150 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO secured for him welcome hospitality and he came through without molestation. Upon his arrival here he bought six hundred acres of land along the east bank of the river two and a half miles west of Xenia and began to prepare there a place for the later coming of the rest of the family. In the meantime his father, Lewis Blessing, was closing out his interests in Virginia and in 1824 came to this county with the other members of the family and settled on the tract that had been selected by his son John, and in that same year began the erection of the brick house which still stands there overlooking the river and which is now occupied by Mrs. Lucas. The year following the arrival of the family here Lewis Blessing and his younger son Jacob died of what then was called "immigrant fever." As an instance of the comparative cost of funerals in those days and now, it may be interesting to note that their funerals were conducted at a cost of eight dollars each. A granite monument in Woodland cemetery marks the last resting place of this pioneer. John Blessing, the "pathfinder" of the family, continued to develop the place on which the family had settled and there spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on December 2, 1864, he then being in the seventy-second year of his age, and he also lies in Woodland. He had retained his uniform as a soldier of the War of 1812 and Mrs. Lucas still possesses the old "Lafayette" chapeau which was the distinguishing feature of that uniform, now a relic of inestimable value. Thornton Lucas, then just past his majority, came to Ohio with the Blessings in 1824 to assist them in the labors of establishing a new home and he remained on the place, an invaluable aid to John Blessing in getting the tract under cultivation. Some years later Thornton Lucas's brother, Basil Lucas, also came out here from Virginia and established his home in this county. In 1838 Thornton Lucas married Mary Blessing and they continued to make their home on the home place, spending there the rest of their lives, his death occurring on .December 4, 1874, and hers,. October 31, 1877. Thornton Lucas was reared a Democrat, but upon the outbreak of the Civil War threw in his forces with those of the administration. He and his wife were Baptists. They were the parents of three children, those besides the subject of this memorial sketch having been one who died in infancy and Lewis Morton, who died in 1861 at the age of seventeen years. All these are resting in Woodland cemetery. John B. Lucas grew up on the farm on which he was born and was early trained in the ways of practical farming. He completed his schooling in a private school and on August 18, 1864, was united in marriage to Alice Quinn, one of Greene county's most accomplished school teachers. After his marriage he established his home on the home place, the general management of which, by this time had, largely fallen upon his shoulders, and when, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 151 upon the death of his parents ten or twelve years later, he inherited the farm he continued to make his residence there and so remained until his death. Mr. Lucas was a stanch Republican. In addition to his farming interests he also had interests in other lines and was for some time engaged in the lumber business at Xenia in association with his brother-in-law, Elias Quinn, under the firm name of Quinn & Lucas. His lifelong activities in the general affairs of the community have been referred to above, but it is not too much to say that he gave a stimulating touch to all the forms of endeavor with which he thus became connected. After his marriage he became affiliated with the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia, of which his widow has been a member since the days of her girlhood, and was ever after a consistent supporter of the same. To John B. and Alice (Quinn) Lucas one child was born, a son, Thornton, named in honor of his grandfather, who died in 1889 in his twenty-fifth year. In 1913 Mr. Lucas suffered a stroke of paralysis and was thereafter an invalid, for nine months or more before his death being unable to walk without assistance. He died on the night of December 20, 1916, and is buried in Woodland cemetery. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Lucas has continued to make her home at "Lucas Hill," the operations of the farm now being carried on by one of her nephews. Though long past four score years of age, she retains the liveliest interest in current affairs and maintains her church and other associations with much of the zest of other days. During the days of her young womanhood she was for nine or ten years engaged as a teacher in the schools of this county and she has never lost her interest in movements looking to the promotion of the cultural life of the community, in the development of which she has been a helpful participant for more than eighty years, for she was born in this county, a member of one of the real pioneer families, and has lived here all her life. She was born on a farm in the immediate, vicinity. of Goes Station on February 16, 1831, daughter of Amos and Jane (Goe) Quinn, both members of pioneer families, whose last days were spent here, the former dying in 1837, after which his widow married George Andrew, of Xenia township, and became the mother of Samuel G. and John C. Andrew. The Hon. Amos Quinn, who was serving as representative from this district in the Ohio General Assembly at the time of his death in 1837, was the third in order of birth of the nine children horn to Matthew and Mary Quinn, who came to this county with their family from Kentucky in 1803, members of the considerable colony of Scotch Seceders which settled here about that time, and further mention of which family is made elsewhere in this work. Amos Quinn was born in Pennsylvania, his father having moved from that state to Kentucky, and was but a lad when he came with 152 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO the family to Greene county, the family locating on what is now known as the Routzong farm in Xenia township, where he grew to manhood. His father was a man of superior education and he thus received a degree of schooling much in advance of that common to the time and place and as a young man was for some time engaged in teaching school in this county, older chronicles referring to him in this connection as "a gentleman of genial temperament, not to be crossed by any amount of rebelliousness on the part of his pupils." He early took an active part in public affairs, served for years as justice of the peace in and for his township and was everywhere known throughout the county as "Squire" Quinn. From 183o to the time of his death he served as sheriff of Greene county and, as noted above, was elected representative to the state Legislature from this district in 1835 and was thus a member of the General Assembly at the time of his death. He was a member of the old Associate church, now the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia, and was buried in the old Associate graveyard in that city. Amos Quinn left a widow and three children, Mrs. Lucas having had a brother, Elias, who died at his home in Xenia on April 15, 1900, and a sister, Sarah, who remained unmarried and who spent her life with her sister, Mrs. Lucas, living to a ripe old age. As noted above, Amos Quinn's widow married again and lived for years afterward. Elias Quinn, who was born on January 8, 1827, served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, going to the front as a member of Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was an active member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Xenia. For many years he was identified with industrial and commercial circles in Xenia as one of the leading lumber dealers of that city, and continued thus successfully engaged until his retirement eight or ten years prior to his death. On April 26, 1859, Elias Quinn was united in marriage to Margaret Andrews, who survived him for more than three years, her death occurring on November 19, 1903. To that union were born four children, namely : Leila, who for years was engaged as a teacher in the Xenia city schools and is now teaching in the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans' Home there ; Elizabeth, wife of John Cooper, living just west of Xenia ; Willa Mary, who died in 1915, and Ralph E., who is engaged in the railway service at Xenia. Jane Goe Quinn, mother of Mrs. Lucas, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Samuel and Alice (Van Horn) Goe, and was but nine years of age when her parents came with their family to Ohio, floating down the river in flatboats to Walnut Hills, where they stopped and where they remained for two years, at the end of which time, in 1811, they came up here into the valley of the Little Miami and settled on a tract of land where the village of Goes, north of Xenia, later became established. Samuel GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 153 Goe was a soldier of the Revolution and he and his wife were members of the old Seceder congregation on Massies creek, both being buried in the Massiescreek cemetery. It was there on that pioneer farm, now the site of Goes Station, that Jane Goe grew to womanhood and it was there in 1826 that she married Amos Quinn. Samuel Goe and wife were the parents of six children, Mrs. Quinn having had four brothers, Isaac, John, Thomas and James, and a sister, Sarah. AUSTIN McDOWELL PATTERSON, PH. D. Though born in the ancient city of Damascus, in far-away Syria, Dr. Austin McDowell Patterson has always regarded Xenia as his established home. The son of missionary parents, he was brought by them to their home in Xenia when but an infant and it is here that he continues to prefer to make his home. He was born on May 31, 1876, son and only child of Dr. J. F. and Charlotte Isabella (McDowell) Patterson, both of whom were born in Ohio, the former in Logan county and the latter in Xenia, and who were at that time serving as missionaries in the Syrian field in behalf of the United Presbyterian Board of Missions. Dr. J. F. Patterson was born on May 27, 1842, a son of John and Eliza Ann (Hutchinson) Patterson, who had come to Ohio after their marriage in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and had settled in Logan county, later moving to Warsaw, Indiana, where their last days were spent. Reared in Logan county, J. F. Patterson early turned his attention to the study of medicine and in 1865 was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, shortly afterward opening an office for the practice of his profession in the village of Clifton, in this county, and was there thus engaged for five years, at the end of which time he entered Xenia Theological Seminary and after a preliminary course there entered Princeton Theological Seminary and from that institution was graduated in 1872 and was ordained to the ministry of the United Presbyterian church, with a view to service in the missionary field. On October 22 of that same year, at Xenia, Doctor Patterson was united in marriage to Charlotte Isabella McDowell, of that city, and straightway after their marriage he and his bride departed for the foreign mission field, in due time entering upon their service in the city of Damascus and were there thus engaged when the subject of this biographical review was born in 1876. The arduous character of Doctor Patterson's labors in the foreign field presently began to undermine his health and in 1877 he returned with his family to Xenia, where his death occurred less than five years later, March 22, 1882. Doctor Patterson's widow survived him for many years, living to render a notable service to the community and to the missionary 154 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO cause to which her heart ever continued devoted, her death occurring on October 14, 1909. She was the founder of the Woman's Missionary Maga zine, now the official missionary organ of the United Presbyterian church in the United States, and for years was engaged in the editorial management of that journal. She also was one of the organizers of the Xenia Library Association, the forerunner of the present Greene County Library Association. Mrs. Patterson was born at Xenia on September 2, 1845, daughter of Capt. Austin and Susan A. (Finney) McDowell, who were married at Xenia on March 22, 1842, and whose last days were spent in that city, the house in which they lived occupying the site of the house in North King street in which their grandson, Dr. Austin McDowell Patterson, now resides. Capt. Austin McDowell was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1815, a son of William and Charlotte (Finney) McDowell, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter, of the state of Maryland. William McDowell's father, John McDowell, was the owner of a considerable tract of land in the vicinity of the city of Pittsburgh and of an additional tract now covered by the city of McKeesport. Austin McDowell received his early schooling in a log school house in the vicinity of his father's farm and early was apprenticed to a carpenter. After working thus for two years in the country he went to Pittsburgh and there finished his trade in 1836, under the direction of Andrew Millen. For a year thereafter he worked as a journeyman carpenter there, and then in the fall of 1837, came out to Ohio on a visit to his uncle John Finney and wife, at Xenia, and was so favorably impressed with conditions here that he decided to remain. Upon locating here Austin McDowell began working at his trade and one of the first houses he built in Greene county is still standing. That house was built for George Gordon on the farm in the Massies creek neighborhood now owned by Mrs. Julia McGervey. Not long after taking up his residence here Austin McDowell formed a partnership with James Laughead and became engaged as a building contractor, one of that firm's contracts having been the erection of the first Associate Reformed church in Xenia, now the First United Presbyterian church, the edifice which they erected serving until supplanted by the present edifice on East Market street. In 1844 Mr. McDowell was commissioned first lieutenant of the local company of the old Ohio State Militia and was thus serving when the Mexican War broke out. During the progress of that war his command was ordered to the front and was at Cincinnati preparing for further action when the war came to an end, but the experience thus gained was of value. when later, during the progress of the Civil War, he earned his title of captain. On March 22, 1842, at Xenia, Austin McDowell was united in mar- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 155 riage to his cousin, Susan A. Finney, and the two started housekeeping in a small house he had built on East Main street. In 1849 lie traded his town property for a farm three miles southeast of Xenia and moved to the farm, where lie remained until 1857, when he returned to town and there engaged in the lumber business, in partnership with James McHenry, under the firm name of McHenry & McDowell. It was in that same year that he bought the lot on North King street mentioned above as the site of the present residence of Doctor Patterson, and in the fall of 1858 he built a house there, he and his family entering upon the occupancy of the same in March, 1859, that old house now forming a part of the residence now standing there, the same long ago having been added to and remodeled. In the fall of 1861 when Company D of the Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was recruited at Xenia, Austin McDowell was elected captain of the same and on December 28, 1861, was commissioned to lead the company in action. On February 24, 1862, Captain McDowell reported with his command at Camp Chase and remained there until ordered to the front on April 20 following. On September I, 1862, this command was attached to Buell's brigade and Captain McDowell was assigned to recruiting service. While serving in this capacity at Franklin, Kentucky, he was taken prisoner by the enemy and was held at Hartsville, Tennessee, until presently paroled, after which lie reported to Governor Wood at Columbus and was granted permission to remain a few days at home, later returning to Columbus, where he remained until he was exchanged, after which he reported to his regiment then doing service in Tennessee. In the meantime an injury which Captain McDowell had received while building a stockade at Franklin in August, 1862, continued to give him growing uneasiness and on February 10, 1863, he was compelled to resign on account of this disability and return home. On December 25, 1863, lie was commissioned captain of Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was ordered with that command to guard duty at Johnson's Island, where he was in service until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Captain McDowell returned to Xenia and resumed his participation in the affairs of the lumber firm with which he was connected. In the spring of 1866 the firm established a branch at Wilmington and Captain McDowell took charge of the same, moving with his family to that city, and there remained until the summer of 1869, when he returned to Xenia and bought his partner's interest in the lumber business. In 1872 the Captain bought the ground now occupied by the McDowell & Torrence Lumber Company at the corner of South Detroit and Third streets and moved his plant there. On March 1, 1873, he sold an interest in the business to Findley D. Torrence and the concern was 156 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO thereafter operated under the firm name of McDowell & Torrence, which name the company still bears, though the two principals are now deceased, Doctor Patterson holding the interest in the concern which he inherited from his grandfather, Captain McDowell. Early in life Captain McDowell had become. affiliated with the Associate Reformed church, in the faith of which communion he had been reared, and by 1847 had become a trustee of the local congregation at Xenia. After the "union" of 1858 he continued his interest in church work as a member of the First United Presbyterian church. He died on May 31, 1892, and when his will was read it was found that he had made provision for the perpetuation of the interest he had taken in the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia by reserving a fund for the creation of an artificial lake in the grounds of the Home and beautiful McDowell Lake is a constant memorial of his interest in the children for whose enjoyment it was created. Austin McDowell Patterson was but a babe in arms when his parents returned from Damascus, the place of his birth, to Xenia, and he was but six years of age when his father died. He grew up at Xenia and was prepared for college by attendance at Miss McCracken's Preparatory College in that city, after which he entered Princeton University, from which institution he was graduated in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered Johns Hopkins University, specializing there in chemistry from 1897 to 1900, and in the latter year received from that institution his Doctor of Philosophy degree. While in Princeton he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Upon leaving Johns Hopkins in 1900 he accepted the chair of chemistry in Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, and a year later transferred his services to Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Indiana, remaining there as instructor in chemistry for two years, or until 1903, when his services were secured by the G. & C. Merriam Company, publishers of "Webster's New International Dictionary," and for four years thereafter, or until 1907, he was engaged as editor of the department of chemical and allied terms in that work, a service which brought him recognition as one of the few unquestioned authorities on chemistry and kindred subjects in the United States. Upon the completion of this monumental task Doctor Patterson returned home and spent the summer of 1908 at Xenia, where he took part in the preparations then being made for the centennial "home-coming" celebration of that year, rendering service in that connection as chairman of the committee which had in hand the publication of the souvenir edition of a history of Greene county, personally taking many of the photographs that were used in illustrating the book and also acting as editor-in-chief. In 1909 Doctor Patterson became associate editor of the publication GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 157 Chemical Abstracts, a technical journal of the American Chemical Society then published at the University of Illinois, and a year later became editor of the same, at the same time transferring the office of publication to Ohio State University at Columbus, and continued as editor of that publication until 1914. In the meantime, in 1911, he had bought the Xenia Republican, a once-a-week newspaper that was being then published at Xenia, and in March, 1912, changed it from a weekly to a daily publication and continued as editor, owner and publisher of the same until 1914, when by reason of ill-health it became necessary for him to discontinue his labors and seek a change of climate. During the period of his labors as editor and publisher of the Daily Republican, Doctor Patterson also had been keeping up his technical labors as editor of Chemical Abstracts and these two-fold duties, together with his various activities in behalf of certain local political and social-service movements, proved too much for him and he found that he had overtaxed his physical powers. Selling his newspaper to the Gazette, the Doctor left Xenia and went to El Paso, Texas, where he remained two years, at the end of which time, physically restored, he returned to his established home at Xenia and has since been living there, chiefly engaged in his continued labors in behalf of the American Chemical Society and in writing on technical subjects, having in February, 1917, published a German-English dictionary of chemical terms which has already gone through its third printing. As secretary of the McDowell-Torrence Lumber Company he is also interested in the general business and industrial affairs of the city. The Doctor is an independent Republican and has rendered service as a member of the local school board and as a member of the city health board. He helped to organize and was the first president of the Greene County Improvement Association and was a member of the charter committee chosen to get under way the movement which resulted in the adoption of a commission form of government by the city of Xenia in the fall of 1917, serving afterward as vice-president of the commission of fifteen which framed the new charter. The Doctor is a fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science and is an active member of the honorary scientific fraternity Sigma Xi. At the beginning of the present World War, Doctor Patterson offered his services to the government, and on April 1, 1918, was called to Washington, D. C., to assist in the United States Bureau of Mines as a volunteer non-salaried investigator. He and his wife are members of the First United Presbyterian church at Xenia. On May 31, 1911, Dr. Austin McDowell Patterson was united in marriage to Anna Elizabeth Bailey, who was born at Cadiz, Ohio, daughter of the Rev. Samuel M. and Luella C. (Stewart) Bailey, the latter of whom is still living, a resident of Xenia. Mrs. Bailey was born on a farm in the 158 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO vicinity of Clifton, this county, August 12, 1851, daughter and only child of John and Elizabeth (Elder) Stewart, both of. whom were born in the neighboring county of Clark, the former on April 6, 1827, and the latter of whom died in 1853, her little daughter Luella then being but two years of age. The latter was reared by her father's sister, Mrs. Harvey Jobe, and received her schooling in the Xenia schools, being graduated from the high school in that city in 1870, and was living there when in 1878 she was united in marriage to the Rev. Samuel M. Bailey, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 18, 1848, son of Matthew and Ann (Smiley) Bailey, both of whom were born in that same county, the latter on June 9, 1812. Matthew Bailey was a farmer and he and his wife, who were married on March 27, 1834, spent their last days in their home county, the former dying in 1878 and the latter, December 11, 1889. Originally members of the Associate Reformed church, they became affiliated with the United. Presbyterian church after the "union" and their children were reared in that faith. There were eight of these children, namely : the Rev. John A. Bailey, a minister of the United Presbyterian church, who married Isabella Porter, of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, held pastoral charges at Sidney, Ohio, and at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and who died at Mt. Jackson, in the latter state; William S. Bailey, former county commissioner of Washington county, Pennsylvania, now deceased; Mrs. Sarah Andrews, a widow, now living at McDonald, in Washington county,. Pennsylvania ; Alexander Bailey, a retired farmer, now living at Xenia; James P. Bailey, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Margaret, of McDonald, Pennsylvania ; the Rev. Samuel M. Bailey, Mrs. Patterson's late father, and M. Carlisle Bailey, a retired farmer, now living in East Market street, Xenia. Upon completing his preparatory studies at Westminster, Pennsylvania, Samuel M. Bailey began the study of theology and philosophy at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and later entered the Theological Seminary at Xenia, where he completed his studies and on April 12, 1877, was ordained to the ministry of the United Presbyterian church. The next year he was married at Xenia and thus from the very beginning of his ministerial labors had a competent helpmate in the various fields to which these labors called him, among these various 'charges having" been those at Shilo, Indiana ; Cadiz, Ohio; Clifton, Ohio; Buffalo, New York, and other points. After twenty-five years of active ministerial labor Mr. Bailey found his health broken and upon his retirement in 1902 he returned to Xenia, established his home there and there spent his last days ; continuing, however, so long as his strength remained, to supply vacancies in pulpits not too remote from his home, his. death occurring there on June 1908. To the Rev. Samuel M. Bailey and wife were born two children, Mrs: Patterson having a brother, Hervey GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 159 Smiley Bailey, who also was born at .Cadiz, this state, and who was graduated from the high school ,while the family home was established at Buffalo, New York. He then entered Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, and afterward took a course in mechanical engineering at Cornell College and was employed as a mechanical engineer by different firms. In January, 1918, he was united in marriage to Harriet Culbert, of Elizabeth, Pennsylvania. They are living on their farm one mile east of Cedarville in this county. Mrs. Patterson, the second child and only daughter of her parents, completed her high-school work at Buffalo, New. York, and later entered ..the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, from which she was graduated in 1906. JOHN R. PATTERSON. John R, Patterson, superintendent of the city schools at Xenia, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state nearly all his life, actively engaged in school work since he was eighteen years of age. He was born at Bridgeport, in Belmont county, January 15, 1886, son of John and Laura Belle (Cost) Patterson, both of whom were born in that same county and the latter of whom is still living. He was but a babe in arms when his parents went from Ohio to Kansas and he was about six years of age when they returned to their old home in Belmont county, this state, where he grew to manhood. He received his early schooling in the schools of Bridgeport and at the age of eighteen years began teaching school, for two years being thus engaged in the rural schools in his home county. He then was made a township supervising teacher and after two years of service in that capacity was made principal of the South School at Martins Ferry, Ohio. After two years there he was made superintendent of schools at New Washington, in Crawford county. In the meantime, by attending summer courses, Mr. Patterson had attained junior rank in Wooster University and his teaching abilities having attracted the attention of the university authorities he was made instructor in science in the academic department of the university. By this form of service he was enabled to finance his further progress through the university and he was graduated from that institution, cum laude, in 1914, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy ; meanwhile having taught for fifteen hours a week during his senior year. Upon receiving his diploma Mr. Patterson was elected superintendent of schools at Amherst, entering upon the duties of that position in the fall of 1914 and continuing thus engaged until in July, 1916, when he was elected to the position of superintendent of the schools at Xenia, which position he now occupies. Since leaving the university he has taken two summer courses in school adminis- 160 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO tration at Columbia University, New York. Mr. Patterson is an able speaker and during his college days was able to supplement the slender' fund at his disposal by delivering high-school commencement addresses. He is a member of the Ohio State Teachers Association and of the National Education Association. Politically, he is a Democrat and, fraternally, is affiliated with the Masons and with the Knights of Pythias. On August 14, 1909, John R. Patterson was united in marriage to Bertha B. Bunker, who was born at Kent, this state, daughter of Richard R. and Josephine (Shannon) Bunker, and to this union has been born one child, a son, James Earl, born on August 15, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson are members of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Patterson is a member of the Xenia Business Men's Association. ROBERT S. JACOBY. The late Robert S. Jacoby, veteran of the Civil War and for years a well-known farmer and miller, who died at his home in Xenia township in 191o, was a native son of Greene county, born on the farm on which he spent his last days, and where his widow is now making her home, November 22, 1842, son of Matthew Corry and Phoebe A. ( Jackson) Jacoby, the latter of whom was a daughter of Gen. Robert Jackson, a cousin of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this work, he having been one of the early and influential settlers of this county, for some time commander of local militia and for a time representative from this district in the state Legislature. Matthew Corry Jacoby was a native of New York state. Upon coming to Greene county he located on the place on which the widow of his son Robert is now living, in Xenia township; cleared and improved the same, built a mill and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in 1846. His widow married John Dawson and after the latter's death married a Reed. Her last clays were spent in Chicago, where she was making her home with a daughter at the time of her death. By her marriage with Matthew Corry Jacoby she was the mother of three sons, Robert S., Corry and Reuben J., all of whom are now deceased. By her second marriage she was the mother of three daughters, Minerva Alice, who married Wilson Hopkins ; Elizabeth Ann, who married Fred Best, of New York, and Catherine, who married W. J. Fleming, of Chicago. Reared on the home farm in Xenia township, Robert S. Jacoby received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and as a boy was a valued help to his father in the operations of the mill and the home farm. Though but GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 161 eighteen years of age when the Civil War broke out he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union cause and went to the front as a member of Company D, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served for four years or until the close of the war, being mustered out at Camp Denison in 1865 with the rank of sergeant. He had been offered a captaincy, but had declined. During that term of service Mr. Jacoby participated in many of the great battles of the Civil War, was with Sherman on the march to the sea and did not miss a single day of service, taking part in all the encounters in which his regiment was engaged. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Jacoby returned to the home farm, but presently entered a business college at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and after a course of instruction in that institution was for a time engaged in various business pursuits, for a time being engaged in the grocery business at Xenia, after which he returned to the home farm and lived with his uncle, John Jacoby, taking care of the latter in his old age. He then bought the old Jacoby homestead of two hundred and ten acres, including the old Jacoby mill, and there continued engaged in farming and milling until his death, which occurred on January 11, 1910, although in the later years of his life he had practically retired from active labors, though continuing his general direction of affairs. In addition to his general farming and milling he also had given considerable attention to the raising of live stock and had done very well. Mr. Jacoby was a Republican, a charter member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Yellow Springs and an active member of the Yellow Springs United Presbyterian church, ever taking an earnest interest in political affairs and in the work of his post and church, remaining to the end, as it was written of him, "as true to his duties of citizenship as when he followed the starry banner of the nation upon Southern battle fields." On December 28, 1871, Robert S. Jacoby was united in marriage to Mary Catherine Humphreys, who also 'was born in Xenia township and who survived him, continuing to make her home on the farm, her sister, Mrs. Sarah J. Turnbull, widow of Alexander Turnbull, making her home with her. Mrs. Jacoby and Mrs. Turnbull, who are the last surviving members of their family, are daughters of Joseph and Martha (Ferguson) Humphreys, the former of whom was born in New York state and the latter in the Steele Creek settlement in North Carolina, she having been but a girl when her widowed mother came to this county with her family and settled in Xenia township. Joseph Humphreys was but a boy when he came here from New York with his two uncles, Francis and Edward Humphreys, and his unmarried aunt, Nancy Humphreys, the family settling in the northern part of Xenia township, where they developed fine bits of farm property. There Joseph (10) 162 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Humphreys grew to manhood and married Martha Ferguson, the two establishing their home on a farm in Xenia township, where they spent their last days, the former dying at the age of eighty-one years and the latter at the age of sixty-three years. To Joseph and Martha (Ferguson) Humphreys were born six children, of whom Mrs. Turnbull was the first-born and Mrs. Jacoby the fifth in order of birth, the. others having been Francis. Edward Humphreys, who enlisted for service in behalf of the Union during the Civil War, went to the front as a member of Company D, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and while serving with that command died of measles at Nashville, Tennessee; the Rev. William Ferguson Humph-reys, a minister of the -United Presbyterian church, who died at his father's home in Xenia township at the age of thirty years; Elizabeth Ann, who died unmarried, and Martha Josephine, who also died unmarried. Sarah J. Humphreys, first-born of the above children of Joseph Humphreys, was united in marriage in 1861 to Albert G. Barber, who died in 1893. To that union was born one child, a daughter, Fannie, who married H. C. Dean and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased. To H. C. Dean and wife two children were born, the Rev. James Humphreys Dean, who married Myra Logan and is now pastor of the United Presbyterian church at South Argyle, New York, and Mary Catherine, who married William Wilson, of Spring-field, this state, and has two daughters, Frances and Martha Jane. In April, 1895, Mrs. Barber married Alexander Turnbull, a veteran of the Civil War, a member of Company D, Twelfth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, who was wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro and who after his military service was over had located on a farm in the vicinity of Cedarville. Alexander Turnbull died on April 6, 1915, since which time Mrs. Turnbull has been making her home with her sister, Mrs. Jacoby. The two sisters continue to take an active interest in the general affairs of the community and in current events. They have been witnesses to many amazing changes in local conditions and in the manner of living since the days of their childhood and can tell many interesting stories of a generation now gone by. Mrs. Jacoby is a member of the Presbyterian church at Yellow Springs and Mrs. Turnbull is a member of the First United Presbyterian church at Xenia, both ladies taking a warm interest in church affairs and in the general good works of the county in which they have lived all their lives. and in which they have many warm friends. EDWIN C. RADER. Edwin C. Rader, building contractor at Xenia, was born at 171 Columbus avenue, Xenia, January 12, 1855, son of Adam and Susan V. (McKnight) Rader, the former of whom was a native of the old Keystone GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 163 state and the latter of the Old Dominion, who became residents of. Greene county in the clays of their childhood, their respective parents having been pioneers here, and here spent their last days. Adam Racier was born in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1818, and was but three years of age when his parents came to Ohio in 1821, driving through, and settled on a farm on the lower Bellbrook pike in Beavercreek township, this county, where they established their home. and where they spent the rest of their lives. They had five sons, John, David, William, Adam and Levi, the latter of whom is still living, a resident of Xenia. The junior Adam Racier grew up on the paternal farm in Beaver-creek township. and early became interested in the manufacture of brick, he and one of his brothers presently establishing brick yards in the east end of Xenia, and he continued engaged in the brick business the rest of his life, living at Xenia with the exception of two years spent at Jamestown, where he was engaged in farming. On December 13, 1849, at 171 Columbus avenue, Xenia, Adam Rader was united in marriage to Susan V. McKnight, daughter of Josiah McKnight and wife, who had come here from Virginia about 1830 and had settled in Xenia, where Josiah McKnight became connected with the city's business affairs. In that house Adam Rader and his wife made their home after their marriage and there both died, the latter dying on May 15, 1894. Adam Rader died on January 30, 1907, he then being eighty-nine years of age. He and his wife were members of the German Reformed church and were the parents of six children, namely : Emma, who died at the age of ten years; Edwin C., the subject of this biographical sketch ; Henry Willard and Mariella, twins, the former of whom is now living at Dayton and the latter of whom married William Dean, a biographical sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume, and is now living at Columbus, Indiana; Martha, who is still living at Xenia, widow of Dr. H. R. McClelland, and Ada Virginia, wife of Dr. C. F. Oglesbee, of Xenia. Edwin C. Rader grew up at Xenia, receiving his schooling in the schools of that city, and from the days of his boyhood was instructed by his father in the details of the brick business. Under the direction of his uncles, John, David and William Rader, he also became a skilled bricklayer. He married when twenty-four years of age and for three years thereafter was engaged in the bricklaying business at Jamestown, after which he became engaged in farming in Cedarville township and was thus engaged for five years, at the end of which time he returned to Xenia and there started the general contracting business in which he has ever since been engaged, some of the contracts that have been handled by him having been the office building of the R. A. Kelly Company in West. Market street the new Reformed Presbyterian church, the Greene County Children's Home, the great brick smoke- 164 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO stack of the Hooven & Allison plant, the building occupied by the Eavey Wholesale Company, the new consolidated school building at Bowersville, the Caesarscreek township high-school building, the Arnett building and Mitchell Hall at Wilberforce University, the Reformed Presbyterian church at Cedarville and many other buildings that have been constructed throughout Greene county in recent years. In 1894 Mr. Rader erected the house in which he now lives at the corner of South Columbus and Orient streets and has since resided there. On January 16, 1879, Edwin C. Rader was united in marriage to Jennie B. Carruthers, who was born on a farm on the Federal pike in Cedarville township, this county, December 25, 1861, daughter of Robert M. and Mary Ann (McQuiston) Carruthers, the former of whom died in 1866. The widow of Robert M. Carruthers survived him for many years and her last days were spent in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rader, at Xenia, her death occurring there in April, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Rader are members of the Reformed church at Xenia, with the congregation of which Mr. Rader has been affiliated since he was nineteen years of age and of the diaconate of which he has been a member for many years. He is a Republican, but has not been an office seeker. PROF. GEORGE J. GRAHAM. There are few men in Ohio who have held a longer connection with the schools of this state than has Prof. George J. Graham, who for more than twenty-five and one-half years was principal of the Xenia high school and later superintendent of the Xenia city schools, a position he occupied for more than four and one-half years, or until his resignation to accept his present position as a traveling salesman for the George Dodds & Sons Granite Company. For seven years prior to his entrance upon the duties of principal of the high school at Xenia Professor Graham had occupied the dual position of superintendent of schools and principal of the high school at Waynesville, in the neighboring county of Warren, and prior to that period of service had been for years engaged as a teacher at other points, so that when he . resigned his position as superintendent of schools at Xenia in the summer of 1916 he had rendered a service of thirty years in behalf of the Xenia schools and had been actively and continuously engaged in school work for fifty years, a period of service equalled by few, if any, of the educators in the state of Ohio. Professor Graham successfully passed the examination for license to teach school when he was sixteen years of age, began teaching when he was nineteen and in 1886 received a life license as a high-school teacher. He is a member of the Ohio State Teachers Association, the West- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 165 ern Ohio Superintendents Round Table, the Central Ohio Teachers Association, the Miami Valley Schoolmasters Club and of the department of superintendents of the National Educational Association; and there are few educators in the state who have a wider acquaintance than he. George J. Graham is a native son of Ohio and has resided in this state all his life save for a few years during the days of his young manhood when he was engaged in teaching in Illinois. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of Plymouth (now known as Bartlett), in Washington county, November 7, 1847, son of Wilson and Sarah (Dickson) Graham, natives of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, who were married in that county and in 1846 came over into Ohio and settled on a farm in the Plymouth (now Bartlett) neighborhood in Washington county, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Professor Graham's grandparents on both sides lived and died in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, save grandmother Graham, who late in life made her .home with her son Wilson and there spent her last days. Wilson Graham and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and their children were reared in that faith. There were five of these children, of whom the Professor was the third in order of birth, the others being Thomas, who died at the age of thirteen years; Dickson, a farmer, of Washington county, who died in 1914; Martha Ann, who married George Goddard and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased, and Margaret, who married William Goddard, a brother of George, and is living at Belpre, in Washington county, this state. Reared on the home farm, George J. Graham received his early schooling in the neighborhood district school and supplemented the same by attendance at Bartlett Academy. When sixteen years of age he received a certificate to teach school at Marietta, Ohio, but did not begin teaching until he was nineteen, his first examination for license having been merely a tentative step taken to test his scholarship. For two terms Professor Graham taught in his home district and then he went to Sangamon county, Illinois, where he engaged in teaching for four years in the fall and winters, spending the summers on the farm in Ohio, at the end of which time, on account of his father's failing health, he returned home and for two winters again had.. charge of the home school, and then for three years taught at Plymouth. In 1877 Professor Graham married and later took a course in the National Normal University at Lebanon, this state, and was graduated from that institution in 1879. Upon thus qualifying for high-school work the Professor was employed as principal of the high school and as superintendent of schools in the village of Waynesville, in Warren county, and he held that dual position for seven years; or until 1886, when he was engaged. as principal of the Xenia high school and moved to that city, where he ever since has resided. 166 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO For twenty-five and one-half years Professor Graham continued to serve as principal of the high school at Xenia and he then was promoted to the position of superintendent of the city schools, a position he occupied for four years and six months, or until in August, 1916, when he resigned ,to accept the position he is now filling as a salesman for the George Dodds & Sons Granite Company at Xenia. Professor Graham is a member of the Xenia Business Men's Association. On December 26, 1877, Prof. George J. Graham was united in marriage to Mary Elizabeth Hosom, who also was born in Washington county, this state, daughter of Benjamin A. and Mary Ann (Becket) Hosom, the latter of whom was born in that same county and the former, in Morgan county, this state, and to this union three children have been born, namely : Fern, wife of L. K. Sone, who is engaged in the real-estate business in New York City; Mabel, wife of Silas O. Hale, former county clerk and present deputy auditor of Greene county, and George I. Graham, proprietor of the Aldine Publishing House at Xenia. Professor and Mrs. Graham reside at 131 West Church street. They are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church and the Professor is a member of the board of stewards of the same. He also is a member of the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons. STEPHEN CALVIN WRIGHT Stephen Calvin Wright, deputy judge of the Greene county probate court, former editor of the Cedarville Record, former postmaster of Cedarville, president of the Cedarville Community Club, a member of the board of trustees of Cedarville College and former head of the normal department of that institution, is a native of the Hoosier state, but has been a resident of Ohio and of Greene county ever since he came to enter Cedarville College in the days of his youth and is thus as well known hereabout as though "native and to the manner born." He was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the village of Idaville, in White county, Indiana, February 22, 1873, son of John B. and Agnes Isabel (Bailey) Wright; both of whom were born in that same county, members of pioneer families in the Idaville neighborhood, and the former of whom is still living. John B. Wright, a retired farmer and banker, now living at Idaville, where he has made his home ever since retiring from the farm years ago, was born in 1847, son of Stephen P. and Elizabeth (Billingsley), Wright, who were pioneers of the Idaville neighborhood, and all his life has been spent there. He married Agnes Isabel Bailey, who also was born in that community, daughter of Thomas and Agnes (Morrison) Bailey, early settlers thereabout, and after his marriage established his home on a farm GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 167 nearby the village. Not long after his election to the office of trustee of his home township he retired from the farm and moved to Idaville, where be since has made his home. For two terms he served as township trustee and meantime founded the Idaville State Bank, of which he still is president. He is the owner of two hundred acres of land in his home farm and owns besides another farm and has other property interests. Mrs. Wright died in July, 1916, she then being seventy years and seven days of age. She was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian church, as is her husband, and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being the following : Luella, unmarried, who continues to make her home with her father at idaville; Mary Elsie, wife of Elliot Crowell, of Idaville; Glenson, who is now engaged in farming in the neighborhood of Creston, Nebraska; Oda May, who died on October 6, 1906, the. year following her marriage to Harvey Downs; of Idaville; Laura Belle, wife of Prof. F. D. Francis, superintendent of schools at Gilman, Iowa, and who is her husband's assistant in that office, and Fannie, who died at the age of fourteen years. Reared on the home farm, Stephen Calvin Wright, who is better known to the friend's of his boyhood as "Cal" Wright, received his early schooling in the Idaville schools and supplemented the same by a course of preparatory work at Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana; after which he entered Cedarville College, from which institution he was graduated in 1903, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In the meantime Mr. Wright had married and upon leaving college he decided to establish his h0me at Cedarville, -a decision he never has had cause to regret. Seeking an outlet for his energies he turned to the "fourth estate" and in that same year, 1903, started the Cedarville Record, continuing as editor and publisher of that newspaper until he sold it in 1911 in order to devote his whole time to the duties incumbent upon the postmaster of Cedarville, he having received the appointment to that Office in 1910. Upon the completion of his term of service as postmaster in 1914 Mr. Wright was elected financial secretary of Cedarville College and has ever since been officially connected with his alma mater. It was in that year that the normal department of the college was created, under the provisions of the new law, and upon the establishment of that department Mr. Wright was made head of the same, continuing to serve in that capacity until his resignation in August, 1917; to accept the appointment as deputy probate judge of Greene county, under Judge Marshall, which position he now occupies, continuing, however, to make his home at Cedarville. Mr. Wright is a Republican, as is his father. He is a member of the board of trustees of Cedarville College and for ten years also rendered service as a member of the local school board at Cedarville. He also served for years as clerk of the 168 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO village. For the past two years or more Mr. Wright has been the president of the Cedarville Community Club, an association of one hundred and twenty of the business men and farmers of Cedarville and vicinity, formerly known as the Cedarville Board of Trade. On October 26, 1896, at Idaville, Indiana, Stephen Calvin Wright was united in marriage to Eva Emma Johnsonbaugh, who also was born in the vicinity of that village, daughter of John and Nancy (Marvin) Johnsonbaugh, both members of pioneer families thereabout, and to this union have been born four children, namely : Naomi I., who was graduated from Cedarville College in 1917; John Calvin, who in December, 1917, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and is now in service; Harry D., who is now a student at Cedarville College, and Marjorie, who is attending high school at Cedarville. The Wrights are members of the Reformed Presbyterian church at Cedarville. JAMES PARKER CHEW. James Parker Chew, senior member of the Chew Publishing Company and editor of the Xenia Daily Gazette and Republican, is probably the oldest newspaper editor in point of service in the state of Ohio, having owned and edited a newspaper for more than sixty-five years, continuously thus engaged in Xenia since 1877, his previous experience in the newspaper field having been gained in Pennsylvania and in Indiana. He was born in York county, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1832 ; received a common-school education at Carlisle. that state, and learned the trade of printer in the office of the Carlisle Herald. In 1851 he came West and in 1852, six months before he had attained his majority, he bought the Lawrenceburg (Indiana) Press. For twenty-five years Mr. Chew continued to make his home at Lawrenceburg and during all that period continued as publisher and editor of the Press. During the most of this period he also carried on other business of one kind and another and for seven years was deputy collector of internal revenue for the Lawrenceburg district. On November 1, 1877, Mr. Chew bought the Xenia Gazette, then a weekly newspaper. On November 27, 1881, he established the daily edition of the Gazette and changed the weekly into a semi-weekly publication. In August, 1888, he bought the Xenia Torchlight and consolidated that paper with the Gazette. A further consolidation of the newspaper interests of Xenia was made in 1915, when the Gazette absorbed the Republican and b0th are now published by the Chew Publishing Company, of which Mr. Chew is the senior member. Although now past eighty-five years of age, the venerable editor spends a part GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 169 of each day at his desk in the Gazette office and retains an active interest in the affairs of the company. James Parker Chew has been twice married. On November 23, 1853, at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, he was united in marriage to Harriet Louisa Brown, of that city, and to that union were born three children, W. B. Chew, who for years has been associated with his father in the publishing business and whose son, J. A. Chew, is now general manager of the Chew papers, three generations of the family thus serving actively on the staff of the publications ; Mrs. J. O. McCormick and Mrs. W. E. Hopton, of Syracuse, New York. The mother of these children died on December 5, 1900. In 1902, Mr. Chew married Mrs. Sarah McGervey Meyers. DAVID WALTER FERGUSON. David Walter Ferguson, proprietor of a farm on the Oldtown-Clifton pike in Xenia township, six miles northeast of the city of Xenia, on rural mail route No. 5 out of that city, was born on that farm and has lived: there all his life. He is a son of Isaac Alexander and Lydia M. (Kyle) Ferguson, both of whom were born in that same township, members of pioneer families, and the latter of whom is still living, now making her home in Xenia. Isaac Alexander Ferguson was born on June 4, 1841, son of William and Nancy (Lackey) Ferguson, the former a native of the Old Dominion and the latter of the state of South Carolina, who had come here with their respective parents in the days of their youth and were married here. William Ferguson was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, grew. to manhood in Greene county and after his marriage settled on a farm in Xenia township. He and his wife were members of the old Massies Creek Seceder church and later of the United Presbyterian church at Clifton, in which he was for years an elder, and their children were reared in that faith. There were four of these children, of whom Isaac A. was the first-born, the others being William, who is now living at Yellow Springs; Elvira, now living with her brother Albert on the old home farm in Xenia township, and Albert, who married Etta Barnett and is still living on the old home place. Reared on the farm, Isaac A. Ferguson became a practical farmer and upon starting out for himself bought the old Moses Collins farm of ninety acres in Xenia township. To this he gradually added until he became the owner of three hundred and twenty acres of land. He was a Republican, held at one time and another various township offices and for years served as a member of the school board. He and his family were members of the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia. On October 20, 1864, Isaac 170 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO A. Ferguson was united in marriage to Lydia M. Kyle, who was born in that same township, daughter of David M. and Eleanor (Collins) Kyle, the former of whom also was born in this county and the latter in the state of Pennsylvania. David M. Kyle, a member of the pioneer Kyle family of this county, had a farm on the lower Bellbrook pike. He was a Republican and he and his .family. were 'members of the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia. He and his wife were the parents of six children, namely : Ruth, who married James Collins and is now deceased; Lydia M., widow of the late Isaac A. Ferguson; Elizabeth, who is now living in Iowa, widow of the late Samuel Raney; Mary, wife of James Bratton, of Xenia; William, who lives in Montana, and Samuel, who also is living in Montana. To Isaac A. and Lydia M. (Kyle) Ferguson were born five children, of whom the subject of this biographical sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being Jesse, wife of Charles Turnbull, of Cedarville township, this county; William .Neal Ferguson, now living at Albuquerque, New Mexico; Lillian, wife of Dr. Delos Heague, of Springfield, this state, and Prof. James Fulton Ferguson, now an instructor in Bryn Mawr College at Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Isaac A. Ferguson died on August 28, 1911, and his widow, as noted above, is now living at Xenia. David W. Ferguson was. reared on the home farm and received his early schooling in the schools of his home neighborhood. He supplemented the same by attendance at the Xenia -.high school and at Antioch College, after which he resumed his place on the home farm and for some years before his marriage was in practical charge of his father's farming interests. After his marriage in 1894 he bought a tract of one hundred and forty-nine acres of his father's land, the tract including the old home place, and there established his home. He has since then remodeled the house, the improvements including the installation of electric-lighting equipment, and has also made other improvements on the farm. For years Mr. Ferguson has given considerable attention to the raising of pure-bred Angus cattle and for six years was a successful exhibitor at county fairs. He now has a herd of thirty and sells quite a few for stock purposes. He is a member of the National Angus Breeders Association. By political persuasion he is a Republican. On August 23, 1894, David W. Ferguson was united in marriage to Julia A. Anderson, who was born in Miami township, this. county, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Tindall) Anderson, and to this union have been born three sons, Lawrence, born in 1896, who is now (1918) a senior in Muskingum College; Warren, 1898, a sophomore in that institution, and Bruce, 1904. The Fergusons are members of the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia and Mr. Ferguson is a member of the session of the same, having been elected a ruling elder several years ago. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 171 CHARLES F. TAYLOR. Charles F. Taylor, proprietor of "The Arcade" cigar store and billiard parlor at 28 South Detroit street, Xenia, was born on a farm in Silvercreek township, this county, December 26, 1876, son of O. C. and Lucinda (McConnell) Taylor, both of whom also were born in this county and the former of whom is still living. O. C. Taylor, a veteran of the Civil War, now living retired at Jamestown, this county, grew up on a farm in Greene county and in due time became a farmer on his own account. He served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War and upon the completion of his military service resumed his agricultural vocation in this county, presently going to Iowa, where he spent three years, but after his marriage established his home in this county. During the latter '70s he moved with his family down into the neighboring county of Clinton and there remained for seven years, at the end of which time he returned to Greene county and here continued engaged in farming until his retirement and removal to Jamestown, where he is now living. His wife died on October 14, 1908. He and his wife were the parents of three children, the subject of this sketch having two sisters, Elma, who is living with her father in Jamestown, and Rosa, who married Thomas A. Spahr, also of Jamestown, and has two children, Oakie and Goldie. Charles F. Taylor was seven years of age when his parents returned from Clinton county to this county and he grew up on the home farm in Silvercreek township, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools. He married in the fall of 1896 and in 1900 moved to Xenia, where he was for eighteen months engaged in the employ of the Rapid Transit Company. He then became engaged in the insurance and real-estate business in that city and was thus engaged there for eight years, at the end of which time he sold the business he had established and returned to the farm. Three years later he definitely gave up farming and returned to Xenia, where, in association with his brother-in-law, Roy Hayward, he bought the cigar store and billiard room known as "The Arcade," at 28 South Detroit street, and has ever since been engaged in business at that point. Following the appointment of Mr. Hayward to the office of city auditor in the fall of 1917 Mr. Taylor bought his brother-in-law's interest in the business and has since been operating it alone. On October 21, 1896, at Xenia, Charles F. Taylor was united in marriage to Hannah Conklin, daughter of H. H. and Mary J. (Hook) Conklin, the former of whom is still living, a resident of Xenia. H. H. Conklin and wife were the parents of five children, Mrs. Taylor having a brother, Clyde Conklin, who married Grace Ireland, and is living at Xenia, and three sisters, Cora, wife of J. A. Bales, of Xenia; Laura, wife of D. E. Adsit, of James- 172 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO town, and Harriet, wife of Ray C. Hayward, Mr. Taylor's former business partner, who was appointed city auditor at the first meeting held by the city commission in Xenia under the operation of the new city charter of 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the Baptist church. They have one child, a son, Willard, born on May 27, 1902, who is now (1918) a sophomore in the Xenia high school. Mr. Taylor is a Republican. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons and with the local camp of the Sons of Veterans. J. A. CHEW. J. A. Chew, general manager of The Chew Publishing Company of Xenia, publishers of the Evening Daily Gazette and the Morning Daily Republican, was born at Xenia on July 0, 1882, son of William Brown and Anna V. (McBurney) Chew, both of whom are still living at Xenia, where for many years William Brown Chew has been associated with his father, the venerable James Parker Chew, in the newspaper and publishing business, both members of the Chew Publishing Company, further reference to which and to the growth and development of the Xenia Gazette is set out in a biographical sketch relating to the elder Chew presented elsewhere in this volume. Reared at Xenia, J. A. Chew received his schooling in the schools of that city and in the Ohio Military Institute at Cincinnati, after which he began work for his father in the job-printing and publishing business, consolidated under the firm name of The Aldine Publishing House. In 1906 he became a partner of his father in the business, and successfully managed the affairs of the company until 1912, when he assumed the general managership of the Daily Gazette. In August, 1915, Mr. Chew organized the Chew Publishing Company with seventy thousand dollars capital and purchased both the Daily Gazette and the opposition paper, the Daily Republican, both of which are published separately by this company under the titles of the Evening Gazette and the Morning Republican. Mr. Chew is president and treasurer of the company. His venerable grandfather continues as editor of both papers. On October 26, 1904, J. A. Chew was united in marriage to Jessie R. Baker, who also was born at Xenia, daughter of W. R. Baker, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union two children have been born, Florence B., born on May 19, 1907, and Anna Katherine, April 22, 1915. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 173 HARRY E. RICE. Harry E. Rice, editor and publisher of the Xenia Herald and Democrat-News and for more than two years postmaster at Xenia, is a native son. of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born in the village of South Vienna, in the neighboring county of Clark, January 20, 1869, son of James S. and Angie (Busbey) Rice, both of whom are still living at South Vienna, the former now being past seventy-eight years of age and the latter, past seventy-three. James S. Rice, who is a veteran of the Civil War, also was born in Clark county, a member of one of the pioneer families of this part of the state, and was living there When the Civil War broke out: He enlisted in behalf of the Union cause and went to the front as a member of the 'Eleventh Ohio Cavalry in which he rose to the rank of lieutenant. During the greater portion of this period of service he was stationed with his command at Ft. Laramie, Wyoming, and while there had many brushes and engagements with the Indians. Upon the completion of his military service he returned to his home in Clark county and became engaged in the milling business at South Vienna and was thus engaged at that place until his retirement from active labors. Mr. Rice also is the owner of a fine farm lying adjacent to South Vienna. He is a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. His parents, Asahel and Orassa (Sprague) Rice, were New Englanders who came to Ohio and located in Clark county, settling six miles east of Springfield. Asahel Rice was a building contractor and many of the fine old brick houses which still stand in Clark county were erected by him. He had a country place east of Springfield. To James S. Rice and wife were born two sons, the subject of this sketch having had a brother, Charles S., who died in childhood, and one (laughter, Mrs. Carlton Henry, of Plattsburg, Ohio. Mrs. Rice, mother of Postmaster Rice, is a member of the noted Busbey family of Clark county, eighth in order of birth of the eleven children born to Thomas C. and Ann (Botkin) Busbey, who came to Ohio from New England and located at South Vienna, in Clark county, where for years Thomas C. Busbey was engaged in teaching school. He and his wife also for some time conducted a hotel at South Vienna. Two of the eleven children born to him and his wife died in youth and eight of the surviving children followed their father's footsteps and made their start in life by teaching school. Of the five sons who lived all became journalists. The eldest of these sons, the late William H. Busbey, taught school for a while and began his journalistic career as a reporter on the Ohio State: Journal at Columbus, in 1865. From there he went to Toledo and after some further 174 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO newspaper experience in that city went to Chicago, where he became engaged as an editorial writer for the Inter Ocean, later becoming managing editor of that paper and later editor-in-chief, serving with the Inter Ocean until his death, a period of service covering thirty-five years. The next son, Hamilton Busbey, served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War and after receiving his discharge from the army began working in the editorial department of the Louisville Courier, and while there became thoroughly qualified as a Writer on matters relating to horses and the turf in general, later going to New Yorke City, where he became a part owner and publisher of Turf, Field and Farm. During this period of his editorial activities Hamilton Busbey wrote a number of books and came to be recognized as an authority on the light-harness horse. Hamilton Busbey married a daughter of Governor Robinson, war governor of Kentucky, and at the time of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln he represented Kentucky in that solemn cortege. The next son, L. White Busbey, now an editorial writer on the Washington. Herald, is. best known -throughout the country as the private secretary to "Uncle Joe" Cannon during the latter's incumbency as speaker of the national House of Representatives and as House parliamentarian during that incumbency. He began his 'career as a journalist on the Chicago Inter Ocean,- later was made that paper's correspondent at Washington and while thus engaged became employed as Congressman Cannon's secretary, after which term of service he resumed newspaper work at the capital and has since been thus engaged there. Charles Sumner Busbey, the next son, also went to Chicago and was for years there engaged as associate editor of the Railway Review. He is now a member of the board of local improvements of that city, with headquarters in the city hall. The Hon. Thomas Addison Busbey, present senator from the eleventh Ohio senatorial district and now living retired, at South Vienna after twenty-five years of continuous connection with the Railway Age at Chicago, went to Chicago in the spring of 1883 and there secured employment on the editorial staff of the Railway Age. He gradually advanced until he became the managing' editor of the journal, becoming recognized throughout the country as an authority on subjects relating to transportation, legislation affecting the same and labor questions. Daniel Webster Busbey, the sixth son of. this family, went to the front as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War and died at Nashville, Tennessee, while acting as provost marshal of that city. Henry Clay Busbey, the next son, died in infancy. The eldest daughter of the Busbey family is Mr. Rice's mother. The next daughter, Mrs. Lou M. Neer, is deceased; Mrs. Theodore Postle is living at Columbus, this state, and Miss Hattie Busbey is living at the old home. Harry E. Rice was reared in a "bookish" atmosphere and the schooling