900 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO later, at twenty-six years of age, leaving his widow with three children, of whom Robert A. was the eldest, the others being Mary, who married Clark Housington and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and Jennie Virginia, who married William Raum and also moved to Nebraska, now living in the vicinity of Ft. Robinson, that state. The widow Ross married Edwin Drury, who died at Jamestown, this county, after which she went to California, where she died at the age of seventy-three years. She was a member of the Presbyterian church. By her second marriage she was the mother of a son, Edwin D. Drury, who is now living in Oklahoma. Robert A. Ross was but six or seven years of age when his father died. He received some schooling in the Jamestown schools and when thirteen years of age began working for his grandfather, Robert Ross, remaining on the latter's farm until his marriage when twenty-five years of age, after which he established his home on a farm two miles north of Bowersville, where he remained until his retirement from the farm in 1907 and removal to Bowersville, where he has since resided. Mr. Ross owns a well-kept farm of fifty-seven acres, which is now being operated by his sons, Ralph and Earl, who have rented the place from their father and are successfully operating the same. During his active operations on the farm Mr. Ross gave considerable attention to the raising of cattle and hogs and did well. He is a Democrat and has rendered public service as a member of the Bowersville town council. On December 28, 1869; Robert A. Ross was united in marriage to Margaret Angeline Miller, who also was born in Monroe county, Virginia, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Neal) Miller, and to this union nine children have been born, those besides the two sons, Ralph and Earl, mentioned above, being Bernard Lee, a farmer in the neighboring county of Clinton, who married Minnie Turner and has three children, Emma, Lila and Ada ; Fred, a Bowersville merchant, who married Mary Dubbs and has four children, Margaret, Robert, Eugene and Loyal; Hubert, a merchant at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who married Lillie Geiger and has two children, Robert G. and Catherine ; Wilbur, dealer in live stock, coal and building material at Bowersville, who married Elvie Hussey and has one child, a son, Donald ; Carl, employed by Campbell & Company, wholesale grocers at Washington Court House, this state, who married Bertha Furgason and has two children, Evelyn and Gail; Minnie, who married Chester Brown, a farmer of the Port. William neighborhood, and has three children, Hazel, Mary and Jeannette, and Myrtle, who married Howard Bowmaster, now a teacher in the schools of Springfield, this state, and has three children, Dorothy, Elvia and Lowell. Ralph married Burnie Chaney and their two children are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Ross are members of the Methodist Protestant church. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 901 OSCAR E. BRADFUTE. For seventy years the Bradfute stock farm in Cedarville township, this county, has been the home of registered cattle, three generations having there carried on their live-stock operations, the present proprietor of the farm, Oscar E. Bradfute, a grandson of the original proprietor, being the owner of one of the oldest Angus herds in the United States. For a series of thirteen years the Ohio State Fair Association offered a silver loving-cup for the grand championship herd of cattle, open to world competition and to any breed of cattle. With his Angus herd Mr. Bradfute won nine of these cups. For three successive years Mr. Bradfute won with his Angus bull, "Lucy's Prince," the grand championship of the world for the Angus breed at the International Live Stock Exposition. "Lucy's Prince" is the only living grand champion bull that has produced grand championship winners, several of his get having been thus honored. The Bradfute stock farm on Clark's run was founded in 1826 by William Bradfute, the first man in Greene county to make a specialty of Shorthorn cattle, he having started his herd with a couple of heifers of that breed bought in 1847. For forty years, William Bradfute and his son, David Bradfute, the latter of whom succeeded to the business after his father's death in 1872, maintained that Shorthorn herd. In 1887 David Bradfute's son, Oscar E. Bradfute, established on that farm his noted Angus herd, starting with two heifers and a pure-bred herd leader. Mr. Bradfute was one of the organizers of the International Live Stock Exposition held in Chicago in 1900 and has several times served as judge in the cattle department of that exposition. He also has served as judge of cattle at state fairs in Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York and several other states, and has served as judge at the American Royal Live Stock Show at Kansas City. He was one of the original members of the executive committee of the International Live Stock Exposition and is still a member of the board of directors of the same: is former president of the American Aberdeen-Angus Association and longer than any other member a member of the board of directors of the same former president of the Ohio Live Stock Association, and a former member of the executive committee of the National Live Stock Association. Mr. Bradfute also for years was a lecturer on the subject of cattle breeding, his lecture field work having taken him before state breeders associations and state farmers industrial institutes all over the country, as well as before farmers "short courses" in the agricultural colleges of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. Mr. Bradfute has for years given close attention to educational affairs, being appointed a member of the board of trustees of Ohio State University by Governor Herrick- in 1905, and has now been appointed for his third term 902 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO of seven years by Governor Cox ; he has been a member of the board of trustees of Cedarville College. since 1912 ; for five years a member of the board of trustees of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station and for some time president of the board; and for the past six years, or ever since that board was created as a separate board under the new law, has been a member of the board of trustees of the Greene County Children's Home. He also is president of the Cedarville Telephone Company. By political persuasion Mr. Bradfute is a Democrat and in religious belief is a United Presbyterian, a descendant of Scotch Seceders, and since 1888 has been a member of the session of the United Presbyterian church at Clifton. Twice presbytery has honored Mr. Bradfute by electing him commissioner to the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian church in the United States, his service in that connection having been rendered in 1895 and 1914. Oscar E. Bradfute was born in the house in which he still lives, on the old Bradfute farm on Clarks run in Cedarville township, January 21, 1862, son of David and Martha (called Mattie) (Collins) Bradfute, both of whom also were born in this county, the latter a daughter of William and Mary (Galloway) Collins, further mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. David Bradfute was born at Clifton in 1835, son of William and Elizabeth (Anderson) Bradfute, the latter of whom had come to Ohio with her parents, John Anderson and wife, from Scotland in 1816, she then being twelve years of age, the family settling on a farm in Clark county about three miles north of Clifton. William Bradfute was born in Kentucky in 1798 and was there early orphaned, he and his brother, John, being thereafter cared for in the household of their uncle, John Knox, who came with his family from Kentucky up into this valley about the year 1814 and located in the Clifton settlement. There William Bradfute grew to manhood and in 1824 married Elizabeth Anderson. Two years later he bought the farm on Clarks run in Cedarville township now owned by his granddaughter, Lydia (Bradfute) Turnbull, and there he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, William Bradfute dying on January 19, 1872. He and his wife were among the members of the old Seceder or Associate church on Massies creek and after the "union" of 1858 became affiliated with the United Presbyterian church. They were the parents of four children, namely : Nancy, now deceased, who was the wife of James Bryson, also deceased; Jane, widow of the late John Stevenson, now living at Yellow Springs; David, father of the subject of this sketch, and John A., who died during the middle '60s, before he had reached thirty years of age, and whose widow later moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where she is still living. David Bradfute grew to manhood on the home farm on Clarks run. After his marriage in the spring of 1861 he established his home on a tract of forty-eight acres, and .there began operations on his own account. After GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 903 his father's death in 1872 he bought an additional tract of one hundred and twenty-eight acres of the home place. Previously, after the death of his brother John, he had bought the latter's farm of one hundred acres adjoining and also bought the old Mitchell farm adjoining and certain other pieces of land until he came to he the owner of four hundred and seventy-five acres in Cedarville and Xenia townships. From the time his father had started his Shorthorn herd in 1847 David Bradfute had taken a great, interest in the breeding of pure-bred Shorthorns and continued thus engaged until he gradually turned the business over to his son Oscar, who took up the Angus strain instead of the Shorthorn and has ever since been developing his herd on the place. Following his son's marriage in 1890 David Bradfute retired from the farm, turning the place over to his son, and moved to Cedarville, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there on August 18, 1913. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church at Clifton and had for years served as a member of the board of trustees of the same. After moving to Cedarville he transferred his membership to the United Presbyterian church there. David Bradfute was twice married, first on March 19, 1861, to Martha E. Collins, who was born in Cedarville township in 1837, and who died on September 6, 1879, leaving two children, Oscar E. and Lydia, the latter of whom was graduated from Washington Female Seminary, married Frank B. Turnbull, and is now living at Cedarville. In 1883 David Bradfute married Hannah M. Nisbet, who was born at Cedarville, daughter of Samuel Nisbet, for many years a merchant in that village. She died in 1898 without issue. Oscar E. Bradfute received his early schooling in the Clarks run district school and later took a two years' course of instruction at the Clifton high school. He then went to Bloomington, Indiana, where his aunt, Mrs. John Bradfute, was living and finished the course in the high school of that city, meanwhile making his home with his aunt. Thus equipped by preparatory study he entered Indiana University at Bloomington and was graduated from that institution in 1884, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity in the university. Upon leaving the university Mr. Bradfute returned home and resumed his place on the farm, giving his attention particularly to the live-stock side of the operations there, he having during the spring of 1887, after his graduation, bought a couple of Angus heifers and a bull of that breed with the expectation of developing a herd on the home farm. These expectations were realized and in 1889 he made his first exhibit at the Greene county fair. The next year he began to exhibit his herd at state fairs and has ever since been an exhibitor. On April 10, 1890, Oscar. E. Bradiute was united in marriage to Jennie M. Collins, who was born on a farm on the Jamestown pike east of Xenia 904 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO in Xenia township, daughter of John and Mary Collins, the former of whom was a son of Archibald Collins, one of the pioneers of Greene county, and to this union three children have been horn, namely: David Collins, born in 1895; Helen, now (1918) a sophomore in Cedarville College, and John Edwin, a senior in the Cedarville high school. David Collins Bradfute entered Cedarville College upon completing the course in the high school at Cedarville and was graduated from that institution in 1915, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and of Bachelor of the Science of Education. Upon leaving college he was engaged as a teacher in Trumbull county, being employed there in high-school work and was thus engaged when called for service in the national army in 1917. SAMUEL P. FAULKNER. The Faulkner family has been prominently represented in Greene county for more than one hundred years, the first of the name to come to this county being Thomas Faulkner, a Virginian, born in Berkeley county on November 8, 1787, who in 1806 came over into this part of Ohio on a prospecting trip, arriving' here with about one hundred dollars in currency in his possession. He determined permanently to locate here, and two years later, in 1808, he rented for a period of five years a farm on Painters run, in Caesarscreek township, and proceeded to develop the place. In 1810 he married Mary McGuire, a daughter of Jonathan and Catherine McGuire, and in 1816 he purchased a farm in that same township, the place long in the possession of the Haines family and now owned and occupied by Asaph Haines,. and there he spent his last days. The brick house Thomas Faulkner erected on that place in 1821 is still standing in an excellent state of preservation. Thomas Faulkner, a son of Robert Faulkner, also was born in western Virginia, and reared a Quaker, but having married a Methodist, he was cast outside the pale of the church in which he had his birthright. He then affiliated with the Campbellites and later went over to the Methodist Episcopal church, but in 1828 he and his wife became connected with the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville and remained connected therewith the remainder of _their lives, he for many years serving as class leader. Thomas Faulkner was a Whig and served as trustee of his home township. He died on April 16, 1871, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, and his widow survived him for more than two years, being past eighty-three years of age at the time of her death on July 5, 1873. They were the parents of eight children, of whom six grew to maturity, Jonathan, Mrs. Elizabeth Conklin, Mrs. Lucinda Painter, Allen, David and Mrs. Mary Way. David Faulkner, son of Thomas and Mary (McGuire) Faulkner, was GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 905 born in 1816 and grew up on the home place in Caesarscreek township, receiving his schooling in the little log school house of that neighborhood. He remained at home until after his marriage when he began farming on his own account, locating on a farm in the woods on the Hussey pike, near where his son Samuel now lives, and afterward occupied one or two other farms in that vicinity until presently he bought the farm now owned by his son Samuel and there established his home, he and his wife spending the rest of their lives there. David Faulkner was a Republican and served as township trustee and a school director. He died at the age of seventy-six years and his widow survived him for some years, being eighty-four years of age at the time of her death. They were members of the Methodist church at Paintersville; Late in life David Faulkner became affiliated with the Prohibition party and was an active worker in the cause of temperance. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, namely : Mary, who is living in Caesarscreek township, widow of Francis Linkhart ; Harvey C., farming a part of the old home place, and who has been twice married, his first wife having been Sarah Elizabeth Haines and his second, Cora Smith ; Caroline, also living in Caesarscreek township, widow of Joseph DeVoe, and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume; Samuel P., the immediate subject of this sketch ; Elijah B., now living at South Carrollton; Harriet Ann, who married Thomas Linkhart and is now deceased, and Elizabeth, now living at Xenia and who has been twice married, her first husband having been Zimri Haines and her second, John Anderson. Samuel P. Faulkner, son of David and Emily Jane Faulkner, was born in Caesarscreek township on January 12, 1847, and was educated in the neighborhood schools. He grew up a practical farmer, and has always followed that vocation, though in recent, years he has been living practically retired from active labor, turning the management of the farm over to his son Luther, who is married and continues to make his home there. Mr. Faulkner remained with his parents after his marriage, caring for them in their declining years, and has been a resident of the farm on which he is living for more than fifty years. He has a valuable farm of one hundred and ninety-six acres and in addition to his general farming he has always given considerable attention to the raising of live stock. He is a Republican and has held some township offices. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church at Paintersville, and has ever taken a proper part in church work, as did his faithful wife and helpmate who died more than two years ago and who was held in high esteem in the community in which she spent all her life. In August, 1876, Samuel P. Faulkner was united in marriage to Martha 906 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Painter, who was born on the old Painter homestead in the Paintersville neighborhood in Caesarscreek township and who died at her home in that same township in September, 1915, being fifty-seven years of age. She was a daughter of David and Mary (Frazer) Painter, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families. The Painters have been represented in Greene- county for more than one .hundred years, the first of the name here being David and Patsey (Faulkner) Painter, who came from Virginia into Ohio with a party of other Quaker families in the spring of 1802 and located in what is now the vicinity of Waynesville, in the county of Warren. Coming up thence into Greene county, they settled on a farm about a half mile north of where the village of Paintersville later arose and there established their home. There David Painter developed a farm and became a man of influence in his community, and there he and his wife spent their last days. They had four children, Hannah, Jesse, Thomas and Jacob. Jesse Painter laid out the townsite of Paintersville on the old home farm. He also spent the rest of his life on the old home place, his death occurring there pn September 12, 1867. He had married Elizabeth Smith and to that union were born nine children, Rachel, David, Samuel, Martha, Mordecai, Rebecca, Theresa, Joseph and Hannah. David Painter, named in honor of his pioneer grandfather, grew up on the home farm and became in time a farmer on his own account, after his marriage to Mary Frazer establishing' his home on a farm in that neighborhood. He died there in 1863, at the age of forty-five years, and his widow survived him for more than thirty years, she being seventy-seven years of age at the time of her death in 1897. They were the parents of eight children, Deborah S., who married Mordecai Walker; Berthena, who married William Davis ; Lydia, who died unmarried; Jesse S., who became a substantial farmer, .continuing his residence on the old home place; Mary Frances, who married David Parlott ; Moses F., who moved to Indiana ; Martha, who married Samuel P. Faulkner, and David, who established his home in Spring Valley township. To Samuel P. and Martha (Painter) Faulkner were born three children, namely : Luther D. Faulkner, now managing his father's home farm, making his home there, who married Grace Ary, also a member of one of Greene county's pioneer families, and has four children, Delma, Charles, Ronald and Raymond ; Minnie, who married Thomas Jones, a machinist, who is operating a garage at Paintersville, making his home at the Faulkner home, and has three children, Verna, Helen and Glenn, and Minnie, who married William Smith, a farmer living in the Mt. Tabor neighborhood, and has four children, Marvin, Harold, Florence and Darcy. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 907 SOLON CARROLL. Solon Carroll, a veteran of the Civil War and for many years actively engaged as a millwright and carpenter, and living retired in Spring Valley township, this county, has lived in this state all his life. He was born in Belmont county on May 25, 1838, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Carroll, both of whom were born in Pennsylvania and who became early settlers in Belmont county, this state. Joseph Carroll was a nailmaker by trade and also a landowner and farmer. He arid his wife were Quakers. Upon leaving Belmont county they went to Indiana and after three years there returned to Ohio and for a time were residents of Clinton county, later moving to Highland county, where their last days were spent. They were the parents of ten children, three of whom are still living, Solon Carroll having a brother, Joseph Carroll, and a sister, Rebecca, wife of Dr. Robert P. Murray, of Zanesville, in Wells county, Indiana. In 1843 Joseph Carroll moved with his family to Indiana and settled at Hartford City, then a mere hamlet, Solon Carroll being then but five years of age: They returned to Ohio three years later and he grew up on a farm five miles west of Wilmington, in Clinton county, in the schools of which neighborhood he received his schooling, and was living there when the Civil War broke out. On July 31, 1861, he enlisted for service in behalf of the cause of the Union and went to the front as a member of Company H, Thirty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until his return home on August 28, 1864. Mr. Carroll participated in many of the important engagements and battles of the war. Mr. Carroll had many narrow escapes, but got back without having suffered any serious wounds. As a young man he had learned the trade of millwright and carpenter and upon his return to Clinton county at the conclusion of his military service he resumed this vocation and did work all over this section of the state, including work for I. M. Barrett, of the Spring Valley mills, four years for the Great Western Powder Company and for some years was employed as foreman of bridge construction for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1907 Mr. Carroll retired from active labor and has since been living retired at his home in the vicinity of the delightful village of Spring Valley. Mr. Carroll has been twice married. In 1865, in Clinton county, he was united in marriage to Deborah Peebles, who was born in St. George county, Virginia, and who when a girl had come with her parents to Ohio, the family settling in Clinton county. To that union were born three children, Warren, a traveling salesman, now living at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Clarence, who died at the age of thirty-two years, and William, who is the 908 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO foreman of a tool-making establishment at Dayton. The mother of these sons died in Dayton and on July. I I, 1898, Mr. Carroll married Ella McClement, who was born in Philadelphia, daughter of Thomas and Catherine McClement, the former of whom was born in Scotland, who later became residents of Dayton, where their last days were spent. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Carroll is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic at Spring Valley. WINFIELD SCOTT RITENOUR, M. D. Dr. Winfield Scott Ritenour, a progressive young physician at Xenia, where he also is actively connected with the staff of the McClellan Hospital, was born at Grape Grove, in Ross township, July 17, 1890, son of Melvin D. and Anna M. (Brock) Ritenour, both of whom were members of old families here. Melvin D. Ritenour was born in Ross township, in 1851, a son of Daniel P. Ritenour and wife, the former of whom came to Greene county with three brothers in 1848 and settled in Ross township, where he became a substantial farmer. He and his wife were members of the Christian church. Their son, Melvin D. Ritenour, became a farmer and dealer in live stock, establishing his home on a farm in Ross township after his marriage. He was a Democrat and he and his wife were members of the Christian church. There were five children born to them, of whom Doctor Ritenour was the third in order of birth, the others being as follow : T. P., principal of the high school at Whitehouse, Lucas county, this state ; Charles N.,. a farmer, living in the vicinity of Jeffersonville, Fayette county; Myrtle, born in 1886, who died in 1907, and Coleman Younger Ritenour, a farmer, living at Jamestown, this county. Melvin D. Ritenour died in January, 1916, and his widow is still living, now making her home, as noted above, at Jamestown. She was born, Anna M. Brock, in Ross township, this county, daughter of Francis Asbury and Lovisa (Kelly) Brock, the former of whom also was horn in this county and the. latter in the neighboring county of Clark, daughter of Stewart and Elizabeth (Driscoll) Kelly, and a first cousin of Oliver S. Kelly, one of the most noted of the early manufacturers of the city of Springfield ; Stewart Kelly, a son of James and Catherine (Stewart) Kelly, natives of Scotland and the former of whom was a soldier of the patriot army during the War of the Revolution. James Kelly, maternal great-great-grandfather of Doctor Ritenour, was born in Scotland in 1752 and there lived until young manhood, when he and his brother John came to the American colonies and located in Virginia, where he was living when the struggle of the colonies for independence broke out. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 909 James Kelly joined the Continental army and served valiantly in that behalf. During the historic winter of 1777-78 he was with Washington's army at Valley Forge and while there his face and ears were so badly frozen that the fleshy portions sloughed off. During one of his engagements with the British a musket ball took off the end of his nose. Upon the completion of his military service he located in Monongalia county, in what is now \Vest Virginia, and there in 1784 married Catherine Stewart, a native of Scotland, born in 1764. In 1793 they and their five children moved from there to Kentucky and settled in the vicinity of Flemingsburg, Fleming county, where they remained for fifteen years, during which time seven more children were born to them. In 1808 James Kelly moved with his family up into Ohio, leaving behind three of his older children, Rachel, Joseph and Samuel, and settled at Springfield. Three years later, in 181i, he bought a farm four miles south of Springfield,. in what then was Greene county, now a part of Clark county, and there established his home. Four of James Kelly's sons, Joseph, Thomas, John and Nathan, took part in the War of 1812. Stewart Kelly, the seventh son, was born on June 13, 1801, in Fleming county, Kentucky, and was seven years of age when he came up here into Ohio with his parents. in 1808. He early learned the trade of cooper and followed the same all his life. On March 13, 1825, Stewart Kelly married Elizabeth Driscoll and to that union were born two children, Lovisa, maternal grandmother of Doctor Ritenour, and Eliza Jane, who married Henry Boyles and died in 1893. Lovisa Kelly married Francis. Asbury Brock, a farmer of the Gladstone neighborhood, in Ross township, this county, and to that union were born six children, namely : Sarah, who married W. D. Thomas ; Anna M., mother of Doctor Ritenour Mollie, who married G. L. Green ; John, who married Rebecca Clemans; Ella, who married Smiley Thomas, and Flora, who married J. C. Ritenour. Reared on the home farm in Ross township, Winfield Scott Ritenour received his early training in the schools of that township. He early began teaching school and for seven years was thus engaged, teaching five terms in one school and two terms in another, both in his home township. During the latter part of this period of service he took summer school work at Wittenberg College at Springfield and in the Normal School at Lebanon, in the meantime devoting such leisure as he could command to the study of medicine, and in 1907 entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, being graduated from that institution in 1911. For a year after receiving his diploma Doctor Ritenour served as an interne in the Protestant Hospital at Columbus, his attention during that time being given particularly to surgical cases, and at the end of that period of service he returned to Greene county and opened an office at Bellbrook, where he was engaged in practice until 1915, in which year he moved to Xenia and there became associated 910 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO with Dr. Benjamin R. McClellan in the latter's hospital work, and has ever since been connected with the McClellan Hospital, at the same time carrying on a general practice. Doctor Ritenour is a member of the Greene County Medical Society, of which he was vice-president in 1915 and president in 1916; a member of the Second District Medical Association, of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. During his course in college the Doctor was for two years secretary of the Alpha Mu Pi Omega (medical) fraternity. He is a Democrat, has twice been the nominee of his party for coroner of Greene county and for four years (1903-07) during the time of his residence in Ross township served as clerk of that township. Since 1913 he has been a member of the Greene county pension board, under appointment of President Wilson, and is the present secretary of that board. Upon the creation of the medical boards in connection with the selective draft for the new National Army in the early summer of 1917 Doctor Ritenour was appointed a member of the board for Greene county and is now serving in that capacity. On November 27, 1912, Dr. Winfield S. Ritenour was united in marriage to Grace Turner, who was born at Bellbrook, this county, daughter of John S. and Martha (Cunningham) Turner, both of whom are still living at Bellbrook, where the former is engaged in the mercantile business, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Scott Turner Ritenour, born on January 12, 1914. FRANK TOWNSLEY. The first persons who established themselves and families permanently in Cedarville township were two brothers, John and Thomas Townsley, who emigrated. from Kentucky and came here in 180i. They located on the banks of Massies creek, having previously bought there about a thousand acres of land, and there established their homes, building the first habitations erected by white men in what later came to be organized as Cedarville township, and in the summer of that year harvested the first crop that had been raised by white men in that region. John Townsley was the father of eight children and Thomas Townsley was the father of five children, and from this pioneer stock has sprung one of the most numerous families in this section of Ohio. Frank Townsley, of Cedarville township, one of the best-known representatives of the old pioneer family in the present generation, was born in that township, on a portion of the old original Townsley homestead tract, May 4, 1867, a son of James and Clarissa (Harper) Townsley. The Harpers also were prominently represented here since the early days of the settle- GREEN E COUNTY, OHIO - 911 ment of Greene county. James Townsley in time became a substantial farmer on his own account, for more than fifty years the owner of the farm now owned by his son Frank, and also did a considerable business in the buying and selling of live stock. James Townsley died at his home in Cedarville township in 1910, being in the eighty-second year of his age. He had become a Republican upon the organization of that party and ever remained loyal to its principles. Of the old Seceder .stock, he became affiliated with the United Presbyterian church after the "union" of 1858 and ever took an active interest in the affairs of his church. James Townsley was twice married. His first wife, Clarissa Harper, died in 1868 and he afterward married Hester Barber, also a member of one of Greene county's pioneer families. To James and Clarissa (Harper) Townsley were born seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the last-born, the others being the following : John, who died in September, 1917, and a memorial sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume ; Elizabeth, who died in 1914, wife of John Owens ; Delilah, wife of J. O. Spahr, of Jamestown, this county ; Emma, wife of J. M. Harper, of Dayton; Jennie E., wife of O. A. Spahr, of Xenia, and Robert S., a retired farmer, now living at Cedarville. Frank Townsley was but a year old when his mother died. He grew up on the home farm, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools, and hallways lived on the place on which he was born, having established his home there after his marriage. Mr. Townsley has ever given particular attention to live stock and as a live-stock dealer is well known throughout this part of the state. Mr. Townsley now owns the old home place, a valuable tract of four hundred and forty-two acres, and has made many substantial improvements thereon. Politically, he is a Republican, as was his father. On October 4, 1888; at Cedarville, Frank Townsley was united in marriage to Effie Fields, daughter of John A. and Savilla (Haverstick) Fields, the latter of whom is still living, now making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Townsley. John A. Fields, who died at his home in Cedarville on November 6, 1917, was born in the vicinity of Xenia, as was his wife, and for some time after his marriage continued to make his home in the Xenia neighborhood. He then moved to Cedarville, where he became engaged in the hotel and livery and where he spent the rest of his life. To him and his wife were born two children, Mrs. Townsley having had a brother, Fred Fields, who died in 1891. To Frank and Effie (Fields) Townsley four children have been born, namely : Carrie, who married R. S. Bull, a well-known young farmer of Cedarville township, and has one child, a son, Ralph E. ; Ralph, who on 912 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO December 29, 1917, was united in marriage to Matilda Crouse and who continues to make his home on the home place, and Pearl and Hester, both of whom also are at .home. The Townsleys are members of the United Presbyterian church at Cedarville. PAUL D. ESPEY, M. D. Faul Denton Espey, one of the best-known among the younger physicians of Greene county, the proprietor of a well-appointed private hospital in North Detroit street, Xenia, is a native of the Hoosier state. He has been a resident of Ohio ever since he entered upon the practice of his profession, and of Xenia since 1915. He was born in Rising Sun, Indiana, son of Frank and Charity (Cunningham) Espey, both natives of that same state, who are still living at Rising Sun, where the former is engaged in the mercantile business, for years one of the leading merchants of that city. The Espeys, who are of an old Colonial family, have been honorably represented at Rising Sun from the very beginning of that interesting old town down on the Ohio river. The first of the Espey name to come to this country was a North of Ireland man, of Presbyterian stock, the great-great-grandfather of Doctor Espey, who came to the colonies some little time before the opening of the War for Independence and who took an active part in that war. He married an orphan girl, the sole survivor of a village which had been cruelly massacred by Indians, and who had been adopted and reared by a family of the name of Hemphill. A son of this union was one of the first settlers in the Rising Sun settlement and was one of the founders of the Presbyterian church there, and a deacon in the same. The eldest son of each succeeding generation of the family has been an elder in that old church, the position now being occupied by Doctor Espey's father. Frank Espey is also an ardent Republican and has for years taken an active interest in political affairs in his home community. He and his wife have three children, of whom Doctor Espey is the eldest, the others being Dr. Hugh Stewart Espey, a dentist at Gary, Indiana, and Phoebe, wife of Henry Johnson, of Los Angeles, California. Doctor Espey has received admirable scholastic training for the exacting profession to which he early devoted his life. Upon completing the course in the high school at Rising Sun, he entered Indiana State University at Bloomington, and after three years of study there entered the Medical School of the University of Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1905. Upon receiving his diploma, Doctor Espey was appointed an interne for Christ Hospital at Cincinnati and after eighteen months of very valuable practical experience in that institution located at Fort William, in Clinton county, this GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 913 state. Here he opened an office and continued actively engaged in the practice of his profession until 1915, in which year he took a special course in surgery at the Post-Graduate Hospital in New York City. Having determined upon a change in the field of his practice, upon completing his course Doctor Espey moved to Xenia, where he since has. been engaged in practice. Upon his arrival in Xenia the Doctor located in the old Doctor Wilson residence in North Detroit street, a very favorable location, and ,there opened a private hospital, which lie has since very successfully maintained. Though the doctor specializes in surgery, he also has built up on extensive general practice and has made hosts of friends during the comparatively short time he has been a resident of Xenia. Doctor Espey is a member of the Greene County Medical Society, a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, a member of the American Medical Association and a member of the Clinical Congress of Surgeons and in the affairs and deliberations of these learned bodies takes a warm interest. Politically, he is a Republican, and, fraternally, he is affiliated with the local lodges of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. On June 26, 1909, Dr. Paul D. Espey was united in marriage to Elizabeth McConnell, who was born at Danville, Kentucky, daughter of Angerau and Caroline (Calvert) McConnell, the latter of whom is still living at that place. To this union two children have been born, sons both, Hugh Stewart, born in 1912, and John McConnell, in 1916. Doctor and Mrs. Espey are members of the Presbyterian church and take a proper interest in the various beneficences of the same, the Doctor being a member of the diaconate. They also take an interested part in the general good works and social and cultural activities of the city in which they live. DAVID E. PAULLIN. David E. Paullin, owner of a well-kept farm of nearly one hundred acres three and one-half miles east of Jamestown, was born at Grape Grove, Ross township, on January 16, 1864, son of Thomas Jefferson and Ella (Van Gundy) Paullin, the former of whom was born in that same township, a son of David and Susan (Smith) Paullin, reference to whom is made elsewhere in this volume. David Paullin was the seventh in order of birth of the nine children born to the pioneers, Uriah and Rebecca Paullin, natives of New Jersey, who became residents of Greene county in 1807. Thomas Jefferson Paullin was the second son of David and Susan (Smith) Paullin, who were the parents of eleven children. He was reared on the home farm in Ross township and in his young manhood spent a (57) 914 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO year in Pennsylvania, where he met and married Ella Van Gundy. After his marriage he located on a farm a half a mile south of Grape Grove, in his home township, and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring when he was sixty-two years of age. His widow is now living at Jamestown in the eighty-first year of her age. Thomas J. Paullin was not only a good farmer, but he was for years known as one of the leading stockmen in his part of the county. He was a Republican and for some time served as trustee of his home township. By religious persuasion he became affiliated with the Seventh Day Adventists church. He and his wife were the parents of two sons, the subject of this sketch having a brother, E. G. Paullin, owner of the old home place in Ross township, who married Jennie Davis and lived on the home place until his retirement from the farm in 1915 and removal to Jamestown, where he is now living. David E. Paullin was reared on the home farm in Ross township, receiving his schooling in the Grape Grove school, and remained at home until his marriage in 1892, after which he began farming on his own. account. In 1895 he bought the farm on which he is now living. in Silvercreek township, ninety-seven acres of the old Dawson tract, and has since made his home there. Politically, he is a Republican and he and his family are mem bers of the Friends church at Jamestown and take an interested part in the various beneficences of the same. In 1892 David E. Paullin was united in marriage to Della M. Robinson, of Silvercreek township, and to this union one child has been horn, a daughter, Lelia Blanche, who was graduated from the Jamestown high school and is now a student at Wilmington College. Mrs. Paullin is a daughter of the late James F. Robinson, former trustee of Silvercreek township, who died at his home in that township in the spring of 1900 and a memorial sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Paullin's mother is still living, now a resident of Jamestown. She was born in Silvercreek township, Ann Eliza Moorman, (laughter of Reuben and Susan (Sharp) Moorman, the former of whom was a son of the pioneer Micajah Moorman, a Virginian and a Quaker, who came to this county in the first decade of the past century and became one of the influential factors in the development of the Silver creek neighborhood. James F. and Ann E. (Moorman) Robinson were the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Paullin was the third in order of birth, the others being the following : Alma, who died in the days of her girlhood ; Frank, who married Elizabeth Highland and is now living at Chicago ; Charles A., who is farming the old home place in Silvercreek township ; Reuben W., who married Bessie McCrught and is living at Jamestown; Bertha, who died in 1894 at the age of nineteen years; Sarah Blattche, who died, at the age of four years, and Mary, wife of Ross Mendenhall, of Akron, this state. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 914 LUTHER DEAN CHITTY. Luther Dean Chitty, who is operating the fine farm of his father-in-law, George Perrill, on the Columbus pike in Xenia township, was born on a farm in Jefferson township on October 1, 1875, son of Cargill and Rebecca Ann (Osborn) Chitty, the latter of whom also was born in this county and is still living here, now making her home in the pleasant village of Bowersville. Cargill Chitty was born in the state of Virginia and was orphaned when a child. As a young man he left his native state and came over into Ohio, taking employment on farms in this county. He later became engaged in the drug business in the village of Bloomington, in the neighboring county of Clinton, and later returned to Greene county and bought a farm of one hundred and five acres in Jefferson township where he established his home and where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring there in 188o, he then being forty-nine years of age. During the progress of the Civil War Cargill Chitty volunteered his services in behalf of' the Union cause, but on account of having suffered a broken leg while hauling logs not long before, his services were declined. He was a Democrat and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, all of whom are living save one, Lee Chitty, who went to Portland, Oregon, and there spent his last days, the others besides the subject of this sketch being as follow: Kirk, who is engaged in the real-estate business at Muncie, Indiana ; John, a farmer, of Jefferson township, this county ; Frank, now living at Los Angeles, California; Claude, of Dayton, this state; Mary, wife of Alvin Zoarman, a farmer of Jefferson township, this county ; Rose, wife of Doctor Marchant, of .Millersville, this state, and Violet, a graduate nurse, now connected with the McClellan Hospital at Xenia. Luther D. Chitty was reared on the home farm in Jefferson township and received his early schooling in the neighborhood schools, remaining there until his mother moved with her family to Valparaiso, Indiana, in order to secure there the advantages of education for her children offered by Valparaiso University, making her home there for five years. During That period Luther D. Chitty completed his schooling in the university and upon the return of the family to this county he assumed the management of his mother's farm and was thus engaged until his marriage in 1900, after which he began farming the farm owned by his father-in-law, George Per-rill, now a member of the -board of county commissioners, in that same township, remaining there until 1911, when he, moved to Mr. Perrill's home farm of two hundred and seventy-eight acres in Xenia township and has 916 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO since been farming the same, Mr. Perrill making his home with him and his wife. Mr. Chitty is a Republican. In 1900, Luther D. Chitty was united in marriage to Edith Perri11, who also was born in Jefferson township, this county, daughter of George M. and Elizabeth (Vanniman) Perrill, both of whom also were born in this state, the former in the neighborhood of what is now Milledgeville, in the neighboring county of Fayette, son of John and Margaret J. (Sparks.) Perrill, and the latter, at Bowersville, in Greene county, daughter of Stephen and Rebecca Jane (Early) Vanniman. Mr. and Mrs. Chitty have four children, namely : Donald, born on September 25, 1901, who is now a student in the Xenia high school; Hugh, May 19, 1905; George, April 4, 1906, and Robert, June 3, 1907. ADDISON D. SMITH. Addison D. Smith, one of the best-known young farmers of New Jasper township, was born in that township on a farm a mile and a half east of the village of New Jasper on April 29, 1871, son of James Marion and Eliza (Huston) Smith, the latter of whom is still living there. James Marion Smith, a veteran of the Civil War, who died in 1911, was for years regarded as one of the most substantial farmers of the New Jasper neighborhood and elsewhere in this volume there will be found in detail a history of his family. Reared on the home farm, Addison D. Smith received his schooling in the Schooley district school. After his marriage in 1895 he continued to make his home there, he and his brother Alva operating the farm in partnership, the place then consisting of three hundred acres. There Addison D. Smith continued to make his home until 1904, in which year he bought the farm of one hundred acres in New Jasper township that formerly belonged to his maternal grandfather, William S. Huston, moved to that place and has ever since resided there. In addition to his general farming, Mr. Smith has given considerable attention to the raising of live stock. He is also the owner of sixty-eight acres of his father's old place east of New Jasper and of the Griffith Sutton farm of sixty-seven acres just west of the village. On October 23, 1895, Addison D. Smith was united in marriage to Sadie Fields, who also was born in New Jasper township, daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Peerman) Fields, who at the time of her birth were living on a farm in the northeast corner of the township and the former of whom is now living retired in the village of Jamestown. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at New jasper, Mr. Smith being a member of the present board of stewards of the church. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 917 JAMES ALBERT MERCER. James Albert Mercer, mayor of Jamestown and owner of a fine farm in Ross township, was born on the farm which he now owns, in Ross township, June 21, 1861, son of William and Nancy (Skeen) Mercer, the former of whom was born on that same farm on September 22, 1835, a son of John Mercer and wife, who came to this county from Virginia and established their home in Ross township, developing there the farm now owned by Mayor Mercer. William Mercer grew up on the farm on which he was born and in time became the owner of the same. He married Nancy Skeen, who was born in Highland county, this state, October 23, 1839, and after his marriage established his home on the old place, which he continued successfully to operate until his retirement from the farm and removal to Jamestown in 1883. For fifteen years after his removal to Jamestown William Mercer served there as justice of the peace and became a man of influence in the village. His last days were spent there, his death occurring in 1913. He and his wife were the parents of three children, Mayor Mercer having two, sisters, Hattie Belle, born on May 3, 1865, who married William Watson, now president of the Farmers Bank of Manchester, this state, and Emma Della, July 30, 1867, wife of E. S. Fishback, a commercial traveler, now living at East Grange, New Jersey. James A. Mercer grew to manhood on the farm on which he was born in Ross township and upon completing his schooling became actively engaged in farming there. After his marriage in the spring of 1884 he established his home on the home place and continued to operate the same, eventually becoming the owner of the farm, until his retirement in February, 1917, and removal to Jamestown, where he now resides and of which village he is the chief executive. Not long after he had. taken up his residence in Jamestown Mr. Mercer was appointed justice of the peace and in the fall of .1917 was elected mayor of the town, the nomination coming to him without solicitation on his part. During the time of his residence in Ross township Mr. Mercer was for years director of schools in the home district and for six years served as township trustee. Mr. Mercer continues to own the ancestral farm in Ross township, and the same is now being operated by his son-in-aw. George Ensign. On April 4, 1884, James A. Mercer was united in marriage to Fannie Turner, who was born in Silvercreek township, this county, daughter of Jacob and Minerva (Wood) Turner, both of whom also were born in this county, and who were the parents of three children., Mrs. Mercer having had two brothers, Albert, who died when six years of age, and Charles Turner, who is now living at Cedarville. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer have two daughers, 918 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO Mary E., born on March 15, 1885, who married George Ensign, who is operating Mr. Mercer's farm in Ross township, and has one child, a son, Roger Albert, born on April 26, 1911; and Lena Belle, October 15, 1888, who married Clarence Mott and is living on a farm in the vicinity of Cedarville. Mr. and Mrs. Mercer are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Jamestown. ALBERT E. BALES. Albert E. Bales, one of New Jasper township's well-known farmers, was born in that township on August 16, 1869, son of Jacob and Matilda (Lucas) Bales, the former of whom was born in that same township, a son of John Bales, a soldier of the War of 1812, who was the son of Elisha and Rebecca Bales, Pennsylvania Quakers, who had come to Ohio with their family in 1806 and had settled in Greene county. Elisha Bales, the pioneer, was born in Pennsylvania and was there reared in the faith of the Friends and to the life of a farmer. He married in that state and a few years later moved to Virginia, where he remained until 18o6, in which year he came with his family to Ohio and established his home on a tract of land five miles southeast of the then village of Xenia, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Upon coming here Elisha Bales bought two sections of land in the old Military tract on what is now known as the Hook road in Caesarscreek township, paying for the same one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, and with the assistance of his sons cut a farm out of the timber land and created a good piece of property. He and his wife were the parents of four sons, John, Jacob, Elisha and Jonathan, and two daughters, all of whom lived to maturity and reared families of their own. John Bales was born in Pennsylvania on March 6, 1879, and came with his parents, Elisha and Rebecca Bales, to Greene county in 1806. He helped develop the pioneer home farm in Caesarscreek township and became a substantial farmer and landowner. During the War of 1812 he served as a member of the company of Capt. Joseph Lucas and upon the completion of that service resumed farming. In his home township he married Sarah Lucas, who was born at Maysville, Kentucky, in 1795, and who had come up into the valley of the Little Miami with her parents, John and Frances (Rains) Lucas, the family settling in Caesarscreek township, this county. Her uncle, Simon Rains, also a pioneer of this county, was a soldier of the War of 1812, serving in the company of Capt. Zach. Ferguson. John Lucas and his wife both lived to be past eighty years of age, the former dying in 1851 and his widow surviving him for some years. John Bales was a Democrat, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 919 and served for fifteen years as justice of the peace and was his party's nominee for a seat in the state Legislature. He became the owner of two hun¬dred acres of fine land along the waters of Caesars creek and on that farm spent his last days, his death occurring there on March 11, 1864. His widow survived him for more than ten years, her .death occurring on June 8, 1874. They were the parents of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, and all of these sons were for some time engaged in school teaching. Jacob Bales, son of John and Sarah (Lucas) Bales, was born on the old home farm on the Hook road in 1838 and there grew to manhood. He early became a school teacher, receiving for that service during the short winter terms the wages of eight dollars a month. He was thirteen years of age when his father died and upon attaining his majority he came into possession of sixty acres of the home estate, on which he established his home after his marriage and there spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on August 20, 1873, he then being but thirty-five years of age. His widow later married George Golder, but this second union was without issue. She lived until February 26, 1883. She was born, Matilda Lucas, in Virginia, in 1839, daughter of Basil Lucas and wife, who came to Greene county in 1843 and established their home on a farm east of Xenia. To Jacob and Matilda (Lucas) Bales were born two sons, the subject of this sketch having had a brother, John W. Bales, born on. December 3, 1865, who died on May 31, 1881. Albert E. Bales was but four years of age when his father died in 1873 and he was fifteen when his mother died. Thereafter he made his home with his uncle, Elisha Bales, completing his schooling in the neighborhood schools. Upon attaining his majority he entered upon his inheritance in his father's farm and after his marriage the year following established his hcme on that place and there continued to reside until 1907, when he sold that farm and bought the Shook farm of one hundred and fifteen acres on the Hook road in New Jasper township, where he ever since has made his home. Politically, he is a Democrat, as were his father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He is a member of the local lodge of the Woodmen at New Jasper. On October 2, 1891, Albert E. Bales was united in marriage to Mattie L. Whittington, who was born in Virginia, daughter of John R. and Margaret Whittington, who are now living retired at Greenville, this state. To this union three children have been born, namely : Ray,; now living at Hamilton, Ohio, and who married Martha Jane Harnes and has three children; Ruth, a graduate nurse, who follows her profession in this county, and Bernice, who was born in 1909. 920 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO REV. JOHN P. WILLIAMS. The Rev. John P. Williams, a retired minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, now living at Yellow Springs, is a native of England, born in the city of London, on October 8, 1851, son of Christopher Robert and Mary M. (Nimann) Williams, both of whom also were of English birth. He received his early schooling in a private school at Greenwich, in the vicinity of London. When sixteen years of age he became attracted by the possibilities then awaiting the gold miners in faraway New Zealand and he 'took a trip there, bent on making his fortune in the mines. For five years, or until he was twenty-one years of age, Mr. Williams continued mining in New Zealand, with more or less success. Mr. Williams had some family connections over in Australia and after having acquired all the experience in gold mining that he cared for he spent a year in Australia visiting these kinsfolks. He then sailed for Cape Town, Africa, and for a year or more visited there, at the same time investigating South Africa far up into the interior. He then returned to his old home in England and after a year there went to France, from which country he presently came to the United States, arriving at the port of New York when about twenty-three years of age. From there he went to Chicago and not long afterward in that city became interested in contract work and for some time was thus engaged there, employing a considerable force of men. In the meantime Mr. Williams had been seriously turning his thoughts in the direction of the gospel ministry and after a whole began preaching. Though reared in the established church of England, his personal interest was manifested in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church and when about 'twenty-six years of age he was licensed to preach by the Chicago conference of that church and for twenty years thereafter was actively engaged in the ministry of that church, his various appointments eventually bringing him to Ohio, his last definite official charge having been at Middletown, this state. He retired from the Ministry while stationed there, about 1889, and then moved to Xenia, from which city shortly afterward he moved to Yellow Springs, attracted to the natural beauty of the place and its desirability as a place of residence, and has ever since resided there. Though retired from the active ministry, Mr. Williams has continued active in platform work and is widely known as a lecturer, his illustrated lectures, particularly, hav ing won for him a very gratifying reputation as a platform entertainer. At Guilford, in Dearborn county, Indiana, the Rev. John P. Williams was united in Marriage to Anna R. Hansell, daughter of Robert and Catherine (Roberts) Hansell, of that place, the former of whom was born in England and the latter in the state of Maine, and who were the parents of six children, those besides Mrs. Williams having been Theodore, Grant GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 921 (deceased), Mary, Harriet and Abbie. Mrs. Williamson died on June 23, 1915, and is buried at beautiful Glen Forest cemetery at Yellow Springs. Mr. Williams has three daughters, Florence M., who has charge of the music department of Antioch College; Bessie Victoria, who married Prof. F. H. Young, of Cedarville, now a teacher in the Zanesville high school, and has three children, Paul R., Faith and Donald ; and Marguerite Mae, who is a teacher of music in Antioch College and otherwise busied in the activities of that institution. PIERRE W. DRAKE. Pierre W. Drake, senior member of the firm of Drake & Van Kirk, dealers in lumber and coal at Yellow Springs, was born in the neighboring county of Clark on January 6, 1877, son of William W. and Bethany (Taylor) Drake, the former of whom also was born in that county, in 1830, of pioneer parentage. Bethany Taylor was born in Indiana, in 1830, but was reared in Clark county in the family in which Samuel Shallenbarger, afterward congressman from this district, was reared. William W. Drake, a well-to-do farmer in Clark county, was married in 1857. Both he and his wife are now deceased. They were the parents of six children, those besides the subject of this sketch being as follow : George, formerly and for years engaged in the lumber and saw-mill business at Yellow Springs, now living retired in that city ; Ruthetta, wife of William M. Wilson, a farmer and stockman, now living at Alberta, Canada; Oliver, who established his home on the old home farm in Clark county after his marriage and who spent his last days there, his death occurring in 1917; Ralph, who is married and is living on a farm in Clark county, and Elmer, also married and living on a Clark county farm. Reared on the home farm in Clark county, Pierre W. Drake remained there until he was twenty-one years of age, meanwhile completing his educational course in Wittenberg College, at Springfield and at Antioch College, Yellow Springs. Upon leaving college he became engaged with his brother George in the lumber business at Yellow Springs. Two years later he went to West Virginia and was there engaged in the lumber business, in the employ of a Philadelphia concern. After being thus connected for a couple of years he returned to Yellow Springs, in 1906, and formed a partnership with his brother George in the lumber and milling business there, and this mutually agreeable arrangement continued until 191o, when George Drake retired from business and his brothel- Pierre bought his interest in the concern and continued the business under the name of P. W. Drake. In 1916 Mr. Drake bought the coal business which had been for years conducted at Yellow Springs by S. S. Johnson, added the same to his 922 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO lumber establishment and has since been operating the two in connection. In 1917 he admitted Lawson Van Kirk to partnership in his business and the same is now carried on under the firm name of Drake & Van Kirk. On June 12, 1906, Pierre W. Drake was united in marriage to Georgia Black, who was born in this county, daughter of Prof. G. D. Black, president of Antioch College, and to this union one child has been born, Virginia. They are members of the Presbyterian church. Politically, Mr. Drake is a Republican and, fraternally, is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons at Yellow Springs. ADELBERT N. VANDEMAN, M. D. Dr. Adelbert N. Vandeman, who early in 1917 moved from Milledgeville, Fayette county, and located in the pleasant village of Bellbrook, was born on a farm in the immediate .vicinity of Webster City, Iowa, December 13. 1878, son of S. W. and Elizabeth (Foster) Vandeman, both of whom were born in Adams county, Ohio, and who after their marriage in that county went to Iowa, where they established their home and where they remained for nearly twenty years, at the end of which time they returned to Ohio, bought a farm in Adams county and are still making their residence there. They have had three children, two sons and one daughter, the subject of this sketch having a sister, Lelia, who married Ira Howard and is living in Adams county. Orville, the second son, died in his second year. Adelbert N. Vandeman spent his early boyhood on the home farm in the vicinity of Webster City, Iowa, where he was born, and was fourteen years of age when his parents returned to Ohio and located in Adams county. Upon completing the course in the Cherry Fork high school, he spent a year in the university at Valparaiso, Indiana, preparatory to taking up formally the study of medicine. In 1905 he entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, from which institution he was graduated in 1909 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the ,fall following the receipt of his diploma Doctor Vandeman opened an office for the practice of his profession at Milledgeville, in Fayette county, and was there engaged in practice until in February, 1917, when he came into Greene county and located at Bell-brook, where he has since been engaged .in practice. On December 26, 1902, Dr. Adelbert N. Vandeman was united in marriage to Lyda Howard, daughter of Cyrus and Margaret (Fenton) Howard, of Adams county, and to this union two children have been born, Howard, born in 1903, and Lawrence, 1910. Mrs. Vandeman has two brothers, Ira A. and Kelly. Doctor and Mrs. Vandeman have a pleasant home at Bellbrook and have made many friends since taking up their residence there. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 923 AMOS S. BULL. Among that doughty band of Scotch Seceders who came from their first settlement in the Lexington neighborhood of Kentucky in 1810 and formed the first Association congregation in this section of Ohio, were the Bulls, the Gowdys, the Laugheads and the Kyles, whose respective families still form a numerous and influential connection hereabout. About the time of the founding of the Massies creek settlement James Bull married Ann Gowdy and established his home on a considerable tract of land he previously had purchased in this county. Amos S. Bull, one of the sons of this union, grew up there and married a daughter of David M. and Elizabeth (Kyle) Laughead, and the surviving daughters of this union, the Misses Henrietta and Emily Johanna Bull, are still occupying the old home place in Miami township. Amos S. Bull was born on the old Bull place on Massies creek, January 10, 1820, son of James and Ann (Gowdy) Bull, the former of whom was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, in 1776, a son of William Bull, a soldier in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War and whose death occurred here on October 31, 1811. James Bull was nineteen years of age when he came to Ohio and he lost little time after his arrival here in establishing himself as a. landowner, making a purchase at the Dayton land office of a tract of one thousand acres. On November 8, 1804, he was united in marriage to Ann Gowdy, daughter of John and Ann Gowdy, who also had come up here from Kentucky. After his marriage James Bull established his home on the land he had bought from the government and continued the development of the same. During the War of 1812 he served as a soldier, a member of Capt. James Morrow's company. He and his wife reared their family on their pioneer farm and there spent the rest of their lives, James Bull living to the great age of ninety-six years, his death occurring. in 1872, and 'he was buried in the old Massies Creek church yard. He was for years one of the most influential members of the Massies Creek Associate church, but after the "union" of 1858 he and his family became affiliated with the United Presbyterian church. James Bull and his wife were the parents of eight children, all now deceased, namely : William Hunter, John Gowdy, Susanna, married James Turnbull, Margaret, who married James Hopping, James Law, Robert Scott, Amos S. and Andrew Rankin. They also reared until he was twenty-one years of age, Amos Shaw, son of Mr. Bull's widowed sister, Mrs. Ann Shaw. James Bull. also hid another sister, Mary, and five brothers, Asaph, John, Thomas, Richard and William. Amos S: Bull received his early schooling in the primitive neighborhood school and supplemented the same by attendance at the academy which then was being conducted by the ministers at Xenia. He became early recognized as 924 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO one of the best-informed men in his community, ever interested in school work and was for years an active member of the local school board. Upon the organization of the Republican party he became affiliated with the same and ever after remained an ardent advocate of the principles of the party. Originally a member of the Associate church, he became a United Presbyterian after the "union" and ever took an earnest interest in church affairs, a member of the session, first of the Associate church and then of the United Presbyterian church, for fifty-one years. After his marriage, in the early torties, Amos S. Bull continued farming a part of his father's old place until 1855, when he bought the place in Miami township where his daughters are now living, and there he and his wife spent their last days, her death occurring in 1872. Mrs. Bull was born in this county, daughter of David Mitchell and Elizabeth (Kyle) Laughead, who were married in this county shortly after they had come here with their respective families from the Lexington settlement in Kentucky in 1803, both the Laugheads and the Kyles, even as the Bulls and the Gowdys, having been among the earliest and most influential pioneer residents of this county. To Amos S. Bull were born two sons and four daughters, James. Harvey, Elizabeth Anna, Mary Frances, Henrietta, Emily Johanna and David Louden, all of whom are now deceased save the Misses Henrietta and Emily Bull, who are still making their home on the old home place in Miami township, rural mail route No. out of Yellow Springs, where they are very pleasantly situated. Amos S. Bull died on August 12, 1902, he then being past eighty-two years of age, and his body was laid beside that of his wife in the Stevenson cemetery on Massies creek. WILLIAM EDWARD COY. William Edward Coy, farmer and stockman in Beavercreek township, was born in that township on November 10, 1862, a son of Adam and Sophronia (Crow!) Coy, the former of whom was a son of Jacob Coy, one of the foremost pioneers of that part of Greene county. Reared on the home farm in Beavercreek township, William E, Coy received his schooling in the schools of that neighborhood and early took up farming. After his marriage he established his home on a farm and began operations on his own account. He is now the owner of a farm of a fraction more than seventy-eight acres and in addition to his general farming gives considerable attention to the raising of registered Poland China hogs. Mr. Coy is a Republican and he and his family are members of the Reformed church, connected with the Mt. Zion congregation. On December 25, 1885, William E. Coy was united in marriage to Sarah Black, who also was born in Beavercreek township, daughter of Jonathan