250 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO To Lewis and :Samantha (Long) Middleton were born six children, namely : Harry Edgar, who died at the age of five years; Lora, wife of Solomon Early,. of Caesarscreek township, this county ; Thomas, a Greene county farmer, who married Lulu Dunlap and has three sons, William, Roy and Harold ; Thurman, who married Jessie Forkner and is farming in Caesarscreek township ; Arthur Leroy, who died in youth, and Curtis, who died at the age of sixteen years. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Middleton has continued to make her home on the farm, retaining her interest in the community in which she has lived all her life and in which she has been a witness to the amazing changes that have been wrought since the days of her girlhood. WILLIAM P. ANDERSON. William P. Anderson, a retired farmer now living at Cedarville, where he has made his home since his retirement from the farm in 1907, was born on a farm one and a half miles south of Cedarville on February 4, 1848, son of William and Mary (Collins) Anderson, the former of whom was born in that same township and the latter in the state of Pennsylvania, whose last days were spent in this county. William Anderson, father of the subject of this sketch, was a son of William Anderson and wife, the latter of whom was a Kyle, who came up here from the neighborhood of Lexington, Kentucky, at an early day in the settlement of Greene county and put in their lot with that of the followers. of the Rev. Robert Armstrong, members of the Associate Reformed (Seceder) church, who had come up here into the valley of the Little Miami in order to get away from slavery conditions. The elder William Anderson established his home at what came to be known as "Andersons Forks," in the south part of the county. He later Moved to a farm in the vicinity of Cedarville and on the latter place spent his last days. The younger 'William Anderson grew up on that farm and in time became a farmer on his own account. After his marriage to Mary Collins, who also was a member of one of Greene county's pioneer families, he established his home on a farm on the Jamestown pike, six miles from Xenia, spending the rest of his life there, his death occurring in 1868, he then being sixty-two years of age. His widow survived him for many years, she having been eighty-eight years of age at the time of her death in 1906. William and Mary (Collins) Anderson were the parents of eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being- as follows : Mary; now deceased, who was the wife of the Rev. Walker Taylor ; Ella, also deceased, who was the wife of the Rev. Frank Spencer ; Margaret, the wife of James A. Curry, who is now making her 251 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO home in Springfield, in the neighboring- county: of Clark ; Martha, deceased, who was the wife of Thompson Crawford, of Cedarville ; Nannie, deceased, who was the wife of Dr. E. C. Harris, of Springfield; Archibald, now deceased, who remained on the old Collins homestead, and who was twice married, his first wife having been Ella -Webster and his second, Ella Anderson; Lydia, who is now living at Santa Ana, California, widow of William Smart; Maria, wife of John C. Williamson, of Xenia; Samuel C., who married Nettie Williamson and spent his last clays on the old Anderson home place, and Eula, also deceased, who was the wife of the Rev. W. C. Coleman. William P. Anderson grew up on the home farm and completed his schooling in the Xenia schools. After his marriage in 1883 he established his home on the old home place, one hundred and seven acres of which he bought, and engaged in general farming and in the raising of live stock until he sold the farm in 1907 and moved to Cedarville, where he since has made his home. In addition to the land he owned in this county, Mr. Anderson also was the owner of a farm in the adjoining county of Clark and the owner of lands in Texas. He is a Republican, and has served the public in the capacity of justice of the peace and as a member of the school board. While living on the farm he also operated a stone quarry. On December 19, 1883, William P. Anderson was united in marriage to Emma J. Collins, daughter of Col. Thomas C. Collins of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Colonel Collins was born on the farm in that county on which his father, James Collins, a soldier of the Revolution, was born, James Collins having been the son of Cornelius Collins, a native of Ireland, who had come to this country and had established his home in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in Colonial days. James Collins, the Revolutionary soldier, was the father of two sons, Cornelius and Thomas C., the latter of whom was for years auditor of his home county, a member of the board of county commissioners and the trustee of a local insurance company. He was an elder in the United Presbyterian church. Col. Thomas C. Collins was twice married. By his first wife, who was Grace McCullough, he was the father of six children, James, Hugh, Thomas, Mary, Grace and Sarah. His second wife, the mother of Mrs. Anderson, was a daughter of Ross and Sarah Campbell, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. By that second marriage he was the father of three children, Mrs. Anderson having a brother, Ross, who is living- at Quarryville, Pennsylvania, and a sister, Bertha I., who married George Herbert and is now living at. Glasgow, Scotland. Mrs. Anderson completed her schooling in the Pennsylvania State Normal. School and for a. time before ..her marriage was .engaged in teaching music. To William P. and Emma J. (Collins) Anderson have been born four 252 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO children, William E., Thomas Collins, Bertha Isabel and Wallace Cooper, all of whom are living and doing well. William E. Anderson was born on November 24, 1884, and upon completing the course in the high school at Xenia entered Tarkio College at Tarkio, Missouri, upon completing the course at which he began teaching school. He then went to Kansas and later to Colorado, in which latter state he became the owner of a ranch in the vicinity of Olathe; later going to Greeley, Colorado, where he is now living, one of the chief stockholders and the general manager of the firm of W. D. Garlington & Company, dealers in general produce. He married Elizabeth Doland. Thomas Collins Anderson, who is now engaged in farming at Olathe, Colorado, where he also is a ranch owner, went to Kansas after finishing the course in the high school at Cedarville and entered Sterling College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He married Emma Quinlan and has 'three children, Phyllis Jean, Lois Rachel and Genevieve. Bertha Isabel Anderson completed her schooling at Cedarville College and has since been engaged in teaching school, at present connected with the schools at Osborn, she having previously taught for one year at Selma and for two years at West Liberty. Wallace Cooper Anderson finished the high school course and took one year at Cedarville College and is now attending Cooper College, Sterling, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are members of the -United Presbyterian church. ROBERT HARVEY NASH. The late Robert Harvey Nash, former county commissioner and the proprietor of a fine farm on the Hoop road, a mile and a half east of Xenia, rural mail route No. 8 out of that city, where his widow still lives, was born in this county and all his life was spent here. He was born on a farm on the Columbus pike in Xenia township, March 20, 1851, son of John R. and Mary ( Jackson) Nash, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families, the latter a daughter of Gen. Robert and Minerva (Eddy) Jackson, further mention of whom, together with a comprehensive narrative relating to the Jackson family in this county, is made elsewhere in this volume, the Jacksons having been among the foremost pioneers of the Cedarville neighborhood. Elsewhere in this volume, in a biographical sketch relating to the venerable John R. Nash, of Xenia township, there also is set out a comprehensive history of the Nash family in this county, this family having had its beginning here with the coming of Nathan and Polly (Ward) Nash from Washington county, Pennsylvania, about the time Greene county was erected into a civic unit, one hundred and fifteen years ago. This pioneer couple GREENE COUNTY, OHIO 253 were the parents of ten children, hence the Nash connection in this particular branch became a numerous one in the succeeding generation. Hugh .Nash, the fourth in order of birth of the six sons of Nathan and Polly Nash, there having been four daughters in the family, grew up in this county and married Rebecca Graham. He died in Xenia at the age of sixty-five years and his widow survived him to the age of eighty-three. Originally members of the Associate Reformed church, they became affiliated with the United Presbyterian church after the "union." Their two children are still living, John R. Nash, now past ninety years of age, having a sister, Mrs. Mary •Miller, of Chicago, Illinois. As noted elsewhere, John R. Nash established himself on the farm on which he is now living, in Xenia township, in 1859, about nine years after his marriage to Mary Jackson, who died September 3, 1904, she then being past seventy-two years of age. To that union two sons were born, the subject of this memorial sketch having had a brother, Hugh Leander Nash, who is still farming the old home place east of Xenia, his father continuing to make his home there. John R. Nash has been an elder in the First United Presbyterian church at Xenia for more than forty years and his sons were reared in that faith. Robert H. Nash, elder of the two sons of John R. and Mary ( Jackson) Nash, was reared on the home farm, completed his schooling in the Xenia high school and in the old Xenia College and remained at home until his marriage in 1876. Shortly before his marriage he bought a farm on the Nash road in Xenia township adjoining his father's farm. He built a new house on that place and there continued to reside until 1898, when he purchased the farm formerly owned by his father-in-law on the Jamestown pike, where he resided until the spring of 190, when he sold that place and bought the Lauman farm of two hundred acres, on the Hoop road in Xenia township, a mile and a half east of Xenia, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on November 25, 1917. Upon taking possession of that place Mr. Nash made numerous substantial improvements on the same and the work he inaugurated there is now being successfully carried on by his sons, Walter L., who bought eighty acres of his father's place, and. William H. Nash, who remains with his mother on the remainder of the farm. Robert H. Nash was a Republican and served two terms as a member of the board of county commissioners from his district, elected for the first term in the fall of 1900. He was an earnest member of the First United Presbyterian church at Xenia, as is his widow, and the family has ever taken an interested part in church work, as well as in the general good works of the community. As was written of Mr. Nash during the time of his service as a county commissioner : "As a public official he is true to his promises and is most active and earnest in supporting every 254 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO movement and measure which he believes will contribute to the general good," and he continued thus to the end, faithful and true in every relation of life. On November 28, 1876, Robert H. Nash was united in marriage to Agnes Gordon Watt, who also was born in Xenia township, on a farm on the Federal pike, daughter of William and Sarah G. (Carruthers) Watt, whose last days were spent in Xenia, the former dying at his home there on June 12, 1894, he then being- in the eightieth year of his age, and the latter, June 13, 1898, she ..then being in her eightieth year. Both William, Watt and his wife were natives of Scotland, but were married in this country. William Watt came to the United States upon attaining his majority and was for a time thereafter engaged at working at his trade, that of a carpenter, in New York City. He then came to Ohio and worked at Bainbridge until. 1849, when he came to .Greene county and established his home on a farm of one hundred acres in Xenia township. Some, years later he disposed of his interests there and moved to a farm in Cedarville township, where he remained for twenty-three years, or until his retirement in 1884 and removal to Xenia, were he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. William Watt was a Republican and for some time served as a member of the board of county 'commissioners from his district.. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church and were ever active in good works. They were the parents of ten children, of whom Mrs. Nash was the sixth in order of birth, the others being the following: Mary E., wife of D. H. Cherry, of Xenia township; Sarah J., wife of Warren Johnson, of Wichita, Kansas; Margaret E., who died at the- age of eighteen years; James B. who became engaged in the wholesale clothing business at Chicago; the Rev. John C. Watt, a minister of the Presbyterian church, stationed at Moss Point, Mississippi; David B., a substantial farmer in Xenia township ; Robert C., a Cedarville township farmer; Emily H., who died at the age of four years, and Rosetta, who died at the age of six months. To Robert H. and Agnes G. (Watt) Nash were born five children, four sons and one daughter, all of whom are still living save the latter, Sarah May, born on April 22, '1888, who died on April 6, 1889. The firstborn son, Herbert Watt Nash, born on March 1, 1878, completed his schooling in the Xenia high school and is now living at Xenia, engaged as general foreman for the Wilson Engineering and Construction Company. He married Pearl Edwards, daughter of Frank Edwards, and has one child, a son, Roger Herbert. The second son, Walter Leigh Nash, born on April 5, 1883, also had his schooling in the Xenia high school and' in Cedarville .College and is .farming the eighty acres bought from his father. He married Nellie daughter of Frank *and Jane (Padgett) Ireland. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 255 and has two children, daughters both, Pauline Augusta and Esther Marie. The Rev. Charles Elmer Nash, the third son, born on February 20, 1886, a minister of the United Presbyterian church, now at Shushan, New York, was educated at Cedarville College and at Muskingum College, took theology at the Xenia Theological Seminary and after his ordination was for some time in charge of a church in Wisconsin, later in Ohio, then in Pennsylvania, and is now at Shushan, pastor of one of the oldest United Presbyterian congregations in the United States. He married Florence Smith and has two children, Robert Lewis and Elizabeth Lucile. The youngest' son, William Harvey Nash, born on January 19, 1892, completed his schooling at the Xenia high school and is still at home operating the farm for his mother. The Nashes have a delightful home and are very pleasantly situated. HARRY R. KENDIG. Harry R. Kendig, proprietor of a dry-goods store at Osborn, former town clerk, town treasurer and member of the village council, was born on a farm in the vicinity of Byron, in this county, January 27, 1875, son of John and Sarah (Mitman) Kendig, both now deceased. John Kendig was born in Pennsylvania and was but a small boy when he came to Ohio with his parents, the family locating in Montgomery county. He became a farmer and after his marriage established his home on a farm in the neighborhood of Byron, in this county, where he resided for a number of years. They moved to Osborn where they spent the remainder of their lives, his death occurring in 1898 and hers, in 1913. They were the parents of nine children, six of whom are still living. Upon completing his schooling in the Byron schools, Harry R. Ken dig took a commercial course in a business college and then became engaged as a clerk in the store of J. C. Smith at Osborn and was thus engaged for twelve years, at the end of which time, in 1907, he bought the F. E. Glenn store in that village and has since been there engaged in business on his own account. His store is stocked with a general line of dry-goods and shoes, his present stock appraising twelve- thousand dollars and upwards, and it is hardly necessary to say that he regards with deep concern the flood-prevention project which seems likely soon to relegate Osborn to that unhappy limbo of things that are done. Mr. Kendig is a Democrat and for six years served as town clerk, two years as village treasurer and four years as a member of the village council, in :addition to which he also served for two years as treasurer of Bath township. On October 7, 1903, Harry R. Kendig. was united in marriage to Julia 256 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO H. Sweeney, daughter of Z. T. and Rebecca (Cosler) Sweeney, the former of whom formerly was a carpenter, but is now living on a farm in Bath township, and to this union has been born one child, a son, John W., born on October 4, 1904. Mr. Kendig is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. JOHN HARVEY ADAMS. The late John Harvey Adams, who died at his home in Caesarscreek township in the spring of 1908 and whose widow and children are still living there, was born in that same township and had lived there all his life. He was born on the old Adams farm just north of Paintersville on April 29, 1853, son of Jackson and Sarah (Kildow) Adams, the former of whom also was born there, son of Nimrod and Susan (Linkhart) Adams, pioneers of that community, who had settled there upon coming here from Virginia many years ago, and a further and more extended account of whom, together with other interesting details of the history of the Adams family in this county, is set out elsewhere in this volume. Jackson Adams was reared in Caesarcreek township and became a practical farmer, which vocation he followed all his life, becoming quite successful in his operations. He was twice married. His first wife died in 1860, leaving one child, a son, the subject of this memorial sketch. He then married Mrs. Mary Ary, a widow, also now deceased, and to that union were born four children, namely : Dora, wife of Charles Ellis, living east of Paintersville ; Joseph, who is living in Jefferson township, this county ; Sarah, wife of George Babb, of Caesarcreek township, and Samuel, deceased. Jackson Adams lived to be sixty-seven years of age. John Harvey Adams was reared on the old home place north of Pain, ersville and received his schooling in the local schools. After his marriage he established his home on a portion of the old home place and proceeded to develop and improve the same. He was the owner of sixty-nine acres and had an excellent farm plant. Politically, Mr. Adams was a Republican; fraternally, was a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and by religious persuasion was a member of the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville. He died at his home on March 22, 1908, and was buried in beautiful Woodland cemetery at Xenia. John Harvey Adams was twice married. In 1875 he was united in marriage to Rebecca 'Ann Cline, also of this county, who died on June 17, 1896. On September 23, 1897, Mr. Adams married Martha L. Barton, who was born in the neighboring county of Clinton, daughter of Henry and Mary Barton, both of whom were born in that same county, the for- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 257 mer in 1825 and the latter in 1828. Henry Barton was a well-to-do farmer in Clinton county. His wife died in 1899 and he survived her for four years, his death occurring in 1903. They were the parents of the following children : Mary E., Elsie Ann (deceased), John, Ella, Frank, Rennie, Henry, Martha and Lucretia. To John H. and Martha L. (Barton) Adams were born three sons, Samuel J., born on June 22, 1898, a machinist, who is living at home; Clarence H., July 8, 1899, who is farming the home place, and Robert B., September 24, 1903. Mrs. Adams is a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville and takes a warm interest in the general work of the church. Since the death of her husband she has continued to make her home on the home farm and she and her sons are very pleasantly situated there. REV. JAMES S. E. McMICHAEL. The late Rev. J. B. McMichael, D. D., was a native son of Ohio, born at Poland, in Mahoning county, July 22, 1833, son of Squire McMichael and wife, who 'about the year 1840 moved from that place to Mercer county, Pennsylvania, where they spent the remainder of their lives in the vicinity of the town of Greenville. Squire McMichael and his wife were members of the Associate Reformed church and their children were reared in accordance with the rigid tenets of that faith. J. B. McMichael's attention was turned to thoughts of the gospel ministry during his college days and his studies, thereafter, were directed with that end in view. After his graduation from Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, in 1859, he entered the Theological Seminary at Xenia and was graduated from that institution in 1862 and in the fall of that same year was married to Mary Hanna, whom he had met first at the commencement at Westminster in 1859. She had been teaching in the old Female Seminary that wa.s then being conducted in the building now occupied as a dormitory for the Theological Seminary. Following his ordination Doctor McMichael accepted a call to the pastorate of the Sugar Creek United Presbyterian church in the township of that name in this county and at once entered upon the duties of that pastorate, continuing hus engaged for sixteen years or until his election in 1878 to the presidency of Monmouth College at Monmouth, Illinois. In the meantime, since 1873, he had been serving as a professor in the Xenia Theological Seminary. Doctor McMichael continued to serve as president of Monmouth until 1897, in which year he resigned and later accepted a -call to his old congregation on Sugar Creek in Greene county. For five years after his return Doctor McMichael continued his pastoral engagements with his old congregation on Sugar Creek and then he was called (16) 258 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO to his reward, his death occurring on December 31, 1902. Two years later his widow moved back to Xenia, the home of her young womanhood, and there she spent the remainder of her life, her death occurring on August 31, 1913. Mary (Hanna) McMichael was born at Cadiz, Ohio, February 2, 1836, (laughter of the Rev. Thomas and Jemima (Patterson) Hanna, both of whom were born in that same vicinity and the latter of whom died when her daughter Mary was but a child. The Rev. Thomas Hanna, who for years was pastor of the Associate Reformed church at Cadiz, married, secondly, Sarah Foster, that great woman of whom President John Quincy Adams said of ter visiting her school that she was the only woman whom he feared intellectually. Sarah Foster Hanna was one of the real pioneers in what now is commonly regarded as the "feminist" movement, which has grown to proportions that would have been startling in thought no doubt even to her in the days when she started her female seminary at Washington, Pennsylvania, the first institution of the kind inaugurated west of the Alleghanies. She later established similar institutions at Wheeling, West Virginia, and at Xenia. To Doctor McMichael and wife were born six children, namely : the Rev. Thomas Hanna McMichael, D. D., who was graduated from Monmouth College and who since 1903 has been president of that institution; Dr. John Charles McMichael, also a graduate of Monmouth, who is now practicing medicine at Cleveland, Ohio; Rev. William Jackson McMichael, D. D., who also was graduated from Monmouth, succeeded his father as pastor of the Sugar Creek United Presbyterian church in 1902 and is now pastor of the United Presbyterian church at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where he has been stationed since 1907; George Harold, who died at the age of fourteen months and was buried in the cemetery at Bellbrook; Mary Grace, who died at Monmouth in 1892, she then being seventeen years of age, and the Rev. James S. E. McMichael, the immediate subject of this biographical review. James S. E. McMichael, last-born of the six children to the Rev. J. B. and Mary (Hanna) McMichael, was born at Monmouth, Illinois, September 29, 1880, and his boyhood was spent in that city. He completed his preparatory course in Monmouth College, of which his father at that time was president, and upon the return of his father to his old home in this county he entered Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from that institution, his father's alma matey, in 1902. He had early consecrated his talents to the church and upon his return from college entered the Xenia Theological Seminary, of which his father had formerly been a professor and on the site of which his mother also had been a teacher in the old Female Seminary, and was graduated from that GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 259 institution in 1905. Following his ordination the Rev. James S. E. McMichael accepted a call to the pastorate of the United Presbyterian church at Piqua, Ohio, and was there thus engaged for two years and nine months, at the end of which time he resigned in order to accept a call to the pastorate of Graham's United Presbyterian church at Pine Bush, New York, entering upon that pastorate in April, 1908. For two years and seven months Mr. McMichael continued his ministerial labors at Pine Bush and then, on November 1, 1910, accepted a call from the congregation of the United Presbyterian church at Cedarville, was in due time installed as pastor of that flourishing old church and has since been thus engaged. On May 16, 1907, the Rev. James S. E. McMichael was united in marriage to Katherine Prugh, who was born in the neighboring county of Montgomery, daughter of J. Mason and Anna (Kemp) Prugh, the latter of whom died in 1914. J. Mason Prugh, a substantial farmer, is one of the ruling elders in the Sugar Creek United Presbyterian church. Mrs. McMichael completed her schooling at Monmouth College, having entered that institution after completing her studies in the Steele high school at Dayton, and is a competent helpmate to her husband in the latter's ministerial labors. Mr. and Mrs. McMichael have two children, sons both, Jackson Prugh, born on June 27, 1908, and James Lester, February 6, 1910. PHILIP DIEHL. Philip Diehl, the proprietor of a retail meat establishment at Osborn, where he has been engaged in business since 1911, was born in this county and has lived here the greater part of his life, although he was for some time a resident of Dayton and of the neighboring county of Clark. He was born in Fairfield on November 11, 1885, son of Jacob and Louise Diehl, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in this county, both now living at Yellow Springs. Jacob Diehl was seventeen years of age when he came to this country and proceeded on out to Ohio, locating at Fairfield, where he presently began working for Peter Long in the butcher trade. For twelve years he was thus engaged and he then started in business for himself, opening a butcher shop at Beattytown. A year later he gave up butchering and became engaged in farming and was thus engaged until 1906, in which year he moved to Yellow Springs and there resumed his former vocation as a butcher and is still thus engaged in that town. To him and his wife have been born eight children, of whom Philip and Jacob are the only ones living at Osborn. Philip Diehl received his schooling in the schools of Greene and Clark counties and after leaving school became engaged as a farm hand and was 260 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO thus employed until his father moved to Yellow Springs. in. 1906, when he became an assistant to his father in the latter's butcher shop. Not long afterward he went to Springfield and was there engaged in the packing houses for several years, at the end of which time he went to Dayton. A year later he returned to Yellow Springs and was there engaged in the butcher business for himself for a couple of years, or until 1911, when he moved to Osborn, bought the butcher shop he is now conducting and has been thus engaged in business at that place ever since. In 1911 Philip Diehl was united in marriage to Anna Funderburg, daughter of Lincoln Funderburg, of Bath township, and to this union has been born one child, a son, Carl. Mr. Diehl is a Republican and, fraternally, is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias. ARCHIBALD C. GRIEVE. Among the numerous stockmen who have done much to give to Greene county the fine reputation it enjoys all over the country as a live stock region there are few who have done more to help establish that enviable reputation than has Archibald C. Grieve, holder of the Ohio state grand champion Poland China boar stake. Mr. Grieve has a fine farm on the west edge of New Jasper township, about four and one-half miles from Xenia, and has there for years given his most thoughtful attention to the breeding of fine horses, fine sheep and fine hogs, a vocation to which his elder sons, Raymond D. and Carlin C. Grieve, also have for some years applied themselves quite successfully, the products of the Grieve stock farm having been exhibited with gratifying results at fairs and stock shows from coast to coast, while a demand for these products has been created that has opened a market for them not only among discriminating breeders in the United States but in Canada and in South America and Europe. Formerly and for years Mr. Grieve gave his attention to the breeding of road horses and the products of his stables were exhibited with success at state fairs throughout the Central states, but with the gradual decline of the demand for road horses he has of late devoted his attention in the way of equine products to Percherons. Twenty years or more ago he began to give more attention to the raising of pure-bred Poland China hogs and has since then made that line his specialty, his success in that line making him possessor of prize ribbons representing successful exhibits of the products of his stock farm at state fairs from New York state to Iowa. For the past three years Mr. Grieve has held the grand champion Poland China boar record and in 1917 won the grand championship Poland China boar and sow stake at the Ohio state fair. He is a member of the National Swine Breed- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 261 ers Association and of the American Poland China Record Company of Chicago. With the constantly growing demand being made upon the products of his farm Mr. Grieve is preparing to extend his operations and in this enterprise is aided by his sons, Raymond and Carlin, the former of whom is making a specialty of pure-bred Cheviot sheep, an exhibitor at stock shows from the New England states to the Pacific, and the latter of whom gives his chief attention to the Poland China hogs. During the time he was giving his chief attention to road and race horses Mr. Grieve also became widely known as a breeder of Cottswold sheep and back in the '80s won numerous prizes by his exhibits of that line of stock. Archibald C. Grieve was born on the farm on which he now lives on December 25, 1854, son of Robert and Elizabeth (Crawford) Grieve, the former of whom was born on that same farm, July 27, 1829, son of Archibald and Agnes (Stephenson) Grieve, natives of Scotland; the former born in Selkirk and the latter in Roxboroughshire. Archibald Grieve was born in 1775 and grew to manhood in his native Scotland, becoming a farmer. On March 11, 1811, he married Agnes Stephenson, daughter of John and Isabella Stephenson, and in the following year, 1812, came with his wife to the United States and proceeded on out to Ohio, settling on the farm about four and one-half miles from Xenia now owned and occupied by his grandson, Archibald C. Grieve. The elder Archibald Grieve developed that place from its primitive wilderness state and became one of the substantial pioneers of that section. He and his wife were members of the Associated Reformed church and their children were reared in the rigid tenets of that faith. They were the parents of nine children, two sons and seven daughters. The eldest son, John Grieve, died of cholera at Xenia in 1847. Robert Grieve, the other -son, grew up on the home farm and after his marriage bought the interests of the other heirs in the home place and there established his home, remaining there until in September, 1887, when he bought a farm in Xenia township and moved to the latter place. His wife died a year later and he then retired from the farm and moved to Xenia, where he presently married again and established his home in that city, spending the rest of his life there, his death occurring in September, 1903. As just noted, Robert Grieve was twice married. His first wife and the mother of his children was Elizabeth Crawford, who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, of Scottish ancestry, and who grew to young womanhood in that country and then came to the United States with some acquaintances who were coming over and proceeded on out to Ohio to rejoin her brothers and sisters who previously had come over and settled in Greene county. The widowed mother of these children later came from Ireland 262 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO and her last days were spent with her children in this county. To Robert and Elizabeth (Crawford) Grieve were born three sons, the subject of this sketch, the first-born, having two brothers, Rankin R. Grieve, of Xenia, former sheriff of Greene county and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume, and John Grieve, also a resident of Xenia. The mother of these sons died in March, 1888, and in 1892 Robert Grieve married Joanna Kyle, who died in 1895. Robert Grieve was a Republican and by religious persuasion was a member of the United Presbyterian church, affiliated with the Second church at Xenia. Archibald C. Grieve grew up on the farm on which he was born and on which his father had been born and by the latter was trained in the ways of practical farming and stock raising, with particular reference to the latter phase of farming, for the elder Grieve ever gave close, attention to the raising of fine live stock. As the eldest son, young Archibald early developed responsibilities about the farm and the management of the same which stood him in good stead when he later assumed control of the place. His early schooling was received in the nearby Hazlip district school and he supplemented the course there by a course in the Xenia high school and in the old Xenia Seminary, in the latter institution being under the instructions of Professor Smith. In 1881 he rented the home farm from his father and took charge of the same, establishing his home there after his marriage in the fall of 1887, his parents moving to their other farm in Xenia township about that time. After his father's death Mr. Grieve bought from his brothers their interests in the home place and has since been the owner of the same. Mr. Grieve has a farm of ninety-eight acres and is ably assisted in the management of the same and in his extensive live-stock operations by his four sons, all of whom continue to remain at home and who take a lively interest in the affairs of the stock farm. The house in which the Grieves live was erected by Mr. Grieve's father in 1856. Mr. Grieve is a Democrat, but has not been an office seeker. On September 28, 1887, Archibald C. Grieve was united in marriage to Anna Jane Dean, who also was born in New Jasper township, this county, daughter of J. C. and Emily Louisa (Hagler) Dean, and to this union four sons have been born. Raymond Dean and Carlin Crawford, twins, mention of whose activities as breeders of live stock is made above, and Edmond and Robert. Mrs. Grieve also is a member of one of the pioneer families of Greene county, the Deans having been prominently represented here for more than a hundred years, as is set out in a comprehensive history of the Dean family in this county presented elsewhere in this volume. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 263 MICHAEL L. FINNELL. Michael L. Finnell, president and general manager of the Tranchant & Finnell Company, merchant millers and proprietors of the ,Osborn Mills at Osborn, this county, one of the oldest continuously operated mills in this part of the state, is also president of the First National Bank of Osborn. No history of Greene county Would be complete without some reference to the old Osborn Mills, now and for some years past operated under the present management, the Tranchant & Finnell Company, of which Mr. Finnell, as noted above, is president ; F. A. Tranchant, vice-president and treasurer ; J. B. Finnell, secretary, and F. Diefenbach, superintendent. This old water-power mill was established at Osborn in 1857 by Samuel Stafford, who some years later sold out to Joseph Harshman, who presently disposed of his interest in the mill to J. J. Tranchant, who continued in charge. for some years, or until 1887, when Tranchant & Finnell assumed control and reorganized the whole business, adding to the capacity of the mill and in other ways extending its scope. In 1913 another reorganization occurred, the business then being incorporated under its present corporate title, and since that time has been operated at full capacity. In November, 1915, one of .the :mills, with a capacity of two hundred barrels, was destroyed by fire and since that tithe the other two rihi11s, each with a capacity of two hundred and fifty barrels, have been operated at full capacity night and day. Michael L. Finnell, head of the milling concern, was born at Dayton, but was reared at Greenville, county seat of Darke county, in the schools of which city he received his early schooling. He supplemented the same by a course in a commercial college at St. Louis and then became engaged as a traveling salesman for the Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company, of Pittsburgh, later of Columbus, and after three years spent on the road in behalf of that company was made secretary and manager of the company, which position he occupied until 1887, when he entered upon his present connection with the Osborn Mills, a member of the firm of Tranchant & Finnell, which later was incorporated under its present firm style, and has ever since continued in management of the mills. Mr. Finnell also is president of the First National Bank of Osborn. On October 22, 1886, Mr. Finnell was united in marriage to Attie C. Tranchant, daughter of J. J. and Amelia Tranchant, the former of whom was the proprietor of the Osborn Mills prior to the .reorganization of 1887 mentioned above. Mr. Finnell is a Republican and for seventeen years served the public as a member of the village council. He is a thirty-third-degree Mason, or sovereign grand inspector-general of the Ancient Accepted Scot- 264 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO tish Rite, having been called to the supreme council from the consistory at Dayton, and is also prominently identified with the work of the Knights Templar, being the deputy grand commander of the Ohio grand commandery. JOHN FLETCHER ZIMMERMAN. John Fletcher Zimmerman, a soldier of the Civil War, now living retired at his pleasant home in Jefferson township, rural mail No. 2 out of Jamestown, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of this county and of the farm on which he is now living since shortly after Civil War days. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of New Martinsburg, in the neighboring county of Fayette, October 9, 1835, son of Obediah H. and Ann (Simmons) Zimmerman, the latter of whom was born in Pennsylvania on July 6, 1809. Obediah H. Zimmerman also was a native of Ohio, born in Ross county on November 14, 1809, a member of one of the pioneer families of that section of the state, his parents having come to Ohio from Pennsylvania. He grew up there amid pioneer conditions and on April 31, 1832, married Ann Simmons, not long afterward establishing his home on a tract of uncleared timber land his father had given him over in the New Martinsburg neighborhood in the neighboring county of Fayette. He built a home there, made a clearing on his place and in time developed an excellent piece of farm property. He later bought a nearby farm and after a sometime residence there sold that place and bought a farm four miles north of Washington Court House and on this latter place spent his last days, his death occurring there on September 25, 1893. He had two brothers, Douglass, who settled in northern Indiana, and George, who went West. He was a member of the Methodist church and a Republican. Obediah H. Zimmerman was twice married. By his first wife, Ann Simmons, he was the father of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being the following: Eliza Jane, born on .April 3, 1833, who married Joseph Smith and died at Hartford City, Indiana; William, January 5, 1838, a veteran of the Civil War and a retired farmer, who married Rebecca J. Smith and is living in Fayette county; George, December 23; 1839, who became a Greene county farmer ; Samuel, February 8, 1842, who died of measles at the age of twenty years, while serving as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, his death occurring in the vicinity of. Vicksburg; Mary Ruth, March 29, 1844, wife of John David, of Fayette county, and Lucinda, September I, 1846, who married a Reslar, a soldier of the Civil War, and died in Fayette county. The mother of these GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 265 children died on January 4, 1849, and Obediah H. Zimmerman married Jane House, who was born in the neighborhood of Washington Court House, and to that union were born six children, all of whom save Clara, deceased, are living in Fayette county, the others being John, Amanda, Caroline, James and Newton. John F. Zimmerman was fourteen years of age when his mother died. At the age of eighteen years he went to live with the family of James Beatty and there remained until his marriage when twenty-one years of age, after which he located on his father's old home place and was there engaged in farming when the Civil War broke out. During the early part of that struggle he served as a member of the Home Guards, but in 1864 enlisted under the call for the hundred-day service and went to the front as a member of Company I, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being stationed with that command at Cynthiana, Kentucky. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Zimmerman resumed his farming operations in Fayette county, but presently came over into Greene county and bought a tract of one hundred acres of unimproved land in Jefferson township, the place on which he is now living, and has there ever since made his home. When he took possession of that place the only sign of improvement on the same was an old log stable. He at once made a temporary house and in 1875 erected the substantial birck house in which he is still living, burning the bricks for the same on the place and hauling the stones in from New Jasper township. In time Mr. Zimmerman added to his acreage there and made other improvements. He was the first person in his neighborhood to bring in Duroc-Jersey hogs and he also was for years noted for the fine quality of his Shorthorn cattle. Though for some years Mr. Zimmerman has been living practically retired from the active labors of the farm, he has not ceased to take an interested oversight in the operations of the same, these operations now being carried on by his son-in-law, Paul J. Hawes. Mr. Zimmerman is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He formerly was a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Milledgeville. On February 26, 1857, John F. Zimmerman was united in marriage to Lucy Priddy, who was born on October 2, 1837, in the vicinity of New Martinsburg, over in Fayette county, and who died at her home in Jefferson township on March 7, 1909. She was a daughter of Elias and Rebecca (Haines) Priddy, Virginians, the former born on June 1o, 1796, and the latter, April 6, 1806, who became substantial pioneers of Fayette county, this state, having a good farm near New Martinsburg, where they spent their last days. Elias Priddy and wife were the parents of fourteen children, of whom Mrs. Zimmerman was the sixth in order of birth, the others 266 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO being the following : George, born on November 26, 1830, deceased; Evelina, February 19, 1832, deceased; Strawther, June 15, 1833; Martha, July 20, 1834, now living in Jefferson county, this state; Jane, December 21, 1836; James, February 27, 1839, deceased; Early, November 15, 1840, now living in Washington Court House; Mary, November 19, 1842, now living at Connersville, Indiana ; Eliza, April To, 1845, deceased; Amanda, August 22, 1847, now living at Washington Court House; twins, September 26, 185o, who died in infancy, and Elizabeth, December 7, 1851, now living at Washington Court House. To John F. and Lucy (Priddy) Zimmerman were born eleven children, namely : Alvin Beatty, born on March I, 1859, now engaged in the tile-manufacturing business at Ridgeville, Indiana, who married Mary Chitty and has ten children, Clarence, Perlman, Dean, Vernon, Elmer, Clara, Rose, Paul, Ralph and Amos ; Osman P., September 6, 186o, wno married Emma Lutrell and died at Hartford City, Indiana, July 13, 1902, leaving his widow, who now lives in Oklahoma, with five children, Charles, Lillian, Frank, John and June ; Samuel Clayton, August I, 1862, a farmer of Fayette county, who on March 5. 1885, married Margaret Turner and has two children, Claude and Grace; Frank Ross, August 2, 1864, now living near Jeffersonville,- Ohio; who on December 25, 1893, married Celeste Creamer and has three children, .Brenton, Fay and .Ruth; Elias Trustine, November 15, 1866, a farmer living in the Port William neighborhood, who on February 15, 1899, married Elsie Beal and has four children, Walter, Maurice, Robert and Myron ; George Elba, April 12, 1869, a farmer in the Jeffersonville neighborhood, who on December 27, 1893, married Maud Perkins and has five children, Harold, Donald, Ala, Amos and Theron ; Robert Dean, February Jo, 1871, a commercial salesman traveling out of Cleveland, who on December 28, 1907, married Elizabeth McIntosh and has five children, Dean, Florence, Andrew, John and Janet ; John Wesley, February 6, 1873, a farmer of Jefferson township, this county, who on November 4, 1903, married Carrie Paine, who was. born in London, England, and who died on May 25, 1915, leaving five children, Wayne, Leslie, Hugh, Dorothy and George ; Anna Belle, May 25, 1875, who on June 12, 1898, married Louis Ellis, of Dayton, this state, and has two children, Helen and Herbert ; Flora May, July 27, 1878, who on June 22, 1912, married Paul J. Hawes, mentioned above as now being in charge of the operations of Mr. Zimmerman's farm, and Mary Edith, June 17, 1882, who on June 9, 1909, married Chaney H. Neil, proprietor of the Grand Hotel at Xenia, and has two children, Mary Alice and Howard Lewis. Mr. Hawes, who is now managing the Zimmerman farm, was formerly engaged in the coal business GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 267 at Xenia. He also formerly was a resident of Victor, Colorado, where he for some time was employed in the postoffice. Mr. Zimmerman has eleven great-grandchildren. WILLIAM EDEN BURROWES. The late William Eden Burrowes, who died at his home in Bath township on April 10, 1916, was a native son of Greene county and had spent all his life here. He had lived to bring- his farm of three hundred and forty-six acres up to an excellent state of cultivation and had there one of the finest farm residences and farm plants in the northern part of the county. That farm is now included in the great Wright aviation field created in the vicinity of Fairfield by the government for the training of aviators following the declaration of war against Germany in the spring of 1917, and when the Burrowes farm was taken over for that purpose the farm residence and farm buildings were razed. Since selling the farm Mrs. Burrowes, widow of the subject of this memorial sketch, has been making her home at Osborn, but is again confronted by the probability of having her home taken through the operation of the flood-prevention project. William Eden Burrowes was born in Fairfield on October 8, 1854, son of Joseph. and Lydia (Winters) Burrowes, the former of whom was a merchant in Fairfield at that time, as well as a landowner in that vicinity. Reared in the village, William E. Burrowes received his schooling there and early turned his attention to farming, becoming in time the owner of the farm above referred to and on which he spent his last days. He was a Republican, and for years served the public as trustee of his home township. He was a member of the Reformed church, as is his widow. On May 18, 1896, William Eden Burrowes was united in marriage to Clara B. Williamson, who also was born in this county, daughter of James and Mary (Brown) Williamson, the former of whom also was born in this county and the latter, at Troy, in the neighboring county of Miami. James Williamson was born at Osborn, a son of James and Jane Williamson, na tives of Pennsylvania and early residents in the northern part of Greene county, and he became a farmer in Bath township, he and his wife rearing there a family of seven children, of whom Mrs. Burrowes was the third in order of birth, the others being as follows : Charles, now deceased; Dr. William P. Williamson, a physician at Troy, Ohio; Ocy, who died in youth ; Ida, deceased; Edgar, deceased, and Effie, a resident of Piqua, where she is engaged as a teacher in the city schools. To Mr. and Mrs. Burrowes were born seven children : Earle W., a farmer and stockman at Osborn; one who died in infancy ; Nellie B., now Mrs. Paul Whaley, of Columbus ; Mary W., now Mrs. Frost Dille, of New Carlisle; Joseph A., at home with his mother; 268 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Grace, at home with her mother ; and James E., at Dayton. There are four grandchildren. WILLIAM HUNTINGTON FORBES. William Huntington Forbes, farmer and stockman, proprietor of a fine farm in Miami township, on rural route No. 3 out of Yellow Springs, and who also is engaged in the sale of agricultural implements and a special line of dairy supplies, was born on a farm near the confluence of the forks of the Little Miami in Greene township, in the neighboring county of Clark, November 27, 1862, son of Arthur and Anna E. (Huntington) Forbes, both of whom were born in that same county, members of pioneer families and whose last days were spent in the village of Yellow Springs, in this county. Arthur Forbes was born in 1834, a son of Alexander Forbes and wife, pioneers of Clark county, and grew to manhood on the home farm there, becoming a farmer on his own account in due time and continuing to reside there until his retirement from the farm and removal to Yellow Springs, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this biographical sketch was the first-born, the others being Margaret, who married Mitchell W. Collins, now living at Cedarville, and has one child, a daughter, Anna; Florence E., wife of T. M. Hanna, a real-estate dealer and farmer living in Iowa, and Fannie, who died when four years of age. Reared on the home farm in Clark county, William H. Forbes received his early schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and remained there until he was fifteen years of age, when he came with his parents into Greene county, the family locating on the farm on the pike between Clifton and Yellow Springs that his father had purchased, and was living there at the time of his marriage in 1883. After his marriage Mr. Forbes continued farming there until 1892, in which year he bought the farm on which he is now living, northeast of Clifton, and has ever since made that farm his place of residence. On that place Mr. Forbes put up the first silo erected in that part of the country and in other ways his farin plant is modern and up-to-date. For years Mr. Forbes has made a specialty of raising pure-bred Polled Jersey dairy stock and has exhibited his stock all over the country. One year he had the honor of taking sweepstakes at the Ohio state fair and at the New York state fair and at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo his exhibit, "Nubbin Ridge Queen," a Jersey cow, took the first prize as the richest producer of ten different breeds there tested for quality and richness of cream. This test covered a period six months and was thor- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 269 oughly convincing, “Nubbin Ridge Queen's" milk testing higher than that of any other cow exhibited at the great exposition. In addition to his general farming and stock raising interests Mr. Forbes also is interested in the sale of special dairy supplies and of agricultural implements, including threshing-machines. Politically, he is a Democrat and, fraternally, is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Clifton and of the uniformed rank of that order at Springfield, and of the local branch of the United Commercial Travelers at Springfield. On September 18, 1883, William H. Forbes was united in marriage to Margaret J. Johnson, daughter of Joseph R. and Lydia E. (Estle) Johnson, the former of whom formerly operated the mill at Clifton, and to this union three children have been born, namely : Nora, who married C. F. Henry, of Kansas City, Missouri, now a first lieutenant in the Veterinary Corps of the United States army, and has one child, a daughter, Ruth Frances; Arthur, who (lied in 1894, and George Curtis Forbes, who remains at home on the farm assisting his father in the management of the same. Mr. and Mrs. Forbes are members of the Presbyterian church and take a proper interest in church work, as well as in the general good works of the community. FRANK C. MASSEY. Frank C. Massey, a hardware merchant at Osborn, former president of the Ohio Hardware Dealers Association, for the past seven years a member of the hoard of directors of that association and for the past fourteen years a member of the village council of his home town, was born at Osborn and is still living in the house in which he was born, a member of one of the oldest families of that village. He was born on October 10, 1872, son of S. W. and Ellen (Smith) Massey, the former of whom, for many years one of the leading business men in Osborn, died in 1891 and the latter in April, 1915. S. W. Massey was born at Watertown, New York, in 1834 and was but a lad when he came to Ohio with his parents. He became one of the first conductors on the old Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad and later became engaged in the general mercantile business at Osborn, a member of the firm of G. L. & S. W. Massey, one of the first mercantile concerns in that village, and continued actively engaged in business there until his retirement about five years before his death. S. W. Massey was a Republican. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church and their children were reared in that faith. S. W. Massey was married twice and was the father of eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the sixth 270 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO in order of birth. S. W. Massey's father, Solon Massey, was the first mayor of Osborn. Reared at Osborn, Frank C. Massey supplemented the schooling he received in the schools of that village by a course in a commercial school at Dayton and then became engaged as paymaster for the Dayton Car Company, and was thus engaged for seven years, at the end of which time he entered the employ of Russell & Erwin at Dayton, and was for seven years connected with that concern as a traveling salesman. In 1902 Mr. Massey bought the A. D. Hogendobler hardware store at Osborn and has since been engaged in the hardware business in that village. In 1912 he erected his present store building, a structure thirty-two by one hundred feet in dimension, and there carries a stock appraising upwards of ten thousand dollars. In connection with the store he also has a tin shop, a great convenience to the community. Mr. Massey is a member of the Ohio State Hardware Dealers Association, has served as a member of the board of directors of the same for the past seven `:years and in 1915 was president of the association. He is a Republican and for the past fourteen years he has been serving continuously as a member of the village council. It is therefore with the gravest possible concern that he has been noting the formulation of the present flood-prevention plans which seem now destined to nullify all that has been done for Osborn in the past by necessitating the abandonment of the village which lies in the area forming one of the great basins designed to hold back the water in case of a recurrence of such a flood as swept down the valley of the Miami in 1913. On June 30, 1895, Mr. Massey was united in marriage to Roberta Davis, daughter of Dr. :Ben and Emma (Robinson) Davis, the former of whom, for many years engaged in the practice of medicine at New Carlisle; in the neighboring county of Clark, is still practicing there, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Ben Davis Massey, born on November 13, 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Massey are members of the Presbyterian church at Osborn. Mr. Massey is a 32̊ Mason, affiliated with New Carlisle Lodge No. 100, Free and Accepted Masons, and the consistory, Valley of Dayton, Scottish Rite; a member of Gem City Lodge No. 3, United Commercial Travelers, at Dayton, and of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Osborn. FRANK A. TRANCHANT. Frank A. Tranchant, vice-president and treasurer of the Tranchant Finnell Company, merchant millers and proprietors of the Osborn Mills at Osborn, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life, a GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 271 resident of Osborn since 1880. He was born in the city of Cincinnati on January 11, 1862, son of Jules J. and Amelia A. (Bates) Tranchant, the former of whom was born in the city of Paris, France, and was but a boy when he came to this county with his parents, the family locating at Cincinnati, where his father became engaged in the mercantile business. Jules J. Tranchant early became interested in the milling business and in 1880 bought the old Stafford mill at Osborn and continued as proprietor of the same until his death in 1886, after which his son, the subject of this sketch, and the latter's brother-in-law, M. L. Finnell, a. biographical sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume, reorganized the business and have since been in charge. A sketch of old Osborn Mills is given in the biography of M. L. Finnell. F. A. Tranchant completed his schooling in the high school at Avondale and in the Woodward high school at Cincinnati and when his father took charge of the old Osborn Mills at Osborn in 1880 became a valued assistant in the operation of the same and has since been actively connected with the mills. Mr. Tranchant is a Scottish Rite Mason, thirty-second degree, a charter member of the consistory at Dayton, charter member of Antioch Temple of Dayton, a member of the Dayton City Club, the Mystic Club and the Criterion Club of that city. He is a charter member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Osborn. In 1884, at Louisville, Kentucky, F. A. Tranchant was united in marriage to Attie C. Dutiel, of that city, and to this union two children have been born, a son and a daughter, George Tranchant, who is engaged in the merchant tailoring and men's furnishing goods' business at Dayton, and Louise E., wife of Philip E. Wuichet, who enlisted in the officers reserve corps of the new National Army after the declaration of war against Germany in the spring of 1917 and was stationed at Camp Sherman. at Chillicothe, Ohio, his wife meanwhile making her home with her parents at Osborn. OSCAR B. KAUFFMAN. Oscar B. Kauffman, former treasurer of Greene county and since the spring of 1910 cashier of the First National Bank of Osborn, was born in the neighboring county of Clark, October 31, 1863, a son of Emanuel and Elizabeth Kauffman, who came with their respective parents from their native Pennsylvania in the days of their youth to this part of Ohio, were married here and here spent the remainder of their lives, their son, the subject of this sketch; now owning theirowning the homestead place on the line between Clark and Greene counties. 272 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Upon completing his schooling by a two-years' course in a business college at Dayton. Mr. Kauffman became engaged in the agricultural-implement business at Osborn in association with his brother and was thus engaged until 1890, when he became a bookkeeper in the office of the Ohio Whip Company at Osborn, later becoming general manager of that concern and so continued until he was appointed deputy county treasurer under Treasurer Little in moo, when he resigned his position with the whip company and moved to Xenia. For four years Mr. Kauffman remained deputy county treasurer and then became the nominee of the Republican party for treasurer of the county and was elected to that office, entering upon the duties of that office in 1904. He was elected to a second term and thus spent nearly ten years in the county treasurer's office, counting his service as deputy. Not long after completing this term of service Mr. Kauffman returned to Osborn and there, February 23, 191o, organized the First National Bank of Osborn, with a capital stock of twenty-five thousand dollars, and was elected cashier of the same, which position he has since occupied. A history of the bank is given in another chapter. Mr. Kauffman is a Republican and has held township or county office since he was twenty-one years of age. On April 25, 1894, Oscar B. Kauffman was united in marriage to Winifred Rall, daughter of J. L. and Eliza Rall, and to this union two sons have been born, Rall L., who is now connected with the Merchants National Bank at Dayton, and Fred E., who is still in high school. Mr. Kauffman is a Scottish Rite Mason, affiliated with the blue lodge at Xenia and with the consistory at Dayton. He is one of the charter members of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Osborn. JOHN CLARENCE WILLIAMSON. That particular branch of the far-flung Williamson family with which the immediate subject of this biographical sketch is connected has had its establishment in Greene county for more than eight decades, or ever since the year 1836, when David Williamson came over here with his family from Tuscarawas county and settled on a tract of three hundred acres located on Caesarscreek, six miles from Xenia and five miles from Jamestown, the turnpike between these two towns dividing the tract in almost equal parts. David Williamson's wife's brother, John Duncan, some time previously had located in that neighborhood and in a letter to his brother-in-law had casually mentioned the fact that a farm of three hundred acres adjoining his was for sale. David Williamson rode over on horseback to investigate the proposition, found conditions satisfactory, closed the deal for the purchase of the land, returned home, closed out his holdings in Tuscarawas county GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 273 and in the spring of 1836 returned here, bringing with him his family, and set up his home in Greene county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives and where the family is numerously represented in the present generation. On that farm when David Williamson bought it was a flour-mill and a distillery, both of which had been operated by the previous owner. A stern Seceder, Mr. Williamson would not countenance the continued operation of the distillery and so he dismantled that agency of Satan and used the building for storage purposes in connection with the mill, which latter useful industry was maintained by him and during seasons when there was a sufficient stage of water in the creek was kept running night and day. While he and one of his younger sons were operating the mill the other sons were looking after the development of the farm and in due time the Williamson place came to be recognized as one of the most desirable pieces of property thereabout. In 1849 David Williamson sold the place to William Anderson and he and his wife moved to Xenia, locating in a house just east of the First United Presbyterian church on Market street and there they spent the remainder of their lives, his death occurring on October 18, 1858. His widow survived him for more than twenty years, her death occurring on May 8, 188o, she then being past ninety years of age. She was born, Catherine Duncan, in York county, Pennsylvania, July II, 1788, daughter of Andrew and Anne (Smith) Duncan, the former of whom was born in that same county, a son of James and Elizabeth Duncan, natives of the north of Ireland, of Scottish descent, who had come to this country about the year 1748 and had settled in Pennsylvania. Anne Smith also was born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of William and Catherine (Campbell) Smith, both born in the north of Ireland, of Scottish descent, who had settled in Pennsylvania upon coming to this country and who there spent their last days. James and Elizabeth Duncan had six children, James, Robert, John, Andrew, Mary and Elizabeth, and as some of the connection came to Ohio and located in this county the family became a quite well known one here. David Williamson, the pioneer farmer and millman mentioned above, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1786, the last-born of the seven children born to his parents, who were natives of the north of Ireland, of Scottish descent and stern Presbyterians, who had come to this country about the year 1755 and had settled in the Maryland colony, not far from the city of Baltimore, whence after awhile they moved up over the border of Pennsylvania and settled in Lancaster county. Of the six other children of this parentage, the three sons, brothers of David Williamson, William was killed by a fall from a church tower in Baltimore Samuel, also unmarried, was killed in a runaway accident and John is supposed to have gone West as a young man and was there lost so far as any further (17) 274 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO communication with his family was concerned. Of the three daughters, Jane married Francis Grove and had six children, Mary married Thomas Grove, a brother of her sister's husband, and had eight children and Margaret married John Smith and had eight children. David Williamson was early trained to the trade of tailor, a vocation he followed for some years after his marriage and, indeed, for some little time after he began farming in Ohio. He and Catherine Duncan were married by the pastor of the Presbyterian church at York, Pennsylvania, June 20, 1809, and for about six years thereafter made their home on a farm in Hopewell township in York county, that state. In the fall of 1815 they crossed the mountains with the three children that meantime had come to them and located on a -farm belonging to the Duncans, brothers of Mrs. Williamson, in Washington county, Pennsylvania. There two more children came into their home. From there they came over into Ohio and settled about two miles from Warren, in Jefferson county, where they remained for fifteen years and where five more children were born. Their next move was to the Shanesville neighborhood in Tuscarawas county. While conditions for farming there were suitable, the necessity of traveling seventeen miles to find the comfort of communion with a Seceder congregation, the nearest organization of the Associate Presbyterian church being at Fredericksburg, proved a drawback to a permanent settlement there and when in 1836 the opportunity came to make so favorable a location in the Seceder community in Greene county it was gratefully grasped and the choice was never regretted. And it was thus that the Williamsons came to Greene county. To David and Catherine (Duncan) Williamson were born ten children, of whom Jonathan Duncan Williamson, father of the subject of this sketch, was the eighth in order of birth, the others being William, Anne Duncan, Andrew Duncan, John Smith, .Margaret, David, Sampson Smith, Esamiah Kelly and Robert Duncan, all save two of whom, Margaret, who died unmarried at the age of thirty-seven, and Sampson S., who died unmarried at the age of twenty-four, married and had children whose children in the present generation form quite a numerous connection, many members of which are found in Greene county. William Williamson, born on April 1, 181o, was twice married and by his first wife, Jane McCroskey, was the father of nine children, Granville, Madison, Harvey, Emma, Ross, Florence, Amanda, Irene and William. He died in 1894 and is buried at Canonsburg, Ohio. Anne Williamson, born on April 5, 1812, married Andrew Ritchey and had seven children, Charles, Esamiah, David, Jane, Anne, Ada-line K. and Jonathan. She died in 1868 and is buried at Sydney; this state. Andrew D. Williamson, born on January 3o, 1815, was twice married and by his first wife, Isabella Collins, was the father of seven children, David