(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 600 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. came to Champaign county, Ohio, locating in Johnson township, near Millerstown, where for a time he followed the carpenter's trade and later took up his abode on a farm in this vicinity. After corning to this county he was united in marriage to Henrietta Idle, who was born in Concord township, Champaign county, on the 28th of January, 1839. His father, Henry Idle, was one of the early pioneers of this county, having removed here from Virginia. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Houser were born six sons, —John W., Daniel C., Louis H., J. P., Jerry and Taylor. All were born and reared in Champaign county, and with the exception of the youngest all are still living-. Mr. Houser is a life-long Democrat, and is a valued member of the old German Reformed church. Daniel C. Houser, of this review, remained under the parental roof until he was twenty-six years of age, and the district schools of Champaign county afforded him his educational privileges. At the early age of eighteen years he began teaching in the schools of his native township, following that profession for eight years, and during five years of the time he also studied medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Longfellow, of Urbana. Later he became a student in the Starling Medical College, of Columbus, Ohio, in which institution he was graduated on the 25th of March, 1897. In that year he began the practice of his profession in Millerstown. He now enjoys a large general patronage and holds prestige among the most eminent members of the profession in this part of the state. He is also the owner of twenty acres of land north of Millerstown. In Champaign county, on the 23d of October, 1893, Dr. Houser was united in marriage to Miss Florence M. Huntoon, a native daughter of this county, where she was horn on the loth of July, 1869. She was a successful teacher in the schools of this locality prior to her marriage. Her father, Martin True Huntoon, was born in New Hampshire, but in a very early day carne to Champaign county, and in Union township was CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 601 united in marriage to Abigail Minturn, a native of Columbus, Ohio. They became the parents of six children,--Charles, Edward, Susan,. Anna, William and Florence. The third son, William, is now deceased.. All were born and reared in Champaign county. Mr. and Mrs: Houser have had two children, —Lester, born in Millerstown, September 6, 1894,. and Lela, born March 13, 1898. The Doctor gives his political support to the Democratic party, and in his fraternal relations is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Crayon. He is a valued member of the Baptist church at Millerstown, in which he has served as a deacon for a number of years. Both as a physician and citizen he enjoys. the high esteem of the residents of Champaign county. ELWOOD S. McCLELLAN. For a number of years Elwood S. McClellan has been an honored. resident of Champaign county. He has won an excellent reputation in business circles, and whatever tends to elevate and improve the condition of his fellow men is certain to receive his earnest support and influence_ He was born in Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio, September 27, 1854. His,. father, Hiram McClellan, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania,. and after his marriage removed to Tiffin, Ohio, removing thence, in 1868, to Cable, Champaign county, where he is now a retired farmer.. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Eliza Swisher, and she,, too, was a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. She now resides with her husband in their pleasant home in Cable. Of their six children three are now living, two sons and one daughter, and two daughters and a son are deceased. Elwood S. McClellan, the second child and second son in the above 602 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. family was fourteen years of age when he carne with his parents to Wayne township, Champaign county. Prior to his removal here he attended the schools of Seneca county, later became a student in the Heidelberg College, at Tiffin, and after completing his education he taught for three terms in Wayne and Rush townships, Champaign county. For the following six years he was engaged in farming near Mingo. In 1886 he left his Ohio home for Kansas, and in Gray county, that state, took up government land and followed agricultural pursuits there for two years, during which time he was active in public affairs, having served as county commissioner and being also elected to the legislature from Gray county. He still owns one hundred and sixty acres of land in that state. His homestead in Wayne township, Champaign county, consists of two hundred and ten acres, and he also owns one hundred and eighty-eight acres in Logan county, Ohio. In addition to the raising of the 'cereals he also makes a specialty of the raising of standard bred trotting horses, and in this line of endeavor has met with a high degree of sue- cess. His home place is known as the "Kings Creek Valley Stock Farm," and there he raises annually about thirty head of horses and cattle. He now has "Strong Boy," 2 :11, and "Aletus," 2 :17 1/2. His political support is given to the Republican party, and for a long period he served as chairman of the school board in Wayne township. In 1877 occurred the marriage of Mr. McClellan and Miss Maria T. Johnson, and they have four children, two sons and two daughters, ---Maud, Hiram, Margaret and Ivan Boggs, all at home. The family are members of the Friends church. Mrs. McClellan was born January 2, 1854, in Wayne township, this county, daughter of Hiram and Margaret Johnson. He was born in Wayne township and lived there for ninety-two years, being a very successful farmer and cattle raiser, who owned nineteen hundred acres of land free of all incumbrance when he died in 1900, in his ninety-second year. His wife was born in Virginia January CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 603 14, 1817, daughter of David and Esther Brown. The former was born in Frederick county, Virginia, was a successful farmer and died at the age of eighty-two, while his wife, Esther, after raising eight children, died about middle life. Hiram Johnson had two sons, Nelson and Alfred. Nelson died leaving a large estate, while Alfred is still living.. RICHARD DU VAL WILLIAMS. From the beginning of his active connection with Mechanicsburg, in 1839, Richard Du Val Williams strove to maintain conditions commercially and industrially substantial, and morally and intellectually high. That he was eminently successful in the consummation of his desires is vouched for by those permitted to associate with him in whatsoever capacity and by the banking and mercantile concerns which owe their origin and subsequent success to his appreciation of their utility. From forefathers long connected with the south Mr. Williams inherited not only thrift and industry but a nature at once devout and humanitarian. He was born in Pleasant Grove, Maryland, June 27, 1815, and his death occurred in this town, December 4, 1894. In the early subscription schools of Maryland he acquired such education as a busy childhood around the home farm permitted, and when about sixteen years of age, in 1831, he accompanied his parents to the supposed larger opportunities in the vicinity of Mechanicsburg. Eight years later, in 1839, he entered mercantile ranks in the town, and from the humble position of clerk worked his way up to a general knowledge of the business. He possessed shrewd common sense, and had a keen knowledge of human nature, and these attributes, allied with tact and a desire to 604 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. please, won for him in time a really unusual success. The business established by him so many years ago is still one of the landmarks of the city, and is owned and managed by his son, C. W. Williams, who conducts his affairs under the firm name of C. W. Williams & Company. In 1865 Mr. Williams, with the able assistance of Thomas Davis, organized the Farmers Bank, of Mechanicsburg, of which he was president up to the time of his death. Scarcely an effort to further the welfare of the town but that bore the impress of his wise enthusiasm and -often practical assistance, and he was looked upon as one of those conservative forces which are as rudders in any growing community. In his adopted town he was a power in the Methodist Episcopal church, which denomination he had joined when thirteen years of age. For forty-two years he was recording steward of the church, and for twenty-five years was superintendent of the Sunday-school. He earnestly believed in the tenets of his church, and through his influence many were brought within the fold thereof. In his effort to uplift humanity he was ably seconded by his wife, whom he married in 1829. and who was formerly Jane Claggett, of Annapolis. Maryland. Of the children reared in the Williams home but three are now living, and of these, C. W. Williams bears an honored reputation in the community, and inherits to a large degree his father's business discretion and ability. A native of Mechanicsburg, C. W. Williams was born May 4, 1841, and was educated in the public schools of the town. Under his sire's example and instruction he developed into a practical business man, and since 1865 has had control of a large and lucrative business. In 1865 he married Rebecca Guy, who died in 1877, leaving three children, Charles Edwin, Alta Rebecca and Frances. In 1878 Mr. Williams married Mary Horr, and of this union there are also three children, Anna May, Helen Jane and Howard Horr. Mr. Williams is a Republican in political affiliation, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 605 HIRAM McCLELLAN. For many years the subject of this review, Hiram McClellan, has been engaged in agricultural pursuits in Champaign county, and in the locality where he has so long resided he is loved and honored for his many noble characteristics. A native son of the Keystone state, his birth there occurred in Lancaster county, June 28, 1829. His father, Joseph McClellan, was a native of Philadelphia, that state, while the paternal grandparents of our subject were born in either Ireland or Scotland. In a very early day they located in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where they followed the tilling of the soil. There the son; Joseph was reared to years of maturity, but in 1853 he left the home of his youth for the Buckeye state, where he resided from that time until 1865, and in the latter year he took up his abode in Brown county, Illinois, his death there occurring in Galesburg. In political matters he gave a stanch support to Republican principles, and his last presidential vote was cast for Lincoln at his second election. He was then in a very feeble condition, but such was his enthusiasm and public spirit that he was carried to the polls, entirely against his physician's advice. His death occurred when he had reached his sixty-ninth year. As a companion on the journey of life he chose Clarisa Souder, a native of Maryland, but when sixteen years of age she accompanied her parents on their removal to Pennsylvania. Her father, David Souder, was a mechanic and also a carpenter and builder, and he lived to the ripe old age of ninety-four years. Late in life he removed to Tiffin, Ohio, and when he was ninety-three years of age he walked a mile and a quarter to the polls to vote for Lincoln at his second election. The town of Soudersburg, Pennsylvania, was named in his honor. His wife reached the age of seventy-five years. She was a sister of Senator Peffer's mother. Mr. and Mrs. McClellan became the parents of five children who grew to 606 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. years of maturity, namely : Hiram, the subject of this review ; Nancy,, the wife of Dr. William Kaull, of Princeton, Illinois; Emma, the wife of John Bailey, editor of the Bureau County Republican, of Princeton, Illinois; Captain Joseph Sirnpson, who served as a soldier in the Civil: war and is now identified with the Horticultural Society of Colorado; Lavenia, the wife of Samuel Osborn, also a soldier in the Civil war in an Indiana regiment, and he is now employed as an attorney and in the real-estate business in Mankato, Minnesota. Hiram McClellan received his elementary education in the public schools of his native place and later he attended Whitesborough Academy, New York. After completing his education he again entered the school room as an instructor and for twenty-two terms taught in both Pennsylvania and Ohio. On the 24th of December, 1850, he was united in marriage to Eliza Swisher, who was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in October, 1827, a daughter of Jeremiah and Mary (Pennington) Swisher. On the maternal side she is descended from English Quakers who came to this country with William, Penn, while on the paternal side she is of Swiss descent. Mrs. McClellan, the third in order of birth of her parents' ten children, was reared and educated in Lan-- caster county, Pennsylvania, where she attended the common and select schools, and was afterward employed as an instructor for three terms. In 1851 Mr. and Mrs. McClellan made the journey to Ohio, spending the first eighteen years in Tiffin, Seneca county, where they were engaged in farming and teaching. Since 1868 they have resided in Cable, and adjoining this village they own ninety-two acres of rich and valuable land. He has ever taken an active interest in the public affairs of his locality, where for fifteen years he has served as a notary public, and his political support is given to the Prohibition party. He is a mem ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. The union of our subject and his wife has been blessed with six CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 607 children, namely : Leander S., a farmer and manufacturer in Wayne township, Champaign county ; Elwood S., whose sketch appears on another page of this volume; Mary, the wife of Philander P. Lindill, of Wayne township; Clarence, who died while attending Delaware College, June 19, 1883, the year of his graduation; Abbie, who became the wife of Alexander Crisman and died in 1893; and Cora, who became the wife of R. P. Blackburn and died in. 1901. Mr. and Mrs. McClellan also have thirteen grandchildren. They have been very active in the cause of temperance. Mr. McClellan took the pledge at eight years of age and since has done many acts substantially good for the cause, while his wife has worked in the cause of temperance almost all her life, joining the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1874, and has been very active on these lines since, holding the principal offices of that organization for several years. Mr. McClellan has been a representative to the Grand Lodge of the Good Templars. HORACE M. CROW. The emulator but by no means imitator of his distinguished and capable father, Horace M. Crow, one of the most erudite of the legal practitioners of Champaign county, and a resident of Urbana for the greater part of his life, was born in Cincinnati, this state, April 4, 1855. His parents, Thomas D. and Henrietta (Downs) Crow, were married in 1847, and the latter died in 1858, when her son was but a toddling child. The father came to Urbana when fourteen years of age, after completing a bound-boy's service, and while learning the tailor's trade began to make amends for a hitherto neglected education. Because of his untiring industry and application he in time gained exceptional gen- 32 608 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. eral and legal knowledge, and like a sturdy oak pushed his way and stood erect in the midst of disturbing and conflicting elements. His subsequent association with the professional and educational undertakings of the county is dwelt upon at length in another part of this work, yet none but the universal record is needed to enroll his name among the men of all climes who have not only found but have created opportunities. From about his fifth year Horace M. Crow received his early training in Urbana, and after completing the course at the public schools studied during 1870-71-72 at the Ohio Wesleyan University. He afterward taught school in Franklin and Champaign counties, and was thus employed for about three years, and in the meantime had come to regard law as a science whose mastery would be not only congenial but eminently fitting. Not possessing the available means to devote his entire time to professional research he secured employment as a clerk in a mercantile establishment, and at the same time studied law in the office of his father and brother. He was admitted to the bar in December of 1878, and in January of the following year began to practice in Urbana. In the spring of 1881 he changed his field of activity to Van Wert, in which town he lived for four years, and where he served as deputy clerk for one term. In December of 1884 Mr. Crow resumed practice in Urbana, and in February of 1887 removed to Columbus, as deputy clerk of the supreme court, an office maintained until September of 1893. His stanch support of the Republican party resulted in still further appreciation on the part of his former fellow townsmen of Urbana, for in 1895 he was elected city solicitor of the town, and discharged the duties of the office for two terms, or until the spring of 1899. In partnership with his brother Mr. Crow continued to add to his already large clientele, but since the departure of the brother for the west he has proceeded on independent professional lines. An additional responsibility satisfac- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 609 torily assumed by Mr. Crow has been the secretaryship of the Industry Loan & Building Company, with which he became connected in 1893. The marriage of Mr. Crow and Frances Kenaga, daughter of W. F. Kenaga, a retired farmer of Urbana, occurred in October of 1882. Mr. Crow is variously associated with the social, professional and fraternal organizations in which Urbana abounds, and is especially well known as a Mason, being past master of Champaign Lodge and past high priest of Urbana Chapter. This is his third year as thrice illustrious master of the Urbana Council, R. & S. M. With his wife he is a member of, and liberal contributor towards, the Methodist Episcopal church. In his relation to all phases of life in Urbana Mr. Crow bears an enviable reputation, and his intelligent determination, clear and incisive mind, loyalty to interests confided to his care, as well as his natural and acquired ability combined with a genius for hard work, make him a lawyer in whom his clients may have implicit confidence, and for whom may safely be predicted a continuation of his present success. W. W. WILSON. Whether as cashier of the Citizens National Bank since 1878, as a soldier strenuously employed in the service of his country during the Civil war, or as a promoter of peaceful and substantial conditions in his adopted town of Urbana, W. W. Wilson has made faithfulness to duty his unchanging watchword, and thoroughness and stability his rule of life. A native of Concord township, this county, to which his paternal grandfather came many years ago from Washington county, Pennsylvania, he was born May 1, 1842, and is a son of Elias R. and Mary (Russell) Wilson, the former also born in Concord township. 610 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. When four years of age W. W. Wilson was left fatherless, his brother, John. R. Wilson, now of Oklahoma territory, being the other son in the family. Although the mother afterwards re-married, the fact did not materially change the prospects of the boys, and when eight or nine years of age W. W.. found himself face to face with the serious and responsible side of life. However, he managed in the midst of his arduous farm duties to acquire a fair education in the district schools, and even at a later day succeeded in graduating from the high-school at Urbana. A variation in a somewhat monotonous agricultural existence was brought about with the culmination of smouldering hostilities between the north and south, and in April of 1861 he endeavored to become a member of a home company of which A. F. Vance, Sr., was captain. The quota being full he was not mustered in, but in September of the opening year of the war he enlisted in Company G, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three years, and upon the organization of the company was appointed sergeant. Little dreaming of the permanent reminder of grim-visaged war which fate had in store for him, he departed with the company for the front in January of 1862, and the following June, at the battle of Port Republic, Virginia, sustained a severe injury to his leg. Totally disabled, the injured member proved a source of great suffering and inconvenience, and was subjected to three different stages of amputation in the effort to save a part of its usefulness. In addition to this trying ordeal, Mr. Wilson fell into the hands of the enemy, and for four months was permitted to familiarize himself with the interiors of the prisons at Waynesboro, Lynchburg and Libby. Eventually exchanged, he was discharged in December of 1862, his brief but terrible military experience having contained about all the trials to which soldiers are heir. Since peace was restored he has been a member of the W. A. Brand Post, No. 98, Grand Army of the Republic. During 1866 and 1867 Mr. Wilson was journal clerk of the Ohio CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 611 house of representatives, and the latter part of 1867 was appointed revenue collector of his district, a position creditably maintained for eleven years, or until the assumption in 1878 of his present responsibility as cashier of the Citizens Bank. In 1868 Mr. Wilson was united in marriage with Anna Virginia Russell, who died in 1898, leaving three children, William R., Carrie Virginia and Frank C. In 1900 Mr. Wilson married Mrs. Mary B. Murry, widow of James Murry. The Methodist Episcopal church has a stanch worker and supporter in Mr. Wilson, who has been a steward of the church for forty years, superintendent of the Sunday-school for ten or twelve years, and also a teacher in the Sunday-school. As one of the best known, most thoroughly enterprising and most helpful of the citizens of Urbana, Mr. Wilson receives a deserved measure of appreciation, and his tact and agreeable personality have won him many friends. ELIJAH T. WOODCOCK. Among those activity in normal channels of business enterprise have accelerated the current of industrial progress in Champaign county, Ohio, is Mr. Woodcock, who for more than a quarter of a century has been one of the leading grain and produce dealers in this section of the Buckeye state. He has attained in business a prominence that is due entirely to honorable and systematic methods, indefatigable industry and resolute purpose, and thus his success has been worthily won, while its natural concomitant is the unreserved confidence and esteem accorded by his fellow men. The name borne by our subject has been identified with the annals of American history from the time of its practical inception and is one which has been prominent in the business, civic and public affairs of 612 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. various sections of the Union, throughout which representatives of the family have been disseminated, as one generation has followed another upon the stage of life's activities. It is an established fact that the original American progenitor was an Englishman who was numbered among the pilgrims who sailed for the new world on the historic Mayflower, probably coming on the second voyage of this stanch but primitive craft. He finally settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he became one of the prominent and influential men of the colony. His descendants are now to be found in the most diverse section of the Union. Our subject's maternal ancestors became early and prominently identified with the history of New Hampshire, and the maternal grandfather was numbered among the early settlers in western New York. Elijah T. Woodcock was born in Allegany county, New York, on the 15th of January, 1833, being a son of David and Martha (Osgood) Woodcock, both of whom were born in Swansey, New Hampshire, where their marriage was solemnized and whence they emigrated to New York, where the father was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death. They became the parents of ten children, of whom seven lived to attain years of maturity, while five of the number are living at the present time. The subject of this sketch was reared under the sturdy and invigorating discipline of the farm, and it is interesting to note the fact that during the long years of his active and useful life he has continued to be identified, in a direct or collateral way, with the great basic art of husbandry. He remained on the old homestead until he had attained his legal majority, attending the common schools of the vicinity and later prosecuting his studies for a time in the Alfred Academy, in his native county, this being a popular institution and one of high reputation. He left this school in 1855 and made his way to the west, locating for a time in Iowa and thence removing to Minnesota, where he had the distinction of being the first settler in Kandiyohi county, this CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 613 being in the year 1856. He soon returned to his native state, locating in -Wellsville, where, under the firm name of Woodcock & Crittenden, he was associated in the conducting of an extensive produce business until 1876, in which year he came to Urbana, Ohio, being joined by his family two years later, and here they have ever since maintained their home. Here he forthwith established himself in the grain and produce business and is now the pioneer operator in this very important line of industry, with which he has been here consecutively identified for more than twenty-five years. In this connection we cannot, perhaps, do better than to quote from an article appearing in the Champaign Democrat of March 30, 1899, since the statements remain pertinent at the present time: "The pioneer business in nearly every town situated in an agricultural district is that involved in the establishment of a grain elevator, and no one factor is more important in insuring the success of the farmer. With live, enterprising men of ample capital and good business: connections in the leading grain centers prosperity is assured. In the elevator of Mr. E. T. Woodcock we have such a factor. Handling of grain of all kinds, and also seeds and wool, for which the highest ruling prices are paid, this concern has become a favorite one in this vicinity. The facilities are unexcelled and bear evidence of careful planning, no expense being spared to render the service first-class in every respect. Here, on the Big Four tracks, Mr. Woodcock has an elevator with a capacity of fifty thousand bushels, and in conjunction with Mr. A. Beatley he has a fifteen thousand bushel warehouse at King's Creek, on the railroad, and another of eight thousand bushel capacity at Lippincott, and he also has arrangements for loading cars on the Erie road at Dallis' switch. In Mr. Woodcock we find a man thoroughly conversant with every feature and detail of the business, a discriminating and careful buyer, a sharp seller and one who is universally respected." At one time Mr. Woodcock was largely interested in the manufacture of phos- 614 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. phate in Florida. He is a man of genial nature, frank and straightforward in all the relations of life and having that intrinsic integrity whose domination results invariably in gaining and retaining unequivocal confidence and esteem. He is honored as an able and conservative business man and public-spirited citizen. In addition to his interests in Champaign county he is the owner of a large amount of valuable farm property in Harper county, Kansas. In politics Mr. Woodcock exercises his franchise in support of the principles and policies of the Republican party, but, deeming his business affairs worthy of his entire time and attention, he has refused to be "afflicted" with public office of any nature. On the 4th of September, 1856, Mr. Woodcock was united in marriage to Miss Loretta C. Curtis, of Franklinville, Cattaraugus county, New York, and of their children we incorporate brief record as follows: Dell is the wife of Frank Macken, of Wellsville, New York; Cora V. is the wife of George T. Alger of the same place; Helen M., a successful and popular teacher, died at Orange, New Jersey, in 1893, at the age of twenty-nine years; Jesse remains at the paternal home, assisting his father in his business; and Josephine is a popular and efficient teacher in the public schools of Urbana. Mrs. Woodcock and her children are members of the Baptist church. MARION W. THOMAS. As incumbent of the important and responsible office of treasurer of Champaign county, as a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of this favored section of the old Buckeye commonwealth, and as himself an able business man and representative citizen of Urbana, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 617 there is prima facie propriety in here according specific mention of Mr. Thomas. Marion W. Thomas was born in Jackson township, Champaign county, on the 29th of October, 1865, and he has passed the major portion of his life within the confines of his native county. The family whose reputation for worthy accomplishments he so well sustains had as its first representative in Ohio his grandfather, John Thomas, who was horn in the beautiful Shenandoah valley, Virginia, the name having been identified with the annals of the Old Dominion from an early epoch in its history. John Thomas became one of the first settlers in Jackson township, Champaign county, whither lie had come from his old home in Virginia, and here was born his son William, who figures as the honored father of the subject of this sketch and who has been a most faithful and zealous worker in the vineyard of the divine Master, as a clergyman of the Baptist church. He was born in this county and was reared on the old pioneer homestead, and in his early youth he began preparing himself for the work of the ministry, eventually realizing his desires and being ordained in the Baptist church. His advocacy of truth and justice has been eloquently urged upon his hearers during the long years of his active ministry and he has accomplished much in the uplifting of his fellow men, being ever animated by a deep human sympathy and imbued with a spirit of gentle tolerance, which has gained him the affection of those to whom he has ministered and over whom he has been placed in pastoral charge, his ministerial duties having in the past been associated with the work of his church throughout the greater portion of the state of Ohio. Rev. William Thomas is still living, having attained the venerable age of seventy-seven years (1962). In carrying forward his work for humanity he found a devoted companion and coadjutor in the wife whom he married in early manhood and whose maiden name was Emily E. Watts and who was born at Mount Pleasant, Virginia, in 1828. 618 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. When she was but five years of age she and her two sisters accompanied their widowed mother to Urbana, and here she was reared and educated. From his worthy father Marion W. Thomas inherited studious and inquiring mental traits, and thus he found but imperfect satisfaction in pursuing his studies in the district schools of his native county. Nevertheless, from general observation in the midst of practical duties and environment, he learned much that can not be imparted in schools and that is not recorded in text-books, and personal application and well directed reading, study and research have effectively supplemented the rudimentary discipline of the public schools. Thinking to improve his prospects by removal to the west, Mr. Thomas passed a summer in that section and this interval proved of adequate duration for him to arrive at the conclusion that Ohio was, after all, a desirable field for legitimate enterprise and activity, and upon his return he assumed the management of his father's farm, the place having been for years a source of pride and satisfaction to the latter, and he had devoted much care and attention to improving and beautifying this attractive rural home, while continuing his active ministerial labors. ln 1883 Mr. Thomas made his initial efforts as a shipper of poultry, operating a branch house for Asa Stapleton during the winter season, when his attention was not demanded in connection with the farm. lie continued to be associated with Mr. Stapleton until the death of that gentleman. In 1891-2 he was junior member of the firm of Cline & Thomas, who engaged in the same line of enterprise, with the details of which our subject had become thoroughly familiar and along which he was destined to attain a high degree of success and the reputation of being possessed of excellent executive and administrative abilities and powers. In the fall of 1892 Mr. Thomas removed with his family to Saint Paris, and after the opening of the season of 1893 he effected a lease of the Stapleton poultry-packing house, and simultaneously formed a partnership with Dr. C. Jones, under the firm title of Thomas CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 619 & Jones. They were thus associated in the poultry business until April, r 895, when Mr. Thomas purchased his partner's interest and individually continued operations, his business for the ensuing year reaching the notable aggregate in transactions of fifty thousand dollars. He has ever since continued to be one of the leading poultry shippers of the state and is now carrying on operations upon a very extensive scale. In 1893 Mr. Thomas was elected to the office of city clerk of Saint Paris and two years later was chosen as his own successor in this office. In 1899 he entered the primary race for the office of county treasurer and in one of the most warmly contested campaigns in the history of the county was nominated as the Republican candidate for the office by a majority of four hundred and seventy-three, while in the ensuing election his majority was nine hundred and seventy-one. In 19o1 Mr. Thomas was renominated without opposition and was elected by a majority of seventeen hundred and thirty,—a fact in itself sufficiently significant to render unnecessary any words of commendation in this connection and showing that his administration of fiscal affairs had been such as to gain popular approval and a flattering endorsement, while in this connection it should be noted that he is the youngest man who has ever held this office in the county. He has given an unwavering allegiance to the Republican party and has taken an active interest in its local work and cause. He is esteemed by all who know him, without reference to political affiliations, and is one of the most painstaking and conscientious of the officers of Champaign county. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Improved Order of Red Men. On the 3d of December, 1895, Mr. Thomas was united in marriage to Miss Ida L. Boyer, and they are the parents of two children,—Hazel L. and John. Mrs. Thomas is a lady of gracious presence and innate refinement, presiding with dignity over the home in Urbana, where Mr. Thomas took up his residence upon being elected to his present office. 620 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. DR. ADAM MOSGROVE. One of the pioneer physicians of Champaign county and a man who wielded an extensive influence, Dr. Adam Mosgrove, left the impress of his individuality upon the public life and is still greatly esteemed for his genuine worth as a citizen. He was born in Inniskillen, in the county of Tyrone in Ireland, August 12, 1790. At the proper age he was placed under the instruction of a private teacher and thus acquired a good English education and was prepared to enter the medical college at Edinburgh, Scotland. He became a student in the Royal Academy of Surgeons at Dublin, Ireland, where he was graduated April 7, 1814. Immediately afterward he was commissioned as surgeon in the British Navy and on Easter Monday, 1816, left the Emerald Isle to assume the duties of surgeon on board the ship Charlotte, which sailed for the United 'States. When off the American coast the vessel became disabled in a storm and put in to the Pennsylvania Harbor for repairs but a dispute having arisen between the ship's officers and the British government the officers resigned their commissions and left the vessel in the harbor, where it remained until completely destroyed by decay. Dr. Mosgrove was then in a strange land and had in his possession but seventy guineas. He started west to begin the battle of life, first locating in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but after a short time removed to Elizabethtown that state. In both places he practiced medicine and in the latter city was married, in 1817, to Mary Miller. About this time Dr. Mosgrove learned that George Moore, who was born in his own native town, had settled in Champaign county, Ohio, and the ties of nativity were sufficiently strong to attract him to the home of his old friend. In 1818, therefore, he packed his possessions in a wagon and with his wife started for the far west, arriving in Urbana in the latter part of June of the same year. Soon after arriving in this city the Doctor invested the few hun- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 621 dred dollars which he had saved in land and this was the nucleus around which the fortune, possessed at the time of his death, was slowly accumulated. He purchased a small farm house situated in Miami street, just west of what is now known as Douglas inn, and that little frame dwelling continued to be his residence and office until he erected a new home on the the southeast corner of Walnut and Miami streets, where he resided up to the time of his death. The property is now owned and occupied by his son, James M. Mosgrove, M. D., a sketch of whom appears elsewhere. On the door of this residence is yet to be found the name of Dr. Adam Mosgrove, it being retained there by the son out of respect to the memory of his father. In 1833 Dr. Mosgrove lost his first wife and in the following year was married to Frances A. Foley, a daughter John Foley, a prominent pioneer citizen of Clark county, Ohio. There were no children born of the second marriage. The Doctor's eldest son, John A. Mosgrove, now deceased, was a prominent citizen of Urbana for a long period. Colonel W. F. Mosgrove, the second son, organized a battery during the Civil war and died in 1869. Dr. James M. Mosgrove is still residing in Urbana and is the youngest of the family. The father was well known even beyond the limits of Champaign county and his professional services were frequently demanded long distances from his home. For a number of years he practiced alone, but afterward became associated with Dr. J. S. Carter, Sr., who died in 1852, and their extensive practice was continued by our subject for many years. In those early days physicians made their calls on horse back and the Doctor being noted as an expert horseman rather enjoyed the long rough trips over the country. Sometimes he would hitch his horse in the woods at night rather than unduly tire his favorite animal, while he himself took his own needed rest upon the ground. Strong and robust, a picture of perfect health, and blessed with a kindly disposition, his coming was 622 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, hailed with delight by the sick who confided in his professional ability and by those of health to whom he imparted a share of his own good humor. He was temperate in all things and abstained from the use of intoxicants even in a day when custom almost demanded it. Indomitable courage and industry were the remarkable traits of his character and whatever he undertook he carried forward to successful completion, for he persevered in the work with all the energy of a strong nature. No storm, no event, in fact nothing could ever prevent him from making his regular visits to his patients and no obstacle could successfully intervene between him and his professional duty. He was well known for his charity, aided the afflicted poor and would respond as readily to a call that came from the needy as from the wealthiest of his patrons. His noble generosity in his profession greatly endeared him to the poorer classes and made him warm friends who yet cherish his memory,. A strongly defined sense of honor and old time courtesy were salient features of his character that made him a gentleman of high repute and he was also known as a faithful friend and entertaining companion. Exceptionally well preserved physically he looked much younger than his years, until he met with an accident by which one of his limbs was broken. From that time he began to decline and on the loth of March, 1875, passed quietly and peacefully away in his eighty-fifth year, his wife surviving him until the first of September, 1879, when she was called to her final rest at the age of sixty years. The Doctor had long been a worthy member of the Episcopal church and the final sermon was delivered by the pastor of that denomination in Urbana, while the interment was conducted by Knights Templar of the Raper Commandery, in the presence of a large concourse of people, who had assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to their old and worthy friend and physician. In his death the medical profession of Champaign county lost one of its oldest and most energetic members, he having been actively engaged in the duties of his profession for more than a half cen- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 623 tury. He was most kind and sympathic, diligent in his attention to the sick and suffering and was ever solicitous for their recovery, inspiring them with hope and confidence in his ability to effect a speedy cure. He enjoyed the respect and confidence of a large number of patrons and as a man and citizen was held in high regard by those whom he knew in all the walks of life. While in his native land he passed the various degrees of Masonry and at the age of twenty-six had attained the rank of Royal Arch Mason. Throughout his life he was an active and devoted adherent of the craft and held high rank in the order. Politically he was a stanch Democrat and several times was nominated by his party for Congress and for the state senate, but the opposition had an overwhelming strength in his district and it was never anticipated that election was possible. The only political office that he ever held was that of deputy United States Marshal in 183o and in that year he took the census of Champaign county. Such in brief is the history of Dr. Adam Mosgrove, and the annals of the county would be incomplete without a record of his life, for he was one of the most important characters that figured in professional circles through many years. HARRY COOK, M. D. Champaign county is fortunate in retaining within its borders a high class of physicians and surgeons, who honor themselves, their noble profession and the community through their able services and sterling characters. Among the younger practitioners of the county is Dr. Cook, of Urbana, a representative of the homeopathic school of practice and known as a thoroughly skilled physician and surgeon and as a gentleman well worthy the esteem and respect in which he is so uniformly held in the community. He is associated in practice with Dr. C. C. Craig, to whom individual reference is made on another page of this work, and to 624 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. them is due the credit of establishing and maintaining that noble and finely equipped institution, the Urbana Sanitarium, whose value in the community can scarcely be overestimated. In the sketch of the life of Dr. Craig will be found more complete data concerning this institution, and to the same the reader is referred. Dr. Cook is a native of the city of. Springfield, Ohio, where he was horn on the loth of February, 1873, the son of Dr. William A. and Anna (Bechtel) ) Cook. Dr. William A. Cook was likewise born in Springfield, and he passed his entire life in his native state, being one of the representative homeopathic physicians of this section of the Union. He died at Tippecanoe City, Miami county, in 1890, at the age of fifty-two years. He was graduated in the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College and was engaged in the practice of his profession in Cleveland, and Tippecanoe City, Ohio, and for a time in the city of Muncie, Indiana. His widow now maintains her home in Fremont, Sandusky county. They became the parents of three children, of whom but one survives the father. When our subject was about six months of age his parents removed to Muncie, Indiana, where they resided about eight years and then removed to Cleveland, where Dr. Cook was engaged in the practice of his profession ,about seven years, after which he located in Tippecanoe City, where he passed the remainder of his life. Our subject received his early education in the public schools of the three cities mentioned and then began reading medicine under the effective and careful preceptorship of his honored father. In 1890 he was matriculated in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, where he was graduated with the coveted degree of Doctor of Medicine in the spring of 1894, his last year having been principally devoted to clinical work in the hospitals, so that he was thoroughly fortified for the practical duties of his profession when his degree was conferred. In May, 1891, Dr. Cook located in Urbana, and here he soon became CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 625 known as a thoroughly skilled and discriminating physician, the confidence begotten leading to his securing a practice of representative character. In June, 1899, he entered into a professional alliance with Dr. Craig, and this association has ever since continued, while they also conduct the sanitarium, which receives an excellent supporting patronage and which affords the best of accommodation and the most efficacious treatment for those suffering from the various ills to which human flesh is heir. Dr. Cook is a member of the Miami Valley Homeopathic Medical Society, in whose affairs he takes a deep interest. His political support is given to the Republican party, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Lutheran church, enjoying distinctive popularity in both church and social circles. On the 21st of October, 1899, occurred the marriage of Dr. Cook to Miss Grace, daughter of Christian Emrick, one of Urbana's representative citizens, and they are prominent in the social activities of the community. DAVID TODD. David Todd was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1790, being the son of James and Martha (Wilson) Todd, both of whom were likewise natives of the old Keystone state, with whose history the respective families became identified in the colonial days. James and Martha Todd passed their entire lives in Pennsylvania, and there were born to them five sons and two daughters, namely : James, John, David, Samuel, Hugh, Mary and Martha. Samuel Todd came to Ohio in 1840, settling in Union township of Champaign county, where he died a short time afterward. David Todd, the subject of this memoir, in company with three others, first came to Ohio in 1812, on a prospecting trip, 33 626 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. the journey being made on horseback, and at that time visited Urbana, which was a small hamlet in the virgin forests, and upon his return to his native county he married and there engaged in farming until 1846, when he came through with a team and wagon to Warren county, Ohio, in company with his family, his brother John having located in that section of the state in the year 1832. Our subject and his family remained there a few months arid in March, 1847, carne to Champaign county and settled on Pretty. Prairie, in Urbana township, where he passed the remainder of his useful and honorable life, engaged in agricultural pursuits, in which he was exceptionally successful. He developed a fine farm, making the best of improvements upon the same, and at the time of his demise it was recognized as one of the most valuable farm properties in this section of the state, giving evidence of the scrupulous care and attention bestowed by its progressive and able owner. In politics Mr. Todd was originally an oid-line Whig, but upon the organization of the Republican party he transferred his allegiance to this organization, -which he believed had stronger claims upon popular support, and thereafter he was an ardent advocate of its principles, though he never sought official preferment or consented to serve in any political position. His religious faith was that of the Presbyterian church, and his life, in all its relations, was lived in harmony therewith. David Todd entered into eternal rest in the year 1868, in the fullness of years and honored for his Sterling integrity of character and his kindly nature, which had endeared him to a wide circle of friends. He married Sarah McCormick, who was born in 1795, in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Henry and Jane (Mitchell) McCormick, and she passed away March 23, 1884, having been a consistent and devoted member of the Presbyterian church. The children of this union were twelve in number, namely : James Wilson, who died at the age of twenty-one years ; Jane McCormick, deceased; Mary and Eliza, both deceased; Henry McCormick, deceased; CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 627 David Newton, who died at the age of five years ; Thomas Mitchell, to whom individual reference is made in appending paragraphs; John E., of Urbana township ; Sarah Martha, deceased ; Rebecca Nancy, deceased ; and James Samuel, of Arcata, Humboldt county, California. Thomas Mitchell Todd was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, on the 17th of April, 1827, the son of David and Sarah (McCormick) Todd, mentioned above, and he received his early educational discipline in the common schools of his native county, supplementing this by a course of study in a local academy, so that his educational advantages were up to the normal standard of the locality and period. He was nearly twenty years of age when the family carne to Ohio, and here he put his scholastic acquirements to practical test by teaching school during one winter in Warren county and one in Champaign county, being successful in his pedagogic efforts. He remained at the old homestead farm until his marriage, in 1857, when he settled on another farm in the same township and there continued successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1896,—a period of nearly forty years, within which he had developed one of the fine farm properties of this locality and attaining a high degree of prosperity. His landed estate comprises two farms, whose aggregate area is three hundred and thirty-seven acres. In April. of the year last mentioned, Mr. Todd removed to the city of Urbana, where he has since lived retired from active pursuits, having an attractive home and enjoying that quiet repose which is the fitting reward for years of active and well directed endeavor. Mr. Todd has ever been a stalwart supporter of the Republican party, but has never aspired to the honors or emoluments of public office, though his position in the community was such that he was naturally called upon to serve in various minor offices, in which line he gave able and discriminating attention to the duties involved. For fifteen years he was a member of the board of directors of the county infirmary, 628 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. sparing no pains to promote the well-being of this institution. He is a stockholder in the Champaign National Bank, of Urbana, and a member of its directorate. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church and have for many years been active and influential workers in the same. On the 12th of March, 1857, Mr. Todd was united in marriage to Miss Mary M. Rawlings, who was born in Urbana township, this county, on Christmas day, 1831, the daughter of James and Susannah I. (McRoberts) Rawlings, the former of whom was one of the pioneers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Todd became the parents of seven children, concerning whom we enter brief record, as follows : Susannah Irby is deceased; David Solon is a resident of Columbus, Ohio; James Rawlings is a successful farmer of Urbana township; Alma remains at the parental home; Henry William is deceased; Thomas Rawlings conducts the old homestead farm ; and Pearl C., who for nine years has held a responsible position in the Champaign National Bank. JOSEPH C. BRAND. Joseph C. Brand was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, on the 8th of January, 181o, the family having been founded in America by his grandfather, Dr. James Brand, who was a native of Scotland and a man of distinguished professional and intellectual ability. Dr. Brand was., graduated in the Edinburgh Medical University about 1756, and a number of years later he crossed the Atlantic to America and took up his abode in Frederick City, Maryland, where he was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession for many years. He finally removed thence to Ringgold Manor, that state, and later took up his residence- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 629 in Augusta county, Virginia, where he passed the residue of his long and useful life, living to attain the patriarchal age of ninety-six years and having reared a family of several children. Thomas Brand, son of Dr. James Brand and father of the one whose name initiates this sketch, was born in the state of Maryland, whence he accompanied his parents on their removal to Virginia, while in 1808 he located in Bourbon. county, Kentucky, becoming one of the early settlers of that locality. There was solemnized his marriage to Miss Fanny Carter, who likewise was born in Maryland, and they became the parents of eight children, one of whom was Joseph C., to whom this memoir is dedicated. Joseph C. Brand was reared to maturity in his native county, receiving excellent educational advantages for the locality •and period and becoming a successful teacher in the schools of Kentucky. In 183o he carne to Champaign county, Ohio, as one of its pioneers, locating in Urbana, which was then a small village, where he became associated with his uncle, Dr. Joseph S. Carter, in the conducting of a drug store. Two years later he engaged in the mercantile business at Mechanicsburg, this county, his associate in the enterprise being Dr. Obecl Horr, and in that village he continued to make his home until 1837, when he purchased a farm near Buck (or Lagonda) creek, in Union township, where he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits until 1851, when he again became a resident of 'Urbana, which continued to be his home thereafter until the close of his signally useful and honorable life. In the year 1832 Joseph C. Brand was united in marriage to Lavinia Talbott, of Weston, West Virginia, and they became the parents of nine -children, namely : Thomas T.; Joseph C., Jr.; William A. ; Margaret Belle, the wife of William R. Ross, of Urbana ; Mary, who became the wife of Rev. Edward D. Whitlock; John F.; Ella, who is the wife of Charles A. Ross, of Urbana; and Ellen and Iova, who died in young .womanhood. 630 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. In his political views Joseph C. Brand was a stanch Republican from the time of the organization of the party, and he was prominent in the work and councils of the same, while he was called upon to serve in offices of public trust and responsibility. He did efficient service as clerk of the court of common pleas and also of the district court, but still higher official preferment and honors awaited him, for he was elected to represent both his district and county in the state legislature. Animated by the deepest patriotism, he naturaly gave his earnest support to the Union when its integrity was jeopardized by armed rebellion, and he it was who obtained the order for the raising of the gallant Sixty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was recruited under his personal direction, while he served as quartermaster from 1861 until 1864, in which latter year he received from President Lincoln promotion to the responsible office of captain and commissary of subsistence of volunteers, acting in that capacity until the close of the war, while his military service thus covered a period of three years and two months. For distinguished. service during the war he was brevetted major. During General Grant's administration as president of the United States Major Brand served as consul at Nuremberg, Bavaria, being in tenure of this distinguished office for a period of nearly three years. For three terms he was mayor of the city of Urbana, giving a notably able administration of municipal affairs, and through the early and middle portion of the past century perhaps no other citizen did more for the improvement, progress and substantial upbuilding of the city than did Major Brand. He and his wife Were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and their lives were ever in harmony with the faith to which they thus held. Major Brand was summoned to his reward on the 3oth of December, 1897, and thus passed away one who had ever been honored and esteemed for his sterling character, his sincerity and kindliness, his fidelity to duty and his marked ability. His widow survives him and is now ninety years of age. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 631 MAJOR THOMAS T. BRAND.--As a son of the honored subject of the preceding memoir, as one who rendered distinguished service as a leal and loyal son of the republic during the war of the Rebellion and as an honored and representative citizen of Champaign county, it is significantly consistent that we here incorporate a brief review of the life record of Major Thomas T. Brand, who is a native son of the county and who still retains his home in the city of Urbana. Thomas T. Brand was born in Mechanicsburg, Champaign county, Ohio, on the 28th of January, 183c, being a son of Joseph C. and Lavinia (Talbott) Brand, of whom due mention has been made in preceding paragraphs. He was reared in this county and here received his early educational training in the public schools. The thundering of Rebel guns against the ramparts of old Fort Sumter aroused a vigorous and responsive protest in his heart, and such was his patriotism that he was among the first to tender his services in defense of the integrity of the Union. On the 16th of April, 1861, ere yet the smoke had fairly cleared away from the stanch old fortress where the civil conflict was inaugurated, he enlisted as a private in Company K, Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was forthwith elected first lieutenant, his commission to date from April 17, 1861. The organization of the regiment was effected in the city of Columbus, the enlistment being for a term of three months. On the 19th of April the command left the state and proceeded to the national capital. Upon arriving at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, it was formally mustered into the service on the 29th of the same month, and it arrived in the city of Washington on the 2d of May, where it was assigned to Schenck's brigade, Tyler's division of McDowell's army of northeastern Virginia. The regiment remained on duty in defense of the federal capital until June„ and on the 22d of that month Lieutenant Brand resigned his position to accept an appointment in the regular army, accepting on that date the office of first lieutenant in the Eighteenth Regi- 632 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ment of United States Infantry. On the 1 all of September, 1863, he was promoted to the office of captain, and on the 13th of March, 1865, in recognition of gallant and meritorious Service in the battles of Stone River and Chickamauga,he was honored with the brevet rank of major. From June until December, 1861, Major Brand was engaged in recruiting service for the Eighteenth United States Infantry, in which he held the office of first lieutenant, as has already been noted, and in the month of December he joined his regiment in Ohio's capital city, whence the Command moved onward into Kentucky, where, in January, 1862, it was assigned to the Third Brigade of the Army of the Ohio, and was thus a portion of the Third Army Corps until September of the same year. In November the regiment became a portion of the Fourth Brigade, First (center) Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, of the Army of the Cumberland, while in January of the following year it was assigned to the Third Brigade. In February, 1862, the command moved on to Nashville and thence marched to Savannah, Tennessee, to reinforce the Army of the Tennessee. From March loth until April 7th they were on the advance to Corinth, Mississippi, taking part in the siege at that point, from April 17th to May 3oth, and in the subsequent pursuit of the enemy to Booneville. From that point the command marched to Tuscumbia, Alabama, where it arrived on the 22d of June, and there it remained on duty until the 27th of July; thereafter it was stationed at Decherd, Tennessee, until August 21st, whence it proceeded to Louisville, Kentucky, in the command of General Buell, in pursuit of Bragg. On the 8th of October the regiment took part in the battle of Perryville, that state, thence marched to Nashville, Tennessee, where it was on duty until December 26. It then advanced to Murfreesboro, and on the 3oth and 31st of the month took a very important part in the battle of Stone River, the engagement continuing also to the 3d of January, 1863. Thereafter the regiment was on duty at Murfreesboro until June, and on CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 633 23d of that month began its service in connection with the Tullahoma or middle Tennessee campaign, being in action at Hoovers Gap, on June 25-6, and taking part in the occupation of Tullahoma, on July T. Thereafter the command was prominently concerned in the Chattanooga campaign and participated in the ever memorable battle of Chickamauga, September 19-20. In the first day's battle at this point Major Brand received a severe wound in his left arm, incapacitating him for active service, and thereafter he was assigned to mustering and disbursing duty at Madison, Wisconsin, where he remained until February, 1864, after which he was identified with similar service in the city of Columbus, Ohio, until December, 1865, the war having in the meantime closed. The Major still continued in the military department of the government service, however, since he was chief mustering and disbursing officer of Indiana, at Indianapolis, Indiana, thereafter until June 1, 1867, and from that time forward until December 1, 1868, he held the same office in Ohio and West Virginia. His health had become. impaired as the result of the wounds -received during the war, and this led to his retirement from active service at the front on the 31st of December, 1864. His record was one of distinction and he was relieved from duty on the 1st of December, 1868, after which he returned to his home in Champaign county. He has ever since been identified with the business interests of Urbana, having made many real-estate and other capitalistic investments in the city and county and having been very successful in this line, his interests receiving his personal attention and supervision. He is a director of the National Bank of Urbana, also director of the Independent Telephone Company, of the same city, and is connected with other business interests of Urbana and vicinity. Major Brand is one of the honored members of the Grand Army of the Republic, holding membership in W. A. Brand Post, in Urbana, and the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion of the United States. On the 28th of December, 1864, Major Brand was united in marriage 634 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. to Miss Eliza C. Warnock, who was born in this county, the daughter of Rev. David Warnock, and they are the parents of two sons,—Frank W. and Thomas T., Jr. The Major is a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities, has ever taken a deep interest in all that conserves the progress and material prosperity of his home city and county, and is known as one of the representative citizens of this locality, 'where practically his entire iife has been passed and where he is held in marked confidence and esteem. FRANK W. BRAND, M. D., now a prominent specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat at Urbana, was born in this city, on the 2d of June, 1866, and acquired his preliminary education in the public schools, completing a course in the high school and being graduated as a member of the class of 1883. He then passed a year in the old and celebrated institution, Phillips Academy, at Andover, Massachusetts, and later passed two years as a student in the Urbana University, pursuing a. scientific course. Determining to make the practice of medicine his vocation in life, he was matriculated in the Cleveland Medical College, where he completed a thorough course, being graduated as a member of the class of 1889 and receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began the active practice of his profession in Beatrice, Nebraska, where he remained for eight years, and afterward completed a post-graduate course in the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and other Colleges, and then located in Urbana, where he has since been successfully engaged in practice. He is a physician of superior ability and comprehensive learning, and his skill has secured to him a liberal patronage of representative order. He is thoroughly devoted to the work of his profession, is a close and constant student and stands high among his confreres in the profession, as well as in social circles, his personality being such as to gain to him marked popularity. Fraternally the Doctor has attained high prestige in the Masonic order, in which he has advanced to the thirty-second degree CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 635 of the Scottish rite, having become a member of the consistory in Omaha, Nebraska, while he is also identified with the temple of the Mystic Shrine at Lincoln, that state. His York-rite affiliations are with the various bodies in Urbana. On the 6th of October, 1888; Dr. Brand was united in marriage to Miss Lilian Garnett„ of Urbana. THOMAS T. BRAND, JR., the second son of Major Thomas T. Brand,. is likewise a native of the city of Urbana, where he was born on the 1st of February, 1875. After having duly profited by the advantages afforded in the public schools of this city he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, where he continued his educational work for two years. He then returned to Urbana and began the study of dentistry, and finally completed his preparation for his chosen vocation by entering the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis, where he was graduated as a. member of the class of 1896. Like his brother, he has attained prominence and success in his chosen field of endeavor, and he now has a large and remunerative practice in his native city. Politically he is a Repub lican and is a member of the First Methodist Episcopal church, while fraternally he is identified with the lodge, chapter, council and commandery of the Masonic order. In 1899 he was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Marmon, of Urbana. For almost three-fourths of a century the name of Brand has been identified with the history of Urbana and it has ever stood as an exponent of honor and usefulness, the record attaching to the name being such as. to reflect credit not only upon the family but also the city and county. THOMAS E. HUNTER. A leading agriculturist and honored citizen of Champaign county is Hon. Thomas E. Hunter, who has spent his entire life in this county. He was born on the farm on which he now resides, October 23, 1848. 636 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. His paternal grandfather, Nathaniel Hunter, was a native of the Green isle of Erin, but in an early day he crossed the briny deep to America and took up his abode in Virginia. In 1811, however, he left his southern home for Ohio, becoming one of the early pioneers of Champaign county. His son Thomas, the father of our subject, was born in Greenbrier county, Virginia, in 1799, and when twelve years of age he accompanied his father on his removal to the Buckeye state. After his marriage he took up his abode in Wayne township. He was a life-long farmer, a Whig and Republican in his political views and was a worthy member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he long served as a trustee and steward. In Champaign county he was united in marriage to a Miss Evans, and they became the parents of two sons, but both died when young. For his second wife he chose Nancy Johnson, who was born in Guernsey county, but in early life she came with her parents to Champaign county. Her death occurred when she had reached the age of seventy-four years. Of the seven children born unto his parents Thomas E. Hunter, of this review, was the eldest son and fifth child in order of birth, and he was reared to mature years on the farm on which he now resides. He received his elementary education in the district schools of Wayne township and afterward entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, where he continued his studies for two years. After his marriage he brought his bride to the old Hunter homestead, where he has ever since engaged in farming and stock-raising. Since attaining to years of maturity he has given an unwavering support to the principles of the Republican party, and for two years, from 1891 until 1893, he served as a justice of the peace. Later, to fill out an unexpired term, he was elected to represent his district in the Seventieth General Assembly, and in the following year, in 1895, he was re-elected to that important position. Since retiring from the legislature he has served as a justice of the peace. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 637 The marriage of Mr. Hunter was celebrated in 1873, when Miss Emma Robinson became his wife. She was born in Highland county, Ohio, August 1, 1853, a daughter of the Rev. J. M. and Mary M. ( Kettle-man) Robinson. The former was a prominent minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, and for two years he labored in what is now known as the Grace Methodist Episcopal church at Urbana. His death occurred in 1883, when he had reached the age of fifty-nine years, but he is still survived by his wife. The family is a prominent one in this locality, and its members are noted for their longevity, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Hunter having reached the age of ninety-seven years, and her paternal grandfather was ninety-four years old at the time of his death. One daughter, Mabel, has come to brighten and bless the home of our subject and wife. Mr. Hunter is identified with the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in the blue lodge and chapter at North Lewisburg and in the council and commandery at Urbana, and he is also a member of the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Mingo, in which he has long served as a trustee and steward and has been superintendent of the Sunday-school: JOHN F. BRAND. The inevitable law of destiny accords to tireless and well directed energy a successful career, and this fact has ample verification in the case, of the subject of this review. Mr. Brand, who is recognized as distinctively one of the representative business men and public-spirited citizens of the progressive city of Urbana, and who has gained the grateful prestige of worthy success in material affairs through his ability and well directed effort, has promoted public good through private enterprise and has proved himself fully alive to those higher duties which represent the 638 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. most valuable citizenship in any locality and at any period. The advantages of Urbana as a wholesaling and jobbing center are manifest, and of this condition our subject was one of the first to show appreciation in a practical way, and he is now vice-president of the W. H. Marvin Company, with which he has been identified from the time of its inception, while he has gained a high reputation in the business circles of his native county, having passed the greater portion of his life in the city where he now maintains his home, and thus being doubly eligible for representation in a work of this nature. John F. Brand was born in Union township, Champaign county, Ohio, on the 18th of June, 1848, being the son of Major Joseph C. and Lavinia (Talbott) Brand, the former of whom came to Champaign county from Kentucky in 183o and here passed the remainder of his life being one of the honored pioneers of the county. A sketch of his life appears on other pages of this volume, and to the same we refer the reader for detailed information as to the genealogy and family history of our subject. When John F. Brand was but three years of age his parents removed from the farm to Urbana, and in the public schools of this place he secured his early scholastic discipline, supplementing the same by a course of study in the Urbana University. After leaving school Mr. Brand became assistant civil engineer on the construction of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad, now known as the Erie Railroad, and was thus engaged for a period of one year. Early in 1864 he became a clerk in the subsistence department of the United States army, serving before Atlanta and Richmond and accompanying the army of the James to Appomattox. He was on duty at Richmond until July, 1865, when he resigned his position, a few months after the surrender of General Lee, which marked the practical closing of the war of the Rebellion. From Virginia Mr. Brand returned to Urbana, where for a short time he was employed as a clerk in the dry goods establishment of Ross & Hitt. Thereafter he became associated with his father and elder brother, Joseph C., Jr., in the conducting CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 639 of a grocery business. In 1869 he became a compositor in the office of the Citizen and Gazette, of which he eventually became the manager, having control of the enterprise at the time of its sale to Charles T. Jamieson, in 1879. After this decade of newspaper work Mr. Brand associated himself in the grocery business with D. A. Fulwider, withdrawing from the firm two years later and engaging in the same line of business at Bellefontaine, where he remained until 1884, when he once more took up his abode in Urbana. In 1886 he entered into partnership with W. H. Marvin and they established a wholesale grocery house in Urbana, the enterprise being conducted with signal discrimination and ability and gradually extending its scope of operations until it became expedient to organize a stock company, this being accomplished in 1895, under the title of the W. H. Marvin Company, the business being duly incorporated and Mr. Brand becoming vice-president of the concern, in which capacity he has since continued. He has charge of the salesmen and of the buying of stock, and his thorough knowledge of all details and values, together with his executive ability, has made him a forceful factor in the building up of the large and satisfactory business of this important company, which is now engaged in packing grocers' specialties for sale to jobbers. The business covers almost the entire territory of the United States. Progressive in his attitude, of broad views and genuine public spirit, he has made his influence definitely felt in the industrial life of this- section, and has important local interests aside from that mentioned, being of the directorate of the Western Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the Urbana Telephone Company and the Urbana Publishing Company. Though taking no active part in affairs of a political nature, Mr. Brand has not been unmindful of the duties of citizenship and has given a stanch support to the Republican party and its principles. He is a member of Grace Methodist Episcopal church, in which he has been an officer for more than a score of years. Fraternally he is identified with Harmony Lodge, No. 8, F. & A. M.; Urbana Chapter, No. 39, R. A. M., and Raper Com- 640 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. mandery No. 19, Knights Templar, being past master of his lodge and Eminent Commander of his commandery, and taking deep interest in this ancient and honored fraternal organization. On the 1st of December, 187o, Mr. Brand was united in marriage to Miss Fannie Patrick, daughter of Evan B. Patrick, of Urbana, and they have four children : Charles, who is connected with the house of which his father is vice-president; and Elizabeth, Ella and Joseph Evan, who remain at the parental home, which is a center of gracious and refined hospitality. Charles Brand, born in Urbana, Ohio, on the 1st of November, 1871, is a son of John F. and Fannie Brand. He was educated in the Urbana public schools and in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware. Early manifesting a business capacity, he managed a large fruit business of his own during the summer months for three years prior to his graduation in the high school. Upon leaving the university at Delaware he was engaged for a time in the grocery business at Richmond, Ohio, and later was connected with the W. H. Marvin Company as a traveling salesman, in which capacity he proved eminently successful. He is still connected with that house, and is also actively engaged in farming, owning and profitably conducting a farm of two hundred and thirty-five acres. On the 24th of October, 1894, he was united in marriage to Miss Louise J. Vance, a daughter of Major A. F. Vance, Jr., and they are most happily established in a home in Scioto street in Urbana. CHRISTIAN SHANELY. Among the early settlers and representative farmers of Harrison township, and a veteran of the great Civil war, is Christian Shanely, who was born in the southeastern part of Indiana, about thirty miles west CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 643 of Cincinnati, November 5, 1826, the third son and fifth child of John and Catherine (Haisch) Shanely, whose history will be found in the sketch of their eldest son, Jacob Shanley, in this volume. When a' small boy our subject was taken by his parents to Shelby county, Ohio, and a short time afterward the family came to Champaign county. He received his education in the old-time log school houses of the locality, with their greased paper windows and slab seats and desks. After putting aside his text-books he assisted his father in the work of the home farm until 1850, when he made the journey to the Golden state, going direct to Sacramento City, and about six months were spent on the road from St. Joe across the plains with an ox team. After seven months spent on the Pacific slope as a miner he returned by the water route to New York City,. whence he went to Albany and Buffalo and finally reached his old home: in Champaign county, where he resumed the quiet pursuits of the farm. After his marriage he located on a farm in Adams township, where he was engaged in general farming and stock-raising until the Civil war prompted his enlistment in the Union cause. In 1864 he became a member of Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, entering the ranks as a private, but was soon afterward promoted to the position of sergeant, and for four months he served in the National Guards, under Colonel Armstrong. They went to Cumberland,. Missouri, thence to Washington, thence to Petersburg and remained there: until discharged in the last part of August. Returning to his home with a creditable military record, Mr. Shanely again took up the quiet duties of a farm life, and since that time has given his undivided attention to the work of the fields. About 1890 he took up his abode in Harrison township, where he now owns three hundred acres of land, all of which he has placed under a fine state' of cultivation, and on this valuable homestead he has erected a commodious and attractive residence. In addition to the farm which he now 34 644 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. owns he has also given two hundred and forty acres to his sons and son-in-law. In 1853 Mr. Shanely was united in marriage to Susanna S. Calland, a (laughter of William and Mary (Armstrong) Calland, who came from Scotland to America in 1817, and they became prominent early settlers of Adams township, Champaign county. In that locality Mrs. Shanely was reared and educated, being the youngest in a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Shanely became the parents of three children,-Mary C., the wife of L. A. Kumler; John W., who married Miss Lucy Alice Pierce; and Edwin, who married Anna Sager. The loving wife and mother was called to her final rest in 1879, and she was buried at Spring Hill cemetery. In politics Mr. Shanely is a Republican, lie having cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln in 1860, and he has continued to vote that ticket at every presidential election since. He is a prominent and worthy member of the United Brethren church, has always clung to whatever is of "good repute," and his name is a synonym for all that is honorable and straightforward. JACOB SHANLEY. Many years have passed since this gentleman arrived in Champaign county, and he is justly numbered among her honored pioneers and leading citizens. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 27, 1822, a son of John and Catherine (Haisch) Shanley, natives of Wittenberg, Germany. The father was a soldier under Napoleon Bonaparte and was with him on his march to Moscow. Out of the twenty who enlisted with him from the same town he is the only one who returned from the fatal march. In 1816 they left their little home across the sea and came to America, locating in Cincinnati, Ohio, and on their arrival they were in CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 645 debt to the amount of sixty dollars. For the following five years the father worked as a laborer in Cincinnati, after which he removed to Indiana, but two years later came again to this state, and from that time until 1830 farmed on rented land near the town of Miami. In that year they took up their abode on a rented farm in Shelby county, but a short time afterward came to Adams township, Champaign county, where Mr. Shanley had previously purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, and here they spent the remainder of their lives, the father passing away in his sixty-seventh year, while the mother reached the good old age of seventy-nine years, both passing away in the faith of the United Brethren church, of which they were worthy and active members. The church in which they worshipped was built on their land. A little log cabin first served as their meeting place, but this was later replaced by a more pretentious frame structure, and the latter was succeeded by a brick church, all built on the same site. This worthy couple became the parents of seven children, five sons and two daughters, namely : Catherine, deceased ; Sophia, also deceased ; Jacob, of this review ; John, a resident of Adams township, Champaign county ; Christian, who makes his home in both Adams and Harrison townships ; David, of the former place; and Isaac, also of Adams township. Four of the sons were loyal defenders of the Union cause during the war of the Rebellion, and as a partial compensation for the trials which they were called upon to undergo in that terrible struggle they are now drawing pensions. Jacob Shanley, of this review, was about ten years of age when he was brought by his parents to Champaign county, and in a primitive log school house in this neighborhood he received his early mental training. The teachers at that time were paid the munificent sum of ten doll¬ars a month. In 1846, in company with a friend, he drove to the present site of Dubuque, Iowa, but at that time this now flourishing city had not been organized, and during the following summer he was there employed 646 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. at farm labor. Returning thence to his home in Champaign county, he-spent the winter in attending the district school, and in the spring made the journey to Iowa, where he remained but a few months and then returned to his Ohio home. In 1849 he started on the long and arduous trip to the Golden state, the journey being made with ox teams, and on his arrival at Salt Lake City a halt was made of one week. While there he had the pleasure of hearing Brigham Young preach, and also saw all of his wives in a group, he having been invited to the July celebration, the second anniversary of the arrival of Brigham Young in Salt Lake City. Continuing his journey to the Pacific coast, he mined for a time on the Yuba river, and after two years spent in California he returned by the water route to New York City. He crossed the isthmus of Panama on foot. From New York City he made his way to Pittsburg and thence to Philadelphia, where he disposed of his gold dust for three thousand dollars. Resuming his journey to the Buckeye state, he remained for a time in Cincinnati and Piqua, and on his return to Champaign county he purchased the farm on which Ile now resides, which at that time consisted of one hundred and twenty-five acres. In addition to his valuable homestead Mr. Shanley also owns two farms in Shelby county. one of one hundred and seven acres and the other of one hundred and sixty-five acres, thus making his landed possessions to consist of nine hundred acres. On the 24th of February, 1853, Mr. Shanley was united in marriage to Caroline Dormire, who was born in France December 20, 1833. a daughter of Christian and Magdalena (Baron) Dormire, also natives of that country. They came to America about 184o, and after their arrival in New York they made their way to Shelby county, Ohio. They, too, were very poor when they arrived in Ohio, and they were twenty dollars in debt. They succeeded in borrowing seventy dollars, and with this amount purchased twenty acres of land in. Shelby county. They were the parents of six children, but two of the number died in infancy and CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 647 the remaining four accompanied them on their journey to America. The mother was called to her final rest at the age of seventy-four years, but the father survived until his eighty-first year. Mrs. Shanley is their third child in order of birth and is the oldest now living, her brothers and sisters being : Margaret, the wife of Lewis Bailar, who resides in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; John, of Portland, Indiana and David, of Shelby county, Ohio. Mrs. Shanley was about seven years of age when she came with her parents to America and she was reared in Shelby county, this state, receiving her education in its district schools. Two children have blessed the marriage of our subject and wife,—David, who was born in 1854, and is still at home ; and Laura E., the wife of Emerson E. Gard, of Clark county. He is a prominent grain dealer near Tremont City, where he also owns an elevator and is engaged in the coal, oil, lumber and hardware business. They have two children,—Frank J. and Mary C. At the present time Mr. and Mrs. Shanley are residing on their old homestead in Adams township and are one of the oldest couples in the township. They are active members and liberal supporters of the United Brethren church, and Mr. Shanley is a lifelong Democrat, although he has been the only one of his father's family to vote that ticket. Highly esteemed by all who know them, the uniform regard in which they are held is a tribute to upright lives,—well worthy of emulation. JOHN SHANLEY. This honored veteran of the Civil war, who has now reached the seventy-eighth milestone on the journey of life, is one of the honored pioneers of Champaign county. He was born in the southeastern part of Indiana, near Cincinnati, August 4, 1824., and is the second son and 648 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. fourth child of John and Catherine (Haisch) Shanley, whose history wilt be found in the sketch of Jacob Shanley in this volume. Our subject was about six years of age when he was brought by his parents to Adams township, Champaign county, and the educational advantages which he enjoyed in his youth were received in its public schools. He remained at home until his marriage, and soon afterward, in December, 1861, he offered his services in defense of the Union cause, entering Company I. Forty-second Ohio Volunteer infantry, in which he served for three years. During his military career he participated in eleven of the important battles of the war, including those of Middle Creek, Vicksburg, Grand Gulf, Thompson's' Hill, Cumberland Gap and Pain's Gap. During the engagement at Vicksburg he was struck in the cheek by a spent ball. In 1864 he received his discharge, and with an honorable military record he returned to his home. Previous to entering the army Mr. Shanley had followed the wagon-making business, and after his return home he resumed that occupation, but soon afterward sold out and purchased the farm which he now owns. His landed possessions now consist of one hundred and sixty acres of well improved and productive land, where he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. From a very early period he has been prominently identified with the history of this section of the state. \Vild was the region into which he came when a boy of six years ; its forests stood in their primeval strength, and the prairie land was still unbroken, and throughout the years which have since come and gone he has nobly borne-his share in its progress and upbuilding. Throughout the years of his manhood he has given an unwavering support to the principles of the Republican party, and religiously he is a member of the United Brethren church. In 1861 Mr. Shanley was united in marriage to Fatima Henry, who was born and reared in Shelby county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Rich- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 649 ard and Barbara Henry, prominent early settlers of Shelby county. Four children have blessed this union, namely : R. Mark, who is engaged in the oil business at Jennings, Louisiana ; David D., a grain dealer of Mendon, Ohio ;. Lola, the wife of George Wirick, of Adams township, Champaign county ; and Estella, the wife of Harvey Princehouse, who follows the teacher's profession in Shelby county. Mr. and Mrs. Shan-ley also have four grandchildren,—Laura, Ethel and R. Emmitt Wirick and Jessie Princehouse. The family are among the best known citizens of Champaign county, and their friends are legion. DAVID SHANELY. In an enumeration of the prominent and successful farmers of Champaign county a place of due relative priority must be given to the gentleman whose name appears above and who is one of the sterling Citizens of the county, where he has passed his long and useful life, being a representative of one of the honored pioneer families of the county. He has a well improved and valuable farm, Which is located on section 2, Adams township, and he has here devoted his attention to the great art of husbandry from his childhood days, when he began to assist in the work of clearing and cultivating the paternal homestead. Mr. Shanely was born in Adams township on the loth of June, 183o, being a son of John and Catherine (Haisch) Shanely, to whom more specific reference is made in the sketch of our subject's eldest brother, Jacob Shanely, on another page of this work, so that a recapitulation is not demanded at this point. Our subject was reared on the old homestead and there continued to devote his attention to its work until his marriage, in 186o, when he began operations in the same line on his