BIOGRAPHICAL CAPT. ROBERT LYTLE. The late Capt. Robert Lytle, who died at his home in. Xenia in the summer of 1907 and who for years was prominently identified with the business life of his home city, particularly well known in local banking circles, left many friends in Greene county who will appreciate the preservation of something of a biographical. character respecting their old friend in this definite record and history of the county in .which he had spent the most of his life and in which he was so well and so favorably known. Robert Lytle was a native of the old Keystone state, born in Huntington county, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1834., a son of James and Frances (Smart) Lytle, also natives of Pennsylvania, who came with their family to. Ohio in the early '40s and settled on a farm in Cedarville township, this county, where they spent the remainder of their lives.. James Lytle was seventy-three years of age at the time of his death. His wife lived to the age of seventy. They were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this memorial sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being the following: John, deceased, who was. engaged in the shoe-manufacturing business at Dayton; David, also now deceased, who for some time was engaged in the shoe business with his brother John at Dayton and later went to Cincinnati, where he became engaged in the same business in association with his younger brother Patterson, the latter of whom died in 1915, and Frances (Mrs. McKee), who is living at Beaver, Pennsylvania. Having been but eight or nine years of age when he came with his parents from Pennsylvania to this county, Robert Lytle grew up on the home farm in Cedarville township and early turned his attention to commercial pursuits, when eighteen or nineteen years of age becoming employed as a clerk in the dry-goods store of J. C. McMillan & Company at Xenia and was thus engaged at the time of the breaking out of the Civil War. He enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and was elected captain of Company D, Twelfth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until mustered out at Columbus in September, 1863, after which he returned to Xenia and resumed his place in the commercial life of that city. In 1864 Captain Lytle became employed as teller in the old Allen bank, at the southwest corner of Detroit and Main streets, and afterward was promoted to the (1) 18 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO. position of cashier of that institution. Later he transferred his services to the Second National Bank of Xenia and was cashier of that institution when it closed its doors in 1888, after which he became engaged in the local real-estate, loan and insurance business and so continued until the time of his death, although during the later years of his life he had been living in practical retirement from business cares. Captain Lytle was noted for his goodness of heart and his generosity toward those who were in need of help and many a young man who was getting a start in life in this county during the period of the Captain's business activities had cause for gratitude for his kindly assistance and helpful advice. Besides his interest in banking affairs, Captain Lytle had other business connections; was a member of the board of directors of the cordage manufacturing concern which afterward was taken over by the Kelly concern, and was also for years the secretary of the Peoples Building and Savings Company at Xenia. He was a Republican and was an active member of Lewis Post No. 347, Grand Army of the Republic, in the affairs of which patriotic organization he ever took a warm interest. He was a member of the Second United Presbyterian church of Xenia, as is his widow. Captain Lytle died at his home in Xenia on June 9, 1907, and there was sincere mourning in the large circle of his friends throughout this county. On January 12, 1881, Capt. Robert Lytle was united in marriage to Elizabeth Monroe, who survives him and who is still living in the house in which she was born, at 218 East Main street, Xenia, the old home of her father. Mrs. Lytle is a member of one of the pioneer families of Greene county, the Monroes, who came from Scotland, having settled here in the year 1818. She is a daughter of George and Martha (Cunningham) Monroe, the former of whom was born in the village of Cooper Angus, In Scotland, and who was but thirteen years of age when he came to this country with his parents, David and Barbara Monroe, the family settling in Greene county, which by that time had become one of the most influential centers of the old Scotch Seceder, or Associate, church in America, of which church the Monroes were ardent adherents. After the union of the Associate and Associate Reform church, which union effected the organization of the United Presbyterian church, the Monroes continued adherents of this latter church and so remain. David Monroe, the pioneer, was a wheelwright and was from the very beginning of his residence in Xenia regarded as one of the influential residents of that city. He had a fine house on East Market street and he and his family were among the leaders in the early social life of the city. He and his wife were the parents of five children, those besides Mrs. Lytle's father having been Margaret, William, James, who became a furniture dealer in Xenia, and Mary Ann, who married John Moore, a merchant tailor of that city. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 19 George Monroe grew to manhood in Xenia and presently became associated with his brother James in the furniture business in that city, the firm operating a furniture factory on South Collier street and conducting a retail furniture store on East Main street, and he continued engaged in that business until his retirement. He and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian church and their children were reared in the rigid tenets of that faith. There were four of these children, of whom Mrs. Lytle was the third in order of birth, the others being as follows : Anna, deceased, who was the wife of the Rev. James Witherspoon, a minister at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania; Mary Belle, who married James B. Watt, of Chicago, and who died leaving two children; and David, who died during the days of his young manhood. As noted above, Mrs. Lytle continues to make her home in the old brick house on East Main street in which she was born. During the year 1913 she and three other ladies from Xenia spent the year in Paris and Scotland. JUDGE HORACE LEE SMITH. The Hon. Horace Lee Smith, former judge of the court of common pleas of the third subdivision of the second judicial district of Ohio and a member of the Greene county bar, with offices at Xenia since the spring of 1875, is a native son of Ohio, born at Loganville, in Logan county, August 28, 1853, son of Dr. Clinton and Mary (Davidson) Smith, the former of whom was born in Dublin, in Franklin county, this state, and the latter at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 1855 Dr. Clinton Smith moved with his family from Loganville to Bloomingburg, in the neighboring county of Fayette, where he continued engaged in the .practice of his profession the rest of his life, his death occurring there on November 9, 1879. His widow. survived him for twenty-seven years, her death occurring in 1906. They were the parents of three children, the subject of this review having a brother, Dr. Homer Smith, of Westerville, and Dr. Eva Smith, of Middletown. Having been but two years of age when his parents moved from Loganville to Bloomingburg, Horace L. Smith was reared in the latter village and there received his early schooling, later entering Bloomingburg Academy, where he prepared for entrance at Wooster University, from which he was graduated in June, 1872, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was graduated from that institution in March, 1875, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In April of that same year he was admitted to practice by the supreme court of the state of Ohio and straightway afterward opened an office for the practice of his profession at Xenia, where he ever since has 20 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO. made his residence. In the fall of 1888, as the nominee of the Republican party, Judge Smith was elected judge of the court of common pleas of the third subdivision of the second judicial district of the state of Ohio and in the following February ascended the bench, occupying the same, by re-election, until February 9, 1899, a period of ten years. Upon the completion of this term of service Judge Smith resumed practice at Xenia and has so continued, though of late years he has sought to confine his personal practice chiefly to taking care of the needs of his old clients, the general practice of the office being looked after largely by his son, Harry Smith, who for some time has been associated with his father in the practice of his profession at Xenia, under the firm name of Smith & Smith, and who now occupies the official position Of prosecuting attorney for Greene county. Judge Smith has been twice married. In April, 1875, the month in which he was admitted to practice, he was united in marriage, at Blooming-burg, to Mary A. Jones, of that place, who died in 1885, leaving two sons, Harry, mentioned above, who was. ,elected prosecuting attorney for Greene county in 1916, and Charles Earl, now a commander in the United States navy and further and fitting mention of whom is made elsewhere. Besides these two son's there were born to that union a son and a daughter who died in infancy. In January, 1887, Judge Smith married Mrs. May Loughry, a daughter of John Orr, who for eighteen years was clerk of the court of common pleas. During the period of raising the second Liberty Loan in the fall of 1917 Judge Smith Cad charge of Greene county's participation in that patriotic "drive." FINDLEY DAVID TORRENCE. One of the most prominent business men of a past generation in Xenia was the late Findley D. Torrence, a resident of Xenia from the time of his birth, August 1, 1842, until his death, June 24, 1916. His whole career of seventy-four years was spent in the city, and for half a century he was connected with its business, social, religious and political life in such a way as to stamp him as a man of more than ordinary ability. It is to such substantial men that Xenia owes its present growth in all lines of civic activity, in all avenues of business endeavor in the various phases of community life which go to make up the life of a city. Hence it seems fitting to present in this history of the county, the place where his whole life was spent, the main facts concerning his career. A brief summary of his ancestry is first given. He was born of parents who had been residents of the county for nearly forty years; his father, David Torrence, was born in Kentucky in GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 21 1804 and came to Greene county with his parents the following year. His mother was born in 1816 in Clark county, Ohio. David Torrence was a son of John Torrence, who was born in County Londonderry, Ireland, in 1758. John Torrence, a son of Aaron Torrence, came to America as a British soldier during the Revolutionary War. At the age of twenty (1778) John Torrence enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment and served until the close of the war in the cause of the revolution he had been brought over to help quell. He had an uncle, a brother of his father—Joseph Torrence by name—who rose to the rank of a colonel in the Revolutionary War and who later settled in Cincinnati and there lived the remainder of his clays. One of Joseph Torrence's sons, George Paul Torrence, subsequently became mayor of Cincinnati. This son married one of the daughters of President William Henry Harrison. The Torrence family were Irish Covenanters, and because they desired greater religious freedom than was accorded them in Ireland they came to this country. Aaron, the first of the family to come to America, was accompanied by three of his brothers. After the Revolutionary War the four brothers left Pennsylvania and located near Lexington, in Kentucky. Here the family resided for a number of years, John Torrence, the grandfather of Findley David, being the first member of the family to locate in Greene county, Ohio. John Torrence was married in Kentucky, his wife being Jane Jolly, the widow of Captain Jolly, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. She was noted for her courage and upon one occasion exhibited her bravery in a most striking manner. During the siege of a fort in Kentucky by the Indians, some time before 1800, she and her family and a number of others, were gathered in the fort for protection. The besieged became exhausted for lack of water and it was imperative that water be obtained in some manner. It was at this juncture that Jane Jolly volunteered to get some water outside of the stockade. She crawled from the stockade to a spring in the immediate vicinity one night, with the Indians surrounding the place and on the alert all the time, and returned with a pail of water. John and Jane Torrence were the parents of ten children : Susan, William, Jane, Betsey, Mary, Aaron, Ann, John, David (father of Findley D.), and Clarissa. Of these children it is recorded that William, Aaron, Ann and David were long residents of Greene county. When John and Jane Torrence came to Greene county from Kentucky in 1805 they bought a farm three miles west of Xenia in what was known as the McClellan neighborhood. This farm, now owned by W. G. Taylor, lies in the northern part of Sugarcreek township. After coming to the county he was granted a pension for his services in the Revolutionary War, and continued to draw a pension until his death in 1840. He was buried in the Associate church cemetery, but his 22 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO. descendants had his remains removed to Woodland cemetery at Xenia in later years. David, one of the ten children of John and Jane Torrence, was only about a year old when his parents came to the county from Kentucky. He grew to manhood on his father's farm west of Xenia, and so applied himself in school that before reaching his majority he was teaching in his home neighborhood. Later in life he located in Xenia, where he engaged in the mercantile business for several years before his death in 1851. David Torrence was twice married. His first wife was Sarah Finney, and to this first marriage one son was born; Walker Torrence, who lived most of his life in Marysville, and whose one daughter, Mrs. Emma Torrence Gordon, is living in Columbus at the date of this writing. His second wife was Ann Ingram Stewart. She was born in Clark county, Ohio, in 1816, and died in 1906 at the age of ninety. To the second marriage were born six children : Elder, who died at the age of twenty ; Findley David; Samuel Wilson, who was killed during the Civil War at Beverly, West Virginia ; Jane Eliza, who died unmarried at the age of sixty-five ; Sarah Ella, who died in infancy ; Anna Mary, who died in her early girlhood. There was also in this family a half-brother, James Cowan, son of Ann Ingram Stewart by a former marriage. Findley David Torrence, as before stated, was born in Xenia on August I, 1842. He received his education in the public schools of Xenia, and at Wittenberg College at Springfield. On August 20, 1861, he enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio Battery, and served three years; then re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer for the remainder of the war, being mustered out in August, 1865. In this four years and three months he participated in twenty-seven battles, among which was the siege of Vicksburg during the summer of 1863. He was mustered out with the rank of a sergeant. After the close of the war he returned to his home in Xenia and clerked in the Millen dry-goods store for six years. In 1873 he became a partner of Austin McDowell, under the firm name of McDowell & Torrence, in the lumber business. Their yards and office were located at the southeast corner of Detroit and Third streets, and here Mr. Torrence was in business until his death—a period of forty-three years. The firm prospered and became one of the most widely-known retail lumber firms in this section of the state. Mr. Torrence was one of the organizers of the Ohio Association of Retail Lumber. Dealers and of the Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance Company. He was interested in other enterprises, but it was to the lumber business that he gave practically all of his attention. He was stockholder and director in the Xenia National Bank, and also in the Home Building and Loan Company of Xenia, being president of the latter institution for about twenty years until the time of GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 23 his death. In politics he was a Republican and was always keenly interested in local political matters. He was a member of the city council and served as its president for several terms. Mr. Torrence was married on January 29, 1874, to Mary Ridgely, who was born at Clearspring, Washington county, Maryland, the daughter of Richard and Louise (Snyder) Ridgely. She became an orphan when a small girl, and when twelve years of age, came to Xenia to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Baughman, Mrs. Baughman being a relative. She remained with the Baughman family until her marriage and now resides in the old Baughman homestead at 220 North King street, the house having been erected in the '40s. Findley D. Torrence and wife were the parents of three children : Frederick Ridgely, Mary Pauline, and Findley McDowell. The daughter makes her home with her mother in Xenia. Frederick Ridgely Torrence married Olivia Howard Dunbar, of Boston. Findley M. Torrence married Patricia Broadstone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Broad-stone, and have one daughter, Jean Broadstone Torrence. Findley D. Torrence was active in business until a short time before his death on June 24, 1916. He was an active worker in the First United Presbyterian church of Xenia, served as a deacon and also as a trustee of the church for many years, and in every way furthered the interests of the congregation. He was interested in the work of the Xenia Theological Seminary -and served as a member of its board of trustees for several years. In his everyday life he exemplified the teachings of the church to which he was so devotedly attached, and thus lived in such a way as to merit the high esteem in which he was universally held by his fellow citizens. Such in brief was the life of Findley David Torrence, a citizen of Xenia for nearly three-quarters of a. century, a man whom to know was to honor. With his passing the .city lost one of the men who helped in every way to make the city in which he lived a better city for his having lived in it. WILLIAM H. DONGES. William H. Donges, for some years past a member of the school board of the city of Xenia and the proprietor of a drug store at the northwest corner of Detroit and Second streets, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Xenia since he was twenty-five years of age. He was born in the city of Hamilton, county seat of Butler county, November 27, 1875, a son of Henry and Marie (Schmaedecke) Donges, the former of whom also was born in that city, of German parentage, in 1842, and the latter, in the city of Berlin, Germany, in 185o, who were married in Hamilton and there established their home, Henry Donges being there 24 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO. for years employed in a packing house. Henry Donges and wife were the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being the following: Minnie, wife of J. Rentschlar, now living at Middletown, this state.; Susan, who is married and is now living in Michigan; Louis, who married a Miss Neidermann and who was drowned at Hamilton during the great flood of 1913; Phoebe, wife of Edward Knox, of Hamilton, and David, unmarried, who is also living at Hamilton. Reared at Hamilton, William H. Donges left school at eleven years of age to take a place in a foundry and machine shop. He was engaged at that form of labor for some time, but presently his health began to break under the strain and he turned his attention to the study of chemistry and the drug business in a drug store in Cincinnati, in which city he remained until .1900, in which year, he then being twenty-five years of age, he came up to Xenia and bought out the store of the Cunningham Drug Company at the corner of Detroit and Second streets and has ever since been operating the same. Seven years ago Mr. Donges was elected a member of the city school board, for a term of four years, .and three years ago was re-elected to that position, his term of service having yet a year or two to run. At Hamilton, Ohio, William H. Donges was united in marriage to Magdaline Mistier, who was born in the town of Kroppen, in Prussian Saxony, and who was but a child when the came to this country with her parents, the family locating at Hamilton. To that union three children have been born, Marie, Eleanor and Ralph. Mr. and Mrs. Donges and their children are identified with the United Presbyterian church at Xenia. CHARLES L. BABB. Charles L. Babb, cashier of the Commercial and Savings Bank Company of Xenia, proprietor of a hardware store in that city and formerly and for years treasurer of Xenia township, was born in this county and has lived here all his life. Ire was born on a farm three miles south of Xenia, in Xenia township, a son of James S. and Phoebe (Lucas) Babb, whose last days were spent in this county. James Babb was a native of the Old Dominion, born in Frederick county, Virginia, but had been a resident of Greene county since the days of his childhood, he having been but a small boy when he came here with his parents, the family settling on a farm on the Burlington pike. On that pioneer farm James Babb grew to manhood and later got a farm of his own, but later returned to the old home farm. His wife, who was a native of Indiana, died at the age, of seventy-nine years and he lived to be eighty-three, both dying in Xenia. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 25 and their children were reared in that faith. There were seven of these children, two sons and five daughters, of whom four are still living, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Horace Babb, an attorney, now living in Chicago, and two sisters, Stella, wife of Harry McDaniel, a farmer, of this county, and Flora, unmarried, who is living at. Dayton. Reared on the home farm in Xenia township, C. L. Babb received his early schooling in the neighborhood district school and supplemented the same by a course in the old Xenia College, which then was flourishing on East Church street. He remained an assistant to his father in the labors of the home farm until January 1, 1885, when he entered into a partnership with John C. Conwell and engaged in the hardware and farm-implement business at Xenia, under the firm name of Conwell & Babb,. in the building now occupied by the Greene County Hardware Company on Main street ; and he was thus engaged there for thirteen years, or until 1897, when the firm started a second hardware store at No. 16 South Detroit street. In the following year, 1898, the firm was dissolved and Mr. Babb retained possession of the South Detroit street store, which is now operated by his sons, but which he still owns. When the Commercial and Savings Bank Company was organized in 1906 Mr. Babb was elected cashier of the same and has since been serving in that capacity, recognized generally throughout the county as one of the most competent, courteous and obliging bank officials the county has ever had, it being no secret that much of the success attained by this bank is due to the personal popularity of the cashier. The Commercial and Savings Bank, which was organized under the laws of the state on July 7, 1906, with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, is situated at the southwest corner of Main and Detroit streets, the very heart of Xenia's business section, where it has admirably equipped quarters, and has been a success from the day it opened its doors. Mr. Babb is a Republican and for twenty years has served as treasurer of Xenia township. He also takes an active interest in the general business affairs of the city and the county at large and has long been regarded as one of the most enthusiastic and effectual "boosters" hereabout. In 1887, Charles L. Babb was united in marriage to Minnie L. Richter, who was born in Cincinnati, and to this union four children have been born, namely : Elbert L., who was graduated from Denison University at Granville and who in association with his brother Karl R., is in charge of the South Detroit street hardware store; Alma L., who was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and is now a teacher in the Xenia high school; Karl R., .a graduate of Denison University, associated with his brother Elbert in the management of their father's hardware store, and who married' Dorothy Schwartz and has one child, a daughter, Virginia; and Lois R., who also was graduated from Denison. The Babbs reside at the corner of Market and 26 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO. Galloway streets. Mr. Babb is a Royal Arch and Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the local council of Royal and Select Masters, affiliated with the blue lodge, the chapter and the council at Xenia and the consistory, Valley of Dayton, at Dayton, and takes a warm interest in Masonic affairs. MANSEL J. HARTLEY. When in the spring of 1917 the people of Xenia began to take kindly to the notion of a commission form of government for that city and a committee of fifteen was elected to draft a tentative charter for submission to the people as a basis for the administration of the city's affairs under such a form of government, the name of Mansel J. Hartley appeared as one of the members of that committee. Mr. Hartley gave his earnest attention to the duties thus entailed and did much of the actual work performed by the committee in the preparation of the charter which was later adopted by the city and upon which Xenia's present commission form of -government is based. Prior to taking up his residence in Xenia in 1878, in which year he arrived there to enter upon the duties of superintendent of 'instruction in the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Mr. Hartley had been engaged in teaching school and during that period gave much of his leisure to the study of law with the view eventually to adopting the legal profession as his life work. In 1881 he was admitted to the bar and has ever since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession at Xenia. During the period 1903-06 he served as a member of the board of public service; 1907-08, director of public safety, and one year as a member of the city's sinking fund commission. In 1881 he was elected school examiner for the city of Xenia and for more than twenty years served in that capacity. For two years, 1889-91, he was a member of the board of trustees of the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, under appointment by Governor Campbell; in 1892 was the nominee of the Democratic party for Presidential elector from this district and was for some years United States commissioner of the circuit court for the southern district of Ohio. Mr. Hartley is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and has served that body on various occasions in an official capacity, and is likewise a member of the American Bar Association, for the past three or four years an Ohio officer of the latter organization. He is a member of the board of directors of the Law Library Association of Xenia. Not only does he practice as a trial lawyer, but in a fiduciary capacity he has handled numerous large estates, trusteeships, guardianships and the like. Mr. Hartley is the vice-president and a member of the board of directors of the Peoples Building and Savings Company of Xenia; a member of the board of directors GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 27 of the Shawnee Refrigerating Company, a director of the Willon Engineering and Contracting Company of Xenia ; a former director of the Xenia, Cedarville, Jamestown & Wilmington Traction Company and attorney for the same, and likewise attorney for the Dayton, Springfield & Xenia Southern railroad company. Mr. Hartley is a Democrat. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a member of the grand lodge of that order since i888 and a former trustee of the same and ex-officio trustee of the Odd Fellows Home at Springfield. He also is a Scottish Rite Mason, past worshipful master of Xenia Lodge No. 49, Free and Accepted Masons, and affiliated with the consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of the valley of Dayton. He still retains his old college affiliation with the Greek-letter fraternity with which he was connected in college days. Mansel J. Hartley was born on a farm at the edge of Quaker City, in Guernsey county, Ohio, August 9, 1853, a son of William P. and Eleanor E. ( Johnson) Hartley, the former a native of the state of New Jersey and the latter, of Ohio, whose last days were spent at Quaker City. The Hartleys are of old Colonial stock and Quakers ever, the first of the name to settle in this country having been a member of William Penn's colony, and the Hartleys are still numerously represented in Pennsylvania and in New Jersey, as well as in Ohio. William P. Hartley was but a boy when his parents settled in the Quaker City neighborhood in Ohio in 1837 and there he grew to manhood, married and established his home, becoming a substantial farmer. He and his wife were the parents of three children, two of whom are still living, the subject of this biographical sketch having a sister, Anice H., wife of S. F. McBurney, of Quaker City. Reared on the home farm, Mansel J. Hartley received his early schooling in the schools of Quaker City and when little more than a boy began teaching school, spending. his winters thus for four years. He then entered Bethany College (West Virginia) and upon completing the course there was graduated from that institution in 1877 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, a classmate of the late Justice Joseph R. Lamar of the United States supreme court. Upon his return home from college, Mr. Hartley was elected superintendent of the schools of Quaker City and in the next year, 1878, was appointed superintendent of instruction for the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia, since which time he has been a resident of Xenia. In 1879 Mr. Hartley received from the state board of examiners a life certificate to teach school in Ohio. During his period of teaching Mr. Hartley had been giving such attention as he could to the study of law and not long after his arrival in Xenia he placed himself under the preceptorship of Charles Darlington and upon the completion of his 28 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO term of service as superintendent of instruction at the Home in 1880 gave himself unreservedly to his law studies and was admitted to practice in April, 188i. Upon his admission to the bar Mr. Hartley engaged in practice in Xenia and some time later formed a partnership with Benoni Nesbit, a mutually agreeable arrangement which continued from 1886 to the time of Mr. Nesbit's retirement from the practice in 1892. With the exception of that period of six years Mr. Hartley has always been alone in practice. On September 1 r, 1884, Mansel J. Hartley was united in marriage to Laura H. Coffman, of Dayton. Mrs. Hartley is a member of the Baptist church and Mr. Hartley is a supporter of the same. AGNEW ELLSWORTH BRYSON. Elsewhere in this volume, in a biographical sketch relating to the Hon. William B. Bryson, elder brother of the subject of this sketch, there is set out at considerable length something of the history of the Bryson family in this county and of the part that family has taken in the labors of developing the county. It therefore will not be necessary here to repeat the genealogical details relating- to the Brysons, the reader being respectfully invited to note the sketch above referred to for such details in connection with the present sketch of Agnew Ellsworth Bryson, who is living on the old home place on the Springfield pike north of Xenia, where his father, the late James Bryson, died in 1912 at the great age of ninety-six years and six months, after having lived there and in that immediate vicinity ever since he came over into Ohio with his parents from Pennsylvania in 1834, he then having been nineteen years of age. James Bryson married in this county, here established his home, became one of the county's leading landowners and representative citizens and here reared his family, all of which is set out at length in the sketch above referred to, and the fourth and fifth generations of the family of his parents, Robert Bryson and wife, the pioneers, are now doing well their respective parts in the life of this community. Agnew Ellsworth Bryson was born on the old home farm north of Xenia on October 28, 1863, last-born of the four children born to his parents, James and Nancy A. (Bradfute) Bryson, three of which children are still living, the subject of this sketch having two brothers, the Hon. William B. Bryson, a biographical sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume, and Robert E. Bryson, a retired farmer now living at Xenia. Reared on the home farm, Agnew E. Bryson received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and always remained with his father, when the latter erected the big brick house on the farm a mile north of Xenia in 1880 moving there with him and ever since continuing to make that place his home. Upon GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 29 his father's death in 1912 he inherited one hundred and twelve acres surrounding the home and a hundred-acre tract along the Little Miami in the neighborhood of Trebein and has since been successfully operating the two farms. Mr. Bryson is a Republican and is a member of the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia. JUDGE MOSES BARLOW. In the chapter relating to the Bench and Bar of Greene County mention is made of the official services of Judge Moses Barlow, many years ago judge of the court of common pleas, who died at his home in Xenia in the spring of 1888. Wholly self-educated, Judge. Barlow came to be a man of profound learning and of a ripeness of judgment that placed him easily among the leaders of his profession in Ohio. The extent of his erudition may be inferred by recalling the fact that he was jocularly known among his friends and associates at the bar as "the walking library ;" and when it is further recalled that he gained the elements of learning by his own incessant application to the contents of such books as he could command during the clays of his boyhood and that the basic points of his legal learning were acquired by poring over law books while working at the cobbler's bench, the observant reader must give credit to the ambition that fired the heart of this humble student and to the indefatigable industry with which the instinctive scholar pursued his studies in the face of difficulties that would have daunted any but the most persistent lover of learning for learning's sake. Judge Barlow was gifted with a. wonderful memory and thus was able to store away in his mind the essential points of the books he read, with the further ability to revert to these points when needed; his associates at the bar often relying upon him to save them an hour of research when seeking a citation that would fit a case in hand. Not all of his time did the Judge give to his books, however ; for, even as much as he loved his books, his affection for them was divided with his devotion to his beloved violin. The Judge was a violinist, of rare skill, another accomplishment he acquired untaught of professionals, and his close friends often were entertained by his playing at his own fireside. When Judge Barlow, after having studied his precious law books in such leisure as he could command, by the candle light of an evening or from the open page of the book propped up alongside his knee at the cobbler's bench—for he was a shoemaker before he became a lawyer—went to Columbus to enter the examination for admission to the bar, he carried with him such a fund of elements of the law and of the basic principles of practice that he was given the highest grade that had ever been given to any applicant for admission in this state. Judge Barlow was a native of the state of New York, born at Duanes- 30 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO burg, in Schenectady county, that state, March 23, 1819, son of Thomas and Polly (Clark) Barlow, also natives of that state and both of English stock, who came to Ohio with their family about the year 1832 and located at Xenia, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Thomas Barlow had for a time taught school and though in no position to extend to his children the benefits of an education in colleges or higher institutions of learning was able to inculcate in their minds a love of learning and to impart to them the rudiments of a practical education, and it was thus that Judge Barlow, who was but one of the thirteen children of his parents and was thirteen years of age when the family settled in Xenia, early became a close and observant student. By application to his books he qualified himself for teaching and for a while was thus engaged, teaching in the schools at Yellow Springs and at Oldtown, in this county. He also had early learned the shoemaker's trade and during the periods when not engaged in teaching continued working at the cobbler's bench until he felt himself qualified for admission to the bar, when he passed the examination above referred to and entered upon the practice of his profession at Xenia, where he spent the rest of his life. In 1868 he was elected judge of the common pleas court and occupied that position until failing health compelled his retirement, and the last nine years of his life were spent under an invalidism which incapacitated him for practice. The Judge died in March, 1888 and is buried in Woodland cemetery at Xenia. His widow survived him for more than twelve years, her death occurring in November, 1900. In January, 1844, Judge Moses Barlow was united in marriage to Philipina Schroeder, who was born in the kingdom of Hanover, near the city of that name, April 19, 1822, and who had come to this country with her parents in the days of her girlhood. Mrs. Barlow was a gentlewoman of many graces of mind and heart and was ever a devoted and valued helpmeet to the judge. To that union were born four children, namely : Henry, who is now living retired in the city of Columbus, this state ; Philipina, widow of Horace Sabin, who is still making her home in Xenia; Mrs. Henrietta Walton, also of Xenia, and Mrs. Amy Laughead, of Xenia. The Judge and Mrs. Barlow were members of the Presbyterian church. The Judge was a member of the local lodges of the Free and Accepted Masons and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. CLARENCE G. McPHERSON, M. D. Dr. Clarence G. McPherson, Xenia physician, with offices at the corner of South Detroit and Third streets, is a native son of this county, born on a farm in Xenia township on October 28, 1880, son of John H. and Eliza- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 31 beth G. (Githens) McPherson, the former of whom, a veteran of the Civil War and former auditor of Greene county, also was born in this county and is still living here. John H. McPherson was born on July I 1, 1840, son of 'William and Mary Ann (Rader) McPherson, the former of whom was born in the city of Xenia on February 16, 1816, son of John H. and Margaret (Hivling) McPherson, the latter of whom was born in Maryland and was the daughter of John Hivling, sheriff of Greene county diking the years 1813 and 1814. The elder John H. McPherson also served the community in a public capacity, having been for some time postmaster of Xenia and for ten years, 183040, recorder of Greene county. Of the considerable number of children born to him and his wife, John Moses, Sophia and William grew to maturity and reared families. The -latter, grandfather of Doctor McPherson, learned the trade of saddle-maker at Dayton and later returned to Xenia and engaged in that business there, continuing thus engaged until 1840, when, after his marriage, he began farming on his grandfather Hivling's old place on the Dayton hill, in the upper part of town, and was there thus occupied until his removal to a farm he had bought on the lower Bellbrook pike, four miles southwest of Xenia, in 1850. His wife, Mary Ann Rader, was a daughter of Adam and Christina (Smith) Rader. William McPherson and wife were the parents of nine children, seven of whom reached the age of maturity, those besides John H., the first-born, having been Joshua, who went to the front as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, a member of Company C, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died at Nashville while thus engaged in service; Ann, who married E. S. Barnett, of Xenia township; Sophia, who married William Priest, of that same township; Charles, who continued the management of the home farm ; Adam R., who moved to Iowa and there became a farmer, and William, who was graduated from Ohio State University and later became a professor of chemistry there. Reared on the home farm, John H. McPherson was residing there when the Civil War broke out. He presently enlisted his services in behalf of the Union cause and went to the front, serving for three years and two months, or until honorably discharged at Savannah, Georgia, 'in 1865. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. McPherson returned to the home farm and after his marriage established his home there, continuing there engaged in farming until 1884, when he became engaged in the hardware business at Xenia, a member of the firm of Williams & McPherson, and was thus engaged when he was elected to the office of county auditor. He is still living at Xenia and is now serving as justice of the peace. Clarence G. McPherson was but four years of age when his father, John H. McPherson, moved to Xenia and he received his early schooling in that 32 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO. city, in due time being graduated from the high school. He then entered Ohio State University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1904, and then entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, from which he was graduated in 1908. For a year after receiving his diploma Doctor McPherson served as an interne in the Protestant Hospital at Columbus and then as an interne for two months in the State Hospital in that city, after 'which he returned to Xenia and opened an office for the practice of his profession in his home town and has there been thus engaged since then. Doctor McPherson is a member of the Greene County Medical Society, of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. While attending the university he was a member of Delta Upsilon and Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternities. On October 14, 1909, Dr. Clarence G. McPherson was united in marriage to Margaret Bates, who was born in Nelsonville, this state, daughter of Louis A. and Electa C. Bates, the latter of whom is still living. Mrs. McPherson was formerly a professional nurse and was thus engaged at Columbus at the time she met Doctor McPherson. The Doctor and Mrs. McPherson are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church at Xenia and the Doctor is a member of the Sons of Veterans, the Masons, the Maccabees and the Modern Woodmen of America. THOMAS B. JOBE. In the memorial annals of the Yellow Springs neighborhood there are few names held in better remembrance than that of the late Thomas B. Jobe, a veteran of the Civil War, who died at his home in Yellow Springs early in 1916 and whose widow is still living there. Mr. Jobe has served as mayor of Yellow Springs, as postmaster of the village, as member of the village council, and at the time of his death was a member of the local school board. He also took an earnest part in local church and lodge work and in all that he did labored with an eye single to the common good, so that at his passing there was sincere regret expressed throughout the community of which he had been a member since the days of his boyhood. Thomas B. Jobe was born in Belmont county, this state, June 13, 1845, and was nine years of age when his parents, Allen and Rebecca (Aseneth) Jobe, natives of that same county, moved from there to Yellow Springs. Allen Jobe's parents were among the pioneers of Belmont county, having moved there from Maryland. Reared in Belmont county, Allen Jobe there learned the trade of carriage-maker and for some years after his marriage there continued thus engaged in his home county. He then, about 1854, moved with his family to this county and located at Yellow Springs, where he resumed his work as a wagon-maker and thus continued until his death. He and his GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 33 wife were the parents of six children, Rebecca, Thomas, Emmet, Addison, Rachel and a daughter who died in infancy. As noted above, Thomas B. Jobe was nine years of age when his parents moved to Yellow Springs. Upon completing the course in the common schools he entered Antioch College and was a student' there when the Civil War broke out. In 1862, when but sixteen years of age, he enlisted for service in behalf of the Union cause and went to the front with a company that was raised at Springfield, his command being attached to the Army of the Potomac, with which he served until the close of the war. During the latter part of this period of service he was captured by the enemy and was for three months held in Libby Prison, being a prisoner of war there when the doors were thrown open following the fall of Richmond. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Jobe returned to Yellow Springs and there became engaged at the trade which he had learned in his father's shop, general blacksmithing and carriage-making, and about the time of his marriage in 1871 became engaged in business there for himself, doing a general business in the manufacture and sale of buggies, and was thus quite successfully engaged there the rest' of his active life. Mr. Jobe was a Republican and under the Harrison administration he served as postmaster of Yellow Springs. He also had served as a member of the council and as mayor of the town and at the time of his death, which occurred on February 4, 1916, was a member of the city school board. Mr. Jobe was a member of the Friends church, a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, a Mason, an Odd Fellow and an honorary member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. On September 21, 1871, Thomas B. Jobe was united in marriage to Mary E. Coulter; who was born at Xenia, daughter of Asa and Lydia (Ellis) Coulter, the former a native of Maryland, who were married in Xenia and who were the parents of two daughters, Mrs. Jobe having a sister, Martha. To Mr. and Mrs. Jobe one child was born, a son, Walter A. Jobe, born in 1874, who was a college student at the time of his death on December 3, 1893, he then being nineteen years of age. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Jobe has continued to make her home at Yellow Springs, where she is very comfortably situated. She is a member of the Friends church and has ever taken an interested part in church work, as well as in the general good works of her home town. JOSEPH WARREN KING. The late Joseph Warren King, who in his day and for many years was one of the dominant figures in the business life of this section of Ohio and proprietor of the great powder mills which have so long been a distinctive (2) 34 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO feature of industrialism hereabout, was a native of Connecticut, born at Suffield, that state, August 31, 1814, son of John Bowker and Hannah (Newton) King, both of old Colonial stock, the Kings having had representation on this side as early as 1672, the first of the name in New England having settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in that year. James King, son of this emigrant, settled in Suffield, Connecticut, in 1678. He had a son, Joseph, whose son, also Joseph King, served as a soldier of the patriot army during the Revolutionary War. John Bowker King was a son of this Revolutionary soldier. His wife, Hannah Newton, who was of "Mayflower" descent, was a daughter of John Newton, who also was a Revolutionary soldier. John Bowker King, who died on May 30, 1853, is mentioned in contemporary notes as "a man of good business ability, a substantial farmer and an upright man." Reared on the home farm in Connecticut, Joseph W. King received a measure of schooling that was regarded as liberal in those days and as a young man made a satisfactory arrangement with his father whereby he was permitted to seek his fame and his fortune in fields farther to the west and with such an end in view came to Ohio and located at Westfield (now Leroy), in Medina county, his first business venture on his own account being as a book agent. In 1838 Mr. King returned to Connecticut to claim the hand of the young woman who there awaited him and straightway after their marriage he and his bride started for their Western home, going by canal and lake to Cleveland and thence down to Westfield, where they began their domestic life in a small house in which they set up what was said to have been the first cook-stove seen in that part of the country. In Westfield Mr. King opened a general store and presently moved to Lima, where he opened a store and where he also engaged in the pork-packing business under the firm name of King & Day. While at Lima Mr. King became interested in the subject of the manufacture of powder, presently, about the year 1850, moving to Xenia, where, in partnership with Alvin Austin, he engaged in the manufacture of powder, establishing mills for that purpose about five miles north of the city, the business being carried on under the firm name of Austin, King & Company. Mr. King after a while purchased Mr. Austin's interest in the concern and incorporated the business under the name of the Miami Powder Company, of which for more than twenty years he was president. In 1878 Mr. King disposed of his interest in the Miami Powder Company and established another powder-mill in Warren county, locating the same at Kings Station, now known as Kings Mills, on the Little Miami ; incorporating the business under the name of King's Great Western Powder Company, of which concern he was elected president and continued an active factor in the same until his death, which occurred on July 8, 1885, since which time his interests in the concern have been represented by his daughters. In addition GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 35 to his powder-mill interests Mr. King had other interests. He was one of the organizers of the Citizen's National Bank of Xenia and from the time of its organization until his death was president of the same, as well as president of the Merchants and Manufacturers Bank of Columbus; had connections with the pork-packing industry at Lima, with iron and paper manufactories and with various other concerns. In 1838 Joseph W. King was married at his old home at Suffield, Connecticut. His widow survived him for nearly eleven years, continuing to make her home in the house on East Main street which he had erected at Xenia not long after taking up his residence there, her death occurring there on March 3, 1896. She was born, Betsy Kendall, at Suffield, a daughter of Capt. Simon and Elizabeth (Kent) Kendall, the latter of whom was a lineal descendant of Gov. William Bradford, one of the "Mayflower" emigrants and governor of Plymouth Colony, and of Major John Mason, who won fame during the Pequot War in 1637 and who was to Connecticut Colony what Miles Standish was to the Plymouth Plantation. To Joseph W. and Betsy (Kendall) King were born five daughters, namely: Helen, now deceased, who was the wife of the Reverend Doctor Morehead, of Xenia; Mary, wife of G. M. Peters, of Cincinnati ; Elouisa, wife of C. C. Nichols, a banker, of Wilmington, Ohio, and Isadora and Emma, who continue to reside at the old home in Xenia. Joseph W. King and his wife were members of the Baptist church and Mr. King was for many years superintendent of the Sunday school of the same. Miss Emma King was one of the chief promoters of the movement which led to the organization of Catherine Greene chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Xenia and was elected first regent of the same. Miss Isadora King is a member of the Greene County Library Board. FRANK FISHER. Frank Fisher, proprietor of a grocery store at 239 East Main street, Xenia, was born on a farm about two miles west of Xenia, in Beavercreek township, April 24, 1868, son of George and Mary (Slate) Fisher, both of whom were born in Germany and who were married in this county. George Fisher was born on February 22, 1829, and was about eighteen years of age when he came to this country in 1847 and located at Eaton, Pennsylvania; a few years later coming to Ohio and locating in Greene county, where he spent the rest of his life. Mary Slate was born in 1833 and was seventeen or eighteen years of age when she came to this country, her family coming to Ohio and locating in Greene county, where she married George Fisher, who after living for some years on a farm west of Xenia, in Beaver- 36 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO creek township, disposed of his interests there and moved into Xenia, in 1870, and there engaged in the grocery business, continuing thus engaged until his death in 1909. To him and his wife were born nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being the following : David, who is living in Xenia; Samuel, also of Xenia; Clinton, deceased; George, Jr., deceased ; Edward, who is now living in southern Ohio ; Mrs. Anna Oster, of Yellow Springs, this county, and Elizabeth and Lena, also living at Yellow Springs. Frank Fisher was but four years of age when his parents moved from the farm to Xenia and he grew up in the city and there received his schooling. He early became assistant to his father in the latter's grocery store and continued as such until his father's death in 1909, when he bought the interests of the other heirs in the store and has since been conducting it. Mr. Fisher has a small farm at the edge of town and takes delight in what "truck" farming he is able to do there. On that place he has five hundred and fifty hearing cherry trees. GEORGE KREPPS. No roll of the early settlers of Greene county would be complete without the name of George Krepps, a sturdy pioneer who came over into this section of Ohio from Pennsylvania with his family in 1834, set up a blacksmith shop in Xenia, later engaged in the same business at Trebein and still later settled on a farm in Spring Valley township, where he spent the remainder of his days and whose descendants in the third and fourth generation form a numerous connection in this and neighboring counties. One of his sons, Jeremiah Krepps, of Xenia township, and two of his daughters, Miss Henrietta Krepps, of Xenia, and Mrs. W. L. Fulkerson, of Xenia township, are still living, the two former now being well past eighty years of age. George Krepps was born in Pennsylvania on August 30, 1802, and in that state grew to manhood, becoming a blacksmith by trade. He married Nancy Baughman, who was born in the state of Maryland on July 16, 1806, and after his marriage continued to make his home in Pennsylvania until 1834, in which year he came over into Ohio with his family and located at Xenia, where he worked at his trade as a smith, some time later moving to Trebein, a few miles northwest of the city, where he erected a blacksmith shop and there continued in business until about 1845, when he moved to a point about two and a half miles out on the Fairfield road, where he was in business until 1850, in which year he purchased a farm of one hundred and seventy-seven acres, known as the john Scarff farm, in Spring Valley township, established his home there in the winter of 1852 and there spent the re- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 37 mainder of his life, his death occurring on August 9, 1873. His wife had preceded him to the grave more than fifteen years, her death having occurred on January 15, 1856. They were the parents of nine children, namely: Mary Ann, born on February 28, 1829, who married Joseph W. Perryman, of Yellow Springs, and died on September 7, 1884; Jeremiah, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 17, 1831; and who is still living, one of Greene county's old settlers and the proprietor of a farm in Xenia township; Eli, born on November 29, 1833, who died on October 12, 1862 ; Henrietta, born on August 29, 1836, who is now living at Xenia, which has been her home for many years and where she is occupying the old Baughman home in North King street; Ann Rebecca, born on September 16, 1838, who died on November 29, 1899 ; Magdalena, February 17, 1841, who died on April 26, 1913; Sarah Elizabeth, July 3o, 1843, who married Richard Sinnard, a farmer of Greene county, and died on February 5, 1890, leaving two children, Marietta and Anna Jane; Eliza Ann, August 24, 1846, who married Austin Stillings, a Greene county farmer, by whom she had five children, Florella, George (deceased), Frank (deceased), Hattie and Raymond; and Nancy Ann, twin of Eliza Ann, who married William L. Fulkerson, a farmer of Xenia township, now living retired. William L. Fulkerson was born on a farm in this county, on the Cincinnati pike, son of William and Eliza Fulkerson, and has always been a farmer. To him and his wife eight children have been born, namely : George Walter, who is a farmer in Jay county, Indiana; Mary Caroline, deceased; Minnie G., deceased; Clarissa Irene, who married Fernando Sanders, of this county ; Harvey E., a teacher at Coal City, Illinois; Charles M., a teacher in the state of California ; Ivy Foy, a farmer of this county, and Andrew L., a bookkeeper. George Krepps and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and their children were reared in that faith. In his political views he held to the tenets of the Democratic party. Jeremiah Krepps, only surviving son of George Krepps, was about three years of age when his parents came to Ohio and he grew up as an assistant to his father in the latter's blacksmith shop and later became a farmer, for many years the proprietor of a farm of about two hundred acres in Xenia township, on the Cincinnati pike. Jeremiah Krepps has been twice married, his first wife having been Diana Moore, who was born in Spring Valley, this county, daughter of John and Lana (Quick) Moore. To that union were born four children, Emma, who became the wife of David Anderson and died, leaving a daughter, Bertha ; Nancy Olive, wife of L. J. Crumley, a farmer of Spring Valley. township, by whom she had three children, W. Albert, Eva and one who died in infancy; Lana Belle, wife of L. L. Hickman, a farmer of Jay county, Indiana, and Diana C., who died in infancy. Fol- 38 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO lowing the death of the mother of these children Mr. Krepps married, March 31, 1866, Harriet A. Stillings, who was born and reared in Greene county, daughter of James and Lana (Fisher) Stillings, and to this union two children were born, Ada J., wife of G. W. Fudge, now living at Oxford, Ohio, and Marietta, who married Joseph E. Lyle, living on the old home place. Nancy Baughman, wife of George Krepps, was a sister of Andrew H. Baughman, for many years one of the acknowledged leaders in the financial and commercial life of Xenia and who died at his home in that city in September, 1891. Andrew H. Baughman was born on a farm seven miles east of the city of Hagerstown, Maryland, son of Capt. Andrew and Esther (Herr) Baughman, the former of whom was born and reared in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he was married and where he followed farming and inn-keeping, during the War of 1812 serving as captain of a volunteer company. Captain Baughman's wife died in 1814 and he survived her eight years. Deprived of a mother's care when he was but seven years of age, Andrew H. Baughman was reared on the farm of an uncle in the Hagerstown neighborhood and when fifteen years of age began to make his own way, working in a mill, where he remained until he was twenty-one years of age, never at any time during that period receiving more than nine dollars a month as wages: Upon reaching his majority he walked to Wheeling and worked his way by steamer down the Ohio to Cincinnati, whence he went to Hamilton, where he had two uncles living, and a few days later started out for this section of Ohio, making his way to Alpha, in this county. On Christmas Day he began working in Harbine's mill, at a wage of nine dollars a month and his board, and some time later, in association with his cousin, Jacob Herr, dented the mill and operated the .same for a couple of years, 1830-31, after which he rented the Snyder mill and six years later, in association with Casper Snyder, bought the same and continued to operate it until 1853, in which year he sold out and bought a farm of two hundred and fifty acres, which he began to cultivate and improve, meanwhile, however, continuing his business association with Mr. Snyder, who at this time took charge of both the Oldtown mills, which they had purchased and in which Mr. Baughman retained a half interest to the time of his death. In addition to his other land interests Mr. Baughman bought a tract of seven acres in the Xenia city limits, included between King and Galloway streets and Church and Shawnee streets, and in 1871 erected on that tract a house, with beautiful surrounding lawn, that is still one of the most tasteful and attractive residences in the city. As his affairs prospered Mr. Baughman began giving attention to the general business affairs of the city, his first connection with the banking interests of the city being as a member of the board of directors of the Xenia GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 39 Bank, afterward a branch of the State Bank of Ohio, and which was rechartered as the First National Bank of Xenia upon the passage of the national bank law. He was vice-president of the latter institution and upon the death of the president of the same was elected president, a position he filled until the expiration of the bank's charter; and when the bank was reorganized as the Xenia National Bank he was elected president of the same and so continued until failing health compelled /his resignation, although he continued his financial interest in the bank and his place on the directorate until his death. Mr. Baughman also was an active figure in local political circles. His first vote was cast for Andrew Jackson for President and he continued his affiliation with the Democratic party until the organization of the Republican party in 1856, when he voted for John C. Fremont and ever afterward was a supporter of the principles of the Republican party. For twelve years he served as a member of the board of county commissioners and also for years served as a member of the city council, for several terms president of the same, and in other ways gave his attention to public affairs. For more than forty years he was one of the most influential members of the Reformed church in the United States and an office bearer in the local congregation of the same, his name being interwoven with the history of that church in America during the period of his activities, he being particularly remembered as the donor of a fund of twenty thousand dollars for the creation of the Baughman Professorship of the Latin Language and Literature and Biblical Instruction in Heidelberg University at Tiffin, this state. That he enjoyed in an unusual degree the confidence of the public and those with whom he was associated is shown by the fact that he had served as the guardian of fourteen minor children and had served as administrator or executor of ten extensive estates. For many years he was an active Odd Fellow and a member of the grand lodge of that order and of the grand encampment, Patriarchs Militant. On February 7, 1833, but a few years after becoming a resident of Greene county, Andrew H. Baughman was united in marriage to Mary Snyder, who was born in Washington county, Maryland, September 7, 1814, and who was but an infant when her parents, Jonathan Snyder and wife, came to Ohio and settled with their family in Greene county, Jonathan Snyder becoming one of the pioneer millers of this county, proprietor of the mill in which Mr. Baughman later and for many years had an interest. To that union no children were born, but Mr. and Mrs. Baughman reared several children to whom they gave the same indulgent care that would have been bestowed upon children of their very own. Mrs. Baughman died in 1891, just a few months before the death of her husband. As the Xenia Gazette fittingly commented, following the death of Andrew H. Baughman : "Mr. Baughman will be missed by the church and by people in different walks of 40 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO life and he will be remembered for many years as one whose sympathies were as broad as the human race and whose integrity was beyond question." Another biographer also pointed out that "his love for his fellow men was deep and sincere, and surely the world is better for his having lived." JOHN LUTZ. In making up a list of those residents of Xenia aforetime who contributed actively to the general business and industrial development of the city of Xenia, mention should be made of the life and services of the late John Lutz, a veteran of the Civil War, who for many years was engaged in the blacksmithing and wagon-making business at Xenia and who departed this life at his home in that city on December 17, 1912; and is buried in Woodland cemetery. John Lutz was a native of the state of Maryland, but had been a resident of Xenia since the days of his young manhood. He was born near the village of Clear Spring, Maryland, January 5, 1829, a son of Henry and Frances (Moudy) Lutz, the former of whom was born in the vicinity of Millersburg, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1802, and the latter, at Williamsport, Maryland. Henry Lutz was a son of Nicholas Lutz, whose father had come to this country from Germany in colonial days and had established the family in Pennsylvania, where and in other sections of the country there is a numerous connection of the family to' this day. During the early '50s of the past century Henry Lutz came with his family to Ohio and located at Xenia, but in 1859 moved over into Indiana and settled on a farm in the vicinity of Ft. Wayne, but after residing there about ten years returned to Xenia and there spent his last days, his death occurring in 1877: His widow survived him about eight years. They were the parents of five children, two sons and three daughters, of whom but two reached maturity, the subject of this memorial sketch having had a sister, Mary, the wife of B. Y. Berry, also a resident of Xenia. John Lutz was reared in his native Maryland and there received his schooling and became proficient in the use of tools, becoming- an expert blacksmith and wagon-maker, and when he arrived in Xenia in November, 1853, he became employed working at his trade, in the employ of James White. In the spring of 1855 he returned to Maryland and was there married to the girl to whom he had plighted his troth before coming to Ohio. Upon his return to Xenia he was accompanied by his father and together they set up in business with a smithy on Church street and were thus engaged until the spring of 1859, when they bought an established wagon-making- shop in Xenia and engaged in that business. In that same year the father left Xenia to go over into Indiana and thereafter John Lutz conducted GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 41 the business alone and continued so engaged until his retirement from business, not long before his death, having been continuously thus engaged for a period of nearly fifty years. During the later years of his life Mr. Lutz had associated with him in business his eldest son, Jacob H. Lutz, who' is still carrying on the business at the same old stand. During the progress of the Civil War, in the early part of 1864, John Lutz enlisted for service, under the four-months call, and went to the front as a member of Company E, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry; with that regiment participated in the battle of New Creek, Virginia, and was mustered out at Camp Denison at the end of his term of service, in September, 1864. Mr. Lutz was a member of Lewis Post No. 347, Grand Army of the Republic, and a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. By religious persuasion he was a member of the Reformed church and broke the ground for the erection of the present church edifice of that congregation in Xenia. Politically, he was a Republican.   It was in March, 1855, in Maryland, that John Lutz was united in marriage to Savilla Wolford, who also was born in that state, and to that union were born six children, Jacob. Henry, John Edward, Laura B., Cora E., Ida S., and Frances Elizabeth, the latter of whom died in infancy. The mother of these children died at her home in Xenia on March 4, 1907, and is buried in Woodland cemetery, where her husband was carried to be laid by her side in the closing month of 1912, as noted above. Miss Cora E. Lutz is maintaining the old home residence, she having continued as housekeeper for her father after her mother's death, and is very comfortably situated there. She has ever taken an interested part in the general good works of the community.   Jacob H. Lutz, who is continuing the business established so many years ago by his father, has been twice married, his first wife, Anna Cisco, having died at the age of thirty-four years, leaving three children, Myrtle Bell, who married Roy Barnes, of Springfield, Ohio, and now lives in Jacksonville, Florida; Harry DeGroot, also living in Jacksonville, Florida, and John Wilbur, who now lives at Dayton, this state. In 1915 Mr. Lutz married, secondly, Mrs. Susie Matthews, of Dayton. John Edward Lutz also is married and with his family is now living at Vernon, Texas. He has seven children, John, Robert, Mary, Ida, Charles, James and Ruth. Laura B. Lutz married John F. Sanders, of Xenia, and has two 'sons, both of whom are married, Earl Lutz Sanders, now living at Kansas City, Missouri, and Frank Ira Sanders, living at Detroit, Michigan. Ida S. Lutz married George Sinz, who was engaged in the grocery business at Xenia and who died in 1896. She continues to make her home in Xenia, residing at the old home place with her sister Cora, and conducts the leading millinery estab-   42 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   lishment in Xenia, a business in which she has been quite successful. Mrs. Sinz has traveled widely having visited England, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and France and has witnessed the Passion Play. She has made thirty trips to New York City in connection with her business, it ever being her endeavor to introduce for the benefit of the patrons of her establishment the latest styles in millinery.   CHARLES W., WHITMER.   Charles W. Whitmer, for many years a member of the bar of Greene county and still actively engaged in the practice of his profession at Xenia, with offices at 18 East Market street, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born in the village of Rainsboro, in Highland county, July 4, 1852, a son of the Rev. David and Catherine (Fox) Whitmer, the former of whom, for years a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, spent his last days in Xenia.   The Rev. David Whitmer was a Virginian by birth, but was reared in Ohio, his parents, David Whitmer and wife, the former of whom was a Pennsylvanian by birth, having come to this state and settled in Greene county, where they established their home and where they spent the remainder of their lives. Rev. David Whitmer's first charge was at Hillsboro, in Highland county, and, under the system of the itinerary of Methodist clergymen, he afterward occupied charges at numerous places throughout this section of the state. In 1872 he was stationed at Jamestown, in this county, which charge he occupied for three years, and later was at Spring Valley. Upon his acceptance of the superanuate relation in 1876 he made his home at Xenia and there spent his last days, his death occurring there in 1881, he then being sixty-one years of age. He was twice married, his first wife, Catherine Fox, who was born at Richmond, Indiana, and who was a sister of Judge Henry C. Fox, of that city, having died in 1854. To that union two sons were born, Charles W. Whitmer having had a brother more than two years older than himself, William C. Whitmer, who was long connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad service, for some time trainmaster of the northern division at Columbus, who died in 1909. Following the death of the mother of these children Rev. David Whitmer married Amanda C. Gardner, of the neighboring county of Clinton, who survived him about five years, her death occurring in 1886. To that union were born nine children, six of whom are still living, namely : George Whitmer, trainmaster for the Pennsylvania Railroad, with headquarters at Xenia; Harriet, unmarried,. who is living in Xenia ; Clarence Whitmer, formerly teller of the Xenia National Bank, now living in Chicago ; Florence, who married Walter Fulghum and is living at   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 43   Richmond, Indiana; Mary, who married Marshall Lupton and is living at Indianapolis, and Harry Whitmer, who is engaged in the undertaking business at Xenia.   Before he was fourteen years of age Charles W. Whitmer had passed the necessary examination for a teacher's license and taught a term of school in Champaign county, where his father then was located. The next winter he taught at the Stover school in that same county. During the time his father was located at Urbana he was graduated from the high school in that city and then entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, pursuing there the four-year course and was just ready to be graduated when he was stricken with the measles, which prevented his completion of the course and he never graduated. In the meantime he had learned the art of telegraphing and had been spending his vacations from college in the railroad service, a service he continued for some time after leaving college, spending his winters teaching school. He had married in 1876, two years before leaving college, and upon leaving college, in 1878, resumed teaching at the Mt. Tabor school in New Jasper township, this county, and was thus engaged there in 1881 when he took up the study of law. In 1884 he passed the .examination for admission to the bar, resigned his position as superintendent of schools at New Burlington and moved to Xenia with his wife and two children, established his home there and opened an office for the practice of his profession. Upon locating at Xenia Mr. Whitmer secured the law office and practice of Squire W. J. Alexander, who had just been appointed superintendent of the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, and upon the latter's return from that position a year later formed a partnership with him which continued until the death of Squire Alexander in '886, since which time Mr. Whitmer has been engaged in practice alone. Mr. Whitmer is a Republican. He formerly was city solicitor, for fourteen years was a member of the board, of tax equalization and for ten years a member of the county board of review. He was elected to the board of public service of the city of Xenia and in 1909 when the Legislature created the office of director of public service he was appointed to that office. For twenty years he has been the attorney for the Peoples Building and Savings Company of Xenia. He is affiliated with the Masons the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Improved Order of Red Men.   On November 24, 1876, Charles W. Whitmer was united in marriage to Libbie S. Cooper, who was born in New Jasper township, this county, daughter of Samuel and Polly Cooper, and to, this union three children have been bores, Effie C., who married Charles Cross, manager of the Springfield & Xenia Telephone Company ; Freddie, who died in infancy, and John Raymond, now deceased, who was formerly connected with the Miami Telephone   44 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   Company of Xenia and whose daughter Dorothy makes her home with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Whitmer. The Whitmers are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church.   THOMAS L. MAGRUDER.   The late Thomas L. Magruder, attorney-at-law, who died at his home in Xenia in 1906, was born in Prince George's county, Maryland, not far from the City of Washington, July 3, 1848, and was consequently fifty-eight years of age at the time of his death. He was a son of Dr. Archibald and Narcissa (Adamson) Magruder, both of whom also were natives of Maryland, in which state they spent all their lives. Mr. Archibald Magruder died at the height of his. powers, during the Civil War period, he then being forty-five years of age. He and his wife were the parents of eleven children, five of whom died in infancy and three of whom are still living.   After the death of his father Thomas L. Magruder entered the University of Maryland, from which he was graduated in medicine at the age of nineteen years, the youngest man who had ever received a diploma from that college. He practiced medicine for one year in Washington, D. C., under the late Dr. Josiah Magruder, a one time mayor of the City of Washington, which in 1871 lost its local charter and was placed under the control of three commissioners under the direction of the Congress. Mr. Magruder later abandoned the study of medicine for that of law, and in 1874, he then being about twenty-five years of age, determined upon Xenia as a promising place in which to locate for the practice of his profession, and in that year was given a place in the law office of Little & Shearer, and was for two years thus associated, during that time securing admission to the bar. He then opened. an office of his own and from that time thence forward practice alone. Mr. Magruder was an "independent" in politics. The only public office he ever held was that of prosecuting attorney for Greene county. He was intensely interested in the raising of fine stock and devoted many years to that avocation. Some of his more notable horses were exported to Europe after his death. By religious persuasion he was a member of the Episcopal church. His death occurred on September, 6, 1906, and his widow still survives him, continuing to make her home at Xenia, where she has always lived in the old Millen home, erected by her father many years ago at 230 North Detroit street, where she now lives with her niece, Miss Emma Davidson.   Mrs. Magruder was born, Margaret Emma Millen, in Xenia, daughter of David and Mary Patterson (Stewart) Millen, and was living there at the time, of her marriage on June 24, 1877, to Mr. Magruder, which union   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 45   was without issue. David Millen, her father, was a native of. South Carolina, born in Chester county, that state, one of the ten children born to John and Martha (Moffitt) Millen;: the former of whom was born in Scotland and was but a lad when his parents, Robert Millen and wife, came to this country with their family and settled in South Carolina, Robert Millen having received a patent for his land in that state direct from King George. John Millen became an extensive landowner and slaveholder in South Carolina, but when he found death approaching he willed that all his slaves should be given their freedom and some of these freedmen David Millen later brought with him to Ohio when he came to this state. David Millen was born in the year 1813 and grew 'up on the home 'plantation in Chester county and was there married. His first wife died within the year of her marriage. and after Mr. Millen's removal to Xenia he later married Mary Patterson Stewart of Clark county, Ohio. They located at Oxford, where they made their home for three years, at the end of which time they came to Xenia, where David Millen joined his brother Eli in the mercantile business, Eli Millen having previously located there in 1834. For many years David and Eli Millen carried on a general mercantile business at. the northwest corner of Main and Detroit streets, where. the Steele building now. stands, and then moved to a point in East Main street, now occupied by the Orpheum Theater, where they were for years engaged in the dry-goods business. They also were for some time, in association with the Connable brothers, engaged in the pork-packing business and were likewise interested in various other business enterprises in the city, the Millen interests coming to be recognized as among the most extensive hereabout. David Millen also was engaged quite extensively in real-estate transactions and in this connection built numerous buildings about town, and he and his brother erected the building still known as the Millen block on Greene street. They took a deep interest in Xenia's upbuilding and were liberal contributors to all local. good works, the Young Men's Christian Association, the pubic library and other .movements of a beneficent or cultural character having their ungrudging support. Mr. Millen was a Republican and for many years served as a member of the city council. He and his wife originally were members of the Associate Reformed church, but after the "union" in 1858 became members of the United Presbyterian church, and in that faith their children were reared. There were five of these children, of . whom Mrs. Magruder now is the only survivor, the others having been Eva, who married William Trow, and died at Madison, Indiana; Carrie, who was the wife of Dr. Eber Watt, of Xenia; Edwin Stewart Millen, who died at the age of twenty years, and Mrs.- Martha ,Jane .Davidson, whose children, David e Millen Davidson, John M. Davidson, Edwin S. Davidson and Emma J.   46 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   Davidson, are the only surviving grandchildren of David Millen. All live in Xenia with the exception of D. M. Davidson, who is a plantation owner in Guatemala, Central America. In both church and social service Mrs. Magruder has taken an earnest interest and her gentle influence has been helpful in many ways in promoting such movements as have been designed to advance the common welfare hereabout.   FLOYD ANDERSON.   Floyd Anderson, a florist at Xenia, with an establishment at 101 West Main street in that city, was born at Waverly, in Pike county, Ohio, November 29, 1873, son of Henry and Catherine (Holton) Anderson, both of whom were born in that same locality and there spent all their lives.   Henry Anderson was reared as a farmer and followed that vocation through life, and also was for some time -a singing-school teacher in Pike county. He was born on June 20, 1850, one of the ten children born to his parents and all of whom are now deceased save two, William, who continues to live in Pike county, and Mrs. Jane Rankin, of Elkhart, Indiana, the others besides Henry having been James, Jonathan, John, Willis, Tennyson, Callie and Susan. On December 24, 1871, Henry Anderson was united in marriage to Catherine Holton, who also was born in Pike county, August 28, 1852, daughter of Thomas and Susan (Beekman) Holton, both of whom also were born in that same county and who were the parents of ten children, those besides Mrs-. Anderson having been Branson, deceased ; Catherine, who is living ; Mrs. Euphemia Leeper, deceased; Douglas, deceased; James, who is still living in Pike county ; Mrs. Callie Alexander, deceased; May, wife of C. L. Humphrey ; Harvey, who lives in Pike county, and Chloe, of Waverly. To Henry and Catherine (Holton) Anderson were born ten children, those besides the subject of this sketch being the following : Arzie, who married Ella Ashbaugh and has six children, Callie, May, Opal, Harold, Robert and Donald; Dora, who married C. D. Legg, of Anderson, Indiana, and has two children, Donald and Lucile; Alta, who died in infancy; Merle, now living at Newark, this state, who married Zoe Ashbaugh and has two children, Donald and Dora ; Mrs. Erma Beekman, who died at Newark; Bessie, who married Charles West, of Jeffersonville, Fayette county, and has six children, Esther, Howard, Cecil, Catherine, Maxine and Vernon ; Thomas, living at Newark, who is married and has one child, a son, Paul; Harvey, who is married and lives at Newark, and George, also married and living at Newark.   Floyd Anderson early turned his attention to floriculture and upon   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 47   completing his schooling gave his attention seriously to that vocation. After three years of experience in a. floral establishment iii Warren county he went to Columbus, where he became employed in the floral department of the Livingston Seed Company and after some further experience there went to Dayton and thence to Xenia, in which latter city, October 27, 1913, he opened a floral shop at 101 West Main street, where he ever since has been engaged in business.   On November 12, 1902, at Harveysburg, this state, Floyd Anderson was united in marriage to Maude Davis, of that place, and to this union has been born one child, a son, D. Carlton Anderson, born on June 21, 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of the Friends church at Xenia. Mr. Anderson is an independent voter and, fraternally, is affiliated with the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Loyal Order of the Moose at Xenia.   BARNEY W. CARLOS.   The late Barney W. Carlos, who for years was a passenger conductor on the division of the Pennsylvania lines between Richmond, Indiana, and Springfield, Ohio, and who died at his home in Xenia on July 28, 1917, was born at Springfield on July 25, 1855, son of Matthew and Bridget (Gaffney) Carlos, both of whom also were born at Springfield, and who spent their last days there. Matthew Carlos was for years an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Springfield, connected with the freight house there. He and his wife were members of the Catholic church and their children were reared in that faith. There were five of these children, of whom the subject of this memorial sketch was the first-born, the others being Matthew, deceased; George, of Springfield; Winnifred, of Columbus, and Bridget, deceased.   Reared at Springfield, Barney W. Carlos received his schooling in the schools of that city and when seventeen years of age became engaged as assistant baggagemaster for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at that point. He later became a railway brakeman, presently was promoted to the position of conductor of a freight train and in due time was raised to the position of a conductor in the passenger service, a position he filled for sixteen years, during which time he became widely known along the line of the Pennsylvania between Richmond and Springfield. For. years Mr. Carlos had made his home in Xenia and there his death occurred on July 28, 1917, he then being three days past sixty-two years of age. He was a member of St. Brigid's Catholic church at Xenia, was affiliated with the local   48 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   council of the Knights of Columbus there and was for years an active member of the Brotherhood Of Railroad Conductors.   Mr. Carlos was twice married; his first wife having been Julia McDonald, of Xenia. To that union were born two children, James, who married Agnes Wade and is living at Dayton, where he is employed as a locomotive engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad, and Gertrude, who is living at Xenia. Following the death of the mother of these children, Mr. Carlos, on August 12, 1903, married Mary Whalen, who was born at Newport, Kentucky, a daughter of John and Julia (Flynn) Whalen, natives of Ireland, who had come to this country in the days of their youth and were married in Ohio, later moving to Newport, Kentucky, where John Whalen became engaged in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, later becoming connected with the maintenance department of the road between Cincinnati and Xenia, making his home in Xenia in 1898. He died in that city on December 3, 1903, and his widow is still living there. They were members of the Catholic church and their children were brought up adherents of that faith. Of these children Mrs. Carlos was the eldest, the others being John, James (deceased), Patrick, Arthur, Catherine, Margaret and Anna. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Carlos has continued to make her home at Xenia. She is a member of St. Brigid's Catholic church.   ROBERT DUNCAN WILLIAMSON.   Robert Duncan Williamson, proprietor of the "R. D. Williamson Stock Farm" on the Jamestown pike, five miles east of Xenia, rural mail route No. 2 out of Xenia, in New Jasper township, this county, a member of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, a member of the Greene county board of commissioners, chairman of the Greene county selective draft board and for years. recognized as an authority on the breeding of Merino sheep, was born on the farm on which he is still living and has lived there all his life. He was born on February 13, 1862, son of Jonathan Duncan and Martha Anne (McMillan) Williamson and was the fifth in order of birth of the eight children born to that parentage, as is set out in a comprehensive narrative relating to the Williamson family in this county presented elsewhere: in this volume in a biographical sketch relating to his elder brother, John C. Williamson, of Xenia, wherein the reader is informed of the coming of the Williamsons to Greene county in 1836, when David and Catherine (Duncan) Williamson, parents of ten children, of whom Jonathan was the eighth in order of birth, settled on a tract of three hundred acres of land on Caesars creek at a point about equidistant from Xenia and Jamestown.   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 49   Jonathan Duncan Williamson not only was an excellent general farmer, but was a expert on the breeding of sheep and it was he who, in 1860, started the great Merino breeding cotes that have made the name Williamson familiar among sheep breeders all over the world. From the days of his boyhood Robert Duncan Williamson took an active interest in the sheep industry that was developed by his father on the home farm and in due time was made a partner of his father in the development of that phase of their farming operations: When the Ohio Merino Record Association was organized in 1876 the elder Williamson was one of the charter members of the same and a continuous register of the Williamson Merinos has ever since been scrupulously maintained. These register marks have been sustained by a series of successes in the greatest exhibition rings in the world. When in 1888 the elder Williamson retired and moved to Cedarville, where he spent his last days, he divided his farm between his two sons, John C. and Robert D., and the latter took over the Merino flock -and has ever' since maintained the same: He made his first exhibition at the Ohio state fair in the following season and has never missed a season as 'an exhibitor since then, besides showing at the leading state fairs all over the country. At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis in 1904 Mr. Williamson won the prize as the premier Champion exhibitor in 'the sheep department, the products of his flock carrying off more prizes than those of any other individual exhibitor, and he also won the prize 'awarded for having bred all the sheep he exhibited, his cash prizes at that World's Fair aggregating nearly fourteen hundred dollars. At dozens of state fairs Mr. Williamson has won the championship rain prize and in 1911 he brought away from the Ohio state fair the much desired Governor Harris cup,- a trophy more hotly contested than any similar trophy ever put up in this state. This handsome silver cup was offered by the governor as a final for one of the most interesting contests ever taken part in by sheep breeders in this country. For three years the Cup was held for the. exhibitor of the best. ram and the three best ewes. Each year the trophy was awarded to a different exhibitor, Mr. Williamson being one of the fortunate three. In the fourth year these three winners entered their sheep for the decisive contest and Mr. Williamson won the final. For twelve' years prior to the breaking out of the great World War Mr. Williamson was a constant exporter Of his breeding stock to South Africa, South America and Australia and the products of his cotes thus attained a wide reputation. At the same time, of course, he was being called on to supply his stock to sheep farms all over this country and Canada and this domestic demand is constantly' growing. In 1912 Mr. Williamson started a pure-bred Shorthorn cattle herd on his farm and   (3)