BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 325 of the children, his birth occurring October 14, 1847. His education was acquired in the schools at Lebanon and Warren, Ohio, and in 1869, after finishing his academical course, he entered the Ohio Medical college. After putting in several years of hard study at that institution he was graduated with the class of March, 1873. Without loss of time he located at Russell and entered actively upon the practice of his profession, which he has kept up continuously for nearly thirty years. During this long period of ministering to the sick and healing the wounded, Dr. Granger has acquired a wide acquaintance and his friendships are numerous all over the county. He is a member of the state and county medical societies, and keeps posted on all the new discoveries and appliances affecting his profession. October 10, 1895, he was married, to Emma, daughter of John Moody and Rachel (Smith) Whitacre of Lynchburg. Mrs. Granger's father was born August 23, 1817, near Rochester, Ohio, and died March 24, 1896, at the residence of his son, Perry Whitacre, of Lynchburg. Her mother, Rachel (Smith) Whitacre, was a native of Edwardsville, Ohio, and died February 19, 1876. Dr. Granger's religious affiliations are with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he has been a member for some years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Hayes I. Gray, one of the leading grocers of Greenfield, though a native of Ross, has spent all of his adult life in Highland county. His father, David Gray, was born and reared in Highland, but afterwards settled at Chillicothe, where the followed the business of building and contracting until his death, which occurred in 1890. He married Mary C. Robbins, of Grenfield, by whom he had two sons, the eldest of whom, Charles F. Gray, is in the jewelry business at Dayton, Ohio. Hayes I. Gray, the other son, was born in 1876 while his parents were living at Chillicothe, Ohio. When fourteen years of age he secured a position in the general merchandise store of Boden Bros., at Greenfield, and worked for that firm eight years. In 1899 he decided to go into business on his own account and selected groceries as the line in which he would embark. Accordingly he opened a stock in Greenfield and started in a modest way at first, but has met with success, his trade growing steadily until his establishment has become one of the leading grocery concerns of the city. For awhile he conducted a branch grocery in the Oklahoma district but later disposed of that by sale. Aside from his regular business he holds stock in the Home Phone company of Greenfield and takes an interest in every enterprise which promises to aid in the city's development. He is fond of the fraternal fellowship afforded by the various fraternities and holds membership in several of them. In Masonry he has reached the Royal Arch degree and he is connected with the Woodmen of America and Improved Order 326 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   of Red Men. In January, 1902, he was married to Mary L., daughter of Rev. Howard Phillips and niece of George W. Rucker. His religious affiliations are with the Methodists, and he holds membership in the church of that denomination at. Greenfield. Jacob M. Grim, a civil war veteran with the rank of first lieutenant, and a substantial farmer, belongs to a family which has been prominently identified with the agricultural interests of Highland county since 1820. In that year his father, Peter Grim, came from Rockbridge county, Virginia, and settled in Highland county, where he became a popular and influential citizen. He married Mary, daughter of John Walker, an Irishman by birth who also came to Ohio from Virginia and was one of the first. settlers of Highland county. Peter and Mary (Walker) Grim reared a family of five children, of whom John W. and William C. reside in Paint township; Sarah Ann married William P. Hughey, but is now dead, and Henry Turner has also passed away. Jacob M. Grim, the youngest of the family, was born in Paint township, Highland county, Ohio, in 1833, and grew to manhood on his father's farm. The log cabin schoolhouse was still in vogue in his boyhood days and he got the full benefit of the same, after which his life passed uneventfully. on the farm until the outbreak of the civil war. During the summer of 1863, it became necessary to garrison numerous forts and other strongholds captured from the enemy and to meet this demand two regiments of heavy artillery were recruited in the Sixth Ohio congressional district. June 7th, 1863, Jacob M. Grim was appointed second lieutenant of Company A, Second regiment Ohio heavy artillery, which was mustered into the service at Camp Dennison and on August 19 ordered to the barracks at Covington, Ky. In the spring of 1864 it was sent to Tennessee and participated in the campaigns of that and other states during the remainder of the war under the command of Col. H. G. Gibson. January 1, 1864, Mr. Grim received promotion to the first lieutenancy of his company and he held a commission as such when mustered out August 23, 1865. After the cessation of hostilities, he resumed farming, which has been his lifelong occupation in the county of Highland, with the exception of one year spent in Iowa during his early manhood. He owns a fine dairy farm in Paint township and it would be proper to describe him as one of the successful and representative agriculturists of Highland county. Aside from his farming interests, he has found time to take a lively part in all the local political battles and has been quite prominent in the ranks of his party. He came within one vote of obtaining the nomination for sheriff some years ago and has held several of the more important township offices, being trustee for six years and justice of the peace for a long period. le helped to organize Trimble post, No. 442, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 327 Grand Army of the Republic, at Rainsboro, and was commander of the same several years. He has been connected with the Masonic order for half a lifetime, being a member of the blue lodge for thirty-five years and of the chapter for twenty years. He has also held membership in the order of Odd Fellows for forty-nine years. In 1853 he married Nancy Malvina Maddox, member of a family that was old and highly respectable on the side of both parents. Her father, Samuel Maddox, who came from Virginia, was a prominent and prosperous citizen of Paint township and noted for his enthusiastic patriotism before and during the civil war. Though above the military age, he insisted in volunteering and became a member of the Eleventh regiment Ohio cavalry, with which he was serving in the Rocky Mountain regions at the time of his death near Cripple Creek, Col., March 31, 1863. His wife was Malinda E. Huitt, a near relative of the distinguished New York family of this name. Her father, Dorthica Huitt, was the builder of the old mill on Paint creek, known by his name for many years, and one of the first establishments of the kind in Highland county. He was a notable character in many ways, being a 'Methodist preacher of considerable, reputation, and known far and wide for his skill with the fife, having played that instrument of martial music during the stirring days of the war of 1812. Samuel and Malinda (Huitt) Maddox reared a family of nine children: Nancy Malvina, as previously stated, became the wife of Jacob M. Grim ; Mary, who married Milton Newby is dead ; Amanda, widow of William Edmondson, is living at Indianapolis ; Leonidas served four years in the civil war, first in the Sixtieth Ohio regiment with which he was captured at Harper's Ferry and paroled, subsequently joining the Twenty-fourth Ohio independent battery of light artillery and being shortly afterward killed; Samuel is an attorney at Louisville, Ky. ; Emily, widow of Sanford W. Washburn, resides at Springfield ; Allen D. is a Methodist minister of Westville; Eva, is wife of William Holrin, shipbuilder at Newport News ; John is in the lumber business at Clarksburg, W. Va. Mr. and Mrs. Grim have had four children, only two of whom are living. Frank, the eldest son, who had been in the railroad business for twenty years, was struck October 25, 1899, by a train in the yards at. Chattanooga, Tenn., and died in a few hours. Mary Ida died in 1860 at the age of four years ; William P. lives in Ross county and George resides on the old home place near New Petersburg, Highland county. Mr. and Mrs. Grim are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. George G. Grim is one of the popular and substantial men of Paint township, as is proved by his repeated elections to the position of trustee, the most important of the township offices.. He is a native of Paint township and has spent all his life there, doing his share 328 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. towards the growth and development of that portion of Highland county. He is a. son of Jacob Grim and his birth occurred at New Petersburg, Highland county, October 23, 1857. He grew up on a farm, learned all the details connected with that kind of work and in the meantime secured a fair education by attendance at the common schools of the village. In 1882 he was married to Miss Minnie Martin and soon after, in conjunction with his brother Frank, bopght the farm where Thomas Cope now lives. In 1890 he removed to his present place of residence where he has since carried on general farming and stock-raising. When the removal of Thomas Davis caused a vacancy in the office of township trustee, Mr. Grim was appointed to fill the same and at the expiration of his term was elected to serve one year. In the spring of 1902 he was again elected trustee of Paint township for a term of three years, which he is now serving. Mr. Grim has a fondness for fraternal life and has been quite active in Oddfellowship. For fifteen years he has been a member of Emerald lodge, No. 211, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at New Petersburg, and has filled all the chairs connected therewith. At present he holds the position of financial secretary and is regarded by his associates as one of the moving spirits in keeping up interest in the order. He is also a member of the popular fraternity known as the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. and Mrs. Grim have three children, Grace, Frank L. and Ralph W. and the family is highly esteemed in the community. John J. Grove, a lately deceased citizen of Paint township, was an extensive land-owner and well known for many years as a minister of the Christian church. He was a son of George L. Grove and born in Paint township, Highland county, Ohio, on the farm now occupied by James Parshell, May 20, 1829. His early education and training for future duties were received in his native township where he managed the farm for his mother several years before reaching legal age. February 7, 1849, he was married to Sarah A. Snider, by whom he had five children: George L, Thomas and William live in Clinton county ; Lucinda married Daniel West and resides in Kansas ; Samuel, the youngest, has passed away. After his marriage, Mr. Grove lived some time on the farm now occupied by Mr. Finegan, later went to Liberty township where he spent eleven years and then returned to the farm in Paint township where he spent the remainder of his days. His first wife died July 5, 1869, and March 31, 1870, he was married to Miss Mary A. McFadden, a native of Clinton county. The children by this union were five in number and named as follows: Hannah, wife of Frank Bayham ; Walter, a resident of Paint township; Mary S., deceased ; Harrison, at home with his mother; and Rebecca, deceased. Mr. Grove's death occurred August 12, 1897, and his remains were BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 329 interred at the cemetery near Centerville in presence of many who had known him long and esteemed him as a good man. He was a devoted member of the Christian church and for many years a minister of that denomination. He owned a considerable amount of land on which he had placed many improvements. Thomas J. Gustin, of Belfast, a veteran business man and influential citizen, is of a family long known in this part of Ohio, being a grandson of Dr. John Gustin, of Adams county, famous among the early settlers for his success in treating disease with those natural remedies known to the Indians and other students of nature. On account of the nature of his practice he was widely known as the "Root doctor." Dr. Gustin was a native of Kentucky and son of a soldier of the Revolution who served under General Morgan and carried to his grave a British bullet received at the battle of Cowpens. When a young man Dr. Gustin married Susanna Scott, daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, and with his wife removed to Adams county with the early settlers. Their children were Edward S. deceased ; William, of North Liberty ; Bratton, living at the old home in Adams county ; Cornelius, Melinda, Susanna, Rebecca and Rhoda, deceased ; and Delilah J., of Adams county. Edward S. Gustin, father of Thomas J., was born on the home farm near May-hill, Adams county, where Dr. Gustin at one time owned- a large area of land, and he resided there after his marriage to Louisa Kerr, a native of Virginia, until his untimely and lamented death at the age of thirty-six years. His widow, who survived him for many years, reared at the old homestead their family of five boys, Thomas J., Charles W., John M., and Nicholas 0. The two latter are now upon the home place, and C. W. resides also in Adams county. Thomas J. Gustin was born at the Adams county home of his family, December 20, 1845, and was reared there until in his youth he went to the battlefield with the gallant boys of Ohio in defense of the Union. His first enlistment was a private in Company G of the Hundred and Seventy-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, with which he was mustered in at Charleston, Va., and served in the ,mountain campaigns in the Virginias. He was often under fire, took part in numerous skirmishes and was a participant in the battles of Cloyd Mountain, Loop Creek and the Salt Works, while with this regiment, and six months later re-enlisted in Company A of the Eighty-fourth regiment Ohio infantry, with which he was in various minor engagements, and while at Charleston received injuries that crippled him for life. After this devoted service for his country Mr. Gustin returned home, and for ten years was employed with his uncle William at North Liberty, as a carriage maker. Subsequently, after residing at various places, he made his home at Belfast, where he carried on the work of carriage manufacturing until 1897. Since 330 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND: then he has conducted an undertaking establishment. He also owns a small farm in Jackson township and several pieces of town property. He is a man widely known and popular, and is a valued member of the Methodist church, the Masonic order, the Felel-.lows, in which he has held all the offices in the Belfast lodge, and the Grand Army of the Republic. After the war he was married to Mary J., daughter of Thomas and Mary Roberts, a lady belong- ing to one of the old and influential families of the county, and they have four children : Clyde, Homer (deceased), Mary and Bertha. James V. Guthrie, of Leesburg, bears a name which has figured creditably in the history not only of Highland but other Ohio counties. His great-grandfather was James Guthrie, a native of Virginia, born near Richmond in 1751. About 1778 he was married to Jane Candler and to them were born ten children, among whom were: William, October 11, 1779 ; Henry, September 29, 1782 ; Patsey, January 25, 1784 ; Penelope, December 26, 1787 ; Agnes, February 15, 1790 ; Elizabeth, May 24, 1793; J. John, December 16, 1795; Mildred, June 19, 1798 ; James, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, born in Virginia, March 16, 1801; and Harriett, the youngest child of this family, born December 19, 1806. James Guthrie, Sr., .brought this large family to Ohio with him when he emigrated here from Virginia about 1820. He became quite prominent in the affairs of the community, and after a long and useful life he died in Leesburg, 0., February 27, 1848. James Guthrie, son of the latter, and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was identified with Ohio life after coming with his father, rand was prominent in the affairs of Adams and Highland counties, took part in the early political struggles and was a factor in the development of Leesburg during a long period before his death, which occurred in 1874. In early manhood he had married Mahala C. Hardy, born in Ross. county, Ohio, in 1805, who shared his fortunes with dutiful affection until her untimely death in 1843. Among their children was James Thomas Guthrie, born at Leesburg, Highland county, Ohio, in 1830. A few years afterward he was taken by his father to Indiana, which state became the place of residence of the family for some time and it was here that James Thomas received his early .education and spent about five years in learning the tanner's trade. Subsequently he spent several years as an employe on steamboats plying between Ohio river points and New Orleans and about 1849 returned to his native county. When this was acquired he worked at it in different parts of Highland county, eventually locating at Lexington where he opened a shop and commenced business on his own account. After a short experience here he selected Leesburg as a more promising. place for his purposes, and having removed there made it his perma- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 331 nent home. He was of an inventive turn of mind and put in much of his time during the latter years of his life as an experimenter along different lines. He obtained patents on various devices, some of which proved commercially successful, the most valuable of his inventions being a new method of extracting gas from a combination of coal and gasoline. During his long residence i1h Leesburg he was one of the public spirited citizens of that place and enthusiastic over every proposal that promised advancement or a betterment of conditions. His ingenious mind was always devising plans to improve conditions, lessen labor and confer additional happiness on his fellowman. During the period of the Mexican war he united with a military company as a drummer boy for service in that struggle, and was in government employment for a while. In 1856 he was married to Maria B. Johnson, who has resided at Leesburg since the death of her husband, which occurred August 11, 1901. A worthy son succeeds this worthy sire in the person of James V. Guthrie, who was born at Leesburg, Ohio, in 1856. At an early age he developed a talent for music and so directed his subsequent education as to assist in the development of that valuable accomplishment. In course of time he became a teacher of music and for several years was a professional instructor of military bands in different places. Eventually he located at Leesburg and embarked in the jewelry business, to which he has devoted his later years, being now the principal dealer in his line in that part of Highland county. Mr. Guthrie, like his father and grandfather before him, is one of the enterprising and progressive men of his community, believing in progress and in keeping well to the front in all movements that promise benefit to the people. In 1886 he was happily married to Minnie M. Pushee, an accomplished lady of Highland county of excellent social connections. James Hallam, the well known contractor and builder at. Greenfield, Ohio, has been prominently connected with the city's business affairs for many years. His father, Isaac Hallam, came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in the early part of the last century and married Margaret A. Beatty, a native of Belmont, then resident in Clinton county. Five boys resulted from this union, of whom David is a carpenter at Greenfield, Simon is foreman of the Rucker Stone company, Mathew is a liquor dealer and John a carpenter. James Hallam, the other son, was born at Leesburg, Highland county, Ohio, in 1844, but was reared to early manhood on a farm in Clinton county. In 1862 he came to Greenfield and four years later he was working as a carpenter in connection with the building of railroad bridges. He followed this employment at different points until 1869, when he returned to Greenfield and engaged in contracting and building, which has since been his regular business. Most of the time he has been alone, but for five years from 1883 was associated with I. C. 332 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. Baldwin. During his long career at .Greenfield, Mr. Hallam has been connected with the erection of all the principal residences and business buildings of the city. His latest contract of importance was for the construction of the First Presbyterian church, which is to be one of the finest buildings in the city, costing not less than $50,000. His reputation as a workman, however, is not confined to Greenfield, but extends far and wide, and he gets work from many distant points over a large area of territory. Mr. Hallam's attention was early turned to the necessity and best means for securing homes for laboring men and he became a charter member of the Home Building and Loan association, in the business of which he has always taken a deep interest. Since the organization was formed in 1888 he has been a member of the board of directors and the finance committee and one of the leading spirits of the association, which has become one of the cherished institutions of Greenfield. Mr. Hallam has not been an office seeker or ultra partisan in politics but has served as a representative of his ward in the city council of Greenfield. In 1869 he was married to Susan Fugate, of Clinton county, Ohio, who died in 1879, leaving four children : Eva R., wife of Walter 0. Skeen, an electrician at Perth Amboy, N. J. ; Harry, a carpenter of Greenfield; Thomas 0., telegraph operator for the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad company at Athens, Ohio ; and Katy, wife of Hugh Brown, of the Sun Manufacturing company. In 1883 Mr. Hallam took a second wife in the person of Mary F. Jones, of Greenfield, by whom he has two children, Carrie Lee and Martha. Charles M. Harsha, of Hillsboro, one of the prominent business men of the county, is a grandson of Thomas Harsha, a native of Ireland, who came to America many years ago, married Rosanna Young, and made his home in Alleghany City, Pa., where Paul Harsha, father of the subject of this sketch, was born October 30, 1829. Paul moved to Ohio in early manhood, was married October 21, 1852, in Muskingum county, to Duanna, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Shively) Shrigley, and in February, 1854, came with his family to Highland county and located three miles north of Hillsboro. In the same year he embarked in business at Hillsboro as a marble cutter and monument dealer, and though a long time crippled by disease, continued the business for thirty years, finally yielding to disease March 25, 1884. Ten years before his death the firm had been made Harsha & Sons, and in December, 1893, it was incorporated as the Harsha Monument company, with Charles M. Harsha as manager. The children of Paul and Duanna Harsha were: Emma I., who married Charles E. Ellipitz, of Columbus ; two sons who died in infancy ; Charles M., subject of this sketch ; Maggie, wife of George W. Bowers, a bookkeeper at New York; Minnie, widow of Charles McClure, formerly a bookkeeper at Hillsboro ; Florence, at BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 333 Hillsboro. Charles M. Harsha was born June 13, 1855, at Hillsboro, and in his youth became the assistant of his father and later a partner, as has been mentioned. He is now the manager of the business, which is flourishing, and one of the important industries of the city. In early manhood he married Lizzie, daughter of Dr. Enos and Annie (Jones) Holmes, and they have had six children : Lena, who graduated in the Hillsboro 'high school in 1901, and married C. E. McMullen, a business man of Hillsboro Clara, who died in infancy; Paul, a graduate of the Hillsboro high school in 1901, and the assistant of his father in business; Ella, a graduate of the high school, class of 1902, and organist for the Methodist church Mora, in the high school class of 1904; and Duanna, born May 15, 1890. Mrs. Harsha's living brothers and sisters (sons and daughters of Dr. Enos and Annie (Jones) Holmes), are Alice, widow of Thomas J. North, of Dayton Rev. E. E. Holmes, of Ghent, Ky., and Scott, city prosecutor of Cincinnati. Ella Mary died in Illinois, at the age of eighteen years, soon after her graduation in the Hillsboro Female college. Mrs. Harsha is also a graduate of that institution, class of 1877. Dr. Enos Holmes, her father, born January 13, 1821, was a son of Enos H. Holmes, of Pennsylvania, who married Mary Wilkins and was one of the pioneers of Ohio and a devout Methodist. Jacob Holmes, father of Enos H., was a pioneer of Jefferson county, Ohio. During the civil war Dr. Holmes was prominently associated with the enlistment of troops as an examining surgeon. Charles P. Helsley, justice of the peace and prominent citizen, of White Oak township, was born November 20, 1842, on the farm now owned by Frank Sauner, in White Oak township. He is a. son of Joseph Helsley, for many years one of the leading men of the township, of whom some mention should be made in any work upon the history of the county. Joseph Helsley was brought west as a child in the early days of settlement of the state, by his parents, Henry Helsley and wife, whose former home was in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia. They settled in Ross county, at the site of the old Indian town of Chillicothe, now known as Frankfort, but not long afterward Henry Helsley died, whereupon the mother retraced the long and weary journey over the mountains to her old home, on horseback, carrying her infant son with her. Subsequently she married Henry Surber, also a native of Virginia, and with him returned to Ohio before the war of 1812. Their home was made in White Oak township, and they soon became prominent among the early settlers. Henry Surber was a devout Christian and deserving of remembrance for his efforts in aid of the building of churches and the general advancement of the community. He and his wife reared a large family of children, who, and their descendants, are among the best people of the county. Joseph Helsley, on reaching man- 334 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. hood after his second coming to Ohio, married Asenath Collins, a native of Highland county, and they had five children : Henry, deceased ; Peter C., in California ; Mary A. deceased ; Catherine, of Mowrystown, and Joseph P., deceased. A., first wife dying, he married Viena Davis, of Brown county, and to this union were born two children: Charles P., and Sarah E.., deceased. Soon after this marriage Joseph Helsley and wife removed to Rockford, Ill., but he soon returned to White Oak township, where he became a very successful farmer and stock raiser and dealer, and a. leader in his community. Charles P. Helsley was born in Highland county, Ohio, November 20, 1842, and was reared at home and educated in the district schools. When, he was in his nineteenth year the civil war came on, and he enlisted in 1861 in Company A of the Sixtieth regiment., Ohio volunteer infantry, mustered in. at Hillsboro. Their first field of active service was in Virginia, under the command of General Fremont, and Mr. Helsley took part in the famous Shenandoah valley campaign against Stonewall Jackson, and was at the battles of Strasburg, Cross Keys, Winchester, Hallstown and Harper's Ferry. At the latter town, just before the battle of Antietam, the Union forces were compelled to surrender, and he was a prisoner of war for some time, though at once paroled and sent north. Being discharged at Chicago, he returned home, and was out of the service until he re-enlisted in Company G of the Hundred and Ninety-second Ohio, in which he was promoted to orderly sergeant. With this command he served again in the Shenandoah valley, until the close of the war, and was mustered out at Columbus in September, 1865. After the war he married Sarah E. Searight, a native of Uniontown, Pa., and they made their home at Mowrystown two years, then one year on a farm now owned by E. Sauner, after which they bought the farm where they now live, originally 136 acres, to which they have added 34 acres. They have a handsomely improved and well-equipped farm, and in addition to agriculture, Mr. Helsley gives attention to breeding and dealing in livestock. For a short time also he conducted a general store.. He has served as constable three years, and as justice of the peace fifteen years, and is one of the directors of the new White Oak Valley bank. Of his five children, Maggie is the wife of A. Caley, of Winkle postoffice ; Lee resides at Mowrystown ; Ida is the wife of Henry Bohl, of White Oak; Joseph lives in White Oak, and Clarence is at home. Herschel N. Henderson, vice-president of the Farmers Exchange bank at Lynchburg, has for many years been one of the most prominent and enterprising of the citizens of that thriving town. His grandparents, Christopher and Jane (Hetherington) Henderson, were Virginians who came west about 1832 and located in Concord BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 335 township, Highland county, where they reared their family of three sons and two daughters. Among the former was James W. Henderson, born in September, 1836, and married September 8, 1859, to Amanda, daughter of Felix and Catharine (Nace) Show, of Brush Creek township. James W. Henderson's profession was that of teaching, in which during his subsequent life he achieved an enviable reputation. In 1873 he removed to Lynchburg and for more than twenty-eight years was intimately and most influentially connected with the educational system of that place. Immediately upon arriving he took charge of the graded schools, which improved so rapidly under his superintendence that it was found necessary to build an addition to the school house. This was accomplished in 1874 at a cost of $1,250 and a fourth teacher was installed to keep pace, with the increasing pupils. In addition to his successful school work, Mr. Henderson became quite prominent in the fraternal, political and business life of his adopted town. He was postmaster at Lynchburg eight years and held the office of collector of internal revenue at that point for a term of four years. For two years he was grand master workman of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and past grand in Lynchburg lodge, No. 151, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. During his long sickness, which terminated fatally March 5, 1902, James W. Henderson received special care and attention from the Odd Fellows lodge, of which he had long been a very popular member. The children of James W. and Amanda Henderson are Minnie, wife of C. E. Dixon, merchant of New Vienna ; Herschel N., subject of this sketch Carrie Louie, who died in 1872 at the age of six years ; and Pearl D., connected with the Western Union telegraph company at Cincinnati. Herschel N. Henderson, second of the children, was born at the original home of his parents in Highland county, Ohio, May 6, 1862, and came to Lynchburg when eleven years of age. He was well educated under his father's excellent tutelage and after completing the school course engaged in banking. He served as cashier several years and since 1900 has been vice president of the Farmers Exchange bank at Lynchburg, and secretary of Lynchburg Building and Loan association company for thirteen years. In 1893, Mr. Henderson opened a real estate, loan and insurance business in which his financial ability and prudent management have brought him well merited success. July 20, 1898, he was married to Mae, daughter of Andrew and Margaret (Potts) DeLaney, by whom he has one son, Philip. E., born May 23, 1901. From 1892 until 1899, Mrs. Henderson had charge of classes in the Lynchburg schools and was regarded as one of the most efficient of the corps of teachers. Mr. Henderson's fraternal connections are confined to membership in Lynchburg lodge, No. 178, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past-master. 336 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. Oscar E. Henry, treasurer and manager of the Greenfield Lumber company, is one of the popular and prosperous young business men of the thriving city where he makes his home. His father was a Virginian who came to Ohio in boyhood, lived for some time in Clinton county but. 'afterward went to Cincinnati, where he became prominent in the live stock and commission business. He married Cynthia A. Hopkins, of Clinton county, and those of their seven children who are living are residing at different points. Louis A. Henry, of Minneapolis, is a teacher by profession and has held the position of superintendent of schools. William A. is in the drug business at Greenfield, Charles M. is with his brother Oscar, and Alice E. is the wife of W. A. Bennett, of Cincinnati. Oscar E. Henry was born in Clinton county, Ohio, shortly before his parents removed to Cincinnati and was reared and educated in the last named city. In early manhood he became identified with the lumber business and later was employed by a wholesale concern in Cincinnati as a traveling representative to look after their interests in Bell county, Ky. While thus employed he obtained a practical education in the details of this great industry which subsequently proved a valuable equipment and recommendation. When the Greenfield Lumber compwaswa's organized in 1895, Mr. Henry was invited to take charge as treasurer and manager and that no mistake was made has been proved by his subsequent services in con-his business and strattentiontjon to duty have made him a welcome nection with corporation.ioiI His courteous address, knowledge of his business and strict attention to duty have made him a welcome addition to Greenfield's commercial circles and given him rank as one of the leading young men of affairs in the city. For six years Mr. Henry has been president of the board of water-works trustees, where his advice and watchfulness have proved of value to the city's interests. He pays considerable attention to Free masonry and reached the'the degrees of the Royal Arch in that influential order. In 1891 he was married to Annie, daughter of the late James Robertson, of Cincinnati, and they have two children, William and Lucius. Cornelius Hicks, an enterprising public spirited farmer of White Oak township, is a grandson of an early settler in Highland county, Moses Hicks. Wilson Hicks, son of the latter, and father of Cornelius, was born in 1827, reared on the farm and educated in the district school. He was married in early manhood to Rachel Davidson, born in White Oak township, and daughter of Benjamin and Amelia Davidson, and they began their married life on the farm now owned by Frank Sauner, owning a hundred acres, to which another hundred was subsequently added. In 1868 the wife died; leaving several children, of whom Cornelius is the eldest. Alice lives at Mowrystown, Ellen is the wife of Eli Martin, of White Oak BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 337 township, and Nettie is the wife of John Shaw, of Sugartree Ridge. After the death of his first wife, Wilson Hicks married Mary Gibler, who died not long afterward, and some time after he married Adeline Long, who also passed away in a few months after marriage. His fourth marriage was to Susan, widow of H. Ferris, who is yet living. By his last marriage he had three children, of whom Josie, wife of William Roberts, and Loren, of Hillsboro, are living. Wilson Hicks was a prosperous farmer and a devoted church member, and lived to the age of seventy-four years. Cornelius Hicks, born July 29, 1852, at the old home where his father lived until 1894, remained with his father until he was twenty-one, and received his education in the district school. When he began work for himself he went to Illinois, and farmed for two years, but he found no opportunity in the west better than at his old home, whither he returned and married Elizabeth Berry, a native of Highland county and daughter of George and Susan Berry, natives of Brown county. They began housekeeping on the old home place, and lived there for thirteen years, then moving to his present home, where he owns seventy-one acres. He is successful as a farmer and stock-raiser, is a valued member of the Christian church and the order of Knights of Pythias, and is generally held in high esteem as a friend and neighbor. They have four children all of whom are living at home: Leora, Braden W., Edward N. and Carrie E. The Hiestand Family made its first appearance in Highland the same year that witnessed the organization of the county. The founder was Jacob Hiestand, born in 1734, in Botetourt county, Va., who moved to Ohio in 1804 with his wife and eleven children and settled in the Western Reserve. The next year he removed to Highland county and purchased the land in Brush Creek township on which is now situated the village of Sinking Spring. He conceived the idea of laying off a town on his purchase and went so far as to make a survey and plat, which was duly recorded. This scheme, abandoned by Jacob Hiestand, was later taken up by his son, Joseph,. and Allen Gulliford, to whom Jacob Hiestand sold the land and purchased about 100 acres in Liberty township and made his home there. They carried' the project to completion and gave Sinking Spring a possibility on the map. At first, on account of being about half way between Maysville and Chillicothe, the place was called Middletown, but as this infringed on the royalty of another Ohio village similarly named, the post office department objected and so eventually Sinking Spring was decided on as the title. This name was decidedly appropriate, owing to the proximity of the beautiful and famous natural fountain, which was discovered in 1796 by John Wilcoxson, the first white settler who stepped foot on the H-22 338 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. soil of Highland county. Jacob and Mary Hiestand had four sons and seven daughters, among the former being one named, Joseph, who was married in 1808 to Elizabeth Edmondson, from Kentucky. From this union came three sons and two daughters, including Joseph Hiestand, who went with the Ross county volunteers to fight the British in 1812-15, and died three years later after his return to Brush Creek township. Samuel E. Hiestand, eldest son of the last mentioned, was born near Sinking Spring in 1810, and in 1830 married Catharine, daughter of James Miles, who came from. Massachusetts to Highland county during the first decade of the century. Joseph M. Hiestand, eldest child of Samuel E. and Catharine (Miles) Hiestand, was born at Sinking Spring, Highland county, Ohio, October 3, 1832. During the civil war he served with the Eighty-seventh regiment Ohio volunteer infantry in the three months' service, was commissioned lieutenant and recruited a company for the Hundred and Seventy-fifth regiment Ohio national guard, of which he was made captain and served with a year at the front. November 2, 1865, Captain Hiestand married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Zachariah Wharton, a Methodist Episcopal minister of Bourneville, Ross county. He located in Hillsboro, where he kept a general store for awhile and then took charge of a queensware house which he conducted for eighteen years. In 1887, in partnership with Milton McKeehan and others, he opened the wholesale house now known as McKeehan & Hiestand company. The children of Joseph M. and Elizabeth (Wharton) Hiestand are Margaret, wife of W. L. Reed, insurance and real estate agent at Portsmouth, Ohio; Samuel W., in the livery business at Hillsboro and John Will, with the union grocery company. Captain Hiestand is a prominent member and official of the Methodist Episcopal church and for many years served as treasurer of Hillsboro and Liberty township. John Will Hiestand, his youngest son, was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, February 23, 1873, and was educated in the schools of the city. In 1894, he began clerking for the McKeehan & Hiestand company and after five years opened at his present location on Main street, which was made the Union Grocery company in 1900. November 28, 1899, he was married to Amy B., daughter of A. Downing of Waverly, Ohio. He is chancellor commander of Hillsboro lodge, No. 196, Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. John H. Hiestand, one of the representative farmers of Highland county, who cultivates a model farm in Liberty township, is descended from the pioneer ancestors mentioned above. John, son of Jacob and Mary Hiestand, married Sarah Sprinkle, by whom he had ten children, including four sons named Joseph, Henry, Jacob and Samuel, the latter of whom lives at Liberty, Inbut the.the other BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 339 three all died during the year 1898. Henry Hiestand was born on the homestead farm in Highland county, October 11, 1824, and remained at home until he was twenty-three years of age. He then purchased sixty acres of land which he farmed for fifteen years, meantime also doing considerable work at his trade as a stone-mason. Eventually he sold his first purchase and bought another farm where he lived until 1886 and then retired from active business, spending the remainder of his days with his children : December 30, 1847, he married Elizabeth A. Bronnell, who died May 16, 1852. March 10, 1853, he took a second wife in the person of Ellen, daughter of James and Delilah (Fenner) Moberly, early settlers of Highland county. She was born January 8, 1833, and since her husband's death has resided on the farm he formerly owned two miles east of Hillsboro. The children of Henry Hiestand by his second marriage consisted of a son and daughter, the latter being Orissa Bell, born March 22, 1854, and now the wife of Elisha S. Ervin, who owns a farm of 400 acres in Liberty township. John Henry Hiestand, the only son, was born in Liberty township, Highland county, Ohio, September 17, 1855, near the place where he now resides. After a few sessions at district school he became attached to farming and has since devoted himself enthusiastically to that occupation, owning now an elegant home and model farm two miles east of Hillsboro, besides 193 acres of the old homestead. In March, 1885, he was married to Priscilla W., daughter of Daniel and Mary (Hatcher) Williams, whose ancestry is ancient and honorable. Mrs. Hiestand's father was the son of Thomas and Susan (Gall) Williams and her mother was a daughter of Peter Hatcher. Susan Gall was a daughter of George Gall, who was born in Berks county, Pa., January 10, 1766, and enlisted June 28, 1781, in the Revolutionary army, marching through the Dismal Swamp and serving as a guard over the British forces that were taken prisoners at Yorktown. This old veteran of the war for independence came west in 1801 and located his land warrants in Highland county, where he has numerous descendants. The children of John H. and Priscilla Hiestand, besides one named Albert who died in infancy, are Clarence W., born April 24, 1886, and Nine Blanche, born February 19, 1888. Mr. Hiestand, his wife and children are all members of the Presbyterian church. His only secret society connection is with the Royal Arcanum and in politics he votes independently. Charles E. Hixson, ex-treasurer of Highland county and at present the efficient cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank at Leesburg, comes of strong ancestral stock long connected with Highland county affairs. His father was Havilah B. Hixson, born in 1824 of parents who came early to the county, and his mother was Alice Woodmansee, of New Jersey, granddaughter of Francis Wood- 340 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. mansee. The latter owned nearly sixteen hundred acres of land between Lexington and Vienna, and was one of an extensive connection of Woodmansees who have been strong and influential in Fairfield township affairs since 1818. Charles E. Hixson was born in Clinton county, Ohio, in New Vienna, in 1850, and was weduedu4cated in the common schools supplemented by a course at the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware. His first venture in business was as a farmer, which occupation was interrupted in 1892 by his acceptance of the position of deputy county treasurer under Harrison Rhodes. An acceptable discharge of his duties placed him in the line of succession and in 1895 he received the Republican nomination as candidate for the office of county treasurer. He was elected and after serving one term was reelected in 1897 by one of the largest votes ever cast in Highland county for any local officer. An unusually successful career in politics seemed now open to Mr. Hixson and he was repeatedly urged to become a candidate for county auditor or representative but these tempting honors he declined for the purpose of entering the banking business. He was offered and accepted the position of cashier in the newly organized Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Leesburg and was also elected a director of the same corporation. Among his associates in this enterprise are some of the strongest business men in Highland county and under his direction the new banking institution has proved very successful. In fact, Mr. Hixson is regarded as a cool-headed, conservative and unusually able financier which valuable business attainments are supplemented by a courteous personal address and popular manners. In 1878, he was married to Mattie E., daughter of S. W. and Lydia C. Horseman, members of one of the representative early families of Highland county. This union has resulted in the birth of two children, Roy P. and Bessie M. John Newton Hogsett, at present holding the office of justice of the peace in Penn township, has long been a prominent figure in Highland county as agriculturist, superintendent of the infirmary, and a popular as well as progressive citizen in all the relations of life. His father, Thomas Hogsett, was married early in the year 1832 in Augusta county, Virginia, to Hannah Jane, daughter of John EdWard and Mary Ervin. The honeymoon trip of this bridal couple was across the mountains and down the rivers to the "promised land" in Ohio where it was their intention to find a permanent home. Mr. Hogsett's life was cut short in 1840, only eight years after his arrival in Ohio, and he left a wife with four small children, all of whom had been born in Highland county. eldest of these was John Newton, who is sketched more fully below, and the next. was James, who died in 1893 at Hillsboro Margaret, the only daughter, was the first wife of James Fear̊, and Thomas BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 341 E. is living on a farm immediately south of the infirmary. John Newton Hogsett was born in Liberty township, Highland county, Ohio, November 28, 1832, and received the usual common school education. After reaching suitable age he engaged in the business of farming and has ever since followed that occupation. In March, 1879, he was appointed by the board of commissioners superintendent of the Highland county infirmary and was regularly reelected until his terms embraced a period of seven years. He filled this difficult position with great satisfaction to all concerned, being greatly assisted by the tact and good management of his excellent wife. Early in 1901 Mr. Hogsett purchased a fine farm and elegant brick residence a short distance Southeast of New Vienna„ where he now resides. All things conspire to make this an almost ideal home. The grounds contain a magnificent grove of about fifty, ash trees, and the residence site overlooks a picturesque landscape in which the curving lines of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and the nearby village are conspicuous objects. July 3, 1901, Mr. Hog-sett was appointed justice of the peace for Penn township, to fill a vacancy, and in April, 1902, he was elected for a full term of three years. For twenty-five years he and his wife have been connected with the Patrons of Husbandry, and Mrs. Hogsett is holding her second term as Ceres of the Ohio State grange.. Both have for a long time been connected with the Presbyterian church at Hillsboro, and Mr. Hogsett is a member of Lafayette lodge, No. 25, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His marriage to Hannah Ellen Hughes, a member of one of the most prominent families in the county, occurred April 2, 1857. Mrs. Hogsett is a granddaughter of James Hughes, who came from Ireland with his wife and six children in 1816, lived in Virginia until 1825, and in June of that year emigrated to Ohio. He located in Highland county and remained the rest of his life on a place about two miles east of the village of Marshall, which he had purchased on arrival. The youngest of his ten children was John L. Hughes, who in after years rose to influence and distinction in the politics of both county and state, became an extensive landowner, served as justice of the peace almost continuously for forty years, and in 1857 was elected representative of Highland county in the state legislature, a position he held for six terms. Hon. John L. Hughes married Elizabeth Carlisle, and Mrs.. Hogsett is a daughter of this union. For many years Mr. and Mrs. Hogsett had charge of the Highland county infirmary, she as matron and he as superintendent, to which position he was first appointed in March, 1879. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Hogsett are Thomas Hamer, attorney in a leading law office at Cleveland, who married Rebecca S., daughter of Barclay Jones ; Frank Hughes, shipping clerk at the Hillsboro depot, who married Iva, daughter of William Roush of Fairview ; John Vallandingham, who married Mary, 342 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. daughter of A. E. and Barbara. Mosier, and is superintending the Judge Hughes farm in Marshall township; Maggie Idalia, wife of Jacob H. White, doing farm work near Hillsboro ; Jennateiat4 wife of Michael Rice, a farmer of Clinton county ; Annie. Lizzie, wife of Moody Mosier, shipping clerk in Bell's foundry; and James Edward, who married Lillie Fettro and is farming on the old family homestead in Liberty township. John V. Hogsett, son of John Newton and Hannah Ellen (Hughes) Hogsett, mentioned in the foregoing sketch, is one of the energetic farmers of Marshall township. He was born at the family homestead in Highland county, November 6, 1862, and educated at the, high school in Hillsboro. After growing up he was engaged for a while in farming near New Vienna, but in 1901 accepted the superintendency of the Judge Hughes farm, adjoining the town of Marshall, where he has since remained pleasantly located. While living at New Vienna, he served two years as master of Union grange, No. 77. He was initiated into Clinton lodge, No. 92, I. 0. 0. F., in 1899, and served as noble grand for 1901. November 28, 1888, he was married to Mary, daughter of Eliphas A. and Barbara. (Grabill) Mosier of Paint township, in the vicinity of Rainsboro. Mrs. Hogsett's paternal grandparents were John and Nancy Mosier, who emigrated with their children from Uniontown, Pa., and located in Highland county. Catherine (Roads) Grabill, maternal grandmother of Mrs. Hogsett, was the daughter of a pioneer who settled in Brush Creek township in 1802 and had reached the age of ninety-two years when she died December 25, 1900. Mrs. Hogsett was born March 10, 1870, and was educated at the Hillsboro Female College. Her two brothers are, Moody G., shipping clerk for C. S. Bell & Co., and Dempsey, telegraph operator for the "Big Four" railroad company at Indianapolis. Mr. Hogsett and wife are members of the Daughters of Rebecca lodge, No. 244, and take an active interest in all the affairs of the fraternity. They have two children: Harry Leslie, born February 7, 1887, and John Thomas, born October 30, 1890. Enos Holmes, M. D., was born in Tuscarawas (now Carroll) county, Ohio, January 13, 1821. As early as April 17, 1838, he was present at the organization of the Highland county Medical Asciation,ion' being at that time a student of medicine. All his fellow members of the society are now dead. Dr. Holmes was a son of Enos H. and Mary Wilkin Holmes. .The father was born in Pennsylvania and removed with his parents in the early pioneer days to Ohio and the doctor was the fourth in a family of twelve children. The ancestry were Scotch—Irish, including the Holmeses of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and the Huffs and Doddridges of Vir- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 343. ginia. It was a family of Methodist ministers and physicians, there being ten doctors of the name in the immediate relationship. Dr. Holmes passed his early life upon a farm, and until he was seventeen years of age his education was Obtained at the ordinary log schoolhouse common at that time, during the winter months when the active labors of the farm were suspended. He had early decided to adopt the medical profession and in. 1837 began his reading at Leesburg, near which place his father had settled in 1831. In 1843, after having completed a thorough course of medical study and received his diploma with the degree of M. D., he commenced the practice of his profession at New Petersburg. He was a close student, not only in his profession, and was fond of general literature and a great admirer of the higher works of poetry, philosophy and metaphysics, and being a careful observer of men and current events became one of the most valuable of citizens, and a most companionable and interesting associate. We find him at the age of twenty-two with his diploma and equipped for his practice, which he at once obtained, but with him thoroughness was more important than immediate gains, and he again in the winter of 1847 and 1848 attended lectures at the Starling Medical college at Columbus, and was graduated there in 1848. He practiced with great success at New Petersburg until 1850, and was known as a brave, upright, conscientious physician, as well as an enterprising, public-spirited citizen. This character he brought with him to Hillsboro when he removed in that year, and where for thirty-two- years he was in the possession of a large practice, both as physician and surgeon. He held, up to the very hour of his untimely death, the entire and well merited confidence of the community. Those who knew him best learned not only to respect him, but to seek his society. Firm in his convictions, yet never intolerant, he was the type of the cultured physician and the affable gentleman. His dignity and ease of manner was inbred and he was warm-hearted and impulsive. Generous and sympathetic by nature, he possessed those traits which attracted rather than repelled. Dr. Holmes stood in the highest rank of the medical profession and in the esteem of his brethren. During the civil war he served by the appointment of Governor Tod as ,examining surgeon, and while acting in that capacity was stationed at Young's Point and Millikin's Bend on the Mississippi, and at various places in Kentucky and Ohio. Dr. Holmes was from Methodist ancestry, and was for years an earnest and consistent member of that church. In. his later years he acted with the Democratic party and in 1875 was the nominee on that ticket for state senator. From his earliest manhood he was a strong anti-slavery man, and always opposed oppression in every form. He was married in 1840 to Eliza A., daughter of Eleazer Huff, an early settler of Highland county. She died in 1847 and in 1849 he married the daughter of Britton C. Hulit, 344 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. another pioneer of the county. She died in 1852 and in 1855 he married Anna, daughter of John Jones. Dr. Holmes was physically a fine specimen of manhood. Of commanding appearance, strong and vigorous, he would doubtless have lived to extreme old age but for his untiring devotion to his profession and almost constant exposure to all kinds of weather. He was determined to die in the harness, and thus he died. His last act was to prepare a prescription. Suddenly, without warning, the stroke fell. The great heart struggled for a moment and was still. Gilbert Holmes, owner of a model farm and ideal home near Hillsboro, belongs to a family- long identified with the agricultural interests of Highland county. It originated in England with John Holmes who, after his emigration to America, settled on the Jersey coast, where he reared a family of seafaring sons. Among these was one named Jacob, who at length wearied of the uncertain "life on the ocean wave" and determined to seek his fortunes on the more solid foundations building in the mighty west. February 5, 1829, he married Sarah Worden in New Jersey, and with her and the children turned his face toward Ohio during the fall of 1840. After arriving he located four miles north of Leesburg, where he farmed until 1857 and then purchased 160 acres of land in the northern vicinity of Hillsboro, where he passed the remainder of his days. Before his death, the tract originally purchased by Jacob Holmes had been added to from time to time, until it amounted to 450 acres of well improved land. Gilbert, son of Jacob and Sarah (Worden) Holmes, was born in Fayette county, Ohio, February 1, 1842, and until he reached adult age assisted his father on the farm during summer and attended the district school in winter. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Sixtieth regiment. Ohio volunteer infantry, which was mustered out of service in the fall of that year. Soon after this he went to Illinois. and enrolled with the Fifty-eighth regiment Illinois volunteers, with which he remained in service until March 27, 1866. December 25, 1866, he was married in Henderson county, Illinois, to Lydia R., daughter of Samuel Snapp, a Virginian who followed blacksmithing at Lloydsville, Ohio. After marrying, Mr. Holmes farmed for his father until 1869, when he removed to Warren county, Iowa, where he spent fourteen years and returned to Highland county to care for his aged parents. His mother died January 20, 1893, and the father passed away March 2, 1897. Another of the sons having taken the home farm at the appraisement price, Gilbert purchased the Bernard farm, two miles west of Hillsboro, which is in almost every respect a desirable tract of land. It consists of 463 acres, well adapted to all the cereals, fruit and stock ordinarily raised or cultivated in that part of Ohio, and over 400 acres of the entire body are improved. The buildings consist BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 345 of a large two-story brick dwelling-house and two barns 45x60 feet in dimensions. Twenty-five acres of apple trees, seven hundred peach trees and many other fruits, both of the larger and smaller varieties, conspire with the other advantages to make this one of the model farms of the county. Mr. Holmes has numerous fraternal and social connections, being past-master of Hillsboro grange, No. 145, Patrons of Husbandry, member of the various Masonic bodies, and the Modern Woodmen of America, and commander of John H. Barrere post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Hillsboro. His children are Eva A., wife of Albert Walton of Warren county, Iowa; Laura, living at home ; Jessie C., wife of Jasper Bennett Brown, of Hogland Crossing; Walter A., dentist at Hillsboro.; Fay G., assisting his father on the farm ; and Carl E., a student at the Ohio state university. Dr. Walter A. Holmes, fourth of the family as above given, was born in Iowa, March 28, 1876, and after a preparatory course in the schools of his native state made preparations for the study of dental surgery. He spent the terms of 1896-7 and 1897-8 at the Ohio Dental college in Cincinnati and then entered the Cincinnati Dental college, where he was graduated April 6, 1899. Within a month after receiving his degree, Dr. Holmes had fitted up and opened a neat suite of dental offices in Hillsboro, where he has since devoted himself assiduously to the practice of his profession. His dental rooms contain all the modern instruments and apparatus necessary in the work of an up-to-date dentist, and during his residence of only three Tears Dr. Holmes has already made flattering progress towards the obtainment of a fine patronage. He is prominent in fraternity circles, being a, member of the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, Ancient Order United Workmen, and Junior Order United American Mechanics. The family's religious affiliations are with the Methodist Episcopal church. Ralph E. Holmes, M. D., one of the most popular practitioners of medicine at Leesburg, comes of a family of physicians long prominently connected with Highland county's history. Dr. Michael Holmes was not only a pioneer in settlement but one of the first to practice the healing art according to the methods in vogue during the earlier decades of the nineteenth century. He left a namesake and nephew who, after his uncle's death, took up his practice and followed in his footsteps with such success as to add to the traditional reputation of the family as popular physicians. This second Dr. Michael Holmes was born in Highland county in 1823 and for a while after reaching manhood engaged in teaching school. Later he became a pupil in Starling Medical college at Columbus and in due time was graduated with high honors. Shortly thereafter, he located 346 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. in the town of New Petersburg, in Paint township, where he immediately entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1870 he removed to Leesburg and continued actively engaged as a practitioner at that point until his death, which occurred in 1884. He obtained prominence and popularity, being one of the founders of the Southern Ohio Medical association, which afterward became so strong and influential. In 1851 he was married to Catherine Pierce, whose father, Benjamin Pierce, was a pioneer tanner and merchant at New Petersburg and died in 1873. This union resulted in the birth of Ralph E. Holmes, who was destined to head the third generation of doctors in the family. He was born near New Petersburg, Highland county, Ohio, in December, 1853. His early education was obtained in the public schools and by study in the office of his father, where he qualified himself for the practice of medicine and was engaged in the same for several years before completing his course. Eventually he entered the Medical college at Louisville and after a thorough training in that institution was graduated with the class of 1891. Returning home he resumed the practice of his profession at Leesburg and has been quite successful, enjoying a large• and lucrative patronage over a wide area of territory contiguous to his headquarters. Dr. Holmes is one of the progressive men of his community and in sympathy with all movements in the direction of growth and advancement. He is a prominent member of the Highland County Medical association and keeps abreast of the times in all discoveries and improvements affecting the profession to which he has devoted his life. As a member of the board of health he lent his influence towards securing better sanitary regulations and improvement in hygienic conditions. In 1893, Dr. Holmes was' married to Mary E., daughter of Shepley Holmes, one of the old and influential residents of Fairfield township. Andrew Holt, a well known sawmill proprietor and operator of various kinds of farm machinery, has struggled up from poverty and hardship to the possession of a comfortable competence. His parents, Andrew and Darcas A. (Fisher) Holt, were natives of Virginia, who settled in Adams county, Ohio, and later in Jackson township, Highland county, where the father died about 1858. Andrew Holt, their son, was born in Adams county, Ohio, December 20, 1847, and his earlier years were saddened by a constant struggle against poverty and hardship. When a child ten. years of age he was compelled to work on a farm for means to assist in supporting his mother, and every cent he earned was dutifully turned over to her. He never ceased to look after her welfare and comfort until she died at his house in the seventy-fifth year of her life. The civil war opened when he had scarce reached his fourteenth year, but he enlisted in September, 1861, in Company D, Sixtieth regiment Ohio volunteer BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 347 infantry, and went with that organization to join Fremont in the valley of Virginia in the spring of 1862. They fought at Strasburg and Cross Keys and were later sent to Harper's Ferry to assist in guarding that supposed stronghold, but were cooped up and captured by Stonewall Jackson on his way into Maryland to fight the battle of Antietam. The Sixtieth regiment marched to Annapolis after parole and afterward was sent to Camp Douglass at Chicago and discharged. Mr. Holt returned home and in the late fall of 1862 re-enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Ohio independent battery, with which he served until the close of hostilities. This artillery organization spent most of its time in guarding prisoners at Johnson's Island and Camp Douglass and was discharged in 1865 with high compliments from the commanding general for their efficiency and prompt performance of all duties. Mr. Holt was little more than a boy when the war closed but hastened home and set manfully to farm work by the month as a means of getting a start in the world. Eventually he secured some land and spent seven years in farming on his own account but abandoned this to take charge of a grist mill and saw mill in Washington township. From that time on he has made a business of sawmilling and managing threshing machines, seed hullers and other farm machinery. At present he owns two steam sawmills, besides twenty acres of land, and does a thriving business in his line. October 9, 1872, he was married to Hester Milburn, member of one of the long established families of Jackson township. She is a daughter of Daniel and granddaughter of Thomas Milburn, the latter a pioneer settler. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Holt died in infancy but they have an adopted daughter, Bertha Johnson. William W. H. Huff resides at Leesburg on the homestead located by his father over sixty years ago. His family has been represented in Highland county from the year after its organization to the present time, a period of almost one hundred years. As far back as 1806 his great-grandfather, Daniel 'Huff, came from Surrey county, North Carolina, to view the country, and in the following year brought his family out for permanent settlement. In 1811 a second Daniel Huff, son of the foregoing, arrived in the neighborhood and settled. upon Tod's fork, but two years later purchased from one Phineas Hunt his farm and mill on Hardin's creek. This proved to be an event of great importance to the infant settlement, as the enterprise soon started by the new arrival was exactly what was needed for pioneer purposes. In 1813 Daniel Huff began the erection of a woolen factory, which was built about one hundred yards below Hunt's old mill, and in two years it was in running order and ready for business. The settlers flocked in from all sections of the country to have their flannel, which had been spun and woven at home, fulled, colored and dressed into a good article of cloth. Huff's mill became cele- 348 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. brated throughout the whole country as one of the most extensive. factories of the day. Indeed, it would be difficult to over-estimate its importance and benefits to the citizens of Highland county at that time, when the comforts and necessaries of civilized life were so difficult to obtain. Mr. Huff did carding and fulling, dressing and finishing of cloth, and the grinding of both wheat and corn. Prior to its establishment, the settlers had to go to a mill on the Little Miami for the purpose of having their flannels dressed. Such was the boon conferred on early settlers of Highland and neighboring counties by forerunners of the Huff family, who well deserve the title of public benefactors. Among the children of this useful citizen was James Huff, born in 1793, who came to Highland county with his parents when about eighteen years old. He married, purchased land in Fairfield township and reared a family, included in which was William. W. H. Huff, the subject of this sketch. This gentleman, 'representing the fourth generation of Highland county family, was born at Leesburg, December 31, 1839. Like most of the early settlers of Fairfield township, the Huffs were Quakers, and it was natural therefore that when William grew up he should attend Earl-ham college, the institution founded at Richmond, Ind., by the religious society to which he belonged. Having completed his education there, he settled on the parental homestead, and has since pursued the peaceful calling so suited to his temperament and in keeping with the simple faith of his ancestors. That he has been a good citizen in all that the words imply, that he has been a friend of law and order, an advocate of temperance and good morals ; in short, on the proper side of all movements that make for righteousness, it will hardly be necessary to add, after mentioning that he is a consistent member of the society of Friends. In short, Mr. Huff's means and efforts have been liberally put forth for the development of his community and its advancement towards a high order of civilization. He married Phoebe J. Terrell, whose father, John H. Terrell, was one of the pioneers of Clinton county, Ohio. Mrs. Huff died June 20, 1890, leaving eight children, all of whom are of the kind to excite a parent's pride and give promise of fully sustaining in every-way the honor and prestige of a noble lineage. Their names are as follows : Maggie M., Daniel, Haines, Russell, James Guy, T. Chalmers, I. Curtiss and Grace E. James J. Hughes, a prominent farmer of Marshall township, is a grandson of an early settler, well known in his day, James Hughes, who came from Ireland with his wife Hannah and six children to America in 1816. They settled first in Campbell county, Va., and started out in June, 1825, for Chillicothe, but were diverted by news of the malaria in the Scioto valley, to Highland county, where they settled a short distance east of the village of Marshall. Seven of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 349 the ten children of James Hughes grew up : Peter L., Philip, S. L., .who served many years as justice of the peace and was representative in the legislature in 1857 to 1860 and again in 1867 to 1870 ; Catherine, Ann, James P., and Maria. James P., father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Virginia, January 1, 1823, came with his parents to Marshall township in infancy, and in early manhood married Mary Stethem, of Adams county. Their children were: Hannah, wife of A. Davidson of Kansas ; Catherine, who lives with her brother, J. J. ; Ann, wife of James Rice ; Maria, who died. March 11, 1899 ; Sarah Jane, who married Frank Richert, of Cin- cinnati, and is now deceased ; Bridget, wife of John Ragan, of Clinton county, and James J., whose name heads this notice. By a second marriage, to Jane, daughter of William Davidson, James P. Hughes was the father of nine children, of whom there are living: William and Robert, of Liberty township ; Teresa, wife of James White, of Liberty; Joseph,' of Hillsboro, and Lucy, wife of Oscar King, of Hillsboro. James P. Hughes was not only the father of a number of the best people of the county, but he was an active and leading man in his day, a staunch Democrat, and. several time trustee of his township. His son, James J. Hughes, was born February 22, 1861, and in early manhood married Maggie, daughter of James Spargur, a member of one of the old and prominent families of the county. Their children were: Mary Ann and Florence, who died in infancy ; Ruth, born September 16, 1894; James Ambrose, born December 7, 1896, and Helen, born August 11, 1901. Mr. Hughes is the owner of 185 acres of land, two miles east of the town of Marshall, which he bought in 1895. It was formerly his father's farm, and is a valuable area for agriculture, and one of the handsome places of the township. He does his duty in public affairs without seeking official preferment He and his wife are members of the Catholic church. Oliver H. Hughes, probate judge of Highland county and one of the ablest of the younger members of the bar, comes of a family long influential in public affairs and prominent in all the relations of life. The genealogical tree had its taproot in old Ireland, whence have sprung so many of the strong, prosperous and great men of earth, as well as the brawn and muscle to which this country owes so much for its gigantic industrial development. James and Hannah Hughes, with their six children, were part of the passengers on a vessel which left Ireland in. 1816 bound for the United States. The little party made their way to Campbell county, Va., where the father obtained work on the pike roads then building and continued mostly in this line of employment until 1825. In June of that year the family started for Ohio with a view of locating at Chillicothe, but owing to the uneasiness then entertained as to the unhealthfulness of the