300 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. has one child, a daughter, Helen. Some time after the death of his first wife Mr. West married Anna Waugh, who was born in Washington county, this state, daughter of William S. and Rebecca (Graham) Waugh, natives of Pennsylvania, who were married in that state and later came to Ohio, locating in Washington county, where they remained until 1880, when they moved to North Lewisburg, this county, where they spent their last days, Mr. Waugh being engaged there as a photographer and in the undertaking. business. William S. Waugh and wife were the parents of four children, of whom Mrs. West was the second in order of birth, the others being James G., Deborah (deceased) and William E. (deceased). To Seth M. and Anna (Waugh) West one child has been born, a daughter, Rebecca Jane who married John R. Wilson, Jr. and is living in Logan county. Mr. and Mrs. West have a pleasant home in North Lewisburg and take a warm interest in the general social activities of their home town. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. West is a class leader and a member of the board of stewards of the church: He is an active member of the local post of the Grand. Army of the Republic and a member of King's Lodge No. 54, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in the. affairs of both of-which- organizations he takes a warm interest. JAMES RAWLINGS TODD. James Rawlings Todd, one of Champaign county's best-known and most substantial retired farmers and dairymen, former trustee of Union township and for years actively interested in the public affairs of the community, is a native son of this county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm on Pretty Prairie, in Urbana township, March 9, 1863, son of Thomas Mitchell and Mary Martha (Rawlings) Todd, the former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of this county, prominent residents of the Pretty Prairie neighborhood. Thomas Mitchell Todd was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, on April.17, 1827, son of David and Sallie Todd, who came to this state from Pennsylvania in 1846 locating first in Warren county and coming thence, in the spring of 1847, to Champaign county and settling in Urbana township, where they established their home and where they spent the remainder of their lives. Thomas M. Todd was twenty years of age when he came to this county and on March 12, 1857, ten years later, he married Mary Martha CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 301 Rawlings, who was born in Urbana township on December 25, 1831, daughter of pioneer residents of the Pretty Prairie section. After his marriage he established his home on a farm five miles southeast of Urbana, where he developed a fine piece of farm property and where he and his wife continued to make their home until in April, 1896, when they and their daughter, Alma, moved to Urbana. There Mrs. Todd died on December 1, 1905. Mr. Todd died in October, 1911. They were the parents of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth the others being as follow : Susanna, born on March18, 1858, who died on December 1862; David Solon, born September 8, 1860, who after years of successful farming in Union township, moved to Urbana; married Florence Engle, December 24, 1884, and had two children, Herbert E., born on June 29, 1886, and Wilbur M., born January 6, 1890; Alma, born October 9, 1864, who is now making her home in Urbana; Henry William, born August 7, 1867, who died on July 16, 1883; Thomas Rawlings, born March 27, 1870, a well-known Champaign county farmer, who, on November 14, 1895, married Laura V. Swinley; Pearl C., born November 18, 1872, who died at San Antonio, Texas, March 20, 1909, leaving a widow, Eveline (Cartmell) Todd, to whom he was married on September 16, 1902, and one child, a daughter, Margaret L., born on March 23, 1904; the widow and her daughter now living at Urbana. James R. Todd was reared on the home farm on Pretty Prairie, a valued assistant to his father and brothers in the labors of improving and developing the same, and received his early schooling in the neighborhood schools, supplementing the same by a two-years' course in Oberlin College, after which he returned to the old home place and there continued engaged in farming for about three years, at the end of which time he began farming on his own account and later became a landowner in Union township, establishing his home there after his marriage and continued farming there, his farm being a part of the old Todd farm, and there continued to make his home until 1912, when he moved to Urbana township, where he remained, operating a dairy farm, until in March, 1917, when he retired from the farm and moved to Urbana, where he and his family are now living and where. they are very comfortably situated. During Mr. Todd's long residence on the farm he was quite extensively engaged in the raising of cattle and horses, in connection with his general farming, and did very well in his operations. He is a stanch Republiean and for twelve years served as trustee of Union township. He also served for six years as director of the county infirmary and in other ways has given his personal attention to local public affairs. 302 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. It was on October 6,. 1892, that James R. Todd was united in Marriage to Kate A. Preston, of Mutual; this county, who was born in Nelsonville, over in Athens county, this state, daughter of Dr. H. S. and Charity (Hushowa) Preston, who became residents of Mutual in 1876, where the Doctor is still engaged in the practice of his profession. Doctor Preston was born in Columbus, this state, and is a graduate of Sterling Medical College in that city. It was in March, 1876, that he located in Mutual, where. he ever since has made his home, engaged in practice and in the mercantile business. He and his wife had four children, those besides Mrs. Todd being William (deceased), Abba, wife of Frank Stone, of Springfield, thiS state, and Charity, wife of E. A. Baker, of Springfield. To James R. and Kate A. (Preston) Todd two children have been born, Elise Alma, wife of Harry Carnahan, head chemist for the Caldwell & Bloos. Company, of Mansfield; this state and Imogene, Who is at home with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Todd and their datighters are members of the Presbyterian church and have ever taken a warm interest in church affairs, as well as in the general social activities of the community, helpful in numerous ways in advancing such movements as are designed to advance the common welfare. Mr. Todd is a Mason and a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and in the affairs of 'these popular organizations takes an active intereSt. ALFRED L. YODER. Farming in the good, old-fashioned way has been a good enough occupation for Alfred L. Yoder, of Salem township, Champaign county; he has been at it since a boy. He was born in Holmes county, Ohio, September 8; 1875. He is a son of David J. and Susanna (Garber) Yoder, both natives of Holmes county, this state, where they grew up, at Wallen Creek, German township, and there they were married and established their home on -a farm, where they remained until 1892, when they removed to Champaign county and located on the place on which the subject of this sketch is now making his home.. The father bought 'sixty acres in Salem township, which he operated until 1907, when he retired from active life and is now making his home among his children, of whom there were five, named as follow : Joas D., A. D., Elizabeth, one died in infancy, and Alfred L., of this sketch. David J. Yoder, the father, was a son of John and Katherine (Miller) Yoder, both CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 303 natives of Pennsylvania, from which state they came to Ohio in an early day, settling in Holmes county. Alfred L. Yoder, of this sketch, grew to manhood on the farm, where he worked with his father when he became of proper age. He received his education in the rural schools of Holmes county. He continued: farming there until 1907, when the family moved to Salem township, Champaign county, at which time he began farming for himself on the home place, his father retiring at the time, and here he has continued raising a general line of crops and live stock of various grades, renting the land from his father. He makes a specialty of fattening horses for the market, handling about twenty-five head annually, also many hogs. The mother of Alfred L. Yoder died in 1900. Mr. Yoder was married in 1905 to Elizabeth Kenegy, who was born in 18go. She is a daughter of Levi Kenegy and wife, natives of Logan county, Ohio. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Yoder, namely : Clara Belle, Laura Ellen, and Lavina Catherine. Politically, Mr. Yoder is a Republican. He belongs to the Mennonite church at Oak Grove. JAMES ROBINSON. Another of the painstaking farmers of Salem township, who is contented to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, is James Robinson, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, July 20, 1854. He is a son of George and Lucinda (Bailey) Robinson, both natives of Virginia, from which state they moved to Coshocton county, this state, in an early day, where they spent the rest of their lives, devoting their active days to general farming, They had three children, namely: Elizabeth, who married Michael Fox; Nannie. who married I. S. Williamson, and James, of this sketch. James Robinson received a limited education in the rural schools of his native community, leaving school when fifteen years old, and began life for himself as a farm hand, which work he continued. until he came to Champaign county, in 1881, first renting sixty-five acres. in Wayne township later took charge of the Cowgill farm of six hundred acres, which he conducted successfully and on an extensive scale for a period of thirty-one years. In 1914 he bought his present farm of sixty-one acres in Salem township, known as the old Seth Thomas place, and here he intends to make his future 304 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. home. He has made up-to-date improvements in general and his home is pleasantly located. On September 3, 1885, Mr. Robinson was married to Alice Metz, a native of Wayne county, Ohio, and a daughter of Samuel and Eliza Metz, who resided in Champaign county after the Civil War. To Mr. and Mrs. Robinson four children have been born, namely : Samuel Milroay, who married Mary Breedlove, lives in Wayne township; George Frederick, Edith and Mabel, all: three live at home with their parents, and are married. Politically, Mr. Robinson is a Democrat, but votes independently, endeavoring always to put the best men in office, regardless of their party affiliations. ABRAHAM L. GLENDENNING. There are few families in Champaign county better known or more widely represented hereabout than the Glendenning family, which was established in this county in 1829 and has ever since been prominently represented in the life of the county. James Glendenning was the founder of the family in Champaign county. He was a native of Scotland and was two years of age when he came to this country with his parents in 1795, the family settling in Harrison county, Virginia, in that part of the Old Dominion now comprised within the bounds of West Virginia. There he grew to manhood and married Mary D. Van. Horn, who was born in Pennsylvania about 1793. After his marriage he continued to make his home in Virginia until 1829, when he drove through with his family to Ohio, arriving at Mechanicsburg. in December of that year. Not long afterward. he settled on a farm of one hundred and fifty-five acres on Brush lake, in Rush township, this county, and there established his home. and spent the rest of his life, living to the advanced age of eighty-two. His wife died at the age of seventy! They were the parents of eight children, a list of whom is set out elsewhere in this volume, where extended mention is made of the Glendenning family in this county. Of the eight children born to James Glendenning, the pioneer, and wife, William Glendenning was the second in order of birth. He was born in Virginia on July 8, 1817, and died at his home in this county on March 2, 1897. All his life he was a farmer and came to be the owner of more than seven hundred acres of land. William Glendenning was twice married and by his CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 305 first wife was the father of five children and by his second wife, eight, as set out in the general history of the Glendennings presented elsewhere in this volume. The second wife of William Glendenning was Mary Hawkins, who was born in the state of New Hampshire on January 23, 1825, and who survived her husband more than six years, her.death occurring on September 16, 1903. Abraham L. Glendenning, sixth in order of birth of the eight children born to William and Mary Ann (Hawkins) Glendenning, was born on the old home farm in Rush township, this county, July 16, 1860, and there grew to manhood. lie received his elementary schooling in the district school in the neighborhood of his home and in 1880 attended the Woodstock schools. in 1881-82 he attended the North Lewisburg schools and during 1883-84 was in attendance at Antioch College. With a view to taking up the law as a profession, he then read law for fifteen months in the office of Lew Johnson, but later decided that the medical profession would be more to his liking and for eleven Months read medicine in the office.of Dr. W. G. Wagstaff. Then turning from the professions, Mr. Glendenning took up practical farming and has ever since been engaged in farming, in which vocation he has done very well. After his marriage in 1890 he received from his father the Johnson farm of one hundred and twenty acres two and one-half miles north of Woodstock, in Rush township, and has ever since made his home there. Since taking- possession of that place Mr. Glendenning has made many substantial improvements on the same and has a fine home and one of the best-equipped farm plants in the neighborhood. In addition to his general farming. Mr. Glendenning has for years given considerable attention to dairy farming and the raising of high grade live stock, being recognized as one of the most progressive and up-to-date farmers in that section of the county. Politically, he is a Republican and has ever given close attention to local civic affairs, but has not been included in the office-seeking class. On February 22, 189o, Abraham L. Glendenning was united in marriage to Charlotte E. Burnham, who also was born in Rush township, this county, daughter of Capt. Philo and Charlotte (Perkins) Burnham, the former of whom was born in that same township and the latter in the state of Massachusetts. Capt. Philo Burnham, who was a substantial farmer of Rush township, was a son of Erastus and Elizabeth Burnham, natives of Massachusetts, who drove through from that state and settled in Champaign county in pioneer days. During the Civil War Captain Burnham commanded a company in one of the Ohio regiments. His wife originally was a member (20a) 306 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. of the Methodist Episcopal church, but later became a member of the Christian Church; They were the parents of five children, of whom Mrs. Glendenning was the fourth in order of birth, the other being; Annette; who married Addlphus Horn and is now deceased; William P., for Many years a well-known farmer and grain dealer in Rush township, who died in 1913; Mary who married James M. McM ahill and who; as well as her husband, is now deceased, and the Hon. some G. Burnham, a prominent attorney of Dayton, this state, who for some time represented the Dayton district in the Ohio state Senate. Philo G. Burnham received this early schbbling in the Woodatock schools and later attended Antioch College and the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.. For two years he taught school at Covington, this state, and then, twenty years or more ago, entered upon the practice, of law at Dayton and has ever since been located there. He is a stanch Republican and in addition to serving as a member of the state Senate; has served as city solicitor for the city of Dayton. His wife, before her marriage, was Erli C. Baer. To Abraham L. and Charlotte E. (Burnham) Glendenning, one child has been born, a daughter, Martha Mary, who died at the age of two years. Mr. and Mrs. Glendenning are members of the Christian Science church. JOHN F. LINVILLE. The "song of they forge" has long been pleasant in the ears of John F. Linville, retired blacksmith of Kennard, Champaign county. He was born in Wayne township, this county, September 16, 1856. He is a son of Ellis and Rachael A. (Middleton) Linville. The father was a native: of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; and the mother was born in Champaign. county, Ohio. The father was brought to Ohio when three years old by his parents, Solomon and Louise Linville, Who first located at Springfield, where they lived about, ten years, then moved to Champaign county, locating on a farm, in Wayne township, where he also worked as a carpenter, following the two occupations the rest of his life; Ellis Linville grew up on the farm and attended the common schools in Champaign and Clark counties. After leaving school he took up the carpenter's trade which he learned under; his lather, also followed farming in Wayne township, this county, until 1873, when he moved. to Salem township and continued farming, renting land until 1876. when he took charge of the Cowgill farm of three hundred acres,.which he CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 307 conducted until 1897, when he engaged in the mercantile business at- Kennard, enjoying a good trade, and continued in: that line until; 'Oa -He then sold out and retired from active life, but remained at Kennard until his death, June 15, 1914. He was a soldier in the Civil War, having enlisted in Company H, Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served faithfully for nearly three years. The fact that he came home carrying thirteen bullet marks on his body would indicate that he did not spend. those three years on a pleasure excursion. The fact is, he was in the midst of some of the leading battles of the war, and,:according to his Comrades and officers, was a brave and efficient soldier. He was mustered into the service at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, and served with that command until he was mustered out and honorably discharged. Among the engagements in which he participated were those of Resaca, Dallac, Kenesaw Mountain, Pine Mountain and Lovejoy Station. One of the first engagements in which he took part was the battle of Dutton Hill, Kentucky, and he also took part in the pursuit of General Morgan, the Confederate cavalry raider, through Indiana and Ohio. On October 20, 1863; he was at the battle of Philadelphia, Tennessee, in which his regiment lost sixty-eight men; killed, wounded and missing. Later the regiment served in the campaign in eastern. Tennessee, and on November 15th of that year at Holston River, lost one hundred and one men, including five officers. In an engagement two days later, November 17th, they had a brisk encounter with the forces of General Longstreet. From Tazewell, Tennessee, the regiment went to Cumberland Gap and thence to Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, and finally on into Georgia to take part in the Atlanta campaign, and was present at the siege of Atlanta. After his military service Ellis Linville returned to his home in Champaign county and resumed farming and carpentering, but owing to his many wounds he was Meyer a robust man thereafter. His family consisted of the following children, namely: John, of this sketch ; Louise, Sherthan, Fannie, William, Augustus, Louis, Margaret, Charles and Edward. John F. Linville, of this sketch, grew up on the farm in Wayne township, and he attended the rural schools. When a young man he took up farming and carpentering under his father, continuing at these occupations in his home community until 1883, when he took up the blacksmith's trade, at which he became highly, skilled, and continued the work until 1917, when he retired; however, he still does a little wood work. He was married in 1879 to Rebecca F. Sheppard, a native of Belmont county, Ohio,. She is a daughter of Jeremiah and Anna Mary (Ball) Sheppard. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Linville, two of whom 308 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. are deceased ; Richard, who married Ada Clark, lives in St. Paris, Ohio, and they have two children, Ethel Pacola and Alice. Politically, Mr. Linville is a Republican, and he belongs to the Friends church. JOHN M. TRITT. John M. Tritt, a well-known hardware employee of North Lewisburg, this county, member of the Buckwalter Hardware Company, former marshal of that vilage and whoe wife is postmistress there, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Champaign county since he was twenty-two years of age. He was born in Scioto county on November 7, 1861, son of Jacob and Margaret (Rickey) Tritt, also natives of this state, the former born in Columbiana county and the latter in Scioto county. Jacob Tritt was a son of Joshua Tritt and wife, the latter of whom was a Deselom. Joshua Tritt also was born- in Columbiana county; this state, and lived there all his life, a substantial farmer. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, those besides Jacob having been John, Joseph, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary, Esther, Lucy and Matilda. At the age of twelve years Jacob Tritt went to Scioto county and there grew to manhood, becoming a carpenter and farmer. There he married Margaret Rickey, who was born in that county, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Beck) Rickey, early settlers of that county, whose last days were spent there. Mrs. Margaret Tritt died in Scioto county in 1879, at the age of thirty-nine years, leaving six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being as follow : James, who died at the age of twenty-eight; Rachael, who married Edward McGowan and lives in West Virginia ; Isaac, who is a land dealer at Spokane, Washington ; Phoebe, who married Edward Mault and also lives at Spokane, and Margaret, who died unmarried. Some time after the death of his first wife Jacob Tritt married Elizabeth Braine and continued to make his home in Scioto. county until 1897, when he moved to Spokane, Washington, where he died on October 19, 1915, and where his widow is still living. Jacob Tritt was a Democrat in his political affiliation and by religious persuasion was a Methodist. John M. Tritt received his schooling in the schools of his home county and remained at home there until he was twenty-two years of ago, when he came up into Champaign county and began farming in the neighborhood of Woodstock, in Rush township, continuing thus engaged until 1897, when CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 309 he became employed in the hardware business at North Lewisburg, in that same township, in association with Creviston & Dominy, and later, with Buckwalter & Jordan. By reason of a reorganization of this latter concern the firm name later became the Buckwalter Hardware Company and Mr. Tritt has been a stockholder in the same for the past three years or more. Ever since locating at North Lewisburg he has given his earnest attention to the general business affairs of that thriving little city. Mr. Tritt is a Democrat and served for one year as marshal of North Lewisburg. While thus serving he was shot by a yeggman who had broken into the postoffice on the night of November 16, 1908, and received a bullet wound in the left knee which incapacitated him for more than two years. On November 27, 1903, at North Lewisburg, John M. Tritt was united in marriage to Elizabeth L. D. Inskeep, who was born in that village, a daughter of Isaiah G. and Rachel (Tallman) Inskeep, both of whom were born in the neighboring county of Logan. Isaiah G. Inskeep was an honored veteran of the Civil War, having gone to the front as a member of Company C, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served as corporal until the fall of 1862, being discharged on account of disability incurred by reason of a severe attack of measles suffered while in the service. He re-enlisted September 26, 1863, and served until the close of the war. At the time of his discharge he was first corporal of his company. Mr. Inskeep was for some time the proprietor of a general store in Logan county and later became engaged in the saw-mill business and became a building contractor, many years ago taking up his residence at North Lewisburg, where he lived for forty years, his death occurring in 1915, he then being eighty years of age. His widow is still living there. Isaiah G. Inseep was a Republican and was for years an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, in the affairs of which patriotic organization he took a warm interest. He and his wife were the parents of six children, of whom Mrs. Tritt was the last born, the others being as follow : Ella, who married Michael Dehaven and is now deceased; Thomas, who died in infancy; Charles, who also died in infancy; Clyde, who died as an infant, and Anna, who died at the age of twenty-three years. In 1909 Mrs. Tritt was appointed postmistress of North Lewisburg, under civil service, and has since been serving in that important public capacity. She grew up at North Lewisburg and upon completing the course in the high school at that place took a supplementary course in the college at Ada and for four years thereafter was engaged in teaching school, teach- 310 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. ing two years at Mingo and two years in her home town. She is .a member of the local branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mr. Tritt is a Democrat and takes an active part in local political affairs. He is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and takes a warm interest in the affairs of the same. JOHN HENRY ELSEN DIMOND. John Henry Elsen Dimond, a well-to-do retired carriage manufacturer and landowner, of Urbana, former member of the city council and for years one of the most active figures in the business life of that city, is a native of England, but has lived on this side of the water since he was fourteen years of age and has been a resident of Urbana since the year 1872. He was born in the town of Chudleigh, in Devonshire, son of Samuel and Ann W. (Eisen) Dimond, also natives of that place, who spent all their lives there. Samuel Dimond, who was the overseer of a large estate, died at the age of forty-two: years. His widow married William Chaffe and lived to the advanced age of eighty years. By her first marriage she was the mother of eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last born, the others being as follow : William, who is a farmer in Canada; Mary Ann, who died in England; Elila, who also died in England; Jackson, who as a boy joined the British navy, in 185o joined the new Argonauts in the search for gold in California, made and lost several fortunes in the West and is now in a Lutheran home on Puget Sound; Elizabeth, who died in 1916; Samuel R., who served in the British army and is now living retired at Manitoba, Canada, and Fannie, who married William Chaffe and:isliving in Canada. John H. E. Dimond received his early schooling in his native town of Chudleigh and in 1863, he then being fourteen years of age, crossed the water and joined his elder brother at Mitchell, Canada, where he completed his schooling in a night school and where he lived until 1868, learning there the rudiments of the carriage-making trade. In the year last named, he then being nineteen years of age, he went to Detroit, Michigan, and in that city worked at his trade until. 1871, in which year he went to Chicago and was there engaged working at his trade for a year, at the end of which time he went to Indianapolis and after a short stay there, in 1872, he came over into Ohio and located at Urbana, where he ever since has made his CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 311 home. Upon Mr. Dimond's arrival in Urbana he secured employment in the carriage factory of Warren. & Gaumer and was for four years engaged in that establishment. He then transferred his services to the like establishment of Auginbauch & McComb and remained thus connected for four years, at the end of which time he bought a carriage factory on South. Main street, later erected there a three-story brick factory building and was there engaged in business on his own account for twenty-eight years, or until he rented his factory in 1916 and retired from active business. During all the years of his connection with the carriage manufacturing business Mr. Dimond made a point of the strictly-hand-made character of his output and his buggies and carriages thus came to have a distinctive character .and quality which strongly recommended them to the trade and he built up an extensive market for the output of his factory, becoming one of the best-known carriage manufacturers in Ohio. From the time he arrived in Urbana in 1872 Mr. Dimond has taken a warm interest in local affairs and as his business .interests there began to expand, took, a gradually increasing interest in the development of the City's industrial and commercial life, until he presently came to be accounted one of the most active and influential figures in the business life of the community. When the telephone became a practical adjunct to business and social intercourse, he took an active part in the organization of the local telephone company, helped to establish the plant and has been a member of the board of directors of the local telephone company and chairman of the executive committee of the same ever since the company was organized. He also is a stockholder in: the Champaign National Bank of Urbana and the National Bank of Urbana, a stockholder in the Howard Paper Company, the owner of a fine farm of two hundred and twenty-seven acres south of Urbana and has other important interests. Mr. Dimond is a Republican and for fifteen years served as trustee of Urbana township. He also gave valuable service to the public as a member of the Urbana city council and was for some time chairman of the finance committee of that body. In all movements having as their object the betterment of local conditions he has contributed of his time and influence and for some time served. as the president of the local health league organized for the purpose of ameliorating the living conditions of. the poor. On November 30, 1875, about three years after taking up his residence in Urbana, John H. E. Dimond was united in marriage to Susan A. Dillinger, who was born in Westmoreland county; Pennsylvania, daughter of. oseph M. and Catherine Dillinget, natives of that same county, who came 312 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. over into Ohio, first settling in Hancock county and in 1861 coming to Champaign county, where they established their home. Mrs. Dimond died on Apra 24, 1917. Joseph M. Dillinger was a carpenter and farmer and his last days were spent in this county. His widow later moved to Springfield, this state, where her last days were spent. They were the parents of six children, of whom Isabel, of Springfield, is the only survivor, the others having been Nathan, Mary, Kittie and Martha. Mr. and Mrs. Dimond had one son, William E. Dimond, who formerly was engaged in the carriage manufacturing business with his father, acting as a salesman, and who is now engaged in the live-stock business at Urbana. William E. Dimond married Geneva Lohr and has three children, Lee E., Richard D. and William L. The Dimonds are members of the Baptist church, of the board of trustees of which Mr. Diniond has for years been a member, and is now presideht of the board and chairman of the building committee. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, affiliated with the blue lodge (Champaign Lodge No. 525) at Urbana and with the consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, at Dayton. He also is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a .past noble grand of the lodge of that order at Urbana. WILLIAM REYNOLDS ROSS. The late William Reynolds Ross, who was an honored veterala of the Civil War and for years vice-president of the Champaign National Bank of Urbana, was born at Urbana and lived there all his life, with the exception of the period spent during his service as a soldier of the Union and a short time thereafter, when he was employed in a bank at Nashville, Tennessee. He was born on May 7, 1841, son of Philander B. and Jane (Reynolds) Ross, who were the parents of two children. Philander Ross was but a youth when he came to Champaign county with his parents and for a time after coming here he lived on a farm, but presently moved to Urbana, where he engaged in the mercantile business, one of the early merchants of that city, and followed a highly successful business career the rest of his life there. He took a very active part in the general business affairs of the city and was for years one of the most influential men in this county, long serving as president of the Champaign National Bank. He was twice married, his second wife having been Julia Slater. Reared at Urbana, William R. Ross received his schooling in the schools CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 313 of that city and was clerking in his father's store there at the time the Civil War broke out. He enlisted for service as a member of Company K, Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with that command served for two years, at the end of which time he was discharged on a physician's certificate of physical disability. During the period of his service with the: Sixty-sixth Ohio Mr. Ross participated in numerous of the most important battles of the war and also served for some. time in the commissary department. Upon the completion of his military service he returned home, but shortly thereafter went to Nashville, Tennessee, Where for a short time he was employed in a bank there, presently returning to Urbana to take a position in the Champaign National Bank, Of which his father at that time was the president. With that sound old financial institution Mr. Ross remained connected the remainder of his life,, gradually rising from a clerkship to the position of vice-president of the bank, a position he held for years and which he was holding at the time of m his death, on December 23, 1915, long having been regarded as one of the most substantial and influential bankers and general business men in this part of the state. Mr. Ross was a Republican and ever took a good citizen's interest in local political affairs, but was never a seeker after public office. William R. Ross was twice married, his first wife having been Margaret Belle Brand, daughter of J. C. Brand, of Urbana, further and fitting mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. To that union one child was born, a son, John R. Ross:. Some time following the death of his first wife Mr. Ross married Ella Taylor, daughter of William S. and Mary (Hickman) Taylor, who became residents of Champaign county about 1830. Both William S. Taylor and his wife were born in Shepardstown, Virginia (now in West Virginia), and were married there. -About 1830 they came over into Ohio and settled on a farm on Buck creek, in this county, where they-_ remained until 1853, when they left the farm and moved to Urbana, where both. spent the remainder of their lives, Mr. Taylor dying in 1858 and his widow surviving until 1871. They were the parents of five children, of whom Mrs. Ross is now the only survivor. The other children were Lucian, Virginia, Lee and Jane. Mrs., Ross is a member of the Grace Methodist Episcopal church and has for many years taken an active interest in its affairs.. She i also interested in the general social activity of her town and has always helped to promote such agencies as were designed to advance the general welfare of the community in which she has spent practically all her life. A concluding word should be said regarding the attitude of William R. Ross toward his fellow citizens. He was one of those men who stood square 314 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. on every proposition and never advanced an opinion without carefully weighing, what he had. to say. He was one of the most; respected and at the same time one of the most public-spirited men of the county. Whether he was on the street, in a business affair, or in the church—it mattered not; his conduct was always the same. If there was a proposition which looked doubtful to him he had nothing to do with it. In other words he tried to make his everyday life square with what he preached. He was an active worked in Grace Methodist Episcopal church and for over forty years was a member of its official board. For twenty years of this time he was superintendent of the Sunday school. Thus, taking everything into consideration, william R. Ross may be set down as one of Champaign county's truly eminent citizens. GEORGE JORDAN. George Jordan, an honored veteran of the Civil War, former recorder of the neighboring county of Union, but for the past ten year's or more engaged in the grain, coal and hay business at North Lewisburg, this county, head of the firm of Jordan & Sons, and owner of the grain elevator at that place, is a native of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born in the neighboring county of Union March 14, 1844, son of William and Nancy (Westlake) Jordan, the former of whom was born in Scotland and the latter in this state. William Jordan was well grown when he left his native Scotland and came to this country. For a time after his arrival here he was located in New York state and then he came to Ohio and located in Union county, where he presently married and where he spent the remainder of his. life, following his vocation of stonemason, a trade he had learned in his youth before coming to this country.. His widow survived him for some years, her last days being spent in the home of her son, the subject of this sketch, at North Lewisburg. William Jordan and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and their children were reared in that faith. There were nine of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last born, .the. others. being as follow: Samuel now deceased, who was a farmer in Union county ; John, who went to California, in the days of the gold rush and there died; William, now deceased, who served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, a member of Company C, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, With which he served for four CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 315 years, and was later successfully engaged in farming in Union and Champaign counties; Isaiah, deceased; Mary A., who married. Calbert Bergen, tine and who, as well as her husband, is dead; Elizabeth, who married John Corbett, a veteran of the Civil War, a member of Company C, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Christine, who married Joel Burrows and who, as well as her husband, is dead, and Nancy Jane, now deceased, who was the wife of Adam Wilford, a carpenter. George Jordan supplemented the schooling he received in the common schools of his home county by a course in a commercial college at Columbus and in March, 1862, just after passing his eighteenth birthday, enlisted for service in the Union army and went to the front as a private in Company C, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being sent to Spring Hill, Tennessee. The month after his enlistment he took part. in the battle of Shiloh and was in the later battles at Corinth, Mississippi; Perryville, Kentucky; Hoover's Gap, Stone's River and Chickamauga. In the latter battle, September 20, 1863, Mr. Jordan was shot through the left forearm, just below the elbow, the bullet making a very. aggravated wound. Crude first-aid attention was given the wound when Mr. Jordan was taken back to the field hospital and he then was taken in a government wagon across the mountains to a railway 'station and thence by rail to Nashville, where he was placed in government hospital No. 19, it being nine clays after receiving his wound before .it was given proper medical and surgical attention. For about five weeks thereafter Mr. Jordan was confined in the hospital and he then was furloughed home on convalescent leave. Upon the termination of his furlough he reported at Camp Denison and after Ai:nit two months there received his final discharge and returned. home. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Jordan engaged in farming in Union county and after his marriage in the fall of. 1865 established his home on a farm there, remaining engaged in farming there for twenty years, or until his election to the office of recorder of Union county. He served six years in that office and upon the completion of his term of public service came over into Champaign county, in 1906, and located at North Lewisburg, where he since has been engaged in the grain, hay and coal business, owner of the grain elevator at that place, doing busiriess under the firm .name of Jordan & Sons, three of his sons beingi...engaged' in business with him, and is doing a fine business. It was in November, 1865, in Union county, that George Jordan was united in marriage to Nancy C. Holycross, of that county, and to this union four children have been born, namely: Delmar N., who married Clara 316 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. Brown and is now living at Marysville; Samuel W., who married Edith Ballinger and is engaged in business with his father; Frank A., who married Gertrude Ballinger and is also in business with his father, and William F., who married Lulu Gray and is in business with his father and brothers. Samuel A. and Frank A. Jordan are members of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at North Lewisburg and William F. Jordan is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The Jordans are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and take a proper part in church work, as well as in the general good works of the community and the general social activities of their home town, helpful . in promoting all proper agencies for the advancement of the common welfare thereabbut. Mr. Jordan is an active member of John Burney Post No. 193, Grand Army of the Republic, at North Lewisburg, and has held various .offices in that patriotic organization. He is an excellent business man and has done much to promote the general business activities of the town since taking up his residence there in 1906. GEORGE McCONNELL. George McConnell, president of the Desmond-Stephan Manufacturing Company, of Urbana, a member of the board of directors of the Citizens' National Bank of that city, former secretary of the Urbana Waterworks Company, and in other ways interested in the general business and industrial life of his home city, is a native son of Champaign county and has lived here all his life. He was born on January 1, 1875, son and only child of Major Thomas and Margaret (McDonald) McConnell, both of whom were born in this state and the latter of whom is still living at Urbana. The late Major Thomas McConnell, an honored veteran of the Civil War, was a native of Warren county, born on a farm in the vicinity of Lebanon on January 18, 1839, son of James M. and Eleanor (Murray) McConnell, both of whom were born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, of Scottish descent, and who came to Ohio shortly after their marriage and settled in Warren county, later removing to Champaign county, where they settled on a farm and where they spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of eight children, of whom the Major was the second in order of birth. The latter was reared on the home farm in this county and received his schooling in the local schools. Upon the onthreak of the Civil War be CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 317 responded to President Lincoln's first call for troops in April, 1861, and went to the front as a private in Company K, Thirteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until the end of his initial term of enlistment, after which, in 1862, he re-enlisted for service and returned to the front as first lieutenant of Company A, Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, later being promoted to the captaincy of his company and then to major of the regiment, with which rank he was mustered out at the close of the war, receiving his honorable discharge on July 15, 1865. During his long service, Major McConnell participated in some of the most important engagements of the war.. He was in charge of his command at the battle of Lookout Mountain and served all through the Atlanta campaign. At the battle of Chancellorsville he received a serious wound and for some time thereafter was confined to the hospital. Upon the completion of his military service, Major McConnell returned home and in 1868 was elected sheriff of Champaign county. After four years- of service in that important capacity he engaged in-the livery business at Urbana and was thus engaged the rest of his life, one of the best known and most progressive citizens of that place. The Major was an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the local lodge of the independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in the affairs of both of those organizations took a warm interest. Major McConnell died at his home in Urbana on September 30, 1901. His widow is still living at Urbana. She was born in this county on January 26, 1843, Margaret McDonald, daughter of Colin and Nancy (McColloch) McDonald, also natives of this state, the former born in Ross county and the latter in Logan county, and was married to Major McConnell on June 28, 1866. To that union but one child was born, a son, George McConnell, subject of this,.biographical sketch. George McConnell was reared at Urbana and upon completing the course in the schools of that city took a further course in Urbana University, after which he entered the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1898, he was made secretary of the Urbana Waterworks Company, and for about four years thereafter was manager of the waterworks plant. He then became manager of the Mammoth Furnishing. Company and was thus engaged for three years, at the end of which time, in 1907, he bought the plant of the Desmond-Stephan Manufacturing Company and has been president of that company and manager of the manufacturing plant controlled by the same ever since, long having been regarded as one of the leading manufacturers and business men of Urbana. In addition to his manufacturing interests; Mr. McConnell has other important 318 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. connections in Urbana, is .a member of the board of directors of the Citizens' National Bank of that city, a member of the board of directors of the Urbana Canning Company and a director of the Mammoth -Furnishing Company, and a director of the Perpetual Building and Savings Association, to the affairs of all of which concerns he gives his earnest personal attention: Mr. McConnell is an ardent Republican, as was hiS 'father, and has ever taken an active interest in local political affairs, but has not been a seeker after public office. In May, 1900, George McConnell was united in marriage to Ida M. Stone, of Urbana, daughter of S. L. P. and Julia (Geiger) Stone, and to this union two children have been born, a son and a daughter, Robert and Margaret Frances. Mr. and Mrs. McConnell are members of the Presbyterian church, in the various beneficences of which they take an active interest, Mr. McConnell being one of the deacons of the local congregation. He is a Knight Templar and Royal Arch Mason, president of the board of trustees of the Urbana Masonic Temple Association, and is a noble of the Ancient Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Antioch Temple at Dayton, and has for years taken a warm interest in Masonic affairs. UTAH S. MILLER. Utah S. Miller, one of Salem township's most progressive and substantial farmers, was born on the farm in that township on which he now lives and which he owns, and which was owned in turn by his grandfather and his father, and has lived there all his life, one of the best-known residents of that part of the county. He was born on April 23, 1861, a son of Joseph and Fannie (Herr) Miller, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Pennsylvania, for many years prominent residents of the Kings Creek neighborhood and the latter of whom is still living, now a resident of Urbana. Joseph Miller was born in Page county, Virginia, March 2, 1822, and when a young man came to Ohio and helped in the construction work at the time of the building of the Sandusky division of the Big Four railroad. In Salem township, this county, he married Fannie Herr, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1832, daughter of Abraham and Fannie Herr, also natives of Pennsylvania, who came to this county in the early forties and settled on a farm on the state road in .Salem township, four miles north of Urbana, where they established their home and where they spent the remainder of CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. - 319 their lives. Abraham Herr and wife were the parents of seven children, those besides Mrs. Miller having been Abraham, David, Benjamin, Jacob, Elizabeth and Barbara. After his marriage Joseph Miller located on the William Long place and after a sometime residence there moved to a farm near West Liberty, but a year later came back to this county and bought the old Herr home place on the state road in Salem township and there established home. He built a new house and made other substantial improvements to the place and continued actively engaged in farming there the rest of his life, his death occurring on December 6, 1901. He was a Democrat and served for some time as township trustee. He was a member of the Kings Creek Baptist church, as is his widow, and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, those besides the subject of this sketch, the fifth in order of birth, .being as follow : Benjamin F., who was accidentally killed at Urbana; Albert S., now a resident of Columbus, this state, where he is engaged in the real estate business; Abraham H., a hardware merchant at Urbana ; William H., of Detroit, Michigan; Charles Grant, who has long been engaged in the .newspaper business and who is now living in New York City, the metropolitan correspondent of the Cleveland Leader, and Effie, wife of J. W. Ambrose, a hardware merchant at Urbana. Reared on the home farm in Salem township, Utah S. Miller received his schooling in the local schools. He early devoted himself to farming and has always remained on the home farm, a fine place of one hundred and nine acres, which he now owns and where he is quite successfully engaged in general farming. His farm plant is well equipped and his farming is carried on in accordance with modern methods. of agriculture. He pays considerable attention to the raising of high-grade live stock and in this latter, line also has done quite well. In his political affiliation, Mr. Miller is a stanch Democrat and has ever given a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, but has not sought public office. On September 9, 1902, Utah S. Miller was united in marriage to Harvey, who also was born in Salem township, a daughter of John .and Martha Harvey, the former of whom was a son of Rev.. James P. Harvey, a pioneer minister of the Kings Creek Baptist church. John Harvey, an honored veteran of the Civil War, was a farmer all his life and his last clays were spent on. his farm. in Salem township, where his death occurred in February, 1908. His widow is now makiug her home with Mr. and Mrs. Miller. During the war John Harvey served the Union as a member of Company E, Sixty-Sixth Regiment, Ohio. Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served all through the war. He and 320 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. his wife were the parents of five children, those besides Mrs. Miller, the third in order of birth, being as follow : Grant Harvey, who lives in Salem township; William Harvey, who lives in the neighboring county of Logan: Susan, wife of M. D. Fox, of Wayne township, this county, and Edna, wife of S. E. Zook, of Logan county. To Utah S. and Bertha (Harvey) Miller one child has been born, a son, Robert, born on May 18, 1909. Mrs. Miller is a member of the Kings Creek Baptist church. C. H. MARVIN. C. H. Marvin, president of the W. H. Marvin Company, of Urbana, president of the Champaign National Bank of that city, president of the McCoy Canning Company, president of. the. Urbana Telephone Company, formerly and for years a member of the local school board and in other ways actively identified with the growing interests of the city in which he has made his home for the past thirty years or more, is a native son Of .Ohio and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Urbana since the middle eighties. He was born at Cardington, in Morrow county,. September 11, 1860, son of William H. and Loretta F. (Wolcott) Marvin, botili of whom were born in Genesee county, New York, the former at Leroy and the latter at Oakville, whose last days were spent at Urbana, where the elder Marvin established the flourishing business which still bears his name and of which his son, the subject of this biographical sketch is now the head. William H. Marvin was born on December 15, 1829, and was but a lad when he moved with .his parents from Genesee county, New York, to Morrow county, this state, where he grew to manhood. When fifteen years of age he began his successful mercantile career as a clerk in the store of T. S. Trumble at Mt. Gilead, in that county, and was thus engaged for three years, at the end of which time, he having meantime saved eight dollars, he opened a small store of his own in the neighboring hamlet of Sparta and was thus engaged in the latter place for three years, during which time he did so well that he determined to embark in business on a somewhat more extensive scale and, with that end in view, moved to Cardington, where he opened a dry-goads store which proved to be a very successful enterprise. Mr. Marvin married and established his home in Cardington, early in his business career there becoming recognized as one of the leading figures in the commercial life of that town. In 1876 he aided in the organization of the First National CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 321 kank of Cardington and was elected president of the same. He also became interested in banking concerns at Shelby, at Galion and at Columbus and continued to make his home at Cardington until 1886, in which year he moved to Urbana, where he engaged in the wholesale grocery business, under the firm name of W. H. Marvin & Company, and was thus actively engaged until in 1896, when the company discontinued the grocery end of the business and gave its full attention to the manufacture of mincemeat, the canning of fruit and the importing of currants from Greece and in this line Mr. Marvin continued actively and very successfully engaged until. his death, which occurred at Urbana on May 11, 1898. He was an active member of the Episcopal church and was a Royal Arch Mason. C. H. Marvin was reared at Cardington, the place of. his birth, and was early inducted into the details of his father's business. Upon completing the course in the schools of his home town he took a course at Kenyon College and upon leaving college was given a place in his father's bank at Cardington, later transferring his services to the Morrow County National Bank, at Mt. Gilead, the county seat, and was thus engaged at that place until in 1886, when he moved with his father to Urbana and there engaged with his father in the grocery business. Later he became one of the most important factors in the concern of W. H. Marvin Company, canners, manufacturers of mince-meat and importers of currants, and while thus engaged with his father became secretary and treasurer of the company, a position he held until his election to the presidency of the company in 1915, which positiorhe now occupies. It is perhaps not too much to say that the firm of W. H. Marvin Company has done more to "put Urbana on the map" than any other single agency in that city. During the busy season it employs more than one hundred and twenty-five persons in its big plant and its products are shipped all over the country, the goods .bearing. the MarVin stamp being widely known and in great demand on account of their uniform excellence. In addition to the extensive interests he represents as head of W. H. Marvin Company, Mr. Marvin also has for years taken an active and influential part in the general business affairs of the city and has long been regarded as one of the city's most forceful "boosters" and "live wires." Since the year 1907 he has been the president of the Champaign National Bank of Urbana, and is also president of the Urbana Telephone Company and of the McCoy Canning Company. He is an ardent Republican and has ever taken an earnest interest in the general civic affairs of the city and county, but the only public office which has had any personal appeal to hiin Was a place on the local board of (21a) 322 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. education, his warm interest in educational affairs prompting him to accept a place on that hoard and to retain the same for ten or twelve years, during which term of service he was able to do much in the way of advancing the interests of the schools. Mr. Marvin has always been an advocate of public progress and in many ways has done his part toward placing Urbana in the front rank of Ohio municipalities of its class. On January 30, 1889, C. H. Marvin was united in marriage to Amelia Talbott, daughter of J. G. Talbott, and to this union two children have been born, C. H., Jr., and Kathryn C. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin are members of the Episcopal church and have ever taken an earnest part in church affairs, as well as in the general social and cultural activities of their home town, and have been helpful in many ways in promoting the common welfare. Mr. Marvin is a Scottish Rite (thirty-second degree) Mason, a member of the consistory at Dayton, and is also a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Antioch Temple, at Dayton, and takes a warm interest in Masonic affairs. FERNANDO WARD Fernando Ward, a farmer living on route nine, Urbana, Ohio, was born in Mad River township, June 17, 1856; a son of Sylvester and Louisa A. (Smith) Ward. Sylvester Ward, father of Fernando Ward, was born on December 12, 1826, on the old .Ward farm, and he died December 30, 1892. He was a son of George and Barbara (Strickler) Ward. Both he and his wife were natives of Virginia and lived 'there until after their marriage. They came to Ohio in 1816 and settled in what is now Mad River township. He entered land here and built a cabin in which he began life in the woods. They lived here the rest of their days. The children of George and Barbara Ward were : Maria, Barbara, Jerusha, Sabra, Gideon, joseph, Noah, Sylvester and Sylvenius (twins), and Edenton. Sylvester Ward grew to manhood in. this county. His marriage to Louisa Smith occurred November 3o, 1851. They settled on a farm where they continued to. live the rest of their days. Their children were : Philander, Fernando, Lauretta, Rennetta. Philander is deceased, Lauretta became the wife of Monroe Frank, Rennetta was the wife of Milton C. Harter. Fernando, Ward, our subject, was reared on the old home farm and received his education by attending the district schools in the winter season CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 323 when work on the farm was not pressing. He had no time to attend school during the spring and summer season. He was married to Emma E. Pence, January 11, 1881. She was born in Mad River township, April 6, 1860, a daughter of Amos and Clarinda (Browning) Pence. Amos Pence was born in Mad River township, May 24, 1822; his wife was born in Delaware county, Ohio, March 20, 1838. She is still liVing in St. Paris, Ohio. Her husband died January 24, 1904. They settled on a farm and spent their active years in farming in Mad River township. Fernando Ward owns seventy-five acres of land, a part of the old Ward farm. He is a Democrat in politics, but has never been active in party affairs. Mrs. Ward is a member of the Myrtle Tree Baptist church. They have no family. WILLIAM J. W. RAWLINGS. The late William J. W. Rawlings, for years one of Champaign county's best-known and most. substantial . farmers, who died at his home in Urbana township in the spring of 1898, was a native of this county and spent all his life here. He was born on a farm on Pretty Prairie, in Urbana township, April 29, 1830, son of James and Susanna (McRoberts) Rawlings, the former a native of the state of Kentucky and the latter of this county, whose last days were spent on their farm on. Pretty Prairie. James Rawlings was but a child when. his parents came to this county from Kentucky and he rode ahead of his father on horseback on the journey up. The family settled on Pretty Prairie and there James Rawlings grew to manhood and married .Susanna McRoberts, who was born in this county, a member of one of the pioneer families, in the southern part of the county. After his marriage he established his home in that same section and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, useful and influential farming people. They were active members of the Methodist Episcopal church and their children were reared in that faith. There were six of these children, of whom the subject of this memorial sketch was the first-born, the others being as follow : Mary, who married Mitchell Todd, a farmer, of Urbana township, and who late in life retired to Urbana, where both died; Jane, who married John Knight and occupied the old home .farm in Urbana township: Thomas, also a farmer in Urbana township, who married Emily. Humes and died at his home in Urbana township, his widow spending her last days in Urbana; James Harrison, also a farmer in Urbana township, who died 324 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. after his retirement from the farm and removal to Urbana and who was twice married, after the death of his first wife, Laura Townley, he having married Emma Funk, and Douglas, ho married Alice Townley and died of his farm in Clark county, his widow spending her last days in Springfield, that same county. Reared on the home farm on Pretty Prairie William J. W. Rawlings received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and from the clays of his early boyhood was a valued aid to his father in the labors of improving and developing the home Place. After his marriage in the summer of 1863, he began farming for himself in Urbana township and became a successful and substantial farmer and landowner, spending the rest of his life there, actively engaged in farming, his death occurring on March 29, 1898. he then being just one month under sixty-eight years of age. He was a Republican and ever took an earnest interest in local political affairs, but had not been included in the office-seeking class. Asa member of the Presbyterian church he also took an active interest in church work and in other neighborhood good works and did his part as a citizen in promoting all good causes throughout that part of the county. It was on June 11, 1863, that William J. W. Rawlings was united in marriage to Elcetta M. Mumper, of this county, who. was born in Macomb, McDonough county, Illinois, a daughter of Jacob and Ann (Wagner) Mumper; natives of Pennsylvania, the former born in York county, that state, and the latter in the neighboring county of Cumberland, who were married there and in 1839 went to Illinois and located at Macomb, where Jacob Mumper engaged in the distilling business and also owned a farm. Presently he met w business reverses and lost practically all he had, after which he came with his family to this state and in Miami county, where he was engaged in farming for three years, at the end of which time he came over into Champaign. countyand for two years thereafter was engaged in farming on a farm. on the Ludlow road. After that he was for six years engaged in farming the Baldwin place and then he bought a farm on Pretty Prairie, on the south county line, where he established his home and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in his seventy-fourth year. His widow later moved to Urbana, where her last days were spent, her death occurring there in the eighty-fourth year of her age. They were members of the Presbyterian church and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, of whom Mrs. Rawlings was the second in order of birth, the others being as follow : Jane, who married John CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 325 Todd, a substantial farmer of Urbana township, and has seven children; Abram, a farmer of Clark county, who married Sarah Hutton and also has seven children; John, a retired farmer living at Urbana; Anna, widow of E. P. Kingsley, a commercial traveler, who died in March, 1915, leaving one child, a daughter, Catherine, who married Frank Ganson, an automobile dealer, of Urbana, and they have one child, a son, Kingsley; Emma, wife of Dr. Luther Woolford, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Ellen, wife of Charles Nichols, of Urbana. To William J. W. and Elcetta M. (Mumper) Rawlings six children were born, namely : Anna, who married Major Fred Phelps, a retired officer of the United States army, now engaged in the recruiting service, and they have one child, a son, Ralph; James D., a retired faimer and stockman, now living at Urbana, who married Ida Willoughby and has four children, Marie, who married Dr. Arthur C. Bible, a dentist, of Urbana, and has one child, a daughter, May V., and Christine, Eloise and William; Thomas, who married Blanche Hume, of Union township, this county, and has three children, Caroline, Margaret and Corinne; Ralph and Ruelle (twins), the former of whom, a traveling man living in Detroit, married Katherine Van Meter and has one child, a son, Edward, and the latter of whom married Dr. E. W. Ludlow, of Urbana; Warren, now engaged with a manufacturing concern at Atlanta, Georgia, who married Pearl Minturn and has one child, a son, Leslie. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Rawlings moved to Urbana, where she has since made her home at 127 West Market street with her two daughters. ROBERT LEE GRIMES, M. D. Dr. Robert Lee Grimes, of Westfield, Ohio, was born in Carroll, Maryland, in 1860. He is a son of Dr. G. S. Grimes, a citizen of. Maryland, who died in Virginia in 1876. For many years. he practiced his profession in Maryland. Dr. R. L. Grimes was left to his own resources at the age of sixteen years. In 1876 he went to Front Royal, Virginia, for the purpose of taking a course in pharmacy. Later he entered a medical college at :Baltimore, Maryland, completed the prescribed course of study and graduated as a full-fledged physician. During the time of his college study he secured. the . means to meet his expenses by working in a drug store; and engaging 1 in such other work as opportunity afforded. After his graduation he engaged CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 326 in the practice: of his profession in Montgomery, West Virginia, and, in 1892, he came to Westville, Ohio. He soon established a 'successful practice here and continued until 1912, when he retired from practice on account of his health. He .married Bertha R.. Taylor, daughter of Simeon Taylor. She was born near Westville on the old Taylor homestead in Mad River township. PAUL C. SPAIN. Paul C. Spain, one of the best-known merchants at North .Lewisburg, this county, member of the firm of Spain & Dolan, dealers in general hardware and farm implements, and who was former clerk of that village and is now serving as treasurer of the same, is a native son of Champaign county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of North Lewisburg, in Rush township, September 11, 1881, son of Joseph W. and Flora E. (Clark) Spain, both of whom also were born in this county and who are now living in North Lewisburg. Joseph W. Spain was born on a pioneer farm in Rush township, in t851, son of Wright and Lucy (Crowder) Spain, natives of Virginia, who had come. to this county with their respective parents in the days of their youth, grew up here, married and established their home in Rush township and there spent their last days. Joseph W. Spain grew to manhood on the home farm and married Flora B. Clark, a member of one of the old families in that part of the county, and in turn became a farmer in Rush county, a vocation he ever since has continued, though for some years past living practically retired from the active labors of the farm at his pleasant home in North Lewisburg. He and his wife have three sons, the subject of this sketch having two brothers, Howard and Robert J. Spain. Reared on the home farm in Rush township, Paul C. Spain received his early schooling in the schools of North Lewisburg and supplemented the course there by a course in Bliss Business College at Columbus, after which for four years he was engaged as a clerk in the hardware store of Creviston & Dominy at North Lewisburg, thus acquiring a thorough acquaintance with the hardware trade. He then bought Mr. Dominy's interest in the store, the firm thus becoming Creviston & Spain, which arrangement continued for about nine years, at the end of which time, in 1913, Mr. Creviston sold his interest in the concern to Mr. Dolan and since then the business has been conducted under the firm name of Spain & Dolan. The firm CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 327 occupies a two-story store building, twenty by ninety feet, and an additional warehouse for the storage of agricultural implements, and carries a large and comprehensive stock, including general hardware and farm implements, together with such other goods as are usually carried in a store of that character, and has a large and growing business. Mr. Spain is a Republican and has long given his active attention to local political affairs, being at present a member of the county central committee of his party. He served for some time as clerk of the village of North Lewisburg and is now serving as treasurer of the same. In 1905 Paul C. Spain was united in marriage to Lenora A. Townsend, daughter of O. S. Townsend and wife, and to this union two children have been born, Dorothy and Floriene. Mr. and Mrs. Spain have a very pleasant home at North Lewisburg and take an earnest interest in the general social activities of their home town. Mt: Spain is an active Mason, past master of the local lodge of that ancient order, and is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias, in the affairs of both of which organizations he takes a warm interest. He is one of the most active and energetic business men in North Lewisburg and has long been recognized as among the leaders in all movements having to do with the promotion of the substantial interests of that town. DAVID LOUDENBECK. David Loudenbeck lives on a farm located on rural route number nine, Mad River township, Urbana, Ohio. He was born on this farm in March, 1843, and this has always been his home. He is a son of Jonas and Susie ( Snyder) Loudenbeck, old residents of this county. Jonas Loudenbeck was born, January 28, 1816, on the farm now owned by Alfred Taylor, in Mad River township. Jonas was a son of Daniel and Mary (Pence) Loudenbeck. They came from Virginia, where they were born, reared, educated and married. They came to this county in 1810. and entered a tract of government land, improved the same and established a home, in which they spent the remainder of their days. Daniel Loudenbeck was a blacksmith and worked at his trade along with his farming work. He lived to be nearly ninety years old ; the wife died at the age of ninety-six. They were the parents of four children. Jonas Loudenbeck grew to manhood on the old home place. After his larriage he removed to the farm on which our subject now lives. He 328 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. cleared up this farm and put up buildings and added improvements from time to time until he had a farm in a good condition for cultivation and for the production of good crops. He made this his home until his death, which occurred in 1903. His wife also died in this home. They had three children: David, our subject; Jane, wife of Abraham Pence, living in Shelby county; Sarah, the wife of Isaiah Smith. David Loudenbeck was reared on the farm and received his education in the common schools. He remained at home doing his share of work on the farm until his marriage. He was married in 1866 to Roanna Colbert, a sister of Isaiah Colbert, whose .biographical sketch appears in ,another place in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Loudenbeck have three :children : Edgar, living at home; Walter D., at St. Paris, Ohio; Edna, wife of Walter A than, of Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Loudenbeck is a member of Urbana Lodge, No. 46, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Politically, he is a Democrat. His greatest interest is centered in the care and cultivation of his one hundred and eighty-seven acres of land, some of the best in the township. The land is well adapted for stock raising and for the production of abundant crops of grain and other farm products. The condition of the farm and of everything about the premises shows good taste and intelligent management, and that modern methods are employed in the operatiOn of the farm. ROBERT HENDERSON, M. D. Dr. Robert Henderson, one of Champaign county's best-known physicians, is a Virginian, but has been a resident of Ohio since the latter seventies and of the city of Urbana since the year 1884, being thus very properly entitled to be regarded as one of the "old settlers" of this county. He was born in the city of Parkersburg, Virginia (now in West Virginia), on March 22, 1851, son of Richard H. and Ann Maria (Shanklin) Henderson, both natives of that same state, and was reared there and in Wheeling, in which latter city he completed his work in the common schools. While engaged as a clerk in a store at Parkersburg he began the study of medicine and after awhile entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, being graduated from that institution in 1878. For a short time after receiving his diploma Doctor Henderson was engaged in the practice of his profession in West Virginia and then came CHAMPAIGN COUNTY. OHIO - 329 to Ohio, locating at New Moorefield, in Clark county, where he remained until the fall of 1884, when he moved to Urbana, opened there an office for the practice of his profession and has ever since been thus engaged in that city. Doctor Henderson is a member of the Champaign County Medical Society, a member of the Ohio Medical Society Ad a member of the American Medical Association, in the affairs of which organizations he takes a warm. interest, ever keeping fully abreast of the advance being made in his profession. The Doctor is an active Democrat and during the second Cleveland' administration served as a member of the pension examining hoard for this district. He is a Mason and takes much interest in the affairs of that ancient order. . In 1875, several years before coming to this state, Doctor Henderson was united in marriage to Elizabeth S. Thomas, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and to this union two children have been born, Richard T. and Helen. Dr. Richard T. Henderson was graduated from the Starling Medical College at Columbus in 'goo, having been prepared for college by study under his father's preceptorship, and is now associated with his father in practice. Helen married William C. Bonebrake, a civil engineer of the Pennsylvania railroad at Pittsburgh. A. F. TAYLOR. A. F. Taylor is a retired farmer and yet is interested in farming under the firm name of A. F. Taylor & Son, proprietors of the Hereford cattle farm consisting of two hundred and seventy-five acres, located three miles west of Urbana, on the Urbana and Piqua pike. Mr. Taylor was born in Cambridgeshire, England, November 8, 1850. He came to the United States in 1854, locating in Ontario county, New York and came to Champaign county, Ohio, in 1875. In 1887 he located on a farm one mile west of Woodstock, in Champaign county, and three years later he came to his present farm. He received his early education in New York state and remained at home until he was twenty-one, when he started out for himself without a dollar. He first took a contract for furnishing plagter rock, one thousand tons, at seventy-five cents a ton. This gave him a little start, and he came to Summit county to engage in farming. lie rented a farm and, in connection with his brother, began the experiment of farming and stock raising, in which he was quite successful. He after- 330 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. wards pnrehased a half interest in a farm of one hundred..and sixty acres, his brother-in-law taking the other half. After two years he purchased the other hall interest and operated 'the farm alone. Mr. Taylor was married to Rachael Spensly. She was born in Medina county, Ohio, where she was educated and engaged for some time.in teaching. Edward T. is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor. He was born on February 15, 1878, and was educated in the district schools, graduating in the Urbana high school and in the agricultural school at Columbus, Ohio. He married Mabel Jenkins, of St. Paris, Ohio, who was educated in the graded schoOls and a graduate of the St. Paris high school. They have one child, Melvina A., born June, 1909. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Universalist church, of Westville, .Ohio. and is one of the trustees of that church: He is a charter member of. Magrew Lodge No. 433, Knights of Pythias, and served as treasurer of that order. He is a Republican, but has never taken an active part in party affairs. Mr. Taylor is largely interested as a breeder of Hereford cattle and has a herd of. three hundred, and is a feeder of a large number of hogs. Mr. Taylor's house was destroyed by fire in 1914and he built a modern bungalow in which he now lives. It is a very comfortable home and nicely located. DAVID W. TODD. Judge David W. Todd, an honored veteran of the Civil War, former probate judge of Champaign county, former assistant postmaster at Urbana and for many years one of the best-known lawyers at Urbana, is a native son of the old Keystone state, but has been a resident of Ohio and of this County since he was eleven years of age and may this very properly be accounted as one of the real "old settlers" of Champaign county. He was born in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1835, son of David and Sarah (McCormick) Todd, both natives of that same state, who came to Ohio in 1846 and in 1847 settled on a farm on Pretty Prairie, in Urbana township, this county, where they spent the remainder of their lives, useful and influential residents of that sterling community, the death of the senior Todd occurring there in 1868. . Reared on the home farm on Pretty Prairie, David W. Todd received his elementary schooling in the schools' of that neighborhood and supplemented the same by a course in Miami University, at Oxford, this state, from 331 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. which he was graduated in 186o. Meantime he had been giving close attention to the study of law in private, readings and upon leaving the university entered the law office of Shellabarger & Good at Springfield and there completed his legal studies and was qualified for practice. Upon being admitted to the bar in 1863 he opened an office for the practice of his profession at Urbana and in the fall of that same year he was elected county attorney of .Champaign county, in which official position he served so satisfactorily that he was re-elected in 1865 and thus served as county attorney for two terms: During this time he had given some . attention to the work of developing the industries of Urbana and in 1873 was made general superintendent of the Urbana Machine Works, a position. which he occupied for a couple of years, at the end of which time he resumed the practice of his profession and in 1878 was elected probate judge in and for Champaign county and by successive re-elections was retained in that office for four terms,. or until 189o, since which time he has been engaged in the praCtice of his profession, and in looking after his other interests in and about Urbana. Judge Todd has ever given his earnest attention to local civic affairs and for ten years served as assistant postmaster at Urbana, retiring in 1916. He is an ardent Republican and has for many years been looked upon as one of the leaders of that party, in this county and throughout this part of the state. The above brief review of Judge Todd's professional and civic activities has made no reference to his distinguished military service during the progress of the Civil War, mention of which has been reserved for a separate paragraph. Upon President Lincoln's first call for volunteers in that memorable April of 186i, judge Todd responded to the call with patriotic fervor and on April. 29 enrolled his name as Company F, Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Springfield, with which command he served until the following July. In 1862 he assisted in organizing a Springfield- company of recruits and went to the front with them as second lieutenant of Company B, Eighty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was presently promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, later becoming regimental quartermaster, and was mustered, out with that rank at Camp Delaware on September .25, 1862. On May 6, 1864, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the One Hundred. and Thirty-fourth Ohio. and , after scone active service with that command in the advance on Petersburg was finally mustered out with the rank on August 31, 1864. Judge Todd has for years been one of the most active members of W. A. Brand Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Urbana, has held numerous offices. in that patri- 332 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. otic organization and has long been a familiar and enthusiastic figure at the annual encampments of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Ohio, and has likewise attended several national encampments of the Grand Army. Judge Todd has been twice married. It was in 1863 that he was united in marriage to Virginia Hamilton, who died in 1868, leaving two sons, Lee H. Todd, for many years proprietor of a book store at Urbana, and Robert M. Todd. In 1869 Mr. Todd married, Ella W. Hovey and to this union three children were born, Nancy H., wife of Cary G. Glessner; Frank W. Todd, who is one of the best-known newspaper men in Urbana, and Helen Todd, who died at an early age. Judge and Mrs. Todd are members of the Presbyterian church and have for years 'been -regarded as among the leaders in the various beneficences of the same, ever taking an earnest interest in church work, as well as in the general good works of the city and county at large, and have been helpful in many ways in promoting such agencies as have been designed to advance the common welfare hereabout. NATHANIEL C. HUNTER. The late Nathaniel C. Hunter, for years one of the best-known and most substantial farmers and landowners of Salem township, this county, who died in 1908 at his home in Urbana, where he had been living retired from the active labors of the farm for more than twenty-years, was a native son of Champaign county and all his life was spent here. He was born on the old Hunter homestead place in Salem township on November I, 1825, son of John and Jane (Humphries) Hunter, prominent residents of that part of the county, whose last days were spent there. John Hunter was a son of Nathaniel and Ann (Porter) Hunter, natives of Ireland, who were among the very earliest settlers in the northern part of this county and who took an influential part in the work of creating proper social conditions in the formative period of that now well-established and prosperous farming community. Nathaniel Hunter was born in County Down, Ireland, on a farm about twelve miles from Belfast, December 4, 1768, of Scottish descent, his forbears having crossed from Scotland into the north of Ireland in 1607. On February 2, 1790, he married Ann Porter, who was born on May 15, 1772, also of Scottish descent, and in 1793 he and his young wife and their baby daughter, Mary Ann, came to this coun- CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 333 try and located in Greenbriar county, Virginia, where they established their home and where they remained for fifteen years or more, at the end of which time they disposed of their holdings there and in 1810 came out into what then was. regarded in the East as the "wilds" of Ohio. Chillicothe was their point of destination in this section and upon. his arrival there Nathaniel Hunter began looking about a bit for a suitable place for settlement. He presently bought a three-year lease to a tract of land on Possum Run, eight miles south of London, in MadiSon. 'county, and the next spring put out a planting of corn on that tract. He later started out seeking a place for the establishment of his permanent home, finally deciding. that in Champaign county there were as fruitful possibilities as in any section of this part of the state. So well pleased was this stalwart pioneer with the appearance of things in this county that he bought nine hundred and fifty acres of land in Salem township, two miles west of Mt. Tabor and three miles southwest of West Liberty. Then, with the assistance of his elder sons, he cleared a patch in the forest, built in that clearing a log house and made some other improvements on the place, and in the. spring. of 1814 moved his family into the new home. Meantime, during the family.'s resi7 Bence in Madison county, another baby had been born: into. the Hunter household, the last daughter, Elizabeth, and thus when the new log house in the wilderness was furnished there was need for the cradle. At that time there still were numerous Indians hereabout and wild game in abundance and with the exception of an occasional small settlement here and there the land was a veritable wilderness. The Indians were not troublesome at that time, however, and the Hunter family was not disturbed in its home-making there in the woods of that Mt. Tabor country, and that home presently came to be recognized as one of the best-established and most hospitable in all that region roundabout. Nathaniel Hunter was a good farmer and lived to see his land, which is still in the ownership of the Hunter family, developed into a fine bit of farm property. To Nathaniel and Ann (Porter) Hunter nine children were born, namely : Mary Ann, born on October 9, 1791, who married a Casebolt; Alexander, February 11, 1795, who became a substantial farmer in the Mingo neighborhood; Jane, November 11, 1796, who married a Miller ; Thomas, January 22, 1799, who also had his home near . Mingo ; John, March: 20, 1801, father of the subject of this memorial sketch; Nancy, April 30, 1803, who died unmarried; Samuel, March 23, 1805, who married Maria Miller and also established his home in Salem township; Sallie J., October 13, 1806, who married a Whitehead and moved to Michigan, and Elizabeth, March 18. 334 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. 1813, who married a McFerrin and made her home in Salem township. The mother of these children died not many years after the family took up their residence in Salem township and the father married, secondly, a Ward and by that marriage had two children, Maria, born On September 2, 1821, Who married James Funk, and Hester Ann, March 2., 1825, who died unmarried. John Hunter was twelve or thirteen years of age when the family took up their residence in this county and he grew to manhood on the home farm in Salem township and continued farming there all his life. He married Jane Humphries, member of one of the pioneer families in that • neighborhood, and to that union three children were born, Nathaniel, Washington C. and William H. Hunter. Washington C. Hunter was born on September 15, 1827, and grew to manhood on the home farm in Salem township. He married Agnes Duel and after spending some years farming in this county went to Pasadena, California, where he engaged in the lumber business and where he is still living. He and his wife were the parents of two sons, both of whom are now deecased. Major William H. Hunter, who gained his title while serving as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, was born on September 29, 1840, and also grew to manhood in this county. He married a McDonald and made his home in Salem township and in West Liberty until late in life, when he went to Birmingham, Alabama, where he engaged in the real-estate business and where he spent his last days, his death occurring there on July 31, 1904. Nathaniel C. Hunter was reared on the farm which his grandfather had opened in Salem township and completed his schooling at Delaware, this state. For a time he was engaged in the mercantile business at Urbana and at West Liberty, but later returned to the old home farm in Salem township and there established his home, engaging in farming there until 1.885, in which year he retired from the active labors of the farm and moved to Urbana, where he spent his last days, his death occurring there on February 18, 1908. During his many years of residence on the farm Mr. Hunter was one of the most active and influential farmers in that part of the county.. He was a' stanch Republican and held various township offices, giving to his public service his most earnest thought. He was a great reader and kept fully informed on matters of current interest and was particularly interested in matters of local historical interest. In this connection he wrote. a history of the Mt. Tabor Methodist Episcopal church, which to this day is regarded as the most authoritative history of that church and the greater part of which is reproduced in the historical section of this work. For sixty- 336 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. five years Mr. Hunter was a member of that church and during fifty years of that time was the superintendent of the Sunday school, the last eight years being superintendent in Urbana. He also held all other offices in the church at one time and another and took great pleasure in the work of the church. He was a busy man, energetic and practical and his farming and other interests prospered under his prudent management, so that he came to be recognized as one of the Champaign county's most substantial citizens. Mr. Hunter was twice married. It was on May 17, 1849, that he was united in marriage to Helen Purdy, who was born at Erie City, Pennsylvania, and who died on April 20, 1880. To that union three sons. were born, John G., Albert L. and William P. Albert L. Hunter was born on August 4, 1852, and remained a farmer on the old home place in Salem township, where he spent his last days, his death occurring there in August, 1909. He married Mary Frances North and to that union four children were born, namely : Grace, who married Quincy Yocum, of Concord township, this county; Edna, wife of Alva Kiser, of Troy, this state; Fern P., who married the Rev. Milton Swisher and died in Iowa, and Elsie, who married Daniel Leamman, a farmer living near St. Paris, this county. William. P. Hunter was born on March 12, 1855, and died at San Antonio, Texas, January 5, 1882. John G. Hunter, who was born on June 17, 1850, moved to Michigan, where he became a farmer and where he spent his last days, his death occurring there on January 9, 1916. He married Eva Crookston and was the father of two children, Maud, wife of John Clapper, of Bay City, Michigan, and Charles W., who married Marybelle Wilcox and is now living at Toledo, Ohio. On January 20, 1883, Nathaniel C. Hunter married, secondly, .Mrs. Anna Eliza (Seaman) Enoch, widow of Henry Enoch, of West Liberty, who died in 1858. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Hunter has continued to make her home in Urbana, where she is very comfortably, situated. She reared two nieces, Cora and Lavinia Seaman, who continue to make their home with her. Mrs. Hunter was bo.rn at Xenia, this state, September 2, 1832, a daughter of Lewis and Lavinia (Smith) Seaman, the former of whom was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1805, son of Jonas and Catherine (Sheets) Seaman, natives of that same county, who came to Ohio with their family in 1810 and located at Chillicothe, a year later moving to Clinton county, where they spent the remainder of their lives, Jonas. ,Seaman dying there in 1836. Jonas Seaman and wife were the parents of eight children, Jonathan, Philip, George, Lewis, Jonah, Eliza, Joseph and Miles. 336 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. Lewis Seaman became a blacksmith and left Clinton county to locate at Xenia, where he remained engaged in that vocation until 1836, when he bought a farm in Logan county, established his home there and there spent the remainder of his life. He was an active worker in the Mt. Tabor Methodist Episcopal church and helped to build two churches. He and his wife, Lavinia Smith, were the parents of six children, those besides Mrs. Hunter being as follow : Josiah, who died at the age of four years; William, who for some time farmed in Illinois, but later returned to the old home place in Logan county, where he died, leaving a widow, Frances Bebee, and one child, a daughter, Josephine ; Elisha, a veteran of the Civil War, who served as a member of Company A, Sixty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, formerly and for years a farmer and now living at Columbus, this state, who had been twice married, his first wife, Nettie Votaw, a native of Indiana, having died on February 7, 1881, leaving three daughters, Nettie, Cora and Lavinia, after which he married Nellie Fisher, also of Indiana, and by that union has three children, Anna, Bertha and Lewis; Maria Louise, who .married James Stanton and is now deceased, and Martha, who married William Winder and died in 1894 at Urbana, this county, leaving one daughter, Florence. JAMES A. POWELL. It is a fine thing to be permitted to spend one's life at the old homestead, about which cluster memories and associations which cannot be found elsewhere. Such has been the privilege of James A. Powell, farmer, of Urbana township, Champaign county, who was born on the same farm where he now resides on November 27, 1856. He is a son of Samuel Smith Powell and Eliza A. (Showers) Powell, the mother a native of Urbana township, this county. The father was a son of Abram Powell, who was born March 2, 1791, in Kentucky, and in early pioneer clays he came to Champaign county, Ohio, and established the family home in Urbana township, where he devoted his life to farming, developing a farm from the virgin soil. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He died at the unusual age of ninety-one years. His wife was a Miss Osborn. They were parents of the following children : Samuel Smith, father of the subject of this 'sketch; James, Clay, Miller and Flanders, all of whom lived and died in CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 337 Urbana township; Nancy died unmarried : John is still living in Urbana township. Samuel S. Powell, mentioned above, was reared on the home farm in Urbana township and he attended the rural schools there. He burned the brick that went into the present substantial dwelling on his farm, and he made all other necessary improvements. He was a Republican and he served as school director of his district for some time. He gave the ground on which to found Hickory Grove church, which he also helped build. He was always very active in church affairs, his home being a favorite meeting place for church people. It was his delight to lavish old-time hospitality and he frequently entertained at dinner as many as one hundred guests at a time. He was very well known throughout the county and a friend to all who knew him. His death occurred in 1886, at the age of sixty-seven years. He was born on July 4, 1819. His wife was born on October 22, 1827, and died in September, 1876. They were married, October 22, 1846, and their children were named as follows: George W., born July 20, 1848, is farming at Rosewood, Ohio; David W., born December 27, 1849, was a soldier in the regular army and died in California: Daniel W., born March 27, 1851, died in early life: John Andrews, born May 13, 1853, is deceased: Charles Franklin. born December 18, 1854, is deceased; James A., of this sketch; Mary Elizabeth. born April 27, 1858, is deceased; Martha Jane, born January 6, 1860. is deceased ; William Lincoln, born December 30, 1860, died in February. 1917, at Huntington, Iowa, where he was foreman in the railroad shops : Clara Bell, born March it. 1863, is deceased; Emma Jane, born November 30, 1864, is deceased; Fannie Ellen, born August 7, 1866, is single and living at Rosewood, Ohio; Amanda Jane. born May 7, 1868. married Ben Sandy, and she is now deceased. James A. Powell grew up on the home farm and attended the common schools. He lived with his parents until his marriage on October 14, 1879, to Sarah Ellen Dye, a native of Miami county, Ohio, and a daughter of James and Mary ( Evilsizer) Dye, both natives of Ohio, he of Miami county, and she of Champaign county. To James A. Powell and wife one son was born, Floyd Smith Powell, whose birth occurred on February 2, 1881. His death occurred on February 26, 1913. He married Elm May Range, and one son was born to them, James Wesley Powell, whose birth occurred on October 10, 1908. Floyd S. Powell grew up on the home place where he spent his life. He received a good education and was a young man of much premise, well known and popular all over the county. He served as deputy (22a) 338 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. sheriff and was finally elected to the responsible office of sheriff, the duties of which he was ably and faithfully discharging when he died. Fraterally, he belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. After his marriage, the subject of this sketch lived on the home farm a short time, then built his present home on the state road, known as "East View Farm," his place containing fifty-seven and one-half acres. He makes a specialty of belted Hampshire hogs in connection with general farming. He also farms other land in his vicinity which he rents. He votes the Republican ticket. His wife is a Baptist. JACOB E. RHODES. Jacob E. Rhodes is a farmer, living on rural route number four, Urbana, Ohio, one mile north of Terre Haute, Ohio. He was born in Strasburg. Shenandoah county, Virginia, November 20, 1859, a son of Noah and Catherine (Stover) Rhodes. Noah Rhodes was a son of John and Mary (Crabill) Rhodes, who were natives of Virginia, and spent their entire lives in that state. Noah Rhodes was reared in Virginia and lived in that state until after his marriage. He came to Champaign county, September, 1856, coming with his wife and all his belongings conveyed in a covered wagon. The distance of this journey was about five hundred miles and it took them twenty-two days to make the trip. They 'slept in the wagon and cooked their meals by the roadside. He had purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land in this county, nearly all in the woods. Here he established a home and began the work of clearing timber from his land and getting it in shape for cultivation. He afterwards made an additional purchase of land, making in all one hundred and eighty acres in the farm. He and his wife were members of the Baptist church and active in all church affairs. Politically, he was a Democrat for the most of his life, but later affiliated with the Greenback party. He died, June, 1897; his wife died June, 1916. The children of this family born in Virginia, were : Jacob E., Joseph (living ). and John E. (deceased). One child, Joshua, was born in county, Ohio. Jacob E. Rhodes was nearly five years old when he came with his parents to this county. He was reared on the farm and attended the public CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 339 school during the winter season. He was married to Mary Cook, November 15, 1877. She was born in Mad River township, near Terre Haute, Ohio, April 3, 1855, a daughter of Calvin and Elizabeth (Hupp) Cook. Her parents were both natives of Virginia. Her father was born April 12, 1819, and died in 1909; her mother was born April 23, 1819, and died in 19o5. They had eleven children, six of whom are living: William, of Mad River township; Raper, of Rice county, Kansas; Louis, of Urbana township: George, of Clark county, Ohio: Samuel, of Auglaize county, Ohio, and Mrs. Rhodes. To Mr. and Airs. Rhodes four boys have been born: Wilber, married Addle Neese; Una C., married Cora Morris, of Clark county, Ohio; Warren J., married Mary Blue, Mad River township; Carl P., at home. Mrs. Rhodes is a member of the Harmony Baptist church. Mr. Rhodes affiliates with the Democratic party. He has been a member of the school board for twelve years, and one of the trustees for six years. He moved to the farm where he now lives in the summer of 1878, and has turned his attention to general farming and stock raising. JAMES L. FUNK. While James L. Funk, a retired grain dealer of Liberty, Ohio, lives just across the line in Logan county; nevertheless, he has long been interested in the affairs of Champaign county and his biography is not out of place in a history of the latter. He was born on the old Funk homestead in Salem township, Champaign county, June 3, 1861. He is a son of Jacob S. and Sarah ( Long) Funk, the father a native of Fredericks city, Maryland, where he was born in 1815. The mother was a native of Salem township, born on August 24, 1822. When a small boy, Jacob S. Funk moved from the Oriole state with his parents to Pennsylvania, and when he was fifteen years old he accompanied the family to Champaign county, Ohio, locating in Salem township on the state road, in 183o, thus being one of the pioneer families in this locality. His parents were Joel and Elizabeth (Kanagy) Funk. Joel Funk became a leading citizen of his vicinity. He purchased land here, which he cleared, improved and added to, until at the time of his death he owned between four hundred and five hundred acres of land. His family consisted of the following children, namely : Jacob S., father of fhe subject of this sketch; Emily, who married Jacob Myers: 340 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. Caroline, who married Levi Share ; Augusta, who died during the Civil War of a fever which she contracted while nursing a Union soldier, and Aaron Benson Funk (deceased), who was a farmer in Salem township. Jacob S. Funk attended school in Pennsylvania, also in Salem township, Champaign county, also attended a college in the state of Kentucky. After leaving school he took up farming in Salem township, locating on the farm that his son, James L., and daughter, Rovilla, now own, and here he spent the rest of his life engaged in general farming, his death occurring on March 18, 1897. His widow survived until March 25, 1909. He was well known and influential in his township and county. He served as road supervisor and school director of Salem township. His family consisted of five children, namely : Lee W,, who lives in Washington, D. C.; Theodore K., an attorney, living in Portsmouth, Ohio; Rovilla lives on the old 'home place ; Eugene resides in Valparaiso, Indiana, and James L. of this sketch. Rovilla Funk attended Delaware College, Ohio, and is a cultured lady. She has always lived on the home place in Salem township. James L. Funk grew up on the farm and was educated in the common schools of Salem township and the high school at Urbana, from which he was graduated. Upon leaving school he returned home for a short time, and received an appointment in the railway mail service which position he held for over one year, then returned home and managed the farm until 1906, when he moved to West Liberty, Logan county, where he engaged in the grain business for a period of nine years, when he sold out. He has since devoted his attention to looking after his farms in Champaign and Logan counties. He is a member of the board of directors for the Peoples Building and Loan Association of West Liberty. Mr. Funk was married in June, 1910, to Nellie Elliott, a daughter of Benjamin and Martha Elliott. Their union has been without issue. Politically, Mr. Funk is a Republican. He belongs to the Masonic order, embracing the blue lodge of West Liberty and the Knights Templar of Urbana. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church and is a member of the official board of the same. Mr. Funk's mother, Sarah (Long) Funk, was born in Salem township, two and one-half miles southeast of Kings creek. She was a daughter of James and Martha (Turner) Long. He was born in Kentucky, she, in Logan county, Ohio. James Long as a boy came with his parents from Kentucky to Champaign county and bought a farm in Salem township. They were of Scotch-Irish descent. They built a stone house, and there James Long grew to maturity. James Long became a farmer and very well-to-do, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 341 finally owning seven hundred acres of land. They belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church and he was a real Christian man. He owned a stone quarry on his farm. He built a large brick house and had it. well finished with fine mantels, woodwork, etc. James Long was. married twice, first, to Martha Turner and she died, leaving twin daughters three months old. One was Sarah (Long) Funk. The other girl, Mary, died aged twenty-five. Then James Long married Susannah Cheney. \ WILLIAM E. BROWN. William E. Brown, one of Urbana's best known and most substantial business men, actively identified with the commercial and industrial affairs of his home town, is a native son of Champaign county and has lived here all his life. He was born in this county, December 29, 1861, son of Harvey and Lucy ( Harper) Brown, also natives of this county and members of pioneer families, the former a son of Emanuel and Christine (Henkins) Brown, and the latter a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Wilson) Harper, Virginians, who came to this county about 1820 and became substantial and useful pioneers of the Pisgah neighborhood. Both the Browns and the Harpers are of Scotch-Irish descent and of Colonial stock, and hoth families were honorably represented in the struggle of the colonies for independence during the Revolutionary War. Uereft of his father in the clays of his boyhood, William I . Brown early had his own way to make and he was but a boy when lie entered upon his successful mercantile career as a clerk in a store at Urbana. From the very beginning of that career Mr. Brown has given his most earnest thought to the business, and it was not long until he found his way clear to enter business on his own account. As he prospered he gradually enlarged his stock and his establishment grew in importance until it has long been recognized as one of the leading clothing and men's furnishing establishments in this l;art of the state. Mr. Brown now being the oldest clothing merchant in continuous service in Champaign county. In addition to his extensive mercantile interests, Mr. Brown has other important commercial connections in L'rhana, and has for years been regarded as one of the real "live wires" of that flourishing city. For several years he was secretary and treasurer of the Urbana Mills Company, manufacturers of worsted cloth, is a member of the board of directors of the Champaign National Bank, vice-president of the 342 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. People's. Savings and Loan Company of Urbana, a member of the board of directors of the Ohio Oil and Refining Company, and has other interests, all combining to make him one of the important personal factors in the business life of this community. On October 15, 1890, in the vicinity of Monticello, in White county. Indiana, William E. Brown was united in marriage to Marietta Burns daughter of William and Etna (McIntyre) Burns, of Scottish ancestry and prominent and substantial pioneers of that county, and to this union two children have been born, daughters, Lucy Burns, who was married to J. Ivan Murphy on October 28, 1916, and Christine Etna, who is now a student at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Brown has a delightful .home at Urbana' and has ever taken an earnest interest in the general social and cultural activities of his home town. He is a member of the Baptist church and for' thirty years Mr. Brown has been the teacher of a class of young men in the Sunday school of that church. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Christian 'Science church and at one time was second reader. Mr. Brown is a Knight Templar and Scottish Rite (thirty-second degree) Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with the blue lodge, the chapter, the council and the commandery at Urbana and with the consistory and the shrine (Antioch Temple) at Dayton, and has for years given his earnest and active attention to Masonic affairs. JOHN LEONARD. John Leonard, a farmer, living on rural route number four, Urbana, Ohio, was born on the farm he now owns, September 12, 1864, a son of J. P. and Elizabeth (Kesler) Leonard. The father was born in Jackson township. John Leonard is the oldest of a family of four children. The others are, Wilson, Elmer and Charles. John Leonard spent his boyhood days on the old home farm and received his education in the district schools. He was sufficiently educated to engage in teaching and he followed that vocation for eighteen years, . teaching in the schools of the county. He was married, April 22, 1890, to Alvirta Fitzpatrick, a: daughter of William and Lucinda (Lemmon) Fitzpatrick. After marriage, they settled down on the farm where they now Eve. He bought thirty. seven, acres.and has. made all the improvements on the farm. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wilbur CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 343 F., died at the age of eight months, born in 1891 ; Emery C., born January 9, 1892, graduate of the schools at Thacker, and Lawrenceville high school. He is also a graduate of the Wittenberg agricultural school, and of the State University, receiving the degree of Master of Arts in the latter institution, and is at present one of the instructors in the university. He is a member of the St. Paris Lodge No. 355, Free and Accepted Masons; a member of St. Paris Chapter No. 132, Royal Arch Masons, and a past high priest of the Raper Commander), No. 19, Urbana, Ohio. John Leonard is a Democrat in his political belief. He served for live years as justice of the peace in his township. He is a stockholder in the Springfield Building and Loan Company. He is a mason by trade and does some work in that line in addition to his farming work. LORENZO D. WARD. On November 15, 1879, Lorenzo D. Ward was born on a farm adjoining the one on which he now lives, in Mad River township, Ohio. He is a son of Philander and Mary E. (Stradling) Ward, both of whom are natives of Champaign county, the former born in Mad River township, March 10, 1852; the latter born in Jackson township, September, 1852. Mary E. Ward is a sister of Silas Stradling and is still living. Philander Ward and Mary E. Stradling were married in Jackson township and settled down on a farm in Mad River township, where Mr. Ward continued to live the remainder of his life. He died July 16, 1904. He was a member of the Universalist church in Westville. In politics he was a Democrat. He was the father of three children, one of whom died in infancy. Lottie, a sister of Lorenzo D. Ward, is the wife of C. F. Loudenback, of Sidney, Ohio. Lorenzo D. Ward was reared on a farm near where he now lives, and was educated in the district schools of which he is a graduate. He also attended the Westville high school. On October 5, 1904, he was married to Mary B. Middleton, daughter of Arthur and Allie L. (Taylor) Middleton. She was born February 16, 1883, and was educated in the Westville chools, graduating froin the high school. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Ward settled on a farm in Mad River township and have continued make their home in this township. They have five children : Beulah L., born July 16. 1905; Marjorie M., born February 19, 1907 ; Adelaide G., born 344 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. January 21, 1909; Loretta E., born April io, 1911; Robert M., born February 2, 1913.. Mr. Ward is a member of Magrew Lodge, No. 433, Knights of Pythias, Westville, Ohio. He is a Democrat in politics and is trustee of the town ship. He owns one hundred and eight acres of land, a well improved farm and well adapted for general farming and stock raising, a line of industry in which he is extensively engaged. WILLIAM M. RITCHIE. The farm of William M. Ritchie lies in Goshen township, in the southeastern corner of Champaign county, being known as "Goshen Fruit Farm." Mr. Ritchie was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, February 1, 1845. He is a scion of one of the sterling families of the Old Dominion, being a son of Solomon and Eliza A. (Ropp). Ritchie, both natives of Loudoun county, Virginia, where their ancestors settled in an early day. There they grew to maturity and were married, then moved. to Clark county, Ohio, locating on a farm in Pleasant township and spent the rest of their lives there. The father was also a carpenter by trade, which he followed in connection with farming. .His family consisted of six children, three of whom are living in 1917, namely : William M., of this sketch; Charles N., who is farming in Pleasant township, Clark county; Edward H. is also engaged in farming in that township and county; one died in childhood; John S. was a soldier in the Civil War and gave his life for his country ; Mary E., who. married Oliver Young, is deceased. William M. Ritchie was reared on the home farm in Clark county, Ohio, and was educated in the district schools. He worked on the home farm and also learned the carpenter's trade with his father, .remaining at home until he was twenty years old. He is a mechanic of unusual ability. In 1879 he started a fruit farm in Goshen township and here he has since made his home. He owns sixty-one and one-half acres, which he has placed under excellent improvements and it is one of the most desirable fruit farms in the county. He has made a close study of all phases of horticulture, and is an authority in this line. In connection with fruit growing, he is a breeder of registered Duroc hogs. He finds a very ready market for his fine stock whenever he offers them for sale, owing to their superior qualities. He bought his farm in 1875. Mr. Ritchie was married on November 4, 1869, to Mary A. Brown, CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 345 who was born on the farm where she now lives, June 10, 1850. She was reared in Goshen township and attended the district schools. To this union three children have been born, namely : Celia O., is single and lives at home: John E. married Josephine Lowe and they live in Dayton, Ohio.; Anna L. is the wife of A. J. Wilson and they live in Pleasant township, Clark county. Politically, Mr. Ritchie is a Republican. He has served as a member of the local school hoard for many years, and was for some time chairman of the board. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant church at Mechanicsburg and have long been active in church work. He served as superintendent of the Sunday school for a number of years and has also been a deacon of that church. DAVID BLUE. David Blue lives on his farm located six miles southeast of St Paris, mad River township. It is known as the "Sugar Grove Farm" and consists Of sixty-four acres, on rural route number five, St. Paris, Ohio. David Blue was born on a farm south of where he now lives, July 29, 1862, a son or Nelson R. and Mary (Shaffer) Blue. Nelson R. Blue was also born in Mad River township, Champaign county. His wife was born in Virginia and came with her parents in early life to Champaign county, Ohio, where she grew to womanhood and was married. After marriage Nelson R. Blue and wife began housekeeping on a farm adjoining the one on which David. Blue now lives. He owned a farm of one hundred and sixty acres here and made this his home during life. Mr. Blue was a good farmer and a good citizen. He was an advocate of the principles of the Republican party. To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson R. Blue six children were born, one of whom died in infancy. They are : J. F. Blue, a farmer in Mad River township: David, Rosa, wife of Wilson Leonard, living in Mad River township; Mary E.. widow of Ezra Lutz, Westville; Nancy, deceased, wife of Silas. Jenkins. David Blue was reared and educated in the old home, attending the district schools. He remained at home until lie was twenty-three years of age, working on the farm. December 20, 1885, he was married to Ella Gabriel, a daughter of Samuel Gabriel. Mr. and Mrs. David Blue began housekeeping on a farm and this has been his occupation all his life. He bought the 346 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. farm which he at present owns. He made the purchase without any means to make a payment, going in debt for the whole amount of purchase. Samuel Deibert endorsed his notes and backed him in getting a start. Mr. Blue made good, clearing the farm mortgage and getting himself free from debt. lie has made all the improvements on the farm. He built a. comfortable residence in 1904, and a good barn in 1912. The house in which he lives is a modern home of eight rooms, and all conveniences. Mr. and Mrs. Blue have tWo children : Edna L., wife of O. C. Bishop, of Springfield, Ohio; Mamie C., at home. Mr.. 'Blue is a Republican . in politics and takes an active part in party affairs. He is a member of the Junior Order of Mechanics, of Terre Haute, Ohio. GEORGE W. STEPHAN. George W. Stephan, a well-known millman and dealer in hardwood luniber at Urbana, is .a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born at Upper Sandusky, in Wyandot county, son of Henry and Mary (Weingard) Stephan, who were the parents of seven children, two of whom died in infancy. Henry Stephan was born in the kingdom of Bavaria and upon coming to this country proceeded on out to Ohio and located at Springfield, where he became employed at his trade, that of a cabinet-maker, and where he married, later moving to Upper Sandusky, but after a sometime residence there returned to Springfield, where he spent the rest of his life and where for thirty years he had charge of the plant of the 0. S. Kelly Company. He died in December, 1885. Upon completing his schooling in the Springfield high school, George W. Stephan entered the factory with his father and after his father's death took the latter's place in the same. For a time he and his brother's, Henry and Charles, were engaged in the lumber business and they then moved to Urbana, where they engaged in the lumber business and later started the Desmond-Stephan Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of injectors, brass goods, emerywheel dressing and certain other supplies of a kindred character. Charles Stephan later. sold his stock in the concern and.. returned to Springfield, where he is now engaged in the manufacturing business, and Henry Stephan died in 1912. UpOn coming to Urbana in .1899 George W. Stephan continued his connection with the lumber business and has since been very successfully engaged in that line, operating several mills in this CHAMP AIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 347 part of the state, where the hardwood timber is still accessible. He has ever taken an active part in the general business affairs of his home town, is connected with the Citizens National Bank of Urbana, and was for some time engaged in the automobile business there. George W. Stephan was united in marriage to Mary Miller, of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Stephan have a very pleasant home at Urbana and take a proper part in the general social activities of their home town. Mrs. Stephan is an active member of the Episcopal church and takes- an earnest part in the affairs of the local congregation of that church, interested in all local good works. Mr. Stephan is independent in his political views, but takes a good citizen's interest in local civic affairs and is ever helpful in promoting movements having to do with the general advancement of the business interests of the city. FOREST E. JENKINS. Forest E. Jenkins, subject of this sketch, was born in Jackson. township, October 11, 1860, and is living on his farm on rural route number one, Northhampton, Ohio. He is a son of Joseph and Abigail (Zirkle) Jenkins. Joseph Jenkins was born near St. Paris, Jackson township, Ohio, in 1831, and died in 1875. Abigail (Zirkle) Jenkins was born in Mad River township, in 1833, and died in 1915. Joseph Jenkins was one of the early settlers of the township and contributed a large share in the development of the country. He was an honest, upright citizen, a man of influence and highly respected by the people of the community in which he spent his life. Their two living children. Forest and Nettie, live together and they cared for their mother during her widowhood. One child, Edward L., died in 1868, aged two years. Forest E. Jenkins was born and reared on the farm in Jackson townShip, and was educated in the district schools of the township. He married "Pena Neese, in 1888, who was born in Mad River township, daughter of Elias and Sarah Foltz (both deceased). who lived in Mad River township. She died March 14, 1906, and left no children. They were members of the Lutheran church in which Mr. Jenkins was a deacon for several years. He is a member of Thackery Lodge No. 874, Independent Order. of Odd Fellows, and is a past noble grand in that order. Nettie Jenkins was a member of the Rebekah lodge, of Thackery, and is past noble grand of the lodge. 348 - CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO. In his political affiliation Mr. Jenkins is a Republican. He served on the schonl board many years. Forest E. Jenkins and his sister are the owners of two hundred and ninety acres of land. Two hundred and eight acres of this land is the part on which they have their residence. Mr. Jenkins is engaged in general farming and is also a breeder of fine graded stock. He raises French horses. Shropshire sheep and Chester White hogs. The land which he owns is well adapted to this line of industry and profitable returns are realized. JOHN P. GOOD. A public-spirited, industrious and honored citizen of Salem township, Champaign county, during. the generation that has just passed, was the late John P. Good, whose name is deserving of a place in this biographical and historical compendium. He was .born in the above named county, October 14, 1859. He is a son of Jonas and 'Julia Good, early settlers in this section of Ohio, establishing the family home on a farm, and there the subject of this memoir grew to manhood and assisted with the general work on the place during the crop season. In the winter time he attended the district schools. John P. Good continued working with his father on the homestead until his marriage, February 29, 1888, to Eveline Kavenaugh, of Salem township, this county, where she .was reared and educated in the common schools. She is a daughter of Samuel and Margaret (Hauger) Kavenaugh, the mother a native of Virginia and the father 'of. Champaign county. Mr. Kavenaugh's parents were born in Ireland, his father, Matthew Kavenaugh, immigrating from that country to America when a young man, before his marriage, and settled in Champaign county, on a farm, among the early settlers. His family consisted of six children, namely : John, Francis, James, William, Samuel (father of Mrs. Good), and Anna. Peter Hauger, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Good, married Susan Groves. He was a native of Virginia,. from which state he came to Champaign county, many years ago, and here he still resides. His wife was born in Holland. Ten children were born. to Peter Hauger and wife, namely : Fred, Adam, Peter, Jr.., David, James, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, Susan and Eveline. To Samuel and Margaret Kavenaugh the following children were born : Lizzie, the wife of. Hezekiah Miller, and they reside.in Illinois : Matthew, who CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, OHIO - 349 lives in Union county, Ohio; Mary Jane married James Blaycock and they live near West Liberty, Ohio; Eveline, widow of Mr. Good, of this sketch ; Myra and Marjorie are twins ; Myra is single and lives on the home place ; Marjorie is the wife of Jerry Shelton and they live in Springfield, Ohio ; Annie is the wife of Robert Sidder and they live in Salem township, Champaign county, and William makes his home with his sister, Mrs. Good. After his marriage John P. Good located on the old Kavenaugh farm in Salem township, where he engaged in general farming and stock raising until his death. He took a good deal of interest in public 'affairs and was influential in the general upbuilding of his community. He was a stanch Democrat and served for some time as a member of the local school both'. Fraternally. lie belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at West Liberty ; he held membership in the Christian church and took an abiding interest in the affairs of the same. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Good resulted in the birth of one child, John Denton Good, who farms the home place; he married Lela Fidler, of Quincy. Ohio, and they have one child, John Franklin Good. The death of John P. Good occurred on March 26, 1915. He was good to his family. a good neighbor and citizen and had a host of friends. WILLIAM T. MILLARD. Among the farmers of Salem township, Champaign county, who believe in employing advanced methods of tilling the soil, so far as they apply to this latitude, is William T. Millard. He was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, August-29, 1877. He is a son of Thomas and Ivy (Johnson) Millard. The mother was born in Champaign county, Ohio, and the father was a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood and attended school, and from there he migrated to Champaign county, in the latter seventies. He worked at different place, principally at Urbana. His death occurred in 1905. His family consisted of seven children, named as follows: Robert and Lizzie, who both live in Springfield, Ohio; Henry. in Warren county, Ohio; Ella, Lou and Nettie, all three reside in Springfield, this state, and William T., of this sketch, who was third in order of birth. William T. Millard was a small child when his parents brought him to Champaign county, and here he grew to manhood and received his educa-