450 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. lows lodge at Buford and the Republican party. These are indication of the successful life he has lived since he began clearing away the forest from his land, and laying the foundations of one of the best equipped farms in the county. William Roads, now living a retired life on his country estate near Highland, Ohio, comes of a family long represented and favorably known in Highland county. The original settlers were from Virginia, came during the early years of the nineteenth century and selected for their locations that part of the county now included in Brush and Paint townships. From. this beginning the descendants multiplied until now they are found well represented in various portions of Highland and other counties. The parents of the subject of this sketch were Daniel S. and Malestha W. (Spargur) Roads, and the latter,s ancestry deserves more than a passing word. Her father, Henry W. Spargur, was one of three brothers who came to Ohio. from North Carolina at different periods from 1804 to 1833.. Between them they contributed forty children to the population, most of whom grew to maturity and reared families, which became in time not only one of the most numerous but out one of the most influential connections in Highland county: And the family has no worthier representative than Williams Roads, who was born in 1837 in Highland county, and has spent his entire adult life in close touch with its agricultural development. Born on a farm, reared on a farm, trained until manhood to farm work, he has made that his life’s. occupation and rose to be recognized as one of the best representatives. of the agricultural classes afforded by his township. The fine farm near New Lexington on which he is now spending the evening of his days in comparative repose, has been the scene of all his activities and he cultivates it according to modern and strictly up-to-date methods. Mr. Roads is a man of means, with large interests both landed and otherwise, and finds his time fully occupied in looking after his extensive holdings. He first married. Mahala E., daughter of Philip Anderson, by whom he had three children, James E., Oliver M. and Daniel W. Their mother died in 1893 and Mr. Roads took for his. second wife Alice McLaughlin, who at present presides. over the hospitable household near the town of Highland. James P. Roberts, for many years past one of the most prominent farmers of White ak township, was born, September 30,, I S21 on the farm now owned by his brother, Alfred.: He is a grandson of Isaiah Roberts, a native of Pennsylvania, who married Elizabeth Lewis in that state, and a few years later removed. to Ross county, Ohio, settling at Chillicothe in 1810. Isaiah Roberts was a brick mason, and after he came to Highland county about 1813 he built the first brick house in the county. On coming to this region he. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 451 bought three hundred acres of land, including the site of Taylorsville, which was platted by his son, Isaiah, in November, 1846. By his first wife he had five children who grew up—James, Mary, Abram, Nancy and. Isaiah, all now deceased. After the death of their mother he married a widow, Mrs. Bottleman, who brought to his home the four children of her first husband. Isaiah Roberts, .the pioneer, was an industrious man, intelligent and active, and became the owner of a considerable estate. He lived to the age of eighty- four years, and was sincerely mourned by many friends. His son, James Roberts; born in Pennsylvania, in 1794, was active and well known among the younger men of the pioneer settlement, and manifested his enterprise in youth by running a distillery, then a very common industry, and constructing the first tannery in Highland county. He married Mary E. Bottleman, daughter of his father's second wife, and they, had fourteen children—Isaiah and Judah,. deceased ; Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Mitchell; Thomas, William,. Christopher and Abram, deceased; John, of White Oak ; Mary A., wife of John Crampton ; James P., whose name heads this sketch; Alfred, Margaret, deceased ; Clinton and Nelson. Their mother died in 1854, and about four years later he married Mrs. Eliza McNally Miller. James Roberts continued in the management of his tannery for a quarter of a century, and realized handsome, profits: from this pioneer industry. He became the owner of over one thousand acres of land, and was considered one of the most prosperous; men of his day in. his township. He -was loyal to his country,. and served as a soldier in the war of 1812. Finally, after a busy. and useful life of seventy years, he passed away. His son, James P., was reared at his father,s home, .attending the district school, and helping in the work of the tannery. In 1859 he was /harried to Maria Kibler, a native of White Oak township, and they began housekeeping on the farm, of acres where he now lives. Their home has been blessed with eleven children: Charley. F., of Concord. township; 011ie E., wife of D. 0: Winkle, -of Hamer township ; Ida J., wife of Amelius Sauner, of White Oak; Cornelia E.,. wife of James Fen-wick, of White Oak; Herbert K. and d Arthur W., of White Oak; William P., of Hamer ; Viola C., wife of L. Hensley, of Mowrystown ; Guessie L. and Amelia M., at home, and Isaac N., deceased. James P. Roberts has been very successful as a farmer and stock breeder, and as a stock dealer when he was in that buiness; has owned more than a thousand acres before. he divided it among his children, leaving him now a farm of 330 acres under cultivation, and he has long enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his neighbors. He has been selected. as the administrator of a good many of the estates of his friends who have passed away, and in all relations of life he has shown himself honorable and trustworthy. His wife has 452 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. been a member of the Presbyterian church since her fifteenth year, and he has been a member for forty years and an elder for thirty-five. Ira Q. Roberts, a well-known farmer and business man of ystown,own, is a great-grandson of Isaiah Roberts, a prominent pioneer of White Oak township, and former owner of the site of the town of Taylorsville. A notice of his career, and family history is given in the preceding sketch. His eldest son, James P. Roberts, was the father of William Roberts, born on, the White Oak township farm in 1800, and William was the father of the subject of this sketch. William Roberts, after he had grown to manhood, married Amelia Gibler, a native of the same township, and bought a farm of two hundred acres where he prospered by reason of industry and good business judgment, enlarging his land possessions to something like nine hundred acres. He 'died at the age of sixty-three years, leaving his wife and five children : James P., of Concord; AaE., E.' of the same township; America V., wife of C. W. Rhoten ; and Ira Q. Ira Q. was born October 22, 1859, at the house where he now lives, was educated in the district school, and in. early manhood was married to Josie Riley, a native of Brown county and daughter of Joseph and Leah Riley. Two children have been born to them: Cleo E., wife of Wilber Fonder, of Concord township, and Overton G. Ira Q. Roberts is one of the enterprising and successful younger men of the township ; is the owner of a well-improved farm of two hundred acres, and gives a great part of his time to the management of a livery barn at Mowrystown, and the buying and selling of livestock. Hie is also one of the promoters and stockholders in the White Oak Valley bank, establishedMowrystown-svn. He has served with ability two terms as township trustee, he and -wife are valued members of the Christian church and the order of Odd Fellows, and in politics is a Republican. Adolphus T. Rogers, a well known farmer and breeder of Jersey cattle, is descended from one of the men who fought Indians with Nathaniel Massie in the territory now occupied by Ross and Highland counties. Col. Thomas Rogers, who passed away in 1873 in his ninety-first year, may properly be described as the last of the pioneers of the Scioto valley. With him departed the only man who was able to talk as an eye-witness of events in and around Chillicothe during the last decade of the eighteenth century. He was born in Virginia, October 19, 1782, and three years later came with his father, William Rogers, down the Monongahela and Ohio rivers on flatboats. to what was then called, Limestone, now Maysville, Kentucky. The family settled on Hinkston creek, not far from Lexington, in the same neighborhood where the celebrated Daniel Boone made his home. The elder Rogers became quite intimate with this forest hero and accom- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 453 panied him on some of his perilous expeditions against the Indians. In 1795 he came with Nathaniel Massie on his expedition to Ohio, which resulted in the fight with the Indians at the falls or rapids of Paint Creek, a short distance above Bainbridge in Ross county. The next year he sent his sons, John and Thomas, to clear a place and the two boys built a cabin on the present site of Chillicothe in the summer of 1797, and several years later located where the Slate Mill now stands. The second of these boys became in after years well known as Col. Thomas Rogers, above alluded to: He served as major in the war of 1812 and was present at the surrender of Hull. For many years he was colonel of the Highland county militia and was an imposing figure as he marshalled his troops on "general muster day" on the streets of Hillsboro. Colonel Rogers was a storehouse of information concerting events during the period of settlement and often fascinated his listeners with stories of "the old time entombed." He was especially fond of recalling that on a trip back to Kentucky with his father, about 1797, they fell in with Daniel Boone, and the boy was delighted with the old veteran,s tales of Indian fighting and forest adventures. The colonel,s son, Thomas D. Rogers, was born on his father,s farm near Greenfield, Ohio, March 26, 1819. After he grew up he was for a year a clerk in IL Smart,s store, but upon his marriage to Jane E. Beatty, of Fayette county, he located for life on part of the old home farm, which he had purchased. Here he cultivated his land, raised stock and carried on the usual agricultural' pursuits of that neighborhood until his death. Of his nine children, Alexander B., Cedora F., Alonzo A. and Mary have passed away, the first mentioned dying in the army. Those living are the subject of this sketch ; Mrs. William Pinkerton, Thomas A., of South Salem ; Charles F., of Leesburg, and William, who is an eye and ear specialist in Honolulu. A. T. Rogers, second in age of the children, was born on his father,s farm in Madison township, Highland county, February 23, 1846. As he grew up he attended the common schools and South Salem academy, spent fourteen months in Missouri, and after returning was married to Marietta Black, of Liberty township. By this union Mr. Rogers allied himself with another notable family of Highland county. Mrs. Rogers is the daughter of John B. Black, who traces his ancestry back to Henry Black, a Scotch—Irishman, born in the north of Ireland January 16, 1727, who came to America, shared the pioneer work of his race on the frontier, and died in Rockingham county, Va., October 2, 1819. His wife was Susannah McClain, born January 14, 1726, died December 8, 1812. Their son, John Black, born July 27, 1766, in Rockingham county,. Va, maried Alice Boyd, born August 4, 1767, in the same county, and they passed their lives there, the husband dying June 10, 1839, and the wife August 21, 1811. Their son, John B. Black, born in Rockingham county, Va., January 29, 454 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. 1809, came to Hillsboro in 1840, taught school for a while, on May 19, 1842, married Paulina, daughter of William and Susan (Walker) Lyle, old and respected residents of Highland county, and afterward purchased a farm two miles east of .Hillsboro, which was his home until his death, January 12, 1885. His only child is Marietta, born March 7, 1846, and now the wife of A. T. Rogers., After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Rogers made their home on a place two miles east of Hillsboro, where they spent seven years. and then returned to the old family homestead in Madison township. After a residence there of seven years, Mr. Rogers bought the 144 acres in New Market township where he has made his home. This place he has greatly improved and and up in modern style, among "the additions being a fine barn and house with all the approved con., veniences. He .is an up-to-date .farmer and makes a specialty of raising Jersey cattle, of which favorite dairy breed he has a herd that will compare with the best in the county. Like his ancestors back to its first organization, he is a member of the Republican party, and at present he holds the office of justice of the peace. He and wife had six children:, Effie M., a school teacher ; Clarence B., who died while attending school at Oxford ; Roy S., at home; Helen, wife of W. E. Noftsger, of New Market township; Stanley L. and Julia. The family are all members of the Presbyterian church; in which Mr. Rogers holds the office of elder. Pinckney C. Robinson, merchant, of Pricetown, traces his genealogy to one of the oldest of pioneer families of Ross county. His grandfather, Minott Robinson, a native of Massachusetts, came with his parents to Ross county as early as 1803 and from that time for many years afterward Was identified with the affairs of Ross and Highland counties. He married Sophia Haines and located in Huntington township, Ross county, where he carried on farming and coopering until he passed away near Taylorsville, Ohio in his seventy-third year, long outliving his wife, who died at the age of sixty-eight. Of their ten children William, Thomas and James are dead ; the living are Henry, Mary, Maria, John, Elizabeth, Charles and MeAdow. Henry Robinson, eldest of the children, was born in Ross county, Ohio, April, 9, 1828, qualified himself for teaching as ti he grew up and followed that occupation several years after leaving school. After his marriage to Mrs. Mary A. Kellenberger he engaged in farming and continued that pursuit until 1866, when he removed to Highland county and settled at Taylorsville. The family spent twenty years in and around this town where the mother died, leaving the following children; Lucy, wife of George W. Pulliam of Hamer township, the subject of this sketch ; and Malissa, wife of J. W. Mahaffey, of Hillsboro. Pinckney C. Robinson, second in age of these children, was born in Huntington township, Ross county, Ohio, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 455 September .19, 1854, and as he grew up received an unusually thorough education. Besides his earlier discipline in the district schools, he attended the Hillsboro high school and took a course at the Normal university in Lebanon. For about nine years after leaving college, he taught school in Highland and Fayette ,counties, achieving high reputation as an educator and winning a ten-years, state certificate. In 1888, he embarked in. general merchandise at Pricetown, and three years later ho was married to Elsie, daughter of James and Virginia Smith. Since then he has been a resident householder at Pricetown and has continued his mercantile business with success. He has been honored with official positions as township clerk and treasurer. Mr. and -Mrs. Robinson have three children, Fronia, Henry G. and Hubert. The family are communicants of the Christian church and Mr. Robinson is a member of the lodge of Modern Woodmen of America at Pricetown. Lines Robison is one of the farmers of New Market township whose first Ohio ancestor moved in long before Highland county was organized. His great-grandfather, Thomas Robison, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, came from Westmoreland county, Pa., as early as 1800, settled in New Market, and purchased four hundred acres of land which is still in possession of his descendants. This ancestor married twice and had two families of children, George, William, Susan, Jane and. Elizabeth by the first, and Robert, Nancy and Sally by the second, union. George Robison, eldest of all the children, was born in Pennsylvania in 1790 and consequently was a lad of about ten years When he accompanied his parents down the great river to the land of promise in the Ohio wilderness. After he grew up he met and married Margaret Hunter, who was also an immigrant from Pennsylvania somewhat later than the Robisons. He served as a soldier in the war of 1812, spent the whole of his subsequent life on the farm in New Market township and died in 1861, in the seventy-first year of his age. His six children, all long since dead, were Thomas, George, Robert, John, Nancy and Margaret. George Robison, Jr., second of these children, remained at home until a few years before his marriage to Jane, daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Morrow. They settled on the old home place and became the parents of seven children, of whom Thomas A., Robert W. and Margaret L. have passed away. Those living are Granville, on the old home farm Lines, subject of this sketch Ephraim, who resides with the latter and William A., of Highland county. Their father at one time was an extensive land owner, held most of the minor township offices and died at the age of seventy-eight, his wife surviving him and expiring in her eighty-second year. Lines Robison, the third of their children, was born in New Market township, Highland county, Ohio, November 19, 1841. He lives now on land 456 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. purchased by his great-grandfather over a hunyearsyearS ago, and his birth occurred on the farm adjoining. He grew up on this place, worked out during the crop seasons and in winter picked up a fair English education in the neighborschoolshcols. He was in his twentieth year when the 'opening of the civil war electrified the country and speedily made up his mind to do what he could for the Union cause. In the summer of 1861 the First regiment Ohio volunteer cavalry was organized, first of its kind in the state and later one of the crack regiments of the whole army. He enlisted in Compan H, which was commanded by Capt. ,Martin Buck, and with it was sent into Tennessee, where he participated in all the marching and fighting of the regiment during the subsequent campaigns, making an excellent record and enduring the hardships of. war. He was confined in hospitals three different times on account of diseases incident to army lfe. After muster out, in October, 1864, he returned home and resumed his occupation of farming, subsequently going to Illinois, where he spent about eighteen months. Since his return to Ohio, he has lived on his farm in New Market township, engaged in general agriculture and stock-raising. William Roush, Sr., well known as teacher and farmer, is descended from one of the earliest and strongest family connections that settled in the original New Market township, which was much larger then than now. About 1810, John, Henry and Philip Roush, all with large families, moved in and made a very desirable acquisition to the population. They were Pennsylvanans and had first settled in Adams county, Ohio, where they spent some time before coming to Highland. Philip Roush married Mary Pence and had eight children, of whom Allen, Nathaniel, Polly, George, William and Lydia have passed away. The two living are John, who resides near Fairview, and Catherine, who married John Kesler a.nd is a resident of Russell,. Ohio. George Roush, fourth of the children in age, was born in Adams county, February 15, 1808, and remained at home until he reached his majority. About that time he married Rachel Tedrick, a native of Virginia who had been reared in Highland county by her parents, George and Mary Tedrick. With his bride he occupied a farm recently purchased near Russell Station in Union township, where they spent four or five years, and then trferredrred. their residence to New Market township. Here the husband had bought a place of 120 acres in the woods, on which he proceeded to erect a log cabin and go to clearing in true pioneer style. He prospered and at one time owned over 600 acres of land, but this was reduced before his death to about 400 acres. His wife died at the age of sixty-nine years and he married Lucinda Clark, of Adams county, who died. in 1900 without isue. The children. by the first BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 457 marriage were Abraham, of Kansas ; Frederick, of Union township ; Mary, wife of Eli Layman, of Hamer township; William, subject of this sketch ; Lydia, deceased, and Margaret (widow of Lewis Wil¬kin, deceased), residing at Hillsboro. William Roush, fourth of these children in age, was born in Highland county, April 28, 1837, on a farm adjoining the one in New Market township, where he now makes his home. As he grew up his ambition was to become a teacher, for which he qualified himself by attending school at Russellville and Fairview, Ohio. Afterward he taught several terms of school and on August 23, 1860, married Alcinda, daughter of William and Nancy Henry,' of Clinton county. In 1860 he located on the farm where he has since 'made his. residence and which he has greatly improved by the construction of a handsome dwelling-house with all the modern conveniences. Other improvements also have been made, such as necessary outbuildings and general repairs, which give Mr. Roush a neat and comfortable home. He .belongs to the Church of Christ and has held the offices of trustee and member of the school. board. Mr. and Mrs. Roush have had four children : Elva died after marrying D. C. Bond, of Clinton county ; Iva is the wife of Frank Hogsett, of Hillsboro ; Olive is the wife of C. A. Pence of Liberty ; Carey married Merty Robinson of Hillsboro. George A. Ruble, a prominent farmer of White Oak township, is a descendant of William B. Ruble, a native of Virginia, who came to Ohio and settled in the woods of White Oak township about the year 1800. He cleared away the forests and established a farm, now known as the George Fender place, and, having married a Miss Surber, reared a family of ten children, all of whom are now deceased. Their names were John, Henry, George, Jackson, Katy, Lydia, Dollie, Madeline, Sally and Betsy. John, the eldest son, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born about 1805, on the farm where George A. Ruble now lives, and in early manhood he married Sarah Coffman, daughter of another family of early settlers. They began housekeeping on what' is now known as the Andrew Ruble farm, and a, few years later moved to the Coffman farm. Subsequently John Ruble bought and moved upon a farm in Clay township, where he and- his wife both died in the spring of 1845. They had ten children: Jacob, deceased ; Joseph, living in Pike county, Ill. ; John W., of Salem township ; George A. ; 'William, deceased ; H. W., of Kansas; Isaiah, of Minnesota; Sarah A., of Pike county, Ill. ; Delina and Rachel, deceased. George A. Ruble . was born September 7, 1836, on the farm in White Oak township now owned by Surber & Sauner, and at nine years of age was left an orphan by the death of his parents. He was reared at the home of John Coffman to the age of twenty-one years, after which he. found employment as a farm 458 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. laborer for a short time. In January, 1858, he was married to Ann Davidson, who was born and reared in White Oak township, daugh ter of Benjamin and Amelia Davidson, and of a prominent and of family in Highland county. They have ever since made their home except for two years in Clay township, at their present home, an seven children have been born to them: Amelia, wife of Josep Haller, of White Oak township; William, of Clinton county; Frank, of White. Oak ; John, deceased ; Cora, wife of Walter Larick, o White Oak; Altha, wife of 'McPherson Purdy, of Mowrystown, an one who died in infancy. In the time of the war of the rebellio Mr. Ruble tendered his services to his, country, enlisting October 1 1862, in. Company D, Eighty-eighth regiment, Ohio volunteer infan try. They were mustered in at Camp Chase, and assigned to dut guarding prisoners at various places in Illinois and West Virginia. After a faithful performance of such duties as were assigned him, Mr. Ruble was honorably discharged July 3, 1865, when he returne home and resumed his work as a farmer. He and wife are members of the Christian church to which he has belonged for fifty years, an Mrs. Ruble about fifty-five years. In politics Mr. Ruble is a Repu lican. He voted for Abraham Lincoln and has not missed an election since 1860. William B. Ruble, of Clay township, a well-known farmer and stockraiser and former trustee of the township, was born there, upon the farm now owned by James Reedy, December 25, 1839. His family began in America with Balser Ruble, who came to Richmond, Va., a century or more ago, from Germany, with his parents. Balser, in the course of his work as a stone mason, helped build the capitol of the Old Dominion. He married Mary Surber, also a native of Germany, and fourteen children were born to them—Katie, Dollie, Sally, Betsy, John, Henry, George, Jackson, and Polly, and five who died young. About 1805 or 1806 the family moved to Knoxville, Tenn.:, and after a stay of no great time they moved on to Manchester, Ohio, and from there to Taylorsville, where Balser Ruble purchased a farm and passed the remainder of his days. He died at the age of ninety-seven years and his wife at the age of ninety-three. He had the pleasure, in 1811, of seeing the first steamboat descend the Ohio river. Henry Ruble, son of Balser, was born in 1807, during the sta.y of the family at Knoxville, and was reared mainly in Ohio. At twenty years of age he participated in the adventurous mercantile journeys of that day, going with a trading boat down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans. It was two years before he returned, and subsequently he was married to Betsey Overstake, a native of Brown county, Ohio. They went to housekeeping on a farm near Taylorsville, and three years later began BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 459 clearing away the dense forest about the little log cabin they built on the farm now owned by James Reedy in Clay. township. Here and at their former home six children were born to them: Sarah, wife of William Coffman, of Hillsboro; Cynthia, wife of S. A. Lyons, of Buford; Ellen, wife of M. J. Pulliam, of Salem township ; William B., whose names begins this sketch; Elizabeth, wife of. A. D. Wiggins, of Hillsboro, and Mary, wife of L. R. Duckwall, of Hillsboro, Ohio. Moving from the farm they cleared, they resided about five years on a farm, on White Oak creek in Clay township, and then in 1852 bought the farm, where William B. Ruble now lives. When Henry Ruble died, at the age of eighty-six years, he was the owner of two hundred acres of good land, and was a worthy and respected citizen. He and his wife rest from their labors, and their mortal remains are interred in Buford cemetery. William B. Ruble, the only son of Henry, was educated in his youth in the district schools of the county, and when a young man, ready to begin the duties of manhood, he married Lucinda Overstake, a native of Highland county. They began their home life on the farm where ,they now reside, and where they have passed many happy and prosperous years. Mr. Ruble is the owner of three hundred and twenty acres of valuable land, and in addition to farming he has been notably successful in the rearing of livestock, especially of Short-horned cattle and Duroc hogs. He is a member of the Church of Christ, in politics is a Democrat, and he has been honored with the office of township trustee for six years. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ruble, Henry B., and William H., both of whom are living under the parental roof. George Sams, for many years a well known and highly esteemed citizen of Brush Creek township, was born in Pennsylvania, November 18, 1805. He was the son of Andrew Sams, a Pennsylvanian by birth, who served his country as a soldier in the war of the Revolution during two terms of nine months, and the eldest son of this patriot by his marriage to his second wife, Margaret. The latter died in Brush Creek township, at the age of eighty-seven years. The second son, Abram, died in: early manhood ; a daughter, Mary, married Isaac Oakes, of Highland county, and died in Iowa, and Catherine married and went west. George Sams married Lydia Milburn, daughter of Thomas Milburn, whose father was a Revolutionary soldier, and they reared a large family of children—Abram, now a farmer near Dallas postoffice ; Sallie, wife of T. G. Hoggard, of Hillsboro; Andrew J., of Paint township ; George, a farmer in Iowa ; Lydia, wife of Joseph Johnson, of Chillicothe; James G., of Brush Creek township ; Dr. Samuel Gordon Sams, who died in Iowa in 1900; Annie, Esther Ann, Thomas and Emmeline died young. 460 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. George Sams was a shoemaker by trade, and with great industry and devotion to the interests of his family, followed farming by day and often labored at his trade by night, by such efforts becoming the owner of about six hundred acres of land. He and his family resided in. Brush Creek township from 1834, and he lived to the age of fifty-nine years and his wife to seventy-four. He was a man of deep religious faith as well as business energy, and was one of the most devoted members of the Methodist church. James G. Sams, of Brush Creek township, a son of George Sams, was educated in the district school and in early manhood married Lucinda Bell Lucas, who was born and reared in Brush Creek township, daughter of Elijah and Amanda Lucas, and connected with a wide spread and prominent Ohio family. She died August 28, 1890, having been the mother of four children: Maggie, deceased; Bessie L., Birches E., and John a At a later date Mr. Sams married Sallie M. Lucas, sister of his deceased wife, and they have had two children : one who died in infancy, and Faith W. Mr. Sams is the owner of a hundred acres of valuable land, and is quite successful in the pursuits of agriculture and the raising of live stock. He has rendered creditable official service as a member of the school board; is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge, No. 211, at Petersburg, and in. politics is a Democrat. Andrew J. Sams, one of the elder sons of George Sams, is one of the prominent farmers of Paint township, owning four hundred acres in that and Marshall townships, two hundred and eighty acres of which was part of the David Reece estate, where Senator Joseph B. Foraker was reared. Andrew J. was. born in Brush Creek township, January 14, 1835, and received his education: in the district school. In early manhood he married Ruth Ann, daughter of George and Mary (Frump) Bell. Mr. Sams, father was born in Morgantown, Va., in 1780 and died in Brush Creek township in 1877, at the remarkable age of ninety-seven years. Her mother was a native of Delaware. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Sams are, Oliver Newton Sams, prosecuting attorney of Highland county; George Oscar, farming in Paint township;. Mary, who died at the age of eighteen ; Edmund M., insurance broker in New York; Eldora, wife. of Robert H. Lucas, of Marshall township; Leslie, who died at three years; Clarence Delaplane, farming with his father and Elsie, wife of Roscoe West, a farmer of Liberty township. Mr. and Mrs. Sams are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rainsboro, Ohio. Mrs. David Sanders, of Leesburg, is one of those energetic,. resourceful women of strongly marked character and executive abil- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 461 ity, who always become notable figures in the communities where they reside. They are needed to push along all good causes, from the building of a church or school house on one hand to the suppression of all sorts of organized vice on the other. They are the first in the sick room "where pain and anguish rack the brow"; they are foremost in meeting the calls for charity ; they can be relied upon to aid in every movement that makes for cleanliness or righteousness. Mrs. Sanders comes naturally by her strong traits, as she. comes from sturdy old pioneer stock who learned self-sacrifice and how to provide in the bitter school of experience. She is one of the few living descendants of James Johnson, who came out from Virginia in the olden days and helped the vanguard of civilization fight against the savage beasts and still more savage Indians that were then thick in Ohio from Lake Erie to the great river. This first corner left a son named Boling A. Johnson, who was born September 17, 1818, married Angeline, daughter of Daniel Pavey, and reared a family of children. One of these was Armilda Johnson, who became Mrs. David. Sanders, the subject of this sketch. At the time of her birth, in 1848, the parents were living in Fayette county and her early education was obtained there, supplemented by attendance later at the Holbrook academy at Lebanon. After leaving this institution, she returned home and spent some time on the farm, assisting in the household duties and indulging in restful vacation from, study. -In 1876 she was married to David Sanders, and of late years she has resided at Leesburg, where she has identified herself thoroughly with the social and religious activities of the place. Mrs. Sanders is a conspicuous member of the Order of the Eastern Star and treasurer of the Woman,s Foreign Missionary society. Much of her time, also, is occupied with regular business, for which she shows a remarkable aptitude. She has only one child, a daughter named Lucile A., and the family is one of the most popular in the pretty village of Leesburg. George W. Sanders, well, known as farmer and stock raiser, comes of one of the old families of New Market township who took part in its first settlement and development. It was about the year 1810 that John and Annie (Woodruff) Sanders came from their home in Northumberland county, Pa., in search of better fortunes in the rapidly developing state of Ohio. They selected New Market township as a. favorable spot and there the head of the house purchased 149 acres of land, to which in later years he added considerably more and owned at one time several hundred acres. They were old school Baptists and John Sanders donated land and constructed a church of that denomination at his own expense. He also gave ground for a cemetery, and there his own remains were laid to rest when he died at the age of eighty-two, followed a few years later by 462 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. his wife, who expired in her eighty-eighth year. The children of these old settlers, all long since dead, were Jacob, Dennis, Rachel A. and Oliver H. The latter was born February 2, 1820, on the homestead farm where he was reared and spent all the days of his life. He married. Eliza Vance, of Uniontown, Pa., and spent a peaceful existence in the cultivation of his farm and raising and dealing in stock. He was sixty-six years old when laid to rest, and when his faithful wife expired some years later her remains were deposited by his side in the old family burying-ground. Of their eight children only two survive—John V. and, the subject of this sketch. The dead are Hugh, Polly A., Samuel, Dennis E., Margaret and Joseph. George W. Sanders, sixth in age of the children, was born in New Market township, Highland county, Ohio, February 1, 1854. He still lives in the house where his birth occurred, having made that his home from the beginning. While growing up he attended the neighborhood schools and between times assisted his father with the lighter work of the farm. When he reached the marriageable age he selected as companion for life Catherine Ferris, of one of the old families of Hamer township. After his union with this lady, the parents "set them up in housekeeping" on the place which without interruption has since remained their residence. Mr. Sanders owns two hundred acres of good land, well situated and kept in, excellent order for general farming and stock-raising. He served as constable of New Market township two terms and is a member of the New Market grange. He and his wife have two children, Mary E. and Nora F., both of whom remain at home. The Sands Family, so long and favorably known at Hillsboro, may be said to' be unique 'in one respect, inasmuch as they have established records dating back for three centuries. Few families of this country are fortunate enough to make such a claim, and possess a complete genealogical tree running back three hundred years or more in an unbroken series without a single "missing link." James Sands, who first established the family in the colonies, was a son of the Bishop of York, the name having been formerly Sandys and Sandes. James was born at Reading, Berkshire, England, in 1622 and emigrated to America in 1658. Two years later he was one of the colony who purchased Block Island, just east of Long Island, and he died in March, 1695. wife,sfe's name was Sarah, and to them were born, four sons and two daughters. John Sands, one of their sons, married Sybil, daughter of Simon Ray, and moved in 1691 to the north part of Cow Neck, where' he died in March, 1712, leaving four sons and as many daughters. The second John Sands, one of his sons, married Catherine, daughter of Robert Guthrie from Edinburg, Scotland, and granddaughter of Dr. Alcock, who came as physician to the colony that settled Boston. Joshua, the eighth BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 463 child of John Sands the second, was married in October; 1748, to Mary, daughter of Richard Smith, and located at Newburg, Orange county, N. Y., where he died in 1789, after rearing two sons and two daughters. John Wilkes, son of Joshua, married Catharine Tidd, by whom he had four sons and six daughters. His son and namesake, Joshua the second, eldest of the children, was born March 2, 1802, and married; August 9, 1827, to Betsey Cole, of Delaware county, N. Y. He resided at Elmira and elsewhere in New York until 1852, when he located at Five Mile Summit, Hocking county, Ohio. He was a railroad contractor and built a portion of the old Scioto & Hocking Valley railroad, losing heavily when the company in charge of that line failed. He had seven sons and three daughters, of whom there still live Alexander C., of Logan, Ohio ; Amelia Mariah, widow of Mark Horth, of Salamanca, N. Y. ; Clarissa Ann, wife of J. G. Brand, who has been in mission work at Tokio, Japan, for twenty-eight years and John Frederic. The latter was ,born February 7, 1841, at Elmira, N. Y., and began railroad work with the old Marietta. & Cincinnati, now the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, in 185.7. In October, 1895, after. remaining forty years in the employment of that company, he removed to Hillsboro to take charge of the United States express office at that place. June 23, 1863, he was married to Sarah Josephine, daughter of Joseph E.. and Julia A. (Lindley) Lange, of Napoleon, Ind. From this union came Clarissa, who died in childhood Frederic A., dispatcher for the Missouri Pacific railroad company in. Kansas ; John E., agent of the Baltimore & Ohio. railroad company at HMS-bon); William Peabody, chief dispatcher of the Mexican Central. railroad at Jimulco, Mexico Julia Ann, stenographer in Cincinnati; George Narumo,. with the Illinois Central railroad at St.. Louis and . Mary -Agnes, assistant manager of the Hillsboro Home telephone company. John E. Sands, third of the above enumerated children, was born January 29, 1869, in Zaleski, Vinton county, Ohio, and began railroad ,work with his father when thirteen years old. He took charge of the Hillsboro station of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in January, 1897, and in the following November was married to Estelle, daughter of Henry and Martha (McFadden) Gallup, of Wilmington, Ohio. The Gallups are relatives of the Captain Gallup, of Revolutionary fame, to whose memory a memorial tablet has been erected at Stonington, Conn. Mr. Sands is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias,' belongs to all the Masonic bodies up to. and including the Knights Templar, is a member of the Benevolent. and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America.. He and wife have one son, Carlos E., born October 18, 1898. John Satterfield, former trustee and at present a justice of the peace of Jackson township, is a native of Adams county, and a, 464 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. descendant of pioneers of southern Ohio. His grandfather, James Satterfield, a native of Virginia, married in that state and came with his wife to Pike county, where he lived the remainder of his life, and reared a family of ten children—James, William, JoMazieazie, Elizabeth, Patsy, Fannie, Anna, Polly, and Thyrza. James Satterfield, the eldest son, born in Pike county, January 1, 1809, was married October 18, 1830, to Mahala Legg (born March 16, 1810), and they began their married life in Pike county, but soon bought a farm. in Adams county, where the husband and father lived to the age of seventy-seven years. mothertheF died at forty-three. They had ten children : Charles, born in 18nownomr living in Kansas; Francis, born. in 1834, deceased ; Thomas, born in 1836, also in Kansas ; Noble, born. in 1838; whose home is in Jackson township; Lewis, born in deceased ; Elizabeth, born in 1842, deceased; Sarah, born in 1845, deceased; Angenora, born in 1847, deceased; and John, the subjectthisthiS sketch. The latter was born on the home farm in Adams county, near Locust Grove, April 10, 1850. At seventeen years of age he went out to work at farming by the month, making his own way in the world, and in early manhood he was married to Rachel Beavers, a native of Pickaway county, Ohio. They began married life in Pickaway county, and afterward lived two years in Franklin county, Ohio. Four children. were born to them—Maggie, Blanche, James, and an infant unnamed, all of whom are deceased, and their mother died in 1882. Subsequently Mr. Satterfield was married to Sarah E Gall, of Jackson township, and they have three children: Harry, Homer, and William, who share their home. Mr. Satterfield has been engaged in general farming and stock raising since his residence in Jackson township, and has been honored with the office of trustee for several years, and that of justice of the peace for two terms. In 1890 he was the land appraiser of the township. He and wife are members of the Christian church and he follows the traditions of his family in maintaining a stanch allegiance to the Democratic party. Stephen Sauner, one of the most prominent and prosperous citizens of White Oak township., now retired, came to. America in April, 1852, and reached Mow rystown fifty dollars in debt for his transportation. Since then he has been the owner of as much as seventeen hundred acres of land in the township, and has had a leading part in the affairs of his community. This worthy citizen was born in Alsace, France, July 15, 1830, son of George Sauner, a native of the same place. George Sauner was married three times and had nine children, Stephen being a son by the second marriage. He lived and died in the old country, but some of his sons, like Stephen, have become prosperous citizens of the United States. Stephen, on coming to White Oak township, where he was attracted by the old BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 465 French settlement, worked at farming by the month for something over three years, and then married Susan Gayman, a native of France and daughter of John Gayman, with whom he went to housekeeping on a rented farm near Taylorsville. Three years later they rented a farm near Mowrystown, known as the Trimble farm, and after six years he and a partner bought a farm of six hundred acres. Through his industry and good management he was able to 'buy out his partner, and later he added to his holdings a farm of 250 acres, where he now resides, and some time after another farm of 750 acres, near Taylorsville, where he lived for thirty-five years. After that he divided his land among his children and moved to his present home previously purchased as noted above. He has been honored for two terms with the office of township trustee, has served as school director a few years, and is a devoted member of the Presbyterian church, which he joined .at the age of fourteen years in France. The eleven children of Stephen Sauner are all living in White Oak township, and are counted among the most worthy people. They are, Sophia, wife of Lee Kay; Edward, Amelious, Lewis S., Frank; Anna, wife of Frank Ruble; Louise, wife of Scott Kay; Mary, wife of Sherman Underwood ; Lizzie, wife of William Windom ; Henry and Harry. Frank Sauner, a prosperous farmer and present township trustee, was born on the farm now owned by his brother Amelious, December 22, 1863. He was educated in the district schools, and in early manhood married Lillie Hoskinson, a native of Athens county, Ohio. Two years after their marriage he bought the farm where he now lives. He is the owner of two hundred acres of valuable land, and is successful as a fanner and stock raiser. In politics he is, like his father, a Democrat, and his religious affiliation is with the Presbyterian church. His home is blessed with four children : Bessie, Ina, Elza, and Ada. Amelious Sauner, son of the foregoing, was born July 21, 1859, in the house where he now lives, and he was there reared, receiving his education in the district school. When he had attained manhood he married Ida J. Roberts, a. native of White Oak township, daughter of J. P. and Maria Roberts, and a member of one of the prominent old families of the county. They began housekeeping where they now reside, and in the course of the years that have followed six children have been born to them—Blanche C., Stephen H., Gary J., Marsena M., who are living at home; and Stella and Clara, deceased. Mr. Sauner has prospered as a farmer and stock raiser, giving special attention to the breeding, of Shorthorn cattle and Poland-China hogs, and he has added to his land possessions until he has four hundred acres. He is also active in business as a dealer in livestock of all kinds, and in the handling of brick and tile, with H-30 466 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. headquarters at Mowrystown. Altogether he is one of the busies and most successful men of the township. Socially he has a wid circle of friends. He and wife are members of the Presbvterian church, in which his family has been prominent for many years, and in politics he is a Democrat. Lewis S. Sauner, son of Stephen Sauner, a sketch of whom precedes this mention, is one of the prosperous farmers and influential citizens of White Oak township. He was born at the old Sauner homestead, June 29, 1861, and there reared and educated, attending, the district school and aiding in the work of the farm, and also attending school at T'aylorsville. In early manhood he was married to Altie E. Surber, who was born and reared in the same township, daughter of John P. and Jennie M. Surber, and descendant of one of the first settlers. They began their married life upon a farm adjoining the one where they now live, which he bought twelve years after their marriage. He has made all the improvements on this new home, and has one of the best equipped and managed farms in the neighborhood, a mere glance at which testifies to his skill as a husbandman. He is the owner of 350 acres, of valuable land, and in addition to farming raises livestock and deals in the same to a considerable extent. Mr. Sauner is a worthy member of the Christian church, in. politics is a Democrat, and enjoys the esteem of many friends. He has three children, all living at home Winnie L., Ora. C., and John Leroy. Theodore F. Scott, M. D., one of the popular physicians of Lynchburg, where he has made many friends during his period of residence, is of Virginia descent and Ohio birth. His grandparents, John and Mary Scott, came from Scotland to Virginia in the early part of the nineteenth century. Their son, John F. Scott, was born in that state in 1818, migrated to Ohio in early manhood and subsequently married Catharine Erlougher, born in 1820 in Muskingum county. She was a daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Erlougher, who came from London, England, settled near Zanesville and besides Mrs. Scott reared a son named John and two daughters, who are now all dead. The children of John F. and Catharine (Erlougher) Scott were twelve in number, three sons and nine daughters. Anthony Scott, eldest of the family, was the first volunteer enrolled in the call for 75,000 troops made in April, 1861. He served three months as - major of the Fourth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry and upon re-enlistment was transferred to the Eighteenth regiment United States regular troops. The second of the children in order of birth was Mary Elizabeth, who married James Stevens, of Delaware, Ohio; next came Frances,wife of Lucien Derthick, of Lima; Helen, wife of Rev. G. W. Burns, minister of the Methodist Episcopal BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 467 church at Middleport, Ohio ; Theodore F., subject of this sketch; Josephine, wife of E. E. Gardner, of Hamler, Ohio; Anolia, wife of William Faze, of Columbus Grove, Ohio ; Iad, wife of Leroy Douglas, of Lima; Belle, Catharine, and Harry F. died in childhood, and Minnie M., who resides with her mother at Lima, Ohio. Theodore F. Scott, one of the three sons of this interesting family; was born November 5, 1850, and received his academical education in the schools of Sunbury and Delaware. As he grew up he went through a course of medical study and eventually began practice at Hamler, Ohio, subsequently following his profession at Fort Collins, Col. Returning from the west he spent some time at Lima. and then located in Cincinnati, where he attended lectures and graduated at the Medical Institute in the. class of 1890. In the following January Dr. Scott located at Lynchburg, where he has since remained and become one of the permanent fixtures of that prosperous town. His thirteen years, residence has given him a wide acquaintance, both professional and personal, and a corresponding degree of popularity in the country where he does business. March 2, 1871, he was married to Viola J., daughter of John and Hannah (Truax) Campton, formerly of Lima. Their only son, Wilmer, graduated in 1901 from the Lynchburg high school and is now going through a course of reading 'preparatory to becoming a practitioner of medicine. The Scott Family :—The founder of the Highland county branch of this well known and influential connection was William Scott, a native of Peterboro, N. H., who when a small boy came with his mother to Franklinton, Ohio. David Scott, the husband and father, had preceded the family to the town mentioned, now a part of Columbus, where for many years he was a practicing attorney. William received a collegiate education, which was supplemented by a thorough study of the law, and in 1832 located at Hillsboro. There he practiced his profession with success and rose rapidly, being elected prosecuting attorney a year or two after his arrival and serving through 1834-5 with a decided addition to his reputation. As business increased, Mr. Scott engaged in brokerage and money lending, through which means he, accumulated a comfortable competency which at his death was bequeathed to his widow and children. He was a man of unostentatious demeanor, but possessed excellent qualities which made him beloved by his family and highly esteemed by his intimate friends. During the civil -war he was noted for the warmth of his patriotism and conscientious devotion to the Union cause. In 1862 he was appointed provost marshal for the district including Hillsboro, but on account of declining health was compelled to resign the position after a few months, to be succeeded by Joseph K. Marley. In many ways he made a. patriotic record, notably in paying for the equipment of a Hillsboro cavalry company 468 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. which, in his honor, was named the Scott Dragoons. In 1843 he was married to Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Dr. Samuel Parsons, of Columbus, which union resulted in the birth of a son and daughter. Samuel Parsons Scott, the only son and executor of his father,s estate, was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, and received as he grew to manhood an: excellent education, both academic and professional. He was graduated with high honors at the Miami university in 1866, subsequently applied himself assiduously to the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1868. Mr. Scott is indeed a gentleman of unusual accomplishments, having traveled extensively in Europe, acquiring a knowledge of several languages and written a volume entitled "Through Spain." He looks after the estate of his father, which includes numerous holdings of realty and constitutes one of the factors in the wealth and prosperity of the Highland city. In 1895 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Robert B. and Mary (Woodbridge) Smart, of Chillicothe, and granddaughter of John Woodbridge. The family enjoy high social rank at Hillsboro. James H. Sellers, proprietor of the marble works at Greenfield, is a factor in the religious, fraternal and industrial life of the city. The family are of Highland county, where his father, Grover C. Sellers, son of John H. Sellers, an old settler of Greenfield, was for a time engaged in the furniture business. In 1896 he concluded to change the character of his investment and embarked in the marble business at Greenfield, which. he followed until the time of his death. He was a steady and reliable citizen, took a lively interest in public matters, including politics, and contributed his full share toward the city,s industrial growth. Grover C. Sellers married Mary, daughter of John. Fullerton, by whom he reared a family of six children, who are in business at various points in Ohio. George C. Sellers is assistant cashier in. the First National bank of Wellston, and Otis Q. is engaged in the produce business at the same place. Carrie Marie Sellers lives in Dayton, Ohio, and her sister Ola. is the wife of Edward J. Pratt, a farmer residing near Granville, in Licking county. John F. follows the occupation of paper-hanging at Greenfield. James H. Sellers is next to the youngest of the children, and was born in Highland county and there grew up and received his education. He was not in business for himself until after his father,s death, when he took charge of the marble works in Greenfield and has since conducted the same successfully. Though he occasionally lends a hand in the political campaigns, Mr. Sellers is not an office seeker and does not allow politics to interfere with business. He holds membership in the First Baptist church at Greenfield and is prominent in the Sunday school work. His influence is always thrown to the right side of good causes and he aids as far as lies in his power every movement for the advancement of the moral BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 469 welfare of the community. His fraternal connections are confined to the Odd Fellows and he is a member of the encampment of that order. Ben Ami Selph, a large land-owner and one of the representative farmers of Highland county, is of pioneer descent through Virginian parentage. Coleman Selph, son of a physician in King and Queen county, Va., was born in 1803, was married in Rockbridge of the same state, to Mary Heck, and migrated to Highland county in 1829. He located first not far from the source of Fall creek and next year bought; a tract of one hundred acres of land in Penn township, a mile south of the village of Samantha, where his second oldest son, Eli B. Selph, still resides.' The mother died on this place in 1880 and her husband passed away August 1, 1882. Their children, aside from the one above mentioned, were John, who died at the age of twenty-three years ; Elizabeth, widow of Charles Evans, who is farming several miles north of Hillsboro ; Cynthia, widow of Daniel Thorp, formerly of Hillsboro ; David, a retired farmer of Hillsboro; Ben Ami, who is fully noticed below; Amanda, who married Madison Boatright and died in Liberty township in 1865 ; and Hester, who died when twenty-three years old. Ben Ami Selph, the youngest of the sons, was born, in Highland county, Ohio, July 12, 1838, and went through the usual vicissitudes of a farmer’s boy in his passage by way of schools and farm work to manhood,s estate. He has been a farmer all his adult life and a good one, managing well and working hard with the result that he now owns the tract of 376 acres formerly taken up by John Matthews, who about 1825 erected the brick residence in which Mr. Selph and family now reside. He also owns 330 acres of fine farm land in Dodson township. The fine farm. he resides on is situated three miles north of Hillsboro, near Clear creek. On August 16, 1864, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Houston) Robb, who were early settlers in Clermont county, and the offspring of this union are: Coleman Emmett, who married Elizabeth Keeler and lives in Covington, Ky. ; Georgia, wife of Carey McConnaughey, a farmer of Dodson township:, Auta N., wife of Dr. George Groth, a practicing dentist at Hillsboro ; Pearl, who graduated as a trained nurse from the Jewish hospital of Cincinnati and resides in Kentucky, Arlington and Vesta, at home. These children, so far as they have branched out in business, have exhibited unusual talent in their respective lines of employment and give bright promise of future success. Giles W. Setty has long been favorably known in his native county of Highland as a. soldier who did his duty during the civil war and as an industrious citizen since the close of the great conflict. His father, Christopher Setty, was a native of Virginia who came west 470 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. in the early part of the last century to cast his lot with the ever increasing army then engaged in making the great state of Ohio. Being a poor man, with little capital. aside from his ability and disposition to work, he had a long and hard straggle to gain a foothold, but eventually succeeded in accumulating a creditable competence. He settled in Brush Creek township, Highland county, bought thirty acres in the woods, built a round log cabin with one room and set to work hewing and felling, grubbing and clearing until he had a habitable abode. By saving and industry he managed to add to his little place from time to time, and his holdings amounted to 123 acres when at the age of eighty-three he closed his earthly career. Before leaving Virginia he had .married Margaret Shoemaker, who shared the toils and struggles of his western home and made him the father of fourteen children. Of these thirteen grew to maturity, twelve married and reared families, five are now dead and seven living in different parts of the country. Levina, the eldest, is the widow of John Setty, and resides in Brush. Creek township; Amy is the widowed wife of William Hottinger of Adams county; Levi resides on the old homestead; John lives in .Jackson township; Elizabeth is the widow of David Kessler, of Marshall township ; Anthony G. is a resident of Adams county, and Sanford E. is a farmer in North Dakota. The children who are dead include Malinda, who married Thomas Gall; Mary, wife of N. Glaima,ima, wife of Adam Stults; Abraham, who was thrown by a horse and killed at the age of nineteen; and one who died in infancy. Giles W. Setty, one of the living children not enumerated above, was born in Brush . Creek township, Highland county, Ohio, September 6, 1843. In those days they still had the old fashioned subscription schools and to one of .these, a mile from his home, Mr. Setty used to walk in his boyhood or . the purpose of gleaning such crumbs of knowledge as were dispensed by the pedagogue in charge. When he was well on towards manhood the civil war interrupted the even tenor of his way and like other patriotic boys of the time he was anxious to take part in the fighting. As his youth caused parental objection, he ran away from home one day and, hunting up a recruiting officer, enrolled his name on the list of Company D, Sixtieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. Under command of Col. William H. Trimble this regiment was sent to the Shenandoah. valley in the spring of 1862 to join Fremont in. his pursuit of Stonewall Jackson. It fought well at Cross Keys and other engagements of that campaign and was among the unfortunates who got caught in that "man trap,"Harper's Ferry had before been called by General Joe Johnston, and were forced after four days' fighting, to surrender to the redoubtable Jackson. They were sent to the parole camp at Annapolis, Md., and subsequently to Camp Douglass, Chicago, where they were mustered out of the service. But. Mr. Setty had not had enough of war and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 471 July 15, 1863, he enlisted in Company E, First regiment Ohio heavy artillery, with which he served until the close of hostilities. This command was sent to Knoxville, Term., in the winter of 1864, and later accompanied Stonemen on his raid into southwest Virginia. Mr. Setty was detailed as a scout. in Georgia, North Carolina and East Tennessee and obtained his discharge in August, 1865. After returning home he was married September 10th to Ruth A., daughter of William and Harriet Riser, of Brush Creek township. He rented his father,s farm for a year and then spent two years in Fayette county, after which he put in three years on a farm in Jackson township., Highland county. His next move was to Adams county, where he bought a farm and managed it four years, and this was followed by a purchase of sixty acres in Paulding county.. This proved a disastrous' venture, as he lost all he had in a two years, trial there, which caused him to return to Highland county and begin again as a renter. In. 1888 Mr. Setty located on the sixty-three acres of land, where he has since resided, engaged in general farming and stock-raising. By his first marriage he had six children: George W., a machinist in Chicago ; Evan M., a carpenter also of Chicago ; Albert D.., resident of Highland county; Ora A., in the quartermaster,s department of the regular army, stationed at New Orleans ; Hattie A. and Eva M., wife of Walter Brock, of Highland county. The first wife dying in March, 1897, Mr. Setty married Mrs. Lizzie Gordon, widow of Edward Gordon and daughter of Lewis Eckert. Mr. Setty has held several offices in the county and township and has always given satisfaction. He served three terms as assessor and two terms as constable of Paint township. He has been school director for many years, and in 1898 was elected one of the members of the board of commissioners of Highland county. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, the Union Veterans, Union, Odd Fellows lodge at New Petersburg, and Rainsboro post, Grand Army of the Republic. The Shaffer family, one of. the oldest, has also long been one of the most numerous and influential, social connections in the county of Highland. Its members have been prominently identified with the political, military and industrial history of the county since its organization, nearly one hundred years ago. Many of them have achieved distinction both' in war and peace, filled various offices of trust and profit, and in all the relations of life displayed the qualities of good. citizenship. The founders of this family in America were Theobald and Catharine (Kissinger) Shaffer, who came from Germany in the first half of the eighteenth century and settled in Maryland, on Antietam creek, near where, over a hundred years later, the terrible battle was fought between the Union and Confederate forces. This German couple had twelve children, and 'among 472 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND. them Andrew Shaffer, who was born at the Maryland home about the year 1757, and served in the Continental army, being wounded in the battles of Bunker Hill and Brandywine. In 1780 he was married to Martha Stroup, whose brothers, Anthony and Michael, afterward figured so conspicuously in the early settlement of that part of Highland county included in New Market township. During the twenty-five years succeeding their marriage, Andrew and Martha Shaffer had eleven children, two of whom died in infancy, and the surviving nine came with their parents to Ohio in 1805. Owing to the fact that the brothers of Mrs. Shaffer had located in Highland county, the family were induto alsoalso make their investments in that part of Ohio, and after a tedious journey of five weeks arrived at New Market in the early part of October. The names of the nine Shaffer children in this party were Andrew, Adam, Susie, Jacob, George, John, Daniel, Jonas, Nancy, and another son, Samuel, was born after the emigration to Highland county. With the Shaffers came Adam Arnold and family, making a colony of twenty persons, and the newness of the county at that time may be realized when it is stated that the incoming Marylanders were obliged to cut their way between Chillicothe and New Market through the woods. After remaining in New Market nearly a year, Andrew Shaffer settled in the eastern edge of what is now Hamer township, where he had bought two hundred and fifty acres of land. Here he died in 1855 at the age of ninety-four years. George Shaffer, fifth of his above mentioned children, became quite prominent in the affairs of Highland county, being especially conspicuous in military affairs as colonel of a rifle corps. He was born near Hagerstown, Maryland, June 17, 1792, and in 1815, ten years after his arrival in Ohio, was married to Elizabeth Mason, whose parents were substantial people from Virginia, who settled first in Ross and later came to Highland county. Colonel George Shaffer and his brother Jacob. started a distillery in 1813, and for a while were quite prosperous from the business of fattening hogs and making bacon. It is related that on one occasion the elder brother took a cargo of their bacon to the Kanawha region, exchanged it for salt and on his return sold the latter for a thousand dollars. Adam. Shaffer, another of these brothers and second in age of the nine children who came from Maryland, married Catherine Roush, by whom he had fourteen children, including eleven boys and three girs. . Henry Shaffer, one of the sons of the last mentioned couple, was born in Highland county, Ohio, August 30, 1824. In early manhood he sought to better his fortunes by becoming a citizen of Kansas, but this venture proving a disappointment he returned to his native county and purchased a farm of 100 acres in Dodson township. In addition to his farm work he embarked in the manufacture of tile and continued in business until 1901, when he sold all but ten acres of his land and retired from BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES - 473 active agricultural pursuits. January 11, 1846, Mr. Shaffer was married to Lydia, daughter of Solomon Sprinkle, a pioneer of Brush Creek township, who proved a most faithful and affectionate wife during the many years they lived togther. In after life, Mr. Shaffer used to enjoy telling of the rough experiences which followed his wedding; how they started to open a new home in the unbroken forest and camped oat the first night under the friendly limbs of a giant oak. The twelve children of Henry. and Lydia Shaffer are thus recorded : Alexander, the first born, died in Illinois of the milk sickness at the age of twenty-two ; Noah is farming in Dodson township ; Elmira married L. G. Roads of Van Buren, Indiana;. A. Pierce is a mechanic at Allensburg ; Clinton, a brickmaker, resides with his father; Samuel S. and Jerome are farming near Jadden, Indiana; George W. is a resident. of Hillsboro ; Cyrus and Alvin C. both own good farms in Dodson township; Alice is the wife of R. A. Davidson., of Columbus, and Albert died in Kansas at the age of six years. George W. Shaffer, eighth of the above mentioned , children, was born on the family homestead in Highland county, Ohio, October 16, 1863, and as he grew up was trained to all sorts of work on the farm. Being bright and ambitious he was assiduous in his studies while attending the district schools and subsequently took a course in the excellent high school in Hillsboro.. After leaving the latter institution Mr. Shaffer devoted his time to teaching during fourteen consecutive winters, finding occupation in the summer seasons by making brick and doing contract work. In the fall of 1898 he was elected auditor of Highland county and discharged. the duties of his office so satisfactorily that he was rewarded, in. 1901 by re-election for a second term of three years. Decem ber 29, 1898, Mr. Shaffer was married to Callie, daughter of Frank Shaffer, of Clinton county, who, though bearing the same name as. that of her husband, is of an entirely distinct family. James E. Shannon, of Washington township, was born April 22, 1864, on the farm where he now lives. He is the son, by the second marriage, of James R. Shannon, of whom a -sketch is' given herewith. He was reared at the old home, and given an education in the district school, and when he had attained manhood he was married to Eva Lewis, who was born and reared in Concord township, the daughter of Milton and Lavina (Hetherington) Lewis, both of old and respected Highland county families. Mr. Shannon and wife began housekeeping at the old home place, where they have since remained, and he is now the owner of 153 acres of good land, and is known as one of the most intelligent and enterprising of the younger farmers of the township. His home has been blessed with one child, Lewis. Erwin. James R. Shannon, father of the foregoing, was born in Washington county, Pa., May 11, 1811. His father was Joseph. 474 - THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND Shannon, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to Pennsylvania, and married Temperance Tolbert, a native of that state. Twelve children were born to them : James R., Benjamin, Samuel P., Joseph, Alexander, Thomas, Nancy, Rebecca, Eliza, Ruth, and Margaret, part of whom are yet living, in various states, as far west as the Pacific, coast. Joseph Shannon came west with his wife and the children then born, a few years after his marriage, and settled in Morgan county, where they lived until about 1840, when they moved to Washington township, Highland county, Ohio) where he bought a farm of about a hundred acres, and this the home of the parents until their death. In his youth Joseph Shannon was a sailor, and in the war of 1812 he was a. soldier of the republic. James R. Shannon, the eldest son, worked out by the month for a few years in his youth and early manhood, and then married Julia A. Anderson, a native of Maryland, with whom he began housekeeping in Morgan county. About 1838 they removed to Highland county, settling in what was then Jackson township, now Washington, where he bought a farm of 125 acres. The children born to them were Derinda, deceased.; Wells T., of Washington township; Joseph, Lucetta and Hula, deceased; Rebecca, wife of William Nye of Adams township ; Mar-, tha, deceased ; Elizabeth, wife of Charles Lewis, of Concord, and three who died young. After the death of the mother of these children Mr. Shannon married Harriet Courtney, and had one child, James E., previously mentioned. James R. was a devout Christian and one of the leading members of the Methodist church. He died at the age of eighty-nine years. Wells T., the eldest surviving child of James R. Shannon, was born near McConnellsville, Morgan county, September 4, 1836, and after coming with his parents to Highland county, was married to Sarah E., daughter of David and Julia (West) Mullenix, of Liberty township. A few years after marriage he bought 125 acres nearly all wild land, which he cleared and has made one of the neatest farms and homes of the township. By his first marriage he had four children : Mary E. and Julia. A., deceased ; Mattie R., wife of W. C. Hudson, of Athens, Ohio, and. Hattie, who died young. The mother of these died in 1871, and afterward Mr. Shannon wedded Serena, daughter of James P. Miler, of Liberty township, who at one time represented Highland county in the legislature. Six children were born to the second marriage: Joseph E., of Washington township; Emma J., wife of William Trump, of Marshall township; Stella and Cora, and two deceased. For a number of years Mr. Shannon was a merchant and postmaster at Folsom, and he has served as justice of the peace one term and school director over twenty years. He is a member of the Masonic order and of the Methodist church.