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400 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES HIRAM U. MOORE. Hiram U. Moore, of Batavia, is a descendant of the fifth generation from Andrew Moore, who on August 3, 1723, landed at New Castle, Del., the first of his family to migrate to America. Andrew was born in June, 1688, in County Antrim, Ireland, the son of James and grandson of John Moore, who emigrated from near Glasgow, Scotland, to Ireland, in 1612. The father of H. U. Moore, James Canby Moore, was born April 19, 1793, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was the son of Dr. James and Ann (Starr) Moore. Dr. James was the son of Andrew, the original immigrant to America, and Margaret (Miller) Moore. On January 3, 182o, James Canby Moore was married at St. Clairsville, Ohio, to Lucinda, daughter of John and Nancy (Nuswanger) Hines, of that place. He had removed with his parents to Belmont county, Ohio, of which county he was surveyor twenty-two years. In 1840 he moved to Clermont county, Ohio, of which county he was surveyor nine years. He owned one of the finest farms in Clermont, and for twenty-four years he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was an active member of the Brotherhood of Free Masons. After a life of service as an able officer, devoted husband, and kind father, a man highly respected and honored by those who knew him, he died, October 4, 1866. Lucinda Hines was born September 28, 1800, in Wellsburg, Va., and died at the advanced age of ninety-four years. She was a woman of rare traits of character and for over thirty years was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Her parents were farmers, residents of Belmont county, Ohio. James C. and wife were the parents of twelve children, of which H. U. is the only one living. The names of their children follow : Jane Ann died at seventeen, from an accident. John, a physician, who practiced at Moscow, and died from cholera in 1848, at the age of forty years. James E., for years a merchant at Moscow, but later a farmer in Franklin township, who died at the age of eighty-four. Dr. A. C., who practiced many years in Clermont county, later going to Wyoming, Hamilton county, where he died at the age of eighty-four years. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 401 Lysander R., a farmer of Clermont county, died at seventy- four years of age. The next three children died from scarlet fever while still quite young. Benjamin H., who was a blacksmith in Hamilton county, Ohio, died at the age of sixty from typhoid fever. Lucinda C., married Louis Nash, a farmer, who resided near Amelia. She died at the age of seventy-two years. Hiram Ulysses, our subject, aged seventy-four years, a resident of Batavia. Dr. Eugene L., who practiced at Amelia, Ohio, and died at the age of sixty-five. His daughter, the late Mrs. Nellie Burrelle, was a brilliant literary woman, being on the staff of the "New York World," later president of the Clipping Bureau of New York, author of the famous Dewey Album. She died in December, 1911. Jane Ann Josephine, married Lafayette Nash, and died at sixty-five years of age. Mr. H. U. Moore was born March 22, 1838, at St. Clairsville, Ohio. When four years of age he, with his parents, removed to Monroe township, Clermont county, Ohio. When eighteen years of age he started to learn the carriage makerls trade. After three years he located at Cincinnati, and spent five years more as a journeyman. In 1866 he moved to Batavia and went into partnership with W. B. C. Stirling in carriage manufacturing and the undertaking business. Later they added agricultural implements to their large stock, employing from fifteen to twenty men. The partnership existed for thirty- eight years. October 5, 1870, our subject was married to Eliza C., daughter of William H. and Nancy ( Pompelly) Banister. She was born February 21, 1849. Her parents were early pioneers of Clermont county, coming from Maine. Her father was a fine musician and teacher of music. Mrs. Moore died August 7, 1911. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Moore : Dr. H. Stirling Moore, a dentist with offices in Batavia, Ohio, was married to Miss Stella Moorman, of Washington Court House, Ohio, and has one son, William S., aged eleven years. Nancy L., wife of William E. Smith, district passenger agent of the Northern Pacific railroad, who is located at Indianapolis. They have an infant daughter, Lida Moore. 402 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES Carrie Dorsey, wife of Fayette C. Dorsey, residing at Louisville, Ky., where Mr. Dorsey is with the Southern National Bank. Of their three children two sons are still living-Hiram Stirling, aged six years, and Fayette C., aged two. Mr. and Mrs. Moore were both members of the 'Presbyterian church. Politically, he is a Democrat. For the past twenty-five years he has been a member of the Masonic order, and has filled the various offices of that organization. On the 23d day of February, 1907, Mr. W. B. C. Stirling died, since which time, and up to the date of his death, on February 11, 1913, Mr. H. U. Moore carried on the undertaking business in Batavia, and his establishment was known as one of the very best in Southern Ohio. Mr. Moore has ministered in times of trouble to practically every home in a radius of several miles around Batavia, and was universally beloved by the people. He has been succeeded in his business by his son, H. Stirling Moore, an experienced undertaker. THOMAS KAIN ELLIS. An account of the ancestry of Samuel Ellis is to be found in this work in the sketch of Mrs. Ochiltree. In the first migration of that Ellis family to Ohio, George, an elder brother, is said to have come to Williamsburg in 1806; and that was the reason for the coming of the younger orphaned children at later dates. Samuel, who was born December 12, 1803, came from Virginia about 1825 and learned coopering with his brother, George, who then had a shop a little over a mile from the foot of Main street on the Boston road. Samuel Ellis located his shop on the south side of Main, between Front and Second streets, and eventually employed a number of helpers. The product of that shop was readily sold to the lower mills and in Cincinnati for the down river trade. He married Catherine Ann Kain, who was born March 1, 1808, and was the oldest daughter of Major Daniel and Elenor Foster Kain, as told in our sketch of the Kain Family. The children of Samuel and Catherine Ellis were : George M., who was born October 15, 1830, married Mary Murphy and died October 26, 1866, leaving a son and daughter, now living in California. Eliza V., who was born June 29, 1833, married William Procter and moved to Paoli, Ind., where she CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 403 died leaving nine children. William Henry, who was born November 28, 1835, clerked several years in Cincinnati, and then served in the Union army as the drum major for an Indiana regiment, in which he lost his health, was discharged on account of sickness, and shortly after, on September 2, 1864, died in his father's house. Thomas K. was born November 3, 1839, and named for his uncle, Thomas Kain, the lame teacher. Margaret E. was born September 3, 1844, and died May 12, 1847. Charles R., the youngest, was born August 25, 1847, married Carrie Guy, and is now living on his farm near Spencer, Owen county, Indiana, with a family of seven children. Samuel and Catherine Ellis were members of the Presbyterian church in Williamsburg during all their married life, and for several years before. The service of that church was one of constant pleasure. He was long one of the elders and took large special interest in the Sunday school, of which he was the honored superintendent more than thirty years. A life more harmoniously devoted to their ideals of duty than is remembered of these worthy people is rarely found. Each lived for the other, and the good they could do. After their other children were gone, Thomas K., on April 15, 1874, married Katie Wright, and they gave such care as made the failing days of the aging couple a fitting close for their useful lives. Catherine Ann died November 24, 1874. Then Samuel said, "My mission is done, I wish to go soon," which happened January 2, 1875. After school days Thomas K. Ellis learned the trade of harness making. While so employed, the tidings from Fort Sumter changed him to a volunteer in the "Clermont Guards," and as such, he was mustered under the First Call for the Union army, in Company E of the Twenty-second Ohio, which helped to hold the Baltimore & Ohio railroad through Virginia. Then, in the large preparation for the great war, work at his trade was almost as important as duty in the field ; yet, in the urgent call of 1864, he volunteered May 2d in Company G of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Ohio, and was posted until discharged, September 9th, at Big Capon, Va. After that he volunteered a third time and was mustered in Company E of the One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Ohio for one year, from February 23, 1865, for a service mainly performed in Georgia. On March 28, 1865, he was appointed second sergeant, and then first sergeant, August 16, 1865. He was recommended for promotion to second lieutenant ; but before 404 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES action was taken, the regiment was discharged, January 20, 1866. Thus, for nearly five years, either in the field or in the shop, his energy was devoted to military service or to indispensable work for the Union. Since the war his trade has been followed through nice living to the pleasant possession of one of the prettiest homes in Williamsburg. His wife, Katie Wright, is a daughter of John Harvey Wright, born October 29, 1823, and Mary Ann McNutt, born September 5, 1825, who were married February 1, 1846. They had four daughters. Laura was born January 22, 1847, married Orion E. Everhart, June 8, 1864, and is living with four sons and one daughter, all married, in Lafayette, Ind. Angie, born December 8, 1849, married William P. Terhune, and is living in Cincinnati, with two sons, both married. Katie, the third of the family, was born December 9, 1852. Attie, the youngest, was born December 25, 1856, and married Seba Noyes ( deceased), and is living with one daughter in Chicago. The ancestry of Mary Ann Wright is told in the sketch of M. F. McNutt, and the ancestry of John Harvey Wright is detailed in our sketch of the Park Family, and still further in that of the John Jenkins Family. After living a year or more, about 1836, with his uncle, Richard Wright, near Lexington, Ky., he returned and became a carpenter, but went about 1851 to keep a store in Marathon, whence he returned in 1856 to live happy in the snug home at the north side of the foot of Main street, as an honorably industrious man, as a Mason and as a consistent Methodist, all unconscious of the sad fate coming, which is the most pitiful story of all that Williamsburg suffered for the Union. But the patriotic impulse of the time could not be ignored by the capable, conscientious and rarely unselfish man. On August 14, 1862, John Harvey Wright enlisted in Company B of the Eighty-ninth Ohio. Other defenders of the flag left parents or sisters or sweethearts for a new life of adventure and for the strange, fierce excitement of glorious war. But he, out of a strong conviction of duty, sacrificed the endearments of a comfortable home made sacred by his wife's dutiful regard and kept delightful by the mirth of four girls of tender age who all needed his constant care. Under ordinary conditions even with the hope of great gain such a departure would have been condemned as unkind and unwise ; but, in the glamour of loyal honor, the separation was applauded as the sublimity of patriotic love. CLERMONT AND DROWN COUNTIES - 405 Thirteen months of unfaltering marching and guarding brought him into line with his regiment by the banks of the Chickamauga, where the grand central armies of the North and South met in the narrowest margin between defeat and victory of all the long war. On the second day of the battle, Sunday, September 20, 1863, the Eighty-ninth Ohio held the brow of Snodgrass Hill against countless batteries and charges of ever forming lines of Gray. Writers familiar with other scenes of fiercely tragic strife for a decisive point have said that few have equalled and none have excelled the Confederate assaults to gain that crest defended by men gathered largely from Clermont county. Those who saw his conduct told that Harvey Wright was calm and efficient and at his place all through that awful day, until sunset brought the defeat of the regiment which purchased immeasurable advantage for the army elsewhere. For all that afternoon and all the night after, the main Union army was wheeling around and concentrating behind that hill into the fortifications about Chattanooga. They did not know it then, and they only gave obedience to the orders that made them a sacrifice ; but it is history now that if the Eighty-ninth Ohio had given way an hour earlier, the battle would have been an utter rout for the North. Instead they did all that was required, and at sunset, when too late for the weary South to advance to a further attack, the position was surrounded and then Wright and his valiant comrades passed into a captivity that shrouded his home with a numb, crushing anxiety. Four months later, on January 25, 1864, as was told by a comrade, Henry Iler, who survived the horror, John Harvey Wright died in a rebel prison at Richmond, Va., amid the deep despair of starvation. But it was two months more before his dreadful fate was known where old associates grew sick with a realization of the possibilities of the awful strife. There is melancholy pleasure in remembering that he was a hero in the critical hour, and that he did not perish in vain. But the heroic endeavor that honors his name did not end with his life. With every nerve trembling with the unutterable woe, the mother gathered her orphaned daughters and planned for their food, raiment and education, in ways and with results that commanded unstinted sympathy and respect. After seven years of widowhood, she married Emanuel McKever, and then enjoyed the abundance of the McKever farms until his death, in 1895, when she went to the home of Mrs. 406 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES T. K. Ellis, where her once clouded life closed in honor and affection, on October 3, 1905. Her ancestral faith in the Methodist church was transmitted to all her posterity. Thomas K. and Katie Ellis have had six children. Guy Wright was born September 26, 1876, and, while growing into a handsome young manhood with bright hopes for an amiable and useful life he sickened and rather suddenly died, August 17, 1892. Jessie L. was born September 11, 1878, and died August 19, 1879. Charles Harvey was born August 15, 1880. Roy S. was born October 13, 1882, and died July 7, 1883. Laura A. was born April 26, 1886. Louie Wright was born July 23, 1889, and died July 1, 1891. Charles Harvey Ellis, the only living son of the family, has been clerking in Cincinnati since 1901, with pleasing success. Laura A. Ellis, the only living daughter, was married June 14, 1906, to Spencer Smith Walker, who was born November 12, 1882, and is the tenth of the eleven children of Oliver E. and Elizabeth Smith Walker. O. E. Walker is mentioned in the sketch of the Kain Family; and Elizabeth Smith is a daughter of Joseph and Lovina Sherman Smith. Joseph, born July 17, 1809, at Trenton, N. J., was a son of Joseph Smith, Sr., who came to Clermont in 1814. Spencer S. and Laura A. Ellis Walker have one son, born September 4, 1908, and named Ellis Wright Walker. Thomas K. Ellis is an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and a Mason. Katie Wright Ellis belongs to the Rebekahs, to the Women's Relief Corps and to the Order of the Eastern Star, and has served several terms as the presiding officer of each of those societies in Williamsburg. ALBERT McADAMS. In popular usage for a hundred and twenty years in Ohio, the name of McAdams has been associated with the strong and lasting characteristics of the family and held to be an example of Irish origin. But to one who has studied the story nothing is more certain than that this usage has taken a special incident for a general condition. Because of political changes, some localities have large influence in determining the origin of families. In no place where English is spoken is this significance more positive than in the north of Ireland. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 407 Because of their sympathy with the French in the long struggle for English supremacy, military necessity decreed the extirpation of the Irish from their strategic advantage in north Ireland. The desolated land was thus opened for a migration from Scotland devoted to the Presbyterian Faith which insured no amalgamation with the people banished southward. When those strangers in Ireland began to seek homes in America, they were called Scotch-Irish, which then explained their relations to other emigrants. After while the sharp lines of that distinction wore away, and not a few deemed themselves Irish, when, except for short residence in the transition, they were pure Scotch. Few people of equal number have had more influence in shaping America ; and along the line of migration few places have been more significant of their struggle than the extreme northeastern county of Ireland, named Antrim, where John McAdams was born, May 9, 1737, and the near-by scenes of the famous siege of Londonderry, where his wife, Ann, was born, in 1750. Ephraim, the eldest of the ten children of John and Ann McAdams, was born May 25, 1767. The other children, with date of birth, were : John, March 28, 1769; James, May 7, 1771 ; Katharine, September 7, 1773 ; Hamilton, September 20, 1777; William, September 17, 1779; Armstrong, February 23, 1786 : Suter, September I 1, 1790 ; Thomas, November 20, 1793. How many of these were born in Ireland is not known, but the family came to Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, where Ephraim, on December 17, 1793, married Charity M. Birt, and in 1794 moved to Columbia, Ohio. He was a tailor by trade. On December 15, 1796, he bought the first lots sold in Williamsburg, as told on Page 206 of our History ; but he did not bring his family here until 1800. The children of Ephraim and Charity, with date of birth, were : Nancy, October 3o, 1794 ; Samuel, July 6, 1797; Hannah, February 7, 1799; Ephraim, October 13, 1800; Hamilton, February 19, 1802; Julia A., December 2, 1803 ; John A. and James, November 14, 1805; Catharine, April 11, 1808; Delilah, February 15, 1810. After that, Charity died. Ephraim then married Catharine Hartman, who was born September 27, 1785. Catharine was one of the eight children of Christopher and Mary Hutchinson Hartman. Christopher Hartman was born in 1750, in Swintzburg, Hesse Cassel, Germany, whence he was brought in 1753 by his father, Christopher Hartman, Sr., with three older brothers, to Philadelphia. 408 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES Christopher, Jr., served in Smallwood's regiment in the Revolution. His wife, Mary, to whom he was married in 1776, was born March 24, 1755, in Mercer county, New Jersey. In S September, 1795, they moved to Lexington, Ky., and in November, 1801, to Williamsburg. In 1802 he settled on five hundred acres in what is Jackson township, where he died, March 16, 1833, and Mary, his wife, August 6, 1839. Christopher Hartman was granted a pension on May 14, 1833, for service in the Revolution in the New Jersey militia. The children of Ephraim and Catharine Hartman McAdams, with date of birth, were: Mary Ann, June 8, 1812; Thomas, June 6, 1813; William, January 5, 1815; Andrew J., October 14, 1816; Isaac Newton, March 14, 1818; Joseph Warren, August 27, 1819. After that Catharine died, and Ephraim married Martha Boyd, with whom he had Manorah, born July 21, 1821; Harvey, January 24, 1826, and Riley, March 19, 1828. Of these, eighteen lived to have families, of which some became numerous and some are extinct. The pioneer Ephraim McAdams has frequent mention in the early annals of Clermont. On May 26, 1801, he was foreman of the second grand jury of Old Clermont, in the time of the Territory. On December 28, 1803, he was one of the first grand jury convened by the State. In June, 1804, he was a member of the next grand jury, of which Col. Robert Higgins was foreman ; and, for the May term in 1806, he served on the grand jury of which Gen. William Lytle was foreman. In reading those old grand jury lists one finds that much care was used in selecting the worthiest for what they deemed an important duty. In 1808 he and his wife, Charity, were in the little band that organized the Presbyterian church in Williamsburg that met for twenty-two years in the stone court house under Rev. R. B. Dobbins. He took the first-three degrees of Masonry in Clermont Social Lodge on February 9 to March 22, 1816; whereupon he was soon asked by the Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder, which would he serve, the church or the lodge? It could not be both. On November I, 1816, the lodge ordered the purchase of material for a coat for Rev. Dobbins, which was accepted, and probably fashioned by McAdams, the tailor, who remained a firm Presbyterian and a zealous Mason to his death, May II, 1842. Nine of his name followed him into the same lodge. Meanwhile, William, a son of Benjamin and Eleanor Smith, was born, January 3, 1772, and married Lucretia, a daughter of William and Elizabeth Johnson, who was born December CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 409 5, 1773. William and Lucretia Johnson Smith had thirteen children, named and born as follows : Eleanor, November 28, 1795; Ephraim, September 2, 1797; Elizabeth, March 28, 1799; Delilah, February 2, 1801 ; Benjamin Thomas, November 12, 1802; Deidaemia, April 2, 1804; Hannah, May 11, 1806; William Taylor, August 17, 1808. The family moved, in 1809, from Monmouth county, New Jersey, and settled on the Xenia road, about three miles north of Williamsburg, in what is now Jackson township, where the children born were Mahala, March 4, 181o; Johnson, October 4, 1811; Sarah, December 5, 1813 ; Nancy Clark, September 20, 1817, and Alonzo, August 20, 1819. In 1812 John and Anna Lambkins White came from New York and settled near William Smith with a family, of whom several were born in Ohio, to the number of eleven, named, Ansol, Lyman, Anna, Harriet, John, Sarah, Melinda, Amanda, Lucinda, Bartlett C. and Clarissa. Of these Ephraim Smith and Amanda White were married. She, Amanda, was born May 9, 1803, and lived until April 12, 1881, but Ephraim died May 13, 1854. Their home is the last farm to the north in Williamsburg township on the Xenia road, and their children, as born and named, were : Lavanchia, December 23, 1822; Evaline, August 20, 1824 ; Amariah, January 10, 1826; Bolivar, January 27, 1828; Sarah Ann, December 20, 1830 ; Bartlett, November 2, 1832; John Harvey, August 5, 1834; Erastus C., November 5, 1836; Mary Ellen, November 23, 1841; and Melvina, September 20, 1845. All the people so far mentioned in this sketch are dead except Erastus C., who, though severely wounded at the battle of Corinth, October 4, 1862, while a soldier in Company K, of the Twenty-seventh Ohio, is a wealthy farmer in Jewel county, Kansas ; and Melvina, who is in Williamsburg as the widow of Francis Hutchinson, a veteran of Company B, of the Fifth Ohio cavalry. The posterity of these families is literally scattered from ocean to ocean. Isaac Newton McAdams, of the Hartman line, was married May 5, 1843, to Lavanchia Smith. Their children were : Harvey, born January 4, 1847 ; Albert, born April 4, 1849 ; Amanda, September 7, 1853, and died September 30, 1853 ; Riley, December 14, 1854, and Ephraim, March 6, 1858. I. N. McAdams was one among the first from Clermont to cross the "Plains" to California in search of gold. The trip occupied six months with the ox trains, which so cooled his 410 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES "gold fever" that he soon returned and worked at his trade as a cooper. On September 3o, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, of the Fifty-ninth Ohio, from which he was discharged on August 18, 1862, on a surgeon's certificate of disability. After that he went again to the Western gold fields, taking his son, Harvey, who has remained there. About 1867 he returned to Williamsburg, where his wife died December 3o, 1880, and where he died September 28, 1891, having been an enthusiastic Mason over forty years. Albert, second son of I. N. and Lavanchia Smith McAdams, learned the carpenter's trade, but fortunately, on November 20, 1877, ventured into the carriage trade as a traveling salesman for the once noted Davis, Gould & Co., of Cincinnati, with whom he continued thirteen years, or during the life of their business. In their employ he went to every important place in the United States, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from northern to southern extremes. That business is still continued on broad lines and with a success that has made him the owner of several fine homes in choice places. Quite in accordance with his grandfather and father's teaching, he became a Mason, April 15, 1870, when just twenty-one years and one day old. On August 12, 1885, he was married to Mary Gray Jones at Hillsboro, Ohio, where she had been raised and educated. But she was born in 1852 at Norfolk, Va., where her mother, whose maiden name was Mary Ann Gray, was born, in 1824. Her father, Loren Jones, was born in New York, in 1818, and died there, in 1905. Mrs. Mary Ann Jones had two brothers in Norfolk who were each lost at sea with the ships they owned. but she died August 9, 1889, in Williamsburg. The only child of Albert and Mary Gray McAdams was born February 20, 1894, in Williamsburg, and named Joseph Loren, who is now a student in St. Xavier's College. Joseph's mother died January 15, 1905, in Norwood, where the family had moved five years before. On November 28, 1906, Albert McAdams married Katherine Friend O'Connor, one of the eight children of John and Margaret Dunn O'Connor, of Portsmouth, Ohio. They have a pleasant home on Clarion avenue in Cincinnati. Of the other children of I. N. and Lavanchia McAdams, Ephraim is not married ; Riley married Ella McKibben and has Harry and Lavanchia ; and Harvey, living in Nevada, has one daughter, Augusta. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 411 INCREASE SUMNER MORSE. Anthony Morse and his brother, William, from Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, sailed on April 5, 1635, on the ship "James" from London, and settled in Newburyport, Mass., where he built a house on a slight eminence in a field that is still called Morse's Field. Traces of that old house are still visible. Since then, six generations with large families from that source have helped to civilize the wilderness, to build New England, to shape the fortunes of America, and to give the Nation brave men for great wars. Benjamin, the fifth son of Anthony Morse, was born March 28, 1640, married Ruth Sawyer and became deacon of the First Church of Newbury. To his son, Philip, he made a deed of gift of his estate with the stipulation that certain sums should be paid to the brothers and sisters of Philip, who was born October 19, 1677, in that part of Newbury incorporated as Newburyport. Philip Morse married Sarah Brown, of Salisbury, and after her death he married Sarah Pillsbury, He died intestate, and his estate was administered by his sons- in-law, Col. Jonathan Buck, of Haverhill, Solomon Springer and Richard Emerson ; all to be famous names in New England. Isaac, the second son of Philip Morse, born November 5, 1714, married Jane, a daughter of Skipper and Elizabeth Lunt. Skipper (or Sea Captain) Lunt built the first Episcopal church in Newbury, of which Isaac became a member. He died September 27, 1754. Ephraim, the fourth son of Isaac and Jane Morse, was born April 10, 1751, in Amesbury, Mass. He enlisted with his cousins, James and Samuel, and, on August 1, 1778, he was mustered in the Revolutionary army. He married Sarah Clapp, of Salem, and lived at Amesbury, where three children were born : John married Nancy Pillsbury ; Sarah married Mr. Bennett, and Hannah married Mr. Hidden. The family then moved to New Hampshire, where other children born were : Henry, who served in the war of 1812 and died at Bristol ; Supply, also a soldier in the war of 1812, who lived to die in 1833 at Bayou Sara, La.; Waity, who married Roswell Mansfield and lived in Amelia, her son, William Mansfield, being clerk of the Clermont county courts from 1870 to 1876; Cynthia married William Rollins, of New York ; Christina ; Increase Sumner and Constantine. 412 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES Increase Sumner Morse, a son of Ephraim and Sarah Morse, was born August 25, 1806, in Raymond, N. H. The standards of intelligence in New England, then as ever, were high and stimulating, and his aspirations were thrilled with the accumulating achievement of his own kindred, which numbered Whittier, the Poet of Freedom, and Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, with long lists of otherwise useful and notable people of the name and blood. His inclination was scholarly and his association refined. Much that others sought with painstaking care he seemed to have by nature. In 1827, on reaching his majority, he left New England for Ohio, in company with his dearest friend, Dana Dudley, who was one of the notable Dana family. The cherished ideal of the two was to visit the best of the world together, but their mutual hope was suddenly closed by the death of Dudley, in' 1829, at Bayou Sara from an acute attack of yellow fever. The loss of his chosen friend was a lifelong sorrow for Increase Morse, who spent much of his earlier manhood in travel. The years passed in Europe in the midst of old buildings and historical memories still further developed his innate love of beauty and literature. A perception of the beautiful and the spirit of a rarely poetic nature pervade his letters that have been gathered and are treasured by the family. Among many mementos of that travel is a little case of fragments of stone from noted places and ruins that have special historic interest. After returning from Europe to, Cincinnati he was active and prospered in the Ohio and Mississippi river trade. In 1850 he married Caroline, a daughter of James and Nancy Harrison Whittaker, and a sister of the eminent physician, the late Dr. James T. Whittaker, all of Cincinnati. In 1855, on account of his wife's health, Mr. Morse moved to the highlands of Clermont, where he bought the store of W. W. Sutton in Amelia, and continued the business until his death, June 16, 1875 ; and Mrs. Morse died there December 27, 1892. They had four children : Caroline Louise, John Henry, Anna and Jessie. Caroline, born in Cincinnati, married William T. Carley, of that city, and they live at Mt. Holly. Jessie married Clarence Eckles Shipp, of Walton county, Georgiao and they live in Chattanooga. John, born, September 5, 1856, was instantly killed, January 25, 1872, by the accidental discharge of a gun in his own hands. The untimely fate of the happy, handsome, studious, finely mannered and rarely talented boy was a misfortune CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 413 from which there was no recovery for his father, whose ruling sentiment was a cherishing memory of kindred and friends. A lasting evidence of that sentiment is a monument in the cemetery at Amelia carved with the names he loved to hear, though buried far away. Among that inscription is a tablet with a touching tribute to the youthful Dana Dudley, who had been thrust in a nameless grave by Bayou Sara. Another inscription commemorates the Revolutionary service of his father. In appearance, Increase Morse was a full sized man, rather broad than tall, with a typical blonde complexion. His manner was urbane, so that those not acquainted often thought him foreign born. He lived much among long remembered scenes that he wished to revisit. His son, John, was being trained in the scenic and historic interest of New England, which they were to visit during the summer that followed his death. Among the choicest memories of his daughter, Anna, is a visit with him to his native town and through New England, in which they went to the home of his cousin, John G. Whittier, who honored her, then a girl of twelve, with the duty of bearing a flower from his hand to his poetical friend, John Mellen, in Amelia. Anna, the second daughter of Increase Sumner, and Caroline Morse, was married, January II, 1885, to James Reuben Hicks, who was born November 24, 1850, at Newport, Ky., and is a son of James and Caroline Whetstone Hicks. James Hicks, a native of Clermont county, went to Newport in 1845, where he died just before the birth of his son, James R., leaving a widow with four girls and two boys, with whom she moved to Amelia seven years later. After his schooling in Amelia, James R. Hicks took a course at the National Normal at Lebanon, Ohio. Then, with a trend for commercial affairs rather than teaching, he returned home and started as a clerk in a general store. With some savings and experience, in 1876, he started a small store of his own that has grown to be one of the largest stocks of general merchandise in the county. In 1876 he was appointed postmaster for the office at Amelia and continued so to act until automatically retired during President Cleveland's administration. With the return of his party to control he was re-appointed for a long succession of duty. His interest in political affairs began before the age for voting had been reached, and in his twenty-second year he was the committeeman for the Republican party in his pre- 414 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIEs cinct, from which he was advanced to larger service that has had many terms as chairman of the county executive committee, besides being a prominent factor of the county, district and State conventions of the last generation. In addition to these interests he has held a half interest in the Colter Canning Company, with canneries located at Amelia and Mt. Washington. He is now president and treasurer of that company. He is connected as a director with several corporations in Clermont and Hamilton counties, where he also has fine real estate holdings. This gratifying success is due to a combination of business instinct with pleasant manners, good habits and tireless energy. Desiring some relief from such a variety of often perplexing cares he sold his store and resigned the office of postmaster in Amelia, in September, 1912, and has spent much of the time since in travel with his family, which includes two sons, W. Morse and Gordon Benneville. W. Morse Hicks, after taking an academic course at the Ohio Military Institute at College Hill, and a scientific course at Miami University, is a student in the Jefferson Medical College. Gordon Benneville Hicks is at home and helpful in his father's affairs. WILLIAM HAYS REINERT. One of Ripley's most enterprising and progressive citizens is Mr. William Hays Reinert, whose entire active business career has been spent at Ripley, and he is widely known throughout Brown county. He is successfully engaged in conducting a general store and handles lime, plaster, cement, tile and roofing. He has occupied his present store on Front street for the past thirty years, and established the business in 1876. Mr. Reinert was born near Philadelphia, Pa., September 8, 185o, and is a son of Louis F. and Mary Jane (Hays) Reinert. Mr. Louis F. Reinert was a native of Knithling, Wittenburg, Germany, and his birth occurred August 1, 1825. He was a son of Gottlieb Reinert, a native of Germany who brought his family to America early in the Nineteenth century and settled near Philadelphia. He was for many years a manufacturer of rope, which in those days was made by hand. He reared a large family of children, and after a useful and successful life, passed away at Cooperville, near Philadelphia. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 415 Louis F. Reinert came to America with an older sister, in 1840, some years before his father and mother left the Fatherland. He and his sister located at New York, where he learned the baker's trade, which he followed in the various suburbs of Philadelphia. Louis Reinert was united in marriage at Vincetown, N. J., to Mary Jane Hays, a native of New Jersey, and shortly after this event they removed to Cincinnati, where she passed from this life in 1855, at the age of twenty-five years, leaving beside her husband, two children, the oldest of whom is the subject of this review. A daughter died in early childhood. The second union of Louis F. Reinert was with Fredricka Fredrich, a native of Germany, and of that union there were five children ; a son and daughter died in infancy, and the others are : L. F., a druggist of Columbus, Ohio ; Dr. Edward, of Columbus ; and J. J., of Walnut Hills, engaged as watchman at the Schacht Automobile Works, Cincinnati. Mr. Louis F. Reinert was a man of versatile talent, and was a liberal contributor to all worthy enterprises. He was for many years engaged in the bakery and confectionary business ; was one of the largest stockholders of the piano factory at Ripley ; was extensively interested in a shoe factory at Ripley, and built a large brewery in Brown county. He was one of the most substantial and highly respected citizens, being consulted in all important affairs. He was a Republican and helped extensively in the support of the home guards and served as a councilman and township trustee. Mr. L. F. Reinert and his wife were members of the German Lutheran church, and his large contributions to religious organizations were not confined to his own church. He departed this life at Ripley, in 1894, and left a large amount of property and money. His widow resides at Columbus, Ohio. The original building of the Reinert Hotel, of Ripley, since remodeled, was erected by Mr. Louis F. Reinert and was conducted by him for many years-a noted and popular eating house. It is now owned by Mrs. J. J. Reinert, and is operated as the Reinert Hotel by Mr. William Tweed. William Hays Reinert was reared at Ripley and enjoyed the educational privileges of Parker's Academy at Clermontville, which has since been made into a home for the working girls of Cincinnati. Mr. Reinert had for a chum and companion during his school days, Mr. William Carnes, a noted elocutionist. For some years, Mr. W. H. Reinert was associated with his 416 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES father in the piano factory and was "German boy" at the Snedeker & Wiles-now the Kirke!. s& Wiles—store at Ripley. In 1876, he entered upon his business career for himself, and has continued the same business to the present time. Mr. Reinert was married in 1874, his union being with Miss Lucy Theresa Paratonia, of German descent, and to them have been born five children : Bertha, wife of John Sholl, of Mankato, Minn., who travels for the Milwaukee Corrugating Company. They have one daughter. Louis, a pharmacist, died at the age of thirty years. Oscar, a druggist of Ripley. Miss Lucy, is associated with her father in the store and resides at home. William Hays, Jr., is in the restaurant and confectionary busines on Main, near Front street, Ripley. The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Reinert is in the old Thomas McCague property on Front street, between Mulberry and Locust streets, and was probably the first station of the Underground Railroad. Mr. Reinert is a staunch Republican, and is now serving as a member of the village council. He is a member of the Elks lodge of Maysville, Ky., and of the Knights of Pythias of Ripley. Of the last named he has filled all the chairs, and is past chancellor. Mr. Reinert and his family are members of the German Protestant church, although they attend the Presbyterian church, to both of which he gives generous support. CHARLES G. SEDERBERG. One of the most prominent of the younger business men of Clermont county is Charles G. Sederberg, who by his indomitable energy and fearless spirit has risen from a most modest beginning in the business world to one of importance. He conducts a prosperous jewelry and optical business in the historic Kugler building, of Civil war fame, at the corner of Main and Elm streets, Milford, Ohio. Charles G. Sederberg was born at Red Wing, Minn., April 4, 1872, his parents being Alfred and Hilda (Kempe) Sederberg, the former of whom was an artist of great ability. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 417 The early education of Charles G. Sederberg was received in the schools of Red Wing, and in 1887 he began learning the jeweler's trade. While learning, he received two dollars per week for the first year, but as an inducement to continue the trade was given an extra twenty-five dollars at the end of the year, and his salary was increased to twenty-five dollars per month. He served his apprenticeship with M. Q. Lindquist and Byron Chapman, of Red Wing, for about three years, resigning July 13, 1890, when he accepted a position with Weld & Sons, of Minneapolis. While at the latter city he became a member of Company A. Minnesota National Guard, and attended the dedication of the World's Fair, November, 1892, with the National Guard of that State. Mr. Sederberg came with his people to Terrace Park the following year, where a brother had made a reputation as an instructor in music in Clermont county, also being an instructor in the Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. It was in the fall of 1893 that Dr. R. C. Belt, of Milford, J. L. Galloway, florist, and John F. Robinson, circus owner, of Terrace Park, saw in Mr. Sederberg mechanical genius and helped him to establish his present business by telling him to work on a number of clocks at the great showman's winter quarters. Later he embarked in the jewelry business in S. R. S. West's Building & Loan Building in Milford. Here he worked on a bench which he constructed with a hatchet and saw out of a dry goods box. This he keeps as a souvenir. The competitor of this enterprising young man intimated that he would last perhaps one month, but instead Mr. Seder- berg finally acquired the store of the former. It was in 1898 that he purchased the stock of Mr. A. C. Norton and has been advancing toward the front since. In 1901 the first telephone exchange was established in Milford in his store, he being the first manager. His salary for the first month on a commission basis was considerably less than the cost of maintenance, but it increased to nine hundred dollars per year. His own business was increasing so rapidly that he gave up the telephone so he might devote his entire time to the jewelry business. In 1904 Mr. Sederberg went into the agricultural business on a farm near Urbana, Ohio, but in the fall of the same year he decided that he was better fitted for the jeweler's business than he was for a farmer, and he again returned to Milford and embarked in that line. 418 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES On May 15, 1902, at Urbana, Ohio, Mr. Sederberg was united in marriage to Miss Ella Bishop Dickinson, a great- granddaughter of Governor R. M. Bishop, of Ohio, and a daughter of William and Kate. (Blaise) Dickinson, her birth occurring at Cincinnati. To Mr. and Mrs. Sederberg have been born three children : William Alfred, Charles Bishop, and Hilda Catherine. Mr. Sederberg is a stanch Democrat in his political views and his first ballot was cast for Grover Cleveland. He has served as a delegate to various conventions, and in November, 1911, he was elected alderman to the city council of Milford, and in 1913 became the first treasurer of the Milford fire department, organized in December, 1912. Mr. Sederberg took an active part in the campaign of 1912, which resulted in the election of Woodrow Wilson as President and of James M. Cox as Governor of Ohio, and on January 13, 1913, had the pleasure of attending the inauguration of Governor Cox at Columbus. In 1905 he became a member of the Knights of Pythias. He served five years as secretary of his lodge, and in 1911 was appointed county deputy grand chancellor. He was sent as representative to the Ohio grand lodge at Lima in 1910, and at Hamilton in 1911. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity at Milford, and has served as their historian for a number of year&. Mrs. Sederberg is a member of the Order of Eastern Star. In their religious faith both Mr. and Mrs. Sederberg are members of the Episcopal church, of which for the last fifteen years he has served as vestryman. In 1911 and 1913 he was chosen as their representative to the State convention at Columbus. For the past twelve years Mr. Sederberg has been a member of the Men's Club of Christ's Church at Cincinnati, and special correspondent for the "Cincinnati Enquirer." For a number of years he has been correspondent at Milford for the "Clermont Sun." He assisted in starting the "Milford Record," securing the very first subscription. In 1912 he was given a special trip with all expenses paid by the Carnegie Steel Company, on the steamer "Thomas Lynch," to Duluth, Minn., and return, through former mayor of Milford, William Magee. Mr. and Mrs. Sederberg are charter members of the Miami Grange, organized at Milford, in March, 1913, with one hun- CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 419 dred and eighteen members, and is one of the largest ever chartered in Ohio. The career of Mr. Sederberg should prove an inspiration to the young men starting out in life with very little capital. He has certainly proved that by capable management and close application to business a young man of ambition may make a business record that is as creditable as it is honorable, and in the healthful growth of trade win the success that constitutes the goal of all business endeavor. AMOS F. ELLIS. James and Mary Veatch Ellis came from Wales to Maryland, where they raised a family of six sons in the Quaker faith. No tradition has any mention of a daughter. A family register, lost in a fire, was not restored, but a few dates have been kept that help in fixing the localities. The accepted order of the sons is Nathan, Jeremiah, Samuel, Hezekiah, James and Jesse. Nathan was born November to, 1749, and, in 177o, married Mary Walker, who was born August 31, 1752. They had ten children, the last being born in 1795. Samuel Ellis, Sr., was born October 25, 1754, in Frederick county, Maryland, which at that time—just before Braddock's defeat—was the frontier. In pushing westward they crossed the eastern ridges and no doubt were among those who were repressed by the odious Act of Quebec. For, in the Revolution, Samuel Ellis, Sr., was in Col. John Stevenson's command of Pennsylvanians, who built Fort McIntosh at the mouth of Beaver on the Ohio, and Fort Laurens, where the Big Trail crossed the Tuscarawas river, all as a part of the plan to capture Detroit. For that service, he was placed on the pension roll, April 17, 1834. He married Mary Fry and several of their children were born in. the East. James, the father, died some time after the Revolution. Then the six brothers gathered their families and substance with their mother into a boat at Fort Red Stone, and floated down the Monongahela and the Ohio to Limestone Point or Maysville, which was reached April 27, 1795. The writer of an excellent sketch of the Nathan Ellis Family in Evans and Stiver's History of Adams County gives that date and claims that five hundred Indians were encamped right across the river. It must have been not a war band, but a peace conven- 420 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES tion for considering Wayne's recent victory. We cannot admit that the Ellis settlements in Ohio were made until 1796. Then, five brothers started homes within the present limits of Brown county. Nathan chose the site where twenty years later he instituted the town of Aberdeen; and the mother of all, whose maiden name was Mary Veatch, died in 1819, and is buried in Aberdeen cemetery. Jeremiah and Hezekiah stopped by Eagle Creek. The other two went farther down. James located near and above White Oak, where he started a still, but eventually went farther west. The James Ellis who settled near Georgetown was a nephew of Nathan, and a son of Samuel, Sr. The story of Samuel Ellis, Sr., affords much pleasant incident. After the Revolution, he crossed the Potomac and became a neighbor of Col. Robert V. Higgins, who gradually came to owe him twelve hundred dollars. When the Virginia military district became available, Colonel Higgins came west and personally selected the site and laid his warrant for a thousand acres on the Ohio, including the mouth of White Oak creek. On returning to Virginia with glowing description of his land, Colonel Higgins proposed to pay his debt to Samuel with any two hundred acres that might be selected in a body from his tract. On coming west the land was found to equal the Colonel's praise and the part chosen was a rectangular tract one hundred and sixty-five rods wide by two hundred rods long, slightly rolling and situated so that the waters of the west end flow to White Oak and the waters of the east end flow to Straight creek. The bounding foothill runs parallel with the river bank, with scarcely a break or show of ravine at either end of the scene, which forms one of the most beautiful and intrinsically valuable farms of its size, even in the far famed beauty of Ohio. The high price for the time was wisely paid. This farm, besides the distinction of being the first settlement made in Pleasant township by the white race, also has the rare distinction in this region of being owned and occupied by the same family through a hundred and fifteen years. Upon this ideal farm, Samuel Ellis lived with such fine, successful management to the age of ninety-four years that he was able to give each of his ten children a fine property. He was a tall, energetic, finely made man, who, with the exception of fifteen months' service as county commissioner, that terminated with the territorial days, had no time for public CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 421 affairs. Their children were James, Noah, Abram, Samuel, Matilda, Mary, Christina, India Ann, Nancy and Rebecca. Upon his father's death, in 1848, the fine old home farm descended to Samuel Ellis, Jr., who married Sarah, a daughter of Amos and Mary McConnell Ellis, whose settlement is noted on page 212, and whose public service is mentioned on page 333 and several succeeding pages of the historical volume of this work. Amos Ellis was from Yellow Creek, Bedford county, Pennsylvania, and he was not related to any others of the name mentioned in this work. The children of his family were William, Amos, Rachel, Rebecca Mary, Sarah and Ann. The thrifty management of the pioneer Samuel Ellis was continued by his son Samuel, Jr., who largely restored the original survey of Colonel Higgins to the first form through a series of events that included the relations of several notable families. In his earliest days in Brown county, Thomas L. Hamer married Lydia B., a daughter of Colonel Higgins, and, at the outbreak of the Mexican war, Hamer's partner in his law firm was Sanders W. Johnston, a grandson of Colonel Higgins, and the captain of the first company from Brown county in the Mexican war, and also the State Senator from Brown and Clermont in 1852-3. After General Hamer's death, in administering upon his estate, Captain Johnston sold four hundred and thirty acres of Colonel Higgins's original survey at $40.00 per acre, in 1853, to Samuel Ellis, Jr., who thus came to own six hundred and thirty acres of the tract selected by Colonel Higgins. Upon this homestead he lived as the sole owner until his death, November 20, 1870, in his seventy-seventh year. Samuel and Sarah Ellis had eleven children. Melissa married David Barr. They left one son and two daughters. America married Henry Remley. They left one son. Amanda married Harrison Barr. They lived in Greenfield, Ind., and left no children. Noah married Elizabeth Frost and left one son and three daughters. George M. married Emma Jones and has one son and two daughters. Amos F., mentioned below. Samuel, Jr., married Georgia Drake and had two sons and four daughters. Mary Ann married Joseph Heizer and left two daughters living in Greenfield, Ind. Poleman Nelson Ellis married Hannah Pangburn. They had four sons. Of them, the father and two sons are dead, but the widow and the other two sons, Oscar C. and Edgar W., are sketched on other pages of this 422 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES work. Eliza married John Steward, lived in Neoga, Ill., and left one son. Alonzo W. died unmarried at Bantam, in Clermont county. Unless otherwise stated these people belong to Brown county ; and all of them have had a just pride in the rare beauty of the ancestral farm, which Samuel Ellis, r., besides other holdings, was able to enlarge to almost a thousand contiguous acres. He earnestly advised that some one of his posterity should own the first choice of his father. The old homestead of two hundred acres has thus been owned by Samuel Ellis, Sr., for fifty-two years, or until 1848, and then by Samuel Ellis, Jr., for twenty-two years, or until 187o. In the partition of the estate, the homestead was bought by Amos F. Ellis for $92.50 per acre, subject to the dower of his mother, who died in January, 1872, in her seventy-third year. In 1879 the property was sold to his youngest brother, Alonzo W. Ellis, from whom it was bought by another brother, Poleman N. Ellis, from whom, upon his death, August 28, 1912, the still cherished old homestead still entire passed by inheritance to his widow, Hannah, and their sons, Oscar C. and Edgar W. Ellis, of the fourth generation. Amos F. Ellis, sixth child of Samuel and Sarah Ellis, was born July 2, 1831. After the schools at home, he took the scientific course at the Ohio Wesleyan University, and returned to the ancestral home in the summer of 1852, whence he went down the river on the then popular steamboat trip. Over five years were spent in teaching and traveling that included the most interesting points of every Southern State. On March 2, 1858, he married Maria, a daughter of Jesse and Christina Heizer Dugan, as mentioned on Page 244 of our History. Their only child, Frank P. Ellis, was born December 7, 1858. In the Civil war. Amos F. Ellis sternly enlisted in Company K of the Seventieth Ohio. in which he served as a lieutenant and was present both days of the battle of Shiloh in a way that was warmly commended in the official reports. In 1863 the "Soldier Vote" elected him recorder of Brown county. Amid the promise of financial prosperity, his wife died, October 23, 1873. In 1877 he married Maria, a daughter of Nicholas and Ann Posey Sinks, and a granddaughter of Nicholas Sinks, Sr., mentioned in the sketch of the Sharp Family. Soon after this marriage, Mr. Ellis moved from Higginsport to Williamsburg, where none lived in kinder plenty or finer content till their home was desolated on November 25, 1910, by the death of Maria Ellis. But Amos Ellis is not CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 423 lacking in true philosophy. Like his ancestors, he believes in broad acres, and the many he owns keep his thoughts busy. On November 15, 1882, Frank P. Ellis married Mary F., youngest daughter of John and Elizabeth Wright Park, whose ancestry is detailed in the sketch of that family. Since their marriage Frank and Mary Park Ellis have lived in Athens and Chattanooga, Tenn. They have four daughters, Effie, Marie, Ruth and Frankie. The latter two are at home. Marie married Robert Sayes, of Chattanooga. Effie married Herschel M. Candler, a native of North Carolina, a lawyer, an ex-member of the legislature, and is serving on the staff of Governor Hooper, of Tennessee, with the rank of colonel. They live in Athens, and have one daughter, Mildred. FRANK C. FETZER. Frank C. Fetzer, at present serving the second term as clerk of courts of Clermont county, Ohio, was born October 11, 1873, at New Palestine, Clermont county, Ohio, the eighth of a family of twelve children. His parents were Jacob and Elizabeth (Klett) Fetzer. Jacob was born in Bavaria, Germany, March 9, 1836. At eighteen years of age, he came to America, the first of his family to migrate to "The Land of Promise." He located at once on a farm in Clermont county, and soon established a blacksmith and wagon manufacturing business at New Palestine. Being successful in this he later opened a grocery store. For seventeen years he was postmaster. Though taking an active part in politics in favor of the Democratic party, he never was a candidate for an elective office. He was a prominent Mason and was also associated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His church affiliation was with the German Protestant church. Elizabeth Klett was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 24, 1841. She became a member of the German Protestant church at New Richmond. Her father, John Klett, after coming to this country from Saxony, Germany, engaged in various vocations. For a time he was a farmer at Sweet Wine, Hamilton county, Ohio. Jacob and Elizabeth (Klett) Fetzer were the parents of twelve children : Rosie and John, both of whom died in in- 424 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES fancy ; Louise, died of typhoid fever at the age of seventeen ; Elizabeth, died of typhoid fever at fourteen years of age ; Magdalena, also a victim of typhoid, died leaving nine children ; John G., a blacksmith of New Palestine ; Jacob, r., a blacksmith of Jackson, Ohio ; F. C., our subject ; Emma, wife of George A. Longhouser, of Amelia, this county ; Amelia, wife of C. L. Harcum, of Bloomington, Ill.; William M., who was married at Lockland, Hamilton county, Ohio, holds an excellent position with the Western and Southern Life Insurance Company ; Matilda is the wife of Henry T. Tuttle, who is engaged in the preserving works at Cincinnati, Ohio. Frank C. Fetzer has resided at New Palestine practically all his life. In 1904 he engaged in the trade of cigar maker and followed it for several years. Politically, he is a Democrat and has served as township assessor and township clerk of Pierce township. His wife, nee Rosie M. Abbott, was born in California, Hamilton county, Ohio, the daughter of Thomas M. and Emma (Walker) Abbott, of New Richmond. Edith Mildred, the only child of our subject, was born September 9, 1911. In religion, Mr. Fetzer is a member of the German Protestant church, while his wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church of New Richmond. Socially, he belongs to the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, and both are members of the ladies' auxiliary thereof. CHARLES W. PEGG. Charles W. Pegg, now residing as a retired business man in his beautiful home in Batavia, Ohio, was born October 5. 1832, just across the street from his present home. His father, John Pegg, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., August 3, 1793. He made his home in the West, first at Brookville, Ind., and then came to Batavia, where he was one of Batavia's first merchants. He died, July 7, 1834, at the early age of forty years and almost eleven months, leaving his wife, Hannah (Miles) Pegg, with three sons and three daughters, two of whom are still living), viz : Mrs. McEwen, of Falmouth, Ky., who has recently celebrated her ninetieth birthday, and CharlesW., our subject. Hannah (Miles) Pegg was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, just back of Mt. Healthy. She was married a second CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 425 time to Mr. W. H. Robinson, a resident of Clermont county. She died April 24, 1888, at the age of eighty-four, being born January 29, 1804. She was a cousin of Gen. Nelson A. Miles, United States Army. Daniel Pegg, grandfather of our subject, was a noted banker in Philadelphia. While his son, John, was living in Brookville, Ind., he made him a visit, making the trip on horseback. It is thought that he was killed by Indians on his return trip, as he was not heard of after leaving his son's home. He was a wealthy man and left a large estate in what is now a part of the city of Philadelphia. The Pegg family are probably of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. John Pegg were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, as are also Charles W. Pegg and wife. Charles W. Pegg was educated in the Clermont county schools. December 31, 1852, at the age of twenty, he went to California, where he entered the mines for a short time and later engaged in business. In 1862 he went to Washoe City, Nev., where he was the first Republican sheriff of the county. He always voted the Republican ticket. Later he went to Virginia City, Nev., where he was engaged in freighting and other lines of business. In 1873 he returned to his native town, Batavia, where for many years he has been and is still a stockholder and a director in the John Van Range Company. He was married, June 6, 1858, to Miss Josephine McLaughlin, of Cincinnati, daughter of John McLaughlin, an extensive pork merchant. To this union one son was born, Warren W., who was engaged in the printing business at Garden City, Kan., where he died while still a young man, leaving a wife to mourn his loss. Mrs. Pegg died November 17, 1905, at the age of sixty-nine years. Mr. Pegg was married again, November 7, 1939, to Miss Laura B. Kain, a representative of a very old family. JOSEPH L. LARKIN. Among the wide-awak native sons of Clermont county, Ohio, who have sought and found opportunities for business advancement in their home locality and whose efforts have been crowned with honor and appreciation, is Joseph L. Larkin, a man of large interests, politically and socially. At present there is no indication that the people who elected him to the 426 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES official life, for which he is so well fitted, will allow him to retire. Joseph L. Larkin was born at Neville, in Washington township, January 17, 1857, and is a son of John Wesley and Rachel (Hull) Larkin. John Wesley Larkin was a son of Elijah Larkin, who was a native of Pennsylvania, and when a young man came to Clermont county, where he conducted a grocery store. In his later days he had the distinction of being the oldest justice of the peace in the county, and for many years served as an associate judge. He was a Whig and latterly a Republican. John Wesley Larkin was born and reared in Washington township, and for many years was an excellent blacksmith at Neville. As his name would indicate, he was a Methodist, and was a very active worker in that church. Rachel (Hull) Larkin was born in Mason county, Kentucky, where her father was a prosperous farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Larkin were the parents of nine children, two of whom died when about five years of age : Charles E., of Glendale, Ohio. Sarah A. married E. R. Hester, of this county. She is deceased. John Wesley, Jr., of Paris, Ky., was at one time a distiller, but is now engaged in farming. George G. conducts a bakery at Eaton, Ohio. Mary F. is the wife of William Houser, of Mount Holly, this county. C. C. is cashier of one of the banks of New Richmond, Ohio. Joseph L., the subject of this skech. Mr. Larkin died in 1867 and his wife passed away in 1896. Joseph L. Larkin was reared at Neville, where he received his education in the public schools at that place. In 1879, his marriage to Miss Kate L. Lemon took place. She was born in Washington township, and is a daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Milspaugh) Lemon, the former of whom died in 1882, and the latter in 1878. They were natives of Hamilton county, Ohio, but soon after their marriage they moved to Clermont county, where they were successful farmers of Washington township. Five of their children are living: Elizabeth is the wife of Isaiah M. Johnson, of Helena, Mont. Miss Prudie makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Larkin. Lorena C., the widow of J. M. Woods, lives with her daughter in Cincinnati. E. W. is a business man of Chicago, but his home and family are of New Richmond, Ohio. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 427 Mr. Larkin followed farming until 1894, when he was called upon to act as deputy county clerk, which position he filled until in 1903. He then accepted a position with the Union Central Life Insurance Company, in the loan department at the central office. After four years in this capacity he became deputy county auditor under County Auditor C. L. Ironton. So acceptably did he serve in this office that he was elected county auditor and is at present serving his second term, with credit to himself and his friends. Mr. and Mrs. Larkin are the parents of one son, Samuel Lemon Larkin, who was born August 29, 1891, and who graduated from the Batavia High School in 1911 and is now his father's assistant. During his busy life Mr. Larkin has served as township trustee for six years. Politically, he is a Democrat, although he is the only one in a large family who does not vote the Republican ticket. Mr. Larkin is a member of the Masonic brotherhood and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church, of Cincinnati, of the fraternal Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter of Batavia. Mr. Larkin is a man of great energy and enterprise and well deserves the esteem and high regard of his fellow men. He is a man of domestic tastes, devoted to his family and ever looking to their happiness and well being. He is a man of keen perception and honesty of purpose, combined with every-day common sense, guided by will power, a man of whom Clermont county is and well may be proud.    JAMES B. TURNER. As a representative business man ; as an active and earnest worker in all that tends to promote the best interests of the community in which he lives. James B. Turner, who has been treasurer of Clermont county since September, 1909, stands foremost in the ranks of enterprising men of the county. He was born at Newtown, Hamilton county, Ohio, November 28, 1869, and is a son of James J. and Mary (Forbes) Turner. James J. Turner was born in Hamilton county in 1846, and now resides in Monterey, which has been his home for thirty years. His life occupation has been along agricultural lines 428 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES and is now retired from active work. His father was from Pennsylvania. Mary (Forbes) Turner is a native of Clermont county, and was born in 1849, a daughter of Eben and Phoebe (Robinson) Forbes, probably an early family in the county. Eben Forbes followed farming most of his life. He and his family were Baptists. Mrs. Turner has two sisters living, one in Kentucky and one in Mt. Carmel, Clermont county. Mr. James B. Turner is one of four children, of whom two are deceased. Mrs. Mabel Stockton, died in Clermont county in July, 1903. Annie, died at the age of twelve years. Miss Stella, lives at home in Monterey. In 1891 James B. Turner was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Cover, who is a daughter of Daniel Cover, and a native of the county, her childhood home having been in Monterey. To this union have been born five children : Aurelia, aged fourteen years. Edwin, aged eight years. Ralph died at the age of t elve years. Erma, died at the age of ix years. Earl, died in infancy. Mr. Turner followed farming in Jackson township for a number of years, until he was elected to the office of county treasurer. He is a member of the Masonic lodge ; also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. ALLEN GLANCY. It is always of interest to the reader of history to examine into the life records of pioneer families, to note those qualities of enterprise, sound judgment and unwavering integrity which have ever been characteristic of those sturdy men and women of the early days, who have left comfortable homes in settled communities to brave the uncertain elements and conditions of a new country. It is of great interest to note how those courageous men and women met and conquered the obstacles and difficulties that arise in the daily life of the pioneer family. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 429 Allen Glancy is a scion of one of the most notable of the early families of Clermont county, and is numbered among the oldest residents of Batavia, Ohio, where for the past forty-two years he has conducted a general merchandise store in his present location. Mr. Allen Glancy was born in Batavia township, one mile from Batavia, and his parents were William and Hester (Fitzwater) Glancy. The paternal grandfather of the subject of this mention, James Glancy, was born in Pennsylvania in 1791, and upon the death of his parents, he and his sister, Elizabeth, became the wards of their father's elder brother, Jesse Glancy, who came to Clermont county in 1805 from Harrisburg, York county, Pennsylvania, settling on a large tract of land around what is now known as Williams's Corners, in Stonelick township. After James had reached his majority, his uncle, Jesse Glancy, settled him on a fine tract of land in Temples's survey, No. 4459, in Batavia township, which was later occupied by his son, William. James Glancy was united in marriage to Amanda Ashton, whose family were early settlers of Montgomery county, Ohio. She bore him three sons and two daughters, William, Thomas, Joseph, Rachel (McAfee) and Elizabeth (Madam), all of whom are deceased. James Glancy passed from this life in 1839, highly esteemed and respected by all who knew him. William Glancy was born on the old home farm two miles north of Batavia, in the year of 1812, and grew to young manhood upon his father's farm. After his marriage, he rented the farm on which Allen was born, following which he purchased the interests of the other heirs in the old homestead, and there resided until his death, which occurred in 1891. He followed the occupation of general farming, in connection with which he also worked at the brick laying trade, erecting many fine buildings and homes in the county. In politics, William Glancy was a Democrat, and although he did not aspire to office, served as trustee for many years. In religion, he was at one time a member of the Christian Union church, but mainly favored the belief of the Methodist Episcopal church. Hester (Fitzwater) Glancy was born in 1824, two miles east of Batavia, and was a daughter of Elias and Elizabeth (Davidson) Fitzwater, the latter being a daughter of General Davidson, a pioneer of Clermont county, and the former accompanied his father to Clermont county from Pennsylvania, driving the entire distance. 430 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES To the union of William and Hester (Fitzwater) Glancy were born eleven children : , Allen, our subject. Amanda, who became the wife of William Kirby, of Dayton, Ohio. Melvin, deceased, whose family live at Dayton, Ohio. Elmira (Thompson), deceased, and her daughter, Mrs. Frank Titus, resides at Batavia. Thomas, a contractor of Batavia, Ohio. Elizabeth, wife of Louis Rossell, of Dayton, Ohio. Keturah, who became the wife of Fred Gomien, of Batavia. Emma, who is the widow of John Gerber, of Dayton, Ohio. Anna, the wife of Major T. A. Fravell, of Dayton, Ohio. Elbert C., of Dayton, married a daughter of Judge Ashburn, of Batavia. Mellie, died in infancy. Allen Glancy passed through the years of his boyhood and youth on his father's farm, no event of special importance occurring to vary the routine of farm life. He attended the schools of Batavia and having displayed considerable artistic talent during his early years, upon the completion of his course of study at the high school, entered the T. C. Lindsay Art School, of Cincinnati, where he studied landscape work in oil. He has an extensive collection of his work, although he has sold paintings in many cities in various parts of the country. He has exhibited at the National exhibits of Cincinnati and Atlanta, Ga., and while on one of his trips to Georgia, he made a splendid painting of old Andersonville prison, which excited considerable favorable comment from art critics. However, the artistic talent of Mr. Glancy has in no way interfered with his business activity, and he has enjoyed a trade that is indicative of his excellent business capacity, his straightforward methods, and his conformity to a high standard of commercial ethics. On the 24th of March, 1864, Mr. Glancy was united in the holy bonds of wedlock to Miss Jennie McColm, the ceremony being solemnized at Owensville, Clermont county, Ohio. Miss McColm was born at Rushville, Ind., in the year of 1843, and her parents were John and Nancy (Wilson), McColm, the latter a daughter of a Revolutionary soldier and a major of that war. Nancy Wilson was born in Vermont in 1812, and her forebears came over in the Mayflower, landing at Plymouth. Her death occurred in 185o, at the age of thirty-nine years. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 431 The McColm family are of Scotch lineage, John McColm being born in North Carolina in 1796, two years after his father, James McColm, came to America from Scotland. James McColm later removed to Adams county, Ohio, where he resided until his death. Several of the men of the McColm family for generations have been ministers. John McColm was a farmer by occupation, living in Jackson township, Clermont county, and was one of the pioneers in the Methodist church in this section of the State. His death occurred in 1852. To the union of John and Nancy (Wilson) McColm were born five children, Mrs. Glancy, E. W. McColm, of Carthage, Ill., and David, Louise and Albert, deceased. Mrs. Glancy was reared and has resided her life thus far in Clermont county. She and her husband have traveled life's journey together for nearly fifty years, their life being one) of extreme harmony. Their union has been blessed with one child, a son, Homer B., lieutenant-colonel of the First regiment, Ohio National Guards, residing at Batavia, Ohio. He enlisted as a soldier in the Spanish-American war, and was made sergeant of the First regiment. After the close of the war, he organized a company of Ohio National guards at Batavia, of which he was elected captain, and was later promoted to the office of lieutenant-colonel. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Homer B. Glancy chose for his life's companion, Miss Bessie Denham, of Indiana. Her mother was a daughter of Henry Lindsay, of Clermont county. In political matters, Mr. Glancy is a Democrat, though not in the light of an office seeker, preferring to devote his time and attention to his business and his painting. Socially, Mr. Glancy has held membership for thirty-five years with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has satisfactorily filled the office of treasurer of Batavia lodge, No. 136. Both he and Mrs. Glancy are members of the Rebekah lodge, No. 450, and Mrs. Glancy is a charter member of the Batavia Woman's Club. Mr. and Mrs. Glancy are consistent members of the Methodist church, and are active in all church affairs. The cause of moral development in his community is of deep and sincere interest to Mr. Glancy, and matters of public welfare elicit his attention. His co-operation is given to every movement which he believes will prove of definite and immediate service or of permanent good. 432 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES ELDER JAMES HENRY LOCKWOOD. Clermont county has been called upon on more than one occasion to part with citizens of the very highest type of usefulness, and to hold, only in memory, those who had been familiar figures and had been identified with her dearest interests. In recalling the late Elder James Henry Lockwood, the citizens of the county will remember one who for many years was a prominent minister of the Christian church, and who preached in many of the churches in this vicinity. He was a man whom to know was to respect and honor, and his life history should have a place on the pages of the county's annals. He was born in Green township, Hamilton county, Ohio, September 11, 1822, a son of Ezekiel and Minerva (Trowbridge) Lockwood. Minerva (Trowbridge) Lockwood was a native of Steuben county, New York, and came to Hamilton county with her father in 182o. In the same year Ezekiel Lockwood, who was born and reared in Greenwich, Conn., came to Hamilton county, Ohio, where he purchased a farm in Green township, and in 1821 his marriage to Miss Trowbridge occurred. They followed farming for two years, after which they removed to the eastern part of Cincinnati, where he engaged in steamboat building, a trade in which he had served a full apprenticeship in New York City. He continued in this business as contractor and master builder, in Cincinnati and Fulton, until in the spring of 1846. In the meantime, Minerva (Trowbridge) Lockwood had passed away and Ezekiel had married the second time, Miss Ann Medary, the ceremony taking place in 1841. The early education of Elder J. H. Lockw00d was received in the common district schools until in 1839, when he entered Woodward College, of which Prof. B. P. Aydelott was president. He continued in college for three sessions of six months each, reaching his sophomore year, when his health failed and he was forced to discontinue his studies for a time. To regain his health, our subject helped his father in steamboat building for two years. In 1842, Elder Lockwood became a member of the Christian church of Fulton, being baptized by Elder James Challen. He joyfully engaged in the church work as a teacher, later becoming superintendent of the Sunday school, continuing until in February, 1846, when the family removed to Nicholsville, Clermont county. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 433 In the fall of 1845, Elder Lockwood had the pleasure of a visit to the native home of his father, spending six weeks with relatives there. The enjoyment of this visit was ever a delightful memory. The two years after the family settled in Clermont county were spent by our subject and his father in putting the home into good repair and by this time his health was sufficiently recovered so that at the earnest solicitation of his friends, Elder J. T. Powell and Elder George Campbell, he entered the school at Fairview, Rush county, Indiana, in charge of Prof. A. R. Benton. It had long been a cherished wish of our subject to prepare himself for the ministry, that he might accomplish a greater good. He was in attendance at this school for two years, making his home with Brother Campbell, while there, and having the advantage of his counsel and advice as well as access to his library, which was a great help to him in his studies. During the years of 185o and 1851, while attending school at Fairview, Elder Lockwood began sending out appointments to the neighboring churches for Sunday services, and in this way commenced his ministerial life, walking from four to six miles to address congregations at four different points. In the summer of 1851, he returned to Clermont county, and was engaged to preach at Bethel twice each month and a little later he was engaged at New Richmond on alternate Sundays, also holding services at Neville and other points until the spring of p854. In the meantime he taught school in the home district for six months, at a salary of 25 per month, which was the highest salary ever paid in that locality at that time to teachers in the country schools. On the morning of March 30, 1854, occurred the marriage of Elder Lockwood to Miss M. E. Holland, the officiating minister being Elder J. T. Powell. Elder Lockwood and his bride went at once to Madison, Ind., where he had accepted a charge. He continued at this place for eight years, where he was held in the highest esteem. During these eight years he had the joy of seeing two hundred and forty-seven members added to the church, and was called upon from time to time to preach in Jefferson, Jennings, Ohio and Ripley counties, Indiana, and also at Bethel, Ohio, being instrumental in bringing many into these churches. In April, 1862, Elder Lockwood was engaged to take charge of the church at Bethel, preaching semi-monthly at this place 434 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES for forty-two years, and at New Richmond on alternate Sundays, for twelve years. In addition to the work in these two churches, he preached for a number of years at Felicity, Georgetown, Moscow, Mt. Orab, Dayton, Hamersville, Liberty, Ripley, Russellville, Fincastle, Monterey, and other points. By the choice of the churches in the Twenty-eighth district of the Ohio Christian Missionary Society, he was made secretary for twenty-six years, being instrumental in organizing and building neat church houses at Georgetown, Bethel, and Mt. Orab. Beside the ministerial work mentioned in Ohio, Elder Lockwood has held meetings and helped to organize churches in Kentucky, at Ghent, Liberty, Cynthiana, Mt. Bird, Brooksville, and Covington. Elder and Mrs. Lockwood were the parents of seven children : Edward A., whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work, was born at Madison, Ind., January 19, 1855. Walter E., was born at Madison, Ind., and died at Greenville, Ohio, in 1909. He was a merchant at that place for many years. George M., was also born at Madison, Ind., and was a partner of Walter E. at Greenville' for years. Charles H., was born in Clermont county, and owns and operates a large restaurant at Buffalo, N. Y. J. Harry, a native of Clermont county, has been a reporter on the "Cincinnati Enquirer" for the past twenty years. Anna M., is the wife of A. C. Crone, a partner in the Whitaker Paper Company, of Cincinnati. William T., is an extensive real estate dealer in Redcliffe, Canada, which town he built. The lives of Elder and Mrs. Lockwood were spent in harmony, each devoted and sacrificing in the trials they were called upon to bear, being true and earnest helpmates. Mrs. Lockwood passed away in June, 189o, at their home in Monroe township, near Nicholsville. After the death of his wife, Elder Lockwood removed to Cincinnati and made his home with his daughter, Anna, now Mrs. A. C. Crone, still continuing his pastorate at Bethel. He passed from this life June 17, 1903, in his eighty-first year. Elder Lockwood had the joy and pleasure of seeing not less than two thousand souls brought into the Kingdom by his r CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 435 efforts in the ministry. His sermons were characterized by great forcefulness and plainness of speech, proclaiming man a sinner, and Christ a savior, calling upon all to repent at once and believe in the Master. Heaven was presented as the sure inheritance and future home of penitent believers. His was a life worth living, pure, earnest and peaceful. Anna : Autograph, I most gladly now write, Not because I have much to indite, Nevertheless, with others kind and true, Anna, I inscribe this affectionately to you. Your father, J. H. Lockwood. March 30, 1883. THOMAS C. TEAL. One of the well known men of the official life of Clermont county, Ohio, is Thomas C. Teal, who is the county sheriff. He is keenly alive to the interests of the community and is possessed of all the qualities and characteristics that are the making of the man of affairs. Mr. Teal holds the record for length of service, having served two terms in succession at two different times. He began his public life as deputy sheriff, serving two years under George H. Keen. In appreciation of his services at that time he was elected to the office of sheriff in 1893, beginning the activities of the office in January, 1894. That he performed his duties acceptably to the majority of the citizens of the county was evidenced in 1908 when he was again elected to the same office he had previously held. He has always given to the county his best endeavors. . Thomas C. Teal is a native of Clermont county and was born May 1, 1848, a son of Jacob L. and Lydia (Dimmitt) Teal. Jacob L. Teal was born in Maryland in 1795 and was a son of Jacob Teal and wife, who came to Clermont county from Maryland in 1799 and who died about 1848. Jacob L. Teal was a carpenter and also taught school, but in later years he followed farming, residing on his fine farm of six hundred and twenty acres in Union township. He was a Whig and later a Democrat. Lydia (Dimmitt) Teal was born in Clermont county in 1800 and was a daughter of Ezekiel Dimmitt, a pioneer of an early day in the county. He was a contractor and builder and built the county court house 436 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES and Methodist Episcopal church. He died at Batavia at an advanced age. Jacob L. Teal died in 1869 and his wife followed him in 1875. They were both active and prominent members of the Methodist church. Mr. Thomas C. Teal is one of twelve children, the father having been twice married. Those of the first family are : Jessie L., Burris W., and Sarah. Of this family all are deceased. Those of the second family are : Caroline, deceased. Marcella, deceased . Keziah, deceased. Jennie, Mrs. Brancomb, of Cincinnati. Amanda, deceased. Granville is a farmer living in Union township, this county. Thomas C., the subject of this review. Viola, Mrs. Mohr, of Hyde Park, Cincinnati. Mary, deceased. Thomas C. Teal was reared on the home farm of his father in Union township, and farming has been his occupation for the greater part of his life. His educational privileges were rather limited, attending only the district schools, but he has always been a close observer and has learned many things not taught in books. On December 26, 1866, the marriage of Mr. Teal to Miss Martha E. Patchel took place. She was also a native of Clermont county, her birthplace being Stone Lick. Her death occurred July 14, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Teal had born to their union four children : Anna is the widow of Louis Maher, a railroad man. He was killed on the road about ten years ago, leaving one son who is a street car conductor at Cincinnati. Mrs. Maher resides with her father at Batavia. William P., of College Hill, Cincinnati, is superintendent of free-hand drawing at the Hughes High School, Cincinnati. He also instructs on Saturdays at the Woodward High School. He married a daughter. of Mr. John Ferenbach, superintendent of the Cincinnati Hospital and a civil engineer. Miss Mary E., a musical instructor of Covington and Cincinnati. She has a fine contralto voice and has traveled quite extensively as a singer and pianist. She is a graduate of Clara Bower's School of Music at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. Edward L., who died at the age of nine years. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 437 Mr. Teal owns a hotel at Batavia, which he conducted for several years. He is a staunch Democrat and has been trustee of Stone Lick township for a number of years. He is a member of the Masonic lodge at Batavia. He has taught a class of young ladies in the Methodist Sunday school for a number of years and is a great favorite with all of them. He has led a useful life filled with good deeds, belonging to a class of citizens who shed around them much of life's sunshine. Prior to his election as county sheriff, Mr. Teal was night watchman for the United States Treasurer's office at Cincinnati, which position he held for three years. His work has always been done in an honorable and straightforward manner, no matter what was before him to do. WILLIAM H. BAUM. William H. Baum, now cashier of the German American Bank of Batavia, which was organized November 10, 191o, was born May 6, 1854, in Batavia, in the house in which he still lives with his mother, who is eighty-four years of age. His father, -William Baum, was born and reared about Zanesville, Ohio, leaving his home upon his father's second marriage at the early age of twelve, with a very limited education. He spent some six years in Cincinnati, Ohio, learning the plane making trade, which trade he followed until the advent of machinery made his trade useless. In 1851 he moved to Batavia, where he went into the wholesale business, hauling and delivering immense loads of merchandise. He was engaged as a sutler in the army during the Civil war. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being a charter member of Old Washington Lodge No. 2, Cincinnati, until he demitted to the lodge at Batavia. While still in the wholesale business he died, at the age of sixty-eight years. Matilda C. (Kain) Baum was the daughter of Col. Thomas Kain, whose ancestors were pioneers of Clermont county. In 1846 she was married to William Baum, to which union six children were born ; Emma died at the age of four ; Thomas C., a professional man in Philadelphia ; William H., our subject ; George F., of Batavia, who is in the express business ; James A., a traveler from Cincinnati for Peck-Williamson 438 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES Company, died at the age of forty, and Miss Louise, of Batavia. William H. Baum, our subject, was educated in the public schools of Batavia. He did his first work in a general store, but desiring something better, he went into the sewing machine and bicycle business, which trade he followed for about thirty years. Desiring something still better, about ten years ago he entered the Independent Telephone Company, which company was succeeded by the Bell system, and he is now, as before mentioned, the cashier of the German-American Bank. Politically, Mr. Baum has always been a Republican and has taken an active part in political affairs. He has served in local official capacities, and as delegate, and was postmaster for seven and one-half years. Socially he is a member of the Masonic order; Blue Lodge and Chapter, of Batavia. He has never married. JOSEPH GAYLEY. Mr. Joseph Gayley, a retired carpenter, contractor and builder, of Decatur, Brown county, Ohio, and most highly regarded citizen, was born in Castlederg, county Tyrone, Ireland, in March 1835. He is a son of John and Ruth (Thompson) Gayley, both natives of county Tyrone, Ireland. The father of our subject was raised in county Tyrone, Ireland, and became a manufacturer of linen in connection with the occupation of farming. Both he and his wife were of the old school Presbyterians, and of that denomination he served for many years as elder. They had ten children born to their union, whose nams follow : William, born in 1815 ; Margaret, who was the wife of Alexander Hill, near Baronscourt ; John, who died in America in 186o; Ruth, who married John Gailey ; Rhoda, who died at the age of two years ; Andrew, who was born in 1828, in Castlederg, Ireland, and is still a residnt of his native town ; Robert, born in Cavnabun ; Matilda, who married a Mr. Gilmore ; Mary, who married John Cooper, and they died in Philadelphia, Pa.; and Joseph, our subject. John and Ruth (Thompson) Gayley both departed this life in the country of their nativity after useful and honorable lives. Mr. Joseph Gayley was fifteen years of age when he sailed for America, in 185o. He received a good schooling in Ireland and attended a number of classical schools. Upon his arrival in America the young man spent one year in Chester county, CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 439 Pennsylvania, with an uncle, Daniel Gayley. He then went to Homesburg, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he engaged in the making of dry goods boxes for a calico print establishment, and was thus occupied until the great panic of 1857 in the United States. In 1857, Mr. Gayley came to Ohio and settled at Decatur, which has been his home since that time. He first took up the business of carpentering and later undertook some contracting and building. His success in this line of endeavor led him to continue in this business until 1904, when he was able to retire from active labor and to enjoy the well earned ease of the prosperous business man. Mr. Gayley is also an honored veteran of the Civil war, having enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Sixty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and served with the one hundred-day men, not quite four months. His military career was served at Columbus, Ohio. On the 18th day of September, 1865, Mr. Joseph Gayley was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Amanda Shofstall, daughter of Florence and Sarah (Smith) Shofstall, and for nearly half a century this worthy couple have traveled together on the journey of life. One daughter has blessed this union, Florence, now the wife of Dr. James H. Hamilton. Mrs. Gayley was born on the hill south of Decatur, Ohio, January 14, 1841. Her father was born in Hagerstown, Md., her mother in Maysville, Ky. They were early settlers in Brown county, Ohio, leaving Kentucky on account of the slavery agitation. They settled on a farm adjoining Decatur on the south, which he improved and there raised his family. Her father died November 8, 1872, on Presidential election morning, seventy-nine years of age, and her mother passed away at the age of fifty-two years. They were the parents of twelve children, eight of whom lived to mature years : Nancy, who married William Campbell ; Clarissa, who married Frederick Elifritz ; David Shofstall ; John Shofstall ; Julia Ann, who married D. B. Kirker ; William Shofstall ; Elizabeth Amanda, wife of our subject ; Margaret Faris, wife of Albert Liggett, both now deceased ; and Richard Henry Shofstall, of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Gayley are both earnest and active members of the Presbyterian church, of which denomination he is serving as elder and clerk of the session. In politics, Mr. Gayley is an advocate of the principles of 440 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES the Republican party and has served his party as township trustee for nearly thirty years. Mr. Gayley has always been known as a man of high personal character and is one of the most public spirited citizens of Brown county. WILLIAM H. SMITH. One of the most public spirited men of Clermont county, Ohio, and one who takes an active interest in all political affairs, is William H. Smith, who was superintendent of the Clermont county infirmary for three years and ten months, during which time Mrs. Smith was matron, located near Batavia on the Batavia & Milford pike. The farm consists of one hundred and twenty acres. Mr. William H. Smith is a native of Clermont county, his birth having occurred in Franklin township, near Felicity, July 8, 1864. He is a son of Peter C. and Mary J. (McKibbon) Smith, who were prosperous farmers of the county. They had born to their union five children, of whom our subject is one. Mrs. Smith died April 3o, 1875, and Peter Smith married a second time. To this marriage were born three children. William H. Smith spent the first twenty-five years of his life on the farm of his father, attending the schools in his district, finishing in the high school at Felicity, Ohio, under Professor William H. Ulrey and Professor G. W. Witham. On March 26, 1893, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Stella Etta Trees, who is also a native of Clermont county. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Charles F. Park. Mrs. Smith is a daughter of James and Paulina (Sapp) Trees, who were both born and reared in Clermont county, and who were thriving farmers living in Washington township, near Moscow. Mrs. Smith's paternal grandparents came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in an early day and her maternal grandfather came to Ohio from Kentucky. Her father was twice married and Mrs. Smith is the youngest of fifteen children, of whom thirteen grew to maturity. Mrs. Smith received a good education and taught school for five years. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have one son born to them : Parker McKibbon, who was born near Felicity, Ohio, July 27, 1897. He is a student of the Felicity High School. In 1899, Mr. Smith purchased a farm of sixty-eight and one CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 441 half acres north of Felicity, where he lived and carried on general farming until he was appointed superintendent of the infirmary, which he filled acceptably to all the community until January t, 1913, when he resigned to return to his farm. Mr. Smith is an active Democrat and served his party as delegate to the county conventions and as trustee of Franklin township for nearly four years. He served as assessor for two years. He has been a member of the Chirstian church since he was twenty-one years of age and when very young manifested an especial talent for music, learning to play the cornet. He soon became a member of the church choir and orchestra and of the Military Band, being at present a member of the Batavia Band and Orchestra. He is a member of the Felicity Camp, No. 8762, Modern Woodmen of America. GEORGE A. KEEN AND BROTHER. George A. Keen and Thomas A. Keen, members of the firm of George A. Keen & Brother, of Batavia, Ohio, are men of exceptional business ability and have met with success in whatever they have undertaken. Their methods are practical and honorable and their conduct upright and conscientious. George A. Keen was born in Covington, Ky., November 26, 1851, and is a son of Archibald and Rebecca (Kirkpatrick) Keen, the former of whom was born in Newport. Ky. He was a manufacturer of brick and had a very prosperous business. Rebecca (Kirkpatrick) Keen was born in Kenton county, Kentucky. Mr. George Keen received his education in the public schools of Covington, Ky. When he was eighteen years of age he began his life career as a business man. For twelve years he was employed by the Covington cold storage plant and during this time he was married to Miss Elizabeth Waterfield, the date being November 21, 1876. She is a native of Clermont county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Edward and Lucinda (Plank) Salt. She was adopted, when quite young, by William and Minerva Waterfield, of Covington, Ky., who reared and educated her in the Notre Dame School, Reading, Ohio, and at Ohio Wesleyan College at Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Keen's health failed in 1881 and his physician advised a change of employment. He moved to Chilo, Clermont county, 442 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES where he opened a general merchandise business, and although he was new to this occupation, he was very successful, building up a splendid patronage. In 1889 Mr. Keen was elected sheriff by the Democratic party, taking office January 1, 189o. He sold out his business at Chilo and moved to Batavia. He served in this office for two years. At the close of his term of office as sheriff Mr. Keen bought out the coal and lumber business of J. W. Duckwall & Bro., and in 1892 a partnership was formed with his brother, Thomas A. Keen. Mr. and Mrs. Keen are the parents of three children : William W. was born in Covington and is a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University. He is now assistant secretary of the Mobile Gas and Electric Company, of Mobile, Ala. He married Miss Sarah Greeno, of Milford, Ohio. They have one child, Alice. Ginevra was born at Chilo, a twin of Minerva, who died when she was two and one -half years old. She is a graduate of the Batavia High School and married Everett Shipp, living at Washington, D. C., where he is chief photographer in the Forestry Department of the United States Government. They have two children—Elizabeth and Virginia. Archibald E. was born at Chilo and received a common school education. He is in the coal and lumber business at Mt. Healthy, Ohio. He married Miss Louise Walker, a daughter of Judge Walker. They have one child, Ann Elizabeth. Mr. George Keen is a Democrat in politics. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, is a trustee and a teacher of the Men's Bible Class in the Sunday school. He became a member of Felicity Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and was demitted to Batavia. He has filled the various chairs and has also taken Chapter and Council degrees, at New Richmond. Thomas A. Keen, of the firm of George A. Keen & Brother, was born at Covington, Ky., October 21, 1857, a son of Archibald and Rebecca (Kirkpatrick) Keen. He was reared and educated at Covington, attending the public schools of that place until he was sixteen years of age, when he entered the brick manufacturing business of his father, following this occupation for four years. He then took up the cold storage business and continued in this employment for fourteen years. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 443 In 1892 the partnership with his brother, George, was formed. Mr. Keen was never married. The firm of George A. Keen & Brother deals in coal, lumber, lime and cement. They enjoy a liberal patronage and are well known in the county. CAPT. CHARLES H. MURRAY. Capt. Charles H. Murray was a native of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, and on January 3o, 1861, was united in marriage to Miss Amy J. Huling, who was born in the old log house in Monroe township, which was built by her grandfather, William Huling. William Huling came to Clermont county from New Jersey in 1803, traveling the distance by horseback, and on the way looking at many locations that might be suitable for a future home, but he was not entirely satisfied with all surroundings until he reached the county of Clermont. He kept a diary of the trip and could have settled on the site where Cincinnati is located. The interesting diary is still in the family. After finding a location that desired for a future home, William Huling returned to New Jersey for his family and in 181o, settled on the farm which is the present home of Mrs. Murray. He erected a log house, in which the family resided for many years. He became a large land owner in this section, and died in 1826, in the prime of life. The parents of Mrs. Murray were Jacob and Amy (Ware) Huling, the former of whom was born in New Jersey in 1800 and died in 1881, and the latter of whom was also a native of New Jersey, her birth occurring in 1807, and who died in January, 1889. Jacob Huling was twice married, there being three children by the first union and three children by the second, Mrs.. Murray being the youngest child of the second marriage. He was in early years a Whig, and later a Republican, although he would never accept of an office. He was a devout member of the Methodist church. Capt. Charles H, Murray received a fine education and was attending Miami University, of Oxford, Ohio, at the time of the first alarm of the Civil war. He at once offered his services and assisted in forming a company, of which he was made lieutenant. Later, he became captain, of the Fifth Ohio 444 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES cavalry, and was in the service from 1861 to 1865. Soon after his return from the war, Mr. Murray removed with his family to Clay City, Illinois, where he purchased, forty acres of land adjoining the town. This was their home for some years, Mr. Murray following the occupation of a farmer until he became a prospector of Colorado. Mrs. Murray remained in the home in Illinois until the death of her father, in 1881, when she returned to her girlhood home to care for her mother in her declining years. This has been her home all her life, with the exception of the fourteen years spent in Illinois. To the union of Captain and Mrs. Murray have been born two daughters : Maude, who is single, lives at home with her mother. Jessie, married Leslie D. Spence, a dentist of Amelia, Ohio. Mrs. Murray occupies the old home farm of her parents and grandparents. The old log house in which she was born and spent the first two years of her life was standing until 1885. She is highly esteemed in the community where she has lived for the most of her life, and has a host of warm friends and acquaintances. WILLIAM H. H. HENNING. William H. H. Henning, a highly respected and prosperous farmer and dairyman of Batavia township, Clermont county, Ohio, where he jointly owns and operates the old Lytle homestead, with John Ethelbert Lytle. These two families are a refutation of old theory, that "no roof is large enough for two families," as they have for years lived and farmed together as one family, rearing their children in peace and harmony. They carry on the business of general farming and dairying as partners, along scientific lines. William Henning was born July 2, 1874, in Batavia township, and is a son of Henry D. and Mary (Eichner) Henning, the former of whom is a native of New York City and who came to Ohio with his parents, when he was thirteen years of age. He worked in a store in Cincinnati for a time and afterward worked on a boat, plying the river between Cincinnati and New Orleans. Later he became a photographer, working at that business until his marriage, when he purchased the farm where our subject, William Henning, was born, and which they still own. Mary Eichner was a native of Harris- CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 445 burg, Pa., coming to Ohio with her parents, who located at Dayton, Ohio. To them were born five children : George, who lives in Batavia township ; William H. H., our subject ; Stella ; Clarence, who lives at Norwood, Ohio, is married and has one daughter, Florence, and Harry D., also a resident of Norwood, Ohio, who married Kathern Ellabach, December 31, 1909. Mr. Henning is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Christian church, a Christian by faith and practice, contributing largely of his means toward the betterment of mankind. JOHN ETHELBERT LYTLE. John Ethelbert Lytle, a prominent farmer and dairyman of Clermont county, Ohio, whose home is on the old Lytle homestead on the Bantam pike, was born in the county of Clermont. He is a son of Nelson and Betsey (Wheeler) Lytle. Nelson Lytle was born at Batavia, Ohio, July 1, 1827, and was a son of William and Annie (Kinnan) Lytle, the former of whom was a carpenter by trade. When quite young, Nelson went to live with his paternal grandfather, William Lytle, who gave the boy a good common school education, which, when completed, was turned to scientific farming under his grandfather's instruction. He followed this vocation in various places until his death. His father, William Lytle, met his death in 1856 by the falling of bark from a tree in the timber. It is a curious coincidence that both the father and the mother of Nelson met death by accident, the latter being thrown from a buggy shortly after the death of her husband. Nelson Lytle was twice married, the first to Miss Elizabeth Harris, October 28, 1848, and the second to Miss Betsy Wheeler, on September 18, 1864. To the first union, six children were born, four of whom are living, and to the second union were born five children, four of whom are still living. Of the second family are the following: George O., who is a fruit grower near Seattle, Wash. Emma J., who married William Henning, and has one son, Earl, born July 21, 1902. Horace M., a farmer of Monroe township, this county, and has four children. John E., our subject. 446 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES Clifford, who died at the age of twenty-four years. Nelson Lytle was a successful farmer and was a Republican but not an office seeker. He was a consistent member of the Christian church of Mt. Holly, and served as treasurer for years before his death, which occurred August 8, 1901, his wife passing away July 2, 1892. John Ethelbert Lytle grew to manhood on the home farm, receiving a good education in the common schools of his locality. He married Miss Stella Henning, September 18, 1900. She is a daughter of Henry D. and Mary (Eichner) Henning, and was born at Batavia, Ohio, September 15, 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Lytle have two children : Clarence, who was born November 13,, 1901. Walter, whose birth occurred June 13, 1905. Mr. Lytle is a Republican, although not an office seeker, and is interested in all political questions of the day. He is a member and a trustee of the Christian church, also being superintendent of the Sunday school. A. B. APPLEGATE. Among the oldest residents of Milford, Ohio, Mr. A. B. Applegate is numbered, having for many years been identified with the agricultural, professional and public life of Clermont county. He is the present mayor of the thriving town of Milford, having been elected in 1911, and his term has been one of progression. Mr. Applegate was born on a farm near Goshen, Clermont county, Ohio, August 1o, 1842, his parents being John and Anna' (Emery) Applegate, who were successful farmers of the county for many years. His maternal grandfather was Judge John Emery. The boyhood of Mr. Applegate was spent on the farm, attending the schools of the district, later becoming a student of the Lebanon, Ohio, Normal School, and, in 1861, engaged in the profession of teaching. After two months he thought himself a failure and gave up his position and, in September, 1864, enlisted in Company E, Seventy-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, being sent at once to the front. He was under fire at Nashville, Tenn., and remained in the service until June, 1865. CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 447 The following fall, after his return from the war, Mr. Applegate attended spelling school in the same district in which he had taught and was asked to pronounce the words, which he did with so pleasing a manner that the directors of the school asked him to teach the school for the winter term. Remembering his former unsuccessful venture in this line of work, he refused. However, his refusal would not be accepted, and even though he had no certificate, he was urged to take the position, which he finally did. Instead of using Professor Holbrook's methods he used a little army discipline, with such success that he was engaged to teach the school for five consecutive years. In the year of 1872, on the 8th of May, Mr. Applegate was married to Miss Amelia Boutell, of Charleston, Goshen township, where she was born and reared, having been a former pupil in his school. She was a daughter of Capt. George and Marietta (Brooks) Boutell. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Applegate were born five children : Marietta was born in 1873, her sweet life ending in 1876. A. B., Jr., was born at Belfast, Clermont county, June 7, 1878, was graduated from the Milford High School, after which he taught school four years. He crossed the ocean six time," as an employee of the United States Government, on a mail steamer. He was also employed as clerk in the postoffice at Cincinnati for one year, later becoming a clerk for the Adams Express Company, which position he holds at the present time. He married Mrs. Pearl Jones, and they have no children. Florence, who was born at Milford, was married to Jacob Brauer, their home being at Covington, Ky. She has two children, Florence and J. Barton. George W. was born at Milford and is a graduate of the high school of that place. He has been bookkeeper and cashier of the Mutual Banking Company, of Cincinnati, for the past eight years. He married Miss Valerie Trauth and they have one child, George Barton. Anna Amelia was born in Milford and took a business course in Cincinnati. March 9, 1913, was married to Robert H. Drews, of Iowa City, Iowa, on her mother's sixtieth anniversary. Mr. Applegate has always been a Democrat, though not an extreme partisan. He served as constable and justice of the peace, and although he has tried many cases, and some were 448 - CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES appealed, none was ever reversed. From 1885 to 1889 he was postmaster at Milford and for six years was township clerk, also being the township treasurer for four years. Being interested also in educational matters he was a member of the school board for six years and also served as treasurer of the board for five years. Mr. Applegate was secretary of the Milford Building & Loan Association for eight years. He was elected to the council at different times and during his term began the paving of the streets. Mr. Applegate is a member of the S. R. S. West Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and has been commander and adjutant, being privileged to attend some of the National reunions. He was a delegate to the State encampment in 1911, held at Lorain, and was alternate to the National encampment, held at Los Angeles, Cal., in 1912, and aid to Commander Blodget in 1913. For the past thirty-four years Mr. Applegate has been active in the interests of Milford, and his influence has been one of progression, and his many good traits of heart have endeared him to all with whom he has come in contact, and at seventy-one years of age is hale and hearty. MAJOR DION WILLIAMS. Major Dion Williams, United States Marine Corps, was born in the Williams homestead, at Williamsburg, Ohio, on December 15, 1869. He is the only son of Byron and Katherine Park Williams. He received his earlier education in the public schools of Williamsburg, graduating from the high school in the class of 1886. Appointed a naval cadet on July 16, 1887, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy, on June I, 1891, and for two years thereafter served as a midshipman on the United States steamer Atlanta, one of the cruisers of the Squadron of Evolution, known throughout the country as the "White Squadron." During this cruise, the Atlanta visited the West Indies and South America, and cruised along the east coast of the United States, touching at most of the important ports between Maine and the straits of Magellan. On July 1, 1893, having passed the final examinations for his class, with a good standing, he was commissioned a second CLERMONT AND BROWN COUNTIES - 449 lieutenant in the United States marine corps. The marine corps, which is an integral part of the navy, is the oldest branch of the government service, having been organized at Boston in 1775 pursuant to an act of the First Continental Congress. In every war in which the United States has taken part, the troops of the marine corps have taken part in the first engagement, and so well has the duty been performed that they have well won the title of the "Ever Faithful," and the official motto of the corps is "Semper Fidelis." After receiving his first commission Lieutenant Williams was ordered to the Officers' School of Application, Washington D. C., graduating from that institution in June, 1894, at the head of his class. June 3o, 1894, he was promoted to be a first lieutenant, and was ordered to the marine barracks at the navy yard, New York, where he served as adjutant of that marine battalion. On February 20, 1895, he was married at New London, Conn., to Helen Mar Ames, only daughter of Col. Nathaniel H. and Elizabeth McDonald Ames. Colonel Ames was for years the colonel of the Third regiment of the Connecticut National Guard, and a leader among the military men of New England. Mrs. Williams' mother is a member of the noted McDonald and Crawford families of Scotland. In October, 1895, Lieutenant. Williams was transferred to the marine barracks at Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco Bay, California, where he served until September, 1897. During this time he studied law with especial reference to military procedure, and was appointed judge advocate of many important naval courts martial. In September, 1897, Lieutenant Williams was ordered to duty on the United States cruiser Baltimore, then flagship of the United States Pacific Squadron. The Baltimore proceeded to Honolulu, Hawaii, then an unstable republic, and remained there through the winter of 1897-98, protecting American interests. When the sinking of the Maine, in Havana harbor, made war with Spain inevitable, all the available naval ammunition on the west coast was rushed to Honolulu and loaded into the Baltimore, and she proceeded with all despatch to Hong Kong, where Commodore Dewey's United States Asiatic Squadron lay anxiously awaiting permission to sail for Manila. The Baltimore arrived just in time to transfer the ammunition to the other ships, don her war paint of sombre grey and sail with the squadron for Manila. In the battle of Manila Bay, May 1, 1898, Lieu-