250 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. Abe R., residing near the old home. Mr. Boggess is one of the influential men of his township, and has been entrusted with numerous local offices, in all cases winning the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens. In politics he is a Republican. Samuel T. Boggess, D. D. S., long and favorably known as a practitioner of dentistry at Greenfield, Ohio, is a native of Virginia. In 1858 he came from that state to Ohio, where he spent fourteen years in a dental office as preliminary to more elaborate preparations for the profession of dental surgery. In 1872 he matriculated at the Philadelphia Dental college, from which he obtained the degree of D. D. S. in the spring of 1873. Immediately thereafter he located at Jackson, Ohio, where he spent fourteen years in the practice of his profession. In 1887 he removed to Greenfield, where he continued his professional work and thereby achieved both prominence and prosperity. Dr. Boggess is popular personally as well as in the line of duty and is thoroughly informed in the niceties and intricacies of his useful calling. In 1869 he was married at Athens, Ohio, to Eliza, daughter of Rev. H. J. Carr, deceased. They have a bright and interesting family of four children. Minnie, the eldest, is the wife of Dr. E. J. Martin. Dr. John S. Boggess, at present assistant surgeon in the Marine hospital at Philadelphia, is an accomplished and highly educated gentleman. He holds a diploma with the degree of A. M. from the Ohio State university and was graduated as M. D. at the Miami Medical college. Charles Boggess, D. D. S., received his literary education at Portsmouth, O., and in 1897 was graduated as D. D. S. at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. Since his graduation he has been associated with his father in the practice at Greenfield. Miss Martha Boggess, the youngest of the children, is at home with her parents. Henry Bohl, of White Oak township, well known as a progressive farmer and stock raiser, was born near Fincastle, Brown county, February 17, 1861. He is the son of Henry Bohl, born in Germany in the year 1800, who came to America in his youth and made his home near Fincastle, finding employment in working by the month on a farm until his marriage to Mary Hennize, also a native of Germany. In his later years his industry and good management Were rewarded by the accumulation of considerable property and a comfortable farm and home. The senior Bohl was an active member of the Lutheran church, and influential in the community until his death at the age of sixty-five years. There were ten children in his family : William, George, and Christopher, residing now in Brown county ; Henry, Jr., the subject of this sketch ; Mary, of Adams county ; Maggie, of Brown county ; Sophia, of Clermont county ; Kate and John, deceased, and one who died, in infancy. Henry Bohl, the younger, whose name ap- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 251 pears at the head of this notice, was reared at the home in Brown county, and received his education in the district school. In 1891 he was married to Ida Helsley, born and reared in Eagle township, Brown county, daughter of C. P. and Elizabeth Helsley, and they made their home in Brown county two years, after which he bought the farm of 100 acres in White Oak township, where they now reside. Their home is blessed with three children: Charles H., Owna M., and Homer C. Mr. Bohl was for seven years in business at Mowrystown as a member of the firm of Bohl & Helsley, undertakers, but he now gives his time entirely to farming and the raising of livestock, particularly shorthorn cattle. He has one of the neatest homes in the township, and a valuable farm, is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge, No. 712, at Mowrystown, and in politics is a Republican. Charles G. Brouse, one of the properous farmers of Liberty township, still owns part of the place which was settled by his grandfather as far back as 1818. Lewis Brouse, first of the name in Ohio, was born in Virginia September 29, 1788. In 1811 he came to Ohio and purchased the land, part of which is now owned by Charles G. Brouse, and then returning to Virginia, married Mary Riner March 5, 1812. During the year 1818 they arrived' in Highland county to reside permanently and shortly afterward located four and a half miles north of Hillsboro on the farm now owned by William A. West. He lived over half a century 'after his settlement in Liberty township, his death occurring August 4, 1874, and his nine children were Eliza, Anna, John Andrew, Frederick, Henry, Sarah, James A., Mrs. Rosa Anderson of Hillsboro, and Charles W. of Biggsville, Ill., the two last mentioned being the only ones living. John Andrew Brouse, the third child, was born in Virginia April 30, 1816, and consequently was only about two years of age when his parents made their migration to the West. December 28, 1843, he was married to Catharine, daughter of John and Catharine (Lane) Holmes, with whom he lived thirty-two years and reared a large family. She was born November 6, 1821, and died January 27, 1875, after which he married Mrs. Minerva. A. (Hixson) James, who died April 25, 1898. His death followed in the same year, July 10, 1898. The children of John A. and Catherine Brouse were John Andrew, now postmaster at Lone Oak, Ark. ; Francis T., a resident of Riverside, Cal. ; Wesley A., of Covina, Cal. ; Maria C., widow of Thomas M. Whittel of Liberty township ; Emma C., died at the age of twenty-one years ; and Charles G. Brouse. The latter was married October 9, 1889, to Laura Alice, second child of John and Rachel (Starr) Kerns, who were early settlers in the Samantha neighborhood. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Brouse are Beata, at home ; Rachel, widow of Frank West ; Joseph, a merchant at Mannington, W. Va. ; Martha, wife of Walter Rogers; Min- 252 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. nie, who died at the age of thirty years ; Mary, who died in childhood ; Catharine, wife of Charles Rosher ; Louie, wife of William Calvert of Hillsboro ; Charles M., a merchant at Hillsboro ; and Jessie, wife of Harry Boatman. Charles G. Brouse owns 136 acres of land which is part of the homestead purchased by his grandfather in 1811 and this place he maintains in a high state of cultivation. He has one child, Bessie Alice, who was born May 10, 1891. Thomas F. Browder, a soldier of the civil war and popular business man of Greenfield, Ohio, is best known to fame as the inventor and manufacturer of the Browder life saving net. The family is of French origin, the ancestors have been among those driven out by the vindictive religious persecutions that disgraced France after the Reformation, finding an asylum in England and later emigrating to America. The Highland county branch takes its rise from Thomas Y. Browder, who became prominent in .Greene county, Ohio, as a politician, stock speculator and extensive holder of real estate, dying there in 1875. He married Sarah Hurley, by whom he had six daughters and four sons, one of the latter, named Gilbert, dying while serving as a Union soldier in the civil war. Thomas F. Browder was born in Greene county, Ohio, June 14, 1847, and besides the usual attendance in the common schools had the benefit of a course at Forest. Home college: In 1864, shortly before reaching his seventeenth year, he enlisted to Company C, Sixtieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, for three years or the war, and it was not long before he took part with his command in the bloody battles of the Wilderness fought between the armies of Lee and Grant. On May 9th, at Spottsylvania, he was shot through the hip and lay in the field hospital for three days, eventually being taken to Washington city and furloughed home in the middle of June. Later he spent some time in the hospital at Columbus, Ohio, remaining there until he received his final discharge from the service. Immediately thereafter he returned home, attended school awhile and then took up the profession of teaching:, which he followed steadily for nine years. In 1876, Mr. Browder located at Greenfield, and in 1894 started the first steam laundry ever opened in that place. He pushed this enterprise vigorously, employing the most expert workmen he could secure, did a thriving business for five and a half years. and disposed of the property to advantage in 1899. It was in 1887 that he did his first work on the invention which promised to bring him both fame and fortune. In the same year he took out a patent for the Browder life saving net, adding two others for improvements in 1900, and later procuring protection for his invention abroad by patents covering the European countries. The invention is highly spoken of by experts and is welcomed everywhere as a great boon to humanity, while the inventor is honored with the title of public ben- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 253 efactor. The net was put to a practical test during the great fire in New York City May 7, 1901, when as the result of its operation twenty people were saved from horrible deaths. In 1873, Mr. Browder was married to Laura, daughter of Thomas' O'Dell, one of the most substantial farmers of Highland county. Three children, Lillian, Omalee and Charles W., have been the fruits of this union, all of whom have exhibited a taste for teaching and spent more or less time in that employment. Miss Lillian is still so engaged, but the son now holds the positio of freight agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad company. Both parents and children are highly esteemed in the social circles of Greenfield, as indeed they are by all others so fortunate as to form their acquaintance. Mr. Browder is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, the Royal Arcanum and the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. James F. Brown, one of the substantial and esteemed farmers of Paint township, is the descendant of pioneers whose record reflects great credit upon the founders of the family in Highland county. As early 'as 1805 Joel Brown became an enterprising and industrious settler near Hillsboro on what is now known as the Trimble farm. He came from Culpeper county in old Virginia with his family, accompanied by his. two sisters, the widow. Pusey and her three sons, and Mrs. Daniel Inskeep, wife of a local Methodist preacher. These families all located southeast Of Hillsboro, on the. Rocky fork, and were considered most desirable acquisitions by the early settlers in Highland, in point of morals, industry and, refinement. They were all members -of the Society of Friends, usually known as Quakers, and possessed the frugality, peacefulness of disposition and industrious habits so characteristic of that famous band .of brothers. Joshua Brown, one of the sons of Joel, married Janetta Inskeep and had nine children, of whom five are living Jennie, wife of George Barrier, Sr., of Hillsboro; James F., subject of this sketch William E., of New Market, served in the heavy artillery; Sally, wife of W. T. Roush, near Russell Station Mary, resident of Hillsboro. The deceased are Rachel E., who married Jonah Britton Joel H., who served as a soldier in the One Hundred 'and Sixty-eighth Ohio regiment;, Susan, wife of Marion D. Brit -Ion; and John. James F. Brown, second of the children in age, was born in New Market township, Highland county, Ohio, May 15, 1842, and received the usual common school education as he grew up on his father's farm. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Eighty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and had as a soldier companion a sixteen-year old boy named Joseph Benson Foraker, who has since been governor and. United States senator. This regiment was assigned to the Fourteenth army corps and was in the -hottest of the fighting at the great battle of Chickamauga, Septem- 254 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. ber 19 and 20, 1863. On the second day, after some very severe fighting, the regiment was surrounded and captured. Mr. Brown was one of the unfortunates thus taken in by the "Johnny Rebs" and marched off for a siege in their villainous prison pens in various parts of the south. They first took him to Richmond, then to Danville, and later sent him back to the Cenfederate capital, where he was fortunate enough to be exchanged after an imprisonment of over seven months. Mr. Brown rejoined his regiment at Goldsboro, N. C., and served with it until his discharge in June, 1865. He remained at hime until 1868 when he went to Marion county, Kan., and took up a homestead, but after three years returned to Highland county and took charge of the home farm. In 1879 he married Mary E. Redkey, spent the eight following years on a farm of 119 acres which he owns in Hamer township and then settled in Rainsboro, where he still resides. Mr. Brown is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army of the Republic. James R. Buck, the popular groceryman of Greenfield, is one of those pushing energetic young men who are the life of the communities where they reside and chief factors in their progress and development. Whether it be in the social circle, the doings of the fraternities, business projects or religious movements, such men are relied upon to lead the van and furnish the fire and energy without which "the best laid schemes o' mice or men gang aft agley." The Buck family are Ohioans with the best social connections on both sides of the house. Robert Buck, at present holding an official position in the Soldiers' Home at Xenia, Ohio, married Isabella Johnson and located at Greenfield, where their son, James R,. Buck, was born, reared and educated. In early boyhood he became ambitious for a business career and had set his heart on being a merchant when other children of the same age are content to thumb their grammars and "cipher in the rule of three." It was in 1888, when he had just reached his thirteenth year, that he saw his opportunity in the shape of an humble job in a store. He was offered a position in the grocery establishment of J. W. Elder and accepted with the alacrity of a lad who has in him the material for making a man. For the nine following years, he worked industriously and faithfully for his employer, doing whatever he was told to do and doing it well, until finally he had an opportunity to become proprietor. June 13, 1897, Mr. Buck, whose nine years of apprenticeship had given -him a practical understanding of the grocery business, purchased the stock and good will of Mr. Elder and since then has had sole charge. He has so conducted his affairs as to become recognized as one of the leading dealers in fancy groceries in Greenfield and one of the most progressive of its merchants. He is prominent in Masonic circles, holding BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 255 membership in the Knights Templar and Royal Arch chapter. His religious affiliations are with the Presbyterians and he is a member of the church of that denomination at Greenfield. Mr. Buck married Bessie, the accomplished daughter of J. B. Elliott, postmaster of Greenfield, and the family are welcome guests in the best circles of the city's society. The mother of Mr. Buck died on the 8th of July, 1902. Samuel J. Buck, the popular liveryman of Greenfield, is a native of Highland and has all his life been connected with the county's development. His father, Robert Buck, was long identified with the public business of Greenfield and quite active in political affairs. As a reward for his services he was appointed in 1899 to an official position in connection with the Soldiers' and Sailors' home at Xenia, Ohio, which he holds at the present time. He married Isabella Johnston, by whom he has two living children, the eldest of whom, J. R. Buck, is in the grocery business at Greenfield. S. J. Buck, the other son, was born, reared and educated in Highland county. After growing up he engaged in the grocery business at Greenfield and continued the same for ten years or more. In October, 1901, he changed to the livery business, which he has since conducted. Mr. Buck is a member of the First Presbyterian church at Greenfield and is an enthusiastic Knight of Pythias. July 22, 1896, he was married to Miss Jessie, daughter of Jesse Crawford, a prominent farmer of Highland county residing at Petersburg. Arthur N. Bunn, of Sugartree Ridge, one of the leading business men of Concord township, is a member of one of the old families of Highland county. His great-grandparents came west from Pennsylvania in the early years of the last century, and settled first at Chillicothe, but not long afterward removed to New Market township, where they farmed and kept one of the wayside inns famous in the days of old. Their son, John Bunn, born in Pennsylvania in 1804, was married in early manhood to Jane Thompson, also a native of Pennsylvania, and started out in life as a cooper in New Market township, afterward removing to Sugartree Ridge, of which he was one of the founders, having helped to plat the town. There he embarked in the business as a merchant, in addition to cooperage and farming. He was a man of prominence, well known and highly esteemed throughout the county, and frequently honored with township office. He lived to be over eighty years of age and his wife to seventy-five years. Their children were : Eliza, now living at West Union ; Thomas A., deceased ; Joseph, of Hillsboro ; John, a physician at Batavia, Ohio ; W. H., of Sugartree Ridge ; Dr. James W. of West Union, and Lewis, deceased. Dr. James W. Bunn enlisted in the Hundred and Eighty-second regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, 256 - THE COUNTY. OF HIGHLAND. was made hospital steward and served his country well. Thomas A., born. in January,. 1825, the father of the subject. of this sketch, learned the trade of his father as he grew up, obtained his education in the district school, .and on attaining manhood married Susan Hetherington, a native of Virginia. Three children were born to them: Arthur N. Belle, of .Sugartree Ridge, and Eliza, wife of Newton W: Igo, of Concord township. After following the trade of a cooper for some years Thomas A. Bunn engaged in mercantile business at Sugartree .ridge with his son, A. N.-, and in this employment and in the performance of the duties of various township offices with which, he was honored, passed the remainder of his years, until his death, at the age of sixty-six years. His wife survives him, and is now seventy-six years of age. Arthur N. Bunn, eldest child of these parents, Was born at Sugartree Ridge December 3, 1849, and was reared in his native town, ,attending. the district school and the School at Hillsboro. After completing his studies he took up the pro-, fession of teaching, and gave it his attention for fifteen years, making an excellent reputation for efficient work in this important field Of labor. Meanwhile he was. married to Arminda Stout, daughter of Jacob and Lucinda Stout, members of an old family in the township, and prominently associated with the mercantile interests of the town. In 1883 Mr.. Bunn- abandoned teaching to become a merchant, and since then he has been an active and successful business man at Sugartree Ridge. He has served his community several terms as township clerk, and, for one term held the office of coroner of Highland county. Throughout the county he is held in high esteem. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge at Mowrystown and in politics is a Democrat. Of his six children, Belle, the third, is dead; Roy has his home in Hillsboro, and Lum, John, Ruth and Walter are at home. John W. Burnett is one of the representative farmers of Highland county: His ancestry took part in the hardships and trials incident to the settlement of Highland county and bore their share of the burdens which preceded the splendid civilization now so charactristic of the Scioto valley. The Ohio branch of the family originated with. John Burnett,- of Delaware, who married twice, had one son by his first wife, whom he named after himself, and by the sec-, ond, -who was a. Miss Snell, the following: Peter, William, Edward, James, Nellie, and Peggy.. James •Burnett, fourth of the second set of children, was born in Highland county, January 11, 1819, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Adam Tedrow. From this union resulted six children-: Melvina, wife of J. T. Steele Neoma, wife of Rynard Van Zant the subject of this sketch; Martha J., wife of. W. Noble James A. and Edward S., farmers in Marshall township. J. W. Burnett, third of the family in age, was born in High- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 257 land county, Ohio, September 1, 1847, and has devoted his whole life to farming. At present he owns several hundred acres of farming land in Marshall township, which he cultivates by modern methods. May 9, 1878, he was married to Sarah E., daughter of James S. and Emily J. (Hill). Carlisle, of Highland county, who are noticed in another part of this volume. Mrs. Burnett, whose family is one of the most esteemed in their community, was born June 6, 1857, and is a lady of most excellent disposition. She and her husband have no children of their own but have cared for and reared several children of other people. Mr. Burnett is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge. at Marshall. Daniel M. Butters, a well-known farmer of Brush Creek township, belongs to one of the old families of the county, and has himself done credit to his ancestry in the place he has made among the influential men of the county. His grandfather, John Butters, a soldier of the Revolution, was twice married, the second time to a Miss White, of West Virginia, and with this wife and his children he made a home in the forests of Brush Creek township at a very early day in the settlement. He was a weaver by trade and followed this occupation in addition to farming. Like many of the pioneers he lived to a great age, dying at ninety years. Michael Butters, son of John, was born September 4, 1816, on a farm adjoining that which is the residence of Daniel M. He married Elizabeth Zink, a native of Adams county, and they began housekeeping in Marshall township, but soon afterward moved to Indiana, where he died. His wife returned with the children to Brush Creek township, where she reared the family and lived to the age of sixty-three years. They had two children. The daughter, Susannah, married Daniel Rhoads, and to this union there are six children living. Her second husband was Asa Brown of Brush creek. Daniel M. Butters, the second child of Michael and Elizabeth Butters, was born April 6, 1842, in Fountain county, Indiana, was reared in Highland county, and in early manhood married Martha Eubanks, a native of Brush Creek. They have ever since resided on the old home firm, where Mr. Butters now owns 201 acres, and they have reared two children : Almetta, wife of James Slater, of Brush Creek township, and Ollie, wife of George P. Murphy, living at home. In his early days Mr. Butters operated a threshing machine for some time, but he now gives his whole time to farming and stock raising, with much success. He is highly regarded by his neighbors, and has been honored with the office of township trustee for six years. In religious matters he is an earnest Presbyterian, and in politics he adheres to the Republican party. Mrs. Butters is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. H-17 258 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. James L. Cadwallader, superintendent of the Greenfield (Ohio) public schools, has long been prominently connected with educational affairs. In fact he may be said to have been bred in an atmosphere of pedagogics, as his father, Alfred Cadwallader, was for many years a teacher in Highland county, of which he was a native and honored citizen. The founder of the family in that part of Ohio was Jesse Cadwallader, who came from Virginia and settled there near the close of the eighteenth century. Mr. Cadwallader obtained his elementary education in the public schools of his native county of Highland. He then became a teacher and spent. four years in what Thomson describes as the "delightful task to rear the tender thought, to teach the young idea how to shoot.." After this educational novitiate, Mr. Cadwallader accepted the position of principal of the public schools of Vienna, 0., which he held for three years. At the expiration of his last term, he became a student at the National Normal university of Lebanon, 0., with a view to qualifying himself thoroughly as an instructor. That famous school for the training of teachers honored him with the degree of B. S. at his graduation in 1891 and a year later he received the still higher degree of M. S. After completing his studies at Lebanon, Mr. Cadwallader resumed his old charge at Vienna and remained there two years and a half. His next responsibility was as principal of the Blanchester (Ohio) schools for three years, when he was appointed professor of history and Latin in the Normal university at Lebanon. He was holding this responsible position when called to fill the superintendency at Greenfield, the duties of which have since absorbed his attention. In this thriving Ohio city Mr. Cadwallader has fully demonstrated his ability both as an educator and administrative officer. He has charge of twenty-one teachers in schools showing a total enrollment of 850 pupils, and the excellence of the superintendent's management is shown by the superior drill and efficiency exhibited in all the grades. In 1892, Mr. Cadwallader was married to Bertha Miller, an accomplished lady of Clarksville, 0. He is a communicant of the Christian church and member of the Royal Arch masons. Andrew S. Cailey, merchant at East Danville, comes from one of the oldest pioneer families in Highland county. The records show that his grandfather, Frederick Cailey, was one of the sparse population of New Market township as far back as the organization of the county. He was a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, and before leaving that state had married Mary Roadheaffer, who was a first cousin of the famous Indian fighter, Lewis Wetzell. Frederick Cailey located in that part of Highland county which afterward became White Oak township, became the owner of about 200 acres of land, and died when sixty years old, his wife reaching her eightieth year before passing away. Their son, John Cailey, was BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 259 born in White Oak township November 13, 1813, and in early manhood married Sarah, daughter of Anthony and Sarah Sonner. He purchased a farm of 128 acres in Concord township, where he made his home during the remainder of his life, occupied principally in cultivation of the soil. Aside from this, however, he was a local minister of the United Brethren church and for many years was quite prominent in religious work. His wife died when about sixty-six years old, but he long survived his consort and passed away in the eighty-fourth year of his age. They had a family of seven children, of whom Francis M., Newton J. and Aramitha are dead ; the living are Delilah, wife of John Robinson, of Missouri ; William A., of California ; the subject of this sketch ; and Rachel, wife of W. M. Young, of Columbus. Andrew S. Dailey, third of the children in age, was born in Concord township, Highland county, Ohio, March 21, 1852, and with the exception of two years spent in Missouri, remained at home until his twenty-eighth year. He engaged in the mercantile business at East Danville and has prospered, having one of the most modern and comfortable dwelling houses in the village. In fact he has as complete a general store as can be found in the county, outside of large cities, and it must be a very unreasonable customer who cannot find there what he wants. His store rooms are large and commodious and he does and deserves to do a large business, as he is courteous to all customers and up-to-date in his methods. Mr. Cailey first married Amy Fleming, a native of Highland county, by whom he had an only child named Sarah. The mother died in 1889, and Mr. Cailey took for his second wife Maggie, daughter of C. P. and Elizabeth Helsley, of White Oak township, and one child, Marjorie, has resulted from this union. Besides his mercantile business, Mr. Cailey finds time to fulfill the duties of postmaster at Winkle, the official name of his place, and also those of station agent for the Hillsboro railroad. In Oddfellowship he is a member of East Danville lodge, No. 844, and Encampment No. 243, at Sardinia. John Crawford Caldwell, a prominent live stock dealer and one of the commissioners of Highland county for several years, comes of a family long identified with the county's industrial development. The founder of the Ohio branch was Crawford Caldwell, a native of Ireland, who was brought across the ocean by his parents when about eight years old. He served as a soldier during the war of 1812 and was among the earliest of the settlers of Ross county. He left a son named Allen, who was born and married in Ross county and lived there some years, but in 1857 transferred his home to Highland county, where he died in 1896. His wife was Eleanor Jane Winegar, member of a well known family of Rockbridge county, Virginia, which had representatives in the Scioto valley at what is now called 260 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. "an early day." Mrs. Allen Caldwell, who is still living at Greensfield, became the mother of fourteen children, of whom John Crawford Caldwell is the oldest. His birth occurred in Ross county, Ohio, in 1839, and there his early training was obtained before the removal of his parents heretofore mentioned. December 31, 1861, he was married to Effie Ann, daughter of William S. Town, deceased, and member of one of the oldest families in Highland county. Mrs. Caldwell died in 1872, leaving four children: Addie, wife of Will- iam Crooks of -Highland county ; William A., also of Highland, and James AL, of Fayette county ; John S., superintendent of the Southside school in Greenfield. In 1872 Mr. Caldwell took a second wife in the person of Effie Lawson, by whom he has five children: Clara, wife of Fred Marks; Mary, wife of George Conner of Fayette county; Austie, Donald and Cora, wife of Frank Snarrenberger. Throughout his life Mr. Caldwell has been more or less closely connected with the live stock industry, chiefly as a shipper, in which line he has done a large amount of business and become well known to the trade. He finds time also to take part in all the local political contests in Highland county and has been recognized for years as one of his party's leaders. In 1891 he was elected a. member of the board of county commissioners and by re-elections held that important position, nearly seven years. He is a member of the first Presbyterian church at Greenfield and of the order of Odd Fellows, and is recognized in all the relations of life as a clever man and good citizen. Lafayette Callaway, of Union township, has worked his way up from poverty to a position as one of the representative farmers of Highland county. On the side of his paternal grandfather, he is of North Carolina origin, John Callaway having come from the old North State to Adams county many years ago and married a widow McCoy, whose son by her first husband was one of the wealthiest men in that part of the state. This marriage resulted in the birth of a son named William, who married Margaret Toler, a native of Kentucky, and a few years afterward enlisted in the Sixty-first Ohio regiment, was captured and died a prisoner at Andersonville. His widow, who is living at Mineral Springs, Ohio, was left with five children, of whom three survive. One Of the latter is Lafayette Callaway, who was born in Adams county, Ohio, September 19, 1859. So early as his ninth year he was forced to realize that a life of hardship lay before him and that he would be compelled to earn his daily bread by unremitting labor. For eleven years consecutively he worked by the month and several years for daily wages, but he did not lose heart, persevered and eventually found himself on the road to independence. In 1877 he came to Highland county and in 1887 bought the farm of 62 acres, which he now owns and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 261 resides on. As a general farmer and successful stockraiser he occupies a position in strong contrast to the enforced toil of his earlier years. Mr. Callaway also finds time to help out in the public business and has served as constable and supervisor in Union township. November 26, 1886, he was married to Sarah E., widow of James Sharp, who has a son by her first husband named James B., and a daughter by Mr. Callaway called Susie. The family attend the Christian church, of which Mrs. Callaway is a member. Charles Newton Carey, who resides in the village which derives its name from his father and is one of the most progressive citizens of Penn township, is connected both by descent and marriage with strong pioneer families. His grandfather, Samuel Carey, was born in Virginia, December 2, 1785, married Anna McPherson, and in 1834 purchased 100 acres of land where the village of Careytown was subsequently built and named. He died in Clinton county in February, 1878, and his wife December 19, 1866. Jonathan Carey, one of their children, who died February 14, 1873, was the village blacksmith for thirty years, and his son Gurney 13. now resides on the old homestead. David McPherson Carey, another of the sons of Samuel, was born in Highland county, May 6, 1822, and subsequently became one of the leading farmers in Penn township. It was to him the community was indebted for the little village which bears his name and constitutes a convenient center for the transaction of neighborhood business. He married Rebecca Hiatt, who was born February 11, 1827, and died January 5, 1887. Her great-grandfather came to Penn township in 1816 and her father, Thomas Hiatt, spent most of his life at Samantha engaged in the milling business. The children of David and Rebecca Carey were Thomas L., Amos H., S. Albert Annie E., wife of Taylor Hixson David F. Hattie E. wife of Milburn Himiller; Elwood O., James E., Charles N., Matthew, Minnie, Thaddeus L. and Irvin. Charles Newton Carey, who appears ninth in the above list, was born near where he now resides in Highland county, Ohio, March 27, 1859, and grew up to the life of a farmer. At the present time he owns 121 acres of land, which is well improved and equipped with a fine barn, besides the cosy dwelling house in Careytown in which the family make their home. Mr. Carey was the leading spirit in organizing the Careytown Telephone company, whose lines extend from Leesburg to New Vienna through the first mentioned place and constitute an improvement which adds much to the social enjoyments, as well as business convenience of the neighbors. This company opened for business June 15, 1901, with twenty-six subscribers, and now has about eighty regular patrons. Its officers are Charles N. Carey, president; Henry Sanders, secretary and treasurer; who, with Joseph Bailey, Thomas H. Smith and R. H. Ockerman constitute 262 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. the board of directors. February 28, 1889, Mr. Carey was married to Cornelia Edwards, descended on both sides of the house from early pioneers who exercised great influence in their respective communities. Her great-grandfather, Robert Edwards, was born December 28, 1775, married Abigail Barnes, and among his children had a son named after himself. This son was born in Chester county, Pa., June 6, 1803, and married Elizabeth Conard, a native of the same state, with whom he afterward located in Highland county. He died near New Lexington, June 27, 1883, and his wife passed away in 1888 at the age of eighty-six years. Their son, Charles B. Edwards, married Mary, daughter of Gilbert and Anna (Hussey) Holmes, and they became the parents of the following named children : Anna, wife of Salkeld Larkin ; Florence, wife of Elwood Carey; Horace D., of Penn township ; Cornelia, who became Mrs. Charles Newton Carey ; Edgar Holmes, a. fanner of Penn township ; Gilbert H., a dentist at Greenfield ; Robert Carl, recently returned from twenty-two months' service in the Philippines, where he was promoted to a sergeantcy ; Elizabeth, at home ; Henry Charles, a teacher in Penn township. Mrs. Carey's mother was reared by her grandfather, Stephen Hussey, who came to Highland county from North Carolina in 1805 and has many descendants. The children of Charles Newton and Cornelia (Edwards) Carey are Ethel, born August 16, 1890 ; Bernice, born November 19, 1891; Donald M., born December 19, 1893 ; Ruby and Reba (twins) born January 9, 1896 ; Ralph, born June 1, 1898 ; and Helen, born January 27, 1902. James Beason Carlisle, the efficient and popular superintendent of the Highland county infirmary, is connected with one of the old and substantial families. His grandfather, Rynard Carlisle, was born in Pennsylvania in 1788 and was married in May, 1815, to Ellen Simmons, born in Maryland in 1794. Some years subsequent to their marriage they removed to Highland county, where he died in February," 1851, and she in December, 1873. Their children were James S., born December 7, 1817; Betsey, who married John L. Hughes, of Marshall, in 1840, and died in February, 1901; Sarah, who was married January 20, 1848, to John Lucas of Marshall township ; and Siana, married October 5, 1848, to Jonathan Spargur of Marshall. James S. Carlisle, the eldest of the family, was married January 8, 1852, to Emily Jane, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Lowman) Hill, and this union resulted in the birth of ten children. Of these William R. is farming near Carmel church ; Hamer H. resides in Xenia, Ohio ; Sarah E. is the wife of John Burnett of Marshall ; John S. lives at Denton, Tex. ; Nannie V. married J. M. Williams of Mt. Sterling, Ohio ; Carrie L. is living with her mother at Marshall ; James B. died when two years old ; James Beason is BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 263 further mentioned below ; Donn W. and Grace D. are at home. James Beason Carlisle was born at Marshall, Highland county, Ohio, April 2, 1870, and received his education in the township schools. After he grew up he was engaged for some years in farming and the life insurance business, which continued until the early months of 1900. March 1st of that year he was appointed by the board of commissioners to the responsible position of superintendent of the Highland county infirmary, a place which he has since filled in a manner entirely acceptable to all concerned. March 3, 1896, he was married to Stella, daughter of Ambrose R. and Nancy Alice (Roberts) Setty, scions of old and honored families of Highland county. The Settys, as well as Lewis Roberts, the father of Mrs. Nancy A. Setty, came from Virginia and were among those who earned the honored name of being early settlers of the county. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle are Carshall Carter, born January 23, 1897; Grace Genevieve, born July 20, 1898 ; and H. Beason, born January 20, 1901. Case Brothers.—Isaiah Case, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Greenfield in 1870 and purchased the property known as the Model built in 1849 by a man named Knox. He conducted the establishment for several years, then sold it and engaged in the planing-mill business. In a short time, however, he resumed charge of the mills and retained control until his death. He married Hannah Owens, by whom he had a family of four children, consisting of two sons and two daughters. Their names are John W., Charles, Maud and Saturah A., the latter wife of Charles, son of Hon. H. L. Dickey, who is cashier of the Commercial bank. In 1898, under the firm name of Case Brothers, the two sons took charge of the Model Mills. John. W. Case, the elder of these brothers, though born in Jackson county, Ohio, was brought to Greenfield when an infant two years old. After finishing school he worked for some time in the mills with Edwin I. Brown and in 1890 entered the Commercial bank as individual bookkeeper. He retained this position five years and in 1898, in partnership with his brother, Charles, assumed control of the mill property which they have jointly managed since that time. Aside from his business, Mr. Case has been identified in a prominent, way with the official and social life of the city. In 1898 he was elected treasurer of Greenfield and held that office four years. He is a member of the First Baptist church and of the order of Odd Fellows. Wilson Chaney, a substantial farmer of New Market township, has a pioneer ancestry running back to the days when all was still chaos in central Ohio, with a few straggling settlers fighting against great odds the battle of civilization. The great-grandfather came 264 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. from Maryland to Highland county about 1804, bringing with him a son named Amos, who was born in 1786, and inherited the home place in New Market township. Amos followed farming and remained all his life on the property left by his father, being ninety-six years old when he died. Of his ten children, three died in infancy, the others being Amos, Jesse, Charles, Nathan, Sarah and Mary. Charles Chaney, third in age of the family, was born February 6, 1820, and married Catherine, daughter of Samuel and Rachel Lemon of Highland county. They lived continuously on their farm until their respective deaths, the ages recorded on the stones in the New Market cemetery being sixty-six for Mrs. Chaney and eighty years for her husband. Their children were two, a son, and a daughter named Olive J., now wife of John Clark and residing at New Vienna, Ohio. Wilson Chaney, the only son and eldest child, was born in New Market township, Highland county, Ohio, July 21, 1846. His first marriage was to Elizabeth A. Keys, a native of Highland county, and immediately after this event he located on the farm adjoining the one now constituting his home place. Here, however, he remained only a short time, when his present place was selected as a residence and there he has spent most of his subsequent days. The children by the first marriage are Clinton, of Steubenville; Pearl, of New Vienna Hardin, and Basil, of Perry county. After a residence of ten years, Mr. Chaney removed to Nebraska, where his wife died, and shortly afterward he returned to the old place in Highland county. Some time subsequently he married Sally McAdam, of Ross county, who died about eleven years later. His third matrimonial alliance was with Emma J. Moler, of Highland county, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Moler. By this marriage there has been one child, Leo. Mr. Chaney has served as school director and supervisor, and is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry at Hillsboro. His wife is a member of the Christian church, and the family enjoy the general esteem of their neighbors. John F. Chaplin, who is descended from an old pioneer family of Highland county, is strictly a self made, man, as he started with nothing and has been the architect of his own fortunes. The family springs from William Chaplin, who was with the advance guard that invaded Highland county in the first decade of the century. He lived to an advanced age and brought up his children in White Oak township, among the number being Jeremiah Chaplin who married Sarah, daughter of John Fouch of Hamer township. In 1852, he moved to Schuyler county, Illinois, where he died in. August, 1863, leaving a wife and four children in poor circumstances. In the spring of 1864 the widow returned with her boys to the house of her father in Hamer township and four years afterward located in New Market township where they grew to manhood under her fostering BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 265 care. The names of these children, all of whom are still living, are Roland and John F. of New Market township; George, of Liberty township, and Aaron of Lyons county, Missouri. John F. Chaplin, second in age of this quartet, was born in White Oak township, Highland county, Ohio, September 20, 1850. After his father's death, though only thirteen years old, he was compelled to work out for wages to assist in the support of the family and all he earned was dutifully turned over to his mother. May 21, 1874, he was married to Henrietta Duckwall, descendant of one of the earliest and best known of Highland county pioneers. He took his bride to a small place he had purchased in Liberty township where he spent eight years and removed .to another farm in the same township. After remaining there about three years he came to his present residence in New Market township where he owns eighty acres of land and carries on general farming. Mr. Chaplin can justly claim to be a self made man as he has made all he possesses from most discouraging beginnings and depressing poverty. For his good home and comfortable surroundings he is indebted altogether to his own hard labor and determination to conquer adverse circumstances. Mr. and Mrs. Chaplin have had two children, both of whom died in infancy, but they adopted Grover Store when three years of age and have reared him as a member of the household. Mr. Chaplin is a member of the Christian Union and at one time held the position of elder in that denomination. Philip W. Charles, as a general farmer and stockbreeder and proprietor of various kinds of machinery, is one of the busiest as well as one of the most enterprising citizens of New Market township. For more than three quarters of a century his immediate relatives have been influentially identified with the industrial interests of that part of Highland county. His grandfather, who became a set-tier there as far back as 1825, married twice and had two children by each union, by the first Minor and William A., both now dead, and by the second, William and Thomas. William A. Charles, who was his father's namesake, was born in Virginia in 1822 and was only three years old when his parents reached New Market township. In his fifteenth year he decided to "weed his own row," and commenced by securing farm work by the month for wages that were by no means princely. This laborious life he kept up some five or six years, when he married Lydia, daughter of Philip and Polly Wilkin, an esteemed pioneer family, and took his bride to the old home place, where he spent his subsequent life in farming and buying and selling stock, for a while also filling the office of justice of the peace. He died at the comparatively early age of thirty-seven years, and is buried by the side of his wife in the cemetery of the Reformed Church, of which both, during life, were consistent and attentive 266 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   members. Their eight children were Harriet, Rachel A., Philip W., Sarah C., Mary, George, Polly, and Louisa. Of these, all are dead except Philip W., who was born in New Market township, Highland county, Ohio, on the farm where he now lives, December 202 1846. He was still a boy at home when the civil war opened, but enlisted February 11, 1864, in Company H of the famous First regiment Ohio volunteer cavalry with which he served during the stirring campaigns that marked the year of his entrance into the service. Mr. Charles took part with his regiment in the movements of Sherman's army preceding the fall of Atlanta. Besides innumerable skirmishes and minor engagements, he was in the following battles : Atlanta, Franklin (Tenn:), -Montgomery and Selma (Ala.), Columbus and Macon, (Ga.). He was mustered out at Hilton Head, S. C., and came home by way of New York and Columbus, after which he resumed his work on the farm with a consciousness that he had performed his full ditty to his country. He married Sarah *J., daughter of Philip and Elizabeth Trop, of New Market township, and began housekeeping at the place of his nativity. From the date of his return from the army to the present time he has been a very busy man, with many "irons in the fire" but all well handled. Besides general farming and stockbreeding which he conducts on an extensive scale, he manages a saw mill, a threshing machine and a corn-shredder. In 1900 he held the important position of land appraiser, extended to him in acknowledgment of his ability as a business man and knowledge of real estate values. He is a member of the National Protective Association and master of Golden Ridge grange, No. 230, Patrons of Husbandry. Mr. and Mrs. Charles have five children : Orissa, at home ; Nellie, wife of L. W. Warson of Westerville, Ohio ; Oscar, Bertha and William A., at home. The family are communicants of the Reformed Church in which Mr. Charles holds the position of elder. William M.. Cleveland, the popular manager of the large distilling plant of Freiburg & Workum, at Lynchburg, is a first-class business man and ofe Of the leading citizens of his community. His grandparents were Moses and Catherine (Greene) Cleveland, the former from Virginia and the latter a native of Kentucky, who closed their lives as residents of Indiana. Their son, John D. Cleveland, was born in 1835, and after he grew up followed the calling of an engineer on steamboats and railroads. In 1874 he located at Lynchburg where he secured employment as engineer for the distilling plant and remained until his death, which occurred in May, 1890. His wife was Rachel, daughter of William Piercy, an Englishman who came to America in 1839 and married Elizabeth Dods-worth, a native of Cincinnati of English descent, with whom subsequently resided at Louisville. Mrs. Rachel (Piercy) Cleveland, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 267 who still resides at Lynchburg, has three children. The youngest two are Minnie, wife of Charles B. Russell, of New York ; and Harry F., superintendent of the Louisiana Distilling company, of New Orleans. William M. Cleveland, eldest of the children, was born near Jeffersonville, Ind., May 18, 1857, and shortly after the family moved to Louisville, Ky., where he received his education in the city schools. He remained until 1874, when he came to Lynchburg and became connected with the distillery of Freiburg & Workum. Later he removed to Petersburg, Ky., where he took charge of a large establishment for the same firm. After remaining there four years he returned to Lynchburg and assumed control of the distillery there. This plant was purchased by its present owners in 1857 and was partly destroyed by fire in 1893, but was rebuilt on a more substantial basis. It has nine large warehouses, uses an average of 1,250 bushels of grain per day and produces about a million gallons of whiskies per year, giving employment to about eighty hands. With the exception of two years, Mr. Cleveland has devoted all of his time since 1874 to this business and is regarded as an expert in that kind of work. As superintendent of the entire plant, great responsibilities rest upon him, and his long continued service with the same firm is sufficient proof of the satisfactory manner in which his manifold duties are performed. He is a selfmade man in the best sense of that term and recognized as one of the leading as well as most popular citizens in the community where he resides. He was elected a member of the board of water works, reelected for a second term and is now serving as president of the board. In February, 1882, Mr. Cleveland was married to Sadie C. Montgomery, descendant of a worthy family of early settlers in this part of Ohio. Her father, William Montgomery, who was an iron-moulder in New York, married- Mary Ann Extel and in 1838 brought his family west in a covered wagon, locating in Highland county, where he died in 1868. His wife, who was born in 1809, survived until 1890, her children being John, Samuel, David, Thomas (of Lynchburg), Mary, Susannah, William E., Joseph S., Edward, and Mrs. Cleveland. Joseph W. Clouser, of Greenfield, has a family connection with Ross county which extends back almost a full century. It was in 1803 that his grandfather moved in, along with that straggling line of immigrants which was making its way by slow stages over the Alleghanies to the land of promise in the valley of the Scioto. The first settler left a son named George Clouser, who prospered as a farmer and stockraiser and became one of the substantial men of his community. He married Jane Bell, daughter of William Bell of Adams county, Ohio, by whom he had three children. The eldest is Joseph W., subject of this sketch. John A. Clouser, the sec- 268 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. and son, lives at Berne, Ind., and Tobitha, the youngest child and only daughter, is the wife of C. C. Allemang, of Greenfield. Joseph W. Clouser was born in Ross county, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1850, and was reared and educated on the farm. In 1872 he married Martha J., daughter of George and Jane Allemang. She died in March, 1885, leaving four children, of whom Carl S. is in business with his father, Frank is married and residing in Greenfield, Jesse is with the Price machine works, and Elsie is the wife of Earl Patterson. Mr. Clouser took for his second wife, on March 23, 1887, Nettie, daughter of Philip Shingle. Two daughters, Lyndall and Daisy, have been the fruits of the second marriage. In 1872, Mr. Clouser located at Greenfield, where he was employed awhile in the Murray & Lunbeck planing mill, then learned the cabinet-maker's trade and engaged in the furniture business with John M. Murray. Later ha spent four years in contracting, after which he embarked in the undertaking business which he has since followed continuously. In 1896 he patented the faultless truck and for several years was engaged in its manufacture with Mr. Price, eventually disposing of his interest to the latter and confining himself entirely to embalming And undertaking. Having spent sixteen years in the undertaking business, he has mastered it in all of its details and has equipped himself with all the modern appliances for successful business. For twelve years past he has held the position of trustee of Greenfield cemetery. He is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Greenfield, of the Improved Order of Red Men and the Odd Fellows. Albert G. Cockerill, though not an old resident, was sufficiently prominent and popular to be elected in 1901 a member of the board of trustees of Madison township, of which Greenfield is the commercial capital. Mr. Cockerill is one of those substantial, progressive farmers who have helped to give the Buckeye state such fame in matters agricultural and place her in the very front rank as a producer of fine stock. He is a native of Iowa, another of the famous agricultural states, but came to Ohio with his parents when ten years of age. They settled in Fayette county, where his father, Edward E. Cockerill, became a leading farmer and rose to prominence in politics. He was elected and reelected commissioner of Fayette county and has held the office for many years, ranking high as a business man and was consulted as a safe adviser in all county affairs. He married Heressie Binegar and reared a family of nine children. Albert G. Cockerill being, as previously stated, a mere lad when he reached Ohio, received most of his schooling after reaching Fayette county. It was only such as is usually given to farm' boys who are not intended as teachers or for the professions, but he was naturally studious and of an inquiring disposition and has added to his knowledge by reading and study. He engaged in farming in BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 269 Fayette county and remained there until 1892, when he concluded, to try his fortune in Highland county. He reentered agricultural pursuits as soon as he arrived and has since paid close attention to general farming and stock feeding. In 1889 he was married to Naomi, daughter of Henry Mark, a prominent farmer of Fayette county. The three children resulting from this. union are Cleo, Clayton and Angeline, all bright and promising of future usefulness. In 1901 Mr. Cockerill was elected trustee of Madison township and he has given entire satisfaction by his manner of discharging the duties of that office. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Greenfield and a most excellent citizen in all the relations of life. Monto B. Coffin, the talented editor of the Leesburg Buckeye, is a native of the Hoosier state and grandson of Nathan Dix Coffin, one of the early settlers of Hancock county. He was born in Rush county, Indiana, in 1867, obtained a good education in the common schools and in early manhood decided to cast his lot with the people of the Buckeye state. It was in 1889 that he arrived at Cincinnati, where he spent three years, and removed to Clinton county where he was engaged in farming until 1899. In that year he purchased the Leesburg Buckeye, since which time he has been an active factor in the community and one of its most enterprising citizens. Under his able management the Buckeye has become a popular and influential paper, enjoying a large circulation and exercising a decided influence in the territory contiguous to Leesburg. Mr. Coffin has shown himself to be a bright and forcible writer, well informed on public questions and anxious to advance the general welfare by timely and intelligent advocacy. He does his full share towards keeping the press of the state well to the front as a civilizing agent and exponent of the best popular thought. In fact he is one of the pushing and enterprising young editors of Highland county and is doing much for the growth and development of the Leesburg community. In 1892, he was married to Atilla Leeka, whose father was one of the oldest settlers of New Vienna and a man of prominence in Clinton county. This union has resulted in the birth of a bright little daughter named Helen. Mr. and Mrs. Coffin are popular in the social circles of Leesburg and New Vienna, and Mr. Coffin is prominently connected with the Masonic order. Jonathan B. Cowgill, farmer and stockraiser, bears a name long known and respected in Highland county and inseparably associated with the history of Paint township. Many a wanderer in the olden days has directed his weary footsteps to the "Cowgill neighborhood," well assured of hearty reception, as the locality was not only prominent in the annals of religion and society but famous as the abode 270 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. of charity and hospitality. It was a community settled and dominated by the Society of Friends, a name synonymous with gentleness, with law and order and the heaven-sent message of "peace on earth and good-will among men." It was as far back as 1806 that Henry Cowgill, his wife Eleanor and their three children, Sarah, Benjamin and Henry, formed a little procession on their way from Culpeper Court House, Va., seeking a home in the west. They first located on Hardin's creek, in what is now Fairfield township, but later Mr. Cowgill purchased a large tract of land in Paint township for which he paid at the rate of two and one-half dollars per acre. Of the family above mentioned, Benjamin Cowgill long survived all the others. He married Margaret Garrett and by her had four children who grew to maturity, of whom Henry is a retired farmer at Petersburg, Martha married Lewis Roads, William and Eleanor are dead. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Cowgill married her sister, Rachel Garrett, by whom he had the following children now living: Sarah, wife of Harry Evans, of Greenfield; Hattie, wife of William Parker, of Iowa ; Jonathan B., the subject of this sketch ; Mary, wife of Jonathan Roush ; and Charles G., of Paint township. Benjamin Cowgill was a blacksmith by trade and carried on the shop in connection with his farm of 212 acres. He was all his life a devoted member of the Friends society and donated the land on which in 1876 they erected the handsome house of worship which has since been used by the congregation. He served as county commissioner one term, though he avoided office seeking and all the methods known to what is called "practical politics." Benjamin Cowgill, after a long life of usefulness, passed peacefully away February 28, 1888, aged eighty-six and a half years, having long survived his second wife, whose death occurred in December, 1868. Jonathan B. Cowgill, third in age of the last group of children, was born on the ancestral homestead in Highland county, Ohio, September 19, 1846, and grew to manhood amid the quiet surroundings of this rural neighborhood. March 25, 1869, he was married to Rebecca E., daughter of Samuel and Mary (Kinser) Parker, by whom he has had eight children. Of these, William, the first born, is dead; B. M. is in Indiana ; Albert G. is a principal in the Friends academy at Moorestown, N. J. ; Clarence O., Benjamin, Thomas R., Martha D. and W. Parker are at home. Mr. Cowgill, after his marriage, took charge of the home farm and has since heen engaged in general farming and stockraising. Though he votes the Republican ticket he takes no active part in politics but devotes his time entirely to his agricultural pursuits. Like his ancestors for many generations back he is an adherent of the Friends and has inherited the kindly disposition and hospitable traits that have been characteristic of all the Cowgills. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 271 The Cowman Family.—As early as the year 1818 John and Elizabeth Cowman left their Virginia home and joined the tide of emigration then setting in strongly toward the Ohio valley. They became settlers of Highland county, where their descendants have since been found among the staunchest and most respectable of the citizenship. When they arrived their son John F. was a mere infant, his birth having occurred in Virginia, December 19, 1815, but he grew up to be a useful and prosperous member of the community. In early manhood he became a miller and at different periods of his life was engaged in milling in various localities, including eleven years at Greenfield. April 18, 1838, he was married to Caroline, daughter of John and Betsey (Kees) Foster, with whom he lived happily over thirty years and who bore him a large family of children. Mrs. Cowman's father came from Pennsylvania and in 1812 purchased a tract of land in Liberty township, on which in 1827 he erected a dwelling-house that is still well preserved and makes a comfortable residence. It was at this place that Mrs. Cowman was born February 20, 1817, and here she is spending the even, ing of her days under the affectionate care of her children. Her husband died January 26, 1869, but a few years before that event he purchased the eighty-one acres of land settled by his father-in-law and to this estate Mrs. Cowman and her children removed soon after the father's demise. The farm is situated four miles north of Hillsboro, along the New Vienna pike, contains a good orchard and is in a thrifty condition. Among the children of John F. and Caroline (Foster) Cowman was a promising son named John Madison, born February 6, 1840, who enlisted in Company C, Eighty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, served three years and died from the results of a wound received September 2, 1864, at Atlanta. William C., the second son, who also served in the Union army, is now clerking for Wolfe & Colvert of Hillsboro. Samuel W. resides on the farm with his mother; Edna is the wife of John McCright of Fayetteville, Brown county ; Esther C. is caring for her mother at home; Emma Jane died in January, 1900, and five others passed away in infancy. H. A. Cowman, general manager of the Greenfield Printing and Publishing company, is of Virginia stock, and grandson of Alexander Cowman, who came from the Old Dominion to Highland county when a young man and embarked in agricultural pursuits. His son, John M. Cowman, became a merchant and for years has followed that business at Greenfield. The latter's son, H. A. Cowman, was born and reared in Highland county and when thirteen years old became a clerk in his father's store. He early developed a taste for journalism, his first venture in that line being as editor of a paper at Greenfield called the Tri-County News. Some time 272 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. later he had charge of the Daily Journal, holding also a position as bookkeeper with the pad manufacturing establishment at Greenfield. In April, 1901, he took charge of the Greenfield Republican, and has since been the general manager of that business. He is a member of the Presbyterian church at Greenfield. The Crawford Family.—The name of Crawford is a memorable one in the annals of Ohio and especially identified with the history of Ross and Highland counties. The family here mentioned is descended from a Pennsylvania family of Irish descent, of which two of the sons were captured by Indians about the year 1760, and were prisoners in Ohio until surrendered to General Bouquet at the famous treaty of 1764. One of them afterward settled on Eagle creek, in Brown county, and the other located at Crawfordsville, Ind., which was named after him. The Colonel Crawford whose defeat in 1782, and subsequent burning at the stake in what is now Wyandot county, was one of the most tragic events in the annals of Indian massacres, was a relative of the Highland county branch of the family. Alexander Crawford, a brother of the Indian captives alluded to, was born in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary war, and was the first of the family to gain a foothold in the Scioto valley. He married Anna Pigman and with her and four children left his native state in the fall of 1795, floated down the Ohio on a small flat-boat to the mouth of the Scioto, and ascended that stream in a canoe to the vicinity of Chillicothe. He was a millwright and helped to build the floating mill famous in Chillicothe history, commonly supposed to have been the first mill of any kind upon the Scioto river. After remaining about two years at his first location, Alexander Crawford moved to the mouth of Waugh's run on Deer creek, which locality he abandoned in 1799 and selected a place of residence on what afterward became the site of Centerfield in Highland county. Here he remained about six years and the place was long known as "Crawford's Thicket." From this point he removed in 1805 to Paint township, Ross county, his land extending into the Highland county township of the same name. In 1807, he built on the Highland county bank of Paint creek a grist-mill which became an important factor in the domestic life of the neighborhood. Here he lived and carried on his work until 1823, when he was drowned while attempting to cross the creek in a canoe. His children, all of whom are long since dead, were seven in number and named as follows: Jesse, Alexander, Mary (Mrs. Nathan Thomas), Sarah (Mrs. James Greenfield), Elizabeth (Mrs. William Greenfield), Susan (Mrs. John McElwaine) and Elsie (Mrs. Joseph Estle) of Indiana. Alexander Crawford, Jr., second of the children in age, was born in Green county, Pa., in 1790 and was consequently a lad of five years when he floated down the Ohio with BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 273 his parents on their adventurous voyage to the western wilderness. After he grew up he was associated with his father in the management of the mill and after the latter's death took charge and conducted the business alone for some years. In 1825, he sold the property to Mr. Barrett and removed to Plum run, a mile or more southwest of his former location, and there built a saw and grist mill which he conducted until 1850 when his sons assumed charge of the business. Alexander Crawford was a man of most excellent traits of character and very interesting as a companion on account of the experiences of his early life. He was a companion of the Indian boys, with whom he played and hunted, and he personally knew many of the warriors who became famous in history. Among his acquaintances were such celebrated characters as Logan and Tecumseh, and Captain John, a Shawanee chief who taught young Crawford how to hunt deer. He often went with his father to visit Waw-wil-a-way, the old chief who resided on Rattlesnake creek, and whose base murder by Wolff has been much reprehended by all the historians of the pioneer days. Mr. Crawford was present at Old Town (now Frankfort.), Ross county, when the ceremonies establishing peace between the murderer and his victim's sons were celebrated, and often during his life spoke of the impressiveness of the scene which there ensued. Alexander Crawford, Jr., who was a fine millwright, erected many mills on various Ohio streams and was widely known as well as highly esteemed for his cheerful and sociable disposition. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Benoni Brown, who came to Ross county from Virginia, and as a result of this union there were eight children. Jemima, the eldest, and widowed wife of Solomon Mershon, is a resident of Clermont county where her brother Jackson is also living in his eighty-sixth year. John joined the Second regiment, Ohio heavy artillery, and was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow soldier in Kentucky. Mary was drowned in infancy, and Catherine, who married S. G. Gough, died in July, 1901. The other three children are Alexander, Jesse and Anna, the latter a widow of John O'Neil. Alexander Crawford, Jr. died May 15, 1874, in his eighty-fifth year, having long survived his wife whose death occurred in 1841. Alexander Crawford, the third, who was born in 1828, and his brother Jesse two years younger, worked together in the mill for some years and the latter learned the trade of a millwright. In the spring of 1857 they purchased in partnership 188 acres of land which they operated jointly for some time, and a few years later removed to their present place of residence, where in 1870 they erected a commodious dwelling-house. The two brothers now own 500 acres of land, which is well improved and equipped with all necessary agricultural conveniences. Formerly they raised mules extensively, but latterly have confined themselves H-18 274 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. to general farming and breeding of miscellaneous stock. February 16, 1865, Jesse Crawford was married to Ruth V. Wheaton, of Madison township, daughter of John F. and Mary (Vance) Wheaton, natives of Pennsylvania. The children of this union are five in number: Emma, married Joseph Burgess, of Paint township and has one child, John A. ; John A. Crawford died August 27, 1894; Elizabeth E., wife of Albert McCoy, resides at Washington Court House; Luana, married Russel Hughey and died August 6, 1896, leaving one child, Ruth E. ; Jessie M., wife of Samuel Buck, has two children, Elizabeth and Catherine. Lewis Crum, in the early days one of the best known men of Highland county, was born in Virginia, February 10, 1787, and in early manhood married Sarah Eagle, born in Virginia October 5, 1787. A few years later they moved to Wayne county, Ohio, and not long afterward, in 1823, made their home in Brush Creek township, Highland county. There Lewis Crum, who was a carpenter by trade, bought the old mill now known as the Porter mill, which he operated, with the exception of about three years, until his death, on April 7, 1861. His wife died on January 20, 1862. Their eleven children were: George,- residing at Bainbridge; William, deceased ; Amelia, of Coshocton county ; John Harrison, Millie, Anna, deceased ; Strawder, of Kansas; Eliza, deceased ; Sarah, of Louisiana ; Alcinda, deceased ; Rachel, deceased. John Harrison Crum, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, January 27, 1817, and was reared in Brush Creek township mainly, where he married Ann M. Wickerham, and began house keeping at Sinking Spring, where they lived about twelve years. Two years they spent at the place now owned by Mrs. Hempstead, and then they occupied the farm where their son, John H., now lives. He lived to the age of seventy-nine years and his wife to fifty-nine. Their children are : Jacob W., residing in Brush Creek township; John H., subject of this notice; Joseph W., Samuel, and Peter N. living in Brush Creek ; Sarah, wife of D. Shoemaker, of Brush Creek, and Lewis, whose residence is in the same township. John H. Crum was born on the Hempstead farm, October 20, 1844, and was educated in the district school. At the outbreak of the great civil war he was among the first to offer their services to the nation, and enlisted in Company L of the Second regiment, Ohio cavalry, with which he was mustered in at Columbus. Being sent to Virginia, he was on duty there for twenty two-months, participating in a number of encounters with the enemy, including the notable battles of the Wilderness, Hanover Court House, Dinwiddie Court House, Ream's Station Cedar Creek, Winchester, Charlottesville; and Harper's Ferry. At the conclusion of his service he was mus-