200 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on March 10, 1823, and was but an infant when his parents, Jacob and Eve Whitmer, came to Ohio and settled in the vicinity of Tremont in Clark county. Jacob Whitmer was a tanner by trade and for some time followed that occupation in Ohio, but later engaged in farming. Of the children born to him and his wife five grew to maturity, the one son, David, and four daughters, one of whom, Mrs. Catherine Stevenson, is still living, a resident of Indianapolis. David Whitmer grew up on the home farm in Clark county and became by self-study a well educated man. For some time he taught school, in the meantime pursuing his studies with a view to entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and in due time was licensed to preach. During his long service in the ministry the Rev. David Whitmer was located at numerous points throughout southwestern Ohio, his itinerary moving him about after the manner of the Methodist system, but the last six years of his active ministry were spent in Greene county, at New Burlington and Spring Valley. In September, 1884, he retired from the ministry and moved to Xenia, where he died on June 23, 1887. He was an active worker in the temperance cause and had a wide acquaintance throughout this section of the state. The Rev. David Whitmer was twice married. By his first wife, Hannah I. Fox, who was born at Richmond, Indiana, he had two sons, William C., now deceased, who was for years chief train dispatcher and later trainmaster for the New York division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and Charles W., a lawyer at Xenia, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. His second wife, Amanda Catherine Gardner, was born at Clarks.- ville, in the neighboring county of Clinton, October 9, 1833, and died at her home in Xenia on March 28, 1906. She was a daughter of Dr. John and Sarah (Roland) Gardner, both of whom were born in Ohio and the latter of whom died when her (laughter Amanda Catherine was a child. The mother of Dr. John Gardner was a Sister of Governor Tiffin, the first governor of Ohio, and the name "Tiffin" appears in every generation since as a given name. The Tiffins came from Carlisle, England. Dr. John Gardner was a physician at Clarksville and continued in active practice there to the very hour of his death, his death occurring at the home of a patient while he was making a professional call, he then having been seventy-four years of age. He had been thrice married, and by his first wife had one child, a son ; by his second, three children, Mr. Whitmer's mother having had a brother and a sister, and by his third marriage had one child, a daughter. To the Rev. David and Amanda Catherine (Gardner) Whitmer were born eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being Carrie, wife of E. H. Hart, of Xenia ; Clarence, who is quite successfully engaged in the insurance business at Chicago ; Hattie W., who is un- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 201 married and who makes her home with her brother George at 520 South Detroit street in Xenia, where they have a very pleasant home ; Edward Tiffin, now deceased; John Harrison, who is engaged in the undertaking business at Xenia; Mary, wife of Marshall Lupton, of Indianapolis, and Florence, wife 0f W. B. Fulghum, 0f Richmond, Indiana. George W. Whitmer early turned his attention to railroading and in his boyhood became a telegraph operator, working at various stations along the lines that now form a part of the Pennsylvania Railroad System, and finally was made station agent at Wilmington, the county seat of the neighboring county of Clinton. A few years later he was promoted to the position of train dispatcher and for fifteen years was thus engaged, his duties being divided between the offices at Cincinnati and at Xenia. In 1904 he was appointed assistant trainmaster of the Cincinnati division of the Pennsylvania Lines, with headquarters at Xenia, and has ever since been stationed there. Mr. Whitmer is a Scottish Rite Mason, affiliated with the blue lodge at Xenia and with the consistory at Cincinnati, and is a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Syrian Temple at Cincinnati. ISAAC EVANS. Isaac Evans, now living retired in the city of Xenia, where he has made his home since 1912, was born on a farm in Spring Valley township, this county, on December 8, 1835, son of Robert and Sarah (Coppock) Evans, who had come over here from South Carolina some years before and had established their home in Spring Valley township, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Robert Evans was born in the Newberry district of South Carolina, November 9, 1797, a son of Moses Evans and wife, Quakers. Moses Evans died and his widow married Samuel Speer and in 1826 came with him and other members of their family to Ohio and settled in the southern part of Greene county, on the place now owned and long occupied by the subject of this sketch. Robert Evans married Sarah Coppock, who also was born in South Carolina, March 13, 1799, and several years after his mother and his stepfather had settled in Greene county he and his wife also came over here, arriving on October 24, 1829. During the succeeding winter he and his wife made their home with the Speers and in the next spring (1830) he bought a farm of four hundred acres lying along the banks of the Miami, in Spring Valley township, and there established his home;. erecting a house facing the highway to Cincinnati. Robert Evans had been engaged in the milling business in South Carolina and upon doming here built a grist- and saw-mill on 202 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO his place, operating the same by water power; which mills continued to be operated until about 1875, when they were abandoned. In addition to carrying on his milling industry, Robert Evans also cleared and developed his farm. He died on November 9, 1868, and his widow died on June 17, 1871.. Robert Evans had been reared a Whig, but upon the creation of the Republican party aligned himself with that party. He and his, wife were birthright Quakers and their Children were reared in that simple. faith. They had fifteen children, of whom nine grew to maturity, namely : Rebecca, who died unmarried; Moses, who died in 1868; Esther P., who married Lewis Hardsock, of this county, and later went to Kansas, where she and her husband spent the remainder of their lives; Lydia H., who married William Stansfield and also went to Kansas, where she died; Mary, who married Isaac M. Barrett, of Spring Valley, and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased; Sophia, who married Cal Whitney and went to Nebraska, where she and her husband spent their last days; Isaac, the subject of this sketch; Nancy J., who married Martin Peterson arid continued to make her home in this county until her death some years ago, and Margaret E., widow of Aaron Crites, who died in 1915. She had made her home on the old Evans farm in Spring Valley township. Reared on the old home, farm in Spring Valley township, Isaac Evans received his early schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and supplemented the same by attendance at Bacon's Commercial College at Cincinnati, from which institution. he was graduated in 1857. He then became a partner in his father's milling operations and continued thus engaged in the milling business until they sold the mills in 1864, after which he became the owner of the old Speer farm, which had been settled by his step-grandfather, Samuel Speer, in 1829, and there he continued to make his home for forty-eight years, or until his retirement from the farm and removal to Xenia in 1912. Mr. Evans still owns his home farm of one hundred and seventy acres and has added to that one hundred and sixty acres adjoining, and enjoys an occasional trip to the same. He also owns property in the city. Mr. Evans is a Republican and for some years served the people of Spring Valley township as trustee. He is a member of the Friends church, as have been the members of his family for generations. He was made a Mason at Waynesville many years ago, is a charter member of the Masonic lodge at New Burlington and is also a member of Xenia Chapter No. 36, Royal Arch Masons, and of the Ancient.Accepted Scottish Rite (32̊) at Dayton.' Isaac Evans has been twice married. On January 31, 1860, when twenty-four years of age, he was united in marriage to Matilda C Stump, who also was 'born in this county, a daughter of Jonas and Prudence (Smalley) Stump, pioneers of Greene county, and of the children born to this union six GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 203 are now living, namely : Frank S., who married Catherine Eberley and is living on a part of the old home farm; Minnie B., of Columbus, Ohio, widow of Joseph G. Gest; Lou, wife of Robert J. Lacey, of Wilmington, this state; Alta M., wife of John L. Shipp, of Columbus, Ohio ; William J., who is engaged in the livery business at Xenia, and Charles R., who married Stella Lucas and is also engaged in the livery business at Xenia, in association with his brother.. The mother of these children died on September. 17, 1897, she then being at the age of sixty-one years, and on May 16, 1900, Mr. Evans married Frances Adams, of the neighboring county of Montgomery. She was born in Lancaster county,. Pennsylvania, the daughter of E. B. and Priscilla Adams, both of whom are deceased. In 1878 the Adams family left Pennsylvania and located in Dayton, Ohio. E. B. Adams was a miller by trade. There Mrs. Evans attended public school as a girl and grew up. PROF. CHARLES A. NOSKER, A. M. Prof. Charles A. Nosker, A. M., member of the faculty of Antioch College and since 1907 occupant of the chair of biology and geology in that institution, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm in Coshocton county on January 3, 1876, son of. Benjamin F. and Clarinda (Talmage) Nosker, both of whom also were born in this state, the former at Canal Dover, in Tuscarawas county, in 1835, and the latter in Coshocton county. Benjamin F. Nosker, who died in 1897, was twice married and by his marriage to Clarinda Talmage was the father of eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last born, the others being as follow : Evalyn, deceased; George, who is married and is living at Columbus, this state, where he is engaged as a traveling salesman; Sherman, who is living in northern Ohio; Ida Jane, wife of Henry Veigel, a farmer of Coshocton county Frances, deceased; Benjamin F., who is living in Coshocton county, and William Henry, who also continues to make his home in that county. The mother of these children died in 1884 and Benjamin F. Nosker later married Mary J. Hummer, to which union two daughters were born, Hazel and Bernice, who are living with their mother at Coshocton. Reared on the home farm in Coshocton county, Charles A. Nosker received his elementary schooling in the neighborhood district schools and then took a course in the Roscoe high school, going thence to the Roscoe Normal School and in 1901 to Poland Seminary. In Jauuary, 1902, he entered Antioch College at Yellow Springs and in 1907 was graduated from that institution with the degree of Bachelor of Science. During the summer of that year he pursued a special course in the Ohio State School at Cedar 204 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Point and in the fall of that year entered upon his duties as instructor in biology and geology at Antioch College and has since been thus connected with that institution, which in 1912 conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. Professor Nosker is a close student and in the summer of 1910 pursued a special course in the branches in which he is particularly interested under Doctor Coulter at Chicago University. On June 19, 1908, at Yellow Springs, Professor Nosker was united in marriage to Carrie E. Zehner, who was born in Hardin county, this state, daughter of William Zehner and wife, the latter of whom, now deceased, was Lucretia Dixon. For some time previous to her marriage Mrs. Nosker had been making her home in the household of President Fess at Yellow Springs and was living there when married to Professor Nosker. To this union two sons have been born, Paul William, born on June 1, 1911, and Charles Robert, August 26, 1914. Professor and Mrs. Nosker are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. The Professor is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Yellow Springs. REED MADDEN, M. D. Dr. Reed Madden, a Xenia physician and a specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, is a native of the state of Missouri, but has been a resident of Ohio and of Greene county since the clays of boyhood. He was born on a farm in Adair county, Missouri, August 11, 1870, son of Dr. William P. and Zeruiah J. (Laybourne) Madden, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Ohio, whose last days were spent in this county, the elder Doctor Madden having for years before his death been engaged in the practice of medicine and in the drug business at Xenia. The late Dr. William P. Madden, a veteran of the Civil War, was born in County Galway, Ireland, March 14, 1842, a son of Michael and Joanna (Flemming) Madden, both of whom were born in that same c0unty. In 1844 Michael Madden, who had been engaged in the distillery business in Galway, decided to make a change of base and to try his fortunes over on this side of the water. Leaving his family in Ireland he came to the United States, landing. at the port of New Orleans. After a short stop there he proceeded on up the rivers to Cincinnati and after prospecting there a bit came on up into this part of Ohio and bought a farm in the vicinity of Springfield. He there made preparations for the reception of his family and in the fall of 1847 sent for his wife and two small sons,. who in clue time joined him and the family home became established on the farm near Springfield, where two more children were born. The mother of these children died in 1859. Of these children, the late Dr. William P. Madden was the first-born. Thomas, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 205 the next in order of birth, died in childhood. Michael, the third son, grew up in Clark county and later made his home at Marion, this state. Anna, the only daughter, married William Laybourne, of Springfield, Reared on the home farm in the vicinity of Springfield, William P. Madden, who was but six years of age when he was brought to this country by his mother, was living there when the Civil War broke out. On October 9, 1861, he then being nineteen years of age, he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union cause and went to the front as a member of Company I, Forty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Upon the completion of his original term of service he re-enlisted in that same regiment, but was transferred to the Eighth Ohio Cavalry and was serving with that command when on June 18, 1864, at the battle of Lynchburg, Virginia, he was captured by the enemy and was confined in Andersonville prison, where he remained nearly a year, suffering all the horrors and deprivations common to the sufferings of the men thus confined. William P. Madden first saw the smoke of battle during service at Floyd Mountain, West Virginia. He later took part in the battles of Lewisburg, Somerset and Knoxville, under General Burnside, and at Strawberry Plains, Stanton and Lynchburg, Virginia, it being during the latter engagement, as noted above, that he was taken prisoner and sent to Andersonville. On April 1, 1865, he was exchanged and with many others who were thus released from the cruel stockade later became one of the two thousand three hundred and thirty-four exchanged prisoners who boarded the illfated steamer "Sultana" bound for Cairo, Illinois, and when that vessel enroute was sunk by reason of the explosion of its boiler was one of the six hundred and thirty-four who were able to make their escape and reach shore, he having been on deck and able to leap into the water free from the wreckage at the time of the explosion. In due time he was able to report to his command and on May 30, 1865, was mustered out by special order of the war department, as one of the survivors of the "Sultana." Upon receiving his discharge he resumed his work on the home farm in Clark county and in that neighborhood early in 1868 was married, later establishing his home on a farm in Adair county, Missouri. In 1873, at Kirksville, Missouri, he took up the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. J. H. Wesher, and later entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1875. Upon receiving his diploma, Doctor Madden opened an office at Cedarville, in this county, and there continued in practice until 1885, when he .moved to Xenia, where he was engaged in practice the rest of his life, his death occurring there in 1908. For two years after taking up his residence in Xenia he also conducted a drug store there. Dr. William P. Madden was twice married. On January 28, 1868, near 206 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Springfield, he was united in marriage to Zeruiah J. Laybourne, daughter of Reed and Mary (Skillens) Laybourne, and to that union were born three children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others having been Anna B., born on January 28, 1869, who died on. August 17 following, and Whitelaw L., May 21, 1877, who died on January 29, 1878. The mother of these children died on January 28, 1883, and on May 6, 1885, Doctor Madden married Hattie Brown, daughter of Nixon G. and Hannah (Wilson) Brown, which union was without issue. Having been but a small child when his parents moved from Missouri to Cedarville, Reed Madden received his early schooling- in the schools of that village and after the removal of the family to Xenia attended and was graduated from the Xenia high school. He then took a year of further instruction at the Ohio State University at Columbus and then entered the Eclectic institute at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1894, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Madden returned to Xenia and became engaged in the practice of his profession there in association with his father. In 1895 he took a special post-graduate course in the study of diseases of the ear, eye, nose and throat and has ever since then devoted his practice to those particular lines. In 1912. he went to Europe and at Paris, Berlin and Vienna took a further course of instruction in his specialty. The Doctor is a member of the Greene County Medical Society, of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association; and is a member of the medical staff of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphan's Home at Xenia. He is a member of the board of directors of the Shawnee Refrigerator Company of Xenia. His offices are in the Allen building. In 1898 Dr. Reed Madden was united in marriage to Grace Wolf, who was born in this county, daughter of. D. K. and Margaret Ann Wolf, now both deceased. The Doctor and Mrs. Madden are members of the Presbyterian church. Politically, the Doctor is a Republican, with "independent" leanings. He is a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the local council, Royal and Select Masters. HUGH M. MURDOCK. On another page in this volume, in a personal sketch relating to Silas M. Murdock, brother of the subject of this sketch, there is set out at considerable length something of the history and the genealogy of the Murdock family in this county and of the coming to Ohio in 1835 of Robert Murdock and his wife, who settled in Clinton county and later came tip into Greene county and established their home in Cedarville township: Robert Murdock GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 207 was born in County Antrim, Ireland, son of John Murdock and wife, who were the parents of eight children, all of whom came to the United States save two. As a young man Robert Murdock came to this country and located in Philadelphia, where in 1835 he married Elizabeth Richards, who had come to this country the year previous with her parents from Ireland, she also having been born in County Antrim. After their marriage Robert Murdock and his wife came to Ohio and settled in Wayne township, Clinton county, where he bought a tract of two hundred and forty acres of land and where he made his home until 1857. He then sold out and moved into Greene'. county, buying a tract of one hundred and seventeen acres south of Cedarville, where he lived until his retirement from the farm and removal to Cedarville, where he spent his last days, his death occurring there in 1876, he then being past seventy-five years of age. His widow survived him for nearly twenty years, her death occurring in January, 1895, she then being eighty-two years of age. Robert Murdock and his wife were members of the 'Reformed Presbyterian church and their children were reared in that faith. There were six of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being as follows : John, now deceased, who was for years the owner of the old Judge Kyle homestead farm south of Cedarville, now owned by Silas M. Murdock; the Rev. David Murdock, a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian church, now living retired at Howard Lake, Minnesota; Mary Murdock, of Cedarville; Martha, now deceased,. who was the wife of James McMillan, of Cedarville township, and Silas M., who is referred to above. Hugh M. Murdock was born on a farm in the vicinity of Centerville, in Clinton county, this state, January 17, 1846, and was eleven years of age when his parents moved with their family up into Greene county and located in Cedarville township, his schooling. thus having been completed in the schools of this county. From the days of his boyhood he has taken a great interest in the raising of sheep and when he reached his majority he left home and went to Champaign county, Illinois, where for two years he was engaged in herding sheep on the open prairie. With the money thus earned he returned to Ohio and in Crawford county invested in a flock of sheep which he drove through to Arkansas, the trip requiring five months. He was there engaged for more than two years in pasturing this flock, hopeful of profitable returns on the venture, but a series of "hard luck" circumstances intervened and at the end of that time he returned to Cedarville without having realized his expectations. He still, however, pinned his faith to sheep and kept at the business, buying flocks successively in Madison, Delaware and Marion counties, renting pasture lands, feeding and disposing of his products with varying degrees of success, and was thus engaged, traveling about, boarding, hiring 208 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO pasture and buying feed for the flock, for nineteen years, in several different states. In 1902 Mr. Murdock returned to Greene county and bought a tract of ninety-three acres two miles north of Cedarville, in the township of that name, built a house on the same, and has since made his home there, now living practically retired, though still keeping a flock of two hundred or more sheep and expecting to start his son in the sheep business on a somewhat more adequate scale presently. Reared a Republican, he later became a Democrat and is now a Prohibitionist. On April 27, 1887, Hugh M. Murdock was united in marriage to Margaret Starr, who was born in Ritchie county, West Virginia, daughter of James and Hannah Eliza (Ayers) Starr, both of whom spent all their lives in that state, and to this union two children have been born,, a son and a daughter, James Howard and Mabel Ruth, both of whom are at home. Mr. Murdock is now planning to engage in the sheep business on a larger scale in the southern part of Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia in the near future, and if he settles in either Mississippi or Georgia it will make the seventh state in which he has lived and raised sheep. JOSEPH MITCHELL FAWCETT, C. E. Joseph Mitchell Fawcett, official surveyor for Greene county and a resident of the pleasant village of Yellow Springs since 1901, is a native son of Ohio and has spent the greater part of his life in this state, although his duties as an engineer have taken him pretty much all over this country and even into faraway Burmah. He was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Carrollton, in Carroll county, February 21, 1860, s0n of John and Roseann (Crozier) Fawcett, both of whom were born in that same county, of Irish descent. John Fawcett grew up to farming in his home county and in 1845 married there Roseann Crozier and established his home on a farm on the outskirts of Carrollton, spending there the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1905. He was twice married and by his first wife was the father of four children, namely : Robert C., deceased; Charles G., who is still living in Carroll county and who is now a member of the board of commissioners of that county ; Margery, who married Frederick Brandt and is now living at Kilgore, Carroll county, and Joseph M., the subject of this biographical review. The mother of these children died in 1860 and in 1861 John Fawcett married Jane Patterson, of Harrison county. To that union were born four children, James who is Jiving at Carrollton; Henry Ross; who died in 1892 ; John F., who died in 1902, and Roseann, who died in infancy. Joseph M. Fawcett grew up on the home farm in the vicinity of Car- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 209 rollton and after completing the course in the Union school there began teaching school. He presently entered the Ohio State University and after a four-years course in civil engineering there took a year of further study ill the same line at the University of Iowa at Iowa City, leaving there in 1886 to become engaged in practical work in connection with the construction of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad (now the Northwestern) in Nebraska. In the fall of that same year Mr. Fawcett transferred his services to the Santa Fe railroad and was engaged in railway construction work for that company in Kansas, a year later going to Oklahoma Territory, in that same employ, where he worked in and about Guthrie and Oklahoma City until the fall of 1887, when he returned to Ohio and became connected with the construction department of the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad. In the fall of 1889 he went from that employ to the Clarksburg, Western & Midland (now the Baltimore & Ohio) and was engaged with that company at Clarksburg until in May of 1890, when he accepted the position of assistant chief in the construction department of the Kansas City, Watkins & Gulf railroad and in that capacity was engaged, with headquarters at Lake Charles, Louisiana, for eighteen months, at the end of which time he took service with a railway construction company in Florida. Not long afterward, however, the conditions of employment there not proving satisfactory, he returned to Ohio, in 1892, and for a year thereafter was engaged in railway construction work in this state. In 1893 he returned to West Virginia and was there engaged in service for the United States Coal and Iron Manufacturing Company until 1895, when he resumed his service with the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, remaining in that state in this employ until 1896, when he returned to Louisiana and became there engaged in construction work for the Kansas City Southern railr0ad, later returning to West Virginia to accept the position of superintendent of the engineering department of the Clark Coal and Coke Company. In 1897 Mr. Fawcett became connected with the surveying department of the Boone Black Diamond Railroad Company, making surveys from Ripley to Columbus, and in 1899 became connected with the Short Line's engineering department, continuing in that service for about a year, at the end of which time he became engaged with the National Transit Company in making pipeline surveys for the Standard Oil Company, and two years later, in 1901, was made assistant engineer of a small railroad in eastern Tennessee. In the fall of 1901 Mr. Fawcett married and established his permanent home at Yellow Springs, this county. In the winter of 1902 he accepted service with the Burmah Oil Company and in behalf of that company's operations made a trip to Burmah, where he remained for several months, at the end of which time he returned home and resumed his service with the Standard Oil Com- (13) 210 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO pany, making surveys for oil and pipe lines, but shortly afterward went over to the Wabash Railroad Company and was for a year thereafter engaged in construction work for that company in West Virginia. In 1904 Mr. Fawcett was engaged in street-improvement work in Xenia and in 1905 took part in the construction of the Virginia railroad built by H. H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil Company, in West Virginia. In 1907 he became employed by the federal government on public works in Alabama and went thence to Evansville, Indiana, where he was for a time employed at working out a railroad proposition. In 1908 Mr. Fawcett was appointed deputy surveyor of Greene county and occupied that position until 1912, in which year he was appointed to fill an unexpired term in the office of the county surveyor. In the fall of that year he was elected, as the nominee of the Republican party, to succeed himself in that office and in 1914 was re-elected. He was re-elected again in 1916 and is still holding the office. It was on October 8, 1901, that Joseph M. Fawcett was united in marriage to Linna Belle Musselman; of Yellow Springs, daughter and only child of Michael and Catherine (Kolp) Musselman, natives of Pennsylvania and both of whom are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett have a pleasant home at Yellow Springs. Mr. Fawcett is past master of the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons at Yellow Springs. During his college days he was an active member of the Greek-letter fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, and continues to take an interest in the affairs of that organization. Politically, he is a Republican. During his long period of incumbency in the surveyor's office Mr. Fawcett has done much to increase the efficiency of the county's engineering department and is widely recognized throughout this part of the state as a painstaking officer. SAMUEL NORTON ADAMS. The late Samuel Norton Adams, veteran of the Civil War and for many years recorder of Greene county, who died at his home in Xenia in November, 1907, and whose widow is still living in that city, was a native of the old Keystone state, but had been a resident of Ohio and of Greene county since the days of his boyhood, his parents having settled here in 1847. He was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1836, son of Samuel and Nancy Ann (Burnston) Adams, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Maryland, who became residents of Greene county in 1847 and here spent the remainder of their lives. Samuel Adams was born. at Leesburg, in Loudoun county, Virginia, and as a young man went to Maryland, where he married Nancy Ann Burnston, of Baltimore. He was a finisher in a woolen factory and in following his GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 211 vocation resided at various places in Maryland and in Pennsylvania until 1847, when he came to Ohio with his family and located at Spring Valley, becoming a farmer in Greene county, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on October 14, 1871. His widow died in 1882. They were the parents of eight children, of whom the subject of this memorial sketch was the fourth in order of birth, and of whom out one, James E. Adams, the seventh in order of birth, is now living, he now making his home in Oregon, the others having been, Mrs.. Amelia Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Kate. Kauffman, Mrs: Eliza Bunting, Mrs: Virginia Hepford, William and Nelson G: Samuel N. Adams was but ten years of age when his parents came to this county and located at Spring Valley and there he grew to manhood, early learning the carpenter trade, at' which he worked in various towns hereabout, and was thus engaged when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted for service and went to the front as a member of Company D, One Hundred and-Tenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Keifer's regiment, and with that command served for three years and five months, being mustered out in September, 1865. The last five months of that period were spent by Mr. Adams in a hospital recovering from a wound 'received at the assault on Petersburg, Virginia, April 2, 1865, from the effects of which he suffered the loss: of his right leg and the crippling injury of his left leg. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Adams returned to Spring Valley hopelessly crippled and not long afterward was appointed to the position of United States storekeeper at Beaver Station, now Trebeins, and served there in that capacity for one year, at the end of which time he was transferred to a like post at Mt. Holly, remaining thus in the government employ, until 1871, in which year he became engaged in the grocery business at Spring Valley. He received the appointment of postmaster while thus engaged, serving during. the second Grant administration, and. at the same time for two years held the post of government storekeeper at Osborn. In September, 1881, Mr. Adams was elected to fill an unexpired term in the office of county recorder and moved to Xenia. He was retained in this office, by successive re-elections, for more than ten years. Upon the conclusion of this long period of public service Mr. Adams continued to make his home in Xenia, and, there spent the rest of his life. He was a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. On March 11, 1867, at Spring Valley, Samuel N. Adams was united in marriage to Amanda A. Riddell, who was born at that 'place on July 6, 1842, daughter of Silas and Jane (Wilson) Riddell, Pennsylvanians, who had located at Columbus, this state, after their marriage and after a sometime residence in that, city ,had come over, into Greene county and settled at Spring Valley, where they spent the remainder of their lives, Silas Riddell being 212 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO there engaged at his trade of shoemaker. Though birthright Quakers, Silas Riddell and his wife became members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Spring Valley. They were the parents of five children, of whom Mrs. Adams was the fourth in order of birth, the others being Levi, now deceased, who Married Mary Bechtol and was for many years surveyor of Greene county; Robert, a shoemaker, who married Lydia Spear and died on January 8, 1918, at Alma, Arkansas; Humphrey, who died in the days of his youth, and Letitia, deceased, who was the wife of Daniel Gust, of Spring Valley. To Mr. and Mrs. Adams were born two daughters, Rilla, who died at the age of forty-eight years, and Gertrude, wife of Thornton A. Zill, of Xenia, and the mother of two children, Dorothy and Charles Daniel. Since the death of her bushand Mrs. Adams has continued to make her home at Xenia. HOWARD C. BROWN. Howard C. Brown, landscape architect at Yellow Springs and proprietor of a greenhouse there, one of the most successful florists in this part of the state, and who also is now serving his second term as clerk of his home town, was born on a farm in Miami township, this county, July 3, 1882, son of Capt. William H. and Jennie (Mitchell) Brown, both of whom also were born in this state, the former at Dayton and the latter at Montezuma. Capt. William H. Brown, who died at his home in Miami township in January, 1914, had spent all his life in this county and in the neighboring county of Montgomery, his young manhood having been spent at Dayton, where his father was engaged in the manufacture of hats. He was early trained to the hat business and was a traveling salesman for his father's factory when the Civil War broke out. He at once enlisted his services in behalf of the Union cause, helped recruit the Ninety-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front as captain of Company B, of that regiment. During the battle at Chattanooga Captain Brown's company was in the thick of the engagement that raged about Missionary Ridge and there he was severely wounded, being laid up for some time as a result of his wound. Upon regaining his strength he rejoined his command and was later captured and confined in Libby Prison, from which he made two ineffectual attempts to escape. Nothing daunted by the failure of these attempts the Captain persisted and finally was successful in eluding his captors and making his way back to the Union lines, in due time joining his regiment, with which command he served until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Captain Brown returned to .Dayton and presently became engaged there in the dairy business, his GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 213 dairy farm occupying the site now covered by the plant of the National Cash Register Company. He later came over to the Yellow Springs neighborhood, in this county, and bought a farm in Miami township and after his marriage established his home on the latter place and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there, as noted above, in January, 1914. His widow is still living, continuing to make her home on the old home place. To Captain Brown and his wife were born six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being George W., now local manager of the Standard Oil Company's interests at Portland, Oregon, who is married and has one child, a son, Howard William ; Thomas P., who is engaged in the barber business at Yellow Springs and who is married and has three children, George, Thomas and Lynn; Bernard, representative of the Delco company at the Buick factory at Flint, Michigan, who is married and has one child, a daughter, Helen ; Mabel, who formerly was engaged as physical director in the schools of Tippecanoe City and who married Carl Hirtzinger, superintendent of schools in Clark county ; and Edgar, unmarried, who is managing the home place in Miami township. Howard C. Brown was reared on the home farm in Miami township and received his schooling in the schools of Yellow Springs, being graduated from the high school there in 1901. He then took a two-years course in Nelson's Commercial College at Springfield and not long afterward became engaged as order clerk for the George H. Mellon Floral Company at Springfield, later becoming bookkeeper for the Springfield Floral Company, which latter position he occupied for four years, at the end of which time he was installed as manager of the Gustav Schneider Floral Company in that same city. A year later Mr. Brown determined to engage in the florist business on his own account and with that end in view, in 1912, established a green house at Yellow Springs, where he ever since has made his home: Mr. Brown's business has had a most encouraging growth from the very start and the products of his green house are in wide demand, he having created a ready market in Dayton, Cincinnati and other cities within easy shipping distance. Mr. Brown also for years has given special attention to the subject of landscape gardening and there is a wide demand for his services as a landscape architect, his specialty being the laying out of the grounds surrounding private homes, and he has done some admirable work in this connection in Cincinnati, Dayton and others of the larger cities of the state. Mr. Brown is now serving his second term as city clerk of Yellow Springs, having been elected to that office in 1915 and re-elected in 1917 for a two-year 'term. Politically, he is a Republican, with independent leanings. Mr. Brown has been twice married. In 1905, while living at Springfield, he was united in marriage to Addie Phillips, who died at her home in Yellow 214 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Springs in 1910, without issue. On August.. 26, 1914, Mr. Brown married Mary Metzner, of Mechanicsburg, this state, and to this union has been one child, a daughter, Virginia, born in June, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Presbyterian church. WILLIAM JOHN TARBOX. William John Tarbox, secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Tarbox Lumber Company at Cedarville, this county, and secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Cedarville Realty Company, was born in Cedarville and has lived there all his life with the exception of three years during the days of his young manhood, when he was engaged working at the carpenter trade at Chicago. He was born on November 25, 1860, son of John M. and Rachel (Nichol) Tarbox, the latter of. whom died in 1905 and the former of whom is still living at Cedarville, being now past eighty-eight years of age. John M. Tarbox was born at Buxton, Maine, December 3, 1829, a son of John and Lucy (Merrill) Tarbox, both of whom were born and spent all their lives in that same vicinity, and who were the parents of six children, two sons and four daughters, of whom John M. Tarbox is now the only survivor. The latter grew up in his home town of Buxton and there learned the carpenter trade. In 1849 his brother, Samuel Tarbox, a surveyor and stonemason, came to Ohio and located at Cedarville, in this county. A year later, in 1850, John M. Tarbox joined his brother here and the two became engaged in business together, general building contractors and stonemasons, during that period of their activities building several of the stone-arch bridges that are still in use along the line of the Pennsylvania railroad through this section of the state. The Tarbox brothers bought the old Nichol saw-mill on Massies creek and for years. successfully operated the same.. Not long after coming to Ohio John M. Tarbox had married and he established his home at Cedarville, where he was living when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted for service in behalf of the cause of the Union and went to the front as first sergeant of Piat's Zouaves, attached to the Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with that command served for three years, most of the time in West Virginia, and during that service was shot through the wrist. Upon the completion of his military service he resumed his operations in Cedarville and in 1885 he and his elder son, the subject of this sketch, abandoned the old water-power mill and erected. at Cedarville a steam .saw- and planing-mill and established the present lumber yards there. John M. Tarbox continued actively connected with the affairs of that concern until his retirement then being eighty-six years of age, and living at GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 215 Cedarville. His.wife died. in 1905. She was born, Rachel Nichol, in Belmont county, this state, in 1823, daughter of John Nichol and wife, the latter of whom was a McMechan, and was twelve years of age when her parents settled in Cedarville township in 1835. John Nichol was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, not long after his parents, who were of Scottish descent, had settled there following their immigration from Ireland. They later moved to Belmont county, Ohio. Upon coming to Greene county in 1835 John Nichol bought about five hundred acres of unimproved land west of the village of Cedarville and proceeded to develop the same. He was a practical miller and soon after locating there erected on Massies creek an "up-and-down" water-power saw-mill, which he continued to operate until it was taken over by the Tarbox brothers in the '50s. John Nichol and his wife were members of the old Associate Reformed church on Massies creek, and upon the "union" in 1858 they and their family became members of the United Presbyterian church of that time organized at Cedarville and remained connected with that congregation ever afterward, Mrs. Tarbox at the time of her death in 1905 being the last surviving charter member of that congregation. John Nichol and his wife were the parents of three sons and two daughters, all of whom save Mrs. Tarbox went West. To John M. and Rachel (Nichol) Tarbox were born six children, two of whom died in infancy, the others being Lucy, wife of W. H. Barber, of the Tarbox Lumber Company at Cedarville; Maria, wife of S. K. Williamson, of Cedarville township, a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume; William J., the immediate subject of this biographical sketch, and Thomas, who also is connected with the Tarbox Lumber Company at Cedarville. William J. Tarbox grew up at Cedarville and upon completing his studies in the high school there took a supplemental course in the Miami Business College. From the days of his boyhood he was an assistant in the labors connected with his father's mill and lumber business. Upon leaving school he went to Chicago and was for three years engaged there, working as a carpenter. He then returned home and in 1885 was made a partner in his father's milling and lumber business at Cedarville and has since been connected with that concern. In 1903 this concern was reorganized and incorporated under the laws of the state and has since been doing business as the Tarbox Lumber Company, the present officiary being as follows : President, W. H. Barber; vice-president, B. W. Anderson, and secretary-treasurer and general manager, W. J. Tarbox. William J. Tarbox, general manager of the company, is also the secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Cedarville Realty Company, owners of an important subdivision of the village of Cedarville. 216 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO On March 19, 1885, William J. Tarbox was united in marriage to Mary A. Harbison, who was born in the neighborhood of Clifton, in Miami township, this county, and who is now the only survivor of the family of six children born to her parents, Robert B. and Janet Harbison, both also deceased, and to this union have been born four children : Janet, wife of H. A. Waddele, of Springfield, Ohio; Robert Merrell, who died at the age of five; Rachel, who is teaching in the Ross township high school, and Ellen, who is now a student in Cedarville College. Mr. and Mrs. Tarbox and their daughters are members of the United Presbyterian church and Mr. Tarbox is a ruling elder in the local congregation of that communion at Cedarville. Politically, he is a Republican. REV. HUGH PARKS JACKSON. In the reading of this work relating to the history of Greene county the reader cannot fail to notice the repeated references to the Jackson family, which has been represented in this county for more than a hundred years and the present dean of which is the venerable Rev. Hugh Parks Jackson, for many years one of the best-known figures in the United Presbyterian communion in the United States, now living retired at his pleasant home in Cedarville. The Jacksons had their beginning in this county in the year 1814 with the coming of Robert and Elizabeth (McCorkle) Jackson and their family and the settlement of this family on a farm along Clarks run, where their home was established. Robert Jackson was a native of Ireland, of Scottish descent and of Presbyterian stock, a son of David and Elizabeth (Reed) Jackson, the former of whom was a son by a second marriage of Dr. Joseph Jackson, a physician of Newtown, Limavady, county Derry. Dr. Joseph Jackson was the grandfather of Andrew Jackson, "Old Hickory," and Robert Jackson, the Greene county pioneer, was thus a full cousin of the seventh President of the United States and it is a matter of tradition in the family that there existed a striking physical resemblance between the two. Dr. Joseph Jackson had three brothers who also were physicians in the north of Ireland. He first located at Carrickfergus and afterward at Limavady. He was thrice married and his last wife was the Lady Mary Carr, a sister of Lord James Carr. By his first wife Dr. Joseph Jackson had a son, Andrew, who took part in the revolutionary movement directed by the "United Men" and was compelled to flee the country in 1765. With his wife and two small sons, Hugh and Robert, he came to the American colonies and located in the Wax-haw settlement in North Carolina. There on March 15, 1767, was -born another son, Andrew, who became the seventh President of the United States. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 217 Andrew Jackson, the political refugee, died a few days before the birth of the son who was destined to attain such illustrious distincti0n, and the widow was left with her three small children in dire poverty, the refugee father having .been compelled to flee in secret and unable to realize on his property, which the government confiscated after his flight. By his second wife, Dr. Joseph Jackson had three sons, Hugh, Robert and David, all three of whom also came to the American colonies, but voluntarily and not perforce as did their elder brother Andrew. The last: born of these sons, David Jackson, was born about the year 1730 and about the year 1753 married Elizabeth Reed. To that union were born four children, Mary, Hugh, Robert and James. With this little family David Jackson came to the American colonies in 1762, landing at the port of Philadelphia in the autumn of that year. He settled on a farm in the Edenton neighborhood in Chester county, Pennsylvania, but later moved to a farm in Colraine township, Lancaster county, where his last days were spent. During the progress of the Revolutionary War David Jackson served as a soldier in the patriot army and lost a hand at the battle of Trenton when a cannon ball came along, killed one of his comrades with whom he was talking at the time and struck the gun which he was holding, cutting his hand nearly off. He wrapped his lacerated wrist with his handkerchief, walked to an ox-cart loaded with wounded men, mounted it and with one hand drove it three miles to a place of safety. This circumstance ended his soldier career, but he often in later life held up the stump wrist to his grandsons with the injunction : "Boys, never disgrace the flag of your country !" David and Elizabeth (Reed) Jackson were both buried at Oxford, Pennsylvania. Robert Jackson, third child of David and Elizabeth (Reed) Jackson, was born at Newton, Limavady, County Derry, Ireland, in 1758, and was therefore but four years of age when he came with his parents to this country in 1762 and was eighteen years of age when the American colonists announced their immortal Declaration of independence. He took an active part in the resultant War of the Revolution and in one battle, in which the company to which he was attached was engaged, had a narrow escape from British bullets which splintered, the rail fence behind which he and his comrades were answering the fire of their opponents. In the spring of 1786 Robert Jackson married Elizabeth McCorkle, an orphan, whose father had been killed while serving as a soldier of the Revolution and whose mother had died not long afterward, she later being cared for by a Quaker family in Lancaster county, where she grew to womanhood and married. In 1789, three years after their marriage, Robert Jackson and his wife moved from Lancaster county, going with 'what is said to have been the first wagon train drawn by oxen that ever crossed the mountains westward, and located on a 218 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO farm at the forks of the Yough inWestmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where they put in their lot with the congregation of the Associate Reformed faith that had effected a settlement at Yough. There they remained until 1799, in which year they sold their farm there and came over into the Territory- of Ohio, settling on a farm about two miles southeast of Mt. Pleasant in Jefferson county, where they remained until they came to Greene county in 1814, the object of the move being to seek better church privileges and a better farm. They also were tired of the hills. Robert Jackson and his wife and daughters came down in a boat with the household goods to Cincinnati and thence up here by wagon train, while the two sons, David and Robert, drove a six-horse team through loaded with farming utensils and the like, the distance from Mt. Pleasant to Clarks run being at least two hundred miles, and it was thus that the Jackson family came to Greene county and became a continuing force for good in the Cedarville neighborhood. Elizabeth (McCorkle) Jackson died there on September 28, 1822, and was buried in the Massiescreek (Stevenson) burying ground. Robert Jackson survived his wife for more than six years, his death occurring at the home of his son David, one mile west of Cedarville, September 26, 1828, he then being seventy years of age, and he was laid beside his wife in the Massiescreek graveyard. Before coming to this county he had served as a ruling elder in the Associate Reformed congregation of "Short Creek," in the log church two miles southeast of Mt. Pleasant, and after coming here was made an elder in the congregation of the Associate Reform church, now the First United Presbyterian church, at Xenia. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, namely : Margaret, who died in infancy; Jane, who married Thomas Henderson (to which union thirteen children were born), and in 1840 moved to Iowa ; Elizabeth, who died unmarried at the age of twenty years; Mary, who was twice married, her first husband having been Joseph Caldwell and her second, John Pollock,. and. who was. the mother of .fifteen children, eight by her first marriage and seven by the second; David, who was the father of the immediate subject of this sketch and of whom more anon; Rachel, who became the wife of Judge Samuel Kyle, for thirty years associate judge of the court of Greene county, to which union there were born fifteen children; Gen. Robert Jackson, who became one of Greene county's foremost public men and who married Minerva Eddy and had twelve children; Eleanor, who married William Kendall and had six children; Martha, who married William Lawhead, who moved to Logan county, and had seven children, and Nancy, wh0 married William Bull and moved West, her last days being spent in Texas. She was the mother of eight children. Of the eighty-four grandchildren of Robert and Eliabeth (McCorkle) Jackson, the majority, of course, in the normal course of well-ordered families, married and had children of GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 219 their own, hence it is apparent that the Jackson connection. in the present-gene- ration is one of the most numerous of any of the old families of Greene county. In 1890 the Rev. Hugh Parks Jackson worked out a quite comprehensive genealogical narrative relating to this family, the same making a book of one hundred and twenty-five pages, and an amplification of that volume to cover the numbers that have been added to the great family since that time truly would make an interesting volume. David Jackson, fifth in order of birth of the ten children born to Robert and Elizabeth (McCorkle) Jackson, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1794, and grew to be a stalwart man of a height of six feet two inches and of a weight of two hundred pounds. Though but eighteen years of age when the War of 1812 broke out, he rendered service as a soldier and for three months served as adjutant of his company in northern Ohio. He was twenty years of age when he came with the family to Greene county and was nearly twenty-five years of age, when, on February 25, 1819, he was united in marriage to Nancy. Nichol; a daughter of John and Ann (Woodburn) Nichol, residents of the Bridgeport neighborhood in Belmont county, this state. Following their marriage David Jackson and his wife went to housekeeping in a house just south of the Jackson home on Clarks run and there lived for nine years, at the end of which time Mr. Jackson bought a farm of one hundred and seventy-two acres one mile west of the village of. Cedarville, paying for the same three dollars an acre, and in March, 1828, moved onto that farm, which in time he developed into an excellent piece of property and on which he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there on July 17, 1863. His widow survived him for more than thirteen years, her death occurring on September 12, 1876, she then being past seventy-seven years of age, and she was buried beside the body of her husband in the Massies creek graveyard. They were -among charter -members' of the Associate. Reformed (now United Presbyterian) church at Cedarville and their house was one of the chief stopping places of the preachers who came to supply the pulpit of that church. It has been written of this earnest couple that "meals were not more regular in their home than family worship morning and evening, and their children were early indoctrinated in the principles of Christianity and sound morality." There were eight of these children, four sons and four daughters, of whom the subject of this biographical review was the last-born, the others being the following: Eliza Ann, born on December 24, 1819, who married John F. Wright and. had one child, a son, Andrew J., who died in childhood; Martha, December 11, 1820, who died unmarried in 1841; George, March 19, 1823, who married, Minerva Townsley and had two daughters, Martha Joanna, who married Judge James P. 220 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Rodgers, and Frances Ladora, who married R. Finley Kerr ; Ruth L., January 3, 1826, Who married Samuel N. Tarbox and had seven children, John J., Thomas F., Theodore H., Harry L., David N., Lida, O. and C. Waldo; John Ross, February 3, 1828, who in 1859 started on a tour of exploration in the Southwest and died in the fall of that year in New Mexico; Mary, October 22, 1830, who married David S. Barber and had seven children, Martha D., Estella Mary, Robert Benton, Lydia L., David Wallace, George Hall and one who died in infancy ; and Robert McCorkle, June 11, 1834, who married Kate Ann Williamson and made his home on a farm two miles west of Cedarville. Robert McCorkle Jackson was a music teacher and a violinist of skill and for years was chorister of the United Presbyterian church at Cedarville. During the Civil War he served as a member of the local militia company and was thus one of the "squirrel hunters" who were called to Cincinnati in 1862 to repel Kirby Smith's threatened invasion. Hugh Parks Jackson, the last-born and now the only survivor of the eight children born to David and Nancy (Nichol) Jackson, was born on the home farm west of Cedarville on April 18, 1836, and like his father and his grandfather, grew to be a stalwart man, six feet and four inches in height and of a weight of two hundred pounds. He grew up on the farm and when sixteen years of age entered Cedarville Academy, in which he was prepared for college, and later entered Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, from which institution he was graduated in June, 1859. He then taught a c0uple of terms of school and in the fall of 1860 entered the Theological Seminary at Xenia, with a view to preparation for the ministry of the United Presbyterian church. His studies at the seminary were interrupted by the. breaking out of the Civil War, his service with the "squirrel hunters" taking him. to Cincinnati in 1862. During the spring of 1864 he served for three months in the Christian Commission and had charge of the office of that commission at Huntsville, Alabama, rendering also other service at Nashville, Columbia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. In the meantime he had continued his studies in the Xenia Theological Seminary, in which he got three years of study, taught another term of school in his old home district and in the winter of 1864-65 attended the Theological Seminary at Allegheny City. On March 28, 1865, he was licensed to preach by Xenia .presbytery and in the summer of that year was engaged in preaching in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, presently accepting a call extended to him by the congregation of the United Presbyterian church at Waterford, in Erie county, Pennsylvania, being installed there, his first pastorate, December 19, 1865. Two months later he married and established his home at Waterford, continuing his pastorate there until his resignation in September, 1869, on account of failing health. Upon leaving Waterford Mr. Jackson returned to his home GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 221 county and the following winter was spent at Xenia. In the spring he returned to his home farm near Cedarville and there resumed his residence with his widowed mother, in the afterward happily realized belief that the life of the farm would restore him to his normal physical state. For four 'years thereafter Mr. Jackson .supplied vacancies in pulpits not too remote from his home, taught school and for some time served as superintendent of the Cedarville schools. In the spring of 1875, finding his health restored, he accepted a call from the congregation of the Carmel United Presbyterian church at Hanover, overlooking the Ohio river, in Jefferson county, Indiana, and with his family moved to that place, remaining there until the fall of 1889, when he demitted his charge of Carmel and moved with his family to Greenfield, in Highland county, this state, where he took charge of the United Presbyterian church in that town, and there remained until his return in 1914 to Cedarville, his old home, where he has since lived retired from the active ministry. As noted in the introduction to this sketch, the Rev. Hugh Parks Jackson has for years been recognized as one of the leading figures in the communion which he has so faithfully served since the days of his boyhood. For thirteen years he was .stated clerk of the Indiana United Presbyterian presbytery and in 1881 was moderator of the second synod of the West. Mr. Jackson has for many years been deeply interested in the history of this section of Ohio, has written voluminously for the local press on subjects of a historical character relating to the development of this region and on the occasion of Cedarville's centennial celebration wrote a most illuminating monograph on the history of that fine old village. On February 14, 1866, the Rev. Hugh Parks Jackson was united in marriage to Mrs. Margaret J. (Frazier) Dunlap, widow of William M. Dunlap, of Cincinnati, and daughter of J. F. Frazier, a Cedarville dry-goods merchant, and who by her first marriage was the mother of one child, a son, William M. Dunlap, born on February 17, 1862, who was educated at Hanover College, became editor of the Western World at Sea Haven, Washington, and died on November 26, 1902. To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson five children were born, namely : Lilla Corinne, born on December 23, 1866. who was educated at Hanover College, married Hugh P. Morrow, of Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1893, and died on August 15, 1895; Robert Stuart, July 5, 1868, who also was educated at Hanover and who is now living at Columbus, Ohio; George Whitney, March 28, 1870, who was graduated from Monmouth College in 1891 and died on August 14, 1904; Mabel Snow, March 29, 1872, who was graduated from the high school at Greenfield in 1892 and in 1894 married Walter R. Whiteman, now auditor in the New York office of Swift & Company, and has two children, Margaret and Walter Hugh; and Bertha Rogers, December 24, 1873, who also completed her schooling at Greenfield. 222 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO JOHN ALEXANDER HARBISON. The late John Alexander Harbison, for years one of Cedarville township's farmers and dairymen, who died at his farm home on Clarks run in the fall of 1914 and whose widow is now living at Cedarville, was born on that farm and there spent all his life with the exception. of a period of four Years spent at Findlay, where he was engaged during that time in the lime and crushed-stone business. He was born on March 31, 1857, son and only child of James and Margaret (King) Harbison,. the latter of whom also was born in this county, daughter of John and Helen (Aird) King, and both of whom spent their last -days on their place on Clarks run. James Harbison was born in the Chester district of South Carolina and was thirteen years of age when his parents, John and Jane (Bingham) Harbison, earnest Covenanters, came out here in the fall of 1826 and established their home on Clarks run, having been .attracted, to this settlement, as were numerous Others of the Chester district folk, on account of the congenial church fellowship assured them here: John Harbison, the pioneer, also was born in South Carolina, February 27, 1782, a son of James and Elizabeth (McElroy) Harbison, the former of whom was born in Ireland, of Scottish descent, and the latter, in the colony of Virginia. Both spent their last days in South Carolina. John Harbison became a substantial farmer on Clarks run and there spent his last days, his death occurring in April, 1861, he then being in the eightieth year of his age. His widow survived him for more than three years, her death occurring on August 17, 1864. Her father was a soldier of the Revolution and was wounded during service. James Harbison grew to manhood on that pioneer farm on Clarks run and in turn became a farmer on his own account, becoming the owner of a farm of one hundred and fifty-six acres, on which he erected a dwelling house facing the Clifton and Xenia pike and there lived the rest of his life. James Harbis0n was twice married. His first wife, Sarah Miller, died leaving one child who died a few months later. In 1852 he married Margaret King, who was born in this county, daughter of John and Helen (Aird) King, the former of whom was a son of Mark King, of Jedbury, Scotland, and to that union was born one son, the subject of this Memorial sketch. They also reared to womanhood, Maud Imboden, whom they had taken into their household when she was five years of age. John Alexander Harbison grew to manhood on the farm on Clarks run on which he was born, eventually inherited the same and there spent his last days. He received his schooling in the local schools and from the days of his boyhood was a valued aid to -his' father, the management of the home farm long before his father's death being turned over to him. After his mar- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 223 riage he established his home there and with the exception. of four years which, as noted above, were spent in the lime and crushed-stone business at Findlay, he spent all his life there, his death occurring on September 5, 1914. In addition to his general farming Mr. Harbison also for some years was engaged in the dairy business, keeping a herd of Guernseys. Though reared a Democrat, Mr. Harbison early espoused the principles of the Republican party and served for two terms as township trustee. In his views on religion he ever maintained the faith of his fathers, was a member of the Reformed Presbyterian. (Covenanter) church at Cedarville and for .years served as a member of its board of trustees. The old family Bible, brought from Ireland by his great-grandfather, came down to him and is still sacredly cherished in the family. Mr. Harbison was twice married. His first wife died on December 8, 1887, without issue. She was Ella Reid, daughter of John and Hanna Reid, the former of whom lost his life while serving as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War. On November 18, 1890, Mr. Harbison was united in marriage to Mary Elizabeth Cooper, who also was born in this county, daughter of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Weir) Cooper, both of whom also were born in this county, the former in Cedarville township and the latter in Xenia township, and who established their home on a farm on the lower Bellbrook pike in Xenia township, where Mary Elizabeth (Cooper). Harbison was born. Both the Coopers and the Weirs are old families in Greene county, the progenitors of the respective families here having been among the Chester district folk who came over here from South Carolina in the early days of the settlement and helped establish that sterling old Covenanter community that has for a century and more been the dominant social factor in the Cedarville neighborhood. Ebenezer Cooper was a son of John A. and Agnes (King) Cooper, Covenanters, who settled in the Stormont neighborhood in Cedarville township. There Ebenezer Cooper grew to manhood. He married Elizabeth Weir, daughter of Alexander Weir and wife, also Chester district folk and Covenanters, who had settled in Xenia township, and after his marriage made his home on the Weir place on the lower Bellbrook pike. To that union were born two children, Mrs. Harbison and her brother, John Cooper, the 'latter of whom lives just on the western edge of Xenia on the Dayton pike. The mother of these children died in 1861 and Ebenezer Cooper later married Sarah Polen and moved to Crawford county, Illinois, and there spent his last days, but he was brought back and buried in Massies creek cemetery at Cedarville. By his second marriage he was the father of three children, namely Harry L. Cooper, who is living at Jeffersonville; Illinois ; Mrs. Irene McConnell, of Indianapolis, and Albert Cooper, of Robinson, Illinois. 224 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO To John A. and Mary Elizabeth (Cooper) Harbison were born two daughters, Reba Irene, now a student in Cedarville College and living with her widowed mother in Cedarville, and Pauline, who died in 1903, she then being seven years of age. For some time after her husband's death Mrs. Harbison continued to make her home on the home farm and then gave up that place of residence, rented her farm and moved to Cedarville, where she and her daughter have since made their home. PERRY M. STEWART. Perry M. Stewart, president of the Miami Deposit Bank of Yellow Springs, this county, and former treasurer of Clark county, is a native son of the Buckeye state and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of the village of Selma, in Greene township, in the neighboring county of Clark, July 6, 1866, son of the Hon. Perry and Rhoda (Wheeler) Stewart, both of whom also were born in that county, the former on June 6, 1818, and the latter, December 30, 1824, and whose last days were spent at Springfield, county seat of their home county. The Hon. Perry Stewart, a veteran of the Civil War, a former member of the board of county commissioners of his home county and a one-time representative in the state Legislature from that district, spent all his life in his home county. He was born on a pioneer farm in Greene township and there grew to manhood, becoming in time a substantial farmer on his own account. On October 15, 1844, he was united in marriage to Rhoda Wheeler, who also was born in that county, and after his marriage established his home on the old home farm, where he was living when the Civil War broke out. He helped to raise a company and went to the front in 1862 as captain of Company A, Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with that company served until the close of the war in 1865. Upon the completion of his military service Captain Stewart returned home and resumed his farming operations, in which he became quite successful. He was an active Republican and took an interested part in local public affairs, for six years representing his district as a member of the board of county commissioners. He later was elected to represent his legislative district in the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly and so satisfactory was his service in that connection that he was re-elected and thus served for two terms in that important office. Upon his retirement from the active duties of the farm Captain Stewart moved to Springfield, where both he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, her death occurring there in July,