1050 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION and started himself on the way to success. However, after a few years he again felt the call of the West and made his way to Iowa, where his last years were passed in the pursuits of the soil. John Simmons was still a lad when his parents removed to the wilds of Carroll County, Ohio, and there his boyhood and youth were passed amid pioneer surroundings. He went to the primitive schoolhouse for his education and was instructed by his father in the use of the pioneers' tools and implements, and in 1846 left that county with his family. and moved to Jackson County, the trip being made by team in the absence of either railway or canal. Locating in Washington Township, Mr. Simmons took up a tract of Government land, heavily covered with timber, where his first accomplishment was the erection of a log house, the first home of the family in this county. While the men of the family did the heavy wort in the fields and forests, the women contributed also their share, being constantly busy in carding, weaving and spinning, making home-spun or cooking over the great open fireplace. Thus Mr. and Mrs. Simmons were able to collaborate in the accumulation of a handsome property and in their declining years were able to retire from active labors and to pass the rest of their lives in comfort and contentment at Vinton, Gallia County, Ohio, where the father died at the age of ninety-six years and the mother when about eighty years of age. She bore the maiden name of Hannah Rutledge and was a daughter of John Rutledge, a native of Ireland, who brought his family with him to this country at the time of his emigration and settled in Carroll County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons became the parents of seven children, namely : Lydia Ann, Sarah J., Josiah, David, Phoebe, John R. and William H.. The district school of Washington Township, a log structure with puncheon floor, seats made of split poplar logs, wooden pins for legs, and a board against the wall for the larger scholars to write on, furnished David Simmons with his education in a literary way, while his training for an agricultural career was being given him by his father on the home farm. He was twenty years of age when he answered the call of his country for more troops to down Secession, enlisting in 1864 in Company B, One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This organization was sent to Bermuda Landing, on the James River, in Virginia, where it was in active service. At the expiration of his term Mr. Simmons was honorably discharged and retuned to his home; but in the fall of the same year again enlisted, veteranizing by becoming a member of Company D, Sixty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. With this regiment he went to the front in Virginia and was with it through its various engagements, including the Battle of Hatchers Run and the Siege of Petersburg. He was in Rich- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1051 mond soon after the fall of the Southern Capital, and was honorably discharged with the other members of his regiment in the fall of 1865. Returning to his home at that time he resumed farming, buying a tract of land in Lick Township on which he continued to be occupied for twenty years. At that time he came to Franklin Township and bought a tract in section 20, where he now has 160 acres under cultivation, on which are good buildings and modern improvements. While Mr. Simmons is a practical farmer, he is always ready to try new innovations, has frequently experimented with new methods and inventions, and was the first to introduce Black Polled cattle into this section of Ohio. He has been industrious as a farmer and stockman and reliable and public-spirited as a citizen, these qualities combining to make him one of his community's representative and highly esteemed men. Mr. Simmons was married to Miss Mary E. Slack, who was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, daughter of Henry Slack, and seven children have been born to this union : Roberta J., Oliver Judson, and Ethel L., who are deceased ; John, who married Margaret Meldock, and has one son, Ralph ; Emory B., who married Gertrude McClure and has one son, Merrill; Guy, who married Adale Shaward, and has one daughter, Mary Ellen and R. K., living in Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Simmons and their children are members of the Methodist Church, in the work of which all have been active. THOMAS W. ALBIN. Since the earliest pioneer times Vinton County has been honored and benefitted by the presence within its borders of the Albin family. In the character of its individual members the interests and well being of the community have been advanced, and it is impossible to estimate the strength and diversity of the influences which come from such a family and effect the social and business affairs covering a wide radius around their immediate homes. One of the younger representatives of this family is Thomas W. Albin, whose home is on rural route No. 1 out of Creola postoffice. He is of Scotch-Irish and Dutch ancestry. His grandfather, William Albin, was born in Virginia, in Greenbrier County, in what is now West Virginia, some years before the close of the eighteenth century. When he was twelve years of age his parents moved to Guernsey County, Ohio. His father was a native of Ireland and his mother was born in Germany, and they were married in Virginia and died when quite old people in Ohio. William Albin grew up in Guernsey County, and married there "Miss Nancy Clark, who was of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. In 1836 they moved into what is now Swan Township of Vinton County, then a part of Hocking County. They settled in the forest, all around 1052 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION them being the heavy timber of poplar, walnut, oak and the other giants of the forest which once stood as an impediment to agriculture in this section. Their work improved a wild farm, and William Albin spent the rest of his years in Vinton County and died in Swan Township about 1885 when ninety-four years of age. His wife passed away at the age of seventy-six. They were members of the Primitive Baptist Church and in politics he was a Jackson democrat. There were twelve children, six sons and six daughters, all .of whom grew up -and most of them attained old age. They all married and two of them are still living: Samuel S., father of Thomas W., and Sarah, who was twice .a widow and now lives with her son, James A. Wharton, in Columbus. Samuel S. Albin was born near Cumberland, Guernsey. County, Ohio, August 8, 1830, and is now eighty-five years of age, but still vigorous and active and looking after the management of his farm in Swan Township. He has been a life-long democrat, which is the minority party in Vinton County, and was once an unsuccessful candidate for county commissioner. For three or four terms he held the office of township trustee. He was married in Guernsey County to Rebecca Reed, who was born and reared near Reed's Station in Perry County. Her parents were John and Eleanor (Iiliff) Reed, who were early settlers in Guernsey County and subsequently removed to Vinton County, where they died in Swan Township. Rebecca. Albin died in February, 1909, at the age of seventy-seven. She was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. Thomas W. Albin was the oldest in a family of four children. His younger brother Ezra, who lives in Columbus, Ohio, has been twice married, and by his first marriage to Miss Iantha Rhinehart has a son named Karl. Nancy J. is the wife of Homer Dunkle, a farmer on the old Albin homestead, and their three children are Otis, Tom and Arthur. Cora A. is the wife of Columbus Dunkle, of Logan, Ohio, and they have one daughter. Thomas W. Albin grew up in Vinton County, was carefully trained at home and in school and has been a very successful farmer and stock raiser. His fine farm consists of eighty acres of land in section 11 of Jackson Township in the Lotus Grove community. It is high grade land and grows abundant crops and has some very excellent improvements, including a modern well built nine-room house, lighted and heated by natural gas, and with all the modern conveniences. There is also a barn on a foundation 32x40 feet. In Hocking County, Ohio, Mr. Albin married Miss Ella Campbell. She was born in that county March 22, 1866, and was reared and educated there.. She was the oldest daughter of Robert and Elizabeth T. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1053 (Ellis) Campbell. Her mother is now a widow and lives with Mr. and Mrs. though she owns- some valuable land containing minerals and gas and oil wells, in Hocking County. She leases this property. Mr. Campbell was of very fine old Scotch stock and belongs to the old Clan of Campbells, and it is thought that his family was related to that which produced the Rev: Alexander Campbell, the founder of the Christian Church. Elizabeth Theresa: Ellis, the maiden name of Mrs. Campbell, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, March 24, 1.844, a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Newell) Ellis., Her father was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, a son of Michael and Theresa (Loveless) Ellis, who were natives of Virginia and were early settlers in Ohio. The Ellis family were Methodists, and Michael Ellis was a whig in politics. Thomas Ellis was born in Ohio, while his wife. was a native of Pennsylvania. They were married in Muskingum 'County, where he followed the life of a farmer and subsequently purchased a home in Hocking County. Thomas Ellis died at the age of sixty-seven and his wife passed away at forty-nine. They were charter members of the Methodist Church in Swan Township, Vinton County, and Thomas Ellis helped to cut away the timber and clear the ground for the erection of the first church building there. Miss Ellis was married to Robert Campbell in Vinton County. He had a farm in that locality, but he died in Lancaster, Ohio, October 5, 1905, at the age of sixty-two. Both were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Mrs. Campbell is closely identified with that denomination and has always been noted for her keen powers of mind and the vigorous and kindly conduct of her home and her business interests. Besides Mrs. Albin the other living children of the Campbell family are: Della, wife of Lewis Hensley, who is an oil rig builder living at Rockbridge in Hocking County, and they have three children, while Mrs. Hensley by a former marriage had one daughter.. Vernon Campbell. died after his marriage and left one daughter and one son. Ernest D. Campbell is married and lives in Vinton County and has four sons and two daughters. Alice is the wife of Charles Ilse, a blacksmith at Enterprise, in Hocking County. Walter Campbell is married and has three sons and lives in Hocking County. Maude is the wife of J. W. Murry and lives at Canal Dover, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Albin have one son, A. Guy. He was born August 11, 1.889, and after attending. the local school advanced his education in the Rio Grande College, then taught for three years, graduated from the Bliss Business College, attended a normal school at Angola, then became assistant principal of the Tremont High School and is now a student 1054 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION in the Ohio State University at Columbus. He married Leola Shively and they have a daughter named Bertha. Mrs. Albin and the son are members of the Locust Grove Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Albin served as treasurer of Jackson Township five years, and is a loyal democrat in politics. ALONZO WARTHMAN. It was in the prime of his years and the high tide of his usefulness that Alonzo Warthman was taken away by death, and for what he did, for what he was, and the influence he exerted in many ways it is fit that he should be long remembered especially in Vinton County and in the community of New Plymouth, where he resided for many years and where Mrs. Warthman and her children still live. Born in Hocking County, Ohio, February 6, 1867, Alonzo Warthman was a son of Daniel and Ellen (Nimon) Warthman. Both parents were reared in Jefferson County, Ohio, were married in Hocking County, and the father was a miller who at one time operated a grist mill in Washington Township of Hocking County; but subsequently established a saw and grist mill in Brown Township of Vinton County, his mill being operated by water power. His parents lived in Brown Township most of their active careers, and the mother passed away at the home of her youngest son Alonzo in 1910, when eighty-three years of age. Daniel Warthman is still living among his children in Vinton and Hocking counties, and on March 18, 1916, celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday. He is still hale and hearty, takes long walks and during the year just past shot a number of ground hogs and squirrels. Since the years of his early youth he has been devoted to the Methodist Church and his wife belonged to the same denomination. In politics he is a democrat. Alonzo Warthman was the youngest of these children; and the three still living are : Luther, a farmer and miller in Swan Township of Vinton County, who is married and has a family of one son and two daughters. Lafayette, a farmer in this state, who has four sons; and Martha, wife or Fred Stout, living near New Plymouth. Alonzo Warthman after being reared in Vinton County was married in Northeastern Tennessee in 1889 to Minnie B. Conner. She was born in Swan Township of Vinton County, March 9, 1871, but when eleven years of age her parents moved to Northeastern Tennessee. She is a (laughter of William and Harriet (Rodeheaver) Conner. They were born in what is now West Virginia and were married at Morgans Glade, and subsequently- moved to Vinton County. Her father spent several years as a farmer and subsequently started a sawmill in Vinton County, but moved it to Hocking County, then again to Swan Township, and in HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1055 1882 established a lumber mill in Tennessee. In 1890 having sold out the family returned to .Vinton County and bought land in Swan Township, where Mrs. Warthman's father died in the spring of 1910. Her mother passed away March 11, 1911. They were ,active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Which he served as an official, and in politics he was a republican. After their Marriage Alonzo Warthman and wife settled at New Plymonth in Vinton County, and for several years he conducted a sawmill there. Later .he managed a sawmill in Ross County not' far from Chillicothe, but eventually sold his interests 'there and returned to Vinton County and took up sawmilling and grist milling, having a grist mill at Hamden. In 1902 he bought a comfortable home of ten rooms with a large lot of ground surrounding at New Plymouth, and he also bought 318 acres. in Hocking County, chiefly grazing land and timber. His prosperity was also measured by the ownership of 160 acres of well improved farming land in Swan Township. The late Mr. Warthman was a man of good business judgment, industrious, honorable in all his relations, doing whatever, he did .well, and unselfish in every way. His death was consequently a shock to the community where he had .lived so long and he passed away at New Plymouth February 23, 1912. He was a democrat in politics, and had no regular church membership. 'Mrs. Warthman still lives at the fine home at New Plymouth, and she and her children are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Warthman was survived by the following children: Myrtle, born in 1890, was educated in the public schools and in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware and is now the wife of Howard L. Hockman of Hocking County, who owns and runs a grist mill at New Plymouth., having conducted this local industry for the past four years.. Newman A:, born in 1892, is also a saw mill man at McArthur, and by his marriage to Dora Hanning has two children, Minnie B. and Luther G. Lela B.; born in 1897, is the wife of Albert Redick, of New Plymouth, and they have a son Vyron B. Mary E., born in 1902,, is now in the public schools. Dallas Wayne was born February 12, 1905, and is also in the grade schools. Alonzo E. was born November 4, 1912, after the death of his father. WORTH RAY, M. D. Many of. the men in the medical profession today are devoting themselves in a large measure to the .prevention of disease as well as its cure. In this way their efficiency as. benefactors has extended much. beyond the scope of the old fashioned practice when the doctor was related to his patients only as an individual. One of the 1056 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION able representatives of such modern physicians, who has enjoyed special favor and success as a physician and surgeon, is Dr. Worth Ray, now practicing with a large clientage at Superior, Lawrence County. Doctor Ray has served several of the state institutions, is a member of the State Board of Health, and has a large general practice as a physician and surgeon. Worth Ray was born in Jackson Township of Jackson County, Ohio, June 15, 1873, a son of Joseph M. and Anna (Carter) Ray. His father was born at Chester in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1829, spent his active career as a farmer, and now lives in Jackson Township of Jackson County. The mother was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1836. Four of their eight children are living : Mary, now Mrs. Thomas E. Harper of Jackson County ; Wilder C., who married Gertrude Shockey and is a farmer on the old homestead ; Doctor Ray, and Edith M., who is Mrs. O. L. Harper, her husband an engineer at Ironton, and they have two children, Ruth B. and Marie E. Dr. Worth Ray grew up in Jackson County, had a farm as his early environment, and after completing the work of the public schools entered Starling Medical College at Columbus and was graduated M. D. March 25, 1897. His first practice was at Omega in Pike County, and after two years he was appointed assistant superintendent of the State Hospital at Athens during 1898-99. He was transferred in the same capacity to the Cleveland State Hospital for four months, then practiced at Coalton from the fall of 1899 to 1910, spent two years, 1910-12, at Columbus, and since then has enjoyed a large practice at Superior in Lawrence county. Doctor Ray is physician and surgeon to the Superior Portland Cement Company, is a member of the Jackson County Medical Society, the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a member of the State Board of Health and is vital health officer of his county. Doctor Ray is a Royal Arch Mason, and is in politics a republican. For two terms he served as coroner of Jackson County. His church is the Methodist. Doctor Ray devotes all his time to his profession, and outside of that his principal interests are in his home and in outdoor recreation. Doctor Ray was married December 27, 1889, to Gertrude Morse, daughter of George Morse of Middleport, Meigs County, Ohio. They are the parents of three children: Joseph Morse Ray, Wendell B. Ray, and one that died in infancy. DAVID H. WEISENBERGER. In view of the marked itinerant tendencies of the Americans of the present generation, it is especially gratifying to take cognizance of the career of one who has achieved success HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1057 and definite prestige in the community in which he was born and reared and in which he has so ordered his course as to retain the inviolable confidence and good will of all who know him. These statements have significant application in connection with the popular citizen whose name introduces this paragraph and who is station agent for the Hocking Valley Railroad in his native town of McArthur, Vinton County, where he is also local representative for the American and Adams Express Companies. He has been identified with railroad affairs since his early youth and his advancement to his present position indicates fully his fidelity and executive ability, for such preferment comes only to one who proves his integrity of purpose and his definite practical value. Mr. Weisenberger has held his present office for the past sixteen years, and for eleven years preceding his assignment to the same he has served as a representative of the same railroad company in the village of Dundas, Vinton County. Close application and marked circumspection have characterized his association with the Hocking Valley Railroad; and he has fully merited the advancement that has been given to him in his long and faithful service for this company, the official of which have thus marked their appreciation of his ability and steadfastness. He has become interested in a number of local business enterprises, but as a stockholder rather than an active executive, since his duties in connection with the railroad and express companies demand virtually his undivided time and attention. Mr. Weisenberger was born at McArthur on the 5th of July, 1871, and to the public schools of his native village he is indebted for his early educational discipline, which has been effectively supplemented by the lessons learned under the direction of that wisest of all headmasters, experience. He entered the employ of the Hocking Valley Railroad Company when but sixteen years of age and has continued in its service during the entire intervening period. The lineage of Mr. Weisenberger traces back to staunch German origin on both the paternal and maternal sides. His paternal grandfather, David Weisenberger, passed his entire life in Prussia and was a farmer by vocation. His son David, Jr., father of the subject of this review, was born in Prussia in the year 1832 and was there reared and educated. There was solemnized his marriage to Miss Theresa Hemlepp, who likewise was born in 1832, and in the later '50s they severed the ties that bound them to their Fatherland and immigrated to the United States, being accompanied by the parents of Mrs. Weisenberger and by all of her brothers and sisters except one sister. This little company of kinsfolk took passage on a sailing vessel of the type common to that period and forty-nine days elapsed ere' they disem- 1058 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION barked in the port of New York City. From the national metropolis all came forthwith to Vinton County, Ohio, and the family home was established at Eagle Furnace, where the iron furnaces were then in active operation. The parents of Mrs. Weisenberger eventually removed to Scioto County, where they passed the residue of their lives and where they died when well advanced in years. Their only surviving child in the United States is 'Herman Hemlepp, who now resides at Ashland, Kentucky, and who has reared a family of several children. David Weisenberger, father of the subject of this review, died about two months before the birth of the latter, who is thus a posthumous child, he being the youngest in a family of six sons and two daughters, of whom two died in infancy. Two others of the number also are deceased : Sophia became the. wife of Otto F. Piltcher and is survived by four children ; Frank died When comparatively a young man. Aside from David H., of this sketch, the other surviving children are :. Andrew, who now resides in the city of Columbus and who is the father of five children ; and Ida. S., who is the wife of Joseph C. Gill, present county auditor of Vinton County, and who has one son. Mrs. David Weisenberger survived her husband by many years and was summoned to the life eternal in 1909, at the venerable age of seventy-seven years. Both Were devout, communicants of the German Lutheran Church, which was the ancestral faith in their native land, and they lived godly and righteous lives that fully justified the Christian faith which they professed. David S. Weisenberger has continued to permit the enrollment of his name on the list of in bachelors in his native county, but this fact "has not militated in the least against his personal popularity, which is of unequivocal order .both in business and social circles. He is a stalwart advocate of the cause of the republican party and served for a number of years as a member of the city council of McArthur, in which connection he exemplified fully his spirit of progressiveness and civic loyalty. He is one of the valued members of the local lodge and. chapter of the .Masonic fraternity and is past master of the former, as well as past high priest of the latter. The closing months of the year 1915 find him the incumbent of the office of king of Royal Arch Chapter of the McArthur Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and he has passed the official chairs also in the McArthur Lodge of the Knights of Pythias. WILSON S. SWARTZ. About a half century ago when Vinton County was still in the wilderness, the first member of the Swartz family came to the region, and since then Wilson S. Swartz has been one of the HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1059 effective workers in transforming the barren land into cultivated fields. He has earned all his prosperity, and exemplifies the quality of enterprise and good citizenship that are valuable assets to any community. He was born near Taylorville in Muskingum County, Ohio, September 27, 1852. His parents were Daniel and Mary (Mowery) Swartz. His father was born in Washington County of Southwestern Pennsylvania, being of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. The mother was born in Germany and when six years of age her parents came to the United States on a sailing vessel, and after many weeks on the ocean landed in New. York City and some half dozen years later moved to the State of Virginia, locating in the Shenandoah Valley during the early '40s. They came as poor people, and spent most of the balance of their lives in that locality. Mary Mowery's mother died there, and there she was reared and married Daniel Swartz, who came from the Shenandoah Valley into Pennsylvania when a young man. Daniel Swartz and wife lived in Virginia for a number of years, and while there six of their children were born. They afterwards moved from Pennsylvania to Muskingum County, Ohio, locating on land about two piles south of Taylorville, and not quite a mile from the Muskingum River. In that new home six other children blessed their marriage, making twelve in all. Mrs. Mary Swartz was born April 29, 1809, and died in Muskingum County in 1863. Her husband was born July 30, 1806, and. died in Licking County, Ohio, in 1876. Both were members of the Lutheran Church and the father was a democrat. Wilson S. Swartz was one of the youngest of the eight sons and four daughters, all of whom grew to adult age' except one, and ten of them were -married and four are still living. The only ones in Vinton County are Wilson and his sister, Mrs. George Waxier. Wilson S. Swartz was reared and educated in Muskingum County. On reaching, the age of maturity he found farming the occupation for which he was best fitted, and in 1877, when still a young man of about twenty-five he moved into a newer country, Vinton County, and located in Elk Township. Here his work has been of marked, benefit not only to himself but to his community for nearly forty .years. In 1877 he bought his present farm in section 27 of Elk Township, a mile and a half from McArthur. His thirty-eight acres are nearly all well improved and he grows good stock and general crops, and also operates several acres of the brick company's land adjoining his farm. His improvements comprise a substantial six-room house and some farm buildings. His land is rolling, well supplied with water and beneath the surface are three distinct veins of coal. In Elk Township of Vinton County in 1886 Mr. Swartz married Vol. II - 27 1060 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Miss Christina B. Hohl. She was born near old Eagle Furnace in Vinton County in 1858 and has always lived in this county. When she was eleven years of age she lost her father, Jacob Hohl, who was a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, where he married Catherine Weaver, a native of the same locality. Mr. and Mrs. Hohl lost an infant child in Germany and not long afterwards they set out for the United States, and after living for a time in Pennsylvania moved to Ohio, and settled at Pine Grove Furnace and still later went to Eagle Furnace, where Mr. Hohl worked for some years as a teamster. In 1867 he moved to a farm in Elk Township, and he died there in 1869. His widow survived him about thirty years and was past seventy when she died. They were reared in the Lutheran Church, but Mrs. Hohl became a member of the United Brethren denomination in this country. Mr. and Mrs. Swartz are the parents of a large family of children : Oscar B., who is a blacksmith at Marion, Ohio, married Cora Sammons and has two children named Elwood M. and Arnold E. Homer C., who died at the age of twenty, was engaged in teaching and was a student of medicine. Henry H., still unmarried, is a, carpenter living at Deep River, Iowa. George P. died when six months of age. Adelbert W. still lives at home with his parents, and is a teacher, and has finished two years in the Ohio State University at Athens. K. May was also a student in Ohio University, and is a teacher in her native township. Ada Lena, a graduate of the McArthur High School and the Ohio University, is now an instructor in the High School at McArthur. C. Burnice is a teacher in the public schools, and completed her education in the McArthur High School and the Normal Department of the Ohio University. Mary E. died when fifteen months of age. A. E mett is a member of the class of 1916 in the McArthur High Schoo All this family are members of the Vinton Chapel of the United Bret ren Church, in which Mr. Swartz is trustee and steward and class leader. Politically he is a republican. HARVEY WELLS.. In the center of the little City of Wellston stands a statue, erected a few years ago by the people, representing and a memorial to the founder of the town, -the late Harvey Wells. In his time he was one of the leading and influential citizens of Jackson County, and his character and activities well deserved this recognition especially in the locality with which he had so much to do from the beginning. Born in Wilkesville, Vinton County, Ohio, May 29, 1846, Harvey Wells was a son of Agrippa and Hannah Wells. For a man who accomplished so much he had very meager opportunities at the beginning, and when only eleven years of age was at work learning the carpenter's HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1061 trade. That was his means of self support up to 1862, at which time he enlisted and was made a messenger in the Union army. He was soon placed in the harness-making department, learned that trade, and was promoted to foreman of the entire department. Later he enlisted as a regular soldier in the 194th Ohio Infantry under Captain Gillian, and was in the army until mustered out at Washington, D. C., in October, 1865. Even then he was only in his twentieth year, and he then .set about to secure the. advantages of education which had been denied him as a boy. He attended a high school in Gallia County and a- commercial college at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. For a time he worked for H. S. Bundy as bookkeeper and general manager of the Latrobe Furnace store one year, then continued his education in the Ohio University at Athens two terms, and for one term was in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. He had a genius for mathematics, and out of his extensive experience in several mechanical industries he evolved in 1867 a book entitled "Wells' New System of Rapid Calculation." He had previously published several books under the same title, and for three years he was largely engaged in traveling over the various states and in that time sold about 60,000 copies. It, was one of the pioneer works of the kind, and was the predecessor and basis for many subsequent editions of all manner of handbooks for rapid calculation covering every field of mechanics and trade. After his ventures in authorship and as a publisher he took up the real estate business, and made some highly successful deals during the next six or eight months. In 1873 Mr. Wells was nominated as a candidate for the Ohio Constitutional Convention, and was elected by the republican party in his district by a majority of 472 votes. About that time he contracted with Hon. H. S. Bundy of Jackson County for 1,000 acres of land, the purchase price of which was $100,000. On part of that land in 1874 he laid out the Town of Wellston, and later organized a joint stock company and sold the entire tract of land for $150,000. From that time until his death, which occurred October 23, 1896, he was closely and influentially identified with the welfare of the town which now bears his name. He also built the Eliza Furnace. On June 22, 1875, Harvey Wells married Miss Eliza M., the youngest daughter of Hon. H. S. Bundy. To their union was born one son, Harvey B., on May 30, 1877. Harvey B. Wells since attaining manhood has been one of the active citizens of Wellston and is carrying forward many of the interests with which his father was formerly connected. He was educated in the common schools of Wellston and in the Ohio Military Institute at Cincinnati, and was also a student at Ohio University in Athens. For 1062 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION some years he was clerk for Col. William E. Bundy. On March 28, 1904, Harvey B. Wells married Miss Esther Elliott, daughter of Neil W. Elliott of Wellston. JOHN J. MCKITTERICK. The career of Mr. McKitterick has been significantly marked by initiative and constructive ability and he has long been recognized as one of the representative merchants of the fine little City of Jackson, judicial center of the county of the same name, besides which he has been prominent and influential in the development of the coal mining industry in this section of the state. Mr. McKitterick is a native son of Jackson County, where his father established his home more than sixty years ago and within a short time after his immigration from the fair old Emerald Isle. John James McKitterick was born on a farm one-half mile distant from the courthouse of Jackson County, Ohio, and the date of his nativity was October 9, 1850. His father, John McKitterick, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, on the 14th of January, 1814, and bore the full patronymic Of his father, John McKitterick, Sr., who was a native of Scotland and who removed thence to County Tyrone, Ireland, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits and where he passed the residue of his life. This sturdy Scotch ancestor was twice married and the maiden name of his second wife was Jones : she was a resident of the vicinity of Six Mile Cross, County Tyrone, Ireland, at the time of her death. Thomas and James McKitterick were sons of the first marriage, and from County Armagh, Ireland, both emigrated to America and became residents of Jackson County, Ohio, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Four sons were born of the second marriage and all of the number came to the United States : Jonas settled in Jackson County, Ohio, where he died a bachelor; William eventually returned to Ireland, where he passed the residue of his life ; Edward settled at Burlington, Iowa, and in that state he reared his family of ten children ; and the fourth of the sons of the Second marriage was John, father of him whose name initiates this review. John McKitterick was reared and educated in his native county and there continued his residence until 1846, when he came to the United States, the sailing vessel on which he took passage having been so buffeted and tempest-tossed that it did not arrive at its destination until after the lapse of three months. After landing in the port of New York City Mr. McKitterick came forthwith to Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, where he joined his cousin, named McKell, who there conducted a queensware and general crockery store. After clerking three years in the establishment of his cousin Mr. McKitterick removed to Jackson County and HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1063 settled on the farm which was the birthplace of his son John J., of this sketch. He purchased this property finally from his father-in-law, though his wife's eventual heritage from her father's estate covered to a large extent the purchase price. Mr. McKitterick turned his positive and effective energies to diversified farming and stock growing, was distinctly successful and became also a prosperous buyer and shipper of livestock. He continued his association with these lines of enterprise for nearly forty years and continued to reside on his fine old homestead farm until his death, which occurred in August, 1893. In Jackson County was solemnized the marriage of John McKitterick to Miss Maria Louise Crookham, who was born in a pioneer log house about 1 1/2 miles distant from the county courthouse, in the year 1829, her father having been one of the sterling pioneers of Jackson County. She was a daughter of George L. Crookham, who is supposed to have been a native of the State of Pennsylvania and who came to Jackson County, Ohio, in an early day. Here he became one of the pioneer salt-boilers and here also he entered claim to a large tract of Government land, near the present city limits of Jackson. He instituted the herculean task of reclaiming a farm from the wilderness and his original log house continued to be the family domicile for many years. Alert mental powers and well directed self-discipline made him a man of really liberal education, and he gained reputation for being one of the best mathematicians in the State of Ohio, with wonderful facility in the solving of the most intricate and difficult problems. In addition to reclaiming ands improving his farm he was one of the early and successful school teachers in Jackson County and became a citizen of much prominence and influence in the community. Implacable in his opposition to human slavery, he became, in the climacteric period leading up to the Civil war, one of the strong abolitionists in this section of Ohio and his home was one of the stations on the historic "underground railway" through which many unfortunate slaves were assisted on their way to Canada and to freedom. Many such fugitive negroes found shelter and food at his home, and his broad humanitarian spirit was otherwise shown in connection with the varied relations of his strong and noble. life. He continued to reside on his old homestead until his death and continued to teach school up to the time he was attacked by his final illness. Mr. Crookham was but five feet and five inches in height, but such was his latitudinal expansion that he weighed more than 300 pounds. His was a large heart and a large mind, and his name merits enduring place on the roll of the honored and revered pioneers of Jackson County. Mr. Crookham married Miss Sarah Lake, whose death occurred in 1851, and they became the parents of sixteen children. 1064 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION Mrs. Maria L. (Crookham) McKitterick died at the age of thirty-eight years, after having become the mother of five sons and two daughters, the latter of whom, Lulu and Lizzie, died when young. The names of the sons are here entered in respective order of birth : John J., George C., William T., Samuel G., and Edward. John J. McKitterick, whose name initiates this article, passed the days of his boyhood and youth on the old homestead farm and after availing himself of the advantages of the district school, in what was known as the Brown schoolhouse, he supplemented this discipline by attending the public schools of Jackson, Prof. Charles S. Smart having at the time been principal of the same. In 1869, when eighteen years of age, Mr. McKitterick made an overland trip, .with team and wagon, over the virgin prairies of Kansas and incidentally visited the Cherokee Strip, at that time held entirely by the Indians. Finally he established his residence at Clermont, Nodaway County, Missouri, where he was engaged in the general mercantile business two years. He then traded his store and business for a farm in that county and for the ensuing two years he gave his active supervision to his farm, besides which he taught in the local district schools during the winter terms. In 1873 he returned to his native county and rented his father's farm. He purchased of his father also an appreciable number of mulch cows and for a year thereafter he conducted a dairy business, which he then sold to his brother George. Soon afterward he traded his Missouri farm for coal lands in Lick Township, Jackson County, and after selling an interest in this property to his brother William they were there associated in the operation of the field until the major part of the coal was exhausted, the land having then been leased to another operator. In 1877 Mr. McKitterick purchased in the City of Jackson the property at the northwest corner of Bridge and Warren Streets, and he then traded a quantity of the coal that he and his brother had mined and received in return a small stock of meat and flour, which, with a few groceries, formed the basis of the operations which he then instituted as a merchant, his entire stock having been worth not more than $300. Later he admitted George Gilliland to partnership in the enterprise, and about a year later his brother George purchased Mr. Gilliland 's interest, whereupon the firm became known as McKitterick Brothers. From this time forward the business showed a cumulative tendency and to accommodate the ever increasing trade the brothers finally erected, in 1885, a substantial brick building of two stories, with a frontage of 46 and a depth of 70 feet, this building still being the headquarters of the extensive and representative grocery and provision business that is now conducted individually by the subject of this sketch, though his sons HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1065 Harry and Thomas, both enterprising and popular young business men, now have the active management of the store. After having purchased, about 1886, a coal mine on the Scott farm, Mr. McKitterick and his brother George opened and developed the same, the operation of which they continued until they sold the lease and business to the firm of Jones & Morgan. At Ada, Jackson County, they then leased of Captain Davis, a tract of sixty-five acres of land, and on this they opened and developed what is known as the McKitterick Brothers' Slope Mine. In 1899 Mr. McKitterick purchased his brother's interest in the mercantile business and the building in which the same is conducted, and he has since, continued the sole owner of the large and prosperous business, in the conducting of which he has found his two sons most effective coadjutors. As a citizen Mr. McKitterick is progressive and public spirited, and he served two terms as a member of the city council of Jackson. He is unwavering in his allegiance to the. cause of the republican party and cast his first presidential vote for Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens Building and Loan Association of Jackson, and became a director and vice president of the same, besides having seryed twenty-three years as a member of its appraisement committee. At the expiration of this period he resigned his executive position with the association. His brother George is now the principal stockholder and the president of the Russell Coal and Iron Company and resides in the City of Cleveland, the two having been long and pleasantly associated in their business activities in Jackson County. Mr. McKitterick is a prominent and appreciative representative of the Masonic fraternity in his home county. Here he is affiliated with Trowel Lodge No. 132, Free and Accepted. Masons; Trowel Chapter No. 73, Royal Arch Masons; Jackson Council No. 70, Royal and Select Masters; and Jackson Commandery No. 53, Knights Templars, of which he is captain-general at the opening of the year 1914. In this time-honored fraternity he received the initial degree of entered apprentice on the 17th of December, 1875, and on the 17th of March of the following Year was conferred upon him the sublime degree of Master Mason. In the chivalric body of the York Rite Mr. McKitterick was originally affiliated with the commandery in the City of Chillicothe, but he later became a charter member of the commandery at Jackson and has been prominent in its affairs from the time of its organization. He is a charter member also of Otoe Tribe No. 82, Improved Order of Red Men, and of Jackson Lodge Np. 466, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Which he is past exalted ruler. Mr. McKitterick is a member of Jackson County Liquor License Board, under Governor Willis. Both he and 1066 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, though their parents were members of the Presbyterian Church. The attractive family home, at 403 Chillicothe Street, is a fine two-story brick residence, situated on an acre of ground, adorned with fine trees and shrubbery, and with Mrs. McKitterick as its gracious and popular chatelaine the home is a center of much of the representative social activity of the community. On the 25th of December, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McKitterick to Miss Elizabeth McKitterick, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Pringle) McKitterick, of Jackson County. Mr. and Mrs. McKitterick have three sons,—Harry John, Thomas Edward and William George. HENRY C. SMITH. A farmer undertaker is not a usual combination of business activities. In the Lotus Grove community of Jackson Township, in Vinton County, it is the general reputation of Henry C. Smith that everything he has undertaken has responded well to his efforts. His country estate is probably one of the finest in its improvements in Vinton County. By profession he is a licensed embalmer and undertaker, and has set' up in the business in that rural community, and has gathered about him all the facilities required for an expert and careful service. His career as an embalmer and undertaker has covered the last fifteen years. He keeps two hearses and has a special building to house his stock of caskets and other materials required in the business. He received his license as an embalmer before he set up in independent business as an undertaker, and was one of the first to take out a license after the state law went into effect. His farm comprises 225 acres, most of it broken and under cultivation. Henry C. Smith was born in Jackson Township July 22, 1878, and is still a young man in years, though "a veteran in business experience. He received a liberal education, having attended the public schools and the Normal at .McArthur and completed his training in the Ohio University at Athens. The first five years of his active career were spent as a teacher: He then came to the section of Jackson Township where he now makes his home, and bought the farm which has undergone many developments since he took charge. His house is a model of the kind in the country community, comprising nine rooms; all modern in equipment and furniture, and with a supply of natural gas for lighting and heating. Mr. Smith is a son of Mathias and Harriet . (Coultrap) Smith. His mother is a sister of Judge Henry Coultrap, the prominent and well-known citizen of McArthur. Mathias Smith was born in Hocking County HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1067 near the Vinton County line in 1840. When he was still a child he lost his father and his mother also died when he was very young. He therefore grew up among strangers, spending part of his early youth in Vinton County. He was married in this county and somewhat later his industry and thrift enabled him to buy 200 acres of land in Jackson Township. There he spent his years as a prosperous farmer, and passed away in September, 1908. His wife, who was born in 1843, died in 1911. Both were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics he was a republican and held several local offices. Henry C. Smith is one of a family of three sons and four daughters, six of whom are living, all of them married and with children of their own. His brother Jasper is a member of the firm of Hamilton & Smith, who conduct a large department store at McArthur, Jasper Smith having charge of the grocery department. In Swan Township of Vinton County Henry C. Smith married Miss Doretta Johnston, who was born in that township August 19, 1881. She was reared and educated there in the public schools. Her parents, Sanford and Mary (Bray) Johnston, were both born in Vinton County and still live on their good farm in Swan Township. They were the parents of two children, a girl and boy. Thomas was born in 1882, and is now a physician practicing in Mount Gilead, Ohio. He was graduated at Ohio State University at Columbus. Mrs. Johnston is a member and one of the most active workers in the Locust Grove Church. Mr. Johnston has for many years been a leading factor in republican politics in this county. He has served two terms as county commissioner. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Smith were born, on March 12, 1907, twin daugters, named Mary and Martha, both of whom are now in the third, grade of the public schools. Both Mr. Smith and wife are active members of the Locust Grove Methodist Church, in which he is now superintendent of the Sunday School and a member of the board of stewards.. In politics he is a republican. RUFUS H. WYMAN. Of the varied lines of business enterprise effectively represented in the progressive little City of McArthur, Vinton County, one that is maintained at specially high standard is that of the firm of Wyman & Gorsuch, who are dealers in and manufacturers of the highest grade of artistic granite and marble monuments and other cemetery appurtenances of similar order. In their well equipped establishment, eligibly situated on East Main Street, are handled the finest grades of domestic and imported granite and marble monuments and the business of the firm extends into all parts of Vinton County, as well as into contiguous counties. Of this representative firm Mr. Wyman 1068 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION is the senior member and he is known as one of the essentially progressive business men and public spirited citizens of McArthur, where he has been established in his present line of enterprise since August 3, 1903, his coadjutor being Nichols Gorsuch. The well equipped shop of this firm is a substantial brick building 35x54 feet in dimensions, and the same was erected in the spring of 1915, to provide adequate accommodations for the constantly increasing business. Rufus H. Wyman was born in Elk Township, Vinton County, on the 19th of July, 1859, and the old homestead farm which was the place of his nativity is situated only a few miles distant from McArthur, the county seat. Though in his youth he was enabled to avail himself of the advantages of the village schools of McArthur, and that he made good use of these opportunities is evidenced by the fact that in 1877 he proved himself eligible for the pedagogic profession and became a successful teacher in the rural schools of his native county. Through study and practical experience he acquired virtually a liberal education, and he continued his services as one of the able and popular teachers in the schools of this section of the state for somewhat more than eleven years and up to the time when he engaged in his present business enterprise, in 1903. Mr. Wyman is a son of Levi Wyman, who was born in the State of. New York about the year 1815 and who was a boy at the time of the family emigration to Ohio. His father became one of the pioneer settlers of what is now Elk Township, Vinton County, where he entered claim to Government land and instituted the development of a farm from the forest wilds. He became one of the representative farmers and influential citizens of the pioneer community and both he and his wife continued to reside on the old homestead until their death. Levi Wyman was reared to manhood under the conditions and influences of the pioneer era and early began to assist in the reclamation and cultivation of the home farm, the while he availed himself of the somewhat primitive facilities of the schools of the locality and period. He eventually succeeded to the ownership of the farm which had been obtained from the Government by his father, and he continued to be there one of the successful exponents of agricultural and livestock industrial enterprise during the residue of his long and useful life, his death having occurred about a quarter of a century ago. He was a man of steadfast integrity and strong mentality, was well and favorably known in this section of Ohio and commanded unqualified esteem in the county of which virtually his entire life was passed. His political proclivities were indicated by the staunch support which he gave to the republican party HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1069 and both he and his wife were earnest adherents of the Christian Church, in which he held Official position for many years. In Vinton County Levi Wyman wedded Miss Sarah T. Cox, who was born and reared in this county and who survived by a number of years, she having been nearly eighty years of age when she passed to the life eternal, in 1899. They became the parents of four sons and five daughters and the first born was Sarah, who died within a comparatively few years after her marriage and who left no-children. Nancy is the wife of David B. Dye, a prosperous farmer of Clinton Township, and they have two sons and one daughter. John continued. his residence in Vinton County until his death and was survived by his wife and three daughters. James is now a successful orange-grower in the State of California and has one son. Joseph, who was a patternmaker by trade and vocation, was a resident of Nelsonville, Athens County, Ohio, at the time of his death, and was survived by his wife and two sons, his widow being now deceased. Eliza became the wife of Justin H. Smith, a telegraph operator, and she died while a resident of Chillicothe, Ross County, being survived by her husband, two sons and one daughter. Martha, who died in 1914, at Jackson, judicial center of the Ohio county of the same name, first became the wife of William F. Mapes, and after his death she wedded Robert E. Reives, two children of the first marriage surviving her and there having been no children by the second marriage. Rufus H., of this review, was' the next in order of 'birth. Miss Alice, the youngest of the children, resides in the home of her sister Nancy, Mrs: David B. Dye. He whose name introduces this article has never wavered in his allegiance to the republican party and is well fortified in his convictions concerning matters of economic and governmental policy. He has served several y.oars as township assessor of Elk Township and is the incumbent of this office at the present time, 1915. For the past thirty years he has been actively affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, as a member of which he has passed all of the official chairs in the McArthur lodge, in which he is now master of finance. He attends and gives liberal support to the local Christian Church, in the faith of which he was reared and of which his wife is a zealous member. In Scioto County, in 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wyman to Miss Maggie A. White, who was born in that county on the 20th Of January, 1856, and who was there reared and educated. She is a daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Irwin) White, who likewise were natives of that. county, where the respective families were founded in the early pioneer days. Mr. White was a prosperous farmer of Scioto County at the time of his death, about twenty-eight years ago, and his 1070 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION widow, who celebrated, in 1915, her seventy-eighth birthday anniversary, died March 3, 1916, in the City of Portsmouth, that county, she having long been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the fourteen children of this venerable pioneer woman all but one attained to adult age and the most of them are still living and well established in life. In the concluding paragraph of this sketch is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Wyman. Miss Cora remains at the parental home. Lelia is the wife of Russel Rudolph, of Sugar Grove, Fairfield County, and they have one daughter, Eileen. Linnie is the wife of Harry Rumbaugh, and they are associated in the millinery business at Lebanon, Indiana, no children having been born to them. Estella is the wife of Grover Smith, who is engaged in the restaurant business at McArthur, and they have one son, Earl. Harry was graduated in the McArthur High School and is now a member of the class of 1917 in the Ohio State University. Mary and Helen are attending the public schools of McArthur and the former is a member of the class of 1916 in the high school. EBEN JONES. President of the Globe Iron Furnace Company at Jackson, Eben Jones is one of the veteran ironmasters in the Hanging Rock Iron Region. His name is one that has been associated with iron manufacturing and furnaces in Southern Ohio for upwards of sixty years. On a farm near Lampeter in Cardiganshire, Wales, Eben Jones was born June 14, 1834 ; only about half a mile distant from his birthplace, on another farm, his father, Thomas T. Jones, was born. The latter was reared 'and educated in his native shire and when a young man began dealing in horses. These horses were bought and collected in Wales and taken to markets in England and Prance. In 1837 Thomas T. Jones brought his family to America. They all embarked on a sail vessel which carried them to one of the principal ports in Wales, and there they took passage on a boat loaded with lumber and with only a few passengers. After two months on the voyage they landed at New York. Their destination was the West, and at a time when railroad building had hardly begun in the United States they went by stage coach to Philadelphia, and by combined stage and canal boat west to Pittsburg. After remaining at Pittsburg about six months, they went on to Palmyra, Ohio, which was their home about a year, and thence on to Cleveland, where they took passage on a canal boat that brought them south to Chillicothe, and from there with wagon and team they penetrated the heavy forests that then covered Jackson County. Jackson County at HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1071 that time was an almost unbroken wilderness and there were neither canals nor railroads. Here Thomas T. Jones bought 120 acres of land twelve miles south of Jackson. Three acres had been cleared, and there was a log house which furnished the first shelter for the Jones family. Later Thomas T. Jones sold his first land and bought a tract half a mile distant, with twenty acres of cleared ground. The substantial hewed loghouse which he erected there was then considered one of the best farmhouses in the county. For a number of years he superintended the improvement of his land, though much of his time was demanded by other interests. When, in 1851, the Scioto and Hocking Valley Railroad, now the Baltimore and Ohio, was commenced, he contracted to build a section. When this was completed in 1853 he became a factor in the iron industry by organizing the Jefferson Furnace Company, of which he was financial agent. Later, with John D. Davis, Lot Davis, L. T. Hughes and Dr. S. Williams, he was one of the organizers of the Buckeye Furnace. He finally moved to a home near the Village of Oak Hill and spent his last years there retired. His death came as the result of an accident at the age of eighty-four. Thomas T. Jones married Mary Edwards, who was born in Cardiganshire, Wales, a daughter of David Edwards. Her death occurred at the age of sixty-five. The nine children which she reared were named Ann, Thomas, David, Eben, Margaret, Elizabeth, Edward, John and Mary. The four youngest were born in the United States. Eben Jones was less than four years of age when the family came to the United States. He grew up in Jackson County, his earliest recollections being associated with the heavily forested country and with the primitive conditions which then prevailed in this section of Ohio. For part of his education he attended a primitive country school but was afterwards a student in the old Ohio University at Athens and also had a course in Bartlett's Commercial College at Cincinnati. His education was much more liberal than was supplied to most men of the time, and for a number of years he employed these advantages by teaching school. His first term was taught at Jefferson Furnace, and his wages were $1.00 a day. Later his salary increased to $75.00 a month, and altogether Ire put in about six years in this useful calling. In the meantime he had become interested in the iron business, and made his first investment as a Stockholder in the Cambria Furnace. Subsequently he became a contractor for getting out iron ore at the Jefferson Furnace. His business career was interrupted by the war. In 1864 he enlisted in Company C of the 179th Ohio Infantry. Before his enlistment he had assisted Captain Jenkins in recruiting and had raised a company 1072 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION of eighty men which he took to Ironton,. where all but sixteen were accepted. He then recruited twenty-one more and went with them to Columbus, where, when four were rejected, he found recruits to take their places. ,In this way he had raised a full company and was himself mustered in as first lieutenant. He went south first into Kentucky and then into Tennessee. This was during the last year of the war, and the chief battle in which he participated was at Nashville in December, 1864, when the resistance of the Confederate forces in the West was effectually broken with the complete defeat of Hood's army. lie remained on duty, with his command at Nashville until after the close, of the war, and was honorably discharged. On returning to Jefferson Furnace. Mr. Jones taught another term of school and then became secretary and treasurer of the Buckeye Furnace. In 1873 he took the leading part in the organization of the Globe Iron Company at Jackson, and was made its secretary and treasurer. With that organization he has been identified more than forty years, has been one of the chief factors in its successful operation, and is now serving as president, while his son John E. is secretary, treasurer and general manager. Mr. Jones is also a stockholder and director in several banks and in other corporations. He is easily one of the leading factors in business affairs in the Hanging Rock Iron Region. It is, interesting to note that Mr. Jones began his practical career without any capital though with a liberal education, as has already been noted. His first savings came from his salary as a school teacher at $1.00 a day. When he bought stock in the Cambria Furnace, as already noted, he paid one-half in cash and the rest in notes. This was a profitable business, and the notes were paid from the dividend of the company. From that time on his advancement was rapid and substantial and he has never had any serious setbacks in his business career. In early manhood and before the Civil war, in August, 1857, Mr. Jones married Miss Ann Williams. She was born in Wales, a daughter of Morgan and Margaret Williams. Mrs.. Jones died in 1887. Mr. and Mrs. Jones reared six sons and one daughter, namely : Thomas A., Edwin, John E., Emma, Newton, Charles. D. and Frederick E. The sons are all prominent and successful business men in affairs of the county and state of which their ancestors were among the pioneers. Mr. Jones also has twenty-five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mr. Jones is a member of the Presbyterian Church as was his wife. He has fraternal affiliations with Trowel Lodge No. 132, Free and Accepted Masons; Trowel Chapter No. 73, Royal Arch Masons and Jackson Commandery No. 53, Knights Templar. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1073 HON. OTTO E. VOLLENWEIDER. One of the most promising of the men who are governing Ohio's affairs, if the achievements of the past may be taken as a criterion for the future, is Hon. Otto E. Vollenweider, member of the Ohio State Senate, representing the Eighth District. As a lawyer of force and learning he brought himself prominently into the public eye, and he was soon recognized as being possessed of the qualifications necessary for public service. In the State Senate he has made a well established reputation as a hard, conscientious and successful worker. Mr. Vollenweider was born at Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, August 26, 1867, and is a son of John and Tina (Vollenweider) Vollenweider. His parents, natives of Weinfelden, in the Cantons of Thurgau, Switzerland, came of a fine old Swiss family, well educated and of a mechanical turn. John Vollenweider was granted good educational advantages, early displayed the possession of the family's inclination for mechanics, and was given every chance to develop this faculty. He thus became a skilled mechanic and scientific machinist, and followed his vocation in his native land until his marriage, shortly after which event he came to the United States and took up his residence at Chillicothe, Ohio. There he followed his trade until 1872, in which year, with his family, he moved to Hamden, Vinton County, there purchasing the Hamden Foundry and its combined machine shops. Later he associated himself With the well-known iron founder, H. S. Bundy, and they continued to conduct the iron works until Mr. Vollenweider's death, in 1898. Mr. Vollenweider was a prominent man in the work of the Reformed Church, as is also his widow, who still survives at the age of seventy-five years. Mr. Vollenweider was a stalwart republican but took little more than a good citizen's interest in public affairs, although he was always a force in promoting movements for the welfare of his community. There were three children in the family : Otto E., of this notice ; Lillie, who is the wife of Dr. A. G. Ray of Jackson, and has two sons; and Lena, who is the wife of Dr. W. J. Ogier of Wellston. The early education of Otto E. Vollenweider was secured in the public schools of Hamden. He showed a predilection for the law when still a youth, and expressed the ambition to succeed in that profession, an aim which has since been so fully and generously realized. His legal studies were prosecuted in the law department of the University of Lexington, Kentucky, where he was graduated in 1889, and in Cincinnati Law School in 1891, and in that same year he was admitted to the bar and established himself in practice at McArthur. In 1892 he was elected prosecuting. attorney of Vinton, and from that time to the present has been constantly in office.. In 1896 he received the re-election for 1074 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION . prosecuting attorney, and following his second term he was made cit attorney, an office which he held as long as he cared to, finally resignin In the election of 1914 Mr. Vollenweider became the candidate of the republican party for senator from the Eighth Senatorial District of Ohio, and, in recognition of his past valuable services, the people gave him a handsome majority at the polls. The Eighth District includes Gallia, Lawrence, Meigs and Vinton counties, and since he took his seat, in January, 1915, the voters of these communities have had no reason to complain of lack of representation. He is chairman on the committee on judiciary, an honor seldom conferred on a new member, and belongs also to the committees on public utilities, courts, taxation, colleges, medical societies, municipal commissions, prison and prison reforms, and state buildings. A hard worker in the interests of his constituents, he has von their confidence and gratitude, and it is not improbable that he could gain at their hands any office which he desired. Mr. Vollenweider has held other offices, among which was that of member of the building commission, of seven members, appointed by Governor Willis. At Lexington, Kentucky, Senator Vollenweider was united in marriage with a lady of the Blue Grass State, Miss Ethel Heacox, a member of an old and distinguished family, a graduate of Hamilton University, and a lady of many graces and accomplishments. Her parents, who are both deceased, were Lester and Mary Heacox, natives of Lexington, Kentucky. Senator and Mrs. Vollenweider have no children. They are leading members of the Christian Church, in which the senator is Sunday school superintendent, and both are Sunday school teachers. ROY MCELHANEY. Public service has been rendered Scioto County by a former clerk of courts, Roy McElhaney, who has served in that public position for two terms. He represents a couple of old families in this section of Ohio, and is himself a native of Scioto County and has been known to the people of this vicinity since childhood. Roy McElhaney was born on a farm in Clay Township, Scioto County, October 18, 1878. His father, Reed Alexander McElhaney, was born in Union Township. Grandfather George Washington McElhaney, was born in the north of Ireland of Scotch ancestry. When a young man he and two of his brothers came to America and located in Philadelphia, and to the education acquired in his native land he added in Philadelphia a course in medicine. Coming to Ohio Doctor McElhaney first located at Martin's Ferry, and from there came to Scioto County and bought a farm in Union Township. While most of his time and energies were devoted to the farm, he also practiced as a physician and did an important service to the community, particularly in answering