300 -THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. Launce, and his family, he settled on the banks of White Oak, not far from where the settlement was made in the same year by Robert Finley and James B. Finley and John Davidson and their families. This was the first settlement of the township. He first bought a hundred acres including the site of his home, which is yet standing, and this was a part of the Massie and Kerr survey. In after years he acquired a large body of land, and became a valued citizen, and the main stay of the Christian church in that locality. His eight children were Katie, Sarah, Pollie, Betsey, John, Jacob, George and one who died in infancy. John, father of the subject of this sketch, was born on the White Oak farm, January 23, 1813, and when grown to manhood he married Catherine Kibler, with whom he went to housekeeping on the old homestead. Later he built there a brick residence, which was in its day the finest house in the township, and though now outrivaled, is still standing and substantial. He became the owner of over five hundred acres of land, held many of the township offices, and was an earnest worker for the welfare of the Christian church. He and his wife died within nine days of each other, both at the age of seventy-five years. Their children, ten in number, were, William and Sarah, now living in White Oak township; Leah and Henry, deceased; Mary, wife of George Carr, of White Oak township; Rachel, wife of Robert Hatcher, of Hamer township; Amelia, wife of Charles Moberly, of Clay township ; Catherine, wife of E. Carr, of White Oak township; America, wife of Charles Robinson, of White Oak township ; and J. Frank. J. Frank Fender was born in the house where he now lives, February 25, 1856, was educated in the district school, and in early manhood was married to Mary Ann Roberts, a native of Highland county, and daughter of Alfred and Catherine Roberts. Seven children have been born to them : Newton, Clarence, Virgie, Glenn, and Stanley, living at home, and Alva and Mertie, deceased. Mr. Fender is the owner of about 250 acres of land, which he farms successfully, giving considerable attention also to the raising of live stock, and in his connection with the firm of Fender & Son, owning and conducting the saw mill at Taylorsville, he is contributing efficiently to the remunerative industries of the township. He has served the community ably as township trustee, assessor and constable, is widely influential in politics as a Democrat, and is a valued member of Lodge No. 633, at Mowrystown, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Charles Fenner, trustee of New Market township, comes of pioneer ancestors who settled in Highland county among the first of the incoming emigrants from the East. His grandfather, John Fenner, was a native of Pennsylvania and entered government land in what is now Liberty township as far back as 1800. He lived to the age BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 301 of seventy years, became a large landowner and reared a family of children, among them being a son named William W., who was born in Liberty township about. 1821. William W. Fenner married Malinda Frost and had ten children, four sons and six daughters, all of whom grew to maturity and seven of them are still living. The father was a farmer all his adult life, belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church and held various minor offices, including that of township trustee. He died March 12, 1896, while residing in Union township, long surviving his wife, who passed away in 1862. Charles Fenner, the youngest of their surviving children, was born in Clay township, Highland county, August 12, 1860, and remained at home until a year or two after reaching his majority. December 23, 1883, he was married to Nancy E., daughter of John W. and Mary (Strange) Hart, of Union township. Mrs. Fenner's paternal grandfather was Joel Hart, of North Carolina, who came to Ohio first in 1801, two years later brought his family to Highland county, and removed to Union township in 1832 where he and wife passed the remainder of their days. In 1826, Joel Hart shot the last bear killed in Highland county, and in 1848 his son, Jonathan, was the slayer of the last deer seen inside of the county limits. After his marriage Charles Fenner spent three years in the counties of Mercer and Darke and afterwards rented a farm for two years in Liberty township, Highland county. Subsequently he removed to his present place in New Market township, where he owns 118 acres of land and carries on general farming. He is trustee of New Market township and a charter member of Russell lodge, No. 706, Knights of Pythias. Mr. and Mrs. Fenner have three children living, Mary M., Charles H. and Leonard, the eldest, Clyde, having died when five years old. The family affiliates with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mr. Fenner has been a member some years. Thomas M. Ferguson, a veteran of the civil war, has long been identified with the industrial, political and fraternity interests of Paint township. His father, John Ferguson, a native of Ireland, brought to this country by his parents when eighteen months old, married Sarah Patton, a native of Kentucky then living in Highland county, and subsequently settled in Clermont county, Ohio, where he followed his trade as a carpenter and died in 1849. Two years later his widow, with four children, came to New Petersburg and made her home in Highland county until her death at the age of eighty-five years. Of her ten children only two are now living, these being the subject of this sketch and his brother, Delos S., who resides at Leesburg, Ohio. The names of those who have died are Jane, William W., Allen, James P., Joseph C., Samuel N., Elizabeth A. and Sarah. Thomas M. Ferguson was born in Clermont county, near Marathon, Ohio, December 16, 1836, and while 302 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   still a boy began working out on farms by the month, giving his scanty wages to his mother. In 1857 he came to Rainsboro and spent a year with James Rowe learning the trade of harness-making after which he was employed in a carriage shop four years perfecting himself as a trimmer. He eventually mastered all the details of this useful handicraft and, since 1865, his main business has been that of carriage trimming and harness-making. October 10, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company D, Sixtieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry and served with it in Virginia under Fremont, taking part in the engagements at Cottontown, Harrisonburg, Cross Keys and Harper's Ferry. At the latter place the fighting continued from September 11, 1862, for several days, finally ending in the surrender of the Federal troops to the Confederate forces under Stonewall Jackson. Mr. Ferguson and his comrades were sent to the parole camp at Annapolis, Md., and from there to Camp Douglass, where they were discharged November 10, 1862. From that time he remained at home until June 13, 1863, when he reenlisted as a private in Company A, Second regiment Ohio heavy artillery, and shortly after the organization was appointed first sergeant. This command was detailed to guard bridges and railroads from Louisville to Bowling Green until May, 1864, when it was sent to Cleveland, Tenn., where it remained for some months and during the time was engaged in a lively fight with Wheeler's cavalry. In November the regiment was in an engagement at Strawberry Plains and later took part in what was known as the Stoneman raid through southwestern Virginia. They returned to Knoxville January 1, 1865, where they guarded government property until July, 1865, and next month were discharged from the service at Camp Chase. Mr. Ferguson served twelve years as constable of Paint township and is now serving his ninth year as justice of the peace. He was appointed postmaster at Rainsboro under Harrison's administration to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Y. C. Miller. He is connected with the Bainbridge lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and is a charter member of Lodge No. 452, Knights of Pythias, in which he has held all the offices. He helped to organize Trimble post of the Grand Army of the Republic, was its commander for eight years and is now adjutant. In September, 1859, he was married to Rose McKenna, by whom he has five children: Austa, wife of F. M. Ubanks of Rainsborough ; Florence, wife of Henry Ubanks of Sinking Springs ; Jennie, wife of Charles Elton, of Jeffersonville; William S., school teacher, and C. M., a traveling salesman. Floyd E. Ferneau, prominent among the younger farmers of Brush Creek township, is a grandson of Henry Ferneau, who was one of the pioneers settlers of that township, and a man of note in his day. Henry Ferneau's children were, Aaron; Mary Ann, wife   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 303   of Joseph West; Martha, wife of Austin Pepple; Maria, wife of Cyrus Franklin; Joshua, John, Henry and Joseph F. Joseph F. Ferneau, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Brush Creek township, September 17, 1836, and was for many years one of the prosperous farmers of the township. He married Abigail White, of Highland county, and their children were, Roxanna, who died in infancy ; Henry A., Ella, Elizabeth, Floyd E. ; Myrtle, wife of Joseph Wilson ; Ada, wife of Oscar Hixon ; Maude, wife of Charles Kelly. Floyd E. Ferneau was born June 7, 1868, in Brush. Creek township, and educated in the district school, and at the famous Normal college at Valparaiso, Ind. On August 30, 1892, he was married to Retta, daughter of Jacob and Jane Tener, of Adams county, and they have three children: Ada B., born December 31, 1897; Emmet, born March 4, 1900; and Kenneth, born March 14, 1901. Mr. Ferneau is the owner of land in Highland and Pike counties aggregating 216 acres, and has proved his ability as a skillful farmer and good business man. He has been honored by the people of his township with the office of justice of the peace, and is a member of the Masonic lodge, No. 196, of Bainbridge, of the Odd Fellows lodge of Petersburg, of the Knights of Pythias, Uniformed rank, No. 492, of Cynthiana, and of the Modern Woodmen at Sinking Spring.   Joseph Wilson, a representative of Pike county in the Ohio legislature in 1899, is a grandson of James Wilson, a native of Pennsylvania who settled in Highland county at an early day, and married Sarah Horn. They had four sons and three daughters: Louis, Joseph, James and Enos ; Eliza, wife of John Parrott; Nancy, wife of Henry Williams, and Julia, wife of Christian Hamilton. Enos, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Highland county, January 2, 1819, and lived a useful and honorable life in this and Pike counties. His wife was Amelia Ferneau, of Pike county, born February 14, 1823, and they had four children : John, Margaret, E. Fullerton, living at Boulder, Col., and Joseph Wilson. The latter was born in Pike county, February 2, 1866, and was educated at the district school and the Normal college at Valparaiso, Ind., and at Delaware college, Ohio. His life since then has been one of notable success as a farmer and prominence and influence in public affairs. He is the owner of 865 acres of land in Highland and Pike counties, and for about twelve years has made his home near the town of Cynthiana. He has held the offices of justice of the peace, township trustee and others, and in 1899 was elected to the legislature. His wife is Myrtle, daughter of Joseph F. and Abigail (White) Ferneau, and they have three children, Ion, Owen, and Margene.   304 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   Emery L. Ferris, president of the Merchants National Bank of Hillsboro and for more than thirty-six years prominently connected with the monetary interests of the city, is from the great Empire State of the east, whence have come so many men eminent in the world of finance. He is a son of Rev. Philo and Nancy M. (French) Ferris, and was born in Madison county, N. Y., August 15, 1833. In youth he attended the schools at Cazenovia, in his native county, and later accompanied his parents to Wisconsin where the father who was a Methodist minister, had pastoral charge of one of the churches of his denomination. In early manhood Mr. Ferris went to Chicago and obtained a position in the money department of the American Express company which he retained until his removal to Hillsboro in 1865. In the spring of 1866, in partnership with Judge Foreman Evans, Mr. Ferris engaged in the private banking business in a building situated on the corner of Main and High streets, which was successfully prosecuted for about fifteen years. February 1, 1880, the institution was organized as The Merchants National Bank with a capital of $100,000 and the following officers : H. Strain, president; E. L. Ferris, cashier; A. Matthews, assistant cashier. At the present time Mr. Ferris is president and John Matthews cashier of this bank. By strict integrity, correct business methods and financial ability Mr. Ferris has not only benefited the institution of which he has charge but the city and county as well, meantime gaining for himself an honorable standing in the world of finance and trade. September 15, 1868, he was married to Sallie Matthews, a lady of distinguished ancestry on both sides of the family. Her grandfather, Hon. John Matthews, was not only of the earliest but one of the most useful and influential of Highland county's original settlers. He arrived from North Carolina in. 1805 and located on Clear creek three miles northeast of the site on which Hillsboro now stands, where his first experiences well illustrate the trials and devices of the early pioneers. He suspended his provisions for safety from beech limbs near the camp while his cabin was being built in the usual crude and hasty manner. In 1806, a year and a half before Hillsboro was laid out, John Matthews taught the first school at the Sam Evans schoolhouse, two and a half miles east of the present town. In 1807 he was elected the first magistrate of Liberty township and eventually reached the position of associate judge of Highland county, which he held many years with honor to himself and was highly respected by the public. In 1824 he married Mary Hussey and had a family of twelve children, several of whom rose to distinction in politics and the professions. Albert G. Matthews, one of his sons, and the father of Mrs. Ferris, studied law and for many years was a successful practitioner at Hillsboro, rising to the dignity of probate judge of Highland county. He was a native of Highland county and an honored mem-   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 305   ber of the bar until his death. January 8, 1846, he married Margaret J., daughter of Gen. J. J. McDowell, a Virginia gentleman of the old school who was born in 1800 and died in Highland county in 1877. Judge A. G. Matthews has several living children. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Ferris are Margaret, who resides with her parents, and Emery L., Jr., who graduated with honor in the Harvard Law School, class of 1901, and is a practicing attorney in New York city with the firm of Anderson & Anderson.   James M. Fettro, one of the representative and prosperous farmers of Liberty township, comes of patriotic pioneer ancestors whose descendants have made the name an honorbale one throughout Highland county. The founder of the family in Ohio was Joseph Fettro (formerly spelled Fittro), who served in the war of 1812, spent most of his life in Pennsylvania and when well advanced in years migrated to Highland county, where he died. His son Abraham resided in Penn township, Jacob made his home in Paint, and Polly married Solomon Gaines of Liberty township. John Fettro, the eldest of his father's nine children, was born in March, 1805, and acquired ownership of a farm of one hundred acres about a mile east of Hillsboro where he lived many years. He married Rebecca Plaint, a native of Virginia, born in 1802, who lost both her parents in childhood and was reared by her aunt, Mrs. Thompson. She died in 1890, long surviving her husband, who passed away in 1872. The children of John and Rebecca (Plaint) Fettro were Harriet, wife of Adrian Vanpelt, of New Petersburg; Joseph, who resides in California; Elzira, wife of William Ervin James, further sketched below; Sarah, wife of James Ervin of Highland county; John, who was a soldier of the civil war and died at the age of thirty-five years Rebecca, widow of Jacob Pennington and residing near Hillsboro Mary, who died when about twenty years old Nancy, wife of E. C. Camp, a major in the United States army and later in the coal trade at Knoxville, Tenn. James M. Fettro, the fourth of the children, was born in Highland county, Ohio, November 19, 1834, and educated in the district schools. His first wife was Margaret, daughter of Thomas and Hannah Hogsett, who were early settlers of the county and progenitors of a strong family connection. The children by this union were Laura, .wife of Harley Russell, a liveryman of Galvia, Illinois Anna, wife of Newton Miller of Hillsboro; Stella, wife of John Link, a farmer of Liberty township. September 25, 1877, Mr. Fettro married Lizzie, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Broadstone) Roads, descendants of one of the pioneer families. Mr. Roads, father of Mrs. Fettro, formerly conducted a tannery and leather store in Hillsboro. The only son by the second marriage was Harry Edward Fettro, who is engaged in farm-   H-20   306 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   ing as a partner of his father, and married Libbie R, daughter of Charles W. and Kate (Wesiestandtand. She has a twin sister, Lou D. Hiestand ; their births occurred December 28, 1881 and their mother died in March, 1895. Lillie Edith, eldest daughter by the second marriage of James M. Fettro, is the wife of James Hogsett, and Nellie Marie, the youngest daughter, is attending school. Mr. Fettro has seventy-seven acres in his homestead on Rocky fork, which is well equipped as to buildings, orchards and other essentials of good husbandry, and he also owns 125 acres of land near the Brouse chapel.   Henry Foraker, a worthy citzen of Paint township, residing one mile northwest of Rainsboro, is a grandson of Henry Foraker, a native of Delaware, who married Mary Taylor. Their son, Jacob Foraker, married Tena Spargur, of a noted pioneer family of Highland county, and they had nine children: Henry, the subject of this sketch Susan, Mary Ann, Samantha, Margaret, James, Trimble, Rufus, and one that died in infancy. Henry Foraker was born December 1, 1842, in Highland county, and reared upon the farm. In early manhood he married Lydia, daughter of Richard and Eliza Cooper, of Delaware, born December 1, 1846. They have had six children: Gertrude, born June 12, 1866, now the wife of Gilbert Baham, of Ross county ; Joseph, born April 28, 1868 ; Oliver, born February 3, 1870 ; Margaret, born January 3, 1872 ; Theodosia, born May 20, 1874, who married Edward Gossett May 10, 1897; and John, born September 28, 1877. Florence 0. Ogle, a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Foraker, born March 21, 1886, has made her home with them for a number of years. Mr. Foraker has a good farm of about ninety acres near Rainsboro, where he makes his home, and he is reckoned among the skillful farmers and good citizens of the county. He and his wife are members of the Methodist church at Rainsboro.   Joseph Benson Foraker was born July 5, 1846, in the county of Highland, in a pioneer cabin about one mile north of Rainsboro. The Foraker family came to Ohio from Virginia because of their strong distaste for the institution of slavery. J. B. Foraker was brought up upon his father's farm, and assisted in the work incident to rural life. Besides the cultivation of the fields there was a grist and saw mill which demanded attention and but few idle hours were spent by the boys on the fam. When in his sixteenth year the civil war broke out and the patriotic impulses of young Foraker impelled him to enlist in the Eighty-ninth Ohio regiment. He was made sergeant in August, 1862, and first lieutenant in March, 1865, and was brevetted captain for efficient services. He was in the battles of Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, and Lookout Moun-   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 307   tain, and marched with Sherman from "Atlanta to the sea." He was but nineteen years of age when he was mustered out of the service, and he could look back with pride to the fact that no unsoldierly act had cast a shade upon his record, but that step by step he had risen from the ranks to an honored and responsible position in the service of his country. After returning from the war he spent two years at the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware, and from there went to Cornell university, where he graduated in July, 1869. In 1879 he was elected judge of the superior court of Cincinnati, a position he held for three years. He was nominated by the Republicans in 1883 for governor, but was defeated by Judge Hoadley; was renominated and elected in 1885 and reelected in 1887. He was nominated for a third term in 1889, but was defeated by James E. Campbell, of Butler county. As governor his administration was clean and pure, brave and conscientious, and won the admiration of all, without regard to party names and convictions. As an orator Senator Foraker has but few equals.   "I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine incorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner decent, grave, chaste, And natural in gesture."   He is able to breathe into the souls of others the fire of his own courage and purpose. J. B. Foraker is a political leader, a statesman as honest as he is strong and through all the years of his political life has had the confidence and esteem of his countrymen. In speaking of politics and political leadership we use the term in its broad sense, having no special reference to any one party but to the art of government, or the science whose subject is the regulation of man, in all his relations as a member of a state. We might define politics to be the theory and practice of obtaining the ends of civil society as perfectly as possible. Politics is in its higher definition statesmanship; for by state we understand a society formed by men, with the view of better obtaining the ends of life by a union of powers and mutual assistance. It was this great principle of mutual relationship and aid and the security and stability of such forms of political thoughts as would secure to all the people the highest good, that has filled the mind and heart of the senior senator from Ohio during all the years of his public service. While it is true that men in high places are not free from the criticism that their greatness provokes, the triple plate of steel that incases the person of Highland's favorite has enabled him to resist with perfect safety the onslaughts of his political enemies. His generous love of liberty made him a ready and eloquent champion of the cause of Cuban emancipation and independence, and he has the proud privilege of   308 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   hailing another nation and race made free by his efforts, joined to that of others, and another star, which if not added to the starry flag he followed so gallantly in the sixties, yet a star still, shining in the blue vault of God, harbinger of that glorious hour when all the nations of the earth shall be free and all men everywhere be permitted to have a free and untrammeled start in the race of life.   George W. Fox, one of the industrious and enterprising farmers of Liberty township, is descended from an old Pennsylvania family long resident in the "City of Brotherly Love." There dwelt Conrad and Charlotte Fox, who had nine children and among the number a son named Christian, born October 26, 1811, and later an emigrant to. Ohio where he died at the age of seventy-three years.married Mrs,Mrs. Eilzabeth (Weber) Wurtz, whose two children by her first husband, Conrad Wurtz, were Mariah Elizabeth, at present engaged in the dressmaking business at Dallas postoffice, six miles northeast of Hillsboro ; and John Jacob, who served as a soldier in the civil war, was held in. prison for some time and died in 1865 at Hillsboro. The children of Christian and Elizabeth (Wurtz) Fox were Emma, a dressmaker with her half-sister at Dallas ; George W., further noticed below ; Caroline B., who died at the age of twenty-eight years ; Charles M. and Charlotte M., twins ; Carrie B., deceased wife of Albert Depue of Knoxville, Tenn. ; Francis A., who died at sixteen years of age ; and Lewis A., superintendent of a lead mine at Carthage, Mo. George W. Fox, eldest of his mother's second family of children, was married February 28, 1890, to Emma, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Black) Lyle, members of old and long established Highland county families. Samuel Lyle came with his parents to Ohio in 1815 when. he was an infant. His father first bought land in Concord township, which he, gave to his eldest sons, and subsequently settled' on the Rocky fork in Liberty township, about five miles east of Hillsboro. Here he died and here his son Samuel grew to maturity and spent all the days of his life. In 1841 he married Mary Black, of Virginia, by whom he had seven children, including the present wife of George W. Fox. For many years Mr. Fox has been one of the industrious and thrifty farmers of Liberty township. He owns a small tract near the Brouse chapel, but resides on the Spargur farm of 244 acres opposite the old Heistand homestead. This place was rented by Mr. Fox about twelve years ago and since then has been skilfully cultivated and greatly improved under his energetic supervision.   Major Anthony Franklin, a notable Ohio pioneer, was born in Amherst county, Va., July 17, 1778, of a family that was honor-Ably represented among the officers and soldiers of the Revolution. On account of the early death of his father he was apprenticed in   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 309   youth to the carpenter's trade, with Gen. Nathaniel Massie, and came to Massie's frontier station, Manchester, about 1795. He also assisted General Massie in his surveys in Ohio, and in compensation received several tracts of the wild forest land, upon one of which he made his home, early in the last century, in Brush creek township, which he occupied for sixty years, and which after him was owned and occupied by his son-in-law, James P. Keech. Upon selecting this "Franklin farm" for his home, Mr. Franklin married Polly, daughter of Captain Nelson, of Kentucky, and they began their home in the wilderness, with George W. Barrere, at the site. of New Market, twelve miles away, as their nearest neighbor. Mr. Franklin also kept open house for travelers on the road from Chillicothe to Cincinnati, and entertained many noted men. In the militia he had the rank of major, and he was the first sheriff of Highland county elected by the people. Of his ten children, Nelson A. served in the legislature from Pickaway county and afterward moved to Missouri ; Maria married. John W. Spargur ; Joel was a business man at Circleville, Larue, and Lincoln, Neb. ; Thomas Wingfield went west and settled in Illinois ; Patsey married James P. Keech ; Polly married and went to Illinois ; Cyrus served in General Morgan's regiment in the Mexican war, afterward moved to Iowa and later to Missouri, and was a gallant cavalry officer in the service of the Confederate States ; while the youngest child, John Nelson, who also made his home in Missouri, fought for the Union, as did also several of the grandchildren of Major Franklin.   James P. Keech, who resided for many years on the Franklin farm, was born September 9, 1820, in Lancaster county, Pa., son of William Keech, also a native of that state, who came west and settled near Larue, Marion county, following his trade as a blacksmith, an important function in that day, until his death, which occurred at a comparatively early age. His six children were, James P., Mary, Ann, Jane, David H., and Margaret M. James P. learned the trade Of his father in youth, but in early manhood was married to Martha E. ("Patsey") Franklin, as has been noted, and they began housekeeping and farming on a tract of land belonging to Major Franklin in Marion county, where they lived until they came to the Brush creek farm in 1852. His wife, born on this farm July 9, 1817, and died' there in November, 1894, was a most estimable woman. She was the mother of six children; John H., deceased ; William A. of. Hillsboro, Ohio; and Cyrus F., of Lincoln, Neb. ; James L., subject of this sketch; Mary M., of East Monroe, and Robert, the latter deceased. James P. Keech is yet living, in the latter years of a successful and honorable life. He is the owner of over 300 acres of land, and has served several terms as township trustee. His son, James L. Keech, was born August 2, 1852, and now resides upon the old homestead, or Franklin farm. He is one   310 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   of the prominent younger men of the township, highly respected and trusted by his neighbors. He has in his hands the management of the farm, and has demonstrated skill as a farmer and ability in business.   Almond G. Frazier, owner of the stone quarry near Greenfield which bears his name, comes of a Clinton county family of farmers, the original founder of which was a pioneer from Tennessee. The latter left a son named Lewis Frazier, who became prominent in the agricultural development of Clinton county, where he ended his days after a life of usefulness to himself and others. He married Margaret Quigley and had a family of eight children, of whom six are living in different parts of Ohio. John and Aaron are at Wilmington; Alfred at Springfield ; Maggie, wife of Edward Dough- erty, at Greenfield ; Lizzie, wife of Frank Drake, at New Vienna. Almond G. Frazier, like the rest of the children, was born on his father's farm in Clinton county, Ohio, and remained at home until he had obtained his education. In 1892 he came to Greenfield where, a few years later, he found employment in connection with the quarrying industry. In 1899 he purchased what is now known as the Frazier stone quarry, situated in the edge of Ross county, and has since done a thriving business which has profited both himself and the community, as the work necessitates the employment of a considerable force of men. In fact, Mr. Frazier has proved a welcome addition to the industrial forces that have made Greenfield such an enterprising little city, as he personally •is popular and imbued with the public spirit so essential to good citizenship. He is a partner in the canning factory known as the McCormick & Frazier canning company and is giving this business much of his attention at present. In 1882, he was married to Mattie, daughter of Collins Thompson, a prominent farmer of Highland county. This union has resulted in the birth of two bright children, Frank and Carrie, both in the public schools. The family are affiliated with the Christian church and Mr. Frazier is a member of the official board.   George S. Free, notable among the younger farmers of Paint township, was born November 10, 1869, of a family well known in Ross and Highland counties since their settlement. Mr. Free is a son of Isaac and Nancy (Ogle) Free, pioneers of Paxton township, Ross county, Ohio, whose children were, Charles, who married Ida Swindle, and is a farmer near Bainbridge ; Julia, wife of Warren Ogle, of Fayette county ; Joseph; farming near Bainbridge; Lina, wife of Robert Dill, of Fayette county; Lizzie, Ella, George S., John, Alfred and Mattie. Isaac Free was a son of George and Hannah Free, who settled at an early day in Paint, township, Ross county,   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 311   Ohio, and lived there the rest of their lives. Isaac Free 'died May 12, 1902, and Nancy Free died October 1st, 1891. George S. Free received a common-school education in his youth, and on March 29, 1893, married Marie, daughter of Robert B. and Mary J. (McClure) McMullen. She was born and reared on the farm now owned by her and her husband, which was taken up, at an early day, by Mr. Free's grandfather, Joseph Ogle, and was later purchased by the father of Mrs. Free's mother. After her marriage to Robert B. McMullen he bought the tract, and after his death Mr. Free purchased the farm from the heirs. Mr. and Mrs. Free began housekeeping at Rapids Forge, where he had bought 180 acres of land. Three years later he sold that tract and bought part of the present farm, and, as has been stated, after the death of Mrs. Free's father, he secured the remainder of the tract of 350 acres and the old homestead. It is one of the handsomest farms in the county, to which he has added enough to make 500 acres in all. It is picturesquely located along Paint Creek, three miles northeast of Rainsboro, diversified by hill and dale, and embracing a great area of valuable and fertile soil. Mr. Free is an enterprising and progressive farmer, and employs his estate to great profit., raising livestock as well as grain, and giving considerable attention to fruit culture. This year he has one hundred and ninety acres in corn. The best. agricultural machinery is put to use, and half a dozen teams are steadily employed. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Free are Robert Isaac, born April 3, 1894; and George Scott, born April 16, 1896. Mr. Free and his wife are valued members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and he is fraternally associated with Paint Valley lodge, No. 497, Knights of Pythias, at Bainbridge, and the lodge of Modern Woodmen of America.   The Freshour family, so long and favorably known at Greenfield and vicinity, yields to few in the interest connected with its genealogical record and patriotic achievements of the individual members. They have been represented in all the wars fought for the country's independence or to sustain its integrity and life. The ancestors were conspicuously identified with the difficulties and dangers of the early settlements in the Ohio valley and the descendants have borne their full share of the responsibilities and labors connected with the building up of great states. The American branch of this substantial family originated from Abraham Freshour, who emigrated to the United States from Germany and became a leading farmer in Ohio. He had a son Abraham who enlisted as a soldier in 1812 and served through the war of that period on the American side, contracting consumption as the result of exposure and dying of that disease shortly after returning home. His son, Abraham J. Freshour, was born at London in Madison county, Ohio, and came to Greenfield in 1824.   312 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   He learned the saddler's trade with Jeremiah Wilson, but was eventually compelled to abandon this work on account of failing health. In 1850 he embarked in the grocery business which he continued for twenty years and closed out in 1870, after which he lived a retired life until his death, which occurred in 1895. During his early days in Greenfield, he organized and was chosen leader of a band, which -was the first of its kind in southern Ohio and became quite noted as a musical organization in that part of the State. In 1839, Abraham J. Freshour was married to Julia (White) Bryan, whose family was one of the most estimable of the Scioto valley and deserving of much more than a passing notice. Her father, Charles White, was one of the strong and rugged characters of the pioneer period and a man whose life record furnishes a list of honorable achievements. Born in Virginia of highly respectable parents, he united with the Methodist church in the days when that organization was comparatively weak, became a co-worker with the celebrated Asbury, the first bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church ordained in the United States, and traveled with him on the circuit in Virginia and Maryland. When the great Revolution assumed the shape of open war, Charles White and his two older brothers, Samuel and John, enlisted as soldiers in the Continental army. The first mentioned escaped without material injury, but his two brothers fell a sacrifice to the cause, being killed in battle while bravely fighting against the British invaders. When the news of Daniel Boone's explorations and daring deeds in Kentucky reached his ears, Charles White determined to cross the mountains and cast his lot with the heroic settlers of "the dark and bloody ground." Shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war he located at Lexington and, true to his religious instincts, the first thing he thought of was the spiritual needs of the bold borderers. He helped organize the first Methodist Episcopal church established in Kentucky, long known as the "old Masterson's church," near Lexington, and did much missionary work among the rude inhabitants of the frontiers. Charles White, like many other immigrants from the south, owned slaves in Kentucky, but in time his conscience revolted against this abominable institution and he determined on a general manumission. Not only did he emancipate all of his own slaves but he bought and set free some of those belonging to neighbors who had married among his people. He deserves the enduring glory of having been one of the very first of the Abolitionists and he served the cause not simply by word of mouth but by deeds involving a large pecuniary loss. Even before he set them free, he had carefully taught his poor dependents the art of reading and writing and never ceased to look after their welfare after they had been emancipated. Charles White's first wife was Sarah Monroe, sister of the fifth president of the United States, and they had a daughter, Elizabeth, and five sons, William, John, Daniel, Samuel and George,   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 313   of whom the three youngest served as soldiers in the war of 1812. The second wife of Charles White was Charlotte Downs, daughter of a notable character in that age of wars and revolutions. Her father, Henry Downs, came over from England with the expedition of Lord Delaware and lived for a while on the eastern shore, but later migrated to Kentucky. He became one of the founders of the city of Lexington and fell during the memorable siege of Bryant's Station by the Indians. By his second marriage Charles White had four sons and seven daughters, who grew up, married and assisted materially in building up the infant commonwealth of Kentucky by rearing large families. Their children, to the number of twenty or more, were represented in the great war between the states which convulsed the nation and so long threatened its destruction. The anti-slavery sentiments of Charles White eventually made Kentucky a very disagreeable state for him to live in and in September, 1808, he settled in Ross county, Ohio, a short distance below Greenfield. He never lost sight of his main purpose in life and when he erected his house one room was constructed for the especial purpose of holding religious services. For nearly twenty years his house was a noted preaching place on Deer Creek circuit, from about 1810 until 1826 or 1827, when the first church was built, a small brick building where the parsonage now stands. Willis, Collard, Walker, Hunter, Griffin, Simomns, John Collins, James and Isaac Quinn, Estel, Eddy, Bigelow and others whose names are famous in Methodism, made their stopping place with Charles White, and after them many of his children were named. He personally superintended the building of both the first brick and the old stone church, and his two sons, namesakes of Willis and Griffin, hauled every stone used in its erection. On the first day of May, 1851, he threw the first shovelful of dirt on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad, being then in his ninetieth year, and he lived to see the first train pass over the road, May 1, 1854, dying on the anniversary of Yorktown, Oct. 19, 1854. Abraham J. and Julia (White) Freshour had a family of three children, James H., Mary and Hortense, all of whom were reared and educated in Greenfield. James H. Freshour, the only son, at the age of twenty enlisted in Company I, Eighty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry and served the last three years of the civil war. He took part with his command in the great battle of Pittsburg Landing and all the marching and fighting of the Atlanta campaign, was wounded three times in different engagements, and returned from the war much broken in health. Though his death did not occur until March 27, 1902, he never fully recovered and suffered much at times from the effects of his patriotic service. He was a member of the Union Veterans' Union and an honored comrade of Gibson post, Grand Army of the Republic. He had a strong affection for his companions in arms and did not forget them as death   314 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   approached, but left a handsome bequest of $6,000 to be devoted to the erection of a suitable monument in the Greenfield cemetery to commemorate the brave dead of his command. This generous donation was supplemented by his sister, Hortense Freshour, who added $4,000 to her brother's gift and thus exhibited her patriotism as well as sympathy with his dying wish. The surviving members of the Freshour family are all members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Greenfield and enjoy general esteem in the community.   John Frump, of Jackson township, formerly trustee of Marshall township, was born in Brush Creek township, October 7, 1841. He is a grandson of John Frump, a native of Delaware, who was twice married in that state, and with his second wife came to Highland county and settled on Rocky fork, and afterward bought a farm in Marshall township. A few years later he died, but his wife lived to the great age of ninety-four years. Their children were Betsy, Ann, Harriett, Cassie and William. William, the youngest son, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born on the Rocky fork farm in Paint township, October 7, 1841, and in early manhood was married to Julia Wolf, a native of Highland county, after which they lived at the home place in Marshall township, until he died at the age of seventy-five years. His widow survives, at the age of eighty-six. He was a man of high character, a steward and class leader in the Methodist church, and prospered in worldly affairs, so that he was able to leave a good property. His children were ten in number: Joel, deceased ; John ; Nancy, deceased ; Mary, wife of R. G. Setty, of Adams county; James, of Marshall township; William, of Paulding county ; Milton, of Marshall township ; Harriett, of Oklahoma; Frank, deceased ; Daniel, of Paulding county. John Frump became twenty-one years of age in the midst of the great civil war, and being of a patriotic nature, his energy was first turned in that direction. Enlisting as a. private soldier in. Company B of the Hundred and Seventy-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, he was mustered in at Camp Dennison, and sent with his command to Nashville, Tenn. When that state was invaded by Hood's rebel army, he participated in the battle of Franklin and several minor engagements, and he continued in the service until his regiment was mustered out in 1865. On October 15th of the same year he was married to Louisa A. Hall, daughter of Jacob and Mary Hall, and they first made their home near Pisgah church in Marshall township. Three years later he bought the farm now owned by J. A. Burnett, and fifteen years after that they moved to the farm he now owns. He has 173 acres of valuable land, to which he now gives his attention, and to raising and dealing in live stock. Formerly, for twenty-four years he gave his time in the harvest season to the operation of a threshing machine. He held the office of trustee of Marshall township five years, and is   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 315   at present justice of the peace in Jackson. Since seventeen years of age he has been a member of the Methodist church, and for many years he has been an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic. In politics he adheres to the Democratic party. Mr. Frump has had six children, of whom two died in infancy. The survivors are Mary L., wife of W. Er Roberts, of Adams county; W. J., of Marshall township ; and Francis S. and Sally E., at home. Mrs. Frump is also a member of the Methodist church.   Millard F. Funk, M. D., of Mowrystown, one of the most influential citizens of White- Oak township, was born near Sugartree Ridge, June 23, 1854. He is the son of John Funk, for many years one of the prominent men of Concord township. John Funk was born in Virginia, and as a baby of four months was taken along by his parents on the long and difficult journey to Michigan territory in the early days of settlement, as far as Mowrystown, where the infant became too sick to be taken further, and was entrusted to the kindness of the family of Harvey Badgeley. The parents promised to return for him, but some misfortune or the difficulties of travel prevented, and the boy was raised by his foster parents. Reaching manhood he married Sarah C., daughter of Joseph Helsley, and after a short residence in White Oak township they removed to Concord, where they lived about twenty-five years. About the year 1865 he returned to Mowrystown and in 1870 he engaged in the general mercantile business there. He continued in this for about fifteen years. Then for about twenty years, and up to a year of his death, he was agent for the Hillsboro railroad company. He was also justice of the peace of his township for fifteen years, and an active member of the United Brethren church. His children were Jerusha E., deceased ; H. T., residing in Missouri ; Mary E., wife of J. Sauner, of White Oak ; Millard F., Eli, of Mowrystown ; Levi, of Springfield, Mo., and Asenath D., wife of Rev. F. P. Rasselatt, of Toledo, O. Dr. M. F. Funk, after receiving a common school education, embarked in mercantile business at the age of twenty-one years, but his tastes were for professional life, and in 1878 he went to Macoupin county, Ill., and read medicine in the office of Dr. William A. Schriver for two years. Subsequently he took two courses of lectures at the. Eclectic Medical institute of Cincinnati, in 1881 and 1882, and upon being graduated returned to his native region and began the practice of medicine at Mowrystown. He also engaged in business as a druggist, and he is yet conducting this store, in connection with his practice, dealing also in farm implements, buggies, harness and robes. He is esteemed alike as a professional and business man, has one of the most handsome homes in that vicinity, and enjoys the confidence of all. He has served the community three years as township treasurer, and is a member of the orders of Odd Fellows and Modern   316 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   Woodmen of America, the Ohio State Medical association and the United Brethren church. Since 1896 he has held the office of postmaster. Dr. Funk was married in 1884 to Sophia Galliett, and they had one child, Homer, died died in infancy. The wife died in 1888, and in 1891 he wedded Jennie M. Roberts, daughter of Alfred Roberts, by whom he had two children, Ethel and Jennie. Their mother died in 1896, and two years later he was married to 011ie Frazer, a native of Clermont county.   James N. Gall, a prosperous farmer of Brush Creek township and formerly a general merchant and postmaster at Gall postoffice, was born June 3, 1865, on the farm where he now resides. He traces his paternal ancestry back to George Gall, his great-great-grandfather who was a native of Germaemigrating togsto America and settling in Rockingham county, Va., prior to the Revolution. When the great struggle for independence came on he shouldered his rifle and joined the patriot army and subsequently lost his life in line of battle. He left a family of three children, George (the great-grandfather of James N. Gall), John and Elizabeth, the former of whom after the death of his father, and although but sixteen years of age, joined the continental army and was one of the victorious veterans that witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Returning to his Virginia home, he soon married Susie Nichols, by whom he had eight children : Jacob, Sarah, Barbara, John, George (the grandfather of James N. Gall), Michael, Susannah and Betsey. All of these children were born in Rockingham county, Va. His wife dying, he remarried, his second wife being Catharine Roads, daughter of Abraham and Maria Roads, all natives of Virginia. A few years after this marriage he decided to brave the dangers incident to the removal of his family to the Ohio valley.. He accordingly equipped himself with the customary camping outfit of that day, supplied himself and older sons with trusty rifles, placed his entire family and equipment on horseback and took the forest trail over the mountains for Highland county, Ohio. Only three of the children by his first wife accompanied him. They were George, Michael and Susannah. After many hardships and trials of a character calculated to completely dishearten a less courageous pioneer, he finally landed on the banks of Middle Fork in Brush Creek township, where he decided to permanently locate. Here he built his log cabin, which was one among the first in that section, and proceeded to develop a home and to rear his large family of boys and girls, for by his second wife he had thirteen children, as follows : Polly, David, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Lydia, Anna, Rhoda, Isaac, Catharine, Abraham, Sophia, Matilda and Julia A., making him the father of twenty-one children by the two marriages. It has been asserted that there were a total of twenty-four, but the writer can find no authority for more than   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 317   twenty-one. We are indebted to Atha A., the youngest child and the only living member of that family, for a great deal of this information. She is probably the only daughter of a revolutionary patriot living in Highland county at this writing. She was born on the old Gall homestead in Brush Creek township, June 2, 1827. There she was reared, and on March 9, 1851, she was married to Levi Williams, son of Elias and Christina (Countryman) Williams, early pioneers of Jackson township from Virginia., Levi Williams was the youngest of nine children and was born on the old homestead, where he still resides, September 4, 1832. The children were: Polly, John, Eli, Nancy, Elizabeth, Henry, Anna, Eliza and Levi. As previously stated, George Gall, when he emigrated to Highland county, brought a son, George, with him. This son grew to manhood amid the scenes incident to pioneer life, assisted his father in building and managing a grist mill and a distillery which the father erected soon after his arrival and which, together with his farm, occupied his attention until his death, which occurred in October, 1851. After this son George grew to maturity he married Sarah Williams and they began housekeeping in the vicinity of the old Gall homestead, and their old log cabin with its massive stone chimney stands today on a high hill overlooking the valley of :kiddie Fork and reminds the passerby as one of the few remaining evidences of pioneer life. Here he reared a family of thirteen children: James, John, Thomas, Addison (the father of James N. Gall, born September 9, 1825), Elias, George, Mary, Susan, Alfred, Daniel, William, Wesley and Sarah J., all of whom are dead except Wesley. Addison Gall was reared to manhood on the old homestead, and on November 26, 1854, he was married to Sarah A. Spargur, born November 20, 1837, and the daughter of John W. and Mariah (Franklin) Spargur, the latter being a great niece of Benjamin Franklin, the revolutionary patriot. To this union were born fourteen children, the following of whom are living: Alice, Mary, Effie, James N. (subject of this sketch), Bertie, Minnie, Catharine, Lewis L., and Addie M. Addison and his wife began life together on a farm adjoining his paternal homestead and they happily devoted their lives to rearing this large family. After a long and useful life he died on August 18, 190t His widow and the above named children survive him. James N. Gall was reared at the farm home and educated in the district school, the Hillsboro high school, the Lebanon Normal school, and at the Kentucky university, at Lexington, Ky. Thoroughly qualified by his liberal education for the profession of teaching, he has devoted most of his life to that occupation, having taught thirteen years, making an excellent record in various schools for efficiency and scholarship. Afterward he conducted a general store and was postmaster at the postoffice which bore his family name, and at this writing he is giving his attention to agriculture, owning and   318 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   using a fine farm of 330 acres. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge, No. 572, at Belfast, and popular with his neighbors and acquaintances.   Noah Gayman, of Taylorsville, is particularly deserving of mention among the citizens of French descent, and as a man of worth and prominence in his township. He was born near Mowrystown March 28, 1863, son of Charles Gayman, a native of France. Charles Gay-man, the father, was born in August, 1832, and came to Highland county in 1851, where he found employment as a farmer, and afterward married Mary Goux, a native of France. Not long after this 'marriage he bought a farm of 110 acres, where he is still living, and where their home was blessed with ten childrn. , These were Adeline, Eugene and Jennie, deceased ; Charles, whose home is in Adams county ; Jennie, at home; Noah ; Louisa, wife of A. F. Lilbert, of Mowrystown ; Abel, living in Nebraska; Julia, wife of W. H. Walker, at the old home, and Edward, in Illinois. The mother of these children died at the age of forty-five years, and during the next fourteen years the home of the father was shared by his second wife, Margaret Trickeer, a native of Adams county. Charles Gayman is a devoted member of the Bell Run Baptist church, of which he was one of the organizers, and for several years a local minister, and in his old age he enjoys the esteem of many friends. Noah Gayman, at the age of eighteen years, began work for himself as a farm laborer, and after four years of this he married Ida Cornetet, a native of White Oak township and daughter of Louis and Leah Cornetet, and began housekeeping near Taylorsville. Four years later they made their home in Taylorsville, where Mr. Gayman began his business as a blacksmith and wagon maker and dealer in buggies, wagons, harness and farming implements, in which he has been quite prosperous. He also owns and cares for a small farm, and is, altogether, a busy and successful man. At the time of the destructive fire at Taylors-vine, he lost all his buildings and property, but notwithstanding this disaster he has continued in business and is doing well. In official „affairs he has filled for two terms the office of constable and was school director for several years. In the United Brethren church he is an active and valued worker, aiding greatly in the building of the new church, and serving as trustee. For fifteen years he has been superintendent of the Sunday school of this denomination.   Lewis George, a worthy citizen of Paint township, resides on a farm. which was purchased about 1830 by his grandfather, James George, who came from Hampshire county, West Virginia. Accompanied by his son Jesse, who was then about twenty-two years of age, as he was born in 1808, the long journey over the mountains and down and across innumerable streams was made with a team. At   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 319   the time the Highland county farm was purchased it was all in timber, but under the industrious management of the newcomers it was eventually made to "blossom as the rose," and this fine place is now in the possession of the third generation of the George family. Jesse George married Elizabeth, daughter of Michael Cannady, and had four children, two of whom died in infancy; Hannah married Morgan B. Park and died in 1889, and Lewis is the subject of this sketch. The father ended his days on the farm where he originally settled, his death occurring in August, 1876, and that of his wife in 1864. Lewis George, their youngest and only surviving child, was born at the family homestead in Highland county, Ohio, May 31, 1845, and with the exception of one year has spent his entire life on this place. December 24, 1867, he was married to Eleonora, daughter of Thomas Barrett, by whom he has two children : Leslie, a resident of Paint township, and Bessie, wife of Frank Smalley. In 1868 Mr. George took charge of the home farm of 245 acres, which he now owns, besides another tract of 176 acres, making his entire holdings 421 acres of superior land. The original log cabin put up in the woods by his grandfather over seventy years ago has given place to an elegant modern farm house erected by Lewis George in 1898. All the surroundings indicate peace, plenty and comfort such as befit a representative farmer of the prosperous county of Highland. Mr. George carries on general farming and raises considerable stock, his place being cultivated by modern methods and supplied with every adjunct of a first class Ohio farm.   James T. Gibson, M. D., a popular physician of Lynchburg, is of Irish lineage which became Americanized by residence in Old Virginia. His grandfather, Thomas Gibson, was a native of the little town of Hillsboro, Ireland, where he married Elizabeth Brown and emigrated to America in 1822. After a short sojourn in the east, the new arrivals made their way to the Old Dominion and located in the county of Augusta, where they spent the eleven subsequent years. In 1833 they caught the "Western fever," then so prevalent, and concluded to try their fortunes in the still crude but rapidly developing country beyond the Alleghanies. After making the usual journey across the mountains and down the rivers, Thomas Gibson and wife finally reached Highland county, Ohio, and found a home near the city of Hillsboro. There they spent the remainder of their days, Mr. Gibson dying at the ripe old age of ninety-three years. His children consisted of five boys and four girls, including James B. Gibson, who was born March 10, 1832, and reared at the Highland county home of his parents. In April, 1860, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of James Hogsett, and member of an influential pioneer family. The children resulting from this union are Cora A., who remains at home, Frank R., in the coal trade at Aurora, Illinois; James T., the   320 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   subject of this sketch ; and William Arthur, at home. James T. Gibson, third of the above enumerated children in order of birth, after obtaining the usual education in the common schools, successfully taught for five years in the public schools of Clinton county. After this he entered the Medical College of Ohio and on finishing the course was graduated with the class of 1897. In the following month of May he located in the enterprising town of Lynchburg, entered immediately into the practice of his profession and has since continued to reside there, his office being in the Holmes block on Main street. May 5, 1897, he was married to Vernice, daughter of Alfred and Virginia (Smith) Cadwallader, from the Willettsville neighborhood in Highland county. Mrs. Gibson's mother, Virginia Smith, was a daughter of James D. and Sarah (Ryan) Smith, of Buckingham county, Va., and sister of Prof. E. G. Smith, of Hillsboro, Ohio. Dr. Gibson is a member of the Highland county medical society and the Alumni association of his alma mater. He is a past-master of Lynchburg lodge, No. 178, F. & A. M., and member of the Modern Woodmen of America. Frank Brown Gibson, only child of Doctor and Mrs. Gibson, was born December 2, 1900.   Daniel R. Glaze, a prominent citizen of Brush Creek township, is a grandson of John W. Glaze, of Maryland, a soldier of the war of 1812, who married Anna Wolfe and had six children: Elizabeth, Samuel, Mary, Lemuel E., John N., and Daniel. John N. Glaze, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Ohio, and during the great civil war he was enrolled among the Ohio men who fought for the preservation of their country, making an enduring record as a patriot. He died in August, 1895. By his marriage to Mary, daughter of Christopher and Mary Setty, John N. Glaze had these children: J. Wesley, who died. after maturity and at the time of his death was a prominent school teacher, Daniel R., Mary E., wife of Griffith L. Vance; Samuel N. and Milton S. By a second wife, Mary A. Barrow, daughter of Ezra Barrow of Dodson township, he had two children: Annie E. and Carrie E. Daniel R. Glaze was born October 22, 1854, in Highland county, received a good common school education, which enabled him to teach school for some time, and in 1876 (March 16) he was married to Mary 0., daughter of Hugh P. and Maria (Core) Sheperd. Mrs. Glaze was born September 2, 1851. Their home has been blessed with three children; Blanche, born December 18, 1876, and teaching school in the county; Ora L., born March 10, 1878, wife of S. P. Ferguson ; and Ernest W., born August. 31, 1888. Mr. Glaze owns a valuable farm of 250 acres in Brush Creek and Marshall townships, and resides in the home that has been his since childhood. Ile and his wife are members of the Methodist church, and he is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge of Sinking Spring, has been honored by his fellow citi-   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 321   zens with the office of justice of the peace, and is highly regarded by all his neighbors.   Ellis Good, one of the representative farmers of Penn township, bears a name long honored in Highland county on account of its being so worthily borne by his late respected father. The family is of Pennsylvania origin, having been conspicuous in that state for generations in connection with the famous religious denomination known as the Society of Friends. The genealogical history is traced through the records of the Friends church, which extend back for many generations in the old state of William Penn. From these it appears that in 1730 Thomas Good, Sr., married Mary Jardel, of New Britain, Pa., and their son Thomas, Jr., had a son named Joseph. The latter married Martha Michener and had a large family, two of whom in after years became residents of Ohio. These were Rebecca, wife of Joseph Conard, who settled in Penn township in 1847, and Charles who came to the same township in 1854. He was born in Chester county, Pa., March 16, 1807, and in 1838 was married to Betsey, daughter of Caleb and Ann (Fell) Moore. For sixteen years after this union they lived in Lancaster county, but then decided to risk their fortunes in the great state which had attracted so many of their co-religionists in the past. Charles Good purchased land in Penn township, Highland county, one and a half miles west of the village of Careytown, where in course of time he became celebrated in all the country around for his progressive methods in farming. His place consisted of 220 acres, which he improved and cultivated with such skill as to become recognized as authority in all matters relating to agriculture. He was not only a model farmer but a model citizen, one of the best types of the many fine men and women furnished Ohio in the period of settlement by the high-minded and liberty-loving Society of Friends. He had no political aspirations but accepted such offices as those of township trustee, supervisor and school director, which he believed it to be his duty to hold in the interest of the public and in discharge of his duties as a citizen. His scientific methods of farming, united with good judgment and economy, brought to this quiet Quaker the just reward of abundant prosperity, and in 1873, in connection with others, he purchased the bank at New Vienna. He lived until his eighty-ninth year and passed away April 30, 1895, his wife surviving until November 5, 1899, and dying when ninety years old. The children of this worthy couple were Mary, wife of Washington Blackburn, who is mentioned in the sketch of his son elsewhere. Elizabeth F., widow of Dr. A. T'. Johnson, living' in Norwood near Cincinnati Martha E., married Dr. G. R. Conard, of New Vienna, and died at about the age of thirty-five years Ellis, who is fully   H-21   322 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND.   sketched below Lydia C., residing with her sister, Mrs. Blackburn Evan, a farmer in Penn township; and Rachel M., wife of James M. Wright, a farmer of Clinton county. Ellis Good, fourth of the family, was born at the old homestead in Highland county, Ohio, September 25, 1845. He attended the common schools in the usual way and supplemented this training by a short course at the Dunkard's Academy in New Vienna. In September, 1864, he enlisted in. the One Hundred and Seventy-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry with which he served to the close of the civil war, taking part in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, besides various lighter engagements in middle Tennessee. After returning from the army he resumed work on the farm where he had the best of training under the care and instruction of his lamented father. At pres ent he resides on a farm of 126 acres adjoining Careytown, upon which he erected a handsome dwelling-house some four years since, and it is only necessary to glance over the surroundings to be assured that the proprietor is carrying out the up-to-date and progressive methods of farming which were taught him in youth. He became connected with the New Vienna bank in the second year of its establishment and for ten years past has been president of that financial institution. He avoids the strifes and intrigues of "practical politics" and only consents to hold such places as that of school director, which he does for the purpose of assisting the cause of education which he has much at heart. March 3, 1886, Mr. Good was married to Anna Hallowell, a lady of excellent social connections and high standing, in the community. Her parents were Elwood and Mary D. (Phillips) Hallowell, who came from Chester county, Pa., and secured a home in Fairfield township about 1850. Besides Mrs. Good, their children are Joseph C., who resides in Denver; Edgar, residing at Highland and Bertha. H., wife of Charles G. Blackburn. Mr. Hallowell, the father, died July 9, 1885, aged about sixty-one years. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Good are members of the Society of Friends.   John H. Gossett, trustee of Salem township, is a grandson of one of the most distinguished and enterprising of the Highland county pioneers. John Gossett emigrated from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and from there, in 1797, to Chillicothe, where he remained two years. He then came to Highland county and settled in New Market township, where in 1801 he established two miles below New Market the first successful grist mill in the county. It was a good-sized, hewed-log structure, with a clapboard roof—quite an imposing affair for those days. The millwright who did this architectural job was an old Scotchman, who received as his pay one hundred acres of land which made him independent for life. The iron used in this pioneer mill had to be brought all the way from Kentucky, while John Gossett himself manufactured the stones from two large boulders.   BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 323   He disposed of the mill after running it several years, but it was long continued by his successors. He was a very kind-hearted man, and if persons applying for flour or meal were unable to pay for it, he would cheerfully give to them. Eventually, he sold his place on White Oak and removed to a farm two miles east of New Market and later to Salem township, where he passed the remainder of hid life. He was the first representative of Highland county in the state legislature, serving during the year 1808. Among the children of this worthy pioneer was a son named Joseph Gossett, who was born in New Market township in February, 1821, and proved during a comparatively short life to be the worthy offspring of a worthy sire. He married Louisa, daughter of George Rader, and first located on what is now known as the M. Barr farm, but in a few years traded for a farm in Brush Creek, and later bought 203 acres in Salem township, mostly unimproved land. This he greatly improved and much of it was brought into cultivation, the area at the same time being increased until his holdings amounted to 377 acres. For a while he conducted a brickyard at Lynchburg and subsequently had a tannery at Pricetown, being in fact one of the busiest and most enterprising men in the county. He was a great friend of education and one of the first promoters of the free school system in Salem township, his sympathies being due largely to the fact that he was himself a man of reading and fully appreciated the advantages of learning. His life, so bright and promising of future usefulness, was cut off in the very flower of his manhood, at the age of thirty-four years. His widow continued to live on the home place for nine years, when she married Daniel Workman and shortly afterward removed to Iowa, where she died at the age of eighty. Joseph and Louisa (Rader) Gossett had nine children, of whom Riley, the first born, is the only one that has died. Those living are Mary M., wife of M. Young of Iowa; the subject of this sketch James W., at the old home place; Martha J., widowed wife of B. Steers, of Iowa Anna E., wife of A. Cochran, of Salem township Nancy E., wife of J. Lewis, of Oklohoma Louisa, wife of William Phifer, of Iowa; and Joseph, a resident of California. John H. Gossett, third in age of the family, was born in Salem township, Highland county, Ohio, September 4, 1845, and remained at home until maturity. He married Luvina, daughter of Abraham and Mary Roberts, of Clay township, and located there on a farm of 54 acres which he had previously purchased. This place he sold and in conjunction with his brother bought the old home farm which they conducted in partnership five years, after which time John H. Gossett became owner of the estate where he now resides. This consists at present of 70 acres but he owns interests in other landed property and altogether is one of the substantial farmers of the township. His home place is well improved with modern dwelling house and   324 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND   convenient farm buildings, and everything indicates good management and painstaking care. He is a member of the Christian church and is serving his second term as trustee of Salem township. By his first marriage he has seven children : Wyatt H., of Clay township; Alva C., of Salem township ; Mary E., wife of Alva Robinson, of Hamer township; Elmer L., of Clay township ; Myrta L., wife of William Roberts,. of Hamer township; Verdie M., wife of Dr. Pratt, of Pricetown; and John A., at home. Their mother died in. 1884, and a year later he married Caroline, daughter of James M. and Millie Faris, of Salem township, and they have had three children : Joseph C. and Halder H., at home, and Bessie, deceased.   Francis M. Granger, M. D., of Russell, is one of the best known physicians of Highland county, where he has been practicing medicine nearly thirty years. He comes, too, of a highly honorable lineage, both of his grandfathers being soldiers in the Revolutionary war, and his ancestors all down the line noted as industrious and patriotic citizens. His grandfather, Ephriam Granger, was a native of New York, where his forefathers had been settled several generations, his birth occurring far back in the eighteenth century. He served in the Revolutionary war and in the second decade of the last century joined the tide of emigration that was setting in strongly towards the northwest In 1814 he located in what was then Columbia but now a part of Cincinnati, and safterwardwaid erected in the present county of Brown the first horse mill seen in that part of Ohio. Thurstin Granger, one of his sons, was born near Seneca Lake, Cayuga county, N. Y., October 1, 1803, and was consequently about eleven years old when brought by his parents to the western wilderness. February 15, 1827, he was married to Hannah Doughty, who was born at Spotswood, N. J., April 1,P, 1812 and still resides with her son at Russell, Ohio. Her parents were Benjamin and Euphama Doughty, the former born November 25, 1767, died April 29, 1853 ; the latter born in 1773, died October 20, 1846. The children of Thurstin and Hannah (Doughty) Granger were nine in number and all the dates of their births, and deaths when such have occurred, are recorded in the old. family Bible printed in 1819, still preserved and much valued by the descendants. From these records a transcription shows as followsEuphama, eldest child, born in January, 1830; Benjamin bornc;rn January 6, 1834, now a practicing physician at Hillsboro; Ephriam, born January 9, 1837; Margaret S., born June 3, 1839, wife of John B. Gustin of Indianapolis ; Frances A., born in1841, and died at four years of age ; Mary A., born in 1843, now residing as the widow of Eli Smith in Springfield, Ohio; Mathilda, born in 1846, died at the age of seven years; Sarah A., born July 15, 1851, now a milliner at Cincinnati. Francis M. Granger, who completes the list, was the youngest but one