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Margret, the older, married Henry Joel, a German nobleman, and Rosina married Michael Burkett. Henry and Margret Joel had two daughters, Margret married Jacob and Katherine married Abraham Ellis, two brothers of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. The name Ellis was originally Alles and is so written in an old German Bible, still preserved in the family. Johann Jacob Alles, the father of Jacob and Abraham, came to this country upon the ship "Dragon," from Alsace, Daniel Nicholes master, October 17, 1749.
Both Abraham and Jacob Ellis were soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Jacob was a fifer and lost his fife on the bridge at the battle of the Brandywine. He was a private in Captain Barber's company, Second battalion, Chester county militia, 178o, Thomas Bull, colonel.
At the close of the war, the Ellis brothers took their wives and their mother-in-law, Margret Joel, to Berkeley county, Virginia, where they settled on a farm in a valley between North and Page mountains. In 1806, Abraham immigrated to Wilmington, Ohio. Jacob died leaving a large family of children, and was soon followed by his widow. The older children immigrated to Ohio, but Samuel, father of Thomas K. Ellis, and Lewis, the father of Mrs. Stockton, were so small that they rode in one saddle to Harper's Ferry, where they were reared by a family friend, Jane Walker. In early manhood Samuel came to Williamsburg, Ohio, and was soon followed by his brother, Lewis, who had been convinced by a fortune teller in Maryland that he would find his bride, a dark-haired, dark- eyed maiden, at the end of his journey. When he responded to his first invitation to an apple cutting, upon entering the room, he met Elizabeth Kain, whom he recognized as his heart's desire. They were an ideal couple, living together almost forty years. Their children were, Leonidas, Elizabeth Caroline, John Henry, Laura Anna, and Elmer Coats.
Mrs. Stockton's first marriage to Dr. J. J. Norris con- nected her with two of the largest families in Southern Ohio, the Norris and Sargents. The Norris family was so prolific that it seemed to be sufficient unto itself, for an unusual custom of cousins inter-marrying prevailed, and strange to say, they are a race of remarkable strength, vigor and mental clearness. Aquilla Norris, Sr., grandfather of J. J. Norris, immigrated to Ohio from Herford county, Maryland, in 1806. In the war of the Revolution he was captain of a company of militia from Herford county. At the close of the war, his wife,
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Priscilla, died, and his home burned. Disheartened, he resolved to go west. With a family of eleven grown children and his nephew, Abraham Norris, who had sixteen children, he immigrated to Ohio, and settled in Brown county. His wife's maiden name was Priscilla Norris, for she was his cousin, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Bradford Norris, all of Her- ford county, Maryland. Aquilla Norris, Jr., their son, married a daughter of John Sargent, familiarly known as "Jacky." To their union were born eleven children, John Jasper being the seventh son. The Sargents were English people, James Sargent came from Snowhill, England in 1741, to Frederick
county, Maryland. He married in England a Miss Snowden, whose mother's name was Nellie Taylor. James lived to be 107 years old. His ten children married into families well known in Southern Ohio. John married Mary Lamb, known as "Polly" to her intimate friends. Their daughter, Sarah, was married to Aquilla Norris, Jr., March 21, 1813.
Mrs. Stockton's daughter, Estelle May Norris, was educated in the public schools of Williamsburg, with an additional two years at Farmer's College, College Hill, Ohio. She taught two years in the Williamsburg public schools, after which she gave her time for several years to her step-father's business. On October 3o, 1889, she was married to William Elmer Ochiltree, of Connersville, Ind., where she has since resided. Mrs. Ochiltree has always been interested in religious and education affairs, and has been closely identified with the movements that have stood for civic improvement in her home town. She organized the first permanent literary club in her city, and it still exists, and is one of the best in the State. She has held responsible positions on the board of federation of clubs, is a Daughter of the American Revolution, and has written some fairly clever short stories for magazines.
William E. Ochiltree, a prominent attorney of Connersville, and through both the Ochiltree and McCrory families traces his Scotch blood. His people immigrated to Fayette county early in the Nineteenth century. The Ochiltrees trace to the Lairds of Scotland, and to Robert Aikin, to whom Burns dedicated his "Cotter's Saturday Night." They also connect with the early history of Clermont county, through their kinsman, Col. Thomas Paxton, of pioneer fame.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Ochiltree are Bert James, born June 30, 1892, and William Norris, born July 26, 1894. Bert J.
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is an automobile machinist, and William N. is at the present writing a student at the Indiana University, where he is studying for the bar.
LULA M. BROADWELL.
Mr. Lula M. Broadwell, who for the past eight years has conducted an undertaking establishment at Felicity, Ohio, is a representative of one of the prominent Clermont county families who have been connected with the agricultural and industrial interests of the county for man y years. He was born at Rural, Clermont county, Ohio, July 12, 1870, and his parents were Joseph A. and Louisiana (Mannen) Broadwell.
Joseph A. Broadwell was born near Milford, Clermont county, Ohio, in 1829, and was a dealer in leaf tobacco, also owning a large farm near Rural, Ohio, which has been his home since he was a small boy. He was an energetic and progressive business man, and was highly respected by all with whom he was associated. His wife, Louisiana Mannen, a native of Mason county, Kentucky, was born in 1840, and left this life in 1878. To this worthy couple were born five children, two of whom are still living:
Joseph L. is a resident of Rural, Ohio, and possesses three productive farms.
Lula M., the subject of this sketch.
Joseph A. Broadwell was a Democrat and had membership with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His death occurred October 31, 1907, and both he and his wife were laid to rest at Rural.
Lula M. Broadwell obtained his education at Rural, and entered upon his business career in the warehouse of his father. He continued with his father and remained at home until his marriage and thus became familiar with all the details of the tobacco business.
He was married to Miss Maud Woodmansee on the 30th of May, 1897. She was a daughter of Joseph and Martha (Iler) Woodmansee, and was born near Rural in 1869. Her father was born near Rural and in early life was a farmer and stock raiser, but for the past twenty-five or twenty-six years has conducted a coal business. His birth occurred July 14, 1847, and he is now enjoying a retired life. His wife, Martha (Idler) Woodmansee, was born at Neville, Ohio, June 25, 1846, and
died June 13, 1907. There were eight children in this family, six are still living:
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Maud is Mrs. Broadwell.
Callie married Arthur Shinkle, of Rural, Ohio.
Annice is at home.
Maggie, formerly a teacher of the schools of Rural, Ohio.
Grace is an instructor in the Rural school. She is a graduate of the Felicity High School, and also took a course at the Oxford school.
Hazel Houghton is at home. She also graduated from the Felicity High School.
Following his marriage, Mr. Broadwell turned his attention to the occupation of farming for one year, after which he conducted a general store at Rural for a period of three years. In 1904, he purchased the undertaking business of Mr. J. L. Bannock, and has continued in this business to the present time, meeting well deserved success. In 1900, he purchased the comfortable home on the corner of Union and Light streets, and is counted among the substantial business men of Felicity.
In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Broadwell are two children:
Burdette was born January 22, 1899.
Irene, who was born December 7, 1901, is the organist in the Sunday school of the Christian church of Felicity, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Broadwell are consistent members of the Christian church, the former having filled the office of deacon for some time. Mrs. Broadwell is active in the church societies, taking a great interest in all church affairs.
The political views of Mr. Broadwell are in accord with those of the Democratic party, and he has filled the office of township clerk and is at present a member of the educational
board.
Mr. L. M. Broadwell affiliates with the Masonic order, and Mrs. Broadwell is a member of the Eastern Star.
The maternal grandfather of Mr. Broadwell, Gen. John Mannen, was a native of Mason county, Kentucky, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
Mr. Broadwell's success in life is attributable to his own efforts. He is a genial and pleasant gentleman, and his wife possesses many excellent qualities, so that they are highly esteemed in the community where they reside.
WILLIAM J. HUGHES, M. D.
Among the best citizens of Moscow, Clermont county, is Dr. William J. Hughes, who is well fitted by nature and prepara-
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tion to minister to the physical ailments of popular because of his broad s mankind. He is
popular because of his broad sympathies and general kindness, and his genial manner and
courtesy pave the way for happy friendship and companionship with his fellows. He is
a man of large stature well proportioned, and with a mind and heart in keeping with his bearing. Dr. Hughes was born near Ash Ridge, Brown county, Ohio, February 8, 1861, son of William T. and Elizabeth (Jarman) Hughes. His father was township, C born near Milford, Miami township Clermont county, October 29, 1833, and died February 20, 1911; He was a carriage maker, aker, coming to Moscow with his father at the age of thirteen years. He attended school in Milford and one month after coming to Moscow, and although his education was limited, he was ahead of the boys of his age in general knowledge, being especially bright in mathematics. He and his father worked at carriage making in Moscow until 1860, then moved to a farm at Ash Ridge, and when the war broke out William T. Hughes entered the commissary department, where he Winchester
served some years. He then went to Cincinnati and later to where he conducted a carriage shop for a number of years, then moved to Wamsley, Adams county, and died on a farm near that town. He was assistant secretary of the West Union Fair from the date of its organization until his
death, and before this time had been connected with the Winchester Fair. In this way he became very well known, and had become very popular in the various communities where he lived. He was a Republican in politics, and served as treasurer of Jefferson township for over twenty years. He was a Mason from the time of his twenty-second year and he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church. His wife was born on the Jarman homestead, near Neville, on October 24, 1831, and still lives on the farm near Wamsley, where Mr. Hughes died. Mr. Hughes has one brother, Charles, of Elwood, Ind., the only survivor of twelve children. Mr. William T. Hughes and wife had four children : George S., of Pickrell, Neb.; Dr. William J.; Walter C., lives on a farm near Wamsley; Mary L. is the wife of George Connor of St. Paul, Kan.
William J. Hughes began his education at Winchester, attended school at the National Normal, at Lebanon, where he took a teachers' and scientific course, meanwhile having learned the trade of carriage maker with his father at Winchester, where he worked a number of years. He went to his
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father's farm at Wamsley and taught six years in Jefferson township, studying all his spare time. He read medicine with Dr. A. Gilfillen, of Russellville, Ohio, and later attended Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, graduating in 1890 from the School of Medicine at Louisville, Ky., and then taking up active practice. He had gained his later education by his own efforts, teaching in summer and attending school in the winter, and studying all his spare time. He practiced near the home place at Wamsley three years after his final graduation, and came to Moscow in 1893, where he has since become well known as a skilled physician and surgeon, and at his home on Broadway street has a well-filled drug room, where he prepares all his own medicines. He stands well in his profession and enjoys a good reputation with all.
Dr. Hughes is. a Republican in politics, and has been honored by election to several local offices. He has served as councilman and mayor, and has at various times served on the school board at Moscow. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and still holds a policy with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He and his wife are devout members of the Presbyterian church, and he is an elder, having been clerk of sessions for sixteen or eighteen years. He purchased his present home in 1898, and has added many improvements to it. He and his wife are prominent in many circles, and have a large number of friends. Their home is kept in spotless order and they are very hospitable.
On October 26, 1893, Dr. Hughes was united in marriage with Miss Mary A. Faul, born near Dover, Ky., September 11, 1871, daughter of Lewis and Margaret (Arn) Faul, the former born in Brown county, Ohio, November 29, 1837, and the latter born in the same place July 24, 1847. Mr. Faul died December 1, 1903, and is buried at Arnheim, Brown county, and his widow lives at Ash Ridge. He was a farmer, lived for some time near Dover, later near Higginsport, and still later as Ash Ridge. He enlisted in the Fiftieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and served through most of the Civil war. He was an Odd Fellow. He and his wife had six children, all of whom survive: Margaret, wife of Frank Brookbank, of Higginsport, Ohio; Katherine, wife of Henry Young, lives with her mother ; Mary A., Mrs. Hughes ; Dr. William L., of Russellville, Ohio ; Pearl P., with her mother ; Lela, wife of C. C. Inskeep, of Urbana. Frederick Arn, an uncle of Mrs. Hughes, served from Ohio in the Civil war ; Captain Hughes,
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brother of the doctor's father, also served, and a brother of his mother, George Jarman, was also in an Ohio regiment. Mrs. Hughes is a charming woman, possessed of the graces and culture that help to make a home pleasant.
Since the above was written Mrs. Hughes died from the effects of a malignant disease, March 14, 1913, and was buried at the Lutheran cemetery, Arnheim, Ohio.
ALONZO JUDD.
Alonzo Judd is one of the most substantial citizens of Moscow, Clermont county, and belongs to one of the oldest families of the region. He is a self-made man and has a good helpmate in his wife. He was born in Higginsport, Brown county, Ohio, April 11, 1840, son of Joshua A. and Sarah (Akels) Judd. The father was born in Pennsylvania, in 1791, and died in 1881, and the mother was born in Hagerstown, Pa., in 1806, and died in 1881. Both parents are buried in Mars cemetery, Pendleton county, Kentucky. They came to Ohio in 1811, landing near the mouth of the creek, not far from Moscow. There was but one house in Moscow at that time and there were Indians on both sides of the river. At the same time Jesse Dugan came and settled at Higginsport; Samuel Ebersoll came and located at Palestine, and Jimmie Selby came and located at Point Isabel, all in Clermont county. All these men came from Pittsburg. The Judds were respected and esteemed by their neighbors, and always did their share to help along measures for improvement and progress.
After coming to Ohio Joshua Judd was a ferryman on the Ohio river, and made forty-two trips from Higginsport to New Orleans and return, on flat boats and produce boats. Twice he walked back to Higginsport. In 1821 he left Clermont county and lived in Higginsport until 1841. He then removed to Nashville, Tenn., but not liking the institution of slavery, remained there but one year, although he had a sister and a brother there. He returned to his old home near Moscow, and in 1843 took charge of the ferry, which he and his sons kept some sixty-four years. This business was sold but a few years ago, passing out of charge of the family. He was known as Captain Judd and participated in the War of 1812, also belonged to a company of militia at Georgetown. He was
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a Whig before the formation of the Republican party, which he joined later. He and his wife had ten children, two of whom were born in Clermont county, namely : Samuel R. served in the One Hundred and Ninety-sixth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, was born in Ohio, and now resides in Kentucky; Mary, deceased, married (first) Jacob Kayser, and (second) William Eads, both of whom have died ; Susanna, married William Blunkall, lived in Nashville, but she and her husband are now deceased; Daniel, born in Ohio, served three years and three months in Company B, Fifty-ninth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and now lives in Indiana ; Nelson and Melissa, deceased ; Alonzo ; Leonidas and Edward, deceased ; one child was still-born.
Alonzo Judd received his education in Moscow, and when still a boy began working on his father's ferry, learning all branches of the business. He was first employed in steering and later ran a skiff ferry and gasoline boat himself. He remained on the river until 1864, then enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, serving for ten months and nineteen days. He participated in a few skirmishes near Winchester, Va., and performed every duty expected of him. Returning to Moscow, he again took up the business of ferryman, which he continued until selling out a few years ago. He conducted the business in a way that was most satisfactory to the public, and was faithful in his attention to the needs of his customers. Like his father, he is Republican in political belief, and fraternally he is a member of the Odd Fellows. He is a prominent member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is well known in various ways.
On March 20. 1866, Mr. Judd married Miss Melissa Fassett, born in Pendleton county, Kentucky, in 1847, daughter of Jacob and Emily H. (Eads) Fassett. Her father was a native of the same county, born in 1820, and he died in 1892. Her mother, born in Moscow, Ohio, in 1829, died in 1903, where both parents were buried. He was a farmer boy by occupation and a Democrat in politics. He never sought public office and was a quiet, patriotic citizen. He and his wife had eight
children, all born in Kentucky, namely : Mary Frances, wife of Samuel R. Judd, of Kentucky ; Margaret, wife of David White, of Moscow ; Charlotte, wife of Thomas Lancaster, of Kentucky ; Permelia Bell, married William Langh, of Kentucky, and is now deceased; Rebecca, wife of George M. Whit-
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ford, of Kentucky ; Mrs. Alonzo Judd; Daniel lives in Kentucky; Edward died young.
Seven children have blessed the union of Alonzo Judd and wife, all born in Moscow : William H., born in January, 1867, married Bertha Davis, resides in Kentucky, and they have one child, Beatrice ; Minnie J. married Edward Langh, of Moscow, and they have two children, Myrtle and Judd ; Cora, wife of Charles McCoy, lives in Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio ; Robert died when eighteen months old, and is buried in Moscow ; Everett died at about the same age as Robert ; Ellsworth Lee died at the age of two years ; Stella married Clarence Holland, and they live in Moscow.
Mr. and Mrs. Judd belong to the Christian church, in which he is an elder, and both are active in its work. They have a very pleasant home on Third street, which they have purchased, and they have a number of friends in Moscow and vicinity. Havig practically spent his life in the community, Mr. Judd is one of the best known men of Clermont county, and is reasonably proud of the part taken by the family in its early history.
ANTHONY MELDAHL.
There is no more popular man along the Ohio river than Anthony Melhadl, affectionately known among his friends and acquaintances as "Tony," and he is a man of skill and ability, whose watchful care insures the safety of thousands of persons each year. He is a pilot on the great river, being now employed on the boat known as the "Ohio." It is to such competent, conscientious men, standing at the wheel governing the boat, amid the dark shadows of night, in shallow places and through swift currents, straining every sense to guard the lives of those depending upon their skill, that the most sincere praise and commendation should be given. The wheel seems a thing of life, immediately obedient to their will, and their efficiency is the result of long years of training. Mr. Meldahl is a man of good habits, is self-made and shows that he is descended from a family of good standing and honor, having the leading traits of the true gentleman.
Mr. Meldahl was born near Parkersburg, W. Va., July 26, 1814, son of Emil and Lena (Muenchmeyer) Meldahl, the father born in Denmark in 1828, and now living near Parkers-
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burg, and the mother, who was born in Germany, in 1834, died in 1906. Both families were of the nobility of their respective countries, and he and his wife were both educated in Germany, receiving the benefit of such learning and culture as were given only those of high birth, position and wealth, in their native countries. Mrs. Meldahl was well known as a fine linguist, having mastered a number of languages thoroughly, and was a musician of such talent that all who had the pleasure of hearing her long remember it as an unusual treat. Her family, the Muenchmeyers, are moving in leading official circles in Germany at the present day. Some fifty-eight years ago Mr. and Mrs. Meldahl came to West Virginia and located near Parkersburg, where they made a home and reared a large family, on what was known as Washington Bottom. Their residence, which was one of the finest in the whole State, is near the Ohio river division of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and the station near it is known as Meldahls. This beautiful estate attracts a great deal of attention, and its owners are very proud of it, as it is large, well arranged, and built for the comfort of its occupants and the entertainment of friends. No one was ever turned from the door, and its hospitable roof has sheltered many weary travelers, who by accident or design came to the portal of this old-fashioned home. There are to be found all the comforts to be had in a large city and all the beauty of a carefully planned country home. Mr. and Mrs. Meldahl had great pride in their children, who have done honor to their parents; and made a host of friends, for they were both courteous and pleasant in manner, and did not hold themselves above associating with their neighbors. Mrs. Meldahl especially was a favorite with old and young alike, and all knew that true enjoyment reigned in her home. Her death brought genuine sorrow to the hearts of many. The members of her household were blessed with the opportunity afforded them of living with this noble gentlewoman, and it was counted an honor to be among her friends.
Of the children born to Emil Meldahl and wife six now survive: Maude, wife of Capt. James Sandford, of Dayton, Ky.; Alexander, of Huntington, W. Va.; Frank, of Charleston, W. Va.; Margaret and Lilly, at home, and Anthony.
Mr. Meldahl began his education in the country schools near his boybood home, for some time had a private governess at home, and later attended school in Parkersburg. He remained on the home farm until attaining his majority, then
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went to work on the river, on a boat running between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. He engaged in business on his own account, and owned the steamer, "Fashion," and the "Knox," the former of which sank. He sold the Knox several years before his marriage and now runs the "Queen City." He purchased seventy-eight acres of land in Washington township, Clermont county, to which he has added from time to time, and has a beautiful home, especially well adapted for keeping summer boarders, from the cities or elsewhere. He and his wife have worked together and success has attended their efforts in a gratifying degree. He is much interested in local affairs in Clermont county, and in politics" is a Republican. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow and a Woodman.
On October 26, 1892, Mr. Meldahl married Miss Laura Busby, who was born in Neville, Clermont county, October 2, 1868, daughter of James and Sarah (Vanlandingham) Busby. Mr. Busby was born in Indiana in 1826 and Mrs. Busby in Brown county, Ohio, in 1831; He died in 1898, and she in 1902, and both are buried in Vesper cemetery. He was a carpenter by trade, was married in Foster, Ky., and in an early day moved to Clermont county, Ohio, living at Neville until old age overtook him and he came to live with Mrs. Meldahl. He and his wife had two children, Robert, of Pennsylvania, who was born at Foster, Ky., and Mrs. Meldahl. Mrs. Busby's father, Manley Vanlandingham, served in the War of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Meldahl have three children, all born on the home farm and all at home : Louise, born September 23, 1894, and Otis and Vera (twins), born February 17, 1899. All are promising young people. Mrs. Meldahl is a member of the Christian church and Miss Vera is a Methodist.
JOHN JARMAN.
John Jarman is one of the most extensive farmers of Washington township, Clermont county, and belongs to the class of self-made men who have done so much for the progress and welfare of the county. He is held in respect by his neighbors and enjoys the good will of all who know him. He was born near Neville, Clermont county, in 1871, son of George and Alice Jarman, a sketch of whom also appears in this work. The father was a prominent citizen of the county, industrious and
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thrifty, and is well remembered by many, as he was much interested in local affairs and was kindly disposed toward all. He and his wife had four children, mentioned in connection with the sketch of the patents.
Mr. Jarman attended school at Beech Grove, and after leaving school remained on the home farm with his mother until he attained his majority. September 16, 1902, he married Miss Hattie Essex, who was born at Rural, Clermont county, March 9 1879, daughter of A. L. and Rachael Belle (Reed) Essex, of Rural. Her father, Albert L. Essex, is a retired tobacco buyer and in early years was a teacher and farmer. He is a son of Albert and Joanna (Broadwell) Essex, born at Rural, in 1814, and resides in Washington township. His father was born in New York, in 1818, and died in 1813, not long before the birth of his son. His mother was born at Milford, Ohio, in 1823, and died in 1892, and both were buried in Rural cemetery. Albert and Joanna Essex had four children, two of whom reached maturity : Frances, wife of William A. Jones, of Walnut Hills,
and Albert L.
Albert L. Essex attended National Normal University, at Lebanon, Ohio, and for a short time studied at Augusta, Ky. He taught some fifteen years in Franklin township, buying tobacco during the summer months. He became foreman for H. P. Williams, an extensive tobacco buyer, and had a factory for several years. In 1892 he built a warehouse, but since 1896 he has practically retired and his son carried on the business for some years, but is now connected with the American Tobacco Company. He spent the greater part of his life in Franklin township, but in 1892 purchased some sixty acres in Washington township, now the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Jarman. He was elected by the Republicans to the office of justice of the peace, serving nine years in Franklin township and three years in Washington township, and served some time as trustee in the latter. In 1878 he married Miss Belle Reed, born near Rural in 1816, daughter of Joseph and Rachael (Morgan) Reed. Mr. Reed was born in Felicity in 1828 and died in 1904, and the mother was born near Rural in 1830, and died in 1885, both being buried at Mount Pleasant. There were eleven children in their family, eight of whom reached maturity : Elizabeth, wife of Baker Flaugher, of Higginsport ; Edward was killed in childhood ; Belle, Mrs. Essex ; Alphonso, who was accidentally killed ; William, of Cincinnati ; Alvina, Mrs. Mahlon Vermillion, deceased ; Laura, Mrs. Harvey Fry ;
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Grant, died in February, 1913, at Cincinnati ; Edmond, of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Essex had five children born near Rural: Hattie, wife of John Jarman ; Paul, of Ripley, Ohio, married Mary Glazer, of Neville ; Edith, wife of Alfred M. Demaris, living on a farm near Rural, has one child ; the other two children, Eva and Wylie, died in infancy. Mr. Essex had an uncle, Ferdinand Broadwell, who served in the Civil war, in the Twenty-second Ohio, and Mrs. Essex had two uncles, Frank and Charles Reed, who served in the war, the former of whom was wounded at Kenesaw Mountain. Mr. and Mrs. Essex have worked hard and now enjoy their comfortable circumstances. Mrs. Essex belongs to the Christian church at Rural.
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Jarman located near Neville, where he has some three hundred acres of land under his control, part of which he owns. He has demonstrated unusual ability as a farmer and in business transactions, being very successful in his enterprises. He is a Republican in politics. He is a Mason and also belongs to the Junior Order of American Mechanics. Mrs. Jarman belongs to the Christian church. They have four children, all born near Chilo : Paul, born July 16, 1904, attends the school at Beech Grove, which his father and grandfather Jarman attended ; Alice, born April 9, 1907; John, born November 8, 191o, and George Allen, born May 25, 1913.
JOSEPH TRIMBLE RICKER, M. D.
Dr. Joseph Trimble Ricker has attained much prominence in Clermont county during the past forty-two years, not only because of his remarkably successful career in the medical profession, but also because of his intense and well directed activity for the advancement and development of his native county. He is a representative of the Ricker family, who since the earliest pioneer days have been numbered among the substantial citizens. He is the sixth child of Major Elbridge Gerry and Margaret (Foster) Ricker, a mention of whom appears elsewhere on these pages, and was born May 18, 1848.
Dr. Joseph T. Ricker spent the days of his childhood in the home of his parents, and after the usual preliminary education took up the study of medicine in the city of New York, from which he graduated in 1871, delivering the valedictory address for his class. During his period of study in New
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York, Dr. Ricker attended a course of scientific lectures at Cooper Union for three years, and became well acquainted with Dr. Stowe and his wife, Harriet Beecher Stowe. After his graduation, Dr. Ricker was appointed demonstrator of anatomy, but resigned because he desired to return to his home, where he took up the general practice of medicine, and after a continued period of forty-two years is still actively engaged in his profession, at Mt. Carmel, Ohio.
On May 10, 1876, Dr. Ricker was united in marriage to Miss Catherine E. Winspear, of Buffalo, N. Y., a young woman of unusual musical talent and ability. She was a daughter of John and Catherine (Wheelock) Winspear, the former of whom was originally of Hull, England, and through the latter she traces her ancestry to Ann Drury and through her to Edmund Rice, of England, 1194. There are many Revolutionary heroes in the Winspear-Wheelock-.Drury lineage. This union has been blessed with three children, whose names follow :
Joseph W., who was born March 12, 188o, near New Richmond, Ohio, received his preliminary education in the Mt. Carmel High School and later in the Woodward High School of Cincinnati. In 1897, he enter the University of Cincinnati, Medical College of Ohio, where he took a four-years course and was granted the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in May, lon Following this event, he was appointed resident physician of the Jewish Hospital, and served in this capacity until 1903, when he determined to take up dermatology and for this purpose arranged for a post-graduate course abroad, spending one year studying in the clinics of Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London, under such eminent men as Lassar, Lesser, Rhiel and Neumann. Returning to America, he located at Cincinnati, Ohio, engaging in the practice of his specialty, dermatology. Joseph W. Ricker, being very successful in his profession was honored by an appointment to the staff of Bethesda Hospital and surgical clinic of the Medical College of Ohio. In 1910, Dr. Ricker gave up the practice of medicine to enter the food manufacturing business, and in this line of work, his laboratory training, his hospital experience and his post-graduate trip abroad proved to be a valuable asset to his business and today he is a recognized expert in the manufacture of certain food products, being called upon frequently to serve as an expert for the government in its food cases. Joseph W. Ricker chose for the companion of his future years, Miss Helen Skaats Loudon, only child of Charles F. and Lucy (Skaats)
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Loudon, of Avondale, Cincinnati, the latter of whom is a descendant of Dolly Madison, and on November 12, 1904, the ceremony took place. To their union one child was born, Charles Loudon Ricker, whose birth occurred November 22, 1905.
Catherine Elmira, who was born near New Richmond, Ohio, December 2, 1881, graduated from the Walnut Hills High School in the class of 1899, receiving the gold medal in mathematics and the silver medal for general scholarship with honorable mention in Latin and literature. She afterward spent two years attending the Eden Park Art Academy, studying in the life classes of Vincent Nowottney and L. H. Meakin, later taking up metal work and designing of jewelry. While teaching in the New Richmond schools, she composed and collaborated with Mr. Joseph Surdo, two operettas, which have been successfully given in a great number of cities in the United States. On August 28, 1907, occurred her marriage to Mr. H. P. Moran, of New York City. Mr. Moran is a graduate of the College of the City of New York and of Cornell University, and a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. He is a civil engineer with Frederick L. Crauford, incorporated, one of the largest contractors of the East. They built the subway under the East river, connecting the Boro of Brooklyn with the Boro of Manhattan, and are at present building a section of the subway underlying the Trinity Building, St. Paul's Churchyard, the old Astor House and several other celebrated landmarks of older New York. Mr. Moran's part in the construction has been a large and responsible one. Three children have come to bless and cheer this union : Isabella Ballantine, born July 14, 1908, at her grandfather's home in Glen Rose, Ohio ; Harry Hamilton, born April 27, 1911, in Brooklyn, and William Ricker, born August 23, 1912.
Elbridge Gerry Ricker, second, was born August 28, 1883, at Mt. Carmel, Ohio, and received his early education at the Mt. Carmel High School, from which he graduated in 1932, afterward entering the medical department of the University of Cincinnati, graduating from a four-years course, in May, 1906, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, taking the prize in eye, ear, nose and throat, and was one of three, of a class of thirty-three, to receive honorable mention. After passing a competitive examination he was appointed interne at the Cincinnati Hospital, serving one year in this capacity, and one year as house surgeon, receiving his diploma in the year of
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1908. He is now practicing successfully at Forrestville, Hamilton county, Ohio. Dr. Ricker is a member of the Clermont County Medical Association and is also surgeon for the Inter-urban Railway & Terminal Company. He was united in marriage on September 3, 1902, to Miss Estella Virginia Williams, daughter of Thomas and Lillian (Warner) Williams and granddaughter of
Mary Williams, of Woodburn and Locust avenues, Walnut Mills, one of the original owners of a great part of the land of the hill tops. They are the parents the home of two children: Mary Margaret, born July 26, 1905, at of her home of her grandfather, at Glen Rose, Ohio, and Elbridge Gerry, third, born October 16, 1909, at Forrestville,
Dr. Joseph Trimble Ricker has always been a staunch Republican, and a progressive citizen. He, with his brother, Benjamin Ricker, and his cousin, Dr. Freeze, assisted in raising the ten thousand dollar subscription demanded of Pierce township toward the building of the New Richmond branch of the Cincinnati & Eastern railway, and held the handles of the plow that broke the furrow at the opening celebration. Dr. Ricker also built the second telephone line established in Clermont county, it being built for his private use and extended for six miles from Mt. Carmel, Ohio, to Forrestville, Oo, and was used free of charge by the general public until it was purchased by the Citizens' Telephone Company, who after- ward sold it to the Bell system.
JULIUS SHELLEY
Julius Shelley, a native son of Clermont county, belongs to one of the old families of the region, and has spent most of his life there. He was born September 7, 1840, at Moscow, son of Andrew Jackson and Louisa (Way) Shelley, the father a native of North Carolina and the mother of Greenfield, Ohio. Andrew J. Shelley was born November 28, 1811, and died December 19, 1897, and the mother was born September 26, 1818, and died April 22, 1899. Both parents died and were buried at Moscow. The father came to Ohio as a very young boy and learned the trade of tailor, which he followed all his life. He was a Republican in politics and a hard working, industrious citizen. He and his wife had twelve children, all born at Moscow and seven of them still surviving: William,
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drowned in the Ohio river, at the age of nine years ; Mary Emily, wife of Elijah Fee, of Richmond, Ind.; Malvina, who died in January, 1913, was the widow of Theodore M. Hughes, of Moscow, who was a captain in the Civil war ; Julius, of this sketch ; Lucius, unmarried, lives with Mrs. Hughes; Sylvester died a few years ago in Butler county, Kentucky ; Addie, wife of Robert Norris, made her home in Illinois, where she died, her first husband being Benjamin Fisher, also deceased ; Augustus lives with Mrs. Hughes, in Moscow ; George lives at Butler, Ky. ; James lives in Cincinnati ; E. C., of Cincinnati, and Granville, of California. The parents of these children were members of the Methodist church, and the father was a class leader and steward. They were both active in church work and well known for their zeal in this respect.
In boyhood Julius Shelley attended the public schools of Moscow, and his first work on his own account was as a soldier. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, Second regiment, and later he served in Company A, of the Thirteenth Ohio cavalry. He participated in the battles of Gettysburg, Perryville, Petersburg, and many others of importance. He was taken prisoner at Gettysburg and spent two months in prison at Belle Isle, there suffering every hardship and privation. He won an honorable record as a soldier, and at the end of his term returned to civil life. He learned the blacksmith trade in Moscow, but later took up farming. In 1869 he married Miss Laura Harvey, who was born in Nova Scotia in 1841, daughter of Dr. George and Mary (Archibald) Harvey, her father and mother also natives of Nova Scotia. Dr. Harvey was born in July, 1805, and died in 1886, and Mrs. Harvey was born in June, 1806, and died December 17, 1883. He came to the United States in 1852, settling at Point Isabel, Clermont county, Ohio. He was a physician by profession, practiced for a time in Oxford, and was a surgeon in the navy throughout the Civil war. In 1861 he located in Moscow and there practiced many years. He retired late in life and died at the home of a son in Minneapolis, Minn. He and his wife had eight children, all born in Nova Scotia, and five of them now survive : Georgia, widow of William Wolf, of Oklahoma City, Okla.; Tompkins lives in Kansas ; Laura, Mrs. Shelley ; David, of Oklahoma ; Frederick, of Minneapolis ; William died in Oklahoma ; Mary, who died in Illinois, was the wife of Edward
Gaskins.
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Shelley located on a farm near
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Felicity, spent three years there, and in 1871 removed to Kansas, but five years later returned to Moscow and began farming in Washington township. He continued farming at intervals until about two years ago, since which he has lived retired. He removed to his present pretty cottage on Wells street, Moscow, at that time. He erected this home, and it is very suitable to the family needs. He has always taken an active interest in public affairs, and is recognized as a progressive, upright citizen. He is a Republican in politics, and has worked for the party with great enthusiasm. He has served as councilman and on the school board at Moscow. He is a member of the Christian church, and his wife of the Presbyterian church, and he also belongs to the Grand Army of the Re- church, and he also belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Shelley is a self-made man, and his wife has stood by him well, working with him and proving an inspiration and encouraging him in his efforts. Both are upright and energetic and have won the respect and esteem of all. They are pleasant and cheerful and have a large circle of friends,
being very hospitable.
Three children were born to Mr. Shelley and wife, namely : Charles Dickens, born May 14, 1870, died July 27, 1871, and was buried at New Richmond ; David Harvey, born in 1877, March 27, married Miss Irene Herbert, resides in Pittsburgh, Pa., and they have three children—Herbert Julius, James and John; Mary Louise is at home with her parents.
Mrs. Shelley's four brothers served in the Civil war, two in the navy and two in cavalry regiments, all enlisting from Oxford, Ohio.
DR. GEORGE P. TYLER.
Dr. George P. Tyler, one of the foremost professional men of Ripley, Ohio, where he has a fine practice and splendid offices, is widely known in this section of the State as a physician and surgeon. His methods are immensely practical and his life of continued activity has been crowned with a measure of prosperity that classes him among the most substantial of citizens in the community. His birth occurred at Russellville, Ohio, December 13, and his parents were Hon. George P. and Mary Ann (Reed) Tyler, whose sketch appears elsewhere on
these pages.
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Dr. Tyler was reared at Russellville, and attended the schools of his native town, after which he became a student of the Ohio Medical College, graduating in the class of 1886, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. His first practice in medicine was at Warm Springs Indian Agency in Oregon, where for two years he was in the employ of the government.
Returning to the East in 1887, he was united in marriage to Miss Judith Field Leggett, on the 23d of June of the same year. Her parents were Francis Taylor and Virginia (Eyler) Leggett, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Tyler is a cousin of Mr. Chambers Baird and a niece of Mr. J. C. Leggett, both of Ripley, Ohio. She taught in the Ripley High School for some years prior to her marriage. One child has been added to the family circle of Dr. and Mrs. Tyler, George P., 3d, who was born in 1888. He graduated from the Ripley High School and afterward from the Miami Medical College in the class of 1910. For one year following his graduation, he was receiving physician of the German Deaconess Hospital, Cincinnati, and since that time has been associated with his father at Ripley. He married Miss Ethel Plummer, of Cincinnati, and their home since their marriage has been at Ripley, Ohio. He holds membership with Union Lodge, No. 71, Free and Accepted Masons.
Dr. Tyler, as an intelligent citizen, has always taken an active interest in politics, and gives his support to the Democratic party, and served for six years as health officer of Ripley, and four years, during President Cleveland's last administration, filled the office of United States pension examiner.
Fraternally, Dr. Tyler is a member of the American Medical Society and of the Ohio State Medical Society. He is a member of the blue lodge, chapter and commandery ; Highland Commandery, No. 31, Hillsboro ; Knights of Pythias, at present being past chancellor ; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is past grand; and is past master of Union Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Ripley.
Dr. Tyler is a liberal supporter of the Methodist church, which he attends, and of which Mrs. Tyler is a member.
A man of prominence throughout the community, Dr. Tyler has a wide circle of friends, and is everywhere held in highest esteem. He is a man with many private interests, but he has always found time to perform a citizen's duty. He is a man of marked liberality as well as public-spirited, and commands the confidence of his fellow citizens.
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REV. PHILIP GATCH.
Rev. Philip Gatch, a man of deep piety and zeal, strong in the faith of the Gospel, was one of the first ministers to advocate the Methodist belief in America. He was unassuming in manner, quiet, peaceful and harmonious ; standing high in the esteem of the community in which he lived. He was a man of strong mind, not easily turned from a course he believed to be right, enduring with gentleness and Christ-like attitude the persecutions that were heaped upon the ministers in those early days, being ready to suffer and die for the truth. These characteristics entitle the Rev. Gatch to a high and honorable place in the memory and affections of all, not only as a pioneer of Methodism, but as an earnest worker in laying the foundations of our great commonwealth.
The birth of the Rev. Philip Gatch occurred March 2, 1751, near Baltimore, Md. The first of the family in America, Godfrey Gatch, came to America from Prussia, about 1727 and in 1737, he purchased a farm not far from Baltimore, which at his death descended to the father of Rev. Gatch. His mother's people, whose names were Burgin, settled near Georgetown, on the eastern shore of Maryland, at an early date. They were originally from Burgundy and were descended from a long line of ancestry in that principality.
The educational privileges in the days when our subject was a boy, were not what they are now, but he learned to read when yuite young and took great pleasure in books and received what was considered in those days a good common school education. He showed strong inclinations toward religion when very young, spending many hours in reading the history of the lives of pious men.
In April, 1772, the Rev. Gatch was converted to the Methodist belief, and in the fall of the same year felt the call of the Lord to preach the Gospel. At that time the preachers traveled in circuits, holding meetings in the homes of believers, in barns, in groves or wherever a congregation could be gathered together. He was given a small circuit in Pennsylvania, which he held until the fall of 1773, when he began traveling in the regular work ; being the first minister to be sent out in this capacity in Virginia.
The persecutions of the next few years were very severe and trying and only those who were well founded in the faith, remained steadfast and unshaken. In the case of the Rev. Gatch,
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he was often beaten with clubs, his life threatened and at one time he was covered with tar, in which operation one of his eyes was injured, as the paddle with which the tar was applied was drawn across the naked eye ball. This gave him a great deal of pain, both at this time and in later years. Through all these persecutions this saintly man had nothing but earnest prayers for those who treated him so cruelly. He was gratified to know that later, several men who had been prominent in his trials were brought to see the error of their ways and were converted.
In 1774, the Rev. Philip Gatch was made assistant to the superintendent of the conference and in 1777, was one of a committee of five chosen to act in the place of the superintendent who returned to England, he being placed at the head of the committee in 1780.
At the Baltimore conference, which began May 20, 1777, Rev. Gatch received an appointment to Sussex circuit, in Virginia. He was in poor health at this time and had to have help. The sufferings and hardships proved too much for him. His lungs became affected as a result of straining his voice while addressing large open air meetings. The work for the remaining for years of his ministry was conducted under great physical distress.
During a number of years, 1770 to 1780, the subject of administering sacrament was discussed at the conferences, as the ministers were not ordained, and a committee was appointed to ordain these preachers. Rev. Gatch was the first ordained minister of the Methodist church west of the Alleghany Mountains
The marriage of Rev. Philip Gatch to Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Powhatan county, Virginia, was solemnized January 14, 1778. The Smith family were among the first families of Vir- ginia, and were of the established church, but some of the family later became ardent supporters of the Methodist church. One of the sons, James, became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church.
On account of his poor health, the conference of 1780 thought best not to assign him to a circuit, but to allow him to work when he could and where he could do the most good. For that reason his name disappeared from the minutes of the conference at this time. Bishop Asbury made several attempts to restore his name, but it was not until a few years before his
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death, and then without his knowledge, that this was acco ia, where he mplished.
In order to support his family, Rev. Catch carried on farming in connection with his preaching, but in no case did he al it to cause his zeal for his Master's work to lessen. He made such trips as his health and domestic duties would permit, and his persistent efforts were crowned with success in bringing many to Christ, the ever present Savior of men.
In 1780, believing slavery to be against the teachings of the Book, he made a deed to liberate all his slaves, nine in all being named in the deed.
About ten years after his marriage, Rev. Gatch made the up near the first move of his home, which was occasioned by a nearly to building a dam across a creek, backing the water the house. Later, he removed to Buckingham county, Virginia where he purchased 1,000 acres of land, intending to
make it his permanent home. He put 500 acres under cultivation, but became convinced that the Northwest territory was a desirable country, and resolved to move there. On October 11, 1798, he, with his brother-in-law, Rev. James Smith, and a friend, Ambrose Ranson, with their families, set out. The party consisted of thirty-six persons, white se wagon and colored, and the outfit was made up of two four-horse wagons, one five-horse wagon. a stage drawn by four horses, a lighter two- horse carriage and, three saddle horses. The way was very, through difficult and dangerous gloomy valleys, rugged mountains and deep streams. Part of the journey was made by road
and part on flat boats on the Ohio river, and any were the accidents narrowly averted. They traveled through Point Pleasant, Chillicothe and Williamsburg and thence to Newtown, where they camped on Turin's bottom. Here they secured a house for temporary use until a home could be provided. Rev. Catch had traded his land in Virginia for land on the Miami river, but when lie arrived he found that it was not suitable for a settlement, and so bought 10,000 acres in the forks of the Little Miami river. The home was completed in February and the family went at once to their new home, beginning the work of clearing and cultivating the land. This farm is now known as "The Old Gatch Farm."
When Clermont county was established, Rev. Gatch was appointed justice of the peace, and although he felt that he was not competent to fill this office, his work was very satisfactory to all. In 1802, Congress granted to the Northwest Territory
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the right to form a constitution and State government on certain principles. Rev. Gatch and James Sargent were elected to represent Clermont county at the convention, which was held in November. The constitution formed at this time was approved by many distinguished men of the day. The legislature me the next spring and our subject was solicited to offer himself as a candidate, but he refused. He was elected, without his knowledge, to the office of associate judge of the court of common pleas, later becoming the head of the three associate judges, serving in this capacity for twenty-two years, discharging the important duties of his office in such a way as to secure the confidence of everyone. While he did not profess to be learned in the law, he had great practical knowledge of human affairs, and he aimed to arrive at the justice of every case brought to him. The tract of country between the forks of the Little Miami and to the Scioto rivers was reserved, by Congress, to satisfy military claims, under the service of the Virginia troops in the Revolution, on the continental establishment. Being extensively acquainted in Virginia, and also a practical surveyor, he was very useful to locaters of land under the military system. His position on the bench made him acquainted with the Virginia military titles, and he used this knowledge to perfect the titles of his friends and to settle any controversies, amicably, that arose.
On July 12, 1811, occurred the death of Mrs. Gatch, and her loss was most keenly felt. She was a faithful helpmate to the Rev. Gatch in all the conditions of his eventful life as a pioneer preacher, assisting him in all the laborious work of his ministry. She was ever an inspiration and a guide to him.
The death of Rev. Gatch came in December, his religious activities continuing to the last. His funeral sermon was preached by an old acquaintance, Rev. John Collins, who had fought side by side with him in the cause of the truth. The remains were laid to rest in the family burying ground, on the farm, beside his life companion.
There were others who in those early days manifested equal zeal, eloquence and persuasive powers, and whose labors were richly rewarded in the conversion of souls, but sufficient has been said to show how deep was the religion of this energetic, sacrificing, earnest man of God, who devoted the best years of his life to the ministry. Thus in body, mind and saintly character he stands out in gigantic proportion on the pages of memory, as we recall the history of the past.
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HON. GEORGE P. TYLER.
Hon. George P. Tyler, of Georgetown, Ohio, a man of remarkable personality and of signal achievement in both business and political life, is one of the citizens of Brown county whose useful and eventful career has been of such a character as to bring this section into honorable prominence. Mr. Tyler has long been an active resident of this part of the State and has been closely identified with its interests. His birth took place at Brockets Bridge, Herkimer county Hiram and, New York on the 23d of June, 1834. His parents were Hiram and Mary (Platt) Tyler, both natives of New York.
Hiram Tyler was born at Delhi, Herkimer county, in 1811 and died in Indiana in 1842. His wife was born at Brockets Bridge, Herkimer county, in 1810 and passed away November 17, 1888. Mrs. Tyler's people were highly esteemed, industrious residents of Illinois, Indiana and Iowa. Her Grandfather Platt was of English parentage and was a Revolutionary soldier and her Grandfather Murray was also a soldier in the Revolutionary war, he being of Irish lineage. Hiram Tyler's father was of French parentage and was active in the War of 1812 and his mother was of German parents who came to this country from Holland. Hiram Tyler was by trade a tanner and was the only one of his family to leave the eastern home to try the fortunes of the West. In the year of 1840 he, with his wife and two children, removed to Allensville, Switzerland county, Indiana, where he engaged largely in the tannery business, but in 1842 he was poisoned in the hand from a hide with which he was working and died five days later. The family of Hiram and Mary (Platt) Tyler was made up of six children, of whom two are now living:
George P., who is the subject of this mention.
Ann, who is the widow of Wash Miller, now resides in Denton, Tex., and her son, Delos Miller, has a large flour mill at Denton.
Hiram died in April, 1910, two years after serving two terms as clerk of the common court of Brown county. He left a wife and seven children—three daughters and four sons. His eldest daughter is the wife of R. J. Stivers, president of the Citizens' National Bank, Ripley, Ohio. Three years after the death of Mr. Tyler, or in 1845, Mrs. Tyler became the wife of Rev. C. C. Philips, a minister of the Christian church.
At the age of six years George P. Tyler accompanied his
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parents to Indiana and there, in the schools of Allensville, obtained a fair common school education. When he reached the age of twelve years, Mr. Tyler obtained a position as cabin boy on an Ohio river steam boat, running on the boats in winter and in summer working in a blacksmith shop, In the year of 1850, Mr. Tyler settled in Ripley, Brown county, Ohio, and there entered the plow factory of Mr. John Thompson, where he remained for two years. In 1852 he again changed his location, settling at this time at Georgetown, Ohio, where he conducted a blacksmith shop. He continued in this occupation until 1859, when he removed to Russellville, Ohio, where he turned his attention to the carriage making business. A year later Mr. Tyler was elected assessor of his township on the Democratic ticket over a Republican majority of sixty-five.
The business career of Mr. Tyler was interrupted at this time by the agitation brought about by the Civil war, when he assisted in the organization of the Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer infantry, of which he was made first lieutenant and detailed at once on the staff of Col. James P. Fyffe, commanding the brigade. During the eighteen months spent in the service Mr. Tyler sustained the loss of one of his children by death, in addition to the loss of his home and all it contained, by fire. Adversity further pursued Mr. Tyler, when, by the treachery of his partner in the carriage factory, he was greatly embarrassed financially upon his return from the war. However, he again engaged in the carriage business and went on the road as a traveling salesman in order to meet all of the indebtedness of the firm without sacrificing his integrity by taking advantage of the bankrupt law. He continued in the capacity of traveling salesman until the fall of 1877, when he was elected to the office of Senator by the Democratic party from the Fourth Senatorial district, composed of Brown and Clermont counties. In 1879 he was renominated by acclamation and was elected, serving four years in the Senate. He was instrumental in securing many State and district appointments for citizens of Brown county, whose claims had before been almost wholly unrecognized by political parties in State and district appointments. In the fall of 1881 he was elected Probate Judge of Brown county, which position he held for two terms, or six years, with great dignity, honor, and satisfaction to his constituents.
In 1888 Hon. George P. Tyler engaged himself with the
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Dayton Blank Book and Printing Company, of Dayton, Ohio, as traveling salesman, and is still in that position, covering a large territory on his trips.
During Gov. McKinley's administration, in April, 1895, he appointed Mr. Tyler as one of the trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Columbus, Ohio, and at the expiration of his term of five years Mr. Tyler was reappointed for another term by Gov. Nash. At the end of that term he was again reappointed by Gov. Herrick.
On March 16, 1854, Mr. Tyler was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Reed, who was born in 138 in Louisville, Ky., a daughter of C. W. Reed, a prominent business man and at one time county commissioner and postmaster of Georgetown, Ohio, under the administrations of Pierce and Buchanan, and his wife, Mahala (Staten) Reed.
Judge George P. Tyler chose for his second wife Miss Emily Francis Mather, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Henry Witham at the Presbyterian church at Ironton, Ohio, on the 16th of March, 1893. Her death occurred November 10, 1910, at her old home, where she is buried. She left no children. Her parents were Richard and Harriet E. (Stinson) Mather, the former of whom was born in Brooklyn May 30, 1831. He located in Ironton, Ohio, in 1851, where he lived a highly respected life for many years. He passed away April 8, 1911, and his loss was greatly felt by his family and the community in which he lived. He was a son of Col. William Mather, graduate and afterward a professor in the Academy at West Point. Later Col. Mather served as colonel in the United States army and made the first geological survey of New York State, being State geologist of New York until his removal to Ohio, where he was made the first geologist of the State of Ohio, which office he held until his death. He made the first geological survey of Ohio. Mr. Mather as connected with the Bank of Ironton, of which he was cashier for thirty-five years, and was a strong factor in the Ironton City Savings Bank until on the loth of February before his death. Mrs. Mather died February 22, 1905. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Mather were two children, the
wife of our subject and Alice M., the wife of Dr. G. R. Davis, who lives in West Virginia.
Judge and first Mrs. Tyler became the parents of ten children, all, with the exception of the second child, having been born in Brown county, Ohio. Those living are as follows :
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Clara, widow of Rev. Henry Witham, a Methodist minister who died in January, 1909. She now resides with her father. Her family consisted of three children Georgiana, who died at the age of sixteen, Homer and Charles.
Kate married John A. Jennings and lives in Georgetown, and has six children, four boys and two Howard and Clarence girls, to-wit: who reside in Dayton, and Mary and Georgetown, and
Mae, teachers. Mary teaches in Georgetown public schools, Mae teaches in township school. Wilfred and John Warren, young boys at home with their mother.
George P. Tyler, Jr., married Miss Judith Leggett June 23, 1887, and they have one son, George P., third. Both he and his son are practicing physicians of Ripley, Ohio.
Charles married Miss Lizzie Mann December 24, 1891, and resides at Blanchester, Ohio. They have three children in their family: Lolo, wife of Robert Stevens Stivers, Jr., of Ripley, Ohio, where he is connected with the Citizens' National Bank. His father is president and his uncle is cashier of the hank. Stanley and Edith are at home.
Hiram married Miss Nannie Moore, of Georgetown, Ohio. their residence being at Atlanta, Ga. They have four daughters, Beatrice, Gerene, Judith and Virginia.
Alvah married Miss Lou Inskeep, of Russellville, Ohio. They are the parents of two daughters, Clara May and Mary Alice.
The death of Mrs. Tyler from pneumonia, occurred December 29, 1891; She was a consistent member of the Methodist church and was greatly beloved by all who knew her.
Judge Tyler affiliates with the following named lodges: The Free and Accepted Masons , Highland Lodge, No. 38; Georgetown Chapter; Barren Council, Georgetown, Ohio;
Highland Commander, K. T. Hillsoboro, Ohio; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Georgetown, Ohio; and charter member of Ripley Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Ripley, Ohio; the Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias at Dayton, Ohio; charter member of Capital Council, No. 87, Royal Arcanum, of Columbus, Ohio; and a member of the J. C. McCoy Post, No. 1, Grand Army of the Republic, Columbus, Ohio.
For many years Judge Tyler has been one of the leading members of the Presbyterian church to which he has ever been most liberal in support In his younger days he took a very active part in all church affairs and for many years was an office holder.
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Judge Tyler is a typical business man, quiet, conservative and industrious, and as quick to grasp as to see an opportunity. He is gifted with the ability to comprehend large propositions without ignoring the inconspicuous. His life has been one of uprightness and justice, always conscientious in the discharge of his duties while in public office, and as a man and a citizen, he stands high in the estimation of the community. A man of affairs, he has wielded a wide influence, his opinions doing much to mold public thought and action.
EDMUND MARTIN.
The death of Edmund Martin at his home on the d from Pole pike in Union township, June 30, 1912, remove Brown county, Ohio, one of its most eminent and honorable citizens. For years he was associated with the agricultural an commecial interests of this locality and was one of the most noted and extensive dealers in fine horses in the Ohio most
The family from which he sprang was of the oldest in valley. Brown county, his grandfather, Elijah Martin, having erected the home in Union township, which is a substantial structure of brick. Elijah Martin was a native of Maryland and in 1804 went to Kentucky, settling at May sville, where he remained for two years, after which he located near Aberdeen, Brown county, Ohio. In 1812 he recruited the First Ohio Rifle company and was chosen as captain. After the war he returned to his home and carried on the business of general farming until his demise in August, 1855. His wife, Rebecca Boggs, was a native of Virginia and her death occurred in 1860. They were both prominently identified with the Methodist church for many years. Elijah Martin filled the office of Justice of the Peace for a period of twenty years.
The birth of Edmund Martin, of this mention, curred in Huntington township May 17, 1837, and he was a soc on of Ed- mund Martin, who was a horseman of considerable note.
The subject of this review, Edmund Martin, was a great lover of horses and was an authority of more than local prominence and his superior judgment was recognized generally by horsemen and others. In 1857 he received the indorsement of a number of State officials, including the Governor, recom-
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mending him to the British government as a competent judge and a man in every way honorable and responsible. In that year he shipped a carload of horses to England and later shipped another, making the trip with them and making very successful sales. For some fifty years Mr. Martin shipped many carloads of horses to the Boston and New York markets and probably handled more good draft horses than any other dealer shipping to eastern markets, at times shipping three and four carloads per week.
Mr. Martin owned some five hundred acres of land in Huntington and Union townships, which included the home which was built by his grandfather, Elijah Martin, and the home farm. This land is still owned by members of the family.
In the year of 1862 Mr. Martin was united in marriage to Catherine, daughter of Robert Stephenson, and they had eight children, of whom three and his wife are deceased. Their names follow : Minnie, Fannie, Edmund, Bernie and Maggie. Mary, Eva and Katie are deceased. Mrs. Martin died February 18, 1880, and was buried February 20th, the forty-ninth anniversary of her birth.
Mr. Martin was a staunch Republican and, although a busy man, always took an active interest in all affairs.
HON. JOHN SHAW.
Hon. John Shaw, deceased, figured prominently in the affairs of Clermont county for many years, and his enterprise and capabilities won for him an honored name. He was a farmer and stock raiser, being one of the first to introduce the Durham Short Horn cattle into the county, also making a specialty of well bred sheep and hogs. Mr. Shaw was a large land owner, having tracts of land in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, some of which is still in the family. Mr. Shaw was born in Ohio township, Clermont county, April 1, 181o, and died November 1, 1896, having spent his entire life in the county.
In political views, Mr. Shaw was an earnest Democrat, giving his support to that party throughout his active life. He served the county in the office of deputy county auditor and was a member of the constitutional convention, in 1873.
Hon. John Shaw was a son of John Shaw and a grandson of James Shaw, the latter being born in Belfast, Ireland, com-
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ing to America, alone, when he was fifteen years of age, about 1770 or 1771, he having been bound out. The family to whom the boy, James, was bound, settled in York county, Pennsylvania, and when the Revolutionary war broke out he enlisted in the army under Lafayette, serving throughout the war. James Shaw brought his wife and family, in 1795, to Limestone (now Maysville), Ky., but shortly after settled near Alexandria, Campbell county, Kentucky, where he secured and improved considerable wild land. After living to a good old age, James Shaw passed peacefully away, in 1825, leaving an untarnished record and an unspotted reputation.
John Shaw, son of James, was born in 1779. As a young man he served two terms, at different times, in the Ohio legislature. About 1808, John Shaw located in Monroe township, Clermont county, Ohio, where he secured a large tract of wild land, which he improved and resided on until his death, in 1847. He was of Scotch-Irish descent and was reared a strict Presbyterian, but became a believer in the Universalist doctrine. John Shaw served in the War of 1812, receiving an honorable discharge. He married Nancy Morin from Culpeper county, Virginia, who came by horseback to Kentucky with her father, the family settling in Campbell county. She and her husband reared six sons and four daughters to maturity, all of whom are married. James, the eldest son, went to Texas when a young man, and was a pioneer and active in the early political history of that State, and served in the Mexican war. The second, John, is the subject of this review. Robert and Joseph went to Missouri, the former being killed in the Civil war, he being a carrier of the mail and a Union man in belief. Jonathan served two terms as county commissioner in Clermont county, residing in Monroe township.
The Hon. John Shaw married Miss Ida Webb, who was born near Cincinnati, September 17, 1812, and died September 8, 1900. She was a daughter of General Clayton and Jane (Riggs) Webb, the latter a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier and a resident of New Jersey. Gen. Clayton Webb served in the War of 1812, and was a personal friend of William Henry Harrison. General Webb was one of the early settlers of Hamilton county, Ohio, and was a member of the early Ohio legislature. He owned a great deal of land about Newtown.
An unusually long life together was enjoyed by Mr. and Mrs. Shaw, they having been married sixty years, lacking three months. To their union were born five children :
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Nancy, who married Francis E. Bettle, of Ohio township.
Clayton W., who died a soldier of the Civil war, a member of Company M, Fifth Ohio cavalry.
James Fremont, who resides in Campbell county, Kentucky, aged sixty-five years. He married Miss Lula Reed, who died in 1912. They have five sons and two daughters.
John C., farmer and stockman of Monroe township, married, 1875, Miss Sallie Goble, a daughter of Stephen and Alice (Brown) Goble. They have had four children, three of whom are living.
Viola, who is the wife of Elwood Reed, of Detroit, Mich. They have two children living.
When Mr. Shaw was called to his final rest, Clermont county lost one of its most valued men, whose business success came to him through the utilization of opportunities and the recognition of the fact that the present, not the future, is the time to put forth one's best efforts and energies for the attainment of success. He was never remiss in his duties whether in office or out of it, and was an advocate of all progressive measures for the general good of the community, ever ready to give his aid to all worthy enterprises. His life was active and his actions manly and sincere.
REV. MATTHEW GARDNER.
The death of Rev. Matthew Gardner on October 10, 1873, removed from Southern Ohio a man whose life work was in the ministry of the Gospel and whose life was devoted to doing good—a sincere Christian gentleman whose memory is held dear not only in the hearts of his descendants, but by his legion of friends and their families.
The birth of Rev. Matthew Gardner occurred in Stephen-town, N. Y., December 5, 179o. His forefathers came from England to America and settled in Rhode Island about 1685 or 169o. Being devoted adherents of the principles of George Fox, and of the religious denomination of Friends, commonly called Quakers, a people not tolerated by the Puritans then settling in Massachusetts and Connecticut, they settled in Rhode Island, where all forms of religious worship and all varieties of doctrines were tolerated.
Rev. Gardner's father was born in Rhode Island September
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13, 1760; his second wife, nee Lucy Hawks, was born in Connecticut September 29, 1762. The father, when ten years of age, removed with the family to New York, locating near the Massachusetts State line in what is now Rensselaer county, and when about seventeen years of age went into the Revolutionary army. After independence was gained he returned home and settled on a farm of thirty acres of poor land, leasing the same, as was then the custom. He was a carpenter and supported his family mainly by work at his trade. There were ten children, of whom Rev. Matthew Gardner was the fourth.
When he was eight years of age the boy Matthew was hired out, but two years later, in 1800, the father sold his leasehold and the family started, September 1, 1800, for the northwestern territory of Ohio, having but one small wagon, with three horses, and other means correspondingly limited. They reached Pittsburgh, then a small village, by October 1, and then were joined by four other families, all flatboating down the Ohio river. Four weeks later they arrived at Limestone, now Maysville, Ky. The father traded two horses for one hundred acres of land on the Ohio side, now Brown county, landing two miles below the site of Ripley. The father and sons erected a cabin into which the family moved about January 1, 1801.
In 1809 Matthew Gardner left home and went to Cincinnati, where he hired on a flatboat going to New Orleans, reaching there in May. About the time of arrival in New Orleans he suffered a severe spell of fever and there during the illness became converted and was ever after a devout Christian. After a long, hard trip he reached home October 20, 1809, and began studying preparatory to entering the ministry. He was baptized in the West fork of Eagle creek by Elder Archibald Alexander in October, 181o. Religious meetings were frequently conducted by this Christian preacher at the Gardner home. The church where Rev. Gardner began preaching was organized by Elder Alexander in the fall of 1810 and was one of the first Christian churches in Southern Ohio. Rev. Gardner followed the carpenter's trade for some years. He received his first letter from the Kentucky Conference, of which he was a member, September 8, 1812.
On May 20, 1813, he was wedded to Miss Sally, daughter of Jeptha and Sally Beasley, and in July of the same year he enlisted as a soldier and went to Upper Sandusky for a short
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time, the victory of Commodore Perry rendering the services of his command unnecessary.
In 1813 Rev. Gardner purchased one hundred acres of land from his father-in-law and moved to the place January 1, 1814, where he resided for some sixty years. There were ten acres cleared and the remainder Rev. Gardner cleared. Thus he operated and improved his farm and also filled appointments and made trips as a Christian minister. He had a powerful, though pleasant, voice and was a pleasing speaker and singer ; was robust, standing six feet and one inch and weighing about two hundred pounds.
On March 2, 1818, Rev. Gardner was ordained according to order of the Kentucky Christian conference, and the following years organized several churches, the first being Union Church in the western part of Brown county, two miles from Higginsport, on the Ohio river, in 1818. This church soon numbered some two hundred members. Later he organized a church on the Big Indian creek in Clermont county, Ohio. In 182o he organized a Christian church at Bethel and formed a regular circuit in parts of Brown and Clermont counties, which took him about two weeks to get around. He was present and assisted in the organization of the Southern Ohio Christian Conference in October, 1820, the meeting of elders and messengers being held at the Christian church at the forks of Brush creek in Adams county. Rev. Gardner started, at his own expense, a church paper—the first in the then so-called West—and was editor of the paper, which was called "The Christian Union." The first number was issued in May, 1841 —a monthly in magazine form.
Rev. Matthew Gardner's wife died September 20, 1869. Her birth occurred in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, September 12, 1794. They lived in wedlock fifty-six years and four months. Rev. Gardner preached the Gospel for sixty-three years. The marriage of Rev. and Mrs. Gardner was blessed with eleven children, more extended mention of whom is made
in a sketch of Mr. John W. Gardner on another page of these volumes.
Personally, Rev. Matthew Gardner was a man of winning presence, impressing others with confidence, and pleasing those with whom he came in contact by his genial manner and genuine courtesy. His name is inscribed among those who have stood high in the affections of the people of Ohio.
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LIEUTENANT JOHN QUINCY A. PARK.
As long as youthful hearts throb with love for their country, that long will American boys wonder much about the brave days of '61 to '65. The exact story of one boy from Old Clermont who followed Grant to Appomattox should be worth a place in its history.
John Quincy A. Park, eldest son of John and Elizabeth Park, born in Williamsburg, December 21, 1843, was the boy who was to have that unique distinction. He had played his urchin days so that he loved a horse almost as much as is told of the great general, but he was still in the village school, with no larger thought than beating the drum for the village band. So, when the echoes from Fort Sumter rolled to the North, it was up to him to beat the large drum in Williamsburg and down to Batavia and back home, while older people looked after the smaller details of fixing enlistment papers and getting orders about things. When the roll was ready, he held his drum with one hand and signed his name with the other. As he came out of the crowd, girls badged the left lapel of his coat with red, white and blue ribbons to show that he was "One of the volunteers." And he felt very brave. But the next morning as he bade parents and sisters and other excited and exciting friends good-bye, and mounted the band wagon rolling away to camp, and looked down the hill toward home that might never be seen again, his eyes grew so full with tears that he could not see the drum he was wildly beating. Before starting, figured papers were pasted under his heels so that he could say he was over eighteen.
And so he went with the "Clermont Guards" as Company E in the Twenty-second Ohio, from April 23 to August 19, 1861; During that time, he drummed while General McClellan won his first laurels in West Virginia. While he was learning to grumble like a soldier that had had enough, a letter came stating that he was wanted as a drummer in the Twenty- seventh Regimental Band. Straightway war was not so ter-. rible, and he just stopped to say so to the folks at home, as he hurried on to overtake his band at St. Louis, and to notice that the East Fork seemed to flow toward the Mississippi. He again mustered in as a musician, on September 4, 1861, and helped swell the din of Fremont's campaign in Missouri, and then Hunter's, and then Pope's New Madrid Expedition. Then he was transferred to beat the long roll—too long—for Hal-
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leck's "Siege of Corinth." But the band was discharged on August 17, 1862. Having grown taller and tired of drumming, he re-enlisted as a private in Captain William H. Ulrey's Company, M of the Second Ohio cavalry. Sometime having passed in recruiting, he was mustered in for another three years on November 6, 1862, and soon made a sergeant. The regiment took the field in an incessant chase after the wily John Morgan, that passed into the movement known as "Morgan's Raid Through Indiana and Ohio." That raid was halted by the all night ride of a body that included Sergeant Park's syuad. That body appeared in a charge down the river hills on Morgan's flank and clinched his disastrous defeat at Buffington Island.
Then, for four months more, the Second Ohio cavalry was in constant conflict with terrible guerrilla bands that brought half rations and dismay to Rosecrans at Chattanooga, and Burnsides at Knoxville, until Grant planned the victories of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. Next followed the transfer of Grant to the East, when he took Sheridan, and Custer, who chose the Second Ohio cavalry for part of his command. And then followed a year of the most brilliant cavalry strategy in the story of wars. It was the strategy in which Custer, "The Glorious Boy," under the eye of Sheridan, led his troopers around Richmond and about the flanks of Lee's resolute battalions, and up and along the Shenandoah. Ah, the bravery of those days when they seldom finished breakfast before the fight began. "What makes your face so white, Captain?" said young Park to Ulrey, as their line stood waiting for the expected order to charge. "The same thing that is making your boots rattle in the stirrups," said Ulrey with a glance at the feet of the nervous youth. Before the campaign was begun, the first lieutenant yuit, and before the campaign was half done, Captain Ulrey and Second Lieutenant Lough died from wounds taken in awful battles; and soon, two-thirds of the company could march and fight no more. Thirty years after he was asked : "Where were you when Lee surrendered?" "I was there," he answered. "Yes, but where do you mean by there?" "Why, right there, at McLean's House. My company formed the line on one side where General Lee and his officers rode by ; and where General Grant on his black horse came wearing a private's overcoat."
A search of the reports and map showed that he was there, and more besides. He had been in seventy odd named engage-
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ments with fatal casualties, and had had seven horses shot under him. And he got there after dark the night before, in the headlong chase for the crossing of the Appomattox. His company on the extreme southwest of all rode against and filed to the right, while he passed to the left and fell under his thrice mortally wounded horse in front of the log blacksmith shop that marked the end of Lee's magnificent marchings. Drenched with the blood of the dying horse whose struggles
seemed to be crushing the leg beneath, Park lay in the extreme southern point not of the last ditch, but of the last road over which Lee could not prolong his southward retreat. Presently, Park freed his leg and found his company going into camp nearby, with the supposition that he had been killed. As the night wore on, the rest of Custer's cavalry and Sheridan's corps came up and were massed across the road. Lee's weary men, straining for the same point, came up in the night and the lines became so entangled that many found themselves prisoners in the morning before the actual surrender. But for the long discipline of the men, the tumult would have exceeded the imagination of a Milton. A dramatic interest is found in the going of the great generals into their conference amid the presented arms of a guard line formed by a company partly from Grant's native Clermont and paraded by the lithe young sergeant, whose commission, due the August before, was still in waiting, because of the vast haste and waste of the war. Sergeant Park never asked for promotion, and because of his long absence and the death of his officers without recommending his service, the matter was not pressed at home. At last, because of his record and through the generals in the field, he was promoted, June 28, 1865, to be second lieutenant of Company A of his regiment, and then commissioned to be first lieutenant. The Second Ohio cavalry was selected for duty pending the result of the French invasion of Mexico, and he was not discharged until September II, 1865.
After the war, Lieutenant Park went to Kansas, whence he came back, and on May 17, 1875, married Clara, only daughter of David and Margaret (Smith) McClung, of Williamsburg. Then for several years, he lived in Phillip county, Kansas. They had three children. Flora, the oldest, died in her ngt. ianrteh year, at Missouri Valley, Iowa. After that they lived in Lincoln, Neb., and then in Des Moines, where Clara died March 3, 1903, leaving a son, William A., and a daughter, Mar-
William A. and Nora Park have recently removed
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from Des Moines, to De Kalb, Ill., where he is employed by the American Steel & Wire Company. Margaret married Hale C. Davis, of Jamestown, N. D., where they are living and have one daughter, named Cleda. John Quincy A. Park's address for several years has been with the American Steel & Wire Company of Chicago.
JOHN W. GARDNER.
Mr. John W. Gardner, who is successfully engaged in the pursuits of agriculture in Brown county, Ohio, owns and operates (in common with his children now living at home), his well cultivated farm of one hundred and thirty acres in the northeast part of Union township. Mr. Gardner was born on this farm, April 17, 1836, and is a son of Rev. Matthew, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in these volumes.
Rev. Matthew and Sally (Beasley) Gardner were the parents of eleven children, namely :
Barton Beasley, who was born March 27, 1814, was a farmer and extensive tobacco dealer. He married Susannah Elliott October 20, 1836.
Sallie Ann, who was born December 5, 1815, married Michael Shinkle, December 1, 1836. Mr. Shinkle was a farmer by occupation and both he and his wife are deceased.
George Washington, born January 30, 1818, was by occupation a farmer and tobacco dealer. He married Eliza Slack December 30, 1841. He also is now deceased.
Jeptha Monroe, who was born April 10, 1820, followed the occupation of general farming and tobacco growing. He married Margaret Dalton December 9, 1842, and is deceased.
Lucy Eliza, born March 28, 1823, married William J. Lindsey on May 2, 1841; They were farmers and are deceased.
Louisa Maria, born September 15, 1825, became the wife of Abner De Vore, a farmer, on March 5, 1846. She died December 6, 186o.
Julia Elmira, born April 7, 1828, was the wife of Samuel Hopkins, a farmer and trader. Her marriage took place May 17, 1848.
James Alexander, born November 13, 183o, died July 24. 1851.
Mary Jane, who was born July 25, 1833, married George
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W. Kindell January 1, 1861; She resides at Manchester, Ohio, and is past eighty years of age.
John Wickliffe, our subject.
Elnathan Matthew, who was born September 12, 1839, was a farmer and also engaged in the livery business in Ripley, OrheMisoer.n. t home farm all his life thus far. He received a good
John W. Gardner was reared and has resided on his pcommon school education and under his father's instruction became a practical and successful farmer. During the past years Mr. Gardner gave a considerable attention to the Equity tobacco business, having now a small interest in a tobacco manufacturing plant at Covington, Ky.
Mr. Gardner was united in marriage on April 27, 1857, to Miss Nancy Jane Boggs, who was born in Lewis county, Kentucky, December 23, 1840. She is a daughter of William and Lorinda (Bilew) Boggs, the former of whom was killed in a mill explosion-the Buckeye Mill-about 1845. He left three children : Mrs. Gardner ; Ruth Ann (Coburn), deceased ; and Riley, who resides in Union township, Brown county, and is a farmer.
The mother, Mrs. Boggs, married a second time, Mr. Richard Weeks, and they were the parents of six children, of which all but one are living and are scattered throughout the country.
Mr. and Mrs. Gardner are the parents of the following named children :
Florence Bell, born February 18, 1858, married Edgar L. Martin, who went west some years ago. She died November 29, 1885, leaving one daughter, Pearl D., who died at the age of five years.
Charles Walter, born August 27, 1859, resides at Aberdeen, Ohio, having a farm near there. He married Alice Gray and they have two sons, Walter Gray and Eugene Myron.
Louis Oscar, born October 18, 1860, is a farmer and trader residing in Huntington township. He married Janett Buchanan and they have three sons: Stacy Earl, undertaker and furniture dealer, of Ripley, Ohio ; Thomas and Charles Hugo. The third child, Frank Sherman, died in childhood.
Miss Melinda Alice, born September 5, 1862, is at home.
Frank Sherman, born September 3o, 1864, died August 31, 1891.
George Washington, born September 2, 1866, resides at
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Bloomingburg, Ohio, where he is engaged in the hay and straw business. He married first, Elizabeth Smith, who was born in England, in 1863, by whom he had two children : Wilbert Samuel and Viola Florence. His first wife, Elizabeth (Smith) Gardner, died March 21, 1930, after which he married Emma J. Eyler.
William Mattthew, born September 18, 1868, is a farmer in Byrd township, near Decatur, Ohio. He married Agnes Stephenson.
Stacy Emmerson, born September 11, 1870, is at home. Miss Hattie May, born April 24, 1872, at home.
Frederick Eugene, born March 21, 1874, died January 20, 1907.
In politics, Mr. Gardner was for many years a Republican, but in recent years has voted the Independent ticket. He has served twice as real estate assessor of Union township, and was once nominated by the Peoplels party as representative from Brown county to the State legislature.
HUGH ELLIS TWEED.
Mr. Hugh Ellis Tweed was born on the farm where he now resides, in Union township, November II, 1868, and is a son of Marion and Miriam (Day) Tweed. The mother was reared near Georgetown, Ohio, and is still residing on the farm with her son, at the ripe age of seventy-two years. She is a daughter of Ellis and Miriam (Mann) Day, of an early Brown county family. The father, Marion Tweed, was born in Union township, in 1836, and was a resident of that community until his death, which occurred in March, 1901; A farmer by occupation he was successful along this line of endeavor. He served his country during the Civil war as a corporal in the One Hundred and Seventy-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. Marion Tweed was a son of John Tweed, who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1791, and who
died in 1859.
John Tweed, like the other members of the family, was a farmer and owned large tracts of western land, beside his home farm. He, too, gave faithful service to the defense of his country, in her time of need, having served thirteen months as ensign in Captain Seaton's company during the War of
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1812. He was a son of Archibald Tweed, who in 1798 set- tled on a part of the farm which is now occupied by his great grandson, the subject of this sketch. Archibald was a son of Robert Tweed, and came to Brown county from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, which was his birthplace. His death occurred on his farm in Union township. That these men and their families were pioneer residents goes without mention, the many incidents of savage encounter and early privation remaining unto the present day as interesting family history.
The subject of this sketch owns and controls three hundred and thirty acres of improved and highly cultivated land, which is well devoted to stock raising and general farming, including corn, wheat, tobacco and the other crops of the section. Located near the birthplace of the famous burley variety of tobacco much of his land is successfully devoted to the production of same, the yearly returns from the tobacco crop often amounting to more per acre than the value of land on which it was grown. Mr. Tweed's farms are managed by careful business methods, the appearance of same revealing at once the personality of the manager. Buildings and fences are well kept, employes are comfortably provided for, the whole suggesting a situation of systematic comfort.
Mr. Tweed completed his education at the agricultural college of the Ohio State University. While in college he enjoyed the highest honor within the gift of his class of more than one hundred, this fact, according to his own statement, being one of the most pleasant experiences of his entire life. It was said of him by the dean of the institution that "I regard him as a man of very unusual ability," and that while in college "he was a leader and so regarded by both students and faculty," also that "he is already known throughout the State by his writings for the agricultural press." Since fourteen years of age he has been a contributor to the agricultural literature of the country, and at the present time he is regularly employed by two of the leading farm journals. His contributions are generally brief and always to the point and are eagerly sought by publishers. Diverging from his chosen subject he occasionally writes upon other themes, one of these articles, published in an Eastern magazine, carrying off the leading honor in a hotly contested prize offering.
Although yet a young man, the subject several years ago Completed a successful business experience as a seedsman. His carefully prepared and unique catalogues, punctual ser-
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vice, square methods and good commodities made for him a trade consisting of thousands of customers. It was soon found, however, that this business and the farm were too much for one man to attend without overwork, and being a child of the soil the same soon found him engaged in his original vocation. He has said that had he decided to make the mere accumulation of money his life work he would have chosen the seed business instead of the farm. Retaining some attachment to the seed business the growth of seed corn was continued as a specialty and with characteristic success thousands of bushels of the same have been sold, the only limit in sales
being that of production.
Mr. Tweed is an original thinker, thoroughly conversant with current agricultural matters, and methods, it being said of him by a competent authority that a visit to his farm and home will reveal more original up-to-date information than can be found in a day's journey. It has also been said of him that an hour's talk on farm subjects may be worth many dollars to the hearer, and for this, as well as other reasons, he has been repeatedly invited to do lecture work. Recognizing his judgment and tact, he has several times been called to the State and National capitals when important agricultural matters were under consideration. Recently, when the subjects of Canadian reciprocity was before Congress he was called to Washington, where he and many other unsuccessfully opposed the measure.
Mr. Tweed's home life is pleasant in the extreme. A home lover from the beginning he erected a comfortable house in the midst of his lands, and brought thereto Miss Ida Louella Cahall, the marriage ceremony taking place November 12, 1899. Miss Cahall had an extended college experience, and was for yuite a while connected with the educational functions of the county. She was reared in Pleasant township and is a daughter of A. P. and Emma (Daugherty) Cahall, they being members of old Brown county families. Mr. and Mrs. Tweed have two daughters, Amber Lois and Ida Esther, aged six and three years, respectively. Mrs. Tweed is a member of the New Light church, and Mr. Tweed has been from time to time associated with the same. For ten years he was superintendent of his local Sunday school, during which time the school more than doubled in enrollment and was considered the model organization of that kind in the whole community. In religious belief Mr. Tweed is liberal. He regards the con-
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science as the only safe guard and has little concern as to the estimate or opinion of his fellowmen. Creeds and denominations appeal but little to him, and he differs somewhat from many others in that he believes some of the more common sins, which are held aloft, are no worse than others, which pass practically unobserved. Mr. Tweed and family have spent considerable time in the State of Florida, enjoying the benefits of the delightful winter climate, and at present he is arranging to erect a home there, to which to repair every winter. The subject is one of the pioneer automobilists of his section, and is never happier than when out with his family en- joying the varied scenes, which only the motor car can make possible.
Being of a cheerful disposition, with a keen appreciation of humorous, the subject is a very companionable personage to all who are associated with him, and especially to the children, who never tire of his quaint, but always perfectly clean humor. He detests the man with the vulgar tale, as well as the one who talks much and says little. Although a busy man he always hears attentively the appeal of those who approach him. He was heard to humorously remark that he had heard more appeals from insurance men than any man in the community, and yet never invested a dollar in the same. His success comes first from knowing how, and then in doing things as they come to him thus often accomplishing more in a single day than many others accomplish in a week.
HON. JOHN F. GAMES.
Hon. John F. Games, Representative of Brown county to the Ohio Legislature in 1857 and 1858, was a man widely and favorably known in this section of the State as a man of public affairs, a teacher and a farmer of Huntington township, Brown county, Ohio, where his birth occurred March 11, 1810, whose death took place October 1, 1888. He was a son of John Wood and Sarah (Fryer) Games, both natives of Jef- ferson county Virginia, who came overland with a team and wagon to Brown county in 1807, accompanied by Mr. Gilbert, a brother-in-law.
John Wood Games was a gallant soldier in the War of 1812 and was in the famous lake expedition. The death of
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Mrs. Games occurred in 1840, having been the mother of six children, all of whom are deceased. Mr. Games formed a second union with Sarah Haynes, by whom he had two children. One died in infancy and the other, Josephine, became the wife of Mr. Wilson, of Huntington township. Mr. J. W. Games was a consistent member of the Methodist church and died in the faith in 1856, at the age of seventy years.
John F. Games received a good practical education in the subscription schools of Brown county and later taught irregularly for some ten years with great success.
In the year of 1831 Mr. Games was united in marriage to Mary A., daughter of Absalom Gardner, of Highland county, Ohio, by whom he had three children : Evaline, deceased ; William B., of Ripley ; and Absalom, deceased. Mrs. Games passed from this life in 1836, aged twenty-five years.
For his second wife, Mr. Games chose Amanda, daughter of D. W. Early, and to them were born eleven children, six of whom are yet living: Sarah E., wife of William G. Housh, of Moscow, Clermont county, Ohio ; David Watson, who married first, Sarah J. Case, deceased, and second, Cora Atherton, and they reside in Huntington township ; Hon. John W., who married Cerelda Porter, was formerly Representative from Miami county to the Kansas Legislature and served as treasurer of Douglas county, Kansas, for five years, being succeeded by his son. Another son, John I. Games, is postoffice inspector for Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana and resides at Lexington, Ky.; Euphemia A. married Samuel Porter and she died in Kansas, Mr. Porter being president of a bank at Waverly, Coffey county, Kansas ; Martha F., Johnson Martin, now deceased, and she resides in Cincinnati, where her son, John Q. Martin, is engaged in the practice of law ; Maria Power, wife of Dr. William H. Evans, a sketch of whom will be found on another page ; Andrew E., who married Mary Cooper, is now postmaster at Aberdeen, Ohio. Those deceased are : Cordelia C., Mary Ellen, Charles F. and Gideon Gilbert. The mother of these children was born March 3o, 1817, and passed to her eternal reward August 2, 1893.
Hon. John F. Games was a very successful and prosperous farmer and owned a finely improved farm of three hundred acres in Huntington township. He was scrupulously just in all his dealings and was ever ready to assist in all worthy enterprises. He served in the various township offices and as justice of the peace for a number of years.
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Hon. Games embraced the belief of the Methodist church and was a consistent and prominent member of the Ebenezer Methodist Church.
JOSEPH WOODMANSEE.
Joseph Woodmansee is one of the native sons of Clermont county who has won success there and always lived near his birthplace. He was born about a mile from Rural, Clermont county in 1847, and was the youngest son of Joseph and Sarah (Bonsor) Woodmansee, and his grandparents were very early settlers in Clermont county. Joseph Woodmansee, Sr., was born in Indiana, where his father lived in his earlier years, but accompanied his parents to Clermont county in boyhood and became a farmer. By his first wife, a Miss Smith, he had fbur children, all now deceased, and by his second marriage he had five children, of whom the only one surviving is the subject of this sketch. The second wife was born in Pennsylvania, in 1808, and died in 186o. The father died in May before the birth of his son, Joseph. A half- brother, James Woodmansee, served in the Civil war from Iowa. An early ancestor of the family, Robert Woodmansee, came from France in early times, locating at Boston, where he taught the first school that was open to the public.
Mr. Woodmansee was educated at Parker's School, near New Richmond, and has always been a great reader. He was left motherless at the age of eleven or twelve years, so has made his own way in the world to a large extent. In 1868 he was united in marriage with Miss Martha Iler, born at Neville, Ohio, in 1846, daughter of Jacob and Mary Iler. Mr. Iler was born in New Jersey and came to Clermont county at an early date. He there conducted an old fashioned tannery for many
years. The parents were Methodists. Mrs. Woodmansee died June 13, 1907.
For ten years after marriage Mr. Woodmansee carried on farming near Rural, then he built an elevator and became a coal merchant at Rural, remaining in this business for twenty- nine years. He became known for his fair dealing in business. He then retired from this business, which he rented to his son- in-law, Arthur Shinkle, and the latter carries on the enterprise in the same manner as it former proprietor. Mr. Shinkle is a man of enterprise, and has kept up the trade Mr. Woodmansee
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had worked up. Mr. Woodmansee lived retired for two years, but did not feel satisfied to be so inactive, after his many years of hard work, and has now engaged in selling monuments throughout the country, as a representative of the Manchester Granite & Marble Works. He is well known and has been successful in this line of work. He is well considered as an up-right and progressive citizen, and is much interested in the affairs of his community. He is a Democrat in politics.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodmansee had six daughters, all born near Rural, namely: Maude, married Lula Broadwell, of Felicity, a sketch of whom appears in this volume ; Callis, taught school one year, married Arthur Shinkle, and they live at Rural; Annice, at home; Margaret, taught four years ; Grace, has taught school for five years; Hazel, married William Houghton, and has two children—Wayne and Helen. have two children— Mr. and Mrs. Shinkle Octavia and Alice. Mr. Woodmansee lives in one of the finest homes in Rural. William Hendrickson, a brother-in-law of Mr. Woodmansee, served in the Civil war. Mr. Woodmansee is highly respected as an intelligent and industrious man in business circles and wherever known.
BYRON WILLIAMS.
A portrait and sketch of John Williams, of Williamsburg, Ohio, is to be found in Rockey and Bancroft’s History of Clermont county, but as that work has been largely taken away
from the county, some review of that worthy pioneer is proper.
The traditions of his ancestry cross the ocean to Cromwellian times in Wales; whence, after the Restoration of the Stuarts to the English throne, in 1668, and the ensuing persecutions of the "Old Ironsides," four brothers of the Williams name, with a faith "In a State without a King and a Church without a Bishop," sought physical and religious freedom in America. For, they were classed as "Nonconformists" and "Malcontents," whose bodies were restrained to compensate for the independence of their souls. One of these brothers went to North Carolina. With a faith then persecuted in Massachusetts Colony, the other three accepted the scant toleration of a forest obscurity back from Long Island Sound.
One of that three, Matthew Williams, a Welsh Baptist
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Preacher, or "Gospeler," as the Cavaliers scornfully called them, among few or many children, had Thomas, who was the father of Timothy, each of whom was also elected by their "Associations" to preach the Gospel. Matthew lived to be one hundred and three, Thomas, one hundred and two, and Timothy nearly one hundred years old. When very old and when the favor seemed to imply a cruel death to all, Thomas was permitted by the Indians to go from a captured block house with the women and children whom he guided to safety. The family register brought to Ohio begins with Timothy and Hester Williams, whose children were Jonas, Ruth, Peter, Robert, Mary, Isaac, Lydia, Benjamin and Thomas. Jonas was born December 26, 1751, and, in boyhood, was captured by the Indians, who bound his ankles so tightly with thongs that his feet froze while the captors slept. Yet, he managed to escape, and, wrapping his feet with his clothing, got back to his friends ; but, when healed, in appearance and effect, he was club-footed for life, while otherwise strong and very active. Because of lameness he became a currier in New York City, and then a miller, and, to fill in the waiting hours while grinding, a shoe maker. He too was chosen to preach the saving ordinance of immersion, the futility of infant baptism, the virtue of close communion, and to practice the austere simplicity that had made Cromwell's "Ironsides" the founders of modern civil and religious liberty. Although his descendant writing these lines is a careless Gallio concerning much ancestral doctrine, he is not forgetful of the fadeless glory of such political service for humanity.
Jonas Williams married Eleanor Ward, who was born at or near New York, November 11, 1748, and was the youngest of the five children of Timothy Ward, whose other children were Phoebe, Zebina, Sarah and Susannah. Rebelling through life against his crippled feet Jonas and Eleanor went from the jersey side of New York to be a part of the Wyoming Enterprise, to which he was probably persuaded by his Connecticut relatives. He built and operated one of the several mills in the valley and there, on May 23, 1776, their first child, Zebina, was born. The second child, Robert, was born June 19, 1778. Two weeks later, while at dinner, a horseman rode by crying, "The Indians are coming." Unable to reach the fort and be a soldier, Jonas ordered his brother, Isaac, then seventeen, to yoke the oxen and haul their boat below the dam, while he got the mother and babes with a bed and a sack of flour and bacon
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aboard to row away and hide under the willow covered' banks. A neighboring woman on a visit there rode hastily away for her own home, but was quickly shot and scalped. After the band had hamstrung the animals, burned the buildings and hurried on, Isaac ventured forth and found that the woman had been stunned by a bullet which glanced from her metal comb, so that through his timely help she was restored to a mutilated life. Young Isaac went into the Revolutionary army, was captured and died in a British prison in New York. After their ruin at Wyoming, the family went to Orange county, New York. where Jonas, Jr., and Isaac, Jr., were born. Having gained a little, Jonas again went to the frontier in that direction in Cayuga county, New York, and built and ran a mill by Lake Cayuga, where is now the town of Genoa.
On January 28, 1798, Zebina Williams, who became an expert wheel and mill builder, married Mary Cooley, who was born September 29, 1781, and joined his father at Genoa, where his oldest child was born, August 24, 1800, and named John Cooley Williams. Mary Cooley was a daughter of John Cooley, who lived in Lower Salem, West Chester county, New York, which is now a part of New York City. He was one of the notable Cooley family, of Connecticut, which furnished more than a score of the name for the Revolutionary army. John Cooley, of Lower Salem, was commissioned as adjutant of the Third New York, often called "The Manor Regiment," under Col. Pierre Van Cortlandt, and, besides much other duty, Adjutant Cooley served as such in the decisive charge at Saratoga, that brought about Burgoyne's surrender. The other children of Zebina and Mary Williams, born in Cayuga county, were Ambrose, Ezra, Warren and Phoebe. In 1810 Zebina Williams, in partnership with John Perin. came down the Alleghany and Ohio, to Columbia. After some residence at Red Bank, where his son, Charles, was born, November 17, 1812, he came two years later for a partnership in milling with Samuel Perin, but living where, in 1819, he built the second brick house in Stonelick township, which is yet a substantial home one mile west of Stonelick creek, on the pike to Milford.
About 1815 Jonas Williams came to Clermont with the rest of his family, but soon went to Indiana, where he was the first settler on and gave his name to the principal branch of White Water river ; and there and about Connersville, his name and line are worthily continued. As soon as possible, Robert
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Williams was among the first in Iowa as a pioneer of Louisa county ; and the descendants of other branches have gone beyond the Pacific coast. Through more than two centuries, this family has been on the front edge of pioneer enterprise with the reputation of honorable, useful, capable and practical people, who have a goodly record of success as farmers, lawyers, judges, writers, teachers and business men.
The younger children of Zebina and Mary Williams and born in the home on the East Fork were Ann, Vesta, Ira and George. About 1827 Zebina Williams sought relief from the plague of malaria by moving to the northern hills of Stonelick, yet he died of an acute fever, August 31, 1845, while his father lived to December 7, 1845, and Mary Cooley lived till John Cooley lived till April 280, 1852.
John Cooley Williams had such early reputation that he was sent before he was twenty "down the Mississippi" as supercargo of a boat load of valuable produce. Such a trip occupied the boating season of a year, and he made nine such trips, mostly for Samuel Perin, the commercial master of Clermont. During those trips, John Williams handled the produce and money that largely constituted the commercial life of northern and central Clermont from 1820 to 1830. In that business, his duty was not only clerical, but he was often required to act as a principal in large transactions, where an error was a failure. Amid the good opinion afterwards accorded, little was valued more than the high respect of the keen old master for his young supercargo. Because of impaired health that boded a decline, he left the "river trade with a reputation for fine judgment and fair dealing that was never tarnished." Yet, his physique was fine and he excelled in
wrestling and other pioneer sports and especially so in one. Standing exactly six feet tall clear of all, and weighing less than a score short of two hundred pounds, he gave the unique performance of all such entertainment, by standing erect between two men holding a taut cord so that he could move his head freely without touching the cord. Then taking one step back, with a single springy effort, he could and did jump over the cord and, rising erect, stand a moment and then lump back over the cord without any other apparent effort. The feat has rarely been equalled in the story of athletics. He passed the grades of militia preferment to the rank of colonel, but he eschewed titles and rarely used his middle name.
On November 14, 1830, he married Rachel Copeland Glancy,
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who was born January 6, 1813, and was the eldest of the ten children of John and Elizabeth Shields Glancy. Elizabeth Shields was born in Maryland, November 12, 1794, and was the youngest of the ten children of Thomas and Elizabeth Clark Shields, who came to Columbia in the spring of 1795, and to northern Clermont two years later. John Glancy, born November 30, 1786, was the second child of Jesse and Rachel Copeland Glancy, who came to Williamsburg, December 23, 24, 1804, from York county, Pennsylvania. Jesse Glancy was the son, some say grandson, of a Scotch-Irish immigrant, who came with cash in a little trunk still preserved, that enabled him to leave a considerable estate. The lining of that trunk is printed with the date 1726. Jesse Glancy was born in 1756, and died September 1, 1831; His gravestone declares that he was a patriot soldier, and tradition affirms that he was in the battles of Brandywine, Monmouth and Yorktown. Rachel Copeland Glancy, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, died January 3, 1829. in her seventieth year. Tradition traces her line through a Quaker branch of the family of William Copeland, who married Mary, the second daughter of John and Ruth Alden Bass, and Ruth Alden was the third daughter of John and Priscilla Mullins Alden, of the Mayflower fame. After a life marked with strong mentality, John Glancy died December 29, 1874, in possession of much of the large tract midway between Owensville and Goshen, that his father had taken seventy years before.
John and Rachel Williams were builders of homes each with larger provision for convenience. After the rollicking, adventurous, and often perilous life of those pioneer times in the river trade, he gladly enjoyed the yuiet of buying, improving, and selling real estate during the expansive period of the region. That business was followed through forty years without a losing deal. He was a popular teacher until occupied with larger affairs. In 1846 they left the lower Stonelick to improve a purchase on the Wooster Pike just east of Goshen that resulted in four sets of farm homes of 'more than usual comfort. From there they came in October, 1859, to near Williamsburg, where in 1862-3 they completed the "Williams Homestead," which was most happily enjoyed till his death, March 21, 1876. Memory delights to recall the generous charity of his happy, successful life that, despite the trial of river associations, was never marred by a profane word, a personal brawl or a drunken hour. He was a notable Free Mason, and
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she was made a sister of the Eastern Star when that order was first started, and then for a generation forbidden. Although noted as one not long to stay, Rachel Williams lived on with her son in the homestead with a sprightly step and fine memory until July 19, 1904, when, because of a fall, not thought serious at first, she was taken to her room, where the bright, alert, efficient and beauty loving spirit slowly declined until her life of ninety-six years, six months and sixteen days closed, July 22, 1909. Three of their five children died early. Their daughter, sketched and pictured in Rockey and Bancroft's History of Clermont as Mrs. Louisa W. Bishop, of Batavia, was born September 25, 1832, and died in her Batavia home, February 21, 1908, with a spirit that was calmly ready.
Byron Williams, the third and only grown son of John and Rachel Williams, was born April 22, 1843, at their home then on the north bank, about three-fourths of a mile from the mouth of Stonelick creek. In March, 1846, the family moved to the early home in Goshen, and in the fall of 1847 the brick house was finished and occupied, about one mile from Goshen, in the fork of the Blanchester road from the Wooster Pike. That house was the home of the family for twelve years, during which a common school was attended one mile farther east on the Wooster Pike, where there was no lack of ambition in the instruction offered if not taken. In the fall of 1853 algebra was commenced. Olmstead's Natural Philosophy was added, and then Burritt's Geography of the Heavens was undertaken in 1854. Meanwhile, Greene's Analysis and Structure of the English Language was a continuous exercise. Owing to the promotion of one of the class to the position of teacher, the same text books were continued another year. During the next year the course was reviewed for the benefit of another teacher. During the intervals in the scholastic recreations of those four years, the spelling and definitions of the first fourth of Worcester's Academic Dictionary were literally learned and conned by rote to be cast into the teacher's teeth. In 1857,
Cutter's Anatomy, Mitchell's Ancient Geography, Classical In 1858 the four weeks' session of the teachers' institute in Batavia was a large experience. During the school season of 1858-9 Dictionary and Lincoln's Botany, all unabridged, were taken. a study of chess was substituted for mathematics. After that a summer term in George H. Hill's Select School, at Owensville, for geometry and surveying, was easy. Such was the course in one of the country district schools in Clermont “before the war.”