550 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO of twelve children, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, John, Samuel, William, George, James, Mary, Joseph, Christopher and Elizabeth. Samuel Ellis, sixth son of Christopher and Eliza (Caney) Ellis, grew up on the home place north of Port William and there spent all his life, having established his home there after his marriage to Elizabeth Oglesbee. who was born in this county, a member of one of the pioneer families. Samuel Ellis died at his home in the southern part of the county on December 1, 1880, he then being eighty years, two months and seven days of age. Samuel Ellis was thrice married. By his union with Elizabeth Oglesbee he was the father of six children, namely : Preston, who became a merchant and millman at Bell Center and there lived to be eighty years of age ; Polly Ann, who married John Early; Silas, father of the subject of this sketch ; Joseph, Almira, who married Daniel Early, and Isaiah, who made his home in Clinton county. Following the death of the mother of these children, Samuel Ellis married Keziah Woolman, who also was born in this county, and to that union were born seven children, namely : Eli, who went to the front as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War; a member of Company B, Fortieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served for three years, and was killed at one of the later battles at Ringgold, Georgia; Susan, who married James Bone; Sarah Jane, who married John Jenkins; Simon Peter and Samuel Newton, twins, both of whom served as soldiers of the Union during the Civil War, the former a member of Company F, Sixtieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was taken prisoner and for eleven months suffered confinement in Andersonville and Libby prisons, and the latter a member of Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio; Joshua, now living on a part of the old home place in Jeffer-son township and who also served as a soldier during the Civil War, a member of the Sixtieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Martha, who died at the age of three years and thirteen days. Following the death of the mother of these children, Samuel Ellis married Mrs. Providence Sewell, which union was without issue. Silas Ellis grew up on the home farm north of Port William and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. After his marriage to Mary B. Kinsey, of Port William, he bought a small farm in that neighborhood, but later moved to Clinton county, where his last days were spent. During his active operations he bought and sold a good deal of land and also dealt in horses. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Silas Ellis died on the 3.rd day of February, 1896, he then being sixty-eight years, seven months and three days old, arid his widow survived him to the age of seventy-seven. They were the parents of seven children, of Whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth, the others GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 551 being the following: Hiram, now a resident of Concordia, Kansas; Maria, wife of Benjamin Strickle, of Clinton county; one who died in infancy ; Ida Ann, wife of Nathan Woolford, of Clinton county ; Jonathan, a mechanic, now living in Nebraska, and Silas Andrew, who owns a farm in Warren county and resides there. Christopher K. Ellis received his schooling in the schools of Spring Valley and Jefferson townships and remained at home until his marriage in 1880, after which he made his home for a while in Clinton county. He then came back to Greene county and located on a farm in Caesarscreek township, where he remained for eight years, or until 1890, when he bought the Daniel Bayliff farm of one hundred acres, the place on which he is now living, in Jefferson township, and has since made his home there. To his original holdings there Mr. Ellis has added by purchase until now he is the owner of three hundred and thirty-two acres and his sons also have farms in that neighborhood. In addition to his general farming Mr. Ellis has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock, making a specialty of Aberdeen-Angus cattle and heavy draft horses. He also is a stockholder and a member of the board of directors of the Wilson Engineering Company at Xenia. On February 5, 188o, Christopher K. Ellis was united in marriage to Medora Adams, who was born in Caesarscreek township, daughter of Jack-son and Eliza (Ary) Adams, the latter of whom was born in that same-town-ship. Jackson Adams was born Virginia in 1827 and was four years of age when he came with his parents, Nimrod and Susan (Linkhart) Adams, to this county in 1831, the family settling in Caesarscreek township. Nimrod Adams and his wife were the parents of six children, of whom Jackson was the first-born, the others being the following: Ella, who married John Borden; Joseph, who established his home on a farm north of Paintersville; Harriet, who married Jonathan Bales; Harry, who died unmarried, and Josephine, who remained a spinster and is still living on a part of the old home place. After his marriage to Eliza Ary, Jackson Adams established his home on a farm in Caesarscreek township and there died in 1891. His widow survived him for twenty years, her death occurring on September 8, 1911. She was a member of the Methodist Protestant church. Jackson Adams and wife were the parents of six children, of, whom Mrs. Ellis was the second in order of birth, the others being Luella, who died in the days of her girlhood ; James D., who married Flora M. Harness and is farming in Jefferson township; Lydia J., who died in infancy; Hattie, who died in youth, and Sarah, wife of George Babb, of Caesarscreek township. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have two sons, Orville J. and Charles S., the former of whom remains at home, assisting his father in the management of the 552 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO home place. He also owns a farm of his own. Charles S. Ellis also has a farm in Jefferson township, on which he makes his home. He married Iva E. Sheely and has orie child, a son, Lawrence Victor; born on April 9, 1914. Mrs. Ellis is a member of the Methodist Protestant church. Mr. Ellis is a Republican, as are his sons, and, fraternally, is affiliated with the Masonic lodge at Jamestown and with the Knights of Pythias lodge at Port William. REV. JOHN M. PIDGEON. The late Rev. John M. Pidgeon, who at the time of his death at his home in Jefferson township in the spring of 1918 was the oldest minister of the Wilmington yearly meeting of the Society of Friends, was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, February 2, 1834, a son of Charles and Catherine Pidgeon, both of whom were born in that same state, the former on March 1, 1806, and the latter, November 23, 1810, and who were married there on.November 8, 1829. During the time of the Civil War Charles Pidgeon came to Ohio with his family and settled in Clinton county, where he and his wife spent their last days, dying near Wilmington. They were the parents of twelve children, those besides John M., the third in order of birth, being Emily, deceased, who was the wife of John Briggs; Mrs. Mary Jane Cammack, deceased; Hannah E., who married William Charles and is also deceased; Julia A., living in the vicinity. of Wilmington, widow of William Henry; Samuel T., now living retired at Jamestown, this county; David, who lives at Whittier, California; Jeffrey H., who died in childhood; Louisa M., wife of Adin Starbuck; Charles A., who died in young manhood; Henry H., who is still living on the home place near Wilmington, and Cornelia, wife of Bruce Sprague, of Wilmington. John M. Pidgeon completed his schooling at New Garden Boarding School, now Guilford College, and for many years taught school. He had a birthright in the Society of Friends and in 1866, not long after the coming of the family to Ohio, was ordained a minister of the Friends church, a position he occupied until his death. In 1875 Mr. Pidgeon bought the fifty-acre farm in Jefferson township, where his widow is now living, and there he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on March 20, 1918, and he was buried in the cemetery at Jamestown. The Rev. John M. Pidgeon was twice married. On July 4, 1858 he was united in marriage to Caroline Priscilla Thompson and to that union were born three children, Ida May, born on January 1, 1860, who married Henry Pearson and died on July 1, 1910, leaving two daughters, Fleta Belle and Maude May; Carl A., July 1861, who married Belle Vennemin GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 553 and has five children, Vernon, Charles, Arthur, John Vance and Egbert; and Charles T., February 12, 1863, now engaged in the wholesale millinery business at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who married Maud Keplinger and has one daughter, Mervyn. Mrs. Caroline Pidgeon died on December 1, 1908, and on December 14, 1910, Mr. Pidgeon married Mrs. Catherine (Stethem) Hughes, of Hillsboro, who survives him. Mrs. Pidgeon is a daughter of Moses and Martha (Allen) Stethem. Her first husband, Frank Hughes, was born at Hillsboro in November, 1866, and by her first marriage she has one child, a daughter, Grace D.. who on January 1, 1911, married William N. Linton, a hardware merchant at Bowersville, and has two children, Cath-erine, born on December 23, 1911, and Mary Elizabeth, March 19, 1914. HORACE STEELE KEMP. Horace Steele Kemp, former trustee of Sugarcreek township, whose tragic death in the summer of 1915 by reason of a farm accident in the vicinity of his home in Sugarcreek township proved a shock to the whole community, was a member of one of the old families in this part of Ohio, the Kemps having settled in the Dayton neighborhood, over in Montgomery county, in the early days of the settlement of that section. He was born on a farm in Mad River township, Montgomery county, April 17, 1872, son of Louis A. and Hester (Taylor) Kemp, both of whom were born in that same county. Louis A. Kemp was born on the old Kemp farm, just east of Dayton, now a part of the city corporation, and remained there until the year 1875, when he came over into Greene county and located on a' farm. in Sugar-creek township, where he continued farming until about 1889, when he re-tired from the farm and moved to the village of Bellbrook, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in 1891. He and his wife were the parents of six children, those besides the subject of this memorial sketch being the following : Stephen A., now. a rancher in New Mexico; John, who died in infancy; Josephine, wife of W. E. Strain, of Dayton; Augustus, who also is a rancher in New Mexico, and Ada, wife of Walter Weller, living one mile south of Bellbrook, in this county. Horace S. Kemp was three years of age when his parents came to Greene county and he grew up on the home farm in Sugarcreek township and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. He remained there until grown and then went to Kansas and became engaged in the cattle business in. the vicinity of Emporia, where he married and where he re-mained for some years, at the end of which time he disposed of his interests there and returned to Ohio, for a year thereafter being engaged in the bak- 554 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ery business at Greenville. He then, in 1890, returned to the home farm in this county, his father having retired from the farm about that time, and resumed farming there, continuing thus engaged until his tragic death on June 22, 1915. Mr. Kemp was at the barn of his brother-in-law, Mr. Willers, where men were haying, when the pully of a hayfork broke and he was struck on the head by the flying missile. 'He was hurriedly taken to a hospital at Dayton, but surgical skill was powerless to give him relief and he died that same evening. He was buried in the cemetery at Bellbrook and the funeral was one of the most largely attended ever held in that community, there being no fewer than one thousand sympathizing friends present. Mr. Kemp was a Democrat and had served as township trustee several terms and also for several terms as a member of the district school board. He was a member of the Mt. Zion Reformed church and was affiliated with the Grange and with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Mr. Kemp was twice married. During the time of his residence at Emporia, Kansas; he was united in marriage to Ida David, of that city. To that union two children were born, Lawrence and Helen, both of whom are now in high school. The mother of these children died on January 20, 1905, and on June 13, 1907, Mr. Kemp married Lora Kemp, daughter of Joseph W. and Mary (Pearson) Kemp, of the Dayton neighborhood. The late Joseph W. Kemp was a farmer living near Dayton and he and his wife were the parents of six children. To Horace S. and Lora (Kemp) Kemp were born two children, John, born on November 8, 1908, and Hester, May 28, 191i. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Kemp has continued to make her home on the home farm on rural mail route No. out of Waynesville. GEORGE DODDS AND SONS. The business now conducted by the George Dodds & Sons Granite Company at Xenia: was established in the year 1864 and has for more than half a century been carried on continuously from its present headquarters in that city. George Dodds, from whom the company derives its name, was one of the original founders of the business, and his six sons have grown up with knowledge of its various branches. The business was incorporated in 1911, under its present name. During the same year the Victoria White Granite Company was organized, with quarries and cutting plants at Keene, New Hampshire. The properties of the Milford Pink Granite Quarries, at Milford, Massachusetts, have also been acquired by the Dodds brothers, the GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 555 transaction having been mentioned by a leading trade journal at the time as "the greatest granite deal of this generation." " The Milford Pink Granite Company is also incorporated. The executive, offices of all these companies are in Xenia, all are incorporated under the laws of Ohio, and in all of them the Messrs. Dodds own a controlling interest. The president of the George Dodds & Sons Granite Company is Earl C. Dodds, now in charge of the Victoria White Granite Company's general offices at Keene, New Hampshire, and who for nearly ten years past has been the general executive head of the business at Xenia. He also is vice-president and treasurer of the Victoria White Granite Company and treasurer of the Milford Pink Granite Company. John Charles Dodds, vice-president and general manager of the company, as well as president of the Victoria White Granite Company and president of the Milford Pink Granite Company, resides in Xenia, but is kept traveling much of the time looking after the company's interests. Leslie J. Dodds, second vice-president, was for some years in the engraving department and is now at the head of one of the departments of the wholesale house of Wilson Brothers at Chicago, in which city he resides. Ralph C. Dodds, third vice-president, was for many years a salesman for the wholesale house of J. V. Farwell & Company at Chicago, but is now devoting his entire time to the sales department of the George Dodds & Sons Granite Company, in charge of the territory adjacent to Indianapolis, with headquarters in Indianapolis. Frank W. Dodds, secretary of the company, is now in charge of the company's executive offices at Xenia. He is a graduate of the Ohio State University College of Law and was for years a student of art and architecture at home and abroad. He also is secretary of the Milford Pink Granite Company and assistant secretary of the Victoria White Granite Company. George F. Dodds, treasurer and superintendent of construction of the company, secretary of the Victoria White Granite Company and vice-president of the Milford Pink Granite Company, is also located at Xenia and has charge of the manufacturing plant there, as well as of the work of setting up important work outside. The late George Dodds, founder of the business above referred to and father of the six brothers who are now in charge of the same, was a native of Scotland, but had been a resident of this country since he was seventeen years of age, most of his life being spent in Xenia, where he died on November 17, 1914. He was born at Primside Mill, near the village of Yetholm, in Roxboroughshire, February 19, 1837, fifth in order of birth of the seven children born to George and Isabel (Taylor) Dodds, who were born in that same community and who spent all their lives there, and he remained in his native Scotland until he was seventeen years of age, when, in response to 556 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO the request of his elder brother, Andrew Dodds, who three years before had come to this country and was then engaged as foreman of a marble-cutting establishment at Madison, Indiana, he came over and joined his brother at Madison. It was on July 1, 1854, that George Dodds sailed from Glasgow and sixteen days later he landed at the port of New York, losing little time thereafter in joining his brother in Indiana. Under his brother's direction George Dodds became an expert marble-cutter. In 1859 the two brothers left Madison and came over into this part of Ohio and set up a marble shop in' the vicinity of Antioch at Yellow Springs, in this county, where they remained until 1864, in which year they moved to Xenia and there enlarged their facilities for monumental work and erected a plant for general marble cutting, doing business' under the firm name of A. & G. Dodds. In the spring of 1866 Andrew Dodds returned to his native Scotland and sent back a large quantity of Scotch granite, the Dodds brothers thus becoming the first importers of this quality of granite west of New York City. In the meantime they had established a branch house at St. Louis and in 1867 Andrew Dodds moved to that city to take charge of the business there, George Dodds remaining in charge of the plant at Xenia. The partnership thus being dissolved, George Dodds continued in business alone until 1871, when he admitted to partnership Alexander Caskey and in the next year established a branch house at Pittsburgh, of which Mr. Caskey took charge in 1873, Mr. Dodds thus again being left alone in charge of the business at Xenia, and from 1873 to 1897 he conducted the business. In the year last mentioned Mr. Dodds took into partnership with him his son, John Charles Dodds, present general manager of the George Dodds & Sons Granite Com-pany, and thereafter extended the operations of the concern, making more of a specialty of the architectural phase of the business than theretofore, the original operations of the plant having been confined largely to monumental work, and this business has since been extended from year to year until now it is recognized as the greatest establishment devoted to architectural and mortuary art in the world. George Dodds was twice married. On October 1, 1861, at Madison, Indiana," he was united in marriage to Elizabeth I. Ferguson, of that place, and to that union were born two children, George Fremont Dodds, present treasurer and superintendent of construction of the George Dodds & Sons Granite Company, of Xenia, and one who died in infancy. Mrs. Elizabeth I. Dodds died on August 20, 1865, while on a visit to her mother at Madison, and on October 16, 1866, Mr. Dodds married Mary E. Brown, of Xenia, daughter of Hiram and Rebecca Brown, the former of whom, an architect and builder, had come to Xenia to superintend the erection of the old court house. To that union were born eight children, three daughters besides the GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 557 five sons mentioned above, Carrie B., widow of the Rev. George H. Geyer and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume ; Mary Alice, who died at the age of one year, and Jessie K., who resides at the family residence in Xenia. Mr. Dodds was a member of the First Methodist Epis-copal church, was for many years recording steward of the congregation with which he was affiliated and was a leader in the work of the Good Templars during the days of that organization's. strength. Mrs. Dodds, who died on October 10, 1913, was for years contributor to the cause of temperance here-about through her activities in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of which organization she was for some time the president. PROF. DEWALT S. LYNN. Prof. Dewalt S. Lynn, district superintendent of the Beavercreek and Bath township schools, is a native of the old Keystone state, but has been a resident of Ohio since the days of his young manhood. He was born in Pennsylvania on October 14, 1876, son of Andrew R.. and Elizabeth (Schultz) Lynn, both of whom also were born in that state, the former in 1847 and the latter in 1852, and the former of whom is still living, now a resident of Fair-field, this county. The latter died on February 22, 1917. Andrew R. Lynn was reared as a farmer in his native state and followed that vocation there until 1895, in which year he came with his family to Ohio and located on a farm in Bath township, this county, where he continued farming until his retirement and removal to the village of Fairfield, where his wife died and where he is still living. To them six children were born, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being Frances, wife of Samuel A. Weaver, a farmer, of Bath township, this county; Anna, who died at the age of nineteen years; Claude, a locomotive engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who married Jessie Hoffman and is living at Xenia ; William, who died at the age of twenty-eight years, and the Rev. Ralph Lynn, minister of the Reformed church, who married Irene Bell and is now pastor of the Caesars-creek charge, including Maple Corner and Hawker's church. Reared on a farm, Dewalt S. Lynn received his early schooling in the schools of his home neighborhood in his native state and when the family moved to this county he entered the Bath township high school and after two years of further instruction' there began teaching school, and was thus engaged for five years, at the end of which time he entered Heidelberg Uni-versity at Tiffin, this state, and was graduated from that institution, after a four-years course, in 1906. He then accepted the position of superintendent 558 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO of the village schools at Basil, in Fairfield county, this state, and after three years of service in that capacity returned home and was for a year there-after engaged in the service of the Bath township schools. He then accepted the position of superintendent of the schools of Jefferson township, in the neighboring county of Montgomery, and was there thus engaged for four years, or until 1914, when he returned to Fairfield and has since been engaged as district superintendent of the schools. in Bath and Beavercreek townships, the present enrollment of pupils under Professor Lynn's charge being three hundred from the former township and four hundred from the latter. On June 21, 1906, in Bath township, this county, Prof. D. S. Lynn was united in marriage to Clara Tobias, daughter of Martin L. and Mary (Barnhart) Tobias, of that township, the latter of whom is still living, now making her home with her youngest son, and to this union have been born two sons, Leroy, born on February 22, 1909, and Carl, January 12, 1916. Professor and Mrs. Lynn are members Of the Reformed church and reside at Fairfield. The professor is a member of the local grange. By political persuasion he is a Democrat, but reseives the right to maintain an independent attitude on local issues. EDWIN H. SCHAUER. Edwin H. Schauer, proprietor of a farm in Miami township, a part of the old Confer place on which he was born, has been a resident of this county all his life. He was born on April 3, 1867, son of Isaac and Mary (Confer) Schauer, both of whom also were born in this county, the former in Bath township and the latter in Miami township on the farm above referred to. Isaac Schauer was born on November 1, 1832, a son of Samuel Schauer and wife, early settlers in the Byron neighborhood. Samuel Schauer had a brother, Jesse, and a sister, Elizabeth. Isaac Schauer was the sixth in order of birth of the seven children born to his parents, the others having been John, Jacob, George, Sarah, Samuel and Simon, all now deceased. In 1862 Isaac Schauer was married to Mary Confer, daughter of Samuel Confer, of Miami township, who was the father of three children, Mrs. Schauer having had two brothers, Hiram and Henry. After his marriage Isaac Schauer became engaged in farming on his own account and presently took up the cultivation of nursery stock. For a time during the later sixties he conducted a hotel at Yellow Springs, but in 1870 returned to the old Schauer farm in Bath township and there remained for nine years, at the end of which time he moved to a farm in Beavercreek township and there was engaged in farming for thirteen years. About the year 1897 he retired from active labors and moved to Yellow Springs, where he spent GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 559 his last days, his death occurring there on May 7, 19̊7. His widow is still living. To Isaac and Mary (Confer) Schauer were born six children, of whom the subject of this sketch, the third in order of birth, is now the only survivor, the others having been Lulu, who died in infancy; Ida, who married William Beatty and died before she was twenty-three years of age, and Clinton, George and Clifford, who died in infancy. Edwin H. Schauer received his schooling in the school at Byron and in the Ludlow school in Beavercreek township. In the week following the attainment of his majority he married. For three years thereafter he remained on the home place and then bought his present farm, on which he has ever since been living, a part of the old Confer place. formerly the Walker farm, bought during the '50s by his grandfather, Samuel Confer. Mr. Schauer owns there a farm of one hundred and ten acres and in addi-tion to his general farming gives considerable attention to the raising of live stock, Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs being his specialty. He is a Republican with independent leanings. On April 10, 1888, Edwin H. Schauer was united in marriage to Elizabeth Morgan, of Xenia township, who was born on March 25, 1869, daughter of David and Rose (Greene) Morgan, both of whom also were born in this county, the former in Xenia township and the latter in Beavercreek township, and who were the parents of nine children, those besides Mrs. Schauer being the following: John Morgan, a resident of the city of Xenia; Emma, wife of Richard Bull, a farmer on Clarks run in Xenia township; Joseph, a building contractor at Knoxville, Tennessee; Rose, wife of Wesley Swadener, a farmer of the Oldtown neighborhood in this county Clinton, who is now the manager of a poultry farm in Indiana, and Margaret, wife of James Shaw, a farmer of the Oldtown neighborhood, and two who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Schauer have nine children, namely : Ethel, born on April 24, 1889, who married Warren Carpenter, a Miami township farmer, and has one child, a daughter, Marjorie; J. Myrtle, January 22, 1892, who married James Hoffman, now living at Yellow Springs, and has one child, a daughter, Marie; Goldie, August 6, 1893, who married Prof. Gilbert Funderberg, now a teacher in the high school at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has one child, a son, Joe; Luther, May 15, 1895, a soldier of the National Army, now (1918) in camp at Camp Custer at Battle Creek, Michigan; Ida, April 14, 1898, at home; Isaac Lester, September 25, 1900, at home, a member of the class of 1918, Yellow Springs high school ; Clarence, December 5, 1902, a member of the class of 1920, same school; Fern, February 26, 1905, and Catherine, December 22, 1910. The Schauers are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Schauer has been a member of the board of trustees of his. church for more than twenty years. 560 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO WARREN B. STEEL. For more than a hundred years the Steels have been represented in Greene county and particularly in the Beavercreek neighborhood, where the family became established in an early day in the settlement of that part of the county, the first of the family to settle in this county having bought a tract of timber land there upon coming over here from Maryland, paying three dollars an acre for the same, and there established his home, he and his wife, the latter of whom before her marriage was Ann Palmer, spending the rest of their lives in that neighborhood. This pioneer Steele cleared a portion of his land and in his declining days sold the place to his son Ebenezer, father of the subject of this sketch, and moved to Alpha, where his last days were spent. Ebenezer Steel was the fifth in order of birth of the ten children born to his parents, the others having been John, Jacob, Harvey, William, Mary, Sarah, Ann, Elizabeth and Martha. As most of these children reared families of their own it is apparent that the descendants of this pioneer couple must form a numerous connection in the present generation. Ebenezer Steel was born on the pioneer farm above referred to on April 6, 1821, and there grew to manhood. He married Catherine Shuey, who was born in April, 1818, and after his marriage bought his father's farm of one hundred and fifty-nine and one-half acres and there made his home until 1875, when he disposed of his interests in this county and moved to northwestern Missouri, buying a farm in the vicinity of Lathrop; in Clinton county, that state, where he died in May, 1886. His widow survived him for more than fifteen years, her death occurring in January, 1902. Ebenezer Steel was a Republican and he and his wife were members of the Reformed church. They were the parents of seven children, namely : John, who enlisted his services in behalf of the Union during the Civil War, went to the front as a member of Company E, Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Buzzard Roost, Georgia ; Henry Erman, who married *Sarah J. Ross and moved to Missouri, where he died leaving one child, a son, Edgar Ross Steel ; Joseph Granville, who married Salomie Palmer and became a farmer in Noble county, Indiana, where he died on February 1, 1916, leaving two children, Ada, who married Forest Moore, and Stacy ; Melvin David, who died unmarried in Missouri, at the age of twenty-five years ; Ebenezer Cattie, a farmer in Clinton county, Missouri, who married Elizabeth Trice and has six children, Harry, Frank, John, Maude. Eva and Mary ; and Oliver Perry Morton, who married Carrie Trice and later became established at Grand Junction, Colorado, where he was engaged in the real-estate business and where he also served as deputy county clerk and who died in 1915, leaving two sons, Dr. Guy Steel, now a GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 561 dentist at Independence, Missouri, and Hugh, who is now serving in the national army. Warren B. Steel, fourth child and third son of Ebenezer' and Catherine (Shuey) Steel, was born on the old Steel place in Beavercreek township on February 17, 1847, and there grew to manhood, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools and remaining there until after his marriage in 1870, when he began farming on his own account, as a renter, and was thus engaged in this county and in the neighboring county of Clark for some years, at the end of which time he moved to Noble county, Indiana, but after two years of residence there returned to this county and bought a seventy-acre farm in the vicinity of the Ludlow school house. On this latter place he made his home for thirteen years, at the end of which time he disposed of the farm and moved to Xenia, where he became engaged as an inspector in a handle factory and later was employed as an inspector of sidewalks and sewers, in the municipal service, continuing thus engaged for four years, at the end of which time, in 19̊5, he bought the farm on which he is now living in Beavercreek township, four and a half miles west of Xenia, rural mail route No. 10 out of Xenia, and has since made his home there, though of late years he has been living practically retired from the active 'labors of the farm, renting his fields. Mr. Steel has one hundred and three acres and since taking possession of the same has created there an entirely new farm plant, building new buildings and making other improvements. In addition to his general farming he has given considerable attention to the raising of Holstein cattle, Poland China hogs and Cottswold sheep. Mr. Steel is a Repub-lican and, fraternally, is affiliated with the Masonic order. He was made a Mason forty-six years ago in the lodge at Yellow Springs, but is now connected with the lodge of that order at Xenia. On October 16, 1870, Warren B. Steel was united in marriage to Sarah Elizabeth Harner, who also was born in Beavercreek township, a member of one of the old families of Greene county, as will be noted by reference to a comprehensive sketch of the Harner family in this county presented else-where in this volume. Mrs. Steel is a daughter of Daniel and Anna (Snider) Harner, both of whom also were born in Beavercreek township, the former a son of George and Sarah (Koogler) Harner, pioneers of that township and the latter of whom lived to be one hundred and five years of age. Anna (Snider) Harner was a daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Miller) Snider, who had come to this county from Maryland and had settled on a farm in the vicinity of Trebeins, where Jonathan Snider also operated a mill. Mrs. Steel was one of the four children born to her parents, two sons and two daughters, and was reared in the faith of the Reformed church. Mr. and (35) 562 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Mrs. Steel have two sons, Daniel Frederick and Joseph I., neither of whom, however, are now residents of this county. Daniel Frederick Steel was born on November 3, 1875, completed his schooling in Antioch College, and is now engaged in the insurance business at Visalia, California. He married Grace Robertson and has two children, Helen and Harry D. Mr. and Mrs. Steel's second son, Joseph I. Steel, was born on October 7, 1885, completed his schooling in the high school, went to Joplin, Missouri, and is now engaged as a linotype operator. GILBERT L. DILLINGHAM. In the memorial annals of the village of Jamestown and of the Jamestown neighborhood in Greene county there are few names held in better remembrance than that of the late Gilbert L. Dillingham, who became engaged in the jewelry business in that little village in the early '40s of the past cen-tury and thus continued in business there all the rest of his life. Gilbert L. Dillingham was born in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, May 4, 1821, and his parents also were born in that city, both of Scotch-Irish descent. He completed his schooling in the high school in Boston and early became an expert jeweler and watchsmith. When he was through with school and had completed his apprenticeship at the jeweler's bench he decided to come to Ohio and to here engage in business on his. own account ; and with that end in view, he then being but nineteen or twenty years of age, he located at Jamestown and there opened a jewelry store, continuing in business there the rest of his life, his death occurring there on May 5, 1864, he then being forty-three years of age. Mr. Dillingham was twice married. In 1846, five or six years after he took up his residence in Jamestown, he was united in marriage to Melvina Dwinell, of Middletown, this state, and to that union were born six children, Angeline, Prudence, Atta, Levi, Jackson and Horace, all of whom are now deceased save Mrs. Atta Johnson, a widow, still living at Jamestown, and Levi, who is married and is living at Bloomington, Illinois. The mother of these children died about 1859 and is buried at Middletown. About 1861, at Jamestown, Mr. Dillingham married Susan Taylor, of Harrisburg, Penn-sylvania, who died in 1877, and to this union were born three children, namely : Vica, who in 1899 married James Cooper, a farmer of Greene county ; Josephine, who died when about five years of age, and Frances, who on December 25, 1889, was united in marriage to Oscar E. Bales, who for the past twenty-seven years has been engaged as a locomotive engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad, running out of Xenia. Mr. Bales is a native son GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 563 of Greene county, born on a farm in New Jasper township, February 2, 1864, son of John S. Bales, a retired farmer of this county, now living in Xenia, and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Bales was for some years and until recently engaged in the hotel business at Xenia, proprietress of the Francess Inn on Detroit street. REUBEN G. BATDORF. The late Reuben G. Batdorf, a veteran of the Civil War and a farmer of Bath township, this county, was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Fairfield and practically all his life was spent in this county, the exception being a sometime residence during the days of his young Manhood at Dayton, where he was engaged in commercial activities, and a later residence of a few years in the then Territory of Montana. He was born on December 4, 1843, son of Peter and Mary (Mitman) Batdorf, the latter of whom was born in 1816 and died on November 6, 1866. Peter Batdorf was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, and in 1843 came to Ohio and settled on a farm in the immediate neighborhood of Fairfield, in Bath township, this county, where he spent the remainder of his life. He died there on April 10, 1880, being then seventy-five years of age, and was buried in the Mitman cemetery at Fairfield. Reared on the home farm, Reuben G. Batdorf received his schooling in the Fairfield schools and when sixteen years of age enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union during the Civil War and in that behalf served for 'three years. Upon the completion of his military service he returned home and not long afterward became engaged in a wholesale millinery establishment at Dayton and later with a drygoods store at Osborn, in this county ; later making a trip West and spending a few years in the then Territory of Montana, at the end of which time he returned to his home in this county and after his marriage located on the farm in the Byron neigh-borhood where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring in November 6, 1896, and he was buried in the Byron cemetery: He was a member of the Reformed church at Byron, as is his widow. On October 3, 1869, Reuben G. Batdorf was united in marriage to Alice A. Hamer, who was born on a farm north of Xenia, in Xenia township, this county, daughter of Jacob and Araminta (White) Harner, both of whom also were born in Greene county, the former in Beavercreek township and the latter in Xenia township, members of pioneer families hereabout. the Harners are one of the oldest families in Greene county and further reference to the family is made elsewhere in this volume. To Reuben G. and 564 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Alice A. (Harner) Batdorf were born eight children, namely : Olivia, born on July 1, 1870, who is still living in Bath township and who has been twice married, after the death of her first husband, William Wolf, she having married Fred Kuhn; Daisy, born on January 7, 1875, now deceased; Stella, October 22, 1878, also deceased; R. Dewitt, December 14., 1880, a resident of the village of Byron ; Mellie, April 27, 1883, who married William Bowers and is living in the neighborhood of Yellow Springs ; Carrie, July 30, 1885, deceased; Florence, September 27, 1887, who is living in Bath township, widow of the late Ira Poland, and Jennie, deceased. Mrs. Batdorf has fourteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. ISAAC N. KABLE. Isaac N. Kable, proprietor of a farm in Beavercreek township, situated on rural mail route No. 8 out of Dayton, was born on that farm and has lived there all his life. He was born on April 5, 1855, son of Samuel and Catherine (Garver) Kable, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Maryland, whose last days were spent on the farm on which their son Isaac is now living. Samuel Kable was born at Kabletown, in Jefferson county, Virginia, now a part of West Virginia, and there grew to manhood, later coming to Ohio with his brother James and locating in Greene county, for a time the brothers making their home here with the family of Moses Shoup. Not long after his arrival here Samuel Kable married Catherine Garver and made his home at Osborn, where he became engaged in the milling business. He later moved from there to a point northwest of Carlisle, down in Warren county, where he began to operate a mill and was thus engaged there until the fall of 1854, when he returned to Greene county and bought the farm on which his son, Isaac, is now living. in Beavercreek township. That place then included a tract of one hundred and six acres and was but partly improved. Samuel Kable made improvements on the place and there died in November, 1864. His widow survived him for nearly ten years, her death occurring in 1873. He was a member of the Reformed church and she was a member of the Dunker church. They were the parents of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last-born, the others being Ann Rebecca, Mary, Joseph, Ella, Martha J. and John, of whom, all are living save the first three. Ann Rebecca Kable married David Merrick, a farmer of this county, who died in 1904. She died in February, 1917. Mary Kable married Hiram Roscell and died in May, 1869. Joseph Kable married Harriet Hawker, became a farmer in the neighboring county of Clark   565 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO and there died in 1910. Ella Kable was married in October, 1864, to Henry H. Stafford, of Miami county, who three years later came to Greene county and after living for some years on a rented farm bought the farm of ninety acres on which he is now living in Beavercreek township. Henry H. Stafford was born in Miami county, son of William E. and Harriet (Newell) Stafford, the latter of whom died in 1848 and the former in 1849, who were the parents of seven children, of whom three are still living, Mr. Stafford having a brother, William, living in Indianapolis, and a sister, Mary, living in St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Stafford have six children, namely : Catherine, who married W. J. Engle, a Montgomery county florist, and has four children, Elberta H., W. S., Paul and Elizabeth; Franklin K., superintendent of schools of Crawford county, this state, who married Viola Dill and has two sons, Carl and James ; Edwin L., who is now farming the home place and who married Ella B. Shultz and has five children, Jerome, Florence, Irene, Henry and Paul ; Carrie Edith, who died in 1890 at the age of seventeen years, and Herbert S. and Harry. H., twins, the former of whom married Louise Pierce and is now living at Hollidaysburg., Pennsylvania, where he is engaged as secretary of the local branch of the Young Men's Christian Association at that place. Dr. Harry H. Stafford married Gertrude Pierce and is engaged in the practice of medicine at Dayton. Martha J. Kable married David Hawker, now living at Dayton, and has four children, Herbert K., William S., Marietta and Bessie M. John Kable, a farmer of Sugarcreek township, this county, married Jane Ferguson and has three children, Gertrude, Charles R. and Carrie. Isaac N. Kable grew to manhood on the farm on which he was born and received his schooling in the neighborhood schools. His father died when he was nine years of age and he thus early assumed responsibilities that ordi-narily do not fall upon the shoulders of boys. He was but eighteen when his mother died and he -continued to make his home on the farm, after his marriage establishing his definite home there and in due time bought from the other heirs their interests in the place and thus became the owner of the farm, which he has since improved, remodeling the house and barn. Mr. Kable has enlarged the original acreage of his father's place by purchase of a bit of land adjoining and now has one hundred and twenty-three acres, besides a tract of forty-five acres north of his home place. In addition to his general farming Mr. Kable has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock, beef and dairy cattle of the Durham and Holstein strains and Duroc-Jersey hogs. He is a Republican, but has not been a seeker after public office. Isaac N. Kable was united in marriage to Sarah Lafong, who also was born in Beavercreek township, a daughter of Orlander B. and Rebecca (Black) 566 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Lafong, the latter of whom is still living, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Koogler) Black, and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. To this union four children have been born, namely : Oscar, who continues to reside on the home farm, assisting his father in the management of the same; Pearl, wife of Howard Cosler, a Beavercreek township farmer; Clay, who died at the age of seven years, and Ella Marie. The Kables are members of the Mt. Zion Reformed church and Mr. Kable is an elder in the church. CHARLES E. ANKENEY. Charles E. Ankeney, proprietor of a farm in Beavercreek township, situated on rural mail route No. 10 out of Xenia, was born in that township on December 6, 1853, son of Nelson and Elizabeth Ankeney, the latter whom is still living. She was born on a farm two miles north of Bellbrook in this county, a daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Crumley) Sidney, who came to this county from Virginia and located in the Spring Valley neighborhood, later moving to a farm north of Bellbrook, where Jacob Sidney died in 1835. His widow married Aaron Paxton and spent her last days in Beavercreek township, her death occurring there on March 4, 1883, she then being eighty-seven years of age. Of the seven children born to Jacob and Hannah (Crumley) Sidney, Mrs. Ankeney is now the only survivor, the others having been Aaron, a soldier of the Union army during 'the Civil War, who lost an arm in service and whose last clays were spent in the South; Joseph M., who lived in Michigan ; William H., who made his home in Spring Valley; Clarissa M., who married John LaValley; Rebecca Ann, who married George Clymer, and Harriet Jane, who died unmarried. Nelson Ankeney was born in the vicinity of Clear Springs in Washington county, Maryland, September 15, 1825, and was but five years of age when his parents, David and Elizabeth (Miller) Ankeney, came to this county with their family in 1830 and settled on a farm in Beavercreek township, the place now owned and occupied by Albert Ankeney. On the 2nd of November of that same year David Ankeney died from a paralytic stroke, he then being forty-two years of age. His widow kept the family together and continued to make her home on the place on which she and her husband had settled. There she died on December 23, 185i, being then sixty-two years of age. She was a member of the Reformed church, as was her husband, and their children were reared in that faith. There were ten of these children, Samuel, Mary, Henry, Margaret, Sarah, John, Nelson, Martha, Jacob and David, and the descendants of this family in the present generation form a numerous connection hereabout. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 567 As noted above, Nelson Ankeney, was but a child when he came to this county with his parents from Maryland and here he grew to manhood. After his marriage he began farming on his own account on a place a .half mile north of Trebeins, later returning to the home place and thence, after a while, to another place, where he remained for thirteen years, or until 1876, when he bought the farm on which his widow is now living and there spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on October 7, 1902. He was a Republican and was a member of the Reformed church, as is his widow of the four children born to him and his wife the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being Emma L., now living with her mother and who is the widow of Abram W. Warner, a farmer of Starke county, this state, who died on December 20, 1901 ; Lewis W., a Beavercreek farmer and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume, and Clara J., unmarried, who makes her home with her brother Lewis. Charles E. Ankeney was reared on the farm, received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and after his marriage in the fall of 1880 made his home on a part of the home place until 1895, when he bought the place on which he is now living, moved to the same and has since made that his place of residence, the owner of a farm of two hundred and twenty-three acres. Since taking possession of that place Mr. Ankeney has erected a ten-room house, a barn 36 x 64: feet in dimensions and has made other improvements. In addition to his general farming he gives considerable attention to the raising of livestock and is ably assisted by those of his sons who are still at home. On October, 26, 1880, at Alpha, Charles E. Ankeney was united in marriage to Emma Kershner, daughter of Eli A. and Elizabeth (Steele) Kershner, the latter of whom also was born in Beavercreek township, a member of one of the old families in that part of the county. Eli Kershner was born in Washington county, Maryland, and in 1828 came to this county, becoming engaged as a cabinet-maker at Xenia, later moving to Beavercreek township, where he continued active in that vocation and where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring at Alpha at the age of eighty-five years. His wife had preceded him to the grave many years, her death having a when she was forty-four years of age. They also were members of the Reformed church and were the parents of two children, Mrs. Ankeney now alone surviving, the other child having died in youth. To Mr. and Mrs. Ankeney have been born nine children, namely : Stella K., wife of Doctor McCormick, of Xenia; Nellie, who is at home; Ray, wife of H. R. Armstrong, of the Fairfield neighborhood; Eli H. and Nelson H. (twins), both 568 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO deceased; Winfield, now a student of Miami University ; Harry, who died in youth, and John and Carl, at home. The Ankeneys are members of the Reformed church. Mr. Ankeney is a Republican, but is not an office seeker. SAMUEL HARNER. Samuel Harner, a soldier of the Civil War and proprietor of a farm of one hundred and sixty-three acres in Beavercreek township, situated on rural mail route No. 3 out of Xenia, was born on that farm and has lived there all his life with the exception of a period of four years during the '7os, when he lived in Missouri. He was born on March 7, 1838, son of Samuel and Nancy (Watts) Harner, both of whom were born in that same town-ship, members of pioneer families in that part of the county. Samuel Harner was a son of Jacob and Mary (Heffley) Harner, the latter of whom was a daughter of one of the earliest settlers in Greene county. Jacob Harner was a native of Germany, who upon coming to this country made his way out to Ohio and located in Greene county, where he presently married Mary Heffley and settled on a farm in Beavercreek township, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of nine children, those besides Samuel having been Charles, Abraham, William, George, Jacob, Mary, Catherine and Sarah J., the descen-dants of whom in the present generation form a numerous connection. Samuel Harner grew up on that pioneer farm in Beavercreek township and in addition to becoming a good farmer became skilled in the use of tools, his services in that line being of value to his neighbors, for whom he made plows, grain cradles and various articles of agricultural or domestic use. He married Nancy Watts and in 1822 settled on the farm on which his son Samuel is now living, building there a frame house which served as a residence for the family until it was destroyed by fire in 1857, after which he erected the brick house which has ever since served as the farm house and in which the subject of this sketch is now living. The bricks for that house were burned on the place and while the house was being erected the family lived in the work shop which Samuel Harner maintained on his place. On that farm the senior Samuel Harner spent his last days, his death occurring there in 1871. His widow survived him for many years, her death occur-ring in 1906. They were members of the Reformed church and were the parents of seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others having been Jacob, George, Mary Ann, Nathan, William and, Nelson. The junior Samuel Hamer was reared on the home farm in Beavercreek GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 569 township, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools, and living there when the Civil War broke out. In the spring of 1864 he went to the front as a member of Company D, One. Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and while thus serving was taken prisoner by the enemy at New Creek Station, 'Virginia, and for four months thereafter was confined in the rebel prisons at Belle Isle and Richmond, later requiring several weeks of hospital attention at Richmond, his condition being regarded as critical when he finally was transferred. When Mr. Harner entered the service he "tipped the beam" at one hundred and eighty pounds. When he was sent from Libby Prison he weighed but eighty pounds, a mere shadow of his former self, and he has ever since suffered more or less from the effects of the privations he was compelled to undergo in the rebel prison pens. In the spring following his return from the army Mr. Harner was married. After his marriage he continued to make his home on the home place until in the '7os, when he moved with his family to Missouri, making the journey of seven hundred miles by wagon, and located in Clinton county, that state. Four years later he returned to Greene county and resumed his place on the old home farm, where he has ever since resided. For more than fifteen years Mr. Harner has lived retired from the active labors of the farm, the place now being operated by his eldest and only surviving son, W. Harry Harner, who is married and lives there. On March 14, 1865, Samuel Harner was united in marriage to Mary Campbell, who was born in the neighboring county of Clark, July 5, 1845, a daughter of James and Drusila (Clarke). Campbell, who later became residents of Greene county, where they spent their last days, James Campbell dying here in 1850, his daughter Mary, last-born of the twelve children born to him and his wife, being then five years of age. The widow Campbell survived her husband for many years. Of her twelve children, but three are now living, Mrs. Hamer having a brother, Stephen Campbell, living at Ludlow Falls, and a sister, Rebecca, living at Bellbrook. To Samuel and Mary (Campbell) Harner three children have been born, W. Harry, Samuel L. and Ada May. The first of these, W. Harry Hamer, as noted above, is now operating part of the home farm. He has been twice married, his first wife having been Luella Charlton and the second Emma Moody, and they have three children, William L., Ada Belle and Iva May. The second son, Samuel L. Harner, who died on April 6, 1917, also was a farmer and operated part of his father's place. He married Sarah Jane Hickman and had eleven children, Ernest, Everett, Mabel, Elwood, Beulah, Helen, Kenneth, Alberta, Neoma, Louise and Muriel D. The only daughter, Ada May Harner, married Owen Swadner, of Oldtown, and has had nine children, 570 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Etta, Ethel, Esther, Carrie, Clarence, Herman, Alice, Margaret Lucile and Ada Louise, the latter of whom died at the age of three years. The Harners are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Oldtown. Mr. Harner is a Democrat and has held some local offices, including: for some years membership on the school board. Mr. Harner saw the first train of cars enter Xenia upon the completion of the railroad from Springfield to that city and has witnessed the development of this county through all the wonderful change that has taken place since the days of his boyhood. HUSTON HANNA CHERRY. Huston Hanna Cherry, farmer and stockman and a veteran of the Spanish-American War, was born on the farm on which he is now living, in the eastern part of Xenia township, December 21, 1879, son of David H. and Mary E. (Watt) Cherry, both of, whom also were born in Ohio and the latter of whom is still living, a resident of Xenia since 1903, in which year she moved from the farm to that city with her husband, the latter spending his last days there, his death occurring about twelve years after his retire-ment from the farm. David H. Cherry was born on a farm on the Hook road in Xenia township, February 1839, a son of James and Elizabeth (Greenwood) Cherry, Virginians, who were married in the Old Dominion on April 12, 1815, and soon afterward came to Ohio and settled in the Laughead settlement three miles east of Xenia, near where they spent the remainder. of their lives. James Cherry was born on May 12, 1789, and died on December 24, 1851. His widow, who was born on April 25, 1796, survived him for more than thirty-three years, her last days being spent in the home of her son David, where she died on May 14, 1883. James Cherry, the. pioneer, and his wife were adherents of the old Scotch Seceder faith and were the parents of eleven children, of whom David Haslip Cherry was the last-born and all of whom are now deceased, the others having been the following: William, born in 1816; Mary Ann, December 13, 1817, who died at the age of seven years; Jane, December 9, 1819, who became the wife of Robert Crawford ; Rachel, December 5, 1821, who became the wife of William Kyle; James Q., October 8, 1823; Robert, December 29, 1825; John, February 20, 1828 ; Benjamin, July 30, 1830; Andrew Louis, December 13, 1832, and Isaac New, May 22, 1836. The Cherrys and the Laugheads were old friends and neigh-bors in Virginia and it was this acquaintance that. led James Cherry to settle here, where the David Laugheads had previously settled, after his marriage in 1815. The old Indian trail between the two chillicothes (Indian villages), GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 571 Oldtown and the present city of Chillicothe, passed through the farm, which is now occupied by Huston Cherry. Reared on that pioneer farm, David Haslip Cherry grew up to manhood there and after his marriage made his home on the home place for about ten years, at the end of which time he bought the Watt homestead (where his wife had lived since she was six years of age), buying the farm from a Mr. Tressler, who had purchased the land from William Watt, father of Mrs. Cherry, in time having there a fine farm of one hundred and sixty. acres on the Federal pike, now owned by his widow and operated by his son, the subject of this sketch. In connection with his general farming, David H. Cherry for years gave attention to the raising Of full blood cattle and sheep and his sons have continued this line. He remained on the farm until his retirement in 1903 and removal to Xenia, where he spent his last day:, his death occurring there on October 7, 1914. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church, as is his widow, who is still living at Xenia, and had served as a trustee of his local congregation. Mrs. Cherry was born at Bainbridge, in Ross county, this state, a daughter of William and Sarah Gordon (Carruthers) Watt, natives of Scotland, the former born in Glasgow and the latter in Dumfrees, who were married at Chillicothe, this state, and later came to Greene county, where they spent the remainder of their lives, as is set out elsewhere in this work. Mary E. Watt was about six years of age when her parents came to Greene county and she grew to womanhood on the home farm in Xenia township, where she was living when, on December 21, 1865, she was married to David H. Cherry. To that union were born five children, namely : William J., who is living on a farm adjoining the old home place in Xenia township, where he makes a specialty of raising pure-bred cattle and sheep; Lulu, who died at the age of two years and six months: Avis Belle, wife of the Rev. Frederick Elliott, a United Presbyterian minister, now stationed at Mansfield, Ohio ; Huston Hanna, the subject of this biographical sketch, and David Haslip, who is engaged in busi-ness at Xenia, a member of the mercantile firm of Galloway & Cherry. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Cherry has continued to make her home at Xenia, where she continues her interest in church work and in temperance, missionary and Red Cross work. Huston H. Cherry grew up on the home farm in Xenia township and received his early schooling in the neighborhood schools, afterward entering Cedarville College and had been a student in that institution two years when the Spanish-American War broke out. He straightway enlisted his services as a soldier and in 1898 went South as a member of Company D, Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, spending the summer with that command at Tampa, Florida, awaiting service in Cuba, but was not called over. The regiment 572 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO later was moved to Fernandina, Florida ; then to Huntsville, Alabama, then back to Columbus, Ohio, where it was mustered out in November, 1898, the brief war then being regarded as-over, though the treaty of peace was not made until the following December. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Cherry returned home and then spent a year in study at Mommouth College, after which he resumed his place on the farm and upon his father's retirement in 1902, took charge of the farm and has so continued, having established his home there after his marriage in the summer of 1903. Mr. Cherry has made a specialty of the raising of pure-bred Shorthorn cattle and Dorset sheep and has a show flock that he has exhibited at state fairs in Ohio, New York, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas and with which he has won literally "a barrel'. of blue ribbons. In 1917 he was invited to take the position of judge of sheep at the International Live Stock Show at Chicago, which invitation he accepted. He is a director of the Dorset Club, the national association of Dorset sheep breeders. Mr. and Mrs. Cherry are members of the First United Presbyterian church at Xenia. On August 14, 1903, Huston H. Cherry was united in marriage to Clara Gertrude Jackson, who was born at Cedarville, this county, and who had been teaching in the schools of her home town previous to her marriage. Mrs. Cherry is a daughter of the Hon. Andrew and Mary J. (Dunlap) Jack-son, both members of pioneer, families in the Cedarville neighborhood, the latter of whom died on July 31, 1915, and further mention of whom, together with a comprehensive history of the Jackson family, is set out elsewhere in this volume. On December 17, 1868, Andrew Jackson was united in marriage to Mary Jane Dunlap, daughter of James and Jane (Limerick) Dunlap, the former of whom was for many years engaged in the lumber business in Cin-cinnati, later making his home at Cedarville, where he died on January 25, 1890,, at the age of seventy-six years, and to that union were born four children, of whom Mrs. Cherry was the fourth in order of birth, the others being Pearl, wife of R. G. George, who is engaged in the milling business at Jamestown, this county ; Frank, sheriff of Greene county, and Fannie, wife of R. L. 'Baldwin, of Chicago. Mr. Jackson still lives in Cedar-ville in the house formerly owned by James Dunlap, father of Mrs. Jackson, to which home the latter came with her parents from Cincinnati when , seven years of age, Mrs. Lillie Limerick, widow of Dr. Samuel Limerick, of Seattle, Washington, sister of Mrs. Jackson and only surviving member of the Dunlap family, keeping the old home for him - the house in which she was born and in which she is content to spend her last days among the friends of her girlhood. As noted above, Mrs. Cherry was a school teacher GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 573 before her marriage. Since then she has retained her interest in general social-service work and in 1908 organized at Xenia a county branch of the Inter-national Sunshine Society, of which branch she is president. The object of the work of the Sunshine Society is to bring cheer, aid and comfort to the ill, shut-ins, aged and lonely and there are now more than three thousand branches of the society in the United States. For the past ten years Mrs. Cherry has been editor of the Sunshine Department of two magazines and has done other literary work. She also organized in her neighborhood the Home Club, an association of twenty women, the object of the same being to afford entertainment of a literary character once a month, meetings being held in turn in the. homes of the respective members, and to provide during the winter months monthly social evenings for the husbands. VALENTINE P. COY. Valentine P. Coy, proprietor of a farm in Beavercreek township, situated on rural mail route No. 8 out of Dayton, is a member of one of the oldest families in the county, his great-grandfather, Jacob Coy, having settled here upon coming into the then Territory of Ohio with his family from Pennsylvania in the year 1800, as is set out, together with much else of an interesting character relating to the Coy family in this county, elsewhere in this work. Valentine P. Coy has lived in this county all his life. He was born in a log cabin on a farm in Beavercreek township, the place on which one of his brothers and three of his sisters are still living, February 14, 1852, son of John and Catherine (Cosier) Coy, both now deceased, and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, John Coy having been one of the sons of Peter Coy, who was a son of Jacob and Susanna Coy, the pioneers, noted above. Reared on the home farm, Valentine P. Coy received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and when twenty-one years of age was given the management of the home place, his father retiring from the active labors of the farm at that time, and for six years thereafter farmed there. He then took another place and continued renting land until four years after his marriage, when, on March 14, 1890, he bought the old Perry Hawker farm of seventy-three acres in his home township, established his home there and has ever since continued to make that his place of residence. Since taking possession of that place Mr. Coy has made numerous improvements on the place. On July 26, 1917, his barn was destroyed by fire and he at once erected a new and better one, a structure 60 x 38 feet in dimensions. In addition to his general farming he gives considerable attention to the raising of live stock. 574 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO On January 18, 1886, Valentine P. Coy was united in marriage to Savilla Folkerth, who was born at Dubuque, Iowa, daughter and only child of Abraham and Catherine (Willison) Folkerth, the former of whom was born in Montgomery county, this state, and both of whom are now deceased, their last days having been spent in Dubuque, where Mr. Folkerth was engaged in the mercantile business. Mr. Coy is a Republican, as was his father, but has not been an aspirant for public office. JOHN TURNBULL, M. D. In the memorial annals of Greene county there are few names held in better remembrance than that of the late Dr. John Turnbull, who died at his home in Bellbrook in the summer of 1967 and whose widow is still living there, her place of residence ever since her marriage at the close of the Civil War. Doctor Turnbull served as a surgeon in the Union army during the Civil War and a narrative of his experiences in that connection would make a most interesting book. He was graduated from Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in the spring of 1861 and had hardly returned to his home in this county when the President's call for volunteers to put down the armed rebellion against the government came in April of that year. e at once enlisted for service and went to the front as a member of Company A, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, enlisted for three months. He was promoted to the position of hospital steward and after four months of service was mustered out in West Virginia. e then served gratuitously for nearly a year as a volunteer assistant surgeon with the Sixty-fifth Ohio and with the "minute men" of 1862, and then was appointed assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, joining that command at Tullahoma, Tennessee, July 4, 1863. The surgeon of this regiment, Dr. Charles N. Fowler, being constantly on detached service as medical director, Doctor' Turnbull was practically surgeon of the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio until the close of the war and during that period of service rendered his professional offices with a skill and a kindliness of manner that endeared him to all members of the command. During the furious charges of the battle of Chickamauga, Surgeon Turnbull was on duty with his regiment and two Men were shot while he was dressing their wounds. After the battle was over he was left to look after the wounded and was captured by the enemy, but two weeks later was released awl sent through to the Union lines at Chattanooga. While thus a prisoner the Doctor served friend and foe alike, but his kindly offices in behalf of such of the enemy as stood in need of surgical attention did not prevent a squad of Confederate