(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 850 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. farmer there. Four children, two sons and two daughters, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stone, namely : Louisa F., James P., Elias T. and Orvetta. Mr. Stone and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is a trustee, steward and class leader and Superintendent of the Sunday school, in fact, a pillar in the church here, having been a member of and active worker in the church and Sunday school for twenty-five years. His wife is also a very efficient church and Sunday school worker. The family home is in Derwent, Valley township, and is a large, substantial and attractive one. Mr. Stone still has some lumbering interests here in addition to his farming interestS and official duties. JAMES MADISON SECREST. A man who deserves the great credit which is given him for his Success is James Madison Secrest, one of Guernsey county'S most prominent and influential citizens, for not a dishonest dollar ever passed through his hands, and his large competence and valuable property have all been accumulated by his own effortS, for he started in life under none too favorable auspices, but being a man of indomitable courage and always his own exponent, doing his own thinking and depending upon no one to direct his affairs, he has forged to the front rank of our citizenship despite obstacles, and haS played well his part in the work of upbuilding the locality honored by his citizenship and whose interests he has always had at heart, therefore is eminently deserving of the high esteem in which he is held by all who know him. Mr. Secrest was born in Noble county, Ohio, in 1848, and he is the only son of Harrison and Hulda (Thompson) Secrest and the grandson of Isaac and Mary (Slater) Secrest, all prominent in the pioneer life of the Buckeye state. Harrison Secrest was born in 1822 in what is now the north part of Noble county, Ohio, and there he grew up on a farm which he worked when old enough. His wife, Hulda Thompson, was the daughter of Abraham and Rachael (McCreary) Thompson, the father born September 3, 1796, and the son of James and Mary ( Jackson) Thompson. James Thompson was born February 20, 1758, and he was the Son of Jacob and Annie (Downard) Thompson. Abraham Thompson came from Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in his young manhood and settled in the southeast part of what is now Valley township, Guernsey county. His father came and entered a large quantity of excellent land from the government,—in fact, he Secured all the most avail- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 851 able farming land in that community, and, like the other memberS of this thrifty family, became well-to-do. After the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Secrest he and she lived in Noble county until the death of the wife, Mrs. Hulda Secrest, on October 14, 1849. As stated above, their only child was James Madison, the subject. After the death of his first wife, Harrison Secrest moved to Pleasant City, then called Point Pleasant, and married Elizabeth Allison, daughter of J. B. and Matilda Allison, who came from Greene county, Ohio, and developed a good home here and were highly respected. The following children were born to Harrison and Elizabeth (Allison) Secrest : Joseph; Nancy Caroline, wife of Noah Larrick ; Sarah ; Belle, wife of Mr. Kackley, of Columbus, Ohio ; John ; Mary, wife of John Stranathan; William; Martha, wife of Fred Campbell. Harrison Secrest kept a hotel, ran a woolen mill, built a number of houses in Pleasant City, conducted a store awhile—in fact, was one of the most prominent business men of the place for many years and did more, perhaps, for the upbuilding of the town than any other man. He was an excellent manager, exercised splendid judgment in all his transactions and was always ready to assist in furthering any enterprise making for the general good. Although he was a loyal Republican, he never aspired to public offices. He was a member and liberal supporter of the Methodist Episcopal church. The death of this excellent and highly honored citizen occurred on February 5, 1894. James Madison Secrest, of this review, grew to maturity at Pleasant City where he received a fairly good common school education. He began work in the woolen mill there as a spinner when a young man and he acquired a thorough knowledge of the woolen mill business. He also conducted a gristmill and a saw-mill, and dealt extensively in the lumber business; he built a number of houses in Pleasant City and has been very successful in whatever he has undertaken there. He also became the owner of over three hundred acres of valuable farming land, a part of which is now laid off in town lotS and he iS now (191o) selling the fourth addition that he has laid out, these lots having been in great demand from the first owing to their desirable location and the reaSonable price asked for them. Mr. Secrest haS also dealt in livestock and has engaged in the butchering of pork, etc. He is a man of keen discernment and can foresee with remarkable accuracy the outcome of a present transaction. He iS a persiStent worker and an able manager, and, being honest and straightforward in all the relations of life, he has ever had the confidence and good will of his fellow men. Mr. Secrest was married in 1870 to Elizabeth Dyson, daughter of Thomas 852 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. and Christena Dyson, to which union one son was born, Abraham Thompson Secrest, whose birth occurred on September 14, 1870; he is living at Okesa, Oklahoma, where he is engaged in educational work and is at present the Republican candidate for clerk of Osage county, Oklahoma. This wife and mother was called to her rest on June 5, 1872, and on December 2o, 1873, Mr. Secrest married Sarah Cochran, of Pleasant City. Of this union, one child, Blanche, survives. She has been employed in the Pleasant City post-office for the past fourteen years. This second wife and mother paSsed away on November 22, 1878, and on July 2, 1879. Mr. Secrest was married to Rebecca Frances Young, who was born at Sharon, Noble county, the daughter of James William and Sarah (Robison) Young. This union has resulted in the birth of six children, namely : Nellie Ethel married Homer Gander, whose sketch appears herein, and they have four children; Hulda, born August 21, 1881, married Harry Gander and has four children and lives in Pleasant City; Martha Forrest, born October 19, 1883, married Harry Rainey and lives in Newark, Ohio; Arthur Ernest, born August 28, 1886, married Helen Johnson, and lives on a farm in Noble county, and they have two children; Mildred Madison, born December 9, 1890, is attending school at Newark ; Harvey Raymond, born January II, 1893, is at home; Huldah belongs to the Daughters of Rebekah and Nellie is a member of the Rebekahs and the Order of the Eastern Star. Politically, Mr. Secrest is a Republican and he and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mrs. Secrest is a member of the Pythian Sisters. FRANK E. BIRD, M. D. Realizing early in life that success never smiles upon the idler or dreamer, Dr. Frank E. Bird, of Lore City, Guernsey county, has followed this aphorism and is one of the leading medical men of his locality, keeping abreast of the times in all matters pertaining to his chosen life work. He so orders his conduct that he has gained and retained without effort the confidence and good will of all classes, and he stands high among his professional brethren in this and adjoining counties. He has built up a large and ever growing practice since locating here, and is one of the representative citizens of Wills township. He was born on September 27, 1866, in Buffalo township, Noble county, Ohio, the son of Absolom and Ellen (Moore) Bird. The father was a native of Noble county and the mother waS born near Cumberland, Guern- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 853 sey county. The subject's great-grandfather, George Bird, was a Hessian, German, and he and a brother, John Bird, were conscript Soldiers of the British army and were brought to American colonies, being memberS of a regiment brought to the colonies by the British to fight the colonial armies in the Revolutionary conflict. The SympathieS of both brotherS were with the colonists and as opportunity offered at the battle of Brandywine, George deserted and joined the colonial forces. John, the other brother, was later taken prisoner by the colonial forces and swore allegiance to the colonial cause, where his sympathies were, and served until the end of the war. George, the great-grandfather, after the close of the war, went to Pennsylvania and married into a Quaker family and reared his family there. In his advanced years he and his wife came to Muskingum county, Ohio, where several sons had previously gone, and where both the great-grandparentS died, and are buried in the cemetery near Blue Rock, Muskingum county. Joseph Bird, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to Noble county, Ohio, from Pennsylvania and entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in Noble county, in the early days of the nineteenth century, and became one of the active pioneers of that county, where he spent his life and died on the home farm, first entered. He was succeeded in the ownership by his son, Absolom, father of the Subject, where he Spent most of his life and died on October 18, 1908, aged seventy-four years. His widow still liveS in Cambridge. The son, Dr. Frank E. Bird, was born on the original Bird farm in Noble county, where he spent his childhood and youth, and his early education waS obtained in the district Schools of the neighborhood. He later attended the medical department of the Ohio State University, prior to which he had learned the carpenter trade, with his father, who, in addition to being a farmer, was a carpenter. The son worked at the carpenter trade until about twenty-eight years of age, when he entered the medical college, graduating April 16, 1903, and began the practice in Lore City, where he has been ever since. Doctor Bird was married on December 27, 1886, to Henrietta Clark, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah E. (Buckey) Clark, of Noble county. The Clarks and Buckeys were early pioneer families and grew into prominence. Mrs. Bird's parents are both living and have always been residents of Noble county. To Doctor and Mrs. Bird have been born five children : Inez, now Mrs. Sidney Knowles, of Newark, Ohio ; Audley E.; Anna M., now Mrs. Austin R. Bond, of Lore City; Charles C. and Joseph B. Doctor Bird is a practitioner of the old school and a Surgeon of well 854 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. known skill and successful in both branches of practice, enjoying the full confidence and high esteem of the people of the community. He is a Republican in politics and always active in public matters; not an office seeker, but devoting his time and energies to his profession and greater proficiency, with no time or inclination for outside interests. He has been a member of the county, State and national medical societies, and a member of Lore City Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his family affiliate with the Methodist Episcopal church, but are liberal contributors to the support of and upbuilding of all churches and to the general uplift of the community. He is a splendid man, standing high both as a citizen and as a physician. JAMES LAUGHLIN. One of the leading citizens of Pleasant City and one of the progressive and honored men of Guernsey county is James Laughlin, a man who has won success in life because he has worked diligently for it along legitimate lines and has sought to carry the Golden Rule into his every-day transactions, so that he has ever had the confidence and good will of his fellow men and is therefore eminently deserving of the large success that is today his. Mr. Laughlin conies from a sterling old pioneer family, members of which have been prominent in the affairs of this locality for many decades, and his birth occurred in Buffalo township, Noble county ( formerly a part of Guernsey county), in 1844. He is the son of William John and Sarah (Secrest) Laughlin. The father was born in county Derry, Ireland, while the mother was a native of Ohio. The father emigrated to America in 1830 and located in the vicinity where the subject was born, having been accompanied by his parents, Joseph and Margaret Laughlin, and he grew to maturity on a farm and attended the pioneer schools. Upon reaching maturity he married Sarah Secrest, whose parents came from Virginia. William J. Laughlin was a farmer and stock dealer all his life and a man of prominence in his community, successful in business and a man whom hiS neighbors held in highest respect. His family consisted of eleven children, namely : Eliza Ann, wife of Joseph Secrest, deceased ; Sarah Catherine died when twenty-four years of age; Maria is living with her mother in Noble county ; Samuel lives in Buffalo township, that county; Mrs. Rachael Rich, Mrs. Nancy Miller, Henry Kiser, William J,, Jane, all living in Noble county. The father of these children held a number of township offices and eras GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 855 a man of influence in his community. HiS death occurred when sixty years of age; his widow is living and is active and hale at the advanced age of eighty- nine years. She has been a most noble and useful woman all her life and has a host of friends. James Laughlin, of this review, grew to maturity on the home farm and remained there until 1864, in which year he proved his patriotism by enlisting in Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he saw some hard service, having been with Hunter in his raid up the Shenandoah valley. He was at the battles of Stanton and New Creek, also at Liberty, near Richmond. He proved to be a very faithful and gallant soldier, and he was honorably discharged, being mustered out of the service at Columbus, Ohio, the latter part of 1864. He returned home and settled on a farm in Buffalo township, Noble county, where he continued to reside until 1880. He became the owner of an excellent farm there of one hundred and twenty-two acres. He was married in 1865 to Mary Secrest, daughter of Jacob and Margaret Secrest, whose parents also came from Virginia. James Laughlin and wife were the parents of six children, namely : Margaret Secrest married George McC. Secrest. Jacob married Sadie Stewart and they had two children ; he died August I, 1898, having been killed in a coal mine by being struck by a car ; he was thirty years old and an excellent young man; he left two daughters, Irene and Lurce. Justice Laughlin lives at Derwent and is engaged in farming; he married Cordelia Davis and they have three children, Cuba, Olive and Arthur. Lizzie Laughlin married James H. Secrest, of Hartford. Martha is the wife of Dr. James E. Robins. Cyrus lives in Pleasant City, but is now at Washington, D. C., in a government position ; his wife was Adena Kelley, a native of Washington, Kansas, and they have one child, Mary Frances. In 1880 James Laughlin moved to Pleasant City and has since made his home here, with the exception of two years when he lived on his farm two miles east of Pleasant City. He also has another farm at Derwent, each of which is well improved, under a high state of cultivation and very valuable and desirable property. In 1880 he launched into the general mercantile business at Pleasant City, and a year later J. P. Stranathan became his partner and remained so until 1889. Then for several years Mr. Laughlin continued to conduct his store alone. He always had a very liberal patronage and did a thriving business with the town and surrounding country. Taking an abiding interest in public affairs and in the general upbuilding of Pleasant City from the first, Mr. Laughlin became the logical man for postmaster and he was appointed to that position in the fall of 1880 and held the same with 856 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. credit to himself and with satisfaction to the people and the department until 1888. The office was then called Dyson. Retiring from the mercantile business, Mr. Laughlin engaged in the stock business in addition to his farming, and he has continued buying and selling stock on a large scale ever since. He was mayor of Pleasant City about five years, during which time he did many things for the permanent good of the community. He is now very ably discharging the duties of township assessor. Politically, he is a Republican, but he was postmaster during both a Republican and Democratic administration, thus proving his popularity here. He is one of the local leaders of his party and his counsel is frequently sought in party affairs. He is a faithful member of the Lutheran church, of which his first wife was also a member. Her death occurred in 189o, and in December, 1892, Mr. Laughlin married Naomi Taylor, who was born in Noble county, Ohio, but was reared in Valley township, this county. She is the daughter of William and Sarah (Hall) Taylor. Her father was born in Guernsey county and her mother came from Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. They were married at Hartford and moved into Noble county, coming to Pleasant City, Guernsey county, when Mrs. Laughlin was a small child and there the parents spent the balance of their lives. Mrs. Laughlin has made her home at Pleasant City Since childhood. Her father died on September 11, 1909, and the mother's death occurred on September 24, 1900. Mr. Taylor devoted his life to farming and was very successful. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Laughlin is also a member. THEODORE M. WILLS. The Wills family is eminently deserving of conspicuous mention in this work, owing to the fact that the several members of the same have led lives of uprightness and have played their parts in a most commendable manner in the development of Guernsey county. One of the best known of the present generation is Theodore M. Wills, who was born at Buffalo, or Hartford, Valley township, this county, September 14, 1873, the Son of John L. and Mary A. (Cale) Wills. The former was the son of English parents, and he was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, he and a sister being left orphans in early childhood. He came to Guernsey county about 1840, when he was just reaching manhood, and located near Buffalo, making his home in that locality the rest of his life, becoming well known and influential among the GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 857 early settlers there. There he married Mary Cale, daughter of Henry and wife, and granddaughter of George Cale. This family waS of Irish descent, and came to Ohio from Virginia when this country was a wilderness, there being only trails through the forests. They settled in what was then a part of Guernsey county, now Buffalo township, in the north edge of Noble county. At that time no cleared land was to be found in this locality outside the vicinity of Byesville, The Cale family has made its home in Buffalo township ever since those pioneer days. Mrs. Wills' father, Henry Cale, reached the remarkable age of ninety-one years, and before his death he could count four generations of his descendants, Mrs. Wills' daughter (Mrs. Maggie Danford) having children and grandchildren living. There have been five generations of the Cale family already who have lived on the old Cale homestead. After his marriage John L. Wills followed tobacco raising on a farm which he owned near Hartford. He also became the owner of town property in Hartford. There he and his wife were faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church, he having been a member of the church over fifty years at the time of his death, and was sexton of the church for more than forty years. His death occurred in 1904, at the advanced age of eighty-two years ; his good life companion surviving, makes her home in Hartford. Theodore M. Wills is one of a family of four daughters and two Sons: Maggie, wife of Hiram Danford, lives in Coffey county, Kansas; George lives at Hartford, where he is engaged in coal mining; Hannah is the wife of M. L. Spaid and lives at Cambridge; Letha C. is the wife of John Young and lives in Cambridge; Theodore M., of this review; Grace is the wife of Martin Wilson, and lives at Hartford. Upon leaving School the subject began life as a merchant, first clerking in the store of M. L. Spaid at Hartford. In 1893, when only eighteen years old, he bought out his employer and has continued in business at Hartford ever since, having built up a very satisfactory and extensive trade and maintaining a popular and neatly kept store, filled with a large and carefully selected stock of goods. When he first took possession of this store only groceries and allied lines were carried, but later other lines were added and he now has a large assortment of general merchandise. Mr. Wills was married in 1897 to Alma Corbett, daughter of Joseph T. and Rachael (Rogers) Corbett, the father a native of Hopewell, near Cambridge, this county. His father and mother came from the isle of Guernsey in a very early day, and settled at Hopewell, where they bought a farm, afterwards moving to Pleasant City, 'where Mr. Corbett bought a mill which 858 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. he operated. When Joseph T. Corbett was a young man, he went to Cambridge and conducted a book store for about four years, then moved to Hartford. After living on a farm a few years, he again moved to Hartford and conducted a Store, and he was postmaster at that place for about twenty-five years. After the death of his first wife, mother of Mrs. Wills, he married Eliza E. Campbell, who bore him Six children, one of whom, Charles W. Corbett, was a partner in the business with Joseph T. for about fifteen years, and who finally bought out his father's interest in the business about 1901. The death of Joseph T. Corbett occurred September 24, 1904. He was a member of the Lutheran church and an old and honored resident of Hartford. Theodore M. Wills and wife have continued to reside in Hartford since their marriage. About 1901 he built a home at the east end of Main Street, being one of the attractive residences of Hartford, and is known as a place of hospitality to the many friends of the family. Politically, Mr. Wills is a Democrat and takes an active interest in his party, as did his father before him. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, while his wife worships with the Lutheran congregation. BENJAMIN I. HILDERBRAND. Herein is mentioned one who is well and favorably known by hiS fellows as a man of true and tried worth, one in every way entitled to mention in this work. Benjamin I. Hilderbrand was born August 3, 1874, in Bridgeport, Belmont county, Ohio, the son of William and Mary (Sheldon) Hilderbrand. His father was a native of the Ohio valley, and an iron worker by trade. His mother was likewise a native of the valley, having been born in Pittsburg. They never became residents of Guernsey county, but his father died in Bridgeport in about 1887 and his widow still resides there, Benjamin I. Hilderbrand was educated in the public Schools of Bridgeport, leaving school at the age of twelve to work in the mills. His first work was on a guide mill, and he continued in the Bridgeport mills for about eight years, and in May, 1894, came to the city of Cambridge, to work in the Cambridge Iron, Sheet & Steel Mills, which had been organized and put into operation only about two years previous to his coming. He was then what is known as a rougher, since has been a sheet roller, and is an expert in his line of work. In politics Mr. Hilderbrand is a Republican and has been very active. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 859 For about six years he was a member of the city council, for one year of that time was president of the same and served on many of its important committees. Much of the street paving and Sewer construction of the city was done during hiS service in the council. Mr. Hilderbrand is a member of Cambridge Lodge No. 448, Benevolent and Protective Order of ElkS, of Cambridge Lodge No. 53, Knights of Pythias, and of the Modern Woodmen of America. He and his family affiliate with the Methodist church. Mr. Hilderbrand was married on January I, 1895, to Maude Hildebrand, daughter of William C. and Margaret ( Jellison) Hildebrand, of Martins Ferry, Ohio. Her father was a nailer in the Martins Ferry Nail Mills and he and his wife were nativeS of Pennsylvania. The father is dead, her mother still lives in Martins Ferry. To Mr. and Mrs. Hilderbrand have been born three children, Marie, Nell and William W., all now at home and receiving the full advantageS of the public schools of Cambridge. While Mr. Hilderbrand had little school education, he is a well informed man. He has applied himself to good books and periodicals, and few men are better informed upon general and historical topics than is he. In all current affairs and public matters he is deeply interested, and is highly regarded by those who know him for his substantial, conservative convictions. He has provided for his family a pleasant and commodious home on North Sixth street. JAMES E. SPAID. From an excellent old Virginia family is descended James E. Spaid, a successful and prominent contractor and builder of Valley township, Guernsey county. He was born in the Old Dominion, but most of his life has been spent in the Buckeye state; however, he has many of the commendable traits of the people of that historic southern country, which have resulted in his winning a host of friends and the good will and confidence of all whom he has met. He first saw the light of day in Hampshire county, Virginia, October 20, 184o, and he is the son of Enos and Rosanna (Stipe) Spaid, and the grandson of John and Mary (Anderson) Spaid. Frederick Spaid, brother of the subject's grandfather, was also a resident of Virginia. William and Michael, two other brothers of John Spaid, came to Guernsey county in an early day and died here, being the ancestors of most of the Spaids in this county. 860 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO James E. Spaid grew to maturity in Virginia and he began business life very early, having clerked in a store until he was fifteen years of age, then learned the carpentersis trade which he followed until 1870, being a very skillful workman and meeting with success. When he was nineteen years old he went to Rumney, the county seat of Hampshire county, during the war between the states, and enlisted in Company K, Hampshire Guards, Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, to fight for the South, and he participated in the first battle of Bull Run, which resulted in a Southern victory. Leaving the service, he came to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1862 and was elected captain of the militia of Valley township by vote, having left the Confederate army on a furlough. On July 20, 1863, Governor David Tod, of Ohio, commissioned him captain of militia, which commission he still retains with the Governor's signature thereto. Mr. Spaid was a Democrat in his young manhood and he was active in the party, being elected justice of the peace, which position he held in a very satisfactory manner for a period of twenty-one years, and the fact that he never had a case appealed from his court is proof that he was fair, unbiased and faithful in the discharge of his official duties. It was his custom to induce litigants to compromise their troubles amicably, when possible, and many of the members of the Guernsey county bar used to call him "The Peacemaker." He has been notary public for fully thirty years, and he has been called upon to settle up various estates in this locality, giving eminent satisfaction to all parties concerned in this line. He has in his possession several old documents of historic interest. One is a deed from the United States government, signed by President John Quincy Adams, in 1826, deeding land along the county line, just south of Hartford, Ohio. No names of counties are contained in the deed, and it was assigned from the land office at Zanesville. He also has a deed signed by President Martin Van Buren. Mr. Spaid has lived at Hartford ever since he came to Ohio and is one of the best known men in this locality. On December 24, 1863, Mr. Spaid married Jane Dickerson, the daughter of Asa and Catherine (Secrest) Dickerson, and a sister of George W. Dickerson, mentioned elsewhere in this work. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Spaid, namely : Sarah Catherine married Samuel Trott and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan ; they have one daughter who is attending the university at Ann Arbor. Oscar M. lives in Hartford, married Emma Frye and has three children; he is superintending the erection of the superstructure and machinery of various coal mines. Etta married P. M. Albin, lives near Hartford and has four children. C. J. is in the planing mill and lumber busi- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 861 ness, having a mill at Derwent, also one at Senecaville ; he also has three general stores, one each at Derwent, Hartford and Walhonding mine No. 2; he married Frances Marcus and lives in Cambridge. Walter A. Spaid, a carpenter, lives at Columbus, Ohio, married Sophia Vickers and they have one son, Oblenis. Blanche married James Nossinger, a railroad agent and telegraph operator at Folsom, West Virginia, where they now reside. James E. Spaid is a member of the Lutheran church and is a man of high ideals and sentiments. JOHN T. FAIRCHILD. The efficient and popular civil engineer, John T. Fairchild, of Cambridge, is a man who believes in doing well everything that is worth doing at all, and, having followed this rule, he has achieved an envied reputation in hiS chosen field of endeavor. Mr. Fairchild was born in Putnam county, Ohio, July 24, 1868, and is the son of Jesse and Louisa (Blakeley) Fairchild. The father was a farmer and a large land owner, and he was one of the prosperous and influential men of his community. He is still living, but, owing to advanced age, is not so actively engaged in business as formerly, merely enjoying his declining years, surrounded by plenty as a result of his well spent and industrious life. HiS wife died several years ago. John T. Fairchild grew to maturity on the home farm and assisted with the general work on the same when a boy. He obtained a good education in the common schools, where he evinced an especially Strong inclination for mathematics. He taught school very successfully for several years, in the rural districts. Being ambitious to gain a higher education, he entered college at Findlay, Ohio, where he specialized in mathematics and he there made a brilliant record for scholarship. He graduated with the degree of Master of Arts in 1894, from the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio. After he left school he was chosen president of Crawfis College in Putnam county, Ohio. filling that responsible position to the entire satisfaction of all concerned and in a manner that reflected much credit upon his ability. He also found time to contribute articles to The Teachers' Review and The American Mathematical Monthly, and, being a trenchant and entertaining as well as instructive writer, he was alwayS assured an interested audience. He later prepared and published a book of mathematical Solutions of knotty problems, which has proved to be a success, both from a scientific and financial point of view. It 862 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. bears his name and has established his reputation in the mathematical world as second to none. Later Mr. Fairchild secured the degree of Master of Philosophy and the degree of Civil Engineer from Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio. He has had a vast amount of practical experience aS a civil engineer with the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad Company, and he was for a time city engineer of Ada, Ohio. Mr. Fairchild came to Guernsey county in 1906, and he engaged in mining engineering and general field work. He is a recognized expert all over the state of Ohio and is frequently called as a consulting engineer. He was appointed city engineer for the city of Cambridge in January, 191o, and he is now engaged in an attempt to solve the water supply and pure water problems for the city. His record so far has been very commendable. Politically, Mr. Fairchild is a Democrat, but he is not an active partisan. He believes in securing the greatest good for the greatest number, regardless of political affiliations. Mr. Fairchild was married on December 27, 1904, to Cordelia Hyson, daughter of John and Margaret (Miller) Hyson, of York, Pennsylvania, her father being a well known and popular minister in the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Fairchild is a well educated and highly cultured woman, and prior to her marriage she was a teacher of elocution in various schools and colleges. One child, Margaret, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and are active in Sunday school and church work. They are lovers of good books and have a large and valuable library containing the world's choicest literature, and the best current literature finds a place in their cozy and attractive home. They are popular with a wide circle of friends owing to their genial dispositions, culture and genuine worth. HENRY ARTHUR KOONTZ. As the outside world is well aware, the chief industry of Guernsey county is coal mining and it necessarily follows that many of the leading and most successful and important business men are engaged in the coal business. One such is Henry Arthur Koontz, a man who is too well known, especially in Spencer township, where he maintains his home, to need any special introduction in these pages to the readers of this history. Suffice it here to say that for years he has been a leader in the affairs of his community and his conduct in all the relations of life has been such as to inspire the utmost confidence of GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 863 his fellow men and gain their good will. He was born at Massillon, Ohio, July 17, 1880, and is the son of Charles E. and Mary (Fetzer) Koontz, who still lives at Massillon, the father being a skilled blacksmith and tool dresser for stone, marble and granite workers. Henry A. Koontz grew to maturity at Massillon, attended the public schools and the business college, receiving a very serviceable education. When about nineteen years of age he began working for hiS uncle, S. F. Fetzer, drilling for coal. After following that line of endeavor for a year or two he worked in a boiler shop, driving rivets in Smoke-stacks for a time; a year later he returned to coal drilling and has followed that line of work ever since with much success. This work is done with an engine and a specially constructed machine, similar to other deep-well drillers, but instead of using cable to let the drill drop into the boring, hollow rods similar to iron pipe are used, through which the material drilled is pumped out, where it can be examined. Mr. Koontz entered the drilling business for himself in August, 1903, about Derwent and Pleasant City and he has continued in Guernsey valley ever since with the exception of and summer in Perry county and a few months in Illinois. He came to this county in 1902 with his uncle for whom he worked until he started out for himself. He has been very successful and the importance of his work is recognized throughout the mining zone here. Mr. Koontz was married to Hannah Robinson, on May 22, 1907. She was born and reared in the east edge of Spencer township, this county. Her parents are Lorenzo and Susanna (Ogan) Robinson, the father having been born in Noble county, March 30, 1846, where he devoted his entire life to farming. The mother was born and reared in Spencer township, this county. The parents of Susanna Ogan were early residents of that locality, her father having been born in Belmont county and her mother in Washington county, Pennsylvania. Eighteen months after L. D. Robinson and wife were married they moved to the east part of Spencer township, where they lived until Mr. Robinson's death in 1901. From then until Mr. Koontz and her daughter were married Mrs. Robinson and her daughter lived alone on the home place. Since then they have all been living together there. The Ogans were an old family, as intimated above, and well known in early days here. Mrs. Robinson's father was Peter Ogan and hiS wife was known in her maidenhood as Elsie McComas. Peter Ogan Was born in Belmont county, Ohio. His grandfather Fritter came from Ireland and served during the Revolutionary war. It is believed that all the Ogans in the United States were descended from Peter Ogan's grandfather Ogan. When Peter Ogan waS a Small child the family 864 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. came to Muskingum county in wagons and settled on an unimproved place, living in a cabin and beginning life in typical pioneer fashion. Elsie McComas was born in Pennsylvania and when six years of age her parents brought her to Muskingum county. There she and Peter Ogan grew up and were married and about 1840 moved to Spencer township, Guernsey county, and there they lived for sixty years in the same house. Peter Ogan was a preacher in the Baptist church and a very useful man in his day. He also followed farming and lived there until his death, which occurred when about eighty years old. His wife lived to be over ninety. They often related interesting incidents of their life here when the country was practically a wilderness, when the woods were filled with wild game and the wolves were very troublesome and bears were numerous ; even after they moved to Guernsey county some bears were seen by hunters. Their son William, brother of Mrs. Robinson, was a soldier in the Civil war serving through the entire struggle, and he is Still living, making his home in the state of Washington. The birth of Mr. Robinson occurred on March 30, 1846. To Mr. and Mrs. Koontz one daughter has been born, Rosa Edith. The subject is a young man of generous nature, kind and obliging, good to his family and a man of exemplary character. JOHN A. THOMPSON. A fine type of the sturdy, conscientious American of today is John A. Thompson, prosperous farmer and honored citizen of Guernsey county and long a leader in the affairs of Cambridge township. He has lived a long and useful life and has noted great changes and taken part in vast improvements. He is deserving of the high esteem in which he is universally held because he has led a life of uprightness and of strict adherence to the Golden Rule. Mr. Thompson was born April 26, 1838, in Monroe township, Guernsey county, Ohio, and he is the son of William and Sarah (Ansley) Thompson. The father was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, and he was about two years of age when his parents brought him to America. They settled in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, where they remained for a number of years engaged in farming, The family came to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1826 and settled in Monroe township, the father having died in Pennsylvania. They purchase a farm of one hundred and seven acres for four hundred and one dollars, the one dollar representing the present to the wife of the seller as compensation for signing the deed to the land. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 865 William Thompson, father of John A., prospered at his chosen vocation and became a large land owner. He Was a Whig in politics, later a Republican and was active in public matters. His family consisted of four daughters and three sons, namely : James, Mary Jane, Nancy, Margaret, Elizabeth, John A, and William H. The two last only are living. William H. served as a member of Company H, Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil war, and the father was a soldier in the war of 1812. The latter died on February 9, 1880, and his wife died on July 14, 1878. Both are buried in the United Presbyterian cemetery. They were a highly respected couple and prominent in the affairs of the community. John A. Thompson, of this review, grew to maturity on his father's farm and obtained his education in the district schools of Monroe township. He was married on September 19, 1861, to Mary A. Neel, daughter of Archibald and Eliza Ruth (Hughes) Neel, of Monroe township, and a prominent pioneer family. To Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were born seven children, namely : Leona A., deceased ; Ansley N., a farmer in Kansas ; Ulysses D. and Eliza Ruth (twins) ; the former is in business in Cambridge, and the daughter is now Mrs. Harry McCracken and lives on a farm in Guernsey county ; Sallie Kate is deceased, as is also Martha M. John M. iS now with an exploring party in Alaska. The mother of these children died in March, 1886, and Mr. Thompson was married a second time, June 12, 1890, his second wife being Martha A. Boyd, daughter of Thomas and Martha (Allen) Boyd, of Harrison county, Ohio. After his first marriage Mr. Thompson continued to live on the old home place in Monroe township until 1902 when he bought a farm adjoining the city of Cambridge and has since resided here, having been practically retired from active business for years. He has been a very successful business man and a good manager and has laid by a very comfortable competency. Besides his fine farm near Cambridge, he also owns a very valuable place of over three hundred acres in Monroe township, this county, which is all well improved. Politically, Mr. Thompson is a Republican and he has always been interested and active in political affairs, having filled several of the most important township offices in Monroe township, and in 1880 was land appraiser in that township. He was elected a member of the board of county commissioners in 1888 and very ably served nearly seven years, being recognized as a man of high official integrity. He and his family are members of the United Presbyterian church and are active church workers. 866 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. ROBERT T. SCOTT. Under the teachings of an intelligent father and mother, Robert T. Scott, the well known and popular attorney of Cambridge, Ohio, early acquired those habits of industry and self-reliance which, linked with upright principles, have uniformly characterized his manhood life. He commands the unqualified confidence of the community, and deserves it, for his life has been led along a plane of high endeavor and he has done much for the betterment of local conditions in many lines. Mr. Scott was born December 3, 1858, in Cambridge township, one mile east of Cambridge on the old National pike, and he is the son of George and Caroline (Black) Scott. The mother's parents, Joseph and Eliza (Hutchison) Black, grandparents of the subject, came from Culpeper Court House, Virginia, in the year 1804, when this was all a dense forest and people by Indians and wild game. The Scotts came from Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Guernsey county in 1838. Great-grandfather Charles Scott was a Presbyterian minister in the north of Ireland and he came to America, settling in Ohio county, Virginia (now West Virginia), near Wheeling. From there he moved to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he built and established a pioneer church, the old log building which still stands. The grandfather, also named Alexander, was the only child of the family born in America, and was of that Sturdy Scotch ancestry that stands for good; he was a farmer, but died while yet a young man. The son, George, father of the subject of this sketch, was one of Six sons, he being the second in the family that was left with their widowed mother, and he was thus compelled to assume responsibilities early in life. When only eighteen years of age he drove a six-horse wagon team over the old National road from Cambridge to Baltimore, Maryland, hauling produce east and merchandise hack west. He continued this for several years. The Hutchisons were Revolutionary soldiers, and grandfather Joseph Black was a soldier in the war of 1812 and the gun he carried during the war is now in the possession of the subject of this sketch. George Scott, the father of Robert T. of this review, was a soldier in the Mexican war and one brother, James Scott, served through the Civil war. George Scott, the father, was a farmer and later became a coal operator in the Guernsey county coal field, being one of the pioneer operators, and was successful. He died January 9, 1892, and his wife died in August, 1891. Robert T. Scott was educated in the public Schools of Cambridge, graduating from the high school in 1876, and he graduated also from Muskingum GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 867 College at New Concord, Ohio, in 1879, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He then taught School in Guernsey county, Ohio, for some time, and worked at the coal mines of his father as a weigher to obtain money for a law course in the law department of Michigan University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating from that department in 1882, and he was admitted to the bar 9n the recommendation of Hon. Thomas M. Cooley of Michigan. He went into the office of Taylor & Anderson as a law clerk immediately afterwards, and in 1884 he opened an office for himself in the Taylor block, Cambridge, and has been in the same location ever since. He is a most successful practitioner. He is a brilliant lawyer, persistent, careful and studious, and commands big cases and big fees. He ranks high in the county and state courts, being eligible to practice in all the state courts and all the United States courts and he enjoys a rapidly growing practice. He has a very extensive law library and fine appointed offices, and he holds a very high rank in the legal circles of the state. He is a Democrat in politics and a big man in the party councils of the state and even in the nation. He was mayor of Cambridge from 1888 to 1890, when the first big industry was secured and built in Cambridge by act of legislation, the bill being drawn by Mr. Scott ; established a board of health ; introduced telephones and numbered the houses in the city and thus started Cambridge on its boom. Never an office seeker, yet he has always been active and interested in public matters. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention which met in Kansas City and nominated William J. Bryan, and has been a delegate to many of the state conventions and active in the deliberations. Mr. Scott is a charter member of the Cambridge Country Club, and sometimes plays golf. He iS particularly fond of fishing and hunting and every summer spends several weeks in the Georgian bay fishing grounds, with a company of friends. He is also fond of hunting and owns a brace of fine bird dogs. Mr. Scott was married on October 28, 1886, to Jennie L. McCartney, daughter of Henry and Harriet (McMillan) McCartney, of Cambridge. Both parents are dead. To this union five children have been born, only three of whom are living. Mary died in infancy ; Robert E., a junior in the University of Wooster ; Robert Byron died at ten years of age ; Gerlienda is at home; Harlan McCartney. The family home is on North Seventh street and is a fine modern dwelling, with all modern conveniences and furnishings. A most inspiring and delightful home atmosphere permeates the entire place, and Mr. Scott and wife are prominent in the social life of the city. Mrs. Scott is devoted to her husband and her home and family. He and his family are members of the First 868 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. United Presbyterian church and are active workers in church and Sunday school. Mr. Scott is recognized as one of the leading public benefactors of this locality, always ready to do his full share in fostering any worthy movement, and he is in every respect deserving of the large success that has come to him and of the confidence and esteem that are reposed in him by all classes, irrespective of party or creed, for he is essentially a man of the people in the broadest sense of the term. ALEXANDER McCRACKEN. Alexander McCracken was the eldest child of William and Margaret (McClarey) McCracken, and was born November 22, 1814, in a log cabin on the back part of what is now known as the Hoge lot. When he was about six years old his father removed to the farm one mile north of town. From there he came to town to school on the corner where the Hub store is now, and afterwards to a school held in the old Ogier house opposite the National bank. In 1822 his father moved back to town and engaged in blacksmithing and was afterwards in the dry goods business on the corner now occupied by Sarchet's music store. After he was through school he assisted his father in the store and in a tannery in which his father was a partner. After the death of John M. Allison, the partner, Mr. McCracken took sole charge of the tannery and later became the owner, continuing in the tanning business, until 1858, when he and Joseph Thomas, of Cadiz, became engaged in the banking business. In 1869 he went to Philadelphia, and was interested in a commission business and later in furniture manufacture. He was married to Mrs. Sarah McFarren, of near Florence, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1839. To this union were born four children : Dr. W. A. McCracken and John McFarren, who died in young manhood, James Scott, who is a prosperous business man in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Mrs, A. A. Taylor, widow of Capt. A. A. Taylor, of Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. McCracken returned to Cambridge in later years to make their home with their daughter and here Mrs. McCracken died in December, 1899. Mr. McCracken still continues to make his home with hiS daughter, and is now in his ninety-seventh year, in mental and physical vigor excepting lameness from a fall. He takes a lively interest in current events, and is a GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 869 constant reader of the daily papers. He was the oldest voter in the county in the November election of 1910 and cast his seventy-fifth ballot for the Republican ticket. Mr. McCracken in earlier years was one of the active members of the Seceder, afterwards the First United Presbyterian church, in Cambridge, of which his father was the founder and sole charter member. He was a liberal contributor to the present building, and was for many years superintendent of the Sabbath school. He took an active part in the "underground railway" in slavery days and helped many a slave to freedom. He was a member of the town council for many years and was also president of the school board and took an interest in all civic affairs at that time. He, with Samuel Craig and Judge Nathan Evans, laid out the South cemetery, reserving the Square where the Woman's Relief Corps have erected a soldiers monument. As his health is now, he bids fair to reach the yearS of his grandfather which were one hundred and two. JEREMIAH R. SMITH, The life of Jeremiah R. Smith, of Byesville, Guernsey county, has not been devoid of obstacles by any means, and its rose has held many a thorn; but with indomitable courage he has pressed onward, with his face Set in determination toward the distant goal which he haS so grandly won; a life of sunshine and shadow, of victory and defeat, but nobly lived and worthily rewarded, as such lives always are by the "giver of all good and precious gifts." His record is one that the young man might study with profit. Mr. Smith was born at Watertown, Washington county, Ohio, December 11, 1848, and he is the son of William and Rachel (Hupp) Smith. William Smith was also a native of Washington county, Ohio, but the mother's family came from Pennsylvania. The Subject's boyhood was spent on the farm until he was twenty-one years old. He went to high school at Middleburg and received a good education. He remained on the home farm after leaving School until he married Matilda Devoll, on September 17, 1868, when he was twenty years old. She was born in Noble county, near South Olive, and is the daughter of Levi and Elizabeth (Young) Devoll. After she grew up her parents moved nearer to Mr. Smith's home. After their marriage they lived about a year on the home farm, The next year he Started work, helping grade on the building of the Marietta railroad. He worked for them about four years 870 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. as a hand, grading on track work, and was then made a section foreman. He remained section foreman about four years and from that he was employed to test coal territory for the Manufacturers Coal Company of Cleveland, Ohio, His work took him clown the Guernsey valley into Guernsey and Noble counties. After finding coal in good shape he was employed in mines, superintending the sinking of shafts, putting in slopes, tracks, etc., and general supervision of opening the mine. He then went back as section foreman for one year, and then came to the Central mine to open a slope and from there went to the Wilson farm near Byesville, tested coal and sunk a shaft and laid the track. From there he drifted back into the railroad work again for about two years, then returned to coal mining for about three years. After this he again returned to the railroad and became foreman of what is known as the "floating gang" and remained at this for about twelve years more. This work took him all over the road and he had from ten to thirty men under his direction. He was then made supervisor of the railroad, his duties being to see to and superintend the section foremen and see that the entire road is kept up. He held that for three years, then resigned and was made general superintendent of the mines of the Wills Creek Coal company and remained there a year. In politics Mr. Smith is a Republican. In November, 190o, he was elected county commissioner of Guernsey county and held office from September, 1901, for six years, two terms of three years each, having been re-elected in 1903. On December 6, 1876, he located at Byesville, and has made his home there ever since, except for one year when he lived at Cambridge. There were only fourteen houses in Byesville when he came, and he can name all the residents of the town at that time. The town was just a cross-roads hamlet. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had a family of ten children, namely : Rose, the wife of John Trott, has four children and lives in Byesville. Mr. Trott is a brother of Elza Trott, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere. Ernest Walter Smith lives on Main street in Byesville and is assistant superintendent of the Imperial Mining Company. He had one daughter, Helen. Arthur C. is assistant statistician of the United Mine Workers Association, 'with headquarters at Indianapolis. He has had five children. Frank R., who died June 6, 1895, had been qualified as a teacher and was to teach at Kimbolton in the fall of 1895. Charles L. is in Byesville and is operator of electric machinery in the coal mines. Harry lives in Byesville and resides with his father, since the death of his wife February 16, 1910. He has one little daughter. He is employed as check-weighman for the miners. John is at home with his father GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 871 and is hoisting engineer at the mines. Emmett lives at Akron, Ohio, and iS employed in the rubber works. He was a good baker, but quit that because it was impairing his health. He is married and has one son. Flo F. is at home with her parents and is clerk in one of the Byesville Stores. Mr. Smith is a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He and his wife both belong to the Methodist Episcopal church of Byesville. He is the oldest class leader in the church and is a steward, and is also district leader in the church. When he came to Byesville there was not a church nor school house in the town. Now churches and schools are adequate to the size of the town and are of a high grade of excellence. The church of which he is a member is the largest in Byesville, with a membership of four hundred, and a church edifice costing twenty thousand dollars. In the growth of the church Mr, Smith has performed a creditable part. Starting as a poor boy, with no means, working as a section hand, Mr. Smith has made his own way, and he and his wife have reared a family to be proud of and accumulated a good property and several town lots, and have money in the bank. His life is an encouraging example to young men who have nothing but industry and character to start with, but who are determined to make something of themselves. Mrs. Smith, too, has done her part and the lives of her children are ample proof that she has done her work well. ELIJAH MILLHONE. Any volume which ventures to give anything like a comprehensive enumeration, biographically, of the prominent citizens of a past generation in Guernsey county, must necessarily be incomplete without inclusion of the life history of the late Elijah Millhone, for he was well known as a man of industry, public spirit and business ability, and in his sphere of endeavor he sought, as best he could, to expound and inculcate the higher ideals of citizenship. Among the pioneer element he wielded a potent influence and deserved in every respect the genuine esteem that waS accorded by all classes. Mr. Millhone was born about three miles from Senecaville, Ohio, near the Noble and Guernsey county division line, in 1834. When he was three years of age his parents moved to within a mile of Hartford, Guernsey county, on what is now known as the Saltsgaver farm, a four-hundred-acre place. There he grew to maturity, assisted with the work on the farm, attended the public schools during the winter months, and remained under his parental roof until 872 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. his marriage. He was the son of Isaac and Mary (Stiers) Milihone, the father born in Virginia in i800. His parents moved to Pennsylvania and there lived about a year, then came on to Ohio and Settled three miles southeast of Senecaville, in pioneer times. Elijah Millhone grew to maturity near Hartford where his father had four hundred acres of land. On July 10, 1862, he married Hannah Amanda Moser, daughter of John and Sarah Howe (Anderson) Moser. She was born two and one-half miles north of Senecaville and lived there until her marriage. Her father came from Pennsylvania when a young man and made his home near Senecaville. He and the father of Elijah Millhone were about the same age and died about the same time. After the marriage of the subject he continued to reside on his father's large farm, also lived a while in Hartford. On February 17, 1869, he and his wife came to where Byesville is now located and bought a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, later buying eight acres, then twenty-five acres. A brick house was on the original purchase, but in 1879 he erected a costly, substantial and commodious dwelling, which is still the family home and which has been kept so carefully that it has the appearance of a comparatively new house. There were only nine houses in Byesville when they came here ; there was no railroad and no schools, and one small church some distance to the south. When the Advent church was organized Mr. Millhone gave half an acre on which to erect the building, and this was the first church started in Byesville. Mr. Millhone's farm is now largely covered with houses and streets of Byesville. From Depot street west this farm extends north and south from the south side of Main street on the south to Second High street or Spruce street. In 1899 Mr. Millhone sold sixty-six acres for town lots, gave ten acres for the site of the glass factory, and within ten years it has built up almost solidly, and on it stand many pleasant homes, a fine school house, four churches and another church is soon to be built thereon. The glass factory, a great institution, is also built on thiS land. Mr. Millhone was an extensive dealer in livestock, mostly sheep in the early days, and later extensively in Jersey cattle, also handled a number of good horses. He was a business man of rare ability and foresight, keen of perception, and could foresee with remarkable accuracy the future outcome of a present transaction. He was a man whose word was considered aS good if not better than the bond of most men and his dealings with his fellow men were always honest and straightforward. Mr. Millhone's family consisted of four children, named as follows : Cassius M., who married Sadie Millnes, of West Liberty, Iowa, and they live on a farm about three miles from that town, and have two children, Olive GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 873 and Everett ; Belle married Robert E. Brown, of Cambridge; John Isaac lives at Columbus, Ohio, and deals in real estate; Mary Edna is at home with her mother in Byesville, being a young lady of culture and popular in the social life of the city. Mr. Millhone was interested in the public and civic duties of the community and he served as trustee and School director, also other minor offices. He was a member of the Lutheran church until he came to Byesville, then he identified himself with the Methodist Protestant church. Mary E., the daughter, is a member of the Baptist church; her great uncle, Elijah Millhone, was a minister in this denomination, and John Millhone, the first of the family to come to this locality, was also a Baptist minister. This daughter was educated in music, being naturally talented in this direction, but she does not teach; her sister, Belle, has been an instructor in instrumental music for nearly twenty years, but she recently gave up teaching and is assisting in the management of the large estate left by her father. When Mr. Millhone came to Byesville there was a grove of forest trees, a picnic ground from Depot street, where the Burt block now stands, over to Grant street, and there was a grove of sugar trees where the glass factory now stands. He remembered when, from Hartford to Cambridge, there was almost a continuous forest. Church goers, in those days, at evening services, brought their own candles with which to light the church, and it was interesting to hear him recall reminiscences of the early clays. The death of this excellent and highly honored citizen occurred on June 16, 1909, after an illness of only a few moments, having been in his usual robust health all along. His sudden taking away was a shock and a severe blow to the community, and his place can never be filled, for he was always alert to the interests of this locality. He reached the age of seventy-four years, six months and two days. He was a favorite with all classes of people and was especially admired by the children, none of whom would refuse his friendship. He was industrious and prosperous as an agriculturist, keeping his lands well improved and everything attractive and neat, being a man of progressive ideas and never afraid of hard work, and the ample competence he laid by was the result of good management and hard labor, for he never depended upon anyone to do his work or his thinking, being an original investigator and broad minded. He rendered most efficient service to his church as trustee and steward, giving liberally of his time and means to its support,—in fact, he was a pillar in the local congregation. He was a devout student of the Bible, his old family Bible showing much usage. He was a cheerful, kind, accommodating friend, a thorough Christian gentleman, aiding churches in great numbers 874 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. throughout this locality, doing good wherever and in whatever way he could, therefore he left a host of friends who will always revere his memory. His funeral was attended by nearly every minister in Byesville, and all the stores of this city closed out of respect at that time, and his burial was attended by people from all over Guernsey county, giving evidence of his universal popularity. WILLIAM ALBERT HUTTON. One of the best known and most influential men of Jackson township, Guernsey county, is William Albert Hutton, a man who has lived to goodly ends because he has worked persistently along established and time honored lines. He is the representative of an excellent old family of this county, having been born on a farm at Trail Run in Jackson township, on May 28, 1858. He is the son of Solomon and Mary J. (Stewart) Hutton, the former the son of William Hutton, who was of Dutch extraction, having been brought from the old country during his boyhood by a man named Seaman, a merchant, and he made his home with Mr. Seaman and Wife until their deaths, which was during his youth. He came to Guernsey county, it is believed, some time prior to 1822, the year of Solomon Hutton's birth. He was a picturesque pioneer. The death of Solomon Hutton occurred on July 27, 1904, at his home at Trail Run, where he had resided about sixty years, the exact date of his birth having been October 30, 1822. He is buried at Enon cemetery, at the south edge of Byesville. On December 12, 1842, Solomon Hutton was married to Mary Stewart, who was born January 22, 1822, and whose death occurred on March 25, 1897. Eleven children were born to them, named as follows : Sarah Louisa, John Wesley, Mary Catherine, Nancy Ellen, Penelope Halley, Emma Jane, Jesse Franklin, Leana Frances, William Albert, Zadoc Davis and Effie Alice. The living are : Mrs. L. C. Rogers, Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, Mrs. I. Oliver, William of this review, John lives in Florida, and Davis lives in Richland township, east of Trail Run. The father of these children was a very shrewd and successful business man, and he accomplished much in his advanced age. Being honest to the letter he was respected by all in his business relations ; he was an obliging neighbor, a kind husband and father; he was ready at all times to help not only his own children but also those of his neighbors when in need. Solomon Hutton was nearly ninety years of age when he died. He started out when a young man without means or assistance of any kind, and by hard work and good management he became one of the GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 875 wealthiest men of Guernsey county and one of her leading citizens in every respect. William Hutton's mother was Mary Stewart, and her father was John Stewart, a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, and of Scottish descent. His father, the subject's great-grandfather, Charles Stewart, was a good old Scottish gentleman, and by lineal descent he had royal blood in his veins, being a descendant of King Charles II. The subject's maternal grandmother was a native of Virginia. Her father, Jacob Lewis, immigrated to Ohio when she was twelve years old. William A. Hutton, of this review, grew to maturity on the home farm at Trail Run and there he worked during his youth and remained until his marriage. He attended the local schools during the winter months. His marriage was celebrated on September 2, 1880, to Anna May Trott, daughter of Benjamin Griffith and Eliza Jane (Martel) Trott, a fine old family. She is the sister of Elza Trott, whose sketch appears on another page of this work. For a short time after his marriage Mr. Hutton worked in the mines, then went to farming and teaming, owning a small farm near Trail Run at first, but a few years later he purchased a farm in Richland township. He also found teaming to be profitable in connection with his farming. He continued at that line of endeavor until about 1902, when he gave up his teaming and moved in with his father, who was getting old and who was cared for by the son, who ran the farm, living there until the death of the father, July 27, 1904. On August 28th of that year, the son moved to Byesville, where he had built a home on North Seventh street in 1900, and he has resided here since. When he was first married he bought a little home in Byesville while he worked in the mines. He has been very successful as a business man, being possessed of a rare soundness of judgment, clear discrimination, foresight and acumen, and is now the owner of seventeen or eighteen rental properties, also four residences in Byesville. He also owns the farm which his father bought when he was a young man, many years before the subject was born, and it has been in the family for a period of more than sixty years. Mr. Hutton has a modern, beautiful and attractive home. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hutton : Charles Earl was drowned in the summer of 1900, when fourteen years of age ; Leo Minor and Cecil Martel are the living children. The former married Bertha Wheeler and lives in Byesville, a member of the firm of Hutton & Clay, dealers in general merchandise; Mr. and Mrs. Leo L. Hutton have one child, Hazel Laverna. Cecil M. Hutton married John Henry Clay, and they have one child, Doris Pauline. Mr. Clay is in business with his brother-in-law, Leo M. Hutton. 876 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. The Hutton family is one of the most prominent in Guernsey county and has been for some three or four generations. They have played well their parts in the drama of citizenship in every respect, and have lived lives of integrity and gained the esteem and confidence of all classes. FRED FINLEY GREEN. Among the highly respected and progressive citizens of Byesville, Guernsey county, is Fred Finley Green. For many reasons he is deserving of special mention in a work of this character, for his life has been one of consecutive endeavor along such lines as the public is glad to sanction and approve, and he is at all times honorable and straightforward in his dealings with his fellow men. Mr. Green was born northeast of Byesville, on April 13, 1878, and he is the son of James and Agnes (Finley) Green, who are given proper mention in a separate sketch in this work. When Fred F. was about five or six years of age the family moved into Byesville and this has been the home of the subject nearly ever since. He attended the local schools and graduated in the first graduating class in 1897, and in 1900 he graduated from the college at Ada, Ohio, taking the civil engineering course, and in 1901 he was graduated from the same institution in electrical engineering. Thus well equipped for his life work, he returned to Byesville and took up civil engineering in the coal mines of the James W. Ellsworth Coal Company. When that firm sold out to the Wills Creek Coal Mining Company, he went with other companies, giving his usual satisfaction. He is at present doing the engineering for the Imperial Mining Company, the Puritan Coal Company, the Cambridge Valley Coal Company and the Guernsey Valley Coal & Mining Company, with headquarters at Byesville. He is regarded as an expert in his line and hiS services are in great demand. Mr. Green was married on January 25, 1902, to Jennie Tuck, daughter of John and Mary Tuck ; she waS born in England near South Church, and she emigrated with her parents to America when she was not quite five years of age and located at Delroy, Carroll county, Ohio, and lived there until 190o, when the family moved to Byesville, where they now reside. She graduated at Delroy high school in 1899. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Green, named as follows : Esther Marie, Ernest Everett, Wendell Graham, Lucile Evelyn, Mildred Margaret and Herbert J. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 877 Mr. and Mrs. Green belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, and are faithful in their attendance and support of the same. John Tuck, father of Mrs. Green, was born in England, not far from London, probably in Essex, on November 9, 1859, and he is the son of James and Emily (Thurlow) Tuck. In his youth he was a fireman at the coal mines, in England, later becoming an engineer. He married Mary Jane Matthews, of Durham county, England, the daughter of Richard and Jane (Graham) Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. Tuck came to America in May, 1886, locating in Carroll county, Ohio, but in 1888 they moved to Byesville. Remaining there a short time, he returned to Carroll county and made that his home until 1900, then moved back to Byesville where the family now reside. Mr. Tuck belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masonic fraternity. He and his wife both belong to the Order of the Eastern Star and also the Rebekahs. Both the Tuck and Green families are highly respected and popular in their communities. EPHRAIM M. DILLEY. A well known and successful contractor of Cambridge and one of Guernsey county's public spirited and enterprising citizens is Ephraim M. Dilley, whose past record has been such as to commend him to the masses and render him popular with all classes. Mr. Dilley was born August 16, 1859, in Senecaville, this county, of an excellent old family, being the son of Burkley and Jemima (Shaw) Dilley. The father was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, and the mother in Frederickstown, Maryland. Both came to Guernsey county, Ohio, in their youth and here they were married. The father was a brick contractor and a practical brick layer, and his services were in great demand. He was a man of excellent character and intelligence and was well liked by all who knew him. His death occurred in Senecaville in February, 1894, and his widow died in March, 1908; they are buried in the cemetery at Senecaville. Ephraim M. Dilley was educated in the public Schools of Senecaville, and he learned the bricklayer's trade under his father when a young man. He became proficient in this line and worked in Canton, Ohio, and other cities for several years, and in 1898 he came to Cambridge and engaged in the brick and stone contracting business and has prospered. He has maintained a reputation for honest, high class work, promptly done and has been kept very busy all the while. He is a splendid workman and a successful business man. On January 17, 1899, Mr. Dilley was married to Mrs. Clara Dugan, 878 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. daughter of William and Isabelle Kanouff, of Guernsey county, Ohio. To this union one son has been born, William Eldridge Dilley. Mr. Dilley has always been a Republican in politics and has been active in party affairs. He has frequently served as a member of the county committee and as a delegate to the county, district and state conventions. During the years 1907-8-9, he served very faithfully and acceptably as a state district inspector of buildings and factories in Ohio, under Chief Inspector Morgan. After retiring from this office he resumed brick and stone contracting. Mr. Dilley is a member of Senecaville Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Bricklayers' Union. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, while Mrs. Dilley is a Methodist Protestant. MAJOR JAMES W. MOORE. It will always be a badge of honor in this country to have known that a person's father, or even his uncle, enlisted in defense of the "Star Spangled Banner" when the greatest of rebellions threatened to disrupt the Union in the early sixties, and thereby not only did a great service in keeping the states cemented together, but also in eradicating slavery from our soil forever. Just as to this clay we boast that our grandfather or great-grandfather fought in the Revolution to gain independence, or in the war of 1812 to protect our rights on the ocean, so the descendants of the gallant soldiers who fought in the Civil war to save the nation will boast through the coming years of the bravery and self-sacrifice of their fathers or their relatives. One of this historic horde 'was Major James W. Moore, a prominent citizen of Wills township, Guernsey county, who went forth to die on the field of battle or in no less dangerous fever camp, if need be, for the salvation of the country. Major Moore was born on August 25, 1838, in Wills township, one-half mile west of Middleton, Oxford township, the son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Riggs) Moore, the father born at Wellsville, in Belmont county, where the family stopped for a few years en route from Delaware to their Ohio home in Guernsey county. Grandfather Andrew Moore, the direct descendant of his grandfather, William Moore, was the first of the Moore family who came to America from Scotland and settled in the state of Delaware. Andrew Moore, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came to America from Scotland and settled in Delaware. Eventually he came to Pultney Ridge, Wills township, Guernsey GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 879 county, Ohio, and settled on what was known as the old Zane trace. He built a hotel, blacksmith shop, store, wagon-making shop and various other buildings, making a considerable settlement which was called Frankfort and which was a commercial point of considerable importance. Andrew Moore became a large land owner and was a busy man of affairs and active in every movement affecting the welfare of the early settlers, being a man of sterling character and of broad influence. He had a large family, his wife being Elizabeth Bines, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Ellexwell) Bines, by whom he had nine children, born along the way from Delaware to Ohio, the journey covering several years, stops being made at various places for a considerable time. He died in 1821. Andrew Moore, the sixth child and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Wellsville, Ohio, in 1803. He first married Elizabeth Bines. a second cousin of his mother's, and a son, Robert, was born to this union. Mrs. Moore did not live long. Mr. Moore married a second time, this wife being Elizabeth Riggs, daughter of James Riggs, of near Barnesville, Ohio. They had three children, James W., Malvina (now Mrs. Col. Cyrus P. B. Sarchet), and Anna, deceased. Andrew Moore was a farmer and for years a wagoner on the National road between Cambridge and Wheeling, during the days before the railroad came. He was a large land owner. He died September 2, 1880, and his wife died in September, 1869 ; both are buried in the cemetery at Cambridge. James W. Moore went with the family to Cambridge in 1848, where most of his childhood and youth were spent. He attended the public Schools of Cambridge and the Miller Academy at Washington, Guernsey county, for two years and received a very liberal education for those dayS. He became the captain of the first company recruited in Guernsey county in April, 1861, for Service in the Union army during the Civil war, responding to the first call for troops by President Lincoln. This was Company H, Sixteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a month's enlistment, but the company served nearly four months. The following year he waS appointed major of the Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, by Governor Tod, of Ohio, and was the youngest field officer in the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fourth Army Corps, under General Wagoner. The regiment served in the Army of the Cumberland at the battle of Mission Ridge and he was wounded on the 25th of November, 1863. The Ninety-seventh Regiment was the first regiment to enter Chattanooga and take possession of the lower part of that city, early in the morning, and planted their flag on Cameron Hill, Major Moore being in command of the skirmish line. He participated in all the hard-fought battles 880 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. of the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaign, and on June 22, 1864, he was wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, having command of the Second Brigade's skirmish line. He lost one hundred and twenty-two men in killed and wounded in the one-half hour, but established and held the Union lines. His wound in the ankle proved serious and he was discharged from service September 13, 1864, by war department orders from the hospital at Cincinnati as being disabled from further service. He returned to his home after his discharge. On August 17, 1865, Major Moore was married to Hannah Margaret Carlisle, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Kirkpatrick) Carlisle. She had been the wife of John Carlisle prior to her marriage to Mr. Patterson, and was a widow at the time of her second marriage. To Mr. and Mrs. Moore four children were born : An infant, deceased ; Elmer, who died at the age of thirty years, in 1898; Margaret Elizabeth, at home, and Alice Malvina, also at home. Soon after his marriage, in the spring of 1866, Mr. Moore moved to his present home on the National pike, three and one-half miles east of Washington and twelve miles east of Cambridge. He has a fine farm of four hundred acres, all well improved and under a high state of cultivation, and makes a specialty of stock and has a fine grazing farm. He is a Republican in politics and has always been a radical and stalwart party man, always active in matters pertaining to the party, but never an office seeker, and was never a candidate for an elective office. He served on the soldiers relief commission and for sixteen years has been a member of the board of trustees of the Guernsey County Children's Home, and is now president of the board. He is a member of the Cambridge Post, Grand Army of the Republic. In church membership his family is divided between the Presbyterian and the Methodist Episcopal, the churches of both parental and maternal ancestry. Mr. Moore has always been a progressive citizen and his farm and its complete appointments bear strong evidence of this. The broad, well-kept acres, the ample and convenient barns and stock sheds, the modern home, thorough in its appointments, exhibit this spirit. Located in the Salt Creek valley, the home is so situated that it commands a fine view of the beautiful and fertile landscape. Mr. Moore gives especial attention to thoroughbred sheep and cattle and all of his stock is the finest and always in the best of condition. There is no more attractive country home in Guernsey county, and in every walk of life Major Moore is always found in the very front rank, willing to assist by his influence and means every worthy proposition. His home is GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 881 presided over by his daughters, Margaret Elizabeth and Alice Malvina, educated, capable and refined women, giving the Moore home a very prominent place in the social life of the county. COLEMAN BAMFORD JACKSON. A scion of an excellent old family of Guernsey county is Coleman Bamford Jackson. He has endeavored to keep untarnished the good name of the family and has also won a reputation of unflagging industry and trustworthiness. He was born in the city where he still resides, Cambridge, Ohio, on February 2, 1855, and is the son of Israel and Julia A. (Scott) Jackson. The father was born in Jackson township, this county, May 3, 1832, and was the eldest son of Henry Jackson and wife, who were among the early settlers of this county. The family home was in and near Jackson township for many years. Julia A. Scott was born in Washington county, Ohio, the daughter of James Scott and wife, both natives of Ireland, being Scotch-Irish in blood. Israel Jackson and wife moved into Cambridge after their marriage and lived here the balance of their lives. The father was a carpenter by trade and he was very successful and became the owner of considerable valuable property in the vicinity of Twelfth street and Wheeling avenue. Israel Jackson's death occurred at the age of sixty-six years. The latter part of his life was spent as a contractor and builder and as foreman he helped build the Central school in Cambridge. He was a good man, a kind, affectionate father and husband. He belonged to the Methodist Protestant church. He was a very industrious man and in early life took much interest in municipal affairs. He was a member of the school board for some time. Coleman B. Jackson was one of a family of twelve children, eleven sons and one daughter. He grew to manhood in Cambridge and was educated in the local schools. When he was about twenty years of age he started in the railroad service, taking up the study of telegraphy, at which he worked for awhile, then became bill clerk in the freight office. He was then employed to look after the freight in the yards, doing the work himself ; now a half dozen men are required for this purpose, On November 29, 1899, he became agent for the railroad in charge of their businesS at Byesville, which position he still holds. He is regarded by the officials as one of their most trusted and efficient employes, 882 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Mr. Jackson was married May 17, 1882, to Sophia Masters, daughter of Nathan and Mary (Baird) Masters. She was born at Steubenville, Ohio, and came to this county about 1880. Her mother was born in Frederick county, Maryland, March 29, 1802, and she lived to a remarkable age, her death occurring, when about one hundred and six years old, on January 6, 1908. She had a remarkable memory and was an interesting talker on the old days. She saw General LaFayette at Wheeling and shook hands with him. She was an educated woman, having graduated from the noted seminary at Emmitsburg, Maryland. She possessed a bright mind up to the time of her death and was well preserved. She was the daughter of John and Veronica (Keepers) Baird. Her mother was the daughter of Isaac Keepers, an Englishman who was a nobleman's Son and who eloped with an Irish lass named Katharine McGargle and came to Boston, Massachusetts, and were married there. They were forgiven by the son's father and they took up their residence in Maryland, the father having given them a large plantation there and numerous slaves to work the same. John Baird was a cousin of Gen. Andrew Jackson and he fought under him in the war of 1812. He also fought at Boston when the guns got so hot that the men had to use their shirts to wrap them in to keep from burning their hands. Nathan Masters was born near Moundsville, Marshall county, West Virginia. His grandparents settled there before that locality was surveyed by the government when the Indians were numerous in that vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman B. Jackson are the parents of two sons, Clarence and Charles. The former married Lela Nicholson and lives in Cambridge; they have one child, a daughter, named Mary Roberta. Charles Jackson lives at home with his parents. BENJAMIN F. LEE. From the old Keystone state has come into Ohio many of her most sterling citizens, and wherever they have located they have done their full share in the general development of the community, establishing good homes and earning reputations for law-abiding, upright citizens who are loyal to our institutions in times of both war and peace. Such an one is Benjamin F. Lee, of Byesville, Guernsey county, whose birth occurred in Adams county, Pennsylvania, on August t, 1856. He is the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Thompson) Lee, both parents born in Scotland, the father at Paisley and the mother at Glasgow. They both emigrated to America before they reached their major- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 883 ity, the mother coming to the home of her elder brother, who had previously settled in America. These parents finally became residents of Baltimore, Maryland, where they were married, after which they came to Adams county, Pennsylvania. They came to Ohio in 1858, locating at Renrock, Noble county, and about two years later they moved to Pleasant City, Guernsey county. The father was a manufacturer of woolen goods, and he taught this business to his son, though the latter never followed it. He next became a steam engineer while living at Pleasant City, but in 1878 he came to Byesville to work at his trade. Mr. Lee was married on February 22, 1880, to Mrs. Susan E. Oglivie, whose maiden name was Young. The same year he moved to Byesville, where he has resided ever since. He afterwards became shipping clerk for the Byesville Glass & Lamp Company, in 1899, and Was with them six years, giving the highest degree of satisfaction. He then became assistant postmaster under D. S. Burt in 1906. Doctor Austin succeeded Mr. Burt on April 9, 1907, and Mr. Lee has been assistant postmaster ever since, giving entire satisfaction to all concerned, proving a most efficient, trustworthy and vigilant official. Mrs. Lee's death occurred on November 13, 1907, leaving one son, Lewis Thompson, and one daughter, Martha Pearl. Martha was married to Alvin J. Stay, of Byesville, Ohio, September 28, 1910. Lewis married Wilda Mosley and lives in Cambridge, and they have one son and one daughter, Lawren E. and Adeline. Mrs. Lee was the daughter of William and Sarah (Robinson) Young. She was born and reared in Noble county and was living with her parents in Pleasant City when she and Mr. Lee were married. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mr. Lee is also a member. On September 15, 1909, Mr. Lee was married to Hattie May Dunn, who was formerly general delivery clerk in the Byesville postoffice. She was born and reared in Belmont county, Ohio, and is the daughter of Taylor and Mary (Ewers) Dunn. When she was sixteen years of age her parentS moved to Jackson township, this county, locating near Harmony church. From there they moved to Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where they resided for a time, then moved to Washington, that state, where the mother died a month later. Mrs. Lee then returned to the old family neighborhood near Harmony where the family lived before the mother died. She came to Byesville in 1907 and took a position in the post-office here, remaining fifteen months, then she and Mr. Lee were married. She is a member of the Christian church. Mr. Lee is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge and encampment, 884 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. also the Rebekahs and the Patriarchs Militant. MrS. Lee is also a member of the Rebekahs. Mr. Lee joined this order in 1877, when twenty-one years of age. He represented his district two years at the grand lodge, and represented the fifteenth district in the grand encampment of Ohio. He has passed through all the chairs in the subordinate lodge, also in the encampment, four terms in succession, and he was district deputy grand maSter for the Rebekahs, He is widely and favorably known in fraternal circles, having long taken an abiding interest in the same. Mr. Lee haS also taken a great deal of interest in local politics, and has been, in fact, quite active and influential in the councils of the Republican party. He was at one time secretary of the Guernsey county Republican executive committee, and he did his work in a very able and praiseworthy manner. DAVID J. JENKINS. In our present review we mention the life of one who claims as his birthplace Wales, that little country attached to England, which has not filled history's pages as full as has its larger sister, but which has been famous for the character of its people, liberty-loving, reliable, stanch and strong, comparable with any nation's best. From this nation came the one of whom it is our province now to speak, and in all respects he is a worthy representative of the Welsh people. David J. Jenkins was born December 4, 1862, in Morristown, Wales, son of John and Margaret (Jones) Jenkins. His father was the superintendent of Beaufort Tin House and prominent in the industry. His parents died in Wales. David is a near relative of Lord Glantawe, who was elevated to a peerage in 1897, and is now a member of the House of Lords, he being a cousin of David's father. David was educated in the schools of Morristown. When only thirteen years old he started to work in the tin mills of Morristown, and worked at all the branches until he had mastered all the steps intermediate to being a tin roller. He followed this until 189o, when he came to Pittsburg, firSt locating there. He brought with him his wife and one child. Mr. Jenkins was married on November 7, 1888, to Mary Jones, daughter of Griffith and Sarah Jones, of Morristown, Wales. Her father was an annealer in the tin works, and both parents died in Wales. Mr. Jenkins, after coming to America, first worked in the Pittsburg mills and there remained about eighteen months. He then went to Irondale, Jefferson county, Ohio, and worked in the rolling mills there for three years, and came to Cambridge in GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 885 1895 when the Morton tin plate workS were Started, and waS one of the first rollerS employed in the mill and has been employed there ever since, except for a short interval. He is a head roller and a thoroughly reliable man, one of the best in the company's employ. The mill is now being operated by the trust. Mr. Jenkins is a Republican in politics, and has an intelligent conception of public questions. He iS a student of conditions and issueS, always able to intelligently discusS public affairs. He is a member of Irondale Lodge, KnightS of Pythias, and of the Protected Home Circle. He and all hiS family are members of the Methodist church and interested in church and Sunday school work. To Mr. and Mrs. JenkinS have been born nine children : John, born in Wales, died while the family resided in Pittsburg; Sarah, Margaret, Blodwen, Sidney, Beatrice, David, William and Clyde are all at home. All the children are being given the best education the public schools afford, and Sidney is now a high school student, while the older sisters have completed the course and are now occupying good business positions. Mr. Jenkins has visited his old home twice since coming to America, first in 1894, when he remained two months, and again in June, 1909, when he started on a ten weeks' trip. His wife went to Wales in 1893 for a three months' visit. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins are thoroughly Americanized and love America and its flag. They will make this country their home and the home of their family, and are as well pleased with the country as the country is well satisfied with them as citizens. ISAAC A. OLDHAM. The record of the gentleman whose name introduces this article contains no exciting chapter of tragic events, but is replete with well defined purposes which, carried to successful issue, have won for him an influential place in business circles and high personal Standing among hiS fellow citizens. His life work has been one of unceasing industry and perseverance and the systematic and honorable methods which he has ever followed have resulted not only in gaining the confidence of those with whom he has had dealings, but also in the building up of a large and profitable industry and the accumulation of a handsome competency. Isaac A. Oldham, of Cambridge, Guernsey county, was born December 7, 1837, in this city, and he is the son of Samuel M. and Mary (Sherrard) 886 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. Oldham, both born in Guernsey county, Ohio, both these families representing honored pioneers of this county, the Oldhams having originally come from near West Alexandria, Virginia, and the Sherrards from the same section. The former were Mayflower stock and have thus been American citizens since 162o. Samuel M. Oldham, father of Isaac A. of this review, was a tanner by trade, but later he engaged in the shoe business in Cambridge, in which he continued until he retired. He is dead and his first wife died in 1844. He was twice married, his last wife being Mary Wilson, of Cambridge, and a member of a prominent family. Her death occurred several years ago. Mr. Oldham was a man of sterling integrity and highly respected. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church and a devout Christian. Isaac A. Oldham was educated in the public schools of Cambridge and he also spent one year as Muskingum College, at New Concord. After leaving school he engaged in the shoe and leather trade with his father, under the firm name of S. M. Oldham & Son. In February, 1864, he proved his patriotism by enlisting in the Union army, Company F, Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, seeing some hard service, but he escaped without a wound and was never taken prisoner. He performed his duty most faithfully and returned to Columbus, Ohio, Christmas morning, 1865, and was mustered out and paid off at Camp Chase. His regiment participated in the Atlanta campaign and was in the battle of Nashville. After his career in the army Mr. Oldham returned to Cambridge, Ohio, and engaged in the shoe and leather business, continuing this for four years when he engaged in floriculture. He had always been a lover of flowers and his taste for them grew until he decided to engage in the business and he began plant culture and raising flowers. His first greenhouse had about seven hundred feet of glass, but his business has steadily increased under judicious management until he now has fully twenty thousand feet and even this does not furnish enough for his rapidly growing business. His business is general and his cut-flower business has become a large department and is increasing every year. He has a beautiful and well equipped place and his greenhouSes are as good as any in the state and far ahead of many cities of larger population. He gives his entire time and attention to his business and is deserving of the large success that has attended his efforts. Mr. Oldham was married, first, on September 14, 1859, to Sarah P. Brown, of New Concord, Ohio, daughter of John and Elizabeth Brown. One daughter was born to this union, Mary, now Mrs. John N. McCortney, of Cambridge. Mr. Oldham's first wife died in June, 1865, while he was with his regiment in the field. He was married a second time, on September 7, GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 887 1866, to Mary Zahniser, of Cambridge, and to this union five children were born, namely : Howard lives in St. Mary's, Pennsylvania ; Charles lives in Cambridge and is engaged in the floral business with his father ; Sarah is a milliner in Cambridge; Roberta married W. W. Cowgill, a physician of Cleveland, Ohio. Politically, Mr. Oldham is a Republican, but he is not an active party man, though he is always interested in public matters. His father was an abolitionist and interested in the "underground railroad" work, aiding escaping slaves. The subject has served as a member of the city council ; he was coroner of the county for four years and health officer of the city of Cambridge for seven years. He is a member of Cambridge Post No. 343, Grand Army of the Republic, and has been an active member of the Same for many years. He and his family belong to the First United Presbyterian church and are active church workers. The family residence is one of the most attractive in Cambridge, being well kept and modern and it is surrounded by an abundance of floral works, the lawns and grounds being well kept and attractive at all times, and this home is widely known as a most hospitable place for the many friends of the family. EUGENE C. RIGGS. It would be indeed interesting to trace in detail the life of Eugene C. Riggs, a venerable and highly honored gentleman now living in retirement in Cambridge, for he has seen and taken part in the development of Guernsey county from the pioneer period to the present day, when it holds a place in the first rank of countieS in the great Buckeye commonwealth. He has spent his life here and has labored to goodly ends, having maintained the reputation of this old family for industry and honesty. Mr. Riggs was born at Senecaville, Richland township, this county, on February 4, 1832, and is the son of Simeon and Harriet (Chaney) Riggs. These parents came from what is now West Virginia, near Sistersville, as young married people, and settled at Senecaville, Ohio. Simeon Riggs worked in the woolen mills of Senecaville, operating a carding machine, and in later years he operated a woolen mill for himself. He was a man of affairs, Successful in business and popular and influential in his community. He applied himself very closely to whatever he had in hand and he was a man of many commendable traits of disposition. His family consisted of four children, 888 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. two sons and two daughters, namely : Eugene C., of this review ; Ellen, who became Mrs. Eli Dunnoway, now deceased; she and her husband had moved to Iowa, where he died, her death occurring some years afterwards at her home at Cedar Rapids ; She was a woman given to much charity, her life being devoted to the care of orphan children. Sophia Riggs married John Christie, who moved to near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Mr. Christie died there on his farm, Mrs. Christie subsequently moving to California, where she died in 1909. Noah H. Riggs, the youngest of the family, is a retired farmer, residing in Indianola, Iowa. The parents of these children have long been deceased, the mother dying in 1841 and the father in 1848, and they are both buried in the cemetery at Senecaville, Ohio. Eugene C. Riggs was educated in the public schools of Senecaville. His parents died when he was a small boy, and in 1846, when ten years of age, he had the misfortune to lose his left hand, which had to be amputated, as the result of an ailment, and he was thus unfitted for manual labor, but, nothing daunted by this untoward dispensation of fate, he pushed ahead and has won in the battle of life despite all obstacles. He began Studying hard and prepared himself for a teacher and at an early age began teaching school for a livelihood. He followed this line of endeavor very successfully for a period of twelve years in the district Schools of Guernsey and Noble counties, his services being in constant demand owing to his success as a pedagogue and his popularity with both pupil and patron. Mr. Riggs began manifesting an interest in political matters and in the fall of 1863 he was nominated as a candidate for clerk of the courts of Guernsey county by the Republican party and was elected the same fall. Making an excellent record, he was twice re-elected for two terms, serving in all nine years. Following his incumbency as county clerk, he was manager of the store of the Cambridge Coal Company near Cambridge and was also bookkeeper for the same, remaining in this capacity for the same firm fifteen years. In the interim between his retirement from the county clerk's office and his going with the Cambridge Coal Company, Mr. Riggs was honored by being appointed probate judge, to fill an unexpired term, by Governor Young. He served out his time in a very creditable and acceptable manner, and then served as deputy probate judge, under Newell Kennon, who was a Democrat, and served one term. Mr. Kennon was an elderly man and Mr. Riggs practically administered the office. When the Cambridge Rolling Mill began operations in 1890, Mr. Riggs became the bookkeeper for the roofing department of this company and remained as such for a period of four years. Since leaving that company he has led a retired life, with an occasional short period GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 889 of employment in opening or closing up a set of books. He has also been employed as an expert accountant by the state school commissioner in straightening out tangled conditions in township school funds. Mr. Riggs is a recognized expert accountant and his services have frequently been in demand. Mr. Riggs was married on April 8, 1854, to Margaret E. Brokaw, daughter of Abraham and Lucy (Brasheer) Brokaw, and this union has resulted in the birth of six sons and three daughters, all living. They are : Alfaretta, who married John F. Salmon, of Anderson, Indiana ; Simeon O., of Newark, Ohio; Charles N., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Jessie married William G. Scott, of Cambridge; Howard E., of Lafayette, Indiana; William L., of Cambridge; Harry, of Thief River Falls, Minnesota ; Bert, of Cambridge; Ruby married Samuel H. Winch, of Athens, Wisconsin. Mr. Riggs and all of his sons are Republicans, and he has been active in the affairs of his party, and he has served for the past year as Secretary of the Republican executive committee of Guernsey county and is still holding that position. He has been a delegate to county, district and State conventions many times. He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is a consistent church man, no man standing higher in the community than he, and he is highly respected by all classes. His wife is devoted to her home and family and is a greatly beloved woman. TURNER G. BROWN. Although Turner G. Brown has long Since taken up his abode "in the windowless palaces of rest," his influence still pervades the lives of those with whom he came into contact, for he was a man whom to know was to admire and respect, and he will not be forgotten by those who had occasion to journey with him on life's royal road. He grew up in this county from the pioneer days to its subsequent development and he played well his part in the same. He was born in October, 1838, in Londonderry township, Guernsey county, Ohio, and his death occurred on June 29, 1905, in Cambridge, in the Sixty-Seventh year of his age. He was the son of Judge Turner G. and Prudence (Colvin) Brown. His paternal grandfather was the founder of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, from which place the family came to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1817, and, as intimated above, became prominent and influential in the affairs of the early pioneers. The father, Judge Turner G. Brown, was an extensive land owner and a judge of the circuit court for many years. He 890 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. was a man of superior intellectual attainments, naturally broad-minded, and his judgment and advice were often sought in various perplexing problems that confronted the pioneers and he very frequently assisted in adjusting all kinds of matters and solving their questions of difference. In addition to his large land interests and his judicial duties, he was actively interested in numerous business enterprises of his time, a natural promoter and organizer, and he was very successful in whatever he turned his attention to. Turner G. Brown, Jr., grew to maturity amid such activities and he participated in the work on the farm and in other varied interests of his father as he grew to young manhood. He was educated in the public schools of his native vicinity, and for a time attended Athens College. He continued to reside on the farm until his marriage, on January 5, 1871, to Rhoda M, Brown, daughter of Bernard D. and Maria (Denning) Brown; although of the same name, they were in no way related. Bernard D. Brown came to Guernsey county in 1828 from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and he became one of the most active and widely known men here, for many years prominent in business circles. He was extensively engaged in farming, milling and merchandising and was decidedly a man of affairs, high standing and popular with all classes. After his marriage, Mr. Brown became a resident of Cambridge. He was engaged in various business enterprises, and at the same time maintained a fine farm about one mile north of Cambridge. For several years he was interested in the Cambridge News, the Republican party organ in Guernsey county, and he was business manager of that paper. For several years he was superintendent of the Norris Coal Company's mines. He was a Republican in politics and wielded a potent influence in local party affairs. He was progressive in all that the term implies, in all phases of citizenship, and was highly respected and honored for his clean, upright life and genuine worth. He believed in clean politics and that public officials should be selected with a view of purifying public office as well as ably representing the people. The Browns were of the Quaker faith and the subject adhered to the tenets of his fathers. His wife, who still survives, is an earnest worker in the Methodist Episcopal church, a great charity worker and a woman who has a host of warm friends and has done a great deal of good in this vicinity. For several years prior to his death, Mr. Brown was president of the Law and Order League, which stood for law enforcement, and probably more to his efforts than to those of anyone else has been established that high regard for law and order that now so prevails in Cambridge and Guernsey county as to make this locality a leader in the march of civilization. GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 891 HENRY H. VEITCH. It has been said that the great Civil war was fought out by the boys of this nation, and such a statement is undoubtedly qualifiedly true, for we find that the rosters show the nameS of many thousands of boys even in their early "teens," hence the appellation "boys in blue" is not a misnomer in the strictest sense of the term. One of these "boys" whom we honor or should honor today is Henry H. Veitch, a well-known citizen of Cambridge, Guernsey county. Not alone for the service he rendered his country during her hour of need is he worthy of a place in hiStory, for his life haS been true to high ideals and has been lived in a manner as not to give offense to any one. Mr. Veitch was born August 19, 1849, in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, and he is the Son of Gideon and Catherine (Callahan) Veitch. The father was a stone cutter, a native of Scotland, having come to America with his parents when three years of age, the family locating in Ohio in an early day. The paternal great-grandfather, John Veitch, was an officer in the British army and while his vessel was on a cruise his son, William, grandfather of Henry H. of thiS review, waS born, in the harbor of Charlestown, South Carolina. William Veitch became a highly educated man and was professor of languages in Edinburgh University. He later came to America, and his son, Gideon Veitch, came to Guernsey county, Ohio. in 1856 and lived here until his death, in 1860, his widow surviving until 1870; both are buried in Cambridge cemetery. Henry H. Veitch was educated in the public schools of Cambridge, and in January, 1864, when only fourteen years of age, he enlisted in Company A. One Hundred and Seventy-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after serving four months, re-enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served until the close of the war. His regiment was a part of the Army of the Cumberland and participated in the battles of that famouS army, and Mr. Veitch performed his every duty with the courage of a veteran. After his honorable discharge he returned home and launched in the mercantile business, which he followed with very Satisfactory results for a number of years. Later he engaged in the oil, gas and real estate business with his usual success. Mr. Veitch was married in 1872 to Alvaretta Orme, daughter of John and Lucy (Snyder) Orme, a prominent pioneer family, Mr. Orme having long been a conspicuous figure in the commercial life of Cambridge. He died several years ago, but his 'widow is Still living. To Mr. and Mrs. Veitch Six children have been born, five of whom are living, namely : Gertrude, who 892 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. married C. R. Mcllyar, Superintendent of the Cambridge plant of the iron and steel company; Albert 0. lives in Vincennes, Indiana, engaged in the oil producing business and has coal interests in Guernsey county ; James R. lives in Portland, Oregon, and iS general freight and passenger agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company; Lillie May married Frank S. Casey, a shoe merchant of Cambridge; Carroll W., of Coffeyville, Kansas, is a prominent oil producer of that section; Lucy, the youngest, died when three years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Veitch and his sons and sons-in-law are all Republicans in politics and are always interested in political affairs. Mr. Veitch has been a member of the city council and has held various other city offices. He is a member of the Cambridge post of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a member of the Masonic order. The Veitch home, situated on North Seventh Street, is one of the handsomest in Cambridge and is well known for its genuine hospitality. The sons and sons-in-law of the family have all risen to conspicuous places in the business world, and are all men whose true worth and perseverance have carried them to the prominent positions they occupy. Mrs. Veitch is a genial, affable woman whose life is devoted to her family and home and both she and Mr. Veitch have well earned the life of comfortable retirement which they now enjoy. ELMER E. VORHIES, M. D. Naturally endowed with the capacities of the successful practitioner of medicine, Dr. Elmer E. Vorhies, of Cambridge, has won an eminent reputation among the people of Guernsey and adjoining counties and he stands very high also among his professional brethren, for he has shown what a man of careful mental training, honesty of purpose and an abundance of zeal and persistence can accomplish when directed along proper lines. Doctor Vorhies was born July 12, 1864, in Sarahsville, Noble county, Ohio, and he is the son of Peter and Mary (Williams) Vorhies, the father having been a farmer in Noble county, never residing in Guernsey county. He was a man of excellent characteristics, possessing a high sense of honor and was highly respected for his industry, uprightness and genuine worth. His death occurred on January 18, 1910, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. His widow, a woman of many praiseworthy traits, still survives. Doctor Vorhies spent his youth on the home farm, where he was put to GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 893 doing various forms of light work when he became of proper age, attending the district schools during the winter months. He remained on the farm until he was twenty-four years of age, then began railroading as a messenger for the Adams Express Company, following this for about four years, during which time he spent his spare time reading medicine, which profession he had from early boyhood had a laudable desire to enter. He accordingly entered, in 1890, the Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, from which institution he was graduated with honors in the class of 1893. Having made rapid advancement and shown special ability in surgery, he became connected with Mt. Carmel Hospital, at Columbus, as house Surgeon, and for one year very faithfully performed his duties in this connection. In 1894 he located for practice in Cambridge and has since continued here, enjoying a very lucrative patronage. He has made a specialty of emergency cases and he has practically all the business of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, the Inter-State Iron and Steel Company, and the Midland Power and Traction Company, all of Cambridge. Besides he enjoys a large general practice, as already intimated, but as a surgeon he stands second to none in this section of the Buckeye state. Doctor Vorhies is a member of the Guernsey County, the State and the American Medical associations, and he is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, the Improved Order of Red Men and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, being the physician for the latter. Politically, he is a Republican and is an active party worker. He has served as a member of the Republican county central committee, and is still a member. He has been a frequent delegate to county, district and State conventions, and he has always been a faithful party worker, and his counsel is frequently sought by party leaders and candidates, his influence being very pronounced in this connection. He was elected county coroner in 1900, and served two terms, or four years, in a manner that reflected much credit upon himself and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. Doctor Vorhies has been twice married, first on January 29, 1884, to Minnie B. Cooper, of Stafford, Monroe county, Ohio, daughter of Charles and Jane (Elliott) Cooper. This union resulted in the birth of two children : Homer C., a pharmacist of Columbus, Ohio, and Clyde L., a graduate of Starling Medical University of Columbus, who is successfully practicing with his father. The wife and mother was called to her rest on March 2, 1899. The Doctor's Second marriage was solemnized on March 28, 1910, to Verna G. Foster, daughter of James and Catherine Foster, of Lore City, Guernsey county, both of whom are still living. The Doctor and his family 894 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and the Vorhies home, at No. 430 North Fourth street, Cambridge, is a modern, attractive and neatly kept one, where the many friends of this popular family frequently gather. JUDGE NATHAN HAMPSON BARBER. A prominent attorney, politician and public benefactor is Judge Nathan Hampson Barber, of Cambridge, who was born on August 28, 1859, near Morristown, Belmont county, Ohio, the son of Matthew and Tabitha (Shepherd) Barber. The father came from county Antrim, Ireland, and the mother, who was of Scotch-Irish descent, was born in Maryland. The father was brought to America when two years of age, with his parents, James and Margaret Barber, in 1816. They first settled in Belmont county, Ohio, on the same farm where Nathan Hampson Barber was born. Grandfather Barber was a farmer and a member of the United Presbyterian church. He was a most worthy and upright man. His son, Matthew, father of the subject, was also a farmer and a member of the church of his parents. He was a large land owner and was prosperous for those pioneer times, being proficient in the affairs of the community. The Shepherds were Virginia people and came to Ohio at an early date, settling in the same community in Belmont county with the Barbers, and there Matthew Barber and Tabitha Shepherd were married and reared their family of three sons and six daughters, of whom two sons and three daughters are still living, the children being as follows : Margaret, deceased ; James, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Anna, deceased ; Sarah, deceased; William, deceased; Nathan H., of Cambridge; Ella, now Mrs. David S. McClelland, of Guernsey county, Ohio; Ada, Mrs. John W. Harding, of Jewett, Harrison county, Ohio; Lucy, now Mrs. Elwood Murphy, of Columbus, Ohio. Matthew Barber died in November, 1895, in the same house and in the same corner of the room in which he and Tabitha Shepherd were married fifty-three years before. His wife had died two years prior, in November, 1893, and both are buried in Fairview cemetery. Nathan H. Barber spent his youth on the farm and worked just as other boys worked and attended the county district schools during the winter. Later he attended Washington and Jefferson College, at Washington, Pennsylvania, but was compelled to leave his Studies before graduation on account of failing health. Before entering Washington and Jefferson College he taught school for two years in Belmont county. He studied law with Hon. Lorenzo GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 895 Danford, of St. Clairsville, who represented that Ohio district in Congress for Several terms and who was an intensely eloquent man. Mr. Barber began the practice of his profession in Barnesville, Belmont county. In November, 1887, he was elected probate judge of Guernsey county, the youngest man who had ever occupied the position up to that time. Nearing the end of his Second term as probate judge, he was elected as a member of the Ohio Legislature from Guernsey county and resigned the office of probate judge to accept the legislative position. He served one term in the seventy-first General Assembly, making a commendable record. He served on the judiciary committee and on the ways and means committee and other important committees, and was active in Securing important legislation. He is a Republican in politics and has always been active and has served as chairman of both the Republican central and county executive committees, and was connected with the Republican national committee in 1904, operating from the Chicago headquarters as field man, and has always been recognized as a wise counselor in campaign matters. He has continued his prominent place at the Cambridge bar and is a careful, painstaking and successful attorney and an earnest and eloquent pleader. Judge Barber was married on January 4, 1884, to Sarah Virginia Clark, daughter of William and Henrietta West Clark, of Fairview, Guernsey county, both the Clark and West families having been prominent pioneer families. To this union three children have been born : Dolly Patterson Barber, occupying a prominent editorial position on the Ohio State Journal; Herbert O., of Hudson, Wyoming, the boy who built the present electric railway connecting Cambridge and Byesville, is now engaged in managing a coal and grain company that is doing a business of one million five hundred thousand dollars annually; Helen is a teacher in the public schools of Cambridge. In addition to hiS legal and official life, Judge Barber has been active and energetic in building up Cambridge to its present proportions as an industrial center. In 1889 he was foremost in organizing the Cambridge Iron and Steel Company and Secured its capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars. The president of that company was Augustus Byers; the manager was Arthur W. Brown and the directors were Messrs. Byers, Brown, N. H. Barber, W. C. Brown and A. Holler ; the secretary was John C. Beckett. The Barbers built the Hub business blcok, the Colonial theater and every house on South Eleventh street between Wheeling avenue and Goston, except one, a choice resident district of the city and the business blocks among the most imposing in the city, both being three-story, substantial brick blocks. The Barbers, both father and son, have added to the prosperity of Cambridge by not only adding a great in- 896 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. dustry and substantial business blocks, but also street railways and several substantial and commodious modern homes. Judge Barber's energy and money have always been freely given and invested for the improvement, development and uplift of Cambridge. The Judge'S family now consists of his wife and daughter, Helen, his granddaughter, Margaret Patterson, the daughter of his older daughter, who was educated in the public schools of Cambridge and Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio ; the son Herbert attended the Military Academy at Peekskill, New York, and the younger daughter, Helen, was graduated from the Cambridge high school and attended college at Lynchburg, Virginia. The Barber home is refined and cultured in its atmosphere and the family are prominent in the social life of the city. Personally, the Judge is a very affable gentleman, popular in all circles and a recognized leader of men, a man in whom the utmost confidence is reposed by all classes owing to his genuine worth, his public spirit, industry and fidelity to every trust reposed in him. HIRAM K. MOORE. In any history of the progressive and representative citizens of Guernsey county the name of Hiram K. Moore, the present efficient and popular sheriff of the county, should be given conspicuous mention, for he is one of those strong, sturdy characters who has contributed largely to the material welfare of this community, being a public-spirited man and conscientious worker for his locality and the general good of his fellow men. Mr. Moore was born on October 10, 1855, in Jefferson township, Guernsey county, Ohio, and is the son of Hiram and Caroline (Linn) Moore. The father was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, and the mother in Guernsey county, Ohio. The father's people came to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, about 1822, when the elder Hiram was but a mere lad. Grandfather Burris Moore was a pioneer farmer, deer and bear hunter of the then new country. He was a man of courage and sterling integrity, fearless and a typical early settler. He finally left Ohio and took up his residence in Iowa with the pioneers of that state. He lived a conservative life and reached the remarkable age of ninety-seven years. His son, Hiram, accompanied his parents to Iowa and when a young man he returned to Ohio, making the long journey on horseback. He engaged in farming in Jefferson township, and was married in February, 1843. He reared a family of nine children, five sons and four GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 897 daughters. George L. died as a Soldier during the Civil war ; Thomas lives in Guernsey county; Ira, of Wichita, Kansas; Cyrus E., of Cambridge ; Hattie married Elijah Ferbrache, of Kansas; Hiram K., of this review ; Mary married Ellsworth Sunnafrank, of Chillicothe, Ohio ; Anna married John C. Hillman, of Nevada ; Nancy Augusta, of Cambridge, has remained Single. The father of these children was called to his rest on December 23, 1894, in the Seventy-ninth year of his age, his widow Surviving until July 39, 1902, and they both are buried in the Cambridge cemetery. The father was a Republican in politics, but early in life he was a Whig, as were all his people ; so are all his sons Republicans. While not an active man in public affairs, he was interested in the general progress of his community, and was a pious and influential man. He was not a church man, but he was honest and upright in all his relations with his fellow men. Hiram K. Moore spent his youth on the home farm and attended the home schools. When a youth he learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed for a number of years at different points in Guernsey county and became very skillful in this line. On February 13, 1886, he was married to Georgia Huffman, daughter of Reason and Catherine (Keepers) Huffman, of Guernsey county, in which both parents were native and they were highly respected. The mother died when Mrs. Moore was only one year old, and the father's death occurred on June 11, 1904. They are buried at Winchester. Mr. Huffman was a tailor by trade. To Mr. and Mrs. Huffman six daughters were born, namely : Mary, deceased, married William Hanna ; Signora married Edward Burson, of Winterset, this county ; Mattie married Robert Mills, of California ; Emma married Nathan Myers, both now deceased; Jessie married Simon Wallace, of Cambridge. To Mr. and Mrs. Hiram K. Moore two children have been born, Nettie and Robert, both living at home. Mr. Moore followed the blacksmith's trade until 1905, when he gave it up on account of impaired health. He is a Republican in politics and has always been active in public matters, and in 1906 he was the nominee of his party for sheriff of Guernsey county, and was elected at the polls in November following. He made such a commendable record, performing his duties in such an able and conscientious manner, that he was again elected to this important office in the fall of 1908 and with the close of 1910 he served four years as sheriff, and, according to the consensus of opinion, the county never had a better sheriff, always popular with the people and firm in the discharge of his duty as a public servant. He is a man of highest integrity, broadminded upon public questions, and his official record iS without a stain. Mrs. Moore and daughter are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and 898 - GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO. while Mr. Moore is not a member of the church, he is a faithful supporter of the same and a man given to good works, charitable in his instincts and in every respect a good citizen who is eminently deserving of his honored position in the estimation of the public. ALLEN R. McCULLOCH. A well known member of the local bar who is now moving along the pathway of professional success, with many years of profitable activity before him, and a man of thought and study, who finds essential nutriment in supping and dining with the legal authorities, is Allen R. McCulloch. He is an earneSt man, and in that sense applies himself to business and has been rewarded by a large measure of SuccesS; Simple in his tastes, he is without ostentation and iS therefore admired by all classes. Mr. McCulloch was born on July 4, 1863, in Wills township, Guernsey county, Ohio. He is the son of William and Sarah E. (Sproat) McCulloch, The father was born in Scotland and he came to America when about sixteen years of age, with his older brother, Robert, who afterwards became a prominent Presbyterian minister. William, the father, became a School teacher and was a student at Princeton University for a time, and he was a prominent and progressive educator of the old school, a man of high ideals and exemplary character. Becoming a land owner, he farmed in later years. He was a Democrat of the Jackson type, and a devout Presbyterian. His death occurred on March 20, 1891, at the old family home in Wills township. His widow survives, Still making her home in Wills township, where she was born and where her entire life has been spent. She is a noble woman, noted among a host of friends for her many estimable traits of character. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. William McCulloch and seven of them are still living, namely : Alpheus H., of New Concord, Ohio; Allen R., of this review; Emma F. married Francis Howard, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Alexander D., a Presbyterian minister, now deceased; Chalmers W., a farmer on the home farm in Wills township, this county ; Laura M. married Homer C. Knowles, of Bradner, Ohio; Harry D., a physician of Toronto, Ohio; Jay S. is a physician at Wellsville, Ohio. Allen R. McCulloch, of this review, spent his youth on the home farm and assisted with the general work on the place, attending the country schools during the winter months. He was graduated from the schools at Wash- GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO - 899 ington, Guernsey county, and later from Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio. He was a close student and obtained an excellent general education. After leaving school he taught at Cumberland, Guernsey county, for four years. Meanwhile he studied law at home, having been ambitious to follow the legal profession from his boyhood, and he subsequently completed the course at the Cincinnati Law School and was graduated from that institution in 1892, and in the same year he began practicing at Cambridge and was successful from the beginning. He is regarded as a very able counselor and advocate and is always a very busy man with his numerous clients. He has offices with Robert T. Scott. He is profoundly versed in the law, is careful and painstaking and is a forceful pleader before a jury. Following in the footsteps of his honored father, Mr. McCulloch is an uncompromising Democrat in politics and he has been active both in county and state politics, and is regarded as one of the strong and influential local men in the party, his advice being often sought during campaigns. As chairman of the Democratic county executive committee, he is a very important factor in the party's affairs in Guernsey. This position he has held at various times. He is also district committeeman of the Democratic State committee, and is a popular and able campaign orator in the county and state, standing high in the councils of his party. He is a member of the Cambridge school board, the Cambridge public library board and the Chautauqua board, and he is very active in all these organizations. He is a friend of education, a lover of good books, and an advocate of every good movement. He is a member of the Presbyterian church and has been since he was sixteen years old. He has been superintendent of the Sunday school at the local church for the past fifteen years. He is an active church man and he stands high in the esteem of the people in every way. Mr. McCulloch has never married. DANIEL E. BRADEN. Daniel E. Braden, of Cambridge township, was born February 21, 1849, in Center township, on what is known as Mud run. His parents were Elijah and Mary (Van Kirk) Braden. His maternal grandfather, William Van Kirk, became a resident of Coshocton county, Ohio, in the early days of the nineteenth century, and later in life was a coal operator in that county, where he died many years ago. The Braden family contributed its full quota to the country's defense during the Civil war. Elijah, the father, when fifty-three