BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES – 275 tered out at St. Louis, Mo., when he returned home and resumed the work of farming. Soon afterward he was married to Phoebe Lowe, a native of Maine, and for four years they made their home in Liberty township, afterward removing to the old homestead. He built a handsome residence in 1901, affording him a comfortable home, upon 125 acres of valuable land. He is a member of the Grand. Army of the Republic and a Republican in politics. Mrs. Phoebe Crum, who died in 1892, was the mother of three children : Pearl, wife of R. J. Pope; Oscar, residing in Brush Creek, and Ivy, wife of J. Grable. On May 11, 1901, Mr. Crum was united in marriage with Mrs. Martha Garman and there was born to this union one child, Nina. Peter N. Crum, a younger son of J. Harrison Crum, Sr., of whom a sketch is given in the foregoing, was born December 1, 1.858, on the farm where he now lives. At nineteen years of age he went west, to Illinois, Minnesota. and Iowa, and was most of the time in employment on. the railroads. Then returning home, he bought part of the old place and married Mary A. Roads, of Brush Creek township. Seven children have been born to them : Chester, Sherman, Cecil, Blanche, Golden and Silvie (twins, the latter deceased), and Roscoe, deceased. Mr. Crum is the owner of 104 acres of good land, is a successful farmer and good business man, and is unusually popular in the township, as was shown recently by his election as the Republican candidate for trustee in a township generally Democratic by a large majority. He is serving his first term in this office, which he is adapted to fill with credit and benefit to the public. Thomas Cummings, one of the early settlers of Brush Creek township, was a patriot soldier of the war of 1812, served the full term and was rewarded with a land warrant, but unfortunately lost his rights through some of the devious land operations of the early days. He married Susan Ockerman, who, like himself, was a native of Virginia, and they made their home upon a small tract of wild land in Brush Creek township, where they reared ten children : Henry, William, John, Martha, Mary, Barbara, Elizabeth, Anthony, Daniel and Thomas. Thomas Cummings was one of the founders of the first church in the township, and lived an honorable and Christian life, which is remembered with pride by his many descendants. Daniel Cummings, one of the sons, now prominent in Brush Creek township, was born there February 27, 1832, and in early manhood married Jane, daughter of James and Elizabeth Woolfe. In the time of the great rebellion he volunteered for the military service and was a private in Company B of the Hundred and Seventy-fifth Ohio infantry, with which he served about ten months in Tennessee. Though he started in early manhood without property he now has 276 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. a valuable farm of 152 acres, and is much respected, and has been honored with the offices of school trustee and supervisor. He is a comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic and a steward in the Methodist church. He and his wife have had nine children : Barbara E'., John W., James T., George A., Joseph, Charles E., Eliza E., Wesley, and one that died in infancy. Thomas Cummings the younger, son of Thomas, whose name heads this sketch, was born and reared in Brush Creek township, and married to Mary J., daughter of Jacob T. and Elizabeth Hizer. He lived to the age of about sixty years, and was one of the successful farmers and influential men of the township. Taking a great interest in educational and religious affairs, he served for a number of years as a member of the school board, and was one of the staunch supporters of the old Pisgah Methodist church, and one of its trustees for many years. His children weEdwardward S., residing in Paulding county ; Mary E., at the old home; Martha E., at Belfast, Ohio ; Daniel R.; Melissa J., Ollie A., and Sherman are deceased; and Farris B. resides on the old homestead. Daniel R. Cummings, son of Thomas and Mary J. Cummings, was born on the farm now owned by his mother March 21, 1868, and was educated in the public schools. In his youth he began teaching in the schools of Paulding county, and he followed this profession for five years, then returning to Highland county and taking charge of the old homestead, and marrying Annie E., daughter of John N. and Catherine Butters of Marshall township. They are now living on the farm of her parents, and he is the owner of sixty acres of valuable land, but farms a larger area, with much success. He is one of the prominent young men of Marshall township, and has been honored with the responsible office of township trustee. He is a member of the lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 25, at Hillsboro, and a steward and trustee of the Methodist church. In politics Mr. Cummings is ,a Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Cummings have three children : Fay M., Ruth V., and N. Gladys. Robert C. Daisley, breeder of thoroughbred cattle and hogs and one of the substantial farmers in the vicinity of Lynchburg, Ohio, is a native of Highland county, of Irish parentage. His father, William Daisley, was born at Mt. Charles, parish of Inver, Donegal county, Ireland, in 1811 and came to America in 1833, but did not reach Highland county until six years later. He settled one mile south of Fairview in Hamer township and as he was an industrious young man of good address he soon made headway in business. Some years after his arrival he obtained the hand in marriage of Margaret Barnes, member of a wealthy and influential family who were identified with the county from its organization. Her parents were John and Christina (Tedrick) Barnes, natives of Pennsylvania, who BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 377 settled in Dodson township and there spent the remainder of their days. They had thirteen children and the father was able to give to each son one hundred acres and to each daughter fifty acres of land, his whole estate amounting to about nine hundred acres. The father died in 1857 and his wife a few years previous to that time. William Daisley and wife lived happily together for many years, her death occurring in 1874, at the age of sixty-eight, and his in 1891, when he was eighty years old. They had four children and the only one living is Robert C. Daisley, born in Hamer township, Highland county, Ohio, March 5, 1852. He attended school with a view to qualifying himself as a teacher and subsequently followed that useful occupation for fifteen years, being so employed from September, 1871, until March, 1886. In 1891 he located on a farm of 110 acres in Dodson township, where he has since been engaged in general farming and the breeding of fine stock. He makes a specialty of the Shorthorn Durham cattle and Poland—China hogs, and has met with success as a handler and producer of these popular varieties. August 12, 1877, Mr. Daisley was married to Salina A. .Clark, born in Clinton county, Ohio, July 12, 1851, by whom he has two children, Maud and. Myra R.. Maud attended the Lynchburg high school and has been a successful teacher for several years. The family are members of the Christian church. Mrs. Daisley is the eldest daughter of Carey and Rebecca (Hildebrant) Clark. Her father was born in Clinton county, Ohio, November 26, 1828, and died there on June 25th, 1901. Her mother also was born in Clinton county, May 8, 1832. The Clarks and Hildebrants were among the pioneer settlers of Clinton county. James B. Davis, member of the board of commissioners of Highland county and well known as a breeder of fine stock, is a representative farmer and popular citizen. He was born and reared on a farm and all his life has been devoted to agricultural pursuits, in which he has achieved a flattering measure of success. Mr. Davis was born in Paint township, Highland county, Ohio, October 9, 1856, and when twenty years old the responsibility of managing the home farm devolved upon his youthful shoulders. He attended closely to this laborious task and during the nine years he had charge managed the estate with entire satisfaction to all concerned. In 1885 he went to Montgomery county, Iowa, where he assisted his brother in a grocery store and took advantage of his leisure time by attending school for the purpose of perfecting his education, which had been somewhat neglected on: account of the exigencies of business. Eventually he returned to his old duties as manager of his father's farm and in a year or two became sole owner by purchasing. the interests of the other heirs. At present Mr. Davis owns a fine body of land, consisting of 220 acres, well located and well improved. 278 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   He cultivates this farm by modern methods and pays especial attention to breeding Shorthorn cattle and other stock of the best grades. In 1900 Mr. Davis held the important position of land appraiser, and in the fall of 1901 was elected commissioner of Highland county on the Democratic ticket. He is a member of Paint lodge, No. 453, Knights of Pythias, at Rainsboro, and for five years has held the position of supreme master of exchequer. He also had the honor of being the first representative of the local body in the grand lodge of the fraternity. October 20, 1880, he was married to Cora M., the accomplished daughter of Capt. David M. Barrett, the well known mill owner and business man. The children resulting from this union are Birdie E., who is attending Earlham college at Richmond, Ind. ; Grace, whose promising life was cut short at the age of sixteen ; Georgia, and James, Jr. Mr. Davis is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rainsboro and holds the positions of steward, trustee and Sunday school superintendent. Thomas D. Davis, of Mowrystown, who has been prominent for many years as a township official and business man, is descended from a Quaker family established in Paint township at an early date in the settlement of the county. His grandfather, William Davis, a native of South Carolina, came to Ohio from that southern state with his wife and family to Highland county, located near New Petersburg, and was well known among the early settlers as a skillful shoemaker in the days when that trade was one of importance and profit. He lived to the advanced age of eighty-five years, and reared a family of six children: John, Thomas, William, Tristram, Jane and Elizabeth. William, Jr., was born near New Petersburg, in Paint township, February 22, 1797, and was reared on the farm. Very early in his manhood he rented a small saw mill, which he conducted with considerable success, and afterward purchased a small farm on Rattlesnake creek, where he made his home, and took his young wife, Elizabeth Elliott, whom he married April 15, 1824, and who was a native of Pike county, and daughter of Burgess Elliott, a native of Kentucky. Some years later he bought the farm of two hundred acres in Concord township, upon which he afterward lived, and which is now known as the William Davis farm. There he reared a family of twelve children—Elliott, now living in Missouri; Elvina. and Alonzo, deceased ; Ellen, whose home is in Concord township; Jane, deceased ; Elizabeth, residing in Missouri; John, who was a soldier of the Union and died at the Andersonville (Ga.) military prison ; Thomas D., the subject of this sketch, and Melissa, Joseph A., Sarah and Mary, deceased. The father of these children was a devoted member of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, prospered in his worldly affairs, and had the high esteem of his neighbors. He died November 21, 1870, at the age of seventy-three BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 279 years, and his wife died March 7, 1891, at the age of seventy-four years. Thomas D. Davis was born October 22, 1844, on the home farm in Concord township, near Sugartree Ridge, and was educated in the district school. He was a boy of sixteen years when the war of the rebellion began, and as has been noted, an older brother went into the army and lost his life. After he reached the age of eighteen years he also offered his services to his State and the Union, becoming a private soldier, July 23, 1863, in Company E of the Sixty-sixth regiment Ohio National Guard. On May 1, 1864, he was made a corporal in Company A of the Hundred and Sixty-eighth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, a 'regiment that was formed by uniting the Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh National Guard. His regiment was ordered on duty ill Kentucky, and he was a participant in the following summer, in the famous battle of Cynthiana, in which the Ohio troops were surprised and overwhelmed by the noted rebel raider, John H. Morgan. He and his comrades were made prisoners but released on parole next day, and returning to Cincinnati, he was honorably discharged September 8: 1864. This was the end of his hoyhood experience as a soldier. Returning to Concord township, he resumed farming, and on October 14, 1868, was married to Martha J. Collins, a native of Adams county, 0. They lived for twenty-six years on the farm. where they began housekeeping, until 1900, when Mr. Davis bought his present home. Three children were born by his first marriage: Ivah, living at the old home place; Olin E., at Greenfield, 0., and Edward, who died in childhood. The first wife died in 1896, and in 1897 he married Mary E.. Gailey, who was born an reared in Brown county. In addition to farming Mr. Davis has had success in a business way as agent of a Dayton fertilizing manufactory and as agent and director of the Farmers Mutual insurance company, of Winchester, 0. He has served many years as a member of the school board, and several terms as township trustee. In religious matters he is a member of the Methodist church in politics a Republican. In association with his comrades he has been active as adjutant, chaplain and two terms commander of Lewis Bunn post, No. 724, Grand Army of the Republic, at Sugartree Ridge, and he is now adjutant of the John Ball post, No. 943, of the same patriotic order, at Mowrystown. David T. Deck, one of the thrifty and enterprising farmers of Penn township, has spent his entire life in agricultural pursuits and been identified during all his adult years with the development of Highland county. The founder of the family was Jonathan Deck, born in West Virginia about 1813 of German parentage. In 1835 he came to Clinton county, Ohio, where he married Sarah, daughter of James and Martha Colvin, a Kentucky family who had settled 280 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. in that vicinity some years previously. The children of Jonathan and Sarah Deck were James C., who served about three years in the civil war, married Angel Conner and died at the age of thirty years; John C., a farmer in Warren county, Indiana, married Kate Bloom; Hannah Lizzie, wife of George Jenks, farming in Clinton county near Ogden Station ; Henry, a farmer of Union township, married Rachel. Fenner; Nancy J., wife of William Robaugh of Green county; Samuel, married Louisa Dennis and farming near New Vienna; Sarah Margaret, wife of Seneca Dennis, a farmer of Clinton county ; David, further noticed below ; Mary, wife of William Hogue, grocery clerk in New Vienna; Mattie, housekeeper for her brother David; George C., married Minnie Hixson and farming in Penn township ; Thomas works for his uncle David, and George C., a brother, is also a member of the same hospitable household. David T. Deck, the kind and fatherly head of this family of brothers and sisters, manages a farm of 150 acres belonging to Mary Woodmansee and is what is called a "cash renter." He has lived twenty years on this place, which is situated one mile west of Careytown, and has gathered around him all the necessary requirements of a good home. Being industrious and a careful manager, Mr. Deck obtains a satisfactory remuneration from the sale of his crops of wheat and corn, besides hogs and other stock to the raising of which he pays considerable attention. John F. Dollinger, a retired farmer of Dodson township residing near Lynchburg, is a German contribution to the citizenship of Highland county. He was born in Germany May 14, 1831, his parents being Sixtus and Christine B. (Ueberreuther) Dollinger, who ended their lives in the land of their nativity. They had six children, and John F. Dollinger is one of the four living. He received a good education in his native land, acquiring a fair knowledge of French and Latin, besides the more practical branches usually taught in the German schools. The rule of that country requiring all of its citizens to give up a part of their lives to the military service operated to make young Dollinger a soldier when eighteen years old. He gave up six years of his life to the regular army and during that time got to see some active service as he participated in two small wars. The first of these was the Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark controversy in 1849 and the other the Hessen-Cassel, or Kur Hessen affair in 1851. Mr. Dollinger received two slight wounds during the fighting in which he participated and made a very creditable record, going in as corporal and coming out as second lieutenant. It was in 1861 that he turned his face westward for the long journey to the United States and he arrived rather disqualified for business in the new country, as he could not speak a word of English. This, however, and other difficulties were soon overcome by German per- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 281 sistence and quickness to learn, and Mr. Dollinger in time acquired a full knowledge of the American language. His first venture was made in Cincinnati, where he turned his attention to such jobs as he could get, and later he secured employment on a farm. Eventually he made his way to Highland county, where his industry enabled him to accumulate considerable property and he now owns over 104 acres near Lynchburg and 125 acres in Clinton county. He spent three years in Kansas and became the owner of a farm in that state which he disposed of and returned to Ohio in 1879, since which time he has lived retired on his property near Lynchburg. Mr. Dollinger is a member of the Lutheran church, and of Lynchburg lodge, No. 178, in the Masonic order, and lodge No. 151, of the Odd Fellows. June 26, 1864, he was married to Amelia Sinning of Webertown, Ohio, by whom he has had six children : Anna B., J. Nicholas, J. Leonard, George (deceased), Dora, and Leo H. James Norman Douglass, one of the leading agriculturists in Highland county and owner of one of the choicest stock farms in Madison township, belongs to a family with an ancient and honorable lineage. George Douglass, who died in Pennsylvania at the age of sixty-five, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and his son William, though a boy at the time, also helped in the great struggle as a teamster. When William Douglass grew to manhood he married Mary, daughter of Samuel Scott, also a veteran of the war for independence. The latter migrated from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and took part in the border warfare with the Indians which was quite frequent in those days. His wife, whose maiden name was Fisher, fell a victim in one of the numerous massacres perpetrated by the Indians on the white settlers of Kentucky. In 1810, William and Mary (Scott) Douglass came to Ohio and, after a short halt at Pickaway Plains, moved on to Highland county and settled permanently in the vicinity of Greenfield. He had brought with him $8,000 in silver, which enabled him to purchase a large body of land which subsequently became of great value. He resided on his place a short distance south of Greenfield until his death, which occurred December 23, 1852, when he was about eighty-eight years old. William and Mary (Scott) Douglass became the parents of ten children, including a son named James, who was born in Pennsylvania but came as a very youthful immigrant to Highland county. When he grew up he married Mary Mackerly, member of a pioneer family who settled in Paint township. As the result of this union there were five children: Mary S., widow of J. W. Quinn, residing at Greenfield ; Martha Lucinda, wife of Cyrus F. Wilson of the same city ; William H. Douglass, of Greenfield, and Ariadne, wife of Robert Dill, of Missouri. James Norman Douglass, who completes the list, was born on the old homestead near Greenfield, Ohio, Novem- 282 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. ber 29, 1849. In addition to the ordinary common school education which he received, he for nearly a year attended the private school taught by Professor Blair some three miles from the Douglass home. In October, 1873, he entered the employment of Col. Jacob Hyer, at that time engaged extensively in the grain business at Greenfield. Though the compensation was not large, the training was valuable for a young farmer as it taught him the ins and outs of the grain trade, the buying, storing, shipping and selling. In May, 1874, he returned to the home farm and took full charge with a view of discharging financial obligations and getting the estate in better order. At the time of his father's death, the farm comprised 365 acres of land, but it was considerably involved in security debts. Mr. Douglass by good management discharged about $6,000 of the indebtedness, and then, in association with his brother, William H. Douglass, purchased the entire farm. The former now owns 340 acres, most of which belonged to the original estate, and this is one of the most valuable stock farms in that part of the state. The brick house on the farm was erected in 1848, being one of the first. of the kind built in Madison township, and at the time was regarded as something extra fine for that section. For many years Mr. Douglass has been extensively engaged in the stock business in its various branches, as a breeder, feeder, buyer and shipper. On December 25, 1884, he was married to Rose, daughter of Peter and Rachel Porter, of Ross county. Peter Porter is now living in Concord township and is one of the oldest residents of the county, more than ninety years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Douglass have two children living, Mary C. and Laura Lucile. Mr. Douglass has been a member of the Masonic order over twenty years and has reached the Royal Arch degrees. William Henry Douglass, a prominent resident of Greenfield, and owner of one of the choice Highland county stock farms, possesses an honorable ancestral lineage of which much is said in the preceding sketch. His grandfathers, maternal and paternal, first assisted to fight the British and then joined the army engaged in the still harder contest involved in settling the western wilderness. William Douglass, born in Cumberland (now Perry) county, Pennsylvania, in 1765, at the age of sixteen served as a teamster with General Washington, later married Mary, daughter of Samuel Scott, also a revolutionary veteran who moved to Kentucky and took part in those stirring scenes which gave that state the name of "the dark and bloody ground." In 1810, as has been stated, William Douglass started for Ohio, somewhat better equipped than the average emigrants, and, in 1811, purchased a large body of land, estimated at twelve or fifteen hundred acres, lying mostly in the survey of Gen. Duncan McArthur near Greenfield. William Douglass cleared, improved and cultivated this property until it became one of the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 283 finest landed estates in Highland county and most of it is still in the hands of the descendants. James, son of William, born in Pennsylvania in 1807, married Mary, daughter of Michael Mackerly, a pioneer from. New Jersey, and the subject of this sketch is one of their children, as above stated. William H. Douglass was born on the old Douglass homestead near Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, June 22, 1845. He passed his boyhood on the farm, with the usual intermixture of work and school attendance until April, 1864, when he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry and served with the same until the expiration of the term of enlistment in the following September. The command spent six weeks in Kentucky looking after Morgan and two months in charge of prisoners at Cincinnati. In 1865 Mr. Douglass became a pupil of the South Salem academy and spent two years at that institution. This was followed by three years attendance at Miami university, Oxford, which he left before obtaining a degree for the purpose of engaging in educational work. The next eight years were devoted to teaching in the public schools of Ross, Fayette and Highland counties. Subsequently, he went through a course of law study and was admitted to the bar at Chillicothe, but abandoned the intention of entering the profession in order to follow the more congenial occupation of farming and stock raising. He owns a handsome estate near Greenfield which is largely devoted to breeding and feeding cattle, sheep and swine, and holds a leading position in the livestock industry of Highland county. June 19, 1884, he was married to Susan W., daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Wyant, of Jackson county, Ohio. Several years ago, Mr. Douglass built a handsome residence on Lyndon avenue in Greenfield and in 1897 removed to that city for the purpose of better educating his only daughter, Lizzie Mackerly Douglass. He is a member of the United Veterans Union and the Grand Army of the Republic. The family are communicants of the Presbyterian church and occupy a worthy place in the social circles of Greenfield and vicinity. Thomas J. Driskill, of Clay township, a prominent citizen and veteran soldier of the Union, is a grandson of John and Catherine Driskill, natives of Maryland, who came to Ohio in 1808, with their, children, and bought and cleared two hundred acres of land in Fairfield township, Highland county, living there until eighty years or more of age. Their eight children, most of whom are now deceased, were George, Lewis (living at Vienna, Ohio), Allen (living in Indiana), William, Henry, John, Nancy, and Sarah. John, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Maryland in the year 1800, was reared in Ohio from eight years of age, and from eighteen years of age lived at Lexington, Ohio, until his marriage there to Phoebe (Woodmansee) Conway. He was engaged in hotel keeping at Lex- 284 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. ington for several years, after which he bought a farm of 112 acres in Fairfield township, Highland county, where he resided until his death at fifty years of age. He was a man of influence and popularity, and was honored by his fellow citizens with a number of local offices. His wife survived him, dying at the age of eighty-five years. Four children they reared : Charles C., who lives at the old homestead ; John W., of Vienna; Ivans D., deceased, and Thomas J. The latter, whose name begins this sketch, was born December 28, 1835, at Lexington, Highland county, and remained at the home of his parents until, in early manhood, he enlisted as a soldier in defense of the Union. He became a member of Company D, Forty-eighth regiment Ohio infantry December 27, 1861, being mustered in at New Vienna, and in the following spring he had his first experience, in the great battle of Shiloh April 6th and 7th, 1862. Afterward he was on duty with the army in Mississippi and Louisiana, fighting under Grant Shermaniman at Vicksburg and Jackson, and in March, 1864, while taking part in the Red River campaign, under General Banks he was one of the prisoners taken by the Confederates in the unfortunate battle of Mansfield, La. Being sent to Texas, he was held in prison camp for six months, after which he was exchanged and permitted to rejoin his comrades at Natchez, Miss. After various minor engagements he took part finally in the battle and capture of Blakeley, an outpost of Mobile, in the spring of 1865. Then they were sent to Texas to occupy that state and menace the French in Mexico, and Mr. Driskill was mustered out at Galveston, at the close of over four years' service. He was a faithful and gallant soldier, making a record which will be treasured by his descendants. After his return to the Highland county home he resumed farming and was married to Sarah C. Barker, a native of the same county. They first made their home in Adams county, moved thence to Illinois, and from there to Iowa, where they resided for eleven years. Finally they came back to Highland county, and Mr. Driskill bought the farm he now occupies. Nine children have been born to them: Ivins D., deceased ; John, of Price-ton, Ohio ; Laura A., at home; Cynthia A., of Salem township; Charles W., at home ; Mary E., of Cincinnati ; and Rosa, Clara B., and Eva M., at home. Mr. Driskill is successful in his enterprises as a farmer and stock raiser, in politics is a Republican, and is highly regarded by his fellow citizens. John W. Duncan, one of the representative farmers of Highland county, comes of a family whose ancestors settled in Madison township as far back as 1806. The Ohio branch originated from Robert and Esther Duncan, who emigrated from Scotland to York county, Pennsylvania, where the former died in 1838, when ninety-five years old, and his wife in 1840 after reaching the advanced age of ninety- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 285 eight. Among their large family of children was a son named Robert, who was born in York county, Pa., in 1777, and in 1806 came to Ohio with a cash capital of $270, which was expended for land near Greenfield at $1.25 an acre. This land is still in possession of the descendants, but it is hardly necessary to add that the purchase price has increased at a ratio that would startle the original buyer. In 1800 James Mann had emigrated from Ireland, bringing along with him his daughter Mary, then about four years old, and found a permanent home in Highland county. April 20, 1817, Mary Mann became the wife of Robert Duncan, thus making that combination of Scotch and Irish which ethnologists regard as one of the most vigorous of all racial offshoots. The marriage proved fruitful, as from it sprang a family of ten children, all of whom grew to maturity and eventually became heads of households. The parents long since passed away, the father dying in September, 1843, and the mother January 7, 1870. John C. Duncan, third in age of the ten children above mentioned, was born on his father's homestead near Greenfield,. Ohio, March 4, 1822, and throughout life this has been his place of residence. October 12, 1847, he was married to Catherine Elizabeth Lumbeck, born in 1830 of pioneer parents whose names were Daniel and Rachel (McCoy) Lumbeck. They came from New Jersey, married in 1816 and had a family of nine children, the father dying in 1853 and the mother in 1879. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Duncan have reared nine children, the youngest being twenty-eight years old, and there has never been a death in the family. Samuel Q., the eldest of the children, married Caroline F. Dunlap, and resides at Greenfield ; Daniel O. married Mary E. McElroy and is farming in Fayette county ; Mary Ellen became the wife of Daniel A. Kline and they live on a farm in Ross county ; Robert W. married Laura F. Adams and is a resident of Fayette county ; Emma. J. is the wife of Hugh Nevin McElroy, who lives near Ottumwa, Iowa.; Lizzie Bell is at home, James J. and Curtis Wirt are in Fayette county. John Wiseman Duncan, fifth in the list of the above enumerated children, was born on the paternal homestead near Greenfield, May 4, 1861. February 14, 1889, he was married to Nannie Ruth Anderson, by whom he has four children : Ruth, Robert., Rachel and Mabel. He settled on a farm in Madison township and has been engaged ever -since in the peaceful pursuits of agriculture, ranking as one of the representative farmers and model citizens of Highland county, a worthy member of one of the most substantial and highly esteemed family connections in the county. He has been a life-long member of the First Presbyterian church at. Greenfield and for some years has held the position of deacon. M. Irvin Dunlap, a popular attorney of . Greenfield and regarded :as one of the most promising of the younger members of the bar, 286 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. comes of a family long prominent in Highland county. He is a son of William and grandson of Milton Dunlap, M. D., for many years a physician of high standing at Greenfield. The latter's brother, Dr. Alexander Dunlap, was one of the most prominent surgeons in southern Ohio. After finishing the sophomore year at Wooster college, Irvin Dunlap matriculated at Cornell university and received the degree of Ph. B. with the class of 1891. Having made up his mind to enter the legal profession he became a student in the Cincinnati law. school, where he was graduated as bachelor of law in 1894. Immediately thereafter he began the practice of his profession at Greenfield and has continued it to the present time. He is regarded by his friends as a young man of fine promise and one of the best lawyers of his age in southern Ohio. He served a. term as city solicitor of Greenfield with entire satisfaction to all concerned and is looked upon as in the line of promotion to much higher honors. He is a young man of studious and exemplary habits, a member of the Presbyterian church and connected with the Masonic fraternity. Andrew W. Dwyer, a well known farmer and stockraiser, has long been identified with the agricultural interests of Madison township. He is of Irish blood, his grandfather James Dwyer having emigrated from the Emerald isle in youth and settled in the western part of old Virginia. He left a son named Aaron, who migrated to Ohio in 1835 and settled in Highland county where he became a leading farmer and stockraiser. Aaron Dwyer married Abigail Hedrick, a native of West Virginia of German descent, by whom he reared a family of four children : Esther, widow of Harvey Murdock Caleb, president of a bank at Springfield, Kansas Joseph, a resident of Highland county, and Andrew W. Dwyer. The latter was born, bred and educated in Highland county, and in 1878 was married to Martha, daughter of Noah Glascock, who was a native of Culpeper county, Virginia, and one of the early settlers of Highland county. Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer have five children : Earl, educated at the Ohio State University, and now teaching in North Dakota; Stanley, Frank, Laura and John. Mr. Dwyer has spent his whole life in agricultural pursuits, making a specialty of the breeding of stock. Among his choice possessions is a fine herd of thirteen thoroughbred Polled Angus cattle, which are among the best of their kind in the State. The family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Greenfield, of which Mr. Dwyer is a trustee. George E. Easton, a former trustee of Brush Creek, and influential citizen, is a grandson of Edward Easton, a native of England, who was married in that country to a Miss Shadford, and immigrated to the United States in 1815, first settling in Pennsylvania. After a short stay they moved to Kentucky and remained several BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 287 years and then made their home in Ripley, Ohio, until their death. Edward Easton, son of the foregoing, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born in England in 1810. He came to Sinking Springs in early manhood, and engaged in business as a merchant, and married Mary N. Amen, a native of that place and member of one of the early and prominent families of the county. She is still living and at the age of 87 is well preserved. Later, Edward Easton, Jr., established a tannery near Sinking Springs, in Pike county, where they lived some time, afterward moving to Hillsboro, where he was in the leather business. About 1860 he established a tannery on the farm where his widow now lives, and there he died at the age of seventy-four years. He was a man of religious nature, and was widely known as a local minister of his church, as well as esteemed by all his acquaintances as a man of integrity and kindness. He and his wife had seven children: Mary C. and Erastus, who died in infancy ; Hyman N., deceased; George E., Sarah R.., living at Kansas City ; William T., in Kansas; and Rev. John A. Easton, of Winchester. George E. Easton was born at Sinking Springs, September 29, 1836, was educated at the Hillsboro schools, and in early manhood married Kate Jolly, of Liberty township, descendant of a well-known pioneer family of the county. After living two years in Hillsboro, he moved to the farm. where he now lives, taking charge of the tannery established by his father. Five years later he removed with his family to Illinois, but later returned to Highland county, where he has since remained. He is a man of prominence in his township and enjoys the respect of his neighbors and acquaintances. The wife of Mr. Easton died in 1882, leaving five children living, besides two who died in infancy : Edward, living in Kansas City ; Mary, of Cincinnati ; Charles, Mamie and Catherine, residing in the same city. Samuel Edingfield, trustee of Union township and one of its substantial farmers and popular citizens, comes of Pennsylvania stock. His father and namesake was a native of the Keystone state, born in Fayette county in 1808, and being left an orphan in early boyhood was bound out to a Mr. Thomas. As soon as he reached maturity he married a Miss Carr, by whom he had five children, only two of whom are living. In 1835 he came to Highland county, where he met and married Nancy Arledge, a native of North Carolina, born in 1806, and brought to Ohio by her parents when a girl. He did fairly well and accumulated 148 acres of land. At his death in 1893, he left three children by his last marriage, one of whom is Samuel Edingfield, the subject of this sketch, who was born in Highland county, Ohio, August 2, 1845. At an early period of life he began work for himself and after years of hard labor and saving can point to eighty-five acres of well-improved land as a fair 288 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. return for his efforts. He follows general farming, raises stock, looks closely after all the details of his operations and stands well among his neighbors. This is proved by the fact that he is now and has for six years been trustee of his township, managing the duties of that office in such a way as to give entire satisfaction to his constituents. In 1875, Mr. Edingfield was married to Sarah Fenner, of Highland county, by whom he had three children, Roy, (deceased), Flora and Charles. The mother died in 1892, and in December, 1896, Mr. Edingfield was married to 011ie Smith, of Highland county. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Rufus O. Elliott, one of the worthy farmers of Washington township, was born May 13, 1840, son of Charles Elliott, who was for many years a well-known and popular citizen of Highland county. Charles Elliott was a native of Pennsylvania, and reared in that state. Being a poor boy, he was bound out in childhood, but when he came of age he determined to embrace the opportunities of the west and came to Highland county, where he found employment during the remainder of his life as brick and stone mason and plasterer. He also gave considerable time to farming, and after living for fifteen or twenty years on the place now owned by E. Mullenix, bought a farm of 111 acres in Washington township, where he died at over seventy-five years of age. His widow, eighty-nine years of age, is now living with her son Henry. She was Nancy Smith, daughter of Jeremiah Smith, and was born and reared in Liberty township. Charles and Nancy Elliott had four children: Angeline, now living in Dakota Clarinda, wife of John Sanders, of Concord township; Henry M., of Liberty township, and Rufus 0. of Washington township. The latter, whose name heads this sketch, was reared on the home farm, where he has continued to live to the present time, and educated in youth in the district school. In early manhood he married Hannah A. Vance, who was born and reared in Newmarket township, daughter of David J. and Eliza Vance, and three children have been born to them : Eliza, deceased Ella M., wife of Edward J. Muntz, and David H., of Hillsboro. The death of Mrs. Elliott, depriving the family of a devoted wife and mother, occurred April 24, 1900. Mr. Elliott is a member of the Methodist church, and a Democrat in politics, and is held in high esteem by his neighbors. Thomas M. Elliott, proprietor of the Greenfield steam laundry, has long been connected with the city's affairs in different departments of industry. His father, Alexander Elliott, was one of the Pennsylvanians who helped to settle Buckskin township, which is that part of Ross county bordering on Greenfield. He was a leading BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 289 business man of the latter city for many years and died there in 1862. He married Jane Adams, also a native of Pennsylvania, and they reared a large family of children, of whom the five living are John A., of Illinois David, of York, Pa. Isabella, widow of Beniah Fleming; Margaret A., widow of H. M. Devoss, and Thomas M. Elliott. The latter, who is the subject of this sketch, was born in Ross county, Ohio, and came to Greenfield when ten years old. He attended school at the Blair & McFarland academy, and at an early age looked about for employment His first venture was in the furniture business, with a partner, under the firm name of Murray & Elliott, which was progressing with good prospects of success until interrupted by the outbreak of the civil war. When that dire event occurred, Mr. Elliott promptly foresook his business to become one of that mighty army which was organized under the different calls of President Lincoln. Among the first regiments organized was the Twenty-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry, Company H of which was recruited in Highland county. Mr. Elliott joined this company and was mustered into service with the regiment in August, 1861. The same month it was sent to St. Louis, Mo., and on arrival encamped near that city. In the organization of the Army of the Mississippi, the Twenty-seventh regiment was assigned to the First brigade, First division. It was prominent in the siege of New Madrid and the attack on Island No. 10, and a few weeks after the last event moved to the vicinity of Fort Pillow. It took part in the second battle at Corinth, Miss., and at Iuka was in a hotly contested engagement. In November, 1862, it helped to gain a brilliant victory over Forrest at Parker's Cross Roads, capturing seven guns, three hundred and sixty prisoners and four hundred horses. The Twenty-seventh was in the Atlanta campaign, the march to the sea, the grand review at Washington, and was discharged from service in July, 1865. Mr. Elliott started in as a private, but was later made a sergeant, and in 1863 was promoted to the captaincy of a company in the Ninth Louisiana regiment, which rank he retained until mustered out at Natchez, Miss., in 1865. After his return home, he sought employment in a planing mill and later purchased a mill and embarked in the lumber business. This he carried on for twenty years, when he disposed of his interests and retired temporarily for a much needed rest His next venture was the purchase of the steam laundry which he has since conducted at Greenfield with entire satisfaction to himself and customers. His wife is Jennie, daughter of Henry Irwin, of Highland county, and they have an only child, Mary Irwin. Mr. Elliott is a member of the official board of the Presbyterian church at Greenfield, and by virtue of his army record holds membership in the patriotic organization known as the Grand Army of the Republic. H -19    290 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. Charles A. Ellison, of Paint township, superintendent of the Cave Farm, owned by a company of Chillicothe people, is a grandson of James Ellison, of Virginia, among whose children were James, Eli, Matthew, Joseph and Felix. The latter, father of Charles A., was born in Virginia in 1807, and in early manhood entered the ministry of the Baptist church, in which he became prominent and useful. In 1845 he removed to Ohio, where he died in 1860. By his first marriage to Eveline Walker, the Rev. Felix Ellison had three children : Virginia Caroline, Amelia Clementine, and America. Adeline; and by his second marriage, to Mary Ann, daughter of William and Lucy (Holdsaple) Carnifax, of Carnifax Ferry, Va., the following children were born: W. George L., who served three years and three months in the Fifty-sixth Ohio infantry ; Mary Emeline, who married Jacob Webb, first lieutenant in the Seventh Virginia regiment in 1861-65 ; Samantha, wife of John Duffy, of Virginia; Adoniram, who served in the Hundred and Seventeenth Ohio regiment and First Ohio heavy artillery, and since being enrolled in the army as Andrew, has borne the latter name; Charles A., subject of this sketch ; Emily Jane, who married John Riley Jewett, of Scioto county, and died at thirty-five years of age. Charles A. Ellison was born August 12, 1850. Though he was only a boy during the great civil war, in which his brothers participated, he served three months in the cause of the Union, with the state troops, under Captain William Turner. On February 16, 1874, he married Barbara, daughter of the Rev. John H. and Susan (Nichols) Lutz (now spelled Lute). The. Rev. John H. Lute was a noted minister of the Christian denomination, having spent almost his entire life in the ministry, in Scioto county, Ohio, where he died March 26, 1883. His wife survived him until September 3rd, 1886, when she also passed away. Four children have been born to Charles A. and Barbara Ellison: William George and Charles Samuel, who died in infancy ; Mary, who was educated in. the Bourneville high school; Andrew, who attended the same institution, and is now farming. Mrs. Ellison's brothers and sisters. are : Elizabeth, widow of Richard Throckmorton; George, Martha; Lydia, deceased, former wife of Joseph Wilson; Mary J., wife of Amos Higgins ; John and Robert, Jacob; Phoebe, wife of Newton Hilt, a soldier for three years in the Union army; and Samuel; all those living having their homes in Scioto county. Mr. Ellison has been engaged for several years in contracting and building turnpikes, but recently was secured by the syndicate that owns the Cave farm, as superintendent. He is a man thoroughly fitted for such a position, of good executive ability and active and enterprising in nature. He is one of the prominent men of Paint township. He and wife are members of the Baptist church, and he is affiliated with the Masonic lodge, No. 465, of Lucasville. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 291 James Euverard, an influential citizen of Clay township, is a grandson of one of the leading men in the French settlement that was made in Highland county about seventy years ago. George and Elizabeth Euverard, the original ancestors in America, were natives of France, where the father was a stonemason and maker of wooden shoes. They sailed for the United States in 1832, with their children, and after an ocean voyage of thirty-eight days reached New York. Their first settlement was near Lake Ontario, and five years later they removed to Cincinnati, from there coming to Highland county eighteen months later, and settling near Mowrystown. They bought a small farm in White Oak township, and later a farm in Clay township, where George died at the age of over eighty-three years and his wife, Elizabeth, at eighty-eight. They had eleven children: Peter, John, George, David, Susan, Margaret, Mary, Sophia, Catherine, Susannah and Elizabeth, of whom the only survivors are Mary and Catherine, both living in Clay township. Peter, the eldest, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Etobon, France, in 1809, and after he came to America with his parents, followed for many years the occupation of stone mason in addition to farming. He married in this country Susan Euverard, daughter of Peter, Sr., and Susan Euverard, who lived in the same town with himself in France. She came to America in the same ship with her husband. Some time after their marriage, they removed to Clay township, where they lived until their death, the father dying at the age of seventy-eight, and the mother at fifty-eight years. Peter Euverard acquired nearly three hundred acres of land, and was one of the best known men of the township. He left six children : Elizabeth, wife of H. Jodry, of White Oak township; Clanie, wife of L. G. Marconet, of Clay township James and Charles L., of Clay township, and Noah and Joseph, the latter two residing in Tennessee. James Euverard was born in 1840, on the farm now owned by C. L. Euverard, and was educated in the district school and at Lebanon, New Richmond and Buford. In early manhood he taught school for two terms, but his health failed and he was compelled to give up that profession. Subsequently he was engaged with his uncle in the manufacture of spinning wheels, and after that he and his brother gave considerable attention to the manufacture of brick, in addition to farming. From 1869 for nine years the two brothers owned and operated the old water mill at Mowrystown, and while living there James Euverard was married in October, 1870, to Columbia Himes, a native of Brown county. Twelve years later, in 1882, the mill was sold, and he bought a place of 48 acres in Clay township, where he now owns 95 acres of valuable land. Mr. Euverard is an enterprising and active man and enjoys the confidence of his associates. He served acceptably as township trustee in White Oak township, was a member of school board from 1884 to 1890, in all 292 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. six years, and had charge of the Gath postoffice for over four years by appointment of President McKinley. He is a valued member of the Baptist church. His only son, William Hayes, is living at home, and the daughter, Ida Pearl, is married to Albert Whiteing, of Clay township. Charles L. Euverard, a prosperous farmer of Clay township, is a grandson of George Euverard and son of Peter Euverard, pioneers of the French settlement of Highland county, of whom mention is made in the foregoing sketch. He was born September 5, 1842, on the farm now owned by him, and where his present residence now stands, and he has remained in the township ever since, with the exception of brief absences, never exceeding two weeks. Industrious, intelligent and enterprising, he has made a success of life, and stands high in the esteem of his fellow men. In youth he attended the district schools of the township, and learned the trade of stone masonry under his father, the well known and popular Peter Euverard. But he never followed his father's handicraft as a means of livelihood, directing his energies, instead, to the work of agriculture. In early manhood he was married to Mary A. Harris, a native of New Market township and daughter of Robert and Martha Harris, old and respected settlers. He and his wife have ever since resided upon the farm where they then began housekeeping, and their home has been blessed with four children: Loyd E., Robert C., Roy C., and Mary Christine. At the present time Mr. Euverard is the owner of 179 acres of good land in Clay and forty acres in Newmarket township. He has served the community ably for a good many years as school director and he is a valued member of the Baptist church and the Republican party. George L. Evans, of Clay township, one of the younger landholders of the county, is particularly well known as a breeder and owner of trotting horses. He is the son of Milford Evans, a native of Brown county, who married Zarilda, daughter of Joseph Ralstin, one of the old settlers of Brown county. These parents, Milford and Zarilda Evans, had nine children, Melissa and Jane, deceased William, now living in Missouri ; Sylvester, of Dayton, Ohio ; George L. Charlie, of Hamilton, Ohio ; Ida, of Cincinnati ; Ulysses, of Chicago, and Thomas S., of Dayton. Milford Evans was a gallant soldier of the Union in the time of the great rebellion, was on duty throughout nearly the entire period of hostilities, and received two honorable discharges. He died about 1869 and his wife passed away in 1865. George L. was born at the Brown county home of his parents October 18, 1855, and at the death of his mother, being ten years of age, he started out to make his own way in the world. Four years later he came to Highland county and worked at farming by the month for BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 293 several years. Thus the years passed until he reached early manhood, when he had the good fortune to win the hand of Margaret A. Harris, daughter of A. P. Harris, a prominent farmer of Salem township. Four years afterward he bought a small place in Brown county, and after about three years' residence there he purchased 33 1/2 acres where he now lives, an area that he has increased to 115 acres. He continued farming, prospering in this occupation and winning the esteem of his fellow citizens, until about ten years ago, when he gave his attention mainly to the rearing of horses. He now has a half-mile track at his home, has been quite successful in the training of valuable horses, and is the owner of Blackthorn, with a record of 2 :30, Aradill, a trotting mare with a record of 2 :191, and several promising colts that have not yet achieved fame. His home is one of the most pleasant in the county, and he is a popular and influential citizen. Mr. Evans is a member of the lodge of Odd Fellows at Buford, and a Republican in politics. James Fairley, one of the notable pioneers of Highland county, was a native of Scotland, who came to Ohio from Rockbridge county, Va., in 1815, and settled on a farm afterward owned by the Pattons, in Paint township. He built a distillery on his farm on Fall creek in 1818, and was engaged in that industry, common in that time, for some years. His death occurred in 1860. By his marriage to Nancy Lackey, he had eleven children : William, Jane, Nancy Y., Addison, Samuel M., Mary A., James Y., Amanda, Christina and David A. Samuel M. Fairley was born December 8, 1816, and married Sophia, daughter of Enoch and Sally Overman. She was the granddaughter of Zebulon Overman, a native of Green Brier county, Va., who came from the Shenandoah valley to Paint township, with his children, in 1805. The family has always been very prominent in the Friends society of Highland county. By this marriage Samuel M. Fairley had eight children: Caroline, wife of Amosiah Baldwin ; James W., deceased ; Levi B. ; Mary L., wife of James Hughey ; Enoch O. ; Nancy, wife of F. M. Johnson ; Elizabeth, and a son who died in infancy. Enoch Overman Fair-ley, son of Samuel M. and Sophia Fairley, was born in Highland county, October 26, 1852, and married in early manhood Mary Hindman, born December 9, 1859, daughter of William and Lucinda (Clark) Hindman. She is one of the children (the others being David C., Mary C., and Carrie Ellen) of William Hindman, born in Brooke county, W. Va., April 30, 1814, and died at New Petersburg, October 2, 1895, and his wife, Lucinda Clark, born April 3, 1831, in Highland county, and died at New Petersburg November 9, 1887. Enoch O. Fairley is a prosperous farmer of Paint township, residing about half a mile north of New Petersburg, where his home has been since childhood. He is a popular and estimable 294 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. citizen, maintains a membership in Emerald lodge, No. 211, Independent OrderOddO'dd Fellows, at New Petersburg, and is active and enterprising in his social and business relations. He and his wife have three children : Marie, born August 14, 1878, formerly a teacher in the public schools and now the wife of James E. Haines of Fayette county ; Lula, born May 10, 1881, and Herbert, born March 18, 1884. Cyrus W. Fairley, the well known grocer and livery stable proprietor at Hillsboro, is descended from one of the old pioneer families of Highland county. His grandfather was James Fairley, above mentioned, who came to Ohio from Rockbridge county, Virginia,1815 and.and settled on the farm in Paint township afterward owned by Joseph Patton. Among his eleven children was James Y. Fairley, born in Highland county, Ohio, December 25, 1822, and married in 1844 to Rosanna, daughter of Richard Barrett, an early settler of Paint township. The children of this union, consisting of five sons and five daughters, were Sallie J., wife of Joseph Dwyer, of Paint township ; Nannie E., wife of Valentine Graff, of Iowa ; Cyrus W., further sketched below ; David M., farming on the old homestead; Richard B., superintendent of the new chair factory ; Mary, deceased, wife of Barney Grimm, a farmer of Penn township ; John W., a shoe merchant of Greenfield ; C. Grant, farming in Fairfield township ; Ella, who died in girlhood ; Wilma P., living at Hillsboro. Cyrus W. Fairley, third of the above enumerated children, was born in Highland county, Ohio, August 30, 1849, and reared on his father's farm in Paint township. In August, 1897, he came to Hillsboro and enibarked in the grocery business, which he has since continued with success and now has a very fair trade. As a side line, he added the livery business, which he has conducted for four years, and in the spring of 1902 purchased the Jacob Uhrig stock on Beech street, adjoining the Clifton House, where he has since enjoyed an increased patronage. August 22, 1876,' Mr. Fairley was married to Hannah E., daughter of Martin S. and Margaret B. Swain of Clinton county. Mrs. Fairley is a sister of William Swain, who was for many years superintendent of schools at Montgomery, Ohio. Charles W. Swain, another brother, is a prominent attorney at Wilmington, Ohio, and Emma, a sister, is the wife of James L. Fullerton, a shoe dealer of Greenfield. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Fairley are Charles E., born in July, 1878, and farming in Fairfield township ; Rosa B., a graduate of the Hillsboro high school residing at home ; and Herman, a partner with his father in the grocery business. The Faris family is one of the oldest, as it is certainly one of the most numerous and influential of all the family connections in Salem BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 295 township. The first of the name to settle in America was James Collins Faris, born in Scotland in 1715, and an emigrant to Virginia in 1740. His son James was born in Virginia in 1742 and there reared a large number of children, among them being John Faris, who was born in 1770 and married Jane Watson, whose father was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, who had come to Virginia about 1740 and later served in the Revolutionary war. It was from the last mentioned couple that all the Highland county Farises descended. In 1813, John and Jane Faris located in New Market township and reared a family of sons and daughters which in numbers as well as sturdy qualities, was one of the strongest of the pioneer period. Every one of the entire thirteen grew to maturity, married, and reared children of their own. By the inexorable law, from which no mortal can escape, all have long since paid the debt of nature, but they left upon the communities in which they resided an impress for good which still remains as a precious heritage, to their descendants. A few brief biographical details of each one will prove of interest: Elijah married Mary Miles, settled on one hundred acres of land where Pricetown now is, and had six children. Catharine married Samuel Sweinhart in 1815, and first lived south of Pricetown, in a rough shanty enclosed on three sides only, from which, in her husband's absence, she had to fight away the wolves with an axe. They had seven children. Beniah had eight children and lived west of Pricetown. Mary married Jacob Cochran, settled in New Market and had eight children. Sarah married Abraham Wilkin, settled near Sonner's Mill in White Oak township and had eight children. Rachel married Daniel Scott, lived east of Pricetown. in Salem township and had three children. James W. married Mary Hoop, settled east of Pricetown and had three children. John B., eighth of the family, is sketched more fully below. Jesse married Nancy Davidson, a woman of remarkable character, by whom he had eleven children. Jane married Samuel Gibler and settled in Liberty township. Eli S. married Lucilla Pulliam and settled in New Market. Andrew F. married Susan Hoop, lived on a farm south of Pricetown, and had eight children. Uriah married Eliza Couch, settled south of Pricetown and had seven children. John Faris, the patriarch of this interesting family, soon after his arrival in the county, bought about 600 acres of wild land in New Market township, but later purchased 1,000 acres in Salem township which became the basis for his children's homes. He was a man of prominence and influence, and active in the promotion of good enterprises. He and his wife were members of the Christian church at Pricetown and for many years interested in religious work. He died in 1850 at the age of eighty-one and his wife one year later in the eightieth year of her age. John B. Faris, eighth in age of the thirteen children above described, was born in Virginia January 2, 1802, and hence was about eleven 296 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. years old when his parents arrived on the banks of the Scioto. In 1823 he married Catherine, the seventeen-year-old daughter of David Welty, who came from Kentucky to Hamer township in 1811. The newly married couple settled on a. farm in what was known as the Bowyer Survey in Salem township, north of Pricetown, where they retained their residence to the end of life. About 1824, Mr. Faris constructed on White Oak creek the first gristmill in Salem township, which he conducted in connection with a sawmill until his death, which occurred in 1837 at the comparatively early age of thirty-five years. This ended prematurely a life of usefulness, as his business enterprises were at that time the most important in the township and he himself one of its most progressive men. After his death his wife showed unusual business ability, by superintending and carrying on all the industries in which her husband had been interested. She married Mathias Gibler, who, however, only lived a year afterward, and she herself passed away September 2, 1889, aged eighty-two years. This good woman had eight children, all by her first husband, of whom Eliza, Mary N., Sarah and Elizabeth are dead. The four still living are David, a resident of Illinois; Josephus and Levi, of Pricetown, and John B. Faris, Jr. The latter was born in Salem township, Highland county, Ohio, July 27, 1837, and in early manhood went to Pike county, Illinois, where he spent some time in work for monthly, wages. Returning to his Ohio home he was married to Chaffalio, daughter of Jacob and Anna Fender, of Clay township, located at Pricetown and for thirty-two years followed the profession of teaching. This, however, was interrupted in 1864 by his military service with Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth regiment Ohio infantry. This command was first sent to Robinson Station, Ky., where they did guard duty and later part of the regiment was captured after a fight near Cynthiana with General Morgan. Subsequently they were sent back to Cincinnati, where they did guard duty, afterward to Camp Dennison and there they were mustered out of the service September 13, 1864. After this brief but rather rough experience of war, Mr. Faris returned to Pricetown and resumed his occupation as a teacher, which he did not again abandon for many years. In 1872, he was ordained as a minister of the Christian church and held several charges, but of later years has given up regular work on account of his health. He lives a retired life at the same home he has occupied since his marriage, with the exception of two years spent in Liberty township. His estimable wife passed from the scenes of earth April 4, 1901, and was laid away in the Plainview cemetery. The living children are John S., who is postmaster of Pricetown ; Laura B., widowed wife of J. W. White ; and Anna, at home. Mary and Moody, the first born and twins, and J. Walter, next in order of birth, are dead. Josephus Faris, fourth of the children of John B. and Catharine BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 297 (Welty) Faris, was born in Salem township, Highland county, Ohio, July 21, 1829, and remained at home until his marriage to Millie, daughter of Philip and Rachel Baker. He enlisted in Company. E, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth regiment Ohio infantry, and shared the service of that command, above described. Shortly after his return home from the army, he removed with his family to Illinois, where he spent sixteen months and then came back to Highland county. For twenty years he followed the occupation of teaching school, during which time he has held the positions of assessor, clerk, supervisor, notary public, and member of the school board. In the spring of 1902 he was elected justice of the peace for Salem township, to take office in November. Like most of his family connection, he is a member of the Christian church and is a most excellent citizen in all the relations of life. He has had eleven children, of whom Lucilla C., John P., Eliza J., William C. and Flavius J. are dead. Those living are Sarah E., wife of William T'. Wardlow, of Salem township; Levi S., Rachel B., and Rosa N., at home, and Evadean, wife of E. L. Gomia, of Salem township. In 1889 was held the first Faris family reunion, which has been kept up annually ever since. John B. Faris is president and historian of this reunion association. As many as four hundred of the descendants of John and Jane (Watson) Faris have attended a single reunion, and this annual event has now become a fixture among the annual entertainments of Salem township. Levi Faris, of Pricetown, is a grandson of that remarkable pioneer couple, John and Jane (Watson) Faris, mentioned above, who located and bought large sections of land in Highland county a few years after the war of 1812. One of their thirteen children was John B. Faris, who built the first grist mill in Salem township and became one of the most influential and enterprising citizens of his day. He married Catharine Welty, daughter of an old Kentucky pioneer, and a woman of great ability and strength of character. After her husband's death, she carried on his farming and milling business, besides looking after the needs and education of her children. Among the latter was Levi Faris, born in Salem township, Highland county, Ohio, July 11, 1831, and educated in the district schools. In early manhood he was married to Margaret, daughter of Albert and Elizabeth Malcom, of New Market township. Her mother is yet living and is in reasonable health, although ninety-two years of age. Immediately after this marriage Mr. Faris moved to Illinois, where he was employed for a while, but not liking the outlook he returned in a short time to Highland county and settled on a rented farm in Salem township. Later he bought a small place in the township on which he resided some time, and in 1872 purchased property in Pricetown which has since been his home. His military 298 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. service during the civil war was with Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, which was organized in May, 1864, and subsequently sent into Kentucky. This command rendered valuable service as protector of railroads and government property and in checking incursions of raiders from the Kentucky side of the river. They came in collision with Morgan near Cynthiana in June, 1864, and after spirited fighting suffered considerable loss in the way of prisoners. Later the regiment was sent to Cincinnati, where it did guard duty until mustered out of the service at Camp Dennison in September, 1864. For several years after the war, Mr. Faris followed the business of carpentering and bridge contracting, but lately has retired from regular work on account of failing health. John S. Faris, postmaster at Pricetown, is one of the younger generation of the old and long established Highland county family of that name, whose history is sketched at length above. He is a great-grandson of John and Jane (Watson) Faris, and grandson of John B. Faris, mentioned in the foregoing. John B. Faris had eight children and among the number a son and namesake who married Chaffolio Fender. This couple were the parents of John S. Faris, who was born at Pricetown, Highland county, Ohio, October 20, 1868, and educated in the district schools. At an early period he evinced a strong inclination to teach, an occupation in which his father had met with success, and he devoted fourteen years to this honorable profession. In 1901, he engaged in mercantile business at Price-town and at the same time was appointed postmaster of the village, which position he has since retained. He is also township clerk, was chairman of the township central committee several years, and in 1900 was appointed to take the census of Salem township. Like most of his family connections, he is a member of the Christian church and is regarded as a young man of bright promise for future usefulness. He married Flora B., daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Foust, of Pricetown, and has two children, Madge and Glenn. Benjamin F. Faris, well known in the farming circles of Dodson and Union townships, is a great-grandson of the pioneers, John and Jane (Watson) Faris, mentioned in he ' foregoing family sketch. The ninth of their children, Jesse, in 1825 married Nancy Davidson, born in 1805. She was the only daughter of John Davidson, a native of Pennsylvania, one of the strong characters of that rugged period and the earliest settler within the limits of the present township of Salem. He was also the first shoemaker of that neighborhood, volunteered in Captain Barrere's company for the war of 1812, was elected lieutenant and surrendered with General Hull at Detroit. After their marriage, Jesse and Nancy (Davidson) Faris settled a BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 299 mile southwest of Pricetown, but a year later removed to the farm which the widow Long owned. This pioneer couple used to tell amusing stories of the hardships connected with their honeymoon days. Their household goods were so meager that they placed them all in the front end of the wagon-box. On their way they stopped at the mill and got a. peck of corn ground which, with two hams, constituted all their provender. Mrs. Faris soon made five pounds of butter, which she exchanged for one pound of coffee. This was "putting on style," as before th-at the family had been content with sassafras tea. Their first soap was made by Mrs. Faris from the fat of two opossums. John Faris, the patriarch of the Highland county family, and his wife, were members of the Christian church at Price-town. He died in 1850 at the age of eighty-one years and his wife in 1851 when eighty years old. Jesse and Nancy (Davidson) Faris had eleven children, among the number being Carey C. Faris, who was born in Salem township October 30, 1831, and married Eliza King, born in Hamer township in 1839. In 1863, Carey C. Faris ,enlisted in Company B, Second regiment Ohio heavy artillery, with which he served fifteen months and was eventually discharged for disability, by virtue of which a $30 per month pension was granted. He owns a small farm and for some time has been living in retirement. He has eight living children, among them Benjamin F. Faris, who was born in Salem township, Highland county, Ohio, February 6, 1861. With a view to fitting himself as a teacher he attended the National Normal university at. Lebanon, Ohio, where he went through the regular course. After leaving this institution, Mr. Faris spent the next seven years as a teacher in the district schools, but was eventually forced to give up this employment on account of failing health. March 5, 1887, he was married to Electa Roush, daughter of N. W. and Martha Roush, and a member of one of the leading pioneer families of Hamer township. As early as 1806 her great-grandfather, Philip Roush, cleared a. farm in the north part of Hamer, which was subsequently owned by his son John. By this marriage Mr. Faris has three children: Bertsyl W., Otis G., and Isma Anna. Mrs. Faris died May 17, 1901. For the past twelve years Mr. Faris' time has been taken up in agriculture and stock raising. He is now and has been for five years past a member of the school board and takes much interest in educational affairs. He is prominent in Knights of Pythias circles and connected with the Masonic fraternity at Lynchburg. J. Frank Fender, . senior member of the firm of Fender & Son, lumbermen, at Taylorsville, is a descendant of George Fender, one of the pioneers of the township of White Oak. George Fender, a native of Virginia, was married there to Magdalene Launce, and in the fall of 1801, with his family, and his father-in-law, Adam