100 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO GEORGE FRANKLIN JOBE. George Franklin Jobe, a retired farmer of Xenia township; better known locally as "Doc" Jobe, who for several years past has been living in Xenia, where he and his sister Lida have their home in West Market street, is a native son of Greene county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in Xenia township, four or five miles east of Xenia, February 26, 1853, son of George and Mary Ann (Hutchinson) Jobe, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter, of Kentucky, who had become residents of Greene county in the days of their youth, had here married and here spent their last days, both living to be more than seventy years of age. George Jobe was born at Trenton, New Jersey, and was but an infant when his father died. When he was four years of age his widowed mother moved to Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, where his youth was spent and where he learned the trade of carriage-maker. When a young man he came to Ohio and located at Xenia, where he opened a carriage shop on Third street and did a thrivng business, becoming in a comparatively short time, the owner of a whole block of property and a thriving business. Out of the generosity of his heart, however, he created his own financial undoing, for a simple readiness to act as security for the obligations of others so reduced him in goods that he lost most of his property. Being compelled to relinquish his business in Xenia, George Jobe bought a two-hundred-acre farm four and a half miles east of Xenia and there engaged in farming, spending- the remainder of his life there. Upon taking possession of that farm he found it but partly broken, the only improvement on the place being a log cabin and a rickety stable. He later erected there a fine ten-room house and made other improvements in keeping with the same and it was not long until he had one of the finest farm plants in that part of the county. One of the attractive features of this farm was a splendid walnut grove, besides considerable other native timber of noble proportions. George Jobe lived to be past seventy years of age and his widow survived him for several years, she having been seventy-four years of age at the time of her death. She was born, Mary Ann Hutchinson, near Flat Rock, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, a daughter of John and Margaret Ann (Finley) Hutchinson, who later came up into the Miami valley and settled in the Bellbrook neighborhood, where they cleared off a place in the timber, built a log cabin in the clearing and there established their home. The Hutchinsons were members of the United Presbyterian church. John Hutchinson and his wife spent their last days on their farm near Bellbrook, both dying within one week. They were the parents of nine children, of whom Mrs. Jobe was the sixth in order of birth, the others being as follows : George, deceased, who was- a farmer- in the-neighborhood of Sidney, this state; John, deceased, who also was a farmer in the vicinity of Sidney ; Andrew, who was a tailor in Xenia; Samuel, a GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 101 farmer, of the Sidney neighborhood; William, a tailor at Xenia; Sarah, deceased; Jane, who married Andrew McClure, of Shelby county, this state, and Martha, who married James B. Sterrett. To George and Mary Ann (Hutchinson) Jobe were born nine children, namely : James Harvey, deceased, who was a merchant in Xenia and who married Mrs. Eliza M. Anderson, who was a Stewart, of Clark county; John Hutchinson, deceased, who married Nancy Ellen Collins and was engaged in farming; Margaret Ann, deceased; Hugh Boyd, deceased, who married Margaret Ann Jobe; Martha Jane, deceased; William H., deceased; Samuel F., deceased; George F., the subject of this biographical sketch; Lida R., unmarried, who has always made her home with her brother George, and Albert Alexander, deceased. George F. Jobe and his sister Lida, the only present survivors of their formerly considerable family, have always made their home together and until their retirement from the farm and removal to Xenia in 1914, had always lived on the home farm east of town. Their early schooling was received in the schools in the neighborhood. of their home and George F. Jobe supplemented this course by attendance one year at the Cedarville school and a course in college at Jacksonville, Illinois. Miss Lida Jobe attended school one year at Xenia and one year at Oxford, Ohio. Mr. Jobe later assumed direction of the farm operations and he and his sister remained with their parents, caring for them during their declining years ; and continued the operations of the farm until February 24, 1914, when they left the old home place and moved to Xenia, where they own a twelve-room house at 22 West Market street and where they are now living. Mr. Jobe still owns the home farm of one hundred and ninety-three, acres, besides two other farms in Greene county, one of eighty acres at Wilberforce and one of one hundred and sixty-five acres in Cedarville township. He is a Republican, but has not been a seeker after public office. He and his sister are members of the First United Presbyterian church at Xenia, in the faith of which communion they were reared. HON. J. CARL MARSHALL. The Hon. J. Carl Marshall, judge of probate for Greene county, former clerk of the court of common pleas and previous to that term of service and for some years deputy clerk of that court and before that time superintendent of the Cedarville township schools, is a native son of Greene county and has lived here all his life: He was born on a farm in Sugarcreek township, September 12, 1881, son of Willis and Emma (Tate) Marshall, both of whom also were born in this county. The Marshalls are one of the oldest families in Greene county, the first 102 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO of that name to settle here having been John Marshall, who was born in the vicinity of what is now the city of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1784. and who in 1803, the year in which Greene county became a civic unit, came up here into the valley of the Little Miami and took up a considerable tract of land in Sugarcreek township, where he established his home. This pioneer John Marshall was one of the early associate judges of Greene county. He and his wife were the parents of six children, two sons and four daughters, namely : Nancy, who married James N. McConnell; Sarah, who married John Brock; Hester, who married Captain Kepler ; Betsy, who married William Morgan; James, who became a farmer in Sugarcreek township, and Jesse, who was Judge Marshall's grandfather. Jesse Marshall and his wife were the parents of seven children, of whom four sons and two daughters are still living. Willis Marshall, the eldest of these sons, grew up on the home farm and after his father's death was the mainstay of the family, his mother continuing to make her home on the old home place until her death. He is now living on a farm in the New Burlington neighborhood in the neighboring county of Clinton. Willis Marshall has been twice married, his first wife, Emma Tate, having died in the fall of 1884, after which he married Laura Holland, of Spring Valley. Willis Marshall has two sons, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Leroy T. Marshall, who is practicing law at Xenia and who formerly served as clerk of courts of Greene county. Leroy T. Marshall was graduated from the Bellbrook high school in the same year in which his brother, the judge, was graduated there and later was graduated from Cedarville College, after which for two years he served as principal of the Cedarville schools. In 1908, as the nominee of the Republican party, he was elected county clerk and in 1910 was re-elected, thus serving two terms. In the meantime he had been giving attention to the study of law and in 1912 was admitted to the bar and since his retirement from the clerk's office has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Xenia. He for six years served as chairman o f the executive committee of the Republican organization in this county. He married Nellie Turnbull and has two children, Maxwell and Emma Jean. J. Carl Marshall's early schooling was received in the district schools in the vicinity of his boyhood home in Sugarcreek township and he supplemented this by a course in the Bellbrook high school, from which he presently was graduated. He then entered Cedarville College and was graduated from that institution in 1907. During the following winter he was employed as a teacher in the Clifton high school and during the next winter, 1908-09, was employed as superintendent of the Cedarville township high school. In August, 1909, he was appointed deputy clerk of the common pleas court and for four years held that position, or until his election, in GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 103 1912, to the office of clerk of the common pleas court. In 1914 he was reelected to that office and would have served in the same until 1917, but in the meantime, in the fall of 1916, was elected judge of probate for Greene county for a term of four years and resigned his position as county clerk to enter upon his new duties on the bench and has been thus engaged since February 9, 1917. Judge Marshall is a Republican. On October 10, 1910, Judge J. Carl Marshall was united in marriage to Fern C. Ervin, who was born and reared in Cedarville, daughter of David S. and Belle (Murdock) Ervin, both of whom are still living in Cedarville, where the former is engaged in the grain business and also operates the lime kilns there, and to this union two children have been born, Frances Emma, born on July 22, 1911, and Carl Ervin, September 16, 1915. Judge and Mrs. Marshall are members of the United Presbyterian church at Xenia and the Judge was elected a member of the session of the same in 1916. In that same year Judge Marshall also was elected alumnus trustee of Cedarville College. LEVI RADER. Levi Rader, a veteran of the Civil -War and former trustee of Xenia township, was born in Xenia on July 6, 1832, last-born and now the only surviving child of Adam and Christina (Smith) Rader, natives of Pennsylvania, the former of whom was born on October 28, 1787, and the latter, May 24, 1791, who were the parents of twelve children, those besides the subject of this sketch having been the following: John M., born on March 5, 1811; Joseph, September 29, 1812 ; David, December 23, 1813 ; Susanna, July 24, 1815 ; William, December 31, '8'6 ; Adam, Jr., November 15, 1818 ; Mary Ann, July 10, 1820 ; Andrew, July 5, 1823 ; Catherine, October 5, 1825 ; Julia Ann, July 14, 1827, and Washington, April 15, 1829. Reared at Xenia, Levi Rader received his schooling in the schools of that city and early learned the trade of a bricklayer, which vocation he followed all the active days of his life. He was married in 1853 and was living in Xenia when the Civil War broke out. In 1862 Mr. Rader volunteered for service at the Greene county court house in behalf of the arms of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company H, Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, attached to the Army of the 'Cumberland, under General Buell, and served with that command until honorably discharged two years later, at the end of which time he returned to his home in Xenia, resumed his vocation and so continued until his retirement when the weight of advancing years rendered such a course advisable. Mr. Rader is a Republican, one of the original voters in the ranks of that party, and in 1912, 104 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO he then being eighty years of age, was elected trustee of Xenia township and served a term in that office, appreciating greatly the honor the people of the township had conferred upon him in his old age. Mr. Rader was reared in the Reformed church, with which church his family has ever been affiliated. Mr. Rader has been twice married. On December 28, 1853, he was united in marriage to Sarah E. Foreman, who was born on September 30, 1834, and to that union were born six children, namely : John A., born on October 6, 1854; Clara (deceased), May 26, 1857; Kimber, February 9, 1859; Emma D., February 8, 1863 ; Henry P. (deceased), May 26, 1865, and Jennie K., February 14, 1867. The mother of these children died on July 9, 1868, and on March 13, 1872, Mr. Rader married Nina L. D. Fox, who died on February 16, 1906. All of. Mr. Rader's surviving children are living in Ohio with the exception of John A., the eldest, who is making his home at Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Rader has three living grandchildren. FRANK ANDREW JACKSON. Frank Andrew Jackson, sheriff of Greene county, was born at Cedarville on July 10, 1876, son of the Hon. Andrew and Mary J. (Dunlap) Jackson, the former of whom is still living. and further, extended and fitting mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. It is but proper to state in the outset that Sheriff Jackson is one of the real "Old Hickory" Jacksons, his great-great-grandfather having been a brother of Andrew Jackson, the hero of the battle of New Orleans and seventh President of the United States. He also is a member of one of Greene county's oldest families, his father, the Hon. Andrew Jackson, former member of the Legislature from this district, being a son of Gen. Robert Jackson, who settled on Clarks run, three miles west of Cedarville, in 1805, and who in 1831 was commissioned general commanding the militia forces of this district. All of this, however, is set out much more at length elsewhere and is introduced here merely as a sidelight on the distinguished family to which Sheriff Jackson belongs and of which he is a typical and sturdy representative in this generation. Reared at Cedarville, Frank A. Jackson was graduated from the high school there and then entered his father's coal and lumber office in that .city, and while thus engaged, when twenty-one years of age, was elected clerk of his home township, a position he filled by consecutive re-elections for thirteen years. He also for some time operated the opera house at Cedarville and was otherwise active in the affairs of his home town. For two terms during his father's service in the state Legislature he served as a legislative clerk and for three years thereafter was engaged as an agent of the Ohio GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 105 Fuel Supply Company, buying rights-of-way between Columbus and Cincinnati. During the incumbency of Sheriff W. B. McCallister, Mr. Jackson was appointed deputy sheriff of Greene county and in the campaign of 1914 received the Republican nomination for the office of sheriff : He was elected in the election of that fall and so satisfactory did his services prove that he was renominated and re-elected in 1916, his present term of office running until 1919. Sheriff Jackson is a Republican and since the days of his boyhood has been an active worker in the ranks of that party in Greene county, for years committeeman from his home precinct at Cedarville. On December 21, 1914, Frank A. Jackson was united in marriage to Edna Townsley, who also was born in Cedarville township and who had been teaching school there for some time before her marriage. Mrs. Jackson also is a member of one of the oldest families in Greene county, the Townsleys having been represented in the Cedarville neighborhood ever since the days, even before there was a Greene county, when Th0mas Townsley, a soldier of the Revolution and a Pennsylvanian, came up here with his family from Kentucky in 1800 and settled on Survey 3746, a part of the old Virginia military tract set apart for the Revolutionary soldiers, two miles east of the present town of Cedarville. She is a daughter of Henry A. and Anna Townsley, the former of whom, a retired farmer, is still living, now a resident of Cedarville, and the latter of whom died in February, 1910. Henry A. Townsley and wife were the parents of four children, Mrs. Jackson having two brothers, John, who is now serving in, the United States regular army, and Herman, a contractor engaged in business at Little Rock, Arkansas, and a sister, Esther, who is engaged in teaching school in this county. Both the Jacksons and the Townsleys have been United Presbyterians ever since the "union" of 1858; having previously been of the old Associate communion, and Mr. and Mrs. Jackson retain their adherence to that church, being now connected with the United Presbyterian church at Xenia. IRA W. BALDWIN, M. D. In making up the biographical annals of Greene county due mention must be made of the part taken in the affairs of this county by the late Dr. Ira W. Baldwin, veteran 0f the Civil War, physician, journalist, former postmaster at Yellow Springs and' former member of the United States pension board for this county, who died at his home in Xenia early in 1902, and whose widow is still making her home in that city. Dr. Ira W. Baldwin was a native son of Greene county and the most of his life was spent here. He was born on a farm on the Clifton pike, October 11, 1838, son of David P. and Julia Baldwin, and was the elder of the two children born to that parentage. Upon completing the course in the neigh- 106 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO borhood schools he entered Antioch College and after a course in that institution entered Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and was graduated from that institution in 1867. Meanwhile, during the progress of the Civil War, the Doctor had taken an active part in that struggle, serving in behalf of the Union, serving first as a member of the Sixty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer infantry, from which he received an honorable discharge on account of disability, and later as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Upon receiving his diploma from Ohio Medical College, Doctor Baldwin opened an office for the practice of his profession in the village of Enon, in the neighboring county of Clark, and was there engaged in practice for two years, at the end of which time, following his marriage, he moved to Clarksville, Iowa, where he remained two years. He then returned to Greene county and located at Spring Valley, later moving to Yellow Springs and thence, in 1899, after a period of eight years of practice there, to Xenia, where his last days were spent, his death occurring at his home in that city on February 2, 1902. For nine years Doctor Baldwin served as a member of the local examining board for Greene county of the United States penison bureau; served for four years, under appointment of President Cleveland, as postmaster of Yellow Springs, and for some time was connected with the local journalistic field. He was the founder of the Greene County Democrat and later purchased the Xenia Democrat News, merging the two into the paper now known as the Xenia Herald. Doctor Baldwin also was the founder of the Saturday Morning Post and his journalistic activities were continued until his retirement from that field in 1882. He was a Democrat. During his residence at Yellow Springs he also was engaged in farming in that neighborhood. For many years the Doctor was a member of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church. It was written of the Doctor, after his death : "In manner he was genial and jovial and his personal characteristics were such. as to make him a popular citizen. Public spirited, he co-operated with every movement for the general good and lived an honorable, upright life, commending him to the confidence and respect of all." In 1869 Dr. Ira W. Baldwin was united in marriage to Josephine Allen, who also was born in this county and who is still living, -continuing to make her home at Xenia, residing at the corner of West Second street and West street. To that union were born three children, Benjamin (deceased), John and Minnie. John Baldwin, unmarried, is still making his home with his mother in Xenia, and Minnie is now living at Dayton, the wife of William Thomas. Mrs. Baldwin is the only survivor of the three children born to her parents, John C. and Mary (Arnold) Allen, both of whom also were born in GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 107 Greene county, members of pioneer families, and the latter of whom died when her daughter Josephine (Mrs. Baldwin) was but five years of age. The other two children were Frank .Allen, who died in 1857, at the age of twelve years, and Edward Allen, who died unmarried in 1889. The mother of these children was born near New Burlington, this county, daughter of Jesse and Jane (Linton) Arnold, Quakers, and among the early settlers of Greene county, the Arnolds having come here from South Carolina and the Lintons from Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mary Arnold Allen died in 1849. She and John C. Allen were married in 1842. In T883 John C. Allen married, secondly, Maria Bell, also now deceased. John C. Allen was born on a farm one mile north of Spring Valley, in this county, June 22, 1815, and died in 1890. He was a son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Campbell) Allen, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of South Carolina, who were married in this county, both having been well grown when their respective parents settled here. Benjamin Allen was a Quaker and his wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. She died in 1856 and he survived her until 1868, he then being eighty-four years of age. During the latter years of his life Benjamin Allen had made his home at Spring Valley, to which place he had moved upon his retirement from the farm. John C. Allen grew up on the home farm and upon starting on his own account bought a small place adjoining his father's place and there built and operated a tanyard. A few years later this was burned and he then moved to Xenia and set up a tanyard on Cincinnati avenue, in the southwestern part of the city. In 1851 he bought a farm in the western part of the county and thereafter confined his operations chiefly to agricultural pursuits, becoming eventually the owner of "Whitehall," an estate of a thousand acres, on which was situated the finest house in Greene county, now owned by E. S. Kelly. For thirty years or more after the Civil War period Mr. Allen was a heavy investor in practically every important business enterprise in Xenia. He was a Democrat, but was not a seeker after public office. ROBERT D. ADAIR. Robert D. Adair, proprietor of a furniture store at Xenia, a member of the boards of directors of the Citizens National Bank and of the Home Savings and Loan Association, and formerly and for years a member of the school board of the city, is a native of the old Keystone state, but has been a resident of Xenia since 1886. He was born in Allegheny, the northern suburb of the city of Pittsburgh, in 1857, son of John and Ann (Duncan) Adair, both of whom were born and reared in the north of Ireland, of Scot- 108 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO tish descent, and who were married in this country, having come here in the days of their youth, later locating in Allegheny, where the subject of this sketch was reared and in the schools of which place he received his schooling. Upon completing his schooling Robert D. Adair became engaged as a traveling salesman, handling glassware and lamp goods, and during his commercial travels took a particular fancy to .Xenia and to Greene county in general; so much so, in fact, that in 1883 he married a Greene county young woman. In 1886 Mr. Adair bought out the furniture store of Wilson & Lindsay at Xenia and in association with his wife's brother engaged in business in that city, the firm doing business under the name of Nichols & Adair. Mr. Nichols died within a year and Mr. Adair then bought the interest held by his deceased partner in the firm and has ever since continued the business. In Iw0, he bought the building .in which his store is located, at 22 North Detroit street, and remodeled the same. In addition to his commercial interests, Mr. Adair is a member of the board of directors of the Citizens National Bank of Xenia, a member of the board of directors of the Home Savings and Loan Association, and a member of the board of directors of the Shawnee Refrigerator Company, all of Xenia. He also was for eighteen years (1892-1910) a member of the city school board, during that period having served as secretary and as president of the board for certain terms. It was in October, 1883, that Robert D. Adair was united in marriage to Clarissa Celia Nichols, who was born in this county, daughter of Erastus and Mary Nichols, both now deceased, and the former of whom was for years engaged in the insurance business in Xenia, and to this union have been born three sons, Charles Wallace, James Duncan and Robert Nichols, the two former of whom are engaged in business with their father in Xenia and the last-named of whom, Robert Nichols Adair, is now a soldier of the National Army, having enlisted in July, 1917, and is a present corporal in the Sixty-second Artillery Brigade, which was trained in the camp at Montgomery, Alabama, for service abroad. Previous to his enlistment Corporal Adair had been working in the Saxon automobile factory. The Adairs reside on North Galloway .street. They are members of the First Presbyterian church and Mr. Adair is an elder in the same. Mr. Adair also is a Mason, affiliated with the lodge of that order at Xenia. JAMES ELLIOTT PAULLIN. James Elliott Paullin, who died at his home in Ross township in the spring of 1888 and whose widow is now living in the city of Xenia, was born in that township and there spent all his life with the exception of a short time during the period of his young manhood, when he was attending. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 109 college in Indiana. He was born on December 25, 1846, a son of David and Susan (Smith) Paullin, who were married on December 6, 1827, and whose last days were spent in Ross township. The founders of the Paullin family in Greene county were Uriah and Rebeckah Paullin, natives of New Jersey, the former born on October 25, 1765, and the latter, November 17, 1766, who were married on April 13, 1785, and who, when they came to Greene county in 1807 had seven children, Jacob, aged nineteen years ; Mary, seventeen; Joseph, twelve ; Enos, ten; Sarah, eight; Elizabeth, four, and David, an infant of twelve months. One year after reaching this county another child, Ruth, was born and four years later, Newcomb. For five years preceding their arrival in this county the Paullins had been residents of Highland county and during the five years preceding that period had resided at Salt Lick. Uriah Paullin had been offered his choice of two tracts of land of one thousand acres each, for one thousand dollars, one near Selma, on the site of the late Robert Tindall's estate, and the other in Ross township, Greene county. He chose the latter site and some of that land is still in the possession of his descendants. On that place he and his wife established their home and the good works of "Granddaddy" Paullin are still matters of tradition in the Jamestown neighborhood, though just why he came to be locally known as "Granddaddy" is not so apparent, as the inscription on his tombstone shows that he died at the age of forty-six years and eleven months. His widow survived him until July 8, 1832, she then being seventy-two years, seven months and twenty-one days of age, according to the inscription on her tombstone. The descendants of that pioneer pair now form a numerous connection in Greene county and throughout this part of the state. As noted above, David Paullin was but an infant when his parents came to this county and he was but six or seven years of age when his father died. He came in for a portion of his father's estate and in time began farming on his own account in that same township, though he had sold his portion of the land to his brother Newcomb. After his marriage in 1827 he established his home on a farm in Ross township and there spent the rest of his life. James Elliott Paullin, son of David and Susan, grew up on the home farm in Ross township and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. As a young man he attended college in Indiana, but presently returned to the old homestead and after his marriage in the summer of 1885 established his home there and there spent the few remaining years of his life, his death occurring on March 26, 1888. He was a Republican and a member of the Christian church at Jamestown. On January 8, 1885, in Ross township, James E Paullin was united in 10 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO marriage to Anna Louisa Cherry, who also was born in that township, a daughter of William and Martha (Saville) Cherry, the former of whom, born on February 16, 1816, died on September 9, 1895, and the latter, born on November 20, 1815, died on October 6, 1876. William Cherry was a son of James and Elizabeth (Greenwood) Cherry. the former of whom was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, May 12, 1789, a son of Patrick and .Rachel (Wortman) Cherry, the former of whom came from Ireland and the latter of whom was of Dutch descent, who were the parents of five children, James, Green, William, Isaac and Margaret. On April 12, 1815, at New Castle, in Rockbridge county, Virginia, James Cherry married Elizabeth Greenwood, who was born on April 25, 1796, and not long afterward he and his bride joined a party coming through to this part of Ohio and rode to Greene county horseback, their destination being the David Laughead settlement on Massies creek. In that neighborhood James Cherry established his home and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, his death occurring on December 24, 1851, and hers, May 14, 1883. They were the parents of eleven children, William, Mary Ann, Jane, Rachel Wortman, James Laughead, Robert G.; John, Ben Q., Andrew, Isaac N. and David H. On February 18, 1837, William Cherry was united in marriage to Martha Saville and established his home on the Darling homestead on the Jamestown and Xenia pike. Martha Saville was a daughter of Samuel and Ann Saville, cousins, the former of whom was born on December 28, 1797, and died, March 22, 1857, and the latter, born on June 30, 1792, died on May 18, 1872, and who were the parents of six children, Martha, Joseph, Margaret, Elizabeth, Samuel and James. A. To William and Martha (Saville) Cherry were born eleven children, of whom Mrs. Paullin was the last born, the others being Elizabeth Ann, James A., Samuel S., Rachel Euphemia, John W., Benjamin F., Martha J:, Robert L., Melvina M. and David Brown. To James E. and Anna. Louisa (Cherry) Paullin were born two children, Lorena D. and James William, both of whom are living, still making their home with their mother, who moved from the home farm to Xenia in 1901. Miss Lorena Paullin was graduated from a business college at Dayton and for the past ten years has been the official stenographer in the Greene county probate court. She takes an active interest in the work of the Young Woman's Christian Association at Xenia. James W. Paullin completed his schooling in the Dayton Business College and for the past six years has been engaged in the office of the wholesale establishment of Eavey & Company at Xenia. He is a member of the local lodge of Masons. Mrs. Paullin and her son and daughter are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church at Xenia. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 111 CLARENCE S. FRAZER. Clarence S. Frazer, proprietor of a shoe store at Xenia, was born in Xenia, on July I1, 1873, son of Capt. Andrew S. and Jennie (Mitchell) Frazer, the former of whom is still living in Xenia, well past eighty years of age, and of whom further mention is made elsewhere in this volume, he having been a resident of this county since he was twelve years of age, his father having moved here from Brown county in 1848 and established himself in the dry-goods business at Cedarville. Capt. Andrew S. Frazer, as reference to the biographical sketch presented under his name elsewhere in this volume will disclose, is a veteran of the Civil War, having risen from the ranks to the command of Company F, Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the service of which he enlisted at Cedarville on July 24, 1861, and was also quartermaster on the staff of General Piatt. At the battle of Fayetteville he was so seriously wounded that his recovery was a matter of marvel to his comrades, and in June, 1864, at Cincinnati, he -was mustered out on account of disability. The Captain had been engaged in business at Cedarville previous to his entrance into the army, but upon his return he was unable for two or three years to engage in active pursuits on account of the disability from which he still suffered by reason of his wound. In 1866 he was elected auditor of Greene county and by subsequent re-elections served in that official capacity for about eighteen years, at the end of which time he became engaged in the banking business at Xenia; also becoming connected with various other business enterprises there, and so continued for many years. On November 2, 1870, Captain Frazer was united in marriage to Jennie Mitchell, of Attica, Indiana, who died in October, 1885, leaving two children, the subject of this biographical sketch having a sister, Katie, wife of William A. Cork; of Toronto, Canada, and the mother of four children, Ruth, John, Helen Frazer and Stuart. In October, 1887, the Captain married Ruby H. Sexton, of Rushville, Indiana, and is Still making his home in Xenia, now living practically retired from active business pursuits. Reared at Xenia, Clarence S. Frazer received his early schooling there. After two years in the Xenia high school he entered DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana, where he remained two years, at the end of which time, in 1891, he returned to Xenia and there became engaged in the lumber business. A year later, in 1902, he decided to take up the shoe business and with that end in view became a clerk in a local shoe store, remaining thus engaged until 1899, in which year he began business for himself, opening a shoe store at 17 East Main street, where he ever since has been engaged in business. Mr. Frazer is a member of the Xenia Business Men's* Club and for the past three years or more has been treasurer of the same. 112 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO On November 7, 1911, Clarence S. Frazer was united in marriage to Edith Harsha, of Washington Court House, county seat of the neighboring county of Fayette, and a daughter of John P. and Anna (Beard) Harsha, both of whom also were born in Ohio, the former in Knox county and the latter in Highland county, who were married in 1872 and who are now living at Washington Court House. John P. Harsha and wife are the parents of three daughters, Mrs. Frazer having two sisters, Ora, wife of J. M. Baker, of Washington Court House, and Jessie, wife of Rex Wells, of Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. Frazer have two children, Andrew Harsha, born on March 3, 1914, and Janet, December 30, 1915. They are members of the First United Presbyterian church and for four years or more Mr. Frazer has been a member of the board of trustees of the same. FRANK HENRY McDONALD. Two years before Ohio was admitted to statehood and among the very earliest of the settlers of this fair section of the beautiful Miami valley which later came to be organized as Greene county, the McDonald family had gained a foothold here and ever since has been honorably represented in this county. It was in the year 1800 that Isaiah McDonald and his wife Edith settled here, taking possession of what later came to be known as the "Stone-Quarry Farm," not far from where the beautiful city of Xenia later sprang up, and there established their home. One of their grandsons, Wilfred McDonald, in June, 1831, married Martha Lyon and made his home on that farm. To that union were born eight children, of whom the subject of this memorial sketch was the last-born. Two of these children died in childhood and the others were as follows: Hampton, who went to California in the days of his young manhood, lived there for fifty years and died while on his way back to his boyhood home in this county; Emily, who married William Rogers and spent her last days in Xenia; Columbus, who died in California; Willis, a farmer, who enlisted for service in the Union army during the Civil War and died in a hospital while thus serving his country's cause; America Jane, who is still living and making her home with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Anna E. McDonald, widow of the late Frank Henry McDonald, in Xenia; and Melvin, who died in Montana. Frank Henry McDonald was born on the old "Stone-Quarry Farm" in Xenia township on September 2, 1839, and was there reared to the life of a farmer, receiving his schooling in. the neighborhood schools, and was living there when the Civil War broke out, In August, 1862, he enlisted as a member of Company D, One Hundred and Tenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with that command was sent to Winchester, the regiment GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 113 being attached to the First Brigade, Second Division, Eighth Corps, Army of the Potomac; later being detached for provost guard and picket duty and later assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Division, Sixth Army Corps. Mr. McDonald served until the close of the war, was present at and participated in the Grand Review at Washington and received his final discharge at Columbus on June 25, 1865. During this period of service he took part in many of the most desperate battles and engagements of the war and received one serious wound,. a shot through the left thigh, which sent him to the hospital for some time. Among the battles in which he took part were those at Union Mills, Winchester, Stevenson's Depot, Wapping Heights, Brady Station, Mine Run, Locust Grove, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Ny River, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Reams Station, Sailors Creek and Appomattox Court House, besides a number of minor engagements and brushes with the enemy. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. McDonald returned home and resumed farming on the old home place and after his marriage in 1875 established his home there and there spent the rest of his life. He did well in his operations and became the owner of three hundred and thirty-five acres of land, continuing actively engaged in farming and stock raising- until his death, which occurred on April 21, 1910. Mr. McDonald was a Republican, but was not a seeker after public office. He was an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Xenia and took an 'earnest interest in the affairs of that patriotic organization. He also was an active worker in the Methodist Episcopal church, as is his widow, and took a warm interest in church affairs. On January 21, 1875, in Xenia township, Frank Henry McDonald was united in marriage to Anna E. Heath, who was born in that township, a daughter of Thomas P. and Anna (Hook) Heath, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families, the former born on a pioneer farm on the Wilmington pike and the latter, on the old Hook homestead place, and who made their home in Xenia township all their lives. Mrs. Anna Heath died when thirty-five years of age. Thomas P. Heath survived his wife many years, living to the age of seventy years. They were the parents of seven children, of whom Mrs. McDonald was the sixth in order of birth, the others being as follows : Joseph, deceased; Nelson, deceased; Sarah, who married Joseph McDaniel and is also deceased; Mary, who married Melvin Davis and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased; Charles, who enlisted his services in behalf of the Union during the Civil War and who died in 1864 while serving his nation's cause, and Corydon, who is still living, for years a resident of Goshen, Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. McDonald were born two children, Edith, deceased, (7) 114 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO and Thomas S., who was born on July 5, 1883, and who died at the age of thirty years. Thomas S. McDonald received his schooling in the home schools and at Dayton and remained at home, a valued assistant to his father in the work of developing and improving the home place, until his. death. He was one of the most promising young men in his neighborhood and his early passing was greatly regretted by his many friends. He was a member of the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. For some time after her husband's death Mrs. McDonald continued to make her home on the old home farm, which she still owns, but in the fall of 1914 retired from the farm and moved to Xenia, where she is now living, very pleasantly situated at 138 West Third street. JOSEPH FRANKLIN ANDERSON. Joseph Franklin Anderson, proprietor of a. farm in Spring Valley town ship, now living retired at Xenia, was born in Spring Valley township„ November 23, 1856, son of Joseph and Matilda (Stanfield) Anderson, both of whom were born in that same township, members of pioneer families, and who spent all their lives there. Joseph Anderson was a son of James Anderson and wife, who were among the numerous North Carolinians who came over into this part of Ohio in pioneer days and settled in Greene county, they making their home. in Spring Valley township. On the pioneer farm which his father developed, Joseph Anderson grew to manhood and after his marriage to Matilda. Stanfield continued to make his home there, he and his wife spending the rest of their lives there. He was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the Maple Corner Reformed church on Caesars creek. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom ten grew to maturity, namely James, a veteran of the Civil War, who moved to Indiana and then to Oklahoma, in which latter state his last days were spent; Abi jah, who was a. farmer in Spring Valley township and who died in 1907; Felix, who is a. farmer in Delaware county, Indiana ; Milo, a retired farmer, now living in Xenia ; Anna, who is unmarried and who also lives in Xenia; Joseph F., the subject of this biographical sketch ; Mary Jane, who is unmarried and who is living in Xenia ; Lewis and David, twins, the latter of whom is deceased and the former of whom is a retired farmer, living in Xenia, and Ruth Catherine, wife of George Heglar, of Spring Valley township. Joseph F. Anderson received his schooling in the schools of the neigh-, borhood of the home farm in Spring Valley township and remained at home until his marriage at the age of twenty-seven years, when he began farm- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 115 ing on. his own account and for two years was thus engaged in Caesarscreek township. He then moved down into Clinton county and was engaged in farming there for four years, at the end of which time he returned to this county and for six years thereafter was engaged in farming on a rented farm in Spring Valley township. He then bought one hundred acres, a part of his grandfather's old farm, established his home there and continued farming there until his retirement from the farm in February, 1911, when he and his wife moved to Xenia, where they have since resided, located at 680 South Detroit street. Mr. Anderson is a Republican in his political views. For years, in addition to his farming operations, he gave considerable attention to carpentering and numerous houses in and about the neighborhood of his old home were erected by him. In 1883, Joseph F. Anderson was united in marriage to Amanda C. Peterson, who was born in Clinton county, daughter of Archibald and Mary C. (McNair) Peterson, both of whom also were born in this state, the former in Clinton county and the latter in Greene county, and whose last days were spent in Clinton county. Archibald Peterson was a son of Jacob and Hannah Peterson, who had come over into this part of Ohio from Virginia and settled at Anderson Forks, in Clinton county, where they got land and established a home. Jacob Peterson and his wife were the parents of ten children, of whom nine grew to maturity, namely : Abel, who for some years farmed in Clinton county and then became a resident of Greene county; Aaron, who lived in Indiana and in Iowa, spending his last days in the latter state; Jesse, who became a resident of Greene county; Archibald, father of Mrs. Anderson; Jacob, who made his home in Clinton county ; Abraham, who also made his home in Clinton county ; Betsy Ann, who married John Nash and became a resident of Logan county, this state; Amy, who married J. Bush and became a resident of Highland county, this state, and Hannah, who married George H. Moore and went to Iowa, where her last days were spent. To Archibald Peterson and wife were born ten children, of whom Mrs. Anderson was the second in order of birth, the others being the following : William A., who died in Alabama ; Edwin, a carpenter, who died at Wilmington, this state; Ida, who married Frank Ellis and moved to California; Lizzie, who died at the age of fourteen years ; Horace, who died in infancy; Florence, wife of Frank Tristoe, of Xenia, a railway mail clerk ; Darius, who was a glassblower and who died in Indiana : Della, wife of Calvin Hansel, a blacksmith, of Lumberton, this state; and Myrtle, wife of John Routsong, of Xenia. To Joseph F. and Amanda C. (Peterson) Anderson have been born two daughters, Bessie and Cora, who completed their schooling in the Xenia high school, from which the latter was graduated in 1905. Bessie Ander- 116 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO son married Joseph Hoyt, now living in Greene county, Iowa, and has one child, a son, Raymond. Cora Anderson married George Boots, a farmer, of Jasper township, this county, and has three children, Leonard A., Franklin H. and Charlotte M. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Anderson is a member of the Reformed church. REV. JAMES E. QUINN. The Rev. James E. Quinn, pastor of St. Brigid's Catholic church at Xenia, is .a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born at Middletown, son of John and Anna Quinn, the former of whom is still living at Middletown and the latter of whom died in that city on March 19, 1916. Both John Quinn and his wife were- natives of Ireland, the former born in County Galway and the latter in County Mayo. Reared at Middletown, James E. Quinn received his early schooling in the Catholic parochial schools of that place and early devoted his life to the service of the church. Upon completing the course in the local schools he entered St. Xavier's College at Cincinnati and was graduated from that institution in 1899, later entering Mt. St. Mary's Seminary at Cincinnati, where he completed his theological course in 1904. On June 15, 1904, Father Quinn was ordained to holy orders and was assigned as assistant pastor of St. Raphael's church at Springfield, a relation which he maintained for six years and six months, at the end of which time he was made pastor in charge of the church at Eaton, in Preble county, where he filled in an interim period of four months. He then was appointed pastor of St. Vincent de Paul church at Cincinnati and continued in that relation for two years and six months, at the end of which time, March 19, 1913, he was appointed to his present station, pastor in charge of St. Brigid's parish at Xenia, and has ever since maintained that relation. When Father Quinn took charge of St. Brigid's the parochial school adjoining the church, on West street, was in process of erection and the task of completing the same devolved upon him, the work being completed and the handsome building dedicated to parish purposes in January, 1914. During the period of his ministry in Xenia, Father Quinn has made many friends hereabout and has been able to do an excellent work in the way of extending the influence of his parish. He came to the parish at a somewhat difficult time, but it was not long until his kindly spirit and earnest manner had adjusted whatever difficulties the parish had been facing and progress along all lines of parish work has since then been marked and effective. It is well known, however, that Father Quinn desires no applause for the labor he has performed; that no self-gratulation awaits upon his acts. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 117 that nothing pains him more than the language of praise and that he prefers to do the work of his Master unobserved. It is but proper to say, however, that the earnest young clergyman is a man of education and judgment, whose opinions have come to carry weight in his parish and that underneath his quiet, unassuming manner there is a very warm friendliness to all, his gentle demeanor commanding the respect and confidence of all with whom he conies in contact. In the historical section of this work, in the chapter relating to the churches of Greene county, there is set out at length a comprehensive review of the history of St. Brigid's church and parish and the reader's attention is respectfully invited to the same in this connection. P. H. FLYNN. P. H. Flynn, president and general manager of the Xenia Shoe Manufacturing Company, is a native of the Old Bay State, born at Spencer, in Worcester county, Massachusetts, in 1861, son of Richard and Catherine (Day) Flynn, both of whom were born in that same county, where they spent all their lives, the latter dying there in 1902, at the age of seventy-five years, her passing having been the first break by death in her immediate family for fifty-one years. The Flynns are an old family in Massachusetts, the progenitor of this branch of the family having located there upon coming to this country from the Emerald Isle in the latter part of the eighteenth century; and until the present generation the family had remained centered in Massachusetts, mainly engaged in agricultural pursuits, but is now pretty well scattered over the country. Richard Flynn was a son of Richard and Mary Flynn, landowners, who were the parents of six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom are now deceased. On of these sons, Capt. James Flynn, raised a company in Boston for service in the Union army during the Civil War and served at the head of that company. Another son, John Flynn, served as a private in another regiment. The junior Richard Flynn volunteered for service, but was rejected on account of a minor physical disability. He became a shoe manufacturer in his home town of Spencer and was superintendent of a big shoe factory there during the active period of his life. There be spent his last clays, his death occurring in 1904, he then .being seventy-eight years of age. As noted above, his wife had preceded him to the grave about two years. She was a daughter of Edward and Catherine Day, the former of whom came to this country from Ireland following his graduation from the University of Dublin and became engaged as a school teacher in Worchester county, Massachusetts, continuing thus engaged the rest of his 118 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO active life. Prof. Edward Day and wife had six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom are now deceased save one of the daughters, Mrs. Mary Madden, a widow, now a resident of San Francisco, California. One of the sons, Edward Day, served as a lieutenant 0f cavalry during the Civil War. To Richard and Catherine (Day) Flynn were born seven children, .of whom P. H. Flynn was the fourth in order of birth, the others being Edward, who became a resident of Providence, Rhode Island, and who at one time was the manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York. James, who is the superintendent of the factory of the Belleville Shoe Company, at Belleville, Illinois; Thomas, who organized the Independent Packing Company at St. Louis and has been living retired since 1914; Mary, wife of Jerome Hines, of Spencer, Massachusetts; Catherine, wife of Peter Cunningham, an officer of the Warren Steam Pump Company, at Warren, Massachusetts, and Elizabeth, who is now living at Ashbury, New Hampshire, widow of Thomas Ash, who was superintendent of a shoe factory. Reared at Spencer, 'Massachusetts, P. H. Flynn received his early schooling there and supplemented the same by a course in the Poughkeepsie Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. From the time he was twelve years of age he had been given instructions in the practical details of the manufacture of shoes, under his father's direction, and rounded out his early knowledge of the craftmanship of shoe-making in the factory of Isaac Prouty & Company, and was with that concern until he was twenty-one years of age, when, in 1882, he became employed as foreman of the cutting room in the shoe factory of the Ide & Wilson Company, wholesale dealers in and manufacturers of shoes at Columbus, Ohio. A year later that concern consolidated with the. Columbus Boot and Shoe Company, which was filling its contracts with the aid of convict labor at the Ohio state penitentiary. Mr. Flynn declined to follow the company's operations into the prison, as a foreman over convicts, and the company made him its traveling sales representative, his territory covering the Southern states, and he was thus engaged for two years, or until in 1885, when he transferred his services to W. F. Th0rne & Company, shoe jobbers in Cincinnati, and was given charge of the 0utput of that concern's factory, a position he occupied for two years. It was during this latter period that Mr. Flynn became interested in a proposition which promised to land him 0n the high tide of wealth; but which, like many another "boom" proposition, led to disappointment. While traveling through Tennessee he had gained some confidential information regarding the great developments that at that time GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 119 were being promised for the. town of Decatur, Alabama, and before the ill-fated "boom" in values at that point had started he made some land investments there and thus got in "on the ground floor." Upon the organization of the Decatur Land and Improvement Company Mr. Flynn, who was the chief promoter, was elected general manager of the same and so continued to the end, at the same time having a hand in numerous other enterprises projected there, and felt confidently assured of being possessed of a good thing; everything looking exceedingly well when yellow fever broke out in the town and the "boom" bursted practically over night. At that inauspicious time Mr. Flynn was at Crab Orchard Springs, Kentucky, recovering from a severe attack of malarial fever and when he returned to Decatur after an absence of five months he found the place nearly depopulated, his former business associates practically bankrupt and the town's doom sealed. He stuck it out for another year and then returned to Cincinnati, convinced that Decatur values had vanished never to return. In 1890 Mr. Flynn became. connected with the Xenia Shoe Manufacturing Company as that concern's sales representative in Southern territory and a year later bought a considerable block of stock in the company and was elected president and general manager of the company, a position he ever since has occupied. Mr. Flynn has not confined himself wholly to his extensive manufacturing interests since taking up his residence in Xenia in 1890. It was he who organized the Xenia Gas and Electric Company and for five years he operated the same, as president of the company. He then sold the plant to the Dayton Power and Light Company, which has since been operating it. In 1907 Mr. Flynn began to pay considerable attention to agricultural pursuits and since then he has built up an extensive dairy on his farm of four hundred and fifty acres at Trebeins, in Beavercreek township, a few miles northwest of Xenia, During the summers Mr. Flynn and his family reside there, occupying their city residence at the, corner of Church and North Detroit streets in Xenia during the winters. .Mr. Flynn's eldest son, Frederick T. Flynn, who is completing a course in scientific agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, is now managing the dairy farm. Mr. Flynn is a Republican and for four years served as a member of the Xenia school board. He helped to organize and was the first president of the Xenia Business Men's Club. He is a Royal Arch Mason. He and his family are members of the Reformed church at Xenia. On June 20, 1894, about four years after taking up his residence at Xenia, P. H. Flynn was united in marriage to Elizabeth T. Trebein, who was born at Trebeins Station, this county, daughter of Frederick C. and Joan (Ankeney) Trebein, both of whom were born in this state, the former at Dayton and the latter in this county, a daughter of Samuel Ankeney and 120 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO wife, members of old families hereabout and fitting reference to whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Frederick Christian Trebein, father of Mrs. Flynn, was born at Dayton, this state, October 24, 1833, last born of the two children born to his parents, William and Christina Trebein, who had not long before that date come to this country from Germany and settled in Dayton, their other child having been a daughter, Mary, born in Germany, Frederick C. Trebein grew to manhood in Dayton, rising from chore-boy in a store to a partnership in the business, and later owned and conducted a dry-goods store on Third street in Dayton. Failing health determined him to leave the store and in 1868 he disposed of his interests in Dayton and came over into Greene county and engaged in the milling business at the point later and ever since known as Trebeins, or Trebeins Station, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on June 4, 1900. In addition to his milling business Mr. Trebein also possessed considerable property in Xenia and was identified with several of that city's industries. It was a year or more after his location in this county that Frederick C. Trebein was united in marriage to Joan Ankeney, the marriage taking place on November 16, 1869, and to that union were born two daughters, Mrs. Flynn having a sister, Bertha E., who continued to make her home with her mother after her father's death, the two moving to Xenia and establishing their home at 125 Detroit street. Elizabeth T. Trebein completed the course in the Beavercreek grade schools and then took a course of preparatory work at Cooper Institute, Dayton, and then spent two years at Bartholomew's private Female Seminary, thence to Antioch College, after which she entered Wellesley College, in Boston, from which institution she was graduated in 1893, the year before her marriage to Mr. Flynn. In her senior year at Wellesley Mrs. Flynn was president of the Eta Alpha Society, one of the highest distinctions that can come to a member of the student body of that institution. To P. H. and Elizabeth T. (Trebein) Flynn have been born six children, namely : Frederick T., mentioned above, born in 1896 and who is now managing his father's dairy farm; Marjorie E., who was graduated from the Xenia high school and is now in her second year in Wellesley College ; Doris, who is now attending preparatory school at Science Hill, Shelbyville, Kentucky, with a view to entering Wellesley; Henry, born in 1903, who is now a student in the Xenia high school ; Edward, 1909, and Elizabeth, 1913. WILLIAM McCLELLAND. The late William McClelland, a soldier of the Civil War, former land appraiser, for years an elder in the Second United Presbyterian church at GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 121   Xenia and for years a member of the board of directors of the Greene County Agricultural Association, was a native of Greene county and all his life was spent here. He was born on a pioneer farm in Sugarcreek township, January 3, 1825, a son of Capt. Robert and Martha (McConnell) McClelland, pioneers of the Sugar Creek neighborhood, about four miles west of Xenia. Capt. Robert McClelland was a son of a soldier of the Revolutionary War and was a native of the state of Pennsylvania, born at the forks of the Yough, In 1802, the year before Greene county was definitely organized as a county, he came to Ohio and settled on a tract of land on Sugar creek, about four miles west of where Xenia, the county seat, later was established. There he established his home and there he spent the rest of his life, his death 0ccuring there in 1847. Captain McClelland was commissioned commander of a company for service under General Harrison during the Black Hawk war and was also in command of a company during the War of 1812, at one time during that period of service being in command of Ft. McArthur, in what is now Hardin county, this state. Upon the completion of that term of service Captain McClelland was ordered to report to St. Mary's, where he was stationed for a time. Captain McClelland was a stern defender of the faith of the Scotch. Seceders, the communion which later came to be merged into what for many years has been known as the United Presbyterian church, and for years served as an elder of the pioneer church. He was twice married and was the father of twenty-four children, each of his wives having borne him twelve children.   Reared on the farm on which he was born, William McClelland grew up a farmer. He was but twenty-two. years of age when his father died and thereafter the responsibility of management of the farm was assumed by him. During the Civil War he became a member of the organization known as the "Squirrel Hunters" and later enlisted for service as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with the same until his honorable discharge. Upon the formation of the Republican party he became affiliated with the same and in 1890 was appointed land appraiser of his home township, which he also had served in the capacity of supervisor, and he also served for some time as director of schools in his local district. Mr. McClelland was for eight years a member of the board of directors of the Greene County Agricultural Association, but when the race-track privileges began to include concessions to the gambling element he withdrew from the association, declining to sanction by his presence on the hoard any such method of stimulating the "sport of kings," although himself a great lover of good horses and an admirer of an honest contest in the speed ring. He was for thirty years a member of the session of the Second United Presbyterian church at   122 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   Xenia, for years superintendent of the Sabbath school of the same and also for years conducted a class in the Sabbath school. He died on March 10, 1910, then being in the seventy-seventh year of his age.   The late William McClelland was twice married. In 1846, at the age of twenty-one years, he was united in marriage to Jane Watt, of Beaver--creek township, this county, a member of one of the pioneer families of that neighborhood, and who died on March 30, 1883, without issue. On July 3, 1883, Mr. McClelland married Hannah M. Naughton, of Xenia, who survives him and who is making her home at Xenia. Mrs. McClelland also is a native of Ohio, born in Hamilton county, daughter of James and Mary (Welch) Naughton, both of whom were born in Ireland. Bereaved of her mother when but a child, Mrs. McClelland was reared in the household of David Brown, one of the early settlers of the Jamestown neighborhood in this county and her schooling was received here. Mrs. McClelland is a member of the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia and is an active member of Woman's Relief Corps No. 29, of Xenia, her late husband having also been an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic.   JOHN S. BALES.   John S. Bales, proprietor of a farm in Xenia township, now living retired in the city of Xenia, was born on a farm in what is now New Jasper township, this county, April 6, 1840, a son of Jacob and Dorothy (Hickman) Bales, both members of pioneer families in this county, whose last days were spent on their home farm in New Jasper township.   Jacob Bales was born in this county, son of Elisha Bales and wife, who came over here from Virginia in the early days of the settlement of Greene county and established their home in what is now New Jasper township, where Elisha Bales eventually became the owner of one thousand acres of land. He started in there living in a log cabin, but afterward had a fine home. He and his wife spent their last clays there. They were the parents of six children, Jacob being the third in order of birth. Of the other sons, Jonathan Bales became a farmer in Caesarscreek township; John, a farmer in New Jasper township, and Elisha, a farmer in New Jasper township. Jacob Bales grew up on the home farm and after his marriage was given a farm of one hundred and seventy-six acres of the home place and on that tract established his home, he and his wife spending the rest of their lives there. He was a Democrat and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They were the parents of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last born and is now the only survivor,   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 123   the others having been the following : Cyrus, who was a farmer in Delaware county, Indiana ; James, a farmer in that same county ; Sarah, who married John Jones, a farmer of Caesarscreek township, this county ; Rebecca, who married John Beal and lived in Indiana ; Elizabeth, who married Adam Shirk and also lived in Indiana; Lewis, who was a farmer in New Jasper township, this county; Laban, also a farmer in New Jasper township; Amanda, wife of William C. Spahr, of New Jasper township, and Dorothy, wife of James C. Harness, of that same township.   John S. Bales was reared on the home farm and lived there until his marriage at the age of twenty-three years, when he started farming for himself, buying a farm of eighty acres of partly-improved land in New Jasper township. He there made his home for ten years, at the end of which time he bought a farm of one hundred and thirty-seven acres three miles southeast of Xenia, in Xenia township, and there made his home until his retirement from the farm and removal to Xenia in 1904, since which time he has made his home in the city. He sold his farm in 1917. He is a Democrat, but has not been included in the office-seeking class.   Mr. Bales has been thrice married. When twenty-three years of age he was united in marriage to Catherine Spahr, who also was born in New Jasper township, this county, daughter of William and Sarah (Smith) Spahr, and to that union were born three children : Oscar Elliott Bales, who married Frances Dillingham and for the past twenty-five years has been engaged as a locomotive engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad, making his home in Xenia, where his wife was for some time hostess of the Frances Inn and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume ; Alice Lucretia, who married Daniel D. Beckett and died at the age of thirty years, and William Franklin Bales, a farmer, who married Nora J. Beal and was killed by a horse in 1913. The mother of these children died in 1868 and in May, 1869, Mr. Bales married Amanda Jane Brickel, also of New Jasper township, daughter of Jacob and Mary Brickel, who came to this county from Virginia and whose last days were spent at Jamestown, and to that union were born five children, namely : Mary Jeanette, wife of Isaac F. Stewart, of Bowersville, this county ; Henry Harrison, who married Georgia Hook and is farming in Xenia township ; Charles L., who is now clerking in a hardware store in Xenia; Dallas E., who was an engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad and who met his death in a railway accident at Richmond, Indiana, in 1910, and Grover Cleveland, who married Anna Fee and is now engaged at truck farming in Xenia. The mother of these latter children died in 1905 and in April, 1908, Mr. Bales married Mrs. Emma Jane Johnson, widow of Charles Johnson, a Greene county farmer, who died in 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Bales are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.   124 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   RANKIN R. GRIEVE.   Rankin R. Grieve, former sheriff of Greene county, former county treasurer, former treasurer of the city of Xenia, formerly and for many years secretary of the Greene County Fair Board and at present and for years past engaged in the real-estate business, combining the same with that of auctioneering, and who, by common consent, is declared to be the best-known man in Greene county, is a native son of this county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in New Jasper township on November 14, 1858, son of Robert S. and Elizabeth (Crawford) Grieve, the former of whom also was born in this county and the latter in Ireland, and both of whom are now deceased, the latter having died in 1888 and the former in 1905.   Robert S. Grieve was born on a pioneer farm within two miles of the city of Xenia on July 27, 1831, a son of Archibald and Agnes (Stephenson) Grieve, natives of Scotland, the former born in Selkirk in 1775 and the latter, in Roxboroughshire, who became residents of Ohio in 1814 and here spent their last days. Archibald Grieve grew to manhood in his native Scotland and on March 11, 1811, was there united in marriage to Agnes Stephenson, daughter of John and Isabella Stephenson. A year later, in 1812, he and his wife came to the United States, landing at the port of New York, and in 1814 left that city and came to Ohio, presently settling in this county and buying a tract of one hundred acres in the vicinity of Xenia, where they established their home and where they spent the remainder of their lives. They were members of the old .Seceder (Associate Presbyterian) church and their children were reared in that faith. They were nine 0f these children, of whom five lived to rear families of their own, hence the Grieve connection in this generation is a no inconsiderable one hereabout.   Of the children of the pioneer Archibald Grieve here referred to, Robert S. Grieve received his schooling in the local schools of his *neighborhood and from boyhood was a helpful factor on the home farm, in due time taking up farming on his own account, and in 1867 bought a farm upon which he long resided, a tract of sixty acres, and later bought a tract 'of one hundred acres additional on the line between Xenia and New Jasper townships, and continued actively engaged in farming until his retirement, about 1899 and removal to Xenia, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1905, he then being seventy-four years of age. Robert S. Grieve was twice married. In 1856 he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Crawford, daughter of Robert Crawford, of Xenia, and who died in 1888, leaving three sons, the subject of this sketch, the youngest, having two brothers, Archibald Grieve, who lives on the old home farm in New Jasper township, and John, unmarried, who is living at Xenia. In 1892 Mr.