GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 425 Ephraim Shellabarger, who died at his home in Clark county in 1914, was a son of Reuben and Elizabeth (Baker) Shellabarger, both of whom also were born in Mad River township, Clark county, the latter a daughter of Melyn Baker and wife, who were among the early settlers in that part of the county, also were the parents of Reuben Shellabarger, the two families, the Shellabargers and the Bakers, having been identified with the work of development in the Enon neighborhood almost from the time of the beginning of a social order there. Reuben Shellabarger was reared on a pioneer farm and upon beginning operations on his own behalf took hold of a tract of one hundred and twelve acres in section 6 of his home township and after his marriage began housekeeping there in a log house. He developed that place and later adding to his holdings by the purchase of two hundred acres of the old Galloway farm in that icinity. He was a Democrat, served as township trustee for years and also for some time as land appraiser, and he and his wife were members of the Christian church, he serving as an elder in the church for many years. His wife died on September 5, 1873, and he survived her for more than eighteen years, his death occurring on October 27, 1889, he then being past seventy-five years of age. Reuben Shellabarger and his wife were the parents of ten children, of whom seven grew to maturity and raised families of their own, those besides Ephraim Shellabarger having been Melyn, Mrs. Minerva Dolbeer, Mrs. Sarah Smith, Mrs. Rebecca Dunkel, Mrs. Elizabeth Athy and Mrs. Irene Miller, all of whom established their homes in and about Enon. Ephraim Shellabarger was born on. the old home place near Enon on September 28, 1837, and there grew to manhood. On December 22, 1863, at the bride's home in Mad River township, he married Jane E. Dolbeer, who was born in New Jersey, a daughter of Isaac N. Dolbeer and wife, and who was but a child when she came with her parents to this state, the family settling in the Enon neighborhood in Clark county, where for years Isaac N. Dolbeer later served as justice of the peace, later becoming a resident of Springfield, where his last days were spent. After his marriage Ephraim Shellabarger established his home on that portion of the home farm known as the Galloway place and later became owner of the same. In 1887 he added to his holdings by the purchase of the Francis Johnson farm of one hundred and ninety-eight acres. He was a Democrat and frequently served as a delegate to his party conventions. He and his wife were members of the Christian church. They were the parents of five sons, Charles R., Frederick and Ernest (twins), William and Raymond, all of whom are living save Ernest, who died at the age of one year, and Raymond, who died on April 14, 1918, aged thirty-five. Frederick Shellabarger was reared on the home farm in the vicinity of Enon, receiving his schooling in what was known as the Shellabarger 426 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO school. After his marriage in the spring of 1898 he continued to make his home there until in 1906, when he bought the farm on which he is now living, about four miles east of Fairfield, in Bath township, this county, and has since made his home there. Mr. Shellabarger is a Democrat and during the time of his residence in Clark county served for ten years as treasurer of the county board of agriculture. In 1910 he elected land appraiser for Bath township and is now serving as road superintendent in his home district. On March 2, 1898, at Enon, Frederick Shellabarger was united in marriage to Pearl Viola Miller, of that place. who was born in Darke county, this state, but who has spent most of her life in Greene county, having been but four years of age when her parents moved here. Mr. Shellabarger had two brothers, Roy and Guy, both now deceased, and has a sister, Myrtle. Mr. and Mrs. Shellabarger are members of the Christian church. Mr. Shellabarger is a member of the Masonic lodge at Yellow Springs. HORACE ROBERT HAWKINS, M. D. Dr. Horace Robert Hawkins, superintendent of Washington Hospital at Xenia, a former member of the Xenia city council and for years one of the best-known colored physicians in this part of Ohio, was born in Greene county and has lived here the greater part of his life. He was born on a farm in the Trebein neighborhood in Beavercreek township, July 3, 1870, son of Leonard and Theresa (Allen) Hawkins, natives of Kentucky, who were married there and who about 1868 came up into this part of Ohio and settled in Greene county. Leonard Hawkins was a practical farmer and upon his arrival here he was given charge of a farm in the vicinity of Trebien Station. A few years later he was given charge of a farm in the Jamestown neighborhood and a few years later was given charge of a farm at Goes Station. Some years later he moved to Clifton, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in the fall of 1889, he then being seventy-four years of age. His widow is still living, now making her home with a son and a daughter at 621 East Market street, Xenia, she now being in the eighty-third year of her age. Leonard Hawkins and his wife were the parents of sixteen children, of whom ten are still living, namely : Andrew C., who owns and operates a drug store in Xenia and who makes his home at 604 East Main street in that city; Mary E., unmarried, who makes her home in Cleveland, this state; E. E., who is connected with the Pullman railway service, with headquarters at Montreal, Canada;. Doctor Hawkins, the subject of this biographical sketch ; Amanda, who married James Taylor and lives in Cleveland; Ida, unmarried, who also lives in Cleveland ; William N., foreman in the factory of the American Tobacco Company at Xenia ; Hattie, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 427 who is unmarried and who lives with her mother in Xenia; Anna May, wife of Charles Jenkins, of Dayton, and Edward, of Xenia. Reared on the farm, Horace Robert Hawkins received his early schooling at Goes and later attended the high school at Clifton, from which he was graduated in 1888. Having determined to devote his life to the practice of medicine, he had been giving such time as he could to the reading of medical works and upon leaving the high school pursued his medical studies for a year under the preceptorship of Dr. William Webster at Dayton, after which he entered the Homeopathic Hospital College at Cleveland, from which he was graduated with the second honors of his class, in a class of forty-eight, in 1892. During his senior year in college Doctor Hawkins was an assistant interne in the hospital, operated in connection with the college and after his graduation he immediately took a post-graduate course in the same institution, specializing in surgery, and diseases. of women. Thus equipped for the practice of his profession Doctor Hawkins opened an office at Dayton and after eighteen months of practice there moved, in 1894, 'to Xenia, where he ever since has been engaged in practice. In 1906 the Doctor took a post-graduate course in the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital at Philadelphia, specializing in surgery, and in 1916 he helped to organize the Washington Hospital, which is located in his office building at 627 East Main street, and has since served as superintendent and chief of staff of the hospital, which has a 'capacity of eighteen beds. Doctor Hawkins is a member of Miami Valley Medical Society of Ohio. In 1904 the Doctor rebuilt the building in which his office and Washington Hospital are located, in East Main street, and several years ago he bought and remodeled the house in which he now lives at 609 East Main street. The Doctor is a Republican and for sixteen years, or during eight consecutive terms of office, served as a member of the Xenia city council, representing the fourth ward. For the past three years or more the Doctor also has been serving as township physician for Xenia township. On September 28, 1892, Doctor Hawkins was united in marriage to Cora A. Taylor, who was born at Kalida, this state, daughter of Grant and Carrie V. Taylor. Doctor Hawkins and his wife are members of the Zion Baptist church and the Doctor was formerly president of the Young Peoples Society of the same. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the colored lodges of the Masons and of the ,Knights of Pythias. JACOB HANES. Jacob Hanes, widely known as Squire Hanes, of Zimmermans, one of the oldest native-born residents of Greene county, was born in Beavercreek township on April 2, 1832, a son of Jonathan and Mary (Smeltzer) Hanes, 428 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO the former of whom was born in Maryland in 1802 and was but three years of age when his parents, Jacob and Mary Hanes, came to this state and settled in Greene county, locating on the land now owned by their ,grandson, Jacob Hanes, at Zimmermans. The elder Jacob Hanes became a soldier of the War of 1812, served as one of the associate judges of Greene county for seven years, was for many years justice of the peace and in other ways active in pioneer affairs. He died at the age of sixty-six. His widow lived to be' eighty-two. They had six children, four of whom, Jacob, Jonathan, Mary and Frances, lived to maturity and reared families. Jonathan Hanes in 1831 married Mary Smeltzer and established his home on a farm at Zimmermans, where he spent the rest of his life. He and his wife were Lutherans and were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch having had a sister Mary. Reared on the home farm, Jacob Hanes remained there until his marriage when thirty-five years of age, after which for two years he made his home on the farm of his father-in-law. He then located on the place on which he is now living and there has ever since resided. It was in 1867 that Jacob Hanes was united in marriage to Mary M. Stull, who also was born in this county, March 9, 1847, daughter of William K. and Sarah Stull, and to his union five children were born, Jonathan W., Francis A., Jacob L., Cassius A., and Edward F., all of whom are living save the latter, who died in 1905, at the age of twenty-four years. Mrs. Hanes is a member of the Reformed church. Squire Hanes is a Republican. During recent years he has suffered considerably from failing sight, but is still able to get about with much of his old-time vigor. Jonathan Hanes, eldest son of Squire Hanes and wife, married Hattie Flatter, of Hartford City, Indiana, and has five children, Katie V., who married O. S. Mendenhall and has one child, a daughter, Bernice Evelyn, and Nettie M., Ada M., Andrew and Nancy. Francis A. Hanes married Minnie Harner, of Oldtown, and has had five children, Raymond J., Herman F. (who died at the age of two years), Thelma, Louise and Edna P. Jacob L. Hanes married Minnie B. Mendenhall and has six children, Arthur L., Florence Jeannette, Albert Louis, Orville K., Herbert and, Thomas E. Cassius A. Hanes married Anna Lott and has nine children, Harold, Violet, Edwin, Adenia, Henry, Gladena, Lillian, and Kindle and Kenneth, twins. JOHN THOMPSON HAWKER. The Hawkers have been represented in this part of Ohio since Territorial days, the first of the name to settle here having come over here from the Hagerstown neighborhood in Maryland a year or two before Ohio was admitted to statehood and effected a settlement in what later came to be GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 429 organized as Beavercreek township, Greene county, the family thus becoming one of the real pioneer families of Greene county. The ancestors of John Thompson Hawker came from England and from the beginning were active in the work of Mt. Zion Reformed church and of the circuit connected therewith, the Hawker church gaining its name by reason of the family influence exerted in its organization. The late John Thompson. Hawker, who died at his home on the Shakertown pike in Beavercreek township in the fall of 1913 and whose daughter, Miss Charlotte Hawker, is still living there, was born on that farm and had lived there practically all his life. He was born on November 16, 1828, son of David and Sarah E. (Odaffer) Hawker, both of whom were born in the vicinity of Hagerstown, Maryland, and who had come to Ohio almost immediately following their marriage. David Hawker, who was a son of George Hawker, came to Ohio in 1826, he and his wife being accompanied by the latter's brother, John Odaffer, who later settled in the neighborhood of Troy, over in Miami comity. Previous to his definite settlement here David Hawker had been prospecting out here, certain of his kinsman having settled here years before, and had bought a tract of a fraction more than one hundred and seventeen acres on the Shakertown road in Beavercreek township, paying for the same one thousand and two dollars. There he established his home when he and. his wife arrived here in November, 1826, and there they spent the remainder of their lives. David Hawker added to his holdings until he became the owner of about three hundred acres of land. The barn he. built on that place in 1838 is still standing and serviceable. The large farm house which ever since has served as a place of family residence on the farm and where Miss Charlotte Hawker is now living with her niece and the latter's husband. Russell T. Shultz, the latter of whom is now the owner of the farm, was erected by David Hawker in 1852. David Hawker was one of the charter members of Mt. Zion Reformed church. Politically, he was a Democrat. He died in November, 1864, being then sixty-five years of age, and his widow survived him for more than twenty years, her death occurring in 1885, she then being eighty-three years of age. They were the parents of nine children, namely: Catherine, who married Abraham Darst ; John T., the subject of this memorial sketch ; Mary Ann, who married Jonas Lesher and lives at Greenville, this state, now eighty-seven years of age; Elizabeth, who married Abraham Darst, husband of her deceased sister, Catherine; Sarah Jane, who married Edom Burrows, who moved to Indiana and established his home in the Crawfordsville neighborhood ; David, Jr., a building contractor and landowner, now living at Dayton; Martha Ellen, who married H. C. Kiler, and Adaline, who married J. T. Leevy and died at Dayton. John T. Hawker grew up on the home farm in Beavercreek township and lived there practically all his life. After his father's death he bought 430 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO one hundred and forty-seven acres of the old home place, including the house, and there spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on November 20, 1913. In addition to his general farming he gave considerable attention to the raising of live stock, his herd of Shorthorn cattle having something more than a local reputation. John T. Hawker was for many years an elder in the Mt. Zion Reformed church. He also took an active interest in local political affairs, a Republican, and for fourteen years served as trustee of Beavercreek township. On October 20, 1855, John T. Hawker was united in marriage to Sarah Elizabeth Watkins, who also was born in this county, daughter of Benjamin F. Watkins and wife, the latter of whom was a Haverstick, who were residents of what is now the Wilberforce neighborhood and who were the parents of twelve children. Benjamin F. Watkins came to this county about 1830 from the Hagerstown neighborhood in Maryland. He was a son of a wealthy planter and slaveowner and was reared with the expectation of never having to work, but after his settlement. in this county became a cabinet-maker and established a good home. To John T. and. Elizabeth (Watkins) Hawker were born three children, Edward S., now living at Dayton; Charlotte, mentioned above as still living on the old home place in Beavercreek township, and Clara, who died at the age of ten years. Mrs. Elizabeth Hawker died in 1890 and in 1892 John T. Hawker married Mrs. A. D. Freeman, who died in 1911 without issue. Edward S. Hawker has been twice married, his first wife, who was Mary E. Huston, having died years ago, after which he married Minnie Lutz. Upon the death of Mr. Hawker's first wife Miss Charlotte Hawker, his sister, took charge of and reared his daughter, Gertrude, and his son, J. T., Jr., at the same time buying her brother's interest in the old home place, and has ever since continued to reside there. Gertrude Hawker married Russell T. Schultz,. who later bought the old Hawker farm and is now the owner of the same, operating it. J. T. Hawker, Jr., lives at Dayton, a carpenter by trade. Two other children of Edward S. Hawker by his first marriage were Myrtle, now Mrs. A. F. Gabler, of Dayton, and Clayton, also a resident of Dayton. By his second marriage Edward S. Hawker has two sons, Everett and Frederick. HENRY F. BAKER, M. D. Dr. Henry F. Baker, of Yellow Springs, the oldest practicing physician in Greene county, has been a continuous resident of the village in which he is now living for nearly forty years, with the exception of about three years during the early '80s, when, on account of the declining state of his wife's GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 431 health, it was necessary to seek a temporary change of scene. In August, 1879, Doctor Baker located at Yellow Springs. In 1881 he left, but in 1884 returned to the village and has since made that his place of residence, engaged in the practice of his profession. COL. JOSEPH E. WILSON. The late Col. Joseph E. Wilson, of Yellow Springs, was a native of Maryland, born in Montgomery county, on October 19, 1823, and was but three years of age when his father, who was a Virginian, moved with his family from Maryland back to the Old Dominion and located in Loudoun county, his birth place, where he remained for about six years. At the end of that time he came to Ohio with his family and located in the Quaker settlement in Clark county, he having been a member of the Society of Friends. Young Joseph was nine years of age when he came with his parents 'to Ohio and he grew up in Clark county, supplementing the schooling he received there by attendance at the Quaker school that then was being conducted at Zanesville. He married in 1845 and in 1848 moved down to Yellow Springs, there erected a lime kiln and was for six years or more there engaged in burning lime. He then became interested in Illinois lands and in various other investments and presently went to Jackson and Cass counties, Missouri, in the neighborhood of which place he was for two or three years engaged in farming, but he afterward returned to Yellow Springs and there erected the house in which his last days were spent, one of the most pretentious of the numerous fine houses in that village. He did not long remain in Yellow Springs after that return, however, for he presently returned to Missouri and at Butler, in Bates county, that state, became engaged in the banking business. Upon his, retirement from •the banking business the 'Colonel returned to his old home in Yellow Springs and there spent his last days, his death occurring there on May 12, 1898. Though reared a Quaker, Colonel Wilson was not of the non-combative sort and during the Civil War responded to the hundred-days call, helped raise a regiment and was mustered out as colonel of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio National Guard. On December 2, 1845, at Selma, Ohio, Joseph E. Wilson was united in marriage to Delilah Marshall, who was born at Selma in 1823, daughter of William and Catherine (Huffman) Marshall, and to that union were born four children, Emma, Frank E., William and Hannah, all of whom are still living, the latter continuing to make her home in Yellow Springs in the fine old house erected by her father many years ago. Emma Wilson married Charles K. Wilson, a farmer in the neighboring county of Clark and since his death has been making her home at Springfield. Frank E. Wilson married Elina Wright and has for years made his home in the West, at present 432 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO residing at Potales, New Mexico. He formerly was a resident of Comanche county, Texas, and during his residence there served as treasurer of the county and for some years as sheriff. William Wilson married first Mary Woodard and second Etta Drake and is now a resident of Alberta, Canada. Hannah Wilson married Edward Winslow, who is engaged in business in Yellow Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Winslow have a son, Hugh Winslow, who is engaged with his father in business. Colonel Wilson's widow continued to make her home at Yellow Springs after his death and survived him for more than seventeen years’ her death occurring there on August 19, 1915, She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. GRANVILLE O. PETERSON. The late Granville O. Peterson, who died at his home in Caesarscreek township, this county, November 18, 1913, and whose widow is still living there, was born in that same township and lived there all his life. He was born on August 8, 1854, son of Paris H. and Amanda J. (Tressler) Peterson, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families. Paris H. Peterson was born in Spring Valley township, son of Jonas and Susan Peterson, who had settled in the woods in that township upon coming to Greene county from Virginia. Jonas Peterson and his wife began their home-making in a log cabin in the woods, reared their family there and there spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of ten children, John, Jonas, Martin, Christopher, David, Sarah, Elizabeth, Hannah, Paris and Jane. Paris Peterson grew up on that pioneer farm, married Amanda Tressler, established his home in Caesarscreek township and there reared his family, he and his wife having been the parents of three children, Granville 0., David Fudge, who married Clara Boots, and Minnie Ann, who married Levitt McDonald. Reared on the old home farm in Caesarscreek township, Granville 0. Peterson received his schooling in the Maple Corners school. He married in the spring of 1877 and established his home on the farm on which his widow is now living, the old Alexander Ireland place of fifty acres in Caesarscreek township, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there, as noted above, in the fall of 1913. In addition to his general farming, Granville O. Peterson for years operated a threshing-machine throughout that part of the county during seasons. He was a genial man, made friends wherever he went and at one time and another had held township offices. On March 22, 1877, Granville O. Peterson was united in marriage to Mina Boots, who was born in Caesarscreek township, a daughter of David and Martha E. (Peterson) Boots, both of whom also were born in this GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 433. county, members of pioneer families. David Boots was a carpenter and farmer. He died at his home in Caesarscreek township in 1859, and his widow survived him until January 18, 1917, she then being eighty-two years of age. In early life David Boots and his wife were members of the Maple Corners Reformed church, but later became affiliated with the Baptist church at Jamestown. They were the parents of three children, Mrs. Peterson having two sisters, Mary C., wife of Charles McDonald, now living at Cottage Hill, Florida, and Clara Alma; who died on March 10, 1916, and who was twice married, her first husband having been Fudge Peterson and her second, John H. Thomas, who died on July 4, 1917. To Granville O. and Mina (Boots) Peterson were born four sons, Alpheus P., Jesse F., Arthur M. and Russell Wayne, all of whom are still living in this county. Alpheus P. Peterson married Minnie Frances Jones and is living on the old home place, managing the same since his father's death. He also operates .a threshing-machine during seasons, as did his father for so many years before him. Jesse F. Peterson married Emma Thomas and is farming in Caesarscreek township. Arthur M. Peterson married Grace Fawcett and is farming in the Cedarville neighborhood. Russell W. Peterson continues to make his home on the home place, assisting his brother Alpheus in the management of the same. Mrs. Peterson has confirmed her residence there since the death of her husband. She is a member of the Maple Corners Reformed church. JOHN E. JOHNSON. John E. Johnson, a retired farmer, a veteran of the Civil War and former school trustee, now living at Yellow Springs, was born in the village of Clifton on April 1, 1845, and has lived in this county all his life. He is a son of Joseph R. and Lydia Elizabeth (Estle) Johnson, the former of whom was born at Lydaville, Kentucky, March 8, 1819, and was but seven years of age when his parents left Kentucky and came up into this part of Ohio in 1826 and located in Greene county, establishing their home on a farm half way between Yellow Springs and Clifton. Two years later the Johnsons moved up into the neighboring county of Clark, locating on a farm on the Yellow Springs and Springfield pike, where Joseph R. Johnson lived until his father's death in 1830. He then was eleven years of age and stayed on the home place and later made his home with an elder brother, W. D. Johnson, who was engaged in the milling business at Clifton, and there learned the milling business, in which he continued engaged for many years. At Clifton Joseph R. Johnson married Lydia Elizabeth Estle, who was (27) 434 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO born on January 0, 1822, and he continued to make his home at that place until 1861, in which year he bought the Finlay-Whiteman farm of three hundred acres, and on that place .made his home until he sold the farm in 187.8 and moved to Springfield, where he spent his last days, his death occurring there on November 6, 1892. His wife had died on February 29, 1880. Joseph R. Johnson had served as a school trustee, and he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church. They were the parents of eight children, those besides the subject of this sketch, the second in order of birth, being the following: Clemency, born on October 9, 1842, who married Michael Madden and died in 1915; Abigail Little, born in February, 1847, who died on April 26, 1865; Asahel, April 23, 1849, whose last days were spent at Vancouver, British Columbia; Lydia Elizabeth, May 29, 1851, who died on April 25, 1853; Mrs. Hannah Miriam Jacobe, June 0, 1857, who is living at Yellow Springs; Ann Maria, June 30, 1859, who was the wife of Harvey Scranton, now deceased; and Margaret Jane Hand, August 25, 1862. wife of William Forbes. John E. Johnson received his schooling at Clifton and was sixteen years of age when his father moved from that village to the farm in 1861. He remained on the farm until in February, 1863, when he enlisted in the Union army and went to the front as a member of Company M, Eighth Ohio Cavalry, and at once became active on detached service. He was captured by the enemy and was sent to Libby Prison, where he was held for several months. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Johnson returned to the home farm and after his marriage in the fall of 1867 established his home there and continued there to reside, in time becoming the owner of the farm, until 1911, in which year he retired from the active labors of the farm and he and his wife moved to Yellow Springs, where they are now living. Not long ago Mr. Johnson sold his farm. He has served as school trustee and as a member of the board of education. On November 26, 1867, John E. Johnson was united in marriage to Sarah Jane Weller, who was born in Champaign county, Ohio, March 26, 1849, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Wyant) Weller, natives, respectively, of Virginia and Ohio, and to this union five children have been born, namely : Samuel W., who has been twice married, by his marriage to Alice Budd having had three children, Edna, who married Austin Smith and has one son, Samuel ; Jennie, who married Alonzo Line, and Alice; and by his marriage to Arminta Sproul has one child, a son, Samuel Ross ; Gertrude Elizabeth, who married John Budd, of Springfield, Ohio, and has one child, Maria, who married' Charles Lucas, and has one son, Jack ; John Orlando, who is now living at Spencer, Idaho, and who has three children, Dorothy, John and Arthur Estle ; Joseph R., who is married and is living at Spring- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 435 field, and Azema, who died in 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Johnson is a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic and a member of the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias. HERMAN N. COE. Herman N. Coe, a retired farmer of Greene county, now living at Yellow Springs, where he has made his home for years, is a native son of Ohio and has been a resident of Greene county for more than forty-five years. He was born on a farm in Union county on April 24, 1854, son of Moses and Martha (Boal) Coe, the latter of whom also was a native of Union county. Moses Coe was .a native of Pennsylvania, born in Washington county in 1827, and was eight years of age when he came with his parents to Ohio, the family settling in Union county, where he received his schooling, grew to manhood, married, established his home on a farm and there spent the rest of his life. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and of the Masonic order. It was about 1849 that he married Martha Boal and to that union were born eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being Heber, who died in infancy; Orra, widow of Lewis Bland ; Harvey D., who married Edith Kieth, of Iowa, and died in Colorado; Elmer D., who married Lizzie Scott, of Marysville, Ohio, and is now living in Chicago; Jennie, who married William Beckman and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased; Margaret, who married A. E. Gillett and is now living at Los Angeles, California, and Lulu, who died in the clays of her girlhood. Herman N. Coe spent his boyhood in Union county, receiving his schooling there, and when seventeen years of age came to Greene county and became engaged working on a farm on Clarks run. That was in the summer of 1871 and he continued thus engaged until after his marriage in 1876, when he began farming on his own account and presently became the owner of a farm of one hundred and fifty-four acres on the road between Clifton and Cedarville, which he still owns. There he continued farming until his retirement in 1915 and removal to Yellow Springs, where he since has made his home. Mr. Coe is a member of the Presbyterian church at Clifton and for more than thirty years has been an elder in the same. Mr. Coe has been twice married. In 1876, at Urbana, Illinois, he was united in marriage to Christina Davis, and to that union were born two daughters, Lulu M., who married A. E. Swaby and has one child, a daughter, Dorris, and Olive, who is unmarried. The mother of these daughters 436 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO died in 1907 and on October 28, 1915, Mr. Coe married Mrs. Sarah (Barnett) Currie, of Yellow Springs. ALBERT BURRELL. Albert Burrell, a veteran of the Civil War and proprietor of a well-kept farm in Xenia township, situated on rural mail route No. 5 out of Xenia, is a member of one of the oldest families in this county, the Burrells having been represented here for more than a hundred years. He was born on a farm in Caesarscreek township on August 18, 1846, son of Marshall and Rebecca (Powers) Burrell, whose last days were spent in Xenia, to which city Marshall Burrell had moved upon his retirement from the farm. Marshall Burrell was born on February 22, 1825, son of John D. and Eleanor (Marshall) Burrell, the latter of whom was a daughter of John Marshall, one of the pioneers of Greene county and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. John D. Burrell was a Virginian, born along one of the branches of the Monongahela in the "panhandle" of what is now West Virginia. In 1807 he came to Greene county and on October 29, of that same year, married Eleanor Marshall and settled on a tract. of land in what later came to be known as the Needmore school district, in Caesarscreek township, where he was living when the call came for volunteers for service in the War of 1812. He left his wife and the two small children who by this time had enlarged his household, and went to the front, rendering service as a soldier until the close of the war. He and his wife spent the remainder of their lives on that pioneer farm, his death occurring there on May 16, 1864, he then being eighty-one years of age. He and his wife were members of the Baptist church and their children were reared in that faith. There were six of these children, five daughters and the one son, Marshall Burrell, father of the subject of this sketch. Marshall Burrell grew up on the farm on which he was born in Caesarscreek township and eventually became a landowner in that same township, establishing his home there after his marriage. He also was a successful trader, doing quite a bit of business in real-estate transactions, as well as in the buying and selling of live stock. Upon his retirement from the farm he divided his land among his children and moved to Xenia, where his death occurred on February I I, 1907, he then lacking only eleven days of being eighty-two years of age. Marshall Burrell was twice married, his first wife and the mother of his children having been Rebecca Powers, who was born in the neighboring county of Warren in September, 1824, daughter of Edward and Mary Powers, natives of Ireland and pioneers in the upper part of Warren county, who were the parents of ten children, five sons and five daughters. To that union were born three children, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Mary Ellen, wife of Frank Smith, of Xenia township, this county, and a brother, Eli Burrell. of Xenia. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 437 The mother of these children died in June, 1894, and Marshall Burrell later married Hannah Maxey. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Albert Burrell was reared on the farm on which he was born in Caesarscreek township and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. He was but a boy when the Civil War broke out, but from the very beginning of that struggle his patriotic ardor was aroused and on May 3, 1864, he then being but seventeen years of age, he enlisted without his father's knowledge in a company of home guards that then was being recruited. It so happened that his father had enlisted for similar service in that same command on that same day and when he found that his son had enlisted interposed his legal objection and compelled the lad's resignation. The elder Burrell went with his company to the camp at Columbus and was there presently visited by young Albert, his son, who insisted that the father return home and let him serve in his stead, the father's presence being greatly needed at home. The father finally, though with much reluctance, consented to this plan and upon the matter being laid before the colonel of the regiment the latter agreed to the arrangement provided the son should enter the service under his father's name in order to avoid the necessity of altering the regimental roster, and it was thus that Albert Burrell rendered service to his country during the Civil War under the name of Marshall Burrell, an apparent discrepancy that created quite a bit of confusion in the pension department when many years later his application for a pension was filed with the government, though it did not prevent the eventual grant of the pension. The command with which Albert Burrell thus served was Company H of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with that command he participated in the battle of New Creek, West Virginia, August 4, .1864. Upon the completion of his military service Albert Burrell returned home and resumed his place on the farm, continuing there until his marriage in the fall of 1867, when he bought a small farm and started farming on his own account. When his father retired and divided his land among his children Mr. Burrell came into possession of a part of his father's farm in Xenia township and has since been living there. To that tract he later added an adjoining tract and now has eighty-one acres. In 1902 Mr. Burrell suffered the loss of his home by fire, but he later erected a better and larger house. He is a Democrat and has served as a school director in his home district. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On October 17, 1867, Albert Burrell was united in marriage to Phoebe Eleanor Smith, who was born in the neighboring county of Clinton and who died on August 9, 1911. To that union were born ten children, namely : Francis M., a farmer, of Sugarcreek township; Flora B., wife of Robert 438 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Charters, of Cleveland, Ohio; Laura Elsie, wife of Charles Clemans, of Cedarville township; Rebecca Maud, unmarried, who is living at home wit her father ; Carrie Melissa, also at home; Omar Marshall, who is now living at Springfield, this state; Edna Phoebe, at home; Alberta, wife of Amos Frame, of Ross township; Lucien Elmer, who died at the age of six years, and Oscar Lee, who died when two years of age. WILMOT EARL LITTLETON. Wilmot Earl Littleton, a member of the furniture and undertaking firm of Littleton & Sons, of Yellow Springs, was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Clark on September 16, 1877, son of Granville Fisher and Clarinda Ann (Sparrow) Littleton, both of whom also were born in this state, the latter in Clark county, and who are now living at Yellow Springs. Granville Fisher Littleton, one of the oldest undertakers and furniture dealers in this part of the state and head of the firm of Littleton & Sons at Yellow Springs, was born in 1850 and his youth was spent on a farm. He finished his schooling in a "select" school in the neighboring town of Clifton and as he had been reared to the ways of the farm presently took up farming on his own account and after his marriage in the early '70s to Clarinda Ann Sparrow, who was born in Clark county, her parents having located there upon coming to this country from England, established his home on a farm in Clark county, later moving to Greene county. In the latter '70s he engaged in the furniture business at Yellow Springs, also undertaking, and in 1881 he took a course in the Clark Embalming School, the first of its kind established in this country, and set himself up in the undertaking business at Yellow Springs, where, with certain intermissions, he has since been engaged in business. In 1890 Mr. Littleton spent a year on a farm in Illinois, where he also was engaged in the undertaking business, later returning to Yellow Springs; and in 1894 he went to Alabama, but in 1896 returned to his established home at Yellow Springs and has been there continuously since, for some years past having associated with him in business his sons, the business being carried on under the firm name of Littleton & Sons, the firm doing business at the same corner on which Mr. Littleton established himself in business forty years ago. Mr. Littleton and his family are members of the Presbyterian church and he is affiliated with the local lodges of the Masons and the Odd Fellows, now serving as treasurer of the former. To Granville F. and Clarinda A. (Sparrow) Littleton five children have been born, namely : Daisy Maude, who married Lewis Reinwald and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased, her death in 1914 leaving three GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 439 orphaned children, Josephine, who is now engaged in professional nursing at Chicago; Lewis, who lives in Yellow Springs, and Mildred, wife of Ralph Figgins; Wilmot E., the immediate subject of this biographical sketch ; Morris Fisher, a member of the firm of Littleton & Sons, who married Ella Figgins, of Yellow Springs, and has one child, a daughter, Janet ; Harry Ladrew, now engaged in the undertaking business at Sabina, in the neighboring county of Clinton, who married Susan Dakin and has one child, a son, Roger; Edwin, a member of the firm of Littleton & Sons, who married Ethel Diltz, who then was employed in the office of the Robbins & Myers Motor Company at Springfield, and has two daughters, Dorothy and Marjorie. Wilmot Earl Littleton was reared at Yellow Springs and from the days of his boyhood has been interested in the details of the business established there by his father. Upon completing the course in the local high school he entered a school for instructions in the art of embalming, his brother Harry and himself being members of the first class to take the examination under the state license law, and afterward became associated with his father and his brothers in the general furniture and undertaking business at Yellow Springs. Mr. Littleton has served two years as master of the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons and is also a member of the board of trustees of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He also is a member of the local school board. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian church. On March 29, 1900, Mr. Littleton was united in marriage to Josephine Hutchinson, of Yellow Springs, a daughter of Elder and Hester (Baker) Hutchinson, the former of whom died about 1881 and the latter of whom is still living at Yellow Springs, and who were the parents of four daughters, Mrs. Littleton having had three sisters, Nettie, wife of L. D. Welch, of Yellow Springs ; Stella, now deceased, who was the wife of Howard Adams, and Fannie, who is at home. Mr. and Mrs. Littleton have four children, Joseph Wilmot, born on December 3, 1901, now a student in the high school; Eleanor, November 28, 1903, also in the high school ; Granville Eugene, June 10, 1905, and Elizabeth, March 19, 1917. J. N. WOLFORD. J. N. Wolford, editor and proprietor of the Yellow Springs News, was born at .Xenia on March 19, 1879, son of John Henry and America (Mills) Wolford, the latter of whom also was born in this county and is still living here, for many years a resident of Cedarville. John Henry Wolford was born at Clear Springs, Maryland. in 1849, 440 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO and was seventeen years of age when he came to Ohio in 1866 and became employed in the blacksmith, shop and carriage factory of his uncle, John Lutz, at Xenia, becoming there thoroughly, trained in the details of the carriage-making business. He later became engaged in this business on his own account and presently opened an establishment at Cedarville, where he remained engaged in the carriage-making line the rest of his life, his death occurring there in 1916. His widow is still living at Cedarville. John Henry Wolford and wife were the parents' of five children, namely : Bernice, who is living with her mother at Cedarville; Mrs. Ida Turnbull, also of Cedarville ; Mrs. Edna Dodds, of Cincinnati ; J. N., the immediate subject of this biographical sketch, and Ralph, who is continuing to carry on his father's old-established business at Cedarville. J. N. Wolford was but a child when his parents moved from Xenia to Cedarville and he was reared in the latter place. He was graduated from the Cedarville high school in 1898, meantime having become a carriage-painter, working in his father's shop, and after leaving high school entered Cedarville College, later taking a course in Ohio Northern University. Upon leaving college he bought the Yellow Springs News, a once-a-week newspaper that had been established at Yellow Springs in 1880, and has since then been engaged in the newspaper business. Mr. Wolford is a Republican and a Mason. On August 11, 1910, Mr. Wolford was united in marriage to Lucy Birch, of Yellow Springs, and to this union two children have been barn, Leah, born in 1912, and Jane,. 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Wolford are members of the Presbyterian church. ABRAHAM L. SHUEY. Abraham L. Shuey, former. mayor of the town of 'Fairfield and justice , of the peace in and for Bath township, was born in the vicinity of the town of Gratis, in Gratis township, Preble county, this state. On April 5, 1864, he became a resident of Greene county and remained here until in December, 1874, when he moved to a farm he had bought on the national road a mile and a half west of Donnelsville, in Clark county. Two years later he moved to Fairfield and in 1888 removed from that village to a farm just south of the village, where he remained until 1893, when he returned to the village, where he and his wife have since resided. Mr. Shuey has served as mayor of Fairfield and as justice of the peace, as well as in other official capacities, and is also a notary public. Mrs. M. C. Wilson Shuey, wife of Abraham L. Shuey, is a daughter of William Harvey Wilson, who was the eldest of the thirteen children of GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 441 Isaac Wilson, who had come to this region wtih his parents from Kentucky in 1801, and she thus is a member of one of the very first families of Greene county. Isaac Wilson established his home in the neighborhood of the present village of Byron and became one of the large landowners of Greene county. One of his sons, Uriah Wilson, who died in 1900, was a soldier of the Civil War and was the father of thirteen children, some of whom are still living in the Fairfield community. Isaac Wilson died on April 10, 1860, and left a large estate to his family. William Harvey Wilson also became a large landowner and left a substantial estate at the time of his death in 1893. Three of his children are still living, Mrs. Shuey having two brothers, Cassius M. Wilson, a veteran auctioneer, now living retired at Fairfield, and James M. Wilson, a retired farmer, living just north of the village. Mrs. Shuey has for many years been incidentally engaged in journalistic work, has written for a number of the leading papers of the country and has contributed to this publication in the way of providing data relating to the histories of the Fairfield and Osborn neighborhoods. On March 4, 1908,, Mr. Shuey was taken down with an attack of la grippe from which an ailment of his left .ankle developed. On April 2 following he was taken to the hospital and there his left leg was amputated. On April 5 of that same year Mrs. Shuey contracted blood-poisoning in her right thumb, the trouble quickly extending to her left arm and developing a condition which necessitated the amputation of that member, the operation being performed on May 9. Despite these physical disabilities and their advancing years, both Mr. and Mrs. Shuey are hale and hearty and full of the joy of living. RALPH O. WEAD. When Ralph O. Wead, superintendent of the public schools at Yellow Springs, was a candidate for clerk of courts, subject to the Republican primary, in the campaign of 1916, he thought it but fitting, as a measure of introduction to such of the electorate as might not have a personal acquaintance with him, to issue a personal statement regarding himself and in that statement he succeeded in reducing the art of biography, or autobiography, to the minimum by producing "My Credentials," a statement of facts which, gauged by its brevity, may properly enough he said to have achieved the maximum of modesty, in the following words and figures : I was born, have always lived, was married and am rearing my family in Greene county. I lived my boyhood years in Spring Valley township and in Xenia city. Early in life I discovered that an :education is a necessity and if I was to have one I must pay for it myself. During school years I worked as a Gazette carrier boy and during college vacations in the fuse factory, the shoe factory, as clerk, and as brakeman 442 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO on a construction train. I was graduated from Xenia high school 1899. Completed course in Xenia Business College night school 1899. Taught school in Cedarville township 1901-02. Graduated from Antioch College 1904. Principal of Sugar Creek township high school 1904-05. Elected superintendent of Yellow Springs schools 1905, which position I have held for eleven years. Amplifying the above for the definite purpose of this volume, it may be said that Ralph O. Wead was born on a farm in Spring Valley township on. January 18, 1884, a son of James V. and Susan (Lewis) Wead, the former of whom also was born in this county and the latter in the neighboring county of Warren, though she had the good fortune to be reared in Greene county, having been cared for in her girlhood by Mrs. Henry Corey. James V. Wead was born on a farm on the Xenia-Jamestown pike and early became a practical farmer. He completed his schooling in the old Xenia College on East church street and after his marriage bought a small farm in Spring Valley township, where he made his home until 1889, when he moved with his family to Xenia, where he and his wife are now living. To them four children have been born, three of whom are living, Superintendent Wead having two sisters, Lydia May, who married Joseph Shank, now living at Dayton, Ohio, and has one child, a son, Warren, and Carrie Belle, a professional nurse, engaged in that capacity at Dayton and Xenia. The latter had a twin brother, Frederick, who died in childhood. Ralph O. Wead was eight years of age when his parents moved to Xenia. He had had two years of schooling in the district school in the neighborhood of his childhood home in Spring Valley township and upon moving to Xenia entered the school there and was graduated from the high school in that city in 1899, meanwhile spending his vacation periods in various industrial activities, as set out in the modest paragraph that introduces this review. During the last year of his high-school course he completed the bookkeeping course in the night school of Xenia Business College. In the fall of 1899 he entered Antioch College and for two years pursued his studies there. He then taught school for one term in Cedarville township and later re-entered Antioch College, from which institution he was graduated in 1904. with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Following his graduation he was engaged as the principal of the high school at Bellbrook and served in that capacity for one year, at the end of which time he was engaged as superintendent of the public school's at Yellow Springs, which position he since has held. In 1905, the year of his marriage, when Mr. Wead took charge there were twenty-nine pupils in the high school, and in 1918 there were one hundred and six pupils in the high school and thirty-one in the graduating class. During his incumbency as superintendent of schools Professor Wead has pursued his studies and has secured all credits necessary for his Master degree in Ohio. State University. He is a Republican and in the campaign of 1916 GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 443 was a candidate for the nomination for clerk of courts. In announcing his candidacy, subject to the Republican primary, he frankly declared that he was a candidate "for no other reason than because I want the position and believe that my qualifications will recommend me as worthy of' a public trust. I have always taught my pupils that any good citizen should not hesitate to offer his ability on the highest market." He is a member of the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons and of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Yellow Springs. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. On August 23, 1905, Mr. Wead was united in marriage to Edith J. Hirst, who was born at Yellow Springs, daughter of Capt. T. C. Hirst and wife, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union two children have been born, sons both, Robert H., born in 1907, and William L., 1910. In addition to his school work Professor Wead is a member of the firm of Weiss & Wead, which in the summer of 1915 bought out the old Birch general store. NOBEL T. PAVEY, D. D. S. Dr. Nobel T. Pavey, member of the firm of Pavey & Kester, dentists, with offices in the Xenia National Bank building at Xenia,' was born in Leesburg, in Highland county, Ohio, January 9, 1890, son of Gilbert A. and Ida (Smith) Pavey, the latter of whom was born in that same county, in 1861, and both of whom are still living at Leesburg. Gilbert A. Pavey was born in Fayette county, Ohio, in 1860, and grew up a practical farmer, later owning and operating a farm on the line between Fayette and Highland counties, where he lived until his retirement from the farm and removal to the neighboring village of Leesburg, where he became engaged in the undertaking business, at the same time continuing to manage his farm. He is now living practically retired, though retaining an interest in the business in which he was long actively engaged. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he has been for years a steward in the same. They have three children, Doctor Pavey having a brother, Ernest W. Pavey, now general manager of the Oscar Leer Motor Company at Columbus, Ohio, and a sister, Geneva, wife of his partner, Dr. Alford B. Kester, of Xenia. Reared at Leesburg, Doctor Pavey completed his public schooling in the high school of that village and then took a course in the Ohio State University, after which he entered Starling Dental College at Columbus and was graduated from that institution with the class of 1911. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Pavey came to Greene county and opened an office for the 444 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO, practice of his profession at Jamestown, where he remained for two years, at the end of which time he moved to Xenia. In the fall of 1915, by competitive examination, Doctor Pavey entered the government service as a dental surgeon and continued that service until the spring of 1916, when he and his brother-in-law, Dr. Alford B. Kester, who also had been in the government service as a dental surgeon, formed a partnership and resumed regular practice. On October 10, 1911, Doctor Pavey was united in marriage to Avice Fishback, who was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Fayette, daughter of John and Ida Fishback, the latter of whom is still living, and to this union have been born two children, Paul, born on November 12, 1912, and Elizabeth Jane, 'October 25, 1916. Doctor and Mrs. Pavey are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church at Xenia and the Doctor is a member of the official board of the same. The Doctor is a Scottish Rite Mason, affiliated with Xenia Lodge No. 49 and with the Valley at Dayton. During his college days the Doctor .was. a member -of. the Psi Omega fraternity. WILLIAM H. CRESWELL. The beginnings of the Creswell family in Greene county date from the coming of Mrs. Catherine Creswell, a widow, with her eight children, two sons, James and Samuel, and six daughters, up here from Scott county, Kentucky, in the days of the beginning of the past century, the family thus being numbered among the first to settle here. Mrs. Catherine Creswell was a Pennsylvanian, as was her husband, James Creswell. They had settled in. Kentucky and were there members of the widespread congregation of Seceders to which the Rev. Robert Armstrong ministered before he came up here and settled on Massies creek, many of the members of his congregation having previously come up here to escape slavery conditions in Kentucky and more coming after he had established his church on. Massies creek and on Sugar creek. James Creswell was slain by Indians in Kentucky and his widow later came here with her children and settled on what is now the Jackson farm west of Cedarville. Her son James married Ann Junkin, daughter of Lancelot Junkin and wife, the latter of whom was a Galloway, Pennsylvanians, who had come here with the Galloways in 1797, and after his marriage in 1811 settled on the farm at what is now the crossing of the Federal pike and the Cedarville and Jamestown road, two and one-half miles southeast of Cedarville. There his pioneer mother spent her last days and there he and his wife also spent the remainder of their lives. James Creswell died in 1866. He and his wife were the parents of five children, of GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 445 whom Samuel Creswell, father of the subject of this sketch, was the fourth in order of birth, all of which is set out, together with much additional matter of a historical and genealogical character relating to the Creswells in this county, in a biographical sketch relating to James H. Creswell, elder brother of the subject of this sketch, presented elsewhere in this volume. Samuel Creswell was born on the old Creswell home farm, now owned and occupied by his son, George H. Creswell; a biographical sketch of whom also is presented elsewhere, and there he spent all his life, having established his home there after his marriage in 1846 to Eliza Jane Huffman, who 'also spent her last days there, her death occurring on August 10, 1910, she then being eighty-three years of age. Samuel Creswell survived his wife about two years, his death occurring on July 16, 1912, he then being ninety-two years of age. As is set out elsewhere, he and his wife were the parents of ten children, mention of whom is made in the sketch of the elder son referred to above. William H. Creswell, seventh in order of birth of the ten children born to Samuel and Eliza Jane (Huffman) Creswell, was born on the old Cresswell farm in Cedarville township on February 26, 1859, and there grew to manhood. He completed his schooling in the Cedarville high school and remained at home until after his marriage in 1887, when he bought a tract of sixty-five acres adjoining his father's place on the southeast, built a house on the same and there established his home. Since entering upon possession of that place Mr. Creswell has enlarged his land holdings until now he is the owner of one hundred and ninety acres. In 1902 he remodeled and enlarged his dwelling house, which is equipped with an electric-lighting plant and everything "ship-shape." In addition to his general farming Mr. Creswell has for years given considerable attention to the breeding of Poland China hogs for stock purposes. By political affiliation he is a Republican, with well-defined leanings toward the principles of the Prohibition party. On June 7, 1887, William H. Creswell was united in marriage to Flora Sterrett, who was born in Muskingum' county, this state, daughter of John and Rebecca Sterrett, both now deceased, who many years ago moved from Ohio to Johnson county, Kansas, where their daughter Flora grew to womanhood and where she married Mr. Creswell. To that union three children have been born, Howard, Andrew and Helen, all of whom are living. Howard Creswell, who is now living on a part of his father's farm, is a graduate of Cedarville College., He -married Mary Ellen Lownes, also a Cedarville graduate, and has two children, Mary Helen and Alice Rachel. The second son, the Rev. Andrew Creswell, was graduated from Cedarville College and from the United Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Pittsburgh and is now pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian church at Coulterville, Illinois. He 446 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO married Mary Eleanor Wilson, of Columbus, this state. Miss Helen Creswell was graduated from the Cedarville high school and is now a student in Cedarville College. The Creswells are members of the Reformed Presbyterian church at Cedarville, with the congregation of which the family has been identified ever since the church was established there more than a hundred years ago, and Mr. Creswell is one of the ruling elders of the congregation. TOWNE CARLISLE. Towne Carlisle, a retired lumber dealer of Yellow Springs, where he has made his home since the days of his young manhood, was born on a farm, not far from Yellow Springs, in Miami township, March 26, 1855, a son of Jehu and Hettie (Batchelor) Carlisle, residents of that township, whose last days were spent at Yellow Springs. Jehu Carlisle was a Virginian, born in Loudoun county, in 1816, and was twenty years of age when he came to Ohio in 1836 and located in Miami township, in this county, where he presently married and established himself on a farm. When he settled there Yellow Springs was known only as the scene of the medicinal springs which formerly attracted much attention. He helped to erect the first building put up there, the old Methodist Episcopal church, which stood until in the late '9os at the corner of Corry and Dayton streets. Jehu Carlisle, was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a Democrat. Upon his retirement he continued to live on the farm and was eighty-three years of age at the time of his death. His widow died on April 26, 1909. She was born on what is now the site of the Old Folks Home at Yellow Springs, March 26, 1816, a daughter of Robert Batchelor and wife, who came here from Pennsylvania and were among the first .settlers in the neighborhood of the springs, where later the thriving little city sprang up. To Jehu Carlisle and wife were born nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eighth in order of birth. As most of these children lived to rear families of their own, the Carlisle connection hereabout is a quite numerous one in this generation. Towne Carlisle grew up on the home farm in the neighborhood of Yellow Springs and received his schooling in the village schools. Upon attaining his majority he left the farm and became employed as a carriage-maker in the shop of T. B. Jobe. Three or four years later he became associated with J. H. Little in the lumber business at Yellow Springs, a partnership that was maintained until 1890, when Mr. Carlisle became the sole proprietor of the business, which by that time had been developed to profitable proportions. For nearly twenty-five years thereafter Mr. Carlisle continued GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 447 in the lumber business at Yellow Springs. In February, 1914, he sold his old-established plant to the John DeWein Company and retired from business. In 1912 Mr. Carlisle built a fine new house on Glenn street, the street on which he had made his home for thirty years. It is believed that Mr. Carlisle holds the state record for continuous service as a member of a local school board, and unless someone else comes forward with a better established claim his friends will continue to claim for him that honor. For thirty consecutive years Mr. Carlisle has been a member of the school board at Yellow Springs, never having had any opposition to successive re-election. In 1889 he was elected township clerk and by successive re-elections has also since continued to hold that office. Mr. Carlisle has been twice married. In 1876 he was united in marriage to Catherine Howard, who was born on a farm in Xenia township, daughter of John Howard and wife, and to that union was born one child, a son, Howard T. Carlisle, who was for years associated with his father in the lumber business and is still living in Yellow Springs. Mrs. Catherine Carlisle died in 1878 and on October 13, 1881, Mr. Carlisle married Martha Van Horn, who was born at Cedarville, July 13, 1855, daughter of Edward Van Horn and wife, the former of whom, a lumber contractor at Cedarville, died in 1900, and to this union four children have been born, namely : Edna, who died at the age of five years; Edward J., now living at Yellow Springs, who on August 18, 1913, married 'Helen Frank and has two children, Phyllis. born on January 24, 1916, and Edward, Jr., January 7, 1918; and Mildred and Hazel, twins, the former of whom died on June 19, 1916. Mr. Carlisle is a Republican, a Methodist, and is affiliated with the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. ALFORD BURTON KESTER, D. D. S. Dr. Alford Burton Kester, of the firm of Pavey & Kester, dentists, with offices in the Xenia National Bank building at the corner of Main and Detroit streets, Xenia, was born at New Carlisle, in the neighboring county of Clark, and has lived in this state all his life. He was born on August 17, 1890, son of G. E. and Elenora (Sullivan) Kester, the latter of whom was born at Peru, Indiana, in 1864, and both of whom are still living at New Carlisle. G. E. Kester was born in the neighborhood of New Carlisle in 1863. He is a musician, performing on both the cornet and the violin, and for years was the leader of the band and the orchestra. at New Carlisle. He is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Three children 448 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO have been born to them, but of these Doctor Kester is the only survivor, the others having died in infancy. Reared at New Carlisle, Doctor Kester completed his local schooling in the high school there and won a scholarship to Ohio Wesleyan University by the excellence of his work during his senior year, but did not avail himself of the same. In the meantime he had been devoting his attention to the study of dental surgery and upon leaving high school he entered Starling Medical College at Columbus and was graduated from that institution in 1911, his roommate and classmate having been his present partner and brother-in-law, Dr. Nobel T. Pavey. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Kester returned to his home at New Carlisle and was there engaged in the practice of his profession for something more than three years, at the end of which time he came down into Greene county and opened an office at Jamestown. A year later, by competitive examination, he was appointed a dental surgeon in the service of the United States army and continued thus engaged until May I, 1916, when he became associated with his brother-in-law and old college mate, Dr. Nobel T. Pavey, in practice at Xenia. On April 2, 1915, Dr. Alford B. Kester was united in marriage to Geneva Pavey, who was born at Leesburg, Ohio, April 8, 1894, daughter of Gilbert A. and Ida.. (Smith) .Pavey, who are still. living at , Leesburg, and only sister of Dr. Nobel T. Pavey, Doctor Kester's partner. Doctor and Mrs. Kester are members of the First Methodist Episcopal church at Xenia. The Doctor is a Mason and during his college days was a member of the Psi Omega fraternity. WALTER N. SIPE. Walter N. Sipe, the owner of a farm of something more than one hundred and forty-six acres in Bath township, located on rural mail route No. 3 out of Osborn, :was born in that township and has lived there practically all his life, the exception being a period of three years spent in Indiana, during which time he was located in the village of Dayton, in Tippecanoe county, and in the city of Muncie. He was born on November 6, 1852, son of Noah and Mary Ann (Wiant) Sipe, both of whom also were born in Ohio, the former in this county and the latter in Champaign county, and whose last days were spent here. Noah Sipe was born on the farm on which his son Walter is now living, December 29, 1820, son of Christian and Catherine (Carpenter) Sipe, who had come to Greene county from Virginia and had, become pioneers of Bath township, the tract on which Christian Sipe filed upon coming here having ever since been in the family, a period of one hundred years, Walter Sipe's farm being a part of that original tract. Christian Sipe and his wife, the GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 449 pioneers, had four children, Noah, Emanuel, Amy and Sarah. The first-born of these children, Noah Sipe, grew up on that pioneer farm, receiving his schooling in the primitive local schools of that place and period, and in tnrn became a farmer on his own account, and spent all his life on the old home place, after his marriage having established his home there. His wife died there on October 0, 1881. She was born, Mary Ann Wiant, in Champaign county, this state, in 1824, the Wiants having been among the pioneer settlers of that county. Noah Sipe survived his wife more than thirty-five years, his death occurring on December 15, 1915, he then being just a fortnight under ninety-five years of age. Walter N. Sipe grew up on the old home farm in Bath township, receiving his schooling in the local schools, and with the exception of the period of three years, noted above, during which he lived in Indiana, he has always made his home there, having established himself there after his marriage in the fall of 1880, relieving his father of the active Management of the farm, which he now owns and on which he has made many improvements. In addition to his general farming he has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock. Mr. Sipe is a Democrat and for fourteen years was a member of the school *board. He and his family are members of the Catholic church. On October 5, 1880, at Yellow Springs, Walter N. Sipe was united in marriage to Johanna Hern, who was born and reared in this county, daughter of John A. and Julia (Day) Hern, natives of Ireland, both born in County Cork, the former born on January 6, 1820, and the latter, June 19, 1825. John A. Hern was a shoemaker at Yellow Springs. He died on November 12, 1893, and his widow died on November 19, 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Sipe have six children, namely : William R., born on January 8, 1882, now farming in Bath township, who married Katie Nieffer, of that township, and has five children; Mary Ann, July 5, 1883, who married Vere Le Bann, a butcher *at Osborn, and has two children; John Walter, October 26,. 1885, who remains with his father, assisting in the management of the home farm; Frank, August 9, 1889, now living at Dayton, who married Lillian Hammond and has two children ; Charles, May 11, 1891, also now living in Dayton, who married Nellie Siedenstick and has three children, and Catherine, July 23, 1894, who is at home with her parents. REV. GEORGE DOUGLAS BLACK, D. D. The Rev. George Douglas Black, D. D., present acting president of Antioch College, was born in Knox county, Ohio, February 12, 1858, and was educated in the public schools of Mt. Vernon. Having decided to make the Christian ministry his calling, he studied literature and theology from (28)