseph Jackson had a son, Andrew, who on account of his participation in a revolutionary movement in his own country was compelled to flee to the American colonies, he and his wife and two small sons settling in 1765 in the Waxhaw settlement in South Carolina. There Andrew Jackson died in the spring of 1767, a few days before the birth of his third son, who in honor of the deceased father was named Andrew and who in the proper fullness of time became the seventh President of the United States, it thus being seen that Robert Jackson, the Greene county pioneer, and Andrew Jackson, the hero of the battle of New Orleans and one of the most conspicuous figures in American history, were cousins. When the War of the Revolution came on David Jackson took an active part in the struggle of the colonists and lost a hand at the battle of Trenton. His wife died at Oxford, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 7, 1767, she then being thirty-four years of age. He survived her many years, his death occurring in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in August, 1811, and he was buried beside the body of his wife in the Oxford burying ground. They were members of the Associate Presbyterian church and in 1782, at the union of the Reformed and Associate Presbyterian churches, he became a member of the Associate Reformed church. Robert Jackson, third in order of birth of the four children born to David and Elizabeth (Reed) Jackson, grew to manhood in Pennsylvania and during the Revolutionary War served as a soldier of the patriot army. In the spring of 1786 he married Elizabeth McCorkle, who was born in Scotland and who was but a child when she came to this side with her parents. Her father was killed in battle while serving in behalf of the patriot cause during the Revolutionary War and her mother died not long afterward, she thereafter making her home with a Quaker family in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where she was living when married to Robert Jackson. She has been described as a large woman, five feet ten inches in height and of a weight of one hundred and ninety pounds; blonde, with blue eyes, auburn hair nearly five feet long, portly, with commanding, queenly appearance and straight as an Indian, her commanding appearance always insuring to her the respect due as a lady of the first rank. Robert Jackson has been described as a man six feet in height, of slender form and of a weight of one hundred and seventy-five pounds, of dark complexion, black, curly hair and long lean face, there being a tradition in the family 314 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO that he bore a striking resemblance to his illustrious cousin, Andrew Jackson, President of the United States. This description, written by the Rev. Hugh Parks Jackson, of Cedarville, dean of the Jackson family in this county, further sets out that Robert Jackson "was of a sedate disposition; did not engage in foolish fun, but was fond of company of his own kind; a man of pleasant and agreeable manners, but, like 'Old Hickory' Jackson, was full of mettle of the right ring. He was like a bell—touch him and he would sound. He was a wheelwright by trade, but worked on the farm as well, a man of industrious and abstemious habits and a great reaper in the harvest field with the old-fashioned sickle. It was the custom then to have whisky in the harvest field to drink, but it was his habit to sit on the fence, with his hat off, resting, while others were drinking. He was not a man of many words, but good company on subjects that were profitable to be discussed. He would, in holy indignation, resent and resist the oppression of the weak who were making strenuous and honest efforts to do right. Atone time in a harvest field, when sixty years old, he threw his sickle down and cracked his fists together, saying: 'I can whip any man that will impose on a boy !' A dozen harvesters reaping in the field were making sport of a boy who was trying to make a hand in the same field with them." In 1789, about three years after his marriage, Robert Jackson moved over the mountains from Lancaster county to Westmoreland county, in Pennsylvania, and settled on a farm in the forks of the Yough, and was living there when what historically is known as the "Whisky Rebellion" broke out in western Pennsylvania in the summer of 1794. He indirectly aided and abetted this rebellion by loaning his gun to one of his neighbors, who was engaged in the rebellion, and was for months thereafter compelled to seek hiding in the bush while the soldiers were scouring the country in search of insurrectionists. But presently the President pardoned and released all engaged in the insurrection and the soldiers were withdrawn. In 1799 Robert Jackson sold his hill farm and moved over into the then Territory of Ohio, buying a farm two miles southeast of Mt. Pleasant, in Jefferson county, where he remained until 1814, when he disposed of his interests there and with his family came to Greene county and settled on Clarks run, west of Cedarville. In this county he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, her death occurring on September 28, 1822, and his, September 26, 828, and both were laid to rest in the Massiescreek burying ground. Robert Jackson was for years a ruling elder in the Associate Reformed church, having thus served his church both in Pennsylvania and after his coming to Greene county, and his children were reared in that faith. There were ten of these children, of whom Robert, father of the subject of this GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 315 sketch, was the seventh in order of birth, and of these ten all save two grew to maturity, married and had families of their own, their children, in turn, numbering eighty-four, the descendants of these, in the present generation, comprising a well-nigh innumerable host and forming connections with most of what are regarded as the "old families" of Greene county. Partaking the physical characteristics of both of his parents, Gen. Robert Jackson has been described as a man of six feet two inches in height, of a weight of one hundred and ninety pounds, straight as an Indian, of fine physique, dark complexion, dark eyes, black curly hair, "and when dressed in full military costume and mounted on his spirited white charger made a handsome appearance and was indeed a brilliant and popular military officer." From boyhood he was fond of military tactics and parades and when he came to this county with his parents in 1814 at once became a participant in the activities of muster days and the like, going on up in rank in the local militia until on August 22, 1831, he was commissioned by Governor McArthur as brigadier general of the First Brigade, Fifth Division, Ohio State Militia, a commission he held until his resignation on August 6, 1836. The General also took an active part in the general public affairs of the community and was elected to represent this district in the thirty-third General Assembly of the state of Ohio. From 1857 to 1862 he represented his district as a member of the board of county commissioners and in 1862 went with the "squirrel hunters" to Cincinnati to help repel the threatened rebel invasion of Ohio. In early life the General was a Democrat, but in 1852 became a Free Soiler and upon the organization of the Republican party threw in his influence with the latter party and remained a firm adherent of the same until his death. It has been written of him that in disposition he was free and jovial, fond of society and of his friends, with whom he was always popular and a welcome guest. On December 25, 1821, Gen. Robert Jackson married Minerva Eddy, of Lebanon, in the neighboring county of Warren, and after his marriage continued to make his home on the old home place on Clarks run until 1856, when he sold that farm, which meantime had been bequeathed to him, and moved to Xenia, where he became engaged in the milling business, several years later moving to a small fruit farm two miles east of Xenia, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there on April J0, 1877. His widow returned to Xenia, but later moved to Yellow Springs, where she died on January 16, 882. Both were reared in the Associate Reformed church and after the union in 1858 became connected with the United Presbyterian church. To Gen. Robert and Minerva (Eddy) Jackson were horn twelve children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eleventh in order of birth, the others being the following: Phoebe Ann, born on November 24, 1822, 316 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO who was thrice married, her first husband having been Matthew Corry Jacoby, her second John Thomas Dawson, and her third Jefferson Joseph Reed, and who by her first husband was the mother of three children, Robert Scott, Henry Martin and Rebecca Jane, the latter of whom married the Rev. George G. Mitchell, and by her second husband, three children, Minerva Alice, Elizabeth Ann and Kate Josephine ; Joseph Addison, January 6, 1825, who died on October 1, 1834; Elizabeth, September 8, 1827, who married John Corry and had four children, William Henry, Minerva Emazetta, Anna Maud and Lizzie Alta; Joshua M., November 17, 1829, a veteran of the Civil War, who married Mary Matilda Gowdy and had five children, Robert A., Charles Conditt, Joshua C., Joseph E. and Mary ; Mary, January 28, 1832, who married John R. Nash and had two sons, Robert Hervey and Hugh Lee; Nancy Jane, June 3, 1834, who married Prof. Robert Hood; Dona Martha, May 3, 1836, who married George Royse; twins, who died at birth in 1838; Robert Eddy, December 23, 1840, who died on August 24, 1843, and James Harvey, July 27, 1847, who died on June 10, 1849. Andrew Jackson was eleven years of age when his parents moved from the farm to Xenia and his schooling was completed in the schools of that city. Upon leaving school he entered the employ of Merrick & Company, dry-goods merchants at Xenia, remaining there until the fall of 1861, when he went to Michigan with his brother-in-law, Professor Hood, a civil engineer, and under the direction of the latter took a course in surveying, geometry, trigonometry and bookkeeping. In the following spring he returned to Xenia and resumed his place in the Merrick store, being given charge of that concern's books, and continued thus engaged until August 8, 1862, when he enlisted as a member of Company H, Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front with that command, his first skirmish with the enemy coming on the 31st of that same month at Tate's Ferry, Kentucky. In the battle of Perrysville in October following Mr. Jackson received a wound in the left shoulder, but was not seriously incapacitated, for he was able to participate in the bloody battle of Stone's River a couple of months later. With his command he then took part in the Tullahoma campaign and then on through the South, taking part in such battles as those at Dug Gap, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Smyrna Camp Grounds, Chattahoochee River, Peach Tree Creek, the siege of Atlanta, Jonesboro, Bentonville, and was present when Johnson surrendered on April 26, 1865. He was mustered out of service on June 5, 1865, after a service of two years and ten months, the war then being at an end. During a part of the last year of this service he was detailed as chief clerk to the inspector-general of the First Brigade, First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 317 Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Jackson returned home and was almost immediately thereafter appointed to a position as assistant engineer in the maintenance-of-way department of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, a position which he occupied for a year, at the end of which time he resigned to accept the position of engineer and amanuensis to the president in the office of the Cincinnati & Zanesville Railroad, at Cincinnati, presently being promoted to the position of general ticket agent and paymaster of that road, and remained thus connected for six years or until his resignation and return to Cedarville. In the meantime he had married a daughter of James Dunlap, the lumberman, and upon his return to Cedarville took charge of the latter's extensive lumber interests, not only at that place but at Cincinnati and in the Michigan lumber camps, at the same time giving direction to the operations on his farm in the Cedarville neighborhood, and presently began to give particular attention to the breeding of fine horses on the farm, with particular reference to animals for the speed-ring. For years Mr. Jackson continued this active interest in horses. The famous Wilkes strain was his favorite and the "Onward" branch of this strain gained for him many good marks. He maintained a track on his farm and trained both trotting and pacing stock, among the notables there trained for racing having been "General Jackson" and "Miss Jackson." For six successive years Mr. Jackson held the position of starter judge of the horse races at the Ohio state fair. Mr. Jackson is a Republican and was elected to represent this district in the sixty-eighth General Assembly and was re-elected for the succeeding term. During his service in the Legislature Mr. Jackson gained so many friends that during the succeeding session of the General Assembly he was chosen sergeant-at-arms of the House and so satisfactorily did he perform the duties of that office that he was re-elected for six succeeding sessions and thus served until the seventy-sixth session, at the last session receiving the vote also of the Democrats, a compliment said to be unparalleled in the annals of the Legislature. In 1891 Mr. Jackson was appointed a member of the state commission to locate markers. or regimental monuments to the memory of the fifty-five Ohio regiments that were represented on the field during the battle of Chickamauga. This commission was the first of the similar state commissions on the field and four years was occupied in its labors, the Ohio monuments being dedicated on September 19, 1895. For twenty-two years (1890-1912) Mr. Jackson was a member of the Cedarville school board. Then the Cedarville board and the township board were consolidated and Mr. Jackson has since continued to render service as the clerk of the united board, in that capacity rendering service at the time of the erection of the new school building at Cedarville in 1916, a building that is regarded as a model of its type in the state of Ohio. In 1912 Mr. Jackson was elected clerk of Cedarville township and 318 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO in 1917 was re-elected to that office for the fourth time. Since 1899 he also has been continued in office as justice of the peace in and for his home township, his neighbors long ago apparently having come to the conclusion that they want no other "squire" to sit in local judgment. When the Cedarville Building and Loan Association was organized in 1896 Mr. Jackson was elected secretary of that concern and has ever since been retained in that position. Mr. Jackson's home is surrounded by forty acres of well-kept land just out of the southeastern limits of the city of Cedarville. On December 17, 1868, Andrew Jackson was united in marriage to Mary J. Dunlap, who was born. at Cincinnati on March I, 1845, daughter of James Dunlap, mentioned above as having been extensively engaged in the lumber business at Cincinnati and at Cedarville and who died at his home in the latter place on January 25, 189o, he then being seventy-six years of age. To this union four children were born, namely : Pearl J., born on May 13, 1871, wife of Ralph G. George, of Jamestown, this county; Frank A., July 10, 1876, now serving as sheriff of Greene county and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume; Clara G., November 9, 1878, wife of H. H. Cherry, a farmer living in Xenia township and further reference to whom is made elsewhere, and Fannie D., December 30, 188o, wife of R. L. Baldwin, of Chicago. JOSEPH DEVOE. The late Joseph Devoe, former trustee of Caesarscreek township and for years a citizen of that township, who met his death in an automobile accident in 1912, was born on a farm in Jefferson township on March 7, 1850, son of David and Mary (Ary) Devoe, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families, the Devoes and the Arys having been here from the early days of the settlement of this part of Ohio. David Devoe was born on a farm in the vicnity of the village of Paintersville in 1822, son of Joseph and Abby (Oglesbee) Devoe, who had settled there upon coming over here from Virginia in 1817. Joseph Devoe, the pioneer, was born in the neighborhood of Winchester, Virginia, a son of David Devoe, who was born in France and Who had come to this country With his widowed mother when a lad, the family settling in Virginia. Joseph Devoe grew to manhood in Virginia and there married Abby Oglesbee and in 1817 came with his wife to Ohio and located in this county, establishing his home on a pioneer farm in the vicinity of where the village of Paintersville later came into being. He was a Whig and a Methodist. His wife died in 1858 and he in 1860. They were parents of six children,. David, Evaline, who GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 319 married John Ary, George W., Ephraim, Sarah Jane, who married Nathan Fisher, and Asa. Reared on the home farm in the vicinity of Paintersville, David Devoe grew up a farmer, a vocation he followed all his life. He married Mary Ary, who was born in this county on August 13, 1825, and after his marriage made his home on a farm in Jefferson township until 1868, when he bought a farm in the neighborhood of Paintersville, in Caesarscreek township, occupied the same and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on January. 23; 1899, he: then being in the seventy-seventh year of his age. His Widow survives. They were the parents of eleven: children, namely : Eliza Jane, who married Thomas Bone and moved to Illinois; Sarah, who married William A. Powers; Lucinda, who married L. V. Johnson; Joseph, the subject of this memorial sketch; William, of Jefferson township ; Aaron, of Caesarscreek township; Margaret, David and George, who died in childhood.; Elizabeth, who married Isaiah. Mason, and Jesse, of Xenia township. Joseph Devoe grew up on the farm in Jefferson township, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools and was eighteen years of age when the family moved to the farm in the Paintersville vicinity. He remained at home until his marriage in the spring of 1872, when he and his wife began housekeeping on a farm in Caesarscreek township, south of the place where Mrs. Devoe now lives, and there remained for several years. They then moved to the place on which Mrs. Devoe is now living, known then as the Fisher place, and there established their permanent home, Mr. Devoe cultivating the farm of seventy-five acres until his tragic death on September 30, 1912. Joseph Devoe was a Republican and served as township trustee and as a member of his local school board. He was a member of the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville, as were his parents before him and as is his widow, and for years served as a member of the board of trustees of that congregation. On March 28, 1872, Joseph Devoe was united in marriage to Caroline Faulkner, who was born on a farm in the Paintersville neighborhood, in Caesarscreek township, daughter of David and Emily Jane (Musetter) Faulkner, the former of whom was born in that same. neighborhood on October 7, 1819, a son of Thomas and Mary (McGuire) Faulkner, who were among the earliest pioneers of that section of Greene county. David Faulkner grew up on the home farm and remained there until his marriage in September, 1838, to Emily Jane Musetter, who had come to this .county with her parents. from Virginia. For a time after his marriage he lived on a rented farm, but later bought a farm of his own in that same neighborhood and there spent the ,remainder of his life, becoming the owner of a farm of 320 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO one hundred and ninety-four acres. David Faulkner was a Republican and for several terms served as trustee of his home township. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville and he for years was class leader of the same. He died in 1896 and his widow survived him for four years, her death occurring in 1900. They were the parents of seven children, namely : Mary, widow of Francis Linkhart, of Xenia, who is now making her home with her sister, Mrs. Devoe, on the farm ; Harvey C., a farmer living north of Paintersville ; Caroline, widow of Joseph Devoe; Samuel P., a farmer of Caesarscreek township, whose biographical sketch presented elsewhere in this volume carries much additional information regarding the Faulkner family in this county ; Elijah B., now a resident of West Carolton, Ohio; Harriet Ann, who married Thomas B. Linkhart, of Lumberton, and is now deceased; and Elizabeth Catherine, wife of John Anderson, of Xenia. To Joseph and Caroline (Faulkner) Devoe were born three children, namely : Anna Belle, who married Stacy Wilson, a farmer, of Jefferson township, this county, and has one child, a daughter, Goldie; Mary E., who married Adolph Lowe, now living in North Dakota, and has four children, Elmer, Mable, Helen and Hester, the last two named being twins, and Ida May, who married West Caplinger, now living in the neighboring county of Clinton, and has two children, Forest and Everett. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Devoe has continued to make her home on the farm. SEBASTIAN GERHARDT. Sebastian Gerhardt, a farmer of Miami township, this county, living on rural route No. 3 out of Yellow Springs, was born in the village of Hustead, in the neighboring county of Clark, February 7, 1875, a son of Sebastian and Margaret (Peterson) Gerhardt, natives of Germany, who were married in this country and later established their home on a farm in Clark county, this state, where they reared their family. The senior Sebastian Gerhardt received military training in his native land and was twenty-five years of age when he came to this country. On the way over he met and fell in love with Margaret Peterson, a fellow passenger on the vessel on which he had taken passage, and after their arrival on this side they were married, later becoming residents of Clark county, this state. During the Civil War Sebastian Gerhardt served as a soldier of the Union and on account of his previous military training could have had a captaincy had it not been for the difficulty he was still experiencing in the mastery of the English language. He and his wife were the parents of GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 321 eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last-born, the others being Matilda, Catherine (deceased), Jacob, Philip, Flora (deceased), Daniel and Emma. The junior Sebastian Gerhardt was reared in Clark county and there received his schooling. He became a practical farmer and after his marriage became established on the farm on which he is now living and has ever since then made that his place of residence. Mr. Gerhardt's agricultural operations are carried on in accordance with modern methods. He is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Clifton and of the Junior. Order of United American Mechanics. On December 30, 1897, Sebastian Gerhardt was united in marriage to Mary A. Hilt, who also was born in Clark county, January 22, 1877, daughter of David Hilt and wife, who are now living retired at Yellow Springs and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union three children have been born, Fern, born on June 18, 1899, who was graduated from the Yellow Springs high school in 1917; Philip, November 7, 1900, now a senior in the high school, and Anna, June 25, 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Gerhardt are members of the Bethel Lutheran church. JAMES FREDERICK HARTSOOK. The late James Frederick Hartsook, a veteran of the Civil War and a farmer of Caesarscreek township, who died at his home in the vicinity of Eleazar church in that township on November 12, 1912, was a native son of Greene county and had resided here all his life. He was born on a farm three miles east of Xenia on February 31, 1831, son of Elijah B. and Elizabeth (Stidley) Hartsook, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Virginia, who came to this county in pioneer days and became early settlers in Caesarscreek township. Elijah B. Hartsook was the first of the name to settle in Greene county. In 1834, some years after coming here, he bought an unimproved tract of land, the place on which the widow of his son, James F. Hartsook, now lives, in Caesarscreek township, and there established his home, the family living in the open and cooking their meals by the side of a fallen tree while the first log cabin was being erected on the place. The tract eventually was cleared and in due time came to he profitably cultivated. Elijah B. Hartsook for many years served as justice of the peace in and for his home township. He and his wife were Methodists and not long- after settling in Caesarscreek township he gave a plot of ground for a church site and buying ground and led in the .work of erecting Eleazar (20) 322 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO church, most of the lumber that entered into the erection of the first church edifice there being contributed by him. He took an active part in church work and all the rest of his life took care of the church building, acting as custodian and care-taker free of charge. He was reared a Democrat, but later became a Whig and upon the organization of the Republican party became affiliated with the new party. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, Washington Harrison, Frances, James F., Jackson, Elizabeth and Catherine, three of the boys going to southern Wisconsin and there establishing their homes. James F. remained on the home place, which he later bought: James F. Hartsook grew up on the pioneer farm on which he was born and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. He enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company D, One Hundred and Tenth Regiment, Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served for two years and ten months, during that period participating in a number of the important battles and engagements of the war, including those of Winchester, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Pittsburg Landing and Shiloh. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Hartsook returned to the farm and after his marriage in the spring of 1868 established his home there and continued to reside there the rest of his life, his death occurring in the fall of 1912. Mr. Hartsook had joined the Eleazar Methodist Protestant church in 1865 and ever afterward took an earnest interest in the affairs of the same, for more than forty years acting as care-taker of the church building, a labor of love which his father before him also had rendered for years. He was a Republican, and served at one time and another as an office holder in his home township. On May 28, 1868, James F. Hartsook was united in marriage to Mary J. Hale, who was born ,at Bellbrook, this county, daughter of Silas and Miriam (Opdyke) Hale, the former of whom was born in that same vicinity on August 26, 1803, son of John and Sarah (Bowen) Hale, who had moved up here from Kentucky in 1802, the Hales thus being one of the very oldest families in Greene county, all of which, together with a comprehensive history of the Hale family in this county, is set out in a biographical sketch relating to Mrs. Hartsook's brother, Silas 0. Hale. To James F. and Mary J. (Hale) Hartsook were born five sons, namely : Luther, who continues to make his home on the old home place, managing the farm for his mother, and who married Lavina Peterson and has two children, Vera Leona and Frederick Christopher ; Allen S., who died at the age of seven months; Harper K., a farmer in Caesarscreek township, who married Cora Jessup and has one child, a daughter, Wanda; Silas, who died in youth, and Harry, who is engaged in the telephone business in the West. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 323 JOHN M. PETERSON John M. Peterson, a farmer of Caesarscreek township, and the proprietor of a farm on rural mail route No. 6 out of Xenia, was born in that township and has lived there all his life. He was born on May 9, 1845, son of Jacob J. and Deborah (Mock) Peterson, the former of whom was born in Virginia and the latter, in Fayette county, Ohio, daughter of John Mock, and whose last days were spent in Caesarscreek township, Jacob T. Peterson dying at the age of fifty-six years, his widow surviving him to the age of seventy-eight. Jacob J. Peterson was but a lad when he came to this county from Virginia with his parents, Jacob Peterson and wife, the family settling in Caesarscreek township, where they established their home. The elder Jacob Peterson and his wife were the parents of nine children, of whom Jacob J. was the fifth in order of birth, the others being Moses, who settled in Caesarscreek township ; Felix, who established his home in Xenia township; Joel, who moved down into the neighboring county of Clinton; Samuel, who made his home in Xenia township; Mary, who married Jonathan Kettlemen ; Catherine, who married Joseph Boots, Mrs. Christina Bargedell and Hannah, who married George Eyman. Jacob J. Peterson grew to manhood on the home farm in Caesarscreek township and after his marriage established his home on a farm in that township and there spent the remainder of his life. He was a Republican and for some time. served as director of schools in his district. He and his wife were members of the Reformed church and their children were reared in that faith. There were eight of these children, of. whom the subject of this sketch was the last-born, the others being as follow : Lydia, who married Allan Long and is now deceased; Mary E., who died in the days of her girlhood; Hiram, who became a farmer in Caesarscreek township and is now deceased; Jacob L., who moved to Indiana and there spent his last days on a farm; Daniel N., who also moved to Indiana and there died; Virginia Ann, who is now living in Indiana, widow of James R. Babb, and Amy F., who has been married twice, her first husband having been William Sutton and her second; Martin Snyder. John M. Peterson was reared on the home farm in Caesarscreek township, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools, and remained at home until his marriage when twenty years of age, after which he established his home on the farm of one hundred and thirty-five acres, on which he is now living in that township, though now living practically retired from the active labors of the farm, the same being carried on by his son-in-law, E. S. Conklin. In 1887 he erected the substantial brick house on the place. 324 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO He is a Republican and a member of the Reformed church, in which he was reared. In 1865 John M. Peterson was united in marriage to Martha C. Sutton, who was born in New Jasper townships, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Sutton, who were the parents of the following children : Philip, Griffith, William, John, Jacob, Lucinda, Daniel, Raper, Sarah, Mary, Nancy, Louis, Elizabeth, Temperance and Martha. Mrs. Peterson died in March, 1906, at the age. of sixty years, leaving one child, a daughter, Flora Belle, wife of E. S. Conklin, who is farming the home place for Mr. Peterson. JOHN ALLEN HICKMAN. The late John Allen Hickman, a veteran of the Civil War, who died at his home in Caesarscreek township on June 24, 1908, was born in that township and had lived there most all his life. He was born on January 10, 1843, a son of Riley and Sarah (Ford) Hickman, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter, of Virginia, who had come to Greene county with their respective parents in pioneer days and were here married. After his marriage Riley Hickman located on a tract near where Mrs. J. A. Hickman, widow of his son, is now living, formerly known as the Turner farm, but presently found that he had settled on the wrong claim, through an error of location, and he then moved to the tract just south of the one mentioned and there established his home, spending there his last days. Riley Hickman was both a farmer and a cabinet-maker and in the latter line the products of his shop were in wide demand among his pioneer neighbors. He and his wife were the parents of six children, Gilman, David, Martha, Jacob, John Allen and George, the latter of whom is still living, now a resident of New Burlington. John Allen Hickman was reared on the home farm in Caesarscreek township and received his schooling in the neighborhood district school. From boyhood he was a hard worker, being required to give assistance early and late in the labors of developing the home place, and also, under his father's direction, became a carpenter. Though but eighteen years of age when the Civil War broke out he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union, in 1861, and went to the front as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio 'Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Hickman returned home and until his marriage in the fall of 1870 was engaged working as a carpenter in that neighborhood. After their marriage