400 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ASAPH HAINES. Asaph Haines was born on the farm on which he is still living in Caesarscreek township and which he owns and has lived there all his life. He was born on August 3, 1841, son of Zimri and Elizabeth (Compton) Haines, the former a native of the state of New Jersey and the latter of South Carolina, who had come to Ohio with their respective parents in the days of their youth and who married in the neighborhood of New Burlington, later locating on the farm in Caesarscreek township on which their son Asaph now lives. This is the old Faulkner place and the brick house which is still standing there was erected in 1821, the bricks for the same being burned on the place and the timber which entered into its construction being cut and milled on the place. After taking possession of that place Zimri Haines made extensive improvements on the same. He had been trained in youth as a cabinet-maker and even after he settled on the farm maintained there a work shop and was called on to make the coffins necessary for use in the community and also to make much of the furniture for his pioneer neighbors. He lived to be seventy-five years of age and his widow survived him for some years, she being eighty-six years of age at the time of her death. They were Quakers and their children were reared in the simple faith of the Society of Friends. There were twelve of these children, of whom but three are now living, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Clayton Haines, a farmer of Caesarscreek township and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume, and a sister, Phoebe, who married Joseph Davis and is now living in Kansas ; the others of these children having been the following : Samuel, who was a farmer in Caesarscreek township; Elwood, who went to Iowa and there engaged in farming; Eli and Edward, who made their homes on farms in the neighboring county of Clinton ; Zimri, who died in the days of his youth ; Sarah, who was the wife of Milton Fawcett ; Rebecca Ann, who married Masco Bales ; Mary Maria, who married Samuel Brown and spent her last days in Indiana, and Elizabeth, who was the wife of George Carter. Reared on the home farm, Asaph Haines has always remained there, having long ago bought the interests held by the other heirs in the place. He received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and after his marriage in the summer of 1876 established his home on the home place and has continued to make that his place of residence, having since then made numerous improvements on the place, a farm of one hundred and eighty-six acres. In addition to his general farming he has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock. He is a Republican, as was his father, and has served his district as director of schools. He and his family are members of New Hope Friends church. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 401 On June 11, 1876, Asaph Haines was united in marriage to Sarah C. Keiter, who was born on the old Keiter homestead farm in this county, a member of one of the old families in this part of, the state, as is set out elsewhere in this volume, and to this union six children have been born, namely : Elizabeth, wife of Joseph B. Conklin, a farmer living south of Xenia ; Lenna Marie, deceased, who was educated at Wilmington; Laura, wife of O. P. Middleton, a farmer of Caesarscreek township, this county ; Ada, wife of William Hoffman; of the neighboring county of Clinton; Ralph K., who married Mary Walton and is farming the home place, and Alvin Z., who died at the age of eight years. JOHN FREMONT HARSHMAN. John Fremont Harshman, former member of the board of county commissioners for Greene county, formerly and for years trustee of Beavercreek township and now a retired farmer, making his home at Xenia, where he has resided since 1907, was born on a farm two miles north of the village of Zimmerman in Beavercreek township on September 22, 1856, son of John C. and Ann Maria (Miller) Harshman, the latter of whom also was born in this county, on a farm two miles south of the village of Fairfield, in Bath township, April 20, 1819, daughter of Daniel Miller and wife, pioneers of that part of the county. John C. Harshman was born in the vicinity of Fredericksburg, Maryland, January 12, 1807, and was but a child when he came to this county with his parents, Philip and Frances Harshman, the family settling in the Zimmerman neighborhood, as is set out elsewhere in this volume. On that farm near Zimmerman John C. Harshman grew to manhood, receiving his schooling in the primitive schools of that day. He early set out to acquire a land holding of his own and before he married was the owner of a tract of two hundred acres two miles north of Zimmerman and had cleared fifty acres. In the fall of 1841 he married and after his marriage established his home in that clearing, proceeded further to develop his place and there spent the remainder of his life, coming to be the owner of four hundred and forty acres of land. John C. Harshman died on June 26, 1880, his widow's death occurring on October 5, 1894. Both are buried in the Hawker graveyard. He was reared in the Baptist faith and she was a member of the Reformed church. They were the parents of nine, children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eighth in order of birth, the others being the following: Samuel Henry, born on October 10, 1842, who served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, having gone to the front as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer In- (25) 402 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO fantry, and who died on May 16, 1866; Sarah Elizabeth, October 10, 1844,, who is still living in Beavercreek township, the wife of Andrew J. Tobias; Mary Catherine, March 13, 1846, who married Jacob Shoup and died on February 28, 1868; Ann Maria, December 28, 1847, who is still living in Beavercreek township, wife of W. W. Ferguson; Ephraim F., November 11, 1849, a retired farmer, now living at Springfield, Ohio; Martha Ellen, December 25; 1851, who is still living in Beavercreek township, widow of Edward O. Gerlaugh, a memorial sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume; Reuben M., January 29, 1853, a stationary.. engineer, who for years has made his home at Dayton; John F., .the immediate subject of this biographical sketch, and Abraham Lincoln, January 4, 1861, who is now living at Dayton. Reared on the home farm north of Zimmerman, John Fremont Harsh-man there grew to manhood, receiving his schooling in the old "Big Woods" district school and was married when he was twenty-two years of age. For two years after his marriage he continued working on the farm under the arrangement he previously had made with his father and then, after his father's death in 188o, he and his sister, Mrs. Ferguson, and his brother Lincoln bought the home place of two hundred. and fifty acres and for seven years operated it under a partnership arrangement. Mr. Harshman then sold his interests in the farm to his brother and sister and bought a farm of one hundred and fifteen acres on the Beaver Valley road in Beaver-creek township and in 1890 moved to that place, erecting on the place a good house and barn, and there resided until his retirement from the farm in 1905 and removal to the village of Trebeins. In the meantime he had been elected to represent his district on the board of county commissioners and after his second election to that office moved, in 1907, to Xenia and bought a house at 423 North King street, where he still makes his home. In addition to his property interests in this county Mr. Harshman is the owner of six hundred and forty acres of arable land in southern Alabama. Mr. Harshman is a Republican, and for nine years served as trustee of Beavercreek township and for two years as treasurer of the township. In 1904 he was elected to represent his district on the board of county commissioners and was re-elected for four successive terms, though not a candidate for renomination in his last campaign, and thus served for three two-year terms and for one three-year term, the law relating to tenure having been changed during the period of his service on the board. On July 22, 1879, John F. Harshman was united in marriage to Letha Ann Lefong, who also was born in Beavercreek township, June 10, 1861, daughter of Orlando B. and Rebecca (Black) Lefong, who then resided on a farm one mile north of Zimmerman and the latter of whom is still living GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 403 there, being now .in the eighty-third year of her age. Mrs. Rebecca Lefong was born on a pioneer farm in Bath township, this county, November 2, 1835, daughter of Robert and Mary (Koogler) Black, early residents of that part of the county. Robert Black was born in Pennsylvania of Irish parents and his wife also was born in the East, of German parents, she having been born shortly after the arrival of her parents in this country. The- Blacks and the Kooglers were early settlers in this county and it was here, about the year 1823, that Robert Black and Mary Koogler, were married. After their marriage they located on. a farm in the Byron neighborhood, but in 1840 moved to a farm .in Beavercreek township. Orlando B. Lefong was born in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, October 21, 1817, and was ten years of age when he came to this county in 1827 with his parents, George Burnett and Cassandra (Lovell) Lefong, the family settling in Beavercreek township, moving in 1842 from the farm on which they first located upon their arrival here to the farm on which Mrs. Rebecca Lefong is now living, a mile north of Zimmerman. George Burnett Lefong was a native of France, but was reared in the city of Richmond, .Virginia, his parents' having located there upon their arrival in this country, he at that time having been but an infant. His father became a merchant and millowner at Richmond: George H. Lefong served as a soldier during the War of 1812 and after his marriage continued to make his home in Virginia until he came with his family to this. County, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Orlando B. Lefong grew to manhood here and some time after his marriage to Rebecca Black bought the interests of the other 'heirs in his father's estate and on the home farm north. of Zimmerman spent his last days, his death occurring there on April 5, 1892. He was a Democrat and was a member of the Reformed church. He and his wife were the parents of seven children; of whom Mrs. Harshman was the first-horn, the others being. Sarah E., wife of Isaac Kahle, of Shoup's Station; George W., who died at the age of two years; Rebecca, who married John Shoup and who, as well as her .husband, is now deceased; Oscar, now a resident of the neighboring county. Of Montgomery, and Mary L. and Robert, who died in infancy. To John F. and Letha A. (Lefong) Harshman three children have been born, John Burnett, Anna Viola, who died at .the age of twelve years and eight months, and Sarah Myrtle, the latter of whom is at home with her parents. She completed her schooling at .Hamilton College, Washington, D. C., having entered that institution after two years at Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. John Burnett Harshman, now clerk to the city commission at Dayton and a lawyer in that city, was graduated from the Beaver-creek high school and then entered Ohio State University, from which he was graduated. He later took three years of study in the law school of the 404 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO university and was admitted to the bar, engaging in the practice of his profession at Xenia. He married Mary Louise Longbreak, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has two children, Mary Ann and John Burnett, Jr. The Harshmans are members of the Reformed church and Mr. Harshman is a member of the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons. He formerly was connected with the Knights of Pythias lodge at Alpha, for some time during the period of his residence in that neighborhood a member of the Alpha Building Association, one of the trustees of the same, and for some time was a member of the board of directors of the Greene County Agricultural Society. During his residence on the farm Mr. Harshman was for some time a member of the board of trustees of the Beaver Reformed church. JOHN SEXTON. Among the pioneer families of Greene county there were few better known or more influential than those of the Sextons and the Comptons. The old Sexton farm in the vicinity of the mill at Oldtown is still occupied by the only surviving daughter of John Sexton, who for years operated the mill there and also carried on farming, his daughter, Miss Sarah Sexton, now well along toward eighty years of age, still maintaining her home there. She superintends the operations of the place, even as she and her sister, the late Miss Hannah Sexton, together superintended the place for forty years after they were left alone there and so continued until the death of the latter in January, 1917, since which time Miss Sarah has kept the place alone with her colored servants. She was born. in Xenia township and has lived there all her life. Reared a Quaker, she has retained the sweet familiar "thee" and "thou" form of address and her gentle conversation is full of the gracious courtliness of another day. John Sexton was born on a farm nine miles from the town of Winchester, in Frederick county, Virginia, May 25, 1795, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Burnett) Sexton, Virginians and of Quaker stock. The Burnetts are of Welsh origin, the first of the name in this country having been a member of William Penn's colony that settled in Pennsylvania, and the family later became established in Virginia, whence, in succeeding generations, it found outlet in various directions and now has a wide connection throughout the United States.. Joseph Sexton was a man of substance and influence in Frederick county and for sixteen years served his district as a member of the Virginia General Assembly. In his later years, some time after his son John had settled in Greene county, he came here and located on a farm in Xenia township, on the present site of the Aetna powder-mill, and there spent his last days. Joseph Sexton was twice married, his first wife, the GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 405 mother of John Sexton, having died when the latter was five years of age, after which he married Dorcas Lindsay. To the first union there were born three children, John Sexton having had two sisters, and to the latter union several children were born. John Sexton grew up in Virginia, reared by his paternal grandparents, Meshach and Hannah Sexton, and there became a millwright, remaining .there until he was twenty-four years of 'age, when, in 1819, he came to Ohio and became engaged in the milling business in. Clinton county. After his marriage in the fall of 1821 he came up into Greene county and rented a mill which then stood along the creek where Clifton later sprang up, in Miami township, and a year later moved to New Burlington, down on the. lower edge of the county, where he rented a mill that had some time before been established there and there he erected a log house in which to make his home: Later he moved to a mill that then was being operated along the Stillwater, in the vicinity of Dayton, but after operating that mill for two or three years returned to Greene county and took charge of the Oldtown mill, at the same time buying a home nearby the mill. .Several years later he bought a farm of 'ninety-five acres in the vicinity of the mill, on the hill along the Xenia-Springfield pike, two and a half miles north of Xenia, where his daughter, Miss Sarah Sexton, still lives, and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, he continuing to operate the mill until his death, at the age of forty-six years, June 18, 1841. His widow later married James Moorman and continued making her home on the old home place, her death occurring there on March 20, 1877, and James Moorman also spent his last days there, his death occurring on January 5, 1883. On October 21, 1821, in Greene county, John Sexton was united in marriage to Mary Compton, who was born in Union county,. South Carolina, December 21, 1798, and who was but six years of age when her parents, 'Amos and Rebecca Compton, came to Ohio with their family in the spring of 1805 and settled on a farm in the New Burlington neighborhood in Spring Valley township, this county. A.mos Compton's father, Samuel Compton, had come out here the fall preceding his son's emigration and had bought a considerable tract of land, he and his children and their respective families coming in the following spring. Samuel Compton did not long live to see the outcome of his settlement plan, for he died in the very spring in which his family became settled here, in 1805. There was then no cemetery nearer than Waynesville and, besides, the river was so high at. that time that there could be no thought of the funeral party getting across, so the body of Samuel Compton, the pioneer, was laid. away in the orchard whose planting he had so short a time before superintended, and there that lonely grave is still cared for after a lapse of more than a hundred years. The Comptons were 406 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Quakers and became a substantial element in the population of the New Burlington neighborhood, and it was there that Mary Compton grew to womanhood and was living at the time of her marriage to John Sexton, the young miller. Mr. and Mrs. Sexton always retained their interest in the services of the Friends church and their children were reared in that simple faith. Eight children were born to them, two of whom died in infancy and three, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Ann, in youth, very near together, of scarlet fever, the survivors being Samuel, Sarah and Hannah, the two latter of whom remained unmarried and after their mother's death continued in charge of the old home place on the hill nearby the old mill which their father had operated so successfully. Miss Hannah Sexton died on January 14, 1917, and since then, as noted above, Miss Sarah Sexton has been alone with her faithful servitors on the old place. Her brother, Dr. Samuel Sexton, who had achieved an international reputation as a specialist in the treatment of diseases of the ear, died in 1896. Doctor Sexton was for a time located in the practice of his profession at Cincinnati, but later moved to New York City, where he became an authority on his specialty, his practice extending even to Europe, where he was .able to introduce advanced methods in the .treatment of diseases of the ear, at the time of his death he having been regarded as the greatest practitioner in, his line in the country. WILLIAM BURNETT. William Burnett, who formerly and for years was connected with the operations of the Hagar Strawboard Company at Cedarville, but who. since 1899 has been living on a farm on the Hoop road in New Jasper township, proprietor of a farm of sixty-one acres there, is a native of England, but has been a resident of this country and of Greene county since 1881. He was born in the town of Barrow, in Lincolnshire, October 26, 1847, son of John and Charlotte (Hailing) Burnett, both of whom also were born in that country and who spent all their lives there. John Burnett and his wife were the parents of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being as follow : Hepsey, who married and made her home at New Holland, in England; Hannah, who married and spent her last days in her native land; Mrs. Barbara Starkey, a widow, who is still living in England; Ada, deceased; Olive, unmarried and still living in England, and Hailing, who became a soldier and died during service in the Soudan in the '70s. These children were early left orphaned, bah parents dying before their eldest son was fifteen years of age, and the children were reared in the homes of kinsfolk. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 407 Early thrown upon his own resources for a livelihood, William Burnett began working as a boy in the mines and along the docks and after a while became permanently employed in the iron mines. In the spring of 1880 he married and a year later, in March, 1881, he came to this country, accompanied by his wife's brother, George Ross, then a lad of seventeen, his point of destination being New Mexico, but not finding conditions there to his liking he came to Ohio and located at Xenia, where, in June of that same year, he was joined by his wife and infant daughter, for whom he had sent upon, making his decision to settle there. In the following year 'Mrs. Burnett's parents and the other nine children of their family came to this country and also settled at Xenia. For fourteen years after his arrival in Xenia Mr. Burnett was engaged there in the employ of the Hagar Strawboard Company, buying straw and looking after the• teams. In 1895 when the Hagar Company moved its plant to Cedarville Mr. Burnett moved to that village and was there further, engaged in work in the strawboard plant until in. December, 1899, when 'he moved to the farm of sixty-one acres which he had bought a few years before and on which he since has made his home. The house he erected on that place upon taking possession of the same was destroyed by fire in 1901, but he at once rebuilt. Upon becoming a citizen of this country Mr. Burnett allied himself with the Republican party. He and his wife were reared in accordance with the tenets of the established church in England and are members of the Episcopal church at Xenia. On March 4, 1880, the year before he came to the United States, Mr. Burnett was united in marriage to Elizabeth Ross, also a native of England, born at Winterton, in Lincolnshire, daughter of Richard and Maria (Hill) Ross, both of whom also were born in Lincolnshire and the former of whom was a shepherd there. In 1882, the year following .the location of Mr. and Mrs. Burnett in Xenia, the latter's parents and the other members of their family came to this country and also located at Xenia. Richard Ross became connected with the operations of the paper mill there and spent the rest of his life in that city, his death occurring on July 18, 1897. His widow's death occurred in May, 1908. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom Mrs. Burnett was the first-born, the others being as follow : Charlotte, deceased ; George, who came to this country with Mr. Burnett when seventeen years of age, became connected with the work of the Hagar Strawboard Company, eventually working up to the position of inside foreman of the plant, and met his death in the factory at Cedarville on January 22, 1897, by being drawn into the rolls when his arm was accidentally caught in the machinery ; Mildred, widow of the late Scott Steward; Rebecca, wife of A. B. Gaunt, of Hartford City, Indiana; Mrs. Flor- 408 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ence Graham, of Richmond, Indiana ; Mrs. Anna Tiffany, a widow, living at Indianapolis; Harry and Pauline; William, who is superintendent of the plant of the Beveridge Paper Company at Indianapolis, and Fred, a machinist, who lives at St. Loins. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett have three children, Ruth, who married Wilbur Rayner and lives at Dayton; Olive, wife of D. P. Walters, also of Dayton, and Charles, a farmer, of New Jasper township, who married Bertha Thornhill and has one daughter, Elizabeth. JAMES H. CRESWELL. In the brief though illuminating "recollections" of Andrew Galloway represented in newspaper form in Xenia many years ago there is set out a list of the families that formed the old Seceder colony that had come up here from Kentucky in order to escape slavery conditions and who were here when the Rev.. Robert Armstrong, their former pastor, rejoined them here in 1803 and again became their pastor, creating on Massies creek a congregation of faithful worshippers who exerted a dominant influence in the creation of proper social conditions hereabout in the days of the very beginning of the settlement. And in that list is the name of the Widow Creswell, who is noted as having been a member of Mr. Armstrong's congregation in Kentucky and as having come to Ohio in 1801. The Widow Creswell thus referred to was. Mrs. Catherine (Creswell) Criswell, widow of James Criswell. She and her husband were Pennsylvanians who had gone to Kentucky with their family of small children in order to establish a home there. James Criswell was killed by the Indians in Kentucky and later his widow came up into this section of the then new state of Ohio with her eight children, two sons, James and Samuel, and six daughters, to establish here a new home free from the conditions which then faced the settlers in the slave state of Kentucky. She was a Creswell, perhaps a distant relative of her husband, a Criswell, the similarity of the names suggesting a probably common source, and as she preferred the name Creswell to that of Criswell she adopted the same after the death of her husband and the family has ever since followed that form of spelling of the family name. Upon coming to Greene county Mrs. Creswell settled with her family on a tract of land near what is now the race track on the Andrew Jackson place in the Cedarville neighborhood, a fine spring of water on the place being the deciding factor in the family's selection of a place of location. She spent the rest of her life in this county, her death occurring at the home of her son, James Creswell, in 1832, and she was buried in the Massiescreek cemetery. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 409 James Creswell was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1789, and was still in his "teens" when he came here from Kentucky with his mother. In 1811 he married Ann Junkin, who was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Launcelot Junkin and wife, the latter of whom was a Galloway, who were married in Pennsylvania and who in 1779 had moved from that state to Kentucky, locating at a settlement called Frost Station, on the Kentucky river, in the Georgetown vicinity, where they remained until 1797, when they came up here into the valley of the Little Miami with the Galloway family and settled in the neighborhood of the old Indian village or "Chillicothe," now known as Oldtown, thus becoming numbered among the very first permanent white settlers of the region that later became organized as Greene county. Upon taking up his residence here Launcelot Junkin settled on a tract of land two or three miles east of the present site of Cedarville, but later moved to a place across the road from what is now the R. D. Williamson place on the Jamestown pike in Cedarville township. In 1812, the year after his marriage, James Creswell bought a tract of sixty acres of land two and one-half miles southeast of Cedarville, the place now owned and occupied by his grandson, George H. Creswell, and kept adding to the same until he was the owner of one hundred and seventy acres. As a young man he had taught school in that neighborhood and he served as clerk of the first school board organized in Cedarville township. He and his wife were Seceders, later members of the Covenanter or Reformed Presbyterian church and later of the United Presbyterian. James Creswell died in August, 1866. He and his wife were the parents of five children, namely : Martha, born on October 23, 1812, who was twice married, her first husband having been James Ervin and her second, the Rev. Andrew Heron ; James Rankin, December 7, 1814, who was drowned in 1841; Launcelot, May 19, 1817, who moved to Idaville, Indiana, where he spent his last days; Samuel, father of the subject of this sketch, and George, 1822, who established his home in Cedarville township and there died in 1852. Samuel Creswell was born on the old Creswell place on January 12, 1820, and there grew to manhood. When he was twelve years of age he planted a sycamore tree in the front dooryard of the home place and that tree, now grown to noble proportions, is still standing, carefully preserved by the family. In the days of his young manhood Samuel Creswell taught school for several terms. He remained at home and after his marriage in 1846 built a new house around the old one which had been built by his father, one room of the old house being retained as a part of the structure, and that house is still doing service as a dwelling place, now occupied by the family of George H. Creswell. After the death of his father Samuel Creswell 410 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO bought the interests of the other heirs in the home place. Upon the organization of the Republican party he became affiliated with that party, but later in life became a Prohibitionist. He and his wife were members of the (new school) Reformed Presbyterian church at Cedarville. Samuel Creswell lived to the great age of ninety-two years, his death occurring on July 16, 1912. His wife had preceded him to the grave a little less than two years, her death having occurred on August 10, 1910, she then having been eighty-three years of age. She was born in the vicinity of Hillsboro, this state, March 22, 1827, Eliza Jane Huffman, daughter of Aaron and Martha (White) Huffman, the latter of whom died before her daughter was three years of age. Eliza Jane Huffman was reared in the household of William Reed and in the household of William Thorne and it was in the Reed home that she was married, June lip, 1846, to Samuel Creswell. To that union were born ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth, the others being as follow : Martha, a former school teacher in this county, who married Joseph Turnbull and is now living in Ross township; Sarah Jane, wife of Alexander Kyle, living on the Wilmington pike at the edge of Cedarville ; Mary, unmarried, who is still living on the old home place; Julia, wife of W. R. Sterrett, of Cedarville, a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume; Andrew H., of Cedarville township, a biographical sketch of, whom also is presented elsewhere; William H., also of Cedarville township, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this work; George H., who is living on the old home place and further mention of whom is made elsewhere; Nettie. now living at Xenia, widow of James Ervin, who was a miller, and Ida, who is living on the Federal pike, widow of J. H. Stormont. James H. Creswell, eldest son and fourth child of Samuel and Eliza Jane (Huffman) Creswell, was born on the old home place which his grandfather had opened up and there grew to manhood. After his marriage in 1885 he located on the old Dr. George Watt place adjoining the Creswell farm on the south, having previously been operating the same as a renter, and began housekeeping in a log cabin that then stood on the place. He later bought the Watt farm of one hundred and forty acres and in 1897 built on the place the house in which he and his family are now living. By the purchase of an adjoining tract Mr. Creswell now is the owner of one hundred and seventy-five acres and in addition to his general farming has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock. He has served as a member of the board of trustees of Cedarville College, for two terms president of the board, and his children were given the advantages of schooling in that college. .There are three of these children, namely : Samuel Franklin, who was graduated from Cedarville College. in 190 and is living at home, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 411 assisting his father in the management of the farm; Anna Alberta, who also was graduated from Cedarville College in 190 and until 1917 was engaged as instructor in French and English in that college, and Paul H., who also completed his schooling in Cedarville College and was teaching in the high school at St. Albans, West Virginia, when in June, 1917, he left the school room and enlisted for service in the aviation corps of the United States army, in which he is now (1918) serving, with the prospect of early action "over there." The Creswells are members of the Reformed Presbyterian church at Cedarville and Mr. Creswell has been a member of the session of that congregation since 1889. On December 30, 1885, James H. Creswell was united in marriage to Louisa Blair, who was born in Randolph county, Illinois, daughter of James Franklin and Elizabeth (Marvin) Blair, the latter of whom is still living, a resident of Cedarville since 1912. James Franklin Blair was born at Fayetteville, Tennessee, March 30, 1830, and was two years of age when his parents, James and Jean (Wiley) Blair, South Carolinians, of Scotch-Irish stock and "old side" Covenanters, moved from Tennessee in 1832 in order to escape the conditions of living that confronted them and their family-in the slave state and located in the vicinity of Sparta, in Randolph county, Illinois, where James Blair developed a farm of about three hundred acres. James Blair and his wife were the parents of seven children, of whom James Franklin was the fifth in order of birth and all of whom are now deceased, the others having been the following : Samuel, who became a resident of Perry county, Illinois; Tirzah, who married C. H. Stormont, of Princeton, Indiana; William R., who established his home in Perry county, Illinois, and lived to be ninety years of age ; John K., who established his home in the vicinity of Sparta, Illinois ; Martha, who married Dr. James F. Morton, of Cedarville, this county, and Louisa, who died when eighteen years of age. James Franklin Blair completed his schooling in the academy at Sparta, Illinois, and after his marriage continued to make his home on the home farm in the vicinity of that town, inheriting the same after the death of his father. In 1897 he retired from the farm and moved to Sparta, where he died in 1904. For years he was a ruling elder in the Reformed Presbyterian church. His widow, who, as above noted, is still living, a resident of. Cedarville, was born, Elizabeth Marvin, in New York City, April 24, 1833, daughter of William Orlando and Jane (Ritchie) Marvin, the former of whom was born in Connecticut and the latter in Ireland, she having been fifteen years of age when she came to this country with her parents, the family locating in New York City, where William 0. Marvin and Jane Ritchie were married. The former was a shoemaker and tiring of city life in 1840 moved with his 412 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO family to Illinois, locating on a farm in Randolph county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, he living to be eighty-eight years of age and she, ninety-two. They were "old side" Covenanters and were the parents of six children, namely : Joseph, who established his home in Kansas; Elizabeth, who married James Franklin Blair ; Theodore, who established his home in Kansas, but is now living retired at Los Angeles, California; James Renwick, who went to the front as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, was wounded and taken prisoner by the enemy and died in a military prison at Jackson, Mississippi; William, who is now living at Pasadena, California, and Frances Jane, wife of John Holmes, of Topeka, Kansas. To James Franklin and Elizabeth (Marvin) Blair, who were married on December 4, 1857, were born ten children, namely : Samuel Alvin, who is now living in the vicinity of Greeley, Colorado; one who died in infancy ; Louisa, wife of Mr. Creswell; Carrie, who died while serving as an instructor in Cedarville College; Adelle, wife of John N. Lyle, of Marianna, Arkansas ; Amanda Jane, wife of George H. Creswell, brother of the subject of this sketch ; Elizabeth, who is a teacher in the public schools of Cedarville; William O., a machinist, living at Pomona, California ; Mary E., wife of Prof. Nathan C. Plimpton, assistant auditor of the University of Chicago, and James Franklin, Jr., an electrician, living at Silver City, New Mexico. All these children received schooling in the Sparta high school and all save one received further instruction in the university at Carbondale, Illinois. In the spring of 1912 Mrs. Elizabeth Blair moved to Cedarville and is still living there, making her home with her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Blair, who has been a teacher in the schools of Cedarville since the fall of that year. Mrs. Creswell before her marriage also was a teacher, having followed that profession for five years. DAN BAKER. Until he recently sold his old home place and moved to the village of Yellow Springs with a view to retiring from the active labors of the farm and "taking things easy" the rest of his life, Dan Baker, a veteran of the Civil War and one of the oldest residents of Miami township, had lived from the day of his birth on the place on which he was born, three and one-half miles southeast of Yellow Springs, the place on which his father had settled in 1828, and had been quite content there to remain. He was born in a log house there on April 20, 1839, son of Nayl and Huldah (Mills) Baker, who had taken up their residence there ten years or more before. Nayl Baker was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was six- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 413 teen years of age when he came with his parents, Thomas Baker and wife, Quakers, from that state of Ohio, the family settling in Greene county in 1812. Here he took his part as a young man in the development of a pioneer farm and presently began farming on his own account. On January 6, 1825, Nayl Baker was united in marriage to Huldah Mills, who was born in Montgomery county in 1802, a daughter of Jacob Mills and wife, who were among the first settlers in this section of the Miami valley. Jacob Mills became a resident of the northern part of this county and when Miami township was organized in 1808 he was elected the first justice of the peace in and for that township. Miami township then included the northern portions of what are now Cedarville and Ross townships, in this county, and about one-third of Mad River township, all of Greene township and one-half of Madison township, in Clark county. The first election was held in the house of David S. Brodick at Yellow Springs. In 1828, three years after his marriage, Nayl Baker settled on the farm which his son Dan has just recently sold and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their. lives. He died in 1865 and was buried in the Clifton cemetery. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, one of whom died in childhood, and of whom but two now survive, Dan Baker having a brother, 'William Baker, living in California. The others were Sarah, Thomas, Jacob, Rachel, Mary and Letitia. Dan Baker grew up on the farm on which he was born and helped to develop the same. During the progress of the Civil War he joined the Home Guard and later went to the front in the hundred-days service. He always made his home on the home place and after his marriage in 1872 established his home there and continued there to reside until in November, 1917, when he sold the place preparatory to retirement from further active labors and removed to Yellow. Springs. Mr. Baker is a Republican and for twenty-two years served as school director in his home district and also for some time as a director of the village schools at Clifton. He is a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a member of the Presbyterian church. Though now in his eightieth year Mr. Baker retains much of his aforetime physical vigor and is hale and hearty beyond his years. On February 22, 1872, Dan Baker was united in marriage to Susan E. Waymire, daughter of Daniel and Mary Anna (Stebbins) Waymire, of Dayton, both of whom were also born in this state and who were the parents of six children, Mrs. Baker having had two brothers, John and Daniel, and three sisters, Mary, Elizabeth and Anna. Mrs. Baker died on November 8, 1907. To her and her husband were born seven children, namely : Joseph, deceased Huldah, deceased; Mrs. Mary Donovan, of this county ; John, deceased ; Mrs. Bessie Dallas, who lives near Xenia and has one child, 414 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO a son, Donald; and Evan, who is married and resides in Springfield. To Evan Baker and wife four children have been born, one of whom, Harold, is deceased, the others being Mildred, Thelma and Gladys. JACOB THOMAS JACOBS. Jacob Thomas Jacobs, the proprietor of a farm on section 26 of Miami township, about a mile and a half west of Yellow Springs, was born on that farm and has lived there the greater part of his life. He was born on July 30, 1856, son of Ahimaaz and Emily (Trollinger) Jacobs, both of whom were born in Allegany county, Maryland, the former on October 13, 1821, and the latter, April 4, 1826, and whose last days were spent on the farm here referred to and on which they had settled not long after their marriage in the '40s. Ahimaaz Jacobs was a son of Gabriel and Margaret (Jackson) Jacobs, both of whom also were born in Maryland, the former on July 7, 1781, and who were the parents of eleven children! Gabriel Jacobs worked as a carpenter during the earlier years of his manhood, but later turned his attention to farming and his last days were spent on the farm he owned in Allegany county, in his native state, his death occurring there on October 11, 1848. His widow later came to this county, her son Ahimaaz meanwhile having settled here, and here her last days were spent, her death occurring on October 20, 1855. Reared on the home farm in Maryland, Ahimaaz Jacobs received his schooling in the primitive schools of that time and place, and remained at home until he was nineteen years of age, when he accompanied his elder brother, Samuel, to Ogle county, Illinois, and was there engaged in farming for a couple of years, at the end of which time he returned to his home in Maryland and was there, on March 10, 1846, married to Emily Trollinger, daughter of Jacob and Sallie (Jacobs) Trollinger, natives of that state and the latter of whom died there. Some time after the death of his wife Jacob Trollinger came to Ohio and settled in this county, where he spent the rest of his life. He and his wife were the parents of seven children. After his marriage Ahimaaz Jacobs settled down on a farm in his home county in Maryland, but some years later came with his family to Ohio and settled on the farm in section 26 of Miami township, this county, where his son, the subject of this sketch, is now living. There he developed a tract of one hundred and seventy-two acres of land, and on that farm he and his wife spent the rest of their lives, her death occurring on August 19, 1888, and his, January 27, 1905. They were members of the Christian church, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 415 of which Mr. Jacobs was for years one of the trustees, and their children were reared in that faith. Upon the organization of the Prohibition party Mr. Jacobs threw his support in that direction and was one of the active workers in the cause of temperance in his neighborhood. For years he was a member of the local school board and in one campaign was elected supervisor of his home township, but declined to serve. Of the six children born to him and his wife four grew to maturity, namely: J. Cicero, a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume; William Austin, who died on January 20, 1901, at Springfield, Ohio, and Mary L., who on May 26, 1891, married John P. Confer and who died on September 25, 1904. Jacob T. Jacobs was reared on the farm on which he was born in Miami township. He completed his schooling by attendance at Antioch College during the years 1873-74 and then continued his labors on the farm for a few years, at the end of which time he went to Nebraska and was there engaged in the employ of the Burlington & Missouri Railroad Company, working both in the passenger and freight departments of that road until 1884, when he returned to the home farm in this county and there has since been engaged in farming, having established his home there after his marriage in the fall of 1891. Mr. Jacobs is now serving as a member of the school board, to which office he was elected in the fall of 1917. He is affiliated with the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Yellow Springs. On October 14, 1891, Mr. Jacobs was united in marriage to Mary Frances Berg, who was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Clifton, in this county, February 14, 1871, a .daughter of Joseph and Hannah Catherine (Ward) Berg, the latter of whom also was born in this county, a member of one of the .pioneer families in the northern part of the county. Joseph Berg was born in Pennsylvania, but had been a resident o f this county for many years. He died on May L0, 1900, and his widow is now living in California, where two of her children also reside. Joseph Berg and his wife were the parents of nine children, all of whom are living and of whom Mrs. Jacobs is the fourth in order of birth, the others being as follow : Jacob Elmer, who is living in Nevada ; Jessie, a resident of California ; Mrs. Allie Glenn Dawson, of Yellow Springs ; William Henry, of Nevada; John Ward, also a resident of Nevada ; Mrs. Rebecca Elizabeth Bodell, who lives in North Carolina; Carl Chester, of Nevada, and Mrs. Georgetta Thomas, of Los Angeles, California. To Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs three children have been born, sons all, namely : Albert Leroy, born on August 10, 1892, who married Clara R. Martin, has one son, Clitus J., 416 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO born January 19, 1918, and is living on a farm southeast of Yellow Springs; Omar Kenneth, February 12, 1895, who died on December 26, 1912, and Leslie Berg, October 13, 1904, who is in school. HARRY N. HEIFNER. Harry N. Heffner, proprietor of the Wickersham Hotel at Jamestown, was born on a. farm in Silvercreek township, this county, November 16, 1883, son of Samuel and Mary (Early) Heifner, both of whom also were born in this county, the former in 1855 and the latter in 1858, who are still living on the old home place a mile east of Jamestown, where Mr. Heifner has been for years engaged in general farming and in the live-stock business, with particular reference to the shipment of hogs. To Samuel Heifner and wife three children have been born,. of whom, a son, Charles D. Heifner, is now deceased, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Stella, born on March 5, 1878, who married W. W. Barnett, of Jamestown. Reared on the home farm, Harry N. Heifner completed his schooling in the Jamestown schools and for a short time thereafter was engaged on his father's farm, remaining there until he was past twenty-one years of age, when he went to. Dayton and became engaged there as a street railway motorman, but he did not find that sort of a vocation to his liking and he presently .returned home and became engaged in the live-stock business in association with his father, continuing thus engaged until some months after his marriage, when he moved to Jamestown and became the proprietor of the Wickersham Hotel, in succession to C. H. Neil. It was on March I, 1914, that Mr. Heffner bought the furniture and fixtures of the Wickersham Hotel and in the following. December he bought the hotel building and has since continued as sole proprietor and manager of that popular hostelry. The Wickersham Hotel occupies a corner that has been devoted to hotel purposes ever since the village was platted, the first building erected there having been the pioneer tavern that was conducted by Thomas Watson, who was succeeded by Zina Adams. In after, years the old tavern was replaced by a more commodious hotel building called the Parker, House and which served as hostelry in the village until it was destroyed by fire at the time of the disastrous conflagration that swept the town on the night of June 18, 1878. The historic corner was unoccupied after that fire until in the spring of 1880, when Al. Wickersham, at that time one of Jamestown's public-spirited citizens and who still retains interests there, though now a resident of Denver, Colorado, commenced the erection of the building which still bears his name. The hotel building is of brick, with stone trimmings, of an attractive style of architecture,' is one hundred and forty feet in length by GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 417 forty wide, two stories in height and besides ample office and dining room contains twenty-five sleeping. rooms, as well as three rooms that are used for commercial purposes. Mr. Heifner has in his wife competent aid in the operation of the hotel. On October 3, 1913, Harry N. Heifner was united in marriage to Helen K. Bradds, who was born in the village of Jamestown, daughter of Richland and Margaret (McFarland) Bradds, the former of whom is deceased and the latter of whom is still living at Jamestown, and to this union has been born one child, a son, Frederick Russell, born on March 19, 1917. PAUL WILLIAM WEISS. Paul William Weiss, senior member of the mercantile firm of Weiss & Wead; of Yellow Springs, has had many years of mercantile experience, and has been engaged in business at Yellow Springs since the summer of 1915. He was born at Xenia, on June 2, 1880, son of Paul and Josephine (Schury) Weiss, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in the' city of Xenia. The elder Paul Weiss was born on May 9, 1844. When he came to this country he located in Greene county, Ohio. On February 17, 1874, he married Josephine Schury, who was born at .Xenia on October 28, 1855, and who died on May 23, 1895. To that union were born eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the. others being the following: Emma Elizabeth, born on November 30, 1875; Edgar Henry, January 13, 1878, who died .on August 27, 1881 Eva Charlotte, February 8, 1882; Mabel Rose, January 13, 1886, who died on February 5, 1910; Bertha Grace, December 9, 1888; an infant, February 24, 1891, who died on March 3, 1891, and Mary Ruth, :January 14, 1893. For twenty-five years the elder Paul Weiss was employed at the powder mills, moving from Xenia to Goes in 1887, and continued to make his home at the latter place until his removal to Springfield, where he is now living, in the employ of the American Seeding Machine Company. Paul William Weiss was seven years of age when his parents moved from Xenia to Goes and in the latter place he received his schooling.. When sixteen years of age he began working in the general store known as Shoemaker's, and there acquired his initial experience in the mercantile line. He afterward was employed in stores both at Xenia and at Dayton, but returned to Goes and there remained until in October, 1909, when he moved to Yellow Springs and there became engaged in the mercantile' business in partner. ship with D. A. Brewer, the firm doing business under the name of Brewer (26) 418 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO & Weiss, an arrangement that continued for three years and three months, at the end of which time Mr. Weiss retired from business and moved to a farm, where he remained for nineteen months. He then returned to Yellow Springs and for six months thereafter was engaged as a carpenter, in association with his brother-in-law, continuing thus engaged until June 16, 1915, when he formed a partnership with Prof. Ralph O. Wead, superintendent of the Yellow Springs schools, and again engaged in the mercantile business, under the firm name of Weiss & Wead, he and his partner having bought the old established business of J. H. Birch at Yellow Springs. Mr. Weiss is the general manager of the store. He is a Republican. On June 18, 1902, Mr. Weiss was united in marriage to Louise Geiger, who also was born in this county, daughter of Burkhart Geiger and wife, natives of Germany and the latter of whom is now deceased, and to this union four children have been born, namely : Kenneth Burkhart, born on February 4, 1904, who is now in high school; Mary Ella, September 25, 1908; Mabel Louise, October 11, 1910, and Hester Pauline, September 9, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Weiss are members of the Presbyterian church, their older children also being members of the church. GUY H. FOGG. Guy H. Fogg, of the vicinity of Yellow Springs and the proprietor of a farm of two hundred and sixty-five acres just west of that village, is a native son of Greene county and has lived here all his life. He was born at Grape Grove, eight miles east of Cedarville, August 3, 1854, son of Andrew and Naomi (Little) Fogg, the former a native of New Hampshire and the latter of Virginia, who later became residents of the Yellow Springs neighborhood and whose last days were spent on the farm on the Dayton pike which their son, Guy H. Fogg, owns; just west of the village. Andrew Fogg was born in 1804 and became a skilled cabinetmaker and gunsmith. When twenty-five years of age he located at Cincinnati and there became engaged as a cabinet-maker, but did not long remain in that city, presently coming into Greene county and locating at Xenia, where he became engaged as a gunsmith. Some time after his marriage he located at Grape Grove, where he remained until 1865, when he bought a farm just west of the village of Yellow Springs and on that place he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, Andrew Fogg dying there in 1885. His widow's death occurred at the home place in 1906. Andrew Fogg and wife were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch having had a sister, Elizabeth, who was born at Grape Grove in 1850 and who died in 1870. Guy H. Fogg was eleven years of age when his parents took .possession of the place which he now owns on Dayton pike. As a boy he was trained GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 419 by his father in the use of wood-working tools and early became a cabinetmaker, a vocation which has ever been a pleasure to him, though his principal occupation has been farming. When sixteen years of age, in 1870, Mr. Fogg attended Antioch College and in that institution pursued a four-years course of study. During his school vacations he spent much of his time working at the carpenter trade, at the same time continuing his assistance in the labors of developing the home farm and after his marriage in the fall of 1878 established 'his home on that place and since the death of his father in 1882 has been in control of the same. Mr. Fogg is the owner of a farm of two hundred and sixty-five acres of land, the active management of which is now in the hands of his son, Kenneth, for whom he erected a fine house about fifty yards from the home place, taking much pleasure in doing the better part of that construction himself. Mr. Fogg's skill as a cabinet-maker is in evidence in numerous handsome pieces of furniture which he made with his own hands for his home and that of his son and his carpenter shop is a great source of pleasure to him. He and his son have a fine herd of Herefords: On September 2, 1878, Guy H. Fogg was united in marriage to Georgia Jackson, who was born at Patriot, in Switzerland county, Indiana, January 6, 1850, and who died March 27, 1910, leaving three children, namely : E. Kenneth, now managing the farm for his father, and who married Mary Tresler, of the neighboring county of Montgomery, and has three children, Helen, Margaret and Kingsley ; Ella, unmarried, who is keeping house for her father, and Florence, wife of Kingsley Smith, a real-estate, dealer, living at Kansas City, Missouri. Miss Fogg and her brother and the latter's family are attendants on the services of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Fogg is a Republican. CHARLES E. BEATTY. Charles E. Beatty, a farmer of Miami township, is a native son of Greene .county, born on a farm in Xenia township on March 5, 1865, son of John and Delilah ( Jones) Beatty, the former of whom was a native of Ireland, born in County Tyrone, Ulster, and the latter, of the state of Virginia, born in 1837. john Beatty was born in 1812 and was twenty-eight years of age when he came to this country. After his marriage he settled on a farm in the neighborhood of the Collins school in Xenia township, and there spent the rest of his life. He and his wife were the parents of eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being as 'follows : Catherine, who is living in Xenia township; William, a farmer, of Xenia township; James, deceased; John, who is engaged in the furniture business at Xenia; Margaret, also of Xenia township; 420 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Frank, who is now living in Michigan, owner of the great Kellogg strawberry farm at Three Rivers, and Allie, of Xenia township. Reared on the home farm in Xenia township, Charles E. Beatty received his schooling in .the Collins school and as a young man began farming on his own account, renting farms, and was thus engaged until he entered upon possession of the farm on which he is now living in Miami township. Mr. Beatty served as school supervisor for four or five years. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Beatty has been twice married. On March 4, 1887, he was united in marriage to Amanda Burrows, a resident of the Osborn neighborhood, in Bath township, and to that union were born three children, namely : Alice, who married L. M. Stevenson, now living at Columbus, Ohio, and has one son, Robert; Roscoe; now living at Twin Falls, Idaho, manager of a big ranch belonging to his uncle, and who married Frances Lyman and has two children, Alice May and Francis Edward; and Mary, a professional nurse, who continues her residence, at the old home in Miami township. .The mother of these children died on April 3, 1907, and on June 28, Tw0, at Yellow Springs, Mr. Beatty married Missouri Lott, who was born in Perry county, Ohio, July 14, 1880, daughter of Bradford and Delilah (Gates) Lott, the latter of whom is now deceased and the former of whom is pow a resident of Fairfield, this county. Bradford Lott and wife were the parents of five children, those besides Mrs. Beatty being as follow : Mrs. Fay Loe, of Yellow Springs; Mrs. Blanche Sellers, of Troy; William, who married Sarah Frick, sister of Henry Clay Frick, of New York, the great coke and steel magnate, and is now living retired at Wooster, Ohio, and Victor, who died in 1904 and whose widow is living at Xenia. CALVIN L. OGLESBEE. Calvin L. Oglesbee, now living retired in the village of Spring Valley, was born over the line in Wayne township, in the neighboring county of Warren, and has been a resident of this section of the state all his life. He was born on March 25, 1833, son of Elias and Mary (Stump) Oglesbee, both of whom were born in Frederick county, Virginia, and who were members of pioneer families in this part of Ohio. Elias Oglesbee Was a son of Isaiah and Phebe (Painter) Oglesbee, Quakers, who in 1800, in company with four other Quaker families, the Kellys, the O'Neills, the Millses and the Faulkners, drove through from Frederick county, Virginia, to the then Territory of Ohio and formed what later came to be known as the Waynesville settlement, in. Warren county, down on the Little, Miami, not far below the Greene county line. In 1903 when the Quakers of Waynesville had their centennial celebration, descen- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 421 dants of these families from various parts of Ohio and Indiana were present. Isaiah Oglesbee got a tract of land in the woods on what later came to be established the county line, between Lumberton and Port William, there made a clearing, put up a log cabin and began to make a home in the wilderness. He and his wife reared a large family and spent their last days there. Their sons were David, John, Elias, Isaiah, Jacob, Jonathan and Eli, the latter of whom moved over into Indiana. Jonathan went to Iowa. For two years prior to 1817 Elias Oglesbee worked at his trade of a shoemaker at Cincinnati and then he came back up here, walking to Paintersville, where his mother's folks were living. In Virginia he had married Mary Stump, a daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Ramey) Stump, Methodists, who had settled on a farm east of Waynesville in 1817. Daniel Stump and wife were the parents of nine children, namely : Hannah, who married Jesse Romine and moved to Indiana ; Sarah, who married John Oglesbee and lived near Lumberton ; Mary, who married Elias Oglesbee ; Matilda, who married Isaac Stump and lived in this county ; Catherine, who married John Henry and lived in the neighboring county of Clinton; Lydia, who died unmarried; Daniel, who remained on the old homestead; Jonas, who established his home in Greene county, and William, who became a resident of Harveysburg, in Warren county. After his marriage Elias Oglesbee located on a tract of land three miles east of Waynesville, but later became the owner of four hundred and eighty acres of land near Dunkirk, Indiana. He was a Quaker. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the seventh in order of birth, the others being the following: Sidney, who married Samuel Stump and moved to Indiana; Eleanor, who married Hugh Prater, of Warren county ; Hannah, who married Thomas McKee and moved to Indiana ; Mary, who also became a resident of Indiana and who was twice married, her first husband having been Jesse Baker and her second, a Parnell; Ruth, who married Isaac McKinney and also moved to Indiana ; Jane, who married Stephen Compton and moved to Indiana; Phoebe, who married Jonathan Compton and also became a resident of Indiana, and Jonathan, who married a Piper and continued to live in Warren county. The mother of these children died at the age of forty-four years. The father died at the age of sixty-four. Calvin L. Oglesbee was reared on the farm on which he was born, down in Warren county, received his early schooling in the little old log school house which served the children of that neighborhood in those days, supplemented that schooling by a course of one term in the Cedarville schools and remained at home until his marriage at the age of twenty-eight years, in 1861, after which he continued on the home place until 1865, in which year he became the owner of a sixty-acre tract of his own. He presently 422 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO sold that place and bought another farm of seventy-eight acres, which he cleared and improved and on which he resided until 1880, when he sold that place and bought a farm in the vicinity of Harveysburg, where he resided until his retirement on April 14, 1908, and removal to Spring Valley, where he since has made his home. Mr. Oglesbee owns a farm of one hundred and twenty-three acres. He has served the public in the several capacities of township trustee, clerk of the school board and as land appraiser. Mr. Oglesbee has been twice married. On February 11, 1861, in Warren county, he was united in marriage to Rebecca Kling, who was born in the neighborhood of Lebanon, in that county, daughter of Lewis Kling and wife. Of the children born to that union two .are still living, Dr. William Oglesbee, of Cleveland, this state, and Alice May, the latter of whom completed her musical education at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and is now a teacher of music at Spring Valley. Dr. William Oglesbee, who is proprietor of a hospital at Cleveland, completed his -schooling at -Antioch College and at the Ohio Medical College, having been graduated from the latter institution in 1891, and after some preliminary hospital work opened an office for the practice of his profession at Cozaddale, later moving to Waynesville, Warren county, where he continued in practice until his removal to Cleveland. He married Minnie Zangmaster, of Cincinnati. Mrs. Rebecca Oglesbee died in 1896 and on September 22, 1898, Mr. Oglesbee married Martha Ann Morgan, who was born in Warren county, May 30, 1846, daughter of William and Matilda (Compton) Morgan, the former of whom was born in Greene county on. November 16, 1816, and the latter in Warren county, April 24, 1808. William Morph died in Warren county on February. 19, 1896. He and his wife were the parents of two children, Mrs. Oglesbee having had a brother, James H. Morgan, born on December 24, 1844, who married Anna Sherwood and made his home on a farm two miles north of Spring Valley, where he died in March, 1908. Mrs. Oglesbee received her early schooling in Warren county, the first school she attended there having been the old log Quaker church school on Caesars creek, and she completed her schooling at Earlham College, the Quaker institution of learning at Richmond, Indiana. WILLIAM DODDS. William Dodds, last mayor of the city of Xenia, former sheriff of Greene county, former county auditor and formerly connected with his brothers, of the old firm of A. & G. Dodds, in the marble-cutting business at Xenia, is a native of "the land o' the heather," but has been a resident of this country and of Xenia since he was sixteen years of age and is as intense an American as can be found between the two seas. He was born in Rox-   GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 423   boroughshire, Scotland, last-born of the seven children born to George and Isabel (Taylor) Dodds, both of whom were born in that same shire and the former of whom died when his last-born was but an infant, the subject of this sketch therefore never having known the supporting care of a father.   Reared in his native village, William Dodds completed his studies in the night school there and when sixteen years of age came to. the United States, his brothers, Andrew and George Dodds, meanwhile having become established in the marble-cutting and general monument business at Xenia, and here he joined them in 1866, settling down, under their direction, to learn the details of the marble-cutter's trade ; and he continued thus engaged in the Dodds marble works at Xenia until 1882, in which year he became engaged as a member of the Xenia fire department. Three months later, however, he gave up his position in the fire department and returned to the marble works, but not long afterward again left that establishment and returned to municipal employment, becoming a member of the police force and so continued until his appointment to the position of court bailiff. During the incumbency of Sheriff Linkhart, Mr. Dodds was appointed deputy sheriff and in 1890 was elected sheriff of Greene county, having been previously nominated for that office by the Republicans of the county. He was reelected in 1892 and thus served for two terms in, the sheriff's office. Upon the expiration of this term of service, in September, 1895, Mr. Dodds resumed his former connection with the police department and continued that connection until his entrance in 1902 upon the duties of auditor of Greene county, to which position he had been elected, as the nominee of the Republican party, in the previous election. Mr. Dodds was re-elected to the office of auditor and he thus continued in that office for two terms, or until 1909. In the meantime he had been elected mayor of the city of Xenia and upon the expiration of his term of service in the auditor's office entered on his new duties in the city. hall, as chief executive of the city of Xenia and by successive re-elections continued to hold that office until the creation of the city-manager form of government in 1918. In addition to the formal executive duties of his office, Mayor Dodds, by charter right, also presided over the city police court.. Mr. Dodds is the proprietor of a livery stable, a business in which he was long associated with his son, the late Oliver A. Dodds, under the firm name of Dodds & Son.   On May 28, 1874, William Dodds was united in marriage, at Xenia, to Mary E. Knox, daughter of Brice Knox and wife, the former of whom formerly was engaged in the harness and saddlery business at Xenia, and to this union was born one child, a son, Oliver A. Dodds, mentioned above, who died at Akron, Ohio, March 25, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Dodds attend the Presbyterian church.   424 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO   CHRISTIAN M. ZELLER, D. D. S.   Dr. Christian M. Zeller, dental surgeon, who has been practicing his profession at Yellow Springs for the past twenty years or more, was born at Medway, in the neighboring county of Clark, December 15, 1871, son of John and Esther (Harnish) Zeller, both now deceased, who were born in Pennsylvania. The former died in 1912 and the latter in 1913. Esther Harnish was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was but two years of age when her parents came to Ohio and settled in Clark county, where she spent the rest of her life. John Zeller was born in 1832 and his youth was spent in his native state. In the days of his young manhood he came to Ohio and located in Clark county, where for some time he followed his trade as a plasterer. After his marriage he became engaged in farming in the vicinity of Medway. All of the children born to him and his wife are still living save one, Lorenzo, who died when eight years of age. The others besides the subject of this sketch, the fifth in order of birth, are Alonzo, Henry, John, Frank, William and. Cyrus.   Reared at Medway, Christian M. Zeller received his schooling in the schools of that village and until he was twenty-one years of age continued his labors on the farm. He then went to Cincinnati, where he entered the Ohio Dental School, second to the oldest institution of that character in the United States. He later entered the Cincinnati Dental School and was graduated from that institution in 1897. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Zeller opened an office for the practice of his profession at Yellow Springs and has since been located there.   On August 29, 1908, Doctor Zeller was united in marriage to Verona Brown, of South Westerlo, in Albany county, New York. They are members of the Presbyterian church. The Doctor is a Republican. Fraternally. he is affiliated with the local lodges of the Free and Accepted Masons and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.   FREDERICK SHELLABARGER.   Frederick Shellabarger, proprietor of a fine farm four miles east of Fairfield, in Bath township, rural mail route No. 3 out of Osborn, was born on what was known as the old Galloway farm, over the line in Mad River township, in the neighboring county of Clark, and has lived hereabout all his life, having resided there until he moved down to his present farm in Greene county in 1906. He was born on' September., 26, 1868, son of Ephraim and Jane E. (Dolbeer) Shellabarger, the former of whom also was born in Mad River township, Clark county, a member of one of the pioneer families in that section of the state.