150 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. also in this state, the father dying there in the year 1856. His wife long survived him, passing away in 1888. Frank C. Ferris spent his youth in Union county and acquired his education in the common schools there. At the age of sixteen years he went to Piqua, Ohio, where he learned the brick-mason and plastering trades, and at the age of twenty began contracting on his own account, continuing in this business until 1884, when he came to Columbus and entered into partnership under the firm name of Pedrick & Ferris, brick contractors, making a specialty of fine pressed-brick work. In the year 1890 they started steam mortar works in connection with the contracting business, 'which they continued until 1897, when they discontinued the contracting business and devoted their entire time and attention to the manufacturing of mortars, the demand for machine-made mortars having increased to such an extent that this change was made necessary. The partnership was maintained until January 5, 1899,. at which time Mr. Pedrick retired and Mr. Ferris became the sole proprietor, and since that time has carried on the business on a more extensive scale, having equipped the plant with machinery more modern and improved, of his own design and patent, and thus greatly increased his capacity. In connection with the manufacture of mortar he is also handling building, material and coal of all kinds. The plant is located on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad at No. 626-632 Galloway avenue. Thus from a small beginning, which was almost an experiment, Mr. Ferris has developed a large and profitable business. On May 23, 1878, Mr. Ferris. was united in marriage to Miss Emma B. Bigelow, of Marysville, Ohio. One year later a son, Warren B., was born, who is now engaged in business for himself, representing the Hydraulic Pressed Brick Companies, and has his office located at the Columbus Builders and Traders' Exchange. Mr. Ferris is a member of the Builders' Exchange, also of the Board of Trade, and is one of the most progressive and enterprising men of his city. He is an example of the. boys who secure their own start in life,—determined self-reliant boys,—willing to work for advantages which others secure through inheritance, destined by sheer force of character to succeed in the face of all oppositions and push to the front in one important branch of enterprise or another. His business ability has been constantly manifested and secured his advancement to a leading place among the reliable and energetic 'men of his city. Viewed in a personal light, he is a strong man, of excellent judgment, fair in his views and highly honorable in his relations with his fellow men. JOHN ZUBER. Among the prominent business men of Columbus, Ohio, is the subject of the present sketch, John Zuber, secretary of the Columbus Brewing Company, and the senior member of the firm of Zuber and Gerhold. He is a CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 151 native of Switzerland, born in the city of Solothurn May 15; 1856, a son of John B. and Elizabeth (Spati) Zuber, who lived and died in Switzerland. Our subject received an excellent education in his native country, going from his village to Lyons, France, where he pursued his studies for the space of two years, laying the foundation upon which he later built, becoming a thoroughly educated man. Reaching the United States in 1874, he came to Ohio, locating at Antwerp, in Paulding county, and soon afterward entered Otterbein University, at Westerville, Ohio, where he engaged in study for two years. After leaving college Mr. Zuber engaged in teaching school and followed this profession for several years, when he accepted a position as deputy clerk in the treasurer's office, under W: Corzilius, in Columbus, where he remained for two years, and for the following four years efficiently performed the duties of the same position under George Beck, and retaining it four years longer under A. D. Heffner. The next treasurer was Henry Pausch, and Mr. Zuber served as deputy under him for four years, and later two years under Samuel Kinnear, at which time came a change in the administration, and both Mr. Kinnear and Mr. Zuber relinquished office. After sixteen years of public service Mr. Zuber engaged in the boot and shoe business in partnership with C. F. Gerhold, under .the firm name of Zuber & Gerhold, which has existed since 1895. In 1896 Mr. Zuber was appointed secretary and treasurer of the Columbus water works, which position he held for three years. In 1899 he was made secretary of the Columbus Brewing Company, which important position he still holds. The marriage of Mr. Zuber took place in 1881, when he espoused Miss Delia George, of Antwerp, Ohio, a daughter of Henry George, a prominent resident of that place, and Mr. and Mrs. Zuber have an interesting family of seven children. Their home is one of the beautiful residences on Thurman street, in Columbus, where Mr. Zuber and his. estimable wife delight to dispense hospitality. Politically our subject is a Democrat, having always voted with that party, and has taken an active interest in its deliberations. Socially he is a member of the Olentangy Club, of the Columbus Maennerchor, and also of the Swiss Society. He has been a prominent figure in public life in Columbus and counts many political as well as personal friends among the most substantial citizens. LEWIS PAINTER. Lewis Painter is a prominent farmer of Jefferson township, and his well tilled fields and highly improved farm indicates his careful supervision and his progressive methods of agriculture. He was born February 4, 1838, upon the farm which is yet his home, his parents being John and. Almira (Beals) Painter. His father, also a native of Franklin county, was born in 152 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. December, 1809, and was a son of Isaac Painter, who emigrated from Virginia among the first settlers of Franklin county and resided here until about 1840, when he removed to Illinois, there spending his remaining days. When he had attained to man's estate the father of our subject was married and immediately afterward purchased one hundred acres of land, that now constitutes the homestead of his son Lewis. It was then a tract of wild, unbroken forest land, but soon the sound of the woodman's ax was heard, the trees fell before its sturdy stroke, a log cabin was built, and as the years passed the land was all cleared and was placed under the plow, yielding good harvests. In later years Mr. Painter added an additional seventy-two acres, so that the place now comprises one hundred and seventy-two acres, and the care and labor he bestowed upon it have brought to him a good financial return. In politics he was an ardent Democrat, believing firmly in the principles and policy of the party, and for many years he served. as a justice of the peace, being continued in that office until he refused to accept it longer. He was well known throughout the county, being rich in the possession of those qualities of upright manhood which ever awaken regard. He held membership in the Disciple church and died in the faith of that denomination in March, 1864, in his fifty-fifth year. His wife was a representative of an old New England family, and was born in Vermont in August, 1813, her parents being George and Mabel Beals, who came across the country by wagon to Ohio when their daughter Almira was only a year old. Her father was drowned in Big Walnut creek in 1835, while fishing. Mrs. Painter reached her seventy-eighth year and passed away in November, 1891. By her marriage she became the mother of five children, of whom three are yet living, namely: George, a farmer of Iowa Point, Kansas; and Lewis and Levi, twins, the latter a farmer in Colfax county, Nebraska. Lewis Painter spent his youth on the home farm and pursued his education in the pioneer schools of the clay, but the privileges were of a very inferior grade, and experience, reading and observation have brought to him the greater part of his knowledge, making him a practical business man. On reaching his twenty-first year he took charge of the home farm, which he began operating on the shares. On the last day of the year 1862 he' married Miss Arminta Smith, a native of Jefferson township and a daughter of Jacob and .Susan (Havens) Smith, who came to Ohio from New Jersey in an early day. About a year later Mr.. Painter's father died, and he purchased the interests of all the other heirs save one in the old homestead, buying one hundred and thirty-eight and a half acres. Subsequently he purchased fifty acres of his father-in-law's farm, but later had an opportunity to sell that tract to advantage and, accordingly disposed of it. He is a wide-awake, enterprising and prominent agriculturist, whose farm is under a high state of cultivation, the well tilled fields bringing to him a golden tribute in return for his labor. Four children have come to bless the home, but only two are now CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 153 living: Charles, who married Maggie E. Elliott and resides at Canal Winchester, Ohio ; and Chauncey,: who married Etta Cullers and works for his father upon the home farm. In his political opinions Mr. Painter is a Democrat and is recognized as one of the party leaders of his township. Recognizing his worth and ability, his fellow townsmen have several times called him. to public office. In 1874 he was elected upon the ticket to the office of township trustee and served in that capacity for four consecutive terms. In the spring of 1878 he was chosen township treasurer and by re-election was continued in the office for three more terms, of two years each, but his service has not been continuous. In 1886-7 he was the township assessor, and in 1889 and 1899, he served as the land appraiser. He has ever discharged his duties with promptness and fidelity, and over the record of his business career there falls. no shadow of wrong nor suspicion of evil. He has ever been active in the promotion of all the best interests of the community, belonging to that class of representative American citizens. who, while promoting individual success, have at the same time contributed to the general welfare and prosperity. ERWIN W. SCHUELLER, M. D. Although one of the younger members of the medical fraternity in Columbus, Dr. Schueller has attained success which many an older practitioner might well envy, and his life record is a modification of the old adage that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, for in the city which hats long been his home he has attained success and prominence and enjoys honor:also in his own community. He was born in Columbus June 15, 1871, and is a son of Dr. John B. Schueller, a native of Germany, who came to this country in his sixteenth year. That was in 1854, and through forty-five years he was a resident of America, passing away on the 9th of March, 1899. He married Miss Betsey Degen, who' also was born in Germany, and came to America in her childhood. The immediate subject of this review was reared in the capital city and acquired his preliminary education in the public schools, after which he entered the Ohio State University, where he remained for six years.. He was graduated in 1892, with the degree of bachelor of arts. His choice of life work having fallen upon the practice of .medicine, he pursued a preparatory course of reading in the office of Dr. 'T. C. Hoover, of Columbus, and was graduated in the Starling Medical College in 1895. Subsequently he became an interne in St. Francis Hospital, where he remained for a year, and in the fall of 1896 he went to New York city, where he pursued a course in the Post-Graduate Hospital, becoming skilled in surgery. In the. fall of 1897 he went to Germany, where he pursued a special course of study in Berlin, Dresden and Vienna. Returning to the United States, Dr. Schueller joined. his father in active 10 154 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. practice and was associated with him until the latter's death in 1899. He was also called upon to serve as the health officer, serving out the unexpired term of J. B. Schueller. He is a member of the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Association and of the Chi Phi fraternity of the Ohio State University. His preparation for practice has been exceedingly comprehensive and exact, and few men enter upon medical practice better equipped for the profession. His knowledge is not only profound, but he is especially expert in applying it to the needs of suffering humanity, and, rapidly is he gaining a place in the foremost ranks of the medical fraternity. OPHA MOORE. Among the men who have been prominently identified with public affairs in Columbus during the past ten years is the subject of this review, who is now secretary of the state building commission, secretary of the state heating and ventilating commission, and a member of the state furniture commission. He is one of the busiest, most energetic and most enterprising men of the city, and whether in public or private. life is always a courteous, genial gentleman, whose popularity is well deserved. A native of West Virginia, Mr. Moore was born near Parkersburg, in 1867, and in 1872 came to Ohio with his parents, Rev. A. L. and Mary Jane (Baker) Moore. The father, whose birth occurred in Tyler county, the same state, in 1841, entered the ministry of the United Brethren church when a young man, and has since labored untiringly in the Master's vineyard, serving as pastor of churches in both West Virginia and Ohio. He is now located at Pomeroy, this state. For four or five generations the Moore family have made their home in Virginia. The paternal grandfather of our subject was William Moore, a son of Philip; and grandson of Michael Moore, while his maternal grandfather was .Benjamin Baker, of Marion county, West Virginia, who died about 1861. For two years Opha Moore was a student at Otterbein University, in Westerville, and on leaving that institution in the fall of 1885 came to Columbus. The following year he accepted. the position of stenographer t6 the chief clerk in the office of the Columbus Buggy Company, and in the fall of 1887 entered the service of the Republican state committee, with which he was connected, during 1888 and 1889. In the latter year he was appointed first stenographer in Governor Foraker's office, where he remained until 1890, when he became interested in the newspaper business, going to Chicago with the Light; and later representing that paper in New York city. On his return to Columbus in 1891 he entered the office of A. C. Armstrong, the official court reporter, remaining there until January, 1892, when he was appointed stenographer in Governor McKinley's office. The following August he was granted a leave of absence, and during the entire Harrison campaign served as secretary to Hon. William M. Hahn, chairman of the speakers CENTENNIAL BIOGPAPHTC4L HISTORY - 155 bureau of the national committee in New York city, filling that position until the election in November, after which he resumed his duties in the office of Governor McKinley, being promoted to commission clerk in 1895. The following year he was re-appointed by Governor Bushnell, and served in that . capacity until 1898, when he was appointed to his present position on the state building commission. In 1899, when Governor Bushnell's private secretary, Colonel J. L. Rodgers, was in Europe for three months and a half, Mr. Moore filled that position in a most creditable and satisfactory manner. In business affairs he is prompt, energetic and notably reliable, and has always been true and faithful to every trust reposed in him. Mr. Moore married Miss Roberta L. Klotts, a daughter of S. R. Klotts, an extensive cigar manufacturer of Columbus, who was originally from West Virginia. Her mother, in her maidenhood, was Miss Virginia Zane, a granddaughter of Colonel Ebenezer Zane, who laid out the cities ofWheeling, West Virginia, and Zanesville and Lancaster, Ohio, and was a distinguished officer in the Revolutionary war. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have one child, Ralph M. They are members of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church and occupy an enviable position in social circles. Fraternally Mr. Moore is connected with Magnolia Lodge, F. & A. M.; Ohio Chapter, R. A. M. ; and Columbus Council, R. & S. M. JOHN WILLIAM McCAFFERTY. The office of clerk of the courts of a populous county like Franklin county, Ohio, is one of importance, demanding the services of a man of wide information and a mind trained to accuracy even in small details'. These and other essential requirements are met by John W. McCafferty, the present incumbent of the office in Franklin county, who was elected in 1899 and entered upon the duties of the office August 6, 1900. Mr. McCafferty was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, in 1871, a son of Thomas M. McCafferty, a native of Ross county, Ohio, who was brought to Pickaway county. in childhood by his parent's and has been practically a life long resident there. William McCafferty, father of Thomas and grandfather of John W. McCafferty, was born in Ross county, where his father, a native of Kentucky, was an early settler. Thomas McCafferty, who died February 5, 1901, was a veteran of the Civil war, in which he saw four years' service as a member of the Twentieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Three brothers also saw service in the war and One of them died from illness brought on by exposure, and another was killed in battle. Thomas McCafferty married Mary J. Wimmer, daughter of John Wimmer, formerly a resident of Pickaway county, Ohio, but now living in Illinois. Mr. Wimmer was captain of a company in an Ohio regiment during the war and was prominent as a Republican in Pickaway county and held several public offices. The Wimmer family of Ohio and Illinois came to the west from Pennsylvania. 156 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. After his graduation John: W. McCafferty taught in the public schools until 189o, and then took up his residence in. Columbus, where he took courses in the National Business University and Columbus Commercial College. In 1893 he established McCafferty's Commercial College, which was successful from its opening day, graduating an average of one hundred pupils yearly, and which he sold in 1897. It is still running and is an educational and financial success. Since 1894 Mr. McCafferty has been active as a Republican in political work. In 1897 he was secretary for Ohio of the Indianapolis monetary convention, and in 1898 was a member of the congressional committee for the congressional district which includes Franklin county. Although he has not been long in office, he has come to be regarded as a model clerk of the courts, for he has brought to bear upon the duties of the position an informing experience and a degree of skill which practically assures accuracy in the work over which he has supervision, and he is of a genial, affable disposition which gives a seeker of information. in his office the impression that it is a pleasure to him not only to grant any just and reasonable request but also to do for his visitor any favor within his power: Mr: McCafferty is a member of Champion Lodge, No. 581, Knights of Pythias, and also a member of B. P. 0. Elks, Lodge No. 37, of Columbus. GEORGE W. DEEM, M. D: This. well-known and popular physician of Hilliard's belongs to an old Ohio family of English origin. His paternal grandfather was born in Hummelstown, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, and at an early day removed to one of the eastern counties of this state, where he engaged in farming throughout the remainder of his life. He had four children, namely : Solomon; Anderson ; James C., father of our subject ; and Nancy, who married Warren McNeil and died in Iowa. James Chapman Deem, the Doctor's father, was born in eastern Ohio and there reared in the midst of the wilderness. He received a common-school education and in early life learned the cooper's trade. He also became an expert horseman and trainer. As a companion and helpmeet on life's journey he chase Miss Martha Ann French, a native of Woodstock, Vermont, and a daughter of Gideon and Phoebe (Carpenter) French, who were also born in the Green Mountain state, and with whom she came to Medina county, Ohio, locating on the Summit county line, where she grew to womanhood. After his marriage James C. Deem lived for some time in Seneca and Medina Counties, and was one of the most successful hunters of wild game in the northern part of the state in early days. He conducted a cooper shop in Akron for a time, also worked in a flouring-mill and had charge of a cooper shop in Wilmington, Ohio, from 1849 to 1854. In the latter year he removed to Grove City, from there went to West Jefferson, Madison county, and later to Marion county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming for ten years. In CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 157 1867 he returned to West Jefferson, Ohio, and made his home there and in that vicinity until his death, which occurred in April, 1889. His wife had died in Marion county, Iowa, in August, 1866. Both were active and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he was a Republican in politics. In the family of this worthy couple were the following children : Annette married John Harvey, a merchant of West Jefferson, Ohio, and died there in 1871, leaving one child, Mrs. J.. W. Welling, of Dayton. Melvin H., a resident of Rusk, Oklahoma, served through the entire Civil war as a member of the Eighth Iowa Regiment, and was twice wounded by bullets, first through the neck at Pittsburg Landing ,and again through the left arm. He married Elizabeth Spahr, and they have four children—Etta, Frank, Adelbert and Nellie. Alva H. died at the age of seven years. Charles M., a physician of West Jefferson, married Harriet Wells, of Hebron, Ohio, who died leaving four sons—Herbert, Ray, Lee and George; and for his second wife he wedded Mrs. Mary Seymour, by whom he has one son, Merle. Clara is the wife of George Crawford, of Jacksonville, Florida, and their children are Anna, now Mrs. Henry ; Lena; Howard; Mildred and Elsie. George W., of this review, completes the family. Dr. Deem was born in Caloma, Marion county, Iowa, August 24, 1866, and for one year attended the common schools of that place. When seven years of age the family returned to West Jefferson, Madison county, Ohio, where he pursued his studies in the public schools for three years. He attended different schools in Madison and Seneca counties, completing his common-school education at West Jefferson at the age 6f eighteen. For several years he taught school and then entered Delaware University, and after finishing the junior year at that institution he resumed teaching, having charge of different schools in Franklin county for six years. At the end of that period he took up the study of medicine under the guidance of Dr. D. H. Welling, then of West Jefferson, now of Worthington, Ohio, and later entered the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1890. For three months he was engaged in practice with his; preceptor, Dr. Welling, and then opened an office in Kilbourne, Delaware county, Ohio, where he remained three years, during which time he served as physician to the county infirmary. In the spring of 1893 he came to Hilliards, and his skill and ability soon won for him the liberal. patronage which he now enjoys. He has met with success in his chosen profession, and is to-day one of the leading physician's of the place. He belongs to the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Society and the Central Medical Society, and is quite popular in professional circles. On the 30th of May, 1890, Dr. Deem married: Miss Jennie Howard of Alton, this county, and they now have two children : Mary Annette, born September 9, 1892; and Arthur Welling, born May 12, 1895. Politically the Doctor is a stanch Democrat, and is now serving his third term as 158 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. president of the school board. For three years he has been master of Avery Lodge, F. & A. M., of Hilliards, and is also past chancellor of Hilliards Lodge No. 638, K: of P. He is an active member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is highly respected and esteemed by all who know him. AUGUSTUS T. SEYMOUR. Among the young professional men of Columbus, Ohio, Augustus T. Seymour, the subject of this sketch, takes a prominent position.. He was born August 22, 1873, a native of Ohio and a son of Theodore and Elizabeth Banibal Seymour, the former of whom was a native of Ohio, born in 1844, the latter in Mount Vernon, Ohio, in 1850, both of them still surviving. The grandfather of Mr. Seymour was John W. Seymour, a merchant farmer and for many years a heavy dealer in wool. He married a Miss Clark, whose home was in New York. Augustus T. Seymour spent his youth and early school days in Mount Vernon., attending the public schools, later going through the : high-school course, and then prepared for entrance into Oberlin College, where he prosecuted his studies for two years. He then entered the law department of the Ohio State University, at which he graduated in 1895, having finished the course with great credit. In 1894 he was admitted to the bar and then became associated, in the practice of his profession, with John J. Chester, of Columbus. Mr. Seymour has shown ability and has gained the confidence of his fellow citizens, his appointment, in 1900, to the position of assistant prosecuting attorney; under Edward L. Taylor, Jr., giving universal satisfaction. Mr. Seymour is one of the young men who will probably become a brilliant member of the Ohio bar. SAMUEL W. ELLIS. Samuel W. Ellis, who is living a retired life, was for forty years connected with the railway service, but is now enjoying a well earned rest at his pleasant home at No. 1141 Hunter avenue in Columbus. He was born in Keene, New Hampshire, January 8, 1818, and was married, in Vermont, in 1841, to Miss Mary L. Pluffer. The parents of S. W. Ellis, resided in New Hampshire throughout their lives and died many years ago, although the mother reached the advanced age of one hundred years. Both were of English descent. S. W.. Ellis, in 1849, came to the west, Iocating first at Crestline, Ohio, where he resided for a year, after which he spent one year at Galion, this state, whence he came to Columbus, where he has resided continuously since. In 1870, before the streets were graded and before there were any buildings in that portion of the city, he erected his present resi- CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 159 dence. His wife died at their home in Columbus July 19, 1899. She was a lady highly esteemed and her demise was widely mourned by many friends. The children of this worthy couple are as follows : Henry W., now fifty- six years of age, is in the service of the Hocking Valley Railroad Company: and resides on Hunter avenue, in Columbus.; Arthur L., forty-two years of age, is also an employe of the Hocking Valley Railroad Company and is living on Hunter avenue; Frank A. is employed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company and makes his home in the capital city; Mrs. Jennie Tracy, the only daughter of the family, resides in Colorado. S. W. Ellis spent the days of his childhood and youth in New England and is indebted to the public school system for the educational privileges he enjoyed. He began his railway service in November, 1856, as a car inspector on the Piqua road, but after two years connection with that company he resigned, and in 1858 accepted a more lucrative position with the Little Miami road, now a part of the Panhandle line. He was in continuous service with that company until four years ago; when he was compelled to resign because of his advanced age. He is a genial and popular citizen and is an active man notwithstanding his advanced years.. GEORGE W. HAYS The subject of this sketch is a worthy representative of one of the early settlers of Ohio, his ancestors coming from England to Maryland some time in 1700. Elisha Hays, who was the father of our subject, was born in Maryland, in early manhood starting out to make his own fortune in the wilderness then located across the Ohio river. At that time the forests in the now populous counties of Washington, Jefferson and Franklin were full of .Indians who still considered white men as natural enemies.. Elisha Hays landed at Marietta, being one of the first party that crossed there to locate. His first stopping place was in Jefferson county, near Steubenville, but later he located upon land one and a quarter miles from Dublin, Franklin county, upon the tract now belonging to the Coffman and Thompson heirs. Upon his first place, which was located in Jefferson county, Elisha Hays found no house and was obliged to live in a sugar camp until he was able to build a log cabin. This was no easy matter, as he was surrounded by Indians, and every time he cut a log he was obliged to keep his gun where he could use it at a moment's notice. In 1812 he was the colonel of a Jefferson county regiment. Mr. Hays, the father, at one time owned six hundred acres of and; in Washington township, three hundred of which he bought of Peter and Samuel Sells. His first wife was Sarah Fanasdahl, a lady of German descent, and she assisted him in improving the farm in Washington township., and endured the hardships of pioneer life. Her death occurred at this place. The second 160 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. marriage of Mr. Elisha Hays was to Mrs. Chloe (Thomas) Poole, after which he moved to Dublin, where he bought a mill and remained until his death in 1847, at the age of seventy-three, after a life of toil and adventure. The mother of our subject survived on the farm until 1875, when she passed away, at the age of eighty. The children of the parents of our subject were: Mrs. Eliza Hinckley, who removed with her husband to Cottonwood; Chase county, Kansas, where they were the first settlers, after his death returning to Dublin, where she now resides with her son Ray; Marinda, who is now Mrs. Fletcher Coffman, of this township; Martha, who was Mrs. John Thompson, of this township; Lewis, who died at the age of fourteen; and our subject, George W. Mr. Hays, of this sketch, was born upon what is now known as the James Brown farm, in this township, on October 30, 1834. He recalls his first institution of learning as a cabin formed of logs, presided over by Mr. Jesse Mattoon, to whom he is indebted for his primary instruction, finishing his school days at the age of sixteen. He was ten years old when his father died and at his majority was obliged to face the world for 'himself. On April 22, 1856, he married Miss Caroline Pinney, the daughter of Colonel Miles Pinney and granddaughter of Captain Levi Pinney, who cut the first tree felled in Sharon township, in 1802. He was a captain. in the war of 1812, under the famous Isaac Hull, and was taken prisoner at Detroit, but was exchanged in Canada and returned to his home. Our subject remained for a time in Dublin and then moved to Sharon, on the plank road, two miles south of Worthington, there rented land for two years and then returned to Washington township and. settled on the Coffman estate, in which his mother had an interest. Our subject rented this land for six years, but in 1868 removed with his family to Chase county, Kansas, and there purchased one hundred and twenty acres of new land. Upon this place he first built what is called a box house, this costing less than any other. Here he engaged successfully in farming and stock-raising and remained for thirty-two years, adding to his: first purchase, and now owns a half-section there, being very valuable, as it is near the largest stock-yards in the state. Mr. Hays has been very successful with his horses. He holds: the sweep. stakes for the best stallion, best brood mare and best gelding. One of his horses, which was 'raised on his stock farm, had a trial record of 2 :14, and is known in sporting circles as Queen's Brother. In June, 1900, our subject returned to Washington township and located on his wife's farm of one hundred and forty acres. Mrs. Hays died in 1893, and in 1900 Mr. Hays married Miss Adelaide Graham, a daughter of William Graham, one of the largest landowners in the county. The children of our subject are all married and settled in comfortable homes of their own. They are : Richard, who resides in Chase county, Kansas; Carrie, who is Mrs. John McCabe, of Chase county; Madge, who is Mrs. C. H. CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 161 Perrigo, of Chicago ; and Grace, who is Mrs. Robert J. Blackburn, of Chase county, Kansas. In politics Mr. Hays is now a stanch Democrat, although at one time he voted with the Republicans and later was a Populist. He is a genial, pleasant man, one who has hosts of friends and has accumulated his large property by energy and close application to business. JASPER MANNING. Jasper Manning is a retired contractor and builder of Harrisburg. After many years' connection with the building interests of Franklin county he has now put aside the more arduous cares of life to enjoy the fruits of his former toil. He represents one of the old families of the state. His paternal grandfather died in Perry county, Ohio; while his wife died at Hillsboro Hill, but was buried at Washington Court House, in this state, about 1893. Edgar Manning, the father of our subject, was born in the Empire state in 1813, and when a lad of about eight years accompanied his parents on their westward emigration, the family locating in Perry county, in the midst of an almost unbroken wilderness. Edgar Manning was therefore reared among the wild scenes of the frontier, but received good educational privileges for that day; and in Somerset, Perry county, Ohio, he was married to Miss Eliza Sturgeon, whose birth occurred in Hopewell township, that county, in 1815. Her father, John Sturgeon, was a native of Pennsylvania and during the pioneer epoch of Ohio's history removed to Perry county with his wife and little family. After his marriage Mr. Manning resided in Somerset until 1854 and followed carpentering and contracting. He then removed to Darby township, Pickaway county, establishing his home just outside of the corporation limits of Harrisburg. He purchased a fruit orchard of twenty acres and devoted his attention to the cultivation of fruit and to carpentering, hut fifteen years before his death he permanently abandoned his trade, giving his time to horticultural pursuits. He died in 1893 and. his wife passed away in 1897. They were consistent members of the Lutheran church, and in his political views the father was a life-long Democrat. They had six children: Jasper; Mary J., now the wife of Martin L. Harsh, of Grove City; Warren, deceased; Henry, of Harrisburg ; Eliza, who died at the age of nine years ; and Elnora, who is the deceased wife of C. L. Johnston. Jasper Manning, whose name introduces this sketch, was born in Somerset, Perry county, on the 18th of September, 1840, and began his. education in the public schools of that place. He afterward continued his studies in Harrisburg, whither the family removed when he was fourteen years of age. On attaining his majority he put aside his text-books to take up the duties of business life. At the age of sixteen he had begun work at the carpenter's trade with his father, following that pursuit throughout the summer seasons. To some extent he also followed farming. On the 3d of May, 162 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 1864, he responded to his country's call for aid, enlisting at Camp Chase, as sergeant of Company D, of the One Hundred and Thirty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was at the front for one hundred and twenty days with his regiment, going first to Parkersburg, West Virginia, thence to New Creek and on to Fort Powhatan, where he remained until the expiration of his term of service. During that time he participated in a number of skirmishes. On the 21st of January, 1869; Mr. Manning was united in marriage to Miss Susan Peterson, of Pleasant township, Franklin county, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Peterson. Their marriage has been blessed with two children : Charles Edgar, of Harrisburg, who wedded Clara Fetherolf, by whom he has one son, Harry Lee; and William Morgan, who was a popular commercial traveler, but is now deceased. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Manning began their domestic life in Harrisburg, where he followed carpentering and contracting, being connected with that business for twenty-six .years. Owing to an accident which destroyed the sight of one of his eyes, he retired to private life about 1883. He has twenty-two acres of land, which he operates, and he also owns town property in Harrisburg, having in former years made judicious investment of the capital he acquired through his own efforts. On the 5th of July, 1900, he was called upon mourn the loss of his wife, who passed away amid the deep regret of many friends. Mr. Manningis a member of Edward Crouse Post, G. A. R., of Harrisburg, and was elected as commander for the year 1900. He gave his political support to the Democracy until 1891, since which time he has been a stalwart Republican. He served as a member of the town council for eighteen years and has now served for twelve consecutive year as town treasurer. No higher testimonial for his ability and fidelity could be given than the fact of his long continuation in the office conferred .upon him by the vote of the people. For sixteen years he has served as a member of the school board and the cause of education has found in him a warm friend. For thirty-four years he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity and in his life exemplifies its beneficent principles. ERWIN MAIZE. Among the most prosperous farmers and influential citizens of Clinton township, Franklin county, Ohio, was Erwin Maize, who was called from this life on the 13th of January, 1900. He was born June 1, 1836, in county Tyrone, Ireland, of which place his parents, William and Isabelle (Erwin Maize, were also natives. In 1846 they brought their family to America and came at once to this county, taking up their residence in .a log house in Clinton township. The father was a gentleman of culture and refinement, whose social position in the old country was good, but he came to the United States with the hope of giving his children better advantages than his native CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 163 land afforded. He purchased forty acres of wild land. in Clinton township, but after residing there for a short time moved to a place on the Worthington road, where he died in. 1854, at the age of seventy-five years. His wife also died on the old homestead in 1866, at the age of seventy-six years. Both were Episcopalians in religious belief and were highly respected and esteemed by all who knew them. Their family numbered seven children, all born in Ireland, namely : John, deceased; Thomas, a resident of Louisville, Kentucky; Jane, the deceased wife of Alexander Forbes; William, also of Louisville, Kentucky; Fannie, the wife of Andrew Skidmore, and Samuel and Erwin, both deceased. In this county Erwin Maize grew to manhood, and was married, March 25, 1875, to Miss Melissa Pegg. They began their domestic life upon the farm where his widow now resides and where he continued to make his home until death. All of the improvements found thereon- were made by him, and it is to-day one of the best and most desirable places cif its size in Clinton township. In :his farming operations he met with excellent success, the two hundred: and thirty acres of valuable land, left by him at his death attesting his prosperity. As a public-spirited and progressive citizen he supported all enterprises for the public good and contributed liberally of his means to all worthy objects). He was one of the most prominent and influential members of the Episcopal church of Worthington, with Which he was connected for many years and to which he was entirelv devoted, serving as a trustee of the parish from the time he became a communicant, in 1886, until his death. A tablet of Italian marble erected to his memory in the church by his widow bears the following inscription To The Glory of Almighty God And In loving memory of Erwin Maize, A trustee of this parish, Born in county Tyrone, Ireland, June 1, 1836, Entered into rest January 13, 190o. Buried at Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio. CLARENCE E. RICHARDS. Clarence E. Richards, the subject of this sketch, is a member of the well known firm of Richards, McCarty & Bulford, architects, located in the Rug- gery building, in Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Jackson, Michigan, February 22, 1865, and is the son of Ephraim G. and Louise (Shipman) Richards. The father of our subject was born in New York and moved to Michigan, where he settled and remained in the business of building and con- 164 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. tracting in that city until 187o, then moved to Eldorado, Kansas, and followed the same line in that city until he retired from active. work and moved to Columbus, where he still .resides. Mr. Richards' mother died in Columbus February 17, 1901. Our subject received a part of his education at Eldorado, Kansas, where the family lived from 1870 to 1888. When about seventeen years old he entered the normal school, preparing himself for teaching, which profession he followed for four years. In 1888 he. came to Ohio and entered the employ of Edwin Anderson, an architect in Cincinnati, with whom he remained one year, going from there to Newark, Ohio, and following the profession of an architect there three years. In 1892 our subject came to Columbus and this proved a great advantage to him, as he was engaged as superintendent for the architect, J. W. Yost. In 1897 Mr. Richards formed a partnership with J. E. McCarty and George Bulford, all three of the firm being skilled and practical architect, and being one of the strongest associations of its profession in Columbus. It has made plans and specifications for many of the principal business blocks, dwellings and public buildings in Ohio. and in other states, notable among them. being the reform school buildings of Ohio and Kentucky. Our subject has been married since July, 1900, his wife being Carrie, nee Humphreys, of Columbus, in which place she was born, reared and educated.. She is the daughter of A. S. Humphreys, an old settler and much respected citizen. Mr. Richards is well and favorably known in his profession, and is a member of the American Institute of Architects. HENRY LORENZ SIEBERT The Siebert family has long been prominently connected with the material development and substantial upbuilding of Franklin county and the city of Columbus. The founder of the family in America was Henry Lorenz Siebert,. who was born in Trieste, Hesse-Cassel, Germany, in 1791; where his parents—natives of the same country—spent their entire lives. ,At an early age the son entered the German army and served during the closing years of the Napoleonic wars, seeing altogether seven years of military service. Released from the army, he settled in Buckenheim, a suburb of Frankfort-on- the-Main, where he opened a bakery. He married Susan C. Dollinger in 1820, and the following children were born to them in Germany : William, born February 14, 1821; Christian, November 9, 1822; a daughter that died in infancy; Sophia, born July 20, 1825 ; Henry L., July 17, 1827; Louis, born June 29, 1839; and .Carl, who was born and died in the year 1832. Three children were born after the arrival of the family in this country, namely: John, Susan and Charles M. The father of this family purchased property in Bukenheim and carried CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 165 on business there from 1820 until September, 1832. About the middle of October of the same year, with his wife and children, he sailed from Bremen for the United States, arriving at Baltimore, Maryland, after a voyage of sixty-five days in a small sailing vessel. Mr. Siebert's reasons for leaving the fatherland are to be found in the facts that he was a liberal in his political views, was opposed to government by autocratic repression, and wished to remove his sons beyond German military requirements. He remained in Baltimore only long enough to make arrangements for moving westward. With two "prairie schooners" he started; overland for Ohio. The family first stopped to rest at Wheeling, West .Virginia, then crossed the Ohio river on a flatboat, and journeyed to Zanesville in this state, whence after a two-months sojourn they located in Somerset, Ohio. Here he purchased a house, but soon traded the property for a farm of fifty-five acres, three miles and a half from Somerset, now known as the Libbey farm. He remained there but one season and then, through the influence of friends, removed to Columbus, where he arrived July 8, 1834, and went into business at the northeast corner of Rich and High streets. His building and its contents were destroyed by fire in April, 1835, and he next opened a store on the corner of Main and Fourth streets, Fourth street being at that time the eastern boundary of the town. Mr. Siebert remained here until 1837, when he bought a house at No. 660 South High street. Two years; later he removed to the Reinhardt farm, six miles west of Columbus, but after two years returned to the capital, settled once more in his South High street home and lived there until his death in October, 1842. His widow remained at the old home until her death, at the age of nearly seventy, in November, 1869. Their oldest son, William, in partnership with M. C. Lilley, established the firm of Siebert & Lilley, bookbinders and publishers, in 1842, but later went to Paris, Illinois, and bought a farm; still later he became the cashier of the First National Bank in Paris, and. was identified with that prosperous institution for many years, until his retirement, about 1890. Mr. Siebert was a collector and reader of books, taking an especial delight in the study of German history. Before his death, which occurred: in 1898, he presented the most of his books to the library of the Ohio State University, and these form the nucleus of a collection named in his honor, the Siebert Library of German History. A son, William, survives him, who participated in the battle of Santiago. Sophia became the wife of Cyrus Obetz, and they are now residents of Paris, Illinois. They have one son, Professor Henry L. Obetz, formerly dean of the homeopathic department of. the University of Michigan, and now one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Detroit, Michigan. Christian, the second son of Henry L. Siebert, was -born November 9, 1822, and for many years carried on business as a gunsmith in Columbus. He married Amelia Brown March 15, 1859. He purchased property on the southwest corner of High and Frankfort streets on the south side of Colum- 166 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. bus, and built a residence, in which his widow still. lives. Christian and Amelia Siebert have had six children, three of whom—Flora, Nettie Alma and an unnamed son—died in infancy. Mrs. Anna B. Miller, a widow, lives with her mother; Frank also lives at home; Mrs. Kate Babb, the wife of Mortimer Bobb, died February 8, 1900. There are two grandchildren, Marie Siebert Miller, now a pupil in the South Side high school, and Katherine Siebert Bobb, an infant. By a former marriage, to Sarah Maccam, Christian Siebert had four children. Mary, the eldest, resides at home; the other three died in infancy. The parents were members of the Universalist church, to which Mrs. Amelia Siebert still belongs. In politics Mr.. Siebert was a Republican, and he was a charter member of the Odd Fellows' lodge of this city. He was known throughout the state in a business way, and had large property interests in Columbus. He was a man of large proportions physically, was generous in private charity, and altogether large-hearted and kindly. He died September 18, 1886, after a lingering illness. Henry Lorenz Siebert, the third son of Henry L., Sr., is now in his seventy-fourth year, and is still robust and active. He acquired his early education in the public schools of Franklin county, and in his sixteenth year became a clerk in the store of Greenwood & King. In September, 1843, he went to Cincinnati and entered the employ of John Griffith, a gunsmith, but returned after six months and became an employe of Peter Ambos. In September, 1844, he went back to Mr. Griffith's establishment, and in February, 1845, obtained a situation with William L. Hudson, of Cincinnati, Mr. Siebert married Anna L. Morris, of Covington, Kentucky, January 1, 1852, and soon after entered into partnership with his former employer, Mr. Griffith. Three years later, through the friendship and assistance of Hon. Timothy C. Day, later a member of congress from Cincinnati, he began business for himself, but failing in the panic of 1857 he entered the hardware store of R. N. Booth & Company, of Cincinnati, where he was employed until 1861. Next he went to Paris, Illinois, where he raised a company and did guard duty to protect the town from the raids of southern sympathizers. In 1865 he returned. to Columbus and has lived here ever since. For the past twenty-eight years he has held his present position with the M. C. Lilley Company. He is a stanch Republican. In 1869 he was elected infirmary director, the first position ever held by a Republican in Franklin county. He and his family are members, of St. Paul's Episcopal church, and for the past fifteen years Mr.. Siebert has served) as one of the vestrymen of that church. In 1864 he became a member of the Masonic lodge in Paris, Illinois. The children of Henry L. and Anna Morris Siebert are as follows : Ada K., who was married, in 1876, to F. W. Schueller, a prominent druggist of Columbus; Myra Belle, the wife of William Scarlett, the treasurer of the M. C. Lilley Company; Ellen M., the wife of Henry H. Thorpe, a popular hotel proprietor of the city; Thomas H., superintendent of the shoe department of CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 167 the Lazarus store, of Columbus ; Alice Winifred, married, October 27, 1897, to John A. Schoedinger, an undertaker; and Frederick J., now a mining engineer in Utah. Mrs. Susan D. Lindenberg, a daughter of Henry L. Siebert, Sr., was born in Columbus August 31, 1837, and obtained her education in the public schools of the city. She was married to Henry Lindenberg October 23, 1862. Mr. Lindenberg was born in Germany July 29, 1836, came to this country in 1850, and became a partner in the M. C. Lilley Company and the editor of the Odd Fellows' Companion. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Lindenberg are: Louis L., born August 1, 1863, educated 'in the public schools and Ohio State University in Columbus, and for a number of years connected With the M. C. Lilley Company; Theodore L., born October 3, 1873, educated in Columbus, and in Germany, where he spent two years in travel and study with his parents, having since made a trip around the world, at present in the employ of the M. C. Lilley Company; and Charlotte, educated in Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, who lives at home. The father of this family died in Germany in 1890. He was a cultivated and widely read man and a charming conversationalist. He was a member of the German Independent Protestant church, and a leading member of the Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias fraternities. Mrs. Lindenberg still resides at her beautiful home, No. 1071 Bryden road. The sketches of Louis and John Siebert will be found in other places in this volume. Charles M. Siebert, the youngest son of Henry L. Siebert, Sr., was born in Columbus in 1839. At the age of. twelve. he began working at the gun, smith's trade with his brother Christian. In 1855 he went to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he spent two years at his trade; thence he went to Cincinnati where he entered the employ of his brother Henry. In 1857 he made a trip down the Ohio river on a trading boat as far as Hickman, Kentucky, but was compelled to abandon the trip at this point on account of high water. He returned to Cincinnati, thence to Columbus, where he again worked with his brother Christian, then went to Loudonville, Ohio, where he spent a year in the employ of T. A. Rinehart. In 1861 he went back to Indianapolis, and the next year to St. Louis, where he worked for the government in the United States arsenal. In May, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-third Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, with which command he was sent to West Virginia, thence to Petersburg, Virginia. His regiment was attached to the Tenth Army Corps, and from that time on participated in all the more important engagements that occurred in that section of the country. He took part in the hotly contested. battle of Weldon Railroad, south of Petersburg, after which his regiment was stationed in a fort on the James river, near City Point, Virginia. At the expiration of his service he returned to Columbus, and in 1866 went to Circleville, Ohio, where he began business for himself as a gunsmith, and there remained for twenty-four years. He 168 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. then sold his property and moved with his family to Columbus, and has since been in the employ of the M. C. Lilley Company. Mr. Siebert married Harriet Valentine April 16, 1866. To them the following children were born: Christian J., born January 16, 1868, married Cora E. Pausch; Charles M., born November 28, 1869; Alice B., born January 27, 1871, married, October 23, 1895, to Professor Nathan G. Burner; Louis A., born March 16, 1874, married Alberta Dempsey November 3, 1898; Thomas H., born August 30, 1872, died February 28, 1879; and Hattie M., born October 29, 1875, died October 9, 1876. Charles M. Siebert, Sr., is a Republican,. having supported that party since casting his first presidential vote for Lincoln in 1864. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Episcopal church. JOHN FLARENCE ANDRIX. The real-estate operator of Columbus, Ohio, whose name supplies the title to this sketch has a family history which is of peculiar interest because of the fact that it reaches back into the pioneer. days of the middle west. Mr. Andrix was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, in 1856, a son of Jacob Andrix, a native of. Hancock. county, Ohio, who died in 1870, at the age of fifty-four years. His father, Frederick Andrix, was among the earliest settlers of Pickaway county. Jacob Andrix was a prominent farmer and stock-raiser and his operations along. these lines before the war were somewhat extensive. The family moved from Franklin county and located on a farm of one hundred and seventy acres near Groveport, about 1858, and during the war Jacob Andrix enlisted in the hundred-day service. He married Sarah Sawyer, a daughter of the late Abraham Sawyer, who went to Pickaway county from Pennsylvania, which was also the early home of the Andrix family. Mrs. Andrix; is still living. Mr. Andrix's great-grandfather Sawyer was burned to death by the Indians near the border of PickaWay and Fairfield counties. Augustus Andrix, brother of our subject, is a farmer in South Dakota, and his brother James is a farmer in Franklin county, Ohio. His sister Lizzie is the wife of Henry McMahon, of Columbus, and another sister is the wife of J. Q. Adams and lives in Delaware county, Ohio. Mr. Andrix received. his early education in the public schools of Groveport, Ohio, and has been a student, self-taught, from the day he left school until the present time. He followed farming until 1880, when he engaged in the building trade at Columbus. His operations have been extensive and he has erected many prominent buildings on the 'west side and in other parts of the city. He also owns a block of buildings at Sandusky and Broad streets. He was a member of the West Side Building & Loan Association in, 1896 and was a member of the board of education of Columbus in 1893-4. He was appointed by the mayor a member of the decennial equalization board for 1900, which is revising the assessment list for the whole city to provide a CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 169 basis for taxation for the next ten years. This appointment may be regarded as a high tribute to Mr. Andrix's integrity and to his broad and accurate knowledge of real estate values in this city. The board itself honored him by election to its vice-presidency. His operations in real estate are extensive and their results prove that they are carried forward under the best business judgment. Mr. Andrix was happily married to Miss Carrie F. Poole, of Columbus, a daughter of Middleton Poole, formerly well known as a grocer. Mrs. Andrix's mother was Nancy H. (Perrin) Poole, who was born in 1831, near where Mr. and Mrs. Andrix now live, and whose grandfather came from England. Mr. and Mrs. Andrix have three children : Iza, Edna and Howard. Mr. Andrix is an official member of . the Methodist Episcopal church. WINFIELD S. ROCHELLE. Throughout his entire life Winfield Scott Rochelle has been connected with agricultural interests in Franklin county. He Was born September 25, 1847, on the farm where he now resides. His father, John. Rochelle, was a native of Sussex county, New Jersey, born in 1805. There he was reared to manhood and learned the trade of an iron-worker, being employed in the days before the advent of the furnace, when the iron ore was taken from the mines and worked into its various stages from the forge. While still in New Jersey Mr. Rochelle was married, and four of his children were born there. In December, 1836, he came with his family to Ohio and settled on the farm now occupied by our :subject, purchasing eighty-one acres of land from a Mr. Mills, who was the original owner after the entry from the government. Later Mr. Rochelle added a tract of one hundred and sixty acres in Mercer county and some time subsequently purchased one hundred and twenty-five acres of land adjoining the home farm. There he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred October 26, 1877. He was a stanch supporter of Republican principles and believed firmly in the party, but never sought office. Although a member of no church, he regularly attended the services of the old school Baptist church, of which his wife has been a member for a half-century. Mrs. Rochelle bore the maiden name of Lucinda Search, and was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, her parents. being. Martin and Elizabeth (Rorick) Search. Her father was a native of New Jersey and was an iron worker by trade, following that pursuit in connection with his son-in-law, John Rochelle. His wife was born in Holland, and both died in Muskingum county, Ohio. Mrs. Search came to this state with John Rochelle in 1836 and took up her abode in the home of her son near Zanesville, while her husband remained in New Jersey and settled up some business affairs there and to attend a lawsuit over some property. As the litigation continued over a period of several years he did not become a resident of Ohio until 1869. He 170 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY lived to the advanced age of ninety-two years, and his wife passed away at the ripe old age of ninety-three... It will thus be seen that longevity is a characteristic of the family, and their daughter, Mrs. Rochelle, is still living, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. She is one of the remarkable women of the county, retaining her mental and physical faculties to a wonderful degree. Through fifty years she has held membership in the Baptist Church, and has been one of its active workers, contributing largely to its support and doing all in her power for its upbuilding and growth. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Rochelle were born twelve children, six of whom are yet living, namely: William, a resident of Hamilton, Ohio; Dency, the widow of C. H. Barber, of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Mary A., the wife of Daniel Hickman, of Truro township, Franklin county ; Martin S., a practicing physician of Wichita, Kansas; Winfield; and Phebe C., the wife of W. I. Hempstead, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Winfield Scott Rochelle was reared in his parents' home until his sixteenth year, when he ran away in order.to enlist in the service of his country. H. made his way to Columbus, and on the 28th, of March,, 1864; joined Cornpany C., Of the Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Fifteenth Army Corps, commanded by General John A.. Logan. With the exception of a few weeks in the hospital in Resaca and Marietta, Georgia, he was continuously with his command until the close of the war, and his loyalty and bravery were equal to that of many a veteran of twice his years. He was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 27th of July, 1865, after having participated in the following engagements : Resaca, Dallas, Allatoona, New Hope Church, Congaree Creek, Atlanta, Griswoldville, Savannah, Charleston and Columbia.   When the war was over and the country no longer needed his services Mr. Rochelle returned to his home and resumed the work of the farm. He was the only son at home and his labors proved an important factor in the operation of the fields. On the 4th of February, 1875, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Samarida E. Hanson, a native of Jefferson township, Franklin county, and a daughter of James E. Todd, who was born in Virginia and belonged to one of the early families of this county.   After his father's death Mr. Rochelle continued the operation of the home farm, and from time to time has purchased the interest of the other heirs until he now owns all but a small portion of the place. His fields are under a high state of cultivation, many improvements having been added, and everything about the farm is in a thrifty condition, showing that the owner is a practical and progressive agriculturist. He votes with the Republican party, to which he has given his support since attaining to man's estate. Re is recognized as a leader in local ranks, his opinions carrying weight in party councils. For many years past he has been a delegate to the county and state conventions, and in 1899 he was appointed a member of the county board of election, but resigned the office to become a candidate for the nomination   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 171   for county infirmary director. He belongs to Reynoldsburg Lodge, No. 340, F. & A. M., and also to Daniel Noe Post, G. A. R. The patriotic spirit which prompted his enlistment in the army in his youth has been manifest throughout his life in the discharge of his duties of citizenship, and in all life's relations he has enjoyed the confidence and regard of his fellow men.   WILLIAM D. SIMONTON.   William D. Simonton is one of the two oldest engineers in years of continuous service in Columbus, running on the Norfolk & Western Railroad. His paternal grandparents, Theophilus and Mary Simonton, were natives of North Carolina, where they spent their entire lives. Their children, all born in that state, were as follows : Alexander, born January 12, 1794; Sally, born November 14, 1796; Adam, born October 8, 1798; Noah, born July 26, 1801; Elizabeth, born February 19, 1803; Hiram, born June 29, 1805; Theophilus, Jr., born June 29, 1808; Samuel,. born July 22, 1810; John, born February 8, 1813; and Mary, born June 10, 1815.   John Simonton, the father of our subject, removed from North Carolina to Ohio in an early day, locating upon a farm in Clermont county. He was there married on the 14th of June, 1838, to Miss Catherine Hess, and they became the parents of six children : Melissa, born December 4, 1839 ; Franklin, born December 4, 1841 ; an infant son born November 15, 1843 ; Lyman, born November 20, 1844; William D., born September 4, 1853 ; and Lulu, born October 16, 186o. Franklin, of this family, enlisted for service in the Union army, in Company I, Twelfth Ohio Infantry, and was wounded at Cloyd Mountain, Virginia, in 1864. He was afterward taken prisoner and nothing was ever heard of him from that time, although the greatest efforts were made to ascertain his fate. It is probable that he died in a southern prison and no record was kept of his demise. Melissa Simonton, the eldest sister of cur subject, was married to John D. Carnahan and they now reside at their home in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their children are Franklin N., Charles and Clyde. Lyman Simonton, a brother of our subject, is married and resides at the old home in Blanchester, Clinton county,. Ohio. He is a clerk in a store there and has one child, Clayton. William. D. Simonton was married, April 20, 1872, to Miss Nettie Baldwin, of Blanchester, Ohio: Lulu Simonton was married to O. Willoughby, of South Lebanon, Ohio, who conducts a meat market there. They have one child, Stanley, who is now in his twelfth year.   When a young man William D. Simonton, of this review, learned the blacksmith's trade, but wishing to enter railroad life, he secured a position as fireman on the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad on the 1st of January, 1874. On the 24th of December, 1877, he was promoted to freight engineer on the same road, which was afterward absorbed by the Baltimore & Ohio road, and is now a part of the system controlled by that company. Mr. Simonton   172 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   is now on the Norfolk & Western Railroad, running on the fast passenger from Columbus to Kenova, West Virginia. Since 1874 he has been in continuous service and has never sustained a personal injury in his railway duties. He became a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in 1882, and belongs to Division No. 72.   On the loth of April, 1872, Mr. Simonton was united in marriage to Miss Nettie Baldwin. Her father, Benjamin Balchvin, was born October 17, 1815, being the first white child born in Marion township, Clinton county, Ohio. His death occurred October 15, 1897, when he was eighty-two years of age. His wife, Martha E. Henry, was born January 4, 1829, and died July .17, 1893. In their family were the following : Mrs. Simonton, born March 28, 1854; Lucius, who was born October 25, 1851, and died October 8, 1884 ; and Marion A., who was born July 15, 1858, and was married, in 1880, to Miss Ada Byard, their home being now in Blanchester, Ohio. The grandparents of Mrs. Simonton were natives of Virginia, the grandmother having been born in the famous Shenandoah valley. In their family were twelve children, ten of whom are now living, and the youngest is more than three score years of age. All reside in Blanchester, Ohio.   Mr. and Mrs. Simonton have one child, Minnie E., born March 20, 1873. She was married, June 6, 1894, to Charles C. Bothwell, who is an engineer on the Norfolk & Western Railroad and resides in Portsmouth, Ohio. Mr, Simonton is a member of the Masonic fraternity, holding membership with Magnolia blue lodge, also with Ohio Chapter and Mt. Vernon Commandery. The family are members of the Plymouth Congregational church, of Columbus. His is a creditable record; characterized by fidelity to duty and his worth as a man and citizen are well known.   JOHN KOEBEL.   Among Franklin county's well-to-do and successful farmers are many who started out in. life for themselves without capital, and have worked their way upward through their own unaided efforts. In the subject of this review we find a worthy representative of this class:. —He is a man of enterprise and perseverance, and has steadily overcome the obstacles in the path to success by determination and untiring industry.   Mr. Koebel was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, .on the 25th of October, 1853, and was twelve years of age when he came to Franklin county with his parents. His father, George Koebel was a native of Germany, born in 829, and is now a retired farmer of Marion township, this county. While a resident of Fairfield county he married Mary Sparrow, a native of Virginia, and to them were born .ten children, six of whom are still living, namely: Barbara, George, John, Catherine, William and Charles,—all residents of Franklin county. Those deceased are Jacob, Michael, Sarah and Mary.   The educational advantages which our subject received were such as the   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 173   district schools of Fairfield and Franklin county afforded during his boyhood, and his training at farm work was obtained on the old homestead under the direction of his father, with whom he remained until twenty-three years of age. He began life for himself upon a rented farm in Hamilton township, where he remained two years, and then rented what is known as the Zeb Veasy farm for three years. For. thirteen years he made his home on the Louis Zettler farm, and at the end of that time purchased the place in Truro township where he now resides. When it came into. his possession it was unimproved, but he cleared away the timber, erected a good residence and substantial outbuildings and now has a well improved and valuable farm of one hundred and eleven acres:, all under a high state of cultivation.   On the 24th of February, 1881, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Koebel and Miss Alice Victoria Helsel, who was born in Columbus, Franklin county, June 2, 1861, and is a daughter of John .Helsel, also a native of this county. He married Clarissa A. Brown, by whom he had seven children,—Alice V., John E., Matthew L., Laura O., Effie C., Thaddeus B. N. and Fanny E. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Koebel have been born two children : Edith Pearl, born August 30, 1884; and Edgar Leigh, born August 2, 1895. The daughter is now attending the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, this state. The Democratic party finds in Mr. Koebel a stanch supporter of its principles, but at local elections he votes for the men whom he believes best qualified to fill the offices regardless of party ties. Religiously he is a liberal supporter and active member of the Lutheran church. For seven years he has made his home upon his present farm, and is to-day one of the most influential and popular citizens of the community.   ALBERT COOPER, M. D.   The city of Columbus, Ohio, is well represented in professional life, its citizens being known in many states of the Union. Among those whose ability is remembered outside of his own locality is Albert Cooper, a physician of high standing in this city. He is a native of the state, born in Coshocton county, Ohio, September 24, 1851, a son of Archibald Wilson and Maria (Blizzard) Cooper. The Cooper . family came to Ohio in 18o8, the ancestors having immigrated to Pennsylvania with William Penn, being Quakers. The grandfather of our subject was Levi Cooper, born in Virginia. He there married Margaret Wilson, .a daughter of Archibald Wilson, a captain in the Revolutionary war. The father of Dr. Cooper, Archibald Wilson Cooper, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, near Zanesville; in 1810. He later in life made his home in Coshocton county, remaining until 1864, when he went to Illinois and thence to Kansas, dying in Beloit, Kansas, October 8, 1881. The mother of Dr. Cooper was born in Hardy county, West Virginia, in 1814, and died January 6, 1882. They had been the par-   174 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   ents of four sons : Horace, an attorney at Greenville, Missouri ; Wesley and Levi, twins, the former deceased; and our subject.   Dr. Albert Cooper passed his first ten years in Coshocton and Licking counties, Ohio, removing then with his parents to Illinois. The next family removal was to St. Joseph, Missouri, and in that city he received the greater part o f his education. Later he .accompanied his father to Beloit, Kansas, and there entered the office of Dr. W. T. Donnell to engage in the reading of medicine. After thorough preparation he entered the medical department of the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery and graduated at that institution of learning June 22, 1875.   The first location of Dr. Cooper was in Kansas, where he spent almost two years in successful practice, after which he came to Columbus and took a course of lectures at the Columbus Medical College, graduating at this institution in following which he entered actively into practice in this city. He was the demonstrator of anatomy at Columbus Medical College from 1882 to 1885. Always interested in education, he served one term on the school board and for four years was elected from the nineteenth ward as a member of the city council. In his political preferences he .is a Republican and has taken part in many of the important deliberations of his party.   The marriage of Dr. Cooper took place April 14, 1880, to Miss Jennie McCrum, a daughter of. Samuel McCrum, of Belmont county, Ohio. She was an accomplished lady and before marriage a teacher in the schools of Worthington, Ohio. The residence of the Doctor and his estimable wife is at No. 2686 North High street, is in one of the best parts of the city.   Dr. Cooper is a member of Magnolia Lodge, F. & A. M,; Ohio Chapter, R. A. M. ; thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, Scioto Consistory ; the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, American Medical. Association and the Sons of the American Revolution. In his profession Dr. Cooper ranks high, his ability as both surgeon and physician having brought him into prominence. He is a fit representative of the medical profession in his chosen city of residence.   JOHN SAMUEL DAUGHERTY   The ancestors of the subject of this sketch were Irish, and his grand father, John Daugherty, came with two of his brothers to the United States previous to the year 1800, landing at New York. The three brothers separated, going to differents part of the country, John coming direct to Ohio and locating at old Franklinton, now a part of Columbus. He brought his wife with him and she died a few years after their arrival. Their children were Nathan Daugherty, who settled in Preble county and died there; and John Daugherty, who died in one of the Ohio counties lying on Lake Erie. For his second wife John Daugherty, Sr., married Miss Gatton, a native of Richland county, Ohio, who bore him children as follows : James, who mar-   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 175   ried Miss Clover and died in Prairie township at the age of ninety-three years; Sarah, who married Jacob Keller and died in Prairie township; Daniel, who married Miss Sills and died at Columbus ; Nancy, who is Mrs. Samuel King, of Norwich township ; Mary, who married Joseph Klise and died in Brown township; Chloe, who is Mrs. Orrin Clover, of Norwich township; Benjamin, who was the father of the subject of this sketch ; and Lovinia, who is Mrs. Chauncey Carter and lives at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.   John Daugherty, the pioneer, fought for his adopted country in the war of 1812 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1817. He helped build the old national road through Ohio. Some time after his arrival he began clearing a farm in Norwich township, on the Scioto river, where he settled among the Indians in a wild strip of timber and had many ventures peculiar to pioneer life. Each spring he and his boys would go into a sugar camp on the Norwich township line and, living in a log shanty, would manufacture maple sugar, in the old way, while the season lasted. Wolves and other wild beasts were so numerous all about them that they were obliged to maintain fires at night to keep them at a distance. Mr. Daugherty died about 1847, more than eighty years old, and his second wife died some years earlier.   Benjamin Daugherty, father of John Samuel Daugherty, was born at Franklinton in 1813, and grew to manhood in Franklin county and assisted his father in clearing and cultivating his farm, receiving a limited education in a small log schoolhouse near his early home. He married Catharine Divelbiss, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1820, who came to Richland county when a small girl with her father, George Divelbiss, who was a pioneer near Mansfield, and in his day was perhaps the most noted hunter and marksman in that part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty were married in Richland county and came immediately afterward to Prairie township, Franklin county, and after living there for a time they removed to Norwich township and settled on one hundred and fourteen acres of land, now owned by Jacob Fladt. Mr. 'Daugherty made a clearing in the woods, in which he built a double hewed-log house with a ground area of fourteen by sixteen feet, which was the home of the family until after the farm was paid for and money had been saved with which to buy the good frame house now standing on the place. By that time the farm was well improved. Mrs: Daugherty died there in August, 1872, and after that event Mr. Daugherty rented his farm for ten years and lived with the lessees. He then:. sold the farm and lived with his children, most of the time with the subject of this sketch, until his death in 1889. The most of the members of his family identified themselves with the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a man of good ability and Was influential as a citizen and as a Democrat. The following items of interest concerning his children will be found valuable in this connection :   His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married Elijah Scofield, and died in Franklin county; the subject of this sketch was next in order of birth; George   176 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   Washington married Caroline Sherwood, and died at Columbus ; Daniel, of Brown township, married Miss Minnie Miller ; Nancy married Charles Smith and lives in the Shenandoah valley in Virginia; David married Rachel Clover and lives in Norwich township ; Sarah married Orin Gatton and they had one child, who survives them and lives at Galloway, Ohio ; Mary married Edd McGlinchey and they had three children; Benjamin married Sarah Clover and lives at Marion, Ohio ; Chloe is Mrs. James Craig, of Norwich township; and Andrew Jackson Daugherty died: at the age of nineteen years, after receiving a fine business education.   John Samuel Daugherty was born in Prairie township, Franklin county, November 14, 1841, and received his first schooling there. When he was eight years old his father moved to Norwich township, where the boy finished his education at the age of seventeen, under the preceptorship of Alexander Jones, whom he often worried by playing truant. While on one of these expeditions he saw the. first railroad train in this part of the country, about 1848. He worked on his father's farm as soon as he was old enough and was thus employed until, at twenty-one, he began to learn the carpenter's trade of John Robinson, with whom he remained seven years, afterward working as a carpenter for three years on his own account. During a part of this time he worked for the government, building the officers' quarters, etc., through Kansas and Missouri. During his lifetime he has traveled a great deal, having visited about twenty different states. On one of these trips he took his eldest son, who was then suffering from that dread disease, consumption.   John Samuel Daugherty was married, November 23, 1869, to Miss Mary Catharine Roberts, a native of Prairie township, Franklin county, born November 16, 1848, a daughter of Lewis and Rachel (Richards) Roberts. Mrs. Daugherty's parents removed from Prairie township to Brown township when she was four years old and she was educated at the Welsh school, which she attended until she was seventeen years old. Her father was born in Wales July 4, 1818, a son of Ellis and Catharine (Pugh) Roberts, who came with their family to. the United States in 1824, landing at New York city, where Ellis Roberts died. In 1835 his widow and her children came to Brown township and located on. one hundred acres of land of which her late husband had become possessed some years before his demise, and there she died in 1846. Her daughter Catharine married Thomas Thomas, and after his death Thomas Evans, and died in the city of New York. Her son Lewis was the father of Mrs. Daugherty. David, the next in order of birth, went to some distant part of the country and was never heard of afterward. Ellis, the next younger son, died on the home farm. Susanna married Arthur Arnold and died in New York city. John P. died in Franklin, county, Ohio. Lewis Roberts was born in Wales in 1818, came to the United States with his parents at the apfe of six years, and lived in New York city until he was seventeen years old, and there received a fair educa-   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 177   tion. He grew to manhood on the family farm in Brown township, and married Rachel Richards, daughter of William and Mary (Williams) Richards, who were born and married in Wales. After his marriage Lewis Roberts located on the home farm of the family and lived there until his death, November 30, 1878, except during five years, when he conducted a hotel at Rome, Ohio. He was a prominent man in the township and held several important offices. In politics he was a Democrat and in religion he was a Baptist. His wife died June 16, 1889. Following are some facts relative to their children : Their son David William married Rebecca Drake and after her death Minerva Hemrod, and lives at Columbus, Ohio. John Ellis died at the age of nine years. Mrs. Daugherty was the next in order of birth. Lewis died at the age of twenty-six years. Daniel F. married Miss Angeline Carter and lives in Brown township. Richard died at sixteen, Susan at eighteen, John at twenty-six and Margaret at twenty years of age. Sophia and Hannah, twins, died in infancy. Margaret, the second of the name, died at two years of age.   After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty lived for ten years on the Colwell farm in Norwich township, and for two years lived on his father-in-law's farm. After that they resided for a time on the lower part of his present farm. He was then employed for five years at corporation work in the city of Columbus. In 1896 they returned to their farm and built their present home, and since that time Mr. Daugherty has devoted himself with much success to 'farming and stock-raising. He is an active and influential Democrat and has been for some time a member of the school board of his township. He is a member of the Christian Union church, and Mrs. Daugherty is actively and helpfully identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. She is an intelligent, well educated woman, well informed upon all topics of the day, kind, motherly, hospitable and an interesting conversationalist. She has borne her husband children as follows : Francis Marion was born September 19, 1871, and died at the age of twenty-one years. Charles William, born December 12, 1872, married Amanda Reed, and is employed as a conductor by a street-car company of Cleveland, Ohio. To them was born one child, Evelyn, a beautiful child' of a sweet disposition. Cora A., born February 23, 1876, is a successful school-teacher ; and her sister, Bessie Alta, born July 11, 1879, has taught school during the last two years. Each of the latter is well educated, holding diplomas from one of the best schools in the state. John Lewis, born February 21, 1889, died September 22, 1890.   JAMES SAVAGE.   The biographical sketch which follows possesses peculiar value for the reason that it not only deals with the careers of men important in their day and generation and prominent in their calling, but with facts and interests of historical value in connection with the social, political and business history of   178 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   Ohio's capital city. The name of Savage has long been well known at Columbus, where it has stood for important legitimate business enterprise and has represented the highest order of citizenship.   William Montgomery Savage, one of the pioneer jewelers of Columbus, located here in 1838. He was a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, and was married, at Richmond, Virginia, to Mary Richards, a native of Cornwall, England. He learned his business with his father, John Y. Savage, who moved from North Carolina to New York city about 1830, and it was there that William Montgomery Savage finished the acquisition of a practical knowledge of the jeweler's trade. For two years after he came to Columbus he was employed by Platte, an old-time jeweler; and in 1840 he opened a store on his own account, on the east side of High street, just south of State street, in a small frame building which was mounted on wheels in order that it might be hauled out of danger in case fire should break out near by. In 1843 Mr. Savage moved into the Ambos building, opposite Capitol square, and from there he moved, about 1851, into a building just then completed by himself and his brother John Y. Savage, of New York city, afterward city clerk. Important additions were subsequently built to that structure and he occupied it until his death in 1892, when he had been fifty-two years in business in Columbus, and since 1866 the leading jeweler in the city. Is 1893 the stock of his establishment was divided between his sons James and E. G. Savage, who had been connected with his business, the first from 1861 to 1884, the second from 1857 to 1892. W. J. Savage, the eldest son of William Montgomery Savage, was also identified with his father's enterprise until he disposed of his interest in it to found the Columbus Match Compang, and now relieved, of business cares, he devotes much of his time to European travel. John Y. Savage, another of Mr. Savage's sons, who died in 1884, was also for a time identified with the business. William Montgomery Savage was regarded as one of the foremost jewelers of his time and he was given charge of the railway clocks and other time pieces of all the railroads centering at Columbus, and regulated them by observations which he took personally and independently along scientific lines.   James Savage, a son of William Montgomery and Mary (Richards) Savage, was born at Columbus, Ohio, in 1844, and was there reared and educated and learned the jeweler's business in his father's store, in which, as has been stated, he acquired an interest, which continued until in the fall of 1884, when he engaged in the same line of business independently, at his well known stand on North High street, where he has met with much success and has made himself known as a merchant of enterprise and of prominence and as a jeweler of skill and' reliability.   Following in the footsteps of his worthy father, in politics as well as in business, Mr. Savage is a Democrat. In religious affiliation he is an Episcopalian. He married Miss Gertrude Aston, daughter of Isaac Aston, of Columbus, long a member of the prominent book house of Randall & Aston,     CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 179   one of the best known in Ohio before and after the war of the Rebellion. He has a daughter named Mary Richards in honor of his mother, and a son named James Aston Ferree in honor of Mrs. Savage's family, her mother having been a Ferree of a prominent French family of that name.   Dr. C. M. Savage, a son of William Montgomery Savage and a brother of James Savage, entered the Union army in 1862, when he was only fifteen years old, and saw three years' active 'service, and was wounded at Shiloh and at Kenesaw mountain. His eminence in his profession was recognized by President Cleveland, who appointed him chairman of the board of examining surgeons of the United States. He is a well known Mason and Knight of Pythias.   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WILLIAMS.   Among the several old Muskingum county families represented in Franklin county, Ohio, none is represented more worthily or more creditably than the family of Williams, from which came Benjamin Franklin Williams, of Norwich township, whose grandfather, Abraham Williams, was born in Connecticut, about 1809, and married Catherine Wooley, a native of Hocking county, Ohio, and a daughter of Elijah and Mary Wooley. Abraham Williams passed his life as a preacher in Muskingum county, and died there in 1834. His wife married Henry Ray in Franklin county, where she became a widow about 1855, and she died in Washington township, in 1881. Abraham and Catherine (Wooley) Williams had the following children : Abraham C., who lives at Plain City, Ohio ; Minerva, who married William Carter and lived for a time in Madison county, Ohio, and removed thence to Iowa and from Iowa to Nevada, where Mr. Carter died and where she is still living; Wesley, who died in childhood ; Benjamin Franklin, the immediate subject of this sketch ; Susan, who married Asa Davis ; Mary, who married Alexander Walcott ; Francis M., who lives at Columbus. Ohio; and E. J., who married Deborah Ramsey and lives at Hilliard's, Ohio.   Benjamin Franklin Williams was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, . February 5, 1849, and was about six years old when his widowed mother brought him to Franklin county, Ohio, where he passed the days of his youth, chiefly in Norwich township. He first attended school in a log schoolhouse which stood just over the county line near his home in Madison county, and he went to school with more or less regularity until he was nineteen years old. while in the meantime he received every kind of practical instruction tending to make him a good farmer. Since his marriage he has lived on rented farms. He has proved himself to be a business man of ability, and as a Republican is not without a certain local influence but he has no desire for public office. He is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.   September 28, 1871, Mr. Williams married Miss Katurah Shipman, who   180 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   was born near Dublin, Franklin county, Ohio, a daughter of Charles and Mary Ann (Beard) Shipman, her father a native of Pennsylvania, her mother a native of Franklin county, Ohio. The children of Benjamin Franklin and Katurah (Shipman) Williams were born in the order in which they are here named : Harry, who lives in Norwich township, married Bertha Wilcox, and has three children,—Oral, Ida May and Mary Belle. Benjamin, who lives on his own farm, married Amanda Davidson and has a son named Irwin. George E. lives in Clinton township, married Sarah Johnson and has two children,—Everett and Guy. Lena died in infancy. Charles died in childhood. Sumner and Ina Belle are members of their father's household. Carrie and Ettie are both deceased.   Mr. Williams is a self-made man who richly deserves the success he has achieved, and his public spirit and generous disposition make him a helpful citizen who may always be safely depended upon to assist. every worthy public movement.   DAVID BINNS.   David Binns, whose name introduces this review, is a prominent resident of Franklin county, Franklin township, Ohio, having resided on his present well cultivated farm near Columbus since 1872. He was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania; February 18, 1837, and was a son of William Binns, a native of England, who was born there February 18, 1807, and came to America about the year 1812, locating in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. His father, David Binns, was a native of Yorkshire, England, where he married and then came to the United States, settling in Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and some years later moved to Harrison county, Ohio, where he died at a good old age. William Binns was reared in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and there married Miss Ruth Gibson, a Virginian by birth.. She was a daughter of Amos Gibson, an old settler in Pennsylvania, also a native of Virginia. Mrs. Binns lived to the age of seventy-six, years, dying at her home in Franklin township, where the family settled about 1872. A family of thirteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. William Binns, and four members of this family are still living. Mr. 'William Binns, the father, died at the age of eighty years.   David Binns, the subject of this review, was about five years of age when he was taken to Harrison county, Ohio, and received there his education in the primitive schools of the time. According to the general usage of the locality he remained with his parents until he reached' his majority, when he went to Wayne county, Indiana, and engaged in teaching penmanship, remaining in that locality for two years, upon the expiration of which time he returned to Harrison county and began to teach school in the neighborhood of his home. His grandfather had entered some land in Hardin county, and there David Binns spent eight busy years in the lumber business, conducting   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 181   a sawmill. In 1872 Mr. Binns came to Franklin township and settled upon his present farm, where he immediately proceeded to build and make improvements. He then entered upon a successful career as farmer and dairyman, which occupation he still continues.   In 1867 Miss Esther Gilbert, the daughter of Hammond Gilbert, of Hardin county, Ohio, became the wife of Mr. Binns, but her death occurred w a few years later, leaving two children—John, deceased, and Vienna, who married Thomas Biddle, of Columbus. In 1877 Mr. Binns. married Miss Medora E. Bigelow, a native of Plain City, Madison county, Ohio, the daughter of and Hannah (Marshall) Bigelow, who were old residents of Madison county. Mr. and Mrs. Binns are the parents of five children : Henry G., who is in the employ of the Norfolk & Western Railroad; Walter B., Emmett H., Mary E. and Allen Jay, deceased, all. of whom have received good educational advantages, the older ones being graduates.   Mr. Binns is a Friend in his religious belief, as was his honored father and grandfather, but takes a great interest in public affairs, although not in favor of unnecessary strife. He is a Republican in politics, and has held many positions of authority in the township. He has been justice of the peace, and for nine years belonged to the school board. He has placed his farm of sixty-eight and a half acres in a fine state of cultivation, and his surroundings show the peace and prosperity his life of honest endeavor have made possible.   JAMES W. BARBEE.   James W. Barbee is one of . the most prominent and is also one of the oldest residents of Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, and was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, May I, 1817. He was a son of Owen Thomas Barbee, a native of Fauquier county, Virginia, who came to Franklin county very early and remained here until his death, when he was eighty-nine years old. His father was Joseph Barbee, of English parentage. The mother of our subject was of German descent, and was in her maidenhood Miss Mary Whitley. She died at the home of James Barbee December I, 1854. James W. Barbee was the third in a family of nine children. He came with his father to Franklin county in 1831, being at that time thirteen years of age. He was sent to the common school of the district, then held in the log cabin so well remembered by the pioneers of every state, and gained the education possible under the circumstances. Until he was twenty-three years old he remained with his father, and then started out to meet the world for himself. He engaged in hauling stone, a large part of it being for the erection of the state house in Columbus, and also a part of his work was put upon the national pike road. His wages were sometimes thirty cents a day. To modern minds this seems a very small compensation, but in forty years, from that beginning, our subject has accumulated a fortune and is now one of the   182 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   wealthiest men of Franklin township: Ordinary hardships did not dismay Mr. Barbee, for he cleared a farm in Norwich township, where he first located. . In 1868 he moved to his present home and proceeded to 'do the same task in Franklin township, where he now resides. This tract of one hundred and fifty-five acres he bought for seventy dollars an acre, selling forty acres not long since for four. hundred dollars per acre, an increase partly explained by the state of cultivation to which Mr. Barbee had brought it in the intervening years.   The marriage of Mr. Barbee took place December 8, 1842, to Miss Lucinda Keller, who was born in Franklin township December 22, 1823, a daughter of Jacob Keller, a native of Pennsylvania, and one of the early settlers of Ohio., Her mother, formerly Mary Rossman, was a native of New York, and had been previously married to Dr. John Ball, and they had five children. Five children were also born of her second marriage, of whom only Mrs. Barbee and her brother.Henry are the survivors. She was reared in Franklin county and enjoyed the best educational advantages possible at the time 'in that locality. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Barbee eleven children were born : Owen; Thomas; Mary; Eliza; Melville; the wife of J. S. Briton, of Columbus; Alice; Florence, deceased; Lucinda, deceased; James, who married Helen Legg; Minnie, the 'wife of C. M. Rogers, of Columbus; and Laura.   Mr. Barbee has been a very prominent Democrat, and has been called upon to occupy many positions of local importance. In 1850 he was elected the coroner of the county and held the position for two years; was county commissioner for six years in succession, being elected before the war of the Rebellion and held the position at the breaking out of hostilities. Far eight years he was a constable, for ten years was assessor and often has been township trustee, filling all of these offices to the entire satisfaction of the community. Both he and his family are members of the Christian Union church, where they are appreciated and have hosts of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Barbee have spent almost fifty-nine years of happy married life which they fittingly celebrated December 8, 1892.   LYMAN H. INNIS.   A well known and prominent member of the bar of the city of Columbus, Ohio, is Lyman H. Innis,. who was born upon a farm in this county July 16, 1871, and is a son of Robert and Sarah (Longman) Innis, a sketch of the family appearing on another page of this volume.   When a small child Mr. Innis removed with his parents from the farm to the city of Columbus, where he attended the excellent schools and prepared for college, entering later the Ohio State University in that city, at which he graduated' in 1893, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Mr. Innis took a course of study in the law department at the University, which was completed in 1875, and was admitted to the bar before he took his de-   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 183   gree of LL. B. He then entered into the practice of his profession with John J. Stoddard, with whom he is still associated. He has met with signal success and has become well known in the courts of the city of Columbus.   Mr. Innis was united in marriage in June, 1895. to Miss Belto Osman, of Chicago, Illinois, and their union has been blessed with one son, Alwyn O. Innis.   Politically Mr. Innis is a Democrat, taking a great interest in the affairs of his party and never sparing himself when laboring for its best interests. His many friends find in him a stanch advocate where their well-being is concerned. He is socially connected with the Knights of Pythias organization and is also a member of the Phi Delta Phi Society of the Ohio State University.   DANIEL O. ROBERTS.   Daniel O. Roberts was a well-known farmer of Norwich township, and in his death the community lost a citizen of sterling worth. He was born in Norwich township in 1848, and was reared as a farmer boy, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. The occupation to which he was reared he made his life, work. He inherited a part of his farm from his uncle, Daniel Roberts; and he placed his land under a high state of cultivation, adding many improvements which enhanced the value and attractive appearance of the place.   On the 21 st of January, 1875, Mr. Roberts was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Moore, who was born in Union county March 7, 1854, a daughter of Alpheus and Cynthia Ann (White) Moore. She was reared to womanhood in her native township, and pursued her education in the common schools. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts began their domestic life upon a farm, and at his death our subject left to his wife and son a comfortable property. He was a member of the Universalist church, and in politics was a stalwart Republican, strongly adhering to the principles of his party. He was continually in office, and for many years filled the position of trustee, discharging his duties promptly and faithfully. He died July 22, 1892, leaving to his family an untarnished name.   William M. Roberts, his only son was born December 19, 1876, and his elementary education, acquired in the district schools, was supplemented by study in the Hilliard's high school and in a business college at Columbus, where he remained for two terms. He . then accepted a position as bookkeeper for the Eaton Machine Company, of the capital city, but later returned to the farm and has since devoted his time and attention to its improvement, the fields being under a high state of cultivation; yielding a golden return for his labor. He and his mother have a very pleasant home and enjoy the warm regard of many friends. in the community. In politics Mr. Roberts is a Republican, and in the success and welfare of his party he feels a deep interest.   184 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY   JUDGE T. B. GALLOWAY.   There is no other element which comes into such close touch with American people and. which affects every individual as does the public policy of the nation. The man of mature judgment, of keen insight into public affairs and of strong mentality realizes the responsibility which rests upon the citizen upon whom has been conferred the right of franchise and who thus gives his support or opposition to measures which affect either the weal or woe of the entire nation. It is a matter for just pride therefore when one becomes recognized as a leader along political lines, and to such a position Judge Galloway has attained; standing foremost among those who give their efforts to the advancement of Republican principles. He is a lawyer of pronounced ability, of keen analytical mind and in, his chosen profession he has won creditable prominence.   The name of Galloway has long been actively associated with the public affairs of Ohio, and the Judge has spent his entire life in Columbus, where his birth occurred on the 13th of October, 1863. His father, Samuel Galloway, was an eminent citizen of Franklin county, born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1811, in a house which is still standing and which, in 1863, was occupied as a hospital. He was educated in the public schools of Gettysburg. About 1828, after his father died, the family removed to Greenfield, Highland county, and he continued his studies in the Miami University, at Oxford, where he was graduated in 1883. He took up the study of law in Hillsboro; but discontinued this, spending one year as a theological student in Princeton, and in the year i835 was a professor of Greek in the Miami University. Ill health then forced him to resign. Later he engaged in teaching in Springfield, Ohio, and at South Hanover College in Indiana, where for two or three years he was a professor of classical languages. Resuming the study of law, he began practice in 1842 and a year later became a partner of Nathaniel :Massie, of Chillicothe.   In 1844 he was elected by the state legislature to the office of secretary of state and removed to Columbus, where he thenceforth made his home. He was a prominent factor in politics and belonged to the anti-slavery wing of the Whig party. In 1848 he was a delegate to the Convention held in Philadelphia which nominated Taylor and Fillmore, and a speech which he made on that occasion was long remembered for its thrilling eloquence. In 1854 Mr. Galloway represented. his district in the notable thirty-fourth congress, when the reaction against the encroachments of the slave power had fully set in at the north, and the Whig party, on account of its complicity with slavery, had been practically annihilated, the great majority of the members returning from the northern states pledged to resist the further extension of the evil. Congress assembled on December 3d, but the house was not organized until February 3d, when Nathaniel P. Banks was chosen the speaker, on the one hundred and thirty-third ballot. At midnight on February 2d   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 185   Mr. Galloway was aroused from his sleep and summoned to a conference which lasted until daybreak. Mr. Banks was: the first anti-slavery member ever chosen as speaker of the house. Mr. Galloway took an active part in the deliberations of this congress and made at least one very trenchant speech upon the contested election case from the territory of Kansas. It was full of the keenest satire and the most vigorous argument. The political feeling in the district was strongly against Mr. Galloway during the next campaign, and upon his second candidacy for congress was. defeated by Samuel S. Cox.   On July 13, 1855, a convention was held in the old Town Street Methodist church in Columbus, attended by delegates from all over Ohio, representing anti-Nebraska elements and presided over by John Sherman. Mr. Galloway was one of the delegates at that convention and aided in framing the resolutions which gave the name of "Republican" to the new party. And this date, the sixty-seventh anniversary of the adopting of the ordinance of 1787, containing the prohibition of slavery in the Northwest Territory, marks the birth of the Republican party. This convention nominated Salmon P. Chase for governor, and he was elected in the November following. On July 18, 1855, a meeting was held in the city hall to ratify the convention of the 13th, and the principal speakers on that occasion were Mr. Galloway, Henry C. Noble and George M. Parsons. For a few years following Mr. Galloway practiced his profession in Columbus., besides which he was actively engaged in all religious and philanthropic work, and it was less than two years after he left congress that Mr. Lincoln was engaged in his great debate with Mr. Douglas; and there is a letter from the former asking Mr. Galloway to come over to Illinois and help him in that compaign. In 1861 President Lincoln summoned him to Washington and made him offers of responsible positions, all of which he refused, contenting himself with the office of judge advocate at Camp Chase.   During the war the services rendered to the Federal cause by Mr. Galloway were many and constant, although he was unable to undertake military duty on account of his ill health, and: his eloquence contributed as much as that of any other man to inspire people with patriotic ardor and to keep the quota of Ohio always full. After the close of hostilities his professional duties and business cares kept him busy in Columbus, but he was always ready for public duties; and it is probable that few men have rendered a larger amount of unrequited service to their party than has Mr: Galloway, and it was not unnatural that he should expect some recognition of this indebtedness. In 1871 he became a candidate for gubernatorial nomination, and his defeat in the convention was a disappointment from which he never recovered. His health almost entirely forsook him, and although he sought relief in travel it was in vain, and at last he came home to die. He was at one time a member of the First Presbyterian church, in the councils of which he was an acknowledged leader, was more than once a commissioner to the general assembly, and in the final reunion of the old and new school bodies he bore an important   12   186 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   part. But when the Westminster church was formed. he, perhaps, more than anybody. else, was the moving spirit, and his loyal love and service were given to that church until his death.   Mr. Galloway was deeply interested in educational matters, and when he came to Columbus in 1844, as the secretary of state, that officer was also, ex-officio, superintendent of schools, and he took hold of the interest of public schools with vigor and enthusiasm. The secretary of state who had preceded him had given three or four pages to that department, while Mr. Galloway gave to his first report twenty pages, to his second thirty-two and to his third fifty-six, all of which were full of facts gathered with the greatest industry and patience. Illiterate teachers and slipshod methods were severely criticised and within ten years from the time Mr. Galloway began his agitation the public-school system of Ohio was revolutionized and the schools compared favorably with those of any other state.   Personally the character of Mr. Galloway was of a most admirable kind. He was a genial and agreeable companion, a kind neighbor, possessing generous impulses and true compassion, a loyal and self-denying. helper of the church, a stout champion of the freedom of the slave and of the unity of the nation, and a great friend of the free school. His death, which occurred April 5, 1872, was mourned not only by his family but also by hosts of friends, and the. state of Ohio suffered a loss that was irreparable.   A son of one of the renowned. citizens of Columbus, Tod B . Galloway entered a profession where family connection, inheritance or influence are of little or of no avail, for in the law success must depend upon individual effort and personal merit. His childhood days were passed quietly in his native city, his time being largely spent in the public schools. until h.e took up the more advanced studies in Amherst College, of Amherst, Massachusetts, where he was graduated with honors in the class of 1885. On his return to Columbus he began preparation for his life work as a student in the law office of the firm. of Nash & Lentz, the senior partner, Judge Nash, being his preceptor. When he had become familiar with many of the fundamental principles of juris prudence and had gained considerable knowledge of statutory law, he was admitted to the bar in 1888 and entered into partnership relations with the former firm, in whose office he had previously been a student. He was thus associated until 1896, when he became ,the candidate for the office of probate judge of Franklin county, winning the election by a very gratifying majority, as he ran far ahead of his ticket, a fact which stands in unmistakable evidence of the confidence reposed in him and of his personal popularity among the people amidst whom his. entire life has been passed.   Political questions have always been of deep interest to Judge Galloway, and few men are better informed on the issues of the day than he. Since age won for him the right of franchise he has labored untiringly for the growth and success of his party, and in 1893 his fitness. for leadership was recognized by his election to the office of chairman of the Republican   188 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   part in reclaiming their section of the state for purposes of civilization, and the grandfather of our subject was numbered among the loyal defenders of the nation in the war of 1812, thus following the example of his ancestor, James Hall, who was a hero of the Revolution. The maternal ancestor of our subject was also represented in the war for independence by James and John Dennis.   The Doctor spent his boyhood days upon the home farm, learning many lessons from nature and at the same time mastering the elementary branches of English knowledge in the district school. Later he became a student in the Napoleon high school. His father died in 1868, when the son was fifteen. years of age, and for two years he was thrown largely upon his own resources. The necessity for self-help early brought forth the elementary strength of his character, which developed and grew with the passing years and enabled him to press forward on the highway to prosperity where many another falters by the wayside. In his seventeenth year he was employed as a teacher in the Barnhill school, in his home district in Henry county, and he was afterward a teacher in the village school in Canaan, Wayne county, and the adjacent district school. The desire for learning led him to prepare for college in the Canaan Academy, under the direction of Professor Wirts Reese, A. B., and Rev. J. W. Cummins, A. M., of Wooster. In 1876 he was graduated at the National Normal University, at Lebanon, and is a matriculate in the post-graduate course of the University of Wooster. For four years he was the superintendent of the Holgate public schools, resigning that po. sition to enter medical college. He read medicine under the direction of J. J. Stees, M. D., of Holgate, a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, and was graduated in 1883 at the Columbus Medical College, since which time he has been engaged in the successful practice of his profession in this city, Two months after his graduation he was appointed assistant to the chair of materia medica in his alma mater and his previous experience as a teacher well qualified him for the duties which therein devolved upon him. Three year later he was .made adjunct professor of materia medica, therapeutics and toxicology ; in 1891 he was appointed to the 'full professorship of the same chair and was made secretary of. the faculty and physician to Mount Carmel Hospital. He has the ability to impart clearly, correctly and concisely to others the knowledge he has acquired, and is peculiarly successful m his educational labors. From 1892 to 1897 he was professor of mental and nervous diseases and clinical neurology, since which time he has filled the chair of obstetrics and clinical obstetrics in the Ohio Medical University. He was the secretary of the medical faculty from 1892 to 1897, and has been vice chancellor since that time. He is also surgeon to the Columbus Hospital for Women; obstetrician to the Protestant Hospital ; a member of the Academy of Medicine ; and also holds membership in the Central Ohio Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a valued contributor to various medical publications, is a member of the Columbus Publishing Company and editor   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 189   of the Columbus Medical Journal. During the administration of President Harrison he served as one of the United States examining surgeons for pensions, also as the secretary of the board and holds the same position under President McKinley.   Dr. Barnhill is a man of broad mind, of liberal culture and of humanitarian principles. He takes an active interest in public affairs, especially along the line of educational advancement. He served for two terms on the board of education and for one term: was its president. He drafted the plan for the organization of the normal school on its present successful basis; was active in securing a public-school library building; in establishing vital relations between the library and schools; and in adjusting the high school curriculum to college courses of study. The article which he prepared on the Columbus schools, embodied in Captain Lee's history of Columbus, is a valuable contribution to the educational annals of Ohio.   On the 8th of October, 1879, Dr. Barnhill was united in marriage to Miss Bianca Jane Reese, a daughter of Rush and Matilda (Freeman) Reese, of Wooster. She was educated in the public. schools. and Canaan Academy and Oberlin College, and for three years was a teacher in the grammar grades of the Holgate schools. Two children grace the home of the Doctor and his wife—Eva Annetta and Helen Bianca. The parents are members of the First Congregational church of the city, and occupy an enviable position in social circles where true worth and intelligence are received as passports into good society.   At this point it would be almost tautological to enter into any series of statements as showing the Doctor to be a man of broad intelligence and genuine public spirit, for these have been shadowed forth between the lines of this review. Strong in his individuality, he never lacks the courage of his convictions, but there are as dominating elements in this individuality a lively human sympathy and an abiding charity, which as taken in connection with the sterling integrity and honor of his character, have naturally gained to him the respect and confidence of men.   JOHN KNOX.   The value of a life well spent is appreciated by a man who has lived it when he retires from an active career and considers the esteem in which he is held by his fellow men. The well known citizen of Westerville, Franklin County. Ohio, whose name is above, has no disappointment in this connection for those who know best how he has attained success in life are enthusiastic in the belief that he richly deserves every good. thing which he possesses.   Mr. Knox was born in Frederick county, Maryland, May 7, 1821, son of William Knox, a native of Leesburg, Virginia. William Knox's father died when he was a young child, and his mother contracting a second mar-   190 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   riage, the family moved from Leesburg to Maryland, where William was apprenticed to a blacksmith and learned the trade. In early life he married Mary Gertrude Freidinger, a native of Maryland, who was ever prominent in the Methodist Episcopal. church, where husband was for many years a class-leader. William Knox was an active Democrat, served long as a justice of the peace, and was always honored for his stanch principles. He was the proprietor of a hotel in Burkittsville, Frederick county, Maryland, until 1842, when he caught the migratory fever and started westward with his family. He located for some time in Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, then tried several towns in the northern part of the state, remaining but a short time in each place. He then journeyed farther westward, settling for some time in Illinois. He finally returned to Columbus, where he was engaged in farming until several years before his death, which occurred in his eightieth year. His wife also died in Columbus, in 1873.   William and Mary (Freidinger) Knox had eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest. All of these except one were born in Maryland. Two are dead—Mary, who was unmarried, and Rebecca, who was the wife of Isaac Ely and spent the greater part of her married life in Paris Illinois. Joseph F. is. a resident of Westerville, Ohio. William and Tho have retired and are living in Columbus, Ohio. Lewis is a resident of Chicago, Illinois, and has also retired from active life. Harriet is the wife of Andrew Dobbie, a merchant of Columbus.   In his youth Mr. Knox, the subject of this sketch, learned the blacksmith trade, and after his marriage to Sarah Johnson, of Circleville, he moving to Tiffin, Ohio, where he conducted a shop and engaged in various enterprises by which he accumulated some little capital. He soon turned his attention, as a contractor, to the construction of plank roads which terminated at Tiffin, Fremont, Fostoria and other smaller towns. For a time be lived at Fort Seneca and was engaged as a member of the Seneca Company in the manufature of plows, a venture which proved successful. At the latter place his wife died, at the early age of twenty-four, leaving three children, of who only one is living—Mary. A., the wife of Andrew J. Willoughby, principal in the public schools of Dayton, Ohio.   Mr. Knox, built the first plank road in Franklin county, from. Columbus north to the county line near Westerville. He moved to Westerville in 1852 and engaged in farming. Two years later he became manager of an extensive grist and sawmill. His career from that time until his retirement has been that of a general business man. He has several times established himself as a merchant, has bought and sold town property extensively, besides dealing on a .considerable scale in wheat and live stock. For eighteen years Mr. Knox was treasurer of the People's Mutual Benefit Association, whose offices at that time were located in Westerville. He laid out two additions to the town, and was one of the builders of the first brick block there. For   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 191   a time he was the proprietor of a hotel and owned hack and stage lines from Columbus to Westerville and Sunbury.   Mr. Knox's second wife was Susan Berkey, of Seneca county, who died when about thirty-seven, leaving four children. Joseph J. is a lumber dealer of Westerville and Columbus. Letitia is the wife of Oscar Rowe, of Columbus. William Otterbein is engaged in farming near Westerville, and Frank E. is connected with railroading in Columbus. Mr. Knox's present wife was Miss Rebecca Shauck, of Morrow county, Ohio. Their only child, Nellie Shauck, is the wife of Professor Frank E. Miller, of Otterbein University.   In the institution just mentioned Mr. Knox has long taken a deep interest and has in many ways aided in its maintenance and advancement. At one time when Otterbein was crippled by enormous debt, he originated a plan to secure donations, which brought the institution eighty-five thousand dollars without any outlay to the college, and his own contribution's were very liberal.   Politically Mr. Knox is a Democrat. He has filled the office of justice of the peace, has been a member of the city council, and was for some years a member of the school board. Since boyhood helms been identified with the church of the United Brethren in Christ, and for many years has been prominent in its work, having passed up to the general conference as lay delegate, besides holding many subordinate positions in the service of the church.   Going back to Mr. Knox's ancestors, a noticeable characteristic, both on the maternal and paternal sides, was the strong religious; tendency. In the paternal line, Mr. Knox's grandfather, Thomas Knox, was a man of sterling principles and deep religious fervor. Descending from Scotch ancestors who fled from the mother country to the north of Ireland during the persecutions, his high moral character was the natural inheritance of a people suffering tribulations and hardships for the sake of peace and religion.   Thomas Knox was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, about 1770, and while yet a young man his noble character attracted the admiration of youthful Lady Letitia Parker, of the adjoining county, Antrim. Though her parents opposed the intimacy of the young people for reasons of a difference in station, true worth finally prevailed, and Thomas Knox won Lady Letitia for his bride. After their marriage they lived several years in Ireland, where Joseph was born. In 1796 they embarked for America, a daughter being born to them on the ocean. They settled in Leesburg, Virginia, where William (John Knox's father) was born and where Thomas died. Going still farther back, on the maternal side, was Mr. Knox's great-grandfather, Christian Kemp, who, with three brothers, John Conrad, Gilbert and Frederick (under sixteen), sailed from Rotterdam for America in the ship "Samuel," August 27, 1733. They settled in Frederick county. Maryland, where they and their sons became prominent in the .political affairs of   192 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   the colony and were founders of churches and Sunday schools. Some by thrift and industry, and others by land grants, became large landowners and established their estates.   Christian Kemp had eight children. Of these, the two youngest, Susannah and Esther, were bequeathed a plantation in Frederick county, where they resided together, their place being described in Maryland history (western) as "The Two Sisters." They, like their father, were devout church workers. Esther was married in 1796 to Nicholas Freidinger, a youth who had come to America from Germany two years previously. Nicholas and Esther (Kemp) Freidinger were the grandparents of John Knox.   And again, on the Freidinger side were deep religious inclinations, Nicholas Freidinger was born in 1769, in oberamt Zweibrucken, in Verkheim on the Briest, Germany, and came to America in 1794. Diplomas and papers of recommendation which he brought from Hamburg describe him as a man of pious nature and high moral character.   Such Were the ancestors of John Knox, whose long, successful life has been the result of those only methods satisfactory to old age—honesty and piety.   JOHN CUMMINS.   The middle portion of the nineteenth century may properly be termed the age of utility, especially in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. The vast regions comprised within those portions of the country were but then opened up to civilization, and the honored pioneers who found homes in this fertile but undeveloped region were men who had to contend with the trials and difficulties of pioneer life. Theirs were lives of toil. They were endeavoring to make homes, to cultivate farms, to establish business enterprises, and often from early youth to old age their lot was one of labor; but their importance to the community cannot be overestimated, and the comforts and luxuries which we to-day enjoy we largely owe to the brave band of pioneer men and women who came to the west during its primitive condition. It is also encouraging and interesting to note that many who came here empty handed worked their way upward from a humble position in life to one of affluence that as the years passed and the country improved prosperity attended their efforts and wealth rewarded their earnest endeavors.   The Cumminses were among those who became active in the development of Ohio, and the subject of this review is numbered among the worthy representatives of an honored pioneer family. He was born in Pickaway county on the old family homestead, December 14, 1828, and traces his ancestors back to the Emerald Isle. whence his great-grandfather, a native of Ireland, Crossed the Atlantic to Virginia, there spending the remainder of his days William Cummins, the grandfather of our subject, when a youth came with his parents to America, the family taking up their abode in Virginia, and in   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 193   the Old Dominion he remained throughout his life. William Cummins, the father, was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, and was reared on a farm, his educational privileges being very limited. He was married in his native state to Miss Mary Myers, a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, and in 1816 he came with his wife to Ohio, the trip westward constituting their bridal tour. The journey was made 'by wagon, and on reaching Pickaway county they first settled in Harrison township upon a tract of wild land of one hundred and forty acres. Mr. Cummins then cleared a small portion and erected thereon a log cabin, after which he continued to work and improve his farm, becoming one of the enterprising agriculturists of that locality until his life's labors were ended in death. His wife also died in Pickaway county. In politics he was a Democrat, and both he and his wife were members of the United Brethren church. This worthy couple were the parents of eight children : Sydney, who died in Pickaway county; Mary, the wife of J. M. Spindler, of the same county; George F., of Columbus; William, of Franklin county; John, of this review ; James, who died in Galloway; Frances Marion, of Decatur county, Iowa; and Edward, who is living in Galloway, Ohio.   Amid the wild scenes of the frontier John Cummins was reared on a farm in Pickaway county and received his education in a log schoolhouse, his first teacher being Mr. Harper, who believed firmly in the old adage, "to spare the rod was to spoil the child." He entered heartily into the arduous task of developing the home farm, in grubbing up the stumps, splitting rails, plowing and planting, carrying on the work after, the primitive manner of those days when improved machinery for the purpose was unknown.   In Pickaway county in 1853 Mr. Cummins was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ellen May, a daughter of Charles May. She was born in that county April 24, 183o, and as a bride was taken to the home of her husband's father, where the young couple remained for a year. Mr. Cummins then purchased a small tract of land at the edge of Madison township in Pickaway county, where they lived for a few years, after which he rented a farm in Walnut township for several years. In November, 1859, however, he came to Pleasant township, Franklin county, locating upon a farm—now owned by his son, J. F. Cummins. It was then but little improved, and with characteristic energy he began the work of its further development. He first owned one hundred and thirty acres and afterward purchased forty acres adjoining the first tract on the west. Later he bought sixty-three acres of D. B. Peters and sold the forty-acre tract, and afterward he bought seventy-seven acres of Mr. Peters. By his next purchase he became the owner of seventy-seven acres of his present farm, upon which he took tip his abode, ultimately adding to it fourteen acres and eighteen acres at different times. He now has fine farming land, having, however, sold a portion of his realty, while to his son, J. F. Cummins, he gave seventy-two acres, to his son George Edward sixty-three acres and to his daughter, Mrs. Mary E. O'Harra, seventy-seven acres.   194 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   Four children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Cummins, who are yet living, namely : James Francis, George Edward, Mary E.,. and John, the last named residing upon the farm with his parents. One daughter, Martha Alice, and two sons, William and Chester, have passed away. Mr. Cummins is strictly a self-made man, who owes all that he possesses to his own efforts and to the able assistance of his estimable wife. They are people of genuine worth, holding membership in the United Brethren church, of which Mr. Cummins has served as trustee for many years. In politics. he is a stalwart Republican, has filled the offices of township trustee and treasurer and has been a member of the school board. To those at all familiar with his record it is, needless to say that his duties have ever been faithfully and promptly performed, for he is a man who in every relation of life has been found loyal and true to the trust reposed in him.   GEORGE K. LEONARD.   The work of an educator requires peculiar.. talent and ability. Many men are learned, but lack the power of imparting their knowledge to others. There are certain essential elements in the make-up of every successful instructor. These include a ready understanding of human nature, a deep sympathy with the individual, a comprehensive mastery of the subjects under discussion, and a clearness and readiness of expression not surpassed by the minister in the pulpit or the lawyer before the court. Well qualified in all these, Professor George Kasper Leonard occupies a position of distinction in connection with educational interests in Columbus, now occupying a chair in the Capital University of this city.   Professor Leonard was born in Augusta county, Virginia, February 20, 1847, and his youth was passed upon a plantation. His father was John Leonard, his grandfather George Leonard. The latter was born in Switzerland and in colonial days crossed the Atlantic to the new world with his parents, the family locating in Berks county, Pennsylvania. He was only two years of age when the family came to the United States, and after the Revolution he removed to the Old Dominion. At the time of the. Revolutionary war he responded to the call of the colonists to aid in the establishment of the American independence, and served under the immediate command of General Lee as a member of the Light Horse. Regiment. After the war he married Susannah Wenrich and became the owner of a plantation in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1797, devoting his energies to agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred at the old home in 1837. His wife also died on the old Virginia plantation in 1849.   John Leonard, the father of our subject, was born in 1802 and was the ninth of a family of eleven children, seven. sons and four daughters. About the year .1825 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Harner, and, following in the business footsteps of his father, he became connected with agri-   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 195   cultural interests, dying at the old home in the state of his nativity in the year 1877. His widow died in Virginia in 1891, and with the exception of Professor Leonard all of the children are residing at or near the old home, which is located in the Shenandoah valley, in that district made famous by the great battles of the Civil war. Of the .children, Rebecca died in 1849, and one son, William, died in infancy. The others are : Jacob H., John F., Martin Luther, David E., Susan F., George K., James M. and Mary E. Three of the sons were soldiers in the First Virginia Confederate Cavalry, and one served under John Mosby in the Civil war, while the subject of this sketch remained at home, the chief hand upon the farm, but was compelled . to be a refugee three times.   Professor Leonard, whose name introduces this record, acquired his early education in the country schools of Virginia, under the old system of education which prevailed in that state at the time. After the cessation of hostilities between the north and the south he spent about two years upon a farm in his native state, and in 1869 he went to Woodford county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming for three years. He afterward entered the State Normal University, where he continued his studies for four years in that institution. On the completion of his course he began teaching in Illinois, following that profession for two years, and in 1877 he came to Columbus. Not content with the educational privileges he had already enjoyed, he entered the Capitol University and was graduated in 1880. Again he went to the west and taught school, but returned, at the beginning of 1883, to accept the chair which he now occupies and which he has held for the past seventeen years.   Professor Leonard was married in 1892 to Miss Mary Margaret Hanger, the wedding being celebrated at the home of the bride in Virginia, of which state she is a native. Three children grace this marriage : Florence Ethel, born October 26, 1893 ; John Paxton, born in 1895 ; and George Dana, born in 1897. Professor and Mrs. Leonard have a wide circle of friends in Columbus and occupy a very enviable position in a society where true worth and intelligence are received as passports.   WILLIAM R. HUNTER   The life record of William R. Hunter illustrates most forcibly what may be accomplished in this land of fair opportunity by those of determined purpose, laudable ambition and unflagging industry. He was born at West Jefferson, Ohio, on the 22d of February, 1848, and traces his ancestry back to Solomon Hunter, his great-grandfather. His son, John Hunter, became the grandfather of our subject. He was a lad of twelve years when he accompanied his parents on their emigration to the United States. The family located in Pennsylvania, where Solomon Hunter died. In the Keystone state John Hunter was reared to manhood, spending his youth in the usual man-   196 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   ner of farmer lads of that period. He was married, in Pennsylvania, to Miss Rebecca Russell and in 1816 they removed. to Ohio, making the journey . in wagons. Here the grandfather purchased one hundred acres of timber land from Lucas Sullivan, and of the tract only three acres had been cleared. In the midst of that little clearing a log cabin had been erected and it became the pioneer home of the family. He paid two dollars and a half per acre for his land and increased its value by cultivation and improvement. The sturdy strokes of his ax soon brought low the monarchs of the forest and waving fields of grain were seen where once stood the tall trees. He afterward purchased a farm of two hundred acres: in Jefferson township, Madison county, on which he erected a brick house, making it his home until his death, which occurred in 1865, when he was eighty-five years of age. He had also erected a brick residence on his farm in Prairie township, Franklin county, and it stood until a few years ago, one of the old landmarks. It was built of what was called slop brick, mixed by oxen and burned by Mr. Hunter, for it was customary in those days for every man to. burn his own brick. When the task was almost completed it was found that the supply of wood was exhausted and he therefore hauled rails from the fences in order to complete the burning. His first wife died on the home farm in Madison county and he afterward married again, but had no children by the second union. Those born of the first marriage were as follows : James; Park, who was born in 1806 and died at the home of our subject in 1891, where he had resided for fourteen years prior to his demise; Mary, who became the wife of William Harper and died at her home in Fort Wayne, Indiana; Russell, who was a government surveyor and died in Wisconsin; Jennie, who became the wife of John Hastings and they spent their last days in Larue, Ohio ; a daughter, Matilda, who became the wife of John Hall and died in Prairie township; Betsey was the wife of William Chandler and they spent their last days in California; and Samuel Swan, who completed the family.   The last named was the father of our subject. He was born in the old log cabin on the Hunter farm in Prairie township February 12, 1820, and was reared amid the wild scenes of the frontier, experiencing all the hardships and trials which fall to the lot of early settlers. He pursued his education in a log schoolhouse and as a boy he manifested a special fondness for horses and delighted in horse racing. As.he grew this trait developed and he became well known as a trader and dealer in horses. After leaving the country schools his father sent him to college with the hope of having him enter the ministry; but such a life did not prove attractive to him and he abandoned is preparation therefor. He continued dealing in horses and when about twenty-one years of age he went to the west, going to Wisconsin, where he joined his brother, who was a surveyor in that state, and also in northern Illinois, surveying a considerable portion of Chicago. In the early days he purchased much real estate there which afterward became extremely valuable, but the papers showing the real estate transfer were destroyed and he   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 197   lost all that he had. Samuel Hunter remained with his brother for a short time and then went into the pine forests, where he engaged in cutting lumber and rafting it down the river to St. Louis. He became an expert raftsman and very much enjoyed life in the wild woods. He possessed a vigorous constitution and great strength and could down almost any one in a wrestling match. After spending three years in the west he returned to his home in Franklin county. He was a very popular man and one who was not afraid to stand up for his own convictions. He married Miss Ann Smith, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio when six years of age with her parents, John and Rebecca (Bell) Smith. They located in Prairie township and her father worked on the national pike. Later he removed to Iowa, where his last days were passed.   After his, marriage Samuel S. Hunter took up his abode upon the old home farm of one hundred acres and as time passed he added to that another tract of three hundred acres. His land was operated by others while he devoted his attention to raising and dealing in fine stock, especially horses. Ultimately he removed to Paulding county, taking up his abode on a small farm, where he spent his remaining days in quiet retirement from the more arduous duties of life. In politics he was a stalwart Republican, but was never an aspirant for office. He died in Paulding county, in 1896, and was survived by his second wife. His first wife, the mother of our subject, died in October, 1875, on the home farm and was there buried. Their children were William R. ; Achilles, who died at the age of two years; Evans, a resident of Illinois ; Jennie, who died at the age of fourteen; John, who is living in Oregon ; Park, of Galloway; and Almira, the wife of Charles Fenner, of Galloway, Ohio.   William Russell .Hunter was but an infant when his parents located upon the old homestead in Prairie township. He began his education in a little school at Rome, his first teacher being Ruth Ann Hamilton, and then continued his studies at intervals until eighteen years of age, his labors in the schoolroom being alternated by work upon the home farm. He remained at home until his marriage, which important event in his life occurred on the 6th of September, 187o, Miss Melissa Huddle becoming his wife. She was born in Madison township, Franklin county, October 15, 1850, and spent the greater part of her girlhood days in the village of Lockbourne, where she attended school, her first teacher being Mary Roberts ; and she is a daughter of John M. and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Huddle. Her father was born in Ross county, Ohio, and in Lockbourne, Franklin county, was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Reynolds, whose father was Jacob Reynolds and whose mother bore the maiden name of Miss Gilman. He was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio at an early day in the development of this state. Mrs. Hunter's father died in Plain City, Ohio, January 3, 1896, and his wife passed away in 1884. His father had come to the Buckeye state from Vir-   198 - CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.   ginia and died in Marion county when forty years of age. He was a tanner by trade.   After his marriage Mr. Hunter located upon the farm which is now his home. He spent one year in the old brick house and then built his present residence. He also had a road opened by his farm and it was worked and improved a year later. In 1882 he removed with his family to Nebraska and purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. in Clay county, continuing its, cultivation for three years. Within that time he also became the owner of six hundred and forty acres of land in Keith county, Nebraska. In the fall of 1885 he returned to his farm in Prairie township, having sold his quarter-section farm, he still retaining the six .hundred and forty acres. His time is given to the further development and cultivation of his land and therein he has .won creditable success. In politics he is a Republican, but has never sought or desired office, preferring that his energies shall be devoted to his business.   Unto Mr. and; Mrs. Hunter have been born six children: William S., who was born May 30, 1872, is now a school teacher ; Ira M., born September 2, 1874, married Lestia Spring and resides in Brown township ; Annie E., born December 26, 1876, is the wife of Charles F. Althen, of Rome, Ohio; Elva R., born May 4, 1879, James Arthur, born September 20, 1881, and Alta Iona, born January 3, 1886, are in 'school. The family is one well known in Prairie township and the members of the household occupy a leading position in the social circles of the community.   ALPHEUS BIGELOW MOORE.   The biographical sketch which follows will be found interesting not alone because it details the leading facts in the career of a prominent citizen of Brown township, Franklin 'county, Ohio, but because it tells of pioneer days in that part of the country and recalls events of interest connected with the struggle for American independence and others connected with the history of our Civil war.   Alpheus Bigelow Moore was born at Galena, Ohio, August 26, 1830, and died at his home in Franklin county, Ohio, November 8, 1898. When he was nine years old his parents removed from Galena to Brown township, settling on the farm now owned by Frank Walker. The boy received a good common-school education. and married Cynthia Ann White, a native of West Canaan township, Madison county, Ohio, born February 24, 1835, a daughter of William J. and Amelia (Marshall) White. William J. White, of Maryland nativity, came to Ohio when a young man and there married. He settled in Canaan township, Madison county, where he died and where the following children were born to them : Sarah Ellen married Isaac Fisher and died in Madison county, Ohio. Cynthia Ann married the subject of this sketch. William married Harriet Scribner and died in Union county, Ohio.   CENTENNIAL BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY - 199   Joshua lives in Dakota, and Benjamin in Amity, Madison county, Ohio. Eliza is Mrs. Stephen Warner, of Plain City, Ohio. Delilah died at the age of six years. William White, grandfather of Mrs. Moore, was born in. Maryland, became a general in the continental army under General Washington, and died at Washington, D. C., leaving three children : William J., father of Mrs. Moore; Eliza and Maria. Mrs. Moore's grandfather in the maternal line was Joshua Marshall, who was born in Maryland, was a prosperous farmer, married Sarah Haig and died at Plain City, Ohio.   After his marriage Mr. Moore lived for sixteen years on the homestead of his family. He then bought fifty acres of land in Norwich township, where he farmed successfully until the end of his life. He saw three months' service in the Civil war as a private in the Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and during all his active life was a prominent and influential Republican. The following data concerning his children will be of much interest in this connection : His daughter Minnie is the widow of the late Daniel O. Roberts. Jane married Charles Ritchey, of Franklin township. W. M. P. Moore was born in Amity, West Canaan township, Madison county, Ohio, November 11, 1859, was educated in the district schools of Norwich township, Franklin county, and is now a successful traveling salesman. He married Mary Ann Kiser, who was born near Columbus, a daughter of Nicholas and Margaret (Miller) Kiser. He is the only Democrat in his family. Lenna, Mr. Moore's youngest daughter, married Stephen Ball, of Brown township.   ALMON F. COE.   Among the successful agriculturists and highly esteemed citizens of Clinton township, Franklin county, Ohio, is the subject of this review, who was born upon his present farm July 22, 1839, arid is the sixth and youngest child of Ransom and Elizabeth (Beers) Coe, a sketch of whom is given in connection with that of Alvin Coe elsewhere in this volume.   Almon F. Coe acquired a good practical education in the district schools, which he attended until his sixteenth year, and gained an excellent knowledge of agricultural pursuits upon the home farm. Being the youngest child he remained with his parents, and is now the owner of the old homestead, comprising one hundred and fifty-three acres, which is now under a high state of cultivation and improved with good and substantial buildings.   On the 19th of October, 1865, Mr. Coe led to the marriage altar Miss Elizabeth, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Hindell) Helser, of Brown township, this county, and by this union were born three children : Charles E., who resides on the home farm; and two who died in infancy. Charles E. was born June 11, 1869, married, June 11, 1898, Mabel E. Town, and has one son, born September 6, 1900, and named. Almon Ransom. Mrs. Elizabeth Coe departed this life January 30, 1872: