SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 375 Baumgardner have one child, Lowell Ward, born June 30, 1902. Mrs. Baumgardner was educated in the State Normal School of New York. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Doctor Baumgardner is a republican, is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Springfield and the Junior Order United American Mechanics. CHARLES WESLEY EVANS, M. D. In the practice of medicine and surgery Mr. Evans has been successfully engaged at Springfield for a number of years, and in addition to devoting his best talents and resources to his professional clientele he has also figured in the development of real estate and is one of the large property owners of the city. Doctor Evans was born in Jackson County, Ohio, July 25, 1871, son of John W. and Margaret (Cherrington) Evans, his father a native of Jackson County and his mother of Gallia County. The paternal grandparents, William and Margaret Evans, were natives of Wales, and came to America by sailing ship in 1818. From Pittsburgh they journeyed down the Ohio River on a boat as far as Gallipolis, but their intention to proceed further was frustrated when their boat was cut loose for the purpose of making them stay. They subsequently secured land in Jackson County. The maternal grandparents of Doctor Evans were William and Margaret (Hanks) Cherrington, both natives of England, and early settlers in Jackson County. Four sons of William Cherrington became ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. John W. Evans and wife after their marriage settled on a farm in Jackson County and lived out their lives as country people in that community. John W. Evans died in 1903 and his wife in 1912. They reared a large family of eight sons and two daughters, Charles W. being the seventh in order of birth. Doctor Evans after the local schools continued his education in the Ohio Normal University and the Ohio Wesleyan University. He graduated in medicine from Starling Medical College of Columbus, and soon afterward came to Springfield, where he began practice with his brother Doctor Orin H. Evans. Together they erected the large three-story brick building at 554 South Limestone Street, where Doctor Evans still has his home. His brother, Dr. Orin H., died in August, 1909. Doctor Evans is president of the Springfield Apartment Company, incorporated for $100,000. This company built the Southern Apartments on South Lime Street. Doctor Evans is a member of the Clark County, Ohio State and American Medical Associations, is a republican voter and is a trustee of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. On June 10, 1907, he married Miss Nellie Blanche Wiley, a native of New Park, Pennsylvania, and daughter of John C. and Luella Wiley. They have one son, Haden Wiley Evans, born November 28, 1913, VIRGIL AUSTIN BELL. One of the younger members of the Clark County bar is Virgil Austin Bell, who since 1920 has been identified with the well-known Springfield law firm of Zimmerman, Zimmerman & Zimmerman, and who has made a favorable impression on his associates during his comparatively short professional career. 376 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Mr. Bell was born July 4, 1888, at Springfield, and is a son of Darius W. and Sarah (Fansler) Bell. His grandparents on the maternal side were Noah and Melvina (Neese) Fansler, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Champaign County, Ohio. Virgil Austin Bell attended the public schools of Springfield and of Clark County, and the high school at Marion, Ohio. His professional studies were prosecuted at Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1920, in June of which year he was admitted to the Ohio bar. Soon thereafter Mr. Bell identified himself with the law firm of Zimmerman, Zimmerman & Zimmerman, and this connection has continued to the present. Mr. Bell is unmarried and resides at the home of his parents, 715 West High Street. He is independent in politics, not having formally allied himself with any political party. Fraternally he is affiliated with Marion Camp, Modern Woodmen of America. ARTHUR M. SPINING. By way of introduction to the prominent and historic Springfield family of Spining, something may be said of one of the city's leading manufacturing establishments, with which Arthur M. Spining has been identified in an executive way for a number of years. In 1866 the firm of Kidzie & Mellen established a planing mill at Springfield. Their output was largely material for builders. Later they started the manufacture of the old "toothpick" type of coffins, which were made from native wood, chiefly yellow poplar, and stained to imitate mahogany and rosewood. That was the pioneer beginning of casket manufacturing in Springfield. Subsequently the firm of Deardorf, Mellen & Company operated the Springfield Coffin Company, and that in 1884 was consolidated with the Springfield Casket Company, and for nearly forty years the Springfield Coffin and Casket Company has been one of the successful corporations of the kind in the United States. The first manager of consolidated industry, appointed in 1884, was J. V. Elster, and he was succeeded in 1910 by A. M. Spining. During the early '80s the use of native wood for caskets was abandoned, and thereafter for many years the chief material was chestnut for the shells, with cloth covering. At the present time hardwoods are used extensively, and they are finished in every conceivable way, but cloth covered work is mainly featured. This factory, it is important to note, has not been closed for twenty-five years, and it is the source of livelihood from thirty to forty employes. Arthur M. Spining, manager of the company, was born at Springfield, October 25, 1867, son of Isaac M. and Harriet (Taylor) Spining, a grandson of Pierson and Mary (Scooly) Spining, and great-grandson of Judge Isaac Spining. Judge Isaac Spining in 1808, with his wife, whose name was Catherine Pierson, and her father, John Pierson, went to Hamilton County, Ohio. Judge Isaac Spining and John Pierson had both served as soldiers in the Revolutionary war. Judge Isaac Spining never lived in Clark County, but his son Pierson Spining moved to Springfield in 1812, and at one time owned much of the land on which the modern city stands. He was one of the wealthy and influential men of his generation, and employed his means extensively in constructive enterprises. He helped build the old National Road through this part SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 377 of Clark County, and two bridges erected by him in the '30s are still in use. The Spining home was the first in Springfield to introduce a piano, and that venerable inroomsent is now preserved in the room4 of the Clark County Historical Society. Pierson Spining also probably had the first cook stove, marking the beginning of an improvement over the old ways of cooking by the fire place. His household furnishings, that were a considerable novelty to the people of that town, included cut glass decanters. Pierson Spining was one of the prominent members of Presbyterian Church. His son Isaac M. Spining was born in 1813, on the site of the present Springfield Hardware Company's establishment. He was reared in the pioneeIndian, made the acquaintance of Indian boys still living there, and during his active career was a successful merchant. For a time he lived at Findlay and at Cleveland, but spent his last years in Springfield, where he died in 1878. He and his wife had six children, the youngest being Arthur M. Arthur M. Spining has had his home at Springfield, except for three years he lived in East Tennessee. He has maintained the honorable traditions of the Spining family in this locality, has been active in business for over thirty years, and takes much pride in what Springfield has accomplished in growth and development during his lifetime. In 1888 Mr. Spining married Mary Estella Wade, daughter of John Wade and granddaughter of General Melancthon Wade. Their five children are Mary Louise, Edith Cecelia, Susie Wade, Katherine Pierson and Arthur Milton, Jr. The daughter Susie is the wife of Carl W. Tuttle, and they have two children, Wilbur Spining and Mary Jane Tuttle. Mr. Spining votes as a republican, is a York and Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Antioch Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a Deacon in the Covenant Presbyterian Church, has for twenty-five years been affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Travelers. LEROY LAMBERT. When the history of music in Clark County shall be properly written few men will be found who have more deeply stamped their individuality upon the musical development of their period and community than Professor LeRoy Lambert of Springfield. The complete history of his busy life would be inspiring and serve as an example to those seeking achievement that can only come through persistent and thoughtful effort. At the present time in addition to being director of music and teacher of piano at Wittenberg College he is serving as president of the Springfield Board of Education, and thus is contributing to both the musical and educational advancement of his community. Professor Lambert was born at Little York, Ohio, April 13, 1870, and is a son of Samuel W. and Mary (Bair) Lambert, natives of Ohio, the father of Scotch-Irish and the mother of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. His early environment was agricultural in character, and until he was fourteen years of age he passed his time at and in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio. Having passed through the township public schools he entered 378 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Ohio Wesleyan University, taking music and select courses for four years, for even in boyhood he had shown marked musical talent and his parents decided to encourage it. He spent the years 1891 and 1892 in the City of Boston as associate director of the Commonwealth Conservatory of Music at Hyde Park, and, returning to Ohio in the latter year, became director of music at Wittenberg College. In 1895 he resigned his position temporarily or, rather, entered upon a somewhat extended vacation from his duties at that institution. Going abroad for two years he took private instruction under Jedliczka, the noted pianist of Berlin, Germany, and on his return to Springfield was engaged in private work until 1918. In that year he was prevailed upon to return to 'Wittenberg College as director of music and instructor of piano, and since has given his devoted attention to that work. Professor Lambert is a trustee of the Ohio Federation of Music and a member of the Ohio State Musicians Association. He is a life member and past exalted ruler of Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and a member of the Masonic Order. Long a member of the First Lutheran Church of Springfield, he has been a devoted worker therein and is now president of the John L. Zimmerman Sunday School class of that church. In 1919 Professor Lambert was elected a member of the Springfield Board of Education, and since that time has served as president of the board, his work in the interests of the public schools, always constructive in character, having been greatly appreciated by the people. Professor Lambert married Miss Clara L. Croner, the daughter of Gustave and Caroline Croner, residents of Troy, Ohio, and to this union there have been born two daughters : Phyllis Caroline and Martha Louise. Professor and Mrs. Lambert occupy a pleasant home at Springfield, which is always kept hospitably open to their numerous friends. LEWIS J. LAYBOURN has contributed his quota to the advancement of constructive farm enterprise in Clark County, and is _now one of the venerable native sons still residing in the county, his homestead farm being situated in Springfield Township, eight miles southeast of the City of Springfield. Mr. Laybourn was born in this county on the 15th of September, 1846, and is a son of James and Mary (Skillings) Laybourn. Christopher Laybourn, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, came from England to the United States and became one of the pioneer settlers in Clark County, where he established his home in 1820. He founded and successfully conducted the first nursery in this county, where he remained until his death, when in his ninety-eighth year. His son Joel became one of the substantial farmers of his generation in Clark County and was the owner of a good farm in Greene Township. Dt was on this farm that James, son of Joel and father of Lewis J., was born, and he likewise did effective service as one of the progressive representatives of farm industry in the county, where both he and his wife passed the closing years of their lives on the old homestead now occupied by their son Lewis J., the second of their four children. William H., eldest of the children, is deceased, as is also Jerusha, who was the wife of Dr. W. P. Madden ; Sarah became the wife of Thomas Nave, and they still reside in this county. SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 379 Lewis J. Laybourn gained his early education in the pioneer schools of Springfield Township, and his entire active career has been one of close alliance with farm enterprise. For twelve years he farmed in Greene Township, where he owned a place of 240 acres, and he then removed to his present farm, one of the best improved in Springfield Township, with a commodious modern house situated in a fine grove of native trees and constituting one of the most attractive rural homes in this county. Mr. Laybourn has held rank as one of the most extensive and successful farmers of his native county, is a man of fine personality, a loyal and progressive citizen, and commands the high regard of all who know him. As a young man Mr. Laybourn married Miss Jennie Bird, who likewise was born and reared in this county and who was a daughter of Herbert Bird. Mrs. Laybourn's death occurred in 1886, and she is survived by one daughter, Mary B., who became the wife of Myron Beckman, now deceased, and who with her second husband resides with her father on the old home farm. THOMAS E. MATTINSON. One of the old and honored residents of Madison Township in Clark County is Thomas E. Mattinson, whose active life of half a century has been devoted to his accumulating farm interests in that vicinity. For a number of years he has done a prosperous business as a raiser and feeder of cattle and hogs, and has a 200-acre farm thoroughly improved, in the management of which his son is now associated with him. He was born near his present home October 23, 1849, a son of Mathew and Margaret (Evans) Mattinson. His father was born in Westmoreland County, England, in 1810, came to the United States in 1834, and soon settled on a farm near South Charleston, Ohio. He married Margaret Evans, and they had six children : Charles, deceased ; Miss Ruth ; Thomas E. ; Mary, who marrieid Darwin Pierce ; Evan, deceased ; and Miss Sarah M. Thomas E. Mattinson acquired a common school education during his boyhood, was trained to farming, took it up as his regular vocation, and for many years has been one of the steady and substantial citizens of the locality. He is a republican in politics and a member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1881 he married Emma Clemans, who was reared in Madison Township. She died in 1900. The only child and son is Edwin C. Mattinson, born April 25, 1887. He is a graduate of the South Charleston High School. is unmarried and is associated with his father on the farm. He is a Presbyterian and a past master of the Masonic Lodge. HARRY R. ANDERSON, whose well improved and ably managed farm of 104 acres is situated in Moorefield Township, on Rural Route No. 10 from the City of Springfield, has won distinctive prestige as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of his township and county, and in his farm enterprise he is giving special attention to the breeding of registered Poland-China swine and Jersey cattle. Mr. Anderson was born in Springfield Township on the 6th of May, 1877, and is a son of Joseph B. and Serena (Dunseth) Anderson, the 380 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY former of whom was born in the State of Pennsylvania, in 1828, and the latter of whom was born in the beautiful Walnut Hill District of the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1848. Joseph B. Anderson was an infant at the time his parents came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the pioneer settlers in Clark County, where he was reared on a farm in Moorefield Township. He eventually became the owner of an excellent farm near Villa, this township, and in the course of his long and useful life he contributed much to the industrial and civic advancement of Clark County. He remained on his home farm until his death, and his widow still resides in Clark County. Mr. Anderson was a man of high ideals and sterling character, was a strong supporter of the cause of the prohibition party, and was an active member of the Presbyterian Church, as is also his widow. Of their children the firstborn, Forrest J., is deceased ; Charles B. resides at Springfield, and Harry R. is the subject of this review. The activities of the home farm early enlisted a share of the helpful service of Harry R. Anderson, and after profiting by the advantages of the district schools of his native township he continued his studies in Wittenberg Academy until his graduation in the same. He has to his credit a record of successful service as a teacher in the rural schools of his native county, but his chief vocation has been that of farm enterprise, in which he has won substantial success. He is one of the leaders in the civic and industrial affairs of his community, served seven years as justice of the peace, and was for a number of years a member of the School Board of his district. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with Anthony Lodge No. 245, A. F. and A. M., at Springfield, and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church in that city. On the 18th of March, 1903, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Anderson and Miss Florence E. Sanfer, and the children of this union are three daughters : Maude S., Mildred and Miriam. The two youngest daughters remain at the parental home, and Maude S., the oldest, is the wife of Benson E. Baker. GEORGE W. REICHARD, M. D. More than any other class of men physicians win the friendship and affection of those with whom they are professionally associated, and when a practitioner who has ministered to his community for many years is removed from its midst, general sorlow is felt. Many deeds of kinIness marked the career of the late Dr. George W. Reichard, who was one of the prominent physicians and citizens of Clark County and of Springfield from 1897 until the time of his death in 1915. Doctor Reichard was born in Washington County, Maryland, March 1, 1854, a son of Dr. Valentine and Catherine (Wolf) Reichard, natives of Maryland and of German descent, both of whom are now deceased. The elder Doctor Reichard was engaged in practice at Fair Play, Washington County, Maryland, for many years, and was a man of professional attainments and sterling character. Dr. George W. Reichard attended the district schools of his native locality, and in 1871, when in his seventeenth year, began teaching in the rural schools of Washington County, a vocation which he followed for five years, during the last two SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 381 years of which, between terms, he attended the Millersville (Pennsylvania) Normal School. While still teaching, he began reading medicine under the preceptorship of his father, and in the fall of 1876 entered the Eclectic Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1878 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Leaving college he embarked upon the practice of his profession at New Moorefield, Clark County, Ohio, in the year of his graduation and continued successfully there until 1897 when he removed to Springfield where he continued in the general practice of his calling until his death, July 27, 1915. Doctor Reichard was- a self-educated and self-made man and attained his success both as a physician and a citizen through his own efforts. He was recognized as one of the leading men of his profession in Clark County and at Springfield, was greatly popular, and had a wide circle of friends who admired him for his sterling character. He was a member of the Clark County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, and kept fully abreast of all the advancements made in his calling, being a close and careful student and something of an investigator. His fraternal affiliation was with the Knights of Pythias, and as a churchman he adhered to the Methodist Episcopal faith. In civic affairs he was a supporter of all worthy movements and charity and education found in him a true and unswerving friend. On October 19, 1882, Doctor Reichard was united in marriage with Miss Cora A. Mumma, who was born at Sharpsburg, near Hagerstown, Maryland, the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Miller) Mumma, well-known residents of that part of Maryland for many years. To Doctor and Mrs. Reichard was born one daughter, Christle. She was born at New Moorefield, Ohio, October 9, 1884, and graduated with first class honors from Wittenberg College, in 1904. She married J. Fred Anderson, a well-known attorney of Springfield, and died October 17, 1912, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth Reichard Anderson. CHARLES NEWELL HUNTER was a resident of Springfield forty years, was connected with one of the city's manufacturing industries, and the latter part of his life was successfully engaged in farming and gardening at his place east of the city, where Mrs. Hunter still lives. He was born at Otsego, near Zanesville, Ohio, December 28, 1845, son of John and Sarah (Newell) Hunter, his father a native of Ireland and his mother of Pennsylvania, of English parentage. When Charles Newell Hunter was five years of age his parents, in 1850, moved to McArthur in Vinton County, Ohio. In that locality he grew to manhood, attended the public schools there and also completed a business course at Portsmouth, Ohio. After completing his education he clerked in general stores and also became a teacher. His experience as a teacher covered a period of about fourteen years. In 1873 Mr. Hunter married Miss Emma Winter. She died in 1889, and they lost all their three children in infancy. In the meantime in 1882, Mr. Hunter removed to Springfield, and became an employe of the West End Malleable Works. For nine years he was a foreman in that industry. Having given for many years such faithful service to this business he finally retired and bought approximately fifty acres just east of the city limits. This farm contained a fine home, and the land is 382 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY now within the city limits of Springfield. Here Mr. Hunter found profit as well as pleasure in truck gardening and general farming, and continued those activities until his death in January 10. 1922. On August 1, 1894, he married Miss Laura Jane Evans. Mrs. Hunter was born at Cincinnati, July 9, 1858, daughter of Cornelius Springer and Catherine (Ellis) Evans, the former born near Newark, Ohio, and the latter in Ireland. Cornelius Evans was a Methodist minister and was the son of Rev. William B. Evans, one of the pioneer preachers of the Methodist denomination in Ohio. Mrs. Hunter has two children, Ellis Evans, born March 9, 1896, and Ruth, born February 19, 1897, both at home. Ruth is a teacher in the public school. Mrs. Hunter was reared in the various towns and communities where her father had his duties as a minister. For five years she was a student in the Cincinnati Art School, and she was a teacher of art in the public schools of Springfield until her marriage. She keeps in touch with the intellectual movements in her home city, is an active member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Hunter was for several years on the Official Board of that church. He is affiliated with the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, and is a democrat in politics, while Mrs. Hunter is a republican. HENRY S. CRADLEBAUGH, proprietor of Silver Lake Park, two miles northwest of New Carlisle, has done and is continuing to do a most commendable work in the development and upbuilding of this place as one of the most attractive recreation and amusement resorts of this section of the state, and he is one of the popular and representative citizens of New Carlisle. Mr. Cradlebaugh was born in Seneca County, Ohio, but came to Clark County in 1881 and passed ten years on a farm near New Carlisle. He then removed to this village, where he operated a machine shop and where he eventually added a garage and general automobile repair shop. He has much of native mechanical ability, early gave special study to gasoline engines, and in 1890 he purchased one of the first gasoline engines manufactured at Springfield. In 1902-3 he held the position of designer for the Foos Gas Engine Company at Springfield, and in this connection he devised many improvements on various types of gas engines. For the past twenty-eight years Mr. Cradlebaugh has successfully conducted a well-equipped general machine shop and also an automobile garage at New Carlisle, his original work in connection with automobilies having been initiated in 1899, so that he is a veteran in this industry. He has been granted a number of patents on improvements to gas engines and also on farm implements and machinery. Among his patents is one on a device to indicate low water supply in connection with gas engines ; another, now expired, to indicate speed ; and a friction crutch pulley which was placed in use by the Foos Company while he was associated with that concern. Impaired health caused Mr. Cradlebaugh to retire from his position with this corporation, in the development of the business of which he contributed in large measure through his admirable inventions. For the past three years Mr. Cradlebaugh has been actively identified with the improving and developing of beautiful Silver Lake Park, which SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 383 comprises seventeen acres, the lake being of pure spring water and with shell marle beaches that make it specially attractive for bathing and swimming. The lake is fed entirely by fine springs, its maximum depth is twenty-seven feet, and wooded hills surrounded it and add to its picturesque attractions. The resort is now equipped with modern bath houses, and at the park the summer season of 1922 shows frequently as many as 700 persons bathing and swimming at the beaches. Adequate provisions are made for the serving of meals and refreshments, and a large auditorium has been erected for assembly purposes, with the result that the resort is used by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. of Springfield and by other organizations devoted to religious and cultural service. On his lake tract Mr. Cradlebaugh has 850 peach trees that are just coming into bearing. Mr. Cradlebaugh has had no desire for political activity or public office, but for twelve years he gave effective service in caring for the apparatus of the New Carlisle Fire Department. He and his wife are active members of the United Brethren Church in New Carlisle, and their circle of friends in the county is limited only by that of their acquaintances. Mr. Cradlebaugh married Miss Laura B. Wolf, daughter of the late Jacob Wolf, who was a substantial farmer near New Carlisle. Mr. and Mrs. Cradlebaugh have two daughters : Nellie is the wife of Rev. Galen B. Roger, a clergyman of the United Brethren Church, and Ruth is the wife of Dr. Marion C. Moses, of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this work. REV. GEORGE W. FRASER. The older generation remember the late Rev. George Wilson Fraser as a gifted man, a learned educator and eloquent minister of the Lutheran denomination, whose life was a well-spent one and a fine example of Christian humility and moral uplift. Mr. Fraser was born at Lincoln, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1841, a son of William J. and Catherine Fraser, natives of Pennsylvania. Deciding upon a ministerial career, George Wilson Fraser early began to prepare for it, and studied at the Millersville Normal School, from which he was graduated in 1869. He enlisted from Millersville in the Union Army August 2, 1862, as a member of Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-second Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged May 3, 1863, at the expiration of his period of enlistment. Immediately thereafter he re-enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Ninety-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and received his second discharge January 31, 1866, with the rank of first lieutenant, which commission was bestowed upon him by Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania. Following his last discharge he resumed his studies and completed his course. He was a student in the seminary of the Lutheran denomination at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and was ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church in 1872. In the meanwhile he had taught school in Pennsylvania, and was principal of the schools of Lena, Illinois. It is interesting to note that the commanding officer of Company E and its organizer, Captain Bierly, was principal of the Millersville Normal School, of which Mr. Fraser had been a student. In December, 1876, Mr. Fraser married Fannie Breneisen, born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in October, 1852, a daughter of Israel 384 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY and Amelia (Bruebaker) Breneisen, natives of Pennsylvania. Following his marriage Mr. Fraser took a charge at Loogootee, Illinois. and remained there for two years, when he went to Grand View, Indiana, on the Ohio River, for a time. He then returned to Pennsylvania and taught school for two years. It was then that he was sent on a mission to the Quapaw Indians of Indian Territory, and was very successful there. For a year he was stationed at Bloomington, Nebraska, and was then placed in charge of an academy at Wayne, Nebraska, where he had remained for one year. For two years thereafter he had charge of the church at Dongola, Illinois, and then for five years was at Shipman, and for four years was at Olny, both in Illinois. This last terminated his ministerial life, and he went to Springfield, Ohio, and lived retired for four years. He was, however, still too active a man to be satisfied to remain idle, and so went to Omaha, where he became file clerk in the general offices of the Union Pacific Railroad, and held that position until 1911, when he returned to Springfield, and here he died in December, 1912. His widow survives him and lives with their daughter in the fine residence they own at 227 Stanton Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Fraser had the following children : John Howard, who lives at Centralia, Illinois ; Emma B., who lives with her mother ; Willard G., who lives at Columbus, Ohio ; Martin Luther, who is a scientific teacher at Cedarville College, Ohio ; and Alice Ruth, who is Mrs. Wendell Dysinger, of Los Angeles, California. Mr. Fraser was a republican, but was not active in politics. Until his death he remained an earnest member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Fraser's work is completed, but its influence remains and lives on in the hearts and lives of those whom he helped, and the world is better and saner for his passage through it. JOHN LINCOLN DICKEY. The career of John Lincoln Dickey, one of Springfield's well-known and highly esteemed citizens, has been one in which he has followed a number of vocations and out of which he has gained wide experience, much contentment and a fair share of worldly goods. He has been soldier, teacher, office man, traveling salesman and dairyman, in all of which occupations he has demonstrated versatile ability, and wherever he has resided has merited the respect of his fellowmen. Mr. Dickey was born near Bloomingburg, Fayette County, Ohio, September 11, 1864, and is a son of Rev. John Parsons Alexander and Hannah Caroline (Peterson) Dickey, natives of Ross County, this state. Rev. John P. A. Dickey, who was a Presbyterian preacher, but who also ministered to congregations of other faiths during the early days when ministers were few in this region, was a son of Alexander Brown and Jane (Henry) Dickey, who were born in Hardy County, Virginia, now West Virginia. The great-grandparents of Mr. Dickey, Robert and Mary (Henry) Dickey, were born in Virginia, and Robert Dickey was a light horseman in Capt. Thomas Kirkpatrick's Company and Col. William Bratton's Regiment in South Carolina during the Revolutionary war, according to Book P, page 647, of South Carolina, in the custody of the Historical Commission at Columbia, South Carolina. He was also a member of the second South Carolina Provincial Congress in 1775 and 1776, as shown in the Journal of the General Assembly of South Caro- SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 385 lina, September 17, 1776 to October 20, 1776, edited by A. S. Salley, Jr., page 161 ; and also the South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Volume VID, page 107. He was born in Virginia, in 1745, and died in 1817 at South Salem, Ross County, Ohio, being buried on the James Dean farm, now owned by a Mr. Stimson. After coming to Ohio he assisted Gen. "Mad Anthony" Wayne in driving the Indians from the Miami Valley. The history of Fayette County, page 980, states in the biography of Rev. William Dickey : "His father, Robert Dickey, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and removed to Kentucky at its close." Perhaps the best-preserved history of the Dickey family is found in the Presbyterian Almanac of 1864, pages 112 to 132. In 1780 Robert Dickey married Mary Henry, who was born in 1750 and died in 1812. Alexander B. Dickey, the grandfather of John L. Dickey, was born in 1783 and died in 1851, being buried at South Salem, Ross County. Rev. John Parsons Alexander Dickey was born May 5, 1828, and in early life was a school teacher, subsequently adopting the profession of minister of the Presbyterian faith. A man of sterling character and the utmost probity, although rather careless in his habits of dress, he ministered to the spiritual needs of the people all over this country, of whatever religious faith. His wife, who owned the home at Bloomingburg, would have preferred a more settled existence, and for a number of years would not accompany her husband on his peregrinations, but eventually allowed herself to be convinced of the worth of his work and his need for her assistance. Mr. Dickey was a republican in his political views. He died February 5, 1899, his wife, whom he had married in 1852, passing away June 5, 1893. They were the parents of the following children : Jane, who is deceased ; Martin Luther, of Bloomingburg ; Edith Eliza and Hattie May, who died in 1882, at college ; John Lincoln ; and Nellie Josephine, who died April 11, 1910, as the widow of Charles Sturgeon, leaving f our children. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Dickey, Col. Martin and Elizabeth (Coyner) Peterson, were born in Virginia, the Petersons being of Swiss descent and the Coyners being of Holland origin. Col. Martin Peterson was a wagonmaker and farmer at Austin, Ross County, this state, a colonel in the Ohio Militia and a soldier during the War of 1812. John Martin Peterson, the maternal great-great-grandfather of John Lincoln Dickey, was supposed to have had a Revolutionary record. With two sisters he was captured by the Indians, and was confined for several months, but, being put in charge of the ammunition of the band, managed to make his escape. His sisters, however, were taken to Upper Sandusky, where one of them married a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. John Lincoln Dickey attended the public schools of Bloomingburg and in 1882 entered Delaware (Ohio) College. In November, 1884, he was stricken with an attack of erysipelas and compelled to return to his home, but April 30, 1885, went to Xenia to take an examination for appointment to West Point. In the same year he went to Washington Court House, where he began the study of law with Hon. A. R. Creamer, but after two weeks read in the list of appointments that he had passed the examinations with a percentage of 71/2 higher than any of his competitors, and accordingly was appointed to West Point, June 14, 1885. He remained there nineteen months, leaving in January, 1887, when he Vol. II-25 386 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY returned to Washington Court House and again took up the study of law, this time with Robert C. Miller, prosecuting attorney, in the meantime teaching school. In 1889 he attended Ann Arbor Law School, Michigan, and in 1890 was appointed adjutant to the Ohio Military Academy at Portsmouth, Ohio, under Col. A. L. Bresler. He held the rank of captain of Company E, Sixth Ohio National Guard, at Washington Court House, which was later transferred to the Fourteenth Regiment, under Col. A. B. Coit. At this time Captain Dickey was teaching mathematics, etc., at Portsmouth, and as he could not keep up with his company, resigned in the fall of 1890. In 1891 he was appointed commandant of cadets at Griswold College, Kemper Hall, Davenport, Dowa, under Bishop Perry, and was holding this position June 9, 1892, when he was admitted to the Ohio bar. On June 22, 1892, Mr. Dickey married Mary Katherine Evans, of Adams County, Ohio, daughter of Edward Patton and Amanda Jane (King) Evans. Her brother, Capt. N. W. Evans, was a member of the Constitutional Convention, and during the Civil war commanded a company of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Following his marriage at Portsmouth, Ohio, Mr. Dickey removed to Davenport, Dowa, where he served for a time as aide-de-camp on the staff of Horace E. Boies, going then to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced law until October, 1896. He then accepted a position as traveling collector for the Deering Harvester Company, remaining therewith three and one-half years, after which he formed a connection with the Plano Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois, and engaged in the same kind of work until October 1, 1907. Resigning his position, he returned to Columbus, Ohio, where he was engaged in the life and accident insurance business until moving to South Charleston, where he practiced law for two years. Mr. Dickey then decided to go to Denver, but when he had gotten as far as Springfield allowed himself to be persuaded to remain in this city as manager in charge of insurance, credits, collections and general correspondence for the Foos Gas Engine Company. Af ter seven and one-half years he severed his connections with this firm and became a traveling salesman for the National Equipment Company, selling automatic sprinklers. He resides at No. 1515 North Belmont Avenue, where he has a comfortable home, and maintains an office at No. 703 Fairbanks Building. He is the owner of a thirty-Jersey dairy, one of the leading establishments of its kind in this section of the state, and one that will stand comparison with the best in Clark County. Mr. Dickey is a member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. He is not a politician and takes only a good citizen's interest in public matters. Fraternally he is affiliated with St. Andrew's Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., of Springfield, and Antioch Shrine, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Dayton. Mrs. Dickey died February 28, 1909, leaving two children : John Evans of Los Angeles, California, and Jane King, who resides with her father and stepmother. On April 12, 1910, Mr. Dickey married Helen Gertrude Breedlove, of Urbana, Ohio. JOSEPH J. MEENACH is one of the few survivors of the Civil war, and for over a half a century has enjoyed a place of honor and esteem in Clark County. A man of industry, he depended on his own efforts to SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 387 earn him a competence, and after many years as a farm renter he acquired the attractive place he now occupies in Harmony Township. Mr. Meenach was born in Clark County, in Pleasant Township, August 3, 1844, son of James and Harriett (Wolf) Meenach. His father was born in Springfield Township of Clark County in 1811, and his mother in Harmony Township in 1819. His grandfather, William Meenach, came from Pennsylvania and was one of the pioneers of Clark County, locating here considerably more than a century ago. James Meenach grew up in Clark County, had such educational opportunities as were afforded in his time, and after his marriage he settled on a farm in Pleasant Township. Subsequently he lived in Springfield Township, where he died. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Of his four children two are living, Joseph and Sarah, the latter the wife of William Butler, of Kansas. Joseph J. Meenach was reared in Springfield Township, attended the common schools there, and when a boy of eighteen, in 1862, he enlisted in Company A, of the Ninty-fourth Ohio Infantry. He was in the service until the end of the war, largely in the armies of Sherman and Thomas, participated in several battles but was never wounded. He marched with the troops of General Sherman in the Grand Review at Washington after the war. On leaving the army Mr. Meenach returned to Clark County and to the tasks of farming. December 27, 1877, he married Louise Butler, a native of Clark County. Mr. Meenach made slow and steady progress toward prosperity by operating rented f arms, and altogether he paid out $13,000 in rent. Finally he bought the farm of ninety acres where he now lives, and has occupied this place since 1896. He is an honored member of Mitchell Post No. 45 of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is a republican in politics. Mr. Meenach has four children : Harriett. wife of Frank Pierson, of Springfield and she has five children, William, Lawrence, Esther, Robert and Walter ; 011ie, wife of George Engle, of Pleasant Township, they have one child, Rodger ; J. W., who operates the home farm, married Maud Ward, but they have no children ; and Lottie B., wife of Paul Booghier, of Springfield, and they are the parents of one child, Helen Louise. NATHAN E. DEATON is one of the well-known and highly respected residents of Springfield, who, after a very active life, is now enjoying comparative leisure which he is devoting to his music, in which art he is very proficient, playing with equal facility the piano, auto-harp or any other stringed instrument. He was born in Bethel Township, Clark County, May 27, 1842, a son of Andrew J. and Catherine (Brandenburg) Deaton, he was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, along the Roanoke River, and she on Jackson Creek, Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio. The paternal grandfather, George Deaton, died in Virginia, and his widow, whose maiden name had been Ream, with nine children, traveled overland with a four-horse wagon to what is now Pike Township, Clark County, Ohio. The maternal grandfather was Henry Brandenburg, a native of Germany, married Lucretia Slusser, and they were among the very early settlers of the Jackson Creek District in Bethel 388 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Township, Clark County, Ohio, where he became the owner of 300 acres of land. After their marriage Andrew J. Deaton and his wife commenced life in a log cabin. In 1844 he rode to Cincinnati, Ohio, and bought 175 acres of virgin forest land in Pike Township, four miles north of New Carlisle. Cutting down the trees, he cleared a small space and built a log cabin and otherwise improved the place and in 1853 sold it and moved on the National Road, in Bethel Township, where he bought a farm, and there he lived until his death, which occurred in 1889, when he was seventy-three years old, as he was born May 11, 1816. She died in 1892, aged seventy-three years, as she was born May 6, 1819. Their children were as follows : Nathan E., who was the eldest ; A. H., who lives in Bethel Township ; Grover, who lives at Muncie, Indiana ; and Albert, who lives at Dayton, Ohio. On March 22, 1864, Nathan E. Deaton married Catherine Confer, born near Yellow Springs, Ohio, a daughter of Francis and Magdalena (Wolf) Confer, natives of Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Deaton lived with his wife's mother near Donnelsville and began teaching school. His peaceful activities were interrupted by the outbreak of war, and he enlisted in April, 1864, in Company E., One Hundred and Fifty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he did guard duty on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad near Cumberland, Maryland, until he was discharged in September, 1864. On July 4, 1864, he was in the Battle of Imboden and August 2, 1864, in the Battle of Oldtown, Maryland. His command was in several battles and minor engagements. After the termination of his 100 day enlistment, and discharge, Mr. Deaton returned home, and continued to reside on the farm for about eighteen months, and then moved to a house his father had built for him on one of his farms. There he spent eight years, and then became a resident of Donnelsville, first living in a house his wife owned, but soon erecting a house on his wife's portion of her mother's estate, which comprised fifty-five acres. To this Mr. Deaton added fourteen acres by purchase, and he conducted this farm until 1897, when he placed his son in charge of it and bought a residence at Donnelsville, and here Mrs. Deaton died May 13, 1911, aged sixty-seven, as she was born May 23, 1844. Following her demise Mr. Deaton spent two more summers and one winter at Donnelsville, then sold his property and came to Springfield, where he made his home with his son until his second marriage, which occurred June 19, 1917, when he married Mrs. Mary A. (Limson) Blessing, born in Madison County, Ohio, a daughter of Jesse and Mary A. (Slaughter) Limson, natives of Madison County, Ohio, and widow of John M. Blessing, born in Fayette County, Ohio. Mr. Blessing died January 7, 1911, leaving no issue. Mr. Deaton had the following children born of his marriage : Florence, who died at the age of five years ; Lizzie Verena ; who died at the age of fifteen years ; Oliver, who lives at Springfield ; Edwin, who is superintendent of the Clark County Infirmary, married Blanche Snyder ; Floyd G., who lives at Toledo, Ohio ; and E. P., who lives at Springfield, married Birdie Swaney, and they have one son, Wilbur S. Mr. Deaton attended the district schools, Linden Hill Academy at New Carlisle, Ohio, a select school of Valley Pike, under Professor SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 389 Harrison, Wittenberg College, and has studied a great deal by himself, especially along musical lines, completing his musical education by attending Professor Large's classes. His musical talent is a source of great enjoyment to him and his friends, and he is often called upon to delight others both in public and private. In politics a republican, he has been very active, and has served on the School Board of Bethel Township, was mayor of Donnelsville, and always interested in public affairs. He belongs to Mitchell Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Springfield. JOHN EZRA MYERS, M. D. The medical profession of Clark County has some of the ablest representatives of this learned calling to be found in Ohio, men whose lives are given up to a self-sacrificing care of others and the safeguarding of the health of their communities. One of these representative physicians and good citizens of this section is Dr. John Ezra Myers of Springfield, who with his brother, Dr. Noah Myers, is engaged in a general practice, with offices at 715 Fairbanks Building. John Ezra Myers was born in Pike Township, Clark County, October 25, 1853, a son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Frantz) Myers, also natives of Pike Township. The grandparents on both sides of the family were among the very early settlers of Pike Township, where they obtained land from the Government, and it is still owned by their heirs. Lewis Myers bought the homestead, and he and his wife continued to live upon it until their deaths, he passing away in 1873 and she in 1893. Their family consisted of the following children : Simon, who died in infancy ; William, who lives at Springfield ; Aaron, who lives in Kansas City, Missouri ; Doctor Myers, whose name heads this review ; Mary, who married Henry Dresher and lives on the homestead ; Noah, who is his brother's partner ; Sarah, who is the widow of I. B. Trout and lives at Chicago, Illinois ; and Clara, who is Mrs. Lewis Pieffer and lives at Chicago. Doctor Myers attended the district schools, the Lebanon Normal School and the Cincinnati, Ohio, Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1880, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. For seven years thereafter he was engaged in a general practice at Donnelsville, Ohio, and then came to Springfield, where he was later joined by his brother, and since 1912 they have occupied their present offices. In June, 1881, Doctor Myers married Laura Strock, born in Pennsylvania, and they had one daughter, Marie, who married W. B. Bauer, of Springfield, and their children are Bettie, Jeannette and Walter B. Mrs. Myers died in 1893, and Doctor Myers married Kate S. Dibert in January, 1896. She was born in Clark County, a daughter of George and Elizabeth Dibert. At the time of her marriage to Dr. Myers, Mrs. Myers was the widow of Austin Evans, and they had one daughter, Pearl Evans, who married Frank C. Harwood, and died, leaving one son, Manton Harwood, of Springfield, and he married Cathryn Chapman. For two terms Doctor Myers was president of the Clark County Medical Society, and he belongs to the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. For eight years he was a member of the Springfield Hospital Board. He is a physician and surgeon exceptionally endowed with those gifts which go to make up the ideal medical man. He has great energy and capacity for hard work, and delights in 390 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY solving the problems which are constantly confronting his profession. There is one trait about which few know anything, he is very chaitable of his valuable time among the poor, whom he serves without thought of remuneration. THEODORE THOMAS DRAKE. Evidences abound in Clark County of the skill and capability of Theodore Thomas Drake, whose memory will be perpetuated in concrete and steel composing the numerous bridges which he has erected and is erecting in all parts of the county. Mr. Drake has been engaged in bridge construction as a contractor ever since coming to Springfield, a number of years ago, and has worked his way to a prominent position in business circles. Born June 21, 1871, in Madison County, Ohio, Mr. Drake is a son of Sanford and Mary (Rainbow) Drake, natives of Jefferson County, Ohio. Sanford Drake, who was a contractor in the building of covered bridges, located at South Charleston, Ohio, in 1873, and there spent an active and successful career, dying in 1894. His widow survived him a number of years, passing away December 26, 1916. They were the parents of the following children : Lewis W., who died in 1893 ; John W., a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio ; Samuel C., who died May 1, 1922, aged forty-three years ; William Allen, a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio ; Mary Elizabeth, who is the wife of Todd Buffenbarger, of South Charleston, Ohio ; George, a locomotive engineer, who was killed in 1895 in a railroad accident at Spokane, Washington ; Hiram, whose present whereabouts are unknown ; Cassius M., of South Charleston, Ohio ; and Theodore Thomas. Theodore Thomas Drake received his education in the graded and high schools of South Charleston, where as a youth he learned the trade of carpenter. After working at his trade for fifteen years at South Charleston he joined the National Cash Register Company at Dayton, Ohio, where he was foreman of construction for ten years, and then came to Springfield and established himself in business as a contractor in the erection of steel and concrete bridges. He has done much county work, as well as work of a private character, and is accounted one of the most skilled and capable men in his line in the state. Since October 1, 1920, Mr. Drake has occupied a house of the semi-bungalow type, at No. 1801 South Fountain Avenue, which was designed and built by himself, and is composed of natural cut stone. It is modern in every particular and is one of the show places of his part of the city. On October 15, 1915, Mr. Drake was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Griffin, who was born at Ironton, Ohio, October 13, 1882, a daughter of John and Ellen (Rhoades) Griffin. John Griffin was born in Ireland, and as a young man immigrated to the United States, where he met and married Miss Rhoades, a native of this country. Later they moved to Ironton, Ohio, where Mr. Griffin was employed in the nail factory, and that community is still their home. Mr. and Mrs. Drake have no children. Mrs. Drake, a woman of superior attainments, is an artist in oils and water colors, and their beautiful home contains numerous specimens of her talent in this direction. Their religious connection is with the Third Lutheran Church, to the work of which they contribute generously. Mr. Drake is a stanch republican politics, and during SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 391 his residence at South Charleston served two terms as a member of the City Council. Since coming to Springfield business duties have occupied his attention to the exclusion of other matters, but he takes a good citizen's interest in civic matters, and is always ready to give his support to movements that his judgment tells him are worthy of his cooperation. As a fraternalist he belongs to Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. 0. E., South Charleston Lodge No. 166, D. 0. 0. F., in which he has been through the chairs, and Moncreiffe Lodge, K. of P., in all of which he is very popular. JAMES MONROE SHEAFF, whose home is on St. Paris Pike, has lived nearly four score years in Clark County. His active life time, taken up with useful service as a farmer and dairyman, resulted in the accumulation of a generous amount of land and improved farms. He is now retired from business, and his record has been such as to afford him a pleasing retrospect over his past life and experiences. Mr. Sheaff was born at Albany, New York, September 4, 1839, son of Leonard and Mary (Champney) Sheaff. His parents, also natives of New York State, came in 1844 to Clark County, and in Springfield Township bought 113 acres of land. For this they paid $33 an acre, and on it they spent the rest of their years, developing one of the model farms of the township. The father died there at the age of eighty and the mother at eighty-two. Their children were : Mrs. Mary Quick ; Myra, wife of Charles Everett ; Miss Caroline ; James Monroe and George W., twins. James Monroe is the only one living. His brother George died in July, 1921. Mr. Sheaff grew up on the homestead in Springfield Township, attended the Snow Hill District School, and during the Civil war served as a member of the Home Guards until impaired health compelled him to leave the service. In 1870 Mr. Sheaff married Mary E. Miller, who was born in Springfield Township, daughter of Isaac and Betsie Miller, natives of Pennsylvania, and early settlers of Springfield Township. After his marriage Mr. Sheaff lived with his parents four years, then worked the Snyder farm in German Township four years, and from there came to St. Paris Pike and bought land at $300 an acre, erected a fine residence, and for many years did an extensive business as a farmer and dairyman. For three years he sold his milk at retail over a route in the City of Springfield. His business was known as the Snow Hill Dairy. Mr. Sheaff is still owner of several farms, operated by tenants, and he has a 100-acre farm at New Carlisle in Pike County, where his son lives. He formerly owned eighty acres in the suburban district of Springfield, and sold that to a corporation for $500 an acre. The property is known as Hills and Dales, and was subdivided for city lots, though Mr. Sheaff still owns sixteen acres of the tract. Mr. Sheaff has lived retired since 1918. He is a democrat, has taken an intelligent interest in local affairs and for nine years was road supervisor. Mrs. Sheaff is a member of the First Lutheran Church. They have been married for over half a century and they have three grandchildren. Their daughter, Nettie B., now deceased, was the wife of John Linn, and left one daughter, Mary Janette. The son, Clark, living on the farm at New Carlisle, married Edna Breneman, and their two children are James Monroe and John. 392 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY JOHN SUDLER ELLIOTT was a pioneer insurance man of Springfield, and founded and conducted for forty years a properous business that is still continued under the old name. He was widely known in insurance circles, and he was generous of his time and means in connection with many movements for the advancement of Springfield as a city and community. He was born at Sudlersville, Queen Anne County, Maryland, December 9, 1854, his birthplace being a village named in honor of his maternal grandfather. His parents were John and Ann (Sudler) Elliott, natives of the same county. Both families were established in Maryland in pioneer times. The late John S. Elliott was reared and educated in Sudlersville, and at the age of seventeen came to Ohio. For several years he lived with a relative, Matthew Morris, at Bellbrook, near Dayton. He worked on his relative's farm and also attended the old Wiltz Business College in Dayton. Soon after completing a course in that school he engaged In the insurance business on his own account at Xenia, where he represented the Farmers Insurance Company of Dayton. Mr. Elliott came to Springfield in 1875, and for a short time was employed in the insurance office of D. R. Hosterman. He then established his own business, and on July 1, 1877, organized the J. S. Elliott Company, insurance, and personally conducted that widely known insurance agency forty years, being president and general manager of the company until his death, which occurred on November 30, 1917. The business under .the old name is still continued by his widow, Mrs. Nora E. Elliott and his son, John Oliver Elliott. In civic affairs Mr. Elliott served as a member of the City Board of Safety under Mayor W. R. Burnett, was president of the Board of Public Affairs under Mayor John M. Good, and for a number of years was on the Democratic Executive County Central Committee. He was one of the first trustees of the Mitchell-Thomas Hospital. He was a charter member of the Lagonda Club and at one time was president of the Ohio State Association of Fire Underwriters. Other organizations of which he was an esteemed member were Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M. ; Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M. ; Springfield Council No. 17, R. and S. M. ; Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T. ; Dayton Consistory of the Scottish Rite ; Springfield Lodge No. 23, B. P. O. E., and the United Commercial Travelers. In September, 1877, Mr. Elliott married Mary W. Boyer, of Dayton. She died in December, 1884, leaving a son and daughter. John Oliver, the son, now president and general manager of the J. S. Elliott Company, married Ruby Brenner, of Springfield, and they have a son, John. The daughter is Mrs. Lida B. Limbocker, now of Detroit, and she is the mother of f our children, named Virginia, Eleanor, Jane and Henry. In January, 1886, J. S. Elliott married Nora E. Wood. Mrs. Elliott is a native of Springfield, daughter of Samuel R. and Margaret (McIntire) Wood. Her father was born in Virginia and was a child when his parents moved to Clark County, Ohio. Her mother was born in Clark County, and is a member of the old McIntire family of this section. Samuel R. Wood died in 1898. Her mother is now eighty-four years of age. Mrs. Elliott became the mother of three children and also has several grandchildren. Her daughter, Margaret, is the widow of SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 393 John Snyder, of the old Snyder family of Springfield. Mr. Snyder died December 24, 1918, and is survived by five children : Kathryn, William, Rachel, John and Margaret. Mrs. Elliott's older son, Benjamin F., died July 30, 1913, at the age of twenty-three. Her other son, Alan G., is a young business man in Kansas City, Missouri. LEONARD SCHAEFER. While instances are numerous regarding men who have been attracted to America by the opportunities offered to those possessing ambition and determination, and have, through the possession of these qualities, risen to places of prominence in the communities in which they have centered their activities, it is doubtful if a better example of this class of self-made man could be found than the late Leonard Schaefer, early citizen and manufacturer of Springfield. Arriving in this country without means, and in ill health, he worked with his hands and traveled the familiar but difficult roads which chance opportunities open to the aspirant from foreign shores. While his numerous business interests called for his utmost attention, he was not indifferent to the duties of citizenship, as his connection with affairs of a public nature show. Mr. Schaefer was born in Germany, February 5, 1823, and having learned the locksmithing trade in his youth, had held prior to coming to America a foremanship in a large lock factory at Stuttgart. He was an active sympathizer, if not in fact a participant, in the German revolution of 1848-1849, and on this account he found it expedient that he leave. Germany at the earliest moment, and, without a passport, fled to America early in 1849. On board ship he contracted small-pox and when the ship docked at New York he with others was sent to a hospital where he was held for six weeks. His ultimate destination in this country was Cincinnati, to which point he proceeded as soon as released from the hospital, but upon his arrival at Cincinnati he found cholera in epidemic form in that city and accordingly came on to Springfield. Here he found employment in a brick yard, but not for long, as he soon went to work at his trade and later opened a small locksmith shop on what is now East Main Street. His business prospered and in 1850 he opened a machine shop in the same community on East Main Street, between Spring and Foster streets, where for forty years he carried on a successful business enterprise, manufacturing locks, safes, fences, etc. He made a number of safes and fences for the early banks at Springfield, and for merchants of the city, and erected practically all of the early iron fences of the community. It was Mr. Schaefer who made the iron fence around the State House at Columbus, which old wrought-iron fence is still in use. The first Springfield city directory, published in 1852, carried the following business advertisement : "L. Schaefer, lock and whitesmith, bell-hanger, gunsmith, screw cutter and maker and repairer of brass, iron or steel work, all attended to promptly for city or country." Mr. Schaefer was both a successful business man and citizen who took an interest in the civic affairs of his day. He was a member of the Old Union Volunteer Fire Company, was an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church, and was a democrat in politics. Before he left Germany he had become engaged to marry Rosina Esslinger, who was born in Germany in 1823, the daughter of John Gottlieb Esslinger, a soldier against Bonaparte in 1814, a portrait of whom, in uniform, is now in pos- 394 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY session of his grandson, Henry L. Schaefer, of Springfield. When Leonard Schaefer fled from Germany it was with the understanding between the engaged couple that the bride-to-be would join her intended husband at Cincinnati. The plans, however, were necessarily changed, owing to the circumstances noted above, and so the wedding took place at Springfield, in 1849. To their marriage one son was born, Henry L., of whom an account follows. Mrs. Schaefer died in 1869, and in that year Mr. Schaefer, accompanied by his son, returned to Europe for a visit to his old home, and there, in the following year, he married Bertha Kurz, and to that union there were born children, of whom three survive : C. Albert, of whom there will be further mention ; Leonard, P., and Paul, all of Springfield. Leonard Schaefer, Sr., died at Springfield, May 5, 1895, honored by all who knew him. Henry L. Schaefer, one of the best-known citizens of Springfield, engaged in the undertaking business at 226 West Main Street, was born in this city, July 31, 1850, a son of the late Leonard and Rosina (Esslinger) Schaefer. He was reared in this city, where he attended the public schools, and while in Germany with his father in 1869 and 1870 attended two terms in the Government Technical College at Stuttgart, taking a course in mechanical drawing. Upon his return from Germany he went to work in his father's machine shop and continued there until 1875, in which year he secured a position in the tool department of the Champion Bar and Knife Company, at Springfield, where he remained until 1893. By that time he had become foreman of several different departments, but resigned and going to Chicago entered a school of embalming. After passing a satisfactory examination he returned to Springfield and engaged in the undertaking business on his own account, and has since continued, the business now being in the firm name of Henry L. Schaefer & Son. Mr. Schaefer is, and has been for years, very prominent in public affairs, and his efforts have contributed to the growth of the city and its institutions. He served as county coroner two terms, from 1895 to 1898, his first commission as coroner having been signed by Hon. William McKinley, then governor of the State of Ohio, and his second signed by Governor Asa Bushnell. He became a member of the Springfield Board of Education from the Sixth Ward during the '80s, and in 1904, when the first school board was elected at large instead of by wards, he was again selected for that position, going into office January 1, 1905, and continuing therein until January 1, 1920. He refused to stand for re-election. For his services, and in honor of the man and citizen, the new junior high school was named the Henry L. Schaefer School. He was for a number of years president of the Board of Directors of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Mr. Schaefer is also prominent as a fraternalist. He was secretary and treasurer of the local committee which succeeded in establishing the Knights of Pythias Home at Springfield and was a member of the committee which located the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Home in this city. Mr. Schaefer belongs to Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M. ; Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M. ; Springfield Council No. 17, R. and S. M. ; Palestine Commandery No. 33, K. T., all of Springfield ; Antioch Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., of Dayton, and Dayton Consistory, SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 395 thirty-second degree, S. R. M. He was the founder and first worthy patron of Order of the Eastern Star, at Springfield ; and belongs to Moncreiffe Lodge No. 33, K. P., holding the rank of major in the Uniformed Rank of Pythians ; Goethe Lodge No. 384, I. 0. 0. F. ; Mad River Encampment No. 16, in which he has passed all the chairs ; Canton Occidental, Patriarchs Militant, in which he is senior past captain ; Champion Council No. 2, Jr. 0. U. A. M. ; and Violet Council No. 29, Daughters of America. Mr. Schaefer is also a member of the Clark County Historical Society. He is a director in the Clark County Building and Savings Company and in the Springfield Light, Heat and Power Company. On July 30, 1872, Mr. Schaefer was united in marriage with Miss Bertha Orthmann, who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 21, 1851, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Orthmann, the former of whom was engaged in practice at Hillsboro, Ohio, when he died in 1858. The widow and daughter then went to Germany, where Mrs. Schaefer was educated. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Schaefer : Katherine, who married Henry S. Carpenter, of Dayton, now living in retirement at Jacksonville, Florida ; Bertha C., whose first husband was William S. Wead, deceased, and who married May 29, 1922, Edward P. Poling; and Theodore Frederick. Theodore Frederick Schaefer was born at Springfield, January 7, 1882, and following his graduation from high school spent two years at Wittenberg College, although while there he found time to assist his father in the conduct of his undertaking business. On May 7, 1918, he volunteered and enlisted in the United States Navy and was rated a first-class engineman. He was stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Dllinois, and was with what was known as the "black gang" until relieved from duty December 20, 1918. On January 1, 1919, he became junior member of the firm of Henry L. Schaefer & Son. Mr. Schaefer is a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, F. and A. M.; Springfield Chapter No. 48, R. A. M. ; Spring- field Council No. 17, R. and S. M. ; Oriental Consistory, thirty-second degree, and Medina Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., the two latter of Chicago. He also holds membership in the Eastern Star ; Ingomar Lodge No. 610, K. P. ; Goethe Lodge No. 384, I. 0. 0. F.: and Springfield Lodge, F. 0. E. He is likewise a member of the Kiwanis Club of Springfield and the Phi Gamma Delta College fraternity. On November 1, 1905, Mr. Schaefer married Miss Louise Botkin, who was born at Springfield, the daughter of Lafayette Botkin. Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Schaefer celebrated their golden wedding July 30, 1922, in St. John's Evangelical Church. The occasion was celebrated by many friends of this honored couple as well as relatives and children. Carl Albert Schaefer, president of the Reeser Plant Company, and purchasing agent for the Thomas Manufacturing Company of Springfield, was born at Springfield, July 19, 1870, a son of the late Leonard and Bertha (Kurz) Schaefer. He was educated in the public schools and as a lad took employment as a messenger boy with the Western Union Telegraph Company. Later he became a clerk in a hardware store for several years, and from this position advanced to that of bookkeeper, which he held at several different establishments. On January 1, 1891, he entered the offices of the Thomas Manufacturing Company at 396 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Springfield, as a bookkeeper, and through integrity, industry and fidelity won promotion to his present post as purchasing agent. Since 1910 he has been president of the Reeser Plant Company, leading florists of Springfield. Mr. Schaefer is president of the council of St. John's Lutheran Evangelical Church, belongs to the Masonic Order, and holds membership in the Kiwanis Club of Springfield and the Van Dyke Clan, a social fishing club. Mr. Schaefer married Miss Della L. Betzold, the daughter of J. J. Betzold, of Springfield, and to them there have been born three children: Bertha Marie, a junior in Wittenberg College ; Carl Albert, Jr., a freshman in the engineering department of the Ohio State University, and Catherine Lucille, who is attending high school. WILLIAM MYERS. Among the substantial retired residents of Springfield, Ohio, for many years well-known in business circles, is William Myers, formerly a justice of the peace, and a representative of one of the old pioneer families of Pike Township, Clark County. Mr. Myers owns a large body of land in Pike Township, together with valuable realty at Springfield. William Myers was born in Pike Township, Clark County, Ohio, near Dialton, February 24, 1849, a son of Lewis and Elizabeth (Frantz) Myers, the former of whom was born in German Township, Clark County, May 4, 1821, and the latter near Hampton, Clark County, Ohio, November 7, 1825. His paternal grandparents were George and Magdaline (Cosler) Myers, who came to Clark County from what is now West Virginia and settled in German Township. His maternal grandparents were Jacob and Sarah (Ebersole) Frantz, who were natives of Switzerland. They settled in Pike Township, Clark County, about 1818. All this section was almost a wilderness at that time and people who traveled had to go on horseback and follow trails through the forests. After Lewis Myers and Elizabeth Frantz were married they settled in Pike Township, and in 1856 Mr. Myers bought the old Frantz homestead. To the original 160 acres he added twenty more acres for a site for a sawmill, which he built and operated. He was a man of great industry and much enterprise, and during a part of his life did business as a farmer, sold timber, burned brick and profitably followed other lines of industrious activity. His death occurred May 28, 1873. The mother of Mr. Myers survived him for twenty years, dying April 2, 1893. They were good, kind, virtuous people, respected by all who knew them, and faithful members of the Dunkard Church. They had the following children : Simon, who died when two years old ; William ; Aaron, who lives at Kansas City, Missouri ; J. E., who is a physician at Springfield ; Mary Ann, who is the wife of Henry Dresher, of Pike Township, Clark County ; Noah, who is a physician at Springfield ; Sarah E., who is the widow of Isaiah B. Trout, of Chicago, Illinois ; and Clara Idella, who is the wife of Lewis Peiffer, of Chicago. William Myers gave his father assistance on the farm in his earlier years, but later prepared himself for the profession of teaching, attending normal schools at New Carlisle and at Lebanon, Ohio, from the latter of which he was graduated in 1875. He was not more than eighteen years old when he commenced to teach school, and he continued to teach SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 397 during the winters for the next fourteen years, giving attention to the farm during the summers. Mr. Myers married, July 21, 1880, Miss Matilda Ream, born in Pike Township, April 8, 1858, a daughter of Jeremiah and Madeline (Fansler) Ream, the father a native of Pike Township and the mother of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, from which her parents came first to Massillon, Ohio, and then to Springfield. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Myers were Samuel and Elizabeth (Basinger) Ream, natives of Virginia, who settled early in Pike Township. For a few years after his marriage Mr. Myers taught school at North Hampton, Ohio, and also conducted a general store, then removed to Springfield, and here was in the sawmill and lumber business for many years, and was additionally interested in buying timber and conducting a threshing machine. It was about this time that he built a comfortable residence on West High Street, Springfield, which some years later he traded for a farm of ninety-four acres adjoining the old homestead in Pike Township, on which still stands the old log cabin his grandfather built. In 1906 Mr. Myers had his fine modern residence erected at No. 1112 North Fountain Avenue, Springfield, which has been his home ever since, and he owns 227 acres of land. Two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Myers: Glenna, born May 2, 1881, who is the wife of Rev. Ernest Fremont Tittle, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Evanston, Illinois ; and Nellie Lucile, born May 4, 1886, who is principal of the Ridgewood Private School at Springfield. Mr. Myers is a member and a trustee of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics a democrat, he served twenty-five years as clerk of Pike Township, for two terms was a justice of the peace and was a member of the Election Board that first operated under the Australian ballot system. He was the first chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias at Northampton, Ohio. EMORY F. DAVIS, M. D. In extent of practice Doctor Davis is one of the busiest physicians and surgeons at Springfield, where he has performed his professional work and has been active in the affairs of citizenship for over twenty years. Doctor Davis was born at Centerville in Montgomery County, Ohio, June 27, 1870, son of Edward H. and Martha Jane (Fallis) Davis. His father was a native of Salem, New Jersey, and his mother of Richmond, Virginia. Edward H. Davis was a stock raiser and farmer in New Jersey, and at the beginning of the Civil war he became a captain in the Ninth New Jersey Infantry. He was wounded by gun shot in the right knee at the battle of Roanoke, Virginia, while serving under General Burnside. He was also taken prisoner, and for some time endured the evil conditions of Andersonville Prison. Later he was exchanged and put in charge of the exchange train. Subsequently he moved to Montgomery County, Ohio, and there re-enlisted in the One Hundred Thirty-first Ohio Infantry. He was the first lieutenant of Company I in that regiment. Edward H. Davis was in the Ford Theatre the night that President Lincoln was shot. Eight of his brothers were soldiers in the Confederate Army. After the war he owned and operated a farm at Centerville, but he died at Springfield in August, 1911. His widow survived him until July 22, 1920. They had two children, Doctor Davis and Nellie, wife of John E. Warner, of Detroit, Michigan. 398 - SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY Emory F. Davis grew up at Centerville, attended grammar and high school there, and graduated in medicine from the University of Ohio April 9, 1897. Prior to locating at Springfield Doctor Davis practiced two years at Celina and one year at Lancaster, and in 1900 moved to Springfield. Since 1914 he has maintained a fine suite of offices in the Fairbanks Building. In October, 1898, Doctor Davis married Miss Fannie N. Hutsler, a native of Jamestown, Greene County, Ohio, daughter of John W. and Ruth (Evans) Hutsler, natives of Virginia. Her mother was a first cousin of "Fighting Bob Evans," one of America's foremost naval heroes. Mrs. Davis' parents were early settlers in Greene County, and her mother, who was born in 1831, is now living at Springfield, past ninety. Doctor and Mrs. Davis have a modern home at 103 North Western Avenue. Their only child is Lawrence H., born in September, 1899. He married Elizabeth Carr, and they live with Doctor Davis. Lawrence Davis is a partner in the Crescent Casket Company, manufacturers of high grade children's caskets. Doctor Davis and family are members of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church. He was for several years a member of the Clark County Blind Committee, is a republican, a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Belongs to the Clark County, Ohio, State and American Medical associations, and is physician to the Ohio State Knights of Pythias Home. HOMER C. CORRY, one of the younger members of the Clark County bar, and junior member of the well known legal firm of Martin & Corry, with offices at 203 Bushnell Building, Springfield, is a native of Clark County, and a son of Robert F. and Ethel (Stewart) Corry. Robert F. Corry was born in Greene County, Ohio, in 1857, and died in 1917. He was a son of James Corry, also a native of Greene County, whose parents were pioneers of that locality, they having come from Pennsylvania to the Buckeye State during early days. Ethel Corry was born in Greene Township, Clark County, in 1859, and is now residing at Springfield. She is a daughter of Thomas E. Stewart, who was born in the same township, a son of John Templeton Stewart, who came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1805, and settled in Greene Township, where he became a prosperous farmer and large land owner. Homer C. Corry was born on the farm in Green Township, July 9, 1887, and attended the graded and high schools of Springfield. He graduated from the Clifton High School of Green Township in 1904, and then entered Antioch College from which he received his Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the class of 1910. During 1910 he taught in the Enon High School, Clark County, during 1911 and 1912 was a teacher in the Yellow Springs High School, and during 1913 and 1914 was an instructor in the Ironton (Ohio) High School. During this period Mr. Corry studied in the law department of Chicago University, and was graduated from the law department of the Ohio State University in 1915, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the bar in 1915, he entered practice at Springfield in the offices of Chase Stewart. From 1916 to 1918 he taught law in the Law School of the Ohio State SPRINGFIELD AND CLARK COUNTY - 399 University, and in the latter year enlisted for service in the United States Army as a private and during the World war was stationed at Camp Sherman. He was promoted to sergeant and later received his commission as first lieutenant and was assigned to duty in the judge advocate general's department, serving at Camp Logan, Texas, and at Washington, D. C. He was mustered out and honorably discharged July 5, 1919. Returning to the practice of law at Springfield, Mr. Corry became associated with Paul C. Martin and in September, 1921, became a member of the firm of Martin & Corry. He is a member of the Clark County, the Ohio State and the American Bar Associations, and holds membership in the Phi Delta Phi and the Order of the Coif, and Harry S. Kissell Lodge No. 674, Free and Accepted Masons. He is president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. On January 1, 1920, Mr. Corry was united in marriage with Miss Helene Jobe, daughter of Charles L. and Margaret Jobe, of Xenia, Ohio. Mrs. Corry died at Springfield, December 4, 1920. OLIVER T. CLARKE. The wearisome sameness that frequently attends the continuous following of a single line of effort has never been a feature of the career of Oliver T. Clarke, of Springfield, draughtsman for the Hobart Manufacturing Company. His has been a life in which he has followed several lines of industry and in which each step has been a forward one. Mr. Clarke is a native of St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana, and was born October 25, 1885, a son of Hiram F. and Nelly (Thomson) Clarke, natives of Springfield. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Clarke, Oliver and Elizabeth (Strong) Clarke, were born in Southampton, Massachusetts, and shortly after their marriage moved to Decatur, Georgia. They resided there for some years, and Mr. Clarke conducted a store in partnership with a Mr. Willard. Later they came to Springfield. Hiram F. Clarke attended the public schools of Springfield, and as a young man went to Cincinnati, where he learned the hardware business with the firm of Henry Hammet & Son. Returning to Springfield, he embarked in the hardware business on his own account and, later, in partnership with his brother Lewis S. Clarke, conducted a sugar plantation in St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana. Returning to Springfield in 1887, he connected himself with the Springfield Seed Company, subsequently identifying himself with the wholesale paper business. He then became one of the organizers of the Star Paper and Box Company, on West Pleasant Street, and some time later this was changed to the Clarke Paper Box Company, of which he was the head until his retirement. He died June 21, 1914, greatly respected and esteemed by all who knew him. Mrs. Clarke, who survives him, resides at 525 North Wittenberg Street, Springfield. She is a daughter of James I. and Lavinia G. (Snyder) Thomson, natives of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The former for some years was bookkeeper for the firm of Counts & Comeback, early dry goods merchants of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke had two children : Oliver T., and James, who died in infancy. Oliver T. Clarke attended the graded and high schools of Springfield, withdrawing from the latter in 1902, and at that time started to learn