(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 500 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. After graduating from the Cambridge high school the latter became a student at the college at Delaware, Ohio, and he is at present secretary of the state game and fish department. EDWARD W. MATHEWS, JR. A well known citizen of Cambridge and a man who has long been regarded as a leading citizen of Guernsey county, interested in her every phase of progress is Edward M. Mathews, Jr., who, while yet young in years, has made rapid strides as an attorney and at the same time has won the admiration and respect of his fellow men by his judicious and consistent course. Mr. Mathews was born June 13, 1871, in Cambridge, Ohio, and he is the son of Edward W. Mathews, Sr., and Amelia Haynes, a sketch of the father appearing in another part of this work. The son was educated in the public schools of Cambridge, graduating from the high school in the class of 1887. He attended the preparatory school in connection with the University of Wooster, at Wooster, Ohio, entered the university proper the next year, taking a two years' course. He engaged in business for two years, then went to Minneapolis, and entered the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1892, taking a two years' academic course, after which he entered the law department, from which he graduated with honors in the class of 1896, and was admitted to the bar in that state in June of that year. He entered the office of Shaw, Cray, Lancaster & Parker, a prominent law firm of Minneapolis, with which he continued until it was dissolved, about two years later. He then returned to Cambridge, in 1898, and entered the firm of Mathews & Heade, the Mr. Mathews being the father of the subject, the firm name being then changed to that of Mathews, Heade & Mathews, Edward W. Mathews being admitted to the bar of Ohio in the fall of 1898, which firm continued successfully until April, 1904, when Mr. Heade withdrew. The firm of Mathews & Mathews, father and son, was then formed and still continues, being regarded as one of the strongest and most prominent in the county and which figures conspicuously in many of the important trials in local courts. In connection with the practice of law, they have conducted for clients an extensive loan business on real estate. Politically, Mr. Mathews is a Democrat, and all local, state and national GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 501 economic questions receive his close attention. He is exceptionally well in- formed on current topics on which men and parties divide, as well as being profoundly versed in all matters of jurisprudence and keeping well abreast of the time in the matter of decisions of courts and the revision of statutes. He is frequently a delegate to county, district and state conventions and a member of important party committees, and his counsel is frequently sought in party affairs. Mr. Mathews became a member of the Ohio Delta Chapter of the Phi Delta Theta college fraternity in 1888, at Wooster, Ohio, and affiliated with the Minnesota Alpha Chapter, in 1892, at Minneapolis. He was a member of the Minneapolis Commercial Club for several years, while residing in Minneapolis ; is a member of the Cambridge Board of Trade, and has been a member of the Cambridge Country Club ever since its organization. In college he played tennis, baseball and football, and now plays golf for recrea- tion. On October 17, 1900, Mr, Mathews was united in marriage with Martha C, Secrest, daughter of Noah E. and Eliza Jane (Spriggs) Secrest, a well known and highly respected family of Guernsey county. Mrs. MathewS is a lady of talent and culture. This union has been graced by the birth of four children, two daughters and two sons, namely : Martha Spriggs, Katheryn Haynes, Edward William and Robert Green. The family home, a neat and attractive dwelling, is at No. 161 o Creston road. It is, in fact, one of the most imposing houses of the city, located on a high elevation, command- ing a splendid panorama of the famous Guernsey valley, and here the best society folk of the community frequently gather, finding an old-time hospitality and good cheer. CHARLES L. CASEY. The present article deals with one of the most forceful, original and energetic of the business men of Cambridge, Charles L. Casey, who is a native citizen, being born in Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, on February 25, 1872. He is the son of John K. and Anna D. (Scott) Casey. John K. Casey was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, his wife was born in New Metamora, Ohio, and both are now residing in Cambridge. For some years prior to 1874 John K. Casey was engaged in the manufacture of carriages, but that year removed to Cumberland, Guernsey county, where he remained 502 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. until 1885, and continued his manufacturing business there. In 1885 he was elected recorder of Guernsey county, and in that year the family returned to Cambridge to reside. He served two terms as county recorder, was recognized as a competent and accommodating public official, and now enjoys the respect of the people of Cambridge. Charles L. Casey attended the public schools of Cumberland during the years of the familyls residence in that city, and on their return to Cam- bridge, in 1885, he entered the public schools of the city, graduating from the Cambridge high school in the class of 1889. He then became a student at the University of Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1892. Until 1900 he was engaged in various pursuits, when he organized The Cambridge Art Pottery Company, becoming its president and manager. A plant waS built at Cambridge, and the company began the manufacture of their wares, placing upon the market a high grade of pottery which found a market in the larger centers. For two years the company manufactured a line of color glazed pottery exclusively, but after two years' operations they decided to include in their line an entirely new product in earthenware, and the result was the "Guernsey" earthenware, a variety of practical and sanitary cook- ing utensils, a product of which this company were the originators and the first manufacturers in the United States to introduce the "casserole" vessel for cooking and serving. This ware is light in weight, has a rich brown exterior, and a spotless white porcelain interior. For more than six years it has stood the strongest possible tests and grows in favor constantly. Their line includes every kind of vessel that may be conceived for cooking and serving purposes, and the company is supplying all of the large silverware manufacturers with "Guernsey" earthenware for mounting in sterling, sil- ver-plated and other metal holders. The company's line includes all the standard shapes and sizes, their casseroles being exceptionally fine. The business under the direction and guidance of Mr. Casey has grown from its first inception until it now invades every part of the United States and some foreign countries. The reputation of "Guernsey" earthenware has become world wide, and every day letters of inquiry come from faraway foreign commercial centers. At the Jamestown exposition in 1907, the first national exhibition at which they were exhibitors, the company's exhibit of art pottery and "Guernsey" earthenware products were awarded first prizes. The company disposes of its wares directly through the retailers, main- taining show rooms and offices in Portland, Oregon; San Francisco, New York, and New Orleans, each in charge of a personal representative of the GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 503 company. Two years ago they abandoned entirely the manufacture of art pottery, and have since given their undivided attention to the rapidly growing demand for "Guernsey" earthenware. In July, 1909, the name of the company waS changed from The Cambridge Art Pottery Company to The Guernsey Earthenware Company, Mr. Casey taking over practically all of the stock and continuing as president, general manager and guiding genius. This plant is one of the busiest and most prosperous of the industries of Cambridge. It employs about one hundred and sixty persons throughout the year. Mr. Casey's keen insight, never-tiring energy, and great business capacity has thus established and developed one of the most conspicuous business concerns in the Guernsey valley. He is a man of great energy and force and whatever he gets behind must move. Not only is he prominent in the industrial life of the community, but he is greatly interested in whatever movement aims at the advancement of Cambridge. Mr. Casey is one of those public spirited citizens who made possible the recently organized Cambridge Board of Trade, and is one of its directors and vice-president of the organization. A man of optimistic views and action, giving his influence and support to all progressive movements, he occupies a high place in the estimation of the people. In politics, Mr. Casey is a Republican, has alwayS been active in the counsels of this party, and his name is generally found in the list of delegates to county, district and state conventions. Politics is his recreation, and few men get more pleasure out of the game than doeS Mr. Casey. He is a member of the Cambridge Country Club, a man of broad generouS views, and most companionable. No community could fail to be improved had it many citizens like Mr. Casey. IRA FERGUSON. Faithfulness to duty and a strict adherence to a fixed purpose, which always do more to advance a mansis interests than wealth or advantageous circumstances, have been dominating factors in the life of Ira Ferguson, of Lore City, Wills township, Guernsey county. His career, though brief, he being vet a man young in years, has been replete with honor and success worthily attained. Mr. Ferguson was born on August 25, 188o, on a farm one and one- half miles southeast of Lore City, in Liberty township, this county, and he 504 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. is the son of Andrew C. and Eveline (Saltsgaver) Ferguson. Both parents were born in Senecaville, this county, the mother being the daughter of William Saltsgaver, of that place, a man prominent and wealthy in lands and other interests. The Fergusons are of Scotch-Irish descent, and a pioneer family in the county. The father, Andrew C. Ferguson, is a prominent farmer and large land owner of Richland township, Guernsey county, and he is prominent in the affairs of the locality. He and his wife are still living and are highly honored by a wide circle of friends. Ira Ferguson, of this review, spent his childhood and youth on his father's farm, and his early education was obtained in the schools of Liberty district, Liberty township, where he remained until he was twenty years of age, when he left home and went to New York City, and was employed with a company manufacturing ice machines for one year, then returned to the home farm on account of sickness. After his recovery he went to New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and was again employed by a company in the Manufacture of ice machines, remaining with the same about a year. He returned home again and on February 7, 1903, he was united in marriage with Emma Mendenhall, daughter of Thomas S. and Martha (Gardner) Mendenhall, of Salesville, this county. Mr. Mendenhall was a prominent stock-buyer and shipper, and his death occurred in December, 1902; his widow is living at Salesville. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, Margaret Blanche. A fter his marriage Mr. Ferguson went to Rochester, Pennsylvania, and engaged in the restaurant business, hut returned to Lore City, Ohio, in less than a year and opened a hardware store here, He continued in that line successfully until he was appointed postmaster of Lore City, on March io, 1908, when he retired from the hardware business and devoted his exclusive attention to the postoffice, making, according to the consensus of opinion, one of the best postmasters the town has ever had. The office has three rural routes and is a distributing point for several different places. Politically, Mr. Ferguson is a Republican and is loyal to the same, and he has been active in political matters, and has been a frequent delegate to .Republican conventions and active in the interests and success of the party, vet always tolerant to men of different opinions. He is a member of the Masonic order, Pleasant City lodge and the York Rite at Cambridge and the Scottish Rite at Columbus, Ohio, being well known and active in this fraternity. Mrs. Ferguson is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Ferguson affiliates with the same. Mrs. Ferguson is a Splendid woman, and, like her husband, is prominent in the social life of GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 505 this community, numbering her friends by the limits of her acquaintance only. She is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the woman's auxiliary of Masonry. JAMES G. BAIR. One of the most prominent and influential business men of Cambridge and one of Guernsey county's most highly honored and representative citizens is James G. Bair, the worthy scion of one of the old and distinguished pioneer families of this section of the Buckeye state. He has always been very active in business affairs and scrupulously honest in all his relations with his fellow men and leaving no stone unturned whereby he might benefit his own condition as well as that of the public in general, consequently he has won and retained the universal esteem of all classes, who repose in him the utmost confidence. Mr. Bair was born December 27, 1853, in Freeport township, Harrison county, Ohio, the son of Peter and Eliza A. (Dougherty) Bair. His grandfather, John Bair, came with his family from Maryland about 183o, and settled in Harrison county, Ohio. He was a farmer and large land owner and one of the founders of Pleasant Hill church, one of the early and influential churches of that section of Ohio, of the Methodist Protestant faith. He spent the remainder of his life in that community and was Widely influential and well known. His son, Peter, the father of the subject of this sketch, grew up in that community, and was one of nine children, eight of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. Peter Bair was a farmer and prosperous man and prominent in the affairs of the community. In 1870 he moved to Murray, Clark county, Iowa, where he still resides and is engaged in farming. In the family of hiS parents were five sons and three daughters: George; Julia A., Margaret, John, Reuben, Peter, of Murray, Iowa; Mary, now Mrs. David Owens, of Harrison county ; and James, all of whom are deceased but Peter, of Murray, Iowa, and Mary, of Harrison county, Ohio. The father and mother are both living, the former eighty- four years and the latter seventy-seven years of age. Peter and Eliza (Dougherty) Bair had a family of three sons : John Henry died in infancy ; James G., and Albert, who died at the age of twenty-five years. James G. Blair spent his childhood and youth until he was sixteen years old on the farm, and obtained his education in the country district school. 506 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. When nineteen years of age he began teaching school and taught for two years, then, at the age of twenty-one years, he entered the drug store of Dr. J. T. McPherson, of Fairview, in Guernsey county, as a clerk, and was with Doctor McPherson for three years, and in the spring of 1876 he went to Freeport and engaged in general work. In the fall of 1876 the mother and two sons, Albert and James G., moved to the Doctor McPherson farm, one mile west of Cambridge, where the subject engaged in farm work for two years. He then moved into Cambridge and was in the sewing machine business for one year. In 1880 he moved to Freeport and engaged in the drug and hardware business as a clerk for B. H. Black, where he remained six years. In 1884 he engaged again in the sewing machine business in Freeport, and in March, 1889, he returned to Cambridge and engaged in the furniture business with James Criswell, his father-in-law. Mr. Bair was married July 12, 1883, by the Rev. W. V. Milligan, to Nancy O. Criswell, daughter of James and Nancy (White) Criswell, of Cambridge. To this union no children were born. The firm of Criswell & Bair continued in the furniture and undertaking business for three years, when Mr. Criswell withdrew and Mr. Bair continued the business until January, 1908, when the J. G. Bair Furniture Company was organized, with Mr. Bair as president of the company, and took over the business of J. G. Bair. The company occupies a large three-story brick building, admirably adapted to the business, built by Mr. Bair in 1905-6, on Wheeling avenue, where he was in business and which he yet owns and where the company still continues in business. In addition to his extensive business interests, Mr. Bair is president of the Guernsey Building & Loan Company, which does a large business. Mr. Bair has been actively connected with various enterprises of this city and in other localities. He is connected with the Cambridge Improvement Company, the Cambridge Chautauqua Company, and various other business companies and associations. He is a director in the Cambridge Savings Bank Company. Mr. Bair was brought up as a Democrat, but in 1884 became a Prohibitionist and affiliated with that party for some years and is now an independent voter, votes for the men and measures of any party that nearest meets his views and estimates of what men in public life should be. He has never been an office seeker, but always interested in all movements and measures calculated to uplift mankind. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Protestant church and have been for many years. Mr. Bair is a trustee and a Sunday school worker. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason and of all intermediate degrees, being prominent in the following bodies : GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 507 Cambridge Lodge No. 66, Free and Accepted Masons; Cambridge Chapter No. 53, Royal Arch Masons; Guernsey Council No. 74, Royal and Select Masters; Cambridge Commandery No. 47, KnightS Templar; Cambridge Chapter, Rose Croix, eighteenth degree; Scioto Consistory, thirty-second degree; Aladdin Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine ; Guernsey Chapter No. 211, Order of the Eastern Star; Lodge No. 301, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Rebekah Lodge No. 876; Cambridge Lodge No. 53, Knights of Pythias ; Lodge No, 128, Pythian Sisters. JAMES CLINTON ORR. Perhaps no one understands better the various phases of mining conditions in Guernsey county than James Clinton Orr, the well known and capable superintendent, residing at Byesville. He is essentially a self-made man, and as such ranks with the most enterprising and progressive of his contemporaries. By a life consistent in motive and action and because of many splendid personal qualities, he has earned the sincere regard of all who know him. Mr. Orr was born in 1862 about one mile west of Byesville, this county. He is the son of Sanford and Phoebe (Burt) Orr. Sanford Orr came from near Albany, New York, about 1848, when twenty-two years old, and went to farming near Byesville. Not long afterwards he married Phoebe Burt, the daughter of Daniel and Catherine Burt. Soon after his marriage Sanford Orr bought a farm west of Byesville, where the subject was born. The latter was one of nine children, namely : Vincent, James C., Mrs. Sadie Grant, of Byesville; Mrs. Rachael Boyd, residing east of Cambridge; Mrs. Etta Smith, of Cambridge ; Mrs. Mary Lee, of Byesville ; Mrs. Effie Bowman, of Byesville ; Mrs. Essie Bowman, twin sister of Mrs. Effie Bowman, who married brothers, also lives at Byesville ; Mrs. Maggie Ritchie lives in Byesville; Vincent died in Dakota, in 1894, leaving a wife, Nancy (Smith) Orr, two daughters and one son. He was brought back to Byesville for burial and his family now lives at Byesville. He was sheriff of Aurora county, Dakota. and also a farmer. The father lived west of Byesville until about 1871, then bought a farm six miles west of Byesville, on the old Clay pike, and lived there until about 1895, then moved into Byesville. He lived there about ten years and died there. He was a Democrat and held several township offices, was trustee and also clerk of Jackson township. He was a mem- 508 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His wife still lives in Byes- ville. She is an earnest member of the Baptist church. When James C. Orr was only sixteen years of age he ran away from home and went over into Muskingum county, and got a job on a farm with a Mr. Frazier. He stayed there until the fall of 1879, four years in all. In the fall of the latter year he married Fannie Fairall, daughter of Curtis and Lucinda (Breitop) Fairall. She was born and reared on her father's farm, about two miles west of Fraziersburg, in Muskingum county. He then re- turned to Jackson township, Guernsey county, and took employment as a coal miner in the old Central mine. Five or six years later he became boss hauler in the Waldhoning mine near Pleasant City. About three years later he be- came pit boss in the old Central mine, where he first worked. Later he went with the imperial Mining Company as pit boss. About 1900 he became superintendent for the Imperial Mining Company in charge of two mines. He is now in charge of the Noble Mine at Belle Valley, the Imperial Mine at Derwent, the Ohio No. 1 and the Ohio No. 2, west of Byesville. He has supervision over about eleven hundred men. Mr. Orr was elected county commissioner in 1905 and completed his three years term in September, 1909. He is a Democrat and received a majority of eight hundred and six votes in a county that is normally two thousand Republican. He filled that office and at the same time held his position as superintendent of the mines, having the assistance of a capable assistant superintendent, E. W. Smith, whose sketch appears herein. He has been active in the party organization in various capacities in his party. He has been for .seven years a member of the board of education of Byes- ville and is president of the board. Mr. and Mrs. Orr have two sons, Charles Albert and John Earl. Charles Albert Orr was born February 2, 1881, in Muskingum county, Ohio, and came to Byesville with his parents when one year old. He grew up in Byesville and received a good education at the Byesville high school. At the age of sixteen he became weighman at the old Central coal mine near Byesville and has followed that occupation ever since. He was also proprietor of a restaurant at Byesville for about two years. He is now weighmaster at Ohio No..2 mine and is also engaged in office work for the company. He married Blanche Meek, (laughter of E. F. Meek, December 15, 1909. He belongs to the Elks and the Knights of Pythias. His son Earl is at home with his parents. At present he is in Canon City, Colorado, with his wife and her father, for the benefit of the latter's health. James C. Orr belongs to the Eagles, the Elks, and the Uniform Rank of GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 509 Knights of Pythias. He is among the prominent men of Guernsey county and both as an employe and public servant he has always given the utmost satisfaction, performing all duty in a manner that reflected credit upon himself and that elicited the hearty approval of all concerned. He is conscientious, painstaking and trustworthy. He keeps in operation most of the approved systems in the mines over which he has control and he understands the handling of men in a manner that brings the best results and also retains their good will. FRANK ROSEMOND SMITH. Improvement and progress may well be said to form the keynote of the character of Frank R. Smith, one of the representative citizens of Cambridge, Guernsey county, and he has not only been interested in the work of advancement of individual affairs, but his influence is felt in building up the community. He has been a very industrious man all his life, striving to keep abreast of the times in every respect and as a result every mile-post of the years he has passed has found him farther advanced, more prosperous, more sedate and with a larger number of friends than the preceding. Mr. Smith was born in Cambridge, Ohio, July 10, 186o, and he is the son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Taylor) Smith. Ebenezer Smith, Sr., came from near West Middletown, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and located near Washington, Guernsey county, not later than 1810. He was prominent among the pioneers and a man of sterling worth. He took an interest in public affairs and was treasurer of this county, being appointed by the county commissioners. Elizabeth Taylor was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Taylor, who was a minister of the gospel in the early clays and did a great amount of good as a preacher among the first settlers. Mrs. Ebenezer Smith was born at Senecaville, this county, and her husband was born at Cambridge in 1831 and was the son of Ebenezer, Sr., and Sarah Smith, who were among the early settlers of Cambridge, and people of much prominence here. Ebenezer Smith, Jr., died in 1886. Frank R. Smith of this review lived in Cambridge during his boyhood until he was sixteen years old, then for seventeen years he traveled as a salesman for shoes and clothing. In 1893 he organized the Cambridge Grocery Company, first in the jobbing business for five years, then changed to the retail business which he has continued with very gratifying results ever since—in fact he has been eminently successful and does more business than any other 510 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. mercantile house in Guernsey county. He has a large, modern, attractive, neat and well stocked store, with a large and carefully selected assorted stock of fancy and staple groceries, etc. Everything is up-to-date and the store is managed under a superb system. It is always a very busy place and is the favorite mecca for traders from the rural districts when in the city. The company was incorporated in 1893 and Mr. Smith has been president of the same since that time and under his judicious management its prestige has constantly grown until this store takes a place in the front rank of its kind in eastern Ohio. The authorized capital stock is twenty-five thousand dollars. Their trade extends all over the county, and much goods are shipped by this firm to adjoining towns, and a large out-of-town retail trade is carried on, all cash. No soliciting is done except through advertising. Mr. Smith is a man of un- usual business acumen, alert, farseeing and a man who believes in operating under a perfect system. He is straightforward and honest in all his dealings with his fellow men and his thousands of customers are given every considera- tion and uniform courteous treatment, and they have nothing but praise and ()pod will for Mr. Smith and his model store. In 1888 Mr. Smith was married to Elizabeth Whitaker, daughter of 'Squire William and Margaret (Rourk) Whitaker, an excellent old family of this county, the mother being a native of Antrim, Guernsey county. Mr. Whitaker was a justice of the peace at Birmingham, this county, for a period of thirty-eight years, although he was a Democrat in a Republican district, but he was regarded by all as a man of ability and was always popular with classes, irrespective of politics, very highly esteemed for his integrity, and he was a man 'Avho always tried to help people out of trouble rather than endeavor- ing to get them in trouble. He was a successful stock feeder and did a large business in that line. 'Squire William Whitaker died in 1892; he was born in 1806. Mrs. Smith grew to maturity in this county and received a good education and she is a woman of many estimable traits and has a wide circle of friends here. In 1900 Mr. Smith built a modern, attractive and commodious home in Cambridge in which Ile now resides and which is regarded as a place of hospitality and good cheer to the numerous warm friends of the family. Besides his mercantile business, Mr. Smith has laid off and sold four additions to the city of Cambridge ; the first was the addition on which the Children's Home now stands and it was all sold in three months. He also bought the old Sankey homestead which he laid off and sold; another addition was near the steel mills; the fourth was the Lofland farm in the same neighborhood. Mr. Smith reserved five acres of the last section which is used to raise fresh vege- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 511 tables for his grocery business. It is tended by an able English gardener, an expert in his line. The store also has its own bakery and a large meat department, handling only the finest meats obtainable, Seventeen salesmen are kept busy from morning till night in this large establishment. Although the present business is very extensive, much larger extensions are being planned. Mr. Smith is a man who would win in any locality or environment in which fate might place him, for he has sound judgment, coupled with great energy and business tact, together with upright principles, all of which make for success wherever and whenever they are rightly and persistently applied. SAMUEL BRATTON, JR. A successful contractor and public spirited citizen of Cambridge is Samuel Bratton, Jr., who has spent his long and useful life within the borders of Guernsey county, his "native heath," where his family has been an influential factor since the pioneer (lays and taken an active interest in the development of the same. The subject's birth occurred here in 1840, and he is the son of Samuel, Sr., and Agnes (Henderson) Bratton. The father was born October 12, 1804, in Virginia and in the early days came to this county and lived two miles east of Cambridge on the Steubenville road. He was a man of much sterling worth and a good farmer, and his death occurred at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Samuel Bratton, Sr., was the son of James. and Bathsheba (Riley) Bratton, the former born in Ireland in April, 1757, and the latter on the sea, April 30, 1763. It is believed this family settled in Virginia upon coming to America. Samuel Bratton, Jr., was married May 16, 1861, in Clinton township, this county, to Elizabeth Blair. She was born March 3o, 1837, in Center township, Guernsey county. She was the daughter of James and Isabel (Oliver) Blair. James Blair came from Ireland in 1822, when he was sixteen years of age, he having been born on April 21, 18o6. Isabel Oliver was born on July 3, 1814, probably in Ireland. Both she and James Blair, her husband, were Scotch-Irish and Presbyterians. James Blair was a sterling character and a highly respected citizen of his community. He was a teacher in his younger days and for some time served as justice of the peace. Samuel Bratton, Jr., and family lived for many years two miles east of Cambridge where he followed farming ; later in life he became a contractor and moved to Cambridge where he now resides and where lie is successfully engaged in this line of business. 512 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. There were ten children in his family, of whom James, Elmer, Wil- liam, Duncan, Harry and Charles live at Cannelville, Ohio; Maude is the wife of W. M. Harrop and lives at Shawnee, Ohio; Wallace M., usually known as "Edward," lives at Martin's Ferry; John M. is a city councilman of Cambridge; Olive is the wife of Albert Hartill, both living in Cambridge, the latter being a native of Staffordshire, England, where he was born March, 1869 ; he came to America when young and has been employed in the tin plate industry about twenty years and is a high-grade workman in this line of endeavor. WILLIAM H. HOOPMAN. Having possessed a pleasing personality, a rare force of character and executive ability of a high order, it is no wonder that William H. Hoopman, now a pilgrim to "that undiscovered bourne from whence no traveler e'er returns," should be well remembered and his name revered by the people of Guernsey county. He was a public-spirited citizen, withholding his support from no movement which had for its object the general good. What he achieved in a long and brilliant career illustrated his force of individuality and steadfastness of purpose, and he advanced to a position of credit and honor in the business and social circles of this county, becoming a man of affluence as a result of his own indomitable energy and worthy labors. Mr. Hoopman was born February 2, 1829, in Hartford county, Maryland, the son of Isaac and Lucinda Ann (Rogers) Hoopman. On October 3, 1837, the family started west when William was eight years of age. They came in a wagon, the trip requiring about two weeks, arriving here on November 7th and located one and one-half miles southeast of where Byesville is now. There they bought a farm and took up their abode in a log house, starting life in true pioneer fashion ; their place was practically covered with first-growth timber when they settled on it, hut by dint of hard work, economy and good management they developed a good farm and established a comfortable home. Their family consisted of seven children, namely : Roland, who lives in Zanesville; William H., of this review ; Isaac Wesley, now de- ceased, lived at Bunker Hill, Kansas; Elijah was the father of J. A. Hoopman, whose sketch appears elsewhere herein ; Catherine died in 1853, when seventeen years of age ; Elizabeth married Ebenezer Johnston, deceased, and she now lives in Pleasant City ; Christian died when twenty-seven years of age, in 1852. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 513 William H. Hoopman, of this review, grew up on the home farm, and remained there until 1902. On October 11, 1877, he was married to Catherine Rogers Grant, daughter of William Merriman and Catherine Washington (Rogers) Grant, whose record appears herein, in the sketch of John Roland Grant, of Byesville. Mrs. Hoopman was born in Hartford county, Maryland, and came to Byesville with her parents in April, 1856. Mrs. Hoop- man's parents continued to spend the balance of their lives on the farm they bought southeast of Byesville, the father dying on May 3o, 1885, and the mother on March 18, 1878. They were excellent people, highly respected, and they belonged to the Methodist Protestant church. Before his marriage Mr. Hoopman and his four brothers had been farming in partnership and were quite successful, becoming known especially as sheep raisers, and they bought several farms. After the marriage of William H. Hoopman, all the brothers, except Elijah and himself, moved away, selling their interests in the home place to William H. and Elijah, who, within a year or two, divided their holdings and each worked separately. William H. and his wife continued on the home farm and were quite successful in general farming and stock raising, and kept a neat and comfortable home. Besides farming, Mr. Hoopman was one of the heaviest stockholders of the First National Bank of Byesville and a member of the board of directors from its organization. He was an active member of the Methodist Protestant church, of which Mrs. Hoopman is also a member. He was a large contributor to the Methodist Protestant College at Adrian, Michigan, and also the one at West Lafayette, Ohio, and he assisted in building churches in the bounds of the Muskingum conference, and also in foreign fields. The death of this excellent citizen, true friend and genial companion occurred on February 26, 1910, at the advanced age of eighty-one years and twenty-four days, having spent a useful, industrious and satisfactory life, a life that was unselfish and fraught with much good to others. He was a man of sterling character, temperate in all his habits, a high-minded Christian gentleman. and a business man of unusual accomplishments. He was known through life as a man who could be trusted at all times, whose word was as good if not better than the bond of many men. In early life he identified himself with the Methodist Protestant church, then known as Bethlehem church, near Trail run, and there lie retained his membership until the organization of the church at Byesville, when he transferred his membership here. He remained a valued and consistent member of the church until his death. For many years he held the office of trustee, and he was a mem- 514 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. ber of the building committee in the present building, being its heaviest contributor. Mrs. Hoopman now resides in Byesville in the home which Mr. Hoopman built for them about 1902, in which year they moved here.. It is a very pleasant, attractive, convenient and desirable home, and here her many warm friends and admirers gather frequently. ORLANDO F. LOWRY, M. D. One of the best known physicians of Cambridge, of recognized high standing in his profession, and popular and influential outside of it, is Orlando F. Lowry, who was born on March 15, 1856, on a farm near Lore City, Guern- sey county, Ohio, He is the son of William and Nancy (St. Clair) Lowry, both of whom are natives of Ohio, the father of Guernsey county, the mother of Belmont county. William Lowry was a farmer and an upright, useful citizen. Both parents are dead, the father dying when his son Orlando was a small boy. Their family consisted of seven children, two of whom died in infancy : those who lived to maturity are Newton, of Lore City ; Smith T., a physician, deceased ; John W., deceased; Emma C., now Mrs. John C. Rose, of Senecaville, Ohio ; and Orlando F. Orlando F. Lowry was reared on a farm and his early education was obtained at the country schools. He then taught in the schools of Guernsey and Belmont counties, and while attending the Ohio University at Athens taught in the meantime. In all he taught one hundred months, and was a popular and progressive educator. From boyhood he had had a desire to be- come a physician, and after giving up teaching entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, getting his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1889, and in a class of twenty-seven he stood second. He first located at Lore City, where his mother lived, and there began the practice of his profession. In 1899 he came to Cambridge and op'ened an office, where he has since been, and has built up a large and profitable practice, and stands high in the estimation of other members of his profession. He is a progressive man and is a member of the county, state and national medical associations and ever since coming to Cambridge has been one of the board of pension examining surgeons, and secretary of the board. During his term as a member of this board they have examined more than four thousand applicants for pensions. Doctor Lowry has been a member of the Cambridge board of education for four years, and is president of that board. During his term the new Brown high school was GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 515 erected at a cost of seventy-five thousand dollars, one of the finest in the state in a city the size of Cambridge, and a finely designed and splendidly equipped building, the erection of which is due largely to the efforts of Doctor Lowry. The Doctor is a Republican in politics, has been active in public matters, and has often served on county and local central committees, and as a delegate to county, district and state conventions. He keeps thoroughly in touch with public matters. Doctor Lowry was married in December, 1884, to Mary A. Doyle, the (laughter of John and Sarah .(Williams) Doyle, of Millwood township, Guernsey county. The Doyles were a Philadelphia family who came to Guernsey county in early days, Mr. Doyle at one time owning the land on which the Centennial Exposition buildings of 1876 were built. Both Mr. and Mrs. Doyle died some years ago, and are buried near Quaker City, in Millwood township. To Doctor and Mrs. Lowry have been born two sons and two daughters : Maude, now Mrs. Willard Hood, her husband the auditor of Cambridge City ; Ray, an electrical engineer of Cambridge, who is a graduate of the International Correspondence School, of Scranton, Pennsylvania; Haven, of .Cambridge; and Hazel, a student in the Cambridge high school. Doctor Lowry and his family are members of the Methodist church, and Doctor Lowry is superintendent of the Sunday school, which is the largest Methodist Sunday school in the state of Ohio. He is active in all church work, and is also president of the Cambridge Chautauqua Association, which was organized five years ago, at which time he was chosen president, and has since continued in that position, while he is one of the most active workers for the organization. Fraternally he is a member of the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, the Loyal Americans, and the American Insurance Union. He is also medical examiner for several old-line and fraternal insurance companies. The Lowry home is situated at No. 241 Highland avenue in a choice residence district, and the family is prominent in the social life of the community. BENJAMIN F. ENOS. A well known young attorney of Cambridge, Guernsey county, is Benjamin F. Enos, who is what might be denominated a student lawyer. His mind is of the work-shop order, in contradistinction to the lumber-room sort. Its acquisitions are not uselessly there, and not alone for him, but for others; they are ready to be shaped into the support of whatever purpose is in hand. 516 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. He knows enough to know, and he knows it by intuition and experience, that to be a good lawyer, a successful one, means hard study and devotion to the profession. Hence we refer to him as a student, or a studious lawyer, as a man among his books, not as a recluse or a book-worm, but as a lawyer who busies himself with those things in which success depends upon the symmetrical judgment and practical grasp that come from reading and reflection. Benjamin F. Enos was born March 20, 187o, in Madison township, Guernsey county, Ohio, and he is the son of George and Margaret (Oliver) Enos, both natives of this county. The father was a farmer and the owner of extensive real properties, an influential and highly respected citizen. His death occurred on July 7, 1903. He took a great deal of interest in public affairs and became well known to the people of this county. He was first a Whig and later a Republican. He cast his first Presidential vote for William Henry Harrison in 1840. He was a member of the Baptist church and a devoted Christian, as is his widow, who is still living, Benjamin F. Enos was one of a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters, and one half-brother by a former marriage, all of whom are living. He spent his youth on his father's farm, on which he began working when very young. His education was obtained in the country schools. When but a lad he was actuated by a laudable ambition to take up the law as a profession and he according began the study of the same with John F. Stockdale, Esq., of Cambridge, and, having made rapid progress in the same, he was admitted to the bar on October 14, 1898. He opened a law office in Cambridge soon thereafter and began practice, and at the December term of the United States district court in 1902 he was admitted to practice in that court on the date of February 13, 1903, and he has been an active practitioner in these courts since that time. He has met with well merited success and has a large clientele, which is constantly growing. He is a very able, accurate and well informed lawyer. Mr. Enos is a Republican in politics and he has long taken considerably more than a passing interest in public matters. In November, 1905, he was elected city solicitor of Cambridge and so faithfully did he discharge the duties of the same that he was re-elected in 1907 and served for a period of four years, and so popular was he in this capacity with all parties during his first term that the opposition offered no candidate. He has served as a member of the Republican county committee, and in the campaign of 1908 and until 1910 he was chairman of the Republican county executive committee, and as a campaign manager he is recognized as of great ability and has fre- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 517 quently been a delegate to county,. district and state conventions. In 1910 he was nominated and elected by his party to the office of prosecuting attorney of Guernsey county, and he has so far made a brilliant record in the same, his selection to this important public trust proving the wise foresight of his constituents. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and Ile and his wife are members of the Second United Presbyterian church of Cambridge. The domestic life of Mr. Enos began on October 8, 1903, when he was united in marriage to Margaret J. Black, a lady of fine attributes and the daughter of James H. and Elizabeth (Sims) Black, a prominent family of Muskingum ,county, Ohio. To this union has been born one daughter who died in infancy. Both Mr. and Mrs. Enos are active in church and Sabbath school work. The family home is at No. 134 South Twelfth street, and it is an attractive and cozy one, where the numerous friends of Mr. and Mrs. Enos delight to gather. Mr. Enos is a man of kindly, genteel disposition, pleasant to all classes, honest and thoroughly trustworthy, according to the large circle of acquaintances which he can claim and he is eminently deserving of the high position he has attained in the estimation of the public. CHARLES LEVI BANTA. The gentleman whose life record is here set forth is too well known to the readers of this history to need any encomium on the part of the biographer, for his many deeds in behalf of good citizenship are familiar to all classeS, who, irrespective of party or creed, hold him in esteem. Charles Levi Banta, of Cambridge, is the editor-manager of the Guernsey Times, the only Republican newspaper in the sterling Republican county of Guernsey. The birth of the subject occurred in Urbana, Champaign county, Ohio, on April 10, 1883, his parents being John A. and Emma R. Banta. His boy- hood was spent in this beautiful town in the heart of Ohio's agricultural garden spot. His education was secured in the public schools of Urbana, unexcelled in Ohio, and his graduation from the Urbana high school was with honors fitting him for entrance to any of Ohio's colleges without further question. Business training was sought of his own accord and before school hours, after school and after supper hours were spent in a department store, vacations being spent likewise, maintaining himself as the youngest of a large family 518 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. until his high school education was completed, his study hourS running into the night while others slept. An undertaking of no small effort resulted in a high school annual being published by his graduating class, the only one of its kind ever attempted, that today is regarded as a gem in the public school history of Urbana. He was made business manager and editor-in-chief of this work, put through without donation or appropriation from the school or school authorities. Before the next college year was opened Mr. Banta was found reporting for the big city papers the speeches of the great Marcus A. Hanna and the renowned William Jennings Bryan and many other lesser notables at the Urbana Chautauqua. This correspondence brought him a position on the reportorial staff of the Springfield (Ohio) Press-Republican, later on the Springfield Morning Sun. February, 1903, found Mr. Banta entering the reportorial realms of the Zanesville Times-Recorder, when that paper had just begun to attain its strong hold in Muskingum county Republican homes under the present able management. Before coming to Cambridge Mr. Banta had succeeded to the city editor's desk on this publication. The Guernsey Times was founded in 1824, being the oldest publication in Guernsey county. It attained a position that excited the envy of its many contemporaries during the ownership and able editorial writings of the late Hon. David D. Taylor. May 1, 1907, saw Mr. Banta become associated with the Guernsey Times and in less than six months he was editor, manager and part owner. Looking back to this time, the accomplishments made with the Guernsey Times are many. A new linotype machine has been added, doubling its capacity, and to-day it is the only Cambridge newspaper owning these marvelous inventions of the modern newspaper life. On March 1, 1909, the Guernsey Times was moved to a ground floor location on Wheeling avenue, the Republican Press being combined with the Weekly Guernsey Times. With new and increased mechanical equipment, that has been maintained to a high efficiency, wonderful strides have been made toward giving the citizens of the Guernsey Valley a big city newspaper. Telegraph news service by special wire has been installed, market quota- tions daily by wire, official city and county printing, the official organ of the United States district court, all tell of exclusive features that make the Guern- sey Times a home paper. Mr. Banta saw to it that the Times secured membership in the Ohio select list of daily newspapers and maintains for his paper a salaried eastern repre- sentative in New York city, also a western representative in Chicago. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 519 On October 25, 1905, occurred the marriage of Mr. Banta and Minnie E., (laughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Snyder, at their home in Springfield, Ohio, They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. One child, a daughter, born to this union, died in infancy. Since attaining his majority Mr, Banta has been ever affiliated and in his profession and possessions ever earnest in the cause of the Republican party. Besides being editor-manager, Mr: Banta is secretary of the Guernsey Times Company, owners of the publication. Its splendid business location is at No. 744 Wheeler avenue and its motto is, all of the news that is fit to enter man's most sacred possession, his home. Mr. Banta takes an abiding interest in everything pertaining to the general upbuilding of this county, and he inspires the confidence and respect of all who have dealings with him. He has made his paper a bright, newsy and ably edited daily, that is rapidly increasing in circulation and prestige. STEPHEN B. CLARK, M. D. The gift of life is so mysterious that when that other mystery which we call death interrupts the current of human hopes and aspirations, we know not into what new channel the spirit may be turned, but if the life has been characterized by strength and vigor everything it has touched in its onward passage must have received a beneficent inspiration. To a mind thoroughly awake to the reality of human existence and its responsibilities there are noble and imperishable lessons in the career of an individual who conquers adversity and wins not only material success, but that far greater honor. the deserved esteem and confidence of his fellowmen. Such a man was the late Stephen B. Clark. Long intimately associated with the .material and civic interests of Guernsey county, his name is today recalled with reverence. Stephen B. Clark was born September 27, 1810, at New Market, Maryland, the son of John and Mary (Basford) Clark, and came to Guernsey county in 1825 with his parents, who first came to Cambridge, but later located at Antrim, where the father engaged in the mercantile business for many years. John Clark was a successful and influential citizen. Late in life he removed to Washington. Guernsey county, where he and his wife passed away. They rest in Cambridge cemetery. Stephen B. Clark was a diligent Student when young and began teaching 520 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. at the age of sixteen years, obtaining means for a medical education, in which study Ile was greatly interested. During the years of teaching he read medi- cine with Dr. Thomas Miller, of Cambridge, and when he had saved sufficient money he took a course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, after which he returned to Cambridge and formed a partnership with Doctor Miller for the practice, and later took a course of lectures at the University of New York, graduating in 1845. On his return from New York he formed a partnership with his brother, Dr. John T. Clark, in Cambridge, and during his years of practice he became a partner of Peter Ogier in the drug business, under the firm name of Ogier & Clark, and with William Rainey, Sr., in the mercantile business, under the firm name of Rainey & Clark. His last enterprise was the establishment of the First National Bank, now the National Bank of Cambridge, and became the active president for thirteen years, managing its affairs with such care and judgment aS not to lose one cent in investments or loans during that time. After his retirement from active life because of the infirmities of age, he retired to his farm, Oak Grove, near Cambridge. He was a great reader of history and biography and a student of the Bible, being a member of the United Presbyterian church and an elder in the church for thirty-five years, and a frequent delegate to the general assemblies of the church. In politics he was a Whig and Freesoiler. In 1866 he became chairman of the first Republican organization in Guernsey county, and was always prominent and active in party affairs, His grandfather was a slave-holder in Maryland, and to each of his grandchildren was given a black servant, but this grandson was a strong anti-slavery man, and in very early life broke away from the influences and associations of slavery. Doctor Clark was also a large landowner, and Clark's addition to the city of Cambridge is one of the most important sections of the city. Doctor Clark died June 30, 1894, in his eighty- fourth year, and his widow on February 8, 1902, aged eighty-two, and both are buried at Cambridge. Few men have left a more indelible impression upon the community than Doctor Clark. A splendid man in every walk of life, in his profession, in business, in banking, in the church, and in educational advancement, his impress is found everywhere. Doctor Clark was married November 26, 1839, to Jane McCracken (born March 30, 1820) by Rev. Dr. James McGill, pastor of the Associated Reform church of Cambridge, which in 1858 became the First United Presby- terian church of Cambridge. To Doctor and Mrs. Clark were born nine children, seven of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. They were : William M., of Lincoln, Nebraska, who waS a soldier in the Civil war and who became brigade surgeon of the GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 521 First Brigade, Third Division of the Fourth Army Corps; John R., deceased, a prominent banker of Lincoln, and a soldier of the Civil war, enlisting in 1861 in Company B, Fifteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and became first lieutenant of Company A, same regiment ; Alexander J., of the state of Texas, who as a member of Ohio National Guard also served in the Civil war; Margaret H., now Mrs. Wilson S. Heade, widow of the late Wilson Shannon Heade, mention of whom is made elsewhere in this work ; Thomas C., of Cambridge ; Mary 0., now Mrs. William A. Burt, of Columbus, Ohio; Josiah, deceased; Ida Jane, deceased; Lute, deceased, who became Mrs. Halleck C. Young, of Lincoln, Nebraska. The loss to a community of such a citizen as Doctor Clark is difficult to estimate. His influence as a potential factor in the civic and commercial life of the community was far-reaching. His long and useful life was so intimately intermingled with all the vital forces of good that to place a finger upon this or that particular achievement were merely random acknowledgment of a career singularly fruitful of just and honorable deeds. Memory lingers with loving tenderness over his personality. WILSON SHANNON HEADE. Few citizens of a past generation figured more prominently in the affairs of Guernsey county than Wilson Shannon Heade, now a "pilgrim to that bourne from which no traveler returns." Broad-minded, active, kind-hearted and public-spirited, he was a man of the people and was accorded the highest esteem, living, and now that he has passed from among us, his memory iS greatly revered. Mr. Heade was born May 4, 1842, on a farm near Fairview, in Oxford township, the son of James and Sarah (Dillon) Heade. The father was born in Culpeper county, Maryland, and the mother was from New England. Both father and mother came as young people with their parents to Guernsey county. The Dillons were Quakers. James Heade was a farmer, a man of prominence and worth, was of upright character and active in the affairs of the early settlers and highly honored by all. The son, Wilson Shannon Heade, grew up on the farm and attended the district schools and began teaching school at the age of sixteen, his first school being at Yankee Point, Guernsey county. He taught for a number of years and, his father dying young, he assisted his mother in the care of the 522 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. family. Being a studious youth while teaching, he studied law and in 1870 was admitted to the practice of law. He opened an office in Quaker City the same year and maintained an office in Quaker City for three years, coming to Cambridge in 1873, and opened an office there. In 1875 he formed a partnership with Judge Edward W. MatthewS and grew in activity and influence at the bar. This fortunately continued until June, 1903, when Mr. Heade withdrew from the firm and formed a partnership with his son, Stephen R. Heade, in the brokerage and loan business, Mr. Heade continuing the practice of law up to his death, August 16, 1905. He devoted his life to the practice of the law and was recognized as an able counselor and advocate. During the Civil war he enlisted in the army and served from his enlistment until the close of the war, Serving as a clerk at headquarters most of the time, being an expert accountant and fine writer. Mr. Heade was married February 8, 1877, to Margaret Henderson Clark, daughter of Dr. Stephen B. and Jane (McCracken) Clark, mention of whom is made elsewhere in this work. To Mr. and Mrs. Heade have been born two children : Mary, now the widow of Rev. Thomas C. Pollock, of Monmouth, Illinois, and Stephen R.. of Cambridge. Mr. Heade was a Democrat in politics and was an active man in public life, a public-spirited citizen in all lines and waS prominent in all movements looking to the uplift and advancement of the community. He was a member of the First United Presbyterian church and was an elder in this church for many years. Upon the organization of the Second United Presbyterian church, he went with that congregation and waS an elder of that church until his death in 1905. He was a member of the County Children's Home board for twelve years and always interested in philanthropic work. He was a member of the trustees of Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio, for some years and chairman of the finance committee. His wife and family are also United Presbyterians. Mr. Heade was a very methodical man in all things, and a great lover of hookS. In the home is a fine private library of fully eight hundred volumes of reference, history, biography, standard authors and the poets, also miscellaneouS volumes, and the best current literature. Mrs. Heade is a most excellent woman, closely identified with church work and a member of the different organizations of the church. She is a member of the McClellan-Brown Sorosis, a prominent woman's club of the city, a devoted wife and mother whose chief thought has always been her husband, her family and her home. The home is on the corner of Eleventh and Wheeling avenue, a pretentious home with every comfort and convenience. The family has always been prominent in the Social life of the city. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 523 HENRY L. WILLIAMS. The present sketch is concerned with a well known and successful jeweler and optician of Cambridge, Henry L. Williams, who has so well qualified himself for his business by experience and education that success in it is the natural result of his training. He was born on July 29, 1850, in Adamsville, Muskingum county, Ohio, a son of Asher and Jeanette (Hubbell) Williams. His father was a native of Meadville, Pennsylvania, his mother of New York state, and they were married at Meadville. Both the Williams and the Hubbell families came to Ohio at the same time, making the trip down the Ohio and up the Muskingum to Zanesville in a flatboat. The Hubbells remained in Zanesville, and Jedediah Hubbell, the father of Mrs. Williams, engaged in the manufacture of paper and from his factory in Zanesville came the first Straw paper made in the United States. The Williams family moved to Adamsville, where Asher Williams was employed as a foreman in a cabinetmaking establishment. He remained in Adamsville only for a few years, then moved to Cambridge in the spring of 1857, where he engaged at the corner of Eighth street and Turner avenue in the business of cabinetmaking. He was a Skilled workman, and continued in cabinetmaking during his business life. Asher Williams was a Republican, and a man well informed in politics but not active. He was a member of the Methodist church and a devout Christian, a class leader and active church worker. The family of Asher Williams consisted of five sons and two daughters : Mary A. is single and resides in Cambridge; Charles H. is in Holton, Kansas; Margaret married William Wenner, of Holton, Kansas; Jedediah is in Cambridge; Asher in Kansas City, Missouri; Fred is deceased; Henry L. is the subject of this sketch. Asher Williams, Sr., was born in 1810, and died in 1883. His wife was horn on July 4, 1810, and died in 1893. Both are buried in the cemetery at Cambridge. Their son, Henry L. Williams, was educated in the public schools of Cambridge, and as a lad learned the trade of a signwriter, and later learned the jewelry business with J. F. Salmon of Cambridge. After a few years he has a desire to become an expert optician and took a course in optics with Julius King of Cleveland, later a course With the Globe Optical Company of Boston, and then studied under A. J. Cross, a recognized optical authority, of New York, with whom he took a special course in retinascopy. Still later he studied with the South Bend College of Optics, at South Bend, Indiana, from which he obtained the degree of Doctor of Optics. 524 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Mr. Williams first established himself in the optical and jewelry business in Cambridge in 1891, and has continued here ever since, constantly enjoying a larger business and meeting with wonderful success in the optical line. His location is at No. 743 Wheeling avenue, and he is a recognized optical expert. On July 29, 1897, Mr. Williams was married to Martha Pickering, of Cambridge, who was educated in the public schools of Guernsey county and Cambridge, and is an intelligent, refined and cultivated woman. She is a member of the Sorosis Woman's Club, She and her husband are members of the Methodist church, and Mrs. Williams is a great church and Sunday school worker and a member of the different church organizations and societies, Mr. Williams is also a teacher in the Sunday school. He is a Republican in politics, not active, but always interested and is an intelligent voter and up- right citizen in every respect, of spotless integrity in all business and private affairs. WILLIAM M. LAWYER, M. D. The present sketch is the record of a man who has in his life overcome many difficulties in the way of entrance into his chosen profesSion, but whose success after entrance has fully justified his choice. William M. Lawyer was born on July 12, 1869, on a farm in Knox township, Guernsey county, Ohio, the son of James P. and Johanna (Moss) Lawyer. James P. Lawyer was born in Guernsey county, his ancestry coming to this county about 1899 from the state of Pennsylvania. For many years he was prominent in the county as a school teacher, and is now living a retired life in Wheeling township near Guernsey station. His wife is also living. They were the parents of ten children, one of whom died in infancy, and nine of whom are yet living. The living are : Charles E., of Cambridge ; Amanda, now Mrs. Joseph Lowry, of Knox township; Hannah, unmarried, a teacher of elocution in Los Angeles, California ; William M. ; Emma, who married James Glenn, of Coshocton: John M., of Isletta, Ohio; James P., of Guernsey, Wheeling township; Anna, now Mrs. James Thomas, of Los Angeles, California ; and Elsie C., of Guernsey station. William M. Lawyer was reared on a farm and attended the Knox town- ship country schools. At the age of twenty he began teaching, and for three years taught in Guernsey county, where he was popular, and was considered a progressive teacher. He then entered the Valparaiso (Indiana) Normal School, and took a scientific course, obtaining the degree of Bachelor of GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 525 Science in the class of 1894. He then went to Waubay, South Dakota, and engaged as principal of the town schools, where he remained three years, and during which time he was married. He then went to Ellendale, South Dakota, where he was superintendent of schools for five years. While there he entered as a non-resident student of Add-Rania Christian University, at Waco, Texas, and completed their course of study, and while teaching graduated in 180 with the degree of Master of Arts. On leaving Ellendale he went to Chicago and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medical College of the University of Illinois, and in 1905 received his medical degree. He first located in the practice of medicine at Kimbolton, near the scenes of his youth, and has built up a large and profitable practice, being successful both as a physician and Surgeon, and in a financial way. Doctor Lawyer was married in 1896, to Effie I. Billings, the daughter of William Billings, of Paoli, Kansas. Mrs. Lawyer is a graduate of the Valparaiso Normal, and was for several years a high school teacher at Webster, South Dakota, prior to her marriage. To this union have been born four children : Ruskin B., born on February 27, 1897, a student in the Cambridge high school; the second child was born on January 9, 1900, and died in infancy ; Frank Gordon was born on December 3o, 1902, and Helen May, on March 7, 1908. Fraternally, Doctor Lawyer is a member of the Masonic order and of the Odd Fellows, and the auxiliary societies of both these orders, in the latter of which hiS wife is a member. He is a Scottish-rite Mason. In politics he is a Republican, and for some time was active in politics, but now, though not active, is interested in public matters, and is a member of the village council of Kimbolton. During the Spanish-American war Doctor Lawyer took a prominent part in raising and organizing a company for service, and was made its second lieutenant, the company being Company M, First Infantry of North Dakota, but the war was over before the regiment was mustered in and they never saw active service. However the organization was continued as a militia regiment, and for three years the Doctor held the post of second lieutenant. As an evidence of his high standing in educational work in the state of North Dakota, Doctor Lawyer holds a life high school teacher's certificate. Mrs. Lawyer is a refined and cultivated woman, devoted to her home and family. Doctor Lawyer is a large man physically, and intellectually as well, and a most agreeable companion. He is very busy in his profession, but finds time for social duties, and both he and his wife are prominent in the social life of the community. 526 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. JOSEPH WORTHINGTON DYSON. In one of the most exacting of all callings the subject of this sketch has attained distinction, being recognized as one of the most successful teachers in the county of Guernsey. He is a well educated, symmetrically developed man, his work as an educator having brought him prominently to the notice of the public, the result of which is a demand for his services where a high standard of professional excellence is required. He is a gentleman of scholar- ly tastes and studious habits, keeps abreast the times in advanced educational methods and his general knowledge is broad and comprehensive. Mr. Dyson is a native of the county in which he now liveS, having been born in Pleasant City on June 24, 1875. He is the son of Joseph and Martha (Albin) Dyson, both of whom were born and reared in Valley township, this county. Joseph Dyson in his early life was one of the progressive and successful teachers of Guernsey county, but subsequently, on account of his health, he relinquished pedagogy for the more healthful employment of farming, to which he devoted himself until his death. His widow survives and now lives on the home farm, a half mile north of Pleasant City. To these parents were born four children, three sons and a (laughter, namely : Rosetta, deceased ; Orloff, who operates the home farm in Valley township; one son who died in infancy, and Joseph W., the immediate subject of this sketch. Joseph W. Dyson spent his childhood and early youth on the paternal homestead and received his early education in the Pleasant City schools. He later attended Wooster University and, still later, became a student in Scio College, Nv he re he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. At the age of nineteen years he had begun teaching school and has ever since followed this vocation, in which he has met 'with most gratifying success, his work invariably meeting the approbation of officials and patrons of the schools over which he has presided. It speaks well for his ability and energy, that he has been able to take his college work while at the same time discharging the multitudinous duties which fall to the successful teacher. His pedagogical career has been confined to the schools of Guernsey county. In 1903 he was elected principal of the Pleasant Valley schools, having been connected with the schools there prior to that time. In 1906 he became superintendent of the schools at Kimbolton, his retention in this important position being a sufficient evidence of the satisfactory character of his services. While superintendent at Pleasant City he founded the high school and since taking charge of the Kimbolton schools he has succeeded in greatly increasing their efficiency and raising the Standard of studies and discipline, so that today these schools are GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 527 among the most successful in the county, many students from the surrounding country attending there. Mr. Dyson possesses a common and high school state life teacher's certificate, attesting hiS efficiency and thoroughness in his profession. He has been a county school examiner since 1907, now serving his second term in this capacity. He was also elected president of the County Teachers' Association, and is now serving his second year in that capacity. He takes the keenest interest in his profession, to which lie is abSolutely devoted, and among those who are conversant with his methods and the reSultS obtained by him, he is held in the higheSt eSteem. Politically, Professor Dyson is a Republican and in the success of his party he takes an active interest. He has frequently been a delegate to county and district conventions of his party and in the political councils his judgment is valued highly by his associates. He clings to the religious faith of his parents, Who were devoted members of the Evangelical Lutheran church. On September 5, 1906, Professor Dyson was married to Mary C. Nelson, a daughter of Edwin M. and Margaret (Work) Nelson, who are mentioned elsewhere in this work. To Mr. and Mrs, Dyson has been born one child, Worthy Edwin, born March 5, 1908. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Dyson was a successful public school teacher. She was a student in Wooster University, at Wooster, Ohio, and in the State Normal School at Dillon, Montana, and in that latter state she engaged in teaching for four years. She also taught in the schools of East Palestine, Ohio, and was considered a very successful primary teacher, having taken special preparatory work in that department. She is a refined and cultured woman and she and her husband have a host of warm and loyal friends, who esteem them for their genuine worth. ROSS MOORE. The subject of this sketch was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 25, 1863. His parents, John and Martha (Ross) Moore, came from Washington county, Pennsylvania, and located in Muskingum county, Ohio, where the father bought a farm and established their home. Ross grew up on the farm, but when eighteen or nineteen years old he went to Norwich and learned the carpenter's trade, then, after two years spent in Norwich, he went to New Concord and acquired the barber's trade. Three years later he came to Cambridge, and after working one year as a journeyman barber he bought a shop of his own, and there, since the fall of 1886, he has been continuously in 528 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. business. The 1st of August, 1904, he established his present shop in the Central National Bank building. It is easily the best equipped and the best patronized barber shop in Guernsey county, and as such deserves especial mention here. Mr. Moore was married September 22, 1887, to Mary Wall, daughter of Dr. Andrew Wall. Doctor Wall, a sketch of whom appears herein, was the most eminent physician that ever lived in Guernsey county. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have two children, Fred and Doris, both of whom are at home with their parents. Fred has just completed a moSt unusual record in high school, having passed a grade of above ninety-eight for the year'S work and in his examination he led a class of forty-four. Although only nineteen years of age, he was immediately given a place as teacher in the Cambridge schools. Mr. and Mrs. Moore both belong to the United Presbyterian church. They have a pleasant home, and they are people whom it is a pleasure to meet. Mr. Moore is a steady, substantial citizen. WILLIAM E. HEAUME, Among the substantial citizens of Cambridge, Guernsey county, who have built up a comfortable home and surrounded themselves with valuable landed estates and personal property, few have attained a higher degree of success than William E. Heaume, whose career, though strenuous, has been fraught with good to his fellow men and his example is cordially commended to the youth of the land whose life work is yet a matter of the future. Mr. Heaume was born June 17, 1850, in Valley township, Guernsey county, and he is the son of John and Rachel (Priaulx) Heaume, both natives of the island of Guernsey, off the northeast coast of France, and they came to America when young and located in this county and were married after locating here, The father was a farmer and for a time engaged in the tobacco business. He was a public-spirited citizen and took considerable interest in local political matters, and he filled a number of township offices. He and his wife are now both deceased, his death occurring on November 17, 1894, and she died on January 31, 1892. The mother is buried in the Hart- ford cemetery and the father in the old home cemetery on the island of Guernsey, whither he had gone on a visit when he waS seized with illness and died. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 529 William E. Heaume was educated in the common schools of Hartford; Ile grew up on the farm and assisted his father while in the tobacco busineSs. He continued farming with a large degree of success until 1907, when he moved to Cambridge, where he has since resided. He has an excellent farm, which is kept well improved, and it is underlaid with a rich vein of coal, which has been operated by a company for some time, and Mr. Heaume has received large royalties from this which has enabled him to live retired. He is a public spirited citizen and has filled the offices of township trustee and school director. He is a Republican in politics and, with his family, is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church, being active in church affairs and a liberal supporter of the church. Mr. Heaume was married on December 18, 1873, to Amanda C. Salladay, daughter of George and Mary (Spaid) Salladay, of Valley township, this county. The father was born in Noble county and the mother in Guernsey county, this state. Mr. Salladay is a farmer and a prominent citizen of Valley township, filling various township offices. He and his wife are both living. Mr. and Mrs. Heaume are the parents of four children, namely : Minola M., now Mrs. Rev. Charles U. Larrick, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran church of Lewisburg, Ohio; John S., of Springfield, Ohio, who married Julia D. Moler, of Springfield, Ohio ; Oella J. married Prof. O. B. Drake, of Arvada, Colorado; Amy Alberta married Dr. James A. Secrest, of Cambridge, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Heaume are active in all progressive movements calculated to advance the public morals and educational interests of the town and county of their residence. They are charitable toward all worthy objects. The Heaume farm and country home was perhaps the best improved and cultivated in the county. The dwelling had all modern conveniences, the lawns well kept, the buildings modern and always in splendid repair. HERBERT H. BOWN, M. D. One of the best known and most successful phySicians of Guernsey county and one of her most representative citizens is Dr. Herbert H. Bown, of Pleasant City, who is an American by adoption only, his birth having oc- curred at Lymington, England, July 16, 1865, but he has, nevertheless, been loyal to our institutions and has become thoroughly Americanized. He is the 530 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Scion of an excellent and noteworthy ancestry, being the son of Charles and Catherine (Burgiss) Bown. Through his mother's family, Doctor Bown can trace his ancestry back to Lawrence Burgiss, who was bailiff of Reading in 1204. This branch of the family was one of prominence in England, and bore a coat-of-arms. In 1645, Roger Burgiss was lieutenant-colonel in the army of Charles I, and deputy governor of Faringdon Castle, the castle being assaulted by Oliver Cromwell, the former stoutly defended it and repulsed "Old Ironsides” and his forces, Eliseus Burgiss succeeded Joseph Dudly as governor of New England early in the eighteenth century and in 1715 was appointed captain-general of Massachusetts Bay colony, to succeed Sir Edmund Andros. He was later his Majesty'S resident at Venice when that post was one of prominence, Venice being then a great commercial center. Another noted ancestor of this family was Capt. George Burgiss, a captain in General Bland's regiment of dragoons under George II. He fought against the Pretender in Scotland in 1745, becoming aid-de-camp to General Bland, and was afterwards made secretary and receiver general of the British garrison at Gibraltar. In 1873 Charles Bown and family emigrated to America. Dr. Herbert H. Bown then being a lad of eight years. The family located five miles north of Marysville, Ohio, and that remained the family home during the father's lifetime. This family consisted of ten children, of whom the Doctor was the fourth in order of birth. The otherS were : Charles S., a prominent teacher in the public schools of the state of Washington; Fred S. is now in Charleston, West Virginia, being in a life insurance office there; Frank A. is a Congregational minister at Spokane, Washington; Dr. S. J. is at Richwood, Ohio, where he is practicing medicine ; Arthur L. is engaged in the lumber trade at Selma, Alabama, being secretary and treasurer of the Selma Spoke Company; N. C. and E. S. Bown, the two youngest sons, are partners in the real estate, loan and fire insurance business at Marysville, Ohio, and the mother of this family makes her home with them, the father having died in 1906. Doctor Bown, of this review, grew to manhood on the home farm near Marysville, where he assisted with the general work about the place when old enough, attending the common schools in the meantime, later teaching a few years. Deciding to study medicine, he turned his attention in that direction and attended Columbus Medical College, where he made a splendid record and from which he was graduated in 1892, receiving the highest "honorable mentionl' for proficiency and high standing in his examinations. In the fall of that year, he came to Pleasant City, Guernsey county, where he began the practice of medicine and surgery, enjoying a very liberal patronage from the GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 531 first, and he has continued in his chosen calling, ranking second to none of his professional brethren in this section of the state and holding a conspicuous rank among the fraternity in this county, being profoundly versed in materia medica in all its branches and keeping abreast of the times in all that pertains to his profession. He is a member of the Guernsey County Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, being a charter member of the Pleasant City lodge in the latter order. The Doctor was married in March, 1894, to Mary A. Shepler, daughter of R. I. Shepler, of Blue Bell, Valley township, a well known family of that community, and Mrs. Bown being a woman of refinement and many estimable attributes. This union has been graced by the birth of one daughter, Katherine, now ten years of age. The Doctor and wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church and both take much interest in Sunday 'school work he being class leader and a trustee in the church. Since coming to Pleasant City Doctor Bown has become thoroughly iden- tified with the life of the community, and is one of the best known and most influential citizens here, not only being considered a very able physician and surgeon, but is known to be a man who takes a deep interest in whatever pertains to the general good of his locality, and he and his wife stand high in all circles. PERRY MILTON ALBIN. The present review is concerned with the deeds of one of the oldest residents of Guernsey county, who has during his life witnessed many changes in the customs and manner of living of the people. In the days of his youth the farmers of Guernsey county used to haul six-horse loads of tobacco to Baltimore, and bring back goods for the use of their families; now they are supplied with the best of all manufactured articles at their own homes, and other changes have been proportional to this one. And when his family first came to this county, it was then the home of numerous red men, and the present fertile farming country was then a forest wilderness. But within the life of one man these great changes have taken place. Perry Milton Albin was born on the old Albin farm, a short distance northwest of Pleasant City, Guernsey county, Ohio, on January 26, 1834, the son of Abraham and Mary Elizabeth (Trenner) Albin. Abraham Albin was 532 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. born in the north part of West Virginia, near Big Capon river, on December 25, 1798, the son of James Albin, who at the age of eighteen enlisted in the Revolutionary army and served through the war. In the spring of 1806, James Albin brought his family, including Abraham as a lad of seven, to Guernsey county, and entered land south of Derwent, where he made his home. He had stopped on his way one year near Wheeling, then finished the journey, which was made by wagon. Then the county was sparsely settled, with only a small settlement at Cambridge. The nearest mill was at St. Clairsville, and they pounded corn in a hominy box to get meal for food. James Albin spent the remainder of his days on this farm. He was twice married, and by the first marriage was the parent of two sons and a daughter, by the second, of four sons, of whom Abraham was one, and six daughters. Abraham Albin grew up on his father's farm, and on October 4, 1819, was married to Mary E. Trenner, the (laughter of Henry Trenner and an aunt of Benjamin Trenner, whose sketch see for the Trenner family. She was born in West Virginia on January 31, 1797. After marriage Abraham Albin looked about for a farm, and decided that land west of Claysville was not worth paying taxes on, though he could have gotten it for one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. He came back near his old home and paid four hundred dollars for one hundred and thirty-five acres northwest of Pleasant City, later increasing his holdings to two hundred acres. Here he spent the remainder of his life, and kept store for several years at Pleasant City, and for about a year at his country home. Eleven children were born to Abraham and Mary Albin : Amos, Sarah, Henry, George, Moses, David, Milton, Thomas, Abraham, Peter and Martha Jane. Abraham Albin, Sr., died on April 22, 1863, and his wife on April 15, 1875. Three of their children are now living: Thomas; on the old home farm; Martha, the widow of Joseph Dyson, who lives near Thomas; and Perry M. Perry M. Albin grew up on the home farm, and married Margaret E. Trott on May 17, 1855. To this marriage six children were born: Thomas Francis, on April 6, 1856; Asbury Sylvester, on April 1, 1858; Charles Strahan, on June 28, 1860; Viola on October 19, 1862; Michael, on April 20, 1866, and William A., on September 19, 1867. Mrs. Albin died on October 31, 1868; Michael, on May 11, 1866; William A., on September 1, 1868; Thomas F., in June, 1877. P. M. Albin was married to Lydia M. McCoy, on August 9, 1869, and of this marriage six children were born: Edward M., on October 23, 1870; Osborn 0., on August 9, 1873; Jennie Mabel, on April 22, 1878; Perry E., on February 10, 1877; Blanche L., on October 23, 1881; and Elva, on July 26, GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 533 1882. Lydia M. Albin died on September 19, 1885. Osborn, Jennie and Blanche all died in infancy. On August I, 1892, Mr. Albin was married to Mrs. Jane (Spaid) Secrest, the widow of Melville A. Secrest and the daughter of J. E. Spaid, whose sketch see. She bore to Mr. Secrest two children, Arthur M., and Virgil, now the wife of Roy Kackley. To Mr. Albin she bore two children, Ira C., on February 10, 1893, and Octa W., on April 21, 1904, both of whom are at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Albin are both members of the Methodist church. Mr. Albin has been a successful farmer, has many friends, and is a man of sterling and upright character. OSMOND M. BAYLESS. Although primarily interested in his own affairs, as is quite natural and right, Osmond M. Bayless, a popular city councilman of Cambridge, Guernsey county, manifests an abiding regard for the advancement and welfare of the community and for any measure or enterprise by which his fellow men may be benefited. He encourages churches and schools, is a respecter of law and order and has no use or sympathy for any calling or business which tends to lower the moral status of the country or degrade the youth of the land, and because of these noble ideals he has won and retained the esteem of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in his native county. Mr. Bayless was horn in Wintersett ( formerly Winchester), Guernsey county, Ohio. September 4, 1874. He is the son of John Henry and Nancy (Fleming) Bayless. The Fleming family have long been residents of Ohio. John H. Bayless was the son of James and Nancy Bayless. James Bayless was a picturesque character, an old stage driver in the early days. He came to this county from Maryland in pioneer times and was well known and influential among the first settlers. John Henry Bayless was a carpenter and was a very skilled wood workman and builder. He moved to Cambridge, Ohio, when his son, Osmond M., was a small boy and when the son was fifteen years old the family moved to Ross county, this state, and remained there twelve years, then returned to Cambridge, and here both the father and mother still reside, Mr. Bayless being a well known contractor and builder here. Osmond M. Bayless received a very good education in the common schools, and when the family returned to Cambridge he went with Brant- hoover & Johnson and learned plumbing, steam fitting and gas fitting and 534 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. he has remained with this firm ever since. He is a master of his line of work and has been very successful in the same. About 1905 this concern was made a stock company and Mr. Bayless became a member of the same and has remained as such. Mr. Bayless was married in 1900 to Mary E. Durant, of Tarlton, Pickaway county, Ohio. She is the daughter of Josepha and Sarah (Calvert) Durant. One daughter, Josephine, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bayless. Politically, Mr. Bayless is a Republican and he haS long taken an abiding interest in public matters, especially whatever concerned the upbuilding of Cambridge, and in the fall of 1908 he was elected to the city council, representing the third ward, and he is filling this position with much credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a plain, unassuming man, upright and honora- ble, industrious and thorough and is well thought of. THOMAS EAGLESON. Spending the greater part of his life in the country of his birth, Thomas Eagleson, now living in retirement in his cozy home in Cambridge, deserves to rank as one of the honored representatives of one of the old and highly esteemed families of Guernsey county, and he himself has lived to see the county develop from a partial wilderness to its present proud position among the leading counties of Ohio and is justly proud of his nativity and citizen- snip. Mr. Eagleson was born July 17, 1840, in Center township, this county, and he is the son of Alexander and Martha (McConnell) Eagleson. The father was born in Ireland, where he was reared and educated, coming to America when about nineteen years of age. Two brothers, Joseph and James, came later, reared large families and lived to old age. Martha McConnell was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Alexander Eagleson first settled in Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and he came to Guernsey county, Ohio, about 1830, the McConnell family coming from their home in the old Keystone state some years before. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Eagleson were married in Guernsey county and began their married life on a farm here, becoming well established, Mr. Eagleson finally becoming a large land owner. They had a family of four sons and one daughter, namely : Joseph, GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 535 now residing in Illinois ; Catherine, now the widow of Hiram Geary, living in Cambridge ; Thomas, of this review ; Alexander died in California in 1864; William is farming in Guernsey county. The father of these children died in May, 1868, and his wife died in April, 1845. Thomas Eagleson, of this review, spent his youth, until he was twenty-one years old, on his father's farm, assisting in the general work about the home place. He was educated in the district schools of his native township. When twenty-one years old he went to California, making the long trip by water, and there he engaged in mining and prospecting, remaining five years on the Pacific coast, then returned to Ohio in 1866, making the overland trip. His experiences in the West were beneficial to him in many ways, giving him a knowledge of the outside world, courage, fortitude and self-reliance, all of which have been of much subsequent value to him. Upon his return home he engaged in farming and stock raising and buying and selling stock ; he also engaged in the milling business in Washington, and his efforts were successful in all these lines. Mr. Eagleson was married on November 5, 1868, to Jennie R. Spence, daughter of James and Harriet (Saltgavier) Spence; both have been de- ceased for a number of years. Mr. Spence was a large land owner and old time drover. To Mr. and Mrs. Eagleson five children have been born, namely : William F., a dentist in Concordia, Kansas ; Freeman T., a lawyer living in Cambridge ; he was in the seventy-second General Assembly, where he was prominent, being speaker of the House the last term and he is now assistant attorney-general of the state of Ohio. Joseph I. is a lawyer in Denver, Colorado; Hattie A. died in young womanhood; Cora L. married Homer Forsythe, a prominent coal operator of Guernsey county. The mother of these children passed to her rest in October, 1895, and on May 2, 1900, Mr. Eagleson was again married, his second wife being Mrs. Agnes Sterling, widow of J. F. Sterling and the (laughter of John and Mariah (Larimor) McBride, of Guernsey county, Ohio. Mr. Eagleson is a Republican in politics, as are all his sons. While a resident of Center township he served as township trustee and was always active in public matters. He moved to Cambridge in May, 1890, but con- tinued to engage in farming and stock raising for about five years. Since 1905 he has been retired from all active work. He is now president of the board of city real estate appraisers, and is regarded as a man of excellent judgment and business ability. He has been a Mason for more than a quarter of a century and he has always endeavored to live up to its high pre- 536 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. cepts. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and are active church workers. Mr. Eagleson is one of the county's substantial citizens, and of that sterling Scotch-Irish parentage that count for much in character. A man of firm convictions, yet generous to those holding opposite opinions. JACOB B. SIEGFRIED That the career of such a person as Jacob B. Siegfried, well known citizen of Cambridge and one of the oldest merchants in Guernsey county, besides being treasured in the hearts of relatives and friends, should have its public record also, is peculiarly proper because a knowledge of men whose substantial reputation rests upon their attainments and character must exert a wholesome influence upon the rising generation. The life of Mr. Siegfried has indeed been a busy and successful one and the record is eminently worthy of perusal by the youth who would learn the intrinsic essence of individuality and its influence in winning success in life's battles. Mr. Siegfried was born in Westmorleand county, Pennsylvania, in 1850, and he is the son of John and Frances (Brindle) Siegfried, who were natives of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents of the subject came to America from Germany in an early day, located in the old Keystone state and for several generations this name has been prominent there. Jacob B. was next to the youngest of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. John Siegfried. His mother died when he was between three and four years old, then the family came to Ohio and lived in Noble county, near Calais, which city is just across the line in Monroe county. There the father followed farming and tobacco raising for about four years; later they lived near Pleasant City for two years, then lived in other communities of the county a good many years. When about eleven years old Jacob B. Siegfried began learning the stone mason's trade, which he followed with success, and he followed contracting for about ten years, during which time he lived in Cambridge, and he handled some large jobs and did well with them. An injury received in a stone quarry disabled him for active work for a period of four years. This seemingly untoward circumstance turned his attention from his former vocation to that of merchandising, and he then entered the grocery business in Cambridge in which he was successful from the first. He has added to his grocery stock various other lines of general merchandise and he has now been GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 537 in this business for a period of twenty-eight years, which constitutes a longer period than anyone else now in the same business in the city of Cambridge. He has enjoyed a very liberal trade with the city and surrounding country and always carries a carefully selected stock of goods. A criterion of his honesty in business and his desire to please is seen from the fact that many of his customers have remained with him through all these years. He is also interested in various other lines of business; he sells machinery, automobiles, and is the distributing agent for the great Washburn-Crosby flouring mills of Minneapolis, Minnesota, also for the Pillsbury mills of the same city. Mr. Siegfried was unexpectedly elected on an independent ticket as a member of the Cambridge school board, without seeking the place. Mr. Siegfried was married on May 15, 1873, to Matilda J. Steele, of Noble county, Ohio, the daughter of William and Nancy Steele, and to this union seven children were born, namely : John W., proprietor of the Siegfried Bakery ; Walter D, is engaged in the grocery business at Eleventh street and Wheeling avenue, Cambridge ; Homer is with his father in the general mercantile business here; Frank B. is a traveling salesman for a Zanesville firm; Carl R, is in the office of the Inter-State Iron & Steel Company; Oliver and Della are both at home with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Siegfried and several other members of the family belong to the Methodist Protestant church. He is universally considered one of the old, well established and substantial business men of Cambridge, obliging, genteel, kind and is well spoken of by everyone who knows him. JOHN B. GREGG. Although yet a man young in years, the life of John B. Gregg, one of the best known citizens of Cambridge, Guernsey county, has indeed been a busy and successful one and the following record of the same is eminently worthy of perusal by the student who would learn the intrinsic essence of in dividuality and its influence in molding public opinion and in giving character and stability to a community. He has successfully met and overcome the usual obstacles that lie in the pathway of every ambitious man in his efforts to reach the goal sought. Mr. Gregg was born on April 5, 1879, near Senecaville, in Noble county, Ohio, and he is the son of James M. and Cynthia (Finley) Gregg, both parents also natives of Noble county. Both these families 'were among the earli- 538 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. est pioneers in this section of the state, and they were prominent in both business and social life. JameS M. Gregg is a successful farmer and prominent in the affairs of his county, and he and hiS wife have a host of warm personal friends there. John B, Gregg spent his youth on the home farm and engaged in the usual farm work. He obtained his early education in the country schools and waS graduated from the high school at Senecaville. He subsequently entered the university at Lebanon, Ohio, and received the degree of Master of Science ; he also obtained the degree of Civil Engineer from the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and a year later he took a special course in mathematics at Cornell University at Ithaca, New York. During the years of his college course he taught school for some time, and after leaving college he taught for one year in the high school at Cambridge in the department of mathematics, and one year prior to that he taught mathematics and physical science in the high school at Franklin, Ohio. He was among the most popular educators of the county and his services were in great demand. He waS popular with both pupil and patron and was both an instructor and entertainer in the school room, and no doubt had he continued in this line of endeavor he would have ranked with the leading educators of the state. Since leaving the Cambridge high school in 1902 he haS been devoting his time and attention to civil engineering of a general character, and during the year 1907 he was employed by the city of Zanesville as city engineer, during which time some very important city improvements were under construction. Since 1907 he has been associated with his brother, James E. Gregg, in the lumber business, operating in Guernsey, Tuscarawas and Noble counties, Ohio. They deal in timber, cord wood and mine props, operating their own mills, and they are doing an extensive and very successful business, having met with a large degree of success and ranking among the leading lumber men of eastern Ohio. Both these gentlemen are Republicans in politics, but they are not active in party affairs, though always interested in public matters and all movements having in view the betterment of conditions affecting the general public have their hearty support. On January 1, 191o, James B. Gregg was appointed director of public safety for the city of Cambridge, which important trust he is filling to the satisfaction of all concerned. Although a Republican, he was appointed by a Democratic mayor, because of his eminent fitness for the position. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason and is prominent in this time-honored order. He has never married. He is a gentleman of pleasing personality, unassuming, refined and cultured, profoundly educated, courteous GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 539 in his relations with his fellow men and he retained the warm and abiding friendship of all with whom he associates. His individuality, which is very distinct, is impressed upon any work with which he is connected, and in the accomplishment of a purpose he is willing to assume any amount of labor required or any measure of responsibility incurred. In brief, he is a broad- minded, genial young man without pretense, whom to know iS to respect and honor. JOEL MOORHEAD. When one passes the shop of W. C. Moorhead at Hartford, this county, and sees the "flaming forge" and "hears his bellows blow," one is reminded of the picture so familiar to every school child of Longfellow's "village smithy" under "a spreading chestnut tree," Mr. Moorhead reminding us of that historic blacksmith not only because of his "brawny arms and sinewy hands," but also in that more important analogy—a truly honest and kind- hearted man, who, like the poet's subject, "can look the whole world in the face" because of his sterling and honorable characteristics. Mr. Moorhead was born and reared in the southweStern part of Rich- land township, this county, having been born on May 16, 1826, and he is the son of Alexander and Anna (Foreman) Moorhead, both of whom came to this county from eastern Virginia prior to 1826 and settled here like the rest of the pioneers, locating on WillS creek, near "Thompson's Riffle," buying a farm there which he improved and established a good home. He also devoted a great deal of his time as a "wagoner," hauling goods and produce between here and Baltimore, Maryland, with his six-horse team, making such trips as long as he lived, making farming subsidiary to teaming. When Joel Moorhead was sixteen years of age he went to Hartford and learned the blacksmith's trade under Joe Sigman. After working three years with him, he went to Beverly and tended the locks on the river. He then worked a short time at gunsrnithing, continuing thus until his marriage, on August 19, 1847, to Amy Secrest, who was reared in Noble county and who was the daughter of Henry Secrest, of Virginia, who came to that county from the Old Dominion in the early days. She had five sisters, all of whom are living, one of them being now eighty-nine years of age, another one being older than Mrs. Moorhead, who is now eighty-four. After his marriage Joel Moorhead ran a blacksmith shop at Perryopolis, in Noble county, for one year, then moved to Greenwood, a small suburb of 540 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Senecaville, maintaining a shop there for over a half century, becoming widely known throughout the locality, which he saw develop from the wilderness. His family consisted of six sons and three daughters, one of the sons dying in infancy, the other five growing to manhood, and all became expert blacksmiths. They were : Thomas, who married and his family consisted of two children ; he died comparatively early and his wife gave the children to his father before her death and they were reared by the subject and family; Solomon married and reared a family ; his son, Harrison, became an excellent mechanic and was killed on a railroad ; Chase, third son of the subject, was easily the ablest blacksmith of this gifted family, and his equal was seldom seen ; he has been known to frequently shoe wild, fractious horses turned loose in the shop without being tied in any way. He could turn out more work and do it better than any blacksmith in his township. He was a very powerful man physically, six feet two inches in height, and well proportioned, muscular and had unlimited endurance; his family consisted of Six children. He was killed on a railroad while on his way home, in August, 1894. John Moorhead, son of Joel, lives in Senecaville, is married and has six children; he formerly lived at Cambridge about sixteen years. Walter Moorhead worked at blacksmithing in Cambridge about ten years, and later ran a shop with his brother, Solomon, at Senecaville, where the latter now lives and haS a family. Joel Moorhead's death occurred on December 17, 1896. He was a Republican and prominent in the local affairs of his party, but he never sought office. He and his wife belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church at Senecaville. He was always cheerful, kind and was well liked by all who knew him, being very hospitable. Customers waiting to have 'work done were always invited to share his noon-day meal. He often had as many as twenty guests, and Mrs. Moorhead frequently served as high as seven meals a day. He did not accumulate a fortune, but he had a friend in every acquaintance. His customers came from other towns of the county to get him to do their work, for he was an expert in all kinds of blacksmithing and horseshoeing. Walter C. Moorhead started a shop at Hartford on June 16, 1909, and he has already built up an excellent trade which extends to surrounding towns, even beyond Ava. Some coming from a distance and finding him too busy, return again rather than have their work done in their home town. A very large number of the horses in Pleasant City are brought to him at Hartford to be shod. Although a rapid workman, he is always busy and has to turn away work for lack of time. Mr, Moorhead married Clara B. Mercer and by this union four children were born, Oscar, Ada, Jessie and Edna. His first wife died August 19, GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 541 1899, after they had been married eleven years. He afterwards married Mrs. Mary (Hardesty) Fitch, on August 4, 1900. Her death occurred on November 4th following, just three months after this second marriage. On April 24, 1902, he married Stella Hardesty, sister of his second wife, and to this union two children were born, a daughter, Virgil, and a son, Delmas. Mr. Moorhead's oldest daughter, Ada, is a teacher in the public Schools, and his son, Oscar, is also licensed to teach. Mr. Moorhead belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Senecaville, where they maintain their home. JOHN OGIER, JR. The memory of the worthy subject of this biography is revered by a host of friends and acquaintances among whom he labored, having spent his energies through a long life of strenuous endeavor to make the most of his opportunities as well as to assist as best he could his neighbors to improve their condition. In all the relations of life he proved signally true to every trust ; possessing a social nature, by his genial and kindly attitude to those about him he won and retained the friendship and good will of all, who knew him. John Ogier, Jr., late of Cambridge, Ohio, and one of Guernsey county's most representative citizens, was born one and one-half miles north of this city, in 1829, the son of sterling pioneer parents, Thomas and Mary (Martin) Ogier. Thomas Ogier was a highly educated man, having received his edu- cation in the University of England, and he came to America from the isle of Guernsey with the early pioneers from that famed isle in the English Chan- nel who first settled Guernsey county, Ohio. He waS a man of wide influence because of his high integrity and learning. He prospered here, becoming a large land owner, and he proved his ability and courage in surmounting many great difficulties that beset the life of one who dared take up his residence in a land filled with wild beasts and Indians, remote from the centers of civilization. Here he did his full share in starting the physical and moral develop- ment of this section and was a potent factor in the early stages of the county'S advancement. He spent much of his time in labors for the general good while the newcomers were busy clearing the land and establishing homeS; he was untiring in his efforts to establish Schools and churches. 542 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. John Ogier, Jr., grew to maturity in the midst of primitive surround- ings and under the wholesome influence of his discreet father's home. His education was made a matter of special care of the father, Thomas Ogier, although the son had only the advantages of the schools established in the new country, where facilities of all kinds were very meager, but under the personal instruction of his able and learned father he laid a broad and excel- lent foundation for an education which was later supplemented by home study and actual contact with the world. The son, John Ogier, Jr., grew to young manhood in his native community and early in life knew the meaning of hard work in the woods and on the farm very willingly performing each task set him. He was married on October 15, 1875, to Sarepta Bonnell, daughter of Lloyd L. and Mariah (Sarchet) Bonnell. The Bonnells were a Virginia family, the ancestry originally coming from France, and were among the early settlers of Guern- sey county. The Sarchets were among the first from the isle of Guernsey to come to this county. To Mr. and Mrs. John Ogier, Jr., one son was born, Thomas, who is engaged in the real estate business in Cambridge. After his marriage Mr. Ogier continued to live on the old home farm, and he became a large land owner and prosperous farmer. He was a man thoroughly alive to the neces- Sities of the times and he gave liberally of his time and means to advance that which was best calculated to advance the material and moral welfare of the peo- ple; he was devoted to his home and home surroundings. He was a man of broad views and positive convictions, yet possessing a liberal charity for those of opposite views. He was a Republican in politics and active in all public matters, though he never aspired to positions of public trust, He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a trustee in the same for nnny years and always active in church work and in the support of the same. The death of this excellent citizen occurred on June 15, 1891, resulting from an accident with a team of horses which ran away. He is buried in the Cambridge cemetery. No man left behind a more commendable record for upright living, his long life having been spent for the good of his community. He was a man of the highest sense of right and was honored and respected by all, a man of sterling integrity and fair in his dealings at all times. The son, Thomas Ogier, resides with his mother in Cambridge, and is a well liked citizen and successful business man. He was educated in the public schools of this city, he and his mother having moved here soon after the father's death. After leaving the Cambridge high school he attended Scio College and since reaching manhood he has given his time to superintending GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 543 the farmsteads in Cambridge township left by his father, and he also deals in real estate in the city and county. His mother has a host of warm personal friends throughout the county, is a lady of intelligence and refinement, familiar with the world's best literature and the possessor of many estimable traits of character. She has been an able assistant in the management of the large and valuable estate left by her husband. She and her son are members of the MethodiSt Episcopal church and active in church work, she being a leader in the societies of the local church. No family in the county is held in higher esteem than the Ogiers. JAMES ELMER PATTON, M. D. Good intellectual training, thorough professional knowledge and the possession and utilization of the qualities and attributes essential to success, have made Dr. James Elmer Patton eminent in his chosen calling, and he stands today among the enterprising and successful physicians in a community noted for the high order of its medical talent, while at the Same time he has won the confidence and esteem of the people of Guernsey county for his upright life and genial disposition. Doctor Patton was born on November 6, 1873, in Adams township, this county, not far from New Concord. He is the son of Robert W. and Martha E. (Mintier) Patton. The father was born in 1848 near Claysville, being the son of Hugh Patton, who came here from Harrison county prior to 1848, locating near Claysville, where lie prospered, becoming the owner of three or four hundred acres of land, a part of which is now known as the Cook farm. He and his wife were well known to the early day settlers here and they both died in the fifties. Martha E. (Mintier) Patton. mother of the Doctor, was the daughter of Thomas H. Mintier, who now lives at Rix Mills. She was born near Claysville and she grew to maturity and was educated there. Her parents came from Harrison county. After the Doctor's birth his parents moved to Muskingum county, locating near Rix Mills, where the father bought land, and there James E. grew to maturity and assisted with the general work about the place, attending the local schools, later went to Muskingum College about three years, then completed his literary education at Ohio Northern University, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1899. He had long fostered a laudable ambition to become a medical practitioner and, with that end in 544 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. view, he entered Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, where he made a splendid record and from which institution he was graduated in 1903. the latter part of that year he located at Byesville, which had been his home ever since and where he has enjoyed a large and growing practice, and hold- ing prestige second to none in the healing art, standing high among his pro- fessional brethren and the people in general. He has kept abreast of the times in all matters pertaining to his line of endeavor and is a broad-minded, capable, genteel, kindly-disposed gentleman. He is a member of the Guernsey County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Association and the Amer- ican Medical Association. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Byesville. On December 23, 1903, Doctor Patton was united in marriage with Lucretia Harlin, who was born and reared at Tonganoxie, Kansas. She is the daughter of P. H. and Charlotte J. (Ackley) Harlin and Doctor Patton met her in 1897 when traveling through the West. This union has been graced by the birth of one daughter, Roberta Ernestine. The Doctor and his wife are both members of the Methodist Protestant church. Their home is a very desirable property, well located in the central part of Byesville, and it is known as a place of good cheer to their many friends. JOHN M. AMOS. The name of John M. Amos stands deservedly high in the list of enterprising business men of Guernsey county, his long, useful and unusually active career having been fraught with much good to himself and family and also to those who have come into contact with him. His life has been such that he is held in the highest esteem by all classes. He was born August zo, 1839, in Belmont county, five miles north of St. Clairsville. His parents were James G. and Jane (Gillespie) Amos. In April, 1848, these parents, with their four sons, settled in Monroe county, now Noble county, near Summerfield, where John M. grew to young manhood, working on the home farm and attending school each winter. In 1856 he spent the winter with his uncle, John Major, after whom he was named, in Belmont county, where he had the advantage of instruction under Alex. Wilson, a graduate of Franklin College and a renowned teacher. He became well educated and began teaching in the common schools at the age of eighteen years, and, saving his earnings, he began a course of study under the care GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 545 of Joseph C. Clark and Capt. William Wheeler, where he was a fellow pupil with John Hamilton, now a noted bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. Later he entered, as a student, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, when Rev. Dr. Loomis was its president, but owing to the breaking out of the Civil war his regular course of study was interrupted, and after one year in Ontario Academy, under the instruction of Professor Boyd, he pursued his studies as he taught school and worked on the farm, until, by private study and occasional recitations to tutors, among whom were the late J. S. Foreman and D. S. Spriggs, he completed a course of legal studies and was admitted to practice law in the state courts and later in the federal courts. He was also honored with the degree of Master of Arts by Allegheny College. He holds a high school life certificate from the board of state school examiners. Mr. Amos pursued teaching as the principal of schools in Batesville and Caldwell and at the same time reviewing his legal studies, and he later en- gaged for about ten years in the practice of law. In 1872 he formed a law partnership with Fred W. Moore, an excellent young lawyer, and they bought the Caldwell Democratic newspaper, but Mr. Moore's death soon afterwardS left Mr. Amos with the entire management of the newSpaper and of their law business, which he soon practically abandoned and ever since has devoted his time and attention to journalism, from 1872 to 1884 with the Caldwell Press, and from 1886 to the present time with the Cambridge Jeffersonian, which he bought of the late John Kirkpatrick. He is now the president of the Jeffersonian Company and senior editor of the daily and weekly editions. He has been very successful in the field of journalism. He has made his paper here one of the best in every respect in this part of the state, valued as a news disseminator, an advertising medium and as an exponent of the people's rights. It is attractive in mechanical appearance and shows at a glance that it is under a splendid system and able manage- ment. It has rapidly increased in circulation, and the plant is equipped with modern appliances and is a valuable property. Mr. Amos was married in 1862 to Elizabeth Franklin McClintock, (laughter of Mr. and Mrs. James McClintock, of Noble county, formerly of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. To this union six children were born, four sons and two daughters, all living except the eldest son, James Ernest, whose death occurred on February 22, 1891, and the youngest (laughter, who was called away in August, 1873. The wife and mother passed to her rest in 1873. Mr. Amos was married again, in 1875, to Mary E. Waller, of Jackson township, Guernsey county, who died September 11, 1904. To this last 546 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. union two sons, Harry W. and Frank B., were born. Four of Mr. Amos's sonS are now associated with him as stockholders of the Jeffersonian Company, in Cambridge. One son is superintendent of the J. E. Addison Manufacturing Company and resides in Belmont, Ohio. The surviving daughter, Mrs. Kate A. Barker, resides with her father in Cambridge. All these children are married and five of them reside in Cambridge. Those associated with Mr. Amos in business are Thomas E., William Herbert, Harry W. and Frank B. John W. resides in Belmont, Ohio. The sons are all bright, well educated and enterprising business men and the entire family stands high in all circles. U. C. PURDUM, D. D. S. We here mention one of the citizens of Cambridge who can justly point with pride to his ancestors as honorable men of true worth, who gained by their many good qualities the esteem and respect of those who knew them, and who has himself made such a success of life as to be in every way a credit to his forefathers and to his city. U. C. Purdum was born in Washington, Guernsey county, Ohio, on April 28, 1871, the son of Zachary A. and Mary E. (Colley) Purdum. Elisha G. Purdum, his grandfather, came at an early day from near Baltimore, Maryland, to Center township, Guernsey county. He was a farmer and lived until 1901, dying in Idaho, where he had moved some years previously, most of his family having preceded him. Six sons and four daughters were born to him : Ann Rebecca, now Mrs. S. S, Sultzer, of Flushing, Ohio; Zachary A., deceased, father of U. C.; Rodolphus, of Nampa, Idaho ; Christian R., deceased ; Thomas, deceased ; William L., deceased; Mary E., now Mrs Henry Wilterding, of Nampa, Idaho; Della, now Mrs. Melville Fordyce, of Cambridge ; John A., in government employ in the canal zone; and May, deceased. Zachary A. Purdum was in the livery and stock business for many years in Washington, Guernsey county, then was three years in Idaho, returning to Cambridge, where he was engaged in the livery business until his death, October 16, 1900. He was a man of influence and force, and had accumulated quite an estate in land and property. Archibald Shipley, of the father's maternal ancestry, came to this county early from near Baltimore. He became quite prominent and was a large land owner and tobacco merchant. On account of his geniality and broad GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 547 views on public questions, he was very popular, and was active in political affairs, but never held office. He died many years ago, highly respected by all who knew him. The Colley family came early from near Baltimore. William Colley, father of Mrs. Purdum, was first a teamster over the National pike from Cumberland, Maryland, west, but soon after coming to Guernsey county engaged in the marble business in Washington, Adamsville and Zanesville. He was a man of high standing, whose counsel was often sought, and who filled many of the important offices of the township where he lived. Both Mr. Purdum and Mr. Colley were Democrats in politics. Mr. Colley and his family moved in the best circles. He died in January, 1891, and his widow on August 25, 1897. Both are buried in Washington cemetery. They were the parents of six children : Mary E., now Mrs. Zachary A. Purdum, of Cambridge ; John Oscar, of Cambridge ; Rolland W., of Columbus, Ohio; Amanda V., of Cambridge ; Jennie N., of Cambridge; Annie H., deceased, who was Mrs. Pearl McCreary. To Mr. and Mrs. Zachary Purdum one son was born, U. C. Purdum, the subject of this sketch. He attended the public schools of Washington, and after graduating from them attended the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, graduating in 1891. He practiced in Nampa, Idaho, for two years before graduation. After graduation he went to Pittsburg, where he remained one year. In 1892 he went to Buffalo for two years, practicing in the employ of other dentists. In 1894 he came to Cambridge and opened an office for himself, and has since been here. His office is finely equipped for the successful practice of scientific dentistry, and he has all the modern appliances, He has been more than ordinarily successful in his profession. Mr. Purdum was married on January 16, 1901, to Bertha May Shroyer, daughter of Solomon H. and Eliza (Brannan) Shroyer. Mr. Shroyer is a prominent man in Cambridge township, Guernsey county, and a farmer of considerable means. His family of four consists of Jennie T., now Mrs. J. W. Jacques, of Ft. Wayne, Indiana ; Henry C., of Cambridge; Howard S., of Cambridge; and Bertha May, all of them living lives of worth. To Mr. and Mrs. Purdum has been born one son, Ralph E., a bright lad of seven years. Doctor Purdum is a Democrat in politics, as were all his ancestors, but is not active, though interested in public affairs. He is a member of Cambridge lodge of Odd Fellows, and was a charter member of the Odd Fellows lodge of Nampa, Idaho, taking much interest in the order. He and his family are members of the Methodist church, also his mother, 'who now makes her home with her son. Mr. and Mrs. Purdum are prominent in the social 548 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. life of the city. Mr. Purdum is a lover of a good horse and keeps a fine family driver, also enjoys a day's hunting or fishing as a relaxation from business. Being fond of athletics, he delights in a good game of baseball or football. In all respects he is a strong man, and he and his family stand high in the community. DAVID LINN. Prominent among the agricultural residents of Guernsey county is Squire David Linn, who is recognized over the county as a most progressive and capable farmer, one who has chosen to ennoble his chosen occupation, and who not only secures larger yields and greater profits than the majority of his neighbors, but who also obtains from his vocation a larger amount of contentment than the average man receives in life, and who has done much to aid in the development of his community. David Linn was born about four miles southwest of Cambridge, Guernsey county, on September 3, 1841, the fifth of nine children born to Samuel and Sarah Ann (Stout) Linn. Samuel Linn left his father's home in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1807, when he was sixteen years old. He traveled west through the woods until he got to Guernsey county, and located at the place where David Linn was born, where he cut logs and built a little cabin. Then he went back after his father and two sisters, who constituted the family, the mother being dead. His father was at one time a very wealthy man, but had lost all. A few years later Sarah Ann Stout, then a young girl, came with her father from the foot of the Catskill mountains in New York and located just half a mile west of Samuel Linn's farm. The young people met, became attached to each other, and in course of time became man and wife. To their union were born nine children : Hugh, Samuel Morris, Nathan Johnston, Mary Ellen (the wife of J. T. Hartong), David, Sarah Elizabeth, Matilda Jane (the wife of James. Mahaffey), Margaret Ellen and James Stout. Samuel Linn improved the farm on which he first located, and became prosperous and influential in the community. He died on this farm in 1880, aged eighty-eight years. David Linn was educated in Muskingum College, and for eighteen years was an able teacher in the schools of Guernsey county, whose success was recognized by the profession and the public. At the time of his father's death he bought out the other heirs to his father's farm and began farming. He has made many improvements since that time, and it is easily apparent GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 549 to the traveler that he has the best improved farm and the finest farm build- ings between Cambridge and Claysville. All the buildings are painted white and the most of them have slate roofs. Mr. Linn says that experience has taught him that good barns pay their own cost five times over. For thirty- two years he has lived on this farm of one hundred and sixty acres and cul- tivated it, raising crops which are the admiration of his neighbors. His wife also owns a farm of one hundred and sixty acres north of Cambridge, which is well improved with a brick house and enormous barn. For many years Mr. Linn has been justice of the peace, and has become widely known for the justice and reasonableness of his decisions, while he has never during all this time charged a fee. In 1910 he was appointed on the ap- praisement board, and resigned the office of justice of the peace. On June 3, 1881, David Linn 'was married to Ellen Oldham, who was born near Barnes' mill at Pleasant Valley, Guernsey county, Ohio. Isaac Oldham, her grandfather, was born in Ohio county, Virginia', and there married Sarah Marling, of Maryland. Soon after he left her and, with his all on his shoulders, walked to this county, and locating on Wills creek, four miles north of Cambridge, where I. J. Oldham now lives, built a small cabin, and then returned for his wife. His father drove them through in a wagon, and on April 4, 1806, they set up housekeeping in that cabin, the first summer living in it without floor or door, or daubing between the logs. Their nearest neighbor was two miles east of Cambridge, and there was but one family in Cambridge, the Van Rensselaers, at Wheeling and Seventh streets. There were many wild animals in the forests and a tribe of Indians was encamped in sight. Until the war of 1812 they toiled on in their new home. In 1807 Mrs. Oldham returned to her old home on a visit, making the trip on horse- back, and on her return her brother gave her an appletree switch. Arriving at home, she stuck it out back of her little cabin, little thinking that she would ever gather fruit from it, but the tree is still standing, over one hundred years old, and bearing early apples. They reared eight children, and lived to a ripe old age. After their death, their son, Marling Oldham, bought the farm, and at his death it became the property of his son, Isaac J. Oldham, the present owner. Marling Oldham, the father of Mrs. Linn, was born on the farm where his father settled in 1806. He married Isabel Marling, who was a native of Maryland, but who was living in Ohio county, Virginia, at the time of her marriage. Marling Oldham bought other land and became the owner of three hundred acres, of which Mrs. Linn now owns part. Mrs. Linn grew up on the old farm, one of five children, two of whom died in infancy. The