GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 525 Hussey and his wife were Virginians who had established their home in Tennessee, where they resided for some years before coming up here into Ohio, where they acquired a large tract of land. The elder Christopher Hussey died in 1874. He was a soldier of the War of 1812. The junior Christopher Hussey, for many years known throughout the community as Squire Hussey, for he served for forty years as justice of the peace in and for his home township, was born on June 12, 1794, and died at his home in Jefferson township on March 8, 1874, and was buried in the Hussey graveyard. As noted above he was but a lad when he came up here from Tennessee with his parents and he and his brothers continued the work of developing the home tract in the immediate vicinity of where the village of Bowersville presently came to be established. The old log house, circular in form, built by the Husseys upon taking up their residence there, remained one of the familiar landmarks of that section for many years and served as a place of residence until in good time a brick house was built on the place. In the family of the pioneers, Christopher and Mary Hussey, there were seven children, who grew to maturity, hence the Hussey connection in the present, generation is one of the most numerous hereabout. The original homestead tract of the Husseys contained twenty-seven hundred acres of land. bought for one dollar an acre, and the junior Christopher Hussey, or Squire Hussey, as he was better known, in time came to be the owner of eleven hundred and twenty-five acres of his own. Reared a Whig, he became a Republican upon the formation of the latter party. He was a member of the Church of Christ. Following the death of his first wife, Squire Hussey married Catherine Lockhart, who was born in Silvercreek township, daughter of Samuel Lockhart, a Virginian and a soldier of the War of 1812, and to that union were born the following children : Henry M., who married Polly Ann Reeves and is now living in the vicinity of Bridgeport, Indiana; Narcissa, who married James Compton, and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased; Lydia Ann, now living at Ellsworth, Michigan, widow of Gilbert Bentley; Eveline, now living at Mt. Vernon, this state, widow of Joseph H. Huffaker ; James W., who has been twice married, his first wife having been Christina Walthall and his second, Narcissus Bass, and who is now a ranchman and a dealer in lumber and brick at Starr, Idaho; Albert M., who married. Rosa Green and who, as well as his wife, is now deceased; Flora B., wife of Mr. Burr ; Joseph, who married Anna Hall (deceased) and is now living in western Colorado, and Catherine, who is now living' in Paulding county, this state, widow of Frank Huston. The mother of these children survived her husband for many years, her death occurring on October 18, 1889, she then being eighty-two years of age. 526 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO CHARLES E. REAM, M. D. Dr. Charles E. Ream, who for nearly twenty-five years has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Bowersville, is a native "Buckeye" and has lived in this state all his life. He was born at Centerfield, in Highland county, September 22, 1866, son of John and Christiana (Collins) Ream, the latter of whom was born in that same county, November 10, 1830. John Ream was born in the neighboring county of Ross, March 9, 1824, a son of John Ream, who had come to Ohio from Reamtown, Pennsylvania, and had settled in Ross county. After his marriage the younger John Ream located at Centerfield, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, her death occurring on July 1, 1889, and his, April 21, 1901. They were the parents of five children, of whom Doctor Ream was the fourth in order of birth, the others being the following : William Layton, born on August 9, 1855, who died on June 21, 1857; Effie Alice, April' 21, 1859, who died on July 3, 1872; Addie, December 22, 1862, who is now living in Highland county, this state, wife of Clarence Baldwin, and Myrtle, June 11, 1870, who is unmarried and makes her home at Greenfield, Ohio. Reared at Centerfield, Charles E. Ream received his early schooling there and at Hillsboro, later took a course in the college at Lebanon and then entered the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute, from which institution he was graduated in 1894 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Ream came to Greene county and opened an office at Bowersville, where he has ever since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a member of the Greene County Medical Society, of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. The Doctor is a Mason, affiliated with the lodge of that order at Jamestown, and is also affiliated with the Royal Arcanum, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Modern Woodmen of America. His wife is a member of the Methodist Protestant church at Bowersville. The Doctor -owns town property and a farm of eighty acres a mile and a half southwest of Bowersville. On June 24, 1897, Dr. Charles E. Ream was united in marriage to Carrie E. Conklin, who was born in Caesarscreek township, this county, daughter of James Gilbert and Catherine (Hussey) Conklin, both of whom were born in the neighboring county of Clinton, the former at Lumberton and the latter in the Port William neighborhood. James Gilbert Conklin came to this county after his marriage to Catherine Hussey and located on a farm in Caesarscreek township, later moving to a farm a little more than a mile south of Bowersville. where he is still living. His first wife died in 1880 and he later married Alice E. Elliott. To the first union three GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 527 children were born, those besides Mrs. Ream being a son, now deceased, and May, now Mrs. H. C. Wilson, of Cleveland. To the second union were born four children, namely : Zora, wife of Clyde Sutton, of Dayton; Guy, who married Ruth Sheley and is farming in New Jasper township, and Dorothy and Robert, at home. Doctor and Mrs. Ream have two children, sons both, Charles Gilbert, born on March 14, 1900, who was graduated from the Bowersville high school with the class of 1918 and is now handling the local agency for an automobile concern, and Arthur Bailey, March 5, 1903. THEODORE PAULLIN. Theodore Paullin; a former grain dealer at Jamestown, now living retired in that village, was born on a farm in Ross township,, this county, November 27, 1864, son of Enos and Sarah (Round) Paullin, the latter of whom died when her son Theodore was but an infant. Enos Paullin also was born in this county, a son of David and Susan (Smith) Paullin, who were among the pioneers of Ross township, the former having been a resident of that township since the year 1813. Enos Paullin was twice married. By his union with Sarah Round he was the father of three children, Minnie O., wife of E. N. Shigley, who lives on the Cedarville pike about midway between Cedarville and Jamestown; Otis, who died in the days of his youth, and Theodore. After the death of the mother of these children Enos Paulin married Malinda Moorman, of Silvercreek township, and to that union were born three children, namely : C. Oscar, who is living at Washington, D. C. ; Matilda, who married George Little, of Xenia, and is now deceased, and Flora, who married F. M. Harper and continues to live on the old home farm in Ross township. Reared on the home farm in Ross township, Theodore Paullin received his early schooling in the schools of Jamestown and after completing the course in the high school there entered Ohio Wesleyan University. Upon leaving college he resumed his place on the farm and after his marriage in 1884 began farming on his own account, continuing thus engaged in Ross township for fourteen years, at the end of which time he became engaged in the grain business at Jamestown, moving to that village, and there continued thus engaged until 1903, when failing health compelled his retirement. During the period of his activity Mr. Paullin served as a public officer in several capacities, among the offices held by him having been that of township treasurer. He also was for several years a member of the school board. 528 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO On December 24, 1884, Theodore Paullin was united in marriage to Bessie Bozarth, who was born in McLean county, Illinois, daughter of Alfred and Harriet (Brooks) Bozarth, both now deceased. Alfred Bozarth died in 1872. He was the father of six children, of whom Mrs. Paullin and her sister, Mrs. Dora Rusmissell, are the only ones now living, the others having been Charles and William and twins, the latter of whom died in infancy. Alfred Bozarth's widow married J. D. Ritenour, of this county, but continued to make her home in Illinois. By her second marriage she 'was the mother of three children, Frank (deceased), Effie and Frederick (deceased). Mr. and Mrs. Paullin have two children, Fern and Carl, both of whom were born in Ross township. Fern Paullin married Charles Reeder, of South Charleston, in the neighboring county of Clark, and has three children, Brooks, Louise and Harriet. Carl Paullin 'completed his schooling at Cornell University, from which institution he was graduated. Following the government's declaration of war against Germany in the spring of 1917 he enlisted his services and was assigned to the officers' training camp at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, and in due time received a commission as lieutenant, afterward being stationed at Camp Dodge (Iowa), in preparation for service abroad. The Paullins are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. JOSEPH C. HUNTER. Joseph C. Hunter, proprietor of a farm of nearly two hundred acres in Bath township, this county, residing on rural mail route No 2 out of Yellow Springs, is a native of Tennessee, born in Williamson county, that state, October 10, 1860, son of Jerome Lilly, a Cherokee Indian, and Dorcas Hunter, a slave of Henry Hunter. The mother died in 1897 and the father is now living in Toronto, Canada. Reared on a farm in Tennessee,. Joseph Hunter was schooled in the district schools and upon reaching manhood's estate began farming. He married in 1883 and for twenty-one years thereafter continued farming in Tennessee, sixteen years of that period also being engaged in the threshing business during seasons. In 1904 he came to Ohio and settled in Greene county, the next year buying the farm on which he now lives, and on which he has since been engaged in general farming and stock raising. He is a Republican and he and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Yellow Springs. On December 27, 1883, at Union City, Tennessee, Joseph Hunter was united in marriage to Ellen Johnson, of that place, daughter of Lee Eddings and Sarah N. Johnson, both of whom are still living, and to this union have GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 529 been born ten children, namely : .Savannah, who married William Edwards, now farming in Miami township, this county; Robert, who is assisting his father in the management of the home farm and who married Winnie Pettiford ; Queen Esther, who married Clayton G. Mills, now living at Clifton; Herman, who was pursuing his studies with the design of entering the medical profession at Nashville, Tennessee, and is now connected with the medical corps of the United States army ; Clay Evans, who was graduated from Wilberforce University in 1917 and is now (1918) a second lieutenant in the National Army of the United States, stationed at Camp Funston ; Joseph, who is assisting on the farm ; Cecil, who is now a student in Wilberforce University ; Ruby, a student in the high school at Fairfield, and Lester and Waudell, also in school. Joseph Hunter has one hundred and ninety-seven and six-tenths acres in his farm, makes a specialty of raising Holstein cattle and has a fine herd of thirty head on his place. REV. THOMAS BEVERIDGE, D. D. The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian church in the United States was in session at the time of the death of Doctor Beveridge in the spring of 1873 and upon receipt of the news of his death adjourned as a mark of respect for his memory and later adopted resolutions expressive of the church's profound esteem for this venerable leader. Xenia Presbytery at its next meeting following the death of Doctor Beveridge also adopted resolutions, declaring "that in his lovely Christian character and life, as a man and minister of the gospel, he has left behind him a shining testimony to the beauty and excellence of that gospel which he so long professed and preached, and an example worthy of admiration and imitation by all." The Christian Instructor carried a biographical reference to Doctor Beveridge following his death, the general tone of which is indicated by the concluding paragraph : "Dr. Beveridge had lived long. Not one of the ministers that took part in his licensure or ordination, and not one of the signers of his call to the church in Xenia, are now living. All his associates in study are gone, and nearly all with whom he took part in his early ministry ; and no one has ever been more identified with almost all the great movements of the church in the last fifty years. Most emphatically is it the feeling of all who knew him, Dr. Beveridge was a good man, and most faithfully and usefully filled his day and place. All honor to his memory." In the same strain the Xenia Gazette said : "Dr. Beveridge died without an enemy. We hazard little in saying he never had an enemy. We cannot conceive that he could even give an offense or do a wrong to any one. He was pre- (33) 530 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO eminently a good man and went about doing good. Unassuming, unpretentious, none knew him but to respect and love him. As a minister, Dr. Beveridge had nothing of the sensational about him. He was not a pulpit orator of the modern style. He preached the gospel—the gospel only, simply and plainly, but with power. He fed his hearers with meat and not with milk. From a well-cultivated and richly stored mind and a heart overflowing with love to God and man, he brought forth things new and old, and gave each and all a portion in good season. In his death the church loses one of its brightest ornaments, and the community a most exemplary citizen." The Rev. Thomas Beveridge, D. D., whose ministerial labors at Xenia began in 1820 and who later became head of the old Associate Theological Seminary at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, returning to Xenia when that institution was removed from Canonsburg to Xenia in 1855, the rest of his li fe being spent here, was a son of one of the fathers of the church and from the days of his boyhood his life was devoted to the service of the church. He was born at Cambridge, New York, son of the Rev. Thomas Beveridge and Janet Fotheringham Beveridge, both of whom were born in Scotland, the former at Eastside, in the parish of Fossoway, Fifeshire, in 1749. The elder Thomas Beveridge was ordained by the Associate presbytery of Edinburgh, Scotland, September 23, 1783; arrived in America in the spring of 1784 ; went to Cambridge, New York, that fall; settled there on September 10, 1789, and died at Barnet, Vermont, July 23, 1798, in his forty-ninth year. Some years before his death Doctor Beveridge had written a quite comprehensive review of his life and after his death this autobiography was printed by his son, John A. Beveridge, for private circulation, and it is on those memoirs that the following narrative is based. "Both my parents were emigrants from Scotland," wrote Doctor Beveridge. "My mother cam over when about eleven years of age. She was from Fifeshire, and born about the year 1763. Her mother (Janet Laurie, daughter of John and Ann Gilmore Lourie) was one of the first Seceders from the Church of Scotland. She united, with them at the age of sixteen, in opposition to the views of the rest of the family, though after some time they all followed her example. She was first married to a Mr. [George] Beveridge, by whom she had several children. * * * After the death of her first husband, my grandmother was married to a Mr. George Fotheringame or Fotheringham (I find the name spelled both ways). My mother, Jennet Fotheringame, was the only issue of this second marriage. After the death of my grandmother's second husband, one of her sons, Andrew Beveridge, resolved to GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 531 emigrate to America, and as he had probably been a favorite son, his mother concluded to accompany him and took with her two daughters, Ann Beveridge, afterwards married to James Small, who was for many years an elder of the Associate congregation of Cambridge, and her youngest child, Jennet, my mother. * * * My grandmother, with her three children, made their way to New York state. Andrew finally settled in Hebron, where he became the father of eight sons and two daughters. [It may be noted by way of parenthesis that the late Gen. John Lourie Beveridge, former governor of Illinois, who died at his home in Hollywood, California, in 1910, was a grandson of this Andrew Beveridge.] Ann, as has been stated, married James Small, of Cambridge, and became the mother of two sons, Edward and George, and two daughters—the elder of them was married to William McGeoch, the younger to Robert Law. [By way of further parenthesis, it may be noted that the late Rev. Gilbert Small, who died at his home in Idaville, Indiana, in 1904, and who for eight years was a member of the hoard of managers of the Theological Seminary at Xenia, was a great-grandson of the James Small here referred to.] "* * * As I was not quite two years of age when my father died, I have no recollection of him, but hope that his prayers for me have not been altogether in vain. My mother inherited a small amount of .property from her father and after her marriage insisted on investing it in- a farm. * * * I was sent to school at an early age and learned the common branches of English education with, I suppose, tolerable readiness. From my earliest recollection of things my friends always spoke of me as one who must be a minister of the gospel. My father's library had always been kept in the hope that one of his sons might succeed him in his office, and my brothers having died in their youth, it seemed as if I must be the one. The first actual movement in this direction was made by my pastor, Doctor Bullions. Soon after his settlement in Cambridge, he took some notice of me at a public examination, and was urgent for my engaging in study with a view to the ministry. He persuaded me to recite to him in the Latin Grammar, but after making some progress in it I became discouraged, and signified to him that I would prefer to labor on the farm. One reason of my abandoning the Latin was that I did not comprehend or relish it. Another was the situation of the family ; my brothers being dead, there was no one but mysel f left to attend to the farm and the support of the family. Our farm was managed by hired hands, and I had seen enough of the management of most of them to know that it was an unprofitable business. My mother also was not in circumstances to meet the expenses of my education. About a year after this, Mr. (now Rev. Dr.) Andrew Heron came into the neigh- 532 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO borhood and engaged in teaching the common school at which I attended. As he was acquainted with the Latin and Greek languages, my friends again urged .me to engage in the study of the Latin. My uncle, Mr. James Small, who had always been a kind friend to the family, called one day and urged me to embrace the present opportunity of obtaining a classical education. I told him what he already knew very well, that my mother needed my services on the farm and could not at all meet the expenses of my education. When I add that his reply was the turning point in my life, it is not to be wondered at that I have a distinct recollection of it. 'Tammy,' said he, `if ye'll only go to the learning, ye shall ne'er want sae lang as I hae a cent.' Knowing him to be quite able to fulfill his promise, my hesitation was overcome, and I immediately commenced the Latin a second time, being, I suppose, about thirteen years of age. By the time the school closed I had attained a pretty thorough knowledge of the Latin, and made a commencement in the Greek. * * * After the closing of the school I spent a winter with Doctor Bunions, chiefly engaged in the study of Greek, and in company with him, my uncle, Mr. Small, and my room-mate, Mr. Peter Dunlap, I went to Union College, Schenectady. This was in September, 1811, when a little less than fifteen 'years of age. * * * It has since been a source of regret to me that I entered college so young. * * * Still, when graduated, August, 1814, in a class of more than forty, and many of them fully-grown young men, my standing was next to the twelfth in the list of honors." Doctor Beveridge's autobiography then recounts how upon leaving college he was admitted by Cambridge Presbytery to the study of theology Sand how during the succeeding winter he taught in the Cambridge Academy in order to obtain means to prosecute those studies. "The school was small," he writes, "the labor excessive, and the remuneration inconsiderable. * * During the succeeding summer my studies were prosecuted under the Presbytery of Cambridge, and in the autumn of that year I set out for the Theological Hall at Service, Beaver county, Pennsylvania." Doctor Beveridge's description of that journey, which required twenty-four days of arduous travel, is a most interesting recountal of the difficulties of travel in those days. Upon his arrival at Service he took board with Dr. John Anderson, the sole professor of - the institution. At the close 'of the session, in March, 1816. he found an opening for teaching a school in a neighboring congregation and thus occupied his summer. "The next summer," he 'writes, "I was induced by the promise of much better wages to undertake the teaching of a classical school at New Athens, Ohio but both the school and the compensation proved to he quite small. I was again induced by the hope of a large increase GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 533 of both to remain during the winter and the succeeding summer, but still very little of this hope was realized. This school formed the commencement of what became Franklin College. * * * In the spring of 1819 the Associate Synod appointed me to be taken on trial for license by the Presbytery of Chartiers. * * * My first trial discourses were delivered in the church of Mt. Pleasant. * * * My remaining trials were given at a subsequent meeting of the Presbytery, in Chartiers, August 18, 1819, at which time I was licensed. My first appointments were in the Presbytery of Chartiers, which at that time included not only the congregations in Washington county, but in Pittsburgh and beyond it in the East to the Alleghany mountains. It reached over into Ohio as far as Wooster and was without limit in that direction." Following his licensure the young minister started out on his long circuit, traveling horseback, and his description of his travels and of his experiences while preaching to the widely separated congregations of Seceders included in the circuit which embraced western Pennsylvania, eastern and southern Ohio, Kentucky and southern Indiana, provide a most interesting narrative regarding certain phases of pioneer living at that time, but must be passed as lacking local application, the personal narrative being taken up again following the writer's recountal of his experiences at "a place near Columbus, called Truro, now Reynoldsburg, where I spent two Sabbaths. The people were, with hardly an exception, emigrants from my father's congregation in Cambridge. From this place I proceeded to Xenia, where I preached on the first Sabbath of November. Here I remained, for the first time, about four weeks in the same congregation, i. e., in the Xenia and Sugar Creek, at that time a united charge. * * * From Kentucky I returned to Xenia and spent there the third and fourth Sabbaths of January." The young minister then started East, preaching on his way, and late in the spring reached his home in Cambridge quite ill after an absence of four years, and the succeeding summer, following his recuperation, was spent by him in filling vacancies iri his home state. "Whether any of these vacancies would have given me a call," Doctor Beveridge's autobiography continues, "I cannot tell, for I still told any person who spoke to me on the subject that my mind was made up, and that I wished them to receive me the same as if I were a settled minister. * * * It is true the congregation of Xenia and Sugar Creek had not given me a call at the time I left them, but they had petitioned for the moderation of a call and had no other candidate before them, and I had concluded, unless something not forseen or anticipated should occur, that this. was to be the field of my ministerial labor. This region of country had many attractions ; 534 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO the people were intelligent, pious, kind and every way agreeable. However, after my settlement, my experience here was like that of my journey home—my anticipations of comfort in such a pastoral charge were too high and had too much influence on my mind. * * * The years of my pastoral labors here were attended with more discomfort than any other years of my life. "The call to the congregation of Xenia and Sugar Creek was made out February 28, 1820, and forwarded to the meeting of the Associate Synod at Huntingdon the following May, but not being present at the meeting I had not an opportunity of accepting it till August 2nd. * * * As the members of the Kentucky Presbytery, as it was then called, were so distant from each other that meetings were almost impracticable, it had been arranged that I should undergo trials, for ordination in the Presbytery of Cambridge. The Presbytery of Kentucky consisted of only three ministerial members, Messrs. Armstrong, Hume and Kennedy, yet extended over the southern part of Ohio and all the states of Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. I accordingly remained at home and gave my trials for ordination during August and on September 4, 1820, set out to take charge of my congregation, * * * which I reached October 5, thirty-one days after leaving home. The first, or nearly 'the first, letter received from home contained an account of the death of my mother, which took place November 8, 1820. Her last message to me was, 'Tell him I am entering into the joy of my Lord.' "The state of things when I arrived at Xenia was very uncomfortable. There had been strange doings about the house of the Rev. Robert Armstrong, who was the pastor of Massies Creek, a short distance from Xenia. Stones were thrown upon the house, threatening letters dropped near it, and some outbuildings set on fire. Many began to blame the family as engaged in this mischief for the purpose of frightening Mr. A. and inducing him to remove from the farm to Xenia. Mr. A., as was very natural, regarded these insinuations as slanderous._ The excitement at last became so great that he had desisted from the exercise of his ministry in the congregation. This was only one or two Sabbaths before my arrival. The excitement also extended to my pastoral charge and made my entrance among them unpleasant. Perhaps I had not patience enough to bear with the clamors against the family, and especially Mr. Armstrong, against whom nothing could be alleged but his discrediting what was charged against his wife and children. I reached Xenia in October, but was not ordained till the following January. Mr., Hume came all the way from Nashville, and I was ordained by him and Mr. Armstrong Jan. 9th, 1821, Mr. Hume preaching and 'Mr. _Armstrong giving the charge to me and the congregation. I believe it was the GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 535 last time they met together, and the last time either of them sat in the presbytery. Mr. Hume soon afterward united with the Presbyterian church and Mr. Armstrong died the next fail. At the time of my settlement the two branches of the charge numbered 138 communicants. During my ministry 60 were received by examination, 31 by certificate, 17 removed, 16 died, 10 adults were baptized. I kept no record of the baptism of infants. In the spring of 1822 I attended the meeting of the Associate Synod at Philadelphia and was appointed, together with Mr. Hanna, to go as a missionary to Upper Canada. I accepted this appointment the more willingly in the hope that it might benefit my health. In this, however, I was disappointed. * * * My health still declining, by the advice of some members of the congregation, I resorted once more to a journey, with a view to its recovery. In the fall of the next year (1823) I set out on horseback for Blount county, in eastern Tennessee. * * * After spending two months with this people I returned to my charge, but not with any sensible improvement in health. * * * I preached a few Sabbaths after returning from Tennessee, but soon felt compelled to desist, and, having become altogether discouraged in respect to the recovery of my health, concluded to resign my charge and return to my sisters to end my days with them. Having called a meeting of the congregation and preached to them a sermon on Phil. I :27, I gave them notice of my intention and a few days afterwards set out for what I still called my home. This was in the month of February, 1824. * * *" The young minister found benefit in the return to the home farm and there being vacancies in the Cambridge Presbytery there were still, as his autobiography states, "opportunities for exercising my ministry without being confined to the labors of a pastoral charge." Two or three years later he accepted a call to the Associate church at Philadelphia and for nearly ten years continued as pastor of that church, being thus engaged when in October, 1835, Synod elected him professor of the Theological Seminary at Canonsburg, and in the following November he and his family took up their residence at Canonsburg, there remaining until the Associate Synod removed the seminary to Xenia in 1855, when Doctor Beveridge found himself thus restored to the scene of his first pastorate, and here he spent the rest of his life. His autobiography, written in i866, concludes as follows : "Here I have had no pastoral charge, but have preached most of the time in vacancies until within about a year past. There has been of late little or no call to supply in vacancies, and the infirmities of age admonished me that my time for active service in the church is nearly ended. I have done but little, yet not without the hope that this little has been accepted of the Master, and not wholly without fruit in his Vineyard." 536 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO DANIEL H. HARTMAN. Daniel H. Hartman, of Beavercreek township, is a native of the Keystone state, but has been a resident of Ohio and of Greene county since he was eighteen years of age. He was born on a farm in York county, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1859, son of Jacob and Mary Ann (Walker) Hartman, both of whom were born in that same county and there spent all their lives. Jacob Hartman was a farmer, a Republican and he and his family were members of the Church of God. In his younger days he made a trip over into Ohio on a visit to kinsfolk in the vicinity of Wooster, in Wayne county, walking there and back. After his marriage he bought the old Hartman home place in York county and there lived until 1863, when he. sold that farm and bought another, five miles south, and on this latter place spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in April, 1883, he then being sixty-four years of age. After his death his widow and her only daughter and a son, Jerry Jacob, moved to Harrisburg, the state capital, and in that city the widow spent her last days, her death occurring in 1892, she then being sixty-three years of age. Jacob Hartman and wife were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth, the others being the following : William, deceased; Lydia A., who married James Nesbit and died at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ; Samuel W., a farmer, now living at Alpha, this county, and Capt. Jerry Jacob Hartman, a master painter, living at Harrisburg. Daniel H. Hartman was reared on the home farm in York county, Pennsylvania, received his schooling in the neighborhood schools, and remained at home until he was eighteen years of age, when he came to Greene county to join his brother Samuel, who some time previously. had come out here and was working for Horace Ankeny in Beavercreek township. His brother secured for him a place on 'the farm of Capt. William H. Glatfelter and on that place he worked for eleven months, at the end of which time he was given a place on the Ankeny farm, where he remained for two years and ten months. He then married and began farming on his own account, renting the Cline farm south of Alpha. Three years later he moved from there to the Harbine farm and thence, some time later, to the Puterbaugh farm, where he remained until he bought the farm of forty-two and one-half acres on which he now lives, rural mail route- No. 2 out of Spring Valley. Since taking possession of that farm Mr. Hartman has made numerous improvements on the same. He is a Republican with a very friendly feeling for the Prohibition movement and for six years has served as school director in his home district. On December 22, 1881, Daniel H. Hartman was united in marriage to GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 537 Lucinda Jane Ward, who was born on a farm twelve miles from Wooster in Wayne county, this state, daughter of John and Caroline Ward, and to this union have been born three children, Ward, Charles and Mary, the latter of -whom is at home with her parents. Charles Hartman is farming in Beavercreek township and his older brother, the Rev. Ward Hartman, is now in China where for seven years he has been rendering service as an evangelist in behalf of the mission field of the Reformed church, his station being at Shuchow, Hunan. The Rev. Ward Hartman was educated at Heidelberg College at Tiffin and in the Central Theological Seminary at Dayton and early devoted himself to labor in the mission field. The Hartmans are members of the Mt. Zion Reformed church and for the past twelve years Mr. Hartman has been an elder in the same. JAMES R. FUDGE. From "Pencilings From the Senate" (Ohio), published in 1852, the following is taken : "John Fudge represents the counties of Fayette, Clinton and Greene in the Senate of Ohio. He is a Whig, and physically the largest, man in the Senate, weighing 250 pounds. He is a hale man, looking young, and not yet gray, although 55 years old. He has filled a seat in the Legislature several times, and as a Senator is something of a model." The Hon. John Fudge, thus mentioned, was the great-grandfather of the gentleman whose name forms the caption of this biographical sketch. He was a Virginian, born in Botetourt county, in the Old Dominion, April 13, 1796, and was one of the early settlers in this section of Ohio, locating at a point on Caesars creek six miles southeast of Xenia, in this county, where he purchased a considerable tract of land and where he erected a tannery, carrying on the operations of the latter industry in addition to farming. For many years he served as justice of the peace in and for his home township, was a member of the board of county commissioners for years and in 1852 was appointed by Governor Bebb an associate judge for this judicial district. As noted in the above "Pencilings From the Senate," he served several terms in the Ohio General. Assembly, both in the House and in the Senate. He served as administrator for something like three hundred estates and was for many years an office bearer in the Methodist church. Judge Fudge died suddenly, death coming from a paralytic stroke on September 15, 1868. He had been three times married. His first wife was Catherine Sellers, of the neighboring county of Warren, who bore hind five children. His second wife was Temperance Spahr, who died two years after her marriage, leaving one child, a son, Morgan Fudge, who became 538 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO editor of the Bellbrook Moon. On February 25, 1846, Judge Fudge married Susan Barnett. This last marriage was without issue. One of the children born to judge John and Catherine (Sellers) Fudge was Joseph H. Fudge, who was born on February 15, 1824, in this county, and who married Cinderella Sutton, who also was born in this county, August 17, 1826, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Sutton. Joseph H. Fudge spent his life in agricultural pursuits in New Jasper township, dying at his home there on April 26, 1888. His widow survived him for nearly three years, her death occurring on February 16, 1891. Of the children born to their union, John W. Fudge was born on the old paternal farm on March 23, 1846, and there grew to manhood, and continued actively engaged in agricultural pursuits until his retirement and removal to Xenia, where he is now living. John W. Fudge is a Republican and in 1895 was elected a member of the board of county commissioners. He was re-elected and became president of the board which erected the new court house at Xenia, tearing down the old edifice which his grandfather, Judge Fudge, had aided in building while on the board of commissioners more than a half century before. The new structure was erected at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars and Mr. Fudge made several trips to New York City and other places in search of information that would prove beneficial in the erection of the new temple of justice. Mr. Fudge also served as trustee of New Jasper township for fourteen years, in 1890 was elected real-estate appraiser and in 1895 was elected infirmary director, an office in which he served for three years. On June 26, 1866, in New jasper township, John W. Fudge was united in marriage to. Amanda J. Smith, who also was born in that township, daughter of Nelson Smith and wife, and to that union were born five children, four of whom are still living, namely : William, a farmer, of New Jasper township; James R., the subject of this biographical sketch ; Charles N., who is operating the old home place one mile south of Jasper, and Ray S., who is also living on a farm in New Jasper township. The mother of these children died on October 31, 1915. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is her husband, and their sons were reared in that faith. James R. Fudge was born on the old home place in New Jasper township on December 10, 1869. He supplemented the schooling he received in the local schools by a course at Valparaiso University in Indiana, and at the age of nineteen years began teaching school, in the meanwhile giving his attention to the farm during the summers. For eleven years Mr. Fudge continued teaching school, during all but one year of this period being thus' engaged in his home township. In 1892 he married and established his home on the farm, where he continued to make his residence until 1907, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 539 in which year he bought the William Anderson farm of one hundred and six acres on the Jamestown pike, in his home township, and there has since made his home. Mr. Fudge is a member of the Grange. Politically, he is a Republican and for ten years served as a member of the New Jasper township board of education. On May 25, 1892, James R. Fudge was united in marriage to Mary L. Brown,, who also was born in New Jasper township, daughter of Cyrus and Mary E. (Smith) Brown, both of whom are still living on their farm in that township, and to this union has been 'born one child, a daughter, Miriam, who was born on July 3, 1896, and who on August 1, 1917, married Paul Turnbull, who had been a teacher in the schools at St. Marys, West Virginia, and who is now serving in the National Army, first sergeant of Company F, Three Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in camp at Camp Sherman. Mr. and Mrs. Fudge are members of the New Jasper Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mr. Fudge is one of the stewards. He also has served as assistant superintendent of the Sunday school and is now serving as recording steward for the New Jasper circuit of the local conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, following in that office his father, who served in that capacity for more than thirty years. EDWIN KNEISLY. Edwin Kneisly, blacksmith at Fairfield, is a native of this county, born on a farm in Bath township, June 20, 1859, the eldest in a family of six children born to Daniel and Eliza (Dice) Kneisly, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania. Daniel Kneisly was born on September 26, 1823, and came as a boy from Pennsylvania to Greene county. After leaving school he engaged in farming, which occupation he followed for some years, after which he went into the milling business at Huffersville, this county, where he continued in this business for four years. He then resumed farthing, in which occupation he continued until 1911, when he moved to Hampton, but later he again removed to the farm, where his death occurred in 1916. In the latter '50s he married Eliza Dice, who was also a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1835, who came with her parents to Greene county in an early day. Her death occurred on December 23, 1907. Both had been previously married. To their union there were born six children, those besides the subject of this sketch being Aaron S., a farmer living near Dowden, in Clark county, this state ; John F., a molder living in Springfield, Ohio ; Mrs. Jennie Trout, 540 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO a widow living at Enon, Clark county; Mrs. Lulu B. Smith, a resident of Dayton, and Clyde, who died in infancy. Edwin Kneisly received his education in the public schools of his home township, assisting his father with the work on the farm, and after leaving school, decided to take up the trade of a blacksmith, which occupation he has followed the greater part of his life. He lived eight years at Sulphur Grove, in Montgomery county, and also for some time in Springfield, in both of which places he carried on his business of blacksmithing. While living in Clark county, he owned and operated a farm for about four years, and moved from there to Fairfield about three years ago, since which time he has continued at his trade. On September 14, 1882, Mr. Kneisly was married to Mary A. Shrodes, who is a native of this county, born on a farm south of Fairfield. To this union four children have been born. Floyd D., Ralph, Wayne W., still living at home with his parents, and Ethel, who died in childhood. Mr. Kneisly and his family are members of the Reformed church and Mr. Kneisly served as elder in the local congregation for some years. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. EDWARD WILLIAM HAYSLETT. The late Edward William Hayslett, a veteran of the Civil War, who for years was engaged in wagon-making at Clifton and who died at his home in that village on January 17, 1916, was a native of the Old Dominion, but had been. a resident of this county practically all the time since the days of his young manhood. He was born in Rockhridge county, Virginia, April 12, 1827, and there resided until he was past twenty-one years of age, when, in 1848 or 1849, he came to Ohio and became engaged in farming in the vicinity of Jamestown, in this county. He was married in 1850 and not long afterward went to Springfield and there became engaged in wagon-making. When the Civil War broke out his patriotic impulses were stirred and on December 25, 1861, he enlisted, at Xenia, for service in behalf of the Union and while thus serving was so seriously disabled that on June Jo, 1862, he received his honorable discharge. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Hayslett resumed his trade, setting up an establishment at Clifton, but presently disposed of his interest there and moved to Illinois, where he remained but a short time, however. After coming back to Greene county he made one more trip to Illinois and remained there until 1877, when he again located at Clifton, resuming there his wagon-making indus- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 541 try and there spent the rest of his life, dying there in his eighty-ninth year. Mr. Hayslett was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and by political persuasion was a Republican. Mr. Hayslett was twice married. In 1850, not long after coming to this county, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Morris, of the Clifton neighborhood, who died in 1867. To that union were born six children, two of whom died in early youth, the others being Margaret, who died in the '90s; William A. and Henry H., now residents of Germantown, this state, and Madison, deceased. On April 17, 1877, Mr. Hayslett married Mrs. Cynthia A. (House) Wagner, widow of George Wagner, her first marriage having been solemnized in April; 1864, and to this second union four children were born, namely : Francis Marion, who has been twice married, after the death of his first wife, Millie Rankin, having married Mamie Baldman; Robert Elder, now living at Dayton, who married Lucy House and has three children, Clarence Leroy, Ruth Merle and Ethel May ; Ole Bull, who married Myrtle Bolman and is engaged in farming in this county, and Jennie Lind, who married John Franklin Cultice, of Clifton, and has four children, Dulcie, Dorothy, Gertrude and Leonard. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Hayslett has continued to make her home in Clifton. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. JOSEPH T. HUTCHISON. Joseph T. Hutchison, proprietor of a Beavercreek township farm on rural mail route No. 3 out of Xenia, is a native son of Greene county, and has lived here all his life, occupant of the farm on which he now lives since 1896. He was born on a farm in Xenia township on May 20, 1871, son of Joseph Andrew and Isabella (Harner) Hutchison, both of whom also were born in this county and the latter of whom is still living, now a resident of the city of Xenia. Joseph Andrew Hutchison, who was a veteran of the Civil War, was born on a farm in Miami township, not far from the border of Xenia township, March 12, 1837, son of Joseph B. and Ann (Tenbroek) Hutchison, who had come to this county from Chester county, Pennsylvania, where both were born, and whose last days were spent here. Joseph B. Hutchison was born in 1802 and grew up in Chester county, Pennsylvania, remaining there until after his marriage, when, in 1826, he came to Greene county, he and his wife driving through in a small covered wagon with their belongings, and settled on a plot of ground now owned by Frank Corry on the Clifton pike in Miami township. He was a blacksmith by trade and for a 542 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO while after coming here followed that trade, but presently bought a farm on the Clifton pike in Xenia township, where he remained until his retirement, when he moved to Yellow Springs, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on October 9, 1877: He and his wife were the parents of thirteen children, of whom eleven grew to maturity, namely : Eleanor, who became the wife of J. G. G. Adams, of Miami township; John K., who married Catherine Townsley and moved to Garnet, Kansas ; Nancy T., who married Isaac Shearer and moved to Indiana; Elizabeth M., who married Frederick Shoemaker, of Goes Station; Sarah Ann, who died unmarried in 1897; Joseph A., father. of the subject of this sketch; Margaret, who married James M. Stevenson and moved to Kansas; Mary Jane, who married Frank Crapp and moved to Indiana; Matthew, who married Ella Gossett and is now living at Xenia; William H., who married Jennie Bull and established his home in Xenia township, and James Elder, who married Hester P. Baker and established his home at Yellow Springs, where his last days were spent. Reared on the home farm, Joseph Andrew Hutchison remained there until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he entered the service of the Union and for three years and nine months served as a soldier, being mustered out as a member of Company L, Third New York Cavalry. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Hutchison returned home and after his marriage went to Sedalia, Missouri, where he remained for three years, at the end of which time he returned to Greene county and bought a farm of one hundred and twelve acres across the pike from his father's place in Xenia township, where he remained until 1880, in which year he sold that farm and bought a farm of one hundred and eighty- eight acres in Beavercreek township, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on July 9, 1901. His widow is now living at Xenia. She was born in Xenia township, this county, May 16, 1848, daughter of Charles and Mary (Morgan) Harner, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Hutchison is a member of the Presbyterian church, as was her husband, he having been an elder in the church. By political persuasion he was a Republican, but was not an office seeker. To Joseph Andrew and Isabella (Harner) Hutchison were born seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being the following : Charles H., born on December 29, 1868, who married Alice Dilts and lives on a farm in the vicinity of Logansport, Indiana ; Frank R., who married Margaret Phillips and is engaged in the hardware business at Xenia; Leigh A., born on February 1877, who married Jennie Moore and is living on a farm on the Bellbrook pike in Spring Valley township; Ralph W., September 23, 1880, who married Anna Fierstein and lives in 543 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Xenia township; Carrie, March 4, 1884, who is now (1918) attending the College of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Missouri, and Dr. Elder Hutchison, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, who married Ann Kincade and who upon the declaration of war against Germany in 1917 volunteered his services in the National Army and was stationed at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, preparatory to service abroad. Joseph T. Hutchison grew up on the home farm and supplemented his schooling in the local schools by taking a commercial course in Antioch College. After leaving college he rented a farm and began farming on his own account. Three years later he married and a year afterward bought the old Smith place of ninety-five acres in Beavercreek township, and has ever since made his home there. Since taking possession of that place Mr. Hutchison has erected a new set of buildings, his residence having been built in 1914. On April 25, .1895, Joseph T. Hutchison was united in marriage to Carrie Andrew, who was born in Beavercreek township and who is the adopted daughter of Samuel G. and Keziah Andrew, who reared her from childhood, and to this union have been born three children, Samuel Andrew, born on August 20, 1899 ; Lois Belle, May 31,' 1901, and Joseph Ersle, May 21, 1903, all of whom are now students in the Xenia high school. The Hutchisons are members of the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia. Mr. Hutchison is a Republican. WILLIAM L. CARLISLE. William L. Carlisle, who has lived in his present home near Byron for a period of thirty-six years, was born in Clark .county, Ohio, on May 9, 1850, the son of Jehu and Hester (Batchelor) Carlisle. Jehu Carlisle was a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, born November 16, 1816. As a young man he made the journey from Virginia to Ohio with a five-horse team, spending five; weeks on the way. He spent the remainder of his life in Ohio. following the occupation of a farmer, and died at the home of his son on March b, 1896, at the advanced age of eighty years. In 1837 Jehu Carlisle was united in marriage to Hester Batchelor, who was a native of this county, born March 26, 1817, on the site of the old Yellow Springs hotel, and was one of nineteen children born to her parents. Her. father, Robert Batchelor, was born in 1750, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, being twice wounded in that struggle. Jehu Carlisle and wife were the parents of nine children, Robert B., George A., John A., James B., Julia A., Margaret S., Howard, William and Jessie D. The mother of these children died on April 26, 1908. 544 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO William L. Carlisle received his early education in the common schools of his home township in Greene county and after leaving school took up farming, which occupation he has followed continuously since, having lived On the Baker farm in Bath township, near Byron, for many years. For twenty-five years he has been government crop reporter for his district. He has also served his township as supervisor. On February 16, 1897, William L. Carlisle was married to Esther Dilly, a native of Montgomery county, Ohio, the daughter of John and Jane (Hart) Dilly, both of whom are now deceased. To this union have been born two children, Paul, born on December 11, 1897, who is assisting his father on the farm, and Ada Frances, born February 23, 1905, who is in school. THOMAS C. BERRYHILL. Thomas C. Berryhill, former trustee of Sugarcreek township and proprietor of a farm of one hundred and sixty acres south of Bellbrook, is a native "Buckeye" and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Greene county since he was nine years of age and of the farm on which he is now living since he was fifteen. He was born in Preble county, October 25, 1845, son of the Rev. Franklin and Nancy (Sloan) Berryhill, whose last days were spent in this county, of which the former had become a resident in 1815. The Rev. Franklin Berryhill, a minister of the Presbyterian (old school) church, was born in Augusta county, Virginia, March 1, 1811, a son of Alexander and Rachel (Thompson) Berryhill, the latter of whom was a niece of Charles Thompson, of Revolutionary fame, secretary to the first Continental Congress. Alexander Berryhill was born in Virginia and at the age of nineteen years volunteered his services in behalf of the patriot army during the Revolutionary War and was attached to the command of General Greene. At the battle of Guilford Court House he was captured by the enemy and was held prisoner for two years, or until his exchange. During that battle he was severely wounded by a sword blow on the head and the scar of that wound he carried to his grave. At the close of his military service he returned to farming pursuits and after his marriage to Rachel Thompson settled on a farm in Augusta county, in the Old Dominion, and there remained until 1815, when he came with his family to Ohio and settled on a tract of land south of Bellbrook in this county, where he died in 1823 and was buried in the Pioneer graveyard at Bellbrook. He and his wife were the parents of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters. Franklin Berryhill was the youngest of these eight sons. The others were as follow : James, who GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 545 married Esther, a daughter of William Turner and established his home in Sugarcreek township; William T., who also made his home in Sugarcreek township, where he died on April 27, 1874, at the age of eighty-four years, and was buried in the Bellbrook cemetery ; John, who served as a soldier of the War of 1812, married Rachel James and located in Sugarcreek township; Alexander, Jr., who moved to Miami county, this state; Samuel, who died in 1840 and was buried at Bellbrook ; Archibald, who died on July 7, 1877, aged seventy-five, and was buried at Bellbrook, and Matthew, who died on September 25, 1898, he then being ninety-two years of age, and was buried in the Bellbrook cemetery. Having been but a child when his parents came to this county from Virginia, Franklin Berryhill was reared on the pioneer farm in Sugarcreek township. From the days of his boyhood he evinced unusual aptitude in his studies and in due time was matriculated at Hanover College, in Indiana, from which institution he was graduated in 1837. He completed his theological studies under the preceptorship of Doctor Matthews, who was his tutor for three years, and was then ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church and for ten or twelve years thereafter was actively engaged in this high calling. His health then began to fail and, securing honorable retirement from the ministry, he returned to his old home in the vicinity of Bellbrook and sought recuperation on the farm; continuing, however, his ministerial labors as local occasion required and ever maintaining his active interest in church and Sunday school work. His father had settled on and led in the development of a tract of about seven hundred acres in Sugarcreek township and in the ultimate division of that tract the Rev. Franklin Berryhill shared to the extent of a good farm and his needs were amply provided for, he coming to be the owner of three hundred and seven acres of choice land. He died on that farm. On January 21, 1841, the Rev. Franklin Berryhill was united in marriage to Nancy Sloan, who was born in Pennsylvania and who also was a member of one of Greene county's pioneer families, and to that union were born five children, namely : Theodore B., now deceased ; Thomas C., the immediate subject of this biographical sketch; Caroline, who died at the age of thirteen years; Elmira, wife of William Rupert, of Westville, this state, and Mrs. Finette Fox, of Dayton. The mother of these children died on July 13, 1864, and in 1865 the Rev. Franklin Berryhill married' Julia A. Cooper, of Bellbrook, which second union was without issue. Thomas C. Berryhill was about nine years of age when his parents returned to Greene county in 1854 and was about fifteen when they located on the place on which he is now living in 1860. He completed his schooling in the local schools and after his marriage in the fall of 1887 established his (34) 546 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO home on the home place, one hundred and sixty acres of which he now owns, and has ever since made that his place of residence. In addition to his general farming he has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock. Mr. Berryhill is a Republican and served for two terms as trustee of his home township. He was for some time a member of the Grange. His youngest son, Robert, is a member of the local lodge of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. On November 3, 1887, Thomas C. Berryhill was united in marriage to Luella E. Miller, who was born in Montgomery county, daughter of Aaron and Emma (Karr) Miller, of that county, and who died on February 29, 1912, leaving four children, Emily, Esther, John and Robert, all of whom are at home with their father save John, who is now (1918) a soldier of the National Army, stationed at Camp Sherman. Mr. Berryhill and his family are connected 'with the Presbyterian church. CHARLES WALKER DEAN. Elsewhere in this volume there is set out at considerable length a history of the Dean family in Greene county. Charles Walker Dean, a building contractor at Cedarville, was born in the northwestern corner of New Jasper township, this county, September 5, 1861, son of John Campbell and Emily Louisa (Hagler) Dean, the latter of whom was born in that same township on December 31, 1838, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Fudge) Hagler, the former of whom was a son of Leonard and Mary Susan (Peterson) Hagler, both of whom were born in Hardy county, Virginia. The Haglers are of Swiss descent. In 1817 Leonard Hagler and family came to Greene county and settled on a farm of near five hundred acres at the forks of Caesars creek. Leonard Hagler was an old-fashioned Methodist. He and his wife were the parents of eight children, of whom Samuel was the, eldest. The latter carried on farming operations until his death. His wife was a daughter of Christian and Elizabeth (Nicholas) Fudge, who had come to this part of Ohio from Botetourt county, Virginia, about the time the Haglers had settled here. John Campbell Dean was born in that part of Greene county that later became organized as New Jasper township, December 28, 1830, a son of Daniel and Jane (Campbell) Dean, of whom more is noted elsewhere, and was the first-born of that parentage, he having had a brother David, who lived in Xenia; another brother, Levi, who continued farming, and a sister who died in youth. As the eldest son, John C. Dean became the mainstay of his widowed mother after the death of his father and for some time continued to operate the home farm. He presently bought a farm of. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 547 eighty-three acres on the Stringtown road and after his marriage on February 13, 1855, to Emily Louisa Hagler, who was then but sixteen years of age, established his home in a two-room log house on that place. On that farm he and his wife spent the rest of their lives, his death occurring on April 1, 1891, and hers, September 5, 1903. He, was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the First United Presbyterian church at Xenia. They were the parents of ten children, of whom Charles W. was the fifth in order of birth, the others being Samuel Edgar, born on April 14, 1856, who is now living at Enon; Anna Jane, July 10, 1857, wife of A. C. Grieve, a New Jasper township farmer; Emily Luella, October 20, 1858, who died on April 9, 1882; Moses Allen, January 26, 1860, now a resident of Xenia; David Oscar, February 14, 1863, who also lives in Xenia; Laura Etta, December 24, 1864, who died on October 4, 1865; John, August 13, 1866, a resident of Xenia; Ida May, March 8, 1874, who also lives in Xenia, and James Ralph, August 21, 1877, a Xenia township farmer. Charles Walker Dean received his schooling in the Hazlip school and remained on the farm until he was twenty years of age, when he became employed with the contracting firm of A. G. Elerick & Sons at Cedarville and for three years was thus employed. He then became employed with the Tarbox Lumber Company at Cedarville and in 1894 became a partner of W. J. Tarbox in the operation of a lumber yard there, continuing thus engaged for a couple of years, at the end of which time he sold his interest in the concern and entered the general building contracting business on his own account, a business in which he ever since has been engaged, during this time having erected numerous dwelling houses in the Cedarville neighborhood besides more than fifty barns. Mr. Dean is a Republican and has served, at various terms, fifteen years as a member of the Cedarville common council. He and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian church. Mr. Dean has been twice married. In May, 1887, he was united in marriage to Lydia Barber, daughter of David and Mary (Jackson) Barber, and to that union two daughters were born, Bertha May, now a bookkeeper in the Cedarville Exchange Bank, and Mary Louisa, wife of Milton Antrim, of Dayton, a bookkeeper in the Wright aeroplane factory. The mother of these daughters died on August 12, 1891, and on January 20, 1898, Mr. Dean married Clara Ellis. who also was born in this county, and to this union two children have been born, Charles Frederick, who was born on October 16, 1898, and Hester Frances, February 8, 1904. Mrs. Dean was born in the vicinity of Clifton, daughter of Aaron and Mary (Mendenhall) Ellis, the latter of whom died in February, 1913, and the former of whom is now making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Dean. Aaron Ellis was born 548 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO in this county and has resided here all his life. His wife was born in Maryland and was but a child when she came with her parents, Samuel and Mary (Whittington) Mendenhall, to this county. Samuel Mendenhall was a miller, whose last days were spent at Springfield. To Aaron Ellis and wife four children were born, Mrs. Dean having a brother, James S., living at Oakdale, and two sisters, Ida, wife of Frank Goe, of West Liberty, and Lucy, wife of Joseph P. Berg, of Round Mountain, Nevada, whose son, Chester Berg, a United States soldier, was one of the susvivors of the transport "Tuscania," which was torpedoed by a German submarine early in 1918. JOHN M. DIFFENDAL. John Diffendal, the proprietor of a farm about a mile and a half south of the Clark county line, in Ross township, is a native of the state of Maryland, but has been a resident of Ohio since he was seventeen years of age and of Greene county since 1884. He was born on June Do, 1857, son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Eyler) Diffendal, who 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 : Charles, a retired farmer, now living at South Charleston,' in the neighboring county of Clark ; Elizabeth, who died when eighteen years of age ; Martin, who established his home on an Indiana farm and there died in 1917; Margaret, who died in the days of her girlhood; Amanda C., who died in 1914; Samuel, a farmer of Ross township, this county; Lewis, a resident of South Charleston, and an infant who died in 1863, the mother dying at the same time. John Diffendal was about six years of age when his mother died. He received his schooling in his native state, and remained on the home farm there until he was seventeen years of age, when he came to Ohio, South Charleston being his objective point, and in the neighborhood of that place and over in Madison county he was engaged at farm labor until his marriage in 1881, after which he began farming on his own account. In 1884 he moved into Greene county and rented a farm in Ross township, continuing farming as a renter until he bought the farm on which he is now living in 1904. This is a farm of two hundred and seventy-seven acres situated on rural mail route No. 2 out of South Charleston and since taking possession of the same Mr. Diffendal has made numerous improvements on the same. In addition to his general farming, he has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock. Mr. Diffendal is a Democrat with "independent" leanings and for some years has been a member of the school GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 549 board in his home township. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons at Jamestown. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. On December 17, 1881, John Diffendal was united in marriage to Elizabeth J. Minnix, of Fayette county, this state, and to this union six children have been born, namely : Frank, who is farming in Ross township and who married Florence Dement and has two children, John Roy and Franklin R. ; Daisy, who married Scott Cheney, of the neighboring county of Clark, and has four children, Emmet, Helen, Ruth and John Milton; Louis M., who is farming in Ross township and who married Theresa Dennehy and has four children, Lucile, Louis, Elizabeth and Rachel; Nellie, who married Audrey Gordon, of Fayette county, and has two children, Donah and Mar: jorie; John E., who is at home assisting his father in the management of the farm, and Catherine, who married Dr. Foye Troute, of Jamestown, and has one child, a son, Ralph. CHRISTOPHER K. ELLIS. Christopher K. Ellis, proprietor of a- farm on rural mail route No. 3, out of Jamestown, where he has made his home for the past twenty-eight years, is a native son of this county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in Jefferson township, or rather in that portion of Caesars-creek township that in the summer of 1858 came to be set off as Jefferson township, December 24, 1856, son of Silas and Mary B. ( Kinsey) Ellis, both of whom were members of pioneer families hereabout. The Ellis family has been represented in Greene county since the year 1807, when Christopher Ellis, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came here with his family from Frederick county, Virginia, and settled in the southern part of the county, a mile north of Port William. Christopher Ellis was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, of Dutch stock, January I 1, 1763. He married Eliza Caney, who was born on September 5, 1769, and made his home in Frederick county, Virginia, until he came to this county in 1807. He traded ,a horse for fifty acres of land north of Port William. and thus got a start upon which he improved until at the time of his death in 1836 he was the owner of sixteen hundred acres of land in that region. His wife had preceded him to the grave about twelve years, her death having occurred on September 5, 1822, and he later. married Nancy Overly. To this latter union four children were born, Martha, Tilden, Angeline and Daniel. By his marriage to Eliza Caney, Christopher Ellis was the father