350 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. this city, and for over thirty years was one of the foremost physicians of this locality and county. October 22, 1861, he was mustered into the service as Assistant Surgeon of the Fifty-second Regiment of Ohio Infantry, and when the war had closed he resumed his practice. For two years he was one of the examining surgeons on the Pension Board. September 27, 1859, the Doctor married Dorcas, only daughter of Basil and Nancy Brown, of this city. She died April 6, 1871, aged thirty-five years. May 21, 1885, Dr. Hoge married Julia Mc-Bain, who survives him. Osmond M. Hoge, a child of his father's first .marriage, was born October 16, 1864. His brother, . Dr. W. B. Hoge, is a resident of Grand Island, Neb., and after graduating from the High School of Cambridge, went to the Michigan State University, and was a member of the graduating Class of '85. Luella Hoge, the only sister, lives at home. Our subject received a common-school education, and pursued a course of training in the Cambridge High School, from which he graduated in 1882. Then going to the Ohio State University at Columbus, he became interested in civil engineering, and when in his senior year, in 1886, obtained a position as Assistant Engineer in the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad shops at Brookfield, Mo., where he remained until 1888. Returning then to his former home, he has, as previously stated, held responsible positions up to the present time, and has a goodly future opening before him. JOSEPH L. McILVAINE, publisher of the Tuscarawas Advocate, is prominent in the journalistic world, and is one of the representative citizens of New Philadelphia. He possesses unusual ability and talent for his chosen work, and in order to keep thoroughly posted on everything pertaining to the same, it has been his custom to attend conventions of editors and newspaper men. He was sent as a delegate from the Ohio Editorial Association to the conventions of the National Editorial Association on several occasions. It was his good fortune to be present at the meetings which convened at Denver, San Antonio, St. Paul, Boston and Chicago; and though chosen to serve as a delegate to the conventions at San Francisco and Detroit, his numerous duties and responsibilities would not permit of his being present. In 1893 he was elected President of the Ohio State Editorial Association, and the following year was re-elected to that important and honored place. The parents of our subject are Garvin and Jane (Brittain) McIlvaine, both natives of Pennsylvania, and of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The father followed farming as a means of obtaining a livelihood, and resided until his death in Washington County, Pa. In politics he was a Whig, and was quite a leader in his community. He and his wife were devout members of the Presbyterian Church, and were most worthy people. Of their twelve children, Joseph L. is the seventh. in order of birth, and nine of the number are still living. The birth of Joseph L. Mcllvaine took place in Washington County, Pa., November 14, 1837, on his father's old homestead. Until he was sixteen years of age he attended the village school and assisted in the work of the farm. Later he entered an academy, and afterward was enrolled as a student in Jefferson College, now known as the Washington and Jefferson College of Pennsylvania. He was graduated from that institution in the classical department in the year 1858, after which he engaged in teaching. For two years he was Principal of Hookstown Academy. In 1860 he came to Ohio to accept a similar position in the New Cumberland Academy, where he remained one year. The school was then closed, and our subject came to New Philadelphia to take up the study of law with Judge Hance. When a year had elapsed he was appointed Superintendent of the Public Schools of Canal Dover, and two years later he was given a like position in the schools of New Philadelphia. During the year of his service here he re-organized the schools according to the PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 351 graded system, and the first class was graduated under that improved plan. During this period Mr. McIlvaine was appointed County School Examiner, in which capacity he served the public for six years most acceptably. In July, 1865, our subject decided to enter the journalistic field, and, purchasing the Tuscarawas Advocate, he has since conducted it. At that time there were only two .papers in the county, whereas there are now thirteen. The Advocate is a very old journal, having been established in 1819, under the title of the Chronicle, but in 1834 its name was changed to the present style. Its politics is Republican of the strongest kind, and its influence is widely felt. Since the present proprietor assumed charge of the paper its circulation has been greatly increased and its power for good extended. The paper is a large nine-column sheet, ably edited and neatly arranged. In connection with the paper is a good job-printing office, where fine work of every description is turned out. The editor has been an important factor in local politics, having served for seventeen years as Chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of the county, and he has been sent as a delegate to nearly every State, Congressional, Judicial and County Convention during this period. In 1872 he was a delegate to the National Convention at Philadelphia, and in 1876, at the Cincinnati convention, was a Blaine delegate, having been elected with that distinct commission. In the convention of 1888 he was alternate delegate. The same year he was appointed to serve on the State Board of Agricultural. Experiment by Governor Foraker, and acted for two years in that capacity. December 1, 1868, Joseph L. Mcllvaine married Anna., daughter of John and Lydia (Walton) Coventry, natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. To our subject and wife were born three children: Charles L., Marian and Ralph. The latter died at the age of twenty-one months. Mrs. McIl- vaine is a member of the Presbyterian Church, is on the Committee of the Board of Charitable Institutions, and is very active in benevolent and denominational work. For a period of eleven years our subject has been Worthy Master of New Philadelphia Lodge 15 No. 177, A. F. & A. M. He is a member of Tuscarawas Chapter, of which for two years he was High Priest, and for about seventeen years was P. S. He is also a member of Massillon Commandery, K. T.; and of Alkoram Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Cleveland, Ohio. JESSE S. DEARDORFF. This gentleman, now living temporarily in New Philadelphia, is one of the old and prominent citizens of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and was born in Canal Dover, November 2, 1818. His parents were Christian and Margaret R. (Butt) Deardorff, the former of whom was a native of what was then York County, Pa., but is now Adams County, and was born in 1781. He in turn was a son of Isaac Deardorff, the son of John, the son of Anthony, the latter of whom was born in Germany, whence he fled with his wife and three sons, Peter, John and Anthony, to this country on account of religious persecutions, landing in Philadelphia in 1729. He later located in 'York County, Pa., and from him, it is supposed, all the Deardorffs who were born in York, Adams, Franklin or Cumberland Counties, Pa., were descended. They were Dunkards in religious faith. Grandfather Isaac Deardorff purchased a farm in 1771, and owned a grist-mill, which he operated in addition to working his farm. For some time he was engaged in the manufacture of linseed oil and oil from. nuts, and built a large limestone dwelling-house in 1786, located near the crossroads leading from Harrisburg to Gettysburg, and from Carlisle to York and Baltimore City. This building still stands, in good preservation, and is now the home of his grandson, George L., by him inherited from his father, George, Sr. During the youth of Christian Deardorff, son of the above gentleman, German was the prevailing language spoken and taught in the schools. .Therefore his opportunity for acquiring an English education was reduced to a few winter months, when 352 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. the only studies taught were reading, writing and arithmetic. After entering upon his business life in Ohio, he acquired, by persistent application and study, a proficiency in mental culture fitting him to discharge creditably the honorable position in life which he occupied. He was trained to the business of a farmer, disposing of his father's mill products in Baltimore City and elsewhere, and throughout life displayed those business qualities which assisted his father in his milling enterprise. He dealt quite extensively in milling and farm produce and in oil. In 1803-04 Christian Deardorff and Jesse Sling- luff, his brother-in-law, of Baltimore, Md., with a colored servant equipped with tent and camp outfit, started on horseback from the Deardorff home in Adams County, Pa., to visit and inspect Government land in Ohio. After traversing the territory north as far as Lake Erie and Cleveland (then a little hamlet and trading-place), they proceeded south as far as Chillicothe, a Moravian station, thence east through Muskingum County, and there tarried a short time with the Rev. Mr. Heckenwelder, a missionary located at Gnadenhutten, a Christian Indian station. Being very much pleased with the outlook and the possibilities which the future had in store for them in this territory, which had been organized as a state in 1803, they jointly purchased two thousand one hundred and seventy-five acres of land from General Morrison, of Lexington, Ky., a part of which was a United States Military grant, located in Muskingum, now Tuscarawas, County. In 1805-06 Christian Deardorff made his second journey on horseback from his father's home in Adams County, Pa., to the new state of Ohio, the trip, which was some four hundred miles in extent, consuming about eight days. He went by the way of Pittsburg to Ft. Lawrence, thence down the Tuscarawas River to the place of his destination. Here he entered upon the large landed estate purchased by him and Jesse Slingluff, the work of developing and making it the financial success, which in later years it proved to be, imposing great exposure and responsibility. Upon his arrival, Christian Deardorff secured the assistance of workmen, and at once proceeded to build two rude log cabins, which were located about twenty rods southwest of the present smokestack of the Sugar Creek Salt Works. The said-works now occupy the very location of the old grist and saw mill. yIn one of the log cabins Christian kept "bacelor's hall" for about ten years. During that period he passed through many privations of pioneer life, in the building of the Sugar Creek dam, the saw and grist mill and in developing the newly laid out village of Dover. The hewed-log gristmill was for years the only one within a radius of fifty miles. Patrons came from far and near with ox carts and pack saddle horses loaded with grists of grain to be ground into flour or cornmeal. In 1816 he built a two-story frame dwelling on town lot No. 8, which served as a dwelling-house, postoffice, and store for the sale of general merchandise. He also served as the first Postmaster of the place. He was married in 1817, and immediately moved into this house, which was ever a welcome, hospitable home to everybody, and as some one said, "The Judge has a mill and plenty to eat; let us enjoy his hospitality." In this house all their children were born, but twenty years later an elegant brick residence was erected on Wooster Avenue, where the parents lived during the remainder of their lives. Previous to organizing and separating the county of Tuscarawas from Muskingum, the territory was little more than a howling wilderness, the habitation of Indians, bears, wolves, coons, foxes, deer and venomous reptiles. The country was sparsely settled, and along the water courses, which were full of choice fish, Indian trails were the only visible forest roads. In 1807 the tide of emigrants from the East began to flow in rapidly, occupying Government land on the north, west and south sides of the river. That year the father of our subject laid out the town of Dover on the joint land purchase, built a hewed-log tavern on lot No. 1, established a ferry-boat to cross the Tuscarawas River, and in many ways aided in developing the county; he also built the water-mill and sawmil named above. This structure was first erected of the banks of Sugar Creek, about one mile from Dover; but about twenty-two years later the Ohio Canal was laid out and constructed. and the wa- PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 353 ter of the Creek was wanted as a source of supply for the canal. This necessitated the abandonment of the old mill, and later, in 1832, a large merchant-mill, with four run of French burrs, was built at a more convenient point, located between the Tuscarawas River and Ohio Canal, now within the cor. porate limits of the town. Jesse. Slingluff died in 1836, when followed a division of the personal and real estate. Christian Deardorff chose the merchant-mill and land in the division, and he continued in his extensive business for the rest of his life. In 1808 he was appointed Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and so well and satisfactorily did he fulfill the duties of the responsible position that he was retained in office for sixteen years. In 1812 he volunteered and was Paymaster during the war. he was very popular in his district, and in 1825 was elected to the Legislature, being one of the active promoters in establishing the Ohio Canal improvement. he was a Whig in politics, and in 1844 was a candidate Of that party for Congressman, and was only defeated by a small majority. Hon. Christian Deardorff departed this life September 10, 1851, greatly mourned by all who knew him, and is buried with his wife and children in the family lot in the old cemetery at Canal Dover. He was a man of sterling worth, and public enterprise, and was most affectionately regarded in the community. The maiden name of our subject's' mother was Margaret R. Butt. She was a native of York County, Pa., in which state her parents were also born. They became residents of Muskingum County, now Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in May, 1806, and here William Butt became the proprietor of twelve hundred acres of land, a portion of which lay in what IS now Goshen Township, and the remainder in Dover Township. Ife cleared and cultivated this-estate in a very profitable manner, and became one of the most influential and wealthy residents of the county. His wife died in 1814, and he lived until 1824. They are both buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Dover Township. Both were known as very devoted Christians, and frequent religious services were held in their cabin and barn. William Butt, together with his .four brothers, Jacob, Benjamin, John and Joseph, volunteered when liv ing in York, Pa., and Served as soldiers in the Continental army, thus rendering their country valuable service. Gen. John Butt, of New Philadelphia, a brother of our subject's mother, was a noted militiaman and had command of the county militia. Ire had been a member of the Legislature, also held the office of Sheriff, and at the time of his death was Justice of the Peace. Another brother, William, was a prominent preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Returning to the history of Judge Deardorff, we learn that by his untiring industry and perseverance he developed his two thousand, one hundred and seventy-five acres of land, built house and barns, a bridge across the river, mills, tanyard, smith-shop and conducted a general mercantile establishment, and was the foster-father of the town's development, as his partner seldom came to the state of Ohio. This was a gigantic undertaking, but, nothing daunted, he began the arduous task, and in a few years was proud of the results of his labors. Dover was at that time an obscure small village in the woods, and not until the completion of the Ohio Canal was it a place of note. In the fall of 1829, water was turned in, and the canal completed. In the following. spring, navigation was opened to Cleveland. ,k grand old-fashioned huzza was given, not only to the first boat that arrived, but later others were greeted with many hearty cheers. A canal-boat at that time was looked upon as a big thing. Dover still later was noted as the second city in importance in the purchasing and shipping of wheat and flour. The citizens of Canal Dover will ever rejoice at the forethought and wisdom displayed in locating the town so favorably, with its beautiful environments, its picturesqueness of surrounding scenery, replete with undulating hills, valleys and extended plains of fertility, and bounded on the east with the crystal waters of the Tuscarawas. To Christian and Margaret R. Deardorff were born eight children: Jesse S., Isaac N., George B., Charles F., Upton C., Mary C., Joseph B. and William F. They are all living with the exception of William and Charles. Jesse S. Deardorff was born in Dover later called Canal Dover), and 354 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. remembers when there were but ten houses in the village, and deer, wolves, coons, foxes and other wild game were a common sight. This city now has a population of four thousand, is a large manufacturing place, and has several large churches and schools. His first school days were spent in New Philadelphia. Later a school was established in Dover. Subsequently,.however, we find him a student of Kenyon College, and later still he entered the college at New Athens. Before completing his education, our subject's father's mercantile partnership was dissolved, and this necessitated his assuming the management 'of his interest in this business. Later he was interested in the manufacture of woolen goods, was one of the projectors and proprietors of two salt works near Canal Dover, and carried on a thriving business as merchant, miller and dealer in produce. Energetic, honest, progressive and upright, he has succeeded in life, and is now enjoying the fruits of his prudence, surrounded with luxuries and enjoying the confidence and esteem of a host of warm friends. While living in Canal Dover, he was elected Mayor of the city, and for some time was also a working and valued member of the School Board. In politics he was first a Whig, casting his first Presidential vote for William Henry Harrison; but on the formation of the Republican party, he joined its ranks and has ever. since voted for its candidates. In religious affairs he is one of the active members of the Moravian Church at Canal Dover, which he regularly attends and contributes liberally to its support. Socially he belongs to the Odd Fellows' fraternity, which he represented in the grand lodge, and with which he has been connected since 1849. J. S. Deardorff was united in marriage in East Cleveland, April 14, 1846, to Anna B., daughter of the Rev. A. McReynolds and Susannah (Hodge) McReynolds, who was born August 21, 1825, in Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland. To them have been born the following-named children: Eugene A., for eighteen years. assistant Cashier in the Citizens' National Bank of New Philadelphia; Horace A., who is engaged in the mercantile business in Pittsburg; Isaac L., a produce broker, who also makes his home in that city; and Charles, El mer and Ernest, who died young. A. devoted wife and mother, a faithful member of the Moravian Church, Mrs. Deardorff came to Canal Dover with her parents in 1844. She was a graduate of William Bross' Female Seminary at Deckertown, N. J., and was rarely gifted in song and instrumental music and mental culture. She was foremost in all Christian and benevolent works in the church and neighborhood, and aided her husband greatly in attaining his present high standing in the community. She died July 25, 1877, and is buried by the side of her mother and sister, Martha, and her three children in the family lot in the old cemetery in Canal Dover. Her parents immigrated in her infancy from Stewartstown, Ireland, to the United States in 1827. Her father's ancestors were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, and joined the army under William, Prince of Orange, and heroically participated in the victorious battle of the Boyne. Large confiscated estates were conferred upon him for his acknowledged valor. Of A. McReynolds' grandfather's sons, some were noted physicians, one settled in London and one in Moneymore, north of Ireland, and still another makes his home in Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, and one is a colonel in the English army. BENJAMIN GIFFEE. That our subject is one of the shrewdest and wealthiest agriculturists of Guernsey County is shown by the success which has crowned his efforts, for he is now living retired from active work of any kind, on his valuable farm, comprising fourteen hundred and thirty-seven acres, all of which, with the exception of one hundred and thirty-seven acres, lies in Oxford Township. Upon this farm he raises large numbers of sheep and cattle. He is a man of much practical business talent and financial ability, and his extensive possessions are a standing monument to the energy which he has put forth in the labors of his life, and the good judgment which has characterized his efforts. His PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 355 high standing among his fellow-men is equally high proof of his worth as a neighbor and citizen. Mr. Giffee was born in Oxford Township, January 18,1821, and is the son of Benjamin and Hannah (Gilliland) Giffee, who were married September 6, 1804. The father was a native of Maryland, and the mother's birth occurred in Virginia. Benjamin Giffee came to Oxford Township in a very early day, and entered from the Government the land on a portion of which our subject now resides. He was engaged in farm pursuits all his life, and both in his business success and the position which he occupied in the community was an example of what a man can accomplish providing he possesses energy, pluck and good judgment, coupled with the confidence and respect of the people among whom he may live. Benjamin and Hannah Giffee were the parents of ten children, of whom our subject was the youngest but one. Of the other members of the family: Elizabeth, who was born January 29,1805, died November 17, 1892; James, born March 14, 1807, died in March, 1871; Sarah, born May 23, 1808, died December 30, 1828; Susanna, born October 17, 1809, died April 26, 1833; Josiah, born April 3, 1811, died August 30, 1889; Mason, born March 11, 1813, died September 9, 1821; Perry, born August 20, 1814, died November 12, 1833; Ruth, born June 24, 1818, died October 23, 1841; and Hannah, born December 5, 1822, died in the fall of 1892. The father of our subject dying when he was quite young, he was not permitted to spend much time in attending school, but early in life commenced to paddle his own canoe. On attaining mature years he came in for his share of the original entry of land, receiving as his portion about twenty-five acres. That he has been successful in cultivating the soil is hardly necessary to say, as we have already recorded the fact that he is now the proud possessor of nearly fifteen hundred acres of the fertile land for which Guernsey is noted, all of which is the result of his own labors, excepting the insignificant amount which he inherited. He has an excellent brick residence situated a half-mile south of Fairview. Mr. Giffee and Miss Eliza L. Kennon were married March 29, 1867. The lady is the daughter of James and Rose A. (Kennon) Kennon, and was born in Oxford Township February 2, 1839. She has become the mother of three children: Albert, who was born June 6, 1870, and died October 6, 1881; Leanne, born February 3, 1872; and Josiah B., June 21, 1877. The living members of the household are at home and are being given the best advantages for obtaining an education which it is in the power of their parents to bestow. Mr. and Mrs. Giffee are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and conscientiously live up to what they believe to be right. Politically the former is a stanch Republican, and therefore casts his vote with that party. He takes a leading part in local affairs and is devoted to the best interests of the community. He has made many friends during his long residence in this county, who esteem him highly for his worth and upright character. OLIVER P. LECHNER, one of the native sons of Mineral Point, Ohio, is serving his third term as an Alderman of the place. Since August 8, 1889, he has been an engineer for the Tunnel Mining Company, and for many years prior to that time ran locomotive, stationary and portable engines for various manufacturing concerns or railroads. He is an expert mechanic and thoroughly acquainted with all parts of the business. The paternal grandfather of our subject, Michael Lechner, was born in York County, Pa., in 1777, and served in the War of 1812. He was a miller by trade, but for a time after coining to Ohio, in 1826, engaged in farming in Stark County, later, however, returning to milling. He died at the age of fifty-seven years, firm in the faith of the Lutheran Church, in which he had been reared. His wife bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Rider, and to them were born three children: George; Jeremiah; and Joseph, of Elkhart County., Ind. 356 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. After the death of Michael Lechner his widow became the wife of Joseph Young, and her death occurred in Indiana, at the age of eighty-four years. George Lechner, the father of Oliver P., was born in York County, Pa., and was reared to farm life. In. 1826, when a young man, he came to Ohio, settling in Stark County. There he was married, in 1846, to Matilda Firestone, and soon afterward came to this locality, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres. He improved the farm, and sixty acres of the 'land has since been platted and a part of this sold to the railway company. He made the first addition to the village in company with Alfred Davis, and leased some of his land to a mining company. In politics he was a strong Republican, and twenty years he served as Township Trustee. He was born in 1820, and died June 3, 1889. His wife was born in Pennsylvania and was the daughter of Mathias Firestone, of German birth. He settled in Stark County, this state, at an early day, and engaged in farming until shortly before his death, at the age of seventy years. Six children were born to George and Matilda Lechner, namely: Catherine, Mrs. Philip Furney, of Sandy Township; Charity, who became the wife of Sam Cunningham, and died at Malvern, Stark County, leaving two daughters; Osee, Mrs. Emanuel Sweaney, of Sandyvilla; Joseph M., Oliver P. and Jennie. Oliver P. Lechner was born September 20, 1856, and was brought up on a farm, receiving a district-school education. When eighteen years old he began working for himself and, going to Alliance, entered the employ of the Ft. Wayne Railroad Company. Familiar with machinery, he afterward ran locomotive, stationary and portable engines, and is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Owing to his industry and thrift, he has become well-to-do, and owns several pieces of property rty in this village. He has also constructed three houses in the place, and in other ways has assisted in the local welfare. September 6, 1883, Oliver Lechner married Miss Isabel France, who was born in Carroll County, just across the line from this county, October 22, 1859. Her parents, Michael and Catherine (Allbaugh) France, were natives of the Keystone State, but came to Ohio in an early day with their respective parents and were among the first settlers of Carroll County. Michael France was a wagon-maker by trade, but followed farming during the last years of his life, his death having occurred on the 11th of June, 1892, at the age of sixty-nine years. He was twice married, by his first union having had five children, namely: Mary E., who died when six months old; John D.; Amanda, wife of George Householder; Ann, who became Mrs. Jacob G. Householder; and Isabel, who became the wife of our subject. The mother of these children, who was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died March 1, 1861. Her husband afterward married Elizabeth Householder, but there were no children by that union. Michael France was a son of John France, who was born in the Keystone State and passed his last years in Ohio. He reared four sons and three daughters, as follows: William, George, Alex, Michael, Mary, Eliza Ruthledge and Susan Waltz, now deceased. The eldest daughter, Mary, was twice married, first to John Domer and later to Alex Huston. To our subject and his wife has been born one child, Loren Loree, born July 24, 1894. Mrs. Lechner is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which she has belonged for fifteen years, and with the denomination her parents were also connected. In his political belief Mr. Lechner is a supporter of the Republican party. Both he and his wife enjoy the friendship and good-will of a large circle of neighbors and acquaintances. THOMAS McKAHAN. The gentleman to whom we call the attention of our readers is a prominent and influential farmer of Jefferson Township, Guernsey County, where he operates an excellent estate of one hundred and twenty acres, all well improved. He is a well educated man, and an expert in the art of spelling, winning as'a prize, over twenty years ago, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary at a spelling "bee" conducted at Washington, this state. Daniel McKahan, the father of our subject, was PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 357 a native of County Derry, Ireland, born in 1771. His wife, whose maiden name was Margaret McConnell, was a native of County Down, Ireland,. her birth occurring in 1780. This lady was ten years old when she undertook the journey to America, and was married to Daniel McKahan in 1818. She came to America in 1790, locating at once in Chester County, Pa., whence she soon after removed to Brooke County, W. Va. Her husband located in Washington County, Pa. The parental family included three children, of whom Thomas was the youngest. Robert was born March 30, 1819, and is a surveyor, making his home in Cambridge, this county; James was born June 5, 1820, and was located on a fine farm near Kimbolton, in Wheeling Township, until his death, in 1869. Thomas was born in Washington County, Pa., February 24, 1823. His parents being fairly well-to-do, he was given the opportunity of attending the schools taught in the district, and when nineteen years of age was considered competent to teach. This profession he followed for five years during the winter season. Three years after attaining his majority, Thomas McKahan was married to Miss Margaret, the daughter of John and Mary (Marshall) McMillen, and for twelve years farmed in the Keystone State. His removal to Ohio was undertaken in 1859, at which time he settled in Guernsey County, Ohio. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. McKahan, Mary, born June 15, 1848, married Hiram Gunn in April, 1866; Eliza, burn .July 24, 1851, married John H. Ford, and they reside in Dakota; Susanna, born April 15, 1854, became the wife of Jonathan Patterson, and is living in Centre Township, this county. The wife and mother died June 14, 1855, and our subject later married Ellen; daughter of James and Isabel (Carnes) Bell, of Monroe Township. Of the children of this union, Margaretta, born on the 11th of February, 1857, married Robert T. McCullough, and their seven children are Ella, born October 14,1877; Thomas L., March 14, 1878; Robert G., September 25, 1882; Laura IL, February 25, 1884; Chalmer, May 18, 1887; Victoria, January 26, 1892; and Lida B., October G, 1893. Belle McKahan, the second daughter, was born October 9, 1860, and married Henry S. Adair; their one child, Adrian R., was born March 4, 1884. Nannie was born October 31, 1864, and married Joseph C. McNeal, September 24, 1891. Their family comprise a daughter and son: Laura I., born September 12, 1892; and Ralph C., February 25, 1894. James Bell, the father of Mrs. McKahan, was born in Ireland in 1789, while his wife, who was also a native of that country, was born in 1801. They were married in the Emerald Isle, and on coming to America, in 1825, first located in Baltimore. Later they moved to a place near the city of Pittsburg, Pa., and in 1842 took up the line of march to Guernsey County. On arriving here they leased a piece of land, which Thomas Mc-Kahan later purchased, and this property is still in the possession of the family, and is one of the most productive farms in the county. During the late war our subject enlisted as a member of Company B, Ninety-seventh Ohio Infantry, and was mustered into service August 7, 1862. He remained in that regiment until the following year, when he was transferred to the invalid corps, where he served for more than two years. His term of enlistment expiring,, he again offered his services to his country, and was accepted, this preventing his returning home until the close of the war. He was discharged November 11, 1865, and soon afterward mustered out of service. During the years spent in the army he saw much suffering, and with his comrades passed through many hardships and privations. He deserves a great amount of praise for sacrificing so much in order that he might do what he could to sustain his country's honor, as when he left home his farm was left in charge of his wife and five daughters, who managed it in a very commendable manner. William Bell, a brother of Mrs. McKahan, served as a member of the Eightieth Regiment during the entire period of hostilities, and during this time participated in all the marches and battles in which his company was ordered to engage. Henry Bell, a brother, was also in the service. Our subject and his estimable wife are members in good standing of the Baptist Church, with which the former has been connected for half a 358 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. century, and Mrs. McKahan for thirty-seven years. The former was Justice of the Peace for twelve years, and served his township in the capacity of Clerk and Treasurer for a term of four years each. Although in early life a Democrat, Mr. McKahan now supports Republican principles. The county regards him as among its most valued citizens, for he has ever borne his part in the support of all its enterprises. LEWIS GECKELER, deceased. Among the prominent agricnlturists born across the seas, and who brought to this country those characteristics which made them successful here, is the subject of this sketch, formerly one of the influential residents of Dover Township, Tuscarawas County. He was born December 22, 1828, in Wurtemberg, Germany, and a year after attaining his majority, decided to try his fortunes in the New World, and emigrated hither. Soon after arriving in this country, young Lewis made his way to this county and located at Navarre, where he was employed to drive a stage. He was very economical in his habits and, saving his earnings, several years later purchased his first farm, which consisted of eighty acres. To this he added one hundred and fifteen acres as time progressed, besides owning several lots in Zoar Station, four houses at Valley Junction, and a valuable piece of property in New Philadelphia. He was likewise the possessor of one hundred and forty-six acres in Stark County, which was in point of improvement one of the best in that section. This wide-awake business man accumulated his vast property entirely through his unaided efforts, as when he landed in America he had to borrow the money to pay his passage through to Navarre. He was a Lutheran in religion, and served his congregation in the (Ace of Trustee for some time. He was universally popular with all who knew him, and at the time of his decease, February 21, 1893, was serving his second term as Director of the infirmary. His death was a great shock to his family and friends, and occurred very suddenly, while on a visit to the infirmary. The original of this sketch was twice married, his first union being with Anna Grove, who bore the following-named children: William, John, Lewis, Emma, Fred, Louisa, George, Margaret A., Charles and Henry. The wife and mother died in April, 1872, and in October of that year Mr. Geckeler chose for his second companion Emeline Grove, a sister of his first wife. To them were born two children, Mary M. and Lorin Lewis. Mrs. Geckeler, who is a devoted member of the Lutheran Church, is the daughter of George M. send Sarah (Rider) Grove, natives, respectively, of Lancaster and Westmoreland Counties, Pa. The family is of German origin, and almost without exception its members were Lutherans in religion and Democrats in politics. Mr. Grove was born on the 22d of September, 1802, and when a lad fourteen years of age accompanied his parents on their removal to this state; locating with them in Stark County. They were among the earliest settlers in that locality and passed the remainder of their lives in tilling the soil within its. confines. George M. Grove afterward removed to. this county and was identified with the pioneer settlers of Lawrence Town-. ship, where he entered a tract of two hundred and twenty acres of land from the Government and immediately commenced the arduous task of clearing and improving the same. On this estate he resided until the day of his death, which occurred at the advanced age of eighty-five years. He was prosperous in all his undertakings and left his family a snug fortune. He too was a regular attendant at and a devoted member of the Lutheran Church. His wife died February 24, 1891, aged eighty-seven years. Their union resulted in the birth of eleven children, of whom seven grew to mature years. Mr. Geckeler passed through all the pioneer experiences which fell to the lot of early settlers in Ohio, and where once were forests and a thick undergrowth of brush, are now waving fields of grain or the rustling corn, which great transformation he helped to bring about. He was truly a self-made man, having risen from the lowest rounds of life, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD -359 financially considered, to a measure of success and prosperity. He always fulfilled the duties of citizenship in a faithful manner, and throughout his entire life was a highly esteemed resident of the county, and by his integrity and genial friendliness made hosts of friends. ALEXANDER F. AGNES is a well known stock-dealer and agriculturist of Warren Township. He owns a good homestead, comprising two hundred and sixty-two acres situated in the northwestern part of the township. Since 1871 he has manufactured a remedy known as the Agnes Lung and Bronchitis Liniment and Cholera Balsam, which has a ready sale in this portion of the state, and has won more than a local reputation. The proprietor keeps several agents on the road, and. makes a good income from the sale of this justly esteemed and valuable medicine. The birth of our subject occurred March 21, 1846, in. France. His paternal grandfather, Francis Agnes, a native of the same land, reared a large family, and four of the number came to the United States, namely: Leonard, who died in Massillon, Ohio; Alexander, who Jives near Beach City, Franklin Township, this county; Joseph; and Adeline Verner, of. Scioto. County, Ohio. In 1849 Francis. Agnes, with his wife and four children, started for the United. States, bat was shipwrecked and landed in Ireland. Resuming their journey later, on account of storms and bad weather it was still three months before they landed in New York City. From there they proceeded by boat to Buffalo, and thence by lake and canal to Massillon, this state. Here Francis Agnes bought thirty-five acres of land. in Franklin Township, where he died prior to the War of the Rebellion, his wife surviving him some two years. The parents of our subject were Joseph and Josephine (Penot) Agnes, likewise natives of France. The former is still living, and is now seventy-rive years of age. For many years he worked on the construction of the Ft. Wayne Railroad, being superintendent of a gang of men who were supplying wood and water for the trains. In this way he accumulated some money, which he in vested in forty acres of land, and subsequently became the owner of sixty-three acres more. He also owned two dwellings in Navarre, where he has lived for ten years past. A Democrat in politics, he has never desired or accepted official honors. To himself and wife were born ten children, namely: Alexander F.; Adam J.; Xavier; Charles, living on the old homestead; Jennie, no Mrs. Henry Biddle; Lizzie, deceased; Mary, the wife of Fred Richenbach; Joseph, of Mansfield, this state; Leona, who died in Ireland, at the age of one year; and Aimuel, who died at Wooster, Wayne County, this state. Mrs. Josephine Agnes is one of the two daughters of John Penot, whose wife died in France, and who came- to the United States in 1849, dying in Navarre, Stark County, where the father now resides. His other daughter, Sophia, became the wife of Alexander Agnes. Mrs. Josephine Agnes died in 1886, aged sixty-five years. The boyhood of our subject was passed on a farm, and he continued to live with his parents until twenty-one years of age. Then, starting out to make his own livelihood, he chopped cordwood during the first winter, and after spending the following season in working on a farm, he went to Portsmouth and husked corn until he obtained a situation in a rolling-mill of that city, where he was employed for three and a-half years. Returning to Franklin Township, he worked the next summer on a farm, and then rented a place near Dundee, which he operated for three.. years. In 1873 he bought sixty-three acres of land of Joseph Kuhns in Franklin Township, which place he sold on the expiration of three. years. In 1886 Mr. Agnes leased a mill at Beach City and ran the same for three years and a-half, when he sold his lease for $600. The next year he spent in running the Wilmont Mill, after which he put up a. building at Bench City, and engaged in farming, a place of one hundred and four acres, which he had purchased in that locality. Later, selling out his farm and buildings, he invested the proceeds in one hundred and fifteen acres in Wayne 360 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Township, which he still owns. Here he lived for five years, or until 1888, when he moved to New Cumberland, and there remodeled a mill, and in 1891 put in modern machinery. After selling out a half-interest in the mill he traded the remainder, in March, 1892, to Robert Campbell for a farm of two hundred and sixty-two acres, which place is now his home. The farm is well improved and is a valuable place. In March, 1873, our subject married Melinda Wellet, who was born in this county, and is one of four daughters and four sons of Benjamin Weller, who was a native of Pennsylvania, and of German origin. He was a cooper by trade, and passed his last years in Sandyville, Ohio. In 1875 death called the devoted wife of our subject from his side at the early age of twenty-two years and seven months. She left one child, a daughter, Emma. Mrs. Agnes was reared in the faith of the German Baptist or Dunkard Church, but after her marriage became identified with the Roman Catholic Church, which is the faith of her husband, the subject of this sketch. CHRISTIAN FOX. Probably no resident of Tuscarawas County is better deserving of representation in this volume than Christian Fox, who is one of the oldest pioneers within its confines. Although retired from the arduous duties of life, he is still living on his fine estate in York Township. He has pursued a course in life which has resulted in securing for him the hearty respect of all those who know him, and has given him a proud rank among the farmers and landowners of this section. The original of this sketch was born in the above township, October 22, 1829, and is the son of Leopold and Elizabeth (Kuhn) Fox, natives of Prussia. who emigrated to the Iimited States many years ago, first settling in Pennsylvania. In the year 1824, however, they again took up the line of march, and came to this county, making this section their home until their decease. The father passed away in 1842, at the age of sixty years, while the good wife survived until 1863, when she, too, departed this life. The parental household included four children, three sons and one daughter, those besides our subject. being Elizabeth, now deceased; Leopold, a farmer of York Township, this county; and John, who is also engaged as an agriculturist in Col-. orado. The parents gave their children the best advantages for obtaining an education which the early times afforded, and were they living at the present time would hive every reason to be proud of their success in life and the prominent positions which they occupy. They were faithful and highly esteemed members of the German Reformed Church, and in their death the community, as well as the church, lost two of its most valued members. In politics Leopold. Fox was a stanch Democrat, being much interested in politics, and in everything which would in any way advance the welfare of his community. The marriage of our subject, which occurred in 1852, was with Miss Elizabeth Offholder, who was born in Switzerland in 1835. She was the daughter of Daniel and Lizzie (Kaiserman) Offholder, natives of Germany, who emigrated to America in an early day. By her union with our subject there were born the following children: Elizabeth, the wife of Emeil Hawk, who makes her home in Dover, this state; John, engaged in managing the old homestead; Mary, the wife of John Raver, an agriculturist of York Township; Kittle A., now Mrs. George Graif, whose husband is a farmer of Goshen Township; Emma, wife of Mrs. John Lewis, who is engaged in farm pursuits in Dover Township; Lydia, at home; Joseph, a. prominent physician of New Philadelphia; and Christian, a farmer in Missouri. The original of this sketch was reared on the farm where he is at present residing, making his home- with his parents until their decease, when he purchased the interest in the estate of the other heirs, and is now its sole proprietor. The farm includes two hundred broad acres, well supplied with all the necessary barns and outbuildings, besides a substantial residence. Mr. Fox secured his education in one of the old-time schoolhouses, built of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 361 logs, with greased-paper windows, puncheon floor, and blab desks built around the room, at which the scholars stood up to write. To the knowledge thus gained he has added by reading, his desire being to keep himself well posted regarding current events and topics of general interest. In politics Mr. Fox is a Democrat, and takes much interest in affairs of public importance. He has served as School Director for four years, and was Township Trustee for a period of ten years. He is a public-spirited man, and one who delights in advancing both his own interest and those of his neighbors. To-day he ranks among the wealthy and influential agriculturists of the county, and is surrounded by all the comforts of life, proving the truth of the old assertion that industry will win in the race for fortune and position. NATHAN M. McCREARY. This county is pre-eminently one of comfortable rural homes. The soil being wonderfully fertile, and the facilities for market excellent, a great many agriculturists secure a competence by the cultivation of a moderate acreage. 'One of the successful farmers of Fairfield Township is Nathan M. McCreary, who operates a finely-tilled farm on section 3. In addition to cultivating the soil, he breeds Poland-China hogs. Mr. McCreary was born on section 2 of this township, July 10, 1827, and is the son of John and Margaret (Slutts) McCreary. His father was born in Virginia. July 22, 1769, of parents who came from Ireland in an early day and were married many years after their arrival in the New World. John McCreary started out in life poor in purse, and when leaving home went to Red Stone, locating on the Monongahela River. While living there he made seven trips to New Orleans in order to trade, and on flye different occasions walked the entire distance home. On one of these journeys he was piloted over the fall, for which he was compelled to pay $25. This being quite a severe lesson, he was on the lookout thereafter, and fell into no more such traps. The father of our subject had saved about $1,400 on these trips to and from the Crescent City, and concluded to invest some of his surplus capital in land. Coming to Ohio, he entered a tract on section 28, Warren Township, Tuscarawas County, on which he erected a little log cabin on the north branch of Indian Creek. In this he resided for a time and cleared six acres from its original wildness, which was the first pretense at improvement that had been made in the township. He was soon after rendered a poor man by the failure. of parties to whom he had loaned the greater part of his earnings after making the first payment on his land. Being thus unable to meet further notes due, he advertised his land for sale, and on disposing of it entered a quarter-section on section 2, Fairfield Township. This was about 1806, and June 7, ten years later, he entered from the Government the tract on section 3 where our subject makes his home at present. He worked industriously to improve both farms, in which undertaking he was more than ordinarily successful he departed this life on section 2, April 29, 1857, firm in the faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member. He was a powerfully built man, six feet in height, and of a determined spirit. he was very active in politics, and voted with the Democratic party. John McCreary in early life learned the trade of a. Millwright, which, although he did not follow it, proved of great assistance to him at the time of his erection of a mill in Warren Township. Just such an enterprise was needed and greatly appreciated by the farmers, who were not compelled to haul their grain to the larger cities to have it prepared for making bread stuffs. He was on friendly terms with the Indians, and in all his dealings with them never had any trouble. The parents of our subject were married about 1809, and to them was granted a family of ten children. Catharine married Michael Kollar, and on his death became the wife of Isaac Sparks, who is also deceased. She departed this life December 31, 1894, in Boone County, Iowa. James died 362 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. near Gnadenhutten, December 3, 1873. Rosanna became the wife of George Fisher, and departed this life at Bulivar. Sarah A., Mrs. Henry Sparks, died in Warren Township. John died in 1894, on the home farm. Reason passed away in Owen County, Ind.; and William is a resident of the above place. The mother of this family is an active member of the Methodist Church, with which all her children were connected. and James and William were for many years Class-leaders. Nathan M. McCreary was given a common-school education. and remained at home working for his father until attaining his majority. In 1856, in company with his brother John, he purchased the quarter-section of land on which he is now living, and moving upon the tract they kept "bachelor's hall" for two years. Then, purchasing his brother's interest in the place, with one hundred and sixty-four acres which he had entered in Owen County, Ind., he became its sole proprietor and has ever since been engaged in its improvement. He erected all suitable structures necessary for the storage of grain and shelter of stock, but November 26, 1893, suffered a severe loss by the burning of his barn and contents. This catastrophe deprived him of five horses, eight head of cattle and several hundred bushels of wheat, together with many valuable farm implements, the total value of which was $3,000, with an insurance of $950. He immediately erected another large barn, which is well arranged. Mr. McCreary devotes considerable attention to breeding Poland-China swine, and has some very fine specimens of this particular blood; and also thoroughbred Jersey cattle. February 22, 1855, the subject of this sketch and Miss Margaret Scarlott, of Jefferson County, this state, were united in marriage. The lady was the daughter of George and Nancy (Stints) Scarlott, and on the paternal side is of Irish descent. She was an active worker in the Methodist Church, and it was largely through the good example which she set that our subject was brought into the church. She died May 8, 1881, and October 9 of that year Mr. McCreary married Mrs. Ellen, widow of William Frase, of Wayne County. Mrs. McCreary was born in that county December 7, 1839, and was the daughter of David and Elizabeth (Wiley) Huston, natives, respectively, of Washington County, Pa., and Virginia. Her father was a shoemaker, and died in Medina County, Ohio, having removed hither in early manhood. His family included twelve children, of whom three sons and four daughters grew to manhood and womanhood. Mr. Huston married for his second wife Emeline Shively, who bore him three children. Only one of this family is living, a son. To Mr. and Mrs. McCreary there have been born two children: Margaret Luella, born March 29, 1883; and John E., who was born December 9, 1884, and died when a year and three months old. Mrs. McCreary had one daughter by her first marriage, Alice. She is a member of the Methodist Church, with which denomination her husband has been connected since 1857. He takes an active part in all religious work and has been Class-leader in his congregation for forty years. It is scarcely necessary to add that he is held in high repute by the residents of Fairfield Township (which he has served in the capacity of Trustee), on account of his excellent character, business ability and pleasing qualities. He was a Democrat in politics up to 1864, since which time, however, he has voted for Republican candidates. JOB PARRY, for the past nine years a respected resident of Lore City, was for years an industrious and successful agriculturist of Guernsey County. He was born in Harrison County, this state, five miles west of Cadiz, August 1, 1818, and has spent his entire life in the Buckeye State. The name Parry is of Welsh origin, and is a variation of the form Ap Harry, son of Harry. In 1701 the progenitor of the family in America left Wales and settled in the United States, on what is known as Apple Pie Ridge, a spur of the Pennsylvania Mountains, which runs into Virginia. He became a successful farmer, and several genera- PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 363 tions of his descendants lived in the same section of country. Our subject's paternal grandfather, who bore the Christian name of Llewellyn, was also an agriculturist. John Parry, the father of our subject, was a native of Pennsylvania, and when twenty-seven years of age emigrated to this state. He died in 1871, at the age of seventy-four years. Four years after taking up his abode in this state, he was married, at Cadiz, to Rachel Gitchel, who died at the age of sixty-three years. Their eldest child, Ruannab, died at the age of twenty-two years. Hannah was killed by a runaway team in 1831, when in her nineteenth year. Thomas, the next in order of birth, married Ruth Bailey, and after her death, wedded Mariam Williams. Job is the subject of this sketch. David married Rachel Williams, John died at the age of eighteen years. Eliza married Albert Perkins; and Rachel. is unmarried. At the time. of his death, John Parry owned two hundred and forty acres of land, which he had acquired by his industry and economy. The boyhood of our subject was passed in toil, early and late, on the old homestead. He had but very meager advantages for obtaing an education, as he only attended school some six days. Though he is now master of " the three R's," and a man of practical intelligence and information, he learned it all after he was past his twenty-first year. As his future companion and helpmate, he chose Asenath Hall, a most estimable and worthy lady, who assisted him in every possible way and helped him with his studies. She became the mother of twelve children, namely: Eliza Jane, who married John Webster, and has six children; Sarah, who became the wife of Isaac Day; Phoebe, who wedded James Bailey, and became the mother of three children; Rachel, who became the wife of William Bryant, and has four children; Elizabeth, who married David Griffin, and has three children; Letitia, wife of William. Lloyd, and mother of three children; Asa, who married. Sarah Bailey, and has three children; and five who died before maturity. Immediately after his "marriage, Job Parry went to work with energy as a farmer, and saved $100 from his first crop. His first: venture was on a forty-acre tract of land, located four miles south of Quaker City. A few years later he bought one hundred and eighty acres on Leatherwood Creek, where he continued to make his home for twenty years, during which time he made substantial and valuable improvements on the place. In 1874 he removed to Barnesville, where he lived for fourteen years, renting his farm fur $500 in cash, per ann urn. In November, 1883, Mrs. Asenath H. Parry was called to her final rest. The following year Mr. Parry married Miss Mary Broom, from whom he was legally separated a year and a-half later. March 27, 1886, he married his present wife, Mary, who was the widow of James Dollison, of Lore City. For the past seven years Mr. Parry has been a faithful and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as has also his wife. Politically he is an advocate of the Republican party principles. DAVID STONEBROOK is one of the honored old residents of Tuscarawas County, and for the past eight years has dwelt at Blakes Mills. Here he owns ten acres of good land, on which he erected a comfortable home, and engaged in market-gardening. Prior to this he lived for many years in Salem Township, within the limits of which occurred his birth, July 17, 1840. Daniel Stonebrook, the father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania, March 12, 1817. There he married Sarah Yingling, likewise of the Keystone State. At an early day he came to this county, and worked at general farming until 1834, at which time he purchased a tract of forty acres. This place he cultivated for some ten years, when he sold out and invested the proceeds, in addition to a certain sum of money he had laid aside, in a seventy-acre farm, situated in the same township, and on this continued to reside for fourteen years. After selling the same he bought forty acres near 364 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. New Comerstown, Ohio, where he lived for five years. Later he became a resident of Glasgow, Salem Township. Buying a lot, he built a pleasant home, and there continued to live until called to his final rest, September 10, 1891. His first wife had died many years previously, August 3, 1852, aged thirty-three years, one month and twenty-eight days. The family of Daniel. and Sarah Stonebrook comprised the following: David, Emanuel, Barbara, John, Mary and Margaret, the latter three deceased. Margaret died soon after her mother, September 8, 1852, aged two months and thirteen days. Barbara married Daniel Frankboner, of Akron, this state. The parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and most highly respected by all who had the pleasure of their acquaintance. After the death of his first wife, Daniel Stonebrook married Margaret Myers, and by her had ten children, namely: Jane, the wife of Thomas Cordrey, of Salem Township: Sarah, now Mrs. J. Dell, of New Philadelphia; Alice, Mrs. A. Stew. art, of Blakes Mills; William, Jacob, Rena, Martha, Daniel, Hiram and Emma, the latter three of whom died in infancy. David Stonebrook, whose name heads this sketch. continued to live with his father until he had reached his majority. October 22, 1861, he chose for his life companion and helpmate Miss Martha J. Huff. The lady was born in West Chester, this county, March 29, 1841, and is one of the eleven children of James S. and Rosanna (Gromes) Huff, natives of Ohio. Four sons and one daughter have been born to Mr. and Mrs. David Stone-brook. They arc named as follows: David B., Emanuel, Annie I.. (now Mrs. G. K. Wheeland), Marshall and Oliver C. After his marriage, our subject went to housekeeping with his young wife in Salem Township. They rented a home and Mr. Stonebrook continued to work for neighbors and friends by the day until 1869, when he purchased a farm of twenty-five acres two miles north of Port Washington, this county, where he lived for nine years. He opened a coal mine on this farm, where for three years he mined coal during the winter and worked for farmers during the summer.. He then purchased a team and farming implements, and continued farming until 1886, when he removed to Blakes Mills and bought his pleasant home. For three years he served efficiently as School Director, and two years as a member of the Council of Blakes Mills, but aside from this he has always declined office-holding. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically he uses his franchise in favor of Democracy. ELMER W. HALL, manager of the Quaker City Grist Mill of Quaker City, is a practical and successful miller, and has acquired his knowledge of the business by the most studious and searching habits. He is a native of Guernsey County, and was born July 10, 1860, in Millwood Township. his parents were John P. and Phebe A. (Fields) Hall, natives, respectively, of the above township and Belmont County, this state. The father's birth occurred in 1813, and he departed this life when advanced in years, in 1890. John P. Hall was a farmer by occupation, and in turn the son of John Hall, a native of North Carolina, who came to this state as early as 1806; and made location in Millwood Township, with whose interests the later generations have been prominently identified. He prospered in cultivating the soil, and succeeded in building up a good home in this then new state. There were born to John P. and Phebe Hall five children, of whom Elmer W. was the youngest. His sisters and brother. were: Eliza, now deceased, but formerly the wife of Thomas Griest, a farmer of Oxford Township; Sarah, who married J. S. Rownd, a resident of Summerfield, this state; Melissa, living on the old homestead; and Alonzo E., engaged in farming in Millwood Township. Our subject's knowledge of books was obtained in the schools of Quaker City and Spencer Station, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 365 and on completing his education he returned to the farm, aiding his father in its cultivation until two years after attaining his majority. About that time he obtained a position as fireman on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, following this vocation continuously for a period of three years. At the expiration of that time, being tired of this kind of life, and feeling that he was better fitted for mercantile life, he resigned his position, and in the spring of 1887 entered a gristmill with the intention of becoming thoroughly familiar with all its details. This he has done, and is now the competent manager of the mills in Quaker City. Elmer W. Hall and Miss Emma C., daughter of Isaac and Eliza (Taylor) Griffith, were married on Christmas Day, 1883. To them have been born two children, Clara, who died in infancy, in 1885, and Blanche, whose birth occurred February 15, 1893. Our subject is a stanch Republican in politics, and bears well his part in the affairs of the community. Religiously he is a member of the Society of Friends, and seeks in his every-day life to carry out the teachings of that sect. Socially he is a member of Quaker City Lodge No. 310, K. of P. JOHN D. ROWLAND owns a well improved farm two miles west of Senecaville, in Richland Township, Guernsey County. Eighty acres of his place is part of the original homestead owned by his father before him. The family has long been. identified with the development and progress of this portion of the state, and has always borne an enviable reputation for industry, integrity and upright manner of living. The paternal grandparents of our subject were Thomas and Mary Rowland, natives of Pennsylvania. The former was a tailor by trade, but mainly followed the profession of teaching. Being especially well versed in mathematics, he prepared the manuscript for an arithmetic, which, however, was never published; but the material is now in the possession of his grandson, James S. The date of his birth is not accurately known, but he died about 1879, while his wife, Mary, died February 8, 1867. Of their children, James Percival was born December '24, 1807; John Baker, August 25, 1809; Simeon M., July 9, 1811; Hannah, May 24, 1813; Benjamin V., April 2, 1815; Eliza Jane, May 10, 1817; William B., May 20, 1819: and Mary, June 5, 1821. Our subject's father, .James P., is a native of Fayette County, Pa., and there grew to manhood. He succeeded in acquiring more than an ordinary education, and specimens of his penmanship show his skill in that direction. Some time about 1834 he removed to Belmont County, Ohio, with his family, and two or three years later took up his abode in this county, becoming the possessor of land now occupied by his sons John and James. August 19, 1841, he married Miss Mary Dollison, a native of Washington County, Pa., where her birth occurred July 3, 1822. The children of this union were: Martin V. B., born July 5, 1842; William Erastus, February 2, 1844; James S., June 9, 1845; John Dollison, October 9, 1846; and Mary Elizabeth, February 18, 1848. For many years the father of these children was a successful school teacher, and among other places he occupied with credit was that of Principal of the Senecaville school. He was an honest, conscientious anti upright man in all his relations to his fellows. He was called from this life September 5, 1886, but his wife survived him until January 3, 1890. She was the daughter of John Dollison, who was called to his final rest in December, 1877. Our subject's eldest brother, William E., married Eva M. Brown, February 18, 1884, and is now foreman of a planing-mill at Quaker City, this county. James S., the next younger brother, enlisted in Company E, Eighty-eighth Ohio Infantry, and served from July 5, 1863, until July 3, 1865, being mainly stationed at Camp Chase, Ohio, but a portion of the time was employed escorting troops to the front, and in guarding prisoners on their way to places of detention. James S. is unmarried and resides on the old homestead, where he owns a tract of forty acres. In his boyhood days John D. Rowland received a fair education, and was initiated into the various 366 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. duties pertaining to farm life. He has always made his home on the farm where his birth occurred. March 28, 1867, he was united in marriage with Sarah Catherine Rose, fifth child of William and Mary Ann (Thompson) Rose, the latter of whom is still living, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. The Thompsons come from one of the oldest families in this part of Ohio, being descended from one Robert, who Was born in Fayette County, Pa., in 1780, and his wife, Susan, nee Torrence, to whom he was married about 1802. Robert Thompson, speaking of the state of the country at the time when his father, Robert, came to Ohio, says in the Richland Monitor, March 16, 1886: "They came to Ohio about 1811, and settled on the farm now known as the Madison Gregg Farm, only three acres of it then being cleared. Few settlers were then on Opossum Creek, and they counted as neighbors all from Sarahsville to Leatherwood. Paths through the woods were the only routes of travel, and our pasture-field included much of what is now Guernsey and Noble Counties, but it was then without a fence. Every evening the settler belied his stock and turned it loose, and in the morning he started with his gun to hunt it, going perhaps one or two miles." To Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rowland were born two children, namely: Bellzora, wife of Ernest Sechrist, of Richland Township; and Francis Shannon, who is at home. Our subject has ever been an honest, hardworking man, and is the architect of his own fortunes. He keeps everything about his place in a thrifty condition, and gives his personal supervision to all the departments of farm work. He is slow to contract and prompt to pay debt, and his word is considered as good as his bond in the community where he is so well known, and has long been considered one of the prominent citizens. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 369 . JUDGE JAMES WALTER CAMPBELL, a leading member of the Bar of Guernsey County, is one of the most respected citizens of Cambridge. In 1883 he was elected to serve as Judge of the.Court of Common Pleas, and four years later was re-elected to that position. It is now over two decades since his admission to the Bar, and during this time he has built up for himself an enjoyable reputation as a jurist of superior ability, keen perception and accurate judgment. He is Vice-President and next to the largest stockholder in the Old National Bank of Cambridge, one of the oldest concerns of the kind in the United States. Judge Campbell was born in Middletown, Guernsey County, September 20, 1847, and is a son of Dr. James and Sarah (Brown) Campbell, natives of Belmont County, Ohio, and Allegheny County, Pa., respectively. The ancestors of the Campbell family were Scotch-Irish. For a number of years Dr. Campbell was engaged in practice in the eastern part of this county, but died in the prime of life, on the 25th of February, 1852, at the age of thirty-five years. His untimely demise was occasioned by the exercise of his native generosity and kindness of heart. A citizen of this county had contracted "Panama fever" on the way home from California, and the local physicians were afraid to undertake the case. Dr. Campbell not only ad, ministered to him the remedies which he deemed beet, but took care of the patient and nursed him until he himself was smitten with the fever. His 16 wife died December 29, 1882, aged sixty-two years. Of their children, two are deceased, Orlando dying in infancy, and Amanda M., wife of James II. Rosemond, August 18, 1872. William A. is engaged in zinc and lead mining in Joplin, Mo. Alice V. is the wife of E. .1. Williams, a grocer in Washington. D. C. Charles M. is a retired capitalist and journalist of Washington. After a public-school education, James W. Campbell entered Wittenberg College, at Springfield, Ohio. He became acquainted with James A. Garfield, who induced him to enter Williams College, in Massachusetts, and he still has in his possession a letter written by the great statesman, in which he sets forth his reasons for desiring his friend to attend his favorite college. In 1869 Mr. Campbell was graduated from that well known institution, and at once returned to his native county. He became associated with Captain Farrar in the management of the Cambridge Hews, which was first issued September 2; 1869, and the name of which has since been changed to the Herald. During the five years of his journalistic work our subject read law with Captain Farrar and Joseph W. White, and was admitted to the Bar in 1871. He then entered into partnership with his former preceptor, Mr. White, who subsequently retired from the firm, after which Mr. Campbell became a partner of Fred L. Rosemond. At the age of fifteen years Mr. Campbell enlisted in defense of the Stars and Stripes, in Company E. One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio Infantry. 370 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. This was his third attempt to enlist, and to accomplish his purpose he was obliged to run away from home. He was first assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, and later to the Army of the Tennessee, and took part in every engagement from the time he reached the front until the close of the war. For bravery he was made Corporal, and with his comrades was obliged to bear unusual hardships, as the men practically lived for some time on a diet of parched corn. Mr. Campbell has been frequently honored with positions on committees connected with his Alma Mater, and he is also a Trustee of Muskingum College. His political allegiance has been given by him since he reached his majority to the Republican party. February 13, 1873, Mr. Campbell married Martha, daughter of Hon. J. W. White, who at one time was a Member of Congress from this district, and who was a leading member of the county Bar (see his sketch elsewhere in this volume). One son, Joseph W., now a student in the University of Chicago, is the only child of the Judge and his estimable wife. They are membersof the Methodist Episcopal Church. JOHN RAY FINLEY is one of the worthy representative pioneers of Guernsey County, and few, if any, inhabitants of this section have more sincere friends among their acquaintances. He is one of the substantial farmers of Richland Township, where he owns a portion of his father's old homestead, situated in township 1, range 2, one and one-half miles west of Senecaville. An ancestor of our subject, the Rev. James Finley, was the first Presbyterian minister to cross the Alleghany Mountains into the western part of Pennsylvania. There he ministered to the spiritual needs of the early settlers for many years. One of his sons, Ebenezer, born about 1754, lived in Fayette County, Pa. The latter, who was a pioneer in a locality where Indian atrocities were common, had many adventures with them, and also suffered many other vicissitudes of. frontier life. On one occasion, he and a. companion were attacked by three Indians. One of the redrawn pursued Mr. Finley with a tomahawk around a big tree, after his unfortunate comrade had already fallen into the hands of the other two Indians. The latter, noticing that his captors' attention was momentarily diverted, seized a gun and shot the pursuing Indian, then wrenched the knife from the grasp of one of the other Indians and stabbed' him to death. He then, with the assistance of Mr. Finley, made short work of the remaining Indian. Ebenezer Finley was married four times, and had an exceedingly large family, even for those days.. He owned an extensive farm, and was an honored citizen of the community where he lived. James, son of Ebenezer Finley, and grandfather of our subject, was born in 1784, and died in August, 1861. In 1805 he married Elizabeth Fulton, eldest child of John and Rachel Fulton, of Pennsylvania. After their marriage the young- couple settled on a part of Mr. Finley's father's farm, living there for seven years. In 1814 they came to Ohio, and from that time until his death he was a resident of Richland.Township. His nine children were John F.; Eliza, Mrs. John Atwell; Jane, Mrs. Daniel Riggs; Rachael, Mrs. Wesley Dennison; William; James; Mary, Mrs. Robert McCune; Rebecca, Mrs. John Sawyer; and Ebenezer, the father of our subject. Ebenezer Finley was born July 31, 1813, in Pennsylvania, and with his parents came to Ohio when quite young. His father had entered four hundred and eighty acres or more.of land in this county, and at his death had three hundred and twenty acres left after giving to his sons, William, John and Ebenezer, a quarter-section each. The portion that came to the latter was the original homestead, the same now occupied by John Ray, of this sketch. The remainder of Ebenezer Finley's life was passed on the farm where he located just after hie marriage, and in addition to agricultural pursuits he made large sums from dealing in live stock. He often bought large herds, which he drove to Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Buffalo markets. At one time he owned rive hundred and   PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 371 forty acres in Iowa and one thousand acres in Kansas. In early life he was a Whig, but later became a Republican. For years he held the .office of Township Trustee, and was an Infirmary Director for nine years. A Deacon in the Presbyterian Church, he was well known for his uprightness and genial disposition. He was called to his final rest December 4, 1890, and his wife, who was a most worthy and lovable woman, died in less two years afterward, May 27, 1892. They were the parents of four children: John R.; Levi L., who was born August 16, 1842; Mary E., Mrs. M. Mill-hone, born September 7, 1850, and who died April 11, 1877; and Margaret, Mrs. John Thomas, of Iowa, born May 9, 1854. John Ray Finley was born February 26, 1839, and received a good common-school education. In 1860 he desired to see the West, and in company with several acquaintances from this part of the state he went to Ottumwa, Iowa, and from there crossed the plains, by way of Plattsmouth and Ft. Kearney, to Denver. The trip consumed about two months, and at that time the routes swarmed with westbound trains. Though the Indians were numerous, they did not attack the party of which Mr. Finley was a member. After visiting the Gregory Mines, and engaging in placer-mining and prospecting for one season, he returned home on account of poor health. February 21,1861, occurred the marriage of our subject and Hester Ann, daughter of William and Margaret (Dilley) Thompson. Her grandfather, William Thompson, Sr., born in 1783, in Fayette County, Pa., moved to Guernsey County, which is now a part of Noble County, Ohio, in 1810, and in September, 1814, laid out the town of Senecaville in the woods. He was the first or second merchant in that place, in the early history of which he was prominent as farmer, merchant, legislator and judge. The parents of Mrs. Finley were married in 1888, and seven children were born to their union, of whom our subject's wife was second, her birth having occurred December 20, 1840. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Finley, William T., a civil engineer, who since 1886 has been in the employ of the Northwestern Railroad, and is now an assistant engineer at Boone, Iowa, graduated as a civil engineer, and afterwards took a scientific course at Ada College, from which he graduated in 1885. Mary E. and Charles .I. are both at home; Benjamin E., who graduated from the classical department of Ada College in 1893, is now engaged in teaching, and makes his headquarters under the parental roof; and John H., who is also engaged in teaching, is still at home. After his marriage our subject removed to a farm located in the southwest quarter of section 23, where he built a good house and made many other substantial improvements. In 1886 he removed to his present residence, locating on the old homestead, and now has some three hundred and twenty acres of fine farming and pasture land upon which he has been very successful. In politics he is a Republican, but does not seek for official distinction, though he filled the office of Township Trustee for many years, finally declining to serve longer. His interest in good schools has led him to serve as School Director for more than twenty years. A man of intelligence and practical sense, he also possesses thrifty and energetic qualities, which have led to his success. In manner he is genial, kindly and warm-hearted, and enjoys the friendship of all who have any dealings with him. WILLIAM K. BOLAN, M. D., a well known and respected practitioner of Cumberland, Ohio, has been located here since the spring of 1879, and is a graduate of the Columbus Medical College. He is thoroughly a master of his profession and has never ceased his study and research in the field of the healing art. On the maternal side the Doctor is of German origin, while on his father's side be is of Irish descent. His paternal grandfather emigrated to Loudoun County, Va., in early manhood, and there passed the remainder of his life. He and his brothers were slaveholders, the former freeing his slaves. however before he died, while the latter, as a rule, 372 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. held theirs until the emancipation act 'went into effect. He left five children: Joseph, William, Silas, Stephen and Naomi, all of whom, with the exception of the last-named, are now deceased. The daughter was twice married. Her first union was with Mr. Lingo, whom she bore a large family of children. William, father of Dr. Bolan, was born in Loudoun County, Va., in February, 1817, and moved to Ohio in 1858. He settled on a farm in Goshen Township, Belmont County, where he accumulated a good estate. He was a member of the Baptist Church and active in all good works. Politically 116 was a Republican. He was called to his final rest March 6, 1890, and his loss was sincerely mourned by his many friends. His uncle was the owner of the farm on which John Wilkes Booth was shot. The wife of William Bolan was Miss Mary Davis; she was born in Jefferson County and is still living, though now in her seventy-sixth year. Four of her six children grew to maturity, namely: Emmet D., of Missouri; Mrs. Amanda Burns, who lives in this state; Mrs. Anne E. Burns, of Nebraska; William K.; and John, who died at the age of seventeen years. The birth of Dr. Bolan occurred in Loudoun County, Va., November 5, 1857. He was reared to farm duties and received a district-school education near the old homestead. Later he entered Bethany College and Hopedale Normal. At the age of sixteen he began teaching, and successfully conducted schools for four terms. He was eighteen years of age when he began his medical studies under the instruction of Dr. J. W. Hamilton, of Columbus, Ohio, and in 1879, after a course of lectures, he was duly graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Columbus Medical College. September 16, 1886, occurred the marriage of the Doctor and Miss Anna Hall, of Delaware, Ohio. Her parents were John and Susan Hall, respected residents of Delaware, the former being a banker. Mrs. Bolan died August 12, 1893, aged thirty-five years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in her early life, but after her marriage became identified with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, to which. the Doctor still belongs. Their only child, Audley H., was born in Delaware, Ohio, December 17, 1887, and is still living with his father. In personal character Dr. Bolan is a man whom to know is to esteem. He is upright and strictly honorable in all his business relations, and makes his chief end in life everything which tends to elevate and uplift his fellows." Politically he deposits a ballot in favor of the Republican party nominees. THOMAS J. MILLER, M. D., is Mayor of Kimbolton. For four years he was engaged in general merchandising, under the firm name of McConaughey & Miller, but for the last year under the firm name of Miller & Pollock. He was obliged to give up the practice of his profession in 1889 on account of poor health, but was formerly very successful in his chosen work. The parents of Dr. Miller were David L. and Mary C. (Reed) Miller. The father was a native of Belmont County, Ohio, born November 27,1809, to Mathew and Jane (Long) Miller, who were natives of Maryland and. Ohio, respectively, and in 1835 removed from Belmont County to the village of Antrim, in this county. They cleared a farm, on which they resided. until April, 1860, when they became residents of Wheeling Township. David L. Miller died March, 31, 1880. His wife, Mary, was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, January 9, 1819, and died in Ju ly, 1894. Her. parents, Robert and Mary (Cromey) Reed, were natives of Ohio and Ireland, respectively. They took up their abode in this county in 1841, where Robert Reed passed the remainder of his life; his wife's death occurring in Jefferson County. David Miller was a cooper by trade and taught school for a few years, but made farming his chief occupation. For a number of years he was Trustee of Madison Township, and also served for a number of terms as School Director. Dr. T. J. Miller, who was born at Antrim, Madison Township, March 15, 1849, is one of eight chil- PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 373 dren. Five of the number are deceased: Robert R., Mathew T., Hannah J., Sarah and William Jennie I. is unmarried and lives in Cambridge, as does also her sister, Mary W., a school teacher, the widow of Lawson J. Scott, Until reaching his majority, Dr. Miller continued to live with his parents, and then going out to earn his own livelihood was for five years employed as a carpenter. He later attended school for two terms, after which, in the fall of 1875, he taught one term in the Bell School, in Liberty Township. Soon afterward he took up the study of medicine, and was graduated February 27, 1878, at the Columbus Medical College. His first location was at Sunny Dale, Sedgwick County, Kan. There he remained until March 9, 1881, whem he removed to Harvey County, in the same state. After practicing until September, 1886, he entered the Cincinnati Medical College, where he took a full course as a postgraduate. The following spring he went to Topeka, Kan., with the intention of practicing medicine, but was laid low with a severe attack of fever. As soon as convalescent he returned to Cambridge and continued in practice here for two years, at the. end of which time he was again prostrated with the fever which had formerly afflicted him, and he was compelled to give up his profession. December 9, 1889, Dr. Miller, in partnership with W. C. McConaughey, purchased the stock of T. S. Luccock. They continued in business until March 1, 1894, when the interests of our subject's partner were purchased by Mrs. Florence Pollock. The Doctor was a member and Secretary of the Board of Health of Cambridge, Ohio. While living in Sedgwick City, Kan., he was Treasurer of the county for one year, and in Grant Township also served in the same capacity. After coming to Kimbolton he filled the unexpired term of T. W. Berry as Treasurer, and was then elected to the position. In the spring of 1893 he was chosen by his fellow-citizens to serve as Mayor. In politics he is an influential man in the ranks of the Republican party. December 13, 1882, Dr. Miller was united in marriage with Mary M. Anderson, who was born near this village, February 7, 1858, and is a daughter of Dr. William and Eliza (McMillen) An- derson. The former was born in 1812, in Harrison County, Ohio, and died in April, 1882. His wife was born in this county. and is a daughter of Mary and John McMillen, Pennsylvanians. Mrs. Miller is one of six children, the others being as follows: William, deceased; Gilbert, a farmer of Johnson County, Kim.; Katie, deceased; Florence M., widow of L. W. Pollock, and a resident of Kimbolton: and Annie E., who is unmarried and lives at the home of Dr. Miller. To Our subject and wife have been born two daughters, namely, Lois and Mary. The family are members of the United Presbyterian Church, and enjoy the friendship and esteem of all who have the pleasure of their acquaintance. GARRET MATTHEWS. Among those to whom Guernsey County owes a debt of gratitude for their share in the development of her agricultural resources and in the various affairs through which the interests of society are advanced, the name of Garret Matthews should not be passed unnoted. He is at present living in Salem, whither he removed when retiring from farm work. Mr. Matthews, who is a native of this county, was born on the 5th of January, 1820, in Antrim. His parents were Jacob and Elizabeth (Smith) Matthews, natives of Pennsylvania, who emigrated to this county about the year 1810, and spent the remainder of their lives in farm pursuits. The father was the son of Garret and Margery Matthews, also born in the Keystone State. where the former's death occurred at the remarkable age of ninety-eight years. The father of our subject was seventy-eight at the time of his decease, in 1874. Mrs. Elizabeth Matthews was the daughter of John Smith and wife, who were born in Pennsylvania, and passed their entire lives there. This lady died in 1878, aged seventy-five years. She was the mother of a family of eight children, of whom the eldest son, William, is engaged in business in 374 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Missouri; Garret was the second-born; Margaret is the widow of John Burges, and lives in this county; Hugh is farming in this locality; Phebe A. is deceased; Cinderella is. the wife of George McFee, a resident of this county; and Zephaniah B. is deceased. Garret Matthews began earning his own living at the age of eighteen years by operating a threshing-machine, which he had purchased in partnership with another gentleman. This he conveyed to the farms of those wanting work done during the summer, and for six years reaped a good income from this kind of work, in partnership with Samuel Virtue. Then, having reason to sever the connection, young Matthews became connected with John Polock, and for three years the new firm made money. About this tin our subject was married, his union with Miss Rebecca C. Linn being solemnized in 1840. She was born in this county, in March, 1824, and was the daughter of John and Margaret (McCullough) Linn. Her father, who was .a native of Pennsylvania, died in 1878, aged three-score years and ten. His parents were Adam and Jane Linn, born in Maryland, where they lived until 1812, the year of their advent into Guernsey County. Here the father purchased a farm, and at the same time was the proprietor of a tavern, from which he derived a good income. The mother of Mrs. Matthews died in 1879, being then one year older than her husband. Of their family of eleven children, all are deceased, with the exception of Rebecca, Andrew F., Adam and John. Jr. The others bore the respective names of Annie. Eliza, Peggy, Samuel, Nancy, Mary and Sallie. The father or this family was a farmer by occupation and a blacksmith by trade, which combined businesses he followed during his active years. By his union with Miss Linn,our subject became the father of the following children: Eliza A., deceased; William R., living in Liberty Township; John, also of the above locality; Margaret, wife of J. M. C. Gardner, making her home in Wisconsin; Adam M., deceased; Garret A., living in Port Washington, Tuscarawas County, Ohio; and Alvanus M., carrying on farm pursuits in Liberty Township. Soon after his marriage our subject rented a farm, upon which he lived a twelvemonth, being then so situated that he could purchase a tract of eighty acres. This he called his home for the following three years, when we find him located on the estate which he still owns. This now includes but sixty-seven acres, Mr. Matthews having sold one hundred and twenty-three acres on account of not being able to cultivate it as he would like, and as he was prevented from doing by old age. This estate is one of the model ones of the county, and from its rental Mr. Matthews is deriving a good income. During early life our subject learned the trade of a stonemason, which he followed during the winter season, when it was necessary to add to his income, and later he became well versed in the art of shoemaking. He is purely and truly a self-made man, and energy and perseverance are nowhere better illustrated than in his career, as he. began life with only the ability with which nature endowed him, and at the present time is a well known and highly respected citizen of Salem. In politics Mr. Matthews was a Democrat until the last election, when he had reason to change his views and voted the Prohibition ticket, and it is his intention to uphold the principles of that party. for the remainder of his life. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, in the work of which he takes an active part. JUDGE WILLIAM CHAMBERS, one of the most prominent and influential citizens of Guernsey County, is an official who is making an excellent record. He is held in high esteem by the ;Bar and public as a man fair and impartial in all his rulings and possessing unswerving integrity and honesty of purpose. Judge Chambers was born in Calvert County, Md., March 11, 1842, and is the son of William and Matilda (Stallings) Chambers, also natives of PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 375 that state, where the father during his later years followed farm pursuits. In early life he had been a boatman on Chesapeake Bay, but not finding this a profitable or congenial occupation, abandoned it after some time and began cultivating the soil of his native state. The family was one of prominence in Maryland, and was connected with the early history of that state. To William Chambers and his wife were born seven children, of whom six are living at the present time. Mary Jane is the wife of Michael H. Spence, and resides in Noble County, this state. Our subject is next in order of birth. Henry is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Union County, Ore. Eliza became the wife of Madison Lamley, and resides in Missouri. Susan V. Moorehead makes her home in West Virginia; and Lewis is farming in Woodford County, III. The mother of this family died in Maryland, April 28, 1853. The father came with his family that year to Ohio, and, locating in Monroe County, was engaged in the tobacco business until the year of his decease, 1866, when threescore and ten years old. He had been twice married, his first wife, who bore the maiden name of Christina Birckhead, and was a native of Maryland, dying in 1837. The ancestors of our subject on his mother's side were also well known in the history of Maryland, of which state they were residents fur many generations. The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of his native county and of Monroe County, this state, until 1860, when he journeyed to Maryland and became a student in West River Academy. He returned to Ohio in 1863, and taught school until 1869. It had been his ambition, however, since early boyhood to lead a pro-. fessional life, and during the years in which he was teaching he kept up his legal studies and was admitted to practice at the Bar of Noble County in 1869. Two years later he located at Caldwell for the practice of his profession, and the following year had the honor of being elected the first Mayor of the city. This position he held for a term of four years, and on its expiration was elected Prosecuting Attorney, serving from January, 1876, to January 1, 1878. His great Popularity is also indicated by the fact that he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in April, 1892, which position he still holds. The energy of his character and the force of purpose inherent in his nature are apparent at a glance. He sees at once the difficult point in any question, an as readily sees the means that must be adopted to carry it. Stanch in principle, clear in perception, and decided in character, he deserves the good things which have come to him and the high character for probity which years of intimate business and social acquaintance have brought him. Judge Chambers was married, October 25, 1870, to Miss Martha Phillips, daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Phillips, of Noble County. To them have been born four children, Alfred P., Della, Henry B. and Ada. The elder son is attending the Dental College of Cincinnati. In politics the Judge is a thorough Republican and takes great delight in the success of the party. Rev. Jeremiah Phillips, father of Mrs. Chambers, was born in Saratoga, N. Y., May 3, 1799, and departed this life at Dexter City, this state, July 5, 1888. In 1823 he moved with his parents to Crawford County, Pa., and August 27. 1826, was converted to the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and, although his parents were Friends in religious belief, he became an active and efficient officer in the church of his choice. he was given. a license to preach in 1830, and the same year was admitted to the Pittsburg Conference. being stationed at Connelsville, Pa., with thirty-three appointments. In order to till the pulpit at these various places he was compelled to ride two hun dred and eighty miles every eight weeks. He was ordained a Deacon in 1832, and Elder two years later, and although superannuated in 1864 continued to preach for ten years thereafter. Mrs. Chambers' mother was in maidenhood Miss Arah Courtney, a native of Monongahela County, Pa. The ceremony which united her to Rev. Mr. Phillips was performed May 8, 1834. Mrs. Phillips lived until 1884, when, October 14 of that year, shy: passed away. Her husband was an associate of John Brown of Ossawatomie fame. He always called things by their right name, and fearlessly condemned sin in all its forms. He was a strong Abolitionist and a man of deep piety, who, loving 376 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. all, was loved in turn by everyone who knew him. He died July 5, 1888, after a long and useful life. The above facts relating to Rev. Mr. Phillips were gleaned front the proceedings of the Eastern Ohio Methodist Episcopal Conference of 1888. VALENTINE AND DAVID GIBLER. The history of the Gibler family dates back to probably an earlier period in the settlement of Lawrence Township than that of any other family represented here. Tracing the ancestry back several generations from the subjects of this narrative, we find that their maternal great-grandfather Rinehart was a member of a family of whom all but himself were murdered by the Indians. The home in Pennsylvania. was surrounded by the savages, and parents, brothers and sisters were brutally massacred, only a boy of seven years escaped, fled and jumped into a hole left by an upturned tree. There he ran into the arms of an old Indian chief, secreted to watch foil anyone attempting to escape. He was made a prisoner, and adopted by his captor, whom he followed, in his hunting.and fishing expeditions. On one occasion, while skinning a deer, he was shot through the right hand by an Indian who was jealous of his influence with the chief. The wound was dressed with herbs and soon healed. After a captivity of seven years he was released. He later served as a soldier, and spent some time at Ft. Lawrence, which was located on the site of the homestead of Henry Gibler in later years. Valentine and David Gibler are the sons of Henry and Mary (Rinehart) Gibler. Their father, who was born in 1792, was a son of Gabriel Gibler, and a farmer by occupation, who for years tilled the soil of Bedford County, Pa. About 1812 Henry came to the site of what is now Waynesburg, Stark County, Ohio, where he stopped with Peter Shafer, an uncle of the lady he afterward married. The trip to Ohio and back home was made on foot through the unbroken forest. Some years later he returned to Stark County, and about 1819 settled in Waynesburg. Thence, in April, 1825, he removed to Tuscarawas County and made a settlement on the farm now occupied by our subject. A little below six feet in height and weighing one hundred and ninety pounds, Henry Gibler was noted as the most powerful man in the whole Tuscarawas Valley. A man of more than ordinary ed- ucation, he was a fluent linguist and spoke English and German with equal accuracy. For years after he settled in the woods of Lawrence Township, game abounded in great quantities. He was . not a trapper, but shot game for his own use. Wolves were very plentiful and followed him as he made his way through the woods, and sometimes boldly stuck their noses into the cracks between the poles of the log cabin he first erected. They were very destructive to sheep, which they would take from pens five or six rails in height and carry away. In passing through the forest Mr. Gibler carried an axe for protection. He aided in building the Ohio Canal, on which James A. Garfield afterward was employed as a canal-boat driver. In 1838 he built a house, that constitutes a part of the present homestead dwelling. The barn which he erected in 1830 is still standing. The marriage of Mr. Gibler united him with Mary, daughter of Valentine and Mary (Bauman) Rinehart, natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in Stark County in 1809. Mrs. Gibler was born in 1802, and passed from earth October 23, 1873. Of their children. we note the following: John, who was born October 8, 1824, married Magdalene Yunkman, and settled on the northern part of the old homestead; Aaron died in 1837, at the age of. eleven years; Maria, born in 1830, became the wife of Daniel Tomer; Valentine was born July 23, 1833, David April 27, 1836, and Lydia A. April 19, 1840. Starting in life with a capital of but twenty-five cents, Henry Giblet through industrious efforts accumulated a competence. On beginning to keep house, he made the majority of the articles of furniture by hand.; He constructed a small sled of saplings and on it hauled wheat over the bare ground to Canton, where a bushel of grain was exchanged for a pound of coffee, and the balance of the load traded for a little calico at fifty cents per yard. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 377 His first tract of land, which cost $150, consisted of one hundred acres, to which he added as opportunity afforded, until at the time of his demise he owned three hundred and eighty-seven acres in a body, one and one-fourth miles southwest of Bolivar. six hundred acres in Greene County, Iowa, and two hundred and fifty acres in Lake County, Ind. He and his wife spent their lives on the Lawrence Township homestead, where he died August 5, 1859, and she October 23, 1873. Both were devoted members of the German Lutheran Church, and in their honored lives exemplified the sincerity of their religious belief. The worthy couple were beloved by their neighbors and esteemed by all with whom they had acquaintance. Though they have passed away, their deeds live in honored remembrance, and the influence of their Christian characters will be for the ennobling of their posterity. After the death of their father Valentine and David took the homestead of three hundred and eighty-seven acres, and now own the site of old Ft. Lawrence, where their grandfather was a soldier more than a century ago. Their farm is one of the best in the county, improved with good buildings and supplied with modern agricultural machinery. Adjoining their estate on the south lies the old Rutter Farm, owned and cultivated by their sister Lydia, who since purchasing it in 1889 has placed it under a high state of cultivation. She is an estimable lady, and shares with her brothers in the esteem of neighbors and friends. In religious belief Valentine is identified with the German Lutheran Church, and politically he is a Republican, to which party David also belongs. The latter, socially, is connected with the Independent Order of Odd. Fellows. AUGUSTUS MAX. One of the prominent German-American citizens of Quaker City, is the gentleman whose biography it now becomes our duty and pleasure to write. He is at present engaged in the manufacture of a fine grade of cigars, which he retails at prices which at once make his store popular. He has resided in this city since March, 1893, but in this time he has built up a fine trade, and is numbered among the well-to-do business men of the place. Mr. Max is a native of Austria, having been born in that country July 13, 1848. His parents were George and Elizabeth (Deirl) Max, also natives of Austria. There the father worked in foundries, and was also employed in erecting cupolas on many of the large buildings in the cities. Our subject was four years old when his parents undertook the journey to America, leaving their native home May 2, 1852, and arriving in Balti- more August 15, following. From Baltimore the family were conveyed to Pittsburg, where they made their home for a number of years. There Augustus was sent to the German Catholic schools, attending fora year and nine months, when his school days were ended. He then began to make his own way in the world, and his father dying soon afterward, he was compelled to support his mother and sister, who were left with limited means. At the age of eleven years he began working in a factory in Pittsburg, his duty being to strip the tobacco from the stem. Thinking this a good business, he commenced at the bottom and worked Ins way up in all departments, until he was thoroughly familiar with the manufacture of cigars. In 1871 Mr. Max came to Ohio and located in Barnesville, where he had charge of a factory for a period of eight years. Being offered at the end of that time inducements to move to Columbus, he changed his place of residence, and in that city was given charge of Pat Sweeney's shop for one year. In 1880 he returned to Barnesville, and remained there until April, 1881, engaged in working at his trade. That year and month he came to Quaker City, where, until 1885, he had a superintendency of a factory. About that time he formed a partnership with his brothers in the cigar business, which connection existed until 1892, when Augustus disposed of his interest in the business and moved to New Madison. His stay there was of short duration. and his next move found him in Newark, where he started in the business under the name of Max Bros. They continued to manufacture cigars in that city until March of the 378 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. following year, when our subject came again to Quaker City, and now carries on his business alone. November 28, 1872, Mr. Max was married to Mary E., daughter of Amos and Didema Mayhew, and to them have been born nine children: Henry; Lillie M., now the wife of Otto Heinbeck; Emma L., Charles A., Earl F., Helena, Iva, Elizabeth and Lura. In politics Mr. Max is a Republican. He is held in high esteem among the business men of this city, and has the proud satisfaction of knowing that the confidence he enjoys is deserved. JOSEPH BROWN, one of the progressive and enterprising farmers of Guernsey County, owns and carries on what is known as the Hugh Wilson Farm, which is situated a mile west of Cambridge. The valuable estate numbers three hundred and fifty-five acres within its boundaries. In politics a true-blue Republican, Mr. Brown has never aspired to hold office, but was elected Township Trustee, in which capacity he served fur about, three years. He was also for one term Treasurer of Knox Township. Joseph Brown was born in Adams Township, Guernsey County, June 25, 1821. His parents, Robert and Esther (Clemens) Brown, were both natives of County Tyrone, Ireland and were married in the Emerald Isle. They set sail for the United States some time between the years 1800 and 1805, and after a stormy voyage of six weeks arrived on the shores of the New World. Proceeding direct to this county, they entered a farm in the timber, and after living thereon for about six year sold out to Archie McDonald, and entered another tract of land. On this place they lived until the father's death, which occurred about 1823. Some sixteen years later the mother sold her share to Nathan Hutchinson. who also bought out the other heirs. Investing a part of the proceeds in sixty acres about two miles north of Cambridge, Mrs. Brown dwelt thereon for live years, at the end of which time she broke up housekeeping and went to live with her eldest son, tinder whose roof she died December 4, 1849. Of her seven children, Samuel lived in this county all his life; Andrew was a blacksmith, whose last years were passed in Muskingum County; Robert, also a blacksmith 'by trade, and formerly a resident of this county, was killed by being thrown from a horse; William, a tanner, lived and died in this county, of which he was a Commissioner for some nine years; James, who left home at the age of eighteen, going to Zanesville, this state, was next heard from in Texas, when he enlisted for a year's service in the Mexican War, but was soon after lost track of by his relatives; Isabel became the wife of Nathaniel Meeland, and lived prior to her death for some years on the farm now owned by her brother Joseph. James Brown, to whom we have just referred, enlisted in the Mexican War on the assurance that at the end of a year he was to have twelve hundred acres of land. He renewed his enlistment, and was promised thirteen hundred acres more, or in all twenty-five hundred acres, in addition to his monthly pay; but how the matter was adjusted has never been known by his family, and it is supposed he met his death in Mexico. Joseph Brown, of this sketch, learned the tanner's trade in youth with his brother William, and then went to Liberty, where he started a tannery of his own in company with Thomas Drakely. They continued together for five years, after which Mr. Brown sold out his interest and next helped to erect Liberty Mill. In this building he owned a third share, which he subsequently traded for a farm of two hundred and seventy-two acres. The homestead was situated four miles from Liberty, near the Herman United Presbyterian Church. While living in that township, Mr. Brown served as Trustee for three terms. He subsequently moved upon the hill north of the Baltimore & Ohio depot, where he had purchased sixty acres two years previously. After selling his tannery, he bought an interest in a wholesale grocery, and two years later sold out. The proceeds he invested in the farm which he now conducts successfully. June 10, 1847, Mr. Brown married Margaret T. Frame, daughter of William D. and Susan Frame, PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 379 and five children have come to bless their union. Robert died in infancy; William C., of Columbus, is one of the proprietors of the wholesale drug store of Orr, Brown di Price; Samuel M. is now living on the old homestead with his father; James M. is engaged in farming in the neighborhood; and Jo. is employed in the drug store where his bother is partner in Columbus. This is a very large and successful concern, doing a business of a half-million yearly. Religiously Joseph Brown has long been a member of the United Presbyterian Church and for about ten years held the ̊dice of Deacon. Subsequently he became Trustee of the congregation, and at all times has shown his strong interest in its prosperity. Mrs. Brown is also a member of the same church. PROF. WILLIAM T. YOUNG, one of the well known and popular educators of Guernsey County, deserves honor for his long and arduous service in defense of the Stars and Stripes. He enlisted while a college student, and served until the close of the conflict, taking part in many notable battles and hard-fought engagements. For upwards of twenty years he has found his field of work in Ohio, and was County Examiner of this county for six years, having been appointed as such in 1882. In 1886 he organized the Cambridge Business College, with which he is still connected. The father of our subject, who bore the Christian name of Robert, was born in Washington County, Pa. Coming to Ohio about 1835, he settled in this county, but at the end of a year removed to Muskingum County. His father, Alexander, was born in County Londonderry, Ireland, but in his young manhood took up his residence in the Keystone State. Robert Young chose for his companion and helpmate Miss Nancy McElwaine, who was born in County Down, Ireland.' Twelve children graced their union, the eldest of whom, John A., was for many years a teacher in Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Chicago. William T. is the next in the family; and of the three younger, Mary Ann died in 1867, Eliza Jane died in 1868 and .Nancy died in 1866. Margaret is the wife of Charles Bowden, of Muskingum County, this state; David H. is. a dairyman not far from Girard, Kan.; Robert Gibson died in 1888; Sarah passed away in 1868; Martha is also deceased; Maria E., who was the wife of John Bell, of Muskingum County, died in 1887; and one other child died in infancy. The father of this family lived to attain the good old age of eighty-three years, his death occurring in 1889, while his wife's demise took place some seven years previously. Prof. William T. Young was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, October 28, 1837. His boyhood was passed on a farm, his early education being such as the common schools afforded. Later he pursued a course of study in Muskingum College, and while there enlisted in the Union army, August 22, 1862. He was assigned to Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and served for the first year in West Virginia. A short time before the battle of Gettysburg he had his first encounter with the enemy, at Martinsburg, and soon afterwards joined the Army of the Potomac, with which branch he was identified until July, 1864. He was then sent under Sheridan on the Shenandoah. Valley campaign, and continued under his command until the close of the year. He then was once more placed in the Army of the Potomac, where he served until receiving his final discharge, July 25, 1865. Among the engagements in winch he was actively engaged were the following: Martinsburg, June 14, 1863; Culpeper C. H., October 11, 1863; Bristow Station, October 14; Bealton and Rappahannock, October 24; Kelly's Ford, November 7; Locust Grove, November 27 (in which he was also Color-Bearer); Mine Run, November 26 to 28; Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 to 7, 1864; and Alsop's Farm and Spottsylvania C. IL, May 9 to 12. The latter was the worst battle for the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth as far as loss of men in command was concerned.. May 23, 1864. the regiment was in the engagement of North Ann River, and a week later in that of Tot- 380 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. opotomy Creek. From this time until just before the battle of Cold Harbor Mr. Young was detailed as a clerk, but remained with his command. After a few days passed at the Second Brigade headquarters he rejoined his company and was with them in the battle of Bermuda Hundred, January 18, 1864; in that of Weldon Railroad, January 22 and 23; and in those of Monocacy, on the 9th of the following July, and Charleston, August 23. He then returned to his former post as clerk. Going home, Professor Young taught school in Guernsey County, where he was married, March . 22, 1866, to Hester Ann, daughter of John Kendall, who resided near Washington, tins county. Soon after his marriage the Professor went to Monmouth, Ill., where he was made Superintendent of the West Ward School. He then entered 'a mercantile college as a student,. later becoming teacher in the institution. About 1867 he removed to Douglas County, Kan., and in connection with teaching engaged in farming to some extent. In 1874 Professor Young returned to Ohio, and has since continued to dwell in this state. In 1866, at Monmouth, Ill, he was elected a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a stanch Republican, and religiously is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, belonging to the local congregation. HON. JAMES F. STEPHENSON, a respected resident of New Philadelphia, is Judge of the Probate Court of Tuscarawas County. He is a young man of exceptional ability, of fine address, and of the characteristics that insure success. In the preparation of his cases he is studious and painstaking, two elements that are essential for a successful jurist. and in the discharge of his present duties he is giving entire satisfaction to the public. Judge Stephenson is a native of Carroll County, Ohio, his birth having occurred at Leesville, June 19, 1863. His father, Dr. John H. Stephenson, was born in Washington County, Pa., July 22, 1817. The ancestors of Dr. Stephenson settled in Virginia early in the history of Unit colony. His grandfather, Col. James Stephenson, of Virginia, and two grand-uncles were officers in the Revolutionary army. While he was quite young, the parents of Dr. Stephenson removed to Carrollton, Ohio, where he received his early 'education. After working a few years at the carpenter's trade, he commenced the study of medicine, and, taking the prescribed course of study, he graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in 1845. After practicing at Newmarket (now Scio) and Cadiz, in Harrison County, the Doctor located at Leesville, in 1848, where he continued in the practice of his profession up to the time of his demise, which occurred November 23, 1890. He was a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church. In his political belief he was a Republican, but prior to the organization of that party was identified with the Whigs. His wife, formerly Elizabeth Forbes, was born in Carroll County. Her father, James Forbes, was a native of Ireland, and was one of the early members of the State Legislature from Carroll County. By occupation he was a merchant, and he wits for years engaged in business at New Hagerstown; but afterward removed to New Philadelphia, where he died is 1863. His wife, Elizabeth Johnson, was born in the Keystone State. In the family of three children, Judge Stephenson is the eldest. He has two sisters, Emma E. and Myrta V. His boyhood was passed under the parental roof, and in the local schools he obtained his elementary education, supplemented by a few terms at the Academy of New Hagerstown. Entering a printing-office at the age of sixteen, he learned the printer's trade, at which he worked for about six years. Being a young man of ambition and enterprise, our subject concluded to adopt the legal profession, and in 1885 began to study at New Philadelphia, in the office of A. L. Neely. At the end of a year of preparation he was admitted as a student in the Cincinnati Law School, from which institution he was graduated with honor in the spring of 1887, being awarded the $75 prize offered by the PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 381 faculty for the best essay on a selected legal topic. Soon after that event he returned to this city, and entered into partnership with his former preceptor, under the firm name of Neely & Stephenson. This connection continued to exist until the fall of 1898, when the Judge was elected on the ,Republican ticket to his present position of trust and honor. February 9, 1894, he entered upon the duties of his office, and has made for himself an enviable record. Judge Stephenson was united in marriage to Miss Dollie A. Platt, July 5, 1893. The lady was for many years a resident of Washington, D. C., but is a native of Ashtabula County, Ohio. The Judge is a member of the Masonic order, and is at present Worthy Master of New Philadelphia Lodge No. 177, A. F. & A. M. He is also a member of Equity Lodge No. 73, K. of P. JOHN W. ARNOLD, proprietor of the Guernsey House of Fairview, is an able and efficient manager, and has made his hotel a veritable symbol for all that constitutes the comfort and the pleasure of the guests. Mr. Arnold is also the possessor of a fine farm of ninety acres, located on section 10, Oxford Township, which he operated with success until April 1, 1890, when he moved into Fairview, and purchased the hotel of which he is now "mine host." Our subject is a native of this county, and was born in Oxford Township, May 29, 1851, to Anthony and Keziah (Watkins) Arnold, the former of whom was born in 1826; and died December 21, 1871. His wife, whose birth occurred in 1828, departed. this life in 1866. Both parents were natives of Oxford Township, by whose residents they were held in the highest possible esteem, and at the time of their demise their loss was greatly felt. Anthony Arnold was the son of William Arnold, a native of Maryland, who in an early day emigrated overland to this county, and entered three hundred and twenty acres of land from the Government, lying on section 10, Oxford Township, and a portion of which is now in the possession of his grandson, our subject. John W. Arnold was the second in order of birth of his parents' family of nine children. Of his brothers and sisters, Elizabeth, born June 5, 1849, is now the wife of Samuel S. Monroe, and resides in Iowa; James M., born in 1853, married Mary Young, and is now living in Oxford Township; Isaac, born in 1855, died in August, eleven years later; Sylvester, born in 1857, departed this life when a lad of nine years; Wesley, whose birth occurred in 1859, died in 1869; Jeremiah, born in 1865, died the following year; Nersilla J., born in 1855, was the twin of Isaac, and is now Mrs. Henry Wyard, wife of a druggist of Los Angeles, Cal.; Annie, born in 1859, also makes her home in the above city, where her husband, John Sullivan, is employed by the railroad. John W. Arnold was reared on the home farm, and educated in the schools of Oxford Township. He remained under the parental roof until attaining his twenty-second year, when, in 1873. he began to earn his own money by working out on farms in the vicinity. March 7 of that year he was married to Martha E. Bond, born in Londonderry Township, Guernsey County, June 20, 1853. Mrs. Arnold was the daughter of Christopher and Rachel (Burkhead) Bond, the former of whom was also a native of this county, and the son of Joshua Bond, who located here in the early days. having come hither from his native Maryland. He entered a tract of land from the Government, which he worked industriously to clear and cultivate, living to see it developed into one of the productive estates for which this section is noted. To Mr. and Mrs. Arnold there have been born three children, of whom C. Dunham is the eldest. His birth occurred October 3, 1875. Charles M. was born December 21, 1877; and the third of the family died unnamed in infancy. C. Dunham and Charles M. are residing at home with their parents. Both parents are members in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church. to ,he support of which they are liberal contributor politics Mr. Arnold is a stanch Republican taking great 382 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. interest in the success of his party, although he is in no sense of the word an aspirant. for office. As before stated, he lived on his farm on section 10 until 1890, the year of his removal into Fairview. His hotel is furnished in a tasteful manner, suited to the demands of his patrons, and his tables are always spread with the good things of the season. His rates are very reasonable, and he is an attentive and courteous host. JOHN LA RUE is a descendant of one of the sterling pioneer families of Guernsey County. He is an enterprising and progressive agriculturist of Wills Township, and took charge of the old homestead of his forefathers in 1889. His farm is in a high state of cultivation, and is kept up in such a manner that it plainly shows the thrift and constant attention of tho owner. The buildings are substantial, and the farm house is convenient and commodious. The name La Rue is plainly of French origin, and members of the family bearing the same left the sunny shores of France and settled in America before the War of the Revolution. One of these, Jabez La Rue, was a soldier in the Colonial army, as was also his young son, James, during the last year of that memorable struggle. This son was born April 22,1758, and married Elizabeth Jordan, a native of Loudoun County, Va., born March 18, 1770. In 1806 the young. couple removed to Belmont County, and two year later to this county. They settled on the northeast quarter of section 8, range 1 in Richland Township. At the same time Stephen Ballard, Reason Hammond, William McConnel and a Mr. Welsh settled with their families on adjoining quarter-sections. They had no other near neighbors, and their advent into this locality followed closely upon the departure of the reclme» from the West. To James La Rue and wife were born five daughters and hive sons, namely: Sarah, May 24. 1794; Charity B. April 15, 1796; William B., September 20, 1797; Pamelia, July 26, 1799; John, February 6, 1801; Margaret, October 29, 1802; James. October 20. 1804; Laban, October 18, 1806; David, January 23, 1812; and Elizabeth, July .7, 1819. They were all natives of Loudoun County, Laban and his sisters, Pamelia and Margaret, inherited the old homestead. John La Rue, grandfather of our subject, received a limited education in the old-time log schoolhouse. He experienced all the hardships incident to pioneer life, and helped to clear several farms. He married Rebecca Ballard, by whom he had twelve children, named as follows: James, Stephen, Hamilton, Laban, Robert, John S., Samuel R., Mary M., Mrs. Elizabeth Moss, Judson, Eli J.. and Richard, who died at the age of five years. Several of these sons were successful school teachers. Samuel R. La Rue, the uncle of our subject, was born in Wills Township, on the old homestead, February 13, 1842. After mastering the rudiments of an education in the old log schoolhouse sfill standing near his late residence. he went to Wisconsin, where he made an enviable reputation as a school teacher, commanding higher pay than any others in his profession in that locality. When the wan broke out he cnlisted in a Wisconsin regiment, and served for three years. During his army life he sustained lasting injury, and never. fully recovered his former health. Becoming interested in the culture of bees, he met with unexpected success in this unusual line of work, and had almost a monopoly of the business. Returning to his old home in Ohio. he brought with him some Italian bees, and inaugurated the honey in-dusty. which had previously been a failure in this county. He was cut down while in the midst of his usefulness, .January 21, 1888. His faithful companion and helpmate along life's journey bore the maiden name of Sonora Aduddell. The birth of the father of our subject occurred on the farm his father purchased in 1821, and which is now our subject's by inheritance. The date of J. S. La Rue's birth was April 25, 1840. In early life he engaged in farming, but after his marriage he followed the carpenter's trade in vari- PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 383 ous places in Ohio until 1880. He is now living at Lakeview, Ohio. August 14, 1862, he married Ann Linn, daughter of John and Rebecca (Scarborough) Linn, of Noble County, and of the seven children born of this union our subject is the eldest The others are as follows: Richard S.; Maggie, wife of Henry Shaffer; Nannie, Zua, Vinnie and Charles. John La Rue, Jr., was born July 18, 1863, in Noble County, this state, and accompanied his father and the other members of the family in their frequent removals to and sojourns in various towns of the state. When twelve years of age he began working with his father in the western part of the state, and continued with him until his majority. For the past six years he has been engaged in the cultivation of the old family homestead. September 14, 1892, occurred. the marriage of our subject and Mrs. Laura, widow of Samuel It La Rue. She was left an orphan at an early age, and is a daughter of William and Jane (Morrison) Aduddell. Her paternal grandfather, George, was a native of Ireland, and her grandfather, Andrew Morrison, a native of Maryland, was a Captain in the War of 1812. At an early day he emigrated to Ohio, and kept hotel at Senecaville for twenty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. La Rue have one child, John Paul by name. They are members of the Baptist Church. In his political belief Mr. La Rue is a Prohibitionist. JAMES T. JOHNSON was appointed Postmaster of Milnersville, Ohio, in 1885, and made a most efficient and trustworthy servant. He is quite a leader in the local ranks of the Democracy, and for three terms has been Treasurer of Monroe Township. Since 1881 he has been interested in the drug store formerly owned by his brother, J. S., who died in October, 1883. Our Subject then took charge of the establishment, running the same for his brother's widow until 1886, when he purchased the business which he has since conducted. He carries a full line of general merchandise, groceries and drugs, and enjoys a full share of the local patronage. Born in Washington County, Pa., March 23, 184.5, our subject is a son of John and Rebecca (Brownlee) Johnson. The former was also a native of Washington County, his birth having occurred in 1801. His father, Robert, was a native of Ireland, who at an early day settled in Washington County, and there married. He was a skillful mechanic and a successful farmer, being the owner of an improved place of two hundred and forty acres five miles west of the village of Washington. His family numbered seven children, namely: John; Nancy, Mrs. Patterson; Jane, Mrs. Bartley; McClain; Martha, who married John Hammond, and died near Cadiz, Ohio; Grizella, Mrs. David Morrow; William, who was a wealthy agriculturist, and dIed near Hickory, Pa.; and Robert, whose death occurred on the old homestead in the Keystone State. On arriving at man's estate John Johnson was given a farm by his father, as was also his brother William. On these farms the young men built cabins and, leasing the homestead, returned to their native state, afterward trading them off for a small consideration. The town of Mansfield, Ohio, is now situated on the site of these two farms. The first wife of our subject's father was a Miss Taggart, who lived but a short time after her marriage. Mr. Johnson then married a Miss McClelland, by whom he had four children. Margaret became the wife of D. L Hughes, and died in 1885 at Cadiz, Ohio. Robert was a soldier in the late war, belonging to the One Hundred and Twenty-second Ohio Infantry, Army of the Potomac. During his service he was taken sick with the measles and sent home, later being placed on detached duty at Camp Dennison. He received his final discharge at Columbus in 1865, and is now employed in the railroad office at Trenton, Mo. Annie, Mrs. it P. Smith, is a resident of Pittsburg, Pa. John, who was a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment, with his brother was cap- 384 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. tured at the battle of Winchester, and after being held a prisoner for twenty-two days at Belle Isle was paroled: May 4, 1864, he was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness and taken prisoner. After being held captive at Millen, Ga., for two months, he was confined in Andersonville for live months more, after which he was exchanged at Annapolis, Md. Returning to his company, he was present at the surrender of Lee on Grand River at Washing. ton, D. C., and was discharged at Columbus in 1865. His death occurred in 1883, at Milnersville, Ohio. The mother of these children having died when her youngest child was an infant, the father then married Rebecca Brownlee, daughter of William Brownlee, a native of Washington County, Pa., whose wife's maiden name was Carson. His father was born in Scotland and emigrated- to America in early manhood. He owned a. large farm and one of the finest brick houses in Washington County in his day. Until 1856 John Johnson continued to live in Pennsylvania, but at that time removed to Guernsey County and bought a farm in Liberty Township. This he sold in 1863 and took up his residence on a farm in Muskingum County, dying there in September, 1885. By his marriage with Rebecca Brownlee six children were born: W. B., who died at home in 1891; J. T., the subject of this sketch; J. B., who is engaged in farming near New Concord, Ohio; Martha. G., who resides at home; Keziah J., assistant matron of the Children's Home at Cadiz; and Samuel L., who is still at home. The education of our subject was confined to what he could obtain in the common schools of the district in which he was reared. With his parents he came to Ohio when he was eleven years of age, and for a number of years his time was principally given to agriculture. He then engaged in selling fruit trees and patent rights until 1881, when he began clerking in his brother's drug store. His natural business ability was early made evident, and he met with good success in various undertakings. In 1884 occurred the marriage of our subject and Miss Nora, daughter of Samuel Speck. She -vas born and grew up to womanhood in Ohio. Four children, three sons and a daughter, have come to gladden the hearts and home of our subject and wife. They are named as follows: John P., Orrin McClain, James Raymond and Maggie Neola. Mr. Johnson was brought up in the faith of the United Presbyterian Church, but his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal denomination. ELIJAH C. HATCHER, an enterprising young business man of Cambridge, is proprietor of one of the most complete groceries to be found in Guernsey County. He enjoys a liberal and paying patronage, which he well deserves, on account of his strictly honorable business methods and his constant endeavor to please all with whom he has dealings. He embarked in his present line of business in this place in 1889, and has made a success of the undertaking. The Hatcher family has been identified with the history of Belmont County, Ohio, since the early part of this century. The paternal grandfather of our subject, for whom the latter was named, became a resident of the Buckeye State. about 1824, he having removed here from Loudoun County, Va. The parents of Elijah C. are Noah J. and Mary Eliza (Gregg) Hatcher, both of whom were born in Belmont County. The grandparents of Mrs. Hatcher were natives of Scotland. Noah Hatcher has been engaged during his active life in agricultural pursuits in his native county. He is still living, but his wife was called from his side by death in 1892, at the age of fifty-eight years. They were the parents of six children: Rose, who is a resident of Belmont County; Jennie, wife of J. N. Wilkinson, also of Belmont County; John W., who died in early childhood; Elijah C., of this sketch; Grace C., Mrs. R. D. Hood, of Cambridge; and Ida, who is still living with her father. Elijah C. Hatcher grew up in the usual manner of farmer lads, his time being. divided between working for his father and in attending the district school. He supplemented his primary studies PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 385 by two years passed in the Ohio State University, at Columbus. He then returned to agricultural pursuits, but when two years had passed away concluded to try his luck in the mercantile world. His venture has been crowned with success and he has proved himself to be fully qualified as a business man. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a Knight of Pythias. On the 11th of October,1887, Mr. Hatcher married Miss Orpha 1). Sidebottom, whose parents were John and Amney (Denford) Sidebottom, residents of St. Clairsville, Ohio. They have one child, a son, Emmett. Their little daughter, Delia, died at the age of two years. MICHAEL BAIR is one of the old and prominent farmers of Dover Township, within the boundaries of which his home has been made since 1845. In past years he was the owner of several large and valuable farms, hut has sold or disposed of a portion of his land, though he still retains the old. homestead and two hundred and twelve acres. he adheres to the Republican party, and had the honor of casting his first Presidential vote for the hero of Tippecanoe, William Henry Harrison. The birth of our subject occurred in Harrison County, Ohio, April 6, 1816. His father, Christian. Bair, was a native of Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in an early day in its history, settling upon the farm where his son Michael's birth sub.; sequently occurred. Before leaving the Keystone State, Christian Bair wedded Mary Harman, also a native of that state, and of their ,union were born five children: Michael; Jacob, deceased; David, now of Iowa City, Iowa; Samuel, deceased; and Sarah, the widow of Daniel Long, of Lagrange County, Ind. When Michael Bair was only ten years of age, his parents removed to Holmes County, this state, and in the primitive log schoolhouses of that locality he received his rudimentary education. The building used for a school was furnished with a puncheon floor and seats made of slabs without backs to them. Young Michael, however, only attended school for a short time, and when he was seventeen years of age he began serving an apprenticeship to the blacksmith's trade. At the end of two years he was thoroughly versed in the details of the business, and for one winter he worked at a place in Holmes County. Going to Shanesville, he entered the employ of Andrew Berkey, a blacksmith, who was to pay him $5 per month. This was in the summer of 1834, and during the following winter he went to school in the county, and received more benefit from this brief term than he had ever before gained in his educational experience. Continuing in the line of his trade, he next became an employe of a man by the name of Ream, who was to give him $10 per month for three months. At the end of this time a partnership was instituted between Messrs. Bair and Ream, and this connection existed for two and a-half years. When the partnership was dissolved, our subject returned to Holmes County, where he worked at his trade for the next two years. In 1842 our subject purchased a farm of thirty-live acres in the above county. He erected buildings, improved the place, and resided there for three and a-half years. He then sold the farm for $1,400, getting the best price per acre ever paid in that county up to that time. In 1845 Mr. Bair removed to Tuscarawas County, and took up his residence upon a farm of sixty-five acres in Dover Township. In 1849 he bought ninety acres adjoining this property, and two years later purchased thirty acres joining his land on the east. Subsequently he bought another ninety-acre tract, next to the thirty just mentioned, and to this he afterward added twenty-five acres adjoining the eastern sixty-four acres, where his residence now stands. Ten acres lying in Franklin Township, and five acres in the same township, which he bought from Frank Rice, he afterward sold for $500. October 16, 1336, Mr. Bair married Catherine Wimer. They commenced their married life on a. most economical scale, as they only possessed at 386 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. the time about $40 in silver. Mrs. Bair proved a true helpmate, and by her good management, industry and thrift, was of valuable assistance to her husband. They became the parents of ten children, as follows: William H., who is deceased; Nathan, of Fayette County, Ill.; Benjamin, deceased; Drucilla, Mrs. Joseph Brookens, of Grant County, Wis.; Michael, Jr., a farmer of Dover Township; Frank, who is also engaged in farming in this township; Sarah, who lives at home; one who died in infancy; Emma.)., Mrs. C. C. Fernsell, of this county; and John Wesley, who is still under the parental roof. Mrs. Bair, who was a worthy member of the United Brethren Church, died January 22, 1878. Since 1846 our subject has been a member and faithful worker of this same denomination, and in all his dealings with his fellows has been strictly honorable and upright. HENRY J. MARTIN is a prosperous farmer of Jefferson Township, Guernsey County, and manages a well improved homestead on section 6, which has belonged to him for the past twenty-six years. In politics he is a Republican. He is a man of high standing and true worth, devoted to the best interests of the community in which he has long made his home. Since seventeen years of age he has been a member of the United Presbyterian Church, with which his wife has also been identified since her girlhood. The paternal grandfather of our subject, John Martin, was a native of County Down, Ireland. He emigrated to the United States at an early day and learned the blacksmith's trade in Pittsburg, Pa., serving an apprenticeship of three years. He married Margaret, sister of the late Henry McCartney, County Commissioner of this county. To John and Margaret Martin were born the following children: Henry,. born September 22, 1821; Robert, August 1, 1823; Nancy, James, Margaret, Jane, John, William M. and Martha. Robert, moved to Iowa in 1852, and until December, 1891, resided in Washington County. He married Margaret Black, of Monmouth, Ill., and of their seven children only two are living. Nancy first married Rev. John Clark, of Washington County, Iowa. He was killed by a stroke of lightning, and afterward his widow became the wife of James Dawson. James, a sub-contractor on railroads, married Hulda Head. Margaret, who became Mrs. Samuel Mehaffey, was for many years a resident of Cambridge, and is now in Colorado. Jane, who is unmarried, is now living with her sister, Mrs. Martha Parr, in Indianola, Warren County, Iowa. John married Mary H. McWilliams, a daughter of Robert and Mary (Spear) McWilliams. Their eldest son, James Sankey, is a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church at New Castle, Pa. William M., born in 1842, enlisted in Company K, Seventy-fourth Ohio Infantry, and was a valiant and faithful soldier. Though he was color-guard, and his companions were often shot down on either side of him, be never received a wound. In the charge of Booneboro, Ala., one hundred and thirty-two of his regiment were killed. He married a daughter of Henry McCleary, and is now living in Arkansas City, Kan. Martha married Robert Parr, who served throughout the war from the organization of the Seventy-fourth Ohio Regiment, and was a member of Company K. He is now making his home in Indianola, Iowa. Henry Martin, the father of our subject, was born September 22, 1821, in Mercer County, Pa., and was married at the old Armstrong homestead, in Jefferson Township, in September, 1844, to Elizabeth Armstrong. They had two children, Margaret S., who was born July 3, 1845, and is now deceased; and Henry J., our subject. The birth of Henry J. Martin occurred December 1, 1846. He received a common-school education, and was reared in Guernsey County, Ohio. From his boyhood he has been interested in agricultural pursuits, and has made a success of his enterprise. He was married, December 31, 1868, to Harriet, daughter of Andrew and Eleanor Hurrel. She was born July 18, 1846, and by her marriage has become the mother of two children. The elder, Lizzie E., born December 1, 1869, married PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 387 George B. Adams, December 29, 1892. He is the son of Thomas and. Mary A. (Beal) Adams. Ella A., the younger daughter, was born August 12, 1876, and is still living with her parents. The parents of Mrs. Henry J. Martin, Andrew and Eleanor (Milligan) Hurrel, were natives of the Keystone State, and at an early day removed to Muskingum County, Ohio. Their five children who lived past childhood were: Cyrus, who died in youth; Harriet, Mrs. Martin; Nancy, who died in early womanhood; John, who wedded Agnes Clark and has two children, Inez and Clark; and Luther, who lived until he was twenty-one years of age. when he was called to his final rest. Andrew Hurrel was previously married to Miss Elsie Hayden, by whom he had nine children. Their eldest son, Samuel, was a soldier of Company H, Seventy-eighth Ohio Regiment, was taken prisoner, and, as a. result of his privations, died at Annapolis, Md., after being exchanged. The other children were as follows: James, Andrew, David, Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Wilson; and Mary, wife of Daniel McCarthy. Wilson was a member of the cavalry department during the late war, and served in the Eastern army until the surrender of Lee.   JOHN WILLIAM MARQUAND, President of the Morton Tinplate Company of Cambridge, is one of the prominent and influential men of the city, and has done his full share toward the development of the same since his residence here. The enterprise of which he is President is one in which much pride is felt by every resident, and Mr. Marquand discharges the duties of his position in an able and satisfactory manner. Our subject is a native of this state, and was born in Monroe Township, Muskingum County, June 9, 1889. His parents were Solomon and Eliza (Hanks) Marquand, and the father of the former, Charles Marquand, was a native of the Isle of Guernsey. His emigration to America, and settlement in this state, made him one of its pioneers. He wade his home in Monroe Township, in the above county, until his death, in 1855, never having had occasion to make any of those changes which, break up old friendships and old associations to a degree that those who have not been called upon to endure them can never understand. He was aged ninety years at the time of his decease. He was of French extraction, and in following his chosen occupation, that of an agriculturist, won an enviable reputation. The father of our subject was born in the District of Columbia, and after attaining mature years he learned the trade of a miller, which business he followed during the most of his active life. He reared a family of two sons, and departed this life in 1841, aged thirty-six years. John W., of this sketch, was but two years of age when deprived of the care of a father, but his mother, watching carefully over him, gave him every advantage for obtaining an education and trained him to a life of honor and usefulness. He owns a farm in his native county, which he operated in connection with carrying on his mill until 1891. During these years he was recognized as one of the successful and. representative agriculturists of Muskingum County, where he lived until removing to Cambridge. Mr. Marquand was elected to his present responsible position in July, 1894, and under his efficient management the industry is being made very profitable and is rapidly increasing. Our subject was married in this county, in the year 1874, to Miss Annie E. Walker. Mrs. Marquand is the daughter of William and Sarah Walker, and was born in Guernsey County, November 25, 1850. Her union with our subject has been productive of three children, bearing the respective names of Laura, Emma and William. In his political sentiments Mr. Marquand is an out-and-out Republican, having cast his first Presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln, of which fact he is very proud. His maternal grandfather. a relative of this noted man, took a deep interest in the politics of that early day. Our subject was extremely popular in his native county, which fact is indicated by his appointment to the position of Postmaster under the first administration of Cleve- 388 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. land. he was at that time residing in Marquand, which place was named in honor of the family. Both our subject .and his estimable wife were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the former was Steward of the congregation prior to his removal to Cambridge. The mother of our subject died in January, 1894, aged eighty years. She was a member of the Methodist Church, and to her Christian spirit and teaching is due in a great measure the splendid character which her son, our subject, bears. The latter takes great interest in the education of his children, and his elder daughter, Miss Laura, is now attending the Cambridge High School, from which she will be graduated in a short time..   WILLIAM LENHART, a well known merchant and ex-Postmaster of Bolivar, did gallant and meritorious service during the late war. participating in some eighteen hard-fought battles and many other engagements. In 1889 he was appointed Postmaster of this place, and efficiently discharged the duties of the (dike until his term expired. September 1, 1893. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and has ever been a loyal citizen, both in times of peace and war. Mr. Lenhart, a native of Shanesville, Tuscarawas County, was born October 12, 1843. and is a son of Joseph and Julia Lenhart. The mother died when the boy was only twelve years old, and at a very early day the responsibilities of life fell upon his shoulders. When nine years of age he obtained employment on a repair boat on the Ohio Canal, and at intervals during the next nine years he worked in this capacity. Responding to his patriotic impulses, William Lenhart enlisted from Mill Township. September 21, 1861. and became a member of Company E, Fifty-first Ohio Regiment. He was enlisted at Camp Meigs, Tuscarawas County, and remained there for a few weeks, and in camp at Cincinnati. Then, proceeding to Louisville, Ky., a few weeks more were spent in drill service at Camp Wickliffe. The first battle in which he participated was that of Dobson's Ford, on Stone River, December 9, 1862, in which several of the regiment were killed and wounded. On the 2d of the following January occurred the battle of Stone River, in which the Fifty-first did good service, though their loss was excessive. Our subject was knocked down by a piece of shell, and was taken prisoner on the farther side of the river. His captors conveyed him to Murfreesboro, thence to a point below Atlanta, and finally placed him in Libby Prison at Richmond. At the end of three weeks he was paroled and sent to Annapolis, Md. A little later, with many other exprisoners, he was sent to Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio. After two months spent at home on a furlough, he reported at Columbus and of his own free will accompanied the troops to Holmes County for the purpose of breaking up Ft. Fizzle, where some disloyal persons had established a camp to resist the draft. Going to McMinnville, Tenn., Mr. Lenhart joined his regiment in the summer of 1863, and from there marched to Chattanooga. he was in the advance on Chickamauga, where he participated in the battles of September 19 and 20. The latter day was one of hard fighting for his company, and his superior officer, Colonel McLean, was taken prisoner on the field. November 24 following occurred the famous battle of Lookout Mountain, where many of the enemy were routed out of their quarters in the early morning. Two days later Mr. Lenhart was active during the last part of the battle of Mission Ridge, and pursued a body of the enemy for twenty miles. The regiment passed the succeeding winter at Chattanooga and Shell Mound. In January, 1864, our subject re-enlisted, and went home in February on a thirty-days furlough. May 3, having returned to the army, he left Blue Springs, and on the 9th and 13th inst. took part in the engagement of Rocky Face Ridge, the first battle which transpired during Sherman's march to the sea. With three or four of his comrades, Mr. Lenhart entered the deserted camp of the enemy in advance of his com- PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 389 pany. Continuing onward, he and a comrade entered Resaca in advance of the Union army, and were there when the Confederate cavalry passed through. In order to escape capture, the two men hid from the enemy until they had gone by. On coming out of their place of concealment each man took prisoner a Confederate infantryman, and held him until the Union army came up. The two adventurous soldiers were placed under arrest for being so aggressive, or rather for being so far in advance of the army, but were released a few hours later. May 14 occurred the battle of Resaca, and June 20 that of Kenesaw Mountain, on which day the regiment to which our subject belonged repulsed seven charges of the enemy on their works. June 22 was fought the second battle of Kenesaw Mountain, July 20 that of Atlanta, September 1 Jonesboro and September 3 the engagement at Lovejoy Station. From the last-mentioned place the regiment turned north and marched back to Atlanta. General Sherman at this time cut himself off from his base of supplies, and made his famous march to the sea. Mr. Lenhart, accompanying his command, aided General Thomas in holding Hood in check in Tennessee. He reached Spring Hill, Tenn., in November, and in the battle of Franklin, which occurred during the same month, his regiment was conspicuous for gallant action. On the second day of the battle of Nashville, December 15, 1864, he was a participator. After this exhausting campaign the regiment went into. winter quarters for two months at Huntsville, Ala. Thence they proceeded to eastern Tennessee, and were in the vicinity of Bull's Gap, and subsequently encamped near Nashville for two months. From there they were sent to Bolivar, Tex., where, October 3, 1865, they were mustered out, and a mouth later, on the 3d of November, received their final discharge at Camp Chase, Ohio. The regiment won an enviable reputation for the active and dauntless part it had taken in the front ranks of numerous battles, and for the fortitude with which it sustained the hardships and fatigues of several of the most famous expeditions of the war. On his return from the South Mr. Lenhart came to Bolivar, where he bought a grocery, and con- ducted the same for six mouths. This life was so tame and lacking in interest after his army experience that he longed for the old routine, and finally enlisted in the regular army at Pittsburg. From there he was sent to New York and New Orleans, and finally to Little Rock, Ark., where he remained until the end of his term of service, in February, 1870. Soon afterward our subject located permanently in this place, bought a canal-boat, and for eleven years following was engaged in transporting grain and lumber between Bolivar and Cleveland. The largest share of his trade was with J. F. Evans, of Bolivar, into whose employ he entered after disposing of his boat, and with this well known citizen he remained for five years at his warehouses. Later our subject ran a hack line for a short period at Bolivar, and after serving for four years as Postmaster devoted his energies to general merchandising, in which business he still continues. January 26, 1871, Mr. Lenhart married Miss Mary A., daughter of Tilman Clark, of this city. This worthy couple possess the friendship and respect of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Fraternally Mr. Lenhart has been a member of the Odd Fellows' society since 1872, and is identified with the Grand Army of the Republic. Formerly he was a member of Rickseekers Post at Canal Dover, and when Lawrence Post No. 640 was organized at Bolivar he became its first Commander, and has filled all the other offices in the post. He has also passed all the chairs in the Odd Fellows' lodge to which he belongs. On .general questions of the day Mr. Lenhart is well informed, and is an entertaining conversationalist. DANIEL KEES, a well known citizen and prominent farmer of Washington Township, Tuscarawas County, was born February 20. i.623. His parents, Abraham and Mary (Watson) Kees were natives of Pennsylvania, and came to this county in 1821, locating in the above 390 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. township near where our subject now lives. They were among the pioneer residents of the county, and, like the brave and true men and women of that day, were called upon to endure many hardships and privations. Many dangers beset their path, but they patiently suffered in order that they might make a home for themselves and their families. The land was entirely uncultivated, and for the most part covered with large forest trees and a dense undergrowth of brush and trailing vines. It was therefore no easy matter to clear and prepare the soil for improvement and hew out the logs to build cabins for the family. They went to work with a determined will, however, and soon had cleared a space large enough to erect the little but which was to shelter their loved ones and the few earthly possessions which they had brought with them. Then the struggle for existence began, but every obstacle was met and overcome with cheerfulness, and by much hard work and perseverence the wilderness was soon made to blossom as the rose. Mr. Kees was reared on this frontier farm, assisting his father, as soon as old enough, with the various duties falling to the lot of a pioneer farmer. During the long winter months young Daniel attended the schools taught in the neighborhood, and thus acquired a good common-school education. This, combined with the many useful lessons learned from the book of nature, has ably fitted him for the chosen occupation of his life. November 23, 1845, Daniel Kees and Miss Melissa A., daughter of John W. and Sydney (Mercer) Murphy, were united in marriage. Mrs. Kees was born in Belmont County, May 6, 1828, of which section her parents were early settlers, and where they still reside. Their union has resulted in the birth of ten children, two of whom died in infancy. Those living are: Louisa E., the wife oillerstle; Mary E., the widow of A. J. M51iller; Elidia, now Mrs. George W. John; Maria E., who married John W. Gross; Sydney E., the wife of M. Stewart; Lucinda A., Mrs. T. Edwards; Philip P.; and Daniel.. Both sons are married, and make their home with their father on the old homestead. Mr. Kees and his family are all members of the Methodist Protestant Church, and are highly es- teemed in the community in which they live. Our subject began life as a poor boy, but by industry, honesty and perseverance has accumulated a goodly share of this world's goods; in fact, he is considered to be wealthy. He is the possessor of one of the finest farms in the county, consisting of nine hundred acres, most of which is under a high state of cultivation. Now in the twilight of his usefulness, and surrounded by his thirty-six grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren, all of whom are living in the vicinity, adding much to the quiet comfort of his maturer years, he is enabled to rest from his labors and enjoy to the fullest extent the fruits of his early life of toil. He is in no sense of the word a politician, but always supports the nominees of the Democratic party with his influence and ballot. ISRAEL A. CORRELL, City Clerk of New Philadelphia, and one of its oldest native citizens, was born in Goshen Township, this county September 18, 1829. His parents were Philip and Anna (Miller) Correll, the former of whom was born in York, Pa., March 4, 1796. He made the journey to Tuscarawas County with his father and mother in 1811, and followed farm pursuits and worked as a laborer until his death. He was first a Whig, and later a Republican, in polities, and was active in all movements set on foot for the public good. His wife was born in Cumberland County, Md., and when quite young was brought by her parents to this county, where she passed the remainder of her days, dying firm in the faith of the Lutheran Church. The parental family of our subject included eleven children, ofowm he and his sister, Rosabella. E., nriow the wife of Zachariah Stickmaker, are the only survivors. The early life of Mr. Correll was spent under the parental roof, attending school and assisting in the work on the farm; but on the outbreak of the war, he enlisted, Septem- PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 391 ber 7, 1861, in New Philadelphia, as a member of Company A, Fifty-first Ohio Infantry, and was mustered into service at Camp Meigs ten days later. November 3, in company with his regiment, he was ordered to the front, and, going to Camp Dennison, remained there until making the trip to Louisville, Ky., and later into the interior of the state, where they went into winter quarters. In February, 1862, Mr. Correll went with his company and regiment to Ft. Donelson, and although arriving too late to participate in that engagement, they continued up the river, and were the first to enter the city of Nashville, where they were on duty until July 10 of that year. They were then ordered into eastern Tennessee, and after remaining there for a time returned to the Blue Grass State. and aided in warding off the rebel, General Bragg, whom they followed and fought in the battle of Perryville. Our subject's regiment at that time formed a part of the Twenty-first Army Corps. Their next engagement was at Murfreesboro, or Stone River, December 31, 1862, and January 1 and 2, 1863, after which they went in camp, and remained until June, 1863, when they moved against Bragg. The succeeding battle of that command was September 19 and 20, when occurred the fight at Chickamauga, following which was that at Chattanooga. November 3, 1863, they moved to Shell Mound, on the banks of the Tennessee River, where they remained until November 23, when they were ordered to, and took part in the battle of, Lookout Mountain, November 24, 1863, thence returning to Shell Mound, Tenn., December 2, 1863. On the expiration of his term of enlistment, Mr. Correll re-enlisted, January 1, 1864, while at Shell Mound, and, being granted a furlough with the regiment, started for home, arriving there February 10. He remained four weeks, when he again started to the front, joining his command at Blue Springs, Tenn. His regiment was stationed there until the Atlanta campaign, May 2, 1864, when they moved south and joined Sherman on his march to the sea. He participated in the engagements at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Big Shanty, Kenesaw Mountain, Smyrna Camp, Peach Tree Creek and the fall of Atlanta. After capturing that city the regiment to which Mr. Correll belonged fought at Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station, whence they returned to Atlanta and went into quarters, where they remained until ordered out to pursue Hood, whom they followed into Tennessee, where occurred the battles of Franklin and Nashville. They next moved to Huntsville, Ala., and remaining there until March 15, 1865, broke camp and started for eastern Tennessee. While at Shield's Mills, in the above state, they received the sad news of President Lincoln's assassination. They were then ordered back to Nashville, and remained in camp there until June 17, when the regiment was ordered to Johnsonville, on the Tennessee River, where they took transports for New Orleans. From that city they went around the Gulf to Indianola, Tex., thence to Victoria, that state, and remained there until mustered out, October 3, 1865. The faithful soldiers were then sent to Camp Chase, where they were paid off and honorably discharged, November 2 of the same year. Mr. Correll passed through all the grades of promotion from private to Second Lieutenant, receiving his commission June 6, 1865, and being assigned to Company F, Fifty-first Ohio Infantry. On his return to this state after the close of the war our subject took up his residence in New Philadelphia, and obtained employment in the machine. shops of English & Dixon, remaining with that company until 1873. Then, being appointed Deputy Auditor of the county, he served in that capacity for two years. In the spring of 1866 he was elected Township Clerk, which responsible position he filled faithfully and well for fifteen years. In the early part of 1874 Mr. Correll established a grocery business, and carried on a thriving trade until the spring of 1886, when he was elected City Clerk, which position he has held ever since. In addition to discharging the duties of this position he is Pension Agent, and in 1892, and again in 1894, was made Clerk of the Deputy Supervisors of Elections. The marriage of Mr. Correll with Miss Elisabeth Pepper occurred at Springfield, this state, October 23, 1852. The lady was the daughter of Isaac and 392 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Anna (Camp) Pepper, the former of German and the latter of English birth. Of their union there have been born four children: Anna J., the wife of M. S. Miller; John W.; Hattie B., now Mrs. Thomas B. Ruiff; and William L, living in Binghamton, N.. Y. Lieutenant Correll is a Republican in politics, and socially is a member of the Odd Fellows' fraternity, having passed through all the chairs of that order to Canton Tuscarawas No. 35, P. M. He also holds membership with Andrew Crawford Post No. 6, G. A. R., and belongs to Union Command No. 55, U. V. U. He has held nearly all the offices in that society, and has been a delegate on numerous occasions to the department encampment, and is now Second Deputy Department Commander. Mr. Correll is one of the best known citizens in the county, and is highly respected and esteemed by all. JOHN H. MORGAN. Although quite a young man, this gentleman has already gained considerable weight in the community where he resides, which fact is easily accounted for by his strong principles, his active interest in the welfare of all around him, and his pleasant manners. He is now living in Cambridge, and has a good position in the sheet department of the rolling. mills, with which business he is thoroughly familiar. Our subject is the eldest son of David. T. and Elizabeth (James) Morgan, natives of Newtown, Wales, and was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, February 14, 1862. The father learned the puddler's trade when a young man, and in 186T emigrated with his family to America. Our subject wag then quite young, but he well remembers the years spent in Newark, Ohro, where his fattier worked in the mills. In July, 1879, David Morgan removed to Cleveland. After settling in that city he worked with the Cleveland Rolling-mill Company until some time in 1883, when he met with an accident which incapacitated him from working longer at that business. He then started a newspaper agency, which business he still carries on, and has a large establishment He is a good business man and makes it a point to keep in stock all the first-class periodicals- and papers published in the United States. To David Morgan and wife were born seven children, as follows: John H., our subject; Mary, who is engaged as clerk in the dry-goods store of Crow & Whitmarsh, of Cleveland; Thomas, Who departed this life in Wales; Horace G., who is working in the sheet-iron rolling-mills of Newport, Ky.; Margaret A., teaching school in Cleveland; Edward, who is learning the lithographer's art in the above city; and Arthur, deceased, the youngest member of the family. The subject of this sketch attended school until a lad of fourteen years, when he was obliged to earn his own living. He first worked in the glass factory of Newark, this state, and after two years thus employed went to Cleveland, where he found work in the rolling-mills, being at that time placed in the sheet department His work gave entire satisfaction, and he remained with his employers until 1885, when he sought to better his condition and removed to Bridgeport, where was also located a large rolling-mill. In this Mr. Morgan had no difficulty in obtaining a position, and remained there until May, 1890, the date of his advent into Cambridge: October 6, 1890, John H. Morgan returned to Bridgeport, and was united in marriage with Miss Emma Wilson, the daughter of Samuel I. and Sarah E. (Moore) Wilson, who was born February 3, 1862, in Belmont County. To our subject and wife have been born two Children: Laura E., born March 5, 1892; and John H., September 18, 1893. Socially our subject is a Mason of high standing, and belongs to the Knights of Honor, the Independent Order of Good Templars, and the Association of Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers. In the latter order he has been delegate to four sessions of the convention. He has also represented the Good Templars at state meetings, and has been an official in the order for many years. He is a strong Republican in politics, and has been a delegate to all PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 393 county conventions, also some of the congressional and judicial conventions since locating here. He is a member of the Baptist Church, while Mrs. Morgan is an active member of the Presbyterian Church. JOHN D. BAILEY was born on the old homestead in the southwestern part of Sandy Township, where his father and grandfather lived before him, and where he now has his abode. The family has long been one of prominence in the community, and its members have promoted everything tending to the prosperity of Tuscarawas County. Our subject is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, and is a man of energetic and industrious disposition, which characteristics have wrought out for him success in his life's undertakings. The paternal grandfather of John Bailey bore the same Christian name. He was born in Pennsylvania, January 8, 1806, and passed his boyhood in that state. He was a son of James Bailey, a farmer, who emigrated to Ohio at a very early day and located at Sandyville. The latter was three times married, first to Sarah Bailey, October 31, 1802. This wife, who died July 20, 1817, bore him one daughter and five sons, namely: Jane, John, Samuel, James, Robert and Alexander. Later James Bailey, Sr., married Martha Kite, the event taking place November 13, 1817. They became the parents of four children, namely: Margaret, Mary, Sarah and Eliza. Mrs. Martha Bailey was called to her final rest in 1825, and October 26, 1826, James Bailey married Miss Mary Burk, who bore him a son and two daughters: William, Sarah A. and Permelia. The demise of the father occurred September 13, 1832, at Sandyville, his last wife surviving him. John Bailey, our subject's grandfather, cleared and improved four tracts of one hundred acres each, which he accumulated by his own industrious efforts and thrift. For several years he served as Justice of the Peace, and held other minor offices. He was a Whig, and later a. Republican. A man who was almost entirely self-educated and self-made, he was highly respected by all who knew him. He was an active member of the Lutheran Church, in the faith of which he died in 1882. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth J. Dickson, survived him until March, 1885. The. following children were born of their union: Mary J., Mrs. McGrew; James; John D., whose home is in Virginia; Alfred, a resident of Canton, Ohio; and Martha, Mrs. Kimmel, who died at Arcade, Ohio. The parents of the gentleman whose name heads this sketch were .James and Eliza J. (Speaker) Bailey. The former was born in Germany, Mar eh 17, 1832, and died November 19, 1889. He received a common-school education, and on arriving at maturity became interested in farming„ which vocation he followed during the remainder of his life. He owned two hundred and ten acres of his father's old homestead, and made many improvements upon the place. In politics he was a Republican, and religiously was connected with the Lutheran Church. Of his seven children, all but two lived to manhood, and were as follows: John D., whose name introduces this sketch; David, of Cleveland, Ohio; William, who is also a resident of the Forest City; Amanda, who married William Pfau, and resides at Mineral Point; and Edward, also a resident of Mineral Point. The mother of this family is still living, being now in her sixty-fourth year. She was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and is a daughter of David and Jane (Richey) Speaker, who came to Sandy Township at an early day and settled upon a farm. The birth of John D. Bailey occurred April 14, 1857, and his boyhood was passed on the farm which has been his home in later life. He was given only a district school education, but was an apt pupil and made rapid progress in his studies. He taught one term when he was twenty-two years old, and in this way earned the first money for himself that he had ever possessed. After his father's death he took charge of the homestead, of which he owns one hundred and forty-five acres. His mother makes her home with him, under the roof which has sheltered her for so many years. On New Year's Day, 1880, Mr. Bailey married Emma Geckeler, who was born in Tuscarawas Conn- 394 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. ty, Ohio. Her parents are Lewis and Anna (Grove) Geckeler, the former a native of Germany, and the latter born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Eight children have come to bless the union, and are named as follows: May P., Charles E., Florence E., Walter L., Ralph, Roscoe, Wilber and Randall. The parents are active and devoted workers in the Lutheran Church, with which they have been connected since youth. They are honored and respected members of local society, where they have many sincere friends.   MRS. MARY BRADEN, widow of William H. Braden, formerly well known and highly respected in Guernsey County, lives on the old homestead in Adams Township. Mr. Braden was a veteran of the late war, and took part in many important engagements. When sixteen years old he left home, going to Randolph County, Ind., where he enlisted for the three-months service in Company K, Nineteenth Indiana Infantry. The regiment was later re-enlisted for three years, and young Braden served with his company until 1863. He was in the first battle of Bull Run and received injuries, being then granted a three-months furlough. While being conveyed to the hospital in an ambulance, the horses ran away, and the wounded man sustained lasting injury. When he had partially recovered, he volunteered his services in Company H, Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He was in the battles of Fredericksburgh, South Mountain, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Laurel Hill and Hatcher's Run, in all of which his company took part. William H. Braden was born in this county, September 25, 1835, and was a son of John and Margaret (Leeper) Braden, the former a native of Pennsylvania. Their family comprised ten children, namely: Julia, Mrs. John Harrison, of Iowa; Martha, Mrs. Peter Yakey, of Trenton, Mo.; Re becca, who became the wife of William Cunningham, and lives in Ridgeville, Ind.; Hannah, wife of Rev. Robert Roe, who is now in Preston, Iowa; Elizabeth, Mrs. Enoch Milhone, of this county; Margaret, wife of Joseph Potts, also of this county; Daniel C., who died in Ridgeville, Ind.; William H. and John P., who died near Fairview, Ind.; and Mary Jane, who died in infancy. In 1866 William H. Braden married Miss Mary McCullem, daughter of Isaac and Nancy (Gray) McCullem, who were both natives of New Jersey. The parents of Isaac were Alexander and Mary (Osborne) McCullem, who were, married in Scotland and settled in New Jersey prior to 1800. They came to this county about 1818, dying in Centre Township. Isaac McCullem was seventeen years of age when, with the other members of the family, he became an inhabitant of this region. He lived at home until his marriage, when he bought a farm, and was occupied in its cultivation until his death, in 1876. His wife's parents, James and Martha (Miller) Gray, natives of Ireland, settled in Camden, N. J., on their emigration to America. From there they, went to Virginia, but passed their last years in this county. Of their eleven children, the two eldest, Sarah and Robert, were born in Ireland, and died in Illinois; James, who was born in New Jersey, was drowned near New Orleans; Martha died in this county, as did also Catherine, Mrs. John McCullem, Margaret, who became the wife of William Linn, and Mary, Mrs. James Stewart; Julia A., who was the wife of Thomas Beeham, died in California; Margery wedded Ambrose Beabout; and Andrew was murdered in California. Mrs. Braden is one of the nine children born to Isaac and Nancy McCullem, the others being Alexander, a resident of Centre Township, this county; James, who married Asenath Johnson, of Indiana, and is also engaged in farming in this county; John; Amanda, who died January 23, 1856; Isaac, who married and died in this county; Miller, deceased; Andrew, who died in childhood; and one who died before receiving a name. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Braden became the parents of five children, who in order of birth are named as follows: William I., Albert C., Clark M., PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 395 McCullem L. and Mahlon H. These sons received good common-school educations, and Clark M. attended Concord College for two terms. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. William Braden went to housekeeping in Centre Township, on the farm which was given to the bride by her father. After living thereon for ten years, the family removed to Washington, this county, where they continued to dwell until 1887. Mr. Braden then purchased property in Cambridge, and lived in the city for some time. During this period he purchased a. farm on the pike west of Cambridge, where Mrs. Braden now resides, but died before going to live there, as had been his intention. His demise, which was felt to he a great loss to the people of this community, occurred May 4, 1888. In political faith he was identified with the Republican party, and whether in peace or war was a true patriot, devoted to the welfare of his country. Mr. Braden was a member of the Baptist Church, while Mrs. Braden has been a life-long Presbyterian. JOHN W. LAUGHLIN is one of the most progressive and enterprising citizens of Sandy Township. In the fall of 1892 he opened a coal mine on his farm, and gives employment to twenty-five men. He has always been engaged in agricultural pursuits, and, with his sister, owns four hundred acres of valuable land, situated in the northeast corner of Sandy Township. The paternal grandfather of our subject, John Laughlin, was born in Ireland, and his wife, Nancy, formerly a Miss Burns, was a relative of the Scotch poet Burns. John Laughlin lived for a number of years near Brownsville, Pa., where he was engaged in teaching. Coming to Ohio, he was one of the first to settle in this township, and, s far as known, only two white men had been buried within its limits before his interment in Sandyville. His wife survived him only a few years. They were the parents of four sons, namely: John, our subject's father; Mathew, of Alliance, this state; William, who died in Defiance County, this state; and James, who was drowned in the Mississippi River. He was a passenger on the steamer "Napoleon," which took fire, whereupon the fated crew and others were obliged to jump overboard to escape a worse death. The daughters of the family were: Nancy, Mrs. Moore. who died at Alliance; and Elizabeth, who became the wife of James Drenning, and died at Bryan, Williams County, Ohio. John Laughlin, the fattier of our subject, was born in Sandy Township, October 15, 1815. He was mainly self-educated, as his only schooling consisted of one winter's term, which was held in a building without a floor. He began his battle in life as an employe on the Ohio Canal, which he assisted in constructing. There he earned his first $100, wherewith he made a payment on one hundred acres of land in Sandy Township. Subsequently he engaged in boating on the Ohio and Sandy and Beaver Canals for fourteen years. His brothers were also boatmen by occupation. After he left the canal, Mr. Laughlin's time was spent in clearing and improving his farm, on which he cut the first tree. He accumulated four hundred and eighty-five acres, and gave each of his children a start in life to the .extent of about $4,000. He made his own way from. youth, and the first wages he earned was twenty-five cents a day. He served as Township Trustee, and in politics was a Democrat. Socially he was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and was also identified with. the Odd Fellows. His death occurred November 22, 1890. The first wife of John Laughlin was Elizabeth, the daughter of Jacob Pifer. Three children were born of their union, namely: Laura A., now the wife of Samuel Moore, of Stark County; Dorleskey, who became the wife of David Furney; and .Julius IL, who served in the late war, and now lives in Anderson County, Kan. The second wife of John Laughlin was Miss Mary Furney, and of her four children two, James and Harriet, died while young, while John W. and Mary M. are still living. The mother, who was born in Bedford County, Pa., July 25, 1819, is still living.. She is a daughter of Philip and Catherine (Wymer) 396 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Furney, natives of Frederick County, Md., in which state they were married. Later they became inhabitants of Bedford County, Pa., but in 1836 removed to Burlington, Iowa, taking three months to make the journey. Returning to Sandy Township, Mr. Furney bought two hundred acres of land, the place where our subject now resides. This land he improved, but sold out, removing to Sandyville, and still later bought two hundred acres of land near Low-. The last years of his wife were passed in Sandyville, where her death occurred at the age of sixty-three years. Mr. Furney, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, was a Democrat in politics, and a Lutheran in religious belief. He died January 6, 1866, at the extreme old age of ninety-one years and eleven months. His father, Frederick Furney, a native of Ireland, came to the United States in early life, settling in Maryland, in which state his death occurred. In his family were six children, namely: John, Peter, Abram, Philip, Margaret and Mary. Mrs. Mary F. Laughlin is one of ten children. John, who served ten years in the late war, died in Magnolia, Ohio; Samuel died in Pennsylvania; David, who was a soldier during the war, died in Sandy Township; Daniel died at Mineral Point; Adam died in Muskingum County, this state; Elizabeth became the wife of Peter Wymer; Sarah, who became Mrs. Brown, died in Pennsylvania; Catherine, who became Mrs. Binkley, also died in the Keystone. State; and Ann died unmarried. Mrs. Laughlin is a member of the Lutheran denomination. John W. Laughlin, whose name heads this article, was born in June, 1857, and was brought up on a farm. He received a district-school education. and assisted his father in the work of the farm until he arrived at his majority, when he began to make his own way in the world. After his marriage, he removed to his present homestead. This is a part of his father's old farm. The latter was very successful as a sheep-grower, and at the time of ins dcath his estate comprised four hundred and eighty-five acres. Our subject is a practical agriculturist, who possesses an energetic and industrious spirit, which is rapidly working out for him a goodly fortune. He is now de riving a large income from his new coal mine, and meditates greater enterprises for the future. Always a most filial son, he has manifested his devotion to his father's memory by erecting over his last resting-place a beautiful monument, which cost over $1,000. March 1, 1882, Mr. Laughlin married Miss Rachel, daughter of Udah and Nancy A. (Sparks) Gordon. Six children have come to bless their home, four sons and two daughters, who, in the order of their birth, are named as follows: John M., Margaret A., William T., Jacob G., Rachel B. and Abraham P. On political questions of the day, our subject is identified with the Democratic party, and never fails to east his ballot for its nominees and in support of its principles. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. ISAIAH FISHER is one of the most intelligent, progressive and enterprising of the native born citizens of Tuscarawas County. Though young in years, but few men of his calling have been more successful than he, as he is already one of the leading farmers and stock-raisers of Dover Township. He makes his home on the farm formerly owned by his father, and is carrying on the business of its cultivation in a profitable manner. Mr. Fisher was born in the above township January 23, 1863, and is the son of Mathias Fisher, whose birth occurred in Beaver County, Pa. The latter came to Tuscarawas County as early as 1832, locating immediately in Dover Township, where he became the owner of a good farm, which is now in the possession of our subject. The father was born December 29, 1825, and departed this life March 14, 1894. The maiden name of our subject's mother was Catherine Mumma, daughter of Martin Mumma. By her union with the senior Mr. Fisher she became the mother of three children, those besides our subject being Benjamin F., an agriculturist PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 397 living in Goshen Township, and Martin, who is now deceased. Isaiah received a good education in the district school, improving every leisure moment in study, and is to-day well informed, possessing intelligent views on all topics of interest. He received a thorough training in farm work by his honored father, and on the latter's decease fell heir to the old homestead. The place contains one hundred and fifty acres under excellent tillage and is made to yield abundant harvests each year. When ready to establish a home of his own, Mr. Fisher was married, December 24, 1885, to Miss Clara, daughter of Adam and Catherine (Weible) Schear. Mrs. Fisher is also a native of this county, and was born February 24, 1864. By her union with our subject she has become the mother of the following children: Mary Catherine, born December 19, 1887; John Wesley, March 31, 1891; and Ruth Isabelle, born May 3, 1893. The parents are members in good standing of the United Brethren Church and contribute liberally toward its support. The father of our subject was very much respected in the community in which he lived, and died firm in the faith of the United Brethren Church. During the latter years of his life he lived retired and enjoyed to the fullest extent the result of his earlier years of toil. JESSE ALEXANDER. The homestead owned and occupied by the subject of this sketch is one of the most desirable and attractive within the limits of Guernsey County. It is pleasantly located on section 5, Wheeling Township, and embellished with a substantial residence and farm buildings of. ample proportion& The place indicates in a marked manner the hand of thrift and industry, and portrays to even the casual observer the fact that it is the abode of those who belong to an old and distinguished family. Our subject is a native of this state, and was born in Coshocton County, September 5, 1847. He is the son of Thomas and Barbara (Frederick) Alexander, the former of whom was born in Ireland in 1815, being the son of John Alexander. Thomas died March 30, 1894. His father, the grandfather of our subject, was also born in the Emerald Isle, whence he emigrated in a very early day to the United States, and spent the rest of his life in Londonderry, Harrison County, this state, engaged in farm pursuits. The mother of our; subject was born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1820, and is still living, making her home in Plainfield, in Coshocton County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Jacob and Christina Frederick, natives of Germany. They took up their abode in the Keystone State on landing on American soil, and after making their home there for a while, removed to Coshocton County, this state, and thereafter spent their time in cultivating the soil of this fertile region. Thomas and Barbara (Frederick) Alexander were united in marriage in the above county, and to them were born ten children, seven sons and three daughters, viz.: Mary, the wife of Samuel Dayton, a farmer of Jackson County, Kan.; Jacob, deceased; John, who was killed while serving his country during the late war; Adam, engaged in farming in Liberty Township, Guernsey County; Jesse, of this sketch; Christina F., now the wife of Thomas Ferbrache, also an agriculturist of prominence. in Liberty Township; James, living in the city of Cambridge; George W., residing on his estate near Plainfield, Ohio; Marion, working at his trade of carpenter and also cultivating a good farm in Kansas; and Lizzie, the wife of Victor Lewis, a resident of Plainfield, Ohio. The father of our subject was a wagon-maker by trade, but in addition to working at this business carried on the operation of his farm and also ran a saw mill with profit. He made his advent into Guernsey County in 1861, but lived here only a short time, when he removed to Plainfield, and there spent the remaining years of his life. Jesse Alexander was given such an education as could be obtained in the schools of the district, and remaining at home until attaining mature years, he thus gained a thorough understanding of farm pursuits. He was married, in 1870, to Rachel A. 398 - PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Bell, who was born in this county, April 4, 1853, and was the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Stage) Bell. Her father was born in Ireland in 1821, and was in turn the son of James and Isabella (Carus) Bell, also natives of the Emerald Isle, who crossed the ocean in 1823 and became residents of Guernsey County. The mother of Mrs. Alexander was born in this county in 1827, and was the daughter of Jacob and Sarah Stage, natives of New York State. They took up the line of march to this state in a very early day, and were among the first to locate in Guernsey County. To George and Elizabeth Bell there were born nine children, four sons and five daughters. Sarah R. is the wife of William Thompson, and they reside in Liberty Township; Rachel A. married our subject; James is engaged in the mercantile business at Lawrenceburg, Tenn.; William is living in Cam-. bridge; Jennie is now the wife of Jasper Adair, and lives in this county; Dora married Elsworth Patterson, of this county; Emma became the wife of William Patterson, and also makes her home within the bounds of Guernsey County; and John and Martin are at home in Jefferson Township, this county, where their parents are engaged in farming quite. extensively. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have had born to them a large family, numbering thirteen children, of whom we make the following mention: Marion F.; is living in Kansas; Viola is the wife of William Black, and lives at Cambridge; Lemuel is also in Kansas; Edward, Rankin and Dessie are at home; Minnie is deceased; and Elizabeth R., Ethel, Mary, Harland, Alma H. and Rollie are still under the parental roof. Mr. Alexander served as a Union soldier during the late war, enlisting when a lad of seventeen in Company H, Fifth Ohio Infantry, and remaining in active service with his regiment until the establishment of peace. He then returned home and resided with his parents for a year after reaching his majority, when he began to make his own way in the world. His first employment was in a sawmill, where he worked for about seven months, and the winter following. was engaged in mining coal. Not liking this kind of work, he soon abandoned it and worked for farmers until 1867, the year in which he purchased a tract of his own. This he operated for two years, and, having a good offer, sold it and for the ensuing eighteen months owned and operated salt works in Liberty. At the expiration of that time he disposed of his interest in this business and bought eighty acres of land which adjoins his present homestead. The latter is a fine tract, comprising two hundred and twenty acres, bearing all the valuable improvements usually found upon the estate of a wide-awake and progressive farmer. Mr. Alexander is very prominent in his neighborhood and has been prevailed upon by his friends to fill the offices of Township Trustee and Treasurer. He has always been greatly interested in school affairs, which fact has led him to serve on the School Board.. In politics he is non-partisan; casting his vote for the best man, regardless of party lines. JOHN G. GECKELER, a successful general agriculturist and well known contractor, is an energetic and representative citizen, residing in Sandy Township, where he owns an excellent farm of seventy-eight acres, under a high state of cultivation. He is a native of Tuscarawas County, and was bow near Strasburg, in Dover Township, March 29, 1855, to Lewis and Ann (Grove) Geckeler. Grandfather Ludwich Geckeler was a farmer and lived and died in his native Germany. He reared flee sons to mature years, of whom Lewis and Frederick came to the United States. The former was born in Wurtemberg December 22, 1828, and one year after attaining his majority decided to try his fortunes in the United States. Embarking on a vessel, he was landed in New York City after a tedious voyage of forty days. He at once located in Navarre, this state, and was employed in driving stages from that place to Waynesburg for two years. After that he worked a farm for a time near Bolivar, in which place he was married, and then moved with his bride on rented property near PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD - 399 Strasburg. This they operated for a time, and then took possession of another tract near Dover, living upon it for two years. In 1859 they made their home on another rented farm situated near Zoar Station, and two years later purchased seventy-six acres east of that place. This proved a very profitable investment, and in 1871 Lewis Geckeler was enabled to add to this one hundred and thirty acres, which, with another small acreage, aggregated two hundred and twenty-one acres. He prospered as time advanced, and to his already large possessions added a farm of one hundred and forty-seven acres in Stark County, this state, besides valuable real estate in New Philadelphia, Zoar Station and Valley Junction. It is due to him to state that he was a self-made man as regards education and finance, as his opportunities for attending school wcre very limited, and when he landed in this country he had to borrow the money to pay his way to this state. he always manifested a lively interest in the success of the Democratic party, whose ticket he at all time voted. He was never an office-seeker, but was honored by his fellow-citizens with the positions of Trustee and Treasurer of his township, and at his death, February 21, 1893,was serving his second term as Director of the Infirmary. He was a conscientious member of the Lutheran Church and was a liberal contributor to its support. The father of our subject was twice married. His first union resulted in the birth of eleven children, of whom those who grew to mature years, besides our subject, were William, a resident of Stark County; Lewis, whose death took place at Canal Dover; Fred, living in Independence, Kan., where he is engaged in the shoe business; George, Charles, Henry, Emma, Louisa and Anna. Lewis Geckeler's second union was with Emeline Grove, sister of his first wife, and to them were born Mary and Loren L. She was the daughter of George and Sarah (Rider) Grove, early settlers of this county. The original of this sketch was reared to farm life, and in the winter season carried on his studies in the district school. On attaining his majority he apprenticed himself to learn the trade of a carpenter, working in. the employ of one man for a period of thirteen years. For. the past three years, however, he has been engaged in contracting, building some of the best residences in the neighborhood. In the spring of 1887 Mr. Geckeler moved to his present fine farm in Sandy Township, on which he has made many improvements in the way of substantial buildings. In his political opinions he is a Democrat, casting his vote and influence in favor of that party. he is truly a self-made man, and by his honorable and upright career has won many friends and has the high regard of all with whom he is brought in contact. Mr. Geckeler and Mary Weidman were united in marriage January 1, 1880. This lady was born in Sandy Township, near Sandyville. and is the daughter of Frederick and Magdalene (Beck) Weidman, natives of Germany, whence they emigrated to this country. She was one in a family of four sons and two daughters. Her brother Fred served as a soldier during the late war, and is now deceased; Charles' is a farmer near New Philadelphia; John is living-in Stark County; William is deceased; and Sophia is the widow of John Bordner. To our subject and his estimable wife have been born three children: Fremont E., who died when nine months old, and Cora May and Oscar Victor. The parents are excellent members of the Lutheran Church, and have always been liberal in their support of Gospel work. WILBERT T. SECREST. Among the prominent young business men of Cambridge, whose high reputation and material prosperity came as the reward of unusual natural abilities industriously applied, is our subject, who is at present conducting a fine business in the grocery line and commands a large patronage. he is public-spirited and progressive, and takes an active interest in all that pertains to the welfare of the community, using his influence for its benefit. A native of this state, Mr. Secrest was born in Noble County, the date of his birth being. Novem-