650 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. people. In their family. were ten children, Six sons and four daughters, and with one exception all grew up, were married and are still living, namely : Mrs. Mahala Elizabeth King, who was born October 27, 1866, and has been three times married ; John Henry, a farmer of Miami county, Ohio, born April 5, 1862; Isaac. N., our subject; Benjamin Franklin, a farmer of Darke county, born June 13, 1865 ; Mrs. Sarah Jane Young, of Delaware. county, Indiana, born January 31, 1867 ; Jacob Albert, a farmer of Darke county, Ohio, born July 2, 1869; Mrs. Harriet Ann Trissell, born July 22, 1871; Samuel Theodore, a resident of Miami county, born March 9, 1873 ; Chloe Ellen, deceased, born November 21, 1874; and Abraham, of Darke county, born September 28, 1876. During his boyhood Isaac N. Booker received a good common-school education, and remained at home until he attained his .majority. On the 22d of January, 1888, he was united in marriage with Miss Lillian Roselle Hartzell, of Greenville township, who belongs to a most. worthy and intellectual family. Her maternal grandfather, John S. Shepperd, was a native of this state, while his wife, Susan Hartpence, was born in New Jersey and in early life came to Ohio. After their marriage, in 1838, they settled in Greenville, and Mr. Shepperd became one of its most prominent citizens, serving as postmaster and in other important official positions connected with the court house. His son, W. W. Shepperd, was recorder and held nearly every county office. He was born October 12, 1841, and died February 3, 1887. He was a man of unswerving integrity and irreproachable habits, and he had the entire confidence and respect of his fellow citizens. His mother, who was a most noble woman, died November 10, 1883. Mrs. Booker's father, Charles W. Hartzell, was born in 1839, and has spent his entire life on a farm in Greenville township, engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was married, March 7, 1866; to Emma Shepperd, a native of this county, and to them were born four children, namely : Elmer Sanford; who was born April 14, 1867, assists in the operation of the home farm; Lillian Rozell, born December 15, 1870, is the wife of our subject; John Homer, who was born September 22, 1873, is a graduate of Delaware College, was professor in an educational institution in Pike county, Ohio, and is now a medical student in Cleveland ; and Olive May, born May 30, 1875, died December 19, 1878, at the age of three years. Mr. and Mrs. Booker have four children : Ethel Leonora, born in 1889 ; Florence Belle, in. 1890; Sanford Charles, in 1892; and Wallace Hartzell, in 1895. In early life Mr. Booker engaged in farming in Wabash township, but in November, 1898, he sold his farm and removed to North Star, buying the hardware stock and trade of R. Mendenhall. He is now doing a large and profitable business, and is the owner of his store building and home in North Star. As a Democrat he takes quite an influential part in local politics, and in 1894 he was elected town clerk, which office he has filled for six years in a most creditable and satisfactory manner. Religiously both he and his wife are members of the Christian church. JOB M. WINTERS. Darke county, Ohio, one of the historical sections of the Buckeye state, has within her borders many men who have. left the GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 651 impress of their individuality upon its history—men to whose efforts may be attributed the substantial growth and prosperity of the community and whose labors have led to advancement along social, intellectual and moral lines. This section of the state, which was once the home of the red men and the abiding place of the noted chieftain well known in connection with Indian warfare which occurred during the time of our second struggle with England, is now a tract of well tilled fields, the property of prosperous agriculturists, whose sons and daughters stand side by side with the children of capitalists and bankers in the colleges and universities of to-day. Washington has said that "farming is the most honorable as well as the most useful occupation to which man devotes his energies," and the utterance is as true to-day as when spoken more than a century ago. It has been largely due to the agriculturists of the community that marked changes have occurred in Darke county, until it would almost seem as if a magic wand had been waved over this fair region, transforming the wild forests into blossoming fields. To this class belongs Mr. Winters, the subject of this review. He first opened his eyes to the light of day amid the picturesque scenery of the Blue Ridge mountains, his birth having occurred in Fulton county, Pennsylvania, on the 6th of November, 1835. He is the youngest in a family of five children, three sons and two daughters. His parents are George. and Anna (Mann) Winters. Four of the children are yet living, namely : John, who formerly followed Carpentering and building, but is now engaged in agricultural pursuits Pennsylvania ; Margaret, who is living in this state; Dorothy, wife of Jonathan Yonker, a farmer of Darke county, Ohio; and Job M. The father of this family was also a native of Pennsylvania and was of German lineage. He obtained a good education and became a mechanic. He died July 12, 1836, at the age of forty-two years, when our subject was a little child. His wife, also a native of Pennsylvania, died July 30, 1855, at the age of fifty-five. years. J. M. Winters, of this review, was reared on the home farm, early becoming familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. He remained in his native state during his minority and ac-. quired a good practical education in' the common schools. He applied himself diligently to the mastery of his studies and this became able to teach, following that profession for a time. As the result of his industry and economy he had acquired a capital of two hundred dollars by the time he attained his majority, and like many other enterprising young men of the east he determined to try his fortunes in some of the newer districts of the west. Accordingly he came to Darke county, Ohio, and during his identification with the business interests of this locality he has steadily worked his way upward until he has attained a position among the substantial residents of the community. He chose for a companion and helpmate on life's journey Miss Rhoda Brewer, a native of Darke county, their marriage being celebrated on the 1st of March, 1860: Eleven children, seven sons and four daughters, have been born of their union, and nine of the number are yet living. Ella, the eldest, is the wife of Thomas Mitchell, a farmer, by whom she has six children. Clara is the wife of William Warvell, a resident farmer of Richland township, Marion, a carpenter and joiner by trade, is 652 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. married and resides in Muncie, Indiana. Rufus, who is also married, is a successful commercial traveler residing in Delaware, Ohio. Orpha is the wife of George S. York, a son of one of the prominent pioneers of Darke county. George, who was a student in the schools of Greenville, Ohio, and a graduate of the Terre Haute Polytechnic Institute, is now a civil engineer, following his profession in Mexico. Clarence is engaged in the dairy business in connection with his father and brother, Oscar, who is the next of the family. Homer, the youngest, is an expert mechanic. Mr. and Mrs. Winters have given their children good educational privileges, thus fitting them for life's practical and responsible duties. After their marriage our subject and his wife located on a farm a short distance east of their present beautiful homestead, where Mr. Winters rented land for four years. He then made his first purchase of real estate, becoming the owner of eighty acres oil section 28, Richland township. He had little capital and had to go in debt for the greater part of the land, but by diligence and economy was soon enabled to meet the payments, and as his financial resources increased he added to his farm until it now comprises three hundred and forty acres of rich and arable land. The excellent improvements upon it stand as monuments to his thrift and enterprise. These include a nice brick residence and commodious barns :and outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock. Mr. Winters engages in the cultivation of corn, oats, wheat and tobacco and is extensively engaged in the dairy business in connection with his sons, Clarence and. Oscar. a hey began the manufacture of butter in 1895, and to-day have a very modern and complete outfit, their plant con taining a six-horse-power engine, a complex Baby de Lavel separator and other requisite machinery. They have a herd of twenty-six Jersey, Guernsey and Durham cows and manufacture a grade of butter which is unexcelled by any on the market. Their annual output is nine thousand pounds, and their business is carried on on scientific and practical principles, so, that they are enabled to tell the cost of each cow and the revenue derived from the herd. In February, 1900, their butter was tested at Columbus, at the Ohio Dairymen's Association, where it scored ninety-nine points out of a possible hundred, a fact which is certainly creditable, not only to, Mr. Winters and his sons, but to Darke county as well. Oscar Winters is an enterprising young business man; well qualified to carry on the enterprise of which he acts as foreman. Having acquired a good preliminary education in the common schools, he took a course in the Dairy School in the State College of Pennsylvania, and is therefore very competent in the line of his chosen work. The firm finds a ready sale for all the butter they can manufacture and expect to enlarge their facilities at an early date. For thirty-six years Mr. and Mrs. Winters have resided in Darke county and are numbered among its most highly esteemed citizens. In politics. he has been a stanch Democrat since casting his first presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas, the "little giant of the west." He has always stanchly upheld the banner of Democracy and advocated those principles and measures which tend to promote the best interests of the masses. His felow townsmen, recognizing his worth and ability, have elected him for nine consecutive terms to the office ofi township treasurer, wherein he has GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 653 discharged his duties in a most creditable manner. The cause of education finds in him a warm friend and for six or eight. years he has served as a member of the school board. He has frequently been a delegate to county and congressional conventions and is a recognized leader in the ranks of his party in this locality. Both he and his wife are devoted members of the Christian Church at Beamsville, and contributed generously of their means toward the erection of the house of worship there. He has also aided in the upbuilding of the churches at Brock and Ansonia, and has not withheld his support from other measures and movements which tend to the betterment of mankind. His son, Oscar, is organist in the Sunday school of the Christian church at Beamsville. The family is one of prominence in the community, enjoying the high regard of all with whom they have come in contact. WILLIAM ALLEN. William Allen, the prominent lawyer, judge and legislator of Greenville, Ohio, was born in Butler county, this state, Augusti 13, 1827, and died July 6, 1881, in Greenville. His father, John Allen, was a native of Ireland, born January 26, 1800, and came to America in 1812. After residing six years in New York, he located in Butler county, Ohio, in 1818, and in February, 1838, moved his family into the sparsely settled forests of Darke county, where he erected a log-cabin, having a split-log floor and mud and stick chimney. He died on the 2d of October, 1858, a very much respected citizen. He possessed fine conversational powers, and in the latter part of his life was a preacher of the United Brethren church. Our subject was favored with the advantages of the common schools only, yet by earnest personal application he qualified himself to teach the English branches at the age of fifteen, and in this way for several years employed his winters. At the age of nineteen he began reading law under the late Felix Marsh, of Eaton, Ohio, was admitted to the bar in June, 1849, and the following October began practice at Greenville. He met with success in his chosen calling and became one of the most prominent and successful lawyers of Darke county. On the 36th of September, 1851, Mr. Allen married Miss Priscilla, daughter of John Wallace, a native of Pennsylvania; and an early pioneer of Butler county, Ohio, who settled in Darke county in 1834, and died in the summer of 1863, at the age of about eighty years. He was always recognized as an upright man and an excellent citizen. The children born of this marriage were five sons and three daughters, of whom only one son is now living. (His sketch is given next). Four of the children died of diphtheria under the most afflicting circumstances, and within the brief space of two months. This was in the winter of 1864 when Mr. Allen was summoned home from Washington city to the scene of bereavement. Early in life Mr. Allen became prominently identified with public affairs, and has been called upon to fill several important official positions. In the fall of 1856 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Darke county, and re-elected in 1852. In the fall of 1838 he was elected representative to congress from the fourth district of Ohio, comprising the counties of Miami, Darke, Shelby, Mercer, Allen and Auglaize, and reelected in 1860, thus serving in the thirty-. sixth and thirty-seventh congresses. In the 654 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. winter of 1865 he was appointed by Governor Cox as judge of the court of common pleas of the first sub-division of the second judicial district of Ohio, composed of the counties of Butler, Darke and Preble, to fill an unexpired term in the place of Judge David L. Meeker, resigned. In 1872 he was a member of the Grant electoral college, and also an elector for Garfield in 1880. The electors of Ohio, after casting their vote for the latter, paid him a visit of congratulation at his home in Mentor, Ohio. Mr. Allen was again nominated for congress on the Republican ticket from the fifth congressional district of Ohio in the summer of 1878, but declined the honor on account of ill health. Of local positions, it may be mentioned that he was president of the Greenville Bank, then a private enterprise, conducted under the firm name of Hufnagle, Allen & Company Mr. Allen began the world in poverty, was reared in a rough log cabin, and enjoyed none of the golden opportunities for social and educational improvement which are lavishly bestowed on the youth of to-day, but he always made the most of his advantages, and without the aid of influence or wealth rose to a position among the most prominent men of his county, his native genius and acquired ability being the stepping stones on which he mounted. As a lawyer his career was successful, while his record as a statesman was creditable to himself and satisfactory to his constituents. BENJAMIN M. ALLEN. This gentleman, the only son of William Allen, was born in the village of Greenville, Ohi0, July 3, 1868, and his boyhood was spent there. He obtained his education in its public schools, was an apt student and was graduated in the high school in the year 1888, passing through a five-years course of study with credit to himself. He then took a commercial course at Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. Returning to Greenville he turned his attention to farming and stock raising until 1899 and had one of the finest herds of blooded cattle in the state of Ohio. He afterward discontinued his farming operations and is now successfully engaged in the real estate and fire insurance business in Greenville. On the 14th of August, 1889, Benjamin M. Allen was .united in marriage with Miss Jennie E. Gaskill, a daughter of Abram and Sarah A. (Youart) Gaskill. Her mother was an own cousin of Lord Gladstone, of England. Mrs. Allen died February 12, 1899, leaving one daughter, Alcie, born February 12, 1891. On the 5th day of June, 1900, Mr. Allen was united in marriage to Miss Laura Telma Shearer, daughter of Samuel and Sarah A. Shearer, of Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, the former now deceased. CYRUS ZELLER. Among the native sons of the Buckeye state is numbered Cyrus Zeller, and Darke county has reason to be proud of such a citizen. His home has always been within the borders of Ohio, and he is a loyal citizen of the commonwealth, whose life has been honorable, characterized by fidelity to duty in every relation of life in which he has been placed.. lie was born near the beautiful city of Dayton, and traces his lineage back to German ancestry. The family has ever been celebrated for the high character of its GENEALOGICAL. AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 655 representatives, including a number of ministers, physicians and other men of note. One of the number, a brother of Mr. Zeller's grandfather, was a bishop of the United Brethren church of Ohio, and wherever, the name of Zeller has been known there have been found men of sterling worth and probity. He whose name introduces this record was born on the 4th of September, 1835,, and is the second in the family of eight children. He had four brothers and three sisters and the parents were George and Susan (Riegel) Zeller. The father was, born in Montgomery county in 1810, and died about the year 1861. He was educated in both the German and English languages; and although he started out in life upon his business career a poor man, he steadily worked his way upward, overcoming all difficulties and obstacles in his path. He was careful and methodical in his business methods and Untiring in his labors, and his word was considered as good as any bond that was ever solemnized by signature or seal. He became the owner of one hundred and fifty-three acres of land in Montgomery county, and had in addition considerable money. The industry and perseverance so characteristic of his German ancestry were manifest in his daily life, and it is also shown forth in the business careers of his children. The precept; "Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you," he made the rule of his life, and this was manifested in his many benevolent ,actions. He aided liberally in the erection of churches in his neighborhood and the poor and needy always found in him a friend who never turned them from his door empty-handed. His good deeds are a monument to his memory more enduring than any slab of granite or of stone; and have caused him to be gratefully remembered by many who had a practical demonstration of his kindness. He left to his family not only' a comfortable property; but also that good name which is rather to be chosen than great riches. His was not an exalted or pretentious life, but his, character was noble and upright and his example well .worthy of emulation. His wife, who was his faithful companion and helpmeet in all of his good work, was a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, born about the year 1810; and she lived to reach the seventy-fifth milestone on life's journey. She brought up her children in the fear and admonition of the Lord, being. a devout member of the United Brethren church. She too belonged to an old Pennsylvania German family. The first home of the Zeller family in this locality was a log cabin that still stands, one of the few landmarks that indicate the contrast of the past with the present progress. The children of George and Susan (Riegel) Zeller once formed a band of eight around, their fireside; but only three are left to relate the story concerning their pioneer home in the early days in the development of Ohio. Cyrus is the eldest survivor. Abia, the second, served as a soldier during the civil war, and at its close received an honorable. discharge. He is now a tobacco raiser and cigar manufacturer, residing in German: township, Montgomery county, Ohio. Mary E., the only living daughter, is also a resident of Montgomery county. Cyrus Zeller is the only one of the name now living within the borders of Darke county. He has followed closely the path of right and duty, and his history is a credit to the family. In the common schools he acquired his education, becoming familiar 656 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. with the elementary branches of the English language. The sports of youth and the labors of the farm also claimed his attention, and his practical training in the fields well fitted him, for his work in later years. He has devoted much of his leisure time to reading, becoming familiar with many standard Works which tend to elevate thought and improve character, his greatest study being of the Bible. In business he has ever been known as an enterprising agriculturist, and was identified with the farming interests of Montgomery county until 1864, when he Came to Mississinawa township, Darke county, and purchased one hundred and forty-three acres of forest land. The trees stood in their primeval strength and the place Was destitute of improvements. Mr. Zeller, however, built a log cabin home and in true pioneer style began life here, being hampered by an indebtedness which, however, he was soon enabled to pay off, for his earnest, untiring labor added yearly to his capital. He worked in the fields from early morn until late at night, clearing away the trees and preparing the land for the plow. Ultimately rich harvests ' were garnered where once stood the wild forests. Good buildings were erected, including a substantial residence and barn, and the Zeller homestead is now one of the most desirable and attractive in the township. The land has been tiled and has thus been transformed into a richly Cultivated tract which yields to the owner a golden tribute in return for the care and labor bestowed upon it. Mr. Zeller still retains the ownership of the homestead, which property he acquired by his own hard labor, his frugality and economy. In recent years he has inherited some property from his parents, and that he is a kind and indulgent father is shown by fact that he has purchased for each of his children a good farm, thus enabling them to start out in life in comfortable circumstances. He has recently purchased what is known as the Samuel Patterson farm in Brown township, comprising one hundred and twenty acres, and has added this to his other valuable acquisitions. On the 2d of November, 1862, Mr. Zeller was united in marriage to Miss Mary "Ann Jenkinson, whose birth occurred in Darke county, on the 1st of March, 1843. Their marriage was blessed with nine children—four 'sons and five daughters—and with one exception all are yet living, namely : Emma F., the wife of Gilbert R. Hand, an agriculturist living in Brown township; George W., who wedded Mary Hart and makes his home in Monroe township; Mary Elizabeth, the wife of John Van Scoyk, a farmer of Twin township ; John Wesley, who married Miss Ola Martin and is a farmer of :Allen -township; Susan C,. the wife of Fred D. F. Amspaugh, an agriculturist of Brown township ; William Henry, who died February 22, 1880, aged seven years, seven months and twelve days; Addle B., the wife of Delmont T. Bolinger ; Delia, the wife of Frank Rhoades, of Mississinawa township; and David M., born March 6, 1881, who- is Jiving in the same township. In 1896 a great bereavement came to the family in the death of the wife and mother; who passed away on the 5th of May. She was kind and affectionate, ever careful of the interests of her family and her presence in the household was like a ray of sunshine. Her memory will ever remain as an unalloyed benediction to those who knew her, for hers was a beautiful Christian character whose influence was like the pervading fragrance of the violet. After attaining his majority Mr. Zeller, of this record, cast his first presidential vote GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 657 in support of James Buchanan, and has stood stanch and firm in support of the Jacksonian principles. His. generosity has been most marked, and has led to his liberal contribution toward the erection of six different churches in his immediate vicinity. In manner he is kindly and benevolent, quickly touched by the cry of need, his sympathy being easily aroused; nor is it in words only, for his substantial aid has been received in many a household. His life has indeed been .a useful, upright and honorable one, and the world is better for his having lived. For many years he traveled life's journey by the side of a loving and loved wife, and her death was the heaviest blow that has ever come to him; but he has borne it with Christian fortitude, believing. in a happy reunion beyond the grave. When Mrs. Zeller was ,called to her final rest, there appeared in the Ansonia Climax the following obituary notice : "Mary Ann Zeller was born near Lightsville, Ohio, March 1, 1843, and died May 5, 1896, aged fifty-three years, two months and four days. Her illness was of short duration, proving fatal from the day on which she took her bed. Although her sufferings were great, yet she bore them with Christian fortitude, realizing that though her-trials here were many, they would soon be over and that she would meet the loved ones who had preceded her to the better world. She embraced religion and joined the United Brethren church in Montgomery county, in 1863, and afterward removed to Darke county and joined the United Brethren church at Rose Hill, and Eyed a consistent religious life till death. She was married to Cyrus Zeller November 2, 1862. She leaves her devoted. husband, five daughters, three sons, five sisters and. three brothers, together with a large number of relations and friends to mourn her loss. The funeral occurred at Teegarden's chapel, and was largely attended." Mr. Zeller has reached the sixty-fifth milestone on life's journey, and his record has ever been an honorable one, marked by firm support of principle and fidelity to every duty. To his intimate acquaintances he has ever been a faithful friend and neighbor, and his devotion to his family has been marked by the most .unselfish effort to promote their happiness and welfare. JOHN HERSCHEL MORNINGSTAR. This well-known business man of Greenville, Darke county, Ohio, was born in that town, January 3, 1851, and is a son of William H. and Elizabeth (Wagner) Morningstar. The father was born near Xenia, in Greene county, Ohio, September 5, 1805, and in early life followed farming, but later he was for many years engaged in mercantile pursuits in Greenville, where he settled in 1840. He continued in active business there until within a short time of his death, which occurred December 28, 1886. His wife, the mother of our subject, died in Greenville, April 7, 1869. Her parents were George and Sarah (Stevens) Wagner. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania and an early settler of Darke county, Ohio. At an early clay he came to this county, and spent the remainder of his life in German township. Reared in Greenville, John Hi Morningstar acquired his early education in its public schools. Later he was a student at Chickering Institute, in Cincinnati, and subsequently took a commercial course at Eastman's College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Soon after 658 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. his return home he was united in marriage with Miss Jennie Ferguson, a daughter of Robert H. and Mary A. (Turner) Ferguson, of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Morningstar embarked in the confectionery business in Greenville soon after his marriage, March 1, 1877, and has since successfully engaged in that line of trade. For thirty years he has dealt in ice. He owns a. beautiful park containing a small lake skirted by one thousand fruit trees. He has provided a good band stand, boats and seats for the convenience of his guests, and many other accommodations. It has become a popular resort during the warm season, and is frequented by large crowds of pleasure-seekers. Being a pleasant, genial gentleman, Mr. Morningstar thoroughly understands the best methods of conducting such an enterprise. Socially he is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity. STEPHEN SHEPHERD. This progressive and enterprising citizen of Neave township, Darke county, whose home is on section 30, was born near Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, June 22, 1831, and is a son of Dennis and Hester (Stephenson) Shepherd, both natives of Pennsylvania and of Irish descent, the maternal grandparents of our subject being natives of the Emerald Isle. The paternal grandfather yeas born in New Jersey, of Irish ancestry. After their marriage the parents of our subject came to Ohio and settled in Butler county, where the father improved a farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits throughout his active business life. In politics he was a stalwart Democrat, and was widely and favorably known. lie was about ninety years of age at the time of his 'death, and his wife lived to be eighty-seven. They had nine children, eight sons and one daughter, and with one exception all grew to manhood or womanhood. Stephen Shepherd, who was the eighth child and seventh son in this family, was educated in a log school house, and on laying aside his text books at the age of fourteen served a six-years apprenticeship at the blacksmith's trade, after which he engaged in the same line of business on his own account. He opened a shop at a little place called Soccom, in Twin township, Darke county, where he carried on business until 1862, when he purchased the farm on section 30, Neave township, where he now resides. Here he has lived ever since with the exception of three years spent in Arcanum, but at present he is now actively engaged in agricultural pursuits, renting his farm of one hundred and fifty-seven and a half acres to his son-in-law. He is a good horseman and has always devoted considerable attention to the noble steed and now owns some very good horses, which he is training for the road, having a half-mile track upon his place. In September, 1860, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Shepherd and Miss Ada-line Lowry, a native of Neave township, and a daughter of Reuben and Mary Lowry, early settlers of this county. Mrs. Shepherd is the second in order of birth in their family of five children. To our subject and his wife have been born three children, namely : Clayton T., a practicing physician of Dayton, Ohio ; Lizzie C., wife of V. NI. Carry, who operates the home farm; and Percy, better known as R. H. Since casting his first vote Mr. Shepherd has always affiliated with the Democratic party and taken an active interest in GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 659 political affairs. He served as a trustee of his township five years and is one of its honored and, highly esteemed citizens. HARVEY H. BIRELEY. Harvey H. Bireley was . born in Greenville, Darke county, February 22, 1844, and is the fourth son of William J. and Elizabeth Bireley. His igreat-grandfather was born in Wittenburg, Germany, was a tanner by trade and emigrated to the United States, locating in Maryland, near Hagerstown, where he spent his remaining days. His son, John, the grandfather of our subject, was born in that locality and was reared to manhood under the parental roof. He learned the trades of tanner and shoemaker and later engaged in the manufacture of paper, also owning and operating a flour-mill. He married Barbara Brindle, and unto them were born eleven children, one of whom, William J. Bireley, became the father of our subject. He was born April 3, .1812, in the family home in Maryland, but his parents removed. to Liberty, Montgomery county, Ohio, during his early youth. There he learned the shoemaker's trade, and he was wont to relate with pride that on his thirteenth birthday he made complete the largest pair of shoes manufactured. (We regret to say that the name of the man who wore the shoes is forgotten l) On the death of .his father the support of the family devolved upon William J. Bireley and his mother, so that his educational advantages were limited to about three months' study in the schools. Being of a studious nature, however, he supplemented his school training by extensive reading and observation, and possessing an observing eye and retentive memory he became a well informed man. In 1832 he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Martin, who was born November 19, 1812, a daughter of Christopher and Elizabeth (Laurimore) Martin, both of whom were natives of Maryland To Mr. and Mrs. Bireley were born ten children, namely : Ira J., deceased; Anna E. ; Henry P. ; William W. ; Harvey H. ; Barbara C. ; Rebecca, who died in infancy; Wade G. ; Margaret, who died in infancy; and Mary R. In 1833 William J. Bireley came with his family to Darke county, locating at Greenville, where he built a pottery, which he operated until 1856. In 1859 he bought a farm in Adams township and commenced. the manufacture of lime, continuing in that enterprise until 1862, when he returned. to Greenville. During his six years' residence there he dealt in lime and cement and then returned to his farm, where he remained until his life's labors were ended in death, October 9, 1888. His widow is still living on the old homestead, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. Harvey H. Bireley spent his early childhood in the city of his birth. In the year 1852 his father purchased the Henry House farm, situated on the Fort Jefferson pike. Among his schoolmates were John and Marion Harper, J, M. Craig, Elizabeth Craig Stephenson, George and Elias Westfall, John, William and Dan Studebaker, James and Isaac Arnold and others. Among his school teachers were D. H. R. Jobes, J. T. Martz, George Martz, John Shepherd and others. During his early years as a student grammar was looked upon with disfavor and was not taught, but Mr. Bireley's father. took an active interest in matters of education and through his efforts a night class for the purpose of studying grammar was formed, with George H. Martz as in- 660 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. structor. Kirkham's grammar was the text book, and once or twice each week during the entire winter the class met and made rapid progress. From that period grammar was taken up as one of the regular studies of the curriculum. While the Bireley family lived upon the home farm they carried on the work of improvement. There were many clumps of willows growing upon the place, and, wishing that he might cultivate the land, the father made what was called a "harpoon," to which he attached two yoke of oxen and soon there were enormous piles of the willows ready for the torch. In grubbing up those trees Mr. Bireley of this review received his first lesson at driving oxen, and he drove oxen as long as that farm was owned by his father. The son learned that the best way to treat dumb animals was to be kind to them and such a course he has ever followed. On the 4th of August, 1862, Mr. Bireley enlisted as a musician in Company G, iForty-fourth Ohio Infantry, and the regiment joined the Army of Kentucky. In August, 1862, it became a part of Burnside's command, and on the 17th of that month started on the march to Knoxville, Tennessee, a distance of two hundred and four miles. The regiment to which Mr. Bireley belonged was the first to enter the city. They. were besieged from October until the 7th of December, when General Sherman raised the siege and the troops proceeded to Strawberry Plains, where they engaged and defeated the enemy. 1 hey had received neither clothing nor rations from the government during the siege and had been forced to live upon half rations of bran and cornmeal during a part of the time. The Forty-fourth Ohio veteranized on the 1st of January, 1864, and returned over the same march of two hundred and four miles in the dead of winter, suffering many hardships and discomforts: They were obliged to forage for supplies and slept where. night overtook them without other shelter than a "dog tent." In February they received their first change of clothing since the preceding August. They were granted a thirty-days furlough, and on their return, in May, 1864, they were mustered in as the Eighth Ohio Veteran Volunteer Cavalry and were sent to Virginia under the command of Colonel Owens. Subsequently they were transferred to General Phil Sheridan's command in the Shenandoah valley. The band of which Mr. Bireley was a member was commanded by Sheridan to listen for the signal of the gun, and when they heard it they were to play a national air at double-quick time. The signal was given and the band, stationed between two batteries, struck up Yankee Doodle and the refrain was caught up and echoed by the men along the entire line of five miles, and under the inspiring notes of the music the memorable charge of Cedar Creek was made. On the 11th of January, 1865, Mr. Bireley was captured at Beverly, West Virginia, by the troops of General Rosser. He and his fellow prisoners were taken to Charleston, Virginia, and then to Libby prison, where they were exchanged February 15, 1865. Mr. Bireley weighed one hundred and fifty-two pounds when captured and one hundred and fifteen pounds when released! They returned to Camp Chase and received a thirty-days furlough, on the expiration of which time our subject with his command was discharged, May 30, 1865. Returning to his father's farm our subject engaged in the manufacture of lime for two years. In 1867, feeling the need GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 661 of a more thorough business training, he took a commercial course in the Bryant & Stratton College at Indianapolis. On the 25th of August of that year he was united in marriage to Henrietta V. Weills, who was born May 9, 185o, the eldest daughter of Rev: Solomon and Lydia (Shaffer) Weills. To Mr. and Mrs. Bireley have been born five children—Bessie, Ira, Alma, Agnes and Sylvia. The son died in infancy. After his marriage Mr. Bireley removed to Tippecanoe City, where he was employed by Ford & Company in a wheel factory for six years. From there he went to Columbus Grove and engaged in the confectionery business for two years, after which he removed to Painter's Creek, in Franklin township, Darke county. He has been engaged in general merchandising for seventeen years at this place, conducting a profitable store. He served seven years as township treasurer, for six years as justice of the peace and for twelve years as postmaster. In politics he is a Republican and since 1873 he has been a member of the Odd Fellows society, belonging to both the subordinate lodge and the encampment. He is also a member of Dan Williams Post, G. A. R., of Pleasant Hill. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church. ALLEN FRY. Allen Fry, a prominent and influential citizen of Neave township, Darke county, Ohio, who is now serving as treasurer of the township, was born on the farm on section 23, where he now resides, August 19, 1853, and is a son of Thompson and Phoebe ( Jeffries) Fry, natives of Preble county, this state, where they were reared and married. It was on the 1st of April 1835, that they came to Darke county. The father, who was born in 1820, died in this county at the age of sixty-two years. He was a farmer by occupation, a Democrat in politics and an earnest member of the United Brethren church. He held the office of school director, but never cared for political preferment. His. father, Cornelius Fry, who was born in. Pennsylvania, of German ancestry, was an early settler of Preble county, Ohio. He followed farming as a life work and held several minor offices in the county. His brother, Rev. Andrew Fry, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was a prominent citizen of Fort Jefferson, Darke county, and served as justice of the peace for several years. The mother of our subject is still living. Her father, Seth Jeffries, came to this state from New Orleans and was one of the early settlers of Preble county. Allen Fry is the seventh child and fourth son of a family of eleven children. He acquired his education in the district schools near his boyhood home and early became familiar with the duties which fall to the lot of the agriculturist. He has spent his entire life on the old homestead and is successfully engaged in general farming, having a well improved and highly cultivated tract of seventy-seven acres. On the 27th of February, 1876, Mr. Fry was united in marriage to Miss Amanda Schlechty, a daughter of Christian and Margaret (Thompson) Schlechty, early settlers of Darke county, where they were reared and married. They had five children, three daughters and two sons, of whom Mrs. Fry is the fourth in order of birth. To our subject and his wife have been born five children, namely : Minnie, now the wife of Herman Shellhaus, of. Greenville, Darke 662 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. county ; Frank, now in Minnesota; Harry, Jay and Susie, all at home. By his ballot Mr. Fry supports the men and measures of the Democratic party, and takes quite an active and prominent part in local politics, having been a member of the central committee of his township. He has filled the offices of school director, constable and road supervisor, and in 1893 was elected treasurer of his township, in which position he has served with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the public ever since, being twice elected and once appointed to that office. He is also a member of the Horse Thief Protective Society, and is actively identified with every enterprise which he believes calculated to prove of public benefit, being one of the most public-spirited and progressive citizens of his community. NOAH W. BROWN. In the compilation of a work of this nature it is always gratifying to the biographer to note the salient points in the career of one who has attained a position of prominence in any field of endeavor, and in the case at hand we have to do with one of the representative farmers of Darke county, his excellent homestead being eligibly located on section 3, Harrison township, while his post. office address is New Madison. He has attained success through his own efforts, is a scion of a worthy. ancestry and is well deserving of honorable mention in this work. Mr. Brown was born in Hampstead, Carroll county, Maryland, on the 22d of February, 1855, being the son of George W. Brown, who was a native of the same place, his birth having taken place in 1814. He was a blacksmith by trade and was a man of sterling integrity. He married Martha Ann Stich, and of their five sons and four daughters all grew to adult years except the daughter, Elizabeth, who passed away at the age of nine years. One son, Christopher W., died in September, 1899, in his sixty-fourth year. He was twice married and left ten children to mourn his loss. The surviving children of George W. and Martha A. Brown are as follows : Thomas, a resident of Baltimore county, Maryland, has three children ; Alverta, the widow of Frank Peterson, has two children ; Sally, widow of John Watson, has three children ; Charles, a resident of Baltimore county, Maryland, has eight children ; Noah W. is the immediate subject of this sketch ; John L. is a successful farmer in Neave township, Darke county. The father of these children died at the age of seventy-eight years, his widow surviving until March 24, 1900, when she passed away at the venerable age of eighty-two years. Noah W. Brown grew up under the sturdy and invigorating discipline of the farm, receiving ;his educational discipline in the district schools, the advantages afforded in this line being limited in scope, as his services were demanded on the home farm, early and late. He began an apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade when he was nineteen years of age and soon became an expert artisan. He came to Ohio in 1878 and for two years was employed by the month, working for William Thomas and George M. Noggle, to the latter of whom individual reference is made in another sketch appearing within these pages. At the expiration of the interval noted Mr. Brown rented a farm for one year in this county, and he then made ready to establish a home of his own in the proper sense of the GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 663 term, being united in marriage, on the 3d of March, 1883, to Miss Susanna Noggle, daughter of Michael and Mary (Mote) Noggle. The young couple settled on their farm of eighty-three acres, the place, which was entirely unimproved or reclaimed, having been given to Mrs. Brown by her father. This farm has ever since been the home of our subject, and the place to-day has slight semblance to the primitive forest tract which constituted the original farmstead. The indefatigable industry and well directed efforts of Mr. Brown have made the place one of the most desirable and attractive of the many fine farms in Darke county, and the improvements are all of superior character. Our subject raises diversified crops, having grown three thousand bushels of corn and six hundred of wheat as an annual yield, and he gives special attention to the breeding of swine of high grade, marketing from three to four droves each year. This branch of his business has been practically his leading and most profitable enterprise, and though he had severe losses during the ravages of the hog cholera he was not discouraged and his efforts have given him good returns. He is recognized as one of the best judges of swine in the county, and is an authority on all matters pertaining to the care and improvement of this sort of stock. By the judicious crossing of breeds he has secured a fine grade of swine, and he controls a large business in this branch of farming industry. In his life he has labored without ceasing, has had many obstacles to overcome and has been animated by a singleness of purpose Which would not recognize defeat. He is thus entitled to much credit for what he has accomplished, and his inflexible integrity in all the rela- Lions of life has won him the confidence and esteem of all with whom he has come in contact. Though denied the privileges of scholastic training in his youth he has a high appreciation of the advantages of education and his aim is to afford to his children the best possible opportunities in this line. In his political adherency he is a Democrat, but has been signally averse to accepting official preferment, his only service in this direction having been as road supervisor. Mr. Brown is known as an enterprising and public spirited citizen and is held in high esteem in the community. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias. Mr. and Mrs. Brown. have a most interesting family of children,—one daughter and 'three sons,—of whom, we enter brief record as follows : Bessie E., born December 6, 1883, is an attractive young lady, an excellent student and one who has marked musical ability ; George A. was born January 24, 1886 ; Charles M., August 14, 1889 ; and Virgil A., March 7, 1894. GEORGE M. NOGGLE. Amcng the successful agriculturists and representative citizens of Darke county is Mr. Noggle, whose fine farmstead is located on section 3, Harrison township, his post-office address being New Madison. He is a native of this township, having been born on a farm two miles south of his present place on the 7th of July, 1847, the son of Michael Noggle, who was born in Lee township, this county, January 10, 1819. The latter's father, George Noggle, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1775, and he died on the farm owned by our subject in the year 1853. His father was a farmer of the Keystone state, where he died, the family being of German extraction. 664 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. George Noggle, grandfather of our subject, was married, in Pennsylvania, to Catherine Hoenline, who was born in 1773, and they became the parents of five sons and five daughters, all of whom lived to maturity and had families. George Noggle was a man of great physical power and indomitable courage, being the hero of many a pugilistic encounter and never having been vanquished. He was very industrious and energetic and he cleared up two farms in this section of Ohio. He came here from Pennsylvania in 1812, being one of the pioneers of Darke county, where he took up his abode in 1816. In 1825 he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in Harrison township, section 15, and there he died in June, 1853, his widow surviving until 1860, when she passed away at the age of eighty-seven, her death resulting from a severe fall into a cellar of her home. She was a woman of fine presence, being of large stature and noble bearing. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Mary Mote, and she was born in this neighborhood June 14, 1821. On the 16th of January, 1840, was solemnized her marriage to Michael Noggle, the groom being twenty-one years of age and the bride sixteen. Mrs. Noggle was the daughter of Jonathan and Susanna (Kefler) Mote, the former of whom was of English ancestry, his birth having occurred in the state of Georgia. He was four times married, and of the first union six sons and five daughters were born, and there were several children by the second marriage. Of the eleven children of the first Marriage and the three sons of the second all lived to pass the half-century mile post on life's journey, and five of the number are still- living, the eldest being in his eighty-third year. The mother of our subject died at the age of seventy-one. Of the five sons and two daughters of Michael and Mary Noggle we offer the following data : Phoebe Jane, born April 26, 1841, married and died in 1872, leaving five children; Alfred, born April 4, 1843, died at Richmond, Indiana, in 1895, leaving one son ; Ephraim, born May 5, 1845, is a farmer in Butler township, this county, and has six children ; George M., the fourth in order of birth, is the immediate subject of this review ; David, a successful farmer of Clark county, Ohio, has five children; Susanna, wife of Noah Brown, is mentioned in an individual sketch of that gentleman elsewhere in this volume ; and Jonathan, born in 1855, died in infancy. The mother of our subject died in 1892, and the father on the 6th of April, 1898. They were people of the highest integrity and were among the honored pioneers of this section of the state. Like his father, Michael Noggle began work at an early age and he was soon inured to the severe labors of clearing up and reclaiming the frontier farms, having cleared up the farm now occupied by our subject and having spent two years in Wabash county. He inherited eighty acres from his father and he and his brother, David, took up and owned some four hundred acres in Harrison township. On the farm which is the home of his son, George M., of this sketch, he erected, in 1868, the fine brick residence which is one of the most spacious and attractive country homes in this section. He farmed on an extensive scale, being assisted in his operations by his four sons, being very successful in his dealings in the product of his farms and realizing large profits at a time when these commodities commanded high prices. In 1861 he paid GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 665 fifty dollars an acre for his land, and the final payment on the same was made within three years. George M. Noggle has always lived on the old homestead and he early became familiar with the various duties involved in successful farming. He received such educational advantages as were afforded by the district schools and this discipline has been most effectively supplemented by his experience in connection with the practical affairs of life. On the 16th of December, 1869, Mr. Noggle was united in marriage to Miss Cynthia A. Flatter, a native of this township, and a daughter of Perry and Elizabeth Flatter, both of whom are deceased, the father passing away in 1898. They were the parents of five sons. and four daughters. To our subject and his estimable Wife have been born nine children, namely : Elmer, who still remains .on the old homestead ; Harry, who died in infancy ; Olive H. ; Ella Viola ; Andrew Porter ; Clara Edna ; Harley Webster ; Russell G., who was born June 4, 1892, died at the age of fourteen months ; and Ethel May,. an animated little maiden of six years. In politics Mr. Noggle renders allegiance to the Democracy, supporting the -Bryan wing of the party, and he served four years as township treasurer, and has also keen a member of the school board. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order. ANTHONY T. KNORR. This gentleman is the well known editor and proprietor of the Greenville Deutsche Umschau, the leading German paper published in Darke county. He was born in Germany, December 25, 1855, and was ed- ucated in his native land, attending first the common schools and later a gymnasium, where he completed his studies. Having thus acquired a good practical education he was well fitted to begin life for himself. In 1876 he came to the United States, sailing from Hamburg and landing in New York city. He stopped first in Toledo, Ohio, and from there went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he remained for a short time and then proceeded to Fort Davis, Texas, where he spent two years and a half. On his return north Mr. Knorr first located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and from there came to Greenville, Ohio, entering the office of the Greenville Post, when owned and published by J. G. Feuchtinger. In 1890 he purchased the paper, which he has since published under its present name. It is a well edited sheet, neatly printed in German and has a large circulation. It is an eight-page paper, 15x22 inches in size, and is issued weekly. Mr. Knorr is an able writer and is a ma i of social qualities, well liked by all who know him and very highly esteemed by his friends. WILLIAM C. PLEASANT. This well-to-do and prominent farmer of Van Buren township, Darke county, Ohio, is one of the self-made men of the locality, whose success in life is due entirely to his own well directed efforts and the assistance of his estimable wife. He was born in Gooch-land county, Virginia, December 25, 1847. His father, William Pleasant, was the son of a slave owner and was horn and reared it Alabama. When a young man he went to Virginia and settled in Goochland county, where he clerked in a store for a time. There he married Ellen Woodson, who was 666 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. born in Powhatan county, Virginia, but after the. death of her parents made her home with her grandmother in Goochland county, where she grew to womanhood. The father died in 1858 at about the age of thirty-eight years, leaving four sons, namely : William C., our subject; Robert F., a resident of Trotwood, Ohio, who married, first, Lizzie Carter and, secondly, Mary Brewer ; James, of Dayton, Ohio, who married Katy Brown ; and George Washington, of Painter Creek, who married Ollie Miles and has one child, Willis. After the death of her husband the mother held her family together and about 1866 moved to Rockingham county, Virginia, and three years later to Trotwood, Montgomery county, Ohio. She is still living and makes her home with her children. The family being in limited circumstances William C. Pleasant never attended school but one day in his life, and at the early age of eight years he commenced work by the month in order to contribute to the support of the family. He was about twelve when his father died and the main support of the family fell upon his shoulders, as he was the oldest son. He joined the southern army at the age of fourteen years, enlisting in September, 1863, in Goochland county, Virginia, in Company F, Fourth Virginia Cavalry, and was under the command of Captain Hobson, Colonel Mumford and later Colonel Fitzhugh Lee (now general). Without any previous drill he went to the front and the following day took part in the engagement at Raccoon Ford, where, while making a charge, he was wounded in the right side by a piece of bomb shell. For three days and three nights he lay unconscious in the hospital, but as soon as reason was restored he would remain no longer and at once rejoined his regiment, being in active duty continuously until the close of the war. He was in a number of skirmishes, was at Fredericksburg a short time and then went into winter quarters at Charlottesville, Virginia. In the. spring of 1864, with his regiment, he proceeded to the Shenandoah valley and met Sheridan's army at Winchester. They were under fire almost daily during that campaign, their next important battle being at Cedar creek. Marching south to North Carolina the Fourth Virginia Cavalry took part in the battle at Weldon Railroad and captured General Alvorell's command, the general escaping. They were next stationed on the south side of the James river and for seven days participated in the battle of the Wilderness. Being sharpshooters they generally took a very important part in every engagement. Their next battle was Cold Harbor, after which they proceeded up the Shenandoah valley as far as Stanton, and from there were ordered below Richmond, spending the winter of 1864-5 near that city. Their last fight was the battle of Petersburg, and were with the army until the surrender at Appomattox Court House. After the war Mr. Pleasant returned home and commenced work on a farm. In 1866 he came to Ohio, but being taken ill he soon rejoined his family in Virginia. He accompanied them on their removal to this state, and worked in the nursery of John Wampler at Trotwood for one year, after which he and his brother Robert F. had a rented farm for two years, and then bought five acres of land at Stringtown, Montgomery county. Two years later they sold that place and purchased the store of Simon Dunkle at Painter Creek, Darke county, which they conducted together for one year, GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 667 and then our subject purchased his brother's interest and formed a partnership with Samuel Swinger, to whom he sold out a year later. He next purchased a piece of property ,from Dr. McCrew at Painter Creek and erected thereon a confectory stand which his Wife carried on while he devoted his attention to tobacco culture. His next purchase Consisted of thirty-three acres of land on section 2, Van Buren township, and he later sold his property at Painter Creek and located on his farm March 5, 1881, since which time he has engaged in farming, tobacco culture and the raising of small fruits with most gratifying Success. He also owns eight acres south of his farm, and in 1899 he erected a beautiful residence upon his place. Mr. Pleasant was married, August 5, 1878, to Miss Isabelle Miller, who was born in Van Buren township, April 20, 1857, a daughter of Emanuel and Nancy (Wagerman) Miller, and to them have been born six children, namely : Mollie M., who married Jesse Flory, of Franklin township, Darke county, and they have two children, Roy and Alma ; Mattie Rosella, the wife of John Burr Of Greenville ; and Allie Viola, Vernie Forest, May and Jessie Omega, all at home. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Pleasant are members of the Christian church and politically he is identified with the Democratic party. For the success they have achieved in life they deserve much credit, and they are highly respected and esteemed by all who know them. WILLIAM S. THOMPSON. Among the honored and highly respected citizens of Patterson township, Darke county, Ohio, is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, October 14, 1824, and is a grandson of Staples Thompson, whose .parents were natives of England. He spent his last days in Bucks county. He was twice married and reared seven children—five sons and two daughters. David Thompson, the father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1791, and was .married there, in 1818, to Lucy Ridge; a native of the same state. In 1832 they came to Ohio, driving the entire distance and reaching Warren county after about five weeks spent upon the road. With the few hundred dollars which Mr. Thompson brought with him he purchased sixty acres of partially improved land, to which he subsequently added until he had a fine farm of one hundred acres in Warren county. There he died, August 31, 1870, aged seventy-four years. Of his twelve children one daughter died in infancy. The others were as follows : Mary Ann, born in 1819, is now the widow of Levi Cleaver and a resident of Warren county ; Samuel makes his home in Seneca, Kansas ; William S., our subject, is next in order of birth ; Mahlon died in Missouri ; Hannah became the wife of William Reason, of Springboro, Warren county, Ohio, and died October 13, 1900, aged seventy-three years; Sadie, who died at about the age of sixty-five years; David Headley met with an accident resulting in death, June 6, 1899 ; Thomas is single and resides in Lebanon ; Comley died in Perrysburg, Ohio, in middle life ; Rachel is the wife. of . Edward Roberts, of Warren county; and Rebecka is the widow of Marion Allen. The education which our subject received during his boyhood was liberal for the times, and at the age of eighteen he commenced learning the cooper's trade, serving an apprenticeship of one year, after which he followed that occupation for twenty years. 668 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. For three years he was employed as a fruit tree agent, but now gives his entire time and attention to general farming and stock raising, having located upon his present farm of eighty acres in March, 1872. He rases horses, cattle and hogs, making a specialty of the last named, which he has found quite profitable, handling about fifty head per year. On the 23d of March, 1848, Mr. Thompson married Miss Sarah A. Carter, who was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 1827, but during her infancy her parents, William and Nancy (Shaw) Carter, removed to Montgomery county, Ohio. About 1837 the family moved to Auglaize county, this state, and settled near Wapakoneta, where in the midst of the forest Mr. Carter developed a farm of two hundred and eighty acres. He died December 24, 1857, at the age of fifty-seven years, eight months and twenty-four days, and his wife departed this life February 12, 1870, at the age of sixty-five years, both being laid to rest in Auglaize county. When she was eighteen years of age her name was carved on the Natural Bridge in Rockbridge county, Virginia, near her native place. In the Carter family were twelve children, of whom four sons and three daughters are still living, one son, John, dying in the army. To Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were born six .children; namely : Horace Monroe, born April 6, 1859, died at the age of three years ; Nettie E., born October 6, 1860, is the wife of Bert Faun, of Bradford, Miami county, Ohio, and they have seven sons and two daughters, one son dying in infancy ; Jennie B., born July 10, 1862, is the wife of Eli C. Hanselman, of Piqua,. and they have one son and one daughter ; Mary Jane, born near Terre Haute, Indiana, June 14,.1864, is the wife of Isaiah Straker, who lives near Straker's Station, Ohio, and they have one son and one daughter, which died in infancy ; Anna, born July 11, 1867, is a well educated lady, possessing considerable musical talent, and resides at home ; and Birdie, born October 24, 1870, is the wife of Prentiss Hardman, who assists in the cultivation of the home farm, and they have one son, Cletaus Wayne. Politically Mr. Thompson is a Republican, and socially is a member of Tippecanoe Lodge, F. & A. M. Both he and his wife are active members of the Christian church and are highly respected and esteemed by all who know them on account of their sterling worth. WILLIAM A. BROWNE, SR. William A. Browne, Sr., is the editor and proprietor of the Daily and Weekly Advocate. In 1883, he began the publication of the journal as the Weekly Advocate, and on the 1st of January, 1890, completed his arrangements and put forth the first issue of the daily paper. His name has long been connected with the journalistic interests of .this section of the state, and along the line of his chosen vocation he has wielded a strong influence in support of many measures which have largely contributed toward the public good. Mr. Browne is a native of Cecil county, Maryland, born April 19, 1842. His father, the Rev. William A. Browne, was a Methodist Episcopal minister, who for many years belonged to the Maryland conference and continued in the active work of the church up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1844. His wife bore the maiden GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 669 name of Hester A. Touchstone, and was of English lineage. She survived her husband for many years and passed away in 1892. In her family were five children, three daughters and, two sons. Emma Alice was the eldest, and was a highly cultured lady, who for many years was a regular contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, the New York Ledger and the St. Louis Republic. She was a poetess of national reputation. William A. Browne, whose name forms the caption of this article, attended the common schools and later was a student at. West Nottingham, Maryland, until his twelfth year He then entered the office of the Cecil Whig, at Elkton, that state, and there learned the printer's trade. Subsequently he was employed in the office of the Cecil Democrat, of the same town and county, and later went to Pennsylvania. Afterward he was employed on the force of a newspaper at Brighton, New Jersey, and on leaving the east made his way to St. Louis, Missouri. Subsequently he Went to Leavenworth, Kansas, and also worked in Cincinnati, Ohio, and other places in the middle states. In 1874 he bought the Covington Gazette, at Covington, Ohio, and remained as editor of that paper for nine years. In 1883 he came to Greenville, Darke county, and founded the Weekly Advocate, which is a neat and well-printed eight-page journal, having a large circulation in the city, county and adjacent districts. In 1890 he established the Daily .Advocate, which is one of the strong Democratic organs of the county. For both papers he has secured a liberal patronage, and those journals are welcome visitors in many homes in this section of the state. Mr. Browne is not only a good writer, his editorials being forcible and pleasing, but is also a practical printer, familiar with all departments of the newspaper business. In 1862 occurred the marriage of Mr. Browne to Miss Sarah A. Hawkins, of St. Louis, Missouri, a daughter of Samuel Hawkins, a prominent resident of that city. The lady is a graduate of Franklin Academy, of St. Louis, Missouri, and by her marriage she became the mother of five sons and four daughters, five of whom are living, namely : Annie, wife of N. J. Kuntz, a prominent lumber dealer of Ohio City, Ohio ; Agnes, wife of Thomas G. Wolf, of the Greenville Awning & Tent Company ; William A., who is a printer in the office of the Advocate; Walter E., who is also a practical printer ; and Lineas M., an electrician of Greenville. Mr. Browne is a member of several of the leading secret orders. In his political faith he has ever been a stalwart Democrat, his labors in behalf of the party being very effective. His chief recreation is found with rod and gun in the lake regions of Michigan, and in the forests of that state, where, as a successful angler, he has succeeded in capturing some splendid specimens of the finny tribe. In his business affairs he has prospered, and is now the owner of considerable valuable city property in Greenville, including his own handsome and well-furnished residence at No. 516 Third street. GEORGE ARNOLD. Darke county can boast of quite a number of enterprising and thorough going farmers who have given considerable attention to the raising of fine stock, and have met with success in this branch of industry. Among these was George Arnold, a prominent farmer who resided on section 24, 670 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Neave township. He was born October 1846, on the farm where he lived until his death and was a son of Ncah Arnold, a native of Warren county, Ohio, who was only six weeks old when brought to this county. Tradition says that the Arnold family was founded in America about the year 1725, by one Arnold, who settled in the southern part of North Carolina, having emigrated from England. It is believed that he was a farmer or planter. He had a family of seven sons, but the names of only two are remembered : Butler, who was a surveyor of government lands in Kentucky, and John, who emigrated from North Carolina to South Carolina during the Revolutionary war. It is thought that the other members of the family emigrated to Pennsylvania. The John Arnold just mentioned, on his removal t0 South Carolina, purchased land in the Newberry district of that state. His family consisted of seven sons and one daughter, namely : George, who emigrated to Ohio in 1805 ; Moses, who removed to Ohio in 1808 ; William, who came to this state in 1806; John, Isaac, Jacob and James, who removed to South Carolina ; and the daughter, who became the wife of William Jay and located in Buncombe, North Carolina. It is said the sons of the family were tall, straight, well built, of reddish complexion and of a fine personal appearance in manner and dress. Of this family Moses Arnold was the great-grandfather of our subject. He was born in North Carolina, January 6, 1763, and with his father went to the Newberry district of South Carolina, where he was married, August 14, 1782, to Rachel Lynch. He owned land two and a half miles south of the Newberry court house. By his marriage he had seven children : Isaac, Aaron, William, Lydia, David, George and Mary. With his wife and all of his children, with the extion of his eldest son Isaac, he emigrated to Ohio in the autumn of 1808, taking up his abode in what was then Warren, but is now Clinton county. There he remained until June, 1817, at which time he removed to Darke county, accompanied by the children who had come with him to Ohio, with the exception of William, who had previously located in Darke county. He died near Greenville, Ohio, April 1, 1850, at the age of eighty-seven years, two months and twenty-five days. His wife, who was born in March, 1765, died in Darke county, Ohio, in 1826. The Lynch family to which she belonged was of Welsh. descent. Moses Arnold was described as a man five feet, eleven inches in height, florid complexion, brown beard, reddish hair and small, keen black eyes. He long held membership in the Methodist church and was very strict in attending to religious matters, observing the Sabbath scrupulously, permitting no ordinary work on that day under any circumstances. His disposition was kind and amiable and he was universally respected. He never married again after the death of his wife and spent the last twenty years of his life with his youngest son, George, who occupied the old homestead property. William Arnold, the third son of Moses and Rachel (Lynch) Arnold, was born in Newberry district, South Carolina, March 12, 1789, and in 1808 accompanied his parents to Ohio. Previous to that time he had been engaged with his brother Isaac in transporting the products of this section of the state to Charleston, which was about two hundred miles distant from his home. Returning they would bring with them salt and other articles which were imported at the place and mention is made of negroes GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 671 brought into the interior from slave ships which arrived. His education was limited, for public schools were then unknown in that state. He .was, however, a close observer and listener and became well informed on matters of general interest. In politics he was a Whig and was greatly opposed" to the policy inaugurated by President Jackson. After coming to Ohio with his parents, lie was married in Warren county to Miss Elizabeth Townsend, on the 4th of July, 1815, In the fall of that year he visited Darke county, preparatory to his removal thither in the ensuing spring. The land on which he settled was the northeast quarter of section II, township I I, range 2 east. He soon purchased one hundred and sixty acres adjoining on the north .and ultimately became the owner of four hundred and fifty-six acres. His first home was a log cabin with puncheon floor, but about the year 1827 he erected a two-story brick dwelling, which was one of the first brick houses in the county. He also put up good barns and outbuildings and was a prosperous farmer. On the 5th of December, 1825, he was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, and on the ,18th of September, 1828, he was again married, his second union being with Margaret Folkerth, who was of German descent, the family having probably emigrated from Saxony to the new world. In the fall of 1832 and in September, 1835, he visited the Eel river country of Indiana, and, at the latter date, purchased four hundred acres of land in Whitley county. A purchase made about this time in Adams county, Indiana, increased his holdings to nearly eleven hundred acres. He was a remarkably successful farmer, having started out in life in very limited circumstances, but year by year he added to his ac cumulations and became very prosperous. He usually kept from sixty to one hundred head of cattle and his sales annually augmented his income. He was naturally adapted to farming and thought it the best and safest occupation that a man could follow, advising all of hid sons to adhere to agricultural. pursuits as being the most advantageous. His second wife died February 23, 1867, and at the age of sixty-four years, after a happy married life of thirty-nine years. At that time his daughter Lydia was the only member of the family at home and she remained with her father until his death, which occurred February 12, 1875, when he was almost eighty-six years of age. His children were as follows : Delilah, who was born in Warren county, Ohio, November 9, 1813, married William Sandford Harper, April 5, 1832, and died at her home near Greenville, Ohio, April 1, 1874 ; Noah, born February 16, 1816, married Amelia Stingley, September 22, 1839; George, born in Darke county, September 27, 1818; married Ann Maria Welty and lives in Bluffton, Indiana; John, born November 12, 1820, married Augennette Fogger, who. died in South Whitley, Indiana, April 4, 1855, and after her death he wedded Elmira Thompson, his death occurring at South Whitley, October 11, 1880; Mary, born March 5, 1832, is the widow of Rev. Elisha Hook, a Methodist minister, and is living at Tower Hill, Illinois ; William, born November 29, 1825, married Mary Ann Stingley and died at Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, in November, 1860. Isaac, the eldest child of the second marriage, died April 2, 1836, at the age of six years ; Jesse, born October 24, 1831, married Sarah Thomson and lives in North Manchester, Indiana; Maria A., born December 10, 1833, became the wife of S. V. Hopkins and died October 2, 1887, in North Manchester, In- 672 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD diana; Henry, born March 11, 1836, married Annie Cleveland and lives in Huntington, Indiana ; Isaac N., born April 5, 1840, married Susan Loring and also resides in Huntington ; Lydia, born April 5, 1844, is the wife of Jacob Worley Ford, of Huntington; James T., born April 5, 1844, married Elizabeth Johnson,. and after her death wedded Lettie Cleveland, and is now living in-Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Arnolds have always been connected with the Methodist church and have always been people of prominence and influence in the communities in which they have lived. Noah Arnold, the father of our subject, was born in Warren county, Ohio, February 6, 1816, was reared on his father's farm in Darke county, and, making the most of his educational privileges, was enabled to engage in teaching at the age of nineteen. When twenty-three years of age he left the farm and in February, 1839, embarked in the dry-goods business in Greenville, conducting his store there until 1843. In September, 1839, he married Emilia Stingley, of German township. On selling his store in 1843, he purchased a farm of two hundred and forty acres in Neave township, taking up his abode thereon in September of that year. There he made his home and was a witness of the wonderful growth and improvement which has been made in the county, bearing his part in the work of progress and advancement. For nine years he faithfully filled the office of justice of the peace and was notary public for twenty-one years. He became one of the organizers of the Farmers' National Bank of Greenville in 1864, was a stockholder from the beginning and for a long time one of its directors. In 1848 Noah Arnold was called upon to mourn the loss of his first wife. They had four children : Isaac N., the eldest, was born in Greenville, June 7, 1840, and while attending the select schools, he put aside his textbooks in 1861 to enlist in Company E, Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteers.. He served for two years and re-enlisted as a veteran. At Atlanta, Georgia, he lost his left arm which was shattered by a piece of shell, and thus his military service of four years was ended. He had participated in many important engagements. After the war he went to Washington, where he obtained a position in the treasury department, filling the place for fourteen years or until his death October 12, 1880. While in Washington he was graduated with honors in the Columbia Law College. He was married in that city to Mrs. Laura S. McConnel ; Mary Jane, second child, was born in Greenville, February 22, 1842, attended the common schools and the Delaware Female College and afterward engaged in teaching for several terms. She was married October 17, 1866, to Harvey N. Arnold, a merchant of Greenville, by whom she has one son, Eddy Arnold. Effy A., the third child, was born in Neave township, Darke county, was married July 3, 1867, to L. E. Chenoweth, who is now a successful practicing attorney of Greenville and they have two children, Milly and James. George, the youngest child of this marriage, was the one whose name introduces this record. Noah Arnold was again married in 1850, his second marriage being with Martha Banfield (Birely) Laurimore. They lived on the old homestead until his death, January 11, 1891, and had one daughter, Margaret Ella A:, now the wife of W. H. H. McCool, a merchant of Jaysville, Ohio. Besides aiding his children liberally Mr. Arnold accu- GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 673 mulated considerable property and his farm near Jaysville, Ohio, was one of the finest and most desirable in the county. George Arnold, of this review, was a student at the college at Delaware, Ohio, for three years, and while there he was called into active service for one hundred days duringithe Civil war, being a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment of Bore Guards. After. his return home, he attended the common schools at Dayton, Ohio, for a time. In 1868 he went west and held a position in the postoffice at Omaha, for some years. The following three years were spent at Fort Laramie, in the post trading business, and he was subsequently engaged in the cattle business for about nine years, having a ranch fifty miles north of the North Platte at a place called Arnold, which is now quite a flourishing town. On Christmas, 1879, he had a stroke of paralysis, which caused him to lose the use of his right side. At that time he was quite extensively engaged in the stock business, having thirteen hundred head of cattle upon his ranch in Nebraska, and was meeting with most excellent success. He returned to the old homestead in Darke county, Ohio, in 1884, where he engaged in general farming and stock-raising, keeping horses, cattle and hogs until his death, which occurred quite unexpectedly June 28, 1900. His farm consists of one hundred and sixty acres, and 'is under a high state of cultivation. While in Nebraska. Mr. Arnold was married, in 1868, to Miss Ella Taylor, a native of Greenville. They had ode daughter, Blanche, who was born at North Platte, September 8, 1877, and was married August 15, 1900, to Thomas Hughes, a successful attorney of Greenville. In his political views Mr. Arnold was a stanch Republican, but at local elections where no issue was involved he voted for the man best qualified to fill the office, regardless of party lines. Socially he was a man respected and honored by his neighors. ROYSTON FORD. Dr. Royston Ford, physician and surgeon at Greenville, Ohio, was born near Jaysville, in Darke county, on the 28th day of November, 1845. His father, Mordecai S. Ford, born in Kentucky, July 18, 1807, came. to Ohio when quite young with his widowed mother, Delilah Mills Ford, whose husband, also named Mordecai S. Ford, had died in the Indian war. The family lived near Ithaca, this county, until, her death, June 14, 1840. Another family to be mentioned is that of John Tillman. He was born in Virginia, April 17, 1780, and at the age of ten he moved to Tennessee, whence he removed to Ohio about two years before the territory became a state. While living in Tennessee he was married to Nancy Harless, who was also a native of Virginia, born September 10, 1790. They lived in Preble county, -reared a family of thirteen children, and died February 24, 1850, and September 1, 1863, respectively. One of these daughters was Polly Tillman, who on March 5, 1829, became the wife of Mordecai S. Ford, the father of Dr. Ford. This young couple lived for two years near her father's home, in Preble county, after which one hundred and sixty acres of new land were bought, in Van Buren township, Darke county. Here they lived the hard life of early settlers and succeeded in making a comfortable home. Besides being a farmer, Mordecai Ford was a minister of 674 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. the Christian church, and also took an active interest in education. Eleven of their children lived to manhood and womanhood, and became useful members of the community. All of them taught school and five of the sons practiced medicine. In the order of their birth their names are as follows : Joseph, John, Henry, Delilah, Nancy, Worley, Elijah, Martha, Royston, Mary and. Lydie Ann. The father died November 23, 1867, but the mother lived to direct the affairs of the family until the 19th of March, 1888. The youngest son, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the old homestead and there. began his education in the district schools. .He remained on the farm until he was eighteen years of age when he responded to his country's call for troops. In 1863 he and his, brother Worley became members of the Twenty-eighth Regiment, Ohio National Guards, commanded by David Putnam. The 2d of May, 1864, Governor Brough called out the Ohio National Guard to serve for one hundred days. The next day the Twenty-eighth Regiment of Ohio National Guards went to Camp Dennison, near Piqua, Ohio. Soon afterward they were combined with two 'companies from Clark county, and sworn into the service of the United States as the One Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment, Ohio. Volunteer Infantry, with Colonel Putnam commanding. The 12th Of May this regiment was sent to New Creek, West Virginia, thence on the 30th to Martinsburg, which they left on the 4th of June, acc0mpanied by parts of three other regiments, all under command of Colonel Putnam, in charge of a supply train of two hundred and nine wagons, and with orders to reach General Hunter at all hazards, who was then somewhere in the Shenandoah valley. By hard marching they overtook Hun ter's army at Lexington, Virginia, on the. 11th of June, having passed through Win chester, Middletown. Cedar Creek, Strasburg, Fisher's Hill, Woodstock, New Market, Harrisonburg, Staunton and other places noted for the many conflicts between the Union and rebel armies. They remained with Hunter's army west of Lynchburg until June 17, when Colonel Putnam was or dered to return with two hundred wagons, many sick and wounded soldiers and prisoners, but on account of rebel forces in the valley he had to take a long route across the Alleghany mountains by way of White Sulphur Springs, Huntersville, Beverly, Philippi and Webster, where the Baltimore & Ohio. Railway was reached. In all they had marched over four hundred miles through a rough country, obstructed frequently by parties of rebels. On the return march, rations were scarce. Before they reached Beverly ear corn was once issued to the men, seven ears of corn to eight men, but the next day a supply of crackers was obtained. From Webster they went to Cumberland by train, reaching that place July 2, 1864, and there the regiment remained until the 25th of August, when it returned to Camp Dennison, Ohio. There on the 2d of September it was mustered out of the service and on the 5th of that month its members received their pay and final discharge. After his ireturn from the war Royston Ford taught school one winter, and a few years afterward he began the study of medicine under the direction of his brother John and Dr. D. Robeson, at Arcanum. He took his first course of lectures at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and later studied in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1880. He be- GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 675 gan the practice of medicine at Saratoga, Indiana, where he remained for five years, after which he spent three years at New Madison, this county, where he built up a good practice. In 1870 Dr. Ford was married to Miss Lizzie Albright. After her death in 1883 he became dissatisfied with his location, and, leaving New Madison, came to Greenville, where he has since, enjoyed a much larger practice. In 1885 he wedded Miss Clara B. Albright, a niece of his first wife, and a daughter of Daniel Albright, of Darke county. In 1894 he pursued a post-graduate course of study in Chicago, taking special work in a polyclinic school. In recent years he has spent considerable time in colleges and hospitals, observing the latest and best treatments of the diseases of women and children. During the last two years he has given special attention to the use of electricity in therapeutics and has obtained excellent results. He is a member of the Darke County Medical Society, and his extensive reading and investigations have made him one of the best physicians of this locality. Socially he is connected with the Greenville Lodge, I. O. O. F., and with Jobes Post, No. 157, G. A. R. He was United States examining surgeon for pensions during the Harrison administration. WILLIAM W. HINDSLEY. The subject of this review is now a leading grocer and prominent citizen of Greenville, Ohio. Be was born, in Randolph county, Indiana, June 1, 1850, and is a son of Joseph and Nancy (McGuire) Hindsley, both natives of North Carolina. His paternal grandfather was John Hindsley, a seafaring man, who spent many years on the Atlantic, sailing principally 'between New York and the West Indies, engaged in the fruit and coffee trade. In early manhood the father of our subject removed with his parents to Randolph county, Indiana, where he spent the remainder of his life as a farmer, dying there in 1888, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife is still living in the same county, in her seventy-ninth year. To them were born nine children, six of whom lived to be. grown, and five are still living. Of this family William W. Hindsley, our subject, is the seventh in order of birth. He spent his boyhood and youth on the home farm in Randolph county, Indiana, assisting his father in its cultivation, and attending the district schools of the neighborhood. In 1879 he was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Denniston, who was born in Darke county, Ohio, in 1859, and at the time of her birth had six grandmothers. Her parents were Joseph and Anna (Money) Deimiston. Her father was born in Hill Grove, Washington township, this county, in September, 1836, a son of Samuel and Susan (Wasson) Denniston, and died January 1, 1894. Her mother was born in Jay county, Indiana, in 1837, and died August 8, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Hindsley have one son living, Joseph Chelsey, born November 3, 1883, who is now a student in the high school of Greenville. After his marriage Mr. Hindsley settled in Mississinawa township, where he engaged in farming for some time. Subsequently he conducted a grocery store in Rose Hill for two years, and in December, 1895, came to Greenville, where he soon afterward erected a good store building on Fort Jefferson avenue and stocked it with a good grade of fancy and staple groceries. He now enjoys a well established trade, having by fair and 676 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. By the death of this honored and upright citizen Greenville sustains an irreparable loss and is deprived of the presence of one whom it had come to look upon as a guardian, benefactor and friend. Death often removes from our midst those whom we can ill afford to spare, whose lives have been all that is exemplary of the true, and thereby really great citizen. Such a citizen Was Mr. Henne, whose whole career, both business and social, served as a model to the.young and an inspiration for the aged. He shed a brightness around everything with which he came in contact by reason of his upright character. By his usefulness and general benevolence he created a memory whose perpetuation does not depend upon brick and stone but upon the spontaneous and free-will offering of a grateful and enlightened people. His connection with Greenville's development and growth and with the Work of improvement was largely instrumental in placing the city in the proud position which it today occupies, yet there has never been in Darke county a man more free from ostentation and display. It is only because hisi goodness could not be hid that it was known to the world, and he m0re frequently denied than affirmed an honorable dealings secured a liberal share of the public patronage. While a resident of Greenville a comparatively short time, he has become thoroughly identified with its interests, and is well known as an enterprising and reliable business man, one who keeps abreast with the times. He and his wife are members of the Church of Christ, and all who know them hold them in the highest esteem. DANIEL HENNE. opinion that he had done some noble deed—such was his horror of appearing ostentatious and his dread of receiving the thanks of those whom he benefitted. His memory however is enshrined in the hearts of many who knew him and is a blessed benediction to all. Mr. Henne was of German birth, having first opened his eyes to the light of day in Mindersbach, oberamt Nagold koenigreich Wurtemberg, in 1839. There he attended school until fourteen years of age, obtaining a good education in his. native tongue. After putting aside his text-books to learn the harder lessons in the school of experience, he was first instructed in the miller's trade, which he followed for four years. He then determined to seek a home in America, believing this country offered better advantages to ambitious young men.. Accordingly he crossed the Atlantic, landing at New York in 1857. He made his way westward at once, locating in Hamilton, Ohio, where he remained until 1863,. at which time he went abroad, visiting in his native land for two years. He there renewed the acquaintances of his former years and viewed the haunts of his boyhood, after which he returned to the land of his adoption in 1865, and was employed as a farm hand by the month in the vicinity of Hamilton, Ohio, for a year. In the latter part of 1866 he came to Greenville and became connected with the milling and grain business as a member of the firm of Poak & Henne. That relation was maintained for several years, but for twenty-five years prior to his death Mr. Henne was alone in business. He made, a specialty of buying grain and shipping it to eastern markets, his shipments Teaching two hundred thousand bushels in a single season. In business circles he sus- GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 677 tained an unassailable reputation, and the patronage of anyone when once gained was never lost. In Greenville, on the 17th of February, 1867, Mr. Henne was united in marriage to Miss Anna M. Weitbrecht, who was born in Germany and with her 'parents came to America when only. a year old. They . had three children by this union, Rosina Gertrude, Jacob Frederick and Daniel. Mrs. Henne is a lady respected by all who know her. She has a good German education and in her. are combined good social and benevolent qualities with successful business qualifications.. Her daughter is the honored wife of Rev. E.. E. Ortlepp, for many years the acceptable pastor of the Lutheran. church of Greenville, Ohio. . The sons became enterprising and prosperous grain merchants, continuing the business so successfully established by their father until February 26, 1900, when Jacob Frederick died and was laid to rest beside his father in Greenville cemetery. The younger son, however, is still in the business. Mr. Henne became one of the wealthiest men in Darke county, but the most envious could not grudge him his prosperity so honorably was it won and so worthily used. Courteous and kind to all, no one had more fast friends than he. Honest and fair in all his dealings, he lost no customers and his business increased up to the time of his death. He died October 23, 1897, and in his death Greenville lost a 'good citizen and the poor and afflicted a fast friend. During his last days he was attacked by a peculiarly severe form of quinsy, and this disease forced him to remain at home for several days. No evil results, however, were feared until a week later, when his condition changed alarmingly and after several hours of suf fering heart failure surpervened. He passed quietly and peacefully away. "Night fell ; and a hand, as from the darkness, Touched him and he slept." The funeral services were conducted in the Lutheran church by Rev. J. Dieterle, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, who was an intimate friend of the deceased, and. his remains were laid away in the Greenville cemetery, where a large and costly granite monument marks his last resting place. He had done much for the city along many lines. In 1878 he was elected township treasurer and so well did he fill the office that for nearly twenty years he was forced to accept a re-election, always gained by overwhelming majorities.. A few years before his death he retired from active political life, because of the .growing demands of his business, and it is safe, to say that no official was ever so regretted by the people he served. He was prominent in educational matters and did good work for the school system during his several terms as secretary of the board of education. The full measure of Daniel Henne's charity will never be known in this life. No one ever appealed to him in vain on behalf of any needy or suffering one, but his horror of publicity was so great that his good deeds were carefully concealed by him. There was not a poor man in all this region that did not love and revere Mr. Henne, but any attempt to thank him for the benefits lie conferred was met by a request for silence. He enjoyed giving, but he had an intense dislike of any appearance of display in the bestowal of benefits. It was his practice to cause the quiet delivery of flour to dozens of poor families about Christmas time, but 678 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. when questioned about it he invariably declined to admit that he was the benefactor. But while caring for the wants of the destir tute he also made ample provision for his family. Their residence on East Main street is a fine, substantial brick dwelling, erected in 1876, and is supplied with furnace and with all modern conveniences and improvements. One who knew him well wrote the following beautiful apostrophe : "Strong, sturdy, honest Daniel "Herne ! Greenville mourns for you to-day, for there are not many such men as you were. You hid your worthy deeds from your fellows, but God's poor have written them on an immortal page with prayers and tears for you." Well might the lines of Oliver Wendell Holmes apply to him : "You see that boy laughing : you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the work he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, But the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all." MARK McDONALD. Prominently identified with a branch of industrial activity which has important bearing on the progress and prosperity of any community, Mr. McDonald would on this score alone merit representation in any compilation touching the history of Darke county, but aside from this, his ancestral line has been one which has long been associated with the history. of the Buckeye state, and to this honorable record he has himself contributed by his well directed efforts in Hollansburg, Harrison township, which is the place of his nativity, he having been born here September 18, 1842. His father, William McDonald, was born in Warren county, Ohio, July 8, 1808, the son of John McDonald, who came from his native state of South Carolina and settled in Warren county in 1800, he being a son of. William McDonald, who was born in the highlands of Scotland and who was a worthy representative of the sturdy clan McDonald. The paternal grandmother of our subject bore the maiden name of Sarah Stubbs, and she was a daughter of John .Stubbs, Who came to Ohio from Georgia, being of Irish lineage. She died in 1840, at the age of sixty years, and her husband, John McDonald, lived to attain the age of seventy, his death occurring in 1848. T hey were the parents of four sons and four daughters, namely : Joseph, Thomas and Mark; and Hannah, Lydia, Margaret and Patience. Each of the children married and reared a 'family; with the exception of Hannah, and the only survivor is Mrs. Margaret Bradfield, of Joplin, Missouri. The parents of our subject were William and Mary (Boswell) McDonald, and the latter was born in 1814, the daughter of William Boswell, of North Carolina. Her death occurred in 1847, her marriage to Mr. McDonald having been solemnized about 1840. She was the widow of Elihu Gist. To William and Mary McDonald two children were born Mark, the subject of this review; and a daughter who died in infancy, in 1847. Mark McDonald attended the little log school-house in the vicinity of his home until 1855, there gaining the rudiments of his education. He later attended college at Dayton,. and was for a time a student in the Whitewater Academy. Reared amid the invigorating discipline of the farm, he waxed GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 679 strong in mind and body, and at the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion his patriotism was deeply stirred. In 1861 he enlisted for service, as a member of Company G, Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in 1864 he re-enlisted in the one-hundred-day service, as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was honorably discharged from the service by reason of physical disability, resulting from a severe cold which he had contracted while on guard duty during his first term of service, which terminated in 1862. The cold so affected his head as to cause extreme deafness, and from this time he has never recovered, being almost totally deaf at the present time, in recognition of which disability the government consistently grants him a pension of twenty-seven dollars a month. In politics he is an ardent supporter of the Republican party. Mr. McDonald was united in marriage to Miss Kate Hill, daughter of Hugh L. Hill, and their only child is William McDonald, born June 8, 1868. He married Miss Gladys Williams, daughter of Dr. James W. Williams, and they are the parents of three children : Frank W., born in 1891 ; Fred L., born July 14, 1893 ; and Helen L. H., -born August 2, 1897. Mr. McDonald has had a varied business experience, having been engaged in the saw-mill business and associated with the dry-goods business both as a salesman and in personally conducting an enterprise of that character, and for the past nine years he has been successfully carrying on business as a contractor and builder, having erected many excellent buildings throughout this vicinity. He enjoys a reputation. for careful and faithful work and fidelity to the terms of contract in every instance. He came to Hollansburg in November, 1864, and has been established in his own home here since .1879, there being but two other men in the town who have lived here an equal length of time. He maintains a deep interest in all that concerns the welfare of the place and its people, and is ever ready to lend his influence in any legitimate enterprise for the public good. Mrs. McDonald is a member of the Universalist church. A member of no church, Mr. McDonald nevertheless always aids in support of the church, and his views on religious matters are with the Friends or Quakers. Though when a youth our subject was supposed to have developed consumptive difficulties, yet he is now a man of fine physique and robust health, his only infirmity being his deafness. He is vigorous both in mind and body, is genial and courteous in his bearing, and with his wife enjoys an unmistakable popularity among the people who know them so well. IRVIN MOTE. Among those who served upon the battlefields of the south and aided in preserving the Union when the southern states attempted to secede is Irvin Mote, a highly esteemed resident of Greenville. He was born in Miami county, March 27, 1830, and is a representative of a family that since pioneer days has left its impress upon the development and progress of this section of the state. His great-grandfather, James Mote, was a native of England, and on crossing the Atlantic to America he took up his abode in New Jersey, and afterward removed to the south, locating near Augusta, Georgia. In 1802 Ohio was admitted to the Union as a 680 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. free state, and about 1807 the Quaker church, to which the Mote family belonged, arose in a body and emigrated from Georgia to Ohio, the most of the party locating near West Milton, in Miami county, where they established a church. There Ezekiel Mote, the father of our subject, was born. He became a farmer and merchant, and by his fellbfellowzens was honored with the office of justice of the peace. In 1832 he removed to Darke county, Ohio, taking up his abode four miles east of Arcanum upon a farm where he lived for some time. He then returned to Miami county, where he spent his remaining. He married Miss Grace Vernon, of Miami county, a daughter of Nathaniel and H. (Mendenhall) Vernon Mote was three times married, and by his first wife he had six children, two sons and four daughters, all of whom lived to mature years, while four are now living: William C., a grain dealer on the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western Railroad at Clark Station, Darke county ; two sisters, and Irvin. The father of this family died in Miami county, in 1886. Irvin Mote spent his ehisy days upon the farm in Darke county, pursuing his education in the country schools until he had mastered the elementary branches of knowledge. When he as fourteen years of age his mother died. His father then apprenticed him to the shoemaking trade in West Milton, Miami county. After following that business for some years he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where in 1850 he joined an expedition to go to Cuba, but that adventure proved a failure. After capturing the city of Cardenas, Cuba, the noble six hundred boarded their vessel to go to some other part of the island and in making their way out to sea their little craft was grounded. In order to float it everything that was looselooseto be sacrificed to the waters, and when the boat was again free it seemed for the best interests of all parties "to steer for God's country and get under the protection of some flag." The next morning the Creole ran a race with the Spanish steamer of war Pizarro. For an hour and a half neither boat seemed to gain an inch on the other, but at length tfhe Creole came out victorious, going into port at Key West, Florida, about five minutes before the Pizarro reached that harbor. Mr. Mote then proceeded on foot into the middle district of Florida, where he remained about a year. Subsequently he went from there to Savannnah on to Charleston, South Carolina. At the latter place, however, he continued less than six months, and then joined another filibfilibusteringdition to go to Cuba. The part of the expedition he joined, however, never left the state of Georgia. This was in 1851. After the company had disbanded Mr. Mote continued to make his home in the empire state of the south until about the year 1856. In the meantime he attended a select school and to a limited exttextentged in farming, raising some cotton. During the last year of his residence there he served as the manager of a cotton plantation for Enos H. Scarborough, at Seventy Mile Station, on the Central Railroad. He then returned to the state of his birth, Ohio, and subsequently was for several terms a student in the State Normal at Lebanon. He afterward engaged in teaching until the inauguration of the civil war, when he enlisted. He watched with interest the progress of events and the growth of public sentiment prior to the war ; and in 1861, when the attempt was made to over- GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 681 throw the Union, he joined Company G, of the Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under the command of Colonel Samuel Gilbert. Mr. Mote remained with that regiment for two years after which he re-enlisted in the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, Not long after this he was captured and for three .months was incarcerated in Libby prison. He was ever a loyal soldier, and until his capture was always found at his post of duty, faithfully defending the old flag and the cause it represented. He was for four years in the service and was twice a prisoner of war. The government now grants him a good pension, and he maintains a pleasant relationship with his old army comrades through his connection with the Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. Mote had been married in 1860 to Miss Elizabeth Ricketts, who died soon after, leaving one son, James j., now a resident of Anderson, Indiana. In 1869 Irvin Mote moved to Greenville, Ohio, where he has since resided, and for his second wife he chose Catherine J. Felton, of Greenville, a. daughter of Charles Felton. Their union has been blessed with three children : William Vernon, a telegraph operator ; Marmaduke, who is a civil engineer ; and Don Carlos. For many years Mr. Mote was actively identified with the official interests of the city, having been elected in 1886 to the office" of justice of the peace, in which capacity he served until 1897. His decisions were always fair and impartial, and he was a most capable 0fficial, .discharging his duties without fear or favor. His political support is given to the Democracy, and he is a stanch advocate of its principles, believing that in them are combined the strongest elements of good governments and the preservation of the American republic and the liberty of its people. JESSE A. McGRIFF. Jesse Allen McGriff, who is living on a farm on section 34, Butler township, was born in Twin township, April 29, 1849, and is a son of Price McGriff, who is represent-, ed on another page of this volume. Upon his. father's farm he was reared and early became familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. In early life he began work in the woods of Butler township, whither his parents removed when he was five years of age. His educational privileges were very meagre, being limited to two months' attendance at the district schools of the neighborhood during the winter season until he was fourteen years of age. He was married in his twentieth year,. on the 14th of January, 1869, to Martha Jane Holesapple, whose birth occurred June 20, 1851, her father being David Holesapple. She died March 4, 1876, at the age of twenty-four yea. s, eight months and fourteen days. Of her four children, Emma A. died August 19, 1870, at the age of eleven months ; Levi, born September 8, 1871, is a. farmer of Butler township and has a wife and one child, having also lost one child; 0. P., born September 7, 1873, is a teacher and student of civil engineering, and married a daughter of William Fouble. The next child of the family died in infancy at the time of the mother's death. On the 8th of July, 1877, Mr. McGriff was again married, his second union being with Lizzie Emerick. Their children are : Walter Franklin, who was born June 26, 1878 and lives in Spring field, Ohio, with his wife and one child ; Granville Scot, who was born November 13, 1881, and aids in the operation of the home farm; Perry Allen, born August 10, 1883; Hester Gertrude, who was born October 8,. 682 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1889, and is a most interesting child of eleven years ; Jesse Howard, who was born in December, 1895, and died at the age of ten months; and William Herbert, born March 21, 1899. Mr. McGriff is rearing his family upon his farm in Butler township, and his attention is largely given to the cultivation of his one hundred acres of land. He located thereon in 1881 and by the careful management of his business affairs he has gained a place among the representative agriculturists of the community. He rotates his crops of clover, corn and wheat or oats and annually gathers rich harvests. He also engages in raising hogs and cattle and feeds his crops, with the exception of his wheat In his political views Mr. McGriff is a Democrat and has served as township trustee, which position he is filling at the present time in a most commendable manner. Both he and his wife formerly held membership in the United Brethren church, but in February, 1894, severed their connection therewith. Their little daughter, Esther Gertrude, was an invalid up to the age of five years, being almost entirely helpless. The medical profession could render her no aid. Her head was abnormally large, so that the weak little body could hardly sustain its weight, and her recovery came about through the marvelous example of the Divine gift of healing in prompt answer to the prayers and faith of a company of people attending camp meeting. Now when the little girl is indisposed she goes in prayer herself to the Great Healer. Her recovery was most marvelous, being a manifestation of the infinite power of which mortal man has but little conception. Mr. and Mrs. McGriff are both widely and favorably known in this locality and the circle of their friends is extensive. DANIEL WARVEL. A native of West Virginia, Daniel Warvel was born in Montgomery county, September 5, 1834. His father, Christopher Warvel, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, February 27, 1796, three years before the death of General Washington, and after arriving at years of maturity he married Charlotte Lilly, who was born in the same county, June 4, 1799. Emigrating westward they located in Warren county, Ohio, and afterward removed their home to Montgomery county and thence came to Darke county about 1839. On arriving in Warren in they offered their last five dollars in payment for a purchase and found that the bill was a counterfeit ! so they began life in the Buckeye state on 'absolutely nothing. On arriving in Darke county they purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Richland township and thereon built a log cabin. Red men were much more numerous in that locality than white settlers, and this region was situated on the very borders of civilization. Deer were very plentiful, and other wild game could .be had in abundance. Farming was carried on by means of the old-fashioned sickles, one of which is still in the possession of the subject of this review. The father was an excellent hand in the harvest field, being able to cut more grain in a day than the majority of his neighbors. Many of the roads of the county were not then laid out, and the routes to Fort Greenville were indicated by blazed saplings. The town of Ansonia was known as Dallas, and Piqua was but a small village,. to which Mr. Marvel would haul his wheat to market, returning on the following day. During the war of 1812 he loyally served his country, and was granted a GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 683 land warrant in recogniton thereof. In politics he was an old-line Whig, and took an active part in the campaign of 1840 when the raying cry of the Whigs was "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too." He was one of the leaders in the movement for the erection of the first United Brethren church on the banks of the Stillwater. The bridges had been carried away by high water, and Mr. Warvel had two horses which he swam back and forth to carry the men back and forth to work on the church. He was a very generous man, benevolent to the poor and at all times kind and considerate. He died March 18, 1851, and his wife passed away March 14, 1855. In their family were nine children, four sons and five daughters. Daniel Warvel, of this review, was only four years old when brought by his parents to Darke county, where he has since resided. He obtained his education in an old log school-house, beginning his studies under the instruction of "Uncle David Hantle," a pioneer settler of Richland township. The slab seats, puncheon floor and rude board desks in which the big boys and girls wrote their exercises formed the primitive furnishings of the building, and were in great contrast with the present tasteful and well-equipped school-houses of today. Mr. Warvel early became familiar with the work of the farm, and has always carried on farming and stock raising. At the age of sixteen he started out to earn his own livelihood, working for six dollars per month, and from this sum he saved enough to purchase a set of harness. At the time of his marriage he located on a little farm of forty acres in the vicinity of Pikeville He had made payment of four hundred dollars upon the plate, incurring an indebtedness for the remainder. In the log cabin he began: life in true pioneer style, and experienced many of the hardships and privations which fall to the lot of the early pioneer settlers, but with characteristic energy he worked on day after day and at length gained the reward which never fails to attend earnest and persistent labor.. He is today the owner 'cif three hundred and eighty acres of valuable land in Richland township, and the place is well improved with all the accessories of the model farm. Mr. Warvel has been twice married. He first married Catherine Kayler, and they had one son, Joseph C., who resides in Canton, Ohio, where he is engaged in commercial pursuits. The mother died February 3, 1857, and on the 21st of March, 1858, Mr. Warvel wedded Sarah Powell, by whom he had five children, three sons and two daughters, all of whom are yet living. Mrs, Warvel was born in Monroe county, Ohio, January 27, 1836, and is a daughter of Levi and Mary (Linn) Powell, in whose family were ten children, five sons and five daughters, nine yet living. The parents were-both natives of Pennsylvania and were members of the Reformed church. The father Was a farmer by occupation and is now ceased. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Warvel are : Mary A., wife of Abram Ela,. a farmer of Richland township, by whom. she has two children ; Lucy, wife of W. J. Wilson; Laban, a farmer who is married and lives in Richland township ; Amos A., a farmer residing in Richland township, who is married and has six children ; and Clement L., who is likewise married and resides in Richland township. For sixty-two years. Daniel Warvel has resided in Darke county,. and his life has been filled with good deeds. In his business career he sustains *an. unassailable reputation, for in all transactions he has ever 684 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. been honorable and upright. His political support is given to the Democratic party, and his first vote was cast for James Buchanan. He has several times been chosen as delegate to county conventions, and has been elected to a number of local offices of public trust. He and his wife were members of the United Brethren church, and in their lives have exemplified their Christian faith, doing unto others as they would that they should do unto them. They have carefully reared their children, have presented them with comfortable homes and now Mr. Warvel resides in the village of Beamsville in a pretty cottage, where. they are enjoying many of the comforts and pleasures of life. HENRY M. BICKEL. Henry M. Bickel is the representative. of a family that has figured prominently in the annals of Darke county since the days of its pioneer development. He traces hisancestry back for several generations to Tobias Bickel, who came to .America from the fatherland in colonial days and took up his residence in Center county, Pennsylvania. He was accompanied by his wife and his two brothers, John and. Thomas, and their families. Thomas Bickel had no children, but Tobias and John Bickel each had six soils and some daughters. One of the children of Tobias Bickel bore the name of Andrew and become 'the grandfather of the subject of this review: Among the first settlers of Center county, Pennsylvania, the Bickels were also actively connected with the progress and improvement of that section of the Keystone state. Each brother secured six hundred acres of land in the Penn valley, cleared and developed farms, and to each of his sons Tobias Bickel gave one hundred acres of land. He erected a grist-mill upon his farm and did all of the milling in that section of the country for many years. His son Andrew inherited the one-hundred-acre tract upon which the mill was located. He spent the first thirty years of his life in the state of his nativity—having been born in Pennsylvania—and on the 16th of May, 1811, bade adieu to his old home and started for Ohio. He was accompanied by his family and a boy whom he had employed to act as driver. He had married Catherine Glass, and unto them: had been born three children : Andrew, John and Tobias. The journey was made by team to Pittsburg, where Mr. Bickel secured passage for himself and family on a flat-boat to Cincinnati, Ohio, while the team was taken 0verland. On reaching Cincinnati, they spent .six days with a cousin, Christopher Bickel, while waiting for the team to arrive, and "it was during that time that the grandfather of our subject decided to make his home in Montgomery county. After a trip of forty-five miles over a road which they made for themselves, they reached their destination and took up their abode upon a farm of one hundred and 'sixty acres, four miles west of Germantown. When they located thereon the land was in its primitive condition, but during the first year Andrew Bickel cleared a small portion upon which he erected a little cabin: In 1812 he was drafted into the service in the second war with England, but hired his old driver to go as a substitute, for he felt that his own services were needed in developing the farm and in providing a home for his children. He lived upon that place for about fifteen years and erected a hewed- log house and barn. He also placed a considerable portion of the land under cultivation, but on the expiration of that period he re- GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 685 moved to a farm near Tippecanoe,. Indiana, purchasing a small tract of land that he af- terward sold. He then went to Laporte county, that state, where he purchased another small farm, upon which he spent his remaining days, his death occurring about 1839. His marriage to Catherine Glass was blessed with the following children : Andrew became the father of our subject: John was a resident of Washington township, Darke county, and reared a family of 'six sons and four daughters. Tobias, who was born in Pennsylvania, May 8, 1811, was only eight days old when his father left Pennslvania. Tobias married and reared five sons and three daughters, the former being Daniel W., a worthy citizen of Washington township; John, who is living in Union City, Indiana; J. M., a leading lawyer of Darke county and ex-probate judge ; and Hamilton and Markus, who are deceased. John Wesley, who served in the civil. war, is now a resident of Washington township, being the eldest surviving member of that family. Jacob went with his father to Laporte county, Indiana, and died there. Daniel also died in the Hoosier state. Mary, who be: came the wife of Jacob Genger, of Washington township, where their children still reside on the home farm, the parents being both deceased ; Abigail, who became the wife of. William Dudley, of Indiana, both now deceased ; and Elizabeth, who married a Mr. Smith, of Indiana, and went to California, since which time no news has been received from her. The father of these children was an old Jacksonian Democrat. He was six feet in height, of strong physique and well fitted to meet the hardships of pioneer life. Andrew Bickel, the father of our subject, was born in Center county, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1803, and in 1811 came with his parents to Ohio. He remained at home until 1830, when he was united in marriage with Miss Nancy Moyer, a native of Virginia, who came with her family to Montgomery county. After ,his marriage Mr. Bickel took up his abode on section 16, Washington township, Darke county, where he entered eighty acres of land from the government and afterward added to it by purchase a forty-acre tract. All of this land was wooded and in the midst of the forest he erected a log cabin in which he lived for about ten years, when the primitive home was replaced by a weatherboarded house which still stands upon the farm. This was his home up to the time of his death, but his demise occurred in the home of his son, Daniel F., who lived just across the way. He departed this life March 12, 1888, respected by all who knew him. His political support was given to the Democracy from the time when he cast his first presidential vote for Andrew Jackson. He was a noted mathematician,. filled a number of township offices in a most creditable manner, and was an attendant on the services of the Lutheran church. He married Nancy Moyer and they lx came the parents of ten children, seven of whom reached. years of maturity. Henry is the eldest. John, who was born February 22, 1832, died in 1885. He conducted a store at Hills Grove for more than thirty years. He married Mattie Lesher, and they became the parents of ten children, but only three are now living : Newton, Oscar and Pearl, the daughter being the wife of Isaac Butt, of Jackson township. Daniel F.; born in 1837, and now a resident of Washington township, married Mary Landes, and they have six children, all living. Catherine, who was born in 1840. is the wife of Henry Bloclur, of Jackson town- 686 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ship, and they have a son and daughter. Elizabeth, born in 1842, is the wife of John J. Norris, of Union City, and they have a daughter. Andrew, born in 1852, now resides in Washington township. He married Sarah Armstrong and after her death married Lydia Ellen Worth, by whom he has two children. Henry M. Bickel was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, January 2, 1831. He never attended school until ten years of age, after which he enjoyed such advantages as were afforded in the district schools of the neighborhood. He continued his studies through the winter season until twenty-one years of age, and during the summer months he worked upon the home farm. In 1852. he was employed as a farm hand in Greenville township for ten dollars per month, working for three months, and later he engaged in the construction of the Dayton & Western Railroad for about six weeks. He was then promoted as foreman and assisted in the construction of two miles of the track. During the winter of 1852-3 he was engaged in teaching school, and in the spring of the latter year went to Cincinnati, where he hired a gang of men with whom he went to Illinois to work in the construction of the St. Louis Railroad, near Bloomington, Illinois. About the 20th of May he returned to Ohio and going to Dayton entered the employ of Henry Doolittle, a contractor on the Dayton, Xenia & Belpre Railroad, his time being thus occupied until the 20th of October of the same year, when he was taken ill with typhoid fever and returned to his father's home. He was sick for seven weeks and after his recovery his father would not consent to his leaving home, so he remained upon the, farm until his .marriage. That important event in his life occurred on the 12th of June, 1856, Miss Mary Crummin, daughter of Moses and Mary Crum-min, of Washington township, becoming his wife. Her parents were natives of Neave township. After his marriage Mr. Bickel purchased a farm of ninety-seven acres. All of his land is in Washington township with the exception of a forty-acre tract in Randolph county, Indiana. His first purchase was all wild land, but with the exception of eight acres the entire amount is now under a high state of cultivation, its richly cultivated fields yielding to the owner a golden tribute. He lived in a log house for twelve years and then erected his present farm residence. He also built the barns and other outbuildings and added to the place all of the substantial and modern improvements found upon the model farm. He devotes his time and attention to the raising of grain and stock, and is progressive in his business methods, which are therefore attended with success. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bickel have been born six children, four of whom reached years of maturity. John C., the eldest, who was born March 12, 1857, is now residing on the farm in Jackson township, Darke county. He married Miss Rosa Cook, of Washington township, and they have three children : Harley, Carl, and Asa. Adaline, the second member of the family, was born in 1860, and is the wife of William Mote, of Randolph county, Indiana, by whom she has one child, Ethel. Harrison C., born in 1866, is now a prominent attorney and noted mathematician of Indianapolis, Indiana. His wife bore the maiden name of Temie Richeter. Irving, born in 1868, married Miss Anna Ware, of Washington township, and they have two children, Mary and Frances Helen. GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 687 In his political views Mr. Bickel has always been a Democrat, unfaltering in sup-, port of the principles of the party. In 1886 he was elected county treasurer, took the oath of office in 1887 and served for four years, proving a reliable and capable official. He has filled all the township offices with the exception of clerk and justice of the peace, and has ever been found true and loyal to the duties devolving upon him. He is a worthy representative of an honored pioneer family of Ohio, and during his long residence in Darke county he has ever deserved and enjoyed the respect and confidence of his fellow men. He has done as much or more real hard labor than any other man now living in Darke county, Ohio, and, thanks to his heavenly Father, is still robust and hearty at the time 0f this writing. GEORGE WEAVER. Throughout almost his entire life this gentleman has been actively identified with the upbuilding and development of Darke county, and is numbered among its honored pioneers and representative citizens. He is now engaged in general farming on section 29, Neave township, and also follows the carpenter's trade to some extent. Mr. Weaver was born August 22, 1828, in the township where he now resides, and is a son of Peter .and Elizabeth (Eakins) Weaver. His paternal grandfather was Peter Weaver, a native of Germany, who emigrated to the United States about 1760, when fourteen years of age, and first located in Pennsylvania, where he married. As early as 1802. he removed to Montgomery county, Ohio, and in 1818 came to Darke county, where he died at the ripe old age of eighty-seven years. Our subject's maternal grandfather, Benjamin Eakins, was born in Ireland, and was also about fourteen years of age when he came to America. He grew to manhood and was married in Pennsylvania, and on coming to this state took up his residence in Preble county. Peter Weaver, father of our subject, was born August 8, 1802, while his parents were removing from Pennsylvania to Montgomery county, Ohio, and he was reared on a farm near Liberty, being sixteen years of age when the family came to Darke county and took up their residence on section 29, Neave township. They built one of the first cabins in that township, and upon the farm which he there developed Peter Weaver spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1885, at the age of eighty-three years. His wife, who was born in Preble county, January 12, 1807, was killed in October, 1869, by a passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Bishop's Crossing, Darke county. To this worthy couple were born fourteen children, of whom two died in infancy. The others were Jonas, who died at the age 0f twelve years; George, our subject; Sarah, wife of Justus Smith, of Missouri ; Elizabeth, who died at the age of eight years; Mary, wife of Jacob Burkett of Springfield, Ohio; Nancy, deceased wife of Aaron Comrine; Benjamin, a resident of Bucyrus, Ohio ; William C. and Calvin P., both of Parsons, Kansas ; Catharine, wife of Newton Hayes, of Kenton, Ohio; David, deceased ; and Margaret, wife of Hanson White, of Kansas. After the death of his first wife, the father wedded Mary Lambert-son, about the year 1872, and to them were born a' son, Harry O. Weaver, who is now living in. Washington, D. C. At the time of his death he had eighty-one living descendants, and had had altogether ninety-nine- 688 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. fifteen children and fifty-two grandchildren, and thirty-two great-grandchildren. George Weaver is now the only representative of this family living in Darke county. He was reared in Neave township and can relate many interesting incidents of pioneer days when this region was all wild and unimproved. He well remembers when many families had only chairs, tables and bedsteadsof their own manufacture and lived in true pioneer style. In his own home the German language was used altogether and he could not speak a word of English before starting to school at the age of eight years. His mother made all the clothes for her family, spinning the raw wool, weaving it into cloth, and later converting it int0 garments. Mr. Weaver remained at home until he was married, September 20, 1849, to Miss Caroline Wagner, who was born in German township, Darke county, in 1831, and died in August, 1888. Her family were among the pioneers of the county. By this union our subject had eight children : Minerva, wife of Cyrus McKeon, of Greenville; Miranda, wife of John Stephens, of the same place; William E., who died at the age of eighteen months ; Peter D., who married Jennie Brown, of Weaver's Station ; Elizabeth, wife of M. L. Maxwell, of Kirksville, Missouri; Estella, wife of William Townsend, of Jaysville, Darke county; Rhoda J., now Mrs. Lawrence, of Kirksville, Missouri ; and Frank E., who married Ella Baird and lives in Greenville. On the 27th of July, 1889, Mr. Weaver married Mrs. Jennie S. (Herr) Springer, who was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Christian and Sarah J. (Chadwick) Herr, the former a native of Pennsylvania, the latter of Montgomery county, Ohio. By her first marriage Mrs. Weaver had one son, Victor L. Springer, now a member of Company C, Thirteenth United States Infantry, stationed at Manasug on the Philippine Islands, Mr. and Mrs. Weaver have a little daughter, Marie, born in Darke county, July 27, 1892. After his first marriage our subject remained upon the old homestead for four years, and. then removed to the farm where he now resides. About 1855 he went. to Cass county, Indiana, and built a steam saw-mill on the Indian Reserve, which he operated for three years, and then returned to Darke county. He purchased a farm in Harrison township, but after operating it for three years, sold out and bought his present farm of one hundred and eight acres on section 29, Neave township. In 1869 he removed to Greenville, where for seven years he engaged in business as a carpenter and contractor, but at the end of that time returned to his farm. He has erected many houses, barns and business blocks throughout the county, but now devotes his time and energies principally to general farming, and is meeting with well deserved success in his labors. He is a consistent and faithful member of the United Brethren church, in which he is serving as class leader and trustee, and is a man highly respected and esteemed by all who know him on account of his sterling worth, strict integrity and honorable dealings. JOHN WINGER. This well-known agriculturist residing on section 12, Patterson township, Darke county, is a native of Ohio, his birth having occurred in Greene county, February 27, 1844, His father, Peter Winger, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1806, of German descent, and was married in 1827, to Anna Barr, a native of the same GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 689 county. In 1846 they came to Darke county, Ohio, and settled in Wayne township on a tract of wild timber land, on which not a stick had been cut or an improvement made. The father built a rude little cabin of rough logs, without nails, fastening the shacks on 'by poles and pegs. Here he owned sixty acres of land, which he cleared and cultivated until his removal to Versailles. In 1860 he went to Marshall county, Iowa, where he had eighty acres of land, but at the end of two years he sold out and returned to this county, buying twenty acres of land in Wayne township, where he made his home for twelve years. His next purchase consisted of forty acres on section 1, Patterson township, and upon that place he died.. His wife survived him only a few days. Both were past the age of eighty-five years, and now sleep in the Mendenhall cemetery. Of their nine children the following are still living, namely: Abraham, a farmer of Mercer county, Ohio ; Mrs. Elizabeth Lyme, a widow who is now engaged in merchandising in Paulding county; John, our subject; Eliza, wife of Charles Barnhardt;. and Joseph, a resident of Saline, Mercer county; Mrs. Catherine Geaubaux and Mrs. Mary Ann Marker are both deceased and are buried at Peacock. Although Mr. Winger's literary education was limited, he early became familiar with all kinds of hard work, and is to-day a thorough and systematic farmer. His farm iconsists of one hundred acres of rich and fertile land on section 12, Patterson township, which is devoted principally to wheat and corn. In August, 1882, Mr. Winger was united in marriage with Miss Annie Coble, a sister of Hamilton Coble, and to them have been born four children : Charles, Susie, Alvah .and Maud, the oldest now eighteen years of age, the youngest eleven. All are attending the home school and Charles is now ready to enter the high school. During the civil war Mr. Winger enlisted at Versailles, May 1, 1864, in Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after serving six months was honorably discharged on the expiration of his term of enlistment. He has never recovered from the effects of his army life and now receives a pension of eight dollars per month. He is an honored member of the Grand Army Post, in which he is serving .as senior, vice-commander, and is a Republican in politics. He filled the office of road supervisor six years, and at the end of that time refused to accept the position any longer. Both he and his wife are earnest members of the Christian church and merit and receive the respect and esteem of all who know them. A. L. DUNN. Among the enterprising and energetic farmers of Greenville township is the subject of this review, who on coming to Darke county in 1866 purchased his present farm east of the city of Greenville. A native. of Maryland, he was born in Washington county that state, in 1839, and in 1851 came to Xenia, Greene, county, Ohio, with his parents, S. R. and Letta (Horner) Dunn, also natives of Maryland. Later they came.. to Darke county, where the mother died in 1880. The father is still living and continues to make his home in this county. In their family were six children, namely : A. L., Mrs. Joan Sebum, Mrs. Alletta Wright ; John. deceased Samuel. H. and Mrs. Katie Wise. For eighteen years A. L. Dunn has now 690 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. resided upon his present farm of eighty acres in Greenville township, and he has made many improvements upon the place. He devotes his time and attention to general farming and stock raising, and is meeting With well deserved success in his labors. He married Miss Sarah Tingley, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and to them were born twelve children, but only seven are now living, namely; Charles, Mrs. Etta Hinkle, Mrs. Katie Puterbaugh, Mrs. Lodena Bowman, Gertie, Della and Harry. Those deceased were : Luther, Thomas, Ella, Bertie and Walter. Mrs. Dunn is a church member, and is a most estimable lady. By his ballot our subject supports the men and measures of the Democratic party, and he has been called upon to fill some of the township offices. JEREMIAH THOMPSON. Among the brave men who devoted the opening years of their manhood to the defense of our country from the internal foes who sought her dismemberment, was Jeremiah Thompson, now a prominent farmer of Franklin township, Darke county, Ohio. The first of the family to come to this state was his grandfather, Sylvester Thompson, a native of North Carolina, who settled on a farm just south of Covington, in Newberry township, Miami county, at an early day, and there entered land from the government. He died upon that farm, and his wife is also -deceased. The place is now owned by one of his descendants, Josephus Thompson. James Thompson, our subject's father, was born on the old homestead near Covington. He also entered land in Newberry township, and became a prosperous farmer. He married Elizabeth Bierly, and they are both now deceased ; he died upon his farm on Greenville creek, a devout member of the Christian church and highly respected by all who knew him. Of his children,. Maria married Joseph Young and moved to Iowa, dying in Belle Plaine, that state; Sarah married David Elmon and died in West Milton; Ohio ; Elizabeth married John Young and died on the homestead farm;. Nancy died at the age of eighteen years; David married Hannah Rench and died in. Newton township, Miami county; Rebecca married David M. Fine and died in Newberry township, the same county; James is a resident of Benton county, Iowa; and the next three were triplets ; Jeremiah, our subject.; Josiah, who married Lavina Hickman. and now resides in Missouri ; and Hezekiah;. who died young. The subject of this sketch was born June 6, 1840, on his father's old homestead, and. passed his childhood, youth and early manhood in the log house where he first saw the light of day. He was educated in the country schools, which were principally conducted on the subscription plan, and. among his early teachers was a Mr. Wood, who taught on his father's farm. He lost. his father when a boy and Samuel Hoover was appointed guardian for the children. When the estate was settled our subject re-. ceived his portion in money. When the civil war broke out Mr. Thompson was eager to go to the front, considering it his duty to respond to his country's call for men to aid in suppressing the rebellion, and in September, 1861, at Covington, he enlisted for three years as a private in Company B, Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1864 he re-enlisted at Strawberry Plains, and while home on a. GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 691 sixty-day furlough was married, April 24, 1864, to Miss Minerva Brandon, a daughter of Richard and Hannah (Dayman) Brandon. On the expiration of his furlough he bade good-by to his bride and went to Camp Dennison, where his company was assigned to the Eighth Cavalry, which was with Sheridan's command from that time on. Mr. Thompson veteranized as hospital nurse and commissary sergeant, and at the close of the war was discharged at Clarksburg, West Virginia. He participated in the battles of Charleston and Louisburg, and in the latter engagement he was wounded. A cannon ball struck near him and he received a ghastly cut under the chin from a piece of flying rock. He was sent to the regimental hospital, but remained with his command. He was in the battle of Dutton Hill, the siege of Knoxville, and the battles of Lynchburg and Cedar Creek. While at Cedar Creek a part of the regiment was ordered to Beverly, West Virginia, where Mr. Thompson was taken prisoner, but after being held for forty-eight hours. was released by his own men. In 1865, while at the front, Mr. Thompson invested his money in his present farm of forty-one acres on section 4, Franklin township, Darke county, which at that time was covered with heavy timber. On his return home at the close of the war he rented the Sally Williams farm for two years before locating upon his own place, and subsequently was employed in his father-in-law's stone quarry at Covington for a year and a half.. Then again he spent two years on the Williams farm and at-the end of that time returned to his own place, which he has cleared and 'placed under a high state of cultivation. He has made many improvements upon the farm, including the erection of good outbuildings and a comfortable home. He raises principally tobacco. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, namely : Ora, who died in infancy ; Ollie, who married Charles Ibaugh and died in Bradford, March 4, 1897; William H., who married Blanche Riddle and lives in Piqua, Ohio ; Catherine, the wife. of Charles Bazzle, of Bradford ; Dome C., the wife of B. Westfall, of Adams township, Darke county ; Pearl, who died at the age of six years ; and William Sylvester, at home. Genial, kind, hospitable and fond of a good story and joke, Mr. Thompson makes hosts of friends, by whom he is greatly esteemed, and he is numbered as one of the most reputable citizens of his community. Religiously he is a member of the Christian church, socially is connected with Arnold Post, G. A. R., of Bradford; and politically is identified with the Republican party. CHARLES ROLAND. Charles Roland, a journalist of Greenville, was born in Washington county, Ohio, August 6, 1831. He was left an orphan when an infant, and was reared in the Hill family, in Fairfield county, Ohio. His father was an Englishman of the Isle of Wight, England, and has two brothers and three sisters who came with him and his mother to this country. Mr. Roland has two brothers living—Edward, at Roland, Indiana, and Perry, at Hutchinson, Kansas. His boyhood was passed on a farm. He received only a meager common school education, using the tallow candle and fireplace for light during his evening study, which termi- 692 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. nated at the age of fourteen when he entered the office of the Ohio Eagle, at Lancaster, where he learned the printing business, remaining there several years. In 1856 he became a partner in the ownership of the paper with John M. Connell, subsequently a colonel in the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In the latter part of the year 1861 Mr. Roland became sole proprietor and conducted that journal, which was then Democratic in politics and was the official paper of the county, until the spring of 1866, when he disposed of the Eagle and purchased the Greenville Democrat, of which he was editor and proprietor until June 14, 1899, when he iretired in good health and well-to-do financially, turning his office and business over to his two sons, Charles W. and Edward H. Roland; who had been regular assistants from the '70s up to the present time, Charles W. acting as city editor since 1876. When Mr. Roland took charge of the Democrat it was a small, poorly-printed sheet with patronage too limited for support, but through his earnest work and superior generalship, close application, marked ability and economy his business improved, the county gradually advancing from a small and doubtful majority for the Democratic candidates for office to that of a solid and reliable majority, the patronage therefrom falling wholly to the Democrat f0r many successive years, and by this means Mr. Roland became very prosperous. The paper has always been a folio, conducted with ability, widely circulated, and one of the largest and best weekly newspapers in the state. Mr. Roland has always been a stanch Democrat, outspoken, and in favor of none but honest and incorrutible officials, having boldly exposed some 0f his own party through his paper. After forty-three years of actual editorial work, and making a full hand at the case and job-stone, Mr. Roland's remarkable services have earned him a high rank among the truest and most faithful journalists of Ohio, and he severed his old-time brotherhood ties in newspaper business with the best wishes from numerous warm friends and admiring associates through the balance of his days. Referring back to the fall of 1862, Mr. Roland, as editor of the Eagle, took exceptions to the manner in which the civil war was being conducted and was summoned by Governor Tod to an interview in his office at Columbus. He at once presented himself before the governor, having with him three prominent citizens of Lancaster, as witnesses of what might transpire. The governor complained that the tone of his paper was ,disloyal and tended to discourage enlistments, and stated that his first impulse had been to suppress the paper and send it; editor to Fort Weaver. Mr. Roland replied that he had taken for his guide the constitution and laws of the country, and that of two meetings in the same week at Lancaster, by Republicans and Democrats, respectively, at the former five men enlisted and at the latter thirteen. The interview closed by a threat somewhat excitedly expressed by the governor in these words : "Constitution and laws or not, unless the tone of your paper is changed it will be suppressed and you will be sent to Fort Warren. I have the backbone to do it." Mr. Roland returned t0 Lancaster and pub. lished an attested account of the interview in the next issue of his paper, and continued to publish his views of the eventful struggle and was not molested. Mr. Roland was married, in 1851, to GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 693 Amelia, daughter of Lewis Clark, of Lancaster, and four sons, Arthur A., Charles W., Edward H. and Horace G., and five daughters, Mary E., Clara J., Emma S., Ida A. and Grace V., were born to them. The .eldest, Arthur A. Roland, was at one time editor and publisher of the Lebanon Patriot, now a graduate of the Still Osteopathic College, at Kirksville, Missouri, and practicing at Washington, D. C. He was married to Jennie Trimble, of Lancaster, to whom two sons were born. Mary E. has been the wife of J. H. McAlfine since October 14, 1880, and to them two daughters were born—Maud and Vera. They reside at Columbus, Ohio, where Mr. McAlfine is chief train dispatcher of the Panhandle Railroad ; Emma S. is the wife of Judge J. I. Allread, of this city, to whom two children were born, Marie and Herald ; Clara J. is the widow of J. H. Rhotehamel and has one son, named Roland: She is a Still College graduate and is now practicing at Lancaster, Ohio. Ida A., wife of Sherman A. Dorman, of Greenville, did June 8, 1898, aged about thirty-one years. Grace, the youngest daughter, is not married, neither is Edward H., and they reside with their mother and father. Horace G., the youngest son, died in 1872, aged eighteen months. Charles W., who is associated with his brother, Ed-. ward H., in the publication of the Democrat, was married to Lizzie Davis, at Aber deen, Ohio, September 6, 1882, and has two sons and two daughters—Gertrude V., Ci Ernest, Virgil D. and Gladys A., all living, aged seventeen, thirteen, six and four years, respectively. On the 22d of April, 1900, Mr. Roland left Greenville on a, tour of Europe, returning home on the 31st clay of July of the some year: The trip was the greatest treat of his life and he enjoyed it immensely without a moment's illness. During his absence he furnished twenty-seven excellent letters of his observations for the Democrat, which were afterward reprinted in book form and distributed among his friends. JOHN R. SUTER. In the village of Scon, Switzerland, on the l0th of July, 1861, John R. Suter was born, a son of Samuel and Farenia Suter, both of whom were natives of that land, where they spent their entire lives. At the age of six years their son, John, entered school, pursuing his studies until he was fourteen years of age. He then began an apprenticeship at the butcher's trade, serving for a period of four years, and on completing his term he traveled as a journeyman through Switzerland, Germany and France. Believing, however, that he might better his financial condition in the new world he came to t' le United States in 1881, landing at New York city, whence he made his way direct to Miami county, Ohio. He there spent two years and four months, and in June, 1883, came to Greenville, Ohio, where he entered the services of George Buchy, by whom he was employed for seven years. Subsequently he worked for Mr. Klee, a butcher, for three years, and then purchased the meat market of Curtis & Rodakaffer, succeeding to their business. He has a good shop, well furnished with every appliance known to the modern butcher, and as he buys and kills his own stock he therefore furnishes to his patrons an excellent grade of meat. His place of business is centrally located and he now has a large and constantly growing trade. In 1883 occurred the marriage of Mr. 694 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Suter and Miss Ellen Smalenberger, of Greenville, Ohio. This lady was born in Germany and came to America in early childhood with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Suter now have three children—Rosa, Albert and Bertha—all yet under the parental roof. In his social relations Mr. Suter is connected with Greenville Lodge, No. 195, I. O. O. F., and with the Knights of Pythias fraternity of this place. He has a good residence, well furnished, and is an honest and reliable citizen, whose success in life is attributable entirely to his own efforts. Coming to this country without capital and without influential friends to aid him, he has worked his way steadily upward, overcoming all difficulties and obstacles in his path by determined purpose. He is well known as a successful business man of Greenville, having no occasion to regret the -fact that he sought a home in the land of the free. WILLIAM J. REICHARD. Among Ohio's native sons who are devoting their energies to the honorable occupation of farming is William J. Reichard, who is residing on section 7, Mississinawa township. He was born in Preble county, Ohio, April 17, 1847, and his father, Isaac Reichard, was a native of the same neighborhood, born December 12, 1822. The grandfather, John Reichard, was born in Center county, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1793, and at an early day came to Ohio, locating at Pyrmont, Preble county. The land was wild and unimproved and the family bore the hardships incident to the life on the frontier. John Reichard married Eliza Winicks and they had eight children, seven sons and one daughter, all of whom reached mature years, married and had families. The only surviving member of the family, however, is Samuel Reichard, who is living. in Indiana, at an advanced age. The grandmother, who was born October 9, 1792, died August 6, 1843, and the grandfather' of our subject, surviving her for about three years, passed away on the 29th of July 1846. They were laid to rest in the cemetery at Pyrmont, Preble county. Their marriage was celebrated February 4, 1812, and was blessed with several sons and daughters, concerning whom we make the following observations : John, who was born November 10, 1812, died in the,, seventieth year of his age ; Michael, who was born December 1, 1814, died at the age of seventy-seven years ; Daniel, born March 4, 1817 ; Samuel, November 27, 1819 ; Isaac, December 12, 1822.; Philip, June 18, 1825; Henry, June 10, 1828; and Mary Ann, who was born December 8, 1834, died in the autumn of 1898. Isaac Reichard, the father of our. subject, was reared to manhood in Darke county, and having attained to his majority, married Sarah Garland, who was born in Tennessee, June 1, 1824. They were wedded at Gordontown, Ohio, in 1846, and took up their residence at Pyrmont, where William J. and his sister, Mary Amanda, were born. The latter is now the widow of Louis Horine, residing at Fort Recovery with her two sons and a daughter. George W., the third of the family, died November 12, 1899, in his forty-ninth year, but five of his six children are yet living. John is a well known farmer of this township. Eli F. resides in Union City, Indiana, and has three children—a son and two daughters. Alonzo P., who is living on the old homestead, has two sons and two daughters. The father of these children died October 2, 1879, and the community mourned the loss GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 695 of one of its esteemed citizens. He started out in life with little capital, but by determined purpose worked his way upward and became the owner of a good property. His wife is a member of the Methodist church and a most estimable lady. Mr. Reichard, of this review, received limited school privileges in the district in which he resided and since early life has lad few opportunities to pursue his studies, his assistance being needed on the home farm or in other labor that would yield to him a living. He has carried on agricultural pursuits throughout his entire life and is to-day the owner of one hundred acres of valuable land, sixty of which is contained within the borders of the home farm. He carries on general farming and each season has from five to seven acres planted with tobacco. He also makes a specialty of corn and raises hogs, sheep and cattle. He works four horses in the operation of his farm and conducts his business along progressive and energetic lines. On the 25th of February, 1869, Mr. Reichard was united in marriage to Miss Mary Jane Sumner, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, November I, 1846, a daughter of George and Susanna (Mongman) Sumner. Her father was born December 11, 1822, and died in 1893, at the age of seventy-one years, leaving a widow and fourteen children, of whom thirteen, nine sons and four daughters, are yet living. The youngest is now thirty-six years of age. HENRY C. BRISTLY. Among the enterprising farmers and highly esteemed citizens of Twin township, Darke county, Ohio, is the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch: The family name was formerly spelled Brustle. His grandfather, Christian Bristly, was a tailor by trade and spent his entire life in Wurtemberg, Germany, where he died at the age of forty-six years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Sabina Wert, also died in that country, about 1818. Their oldest son, Christian, Jr., who possessed a fine education, came to the United States about 1810 and settled in Montgomery county, Ohio, where he taught a German school. He made two trips to Germany, and died in the house where he vas born, in 1838, at about the age of seventy-six years. Henry Charles, the father of our subject, was the next of the family. Sabina married Frederick Moore and died in Logan county, Ohio. Elizabeth married Christian Shaffer and died in Germany; and Katy, who married a Mr. Schrenk, also died in her native land. Henry Charles Bristly was born in oberamt Maulbron, kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, November 22, 1780, received a good education and became the proprietor of a vineyard in his native land. On the 28th of April, 1819, he sailed from Havre, France, and landed in Philadelphia on the 25th of the following Augusti He proceeded at once to Allentown, Pennsylvania, and found employment on a farm. Later he worked as a farm hand in Berks county, that state, for some time. He was married, August 31, 1823, by Rev. Daniel Ulrith, to Elizabeth Ohlwein, who was horn in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, in July, 1795, a daughter of Werner and Katy (Long) Ohlwein and granddaughter of Killion Long, a native either of Berks or Lebanon county, Pennsylvania. Her father was a native of Hesse, Germany, and came to this country during the Revolution- 696 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ary war with the Hessian troops hired by the British to fight against the colonies. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Trenton, and from that time on fought in the continental army, becoming intimately acquainted with General Washington. He died at his home in Jackson township, Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, his wife in 1838. Of their children Jacob was drafted in the war of 1812, was stationed at Baltimore, and died in Jackson township, Lebanon county, at the age of forty-seven years ; Samuel, who died in the same township ; and Elizabeth was the mother of our subject. After his marriage Henry C. Bristly purchased five acres of land in Tulpehocken t0wnship, Berks county, Pennsylvania, but in 1839 he sold that place and purchased another in Jackson township, Lebanon county, where he made his home until April, 1853, when he disposed of his interests in that state and came to Ohio. He purchased ten acres of land in Clay township, Montgomery county, upon which he spent the remainder of his life, dying there April 25, 1857. He was a Democrat in politics and a Lutheran in religious belief, but his wife held membership in the Reformed church. She died at the home of our subject, January 19, 1873. They had only two children, Henry C. being the older. Jonathan, born in Tulpehocken township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1829, died in Clay township, Montgomery county, Ohio, July 2, 1898. He married Anna Mary Buechler, a daughter of John and Barbara (Stein) Buechler. Her father came to this state with his family in 1836 and settled in Randolph, Montgomery county, where his death occurred. The subject of this sketch was born in Tulpehocken township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, September 7, 1826, and had very poor educational ad vantages, attending an English school for only one month. The German language was spoken in his own home. At the age of twenty-one years he learned the carpenter's trade, which he has followed ever since. In September, 1852,. he came to Ohio and worked at his trade in Salem until the new year, when he returned home ; but in the spring he again went to Montgomery county, Ohio. In Clay township, that county, he was married, October 18, 1855, to Miss Leliah Baker, who was born there November 25, 1834, a daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Michael) Baker. Her grandparents were natives of Somerset county, Pennsylvania,. and were the first to settle near Salem, Montgomery county, Ohio, where they entered land and spent the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Bristly's father also, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and was ten years old when brought by his parents to this state, where he grew to manhood. When the family located here Dayton contained but one log cabin, and often Indians camped upon their farm. Mr. Baker received a very poor education, as schools were scarce in this state at that time. He married Sarah Michael, also a native of Pennsylvania, whose family settled near Salem, Ohio, later than 1812. They located on a farm. given him by his father, and there he died, in 1882. He was a Dunkard in religious belief and independent in politics. His children were : Katy, who married Jacob Hinkey and died in Monroe township, Darke county ; Susan, who married Henry Foreman and died in Arcanum ; Mary, who wedded Elias Baker and died in Monroe town ship; Sarah, who married John Foreman. GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 697 and died in Van Buren township; Samuel M., a resident of Monroe township; Delilah, the wife of our subject; Jacob, who married Sarah Shonck and lives in Brookville, Montgomery county; David, who married Sarah Grant and also lives in Brookville; Tensa, the wife of George Overholser, of North Manchester, Indiana; Lydia, the wife of Lewis Koehler, of Dayton, Ohio ; and four who died in infancy. To Mr. and Mrs. Bristly were born the following children : Levi, born April 22, 1868, married Cora Fritz and resides in Twin township, this county ; Sarah is the wife of Lewis Fryman, of Monroe township; Samuel married a Miss Robinson and lives at home; and five children. died in infancy. For a year after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bristly lived on her father's farm near Arlington, and .then moved to their present farm, which was given her by her father. This place, consisting of eighty-two acres, was then an unbroken forest, on which had been built a log cabin, and into it the family moved March 3, 1857. Mr. Bristly also owns another farm of fifty-five acres in Twin township, and in connection with the cultivation and improvement of his land he has always engaged in contracting and building and has erected many of the houses and barns in his section. His present home of red brick was built in 1872, and good and substantial outbuildings have also been erected, so that the farm is one of the best improved in that locality. By his ballot Mr. Bristly supports the men and measures of the Democratic party, and has filled the offices of school. director twenty years and township trustee three years. In 1850 he united with the Lutheran church and has since been one of its consistent and earnest mem bers, as well as one of the most highly respected and esteemed citizens of Twin township. JOSEPH JOHN BULCHER. Darke county has a no more enterprising, energetic and progressive business man than Joseph J. Bulcher, who now makes his. home on section 25, Patterson township. He was born in Shelby county, this state, two miles east of Versailles, .November 26,. 1854, and is a son of Francis Peter and Celestia (Foisinet) Bulcher, who are now living a retired life on one of their three farms. The father was born in Alsace, France, July 1, 1822, and in the fall of 1846 came to the new world, bringing with him his wife and one child. It was a long and tedious voyage from Havre to New York, and by canal they proceeded. to Buf falo, by lake to Toledo, and by canal to Berlin, Ohio, where they arrived in the woods. By ox team they came to Wayne. township, Darke county, and the father purchased forty acres of land just over the line in Shelby county, for which he paid three dollars per acre. He prospered in his new -home and is to-day one of the most sub' stantial citizens of his community. Of his. twelve children; eleven—three sons and eight daughters— grew to manhood or womanhood, namely : Rosa, the widow of Julius Moyoto; Lucy, who married August Henry and died in middle life ; Cecil, who married Frank Smith and died at the age of forty-eight years ; Celina, the wife of a Mr. Harrison; Joseph J., our subject ; P. Elizabeth,. the wife of Joseph Alexander, of Wabash township; Mary,' who married Henry 'Couchot and died young: Frank P.. a farmer of Patterson township; John, who died un- 698 - GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. married at the age of twenty-three years; Louisa, the wife of Constant Liette; and Lizzie, the wife of Joseph Poly. Joseph J. Bulcher attended the common schools until thirteen years of age, and by improving his talents in later life has become .a well informed man. He remained under the parental roof until twenty-four years of .age, when he was married, October 8, 1878, to Miss Adaline M. Poly, who was born -in Wayne township, this county, October 10, 1860, and is a daughter of Frank and Theresa (Dafoire) Poly, natives of France. Mrs. Poly died at the age of forty-eight years, leaving six children, who are still living. Thirteen children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bulcher, but one son died in infancy, and Mary A., born in 1880, died of a cancerous tumor at about the age of fourteen years. The names and dates of 'birth of the other children are as follows : Teter F., March 29, 1881 ; Edward J., in 1882 ; Emma D., May 5, 1884 ; Anna Mary, :March 27, 1886; Raymond L., May 17, 1888; Theressa E., February 25, 1890; Stella Isabel, July 12, 1891; Laurence J., September 8, 1893; Clarence Henry, February 7, 1895; Agnes M., January 21, 1897; and Josephine, November 3, 1898. They constitute a very bright and interesting family of which any parents might well be proud. From their German ancestry they have inherited a talent for music and several play .on musical instruments of various kinds. Mr. Bulcher owns and cultivates a good farm of ninety-one acres, on which he is 'engaged in general farming, but makes a specialty of tobacco growing, having from seven to ten acres devoted to that crop. He also buys and sells tobacco, and deals in tobacco boxes, buggies, wagons and surreys. For several years he engaged .in merchan dising and. in the manufacture of lumber, and is still interested in a saw-mill which brings him some revenue. He is a wide-awake, energetic business man, and the success that he has achieved in life is well merited. As a Democrat, Mr. Bulcher takes an .active interest in local politics and has served as a delegate to many conventions. He and his family are members of the Catholic church, of which he' is now the treasurer. ALONZO L. JONES. An enterprising and representative business man of Greenville, Mr. Jones, is dealing in leaf tobacco, and is not only connected with the commercial interests of the city, but also represents its official corps, for he is the postmaster of the city, prompt, energetic and notably reliable. He was born in Monroe county, Ohio, in the vicinity of West Milton, on the 21st of April, 1845, his parents being John L. and Catherine D. (Campbell) Jones. The Jones family is of Welsh lineage and was founded in the Buckeye state at an early period in its pioneer development by John Jones, the grandfather of our subject. On the maternal side .our subject is descended from good old Revolutionary stock. The grandfather, William D. Campbell, served under General Wayne in the struggle for independence, and in 1792 he emigrated westward to Cincinnati, making the trip on a flatboat. He married a Miss Thomas, and for some years they remained residents of Cincinnati, when the city was a pioneer western village. John L. Jones, the father of our subject, was born in South Carolina, and in 1816 accompanied his parents to Ohio, the family locating about sixteen miles north of Day- GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 699 ton. He was therefore reared amid the wild scenes of the frontier and after arriving at years of maturity he married one of Ohio's native daughters—Miss Catherine Campbell. In 1848 they removed with their family to Darke county, locating in Neave township, where the father resided until 1860, when he formed a partnership and embarked in merchandising in Arcanum, where he remained until a short time prior to his death, which occurred in 1884.. His wife, who still survives him, yet makes her home in Arcanum. Alonzo L. Jones spent the first five years of his life near Dayton, and then came with the family to Darke county, where he pursued his preliminary education in the district schools, later attending the high school of Greenville, where he prosecuted his studies under the superintendence of Professor J. T. Martz, a very thorough and noted educator of that day. After leaving school Mr. Jones returned to Dayton and accepted a clerkship in the store of Smith Brothers, manufacturers of school supplies and furniture. In 1872 he became interested in the tobacco business, in company with J. P. Wolf, of Dayton, handling leaf tobacco. The partnership continued for several years, after which Mr. Jones continued in the same line of business alone, in Greenville. He built a fine brick warehouse for handling and storing tobacco, and his business has steadily increased in volume, and importance, Darke county being one of the leading to-, bacco-producing counties in the state, as the quality of this product is so superior that tobacco shipped from this locality always commands the highest market prices. The warehouse owned by Mr. Jones is constructed of stone and brick and was built especially for the purpose for- which it is used. It is a two-story structure, conveniently arranged, and is. situated in close proximity to the two railroad depots in Greenville, thus having excellent shipping facilities. During the civil war Mr. Jones was a stanch advocate of the Union cause, and in. 1864 he responded to the call for one-hundred-day men, enlisting in the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry, under the: command of Colonel Dean Putnam. The regiment was sent to Lynchburg, Virginia, and did garrison duty, guarding the rail-, road and captured places. In the early part of the year 1865 Mr. Jones, with his regiment, was honorably discharged, at Camp. Dennison, Ohio. In 1866 was celebrated his marriage to Miss Martha Baker, a daughter of C. S. Baker, who was born in Warren county,. Ohio, and is a representative of one of the old families of the state. Mrs. Jones was born in this county, and by her marriage. has become the mother of three children : Iona, the wife of A. J. Slackhouse, of Fostoria, Ohio ; Charles R., who is serving as private secretary for Hon. Robert B. Gordon, the member of congress from the fourth congressional district of Ohio ; and Carl D., at home. He married Miss Mabel Turner, of Greenville, a daughter of Joseph Turner.. In his political views Mr. Jones is an earnest Republican, well informed on the issues of the day, and is a recognized leader in the local ranks of his party. He has held a number of minor offices and in 1898 was appointed by President McKinley to the position of postmaster of Greenville, in which. position he has discharged his duties with marked promptness, and fidelity. He is. a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity and is a man whose sterling qualities,