BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 375 Smith, his children being Walter H., Ralph M., Gertrude M., Louise K., William Waddell and Priscilla. Marion, the only daughter, was born May 25, 1866, and married December 24, 1890, to Horace K. Anson, their children being Virgil L. and Louisa L. Mr. Lewis served several years as master of Union grange, No. 77, Patrons of Husbandry, at New Vienna and was for a long time school director in his district. He and his wife have long been devoted members of the religious Society of Friends and prominent in connection with church affairs. They possess the same reposeful traits of character, the same industrious habits, the same love of liberty, good morals and right-doing that have characterized these people for centuries and made them such staunch supports of law and order and free government everywhere. The Linn Family :—About the year 1790 Robert Linn, who lived in the north of Ireland, became weary of the unequal struggle for existence in that tax-ridden and badly governed land and yielded his shattered frame and saddened heart to the Grim Destroyer which in time conquers every human being. A widow and six children, most of them helpless, were left to bemoan the irreparable loss which had deprived them of their only support and protector. There was no recourse left but that of expatriation, the last hope of many a heartbroken Irishman as he turned his sorrowful gaze upon his country and resolved to leave it forever. When the widow Linn left the shores of Erin in 1796, bound for free and hospitable America, her oldest child Samuel was just twenty-one years of age. After the wearisome and protracted voyage was completed, the little band made their way to Lancaster county, Pa., where a temporary location was secured to be followed by removal to Virginia in 1803. Unlike most Irish immigrants of that day, the Linns were of Scotch ancestry and adherents of the Protestant faith. Samuel, being the eldest, stood somewhat in the relation. of a father to the other children and was a great help as well as comfort to his widowed mother. November 8, 1803, he was married to Catharine Slaymaker, member of one of the distinguished military families of Virginia. Her father, Capt. John Slaymaker, was with Braddock at the time of his memorable defeat by the Indians and subsequently commanded a company in the war for American independence. Robert Alexander Linn, one of the children of this marriage, was born October 8, 1810, and removed with his father to Highland county in 1832. The latter died here in September, 1860, at the ripe age of eighty-five years. August 13, 1857, Robert A. Linn was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Noah and Elizabeth (Robinson) Evans, and member of a family notable in the history of Liberty township. Richard Evans, Mrs. Linn's grandfather, a native of Pennsylvania, first moved to Kentucky with his father, Hugh Evans, and from there to Highland county in 1799, 376 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. where he bought land on Clear creek and subsequently became one of the earliest of the county's associate judges. By his wife, Mary (Pierce) Evans, he had fifteen children, of whom twelve lived to mature age. Noah Evans, the third son, was born in Kentucky in 1795 and in 1819 was married to Elizabeth Robison, of Chillicothe. They had ten children, including Mrs. Elizabeth (Evans) Linn, who was born in 1832 in the old brick house which was built by her grandfather in 1809 on his Clear Creek farm in Liberty township. This was the first brick dwelling-house erected in Highland county and the venerable structure is still standing as one of the interesting landmarks of the olden time. In the family it is known familiarly as the "Ark," probably because its last proprietor in the Evans line was named Noah. In 1868, Robert A. Linn purchased 193 acres from the Evans estate and ten years later erected the elegant brick house now occupied by his widow and children, east of Clear creek on the Chillicothe pike. The children of Robert A. and Elizabeth (Evans) Linn are Samuel D., Katharine, Margaret E., Lucy and Minnie E., who reside on the farm with their mother. William D. Linn, the second son, was born on the paternal homestead in Highland county, Ohio, June 30, 1860, and educated in the district schools. In 1879, he removed to Iowa, where he spent six years employed as a clerk in various mercantile establishments, after which he returned to Highland county and in 1886 took up his residence on part of the Linn estate. In 1879 he was married to Luella Bumgarner, who died in 1885, leaving two children : David, born February 5, 1880, and Frederick, born April 16, 1882. March 19, 1889, Mr. Linn was married to Reedie, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca (Fettro) Pennington, by whom he has four children : Ruth, born January 28, 1892 ; Ray, born June 21, 1895 ; Jane, born January 19, 1899 ; and Esther born March 20, 1902. Alvin M. Louderback, justice of the peace in Clay township, and widely known as a prosperous farmer and stockraiser, is the grandson of Peter Louderback, a native of Pennsylvania, who was brought to Ohio by his parents, who settled as pioneers in de vicinity of the town of Sardinia. Justice Louderback, is therefore, in the fourth generation of the family in Ohio. Peter Louderback, when he grew to manhood, married Betsey Carbory, a daughter of another pioneer family of Brown. county, and made his home in Brown county, farming through the warmer months and devoting the winters to his trade as a shoemaker. Fifteen children were born to him and his wife: Jackson, Causby, Mary, Millie, Marion, James, Hamer, Mason, Emariah, Arminda and Clarinda (twins), and Peter. Several of these are yet living in Ohio, including Hamer, the father of A. M. Louder-back. Hamer Louderback was born in 1835, at the home near Sardinia, and when a youth found employment for several years on. the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 377 river boats between Higginsport and Cincinnati. Later he married Mary Welsh, a native of Clermont county, and they made their home first at the town of Rural, in that county. Subsequently their home was on Straight creek and various other places in Brown county, until they moved to White Oak township, Highland county, where they resided for seventeen years. There the wife and mother died, and afterward Hamer Louderback returned to Brown county, and wedded Rachel Martin. He is now living at Georgetown, where he has been honored for four years with, the office of city marshal. By his first marriage twelve children were born : A. M., subject of this sketch ; Anna, whose home is in Georgetown ; John, in Kansas ; .Arthur, in Montana ; 011ie, in Washington ; Martha, in Brown county ; Emmariah, in Illinois ; Clara, in Brown county ; George, in Greene county; Flora and Florence (twins), in Brown county, and Pearl, in the same county. A. M. Louderback was born at Rural, Clermont county, October 1:3, 1854. When sixteen years of age, having previously attended the district schools, he began working for himself as a farm employee in Clay and White Oak townships, and a year later went to Indiana, but soon returned to his native county. For nine years he worked with William Wills, of Clay township. Subsequently he was married to Mary Gomia, daughter of Louis and Mary Gomia, old settlers of Highland county. Mrs. Louderback, a most estimable lady, was born in the house where she and her husband have made their home since marriage. Four children have been born to them : Demont Q., Theresa, Bessie and Harley, all of whom are yet at home. Mr. Louderback is quite successful as a farmer and breeder of Shorthorn and Jersey cattle, and Poland China and Berkshire hogs, and contributes efficiently to the advancement of the agricultural and livestock interests of his county. He is an honored member of the United Brethren church and the order of Odd Fellows, in politics is a Democrat, and he is now serving his first term as justice of the peace of his township. Milton Glenn Lucas, one of the prosperous farmers of Marshall township on the fertile banks of Rocky Fork, comes from an old family whose history in Highland county goes back to the beginning of the nineteenth century. James and Catharine (Levingood) Lucas, of Delaware, who were the first of the name to arrive in the Scioto valley, had ten children and among them a son named William. The latter married Nancy, daughter of John Owens, and became the parents of four children, including John L., who died in Brush Creek township in 1901, aged about seventy-five years ; Samuel, who died at the age of twenty-five; and William W., a resident of Missouri. Elijah Lucas, the oldest of the above mentioned children, was born in Paint township November 20, 1820, and at present resides three miles northeast of the village of Marshall. October 21, 184'7, he 378 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND married Amanda, daughter of William W. and Eliza( Roth) Glenn, members of an old family of the county. The eight children of Elijah and Amanda (Glenn) Lucas were James William and Birches M., farmers of Paint township ; Lucinda, who married James Sams and died at the age of thirty-six years; the subject of this sketch ; Ellen, widow of Dr. L. T. Glenn; Mary, wife of James Sams; Nettie Jane, who died at the age of nineteen ; and Robert, who is at home. Milton Glenn Lucas, fourth of the family, was born in Brush Creek township, Highland county, Ohio, December 6, 1858, and attended the normal department of the Union graded school:, at Hillsboro under Prof. Louis McKibben. June 26, 1895, he was married to Olive Williams, and they have two children : Milton Gilbert, born July 19, 1896, and Ruth Williams, born March 27, 1899. Mr. Lucas is farming his father's place of 200 acres on the banks of Rocky Fork in Marshall township and owns the 73 acres where his father now resides. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and of Paint lodge, No. 453, Knights of Pythias at Rainsboro. Mrs. Lucas' ancestry runs back to the earliest period of the county's history. Her great-grandfather, George Gall, was a soldier of the Revolution who located in Highland county in 1801, and his daughter Susannah married Thomas Williams. Among the children of the latter was Daniel Williams, who married Mary Hatcher and by her had three sons and three daughters : Mary Metta, wife of John Horst, an attorney of Hillsboro ; Priscilla, wife of J. H. Hiestand, a farmer of Liberty township; Joseph Wesley, a farmer of Fairfield township ; Joshua, who died of typhoid fever; Olive, who became Mrs. Milton G. Lucas ; and Elmer, a physician at Marshall, Texas. Robert M. Lyle, member of the Highland county infirmary board and otherwise influential in public affairs, comes of a long line of farmers who for several generations have been identified with the agricultural development of Liberty township. William Lyle, founder of the American branch of this well known family, was a native of Ireland who married Nancy Gilmore and subsequently emigrated to Rockbridge county, Virginia. Among his children was a son named Samuel, born in 1773, after the parental emigration to Virginia, and married in early manhood to Eleanor Finley. The six children of this union were Sallie, Finley, William, Nancy, Jane, and Samuel, Jr., all of whom were brought by their parents about the year 1815 to Highland county, where the father bought over four hundred acres of land in Concord township. In 1818, a few years after his arrival, the head of the house divided the Concord farm between his two eldest sons, Finley and William, and purchased two hundred acres in Liberty township one mile east of the infirmary, where he lived until his death in 1842, seven years after his wife BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 379 had passed away. His son, Samuel Lyle, Jr., was born in Rock-bridge county, Va., in 1815, and was an infant in arms when his parents came that year to their new home in the West. He grew up on the farm in Liberty township and in 1841 was married to Mary Alice, daughter of John and Ailsie (Boyd) Black, another family of Virginians. The children of Samuel and Mary (Black) Lyle were Margaret Ann, now widow of J. B. Gamble, who died at Noblesville, Ind. ; Sarah E., wife of George Fox, who farms opposite the infirmary ; Robert M., further sketched below ; Mary E., wife of R. R. West, formerly of Paint township ; Alice J., wife of Hugh A. Evans, of Paint township; Charles A., teaming in Hillsboro; and Hettie E., unmarried. Robert M. Lyle, third of the children, was born in Highland county, Ohio, April 6, 1846, on the farm in Liberty township purchased by his grandfather, inherited by his father and his own home at the present time. July 17, 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-fifth regiment Ohio _National Guard, with which he served until the close of the war. After the termination of hostilities he returned to the home farm where, with the exception of two years in Iowa in the drug trade, he has spent all the subsequent years of his life. At present he is one of the board of directors in charge of the Highland county infirmary and superintendent of the Marshall pike in Liberty township. He is a member of the Paint lodge, No. 453, Knights of Pythias. In April, 1880, he was married to Lummie, daughter of Edward and Sophia (McCoppin) Head, and the children of this union are: Frank G., born August 10, 1882 ; Carrie E. and Mary A., twins, born July 19, 1891; and Stella. M., born October 11, 1894. Reuben W. Lyle, prominent for many years in the printing and publishing business of Hillsboro, comes of old and honorable pioneer stock identified with Highland from an early period of the county's history. His great-grandparents were Samuel and Eleanor (Finley) Lyle, whose lives are mentioned in the foregoing sketch. Their eldest son, Finley Lyle, was born in Virginia in 1800, married Catharine, daughter of John Ellis of Concord township, ha 1830, and died in March, 1869, on the estate previously settled by his father. James G. Lyle, one of his sons, was born in Concord township May 22, 1841, and March 19, 1863, married Keziah, daughter of Solomon and Mary Fling, and by her had the following named children : Catherine A., who died in infancy ; the subject of this sketch ; Mary E., who died at the age of ,twenty-two years ; S. Ellis, a job printer in Hillsboro; Charles F., a carriage painter; Albert J., a tinner at Circleville; Harry H., a blacksmith in Leesburg; Ida Belle, wife of Walter Rector, lumber inspector at Hillsboro ; and Sarah J., a bookkeeper. In 1874 James G. Lyle located at Hillsboro, -where he served eight years on the police force, ten years as city marshal 380 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. and since 1900 as private watchman for a number of the city merchants. Reuben W. Lyle, the second of his children, was born in Highland county, Ohio, May 19, 1865, and passed through the grammar grade of the Hillsboro public schools. When sixteen years old he began to learn the printer's trade and six years later was made foreman of the job-printing department of the Gazette. In 1893 he formed a partnership with his brother S. E., and opened a job printing establishment under the firm name of Lyle Brothers. March 1, 1895, this concern was incorporated as the Lyle Printing Company, which has since continued business on North High street and is the leading establishment of the kind in the city. Mr. Lyle is a past grand of Lafayette lodge, No. 25, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was its representative at the grand lodge session of 1900, on which occasion he was appointed grand marshal. He is a past chief patriarch of Tawawa encampment, No. 58, Odd Fellows, and past master of Buckeye lodge, No. 17, Ancient Order United Workmen. June 22, 1887, he was married to Frances, daughter of W. I. and Maggie (Malcom) Davis of Sanders, Ky., and he has one son, George E., born January 13, 1889, and a student in the Hillsboro schools. D. N. McBride, M. D., a well known physician, of Rainsborough, has been in the- active practice of his profession of that place for thirty-two years. His grandparents were William and Letetia McBride, who migrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio as early as 1800 and after tarrying a while in Ross county, near Bainbridge, moved on to Pike county, where they made a permanent settlement and spent the remainder of their lives. The father died at about the age of sixty and his wife when eighty-eight years old. This pioneer couple had a family of eight children, all long since dead; and the second in age was John McBride, born in Pike county, Ohio, March 2, 1809. He married Charlotte, daughter of David and Hannah Spohn, of Adams county, and a short time thereafter took up his permanent abode on a farm which he had purchased in Jackson township, Highland county. He spent a quiet life in the cultivation of his land, held the office of justice of the peace for many years and died in 1895, in his eighty-seventh year, the death of his wife having occurred in 18Of theirheir six children four, William C., Hannah, Letetia and Mary C., are dead. Eliza J:, the eldest, married John W. Yowell, now deceased, and who lived near Lynchburg, Ohio, where Mrs. Yowell still resides. D. N. McBride, second of the children in age, was born near Belfast, Highland county, Ohio, September 1, 1840, and remained at home until 1864, when he spent one year in Illinois in the drug business. In. 1865 he began the study of medicine with Doctors Grier and Noble at Sugartree Ridge and remained with them three years, meantime attending lectures BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 381 at Columbus and Cincinnati. He was graduated by the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery with the class of 1868 and selected as his first location the town of Tranquility in Adams county. He remained at that place three years and then removed to Rainsboro, which has ever since been his scene of operations. Dr. McBride is a member of the county, state and national medical associations and during Cleveland's second administration held the position of pension examiner for Highland county. He is a member of Petersburg lodge, No. 211, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Paint lodge, No. 453, Knights of Pythias, at Rainsboro. He married Sarah A. Dryden, a native of Brown but reared in Adams county, by whom he has had five children : Otto, who died .at eight years of age; Edith, the wife of Dr. J. A. Mercer of Rainsboro; John D., who is practicing medicine at Hillsboro; Newton C., recently admitted to the bar as an attorney-at-law; and James R., residing at home. The Doctor and his family are affiliated with the Baptist church. Edward L. McClain, promoter and proprietor of the manufacturing plant at Greenfield, which bears his name and is the largest of its kind in the world, has an illustrious genealogy as well as a very interesting personal history. Two brothers came from Scotland to New Jersey before the Revolution and one of them lost his life while serving in the patriot army at the battle of Brandywine. He left a son named Peter McClain, who in turn became the father of a boy who was christened by the patriarchal name of John. The latter was destined to lead a long and useful life and to become the founder of the Ohio branch of his family. John McClain was born in Gloucester county, New Jersey, November 23, 1800, and when six years old was brought by his parents to the region then known as part of the boundless West. Their destination was Indian creek in Clermont county, Ohio, and this they reached May 20, 1806. Ten years afterward, when about seventeen years old, John joined the. Methodist Episcopal church, three years later was licensed to exhort, and in March, 1834, the quarterly conference of White Oak circuit gave him a local license to preach. In 1842 he received deacon's orders at the hands of Bishop Morris and in October, 1846, he was ordained elder by Bishop Ames. For many years thereafter it was the custom of this good man to work six days on the farm and spend Sabbath preaching, and only when bronchial trouble had impaired his voice did he consent to give up his labors. The declining years of his life were spent at the home of his on in Greenfield, where he received every attention that filial affection could suggest until his death July 14, 1875. His son, William P. McClain, who was a native of Clermont county, Ohio, located at Greenfield in 1854, where for many years he was prominent as a business man. His children living are Edward L.; Arthur E. and Nellie M. (now the 382 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. wife of William M. McCafferty). The family record of the maternal ancestors of these children is also full of interest. Late in the nineteenth century there came to Ohio from Ireland as witty and jovial a sample of Hibernian as ever left the "ould sod," whose name was Oliver Ross. Ready for any kind of adventure, from treeing a bear to fighting Indians, the vivacious Oliver set out in the spring of 1797 with Henry Massie, brother of the famous Gen. Nathaniel Massie, on a surveying expedition to the headwaters of Brush creek in what is now Highland county. With the party also were Robert Huston, a son-in-law of Mr. Ross, and the latter's pretty little daughter Rebecca, then a girl about fifteen years of age. On the evening of April 17, 1797, these explorers camped at a, spring near what is now the town of New Market, where Miss Ross was made keeper of the camp and cook for the party. This girl, the first woman of her race to set foot in that part of Highland county, was presented by Henry Massie with one of the lots in his newly platted town of New Market. Next year Oliver Ross purchased one hundred acres of land near the village site, on which he subsequently built a cabin and established his family. About the year 1802 there arrived at New Market from Pennsylvania George Parkinson, a professional hat-maker, and he in time became the husband of Rebecca Ross. They had several children and one of the daughters became the mother of Albert J. Beveridge, the present eloquent and famous junior senator from Indiana. Another daughter married William P. McClain, and was the mother of Edward L. McClain, who thus is the grandson of Rebecca and great-grandson of Oliver Ross, who held the first state office in the territory which afterward became Highland county. Edward L. McClain was born and bred in Greenfield, Ohio, and when a young man used to worry his mind over the problem whether there could not be invented some device to prevent collars from chafing and hurting the necks of horses. This sympathetic and kindly quest, which caused him to do much thinking, by degrees evolved an invention which proved a fortune to Mr. McClain, a boon of incalculable value to the equine race and incidentally a prize to all horse owners. In short, he invented the pad for horses' collars and in order to test its availability, rented a small room, employed a couple of men as assistants and began the manufacture on a small scale. The pads proved popular from the start, business increased by leaps and bounds and the small room with three laborers of 1881 had extended in 1902 to mammoth proportions, with over five hundred hands and an annual output of 6,000,000 pads. They are sold practically everywhere that a horse is found, which amounts to saying that the distributing of this humane and ingenious contrivance extends throughout the civilized world. Mr. McClain is also president of the Sun Manufacturing company, and aside from his regular business is associated with BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 383 many different enterprises. He is a very busy and public spirited man, who has done much for the development and enrichment of his native town by employing labor and inviting -capital. He is equally prominent in church, social and fraternal circles, being presi dent of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal church and a member of the Knights Templar. In 1885 Mr. McClain was married to Lula T., daughter of William Johnson, of Hamilton county, Ohio, by whom he has three bright children : Edward Lee, a student at Asheville, N. C.; Helen St. Claire and Donald Schofield McClain. Martin McClure, well known in Hillsboro, business circles and throughout the county as a farmer and stock-raiser of past years, is descended from a pioneer couple who first stepped upon the soil of Ross county, near by, before Highland was organized as a county. John and Margaret (Morrison) McClure were Scotch people, the former born in 1758 and the latter in, 1762, who settled in York county, Pennsylvania, shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war and a few years later migrated to Piqua, Ohio.. Not liking the climatic conditions then prevailing in that part of the state, the emigrants came to Paint township, in Ross county, where the husband purchased land. John. McClure, Jr., son of the aforementioned couple, was born at the Ross county home May 26, 1805, and married Elizabeth Taylor, whose birth occurred March 9; 1802. The former moved to Paint township; in Highland county, where he died October 2, 1859, his wife surviving Until September 7, 1864. Their son, Martin McClure, was born in Madison township, Highland county, Ohio, January 11, 1832, and worked on the farm until he had reached the twenty-second year of his life.. October 5, 1854, he was married to Nancy Duncan, born October 13, 1831, and member of one of the well-known pioneer families. Her father, Robert Duncan, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1777, came to Ohio in 1806 and purchased land in Madison township., Highland county, for $1.25 an acre, on which he subsequently settled. In April, 1817, he married Mary Mann, born November 27, 1796, and daughter of James Mann, who came from Ireland in 1800. She died in January, 1870, having long survived her husband, who passed' away in September, 1843. The children of Martin and Nancy (Duncan) McClure are William T'., a practicing attorney at. Columbus Robert, a traveling salesman for a wholesale shoehouse; Charles, died October 10, 1890, at the age of twenty-nine years Sarah E., wife of P. B. Zink, a grocer of Hillsboro Myrtle E., at home ; Arthur J., interested in the wholesale confectionery firm of. Prince, Mahan & Keeney of Charleston, West Virginia.; Frederick J., bookkeeper for C. S. Bell & Co. and Alston B., with ,the Bancroft Shelving Company of Columbus. For five years after his marriage., Mi. McClure farmed in Ross 384 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. county, near Greenfield, then returned to Madison township and continued agricultural pursuits during the succeeding ten years, after which he secured a place three and a half miles from Hillsboro. In 1876 he went to Penn township, lived there a year or so, and then located in Hillsboro, where he opened a grocery store. For eight years he held the position of weighmaster for the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad company at this point, but for the past twelve years has been dealing in real estate. His knowledge of this subject obtained him the appointment as real estate appraiser for Hillsboro and Liberty township in 1900. Mr. McClure's religious affiliations are with the Presbyterian church and his political views are in accord with the Republican party. Wilson McClure, a business man and influential citizen of Sinking Springs, was born at that place July 3, 1832. His family came from Pennsylvania, where his grandfather was born, married, and died, leaving a widow and eight children: Mary, Jane, Eliza, Thomas W., George, William, James, and Robert, all now deceased. The widow With her family came down the. Ohio river in a house boat to Manchester, and settled near Cynthiana, Pike county, and several years later removed to New Petersburg, where she lived until her death. Thomas W. McClure was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., and when a young man learned the trade of making the wheels for the old time spinning wheels. He- followed this for several years, and afterward manufactured chairs and bed steads for the pioneer homes, and eventually was the proprietor of a cabinet shop. He died at the age of sixty-nine years. His first marriage was to Mary Hedges, a native of Adams county, Ohio, and they had nine children: Elizabeth, and Mary J., deceased, and three who died in infancy ; Wilson, the subject of this sketch ; Sarah and Martha, residing at Sinking Springs, and James, deceased. By a second marriage to Martha McCague, other children were born—Margaret A., Joseph W., of Fayette ; R. D., of Waverly ; George W., of Scioto county ; Thomas, deceased, and two who died young.. Wilson McClure was reared at home and educated in the district school. In early manhood he married Ellen J. Belleson, a native of Maryland, daughter of George W., and Eva Belleson, also natives of that state. By this union four children were born: George E., now residing at Sinking Springs ; James A., of Pike county ; Thomas H., of Sinking Springs, and Wilson G. of Hillsboro. When the civil war came on Mr. McClure, though past thirty years of age and with a family, offered his services to the nation, and went to the front as a member of Company B, Hundred and Seventy-fifth Ohio infantry. While serving at Columbia, Tenn., and in that vicinity he was injured while engaged in the construction of a blockhouse, and being sent to hospital was honorably discharged for disability upon his conva- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 385 lescence. Since his return from the army he has been occupied as a cabinet maker at Sinking Springs, and for some time has conducted an undertaking establishment. Since 1849 he has been a member of the Methodist church; he is a valued brother of the Masonic lodge at Sinking Springs, and in politics he adheres to the Republican party. Van B. McConnaughey, M. D., one of the most prominent and successful practicing .physicians of Hillsboro, comes of Scotch and English ancestry. His great-great-grandfather, William McConnaughey, was born in the "Highlands" of Scotland about 1740 .and for a number of years was a. prominent importer of flax-seed from America to his native country. His. frequent trips to America convinced him of its vast opportunities and he accordingly cast his lot with the struggling pioneers of Pennsylvania, locating in Washington county, where about 1770 he was married to Ellen Berry, also a native of the "Highlands" of Scotland and who, when but a mere girl and without the knowledge of her parents; boarded a vessel bound for Philadelphia, where soon after her arrival she net young McConnaughey and they were married. After their marriage they continued to reside in Washington county, Pa., until their respective deaths, and reared a family of seven sons, one of whom was David McConnaughey, born March 11, 1776. His early youth was passed amid the stirring scenes of the Revolution, and on November 6, 1799, he married Prudence Thompson, also a native of Pennsylvania., of Scotch extraction, born June 8th, 1783. They began housekeeping in Washington county, Pa., and for a number of years successfully maintained one of. the best. hotels in that part of the state. They reared a family of thirteen children, the second of whom was Andrew, born in Washington county; Pa.; on October 16, 1802, where he was reared to manhood on a farm but subsequently turned his attention to mining iron ore, in which occupation he became quite successful. On November 23, 1826, he was married to Mary Vance, a native of Fayette county, Pa., where she was born June 26, 1808, and the daughter of Davis and Hannah (Tedrick) Vance, natives of Pennsylvania. Andrew began housekeeping in. Fayette county, Pa.; and continued to reside there until the fall of 1835, when they removed to Highland county, Ohio, and located for a few months near Fairview, but in the spring of 1836 he purchased a tract of land two. miles east of the present village of New Market, and removed to it. Later on he purchased another farm in the same neighborhood, removed to it and continued to reside there until his death, which occurred on April 15, 1888. He was prominent in local affairs and a devoted member of the Baptist church, filling the office of deacon for a number of years. His widow survived him H-25 386 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. but a few months, passing away on December 4, 1888. They reared a family of ten children: Davis A., born February 12, 1828; Eliza A., October 13, 1829 Benonia A., May 17, 1833 ; Eleanor, May 2, 1835 David, March 8, 1836 ; Andrew V., June 17, 1837; Thomas A., September 1, 1839 Mary L., August 1, 1841 Isaiah, December 24, 1843, and Orlando, December 21, 1846; all of whom have passed away except B. A., who resides in a comfortable home one mile west of New Market and to whom the writer is indebted for a great deal of this information. Davis A. McConnaughey, as noted above, was born in Fayette county, Pa., February 12, 1828, and was only seven years old when his parents landed in New Market township. He spent his boyhood on the farm attending the district schools and received a fair education for that day. On September 30, 1857, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah C. Hibbs, born near Portsmouth, 0., June 26, 1834. Her parents were Jacob and Rebecca (Lucas) Hibbs, old and respected residents of Scioto county, Ohio. The former was born in Pennsylvania November 5, 1793, and was the son of Aaron and Catharine (Craft) Hibbs. Aaron Hibbs was an Englishman by birth and emigrated to Pennsylyania soon after the Revolution, where he married Catharine Craft and removed to Adams county, Ohio, where he died in 1832 at the age of sixty-six. His widow survived him until 1846, when she also passed away at the age of seventy-seven. Jacob Hibbs was quite young when he accompanied his parents to Adams county, where it might be said he was reared. On March 30th, 1813, he was united in marriage with Rebecca Lucas, the estimable daughter of Judge Joseph Lucas, a noted jurist of Ohio, and the father of Robert Lucas, at one time governor of Ohio, and later of the state of Iowa. The father of Judge Joseph, Lucas was William Lucas, who fought under Washington at "Braddock's defeat," and who served as a captain in the Revolutionary war. His father was Edward Lucas, a noted Quaker of England, who with his young wife, who was a Miss Dark, accompanied William Penn to this country and assisted him in founding the first colony of that great religious sect at the "City of Brotherly Love." After the close of the "Revolution" Capt. William Lucas emigrated from Virginia to a point in Scioto county, Ohio, which he named Lucasville and which has borne that name ever since. Jacob and Rebecca (Lucas) Hibbs were the parents of eleven children, of whom Sarah C. was the tenth. After a long and useful life Jacob Hibbs passed away on July 12, 1852, and Mrs. Hibbs survived him until October 20, 1853. Davis A. and Sarah C. McConnaughey, the parents of Dr. Van B. McConnaughey, began life together in an humble way on a farm in New Market township. Mr. McConnaughey devoted the greater part of his life to the buying and selling of live stock, which he successfully BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 387 carried on until his death, which occurred September 11, 1897. He was a man of pleasing address and of exemplary habits. He held aloof from political preferment, but his party elected him commissioner of Highland, which office he filled with credit to himself and friends. His widow survives him and resides on the old homestead. They were the parents of nine children, as follows : Charlie D., born July 9, 1858 ;Ella A., November 20, 1859 ; Van B. October 2, 1861; Grant M., December 27, 1863; Harry 0., December 6, 1865; Lillie M., February 26, 1867 ; Joseph B. and Mary B. (twins), born October 22, 1871; Clarence S., October 4, 1878, all of whom are living except Charlie D. and Ella A. Dr. Van B. McConnaughey, the subject of this sketch and a worthy scion of this honorable ancestry, was born near Hillsboro, Ohio, October 2, 1861, and the third child in the above named family. His earlier education was obtained in the district schools and the Hillsboro high school. He at first chose agriculture, which he successfully followed for four years, when on account of an accident he was compelled to abandon that occupation. He then turned his attention to teaching and for a number of years was one of the foremost teachers in Highland and Greene counties. Finally he decided to devote all his energies to a thorough study of medicine and attended two courses of lectures at The Starling Medical College. He studiously applied himself until March 7, 1893, when he was graduated from The Ohio Medical University, being the first candidate to receive a diploma from that institution. With his diploma he was also awarded the very unusual distinction, by the Ohio Medical University, of "Distinguished Honorable Mention," for original investigation on the 'subject of "Relocolization" of Tubercular Bacilli by Therapeutic measures, preparatory to radical operation, with history of case, so treated, successfully. The noted Dr. Senn of Rush Medical College highly complimented his effort. Having fully equipped himself, not only in learning, but also in apparatus, for the successful practice of medicine and surgery, he located at Berrysville, where for eight years he met with flattering success. He then removed to Hillsboro, where for the past three years his services have been in such demand that it taxes him to the utmost to handle his rapidly increasing practice. On October 20th, 1885, he was united in marriage with Miss Flora A. Strain, daughter of John A. and Ellen (McConnaughey) Strain, old and respected residents of Highland county, now deceased. Three children have blessed this union, two of whom are living: Leone and George, both being students in the Hillsboro high school. Dr. and Mrs. McConnaughey are both substantial and active members of the Baptist church and occupy a high place in the social circles of Hillsboro. He is a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias orders, as well as several beneficiary orders, and is also a 388 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. member of the Highland county Medical Society. The Doctor is now in the prime. of life, and alert to all the necessities requisite to successful practice, and being a close student he keeps abreast of the most modern thought of the day in his chosen profession. John A. McCoppin, for many years a merchant at Carmel and latterly in the .hardware business at Hillsboro, is connected by descent and marriage with some of the sturdiest of the old pioneer families. The name was formerly spelled McAlpin, but for convenience was changed cCoppinppin. His grandparents wRobertert' and Mary (Burford) McCoppin, who migrated from Virginia to Highland, county in 1823 and located on Fall Creek, and later in the neighborhoodof , Carmel. They had twelve children, including William H., who was born in Virginia March 15, 1817, and began teaching in early manhood, which occupation he kept up several years, alternating his task by farming during the summer months. In 1844 he was married to Mary E., daughter of William and Mary. (McLaughlin) Head, both of whose parents were representative pioneer families from Kentucky. 'William and Bigger Head, the first of a name that afterwards became very familiar in Highland county, came from Barren county, Ky., about 1800, and settled, the former in what is now Brush Creek township, and the latter where Marshall now stands. Both reared large and respectable families and their descendants have included many of the most esteemed citizens of the county. The children of William H. and Mary (Head) McCoppin were John A., who is further noticed below; William Carey, who was six years county commissioner and now in the insurance business ; Mary M.; wife of Senator T. M. Watts ; and Roxy J., wife of W. E. Lucas, who is in the implement trade at Hillsboro. John A. McCoppin was born at the paternal homestead in Highland county, Ohio, April 10, 1847, and remained on the farm until 1870. In that year he opened a store at Cannel which he conducted with more or less success for eighteen years. Desiring a larger field, he then removed to Hillsboro, where he embarked in the hardware business and has since been identified with that branch of merchandising. In 1901, he took C. S. Bell ipartnershipShip and the firm opened in the Opera House block the store which they still own and manage. April 7, 1869, Mr. McCoppin was married to Anna E., daughter of Henry F. and Sarah (Tipp) Forayer, both parents being representatives of old and highly respected pioneer families. MrcCoppinppin is a cousin of Hon. Joseph. Benson Foraker, the present distinguished senator from Ohio. The children of Mr. and Mrs. McCoppin are Cora, wife of Wade Turner, a teacher in the Hillsboro High School ; Ida, wife of W. H. Mason of Leesburg; Eva, wife of W. G. McClure, in the monument business ; Harry E and Maud A., pupils in the Hillsboro schools. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 389 John McCoy, a prosperous farmer of Washington township, is a native of Jackson township, born November 22, 1846, and a grandson of a pioneer of Highland county. His lineage is associated also in a conspicuous way with the early settlement and commercial and manufacturing development of Ross county. His grandfather, Thomas McCoy, a native of Maryland, was reared in that state and married there, a union that was blessed with five children—Thomas, Joseph, Eliza, Mary and Nancy. With his family Thomas McCoy came to Highland county before the war of 1812, in which he rendered patriotic service as a soldier of the republic, and in civil life he was a potent influence for good in the early days. His son, Joseph, born in Maryland, May 29, 1801, accompanied the family to Highland county, and married Mary Walker, a native of Concord township. He made his home for forty years in Jackson township, and there reared a family of eleven children (one died in infancy) : Martha A., Rebecca, Thomas, Mary E., Martin V. B., Samuel, Joseph, Catherine, John and Nancy. Joseph McCoy was a man of high character and good business qualifications, became the owner of about six hundred acres of land, and filled several of the township offices ; in politics was a staunch Democrat, and in religious life an adherent of the Christian church. He died at an advanced age, in Concord township, where he passed the later years of his life. John McCoy was born in Jackson township November 22, 1846, and educated in the district school of that neighborhood, passing his youthful years on the home farm. He married Lydia, daughter of John and Parmelia Kelley, of Liberty township, went to housekeeping on the home farm. Afterward he lived on an adjoining farm until the death of his father, when he occupied the old homestead. His home' has been blessed with six children : Birdie, now the wife of J. L Mercer, of Jackson township; Wilber, at home ; Mattie, wife of Charles Chaney, of Jackson ; Hattie J. H., and Stella E., at home. Mr. McCoy is one of the substantial men of his township, standing high in the estimation of his neighbors. He follows general farming and stock raising, and has occupied the local office of land appraiser. In politics he is a Democrat, and his religious affiliation is with the Protestant Methodist church. William A. McKee, a worthy citizen of New Market township, lately deceased, was well known in his capacity as a blacksmith, which trade he followed in Highland county for many years. He was born in Miami county, Ohio, August 19, 1833, son of William McKee and his wife Martha, who was the eldest daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Morrow, pioneers of Highland county, who died at Greenfield about 1818, and were both buried in the same grave. William A. McKee came to Highland county in 1850 and spent all the remainder of his life in this county. He married Mahala 390 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. Pence, who was born September 28, 1829, of an old family whose descendants are widely distributed throughout this portion of Ohio. Her grandparents were Virginians who came to Ohio in the very vanguard of the pioneer army and first located in Adams county, afterward removing about the year 1810 to the county of Highland. Their son Henry married Catherine, daughter of Isaac and Mary Layman, also Virginia immigrants who moved westward in the beginning of the century. Henry and Catherine Pence located in that part of old New Market which is now included in Hamer township, where they hewed and grubbed out a farm which eventually became valuable land. He was a soldier in the war of. 1812, a man of great industry and excellence of character and lived to a ripe old age. His wife, who was born in 1790, was not far from rounding out a century, as her death did, not occur until she was ninety-five years old. They had fourteen children, of whom Sarah, Abigail, Lucinda, Polly, Peter, George, Philip, Ellis, Allen, and Louis have passed away. Those living are John, Henry, and Mahala, the latter being the youngest. After their marriage William and Mahala McKee lived a short time in a house near their present residence, to which they removed in about six months and from that on made their home. They had five children, of whom William H. and Joseph C., second and third in order of birth, have passed away. Carey F., the first born and Mary J., the fourth, remain at home with their mother, and Martha C. is a resident of Indiana. William A. McKee died at the age of sixty-nine years, and was buried in the cemetery of Mount Zion church of which during life he had been a consistent member. Since her husband's death, Mrs. McKee has conducted the business of the estate with the assistance of her son and daughter, and everything has gone along smoothly. Carey F. McKee, the eldest son and mainstay of his mother, taught. school for some time and later was engaged two years in the mercantile business but contemplates trucking for the future. He is a man of good business qualifications and the habits of industry that make the best assurance of success. Mrs. McKee and her entire family are members of Mount Zion church. John McMullen, of Rainsboro, farmer and surveyor, and former trustee of Paint township, was born December 24, 1858, and is of Irish descent. His grandfather, James McMullen, born September 1, 1778, in County Down, Ireland, came to America in early manhood and married Mrs. Nancy Matthews Sloan, of Ross county, also a native of Ireland. They had two children : Robert B., and Louisa, who married John Arnott. Robert B. was born July 1, 1829, and died August 4, 1901. His wife was Mary Jane McClure, born June, 1833, and died September 6, 1893, and she was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Taylor) McClure, both members BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 391 of the early and prominent families of Highland county. The children of Robert and Mary J. McMullen were James, who died in 1899, aged thirty-three years ; John, subject of this sketch ; William J., who died in childhood ; Joseph Scott, who died at the age of thirty-one years ; Marie, wife of George Free, who owns the adjoining farm ; Ernest, who married Jennie Town, and is a farmer in Oklahoma; and Birdie, wife of N. P. Clyburn, an attorney at Greenfield. John McMullen was given a good education, in the district school and at South Salem and Lebanon institutes, and for six years after leaving school he followed the profession of teaching. He also took a course in surveying, in which he is quite expert, and he has found considerable employment in this profession during the past twenty years. He owns a valuable farm of 300 acres, where he has recently built a country home which is one of the most attractive of the county. In his relation to religious and social life he is one of the popular men of the township. He is an elder and leader in vocal music of the Petersburg Presbyterian church, of which his family are also valued members, and he maintains fraternal connection with the Rainsboro lodge of Knights of Pythias, No. 453, and the lodge of Modern Woodmen, No. 4,711, and with his wife, is a member of Mizpah temple, Rathbone Sisters, of Rainsboro. The office of township trustee he held in the years 1894-1900. Mr. McMullen's marriage on February 3, 1886, was to Jennie, daughter of Jacob and Jane (Brown) Pearce, of New Petersburg. Mrs. McMullen is a granddaughter of Benjamin and Catherine (White) Pearce, both notable among the pioneer families of the county. She had five brothers—Benjamin; Robert, Charles, Jacob and Hosea—and one sister, Ella, deceased,- and has two brothers living, at Peters- burg, Frank and George, merchants. The children of Mr. and Mrs. McMullen are John 'Pearce; born November 5, 1886; Robert Beecher, born January 26, 1888; Raymond Fay, born March 5, 1889; Marie Jane, born August 30, 1892 ; Paul Huggart, born April 17, 1895; and Harold, born February 10, 1901, died in infancy. James McNary, one of the prominent farmers of Paint township, residing about two miles north of Cynthiana, Pike county, is a son of the pioneer, Robert McNary. Robert was born at Cannonsburg, Pa., October 30, 1800, was married in early manhood to Delena Alloways, born in the same state, June 23, 1816, and came to Paint township with his wife and children before 1833, making his home at New Market, Highland county, Ohio. He was a wheelwright by trade, and a man much respected, but his life was 'comparatively brief, as he died October 4, 1846.- His wife survived to January 31, 1872. They had six children: Ann Eliza, wife of John Watson ; John, Robert, James, Margaret and David. James McNary was 392 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. born March 22, 1842, in Highland county, and reared in this county. Before he was of age he enlisted for the defense of the union, in the early part of the civil war, as a private in the Sixtieth regiment, Ohio infantry, and served until honorably mustered out at the expiration of his enlistment, November 11, 1862. Returning home, he was married January 24, 1864, to Mary L., daughter of John and Rebecca (Overman) Rains. Mr. McNary is a prosperous and progressive farmer, owning 163 acres of land, in Highland, Pike and Ross counties, and is held in high esteem by his neighbors. He and his wife have had four children : Charles W., born May 26, 1866; Sannie L., born June 7, 1868 ; Nellie .D., born May 6, 1870, and Maggie A., born October 6, 1874. The two last named died in infancy, and Sannie makes her home with her parents. Charles W. was married January 28, 1892, to Anna M. Rigdon, who was born September 18, 1874, daughter of John and Jane Rigdon, and they have had five children : Elsie Delena, Edwin Lyle, Blanche, and two sons who died in infancy. Mrs. Mary L. McNary was born October 16, 1843, and is a descendant of prominent pioneer families. Her father, John Rains, who was born in Randolph county, N. C., February 14, 1804, and died August 6, 1852, was a son of George Rains, a native of Randolph county, N. C., who moved from that state with his wife and seven children to Tennessee, and thence in 1809 to Paint township, where he purchased two hundred and ten acres of land, including the site of the present town of Rainsboro, f or $1.25 per acre. There he lived in the enjoyment of well-earned prosperity to the good old age of seventy-six years, and left at his death (July 10, 1845) a large family. By his marriage to Any McMannes he had nine children, and by a second marriage to Nancy Overman, three. They were: Catherine, born September 21; 1793, married James Grady; Sarah, born August 27, 1795, married John Cooper ; Aaron, born November 5, 1797 ; Hannah, born April 7, 1800, married Nelson Taylor ; Isaac, born February 10, 1802 ; John, born February 14, 1804 ; Ishmael, born November 12, 1806 ; Amy, born May 9, 1809, married Eli Overman ; Charlotte, born October 11, 1811, married Joseph Craig; Martha., born October 10, 1827 ; Mary, born September 3-, 1829, married John Marsh ; Elizabeth, born January 23, 1833. The greater part of the. family lived and died near Rains-. boro, and Mrs. Mary Marsh is now the only survivor. The village of Rainsboro was laid off on the farm of GeoRainsiiis October 15, 1830, the surveyors being Garrett Copes and David Davis, and the first. business enterprise there, was the grocery of Aaron Rains, in the second house built in the town. He continued in business until 1867. The third houas'vas built. by John Rains in June, 1831, and was used by him as the first tavern. It is yet standig. The mother of Mrs. Mary L. Me Nary was a granddaughter of Obadiah Overman, a native of Green Brier county, Va., who moved BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 393 from Randolph county, N. C., with his wife, Martha Mills, and three children, to Paint township, Highland county, in June, 1805. There he lived until his death in October, 1841, at the age of ninety-three years, five months and sixteen days. His son, Isaac Overman, born in 1787, died October, 1823, married Nancy Harbor in Highland county in 1807, who was born January 22, 1792, in Montgomery county, Va., came to Highland county in 1804, and died April 30, 1881. Their children were Enos, born February 1, 1808, married Elizabeth Graybill ; Eli, born 1809, married Amy Rains ; Rachel, born December 18, 1810, married Samuel Rittenhouse; Rebecca, born July 19, 1812, married John Rains ; Elijah, born May, 1814, married Rebecca Spargur; Rhoda, born November 9, 1815, married Charles Copes ; Nancy, born 1817, died July 23, 1845; Isaac, born 1819, married Elizabeth Wilburn ; Sarah Ann, born March 11, 1821, married George Craighead ; and three who died in infancy. John W. McNicol, one of the prosperous farmers in the eastern part of Penn township, is descended from a Scottish family whose first representatives reached central Ohio about the middle of the nineteenth century. James, son of Robert and Jane (Aitkin) McNicol, was born in Sterlingshire, Scotland, in 1801, and in early manhood married Katharine, daughter of Hugh and Janel (Mitchell) Campbell, who resided on the Isle of Skye. After his marriage James lived some time in his native country and in 1851 emigrated to Highland county where he spent the remainder of his days and died in 1874. His children were Robert,- John, Jane Margaret, Kate, Ellen and Hugh. Robert McNicol, eldest of the children, was born in Scotland October 20, 1828, and was consequently about twenty-three years of age when his parents reached Ohio. March 21, 1858, he was married to Elizabeth L. Leaverton, member of one of the oldest families in Penn township. Her grandfather, Solomon. Leaverton, was a native of Maryland and first came to Highland county in 1806, but spent some years in North Carolina, where he married Lettie Thompson, and returned to Ohio in 1817. John F. Leaverton, third in age of his eleven children, was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, in 1812, and five years later came with his father to Highland county, where he became a leading farmer in Penn township. He married Sally Ann Wright, by whom he had fourteen children, including Elizabeth L., who became the wife of Robert McNicol. The latter learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed until well advanced in years. He was esteemed in the community where he lived, both as a man and a citizen. His children, ten in number, were James, John W., Sallie, Kittie, Hugh, Robert, Ella, Lizzie, Vena and Etta. John W. McNicol, second of the family, was born in Penn township, Highland county, Ohio, 394 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. October 15, 1860, and has devoted his whole life to agricultural pursuits. The farm on which he resides is situated in the eastern part of Penn township and he ranks as one of the representative farmers in that section of Highland county. By industry and good management he has achieved a fair measure of prosperity and is surrounded by all the comforts of a pleasant rural home. December 29, 1881, he was married to Clara Ella, daughter of I. E. and Mary (McWilliams) Johnson, of Highland county, by whom he has three children; Ernest, born October 20, 1882 Vena, born February 15, 1886; and Robert, born September 21, 1890. Mr. McNicol is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias. Albert M. Mackerly, former mayor of Greenfield, Ohio, and prominent in law and politics, comes of a family of ingenious mechanics and inventors whose skill and industry were important factors in the early development of Highland county. In the first decade of the nineteenth century Michael Mackerly was a prosperous iron foundry man in Morris county, New Jersey. He enlisted for the War of 1812 and when he returned home after considerable absence found that his partner, who had been left in charge of the business, had absconded and taken with him most of the property. Sorely disappointed and disgusted with this treachery, MichMackerlyerly sold what was left for $500 in gold, which he invested in horses and wagons with a view of leaving the scene of his calamities to seek a new home in the western wilderness. His objective point was the White Water valley of Indiana, but on the journey through Ohio in 1816 one of his horses died after reaching the then small settlement of Greenfield, which misfortune compelled an alteration of plans. Abandoning the design of going farther west, Michael Mackerly settled with his wife and nine children on Paint creek, at a point five miles south of Greenfield. He purchased eighty-two acres of land, paying for it five dollars per acre, and on this farm he passed the remainder of his days. His sons, being mechanics of unusual ability and energy, naturally desired to put their constructive talents to good use and for this purpose they built a mill for grinding corn and also an establishment for manufacturing wagons and other vehicles. This enterprise, so useful and so much needed in the new country, was conducted for years by the Mackerly boys under the lead of Benjamin, the eldest and most ingenious of this talented . family. Benjamin Mackerly, for many years a familiar figure in the county's industrial affairs, is deserving of much more than a passing notice. A mechanic of rare skill and ingenuity, he invented many valuable labor-saving devices, upon several of which he secured patents. His attention was turned to the application of atmospheric pressure to use upon car and machinery brakes, and his patents, which were the first of this kind, and cover all the points sub- BIOGRAPHICAL KETCHES - 395 sequently claimed by Westinghouse and other later inventions, with the exception of the idea of direct pressure. He also invented and patented the principle of the horse tread-mill, and it was in the endeavor to regulate the motion of this that he discovered the brake. As has so often been the case with mechanical geniuses; the practical and pecuniary benefit of Benjamin Mackerly's work was largely reaped by others. He was early employed by manufacturer James, first in putting in machinery at his furnace in Brown county, and afterward to perform a similar' duty at the Rapids Forge establishment, then building on Paint creek. Several of Benjamin's brothers became men of note and influence in their communities. Elisha Mackerly, the second son in order of birth, was for many years a merchant at New Petersburg, where he ended his days. Louis and Michael Mackerly engaged in the manufacture of wheeled vehicles at Rainsboro and became famous for the excellence of their work. They turned out the first buggy built in Highland county and in ten years made three hundred and ten of these vehicles, all of elegant design and superior workmanship. At a later period, Michael Mackerly was engaged, for many years; in merchandising, and subsequently embarked in sawmilling and carriage manufacturing at South Salem, of which town he served as postmaster and died in 1895. Of the children. of Michael Mackerly, Sr., Henry was for several years engaged in the clothing business at Greenfield ; Lucinda married Dr. John Wilson of Washington Court House, Ohio; Mary M. became the wife, of James Douglass, the well known farmer of Madison township ; Emily M. is the wife of Judge Alfred S. Dickey, and Sarah, now Mrs. Norman, is living in New Jersey. Albert M. Mackerly, second child in order of birth of Michael Mackerly, Jr., was born and bred in Highland county, and obtained superior educational advantages as he grew to manhood. After attending the excellent academy at South Salem he entered Miami university at Oxford, Ohio, where he was given a diploma entitling him to the degree of A. B. and A. M. The following two years were devoted to study of the law in the office of Judge Alfred Dickey, afterward completed under the tutelage of Hon, Henry L. Dickey, who represented the old Sixth district in Congress for two terms. Subsequently, Mr. Mackerly matriculated in the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and was graduated as B. L. with the class of 1875. In 1877, he entered upon the practice of his profession at Greenfield and two years later was admitted to practice in the United States court at Cincinnati. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Mackerly has been interested in the real estate business in association with Mr. Caldwell. He has been active in politics and popular with his party associates. In 1892 he was elected mayor of Greenfield and served two years ; was again elected in 1898 and reelected in 1900; and at the last general election was 396 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. a candidate for the Ohio state senate on the Democratic ticket. In 1894 Mr. Mackerly was married to Mrs. Ella Bell, a popular and accomplished lady of Greenfield. He is a member of the Presbyterian church at South Salem and of the Knights of Pythias fraternity. Eli Martin, deserving of note among the enterprising and successful farmers of White Oak township, was born in that township, December 25, 1854, on the farm now owned by his father, William Martin. The latter was born June 21, 1816, son of Andrew Martin, one of the pioneers of Highland county, whose descendants are now numbered among the most worthy people of the region. William Martin was reared in the pioneer home and educated in the log school house of his day, and in. early manhood was married to Abigail Gibler, also a native of Highland county. They had their home upofarmarmi of 128 acres in White Oak township until the death of the mother in 1861. A few years later, having married a second time, to Elizabeth Roberts, Mr. Martin moved to Concord township, where he is still living, at the age of eighty-six years, one of the oldest of the survivors .of the early days, a devoted member of the United Brethren church, and held in high esteem by the many who recall his many years of prominence and influence in the affairs of townships. He had twelve children by his first marriage—James, living in Brown county Daniel, deceased Millie, of Adams county Cynthia, of Brown county Sarah, deceased Mollie and Josie, of Fayette county; Rilda, of White Oak township; Martha, of Mowrystown Eli, the subject of this sketch William, living on. the old homestead, and Henry, in Fayette county. Eli Martin was reared at the White Oak township homestead, and educated in. the district school. In early manhood he was married to Ella Hicks, daughter of Wilson and Rachel Hicks, respected and well-known early settlers, and the young couple began their married life in Concord township. Two years later they moved to White Oak township, and in 1894 he bought the farm of sixty acres where they now live. Three children have been born to. them—Denver C., Carlis W., and Glenn, all living at home. Mr. Martin is a, valued citizen, he and his wife are members of the Christian church, and he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and in politics a Democrat, like his father. In 1902 he held the office of assessor for White Oak township. Edgar J. Martin, M. D., a popular young physician of Greenfield, Ohio, comes of a family which for four generations has had representatives in the medical profession. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all doctors of eminence. The first mentioned, the late Dr. A. J. Martin, was for years one of the leading physicians of Wilmington, Ohio. He was educated at Norwalk and was BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 397 graduated as M. D. at the Cleveland Medical college in 1859. He located without delay in Wilmington, and, with the exception of one year while he was with the Seventy-ninth Ohio regiment during the Civil war, he was in continuous practice until his death in 1898. His son, E. J. Martin, inherited the family predilection for medicine and lost no time in preparing himself for the profession. He was born in Clinton county and educated in the public schools of Wilmington. With this literary equipment he entered the Medical college of Ohio and by diligent attendance and close study received his diploma as M. D. in 1889. Immediately after graduation, Dr. Martin located in Cincinnati, where he practiced five years, during most of that time being assistant surgeon of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad company. In 1894, he took up his residence at Greenfield, where he has since remained with a widening patronage and increasing prospects of success. John Allen Martin, a well-to-do farmer of Marshall township and veteran of the Civil war, comes of one of the old families of Highland county. His grandparents were William and Nancy (Mason) Martin, Pennsylvanians who came to Ohio in 1820 and located in Highland county and reared the following named children: Keziah, Hannah, William, Nancy and Mary Ann. William Martin, junior, was born in Pennsylvania, January 26, 1811, and married Mary Ann, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (McKnight) Moyers. The children of this union were: Clarissa, who married Christopher C. Underwood and died in 1891; Ann Eliza, who married William C. Fenner and died in 1902 ; John A., subject of this sketch; Wilson Howell, who was taken prisoner during the civil war and confined at Libby and Danville, dying at the latter place ; Sarah Jane, wife of Jacob W. Lucas, who resides near St. Joseph, Mo. ; Joseph Perry, died at the age of thirty-two ; Lydia V., the wife of Theodore F. Brown, of Washington Court House; and Luella, wife of James T. _hiller, a farmer of Marshall township. Mrs. Martin, the venerable mother of these children, was born February 28, 1813, now resides with her daughter, Mrs. Luella Miller, and is approaching her nine tieth year. John Allen Martin, the third in order of the children, was born at the parental home in Highland county, April 4, 1838, and as he grew up learned the business of farming which he has followed all his life. In July, 1863, he enlisted in Company A, Second regiment Ohio heavy artillery, with which he remained until mustered out of the service in August, 1865. While serving with this battery, Mr. Martin took part in the battle at Strawberry Plains and other minor engagements during the campaigns in East Tennessee. Since the war he has been engaged in farming, has served as trustee of Marshall township several terms and performed the duties of director of schools. November 7, 1861, he was married 398 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. to Emeline Tedrow, by whom he had two children: Carrie Kate, wife of Lewis Bevan, of Missouri, and Elizabeth Della, wife of G. M. Ansbach, of Iowa. Their mother dying, Mr. Martin was married August 22, 1872, to Celinda Bell. Their children are : Eva M., at home; Anna Belle, 'died in infancy; Luella, teacher in the public schools; Charles Chenowith, also a teacher; Cora Emma, died, in infancy; William Brown, Clara and John Joseph at home. Mrs. Martin is a daughter of Thomas Bell, who came to this country from England when twenty-two years old, and married Susan Montgomery. Their children, brothers and sisters of Mrs. Martin are: Andrew S. Bell, a farmer and dairyman of Madison county ; Nelson, who died in the Union army ; John, a Union soldier who died after the war; and Eva, wife of Caleb B. Lucas of St. Joseph, Mo. The half sisters of Martin are Lacy, widow of Robert Thomas, and Elizabeth, resident of Madison county. Martin Luther Matthews, secretary of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association, of Greenfield, 0., is a man who deserves well both as a neighbor and citizen. His father, James D. Matthews, was one of the old settlers of Concord township, Ross county, of which he served as assessor, and was identified with the agricultural interest of that community for many years. In 1880 he retired from active business and removed to Greenfield, where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1896. He married Mary A. Wilson, of Ross county, by whom he had three children. James H. Matthews, the eldest of these, was in the business of photography at Greensburg, Ind., and died in Indianapolis in 1898. William E., youngest of the family, has been engaged in the shoe manufacturing business at Lancaster, Ohio. Martin L. Matthews was born and reared in Ross county, Ohio, educated at the South Salem Academy and afterward taught school nine years. In, 1888 he located at Greenfield and embarked in the creamery business, but after one year a disastrous fire, which completely destroyed the equipment, put an end to his ambition in this direction, and he resumed his veterinary practice. In 1897, he was elected to the office of justice of the peace and two years later was chosen secretary of the Farmers Mutual fire insurance association, which has a capital of $2,000,000.00. He also has the agency for a number of insurance companies doing business in adjoining counties with Greenfield as his headquarters. The association of which he is secretary does business in ten townships, four of which are in Fayette county, three in Ross and three in Highlnd .counties. Mr. Matthews is a man of many talents and manages to make himself useful. in many ways. Among his other accomplishments is his skill in veterinary surgery, in which department of medical science he has considerable reputation. He lends a handpoli-li-, tics and is generally in the thick of the fray when a heated political BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 399 campaign is in progress, and does what he can to suppress; any form of dishonesty and lawlessness by acting as secretary for the AntiHorse-Thief detective association. Though he has met his full share of financial reverses, he is not to be discouraged but comes up again undaunted to continue the battle of life. In 1874 he was married to Catherine M., daughter of William Long, of Ross county, and they have an only child, Jennie A. Matthews. The family are communicants of the First Presbyterian church, in Greenfield, of which Mr. Matthews has for some years been deacon. G. J. Mayerhoefer, the energetic and popular pastor of St. Mary's (Roman Catholic) church at Hillsboro, though he has only been a resident of the parish a few years, has already gained distinction as a progressive and resourceful man both in affairs spiritual and secular. As the name would imply he is of German lineage, his parents being George J. and Anna Eve (Haidt) Mayerhoefer, who came from the fatherland and settled in Cincinnati about the middle of the nineteenth century. Father Mayerhoefer was born in Cincinnati, July 24, 1871, aid after he reached suitable age entered the excellent parochial schools of St. Francis de Sales, on Walnut Hills in his native city. At the age of fourteen he matriculated at the famous Notre. Dame university, of South Bend, Ind., and spent the next four years in passing through the various grades of its elaborate curriculum. Thus equipped with a fine classical education, the young student entered Mt. Saint Mary's seminary at Cincinnati and took a thorough course in philosophy and theology at that popular. institution. All this long and arduous study was but the preliminary to entrance into holy orders, and Father Mayerhoefer's ordination to the priesthood took place June 19, 1894, as he was nearing the twenty-third year of his age. From that time for nearly six years he was assistant, pastor at St. Lawrence church in Cincinnati, and April 26, 1900, was transferred to the parish of Hillsboro where he has since remained. Father Mayerhoefer now has spiritual care over nearly one hundred families, with whom he is quite popular in his pastoral relations, and his business ability has been thoroughly demonstrated by the tact and energy with which he put through the erection of the extensive additions to St Mary's church. As St. Mary's was established in 1852, it will complete its semi-centennial of existence in 1902, and it is the intention to dedicate the remodeled structure at that time with a celebration in the nature of a golden jubilee. John A. Mercer, M. D., a popular physician of Rainsboro and conspicuous in connection with various fraternal orders, is an Indianian by birth and of Irish parentage. His father, Thomas Mercer, who was born in county Down, crossed the ocean in 1833 when a