GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 225 1904, and his, in 1907. They were the parents of ten children, namely : Henrietta E., wife of James Hatfield, of Greene township, Clark county; Julia A., now living in California, widow of Robert N. Elder; David W., who married Amanda McClintock and is living in Clark county ; John T., who married Anna M. Keifer and is now living in Houston, Texas ; Mary E., who married Samuel H. Kerr and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased ; Charles F., a member of the present board of county commissioners of Clark county, who married Clara Garlough and is living at Springfield.; Jane, who married George Nicholson and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased; Jessie, who died at the age of four years; Perry M., the subject of this biographical sketch, and E. Wheeler, who married Nettie Shobe and is living on a farm in the neighborhood of the old home in Greene township. Perry M. Stewart was reared on the home farm in Clark county and upon completing the course in the local common school entered Antioch College and there studied for two years. For a few years thereafter he continued his place on the farm, taking the active management of the same for his father and then gave up farming and became engaged in the mercantile business in the neighboring village of Selma, employed there in a grocery and general merchandise store, and was thus engaged there for two years, at the end of which time he accepted a position as deputy in the office of the county auditor at Springfield, where he remained for two years, 1893-95, later accepting a position as deputy county treasurer and thus continued in the court house for another four years. In 1900 Mr. Stewart was elected county treasurer, his term of office beginning in 1901, and this gave him another four-years tenure in the court house at Springfield. Upon the completion of that term of service, in 1905, he moved to Yellow Springs, helped to organize there the Miami Deposit Bank and has ever since been engaged in the banking business at that place. The Miami Deposit Bank was organized with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars and has done well, as will be noted in a review of that sound financial institution presented in the historical section of this work. Mr. Stewart is a thirty-second-degree (Scottish Rite) Mason, affiliated with the consistory at Dayton, and is also a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias. Politically, he is a Republican. On October 16, 1901, Perry M. Stewart was united in marriage to Irene B. Black, daughter of Charles R. and Mary A. Black, of Linden, Ross county, Ohio, and to this union have been born three children, Mildred, born in 1903; Russell B., 1905, and Mary E., 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are numbers of the Presbyterian church. (14) 226 - GREENE CoUNTY, oHIO ANDREW WINTER, M. D. Andrew Winter was a practicing physician in the town of Cedarville from 1864 until his death in 1891, a period of thirty-seven years. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on August 18, 1820, he grew to manhood in his native state, practiced medicine in Columbia, South Carolina, until 1861, but on the breaking out of the Civil War he immediately left the state and went to Tennessee where he joined the Union army and served until 1864, coming in the latter year to Cedarville where he made his home until his death. Such, in brief, is the main thread of the life history of Dr. Andrew Winter. Doctor Winter was a son of Andrew and Hannah (Baxter) Winter, his mother being a lineal descendant of the great reformer. The senior Andrew was a merchant and a man of means, dying about 1833 in Fayetteville at the age of eighty odd years, being over seventy years of age at the time of the birth of his son Andrew. The senior Andrew was married twice, his second wife, Hannah Baxter, being younger than his son by the first marriage. The second marriage resulted in six children, four daughters and two sons, but all were deceased by 1860 except Doctor Winter. Doctor Winter received his elementary education at Pendleton, South Carolina, his collegiate education at Erskine College in that state, and his medical education in the Charleston Medical College. He was a very studious youth and when still a mere lad was being tutored by a French physician in his home town. He was only twenty-one when he graduated from the medical college, the year 1841 finding him settled in the county seat of the northwestern county of South Carolina for the practice of his profession. About 1851 he removed to Columbia, South Carolina, where he practiced and at the same time became heavily interested with a partner in an iron foundry in the city. Doctor Winter was as stanch an Abolitionist as his father before him. He never owned any slaves, although on one occasion he bought some slaves and immediately gave them their freedom, having purchased them in order to keep a few Negro families from being separated. The fact that he hated slavery the way he did accounts for the fact that at midnight of the day that South Carolina seceded from the Union he left the state never to return. He went direct to Tennessee, intending to go to the North and volunteer in the Union army. When he reached Tennessee he found a Union regiment being recruited, the first in the state, and he at once enlisted in Company A, First Regiment. It should be said in passing that he would have been killed if he had dared to remain in South Carolina, and as it was, he had no sooner left the state, than the Confederates confiscated his iron foundry and were soon making rifles and other munitions of war in it. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 227 Doctor Winter was at first only a private in the ranks, serving as such for a few months. He was in the first battle of Bull Run, and, with a small group of soldiers, was shortly after captured while detailed to burn some bridges and plated in a Confederate prison. He soon escaped and rejoined the Union army at Mill Spring, Kentucky, in time to participate in the sanguinary engagement at that place. After the battle he was assisting with the wounded, still in the capacity of a private soldier, when one of the surgeons said to him, "You must have had experience before in this. profession." He then told the surgeon that he had practiced for more than twenty years, and within a few days he was appointed assistant surgeon with the rank of first .lieutenant. Two months later he was promoted and made surgeon of the Fourth East Tennessee Infantry, a position which he held until after the Union forces retreated from Cumberland Gap under General George Morgan. About this time his health began to fail, and he became so ill at Gallipolis, Ohio, that he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps. His health not improving he was forced to resign on August 28, 1864. Immediately after leaving the army Doctor Winter went to Columbus, Ohio, where he intended to locate for the practice of his profession. In that city he met some men from Cedarville who persuaded him to locate in that town, assuring him that it offered a splendid opening for a good physician. He reached the town on October 4, 1864, and made that town his home the remainder of his days. Four years after coming to the town he was married to Nancy Turnbull, their marriage occurring in April, 1868. To this union were born three children : Elizabeth B., Isabelle and Andrew. Elizabeth married C. E. Nisbit, and lives in Loveland, Ohio, where her husband is a postal clerk and also interested in a seed and feed store. Isabelle is unmarried and is now teacher in the high school at Painesville, Ohio. The one son, Andrew, the third of the family to carry the name, is single. He lives with his widowed mother in Cedarville and operates his mother's farm of one hundred and fifty-seven acres near the town. Doctor Winter was a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian church. The wife of Doctor Winter was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Kyle) Turnbull, and was born in April, 1841, on her father's farm three miles, from Cedarville. She attended the district school until she was fourteen years of age, when her parents moved to Cedarville, after which she attended the famous Grove school, a private institution. Her father was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1806 and died in Cedarville township on May 1, 1843. Her mother, a daughter of Samuel Kyle, was born on February 16, 1807, on the old Kyle homestead, now owned by Silas Murdock, and died in Cedarville on February 8, 1885. Thomas Turnbull, the father of the wife of Doctor Winter, was a son 228 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO of William Turnbull, the latter a native of Scotland, who lived there until he was about forty years of age. He was a shepherd in his native country, following that occupation until he came to America about 1795 and settled near Nashville, Tennessee. He was not married until after he came to this country. He lived in Tennessee until 1810 and in that year came by wagon to Cedarville township and located on the Xenia-Columbus pike at the corner where the East Point school house is now located, about three miles southwest of Cedarville. William Turnbull built the large solid stone house at the forks of the road in 1821, the date being on the house. It is now owned by the Fowler family. William Turnbull and wife were the parents of nine children : Alexander, Thomas (father of Mrs. Winter), Gilbert, John (married Margaret Kyle and settled in Cedarville township), James, David, Betsy (married Joseph Sterratt), Isabell (married John Chalmers). About 1833 William Turnbull and three of his sons—Alexander, Gilbert and David—went West and settled at Monmouth, Illinois, where their descendants are still living. Thomas Turnbull, the father of Mrs. Winter, was four years of age when his parents came to Greene county from Tennessee. He grew up on the farm and after marriage bought a farm of two hundred acres in the township on the Federal pike. He died on the farm at the age of thirty-seven, May 1843, leaving his widow with four children : Catherine, who married Dr. Greer, both now being deceased; Isabell, who died unmarried in 1902; Mrs: Winter, the widow of Dr. Winter ; Thomas H.. who died in infancy in 1843. After her husband's death Mrs. Turnbull moved into Cedarville where she lived until her death on February 8, 1885, having been a widow for forty-two years. WILLIAM ALBERT GALLOWAY, M. D. Dr. William Albert Galloway, of Xenia, was born in that city and has lived there all his life, a member of one of the very oldest families in this county, the Galloways having been prominently represented here since the days of the very beginning of the Xenia settlement, or from the time that James Galloway, Sr., a soldier of the Revolution and an Indian fighter, companion of Daniel Boone, came into the valley of the Little Miami with his family from Kentucky in 1n; and settled in the vicinity of the Indian village, or Chillicothe, now and for many years known as Oldtown, just north of the city of Xenia. James Galloway, Sr., the pioneer, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Cumberland county on May 1, 1750, a son of George and Rebecca (Junkin) Galloway, natives of Scotland, who were among the influential members GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 229 of the Scottish community in that section of the then colony of Pennsylvania and comprised within the bounds of Cumberland county. George Galloway was one of a family of seven brothers, the others having been -Samuel, John, William, James,. Peter and Thomas, who made a settlement in the vicinity of what came to be known as the spring of the great Indian chief, Logan, in what is now Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. There George Galloway spent his last days, his death occurring on August 3, 1783. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, five sons and four daughters, William, Joseph, .John, Samuel, James, Jane, Margaret, Martha and Sarah. Of this number James Galloway, the Greene county pioneer, came to this section of the then Territory of Ohio in 1797, as noted above and as set out at length elsewhere in this work, and here established his home, settling on the west bank of the Little Miami, in the Oldtown vicinity, about five miles north of where Xenia later came to be established. About 1776, after his service in the Revolution, he removed from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, to Lexington, Kentucky, remaining a citizen of that territory till 1797. It was during this period that he took part in the expeditions of Kentucky troops against the Shawnee Indians at Old Chillicothe, in 1782 and 1784, and determined, whenever peace was declared with them, to found the family home near Old Chillicothe. When Greene county was organized in 1803 he was elected first treasurer of the county, an office he filled for more than fifteen years. It has been written of him that "he was a man of deep religious convictions, and those convictions he carried out in life by doing acts of kindness to his neighbors and in working for the good of humanity. To him is the psalm-singing portion of the community under obligation for his untiring efforts in bringing first to the county the Rev. Robert Armstrong [see history of United Presbyterian churches in Greene county] and other preachers of that faith, and making his home theirs. During his long and useful life he was ever ready to help those deserving of help. James Galloway died on August 6, 1838, at the ripe old age of eighty-eight years, and was buried in the Massiescreek burying ground. He was twice married and by his first wife, Rebecca Junkin, who was of the family from which his mother also came, was the father of ten children, eight sons and two daughters, George, James, Joseph, William, Samuel, Andrew, Anthony, John, Rebecca and Ann. Rebecca Junkin Galloway was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1759, was married to James Galloway on November 23, 1778, died in Greene county on August 31, 1812, and was buried in the Massiescreek burying ground. On April 13, 1817, James Galloway married, secondly, Tamar Wilson, of this county, who died without issue. Rebecca Galloway, elder of the two daughters born to James and Rebecca ( Junkin) Galloway, was born in the old block house in the vicinity 230 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO of Lexington, Kentucky, October 7, 1791, and was about six years of age when she came into the valley of the Little Miami with her parents in 1797. Here she grew to womanhood and married her cousin,. George Galloway, who was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1784, son of Joseph Galloway, brother of James Galloway and the father of eleven children, namely : George, John, William, Jane, Isabel, Joseph, James, Sophia, Ann Eliza, Agnes and Elizabeth. George Galloway and his wife established their home in Xenia township, five miles east of Xenia. His death occurred there on January 29, 1857, and hers, February 25, 1876. They were the parents of six children, James Collins, Madison, William, Ann, Martha and Eleanor. James Collins Galloway, eldest of the six children born to George and Rebecca (Galloway) Galloway, was born on a farm in the vicinity of Xenia, June 30, 1817, and was there reared to manhood. From the days of his boyhood he gave particular attention to his studies and in after life became one of the strongest factors in the work of elevating the educational standards of this region, his efforts having done much toward promoting the work of organizing a common-school system hereabout. Reared a Seceder, he was a man of pronounced religious convictions, an earnest and active Abolitionist, and organized the first Sabbath school for freedmen in this county. Reared a Whig, he became a member of the Republican party upon the organization of the same and ever afterward was an ardent adherent of the principles of that party. On November 18, 1841, James Collins Galloway was united in marriage to Mary Ann Kendall, who also was born in Xenia township, May 12, 1822, daughter of William and Eleanor (Jackson) Kendall, the latter of whom was a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (McCorkle) Jackson, pioneers of Greene county, and further and fitting mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, together with a quite comprehensive genealogical statement relative to the Jackson family in this county. William Kendall was born at Stony Creek, Kentucky, in 1795, son of Robert and Nancy (Wilson) Kendall, Pennsylvanians, the former born in 1752 and the latter, in 1770, who had settled in Kentucky. Robert Kendall died on October 12, 1843, and his widow survived him for nearly ten years, her death occurring on February 18, 1852. They were the parents of ten children, William, John, James, Francis, Milton, Newton, Martha, Ann, Isabel and Nancy, and descendants of this family, as well as those of the Galloway's, the Jacksons, the Wilsons and the Junkinses form a numerous connection throughout this section of Ohio in the present generation. William Kendall was a tanner by trade and upon establishing his home in this county, he having at one time been the owner of the tract now covered by Wilberforce University, carried on quite an extensive tannery business in addition to his GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 231 farming. His wife, Eleanor Jackson, was born in what is now Jefferson county, this state, March 15, 1800, and died at her home in the Xenia neighborhood on June 6, 1888. He had preceded her to the grave some years, his death having occurred on August 6, 1879. They were the parents of six children, the Rev. Clark Kendall, Robert, Henry, Mary Ann, Eliza and Caroline. James Collins Galloway died at his home in, Xenia on November 28, 1899. His wife's death occurred on September 0, 1892. To James Collins and Mary Ann (Kendall) Galloway were born four children, of whom Doctor Galloway, the immediate subject of this biographical review, was the last-born, the others having been : Clark Madison, born on April 20, 1843 ; Alethia Ellen, March 27, 1846, and Rebecca Alice, December 28, 1851. The late Dr. Clark Madison Galloway, a veteran of the Civil War and for years one of the leading physicians and men of affairs in Xenia, who died at his home in that city in 1913, was but eighteen years of age when the Civil War broke out. In the spring of 1864 he enlisted for the hundred-days service as a member of Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and upon the completion of that service re-enlisted and returned to the front as a member of Company G, One Hundred and Eighty-first Ohio, with which he served until the close of the war and while thus serving was present when Johnston surrendered to General Sherman at Raleigh. Upon- his return home he completed his local schooling in the old Xenia College and in 1869 entered Miami University, from which he was graduated in 1871. For four years thereafter he was engaged as professor of Greek, Latin and mathematics at Xenia College and in 1875 entered the Medical College of Ohio, having meanwhile given his serious attention to the study of medicine and surgery, and was graduated from that institution in 1877, immediately afterward opening an office for the practice of his profession at Xenia and was thus engaged in that city the rest of his life, from the year 1890 having as an associate in his practice his younger brother, Dr. W. A. Galloway. For eight years the elder Doctor Galloway was coroner of Greene county, for more than twenty years a member of the local board of pension examiners, for twelve years a member of the city board of education, for three years physician and surgeon .to the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, for two years a member of the local board of health, for two years a member of the city council and for two years, 1891-92, was medical director of the Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, an active member of Lewis Post No. 347, Grand Army of the Republic, and of Nathaniel Greene Chapter, Sons of the Revolution. By religious persuasion he was a Presbyterian; politically, was a Republican and, fraternally, was a member of the Masonic order as well as an active and influential affiliate of the Greene 232 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO County Medical Society and of the Ohio State Medical Society. Alethia Ellen Galloway was graduated from Xenia College in 1864 and in that same year was married to William J. Parrett, of Lyndon, this state. Her two children, Carrie Dell and Clark Sherman, were graduated from Wooster University. Rebecca Alice Galloway, who on February 6, 1896, was married to Henry Harrison Eavey, of Xenia, was graduated from Xenia College in 1873, later attended Antioch. College and until her marriage was engaged as a teacher in the Xenia schools. She is a past regent of Catherine Greene Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and past Ohio state federation secretary of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs. Reared at Xenia, the city of his birth, William Albert Galloway supplemented the schooling received at Oldtown Run district school by attendance at Antioch College, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then entered the Medical College of Ohio, and in March, 1890, was graduated from that institution, immediately thereafter becoming associated with his brother, Dr. C. M. Galloway, in the practice of his profession at Xenia, and continuing thus associated until the death of his brother in 1913, since which time he has carried on his practice alone. For years Dr. W. A. Galloway has taken an active interest in the general affairs of his home community and when the draft board was created in this county in the spring of 1917 in connection with this nation's war activities he was appointed one of the three members of the board and made head of the medical section of the same. He also was appointed chairman of the military supplies department of the Greene county chapter of the American Red Cross. It is a matter of considerable l0cal pride to know that the organization of Red Cross activities in this county has been pronounced to be the most effective of any county organization in the state as based upon comparative results accomplished. Doctor Galloway has for years been one of the most active and influential friends of Wilberforce University and as president of the board of trustees of the Combined Normal and Industrial Department of that institution since 1896 has rendered a service to the university that will ever remain a monument to his skill as an organizer and director, an appreciation of his services in that connection having been the naming of Galloway Hall, the largest building on the campus, in his honor. The Doctor is a member of the Greene County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the Mississippi Valley Medical Association and is a frequent contributor to medical journals. On April 2, 1891, at Newark, this state, Dr. W. A. Galloway was united in marriage to Maude Evelyn Lyon, only daughter of the Hon. William C. and Evelyn (Spitzer) Lyon, the former of whom was lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1888 to 1890, and to this union three children have been born, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 233 namely : Evelyn Helen, born on February 8, 1893; William Lyon, March 29, 1895, and Elizabeth Mary, May 21, 1902; all of whom are members of the Presbyterian church. Doctor Galloway is a Mason and a member of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the Revolution, long corresponding secretary of the local chapter of the latter organization. In 190 he made an extended tour of Europe, during which he attended the performance of the Passion Play at Oberamergau. In 1908 the degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him by Antioch College, and the same year the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred by Wilberforce University, both degrees in recognition of educational services. In 1913 on the death of his brother, Dr. C M. Galloway, he succeeded the latter as member of the Greene county board of United States examining surgeons. JOSEPH P. ELTON. Joseph P. Elton, superintendent of the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans' Home at Xenia, was born in the vicinity of Hillsboro, county seat of Highland county, Ohio, January 17, 1864, son of George S. and Mary M. (Patton) Elton, the latter of whom, a native of that same county, is still living, now a resident of New Vienna, in the neighboring county of Clinton. George S. Elton was born in the state of New Jersey and was but eight years of age when he came to Ohio with his parents, the family settling in the neighborhood of Hillsboro., in Highland county. There he grew to manhood and after his marriage established his home there. He was a blacksmith and continued engaged in that business until his retirement. His death occurred there in 1913, he then being past eighty-two years of age. His widow, now a resident of New Vienna, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as was her husband. George S. Elton and wife were the parents of ten children, five of whom are now deceased, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Charles Elton, who is engaged in the hotel business at New Vienna, and three sisters, Sallie, wife of Charles Ridgeway, of Hillsboro; Elizabeth, wife of Henry Saunders, a farmer of Highland county, and Addie, who is living with her mother at New Vienna. Joseph P. Elton received a common-school education and was early trained, under the direction of his father, to the trade of blacksmith. In 1897 he was appointed deputy probate clerk of Highland county, under Judge O. H. Hughes, and served in that capacity until his election three years later to the office of sheriff of that county, where he served two terms. In 1904 he became engaged in the hardware business at Hillsboro and was thus engaged for eighteen months, at the end of which time he turned his attention to the steam laundry business and was thus engaged until his election to the office of mayor 234 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO of Hillsboro, which office he held for something more than a year, or until his appointment, in May, 1909, to the important position of superintendent of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia. Superintendent Elston occupied that position until July, 1916, when his successor was appointed, but a year later, in July, 1917, he was recalled to the post and is again serving as superintendent. Superintendent Elton is a Democrat and has served as a member of the Democratic state central committee. On December 28, 1899, Joseph P. Elton was united in marriage to Margaret McLaren, who also was born in Highland county, daughter of Thomas and Margaret McLaren, both of whom are still living. ROY C. HAYWARD. Roy C. Hayward, auditor for the city of Xenia, a former member of the common council of that city and formerly and for years actively engaged in business there, was born in the neighboring county of Clark and has lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the city of Springfield on October 27, 1881, son of Charles R. and Cora (Coffin) Hayward, both of whom were born in that same county, and he was reared in the household of his maternal grandfather, Elijah G. Coffin, for-. merly warden of the Ohio state penitentiary at Columbus. Charles R. Hayward and wife were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Swayne G. Hayward, born on March 23, 1883, who married Bessie Cohan and is now living at Springfield, where he is connected with the local agency of R. G. Dun & Company at that point. Reared at Springfield and at Columbus, Roy C. Hayward completed his common-school education in the high school in the latter city and then took a course in a business college at Columbus. He afterward returned to Springfield and not long after became engaged as a motorman on the Springfield & Dayton Traction Railway, continuing thus engaged for four years,. at the end of which time he became employed as a clerk in the Frazer shoe store at Xenia.. Mr. Hayward remained in the shoe store for more than eight years. He then, in partnership with C. F. Taylor, bought the Wilkins & Snyder cigar store, continuing his interest in that concern until December 18, 1917, when he sold out in order to prepare to give his undivided attention to the duties of the office of auditor of the city of Xenia, he having been appointed to that office at the first meeting held by the city commission under the provisions of the new charter granting to the people of Xenia a commission form of government. Mr. Hayward entered upon the duties of this office on January 1, 1918, and is now thus occupied. He is a Republican and in 1913 was appointed a member of the common council of the city to fill a GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 235 vacancy in the representation from his ward and in 1915 was elected to succeed himself in that office, holding that position until his resignation on April 1, 1917, to accept the position of clerk to the deputy state supervisor of elections for this county, which latter position he resigned upon entering upon his duties as city auditor. On October 16, 1906, at Xenia, Roy C. Hayward was united in marriage to Harriet P. Conklin, daughter of H. H. Conklin and wife, who are the parents of five children, Mrs. Hayward having a brother, Clyde Conklin, and three sisters, Cora, Laura and Hannah. Mr. and Mrs. Hayward are members of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church. To them four children have been born, Jane, Cora (deceased) and Dora, twins, and Mary. Mr. Hayward is a Royal Arch Mason, affiliated with Xenia Lodge No. 49, Free and Accepted Masons; with the local chapter, No. 36, Royal Arch Masons, and with the local council, Royal and Select Masters. HOWARD APPLEGATE. Howard Applegate, former sheriff of Greene county and for years engaged in the mercantile business at Yellow Springs, was born in the vicinity of that village and has lived there and. in that .neighborhood. his life, with the exception of the period spent in the official service of the county. He is the youngest of the nine children; three sons and six daughters, born to his parents, Elias and Ann M. (DeHart) Applegate, both of whom were born in the vicinity of the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey, the former in 1805 and the latter, in 1811, who were married in 1831. Three years later, in 1834, with their baby boy, William, they drove through in a covered wagon with their small household belongings to Ohio and settled in the woods just west of where the village of Yellow Springs came to be established, where and in the vicinity of which place. they spent the remainder of their lives. Upon effecting his settlement in this county, Elias Applegate cleared a small plot of ground on the land he had secured and in that clearing erected a log cabin, which was the family home until in due time a better house could be erected. Elias Applegate lived to be eighty years of age and his widow lived to the extraordinary age of ninety-five years and six months. As noted above, Elias Applegate and wife had one child when they drove through to this county, their first-born, William. Eight others were born in Greene county, Catherine, Sarah E., Mary, Julia, Johnson, Margaret A., Hannah M. and Howard, all of whom lived to maturity save Johnson, who died in infancy, and all these who lived married and had comfortable homes of their own. Five members of this family are still living, those besides Howard, the youngest, being Mrs. S. E. Kinney, now past eighty years of age and hale 236 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO and hearty; Mrs. Mary Olentine, seventy-seven; Mrs. Margret Sizer and Mrs. Hannah M. Bailey, and all of these save Mrs. Olentine live in Yellow Springs. Howard Applegate was reared on the farm, as a boy receiving a very practical training in the way of farming, but later became employed as a clerk in a general store at Yellow Springs and thus was turned toward commercial pursuits, which he has followed the most of his life. From 1906 to 1910 he served as sheriff of Greene county and upon his retirement from the sheriff's office became engaged in the hardware business at Yellow Springs. WILLIAM WALLACE CARR. William Wallace Carr, founder of Carr's Nurseries at Yellow Springs, now operated under the firm name of M. L. Carr's Sons, was born at Carr's Mills (now Bookwalter), in the neighboring county of Fayette and has lived in Yellow Springs since 1857. He was born on June 5, 1843, a son of William and Sophronia (Thomas) Carr, the latter of whom was the youngest daughter of the Rev. Joseph Thomas, formerly and for years affectionately known throughout Ohio as "the White Pilgrim," a loving title he recevied because he usually dressed in white both winter and summer, in emulation, as he believed, of the apostolic examples. The Rev. Joseph Thomas was a man of large influence throughout this section of Ohio in his day and generation and left a memory for good deeds that persists to this day and is an imperishable part of the annals of Ohio. He is described as having been about six feet in height, of dark complexion, straight, athletic and ruggedly healthy. Sophronia Thomas was twice married and by her first husband, William Baker, had one child, a daughter, Mary, who became the wife of J. H. Little, of Yellow Springs. By her marriage to William Carr she was the mother of two sons, the subject of biographical sketch having a brother, Thadeus P. Carr, who was born on February 11, 1850, was graduated in 1871 from Antioch College and on November 5, 1873, was united in marriage to Elizabeth B. Botsford, of Yellow Springs. During the active years of his life he was a piano tuner, making his residence in Yellow Springs, from which point he traveled far and wide following his vocation. To him and his wife were born three children, Hugh, Henrietta B. and William B. (deceased). William Carr also was born in the neighboring county of Fayette and was one of the considerable number of children born to his parents and all of whom grew to maturity and reared families of their own, the Carr connection throughout this part of Ohio thus being a numerous one in this generation. The .parents of these children were Virginians who had come over here and had settled in Fayette county in the early days of the settlement of the present GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 237 Bookwalter neighborhood, long known as Carrs' Mills. William Carr was a farmer and landowner and proprietor of a saw and grist mill, which gave the name of Carrs Mill to the settlement in which he lived. In 1857 he moved to Yellow Springs in order to give his children the benefit of better educational facilities and there he spent his last days, living to a ripe old age, his death occurring in 1901, he then being eighty-four years of age. His wife died in 1889. In addition to his milling operations William Carr was an expert machinist and was an inventor of more than local note, he having devised numerous improvements to threshing-machine rigs and to general milling machinery. When he moved with his parents from Carrs Mills to Yellow Springs, William Wallace Carr was thirteen years of age. He entered the preparatory department of Antioch College when fourteen years of age and later undertook the full college .course, from which he was graduated in 1869  with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, a year of this latter course having been under the instruction of Horace Mann. Mr: Carr then took a postgraduate course and in 1870 received his Master degree. He had meantime been teaching school and upon leaving college resumed teaching and at the same time continued his interest in the nursery business, having been engaged in the sale of fruit trees during vacation periods, and in the fall of 1870 organized at Yellow Springs what later became well known in nursery markets as Carr's Nurseries, one of the largest and most compactly organized nursery tracts in the country. Of that concern Mr. Carr has been the head and the general manager ever since, a period of forty-seven years, the business now being carried on under the firm name of M. L. Carr's Sons, the organization making a specialty of the culture of little evergreens, which are sold by the hundreds of thousands to the nursery trade generally over the country. When Carr's Nurseries were established the market was reached by a personally organized selling agency, agents being sent out to solicit trade, but for years so well established has the business become that the trade now comes to the nurseries without solicitation, sales being made direct to nurseries wholesale. Mr. Carr has for many years been recognized as an expert in his line and the fame of his nurseries has been no small factor in "putting Yellow Springs on the map." Politically, Mr. Carr is an independent Republican and has filled numerous offices, mayor, justice of the peace, councilman for more than twenty years, and school director. In September, 1869, William Carr was united in marriage to Mary Ladley, who was born at Sidney, Ohio, daughter of DeRostus and Catherine Ladley, and who died on March 22, 1901. To that union were born five children, namely: Edwin O.; of Yellow Springs, who married Alice Derby and has three children, Dorothy, Helen and Donald; George W., of Jack- 238 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO sonville, Florida, who married Mayme Shumate and has two children, Leonard and Marian; Charles L., of Yellow Springs, who married Edna Garrison and has three children, Mary G., Jean and Anna ; Catherine, who married George Harris, now living at McRae, Georgia, and has two children, Louise and Ladley, and Alice G., who was graduated as a nurse from Johns Hopkins University at Baltimore and is now (1918) engaged in active Red Cross work in France, a nurse behind the battle lines. JACOB J. LAMPERT. Jacob J. Lampert, veteran florist at Xenia and proprietor of a greenhouse there, has been a resident of that city since 1875. He was born at Avondale, a suburb of Cincinnati, September 14, 1852, a son of Jacob J. and Mary ( Jacobs) Lampert, both of whom were of European birth, the former a native of the grand duchy of Baden and the latter of the then French province of Alsace-Lorraine, who came to the United States in 1847 and met and were married in Cincinnati, where they made their home for some years before moving to the nearby Avondale. The elder Jacob J. Lampert had served for three years as a soldier in his native Baden and when the Mexican War broke out, shortly after his arrival in Cincinnati in 1847, he offered his services as a recruiting officer and the same were accepted, he carrying on a recruiting station at the corner of Front street and Broadway, Cincinnati. By trade he was a butcher and after his marriage he opened a butcher shop in Cincinnati, but his health presently failing he decided to get out and close to nature, so he moved to the suburb of Avondale and there took up gardening, eventually developing a greenhouse business, and was there thus engaged until his death in 1890, he then being eighty-seven years of age. His wife died at the home of one of her daughters in the Walnut Hills section of Cincinnati at the age of seventy-eight years. They were members of the Catholic church and their children were reared in that faith. There were eight of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being the following : John, who grew up to the florist business and was for twenty years the florist at the state Soldiers' Home at Sandusky and was the landscape gardener who laid. out the grounds of that institution ; Joseph, who died in 1902, who was for many years a gardener at Avondale; George, who is the superintendent of the Walnut Hills barns of the Cincinnati Street Railway Company ; Frank, who died during the days of his youth ; Leda, wife of Leopold Reger, of Miamisburg, this state, and Louise who is, living in the Walnut Hills section of Cincinnati and who has been married twice, her first husband having been Frank Bentz and her second, Peter Kammer. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 239 Reared at Avondale, the junior Jacob J. Lampert received his schooling in the Catholic' parochial schools of Cincinnati and until he was twenty-three years of age he assisted his father in the latter's greenhouses at Avondale. He then, in 1875, started out "on -his own hook" and coming. up this way arrived at Xenia with two dollars and. fifty cents in his pockets. For two years thereafter he was employed by Erastus Bonner as a farmer and florist and at the end of that time married and he and his wife presently decided to start a greenhouse on their own account. In 1883 they bought the green-houses of H. S. Mathewman at Xenia and have ever since been conducting the same, in that time having made large extensions, the plant now requiring more than eleven thousand square feet of glass. In 1888 the Lamperts erected a dwelling house adjoining their greenhouses and have ever since resided there. Mr. Lampert is a Democrat. In 1877 Jacob J. Lampert was united in marriage to Catherine Hornick, who was born on Second street in the city of Xenia, daughter of John Hornick and wife, the former of whom was a merchant in that city, and to this union have been born six children, namely: John, a mechanical engineer, who is still living at home with his parents; William B., now a resident of Los Angeles, California, who married -Mildred Heild and has one child, a son, 'William; Edward, who is operating a greenhouse at the entrance to the Hill cemetery at Dayton and who married Nellie Hamma and has one child, a daughter, Martha; George A., of the Lampert Floral Company, who, in asso-ciation with his brother Henry some time ago organized a. corporation and are operating- a greenhouse on North Detroit street in Xenia; Harry, who is engaged in business with his brother George, as noted above, and Helen, of Cincinnati. Miss Helen Lampert early developed a voice of rare range and sweetness of tone and upon completing her schooling at Notre Dame College, Cincinnati, turned her attention to. the further _cultivation of her voice-and for some time has been singing in opera. The. Lamperts are members of the Catholic church. LEIGH A. TAYLOR. Leigh A.. Taylor, clerk in the postoffice at Xenia, was born at Iberia, in Morrow county, this state, September 10, 1872, son of James W. and Mary Jane (Anderson) Taylor, the latter of whom, a native of Pennsylvania, died on December 8, 1886. James Taylor was born at New Athens, in Harrison county, this state, September 28, 1828, and died at the home of Leigh A. Taylor at Xenia, on March 1, 1912. Reared in Guernsey County; this State, Leigh A. Taylor received his early schooling in the common schools of that county and supplemented the same 240 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO by a course at Muskingum College, which institution he attended during the years 1899-1901. Upon leaving college he became engaged in farming in Greene county, on a farm six miles east of Xenia, and was thus engaged for nine years, at the end of which time he became employed in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Xenia. For eighteen months Mr. Taylor continued this service and he then, in 1905, was appointed clerk in the post-office at Xenia, a position he ever since has occupied. Mr. Taylor is a member of the United Presbyterian church and, fraternally, is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America. ALFRED ZINEY SMITH. Alfred Ziney Smith, superintendent of the plant of the Hagar Strawboard Company at Cedarville, a member of the common council of the city of Cedarville, member. of the school board andformer president of the local board of health, was born at Waterloo, New York, July 14, 1850, son of Sidney and Flora (Wilson) Smith, both of whom were born in that same state. Sidney Smith was superintendent of an extensive dye-works establishment at Waterloo and died at his home at that place at the age of forty-seven years, leaving his widow with four small sons. Mr. Smith kept the family together, presently moving to a farm in Wayne county, New York, where she remained until after the Civil War, when she moved with her sons to Illinois and established her home on a farm of three hundred and fifty acres south of the town of Marseilles, in LaSalle county. She died in Marseilles in 1897, she then being eighty-four years of age. Her sons, of whom the subject of this sketch is the youngest, are all still living, Leonard, a paint contractor, making his home at Joliet, Illinois; Louis, formerly a miner at Leadville, Colorado, now living in New York state, and Charles continues to make his home at Marseilles, Illinois, where he is the proprietor of a barber shop. Alfred Z. Smith was but little more than two years of age when his father died and he was about four when his mother moved onto a farm in her home state, in the neighborhood of which he received his early schooling. After the family moved to Illinois he continued work on the farm until he was eighteen years of age, when, in the spring of 1871, he began working in a paper-mill at Marseilles and was thus employed in the plant of the Brown & Norton Paper Company, for five years, at the end of which time, in 1876, he went to and was there engaged for three years working in another paper-mill. He then entered the employ of the American Paper Company and was for five years stationed at Quincy, being transferred GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 241 thence to Circleville, Ohio, where he installed the machinery for the paper-mill there and was made superintendent of the plant, a position he held until 1893, when he was offered the position of superintendent of the mill of the Columbia Straw Paper Company at Xenia and moved to that city, remaining thus engaged there for three years, or until 1897, when he entered upon the duties of his present position as superintendent of the Plant of the Hagar Strawboard Company at Cedarville and has ever since been thus engaged. Mr. Smith is a Republican and is a member of the common council of his home town. He served for several years as a member of the local school board, for some time president of the same, and also has served as president of the local board of health. On June 2, 1874, while living in Illinois, Alfred Z. Smith was united in marriage to Kate Herlihy, who was born in southern Illinois, daughter of Daniel and Margaret (McCarty) Herlihy, both of whom were born in Ireland, and to this union two children have been born, a son and a daughter, Sidney Daniel and Louisa, the latter of whom is living at home with her parents. Sidney D. Smith, who was trained in the art of paper-making by his father, is now assistant superintendent of the plant of the Hagar Strawboard Company at Cedarville. He married Hetta Crouse and makes his home at Cedarville. CHARLES KINSEY. Charles Kinsey, owner of the old Hammell place, in Xenia township, two and a half miles northeast of Xenia, was born at Cincinnati in January, 1879, son of George and Martha Jane (Humphreys) Kinsey, both of whom also were born in Ohio, the former in Hamilton county, and the latter at Newark. George Kinsey is a son of William Kinsey and wife, who came from Berks county, Pennsylvania, to Ohio and settled in Hamilton county and has been a resident of Cincinnati since he was ten' years of age, for years having been engaged there as district agent for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. He and his wife have seven children, those besides the subject of this sketch, the third in order of birth, being as follows : Boyden, who is engaged with his father in business at Cincinnati ; Edna, wife of Louis M. Webb, also of Cincinnati ; Martha, who is at home with her parents ; Robert S., who is connected with the American Key Can Company at Chicago, where he makes his home ; John H., who is at home, and Imogen, wife of George E. Dimock, Jr., of New Haven, Connecticut. Reared at Cincinnati, Charles Kinsey followed the completion of his studies in the high school there by a course in the Ohio State University (15) 242 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO and for a year after leaving college was engaged in the offices of Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati. He then became engaged with his brother Boyden in the steel business in Cincinnati and was thus connected until in October, 190, when he made a prospecting and pleasure trip to Idaho and through the West. Upon his return he began to look about for a place on which to engage in farming and stock raising, and with this end in view came up into Greene county and bought the old Hammen farm of one hundred and thirty-one acres two and a half miles northeast of Xenia, in Xenia township, rural mail route No. 3 out of Xenia, and has since been engaged in farming and stock raising there. He has One in somewhat extensively to the breeding of pure-bred Percheron horse and among his holdings in that line are the stallion "Berrien 40210" and the thoroughbred mares, "Glen Wild's Bessie" and "Belle of the Miami," also a couple of thoroughbred stallion colts, "Dick" and "Donald," foaled in 1917. Mr.. Kinsey also feeds a couple of car loads of cattle for the market each year and keeps up a herd of about sixty pure-bred Duroc-Jersey hogs.: He also has a flock of. Shropshire sheep.. Mr. Kinsey uses a tractor in the cultivation of his farm. On October 15, 1912, Charles Kinsey was united in marriage to Marion Sherwood, of Berrien county, Michigan, daughter of R. H. Sherwood, a farmer of that county, and to this union three children have been born, Robert S., Virginia and Charles, Jr. Mrs. Kinsey is a member of the Congregational church. FRANK H. ROUTZONG. Frank H. Routzong, proprietor of the old Routzong homestead, originally a part of the holdings of Matthew Quinn, a settler of 1803, and known as "Shady Bower," in Xenia township, was born on that farm and has lived there all his life. He was born on December 3, 1876, son and only child of Mathias and Martha (Harner) Routzong, both members of old and influential families in this county, Mathias Routzong having been born on that same farm, where he spent all his life, one of the well-to-do farmers of that part of the county. Mathias Routzong was born in February, 1842, son 0f Adam and Sarah (Koegler) Routzong, who settled on that farm in 1837. Adam Routzong was born in Frederick county, Maryland, December 4, 1806, anti was eighteen years of age when he came with his father, Henry Routzong, to Ohio in 1824, the family locating in the Fairfield neighborhood in this county. Henry Routzong's wife had died in Maryland some years before he came with his three sons to this county. On that pioneer farm in the vicinity of Fairfield Adam Routzong lived until after his marriage. In GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 243 1837, he bought "Shady Bower," the Matthew Quinn farm of one hundred and fifty-nine acres, the southwest quarter of section 5, township 3, range. 7, on the Xenia and Fairfield pike in Xenia township, paying for the same three thousand dollars. Matthew Quinn had settled there in 1803 with his family, members of the considerable colony of Scotch Seceders that had come up from Kentucky in order to get away from slavery conditions, and he is buried on the farm which he developed, the Routzongs having ever carefully guarded against agricultural intrusion the little plot of ground surrounding- his grave. The barn that Matthew Quinn built on that place is still standing and is being preserved by Mr. Routzong as one of the oldest architectural relics in Greene county. Adam Routzong added to his holdings there until he became the owner of two hundred and fifty-four acres there. In 1861 he bought another farm of one hundred and eighty-three acres in Xenia township and in 1872 retired from farm labors and moved to Xenia, but in 1886' returned to the farm which he had last purchased and there he died on June 16, 1887, and was buried in the Byron cemetery. Politically, Adam Routzong was a Republican,. and by religious persuasion. was a Lutheran. Adam Routzong was twice married. By his first wife, Sarah Koegler, he was the father of two sons, Henry, who became a merchant at Yellow Springs and there spent his last days, and Mathias, father of the subject of this sketch. The second wife of Adam Routzong was Constance Comfort Cromwell, who was born near Clear Springs, in Washington county, Maryland, and who survived him. To that union also were born two sons, Joseph Cromwell Routzong, who for years occupied the farm his father had last bought in Xenia township and who is now living retired in Xenia, and John R., who (lied at the age of eleven years. Reared on the farm on which he was born, Mathias Routzong received his schooling in the local schools and from boyhood was an assistant. in the labors of developing and improving the home place, the management of which he took over after his marriage and of which he later became the owner, afterward adding to his acreage there until he was the owner of three hundred and thirty-four acres, the farm now owned by his son Frank. In 1882. he erected a nine-room house on the place and among the other improvements he made was a large dairy barn. Politically, he was a Republican, as was his father, but was not an aspirant for political office. His last days were spent on the place on which he was born, his death occurring there in September, 1892, and his widow still survives him. She also was born in this county, Martha Harner, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Hamer, of Beavercreek township, and a member of one of the old families in Greene county, further mention of which is made elsewhere in this volume. To the union of Mathias and Martha (Harner) Routzong was born one 244 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO child, a son, Frank H. Routzong, whose name forms the caption of this biographical, sketch. Frank H. Routzong grew up on the old home farm on which he was born and has always lived there. He received his schooling in the common schools and early became a valuable factor in the labors of the home farm, which he now owns. He has given considerable attention to dairying in connection with his general farming and raises Holstein and Jersey cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs. He is a Republican and has given a good citizen's attention to local political affairs, but has not been included in the office-seeking class. On December 8, 1897, Frank H. Routzong was united in marriage to Harriet Wolf, who was born on a farm in Bath township, this county, a daughter of Benjamin and Lenora (Schauer) Wolf, both of whom also were born in Bath township and who are now living retired in the village of Osborn. Benjamin Wolf and wife, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, have two daughters, Mrs. Routzong having a sister, Cora, who married George Williamson, of Beavercreek township, and has a daughter, Grace Mae, who married Harry Ferguson and has one child, a son, Richard Benjamin. Mr. and Mrs. Routzong have three children, Wilfred W., Cora Eleanor and Catherine Louise. The Routzongs are members of the First Presbyterian church at Xenia. ANDREW HOOD WHITE. Among that numerous band of vigorous octogenarians of which Greene county is so justly proud there are few who have a wider acquaintance or are held in higher regard than the venerable Andrew Hood White, who for many years was actively engaged in the mercantile business at Clifton and who is still living in that pleasant village, of which he has been a continuous resident since the latter '50s. Mr. White was one of the founders of the public-school system in Clifton and was for years clerk of the local school board. He also has been for years a member of the session of the Presbyterian church at Clifton, now the senior elder, and has thus been long recognized as among the leaders in good works throughout that part of the county and in the adjacent sections of the neighboring county of Clark. Mr. White is a South Carolinian and proud of it, though he has never had occasion to regret the choice which made him a citizen of Ohio away back in the days of his young manhood, for this section of the Buckeye state has come to be very dear to him during the many years in which he has been a participant in its development. The manner of Mr. White's coming to and definite determination to settle in Greene county is but one of the count- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 245 less instances showing upon what a slender chance human choice sometimes depends. He was born in Chester county, South Carolina, April 27, 1835, son of Abram and Esther (Thompson) White, both of whom also were born in that state, of old Colonial stock, the former born in 1793, who were substantial landed proprietors there. Reared in his home county, Andrew H. White received excellent schooling there and remained until he was twenty-one years of age, when he took a trip West, spending a year at Camden, Arkansas. At that time his brother, the Rev. W. G. White, was engaged in the ministry of the Presbyterian church at Clifton, in this county, and upon his return from the West he stopped at Clifton for the purpose of making a brief visit to his brother. So favorably impressed did he become with the outlook here, however, that he determined to make this his permanent home, readily coming to the conclusion that the attractive village of Clifton would be a most desirable point in which to engage in business. That he might be better qualified for a mercantile career, Mr. White went to Cincinnati, where he took a thorough course in a business college and then for a year afterward was engaged as a clerk in a general store at Dayton. He then returned to Clifton and there opened a store. From the very beginning of his commercial undertaking Mr. White was successful and he continued in business, carrying on the same in the building in which he started his store, for forty years, or until his retirement from active business about fifteen years ago, when he sold his store. Since then he has been living retired, though he still retains interests of one sort and another that prevents time hanging heavily on his hands. From the very beginning of his residence in Clifton Mr. White has taken an active interest in school affairs. For years he was clerk of the school board and thus the Clifton schools virtually grew up under his eye and in a measure under his direction. Politically, Mr. White is a Democrat of the old Jacksonian school and for years was regarded as one of the leaders of that party hereabout. On April 18, 1866, Andrew H. White was united in marriage to Margaret J. Hand, who was born in this county, in the neighborhood of Yellow Springs, a daughter of John and Sarah (Johnson) Hand, the former of whom died when his daughter Margaret was two years of age, his widow surviving him for years. The latter was a native of Mason county, Kentucky. Mrs. White died at her home in Clifton on May 24, 1893, and 4 buried in the beautiful cemetery there. She left one daughter, .Miss Florence Kennett White, who is a great stay and comfort to her father in the latter's declining years. Miss White was given excellent educational advantages in the days of her girlhood and has traveled quite extensively in the South. Mr. White is now the senior elder of the Presbyterian church at Clifton and for many years has been clerk of the session, his interest in church 246 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO work thus extending to all. departments of the same an interest that he is happy to say does not wane with advancing years. JESSE F. JOHNSON. Jesse F. Johnson, who died at his home in Jamestown in 1896 and whose widow is still living there, was for years a merchant and business man of that village. He was born on a pioneer farm south of that village on June 6, 1827, son of John D. and Martha (Blain) Johnson, who were among the early settlers of that section. John D. Johnson, whose last days were spent at Jamestown, to which place he moved upon his retirement from the farm, was twice married and was the father of eight children, Cyrus, Jesse F., Joel, Julia, Mrs. Eliza Jane Christopher, Cloyce, Salathiel and Samuel. Reared on the farm, Jesse F. Johnson received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and remained at home until his marriage in the fall of 1854., when he became engaged in the grocery business at Jamestown. Not long afterward he moved to Wilmington, county seat of the neighboring county of Clinton, and there became engaged in the grocery and hardware business, continuing thus engaged at that place for five years, at the end of which time he returned to Jamestown, resumed the grocery business in that village and there continued thus engaged the rest of his life, his death occurring there in 1896. In addition to his mercantile interests at Jamestown Mr. Johnson was one of the leading stockholders of the Farmers and Traders Bank at that place. He was a Republican, and a member of the Christian church. On November 2, 1854, Jesse F. Johnson was united in marriage to Amy Fuller, who was born on a farm in the vicinity of Wilmington, this state, daughter of John and Hannah Fuller, who during the '40s left this state and went to the then Territory of Iowa, where John Fuller became the founder of the now thriving city of Ottumwa, in Wapello county, his original plat of that town, laid out on the land he had entered, carrying twenty-two lots. Mrs. Fuller died there and in 1849 John Fuller joined the gold-seekers rush to California and spent his remaining days there, dying in Sacramento. John Fuller and his wife were the parents of six children, of whom Mrs. Johnson, the second in order of birth, is now the only survivor, the others having been Sarah Louisa, who married Ivan Hester ; Anna Maria, who was twice married, her second husband having- been William Mercer, of Jamestown, and Henry W., Mary Ellen and Gideon. To Jesse F. and Amy (Fuller) Johnson were born three children, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 247 namely : Charles,. who died in infancy; Alice May, who died at the age of thirteen years, and William Warren, who is now engaged in business at Jamestown, which has been his home since the days of his infancy. William Warren Johnson, president of the Peoples Bank of Jamestown and a merchant in that village, was born at Wilmington during the time of the residence of his parents in that city, in 1862, and was but an infant when his parents returned to Jamestown in 1863. He was reared in the latter town, receiving his schooling in the schools of that place, and from boyhood was trained in commercial ways, an assistant to his father in the latter's management of the store. Upon his father's retirement from business, he continued the management of the store and has thus been engaged ever since. For years he has served as president of the Peoples Bank. William W. Johnson married Ethel Smith, of Pottersburg, this state. By a former marriage Mr. Johnson had one son, Dr. Jesse Stanley Johnson, an osteopathic. physician now practicing at Hagerstown, Maryland. Doctor Johnson was reared at Jamestown and was educated there and at Misilla Park, New Mexico, and upon receiving his diploma from the osteopathic college entered upon the practice of his profession at Washington, D. C., but presently moved from there to Hagerstown and has since been practicing in the latter city. He married Bettie Eolio Cook, of Bridgeport, Ohio. Mrs. Johnson is a member of the Christian church. DAVID E. CROW. David E. Crow, steward of the workhouse at Xenia, was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Jeffersonville, in the neighboring county of Fayette, a son of E. H. Crow, who was born in Champaign county, this state, and who was killed in an accident when his son David was a child. The latter grew up in Fayette county, received` there a common-school education and followed farming until he came over into Greene county and became engaged in the oil business at Jamestown. For four years Mr. Crow was engaged in the oil business at Jamestown and then, in 1892, he moved to Xenia and in the latter city became established in the same business, continuing thus engaged until his appointment on January 15, 1902, to the position of superintendent of the public workhouse, a position he occupied until the inauguration of the new form of city government in 1918, when he was made steward of the workhouse. Mr. Crow is a Republican and, fraternally, is affiliated with the local lodges of the Free and Accepted Masons, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Modern Woodmen of America at Xenia. 248 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO LEWIS MIDDLETON. The late Lewis Middleton, who died at his home in Caesarscreek township on November 12, 1917, was born in that township and had spent all his life there. He was born on December 6, 1839, son of Thomas and Sarah (Hartsook) Middleton, early settlers in Caesarscreek township, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Maryland. Thomas Middleton was born in Berkeley county, now in West Virginia, a son of Betheul and Naomi (Ganoe) Middleton, both of whom also were born in that same county and who later came to this part of Ohio and became pioneers of Greene county. Betheul Middleton's father was Thomas Middleton, who was born in New Jersey, but who had established his home in western Virginia, where he spent his last days. To Betheul Middleton and wife were born the following children : John, Thomas, William, James, Nathaniel, Betheul, Betsy, Amy, Polly and Linda. Along in the '30s the two elder sons, Thomas and John Middleton, came over into Ohio on a prospecting trip and located a tract of land where Middleton Corners later came to be established, in Caesarscreek township, this county. Thomas Middleton then went back to Virginia and brought back with him his parents and other members of the family, the family driving through to Greene county with a six-horse team. The land they had bought was a part of the Andrew Tate tract and there in the heavy timber the Middletons put up a log house and established their home, the parents spending there the remainder of their lives. At the age of eighteen Thomas Middleton became engaged in teaming, a vocation which in those days of long freight hauls by wagon train meant more than it does in these days, and later became a cattle buyer and pork-packer, buying and packing his stock here and disposing of the same in the market at Cincinnati, the first year in which he thus was engaged his transactions aggregating fourteen thousand dollars. He also took an active part in political affairs and was long recognized as one of the leaders in the Democratic party hereabout, a familiar and influential figure at party conventions and the like and for years treasurer of his home township. Thomas Middleton lived to the ripe old age of eighty-six years, his death occurring at Lewis Middleton's home in Caesarscreek township on May 22, 1888, and he was buried in the Eleazar churchyard. His wife had preceded him to the grave some years, her death having occurred at the age of seventy-five. They were members of the Methodist Protestant church and their children were reared in that faith. There were six of these children, all of whom are now deceased save Elijah, the fourth in order of birth, who married Charity Kurl and is now living at Nevada, Missouri, the others besides the subject of this memorial sketch having been Elizabeth, who married John GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 249 Rumbo; William Harrison, who married Sarah Forkner ; Nathan J., who married Margaret Sipe, and Sarah Jane, who married David Turner. Lewis Middleton was reared on the farm on which he was born and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. From the days of his boyhood he was a valued factor on the farm and after his marriage in 1867 continued to help work the place until 1875, in which year he bought the Sellers Fudge farm of one hundred and five acres in Caesarscreek township, established his home on that place and there spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there in the fall of 1917, he then lacking less than a month of being seventy-eight years of age. In addition to his general farming Mr. Middleton had for thirty-five years been a breeder of fine horses, during that time having done much to improve the strain of horse flesh throughout this and adjoining counties. He was a Bryan Democrat. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and their children were reared in that faith. On January 1, 1867, in this county, Lewis Middleton was united in marriage to Samantha Long, who was born in New Jasper township, this county, November 14, 1847, daughter of Adam and Margaret (McGuffy) Long, the latter of whom also was born in this county, a member of one of the pioneer families in this part of the state. Margaret McGuffy's mother was a Kauffman. Adam Long was a native of Virginia and was but a lad when he came to Greene county with his parents, Adam and Margaret (Ewing) Long, the family settling in New Jersey township among the early settlers of that part of the county. The elder Adam Long and his wife had five children, William, Henry, Peter, Eliza and Adam. The latter grew up on the pioneer farm which his parents had settled in New Jasper township and he married in that township and for years made his home there, later moving over into the adjoining county of Fayette, where he died. His widow married a Mr. Whaley and moved to Indiana, where her last days were spent. The younger Adam Long was a Republican and he and his wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he for years served as class leader. To him and his wife were born nine children, namely : Peter. who died in the days of his boyhood; James, a veteran of the Civil War, who is now living in St. Clair county, Missouri ; Francis, who also enlisted his services in behalf of the Union during the Civil War and was killed at the battle of Shiloh; Samantha, widow of Mr. Middleton; William, who is now living in the vicinity of Dayton, this state; Adam, a retired farmer, now living in Xenia ; Curtis, who married Elizabeth English and died at the age of twenty-one years; Jane, wife of George Rusby, of Independence, Iowa, and Elizabeth, wife of Caris Mercer, of Woodburn, Indiana.