GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 575 cavalry from robbing him of his coat, hat, boots, money, case of instruments—in fact, everything he had save his shirt and trousers, the rebels giving him an old pair of shoes in exchange for the good pair they took from him. So completely stripped was he that in afterward describing the act the Doctor quaintly observed that the "rebs" had taken from him "about everything except his hope of salvation, which was so small they did not find it." In consequence of the exposure thus entailed Doctor Turnbull was confined for several weeks in a hospital at Chattanooga. Dr. John Turnbull was a native son of Greene county, a member of one of the oldest families in the county, both his father and his mother having been representatives of pioneer families in this section. He was born on a farm in Cedarville township, March 10, 1840, son of John and Catherine Margaret (Kyle) Turnbull, the latter of whom also was born here, daughter of Samuel and Ruth (Mitchell) Kyle, the former of whom was for many years a member of the bench of associate judges for Greene county. John Turnbull was born in the neighborhood of the "Hermitage," Andrew Jackson's retreat in the vicinity of Nashville, Tennessee, February 17, 1801, and was still in his "teens" when his parents, William Turnbull and wife, came up here with their family in 1817 and settled on a tract of land on what is now known as the Columbus pike, in Cedarville township, about three miles from the village of Cedarville. Of the children born to the pioneer William Turnbull and wife six sons, Alexander, Thomas, Gilbert, John, James and David, and two daughters, Betsey, who married Joseph Sterritt, and Isabella, who married John Chalmers, grew to maturity and reared families of their own, hence the Turnbull connection hereabout became a numerous one, as well as in the neighborhood of Monmouth, Illinois, to which latter place William Turnbull and his sons, Alexander, Gilbert and David, moved in 1833, establishing their homes there. John Turnbull grew to manhood on the pioneer farm in Cedarville township and on February 21, 1824, was united in marriage to Catherine Margaret Kyle, one of the daughters of Judge Kyle. After his marriage he began farming on his own account on a farm in Cedarville township, erecting there a log cabin for the reception of his bride. In 1842 he supplanted the log house by a good sized two-story frame house, which on the night of the day on Which it was finished was nearly destroyed by fire communicated from a blaze which had broken out in the adjoining and abandoned log cabin. The damaged house was then restored. as a one-story house and in it the family lived until later a brick addition was erected. John Turnbull lived to be nearly eighty years of age, his death occurring on August 12, 1880, and he was buried in the Cedarville cemetery. He was twice married, his first wife having died in. 1852, after which he married Margaret J. Allen, daughter of Hugh and 576 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Catherine Allen, and was the father of nineteen children, all of whom grew to maturity save three. The home place came into the possession of Samuel K. Turnbull, who rebuilt the house, tearing away the brick addition and erecting a two-story frame house. The Turnbulls, originally Seceders, became affiliated with the United Presbyterian church following the "union" of 1858. The younger John Turnbull was reared on the home farm in Cedarville township, received his elementary schooling in the neighborhood schools. and early turned his attention to the study of medicine, presently entering Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated in the spring of 1861, at twenty-one years of age. Almost immediately thereafter he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union arms, as noted in the opening paragraph of this memorial sketch, and served until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Doctor Turnbull returned to Greene county and opened an office for the practice of his profession in the village of Bellbrook, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there on July 19, 1907. Doctor Turnbull served for some time as president of the local board of education, as a member of the town council and at one time was the nominee of the Democratic party in this district for a seat in the Ohio General Assembly. On September 9, 1865, Dr. John Turnbull was united in marriage to Josephine Kyle, daughter of Dr. John and Caroline (Bullard) Kyle, of Xenia, and to this union were born two children, Jesse, who died at the age of sixteen years, and Pearl A., who married Harry Armstrong, attorney-at-law, Xenia, and has one, child, a daughter, Josephine. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Turnbull has continued to make her home at Bellbrook. WILLIAM WESLEY WHITEKER. William Wesley Whiteker, cashier of the Spring Valley National Bank of Spring Valley, this county, was born at Cynthiana, county seat of Harrison county, Kentucky, a son of Benjamin F. and Amanda M. (King) Whiteker, both of whom Were born in that same county, members of old families in that section of Kentucky. Benjamin F. Whiteker was a well-to-do land-owner, farmer and tobacco merchant. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and he and his wife were members of the Freewill Baptist church. They were the parents of six children, namely : Edward J., a farmer in the vicinity of Cynthiana ; Ella K., wife of John Barlow, of Havilandsville, Harrison county, Kentucky ; William Wesley, subject of this biographical sketch ; Charles R., a farmer and stockman at Cynthiana Joseph D., also GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 577 a farmer and stoekman at that place, and Eureka, who is engaged in the banking business at Detroit, Michigan, connected with one of the savings banks in that city. Reared at Cynthiana, William W. Whiteker received his early schooling in the schools of that city and supplemented the same by a course in the University of Kentucky, after which he was for two or three years engaged as deputy county clerk in his home county. In 1905 he became connected with the Farmers National Bank at Clarksville, Ohio, and was thus engaged for eight months, at the end of Which time he came up into Greene county and was made cashier of the Spring Valley National Bank at Spring Valley, which position he still occupies. Mr. Whiteker is, a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the blue lodge at New Burlington and of the chapter and coun- cil, Royal and Select Masters, at Xenia. He was made a Mason while living in Kentucky, member of Thomas Ware lodge at Claysville, and transferred his membership upon coming to Greene county. Mr. Whiteker is past noble grand of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Spring Valley and a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge at Bellbrook. On September 30, 1912, at Spring Valley, William W. Whiteker was united in marriage to Laura Clark Alexander, who was born at that place and who was graduated from the Xenia high school in 1896. Mrs. Whiteker is a member of one of the oldest families in Greene county, her family having been represented here since the year 1803, the year this county was Created as an independent civic unit. She is a daughter of Perry A. and Ella M. (Elgin) Alexander, the latter of whom, a daughter of Dr. M. B. and Margaret (Craft) Elgin, was educated. at Spring Valley. Perry A. Alexander was born in Spring Valley township on September 28, 1856, son of William J. and Elizabeth (Weller) Alexander, the former of whom was born in that same township and the latter, in Washington township, in the neighboring county of Montgomery, April 18, 1825, and who were married on February 28, 1850. William J. Alexander was born on June 10, 1827, son of Wash-ington and Rachel (Clark) Alexander, members of pioneer families in Spring Valley township, who were married in that township in 1842 and who were the parents of seven children. Washington Alexander was born in South Carolina in 1801 and was but two years of age when his parents, John and Isabel Alexander, came to this county, by way of Butler county, and settled in the then mere backwoods hamlet of Xenia, John Alexander there becoming the first resident lawyer of the new county seat, all of which is told elsewhere in this volume. Washington Alexander studied for the law, but never practiced, instead, turning his attention to farming and became a landowner in Spring Valley township. He died in 1867. His second son, (36) 578 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO William J. Alexander, also studied law and was admitted to the bar, opening an office for the practice of his profession at Spring Valley, later moving to Wilmington and thence to Xenia, where he died on April 18, 1897. He and his wife were the parents of four children, of whom Perry A. Alexander was the eldest. The latter is the owner of several hundred acres of land in the immediate vicinity of Spring Valley. He is a Democrat and in 18910 was the nominee of his party for sheriff. On November 28, 1878, Perry A. Alexander was united in marriage to Ella M. Elgin and to that union were born six children, of whom Mrs. Whiteker was the first-born, the others being William Elgin, Cantwell J., Ralph, Margaret and one deceased. To William W. and Laura C. (Alexander) Whiteker one child has been born, a daughter, Laura Wesley, born on February 3, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Whiteker are members of the Methodist Protestant church and Mr. Whiteker is the superintendent of the Sunday school. W. EDWIN DEAN. W. Edwin Dean, proprietor of a farm of two hundred and twenty-five acres on rural mail route No. out of Cedarville in Cedarville township, was born in that township and has lived there all his life. He was born on October 6, 1875, son of Daniel Milton and Caroline (Haines) Dean, both of whom also were born in this county, and the latter of whom is still living, now a resident of Cedarville. Daniel Milton Dean was born on a farm in what is now New Jasper township, May 19, 183T, son. of Joseph and Hannah (Boggs) Dean, the latter of whom also was born in Ohio, a daughter of Anthony Boggs, who had come to this country from the north of Ireland and had settled in Vir-ginia, later coming over into Ohio and locating in Jackson county, whence in 1818 he moved over into Indiana and located in Blackford county, where he established his home and where he was elevated to the position of judge. of the court. Joseph Dean was born at Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, December 30, 1804, and was about eight years of age when his parents, Daniel and Jennie (Steele) Dean, came up into Ohio in 1812 and settled in that section of Greene county that many years later came to be organized as New Jasper township, becoming thus early recognized as among the influential and use-ful pioneers of that section. Daniel Dean was a native of Ireland, born in County Down, Londonderry. Upon coming to this country he first located in Pennsylvania, moving thence after a while to Virginia, where he married Jennie Steele ; later moving to Kentucky, where he remained until he came to Greene county in 1812, all of which is set out at considerable length GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 579 in this volume in a further and somewhat more comprehensive reference to the Dean family in Greene county. Joseph Dean grew up on that pioneer farm and after his marriage to Hannah Boggs established his home on a portion of the Same, spending there the rest of his life. He and his wife were the parents of six children, those besides Daniel M. having been Joseph N., Lewis, Samuel S., Mary, who married John Wright, and Anna, who married Simeon W. Oldham. Reared on the old Dean home place on which he was born, Daniel M. Dean' remained there until his marriage to Caroline Haines when twenty-six years of age, when he started housekeeping on a part of the home farm, remaining there for three years, at the end of which time he moved to the Haines farm, the place where his wife was born and on which his son Edwin, the subject of this sketch, is now living, and there he spent the remainder of his life. Daniel M. Dean was reared a Whig, but on the organization of the Republican party became affiliated with the latter and for twenty-five years was director of schools in his home district. By religious persuasion he was a member of the United Presbyterian church. His death occurred on December 1, 1912, and his widow is still living, now a resident of Cedarville. She was born on the farm on which her son Edwin is now living on April 21, 1838. To Daniel M. and Caroline (Haines) Dean were born five children, two sons and three daughters, those besides the subject of this sketch being the following: 'Ella, now deceased, who was the wife of R. J. Kyle; Frank ; Julia, wife of the Rev. R. B. Patton, a minister of the United Presbyterian church, living at Columbus, this state, and Gertrude, wife of W. R. Sibley, who is connected with the Erie railroad, with headquarters at Columbus. W. Edwin Dean was reared on the place on which he is now living and supplemented the schooling he received in the neighborhood schools by atten-dance at the schools of Cedarville and at Columbus. In 1897 he assumed charge of the home place and after his marriage in 1901 established his home there. In 1907 he bought the place and has since then added to the acreage of the same until he now is the owner of two hundred and twenty-five acres. In addition to his general farming Mr. Dean gives considerable attention to live stock.' On December 18, 1901, W. Edwin Dean was united in marriage to Maude A. Beard, who was born at Enon, in the neighboring county of Clark, a daughter of William and Aletha (Russell) Beard, the latter of whom was a daughter of the Rev. Moses Russell, who formerly and for years was the pastor of the Presbyterian church at Clifton, this county. William Beard years ago moved with his family down from Enon into this county and 580 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO located on a farm on the Xenia pike in the neighborhood of Yellow Springs, in Miami township, where he is now living. Mr. and Mrs. Dean are members of the Presbyterian church at Clifton and Mr. Dean is a Republican. ALLEN E. WELLER. Allen E. Weller, who is the owner of four farms comprising nearly. six hundred acres of land in Sugarcreek township, where he makes his. home, was born in that township and has lived there all his life. He was born on a farm a mile and a quarter southwest of Bellbrook on February 8, 1864, son and only child of Perry and Sarah (Wilson) Weller, both of whom were born in the neighboring county of Montgomery, but who came over into Greene county in 1861 and here spent the remainder of their lives. Perry Weller was born on January 28, 1838, and remained in Montgomery county until 1861, when he bought a farm of one hundred and seventy-two acres something more than a mile southwest of Bellbrook in this county and there established his home. His wife died there on February 8, 1900, and in 1913 he bought the old White farm a mile and a half west of Bell-brook, moved onto the same and there spent his last days, his death occur-ring in August, 1914. Reared on the home farm in Sugarcreek township, Allen E. Weller received his early schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and supplemented the same by a course in the schools at Centerville, over in Montgomery county. After his marriage in the spring of 1887 he began farming on his own account and has ever since been thus engaged, though of late years he has been living practically retired from the active labors of the farm, his sons and responsible tenants taking charge of his farms. Mr. Weller is now the owner of four farms in Sugarcreek township, his hold-ings comprising five hundred and ninety-two acres. He is a Republican, but has not been a seeker after public office. Mr. Weller has been twice married. On March 23, 1887, at Center-ville, he was united in marriage to Jessie F. Bradford, who was born in that village, daughter of Ebenezer and Cynthia (Browning) Bradford, the former of whom is still living at Centerville, and to that union were born five children, namely: Henry Bradford, born in 1890, who is living on the home farm, taking charge of the same for his father ; Edna, born in 1892, who married George Carey, of West Milton, and has one child, a son, Vincent ; Perry, born in August, 1893, who is at home with his father ; Sarah, born in 1895, who married Walter Dinwiddie and is now living at Dayton, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 581 and Raymond, born in 1896, now living on one of his father's farms south-west of Bellbrook and who married Ruth Mills and has one child, a son, Byron. The mother of these children died in 1903 and was buried at Centerville. In 1906 Mr. Weller married Nellie Printz, of Waynesville. Mr. and Mrs. Weller are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. For the past six or seven years Mr. Weller has been a member of the local school board. FRED C. BARR. Fred C. Barr, chief electrician in charge of the electrical equipment, of the three power houses of the Dayton Power and Light Company in Dayton, also the power houses owned by that company in several other towns, including the electric power plant at Xenia, is a native son of Greene county and one of the products of the scholastic and industrial training given at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home who points with pride and pleasure to the early instruction he received in that institution. In passing, it is but fitting to say that Mr. Barr's wife also received her early schooling in that institution and both remain firm friends and supporters of the noble work that is there being carried on. Mr. Barr was born at Cedarville and was but a small child when his mother died. His father died when he was but five years of age and he later was placed in charge of the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia, his father having been a veteran of the Civil War. In that institution he remained until he was sixteen years of age, acquiring there the rudiments of the mechanical and engineering training which he later put to advantage in perfecting himself as an electrician, and it is noteworthy that he later was called back to his old school and was there installed as assistant chief engineer, a position he occupied some time, or until he was called to wider fields of endeavor. On. both his mother's side and that of his father, Mr. Barr is of old Greene county stock, the Barrs and the McHattons and the Mitchells—his mother having been a Mitchell—having been here since pioneer days. He was born at Cedarville on December 17, 1877, son of Samuel and Lizzie L. (Mitchell) Barr, both of whom also were born at Cedarville, the latter a daughter of John Mitchell and wife. Samuel Barr was born on March 14, 1843, son of James A. Barr and wife,. the latter of whom was a McHatton a daughter of Col. John McHatton, who was a son of Gen. Alexander McHatton, both of which officers held commissions under General Wash-ington during the Revolutionary War and who were the recipients of considerable grants of land in Ohio by reason of their service in behalf of the patriot cause. James A. Barr was born in this state and became a 582 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO resident of Cedarville. Of the children born to him and his wife three are still living, Albert Barr, of Cedarville; James Barr, of Dayton, and Mrs. Sallie E. Mitchell, wife of the brother of Lizzie L. Mitchell. Samuel Barr grew up at Cedarville and was living there when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted for service and went to the front as a member of the Tenth Ohio Light Artillery. While serving with that command he was severely wounded and was given an honorable discharge, but upon recovering from his disability he re-enlisted and again went to the front as a member of the Army of the Potomac. Upon the completion of his military service he returned to Cedarville and there became engaged in the contracting business. He also served for some time as town marshal. His death occurred at that place on September 16, 1882, the subject of this sketch at that time being under five years of age. On November 12, 1868, Samuel Barr was united in marriage to Lizzie L. Mitchell, of Cedarville, who pre-deceased him two or three years. She was a member of a considerable family and of the children born to her parents, John Mitchell and wife, two are still living, Mrs. Nellie Bishop, of Dayton, and Frank Mitchell, of South Charleston. Samuel Barr was a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Cedarville and of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at that place. He and his wife are buried at Cedarville. They were the parents of three children, one of whom, a son, died in infancy. A sister of the subject of this sketch, Maude M., married Henry Denny and died on August 9, 189o. 1890.ted above, the mother of Fred C. Barr died when he was but a small child and his father died when he was under five. For a year thereafter he was cared for by his grandmother and then was placed in charge of the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia, where he remained until he was sixteen years of age, when he went to Dayton, where he became employed as a: stationary engineer and where, a year or two later, he took up the study of electrical engineering. When twenty years of age he returned to his childhood home at Cedarville and was there charged with the construction of the old electric-light plant, which he operated for a year after its installation. He then was appointed assistant chief engineer at the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home and while thus engaged was married, remaining there until in November, 1900, When he was made the electrician for the Xenia Light and Power Company, continuing thus engaged for a year, at the end of which time he was employed to install the equipment for the Hollenkamp ice plant at Xenia. He then went to Somerset, Kentucky, where he installed an electric-light plant and upon his return to Xenia installed there. the first large gas-engine-driven electric plant set up in the state of Ohio, and was thereafter, until 1905, moved in that city GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 583 as the superintendent of the plant for the Peoples Gas and Electric Company. Mr. Barr then accepted employment with the Westinghouse Electric Company of Pittsburgh and for some time traveled for that company out of New York and Boston, engaged in erection and "trouble" work. He then returned to Ohio, having been given the position of superintendent of the electric plant at Salem and was there thus engaged until his return to Xenia in 1997 as superintendent of the two electric light and power plants in that city, and has ever since been connected with that service, for the past three years or more serving as station electrician in charge of equipment of all plants of the Dayton Power and Light Company. In October, 1889, Fred C. Barr was united in marriage to Ruth Alberta Given, who was born at Birmingham, Alabama, daughter of William A. and Martha S. (Sparks) Given, the latter of whom died when her daughter was but a small child. William A. Given, who Was a native of Ohio and a veteran of the Civil War, returned to Ohio after the death of his wife And later placed his daughter in the care of the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, where she completed her schooling and where she was in residence at the time of her marriage to Mr. Barr. To that union eight children have been born, namely : Margaret, born on November 10, 1900, who died on May 26, 1916; Mildred, July 18, 1992; Frederick, July 7, 1905; Helen, March 21, 1907; Frances, March 31, 1909: Russell, November 18, 1910; Ruth, February 12, 1915, and Richard, December 16, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Barr are members of the Second United Presbyterian church. Mr. Barr is a member of the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons and both he and his wife are members of the local chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. He also is a member of the local lodge of the Woodmen of the World. He is independent in his political views. J. C. BLOTNER. J. C. Blotner, lumber dealer at Osborn, this county, has been engaged in business there since the fall of 19m. He was born in Darke county, this state, January 18, 1872, son of John and Rhoda (Swisher) Blotner, the latter of whom was born in that same county. John Blotner was born in Pennsylvania in 1840 and came to Ohio in the days of his youth, marrying in Darke county.. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company E, Fortieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until he lost his right arm at the battle of Chickamauga. Politically, he was a Republican. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He and his wife 584 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO were the parents of nine children, three of whom died in infancy, the others besides the subject of this sketch being William F., Louisa, Sarah, Sidney and Alonzo. Reared in Darke county, J. C. Blotner received his schooling in the public schools of that county and upon starting out for himself rented a farm for two years. He then became employed in a lumber yard, his first wage in that capacity being fifty cents a day, and in time beeame an experienced lumberman, continuing thus engaged, working for others, for eighteen years, or until the fall of 1910, when he moved to Osborn and bought from Mrs. S. C., Godall the lumber yard which he has since been operating at that place. It was on September 14, 1910, that Mr. Blotner took possession of that lumber yard and since then he has made additions to the same. On October 8, 1901, J. C. Blotner was united in marriage to Helen Haack, who also was born in Darke county, this state, daughter of August and Sophia (Stierle) Haack, the latter of whom also was born in that same county and the former in Germany, he having come to this country when a young man and proceeding on out to Ohio and settling in Darke county, where he engaged in farming and where he spent his last days. Mr. and Mrs. Blotner have three children, Rubine, Dorothy Louise and Emma Caroline They are members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Blotner is independent in his political views. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Osborn. ELMER NELSON SHIGLEY. Elmer Nelson Shigley, of Ross township, proprietor of a farm on the Cedarville-Jamestown pike, rural mail route No. 3 out of Cedarville, was born on the farm on which he now lives and has lived there all his life. He was born on February 25, 1861, son of Joseph and Anna (Prugh) Shigley. the latter of whom was born on a farm six miles south of Dayton, in the neighboring county of Montgomery, in 1826, a daughter of John F. and Rebecca (Nicodemus). Prugh, who had come to Ohio from Maryland and after a sometime residence in, Preble county had moved over into Montgomery county, where John F. Prugh operated a mill and became the owner of three or four hundred acres of land. He and his wife were orig-inally Methodists, but later beeame affiliated with the Reformed church in the neighborhood of their home. They were the parents. of three sons and four daughters. Joseph Shigley was born on a farm in Ross township, this county, a half mile southeast of the place where his son Elmer is now living, Septem- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 585 ber 19, 1820, son of George and Olivet (Franklin) Shigley, natives of Virginia. George Shigley came to Ohio as a young man and located in Ross county in 1805, presently moving to Greene county and establishing his home in Ross township in 1812, becoming the owner there of a farm of about two hundred acres. During the War of 1812 he gave service as a soldier. He and his wife were Methodists and the first services conducted by the Methodists in that community were held in their house. When a congregation was organized at Jamestown they became affiliated with the same. George Shigley died at his home in Ross township on May 14, 1867, he then being seventy-seven years of age, and was buried in the cemetery at Jamestown. His wife died at the age of sixty-five. Of the children born to them five sons and five daughters grew to maturity and as most of these married and reared families, the Shigley connection in the succeeding generation became a quite numerous one hereabout. After his marriage in 1844 to Anna Prugh, Joseph Shigley established his home on the farm on which his son Elmer now lives, buying there a tract of two hundred and fifty acres, and enlarged his holdings until he eventually became the owner of more than six 'hundred acres, which upon his retirement from the active labors of the farm in 1881 he divided among his children and then moved to Jamestown, where his last days were spent. His wife died there in August, 1884, and he later married Mrs. Mary Atkinson, who survived. him, his death occurring in November, 1890, and hers, in 1893. Joseph Shigley was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Jamestown. Politically, he was a Republican and had served the public as township trustee and as township assessor. To Joseph and Anna (Prugh) Shigley were born seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the sixth in order of birth, the others being John W., Who is now living retired with his children in Silvercreek township; Henry F., who died at his home in Ross township in 1878, three -years after his marriage ; David C., a retired farmer, now living at Jamestown; Viola C., a widow, now living at James-town, who has been twice married, her first husband having been S. S. Collet and her second, Frank Kelly ; Ella, now living at Washington Court House, this state, widow of Jasper L. Chapman, and Mattie, who died at the age of sixteen years. Elmer N. Shigley grew up on the home farm in Ross township and received his schooling in the Oak Grove school. After his father's retirement in 1881 he continued to live on the home farm, making his home with his sister, Mrs. Chapman, and her husband until his marriage three years later when his father gave him a part of the farm. To that portion he added by purchase until he now is the owner of one hundred and sixty acres, including the tract on which stands the brick farm house erected by the father 586 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO there in 1854 and in which he was born, and there he makes his home. Mrs. Shigley is also a member of one of Greene county's old families, the Paullins, further. mention of which pioneer family is made elsewhere in this volume. She also was born in Ross township, Minnie Paullin, daughter of Enos and Sarah Paullin, both now deceased, and she was married to Mr. Shigley on November 6, 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Shigley are members of the Christian church at Jamestown and he has served as a member of the board of trustees of the same. Politically, he is a Republican, as was his" father. JOHN CHARLTON SPAHR. John Charlton Spahr, proprietor of "Oak Grove Farm," in Ross township, was born on the farm on which he now lives and has resided there all his life. He was born on July 30, 1.886, son and only child of John Morgan and Ella (Charlton) Spahr, both of whom also were born in this county, the former in New Jasper township and the latter in Cedarville township, and the latter of whom is still living, now a resident of Jamestown. John Morgan Spahr, who died at his home in Ross township on June 15, 1898, was a son of John Spahr and a member of one of the pioneer families of this part of the state, the Spahrs having been prominently repre-sented here since the early days of the settlement of Greene county, as is set out elsewhere in this work. Mr. Spahr's widow, Who was born Ella Charlton, also is a member of one of the county's old families, a daughter of Samuel Charlton, a pioneer miller of the Cedarville neighborhood. John Charlton Spahr was reared on the farm on which he was born, the operation of which was maintained by his mother after the death of his father, he having been but twelve years of age at the time of his father's death. He supplemented the schooling received in the home school by a course in the Jamestown high school and was graduated from the latter in .19105. That course he supplemented by a course in the Commercial College at Dayton, from which he also was graduated, and then he entered the agricultural department of Ohio State University, from which He was graduated in 1910. Thus equipped for farm operations along modern lines, Mr. Spahr took charge of the home farm in behalf of his mother and has since maintained his residence there, having established his home there after his marriage in the spring of 1914. "Oak Grove Farm" is a place of two hun-dred and fifty-five acres and since taking charge of the same Mr. Spahr has made many improvements, including a new farm house and farm build-ings in keeping with the same. Mr. Spahr also is the owner of a farm of GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 587 one hundred and seventy acres south of Jamestown and in addition to his general farming gives considerable attention to the raising of hogs and Aberdeen-Angus cattle. He also is a stockholder in several corporations. On April 18, 1914, John Charlton Spahr was united in marriage to Ethel McCallister, who was born in the vicinity of the city of Wilmington, in the neighboring county of Clinton, but was reared at Xenia, her parents having died when she was a small child. Mr. and Mrs. Spahr are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Jamestown and Mr. Spahr is a member of the local, lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order .of Elks at Xenia. Politically, he is a Republican and has served his party as a delegate to state conventions. ELMER H. SMITH. Elmer H. Smith, proprietor of a farm of nearly one hundred acres in Silvercreek township, was born on a farm in Caesarscreek township on Feb-ruary 18, 1880, son of John B. and Sarah (Baynard) Smith, both of whom are still living, now residents of the city of Xenia. John B. Smith is a Virginian, but has been a resident of this county since he was seventeen years of age. His mother died when he was a small child and his father afterward married and a few years later died. The stepmother, accompanied by the son John B. and his two sisters, then came to Ohio, locating south of Xenia, in this county, where John B. Smith remained until his marriage to Sarah Baynard, after which he rented a farm in New Jasper township and later moved to Caesarscreek township and began farming on his father-in-law's farm. He later bought a farm in Caesarscreek township and there resided until failing health compelled his retire-ment and removal to Xenia, where he and his wife are now living on North Detroit street. John B. Smith is a Republican. His wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have six children, of whom the sub-ject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being Mary J., wife of William Fudge, a farmer of New Jasper township; Walter B., a carpenter ; George, who is the manager of the Walker coal yard at Xenia; Hazel, wife of O. C. Colvin, a farmer of Caesarscreek township, and Albertus D., who is now (1918) with the American Expeditionary Force in France, a member of the Sixteenth Company, Second Motor Mechanics Regiment, national army of the United States, in the war against Germany. Elmer H. Smith was reared on the home farm and received his school-ing in the local schools. After his marriage in 1908 he took charge of the place he now owns and has since been operating the same, since. taking possession having made numerous improvements, including a new barn. In 588 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO addition to his general farming Mr. Smith gives considerable attention to the raising of registered big type Poland China hogs, Shorthorn cattle and horses of a good strain. In his political affiliation he is a Republican. On December 26, 1908, Elmer H. Smith was united in marriage to Alice Haughey, who was born in Jefferson township, this county, daughter of David P. and Rose (Early) Haughey, the Haugheys being one of the old. families in Greene county, and to this union two children have been born, daughters both, Zora Lucile and Mary Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are member of the Methodist Protestant church at Bowersville and Mr. Smith is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Xenia. CLYDE C. BEAM. Clyde C. Beam, proprietor of a stone quarry at Yellow Springs, was born on a farm in Liberty township, in the neighboring county of Clinton, November 15, 1883. He is a son of William O. and Sarah Elizabeth (Place-maker) Beam, the former of whom was born in Greene county on November 29, 1856, and the latter in 1863, who are now living in the village of Port William. William O. Beam was, reared on a farm in this county and here received his schooling. After his marriage in 1882 he established his home on a farm in Liberty township, Clinton county, and there remained until about 1893, when he disposed of his interests on the farm and moved with his family to Port William and was there engaged in the retail meat business for about five years, at the end of which time he bought the old landmark mill at Port William, tore down the old mill that had been standing for more than a hundred years, replaced it with a new and modern mill and is still engaged there in the milling business. He and his wife have five children, those besides the subject of this sketch, who is the eldest, being Jennie, who is now attending business college at Springfield; Cleo, Joseph Daniel and Geneva. Having been but about ten years of age when his parents moved from the farm to Port William, Clyde C. Beam completed his early schooling in the schools of that village and afterward took the high-school course at Wilmington College, later taking a year at Jacob's University at Dayton. In the Meantime he had become experienced in the milling business, but not caring to continue in that line presently became engaged in the stone-crushing business, giving particular attention to county work, mostly road work, doing considerable work for the state on the construction of the inter-county highways, and in 1914 moved to Yellow Springs and has since carried on his operations from that point, owning a quarry just outside the city limits, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 589 on the Pennsylvania railroad south of town, which h has equipped with stone crushers and all necessary machinery. On August 10, 1904, Clyde C. Beam was united in marriage to Hettie M. Powers, who was born in this county February 15, 1886, daughter of Stephen and Ella (Mason) Powers, who are now living in Clinton county and who are the parents of five children, those besides Mrs. Beam being Robert, who is married and lives in Clinton county ; Jessie, wife of Lee Woolery, also of Clinton county; Foy, who is at home with his parents, and Emma, who is making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Beam at Yellow Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Beam are members of the Methodist church. They have one child, a daughter, Virginia L., born on August 1, 1905. Mr. Beam is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Yel-low Springs. Politically, he is "independent." JOHN ALEXANDER. John Alexander, proprietor of a farm on rural route No. 2 out of Yellow Springs, in Miami township, was born in the neighboring township of Bath and has lived in that neighborhood and in the adjoining county of Clark all his life. e was born on February, 13, 1866, son of Samuel and Lydia (Hess) Alexander, who were married in Pennsylvania and later came to Ohio, the rest of their lives being spent in Greene county and in the neighboring county of Clark. It was in the year 1851 that Samuel Alexander and his wife came to Ohio and settled in Clark county. Two years later, in 1853, they came down into Greene county and located on a farm in Bath township, where they remained until 1870, in which year they returned to Clark county, established their home on a farm there and there spent the remainder of their lives. Samuel Alexander died in 1892 and his widow survived him for about seven years, her death occurring in 1899. They were the parents of six children, of whom four are still living,. the subject of this sketch; the sixth in order of birth, having a sister, Mary, widow of Joseph Flatter, of Clark county, and two brothers, William Alexander, who lives in the West, and Samuel S. Alexander, who is engaged in the meat-packing business at Denver, Colorado. John Alexander was four years of age when his parents moved from Bath township, this county, up into Clark county and in the latter county he was reared and had his schooling, remaining at home, engaged in farming, until he was twenty-one years of age. A year later he married and established his home on the farm on which he is now living in Miami township, 590 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO this county, and ever since has made his home there. Mr. Alexander has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock in connection with his general farming operations. e has served his district as supervisor of highways and is now serving as a member of the board of complaint under the new Warren taxing law. On February 27, 1888, John Alexander was united in marriage to Emma Oster, daughter of Martin and Eva (Slate) Oster, of this county, and to that union five children were born, namely: Margaret, who died in infancy ; George, also deceased; Lena, who is at home with her father; Charles M., who is assisting his father in the management of the home farm, and Arthur, who. is now engaged as the official tester of the Clark County Dairy Association. The mother of these children died on January 23, 1918. DAVID H. McFARLAND. David H. McFarland, mayor of Cedarville, justice of the peace in and for Cedarville township, a former member of the town council and for years a building contractor at Cedarville, was born in that village and has lived there all his life. He was born on December 16, 1850, son of Robert Patterson and Emily (Booth) McFarland, both of whom were members of pioneer families in that part of the county. Robert Patterson McFarland was born on. a farm two and one-half miles east of Cedarville,. a son of Robert McFarland and wife, the latter of whom was a White and both of whom were born in the vicinity of Lexington, Kentucky. Robert McFarland was a son of Arthur McFarland, who came" to this, country from Scotland, the land of his birth, and after a sometime residence in Kentucky came up into Ohio with his family and settled on a track of land south of Cedarville, in this county, where he spent the rest of his life. Arthur McFarland and wife were members of the Christian church and were the parents of eleven children, Clark, Joseph, Lewis, Robert, William, James, Priscilla, Ann, Lavina, Emily and Cynthia. Robert McFarland established his home on a farm two and one-half, miles east of Cedarville and there he and his wife reared their family and spent the rest of their lives, he living to be eighty-three years of age. Their son, Robert P. McFarland, grew up on that farm and afterward became a wagon-maker, establishing a shop at Cedarville, where for many years he was thus engaged. He was a Republican and held various public offices of a local character: By religious persuasion he was a Methodist. Robert P. McFarland married Emily Booth, who also was born in Cedarville township, a daughter of Caleb Booth, who died at his home five miles GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 591 east of Cedarville when forty-five years of age. Caleb Booth was twice married. By his first marriage he had one child, a:daughter, Mrs. Rainey. After the death of his first wife he married her sister and to that union were born six children, Belle, Emily, Ann, David, John and Alfonso. To Robert B. and Emily (Booth) McFarland were. born five children, namely : Calvin, deceased; David Henry, the immediate subject of this biographical sketch; Mary, wife of Charles W. Harris, a retired farmer living at Cedarville; Charles B., who died at his farm home in the neighboring county of Clark in February, 1911, and William Edgar, who is now farming in the vicinity of Everson, Montana. David H. McFarland was reared at Cedarville and received his schooling in the village schools. He learned the trade of wagon-making under the direction of his father and for some years was engaged in working in his father's shop. In 1873 he married and began working on his own account as a building contractor and has ever since been engaged in that vocation, many of the principal buildings in and about Cedarville having been built under his direction, among these works having been the reconstruction of the Whitelaw Reid home. Mr. McFarland is a Republican, and for the past six years has been serving as mayor of his home town and for an equal length of time has been justice of the peace in and for Cedar-ville township. He also has served as a member of the common council, as a member of the school board and for fifteen years as local health officer. In 1873 David H. McFarland was united in marriage to Eleanor J. Owen, who also was born in Cedarville, daughter of John S. and Jane (Butler) Owen, who came to this county from Butler county, Virginia, and located at Cedarville, where they spent the remainder of their lives, John S. Owen there following the blacksmith trade and the practice of veterinary surgery. John S. Owen and wife had six children, those, besides Mrs. McFarland, the last in order of birth, being James (deceased), John (deceased), Alexander, Catherine. and Susan. To David H. and Eleanor J. (Owen) McFarland have been born six children, namely : Berton E.. who married Daisy Ford and is living at Cedarville, where he is engaged as foreman for the Cedarville Lime Company, having formerly and for years been the assistant agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at that place; Arthur B., a painter, now living at Dayton, this state; Aletha J., who married William Parkman and is also living at Dayton; Merle, who is at home; Albert Raymond, who is now living at Columbus, this state, where he is engaged as auditor in the office of the State Savings and Trust Bank, and William ̊Leroy, a cartoonist, who was killed in an elevator accident at Columbus in 1909, he then being twenty-four years of age. Miss. Merle McFarland completed her schooling at Oxford and began teaching 592 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO in Clark county, but for the past six or seven years has been engaged as a teacher in the Cedarville sehools. The McFarlands are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. DANIEL OL.IVER JONES. Daniel Oliver Jones, secretary-treasurer of the Alpha Seed and Grain Company, former trustee of Beavercreek township, a member of the Greene county-board of elections and proprietor of a farm on rural mail route No. 10 out of Xenia, is a native Son of Greene county and has lived here all his life. e was born at Trebeins on February 10, 1873, son, of David and Rachel (Davis) Jones, the latter of whom also was born in Beavercreek township and is still' living there, continuing to make her home on the farm now owned and operated by her only son Daniel, this being the old Andrew farm, on which she has lived since her marriage to the late Samuel G. Andrew in 1890. David Jones was born in the vicinity of the city of Hagerstown in Maryland, March 17, 1849, and was about 'fifteen years of' age when he eame to Ohio with his parents, Edward and Minerva (Cook) Jones, the family locating at Trebeins, in this. county. Edward Jones was a mill man and after ten years spent at Trebeins he moved to Stillwater, in the neighboring county of Montgomery, where he became engaged in the saw-mill business and where he spent the rest of his life. e and his wife were the parents of five children, of whom David was the eldest. David Jones grew up at Trebeins and was there instructed by his father in the details of the milling business, a vocation he followed until his death at the age of thirty-one years, June 8, 1880, leaving a widow and a son, Daniel O., the latter at that time being but seven years of age. The widow was born, Rachel Davis, in Beavercreek township, this county, August 19, 1850, daughter of Daniel and Rebecca (Gerhard) Davis, the former of whom also was born in that town-ship, in the Alpha neighborhood, August 19, 1810, a son of Daniel and Elizabeth Davis, pioneers of that section and both of whom died when their son Daniel was a small boy. Daniel Davis, Jr., was early put to the cooper's trade and as a young man followed that vocation. He married Rebecca Gerhard, who was born at Liberty, in Frederick county, Maryland, March 1, 1818, and who was but two years of age when her parents, John and Elizabeth Gerhard, came to Ohio with their family and settled in the neighborhood of David's church, over in Montgomery county, where they established their home and spent the remainder of their lives. After his marriage Daniel Davis bought a farm north of Alpha and thereafter followed farming GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 593 as a vocation until his retirement and removal to Alpha, where he died on September 12, 1877. His widow survived him for many years, her death occurring on July 21, 1911, she then being past ninety-three years of age. They were members of the Beaver Reformed church and both are buried in Beaver cemetery. They were the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Andrew, mother of the subject of this sketch, was the fourth in order of birth, the others being the following: John, who is still living at Trebeins; William K., who died at his home in Xenia in 1917; Harriet C., now deceased, who was the wife of Samuel Puterbaugh, also now deceased ; Rebecca, unmarried, who is living at Trebeins; D. W., who is living at Xenia; Ada M., Wife of Samuel Huston, of Dayton, and Augustus H., now a resident of Pasadena, California: In 18910 Mrs. Rachel Davis Jones, widow of David Jones and mother of the subject of this biographical review, married Samuel G. Andrew, of Beavercreek township, whose first wife had died not long before, and she has ever since made her home on the old Andrew place, occupying the brick house which was erected there in 1849 and which was in those days regarded as one of the best farm residences in the county. The late Samuel G. Andrew. who died at his home on that place on December 10, 1912, was born in Xenia township, this county, August 23, 1840, son of George and Jane (Goe) Ouinn Andrew, the latter of whom was a daughter of Samuel Goe, after whom Goes Station in this county was given its name, and widow of the Hon. Amos Quinn, who was representing this county in the state Legislature at the time of his death in 1837 and further mention of whom is made in connection with a biographical reference to his daughter, Mrs. John B. Lucas, made elsewhere in this volume. George Andrew was born in South Carolina in 1791 and was but a boy when he came with his parents to this county, the Andrew family becoming pioneers in Xenia township. In 1817 George Andrew married Elizabeth Ann Foster and to that union were torn nine children, William, Alexander, Martha, who married James Turner, Robert, William, John, Elizabeth, Hugh and George. Following the death of the mother of these children George Andrew married, December 22, 1839, Jane, widow of Amos Quinn, and to that union were born two sons, Samuel G. and John Calvin, the latter of whom is still living, a resident of Xenia. Samuel G. Andrew in time became the owner of the farm of two hundred and fifty acres in Beavercreek township which his father had bought in 1854. During the Civil War he served as a member of the National Guard company at Xenia and later as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In the summer of 1866 he married Keziah Luse, who died without issue, and in 1890 he mar- (37) 594 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ried Mrs. Rachel Jones, who survives him, as noted above. Mr. Andrew was a Republican and in 1890 was elected to the office of justice of the peace in and for his home township. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church and his widow is a member of the Reformed church, with which latter communion her son and his family are also connected. Daniel Oliver Jones was seven years of age when his father died and was sixteen when his mother married Mr. Andrew, his home thereafter being made on the Andrew place, which he now owns, in Beavercreek township. He was graduated from the Beavercreek township high school in 1892, a member of the second class graduated from that school after it received its commission, and for nine years thereafter was engaged as a teacher in the schools of this county, teaching for seven years in Beavercreek township and for two years in Xenia township, it being a matter of distinct recollection on the part of Mr. Jones that it always seemed to him that he was given schools in which the teachers previously had had trouble due to refractory and unruly pupils; he apparently being put in charge for the purpose of restoring order and maintaining discipline. During this period he took a course of normal training at Antioch College and during the summers con-tinued engaged on his stepfather's farm. In 1901 he gave up work in the school room and became engaged in the agricultural-implement business at Trebeins, continuing thus engaged for two years, at the end of which time the failing health of Mr. Andrew required that he return to the home farm and take charge of the operation of the same. In the summer of 19108 he married and established his home there and in 1911 erected on the place a new house for himself and family adjoining the old brick house, the latter of which his mother still maintains as her home. Following the death of Mr. Andrew in 1912 Mr. Jones bought from the other heirs the home farm, except his mother's interest, and is now the owner of the same, a place of one hundred and forty acres. In addition to his farming operations Mr. Jones gives considerable attention to the general business affairs of his com-munity and is secretary-treasurer and a member of the board of directors of the Alpha Grain and Seed Company. He is Republican and for ten years served as trustee of Beavercreek township and is now and for the past four years has been a member of the Greene county board of elections. For six years he served as party committeeman for his precinct and for fifteen years has been serving as a member of county central committee, for much of that time a member of the executive committee of the same. On June 16, 1908, Daniel O. Jones was united in marriage to Gertrude Kable, daughter of John and Jennie (Ferguson) Kable, of the Bel!brook neighborhood, both members of old families in this county, and to this union GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 595 two children have been born, Miriam Kable, born on August 10, 1909, and Helen Louise, December 6, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are members of the Beaver Reformed church and for more than thirteen years Mr. Jones has been the superintendent of the Sunday school of the same. e also has served on the consistory and as treasurer of the congregation. JASPER S. BEAL. Jasper S. Beal, former marshal of the city of Yellow Springs and a retired farmer now living in that city, was born on a farm in Beavercreek township, this county, February 9, 1847, son of Thomas and Priscilla (Hop-ping) Beal, both of whom also were born in this county and whose last days were spent here. Thomas Beal was born on October 26, 1821, son of Thomas Beal, and on May 27, 1845, married Priscilla Hopping, who was born on August 13, 1825, a daughter of John and Patsy Hopping, also pioneers of Greene county. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in Beaver-creek township and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, her. death occurring on February 18, 1847, when her son, the subject of this sketch, was nine days old, and less than two years after her marriage. She left also a baby daughter, Martha J. Florence, born on March 3, 1846, who married Martin Harner and died in 1897. Thomas Beal survived his wife but seven years, his death occurring on April 12, 1854, his son Jasper being then but seven years of age. Thus early bereaved of his parents, Jasper S. Beal was reared by Jane Holland, of Beavercreek township, and received his schooling in the local Public schools. In due time he took charge of the farm on which he was born and. which he still owns, a place of one hundred and thirty acres, and after his marriage in the spring of 1872 established his home on that farm and there resided practically all the time until his retirement from the farm and removal in 1891 to Yellow Springs, where he has resided ever since, a period of twenty-six years. About 1887 Mr. Beal left the farm for a while and went to Kankakee, Illinois, where he became engaged in the confectionery business. but after two years of that sort of experience returned to the farm. 11\4r. Beal is a Republican and for two terms served as marshal of Yellow Springs. Mr. Beal has been twice married. On March 27, 1872, he was united in marriage to Martha Jane Watson, who died on June 27, 1879, leaving on April 3, 1884. On October 12, 1881, Mr. Beal married Margaret J. one child, a daughter, Bessie Jane, born on November 1, 1877, and who died 596 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Hume, who was born in New York state and who was but an infant when her parents, Robert and Phoebe (Sines) Hume, came to Ohio and located on a farm in Miami township, this county. To this second Union one child was born, a son, Jasper L. Beal, born on December 30, 1885, who mar-ried Amy Booth, who died in October, 1913, leaving three children, Mary Frances, Jasper A. N. and Robert Leon. Mr. and Mrs. Beal are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Beal is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. REV. WILLIAM A. CONROY. The Rev. William A. Conroy, pastor of St. Augustine Catholic church at Jamestown, this county, is a native of the Blue Grass state but has been a resident of Ohio since he was six years of age and of Greene county since he entered upon the duties of his pastorate at Jamestown in the summer of 1915. He was born at Covington, Kentucky, August 4, 1882, first in order of birth of the four children born to his parents, Charles and Catherine (O'Rourke) Conroy, the other members of the family being the Rev. James Conroy, now assistant pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic church at London, in the neighboring county of Madison; Charles Conroy, Jr., who is engaged in the retail shoe business at Piqua, this state, and Nora, wife of Anthony Hemm, also of Piqua. The elder Charles Conroy also was born in Kentucky, as was his wife, both of Irish descent, and is an iron moulder by trade. Years ago he moved with his family from Covington to Ohio and located at Piqua, where his wife died in 1913, she then being fifty-two years of age, and where he is still living. e is a member of the Catholic church, as was his wife, and their children were reared in that faith, two of their sons early entering holy orders. As noted above, William A. Conroy was but six years of age when his parents moved from Covington to Piqua and in the latter city he grew to manhood, receiving his early schooling in St. Mary's parochial school. Early evincing unusual aptitude for study and a thoughtful concern for the affairs of the church he was placed in St. Gregory's Preparatory Seminary' at Cedar Point, in Hamilton county, as a means of preliminary preparation for the Priesthood, and was graduated from that institution in 1904. In that same year the preparatory school was discontinued at Cedar Point and the bishop established Mt. St. Mary's Seminary at that place for theological instruc-tion and it was in this latter seminary that Father Conroy finished his theo-logical course, being graduated from the seminary in 1909. On June 16 of that same year he was ordained to the priesthood and was straightway GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 597 appointed assistant pastor at St. Peter's cathedral at Cincinnati, where he remained until in June, 1915, when he was appointed to succeed Father John Malone as the pastor of St. Augustine Parish at Jamestown, which office he since has been filling. Father Conroy is an earnest and energetic young clergyman and during his pastorate at Jamestown has done much to build up his parish and to create a livelier interest in the affairs of the church. Since his arrival in Jamestown several new Catholic families have located there, with a resultant addition to the membership of fhe church, there now being thirty-four families in the parish, and admirable progress is reported along all lines of parish work. Father Conroy is a member of the Knights of Columbus, affiliated with the council of that order at Xenia, and takes a warm interest in the affairs of the same. His general manner has rendered it easy for him to enter into the life of the community in which he has been stationed and during his residence of but little more than two years at Jamestown he has made many friends there and throughout the county. JOHN FRANKLIN PUTERBAUGH. John Franklin Puterbaugh, proprietor of a Beavercreek township farm of two hundred and fifty acres situated on the Swigart road, rural mail route No. 2 out of Spring Valley, in that township, was born on that farm, was reared in Xenia and has been a resident of the farm, which he inherited, since his marriage in 1899. He was born on December 4, 1878, son and only surviving child of Samuel and Harriet (Davis) Puterbaugh, the former of whom was born on that same farm, a part of the old original Puterbaugh entry, and the latter on a farm adjoining, both in Beavercreek township. Samuel Puterbaugh, who was a veteran of the Civil War, a member of Company E, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was born on January 13, 1844, son of 'Samuel Puterbaugh and wife, the latter of whom was a Hower. The senior Samuel Puterbaugh was a son of George Puterbaugh, who was a son of Samuel Puterbaugh, who was one of the early settlers of Greene county and the owner of an Original patent, signed by James Madison, to land in Beavercreek township, where he established his home and where the Puterbaughs have thus been represented since pioneer days. Samuel Puterbaugh, Sr., grandfather of the subject of this sketch, became the owner of about seven hundred acres of land in Beaver-creek township. e was a charter member of Mt. Zion Reformed church and gave to the congregation the ground on which the church was erected. His wife was a Lutheran. They were the parents of three ehildren, of whom but one now survives, Elizabeth, wife of George Moore, of Xenia, 598 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO the only son, Samuel, having had another sister, Eliza J., now deceased, who was the wife of the Rev. J. F. Shaeffer, a Lutheran minister at Delaware, this state. Reared on the home farm in Beavercreek township, Samuel Puterbaugh received his schooling in the local schools and was living there when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted for service and upon the completion of that service returned to the home farm and on November 1, 1869, was united in marriage to Harriet Davis, who was born on the adjoining farm on April 30, 1848. After his marriage he continued to make his home on a part of his father's farm, the two-hundred-and-fifty-acre tract of which, now owned and occupied by- his son, he inherited, and on that place spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there on March 19, 1880. On October 25, 1882, his widow married John G. Ernst and her last days were spent at Dayton, her death occurring there on June 23, 1886. To Samuel and Harriet (Davis) Puterbaugh were born three children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last-born, the others having been Samuel, born on December 28, 1870, who died on January 5, 1871, and Ida May, June 20, 1872, who died on October 16, 1881. John F. Puterbaugh was but two years of age when his father died and was but seven when bereft of his mother, after which he was taken in charge by his paternal aunt, Mrs. George Moore, of Xenia, with whom he remained until he was eighteen years of age, thus securing his early schooling in the Xenia schools. He supplemented this schooling by a business course in Scio College, in Harrison county, and in December, 1899, was married. Following his marriage Mr. Puterbaugh established his home on the farm in Beavercreek township, which he had inherited from his father, and has there ever since made his residence. Since taking up his residence there Mr. Puterbaugh has made numerous improvements on the place and has introduced the use of tractors, into his agricultural operations. Politically, he is a Prohibitionist. He is a member of the Sugar Creek United Presbyterian church and, fraternally, is affiliated with the local camp of the Sons of Veterans at Xenia, with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at Dayton and with the Daughters of America at Bellbrook. On December 27, 1899, in Harrison county, this state, John F. Puterbaugh was united in marriage to Mary V. Thompson, who was born on a farm in that county, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Palmer) Thompson, both now deceased, and who died on January 27, 1908. To that union were born four children, namely : Robert Samuel, born on May 17, 1901: Julia May, December 13, 1902, who died on December 18, 1905; Florence Irene, September 9, 1904, who died on July 17, 1905, and Esther Lois, July 210, 19107, who is living with her mother's sister in Harrison county. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 599 BENJAMIN WOLF. Benjamin Wolf, a veteran of the Civil War and a retired farmer of Bath township, this county, now living at Osborn, was born in Bath town-ship on December 15, 1842, son of John W. and Rebecca (Swadener) Wolf, the latter of whom also was born in this county, in Beavercreek township, and the former in the state of Pennsylvania. John W. Wolf was a member of one of the first families to settle in the northern part of Greene county, he having been but a lad when his parents, George Wolf add wife, came here from Pennsylvania and settled in what later came to be organized as Bath township, where they were living, according to public records, when the first enumeration was taken in that township in the spring 6f 1807. George Wolf, the pioneer, was a native of Germany. Upon coming to this county he entered a half section of Congress land, the tract on which now stands the village of Byron, and there established his home. On that tract he set apart a plot for cemetery purposes, the Byron cemetery, and was the first person to be buried therein, his death occurring in 1813. He and his Wife had seven children and the Wolf connection throughout this part of the country in this generation is therefore a quite numerous one. John W. Wolf, one of the sons of these pioneer parents, served as a soldier during the War of 1812 and afterward took up farming, which he followed the rest of his life. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in Bath township and there lived to the age of eighty-five years and eight months, his death occurring in June, 1877. His widow survived him for sixteen years, her death occur-rim,: in 1893. They were the parents of six children, two of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch and his sister Martha. Reared on the home farm in Bath township, Benjamin Wolf received his schooling in the local schools of that neighborhood and then was engaged in farming with his father until his marriage, after which for three years he lived on a rented farm nearby. He then moved up into Clark county and was there engaged in farming for seven years, at the end of which time he returned to Bath township and there bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, established his home on the same and there continued to reside until his' retirement from the farm and removal to Osborn, where he and his wife are now living. Mr. Wolf is a Republican and for some time served as school director in his home district while living on the farm. During the progress of the Civil War he enlisted, in 1864, as a member of Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was with that command during the hundred-days service. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church.