SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 175 GEORGE C. AGLE has been one of the hardest working citizens of Clark County. He toiled during his youth and early manhood to earn his own living and help support the family. For many years he was a farm renter, and gradually progressed to a point where he was able to acquire land of his own, and he is now dwelling in comfortable prosperity, owner of a fine farm on rural route No. 1 out of South Vienna, in Harmony Township. Mr. Agle was born in Bethel Township of Clark County, May 12, 1858, son of Philip and Elizabeth (Kriegbaum) Agle. His father was born in Germany in 1832, and was brought to this country in 1835 by his parents, who located near Springfield. Philip Agle was put on his own resources when a boy, worked in brick yards, and subsequently established a brick plant of his own at Donnelsville in Clark County, and lived there until he was accidentally killed in 1867, at the age of thirty-five. His wife was a native of Germany, came to the United States at the age of nineteen, was married in Springfield and then moved to Donnelsville. The parents were Lutherans, and the father was a republican in politics. Of their seven children two are living: George C. and Philip, the latter a farmer five miles south of Springfield. George C. Agle was born at Donnelsville, and acquired only a common school education. While in school he worked on holidays and during the summer season, later worked in a brick yard for his board and clothes and for two years was employed in a tile factory. He also did farm work for monthly wages, and later rented and farmed a place three years. He operated a farm of ninety-six acres on the shares, living there with his mother and sister for two years. January 21, 1886, Mr. Agle married Flora Seifert, who was born in Greene County, Ohio, in October 1861. After his marriage Mr. Agle rented a 170 acre place for two years, then a farm of two hundred and two acres in Madison Township for four years, and subsequently took another place of two hundred and fifty-two acres in Harmony Township. He was located there fourteen years and still later moved to a farm of 306 acres, where he also lived fourteen years. During this time he purchased his present farm. Since then he has lived on his own place of two hundred and fifty-eight acres. Mr. Agle has been very systematic in his farm management, and much of his prosperity has been gained by the growing of hogs. He was at one time a breeder of Poland Chinas, and his present stock is largely Durocs. While on the farm of two hundred and fifty-two acres his good wife died, in May, 1905. She was the mother of nine children : Glenna E., Blanche E., Edwin C., Ralph N., George J., Clara M., Nettie M., Mary B. and Fannie M. All are living except Mary B. The children are all graduates of the Harmony Township High School, and four of the daughters became successful teachers. The family are members of the Lutheran Church but attend the Christian Church, and Mr. Agle is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Plattsburg Church. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Elks Lodge of Springfield, is a republican, and has taken an active part in public affairs, serving two terms as township trustee, has been a member and former treasurer of the Clark County Agricultural Association, and for twenty-six years was a member of the Board of Education. 176 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY JOHN GERMAN is one of the native sons of Clark County who here continues as a progressive and substantial representative of farm industry, his well improved farm being situated in German Township, seven miles west of Springfield, and he is trustee of this township at the time of this writing, in 1922. Mr. German was born in Springfield Township, this county, September 22, 1864, and is a son of Peter and Margaret (Geron) German. Peter German was born and reared in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where he learned the trade of miller and where he remained until he was seventeen years of age, when he came to, the United States and established his residence in Clark County, Ohio, where one of his sisters had previously located. On his immigration he was accompanied by his brother Baltzer, and they landed at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with their supply of funds entirely exhausted. The two brothers came to Clark County, and here both found employment at farm work. Peter entered the employ of Peter Sintz, of Springfield Township, and this sterling citizen and successful farmer assisted the two young German lads in getting a start in the land of their adoption. Peter German later worked in the saw mill and on the farm of Mark Snyder, and at the age of twenty-four years he married Miss Margaret Geron, who was then nineteen years of age. She was likewise a native of Hesse-Darmstadt and was thirteen years old when she came to America and found a home with her uncle, John Loomis, in Clark County. After his marriage Peter German farmed on rented land for a few years and then he purchased fifty acres on the National Turnpike, in Springfield Township. For this property he paid thirty dollars an acre, and on the same he and his young wife established their home in a pioneer log house. Until he could make his own land available for the raising of crops he rented fields of his former employer, Peter Sintz, and by energy and good management he made each successive year count in progress to the goal of independence and prosperity. He became the owner of an excellent farm of ninety-five acres three miles distant from Springfield, and on this homestead he continued to reside until his death, in the early '90s, at the age of sixty-one years, his life having been shortened by an injury which he had received while cutting corn. His widow survived him eight years, and was likewise sixty-one years of age at the time of death. Of their children Lizzie became the wife of John Schneider, and she died at the age of fifty-four years ; Margaret, wife of Peter Winkler, died at the age of forty-two years ; George was fifty-one years of age at the time of his death ; Peter is a carpenter by trade and resides in the City of Springfield ; John, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth ; Adam remains on the old home farm in Springfield Township ; Anna is the wife of George Schneider, of Springfield ; and Jacob died at the age of forty years. John German was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the district schools. He was associated with his father in dairy farming, and continued his residence on the old homestead until 1896, when he purchased and removed to his present place of 185 acres, known as the old George Miranda farm and situated on the Troy Turnpike. For this property, which has greatly advanced in value under his progressive management. he paid forty-two dollars an acre. The farm SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 177 was in a run-down condition and he forthwith began the development of an effective system of tile drainage, the place at the present time having 6,000 rods of tile drains, it having been necessary for him to force an outlet through farms owned by others, his example having since been effectively emulated by other landholders of the locality, who have found tile drainage of inestimable value. Mr. German has continued successfully his enterprise of dairy farming, and makes a specialty of breeding Shorthorn cattle and the general feeding and raising of cattle and hogs. He has won through his own ability and efforts a substantial prosperity and is the owner of a farm of 170 acres in Champaign County, this place being utilized for pasture and being five miles distant from his fine home farm. Mr. German has made the best of permanent improvements on his home farm, including the erection of modern buildings, silos, etc., and the place is now one of the model farms of Clark County. In his civic relations Mr. German has shown the same progressive spirit and loyalty that have marked his individual enterprise. He served eight years as a member of the School Board of his district, and was in tenure of this office at the time when centralization of the schools was effected, there being now but three schools in Springfield Township outside of the county seat, and the work of these centralized schools have been brought to a high standard. The secure place which Mr. German has in popular confidence and esteem was further indicated when, in 1921, he was elected trustee of German Township. He assumed the duties of this office January 1, 1922, and is giving special attention to the maintaining of good roads, he being responsible for the upkeep of eight miles of road in his township. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party and has been active in its local councils. He is an active member of the Farm Bureau of Clark County, and he and his wife are communicants of the German Lutheran Church at Springfield. At the age of twenty-four years Mr. German married Miss Mollie Ellinger, who died three years later and who left no children. For his second wife Mr. German wedded Miss Mary Rader, of Springfield, and they have five children : John Henry, Baltzer, Margaret, Minnie and Helen. All of the children remain at the parental home with the exception of Margaret, who is the wife of Clarence Bishop, a farmer in the vicinity of the old home of her parents. REV. HARRY TRUST, pastor of the Congregational Church at Springfield, has been a member of this community since 1921, and has already won the love and respect of a wide circle both within his own church, as well as those who have come to know him in his other duties. He has been a faithful pastor to his flock, not only here but elsewhere, and has impressed all with his disinterested work in the cause he serves; he has been a foremost factor in all of the movements for the betterment of the moral standards of the country, and conscientious in the discharge of his manifold duties. He has been fearless in denunciation of that which he thought was wrong, and has preached a gospel of action with power and eloquence. Doctor Trust was born of an old Devonshire family at Ivybridge, Devon, England, January 11, 1883. He was graduated from the public schools of England, and for two years was a student of the University Vol. II-12 178 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY of London, and then came to the United States, where he entered the theological seminary of Bangor, Maine, and was graduated therefrom, and from Bowdoin College, in 1916, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His first pastorate was at Winthrop, Maine, from whence he was sent to Biddeford, Maine, and in 1921, to Springfield. He is secretary of the Clark County Ministerial Association, assistant moderator of the State Conference of Congregational Churches of Ohio, and president of the Boy Scouts of Springfield. He does not confine his work to those duties strictly pertaining to the ministry, but is always seeking to broaden the scope of his influence, and has taught the Bible in the Young Men's Christian Association, is active in the Brotherhood of the Congregational Church, and is a member of the Exchange Club. On January 3, 1917, Rev. Mr. Trust married Miss Lillian Effie Knowlton, who was born on Deer Isle, Maine, and is a member of a family which traces its ancestry back to the time of William the Conqueror. The Knowltons have resided in this country since its Colonial period and members of it have participated in all of its wars, beginning with the American Revolution. She is eminently fitted for the exacting duties of a minister's wife, and shares with her husband the affectionate esteem of the people of Springfield. THE GOOD FAMILY of Springfield was settled in Pennsylvania long before the start of the war of the American Revolution, its ancestors having come to America from Switzerland during the Quaker immigration of that early period: John Good, grandfather of the present generation of the family at Springfield, married Sarah Singer, like himself a native of Pennsylvania. Samuel Good, their son, and father of the present generation, was born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, August 13, 1826, and married Caroline Fisher, who was horn at Ligonier, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1829. Her grandfather, Mathias Fisher, served on one of the Clark expeditions into this part of Ohio, was captured by the Indians at Fort Tecumseh, not far from Springfield, and was held a captive until his escape from them at Fort Niagara, he then returned to his Pennsylvania home. At about the beginning of the Civil war John and Samuel Good removed their families to Virginia and settled at Cherry Camp, Harrison County (now Bristol, West Virginia), where they engaged in general merchandising and in handling coal, oil and timber land. At that place John Good and his wife died. In 1881 Samuel Good came to Springfield, his eldest son, the late John M. Good, having preceded him here three years. Samuel Good never engaged in business at Springfield, but lived retired until his death, January 25, 1892, his widow surviving him until October 8, 1916. To Samuel and Caroline (Fisher) Good there were born the following children : Alice Mary, born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1852, married C. A. Reese, of Springfield, and died in 1896; John M., born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1853, married Jessie Minnick, and died February 16, 1921 ; Jessie M., born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, November 2, 1856, was for several years assistant librarian of the Warder Library, Springfield, and in 1908 entered the florist business under the style of "Miss Jessie Good, florist and seedswoman," having since developed a large and very successful SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 179 plant and seed business and shipping her products all over this country and to other lands ; Harry Fisher and Frank Ernest. Harry Fisher Good was born at Cherry Camp, West Virginia, November 21, 1862. As a lad of ten years he went to live with his maternal uncle, Thomas A. Fisher, M. D., at LeRoy, Illinois, by whom he was reared. He graduated from LeRoy High School, secured a first-class teacher's certificate, and desired to teach, but was prevented by his youth from securing a school. In 1880 he entered Wittenberg College, where he spent one term, and then went to work in a greenhouse, which he left in the spring of 1890 to enter the employ of the Good & Reese Company, florists, the firm consisting of his brother, John M. Good, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Reese. He remained with this concern until 1901, in which year he embarked in the same business on his own account at Shreveport, Louisiana, but in the following year returned to Springfield and resumed his connection with the Good & Reese Company. In 1903 this was incorporated and Harry F. Good became a stockholder. At the time of the retirement of Mr. Reese he assumed the duties of secretary and treasurer of the company, but since then has given up the treasurership and now devotes his entire time to the secretarial duties. He is a member of Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M. ; Red Star Lodge No. 205, K. of P. ; and the Florists and Automobile Clubs of Springfield. His religious connection is with the Church of Christ. Mr. Good married Josephine Champane, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Davenport) Champane, of Springfield, and they have one son and one daughter : Chester Champane, born September 15, 1887 ; and Minnie May, born May 19, 1890. Frank Ernest Good was born at Cherry Camp, West Virginia, December 11, 1864, and there received a public school education. Coming to Springfield in 1880, he went to work for C. A. Reese, florist, and when the company of Good & Reese was organized he became vice president thereof. On the death of his brother, John M. Good, in 1921, he succeeded him as president and so continues. He is recognized as one of the leading expert "rose men" of the entire country, the growing of rose plants having been his hobby as well as his business. He is a member of Red Star Lodge No. 205, K. of P., and a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Good married Miss Elizabeth M. Derr, who was born at Thermont, Maryland, daughter of John W. and Laura Virginia (Creager) Derr, and they have one daughter : Anna Laura, who married Clarence Butcher, of near South Charleston, Clark County. HENRY-ARBOGAST FAMILIES. These are family names held in high honor in Clark County today, and they were in many ways typical of the sturdy virtues of the pioneers who settled and developed this section of Ohio. The families became related by the marriage of Walter C. Henry with Sarah Eliza Arbogast in the '60s. The founder of the Henry family was William Henry (1768-1842), grandfather of Walter C. Henry. He came from Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1813, bringing with him his wife, Elizabeth Johnson Henry, (1775-1846) and a family which increased to twelve, all of whom married except the youngest daughter, as follows : Polly, married Jonathan 180 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Jones, and had two sons ; John, married Rachel Morris and had three sons and four daughters ; Johnson, married Sarah McDaniels, had three sons and five daughters ; Nancy (1808-1887), married James Heaton (1804-1887) and had two sons and two daughters ; Hamilton, who married Rebecca Dalrymple, had two sons and six daughters ; Martha (1804- 1890), married James Morris, and had ten sons and one daughter ; Jonathan, married Caroline Chamberlin, and had six sons and five daughters ; Sarah, married Amos Wright, and had three sons and one daughter ; Benjamin, who was married and had one son ; Lavina (1815-1899), married Michael Wilson, Jr. (1814-1879) had eight sons and four daughters ; William, Jr., who was the father of two sons and one daughter ; and Miss Elizabeth. Altogether there were about sixty grandchildren. Many of these answered the call of the West, and from all the numerous progeny the two little daughters of the late Carlton Henry of Plattsburg, Martha Rice Henry and Carlton Louise Henry are the only representatives in Clark County today bearing the family name Henry. With the exception of the numerous descendants of Lavina Henry Wilson there are today perhaps less than a score of lineal descendants of William Henry and Elizabeth Johnson in Clark County. The well established tradition exists that there is some relationship between this branch of the Henry family and that of the "immortal Patrick," but no substantial evidence has so far been brought forward to establish proof of such relationship. Without the prestige of descent from such an historical character it should be noted that in this and many different localities a goodly number of ministers, lawyers, doctors, educators, successful farmers and business men sprang from the quiet, unobtrusive man, William Henry, a Christian gentleman, who is mentioned in a former Clark County history as "a kindly man much liked by everyone." He and his wife helped to organize the first Christian Church society at Plattsburg. Later the Christians and Universalists joined with other denominations to build an edifice called the "People's House," which still stands. Jonathan Henry (1807-1868) married Caroline Chamberlin (18111865) on October 20, 1833. Their old home was famed for its hospitality. In answer to an inquiry about this old homestead Miss Jean Canady of Plattsburg writes : "The main part of the old house is still standing on the Silvers farm. I have not been over to it for years, though as a child I was there every few days. Oh, what happy times we had there !" When the eleven Morris cousins and the twelve Wilson cousins came to visit Jonathan and Caroline and their eleven children it made quite a gathering, and several of those old time guests still remain to vouch for "those days of real sport." The eleven children of Jonathan Henry and wife were : Walter Chamberlin, who married Sarah Eliza Arbogast ; Stephen Herriman (18371886) who married Anna Magennis ; Mary Elizabeth (1838-1907) ; Hamilton Harrison (1840-1917) who married Amanda Welsh ; William Isaac (1841-1863) ; Virginia Caroline (1843 ____ ) ; Sarah Sophronia Caldwell (1844_____), second wife of J. M. Caldwell ; George Washington (1847-1880), who married Elizabeth Lightner ; Nancy, who died in infancy ; Benjamin Franklin, (1849____), who married Anna Conover ; and Martha Lavina Caldwell (1851-1882, first wife of Joseph M. Caldwell, SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 181 of Garnett, Kansas. Three of the sons, Stephen, Hamilton and Isaac, enlisted in Company K of the Thirty-first Ohio Infantry during the Civil war. Shephen was wounded at Chickamauga, Isaac, a color bearer, was killed at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, and Hamilton attained the rank of captain. Three of the daughters and three sons became successful teachers early in life. Twelve grandsons of William Henry served in the Civil war. Walter C. Henry (1834-1913) and Sarah Eliza Arbogast (1839 -1894) were married September 22, 1863. The bride was the eldest daughter of Henry Arbogast (1815-1859) and Susan Climer (18161894). She was a granddaughter of Peter Arbogast (1770-1842) who emigrated from Virginia to Clark County in 1812. Born and reared in Clark County, Walter C. Henry and wife received such education as the schools of that time afforded, but both supplemented this early education with wide and varied reading. Walter Henry was a real student of books. With true prophetic instinct and an eager philanthropic desire to help his fellowman, he lived and thought in advance of his time. He was a third party prohibitionist when it took moral courage to be one, and he was equally in advance of the spirit of the times advocating woman's suffrage. He stood for a liberal religion, and he was never afraid to be in the minority. The three children of this couple were : Caroline, Carlton and May Estelle. The last one of these to live in Clark County was the late Carlton Henry of Plattsburg. The only surviving child is May Estelle, now Mrs. Walter Jackson, of Chicago, who for many years has been a teacher in the Chicago public schools. The parents of these children when in middle life moved to London, Ohio, and spent their remaining years there. Carlton Henry was reared at London, and as a child took a keen delight in books. Quite early his well trained, brilliant mind had accumulated a wealth of knowledge. The London High School, Ohio State University and Wittenberg College contributed to his education. He taught in both Madison and Clark counties, but after his marriage, in 1909, to Glenna Rice, daughter of the late James S. Rice and Angie (Busbey) Rice, of South Vienna, Located permanently in Plattsburg, where he acted as secretary and manager of the Home Telephone Company. Even after his removal to Clark County he continued for years to hold the position of assistant secretary of. the Madison County Fair Association. In these capacities and as principal of the Harmony Township High School over a long period of years he had a wide acquaintance over Central Ohio, and his friends were legion. He .was a member of Chandler Post, F. and A. M., of London, and was affiliated with the Universalist Church, as were his parents and grandparents. He was a republican in politics. The Arbogast family had its original seat in the southwestern part of Germany, near Switzerland. They probably were of French Huguenot origin and the name is spelled in many ways. There is record of Balthazar Arngast, who came from Rotterdam to Pennsylvania on the ship Carteret on December 11, 1744 ; Johannes (1751), on the Edinburgh ; and George (1750), on the Anderson. Michael Arngast (Michael Arbogast) took the oath of allegiance to the English Gov- 182 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY ernment on going aboard the Speedwell, September 25, 1749, at Rotterdam, bound for Pennsylvania. Michael Arbogast (1734-1812) moved to what is now West Virginia, Pendleton County, in 1752. He was naturalized in Augusta County, Virginia, August 22, 1770, and served in the Second Battalion, Augusta County Cavalry troops, under Capt. Peter Hull of Pendleton or Highland County during the Yorktown campaign. The history of Highland County records that he owned 1,037 acres of land in 1800. The following list may not include all of his children : Adam (1760), married Margaret Hull ; David, married, July 4, 1785, Elizabeth Fleisher ; Mary, married in 1785 James Mullenax ; John (a lieutenant in 1794) married Hannah Davis ; George, married in 1791 Catharine Yeager ; Michael, Jr., who died in 1813, married Barbara Buzzard ; Henry, who died in 1844, married Sophia Wade and, second, Elizabeth Seyfert ; Peter (1770-1842), married Sarah Henderson (1781-1850), and was a twin brother of Henry. Several of these sons were with their father in the Revolutionary war and also in the War of 1812. They were all large men, a family characteristic even today. The Arbogasts of Clark County are all descendants of three of Michael's sons, David, Michael, Jr., and Peter, who migrated to Clark County about 1812. David settled later in Madison County, Indiana, where he died. The other two sons both died in Clark County. Peter came 'to Clark County from what is now Hampshire County, West Virginia, bringing a family of several children. These and the children subsequently born made up the following list : Cornelius (1801-1883) married Sarah Davison and was the father of four sons and four daughters ; Priscilla, who married Jacob Smith, and had two sons and two daughters ; Otho, who had two sons and one daughter ; Margaret, who married William Carl, and had two sons and three daughters ; Lydia, (1818-1889), who married William Cheney (1816-1897) ; Malinda, who married Willis Climer, had three sons and six daughters ; Susan married John Wilkinson, and had one son and four daughters ; Mary, who married Jonathan Hardman, had three sons and three daughters ; and Henry (1815-1859), who married Susan Climer (1816-1894) had f our sons and two daughters. Over forty grandchildren are represented in this list, and these may be found in every walk of life, thrifty, industrious citizens. The home of Peter Arbogast was used for religious services held by a "New Light" minister named Enoch Harvey. The story of the coming of this pioneer family is graphically told by a grandson, Albert Arbogast, in a personal letter, used herewith : "In regard to my grandfather, Peter Arbogast, he was born and raised near Romney, Hampshire County, Virginia. He was married to Sarah Henderson several years before he sold his farm and moved to Ohio in 1812, while the war was going on with England. Aunt Priscilla Smith was large enough to walk in the rear of grandfather's wagon and chock the wagon with a forked handspike which she placed against the rim and a spoke in the hind wheel in going up the mountains. Grandfather hired a man named Seebert to drive his six-horse team through to Ohio, and to work for him for a year, for which service he was to receive a horse. There were probably some four or five large covered wagons in the party. Grandfather's part seems to have been to keep in hearing of the wagons, and with his trusty gun "Friday" he kept the entire party SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 183 in the choicest deer and bear meat, such game being plentiful. There seemed to be no trouble with Indians, and the expedition was successful except for a most unfortunate accident. In a sudden lurch of one of the wagons a child fell over the side and was seriously injured. All the wagons were halted, and examination showed the injury was probably fatal. A prayer meeting was held and Uncle Cornelius stated it seemed to him that prayers were enough to melt the adamantine rocks of the towering mountains ; but all relief was of no avail and the little one passed away. With such implements as they had a grave was hollowed out on a mountain side and with impressive services the funeral was concluded and the weeping party went forward on the long journey. The first people accosted in Ohio by grandfather were two brothers named Ellsworth, whose relatives are still found in eastern Clark County. They told him there was one piece of land left unentered in their settlement; but nobody would have it. After examination Peter Arbogast thought the land worthy of purchase, and his judgment must have been fair, as his great-grandson (Amos Smith), still owns it and lives on the same place. This farm has been in the family one hundred and ten years. The next day, leaving his family in the covered wagon, grand-f ather on horseback started for the General Land Office at Cincinnati, purchased the land and returned from the long ride in just three weeks. Then grandfather, Seebert and probably Uncle Cornelius, a lad of eleven, went into the nearby timber and soon had the round logs ready for a house. Venison and corn had to be provided for a dinner for the great event of house raising. Invitations were sent out for miles around, and when the day came the Foleys, the Ellsworths, the Coffeys, the Clarks, the McConkeys and the Engles were all there. The strength and skill displayed by those hardy pioneers is something wonderful. By noon the house was up, with a puncheon floor, stone fireplace, stick chimney, properly daubed with clay, as were the chinks between the logs, a door made of split boards, pinned together with wooden pins, leather hinges and a latch string. The roof was made of clapboards held on by logs reaching the whole length of the house. The men came generally on horseback, with their wives riding behind on the same horse. The women were equal to the occasion, as they always are, and a bounteous dinner was ready for the tired and hungry men, consisting of the best venison and corn bread, served 'stand up and help yourself.' Then was held a shooting match with rifles at a white patch one inch square placed on a charred board at a distance of one hundred yards. A marksman named Engle drove center three times offhand at this distance. "Grandmother Arbogast was described as quite tall and straight, with jet black hair, of Irish stock and considered by some to be proud." If Sarah Henderson deserved the reputation which has lived through the years she had reason to hold a certain kind of pride. An efficient nurse and wonderful skill at her loom, were two of her accomplishments. One of her wonderful blue and white coverlids is still in the family, as handsome as it was the day it left her loom. Her handicraft was equaled if not surpassed by the wonderful embroideries and other needlework of her granddaughter, Eliza, whose work has been exhibited and, admired by art critics in Chicago and elsewhere." 184 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Henry Arbogast (1815-1859) and Susan Climer (1816-1894) were married early in 1839. Several years afterward they moved to Shelby County, but after a short time returned to Pleasant Township, where the husband died before any of the sons were of age. The widow, assisted by the older sons, managed the home farm now owned by the heirs of Milton Arbogast, and educated two sons, James and Albert, to be teachers, both of whom gained distinction in educational affairs. The eldest daughter, Sarah Eliza, married Walter C. Henry, September 22, 1863, Charles (1841____) married Eliza Byerly, and had one child, Mrs. Louis Jones, of South Vienna. Albert (1848____) married Mary Porter, and their four children were : Ernest, of New York City ; Ethel St. Clair (children, Lillian, John C. and Virginia) ; Lora and Pearl, of Columbus, Ohio. James (1845-1917) married Laura McConkey and had a daughter, Edna. Milton (1851-1918) married Elizabeth McClenen (1846 ____) and of two sons, Howard died in infancy, while Creston Willard married Edna Harmison and had a son, Howard, and two daughters, Doris May and Madelon. Johanna (1857 ____) married Charles Huffman. The eldest son, Charles, one of the organizers and an official of the Farmers Bank of South Vienna, served in Company K of the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Ohio Infantry. Two sons of Cornelius Arbogast also served in the Civil war. With the same thrift that characterized the first American ancestor, Michael Arbogast, the sons of Henry kept and increased the ancestral acres or bought land elsewhere. The mother moved to London about 1880, where she died in 1894. Henry Arbogast and Susan Climer Arbogast are buried in Kirkwood Cemetery at London. More than passing mention should be made of Rev. Cornelius Arbogast (1801-1883), son of the pioneer Peter, who developed into a man of the Abraham Lincoln type, both mentally and physically. He married Sarah Davisson, with whom he enjoyed sixty years of happy wedded life. His unusual ability was early recognized and he served the communities in which he lived in various capacities of trust. While living in Clark County he was justice of peace for fourteen years, and after his removal to Shelby County in 1851 served as county commissioner for many years. Although not an attorney, his advice was often sought in matters pertaining to the law. This legal turn of mind was also possessed to a marked degree by his nephew, the late Milton Arbogast, who seemed to instinctively interpret, as did his uncle, a difficult problem of law. Although residing in Shelby County, Cornelius Arbogast kept in touch with his former home, and he and his nephew, the late James Arbogast, helped to assemble the material for an earlier history of Clark County (1881). He was ordained to the Universalist ministry in 1844, and for many years preached in various neighborhoods in Central Ohio. He was a forceful, logical speaker, genial in his manner, winning all who came in contact with him. The attendance of hundreds at his funeral on a stormy November day spoke eloquently of their love for this grand old man, a veritable "father in Israel." SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 185 GEORGE SABIN DIAL. In the person of George Sabin Dial, who has practiced so long and so ably at the Springfield bar, is linked the Springfield of the past and the present. A native of this city, both he and his pioneer father, the late Judge Enoch George Dial, have been parts of its progressive life, and in the law, in education, in business and in politics have contributed to the development of the city's institutions and the furtherance of its welfare and prestige. Mr. Dial was born at Springfield, August 2, 1861, a son of Enoch George and Emeline (Sabin) Dial. His father was born in Clermont County, Ohio, October 16, 1817, a son of Shadrach and Susanna (Reed) Dial. Shadrach Dial, the son of Robert Dial, was born in North Carolina, in 1758, and in 1803 was married, two years after which event he came to Ohio and settled in Clermont County, where he spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits and died in 1843. Enoch George Dial graduated from Miami University in 1843. Following his graduation he was for a year a teacher and member of the faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University, but resigned from that college in 1845, and, coming to Springfield, for f our years was president of the Springfield High School and Female College. In the meantime he studied law and was admitted to the bar, and also, although continuing to reside at Springfield, was interested for a time in a newspaper at Urbana, Ohio. He was a democrat in politics up to 1860, in which year he became a staunch member of the republican party. In 1852 he was chosen an elector on the democratic electoral presidential ticket in Ohio. In 1869, as a republican, he was elected judge of the Probate Court of Clark County, and was re-elected in 1872 without opposition, but three years later refused a third election. In 1879 he was elected a member of the Ohio State Legislature, and served as chairman of the committee on schools and school lands of the House. While in the Legislature he introduced a bill to abolish the sub-district system and to establish the township system, the schools of each township to be managed by a board of education elected by the people thereof. He also introduced a bill providing for county school superintendence. The proposed legislation met with universal approbation by the leading educators and educated men of the state, and generally by the press, but, encountering decided opposition among the smaller politicians and press, the bills failed to pass. However, the ideas embraced in those measures were later adopted by the Legislature and became laws. He also served as a member of the Springfield Board of Education and was always interested in the cause. He died at Springfield in 1896. Judge Dial married Emeline Sabin, who was born at Troy, Miami County, Ohio, in 1827, and died at Springfield in 1882. She was a daughter of Dr. Roswell Sabin, of Troy, and to this union there were born four children : Mary, deceased, who was the wife of Charles D. Hack ; Annie C., of Springfield, who is unmarried ; George Sabin, of this review ; and Morris Roswell, of LaGrange, Illinois. George Sabin Dial attended the city public schools, after which he spent three years, from 1878 to 1881, at Wittenberg College, and then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the class of 1882. He read law in the office of the Hon. Thomas J. Pringle, of Springfield, and was 186 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY admitted to the bar in 1885, since which time he has been in the active practice of his profession at Springfield, of which city he served as prosecutor from 1895 to 1897. Mr. Dial has been interested for a number of years in city planning and park extension, and during his administration as president of the Springfield Commercial Club the campaign was inaugurated for the successful raising of the money for the purchase of the land which became Cliff Park, a campaign which was the beginning of the movement to bring Snyder Park up to the city. Mr. Dial was assistant attorney to the city solicitor in the condemnation of park land along the creek, by which proceedings the city acquired about forty acres of land for park purposes. During the World war Mr. Dial was active as a "Four-Minute Man," and took part in all the various campaigns for raising war funds. He is active in church work and is a member of and secretary to the Official Board of High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Springfield National Bank. Mr. Dial is a member of the Clark County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, successor of the Springfield Commercial Club, of which he was president in 1908. On February 12, 1890, Mr. Dial was united in marriage with Miss Louise Baldwin, who died January 30, 1897, leaving one daughter, Mary Louise, who married Louis P. Kalb, of Detroit, Michigan. On March 8, 1913, Mr. Dial married Clara Eugenia Crane, daughter of J. W. Crane, of Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Crane was a prominent manufacturer, for many years being secretary and general manager of Mast, Foos & Company works. ADAM GRUB:. The late Adam Grube was one of the substantial men of foreign birth who, coming to Springfield, became valued citizens of their adopted country and here amassed a fortune. He was born in the Rhine province of Bavaria, Germany, a son of Jacob and Philipena (Shearer) Grube, who in 1835 came to the United States and after living at Tiffin, Ohio, for two years, located at Springfield. During the time he was at Tiffin, Jacob Grube had to work very hard in construction work on the Wabash Canal. After coming to Springfield he continued to work by the day until his demise. When still a lad Adam Grube helped to take care of his mother and brothers and sisters, working to do so by selling produce from house to house, and his honest measure and pleasant manner soon enabled him to build up a large trade. As soon as he was strong enough he began working out by the day, and in the meantime gained a knowledge of the brick industry, entering, when only twelve years old, the brickyard of James Robinson, and receiving for his labors $3 per month. He was patient and very thrifty and at last was able to go into partnership with his brother in the purchase of fifteen acres of land, on which the industrious young men carried on gardening. Later he bought his brother's interest in this property. For fourteen years he lived in a house built of logs before he replaced it with one of brick he had himself manufactured, for he and his two brothers, Jacob and Christian, had gone into the brick industry, in which they continued for six years. Then for a few years Mr. Grube again devoted himself to SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 187 gardening, but once more began to manufacture brick, taking as his partner Charles Elmer Grube. They gave employment to twelve men and five boys and did a big business, but he retired from it before his death, which occurred July 19, 1910. Adam Grube first married Anna Mary Wilch, born in Hancock County, Ohio, and they had eight children, the only survivor being one son, John A., who is living in Springfield, Ohio. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Grube married, October 6, 1868, Gertrude Rettig, born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, May 5, 1845, a daughter of John P. and Elizabeth (Heoffley) Rettig, who settled in Henry County, Ohio, in 1863. By his last marriage Adam Grube had nine children, of whom f our survive, namely : George P., who is at 1756 Limestone Street, a sketch of whom follows ; Samuel D., who resides in Moorefield Township, married Abbie J. Baker, and they have three children, Ruth, Mrs. Robert Scifers, has two daughters, Gertrude G. and Mary Jane Scifers ; Margaret, Mrs. H. J. Robinson, who resides with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Grube, and Delbert I., who also lives with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Grube ; F. Joseph, who lives in Moorefield Township, married Mary Helle, now deceased, who bore him one son, Irvin A. F. Grube, with his father ; and Gertrude S., who is keeping house for her brother, F. Joseph, in Moorefield Township, just north of Springfield. Adam Grube was a business man of excellent judgment and invested his money wisely. He owned several farms in the vicinity of Springfield and the fifty-acre addition to Springfield that is known as Grube Addition. He belonged to Saint Luke's Evangelical Church of Springfield, in which he was an earnest worker. The democratic party had in him a firm supporter, although he never cared for public honors. He did his full duty as he saw it, was honest, sincere and helpful, and when he died one of the best citizens of Clark County passed to his last reward. GEORGE P. GRUBE. One of the best-known and most highly respected families of Clark County is that bearing the name of Grube and its members are numbered among the most representative citizens of Springfield. One of them, George P. Grube, of 1756 North Limestone Street, is following a somewhat original line in his business operations, for he is not only a poultry fancier, but also raises Pekingese Chinese dogs and has built up a very valuable connection in both lines. Mr. Grube was born at Springfield, February 10, 1873, a son of Adam and Gertrude (Rettig) Grube, natives of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, a sketch of whom precedes in this work ; and grandson of Jacob and Philipena (Shearer) Grube, natives of Germany, who came to Clark County, Ohio. Growing up in Springfield, George P. Grube attended the Snow district school and Nelson's Business College and remained with his parents. who owned fifteen acres of land, now the block of 1700 Limestone Street, until his marriage, which occurred February 20, 1899, when he married Carrie E. Morgan, born at Tampico, Indiana, a daughter of William and Rachel (Mahanka) Morgan, natives of Tampico, Indiana. After his marriage Mr. Grube built a house just south of the Home Road, on North Limestone Street, where he resided for seven years, during which time he continued working with his father in manufac- 188 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY turing brick, in which industry the elder man had built up a large business. Selling his interest in this, Mr. Grube then bought one acre of land about two blocks south of his home, on North Limestone street, and erected a new residence. He was engaged in manufacturing brick on his own account until 1915, when he sold his business and bought one and three-quarter acres, with a frontage of 124 feet and a depth of 576 feet, on which he put up another residence. While working in greenhouses he at the same time began to raise single-comb, Mottled Ancona chickens, and has exhibited them in the principal poultry shows of the country. He won first prize at Chicago upon two occasions, first prize at Cincinnati ; and in January, 1922, the first prize at Cleveland. He sold one hen for $100. He also received two prizes at the poultry show held at the Madison Square Garden, New York City, and he is still engaged in breeding and raising these fine chickens, and, as before stated, is raising the Pekingese dogs so in demand for pets by the wealthy. Mr. and Mrs. Grube have no children. They belong to St. John's Lutheran Church of Springfield. Politically he is a democrat but he is not active in public matters. Fraternally he maintains membership with Lone Star Lodge No. 732, I. 0. 0. F. Mr. Grube has always been a hard worker and deserves the success which has attended his efforts. His fame as a poultry fancier has gone far beyond local bounds, and his exhibits are looked forward to with great interest by others in the same line of business as well as those who seek at these shows especially fine specimens for their own flocks. E. W. STEWART, proprietor of the fine Red Bud Hill Farm, comprising 131 acres and situated near the village of Pitchin, in Greene Township, was born on this farm, which he now owns, and the date of his nativity was October 27, 1868. He is a son of Captain Perry Stewart and Rhoda A. (Wheeler) Stewart, both likewise natives of Greene Township, where the former was born, on this same ancestral farmstead, June 6, 1818, his wife having been born December 20, 1824. The captain was a son of John T. and Anna (Elder) Stewart, the former of whom was born in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1781, a son of Samuel Stewart, whose father Robert was a son of John Stewart, who was born in Scotland and was numbered among those who left their native land and established homes in the North of Ireland on account of religious persecution in Scotland. Samuel Stewart (I) came to the United States in company with his brother Hugh and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1735. Captain Perry Stewart was reared on the pioneer farm of his father in Greene Township, Clark County, Ohio, and was numbered among the gallant men who went forth in defense of the Union when the Civil war was precipitated. On the 15th of July, 1862, he recruited Company A, Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he served as captain of this company until after it had participated in the battle of Chickamauga in the autumn of that year. He then returned home, his physical disability having disqualified him for further service at the front. In 1866-7 he served as county commissioner of Clark County, and in 1868-9 he represented the county in the State Legislature, his political allegiance having been given to the republican party. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 189 October 15, 1844, recorded the marriage of Captain Stewart and Miss Rhoda A. Wheeler, who was born December 20, 1824, a daughter of Ebenezer and Jemima (Miller) Wheeler, who were born in New Jersey and whose marriage was solemnized at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1803, they having established their home in Clark County in 1806. Harriet J., eldest of the children of Capt. Perry Stewart, was born October 7, 1845, and is the widow of James Hatfield ; Julia A., born July 3, 1847, is the widow of R. N. Elder ; David W., born December 19, 1848, resides at Clifton ; John T., born August 21, 1850, is a resident of Houston, Texas ; Mary E., born July 25, 1852, became the wife of Samuel Kerr and is now deceased her death having occurred July 20, 1907 ; Charles F., born August 2, 1856, resides at Springfield and was formerly county commissioner of Clark County ; Ellen J., born July 16, 1859, became the wife of George Nicholson, and her death occurred February 15, 1918 ; Jessie was born July 12, 1861, and died September 23, 1865 ; Perry M., born July 6, 1866, resides at Yellow Springs, Greene County ; and E. W., subject of this sketch, was born October 27, 1868. E. W. Stewart early gained his full share of practical experience in connection with the work of the home farm and in the meanwhile attended the district schools. He remained at the parental home until his marriage, October 26, 1893, with Miss Nettie Shobe, who was born and reared in Greene Township, and since that time he has had a progressive career as one of the vigorous and successful agriculturists and stockgrowers of his native county. Mr. Stewart is a republican, has served as justice of the peace and member of the School Board, and he and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Protestant Church, he being secretary of its Quarterly Conference and both he and his wife being specially influential in the various departments of church work, including the Sunday School. Mr. Stewart is a past master of the local Grange and has served f our years as state deputy of the Ohio State Grange, besides being influential as a member of Pomona Grange. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have two children : Edna A., born August 12, 1894, is the wife of Howard Price, a farmer in Greene Township ; and Lois S. who was born September 26, 1897, is a trained nurse by profession, she having graduated in the Nurses Training School at Springfield, and both she and her sister are graduates of the Pitchin High School. Helen J., youngest of the children, was born June 16, 1903, and died on the 17th of the following September. FRED G. STEWART is consistently to be designated as one of the progressive and successful representatives of constructive farm industry in his native county and township, and his vigorous operations are staged on what is known as the old Estle farm, in Section 21, Green Township. On the old home farm of his father, in Section 22 of Green Township, Fred G. Stewart was born June 2, 1884, and on both the paternal and maternal sides he is a scion of old and honored pioneer families of Clark County. He is a son of Charles F. and Clara (Gailough) Stewart, both likewise natives of Greene Township, where the former was born on a farm in Section 23 and the latter on a farm in Section 16. After their marriage the parents settled on a farm in Section 22 of their native township, and there they remained until 1918, when they moved to the 190 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY City of Springfield, where they have since maintained their home. Of their five children the eldest is Josephine, who is the wife of Stephen Kitchen ; Fred G., of this review, was the next in order of birth ; Howard H. is a successful farmer north of Springfield ; Samuel N. remains on and has active charge of the old home farm ; Stephen W. served in the World war as a member of the Quartermaster's Department of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and his death occurred March 31, 1920, within a short time after his return to his native land. Reared on the farm and profiting by the advantages of the local schools, Fred G. Stewart waxed strong in mental and physical powers, and he supplemented his education by a course in Nelson's Business College at Springfield. At the age of nineteen years he successfully passed a civil service examination and was appointed a mail carrier on rural route No. 11 from the City of Springfield. He continued his effective service in this capacity three years. November 7, 1906, recorded the marriage of Mr. Stewart and Miss Rachel Estle, who was born on the farm which is their present place of residence and the date of whose nativity was September 3, 1883. Mrs. Stewart is a daughter of Orson D. and Harriet (Anderson) Estle, and her father was born on this same farm, March 4, 1857, the mother having been born at Clifton, November 7, 1856. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Stewart were William H. and Rachel (Farrow) Estle, the latter having been born in Kentucky and having been a girl when she came to Clark County, where she was reared in the home of her uncle, William Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Estle became the parents of six children : William (died young), Edwin, Orson D., Henry R., Phoebe, and William. Orson D. Estle was reared on the old home farm which was the place of his birth, and received the advantages of the common schools of the period. He was a young man at the time of his marriage with Miss Harriet Anderson, and the surviving children are four in number : Fred, a graduate of the Clifton High School, is a successful farmer in Greene Township, near Clifton ; Rachel, wife of the subject of this review, is the next younger ; Bessie is the wife of Walter E. Crossland ; and Ellen is the wife of Orville Shaw. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have one child, Harriet L., who was born December 4, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are active members of the Presbyterian Church, he is a republican in politics, and is affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics. Mr. Stewart has been retained as the efficient incumbent of the office of clerk of Greene Township for the past ten years, and is one of the progressive and highly esteemed citizens of his native township and county. Further data concerning the Stewart family are given in the preceding sketch of this volume. MILTON COLE was a representative of one of the pioneer families of Clark County, where he passed his entire life and where he gained high vantage-ground as one of the able and distinguished members of the bar of this part of Ohio. He was born in Clark County in the year 1848, and was a son of Arthur Cole, who came from Virginia and established his residence in Clark County in 1830. Arthur Cole opened the first "gig shop" or carriage factory in Springfield, and besides manu- SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 191 facturing buggies of the type then in use he was identified also with farm enterprise in the county. He is recalled as a man of sterling character, industrious and unassuming, and worthy of the unqualified esteem in which he was uniformly held. Milton Cole early gained experience in connection with the activities of the home farm, and his preliminary education was acquired in the common schools. In 1871 he graduated from Wittenberg College, at Springfield, and in 1871-2 he attended the law department of the University of Michigan. Thereafter he continued his study of law at Springfield, under the preceptorship of the law firm of Spence & Arthur, and in October, 1873, he was admitted to the bar. He was a young man of exceptional intelligence and vigor, and in establishing himself in practice at Springfield he soon made his powers felt as a resourceful trial lawyer and well fortified counselor. In 1874, as a democrat, he was defeated for the office of prosecuting attorney, but in 1875, and again in 1878, he was elected mayor of Springfield, his ability and personal popularity enabling him to overcome the large republican majority. He was a close student, gained broad and exact knowledge of the science of jurisprudence, and he long controlled a large and representative law practice, which extended outside the limits of Clark County and involved his appearance in connection with many important cases tried in the various courts of this section of the state. His character was the positive expression of a strong and loyal nature, and he ever commanded the confidence and high regard of his fellowmen. While serving his second term as mayor of Springfield Mr. Cole wedded Miss Elnora Skidmore, and the only child of this union is a son, John M., of whom specific mention is made in the sketch immediately following this. Milton Cole was one of the leading lawyers and honored and influential citizens of Springfield at the time of his death, and his wife likewise is deceased. JOHN M. COLE has been engaged in the practice of his profession in his native city of Springfield since 1904, and both as a lawyer and a citizen he is well maintaining the prestige which the character and achievement of his father here established, a memoir to his father, the late Milton Cole, being given in the article immediately preceding this. John M. Cole was born at Springfield on the 21st of May, 1879, and after having duly profited by the advantages of the public schools he here entered Wittenberg College, in which excellent institution he was graduated in 1900, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1903 the college conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts, after he had taken an effective post-graduate course. In 1901-2 he attended the law department of the University of Cincinnati, and upon his admission to the bar in June, 1904, he engaged in the practice of his profession at Springfield. He now has a large and representative general practice but has specialized in corporation and commercial law. Mr. Cole served from 1904 to 1908 as assistant city solicitor. He is a staunch advocate of the principles and policies of the democratic party, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Phi Gamma Delta college fraternity. He was secretary of the local chapter of the Red Cross during the nation's par- 192 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY ticipation in the World war, and was a member of the Springfield questionnaire board. He and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. June 29, 1904, recorded the marriage of Mr. Cole and Miss Sarah Hoy, daughter of John F. Hoy, and they have six children : John H., Eleanor E., Fred M., George W., Robert W. and Richard T. ROBERT QUIGLEY KING was a lad of about nine years at the time when his parents established their home at Springfield, in 1841, and with the passing years he played a large and worthy part in the civic and business development and progress of the city in which he passed virtually his entire life. He was widely and familiarly known by his personal initials, "R. Q.," which are most pleasingly perpetuated in the name of the fine Arcue Building which was erected by his sons D. Ward and Robert L. at the northwest corner of High Street and Fountain Avenue. Robert Q. King was born at Tarlton, Pickaway County, this state, August 13, 1832, and was a brother of Colonel David King, a venerable citizen and still active business man of whom specific mention is made on other pages of this work. Mr. King was a son of David and Almena (Caldwell) King, who came to Springfield in 1841, the father here engaging in mercantile and later in the real estate business and having contributed much to the early upbuilding of the future city. His death occurred in 1849, and his wife survived him by several years. Both were earnest members of the First Presbyterian Church. Of their nine children six attained to mature years : Robert Q., Mary E. K. (Mrs. Luther A. Gotwald), David, Sarah J., S. Noble and Minnie. Robert Q. King became a student in Wittenberg College at the time when its sessions were held in the First Lutheran Church at Springfield, and he was one of the early graduates of this now important educational institution which lends prestige to Springfield. As a young man he engaged in the retail hardware business, in which his associate was Alexander Runyon. The business was conducted under the firm name of Runyon & King until he sold his interest and turned his attention to the real estate business, of which he became one of the leading representatives in the city and county. He was an able business man, and in his real estate operations he did much to advance the material upbuilding of his home city. Mr. King organized the first hook-and-ladder company in Springfield, and was one of the valued members of the old volunteer fire department. In the department of the later years he continued to maintain a deep interest, even to the time of his death. After the paid fire department was established he was the second to serve as its chief, a position which he retained about ten years. He was a republican in political adherency, and he and his wife were zealous members of the First (now Covenant) Presbyterian Church, of which he served many years as treasurer. As a young man Mr. King wedded Miss Harriet A. Danforth, of New Albany, Indiana, who had come to Springfield as a teacher in the old Female Seminary on College Avenue, where now stands the Northern Public School of the city. The death of Robert Q. King occurred SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 193 November 26, 1917, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest. They became the parents of five children : D. Ward and Thomas Danforth are deceased ; Robert L., the one surviving son, is individually mentioned in a sketch immediately following this memoir ; Almena K. is the wife of Harvey J. Warrick ; and Madge C. is deceased. D. Ward King, the eldest son, was born October 27, 1857, was reared in Springfield and was educated in Wittenberg College. When a young man he went to Missouri and engaged in farm enterprise. He became known throughout the entire Union as a stalwart advocate of the good-roads movement, and was the inventor of the King Road Drag, which became widely used in the improving of roads. He married Mary Burbank, of Springfield, and they had four children. Mr. King died February 9, 1919, and is survived by his wife and children, namely : Lettia Reed, Robert Q., Jr., Miriam Caywood and David Bryant. ASA W. HODGE. For a decade more than a century of years the Hodge family has been residing in Clark County, where it is well and favorably known. For the most part its members have followed the pursuits of agriculture, and all have been good citizens, contributing not less to the development of their community than they have to the building up of personal prosperity. A worthy representative of this old and honored family is found in the person of Asa W. Hodge, who is now operating the old Foley farm, situated one and one-half miles east of New Moorefield, in Moorefield Township. Asa W. Hodge was born on the farm adjoining that which he now occupies, October 3, 1873, and is a son of J. M. and Mary A. (Hunter) Hodge. His great-grandfather, Andrew Hodge, was born in Virginia, whence he went to Kentucky, and finally, in 1810, came to Ohio, where he entered land in Pleasant Township, Clark County, which is still in the Hodge name. Here he rounded out his career as a farmer, developing a good property and winning the respect of his fellow-citizens. His son, James M. Hodge, the grandfather of Asa \V., was born. in Pleasant Township, where, on attaining his majority, he purchased land and ,pent his life as a tiller of the soil. He was also a man of integrity and one who had his neighbors' esteem. He married Elizabeth Sayler, and they became the parents of four children, all of whom grew to maturity, but all are now deceased : Samuel, John, J. Milton and Sallie. James M. Hodge was born on a farm in Pleasant Township, Clark County, May 2, 1837, and received his education in the public schools. He married Mary A. Hunter, who was born in Catawba, Pleasant Township, Clark County, April 20, 1839, and following their union settled on a part of the old home place, which he increased through industry and good management to a tract of 900 acres. He was honored because of his many sterling traits of character and his integrity in business affairs, and in his death his community lost a good and reliable citizen. In politics he was a republican, and on various occasions he was called to public office, at times serving as township trustee, member of the School Board and justice of the peace. He and his worthy and estimable wife were the parents of eight children, of whom three grew to maturity : Asa W.; Ida M., the wife of H. S. Andrew, of Dayton; and Anna I., a maiden lady, residing on the home farm. Vol. II-13 194 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Asa W. Hodge was reared on the home farm and acquired his education in the rural school in the vicinity of his father's farm in Pleasant Township. He remained on the home place and assisted his father in its cultivation until the time of his marriage, October 3, 1901, to Miss Bertha Page, who was born in Pleasant Township, June 19, 1880, and educated in the public schools, a daughter of Charles B. and Melissa Page. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hodge settled on the old Foley farm in Moorefield Township, where they have developed a handsome and productive property and have installed many improvements which add to the property's appearance and value. Mr. Hodge carries on general agricultural work in all its departments, and is also a breeder of registered Poland-China hogs, a field of work in which he has met with much success. His standing in the community is that of a man who is strictly reliable in all his transactions. As a fraternalist Mr. Hodge holds membership in the local lodge of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. He is a republican in politics, and the confidence of his fellow-citizens is reflected in the fact that he has been elected a member of the Township Board of Trustees four times. He and Mrs. Hodge had one child, which died in infancy. ROBERT LEFFLER KING, only surviving son of the late Robert Q. King, to whom the preceding memoir is dedicated, was born August 24, 1863, and reared at Springfield, where his early educational advantages included those of Wittenberg College. He has been prominently concerned in the promotion of agricultural and live-stock industry in Hancock County, Ohio, where he is the owner of valuable farm property, and has also been a successful dealer in real estate. He was associated with his brother, the late D. Ward King, in the erection of the Arcue Building, one of the modern business structures of Springfield, and given its name from the initials of their father, R. Q. In this building he maintains his business office. Mr. King as a citizen and business man has fully upheld the honors of the family name, which has been connected with the history of Springfield for more than eighty years, and he takes deep interest in all that touches the welfare of his native city and county. He and his wife are members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. June 4, 1891, recorded the marriage of Mr. King and Miss Lola Askam, of Vanlue, Hancock County, and they have three children : Edwin A., Hamlin C. and Jessie. Edwin A. married Miss Helen Wetmore, and they have two daughters, Marguerite and Ruth. Hamlin C. married Miss Edith Cole, and they have two children, Donald L. and Ethel Jessie. JOHN W. BURK, whose death occurred on the 17th of April, 1917, left a distinct and most worthy impression on the industrial, commercial and civic affairs of the City of Springfield, and a tribute to his memory properly finds place in this volume. He was born and reared in Canada, the year of his nativity having been 1850. He attended school in his boyhood days, but early began the battle of life for himself. His first work was in a flour mill, and with the passing years he became skilled in all details of the milling business. In 1869 he came to the SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 195 United States, and he continued his association with milling operations at Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Coldwater and other points in Michigan, as well as in other states of the Middle West. In July, 1897, Mr. Burk established his residence at Springfield, Ohio, where he purchased the Warder & Barnett milling plant, one of the oldest in this section of the state. The condition of the plant physically was at a low status, and many local business men, familiar with conditions, believed that the property and business could not be revived and placed on a paying basis. It was the energy, technical ability and well ordered executive policies of Mr. Burk that conspired to the development of this property into one of the most important mills in Ohio, the while the business became one of most prosperous order. In 1902 Mr. Burk effected a reorganization of the business and enlisted the capitalistic co-operation which made possible the enlarging and modernizing of the plant. It was in this year that he organized and incorporated the Ansted & Burk Company, and with amplified provisions that left but little of the original equipment of the mill he was the guiding spirit in making the business so expand as to constitute an important addition to the industrial and commercial interests of Springfield and in bringing the products of the mill up to the highest standard. Mr. Burk's inflexible personal integrity was reflected in all phases of his business career, he was generous, honorable, progressive as a man of affairs and loyal and liberal as a citizen. His was a gracious personality, and he made and retained friends in all classes, for his character was the positive expression of a true and noble nature. He served two years as president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and through this and other mediums did much to advance the interests of his home city. He gained national repute in his chosen sphere of business and was for two terms president of the Millers National Federation. He was a Knight Templar Mason, and in the Scottish Rite of the fraternity received the thirty-second degree. Mr. Burk wedded Miss Ida Negus, who was born in Massachusetts, and who survives him, as do also their two daughters, Helen M. and Mabel B. RICHARD D. PATTON has been a resident of Springfield since 1904, and was here associated with railroad service until 1916, when he became traffic manager for the Ansted & Burk Company, the important milling concern that has contributed much to the commercial prestige of the city. He is now vice president and general manager of this important industrial corporation and is one of the vital and progressive business men of the city. Mr. Patton was born at Morgantown, judicial center of Monongalia County, West Virginia, and the date of his nativity was March 11, 1873. He is a member of a family of eight children, of whom five are living. He is a son of Dr. Frederick H. and Eliza C. (Dorsey) Patton. Dr. Patton was major of a West Virginia regiment in the Union service in the Civil war, and after being captured by the enemy it was his to endure the hardships of both Libby and Andersonville Prisons, the names of which are odious in the history of the great conflict between the states of the North and the South. Dr. Patton, a physician and 196 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY surgeon of exceptional ability, was chief surgeon of the Soldiers Home at Dayton, Ohio, at the time of his death. Richard D. Patton was an infant at the time of the family removal from West Virginia to West Newton, Pennsylvania, where he gained his rudimentary education. He was about twelve years old when the family home was established at Dayton, Ohio, where he continued his studies in the public schools until he entered the Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake, a most excellent institution, the organization of which was later permitted to lapse, greatly to the regret of all familiar with its splendid record. In this academy Mr. Patton continued his studies three years, and he then found employment in a paper factory at Dayton, Ohio. Thereafter he was in railway service for somewhat more than ten years, and it was in this connection that he came to Springfield in 1904, as noted in a preceding paragraph. Mr. Patton is a loyal member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and the local Rotary Club, and is a staunch supporter of the progressive' policies of these organizations. He is a republican, he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church, he is a member of the Lagonda and Country Clubs of Springfield, and in the Masonic fraternity his maximum York Rite affilation is with the Springfield Cornmandery of Knights Templars, he having received also the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. In 1906 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Patton and Miss Mabel Burk, daughter of the late John W. Burk, to whom a memoir is dedicated in the preceding sketch. Mr. and Mrs. Patton have no children. MAURICE M. SELLERS, sales manager for the Lagonda Manufacturing Company of Springfield, is one of the progressive business men of the younger generation in his native city, where he is also proprietor of the business conducted under the title of the Alpha Chemical Company. Mr. Sellers was born at Springfield in the year 1885, and is a son of the late Charles E. Sellers, who was the owner of the industrial enterprise conducted under the title of the Alpha Chemical Company, of which he continued the executive head until his death. Charles E. Sellers was born and reared in Clinton County, this state, and was a young man when he established his residence at Springfield. Here he wedded Miss Carrie Johnson, who was born in the City of Columbus, Ohio, and she still resides at Springfield. In the manufacturing of medicinal preparations the Alpha Chemical Company controls a substantial and prosperous business, and since the death of his father, Maurice M. Sellers, of this review, has successfully continued this enterprise, besides which he has been for the past ten years sales manager of the Lagonda Manufacturing Company, his connection with which has covered a period of twenty years. The early educational advantages of Mr. Sellers included those of the local high school, and his business career in his native city has been one of consecutive advancement. He married Miss Laura E. Brenan, who was born at Marietta, this state, and they have one son. READ LETTS BELL, M.D. Regarded as the Dean of the Springfield medical profession, Doctor Bell has continued an active practice of medicine and surgery in that city for forty-five years. In that time he has SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 197 three times been honored with the office of president of the Clark County Medical Society. He graduated in medicine with the class of 1876, the centennial year, at Harvard Medical School, being one of the thirty-six graduates in that year from that old and famous professional school of Harvard University. Doctor Bell was born December 8, 1850, on a farm near Utica, Ohio. He represents two well known families in this state, the Bell and the Letts families. His grandfather, Benjamin Bell, was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, and in 1803, the year after Ohio was admitted to the Union, came to this state, settling in Knox County. Bell's Meeting House, built in his time and on his land, is a landmark in that county and is still used as a church. While in Pennsylvania Benjamin Bell married Elizabeth McClellan. Her father, Carey McClellan, was a soldier of the Revolution in Washington's Army, Captain John Marshall's Company. The father of Doctor Bell was Jacob Bell, who was born and spent all his life in Knox County, where he followed farming. He died in 1873. His wife, Rachael Letts, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, daughter of David and Thankful (Read) Letts, who on coming from Southwestern Pennsylvania settled in the Bell neighborhood of Knox County, Ohio. She died in 1874. During his early years Doctor Bell lived on a farm, shared in its labors, attended the common schools of Knox County, and completed his literary education in Dennison University at Granville, Ohio, where he received the A.B. degree in 1872, and in 1875 his alma mater bestowed upon him the Master of Arts degree. In the meantime he had enrolled as a student in Harvard Medical School at Boston, graduated in 1876, and in the following year began his long and useful service as a physician at Springfield. His professional associates have always admired his remarkable vigor as well as the ability he has displayed in his profession, and apparently he is as active today as he was a quarter of a century ago. For many years Dr. Bell was on the surgical staff of the Springfield City Hospital, and he performed the first operation for appendicitis in that hospital. His patient is still living. Besides his active official connection with the Clark County Medical Society, Doctor Bell is a member of the Ohio State and the American Medical Associations. He is affiliated with Anthony Lodge, F. and A. M., Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T., and is a member of the Episcopal Church. In 1878 he married Sarah Robinson, who was born near Coshocton, Ohio, daughter of Edmund Robinson. Doctor Bell's only daughter spent three years in the study of kindergarten methods in Chicago, and is now engaged in the work of her profession at Pottsville, Pennsylvania. CHARLES FOSTER HARRISON. Well known in financial and business circles of Springfield is Charles Foster Harrison, vice president and cashier of the Mad River National Bank and vice president and manager of the Springfield Clearing House Association. He has been identified with the former institution for a period of thirty-four years and is one of the prominent men of Springfield who has worked his own way up the ladder of success. 198 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Mr. Harrison is a product of the agricultural community south of the City of Springfield, where he was born on a farm in Springfield Township, July 31, 1859, a son of Caleb and Catherine (Foster) Harrison. His father was born near West Chester, Pennsylvania, a son of Frederick Harrison, who was the founder of this branch of the Harrison family in Clark County. Catherine Foster, the mother of Charles Foster Harrison, was the daughter of William Foster, an Englishman born in London and an early settler of Clark County. The parents of Charles F. Harrison died the same day, in 1913, and were buried in the same grave. Charles F. Harrison was reared on the home f arm in Springfield Township until he was a lad of seven years, and then, in 1866, his parents removed to Burlington, Iowa. In 1877, however, the family returned to Clark County and to the old farm. The lad was educated in the public schools of Clark County and the high school at Burlington, Iowa. After leaving the latter institution he f ollowed agricultural pursuits with his father until the time of his marriage, then entering the Farmers National Bank of South Charleston, Clark County. Starting with the bank in a minor capacity, at a salary of thirty dollars per month, he was gradually promoted until when he left the service of the bank, three years later, he was filling the positions of bookkeeper and teller. On March 10, 1888, Mr. Harrison entered the service of the Mad River National Bank of Springfield in the capacity of general bookkeeper. Later he was appointed assistant cashier, and in 1910 was promoted cashier. He became identified with the Springfield Clearing House Association in 1906, and has been manager and vice president thereof for ten years. In point of length of active service Mr. Harrison is the oldest banker in Springfield. Much of the prestige that is maintained by the Mad River National Bank has come as a result of his ability, energy and sound practicality, while his courtesy and at all times obliging nature have served to gain many friends for the institution. In banking circles he is accounted able and thoroughly informed, and his associates have the utmost confidence in him. Mr. Harrison is identified with a number of civic bodies, including the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and, possessing pride in the city of his adoption, is always ready to assist worthy movements pertaining to its welfare and advancement along constructive material lines. While he is an extremely busy man, engrossed in the daily routine of his important duties, he is not adverse to the companionship of his fellows and is one of the popular members of the Springfield Country Club. Mr. Harrison was united in marriage in Clark County with Miss Lucy Griffith, the daughter of Cyrus and Martha Griffith, of South Charleston, Clark County, and to this union there was born one daughter, Elizabeth, who is now the wife of Charles A. Crummell, formerly a resident of Dayton, but now of Springfield. Mrs. Harrison is a member of the Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Harrison is an attendant. BENJAMIN BUTLER MCINTIRE, educator of Springfield, and for the last twenty-seven years principal of the Washington public school of that city, has been engaged in teaching for a period of thirty-six years, during which time he has risen to a justly recognized place in hs pro- SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 199 fession. He was born at Springfield, July 7, 1863, a son of the late Albert M. and Anna M. (Peck) McIntire. The McIntire family is an old one in Clark County and Springfield, and for six generations its members have had part in the civic affairs of both county and city. The Clark County settler was William McIntire, who with a brother came over from Scotland prior to the Revolutionary war, in which struggle for independence William McIntire served as a soldier in the Virginia line. After the close of the Revolution he married his brother's widow, and soon afterward came to Ohio and settled in what is now Clark County, of which region he was a pioneer. Here his son Samuel was born and figured as an early farmer of German Township. He reared a family of several sons and daughters, one of whom, William T., was for twenty-five years prominent in the public affairs of the county. Another son, Joseph, served as sheriff, and a third son, John, was a successful general contractor. Albert M. McIntire was born at Springfield in 1835, and died in 1903. In 1868 he removed to Kansas, but returned to Springfield in 1876, and, resuming his contracting business, continued to be interested therein until he retired from active life some years prior to his death. His wife, who was the daughter of David Peck, died in 1888. To this marriage children were born as follows : William D., of Springfield ; Benjamin Butler, of this review ; Lillie May, deceased, who was the wife of James Dick ; Albert H., M.D., a practicing physician and surgeon of Springfield ; Ada, deceased ; Edwin K., of Springfield ; Samuel, deceased ; Jane, who married A. A. Wright, of Springfield ; Sarah, who married Walter F. Kitchin, of Springfield ; John D., of Springfield, who married Belle Parker and has three children ; and Pearl, deceased. Prof. Benjamin Butler McIntire attended the public schools and Antioch and Wittenberg Colleges, and has been a deep and close student all of his life, his range of practical reading extending into medicine, anatomy and science and kindred subjects. That he was well equipped for his profession and has made a success as an educator is testified by the following expressions of two well-known local educators : "Prof. B. B. McIntire, of this city, is recognized as one of the leading educators in this community. For several years he has been the efficient principal of Washington School. His work as a teacher and administrator has been very successful. He is deeply interested in all civic and community welfare movements. He has unusual initiative, and has the ability to inspire his students to follow his leadership. Mr. McIntire was formerly a student in Wittenberg College, and, while not a graduate, has covered the entire field of the college curriculum. I can thoroughly recommend him as to his scholarship, his good judgment in school management, and his qualities of leadership. I shall be glad to answer any letters addressed to me personally. Respectfully, Charles G. Heckert, President of Wittenberg College." "Mr. B. B. McIntire has been known to the writer for many years as one of the progressive principals of the public schools in Springfield, Ohio. He has maintained a high standard of efficiency in all his work. He has inaugurated many new features which have added interest to the course of study. For eight years he was a member of the Board of Examiners for the City of Springfield, which gave me, also a member,