750 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO in that faith. There were ten of these children, namely : Henry, who became a farmer in Stark county and there spent his last days, his death occurring when he was sixty-nine years of age; Isaiah, also a resident of Stark county, who died there in 1917; Aaron D., the subject of this biographical sketch; Sarah Ann, who married Reuben Decker and is living on the old Snively home place in Starke county; Mary Ellen, who married Abraham Whitmire and is also living in Stark county; Aman, a farmer of Trumbull county ; Elizabeth, wife of Melvin Essey, of Canton, this state ; Catherine, wife of William Wenger of Stark county, who died in 1917; Dr. John H. Snively, who completed his studies at the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and has for years been engaged in the practice of his profession at West Lebanon, this state, and Dr. George Snively, also a graduate of Ohio Medical College, and who is also practicing his profession at West Lebanon. Reared on the farm on which, he was born and on which his father also was born, Aaron D. Snively received his early schooling in the same little old log school house which his father had attended in his youth and at the age of twenty-one years began teaching school. In 1870, when Ohio Northern University was opened at Ada, he entered that institution and was graduated from the same in 1874, a charter member of the school and a member of the first class in the scientific course in that university. Upon leaving the university Mr. Snively resumed teaching and followed that profession for years thereafter, his service in the school room covering a period of twenty years. He taught his first school at a school house three and a half miles east of Canton, in Hardin county, where he was thus engaged for two years. He then taught for two years in his home county and then went over into Indiana and for three years thereafter served as superintendent of schools at West Lebanon in that state. He then served for a year as superintendent of schools at Williamsport, Indiana, and for two years as superintendent of schools at Fowler, same state, and in 1881 returned to Ohio and located in Greene county, buying his present place, the old Orchard farm, in the northern part of Xenia township, where he since has made his home. After coming here Mr. Snively continued his service as a teacher, two years in the schools at Goes, eighteen months at the Collins school and at the time of his retirement from the school room in 1891 had been serving as superintendent of the high school at Yellow Springs. Upon taking possession of his farm in 1881 Mr. Snively erected there a nine-room house and made other improvements, to which he has added from time to time. His original purchase was a tract of seventy-six acres, but he has added to this and now owns one hundred and eighty acres. The old farm house that still stands on the place, a brick house with black walnut finish and white ash floors, was erected by Jacob Erow in 1840 and is in an excellent state of preservation. An old smoke-house with siding and frame GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 751 work of walnut, erected about the same time, is still standing, having weathered the storms of more than seventy-five years. In addition to his general farming Mr. Snively gives considerable attention to the raising of live stock, has a herd of jersey cattle and a good bunch of pure-bred Poland China hogs. Politically, he is a Republican and has served his community as a member of the local school board. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. On May 3, 1876, at Xenia, Aaron D. Snively was united in marriage to Mary E. Johns, of that city, daughter of Daniel S. and Maria (Drake) Johns, natives of New York state, and to this union have been born five .children, namely : Lester, who died at the age of sixteen months ; Littell, who is now living at Ray, Arizona ; Frank, who is farming in Highland county, this state, and Mabel and Homer, who are at home with their parents. Lit-tell Snively, the eldest son, was graduated from the department of engineering in Colorado University and became a civil engineer, for three years thus engaged in government service in the Philippines, after which he became connected with irrigation engineering works and is still thus engaged. He married Charlotte Clark, of Ft. Collins, Colorado, and since 1909 has been making his home at Ray, Arizona. THOMAS W. TREHARNE, M. D. Dr. Thomas W. Treharne, physician and surgeon at Zimmerman, is a native of Canada, born in the province of Ontario, December 18, 1863, a son of John C. and Lydia (Owen) Treharne, natives of Wales, who were married in Ontario and there spent their last days. They were the parents of ten children, of whom Doctor Treharne was the third in order of birth, the others being the following : Laura, deceased ; Mary, deceased ; Hannah, who is living in Canada ; Margaret, a professional nurse, now living in New York ; William, who is a Canadian farmer ; Eli, deceased ; one who died in infancy ; David, who is a farmer in Ontario, and Franklin, a salesman, living in New York. Thomas W. Treharne received a high-school and seminary education in his native Ontario and when twenty-six years of age entered the College of Medicine and Surgery at Detroit. He was graduated from that institution in 1892 and for a while thereafter was engaged in post-graduate practice in Detroit. In 1893, Doctor Treharne came to Greene county and opened an office for the practice of his profession at Zimmerman, where with the exception of two years (1903-05) spent at Dayton and two years (1909-10) spent in Canada, he has ever since been engaged in practice. The Doctor is a member of the Greene County Medical Society and of the Ohio State 752 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Medical Society. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Canadian Order of Foresters, with the Knights of Pythias and with the Order of the Silver Star. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church. On September 28, 1886, Thomas W. Treharne was united in marriage to Lillie Cameron, w ho also was born in Canada,' and to this union have been born six children, three of whom are' deceased, the living being Horace, who is in the service of the National Army, now (spring of 1918) stationed at Camp Sherman; Thomas, a student in the Beavercreek high school, and Louise, also in school. CAPT. JOHN N. HANES. Capt. John N. Hanes, a veteran of the Civil War and a retired farmer of Beavercreek township, now living at Alpha, where he and his brother Perry and their sisters, Mrs. Mary Nogle and Miss Martha Hanes, are domiciled together, was born in Beavercreek township, about a mile southwest of Alpha, February 10, 1834, a son of Jacob and Susan (Coy) Hanes, both of whom were born in that same township, the latter a daughter of Adam Coy. Jacob Hanes was born in 1810, a son of Jacob Hanes, who had come here from Maryland in 1805 and had settled on the farm above referred to, a tract of a fraction under one hundred and twenty-nine acres which is still in the possession of the family, and on which the younger Jacob Hanes spent all his life, his death occurring there in 1882. His widow survived him until 1889. Both are buried in Mt. Zion cemetery. They were the parents of seven children, of whom John N. was the first-born, the others being Catherine, deceased ; Albert, who is now living in the Soldiers' home at Dayton ; Henry, a retired railroad man, living in the neighborhood of Alpha; and Mrs. Mary Nogle, Miss Martha Jane Hanes and Perry, a bachelor, who are living with their brother John at Alpha. Reared on the home farm, John N. Hanes received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and later taught school for one term. He was living on the farm when the Civil War broke out and on November 4, 1861, he enlisted for service in the Union army, going to the front as a member of Company E, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until he received his final discharge at Louisville, Kentucky, July 10, 1865, and two days later, July 12, 1865, received from Governor Brough, of Ohio, his commission as captain. Among the engagements in which Captain Hanes's regiment participated may be mentioned Stone's River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Tunnel Hill, Dalton, Buzzard Roost, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Lost Mountain, Chattahoochie River, Peachtree Creek, the siege GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 753 of Atlanta, Jonesboro, the march to Savannah, the campaign in the Carolinas, including Averasborough and Bentonville, and the march to Richmond and thence on to Washington, where Captain Hanes participated in the Grand Review. Though a participant in the numerous strenuous campaigns on which his regiment was engaged as a part of the Army of the Cumberland, under General Thomas, Captain Hanes came through without a scratch. Upon the completion of his military service he returned home and presently went to Dayton, where he opened an eating house, but six months later gave up that business and resumed his attention to farming, at the same time engaging in the livery-stable business. Later he became a carpenter and still later a painter, continuing engaged in the latter vocation for fifteen years. Meanwhile he had continued to retain his interest in the work of the home farm and upon giving up his business as a painter gave his whole attention to the management of the farm, continuing thus engaged until in the summer of 1907, when he erected a house at Alpha and he and his two sisters and his brother Perry are now living there. Captain Hanes is a Republican and has rendered service as a member of the local school board. He is a member of Lewis Post No. 347, Grand Army of the Republic, at Xenia. His sisters and brothers are members of the Reformed church. OAKEY C. TAYLOR. Oakey C. Taylor, a soldier of the Union during the Civil War and for the past twelve years a local representative of the Wilson & Barker Monument Company at Jamestown, where he has made his home since 1906, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life with the exception of a couple of years spent in Missouri during his childhood and two or three years spent in Iowa not long after his return from the army. He was born in the neighboring county of Clinton on October 5, 1841, a son of Robert and Mildred ( Johnson) Taylor, Virginians, the former of whom was born in the Old Dominion about the year 1788 and whose last days were spent in Illinois. Robert Taylor was about seventeen years of age when he came with his parents from Virginia to Ohio in 1805, the family locating in that section of the state that in 1810 came to be organized as Clinton county, it having previously been included in the territorial limits of Warren and Highland counties. There he grew to manhood and married Mildred Johnson, a member of another of the Virginia families that had settled in that community. He established his home in Clinton county and remained there until 1843, when he disposed of his interests there and moved to Missouri, (47) 754 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO where his wife shortly afterward died. He then returned to Clinton county with his children, but presently went to Illinois, where he married again and where he died a few years later, his death occurring in 1848. To Robert and Mildred (Johnson) Taylor were born seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the sixth in order of birth, the others being James, Catherine and Martha, deceased; Mrs. Rachel Warren, who is living at Springfield, this state; John, who is dead, and Mrs. Elizabeth Schell, who is living in Iowa. Oakey C. Taylor was but seven years of age when his father died and he afterward was cared for in the home of his maternal aunt, Elizabeth, and grew up in Clinton county, receiving his schooling in the district schools. He presently became an engineer in a local mill and in 1861 was married. In February, 1865, he enlisted for the term of one year as a soldier of the Union for service during the Civil War and went to the front as a member of the Army of the Potomac, with which command he served until the following May, when he was given his honorable discharge by reason of disability on account of illness. Upon his return from the army Mr. Taylor became engaged in farming in Clinton county and presently moved from there over into Fayette county, where he remained for a year, at the end of which time he moved with his family to Iowa and for two years and six months was engaged in farming in that state. He then returned to Ohio and became engaged in farming in Greene county, but three years later returned to Clinton county and there made his residence for eight years, at the end of which time he came back into Greene county and located on a farm just south of the village of Jamestown, where he remained for twelve years, moving thence to a farm in the vicinity of the village of New Jasper, where he made his home for another period of twelve years, at the end of which time he retired from the farm and moved to Jamestown, where he has since made his home. Upon taking up his residence in Jamestown Mr. Taylor became connected with the operations of the Wilson & Barker Monument Company and has since been acting as a salesman for that concern. Mr. Taylor is a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a Republican and by religious persuasion is a Baptist, a member of the church of that denomination in Silvercreek township. On November 7, 1861, Oakey C. Taylor was united in marriage to Lucinda McConnell, who was born in this county and who died at Jamestown on October 14, 1908, and is buried in the cemetery at that place. To that union were born three children, namely : Mary Elma, who is keeping house for her father at Jamestown; Rosa, who married T. A. Spahr, of Jamestown, and has two children, Oakey, who married Minnie Roberts and is living near Jamestown, and Goldie, who married Frank Smith and is also living in the vicinity of Jamestown; and Charles Francis, now living at Xenia, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 755 who married Hannah Conklin and has one child, a son, Willard. Mr. Taylor has two great-grandchildren, his grandson, Oakey Spahr, having one child, a daughter, Helen, and his granddaughter, Mrs. Goldie Smith, a daughter, Wanda Nell. DAVID McCONNELL. David McConnell, a veteran of the Civil War, former mayor of Osborn and former postmaster of that village, former general manager of the whip factory there and for some years past engaged in the real-estate and insurance business at that plate, where he has made his home for 'more than twenty years, is a native son of Greene county and has lived here practically all his life. He was born on a farm in Sugarcreek township on April 15, 1842, son of James M. and Nancy (Marshall) McConnell, the former of whom was born in the Old Dominion and the latter in this county, whose last days were spent on that farm, the old Marshall place, which has been in the possession of the family for more than one hundred years, both the McConnells and the Marshalls having been among the early settlers here. James M. McConnell was born in the neighborhood of the old salt licks in Kanawha county, Virginia, February 14, 1817, a son of David and Nancy (Munn) McConnell, both of whom were born in that same county, the former in 1787 and the latter, May 30, 1789, who were married in that county on January 5, 1815. Grandmother McConnell was a strict Presbyterian and family tradition has it that so rigid was her observance of the Sabbath day that she would cook no food on that day, all preparations in that line being made on the day preceding. David McConnell was killed by a fall from the "natural bridge" in Virginia while still a comparatively young man, his widow being thus left with three young children. She later moved with these children to ,Cincinnati and it was in that city that her son, James M. McConnell, spent his youth and received his schooling, remaining there until he came up here as a young man and became a resident of Greene county, locating in the McClellan neighborhood in Sugarcreek township, where he met and presently married Nancy Marshall,. eldest daughter of John Marshall, one of the earliest settlers in this county. John Marshall was a Kentuckian, born in the *neighborhood of Lexington, in 1784, and was nineteen years of age when he accompanied his father up into Ohio in 1803 and at the land office at Dayton secured a patent to a tract of six hundred acres of land in the then wilderness along the banks of the Little Miami river in the eastern part of what later came to be organized as Sugarcreek township in this county, where he established his home, his marriage taking place not long afterward, and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in 1866, he then being eighty- 756 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO two years of age, and he was buried on his farm overlooking the river. During the War of 1812 he served in the company of Capt. Ammi Maltbie and among the campaigns in which he took part was that about Watertown, New York. His first house on his farm along the river was a log cabin, but he later erected there a brick house which is still standing. With the help of his two sons he cleared most of his timber land and early divided the land among his six children. Of these children Mrs. Nancy McConnell,. mother of the subject of this sketch, was the third daughter, the others having been Sarah, who married John Brock ; Hester, who married Captain Kyler, of Dayton; Betsy, who married William Morgan, who was the owner of six hundred acres just below the Marshall place along the river; James, who remained on the farm, and Jesse, who also remained on the farm which came to him from his father. John Marshall was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and his children were reared in that faith. He was twice married, his second wife having been a Munn, a kinswoman of David McConnell's widow. After the marriage of James M. McConnell and Nancy Marshall the two established their home on that portion of the Marshall farm that had been apportioned to the latter by her father, a tract of about one hundred acres, which is now owned by John McConnell, of Xenia, a brother of the subject of this sketch. To that tract James M. McConnell later added by the purchase of a tract of one hundred and forty acres adjoining. He was one of the first men in Greene county successfully to engage in tobacco culture and for years his tobacco shed, a structure one hundred by forty-four feet in dimensions, would be filled every fall. James M. Marshall was the only Democrat in his home school district. Late in life he became an adherent of the Quaker faith and died in that faith. His wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. She died on March 8, 1872, and he survived her for more than seventeen years, his death occurring on August 12, 1889. They were the parents of three children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first born, the others being Sarah Frances, who married Thomas Ginn and died at Jamestown, this county, in 1916, and John, a retired farmer of this county, now living at Xenia, and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume. David McConnell was reared on the old home place in Sugarcreek township, the place on which his grandfather Marshall Shad shot many a deer during pioneer days, and in the district school of that neighborhood received his early schooling. He was nineteen years of age when the Civil War broke out and in November, 1861, he enlisted for service in behalf of the Union cause and went to the front as a member of Company E, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Moody, and with that GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 757 command served for thirteen months, or until a severe attack of measles in camp left him in so badly reduced a condition physically that, on a physician's certificate of disability, he received his honorable discharge. Upon his return from the army Mr. McConnell took a course in a business college at Dayton and not long afterward became associated with the work then being done by the L. H. Evarts Company in the publication of county histories and for seven years was thus engaged, his work in that connection taking him all over the Eastern states. It was during the '70s that Mr. McConnell was engaged in the history business, rendering in that capacity a service which he has ever regarded as having been of incalculable value to the many counties thus served, and he has retained many pleasant recollections of that period of his activities. In 1883 Mr. McConnell and his brother John became engaged in the farm-implement and seed business at Xenia, doing business under the firm name of McConnell Brothers, but after two years Mr. McConnell withdrew from the firm and became a traveling salesman for the Hooven & Allison Company, cordage manufacturers at Xenia, his territory covering Ohio and Indiana, and he was thus engaged for about three years, at the end of which time he transferred his services to the McCormick Machine Company and was for about three years engaged as traveling salesman for that concern. In 1891, Mr. McConnell assisted in the organization of the Tippecanoe Whip Company at Tippecanoe, this state, and became one of the chief stockholders in the same. For three years he represented that company as a traveling salesman and then, in 1894, sold his interest in the concern and cast about over the state for a likely place in which to set up another whip factory. The village of Osborn, in this county, offered inducements to have the plant located there and Mr. McConnell there organized a company and erected a plant for the manufacture of whips and was elected general manager of the concern, which in the first year of its operations paid the stockholders a sixteen per cent. dividend on their stock. In 1896, Mr. McConnell was appointed postmaster of Osborn and resigned his position as manager of the whip company. For eight years and six months Mr. McConnell was retained in office as postmaster of Osborn and upon the completion of that term of public service took up in his home village, for he had by that time come to regard Osborn as his permanent home, the general real-estate, bonds and life-insurance business, in which he ever since has been engaged. As an instance of Mr. McConnell's success as a real-estate salesman, it may properly be related that during a "drive" made by a big Texas land company some years ago he received the prize offered the salesman for the one closing the largest acreage of sales in that project. Mr. McConnell some years ago was unsolicitedly made mayor of Osborn, the appointment coming unsought 758 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO from the village council. He is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias. On June 9, 1879, David McConnell was united in marriage to Kate Dawson, who was born at Jamestown,, this county, daughter of' Dr. James P. Dawson, who during the greater part of his active career as a practicing physician in this county was engaged in practice at and' and to this union two sons have been born, James Marshall and Fred B., both of whom are living. James McConnell is engaged in the raising of pure-bred chickens on his farm ten miles from Richmond, Virginia. He married Edna Hoke and has four children, Reba, Virginia, Mary Ellen and Theodore. Fred B. McConnell was graduated from the Osborn high school and later from the law -school of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and is now practicing law at Dayton. He married Cora Whaley. Mr. McConnell has a pleasant home at Osborn and looks with misgiving upon the project that may require the abandonment of his home village as a flood-prevention measure. His wife died on May 7, 1916. She is survived by one brother, Samuel Dawson, of Franklin, this. state. FLORANCE R. SMITH. Florance Smith, proprietor of a Ross township farm of two hundred acres on rural mail route No: 4 out of Jamestown, was- born in that township on September 16, 1851, son of James W. and Dorcas (Spahr) Smith, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families. James W. Smith was born. on .a farm in the Jasper neighborhood in 1821, his parents having been early settlers there, coming to this county from Virginia: He.- grew up there and after -his marriage established his home on a farm in Ross township, the place now owned by his son Florance; and there died in 1861. He and his wife were the parents of four children, of whom the subject of this sketch is' now the only survivor, the others having been Philip, Jacob and Mrs. Arabella Brickel. Florance Smith was but ten years of age when his father died. He was reared on the home farm, received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and in due time. began farming on his own account, a vocation he ever since has followed. After his marriage in the fall of 1887 he established his home on the place on which he is now living in Ross township and has continued to make that his place of residence. In addition to his home place of two hundred acres he owns a farm of one hundred acres over in the neighboring county of Fayette. Mr. Smith has been twice married. On November 26, 1887, he was united in marriage to Margaret Ferguson, who died on October 9, 1889. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 759 To that union was born one child, a daughter, Margaret E., who died in infancy. On February 26, 1891, Mr. Smith married Mrs. Elizabeth Burr, of this county, and to this union two children have been born, one who died in infancy and Herbert, who was born on December 20, 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jamestown and Mr. Smith is .a Republican. ALBERT McHENRY MILLER. Albert McHenry Miller, veteran of the Civil War and retired farmer and carpenter, a former justice of the peace in and for his home township, who for many years has made his home in the village of Jamestown, is a native son of Greene county, born on a farm in New Jasper township on August 1, 1841, son of George and Caroline (Wilson) Miller, the former of whom was a native of the old Keystone state and the latter of the Blue Grass state, born in the vicinity of Mammoth Cave, who were married in this county and here spent their last days. George Miller was twice married and was the father of eighteen children. He came from Pennsylvania to Ohio during the days of his young manhood and settled in Greene county, following here his trade as a brick-mason until presently he bought a farm of one hundred acres on the Jamestown and Xenia pike in New Jasper township, paying for the same five dollars an acre, and there established his home. His first wife was a Bromagem, a member of one of the pioneer families of the Cedarville neighborhood, who bore him six children, three of whom grew to maturity and one of whom, Simon Benton Milller, is still living, now a resident of Celina, Auglaize county, and is past ninety years of age ; the others having been Dr. Milton Miller and Rebecca, the latter of whom married one of the Cedarville Townsleys. Following the death of the mother of these children George Miller married Caroline Wilson, a member of one of the pioneer families that had come up here from Kentucky, and to that union were born twelve children, seven sons and five daughters, of whom the following grew to maturity : Perry W., who spent his last clays in Illinois ; Harney Anslie, now deceased, who was a veteran of the Civil War, his service having been rendered in the Seventy-fourth Ohio, commanded by Col. Granville Moody ; George C., deceased ; John Thomas, also a soldier of the Union, who went out as a member of the First Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, commanded by one of the "Fighting" McCooks, and died in service; Albert McHenry, the immediate subject of this biographical sketch ; James D., who also enlisted his services in behalf of the Union during the Civil War, went to the front with the First Ohio and was killed during the battle at Missionary Ridge; William 760 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Edwin, a retired farmer of this county, now living at Jamestown ; Mrs. Mattie M. Townsley, now living in Iowa; Mrs. Miranda Caroline Hite and Mrs. Amanda Evaline Gordon, twins, the former of whom is now living at Bellefontaine and the latter in the vicinity of Jamestown, and Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Harrison, who died in 1914. Major-Gen. John Harney, of Civil War fame, was an uncle of these children. Albert McHenry Miller grew to manhood on the home farm in New Jasper township, receiving his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and was living on the farm when the Civil War broke out. On August 15, 1862, he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company D, One Hundred and Tenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Gen. J. Warren Keifer, of Springfield, commanding. After some service with the Army of the Potomac in Virginia, Mr. Miller was assigned to detached service as a headquarters guard and in that capacity continued his service until mustered out after the close of the war, his final discharge being received in May, 1865. During this service Mr. Miller participated in some most interesting experiences, his headquarters activities bringing him in close touch with some of the great leaders of the war, and he was on duty at Washington at the time of the assassination of President Lincoln. He stood guard at General Grant's headquarters in the Wilderness and on two occasions was guard over Belle Boyd,. the famous Confederate spy, who was captured and brought into General Milroy's camp, he at that time being guard at Milroy's headquarters. He also served in like capacity under Gen. Lew Wallace, under General French, of the Third Corps, Army of the Potomac; under Gen. H. G. Wright and under Gen. J. B. Rickets, the latter of whom it was his duty to awaken at the opening of the battle of Cedar Creek. He followed General Rickets out onto the pike, where the general was seriously wounded and he carried his officer back to the hospital. Mr. Miller was present when gallant "Phil" Sheridan rode up on his famous black charger during the battle of Cedar Creek and heard Sheridan say after General Wright' had ordered a withdrawal : "Place the Eighth Corps on the left; the Nineteenth on the right, and the old slow Sixth in the center and I'll whip hell out of them before sundown." During the battle of the Wilderness Mr. Miller was within ten feet of Gen. John Sedgwick, of the Sixth Corps, when the latter was slain. Mr. Miller was not of voting age at the time of the first Lincoln campaign, but he voted for Lincoln in 1864, his first Presidential vote, and at the same time voted for Brough for governor of Ohio, the latter receiving a majority, in excess of one hundred thousand. Mr. Miller's. experience as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War and his thoughtful consideration of the history of that period, together with his comprehensive knowledge of the general history of the country, have given him exceptional opportunities for service as a member GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 761 of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic and he long has held the post of patriotic instructor in that organization, of which he also is past commander and for many years one of the most active members. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Miller returned home and resumed his labors on the farm, but his health presently began to fail and he sold his farming interests and began working as a carpenter, a trade in which he had been trained before going to war. After his marriage in the fall of 1872 he established his home in the village of Jamestown, where he continued to follow his vocation as a builder until his retirement. Mr. Miller is a Republican and for years served as justice of the peace at Jamestown, but in 1917 resigned that office. By religious persuasion he is a member of the Missionary Baptist church. On September 5, 1872, Albert McHenry Miller was united in marriage to Laura M. Shrack, of this county, who died at her home in Jamestown on February 5, 1902. To that union were born three children, two sons and one daughter, the latter of whom, Jessie S., wife of the Rev. L. B. Albert, of Muskegon, Michigan, has a life certificate as a teacher and is principal of one of the schools at Muskegon. Her husband also is a teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Albert have one child, a son, Paul McHenry, born in 1906. James Albert Miller, Mr. Miller's youngest son, born on July 1, 1874, died on April I, 1917, and twenty days later his brother, Anslie Miller, met his death in a railway accident at Jamestown. Anslie Miller, born on May 13, 1873, married Elizabeth Alice Saunders, of Jamestown, and was the father of one son, James Albert. His widow and son are still making their home at Jamestown. DAVIS BARNHART. Davis Barnhart, a retired farmer of Greene county who for the past twenty-five years has made his home in Jamestown, was born on a farm in Silvercreek township, this county, December 19, 1854, a son of John and Jane (Sheeley) Barnhart, the latter of whom was born in that-same township, in 1826. John Barnhart was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in 1818, and was eighteen years of age when he came to Ohio, locating in Wayne county, where he remained until 1840, in which year he came to Greene county and made a permanent settlement here. In 1842 he married Jane Sheeley and in 1846 he established his home on a farm just south of Jamestown, in Silvercreek township. where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there on March 2, 1888. To him and his wife were born six children, one of whom died in infancy, the others being Matilda, born in 1846, who married Jacob Shigley, of this county, and is now living 762 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO at Elwood, Indiana; Theodorick, born in 1848, who died in 1878; Davis, the immediate subject of this sketch; Morgan, born in 1857, who is now living in Madison county, Indiana ; and Arabella, born in 1861, who died on February J0, 1902. Davis Barnhart was reared on the home farm south of Jamestown and received his schooling in the schools of that vicinity. After his marriage in the summer of 1878 he established his home on the home place, which he eventually came to own, and there he continued to reside until his retirement in 1893 and removal to Jamestown, where he has since made his home. In 1906-08 Mr. Barnhart served as a member of the common council of the city of Jamestown from his ward. He is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Jamestown. On. June 4, 1878, Davis Barnhart was united in marriage to Mattie L. Chalmers, who was born in Jamestown, daughter of John and Jane (Harper) Chalmers, the former of whom was born in Scotland in 1802 and was but fourteen years of age when he came to this county with his parents in 1816, and to this union was born one child, a daughter, Edith Belle, born on August 5, 1880, who died. on January 6, 1892. EUGENE S. KEITER. Eugene S. Keiter, proprietor of a farm on rural mail route No. 8 out of Dayton, his place being located in the Zimmerman neighborhood in Beaver-creek township, was born in the neighboring county of Clinton, but has been a resident of this county since he was about ten years of age, his parents having moved here in 1875. He was born on April 20, 1864, son of Benjamin and Mary (Hendrickson), Keiter, both of whom were born in , Virginia, the former in 1820, and who were the parents of eight children, of whom Eugene S. was the third in order of birth, the others being Frederick Virginia, wife of Alvin Martz, of Cleveland, this state ; Mrs. Emma Beilstein, deceased; Druzella, wife of Frank Roberts, of Cleveland; William, who married Mary Wolf and lives in Dayton; Ella, wife of James Eyman, of Midway; Effie, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Herbert, who married Cora Carpenter and lives at Chillicothe. Reared in this county, Eugene S. Keiter received his schooling here and early became engaged in farming, later taking up butchering. In the fall of 1916 he bought the farm on which he is now living and has ever since made his home there. On September 23, 1893, Mr. Keiter married Maud D. Stephens, of Wilmington, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Keiter are members of the Reformed church at Alpha, Mr. Keiter is a Republican and is a member of the Alpha lodge of the Knights of Pythias. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 763 CHARLES L. JOBE. Charles L. Jobe, proprietor of the department store at Xenia long operated under the firm name of the Jobe Brothers Company, which it still retains, is a native son of Greene county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm on the Jamestown pike, in Xenia township, three miles east of the city of Xenia, a son of John H. and Nancy (Collins) Jobe, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families, and who spent all their lives here. John H. Jobe was born at Xenia on October 31, 1826, son of George and Mary Anne (Hutchinson) Jobe, the former of whom was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, and who came to this part of Ohio in the days of his young manhood and located in Greene county. George Jobe served as a soldier during the War of 1812, serving under General Harrison, and participated in the battle of Ft. Meigs. He later married Mary Anne Hutchinson, a member of the pioneer Hutchinson family of the Bellbrook neighborhood, in Sugarcreek township, and after his marriage located in Xenia, where he followed the vocation of wagon-making. Later he became a landowner, having bought a farm in Xenia township, but did not personally farm the same, continuing his labors as a wagon-maker until failing health compelled his retirement, when he moved to his farm, where he spent his last days, his death occurring there in the spring of 1867. His widow survived him for nearly twenty years, her death occurring May 24, 1884. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters, of whom John H. Jobe was the second in order of birth. John H. Jobe was about eight years of age when his parents moved from Xenia to the farm and he thus had the benefit of rural training. When he was nineteen. years of age he learned the carpenter trade and for five years followed the same, afterward resuming farming and presently bought a farm of his own on the Jamestown pike, three miles east of Xenia, where he spent the rest of his life, adding to his holdings there until he became the owner of three hundred and forty-eight acres. John H. Jobe was a Republican, served for years as trustee of Xenia township and was for a time director of the Greene county infirmary. He and his wife were members of the United Presbyterian church. Mr. Jobe's wife, Nancy Collins, was born in Xenia township on February 23, 1837, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (McClellan) Collins, the former of whom was born in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1804, and was but a boy when he came to this county with his parents, William Collins and wife, the family settling on Massies creek, whence a few years later they moved to a farm six miles north of Xenia. William Collins, the pioneer, and his wife were the parents of ten children, all of whom, with one exception, reared families of their own, hence the Collins 764 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO connection is a numerous one in the present generation. Samuel Collins grew to manhood in this county and married Rebecca McClellan, a daughter of John McClellan, another of the pioneers of Greene county. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in the vicinity of the old Collins place and spent the rest of his life there. He and his wife were the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Jobe was the first-born, the others being William H., John Q., Lydia, James M., Mary Jane, who married John D. M. Stewart, Isabella, who married S. K. Williamson, and Anna Rebecca, who married R. W. Moore. To John H. and Nancy (Collins) Jobe were born six children, five sons and one daughter, of whom but three are now living, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Homer H. Jobe, who is living on the old home place in Xenia township, and George E., who resides in Cedarville township. The others were John Riley, Laura B. and Samuel, the latter of whom died at the age of sixteen months. Charles L. Jobe spent his youth on the home farm in Xenia township and received his elementary schooling in the district schools of that neighborhood, supplementing the same by attendance at the Xenia city schools, after which he took a two-years course at Wooster University. He then entered the dry-goods store of Millen, Jobe & Company at Xenia, the store at that time having been located at the corner of Main and Whiteman streets and his uncle, J. H. Harvey Jobe, was one of the proprietors. Two years later he transferred his connection to the Hutchinson & Gibney dry-goods store and was thus connected, off and on, for five years, at the end of which time he returned to his first employment, the firm at that time being E. Millen & Company, his uncle having withdrawn from the firm. Upon returning to the Millen store Mr. Jobe was made the buyer and later became manager of the store, a position he continued to occupy until E. Millen & Company closed out their business in 1888, when Mr. Jobe and H. C. Hardy started a dry-goods store and took over the Millen organization, doing business under the firm name of Jobe, Hardy & Company. Two years later Mr. Hardy, who had come over here from Columbus, withdrew from the firm and Mr. Jobe's brother, J. Riley Jobe, became a member of the firm and thus continued until his death on September 20, 1910, the business being, carried on under the firm name of the Jobe Brothers Company, which name Mr. Jobe has continued since the death of his brother. Mr. Jobe took over the interest held by his brother after the latter's death, so that since 1910 he has been sole proprietor of the store. In August, 1890, the location of the Jobe store was changed from its old stand at Main and Whiteman streets to its present location at 23 East Main street and in the fall of 1907 the quarters were enlarged, the store now occupying a three-story building forty-five by one hundred and fifty-five feet in dimension, the first and second floors being used for retail purposes and the third floor for stock rooms. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 765 When Mr. Jobe first became connected with the. business the store was given over to dry goods and carpets, but in 1894 he eliminated the carpets and put in millinery, later adding women's ready-to-wear goods. In March, 1899, a stock of women's and children's shoes was added and now the store carries every class of wearing apparel for women and children, the capacity of the store having been more than quadrupled since Mr. Jobe became connected with it. In 1914 he put in a new set of fixtures. On September 9, 1886, Charles L. Jobe was united in marriage to Margaret Moore, who was born in Xenia, daughter of John and Mary (Monroe) Moore, both now deceased, the former of whom was for years a Xenia merchant, and to this union two children have been born, daughters both, Helen, who completed her schooling at Wilson College at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and is at home, and Margaret, who also completed her schooling at Wilson College and afterward married Karl Bloom, who is assisting Mr. Jobe in the. management of the store. The Jobes reside on East Market street, their home occupying the lot on which formerly stood the house in. which Mrs. Jobe was born. They are members of the First Presbyterian church. Mr. Jobe is a Republican. WILLIAM H. BREWER. William H. Brewer, retired farmer of Miami township and one of the oldest native sons of Greene county now living in this county, was born on a farm a mile and a half south of Yellow Springs and has lived in that neighborhood all his life, a resident for more than fifty-five years on the farm on which he is now living, a mile and a half southwest of Clifton. He was born on August 20, 1826, son of John G. and Sarah (Miller) Brewer, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of the Blue Ridge country in Virginia, who were married in this county, on the John Gregg farm, and who were the parents of nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being George, Rebecca, Piny, John, Charles, Sarah, Louella and Russell, all of whom are now deceased save William H. and his brothers John and Russell and his sister Sarah. Reared on the home farm south of Yellow Springs, William H. Brewer received his schooling in the pioneer schools of that neighborhood and from the days of his boyhood was trained in practical farming, a vocation he followed until his retirement about ten years ago. For ten or twelve years he also owned and operated a threshing-rig during seasons. During the early '50s Mr. Brewer married and began farming on his own account, in 1862 taking possession of the farm on which he is still living and has ever since made his home there. Not long after moving to that place Mr. Brewer 766 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO enlisted for service in the Civil War, a recruit in the hundred-days service, and was attached to the Army of the Potomac, doing service in West Virginia, and was thus connected with the army for one hundred and sixteen days before being mustered out. Mr. Brewer's wife, who before her marriage was Sarah Bell, died on April 2, 1915. To William H. and Sarah (Bell) Brewer were born four children, namely : Adam, who lives on the same farm with his father and who married Ella Wilson and has three children, Belle, Ernest and Nellie ; John, now living in Oklahoma, who has been married three times and by his first wife, Nettie McHatton, had two children, Mac and Bessie, and by his second wife, Emma Sommers, had two children, Marietta and Sarah ; Florence, deceased, and Rebecca, who died when a child. HENRY FETZ. Henry Fetz, merchant at Xenia, the proprietor of a grocery store at the southwest corner of Second and Detroit streets, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Xenia since the days of his infancy. He was born in the neighborhood of Cincinnati on October 14, 1855, son of Paul and Elizabeth (Lippert) Fetz, both of whom were born in Germany and the latter of whom is still living, being now in the ninetieth year of her age. Paul Fetz was a young man when he came to this country about 1850 and located at Xenia, where he died in 1902. He was married in Cincinnati and he and his wife were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being George P., who lives at Xenia; Katherine, who married William Ambuhl and is also living in Xenia; Charles, who died in 1916, and William, who is now living at Denver, Colorado. Henry Fetz was but one year of age when his parents located at Xenia and his schooling was completed in the schools of that city. During the days of his young manhood he was variously engaged until the. year 1880, when, in association with his brother, George P. Fetz, he opened a grocery store at the corner he now occupies. This partnership continued for twenty-three years, at the end of which time George P. Fetz retired and since then Henry Fetz has been carrying on the business at the old stand alone. On May 3, 1883, Henry Fetz was united in marriage to Matilda Feurle and to this union have been born three children, namely : Paul G., who is married and who is connected with his father in the grocery business ; Alma, who married Leon Spahr, of Xenia, and has one child, a daughter, Elizabeth Alexander, and Eda Elizabeth, who married Philip W. Prugh, of Xenia, and is now residing in Chicago. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 767 FRANK HUPMAN. Frank Hupman, a former farmer and carpenter, now living retired at Xenia, was born on a farm in Spring Valley township, this county, December 26, 1852, son of John and Jane (Peterson) Hupman, both of whom were members of pioneer families in this county, the latter having been born in this county, a member of the Peterson family which became established in the Caesarscreek settlement back in the early days of the settlement of the county. John Hupman was born in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1821, a son of John Hupman and wife, who came to this state with their family and settled on a farm between Enon and Springfield, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of eight children; Samuel, Kate, Fannie, David, James, Sarah, Peter and John. The latter was but a child when he came with his parents to this part of Ohio. After his marriage he located on a farm on the Wilmington pike in Caesarscreek township, this county, later moving to a farm two and a half miles north of Spring Valley, in the township of that name, where he remained until 1852, when he bought a farm on the Bellbrook pike, in Xenia township, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in 1880. For many years he operated a threshing-machine in his neighborhood. He was a Democrat and by religious persuasion was a member of the Reformed church. John .Hupman was twice married. His first .wife, Jane Peterson, died in 1869 and in the spring of 1875 he married Amanda O. Brewer, of Enon, who still survives him. To this latter union was born one son, John Edgar, who was killed by an explosion while working in a powder mill in Illinois in 1899. By his first marriage John Hupman was the father of the following children : Celia, now deceased, who was the wife of Thomas Moore, a Xenia undertaker; Emma, wife of J. A. Webb, of West Jefferson ; Frank, the subject of this biographical sketch; a son who died in infancy ; Charles, a farmer of Beaver-creek township; J. S. C., who is now living in California, and Harvey C., a resident of Xenia, where he is engaged in the paper-hanging business. Frank Hupman was reared on the farm and completed his schooling in the old Xenia College, spending two years there under the instruction of Professor Smith. He remained at home until his marriage when twenty-seven years of age and for two years thereafter made his home on a farm on the Wilmington pike in Caesarscreek township and then, his father meanwhile having died, he returned to the home farm and was in charge of the operation of that place for several years, at the end of which time he moved to the Carothers farm on the Cincinnati pike, having leased that place for five rears. A year later, however, he gave up the farm and became engaged in the drayage business in Xenia and thus continued engaged for nine 768 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO. months, at the end of which time he resumed farming, moving to the John Weaver farm, where he remained until his retirement in 1910 and return to Xenia, where he since has made his home. Upon his return to Xenia Mr. Hupman became more or less engaged in carpentering, but is now content to regard himself as "retired" from the active labors of life. He was the owner of two farms in Xenia township and still owns a farm of one hundred and five acres on the Cincinnati pike, a mile and a half out of town. Mr. Hupman is a Democrat, a member of the Reformed church and a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Xenia. Mr. Hupman has been twice married. On June 3, 1880, he was united in marriage to Alice Compton, who was born in Spring Valley township, daughter of Eber Compton and wife, the former of whom was a son of Henry and Catherine (Mock) Compton, members of pioneer families in Greene county, Henry Compton having been a son of Stephen and Dinah (Millhouse) Compton, who came here with their family from North Carolina in the early days of the settlement of this part of Ohio, and to that union were born two sons, Orville C., born in 1882, who died when nine years of age, and another who died in infancy. The mother of these children died in 1886 and in 1890 Mr. Hupman married Olivia A. Weaver, who was born in the neighboring county of Clinton, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Boots.) Weaver. Mr. and Mrs. Hupman are members of the Reformed church. WARREN HAMILTON GLOTFELTER. The Glotfelters have been represented in Greene county since the year 1816, when Adam and Elizabeth Glotfelter came here from Somerset county, Pennsylvania, with their family, and settled on a tract of land in Beavercreek township, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Adam Glotfelter lived to be ninety years of age. His death occurred on December 21, 1860, and he was buried in Mt. Zion cemetery. Solomon Glotfelter, one of the sons of this pioneer couple, was born in Pennsylvania on August 24, 1804, and was twelve years of age when he came with his parents to Greene county. He grew up on the home farm and was married in his nineteenth year, thereafter settling in a log house on a forty-acre tract of land in Sugarcreek township, the place on which the subject of this sketch is now living, and in time came to be the owner of about three hundred acres. On that place he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there on August 7, 1880. Reared a Whig, Solomon Glotfelter became a Republican upon the organization of that party. He was a member of the Reformed church. Solomon Glotfelter was twice married. On April 8, 1824, he was GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 769 united in marriage to Sarah John and to that union were born six children, the last survivor of whom was William Glotfelter, who had moved to Menier, in Tazewell county, Illinois. Following the death of the mother of these children Solomon Glotfelter married Lydia Gerhard, who was born in Liberty township, Frederick county, Maryland, July 9, 1815, and to that union were born three children, the subject of this sketch having an elder brother, Henry Clay Glotfelter, born on August 22, 1844, who served as a corporal with the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the hundred-days service in connection with the Civil War, married Catherine Benham and made his home at Dayton, and a sister, Ruffina, wife of Samuel Benham, of Goshen, Indiana. Mrs. Lydia Glotfelter survived her husband for more than twenty years, her death occurring in October, 1902, and she was buried in the Mt. Zion cemetery. Warren Hamilton Glotfelter, son of Solomon and Lydia (Gerhard) Glotfelter, was horn on the farm on which he is now living, August 1, 1855. He received his schooling, in the neighboring district school and after his marriage established his home on the old home place and has ever since resided there, though for some years past he has been living practically retired from the active labors of the farm. Politically, Mr. Glotfelter is a Republican. He is a member of the local lodge of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at Bellbrook and formerly was a member of the Xenia lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife is a member of the Reformed church. On October 3, 1882, at Alpha, this county, Warren Hamilton Glotfelter was united in marriage to Anna S. Volkenand, the Rev. David Winter officiating. Mrs. Glotfelter also is a native of Greene county, born at Alpha on February 20, 1856, daughter of Herman and Elizabeth (Brost) Volkenand, natives of Germany, who were married in this county. Herman Volkenand was about twenty-three years of age when he came to this country and came on out to Ohio, locating in Greene county. He was for some time after coming here employed at various occupations, but after his Marriage bought a small tract of land on the river in Beavercreek township and settled down to farming, in time enlarging his holdings until he had two farms. His wife died in 1898 and he survived her about seven years, his death occurring in 1905. They were the parents of seven children, of whom Mrs. Glotfelter was the second in order of birth. Mr. and Mrs. Glotfelter have four children, Herman Ray, Clay Roy, Katy May and Frank McKinley, all of whom are married and have. families of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Glotfelter having ten grandchildren. Herman Ray Glotfelter was born on July 16, 1883, and on November 19, 1903, was united in marriage to Susanna Mundabaugh, to which union three children have been horn, Mildred May, (48) 770 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO born on September 11, 1904; Herman Ellsworth, August 11, 1907, and Margaretta Pearl, April 3, 1914. Clay Roy Glotfelter was born on July 26, 1885, and on September 14, 1905, married Bessie R. Overholser, to which union four children have been born, Anna Evelyn, born on August 18, 1906; Clyde Roy, January 21, 1908 ; Wilford Edgar, March 12, 1911, and Evaline, who died as an infant. Katy May Glotfelter was born on August a), 1887, and on March 27, 1907, married Harry V. Rackstraw, to which union one child has been born, a son, David Warren, born on September 20, 1915. Frank McKinley Glotfelter was born on April 20, 1893, and on December 23, 1914, married May Sidenstick, to which union two children have been born, Ethel May, who died on October 8, 1915, and Paul William, born in February, 1917. KARLH BULL. Karlh Bull, editor and publisher of the Cedarville Herald, was born at Cedarville and has lived there all his life. He was born on April 1, 1878, son of Lancaster Granville and Emmazetta (Barber) Bull, the latter of whom. also was born at Cedarville, January 16, 1849, daughter of Martin M. and Nancy (Townsley) Barber, both members of pioneer families in this county, and is still living there. Lancaster Granville Bull, who died at his home in Cedarville on January 16, 1914, also was- a native of this county, born at Goes Station on June 22, 1850, son of Robert Scott and Ann (Reid) Bull, both of whom also were born in Greene county, members of pioneer families, and all his life was spent here. To him and his wife were born three sons, Karlh Bull having two brothers, Frank B. Bull, who for some years has been connected with the staff of the Indianapolis Star,' and Ralph E. Bull, now living at Seattle, Washington, with offices in the White Building in that city. Elsewhere in this volume there is set out at considerable length a story relating to the Bull family in this county and also to the Townsley family, both these families having been represented here for more than a hundred years. Karlh Bull was reared at Cedarville, was graduated from the high school there in 1898 and then took a course in Cedarville College. In April, 1899, he and Robert J. Harper took over the Cedarville Herald and when, in the following year, Mr. Harper retired from the firm, Mr. Bull assumed sole control of the paper and has since continued as editor and publisher of the same. Mr. Bull is a Republican; fraternally, is affiliated with the local lodge of the Masons at Cedarville and he and his wife are members of the United Presbyterian church. On January 5, 1911, at Cedarville, Mr. Bull was united in marriage to GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 771 Dora Siegler, who was born in that village on August 9, 1877, daughter of Jacob and Carrie (Haller) Siegler, who were the parents of three children, Mrs. Bull having a brother, George F. Siegler, and a sister, Mrs. Charlotte Watt. Mr. and Mrs. Bull have one child, a daughter, Mary Eleanor, born On April 10, 1914. CHARLES I. CRAMER. Ever since the first decade of the past century the Cramers have been represented in Sugarcreek township, John and Margaret (Hoover) Cramer, great-grandparents of the subject of this sketch, having come up here into the valley of the Little Miami from Kentucky in the year 1807 and established their home on a farm of one hundred and eighty-six acres a half mile from the present village of Bellbrook, where they reared their family. Charles I. Cramer, one of the numerous descendants in the fourth generation of this pioneer couple, was born in the house in which he is now living, on the old Cramer 'homestead place founded by his great-grandfather, and has lived there all his life. He was born on May 4, 1881, son of John .H. and Laura L. (Irvin) Cramer, both of whom also were born in this county and the latter of whom is still living. The late John H. Cramer was born on a farm one mile south of Bellbrook in 1852 and was a farmer all his life, after his marriage locating on his grandfather's old place, the place now occupied by his son. To him and his wife were born four children, Anna, who died in infancy ; Ethel, who married Albert Davis, of Bellbrook, and died in 1915 ; Charles I., the subject of this sketch, and Ada B., widow of the late Raymond Crowl, now living with her mother in Bellbrook. Charles I. Cramer was reared on the farm on which he is now living and where he was born, and received his schooling in the schools of the adjacent village of Bellbrook, completing all but the closing quarter of the last year in the high-school course. After his marriage, he at that time being not yet twenty-one years of age, he established his home on the home farm and has continued to make that his place of residence. In addition to his general farming Mr. Cramer has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock. On October 30, 1901, Charles I. Cramer was united in marriage to Maud K. Marshall, who also was born in Sugarcreek township, daughter of John and Harriet ( James) Marshall, both members of old families in this county, and to this union one child has been born, a son, John Howard, born on June 25, 1902. Mr. Cramer is a member of the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at Bellbrook and he and his wife are both members of the lodge of the Pythian Sisters at that place. 772 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ELLSWORTH GRANT LOWRY. Ellsworth Grant Lowry, proprietor of a garage at Cedarville, where he also is engaged in electric-equipment contracting, former director and manager of the plant of the Cedarville Light and Power Company, former member of the city council and former member of the school board, is a native. of West Virginia, but has been a resident of Cedarville for thirty-three years. He was born on a farm in Berkeley county, West Virginia, December 22, 1864, son of Samuel Smith and Sarah C. (Manor) Lowry, both of whom were born in that county, where they spent all their lives. Samuel Smith Lowry was a farmer, a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian church. He died in 1882 at the age of sixty-five years, and his widow survived him for eight years, her death occurring in 1890. They were the parents of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eighth in order of birth, the others being the following : Margaret, who died in Kansas; Hannah, who also died in Kansas ; James M., who is farming in Kansas ; Mary, who is still living on the old home place in West Virginia ; John, who is farming in the vicinity of Waynesville, in the neighboring county of Warren, in this state ; Joseph, who years ago became .a clothing merchant at Cedarville and whose last days were spent there ; Martha, who is still living in Berkeley county, West Virginia, and Minnie, who lives in Kansas. Ellsworth Grant Lowry remained at home until he was about eighteen years of age, receiving his schooling in the schools of his home neighborhood, and then, in 1881, came to Ohio to join his brother, who some time before had located at Cedarville. For a while after coming here he worked at farm labor and then became engaged in the office of the S. K. Mitchell Company, lumber, at Cedarville, and was thus engaged for seven years. In 1896, Mr. Lowry became interested in the promotion of the movement to give Cedarville an electric-light plant and set about the organization of a company with that end in view, his efforts leading to the organization of the Cedarville Light and Power Company, with the following officers and stockholders : President, G. F. Sigler ; vice-president, W. J. Tarbox, and directors, M. I. Marsh, D. S. Ervin, O. L. Smith, L. H. Sullenberger, Dr. John Dixon and E. G. Lowry. Upon the organization of the company Mr. Lowry was given charge of construction and after the plant was erected he continued in charge of the same until it was sold to the Dayton Power and Light Company. During the '90s Mr. Lowry also was for a time engaged in the hotel business at Cedarville. When the lighting plant changed hands he opened a garage and automobile-repair establishment and has since been engaged in that business, also filling contracts for installing electric-light equipment. Mr. Lowry is a GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 773 Republican and for some time served as a member of the Cedarville common council and of the school board. On October 3, 1889, Ellsworth G. Lowry was united in marriage to Etta G. Gregg, who was born in Xenia township, this county, daughter of David A. and Elenor (Galloway) Gregg, both now deceased, and to this union three sons have been born, namely : David A., a machinist, living at Dayton, at present a mechanician in the Aviation Corps, McCook's Field, who married Clara Push and has two children, Victoria and Mildred ; Charles E., who now (1918) is a soldier of the National Army, a corporal of Motor Transportation Base Section No. 1, Truck Company No. 2, engaged with the American Expeditionary Force in France, and William Glenn, who is at home. Mr. and Mrs. Lowry are members of the United Presbyterian church at Cedarville. LEVI M. ASHBAUGH. Levi M. Ashbaugh, a farmer of the Osborn neighborhood in Bath township, this county, was born in the vicinity of the city of Frederick, in the county of that name in the state of Maryland, on June 14, 1841, son of Aquilla and Rachel (Hann) Ashbaugh, the former of whom was a native of the state of Pennsylvania and the latter of Maryland, who were the parents of nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth. Aquilla Ashbaugh was a farmer and also gave considerable attention to the cultivation of fruit trees, carrying on quite an extensive nursery in the neighborhood of Frederick. Reared on the home farm in Maryland, Levi M. Ashbaugh remained there until after he had attained his majority, when he came to Ohio, locating at Dayton. For four years thereafter he worked on farms in the vicinity of that city and while thus engaged, in the fall of 1865, married a Greene county girl and located in this county. About 1892 Mr. Ashbaugh bought the forty-acre farm on which he is now living in Bath township and has ever since made his home there. He is a Republican and has served the public in the capacity of supervisor of roads in his home district. In September 14, 1865, Levi M. Ashbaugh was united in marriage to Rebecca Coy,' who was born in this county, May 14, 1845, daughter of Jacob and Catherine Coy, the former of whom was twice married and was the father of twenty-one children. To Mr. and Mrs. Ashbaugh ten children have been born. The first-born of these died in infancy ; the others, Nelson, John, Rose, William, Benjamin, Dessie, Ferdinand, Minnie and Maud, have all married and gone from the home place. Mr. and Mrs. Ashbaugh are members of the Dunkard church. 774 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO DANIEL WEBSTER WOLF Daniel Webster Wolf, who is in charge of the C. M. Harner farm in Beavercreek township, rural mail route No. 3 out of Xenia, was born in that township on June 23, 1888, son of C. E. and Minnie (Harner) Wolf, both of whom were born in that same township and who are now living about four miles north of Alpha. To them four children were born, those besides the subject of this sketch being Mina (deceased), Delora and Merle M. Reared on the home farm, Daniel W. Wolf received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and early began farming and "hustling" on his own account. On February 22, 1912, he married Effie May Harner, who was born in Bath township, daughter of C. M. and Emma (Trollinger) Harner, and after his marriage made his home on the farm of his father-in-law, in that township, and when Mr. and Mrs. Harner left the farm and moved to Xenia took charge of the farm and has since been managing the place. Politically, Mr. Wolf is a Democrat. He and his wife are members of the Reformed church at Byron. They have two children, Alfred Webster and Catherine May. JOHN A. BEATTY. John A. Beatty, head of the firm of J. A. Beatty & Son, dealers in furniture at Xenia, and who also has for years been engaged as a traveling salesman for a Michigan furniture house, was born in this county and has lived here practically all his life. He was born on a farm in Bath township on January 19, 1862, son of John and Delilah ( Jones) Beatty, the former of whom was born in Ireland and the latter in the state of Pennsylvania, whose last days were spent in this county, they having established their home in Bath township after their marriage. John Beatty was born in County Tyrone and remained in his native Ireland until he was twenty-two years of age, when he came to this country and was for a time located in the state of New York, coming thence to Ohio and settling in this county, where he became engaged in farming. He presently bought a farm of eighty-three acres in Bath township and after his marriage established his home there, he and his wife spending the 'rest of their lives on that, place. She died in 1875, at the age of forty-one years, and he survived her until October 22, 1888, he being seventy-five years of age at the time of his death. They were members of the Presbyterian church and their children were reared in that faith. There were eight of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth, the others being Catherine, who is still living on the home place in Bath township ; William Henry, who also continues to live there, farming the place; James,