GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 925 and Ellen (Cosler) Black, the latter of whom is still living, a resident of the Mt. Zion neighborhood. Jonathan Black and wife were the parents of eight children, all of whom save two, Margaret and Susan, are still living, those besides Mrs. Mary Ellen Coy being Samuel, who is living in Sugarcreek township; Duff G., now a resident of the state of Iowa; Effie, wife of David Bates, of Beavercreek township; Bertha, wife of John Shoup, of Beavercreek .township,. and Anna, wife of Grant Coy, of that same township. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Coy have one son, Russell Coy, born on May 31, 1890, who on January 9, 1911, was united in marriage to Martha Dietz, of Adams county, this state, and has one child, a daughter, Bessie Lucille. JAMES CROWL. James Crowl, proprietor of an old-established livery and undertaking establishment at Bellbrook, was born on a farm in Sugarcreek township, not far from Bellbrook, September 18, 1855, son of William H. and Sarah Ann (Berryhill) Crowl, the latter of whom also was born in this county, daughter of William T. and Nancy (Lyle) Berryhill, of Sugarcreek township. William H. Crowl was born in Pennsylvania and in that state grew to young manhood, later coming to Ohio and locating in Greene county, where he married Sarah Ann Berryhill, a member of one of the old families of Sugarcreek township, and became engaged in farming, a pursuit he followed until his death in 186o, he then being forty-five years of age. His widow survived. him for many years, her death occurring in April, 1907, she then being eighty-four years of age. William H. Crowl and wife were the parents of nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the sixth in order of birth, the others being the following : Henry Lyle, deceased; Horace Rufner, deceased; Oscar Lawson, a resident of Bellbrook ; William Rufus, deceased; Alexander Lacey, a resident of Dayton; Anna C., who married George C. Peck and is now living in Missouri; Mary Elizabeth, deceased, and Henry Francis, who is living at Wooster, this state. James Crowl received his schooling in the Bellbrook schools and as a young man became engaged there in the butcher business, a business he followed until the spring of 1882, when he opened a livery stable at Bell-brook and thus established there a business which he has ever since maintained. In 1896 he bought out the undertaking establishment of W. H. Morris at Bellbrook and has ever since also conducted that business, one of the best-known funeral directors in the county. Mr. Crowl is a Republican and from 1889 to 1897 he served as village constable,. from 1890 to 1897 served as trustee of Sugarcreek township and from 1899 to 1910 served as 926 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO township treasurer. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias at Cedarville and with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics at Bellbrook. On March 20, 1895, James Crowl was united in marriage to Harriet Mason Kemp, of Bellbrook, who died on March 10, 1902. To that union were born four children, Donald Wallace (deceased), Margaret Kendall, Dorothy Louise and Mary Lewis (deceased). Mr. Crowl and his daughters are members of the Presbyterian church. THOMAS H. TINDALL. Thomas H. Tindall, train dispatcher at Yellow Springs for the Dayton, Xenia & Springfield Railroad Company, was born on a farm three miles from Clifton, this county, on October 15, 1855, son of Charles and Julia (White) Tindall, the latter of whom was the daughter of the Rev. John White, of Selma, in the neighboring county of Clark. Charles Tindall was born in the Berkshire country in England and was but a lad when he came to this country with his parents, who came on out to Ohio and settled on what is now called the Tindall lease, the old Taylor tract of one thousand acres in the upper part of this county. Charles Tindall became engaged in farming on his own account and after his marriage established his home on a farm in Miami township, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1899. He and his wife were the parents of seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom the subject of this biographical sketch was the sixth in order of birth, the others being as follow : Elizabeth, who married John Anderson, a Greene county farmer, and is now living at Springfield, this state ; William, who is married and is now engaged in farming in Nebraska Nancy, deceased; Mrs. Margaret Miller, now a resident of the state of Wisconsin ; John, deceased; and Frederick, who is married and lives at Selma. Thomas H. Tindall was reared on the home farm and received his schooling in the local schools. He early learned the carpenter trade and after his marriage in 1893 established his home at Cedarville, where for twenty years he was engaged as a carpenter and builder, later moving to Yellow Springs, where he became similarly engaged. Meanwhile he had learned the art of telegraphy and in 1917 accepted the position of night dispatcher at the car barns of the Dayton, Xenia & Springfield Railroad Company at Yellow Springs and has since then been thus engaged. Politically, Mr. Tindall is a Republican. Mr. Tindall has been twice married. In 1893 he was united in marriage to Flora McFarland, who died in 1899, leaving three children, Charles, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 927 now living at Xenia, who married Essie Bridgman and has two children, Thelma and Margaret; Nellie, wife of William Powell, of Cincinnati, and Florence, who is now living at. Springfield. On August 19, 1908, Mr. Tindall married Minnie Mound, of this county, daughter of Leonard and Emily .(Phillips) Mound, the former of whom was born in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and the latter, in the state of Virginia, and who were the parents of four children, Mrs. Tindall having .one brother, Clarke Mound, and two sisters, Daisy, wife of William Kelly, of Xenia, and Florence, wife of Joseph Pinkham, of Goes Station. J. NEWTON COY. J. Newton Coy, proprietor of a farm of eighty-one acres in Beaver-creek township, was born in that township on March 17, 1873, son of Adam and Sophronia (Crowl) Coy, the latter of whom was born in Germany and was but 41x years of age when she come to this county with her widowed mother. Adam Coy was born in Beavercreek township in 1834, a son of Jacob Coy. Adam Coy and Sophronia Crowl were married about 1860 and made their home on what is now the Cornelius Zimmerman farm in Beavercreek township. There they spent the remainder of their lives, her death occurring in May, 1913, and his, in January, 1918. They were the parents of six children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fifth in order of birth, the others being Edward, a Beavercreek township farmer, who married Sarah Black and has one son, Russell, who married Martha Dietz and has a daughter, Lucille; Samuel, who died in infancy; Frank, who died leaving two daughters, Bessie and Anna, and whose widow is still living at Zimmerman; Nettie, who married John Brill, of .Beavercreek township, and has had thirteen children, all of whom are living save one: and Amy, who is living at Zimmerman, widow of Frank Gray, and who is the mother of six children. J. Newton Coy received his schooling in the local schools and after his marriage in 1895 began farming on his own account. About .fifteen years ago he inherited from an uncle the farm on which he is now living and ever since has made his home there. He is a Republican; fraternally, he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and. he and his family are members of the Mt. Zion Reformed church. On August 29, 1895, J. Newton Coy was united in marriage to Cora Zimmerman, who also was born in Beavercreek township. daughter of Cornelius Zimmerman. To this union three children have been born, Roy, Crawford and Dorothy, all of whom are at home. 928 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO GEORGE MANN. Agriculture has been an honorable vocation from the earliest time, and as a usual thing men of humane impulses, as well as those of energy and thrift, have been patrons of husbandry. The free, out-door life of the farm has a decided tendency to foster and develop that independence of mind and self-reliance which characterize true manhood. The name heading this sketch belongs to a gentleman who sprang from good old ,pioneer stock, and who always displayed the same degrees of energy and worthiness that were ever prominent characteristics of his ancestors. George A. Mann and his wife, Elizabeth (Palmer) Mann, were of German descent, though natives of Pennsylvania, the former born in 1827, the latter in 1746. In 17— they emigrated to Rockingham county, Virginia, where they remained some years, during which time George A. Mann served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. From that county they went to Nicholas county, Kentucky. They had eight children, John, Peter, Jacob, Henry, George, Elizabeth, Charles and David, the last named of whom was the father of the subject of this memorial sketch. While yet in Kentucky, George A. Mann purchased from his son-in-law, Adam Shillinger, two hundred acres situated on the waters of the South Fork (now Andersons Fork). The consideration was four dollars an acre and the purchase was made for his two youngest children, Charles and David. Early in the month of March, 1801, Charles and David Mann, the former twenty and the latter eighteen years of age, left their father's home in Nicholas county, Kentucky, for the "Territory Northwest of the Ohio" for the purpose of finding and settling on the lands mentioned. They left with the understanding that their father and mother, accompanied by their daughter Elizabeth Shillinger, and her husband, Adam Shillinger, would follow in their trail in the fall of that year or in the spring of 1802. The boys were on horseback and carried with them such articles as were of the utmost importance and at the same time most convenient to carry, such as axes, a few cooking utensils, some provisions and, above all, the constant companion of the early settlers, their guns. At about noon of a day in the latter part of that month they landed at their destination and immediately set to work to prepare some kind of a shelter. They felled some mulberry trees, which they split into slabs, and with these slabs erected a rude structure somewhat similar in pattern to an Indian wigwam. Into this they carried their effects, and in it they spent their first night on the "farm." The morning must have been a dreary one for them, for snow lay deep on the ground. Without doubt, as they looked out upon it and the scene before them, they longed for the pleasant fireside of their father and the warm meal there being prepared by the loved and loving mother. Few boys of this day would care to undergo GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 929 such hardships ; but the day came and went, to be followed in turn by others, until the time arrived when the crop for the coming year must go in the ground. The boys had labored hard, and why not ? They were working for a home. The cabin was already up, the land partly cleared and the ground was being prepared as rapidly as possible for the planting. A morning came that caused them to sink temporarily into deepest despondency. They awoke to find that during the darkness of the night their horses had either strayed or were stolen. A decision was soon reached. Charles would go on the hunt for the missing animals. David would remain behind. Hastily bidding each other farewell, they separated ; the former on the trail of the horses, the latter to his lonely toil. The day went by ; a week followed, and months rolled by before the boys met again. David planted that season three acres of corn, securing seed from a settler named Price, who lived miles away near where Paintersville now stands.- Spring passed, summer ended, his crop ripened and was garnered and yet no word from Charles, nor the loved ones from home. But he remained where he was. His nearest neighbors were Aaron Jenkins, Peter Price, and a settler where Waynesville now stands. The latter had a corn cracker that was turned by hand, which he had brought from Virginia. In the fall David would shell a grist of corn, put it in a linen bag which he had brought from home, then throwing it over his shoulder, with his gun in his hand, would trudge through the woods to the settler who owned the corn cracker, and after cracking the corn return home again the same way, a distance of nearly twenty miles. An incident occurred during that summer worthy of mention. One day when the corn was in fine condition for roasting, six big Indians came down the creek and went into the corn patch. Husking off an arm load of ears a piece they carried them down to the banks of the creek where after starting a fire they had a feast. David was a spectator of the scene and while he did not like to see the fruits of his labors going to fill a half dozen lazy savages, he did not say so to them, but allowed them to eat and depart when they were ready. Charles Mann followed the horses day after day, until he reached the Ohio river opposite Maysville, at which point he learned that animals answering his description had swum the river at that place and had gone in the direction of Nicholas county. He crossed the river and followed on until his father's home was reached, and there he found the objects of his search. On his return home, all thoughts of waiting until spring were abandoned, and preparations were at once begun for an immediate removal to their new home. September found them on their way, and October safely landed in this state. Here they remained ; here the boys grew to manhood; here under the sturdy strokes of these brave men grew one of the finest farms in the settlement and here on the 4th day of May, 1821, at (58) 910 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO the age of ninety-five years, George A. Mann passed to his rest, to be followed at the age of eighty-four in January, 1839, by Elizabeth, the wife and mother. Thus passed from earth to eternity two of those noble souls who were so largely instrumental in preparing the way for succeeding generations. David Mann was intensely fond of music and made a violin of a gourd, from whose depths he caused the sweetest strains to flow, whiling away many, many lonesome hours. He would often spend a part of the Sabbath day sitting under the majestic oaks, playing on his gourd violin. One day his only sister, who had settled on an adjoining farm, died ; music lost its charm and the old violin the touch of its master. It was many years before he sought his favorite instrument again. Charles Mann married Lydia, the daughter of Aaron Jenkins, and settled on an id joining farm. He died on December 24; 1865, aged eighty-three. His wife, Lydia, died on April 5, 1838, aged fifty-two years. David Mann married Rachel Irvin. They were the parents of eleven children, namely : Elizabeth, Druzilla, Jonas, Alexander, John, Sarah, David, George, Rachel, Joseph and Henry. Among the stalwart men of a former generation who exerted an excellent influence in the community during the period of the development of Spring Valley township in the vicinity of New Burlington, the late George Mann, son of David and Rachel (Irvin) Mann, who died at his home in that neighborhood in the summer of 1915, will long be held in grateful remembrance there. Mr. Mann was born in that vicinity, a member of one of the real pioneer families and there spent all his life, becoming a substantial farmer and a man of influence in his community ; he having developed a fine bit of farm property just north of the village of New Burlington, the place now owned and occupied by his daughter, Mrs. Anna E. Oglesbee. George Mann was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal church. During the greater part of his life he espoused the cause of the Democratic party, but in later years he had turned the influence of his political convictions to the Prohibition party. His wife, who before her marriage was Rachel Kearns and who was born in the vicinity of Newark, this state, died at the age of forty-six years. He survived her for many years and lived to the great age of ninety-two years, his death occurring at his home in Spring Valley township on July 5, 1915. To George and Rachael (Kearns) Mann were born four children, namely : Anna E., who now owns and is living on heir father's old farm in Spring .Valley township, the widow of Augustus S. Oglesbee ; Emma, who died unmarried; Horace, now a resident of Whittier, California, and Martha D., widow of the late Dr. Raymond W. Smith, of Spring Valley, a GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 931 memorial sketch in relation to whom is presented elsewhere in this volume. Augustus S. Oglesbee, deceased husband of Anna A. (Mann) Ogles-bee, was born near Lumberton, Liberty township, Clinton county, Ohio, on March 31, 1856, and died on January 15, 1909. He was a son of Manly and Phenia (Hiatt) Oglesbee, early settlers of Clinton county, and of Quaker descent. Manley Oglesbee had one hundred acres, part in Clinton county and part in Greene county. He had eleven children, of whom Augustus S. was the sixth in order of birth. Augustus S. Oglesbee grew up on the farm and married and bought a farm of one hundred and seventy acres in Clinton county _(in Chester township), which is still owned by his widow. There Augustus S. Oglesbee spent the rest of his life. He was a Democrat. He belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church, as does his widow. After Mr. Oglesbee's death, his widow, in the same year, returned to her father's home in Spring Valley township, this county, to take care of her father. There she lived until her father died and there she continued to reside, the farm belonging to her and her sister, Mrs. Martha D. Smith. Accompanying this sketch is an engraving of the late George Mann and his four grandsons, the only living grandchildren representing the name. LEONARD C. ADSIT. Leonard C. Adsit, manager of the extensive plant of the Jamestown Floral Company at Jamestown, this county, was born on a farm in Caesarscreek township, this county, April 3, 1872, son of Silas and Mary (Ford) Adsit, the latter of whom also was born in this county, who are now living retired at Jamestown. Silas Adsit was born in the state of New York, but was but a boy when he came to Greene county with his parents, the family locating here. He was early trained to the carpenter's trade and later became a farmer. For some years he lived in Indiana and then returned to this county and began farming in Caesarscreek township, where he remained until his retirement from the farm. To him and his wife were born five sons, the subject of this sketch having had four brothers, Walter and William, deceased; Louis, who is living at Columbus, this state, and Daniel, living at Jamestown. Leonard C. Adsit was fifteen years of age when his parents moved from the farm to Jamestown and his schooling was completed in the schools of that place. When seventeen years of age he became employed in a bakery and for six or seven years thereafter followed the trade of a baker. He then became interested in the florist business and at Springfield secured employment in a green house where he became familiar with the business. From 932 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO there he went to Columbus and after several years of additional experience in the greenhouses of that city, went to Dayton, where for three years he was connected with the. Miami Floral Company, the largest concern of its kind between Chicago and New York City . Thus equipped by the most thorough practical experience, Mr. Adsit returned to Greene county and, in association with his son-in-law, James A. Johnson, bought the greenhouse at Jamestown and reorganized the same, improving and extending the plant and giving it a new start under the name of the Jamestown Floral Company, Mr. Adsit taking the general management of the plant. This plant consists of seven floral houses, all equipped in up-to-date fashion and the. company makes a specialty of pot plants, greenhouse - stock and cut flowers of all descriptions. Besides the retail field covered by the company, the Jamestown Floral Company does an extensive wholesale business. In 1898 Leonard C. Adsit was united in marriage to Mary Abbey, who also was born in this county, and to this union two children have been born, Louise, who married James A. Johnson, owner of the greenhouses of which his father-in-law is the manager, and Hannah. MATHIAS KINNEY. The late Mathias Kinney, a member of one of the pioneer families of Greene county, was born on what is now known as the Snively place, in this county, July 17, 1817, son of Peter and Jane (Quinn) Kinney, natives of Pennsylvania, the former born in 1787 and the latter in 1790, who became early settlers in this county, where their last days were spent. Reared on the pioneer farm on which he was born, Mathias Kinney received his schooling in the primitive "subscription" schools of that neighborhood and as a young man took up the trade of carpenter, with particular reference to barn building, and after a while became a contractor on his own account. He also did some farming, having been the owner of a fine little farm lying on the edge of the city of Yellow Springs, and on that place made his home, spending his last days there, his death occurring on October 8, 1891, he then being past seventy-four years of age. Mr. Kinney was one of the charter members of the old Mud Run Presbyterian church, west of Yellow Springs, and was for years a member of the village council. Mathias Kinney was twice married and by his first wife, Elizabeth Foresman, was the father of eight children. Following the death of the mother of these children he married, May 16, 1867, Sarah E. Applegate, who survives him and who is still living at the old home place at the edge of Yellow Springs, where she has a very pleasant home. Mrs. Kinney also was born in this county and is a member of one of the county's old families, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 933 her parents, Elias and Ann Maria (DeHart) Applegate, having come here from New Jersey in 1832. Elias Applegate was a substantial farmer and he and his wife were the parents of eight children, those besides Mrs. Kinney having been William, Catherine, Mary, Julia, Margaret, Hannah and Howard. To Mathias and Sarah E. (Applegate) Kinney were born three children, namely : Charles, a farmer of the Yellow Springs neighborhood, who is married and has five children; Edmund, an instructor in the agricultural department of the Kentucky State University at Lexington, who is married and has two daughters, and LaBerta, a teacher in the Union school at Yellow Springs. Mrs. Kinney is a member of the Presbyterian church. PATRICK HENRY ABBEY. Patrick Henry Abbey, who for more than thirty years was a faithful employee of the great powder-mills plant south of Yellow Springs, but who for the past seven or eight years has been living retired from the active labors of life, is a native of the Emerald Isle, born on March 14, 1842, son of John and Ella (Mooney) Abbey, who were the parents of six children, Ann, Patrick. John, Edward, James and Margaret, all of whom continued to make their home in Ireland save Patrick and his brother John, the latter of whom is now living in Missouri. When he was fifteen years of age, in 1857, Patrick Henry Abbey made his passage across to the port of New York. He did not find life in the new country agreeable as his youthful dreams had pictured it, but after awhile he found employment in the House of Refuge on Staten Island and there remained until he was about eighteen years of age, when he came to Ohio and after a while became employed in the big King powder-mills in this county. In 186o Mr. Abbey came to Greene county, his destination being Xenia, and two or three years later, at Xenia, he married Hannah Higginson, who also had come to this country from Ireland. After his marriage. Mr. Abbey found employment in various lines in and about Xenia, but presently he returned to his former employment in the powder-mills and there remained more than thirty years, until 1910, when he retired and has since been living quietly at Yellow Springs. Hannah (Higginson) Abbey died in 1898 and is buried at Yellow Springs. To her union with the subject were born six children, namely : Mary Ellen, who died at the age of two years; Anna, who also died when two years of age; Lizzie, wife of Charles Roemack, of Chicago; Mary, who married Linn Adzet, now living at Springfield, who has one child, a daughter, Louise, who married James Johnson and has a daughter, Hannah ; Anna, who also lives in Springfield, widow of William Jolly, and who has a daugh- 934 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO ter, Margaret; and Margaret, who married Bird Spriggs, now living at Jamestown, this county, and has one child, a son, Patrick Henry, named in honor of his grandfather. Mr. Abbey is a Democrat with independent leanings and by religious persuasion is a Catholic. EDWIN J. LAMPERT. Edwin J. Lampert, manager of the Engle Floral Company at Xenia, was born at Xenia on September 17, 1884, son of James J. and Catherine (Hornick) Lampert, the latter of whom also was born in this county, daughter of John Hornick and wife, who lived in the eastern part of the county. James J. Lampert was born in Cincinnati and was there for the days of his boyhood trained to the florist business, remaining there until the days of his young manhood when he was put in charge of the greenhouses of the Ohio State Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home at Xenia and took up his residence there. Not long after his, arrival here he married and about thirty-five years ago established his home on North King street, where he started a floral establishment of his own and developed an extensive business in that line. Mr. and Mrs. Lampert are still living at Xenia. They have six children, namely : John, who is unmarried and who is still living at Xenia; William, now living in California, who married Miss Heinz, of St. Louis, and has one child; George and Harry, unmarried, who for the past eight years have been operating a wholesale floral establishment at Xenia, and Helen, unmarried, who continues to make her home wtih her parents in Xenia. Edwin J. Lampert was reared at Xenia and received his schooling in the schools of that city. From the days of his boyhood he was carefully trained in the florist business of his father, and after his marriage in 1910 continuing his interest in the business, but presently moved to 221 Dayton avenue, where he now has an extensive and thriving florist business, operating the same under the name of the Engle Floral Company. Mr. Lampert's greenhouses are operated in strictly up-to-date fashion and during the time he has been engaged in business there he has developed a trade that covers a wide territory hereabout. On August 17, 1910, Edwin J. Lampert was united in marriage to Nellie Hamma, of the Yellow Springs neighborhood, daughter of Elmer A. and Harriet (Gowdy) Hamma, both of whom were born in this county. To this union one child has been born, a daughter, Martha Helen, born on October 24, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Lampert are members 'of the Catholic church. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 935 GEORGE A. CARLISLE. George A. Carlisle, a well-known retired hay dealer living at Yellow Springs, was born on a farm in Miami township, this county, June 29, 1840, son of Jehu and Hettie (Batchelor) Carlisle, the former of whom came to this county from Virginia in the days of his youth, married here and here spent the rest of his life, living to the age of eighty-three years. Jehu Carlisle was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, in 1816, and there remained until 1836, when he came over into this part of Ohio and settled in Greene county. After his marriage he established his home on a farm in Miami township, where he lived until his retirement from the farm and removal to Yellow Springs, where he died twenty years later. His widow survived him for' some little time. She was born on what is now the site of the Old Folks Home at Yellow Springs in the spring of 1816, daughter of Robert Batchelor and wife, who had come here from Pennsylvania and were among the first settlers in the vicinity of the medicinal springs around which the village of Yellow Springs later grew up. Jehu Carlisle and his wife were the parents of nine children, namely : Robert B., deceased; George A., the immediate subject of this sketch; John, deceased; James, deceased; Julia, wife of Henry Confer, of Selma, in Clark county ; Mrs. Margaret Muskman, deceased ; Towne, a retired lumberman, of Yellow Springs, and a biographical sketch of whom is presented elsewhere in this volume; William, also a resident of Greene county, and Jessie, who married Lincoln Harner and is now deceased. George A. Carlisle received his schooling in the Yellow Springs schools and from the days of his boyhood was accustomed to work. During the progress of the Civil War he enlisted, in 1864, and went to the front as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was later transferred to Company K of the One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Regiment, with which he served until the close of the war. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Carlisle became engaged in the garden truck business, dealing between Springfield and Cedarville, and later became engaged in business at Yellow Springs for thirty-seven years previous to his retirement in 1892. Since his retirement he has continued to make his home in Yellow Springs, where he is very comfortably situated. Mr. Carlisle is a Democrat, with independent leanings. On September 17, 1861, George A. Carlisle was united in marriage to Margaret Kiser, who also was born in this county, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Ellis) Kiser, the former of whom was born in Germany and the latter in the state of Maryland, who were the parents of eight children, of whom Mrs. Carlisle was the third in order of birth, the others being 936 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO as follow : Caroline, who is now living in Dayton, widow of David Shrodes; Henry, deceased; Sarah, wife of Benjamin Sidenstick, of Yellow .Springs; John, deceased; Anna, widow of John Shrodes; Helen, deceased, and William, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle have one son, Frank Carlisle, born in 1862, now living at Springfield, who married Sallie Jacoby and has four children, James Albert, Hester, Bertha and Mary. Hester Carlisle married Dennis C. Riser and has two children, Ben Wilson and James Gale, great-grandsons of the subject of this sketch and his wife. THOMAS A. DONLEY. Thomas A. Donley, of Yellow Springs, was born here on May 8, 1872, a son of Michael and Anna (Maylan) Donley, the former of whom was born in this state and the latter in Ireland and the latter of whom is still living, continuing to make her home in Yellow Springs, where she was married in 1866 and where her husband died in the fall of 1914. Michael Donley was born at Sandusky, this state, October 1o, 1838, and was twelve years of age when his parents, both of whom were born in Ireland, moved from Sandusky to Yellow Springs. He completed his schooling at Yellow Springs and early became connected with the building trades and was one of those who helped to erect Antioch College. In April, 1861, Michael Donley went to the front with the first troops sent from this part of Ohio, thus becoming a participant in the first battle of Bull Run. Upon the expiration of his original enlistment he re enlisted and served until the close of the war, taking part in some of the important engagements of the Civil War. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Donley returned to Yellow Springs, resumed his work as a builder, married in 1866, established his home there and became one of the leading building contractors and stone masons hereabout, continuing engaged in that line the rest of his active life. He died at Yellow Springs on October to, 1914, and his widow is still living there. To Michael Donley and wife were born twelve children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth. Of these children, the first three, Ellen, Stephen and William, are now deceased ; Anna married Harry Fochler and is living at Dayton ; Frank, unmarried, also is a resident of Dayton ; Katherine married Joseph Hackett and is living on a farm in the Clifton neighborhood ; Edward, unmarried; James, also unmarried ; Howard, married, is living at Xenia, and John and Nellie are deceased. Reared at Yellow Springs, Thomas A. Donley received his schooling there and early became familiar with the general details of the stonemason's trade. Upon arriving at man's estate he became engaged as a contractor GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 937 on his own account and since that time has carried out building contracts in almost all parts of Ohio. Mr. Donley has for years made a specialty of ornamental stone work, with particular reference to boulder mantels and the like, and has done considerable work of that character at Springfield. One of the most notable examples of his craftsmanship in this line is the ornamental entrance to the Kelly farm north of Yellow Springs. In 1903 Mr. Donley served as street commissioner and for, two years, 1906-07, served as marshal of the town. In 1911 Mr. Donley was elected mayor of Yellow Springs and by successive re-elections served in that important executive capacity for four years. On November 6, 1917, he again was elected mayor of Yellow Springs, for a term of two years, and is now serving in that administrative capacity. On June 12, 1900, Thomas A. Donley was united in marriage to Anna Fisher, who also was born at Yellow Springs, daughter of John and Catherine (Slate) Fisher, and to this union nine children have been born, namely : George, now (1917) sixteen years of age, who is a student in the high school; Thomas, fifteen; Charles, thirteen, also in the high school ; Lillian, eleven; Anna, ten; Nellie, eight ; Margaret, seven; John, who died in infancy, and James, two. The Donleys are members of the Catholic church. THOMAS J. KOOGLER. Thomas J. Koogler, proprietor of a seventy-acre farm in Beavercreek township, was born in that township on June 11, 1845, son of Solomon and Catherine ( Jones) Koogler, the latter of whom was born in February, 1803, and died on January 31, 1856. Solomon Koogler also was born in Beaver-creek township, February 26, 1812, and spent all his life in his home township, becoming the owner of a farm of one hundred and forty acres there, besides one hundred and twenty-five acres iri Miami township. His death occurred on April 25, 1902. He and his wife were the parents of four sons, the subject of this sketch having one brother living, John H. Koogler, of Beavercreek township, and two, George W. and Jacob, deceased. Thomas J. Koogler received his schooling in the "Big Woods" school in Beavercreek township and after his marriage, when twenty-two years of age, began farming on his own .account and has ever since been thus engaged. He has given Considerable attention to the raising of Poland China hogs. Mr. Koogler is an independent voter. Years ago he rendered service for some time as school director in his home district. On July 4, 1867, Thomas. J. Koogler was united in marriage to Sarah J. Westfall, who also was born in this county and who died on June 9, 1917, and to that union were born nine children, the first-born of whom died in infancy, the others being the following : Frank W., who is living 938 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO in Beavercreek township; Harlan, who remains on the home farm; Anna E., deceased ; Julia C., at home; Susan, wife of Lincoln Harner, of Byron ; Mary E., wife of Howard Carlisle, of Yellow Springs ; Martha, at home, and Effie; wife of Thomas Moore, of Newport, Kentucky. CLYDE WILSON ANDERSON. Clyde Wilson Anderson, a well-known and successful building contractor of Xenia, was born on a farm three miles south of that city on December 10, 1888, a son of Horace and Ida May (Wilson) Anderson, the former of whom, still living, was born on that same farm and the latter, in the state of Indiana. Horace Anderson was reared on the old home place south of Xenia, where he was born and his schooling was completed in the old Xenia College. In 1887 he married Ida May Wilson, who was born in Indiana about 1869 and who had come to Greene county not long before her marriage. Horace Anderson had, from the days of his youth, been engaged more or less at work at the carpenter trade, in addition to his farming operations, and in 1896 entered into the general building contracting business, in which he is still engaged. He is a member of the school board in his district. He has been twice- married. To the first union were born three children, two sons and a daughter, the latter of whom died in infancy, and the subject of this sketch has a brother, Earl, born on August 4, 189T, who married Golda LeValley and is engaged in farming two and one-half miles south of Spring Valley. The mother of these children died in 1905 and Horace Anderson later married Miss Wolf, to which second union has been born one child, a daughter, Lucile. Reared on the home farm south of town, Clyde W. Anderson received his early schooling in the district school in that neighborhood, and supplemented the same by a course in the Xenia high school, which he entered in 1909. As a boy he had learned the carpenter's, trade and after leaving school he became employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, running from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, a year or two later returning to Xenia. About that time his health began to fail and in the hope of finding relief by a change of climate he went to Medford, Oregon, where he became .engaged at farming and carpentering and where he remained for a year, at the end of which time he returned to Ohio and took up his residence at Xenia and has ever since made his home there, engaged as a building contractor, and has been quite successful in that line. On November 17, 1912, Clyde W. Anderson was united in marriage to Elizabeth McKay Finlay, who was born in Dundee, Scotland, and who was eighteen years of age when she came to this country, with her parents, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 939 William and Lillian (McGregor) Finlay, also natives of Scotland, the former born on January 9, 1861, and the latter, April 13, 1862, who are now living at Xenia, where they took up their residence upon their arrival in this country in April, 1.904. Mrs. Anderson completed her schooling in the Xenia high school, which she entered in the fall after her arrival there and from which she was graduated in the spring of 1908. She is one of the six children born to her parents, three of whom, Boyd, Lillian and Beatrice, are dead ; she having a sister, Pauline, living in Xenia, and a brother, William Finlay, Jr., who is now (1917) connected with the National Army, stationed at Ft. Sheridan. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have two children, Thelma Lillian, born on February II, 1914, and William Finlay, July 20, 1916. They are members of the United Presbyterian church, and Mr. Anderson is independent in his political views. GEORGE H. ECKERLE. George H. Eckerle, proprietor of the "Republican" job-printing plant in Xenia, was born in that city on March 12, 1875, son of Florentine and Catherine (Fey) Eckerle, both of European birth, the former born in the grand duchy of Baden and the latter in Hesse-Darmstadt, who first met in. Cincinnati and whose last days were spent in Xenia, where for years Florentine Eckerle was engaged in business on East Main .street. Florentine Eckerle was born in July, 1831, and grew to manhood in his native Baden, where he remained until the year 1859, when he came to this country and was located at Cincinnati and at Memphis, Tennessee, until 1865, in which year he located in Xenia, where he spent the rest of his life, successfully engaged in the retail meat business on East Main street. He died in January, 1907, he then being in the seventy-fifth year of his age. Florentine Eckerle was twice married. His first wife died leaving two children, Anna and Henry. Anna Eckerle married George Toews, of Springfield, this state, and is now dead, as is her husband. They had four children, Christina, William, Fred and Adeline. Henry Eckerle, now deceased, spent all his life in Xenia. Following the death of the mother of these children Florentine Eckerle married Catherine Fey, his deceased wife's sister. She was born in Hesse-Darmstadt in December, 1841, and was about fourteen years of age when she came to this country with her parents in 1855, the family locating in Cincinnati. She predeceased her husband about nine, years, her death occurring at her home in Xenia in December, 1898. To that union six children were born, those besides the subject of this sketch being Ada-line, John N., Mary, Bertha and Ben F., the latter of whom is a city mail carrier and one of the best-known citizens of Xenia. Adaline Eckerle 940 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO married John G. Leis, a farmer, of Darke county, this state. To this union have been born six children, Louis, Lottie, Gertrude, Joseph, John, Jr., and Thelma (deceased). John N. Eckerle, who was an expert poultry and egg man, died in 1917. He married Anna Layton, of Greensburg, Indiana, and had two children, Florentine and John, Jr. Mary Eckerle married J. J. Molitor, a millwright, of Xenia, and has four children, Bertha, Florentine, Mary and Dorothy. Bertha Eckerle died at her home in Xenia in 1899. Reared in Xenia, the city of his birth, George H. Eckerle received his early schooling there and was graduated from the Xenia high school in 1892, after which he entered Kenyon College at Gambier, this state, and was graduated from that institution, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, in 1896. Following his graduation Mr. Eckerle was appointed to the important position of assistant principal of the high school at Jamestown, and served in that capacity for four terms, leaving there in June, 1900, to accept the position of superintendent of the schools of Sugarcreek township, which position he occupied for two years, at the end of which time, in 1902, he was appointed superintendent of the schools at Bowersville and in that capacity rendered further excellent service in behalf of the schools of this county for two years. In December, 1904, he was engaged to fill out an unexpired term in the office of superintendent of schools of Fairfield and during the winter of 1905-06 was again engaged at Jamestown, superintendent of the schools of that village. Mr. Eckerle then turned his attention to the newspaper field and, in association with W. 0. Custis, bought the Greene County Press and continued engaged in the management of that paper for two years, at the end of which time he disposed of his interests to The Horse Journal and in January, 1909, went to Richmond, Indiana, where for two years he was engaged in the advertising business, representing various foreign advertisers in behalf of country newspapers. In 1911 he returned to Xenia and became engaged in the advertising department of the Daily Gazette, later becoming connected with the Republican, as advertising manager of the latter newspaper, and so continued until the consolidation of the Republican with the Gazette in 1915, when he took over the considerable job printing business which had been built up in connection with the publication of the Republican and has since been successfully engaged in the job-printing business in Xenia. On September 12, 1900, at Jamestown, George H. Eckerle was united in r7 arriage to Edna Thuma, daughter of John and Virginia (Clark) Thuma, who are still living in that pleasant village, of which they have been residents for years, John Thuma being engaged in the lumber and planing-mill business there. Mr. and Mrs. Thuma, both of whom were born in the vicinity of *Mt. Salem, Virginia, have three children, Mrs. Eckerle having a brother, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 941 Ernest Thuma, of Jamestown, and a sister, Mrs. Mabel Reeves. Mr. and Mrs. Eckerle have two children, Catherine, born on October 1; 1903, and Clarke, September 1, 1905. They are members of Trinity Methodist Episcopal church at Xenia and Mr. Eckerle is the superintendent of the Sunday school of the same. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the local lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons. FRANK L. JOHNSON. Frank L. Johnson, one of the most successful young lawyers in Xenia, was born in the village of Degraff, in Logan county, September 23, 1885, son of W. C. and Mary (O'Neal) Johnson, both of whom also were born in this state, the former in the neighboring county of Clinton and the latter in Greene county, and the former of whom was for years engaged in the mercantile business at Degraff, remaining there until his retirement from business and removal to Bellefontaine, where his last days were spent. W. C. Johnson was born at Port William, in Clinton county, in 1839, a member of one of the old families there, his father and mother both having been born and reared in that county. He was one of four sons born to his parents, all of whom are now deceased, the others having been Frank, Oswald and Marion. Reared at Port William, he received his schooling there and early learned the details of the grocery business, presently going to Degraff, where he opened a grocery store and where, after his marriage, he established his home, continuing in business there all the rest of his active ,life. Upon his retirement from business he moved to Bellefontaine, where he died in 1906, his widow surviving him. She was born, Mary O'Neal, at Fairfield, in this county, daughter of Thomas O'Neal and wife, the former of whom also was born in this county, his parents having come here from their native Ireland, and who was a building contractor. Thomas O'Neal was twice married, by his first marriage having been the father of six children, those besides Mrs. Johnson having been Thomas (deceased), Frank (deceased), William, Alice and Charles, and by his second marriage, two children, Russell and Carrie. W. C. Johnson and Mary O'Neal were married at Degraff and were the parents of three children. Frank L. Johnson's youth was spent at Degraff and his early schooling was received in the schools of that village. He later entered the Bellefontaine high school, from which he was graduated in 1906, and during the period of his schooling there took an active interest in school athletics, particularly the football team. In the fall following his graduation from the high school he entered Ohio Northern University at Ada and was graduated from the law department of that institution in 1908, having taken the three-year course in two years, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. For a year 942 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO after receiving his diploma Mr. Johnson continued his law studies, thus gaining a practical insight into practice, and then successfully passed the state examination and was admitted to the bar on December 25, 1909. Upon being admitted to the bar Mr. Johnson engaged in the practice of his profession at Xenia and has ever Since been successfully engaged there, being recognized as one of the most capable and energetic young lawyers in the city. In May, 1910, he received the Republican nomination for prosecuting attorney of Greene county and was elected to that office in the ensuing election. In 1912 he was re-elected and in 1914 was again re-elected, thus serving for three terms in that important office, this term of service expiring on January I, 1917. During the campaign of 1916 Mr. Johnson was a candidate for the office of judge of the probate court, but owing to the confusion created in the minds of the voters by the presence nearer the head of the ticket of the name of another Johnson, a candidate for supreme court honors, was unsuccessful in his race, a sufficient number of votes to have elected him apparently having been diverted by hasty or careless voters to the other Johnson. Mr. Johnson is an ardent Republican and ever since taking up his residence -in Xenia has given his earnest attention to the civic affairs of the county and city. By religious persuasion 'he is a member of the Baptist church. FELIX P. EYMAN. Felix ID. Eyman, now living comfortably retired in the city of Xenia, was born on a farm over in Delaware county, Indiana, June 27, 1839, a son of George and Hannah (Peterson) Eyman, who later returned to Ohio, where they had been reared and where they were married and here spent the remainder of their. lives,' useful residents of the New Jasper neighborhood in this county. George Eyman was born in the neighboring county of Fayette, a son of pioneer parents, and in the early twenties of the past century was married in Greene county to Hannah Peterson, who was born in Hardy county, Vinginia, in 18o1, and who was thus about eleven years of age when she came to Ohio with her parents in 1812, the family settling in Greene county. Not long after his marriage in this county George Eyman moved over into Indiana and after farming for some time in Delaware county, that state, returned to Ohio with his family and settled in this county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. They were earnest members of the German Reformed church and their children were reared in that faith. Felix P. Eyman was but a child when his parents returned to Ohio from Indiana and located in this county and here he grew to manhood and received his schooling in the New Jasper schools. On October 12, 1861, he GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 943 enlisted his services in behalf of the cause of the Union and went. to the front as a member of Company A, Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until the close of the war, being mustered out on May 9, 1865, with the rank of sergeant. Upon the completion of his military service Mr. Eyman returned to his home in Greene county and presently became engaged in farming on his own account on a farm on the Wilmington pike. After his marriage in the spring of 1871 established his home there and there continued to reside, successfully engaged in general farming and stock raising, until his retirement from the farm in 1914 and removal to Xenia, where he is now living. On April 22, 1871, at the residence of the bride's parents in this county, Felix P. Eyman was united in marriage to Mary Elizabeth Peterson, who was born in this county, daughter of Jesse and Eleanor Ann (Weaver) Peterson, both natives of Virginia, the former born in Hardy county, that state, February 28, 1813, and the latter, in Frederick county, April 19, 1817, who were substantial residents of the Caesarscreek neighborhood. Mrs. Eyman is deceased and is buried in Woodland cemetery at Xenia. By her union with Mr. Eyman she was the mother of one child, a son, Charles Edgar, born on June 2, 1876, who died on March 4, 1878, and is buried in the Peterson graveyard in Clinton county, where Mr. Eyman's mother also is buried. Mr. Eyman is a member, of the Caesarscreek German Reformed church, as was his wife, and during the many years of his residence in that community was an active worker in the church. CHARLES BUCK. Charles Buck, head of the firm of Buck & Son, meat market, Xenia, was born in. Xenia in 1865 and has lived there all his life. Thirty years ago he became engaged in the retail meat business in Xenia and has ever since been thus engaged, now having associated with him his eldest son, Edwin Buck, the concern doing business under the firm name of Buck & Son. This firm does an extensive business in its line and is recognized as one of the substantial business concerns of Xenia. Charles Buck is a member of the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he and his family are connected with the Reformed church. Charles Buck married Mary Wolf and has four children, namely : Edwin, who married Hazel Whittington and who, as noted above, is associated with his father in business in Xenia ; Earl, who also lives at Xenia; Margaret, who married Edward Lang, of Xenia, and has one child, a daughter, Margaret ; and Philip, who is connected with the operations of the firm of Buck & Son at Xenia. 944 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO LEWIS R. JONES. Lewis R. Jones, the proprietor of a fine farm and a comfortable home in Caesarscreek township, was born on a farm one mile north of where he now resides on August 23, 1856, son of John and Sarah (Bales) Jones, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families in New Jasper township, and whose last days were spent here. John Jones grew up on the parental farm in New Jasper township and was married there, later establishing hid home on a farm in Caesarscreek township, the place where the subject of this sketch was born. Redeveloped and improved that place, and there spent the rest of his life. During the earlier days of his manhood John Jones worked for some time as a carpenter and Millwright and was one of the best-known then in his community. Politically, he was a Democrat and he and his wife were members of the Mt. Tabor. Methodist Episcopal church: His wife died at the age of sixty-four years and he survived her for some years, living to be seventy-seven years of age. They were the parents. of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch' and his brother, Jacob R. Jones, a farmer in New Jasper township, alone now survive, the others having been William, Alice and Melissa Jane, the latter of whom died in the days of her girlhood. Reared on the home farm in New Jasper township, Lewis R. Jones received his schooling in the Mt. Tabor school: He remained at home until his marriage, when twenty-five years of age, and after his marriage continued to make his home there, continuing his labors in, the cultivation of the home place until he bought the place on which he is now living; the old Edward Powers place of eighty-five acres a mile to the south, and has ever since made his home there. Among the substantial improvements Mr. Jones, after taking possession of the same, erected one of the most comfortable farm houses in that part of the county. Mr. Jones has long given considerable attention to the raising of live stock and has done well:. Of late years he has been living practically retired from the active labors of the farm, having turned the management of the place over to his son, John Oscar Jones, who has been giving particular attention to the breeding of fine live stock. On September 20, 1881, Lewis R. Jones was united in marriage to Emma St. John, who was born in Caesarscreek township, this county, a daughter of John W. and Phoebe .Ann (Hiney) St. John, the former of whom is still living in that township and a biographical sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. To this union two children have been born, namely : John Oscar, who married Grace Peterson and, as noted. above, is now operating his father's farm in Caesarscreek township, and Alma L., who married J. H. Hollingsworth and died at the age of thirty-one years, GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 945 leaving a daughter, Nancy Cleo. The Joneses are members of Mt. Tabor Methodist Episcopal church. In his political views Mr. Jones is inclined to be independent. ROBERT E. HOLMES. Robert E. Holmes, one of the colored business men of Xenia, was born at Fincastle, Virginia, December 6, 1863, a son of Alexander and Rebecca (Dillard) Holmes, both of whom were born and held in bondage in that state prior to the Emancipation. Alexander Holmes died in 1876 and his widow survived until 1914, her death occurring at Fincastle, Virginia, she then being past eighty years of age. They were the parents of eight children, one of whom, a daughter, Maria, was given with part of the estate of Robert Harris,, upon its division, and was never again seen by her family. The other members of this family, besides the subject of this sketch, follow : James Wendall Holmes, who lives in Boston, Massachusetts; Gertrude, who is the widow of Andrew Scruggs and who now lives with her brother Robert at Xenia ; Phyllis, now living at Charleston, West Virginia, widow of John Dehaven Fannie, unmarried, who lives, at Harriman, New Jersey ; Eva, deceased, and Virginia, who married Louis Gurdy and is still living at Fincastle, Virginia. Reared at Fincastle, Robert E. Holmes received his early schooling there and later entered the Central Tennessee College at Nashville, from which he was graduated in 1889. Following his graduation he began teaching school in Tennessee and was presently made the principal of the colored schools at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, a position he occupied for fifteen years, at the end of which time, in I002, he came to Ohio and located at Xenia, where he became engaged in the undertaking business in partnership with J. D. Thomas, under the firm name of Holmes & Thomas, which firm also conducted a grocery store at 640 East Main street. In July, 1915, the firm bought another grocery store at 803 East Church street and operated both stores until the death of Mr. Thomas in December, 1916, after which Mr. Holmes merged the two stores and has since been carrying on the business at 803 Church street, where he also has his undertaking establishment. Mr. Holmes is a Republican and when the charter committee was chosen in the spring of 1917 to draft a charter for the city of Xenia with a view to adopting a commission form of government he was made a member of that committee and when that charter was adopted at a subsequent election he announced his candidacy for a place on the prospective city commission. On March 25. 1897, at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, Robert E. Holmes was united in marriage to Carrie M. Marshall, who was born and reared at that place, and to this union five children have been born; namely : Robert, who died in infancy ; Gertrude, born in 1904, who is now a student in the Xenia (59) 946 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO high school; Robert, born in 1908; Thomas, 1911, and Willa, 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes are members of Zion Baptist church, of which the former has for years been one of the office bearers, being now treasurer of the church, a member of the diaconate and chairman of the joint board. He is identified with the colored lodges of the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. WILLIAM M. SMITH. William M. Smith, one of. Cedarville township's substantial farmers, was born on the farm on which he now lives, on March 22, 1875, son of Samuel and Esther J. (Cook) Smith, the former of whom was born in that same vicinity, just over the line in Madison township, in the neighboring county of Clark, and the latter near the village of Waynesville, in the county of Warren, neighboring Greene county to the southwest. Samuel Smith was horn on December 31, 1827, a son of Seth and Deborah (Wildman) Smith, pioneers of the Selma neighborhood up in Clark county. Seth Smith was a Virginian, born in Loudoun county, in the Old Dominion, July 11, 1798, and was but two years of age when his parents, Seth Smith and wife, also Virginians, the former of whom was born on May 19, 1761, came to the then Territory of Ohio and settled on a tract of land about a mile from where later came to be established the village of Selma. The elder Seth Smith and his wife were earnest Quakers and were among the original members of the Friends meeting at Selma, and their descendants even to the present generation have ever preserved their birthright in that meeting. The elder Seth Smith created a good piece of farm property there in pioneer days and spent his last days on that farm, his death occurring there on April 1, 1837. On that place his son Seth grew to manhood. After his marriage to Deborah Wildman, who was a member of one of the pioneer Quaker families of that neighborhood, he established his home on a farm in that same vicinity, bordering on the Greene county line, about a mile from Selma, and there developed a fine piece of property. He and his wife were the parents of four children, of whom Samuel Smith, father of the subject of this sketch, was the first-born, the others being Ruth, who became the wife of Samuel Hadley, of Wilmington, county seat of the neighboring county of Clinton ; Oliver, who moved from his farm on the line between Clark and Greene counties to Emporia, Kansas, in 1885, and thence, after a while, to Whittier, California, where he spent his last days; and Seth, who came into possession of his grandfather's old home place, but years ago moved to Whittier, California, where he is now living retired. Reared on the place on which he was born, Samuel Smith was early trained in the ways of practical farming and after his marriage established GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 947 his home on that portion of the home farm which extended over the line into Cedarville township, this county, and where in 1874 he erected the substantial brick house in which his son William is now living. After his father's death Samuel Smith inherited that farm and gradually added to the same until he became the owner of a fine place of three hundred and forty-two acres. In addition to his general farming, he was widely known as one of the most successful stockmen in that part of the county.. Samuel Smith was a Republican and had rendered public service as a director of schools in his home district. He and his wife were earnest adherents of the Friends meeting at Selma and he was for years an office bearer in the same. His death occurred at his home on February 24, 1901, he then being in the seventy-fourth year of his age: His wife had preceded him to the grave by fifteen years, her death having occurred on September 28, 1885. She was born, Esther J. Cook, in the vicinity of Waynesville, in Warren county, this state, January 24, 1846, daughter of Marcellus and Harriet (Whittaker) Cook, the former of whom was reared in the vicinity of Selma, a birthright member of the Selma -meeting of Friends, and whose last days were spent in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he had made his home upon his retirement from his Warren county farm. Marcellus Cook was thrice married and his daughter Esther was one of the children of his first marriage Samuel Smith and Esther Cook were united in marriage on June 1, 1869, and to that union were born four children, namely : Howard, a well-to-do .farmer of the Selma neighborhood ; Anna Ethel, who died in her third year ; William M., the immediate subject of this biographical sketch, and Edith, wife of G. W. Sharpless, a dairyman, living in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. William M. Smith grew up on the farm on which he is now living and supplemented the schooling received in the Selma schools by attendance for two years at Earlham College, in which institution his brother and his sister also completed their schooling, and after leaving school resumed his place on the farm and gave his serious attention to the further development of the same. Following the death of his father in 1901 he inherited one hundred acres of the farm, including the home place in Cedarville township, and after his marriage in 1904 established his home there. Since coming into his inheritance Mr. Smith has bought seventy-two acres adjoining and has made substantial improvements on his place. In addition to his general farming he feeds about fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs each year. On September 14, 1904, William M. Smith was united in marriage to Floy McDorman, who also was born in this county, daughter of Allan and Stella (Paullin) McDorman, residents of Ross township and members of the Selma meeting of Friends, and to this union, have been born two children, daughters both, Esther, born on January 22, 1907, and Virginia, February 948 - GREENE COUNTY, OHIO 12, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are both birthright members of the Selma meeting of Friends and take an interested part in the good works of the same, Mr. Smith having served as overseer of the meeting. COL. CHARLES YOUNG, U. S. A. On the back of the honorable discharge received by Gabriel Young, father of Col. Charles Young, U. S. A., of Wilberforce, upon being mustered out of service at the close of the Civil War, there appears the following : "I take pleasure in recommending to the public at large the within named Gabriel Young. He has served faithfully and honestly, is a good soldier; besides is trustworthy and reliable in every particular and a gentleman, which is indispensible to a thorough soldier. (Signed) Resp'fly, Lt.-Col. L. S. Long." "A good soldier and a gentleman." Surely no higher commendation could be given, and with this as his guide and goal and with the memory of his soldier father as an inspiration Col. Charles Young, the only living colored graduate of the United States Military Academy and the only colored man ever -raised to the rank of colonel in the United States regular army, has gone on his way, faithfully and dutifully performing those tasks that were set for him to do until he has gained his present distinctive position in the army he has so long served, bearing modestly the honors he has won—, "a good soldier and a gentleman." Colonel Young is a native of Kentucky, born at Helena, in Mason county, that state, March 12, 1864, son and only child of Gabriel and Arminta (Bruen) Young, both of whom were born in slavery in that same state and the latter of whom is still living. Her mother, Julia Quinn Bruen, was a cousin of Bishop Allen, the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church in the United States, and was the first colored teacher in Kentucky. On February 13, 1865, Gabriel Young enlisted his services and went to the front as a member of Company F, Fifth Kentucky Heavy Artillery, serving with that command until honorably discharged at Vicksburg on February 12, 1866. Upon the completion of his military service Gabriel Young moved with his little family from Kentucky to Ohio and located at Ripley, in Brown county, where he engaged in the livery business ; remaining there until 1884, when he moved to Zanesville, where he was further engaged in the livery business and where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring there in 1894 at the age of forty-eight years. His widow, who still survives him, is making her home with her son, the Colonel. She is a Baptist, as was her husband. The latter was a member of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Zanesville. Politically, he was a Republican. GREENE COUNTY, OHIO - 949 Charles Young was but eighteen months of age when his parents came to this state from Kentucky and he was reared at Ripley, receiving his early schooling in the schools of that place, and was graduated from the high school there in 1881. For three years thereafter he taught school at Ripley, the last year of his service in that connection being as principal of the colored high school, and in 1884 he received his appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, from which institution he was graduated in 1889, and was shortly afterward attached, as second lieutenant, to the Ninth United States Cavalry, then stationed at Ft. Robinson, Nebraska, remaining with that regiment until 1894, in which year he was appointed to take charge of the course in military, tactics at Wilberforce University. This was Colonel Young's first introduction to Wilberforce, the place which later was to become his home. In 1897 he was commissioned first lieutenant and when the Spanish-American War broke out he was recalled to active field service and was put in charge of the Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, continuing thus attached until 1899, when he was ordered to rejoin his old regiment, the Ninth United States Cavalry, in. Utah. In 1901 he received his captaincy and his troop saw service in the Philippines during two difficult campaigns, remaining there for eighteen months, at the end of which Lime, in the latter part of 1902 he was returned to the United States and was located with his regiment at the Presidio, San Francisco. It was while he was stationed at the Presidio that Colonel Young, in 1903, was appointed military attache to the United States legation in Santo Domingo and Haiti, married and took his departure for his new station in the island republics, where he remained for four years. During his service at Santo Domingo Colonel Young made a map of the island and wrote a monograph on the same for the United States government which are regarded as valuable documents. Upon the completion of his service there he was returned to his old regiment, the Ninth United States Cavalry, and in 1908 was returned to the Philippines as captain commanding a squadron, two troops, of that command, and upon his return with his command in 1909 continued with the regiment and was thus stationed until 1912, in which year he received his second appointment as military attache in a foreign post, this appointment sending him to the republic of Liberia, on the west coast of Africa, where he remained for four years.. During this period he acted as military adviser to the government of Liberia and in that capacity rendered an important service by securing the construction of a lengthy military road from the capital, selecting three American assistants of his own choosing to attend to the details of construction ; for this work receiving, in 1917, the Spingarn Medal, the second award of that honor ever conferred. Upon his return to the United States in 1916 he was assigned to the Tenth Cavalry in command