GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 825 in the buggy business for three years, at the end of which time, in 1894, he went to Columbus and in the latter city was engaged in the same line until he took employment with the Osborn Milling Company, at Osborn, this county. For a year he continued this latter employment and then returned to the home farm and took charge of the same, continuing thus engaged until his retirement on April 4, 1917, and removal to Yellow Springs, where he since has made his home. Mr. Rahn is a member of the Reformed church, a Democrat and a member of the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons. GEORGE H. DRAKE. George H. Drake, a former merchant and lumber dealer, now living retired from active business in the city of Yellow Springs, where he has made his home for nearly thirty years, was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Clark on September 8, 1860. He is a son of William W. and Bethany (Caylor) Drake, the former of whom was also born in that county, in 1830, and the latter in the state of Indiana, in 1840. She, however, was reared in Clark county, a member of the household in which Samuel Shallenbarger, former congressman from this district, was reared. William W. Drake was married in 1857 and established his home on a farm in Clark county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the firstborn, the others being Ruthetta, wife of William M. Wilson, a farmer and stockman, now living at Alberta, Canada; Oliver, who established his home on the old home place in Clark county after his marriage and who died there in 1917; Ralph, who is married and living on a farm in Clark county ; Elmer, who also is married and living on a farm in Clark county, and Pierre W., who is engaged in the lumber and coal business at Yellow Springs, senior member of the firm of Drake & Van Kirk, and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Reared on the home farm in Clark county, George H. Drake received his schooling 'in the neighborhood schools. He married in 1885 and continued farming in Clark county until 1889, in which year he disposed of his interests there and moved to Yellow Springs, where he became engaged in. the furniture and undertaking business. Two years later, in 1891, he sold that establishment and bought a general-merchandise store, turning the same over to the management of Howard Applegate, while he himself, became engaged in the hardwood and lumber business, in partnership with C. A. Little, an arrangement which continued for about two years, at the end of which time he bought Mr. Little's interest in the business and conducted the same alone until 1913, in which year he sold out to his brother, Pierre W. Drake. 826 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO and has since been living retired. Mr. Drake is a Republican. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church and he is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of. Odd Fellows. Mr. Drake has been twice married. In 1885, in Clark county, he was united in marriage to Emma J. Kirkwood, who was born in Greene county, and who died in 1887. In June, 1895, Mr. Drake married Addie L. Sibley, who was born at Clinton, Massachusetts, daughter of Terrant W. and Ma-line F. Sibley, and to this union two children have been born, one of whom died in infancy. The other, Miss Genevieve F. Drake, is now engaged as assistant librarian in the public library at Dayton. SAMUEL W. COX. Samuel W. Cox, a veteran of the Civil War and formerly and for many years a blacksmith at Yellow Springs, this county, now living retired in that village, was born there and has lived there all his life. He was born on December 5, 1833, the site of the house in which he was born later being occupied by the old Yellow Springs House, the scene of great activity during the days when Yellow Springs enjoyed wide fame as a watering place and which later was destroyed by fire. His parents were Samuel W. and Elizabeth (Jones) Cox, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter, of Virginia, who were among the earliest settlers in the village of Yellow Springs and whose last days were spent there. The elder Samuel W. Cox became early trained to the trade of a blacksmith and as a young man went to Georgetown, D. C., where he became employed on the Chesapeake & Ohio canal and where he met and married Elizabeth Jones, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, and their first two children were born in Georgetown. Later he came to Ohio and settled at Yellow Springs, in this county, where he set up a blacksmith shop and where he and his wife spent the rest of their lives. During the administration of President Polk in the '40s Samuel W. Cox served as postmaster of Yellow Springs. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, of whom but three are now living, the subject of this sketch having a brother, George Cox, also a resident of Yellow Springs, and a sister, Mrs. Juliette Vose, of Cincinnati. The others of these children were Chapman, Sarah Ann, who married Doctor E. Thorn ; Mrs. Elizabeth Runyan, Horatio, Joseph, Charles and Chauncey. Reared at Yellow Springs, where he was born, the younger Samuel W., Cox received his schooling there in a little log house on the hill, what is now known as the Neff place, his first teacher there having been Adam Kedzie. When eleven years of age he became an assistant to his father in the latter's GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 827 blacksmith shop and thus early became a worker in iron, a business which he continued to follow at Yellow Springs all his active life, or until his retirement about fifteen years ago, an injury received about that time having necessitated his retirement from active labor. Mr: Cox was working at his trade during the time of the Civil War and upon the call for the hundred-days service enlisted and went to the front as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Upon the completion of that term of service he re-enlisted and served until the close of the war as a member of Company K, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Ohio. On December 4, 1855, at Yellow Springs, Samuel W. Cox was united in marriage to Mary Jane Rice, who was born at Lincolnville, Maine, and who had come to this county with her parents, and to that union were born four children, Cora, Edward, Mary and Frankie, all of whom are now deceased, the first-named and the last having died in youth. The mother of these children died on March 15, 1907, and on July 30, 1909, Mr. Cox married Susan Ault, of Yellow Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Cox are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a Republican and a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Good Templars. SAMUEL FRALICK. Samuel Fralick, now living retired at Yellow Springs, has been a resident of that village since 1908, in the spring of which year he moved there with his family in order that his daughters might continue their studies in Antioch College. Miss Mary B. Fralick was graduated from that institution in 1910 and afterward became engaged in teaching at Selma and later at Powell, but is now a member of the teaching force of the Yellow Springs high school. Miss Susan G. Fralick was graduated from Antioch in 1912 and later was engaged for some time as a teacher in the schools of Manchester, this state, but is now conducting a private school at Yellow Springs. Mr. Fralick was a farmer and stockman in the neighboring county of Madison until he retired from the farm in 1895 and moved to the village of Sedalia, in that county, in order that his children might have the advantage of the village schools, and there he became engaged in the hotel and livery business, proprietor of the Midway House, continuing thus engaged until the spring of 1908, when he moved to Yellow Springs, as noted above, so that his daughters might have a home there while completing their studies in Antioch College, and there he has continued to make his home. The Fralicks are members of the United Presbyterian church. 828 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO GEORGE W. McCULLOUGH. George W. McCullough, a veteran of the Civil War who has for years been engaged in the retail meat business at Yellow Springs, has been a resident of Ohio since he was four years of age. He was born at Rumley, in Hampshire county, Virginia, April 13, 1842, son and only surviving child of John and Mary (Smarr) McCullough, both of whom also were born in Virginia, of Scottish descent, and whose last days were spent in Ohio, they having come out here more than seventy years ago, locating in Clark county. John McCullough was born at Rumley, Virginia, and there received his schooling and grew to manhood. He married there and began farming in his native county of Hampshire, continuing thus engaged there until 1846, when he disposed of his interests in that county and with his family came to Ohio and settled on a farm in Clark county, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring in 1883. John McCullough was twice married. By his marriage to Mary Smarr he was the father of three children, Frank, who was born in Virginia and who died when seven or eight years of age; George W., the subject of this biographical sketch, and Anna, who died when ten years of age. The mother of these children died in 1848, two years after coming to Ohio, and John McCullough later married Margaret Ann Kitchen, of Clark county, and to that union were born three sons, Charles, who is now living in Nebraska; Isaac, of Detroit, Michigan, and Erasmus Jackson McCullough, a farther in the vicinity of Clifton, this county. Reared on the home farm in Clark county, George 'W. McCullough received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and after his marriage in the summer of 1862 began farming on his own account. A year later, in June, 1863, he enlisted his services in behalf of the Union cause and went to the front. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. McCullough returned to the farm and there remained until 1873, in which year he moved down to Yellow Springs and there became engaged in the butcher business, in which line he has been engaged practically all the time ever since. For three years also, years ago, Mr. McCullough was engaged at Yellow Springs in the ,livery and undertaking business, a member of the firm of Littleton & McCullough. Years ago he took a trip West, thinking to better his condition, but after a few years of experience there returned to Yellow Springs and resumed his butcher business, in which he ever since has been engaged. Mr. McCullough is a Republican, has for years been a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, present commander of the same, and is a Mason and an Odd Fellow and has filled all the chairs in the local lodges of both of those orders. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. McCullough has been twice married. On June 15, 1862, he was GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 829 united in marriage to Louisa Rhoades, of Clifton, this county, who died in 1867, leaving one child, a daughter, Mrs. Hattie M. Green, who is now living at Sedalia, Missouri, a widow. On December 31, 1870, Mr. McCullough married Mary A. Polling, who was born in Clark county, where her parents also were born, and to this union seven children have been born, namely : Effie, who married Fred Sharp, now living at Gage, Oklahoma, and has three children ; Blanche, who married Walter Stansberry, of Yellow Springs, and has three children; Mrs. Grace Straus, who died in 1916 ; Frank, now living at Springfield, who married Nellie Marshall and has one child; Edward, who married Stella Runyan and now lives at Wichita, Kansas; Charles, who is married and has two children, and George, who died at Springfield when twenty-three years of age. WILLIAM CLIFFORD SUTTON. William Clifford Sutton, a former member of the common council of the city of Xenia and for years engaged in business in that city, proprietor, in association with his brother, of a music store, and who also is now engaged in the sale of automobiles, was born on a farm in the immediate vicinity of the village of New Jasper, in the township of that name, in this county, October 23, 1877, son of John R. and Emma N. (Cooper) Sutton, both of whom were also born in that same township, and who are now living retired at Xenia, having moved from the farm to that city in 1907. John R. Sutton and Emma N. Cooper were married in 1875 and to that union were born two sons, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Charles Leroy Sutton, born in 1879, who is associated with his brother in the operation of the Sutton music store at Xenia and who married Florence Kiser, of Bellefontaine, this state. Reared on the home farm in New Jasper township, William C. Sutton supplemented his early schooling in the schools of that neighborhood by a course in the Xenia city schools. In 1901 he became associated with L. E. Drake in business at Xenia, the firm there ,conducting a music store for two years, at the end of which time, in 1903, Mr. Sutton bought his partner's interest in the store and continued the management of the same; later taking into partnership with him his brother, Charles Leroy Sutton, and has ever since been thus engaged, the Sutton music store being located at 50-52 East Main street. The Sutton brothers own the building in which they are carrying on their business, having bought the same on October 15, 1917. In 1910 William C. Sutton opened what has ever since been known as the "Bijou" moving-picture theater in Xenia, rebuilt the same in 1914 and continued to operate the theater until September 1, 1917, when he sold the place and became engaged in the sale of automobiles, in addition to his music-store 830 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO business, having the local agency for five makes of cars and trucks. Mr. Sutton was for eight years a member of the city common council from his ward, occupying that position at the time the city government was changed to a commission form of government on January 1, 1918. On December 24, 1902, William C. Sutton was united in marriage to Fay Cherry, daughter of Thomas and Evaline (Tedrick) Cherry, of Newark, this state, the latter of whom is still living, and to this union has been born one child, John Thomas Sutton, born on November 4, 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Sutton is affiliated with the local lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Loyal Order of Moose, of the Woodmen of the World and of the Modern Woodmen of America. CHARLES T. STEVENSON. Charles T. Stevenson, proprietor of a Miami township farm, was born on a farm in Cedarville township on December 2, 1870, son of Capt. John and Jane (Bradfute) Stevenson, who are now living retired in. the village of. Yellow Springs. Capt. John Stevenson earned his title by service in the Union army during the Civil War. He was born on a farm in Xenia township on July 5, 1829, and has lived in this county all his life, being now one of the oldest living native-born residents of Greene county. During his younger days he was engaged in carpentering and building, but not long after his marriage in the summer of 1858 established his home on a farm in Cedarville township and there continued engaged in farming and stock raising until his retirement from the farm and removal to Yellow Springs, where he and his wife are now living. They have three children, the subject of this sketch having a brother,' William B. Stevenson, who married Lizzie Andrews, a Greene county girl, and after years of farming retired from the farm and moved to Cedarville, where he and his wife are now living, and a sister, Miss Lizzie May Stevenson, who is living with her aged parents at Yellow Springs. Charles T. Stevenson was reared on the home farm in Cedarville township and completed his schooling at Antioch College, which institution he entered in 1885. After leaving college he resumed farming and was thus engaged on the old home place until 1898, in which year he went to Illinois, where he was for two years engaged as manager of a stock farm. He then was for four years engaged in a similar capacity in the neighborhood of Wabash, Indiana, and afterward for some time in a like capacity in Virginia. In the meantime; in 1901, Mr. Stevenson had married one of Greene county's daughters and upon his return from Virginia bought the place on which his GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 831 wife was reared, the McMillan farm in Miami township, and has continued there to reside. It was in 1901 that Charles T. Stevenson was united in marriage to Hattie May McMillan, daughter of James Harvey and Mary (Akin) McMillan, of Miami township, and to this union one child has been born, a daughter, Nina Elizabeth, born in 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Stevenson is a Republican. OSCAR S. HARGRAVE. Oscar S. Hargrave, proprietor of a farm on rural mail route No. 8 out of Xenia, in New Jasper township, was born east of Bowersville in Jefferson township and has been a resident of this county all his life. He was born on February 19, 1874, son of William Herbert and Minerva (Thompson) Hargrave, the latter of whom was born in Fayette county, and who are still living here. William Herbert Hargrave was born on a farm two and a half miles east of Bowersville and has been a farmer all his life. He remained at home until his marriage and then located on the farm on which he is still living and where he owns one hundred and seventy-one acres. Mr. Hargrave is a Republican, has served as central committeeman for that party from his township and has also held county and township offices. He and his wife are members of the Church of Christ and their children were reared in that faith. There are four of these children, sons all, of whom the subject of this sketch was the second in order of birth, the others being Marion L., a farmer, who moved from this county to Paulding county, this state, and thence to Claire, Michigan, where he is now living, and who married Hester. Fannon and has five children, Bessie, Homer, Edith, Veda and Pauline ; Claude E., who is farming a part of his father's farm and who married Lillian Brakefield and has two children, Harold and Helen; and Jacob, who also in farming a part of the old home place and who married Belle Ford and has two children, Robert and Paul. Oscar S. Hargrave was reared on the home farm and received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood. After his marriage when twenty-seven years of age, he continued to make his home on the home farm for three years, at the end of which time he bought the farm on which he is now living in New Jasper township and has since resided there. He has a farm of seventy-four acres and has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock. Mr. Hargrave is a Republican and, fraternally; is affiliated with the local lodge of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at New Jasper. Mr. Hargrave has been twice married., On January 29, 1902, he was 832 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO united in marriage to Herma D. Stephens, daughter of William S. and Cleota (Pilcher) Stephens, of Port William, and to that union was born one child, a daughter, Isa Marie. Mrs. Herma Hargrave died in September, 1910, and on December 30, 1912, Mr. Hargrave married Mary Leona Hite, who was born in New Jasper township, this county, daughter of William Raper and Meldah R. (Spahr) Hite, both of whom also were born in this county and who are still living, now residents of the village of New Jasper. William Raper Hite was for years a farmer and also was engaged on county road and bridge contract work. He is a Republican, a member of the Improved Order of Red Men and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have four children, of whom Mrs. Hargrave is the third in order of birth, the others being Allen Delmer, a stock salesman, now living at Cleveland, this state, and who married Eva Babb; Clarence G., a painter, living at home at New Jasper, and Eva Elizabeth, who married Loren A. Rogers, who teaches in the Ross township centralized school and has one child, a son, Roger Russell. Mrs. Hargrave is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. OTIS T. WOLFORD. Otis T. Wolford, of "Forest Mill Farm," is one of Greene county's landowners and stockmen who for years has taken a special interest in the raising of pure-bred live stock, an exhibitor at fairs and stock shows throughout this part of the state. He and his wife are the owners of a farm of three hundred and sixty-eight acres a half mile off the Jamestown and Xenia pike, a part of the old Brown estate of two thousand acres settled by Mrs. Wolford's grandfather, Jacob Brown, in the middle of the '30s of the past century. In March, 1918, they also bought a half interest in two hundred and twenty-four acres on the Federal pike, known as the Sarah Jane Wilson or Mary McLaughlin farm, this latter tract also being a part of the two thousand acres of the Jacob Brown estate in the Military Survey. Jacob Brown was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, of old English stock, as was his wife, Judith Walter, also of Virginia, both the Brown and the Walters families having been established in Virginia in Colonial days. He was reared in Virginia, a farmer, and there married. By religious persuasion they were Hicksite Friends and so bitterly opposed to the institution of human slavery that in 1835 they disposed of their interests in the Old Dominion and came to Ohio, settling in Greene county. The decision on the part of the Browns to come to this county was based on the good report taken back by George Walters Brown, Jacob Brown's eldest son, who in 1829 had made a comprehensive trip on horseback through this re- 833 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO gion and as far west as Illinois and south into Kentucky. On all this long trip he saw no land with as fair a prospect as that in Greene county and he so reported, particularly emphasizing the desirability of a tract of two thousand acres held by Colonel Elzy, of Virginia, as a grant for military services during the Revolutionary War. The matter was investigated, the family was favorable to the emigration and Jacob Brown traded a tract of one hundred and sixty acres in Loudoun county, giving some cash for "boot," for the Elzy tract in this county and in 1835 moved here with his family, driving through with such household and other belongings as could conveniently be brought. George W. Brown, the family's "pathfinder," spent the rest of his life in this county, living to be eighty years of age, his death occurring on May 17, 1883. What attracted him to the Elzy tract was the obvious excellence of the soil, the presence of ample timber and water facilities for the operation of a mill on the place, and when the family became established on that place a water-wheel saw-mill was erected and was for years operated there by Nixon G. Brown, continuing indeed until in the '70s. There was also a grist-mill attached and many neighbors brought their logs and their grist to the Brown mill. Upon their arrival here the Browns rented a stone house on the Columbus pike five miles northeast of Xenia and there resided until they could erect a log house on their own place. This house was lathed and plastered on the inside and weather-boarded on the outside and was thus doubly substantial. There Jacob Brown and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. They helped organize the Oakland meeting of Friends and for many years, or until the Oakland meeting house and school house was erected, meetings were held in their house. The Oakland meeting was discontinud about 1885, most of the members having died or moved away, and the old meeting house later was destroyed by fire. As Jacob Brown's children married, their father gave them their respective portions of the land and the family became well established. Following are the names of the children of Jacob and Judith (Walters) Brown : George W., noted above as the family's "pathfinder;" Helen, who died in Virginia ; Diana, who also died in Virginia; Mrs. Lydia Ellen Greenlease, who died in Virginia ; William, who established his home in this county ; Thomas, who also made his home here ; Sarah Jane, who married Aaron Wilson and lived in the Springboro neighborhood, in Warren county ; Ruth Hannah, who married James Harrison, of Xenia ; Lucinda, who married William Blaine ; Nixon G., father of Mrs. Wolford, and Nancy. Nixon G. Brown, youngest of the four sons of Jacob Brown, was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, February 2, 1827, and was thus but a lad when he came to this county with his parents in 1835. He grew to man- (52) 834 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO hood on the big farm his father opened up and received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood. On May 12, 1853, he was united in marriage to Hannah P. Wilson, who also was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Nichols) Wilson, and after his marriage established his home on a part of the parental tract, and there he and his wife spent their last days. He died on March 11, 1904, in his seventy-eighth year, and his widow survived him but five days more than a month, her death occurring on April 16 of that same year. They maintained their interest in the Oakland meeting of Friends, of which Nixon Brown was an officer, until the discontinuance of the same in the '80s. They were very sociable and were widely known as "Uncle Nixon" and "Aunt Hannah" Brown. They were the parents of two daughters, Mary Elizabeth, who with her husband now owns the home place, and Harriet Ann, the latter of whom on May 6, 1885, was united in marriage to Dr. W. P. Madden, of Xenia, who died on May 30, 1908, his widow surviving him less than three years, her death occurring on December 2, 1910. Mary Elizabeth Brown was reared on the home farm and received excellent advantages in the way of schooling. On March 17, 1885, she was united in marriage to Otis T. Wolford, who had come to this county from Maryland in 1875. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Wolford made their home on the old Brown place, which they now own, and there Mr. Wolford gave particular attention to the raising of pure-bred Aberdeen-Angus cattle and was for years an exhibitor at stock shows and state fairs, though of late years he has not given so much attention to this line. He is still living on the farm and giving the same his active attention. He and his wife also maintain a home at Xenia, where the latter spends some of her time, having apartments in the Manhattan Hotel building. Otis T. Wolford was born in Washington county, Maryland, sixth in order of birth of the eleven children born to his parents, John and Mahala (Brewer) Wolford, natives of that same county, and Lutherans, who spent all their lives there, the latter dying on January 24, 1872, and the former, December 29, 1884. The other children of this family follow : John H., former mayor of Cedarville, who died on October 11, 1916, and whose widow, who was America Mills and by whom he had five children, is still living at Cedarville; Alvin Victor, deceased, whose widow, who was Estella Lott and by whom he had two sons, is now living at Dayton; Mary Elizabeth, who died when a child; Emily Virginia, deceased; Ida Mahala, who married William G. Haines, of this county, and has two sons, Dr. Roy Haines, of Paintersville, and Frederick, of Xenia; Peter Elsworth, now living at Washington Court House, who married Margaret Wendell and has one child, a daughter; Sarah Ellen, unmarried, who is living at. Cedarville; GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 835 William Grant, now living in Dixon, Illinois, who is married and has three children ; Thomas Cowton, who married Anna Shinn and is living on a farm east of Xenia, and Anna Savilla, who died in the days of her 'girlhood. LEONIDAS CROMWELL WALKER, M. D. Dr. Leonidas Cromwell Walker, who for more than thirty years has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Jamestown, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm in Eagle township, Vinton county, January 21, 1855, a son of Benjamin Morris and Margaret (Ratcliff) Walker, the latter of whom was born in that part of Ross county now included in Vinton county, June 5, 1821, daughter of Ezekiel and Dorothy (Hammer) Ratcliff, the former of whom was born in Chatham county, North Carolina, in 1795, and was. eight years of age when his parents, John and Ruth Ratcliff, Quakers, moved from that place to the new state of Ohio in 1803 and settled in Ross county. Benjamin Morris Walker was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, May 22, 1816, a son of John and Letitia (Humphrey) Walker, the latter of whom died in Virginia, where the former married again and later came over into Ohio with his family and settled in what is now Vinton county, where he spent his last days. John Walker was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, March 28, 1787, a son of Benjamin and Sophia (VanHorn) Walker, Quakers, both of whom were born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and the former of whom served as a soldier of the patriot army during the Revolutionary. War. Benjamin Walker was born on a farm in Springfield township, Bucks county, 'Pennsylvania, October 26, 1757, a son of Ebenezer and Hannah Walker, Quakers. He grew up in that township and some time prior to September 1, 1776, enlisted for service during the Revolution as a member of Capt. Evan Edwards' company of the Third Pennsylvania Line, and with that command served until February 20, 1781. In February, 178o, in his home township, Benjamin Walker married Sophia VanHorn, who was born in that same township, April 21, 1757, a daughter of Garret and Mary VanHorn, and in 1785 or 1786 he moved with his family from Pennsylvania to Loudoun county, Virginia, and there became engaged in the tanning business, erecting a tannery nearby his home. That old stone tannery is still standing and some years ago while making a visit to the old home of his great-grandparents in Virgin,ia Doctor Walker secured a photograph of the same. Benjamin Walker and his family were members of the Friends church. He died at his home in Loudoun county on Septembber 1, 1821, and his widow survived him for more than twenty years, her death occurring in February, 1845. On account 836 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO of her husband's Revolutionary War service she was a pensioner of the government. Benjamin Walker and wife were the parents of nine children, namely : Garret, born on August 20, 1780; Joseph, April 12, 1782 ; William, February 13, 1785; John, Doctor Walker's grandfather, March 28, 1787 : Mary, September 27, 1789 ; Benjamin, January 3, 1793 ; Sarah, June 25, 1795; a daughter who died the day after her birth, February 16, 1797, and Ebenezer, March 7, 1798, who died of typhoid fever while serving as a boy soldier during the War of 1812. John Walker grew up in Loudoun county and there became a farmer and shoemaker, following the latter vocation during the winter periods. During the War of 1812 he rendered service as a member of Taylor's Militia of Loudoun county. He was twice married, his first wife having been Letitia Humphrey, Doctor Walker's grandmother. She was a daughter of Jesse. and Winnie (Morris) Humphrey, the former of whom was a. son of Col. Thomas Humphrey, an officer of the Revolutionary army. To that union were born several children. After the death of the mother of these children John Walker married Abigail Brooks and a few years later, in 1824, moved over into Ohio and on October 20 of that year settled on a farm in what is now Vinton county, but which then was comprised within the bounds of Jackson county, and there established his home. He died on August 1; 1854, and is buried in the cemetery one mile north of Londonderry, in Ross county. Benjamin M. Walker, son of John and Letitia (Humphrey) Walker, was eight years of age when his father moved with his family from Virginia to Ohio. After his marriage he established his home on a farm and began farming on his own account, in time becoming the proprietor of twelve hundred acres of land in that county and a successful oil operator. Reared . as a Quaker, he remained faithful to the tenets of that faith and he and his family were members of the Friends church. Reared a Whig, he became a Republican upon the organization of the latter party. Benjamin M. Walker lived to be three days past eighty-three years of age, his death occurring at Londonderry on May 25, 1899. His wife, Margaret Ratcliff, had long Predeceased him, her death having occurred on September 19, 1875. To Benjamin M. and Margaret (Ratcliff) Walker were born seven children, of whom Doctor Walker was the fifth in order of birth, the others being the following : Stephen, born on December 4, 1841-, who enlisted his services in behalf of the Union during the Civil War, was commissioned first lieutenant of Company D, Eighty-ninth Regiment; Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was serving as captain of that company when he met a soldier's' fate' at the battle of Chickamauga, on Sunday evening, September 20, 1863, a a minie ball going through his heart ; John W., February 28, 1844, who served as a soldier in that same company and regiment and is now a resident of Battle GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 837 Creek, Michigan ; Simon R., October I 1, 1846, who became a civil engineer and is now the official surveyor of Vinton county, making his home at McArthur; Benjamin Rufus, May 23, 1852, a farmer living in the neighborhood of Worthington, in Franklin county; Emma Alice, March 3, 1858, who married Henry Stephens and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased, and Margaret, who married Fremont Milner and is living at Leesburg. The body of Lieutenant Stephen Walker, whose death at the battle of Chickamauga is noted above, was buried on the field. In .the following February his father went to the battlefield to recover the body. As this was beyond the Federal lines he was given an escort of soldiers. Several bodies were uncovered before he found the one sought, among these being the body of Lieutenant Jackson and the latter and that of Lieutenant Walker were given burial in the National cemetery at Chattanooga. Lieutenant Walker fell just north of Snodgrass Hill, not far from the spot where the monument erected to the Eighty-ninth Ohio now marks that regiment's particupation in the battle of Chickamauga. Reared on the home farm in Vinton county, Leonidas Cromwell Walker received his early schooling in the neighborhood school and supplemented the same by a course in the Normal School at Lebanon, after which he taught school for five terms, in the meantime spending his summer vacation periods in the study of medicine in the office of Dr. George Ireland at Wilmington, being thus prepared for entrance at Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago,' from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1882. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Walker returned home and opened an office in the vicinity of Eagle Mills, where he was engaged in practice for eighteen months, at the end of which time he moved to Halltown, in Ross county, and was there engaged in practice until January 1, 1885, when he came to Greene county and opened an office at Jamestown, where he has since been engaged in practice, with his present office and dwelling on East Main street. In 1896 Doctor Walker took a post-graduate course in the Metropolitan Post-Graduate School of Medicine at New York. He is a member of the Greene County Medical Society, of the Ohio State Medical Society, of the Miami Valley Homeopathic Society and of. the Ohio State Homeopathic Society. The doctor is a Republican and has served as a member of the local school board. He is a member of Jamestown Lodge No. 352, Free and Accepted Masons, and has- been four times worshipful master of the same. On June 2, 1881, Dr. Leonidas C. Walker was united in marriage to Ellen Marsh, who was born near Lower Salem, in Washington county, this state, March 25, 1857, daughter of James and Sarah Marsh, both now deceased, who were the parents of five children, of whom Mrs. Walker is the youngest,. the others being William, Maria, John and Susan. James Marsh was born on October 8, 1821, and his wife was born on July 1, 1826. They 838 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO were married on May 16, 1841. Doctor and Mrs. Walker have two children, Bessie, born in Eagle township, Vinton county, November 20, 1882, who married Charles E. Fisher, a business man of Xenia, and Charles T., born in Harrison township, Ross county, November 17, 1884, who is now engaged in the automobile business at Jamestown. Mrs. Fisher is a member of Catherine Greene chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Xenia. Charles T. Walker married Eskelene Reynolds, daughter of Professor Reynolds, superintendent of the Greene county schools, and has one child, a son, Ned Lewis, born on March 9, 1917. JOHN A. TIBBS. John A. Tibbs, assessor of Miami township and the proprietor of a farm adjoining the western line of the village of Yellow Pine, is a Virginian by birth, but has been a resident of Ohio since he was eight years of age. He was born on August 1, 1856, at Morgantown, county seat of Monongalia county, which then was a part of the Old Dominion, but which since the Civil War has been a part of the state of West Virginia, and his parents, Samuel and Sarah (Bennett) Tibbs, also were natives of that same section. Samuel Tibbs was born in 1812 and grew to manhood at Morgantown, where he married and where he continued to make his home until 1864, when he moved over into Ohio and settled on a farm in Scioto county, where he remained until 1884, in which year he moved to Champaign county. In this latter county he remained until 1900, when he moved down into Clark county, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1902. He and his wife were the parents of twelve children, namely : Sylvanus, Mary and Adaline, who died in youth; Martha Jane, Cordelia and Hester Ann, also now deceased ; Louise, who married G. L. Dodge, of Champaign county, and has eleven children ; Charles, deceased ; John A., the subject of this biographical sketch; Samuel and David, deceased, and George Edward, who is farming in the vicinity of Topeka, Kansas. As noted above, John A. Tibbs was but eight years of age when his parents came to Ohio and he completed his schooling in Scioto county, moving thence with his father to, Champaign county in 1884 and thence, in 1900, to Clark county, continually engaged in farming with his father. After the death of his father in 1902, Mr. Tibbs came down into Greene county and bought his present farm just west of the corporation line of Yellow Springs and has since resided there. In addition to his general farming, Mr. Tibbs has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock, his specialty being Duroc-Jersey hogs. He is a Republican and both in Champaign county and in Clark county rendered service as a member of the school board of the GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 839 districts in which he resided in those respective counties, and not long after coming to Greene county was elected assessor of Miami township, which office he is still holding, now serving his fourth term. John A. Tibbs was united in marriage to Louise Cunningham, of Scioto county, this state, daughter of John D. and Melissa (Woodring) Cunningham, who were the parents of thirteen children and the former of whom lived. to be ninety-eight years of age, and to this union have been born five children, four sons and one daughter, namely : Claude, deceased; Harry, unmarried, who is still living at home with his parents and who is engaged as a mail carrier at Yellow Springs ; Orin T., who married Gertrude Adamson, of Yellow Springs, and has three children, John Charles, June Elizabeth and Robert Orin; Edna, who died when six years of age, and James Raymond, now living near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who married Dorothy Ellis, of Yellow Springs, and has two children, Marjorie Law and James R., Jr.. EDWIN W. WING. Edwin W. Wing, former clerk of the village of Clifton and formerly engaged in the mercantile business there, now living retired at his home in that place, is a native of the great Empire state, but. has been a resident of Ohio since he was six years of age and of Greene county most of the time for the past twenty years or more. He was born at Hinsdale, New York, June 27, 1859, son of William H. and Jane A. (Bullard) Wing, natives of that same state, who came to Ohio in 1865 and established their home on a farm in the Mechanicsburg neighborhood in Champaign county, where they spent the remainder of their lives. William H. Wing was born in Rensselaer county, New York, in 1818, son of -William and Miriam Wing, also natives of that state, who spent all their lives in their native state. The Wings are of old Colonial stock, the founder of the family in this country having been a Quaker who came here from Holland, the family originally having gone from England to Holland. In Rensselaer county, New York, William H.. Wing grew to manhood and married Jane A. Bullard, who was born at Hinsdale, also of an old Colonial family, the Bullards being of "Mayflower" descent. After his marriage William H. Wing became engaged in the mercantile business at Hinsdale, and was thus engaged there when, in the early '60s, he came to Ohio on a little vacation trip and was so favorably impressed with the appearance of things in this section of the state that he decided to locate here. Returning to New York he disposed of his interests there and with his family came back to Ohio and bought about a hundred acres of land in the neighborhood of Mechanicsburg, in Champaign county, and there established his home, that 840 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO place having been the nucleus of the present celebrated "Woodland Farm," widely known in consequence of the astonishing results achieved there in the way of alfalfa culture and which has been referred to as "one of the milestones of American agriculture." The story of the work done by William H. Wing and his sons in the way of alfalfa culture is well known throughout this section of Ohio and need not be repeated here. The story of the establishment of the Wing Seed Company, growing out of the demand made upon the Wings for alfalfa seed, also is well known and is regarded as one of the most interesting features of the agricultural development of this part of the state. Since the death of the late Joseph Wing ("the Alfalfa King"), first president of the company, who died in 1915, Charles Wing, another of the sons of William H. Wing, has acted as president of the same. William H. Wing and his wife were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this biographical sketch was the first-born, the others being Joseph, Jennie May, Willis O. and Charles B. William H. Wing died in 1890 and his widow survived him for twenty-five years, her death occurring in September, 1915. Edwin W. Wing was six years of age when he came with his parents from New York to Ohio and he grew up on the home farm in the immediate vicinity of Mechanicsburg, receiving his schooling in the schools of that village, and from the days of his boyhood was an assistant in the labors of the home farm and in the development of the interests that have made the name Wing known far and wide among agriculturists. In 1890 Mr. Wing married a Greene county girl .and after his marriage continued his agricultural operations in Champaign county until 1896, when he moved to Clifton and there became engaged in the mercantile business, buying the George H. Smith store, which he continued to operate for eight years, at the end of which time he sold the same and for a time thereafter was engaged in developing his realty interests at Clifton, erecting the building in which the postoffice now is located and also the building in which the local Knights of Pythias have their hall. He and his family then went to Georgia, expecting to establish their home in the South if conditions seemed favorable, but after a residence of a couple of years in that state returned to Clifton, where they have since resided. Since his return from the South Mr. Wing has been living practically retired. For some time he rendered public service as clerk of the village. On April 2, 1890, at Clifton, Edwin W. Wing was united in marriage to Sarah Iliff, who was born in this county, daughter of David B. and Flora (Grindle) Iliff, both also Greene county folk, and the latter of whom is still living here. David B. Iliff was for years engaged in operating a paper mill in the vicinity of Clifton and after his retirement from business made his home in that village, where his death occurred on October 16, 1915. He and his wife were the parents of six children, Mrs. Wing having two brothers, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 841 John and George Iliff, and three sisters, Mrs. Anna Bowen, Mrs. Jessie Baker, of Kansas, and Mrs. Edith Randall, also of Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Wing have three daughters : Alice May, wife of Irvin Linson, a farmer, living in the vicinity of the village of Enon,, in the neighboring county of Clark; Ethel, wife of Nelson Stretcher, of Covington, Kentucky, and Florence, who was born during the time of the family's residence in Georgia and who is now in school at Clifton. The Wings are members of the Baptist church. PROF. CHESTER A. DEVOE. Prof. Chester A. Devoe, superintendent of county school district No. 3, comprising the schools of Jamestown, Silver Creek township, Caesarscreek township and the centralized school in Jefferson township, was born on a farm in Caesarscreek township on January 15, 1883, son of John and Mary M. (Williams) Devoe, who are still living in that township, where they have made their home since their marriage on March 8, 1882. 'John Devoe was born in that same township, February 7, 1855, and his wife was born in Highland county, this state, March 11, 1861. They have three children, Professor Devoe having a sister, Loma, who married James Tones and is living in the immediate vicinity of Mt. Tabor church in this county, and a brother, Marion A., who is unmarried and who is still living on the old home farm. Reared on the home farm in Caesarscreek township, Chester A. Devoe received his early schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and supplemented the same by attendance at the State Normal School at Lebanon, completing there the course for teachers in 1901. In the fall of that year he began teaching and for seven years thereafter was engaged during the winters as a teacher in the district schools of New Jasper township and Caesarscreek township. He then was appointed principal of the Caesarscreek township high school and superintendent of the schools of that township and was thus employed for eight years, or until his election in 1916 to the position he now occupies, that of superintendent of school district No. 3, comprising the schools of Jamestown, Caesarscreek township, Silvercreek township and the centralized schools of Jefferson township. Professor Devoe holds a; life certificate from the state as a teacher in both the grade and high schools and is a member of the county examining board for teachers. For two years he was chairman of the county "dry" association and has ever been an ardent exponent of the principles of the temperance movement in this state. On March 29, 1906, Prof. Chester A. Devoe was united in marriage to Sarah E. Jones, daughter of Jacob and. Lydia (Thomas) Jones, of ,New Jasper, and to this union have been' born five children, Nellie, Edna, Mary, Paul and Martha. Professor and Mrs. Devoe are members of the Methodist 842 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Episcopal church at Jamestown and the Professor is the superintendent of the Sunday school. In 1916 he was president of the Greene County Sunday School Association, an organization to which he has for years given earnest attention. The Professor is a member of the Masonic lodge at Xenia and of the Knights of Pythias lodge at Paintersville. HUGH A. ALEXANDER. The late Hugh A. Alexander, who died at his home in Miami township in the summer of 1906, was born on the farm on which he died and there spent all his life. The Alexanders have been represnted in this county ever since the year 1811, when Hugh Alexander, grandfather of the subject of this memorial sketch, came up here from Kentucky and bought a thousand acres of land in Miami township. Jacob Alexander, one of the sons of this pioneer, married Margaret Alexander and established his home on a portion of that tract, erecting on the same a log cabin in which he and his wife began housekeeping. Jacob Alexander became the owner of a farm of two hundred and seventy-five acres and on that place spent his last days, his death occurring there in 1838. His widow survived him for nearly thirty years, her death occurring in 1866, she then being past seventy years of age. They were the parents of ten children. Hugh A. Alexander, last survivor of the ten children born to Jacob and Margaret (Alexander) Alexander, was born on the home farm in Miami township on March 20, 1827. He was but eleven years of age when his father died and he grew up on the home place and after his marriage in 1860 established his home there, continuing to reside there the rest of his life, his death occurring there on July 8, 1906. For some years before his death he had been living practically retired from the active labors of the farm, having turned the management of the same over to two of his sons. In 1917 the farm was sold to William Conley. By political affiliation Mr. Alexander was a Republican. In 1860, at Dayton, this state, Hugh A. Alexander was united in marriage to Catherine Stahl, who was born in Germany, but who was but a child when she came to this country with her parents, the family locating at Dayton. To that union were born eleven children, namely : John, who for years has been engaged in the insurance business at Topeka, Kansas, and who married Minnie Roach and has five children, Archibald, Carl, Wilma, Donald and Helen ; Cynthia, wife of Jacob Johnson, of Yellow Springs, this county: Margaret, who is now living at Cedarville, to which place she moved with her mother after the death of her father ; Jacob, now a farmer at Knowles, Oklahoma, who married Mary Merrill and has two children, Emmet and Wiley ; GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 843 Hugh, who married Flora Raney and became. engaged in association with his brother William in the mercantile business at Yellow Springs, where he died on September 18, 1917, leaving three children, Eleanor, Ruth and Dorothy; Minnie, who married Riley McMillan, a farmer of Cedarville township, and has four children, Ethel, Harvey, Wilbur and Esther ; Anna, who is engaged in her brother's store at Yellow Springs ; Abbie, who married S. A. Rahn, who formerly was engaged in the mercantile business at Yellow Springs, and became the mother of three children, Ralph (deceased), Harold and Helen : William, who married Nellie Newell and is engaged in the mercantile business at Yellow Springs ; Arthur, now living at Kansas City, who married Lunetta McMillan, and has one child, a daughter, Grace; and Walter, who died at the age of eleven years. Following the death of her husband in 1906 Mrs. Alexander and her daughters, Margaret and Anna, moved to Cedarville, where Mrs. Alexander died on December 14, 1917, and where Miss Margaret Alexander is still living. Mrs. Alexander was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, as are her daughters. WILLIAM A. DEAN. Though no longer a resident of Greene county and now living retired at Columbus, Indiana, William A. Dean has never lost his interest in Greene county affairs and it is but fitting that in the history of his old home county there should be set out some of the details of his former connection with the affairs of this county, together with proper reference to the several pioneer families of Greene county with which he is connected and with which his wife is connected, for both are members of families that have been closely associated with the affairs of this county since pioneer days and which still have a wide connection hereabout. William A. Dean was born on a farm in the neighboring county of Clinton on March 11, 1857, son of William Campbell and Susan (Janney) Dean, both members of pioneer families in this 'part df the state, both the Deans and the Janneys having settled here in early days, the Deans coming up from Kentucky and the Janneys, over from Virginia. Susan Janney was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1820, and was twelve years of age when her parents, Stephen and Letitia (Taylor) Janney, native Virginians, Quakers, who were married in that state, drove through with their. family to Ohio in 1832 and settled on a farm in the vicinity of Springboro in the neighboring county of Warren, where they established their home and spent the remainder of their days. The Deans are one of the old families of Greene county and, as noted above, are still numerously represented hereabout, the family having had its 844 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO beginnings here with the coming of Daniel Dean and his family up from Kentucky in 1812. Daniel Dean, the pioneer, was a native of Ireland, son of Roger and Mary Dean, and was but eighteen years of age when he cane to this country in 1784, landing at the port of Philadelphia. In 1788 he went to Kentucky, where in 1791 he married Janet Steele. After his marriage he continued to make his home on his Kentucky farm until 1812, when he decided to move up into Ohio. He had previously bought a tract of eighteen hundred acres of land along Caesarscreek, in this county, and in 1812 established his home there, as is set out, together with a comprehensive history of the Dean family elsewhere in this volume. There were five sons and six daughters' in this pioneer family, all of whom lived to rear families of their own. The five sons were Robert, William, Daniel, Joseph and James. Thirty-six members of this family served as soldiers of the Union during the Civil War and all returned home save one, who died at the front. Robert Dean, first-born of the children of Daniel and Janet (Steele) Dean, was born in Kentucky in 1793 and was nineteen years of age when he came with his parents to Greene county in 1812. He straightway enlisted his services in behalf of America's second war of independence, then in progress, and served as a member of Capt. Robert McClellan's company on a tour of duty to Ft. Wayne, in the Territory of Indiana. On the tract of about two hundred and fifty acres of land which he inherited from his father in what later came to be organized as New Jasper township he established his home and spent his last days, his death occurring there on May 8, 1856, and he was buried in the Dean burying ground. Robert Dean was twice married, his first wife having been a Campbell and his second, an Orr, and was the father of a considerable family, one of his sons, William Campbell Dean, a child by. the first marriage, having been the father of the immediate subject of this biographical sketch. William Campbell Dean was born on the old Dean place in New Jasper township on July 4, 1822, and there grew to manhood. During the days of his young manhood he went South and was for eighteen months engaged as a guard in the Tennessee state penitentiary at Nashville.. Upon his return to Greene county he married Susan Janney, mentioned in a preceding paragraph, and after his marriage became engaged with his brother Daniel in the grocery business at Xenia, the brothers conducting at the northwest corner of Detroit and Main streets (where the Steele building now stands) the first store exclusively devoted to the sale of groceries ever started in Xenia. After four years of this form of mercantile business William C. Dean sold his interest in the store to his brother and moved to Clinton county, where he was engaged in farming for three years, at the end of which time he returned to this county and bought the interests of the other heirs in the old Dean farm in New GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 845 Jasper township, then a tract of one hundred and eighty-four acres, established his home there, on the place where he was born, and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in September, 1888, he then being in the sixty-seventh year of his age. William C. Dean was a Republican and had served as township trustee. Originally members of the Associate Reformed church, he and his wife later became members of the Friends church and their children were reared in the latter faith. There were five of these children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the third in order of birth, the others being Letitia, unmarried, who is living on the old home place in New Jasper township ; Anna. now living at Indianapolis and who has been twice married, her first husband having been William Hazelrig and her second, William Baldock ; Charles S., of Xenia, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and Susan, who married Edgar Ballard and is still living on the old Dean place in New Jasper township. William A. Dean was but an infant when his parents returned to this county from their brief residence in Clinton county, where he was born, and he was reared on the old home place in New Jasper township. He received his schooling in the neighborhood schools and at Antioch College. Upon his father's death in 1888 he inherited a tract of one hundred and nine acres of land on the New Burlington pike in Spring Valley township and after his marriage two years later began housekeeping there, but in 1903 he sold that place and moved to Portage county, this state, where he bought a farm of two hundred and forty acres, on which he made his home for twelve years, at the end of which time he disposed of his farming interests and has since been living retired. In the spring of 1917 he and his wile moved to Columbus, Indiana, where they have since been living. Mr. Dean is a Republican and for some time during his residence in Portage county served as township trustee. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have one child, a son, Edwin Janney Dean, who married Frances Elliott, of Warren, Ohio, and lives at Newton Falls, this state. They have one son, William A. On February 27, 1890, William A. Dean was united in marriage to Mariella Rader, who was born at Xenia on August 2, 1859, daughter of Adam and Susan (McKnight) Rader, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Virginia, but who had been residents of Greene county since the days of their childhood, they having accompanied their respective parents to this section of Ohio when they were mere children. Adam Rader was born at Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1818, and was not yet three years of age when his parents, Adam Rader and wife, came to Ohio, driving through, in 1821 and settled on a farm on the lower Bellbrook pike in Beavercreek township, this county. During the days of his youth his par- 846 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ents left the farm and moved to Xenia, where he grew up and was for years engaged in the cooperage and brickmaking business. On December 13, 1849, at 171 Columbus avenue, Xenia, the younger Adam Rader was united in marriage to Susan V. McKnight, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, February 21, 1827, and who was but about fourteen years of age when her parents, Josiah McKnight and wife, came to Ohio and settled at Xenia. After their marriage Adam Rader and his wife established their home at the above number in Xenia and with the exception of two years spent at Jamestown; in this county, there spent the remainder of their lives. Mrs. Rader died there on May 15, 1894, and her husband survived her for more than eleven years, his death occurring on January 30, 1907, he then being in the eighty-ninth year of his age. They were members of the Reformed church at Xenia and their children were reared in that faith. There were six of these children, namely : Emma, who died at the age of ten years ; Edwin C., a contractor at Xenia and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume ; Henry Willard, Mrs. Dean's twin brother, who is now living at Dayton, this state; Martha, still living at Xenia, widow of Dr. H. R. McClelland, and Ada Virginia, wife of D. C. F., Oglesbee, of Xenia. BURLEY J. COY. Burley J. Coy, merchant in the village of Zimmerman, in Beavercreek township, this county, was born in that township on January 2, 1873, son of Abraham and Catherine (Zimmerman) Coy, both members of pioneer families in that part of the county, as will be noted by extensive reference made to these families elsewhere in this volume. Abraham Coy was born in Beavercreek township in 1820, a son of Jacob Coy, and died on October 19, 1905: For some time, many years ago, he operated a store at Zimmerman and was the first postmaster of that village, that having been back in the days of the stage coach. He and his wife were the parents of eleven children, four of whom, Mary, Ellen, George and William, died during the '60s, the others being the following : C. Lincoln, who is living in Beavercreek township ; Lewis, who lives at Dayton ; Burley, the subject of this sketch; Dr. Marcellus Coy, of Dayton ; Parmelia, wife of Melville Brewer, of Beaver-creek township; Emma, who is living at Dayton, and Loden3a, wife of William Stewart, of Beavercreek township. Upon completing his schooling in the home schools in Beavercreek township, Burley J. Coy was for a time variously engaged and then took up railroading, employed as a motorman on the traction line between Dayton and Piqua, and for eighteen years was thus engaged. He then bought a corner lot at Zimmerman and on that lot, just opposite the site on which his father GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 847 years ago was engaged in mercantile business, built a store building and became engaged in business on his own account, with a view eventually to making a general store of his place. Mr. Coy is a Republican and has held township offices. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Masons, with the Elks, with the Knights of Pythias and with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. CHARLES E. FISHER. Charles E. Fisher, proprietor of a meat shop at 36 East Main street, Xenia, was born in that city on January 9, 1879, a son of Andrew and Katherine (Wolf) Fisher, natives of Germany, and the former of whom died on January 28, 1918, he having been succeeded in the meat business there by his son, the subject of this sketch. Andrew Fisher was born in the city of Frankfort, the most ancient of the old free cities of Germany, February 18, 1842, and was but a child when he came to this country with his parents, the family locating in eastern Pennsylvania. There he remained until 1853, in which year, he then being but eleven years of age, he came over into Ohio to join his elder brother, George Fisher, who was at that time the forman of a distillery at Spring Valley, in this county. At Spring Valley Andrew Fisher completed his schooling and as a young man became engaged in farming in the vicinity of Frost Station. On the last one-hundred-days call for volunteers for service in the Union army during the progress of the Civil War he enlisted and was sent with his comrades into Virginia, where he was captured by the enemy and was for four months confined in Libby Prison. In 1868, at Xenia, Andrew Fisher married Katherine Wolf, who was but nine months of age when her parents came to this country from Germany with their family and located at Cincinnati. As a young woman Katherine Wolf went from Cincinnati to Xenia and in the latter city was married and spent the rest of her life, her death occurring there on May 21, 1910. She was a member of the Reformed church. Andrew Fisher years ago became engaged in the retail meat business at Xenia and so continued until he retired and in the fall of 1903 sold his place to his son, Charles E., who is still conducting the same. Andrew Fisher for some time served as a member of the city council from his home ward. To him and his wife were born ten children, eight of whom grew to maturity. these, besides the subject of this sketch, being Elizabeth, widow of Homer Hawkins, of Xenia township ; Maud and May, twins, the former of whom married W. L. Miller and the latter, William Grottendick, and both of whom are now deceased ; Harry M., a locomotive engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad, who married Stella Hamilton, of Xenia ; Clarence W., who married Nellie VanCleave and is 848 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO also living in Xenia; Elmer A., who married Mrs. VanWinkle and is also living at Xenia ; and Fred C., also of Xenia, who married Hazel Berry. Charles E. Fisher was reared at Xenia, receiving his schooling in the schools of that city, and early became familiar with the details of the retail meat business, presently becoming engaged in that business on his own account. In 1869. his father had, in association with his brother-in-law, opened a small shop at the corner of Main and Columbus streets, later moving to Detroit street and thence, in 1880, to 38 East Main street and shortly after to 36 East Main street, where the shop has ever since been located. On September 10, 1903, Charles E. Fisher bought out his father's business and has since been conducting the same at the same old stand. Mr. Fisher is a member of Xenia Lodge No. 49, Free and Accepted Masons, of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is one of the charter members of the Xenia lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On March 23, 1904, at Jamestown, this county; Charles E. Fisher was united in marriage to Bessie Walker, of that place, daughter of Dr. L. C. and Ella (Marsh) Walker, who are still living at Jamestown and who have two children, Mrs. Fisher having a brother, C. Tiffin Walker, who is married, his wife being a Reynolds, and lives at Cedarville. MICHAEL A. BROADSTONE. Michael A. Broadstone was born in Greene county, Ohio, on October 30, 1852, and has made the county his home practically all of his life. Born on a farm in Beavercreek township, he passed his boyhood days in a manner similar to that of most of the boys reared on the farm in his day. After completing his elementary education in the rural schools, he became a student in Xenia College and there prepared himself for the teaching profession. Before reaching his majority he was teaching in Cedarville township and later taught in Sugarcreek township. He saved his money in order to continue his education and subsequently entered the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio. Mr. Broadstone later became a representative of the firm of L. H. Everts & Company, of Philadelphia, a company engaged in the publishing of county atlases and histories. During the eight years that he was with this firm he traveled over several states in the Union, thereby gaining a fund of experience that has been valuable to him later in life. He located permanently in Xenia in 1882, having been married the previous year, and has since made that city his home. He purchased in March, 1882, an interest in the undertaking business of John Shearer and was in that business for several years. At different times he was in partnership with W. M. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 849 McMillen and subsequently was associated with T. M. Moore for eleven years. For several years in connection with the business he conducted it alone. While thus engaged in the undertaking business, Mr. Broadstone spent his spare time in studying law and in June, 1895, passed the state board of examination at Columbus and was admitted to the practice of law in all the. courts of the state; since which time he has devoted most of his time to the practice of law, though while thus occupied he has found time to participate in local political activities and has filled various official positions. Mr. Broadstone's first official position was that of a member of the Xenia common council, an office in which he served for a five-year period following his first election to the council in 1883, and during part of which time he served as president of the council. He was elected county coroner and in that office served three terms of three years each. Upon the death of S. N. Adams, county recorder, in 1900, Mr. Broadstone was appointed to fill out the unexpired term and was then elected to that office as the nominee of the Republican party. He was re-elected and thus served for about three terms in that office. The last official position filled by Mr. Broadstone was that of state senator from this district, a position which he filled from 1912 to 1914. At present he is serving as attorney in Greene county for the Miami Conservancy Board. In 1918 Mr. Broadstone was prominently mentioned by the press and solicited by his friends over the state to 'become a candidate for the office of lieutenant-governor of Ohio, but declined to consider the candidacy on account of the press of business which engages him and because of a severe accident which befell him in the spring of that year, when he was caught beneath on overturned automobile. On March 8, 1881, at Coldwater, Michigan, Mr. Broadstone was united in marriage to Ella Cretors, then a teacher in the state public school at Coldwater. Mrs. Broadstone was born in Xenia, a daughter of Samuel B. Cretors, and was graduated from the old Xenia Female Seminary, later Xenia College, and was a student in the latter during the time of Mr. Broadstone's attendance there. To Mr. and Mrs. Broadstone have been born three daughters, Louise D., Jean and Patricia, the latter of whom is the wife of Findley NI. Torrence of Xenia, secretary of the Ohio Retail Lumbermen's Association and editor of Wood Construction, the official organ of that association. Louise D. Broadstone married John W. Dillencourt, now living at St. Louis, where he is engaged as manager of the fine cordage department of the Graham Paper Company, and has three children, Margaret, John B. and Jane. Jean Broadstone married Lawrence E. Laybourne, a lawyer now practicing at Springfield, this state, and has two children, Everett (53)