100 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. remained. There were five or six sheltered under the Merion roof at the time of the death of Mr. Merion. This, of course, made extra care and work for Mrs. Merion, but she was always equal to the occasion. A most noble woman, she was well qualified to be a pioneer's wife. She was always found where .duty called, was heroic in endurance of hardships, privations and loneliness, and was untiring in the prosecution of the many household duties that came to the wife and mother. There were no cooking stoves, sewing, knitting or washing machines to lighten the labor. Every garment worn by her family was made from raw material. The flax had to be spun, woven, bleached and, made into clothing, and table-linen, toweling, bedding and even the ticking and sewing thread were hand-made. The wool of a. hundred sheep was brought in at shearing time and Mrs. Merion had it washed, picked, carded, spun, scoured, dyed, woven and made into flannel, jeans, linsey, blankets and stocking yarn. The milk of from fifteen to twenty cows was brought in twice a day to be transformed into butter and cheese. She also raised geese and plucked them that her family might lie on beds of down. She presided over the culinary department, roasting turkeys, geese, ducks, chickens, beef and pork over or in front of the old-time wood fire that burned in the fireplace. The housewife "prided" herself on her ability in this line and the table was bountifully spread with many delicious dishes. Fruits were dried for winter consumption, for at that time the process of canning was unknown. Tomatoes were purely for ornament; a few plants being raised in flower beds, and the table delicacy (tomatoes) that we now have being called Jerusalem apples, or love apples. Mrs.. Merion was like the woman described by Solomon: "She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands,. she layeth her hands to the spindle and her hands holdeth the distaff." In 1814, while she was one day returning on horseback alone froth Franklinton, darkness came on as she crossed the river. Soon she discovered that she was followed by wolves, that chased her nearly to her own. door. When asked if she was frightened she replied: "I was a good rider. I was on a horse nothing could overtake; what had I to fear?" She was one of the first members. of the Presbyterian church at Columbus, uniting with it in Franklinton in 1808. Of that organization she was a consistent member until 1842, when, to please her children, she united by letter with the Second Presbyterian church, of which she was a member up to the time of her death. She was born near Johnstown, New York, June 28, 1789, and died in, Columbus January 24, 1856. As the years passed: by there came to the pioneer home to bless the marriage of .Mr. and Mrs. Merion several children. Their first child was born February 10, 1810, and to her they gave the name of Elmira, but she lived only a short time, passing away on the Isth of February, of the same year. William, the second child, was born September 10, 1811, and died in Columbus at the age of eighty-two years. Nathaniel, who was born February 16, 1814, died June 17, 1877. Eveline, who was born April 31, 1816, died Novem- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 101 ber I, 1885. Sarah A., born December 19, 1818, was married, December 17, 1835, to George W. Peters, and died in Columbus December 30, 1893, at the age of seventy-five. Emily was born. August 19, 1822, became Mrs. Stewart, and is now in her seventy-ninth year. To her we are indebted for this history of an honored pioneer family. The youngest of the family, George, was born March 4, 1829, and died February 19, 1866. NATHAN ALVIN McCOY. Among the prominent members of the Ohio National Guard who have an honorable military record to their credit is Nathan Alvin McCoy, the subject of this sketch, now holding the position of captain of Company F, Fourth Ohio National Guard. He is a native of Columbus, Ohio, born here in 1871, a son of Alfred and Elizabeth (Rhodes) McCoy. The grandfather of our subject was a native of Ireland, but Alfred., McCoy came to Columbus' from near Springfield, Illinois, in 1865. He entered the army and served through two enlistments, being twice wounded, and received promotion from corporal to sergeant. Three of his brothers also served through the Civil war. The mother of Captain McCoy was born in Washington township, a daughter of Henry Rhodes, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. The parents' are still living. The military instinct is no doubt inherited by our subject, as his grandfather also was a soldier. He was in the war of 1812, acting as the lieutenant of a company which did good service. Captain McCoy attended the public schools in Columbus and took a course in a commercial college, and has ever since been engaged in business. In 1891 he enlisted in Company F, Fourteenth Ohio National Guard, and was honorably discharged in 1893, but re-enlisted at the reorganization of the guard in 1898, and was elected the second lieutenant of Company F, Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry, Ohio National Guard, and May 9th entered the United States Volunteer Infantry. He served with honor through the Spanish war. In Porto Rico Company F was detailed as a dynamite battery and attached to the brigade of General Haines. In the battles of Guayama and the skirmish at Las Pamas, where immortality was won for many, his was one of the gallant companies that bore the brunt of the attack. He was detailed as a quartermaster and commissary officer, at Caney, of the distribution department, and served in this position for one month, being. mustered out on the l0th of January. Captain McCoy immediately rejoined the National Guard, and in June, 1899, he was elected captain, and is still holding that position, being now the ranking captain in the reginient. During his service in Porto Rico the captain was subjected to many dangers and some exciting experiences. Upon one occasion it became his duty to close a store, and this so enraged the keeper that lie hired three natives to kill Captain McCoy, whith they came near 102 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. accomplishing. They set upon him and beat him with clubs, badly wounding him in the head. The men were each sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. The marriage of Captain McCoy took place in 1897, when he was united to Miss Grace Abblichon, of Columbus, whose father came to this city many years ago from Switzerland. One son has been born and bears the name of Nathaniel Alfred Leo. The Captain is a member of the Porto Rico Expedition and Spanish War Veteran Association, and for six years was the captain of the Sons of Veteran Guard, of the First Ohio Regiment. Personally, Captain McCoy is. very popular and enjoys the esteem not only of his companions-in-arms but also of the residents of the city in which his home has always been. WILLIAM DAVID BRICKELL. The subject of this review is one of the best known business men of the city of Columbus, Ohio, being the proprietor of the Columbus weekly, daily and Sunday Dispatch, one of the leading newspapers in the state. He was born in. Steubenville, Ohio, November 19, 1852, and is the son of Captain David Z. Brickell, a native of Pennsylvania, and now a resident of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who was a son of John Brickell, one of the founders of that city. John Brickell married, in the Keystone state, a Miss Zelhart, a daughter of old settlers who had located in Pittsburg. William David Brickell passed his boyhood and early school days in Pittsburg, completing his education in the Western University in that city. His inclinations then led him to enter the office of the Pittsburg Daily Post, and there he learned the trade of printer, continuing in that office five years, spending one year of the time in the press room and four more in the composing room, thus becoming thoroughly instructed in every branch. His leanings were all in the direction of newspaper work and it is not surprising that soon he became a reporter, on the St. Louis Democrat, at that time owned and published by Mr. Houser. In 1876 he came to Columbus, having resigned the other position, and in January of that year purchased the Colum: bus Dispatch, succeeding Putnam & Doren, continuing the proprietor of this paper ever since. He has managed it to the satisfaction of his public, testimonial to which is in the increased circulation and constantly growing business. Mr. Brickell has made a number of important changes; all of which have resulted in benefit to the patrons. The latest important undertaking in connection with his paper by Mr. Brickell has been the issuing of a Sunday edition, which progressive move was made in December, 1898. This has proven a very gratifying success, the paper meeting a recognized want and succeeding almost beyond expectation. Mr. Brickell has purchased the six-story building at the corner of Gay and High streets known as the Dispatch building, for cash, making him the envied owner of a fine paper and the building where it is published. Almost without means he started out in life and CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 103 his success has been the result of his own endeavors. Occupying the prominent position he does, other enterprises have come under his control. He is a director in the State Savings Bank and Trust Company; the East End Savings Bank, and the City Deposit Bank, being one of the founders of all three. Mr. Brickell married Miss Cora Ross, a daughter of Samuel Ross, who is an old and much esteemed resident of Columbus, who is spending his last days at his comfortable home in this city. In the political field Mr. Brickell has chosen a conservative course, and, despite almost constant solicitation, has never consented to hold office. He is a busy man, his great publications requiring much tact and judgment, while his other interests claim considerable attention; but he is popular with his fellow craftsmen in his profession. MRS. EMILY STEWART. Among the prominent pioneer families of Franklig county is the one to which this worthy lady belongs. She was born here and is the sixth child and third daughter in the family of William and Sally (Wait) Merion, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume. She began. her education in a primitive log schoolhouse so common during her girlhood, her teacher being Parson Jeffries, who had one hundred and seven pupils. The building stood on Wall street, between Mound and Main streets. Later she attended a private school at the corner of Third and Rich streets, Columbus. For a time she pursued her studies in a private school known as the Columbus Institute. On the 12th of May, 1840, Miss Emily Merion. gave her hand in marriage to Edmond Stewart, who was born on High street, Columbus, December 11, 1811. His father, William Stewart, was a son of John .Stewart, who came from York, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and became a large land-owner of Franklin county. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Stewart located on the farm in Marion township, where he died in 1858. By that union were born three daughters, but only one is now living,—Sallie M., the wife of H. R. Dering, assistant general passenger agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at Chicago, by whom she has two daughters,—Charlotte Ray and Emily Stewart. Ellen A., the oldest daughter of Mrs. Stewart, married John H. Smith, and died November 3, 1892, leaving three sons, namely : Edmond S., of Groveport, this county ; Frank H., of Columbus, Indiana, and Walstein G., teller in the Clinton Haden Bank, of Columbus, Ohio. Martha E., the second daughter of Mrs. Stewart, died November 5, 1875, at the age of twenty-six years. Mrs. Stewart has seven great-grandchildren. For forty-two years she has resided at her present home, No. 382 Oak street, Columbus. She is well known and has a host of warm friends who esteem her highly for her sterling worth. 104 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, GEORGE L. CONVERSE. George L. Converse was born in Georgeville, Franklin county, Ohio, June 14, 1827, a son of Dr. George W. and Cassandra (Cook) Converse. His father was a physician and a son of Sanford Converse, who served as a soldier in the war of 1812. Jeremiah. Converse, the great-grandfather of the subject of this review, was one of the heroes. of the Revolutionary war, and the ancestry of the family may be traced back to the French Huguenot's, the first of the American line coming to this country with Winthrop. Dr. Converse died when his son George L. was a babe of only four months. The mother was a woman of strong character and. attainment and supported herself and child by teaching school. Mr. Converse obtained the foundation of his education in the public schools and afterward entered Central College, wliere he pursued his studies for seven years, later being graduated at Dennison University, in Granville, Ohio, with the class of 1849. In 1851 he was admitted to the bar, having studied law. with General J. W. Wilson, at Tiffin, Ohio. He began the practice of his chosen profession in Napoleon, Ohio, but removed to Columbus in 1852. Two years later he was elected prosecuting attorney, and after serving one term declined a re-election. He served for two terms, however, in the legislature, being chosen to that office in 1859 and re-elected in 1861. , In 1863 he was elected to the state senate and became the Democratic leader in that body. In 1873 he was again chosen by popular ballot to the lower house and became its speaker, his ability as a parliamentarian attracting the attention of the entire country. In 1875 he was once more elected and was again the Democratic leader. In 1877 he was recognized as a strong candidate for gubernatorial honor, General . Durbin Ward and R. M. Bishop being his competitors, the last named receiving the nomination. In 1878 Mr. Converse was elected to congress. He was made chairman of a committee on public lands, and that appointment to one of the most important committees was an honor seldom conferred on new members. He was re-elected to congress in 188o and was elected for a third term. His position upon the tariff question and his marked ability made him a conspicuous speaker in national politics. Mr. Converse and Mr: Randall were in entire sympathy and accord and advocated the principle that a tariff should. be made that would protect home industries against foreign competition. Mr. Converse moved to strike out the enacting clause of the Morrison horizontal reduction tariff bill, when, in committee of the whole, the bill was under discussion. After the defeat of the bill its friends and those opposed agreed that the. question should be settled at Chicago by the Democratic national convention. Mr. Morrison. was to be the representative of those who supported the bill and Mr. Randall of those opposed. The latter was detained from attending the convention on the first day, and Mr. Converse, though not a delegate, sought a place in the Ohio delegation and membership on the committee on resolutions CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 105 when the control was to be reached by an attempt to make Mr. Morrison its chairman. The opponents of the bill were successful, but Mr. Converse, as a favor to Mr. Morrison, requested, although entitled to the victory gained, that Mr. Morrison be made chairman. The subject of this review then made the first speech in reply to Benjamin F. Butler and addressed the meeting, speaking against the report of the committee. He contributed largely to the presidential success in 1884 and with Mr. Randall canvassed the state of New York. On 1892 he was appointed by Governor McKinley a delegate to the Nicaragua canal convention, held in St. Louis, was made chairman of that body and also of a subsequent convention held in New Orleans, called by him under the authority of the St. Louis convention. Mr. Converse took the view that the Nicaraguan canal should be constructed by the government as a national safe-guard and protection and in the interests of commerce. He delivered many addresses in different cities, sustaining these patriotic views. in regard to the canal. In 1896 he was urged to allow his name to be used in connection with the candidacy .to congress in the seventeenth district. Although he appreciated. the honor fully, he declined. For many years he was prominently associated. with the National Wool Growers' Association, and at one time he was the law partner of Hon. S. S. Cox. In 1852 Mr. Converse married Miss Sarah E., daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Walker) Patterson. Four children of this union are living : Mrs. Mary Follett, Wade and Captain George L. Converse, both of Columbus, and Howard P., Who is living in Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Converse died in 1883, and in 1889 Mr. Converse. again married, his second wife being Eloise, a daughter of Dr. Chauncey P. Landon, an eminent physician, of Columbus, Ohio. Four children were born of this marriage, one of whom died in infancy, while three are still living : Helen, Samuel Randall and Eloise, the son being named for Mr. Converse's old-time .friend, the Hon. Samuel J. Randall. At his hoMe in Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Converse died, March 3o, 1897. • LORENZO ENGLISH. It is the sacred duty of every generation to keep a faithful memorial of the character and life of its distinguished men. The maxims, motives and destinies of prominent men, as exemplified' from age to age in the moral drama of our race, constitute the elements of historic philosophy and impart to the annals of mankind their only practical utility. The life of every individual exerts an influence more or less strong upon those around him and the career of the prominent citizen is studied by those with whom he comes in contact and by coming generations through the medium of history, furnishing its lessons of incentive and inspiration. Occupyin.g a proud and honorable position among the foremost attorneys of Columbus in early days was Lorenzo 105 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. English, who was prominently identified with public affairs in both . city and state. Mr. English was born May 22, 1819, in Herkimer, county, New York, a son of John English, also a native of that county. He was reared on his father's farm until eighteen years of age and received only the advantages of such an education as the common schools of his, native county afforded. In 1837 the family removed by wagon, then the usual mode of traveling by those seeking homes in the west, to Ohio, and located in Mount Vernon, Knox county. Later the father came to Columbus, where he died in 1863. In the fall of 1839 our subject entered Oberlin College as a student and was graduated with honor in August, 1843. In September of the same year he came to Columbus and commenced the study of law under Edwards Pierrepont, afterward attorney general of the United States. Completing his studies in 1845, he was admitted to the bar in that year, and embarked in the practice of law at Columbus. He possessed much patience and integrity, was very ,conscientious as well as industrious and attained great popularity. His professional career was a success from the beginning, and he became one of the most distinguished lawyers of Franklin county. In 1859 Mr. English was united in marriage with Miss Mary Keene, a daughter of William H and Mary Keene, of Haverstraw, New York. Her father died in that state when she was very young, and later she came to Columbus with the family. Mr. and Mrs. English were the parents of five children, namely : William Henry, born in Columbus, in 1866, was educated in the public and high schools' of that city, and studied law with his father and the late Judge William Baldwin. , Being admitted' to the bar in 1883, he has since successfully engaged in practice here. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason and a stanch supporter of the Republican party. He married Miss Ida Neal, daughter of A. C. Neal, of Greene county, Ohio, and they have one son. Mathew Keene, the next of the family, was also. engaged in the public schools of Columbus, and is now engaged in the real-estate business in that city. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias. He married Miss Louie Ford, of Columbus, and they have one daughter, Mary. Walter, who is a graduate of the Columbus high school, and is now connected with the Hayden Clinton National Bank. He married Miss Ada L. Phaler, of Columbus, and. is a thirty-second-degree. Mason. Lorenzo is a graduate of the pharmaceutical department of the Ohio Medical University and is now with the Columbus Pharmacy Company. He resides at home. Laura is the widow of Charles W. Young, of Columbus. In 1850 Mr. English.was the choice of the Whig party as their candidate for mayor of Columbus, and was elected over a Democratic nominee by a handsome majority. So creditably and acceptably did he fill that office that he was several times re-elected, serving eleven consecutive years. He was chosen to many other positions of honor and trust, and discharged his various duties: with a promptness and fidelity worthy of the highest commendation. 107 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. As mayor the city government was never in more capable hands, for he was progressive and pre-eminently public-spirited, and in point of time no person, before or since, has been able to equal his long occupancy of that office. He was elected on the Republican ticket as county treasurer, by a majority of twenty-five hundred, and filled that office one term. In 1880 he was the candidate of his party for congress. In February, 1888, Mr. English received a hard fall on an icy pavement which resulted in his death on the 14th of March, the same year. He was a charter member of Capital Lodge, No. 334, I. O. O. F. His influence was great and always for good. His duties were performed with the greatest care, and throughout his life his personal honor and integrity were without blemish. Religiously the family hold membership in the Broad Street Methodist Episcopal church. JONATHAN F. LINTON. Jonathan F. Linton was born December 16, 1831, on a farm six miles southeast of Springfield, Clark county, Ohio, in a locality known as Green Plains. He was the oldest of three children. His father, Samuel S. Linton, was born in 1809, near Wilmington, Clinton .county, Ohio. The Linton family came from Scotland in the days of William Penn and Settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where Nathan Linton, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born about the year 1773. Nathan Linton, accompanied by his father, Samuel Linton, two brothers and two sisters, settled on Todd's Fork in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1802, where he continued to reside up to the date of his death in 1856. He served as the agent to subdivide and sell the lands granted to General Horatio Gates by the government for services in the Revolutionary war. The family of Jonathan F. Linton's mother, Mary Fallis Linton, came to America from England, also in the days of William Penn, and were diving in the vicinity of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, at the time of the Revolution. They afterward moved to the Shenandoah valley, locating near,Winchester. They settled in Clinton county, Ohio, about the year 1805. The whole connection on both sides were members of the Quaker church down to a comparatively late period. Jonathan F. Linton's father and mother moved to Miami county, Indiana, in 1833, and settled on Eel river five miles back of Peru and opposite where was at that time located the chief village. of the Pottawottomy Indians, and where is now situated the town of Denver. His father died there in 1836, and the family, now consisting of the widow and three children, returned to Ohio and settled near the village of Clifton on the Little Miami river in Greene county. In 184o they moved to Harveysburg in Warren county. Our subject obtained his education in the common schools of that vicinity, in the academies of Harveysburg and Waynesville, and at the old Woodard College in Cincinnati. During his school years he clerked a year in a general 108 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. store and postoffice in Waynesville, and spent a year in the printing office of the Springfield Republic. The year 1849 he worked at the printing trade in Lafayette,.Indiana, and in New Orleans and Mobile. During 1850 he cleared land and surveyed on Eel river in Indiana. During 1851 he was engaged in assisting to make the preliminary surveys and estimates for a division of..the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad, between Ottawa and Indiantown, along the bluffs of the Illinois river. In 1852 he improved a farm near where Mendota, Illinois, now stands. In February, 1853, he bought the Peru (Illinois) Democrat, changed its name and politics, and printed a daily and weekly Whig paper during the succeeding two years. In the spring of 1855 he bought one thousand and forty acres of land in Lee county, Illinois, on its eastern border, where now stands the village of Lee Station on the northwestern branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. In 1857 he harvested six thousand bushels of wheat and sold it at average price of fifty cents per bushel. Not having money enough to meet the demands of his creditors, he retired from the farming business for a season and put in the time publishing a Republican paper at Peru, Illinois. He returned to the farm in 1858, and continued there until the breaking out of the war. In September, 1855, he married Eliza J. Sapp, a resident and native of Peru, Illinois, with whom he has lived ever since. They have seven children, now all grown. Mr. Linton entered the army in July, 1861, as the first lieutenant of Com, pany D, Thirty-ninth Illinois Infantry, known as the Yates Phalanx It was a Chicago regiment and went into camp on the lake shore at about where is now Twenty-second street. The regiment first went to St. Louis, then to the upper Potomac, and spent the first winter with Lander and Shields between Williamsport and New Creek. The following summer it was up and down the Shenandoah valley with Shields and Banks, till in June, when it joined the Army of the Potomac on the James river at Harrison's Landing. The winter of 1862-3 was put in at Suffolk, Virginia, Newbern, North Carolina, and Hilton Head, South Carolina. The summer of 1863 was spent on Folly and Sullivan islands, in front of Charleston, South Carolina. The winter of 1863-4 the regiment returned to Chicago and veteranized. In February of 1864 it joined Grant's army; then in camp around Washington preparing for the march to Richmond. Our subject was made the quartermaster of his regiment in March, 1862; and served the greater part of his term of service on detached duty as brigade quartermaster on the staffs of Generals Howell, Osborn and Vogdes. He returned to his farm in Illinois in the summer of 1864. During 1867-8 he was in the milling business! at Gardner, Illinois. 1869, 1870 and 187,1 were spent in the milling business at South Toledo, Ohio. In March, 1872, he bought the Ohio Statesman at Columbus,. Ohio, and published it for four years. In March, 1874, he bought his farm just south of the city, where he has resided nearly ever since. In 1878 he established the Legal CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 109 Record and sold it out in 1880. He laid out the suburb now known as Milo in January, 1888. The subdivision known as West Park Place he bought in 1891. He has resided in the city since the fall of 1898 at 54 West Second avenue, and is still engaged in the real-estate business, mixed with a little farming. Thus we have endeavored to condense, as it were in a "nut-shell," an outline of an eventful and interesting career, a full account of which would fill a large volume. EDWARD ORTON, JR. Edward Orton, Jr., son of Dr. Edward Orton and Mary Jennings Orton, was born in Chester, New York, October 8, 1863, and was brought to Ohio two years later, living first at Antioch College, Yellow Springs. In the summer of 1873, after the death of his mother, the family came to Columbus, which has since been his home. His profession has carried him away on a number of occasions for a year or more at a time, but he has always returned to the city. He pursued his education partly in the ,public schools of Columbus, partly in Wetherell's Business College, and partly in. the Columbus high school, finally entering the university, in its preparatory department, in 1877, and graduating with the degree of Engineer of Mines in 1884. Previous to graduation he had been employed during the summer vacation of 1880 as a special agent for the collection of mineral statistics for the tenth census of the United States, traveling on foot and horseback over ten or twelve of the coal-bearing counties of southwestern Ohio; in 1881, on a trip to the mines of Lake Superior ; in 1882, as assistant on the Ohio geological survey mapping coal outcrops in Tuscarawas and Coshocton counties; in 1883 as assistant on the Ohio geological survey, preparing a chapter on "The Clays of Ohio and the Industries Founded upon Them," which appears in Volume V, Economic Geology of Ohio. After graduation his first commission was the collection, preparation and erection of the geological exhibit of Ohio's resources at the World's Fair at New Orleans in 1884 a 1885. Returning from his visit to the south, which incidentally included brief visit to Honduras, Central America, in February, 1885, he accepted a position as rodman on the engineer corps of the Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Company, with headquarters at Buchtel, Ohio. After six months of surveying, principally in the mines. at night, he was put in charge of the task of erecting and finally operating a chemical laboratory, which the company had decided to install, as an aid to the regulation of their five blast furnaces. In the summer of 1886 Mr. Orton was called to Columbus in the capacity of chemist of the Columbus Steel Company, an organization which sprung out of the old Columbus Rolling Mill Company, which had then been idle for some years. He served this company as draftsman for a l10 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. few months, pending the completion of their plant, and as chemist during the whole period of its operation, until the fall of 1887. His next commission was to undertake, first as chemist and soon afterward as superintendent, the manufacture of ferrosilicon or high-silicon pig iron at Bessie Furnace, New Straitsville, Ohio. This product had never been regularly produced before in the United States, and when produced had to compete with the Scotch and Belgian ferrosilicons. In this work he was successful, making irons of any desired silicon contents, and thus furnishing a needed object lesson by which the iron manufacturers of the country have been able to make their own supply ever since. In the spring of 1889 Mr. Orton was taken south to Goshen Bridge, Virginia, as superintendent of the Victoria Iron Furnace. This plant, which was a very large ones was erected by English capital, but had been very unsuccessful and had been standing idle for several years at that time. In this position he encountered his first reverse. The repairing of the furnace was greatly delayed, and when started its operations were very irregular. The company became panic-stricken after the first day's run and made a complete change in the management, which carried Mr. Orton out with other officers in the summer of 1889. Refusing to take charge of another blast furnace, Mr. Orton returned to the steel business, in which his Columbus experience had given him a great interest, and from Septmber I, 1889, to September, 189o, he worked in the open-hearth department of the Homestead Steel Works of Carnegie, Phipps! & Company, occupying successively almost every position around the furnace from common laborer up. This year's practical work, and this constant association with laboring, men on their own level,while not particularly advantageous to either his reputation or financial success, Mr. Orton regards as one of the most profitable experiences of his life, giving him' a fundamental familiarity with the work of steel manufacture, and a sympathetic understanding of working men: which has been of the greatest subsequent value. In September, 1890, Mr. Orton accepted a position as the superintendent of the paving-brick factory of the Ohio Paving Company at Columbus, Ohio. The use of vitrified brick pavements in this country had been but recently begun at that time, and suitable men to take charge of the large plants then being constructed for the manufacture of this class of bricks alone were hard to obtain. Mr. Orton's work on the clays of Ohio in 1883 had given him an excellent basis for this position, to which he brought large experience in allied metallurgical lines. His connection with the company lasted until February, 1893, at which time he accepted a position with the Acme Vitrified Brick Cornpany, of Louisville, Kentucky, as superintendent of their extensive plant. Previous to this, in a lull in business, he had sought and obtained a leave of absence of a few weeks, during which he again studied the clay industries of Ohio for the Ohio geological survey, the results of which study compose a one hundred and seventy-five-page chapter in Volume VII, Economic Geology of Ohio. This work being written from the standpoint of a practical CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 111 clay-worker as well as chemist and engineer, at once gave him influence and standing among clay-workers of all sorts over the whole country. In 1893, after visiting the World's Fair, the idea of providing some means for obtaining technical education for clay-workers began to take root in Mr. Orton's mind. His own training as a milling engineer and metallurgist had given him much advantage over the average clay-worker, and his geological work in the clay industries had shown him how general was the need of even elementary instruction in the application of chemistry, physics and geology to clay-working industries. This idea, growing in definiteness, resulted in the preparation of addresses on this subject before the clay-workers' associations of the country. One of those bore fruit in the appointment of a committee, who proCured the passage of a law by the legislature of Ohio creating a department in the Ohio State University, where instruction in clay-working and ceramics, including cement and glass, should be specifically provided. To the direction of the department, Mr. Orton was called as the natural exponent of this idea of technical ceramic education, and he returned to his alma mater in this new capacity, in September, 1894, after an absence of just ten years spent in business and engineering work. The ceramic department, beginning on a small scale, has gradually acquired momentum and has now become a very influential factor in the progress of clay-working industries in America. Being the first attempt, outside of Europe, to give instruction on this subject, the new course drew students from all over the United States, even from the distant Pacific coast. Many clay-workers could not at first see where to use. or how to apply the trained output of this school, but they soon began to see their way, and the movement is now solidly established as a part of the educational scheme of the country. Other states, recognizing the practical value and good results of the Ohio school, equipped similar departments, notably Iowa, which was the second in the field, and New York, which appropriated twenty thousand dollars in 1900 to equip such a department. On the death of his father, Professor Orton was appointed, in December, 1899, state geologist of Ohio in his stead, and, after securing appropriations, began, in July, 1900, the prosecution of active work in the survey, which had been inactive since 1893. Besides the administrative work as state geologist, Professor Orton took as his special field of investigation the cement and clay industries, which were immediately germane to his regular work in the university and which permitted him to tarry on both positions at once, Without prejudice to either. Aside from the strict line of his professional career, Professor Orton has held several positions of honor and trust : president of the Ohio Institute of Mining Engineers 1893-4; two terms ; secretary of the American Ceramic Society from its organization in 1899 ; president of the Engineers' Club of Columbus, 1899; third vice-president of the National Brick Manufacturers' Association of America in 1897; first vice-president in 1898; secretary of the 112 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. committee on technical investigations, of the same society, 1898 to date; fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,. 1900; and a member of the council of the Society of Colonial Wars for the State of Ohio, 1899-1900. He was married on the 3oth of October, 1888, to Miss. Mary P. Anderson, a daughter of Hon. James H. Anderson and Princess Miller Anderson, of Columbus. ADAM STEPHENS. Adam Stephens, superintendent of the Green Lawn cemetery, has been a resident of Franklin county since 1832, when, as a boy of six years, he came from Pennsylvania, his native state, with his parents. The Stephens family is of English lineage and was founded in America by the grandfather Of our subject. The father, James Stephens, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, near Carlisle, in the year 1800. He was at one, time marshal of Columbus, serving in that position for four years, from 1852 until 1856, having been elected on the independent ticket with Mayor English. He was a carpenter and builder and had worked for s.o.me years on the state house. He died November 23, 186o. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Otstot, was a native of Columbia, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, born in 1802, and a daughter of Adam Otstot, who came from Germany to America When four years of age. For many years he resided: in Ohio, dying in Springfield, this state. Several of his sons are located in Clark county, Ohio. Adam Stephens, of this review, pursued his education in the private schools. Five of his brothers served in the Civil war. William Chambers served for three years and six months in the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry and died in 1898. ThOmas Jefferson was captain of a corripany of the Fifty-fourth Ohio Volunteers, and now resides in Circleville, Ohio. Cyrus served for one hundred days in the Thirty-third Ohio, and is now living in Columbus. George S. was a member of a cavalry company and James was in the One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio for one hundred days. In 1866 Mr. Stephens was made marshal of Columbus, being the first Republican ever elected to that office; in which capacity he served for one year. For four years he filled the office of trustee of Montgomery. township. In politics he has ever been a stalwart Republican, earnestly espousing the cause of the party and doing all in his power to promote its upbuilding and secure its success. For a third of a century, from March, 1868, until the preSent time, he has been superintendent of the Green Lawn cemetery. In early life he learned the cabinet-maker's trade and has followed. it for twenty-five years, having made over ten thousand coffins in this period. There have been over twenty-three thousand interments in the cemetery during his superintendency. Mr. Stephens has the superVision of the grounds, and his labors have made thiS city of the dead most beautiful. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 113 On the 3d of May, 1849, occurred the marriage of Mr. Stephens and Miss Sarah J. Brentnall, a daughter of John Brentnall, of Delaware county. She was a native of England and was brought to America when a little maiden of six summers. She died in 189o, at the age of sixty-one years, leaving five children, who still survive her, namely : Eliza Shepherd is living with her father. Lorin Yerington, who is past chancellor commander of Columbus Lodge, No. 3, K. P., and belongs to Joseph Dowdall's Company, No. 19, Uniformed Rank of the Knights of Pythias. He is a civil engineer by profession and is employed in the Green Lawn cemetery. For the past twenty- two years he has been prominently connected with military matters, was captain of the Boys' Guard about 1867-8, Was adjutant of the First Regiment, K. P., Uniformed Rank, for nine years, and held the rank of captain from 1889 until 1897, and is now the first lieutenant of the Columbus Rifles, which was organized in 1898. John James, the next member of the family, is assistant superintendent of the cemetery. Ada is a graduate of the Columbus high school, has been a successful teacher for fifteen years and is now the principal of the Chicago Avenue school, of Columbus. Sherman Finch is a florist and is the proprietor of the greenhouses connected with the cemetery. For forty-eight years Mr. Stephens has been connected with the Odd Fellows society, is a past noble grand, past patriarch and past high priest of Capitol Encampment, No. 6, and a past grand high priest of the grand encampment of the state. For a number of years he was the district deputy grand master. He became a charter member of Columbus Lodge, No. 3, K. P., was its first chancellor commander and was a representative to the first grand lodge held in Ohio, in 1866. His religious sentiments and membership connect him with the Episcopal church. GUSTAVUS S. INNIS. The subject of the present memoir, Gustavus Swan Innis, now numbered with the dead, was a well known and. much esteemed resident of Columbus, Ohio, his birth occurring in Franklinton, Franklin county, Ohio, February 4, 1819, and hi's lamented death on January 2, 1899. His father was Henry Innis, one of the pioneers of Franklin county.; the mother was Isabel C. (Pegg) Innis, a sister of the well known Joseph Pegg. Henry Innis was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and moved to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1812, later coming to this county, and about 1820 settling on a farm about five miles north of Columbus, becoming one of the prosperous farmers of his township. The mother died: at her daughter's home at Commercial Point. at a very advanced age. Gustavus S. Innis was reared a farm boy and sent to the district school, where he made rapid progress, and then entered Central College, at which he graduated, under the presidency of Professor Washburn. After leaving college he engaged in teaching, first in the country, but later he took charge of 114 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. a school in what is now South Columbus. One term he taught in Clintonville in the basement of the old brick church, and this school under his directi became somewhat famous, on account of the progress of the pupils. Mr. Innis was married March 25, 1845, to Miss Sarah G. Morrill, of Montgomery township, a daughter of Moses and Millie (Marion) Morrill, Mrs. Innis was born on the farm adjoining the southern limits of the city of Columbus, September 2, 1821, and was the youngest daughter of a family of nine children. Her father was an native of New Hampshire, from which state he emigrated to Vermont and later to Boston, Massachusetts. In 1806 he married, in that state, and in 1812, removed with his family to Franklin county, Ohio, making the long journey in wagons. He reached his destination safely, settling on a farm: south of Coltiinbus, which is now a part of the city, and here Mrs. Innis was born and still resides. This land was heavily timbered, but he worked hard and faithfully, finally clearing up the whole tract of two hundred and forty-three acres, putting it into a fine state of cultivation. Mr. Morrill was, widely known among the pioneers, as an enterprising, honest and conscientious man. He died. in 1837, upon the farm, his wife surviving until 1858. Both the Morrill and Innis families were old ones in the early settlement of New England, emigrating from Scotland, Ireland and England. Mrs. Innis was educated in the city schools of Columbus and in Worthington Seminary, acquiring a very thorough knowledge of the various branches taught at that time. Following her school days came a season of teaching, when through the country, in the neighborhood, later in the city, she successfully engaged in this profession, becoming one of the teachers in the school located on Parsons avenue. . Mr. and Mrs. Innis were the parents of five children : Henry Morrill; George Swan; now a professor in Hamline University, at St. Paul, Minnesota; Isabel C., the wife of Dr. Newton Matthews, of Williamstown, Kentucky; Millie M., the wife of Dr. Charles Bohannon, of Hebron, Licking county, Ohio, and Charles Francis, living at home on the farm. After marriage Mr. Innis settled on a part of the Morrill farm, carrying on extensive operations, but was never too much engaged to interest himself in politics or in any of the various enterprises which promised good to the community. He was a man of progressive ideas, many of them considered im practical at that time, but he only lived a little in advance of the age. For two years he acceptably filled the office of warden of the Ohio penitentiary and was appointed superintendent of the Boys' Industrial School, at Lancaster, Ohio. In politics he was an aggressive Democrat, because in all he believed he put his whole heart. Both Mr. and Mrs. Innis were devoted members of the Methodist church, Mrs. Innis having become connected with it in he girlhood. Mr. Innis lived to a good old age, his death being hastened by a fall from a street car. His memory is tenderly cherished by his family and by all with whom he came into intimate acquaintance in life. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 115 Mrs. Innis is the last of her family, with the exception of one sister, Mrs. Lydia Cookman, the latter having passed her eighty-second birthday. Mrs. Innis, notwithstanding advanced years, is hale and hearty, performing many daily tasks, living in the old homestead with a young lady for a companion. A cheerful disposition and a kind and loving interest in those about her make .happy the declining years of this admirable lady. ALEXANDER DAVIDSON. Alexander Davidson, now deceased, was born in Hardy county, Virginia, September 20, 1824, a son of Isaac and Mary (Evans) Davidson. The father was a farmer and he, too, was a native of Hardy county, whence be removed with his family to Ohio, arriving in this state about 183o. He settled on a farm in Norwich township, now owned by George Van Schoyck, but the tract was then covered with a heavy growth of timber. He made ,a clearing and built a small cabin of round logs, which: he afterward replaced by a more commodious house constructed of hewed Jogs. Subsequently he sold that farm and purchased: land about five or six miles north of Dublin, spending his remaining days thereon. He died in 1853, and his widow after. ward removed to Missouri, where her death occurred: in 1863. Their chil were Jane, who became the wife of Obediah .Davis and died in Franklin county; Alexander; Rhoda, wife of Harvey Fisher, of Missouri ; Noah, who died in Missouri; and Azariah, who died in Franklin county. Mr. Davidson, whose name introduces this record, was reared to manhood in Franklin county, and acquired a fair education in the district schools. He was brought up to farm work and followed that pursuit throughout his entire life. He was married January 3o, 1848, to Miss Lucy Wilkin, who was born in Hardy county, Virginia, December 3, 1825. Her parents were Jacob and Mary Catherine (Fravel) Wilkin. Her father was born and reared in Hardy county, Virginia, and was a son of George Wilkin, who was twice married, his second union being with Lydia Wise. He died in Virginia, and his wife died at the home of one of her children in Licking county, Ohio. Jacob Wilkin was reared to manhood in the county of his nativity and served as a private in the war of 1812, being stationed near Norfolk, Virginia. He wedded Mary C. Fravel, who also was a native of Hardy county; Virginia, is were her parents, Joseph and Annie (Dellinger) Fravel. About 1834 Mr. And Mrs. Wilkin came to Ohio, making the journey by wagon. They were about a week upon the way and at night camped out by the roadside. They settled near the town of Nashport, in Muskingum county, where they resided ten years, and then came to Franklin county, settling on what is now the Ezra Dominy farm, which was then a tract of wild land, the only improvement on the place being a little log house. Throughout his active business career Mr. Wilkin followed blacksmithing and farming and both he and his wife died in Norwich township. Their children were Reuben, who died in 116 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Muskingum county, Ohio; Elizabeth, who became the wife of Joseph Francis and died in Jackson county, Kansas ; Julia Ann, wife of Daniel Shuler, of Oklahoma; Lucy; Amanda, widow of Elias Fisher, and a resident of Westville, Ohio; and Catherine, wife of Hosea Dildine, of Madison county. Mrs. Davidson was only nine years of age when. she accompanied her parents to Ohio. She attended. school to a limited extent in Muskingum county, Ohio, and afterward continued her education in a log school house in Franklin county, her first teacher in Norwich township being Mr. Laird, In 1848 she gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Davidson and for a .few years they resided in Norwich township, after which they removed to a farm of on hundred and fifteen acres in Washington township, the subject of this revie\ there successfully carrying on agricultural pursuits until his death. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Davidson have been born seven children : Arminta, the eldest, is the wife of George Van Schoyck, of Norwich township, Franklin county. Millard married Rachel Britton and resides in Washington. township. Mary C. became the wife of George Wilcox and died in Washington township. Ida is the wife of George McCullough and died in Norwich township. Irena is the wife of George Lanning, of Oklahoma. Perley J., born on the home farm, April 18, 1868, attended the district schools of Washington township, was for three yearn a student. in the high school at Hilliard, pursued a con mercial course in Ada College and studied stenography in Hudson College at Columbus. After completing his education he went to Buena Vista, Vir. ginia, to learn drafting, but, disliking that work, he returned and has since operated the home farm. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge of Hilliard, and in politics is a Democrat. Harry, the youngest of the family, died at the age of twenty-seven years. Mr. Davidson, the father, was an exemplary member of the Masonic fr ternity, and his political support was given.. to the Democracy, for he h firm faith in its principles. He died September 21, 1897, respected by all w knew him, and in his death his family lost a considerate husband and fath and the community a valued resident. GEORGE W. MATTHEWS. The history of a state as well as that of a nation is chiefly the chronic of the lives and deeds of those who have conferred honor and dignity upon society. The world judges the character of a community by that of its representative citizens, and yields its tribute of admiration and respect for the genius, learning or virtues of :those whose works and actions constitute th record of a state's prosperity and pride; and it is their character, as exemph fled in probity and benevolence, kindly virtues and integrity in the affairs o life, are ever affording worthy examples for emulation and valuable lessons o incentive. This, train of thought is induced by a consideration of the l' record of George W. Matthews who is one of the highly esteemed citizens CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 117 Franklin county a man of sterling worth and irreproachable character. He is enterprising, charitable and humane, having broad sympathy and a kindly spirit. Mr. Matthews was born in Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia, on the 30th of September, 1837, and has back of him a noble ancestry, of which he has every reason to be proud.. His father, Ellzy Matthews, was a pioneer of Franklin county of 1844, in which year he located on the Scioto river, in Perry township. He was a native of Virginia, born at Moundsville, where his early life was passed, and there he wedded Mary M. Hood, a sister of Judge Hood, of Somerset, Ohio, one of the early jurists of the state. Her father, Thomas Hood, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland, and served his country during the war of the Revolution as a drummer in the Maryland troops. He wedded Margaret Crook, and Elizabeth Hood, one of their daughters, became the wife of Rev. James C. Taylor, a native of Baltimore county, Maryland, whose parents became pioneer settlers of New Gibson, Ohio. When he was eighteen years of age Rev. Taylor, accompanied by Rev. J. B. Finley, attended a quarterly meeting. There he became converted, later became a student in Oxford College and soon afterward was licensed to preach. In 1823, at the close of his second year at Oxford, he was received on trial in a traveling connection in the Ohio conference, and was appointed to the Miami district of the Connorsville, Indiana, circuit. He labored faithfully, wearing out his clothes in the service, purchased a horse for ninety dollars in order to make his church visits, and at the end of his season of work received thirty-three dollars in payment. He continuously rode circuits in the thinly settled regions of Indiana, and in 1826, while on the Black River circuit, he was married to Elizabeth Hood, of Brooke county, West Virginia. He was a very earnest preacher and enthusiastic worker, and the record of his life was indeed a noble one For forty-three consecutive years, with a strong and steadfast heart, he labored untiringly for the Master's cause. He was unassuming in manner, cheerful in disposition, and in his intercourse with his fellow men he commanded their respect and confidence and thus reflected credit upon the cause of Christianity. During his last years of work his labors were crowned with a very high degree of success, some three hundred probationers having been taken into the church. Eloquence characterized his utterances, and his speeches were often very pathetic. He died March 14, 1866, at the age of sixty-eight years, his birth having occurred on the 2d of April, 1798. Priscilla Hood, another member of the family, married Eli Green and lived and died in Virginia, passing away January 24, 1867. Sarah Hood became the wife of Thomas Bowman and for many years was a resident of West Virginia, where her death occurred. Rachel Hood became the wife of Joseph Brown and located in Washington county, Iowa. The sons of the family included Hon. Charles Hood, a prominent and well known judge of Somerset, Ohio. Dr. J. C. Hood, another son, became a distinguished physician of Newark, Ohio, but is now deceased. He served as a 118 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY surgeon in the army during the Civil war, being attached during the greater part of the time to Grant's command. In this duty he was associated with his son, Dr. Thomas B. Hood. After the war the latter became dean of Howard University, in Washington, D. C., and was medical referee in the pension department for sixteen years. He died in 1900. Mrs. Matthews, the mother of our subject and the other member of the Hood family, was born in Baltimore county, Maryland; and during her girlhood 'accompanied her parents on their removal to Brooke county, West Virginia. In 1802 her father came to Pickaway county, Ohio, but the wildness of the country discouraged him in his resolve to make a home in this state and he returned to .Virginia; In the year 1844 Ellzy Matthews, the father of our subject, came to Franklin county, Ohio, bringing with him his wife and three children, together with their household effects, the journey being made with teams and two wagons. In January, 1843, he had made the trip on horseback, prospecting for a location, and had selected one hundred acres of land adjoining the farm upon which his son, George W., now resides. For this he paid eleven dollars per acre. It had been improved to some extent, and after taking up his abode thereon in 1844 Mr. Matthews continued the work of development and progress, making his home there throughout his remaining days. He was a successful farmer and accumulated a large estate, his landed possessions comprising nearly three hundred acres. He was identified with public affairs in the township, giving his political support to the Democracy, and was an ardent adherent of its principles. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Matthews were born the following named : Margaret, who became the wife of Washington Mateer ; George. W. ; and Mary, who became the wife of W. H. Davis and died soon after her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Matthews held membership in the Methodist church and through a long period were exemplary Christian people who showed forth their faith and works in their daily life and instilled into the minds of their children the principles of honesty and uprightness. The father died in April, 1876, at the age of seventy-six years, and the mother passed away in May, 1881, in her seventy-sixth year. He was a prominent Mason. George W. Matthews, whose name forms the caption of this review, was only six years of age when his parents located in Franklin county, Ohio, He acquired a good education in the public schools of the neighborhood and remained with his father and mother until they were called to the home. beyond. On the 27th of September, 1860, he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy McCoy, a daughter of James and Ziporah McCoy, honored pioneer people of the county. From 1844 until the present time Mr. Matthews has resided in Perry township. In 1881 he took up his abode upon the farm which is now his home, and in that year erected thereon a commodious brick residence. His home is. modern in all its appointments and equipped with the latest improved Conveniences. It is tastefully furnished, has attractive and pleasant surroundings • and gives evidence of the culture and refined tastes of the in- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 119 mates. The farm comprises two hundred and fifty-six acres of valuable land, which is highly improved, the richly cultivated fields being the visible evidence of the enterprising spirit of the owner. His property interests also include another farm in Perry township. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Matthews have been born five children, namely : Mary L., now deceased; Flora, wife of George Purdum; Charles H. ; Margaret, who has also passed away; and Ellzy. Mr. Matthews has been quite prominent in political interests and has held the office of township trustee for fourteen years, while for thirty years he has been a member of the school board. He affiliates with the Democracy and is unswerving in his advocacy of the party platform. Socially he is connected with New England Lodge, No. 4, F. & A. M., of Worthington, and has attained the Royal Arch degree in his chapter. Through many years he and his wife have been consistent and faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church arid are exemplary Christian people. Kindness, amiability and courtesy not only characterize his social relations but are a marked factor in his business life. Honesty and integrity are synonymous with his name, and in every relation in which has been placed he has been found true and loyal to the trusts: reposed in him. It is not because of special prominence in public affairs that he has and is justly entitled to the respect and confidence of his fellow men, for his personal qualities are such as to make men esteem and honor him. ROBERT McCOY. The name of McCoy has figured prominently in connection with the development and substantial upbuilding of Franklin county through almost an entire century. Robert McCoy, whose name introduces this review, became a resident of the county about 1810, locating on the east side of the river, in Franklinton. Two years later, in 1812, he purchased sixty acres of land, upon which his grandson now resides. He came to this county from Pennsylvania, but was a native of Ireland, whence he crossed the Atlantic to the new world in an early day, taking up his abode in Lancaster county of the Keystone state. On the maternal side, however, he was of Scotch lineage. His mother bore the maiden name of Mary Love and was a native of the land of hills and heather, but became a resident of the Green Isle of Erin when a little maiden of five summers. After arriving at years of maturity Robert McCoy was married, on Christmas day of 1802, to Miss Nancy Douglas, who was born in Scotland, in 1781. With their two sons, James and Hugh, they came to Ohio, and subsequently five other children were added to the family. The second son, Hugh, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1808, and married Lydia Burns. He came to Ohio with his parents in 1810, and for many years resided in Franklin county, but afterward removed to Indiana, where his death occurred. Mary Ann, the eldest daughter of the family, became the wife of William Feltner. Eliza married Abraham Hunter; Nancy 120 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY became the wife Of Joseph Godown. Catherine died aged eighteen years; Rebecca married Daniel Barker. Sarah became the wife of Alexander Harper, and after the death of her first husband married Abraham Stout. After locating upon. his farm in Perry township Robert McCoy there made his home until his death. He was a successful agriculturist, becoming the possessor of a large property. He died July 25, 1841, at the age of sixty-nine years, and his wife passed away March 27, 1860, at the age of seventy-nine years. She was a woman of deep religious convictions and held membership with the Methodist Episcopal church. James McCoy, the eldest son of Robert McCoy, was born in 1805, in Pennsylvania, and married Ziporah Richards, of Franklin county. They became the parents of five children, as follows: Nancy, now the wife of George Matthews; Lois, deceased; Ebenezer; Potter J.; and Robert. Both Mr. and Mrs. McCoy spent nearly their entire lives in Perry township; and for many years he served as a trustee, filling the office in a most capable and acceptable manner. His farming interests were well managed and brought to him a good financial return. His death occurred in 1880, when he had attained the ripe old age of seventy-five years, and his wife passed away September 14, 1872. Their son, Robert McCoy, was their eldest child and is the present representative of the family upon the old homestead. He was born in this township, in 1834, and acquired a common-school education of a very practical nature.. In 1862 he was united in marriage with Sarah Lattimer, and their union has been blessed. with eight children, of whom seven are yet living, namely : Glennie, Bertha, James; John, Edgar, Robert and Florence. The home farm comprises one hundred acres of land:, which is richly cultivated, and the well tilled fields indicate to the passer-by the supervision and progressive spirit of the owner. He is one of the .practical and reliable farmers of Perry township and a man of sterling worth. JOSEPH A. JEFFREY. The manufacturing interests of Franklin county have no more worthy representatives than Joseph A. Jeffrey, president of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, of Columbus, and a man who has been actively connected with various. other business enterprises to the benefit of all. There is no man in Columbus who occupies a more enviable position than does Mr. Jeffrey in industrial and financial circles; not alone on account of the brilliant success he has achieved but also on account of the honorable, straightforward business policy he has ever followed.. He possesses untiring energy, is quick of perception, forms his plans readily and is determined in their execution, and his close application to business and his excellent management have brought to him the high degree of prosperity which is to-day his. Mr. Jeffrey was born at Clarksville, Clinton county, Ohio, January 17, 1836. His father, James Jeffrey, was a native of Monmouth county, New CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 121 Jersey, and was a farmer and trader. He married Angeline Robinson, a daughter of David Robinson, one of the early settlers of Warren county, Ohio, who was well known at Lebanon. Joseph A. Jeffrey passed his school days at St. Mary's Ohio, where he completed his education in the high school, after which he spent four years as. a clerk in a general store. Later in life he removed to Columbus, where he soon secured a position in the office of Rickley & Brothers, private bankers. There he remained until 1866, in the various positions of bookkeeper, teller and cashier, and in the year mentioned he left the capital city and removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he engaged in the wholesale and .retail carpet and furnishing business until 1869, as a member of the firm of Rickley, Howell & Company, having a fourth interest in. the concern. He disposed of his interest in the carpet business to J. J. Rickley, and returned to Columbus, where, in connection with S. S. Rickley, then of the firm of Rickley & Brother, bankers, he organized and established the Commercial Bank at High and Long streets, now the Commercial National Bank. A year later Mr. Rickley sold his interest in the Commercial Bank to Orange Johnson and F. C. Sessions, these gentlemen, with Mr. Jeffrey forming a general partnership under the name of the Commercial Bank, with Mr. Sessions acting as the president, while Mr. Jeffrey became cashier. He held. that position until 1883, when he disposed of his interest to Mr. Sessions and acquired a controlling interest in the Lechner Mining Machine Company of Columbus. This enterprise was incorporated in 1878, with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, which has since been increased to three hundred. thousand; and Mr. Sessions, who was previously connected with Mr. Jeffrey in the banking business, became the first president, but was succeeded by Mr. Jeffrey, who has since been the president and general manager of the enterprise. The company has been known successively as the Lechner Mining Machine Company, the Lechner Manufacturing Company and the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. The scope of its operations has been broadened a good deal in the successive states of its history and it now manufactures all kinds of heavy mining and electrical machinery, which is shipped throughout the United States and to foreign countries. The company has an extensive manufacturing plant, housed. in large stone and brick buildings and einploys from eight hundred to nine hundred men, a large majority of whom of necessity are skilled workmen, as some of the machinery turned out requires the highest possible finish. The plant covers about thirteen acres of ground and is located on the tracks of the Big Four Railway system., which affords first-class shipping facilities. The company manufactures electrical machinery, dynamos, motors, under-cutting coal-mining machines, electric and air-power drills, chain belting, elevators, conveyors, rope transmissions and coal washing and crushing machinery. The efforts of Mr. Jeffrey have not been confined alone to one line, for his opinions carry weight in business circles generally, where he is known as a man of sound judgment and unquestioned' ability. Since 1883 he has been 122 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. a stockholder in the Commercial National Bank of Columbus, and he is also a stockholder in the Ohio Trust Company, a director in the Franklin Insurance Company and is connected directly and indirectly with many other . business enterprises of Columbus. Mr. Jeffrey was united in marriage to Miss Celia C. Harris, a daughter of Joseph and Deborah (Clark) Harris, the wedding being celebrated on the 2d. of October, 1866. They now have six children : Minnie G., Florence, Robert H., Agnes, Joseph Walter and Malcolm Douglas. The eldest son, Robert H., is assistant general manager of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Cornpany. . Joseph Walter is a student in Williams College in Massachusetts and the youngest son is. a student in the Trinity Hall school at Washington, Pennsylvania. The eldest daughter, Minnie G., is a graduate of Gannett Institute, of Boston, Massachusetts, and is the wife of R. G. Hutchins, the vice-president of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. Florence was graduated in Smith College, of Northampton, Massachusetts, and is now the wife of William Wilson Carlysle, a lawyer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Agnes is a graduate of Smith College and is now the wife of Frederick Shedd, of Columbus. Mr. Jeffrey served for five years as a trustee of the Protestant Hospital of Columbus and is a trustee of the Woman's Hospital of this city. He is a director and trustee in the First Congregational church, of which he and his wife are members. He likewise holds membership in the Columbus Club, the Arlington Country Club and the Middle Bass Club, of Lake Erie. In politics he is an outspoken. Republican. His business career has been indeed very creditable, having established his present business, the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, and mainly through his efforts and direction having seen it grow from a very small beginning, the employment of a half dozen men, to its present large proportions with a capital and surplus of one million, two hundred. thousand dollars, employing about nine hundred men, demonstrating the truth of the saying that success is not the result of genius but the outcome of a clear judgment and experience. LOUIS SIEBERT. Louis Siebert, one of the enterprising, wide-awake and alert business men of Columbus, has through many years been identified with industrial and commercial concerns: which have contributed in a large measure to the substantial upbuilding of the city, and the high success which he has achieved is an indication of the power of energy, of capable management and of laudable mix tion in the business world. Mr. Siebert was born in Frankfort on the Main, Germany, in 1830, but since the 15th of July, 1834, has been a resident of Columbus. His father, Henry L. Siebert, a soldier in the wars against Napoleon Bonaparte, came with his family to America in 1833, locating in Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, In Columbus he established a grocery and bakery, which he conducted until CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 123 death in 1842. In his youth Louis Siebert pursued his education public the and private schools, and when a young man he learned and became connected with the business of bookbinding and the manufacturing of blank books and stationery. Twenty-seven years he was identified with that line of trade and established the firm of Siebert & Lilley. They did an extensive business, their establishment being one of the largest of the kind in the entire state. Their sales and shipments constantly increased and the enterprise therefore proved a very profitable one. In 1892, however, Mr. Siebert retired from the business with which, he had so long been associated, but did not entirely sever his connection with commercial and financial enterprises. He is now a director in the Ohio National Bank, in the Edison Electric Light & Power Company, and in the Ruggles-Gale Company, a bookbinding enterprise. He is also a director in the Dahlonega Consolidated and Standard Gold Mining Companies of Dahlonega, Georgia. In 1864 Mr. Siebert was united in marriage with Miss Sarah, a daughter of Henry B. Van DeWater, who was a well-to-do and highly respected citizen of Columbus, but is now deceased. Their son, Albert H. Siebert, who is the manager of the press rooms of the Spahr & Glenn Printing & Publishing Company, married Miss Cora Malone. The second son, Professor Wilbur H. Siebert, is a graduate of the Ohio State University, of Harvard College, and afterward continued his studies in the Universities of Frieberg and Berlin, Germany. He now occupies the chair of European history in the Ohio State University. He married Miss Annie Ware Sabine, of Marysville, Ohio, the only daughter of Hon. Hylas Sabine. Socially Mr. Siebert is connected: with the Knights of Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He belongs to the King Avenue Methodist church, of which he is one of the trustees, and is liberal in his contributions to church and charitable work. In business affairs he is energetic, prompt and notably reliable. He was watchful of all the details of his business and of all indications pointing toward prosperity. He has gained wealth, yet it was not alone the goal for which he was striving; and he belongs to that class of representative American. citizens who promote the general prosperity while advancing individual interests. OSCAR W. SCOTT. Oscar W. Scott, a well known farmer of Franklin township, was born in Short Creek township, Harrison county, Ohio, November 13, 1853, and is a son of George W. Scott, who was a native of the same county and came to Franklin county in 1872, locating at Camp Chase, where he was the first postmaster. He here established a notion and grocery store and continued as postmaster for ten years. In Harrison county he .had taken' considerable terest in public affairs, and at one time was defeated for a seat in congress just one vote. His political convictions were in accord with the Repub- 124 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. lican party and he upheld them until the time of his: death, at the age of seventy-eight years. The mother of our subject belonged to the Hoopes family, which first located in America in 1683, David Hoopes, a Quaker, locating in Westchester county, Pennsylvania, where the family continues to the present day. Ann Hoopes was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1815, and was a daughter of Jacob Hoopes, who had come west from Westchester county, Pennsylvania. In the former place she met and married the father of our subject, living to be an aged woman, her death occurring in 1897. Three of the children born of this union survived to maturity : Thomas A. ; Georgia, who married' Dr. John S. McBean ; and our subject. Oscar W. Scott was educated in the district schools, later attending, Franklin College, following which he learned the printing business. Receiving a scholarship in the Ohio State University, he passed one year at that institution, coming then to assist hiS father in the store and postoffice. At that time Camp Chase postoffice was: second: only to London on the Columbus, London & Springfield Railroad, between Columbus and Springfield. Until 1883 Mr. Scott remained with his father, but at that time the store was discontinued and he engaged in farming. He has an interest in twenty acres on West Broad street, also one hundred acres where he lives, besides: a half interest in Scott Brothers' addition to the city of Columbus. Mr. Scott was married, in 1886, to Miss Emma Haldy, the estimable daughter of Frederick and Louisa Haldy, whose sketch appears upon another page of this work. She is the youngest member of her family and was born in 1865. Two bright little daughters have graced this union,—Ora Bell and Flora Lou. In politics Mr. Scott has always upheld the principles of the Republican party, taking part in. its councils and being a delegate to many conventions. He was also on the state board of supervisors for elections and has acted as the clerk of the election board. Socially he is connected with the order of Odd Fellows. He is a man much esteemed in the community and has always followed a line of conduct looking toward the improvement of his: town and county. CHARLES C. SWISHER. From the earliest period of Ohio's development the Swisher family has borne its part in the work of advancement and progress, :so that the name is inseparably interwoven in the history of that portion of the commonwealth in which they reside. People of the present period can scarcely realize the struggles and dangers which attended the early settlers ; the heroism and self-sacrifice of lives passed upon the borders of civilization; the hardships endured ; the difficulties overcome. Those tales of the early days read almost like a romance to those who have known only the modern, prosperity and convenience. To the pioneer of the early days the struggle for existence, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 125 far removed from the privileges and conveniences of city and town, was a stern, hard one, and those men and women must have possessed wisdom, immutable energies and sterling worth of character, as well as marked physical courage when they thus selected such a life and successfully fought its battles under such circumstances as prevailed in the west. John Swisher and his family came to Ohio from Sussex county, New Jersey, in the year 1805, and settled in Fairfield county, where they remained until 1807, when they came to Madison township, Franklin county. Mrs. Swisher bore the maiden name of Mary Peterson, and upon her father's land northeast of the present site of Groveport Mr. Swisher and his family located. He afterward removed to the school section, where he resided for more than forty years, and afterward took up his abode in Dublin, Franklin county, where he spent his remaining days. His first wife died in 1836 and he afterward married Mrs. Shepherd, of Washington township. Of his family, six children lived to a period past seventy years of age, namely : Jacob, who spent his entire life in Madison township; Thomas, who spent the greater part of his life in Crawford county, Ohio, and there died; Frederick, who also resided in Madison township ; Fama, the wife of Absalom Peters, of Walnut township, Pickaway county, Ohio ; Mrs. Maria Minor, of Hamilton township, Franklin county; John, who died in Litchfield, Illinois; and Mrs. Hoover, the youngest, a resident of Bucyrus, Ohio. Jacob Swisher, the eldest of this family, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, July 5, 1803, and was twice married. He wedded Miss Eliza Scothorn, who died a year later, and his second wife was a daughter of Philemon Needels. During the greater part of his life Jacob Swisher resided upon a farm in Franklin county and in addition to the cultivation of his fields he engaged in buying and selling live stock. On a number of occasions he walked to Baltimore, there marketing a drove of hogs, and also returned on foot. In 1840-1 he engaged in the pork-packing business in Groveport. His second and wife died in 1862 and his death .occurred on the 1st of December, 1890. They had nine children. Henry Clay Swisher, the eldest, was born in Madison township, January 8, 1837, and long resided upon the home farm, making improvements thereon, including the erection of a substantial residence in 1874. He was married on the 18th of December, 1866, to Miss Jennie Nau, a daughter of Jacob abd Margaret Nau. Her father was born July 14, 1820, in Prussia, Germany, and with his parents came to this country when ten years of age. He was married, on the l0th of November, 1843, to Miss Margaret Bradley, and unto them were born seven children, four sons and three daughters. The mother died May 5, 1856, at the age of thirty-one years, and Mr. Nau afterward married Miss Amanda Hickle, on the 3d of February, 1867. Her death occurred January 15, 1890. Jacob Nau came to Madison township, Franklin county, in 1856, from Fairfield county. Of his children, three sons and two daughters reached mature years and two of the sons were educated 126 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. in Lebanon, Ohio, and afterward were graduated in Miami Medical College, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The youngest son pursued his education in Worthington, Ohio. One daughter is the wife of A. M. Brown, of Groveport, and the other became the wife of Henry Clay Swisher. Unto. Mr. and Mrs. Swisher were born eight children, seven of whom are living, four sons and three daughters. The eldest, Ella Maxa, was born November 2, 1867 and on the 31st of December, 1895, became the wife of O. P. Grist, a son .of Samuel Grist, an early settler of Madison township. Charles Clay is the next younger. .Walter was born December 25, 1870, and died on the 9th of January, r 871 . Edgar Allison was born January 23, 1872, was married, December 2, 1896, to Miss Alice Snow, of Hardin county, Ohio, and is now engaged in the drug business in Milledgeville, Fayette county, Ohio. Anah Alice, born December 16, 1873, and Emma Florence, born December 13, 1878, are successful school-teachers in Franklin. county. Aniy Margaret, born August 14, 1884, is now a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. Jacob Wilbur, the youngest of the family, was born December 13, 1883, and is now a student in the high school at Delaware, this state.. Charles Clay Swisher, whose name introduces this record, was born in Madison township, Franklin county, on the 19th of February, 1869, and in his youth attended the public schools near his home. Later he .was graduated at the Groveport high school, at the age of nineteen years, and subsequently pursued a post-graduate course at Reynoldsburg, Ohio. In the fall of 1888 he began teaching in the country schools and 'followed. that profession in Franklin county for several years. He always. held a high-class certificate and was a very successful instructor, giving excellent satisfaction in every district in which he was employed. On the 27th of February, 1896, Mr. Swisher was united in marriage to Miss Lucia E. Chaney, of Canal Winchester, Franklin county; Ohio, the eldest daughter of Edward and Eliza A. (Tallman) Chaney and a granddaughter of the Hon. John Chaney, one of the early pioneers of Franklin county. Mr. and Mrs. Swisher now have two interesting children : Helen E., who was born May 27, 1898; and Marcus Henry, born June 4, 1900. Since 1893 Mr. Swisher has been engaged in farming upon the fine farm that was owned by his father, and has placed the land under a high state of cultivation, so that the well tilled fields bring to him a good return for the care and labor he bestows upon them. He is also a contractor. At present Mr. Swisher occupies the position of issuing clerk under the clerk of the courts of Franklin county. In politics the elder Swishers were Whigs, but since the organization of the Republican party they have supported its principles, and the subject of this review is also allied with that organization, taking an active interest in its work and doing all in his power to promote the welfare.. of his party. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Pythias lodge at Canal Win- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 127 chester. He takes a deep interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of the county and to its progress along material and moral lines. His life has been an honorable, useful and upright one and all who know him hold him in the highest regard for his sterling worth. J. H. EUTSLER. J. H. Eutsler, the junior member of the firm of Puntenney & Eutsler, piano and music dealers of Columbus, occupies a creditable position in business circles in the city. He was born upon a farm in Ross county, Ohio, April 22, 1862, and is of German lineage. His grandfather, Henry Eutsler, was a native of Pennsylvania, but his ancestors came from the fatherland to the new world. Henry Eutsler married Jane Kirkendall, and among their children was Abram H. Eutsler, the father of our subject. He was born in eastern Ohio, and after arriving at years of maturity wedded Nancy A. Haley, whose birth occurred in Vinton county, Ohio. Both are still living, their home being in Jamestown, Greene county, this state. John H. Eutsler is indebted to the common schools for the educational privileges which he enjoyed. Through the period of his boyhood and youth he assisted in the work of the home farm, remaining with his parents until twenty years of age. He afterward attended school for a short time at Milledgeville, Fayette county, after which he entered upon his business career as a salesman in a store at Washington Court House, where he remained until 1891. In that year he removed to Springfield and in 1893 came to Columbus and was in the employ of Hockett Brothers & Puntenney until 1898, when he became a partner in the business, under the firm name of Puntenney & Eutsler. The partners are wide-awake, enterprising and experienced business men, each having been associated with the piano business for a number of years. Their store is located at No. 231 North High street, where they carry a large stock of pianos, organs and other musical instruments. Mr. Eutsler was united in marriage to Miss Emma J. Wallace, of Gallia county, Ohio, a daughter of Athos S. and Eva Anne (Shively) Wallace. hey have the warm friendship of .a large circle of acquaintances, and in usiness circles Mr. Eutsler enjoys a most enviable reputation, which has en won by reason of his fidelity to the ethics of commercial life and his exemplification of the enterprising American spirit. JOHN BURNSIDE. Among the prominent farmers of Franklin county John Burnside, a leading citizen of Brown township, is specially deserving of mention in a work of the character of this volume. Mr. Burnside is a grandson of James Burnside, who was of Scotch descent and born near Enniskillen, in county Fermanagh, Ireland, where 128 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. he became a prominent stock farmer and died full of years and honor. His son, John Burnside, the father of our subject, was also a native of that county, became an expert weaver of fine linens and was so successful in business that in time he employed several skilled workmen to help him. He married Margaret Humphreys, also a native of the same county and a daughter of Christopher Humphreys. In 1830, with his wife and family, he came to America, landing at St. Johns, New Brunswick, after a voyage of three weeks. After a short visit there he proceeded to Philadelphia and thence to Muskingum county; Ohio, bringing his wife, children and effects by wagon and settling there as a farmer, without means and amid most primitive environments. He died in that county, aged sixty-Six years, and his wife died at Delaware, this state, at the age of nearly one hundred years. Their children were : Christopher, now deceased ; John, who is the subject proper of this sketch ; William, also deceased ; Royal, who lives at Westerville, Franklin county; Margaret, who lives with her family in Wisconsin; and Ann Eliza, Thomas , and Jane, deceased. John Burnside, of Brown township, this county, was born at the birthplace of his father and grandfather in Ireland, in February, 1817, and attended subscription and government schools there. He was thirteen years old in 1830, when his parents came to America., He helped his father build the log cabin in the woods in Muskingum county, and helped him to clear up land and put• it under cultivation. The, little house was made of round logs and had a big fireplace and a stone chimney, and the household furniture and conveniences of the family were meager indeed. The boy attended school only one month after they came to Muskingum county, but he was brought up a thorough farmer and gained much valuable knowledge by reading and observation. He lived on his father's farm until the spring of 1850, when he married. Miss Elizabeth Vandevort, who was born in Muskingum county, a daughter of James Vandevort, and was of German ancestry. After his marriage Mr. Burnside lived for four years on a farm of one hundred and thirty acres in Coshocton county, Ohio, which he had bought some time before. He then settled in Brown township, Franklin county, Ohio, Where he bought one hundred acres of land, all but seven acres of which was heavily timbered. He employed help and built a small cabin which served him as a. home for four years until he could erect a more comfortable dwelling. As rapidly as possible he improved his land and put it under cultivation, and he has; added to his holdings from time to time until he now owns two hundred acres well improved and in every way equipped for successful farming. He is a leading man in his township, strong and influential as a Republican, but has never consented to accept any public office, though he has aided to the extent of his ability every movement for the public good. Mr. Burnside is a helpful member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Burnside, who was a Presbyterian, died safe in the Christian faith, in 1886, leaving tender memories as a devoted wife and mother. They had CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 129 children as follows: Martha, who married Elwood Smith; Viola, the widow of George Brand and presides over her father's household; and Albert, who is prominent in Brown township, where he has ably served his fellow townsmen as a township trustee. All members of this family are held in high esteem by those who know them best. STEPHEN W. PARKER. Stephen W. Parker is a wide-awake and progressive farmer of Prairie township and is descended from good old Revolutionary stock. His grandfather was an agriculturist of the Empire state and there spent his entire life. When the country became involved in war with England, owing to the oppression which had been heaped upon the colonists, he joined the American army and aided in establishing the independence of the Republic. Peter Parker, the father of our subject, was born in New York, in March, 1818. He acquired a limited education and at the age of sixteen he ran away from home in order to come to the west.. He made the journey on foot to Ohio and secured work on the National road at Sullivant Hill, near Columbus, and aided in building the road through Madison county. He was married, in this county, when about twenty-four years of age, to Miss Mary Warner, who was born in Franklin county, or in Pennsylvania. She was, a daughter of Stephen Warner, whose birth occurred in the latter state, while her mother, Mrs. Lucy Warner, was a native of Ireland and came to the United States in her girlhood. After his marriage Peter Parker located at the Leonard brick yard, at Columbus, carrying on business there for a time, after which he sold his property and took up his abode in Brown township, where his wife died in August, 1857, in the faith of the Baptist church,. in which she held' membership. His death occurred March 4, 186o. In hiS political affiliations he was a Democrat. The children of this worthy couple were: Martin, who died in infancy: Stephen W.; Henry W.; who went to Nebraska late in'the '6os and is still living there; John C., of Norwich township, who married Margaret Poland; and Mary. Jane, the wife of Joseph Grooms. Stephen W. Parker was born in the Leonard brick yard, now a part of Columbus, December 5, 1844, and. was reared to manhood in Brown township, at the time when it was a veritable wilderness, for no roads had been cut and the work of improvement was scarcely begun. The school was far from his home, but he attended when the weather permitted. After the death of his parents the support of the other children devolved upon him. He began work as a farm hand for John R. Reason, at six dollars per month, and with him continued for nine-years. While thus employed he responded to the country's call for aid. The blood of Revolutionary ancestors flowed in his-veins and his spirit of patriotism was aroused so that on attaining his majority he enlisted on the 8th of February, 1865, as, a member pf Company 130 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, E, One Hundred and Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Captain F. M. Baker. and Colonel R. P. Kennedy. He was mustered out September 26, 1865, at Fort Federal Hill, in Baltimore, Maryland. During his service he was mostly in Virginia and at times he acted as teamster. He participated in the engagements of Charleston and Richmond and at the latter place on being injured was sent to the rear. For a time he was in camp at Winchester and thence went to Baltimore, Maryland, and afterward to Havre de Grace. Subsequently he returned to Baltimore, where he was discharged. Mr. Parker at length returned. to the home of his former employer September 30, 1865, and remained in the service of Mr. Reason through the following year. He then purchased a notion wagon and in that way was engaged in selling goods until 1867. In the spring of 1868 he was married and made his home near Alton. In MarCh, 1869, he removed to the Bigelow farm on the National pike, remaining there for six years, and in 1875 he went to Madison county, where he remained for twelve years. In April, 1887, he took up his abode upon his present farm of seventy-three and a half acres in Prairie township, Franklin county, erecting a residence in that year. He has placed many miles of tile upon his farm, has planted orchards, erected buildings and made other substantial improvements; and also owns a farm of sixty-one acres. elsewhere. In the spring of 1868 Mr. Parker was united in marriage to Miss Lucinda Groomes, who was born November 27, 1850, on the farm which is yet her home, and which was then the property of her maternal grandfather, Thomas O'Harra. Her paternal grandfather was John Groomes, who with his wife and children came from Jersey to Franklin county. His wife was in her maidenhood a Miss Thener. John Groomes was among the early settlers of Prairie township, and died within its borders on what is now the George Michaels farm. Peter .Groomes, the father of Mrs. Parker, was born in Jersey in 1823, and was a small boy when brought by his parents to Ohio. He was reared Prairie township and married Louisa O'Harra, who was born on the east bank of the Scioto river in Franklin county, and is a daughter of Thomas O'Harra, who was a pioneer of Prairie township, where owned over three hundred acres! of land. His death occurred on his far January 13, 1877. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Groomes locat upon the farm which is now the property of Mrs. Parker. Her mother die in 1853, and her father afterward married Mary Jane Gatton. His cleat occurred on the old heme farin March 15, 1891. The children of his first marriage were : Joseph, who married Mary Jane Parker and is living in Worthington; John, who married Annie Sullivan and resides near Elmwood; Margaret, the wife of Jacob Nicely ; Mrs. Parker ; and Isabel, who died at the age of fourteen years.. The children of the second marriage are : Peter. Ellen Mina, now Mrs. Trussel, a widow; and Samuel. The children of and Mrs. Parker are : Jennie; Della, now the wife of Louis Michel; Dora, wife of W. C. Carl; Lawson; Charles, Frank and Hosea, who are in school. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 131 Mr. Parker was born and reared. in the Democratic faith, but in 1876 left that party and has since been a stanch Republican, unswerving in his allegiance to the principles of the organization. For a quarter of a century he has served as a member of the board of education and the schools find. in him a warm friend. He also belongs to W. H. Elliott Post, G. A. R., of Alton, and thus maintains pleasant relations with his old army. comrades.. GEORGE H. BULFORD. One of the successful and prominent professional firms of Columbus, Ohio, is that of Richards, McCarty & Bulford, architects, of which company. George H. Bulford, the subject of this sketch, is the junior member. He was born in Worcester, England, in January, 187o, and is the son of Thomas E. and Annie (Pritchard) Bulford, both of whom were natives of England. The father of our subject was for many years an operator in the iron industries at Worcester, and died there in 1874. The mother of our subject survives her husband and came later to the United States and resides now in Columbus, Ohio. George H. Bulford was educated in the common schools, of his native town, later enjoying advantages at a private English school, still later taking a course in the grammar school, following which he selected architecture for his life occupation and entered upon the study of it, applying himself closely for the space of two years in his native country. In 1886 our subject came to the United States and moved direct to Columbus, Ohio, where he entered into the employ of a well-known architect of this city named Yost. A short time later our subject went to New York in order to take a special course under the direction of a leading architect, upon his return becoming a member of the above firm. Their work is known throughout the city and state, and the firm is considered one of the most reliable and prosperous in the city. Mr. Bulford is a young man who has displayed great ability in his work, and commands the personal esteem of his business associates. The marriage of Mr. Bulford took .place in 1893 to Miss Florence Browning, of Marion, Ohio, the daughter of J. H. Browning, formerly of Marietta, a native of Missouri, although she was reared in Ohio, and they have one son, named George E. GEORGE BRODRICK. For more than the traditional psalmist's span of life George Brodrick has resided in Columbus, and has been a witness of almost the entire growth and development of the city, which was founded nearly a century ago. He first opened his eyes to the light of day in Columbus, January 5, 1829. His father, H. D. Brodrick, was a native of Maysville, Kentucky, 132 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. born in 1802, and in 1810 he came to Ohio with his parents. In pioneer times, during the presidency of Martin Van Buren, the grandfather of our subject was county auditor of Franklin county, and H. D. Brodrick served as a deputy. They were both prominent and influential men in business, political and social circles, and the name is inseparably connected with the history of this community on account of what they did for the development of the city and county. The father passed away in 1876. George Brodrick, of this review, spent his boyhood days at his parents' home and pursued his education in the schools that were in existence at that day. His memory reaches back to the early times when Columbus was but a village. The old landmarks have long since been obliterated, and the old tavern and postoffice where the Columbus stage made its stops was within three blocks of Mr. Brodrick's present home, for he still lives on the original plat of Columbus of seventy-five years ago, his residence standing upon land which his father owned. In the year 1861 Mr. Brodrick was united, in marriage to Laura Raney, who died in 1880.. His only child is Lauretta, now the wife of William H. Deardurff, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, April 2, 1869. When a young man he came to Columbus and for ten years has held the position of yard conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Deardurff have been born three children : Martha L., George W. and Ella L. Mr. Brodrick is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in his political views is a Republican. He took an active part in the campaigns of many years ago, when the party was in its infancy and when political excitement ran very high. He is living retired at his pleasent residence at No. 90 North Skidmore street, enjoying a well merited rest and there, in the evening of life and surrounded by many friends, he is numbered among the most valued residents of the capital. JOHN MICHAEL BRAND. On the roll of enterprising, substantial and successful business men of Columbus appears the name of John Michael Brand. He was born at Baden, Germany, on the 30th of December, 1833, his parents being John Michael and Katharine Brand. In 1846 the family emigrated to the United States, sailing from Havre de Grace, France, and reaching their destination after thirty-three days spent on the bosom of the Atlantic. On this voyage the mother died and was buried at sea. After a few days' rest in New York city the family continued on their westward way to Chillicothe, Ohio. There were three sons and a daughter, the latter now deceased, and Frederick has also passed away, so that the living members of the family are John M. and George J. Their father was a farmer and gardener during his act life, following those pursuits in Ohio, where he died on his home farm in 1852. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 133 John M. Brand, whose name, introduces this record, was educated in the common schools of his native country between the ages of six and twelve years. At the age of fifteen he began learning the harnessmaker's trade as an apprentice to John Ewing, of Chillicothe, and after the completion of his term of service lie went to Cincinnati, where he spent one year, going from there to Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained for three years. Upon returning to Chillicothe he was married, in 1860, to Miss Eliza Anding, a daughter of Paulus Anding, and after his marriage he returned to the south, locating again in Nashville, where he entered into partnership with John Monroe, manufacturing heavy harness for the Confederate army in 1861-2. From Nashville Mr. Brand went to Memphis, where he entered into partnership with George Crown, in the manufacture of harness and saddlery, continuing business there until 1864, when he sold out and returned to Ohio. In 1867 he began business on his own account in Columbus and has since carried on operations along the line of trade which he learned in early life, being now extensively engaged in the business of manufacturing heavy and light harness. He was alone until 1888, when he admitted his son to a partnership under the firm name of J. M. Brand & Son, their factory being located at No. 144 East Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Brand have but one child, John F., born, in Memphis, Tennessee, October 20, 1863, who is now his father's partner. Our subject resides at No. 186 South Fifth street, and as the result of his well directed efforts he is enabled to supply his family with all of the comforts and many of the luxuries of life. He is a member of Harmonia Lodge, No. 358, I. O. O. F. He also belongs to the Liederkranz, a German singing society, entered as a passive member in 1866, and was transferred as active in 187o, serving his thirty years as active, and now is enrolled on the honorable list. He is serving in the capacity of trustee, which office he has filled for fifteen years. He entered upon his business career in a humble capacity, but it has been one of successful achievement by reason of his natural ability and his thorough insight into the business in which as a young tradesman he embarked. He enjoys the well earned distinction of being what the public calls a self-made man. ICHABOD B. BORROR. Among the well-known and highly esteemed residents and old settlers of Jackson township, Franklin county, Ohio, is Ichabod B. Borror, the subject of this review, who was born June 14, 1838, on the farm where he now resides, on Borror pike, near Borror's Corners. His father, Solomon Borror, was a native of Virginia, a son of German parents who had come when young to America, and lie accompanied his mother to Franklin county in 1812. He married a Miss Sally Clark, but both she and her two children died young. 134 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY The name of the mother of our subject was Delilah (Miller) Borror, a daughter of one of the oldest settlers of Franklin county. Her death occurred when she was about fifty years old. When Solomon Borror came to Franklin county he encountered the usual difficulties of that time, and they required a stout heart and perfect health to overcome. Mr. Borror lived to be sixty-seven years old, and died a man thoroughly respected and much missed on account of his public spirit. He was a life-long Democrat and held some offices acceptably, one being that of constable. He was a member of the religious denomination known as the New Light; His family consisted of seven children, all of whom grew to maturity. The names of these were : Malinda, who died at the age of twenty-one; Levi, deceased; Elizabeth, wife of Wesley Titus, of Bond county, Illinois; Ichabod B., our subject ; William C., who died in the Civil war, in 1861 ; Gilbert L., of South Bend, Indiana; and Solomon,. deceased. Our subject is the only member of his family who is now a resident of Franklin county. He was reared on the farm where he now lives, although for some years he traveled, in 1862 making a trip to Montana and Idaho, where he engaged in mining for two years. After a short sojourn at home he took a trip to Bond county, Illinois, and traveled over the state, working by the month, and thus he continued. for a period: of four years, at the expiration of which time he returned to Franklin county, where he continued farm work by the month. The marriage of Mr. Borror occurred December 3, 1868, to Miss Melissa West, a native of Pickaway county, Ohio, a daughter of David and Catherine (Martin) West, who had come from old Virginia at an early day and founded a home in Ohio. She was one of a family of two sons and six daughters Daniel, who died in the Civil war ; .Mary E., deceased ; Sarah F., the widow of George Simpson, of Marion county; Caroline, deceased; Annie, deceased; Melissa; John F., deceased; and Tillia, wife of William L. Seeds, of Grove City, Ohio. After his marriage our subject located on the old homestead, where he engaged in general farming. In March, 188o, he moved into his new residence which he built that year and is now most comfortably settled, still engaging in agricultural pursuits. His family is composed of four sons and two daughters, as follows : Rev. Charles H., a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church, now located at Chillicothe. He married Miss Dora Caywood and they have one son, Brooks; Otis E., farmer for his father; Lela G., wife of S. E. Shover, of Jackson township. They have two children Merle and Elma; Glenn ; Verna; and Virgil C., who is still attending sch Mr. Borror still takes an interest in his fine farm of one hundred forty-five acres, and well he may, for it is well cultivated and must gratifying return for the labor and expense put upon it. Politically Borror is a Democrat, and his religious connection. is with the New Li denomination. Socially Mr. Borror belongs to Lockbourne Lodge, No. 2 CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 135 F. & A. M., of Lockbourne, Ohio, having been connected with that lodge for thirty-five years. He and his family are justly considered representative citizens of the county, his name being regarded as good as his bond and connected with all measures for the public good. DANIEL H. TAFT. In mercantile circles in Columbus, Ohio, there is no name which more readily or unerringly suggests all those qualities which characterize the honorable and successful merchant. than that of Daniel H. Taft, of the firm of Dunn, Taft & Company, who not only occupies an honorable position in the business community but is descended from an old first-class Ohio family. Mr. Taft was born March 23, 185a, a son of Daniel H. Taft, Sr. His lather was a native of Massachusetts,. born in 1814, who came, with his parents to Ohio early in life and settled at Reynoldsburg, a small village in Franklin county, where in due time he started on a mercantile .career. In 1840 he married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Conine. . Not long afterward he moved to Columbus, where for many years he had a dry-goods store at Broad and High streets on the present site of the Deshler bank, and later at another location on High street and still later at High and Gay streets. He retired from business after an honorable career of thirty years and died in 76. His wife survived him until 1894, when she died, in her seventy-fifth year; she was born in New Jersey, in 1819, and came to Ohio with her father's family in 1821. Jacob Conine, her father, was a pioneer in Franklin county, and her mother was Sarah Lawrence, born in New Jersey in 1778. Daniel Taft, father of Daniel H. Taft, Sr., and grandfather of Daniel H. Taft, the immediate subject of this sketch, was a native of Massachusetts and was descended from ancestors who came to America from England about 1680. Mr. Taft passed his boyhood and early school days in his native city and completed his studies in the high school. After that he assisted hi father in his store and later accepted. a position in the dry-goods store of J. Osborn & Company and was a clerk in their establishment for fourteen years, until the business was closed out. After that he was with Green, Joyce & Company until 1889, when he formed a partnership with Joseph H. Dunn and Joseph A. Hartley, under the style of Dunn, Taft & Company, purchasing the stock of William G. Dunn, a retiring member of Mr. Dunn's old firm. The present store of Dunn, Taft & Company, at 84, 86 and 88 North High street, occupies a ground space of forty by one hundred and eighty-seven feet and is a four-story and basement building. All of the several floors are crowded with the company's goods and customers and the business requires the services of sixty employes. The stock is large and varied and the store ranks as the largest exclusive dry-goods store in the state. Mr. Taft was married, May 1, 1882, to Miss Mary H. Ritson, a daugh- 136 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ter of Alfred and Jane E. Ritson, of Columbus. Mrs. Taft died in 1895, leaving a son and a daughter, Lawrence R. and Helen. Mr: Taft's present wife was Miss Martha Hill, daughter of Dr. John Hill, of Summit county; Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Taft are members of the Congregational church, which they take much interest. Mr. Taft is a man of much public spirit, influential to a great degree in political affairs, but too busy to be an active politician, a helpful,. progressive citizen who has the welfare of his fellow citizens at heart and encourages every rational means to its advancement. JAMES HOUSE ANDERSON. William tAnderson, of Scotland, an adherent of Prince James, son of James II, after the insurrection of 1715, fled in disguise to Virginia, the have of discomfitted royalists, and settled on the north branch of the Potomac, in Hampshire county, in a beautiful valley known to this day as the Anderson Bottom. He was robust and chivalrous, participated in many battles with the Indians, and was one of the brave officers under General Braddock his disastrous, engagement with the French and Indians near Fort. Duque William Anderson was born in, 1693, and died on his estate at the great of one hundred and four. His son Thomas served with credit in van Virginia (colonial) expeditions against the Indians, including Lord D more's to Chillicothe, in 1774. A soldier of the Revolution (six years patriotic and valiant, he was in many battles and (tradition says) in command of his company at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered. He was born on his father's place in 1733 and died in 1806. James, the son of Captain Thomas Anderson, was born on the same plantation, February 17, 1768. He served as a private for three months at the close of the war for independence. In 1792 he entered the cavalry servic as ensign, or second lieutenant, accompanied Anthony Wayne in his cam. paigns against the Indians, displayed great gallantry in battle, particularly a Fallen Timbers, and was advanced to a captaincy. He died October 1844. His son, Thomas Jefferson Anderson, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at the old homestead in Virginia, April 2, 1801, and with his parents came to Fairfield county, Ohio, April 7, 1806. Here on his father's farm he spent his youth. At the age of eighteen he returned to Virginia attend school. On the 7th of August, 1825, he was married to Miss Nancy Dunlevy, born January 12, 1805, a woman of taste, refinement and brilliant conversational powers, of a notable family of Jefferson county, Ohio, and the same year removed to Marion, Ohio. For three Successive terms of seven years each he was an associate judge of the court of common pleas of Marion county, and during his long residence in Marion held many other posts of CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 137 honor, profit and trust. He died January 25, 1871, respected by all. He was a man of strict integrity, stainless, honorable and just. James House Anderson, son of Judge Thomas Jefferson: and Nancy, (Dunlevy) Anderson, was born in Marion, March 16, 1833. He was educated in the district and select schools of the town, also in the Marion Academy and at the Ohio Wesleyan University. He studied law under O•zias Bowen, later a supreme judge of Ohio, and Bradford R. Durfee, graduated in the law department of Cincinnati College in the spring of 1854, and immediately began the practice of his profession in his native place. In April, 1855, he was elected mayor of Marion, and, in the October following, prosecuting attorney of the county. In the trial of causes he was indefatigable, at times eloquent, and usually successful. Like many other young lawyers, he made stump speeches for his party during political campaigns, and occasionally accepted invitations to address lyceums and other associations. On Noitember 27, 1856, he was united in marriage to Miss Princess A. Miller, the youngest daughter of the late David Miller, a pioneer of prominence in Marion and Wyandot counties, whose nepheW, Rear Admiral Joseph N. Miller, born in Springfield, Ohio, represented the United States navy by appointment of the president at the Queen's jubilee in London, in 1897. She was a granddaughter of Abner Bent, of Marion county, and a great-granddaughter of Colonel Silas Bent of the Revolution, a member of the Ohio Company, who, with General Rufus Putnam and other Revolutionary officers, settled in Ohio in 1788. In 1859 Mr. Anderson was a candidate for the state senate in the district composed of Marion, Logan, Union and Hardin counties, and came within one vote of receiving the nomination. A nomination was "equivalent to an election." In March, 1861, he was appointed by President Lincoln United States consul at Hamburg, one of the most important commercial cities in Europe, and with his family at once embarked for the scene of his duties. Ordinarily this consulate is a busy one, but the great Civil war in America trebled the responsibilities and difficulties of the position. Hamburg early became a rendezvous for privateers and blockade-runners, where they received their outfit and supplies, and the necessary espionage of these vessels, their lawless. owners and officers demanded sleepless. vigilance. That Consul Anderson performed his arduous duties most efficiently is evidenced by the number of letters of commendation received by him from the secretary of state and other, distinguished public functionaries. Under date. of December 10, 1861, Secretary Seward writes : "Your vigilance in regard to the movements of the insurgents for the purchasing and shipping of arms and other equipments at Hamburg is highly appreciated." Again, under date of August 21, 1862, Secretary Seward writes : "The department this morning has been informed by the secretary of the navy that the steamer Columbia, concerning which you gave early and important information to this department, which was promptly communicated to the navy department, has been captured." This 138 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. elegant vessel, including her cargo of arms and other munitions, was of great value. Mr. Anderson was instrumental, it was said, in sinking a lighter, at Hamburg, that was conveying batteries, carriages, etc., to the steamer Bahama in the service of the Confederate government, and of thwarting the Confe erate agents in other respects. Thereupon Secretary Seward wrote I\ Anderson : "I have transmitted to you, under another envelope, the National Intelligencer, in which is printed a letter of Mr. Huse, one of the Rebel agents in Europe, in which he confesses that his plans have been thwarted by the activity of yourself, and the minister of the United States in London. The department takes pleasure in acknowledging the service thus rendered to your country." (See dispatch of Caleb Huse, Captain of Artillery, C. S. A., to th war department, C. S. A., captured by our navy). Hon. Carl Schiurz, United States minister at Madrid, writing to Mr. Anderson from Washington, March 1, 1862, detailing an interview with the secretary of state, says : "I must not forget to mention that Seward spok very highly of you and your services." General H. S. Sanford, United States minister at Brussels, who had ju returned from a visit to Washington, writing from Brussels, August 24, 186 says : "I was glad to learn at the department of state that your activity in following up Rebel enterprises in your port was appreciated. You have probably already received a dispatch commendatory of your zeal, which was to have been addressed to you about the time of my departure, the end of last month. I hope you are well, and that the work of detecting Rebel enterprise goes bravely on. I was just fourteen days in the United States, having be detained longer than I contemplated in South America. In 1863 the secretary of state writes: "The department is gratified to perceive the evidences of your vigilance and devoted loyalty." Consul Anderson's' diplomatic duties were even more perplexing than his consular. Naturalized American citizens were often arrested in Hamburg for non-performance of military duty in the fatherland—usually for service alleged to be due Prussia or one of the smaller German states. The persons thus apprehended invariably appealed to the consul for . protection, and he, as invariably, by tact, good judgment and persistence secured their release. In 1863 Hon. G. J. Abbot, of the state department, writes : "Your assiduous labors in the consulate are known and appreciated here." While in Hamburg Mr. Anderson was notified by letter from the New York office that he had been elected a member of the American Geographical and Statistical Society. Subsequently he was elected a corresponding member of the American Institute and received the following notification : AMERICAN INSTITUTE, New York, May 8, 1863 J. H. Anderson, Esq. : Dear Sir : I take great pleasure in informing you that at a meeting of the American Institute of the city of New York, held CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 139 last evening, you were unanimously elected a corresponding member thereof. The American Institute was chartered in 1829, for the purpose of encouraging and promoting domestic industry in this state and the United States, in agriculture, commerce, manufactures and the arts. Yours very respectfully, JOHN W. CHAMBERS, Act. Rec. Sec'y. On the 3oth of May, 1863, Mr. Chambers writes : "The American Institute has appointed you a delegate to represent the association at the Great International Agricultural exhibition at Hamburg, and the credentials of your appointment will be handed you by Mr. Wennberg, a member of the Institute." On the 29th of December, 1862, Secretary Seward notified Mr. Anderson that his dispatch relating to the exhibition had been published in the National Intelligencer, for general information. It was a carefully prepared paper and was soon followed by another, which the state department authorized the same journal to publish. On the loth of March, 1863, the secretary of the Hamburg International Exhibition wrote : "It is my pleasant duty to thank you most sincerely for the able manner in which you have called the attention of your government and countrymen to what it is hoped will be an occasion of bringing from your country the wonderful products of your agricultural and mechanical skill." The immediate results of Mr. Anderson's widely published dispatches on the subject of the Great International Exhibition at Hamburg in 1863, were a message from the president; and appropriation by congress, the appointment of a commissioner by President Lincoln,—Governor Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana,—similar action by many of the states as well as many of our agricultural societies, and a successful exhibition by our citizens of agricultural products, implements, live stock; etc. It is needless to quote at greater length from dispatches and letters in recognition and approval of Mr. Anderson's services. That his efforts to stimulate immigration, to give to the people of Europe just views of our resources, finances, etc., to secure generous contributions in 1864 for our sick and wounded soldiers, and in 1865 for our helpless freedmen, as well as his labors in many other important directions not heretofore referred to, were eminently successful, testimonials from the secretary of state, and others of the highest character—women as well as men—clearly establish. Few American representatives abroad have ever served their country with more diligence or fidelity; and it is probably true that two-thirds of his time was employed in the discharge of extraordinary duties that do not occur in a period of profound peace. Mr. Anderson finally became weary of official life, and, longing for his tive land, sent in his resignation. This is the answer that came to him: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. 1866. J. H. Anderson, Esq. : Sir :—Your communication of July 28th, tend- 140 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ering your resignation of your office of consul at Hamburg and giving your views on the policy of the administration, has been received. Your resignation is accepted, with regret. The department has every reason to be satisfied with your manner of performing the delicate and responsible duties o your consulate. The records of the department show you to have been a faithful officer of the government. Your letter has been read by the president, who expresses much satisfaction at the sound and liberal views therein given. I am, sit, your obedient servant, WILLIAM H. SEWARD. Devoted as Mr. Anderson had been to President Lincoln throughout the war period, and despite his strong attachment to the Republican party, h could not conscientiously withhold his approval of the southern policy of President Johnson; and in 1866 he was sent as a delegate from the eighth congressional district of Ohio to the National Union convention at Philadelphia: In 1866 President Johnson tendered him an appointment as chief justice of Montana territory, which he declined, not wishing to leave home again, but accepted the office of collector of internal revenue of the eighth congressional district of Ohio. While Mr. Anderson was discharging his duties as collector; Hon. John Sherman. wrote the following letter to the president : SENATE CHAMBER, February 18, 1867. Sir :—I most earnestly recommend James H. Anderson of Ohio; late consul at Hamburg, for appointment to a mission or leading consulate. He is a gentleman of high. character and abilities, who as consul at Hamburg, rendered very valuable services to the country. He is well qualified for an trust. I will not hesitate to urge his confirmation to any executive appoint ment within your gift. Very respectfully yours, JOHN SHERMAN, To the President. Mr. Anderson never called on the president after this letter was written although invited, to do so. He received a lengthy and very friendly leaf from Senator Sherman, dated New York, April 6, 1867, which concludes as follows : "I am here arranging for my trip to Paris, and sail on the 13th certainly will miss no opportunity to do you a kindness, not only on your own account, but also on your father's, for whom I have always felt the highest regard." As the president, the secretary of state and both of the Ohio senators were friends of Mr. Anderson, an appointment to a high position might easily have been obtained ; but he had now resolved that he would not accept an office of any kind, and, having large landed interests in Wyandot county, he soon moved to Upper Sandusky,. opened a law office, engaged in banking, also in farming, and stock and wool growing on a much larger scale than ever befoe, CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 141 and continued in active and profitable business until 1874, when he removed to Columbus, his present place of residence. While living in Upper Sandusky he was elected for three years a member of the board: of education. In 1878 he was appointed by the governor a trustee of the Ohio State University, and for nearly seven years was the chairman of the executive committee of the board of trustees. At his suggestion the board conferred upon Allen G. Thurman, then president pro tempore of the United States senate, and upon Morrison R. Waite, chief justice of the United States, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws; and the resolutions appropriate to the occasion were drafted by Mr. Anderson. These distinguished Ohioans were the first to receive the deree from this eminent seat of learning. The year that General Thomas Ewing was the Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, 1879, at his earnest request, Mr. Anderson became a member of the state executive committee, and its secretary. Mr. Anderson is now spending his time somewhat quietly, in the society of his books, in writing, in social and literary pastimes, and in. the management of his estate. He takes an active interest still in the proceedings of the patriotic and other organizations of which he is a member. At the national congress of the Sons of the American Revolution, held in May, 1899, in Detroit, he was elected the vice-president general of the national society. He was a delegate from the Ohio society to the national congress, Sons American Revolution, at Morristown, New Jersey, in May, 1898; at Detroit, in May, 1899; and at New York city, in May, 1900. He has long been a life, member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, and in May, 1899; was elected a trustee of the society for three years. It is the only state office which he now (1900) holds. He is also a member of the executive committee, which is the government body of the society. Mr. Anderson is still a member of the ancient and honorable order of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, and expects to remain one. The children of James H. and. Princess A. Anderson are : Mary Princess; Lieutenant James Thomas Anderson, United States Army ; Charles Finley, merchant, Paducah, Kentucky ; Amelie Ellen, deceased ; and Alice Florence, deceased. Mary Princess was married to Professor Edward Orton, Jr., of the Ohio State University, a son of the distinguished scientist, Dr. Edward Orton, LL. D. James Thomas was married to Miss Helen Bagley, the accomplished daughter of the late governor, John J. Bagley, of Detroit, Michigan. Charles. Finley was married to Miss Minerva Ann. Flowers, of Paducah, Kentucky, a descendant of one of the 'oldest slave-holding families in the south. Amelie Ellen died at the home of her parents at the age of seven. Alice Florence, always an invalid, died January 24, 1895, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, of pneumonia. Lieutenant James T. and Helen Bagley Anderson are blessed with one child, Helen Anderson. Charles F. and Minerva A. Anderson also have one child, Mary Princess Anderson. 142 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. It may be proper to add that the old Scotchman, William Anderson, named at the beginning of this sketch, was the father, of two sons and two daughters ; that his son William was killed by the Indians in Virginia, and that his other son, Captain Thomas Anderson, lost three brave Joseph and Abner—in the last war with Great Britain. Captain James An Berson, heretofore referred to, had seventeen grandsons in the Union ar during the great Rebellion, several of whom gave their lives for their county. The maternal ancestors of James H. Anderson, of Columbus, Ohio, are as follows : Mrs. Mary Barton Dunlevy, a widow, came to America from coun Tyrone, Ireland, about 1771, and settled with her children near Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. She was, the widow of Andrew Dunlevy son of James, son of John, son of Francis, son of Anthony, who was living and very old, in Sligo, Ireland; in 1652. She was the. mother of nine children —eight sons and one daughter,—seven of whom accompanied her to thi country, namely : John, Anthony, Andrew, Morris, Daniel, James an Nancy. Mrs. Mary Barton Dunlevy was born in 1730, was a member of th Protestant Episcopal church, and died August 18, 1827, at the home of her son Daniel, in Cross Creek township, Jefferson county, Ohio. Andrew, her husband, died in county Tyrone, some time before she left Ireland. James Dunlevy was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, in 1770; came America with his mother, as before stated; lived for years in Fayette county Pennsylvania; was educated at Dr. John McMillan's classical school, and successor, Canonsburg Academy, which afterward became the famous Was ington and Jefferson College; was united in marriage in 1796, to Miss Hann Rabb, born July I, 1780, a daughter of Captain Andrew Rabb, of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. Captain Rabb was a man of great wealth and influence and a Revolutionary soldier who recruited a company of mounted rangers a his own expense, which rendered gallant service during several years of th war for independence. David McKinley, a great-grandfather of the president of the United States, in his application for a pension, says that a part of his Revolutionary service was in Captain Andrew Rabb's company. Captain Rabb, whose will disposing of his great estate is on record in Fayette county Pennsylvania, was married to his first wife, Mary Scott, the mother of Hannah Rabb Dunlevy, September 1, 1768; to his second wife, Catherine Pentecost, February 27, 1800; and died at Hot Springs, Bath county, Virginia, where he was undergoing treatment for poison administered by a slave, September 5, 1804. James and Hannah Rabb Dunlevy removed from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1797, to Jefferson county, Ohio. Here James Dunlevy bought farm about three miles from Steubenville, soon became prosperous and quite prominent, was elected the sheriff of the county for two years from October 9, 1804, and after more than two years' service retired from office in December, 1806, and died, it is believed, on, the day preceding "Cold Friday," that CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 143 is, on February 5, 1807, leaving a handsome property to his four infant children. His will, and the wills of his brothers, Daniel and Morris, and of Captain Rabb, will be found in The History of the Dunlevy Family, written by Miss G. D. Kelley, of Columbus, Ohio. James Dunlevy's only son, John, died very young, soon after his father's death. His daughter, Mary, married Edwin S. Tarr, a lawyer who first settled in Galveston, and later in Clay county, Illinois. Here Mary died childless, August 29, 1858. Her sister, Julia Dunlevy, born December 25, 1800, married John Plotner, in Jefferson county, Ohio, removed to Ingraham Prairie, near the home of her sister Mary, and passed away April 28, 1863, leaving several children. The third daughter and youngest child of James and Hannah Rabb Dunlevy, was Nancy Dunlevy, born on her father's farm near Steubenville, January 12, 1805. Her mother, and the executors named in her father's will-Daniel Dunlevy, Thomas Elliot and John Milligan—provided her with an education in the schools of Steubenville that was much better than the average young lady then obtained. Her widowed mother, Hannah Rabb Dunlevy, the latter part of the year 1808 became the wife of Thomas Johnson, of Jefferson county, Ohio, by whom she had five children. Hannah Rabb (Dunlevy) Johnson, died in 1817, when her daughter, Nancy Dunlevy, was only twelve years old. Thenceforth the three Dunlevy girls resided on their father's farm, which was their farm, till Julia was married. A part of their time was spent on the large farm of their uncle, Daniel Dunlevy, one of the executors of their father's estate. About 1824 Nancy Dunlevy was invited to visit Mrs. Judge Sherman, the mother of Hon. John Sherman, at Lancaster, Ohio, near which place, namely, on the Pickaway Plains, she owned a large tract of rich land, inherited from her father. While in this locality Nancy Dunlevy became acquainted with Thomas Jefferson Anderson, whose father owned a farm near by. They were soon much interested in each other and were finally joined in wedlock August 7, 1825, by Rev. James Gilruth, and settled in Marion, Ohio, the same year. Mrs. Nancy Dunlevy Anderson, one of the most gifted and highly respected women that ever lived in Marion county, died May 17, 1870. The only living child of Judge Thomas Jefferson and Nancy Dunlevy Anderson is James House Anderson, attorney at law, of Columbus, Ohio. He was united in marriage to Miss Princess A. Miller, November 27, 1856. Their children now living are : Mrs. Mary Princess Orton, the wife of Professor Edward Orton, Jr., of the Ohio State University ; Lieutenant James Thomas Anderson, of the United States Army ; and Charles Finley Anderson. For a more complete account of the Dunlevys in ancient and modern times, as kings and princes, of Ulster (Ulidia), and as citizens of the United States, the reader is referred to Miss Kelley's History of the Dunlevy family. 144 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. JOSEPH PERKINS BYERS. One of the well known and respected officials of the state of Ohio is Joseph Perkins Byers, the subject of the present sketch. He was born in Columbus, September 23, 1868, and is the son of Albert Gallatin and Mary (Rathbun) Byers, to whom a family of nine children were born,—Anna, Orin G., William R.,. Albert G., Bertha, Joseph P. and Dennison Drew being the survivors. Mr. Byers spent the first thirteen years of his life in the city, then removed to a farm in Clinton township. He attended school in Columbus, becoming a student in the -high school, which he later left to enter the preparatory department of the university. At this great institution of learning he pursued his studies for two years and then accepted a position in his father's office, where he remained for several years, by close application to business acquiring methods of work and the experience which has made him so acceptable as a public officer. The marriage of Mr. Byers took place in 1888 to Miss Ada V. Millar, a daughter of James A. Millar, an old and highly respected citizen of Columbus, and one son has been born to them, who has been named Andrew Millar. Mr. Byers has been very prominent in charitable work in Columbus and in the state. He was instrumental in organizing The Associated Charities of Columbus, and has been the secretary of that organization ever since. He is also a member of the National Conference of Charities and has been for some time the financial secretary of the National Prison Association. He is a man noted for his integrity of character and possesses the esteem of all with whom he comes in contact, for his earnestness of purpose is never doubted. ADIN H. SHADE The owner and proprietor of a fine farm in Franklin township of one hundred and five acres of land, located on the Harrisburg pike road, within five miles of the state-house in Columbus, Ohio, is Adin H. Shade. He was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, November 2, 1833, a son of Jacob Shadem a native of the same state. The latter had made a visit to Franklin county, Ohio, and looked at the land in 1835, but returned to Bucks county, where he lived for some time, returning to the home of our subject in Franklin township, where he died at the age of seventy-five years. The maiden name of his wife was Sarah James, a native of Pennsylvania, who died in that state in 1845. Mr. Shade is the only son of the family now living. He was brought to Franklin county when but two years old, returning with his parents to Bucks county, where he lived until he was twelve years of age. At that time he came back to Franklin county, Ohio, with his uncle and aunt, Adin G. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 145 and Permelia Hibbs, and remained with them until he was twenty-six years old. He had engaged in various lines of work through Jackson, Hamilton and Franklin townships, but after marriage Mr. Shade located in Jackson township on a rented farm, where he remained for about twenty-seven years, the land belonging to Mr. Hibbs. Mr. Shade then bought a farm on Big . Run creek, in Franklin township, where he remained for seven years, and then removed to his present location, where he has resided since 1883. Mr. Shade has made a success of farming and has his land under a fine state of cultivation. He also raises cows for their milk, selling the product from eighteen bead at the present time. The marriage of Mr. Shade was celebrated in 1859, when Miss Margaret A. White became his wife. She was a daughter of Jacob and Eliza (Alkire) White, the former a native of Hardy county, the latter of Lewis county, both in Virginia. They were old residents of the county, Mrs. Shade's grandparents having been pioneers of Franklin, owning at one time one thousand acres of land in this county. Mr. and Mrs. Shade have had seven children, namely: Emmer H., Jacob W., Eliza, Nellie, Jesse, Charles and John. Emmer H. was born in Franklin township January 2, 1861, and is now in poor health, living at home, after a sojourn in Columbus; Jacob W. married Minnie Malott and has children named Adin Ray, Nellie, Merrill, Martha, Jacob, Mary and Emmer; Eliza is at her parental home, unmarried ; Nellie married Lewis Wilcox and has four children,—Charles, Frank, Grace and an infant daughter unnamed; Jesse married Carrie Umbenhour ; Charles married Jennie Johnson and had one child, Henry J., who died at the age of twevle- six months, and they now live in Columbus; and John died when fifteen months old. In political opinions Mr. Shade favors the principles of the Democratic party. He is well known and respected through the township and has been called to serve several times as a township trustee. NEVILLE WILLIAMS. A prominent man and efficient official of the city of Columbus, Ohio, Neville Williams was horn in Chillicothe, this state, on the 25th of December, 1861, a son of Dr. W. C. and Elizabeth (Dun) Williams. The father was born in Hardy county, West Virginia, in 1823, and the mother was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Philadelphia in 1826. She was the daughter of George W. Dun, one of the first settlers of Chillicothe, Ohio, and of his wife, Louise (Duan) Dun. Tracing the family still further on the paternal side we find the father of Dr. Williams to have been a member of a well known family of Virginia, and was by name George Washington Williams, who married Ann Chambers, thus uniting two old families. They settled in Staunton, Virginia, in 1820. The father of Neville Williams passed away at Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1873, holding at the time of his death the important 146 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. office of mayor of the city. The mother was called from this earth in the year 1870. Neville Williams passed his boyhood in Chillicothe until he was twelve years old, attending school. In. his sixteenth year he went to Vinton county, Ohio, and remained there eighteen months, at Richland Furnace, engaged in the manufacture of iron. Going further west, he traveled through Indiana and Illinois, employed in railroad construction. Afterward he was employed on the Canton, Aberdeen & Nashville Railroad in Mississippi, in the construction department, which employment he followed for three and one-half years, Returning to Ohio, he soon afterward married Miss Eliza Gordon, of Sabina, Clinton county, Ohio, who was a daughter of William H. Gordon, of that place. After his marriage Mr. Williams settled on a farm, where he continued until 1884, when he moved to Georgesville, Franklin county, again engaging in farming, thus continuing until 1888. He was also engaged in the manufacture of lumber at that place, operating a sawmill. At that time he was prevailed upon to accept the position of deputy recorder, under Recorder Thompson, of the city of Columbus, and soon afterward was the Democratic candidate for the position of recorder, his: candidacy, however, not being successful, as public opinion was much divided in the city and county at that time, it being during the agitation caused by General Coxey; although Mr. Williams ran far ahead of his ticket. For a space of three years he served as the secretary of the board of health in Columbus, during the administration of Mayor Cotton H. Allen. In 1897 his Democratic friends again nominated him for the office of recorder, resulting in his election, and he assumed the duties of the office in September, 1898. He was re-nominated for the same position in 1900. An interesting family of three children have been added to our subject's home,—Elizabeth H., William. Thurman and Jean. Mr. Williams is a member of several fraternal organizations,—the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Red Men and the Modern Woodmen, taking an active interest in all. He is popular and efficient and serves his county faithfully in the position in which he is placed. WILLIAM MORRISON. In the history of William Morrison we find one who owes his success not to a fortunate combination of circumstances but to his own untiring industry, and his record illustrates the possibilities that lie before those who wish to secure advancement and who are willing to do so at the price of earnest, honest and long continued labor. His career has ever been such as to win the confidence and regard of his fellow men, and as one of the representative residents of Franklin county he certainly deserves mention in this volume. He has followed farming and stock-raising for many years, making CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 147 a specialty of the raising of cattle, and is now accounted one of the influential and weaIthy agriculturists of this portion of Ohio. Mr. Morrison is a native of the Emerald Isle, his birth having occurred in county Down on the loth of September, 1846, and his parents being John and Jane (McCalley) Morrison. His father was born in county Down, May 1, 1801, was reared upon a farm and was twice married, his first union being with Miss Mary Murdock, by whom he had two children : Andrew, a well known farmer of Jefferson township; and Mary, deceased. The children of the second marriage were five in number and three are yet living, namely : Isabelle, the wife of Melvin Beem, of Summit Station, Licking county ; William and Anna, the wife of Isaac N. Dixon, of Licking county. After his marriage the father took charge of the old homestead in Ireland and subsequently became its owner. In 1849 he emigrated to America and the following his family joined him in the new world. He was induced to seek a home in the United States through the solicitation of his uncle, William Morrison, who was then living in Knox county, Ohio. He had crossed the Atlantic in the beginning of the nineteenth century and had served his country in the war of 1812. He afterward came to Ohio and was one of the pioneers of Knox county. He gave his nephew, John Morrison, to understand that he would inherit his property, for he and his wife had no children, but after a few years spent in Knox county John Morrison became dissatisfied with the relations existing between him and his uncle and removed to Franklin county. Here he entered the employ of John Barr, of Mifflin township, and after three years he leased the Spurgeon farm in the same township, continuing its cultivation for nine years. He then came to Jefferson township and purchased the three-hundred acre tract of land upon which his son William now resides. This was in 1861. Upon the place he erected a log cabin and with characteristic energy began the task of clearing and improving his farm. It was his place of residence until he was called to his final home, at the advanced age of ninety-four years, his death occurring on the 12th of June, 1895. Although he usually supported the Democratic party, he was not bitterly aggressive nor strictly partisan, but was very liberal in his views, often voting for Republican nominees when he believed that they were better qualified for the office than the Democratic candidates. Throughout his entire life he was a faithful member of the Presbyterian church. His business affairs were very carefully managed and he won a high degree of success. He gave much attention to the raising of cattle, and his unflagging energy, capable management and straightforward dealing secured him a handsome financial return, so that he became one of the well-to-do residents of the county. Upon his father's farm William Morrison spent the days of his boyhood and youth, working in the fields from the time of early spring planting until crops were harvested in the autumn. He also attended the common schools, but his educational privileges were somewhat limited, his services 148 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. being needed at home. However, he studied much at night, and possessing an observing eye and a retentive memory he acquired a good practical education. In early life he became an excellent judge of stock and showed keen discrimination in purchasing cattle, and at the age of nineteen he began selling cattle on his own account, and in this he prospered, from year to year his profits increasing, and upon his father's death he purchased of the other heirs their interests in the old home farm. He is recognized as one of the most progressive agriculturists of the community, and in addition to the home place he owns one hundred and twenty-five acres of land in Licking county and eighty-eight and a half acres south of the homestead. He raises cattle on an extensive scale, and as he keeps only good grades his stock finds a ready sale on the markets and commands good prices. Excellent improvements are seen upon his farm, including a commodious and pleasant brick residence, good barns and all the accessories and conveniences which are required to make up a model farm of the twentieth century. In July, 1882, Mr. Morrison was united in marriage to Miss Eliza F., Scott, a native of St. Lawrence county, New York, and a daughter of Samuel and Mary (McMurry) Scott. In 1863 her parents came to Ohio, locating in Mifflin township, Franklin county, and later they removed to Licking county, where Mr. Scott died. Subsequently the mother went with her family to Iowa, where she had a brother living, and there she made her home until her death. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Morrison have been born five children, of whom four are yet living, namely : Isabelle, John A., William B. and Samuel M. In his political views Mr. Morrison is a Democrat who believes firmly in the principles of his party. For two terms he served as county treasurer and then refused to accept the nomination again. His long continuance in office by the vote of the people indicates his fidelity to duty, his personal popularity and the confidence and trust reposed in him. He has ever been in favor of building good roads and has done much for the improvement and progress of the community and withholds his support from no measure or movement which he believes will prove of practical benefit. He is a man of sterling worth, and over the record of his life there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil. He has lived the greater part of his time in this county and his fidelity to manly principles, his honesty in business affairs and his faithfulness to friendship have gained him uniform regard. GEORGE A. WATERMAN, SR. George A. Waterman is now living a retired life at his pleasant home in Columbus. Years of active connection with business affairs, in which he managed his interests most capably, brought to him well merited success, and having acquired a handsome competence he is, now residing in the enjoyment of the fruits of his former labors. George Alfred Waterman is a native CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 149 of England, his birth having occurred in Sutton Dorchester on the 14th of September, 1826. He was a little lad of six summers when brought to this country by his parents, Joseph and Fanny Waterman. His father wasi born in England in 1798, and his mother, also a native of that country, was born in 1807. Coming to the new world, they took up their abode in Columbus, where both spent their remaining days, the father departing this life in 1858, while the mother, having long survived him, was called to her final rest in. 1890. In the family were the following named : George A., of this review ; Frederick, who died in Columbus about three years ago; Louisa and Henrietta who are now deceased; Mrs. Emma Wheeler, Mrs. Lucy Goad and Mrs. Ellen Walker, all of whom are residing in Columbus. The family is one of prominence among the pioneer families of Franklin county and its representatives are members of the Trinity Episcopal church. In early life George A. Waterman learned the miller's trade, and when only eighteen years of age operated a mill on Scioto river, for others at the head of what is now Darby street, in Columbus. He continued in this work for many years and found it a profitable source of income. The old family homestead is still standing on Shepherd street, near South Grubb street, and was continuously in the possession of the Watermans from the time of their early location in Columbus until the fall of 1900. In 1847 Mr. Waterman was united in marriage to Miss Jane Condell, a native of Liverpool, England. Their children are Allen, who died when only eighteen months old ; Alice, who resides with her parents; Joseph, who was born in 1862 and is now a member of the fire department of this city ; George L, who was born in 1864 and has been in the railway service for the years; and Frederick R., who was born in 1868 and is a machinist. All of the family are yet at the old home, No. 29 South. Davis avenue. There Mr. Waterman is enjoying a well merited rest. Through a long period he was an active representative of industrial interests, and his unflagging perseverance, his resolute will and keen discrimination in business affairs brought to him a very desirable financial return. FRANK C. FERRIS. Frank C. Ferris is engaged in manufacturing mortar for brick-work and plastering at 632 Galloway avenue, Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Marysville, Union county, Ohio, on the nth of November, 1854, and is a son of Edward and Fanny Ward Ferris, both of whom were natives of Connecticut, in which place they spent their childhood days. They were married in 1831, and in 1833 began their long journey westward, moving in wagons to Ohio and locating near Lancaster, Fairfield county, Ohio. Here they remained for a while and then moved to Pleasant Valley, Madison county, this state, in the year 1840, where the father engaged in the shoemaking business until 1853, when they moved to Marysville, Union county,