(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 550 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. others are Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell and Isaac J. Oldham, In 1906 the Oldham family celebrated on the old farm, with appropriate exercises, the centennial of the arrival in Guernsey county of Isaac Oldham. Mr. and Mrs. Linn have shown foresight by already preparing a large monument to be erected at their grave, although the memory of their lives and characters will be a monument even more substantial than this. On June 3, 1906, Mr. and Mrs. Linn had been married for twenty-five years, and Mr. Linn planned a silver wedding celebration as a Surprise to his wife, at which one hundred and thirty-two people were present and wished the fortunate couple many more years of the happy wedded life which has been theirs. Mrs. Linn similarly surprised Mr. Linn on the occasion of his sixty- eighth birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Linn have taken eight different children from the orphans' home, and have given to them parental care, and six of them are now out in the world for themselves, doing well. They are : Thomas Powell, a farmer of Pennsylvania; William Styles, a farmer of Michigan; Cora Wendal, who married Arthur Wilkins, of Whiting, Indiana ; James Franks, deceased; Hannah Sturtz, now bookkeeper and stenographer at the Harris Bread Board Factory, at a good salary ; Minerva Hale, now living in Cambridge ; Thomas Albert Young, and May Jewel, now living with Mr. and Mrs. Linn. Surely heaven will reward the beneficence of this good couple in providing a home for these bereaved children, and in bringing them up to become useful men and women. Squire David Linn and his wife are well known in the county, and by their geniality and hospitality and the worth of their character have gained hosts of friends. The Squire is recognized as a man of more than ordinary intelligence and culture, perfectly square in all his dealings, and ever willing to assist a fellow in need. J. MARSHALL BROWN. The reputation of J. Marshall Brown, well known implement and real estate dealer of Cambridge, has been that of a man who is imbued with modern twentieth-century methods in both business and public life, and whose relations with his fellow men in a social way have ever been wholesome, so that he is in every respect deserving of the high esteem which is accorded him by all classes. He is the representative of one of the old and highly honored families of Guernsey county. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 551 Mr. Brown was born May I, 1855, on a farm in Liberty township, Guernsey county, Ohio, the son of Joseph and Margaret (Frame) Brown. His father was the son of William Brown, who came from Ireland in the early pioneer days and settled in Adams township, but died a few years after coming to this locality. His son, Joseph, the father of the subject, grew up under conditions requiring self-denial and industry. When grown to man- hood he learned the tanner's trade with his brother, William, who operated a tannery at Claysville. This brother was a man of large business operations and active in public matters, serving as county commissioner for nine years. Joseph, after learning the tanner's trade, built the Liberty mill, on Wills creek in Liberty township, one of the early mills of the locality, and operated the grist mill and sawmill for some years. Associated with him in this business was Joseph McClarey, and William Frame, his brother-in-law. After leaving the mill he owned a farm and farmed in Liberty township for a few years, when he bought a tannery in Cambridge, which he operated for a few years prior to and during the Civil war. About 1870 he sold his tan- nery and bought a farm one mile west of Cambridge to which he moved and where he spent the remainder of his life. He died in October, 1890, and his wife still survives at the age of eighty-eight years. Mr. Brown was a Republican of the old school, while his wife was a Democrat of the same old school. He was not an office seeker and, though always interested in public affairs, never held public office. He and his family were members of the United Presbyterian church, and he was a devout churchman and always in his place on the Sabbath day, and active in all church work. In the father's family were five sons, one of whom died in infancy. Those living are : Wil- liam C., of Columbus; Samuel M., a farmer, living on the home farm; J. Marshall, the subject of this sketch ; Joseph E., of Columbus. J. Marshall Brown spent his childhood and youth on his father's farm and was educated in the public schools of Cambridge. He was married on September 30, 1885, to May Ferguson, daughter of Hiram C. and Amanda (Baldridge) Ferguson, a prominent family of Cambridge township. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson are deceased. To this union have been born three children : Margaret T., at home; Homer, deceased, and Amanda, deceased. Until the spring of 1901 Mr. Brown was engaged in farming one and one-half miles west of Cambridge, and was engaged in general farming, stock raising, etc., in which he was very successful. He handled all kinds of stock, and was an extensive operator, as were his father and brother. In 1901 he sold his farm and became a resident of Cambridge, and has 552 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. been engaged in the buggy, wagon and farm machinery business. He also deals in real estate, both farm and city property, and is a business man of wide experience and successful operation. In 1904, he, with M. W. Hutchison, added the Brown & Hutchison addition to the city of Cambridge on the north side, now the best residence section of the city. He has been a large and successful operator in the real estate business and has been in the forefront of Cambridge's advancement and growth. Mr. Brown is a Republican in politics and has always been an active party worker. He has served as a member of both the county and central executive committees, also served as city councilman at large for six years, and in 1910 was nominated by the Republicans of Guernsey county for member of the county infirmary board, and elected to this office. He is always active in every movement calculated to benefit and build up the county and city. He is a member of the Cambridge lodge of Elks. He and his family are members of the Second United Presbyterian church of Cambridge, and he was a member of the building committee when the new church was built a few years ago. The Brown home, at No. 1021 Beatty avenue, is in a desirable residence section of the city. Mrs. Brown is a woman devoted to her home and family, and she and her daughter, Margaret, are prominent in the social life of the city. RICHARD C. GRAHAM. Conspicuous among the representative business men and public-spirited citizens of Guernsey county is the well known gentleman whose name forms the caption of this article. He has made his influence for good felt in the city of Cambridge, where he ranks as a leading merchant and a man of affairs. Though a gentleman of unassuming disposition, he has, being a man of genuine worth, been closely identified with the affairs of this city, and his life has been closely interwoven with the history of the community in which he resides. His efforts have always been for the material advancement of the same, as well as for the social and moral welfare of his fellow men, thereby gaining the respect and admiration of his fellow citizens, and he is entitled to representation in a biographical work of the scope intended in the present volume. Richard C. Graham was born February 7, 1871, in Caldwell, Noble county, Ohio, and he is the son of Richard and Orpha (Wehr) Graham. Both parents were natives of Noble county, the father being of Scotch de- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 553 scent, and the grandmother Clymer on the father's side of the house, of Revolutionary times, was of a family one of the members of which signed the Declaration of Independence. He lived in New Jersey. The mother was of German parentage. The Graham and kVehr families were both pioneers in this section of Ohio and were active in the early affairs of the locality. Great-grandfather Wehr built the first brick house containing glass windows in Williamsburg, now Batesville, Noble county. Both the Graham and Wehr families were of sturdy character and progressive energy, and were success ful in their life work, especially in mercantile lines and as farmers. The grandparents reached ripe old ages and were prosperous. Grandmother Har- riet Clymer died at the age of ninety-one years. Richard Graham, father of Richard C., of this review, was a merchant of Coldville and Sarahsville, Noble county, and his death occurred in 1871, being survived four years by his wife. After the death of his parents, Richard C. Graham made his home with his grandmother Wehr. He found employment of various kinds and attended the public schools at Caldwell. He left school within a few weeks of graduation to enter business as a clerk in the grocery store of L. H. and P. H. Berry, receiving seven dollars and fifty cents per month and boarded himself. He remained with this firm two and one-half years with a gradual increase in salary. He then entered the employ of his uncle, James Wehr, in a general store and remained with him three years, then, in 1906, he came to Cambridge. He had mastered the "ins and outs" of the mercantile business during these years of somewhat trying experience. Mr. Graham was married on March 3, 1895, to Hattie L. Hutchinson, daughter of James Hutchinson, of Toledo, Iowa. Her mother being deceased, Miss Hutchinson was making her home with her sister, Mrs. Clyde Wright, of Caldwell. To Mr. and Mrs. Graham five children have been born, two daughters and three sons : Ruth L., Catherine L., Robert W., James R. and Joseph J. These children are receiving good educations and are being carefully trained. Upon coming to Cambridge Mr. Graham clerked three years for E. A. Davis, two years for the Cambridge Grocery Company and one year for W. T. Miller. In 1902 he engaged in the grocery business for himself under the firm name of Graham & Warne, their partnership lasting six months, then the style of the firm was Graham & Wilson for six months. Since 1903 Mr. Graham has been engaged in business for himself and alone, his store now being located at No. 947 Wheeling avenue, one of the best locations and best appointed grocery stores in the city. Here he has built up a very satisfactory business, which is rapidly growing, and he has a neat and well 554 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. managed store, always carefully stocked with an excellent grade of staple and fancy groceries. Politically, Mr. Graham is a Republican and he always attends caucuses and conventions and takes a great interest in elections and all public matters, but he is not an office seeker, nor has any member of his family ever been. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, his ancestry being among the early adherents of this denomination in the United States. He is a teacher in the Sunday schools, having a class of fifty young men, and he is active in all church and Sunday school work and is a steward in the church. He is an ardent advocate of athletics of all kinds, and this, no doubt, is one of the secrets of the excellent standing he has with the young men of the church. The Graham home is at No. 434 North Eighth street, Cambridge, in the best residence district of the city, and he has an attractive and commodious dwelling and here the many friends of the family find a cordial welcome. He is regarded as a public-spirited citizen and a progressive merchant. JOHN A. BOSTWICK. The pedigree of the Bostwick family is traced back to the time of Edward the Confessor, of England—not a single link in the chain is missing or in doubt, all given explicitly from records of each generation, from Major Nathan Bostwick back through Ensign John Bostwick, who served in the American Revolution in the Seventh Regiment, Connecticut line, under Col. Charles Webb. Ensign John Bostwick was descended from Major John Bostwick, who was a major of the militia of the colony of Connecticut in 1739 and also held several other civil offices and was a landed proprietor. Major John Bostwick was descended from Arthur Bostwick, a native of Tarperly, Cheshire, England, a Puritan who came to America between 1620 and 1640 and settled in Connecticut. Back in England the family is traced without a break through the centuries, through lords and knights to an ancient Saxon of the time of Edward the Confessor, who owned a large amount of land in Cheshire, England, when even that country was sparsely settled. The family coat of arms is well known and bears a motto which means "Al- ways ready to serve." John A. Bostwick, a leading business man of Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, was born at Mt. Vernon, Knox county, this state, in 1853. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 555 He is the son of Nathan and Adeline (Beardsley) Bostwick. The father, a major in the Union army during the Civil war, had a record which is well worth reproducing here and which proves his sterling characteristics. When the rebellion began in 1861 he was engaged in farming in Licking county and an active member of the county agricultural society. His farm was well stocked with an excellent grade of cattle, horses, hogs and sheep. He was not subject to military duty, but, having the blood of patriotic ancestors in his veins, he could not stand icily by in such a crisis and he enlisted his sympathies with the federal government. One of his sons was of military age, another was not, but both joined the company raised by their father for the Twentieth Ohio Volunteers. He received a sunstroke at the battle of Champion's Hill, from which he never fully recovered. He was captured by the Confederates at the battle of Atlanta. His sad experiences from then on in Southern prisons and his suffering during a month in the mountains effecting an escape, read like a horrid romance. Immediately after his capture he was shot, a bullet striking the corner of one eye, making an ugly and painful wound. He had just received a new outfit of expensive clothing and a Confederate started to take his twelve-dollar boots. Major Bostwick fought him, but was about to be killed when he gave the Masonic grand hail of distress and his life was spared. It was ten days before the lead was removed from his eye socket. He and other prisoners were starved till the third clay, then given a tin cup of meal. After two weeks at Griffin he was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, and put in the old workhouse, where his rations were mouldy cakes of rice and bad pork. He had a siege of bilious fever. Nearly three months later, October 6, 1864, he and others were put in cattle cars that had not been cleaned and started for Columbia, South Carolina. He sat against the side of the car, sick all day and all night. Next morning they were left in a field in a pouring rain under guard of a provost marshal. The following day he could not walk, and his guards cursed him and goaded him with their bayonets in an effort to make him walk. He was a mere skeleton and almost eaten up by lice. He had lung fever and a surgeon arrived who gave him much-needed medical attention and he finally was able to walk. He and others escaped and took to the country. They traveled only by night, often nearly starved, in danger of discovery at every step. At Tyger's river at Saluda, they found a guard of three men on the bridge, captured the guard and took them away and bound them to trees to prevent punishment. Later they were pursued by a number of bloodhounds, and killed two. They waded in the streams to throw others off their track. One night at Henderson a rain mixed with snow fell to a depth of three inches 556 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. and in this Mr. Bostwick lay out all night. Later he came upon a member of the "underground railroad" and was piloted to safety through more hard- ships and dangers until he reached the Union lines. John A. Bostwick, the immediate subject of this sketch, grew to maturity at Mt. Vernon and spent most of his boyhood on the farm. He began learning the jewelry business with his brother when he was about seventeen years old, at Coshocton, where he remained about three years. He then went to Newark, where the brother had a store, and John A. remained there until the fall of 1875, then returned to Coshocton and went into business for himself and remained there until 1882. On April 1st of that year he came to Cambridge and opened a jewelry store on the south side of Wheeling avenue, above Eighth street. In May, 1890, he moved to his present location, No. 539 Wheeling avenue, where he has remained in business for over twenty years, being now the oldest jeweler in Cambridge, in point of years of continuous business. He has a neat, well stocked and up-to-date store and carries an excellent line of goods at all times and he has 'enjoyed a good trade, which has gradually increased with the years. He is an expert watch man and work is sent to him from many other cities, from Niles, Martin's Ferry and even Pittsburg. He is especially an expert on watches of foreign make, having spent a full year of his apprenticeship on foreign watches exclusively. Mr. Bostwick is a Republican in politics. Some years ago he was urged very strongly to run for the offie of membership on the board of education in Cambridge; he consented reluctantly and was nominated by an overwhelm- ing majority, then ran against a strong Democratic candidate, who made a house-to-house canvass, aided by a number of women. Mr. Bostwick made no effort whatever, asked no one to vote for him, but the votes rolled in and he was elected by the largest majority ever before or since given a candidate for this office. His straightforwardness, frankness and courage of convic- tions won him support and he was made president of the board. During his incumbency the fourth ward school was built and the educational system here given a great impetus. Mr. Bostwick was married in 1874 to Ella B. Ritter, of Newark, Ohio, the daughter of John and Sarah (Horne) Ritter. This union has resulted in the birth of two children : Pearl, wife of Stewart Cowden, lives in Cam- bridge and has one child, Olita ; Mayme is living at home with her parents, Mr. Bostwick is a charter member of Lodge No. 448, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Straightforward methods, both in speech and action, have characterized the Bostwick family throughout. They say what they mean and have the courage of their convictions. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 557 MILTON H. SIENS. The name of Milton H. Siens stands for progressive citizenship and he is known to all classes as a man of industry, integrity and possessing those principles and characteristics that always make for success and high-grade American manhood. He was born on September 17, 1863, in Jackson township, Guernsey county, Ohio, and he is the son of William M. and Mary Elizabeth (Wiers) Siens. The father was born in Preston county, Virginia, and the mother was also born in the Old Dominion, each being representative of fine old Southern families. Both came to Guernsey county when young people and were married here. The father came to this county with his parents about 1825 and the mother's family also came about that time. William M. Siens was a farmer and lawyer, being a large land owner and was for years prominent at the bar. Most of his land was in Jackson township. He was an influential man in the public, professional and business life of the community. His death occurred on October 17, 1907, at the advanced age of ninety-one years. His wife preceded him to the silent land by a few days, being called to her rest on the 9th of the same month, at the age of eighty-seven years. They were a grand old pioneer couple, and spent many useful and success crowned years in this locality, winning scores of warm personal friends and doing what they could toward making the world better and brighter. They were the parents of nine children, five of whom are now living, namely : Mary M., the wife of J. H. Ringer, of Byesville ; Nammie, deceased; Hettie A. has remained single; Austin, deceased; Lester M., deceased ; Elmer E., of Cambridge ; Alice C. married Leander Collins, of Marion, Ohio ; Clara M., deceased ; Milton H., of this review. The subject of this sketch grew up on his father's farm and assisted with the general work on the place, attending the district schools during the winter months, and he spent two years in the Cambridge high school. After leaving school he followed the painter's trade for a few years, then returned to the farm and followed agricultural pursuits for ten years, then, in 1902, engaged with the Summers Coal Company as weighmaster at the Black Top mines. He remained with this company for four years, and then was engaged by the Wells Creek Coal Company in the same capacity, remaining with the latter company, giving his usual high grade service and eminent satisfaction until May, 1909, when he resigned to accept the position of inspector of workshops and factories, the appointment coming from Governor Harmon of Ohio, and, owing to the well-known ability, genuine worth and popularity of Mr. Siens, the appointment was looked upon with universal 558 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. favor. His district comprises the counties of Guernsey, Belmont, Noble, Monroe and Washington, which is one of the most important districts in the state. In politics, Mr. Siens is a Democrat, having been reared in this policy, and Ile has been active in political matters, defending and advocating his party's platforms, and he has been regarded as a local leader for some time and has aided in the nomination and election of many a good man to the local offices. He has been a member of the Democratic county committee for a long time, and he has frequently been a delegate to county, district and state con- ventions. His present position is his first office holding. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and Cambridge Lodge No. 53, Knights of Pythias. On December 21, 1887, Mr. Siens was married to Ella E. Jeffrey, daughter of Thomas and Mary Jane (Brown) Jeffrey, of Westland township, this county, of which county both parents are native. Both were of Scotch-Irish descent and were early pioneer families, Mr. Jeffrey being an early settler here and a man of prominence. Both parents are deceased, the mother having died in March, 1880, and the father in March, 1885. To Mr. and Mrs. Siens one son, Converse Vincent, has been born. He is an iron worker in the Guernsey works. Mr. and Mrs. Siens are members of the Baptist church and active in church and Sunday school work. . The present cozy home of the Siens is at No. 228 Dewey avenue, Cambridge, and it is often the gathering place for the numerous friends of this highly respected and well liked family. BENJAMIN B. JOYCE. The record of Benjamin B. Joyce, well known citizen of Cambridge, has shown what an honest, earnest, hard working man can accomplish, al- though he had to hew his own fortune from the obstacles that beset his way, for he started in life with no great aid from any one. But he has been in- dustrious and economical, so that a large measure of success has attended his efforts and today, although yet a young man, he has considerable valuable property and a comfortable competency, and he can look forward to an old age of comfort and quiet. Mr. Joyce was born October 7, 1870, in Washington, D. C., and he is the son of James and Martha Joyce, of that city. The father was a me- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 559 chanic in the United States navy yard there for a number of years and was a very skillful workman. Both he and his wife remained in the East and died there. Benjamin B. Joyce was educated in the public schools of Washington City. He was an ambitious lad and not afraid of work, and his first em- ployment was driving a water wagon for the government Elizabeth hospital in his native city, following this for about one year. He next found employ- ment as coachman for Congressman Joseph D. Taylor when the latter represented the fifteenth Ohio district in Congress, and he has been with the Taylor estate ever since, having accompanied Mr. Taylor to Cambridge, Guernsey county, when he left Congress, remaining in his employ as coachman. Since Colonel Taylor's death, several years ago, Mr. Joyce has been retained by Mrs. Taylor as manager of the estate, looking after the rental of properties and all matters pertaining to the business affairs of the Taylor estate, which is one of the largest in the county, and he has given the utmost satis- faction in this respect. Mr. Joyce is a Republican in politics and he has long been active in public matters. He is patriotically interested in all temperance movements and otherwise active on the side of the "drys" in local option contests. He iS frequently a delegate to the Republican county conventions where he never fails to make his influence felt. Fraternally, he is a member of Guernsey Lodge No. 28, Knights of Pythias, and has filled all the chairs ; he is a past chancellor of the same and by virtue of this fact he is a member of the grand lodge. He is active in lodge work. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is a trustee in the local congregation, being a successful Sunday school worker. Mr. Joyce has been successful in a business way and by industry and economy has acquired several pieces of valuable property in the residence district of Cambridge. He also owns and operates the well known Spring Lake dairy, a very successful business venture, having operated the same during the past seven years. The products of this dairy find a very ready market owing to their superior quality. These interests are in addition to the care of the Taylor estate. He has also been extensively interested in other busi- ness enterprises and has been eminently successful. He is deserving of a very great amount of credit for what he has accomplished, considering the fact that his early environment was none too favorable and that he has been com- pelled to hew his own fortune from the obstinate "quarry of life." Mr. Joyce was married on April 8, 1896, to Anna Jenkins, of Charlottesville, Virginia. She is the representative of a very old Southern family and 560 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. is herself a woman of many estimable traits. To this union four children have been born, namely : Manilla, Emma, Clara E. and Benjamin B., Jr. By a former marriage there are also four children, James E., Margaret L., Mc- Kinley and Minnie, all living at home. Mr. Joyce is a splendid example of an intelligent, successful business colored man. A citizen whom all respect and whose judgment upon real estate values in the city of Cambridge is good, he is a man of high standing in the community. He and hiS family are lovers of good books and a well stocked library of standard works and the best current literature are found on the shelves of his private library. His children are all given the advantages of the entire course offered by the public schools in Cambridge and the oldest son is now a student at Oberlin University, Oberlin, Ohio. The daughters are also given musical advantages. ISAAC W. KEENAN, M. D, An enumeration of the representative professional men of Guernsey county would be incomplete without specific mention of the well-known and popular physician whose name introduces this biographical sketch. A mem- ber of one of the old and highly esteemed families of the eastern part of the state and for many years a public-spirited citizen, Dr. Isaac W. Keenan has stamped the impress of his individuality upon the community and added luster to the honorable name which he bears, standing second to none in his professional brethren in this locality. Isaac W. Keenan was born September 20, 1868, on a farm near Quaker City, Guernsey county, Ohio, the son of Hugh and Phoebe T. (Hall) Keenan. The father came to the Quaker City locality as a mere lad, and the mother, Phoebe T. Hall, was the daughter of Isaac A. Hall, who was of the early pioneers and members of one of the most prominent and prosperous families in southeastern Ohio. The father was a farmer and became a large land owner and very prosperous. He was an extensive fruit grower, such as apples, pears and berries. The Halls were Quakers, and Mr. Keenan also became a Quaker and lived and died in that faith. Hugh Keenan was highly respected and a man of integrity. He died in February, 1907, his wife dying in the fall of 1905, and both are buried in the cemetery near the Quaker church. Mr. and Mrs. Keenan had a family of five sons and six daughters, all of whom are living : Ida, now Mrs. Joel Carter, of Quaker GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 561 City ; John T., of East Liverpool, Ohio; Ella E., single, of Coshocton, Ohio; Eva, now Mrs. Curtis Merriman, of Oxford, Ohio; Isaac W., the subject of this sketch; Lucretia, now Mrs. Frank Stone, of Cambridge, Ohio; Eli E., of Columbus, Ohio; Hattie M., a trained nurse of Coshocton, Ohio; Anna L., of Coshocton; Dr. Willis H., of Coshocton; Charles E., who is on the home farm at Quaker City. Isaac W. Keenan spent his childhood and youth on the farm at home and attended the public schools of Quaker City. Having a desire to enter the medical profession, he read medicine at spare moments and for a time read with Dr. J. S. Ely, of Barnesville, and in the fall of 1892 he entered Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, graduating in 1895. On August 17, 1895, he opened an office in Piedmont, Harrison county, Ohio, for the practice of medicine, and remained until the fall of 1899, when he came to Quaker City. Having given considerable study and attention to surgery, he established a hospital while located in Quaker City and established a practice, attracting patients from all parts of southeastern Ohio, mostly a surgical practice as far as hospital patients were concerned. In 1905 he took. a special course in surgery at the Chicago Post-Graduate School, graduating in October, 1905. In the fall of 1906 he moved his hospital from Quaker City to Cambridge and located at the corner of Ninth street and Gomber avenue,- where he treats surgical cases wholly, devoting all his time to this work, giving up the regular practice. He has won an enviable reputation, is a skillful surgeon in all kinds of surgical work, and besides his large hospital practice is called in consultation to many places in southeastern Ohio. His hospital will accommodate as many as twenty patients and is usually well filled. He has patients from all parts of Ohio, West Virginia and frequently from Pittsburg and western Pennsylvania. He is a man of skill and courage and very successful. Doctor Keenan was married June 11, 1895, to Marietta H. Ridgway, (laughter of Oldham and Martha (Heade) Ridgway, of Quaker City. To them have been born three sons, Carleton, Harry and Paul. The family residence is the old Doctor Clark home on Clark street, an old-time large brick house standing in spacious grounds, an admirable location for a pleasant and happy home, and for many years the home of Doctor Clark, one of Cambridge's early and prominent physicians. Doctor Keenan gives his profession his entire attention and is greatly wrapped up in his 'work. He is an agreeable and intellectual gentleman, of broad and charitable views. He was brought up a Republican in politics, but 562 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. is now an independent voter, always giving an intelligent interest to all public matters, but not participating more than to vote. Doctor Keenan and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and their home is all that the name implies. Mrs. Keenan assists the Doctor in his hospital work, and renders a proficient service in this connection. Doctor Keenan stands high in the community, and few men are more favorably known, both in his profession and as a man and a citizen. In connection with the hospital, he has established a regular training school for training nurses in hospital work. This school is in charge of Miss Mary Callahan, a trained nurse from Columbus, Ohio, and is the first school of its kind established in Guernsey county. The Keenan hospital is also the first hospital established in Guernsey county and, while it is a private hospital, it is open to the medical profession, where patients of any physician can be brought and cared for. In this respect it has a public feature. MICHAEL SHERBY. The name of Michael Sherby has long stood for progress in Jackson township, Guernsey county, and his reputation has been that of a high- minded, sincere gentleman, anxious to see his community develop along all lines. He is an American by adoption only, his birth having occurred in Zempelan county, Hungary, on October 21, 1853, of Slav parentage, he being the son of Michael and Katharina (Kachmarik) Sherby. He there grew to maturity and was educated, and served three years in the army, then came to America in 1880. locating at Streator, Illinois, where he worked in the coal mines. Being seized with a fever there in 1883, he was advised to emigrate to Ohio, so he was soon at work in the old Akron mine in Guernsey County, this state, where he remained about eighteen months, boarding in Byesville ; then he went to Trail Run and helped sink a shaft. In 1886 he became naturalized as an American citizen, and in 1887 went back to his old home in Hungary and settled up an estate he had there, his father having left a little land. and Michael himself had made and saved some money there as a baggage master on a railroad. Although lie had about one thousand dollars and eight years' interest on the same, while there government officials arrested him for leaving the country to escape further military duty, but he showed his citizenship papers of the United States and he was thereupon released, but GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 563 was told that he could not ride on their railroads, that he would have to walk back to America. He was suspected of being there for the purpose of assisting a labor party to plot against the government, but this was not the case. He procured a ticket on the railroad and returned to this country without further molestation. He took up his work at Trail Run, Guernsey county, and in 1888 sent back to the old country for Josephine Workum, and she came unaccompanied to Cambridge, Ohio, where they were married, she having come over six thousand miles to join him. For another year he worked in the mines. Their first child, Alvin, was born in January, 189o. In 1891 Mr. Sherby bought forty acres in the southeastern part of Jackson township and began farming for himself, having had some experience in agriculture in Illinois. His second child, Emma, was born in 1896. He then bought sixty acres adjoining his forty acres, thus making him an excellent farm, which he tilled advantageously, and established a very comfortable home. In 1898 Helen and Emil (twins) were born, the latter dying when three months old, but the former is living. His oldest child, Alvin, took up the study of telegraphy at home with a neighbor, and later Mr. Sherby sent him to a school of telegraphy at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1909 and is now in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in that capacity. Mr. Sherby's land has greatly increased in value and he has leased valuable water privileges on his farm to the Cambridge Colliery Company, also made good deals regarding his coal lands. He and his family belong to the Roman Catholic church, and in politics he is a Republican and has taken an active part in party affairs. He is a school director, now serving his third term. He was twice candidate for township trustee, but was unable to secure election because he was not an American-born citizen, although his qualifications for the office were known to all concerned. He is a member of the Nationality Slavish Society, of which he is secretary. Mr. Sherby is the first one of the Slavish people to settle in Guernsey county. While employed by the Akron Coal Company he was requested by the same to procure ten good practical miners, of his own nationality, to come to this place, and he secured them at Streator, Illinois. He was then sent to Pittsburg to get more men, so he brought sixty-five Slays here, thus marking the beginning of the Slavish settlement here, some of these men working in the old Akron and the Farmer mines. Now there are between three and four thousand of these people in Guernsey county, and they have proven to be very desirable citizens. They have three large churches, one Greek Catholic, one Lutheran, in Pleasant City, and one Roman Catholic, in Byesville, and there is not a mine in this county that does not employ Slav 564 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. miners; many of them are in business at Pleasant City, Byesville, Blue Bell, Trail Run and other places. Michael Sherby is a man of good standing wherever he is known, and is regarded as a splendid citizen in every respect. DAV1D W. NOSSET. Jackson township, Guernsey county, can boast of no better citizen than David W. Nosset, who was born five miles west of Bridgeport, Belmont coun- ty, Ohio, June 24, 1837. He is the son of Samuel H. and Ruth Ann (Bailey) Nosset. This family is of French origin. In 1839 Samuel H. Nosset and wife brought the subject to Guernsey county and located about four miles from Cambridge on the Ridge road to Claysville, the father having previously purchased forty acres there from James Duke. There were only about four acres of his farm cleared and the country was, in the main, undeveloped; there was a rude cabin on his little farm, but he went to work with a will and was soon very comfortably established. He helped open up roads and did other work of a pioneer nature and became a man of usefulness in the development of the community. That remained the family home until 1877, in which year they sold out and moved to Kansas and lived there thirteen years. Then the father went on to Oregon With his daughter and died there. The mother died in Kansas in 1871. The subject spent much of his early life in the Sunflower state and was there during two of the never-to-be forgotten plagues of grasshoppers. David W. Nosset received a good education in the common schools and was reared to farming pursuits. In March, 1864, he married Samantha Jane Wires, daughter of John Wires, whose record is to be found in this work. The subject and wife remained in Kansas until about 1882, when they came back to Ohio; he had followed farming and had a very satisfactory start. They moved on Mrs. Nosset's father's farm, which they managed about a year, then moved to Cambridge, where they lived about two years. Then they moved to Byesville and opened a hotel and remained there eleven years. The hotel was burned down in 1898, being a total loss. They ran the Arcade hotel four years at Cambridge and after that Mr. Nosset operated a hotel about five years in the Stoner block. He was very successful in this line of endeavor, not only understanding ever phase of this business but was an oblig- ing and courteous host to all his patrons and his trade with the traveling public GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 565 was always large. He bought a home and continued to reside in Cambridge until in April, 1910, when he moved out onto the farm of John Wires, father of Mrs. Nosset, which he bought. Notwithstanding misfortunes, Mr. Nosset has been very successful as a business man and has accumulated a compe- tency, owning several rental properties in Cambridge. Five children have been born to this union, namely : Albert S. died when fourteen years of age in Kansas, of scarlet fever, and four days later Myrtle O., the fourth child in order of birth, also died of the same disease. Charles W., second in order of birth, lives at Marietta, Ohio, where he is engaged in the painting and paper hanging business. He married Love Peters, but she died about three months later, and he afterwards married Katie Meisenhelder, and they have two sons, Donald F. and Ralph Ray- mond. Carrie M., the third child, is at home with her parents. S. Grace, the fifth child, died when five years old. Politically, Mr. Nosset is a Republican. He has been loyal to his party and the government, having enlisted in the Union army, during the Civil war, in Company E, One Hundred and Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Nicholson. It was only six weeks after his marriage that he was mustered into service. He proved to be a very faithful and gallant soldier, according to his comrades. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 343, at Cambridge, he being quartermaster of the post. He, his wife and daughter all belong to the Baptist church at Cam- bridge, and all stand high in church and social circles. ALFRED J. TRUE. A member of an old and highly honored family and a man of sterling worth and many praiseworthy characteristics is Alfred J. True, of Byesville, Guernsey county, having been one of the leading citizens of that locality for some time. The True family originally came from England, having been well established in Lincolnshire. The first one of the name in America, of which we have any record, was Henry True, a captain in the British army, who emigrated to our shores two years after the landing of the "Mayflower," and became a member of the Plymouth colony, and it is believed that all the Trues in America are descended from him. Alfred J. True was born at Lower Salem, Washington county, Ohio, July 19, 1868, and he is the son of Wilbur L. and Sarah (White) True, the 566 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. former a native of Ohio and the mother of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The subject spent his boyhood in the village of Lower Salem, where the father was engaged in the lumber business. Wilbur L. True was a private in Company H, Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was seriously injured in West Virginia, which finally caused his death on February 16, 1894, having survived his wife some twenty-two years, her death having occurred in 1872. His great-grandfather, Ephraim True, was born and reared at Roxbury, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. When the American Revolution came on he enlisted and held a commission as ensign in a Massachusetts regiment. For his services in the war he was granted two sections of land near Marietta, Ohio. In 1790 he emigrated to Ohio and established his home near Marietta. About 1800 he moved to a farm near Lower Salem, where his death occurred. The land he owned there descended to one of his sons, Moses, who was the grandfather of the subject. Moses True was a prosperous farmer and he kept adding to his place until it was one of the largest farms in that county. At his death Wilbur L. True, father of the subject, inherited the old homestead, and upon his death the place descended to his sons, Alfred J. and Otis A., and they now own the same. It has never passed out of the possession of the family since the old Revolutionary soldier owned it, and it has been well kept, very carefully tilled and is today a valuable and desirable farm. The paternal grandmother, whose maiden name was Mehetabel Alden, was a descendant of John Alden, the noted Puritan. She came from West Virginia to Cumberland, this county, in 1829, when thirteen years of age, having accompanied her parents here. After living at Cumberland about five years, they moved into Washington county. The record of Ensign True in the Revolutionary war was a most praiseworthy one. He took part in burying the dead at the battle of Bunker Hill. He told his descendants many interesting anecdotes of war and the early times. He was a picturesque character. He assisted in building the old "Two Horned Church" at Marietta, an ancient landmark there. An old hand-made rule he used is now in possession of the subject, who has also the tax receipts of the two sections of land, twelve hundred and eighty acres, on which the total tax was less than one dollar. One of the sons of Ensign True was a justice of the peace in the early days at Lower Salem, having been commissioned by Gov. Ethan Allen Brown. When Alfred J. True, of this review, grew to maturity he worked in the lumber business and at contracting. In 1890 he went into business for himself at Lower Salem, in partnership with his father's brother, M. C. True, taking the place of his father, who retired from business at that time. He GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 567 continued there until 1901 when he came to Byesville. The firm of Laner, True & Company was organized, composed of George Laner, of Lower Salem; M. C. True, of Lower Salem, and A. J. True, of this sketch. The latter has entire charge of the business at Byesville and he is managing the same in a manner that reflects much credit upon his ability and to the satisfaction of all concerned. At Byesville the firm has a planing mill, and an extensive business is carried on in lumber, builders' hardware and all kinds of builders' supplies. Alfred J. True and all the True family are Republicans, and the family has always been patriotic, nearly all who were old enough having taken part in the Civil war. Mr. True is very active in the ranks of the Republican party, but he is not an office seeker. He was once elected to an office, but resigned as quickly as he could get to the proper authority to tender his resignation. Mr. True was married to Jennette Hardy in 1891. She was born and reared in the vicinity of Lower Salem, and is the daughter of Andrew and Clara E. (Athey) Hardy. Her father was a merchant near Lower Salem. He served as a commissioned officer in the Seventh Ohio Cavalry all through the Civil war and was assistant provost marshal of Atlanta during the stirring times at the close of the war. Two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. True, Claire I. and Frederica. Mr, True is a member of the Masonic order, and he and his wife belong to the Easter Star. They are popular in all circles at Byesville. GEORGE SALLADAY. One of the oldest residents of Valley township, in the activities of which he has taken part for many years, is George Salladay, who was born on March 27, 1829, in what was then a part of Guernsey county, but is now in the north part of Noble county. He was the son of George, Sr., and Ann (Secrest) Salladay. George Salladay, Sr., was the son of Jacob Salladay, and came from Washington county, Pennsylvania. The Salladay family is of German origin. Ann Secrest was born at Capon Springs, Virginia. George Salladay, Sr., was one of three brothers, the others being Elias and John, who settled in what was then the southern part of Guernsey county, on adjoining farms of three hundred acres each. George, Sr., died in 1831, at the age of forty-eight years. After his father's death, Ge0rge Salladay, Jr., was bound out until he 568 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. was sixteen years old, and had a hard time in life during his early boyhood. At the age of sixteen he went to work at about six dollars a month, and worked up to ten dollars a month, being employed on the farm and in a sawmill. For eight years he worked out, and lost only three days out of the eight years, except while attending school in the winter. While in the saw-mill he worked all day and half the night. In 1851 George Salladay married Mary Spaid, who was born in March, 1831, near Pleasant City, Valley township, the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Secrest) Spaid. William Spaid was born in Virginia in 1800, and came to Guernsey county before his marriage to Elizabeth Secrest, who was the daughter of Jacob and Mary Secrest, of Virginia. Mrs. Mary Salladay is the sister of Michael Luther Spaid, of Richland township. After his marriage George Salladay, Jr., bought eighty acres in the north part of Valley township, for one thousand one hundred dollars. He followed farming, but at the same time made wool buying and the dealing in all kinds of stock his main business, riding horseback all over Guernsey, Noble and Muskingum counties. He was a fine judge of stock, did a large amount of business, and never had any trouble with any one with whom he had dealings, while he amassed a fair amount of property by his operations. Since purchasing his first eighty acres he has bought and sold several tracts, and at one time owned more than two hundred acres, but has sold off all but one hundred and sixty-five acres. For fifteen years, including the period of the Civil war, he was trustee of Valley township, and the last time he was elected he declined to serve, During the war he gave his services in recruiting soldiers for the Union army. George Salladay, Jr., is the father of four children : Lewis Frederick, whose sketch see ; Amanda Catherine, who married William E. Heaume, of Cambridge, whose sketch see ; Jacob William, who lives near Derwent, see sketch ; and Elmer Luther, who died in infancy, Since 1896 Mr. Salladay has been a Republican, but is independent enough to vote for a better man on the other ticket. He and his wife are members of the Evangelical Lutheran church at Pleasant City, and are earnest workers in the church. Though past four score years of age, Mr. Salladay is physically well preserved, and his mental faculties are not in the least impaired. During his life he has witnessed many changes in the character of the country in which he has lived, and an almost total revolution in the methods of living. He has made many friends, the most of whom have gone before him to the after life, but he now possesses the esteem of all who know him. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 569 REV. WILLIAM HENRY WILSON. The writer of biography, dealing with the personal history of men engaged in the various affairs of every-day life, occasionally finds a subject whose record commands exceptional interest and admiration, and especially is this true when he has achieved more than ordinary success or made his influence felt as a leader of thought and a benefactor of his kind. Rev. William Henry Wilson, of Byesville, Guernsey county, is eminently one of that class who earn the indisputable right to rank in the van of the army of progressive men and by reason of a long and strenuous career, devoted to the good of his fellows and to the dissemination of the Gospel, he occupies a position of wide influence and has made a name which will long live in the hearts and affections of the people, although he cares little for the plaudits of men, merely seeking to do his duty in following in the footsteps of the Nazarene. William H. Wilson was born near Milnersville, Monroe township, Guernsey county, Ohio, November 27, 1867, and he is the son of John Neal Wilson and Christian (Morrow) Wilson. Both parents were born and reared in this county and are still living near Milnersville, a highly respected couple, now advanced in years. William H. grew to maturity on the farm and after receiving a common school education and attending various normal schools, his early life was devoted to the profession of teaching. After four years of successful work as a teacher, he entered Dennison University and took select work in view of the ministry. He was licensed to preach on May 27, 1893, by the Baptist church at Milnersville, and he was ordained to the ministry on March 22, 1894, by the Pleasant View Baptist church at Newcomerstown. During the years of his pastoral labor he has very ably and acceptably served the following churches, building them up and strengthening them in a manner that has proven him to be a conscientious and untiring worker : Union Valley, Piedmont, Pleasant View, Bridgeville, White. Eyes Plains, Adamsville, Dresden and Byesville. On December 7, 1903, he came to Byesville in response, to a call from the Baptist church, which was then only a mission of the old Cambridge Baptist church. Shortly after he came it was organized as an independent church, and he has been pastor of this church to the present time, his work in this place having been wonderfully blessed. This church now has a membership of two hundred and thirty and is constantly growing, and it has a remarkable Sunday school, consisting of about two hundred and fifty members. The church iS full of life and vigor and their meetings are like one continuous revival. Their pastor has implicit confidence in the 570 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. promises of God and inspires his flock with the same faith in the Supreme Leader, with the result that the congregation is ever faithful and earnest. His leadership has received honorable mention throughout the state. He was for two years vice-,president of the southeastern district of the Baptist Young People's Union of Ohio. For about four years he has been moderator of the Cambridge Baptist Association. For three years he was president of the Guernsey County Sunday School Convention. He was active in organizing the Byesville Law and Order League about 1904 and has been chairman of the same ever since. The population has grown a great deal since that time, with a large influx of foreigners, but so well has the town been governed that Byesville is an unusually law-abiding place, with officials chosen not for political reasons but for well known merit. The moral element was active from the first under the leadership of the Reverend Wilson, and had this not been the case the local government might easily have got in the control of the baser element. Reverend Wilson is an able organizer and in his own church has adopted what he is pleased to call "The company plan," of keeping each member actively at work as part of a small organization or company. This plan has produced great results and has been highly commended not only locally, but has been approved and praised by men of national prominence and leader- ship in the denomination. In the pulpit Reverend Wilson is an earnest, logi- cal and forceful speaker, often truly eloquent. Besides his busy life as pastor and citizen, he is also director of the First National Bank of Byesville, and he has found time to write several books that have received wide recognition. One of them is on "homiletics," especially for the pastor, and is highly com- mended by ministers of all denominations. Another is "Our Responsibilities in the World's Conquest." He has a large and carefully selected library of the world's choicest literature. At Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907, at the international convention of the Baptist Young People's Union of America, his church at Byesville took both banners, one for the highest grades in Christian culture work, the other for all-around Christian work. For four years the church was awarded the two state banners for the same merits and held the Christian stewardship banner until it became the property of the church. Such records are criterions enough to show the courage, the sound judgment and the great earnestness of Reverend Wilson. On May 23, 1900, occurred the marriage of the Reverend Wilson to Estella Henry Ferrell, of Dresden, Ohio, the daughter of Henry and Emma (McFarland) Ferrell. She was born near Dresden, and when twelve years GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 571 of age moved to that place, where she attended high school, completing the course there, and made that city her home until her marriage. She is a lady of talent, culture and beautiful Christian attributes and an efficient church worker, and, as president of both the senior and junior branches of the Bap- tist Young People's Union, had much to do with bringing them to their pres- ent state of efficiency. In her the Reverend Wilson has a most earnest and faithful assistant, a competent aid in many branches of church and Sunday school work. She is president of the Woman's Baptist Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Cambridge Baptist Association. THOMAS C. CLARK. By persevering in the pursuit of worthy purpose Thomas C. Clark, well known in railroad circles of Guernsey county and at present freight agent for the Pennsylvania lines at Cambridge, has won definite success in life. He has always stood well among his fellow men and been regarded by those who have met him as most faithful, trustworthy and energetic, meriting the utmost confidence. Mr. Clark was born at Washington, Guernsey county, September 8, 1852, and is the son of Richard J. and Ann Matilda (Beymer) Clark. Richard J. Clark was born in Maryland and came to Cambridge in 1839. He clerked in the dry goods store of Craig & Bryant here in the early days. After some years he went to Washington, this county, and there he met Ann Matilda Beymer, daughter of Gen. Simon Beymer and wife. Gen. Simon Beymer came to Ohio from Cumberland county, Pennsylvania. He Was of German ancestry and his wife, it is believed, was of English descent. The old hotel sign of the Black Bear bore the date of 1896, probably the date when the hotel was established. His license to run the hotel was issued from Pennsylvania. The Beymer family were the first settlers of the locality of Washington. General Beymer was commander of the Fourth Regiment of Ohio Militia for several years after the war of 1812. Mr. Clark has many papers showing that he had a great deal to do concerning the regiment. He was captain in the war of 1812. He kept the Black Bear hotel at Washington, while the National road was the great artery of travel east and west, and his hotel was the stopping place for the stage coaches and travelers from far and near. Washington was first called Beymerstown, named after his family, the 572 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. first settlers. Gen. Simon Beymer and wife were the parents of these children: John, who was for two terms sheriff of the county ; William, Joseph and Conrad, both of whom were stock buyers and drovers; Ellen, who married John Lawrence ; Anna M., mother of the subject ; Richard, a saddle and harnessmaker in Cambridge in early times, who was a hotel keeper. Three brothers of the subject's father, Thomas, Stephen and William, became well known physicians. Their father was a brick mason by trade. Richard J. Clark was the son of John Clark, of Maryland. John Clark was in the war of 1812 and was in the battle of Bladensburg. When the National road extended only to Cambridge, he brought his family here in wagons, intending to go to Zanesville, but, being delayed from further progress by bad roads, concluded to stay here. After Richard J. Clark went to Washington he remained practically there all his life and he became a very prosperous business man. He had a general store, known as the Ark, where he did a big business. He also bought and sold wool and pork and dealt largely in other commodities. He often carried large sums of money, sometimes as high as twenty-five thousand dollars, riding over the country at night and day buying food and other commodities to ship east. He bought hogs and cattle by the thousands, during the war. He was a big hearted, generous man, who never refused needed aid, and extended credit of many thousands to those who never could or would pay. He lived up to the Golden Rule far better than most men. He moved to Cambridge during the eighties and spent his later years here. He died about 1893. His wife made her home among her daughters after that and lived till March, 1907, dying in her seventy-sixth year, about the same age as Mr. Beymer when he died. In their family were four sons and five daughters : Otha B. Clark, now of Minneapolis, has three daughters and one son. Harry B.., of Ludlow, Kentucky, has two daughters and one son. Erastus died in 1864. Thomas C., the subject, has two daughters and two sons. Mollie, wife of J. M. Porter, lives in Pittsburg, has one son and one daughter. Jennie, wife of Alonzo Burke, now of Milwaukee, has two daughters. Lillian, who married J. N. Todd, of Pittsburg, is deceased. Ellen married R. B. Hoover, then of Washington, and is deceased, and he is in Springfield. She had two sons and two daughters. Dora makes her home with her sister, Mrs. J. M. Porter, in Pittsburg. Thomas C. Clark lived at Washington until he was about sixteen years old, in 1869. He learned telegraphy at Washington, then went to Pittsburg with Mr. Hoover, who was an operator, and was there three or four years. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 573 Then he came to the Cleveland & Marietta road, first at Caldwell, then to Canal Dover, where he was agent and operator. He was the first operator to receive by sound at Canal Dover. He then went to Marietta and was train despatcher, then came to Cambridge and became trainmaster. The road changed management a number of times and in 1900 was merged with the Pennsylvania lines. He then became local freight agent at Cambridge which position he still holds. Mr. Clark is a member of Cambridge Lodge No. 301, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the encampment. He was married in 1872 to Mina St. Clair Crawford, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, but resided in Allegheny when she and Mr. Clark were married. She was the daughter of Robert Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. Clark have four children, namely : Claude St. Clair Clark, who married Sadie Graham, of Kimbolton, and to them were born one son and one daughter, Willard and Mina. Claude died May 19, 1902, Harry Curtis Clark, who lives in Cambridge, married Grace Hare, of Quaker City, and had two sons, Wilbur and Harry. Daisy Belle Clark married George Wilbur Hilles, of Barnesville, and she has three sons, Thomas, Clark and George. Francis Dye Clark married William K. Krepp, Jr., of Columbus, now resides in Pittsburg, and has one son, Kinsman. Mr. Clark built a large, cozy and beautiful home at No. 224 North Sixth street in Cambridge, where he now resides. He is a large-hearted and hospitable, steady, diligent and reliable man whom everybody likes. LEWIS F. SALLADAY. Among the citizens of Jackson township, Guernsey county, the late Lewis F. Salladay was for many years well known and influential. He was born on his father's farm, three-quarters of a mile west of Dement, in Valley township, the son of George and Mary (Spaid) Salladay, whose record is given more at length in this volume. Lewis F. Salladay grew to manhood on his father's farm, where he lived until the time of his marriage. In 1876, he was united in marriage with Mary Johnston, a daughter of Jesse L. Johnston. She was born and raised on a farm near Blue Bell, in Valley township. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Salladay moved to a farm three miles west of Dement, on the Clay pike, in the northwest part of Valley township, where they lived for ten years. Then Mr. Salladay sold his eighty-acre farm, and bought one hundred and sixty acres in the southwest 374 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. part of Jackson township, a short distance west of Harmony. Here Mr. Salladay lived to the end of his days, following farming and stock buying. Four children were born to him, Clovis, Warren, Blanche and one who died in infancy. He was not an office seeker, but was for several years the trustee of Jackson township. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist church at Claysville, and he was a great lover of his home and family, where he found his greatest pleasure. When he first moved to his Jackson township farm it was nearly all in woods and totally unimproved. but he built a house and cleared the land, and in 1888 he built the larger house which is now the homestead. Mr. Sailaday's death occurred in 1905, and for the next year the family lived at the old home. Mrs. Salladay now lives in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, with her son Clovis, who is a minister in the Methodist church. Blanche married Pearl Gregory, and lives near Rix Mills, Ohio. Warren Salladay married Sylvia Gregory in August, 1906. She is the daughter of John and Mary Gregory, and was born and reared in Richhill township, Muskingum county, Ohio. Warren Salladay bought out the other heirs, and now owns the home which his father established in Jackson township and the entire farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He has one child, a bright little son, Lewis, born in July, 1907. Warren Salladay is a member of the Odd Fellows at Cambridge, Ohio. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church at Claysville, Ohio. The Salladay family has been one whose members have been upright, honorable and substantial citizens of Guernsey county, and Warren Salladay is a young man who fully exemplifies the family characteristics. He has been successful in his farming, and has many friends in the community. JAMES B. STEWART. A leading citizen of Cambridge township and one of the well known men of Guernsey county is James B. Stewart, a man of marked business enterprise and capability, who carries forward to successful completion what- ever he undertakes. He has long been an important factor in business, educational and social circles of the county and his success and popularity are 'well deserved, as in him are embraced the characteristics of an unabating- energy, unbounding integrity and industry that never flags. Mr. Stewart was born June 8, 1867, in Cambridge township, this GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 575 county, and he is the son of John and Margaret (Starkey) Stewart. The father is a farmer and still resides in this township, where he is highly respected and where he has labored to goodly ends. The mother died when the son was a mere child. James B. Stewart was educated in the common schools of Cambridge township and was graduated from the Cambridge high school in 1882. He was reared on the home farm and when old enough participated in the general farm work when not attending school. He returned to the farm after leaving high school and remained there until 1890, when he began teaching school, and he has been one of the county's popular and progressive teachers ever since, except for a period of about four years—so popular with both pupils and patrons that he taught for seven years in his home district, No. 10, Cambridge township, and after that long period of faithful service he voluntarily retired from the district. The remaining years he has taught in the schools of Cambridge, Center, Jackson and Jefferson townships. Mr. Stewart was married on September 16, 1887, to Cora B. Johnston, a lady of strong characteristics and the daughter of John A. and Jane B. (Smith) Johnston. Mr. Johnston was a progressive farmer of Cambridge township and his death 0ccurred in 1900; his widow survives. To Mr. and Mrs. Stewart five children have been born, namely : Charles W., a student in the electrical engineering course of the Ohio State University; J. Edgar is a student in the agricultural department of the same university ; Celia M. is a student in the Cambridge city schools; Mary F. and J. Storkey. The Stewart home is located about four miles northeast of Cambridge in Cambridge township, and their farm of two hundred and forty acres is one of the best in the t0wnship, being well kept, well improved and under a high state of cultivation. The dwelling is a commodious, modern and attractive one, being elegant in all its appointments and furnishings, and the other farm buildings are also models of convenience and adaptability. Everything round about is in perfect order, and the beautiful lawn around the residence is evidence of the refined taste of the proprietor of this valuable and desirable country place. Mr. Stewart and his family are very busy people; in addition to the care of their large farm, with its abundant crops, numerous herds and flocks, Mr. Stewart continues to teach school and his sons and daughters are students at the universities and advanced schools. For many years Mr. Stewart has also been an extensive wool buyer during the wool season ; he is also agent for the Armour fertilizers, and the DeLeval cream separator, in all of which he has an extensive business. He is a very busy and successful man, 576 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. turning to success whatever he undertakes, and yet he finds time to mingle with his friends and neighbors in a social way. Politically, he is a Democrat and an active worker in the party, taking a deep interest in public matters. He is a member of the Democratic county central committee, and almost invariably represents his township in county, district and state conventions, and he has served as a member of the county board of elections. He is a member of the Rock Hill Grange, the Patrons of Husbandry and is master of the Grange, and county deputy in the state Grange organization. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and are active in church and Sunday school work. Mr. Stewart was superintendent of the Sunday school for a number of years and he continues to be a teacher in the school. He is a man of many fine traits and qualities, a man of unimpeach- able character and he stands high in the estimation of his fellows. It is such citizens as Mr. Stewart that bring advancement to any community along all lines. WILEY OSCAR MOORE. One of the leading young men of Guernsey county is Wiley Oscar Moore, proprietor of the Cambridge Herald, known throughout this locality as both a journalist and educator of a high order of ability. United in his nature are so many elements of a solid and practical nature, which during a series of years have brought him into prominent notice and earned for him a conspicuous place- among the enterprising citizens of the county of his resi- dence, that it is but just recognition of his worth to herein set forth conspicu- ously a record of his life and achievements. Mr. Moore was born September 11, 1876, in Wood county, West Virginia, and is the son of Joseph D. and Jane C. ( Johnson) Moore. The par- ents were residents of Liberty township, Guernsey county, at that time, but the son was born while his parents were on a visit to the maternal grandparents at the old home in Wood county. West Virginia. The parents moved to Noble county, Ohio, in 1888, where they remained until 1894, when they returned to Liberty township, Guernsey county. The father has always been a farmer, and he now resides two miles northwest of Cambridge, where he and his faithful life companion are spending their declining years in serenity and in the midst of all the comforts of life. This family are faithful members of the United Presbyterian church, and are active church and Sunday school workers. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 577 Wiley O. Moore, of this review, grew to maturity on the home farm, and was educated in the country district schools. After spending two terms at Scio College he entered Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio. Thus well equipped for his life work, he began teaching in 1896 in the country district schools, and he continued very successfully for fourteen years, becoming one of the best known educators in the county. His services were always in great demand, for he was popular with both patrons and pupils, being an entertainer as well as an able instructor in the school room. He always kept abreast of the times in his work, was progressive, thorough and painstaking. Six of the fourteen years were spent in the district schools and eight as superintendent of schools, five years of the eight at Washington, and while superintendent of the schools there he organized the Washington summer school, which proved to be very popular and which he conducted with much success for five summers. From Washington he went to Senecaville and was superintendent of the schools there for three years, closing with the school year 1909-1910. He has both a common-school life certificate and a high-school life certificate, a very unusual acquirement for one not a college graduate. As a superintendent he is a splendid organizer, soon having in operation a splendid system that works for the general harmony and good results from both teachers and pupils. Notwithstanding his very commendable services as an educator, Mr. Moore believed a larger field of usefulness existed for him as a journalist, and on August 1o, 1910, he purchased the Cambridge Herald, which he is very ably and successfully conducting as a Republican organ, advocating clean politics and upholding the basic principles of his party, being himself an ardent Republican and always deeply interested in public affairs, believing that an active interest in all public matters is the duty of all good citizens, his motto being "to do all the good one can to all the people possible." He has never been an office seeker, but has served the public as one of the county school examiners, being first appointed in 1906, and reappointed for a second term of three years in 1909. He has brightened the appearance of the Herald very materially, not only in mechanical appearance, but in the strength of its editorials and the crispness of its new columns. Its circulation is increasing and its value as an advertising medium rapidly growing. Under his capable and judicious management, its future success is assured and it is taking its place as one of the important molders of public opinion in eastern Ohio. Mr. Moore is a member of the Ohio State Teachers' Association. the Eastern Ohio Teachers' Association, and he is a member of the executive committee of the County Teachers Institute, and a member of the executive 578 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. committee of the State Association of County School Examiners, and he has been very active in all state and local educational matters, his influence being generally recognized in all these associations. Mr. Moore was married on July 3, 1900, to Mary E. Taylor, daughter of Thomas S. and Margaret (McWilliams) Taylor, a farmer of Liberty township and a highly respected family. Mrs. Moore grew to maturity in her native community and has a good education. This union has resulted in the birth of three children, Helen.V., Mabel F. and Wallace O. Mrs. Moore was a teacher in the schools of Guernsey county prior to her marriage, and, like her husband, was popular and progressive. Mr. and Mrs, Moore are members of the First 'United Presbyterian church of Cambridge and are active in church and Sunday school work. Mr. Moore is an advocate of healthy, sane athletics among students and young, advocating whatever is for the general good of the youth. SAMUEL C. CARNES. Though yet young in years, Samuel C. Carnes, of Cambridge, has made a very commendable advance in one of the most exacting of professions and is rapidly pushing his way to the front ranks in a community long noted for the high order of its professional talent. He was born March 17, 1882, in the city where he still resides, and he is the son of Samuel S. and Mary (Ferbrache) Carnes. The father was born in Pennsylvania and the mother in Guernsey county. Ohio. Both families were early pioneers and influential and prominent in their respective communities, taking an active and prominent part in the general development of the localities where they resided. Samuel S. Carnes was a farmer and became prosperous; he was a man who stood high among his friends and acquaintances and whose reputation was never assailed. His death occurred in September, 1895, the family having moved to Cambridge some years previously. His widow still resides here. Samuel C. Carnes grew to maturity in Cambridge and attended the common schools here, graduating from the Cambridge high school in 1900. Being ambitious to acquire a higher education and take up the study of law, in the fall of the year mentioned he went to Denver, Colorado, and entered Denver University and spent two years there, in the regular academic course. He entered Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, in the fall of 1903, where he spent one year, then entered the Columbian. University at Washington, D. C., where he completed the course in law and was given the GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 579 degree of Bachelor of Law, in June, 1907. Thus exceptionally well equipped for his life work, he returned to the Buckeye state and passed the Ohio bar examination in December of that year, and he immediately began practicing in Cambridge and he was successful from the first and is now enjoying a very liberal patronage and has a rapidly growing clientele. In the summer of 1909 the Republican party nominated him as their candidate for city solicitor of Cambridge. In November of the same year he was elected to this office, and he has discharged the duties of the same with signal ability and success, winning the hearty commendation of all concerned. He is profoundly versed in the law, is cautious, painstaking and is an earnest and forceful speaker before a jury, having natural qualities which make him a strong advocate and a safe counselor. He is recognized by all classes as a young man of fine attainments and sterling qualities. Mr. Carnes is a master Mason and while in college he was a member of the Kappa Sigma Greek-letter fraternity. On November 12, 1908, Mr. Carnes was married to Elizabeth Craig, daughter of Samuel A. and Della (Gregg) Craig. Both the Greggs and Craigs were prominent pioneer families and both are yet active in business and prominent in the social, educational and church life of this county and city. Mrs. Carnes is a lady of culture and many estimable traits, which render her popular with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, like her husband, they being regarded as among the best young people of Cambridge in every respect. They are members of the First United Presbyterian church of Cambridge and prominent in the social life of the city. JOHN M. McCONNELL. One of the best known men in the vicinity of Senecaville, Richland township, Guernsey county, is John M. McConnell, who comes of an excellent old pioneer family here and who has spent his useful and active life in this county, successfully engaged in agricultural, stock raising and shipping pursuits. Mr. McConnell was born July 31, 1845, in Center township, this county, and lie is the son of Thomas and Lucinda (Smith) McConnell. The father was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and the mother was a native of Guernsey county. The paternal grandfather, Joseph McConnell, came to this county from his home in Washington county, Pennsylvania, about 1812, making the overland journey by wagon, in typical pioneer fashion, settling in 580 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. the woods in what is now Center township. This was before the building of the National pike, which passed near the home of the McConnell family. Thomas McConnell, father of the subject, worked on this road when it was being constructed through that vicinity. Grandfather Joseph McConnell be- came the owner of a large tract of land and his son, Thomas, also became a farmer and stock raiser, both being noted in the early days of that locality for their thrift and honest dealings with their fellow men. The latter was a man active in the political affairs of the township, and he filled many offices of the township in which he lived. He was a Democrat in politics and was a Presbyterian in his church relations, being devout and loyal in his support of the same. His death occurred in the year 1889, at the advanced age of eighty years, his widow dying several years later. To this worthy couple thirteen children were born, all but one growing to maturity ; they were as follows: Mary, now Mrs. Williams ; Elizabeth (Thompson), deceased; Catherine, de- ceased ; John M., of this review ; W. N., deceased ; Martha, deceased; Nancy, of Cambridge ; Amanda, wife of John Lowry, deceased; Sarah, now Mrs. Hugh McCreary, of Cambridge ; Palmer, of Center township; Ella, wife of Samuel Oliver, deceased; Charles also lives on the old home farm in that township; Lucy, now Mrs. Eugene Scott, of Cambridge. John M. McConnell, of this sketch, grew to maturity on the home farm, where he assisted in the general work, and was educated in the district schools of his community. He was married October 18, 1868, to Mary Bruner, (laughter of John and Mary Bruner, of Richland township, this county. Mr. Bruner was a farmer and he came from Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, with the early pioneers, having brought his belongings here in a one-horse wagon and started life amid primitive conditions, but in due course of time he became a prosperous farmer. He and his wife have both been deceased a number of years and are buried in the cemetery at Senecaville. To Mr. and Mrs. McConnell two children have been born; one daughter died in infancy, and Anna May, now Mrs. W, N. McConnell, of Zanesville, Ohio. Following his marriage Mr. McConnell continued farming in Center township and from there he moved to near Claysville, in Spencer township, where he remained for about six years, coming to his present farm in 1882, in Richland township. He has a farm of eighty acres, which he has managed in such a manner as to make a very comfortable living. He carries on general farming and stock raising, also buys and ships stock, though of late years he has not followed the stock business. Politically, he is a Democrat, but has never been especially active in party GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 581 affairs. He has been a member of the local board of education in Richland township. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church, of which he has been an elder for a number of years, and is active in church and Sunday school work. GEORGE W. FRYE. A well known citizen of Valley township is George W. Frye, who has been very successful in his chosen vocation because he has not waited for some one else to do his work for him, but has been independent and courageous in dealing with all life's problems. He was born in the northwestern part of this township, Guernsey county, in 1852, and he is the son of Henry F. and Sarah (Trenner) Frye. The father came from Hampshire county, Virginia, in the Shenandoah valley, where the family was well established and well known as planters in the early clays. When a young man he accompanied his parents to Guernsey county and settled west of Byesville, before there was any town there, the country being new and undeveloped. For some time there was no road to Cambridge, but finally the citizens of that town chopped out a road for the accommodation of the new-corners. The elder Frye died of typhoid fever soon after coming here, but his widow survived to a ripe old age, more than ninety years. Henry Frye had one brother, Noah, and several sisters, among whom were Sarah, wife of Henry Trenner; Mrs. John Burt, Mrs. Reasoner, who moved to Indiana in an early day ; another also married and moved away very early. Noah died in Indiana. Henry F. Frye married Sarah Trenner, daughter Of Henry and Elizabeth (Secrest) Trenner, in 1826. She was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1803, and came to this county with her parents in the fall of 1818 when the land was raw and covered with a primeval forest. She was a sister of Henry Trenner, father of Benjamin Trenner, who is mentioned in this work, in which sketch is found the ancestry of the Trenners. After his marriage Henry F. Frye bought eighty acres of land in the northwestern part of Valley township, but soon sold it and bought a place a short distance east of there. At one time he owned a farm of about four hundred acres, a part of which he sold after his boys grew up and left home. He was one of the leading farmers of this section in his day and was a well known and highly respected citizen. Politically, he was a Democrat and was justice of the peace for many years. He was one of the founders of the Lutheran church in the north edge of Noble county. 582 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. On January 30, 1845, Henry F. Frye, Henry Secrest, Peter D. Rolins, John Hickle, John Berkhammer, William Spaid, Henry Trenner, Abraham Albin, Michael Spaid and Jacob Cale held a meeting in Hartford, Ohio, for the purpose of considering the matter of establishing a Lutheran church here. At that meeting it was decided to erect a substantial frame edifice, During the next three years the building was completed. On the 22d day oi Janu- ary, 1848, a permanent organization was effected, and Henry F. Frye and Henry Secrest were the first elders chosen. During the first year of this church's existence the membership increased to sixty-nine. In 1896, after serving as a place of worship for forty-eight years, the first church structure was replaced by the present house of worship. Mr. Frye was a very devout man and assisted in furthering the interests of his community in any way he could. There were thirteen children in his family, namely : Elizabeth, who lives in Derwent with her brother, William, Eliza, Isaac and Mary died when just reaching maturity; George W., of this review ; Silas died in Kansas, leaving a wife and five children; John lived in Jackson township and died a few years ago, leaving a wife and one son, Charles ; Noah lives in South Dakota; Henry lives in California ; Catherine is the wife of Lewis Winnett and lives near Senecaville; Sarah married George Frye, who is now deceased, and she has one son; Benjamin lives in Indiana. Henry F. Frye spent the rest of his days on his farm in Valley township, where he and his wife both died. George W. Frye, of this review, remained on the home farm until he was twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, and he received his education in the common schools. For two years he traveled in various parts of the United States, including North Dakota and California, and was also in the South about four months, Richmond, Virginia, Washington, D. C., then back to Minnesota, then returned to Guernsey county, where he has lived ever since. This traveling in his youth greatly benefited him, for he has always been a keen observer, and he talks interestingly of general topics. He has followed farming since he settled here and has been very successful. He now owns a splendid farm south of Hartford, not far from Pleasant City, which he has brought up to a high state of improvement and cultivation. He formerly owned another farm nearby, which he has sold. Politically, Mr. Frye is a Republican, and he very ably served as justice of the peace for some time, resigning in his third term because of lack of time to give this office proper attention. He was elected first in 188o, and having made a splendid record was twice re-elected, and resigned in 1887. As a public official he performed his duty in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 583 Mr. Frye has never assumed the responsibilities of the married state. The Frye family have always been regarded as public-spirited citizens. When the Marietta railroad was built those living along the right-of-way contributed liberally toward its construction. The subject had hardly reached manhood, but he gave fifty. dollars and his father and brother gave about five hundred dollars. The father was a great hunter here in the early days, and when fourteen years old he shot a bear almost on the present site of Byesville, and in his vicinity frequently found old bears and cubs. JAMES E. ROBINS, M. D. Among the oldest families of Guernsey county is the Robins family, whose ancestors came originally from the isle of Guernsey to this county, and who have since taken a very prominent part in the affairs of the community. James E. Robins, the well known and successful physician of Hartford, was born at that place in 1871, the son of Martin Luther and Catherine (Secrest) Robins. Martin Luther Robins was also born at Hartford, the son of Peter D. and Deborah (Thompson) Robins. Peter D. was the son of John, Sr., and Mary (Hubert) Robins, both natives of the isle of Guernsey, and for whose native land this county was named. John Robins, Sr., of America, was a son of John Robins, and came to this country in 1807. The old Robins home in Guernsey, a strongly-built stone structure, is still standing, and on it is still the same cement and thatched roof, in good condition, that John Robins, Sr., put on it before he came here in the very early days of this county's history. John Robins, Sr., could do a great many things unusually well. He could shock oats so they could stand out in the weather three years, and not spoil even the top sheaf. He was good at figures and, although he had no schooling in English, he could read and write English, was a neat penman, could keep books, and was a good business man. When he came here from Guernsey, he located at the salt springs near Coshocton, and stayed there a year or two. In 1810 he married Mary Hubert, also a native of Guernsey, and came to Valley township, where he entered eighty acres of land from the government. Not long afterwards he entered eighty more, and thus began the successful financial career that has made him and his descendants among the wealthier families of this county. Saving his money carefully, he bought more land from time to time, until he owned eight hundred acres in Valley township, and four hundred acres south of Cambridge. 584 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Not only was he successful as a money maker, but as a good citizen and earn- est Christian left a worthy example to those who came after him. For some time he was justice of the peace in what was then Buffalo township, now partly Valley township, Guernsey county, and Buffalo township, Noble county. An active member of the Bethel Methodist church, he helped to build the old church, and gave the ground for the cemetery, in which he was laid after his death on October 11, 1840. His wife was called to join him on October 23, 1845. and her mother survived until April 12, 1846, and was buried beside her daughter and her daughter's husband. She was not less than ninety-nine years old, and some said one hundred and one. Peter D. Robins was the oldest of eight children of John Robins, Sr., and lived for the greater part of his life on a farm in Valley township, becoming an influential citizen. Martin Luther Robins spent his life at Hartford, where for many years he was a successful merchant, but in later years followed farming. His wife, Catherine Secrest, was a sister of Noah E. Secrest, Sr., whose sketch see else- where. All his life Martin Luther Robins was an active Republican. He and his wife Were faithful members of the Lutheran church, and lived consistent Christian lives. Mr. Robins' character was such as to make him an element of power in the community, on the side of right and justice, and he was much esteemed. He died in June, 1908, his wife in 1906. They were the parents of three children, James E., Isa Deborah, who is living at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, With her sister, and Elsie Elizabeth, who married Rev. G. A. Foote, of Sharon, Noble county, Ohio, and then moved to Glenwood Springs, Colorado. James E. Robins grew up at Hartford, and attended Starling Medical College., from which he graduated in 1895. He at once began practice in his native town, where he has since been, and has built up a very large medical and surgical practice, while he also operates a small drug store at Hartford, and is thus enabled to fill his own prescriptions. In January, 1897, Doctor Robins was married to Martha Maria Laughlin, the daughter of James Laughlin, of Pleasant City. To this marriage has been born one son, Herbert Secrest Robins. Doctor and Mrs. Robins are members of the Lutheran church at Hartford. The Doctor is a Republican in politics. Doctor Robins is a man of strong native endowments, which he has trained and strengthened by hard study, and he keeps fully abreast of the latest advances in his profession. To do this and to satisfy the demands of the large and increasing practice which his success has brought to him occupies the greater portion of his time, and makes him a busy man, yet he is always GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 585 kind and courteous in manner, and is ever ready to aid in any good work. His position in the community is one of influence, and the reputation of the Robins family has not been diminished, but enhanced by his life. His ability and skill in his profession are recognized by the other members of that pro- fession, who often consult him on important cases, as well as by the public. JOHN R. HALL. Specific mention is made of many of the worthy citizens of Guernsey county within the pages of this work, citizens who have figured in the growth and development of this favored locality and whose interests have been identi- fied with every phase of progress, each contributing in his sphere of action to the well-being of the community in which he resides and to the advancement of its normal and legitimate growth. Among this number is he whose name appears above, peculiar interest attaching to his career from the fact that his entire life has been spent within the borders of this county. John R. Hall was born January 2, 1854, in Quaker City, which at that time was known as Millwood, Guernsey county, and is a son of Isaac W. and Elizabeth (Vail) Hall. The father was married three times, Elizabeth Vail being his second wife. His first union was with Margaret Thomas, to which union was born a daughter, Phoebe, now deceased. To the second union were born two children, the daughter dying in infancy, and the son being the subject of this sketch. The third marriage was to Sarah Gomery, of Har- rison county, this state, and one son was born to this union, dying in infancy. Isaac W. Hall was a son of John Hall, who came from North Carolina to what is now Millwood township, this county, in 1806, with his parents. They entered land near Spencers Station, the woods roundabout being peopled by Indians and alive with 'wild animals of all kinds. John Hall became an extensive land owner and engaged in the mercantile business, in which he was quite successful. He was a heavy buyer of tobacco, which at that time was an important crop in this county, and he made a gratifying profit in this line. He was enterprising and able, both in private and public affairs and attained to a position of relative distinction in the community. His death occurred in May, 1854. His family consisted of six sons, Cyrus, Isaac W., Thomas, John P., Eli and Jesse, and two daughters, Hannah and Eliza W. The sons, with the exception of Thomas, all married and reared families, and all became prominent in the affairs of the community, all spending their lives in the 586 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. vicinity of Quaker City. The daughter Eliza was an invalid and never married, but she lived to old age, surviving the other members of the family. Isaac W. Hall became a prominent and successful business man, being possessed of extraordinary qualities. John Hall had been influential and active in securing the location and building of the Central Ohio railroad (now the Baltimore & Ohio) west from Wheeling to Columbus, through Quaker City, and he became a director of the company, as was the son Isaac W. afterwards, the latter being succeeded subsequently by his son, the subject of this sketch. In young manhood Isaac W. Hall engaged in mercantile business, from 1843 to 1872, and he also engaged extensively in buying tobacco. In those early days it was the custom for a team to haul a load of tobacco to Baltimore, a load of merchandise being hauled on the return trip, this custom prevailing until the advent of railroads. In 1872 Mr. Hall took an active part in the organization of the Quaker City National Bank, one of the solid and influential monetary institutions of Guernsey county. Mr. Hall, who was the heaviest stockholder, was chosen president of the institution and held this office up to the time of his death, in 1886, when he was succeeded by his son, John R. Hall, who still holds the position. The capital stock of this bank was originally fifty thousand dollars, but a few years later it was increased to one hundred thousand dollars. From its very beginning the bank's management has been noted for its conservatism and has enjoyed the confidence of the people to an extent rarely enjoyed by any hank in the country. The hank is now installed in its elegant new home on the corner of Broadway and South streets, into which it moved in February, 1909. The present officers of this bank are as follows : John R. Hall, president; I. P. Steele, cashier ; H. S. Hartley, assistant cashier ; directors, T. M. Johnson, T. C. Hall, Joel Hall, D. C. Goodhart, H. S. Hartley, I. P. Steele, John R. Hall. The bank enjoys a wonderful prosperity, its deposits and loans being now in excess of that of any other bank in Guernsey county When Isaac W. Hall became identified with the bank lie relinquished his other active business affairs and devoted himself entirely to the bank, its success being mainly attributable to his personal influence and efforts. This good man and honored citizen died on May 28, 1886, and is buried, with other deceased members of his family, in the burying ground near the Friends church, a short distance east of Quaker City. Religiously he was a stanch member of the Quaker denomination and remained true to his faith throughout life. John R. Hall received his elementary education in the public schools of Quaker City and, because of the fact that his health was not rugged, he could GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 587 not pursue his studies further. His first business experience was as assistant cashier of the Quaker City National Bank, retaining this position until 1884, when he was advanced to the cashiership. In 1886, on the death of his father, he became president of the institution, in which position he has since remained. He is also a stockholder and director in the Central National Bank, of Cambridge, and is also a director in the old Central Ohio railway organization. He owns and operates the Quaker City Flour Mills, a modern mill, with complete roller process, having a capacity of fifty barrels a day. This mill was built in 1854 by Isaac W. Hall and associates and has ever since remained the property of the Hall family. Mr. Hall also owns farm lands and other real estate interests. In all his business affairs, Mr. Hall has exhibited the same eminent business qualities which characterized his father and grandfather and today he is numbered among the foremost citizens of his city. He takes a keen interest in the welfare of the community and has materially contributed to the advancement and prosperity of Quaker City, as well as to the county. Politically, Mr. Hall is affiliated with the Republican party and is deeply interested in public affairs, though in no sense has he ever been an office seeker. He still retains his allegiance to the church of his father, the Friends, to the support of which he contributed generously. Mr. Hall is unmarried and resides in Quaker City, where he moves in the best social circles and en- joys the companionship of his many friends. PULASKI CUBBISON. The name of Cubbison is a well known one in Valley township, Guern- sey county, and in all the relations of life the members of this family have played well their parts and have long been regarded as among our best citizens. One of the best known is Pulaski Cubbison, who was born in Spencer township, this county, September 1, 186o. He is the son of James and Ellen (Nelson) Cubhison, the father born June 5, 1829, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Joseph Cubbison. When James was fifteen years of age, about 184.4, the family moved to the southwest corner of Valley township, on the Spencer township line. There Joseph Cubbison bought a farm and made the family home and there James Cubbison was reared, taking up farming which he followed all his life. He married Ellen Nelson, a native of Spencer township, after which he bought a farm just west of the old homestead in Spencer 588 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. township. He became the father of seven children, namely : Dana; Pulaski, of this review ; James Q.; Ella B., wife of Cyrus Jordan; Jennie; Iva, wife of William Turvy, and May. Pulaski Cubbison grew to maturity in Spencer and Valley townships, and early in life began working on his father's farm. Being an industrious lad, he was of much service to his parents in maintaining the farm and keeping up the home. He took to agricultural pursuits quite naturally and has made this his life work and has been very successful. Mr. Cubbison was married in 1888 to Rebecca Secrest, daughter of Jacob F. and Eliza (Shriver) Secrest, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work, as does also a complete sketch of James Cubbison. Eleven children, all living, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Pulaski Cubbison, namely : Cora May, Mark D., Ada, Gertrude, Brodie, Jacob, Reuben, John, Clovis, Mildred and Mary. They are all with their parents. After his marriage Mr. Cubbison rented a farm joining the one where his grandfather first settled in Valley township and farmed there about sixteen years, during which time he laid by a competency and got a good start, After he had been there about ten years, he bought the place, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres. On October 20, 1903, he purchased a farm a short distance farther north. By judicious management and close application he has prospered in all phases of his work and now has a fine farm of nearly three hundred acres, which he has kept well improved. He resides here at present and is one of the leading general farmers and stock raisers in the township. He is an excellent judge of all kinds of livestock and it is a pleasure to look over his well kept farm and his attractive and neat residence. He is a man of modern ideas and is honest in all his dealings with his fellowmen, consequently has their good will and esteem. JAMES CUBBISON. An aged and highly honored citizen of Cumberland, Spencer township, is James Cubbison, who has long maintained his home in Guernsey county, having devoted his life successfully to farming interests. His life has been exemplary in every respect and has been lived to good purpose and he now enjoys the undivided esteem of a very wide circle of friends. He was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1829, and is the son of Joseph and Jeanette (Bell) Cubbison. The father was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania and GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 589 the mother was also a native of that state. In 1844, when James, their son, was about fifteen years old, the family came to Guernsey county, Ohio, and located on Crane run, in Spencer township, and there the mother died. The father moved to Monroe county and there his death occurred. James Cubbison grew to maturity on the home farm, and on August 20, 1853, he was married to Ellen Nelson, daughter of Peter and Catherine Ann (Winters) Nelson. She was born and reared in Spencer township, this county. Her father Was born near Delaware river in eastern Pennsylvania, while the birthplace of the mother was New Jersey. Peter Nelson and wife came to Guernsey county in the spring of 1833 and located where Mrs. Cub- bison was born. The subject has devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits all his life, as before intimated, and he is the owner of an excellent farm in the eastern part of Spencer township, where he has spent most of his life, being very suc- cessful as a general farmer ; but in the fall of 1910 he moved to Cumberland, where he is now spending his declining years in peace, surrounded by all the comforts of life as a result of his former years of activity. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Cubbison, namely : Dana, Pulaski (see sketch), James Quick, Mrs. Ella Belle Jordan, Jennie, Mrs. Iva Turvy and May. Mr. and Mrs. Cubbison both belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, the latter having been a member of the same for over sixty years. This fine old couple, whom every one highly respects, were married fifty-seven years ago, dating from August, 1910. During the dark days of the early sixties, Mr. Cubbison proved his loyalty to the government by serving in the Union army as a member of Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Jacob Winters, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Cubbison, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, enlisting from New Jersey. WILLIAM DENNISON GREGG. The history of Valley township, Guernsey county, would be incomplete without mention of a man of excellent family and wide acquaintance, an able farmer and efficient miner, whose worthy character has gained for him many friends—William Dennison Gregg. He was born in Buffalo township, Noble county, Ohio, on October 4, 1859, the son of Col. William J. and Mary Ellen (Ball) Gregg. 590 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Col. William Jackson Gregg was born in Buffalo township, Noble county, Ohio, on September 2, 1830, the son of Jacob and Nancy (Heel) Gregg, both of whom were natives of Wales. William J. grew to manhood in the township of his birth. In 1855 he married Mary Ellen Ball, the daughter of Jonas and Amy (Archer) Ball, who was born at Sarahsville, Noble county, and lived there until her marriage. Her father was from Wales and her mother was born in Noble county. After their marriage, William J. Gregg and his wife lived on a farm in Buffalo township. In 1862 he enlisted in Company I, Sixty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served about a year, when he received a discharge because of sickness. After his return he joined the state militia, and became a colonel in that organization after the war. He spent his life in farming, and was one of the prominent agriculturists of his county. In politics he was a Republican, and for six years was commissioner of Noble county, besides holding other offices. In August, 1887, Colonel Gregg moved to what has ever since been the Gregg home, along the north line of Noble county, about two and one-half miles southeast of Hartford, Guernsey county. Colonel Gregg and his wife were both members of the Methodist Protestant church. He died on January 3o, 1905, and his wife is still living on the home place in Noble county, which is just across the county line from the Walhonding mine No. 2 in Valley township, Guernsey county. Colonel Gregg was a man of much influence in his neighborhood, and highly respected. Colonel and Mrs. Gregg became the parents of eight children : Jonas Homer, of Missouri; Mrs. Amy Ann Secrest, deceased ; William Dennison; Mrs. Alice Pearl Secrest, deceased; Mary Emily, now Mrs. Simon Isaac Dudley; Martha Jane, the wife of Charles Sherman Dotts, of Pleasant City; Louisa Belle, widow of Martin V. Cale; Carrie, wife of Samuel Clark Groves, whose sketch see elsewhere. William Dennison Gregg grew to manhood on his father's farm in Noble county. On March 1, 1887, he was married to Leah Birdilin Drake, the (laughter of John W. and Mary (Larrick) Drake. She was born near Mt. Zion in Buffalo township, Noble county, on March 14, 1865. Her father, John Wesley Drake, was born on February 2, 1837, and died on December 26, 1904. He was the son of Elisha and Rebecca (Clark) Drake. Through Rebecca Clark, the family traces back its ancestry to a soldier in the American Revolution. Rebecca was the daughter of Benjamin and (Gregory) Clark. Benjamin Clark, who lived from 1790 to 1872, was the son of a Revolutionary soldier. The Drake ancestry can be traced back as follows : John Wesley was the son of Elisha, who was the son of John and ____ (Kackly) Drake. John GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 591 Drake's mother was a White before marriage, and the mother of Kackly, his wife, was a Whitman before marrying his father. Mrs. Gregg's mother was from an old pioneer family in Guernsey and Noble counties. She was the daughter of James Hall Larrick and Margaret (Dudley) Larrick. James Hall Larrick was the son of Jacob Larrick (born on June 30, 1773) and Catherine (Spillman) Larrick (born on April 2, 1785). Jacob Larrick was a son of Frederick Larrick. For four years after marriage Mr. and Mrs. Gregg lived in Noble county, but in 1892 he bought a farm bordering on the south line of the eastern portion of Valley township, and has ever since been a resident of Guernsey county. His residence is large, well built and well kept, situated on high ground overlooking the valley near the Walhonding mine No. 2. Besides farming, he has engaged in coal mining for many years. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Gregg: Roy Raymond, born on January 26, 1888; Lora Lenore, born On May 9, 1890, and Byron, born on November 16, 1901. Mrs, Gregg died on November 23, 1901. She was a true helpmate, a loving mother, and a consistent Christian, both she and Mr. Gregg being members of the Methodist Protestant church. Mr. Gregg is a Republican in politics. He is a reckoned among the solid and substantial citizens of his community. JACOB F. SECREST. Jacob F. Secrest is remembered as a man of fine characteristics and a citizen of a high standard. He was born in Buffalo township, Noble county, Ohio, in July, 1831, and was the son of Isaac and Mary (Slater) Secrest, the latter being the daughter of John Slater, a Welshman who came to America in an early day and delighted in hunting deer with the Indians. Isaac Secrest was the son of Jacob Secrest, a German, who came from Virginia to Buffalo township, Noble county, Ohio, in an early day and located there. Jacob F. Secrest grew up at Pleasant City and ran the mill there from fifteen to twenty years. About 1875 Mrs. Secrest inherited a part of a farm west of Pleasant City and Mr. Secrest bought out the other heirs and there they made their home the balance of their lives. They became the parents of seventeen children, four of whom died in early childhood ; thirteen of them are now living, nine sons and four daughters, namely : Charles W. is living on the old home place ; Andrew J. lives near the old home ; Mary Rosella, wife of Doctor Kackley, of Pleasant City:, Ida M., widow of S. A. Bird, lives in Cambridge; 592 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. William Boone lives near the old home west of Pleasant City; Rebecca J., wife of Pulaski Cubbison, living in the west part of Valley township; Oleetha, wife of Charles S. Messer, lives in Fairview ; Curtis lives near the old home; Levi E. lives west of Blue Bell in the edge of Spencer township; Francis M. also lives near the old home; Other B., Noah Homer and John J. A. also live near the old home. Politically, Jacob P. Secrest was a Republican and for a number of years ably served as trustee of Valley township. He was a Mason fraternally, and took an active interest in lodge work, for many years being master of the Pleasant City lodge. He also belonged to the chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Caldwell. He was a member of the Methodist church and was class leader in the same for many years. The death of this excellent citizen occurred on March 20, 1901. His widow, now seventy years of age, still lives on the old home place, strong and active for one of her years. She, too, is a faithful member of the Methodist church. Mr. Secrest was the owner of an excellent and well-kept farm of two hundred and sixty acres west of Pleasant City. About thirty acres of this land has been laid off in town lots and comprises part of the Fairview addition to Pleasant City. DAVID D. TAYLOR, Few men of Guernsey county were as widely and favorably known as the late David D. Taylor, of Cambridge, who for more than three decades wielded a powerful and potent influence through the medium of the Guernsey Times, long recognized as one of the best edited newspapers in this part of the state. He was one of the strong and influential citizens whose lives have become an essential part of the history of this section of the state and for years his name was synonymous for all that constituted honorable and upright manhood. Tireless energy, keen perception and honesty of purpose, combined with every- day common sense, were among his chief characteristics and while advancing individual success he also largely promoted the moral and material welfare of his community. David D. Taylor was born July 24, 1842, in Oxford township, Guernsey county, Ohio, and came to Cambridge with his parents in 1860. He led the life of a country lad in his youth and until he was eighteen years of age he at- tended school in that old district which has become a sort of mecca of patriots and statesmen and is celebrated in story and song as "Pennyroyaldom." Prac- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 593 tically a farmer, something of a coal miner and a fairly expert typographer, he had taught a term of school and served four months as a soldier in the Union army, before casting his first vote for Brough as against Vallandigham in 1863. With a previous training at the Fairview select school of his brother, the late Congressman J. D. Taylor, he took a term at the Cambridge high school with Dr. S. J. Kirkwood, later professor of mathematics in Wooster University, and for a time attended a special select school taught in Cambridge by Rev. John S. Speer, D. D. He was a successful teacher, active in institute and other educational work, one of the four charter members of the Eastern Ohio Teachers' Association, served as school examiner of Guernsey county with Dr. John McBurney and Hon. R. S. Frame; served aS coroner of Guernsey county once, and was postmaster of Cambridge for twelve years, first by appointment of General Grant, serving under four Presidents. In many public matters, in educational affairs, institutes and literary societies he was an organizer and leader. He was for a long time an officer in the Methodist Episcopal church, and as president of the Guernsey County Sunday School Union for seven years, he conducted large and interesting annual conventions. The presiding genius and program maker of the Pennyroyal Reunion, he gave that society a state-wide reputation as the greatest of all harvest-home picnics. And all the while, he was, with brief intervals, connected with the Guernsey Times, the oldest paper in Guernsey county and one of the stanchest of Republican organs ; first as an apprentice, local editor, partner sixteen years, and then sole proprietor and editor-in-chief until his death. As early as 1870 he had a financial interest in the Times and he made an outright purchase of a half interest on January 1, 1874, becoming sole proprietor in 1890. To fight Democracy was a second nature to David Taylor, and in this business he was an old campaigner ; but he made no compromises with what he considered to be wrong or unfair in his own party. As a result of his peculiar radicalism along this line, he was defeated by a narrow margin for the Legislature in 1887, although he had been fairly nominated on the first ballot over half a dozen other good candidates in the convention. At the next recurring convention he was again nominated by a unanimous vote, every one of the one hundred and forty-two delegates rising to his feet, and he was elected over the strongest candidate that the Democrats could set against him, and in that off-year (1889) Guernsey county gave the Republican nominee for governor, J. B. Foraker, a gain of one hundred over his vote of 1887, for-election to a third term. In the next campaign, when Mr. Taylor was again the unanimous choice of his party, the Democratic, Prohibitionist and People's 594 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. parties combined to defeat him, and incidentally a United States senator, arid traded off everything and-anything from governor down to accomplish their purpose; but in this contest he gained his most signal triumph, coming out with a majority over all, which was almost equivalent to the high-tide Repub lican plurality of about one thousand for McKinley for governor. As a member of the sixty-ninth and seventieth General Assemblies he was prominent and was author of the standard time law, the "masher" law, and hazing law, the first of which stopped every court house clock in the state about thirty minutes and made the time the same in every city. He was a member of the Commercial Congress held in Kansas City, being appointed by Governor Campbell. At the inauguration of William McKinley as governor, Mr. Taylor was a member of the escort committee and rode with McKinley and retiring Governor Campbell in the inaugural procession, being the representative of the lower house of the Legislature. While a member of the latter body he became popularly known as "Guernsey Taylor." In 1899 he was a candidate in the Guernsey district for state senator and greatly reduced the large Democratic majority. His last political ambition was for the nomination of his party as their candidate for lieutenant-governor, and he had re- ceived testimonials from newspapers and friends in every part of Ohio promising support, but this campaign was hardly on until he was taken sick, when he laid the whole matter aside in an effort for return to health. Mr. Taylor's career was one of real accomplishment. Born among the unproductive hills of Guernsey county, he had a boyhood of hard work, went to the front when a boy of only eighteen years as a private in the Eighty-fifth Ohio Regiment, and after the war learned the printing trade, when he graduated into the editorial chair. The immediate clientele of his paper, the Guernsey Times, was not large, but it is doubtful if any rural weekly had a wider political influence. The paper was Taylor and Taylor was the paper. If he was for anybody or anything, there never was any doubt about it. He said what he felt, and he said it vigorously, and kept on saying it until his views made an indelible impression on his readers. He was an honest and true man, genial and generous. He was a friend, upon whose friendship one could rely whenever the opportunity offered for its service, and he was never in the "doubtful" column. He was of high character and his purposes were always true. He was a clear thinker and a vigorous writer. He had am- bition, and rightfully so, but he never fought save in the open, commanding the respect of both friends and opponents. As a legislator he was as breezy, aggressive and industrious as he was as an editor. It was his bill which made standard time legal in Ohio. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 595. One morning the papers contained an account of an unusually pitiable case of deception of woman. "Guernsey's" wrath rose. He quickly drafted a bill and made a speech which sent the bill racing through both houses. Hence the so-called "masher" law, applicable to married men who represent themselves as single. David D. Taylor knew no environment. All lines that were for the betterment of men and things were his and he used all of his powers for this purpose in all of the sixty-two years of his life. He signed the Washingtonian pledge at two years old with his baby hand in that of his mother and most faithfully did he keep the pledge and the Guernsey Times has been the exponent of temperance that has kept the county in the front rank in that reform. His truth and integrity none ever doubted and none ever dared to openly gainsay. In all of his many battles in his political career he was always glad and ready to shake the hand of the foe when the battle was over. He used all of his weapons and fought an open fight, but always with no characteristics of the assassin and with no personal feeling against the foe. The poor never sought him in vain and the weak he regarded as worthy of his best help. He was not a man of great means, but no public enterprise of Cambridge lacked his help and advocacy. Mr. Taylor died at the family home in Cambridge May 14, 1905, and is buried in the cemetery of his home city. He was a good citizen of Cambridge and of Ohio. His friends, loyal and loving, are numbered by the thousands. Richer in good will than in material wealth, he departed this life leaving a heritage of memory that should be enough to console the last moments of the most fortunate. He was a picturesque character. In politics, in the editorial sanctum and society his personality was magnetic and his responsibilities were borne with courage and fortitude. As an editor he wielded a trenchant pen, as a politician he was not confined to the narrow lines of partisanship. He ably and completely filled his place in life ; his duties were well performed. In 1871 Mr. Taylor was married to Martha Craig, of Cambridge, and to them were born seven children, three of whom, Margaret McFadden, Samuel Craig and David Danner, died in childhood. Rowland Corwin Taylor is special agent of the interior department with headquarters at Boise, Idaho. Maxwood Petty Taylor is managing editor of The Teller, Lewiston, Idaho. John Sherman Taylor is a law student at the Ohio State University, and Martha Craig Taylor who, with her mother, resides in Cambridge. Mr. Taylor was the son of Alexander Dallas and Sarah (Danner) Taylor and was a member of a family of nine sons and three daughters. Of this large family the only survivors are Dr. G. K. Taylor, of Cincinnati, and T. C. Taylor, of Washington, D. C. 596 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. ALEXANDER L. COEN. The family from which Alexander L. Coen, of Washington, Wills township, descended Was long an influential one in Guernsey county, the older members doing much to start the physical and moral development of the same. Mr. Coen was born March 22, 1864, on a farm one and one-half miles south of Washington, and is the son of Samuel and Mary (Ferguson) Coen. The father was born near Coen's Methodist Episcopal church in Noble county, Ohio. His grandfather, Richard Coen, was an early settler of Noble county and was the founder of the Coen Methodist Episcopal church, four miles southeast of Senecaville, Guernsey county. He was a devout churchman and prosperous farmer, clearing his farm from the woodland. He lived and died on the farm near the Coen church and is buried in the Coen church cemetery. His son, Samuel, the father of the subject, came to Guernsey county in 1855 and married Mary Ferguson, daughter of Lemen and Lurinza Ferguson, an early pioneer family of Millwood township, Guernsey county. Samuel Coen engaged in farming and was a prosperous man. He was also an extensive stock dealer in connection with his farm interests. He was always a Republican in politics, but not active in party work. He filled several township offices and was a man of affairs. He was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal church and a devout churchman. He left the farm in 1882 and moved to Washington, where he resided until the time of his death, which occurred in October, 1900, and is buried in the cemetery at Washington. His widow still survives, aged seventy-eight years, at the old family home in Washington. Samuel and Mary (Ferguson) Coen had only one child, Alexander L., the subject of this sketch. The son spent his childhood and youth on the home farm until fifteen years of age and he was educated in the country district schools. Later he attended the Washington high school, and later still spent one term at Lebanon Normal School in Warren county, Ohio. When aged about sixteen years, he became the engineer at the flour mill in Washington, having learned the engineer's trade prior to that. He followed engineering, both stationary and railroad, for about ten years, and when a state examination and certificates were required for engineers in Ohio, Mr. Coen was the eleventh to receive a certificate in the state, and when he first had charge of an engine, at the age of sixteen years, was the youngest engineer in the state having charge of an engine. Leaving engineering, he took up the study of optics at the South Bend College of Optics, at South Bend, Indiana. He received his degree of Doctor GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 597 of Optics from the South Bend institution and the Jacksonian Optical College, Jackson, Michigan, and has followed the profession ever since, having offices and residence at Washington. He has a very complete optical outfit and is a recognized authority in his profession. He has also farm interestS requiring considerable of his time. Mr. Coen has always been a Republican in politics. Has served as a member of the county election board and has been a frequent delegate to the various conventions. Mr. Coen was married in December, 1887, to Nellie Chapman, daughter of Dr. James and Amanda (Weaver) Chapman, of Washington, where Doctor Chapman practiced medicine for many years, coming to Washington from Mount Vernon, Ohio. Doctor Chapman and wife have been dead for several years. To Mr. and Mrs. Coen one daughter has been born, Nellie, now Mrs. John Williams, in business in Washington. Mr. Coen is not a member of any church, but Mrs. Coen is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and their daughter is a member of the Presby- terian church. Mr. Coen occupies the old family home in Washington. ANDREW S. T. JOHNSTON. A popular and highly honored citizen of Byesville, Guernsey county, who is too well known to need any introduction by the biographer, is Andrew S. T. Johnston, who was born in Richhill township, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 15, 1855. He is the son of Francis and Sarah (Spencer) Johnston, the father born in August, 1812, near Tanela, county Fermanagh, Ireland, and he lived there until 1848. Re taught school seven years, eleven months of the year. On June 20, 1848, he married Sarah Spencer, a native of Weymouth, nine miles from London. His people have lived in the same big stone house for nearly three hundred years. In the fall after their marriage Francis Johnston and wife came to America and located near the east line of Muskingum county, Ohio, between High Hill and Cumberland. There he bought a farm and went to farming. Two or three years later he sold the first farm and went to a place between High Hill and Chandlersville, and was there at the time the subject was born. This was the family home until 1869, when the parents moved to Claysville, this county, and lived there the rest of their days. There Francis Johnston engaged in mercantile business, and also owned a farm on which Claysville now stands. He was a 598 - GERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. man who took a high patriotic interest in public affairs. He was an ardent abolitionist and an active and faithful member of the Methodist church. From the time he was five years old he very rarely missed attending the regular meetings of his church. He lived to be eighty-nine years old, dying in 'g00. Francis Johnston was converted when a young man and continued a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church until his death. His life was a splendid representation of the qualities which make for Christian manhood. His life came to its earthly close full of years and honors. He was a teacher in the Sunday school and steward up to within a year of his death. His character was a rare combination of sweetness and strength. The uprightness, sincerity and manliness of the man were beyond suspicion. He was a scholar, and loved the Bible, the church and its ordinances. He died as the good die, with no fear in his heart, no cloud in his sky. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Johnston : Marie J,, Maggie, Esther, and Andrew S. T. of this review. Andrew S. T. Johnston was about fourteen years old when the family came to Claysville and there he has lived most of his life. He grew up in the mercantile business with his father. He attended Muskingum College, at New Concord, then returned to Claysville and continued with his father in the business. In 1880 Mr. Johnston married Emma C. Brown, who was born and reared near Claysville. She is the daughter of William and Harriett ( John- son) Brown. Her father was a farmer near Claysville and for three terms of three years was a county commissioner. After his marriage, Mr. Johnston went into partnership with his father, and thus continued as long as his father lived. After his father's death he became sole owner of the business and also owns the farm his father owned, adjoining Claysville. He also ran a creamery at Claysville about five years. For about thirteen years he was postmaster at Claysville, held that office even for a time after leaving Clays ville, until a successor could be obtained. For many years he was township clerk, having held the office as long as he would accept it. In 1901 Mr. Johnston sold his business at Claysville and moved to Byesville. Here he built and ran a laundry a few years in partnership with his son, Francis W. Johnston. After Squire Elza Trott resigned as justice of the peace to become county clerk, Mr. Johnston was appointed to fill out his unexpired term. In the fall of 1909 he was elected to the same office, which he now holds, giving his usual high grade service. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, also of the Masons, having GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 599 attained the degree of Knight Templar. He and his wife both belong to the Methodist Episcopal church. Squire Johnston still has a Bible that was given to his father when he was eleven years old. It was given to the boy as a prize for being the best versed in the Bible of any in the class of which he was a member and in competition with men and women, It is a highly prized memento in the family. Squire Johnston and wife have four children, Francis W., Harriett S., Edwin B. and Edna B. Edwin B. married Ethel Chapman, of near Byesville, and he now runs a store at Claysville. Francis W. Johnston grew up at Claysville, and took a course at Meredith Business College at Zanesville. After leaving business college he came to Byesville and he and his father started a steam laundry, which they conducted about two and one-half years, but having been brought up in the merchandise business the son was dissatisfied with anything else, and went into the general merchandise business in which he is now engaged, in Byesville. They have a large and most complete stock of merchandise and enjoy a very extensive trade. Mr. Johnston belongs to the Knights of Pythias ; the Pythian Sisters ; Masons up to the Knight Templar degree; to the Order of the Eastern Star and to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Maccabees. ROBERT NOAH ATKINS. One of Cambridge's progressive and worthy young business men is Robert Noah Atkins, for he has demonstrated beyond a doubt what one can do who has a well defined purpose, energy, persistency and who does not admit the word "fail" to his category. He comes of an excellent old family and was born in Cambridge in 1874. He is the son of Robert Henry and Martha (Hyatt) Atkins, whose life records are given in a separate sketch in this volume; suffice it to say here that they each represented pioneer families of the greatest worth. Robert N. Atkins grew to maturity in his native town and attended the local schools, later attending the Ohio State University with a law course in view. He was compelled to give this up by the death of his father, and at the request of his mother he went to Chicago in 1892 and 1893 and learned the jewelry business in the Chicago Watch Makers' Institute, thoroughly mastering his chosen vocation. From there he went to Toledo, Ohio, where