800 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ing at the port of New York after a voyage of five weeks. Upon his arrival he started on a prospecting trip through the West and Northwest, visiting the states of Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, but in the fall of that same year came to Ohio and located in Greene county, where he had friends, and went to work in the Alpha neighborhood as a woodchopper, at the rate of forty cents a cord and "find" himself. In 1852 he married Elizabeth Brod, whom he had known in his home country and who had come here some little time before, and not long afterward bought a small farm on which he began operations on his own account. JOHN G. WARNER. The late John G. Warner, an honored veteran of the Civil War, who, died at his home in Yellow Springs in the fall of 1914 and whose widow and one of his daughters, Miss Emma. Warner, are still living there, was born in the neighboring county of Clark and there spent most of his active life, having resided there until his removal to Yellow Springs in 1902. He was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Selma, in Madison township, January 9, 1840, son of Isaac and Sarah (Gill) Warner, who were the parents of six children, of whom he was the fourth in order of birth. Reared on the home farm, John G. Warner was attending Antioch College at Yellow Springs when the Civil War broke out. Though not yet "of age" he at once offered his services to help put down the armed rebellion against the government and on April 17, 1861, two days following President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, his name was enrolled on the roster of the Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the first volunteer thus to go from Antioch College, which institution in the' trying months to follow was almost deprived of male students. Upon the completion of the original term of enlistment, which was for three months, Mr. Warner lost little time in re-entering the service, re-enlisting on August 7. Seven days later he was at the side of General Lyon when the latter was killed at the battle of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, April 10, 1861. The young man then served under General Fremont and in 1862 was with Grant in the Tennessee campaign, taking part in the battle of Shiloh, where he was detailed for service on General Sherman's staff. He continued his service as an aide to the beloved "Tecumseh" until after the evacuation of Corinth, his most important duty being to give the pickets the countersign. After the fall of Vicksburg Mr. Warner, on account of illness, was placed on detailed duty and not long afterward was mustered out of service in the Fourth. Ohio Cavalry and returned home. It was not long, however, until he was sufficiently recuperated to feel that he could properly re-enter the service and he re-enlisted, returning to the front as a member of the One Hundred and GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 801 Forty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until September, when he was finally mustered out. During the three years of his army life Mr. Warner participated in some very hard service, but the duties connected with his last period of enlistment seemed mere "play" in comparison with those he had been called on to per form during the earlier periods of his service. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Warner returned home and was shortly afterward married. He then left the farm and became engaged in mercantile pursuits, but finding that this form of endeavor was not to his liking presently sold his store at Selma and returned to the home farm in the Selma neighborhood, presently obtaining possession of the same, and there continued to make his home, engaged in general farming and stock raising, until 1902, in which year he retired from the active labors of the farm and moved to Yellow Springs, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there on September 10, 1914. His body was taken back to the vicinity of his old home in Clark county for interment and is buried in the cemetery at South Charleston. On January 9, 1865, in Clark county, John G. Warner was united in marriage to Anna Murray, who also was born in that county, daughter of George and Lavina (Morris) Murray, and who survives her husband, she continuing to make her home at Yellow Springs. To John G. and Anna (Murray) Warner were born seven children, two of whom, Georgia and Lavina, died in infancy, the others being the following : Mungo P., the first-born, Lydia A., Isaac S., Sarah A. and Emma, all of whom are still living and the latter of whom continues to make her home with her mother at Yellow Springs. Mungo P. Warner, who is now engaged in farming in the vicinity of Onondaga, Michigan, married Myrtle Draggro, now deceased, and to that union were born seven children, two of whom, Angie and Guy, are deceased, the others being Harold, Ruth, Bryce, Wilbur and Robert Murray, the last-named of whom has been adopted by his father's eldest sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Loe, of Ohio City, this state. Lydia Warner married Howard A. Loe and now resides at Ohio City. As noted above, she and her husband have adopted the youngest child of her elder brother, Mungo P. Warner. Isaac S. Warner married Adalia Little, of Yellow Springs, and is now living at Dayton. To him and his wife has been born one child, who died in infancy. Sarah A. Warner, who married W. C. Shade, is also living at Dayton. She and her husband have two daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth. Miss Emma Warner, as noted above, is still making her home with her mother at Yellow Springs. Mrs. Warner and her daughter take an interested part in local church work, as well as in the general good works of the community in which they live. (50) 802 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ALLEN H. MIARS. The late Allen H. Miars, who died at his farm home in Spring Valley township in the spring of 1916, and whose son, Fremont Miars, now owns and occupies the place, was a native "Buckeye" and all his life was spent in this state. He was born on a farm in Union township, five miles north of Wilmington, in the neighboring county of Clinton, April 21, 1828, a son of Samuel and Hannah (Haines) Miars, the latter of whom was born in the same county, a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Leonard) Haines, who had come to the then Territory of Ohio in 1800 and had become pioneers of the Waynesville neighborhood. Jacob Haines was a Pennsylvanian and his wife was born at Guilford Court House, in North Carolina. She was a girl when the battle was fought at that place during the Revolution and recalled that after the battle a couple of soldiers entered the Leonard home and asked for something to eat, seating themselves at the fireplace while the meal was being prepared. When they were called to partake of the meal it was found that one of the soldiers had meanwhile died while sitting there. According to Cartmell's "History of the Shenandoah Valley," the Miars family were among the pioneers of that valley, having bought their lands from Lord Fairfax. Capt. John Miars, a brother of Martin Miars, grandfather of the subject Of this memorial sketch, served through the Revolution. Capt. Jacob Miars also served through the Revolution and afterward founded the town of Myersdale, Pennsylvania. This family was largely represented in the army 'during the Civil. War, serving on both sides. Six of the name lie. buried in the Confederate cemetery at Winchester, Virginia, while just over the wall in the Federal cemetery are the graves of five of the name. William H. Miars is mentioned as a gallant officer in the Laurel Brigade and Samuel D. Miars served with "Stonewall". Jackson. Capt. Jack Miars, son of William H. Miars, led the first company of soldiers through the breach, in, the wall of the city of Pekin to the relief of the besieged legations during the Boxer rebellion in China in 1900. Allen H. Miars was a member of a military company before the Civil War and responded to the call to help repel the Morgan invasion of the state. When that call came it found him cradling wheat in a field nearby his home. Hanging his cradle in a tree, he went to the house,got a blanket and a tincup, said goodby to his family and joined his company at Deserted Camp. Jacob. Haines was a son of Joshua Haines and wife, the latter of whom was a Rich, and was a descendant of the nobility 'of Scotland. Upon coming to Ohio he settled on a tract of sixty acres in the vicinity of Center' meeting house, accumulated there in time a large estate, died on that farm and was buried in Center graveyard. He had four brothers,. Joseph, John, Israel and Job, and a sister, Mrs. Lydia Reese, and he. and GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 803 his wife had seven children, Jonathan, Joshua, Isaac, Zimri, Hannah, Abigail and Lydia. Samuel Miars was born in Frederick county, Virginia, October 29, 1799, and was about twelve years of age when he came with his parents, Martin and Jane (Summers) Miars, to Ohio in 1810 or 1811, the family settling near Center church in the Wilmington neighborhood, in Clinton county. Martin Miars and his wife, both of whom were native Virginians and Quakers, established their home there and there spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of eight children, those besides Samuel having been David, John, Martin, Jacob, Elizabeth, Mary and Jane, the descendants of whom in the present generation form a numerous connection in this part of Ohio: Samuel Miars grew to manhood on that pioneer farm in the neighborhood of Center meeting house and after his marriage to Hannah Haines established his home on a farm in that vicinity, but later moved to another place on the Burlington and Wilmington pike, near Antrim's Corner, and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, both dying in April, 1874, within four days, Samuel Miars then being seventy-five years of age. He was the owner of eight hundred acres of land. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, three of whom died in infancy, the others besides Allen H., the eldest, having been Mary Jane, who married William F. Ogles-bee ; Martin H., who continued to farm the old home place; Isaac, whose last days were spent on a farm two miles east of Wilmington ; John Milton, whose last days were spent in California, and Sarah Louise, who married Alfred McKay, of Wilmington. Reared on the farm, Allen H. Miars received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and remained at home until after his marriage in the spring of 1859, after which he located on the Hazard farm two miles east of Wilmington and there began farming on his own account. There he remained for twenty-three years, or until 1882, when he bought the Gest farm of three hundred and twenty-one acres three-quarters of a mile west of the village of Spring Valley and moved into Greene county. his wife spent the remainder of their lives. In addition to his general farming Mr. Miars had given considerable attention to the raising of high grade cattle. He had maintained his birthright interest in the Friends church and by political affiliation was a Republican. It was in March, 1859, that Allen H. Miars was united in marriage to Mary Melinda Stump, who was born in Warren county October 28, 1829, a daughter of Jonas and Prudence (Smalley) Stump, the latter of whom was a daughter of William Smalley, an old Indian fighter who had helped build- the first house in Cincinnati and was the first settler in the section that came to be organized as Clinton and Warren counties. William Smalley was born in New Jersey in 1761 and was at Ft. Du Quesne when the Indians 804 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO made a raid on the fort, his father being among those slain. Young Smalley then was fifteen years of age. He was taken into captivity by the Indians and for seven year was thus held, during that time being compelled to witness many an act of cruel savagery on the part of his captors, several white prisoners having been burned at the' stake during that period, and on one occasion he saw an infant torn from its mother's arms and thrown into the flames. He left. camp to keep from seeing Colonel Crawford burned. In 1784 he escaped from his captors and returned to Pittsburgh, a few years later coming* down the river and locating at Ft. Washington, where Cincinnati came to be established. He took part in the campaigns against the Indians up in this .section of Ohio with General Harmar and with General St. Clair and was later in charge of sharpshooters in Wayne's army in the Auglaize country and was present when Colonels Lynch and Truman were killed. He took part in Perry's battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. and using his rifle, he fired thirty-three shots, twenty-nine of which took effect. Mrs. Prudence Stump, daughter of this pioneer and mother of Mrs. Miars, lived to the great age of ninety-two years, her death occurring in November, 1902. Allen H. Miars died on March 15, 1916, and his widow survived him less than a year, her death occurring on January 16, 1917. Her father, Jonas Stump, was a son of Daniel and Mary (Ramey) Stump, Virginians, who in 1817 liberated their slaves and came to the free state of Ohio, leaving their home in Frederick county, in the Old Dominion, on account of their antipathy to the institution of slavery. Daniel Stump was a son. of Capt. John Stump, of the German navy, who married Margaret Lynx, gave up his seafaring life, came to the American Colonies and settled in the Shenandoah valley, his wife, it being said, forfeiting her right to a large estate by coming to this country. Three of the sons of Capt. John Stump served seven years as soldiers of the 'patriot army during the Revolutionary War, attached to Company 4, Morgan's Regiment. It is related that at the siege of Yorktown, Jacob. Stump remarked to a comrade, "See me 'shoot the epaulet off that British officer's shoulder." He fired and the epaulet was torn from the shoulder of the officer. To Allen H. and Mary Melinda (Stump) Miars was born one child, a son, Fremont, who owns and occupies the old home place. Fremont Miars; son and only child of Allen H. and Mary Melinda (Stump) Miars, was born in Clinton county on September 17, 1861, on the Hazard farm, and received his early schooling in the Hazard 'school in the vicinity of his boyhood home; supplementing the same by attendance at the Wilmington schools, after which he entered Wilmington College and later received further instruction in the college at Lebanon and at Delaware College. For two years after leaving college Mr. Miars was. engaged in mercan- GREENE. COUNTY, OHIO - 805 tile pursuits at Hartmonsville, West Virginia, and then returned home, his presence on the farm being necessary in order to relieve his father of the further responsibility of the farm management. After his marriage in 1893 he established his home in the home of his parents and has since continued to make that his place of residence, now the proprietor of a farm of more than three hundred acres. On February 8, 1893, Fremont Miars was. united in marriage to Cora Bryce, who was born in the village of Spring Valley, this county, daughter of Alexander and Margaret (Irvine) Bryce, residents of that village. Alexander Bryce was born at Paisley, Scotland, and was there trained in the art of shawl weaving. In .1849 he came to the United States and became employed in the woolen mills at Urbana, this state, later coming to Greene county, making his home at Alpha and at Spring Valley, in which latter village he died at the age of seventy-nine years. His wife was eighty at the time of her death. They were members of the Methodist Protestant church and were the parents of five children, of whom Mrs. Miars was the fifth in order of birth, the others being the following: Catherine D., who is living at Xenia; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Stiles, a Xenia township farmer; James Irvine, who became a resident of Dayton, where he died, and Anna, who married Walter Barley and is now living at Portland, Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Miars have one child, a daughter, Mary Margaret, born on March 1, 1900, who attended the Spring Valley schools and Xenia high school and is now a student in Ohio State University. They are members of the Methodist Protestant church. Mr. Miars is a Republican, JOHN B. ALLEN. John B. Allen was .one of the leading figures of Xenia for over half a century. Born near Mount Jackson, Shenandoah county, Virginia, August 5, 1816, he came to Xenia in 1836 and made his .home here. in this city until the day of his death, December 21, 1893. He was a son of John and Catherine (Holker) Allen, of English ancestry. He was educated at the college at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and just before reaching his majority came to Xenia alone, his sister, Mrs. John Walton, .being located in the city. Soon after coming to Xenia he opened a private bank, and from that time forward banking was his life work. He saw the city rise from a village .of a few hundred until it became a thriving metropolis of eight thousand, and in this growth he had an active part, He continued his private bank until it was merged into a national bank, and remained the president of this bank, the Xenia National Bank, until his death. He had other interests, but 806 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO he was essentially a banker and every other activity in which he was engaged was subordinate to his banking interests. Mr. Allen was married on December 10, 1839, to Sarah Ann Nunnemaker. To this marriage were born two children, Mary A., who became the wife of the poet, Coates Kinney, and Clara, unmarried. The two sisters are still living in Xenia, making their home together in the old Allen homestead. Mrs. Allen died on April 3o, 190230,he had been a life-long worker in the Methodist church, and was a woman of unusual character. Mr. Allen was never. a seeker after political preferment, but his friends forced him to become an active worker in political affairs, feeling that he was exceptionally qualified for public life. He consented to become a candidate for the city council, and was elected and re-elected term after term. For some years he was president of the city council. He was also a member of the board of county commissioners for several years. In 1891 he was elected a member of the state Senate and was re-elected in the fall of 1893, but his death occurred before he took up his duties for the second term. John B. Allen was such a man as make cities what they are today. Devoted to his work, he was no less devoted to the life of his fellow.mfellowmant behind him the reputation of a man who was always ready to share his worldly goods with those less fortunately situated in life and those who remember him in his later years recall his intense interest in the well-being of those around him. Thus he lived, and thus he died—a man full of the milk of human kindness. Those who may read these lines in the years to come will here read of the life and career of one of Xenia's best loved citizens of a past generation. Mrs. John B. (Nunnemaker) Allen was the only daughter of Michael and Mary (Hivling) Nunnemaker. Her father was born in Maryland. August 3, 1790, where was reared to manhood. At the age of twenty-six he came to Xenia, where he lived the remainder of his life. He was a bookkeeper and principal salesman in the dry-goods store of John Hivling for a number of years. He married Mary Hivling, a daughter of his proprietor, on October 28, 1821. He died February 27, 1866. As before stated, Mrs. John B. Allen was the only daughter of this marriage. Later, Mr. Nunnemaker became a merchant and banker, and was associated with his son-in-law, John B. Allen, in the banking business. Mrs. Nunnemaker was a capable woman in many ways. Her husband became one of the wealthy men of the county. He was prudent in his dealings, scrupulously honest in all his transactions, and never failed to help those who came to him for assistance. He was an active member of the Methodist church. Capt. John Hivling, the father of Mrs. Nunnemaker, was one of the big men of early Xenia. He built the first large hotel in the city, which GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 807 stood at the corner of Detroit and Main streets, part of which is still standing in 1917. The Captain was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, July 14, 1779, and came to Greene county in 1809. He became a large landowner, buying land by the thousand-acre lots. At his death on November 4, 1851, he was the wealthiest man in the county. He was interested in the first bank, in the old Little Miami Railroad, and in every feature of the life of Xenia which promised to make it a better, and, larger city. He was a Mason and helped organize the first lodge in Xenia, taking an active part in its affairs through his life. Many of the features of the life of Captain Hivling are of interest to the general history of the county, and are given extended mention in the historical volume. REV. ALVA D. WENRICK. The Rev. Alva D. Wenrick, minister of the Brethren church and proprietor of a farm in Beavercreek township, this county, rural mail route No. 8 out of Dayton, was born in Shelby county, this state, August 17, 1880, son. of Andrew J. and. Sarah (Fahanstock) Wenrick, both deceased, the former of whom was a veteran of the Civil War, who were the parents of three sons, the eldest of in Frank, is deceased, and the. youngest, Thomas, is -a farmer living in Montgomery county. At the age of twelve years Alva D. Wenrick was placed in the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia, Where he learned the details of the blacksmith and machinist trades. Before he was sixteen he received his discharge and was placed in charge of the blacksmith and machine shop at the Horne, continuing thus engaged for eighteen months, at the end of which time he went to Sidney and was soon made foreman of a shop there. Not long afterward he started out as .a journeyman machinist .and until 1902 was engaged traveling all over the country, during that time finding employment in no fewer than one hundred railway shops. In 1902 Mr. Wenrick located in Dayton and there married Carrie C. Coy, of Beaver= creek township, this county, a daughter of Aaron Coy, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. After his marriage he began working in the plant of the National Cash Register Company, pursuing his studies at night, and in due time received examination credits for his graduation at Taylor College at Upland, Indiana. In 1906 Mr: Wenrick was ordained a minister of the Brethren church and has ever since given his attention to preaching, general public speaking and missionary work. Not long .after his return to Dayton Mr. Wenrick, in association with Harry Stutz, built the first automobile constructed in that city. Since taking possession of his farm in Beavercreek township he has done. well and has recently completed a .fine new house there, ,his place being about four miles 808 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO east of Dayton. In addition to his property in this county he has land holdings in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and town property in Dayton. Politically, he is a Republican and has held various local offices, at present a member of the school board. To Mr. and Mrs. Wenrick eve children have been born, Ralph, Ruth (deceased), Harold, Frank and Ronald. WILLIAM W. FERGUSON William W. Ferguson, formerly and for more than twenty years justice of the peace in and for Beavercreek township and the proprietor of a farm on the Shoups Mill road in that township, rural mail route No. 8 out of Dayton, was born on a farm in Mad River township, two miles east of Dayton, in the adjoining county of Montgomery, April 13, 1848, and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Greene county since he was two years of age. He is a son of John W. and Anna (Feirstine) Ferguson, the latter of whom was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, August 13, 1820, daughter of George Feirstine and wife, Lutherans, of Pennsylvania-Dutch stock, who reared a considerable family and spent all their lives in that county. Two of their sons, George and Samuel Feirstine, came to Ohio and located in Montgomery county. Samuel Feirstine there enlisted for service during the Mexican War and died while in service. Anna Feirstine came out here to make her home with her brother George and it was here that she met and married John W. Ferguson, the two later coming over into Greene county and locating in Beavercreek township, where their last days were spent. John W. Ferguson was born in the state of Delaware in 1819 and was seven years of age when he came with his parents, William and Jane (Watson) Ferguson, to Ohio, the family locating on a farm two miles east of Dayton. William Ferguson also was born in Delaware. His wife was horn in Ireland of Protestant parentage and was but a girl when she came to this country with her parents, the family locating in Delaware, where she married William Ferguson about the year 1813. William Ferguson developed a farm in Montgomery county and there he and his wife spent their last days. They were Methodists and were the parents of nine sons, of whom but one, Joseph Ferguson, now living in Kansas, survives, the others having been Samuel, William, John W., Charles, Robert, Hugh, Christopher and one who died in infancy. Of these sons Charles and Robert joined the train of gold hunters who went to California in 1849 and spent their last days in the West. Hugh established his home in Bath township, this county. Reared in Montgomery county, John W. Ferguson remained there a few years after his marriage and then, in 1850, came over into Greene county and rented GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 809 one of the Gerlaugh farms in the Alpha neighborhood. In 1857 he bought a farm of two hundred and twenty-one acres on the Dayton-Xenia pike in Beavercreek township, the place now owned and occupied by his son, George. F. Ferguson, and was getting the same in the way of development when he died in 1861, leaving his widow with six small children, the eldest of whom, the subject of this sketch, was but thirteen years of age. In that same year all these children were stricken with diphtheria and two of them, John, aged seven, and Charles, aged ten, died. The others besides the subject of this sketch were George F., a biographical sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume; Jane, wife of John Kable, of Sugarcreek township, and Robert H., a clerk on the Miami Conservancy Board at Dayton. The Widow Ferguson did not remarry. She kept her family together, superintended the development of the home farm and there continued to make her home until her death in February, 1898. She was a member of the Reformed church and her children were reared in the faith of that communion. William W. Ferguson from the days of his boyhood was his widowed mother's mainstay in the affairs of the farm and as the eldest of- her children early took charge of the management of the place. After his marriage in 1871 he established his home there and there continued to reside until after his mother's death in 1898, when, in 1899, he bought the Moler farm of one hundred and forty-eight acres on the Shoups Mill road in Beavercreek township, enlarged the brick house which stood on that place, made other improvements and has since made his home there, though now practically retired from the active labors of the farm, the management of the same having been turned over to his sons. He and his wife also own the old Harshman home place of two hundred acres in that neighborhood, the place where Mrs. Ferguson was born. Mr. Ferguson is a Democrat, was a member of the local school board for several years and for twenty-three years served as justice of the peace in his home township, finally declining to stand for re-election to the office to which his neighbors persistently continued to elect him. He was a member of the commission that had in hand the erection of the Greene county court house in 1901. He is a Royal Arch Mason, affiliated with the blue lodge and the council at Xenia. On December 21, 1871, William W. Ferguson was united in marriage to Anna M. Harshman, who was born two miles north of Zimmerman in Beavercreek township, daughter of John Harshman, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to this union seven children have been born, namely : John H., a mechanic, who married Jennie Bates and now lives at Dayton ; Horace E., better known as Harry, who married Mary Shoup and is assisting in the operation of the home farm ; Della, who married William Evans, a Bath township farmer; -Anna, at home ; Hattie, 810 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO who married Harry Steadman and died at the age of thirty-three years; Robert, who married Bessie Shoup and is living on a part of the home farm, and Samuel, also at home. JACOB SIPE. The late Jacob Sipe, who died at his home in Beavercreek township on March 30, 1916, was born in that same township, in the neighborhood of Zimmerman, September 22, 1838, son of, John and Elizabeth (Harshman) Sipe, the latter of whom was born in that same neighborhood, a member of one of the pioneer families there, the Harshmans having been among the early settlers about Zimmerman, as is set out elsewhere in this volume. John Sipe was born in the Mud Run neighborhood in the neighboring county of Clark, in 1812, a son of Francis Sipe and wife, the latter of whom was a Harner, who had come to Ohio from Pennsylvania. After his marriage to Elizabeth Harshman, John Sipe made his home in Greene county, buying a farm of ninety acres near Zimmerman, and there spent the rest of his life. He also for some time operated the mill that had been erected there by his wife's father. He and his wife were the parents of thirteen children, namely : Mary, who died at the age of seventeen years ; Jacob, the subject of this memorial sketch ; John, who married Sadie Jones and is living on a farm in Blackford county, Indiana; Sarah, unmarried, who is living on the home farm with her brother Daniel; George, who married Mary Thomas and is living on a farm in Blackford county, Indiana; Samuel and William, twins, the former of whom is now living at Dayton and the latter of whom died at the age of fifteen years ; Ezra, who died in Michigan ; Andrew, who is now living in Paulding county, this state; Mary Catherine, who died at the age of twenty years ; Daniel, unmarried, who is still operating the home farm near Zimmerman; Levi, deceased, and Oliver, who became a lawyer and spent his last days in Dayton. Jacob Sipe grew up on the home farm near Zimmerman and in 1868 he and his brothers, George and John, bought fifty acres a mile northeast of Zimmerman. A few years later Jacob Sipe bought his brothers' interests in that place and after his marriage on December 28, 1876, to Clistie Moon, he established his home there. In 1877 he built a new house on that place and in 1808 remodeled the same and there spent the remainder of his life. Mr. Sipe was a Republican, and for six years served as school director in his district. Two years before his death he became affiliated with the Reformed church. To Jacob Sipe and wife were born four children, namely : Ellen and Edith, twins, the latter of whom died when eleven days old and the former of whom is still living with her mother on the home farm ; Oliver, a carpenter, now living at Dayton, who married Minnie Coy and has two children, Harold and GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 811 Carl; and Harry, also a carpenter, now living at Latonia, Kentucky, who married Edith Cummins and has seven children, Hazel, Ruth, Grace, Elva, Harry, Esther and Helen. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Sipe has continued to make her home on the farm. She was born in Blackford county, Indiana, daughter of Harrison and Ellen (Swift) Moon, the latter of whom was born in Ireland and was two years of age when her parents came to this country with their family and located in Fayette county, this state. Ellen Swift's mother's maiden name was Hannah Stafford. Harrison Moon was born in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, March 12, 1818, son of Reese and Elizabeth (Ladd) Moon, and was but a child when his parents came to Ohio and settled in Fayette county, where he grew up on a farm and married Ellen Swift. Reese Moon was born in Wales about the year 1794. About 1845 Harrison Moon moved to Blackford county, Indiana, bought a farm about two miles from Hartford City, and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. They were Methodists and were the parents of eight children, of whom but three are now living, Mrs. Sipe having two brothers, John and Hugh Moon, now living retired at Hartford City, Indiana. WILLIAM F. COSTENBORDER. William F. Costenborder, formerly and for years a railway engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railway Company and for the past fifteen years or more the proprietor of a farm on which he makes his home in Beavercreek township, was born in that township on June 9, 1862, son of Jacob and Catherine (Shoup) Costenborder, both of whom were born in that same township, members of pioneer families. Jacob Costenborder was born on March 21, 1828, and remained in this county until the time of his retirement from the farm, when he moved to California, where his last days were spent. His wife died in 1908. She was born in 1834. They were the parents of seven children, of whom William F. was the third in order of birth, the others being. Martha, deceased ; Samuel J., who is now living at Dayton ; Mrs. Anna Bosley, also of Dayton ; Mrs. Lillie Archer, of Belmont, this state ; Mrs. Ida Archer, of Beavercreek township, and Chester, of Dayton. Reared on the home farm in Beavercreek township, William F. Costenborder received his schooling in the common schools and remained at home, assisting in the labors of the farm, until he was twenty-six years of age, when he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railway Company and in due time became a locomotive engineer, a vocation he continued to follow until he decided to return to farming. On November 4, 1902, Mr. Costenborder bought the farm of fifty acres on which he is now living in Beaver- 812 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO creek township and has ever since made his home there. Mr. Costenborder is a Republican and is affiliated with the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias. He and his wife are members. of the Reformed church. On September 15, 1897, William F. Costenborder was united in marriage to Maude Alexander, of the Xenia neighborhood, a daughter of George and Jennie (Long) Alexander, the latter of whom is still living, who were the parents of four children, those besides Mrs. Costenborder being Blanchard, who is now a resident of Indiana ; Charles, who is living in Iowa, and Mrs. May Sutton, of Yellow Springs, this county. A child born to Mr. and Mrs. Costenborder died in infancy. CHARLES M. BURR. Charles M. Burr, the proprietor of a farm east of Jamestown in Silvercreek township and the operator of a four-hundred-acre farm of the McClintock estate in that township, is a native son of this county, born on a farm north of Bowersville, in Jefferson township, January 1, 1874, son of William H. and Flora B. (Hussey) Burr, both of. whom are still living, residents of the Bowersville neighborhood, and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Reared on the home farm; Charles M. Burr received his schooling in what then was known as the Compton school and as the eldest son early assumed responsibilities in connection with the operation of the farm, for some time being in practical charge of the home farm, but after his marriage he rented a farm south of Bowersville and there lived for a couple of years, at the end of which time he bought a tract of seventy acres east of Jamestown in Silvercreek township, later adding to that tract an adjoining tract of sixteen acres, and there he lived until 1917, when he took charge of the McClintock farm of four hundred acres in that same township and has since been operating the same in addition to looking after the details of management on his own farm. In addition to his general farming Mr. Burr is giving considerable attention to the raising of live stock, both cattle and hogs. On February 23, 1898, Charles M. Burr was united in marriage to Della Bailey, who was born in Silvercreek township, daughter of Daniel M. and Flora (Glass) Bailey, both members of old families in this county and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Burr are members of the Church of Christ at Jamestown. Mr. Burr is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias (Cyclone lodge) and he and his wife are both affiliated with the lodge of the Pythian Sisters. Mr. Burr is a Republican, as is his father and as was his grandfather. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 813 GEORGE GRANT MILLER. George Grant Miller, a Beavercreek township farmer and dairyman and proprietor of a farm of ninety-two acres on rural mail route No. 4 out of Osborn, was born in this county, December 2, 1868, son of Reuben and Mary Ann (Tobias) Miller, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families. Reuben Miller was born on April 2, 1836, and his wife was born in 1840. They were married in 1867 and to them were born four sons, of whom the subject of this sketch was the first-born, the others being William, deceased ; Edward, now a resident of Dayton, and Lewis, who is living at Fairfield. Reared on the home farm, George G. Miller received his schooling in the district school in the vicinity of the farm on which he is now living, and early began practical farming, continuing thus engaged after his marriage in 1899. Recently he bought the farm of ninety-two acres on which he is now living and is steadily improving the same, with a view to giving particular attention to the raising of big-type Poland China hogs. Mr. Miller is a Republican. On April 2, 1899, George G. Miller was united in marriage to Edith Williamson, who also was born in this county, daughter of Edward J. and Martha (Roher) Williamson, Of Beavercreek township, who were the parents of six children, those besides Mrs. Miller being Bertha, deceased; George, who is living at Shoups Station ; Chester, of Dayton ; Frank, of Chicago, and one deceased. WILLIAM H. ARTHUR. William H. Arthur, proprietor of a Cedarville township farm on rural mail route No. i out of Cedarville, was born on a farm in the vicinity of the village of South Charleston, in the neighboring county of Clark, October 7, 1863, son of Christopher C. and Elizabeth (Watkins) Arthur, both of whom also were born in the South Charleston neighborhood, members of pioneer families in that community, and who spent all their lives there, both being now deceased. Among Christopher C. Arthur's land holdings was the farm of one hundred and eighty-six acres in Cedarville township now owned and occupied by his son, William H. Arthur, the subject of this sketch. The latter is the eldest of the three sons born to his parents, the others being John Arthur, now a resident of Springfield, this state, and Edgar Arthur, who owns and occupies the old home farm in Madison township, Clark county. Reared on the home farm just above referred to, William H. Arthur received his schooling in the district school in that neighborhood and in the 814 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO schools of South Charleston and he remained at home until he was twenty-five years of age, when, in 1888, he took charge of the farm his father had bought in Cedarville township, this county, and has ever since been operating the same, having established his home there after his marriage in 1892. When his father died in 1908 Mr. Arthur bought the interests of the other heirs in that place and has since made improvements on the same. On November 26, 1892, William H. Arthur was united in marriage to Florence N. Sellers, who was born on a farm about a mile from where she is now living, daughter of Albert and Harriet (Johnson) Sellers, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Howard. Mr. Arthur is a Republican. LEANDER SPAHR. Leander Spahr, proprietor of a Spring Valley township farm on the lower Bellbrook pike, five miles west of Xenia, was born in that township on January 23, 1855, son of Elijah and Ann (McKay) Spahr, the latter of whom was a daughter of Jesse McKay, both the Spahrs and the McKays being old families in Greene county. Elijah Spahr was born in Hardy county, Virginia, in February, 1816, and was twelve years of age when he came with his parents to Greene county, the family establishing their home here. He early learned the woodworker's trade and in the days of his young manhood was engaged in making plows and fanning mills in the Philip Pagett factory. He married Mrs. Ann McKnight, widow of James McKnight and daughter of Jesse McKay and who by her first marriage was the mother of four children, all of whom lived to maturity. After his marriege Elijah Spahr resided for a time on the James McKnight farm in Spring Valley township and later bought the farm of two hundred and two acres in that same township on which he spent the remainder of his life. Upon taking possession of that place he made a clearing and during the early '60s erected a frame house, mainly of walnut, on the place. There Elijah Spahr died in 1893, he.then being seventy-six years of age. His wife died at the age of sixty-eight. To them were born seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being the following : Angeline, who died at the age of twenty-three years ; Lavina, deceased, who was the wife of Philip Peterson ; Rebecca E., who died at the age of twenty-three years; Martha, who also died when twenty-three years of age; Leroy, who became engaged in mercantile pursuits at Dayton and died in 1906, and Ella, wife of L. Arthur Babb, a farmer of Spring Valley township. Leander Spahr was born on the old McKnight farm and was but a child when his parents moved to the place on which they spent the remainder of GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 815 their lives. He received his schooling in the Richland school and after his school days were over continued on the farm and after his father's death was made the executor of the estate. In 1905 Mr. Spahr bought the old Bingham place of fifty acres in Spring Valley township and has since made his home there. Mr. Spahr is a Republican and for five years was president of the local school board. Since he was eighteen years of age he has been a member of the Richland Methodist Episcopal church and for thirty-five years and more has been the superintendent of the Sunday School there. He also has held other offices in the church, was for some time member of the board of trustees and for some time class leader. Mr. Spahr formerly was a member of the Grange and is now a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. MARTIN A. OSTER. Martin A. Oster, who has been engaged in the hardware and implement business at Yellow Springs for many years, is a son of Adam and Emma (Fleckenstein) Oster, and was born on a farm near Xenia on February 23, 1864. Adam Oster also was born in this county, his birth having occurred in 1834 at Byron. After reaching manhood he took up farming, which occupation he followed all his life. In 1861 he married Emma Fleckenstein, who was a native of Germany and who had come to this county as a child with her parents. To this union were born four children, Martin A., the immediate subject of this review ; John, who is engaged in the grocery business in Yellow Springs ; George, a resident of Dayton, where he is engaged in the cafe business. and Anna, who died in infancy. At the age of twenty-six years, Adam Osler settled on a farm near Xenia, where he remained for three years, after which he moved a—farm about four miles west of Yellow Springs, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in 1884. His wife's death occurred in the previous year. Martin A. Oster was only one year old at the time his parents moved from the. farm near Xenia to the home place west of Yellow Springs, and he was reared to the life of a farmer. After living on the farm for some years after his marriage, he decided to engage in the hardware and implement business, and on November 5, 1899, moved to Yellow Springs, where he opened up a store in this line on Dayton street, and has been continuously thus engaged since that time. On August 17, 1886, Martin A. Oster was united in marriage with Anna Hornick, a native of this county, daughter of Sebastian H. and Elizabeth Hornick, and to this union have been born six children : Edward, unmarried, living in Yellow Springs ; Emma,' who died in infancy ; Mamie, 816 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO a teacher in the public schools at Yellow Springs.; Lena, living at home with her parents; Tresia, who teaches in the county schools, and Paul, who is a student in the public school. The family are members of the Catholic church. Mr. Oster holds membership with Eagle Lodge No. 397, at Springfield. In politics, he is independent. GEORGE ANDERSON, M. D. Dr. George Anderson, who for the past twenty-five years has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Alpha, and who also is the owner of a farm in file neighborhood of his home village, on which he gives considerable attention to the raising of swine for breeding purposes, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born near the banks of the Muskingum river in Morgan county, a son of Curtis and Mary Ann (Singer) Anderson, both of whom also were born in this state, natives of Harrison county, and the latter of whom is still living in the last named county. Curtis Anderson was born in 1832, his parents having been among the early settlers of Harrison county, this state, having come over into Ohio from Pennsylvania. He early learned the trade of sawyer and after his marriage moved down into Morgan county, where he set up a steam saw-mill and began to cut out the virgin forest along the banks of the Muskingum in the neighborhood of the point at which he had settled, finding a ready market for his lumber at Zanesville. He presently went back to Harrison county, where he bought a farm of two hundred and twenty-five acres and spent the rest of his life there, his death occurring in 1908. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as is his widow, and was a Republican. His widow, who is still living on the home farm in Harrison county, was born in 1836. To Curtis and Mary A. (Singer) Anderson were born four sons, of whom Doctor Anderson is the youngest, the others being John S. and H. C., who are continuing to operate the home farm in Harrison county, and Lincoln, who is the owner of a farm in that same neighborhood. George Anderson was two years of age when his parents moved from Morgan county to Harrison county and he was reared on the home farm in the latter county, receiving his elementary schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and supplementing the same by a course in Franklin College. from which institution he was graduated in 1888. In the meantime he had been reading medicine and upon leaving college took a formal course of reading along that line under the preceptorship of Dr. J. A. Magrew at New Athens. Thus equipped by preparatory study he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore and was graduated from that institu- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 817 tion in 1891 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1893 Doctor Anderson came to Greene county and bought out the old established practice of Dr. J. A. McClure at Alpha, as well as Doctor McClure's home on the corner where the Dayton-Xenia pike passes the village, and has ever since made his home there. In 1899 Doctor Anderson took a course sin the New York Post-Graduate Medical School. He is a member of the Greene County Medical Society and of the Ohio State Medical Society. The Doctor owns a farm in Sugarcreek township and has for some time been engaged there in raising pure-bred registered O. I. C. hogs for stock purposes, though not permitting this diversion to interfere with his practice. The Doctor is a Republican and for four years was a member of the township board of education. On December 25, 1891, at Columbus, this state, Dr. George Anderson was united in marriage to Winifred J. Barrett, who was born in Harrison county, this state, but who was living at Columbus at the time of her marriage, and to this union two children have been born, a son and a daughter, Horace Wilson and Winifred Annette, the latter of whom was graduated from the Beavercreek township high school and is at home. Prof. Horace Wilson Anderson, M. A., now teaching at Zimmerman, this county, was born in March, 1894, and upon completing the course in the Beavercreek township high school entered Antioch College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and from which he later 'received his Master degree. ALFRED LOY. Alfred Loy, a soldier of the Civil War, who for many years has been a resident of the village of Bellbrook and who has served as postmaster, as mayor, as councilman, as marshal and as an officer of that village in other public capacities, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born in the vicinity of Centerville, in the neighboring county of Montgomery, November 26, 1837, son of Jacob T. and Rachel (Bankson) Loy, whose last days were spent in this state, the latter dying on September 11, 1858, and the former, in April, 1887. Jacob T. Loy was a 'native Hoosier, born in the then Territory of Indiana, January 1, 1816, and who later came to Ohio. At Waynesville, this state, in 1837, he married Rachel Bankson, who was born in the state of New Jersey on June 27, 1817, and who was but a girl when her parents moved from that state with their family to Ohio. After his marriage Jacob T. Loy located in Montgomery county and a few years later moved over into Preble county and it was in this latter county that the subject of this sketch spent his youth. Jacob T. Loy and wife were the parents of ten children, (51) 818 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO those besides the subject of this sketch being the following : Peter W. B., who is now living at Peru, Indiana; Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hart, of Darke county, this state; Catherine A., deceased; Francis A., now a resident of Morgan county, Kentucky ; Jacob H., deceased ; Mrs. Sarah Jane Walker, of Darke county, this state, and Rachel C., Letta Maria. and Melissa E., deceased. Alfred Loy was but a small boy when he moved with his parents from Montgomery county to Preble county and in the latter county he received his schooling. He early became more or less dependent upon his own efforts, for before he was eleven years of age he left the home farm and for two years thereafter worked on the farm of another "for his board and keep" in order to gain the advantage of better schooling than was afforded in his home district. Upon leaving school he learned the trade of brickmaker and bricklayer and was thus engaged for seven years. In 1862 he married and afterward began farming and was thus engaged when in January, 1865, he enlisted for service in the Union army during the Civil War and was attached to General Thomas's brigade, with the Army of the Cumberland, and served with this command until he reached his final discharge in September, 1865. During his absence at the front his wife made her home at Bellbrook and upon the completion of his military service he returned to Bellbrook and has lived there and in that neighborhood ever since. For some time he was engaged in saw-mill work and in threshing-machine work and for three years lived on a farm, but about forty years ago left the farm and returned to Bellbrook, where he has since remained. During the administration of President Harrison Mr. Loy was appointed postmaster of Bellbrook and for eight years occupied that position. He also served for several years as a member of the village council, was for three months mayor of the village, filling a vacancy in that office, and has also served as constable, marshal and about all the other offices connected with the local administration of affairs in his home town. Mr. Loy is a Republican, a member of W. H. Bird Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Spring Valley, a member of the Grange and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as was his wife, and has for many years been an office bearer in his church, having served as class leader, as steward, as a trustee and as superintendent of the Sunday school. On August 19, 1862, on the Clear Spring camp-meeting ground near Spring Valley, Alfred Loy was united in marriage to Mary J. Debarr, daughter of the Rev. Thomas J. and Mary Ann (Talbert) Debarr, of Bellbrook, the former of whom was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. Loy celebrated their golden-wedding anniversary in 1912 and Mrs. Loy died on October 15, 1914. To them two children were born,. Elmer Elsworth, born on May 20, 1863, who died on March 7, 1866, and Omar Weston, born on October to, 1866, who died on June 15, 1882. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 819 SAMUEL S. JOHNSON. Samuel S. Johnson, a retired coal dealer living at Yellow Springs, was born on a farm in the vicinity of Plattsburg, in Harmony township, in the neighboring county of Clark, February 23, 1843, son of James and Catherine (Smith) Johnson, the former of whom was born in Kentucky and the latter in Ohio. James Johnson was born in 1800 and was but a child when his parents came to Ohio from Kentucky and settled in the neighborhood of, Cable, in Champaign county, where they established themselves on a farm. There he grew to manhood, becoming a practical farmer, and after his marriage began farming in Harmony township, in Clark county, on a place not -far from Plattsburg, and there he remained until 1848, in which year he returned to Champaign county, resumed farming there and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1866. His widow survived him eight years, her death occurring on December 17, 1874. They were the parents of eleven children, Elizabeth, Mary, Ezra, Nancy, Sarah, James, Jefferson, Samuel, Olive, Clay and Arminda, of whom but three are now living, the subject of this sketch and his sisters, Sarah and Arminda. Samuel S. Johnson was about five years of age when his parents moved from Clark county to Champaign county and in the latter county 'he grew to manhood, received his schooling and became engaged in farming on his own account, establishing his home on a farm there after his marriage in 1873. During the Civil War he rendered service as a soldier, a member of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mr. Johnson continued to make his home in Champaign county until his retirement from the farm in 1893 and removal to Yellow Springs, where for a year he had charge of the college boarding house. He then, in 1894, became engaged in the coal business at Yellow Springs and continued thus engaged until on February 7, 1915, when he sold his coal yards and establishment to P. W. Drake and has since been living retired. Mr. Johnson is a Republican with independent leanings. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and a Royal Arch and York Rite Mason, affiliated with the blue lodge at Yellow Springs and the chapter and commandery at Urbana, and is also a member of the Urbana lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On November 25, 1873, in Champaign county, Samuel S. Johnson was united in marriage to Amanda Mahan, of that county, born on December 11, 184.6. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have one child, a daughter, Miss Anza Johnson, born on April 25, 1875, who is living at home and who is a professional nurse, now giving her special attention to the work of the Red Cross Society. The Johnsons are members of the Christian church. 820 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO B. J. MIDDLETON. For nearly one hundred years the family of Middleton has been represented in Green county and the old home place at Middletons Corners, in Caesarscreek township, now occupied by B. J. Middleton, has been in the family ever since the tract was settled there by James and Thomas Middleton about the year 1825. These brothers, James and Thomas Middleton, were Virginians, born in Berkeley county, sons of Bethuel and Naomi (Ganoe) Middleton, also natives of that county, who came to Greene county after their sons had effected a settlement here and here spent their last days. James Middleton grew to manhood on a farm in the vicinity of Martinsburg, in Berkeley county, Virginia, and when a young man he and his brother Thomas rode out here into Ohio and secured possession of the tract surrounding what for many years has been known as Middletons Corners, in Caesarscreek township, a portion of which tract has long been owned and occupied by the subject of this sketch. After thus securing their location the Middleton brothers returned to their home in Virginia, were there married and at once returned to their new possessions, establishing there their homes, Middletons Corners thus coming into being. These brothers were accompanied back here by their parents and the other members of the family. Bethuel Middleton, the father, died there in 1855, at the age of eighty-three years. He and his wife were the parents of nine children. Upon his return to Virginia after having secured a location in this county, James Midddleton was there united in marriage to Angeline Musetter, also a native of Berkeley county, whose family also later became represented in Greene county, and upon his return here with his bride established his home at the point he and his brother has selected as a location and on that place he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, his death occurring on January 16, 1888, he then being in the eighty-fourth year of his age. He and his wife were members of the Reformed church at Maple Corners and were the parents of ten children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth. B. J. Middleton, son of James and Angeline (Musetter) Middleton, was born on the old. Middleton place, where he is still living, September 27, 1834, and has lived there practically all his life, for some time past living retired from the active labors of the farm, the place now being under the management of his son-in-law, C. B. Hazard, who makes his home there. Mr. Middleton is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. On January 8, 1868, Mr. Middleton was united in marriage to Isadora Watts, who was born at Richmond, Indiana, daughter of Dr. J. S. and Margaret (Mendenhall) Watts, both of whom were born in the neighborhood of Stillwater, in Tuscarawas county, this .state, and who were for some time GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 821 residents of Greene county, making their home at Xenia, where Doctor Watts was for some time engaged in the practice of his profession, and to this union were born three daughters, Carrie E., Laura A., and Margaret M. Carrie E. Middleton married J. Albert Davis, a farmer living in the vicinity of the village of New Burlington, and has three children, Leah May, Mary Isadora and Bertha Opal. Laura A. Middleton married W. S. Racer, of Xenia, and died on March 4, 1911. Her husband died on June 30, 1916. Margaret M. Middleton married C. B. Hazard, of the neighboring county of Clinton, and who, as noted above, has for some time been in active management of the Middleton farm. ORVILLE DEWEY TOBIAS. Orville Dewey Tobias, proprietor of a Beavercreek township farm on rural mail route No. 0 out of Xenia, was born on a farm in Sugarcreek township, this county, March 8, 1861, son of William and Jane (Miller) Tobias, the former of whom also was born in this county and whose last days were spent here. William Tobias was born in the village of Zimmerman on March 14, 1821, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hanney) Tobias, who had come to this county from Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and had located in the settlement that early took the name of Zimmerman, in Beavercreek township. There Samuel Tobias bought twenty-five acres of land, built a log cabin and established his home. There he died in 1829, leaving his widow with six children, three sons and three daughters, those besides William, who was eight years of age at the time of his father's death, having been Lydia, who became the wife of William Kirkpatrick ; Margaret, who married Noah Enry and moved to Illinois; Daniel, who made his home in the vicinity of Troy, this state; Samuel, who died unmarried, and Catherine, who married Wallace Haines. The widow Tobias married Michael Swigart and lived to be seventy-six years of age, her death occurring in 1871. Following the death of his father William Tobias was taken into the home of Peter Swigart, a brother of his stepfather, and there remained until he was past twenty-one years of age, When twenty-five years of age he married and began farming on his own account, for some years renting farms, and in 1869 bought the farm on which his son, the subject of this sketch, is now living and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in January, 1911, he then lacking but three months of being ninety years of age. William Tobias was a Republican. Reared a Lutheran, he later became affiliated with the Reformed church and for many years served as a deacon of the Beavercreek congregation of the latter communion. William Tobias was twice married. On December 24, 1846, he was 822 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO united in marriage to Sarah Swigart, who died in 1851, at the age of twenty-four years, leaving two sons, Martin Luther and Samuel, both of whom are now deceased, the former of whom became a farmer in Beavercreek township and the latter of whom made his home in Dayton. Martin L. Tobias was twice married. By his first wife, Christine Peeples, he had two children, Edgar and Clara, and by his second wife, Mary Barnhart, he had three children, Eva, Grace and John. Samuel Tobias married Emma John and had three children, Homer, Harold and Howard. On June 19, 1852, William Tobias married, secondly, Jane Miller, who was born in Bath township, this county, November 25, 1824, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Wheeler) Miller, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Maryland, who came to Ohio after their marriage, first locating at Columbus, then at Cincinnati and then in Greene county, becoming early settlers in Bath township, where the former spent the remainder of his life. James Miller was a soldier of the War of 1812. He died in 1840 and was buried in the Byron cemetery. His widow survived him until 1854, her death occurring at Dayton. To William and Jane (Miller) Tobias were born eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the sixth in order of birth, the others being the following: William A., who became a farmer in Beavercreek township, where he died in April, 1917, and who had married Jannie Alice Garlough and had one child, a son, Emerson D. ; Elizabeth and Catherine, twins, the former of whom is unmarried and both of whom are now living at Dayton, the latter the widow of the late John W. H. Barney, by whom she was the mother of four children, Dora, Bertha, Eugene J. and Ralph; Daniel and Calvin, who died in the days of their young manhood; one who died in infancy, and Newton W., now a druggist living at Ada, who married May Kemp and has one child, Vivian G. Mrs. Jane Miller. Tobias survived her husband nearly two years, her death occurring in December, 1912. Orville D. Tobias was eight years of age when his father bought the farm on which he is now living and there he grew to manhood. He received his schooling in the local schools and after his marriage in 1890 continued to make his home on the home place, managing the same for his father, and after the latter's death bought the place from the other heirs and has since been the owner of the same, a farm of something more than one hundred acres. Mr. Tobias is a Republican and, fraternally, is affiliated with Silver Star Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Alpha. He is a member of the Beaver Creek Reformed church, as is his wife, was formerly and for years a deacon of that congregation and is now an elder in the church. Mr. Tobias has been twice married. On November 12, 1890, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Anna (Koogler) Coffman, a widow, who died eighteen months later, and on March 6, 1898, he married Mrs. Effie (Miller) Armstrong, a widow and the mother, by her first marriage, of four children, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 823 Harry, who is now living in Bath township; Mayme, wife of Vernon Ewing. of Dayton; ,Louise, at home, and Nellie, who died in the days of her childhood. Mrs. Tobias is a daughter of Israel and Jane Miller, both now deceased, who were residents of Bath township. To Mr. and Mrs. Tobias one child has been born, a son, Raymond, born on December 27, 1900. who is now (1918) a student in the Beaver Creek high school. LEE R. FAWLEY. Lee R. Fawley, manager of the store of the Koontz Hardware Company at Yellow Springs, was born on a farm in Caesarscreek township, this county, December 25, 1886, son of George and Laura (Kaley) Fawley, both of whom were born in Highland county, this state, the former in 1854 and the latter in 1858, who are now living on their farm in the vicinity of Paintersville, in this county, where they have resided for years. George Fawley was for years a school teacher in Greene county. He received his schooling in Highland county, where he was born, and when about twenty-one years of age began teaching school in Clinton county. A few years later he moved into Greene county and began farming, meanwhile continuing engaged in teaching during the winters and for twenty years was one of Greene county's teachers. He then bought a farm in the neighborhood of Paintersville and has since then devoted his time to farming, still making his home on that farm. To him and his wife have been born seven children, of whom four are still living, those besides the subject of this sketch being Olive, who married 0. E. St. John, a farmer of Caesarscreek township, and has one child ; Orville, a farmer, of Jefferson township, who married Myrtle Sturgeon and has three children, and Alonzo, who married Lanna Faulkner and has one child. The deceased children of this family were Clarence, Glenn and Daisy. Reared on the home farm in Caesarscreek township, Lee R. Fawley received his schooling in the common schools and upon leaving school became employed as a clerk in the general store of A. E. Faulkner at Paintersville and was thus engaged for twelve years, at the end of which time he became a clerk in the hardware store of Howard Applegate at Yellow Springs and when that store was bought by the Koontz Hardware Company about a. year ago was made manager of the same, which position he now occupies. Mr. Fawley is a Republican and a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias at Paintersville. On April 24, 1917, Lee R. Fawley was united in marriage to Clara Diehl, daughter of Jacob Diehl and wife, of Xenia. Mr. and Mrs. Fawley are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. 824 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO L. MADISON RAHN. L. Madison Rahn, now living retired at Yellow Springs, was born in this county and has spent the most of his life here, though for some years he was a resident of Dayton and of Columbus, engaged in the buggy business in those cities, and later, for a year he was engaged as a traveling salesman for the Osborn Milling Company. He was born on a farm adjoining what is now the government aviation field in the vicinity of Fairfield, April 19, 1867, son of Adam and Emaline (Feighner) Rahn, both of whom were born in the vicinity of the city of Canton, county seat of the county of Stark, this state, and who became residents of Greene county about the year 1862, locating in Bath township. Adam Rahn was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Canton on May 12, 1831, and there grew to manhood. On April 7, 1853, he married Emaline Feighner, who was born in that same neighborhood, and in 1859 moved with his family from Canton to Montgomery county, where he remained until about 1862, when he came over into Greene county and located on what then was known as the Wilson farm just at the outskirts of the village of Fairfield and adjoining what is now the great aviation field established by the United States government there upon the outbreak of hostilities with Germany in the spring of 1917, and it was on that place that the subject of this sketch was born. In 1869 Adam Rahn moved to a farm in the northeast corner of Bath township and there he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on March 13, 1916. He was one of a family of three sons and six daughters, the others of this family having been William, Samuel, Mary, Catherine, Matilda, Belmina, Emaline and Caroline, the only one of these now living being Emaline, a resident of Columbus, this state. Mrs. Emaline Rahn, who is deceased, was one of a family of nine, she having had three brothers, Samuel, Solomon and William ; three sisters, Elizabeth, Catherine and Marie, and two half-brothers, John and Henry. To Adam Rahn and wife were born six sons and one daughter, namely : Clayton, deceased ; Charles, a resident of Dayton, who has been married three times, his last wife being Elizabeth Blair ; Emma, who is living at Yellow Springs ; Albert, also a resident of Yellow Springs, who married Abbie May Alexander and has three children, Ralph, who died when sixteen years of age, he then having been a student in the Yellow Springs high school, and Harold and Helen ; Madison, the immediate subject of this biographical sketch, and Adam and Flavius, deceased. L. Madison Rahn was but two years of age when his parents moved onto the home farm in the northeastern part of Bath township and there he grew to manhood, receiving his schooling in the common schools. He remained on the home farm until 1891, when he went to Dayton and was there engaged