850 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO B. and Lawrence. Mr. Broadstone is affiliated with the local lodges of the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias at Xenia. The family residence is at 101 East Church street. and Mr. Broadstone has offices in the Steele building. CHARLES A. WEAVER. Charles A. Weaver, vice-president of the Xenia Business Men's Association and proprietor of a clothing store at 13 East Main street, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life, a resident of Xenia sine he was nineteen years of age. He was born On a farm just over the line in Chester township, in the neighboring county of Clinton, a mile east of the village of New Burlington, in 1879, son of Volcah E. and Arabella (Peterson) Weaver, who retired from the farm in 1900 and moved to Xenia, where they are now living: Volcah E. Weaver was born in the village of New Burlington on October 2, 1842, a son of Samuel and Anna (Ellis) Weaver, both members of pioneer families in that vicinity. Samuel Weaver was born in the neighborhood of Winchester, in Virginia, a son of Abraham and Mary Magdaline Weaver, the latter of whom died at her home in Virgina, leaving six sons and three daughters. Not long after the death of his wife Abraham Weaver came to Ohio, bringing with him his six sons and one of his daughters, and settled in Greene county. He bought a tract of two hundred acres of land in Caesarscreek township and there established his home. His death occurred not long afterward and he was buried in the burying ground at Vorah church. Samuel Weaver, one of the six sons of Abraham Weaver, had been trained as a tailor in Virginia and upon coming to Ohio did not remain on the farm with his father, but located in Cincinnati, where for some time he worked at his trade, later coming up here and locating at Xenia, where he opened a tailor shop, .which he presently moved to the village of New Burlington, where he engaged in business and was thus engaged at that place the rest of his life, his death occurring there in 1885.. Samuel Weaver was born in 1809. Not long after coming to Greene county he married Anna Ellis, who was born on a farm one mile east of New Burlington, in Spring Valley township, this county, in 1814, daughter of Joel and Elizabeth (Schillinger) Ellis, both of whom were born in South Carolina, where they were married, later locating in Kentucky, whence, in 1812, they came up into this part of Ohio and settled in Spring Valley township, this county. Joel Ellis was of Scottish descent and was the son of Abraham Ellis, a soldier of the Revolution, who came into Ohio from Virginia at an early day in the settlement of this part of the state and bought a farm in the Port William neighborhood in Clinton county, where he spent his last days, his body now lying in the Lumberton cemetery. Abraham Ellis GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 851 was the father of four sons and three daughters and the descendants of these children not many years ago, Volcah E. Weaver being one of the chief promoters of the project, erected at the grave of their Revolutionary ancestor in the Lumberton cemetery a monument fittingly setting out his record as a soldier during the time of the War of Independence. Joel Ellis bought a tract of two hundred and six acres of land in Spring Valley township upon coming to this county in 1812. He and his wife were members of the Baptist church and were the parents of three children, one son and two daughters, namely : Adam S. Ellis, who spent his last days on the home farm, having come into possession of the same, increasing the acreage to three hundred and fifty-two acres, and on which he died unmarried, his place being left by will to his nephew, Volcah E. Weaver ; Anna, who married Samuel Weaver, the New Burlington tailor, and Mary (Polly), who married Doctor Bald, of New Burlington, and died one year later. To Samuel and Anna (Ellis) Weaver were born four children, namely : Manuel, who died at the age of three years ; Amanda, who is now living at Centerville, this state, widow of Joseph Nutt ; Volcah E., father of the subject of this biographical sketch, and Mary Jane, wife of John Oglesbee, of Xenia. The mother of these children survived her husband five years, her death occurring in 1800. Reared at New Burlington, the place of his birth, Volcah E. Weaver received his schooling in the schools of that village and as a young man began farming on his grandfather Ellis's place just east of the village and in time became the owner of a farm of his own, a tract of one hundred and forty-three acres on the line between Greene and Clinton counties. Upon the death of his uncle, Adam S. Ellis, he inherited the old Ellis place of three hundred and fifty-two acres and there continued to make his home until his retirement from the farm and removal to Xenia, where he and his wife are still living. Upon moving to Xenia Mr. Weaver bought a house at 513 South Detroit street, remodeled the same and is there now living. He and his wife are members of the Reformed church. It was in 1877, in Clinton county, that Volcah E. Weaver was united in marriage to Arabella Peterson, who was born in that county, daughter of Abraham Peterson and wife, both now deceased, and to this union were born three children, Charles A., Laura E., and Anna Elizabeth, all of whom are living. Laura E. Weaver married Norman G. Buxton, who is now president of a bank at Johnstown, in Licking county, this state, and who also operates a farm of three hundred and ninety acres in the immediate vicinity of that place. Miss Anna Weaver, who was graduated from the Xenia high school and later took a three-year course at the Mary Baldwin Seminary in Virginia, is living with her parents in Xenia. Charles A. Weaver received his schooling in the schools of New Burlington and in the business college at Xenia and when nineteen years of age became employed in the clothing store of R. S. Kingsbury at Xenia. Two years later, in 1904, he and C. E. Nesbit, the latter of whom also was working in the Kingsbury store, decided to engage in business for' themselves and 852 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO at 13 East Market street opened a clothing store, doing business under the firm name of Nesbit & Weaver, an arrangement which continued for about ten years, or until the death of Mr. Nesbit on February 20, 1914. After the death of his partner Mr. Weaver bought the latter's interest in the store and has since been conducting the business alone. In 1915 he remodeled the store, putting in an entirely new set of fixtures and furnishings. For the past two years Mr. Weaver has been serving as the vice-president of the Xenia Business Men's Association, with which useful organization he has long been actively connected. He is a Royal Arch and Scottish Rite (32̊) Mason, affiliated with the blue lodge, the chapter and the council, Royal and Select Masters, at Xenia, and with the consistory at Dayton, and is also a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with Antioch Temple at Dayton. He also is a member of the local lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. On January 12, 1913, Charles Weaver was united in marriage to Verna Baker, who was born at Fremont, in Sandusky county, this state, daughter of William L. and Anna Baker, both of whom are still living and the former of whom is engaged in the grain business at Fremont, Ohio, and to this union one child has been born, a son Charles Ellis, horn on December 17, 1914. FRANCIS MARION BURRELL. Francis Marion Burrell, proprietor of "Fairview Farm" in Sugarcreek township, rural mail route No. 7 out of Xenia, former trustee of that township, chairman of the Greene county Democratic central committee, commander of the local camp of the Sons of Veterans at Xenia and for years the county agent for a fertilizer firm, was born in Greene county and has lived here all his life. He was born on a farm in Caesarscreek township, February 1, 1869, son of Albert and Phoebe (Smith) Burrell, the former of whom is a veteran of the Civil War and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Having been but eighteen months of age when his parents moved from Caesarscreek township to Xenia township, Francis M. Burrell grew up in the latter township and received his schooling in the Clarks Run school. After his marriage he rented a farm in the Clifton neighborhood and two years later bought the William McClellan farm of fifty acres just off the Upper Bellbrook pike in Sugarcreek township, where he now lives, and has ever since made his home there, a few years later having added to that tract by the purchase of an adjoining tract of ninety-five acres over the line in Beavercreek township, and calls his place "Fairview," a very appropriate name. In addition to his general farming, Mr. Burrell has for years acted as GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 853 the county agent for a fertilizer company and spends about half his time in that behalf, now having thirteen men acting as salesmen under him in this county. Mr. Burrell is a Democrat, served for four years as trustee of Sugarcreek township, for nine years as a member of the township board of education and is now chairman of the county Democratic central committee. He is the present commander of the Xenia Camp of the Sons of Veterans and is also a member of the Bellbrook lodge of the Knights of Pythias, representative from that lodge to the grand lodge for twelve successive years, and a member of the local council of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at Bellbrook. His wife is a member of the First Presbyterian church at Xenia. Mr. Burrell has in his house the first iron safe brought to Greene county, this interesting relic of another day being the old safe that was in use in the old court house and which was handed down by his wife's grandfather Baker, who came into possession of it when the old court house was dismantled. On December 25, 1894, Francis M. Burrell was united in marriage to Mary E. Baker, who was born in Xenia township, daughter of Abram H. and Sarah A. (Miller) Baker, the latter of whom was born in Frederick City, Maryland. Abram H. Baker was born at Xenia, son of Major Brinton Baker, who came here from the vicinity of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and set up a saddlery shop at Xenia in pioneer days and who for four years (1852-56) was treasurer of Greene county. Abram H. Baker followed his father as a saddler and continued thus engaged until his death at the age of sixty-two years. His wife died in 1898 at the age of fifty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Burrell have seven children, namely : Elmer Ankeney Burrell, who is now assisting his grandfather Burrell on the latter's farm in Xenia township; Sara Ruth, at home ; Abram Albert and Marion Millard, who are attending high school at Xenia, and Phoebe Mary, Marguerite Rebecca and Kenneth Baker. CHARLES DEWITT CLINTON HAMILTON. The late Charles Dewitt Clinton Hamilton, a veteran of the Civil War, formerly and for years engaged in business at Yellow Springs, former mayor of that village and for years also justice of the peace in and for his home township, who died at his home in Yellow Springs on September 12, 1912, had been a resident of this part of Ohio all his life. He was born on a farm in the vicinity of Dayton on January 10, 1845, second in order of birth of the four sons born to John W. and Anna Hamilton, who later became residents of Yellow Springs, which town John W. Hamilton served for some time in the capacity of mayor and was for forty years justice of the peace, widely known as "Squire" Hamilton. In addition to his three, full-brothers, 854 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO William, of Troy, this state ; James, of New York City, and John, of Xenia, Charles D. C. Hamilton had a half-brother, Edward. Reared at Yellow Springs, Charles D. C. Hamilton received his schooling in the schools of that village and was living there when the Civil War broke out. When the Forty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was enlisted in 1861 his elder brother William marched away with the colors of that regiment and in the next year, 1862, although but eighteen years of age at the time, he enlisted in the same command and with his brother remained with that regiment until its period of enlistment expired, when it was reorganized and again mustered in, this time as the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, and with this latter command Mr. Hamilton rendered further service until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Hamilton returned to Yellow Springs and during the years 1866-67 was a student at Antioch College. In the fall of 1868 he married and for some time thereafter was engaged in the grocery business at Yellow Springs, but later opened a shop. for the repair of clocks, watches and jewelry and was thus engaged for years, or until failing health compelled his retirement from active business. Prior to his death, as the local newspaper set out in an appreciative obituary notice following his death in the fall of 1912, Mr. Hamilton "had been in feeble health for many months and during that time had been anxiously considered by his many friends and most tenderly cared for by his devoted wife." This newspaper further observed that "the funeral services were conducted by Rev. Graham and by Burkholder Post, Mr. Hamilton being a member of both the Presbyterian church and of the G. A. R. Post. The services were very impressive both at the house and at the grave in Glen Forest." In addition to his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, Mr. Hamilton was a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a lifelong Republican and had filled the office of mayor and of justice of the peace, as the local newspaper fittingly said, "with satisfaction to his fellow citizens." On November 23, 1868, at Yellow Springs, Charles D. C. Hamilton was united in marriage to Hester Horney, daughter of Anderson and Mary (Baldwin) Horney, of that place, who were the parents of eight children, of which number Mrs. Hamilton was the seventh in order of birth, the others being : Reese, who died while rendering service in behalf of his country as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War ; Caroline, unmarried, who is living at Yellow Springs ; Mrs. Mary Robinson, a widow, also living at Yellow Springs ; Mrs. Eliza Gist, also a widow, now living at Richmond, Indiana : Uriah, who died while giving his service to his country as a soldier during the Civil War ; Julia, who died in infancy, and David, deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton were born four children, one of whom, Olivia Letha, died when eight or nine years of age, the others being Mrs. Ottie Justice, of GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 855 Springfield, this state ; Mrs. Rena Pyle, of Richmond, Indiana, and Dr. Howard Hamilton, who is now enrolled as a surgeon in the national army. Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Hamilton has continued to make her home in Yellow Springs. As was her husband, she is a member of the Presbyterian church. JOSEPH DOWNEY. Joseph Downey, one of the "old settlers" of Miami township, this county, living on a farm about two and a half miles west of the village of Yellow Springs, where he has made his home since the year 1868, is a native son of Ohio and has lived in this state all his life. He was born in the city of Zanesville, on October 9, 1832, and on Thanksgiving Day, 1855, at Springfield, this state, was united in marriage to Anna Ahern, who was born in Ireland on March 6, 1835. After their marriage Joseph Downey and his wife set up housekeeping on the Kelley farm just north of Yellow Springs and there made their home for five or six years, at the end of which time they moved to the village of Yellow Springs, where they remained until 1867, when they moved to a farm three miles west of that village. In the. following year, 1868, Mr. Downey bought the farm on which he is now living, about two and a half miles west of the village, and there has ever since made his home, for some years past. however, living practically retired from the active labors of the farm, his sons now managing the place. He and his wife celebrated their golden-wedding anniversary in 1905 and have now been married sixty-two years. Mr. Downey is a life-long Democrat. He and his wife are members of the Catholic church and their children were reared in that faith. To Joseph and Anna (Ahern) Downey nine children have been born, .namely : Edward, William, John, James, Joseph (deceased), Mary, Charles, Martin, and Anna (deceased). Of these children, Edward, William, James and Mary are at home caring for their aged parents' interests and looking after the affairs of the farm, and Charles and Martin are operating a sawmill at Fairfield. Edward Downey, the eldest son, received his schooling in the schools of Yellow Springs and at what then was known as the Confer school, in the district to which the family moved upon leaving the village, the other children being similarly schooled, and as a young man became engaged at the carpenter trade. He continued working at that vocation most of the time up to about two years ago, since which time he has been devoting his time to the home farm, he and his brothers being engaged there in general farming. 856 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO THOMAS VINCENT ILIFF. Thomas Vincent Iliff, a veteran of the Civil War and formerly and for years engaged in the lime and quarry business, now living retired at his home in Cedarville, was born on a farm three miles south of Cedarville on August 24, 1842, son of Wesley and Sarah (Ballard) Iliff, the former of whom also was born in this county and the latter, in the state of Pennsylvania. Wesley Iliff was born on a farm in the vicinity of the village of Jamestown, a son of James and Betsy (Hill) Iliff, who had come to this county from Pennsylvania about the year 1804 and had established their home in the Jamestown settlement. James Iliff there spent his last days. His widow later went over into Indiana, where her last days were spent. They were the parents of eight children, Jesse, James, John, Wesley, William, Thomas, David and Helen. Reared on the farm on which he was born, Wesley early became engaged in the lime business at Cedarville and for forty years was thus engaged, the business after his death being carried on by his eldest son, the late William H. Iliff. In early manhood Wesley Iliff married Sarah Ballard, who was born in Pennsylvania and who was but a girl when she came to Greene county with her parents, Joseph and Sarah Ballard, the family establishing their home on a farm two and one-half miles northeast of Jamestown. Joseph Ballard was a son of Lyman Ballard, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Wesley Iliff died in 1889, he then being seventy-one years of age. He and his wife were the parents of ten children, Mary, William H., Thomas Vincent, John W., Martha, Emma, Harriet, Flora, Louise and Charles. Mary Iliff, now deceased, was twice married, her first husband having been Joseph Lawrence and her second, Joseph Williamson. The late William H. Iliff, who was for years engaged in the stone and lime business at Cedarville, had the distinction of having been the first man in Cedarville township to enlist his services in behalf of the Union following the President's call for volunteers on that fateful day in April, 1861, and he went to the front as a member of Company D, Twelfth Ohio Volunteers. His service as a soldier covered a period of three years and thirteen days. His widow, who was Susan Small, is still living at Cedarville. John W. Iliff, who is now living in Chicago, went to the front. as a drummer boy, he having been too young for other service, going as a member of Company D, Forty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served for three years. He also was engaged in the stone business until his retirement. His wife, who was Josie Adams, is now deceased, and he makes his home in Chicago. Martha Iliff is also living in Chicago. Emma Iliff died in the clays of her girlhood. Harriet Iliff married W. H. Owens, a Cedarville blacksmith, and is still living in that village. Flora Iliff married William Karch, now deceased, and she makes her home in Chicago. Louise Iliff died in early childhood. Charles GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 857 Iliff, who married Minnie Phillips, was a blacksmith and is now living retired in Chicago. Thomas V. Iliff received his schooling in the schools of his home neighborhood and early became engaged in the limestone quarries with his father and brothers, continuing thus engaged until on August 13, 1862, when he enlisted for service as a soldier of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company D, Forty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which his brother John also was connected. It is but fitting in this connection to note that the three Iliff boys were in active service before they had attained their respective majorities, each celebrating the twenty-first anniversary of his birth in the field. Mr. Iliff went with his command by boat from Cincinnati to Maysville, in which latter place he became engaged in his first battle. His service in the army covered a period of nearly three years and included action pretty much all over the states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Iliff returned home and resumed his place in connection with his father's kilns and quarries. He married in the fall of 1869 and continued to make his home at Cedarville until 1888, when he opened an establishment for the sale of lime at Cincinnati, where the Iliffs already had developed a business, and there made his home for three years, at the end of which time he sold the business to D. S. Ervin, of Cedarville, and moved to Columbus, where for something more than seven years he was engaged in the selling of lime. He later became connected with the contracting firm of his nephews, Harry and Walter Iliff, and continued thus employed until his retirement. On October 27, 1869, Thomas Vincent Iliff was united in marriage to Sophia Lovett, who also was born in Greene county, a daughter of George R. and Elizabeth (Moore) Lovett, of New Jasper township, the former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania and the latter, of Virginia. George R. Lovett was a farmer and upon his retirement moved to Cedarville, where he died at the age of seventy years. His widow survived him for some years, she having been seventy-five years of age at the time of her death. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and their children were reared in that faith. There were eight of these children, three of whom died in youth, the others, besides Mrs. Iliff, being Bushrod, who enlisted his services as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War and died of smallpox in camp at Columbus ; Mary, widow of John Phillips, of Springfield. this state ; Lila, who married Frank Humphries and is now deceased, and Rosa, widow of Charles Minser, of Cedarville. To Mr. and Mrs. Iliff were born two daughters, Gertrude and Nellie, the former of whom has been twice married, after the death of her first husband, Fred Fields, she having married Hugh Stormont, a rural mail carrier out of Cedarville. She has two sons, Fred L. and Roger. Nellie Iliff married George Winter, of Xenia, and 858 - GREENE CoUNTY, OHIO has two children, Olive Gertrude and James Alfred. Mr. and Mrs. Iliff are members, of the Methodist Episcopal church at Cedarville. Mr. Iliff is past commander of Curry Post No. 94, Grand Army of the. Republic, at Cedarville. WILLIAM L. CLEMANS. William L. Clemans, formerly, and for years engaged in the banking business at Cedarville and now engaged in the real-estate business, with office:, at Cedarville and at Jamestown, making his home on a farm. in the immediate vicinity of the former city, was born at Jamestown, in this county, and most of his life has been spent in Greene county, a continuous resident here for more than thirty years. He was born on July 7, 1865, a son of the Rev. Francis M. and Sarah Isabella (Chaffin) Clemans, both of whom also were born in this county, on adjoining farms in Ross township, the latter a daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth Chaffin, who were among the early residents of that part of the county. She was born in 1841 and died on November 5, 1885. The Rev. Francis M. Clemans, who was for many years an influential figure in the Methodist Episcopal church in this state and who died at his home in the city of Washington Court House, in the neighboring county of Fayette, January 7, 1915, was born in 1834, a son of William T. Clemans and wife, the latter of whom was a Dalby, both born in Maryland and who had come to this county with their respective parents in pioneer days, the two families settling in Ross township. The pioneer Clemans bought in good faith a tract of one hundred acres out of an old military grant in that township, paying for the same two dollars an acre, and there established his home and made improvements. After he had become comfortably settled on the place a man from Pennsylvania came along and disclosed a prior claim to the land, but offered to settle at the original purchase price. The new-coamer's title was proved to the satisfaction of Mr. Clemans, who mounted his horse and rode down through the mud to Xenia, where he borrowed two hundred dollars at the old State Bank, taking the amount in silver, and rode back, turning over to the Pennsylvania claimant the load of silver. And thus the old Clemans farm was paid for twice. William T. Clemans grew up in that township and became in turn the owner of a good farm there, remaining there until 1850, when he moved to Van Wert county and bought a farm adjoining the city of that name. There he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and were the parents of two sons and three daughters. When his parents moved to Van Wert county Francis M. Clemans was sixteen years of age and he remained in Greene county. He early began GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 859 teaching school, first teaching in the district schools in his home township. During the term 1858-59 he served as superintendent of the Bowersville schools and then was made superintendent of the Jamestown schools, a position he occupied during the Civil War period and for two years thereafter and during which time he married Sarah Isabella Chaffin, who was a teacher in the Jamestown school when he assumed the superintendency of the same. In the meantime Mr. Clemans had been giving his attention to the study of theology with a view to entering the gospel ministry and in 1866 was ordained as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, a vocation he followed until his voice failed in 1905 and he was compelled to retire from the pulpit. The first charge held by the Rev. Francis M. Clemans was the old Union circuit around Bellbrook in his home county, his next charge was at Spring Valley where he remained a few years, and thence in succession to Kings Creek circuit, three years ; Mechanicsburg, three years; Middletown, three years ; Miamisburg, three years ; Jamestown, three years ; Franklin, three years Fairfield for a period and then to the Broadway church at Dayton, where he was serving as pastor when his retirement became necessary by reason of a partial paralysis of his vocal organs. Upon his retirement from the pulpit he and his wife moved to their farm of two hundred and thirty-two acres eight miles east, of Washington Court House. In 1914 he left the farm and moved into the city of Washington Court House where he shortly afterward died. Mr. Clemans was an active worker in the cause of temperance and for three years after his retirement from the pulpit rendered service in that behalf as the superintendent of the Cincinnati district of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League. For fifty years he had been a Mason, a member of the Jamestown lodge of that order, and had attained to the thirty-second or Scottish Rite degree, a member of the Miami Valley consistory at Dayton, and was also a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with the temple at Dayton. Mr. Clemans was twice married. As noted above, his first wife and the mother of his children, died in 1886 and he afterward married Mrs. Clara (Chaffin) Clark (a cousin of his first wife), who died on September 6, 1914. He had two sons, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Frederick Marion Clemans, of Mechanicsburg, cashier of the Farmers Bank there. William L. Clemans grew up subject to the variations of his father's itinerary in so far as places of residence were concerned and his early schooling was thus obtained in the various towns in which his father was engaged as pastor. When seventeen years of age he left school and entered the Farmers Bank of Mechanicsburg as a bookkeeper, a position he occupied during the years 1883-86. In the latter year he became cashier of the Peoples Bank at Jamestown and there remained until 1888, .in which year he entered into a 860 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO private partnership with George Harper, of Cedarville, and opened the Bank of Cedarville, a concern with which he remained connected until 1896, since which time he has been engaged in the real-estate and insurance business at Cedarville, also maintaining an office at Jamestown. Mr. Clemans is a Republican and has rendered service as a member of the Cedarville town council. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Masonic lodge at Cedarville. In addition to his other property interests. Mr. Clemans is the owner of his father's old farm of two hundred and thirty-two acres in Fayette county and has a farm of three hundred acres near Kenton, in Hardin county, Ohio. In June, 1890, William L. Clemans was united in marriage to Retta Belle Turnbull, who was born on the farm on which she and Mr. Clemans make their home nearby the village of Cedarville, a daughter of John I. and Margaret (Allen) Turnbull; both now deceased, the former of whom was a member of the well-known Turnbull family in this county, further mention of which is made elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Clemans are members of the United Presbyterian church. They have one son, Frederick Leroy Clemans, who lives on his farm, adjoining that of his parents, and operates both his place and theirs. Frederick L. Clemans married Gertrude Reynolds, daughter of Professor Reynolds, a former teacher in the schools of this county and now county superintendent of schools. Z. T. SWEENEY. Z. T. Sweeney, proprietor of a farm of two hundred and seventy-two acres in Beavercreek township, rural mail route No. 4 out of Osborn, was born in the state of Virginia on June 8, 1848, son of John B. and Mary (Wilson) Sweeney, also Virginians, who came with their family to this county about the year 1850 and settled in the Cedarville neighborhood. During the Civil War John B. Sweeney enlisted for service in the Union army and served until discharged on account of ill health. His third son, John Sweeney, also enlisted for service and was killed at the battle of Murfreesboro.. John B. Sweeney and his wife were Methodists. They were the parents of six children, the subject of this sketch, the youngest, having had four brothers, James M., Joseph, John and Madison S., all now deceased, and a sister, Mary, widow of George W. Duffield. Having been little more than an infant when he came to this county with his parents in 1850, Z. T. Sweeney was reared here, receiving his schooling in the Cedarville schools, and early learned the trade of carpenter, at which he worked until his marriage in 1872 to Mrs. Rebecca Tobias, after which he began farming in Beavercreek township and has ever since been thus engaged. He is a Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney have five children, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 861 namely : Lesse Kate, wife of William Kendig, of Miami county, this state; Julianna and Jeannette, twins, the former of whom married Harry Kendig, an Osborn merchant, and has one child, a son, John, and the latter of whom married D. I. Harshman, secretary and treasurer of the Harshman Improvement Company of Montgomery county, and has a daughter, Jeannette; Fred C., making his home on a.part of the home farm, and who married Anna Harner and has seven children, Lester, Robert, Kathleen Louise, Jeannette, Edward, Jasper and Mary Elizabeth ; and Bertha Rebecca, who married Kendall Mays, a Dayton landscape gardener, and has two children, Gerald and Izora Rebecca. JOHN EDWIN TURNBULL. John Edwin Turnbull, proprietor of a farm of about two hundred acres two miles southeast of Cedarville, was born on that farm, as was his father before him, the place having been in the family ever since its original entry from the government. He was born on November 9, 1859, son of Samuel Kyle and Catherine (Funston) Turnbull, the latter of whom was born in the neighboring county of Clark, three miles north of Clifton, daughter of John and Hannah Funston, who had settled there upon coming to this country from Scotland. Samuel Kyle Turnbull was born on August 8, 1829, son of John and Margaret (Kyle) Turnbull, pioneers of the Cedarville neighborhood, and further mention of whom is made elsewhere. The Turnbulls were members of the Massies Creek Seceder church and after the "union" became affiliated with the United Presbyterian church at Cedarville. S. K. Turnbull became owner of the homestead farm and there erected the house in which his son John E. made his home until the spring of 1918. Upon retiring from the farm in 1895 S. K. Turnbull moved to Cedarville and there died on January 5, 1917. His wife had died in August, 1913. They were the parents of four children, of whom John E. was the second in order of birth, the others being Flora, now living at Cedarville, widow of Charles Dobbins; Fannie, also of Cedarville, widow of Charles Barber, and Melda, who married Ed. O. Bull and who, as well as her husband, is now deceased. Reared on the home farm, John E. Turnbull received his schooling at the Crossroads school and at Cedarville and from the days of his boyhood was his father's "right-hand man" in the operation of the farm and after his father's retirement in 1895 assumed charge of the place, one hundred and thirty-six acres of which he inherited after his father's death. Since then he has bought an additional sixty acres and is thus now the owner of about two hundred acres of land. Mr. Turnbull is a Republican and for eight years has served as a member of the township school board. He and his 862 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO family are members of the United Presbyterian church at Cedarville and he is a member of the board of trustees of the same. In the spring of 1918 Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull retired from the farm and moved to the village of Cedarville, where they now reside. On November 23, 1883, John E. Turnbull was united in marriage to Jennie Smith, who also was born in Cedarville township, daughter of Johnathan and Ellen Smith, whose home was on the Columbus pike, and to this union have been born three children, Nellie, wife of Leroy Marshall, a Xenia lawyer ; Howard E., who married Letta Bumgardner and is engaged in farming in Cedarville township, and Paul B., who is now (spring of 1918) in the National Army officers training school at Camp Sherman. Paul B. Turnbull was graduated from Cedarville College and from Marietta College and during his college days acquired quite a reputation as an athlete. He was one of the first twelve called to service from this county in the making of the National Army in 1917 and is now stationed at Camp Sherman. In August, 1917, he married Marian Fudge. CHARLES McPHERSON. Charles McPherson, proprietor of a farm of about one hundred and fifty acres on the lower Bellbrook pike four miles southwest of Xenia in Spring Valley township, was born on that farm and has lived there all his life. He was born on April 29, 1855, son of William and Mary Ann (Rader) McPherson, both of whom also were born in this county, members of old families. William McPherson was born in the then village of Xenia on February 16, 1816, son of John H. and Margaret (Hivling) McPherson, the latter of whom was born in Maryland and was a daughter of John Hivling, who was sheriff of Greene county back in 1813-14. John H. McPherson was one of the early artisans to locate at Xenia and was a chairmaker and painter. For some time he served as postmaster of Xenia and for more than ten years served as recorder of the county, his tenure in that office beginning in 1830. Of the children born to him and his wife, John, Moses, Sophia and William lived to rear families of their own and of these William McPherson was the last survivor, his death occurring in 1913, he then being at the age of eighty-seven years. Reared at Xenia, William McPherson received his schooling in the schools of that city and when eighteen years of age went to Dayton, where he spent a year learning the trade of saddle-making. He then returned to Xenia and was engaged working at that trade until until his marriage in 1840, after which he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and began to farm a tract of land belonging to his grandfather Hivling on what is known as Day- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 863 ton hill, now a part of the city of Xenia. In 1848 he bought a farm of one hundred and sixty-three acres in Spring Valley township, the place now owned and occupied by his son Charles, and in 1850 established his home there. Mr. McPherson was a Republican, was a member of the Reformed church at Xenia and, fraternally, was affiliated with the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in that city. William McPherson was twice married. It was in 1840 that he was united in marriage to Mary Ann Rader, daughter of Adam and Christina (Smith) Rader, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume, and to that union were born ten children, seven of whom grew to maturity, those besides the subject of this sketch being John H., former auditor of Greene county ; Joshua, who served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil War, going to the front as a member of Company C, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died at Nashville while engaged in service ; Ann, who married E. S. Barnett, of Xenia township ; Sophia, who married William Priest, also of Xenia township ; Adam, who moved to Iowa, and William, who was graduated from Ohio State University and later became professor of chemistry in that institution. Following the death of the mother of these children Mr. McPherson in .1891 married Mrs. Mary Ann (Price) Wright. Charles McPherson was reared on the farm on which he was born, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools. He graduatly relieved his father of the responsibilities of farm management, and after his marriage in 1892 assumed management of the place. After his father's death he bought the interests held by the other heirs in the home place and has since been owner of the same, with the exception of fifteen acres of the original tract which he sold for the convenience of a neighbor. Of late years Mr. McPherson has been aided in the operations of the farm by his son, Donald McPherson, who is married and lives on the place. In addition to their general farming Mr. McPherson and his son give considerable attention to the raising of live stock. In 1892 Charles McPherson was united in marriage to Eva Taylor, who was born at Xenia, daughter of Wesley Taylor and wife, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Donald, who, as mentioned above, is now assisting his father in the management of the home farm. Donald McPherson completed his schooling in the Xenia high school and from boyhood has taken an interest in the affairs of the home farm. He married Mary Clevell Weaver, daughter of Alpha Weaver, of this county, and makes his home on the home place. The McPhersons are members of the Reformed church at Xenia. Mr. McPherson is a Republican, but has not been an aspirant, for public office. 864 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO HORACE STEPHEN WEEKS. Horace Stephen Weeks, proprietor of a farm of seventy-five acres in the Mt. Zion neighborhood in Beavercreek township, was born in the neighboring county of Warren and has lived in Ohio all his life with the exception of several years during the days of his boyhood when his family lived in Missouri. He was born on March 6, 1859, son of Stephen and Margaret (Campbell) Weeks, the latter of whom was born in New Jersey on November 26, 1824. Stephen Weeks was born in Warren county, this state, December 21, 1826, and after his marriage in that county continued to make his home there until about 1866, when he moved up into Greene county and settled in the Bowersville neighborhood. Four years later he moved with his family to Missouri, but about five years later returned to Ohio. He and his wife were the parents of twelve children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the ninth in order of birth. Arthur, the firstborn is deceased. The next two in order of birth died in infancy. Alfred is now living at Dayton. Alice, now deceased, was the wife of David O. Sheeley. Mrs. Catherine Pedicord is now living at Decatur, Illinois. Emma married Jesse Turner and is living at Alpha. Isaac is deceased. Helen married David Coy and is living in Montgomery county. James is deceased and William married Keturah Wiedman and is now living at Tadmore, Ohio. Horace S. Weeks was seven years of age when his parents came to this county and was about eleven when they moved to Missouri. His early schooling was thus received in the Bowersville schools and in Missouri. He was sixteen when the family returned to this county from Missouri and located in Beavercreek township. When twenty-one he went over into the neighboring county of Montgomery and in Mad River township began farming on his own account and was thus engaged there for five years, at the end of which time, he meanwhile having married, he returned to Greene county and began farming on the Harshman farm in Bath township. Four years later he rented the farm on which the Fairfield aviation field is now located and for eleven years made his home there, farming that place until 1901, when he bought the farm on which he is now living in Beavercreek township and has ever since resided there. Mr,. Weeks is a Republican and has rendered public service as supervisor of highways .in his home district. He formerly gave slime attention to lodge, work, but is not now active in that connection. He and his family are members of Mt. Zion Reformed church. On October 30, 1884, Horace S. Weeks was united in marriage to Emma Charlotte Tinnerman, of Dayton, who was born in that city, daugh- GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 865 ter of Henry J. and Mary (Knapp) Tinnerman, the latter of whom was born, in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1847, and both of whom are still living at Dayton. Henry J. Tinnerman is a native of Germany and was but two years of age when he came with his parents to this country. He became a brickmaker and established himself in business in Dayton, where he is still living, residing at 1105 Hupman avenue. To him and his wife were born eight children, those besides Mrs. Weeks being William, deceased; Harry L., of Dayton; Mary, wife of Edwin Anderson, of Newport, Kentucky ; Charles, deceased; George C., of Dayton ; Elmer F., of Dayton, and Ione, wife of William M. Hunter, of Dayton. Mr. and Mrs. Weeks have four children, namely : Pearl W., born on July 26, 1885, who married Leigh Stephens, a Beavercreek township farmer, and has had four children, Paul, Lucille (deceased), Donald and Marjorie; Henry, June 28, 1890, now living at Dayton, who married Ethel Sunderland and has two children, Evaline and Myron; and Warner and Harold, twins, February 4, 1895, the former of whom is still at home, and the latter now employed at Dayton. Harold was drafted into the United States army and discharged on account of disability. HERMAN H. VOLKENAND. Herman H. Volkenand, a farmer of Beavercreek township, was born on the farm on which he is now living, near the banks of the Little Miami river, in that township, son of Herman and Martha (Brod) Volkenand, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Reared on that farm, he received his schooling in the McClellan district school and remained on the home farm until he was twenty-three years of age. In 1889 he went to Dayton and was there for three years employed by the Davis Sewing-Machine Works. He then was for three years engaged on the Dayton police force and was thereafter variously engaged in that city, including three years as an assembler in the plant of the Tiger Bicycle Company, following his trade. In the meantime, in 1896, he married and in 1899 he returned to the home farm in this county and began to operate the same for his father, who had retired and was then making his home in Dayton. After his father's death he bought the home place of seventy-five acres and he and his family are still living there. He has two valuable properties in Dayton, and also holds an interest in oil stock. Mr. Volkenand is independent in his political views. He and his family are members of Mt. Zion Reformed church. On March 27, 1896, Herman H. Volkenand was united in marriage to Ida May Glander, who was born on a farm in Preble county, this state, (54) 866 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO daughter of John and Mary (Cole) Glander, both of whom are now de' ceased; and to this union six children have been born, namely: Lorine Helen, born on March 27, 1898, who married Joseph Orville Mills and is now living on a farm in Sugarcreek township, this county; Leona Virginia, May 23, 1900; Edna Marie, October 13, 1906; Mary Ellen, November 26, 19̊8; Herman John, March 24, 1912, and Ruth Irma, June 21, 1917. WILLIAM G. PRINTZ. William G. Printz, a retired farmer, now living in the village of Clifton, is a native of the neighboring county of Clark and all his life has been spent in this part of the state. He was born on a farm in Springfield township, four miles south of the city of Springfield, July 14, 1850, son of Peter and Ethelinda (Kelly) Printz, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of whom was a member of the well-known Springfield Kellys, formerly and for years prominent in manufacturing circles in that city. Peter Printz was born at Reading, Pennsylvania, and was but a child when he came with his parents to Ohio in 1815, the family settling on the farm south of Springfield above mentioned. After his marriage he established his home on that place and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1869. He and his wife were the parents of eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being Isaac, deceased; Mrs. Margaret Ryan, who lives in Cleveland; Silas W., a farmer, living in the vicinity of Enon, in Clark county; Sarah, deceased; Oliver, deceased; Mrs. Ruth Ann Bollman, whose husband is a Clark county farmer; Franklin P., deceased; Daniel, deceased; Emma Jane, deceased, and Eugene, a painter, who is living at Springfield. Reared on the home farm south of Springfield, William G. Printz received his schooling in the "or Possum" school house in, that neighborhood. When a young man he began farming on his own account and after his marriage in 1881 worked on the farm of John Allen in Greene township, in the lower part of his home county, and moved to the same, remaining there until his retirement two years later and removal to the neighboring village of Clifton, where he is still living. Politically, Mr. Printz is a Democrat and, fraternally, is affiliated with the local lodge of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. On September 7,. 1881, in Clark county, William G. Printz was united in marriage to Thursey Jane Cultice, who was born at Jamestown, in this county, but who was but a child when she moved with her parents, George and Sarah R. (Rice) Cultice, up into Clark county. Both George Cultice GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 867 and his wife were natives of Virginia and they were the parents of nine children, of whom Mrs. Printz was the eighth in order of birth, the others being Walter, deceased; John, deceased; Hannah, who died in infancy; Margaret and Martha, twins, the former of whom is deceased and the latter of whom married a Kelly and is living at Springfield; William, a farmer, who also is engaged in the retail meat business at Cedarville; Hester, deceased, and George Henry, who is living in Darke county, this state. To William G. and Thursey J. (Cultice) Printz have been born five children, namely : Daisy Maud, born on July 9, 1883, who died on August 22, 1903 ; Stella, November 20, 1884, who died on December 19 of that same year; Warren D., March 1, 1886, now postmaster of the village of Clifton; Lottie Jane, November 4, 1891, who married Arthur Reed, of Clifton, and has two children, sons both, Leo William and Lamar ; and Andrew William, November 2, 1895, now living at Springfield, where he is engaged as a molder, and who married Anna Strowbridge and has one child, a son, Andrew William, Jr. Warren D. Printz, postmaster of Clifton, was about seven years of age when his parents moved from the farm to Clifton and his schooling was received in the schools of that village. Upon completing the first-year work in the high, school he turned his attention to a mercantile career and in March, 1912, became employed in the store of J. A. Fudge at Clifton. On February 25, 1915, he was appointed postmaster of the village and is now serving in that important public capacity. He is a member of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias and he and, his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. On February 25, 1908, Warren D. Printz was united in marriage to Elvie D. Post, of Washington Court House, county seat of the neighboring county of Fayette, and to this union three children have been born, Anita Helen, Thelma Doris and Warren Granville. REV. GEORGE HIRAM GEYER. Though never a resident of Xenia, save incidentally and casually, for his wife was a Xenia girl, the late Rev. George Hiram Geyer was well known and highly regarded in that city, where his widow and children have long made their home, and it is regarded as but fitting to include in this compilation, comprising a review of the lives and characters of many who have definitely impressed the mark of their personalities upon the community, a brief biographical sketch of this good man. Among the most intimate friends of the late Mr. Geyer was Joseph Clark, of Albany, New York, who after the death of his friend in 1900 compiled a volume of biographia and memoria relating to his loved and departed friend, under the title of "In Memoriam," from which the following biographical sketch is taken : 868 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO "George Hiram Geyer was born in Pomeroy, Ohio, May 26, 1868, and was the eldest in a family of four sons and three daughters. John Geyer and Katharine Ohlinger, his parents, were of German descent, though both were born in this country. His grandfather, Rev. William Geyer, was one of the pioneer ministers in the German Methodist Episcopal church in Ohio. "As a little boy he was most trustworthy, industrious and obedient, growing to young manhood loved and respected by all who knew him. He attended the public schools, and when sixteen years old was graduated from the Pomeroy high school at the head of his class, the theme of his commencement oration being 'A Man's a Man for a' That.' * * * In September. 1885, he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. And here, this first year away from home, on the 'Day of Prayer for. Colleges,' he heard a call of God—a call so clear and unmistakable, that the voice never left him in the years that followed. * * * After one year at college he returned to Pomeroy and taught a year in the high school, which only two years before he had left as a pupil. "On April 28, 1887, he was licensed to preach by the quarterly conference of the Pomeroy church. In September, 1887, he returned to Delaware and during the fall term preached his first sermon at Lewis Center from the text : 'The Lord is my shepherd : I shall not want.' In the fall of 1888. he was elected principal of the Pomeroy high school, and again left college, this time to teach two years. As a teacher he was successful beyond the hopes of his friends. He entered college for the third time in 1890, and was graduated with honor in the class of '92, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. During his college course there was no honor the university could bestow which he did not receive. In the Young Men's Christian Association,, in the Chrestomathean Literary Society, in the Delta Tau Delta fraternity, as well as in the class room, his ability, his industry and his fidelity were recognized and rewarded. In the spring of his senior year he brought honor to the university and his friends by winning first place in the state oratorical contest, and second honors in the interstate contest, with his oration on The Optimism of History.' Notwithstanding the success that always crowned his efforts he never lost .the modesty and simplicity of his nature, but was reserved and in no way self-assertive. Often during his college course he preached on Sabbath, and for three months in the summer of 1891 he supplied the pulpit of Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal church, Chillicothe, Ohio. "On August 30, 1892, Mr. Geyer was married to Miss Carrie Brown Dodds, of Xenia, Ohio; Dr. James W. Bashford, his college president and friend, officiating. In setting up a home of his own he never lost sight of his one ideal—'the glory of God.' And it was here in his home life that the transparency of his character was most apparent. Nothing ever marred the GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 869 happiness of that home where father, mother and three beautiful children were all in all to each other. Curtis Bayley was born in Boston, March 31, 1895 ; Mary Katharine, March 15, 1897, and George Dodds, in Ironton, May 5, 1898. "In September, 1892, Mr. Geyer entered the Boston University, School of Theology, graduating in 1895, being awarded the highest honors of the institution by the vote both of the faculty and of his class. During his stay in Boston he was pastor of Hope chapel, a mission supported and conducted by the Old South church. In October, 1895, he was admitted into the Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church and was ordained by Bishop John H. Vincent, who sent him to Spencer church, Ironton, Ohio. Here he spent the three best working years of his life. Not only did his own pulpit and parish receive his untiring service, but there was nothing of public interest in the city for which he did not labor. While here he wrote four lectures : 'Joseph; or Religion and Greatness,' Paul the Apostle,' Daniel Manin' and 'The Cost of Our Country.' These he occasionally gave in other churches. "In October, 1898, he became the pastor of King Avenue Methodist Episcopal church of Columbus, Ohio, but at the end of three months he was taken sick with la grippe which so weakened his lungs that he was sent to Asheville, North Carolina, for special treatment, and his going was made possible by the unequaled generosity of his church. After six months in the South he returned to Columbus and continued his work without interruption until March 1, 1900, when he was taken with his second attack of la grippe from which he never recovered, and his death occurred on June 25, 1900." The body was brought to Xenia for interment in Woodland cemetery. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Geyer has been making her place of residence at Xenia, the home of her girlhood. She is a daughter of the late George Dodds and Mary E. (Brown) Dodds, for many years among the best known citizens of Xenia and further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. Carrie Brown Dodds was graduated from the Xenia high school in 1884 with the second honors of her class. She then taught one term .of district school and in 1885 entered Ohio .Wesleyan University. She spent the period of her junior year as a teacher in the public schools of Elyria and then re-entered the university, from which she was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1889. While in the university she served as president of the Athenaeum Literary Society and also earned the additional high honor of election to Phi Beta Kappa. Upon leaving the university she entered upon a course of instruction in nursing in the Woman's Hospital at Chicago and was graduated from the hospital school in 1890, after- 870 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ward spending a year in the medical school at St. Louis. During the school term of 1891-92 she was engaged as a teacher in the public schools at Xenia and in the summer of 1892 was married to the Rev. George H. Geyer. Upon her return to Xenia after the death of her husband Mrs. Geyer resumed the part she had taken in the cultural life of the city during the time of her former residence there and has since maintained these activities in a very helpful way, particularly in the service of the church and kindred movements. Since leaving the university Mrs. Geyer has not neglected her scholastic interests and her alma mater has conferred upon her the Master's degree. She is the teacher of the Busy People's Bible class of the First Methodist Episcopal church and her endeavors in that direction have made of this class one of the most notable units in the rapidly expanding Bible-class movement in this part of the state. As a field worker in behalf of the adult Bible-class movement Mrs. Geyer's activities have taken her all over the states of New York, West Virginia and Ohio, and she was a delegate to the last general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which was held at Saratoga, New York, in May, 1916. Mrs. Geyer was the first president of the Greene County Young Woman's Christian Association and has ever maintained her friendly and helpful interest in that useful organization. When the United States entered the World War in 1917 she was made Greene county chairman of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense and has organized the entire county along four lines—Red Cross, Food Conservation, Child Welfare and Liberty Loan—among the women. She also is secretary of the County Food Administration Committee and gives almost her entire time to war work. Mrs. Geyer's elder son, Curtis Bayley Geyer, who was born at Boston on March 31, 1895, is now (1918) connected with the great National Army of the United States in the World War. He was graduated from the Xenia high school in 1913 at the head of his class and in 1914 entered Ohio Wes- leyan University and was a junior there when this government declared war against Germany in the spring of 1917. He at once left his studies and volunteered for service May 15, 1917, shortly thereafter being attached to the One Hundred and Forty-seventh Field Hospital Corps, One Hundred and Twelfth Sanitary Train, Thirty-seventh Division, United States Army, and was stationed at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama, for training for foreign service, and is leaving "An eastern port" for service in France as this goes to press.. He was a "track" man in university athletics, winning two medals for long distance running. He is a student volunteer for the mission field of the Methodist church. Mrs. Geyer's only daughter, Mary Katharine Geyer, who was born at Ironton, Ohio, March 1s, 1897, was graduated from the Xenia high school GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 871 at the head of her class in 1915, entered Ohio Wesleyan University in that same year and is now in her junior year preparing for field work in the foreign missionary service. She has recently received three prizes for high scholarship in the university. George Dodds Geyer, second son and last-born child of the Rev. George H. and Carrie B. (Dodds) Geyer, was born at Ironton, Ohio, May 5, 1898, and was graduated from the Xenia high school in 1916, president of his class. He entered Ohio Wesleyan University in 1916 for his freshman year, and was president of his class. In 1917 he entered the Boston University. School of Business Administration and is now pursuing his studies there in the sophomore class. CHARLES S. HUPMAN. Charles S. Hupman, a Spring Valley township farmer, was born in that township on February T0, 1858, son of John and Jane (Peterson) Hupman, the latter of whom also was born in this county. John Hupman was born in Virginia in 1821 and was but a child when his parents came to Ohio and settled in Clark county, later coming down into Greene county. Here he grew to manhood, became engaged in farming and spent the rest of his life. John Hupman was twice married. By his first wife, Jane Peterson, he was the father of eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the sixth in order of birth, the others being Cecelia, deceased; Sarah Emily, wife of J. A. Webb; Susan, deceased; Frank, who is living at Xenia; Jonas, who died in infancy; Jonas S. C., now living in California, and Harry C., of Xenia. The mother of these children died in 1859 and in 1875 John Hupman married Amanda Brewer. To that union one child was born, a son, John, now deceased. Charles S. Hupman, was in high school when his father died and his presence was thus required on the ,home farm. After his marriage he continued farming in Spring Valley township and has ever since been thus engaged. Mr. Hupman is a Republican and he and his family are members of the Second United Presbyterian church. at Xenia. Mr. Hupman has been twice married. On March 1, 1887, he was united in marriage to Georgiana McPherson, of Spring Valley township, who died in 1901. To that union were born three children, William Paul Hupman, who is now in the service of the National Army; Anna Vesper, who married Fred Brewer, of Yellow Springs, and has two sons, Warren and William R., and Emily Johanna, who died in infancy. In 1904 Mr. Hupman married Clara J. Bickett, of Xenia. 872 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO WALTER BUELL HARDY. Walter Buell Hardy, who died at his home in the village of Yellow Springs in 1888, was a native son of Ohio and his whole life was spent in this state, devoted to the cause of education to which he had early dedicated it. Three of his daughters also early devoted their energies to the cause of education and have rendered conspicuous service in that behalf, one of these daughters, Miss Pauline Adelaide Hardy, being still engaged in educational work at Yellow Springs, while Miss Irene Hardy's labors at Leland Stanford, Jr., University and in other Western institutions of learning have gained for her a high place in the estimation of educators. W. B. Hardy was born in Preble county, this state, May 5, 1818, last-born of the seven children born to his parents, the Rev. John and Rachel (Downing) Hardy, the former of whom was born in Kentucky and the latter iw Missouri, who were married in Kentucky and whose other children were Benjamin, Thomas, Curtis, Laurinda, Eliza Jane and Frances. The Rev. John Hardy was a ministser of the Christian church and died when his last-born child, the subject of this memorial sketch, Was eighteen months of age. Reared in Preble county, Walter Buell Hardy received his schooling there and early became engaged in teaching school. He married in his home county in the fall of 1840 and afterward established his home at Eaton. the county seat of that county, and was for years thereafter connected with the schools of that city, and with Eaton Institute. His wife died in 1868 and in 1875 he moved to Yellow Springs, where he entered the normal department of Antioch College. Mr. Hardy spent the rest of his life in Yellow Springs, his death occurring there on March 1A., 1888, and he was buried in the cemetery at Yellow Springs. On October 16, 1841, in Preble county, Walter Buell Hardy was united in marriage to Mary Ryan, who was born in Virginia and who had accompanied her parents to this state in 1829, the family settling in Preble county, and to that union were born five children, Irene, Laurinda Elizabeth, Pauline Adelaide, Caroline and Louis W., the latter of whom is a newspaper man, connected with the Springfield Sun, who continues to make his home in Yellow Springs. Miss Irene Hardy, whose labor in the field of education has been noted above, is now living at Palo Alto, California, and though now blind, an affliction which came upon her some years ago, continues actively engaged in educational service, a service to which she has devoted her life since she was sixteen years of age, her first work as a teacher having been performed at that age at Richmond, Indiana. She later became a teacher in Antioch College at Yellow Springs, from which institution she had received her degree of Bachelor of Arts, and later went West, having connection with the high GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 873 school at Oakland, California, going thence to Leland Stanford, Jr., University, where she taught English literature and rhetoric for seven years, at the end of which time she was retired as assistant professor. Miss Hardy also has written quite a bit of poetry and her published works have attracted appreciative attention in literary circles. Laurinda Elizabeth Hardy, who died in 1892, was for twenty-five years engaged in educational work. Miss Pauline Adelaide Hardy, who continues to make her home at Yellow Springs, also began her educational labors early, her first work as a teacher having been performed in the schools of her native county, Preble. After being graduated from Antioch College she taught in the West for two years. She later became a teacher in Antioch College. At Yellow Springs she has since continued to make her home, engaged in teaching. Caroline Hardy married. Robert A. Braden and is now living at Dayton, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Braden were connected with the Christian Publishing House for many years. Mr. Braden owned and edited the Ohio Poultry Journal. WILLIAM A. TURNBULL. William A. Turnbull, postmaster at Cedarville, was born in Cedarville township and has been a resident of this county all his life. He was born on a farm two miles southeast of Cedarville on March 9, 1873, son of Alexander and Sarah J. (Barber) Turnbull, both of whom were born in that same township, members of pioneer families, and whose lives were spent here, the latter dying on May 30, 1897. She was born in 1831. Alexander Turnbull was born on a farm adjoining that on which his son William was born, January 24, 1836, and was a son of John and Margaret (Kyle) Turnbull, earnest pioneers of that community, further mention, of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. John Turnbull was twice married, his second wife having been Margaret J. Allen, and was the father of nineteen children. He was an active member of the old Seceder church and was the owner of six hundred or seven hundred acres of land, and helped his children get a substantial start in life. Alexander Turnbull, a veteran of the Civil War, died at his home in Cedarville township on April 8, 1915. William A. Turnbull was reared on the home farm in Cedarville township and completed his schooling in the Cedarville high school. From the days of his boyhood he was well trained in the ways of practical farming and after his marriage in 1889, established his home on the home place, which he began to operate, at the same time operating a small farm of his own adjoining, and there continued engaged in farming until his retirement from the farm and removal in 1914 to Cedarville, where he since has made his home, he and his wife being very pleasantly situated there in a comfort- 874 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO able house of the bungalow type on Cedar street, erected in the winter of 1914-15. Mr. Turnbull is a Democrat and as a precinct committeeman in his home precinct and as a member for years of the Greene county Democratic central committee has rendered yeoman service in behalf of his party. In 1914 he was appointed postmaster of Cedarville and is still occupying that position. On December 1, 1889, William A. Turnbull was united in marriage to Ida Wolford, who was born at Xenia, daughter of John Henry and America Wolford. Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull are members of the United Presbyterian church at Cedarville. JOSEPH DRISKILL. Joseph Driskill, a veteran of the Civil War and a retired farmer, now living at the pleasant village of Bowersville, is a native "Buckeye" and has lived in this state all his life. He was born on a farm in Union township, Highland county, January 7, 1845, son of Eleven 0. and Lucinda (Hamilton) Driskill, the latter of whom was a great-great-grandfather of Alexander Hamilton and a daughter of John and Mary Hamilton, of Rockbridge county, Virginia. John Hamilton died in Virginia in 1819 and his widow came to Ohio with her children and settled in Highland county, where she lived to the great age of one hundred and one years. She was the mother of six children, those besides Lucinda having been Elias, who spent his last days farming in Highland county; Moses, who moved to the Rising Sun neighborhood in Indiana ; Isaac, who moved to Peoria county, Illinois ; James, who died at the age of nineteen years from the effects of a rattlesnake bite, and Ella, who married Lewis Chaney and in 1853 went to Des Moines, Iowa. Eleven Driskill was born- in Caroline county, Maryland, October 13, 1815, a son of John and Elizabeth (Owens) Driskill, the latter of whom also was born in Maryland. John Driskill was born in County Cork, Ireland, and upon coming to the United States in the days of his young manhood located in Maryland, where he presently married, but later made his way out to Ohio and settled in Highland county, where he established his home on a woods tract, on which he made a clearing and erected a log cabin. That old log cabin is still standing. John Driskill died there in 1827 and his widow survived him until 1850. They were members of the Camphellite church and were the parents of nine children, of whom Eleven was the second in order of birth, the others being the following : Nancy, who married John Hutchinson and moved to Ray county, Tennessee ; Elizabeth, who married Thomas Dixon, of the Russell Station neighborhood in Highland county;