(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 600 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. Will B. Wood was reared on the paternal farm, receiving his elementary education in the district school in that neighborhood, supplementing the same by a course of one year in Wilmington College, after which he entered Dennison University with the purpose of completing the course in that institution. At the end of two years of study at Dennison, however, his father became ill and the dutiful son returned home to manage the farm and never returned to the university to receive his diploma. Upon his father's death, Will B. Wood purchased the interests of the other heirs in the home farm and ever since has made his home there. He has a flue home, having completely remodeled the old house along the lines of modern requirements; the house being equipped with an acetylene gas lighting system and hot and cold water, bathrooms and all modern conveniences. Mr. Wood keeps a fine herd of pure bred Jersey cattle, shipping his cream to Cincinnati. One of his chief sources of revenue is found in his hogs, he having for years made a specialty of Chester Whites, annually marketing large numbers of these profitable animals. On February 27, 1895. Will B. Wood was united in marriage to Edna McMillan, who was born in Chester township, this county, daughter of Shipley and Sarah (Lacy) McMillan, members of pioneer families of this county, a complete history of the McMillan family in this county being presented elsewhere in this volume. To this union two children have been born: Myra, born on April 2, 1897, who is a student in Dennison University; and Howard, January 23, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Wood are members of the Baptist church in Wilmingtotn, Mr. Wood having been a deacon of that congregation for years and both are active in the various beneficences of that communion. Mr. Wood is a Republican and for years has taken an active part in local politics, his sound judgment and thorough acquaintance with conditions in his neighborhood giving much weight to his counsels in the deliberations of the party managers in this county. For fifteen years hs was school director in his district, his ardent interest in educational affairs having given great value to his services in this connection. He also has served as trustee of Union township, his thorough and public-spirited administration of the affairs of that office having proved very acceptable to the people of the township. Mr. Wood and his wife take a deep interest in all measures designed to promote the cause of the common good in their community and no couple thereabout is held in higher regard than they. ELIJAH P. STOTLER. The plodding German character which has been so dominant in the making of America had much to do with the earlier history of Clinton county. And whenever the history of a German ancestry is written, the biographer is always compelled to note a large measure of success along this line. Elijah P. Stotler is of German descent and the outstanding features of his life will bear out this statement. Elijah P. Stotler was born in Morgan county, West Virginia, three and one-half miles from Berkeley Springs, on the Winchester grade road, on August 17, 1852. He was the son of Elijah and Evann (Spillman) Stotler. Elijah Stotler, the father of Elijah P., was born at Oakland, in Morgan county, West Virginia, in' 1817, and died on December 24, 1856. His wife, Evann (Spillman) was born in Morgan county, West Virginia, in 1816, and died on May 3, 1894. Elijah Stotler was the son of Peter and. Susannah (Shockey) Stotler, or S-t-a-t-l-e-r, as the name was spelled in Germany where they were born. Peter and Susannah Spillman were married in Germany and emigrated to Pennsylvania where after farming for awhile they moved to a farm in Morgan county, West Virginia, where they died. Evann (Spillman) Stotler was the daughter of Peter and Susannah (Redman) Spillman, both of whom were born in Germany and later came to America with their parents and settled in Pennsylvania, where they were married. After their marriage CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 601 they purchased n large tract of land in Morgan county, West Virginia, and made their future home on this. This land eventually became very valuable coal land. Elijah Stotler was a blacksmith by trade and had a very large blacksmith-shop on his farm in West Virginia. He employed a number of men in this shop and acted as overseer while his sons cultivated the farm. He was a fine smith and was noted for his careful workmanship. At the time of his death, Elijah P., the subject of this sketch, was only four years old. He left, at his death, a family of nine children, the eldest of whom was but nine years old, and very little means to sustain them; but his widow was of that brave type that has no fear and she kept the family together and reared all of the children to excellent citizenship. She was a life-long member of the Methodist church and instilled her Christian character into her children. The following children were born to Elijah and Evann (Spillman) Stotler ; Julia Anne, who is the widow of Isaac Whistner and who lives at Cumberland, Maryland; Amanda, who died in 1898 and who was the wife of Peter Whistner ; Margaret A., who is the widow of C. W. Cross and who lives at Franklin, Ohio; George W., who lived in West Virginia and who died in 1906; Jacob and Esau, twins, who lived on their father's home place in West Virginia, until the death of Jacob, who was killed in a saw-mill in 1872; Peter D., a farmer who lives at Roundhead, Highland county, Ohio; Elnora, who died in 1856 at the age of nine; Elijah P., the subject of this sketch, and N. M., a farmer who lives in Greene county, near Bowersville. Elijah P. Stotler had very little opportunity for securing an education. There were no free schools in West Virginia before the Civil War and whatever education he had was picked up along the way. His mother was very strict but at the same time very kind, and helped her children in every way she possibly could. They struggled along, as best they could, in West Virginia until in 1863, Jacob decided to locate in Clinton county, and here he was so successful, that the remainder of the family came, at different times, and located. Elijah P. and his mother came in 1869 and settled on a farm where he worked for nine years for James Wilson in Union township and three years, for Asa Starbuck and others. He attributes his present successful financial condition and his unusual general education to both the training of his mother and to the high ideals and Christian associations which he found in the Wilson and Starbuck families. Elijah P. Stotler was first married to Sarah Elizabeth Brann on February 20, 1881. She was born on May 10, 1851, on the farm where Mr. Stotler now lives, and died here on April 26, 1911. She was the daughter of Tillman and Rebecca Brann, who were early settlers in Union township, Clinton county, having emigrated there from North •Carolina. Mrs. Stotler inherited sixty-two acres of the Brann homestead and she and her husband settled on this at the time of their marriage; later Mr. Stotler purchased the remainder of the Brann estate, including the Brann dwelling and other buildings, and in 1900 he built a beautiful country home where he still lives. In 1896 his present large barn was built. He also owns ninety-eight acres at the corner of Richland, Wayne and Union townships. He is recognized as one of the most thorough and up-to-date farmers in the county, and his fine flock of Delaine sheep are unequalled anywhere. After the death of his first wife in 1911, he remained a widower until on December 26, 1914, when he was married to Mrs. Rebecca (Atley) Reed. She was the daughter of John and Evaline Atley and was born near Starbuck, in Union township. Mr. Stotler has but one child, a daughter by his first wife, whose name is Elvenia Prudence. She was born on February 19, 1893, and is the wife of Clifford Pond. They live on the farm with Mr. Stotler and help him farm. They have three children: William Denver, who was born on October 9, 1910; Mary Elizabeth, June 12, 1912, Ord Cleo Rebecca, April 22, 1914. Elijah P. Stotler is one of Clinton county's most highly-respected citizens. He is a deacon in the New Antioch Christian church and has held the position of school 602 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. director in his district for the last fifteen years. His life is an example to those who have to struggle and many times he has related the incidents of his career, which seemed almost unsurmountable obstacles. His vivid recollections of the incidents of the horrors of the Civil War are extremely realistic, although a lad of only twelve years. His mother's house was on the main pike which leads to Washington, D. C., and Stonewall Jackson's army marched down this road to take the Baltimore & Ohio train which ran from Winchester to Washington, D. C. His mother's house was used as a hospital and all her stock was shot for food, and he witnessed all of this. ANDREW JACKSON PATE. Andrew Jackson Pate, a prosperous farmer of Clark township, Clinton county, Ohio, who was born in Stony township, Clermont county, Ohio, February 8, 1848, and is the son of Christopher and Matilda Jane (South) Pate, the former of whom was a native of North Carolina, born near New-Berne, and the latter a native of Stony township, Clermont county. His paternal grandparents died in North Carolina. His maternal grandparents, John and Elizabeth (Hill) South, were natives of Clermont county, Ohio. The latter was a daughter of Samuel Hill, a pioneer of Clermont county. Christopher Pate received a limited education in the schools of North Carolina and came to Ohio at the age of nineteen years, in 1837. He located in Clermont county, where he was engaged in farming until his death. He and his wife reared a large family of children, consisting of nine sons and one daughter. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Andrew Jackson Pate received his education in Clermont county and took up farming in that county. He owned twenty-five acres in Clermont county until 1894, when he moved to a farm one mile west of Martinsville, where he lived for nine years. In 1903 he purchased ninety-seven acres of land in Clark township, where he now lives. Some time ago, Mr. Pate erected a substantial barn. He is engaged in general farming and has been successful. On November 13, 1873, Andrew Jackson Pate was married to Amanda E. Ross, of Clermont county, the daughter of William Ross, a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Pate have been the parents of two children, Blanche and Georgia, the latter of whom is deceased. Blanche is the wife of Rev. Russell C. Moon, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church at Lewisburg, Ohio. While still living in Clermont county, Mr. Pate served as township trustee of Jackson township. He was formerly a member of the Free and Accepted Masons. JOHN F. TRUITT. John F. Truitt, a successful farmer of Clark township, was born on December 8, 1858, at New Vienna. Clinton county, Ohio, a son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Applegate) Truitt, both of whom were natives of this county. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Truitt were William Truitt and wife, natives of Maryland, who located near New Vienna, where they followed farming. The maternal grandparents were William and Hester (Moore) Applegate, the former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania. He located near Wilmington, about four miles east of that city and there engaged in farming. He died in Wilmington. Benjamin Truitt received the rudiments of an education in the schools of Clinton county. and after leaving school engaged in farming in Green township: Later he removed to Union township, where he owned seventy acres of land. This farm was situated near Sligo, and it was here that he lived at the time of his death. Benjamin Truitt and his family were all earnest members of the Christian church. He reared a family of twelve children. John F. Truitt received his education in the public schools of Clinton county, and CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 603 has always been a farmer. He purchased the farm where he now lives in 1911, which consists of one hundred and forty-seven acres of fertile land, and here, besides carrying on general farming, Mr. Truitt has also engaged extensively in raising Poland China hogs, in which line he has been very successful. On November 26, 1885, John F. Truitt was married to Susan Glass, a native of Clinton county, and a daughter of John and Catherine Glass; and to this union have been born six children, Ora Catherine, Louise Rebecca, Frank Wilson, Ada Glass, Robert William and Donald Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Truitt and family are all members of the Christian church. Mr. Truitt is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees. CHARLES ADDISON HENRY. Good farming means many things. Fundamentally, perhaps, it means that the largest possible revenue is being obtained from a given number of acres. But "the largest possible revenue" has a very broad meaning. In the first place it means the farmer must raise the greatest number of hogs, cattle, sheep and perhaps horses for which the soil will produce forage. There is distinctive advantage in raising purebred stock, as many farmers have completely demonstrated, and, furthermore, the care given to live stock will determine in a very great degree the volume of revenue to be obtained. Good farming of course means that crops will be rotated, that seed beds will be carefully prepared and corn, especially, frequently and well cultivated. In fact the aspects of good farming are almost innumerable. The fortunate thing is that a few young farmers, as for instance, Charles Addison Henry, of Union township, thoroughly appreciate what good farming involves. Not only does Mr. Henry appreciate what it involves, but he is one man who acts upon his information and knowledge. He is thoroughly up-to-date in his methods of farming and is far above the average in intelligence and skill. Charles Addison Henry was born on January 22, 1870, near Gunnerville. in Greene county, Ohio, and is the son of the late William and Julia A. (Pidgeon) Henry, the former of whom was born near Harveysburg, in Warren county, Ohio, January 31, 1838, and died on September 10, 1906, and the latter of whom was born on May 27, 1838, in Guilford county, North Carolina, near High Point and fifteen miles from Greensboro, the daughter of Charles and Catherine (Homey) Pidgeon. William Henry was the son of John and Catherine (Stump) Henry, the former of whom was born in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia, in 1798, and died in 1870, and the latter of whom was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1805, and died in 1887. John Henry came from Virginia to Ohio when a yoliyoung. His father was killed when John was a baby and John was reared by his aunt. He settled in Warren county, and owned a good farm near Harveysburg. In 1854 he purchased land in Union township, where he lived until his death. He and his wife were members of the Christian church and had a family of ten children, as follows : Daniel, of Wilmington; William, the father of Charles A.; Jonas and John, deceased; Tilby, the wife of William Fisher, of near Port William; Retta, deceased, who was the wife of Quince Harris; Libby, who died unmarried; Frances, who married James Fisher, of Wilmington; Reese, who died unmarried; Joshua, who was twice married and is deceased. William and Julia A. (Pidgeon) Henry were devout members of the Friends church. She is still living and active in church affairs. He was a well-known stock breeder. He was prominent in Democratic politics early in life, although he voted the Prohibition ticket in later 'years. Mrs. Julia A. (Pidgeon) Henry, the mother of Charles Addison, is a native of Guilford county, North Carolina. Her father, Charles Pidgeon, Jr., was born on March 1, 1806, and died on July 26, 1898. Her mother, Catherine (Homey) Pidgeon, was born on September 23, 1810, and died on December 27, 1886. They were both natives of Stokes county, North Carolina. Isaac Pidgeon, the maternal great-great-grandfather of 604 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. Charles Addison Henry, was a strict Quaker who came to America from Ireland in 1740 on account of religious persecution, and settled in Chowan county, North Carolina. His son, Charles Pidgeon, Sr., married Elizabeth Crews, November 11, 1789. She was a native of Virginia and died in the early forties. Her husband died in 1854. They had twelve children. Charles Pidgeon, Jr., and Catherine Homey were married on October 8, 1829, in North Carolina. Being northern sympathizers, at the outbreak of the Civil War, they immigrated to Ohio, arriving in Clinton county in the fall of 1861. They had twelve children : Emily, deceased, married John Briggs; Mary, married Wallace Mack, of Virginia; John, a Quaker minister of Orchard Grove, married Caroline Thompson; Hannah, married William Charles and both are deceased; Julia A., is Mr. Henry's mother; Samuel, is a school teacher and farmer at Jamestown, Ohio; David, Is a resident of California ; Jeffrey, died in infancy; Charles Addison, for whom the subject of this sketch was named, was a school teacher who died unmarried at the age of twenty-six ; Henry, is a farmer of Union township ; Cornelia, married Bruce Sprague, of Union township; Louisa, married Aden Starbuck. Charles Addison Henry is one of three children born to his parents. The others were Junius Avery, born on December 29, 1871, who is a farmer in Union township and who married Augusta Fisher ; and William A., born on November 9, 1876, who died on September 20, 1909. Charles Addison Henry attended the district schools of Clinton county in Union township and later became a student at Wilmington College. He assisted his father on the farm until his marriage and was then engaged in farming his father's farm in Wilson township for two years. After that he removed to another of his father's farms near Haws Chapel in Union township and at his death he inherited that farm of one hundred and ten acres. Later he purchased one hundred and five acres out of the John T. Henry farm near the "Dutch" district school house in Union township. It is upon this farm that he now lives. Mr. Henry has a splendid new house and convenient outbuildings and makes a specialty of raising purebred Shorthorn cattle and sells them for breeding purposes. He also feeds a large number of cattle and hogs for the market. On December 25, 1892, Charles Addison Henry was married to Marguerite Vandervort, who was born in Greene township, Clinton county, Ohio, the daughter of John M. and Mary Vandervort. John M. Vandervort for many years was one of the leading nurserymen of Clinton county and owned a large farm and nursery at New Antioch, Green township. He died in 1914. His widow survives. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Addison Henry are the parents of three children : Guy Vandervort, born on December 2, 1893; Robert, April 26, 1896, and Pauline, August 26, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. Henry belong to the Central Church of Christ of Wilmington. Mr. Henry is identified with the Democratic party. JAMES G. WORRELL. James G. Worrell is a successful farmer of Clark township, who was born in Gallia county, Ohio, in 1866, the son of Granville and Louisa (Hubbard) Worrell, both natives of the eastern part of West Virginia. His paternal grandparents lived and died in Virginia, his paternal grandfather being James Worrell. His maternal grandfather, Samuel Hubbard, was a native of Mercer county, West Virginia, where he lived and died. Granville Worrell was educated in the pioneer subscription schools of Carroll county, West Virginia, and was married in that county. After his marriage, he moved to Gallia county, Ohio, during the Civil War, living there until about 1870, when he returned to West Virginia and settled on the Kanawha river. He lived along the river for several years and died in Nicholas county, West Virginia, as did also his wife. Having been drafted as a soldier in the Confederate army, he later deserted the Confederate cause CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 605 and, after immigrating to Ohio, enlisted in an Ohio regiment of the Union army, serving until the close of the war. He was a drummer in his regiment and considered a good musician. In all of his services he was not wounded nor taken prisoner. Granville and Louisa Worrell were the parents of twelve children. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Educated in the schools of West Virginia, James G. Worrell began life for himself at the age of seventeen years and at that time immigrated to Farmers Station, Clinton county, where he worked by the month from the time he was seventeen until he was twenty-nine. Upon reaching the age of twenty-nine, he began renting land. In the fall of 1901, Mr. Worrell purchased a farm of ninety-five acres, seventy in the tract where he now lives and twenty-five nearby. Later, however, he sold the twenty-five acres and in 1915 bought twenty-nine acres near his home farm of seventy acres. He is engaged in general farming and stock raising. On November 9, 1894, James G. Worrell was married to Eva Speaight, a native of Washington township and the daughter of George W. and Nancy Ellen (Borning) Speaight, both natives of this section. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Worrell were George and Polly Speaight, probably natives of Virginia and early settlers of this section. They were extensive landowners. Her maternal grandparents were William and Sarah Borning, who lived near New .Antioch. Mrs. Worrell's father left the old home farm eight years before his death and moved to Grant county, Indiana, where he and his wife lived for some time. They had nine children, eight of whom grew to maturity. They were members of the Baptist church. To Mr. and Mrs. James G. Worrell has been born one child, Morena. Mr. and Mrs. Worrell are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church. FRANK W. HAWORTH. The Haworth family in Clinton county dates from about the last year of the eighteenth century and for more than one hundred years, therefore, has been prominent in amost every phase of life in this county. Frank W. Haworth, a well-to-do farmer of Union township, is a representative probably of the fifth generation of the family in this county. He is recognized today as one of the leading citizens of Union township, and is a capable and skillful farmer. The founders of the Haworth family in America were members of the Society of Friends, who accompanied William Penn to this country, and the religion of the fathers has prevailed down to the latest generation. Frank W. Haworth was born on the farm where he now lives, situated on the Prairie road in Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, May 6, 1864, the son of George D., Jr., and Rebecca L. (Hogue) Haworth, the former of whom was born on April 19, 1828, in Wilmington, and who died on April 19, 1895, and the latter of whom was born in 1832, in the Dover neighborhood of Union township, and who died on May 15, 1903. George Haworth, who established the Haworth family in Clinton county, was the grandson of another George Haworth, who came to America with William Penn from Lancashire, England, in 1699. George Haworth's father was James Haworth, the son of the first George, a native of Pennsylvania, but who removed to Frederick county, Virginia, where the second George also removed as a lad. He was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1748. He married Susannah Dillon. The family settled near Winchester, Virginia. Later they immigrated to the region of the Yadkin river, in North Carolina, near the home of Daniel Boone. On September 25, 1771, the family followed Boone into Kentucky. The first attempt to settle in Kentucky was repelled by the Indians, after which a temporary settlement was made in Tennessee. After numerous excursions to North Carolina' from Greenville, Tennessee, they left their home in that state for Ohio, in 1803, and made a settlement on Todd's fork not far from the Center 606 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO meeting house. Mr. Haworth bought seventeen hundred and fifty acres of land. A year later his son, Mahlon, brought his family from Tennessee and settled on a nearby farm. After some years several members of the family immigrated to the state of Illinois and George Haworth himself sold out and removed with his two youngest sons to Quaker Point, near Georgetown, in Vermillion county. George Haworth was a member of the Society of Friends and in later years a minister. About 1807, or 1808, he traveled on horseback to Baltimore to attend the yearly meeting as a representative from the Miami quarterly meeting. In 1800 Mahlon Haworth, the son of George Haworth, who settled on Todd's fork in 1803, visited Ohio on a prospecting tour and in 1804 he and his family, in company with John and James Wright and their families, made their way northward from Tennessee to the wilderness of southern Ohio. On the trip northward Mahlon Haworth rode the wheelhorse, carrying an infant in his arms. This child, then two years old, was his daughter, Susannah. There were also three other children older than she, Rebecca, George D. and Ezekiel. George D. Haworth, the son of Mahlon Haworth, was the grandfather of Frank W., the subject of this sketch. His mother was Phebe Frazier. At the time the family came to Ohio he was seven years old. having been born in Greene county, Tennessee, May 29, 1797. He died in Wilmington on June 27, 1881, at the age of eighty-four years and twenty-nine days. His early years were spent in assisting his father in the forest to open the land for cultivation. In 1815 he accompanied his grandfather, the first George, to Detroit to collect for a drove of hogs which he had sold in 1811. In 1817 George D. Haworth was married to Edith Hadley, the daughter of James and Ann Hadley of Newberry, Clinton county. They settled on a farm adjoining his father's on the east. In 1822 he was elected collector of state revenue and county levy and for the first year received for his compensation fifty-four dollars. The next year he received seventy dollars. He continued in the discharge of the duties of this office for a period of twenty years. In 1824 he sold his farm and settled in Wilmington, where he entered into partnership with a Mr. Fife under the firm name of Fife & Haworth. Later he entered into business on his own responsibility. He took great delight in raising cattle and was the first to import into the county the Shorthorn cattle, about 1835. For some time he was in partnership with Isaiah Morris in buying and selling land. His devoted wife died in April, 1851, and in 1858 he was married to Sarah Clark of Richmond, Indiana, the daughter of Samuel Stubbs, an early pioneer from the state of Georgia. George D. and Edith (Hadley) Haworth had eight children, the three eldest of whom died in early childhood : Mary married Samuel R. Glass; Caroline E. married Robert D. Harland; George D., Jr., was the father of Frank W.; James Mahlon was a government inspector of Indian affairs; and Edith Emma married Laming R. Moody, of Wilmington. George D. Haworth survived his second wife but two days. After four days' illness he died on June 29, 1881. His remains were laid at rest in the Dover cemetery. George D. Haworth, Jr., grew up in Wilmington, but early in life immigrated to Ft. Scott, Kansas, where he made a great deal of money in trading with the Osage Indians. He inherited a part of the farm where his son, Frank W., now lives in Union township and added more to it until he owned one hundred and sixty acres. In 1874 he built a fine brick house on his place in which his son now lives. His wife. Rebecca L. Hogue. was the daughter of Asa Hogue, who came with his parents from Virginia to Clinton county in early days. Asa Hogue became a merchant in Wilmington and in 1846 operated a large store at the corner of Locust and South streets, where the Citizens National Bank is now situated. All of the members of his family were Quakers and he was the head of the Wilmington meeting for many years. His wife died when their daughter, Rebecca L. Hogue, was only one week old. and he never remarried. Rebecca CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 607 L. (Hogue) Haworth had one sister who died when small; but she was the only chid who grew to maturity. George D. Haworth, Jr., was a prominent Republican in Clinton county and served as commissioner for some time, filling the office with rare credit and efficiency. He also was township trustee of Union township. Both he and his wife were elders in the Wilmington meeting of the Friends church and strict in their religious belief. He was a very successful farmer and made great progress with Poland China hogs. George D., Jr.; and Rebecca L. (Hogue) Haworth had four children, of whom Frank W. was the third born. The others were: Laura, who married J. W. Sparks, a banker and merchant of Wilmington; James B., who is state agent for a plow company at Des Moines,- Iowa ; and George a, who is proprietor of Sparks Hardware Company, of Wilmington. Frank W. Haworth grew up on his father's farm in Union township and after his father's death purchased the home place, where he now lives. Frank W. Haworth was married on April 28, 1898, to Emma Curl, a native of Union township, the daughter of Anthony and Mary Curl, both of whom are deceased. To this marriage three children have been born: Louise, born on October 30, 1899, is attending high school ; Ruth Olive, February 18, 1900; and Helen, March 8,. 1903. Mrs. Haworth died on April 25, 1912. Frank W. Haworth is not only a prosperous farmer, but he is a well-known citizen. He and his family belong to the Friends church. His wife was also a member. He is a Republican, and is deeply interested in the educational progress of his .county. Mr. Haworth is a worthy descendant of those noble men who had so much to •do with the early development of this county. ALBERT OGLESBEE. Having resided in this county since he was twelve years of age, the well-known Union township farmer whose name is above noted has witnessed a marvelous development of the community in which he settled shortly after the Civil War. Industrious and progressive, Mr. Oglesbee has prospered in his farming operations and is accounted one of the substantial men of the Haws Chapel neighborhood, where he is held in the highest esteem, he and his widowed mother living quietly and comfortably on the old home farm, enjoying the respect and regard of the entire community. Albert Oglesbee was born in Caesar Creek township, Greene county, Ohio, on August 16, 1860, son of Nelson and Maria (Powers) Oglesbee, both natives of Greene county, the former of whom was born in December, 1832, and died on November 25, 1903, and the latter of whom was born on November 22, 1840, and is still living. Nelson Oglesbee was the son of Isaiah and Rachel (Devoe) Oglesbee, natives of Frederick county, Virginia, the former of whom was born on May 14, 1795, and the latter of whom was born on December 18, 1797, who married about the year 1820 and immigrated to Ohio, locating in Caesar Creek township, in Green county, where they entered a considerable tract of land from the government, out of which they created a valuable farm, on which the remainder of their lives were spent. Isaiah Oglesbee and his wife were Methodists and became influential in the affairs of the pioneer community in which they settled. They were the parents of eleven or twelve children. It was on this pioneer farm that Nelson Oglesbee was born and there he was reared. As a young man he became a carpenter and some of the buildings still standing in the Caesar Creek neighborhood display the substantial character of his handiwork. He inherited a portion of the old home farm and at the time of his marriage, in 1858, bought the interests of the other heirs and remained on the paternal acres until 1872, in which year he sold the farm and bought a farm of eighty acres on the Prairie road in the Haws Chapel neighborhood in Union township, this county, where the rest of his life was spent and where his widow and son still live. In 1874 he remodeled the 608 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. house which stood on this farm and in 1891 built the present substantial barn. Nelson Oglesbee and his wife took an active interest in the affairs of the Haws Chapel Methodist church, of which they were members, and were also active in the general affairs of the community, Mr. Oglesbee for some time serving as school director in his district. On December 2, 1858, Nelson Oglesbee was united in marriage to Maria Powers, daughter of Edward B. and Keziah (Beeson) Powers, both natives of Greene county, the former of whom lived until the year 1893. Edward B. Powers, whose father, a native of Ireland, was one of the earliest settlers of Greene county, was a farmer and carpenter and built many of the houses and barns that were erected in his community in pioneer days. He and his wife were the parents of five children, four sons and one daughter, of whom two are still living, Hiram Powers, who lives at Union City, Indiana, and Mrs. Oglesbee, mother of the immediate subject of this sketch. To Nelson and Maria (Powers) Oglesbee were born three children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest, the others being Ella R., born on June 11, 1864, widow of Frank J. Pendry, who lives in Wilmington, this county, and Edward E., August 4, 1870, who owns a feed store at Dayton, Ohio. Albert Oglesbee was twelve years of age when his parents moved to this county and he completed his education in the old "Dutch" district school in Union township. Being the eldest child in the family, he early took an active part in the management of the home farm and upon his father's death remained on the place, making a comfortable home for his mother, to whom he is devoted. He is a quiet, unassuming man, but is doing well his part in life and enjoys the confidence and respect of all his neighbors. CHARLES M. BOSWORTH. The late Charles M. Bosworth was one of the most prominent men in Clinton county for the half century preceding his death in 1888. Born in Columbia county, New York. September 9, 1819, he came to Clinton county, Ohio, with his parents when he was three years old. The remaining sixty-six years of his eventful life were spent in this county and during this long period he became the leader in its financial life. He was educated in the public schools of Wilmington and early in life started in the mercantile business which eventually made him one of the wealthiest men in the county. Starting in life as a poor boy, without influential friends to help him, he first became a grocer's clerk and with painstaking attention to the business he gradually worked into a business of his own. But it was only by incessant struggling for years, with unfaltering patience, energy and industry, that he arrived at a position where he could display his talents to the best advantage. While still a young man, his father died and the care of his mother and sisters was thrown upon his shoulders, but manfully, kindly and cheerfully he performed every office of love and duty toward them. After many years of close attention to his mercantile interests, he was in a position to become identified with the banking business in Wilmington when a favorable opportunity presented itself in 1864. Upon the death of William C. Fife in December, 1863, he was persuaded by his friends to engage in the banking business himself. With his native talent and his reputation for honesty and fair dealing acquired through his many years of business transactions, it was evident that he would make a success of banking. On June 1, 1864, the First National Bank of Wilmington opened for business with Mr. Bosworth as president, and from that day until his death in 1888 he remained at its head. He gave to the business that careful attention which had characterized him In all of his private affairs, and the result was that the bank enjoyed the confidence of the people of the community from the beginning. As president of the bank he came in contact with the whole business community and those who had dealings with him testified with one accord to his clearness of head, as well as his kindness of heart. While he was first of all a business man, yet no one CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 609 ever came to him in financial difficulty who did not receive valuable and kindly advice as well as material aid so far as he was able, in his situation, to grant it. Mr. Bosworth was no ordinary man; his mind was clear and far-reaching and capable of conducting great enterprises. In fact, he would have made a success in any calling to which he might have turned his attention. No man of the county gave more freely of his means to the poor and his closest friends knew that he found a rare sense of pleasure in being able to relieve the distress of any suffering family. These acts of kindness were not known to the world at large, for his quiet and unobtrusive disposition enabled him to dispense favors without the one hand knowing what the other did. But with all his attention to business, Mr. Bosworth was essentially a man of simple domestic tastes. He was married on November 24, 1852, to Virginia Lang and to this union was born one son, Charles A. Mr. Bosworth died on October 11, 1888, and his wife survived him until January 25, 1905. Mr. Bosworth did his life work well and in such a manner that he was gathered to his fathers without a stain on his name. Charles A. Bosworth, the only son of Charles M. and Virginia Bosworth, was born in Wilmington on September 16, 1853. He was educated in the public schools of his home town and later graduated from the University of Michigan with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class of 1877, and from the Cincinnati Law School in the class of 1880. He was elected President of the First National Bank of Wilmington, Ohio, after his father's death in 1888, which position he filled until he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, September 1, 1890, and engaged in the practice of the law, under the firm name of Foraker, Black & Bosworth, until he was appointed United States assistant treasurer, October 1, 1898, which position he held until June 1, 1911. After he and his wife had taken a trip around the world, he was elected president, in July, 1912, of the Second National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, which position he now holds. He was married April 24, 1884, to Jessie W. Clark, of Cincinnati, Ohio. They have two sons, Charles W. and Erwin P., who are both married. FREDERICK D. MITCHELL Frederick D. Mitchell, a farmer of Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, was born in Union township, April 6, 1858. He is a son of Franklin Mitchell and Sarah (Whinery) Mitchell. He went to the Center district school, and entered Wilmington College. where he remained four years. His father died when he was twenty-six years of age, and upon him fell the task of settling up the estate, which included some four hundred and twenty-one acres of land, and of which he had been the manager for his father. He divided up the estate and continued to live on the home place until 1910, when he bought the Whinery homestead, to which he moved, and where he still lives. Mr. Mitchell now owns four hundred and thirty acres in Union township, and also owns some valuable land in Warren county, Ohio. In addition, Mr. Mitchell has the management of a farm of two hundred acres for his sister Harriet. He is very much interested in the subject of stock-raising, and feeds a great many hogs and cattle each year. He is treasurer of the Clinton Mutual Insurance Company. Mr. Mitchell is a Republican. He is unmarried. Franklin Mitchell was born on Nantucket Island, December 24, 1812, and died on September 20, 1884. Sarah Whinery was born in Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, on Dutch creek, June 15, 1818. She died on July 2, 1905. The former was a young boy when the family came to Cincinnati, where he grew to manhood, and after the death of his father, Jethro Mitchell, he and his brother Roland continued the (39) 610 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. business of manufacturing soap and candles, managing in addition to this a general store, as well as being engaged in the pork packing business. Franklin Mitchell first became engaged in the manufacture of soap and candles in Philadelphia, in 1850. Here he went into the business with his brother-in-law, Samuel Richie, for a time, and later formed a partnership with David Swaim, an old friend from Nantucket. Mr. Mitchell was in Philadelphia four years, during which time he became rich and retired from business. He sold out in 1854, and came to Clinton county, Ohio, where he bought the Nathaniel Carpenter farm of one hundred and seventeen acres, near Center meeting house, in Union township. After an active commercial business life, he enjoyed the quiet of the farm, which he continued to manage until he died. He was twice married. His first wife was Sarah Richie, to whom he was married on November 13, 1840. She died in 1845, and on September 16, 1847, he was united in marriage with Sarah Whinery. He was an expert mathematician, and was noted for his accuracy in bookkeeping. To Franklin Mitchell and his first wife, Sarah Richie, were born the following children: Hannah D., born on July 24, 1842, who became the wife of Jehu Moore, lived in New York City, and she died. September 10, 1899; Robert R., July 18, 1844, lives at Sulphur, Oklahoma, where he is a farmer, as well as a dealer in real estate, was a soldier in the Civil War. By his second wife, Mr. Mitchell had four children, as follow : Emeline, born on July 18, 1848, and died December 1, 1911; Hattie, May 4, 1850, lives with the subject of this sketch; Benjamin F., July 7, 1855, was married to Mary E. Babb, and they lived in Chester township, his wife died August 17, 1909, he married, secondly, Mrs. Ida Miars, the widow of Ephraim Miars; and Frederick D., April 6, 1858. The paternal grandparents were Jethro Mitchell, who died in 1832, and Mercy (Greene) Mitchell. The latter died January 1, 1859. She was a descendant of General Greene, of the Revolutionary army. The former was born on Nantucket Island, off the Massachusetts coast. He owned a fleet of whaling vessels, and also became a manufacturer of soap and candles in New York City, coming later to Cincinnati, where he continued in the same line of business, and where his life was cut short in a tragic manner. He was killed almost instantly by a fall through a hatchway, which had been left open, in his factory. He and his wife were orthodox Quakers. Mr. Gambel, of Proctor & Gambel, the great soap manufacturers, learned the business under Jethro Mitchell. The children born to Jethro Mitchell and his wife were as follow : Henry, born on August 11, 1806; Rachel, March 19, 1808, became the wife of C. M. Searles, and they lived in Cincinnati, Ohio; Mary, 1809, died in 1827; Roland G., January 2, 1811, was a manufacturer of oils in New York City, and became a millionaire; Franklin, father of the subject of this biography; Sarah died unmarried; Elizabeth died in infancy; Jethro, 1818, was united in marriage with Martha Hart, and became engaged in the lumber business in Cincinnati and was also a millionaire; Eliza married Sidney Snowden. and lived in Cincinnati ; Walter married Mary E. Evans, became a Presbyterian preacher, and died on January 18, 1909; Thomas G., 1822, married Martha E. Coffin, was an attorney of Cincinnati; Mary became the wife of John Huntington, and lived in Cincinnati. The maternal grandparents were Thomas and Ruth (Miller) Whinery, both of whom were born in Easton, Pennsylvania. About 1805 they settled in what is now Union township, the former dying on August 12, 1856, aged seventy-six years, in Clinton county, Ohio, where be owned one hundred and seventy-five acres of land. They were Quakers and were real pioneers. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Whinery married Elizabeth Hoddy, a Friend. He was a man of fine physique and was noted for his strength. They had nine children. The first record of the Mitchell family is of James Mitchell in England. His descendant, Jethro Mitchell, settled in Nova Scotia. He followed the sea, and became wealthy. He and his brothers owned a fleet of vessels, plying between Boston and CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 611 South America. One of the vessels was the "Minerva," and another the "Arctic." These were captured by the French, during the Napoleonic Wars, on the supposition that they were English. The United States congress paid the claim for indemnity in 1901, one hundred years later. CARY W. BOYLAND. Agriculture has been the true source of man's dominion over earth since man began to toil with his hands, and it has been the pivotal industry that has controlled for the most part all the fields of action to which man's intelligence and energy have been devoted. One of the sturdy farmers of Clinton county, whose labors have profited alike himself and the community in which he lives, is Cary W. Boyland, who lives on a farm of one hundred and two acres near Burtonville, in Union township; with a beautiful house, outbuildings and grounds on the pike at the crest of the hill just north of the village. In view of the consistent and honorable life of Mr. Boyland, most of which has been passed within the borders of Clinton county, it is particularly fitting that the following short account of his career be included in this volume. Cary W. Boyland was born on September 16, 1869, in Highland county, Ohio, in Dotson township He is the son of Bart and Sarah Frances (Wilkins) Boyland, the former of whom was a native of Highland county, born in 1841, and who died in 1904, and the latter of whom was also a native of Highland county, born in 1843, and still living in Burtonville. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Boyland was Patrick Boyland, a native of Ireland, who emigrated from Ireland to America when a young man, and who married in Highland county, Ohio, a native of this state. He was a farmer and reared a family of seven children. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Boyland were Peter and Nancy Wilkins, the former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Virginia. They came with their parents in early days to Highland county and engaged in farming, after reaching mature life. He was of Pennsylvania-Dutch descent. They had three children. Bart Boyland grew to maturity in Highland county, Ohio, and during his early manhood learned the stonemason's trade. He purchased the interests of the heirs in the home farm and later sold the farm and moved to Hillsboro, Ohio, where he worked at his trade. Later he moved to Bainbridge, Ohio, and subsequently to Lynchburg. In 1890 he moved to Wilmington, where he lived until his death. In the meantime, he had become an extensive stone and brick building contractor, and a great deal of his stone work is to be seen in Wilmington today. Early in life he had been identified with the Democratic party, but in later years became a Republican. His wife is still living in Burtonville and is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church. They had four children, of whom Cary W., the subject of this sketch, is the only one surviving and the only one who grew to maturity. Anna, George and Mary died early in life. Cary W. Boyland, during his boyhood, was a pupil in the public schools of Lynchburg and Hillsboro, Ohio, but at that time of life he did not recognize the advantages of an education, or the additional grasp it gives one upon the affairs of life, and quit school to work on the farm. Later, however, he regretted that he had not taken advantage of his educational opportunities. It must be admitted, however, that Mr. Boyland has made a very satisfactory progress as a farmer. For eleven years after his marriage he rented a farm from his father-in-law, John Skimming. In the spring of 1906 he purchased the old John Pond farm of one hundred and two acres near Burtonville, in Union township. A short time later he remodeled the house, and now has a beautiful country home just north of the village of Burtonville. He carries on general farming and stock raising and has been very successful. 612 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. Cary W. Boyland was married on December 28, 1895, to Jennie L. Skimming, a native of Washington township, Clinton county, Ohio, and the daughter of John and Lucinda (Hardesty) Skimming, the former of whom was the son of Anthony and Mary (McDow) Skimming, and was born in Allegheny county, Maryland, on January 12, 1832, and the latter of whom was an orphan child of Hezekiah and Sarah Hardesty, born in Union township on March 21, 1842. John and Lucinda (Hardesty) Skimming were married on February 18, 1864. They had two daughters: Mary E., born on May 2, 1865, and Jennie, December 15, 1872. The latter is now Mrs. Boyland. John Skimming, who was brought by his parents to Clinton county, Ohio, when four years old, was engaged in farming all of his life. He made a specialty of raising Poland-China hogs. All the members of the Skimming family were identified with the Christian church. In politics Mr. Skimming was a stanch Democrat. Mrs. Boyland's grandparents, Anthony and Mary (McDow) Skimming, were natives of Scotland, born near Edinboro, and immigrated to the United States in 1818, settling in Allegheny county, Maryland, where they lived until the fall of 1836, when they came to Wilmington. Three years later they moved to Washington township, where they died, the former on April 22, 1855, and the latter on April 16, of the same year. Mr. and Mrs. Cary W. Boyland have had one child, Mary Louise, born on August 27, 1901. She is attending the Wilmington high school and is considered a brilliant student. Elected as a Republican, Mr. Boyland served as trustee of Washington township for seven years. The Boyland family are members of the Central Christian church of Wilmington and are prominent in the affairs of this congregation. W. H. DAKIN. A lawyer by profession and mayor of Sabina, Ohio, W. H. Dakin is one of the best-known citizens of Richland township. W. H. Dakin was born near Oakland, Chester township, Clinton county, on November 8, 1841. He is the son of 0. H. P. and Margaret (Curtis) Dakin, the former of whom died on Jannary 24, 1858, and the latter of whom, the daughter of William Custls, died on January 17, 1870. The paternal grandfather was Preserved Dakin, a native of New York state, who in 1806 came to Ohio and entered two thousand acres of land near Oakland in Chester township, Clinton county, where he lived the remainder of his life. In coming to Ohio from New York state, he brought with him his family, who, after arriving at Pittsburgh, floated down the Ohio river in a flat-boat. Preserved Dakin was a member of the Society of Friends, and was twice married. He was the father of six children, Desdemonia, Preserved, Jr.; Decator, Albert, Allen and 0. H. P., all of whom are deceased. The youngest of six children, 0. H. P. Dakin, received a good common school education and for some years was a teacher in the public schools. For a time he lived on fifty acres of land near Oakland which he inherited from his father. This he sold and bought fifty acres near Sabina, but later sold out and removed to what is known as Dakin chapel, where he had one hundred and twenty-five acres of land. He taught school in that community for a number of years, and, in the meantime, presented to the church two acres of ground upon which a church was built. He also served as the local minister for ten years, justice of the peace for six years and as clerk of Richland township for a time. He voted the Republican ticket. 0. H. P. Dakin owned a general supply store at Sabina for four years. Before the organization of the Republican party, he had been identified with the American or Know-Nothing Party. Seven children were born to O. H. P. and Margaret (Custis) Dakin. The eldest, an infant, died at birth; William H., is the subject of this sketch. The others were CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 613 Miles Milton, L. C. (deceased), Robert M., A. Brusler, and S. Webster. Of these children, L. C. married Susan Beard, by whom he had three children, as follow : Florence, Parry, a Methodist missionary; and Nina, who married Dr. James A. Park, a physician of Columbus, Ohio. Miles Milton married Ella Kelso and by her had two children, namely : W. C., who is a steel worker at Middletown, Ohio; and Homer, who is an electrician employed by the Western Union. Telegraph Company at Chicago. Robert, who married Nellie Thompson. They have two children, Glen and Myrtle, and live in Columbus, Ohio. A. Brusler is a resident of Washington, C. H., Ohio. He married Martha Dice. They have seven children, namely Minnie, Ida, William, Harry, Elizabeth, Eveline and Clarence. S. Webster is an attorney at Yellow Springs, Ohio. He married Josephine Huffman. They have had five children, as follow : Bessie, who married 0. C. Wyke, a newspaper man of the state of Georgia ; Georgie A.; Dora, who married John White, of New Richmond, Ohio; Susie T., who married Harry Littleton, of Sabina, and Frances. W. H. Dakin obtained his education in the public schools of Clinton county and at the Lebanon normal school, which he attended for two years. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Dakin joined the Union army, enlisting in Company G, Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer. Infantry, in which he served three years, participating, among others, in the battles of Chickamauga, Dalton, Maryette (Georgia), Peach Tree Creek, Smithfield Creek, Goldsburrow (North Carolina), etc. During his entire service, he never missed a battle in which his company and regiment were engaged. After the war, Mr. Dakin taught school for a time. On February 11, 1874, about the time he was admitted to practice law, Mr. Dakin was married to Mary Elizabeth Theobald, a native of Sabina, Ohio, born December 1, 1848, and the daughter of Jacob and Lause (Bendell) Theobald. Mrs. Dakin's father was born in the Kingdom of Bavaria, July 26, 1818, and was nineteen years old when he came to America in 1837. He died on June 16, 1894. His wife, Lause (Bendel), was born in the Kingdom of Wittenberg, Germany, August 4, 1828, and died on February 8, 1912. She was eleven years old when she came to America, where she met her husband. They were married in Sabina, Ohio, in 1847. Jacob Theobald was the first of the Theobald family to come to America. His voyage to this country occupied six weeks on the ocean. Jacob Theobald owned a dry-goods store at Sabina as early as 1841; he also was a partner of Richard Curtis in the banking business. He was a self-made man in every respect. For about twelve and one-half years, he was a railroad agent at Sabina ; he also served as postmaster for fifteen years. During his life, he was actively interested in the grain business. Jacob Theobald and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He voted the Democratic ticket, and was elected the first mayor of Sabina, as a Democrat. They had three children, Mary Elizabeth, Johanna F., and Emma L. Of these children, Mary Elizabeth is the wife of Mr. Dakin. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Dakin lived in Missouri for five years, where Mr. Dakin was engaged in business at Sedalia. Four children have been born to W. H. Dakin and wife, Mabel Emma, Bertha Ines, Theobald 0., and Walter H, Of these children. Mabel Emma was born on March 12, 1875, and died on May 4, 1904, unmarried; Bertha, November 22, 1877, and died on June 22, 1899; Theobald 0., June 26, 1879. He is engaged in the insurance business and also owns a farm and is a graduate of Wilmington college, studied law at Cleveland and was admitted to the bar. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American War and is unmarried. Walter H. was born December 8, 1883, and died March 11, 1910. The mother of these children, during her youth, was educated in the Ohio Female College at Xenia. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dakin are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Dakin is a Republican, and has served six years as justice of the peace. He served as mayor of Sabina between 1881 and 1884, and, in 1911, was 614 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. elected again to the same office. Fraternally, he is a member of the Masonic lodge and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic, David Giffm Post No. 286, and was once commander and for years has been adjutant. EDWARD MIARS HACKNEY. Among the successful farmers of Union township, now in the prime of life and usefulness, is Edward Miars Hackney, who was born on April 22, 1877, in Union township, Clinton county, the son of Oscar M. and Judith (Haines) Hackney. Mr. Hackney's father was born in Chester township, Clinton county, April 14, 1852, and died on January 3, 1889. His mother was born on January 29, 1848, in Union township. They had three children, of whom Edward Miars was the eldest. Of the other children, Hattie married Clinton Sherman, and Wilbur H., who is unmarried, lives with his brother, Edward. After her husband's death Mrs. Hackney was married to George Williams, and they are now in Dayton, Ohio, where he is a real estate dealer. The paternal grandparents of Mr. Hackney were Bon and Mary (McKay) Hackney, the former of whom was an early settler in Clinton county, Ohio, and lived in Chester township, where he owned one hundred acres of land. His wife was a native of Clinton county. They belonged to Jones Run Baptist church and lived to rear a family of seven children. He died at the age of seventy-four, and she at the age of forty-four. The maternal grandparents of Mr. Hackney were Joshua and Jane (Miars) Haines, the latter of whom was a native of Virginia and the daughter of Martin and Jane (Summers) Miars, who, in 1811, came by wagon from Virginia and settled on a farm, where Edward Hackney now lives, comprising one hundred and four acres. At that time it was all virgin timberland. They built a log cabin and lived on the farm until death. Jane (Miars) Haines was one year old when she came with her parents to Clinton county, Ohio. She died in 1884 at the age of seventy-four. Joshua Haines was a native of Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, who was born in 1811, and died on September 10, 1875. He was the son of Jacob and Mary (Leonard) Haines, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania on February 19, 1778, and when quite young removed with his parents to Guilford county, North Carolina. In 1800 he was married to Mary Leonard, and three years later emigrated to Ohio, remaining at Waynesville a short time, after which he came to Union township, in the spring of 1804. His family then consisted of his wife, Mary, and one child. Here he resided until his death on June 17, 1854. Jacob and Mary (Leonard) Haines had seven children. They had fifty cents and an ax when they settled in Clinton county, and owned at the time of their death seven hundred acres of land. Joshua Haines was given a farm by his father, Jacob, and added to his farm until he had at the time of his death three hundred acres of land. Joshua and Jane (Miars) Haines had five children, three of whom, Martin, Mary and Hannah, are deceased. Mary married James Williams, and Hannah married Edward Williams. Of the living children, Rebecca married Reese Oglesby, of Union township, and Judith is the mother of Mr. Hackney. Oscar M. Hackney, father of Edward Miars, grew up on a farm and was married and lived on his wife's farm for a time, until 1880, when he purchased one hundred and four acres of the Miars farm. Later he remodeled the house. He was an ardent member of the Republican party. His family belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church. Edward Miars Hackney was three years old when his parents moved to the farm where he now lives. He has made it his home ever since. He attended district school No. 11 in Union township, and after he grew to manhood his mother gave the home farm to her three children. Later Edward Miars purchased seventy-six acres out of the John Ballard farm adjoining, and now operates it also. He keeps a herd of Jersey cattle, including twenty mulch cows, and sells the, milk at wholesale. CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 615 On March 8, 1899, Edward Miars Hackney was married to Rosa B. Matson, who was born at Palestine, Illinois, the daughter of Daniel and Ann Matson, the latter of whom is deceased, the former living on a farm in Union township. Mr. and Mrs. Hackney are the parents of four children: Raymond, born in March, 1902; Wilford, March 17, 1905; Maynard, June 2, 1910; and Oscar, August 14, 1913. Mr. Hackney is a Republican and has served as a school director; also as road superintendent. He is a man of considerable influence in local politics and is popular with his neighbors and well liked by the people of Union township JACOB NEWTON COLVIN. Among the residents in the prosperous farming region in the neighborhood of Lynchburg, in Clark township, this county, few are better known or held in higher esteem among his neighbors than Jacob Newton Colvin, a member of one of the county's oldest families. Jacob Newton Colvin was born on a farm in Green township, Clinton county, Ohio, April 22, 1854, son of William and Mary (Conner) Colvin, the former of whom was a native of Kentucky and the latter a native of Maryland. William Colvin came to this county as a boy, his father, Henry Colvin, emigrating from Kentucky with his family, locating in Washington township, where he spent the rest of his life. Henry Colvin was a small farmer, owning but fifty acres, which he cleared from the forest wilderness and made into a habitable place. Oil this small farm William Colvin grew to manhood, later locating in Green township, where his family was reared. He married Mary Conner, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Robnett) Conner, both natives of Maryland, who came to this county at an early day and located in Washington township, being among the earliest settlers of that section of the county. Jacob Conner owned a farm of eighty acres, a corner of which he gave as a site for Bethel church, upon the organization of that church, the church still standing on the spot- donated by him. Late in life Jacob Conner moved to the village of New Antioch, where his last days were spent. William Colvin became one of Green township's best-known farmers and ever displayed a lively interest in the affairs of his home community. He and his wife were the parents of four sons and three daughters, who were reared on the Green township home farm. In his later years, William Colvin moved to Highland county, where he spent the remainder of his life. He and his wife were devout members of the Christian church. Jacob N. Colvin grew to manhood in Green township, this county, receiving his education in the district schools of that vicinity, and in 1885 went to work on the farm on which he is now living, which belongs to his wife, his marriage occurring in Sep tember, 1891, at which time he was married to Lucinda White, daughter of Jacob Frederick and Louisa (Troutwein) White, both natives of Wurtemberg, Germany. The former was the son of. Jacob Frederick and Katherine (Hildebrant) White, who, with their family, came to America in 1841, locating about two and one-half miles south of the village of Lynchburg, in Highland county, this state, where they bought a small farm of twenty-six acres. On this farm the senior White spent the remainder of his days, his wife, after his death, moving to this county, where her last days were spent in the home of her son, Jacob F., father of Mrs. Colvin, on the farm in Clark, township, which now belongs to Mrs. Colvin, through descent, her parents both being dead. Mrs. Colvin's mother was the daughter of Barnhart and Rachel (Getz) Troutwein, also natives of- Wurtemberg, who came to America with the same party to which. the Whites, were attached and located on a farm of _forty acres adjoining the farm which the Whites secured. There Barnhart Troutwein died, after which his widow made her home with her daughter, Mrs. White, mother of Mrs. Colvin, the rest of her life. The 616 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. Whites and the Troutweins were devout members of the Lutheran church and this is the faith to which Mr. and Mrs. Colvin adhere, they being regarded as among the leading members of the congregation to which they are attached. Jacob F. White and Louisa Troutwein were married in Highland county, their respective parents being close neighbors there, and later acquired a farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres, one hundred and fifty of which is included in the farm on which Mr. and Mrs. Colvin are living, the remaining twenty-five acres lying over the county line in Highland county. To Jacob N. and Lucinda (White) Colvin two children have been born, Bernice and Carmel. Mr. and Mrs. White take an active part in the affairs of their neighborhood and are held in high regard by all who know them. TILGHMAN McKAY. The life history of the late Tilghman McKay, one of the well-known and highly-esteemed citizens of Clinton county, who passed away several years ago, shows what industry, good habits and stanch citizenship will accomplish in life. His life record was one replete with duty well done and conscientiously performed. Descended from one of the pioneer families of this section, in a quiet way he had much to do with the progress and prosperity of Clinton county during his day and generation. He was a man whose interests were ever centered in his family and his home and his church. The late Tilghman McKay was born on November 7, 1830, in Chester township, Clinton county, Ohio, the son of George Washington and Mary M. (Ferguson) McKay. The mother of Mary M. Ferguson was a popular young woman in the old colonial days of Virginia. The McKay family in America was established by three brothers, who immigrated from Scotland and settled in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia, where they remained for several years. It is known that they came to America about 1690, but it is not known whether they brought their wives with them or not. One of the brothers moved to North Carolina about 1700 and a little later another moved to Pennsylvania. Little is known of either. The remaining brother was the ancestor of Moses McKay, the grandfather of Tilghman, the subject of this sketch. Andrew McKay, the father of Moses, and the great-grandfather of Tilghman, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1728, and in 1755 was married to Jane Ridgeway, of New Jersey. They were members of the Society of Friends and were the parents of five children, Jacob, Moses, Enos, Patience and Margaret, all of whom reared large families. Andrew McKay died in 1804. His widow later came to Ohio with the Whitaker family and made her home in Waynesville. She later married Joel Cloud in 1806 and died within a year, at the age of seventy-five. Moses McKay, the next member of the family in line of descent, was born on September 7, 1766, in Virginia, and was married on March 3, 1793, to Mrs. Abigail Shinn, in Frederick county, Virginia. He lived in Virginia until March, 1818, at which time the family moved to Warren county, Ohio, where they lived the remainder of their lives. Of their thirteen children, one who was born in 1806, died in 1810. The remainder grew to maturity and reared large families. The names of the children were: Rachel, Robert, Sarah, George, Frances, Margaret, Virginia, Mariah, Jonas, Levi D., Jacob T. and Mary E. So numerous had the McKay family become by the time of the third generation, that the grandchildren of Moses and Abigail McKay numbered ninety-seven and the great-grandchildren one hundred and seventy-nine. George McKay, the son of Moses and Abigail (Shinn) McKay, married Mary M. Ferguson and to them were born ten children, Moses, born on November 6, 1823, married Rachel Faulkner ; Samuel, May 8, 1825, married Angeline Moore; Mildred, July 2, 1827; Jane, April 7, 1829, married Levi Shambaugh; Tilghman, November 7, 1830, is the subject of this sketch; Frank, January 12, 1833, married Elizabeth Peterson; Alfred, June 29, 1835, married Louisa Altars; Mary M., September 27, 1837, married Joshua CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 617 Oglesbee; Lucinda E., September 7, 1840; and George Washington, April 29, 1844, married Emma Daniels.. George Washington McKay and his family were among the very earliest settlers in Chester township, Clinton county, Ohio. Of their ten children, only three, Jane, Lucinda and George W., are now living. Educated in the common schools of Ohio principally, the late Tilghman McKay,. who was the fifth child in his parents' family, was married in 1853 to Sarah Jane Medsker, who was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, June 7, 1830. They were the parents of eight children, Mary M., who was born on October 9, 1854, and who was the wife of Lewis A. Smith, died on August 2, 1908; Oliver Elton, August 12, 1856, died on March 25, 1864; Sarah Alice, May 21, 1858, married Zimri Haines; Ella Florence, June 8, 1861, married Henry Pidgeon; Lucy L., April 9, 1864; Jennie E., January 6, 1867; Adella C., June 1, 1869, married Horace Ellis; Daisy D., September 26, 1873, married Charles W. Babb. The McKay family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. The late Tilghman McKay was quite active in church work during his life and was a member of the church at Lumberton, in Liberty township. Tilghman McKay owned a farm of two hundred and forty-nine acres in Liberty township, which comprises a beautiful country home. His widow is now living on the farm with the unmarried children. One of the. daughters. Jennie, who lives at home, is an artist of no small ability. She has done considerable landscape work and has also painted a splendid likeness of her father. ROBERT WICKERSHAM WHITE. One of the conspicuous names on the roll of Clinton county farmers is that of Robert Wickersham White, a splendid young farmer of Union township and a young man of high standing in the community, where he has been engaged for some time in managing his father's farm and stock raising industry. The White family has been prominently identified with the material prosperity and agricultural growth of Clinton county and the life of Robert Wickersham White is closely interwoven with the history of the county. Various members of his father's family have been prominent in public life and have worthily discharged every position of trust and responsibility with which they have been charged. Robert Wickersham White was born on January 23, 1877, on his father's farm in Union township. He is the son of John D. and Laura B. (Truitt) White, the former of whom is a native of Wilmington, born on August 28, 1850, and the latter of whom is a native of Union township, the daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca Truitt, both of whom are deceased. They were married on April 2, 1882, and to this marriage was born one child, Robert Wickersham, the subject of this sketch. John D. White is the son of Grafton B. and Sarah (Morris) White and his father was born in 1825, at Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, and died in 1858. His mother was born in 1826, in Wilmington, Ohio, where the Clinton County Bank is now situated. and died in 1875. Grafton B. White was the son of John D. White, Sr., who, after his marriage, came to Georgetown, Ohio, in Brown county, and followed school teaching. It was in Brown county that he was the teacher of a lad who was afterwards to become the foremost general in the Union army and the President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant. Both he and his wife died in Brown county. He was of Scotch-Irish descent. Sarah Morris, the mother of John D. White, was the daughter of Isaiah and Rhoda (Corwin) Morris, the former of whom was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1786, and the latter of whom was born in Lebanon, Ohio. The mother of Isaiah Morris was a Corbly. His parents moved in humble walks of life and were neither very poor nor very rich. The maternal grandfather of Isaiah Morris was a Baptist minister and Isaiah Morris's father owned a small farm. He had eight children, four of whom, including Isaiah, immigrated to the west. Two sisters settled in Ohio and a brother became a well-known farmer in Indiana. 618 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. Isaiah Morris came down the Ohio river with his uncle, a Mr. Huston, in a flatboat to Columbia, near Cincinnati, in the spring of 1803. His uncle opened a store at Columbia with goods he had brought with him. This store Isaiah Morris conducted until the fall of 1803, when the merchandise was moved to Lebanon. His uncle soon died leaving Isaiah, seventeen years old, far from home and entirely without friends, business or money. Warren county was organized in 1803 and David Sutton, afterwards General Sutton, was appointed clerk of the courts. Young Morris was given employment in his office, where he wrote until 1811. He also wrote in Judge McLean's office and between the two he had by this time saved about three hundred dollars. In 1811 be came to Wilmington and entered the mercantile business with William Ferguson, of Lebanon. They opened their first store in a frame house on the present site of the First National Bank. A few years later Mr. Morris was able to buy Mr. Ferguson's interest and continued the business alone. In 1812 Isaiah Morris married Rachel Carpenter. the step-daughter of Judge Francis Dunlavy, at Lebanon. They had two daughters, Maria, who married Robert B. Harland, and Rebecca, who married Rev. Stephen Hollis. Mrs. Morris died in 1819 and in 1822, Mr. Morris married Catherine Trimble, of Hillsboro, a cousin of Allen Trimble. They had one son and two daughters. Two of these children, the son and one daughter, died in infancy. The remaining daughter, Sarah Ann, married Grafton B. White, the grandfather of Robert Wickersham White. Catherine Morris died in October, 1828, and in 1840 Mr. Morris married Rhoda Corwin,, a sister of Hon. Thomas Corwin, of Lebanon. They had a son and one daughter, Thomas Corwin and Mary Catherine, who married Robert W. Wickersham. On June 3, 1816, Isaiah Morris was appointed clerk to the commissioners and this officer, until 1820, performed the duties of auditor. He held this office for one year. Upon the death of Peter Burr in 1816, Mr. Morris was appointed to fill the vacancy thus occurring as clerk of the court of common pleas of Clinton county. He served in this office until the close of the third term in 1837. From 1812 until 1815, he was postmaster of Wilmington. The postoffice and the clerk's office were both in Mr. Morris's store. He was the first representative of Clinton county in the Legislature in 1812 and again represented the county in 1815. In 1837 he was chosen by Clinton and Highland counties as a state senator for two years and in 1851 was elected a delegate for Clinton and Highland to the second constitutional convention of Ohio. The convention met in Columbus and after organizing, adjourned to Cincinnati and held their session in the summer of 1851, during which time they drafted a new constitution, which was approved by the people of Ohio at the election following. Mr. Morris was the first mayor of Wilmington, serving from 1828 to 1830. He was not a member of any religious sect but had a warm feeling for all. He gave to the Baptists the lot on which their church is built and in addition about eight hundred dollars. Of the one thousand acres of Clinton county land which he owned, much of it he purchased for seventy-five cents an acre.. His health was in a failing state some two years before his death, which occurred on July 18, 1858, at the age of seventy-two. Grafton. B, White obtained a good education and was a lawyer by profession. Coming to Wilmington about 1842, he was a law partner of a Mr. Fuller and later the partner of Judge West, the father of the present Judge West. Grafton B. White served as prosecuting attorney of Clinton county one term. He died of tuberculosis in 1858. He and his wife had four children ; Carr B., who is an attorney of Seattle, Washington; David, who died in 1908, and who was an attorney, in Wilmington.; Katie, who married Frank Noble and lives in Lynchburg, Ohio; and John D. The educational opportunities afforded many of the earlier sons, and daughters of Clinton county were indeed remarkable and these advantages are due in a great measure, to the interest of the Society of Friends. John D. White, after attending the Wilmington public schools and the old seminary .    CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 619 where the Friends church now stands, became a student at Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where he remained for three years. He intended to become a physician, but his health failing, he returned home. His mother having purchased fifty acres of land in Union township near Wilson Station, he lived out of doors there for the benefit of his health. After his marriage, he purchased the farm from his mother and added seventy acres more. In 1883 he sold the farm and purchased the N. H. Moore farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres in Union township, to which he moved. Later he added forty-six acres to this farm and in 1913 purchased seventy-five acres adjoining. He owns a pretty country home and is surrounded with all of the comforts and conveniences of country life, John D. White is a Republican in politics and for six years served as commissioner of Clinton county. He is a member of the official board of the Walnut street Church of Christ in Wilmington and is prominent in fraternal circles, being a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is an extensive feeder of sheep and hogs. Mr. White was formerly a director in the First National Bank of Wilmington. For the past ten years, he has spent his summers in Petoskey, Michigan, a summer resort. Robert Wickersham White attended the rural schools of Union township until he was sixteen years old and later became a student at and was graduated from Wilmington College in 1900, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Subsequently, he attended Johns Hopkins University, at Baltimore, Maryland, for one year, taking French and German. After leaving this university, he returned to his father's home farm in Union township and has been engaged in managing this farm ever since. After his marriage in 1904, another house was built on the farm and he and his father have farmed the two hundred and ninety-seven and one-quarter acres together. Mr. White was married on June 15, 1904, to Ella Smith, the daughter of James E. and Mary Elizabeth (Osborne) Smith, a sketch of whose life appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. White have one child, Robert Wendell, born on September 6, 1907. Robert W. White is identified with the activities of the Republican party. He served three years as township trustee of Union township and has been a member of the Union township school board for several years. The family are members of the Walnut street Church of Christ in Wilmington, and Mr. White, is a deacon in the church. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Clinton County Farmers' Institute Association. FRANK RHONEMUS. A descendant of the union of two of the oldest families in Clinton county, Frank Rhonemus, a substantial farmer of the Lynchburg neighborhood, is deeply interested in all that concerns the development of the county and is held in high regard in that section of the county in which he lives and where he is so well known. Frank Rhonemus was born in Jefferson township, Clinton county, Ohio, on March 4, 1860, son of Jacob and Mary (Thornhill) Rhonemus, both members of pioneer families of that section of the county, the former of whom was born near the village of Cuba, in Washington township, and the latter of whom was born near the village of Macedonia, in Washington township. Jacob Rhonemus was the son of Jacob and Sophia (Cluster) Rhonemus, the former a native of Virginia and the latter a native of Germany. The elder Jacob Rhonemus came to this county in the year 1808, as the driver of a six-horse team in the wagon train brought overland in that year by William Beggs. Liking the appearance of things in this part of the state, he decided to remain and never returned to Virginia. Though Clinton county had not been organized at that time, Jacob Rhonemus was discerning enough to see the immense possibilities the future held for this region and he secured a small tract of land, eighty-five acres, in the forest, cleared the same, erected a small 620 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. log cabin, married one of the pioneer girls of the neighborhood and made his home in the Cuba neighborhood the rest of his life, becoming one of the best-known citizens of that community. Jacob Rhonemus served his country as a soldier in the War of 1812 and received land warrants in payment of his services during that struggle. He married Sophia Cluster, daughter of a pioneer family in Washington township, who proved a faithful and devoted helpmeet in his efforts to create a home in the then wilderness. Jacob Rhonemus, son of this pioneer couple, was reared on the farm near the village of Cuba, receiving his education in the subscription schools of that neighborhood, and grew up with the expectation of becoming a farmer. He married Mary Thornhill, daughter of Barnett and Ruth (Jones) Thornhill, pioneers of Washington township, who came to this county about the year 1820, and in 1849 bought a farm of one hundred and fifty acres in the deep woods of. Jefferson township, where he made a home, cleared the farm and spent the rest of his life. During the Civil War Jacob Rhonemus, Jr., served the Union as a soldier in the Eighty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and though this regiment saw much bitter service, having participated in some of the hardest-fought battles of the war, he never was wounded and never was made a prisoner. In his religious belief, Jacob Rhonemus was a Universalist and took much interest in the affairs of the congregation of that church, being one of the leaders therein. He and his wife were the parents of ten children. Frank Rhonemus, one of the ten children above mentioned, received his education in the district schools of Jefferson township and remained on the home farm until his marriage in 1891, in which year he bought a farm of seventy-five acres in Clark township and ever since has made his home there. He has done well in his farming operations and is regarded as one of the substantial citizens of that neighborhood. He is public-spirited and progressive and is a man of influence in his community, having served on the township board of education very acceptably to all for the past twenty-two years. On March 14, 1891, Frank Rhonemus was united in marriage to Catherine Anna Lippolt, daughter of Jacob Lippolt, of Clark township, this county, and to this union six children have been born, namely : Mary, who is a well-known teacher in the public schools of Clinton county; John, a farmer, of this county; Theo and Leo, twins, who also are farming, and George E. and Ruth, who are students in the high school at Lynchburg. Mr. and Mrs. Rhonemus are members of the Lutheran church and are warmly interested in the various beneficences of the congregation to which they are attached. They also take a deep interest in community affairs, being concerned in all measures designed to advance the common good and are held in the highest esteem by all who know them. FRED WELDEN LINTON. Not so many years ago it was rare indeed to find a young man who had received the advantages of a college education, who found the farm sufficiently attractive to make agriculture his life's vocation. The custom, however, for young men reared on the farm to return to the farm after their graduation from college is becoming more thoroughly established. In Fred Welden Linton, an enterprising young farmer of Union township, Clinton county, is a splendid example of the young man who has found the farm sufficiently attractive to take up agriculture as a life calling. He is descended from Nathan Linton, one of the earliest pioneer settlers of Clinton county, Who was his great-great-grandfather. Fred Welden Linton was born on July 18, 1889, in Adams township, Clinton county, Ohio, the son of Walter and Gertrude. (Hadley) Linton, the former of whom was a native of Union township, born on July 19, 1866, and at present a resident of Norwalk, CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 621 Ohio. Mr. Linton's mother was born on December 13, 1870, in Adams township, and died on November 30, 1912. Walter Linton is the son of Joshua and Olive (Hadley) Linton. Joshua Linton was the son of Seth and Sarah Ann (Moore) Linton, the former of whom was the son of Nathan and Rachel (Smith) Linton. Nathan was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Harvey) Linton and Samuel was the son of Benjamin and Jane (Cowgal) Linton. Benjamin was the son of John and Mary (Relf) Linton. John Linton was the son of Sir Roger Linton, of Yorkshire, England. Sir Roger Linton had six sons: John, Jacob, Samuel, Benjamin, Roger and James. John was born at Yorkshire, England, and sent by his father to Oxford College, where he was educated for the ministry. Sent with a company of soldiers to attend one of the Quaker meetings to ascertain if anything was said against the Church of England, John Linton was so impressed by the simplicity, earnestness and faith of the worshippers that he became a convert, after which he was expelled from his father's house. He learned the carpenter's trade in London and was there married to Mary Relf, in 1691. After preaching for a number of years, he and his wife came to America, landing at Philadelphia on November 8, 1692. Before leaving England, he had been an associate of William Penn. John and Mary (Relf) Linton had four children: Mary, Joseph, Benjamin and John. Benjamin, the third child, was born in Philadelphia, October 6, 1703. He was a weaver by trade and an able and learned astronomer. By his first marriage to Elizabeth White, March 25, 1727, there were two children, John and Mary. The mother of these children was born on September 9; 1705, and died on January 25, 1732. He next married Jane Cowgal, who was born on July 3, 1708. By this marriage there were eight children: Lucia, Benjamin, Joshua, Sarah, Samuel, Jane, Daniel and Hezekiah. Samuel was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1741. He was a farmer and weaver and was married on May 10, 1775, to Elizabeth Harvey, who was born on March 8, 1748. They had six children: Samuel, Nathan, David, Jane and Elizabeth (twins), and James. Early in 1802, Samuel Linton and his family started from their Pennsylvania home towards the "far West." They floated down the Ohio river to Cincinnati and came by wagon to Waynesville, in Warren county, where he followed his trade of weaver. In 1804 he bought five hundred acres of land on Todd's fork, three miles northwest of Wilmington. He was a member of the Society of Friends. Nathan Linton, the second son of Samuel, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. January 17, 1778. He was surveyor at the time Clinton county was organized and held this office for twenty years. He surveyed Clinton and Fayette counties' townships and laid out the village of Wilmington. He died on February 11, 1858, honored and respected by all worthy people. Benjamin Butterworth, a member of Congress, was a son of his daughter, Elizabeth. Another grandson, Nathan, was a member of the Ohio Legislature: Nation and his wife, Rachel Smith, had twelve children: Elizabeth, Abi, Samuel, Seth, David. James, Mary, Nathan, Benjamin, Cyrus, Ruth and Jane. Seth, the fourth child born to Nathan and Rachel Linton and the great-grandfather of Fred Welden Linton, was born on October 10, 1812, in Union township. His mother was born on January 18, 1790, and died on April 4, 1859. She was the daughter of Seth Smith, born on May 19, 1761, and who died on April 1, 1837, and Elizabeth Littler, who was born on April 9, 1769, and who died on July 7, 1842. The father of the latter was Samuel Littler, who emigrated from England to America with William Penn. Seth Linton was married on September 26, 1836, to Sarah Ann Moore, of Lytle's creek meeting. She was born in Clinton county, December 7, 1819, the daughter of Joshua Moore, who was born on October 10, 1791, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and who died on February 7, 1874, and Nancy Stratton, who was born on November 16, 1797, and died on December 19, 1881. By this marriage there were six children: Nathan M., born on March 18, 1&38, a lawyer and former member of the Ohio Legislature; Nancy L.. 622 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. January 3, 1840, who married Thomas McMillan, a farmer; Rachel, October 8, 1841, who married E. Snowden; Joshua, April 2, 1843, who married Olive Hadley ; Oliver, August 5, 1845, who married Sarah Hiatt; and Amanda, November 11, 1848, who married Jacob Lewis, a farmer. Joshua Linton, the grandfather of Fred W., who was born in Clinton county, obtained little education. He grew up on the farm and was married in September, 1864, to. Olive Hadley, the daughter of Joshua and Ruth (Edwards) Hadley, the former of whom was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, and who came to Ohio with his parents when he was twelve years old. His parents were William and Sarah (Clark) Hadley. William. Hadley laid out the town of Clarksville, in what is now Vernon township, Clinton county, and named it for his wife's maiden name. He was a devout Quaker and died of heart failure while going to the monthly meeting of the Friends church. Ruth Edwards was the daughter of Archibald and Nancy Edwards, who were early settlers in Union township, having come here from North Carolina. In 1914 Joshua and Olive Linton celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. After his marriage, he had lived on his grandfather's farm near Clarksville in Clinton county for five years and afterwards obtained land in Union township, northwest of Wilmington, and lived there until 1892, when he retired and moved to Wilmington, where he and his wife still live on West Locust street. He still owns a farm of one hundred and fifty-three acres in Union township. He and his wife are lifelong members of the Friends church. The parents of Gertrude (Hadley) Linton and the maternal grandparents of Fred W. Linton were Micajah and Ellen (Cowgill) Hadley, the latter of whom was a native of Highland county, Ohio, and is still living. The former, who was a farmer in Adams township, where he owned two hundred and fifty acres of land, died in May, 1898. He as the son of Eli and Abigail (Green) Hadley, the former of whom was born on September 27, 1804, and died on November 29, 1854, and the latter of whom died on April 30, 1837, at the age of twenty-eight. She was the daughter of Reuben and Rhoda Green. Eli Hadley was the son of John and Lydia (Harvey) Hadley, the former of whom was born on September 23, 1770, in Chatham county, North Carolina, the son of Joshua and Ruth Hadley. Lydia Harvey was the daughter of William and Elizabeth Harvey, of Orange county, North Carolina, who came to Ohio in 1806, and settled near Todd's fork. They were married in Crane's creek monthly meeting, North Carolina, in 1794. Walter Linton, the father of Fred W., grew up in Union township, and after his marriage lived on his mother-in-law's farm until 1899, when he purchased seventy-five acres in Union township on the Waynesville pike. There he built a fine home, which is now occupied by the subject of this sketch. In 1913 the father moved to Norwalk, Ohio, where he is engaged in selling silos. He and his family are members of the Friends church. His wife died in 1912, and in January, 1915, he married Madora Kelly. He is an extensive breeder of Holstein cattle and for fourteen years was in the dairy business. He and his first wife had two children: Fred Welden, and one daughter, Eleanor, born on August 11, 1894, who is now a student at Cincinnati University. Walter Linton is an ardent Republican. Fred Welden Linton received his education in the public schools of Adams and Union townships. Early in life he attended Wilmington College and was graduated from that institution in 1909. Subsequently, he worked one year in the West on the Sante Fe railroad as a civil engineer, but in 1910 came back to his father's farm and for two years rented a farm near Cuba, Ohio. In 1914 he purchased his father's farm of seventy-five acres in Union township and here he now lives. On June 28, 1913, Fred W. Linton was married to Louise Truitt, who was born In Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, the daughter of J. F. and Sue Truitt, the former of whom is a farmer of this township. CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO - 623 Mr. Linton is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Central Christian church of Wilmington. Very few young men of the present generation in Clinton county are more enterprising, more capable or more popular than Fred W. Linton. Few young men have the inspiration of a more worthy and eminent ancestry than he. It may be truly said that he is fulfilling the natural obligations of the young man who is well born, and faithfully discharging all of the duties of life. FRANK B. POND. Frank B. Pond is an enterprising and successful young farmer of Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, who was born on March 21, 1877, at New Antioch, in Green township, Clinton county. He is the son of William A. and Alice (Tener) Pond, the former of whom was born on March 20, 1852, and the latter of whom was born at Locust Grove, in Adams county, Ohio. William A. Pond is the son of William and Mary (Lieurance) Pond, the former of whom was born on June 2, 1812, in Green township and who died on January 10, 1902, and the latter of whom was born on March 21, 1815, and died on August 25, 1906. Mrs. William A. Pond is the daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Weaver) Tener, both of whom are deceased. He was a harness-maker of Adams county, and his wife was a native of Highland county. William Pond, the grandfather of Frank B. Pond, was the son of Griffen Pond, who with his brothers, Henry, John and Jonathan, came to Clinton county, Ohio, in 1802, from Wilkes county, North Carolina. Frank B. Pond grew up at New Antioch, Ohio, and there attended the public schools. When a young man he assisted his father on the farm and in buying live stock. When he was twenty-one years of age he came to Wilmington and worked here for J. P. Cole in his restaurant. In 1903 Mr. Pond purchased Mr. Cole's restaurant and the following year was married. In that same year he sold out the restaurant and removed to Hillsboro, Ohio, where he was engaged in the restaurant business until 1908, when the restaurant burned. From Hillsboro, Mr. Pond removed to Faukuier county, Virginia, where he managed a farm for his wife's uncle, James Boling. He managed this farm until Mr. Boling's death in 1912, and afterwards Mrs. Boling purchased one hundred and twenty-five acres out of the Wade farm in the eastern part of Union township, Clinton county. Mr. Pond has since managed this farm for Mrs. Boling in partnership with her son, Earl W. Boling. Mr. and Mrs. Pond live on the farm. He specializes in Shorthorn cattle and Percheron horses, also Duroc-Jersey hogs. He'likewise raises a great many colts and mules. On June 22, 1902, Frank B. Pond was married to Cleo Ansell, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, in March, 1880, the daughter of James Crooks and Esther (Wilson) Ansel]. James C. Ansell lives in Zanesville, Ohio, where he is a retired farmer. He is a native of Perry county, Ohio, and the son of Peter and Lucy Ansell. During the Civil War he was a member of the Seventy-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the war, making the memorable march with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea. He was wounded in the shoulder during the Georgia campaign. Mrs. Esther (Wilson) Ansell was the daughter of Ezra and Elizabeth (Burges) Wilson, both of whom were natives of Allegheny county, Maryland. The former was born on May 26, 1812, and died on May 17, 1891. The latter was born on July 4, 1811, and died on April 16, 1891. They were married on May 1, 1828, and were early settlers in Perry county, Ohio, where they lived until their death. Mrs. Pond's mother was one of ten children born to her parents. Lewis, the eldest child in the family died of typhoid fever. Alfred died when a child, as did also Martha. Lavina married Peter Stoneberner and is now deceased. William is a resident of Crooksville, Ohio, where he is a butcher. Levi, who is deceased, was a farmer. Elizabeth, who was born on Decem- 624 - CLINTON COUNTY, OHIO. ber 12, 1846, married James H. Boling, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, June 6, 1847, and who died January 10, 1912. James H. Boling was a Civil War veteran in Company A, Thirty-first Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He taught school for twenty-five years in Perry county, Ohio, and for ten and one-half years was superintendent of the Perry county children's home. He died on his farm in Virginia. His widow owns and lives on the farm which Mr. Pond now manages in Union township. Naomi, the eighth child, married John 0. Skinner, they are both deceased. Esther is Mrs. Pond's mother. An infant died at birth. Frank B. Pond is a Republican. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, including the encampment. CYRUS E. CUSTIS. Respect is due to the brave sons of the North who left their homes and the peaceful pursuits of civic life to give their services and, their lives, if need be, to preserve the integrity f the American union, and no man is more entitled to share in this respect than the venerable Cyrus E. Custis, a distinguished veteran of the Civil War and one, who, since the close of that war, has been prominent in the religious and political life of Clinton county. He proved his love and loyalty to the government on the long and tiresome marches in all kinds of situations. Exposed to summer's withering sun and winter's freezing cold, on the lonely picket line, a target for the unseen foe, on the tented field and amid the flames and smoke of battle, where the rattle of musketry mingled with the concussion of bursting shells and the diapason of the cannon's roar, made up the sublime but awful course of death. Enlisted as a private, he was promoted to first duty sergeant on October 1, following his enlistment; to orderly, April 3, 1863; and on August 19, 1864, was promoted to second lieutenant. On January 20, 1865, he was commissioned first lieutenant, and was assigned to the command of Company C. It was on August 6, 1862, that Cyrus E. Custis, who was then just a little past the age of twenty-two, enlisted in the Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in Spencer's Company, afterwards called Company G. His regiment was assembled at Camp Denison on August 13, and ordered to Covington, Kentucky, in the following September. His first real service was a march to Crittendon, about twenty-five miles away. It required two days to go and about one day to return. His regiment guarded supply trains and railroads during the greater part of the time until 1864. On May 2, of that year, the regiment entered the Sherman campaign and there saw its first great battle. He took part in the following engagements: Resaca, May 15, 1864; Pumpkin Vine Creek, May 27, '64; and was in command of the company in all the battles of his regiment till the capture of Atlanta, where they camped till November 14, when they began the march to the sea. Arrived at Savannah, December 10, where they remained till January 18, '65. Then entered the Carolinas and was in battles of Averysboro, March 16, '65, in which he picked up the flag after the color bearer was shot down, and at Bentonville, March 18, arriving in Goldsboro about March 21st. Then marched to Raleigh, North Carolina, and at surrender of Joseph Johnston, was sent to Richmond and Alexandria, Virginia, and passed on grand review at .Washington, D. C., May 25, 1865, and was in command of his company. Cyrus E. Custis was mustered from the Union army with honor and distinction on June 9, 1865, at Washington, D. C., and received his discharge June 17, 1865, at Camp Denison. Born on August 3, 1840, in Richland township, Clinton county, Ohio, on the farm which his grandfather, Samuel Reed, had settled in 1803, Cyrus E. Custis is the son of William H. and Mary (Reed). His father was born in Scioto county, Ohio, December 15, 1813, and his mother in Richland township, Clinton county, April 12, 1813. She was the daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Paris) Reed. They were married on December 19, 1837.