GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 325 he and his wife made their home on the old Turner place, where his wife was born and reared, and there resided for more than seven years, at the end of which time they moved down into Clinton county, but after a two-years' residence there returned, in 1879, to the old Hickman place of seventy acres on which Mrs. Hickman still lives and which she owns, and there Mr. Hickman spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there, as noted above, in 1908, he then being sixty-four years of age. By political affiliation Mr. Hickman was a Democrat, but had not been a seeker after public office. On November 15, 870, John Allen Hickman was united in marriage to Elizabeth Turner, who also was born in this county, daughter of Elijah and Fanny (Bales) Turner, both .of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families, and who spent all their lives here. Elijah Turner was a son of Joseph and Diana (Small) Turner, who had come up here from Tennessee and had settled on a farm in New Jasper township, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of twelve children, all of whom grew to maturity, and as most of these reared families of their own the Turner connection hereabout is now a numerous one. Elijah and Fanny (Bales) Turner were the parents of seven children, namely: Hannah, who died unmarried; Elizabeth, widow of Mr. Hickman; John, a retired fanner, now living at Lumberton, over the line in Clinton county; Hiram, deceased, whose last days were spent in Arkansas; William, a farmer of Xenia township, this county, who died in 1916; Daniel, a farmer of New Jasper township, and Jane, who lives in the neighborhood of Alpha, in this county, widow of William McBee. To John A. and Elizabeth (Turner) Hickman were born five children, namely : Amy, who married Charles Davis, of Columbus, this state, and died in -August, 1917; Harley, engineer at the powder-mills, making his home at Xenia, who married Anna Whittington and has three children, Vesta, Helen and Vernon; Fanny, who married Charles Robinson, formerly a blacksmith at New Burlington, but who now is farming the Hickman place, and has four children, Lewis, Lucy, Elizabeth and Mildred; Ruby, who married Harry Whittington, a farmer of Xenia township, and has foul children, Louise, Raymond, Frances and Alden; and John Ray, a brakeman in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, living at Xenia, who married Cora Davis, who died in 1916 leaving three children, Dorothy, William and Kenneth. Since her husband's death Mrs. Hickman has continued to make her home on the old home place which is being looked after by her son-in-law, Mr. Robinson. She is a member of the White Chapel Methodist Episcoral church. 326 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO WILLIAM W. FITZPATRICK. William W. Fitzpatrick, a farmer of New Jasper township, living on rural mail route No. 9 out of Xenia, is a Virginian by birth, but has been a resident of this county since the days of his young manhood. He was born in Rockbridge county, August 7, 1848, son of Farrel and Sarah (Black) Fitzpatrick, the former of whom was born in the north of Ireland and the latter in that portion of Virginia now comprised within the state of West Virginia. Farrel Fitzpatrick lived in his native Ireland until lie was a young man, when he came to the United States and after his marriage settled in Rockbridge county, Virginia, where he died in 1854. His widow survived him but two years, the subject of this sketch then being under eight years of age. Farrel Fitzpatrick and his wife were the parents of ten children, the subject of this sketch having had three brothers and six sisters, namely ; The Rev: James Fitzpatrick, now decceased, who was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church ; Mrs. Jane Clark, now deceased, who spent all her life in Virginia; John, also deceased, who was a grocer ,in Virginia; George, who died in Hardin county, Ohio, in 1916; Mrs. Lizzie Daly, who spent her last days in Maryland; Mrs. Mattie Harding, who is still living in Rockbridge county, Virginia ; Nancy, who died in the days of her girlhood, and Ellen, who died in Virginia. W. W. Fitzpatrick was but eight years of age, when he was left an orphan and until he was eighteen years of age he made his home in the household of his eldest sister, Mrs. Jane Clark, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools. He then worked on nearby farms until 1872, in which year, in company with another young man of that neighborhood, he started for Indiana with a view to joining in that state several other young men of the home neighborhood who had gone over into the Hoosier state not long before. Enroute, he stopped at Jamestown, in Greene county, and was there offered a place on a farm in the vicinity of that village. He accepted the offer and remained there, Ohio thus gaining a good citizen who otherwise might have become a resident of Indiana. For two years thereafter Mr. Fitzpatrick worked as a farm hand and he then rented a farm and began operations on his own account. After his marriage in 1876 he bought a small tract of land in Ross township and later added to the same until he had a farm of fifty-two acres. On that place he made his home until 1901, in which year he sold that farm and bought the old Cooper place of eighty-three and one-half acres in New Jasper township on which he is now living. He is a Democrat, but reserves the right to vote independently on local issues. On February 17, 1876, in Ross township, this county, Mr. Fitzpatrick was united in marriage to Jane Snodgrass, who was born in that township, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 327 daughter of Joseph and Eliza (Ballard) Snodgrass, the latter of whom was born in Pennsylvania and who was but a child when she came with her parents to Ohio, the family settling in Adams county. Joseph Snodgrass was born in the vicinity of the Natural Bridge, in Rockbridge county, Virginia, and was but eight years of age when he came with his parents, Robert Snodgrass and wife, to Ohio, the family first- settling in Clark county and then, a few years later, coming down into Greene county, where they established their home, others of the Snodgrass family having been represented in this county since the year 1803. James Snodgrass, another of the sons of Robert Snodgrass, was a soldier of the War of 1812. When Robert Snodgrass died Joseph Snodgrass and his brother John bought the home farm of one hundred acres and divided the same. Joseph Snodgrass later bought forty acres adjoining his strip, a mile and a quarter north of Jamestown, in Ross township, where he and his wife spent their last days. In the days preceding the Civil War he was an outspoken Abolitionist, a Freesoiler and a Fremont man. His wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. They were the parents of six children, of whom Mrs. Fitzpatrick was the last born, the others being as follow : Milo R., an attorney-at-law, living at Xenia ; William, a farmer, now deceased, whose last days were spent at Dayton; Angeline, also -deceased, who was the wife of Albert Whittington, of Jamestown; Euphias, who died at the 'age of twenty years, and Joseph, who died in the days' of his- childhood. Mr. and _Mrs. Fitzpatrick have three children, namely : Prof. Raymond Fitzpatrick, who was graduated from Cedarville College, later completed his studies in chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania and is now a teacher in the chemistry department of that institution, making his home in Philadelphia ; Foster Fitzpatrick, who is engaged in the insurance business in Xenia, and Muriel, who was graduated from Ohio State University in 1916 and is now at home with her parents. CLAYTON HAINES. Clayton Haines, a farmer living on rural mail route No. 6 out of Xenia, was born in Caesarscreek township and has lived there all his life, a period of more than eighty-six years. He was born on the old Faulkner place, now owned and occupied by his brother, a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume, January 10, 1832, son of Zimri and Elizabeth (Compton) Haines, the former of whom was born in New Jersey and the latter in South Carolina. They came to Ohio with their respective parents in pioneer times and were married in the vicinity of New Burlington, later settling on the farm in Caesarscreek township above referred to, where 328 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO they established their home and where they spent the remainder of their lives. Zimri Haines lived to be eighty years of age and his widow survived him until she was eighty-six. They were members of the Friends church and their children were reared in that faith. Of the twelve children born to them but three are now living, the subject of this sketch, his brother Asaph, mentioned above, and their sister, Phoebe, wife of Joseph Davis, now living in Kansas. The others of the children of Zimri Haines and wife were Samuel, Elwood, Eli, Eber, Zimri, Mrs. Sarah Fawcett, Mrs. Rebecca Ann Bales, Mrs. Mary Marie Brown and Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. Reared on the home farm in Caesarscreek township, Clayton Haines received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and remained at home until he was twenty-four years of age, when his father gave him a hundred-acre farm in that township and after his marriage he established his home there, continuing to make that his place of residence until he bought the Davis home, on which he now lives. He gave his son fifty-four acres of that place some time ago and still retains fifty-seven acres. Mr. Haines is a Republican. Mr. Haines has been twice married. His first wife, who was Lydia Bales, of Caesarscreek township, died leaving two daughters, Maria Alice, who married Owen Hutchins, now living north of Dayton and has three children, Ruth, Dorothy and Clayton, and Emma, who married E. Brickles, of New Jasper township, and has six children, Cora, Alice, Ada, Elizabeth, Oscar and Bessie. In 1887 Mr.. Haines married, secondly, Venia Johnson, who was born in the vicinity of Bloomington, this state, and to this union two children have been born, Roy M., living on the home place, who married Emma Hurst and has three children, Leona May, Howard Leon and Violet Lucile, and Jessie Vay, wife of William Dewitt, of Lumberton, in the neighboring county of Clinton. Mr. Haines and his family are members of New Hope Friends church. ISAAC SMITH. The late Isaac Smith, who died at his home in Jamestown in the fall of 1914 and whose widow yet lives there, was a native of the Old Dominion, but had been a resident of Greene county since the days of his young manhood. He was born in Hampshire county, Virginia, June 20, 1839, a son of John and Maria (Kiter) Smith, both of whom were born in Virginia, the former on June 6, 1806, and the latter, May 22, 1806, who came to Greene county after the Civil War and here spent their last days. John Smith and wife were the parents of seven children, George, Isaac, Hester, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 329 Mary, Elizabeth, Frederick and Catherine, of whom but three, Hester, Mary and Frederick, are now living. Isaac Smith was about twenty-one years of age when he left his native Virginia and came over into Ohio, arriving in Greene county with seven dollars in his pocket. That was about the year 1860. Upon his arrival here he began work as a farm hand and was thus engaged until he was joined here by his parents some three or four years later, when the family rented a farm and established a home. Isaac Smith presently bought that farm, but after his marriage in 1881 sold the same and bought the farm of one hundred and fifty-four acres in the immediate vicinity of Bowersville upon which he and his wife established their home and which his widow now owns, and there he continued farming until his retirement in 1890 and removal to Jamestown, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on October 5, 1914, and where his widow is still living. Mrs. Smith is a member of the Baptist church and Mr. Smith gave to that church his financial support during his residence in Jamestown. It was on December 18, 1881, that Isaac Smith was united in marriage to Catherine M. Hite, who was born in Caesarscreek township, this county, a daughter of Andrew D. and Mary (Meyers) Hite, the former of whom was born on December 16, 1816, and the latter, August 14, 1814. Andrew D. Hite and wife were the parents of ten children, two of whom died in infancy, the others, besides Mrs. Smith, being James (deceased), William, George (deceased), John (deceased), Allen, Cyrus and Elizabeth (deceased). To Mr. and Mrs. Smith one child was born, a son, Homer Smith, born on January 4, 1885, who is making his home with his mother at Jamestown and who is engaged in looking after his farming interests nearby. HON. EDMUND HARRIS MUNGER. The late Edmund Harris Munger, former judge of the court of common pleas and for years dean of the Greene county bar, was a native son of Ohio and lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm south of Dayton. in Montgomery county, a son of Reuben and Laura (Harris) Munger, the latter of whom was born in that same county, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Bingham) Harris, who had come to this state from New England and who were among the pioneer settlers of Montgomery county. Reuben Munger was a son of Gen. Edmund Munger, a New Englander and a member of an old Colonial family, the first of the Murigers to settle in this country having been one of the Kent Mungers who came over and settled in New England in 1639, where he established his family, his descendants in the present generation forming a numerous connection widely 330 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO scattered throughout the United States. General Munger, whose title was earned by right of his command of Ohio troops during the War of 1812 and to which command he was succeeded by General Hull, who led his troops to disaster at Detroit, spent one summer after coming to Ohio in the wilds near Belpre, in Washington county, where he cleared some land and planted a crop. Afterward he purchased a section of land in what was known as the Symmes purchase in what later came to be organized as Montgomery county, and established his home there, south of Dayton, in 1798, one of the earliest settlers in the Miami valley, and in time came to be commander of militia in his district. It is narrated of General Munger that though a farmer by vocation he was a man of marked ability along many lines. He had considerable mechanical talents, could shoe his own horses and repair his farm machinery, and at the same time his mental talents and broad knowledge made him a leader of public thought and opinion." Among the acts by which he contributed largely to the common good of the pioneers and to the advancement of learning in the community was the establishment of a circulating library which exerted a wide influence in the formative days of the new settlement. General Munger died at his home on the old Symmes purchase at the age of eighty-six years and his widow survived him for some years, she living: to.. the extraordinary, age of one hundred years and four months. They were the parents of twelve children, ten of whom lived to maturity and reared families of their own. Of the children mentioned above Reuben Munger was the fifth in order of birth. To the common-school advantages he received he added home study under the direction of his father, General Munger. From his father he apparently inherited mechanical ability and in time became a building contractor and a carriage manufacturer, as well as a constructor of threshing-machines and other forms of agricultural implements. Though ever a resident of the old home farm place, Reuben Munger never engaged actively in agricultural pursuits, his building and manufacturing activities occupying his time. Reuben Munger married Laura Harris, who was born in Montgomery county; as noted above, and to that union were born three children, of whom Judge Munger was the first born, the others having been John, who died at the age of nineteen years, and Amanda, who died at the age of four years. The mother of these children died at the age of seventy-four years, and the. father lived to be ninety-six years of age, his last days being spent at the home of his son, Judge Munger, at Xenia. Judge Edmund H. Munger was admirably trained and schooled for the exacting profession in which he was destined to achieve so distinctive a measure of success. In addition to the early schooling he received in the schools of his home neighborhood in Montgomery county he also had the GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 331 advantage of a comprehensive course in classics under the tutelage of the Rev. Mr. Hall, a neighboring clergyman, who taught him to read Latin. He also acquired a comprehensive knowledge of higher mathematics and as a young man was for several years engaged in teaching school, meanwhile extending his schooling by attendance at the Xenia Academy and at Barney's Academy at Dayton, thus preparing for college. In due time he entered Miami University at Oxford, from which institution he presently transferred his attendance to the college at Danville, Kentucky, from which latter institution he was graduated with the highest honors of his class in 848, his address, as valedictorian, being on the subject of "The Ideal." During Judge Munger's attendance at Miami he was one of the founders of the now widely established college fraternity Beta Theta Pi. Upon receiving his degree the young collegian returned home and established a school for young men and young women at Bellbrook, in this county, conducting the same for nine months, at the end of which time he entered seriously upon the pursuit of his law studies, to which he had meanwhile been giving such attention as he could, and for two years continued these studies under the preceptorship of Joseph G. Gest at Xenia. Thus prepared for examination he was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of the state, sitting at Columbus, in 851, and straightway afterward formed a partnership with Mr. Gest hi. former preceptor, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Xenia, continuing his partnership with Mr. Gest until the latter's retirement two or three years. Later, when he bought the office library and equipment and admitted to partnership R. F. Howard, a relation which continued but two years, after which he became engaged in practice alone and so ever afterward continued. Prior to ascending the common pleas bench Judge Munger served as prosecutor for Greene county, 1860-66. Reared a Whig, he became a Republican upon the organization of that party and during the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes as governor of Ohio he was appointed judge of the common _pleas court for this. district to fill the unexpired term of Judge Winans and served for three and one-half years, 1868-72. Upon the, expiration of his judicial office Judge. Munger resumed his practice and so continued until his retirement. He became a large landowner and had banking and other financial interests. The Judge spent his last year at his home on North King street, where he lived for many years, his household , being presided over by his widowed daughter, Mrs. Mary Meredith. Judge, Munger was united marriage on October 3, 1861, to Emily A. Mather, of Suffield, Connecticut, a daughter of Charles and Mary (Hathaway) Mather and a direct descendant of Richard Mather, a distinguished theologian of early Colonial days in New England. To that union were 332 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO born six children, of whom Mrs. Meredith was the fifth in order of birth, the others being : Clara, wife of the Rev. Joseph Little, a clergyman of the United Presbyterian church at Indianapolis; John C. Munger, who married Flora Barnes and is now city attorney of Pasadena, California; Laura, wife of H. W. Ninde, a lawyer, of Ft. Wayne, Indiana; Edmund, who completed his musical education at Vienna and is now living at Jacksonville, Illinois, and Charles, who is engaged in the automobile business at Dayton. Judge Munger died in Xenia on March 2I, 1918. ORANGE S. HATCH. In making up a roll of those citizens of Silvercreek township who exerted a wide influence upon the life of the past generati0n in that township the name of the late Orange S. Hatch will be found to occupy a place very near the top, for he had done well his part in that community and had there acquired an excellent farm, on which he continued to make his home until his retirement in 1894 and removal to the village of Jamestown, -where he died in the spring of 1896 and where his widow is still living. Orange S. Hatch was a native son of Greene county, born on a pioneer farm in Silvercreek township on August 18, 1826, son of Ebenezer and Cynthia (Greene) Hatch, both of whom were born in the state of Connecticut, but who were reared in New York State, where they were married, later coming West and locating in southern Indiana, three years later coming over into Ohio and settling in Greene county, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Ebenezer Hatch was a son of John Hatch and wife, the former of whom was a sea captain, who followed the sea during the earlier years of his manhood, later moving with his family to Oswego county, New York, where he established his home and where his eldest son, Ebenezer, grew to manhood and married Cynthia Greene, who also was born in Connecticut and who had moved with her parents to Oswego county, New York, when a girl. About the year 1820 Ebenezer Hatch came West and located at Elizabethtown, in Bartholomew county, Indiana, where he remained a couple of years or more, or until 1823, in which year he moved Ebenezer Hatch bought a forty-acre farm and proceeded to develop the the place on which Orange S. Hatch was born. Upon coming to this county over into Ohio and located on a farm in Silvercreek township, this county, same, later becoming owner of a farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres. There he died on January 2, 1874, being then in the ninetieth year of his age. He was twice married. His first wife, Cynthia Greene, who was born in 1783, died at the family home in Silvercreek township on June 11, 1845, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 333 after which he married Violet Barber, who was born in 1812 in Carroll county, Virginia, and who survived him. By his first marriage Ebenezer Hatch was the father of twelve children, all of whom grew to maturity save one, and of whom Orange S. Hatch was the youngest. Reared on the home farm about two miles south of Jamestown, in Silvercreek township, Orange S. Hatch received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. After his marriage in the fall of 1856, he then being about thirty years of age, he established his home on the old home place and long before his father's death acquired the interests of the other heirs in the homestead and continued to improve and develop the place, at the same time adding to the same until he became the owner of a farm of more than two hundred acres. There he continued to make his home until 1894, when he retired from the farm and moved to Jamestown, where his death occurred on March 14, 1896, he then being in the seventieth year of his age. Orange S. Hatch was a Republican, but was not a seeker after public office. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist church, as is his widow, a liberal contributor to church work and no less generous in his private philanthropies. On October 22, 1856, at Harlem Springs, in Jefferson county, this state, Orange S. Hatch was united in marriage to Clara Thomas, who was born at Amsterdam, that county, June 28, 1837, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (McDowell) Thomas, natives, respectively, of Pennsylvania and Maryland, who were married in the former state and who later came to Ohio. After a sometime residence in Steubenville, where Daniel Thomas was for some time engaged in the manufacturing and, mercantile business, he on account of his health, moved to Springfield, later moving to Amsterdam, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Daniel Thomas died in 846, at the age of forty-one years, and his widow survived him for forty-four years, she being nearly ninety-one years of age at the time of her death. As a young woman Clara Thomas learned the millinery art from her mother. Elizabeth Thomas, who on account of financial misfortunes, established a millinery business after her husband's death, was engaged in the millinery business at Harlem Springs at the time of her marriage to Mr. Hatch. To that union were born four children, of whom one, a son, John T., born on January 28, 1859, died on September 24, 1863, the others being Emma 0., Minnie B. and Charles G., the latter of whom is a plumber and garage owner in Jamestown. Charles G. Hatch has been twice married, after the death of his first wife, Ora Bailey, marrying Bessie Brown, and has one child, a daughter, Phyllis Violet. Emma O. Hatch married Allen T. Sutton, a farmer of Silvercreek township, now deceased, a union to which were born three children, John H. (deceased), Ora (deceased) and Fred. 334 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Since the death of her husband Mrs. Sutton has been making her home in Jamestown. Minnie B. Hatch married George B. Oldham, a traveling salesman of Dayton, and has three children, Mrs. Ethel A. Lee, Mrs. Clara MacDorman and Harold H. MATTHEW ALLEN HAGLER. Matthew Allen Hagler, a farmer of New Jasper township and proprietor of the old Toops place, in that township, where he has been living for nearly forty years, is a native of the neighboring Hoosier state, but has been a resident of Greene county since the days of his infancy. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of the city of Portland, county seat of Jay county, Indiana, December 25, 1855, son of Henry Christopher and Julia Ann (Shook) Hagler, both of whom were born in Greene county and who spent the greater part of their lives here. Henry Christopher Hagler was born in New Jasper township, son of Samuel and Anna (Fudge) Hagler, who lived on a farm in the vicinity of the village of New Jasper and who spent their last days there. Samuel Hagler was a native of Virginia and was the first of that name to come to Greene county, establishing his home here in pioneer days. He and his wife were members of the Reformed church and were the parents of fifteen children, of whom the following grew to maturity : Betsey, Jane, Martha, Lottie, Clara, Eliza, Samantha, William, Milton, Henry C. and Moses. Samuel Hagler became a considerable landowner in New Jasper township. Henry Christopher Hagler grew up on the home farm and after his marriage to Julia Ann Shook, a member of one of Greene county's pioneer families, made his home for a time on one of his father's farms, later moving over into Indiana with his family, two children having by that time been born to him and his wife, and bought a quarter-section farm in the vicinity of Portland, where he sought to establish a permanent home, but illness in the family shortly afterward developing he remained there but nine months, at the end of which time he disposed of his interests there and returned to Greene county. Upon his return here he bought a partly improved farm of eighty acres in New Jasper township and there established his home and spent the rest of his life, his death occurring when he was thirty-seven years of age. His widow later married Silas Matthews, of the neighboring county of Clinton, and after the death of her second husband went to New Mexico, where she spent her last days in the home of her youngest daughter, Mrs. Dotts,. her death occurring there when she was seventy-six years of age. Henry C. Hagler was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They were the parents of six children, of GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 335 whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being as follow : John, who has been twice married, his second wife being Emma Lloyd, and who is farming in Clinton county; Samuel, a carpenter, who married Ella Moore and is now living at Toledo ; Kate, now deceased, who was the wife of Gustave Curl, of Yellow Springs, this county; Amanda, who married James Dotts and is now living at Allen, New Mexico, and Sarah, who died in the (lays of her girlhood. Matthew A. Hagler was but an infant when his parents returned from Indiana, where he was born, to Greene county, and his youth was spent on the home farm in New Jasper township, his schooling being received in the schools of that neighborhood. When he was fifteen years of age he began working on his own account and was thus engaged, employed on neighboring farms, until his marriage in the spring of 1879, when he established his home on the old Toops place of sixty-six acres, which he had bought, in New Jasper township, and has ever since resided there. In 1892 he built a new house and in 1906, a new barn, meanwhile making other improvements on the place. In addition to his general farming Mr. Hagler also has been a quite extensive dealer in timber. He is a stanch Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at New Jasper. On March 26, 1879, Matthew A. Hagler was united in marriage to Ella M. Huston, who was born in Bath township, this county, daughter of James and Mary (Baker) Huston, the latter of whom also was born in this county, her parents having been residents of the Jamestown neighborhood. James Huston was born in Knox county, Ohio, son of Robert and Ann (Lyons ) Huston, who later came to Greene county and settled on a farm in New Jasper township, where they spent their last days. They were the parents of ten children, William, George, James, Josiah, John, Harvey, Mary, Margaret, Eliza and Deborah, the Huston family thus coming to be well represented in this county. James Huston established his home in the vicinity of Yellow Springs and became a successful farmer, stockman and trader. He died there at the age of seventy-six years and his widow survived him for some years, she having been eighty-four years of age at the time of her death. They were the parents of four children, of whom Mrs. Hagler was the second in order of birth, the others being Lue E., unmarried, who is living at Yellow Springs; William, who married Mary Sparrow and is farming the old home place, and Frank, who died when twelve years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Hagler have been born two daughters, Mary E., who died at the age of six years, and Anna Willetta, who married Irvin Hoffman and died in 1911, she then being twenty-five years of age. 336 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ISAAC HOSTETTER. The late Isaac Hostetter, a veteran of the Civil War and for years a grain dealer in the village of Osborn, where he died in 1909, was a native of the old Keystone state, but had lived in Ohio since the days of his youth. He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, October 31, 1833, a son of George Hostetter and wife, who came to this state with their family in 1849 and settled in Wayne township, Montgomery county, about seven years later moving over the line into the village of Osborn, where they spent the remainder of their lives. George Hostetter also was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, a son of Henry Hostetter, who also was born in that county and who later moved to Adams county, in that same state, where he became a farmer and also became engaged in freighting goods to and from Pittsburg. Henry Hostetter's father was a native of Germany, who came to the American colonies with three of his brothers and settled in Pennsylvania. When the colonies declared their independence against British rule he and one of his brothers joined with the colonists and served as soldiers in behalf of the patriot cause during the continuance of the Revolutionary War. One of the other brothers took up arms in behalf of the British cause and fought with the British army, but at the close of the war was sent across the border into Canada, where he was awarded a considerable tract of land by the British government as a reward for his services in behalf of the same. George Hostetter and his wife were reared in the Mennonite faith and after coming to Ohio continued their connection with that church. Both died at Osborn, George Hostetter being eighty-eight years of age at the time of his death on August 5, 1887. His wife had preceded him more than twenty years, her death having occurred in 1866. Isaac Hostetter was sixteen years of age when he came with his parents to Ohio in 1849, and he assisted his father in developing the farm upon which the family had settled in Wayne township, Montgomery county. When he was twenty-one years of age he took up carpentering and was for a while thus engaged at Dayton, but presently moved to Osborn, where he spent the remainder of his life. Isaac Hostetter was a member of the local company of the Ohio State Militia and in 1864 took part in the Civil War, going out in the hundred days service as a member of Company K, Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he saw service at New Creek, Green Springs and Moorefield, Virginia, and was mustered out on September 18, 1864. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Hostetter became engaged in the grain business at Osborn with his brother Emanuel, an association which continued for four years, after which he continued in the business alone and was thus actively engaged in business until GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 337 his retirement about 1899. After his retirement from business Isaac Hostetter continued to make his home in Osborn, where his widow is still living, and there he died in February, 1909. Besides being the owner of a property at Osborn, Mr. Hostetter was the owner of property at Dayton and at Springfield, which is still held by his widow. He was a Republican and for some years served as a member of the village council. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was for years class leader of the congregation with which he was affiliated. He also was a member of the Fairfield post of the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife were extensive travelers and had seen many of the chief points of interest in this country. On October 4, 1865, Isaac Hostetter was united in marriage to Lutitia Leffel, who survives him and who, as noted above, is still residing at Osborn. Mrs. Hostetter was born on a farm in the vicinity of New Carlisle. in the neighboring county of Clark, a daughter of Peter and Eliza Jane (Brandenburg) Leffel, who came to this part of Ohio from Virginia. Peter Leffel helped to build the old national road and later took up farming, but presently left the farm and became engaged in the hotel business at Donnelsville ; later, however, resuming his home on the farm, where he spent his last days. After his death his widow returned to New Carlisle, where her last days were spent. Mrs. Hostetter has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since she was twelve -years of. age. JOSEPH BUCKWALTER. Joseph Buckwalter, the owner of a farm in Caesarscreek township, located on rural mail route No. 9 out of Xenia, is a native of the Old Dominion, born in that section now comprised within the confines of Hampshire county, West Virginia, but has been a permanent resident of Ohio and of Greene county since 1872. He was born on July 19, 1841, son of Anthony and Mary (Buzzard) Buckwalter, whose last days were spent in \Vest Virginia. Anthony Buckwalter was born at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and there received an excellent education, becoming particularly proficient as a penman and a mathematician. In the days of his young manhood he began teaching school in that section of Virginia which during the Civil War demanded separate statehood and has since been known as West Virginia and there he married, established his home in Hampshire county, where he and his wife spent their last days, she dying at the age of seventy-six and he at the age of eighty-two. Anthony Buckwalter was reared a Whig and during the days of the Civil War was an ardent Union man. His wife was a member of the Presbyterian church. They were the parents of thirteen children, Mary, (21) 338 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Sarah, George, David, Elizabeth, Jacob, John, Susan, Daniel, Maria, Esther Ann, Virginia and Joseph, all of whom are now deceased save the subject of this biographical sketch. His brother John, who died in 1918, lived on the old home place in Hampshire county, West Virginia, up to his death. Joseph Buckwalter was reared on the place just referred to and there received his schooling in the neighborhood "subscription" schools. In 1864, he then being twenty-three years of age, Mr. Buckwalter rode through to this section of Ohio on a three-year-old colt and made a visit to friends in Greene county, liking things here so well that he remained until the fall of 1865. In 1866 he returned to this county and here spent another year, at the end of which time he returned home, where he remained until 1872, when he and the two Keiter boys drove through from West Virginia with a wagon and five-horse team, the trip occupying twenty-one days, and Mr. Buckwalter since has been a resident of Greene county. In the spring of 1874 he married here and for a year thereafter he and his wife made their home on the place just north of the place on which they are now living. Mr. Buckwalter then bought the place where he is now living and established his home there, now the proprietor of a farm of two hundred and sixty acres. He is a Republican. On May 26, 1874, Joseph Buckwalter was united in marriage to Esther Jane Keiter, who was born in Caesarscreek township, this county, a daughter of Frederick and Mary (Weaver) Keiter, both of whom were horn in Virginia, the former in Hampshire county and the latter in Frederick county, the former being in what is now West Virginia and the latter in old Virginia, and who came to Ohio after their marriage in 1855 and settled in Greene county. Upon coming to this county Frederick Keiter bought a tract of land in Caesarscreek township and there established his home, he and his wife spending the remainder of their lives there, both dying at the age of seventy-four years. They were members of the Old School Baptist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were twelve of these children, of whom Mrs. Buckwalter was the ninth in order of birth, the others being Elizabeth (deceased), Harrison (deceased), John (deceased), Mary (deceased), Margaret, widow of Elisha Bales of Jefferson township ; Nancy (deceased), Susan, widow of Daniel Beam, of Caesarscreek township; George A. (deceased), Esther Jane, James and Edward (twins), of the neighboring county of Clinton, and Sarah Catherine, who married Asaph Haines, of Caesarscreek township. The first six of these children were born in Virginia and the last six in Greene county. Mr. and Mrs. Buckwalter have five James Keiter, Mary Jane, George William, Franklin M. and Clara Elizabeth, all of whom are at home. The family are attendants of the Baptist church. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 339 NIMROD ADAMS. Nimrod Adams, a pioneer of Caesarscreek township, who died at his home in that township on June 2, 1864, and was buried in New Hope cemetery at Paintersville, was born in western Virginia and there grew to man, hood. He married Susan Linkhart, who also was born in the Old. Dominion, and not long after his marriage he and his wife put their belongings in a wagon and drove through to Ohio, settling on a pioneer farm not far north of Paintersville, in this county, where they established their home. They became affiliated with the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville. His widow survived him for more than twenty years, her death occurring in 1886, she then being eighty-one years of age. They were the parents of eight children, all but one of whom are now deceased, namely : Ellen, who married John Borton and lived in the neighboring county of Clinton; Julia, who married Wesley Stephens; Jane, who married John Cohagen ; Harriet, who married Jonathan Bales; Josephine, who remained at home with her parents and is now making her home with the widow of her brother Harvey, Jackson, who was twice married, his first wife having been Sarah Kildow, and his second, Eliza Cline; Joseph, who married Eunice Haines, and Harvey, who died at his home north of Paintersville in the summer of 1908 and whose widow is still living there.. Harvey Adams was reared on the old Adams place ih the vicinity of Paintersville and there received his schooling. He lived on the home place after his marriage and continued to make it his home until 1897, when he built the house in which his widow and his sister Josephine are now living, north of Paintersville. Mrs. Adams was born, Isabella Wilson; daughter of John and Nancy (Kildow) Wilson, in Caesarscreek township. John Wilson was a Virginian wh0 came to Greene county in the days of his young manhood and after his marriage established his home in Caesarscreek township, remaining there until his removal to Jefferson township, where he spent his last days. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Protestant church. They were the parents of seven children, namely : William, who is now living at Port William, in the neighboring county of Clinton; Shannon, deceased; Isabella, widow of Harvey Adams; Joseph, deceased ; Stephen, who is still living on the old Nelson home place; Abigail, wife of Allen Hite, of Jefferson township, and John Wesley, who died in the days of his boyhood. To Harvey and Isabella (Wilson) Adams were born four children. namely : Lydia, who married Frank Woolery, who is farming the Adams' place, and has one son, Fred; Emma, who married Charles Powers and died 340 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO leaving two children, Ora R. and Goldie L. ; Elsie Laverna, who died at the age of fourteen years, and Nora Belle, who married Everett St. John and died at the age of twenty years. She was the mother of two children, both now deceased. Harvey Adams died on August 13, 1908. His widow and his sister, Josephine Adams, continue to make their home on the old Adams home place north of Paintersville. They are members of the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville. GEORGE L. CARTER. George L. Carter, a veteran of the Civil War and one of the oldest citizens of Miami township, this county, was born in the neighboring county of Clinton and has been a resident of this part of Ohio all his life. He was born on February 6, 1838, son of Jesse and Malinda (Bentley) Carter, the latter of whom also was born in Clinton county, her parents having been among the pioneers of that county, and the former, in North Carolina. Jesse Carter was born in 1806 and was six years of age when his parents moved from North Carolina and came to Ohio, settling in Clinton county in 1811. There Jesse Carter grew to manhood on a farm, acquired an excellent education and was for some years engaged in teaching school in his home neighborhood. After his marriage to Malinda Bentley he established his home on a farm and continued farming the rest of his life. He and his wife were the parents of ten- children namely : John, deceased ; Mrs. Miriam Douglas, who is still living, now a resident of Whittier, in southern California ; William, deceased ; Rebecca, who died when two years of age ; George L., the subject of this biographical sketch ; Thomas C., deceased ; Mrs. Anna Osborne, of Plymouth, Kansas ; Elizabeth, deceased ; Wilson, deceased, and Cyrus E., who is living in the state of Oklahoma. Reared on the home farm in Clinton, George L. Carter received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. He early began to turn his attention to carpentering and steam engineering and has been more or less interested in these vocations all his life, as a building contractor having erected many houses throughout this part of the state. When twenty-one years of age he became definitely employed as a steam engineer and three years later came to Greene county, working for a while in Xenia and then in the northern part of the county and was in the latter section when, in 1863, he enlisted for service in the Union army and went to the front as a member of Company K, First Ohio Heavy Artillery, with which command he served for two years, or until the close of the Civil War. Upon the completion of GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 341 his military service Mr. Carter resumed his occupation in the northern part of Greene county, married there and not long afterward, in 1866, returned to Xenia, where he became employed as a stationary engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and later became connected with the Xenia fire department for over four years, then was associated with the county infirmary, this latter connection continuing for five years. After eleven years of residence at Xenia Mr. Carter returned to the farm he had previously bought in Miami township and' after his marriage in 1886 established his home there and has ever since made that place his home. In-addition to the general farming operations Mr. Carter has carried on on his place, he also was for years actively engaged as a building contractor and many houses hereabout bear the marks of his handiwork. Though now in his eightieth year, Mr. Carter retains much of his former physical vigor and is perhaps as well-. preserved an octogenarian as there is in this part of the state. He is the oldest living Mason in Greene county, having been made a master Mason in 1862, and during the time of his residence in Xenia never missed a meeting of the lodge there; his interest in Masonic affairs is still warmly maintained, though of late years it has not been expedient for him to keep up as close in attendance on lodge meetings as in former days. In his political views Mr. Carter is an "independent." On January 2, 1866, George L. Carter was united in marriage to Margaret Elizabeth Jamison, who was born in Miami township, this county, and who died on December 20, 1917. She was a daughter of George W. and Sarah (McClellan) Jamison, the latter of whom was born in that same township, on the farm now known as the Gerhardt place, which her grandfather, John McClellan, secured in 1808 in exchange for a tract of government land he previously had entered on the other side of the road. George W. Jamison was a native of the state of Kentucky, born in the Georgetown neighborhood about 1812. He became a farmer in. Miami township and the farm which he owned is now owned and operated by his son, William H. Jamison, only brother of Mrs. Carter. The mother of these children died in 1892 and the father survived her but two years, his death occurring in 1894. To Mr. and Mrs. Carter three children were born, Effie and Myrmeta, who are deceased, and William C., a Greene county farmer, who married Anna Ryman, and has two children, Barbara E. and Rachel A., the former born on September 7, 1911, and the latter, November 21, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Carter celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1916 and the occasion was made one of general felicitation on the part of their many friends throughout the community. Mr. Carter is a member of the Friends church and his wife was a member of the Christian church. 342 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO SAMUEL A. BROWN. Samuel A. Brown, superintendent of the electric-light plant at Jamestown, which plant he installed and continued as proprietor of the same until it recently was taken over by the Dayton Power and Light Company, was born on a farm in Fairfield county, Ohio, on January I2, 852, son of Capt: Peter and Elizabeth (Stuckey) Brown, the former of whom was born and. reared in Pennsylvania, of Pennsylvania-Dutch stock, the latter a native of Fairfield county, Ohio. Capt. Peter Brown, who gave his services to his country both in the Mexican War and in the Civil War, was born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, February 4, 1817, a son of George Peter and Catherine (Kuntz) Brown, also natives of that same county, who spent all their lives there. Captain Brown came to Ohio at the age of thirteen and became engaged in farming in Fairfield .county, where he was living when the Mexican War broke out. He rendered service in. that, conflict. and when the. Civil War broke. out he raised Company B of the Forty-third. Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and went to the front as captain of that company, a year later being. discharged on a physician's certificate of disability. Though he had been farming, Captain Brown. had a good working knowledge of the tailor trade and after the war followed that trade in Franklin county,. remaining there until his retirement, when he moved to Dayton, where. he spent his last days, his death occurring on October 7, 1894. Captain Brown was twice married. On June 15, 1841, he was united in marriage to Margaret Ellen McConnell, who died on March 11, 846. To that union were born two children, Emma C. and Wallace K., both of whom died young: In 1850 Captain Brown married Elizabeth Stuckey, who was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, June 28, 1826, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hensel) Stuckey, who were born in Pennsylvania, of Pennsylvania-Dutch .stock. She survived her husband a little more than eight years, her death occurring on December 16, 1902. To that union were born seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first born, the others being as follows: Elizabeth,. who married Alonzo Trimmer and who, as well as her husband,' is now deceased; Charles Edward, who is engaged in farming near Bowling Green, Ohio; George U., who is now living in Chicago, where he is connected with the offices of the Metropolitan Life Insurance' Company; Frank P., who is engaged in the parcel-delivery 'business at .Dayton ; Rosa, now living at Dayton, the widow of John Gilliland, and Milton, who died in infancy. Samuel A. Brown's youth was spent on a farm, his schooling being obtained in. a district school in the „neighborhood of Canal Winchester, in GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 343 Franklin. county. When seventeen years of age he began working in a flour-mill in that neighborhood, a business at which he worked, off and on, for twenty years. In due time he became the owner of a mill at Bowling Green, in Wood county, and for six years operated the same. He then sold out -and worked as a journeyman millwright for several years, at the end of which time he rented a mill at Goshen, in Clermont county, and for about six years was engaged in milling there. He then disposed of his interests there and moved to Dayton, where he for a time was employed as a stationary engineer. In the meantime Mr. Brown had become an expert electrician and in 1895 he and his brother Frank came to this county and erected and installed an electric-light plant at Jamestown, building the power station and wiring the town. Two years later his brother sold out his interest in the plant to John Colnot, who presently sold his interest to Mr. Brown, who then associated with himself in the business his son, Orlando T. Brown, and Brown & Son continued to own- and the plant until in February, 1917, when they sold it to the Dayton Power and Light Company, which is now operating the same. Mr. Brown takes pride in the lighting plant he built up at Jamestown and of which he still is superintendent, for the Dayton company retained him as general superintendent .of the plant after they took it over. In 1895 when he started the plant going at Jamestown it represented an initial outlay of six thousand dollars, but during the many years he was in control of the same he gradually extended the plant until it came to be worth twenty thousand dollars. In 1916 Mr. Brown erected a brick double house on the north side of East Main street and has since made his home in one half of that house, his son-in-law, Archibald McFarlan, and family occupying the other half. Mr. Brown is a Republican and is now serving as a member of the Jamestown town council, to which office he was elected in the fall of 1917. On July 2.1, 1872, Mr. Brown was united in marriage to Elnora Fellers, who also was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, February 7, 1857, daughter of Joshua and Barbara (Runde) Fellers, who were the parents of eleven children, all of whom are still living and of whom Mrs. Brown was the seventh in order of birth, the others being the following: Eliza, born on May 7, 1844; Minerva, April 2, 1846; Martha, May 6, 1847; Clara E., February 13, 1850; David E.,. November 25, 1852; Elizabeth, November 27, 1853; Florence, December 14, 1858 ; John C., November 3, 1861; Barbara Alice, May 6, 1863, and Docia, April 18, 865. Joshua Fellers, the father of these children, died on December 10, 1899, and his widow's death occurred on July 10, 1900. She was born on June 8, 1822. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have two children, a son and a daughter, Orlando Theodore and Lillie May, the latter of whom is living at Jamestown. Orlando T. Brown, 344 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO who formerly was associated with his father in the operation of the lighting plant at Jamestown, is now living at Dayton, where he is engaged as an electrician. He married Blanch Bossard and has two children, Helen and Esther. Lillie May Brown married Archibald McFarlan, proprietor of a barber shop at Jamestown, and has two children, Owen Brown and Ned Lee. The Browns are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mr. Brown has been a steward and deacon for more than twelve years. For six years he also was superintendent of the Sunday school of that church. GEORGE M. SHANK. George M. Shank, former trustee of Beavercreek township and the proprietor of a farm of one hundred and forty-seven acres three miles north of Alpha, rural mail route No. 10 out of Xenia, was born on that farm on July 2, 1852, son of Absalom and Martha N. (Ankeney) Shank, the latter of whom also was born in this county, daughter of David and Elizabeth Ankeney, who had come here from Maryland, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Absalom Shank was born in Frederick county, Maryland, May 6, 1813, son of Henry and Barbara (Crumbaugh) Shank, and was but an infant when his parents came to Greene county in 1814 and settled in Sugarcreek township. In 1837 Absalom Shank married and established his home on the farm on which his son George is now living, erecting there in the fall of 1855 and spring of 1856 the present dwelling house on the place. There he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring in December, 1881. He was a Republican and a Lutheran. He was twice married, his first wife, Martha Ankeney, dying in 1863, after which, in 1866, he married Margaret Fauber, who died in 1908 without issue. By his first marriage Absalom Shank was the father of eight children, of whom George M. was the fifth in order of birth, the others being Julia A., now deceased, who was the wife of George Harmon ; Melinda, wife of Adam Rubert, of Mechanicsburg, Ohio ; Martha Jane, who married Silas Huffman, of Fairfield, and died in 1917; Henry, now a resident of Hot Springs, Arkansas ; Lewis, who is engaged in the undertaking business at Des Moines, Iowa ; Jacob A., now a resident of Spokane, Washington, and Horace, of San Diego, California. Reared on the home farm, George M. Shank received his schooling in the Ludlow school. After his marriage in 1874 he rented a farm in the neighborhood of the home place and after his father's death in 1881 returned to the home place, which, in partnership with his sister, Mrs. Harmon, he purchased a year later. In 1901 he bought his sister's interest and has since owned the farm. Mr. Shank is a Republican, served one term as town- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 345 ship trustee and has for eighteen years been a member of the local board of education. He and his family are members of the Beaver Reformed church. Mr. Shank has been twice married. On December 24, 1874, he was united in marriage to Ella Butts, who also was born in Beavercreek township, daughter of Basil and Anna Butts, and who died without issue on December 12, 1877. On February 10, 1880, Mr. Shank married Josephine Beare, who was born in the neighboring county of Montgomery, daughter of Henry and Mary Beare, the former of whom was a soldier of the Civil War, and to this union four children have been born, Frank, who is employed in the plant of the National Cash Register Company at Dayton; Etta, wife of John Lyons, a Montgomery county. farmer ; Harry, making his home on the home farm and who married Bertha Rickles and has two children, Thelma and Wilhelmina, and Mary, wife of Jobe Lyons, who is employed by the Metal Products Company of Dayton and owns his home at Belmont. JAMES F. ROBINSON. The late James F. Robinson, a veteran of the Civil War and former trustee of Silvercreek township, who died at his farm home in that township in the spring of Two and whose widow is now living at Jamestown, was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Fayette on April 16, 1838, son of Singleton and Ann ( Janes) Robinson, natives of Virginia, who had been residents of Fayette county since the days of their youth and whose last days were spent there. Singleton Robinson was but a lad when he came with his parents from Virginia to Ohio, the family settling in Fayette county, and there he grew to manhood and married Ann Janes, ...who also _had .been- born in Virginia and who was but a child when she came to this state with her parents. After his marriage Singleton Robinson established his home on a farm in Fayette county and there spent the rest of his life. His wife died in 1854 and he survived her for forty years, his death occurring in 1894. They were members of the Newlight church and. their children were reared in that faith. There were six of these children, of whom but two are now living, Paris, who is now a resident of Michigan, and Scott, who continues to live on the old home farm in Fayette county, the others besides the subject of this memorial sketch having been Willis, Sarah and Ella. Reared on the home farm, James. F. Robinson received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and continued his labors on the farm until his marriage at the age of twenty-three, in 1861, When he established his home on a farm in Jefferson township, Clinton county, remaining there for 346 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ten years. In 1871 he located in Greene county, buying a farm of two hundred and six acres in Silvercreek township, on the Jefferson pike, two and one-half miles east of Jamestown, where he established his home and spent the rest of his life. When Mr. Robinson took possession of that place it had on it an old log cabin and a tumble-down stable. It was but partly cleared and was in an otherwise unimproved condition, but he soon got his plans under way and it was not long until he had a new house and farm buildings on the place and was beginning to get it under cultivation. In addition to that place Mr. Robinson also owned a farm in Fayette county. He was a Democrat and for some time served as township trustee and also as a member of the school board. His death occurred at his home in Silver Creek township on May 4, 1900. He was a soldier of the Civil War, having enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company D, in 1864. He served until he was mustered out as second lieutenant. He was one of the officers that took some of Morgan's men to the Ohio penitentiary after their conviction. On October 17, 1861, Mr. Robinson was united in marriage to Ann E. Moorman, who was born in Silvercreek township, daughter of Reuben and Susan (Sharp) Moorman, the former of whom was born in that same township, son of Micajah Moorman, one of the earliest pioneers of that neighborhood. Micajah Moorman was a Virginian and a Quaker and came to Greene county in 1809. He took an active part in the work of organizing a local Society of Friends in the neighborhood of Jamestown. Of his children, seven grew to maturity, namely : Thomas, Christopher, Reuben, Effie, Nancy, Elizabeth and Mildred. Reared on the farm on which he was born in Silvercreek township, Reuben Moorman remained there all his life, having established his home there after his marriage to Susan Sharp. In addition to farming he also operated a saw-mill on his place. His death occurred in 1870 and his widow died in 884. They were members of the Friends church at Jamestown and their children were brought up in the faith of that denomination. Of the four children born to Reuben Moorman and wife but two are now living, Mrs. Robinson having a sister, Martha, widow of Alfred Ross, now making her home in Jamestown, the others having been Thaddeus, who died in youth, and Samuel C. Moorman, who died at Seattle, Washington, in February, 1914. To James F. and Ann E. (Moorman) Robinson were born eight children, namely : Anna, who died in early childhood; Frank, who married Elizabeth Highland and is now living in Chicago, where he is engaged as city sales manager for the Walter A. Baker Cocoa Company; Della, who married David Paullin, a farmer of Silvercreek township, and has one child, a daughter, Lelia; Charles A., who is now farming the old home place in Sil- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 347 vercreek township ; Reuben W., a tinner, living at Jamestown, who married :Bessie McCreight and has one son, Carl; Bertha; who died in 1894 at the age of nineteen years; Sarah Blanche, who died in 1881 at the age of four years, and Mary, wife of Ross Mendenhall, of Akron, Ohio. Mrs. Robinson is now making her home at Jamestown: She has been a lifelong member of the Friends church at that place. Charles A. Robinson, who is now living on and operating the old home farm in Silvercreek township, was reared on that farm and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. He remained at home until 1905; when he went to Mishawaka, Indiana, where he was connected with the operations of the Ball Rubber Company for seven years, or until 1912, when he returned to the home farm. He married Martha Johnson and has one child, a daughter, Mary Alice. GEORGE DAVIS, M. D. One of the most recent additions to the corps of physicians now practicing their profession in the city of Xenia, is Dr. George Davis, who located in that city in the spring of 198. He had been engaged in the practice of his profession in the village of New Jasper for eighteen years before his removal to Xenia. Doctor Davis is a native son of Ohio, born in the neighboring county of Fayette, son of James M. and Margaret E. (Dowell) Davis, both of whom were born in that same county, members of pioneer families in that section of the state, and who are now living at Columbus, the capital of the state. James M. Davis was born in 1840, a son of George W. Davis and Wife, Virginians and pioneers in that section of Fayette county lying between Washington Court House and Good Hope. Reared in that county, James M. Davis was living there when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company C, One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served for three years and was mustered out with the rank of lieutenant. He later became engaged in the manufacture of drainage tile and brick in the vicinity of Washington Court House and there continued thus engaged until his retirement in 1914 and removal to Coumbus, where he and his wife are now living. James M. Davis, married Margaret E. Dowell, who was born in Fayette county in 1845, and to, that union were born six children, of whom Doctor Davis was the third in order of birth, the others being as follow : Lincoln, who is engaged in the oil business in Chicago; Grant, a civil engineer, now residing at Greenfield; this state; Mrs. Jennie Chambers, a widow, living at Columbus; Nellie, wife of Harry Drake, also of Columbus, and Dr. Homer Davis, 348 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO a dental surgeon, who is practicing his profession at Kansas City. James M. Davis is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Doctor Davis supplemented the schooling he received in the public schools of Washington Court House by attendance at the Normal School at Ada and at the National Normal University at Lebanon, and then entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and upon completing his medical studies in that institution served an internship in the Cincinnati Maternity Hospital. Thus equipped for the practice of his profession, Doctor Davis came to Greene county in the latter part of 1900 and located at New Jasper, where he engaged in practice until the spring of 1918 when he moved to Xenia. The Doctor is a member of the Greene County Medical Society and of the Ohio State Medical Society. He has invested in farm lands in New Jasper township. He finds his chief recreation in hunting and fishing and is an ardent devotee of these healthful outddoor sports. On January; 8, 1902, in New Jasper township, Doctor Davis was united in marriage to Jennie L. Smith, who was born in that township, daughter of James M. and Eliza (Huston) Smith, the latter of whom is still living there. James M. Smith, a veteran of the Civil War, who died in 1911, was for years regarded as one of the most substantial farmers of the New Jasper neighborhood and elsewhere in this volume there will be found in detail a history of his family, as well as that of the Huston family. Doctor and Mrs. Davis are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. The Doctor is a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Xenia. DANIEL H. BEAM. Though it is nearly twenty-five years since the death of Daniel H. Beam, formerly one of the best known farmers and stockmen of Caesarscreek township, his memory is still fresh in the neighborhood, and it is but fitting that in a volume of this character there should be paid a tribute to that memory. Daniel H. Beam was a native son of Greene county and all his life was spent here. He was born on a farm on the Bowersville pike in Xenia township in February, 1833, a son of Daniel and Ann (Haines) Beam, Virginians, who had settled on the farm just referred to upon coming from Virginia to this county and there spent the remainder of their lives. Daniel Beam and his wife were the parents of seven children, William, Silas, John, Daniel, Mary, Julia Ann and Jane, all of whom are now deceased. Daniel H. Beam grew up on the home farm in Xenia township and received his schooling in the little old log school house in that neighborhood. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 349 For three years after his marriage in 1854 he continued to reside on the home farm. He then bought the Lutz farm of one hundred and eight acres near the Zoar church, on the pike leading from Spring Valley to Middletons Corner, in Caesarscreek township, the place on which his widow is still living, and there spent the rest of his life. As he prospered in his farming operations Mr. Beam bought an adjoining tract of one hundred and twelve acres and thus had two hundred and twenty acres of land on which he built a comfortable house and made other substantial improvements. In addition to his general farming Mr. Beam gave considerable attention to the raising of live stock. During the early '90s Mr. Beam's health began to break and his death occurred on September 27, 1893, he then being in the sixty-first year of his age. A contemporary newspaper mention of his death says that "Mr. Beam was an unfaltering Christian, which fact is admitted by all who knew him. He walked in the same attitude of faith the year around. He was a friend to the poor and needy and never turned one away empty. His kind Christian counsel will be missed, but never forgotten. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and held membership at the Zoar church, to the support of which he was the most liberal contributor. Hundreds of times have his prayers echoed within its walls.” On December 21, 1854, Daniel H. Beam was united in marriage to Susan Ann Keiter, who also was born in this county and who survives him, continuing to make her home on the farm in the neighborhood of Zoar church. Mrs. Beam was born on a farm in Caesarscreek township, daughter of Frederick and Mary (Weaver) Keiter, natives of Virginia, who were married in Hampshire county, that state, this county now being in West Virginia, and who after their marriage came to Ohio and settled on a farm in the woods of Caesarscreek township, where they spent the remainder of their lives, the former living to be seventy-five years of age and the latter, seventy-four. Frederick Keiter developed one of the best farms on the Wilmington pike and came to be a man of substance and influence. Reared a Whig, he later became a Republican. He and his wife were members of the Old School Baptist church. They had twelve children, of whom Mrs. Beam was the seventh in order of birth, the others being Elizabeth, Harrison, John, Mary, Margaret, Nancy, George A., Jane, James and Edward (twins) and Sarah. Further mention of the Keiter family is made elsewhere in this volume. To Daniel H. and Susan Ann (Keiter) Beam were born ten children, William, Henry Alva, Emma J., Addie B., Euretta S., Daniel F., Anna N., Frederick K., Albert E. and Flora, all of whom are living save Addie B., born on January 20, 1862, who died on February 26, 1871, and Frederick K., born on June 4, 1871, who died on March 29, 1872. William Beam,