682 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. JAMES R. ADAMS, farmer; P. O., Big. Springs. The family line of James Rose Adams takes origin in this sketch with Robert. Adam, a native-born Englishman, who, at an early day, came to the United State, and died in Pennsylvania. His son, James Adam, married Mary Rose, daughter of Edward Rose, of Bedford Co., Pa., and was born in 1791; his son, James Rose Adam, was born in Napier Tp., Bedford Co., on the 6th day of May, 1812. His father, before he had attained his second year, was brought by his mother's father, Edward Rose, to Perry Co., Ohio, in 181c, they moving into a cabin prepared with port-holes, by means of which they defended themselves against the attacks of Indians, At the age of 12; his grandmother dying, he went to live with his uncle, Joseph Ferguson, with whom he remained four year, at which time he was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade under John Guysinger. After the expiration of his apprenticeship, he returned to Pennsylvania, and sold his interest in his father's estate, after which transaction he returned to Ohio via Pittsburg, Wheeling and Cincinnati by steamer, thence on foot to Dayton, and from there to Perry Co. In 1833, another motive influenced him, and he came to Logan Co., and ten days after his arrival, married Mary Myers, daughter of Solomon Myers. She was born March 8, 1811, His family are-Harrison Adams, born July 27, 1834, was in Co. I, 13th O. V. I., was in twenty-five battle, and in Libby Prison four months; Sarah Jane, May 14, 1836; Nancy Ann, Jan. 17,1838; Mary Elizabeth, June 26, 1841; Clemensa., Aug. 2, 1843; died Oct. 10, 1844; James Madison, born Feb. 4, 1846; Amanda Etta, Dec. 22, 1848; Ella, Jan. 3, 1850, died Nov. 22, 1870. On the 31st day of July, 1877, Mary, his wife, died. On the 26th day of June, 1878, he married again, his wife in this instance being Mary Jane Rosebrough, Joseph Rosebrough's widow. As before stated, he is a blacksmith by trade, and has followed the business at different periods through life. For eight years he was engaged in the walnut lumber trade, and averaged RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 683 forty car-loads per annum, which he sent to the New York market. He has also followed farming in connection with these pursuit, and all with an unflagging zeal, and a will that overcomes. He is a freethinker. REV. JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER, minister, Rushsylvania. The Alexander family is one of the illustrious families of Virginia, who have well maintained the family name for near a century. The name comes fragrant with the odors of Caledonia, and Scotland is the land to which the present living descendants of this noted line must look for their origin. One of the most noted of the American born of this family is Dr. Archibald Alexander, the founder of Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J. Much of the fame of this well-known institution is due to the ability of this very able divine, and his memory still liners in the recollection of those who witnessed his example or received his instructions, James Adair Alexander was born in Washington Co., East Tenn., in 1806, and married Miss Jane Duncan, who was born in Kentucky, but who, at the time of her marriage, was a member of one of the leading families of East Tennessee. The descendants of James Adair and Jane Alexander are-Joseph, Rhoda Ann, Elizabeth L, Lucinda, Eliza, Sarah, John D., Francis Marion, Margaret Adeline, Clarinda Chementina, James Edward, William Jefferson, Mary Arminta, and two others, who died in infancy-fifteen members in all. Rev. James Edward Alexander was born June 5, 1849, in Blount (now Loudon) Co., East Penn. Until his 17th year young Alexander was a farmer boy who, although he patiently toiled, entertained a burning desire for the acquisition of an education. The propitious time arrived, and in his 17th year he began his course of study at Friendsville Academy, a Quaker institution, and after one year's attendance at this point he entered Maryville College, East Tennessee, graduating in 1873 in the same class with the Rev. T. T. Alexander, now a foreign missionary; the Rev. J. J. Duncan, now deceased; the Rev, B. F. Lee; the Rev. Milton Matthews, and the Rev. W. F. Rogers. In the fall of 1873 he entered Lane Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), where he graduated after a three years' course of the most thorough training in 1876, and immediately after he graduated went to Rushsylvania, Logan Co., O., as minister of the Presbyterian Church at that place, where, after a ministry of three ,year, he was installed pastor. He found the church with a membership of fifty, which is now increased 100 per cent, Prominent in connection with the Rev. James E. Alexander, and coming from the same college to Lane Seminary, are the Revs. C. A. Duncan, C. E. Telford and the Rev. A. N. Carson, who is now pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Westerville, Franklin Co., Ohio. ENOS B. ANSLEY, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania, was horn March 28, 1857, in Logan Co., O. He is the son of J. S. Ansley, born June 2, 1828, in Kentucky, who was the son of William T. Ansley, born also in Kentucky, and who was the son of Joseph T, Ansley, born on the eastern shore of Maryland. In 1822, William T. Ansley married Lydia Johnson, and in 1831-removed to Logan Co., O. J. S. .Ansley, his son, married Melinda Williams on the 5th day of April, 1848. They have had four children, as follows-William H., born April 23,, 1853, died Nov. 18, 1863; Jesse W., born April 23, 1855, died Jan. 6, 1875; Enos B., born March 28, 1857, and Henry C., born Jan. 14, 1871. Enos B. Ansley, on the 26th day of April, 1877, married Sarah E. Cox, born Dec. 22, 1859 ; she was the daughter of John and Rachel Cox, of Logan Co., O. Enos has but one child-Carte Foster, born Dec. 11, 1879, As one of the business men of Rush Creek Tp., he farms extensively, besides dealing largely in stock of different kinds. His ancestors can tell the pioneer story of wolves howling, seeing Indians, deer and wild turkey, the usual tale of a home in the wilderness. BENJAMIN BEAVER, Rushsylvania. The history of this family runs thus: Martin Beaver was a native of the State of Maryland, and removed to Licking Co., O., early in the history of that county, Benjamin Beaver, his son, was born March 5, 1829, and died Aug. 2, 1865. He was twice married, his first wife being Rachel Ann Pitzer, whom he married Jan. 20, 1850. The children by this marriage were as follows: Jesse Oliver, born Oct. 23, 1850, and who died Aug. 26, 1865; John Martin, born June 5, 1853, and on March 10, 1880, married Emma 684 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Hopkins, of Sunbury, Delaware Co., O,; Manuel Wilber, born Oct. 26, 1854, and who married Susie M. Bridge, daughter of Warner Bridge, of Hardin Co., O., Dec. 21, 1875; Asa Milton, born Oct. 16, 1856; Rosa Arletta, born June 16, 1858, and Mary Liza, born Dec. 21, 1859; she is a teacher, now teaching at Big Spring, with an engagement already made, by which she enter, as teacher, the Union Schools of Kenton, Hardin Co., O., the coming fall. On the 10th day of November, 1861, Rachel Ann, wife of Benjamin Beaver, died, and was buried in the cemetery at Kenton. On the 24th day of February, 1863, he married Miss Louisa Smith, who was born in Licking Tp., Licking Co., O., on the 10th day of October, 1837. She was the daughter of James Smith and Sarah Master, his wife. The birth of Francis Emma Beaver, Jan. 26, 1866, completes the record of the births of the family, there being but one child born to the last union. It was on the 15th day of February, 1865, that Benjamin Beaver removed from Hardin Co. to the farm now occupied by his relict, Mrs. Louisa Beaver, called Pleasant View. The two son, John Martin and Manuel Wilber, are married; John and Mary Liza are teachers; John is a minister of the gospel as well. "Pleasant View" is an appropriate name for this place; the beauty of the landscape is indescribable, being of unusual variety. The farm is at present under the management of Asa Milton, the youngest son, who, heretofore, has been engaged in the raising of cattle, sheep and hog, as a business. In her 15th year Mrs. Louisa Beaver united with the Presbyterian Church at Fairmount, Licking Co., O. After her marriage, in harmony with the religious predilections of her husband, she united herself with the New School Baptist Church, at Kenton, O., making one of its most conscientious and consistent members. Two sons and a daughter are also members of the same church. PETER BOWER, farmer; P. O., Big Springs; Peter Bower, Sr., was a native of Germany, and came to the United States many years ago. Jacob Bower, Peter's son, is a native of Pennsylvania; his wife's maiden name was Susan Mosier, a Pennsylvanian by birth, and shortly after their marriage they removed to Licking Co., O., where, on the 14th day of December, 1817, Peter Bower, Jr., was born; on the first day of April, 1838, the nuptials of Peter Bower and Amy Rogers were celebrated; she was a native of Delaware Co., O., and was born Dec. 13, 1820. The names of Peter's children are-Levi, Anderson, Susan, Lucretia, Joseph, James and Mary, seven in all. Peter's second marriage occurred on March 22, 1865; in this marriage his wife was the daughter of George Heath, and the widow of Joseph Starbuck, her birth occurring on Sept. 28, 1831, in Richland Tp., Logan Co., O. Peter Bower first settled north of the village of Rushsylvania, on the farm now occupied by Mrs. Louisa Beaver, and afterwards removed to the pleasant place he now occupies; by handicraft, Peter is a plasterer, but has made farming a special occupation; like many of his neighbors, his favorite stock is hogs, and his farm products such as further this interest. In the late civil war Peter was not without representation, his son, Anderson Bower, being a member of Co. I, 13th Regiment, O. V. I.; Mrs. Bower is a member of the Christian Church. WILLIAM BRUCE, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. Thomas Bruce, Sr., was born in Scotland and emigrated to America. Thomas Bruce, Jr., was born in Harrison Co., Va.; his wife's maiden name was Mary Coon, and she was born in Harrison Co., Va. William Bruce, son of Thomas Bruce, Jr., was born Oct. 9, 1824, in Harrison Co., Va., and came to McArthur Arthur Tp., Logan Co., O., in 1831; on April 10, 1844, he married Mary Frances Bales of Virginia; by this marriage his children were-Sarah Ann, born June 21, 1845, and who died Aug. 28, 1872; John Henry, born Feb. 2, 1847, and died Sept. 15, 1866, at Ft. Riley, Kansas, a member of Co. G., 7th Cavalry, U. S. A.; Lewis Leander, born Aug. 21,1848; George Nace. (named for his grandfather), born April 11, 1843, died Oct. 23, 1850; Joshua Copeland, born March 24, 1852, died Dec. 13, 1853; Mary Malinda, born Jan. 28, 1854, died Nov. 10, 1869; George Nace, Jr., born Aug. 28, 1856 (called for the George deceased). Mary France, wife of William Bruce, died July 25, 1857. On Oct. 27, 1857, he married Elizabeth Ann Huntington, who was killed by a runaway horse on Sept. 19, 1859; on June 19, 1860, he married his third wife, Mary L. Selders. The children were Elizabeth France, born March 11, 1861, died RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 685 April 4, 1879; she was the wife of Elias Rumer; Mary L., wife of William Bruce, died March 30, 1879. On Feb. 19, 1880, William Bruce married his fourth wife in the person of Emma Adelaide Canaan. By occupation William is a farmer, stock-breeder and shipper, devoting his attention more particularly to hogs. He is a member of the Disciples' Church; has been a member of the Order of Masons, and of the Odd Fellows; of the Sons of Temperance; of the Union League, and lastly a member of the Patrons of Husbandry. During the war of the Rebellion, he and two of his sons served in Co. F., :3rd O. V. I. William served under Gen. Phil Sheridan, was wounded in the Rattle of Cloyd Mountain, and captured by Gen. John Morgan, May 9, 1864; he was in captivity three months, and escaped in August, 1864. As a civilian he has held several offices, and was the first commissioned officer in the county, being commissioned a lieutenant of militia. ROBERT C. CLOUGH, the maker; P. O., Rushsylvania. John Clough was a native of Connecticut, born on the 28th of August, 1788; his wife was Deborah Mumford, born Dec. 8, 1785, and daughter of Lillibridge Mumford. John Clough removed from Connecticut to Pennsylvania, settling in Wayne Co., that State. David Clough, John's son, was born in Wayne Co., Pa., July 12, 1812. In 1835 David Clough married Derinda King, daughter of Benjamin King, Esq., of Rhode Island, and she was born Sept. 25, 1808. Robert C. Clough was born Dec. 1, 1838, in Wayne Co., Pa. On the 28th day of February, 1867, he married Julia E. Dix, daughter of David Dix, of the county and State afore said. In 1868 he came to Champaign Co., O., and on the 24th day of December, 1869, located at Rushsylvania, in Logan Co.; they have no children, the family consisting of Mr. Clough and wife only. Robert C. Clough is one of the business men of the county; he is largely engaged in the manufacture of drain-tile, and this industry he has carried to a high degree of perfection, having perhaps the most extensive establishment in the county, or equal to any in central Ohio; the permanent and extensive buildings and fixtures on his premises for the prosecution of the business in which Mr. Clough is engaged, are most potent evidences of the enemy and enterprise of the man. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Rushsylvania, and Mr. Clough is also a member of the order of the Patrons of Husbandry. GEORGE ORR DAY, miller; Rushsylvania. The Day family was one of the standard families of New Jersey: Joseph Day married Susanna White, who was born on Long Island; he removed from New Jersey to Washington Co., Penn., where, during his residence, all of his children were born; their names were Cyrus, Louis, Josiah, John and Mary, five in all. From Washington Co., Penn,, he removed to Jefferson Co., Ohio, where he died and was buried; his widow removed with her son, John Day, to Licking Co., Ohio, where she died and was buried. The children all, save John, Mary and Louis, died in Jefferson Co., Ohio; Mary died in Muskingum Co., Louis removed to Illinois, and John is now a resident of Rushsylvania, Logan Co. John Day's first :wife was Jane Orr, of Jefferson Co., by whom he had two children-Thomas and Martha Jane; his second wife was Margaret Wilkins, by whom he had eight children-Julia Ann, Susanna, Elizabeth, Mary, George Orr, James Renwick, Isabella, Allison and John Cameron. Margaret Wilkins was the daughter of Matthew Wilkins, of Harrison Co., Ohio. In 1852, John Day came to Logan Co., Ohio; his family are George Orr Day, born May 4, 1829, in Licking Co., and on the 20th day of September, 1851, married to Hannah Mitchell, the daughter of David and Nancy Mitchell, and whose maiden name was Nancy Aikin, likewise of Logan Co., Ohio. George O. Day's family are David Stewart, born Sept. 1, 1860; John Wylie, Nov. 1, 1864, and Nancy Aletta, March 10, 1867. The occupation of George O. Day is that of a miller, and he controls the only industry of that kind in the village, and one of the leading establishments of the kind in that part of the county; its contiguity to the railroad track gives it every facility for trade, and its efficient management renders it one of the most useful institutions of the place. He is connected with the Reformed Presbyterian Church, of which he is an elder, His ideas as to what constitutes the true citizen are of a high moral and religious order, and to this end and aim he lives himself. 686 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. JOHN R. DEARDORFF, farmer; P. O., Big Springs. Henry Deardorff was a German, whose ancestors settled in Virginia, in an early day. Abraham Deardorff, his son, came from Bedford Co., Va., and settled in Logan Co., in 1831; Henry Deardorff had two other son, Peter and Jacob Deardorff. Abraham Deardorff had five children: Samuel, Abraham, Mary Frances, John R., and Susan Catherine. Samuel resides in Paulding Co., Ohio; Abraham in Kosciusko Co., led.; Mary Frances married George Predmore and resides in Bokes Creek Tp., Logan Co., Ohio. John R. was born in Rush Creek Tp.; married in that township, and ever since his marriage has resided in that township; Susan Catherine, the wife of Charles Titus, is a resident of Rush Creek Tp.; the wife of John R. Deardorff was one Rebecca Jane Predmore, who was born Nov. 21, 1834, in Guernsey Co., O. She was the daughter of John and Susannah Predmore, of the State of New Jersey. Susannah's family name was Duer; her family were of English nativity. John R. Deardorff was born Jan. 9, 1832, in Logan Co., O., and his marriage occurred Jan. 11, 1855, in Rushsylvania, Logan Co., O. The names of his family and the dates of their births are; Nicholas Jasper, born Sept. 16, 1855; died Sept. 24 of the same year, Ostrella, born Sept. 8, 1856, in Logan Co., O.. and married to George Ferguson Feb. 5, 1874. Littleton, born June 1, 1858; died June 28. 1873. John Milton, born Jan. 3, 1861. Joseph Henry, born March 15, 1863. Rosa Ellen, born Feb. 1, 1865. Charles William Brandon, born Aug. 21, 1868. Benjamin Stanton Allison, born Sept. 10, 1871. Samuel Edwin, born March 31, 1878, in Logan Co., O. By handicraft John R. Deardorff is a carpenter which trade he followed prior to and for some time after his marriage, when he became came a farmer and ever since has so continued ; he rears all kinds of farm stock, but makes a specialty of cattle at present, and hereafter making sheep husbandry his cardinal aim. The family's church connections are with the Protestant Methodist Church. In August, 1862, John R. Deardorff enlisted in Co. K, 121st Regt., O. V. I.; he was in the battle of Perrysville, Ky., so well remembered and was with the regiment at that, point for about a month, when he was removed with the regiment to Lebanon, by a forced march; soon after his arrival he was taken sick, and, on the removal of the regiment, was as left in the hospital; after about six weeks, he was sent to Louisville, Ky., and remained there until granted a discharge-furlough; he returned home the latter part of February, 1863, and in May following he received his final discharge. In 1861 he removed to the farm where he now reside, acting in the double capacity of tenant and agent for Col. C. W. B. Allison, who removed from Bellefontaine to Wheeling, West Va., in 1876, where he has ever since been living. He has reared and educated his family, purchased and improved a farm of 78 acres in Hardin Co., and thus shown what integrity, industry and energy may accomplish, notwithstanding the disadvantage of bad health. DR. ISAAC A. DORAN. physician; Rushsylvania; The Doran family was one of the French Huguenot families who came over before the Revolution and settled in America, in the State of New Jersey. Thomas Doran, Sr., was one of the first American descendants of this family born in New Jersey . Thomas Doran, Jr., was a Jerseyman, likewise, who married Jane Hayes, the daughter of James Hayes, an Irish emigrant, who settled in Beaver Co., Pa.; from Beaver Thomas moved to Westmoreland Co., Pa.; James had two sons born in Pennsylvania-Dr. I. A. Doran, born July 23, 1826, in Greensburg, Pa., and James H. Doran. The family then removed to Ohio in 1829, and settled in Butler Co., in the village of Bethany, twenty miles from Cincinnati. Here the remainder of the children, Thomas S., and Hannah Doran, were born; in 1833 the family came to Shelby Co., near Sidney, where the father, mother and James H. Doran all died; James' death, however, did not occur until March 12, 1877. Hannah married Joseph Johnson, who resides four miles east of Sidney; Thomas lives twelve miles west of the same place, and Dr. I. A. Doran resides in Rushsylvania. Dr. I. A. Doran has twice been married; his first wife was Sarah J. Elam, whom he married Jan. 16, 1851; she was the daughter of James Elam, the first white child born in Greene Co., Ohio; she died June, 1877. The children by this union were-Thomas, born June 14, 1852; Elam, born July 30, 1857, and Della, ROSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 687 born Dec. 31, 1863, and who died March 31, 1870. His second marriage was Feb. 19, 1878, with Miss Elizabeth Stephenson, daughter of John and Elizabeth Stephenson, of Darke Co., near Greenville; she was born Feb. 5, 1837. In 1849 Dr. I. A. Doran settled in Rushsylvania, in the practice of medicine, when the village contained but seventy-five inhabitants; he was the first druggist in the place; has erected five buildings in the village, dug four cellar, four wells and four cistern, put down the first permanent pavement in 1853, planted the first evergreen tree, the first shade trees in the streets; has always been an advocate for public improvements, such as railroad, turnpike, school-building, etc., three of which have been erected since his residence in the village. He was the first eclectic physician in the county, and has steadfastly adhered to his profession and his practice, in one instance walking thirty times to Ridgeway and back again, a round trip of fourteen miles each time. The village at that time continued one cabin, the only building in the place. He has held the office of postmaster since 1854, being the fourth appointed in the place. During his term of twenty-six years he has handled about 800,000 letters. At his residence and on his grounds abound fruit trees and ornamental shrubbery in great profusion. He has a large collection of relics, notwithstanding his having already given sixty pieces to the State Geologist. JOSEPH EDWARDS, physician; Rushsylvania. Robert Edwards, ancestor of Joseph Edwards, was a native of Wales, and, prior to the Revolution, emigrated to this country and settled in New Jersey. John Edwards, his son, was a Jerseyman born, and following him, in 1787, was his son, Justice Edwards, who was taken to Philadelphia by his parent, where he attended school under Dr. Benjamin Franklin. He was educated for a physician, and attended lectures when but 17 years of age, but formed a dislike for the profession, and abandoned it. He then served an apprenticeship at the saddlers' trade, under one McKinzie, and had the honor of making the saddle, bridle and martingale that, bedecked the horse of Aaron Burr, so well known in history, and it was doubtless Burr's glowing account of the Northwest that put Justice Edwards and one Lathrop in motion westward ho! in 1810; they came to Pittsburg by wagons; to Cincinnati by skiff down the Ohio River, and found the village composed of twelve dwellings and a few fur-trading shanties; it was here that Justice Edwards formed the acquaintance of one Leroy, with whom he came to Champaign Co., Ohio, to a point near the waters of Mad River, in the Kavenaugh settlement, four miles south of West Liberty. The war broke out, and soon after Justice enlisted under Gen. Tripper, Col. Simon. Kenton having charge of 1,300 friendly Indians whom he commanded. Objection was raised to Justice enlisting as a soldier, and he was made Commissary Clerk; the war being over, he was discharged, and came back to Urbana, where he worked at his trade for a time, when he went from there to West Liberty, and after a time to Belleville, one mile south of Bellefontaine, where he formed the acquaintance of Joel Smith and James McPherson, and obtained a. school in this neighborhood, where he met Miss Margaret Smith, one of his most amiable scholar, whom he afterwards married. About that time, William Powell and Major Tillis laid out Bellefontaine, and thither Justice Edwards removed with his ,young wife, working at his trade and teaching school alternately, teaching in one end of the first jail in the county, and, as a joke, is claimed to have been the second man incarcerated in that jail; with this incident the name of Vachel Blaylock stands connected. Justice Edwards lived in Bellefontaine and vicinity until his death. He was a teacher by profession, a saddler by trade, read and prepared for the practice of medicine, and for a time held the office of Justice of the Peace. His aged widow now resides at Huntsville; she came with her parents from Rockingham Co., Va„ to Warren Co., Ohio, afterwards going to Logan, settling on the farm where she now lives - Hopewell. Dr. Joseph Edward, eldest son. of Justice Edward, is a physician and traveler, born Sept. 7, 1822, on the site of Hopewell. He was taken by his grandmother Smith, when 9 months old, and with her remained until his 13th year, when, his grandfather dying, he returned home at his father's request, and made an ineffectual attempt to learn the tailor's trade with Samuel Mason, but abandoned it and learned the wagon and plow-making trade with James 688 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Walker, and in 1839 worked with James Lemon at West Liberty until the breaking out of the small-pox in the village in 1842, when Joseph, with about ninety others, contrasted that loathsome disease, and came near dying. Three members of the Lemon family fell victims to the disease, when Lemon became discouraged, broke up business, and Joseph took the shop, tools and materials as his successor. About this time he formed the acquaintance of Miss Lucinda Byrd; he proposed, was accepted, and, in 1843, she became the wife of Joseph Edwards. He continued the business of wagon-making at this place for one year, and then removed to Springhill, six miles west of West Liberty, in Champaign Co.; this locality proved very unhealthy, and the prevalence of malarial disorders caused Joseph to form the acquaintance of Dr. Thomas Pringle, of that village, The Doctor gave Joseph free access to his fine medical library, a privilege Joseph availed himself of with avidity, Dr. Pringle removed to Clarke Co., Ohio, and was succeeded by Dr. Clayson, to whose library Joseph also had access. He remained at Springhill ten year, and then returned to Bellefontaine, still continuing at his trade, with occasional exercise of his medical skill, until the breaking out of the civil war, when, in company with one Pollack, he started for Lexington, Ky. Learning at Cynthiana that Kirby Smith had taken Lexington, they took the track-track to Cincinnati, and thence home. He wrote to Skyles Gardner, commandant at Clarksburg, W. Va., and was invited to that point; about a month thereafter, the small-pox broke out at that point, and Joseph was ordered to examine and report at headquarters, upon which he was ordered to take two nurses and treat those diseased; he treated successfully those cases occurring in the army at that post, and, in addition, volunteered his services to the suffering citizens around Clarksburg. Capt. Gardner was superseded by Capt. Dodge, and took command at Harper's Ferry, on the Potomac. After a brief visit home, Joseph went to Harper's Ferry, and took the position of Assistant Surgeon under Dr. Ramsey, the army Surgeon at that point, where he stayed until July 8, 1863. Here he contracted the camp fever, and received free transportation home, where he lay for six weeks under the care of his old preceptor, Dr. Clayson. In November of the same year, he went to Camp Nelson, Ky., where he stayed one month, then returned home and remained four days, and started, in company with John Edwards and John Shepler, for the city of Atchison, Kan., to work at his trade for $4 per diem. The town contained about 1,500 souls, and four days after his arrival the small-pox appeared, and Dr, Edwards having had that disease, on recommendation of Shepler and the solicitation of the City Council, took charge of the city hospital, with some forty cases under his care; he had charge of this department for six weeks, and then entered regularly upon the practice of medicine at this point, and remained for eighteen months, when he returned to Bellefontaine, and, after a brief interval, came to Rushsylvania, in the employ of S. B. Stillwell, and ever since has remained at this place. July 8, 1875, in company with his brother John, he visited Canada, via Detroit and Chatham, where he visited the Thames battle-ground; he went from thence eighty miles to Comoca, and finding here whole communities bearing the name of Edwards claiming; connection and soliciting further acquaintance, they tarried three weeks and visiting in this community. It was here he met Dr. John Edwards, professor of medicine, from Wale, from whom he obtained his celebrated cancer and diphteria cure, which have contributed so much to his notoriety. His wife, whose name was Lucinda. Byrd, was a native of Jefferson Co., Va.; her mother and two sisters died of the cholera; she was brought by her aunt to Champaign Co., Ohio, in 1831; she was then in her ninth year, being born Oct. 13, 1822. At her marriage, she was the owner of nine slave, all of whom she liberated by hiring and applying the proceeds of their labor to that purpose. Dr. Joseph Edwards has two children; his eldest, Angeline, born Oct. 28, 1844, is .the wife of Edward Thornton, of the city of Chicago, engaged in the dry goods business. Rhoda, his second daughter, was born Oct. 31, 1851; she is the wife of John Quigly, of Galion, Ohio, an engineer on the C., C., C. & I. R. R. CULBERTSON ELDER, merchant; Rushsylvania. We commence this family line with John Elder, who was born in Pennsylvania RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 689 and removed from there with his family to Columbiana Co., O., where he died. Abraham Elder, his son, also a native of Pennsylvnia, married Jane Johnson, the daughter of Robert Johnson, and then removed with his family to Perry Co., O.; his children were-Culbertson, born June 22, 1807, and Jane (now dead), who married John Pollock, of Logan Co., O., John, deceased, Margaret, who married John Cuulter, now deceased, but whose son, Dr. John Coulter, Jr., is the present Recorder of Logan Co., James, deceased, Robert, who married Martha Beers, of Logan Co.., Dr. Abraham, who married Mary Wallace, and who .is a practicing physician of Huntsville, Logan Co., Maria, who married David Torrence, of Greene Co., O., and Rebecca, who married David Laughhead, of Greene Co.; she is now deceased. On the 7th day of May, 1829, Culbertson Elder married Miss Eliza Ann Stewart, whose father, Robert Stewart, came from Ireland in his 19th year, settling in Bucks Co., Pa., and who, with his wife, Mary, removed to Perry Co., O., which will be noticed hereafter. Eliza Ann was born Oct. l 7, 1806. Culbertson Elder's family consists of Milton S., born March 1, 1830, now a dry-goods merchant and postmaster at Mt. Victory, Hardin Co. He received his appointment as P. M. under James Buchanan, and has retained the appointment ever since. Sarah Jane, born Jan. 7, 1832, and who was a teacher for a number of years prior to her marriage with James Ray, of Illinois, now deceased, his widow being at this time a resident of Rushsylvania, Logan Co. Eliza Ann, born in Bellefontaine, July 12, 1836, married Milton Smith, of Hardin Co., in 1856, and died about a year after marriage. Margaret, born June 22, 1848, in Hardin Co., and married to Edward Sebring, of Indiana. Two unmarried daughters one of whom is a teacher, remain at home. In 1817 Culbertson Elder became a resident of Somerset, Perry Co., and in his 14th year he entered the dry-goods store of King & Rogers, of Lancaster, Fairfield Co., O., and after remaining in their employ for two year, returned to Somerset, and entered, as clerk, the dry-goods store of Jacob Myers, remaining in his employ until the removal of Mr. Myers to Putnam, Muskingum Co. Culbertson then began in the employ of Judge C. C. Hood, of Somerset, who, at the expiration of eighteen months sent him to New Lexington, in Perry Co., to open a drygoods store in that place, and in this he was the first merchant, and also the first post-master in that place. It was here that he became acquainted with the amiable and intelligent daughter of Robert Stewart, whom he married on the 7th day of May, 1829. A year after marriage he brought a stock of goods to Bellefuntaine, and commenced business at that place, where he continued for nine years, At the time of the removal of the deposits from the United States Bank by President Jackson, Culbertsou had to take fifty-two head of horses from Bellefuntaine to Philadelphia, and saw his prospects blighted by the withering effects of the President's action on the market, and the consequent financial crash which followed. He returned to his home, succumbed to fate, and after utter failure removed to Hardin Co. and took up his abode in the wilderness, to commence as a backwoods farmer; here fame, ifnot fortune, followed him, and two years after his arrival he was clothed with the dignity of Esquire, which mantle he laid not aside for twenty-one consecutive years. In 1864 he removed from his farm to Mt. Victory, in Hardin Co., again engaging in the dry-goods business and continuing therein until his removal to Rushsylvania, in 1873, where he again engaged in the dry-goods business and continued in it for two years, when he sold out. On the 27th day of June, 1878, he again entered the arena of public business by opening a grocery and notion store, since which time he has steadily advances in business, and, although he has passed through the trials and vicissitudes of 73 year, yet he evinces the vigor and energy of those many years his junior, a man of conscientious scruples and generous impulses The Church of his adoption is the United Presbyterian, of which his household are all members. Prior to the formation of the U. P. Church, he was an elder in the Seceder Church at Kenton, O., and after the union of the two ecclesiastical bodies which composed the U. P: Church, he continued as elder until his removal to Rushsyvania. For half a century he has witnessed the progress of events in Logan Co., and the changes wrought by the onward flight of time, 690 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. GEORGE WASHINGTON ELLSWORTH, farmer; P. O., Big Springs. Jacob Ellsworth was a native of the State of Delaware and came from thence to Clark Co., O.; his wife was one of the celebrated "Fletcher family" of that State. Isaac Ellsworth was born in Clark Co., April 15, 1802; he married Loving Garfield (a cousin of the present nominee, James A. Garfield), the nuptials being celebrated June 19, 1843, in his own house, fitted up especially for the occasion. She was the daughter of Thomas Garfield, of Massachusetts, Fourteen years after marriage; age, Isaac Ellsworth removed to Cass Co., Mo., and remained there until his violent death of the hands of the guerillas; he was compelled to kneel in his own door-yard to be shot in the back of the head. His death occurred : May 10, 1865. The children are - Thomas Jefferson, born April 14, 1844, in Clark Co., died Nov. 21, 1846; William Enos, born Oct. 12, 1846, died Jan, 1, 1849; Tabitha Melissa, "infant," died Aug. 14, 1856; Angeline, born Dec. 6, 1849; George Washington, born Jan. 10, 1856, and Benjamin Franklin, born Feb. 9, 1859. Isaac Ellsworth was twice married; his first wife, Rachel Ellsworth, was born March 16, 1830. By occupation G. W. Ellsworth is a farmer, who raises horse, cattle, hog, and the usual farm productions. He is a second cousin to the late lamented Col. Ellsworth, who fell at the hand of an assassin, whilst hauling down the rebel flag at Alexandria, Va., May 24, 1861, AMBROSE J. FAWCETT, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. The Fawcett family, which consisted of three brother, came from Ireland about 1675, and settled in Virginia, in Frederick Co. John Fawcett, one of the first descendants, born in the Shenandoah Valley, in 1751, was a native of Frederick Co., Va.; his children were-Isaac, born in 1782; Elijah, born 1784; Sarah, born 1785; Nathan, born 1787; David, born 1789; Elizabeth, born 1791; Jesse, born 1793; Susan, born 1795; Alban, born 1799; all in Frederick Co., Va. John Fawcett, father of the above, died in Frederick Co., Va., in 1814. About 1821 Isaac emigrated to the State of Tennessee, and was drowned shortly after his arrival by the sinking of a steamboat on the Mississippi river. In 1824 David removed to lndiana and fell a victim to the malarial climate and died. The widow of John Fawcett, her son, Elijah, her daughter, Elizabeth, Sarah and Susan, and her youngest son, Alban, removed to Clinton Co., Ohio, in 1822; Jesse followed in 1826; Nathan in 1827 ; Nathan and Alban never married; Jesse in the latter part of 1814 married Philadelphia Holloway of Frederick Co., twelve years before his removal to Ohio; she was Abel Holloway's daughter. Jesse's family were-Ambrose J., born Sept. 26, 1816; Robert B., Owen and Archibald born in Frederick Co., Va.; Ann Jane, Priscilla and Edward, born in Clinton Co., Ohio, and Sarah, born in Logan Co., Ohio. In 1832 Jesse settled in Logan Co., Rush Creek Tp., and on the 1st day of July, 1870, in his 77th year, he departed this life, and was buried near Zanesfield. On the 26th day of May, 1880, Philadelphia, his wife, died in her Seth year, and was buried beside her husband. On Nov. 9, 1841, Ambrose J. Fawcett married Mary Gwinn, daughter of John Gwinn of Logan Co., Ohio; his children are-Ellwood, born Oct. 21, 1842, he enlisted in August, 1861, and on June 1, 1862, he came home on a short furlough, but sickened and died before the expiration of it, on June 13, 1862; Estaline Fawcett, born May 8, 1845, still resides with her parents; Ella, born Aug. 6, 1849, died Oct. 20, 1851; Oscar L., born Jan.28, 1855, married Mary Melvina Leeth. By occupation Ambrose J. Fawcett is a farmer, is in a thrifty condition, and all his appointments have the air of improvement and energy; he prefers the raising of horses and cattle to any other stock, and this department receives marked attention from him. He is a member of the Friends' Society, and, as is their manner, is noted for his peaceful proclivities, general information and industrious habits. His daughter, Estaline, is a lady of culture and rare musical qualifications and talent, but, like Ossian, must " sing without seeing." DR. C. M. FISHER, physician; Rushsylvania. John H. Fisher, son of Henry Fisher, was a native of Berks Co., Pa. He married Elizabeth Marshall, who was a daughter of Conrad Marshall, who was a son of John Marshall, who came to France prior to the Revolutionary war, and served as a soldier in that war. Conrad Marshall married Elizabeth Hoover, of Schuylkill Co., Pa. She was born RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 691 Aug. 19, 1807, in Berks Co., Pa. John H. Fisher had three children-Dr. C. M. Fisher, born Dec. 16, 1839, and who, after completing his education at Bellefontaine, attended the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was one of the graduates of 1862, since which time he has keen a resident of Rushsylvania The next son was John M., born Jan. 31, 1842, and James M. Fisher, born Jan. 27, 1844, and who died Aug. 16, 1845. On the 3d day of March, 1863, Dr. C. M. Fisher married Mary E. Ansley, the daughter of George and Deliverance Ansley, who were natives of Kentucky. The birthday of Mary E. Ansley was June 5, 1841, in Logan Co., O. The Doctor's family are Anna May, born May 31, 1867, in Rushsylvania; George E., born March 14, 1870, in Rushsylvania and Mary E., born Dec. 25, 1872. The Doctor's father, John H. Fisher, died Dec. 11, 1874. His mother died May 29, 1879. Dr. C. M. Fisher is a physician and surgeon, full of enemy and a combination of rare qualities that cannot fail of success, and is an ardent friend of education, the devoted advocate of intellectual progress, willing and ready at all times to make personal sacrifices fur the public good, and the advancement of learning. He held the office of school examiner in the progressive county of Logan. MICHAEL GEORGE, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania; Henry George, Sr., was a Scotchman, who, with his wife, Sarah Hoosack, emigrated to this country and settled in Pennsylvania. Henry George, Jr., was born in Washington Co., Pa., and united in marriage with Maria Dolman, daughter of John Dolman, of Washington Co., Pa. After marriage: he settled in Muskingum Co., O.; his family consisted of Mary, born in Washington Co., Pa..; Michael, born in the same county, Oct. l5, 1822; Joanna, born. in Washington Co., Pa., and Alexander, Margaret, William, Elisabeth, Sarah, Henry and Marla, born in Muskingum Co., O. The deceased members of this family are-Mary, James Renwick, Hannah Maria, Alexander, Elizabeth, Argyle and Robert, seven in all. In 1837 Henry George, Jr., removed from Muskingum to Adams Co., in southern Ohio, and in 1856 to Logan Co. During his residence in Adams Co., his wife, Maria, died, and was buried in Locust Grove Cemetery. Henry died after his settlement in Rushsylvania, in 1875, and was buried at Northwood Cemetery, Logan Co. In 1845, on the 17th day of February, Michael George and Hannah Hutcheson were married. She was the daughter of James and Sarah Hutcheson, of Guernsey Co., O., and for one year after marriage they resided in Pittsburgh, Pa., and then came to Adams Co., O., where they remained nineteen year, and then came to Logan Co., where he has resided twenty-two years. The children of Michael George are- Sarah E., born Aug. 9,1846, and who married J. R. Wylie, of Guerusey Co.; Hannah M., born March 10, 1849, in Adams Co., and who married A. W. Patterson, also of Guerusey Co.; Samuel A. George, born Sept. 28, 1851; James H., born July 7, 1854, and died Oct. 22, 1855, in Adams Co., O.; Mary Jane, born May 25, 1861, and Agnes Isabella, born Feb. 25, 1865. By occupation Michael George is a farmer, who more particularly directs his attention to sheep husbandry, in Which he is largely engaged. His fine farm, which is called "Fountain Farm," on account of the fine flowing fountain on the premise, is near Equality Church School and Cemetery, two miles from the enterprising village. of Rushsylvania, on the Bee Line Railroad, and about an equal distance from the village of Big Springs. In point of location it is a most desirable one. Mr. George is a member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and his position as elder ,in that church is the best evidence of his Christian standing. His son, Samuel A. George, now located at Mansfield, is a minister in the aforesaid denomination and a graduate of Geneva College, at Northvood. On the 12th day of January, 1880, Mrs. Hannah George died and was buried in the cemetery at Northwood, Logan Co., O.. DR. WILLIAM M. GOODLOVE, physician; Rushsylvania. Conrad Goodlove was born in Germany, and, coming to the United State, settled in Berks Co., Pa. He married Catherine McKinnon, of Clarke Co., O., and after marriage he removed to Ohio, settling on Buck Creek, near Yazell's Mill, in Clarke Co. The family are John, who married Margaret Staple, then of Clarke Co., but who was born in Baltimore, Md.; Nancy, who married Dr. Milton Hunter, of Catawba, who dives in the same house in which he resided when he was married; Joseph Goodlove, who 692 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. married Margaret Hollingshead, of the town of Pemberton, Shelby Co., O., and William, who married in Iowa; John Goodlove was born in Clarke Co., O., Nov. 2, 1825, and married Margaret E. Staple, who was born July 1, 1831. She was the daughter of Captain William F. Staple, who was lost at sea in 1838. The death of John Goodlove occurred at Quincy, in Logan Co., in 1856, and he was buried in the cemetery at that place. His widow married D. H. McKinnon, then of Logan Co., O., now of Clay Co., Ill. On this family line comes Dr. William M. Goodlove, born Oct. 15, 1846, in Clarke Co., O., near Springfield, and also near Pleasant Hill Church, where all the deceased relatives of the late John Goodlove are interred. At the age of 15 year, Dr. William M. Goodlove enlisted as a soldier in the 57th O. V. I., and served to the close of the war in the 15th Army ' Corps, under Gen. John A. Logan, "Sherman's Army," and was discharged at Little Rock, Ark. In the fall of 1865 Dr. Goodlove entered the University of Ann Arbor, Michigan, took a regular course of education at that. institution, and in 1868 entered the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, and took a progressive course, graduating in 1868, and commencing the practice of medicine in the town of Montra, Shelby Co., O. He became a member of the State Medical Society during its session at Toledo, in 1874, and also of the National Medical Society, held at Detroit, Mich., in the same year. On May 23, 1869, Doctor William M. Goodlove married Miss Mary L. LeFevre, daughter of Elias and Henrietta LeFevre, of Shelby Co., O. She was the sister of Gen. Benjamin LeFevre, member of Congress from the 5th Congressional District of Ohio; Jan, 1, 1876, he removed to Rushsylvania and commenced the practice of medicine at that place, and, as might be expected from his diploma, his library and his experience, his field of labor enlarges his practice extends. In preparing himself for his profession, he has patronized leading seats of learning in each department. Cool and deliberate in method, close in application, and determined in purpose, he moves to the music of progress. His family are Charles Willis, born March 7, in St. Henry's, Mercer Co., O.; Benjamin Franklin, born March 22, 1871, in Leiwstown, Logan Co.; Laura Hellen, born Dec. 20, 1873, and died Sept. 2, 1878, and was buried in the cemetery at Rushsylvania; Covert, born Nov. 28, 1879, in Rushsylvania, Logan Co., O. JACOB GRABIEL, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. John Grabiel who was the father of John Grabiel and the grandfather of John and Jacob Grabiel, came from Shenandoah Co., Va., in 1814. John Grabiel, the father of Jacob Grabiel, was born in Shenandoah Co., Va.., in 1786, and married Mary Haas; daughter of John Haas, of that county, and in 1812 left Virginia and came to Licking Co., O. Jacob Grabiel, the third son of John Grabiel, was born Jan. 12, 1820, in Licking Co. On the 14th day of February, 1855, Jacob married Mary Jane Westlake, daughter of Zephaniah Westlake, and Isabella, his wife, of Union Co., O. Zephaniah was the third son of Samuel and Elizabeth Westlake, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Reid, who was born in New Jersey, of Irish parentage. Mary Jane, now Mrs. Grabiel, was born Aug. 31, 1831, in Union Co., O. Samuel was the son of George and Mercy Westlake, whose maiden name was Welland; born in England. George and Mercy Westlake were the great-grandparents of the aforementioned Westlakes. Isabelle Westlake, daughter of William and Mary Gregg, born in Kentucky, June 3, 1818, and whose maiden name was Mary Goldsberry; married Zephaniah Westlake, Nov. l2, 1829. Mrs. Gregg was the daughter of John and Sally Goldsberry (Miss Sally Potts of Philadelphia, Pa.). In 1846 Jacob Grabiel came, in company with his brother John, to Logan Co., and purchased, in partnership, the lands where they now reside, and for three years boarded with George Ansley, when they made arrangements to keep "bachelor's hall" together, which felicitous plan they followed for two year, Jacob acting in the capacity of cook, until, satisfied with this stupid programme, married and set up in !ife on a higher plane, and has the following family: Ellwood Lawrence, born March 5, 1856, and married Nannie Early Jan. 21, 1879: Gilbert C., born March 22, 1858, now in Kansas; Zephaniah Orland, born April 20, 1860; Reuben Ellsworth, born July 13, 1863; Joseph Gordon, born Feb. 26, 1866; Virgil Leon, born April 16, 1868; Calvin Jeffers, born Oct. 17, 1871. By occupation RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 693 Jacob Grabiel is a farmer; he raises stock and buys and sells cattle, sheep and hogs. He has all the necessary appointments of a well arranged farm; moral, intellectual and religious improvement are assiduously cared for by the parent, who, together with their four eldest children, are members of the Presbyterian Church in Rushsylvania. JOHN GRABIEL, tanner; P. O., Rushsylvania. Jacob Grabiel was of transatlantic origin, and was a. citizen of Shenandoah Co., Va.; a.; John Grabiel, Sr., Jacob's son, was born in the same county, in the year 1786; he married Mary Haas, daughter of John Haas, of Shenandoah Co., Va., and in 1812 removed to Licking Co., Ohio; John Grabiel, Jr., was born Dec. 7, 18l5, in Licking Co.., O., and in 1846 came to Logan Co., and purchased the lands on which he now finds himself so comfortably situated; he continued to improve his lands until on the 31st of December, 1857, tired of single blessedness, he married the lady of his choice, Miss Sarah D. Tharp, daughter of William and Mary Tharp, of Jefferson Tp., Logan Co:; she was born Nov. 28, 1834, in the aforesaid township, and at her marriage was a member of-the Baptist Church. John Grabiel's family are- Luther Qnindaro, born Nov. 8, 1858, and died Nov. 15, 1861; Mary Emeline, born Nov. 23, 1860, and died Nov. 15, 1861; William Hillman, born Aug. 5, 1862; Elma Vidella, born Dec. 2, 1864; John Welling, born March 17, 1867 ; Herman Honnell, born July 6, 1869: Rachel Olga, born Feb. 9, 1872; Sarah Elizabeth. born Aug. 20, 1875, and Annah Lois, born March 14, 1878. By occupation John Grabiel is a farmer, who not only raises all farm stocks, but buys and sells it, and as an agriculturist is active and energetic in the production of the usual farm products, such as wheat, corn, etc. Around his home there seems to linger an air of thriftiness, and a spirit of generous hospitality pervades the household. His church connection, which are Presbyterian, and his household education are marked characteristics of his Christian aims, and moral and intellectual intuitions, both as it regards his position in the community and his kind intentions to his family and posterity. JESSE JENKINS, farmer; P. O. Rushsylvania. William Jenkins is a native of Wale, and left that country and settled in Washington Co., Pa., during the Revolutionary war. His son, Samuel, was born in Washington Co., prior to their removal to Ross Co., O., in 1778. It was, however, in 1803, that the family removed to Ross Co., O. Here Samuel married Anna Gooney, who was born in the State of Maryland. A part of Samuel's family was born in Ross Co. Amanda, born in 1818; Rebecca, born in 1820, and Jesse, born Aug. 18, 1822. In 1824 the family left Ross Co. and came to Marion Co., O.; settling on the waters of the Little Scioto, in Greens Camp Tp. Here four children were born and died. In 1833 Samuel removed to McArthur Tp., Logan Co., settling on the waters of the Cherokee. In this township Jane and John Jenkins were born. Another removal occurred, which located the family on the Dry Fork of the Miami, at Northwood. Here David, Catharine and Minerva were born. Jesse Jenkins was born in Oldtown, Ross Co., and married Miss Elizabeth Bennett, Jan. 20, 1859; she was the daughter of Henry and Mary Bennett, of Logan Co., and the children by this marriage are-SaMuel Fremont, born Oct. 27, 1859, in Rush Creek Tp., Logan Co.; Clarabel, born in 1861; Marietta, born in 1863; Amanda Jane, born in 1864; William Stanton, born in 1866; Lizzie Minerva, born in 1868, and Carrie May, born in 1870, all in Rush Creek Tp. By occupation, Jesse Jenkins is a, farmer, being one of the early settlers, and, in consequence of three removals, he has, of necessity, hewn three farms out of the hitherto unbroken forest, two of them prior to his marriage. After his marriage he settled where he now reside, and began to gather around him the comforts and conveniences of a well regulated home. He received but a pioneer's education in the pioneer schoolhouse, built of log, with clapboard and weight-pole roof, paper window, puncheon desks, seats and floor; and, in fact, the family mansion was a similar edifice, and where, instead of a Chickering piano, or an Estey organ, the howling baritones of wolves could be heard. Now how changed! His farm blossoms as the rose; the wild woods, have forever disappeared. Horses, cattle and farm stock roam over his pleasant field, and as regards the raising of horse, he is second to none in Rush Creek Tp. in the quality of 694 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. his stock. He is progressive in educational movements, a. consistent member of the Church of the Disciple, and besides aiming to give his family advantages to which, in his youth, he was a stranger; he has for them preserved this record and his fair fame. MARTIN JOHNSTON, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania; came from Ireland at an early day, and settled in Pennsylvania; his son, George Johnston, came from Pennsylvania to Wayne Co., Ohio, settling near Wooster, Martin Johnston, George's son, was born in Wayne Co., Ohio, Jan. 14, 1826. The family history embraces Thomas Scott, one of the earliest settlers in Licking Co., Ohio, and his son, Thomas Scott, Jr., born in Licking Co., but who was among the earliest of the Logan Co. pioneers; and is the owner of the first clock brought to Licking Co. It was owned by his father, and is now running in the house of Thomas Scott, Jr., and, although it is over 100 years old, it is one of those tall wooden clocks denominated "wall sweeper," and a fit subject for any museum. Nancy Patterson, the daughter of Abraham Patterson, a native of Ireland, came with her father to Mercer Co., Penn. Abraham was a refugee from the rebellion of 1798. Martin Johnston and Martha Scott were married June 21, 1849, in Logan Co., Ohio. To render the line complete, is to add that Peter Derr, a Pennsylvania, settled in Wayne Co., Ohio; then Martin's mother was Peter Derr's daughter, Mary, who married George Johnston, Martin's father, in 1824. Martin Johnston's children - George Gillespie, born July 5, 1850, died July 31, 1851; Nancy, born Oct. 3, 1851, died Sept. 24, 1875; Thomas Abraham, born Aug. 27,1853; James Renwick, Feb. 1,1856; Mary Jane, Jan. 19, 1858, died Jan. 2, 1870; William Joseph, born July 12, 1859, died July 31, 1860; Sarah Eliza, born Aug. 29, 1861, died Feb. 13, 1876; John Knox, born June 13, 1867. By occupation, Martin Johnston is a farmer, and raises the stock usual to all well conducted and prudently arranged farms. The family are members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church; in Rushsylvania, and firm believers in the doctrines resulting from the great Reformation." JOHN KAUTZMAN, Sr., was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., on the 15th day of May, 1782, of German parentage; while young, he removed to Franklin Co., where, at the age of 23, he was married to May Cook. In the fall of 1812, moved to Shenandoah Co., Va,; he owned the mill on Cedar Creek, which was burned by Gen. Sheridan's troops during the rebellion. In 1814, he moved to Augusta Co., where he lived until the fall of 1845, when he moved to Logan Co., Ohio, and settled upon the land he purchased before leaving Virginia, what is known as the Gravelly Spring. He died May 17,1874, at the age of 94 years and 2 days. His wife died on the 7th day of the February preceding, at the age of 92 years and 2 days. There were born to them five sons and three daughters, one girl dying at the age of three years. Daniel enlisted in Co. H, 96th O. V. I., and died at Vicksburg. Barney Kautzman died on the farm upon which his father settled June 1, 1872, aged 42 years. George Kautzman is living in Guthrie Co., Iowa. One girl is living in Montrose, in Henry Co.; Morora, John and Peter are living in Rushsylvania; Anna is living about two miles east of Rushsylvania. John and Peter have both filled many positions of trust in civil and military life. JOHN KERNS, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania; Michael Kerns was a native of Germany, who, with his family, emigrated to Bedford Co., Va., in 1755; George Kerns, son of Michael Kerns, was born in Bedford Co., and had seventeen brothers, several of whom settled in Botetourt Co., Va., others in Kentucky, and the remainder came to Ohio. Jacob Kerns, son of George Kerns, came to Ohio, Nov. 20, 1835; he was married the same day to Margaret Wood, a descendant of two distinguished Virginia families, the Woods and the Dooleys. Thomas Woods was at Dudley's defeat, and was taken prisoner with many others; he was the only prisoner escaping massacre, and that because of his resemblance to an Indian. Jacob Kerns settled permanently in the north past of Rush Creek Tp., on the water-shed, where the waters of the Miami, Taylor's Creek, and Painter's Creek flow in different directions from or near the same point. Jacob's children were-George, born 1810; Phebe Lydia, Mary Ann, Sophia Jane, Nathan D., Emily, John, Margaret and Martha Mildred. John Kerns, whose ancestors we have just traced, was born July 29, 1826. in Bedford Co., Va.; on Sept. 18, 1850, he RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 695 married Mary Johnson, daughter of William and Eleanor Johnson, and who was born April 12, 1830, in Belmont Co., Ohio. John's children are-Sarah Ann, born Sept. 8, 1851, in Logan Co., Rush Creek. Tp.; Franklin Pierce, Jan, 7, 1853, and was killed by the cars Nov. 11, 1869. This sad event occurred in this manner: In company with his sister, Sarah Ann, he came to Rushsylvania in a two-horse spring wagon, and at Runner's Crossing on the Bee Line Railroad on their return the team became unmanageable, and they were run into by the locomotive, and Franklin P. and one horse were instantly killed, the wagon was totally demolished, and his sister, though seriously injured, miraculously escaped instant death; Mary Ellen, born Dec. 26, 1854; Margaret Alice, Dec. 29, 1858; John Wylie, June 6, 1866. By occupation John Kerns has been a farmer, stock-raiser and stock shipper, the latter business, especially, he has followed for twenty-two years. He has held the office of Justice for two term, and in his church relations holds the office of Elder. He enters intelligently into the investigation of general topics for public prosperity and good. In the spring of 1870 he removed from his farm to Rushsylvania, and the spring following was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace. He joined the Masonic fraternity in 1856, at Kenton, Ohio, and in 1862 was a charter member of the Lodge at Belle Centre, and Master of that Lodge for six years. He joined the I. O. O. F., at Rushsylvania in 1872, and has been a member ever since. ARCHIBALD LAMENT, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. Robert Lament was the descendant of a Covenanter, who left Scotland in consequence of the persecution, and settled in County Antrim, Ireland. Robert Lament, second, was born in County Antrim, and married Nancy Creilman, and both lied in Ireland. Robert Lament, third, was born in County Antrim, and came to America in 1833, settling first in Washington Co., N. Y., and in 1838, removing to Fairfield Co., Ohio. In December, 1845, he removed to Logan Co., and settled on the head-waters of the Miami River. He married Mary McDaniel, a lady of Scotch descent; she was the daughter of Archibald and Jane McDaniel. The family of Robert Lament, third, are Archibald, born April 10, 1823, in County Antrim, Ireland, and who came to America in 1833 with his parent, and removed with them in all their change, finally settling with them in Logan Co. Archibald married Miss Amy Johnson, Nov. 27, 1847; she was the daughter of George and Mary Johnson, and her grandparents were William and Mary Johnson, uniting families whose origin was transatlantic, and whose systems of faith were impregnated with the Calvinism and rigid orthodoxy of the two countries, and so it comes on down as a hereditary but healthy system of religious sentiments, as strongly marked in the present as in the past generations, respecting the last parties above indicated. William was Irish and Mary German by lineal descent. Now Archibald Lament's family genealogy ends by giving the names and births of his children, the deaths and marriage, also. First, we have Robert Fillis, born Oct. 11, 1848, married Sally Carter, and is now a resident of Hardin Co.; William Boyd, born Oct. 14, 1849, died July 25, 1850; William Boyd, second (named for his deceased brother), born Oct. 27, 1850, now in Pawnee City, Neb.; Euphemia Jane, born March 10, 1852; Mary Ann, March 12, 1854; John, April 27, 1851, died Sept. 9,1877 ; Sarah, born Aug. 21, 1860; George, May 15, 1862; Elizabeth, Aug. 16, 1864; James Wright, Feb. 8, 1867; Archibald Alexander, Sept. 6, 1869; Samuel Martin, March 13, 1872. Archibald Lament is a farmer by choice, and delights in agricultural pursuits. Like many Hibernians of Protestant parentage, he has received a liberal education, as well as Christian training, and received his catechism from his parents as regularly as his food and raiment. A Covenanter then, he is one still, a deacon in the church, and with determined precision traveling on to Heaven in the way his fathers trod. He is a natural-born mechanic, being a carpenter, a mason and plasterer of more than average proficiency, Notwithstanding he never served an apprenticeship to either trade. He raises cattle, sheep, horses and hog, and uses more care in their improvement than is usual with farmers in general. He not only has a share in the Public Library, but subscribes for all good book, and, with true intellectual foresight, places himself in the list for his county's history, and thus sends 896 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, the record and genealogy of Archibald Lament adown the lines of generations who are coming. ANDREW D. LEAS, farmer; P. O., Harper. Jacob Leas was a native of Germany, and emigrated to Pennsylvania prior to the Revolutionary war. Stephen Leas his son, was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1812. His wife was Susan Gate, who was the daughter of John Gates, whose father also came from Germany. Andrew D. Leas was Stephen's son, and was born May 25, 1818, in Logan Co., O. On the 4th day of October, 1845, he married Catherine Strickland, daughter of George Strickland, of York Co., Pa.; she was born Oct. 10, 1818. The children of A. D. Leas are-Stephen C., born Jan. 18, 1847; Mary Ann, July 5, 1854; Susan, July 15, 1855, and Sarah, Oct. 14, 1860. By occupation, Andrew D. Leas is a farmer, and many of his broad acres are the rich alluvial deposits of the historic Rush Creek bottom land, and near the romantic lake of that name; he raises and deals in stock, making sheep a specialty, but the other stocks also, to an unusual extent amongst farmers; he is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry, Rush Creek Lodge, No. 24, and the church connections of the family are with that branch known as the Christian Church. By this, the name and example of A. D. Leas are handed to the succeeding generations of those who take descent from him. LEVI N. LEIDIGH, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania; Jacob Rudy was born Jan. 28, 1792, in Montgomery Co., Penn.; in 1818, he married Harriet Bastian in the city of Philadelphia, and in the same year removed to Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio; in 1823 his wife died, leaving three children-Catherine, Josiah and Harriet. In 1826, he returned to Philadelphia on foot, walking from Circleville to Philadelphia in just two week, ar riving in the city on New Years Day. In the spring of 1833 he again married, his wife being Mrs. Anna Zeigler, a widow lady. In 1838, he removed to where he now, in his 89th year, still resides with his son-in-law, Mr. Levi Leidigh, a sturdy old gentleman of some 65 summer, who was born Sept.4, 1815, in Durham Tp., Bucks Co., Penn.; Jacob Rudy has but one child living- Mrs. Catharine Leidigh. Levi Leidigh was married on the 20th day of July, 1839, in Logan Co., and, after marriage, returned to Philadelphia; he remained there two years, and again went to Ohio, where he remained two year, and returned to the " City of Brotherly Love " again, remaining there until 1849, when he again came to Ohio, where he has since remained. The children of this family are - Henrietta B., born Oct. 30, 1840, died Nov. 10, 1840, in Philadelphia, Penn.; Jacob Rudy, born April 14, 1845, and died Dec. 31, 1840, in Philadelphia, Penn.; Jonathan, born July 12, 1847, died Sept. 4, 1848, in Philadelphia; Anne Adelaide, born Aug. 23, 1849, in Philadelphia; she married Andrew Wren, Oct. 14, 1869; Philip Henry, born Feb. 19, 1852, in, Logan Co., Ohio; Franklin Goldman, Jan. 19, 1855, in Logan Co.; George Corwin, Jan. 28, 1857, in Logan Co.; Clarissa Estella, July 15, 1859, in Logan Co., married Isaac Bramwell; Titus, Oct. 16, 1879, a citizen of this county. The history of this family is somewhat remarkable; Jacob Rudy, now in his 89th year, is a man remarkable for his clear and vivid recollection of dates, whilst his daughter, 61 years old, and her husband, 65 years old, recount events of their childhood with remarkable precision, and a recital of the same strikes the listener at once with surprise; Jacob Rudy states that he was apprenticed four year, seven months and thirteen days to learn the shoemaker's trade; this was in 1808; he followed that occupation for five years in Pennsylvania, and for some time in Circleville, Ohio, finally settling down in Logan Co., where he now resides; Levi Leidigh is a thrifty farmer, held in high esteem in the community in which he resides. The family are members of the Lutheran Church at New Jerusalem, Logan Co., Ohio. WILSON McADAMS, Sr., farmer, P. O., Rushsylvania. Wilson McAdams was the son of James McAdams, Adam, of North Carolina, who afterwards removed to Tennessee, Wilson was born in Tennessee, and from there came to Ohio, settling in Logan Co. His wife was Amanda Melvina Brockerman, daughter of William Brockerman, of Germany, who came to Philadelphia, Penn., and afterwards to Logan Co., O. Wilson McAdams, Jr., was born Feb. 22, 1844, in this county, and on the 13th day of December, 1868, he assumed the bonds of wedlock with Elizabeth Henrietta White, RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 697 of Auglaize Co., daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth White, of Franklin Co., O. Elizabeth Henrietta was born May 31, 1846. The children are-Franklin McAdams, Adams born Oct. 12, 1869; Clark White, April 15, 1871, in this county; Viola Melvina, Aug. 6, 1872; Robert E. Lee, Dec. 27, 1873, and Emma Elizabeth, Nov. 4, 1875. Wilson McAdams raises blooded horses and tine cattle, and has bestowed especial care on the improvement of swine. Although a farmer, he is yet a man of bold, incentive genius, as is evidenced by a lock which he has patented, and other models in his possession. The power to originate and invent seems with him one of nature's own bestowments, and not the result of culture, or as inherited, as none of his people appear to have partaken of this rare quality. MATTHEW MITCHELL, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. Matthew Mitchell, Sr., was a native of Eastern Pennsylvania; a Revolutionary soldier under Gen. George Washington, and after the war moved to the forks of Youghiogheny River, from there to Beaver Co., Pa., and from thence to Muskingum Co., O., where he died at the age of 82 years, and was buried in the cemetery at the village of Concord, in that county. Matthew Mitchell, Jr., was his son, who came to Youghiogheny with his father, and where he married Miss Elizabeth Wylie, daughter of Samuel Wylie. During his residence at this place, five of his children were born. Samuel was born in November, 1799; Mary was born in 1800; Flora was born in 1802, and died when young; Matthew was born June 20, 1804, and John was born 1806. He then removed to Muskingum Co:, O., settling on the farm adjoining, the village of Concord, or the farm on which it now stands. The balance of the family were William, born 1808, and who died when 6 years of age; James, born in 1810, and who died in Logan Co.; David, born in 1812, who removed to Logan Co., and died; Ann, born in 1814, who married Joseph Patterson, now deceased, his widow being a resident of Bellefontaine; Rebecca, born in 1816, married James French, both she and her husband are dead; Jane, born in 1818, died when 20 years of age. June 18, 1829, Matthew Mitchell married Margaret M. Spear, a daughter of Stuart Spear and Jane Scott, his wife, whose grandfather was Stuart Spear, who came from Ireland in an early day; on her mother's side, Margaret's grandfather was Abraham Scott, of Scotch descent. Now, the family of Matthew Mitchell, son of Matthew, Jr., are-Stuart Spear, born June 26, 1830, in Muskingum Co., O., died May, 1833; Elizabeth Wylie, born Nov. 3, 1831. in Muskingum Co., married Thomas Martin Hutcheson, whose family consists of eleven children - Margaret, Jane, James, Matthew, Robert, Ellen, Elizabeth, Anna (two sons dead) and Rutherford. Elizabeth resides in Kansas, William Stuart (named for a deceased brother) born Nov. 22, 1833, married Mary Jane McCullough. Their family are-Ellen, John, Matthew and Margaret McCullough. Matthew Ritchie, born Nov. 10, 1835, and married Melinda Fulton, daughter of Dr. Fulton, once a physician of Rushsylvania, but who died in Bellefontaine. Matthew Ritchie Mitchell is a physician at Topeka, Kan., and has but one child living-Porter McClain, Then John, born Oct. 27, 1837, married Mary Ellen Day, daughter of John Day, of Rushsylvania. The it son Walter is 6 years old. Alexander, born Nov. 30, 1839, died June 26, 1841; Rutherford, born Sept. 11, 1841, died Aug. 27, 1842; Nancy Jane, born July 20, 1843, died Feb. 9, 1855. Mary Ellen, born Oct. 15, 1845, is a mantua-maker, proficient in her business, and practical in manner. Maggie Spear, born Sept. 29, 1847, is a teacher in the city schools of Topeka, Kan. James Finley, born June 16, 1850, married Sarah Ellen Stephenson; she died in January, 1879, leaving little Ernest Chalmers and Laura Genevra motherless. It was in October, 1832, that Matthew Mitchell removed from Muskingum to Logan Co., O., settling in Rush Creek Tp., on the waters of Miami. Born on a farm, reared and educated on a farm, it was quite natural that he should be a farmer and delighted therein. Besides the improvement of his farm, he has paid strict attention to the improvement of his family, by liberally educating them, some of whom have attained honorable positions in the professions one being a physician, one a teacher of distinction, and one a professional mantua-maker, His household regulations are of a high Christian order, and after a long life of toil he rests upon a competency. All the farm stocks are raised and sold, but sheep and 698 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. hogs receive especial attention. He is one amongst the oldest citizens of Rush Creek Tp. AZARIAS SILAS BALDWIN PUGH, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania; was born Sept. 30, 1849; he is the fourth son of David Pugh, who was the son of Eli Pugh, who was the son of Thomas Pugh, who was the son of Ellis Pugh, the family line commencing in Wales. David Pugh was born in Frederick Co., Va., in 1801; his wife was a distant relative and of the same name; she was the daughter of Thomas Pugh, of Newbury District, S. C., and came to Warren Co., O., in 1801. On the 1st day of November, 1832, David Pugh and Rebecca Pugh were married; Mrs. Pugh's birth occurred May 27, 1814, in Warren Co., O.; David's family were-Eli, born Nov. 15, 1836, Job Thomas, Aug. 15, 1838, David Bales, Feb. 7, 1848, A. S. B., Sept. 30, 1849, Mary Jane, July 17, 1851, and Malcenia Lunette, June 19, 1855. On July 21, 1876, David Pugh, the father, died, and was buried on his own farm. Azarias Silas Baldwin Pugh, on the 16th day of April, 1876, in Paulding Co., O., married Miss Florence Jeanette Ginger, the daughter of Daniel and Mary Ginger, of Blackford Co., Ind. Florence was born June 17, 1860. The family of A. S. B. Pugh has one son, Clarence Loring Pugh, born Nov. 4, 1879, in the pioneer cabin occupied by his grandfather, David Pugh, in 1833, and built by Squire Samuel Ruth, the joists of which were hewed on the Sabbath clay by mistake, the Squire believing it was Saturday. By occupation, A. S. B. Pugh is a farmer and stock-raiser, especially of hogs. Having a farm of unusual fertility, on a gravel base, some parts of which are underlaid and mixed with immense shell deposits and a decomposition resembling lime; it is especially adapted to the raising of corn, and, consequently, the stock above mentioned. In 1878 135 head were raised and fattened for market on this farm. Another industry on this farm of more than ordinary interest is the making of maple syrup from the extensive camp on the farm. The farm is rich in fossiliferous remains. A moose's head and antlers were taken from Rush Creek ditch whilst digging through the singular white deposit land on said farm. A snore extended account will be given in the township work: The farm is called Moosehead Farm. JOB THOMAS PUGH, farmer; P. O., Big Springs. The Pugh family originally came from Wales. The family line commences with Ellis Pugh; then through Thomas Pugh to Eli Pugh; then David Pugh, born in Frederick Co., Va., in 1801, whose wife was Rebecca Pugh, born May 27, 1814, in Warren Co., Ohio; she was the daughter of Thomas Pugh, of Newbury Dist., S. C., who came to Warren Co., Ohio, in 1801; their marriage occurred Nov. 1, 1832, and on Jan. 7, 1833, they settled on the farm where Mrs. Pugh now lives, in Rush Creek Tp. The children are-Eli, born Nov. 15, 1836; Job Thomas, Aug. 15, 1838; David Bales, Feb. 7, 1848; A. S. B., Sept. 30, 1849; Mary Jane, July l7, 1851; and Malcenia Lunette, June 19, 1855. The father, David Pugh, died July 24, 1876, and was buried on the farm where he died. Job Thomas Pugh married Priscilla Helen Reeder on the 12th day of May, 1860. She was the daughter of John and Mary Ann Reeder, and was born Aug. 20, 1843, in Lake Tp., Logan Co., Ohio. Her family line were Abdel Reeder, who died in August. 1843; his wife, Elizabeth Reeder; his son, John Vance Reeder, was born Feb. 6,1815, in Knox Co., Va. On Priscilla's mother's side, James Henry was her grandfather; his wife was Priscilla Wagant. Mary Ann Henry was the wife of John Vance Reeder; they were married Dec. 27, 1840. JOB THOMAS PUGH, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. The family of Job T. Pugh are-Edwin Orlando, born March 3, 1862; Willis Grant, Nov. 9, 1865; Mary Rebecca, March 20, 1869, and died Dec. 25, 1876; Sarah Elizabeth, born Jan. 2, 1874, and died Aug. 20, 1875. Job Thomas Pugh is by occupation a farmer and stock-breeder, especially of sheep, which, with constant care and attention, he has raised far above the common standard. His farm, called Homedale, which is located about a mile and a quarter east of Big Springs, besides its beautiful location, has a distinguishing and valuable feature in the running wells which overflow, affording ample supplies of water at all times. The water is white sulphur. The depth of the well in his yard, front which the sulphur water constantly issues, is 43 feet, and of the one RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 699 on the southwest part of his farm, it is 45 feet, the inequalities of surface accounting for the difference in depth. Job T. Pugh and Iris wife are members of the Protestant Methodist Church, and are of that class of society whose aim is the elevation and advancement of all to a higher place. In stock, otherwise than sheep, his farm has all the usual appointments. CHARLES QUINN, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania; Charles Quinn was born in Champaign Co., O., in 1818. On the 9th day of October, 1838, he married Clarissa Chamberlin, who was born in Monroe Co., N. Y., on the 23d clay of May, 1819. The same year in which he was married he settled in Logan Co.., where he remained until his death, which occurred Aug. 7, 1865, leaving a widow and four children to mourn his loss. The children were-Caroline, born July 22, 1840; Emily, May 18, 1841, and who died Oct. 11, 1864, nearly a year prior to her father's death; Mary, Oct. 14, 1842, and died in July, 1869; Harriet, April 18, 1844, died June 7, 1878; Catharine, Feb. 22, 1852, and married George W. Lash, Jan. 14, 1875, who resides with his mother-in-law and manages the affairs of the farm. The residence of Mrs. Quinn stands exactly on the line of the old road called Hull's Trace, which was visible at that time, and the red man often lodged in her house. Their huts still remained on the farm, and wolves howled in all directions. She has seen bears, wildcats, deer, and other denizens of a wild forest, in their native state, and prior to her marriage heard George McCulloch preach in a cabin which stood on the farm where she now resides. The raising of wheat and fine horses is a specialty on this farm, and hospitality and kindness are among the virtues of this household. NATHANIEL RAMSEY, farmer; P. O. Big Springs; John Ramsey was a native of Ireland, who came to Virginia at an early period, and died in consequence of being hotly pursued by Indians, and whilst Treated drinking cold water :o excess; his son, Alexander Ramsey, was without any nationality, so to speak, being born on the Atlantic Ocean during the passage from Ireland to America; his brother John and sister Polly separated from him, and going to the Southern States, all trace of them has been lost; Alexander came to Lexington, Ky., and there learned the blacksmith trade. He afterward married Elizabeth Cutright, a German lady, and removed to the Scioto Valley, Ross Co., when there were but two cabins in Chillicothe; from Ross Co. he removed to Fayette Co., and from thence, in September, 1833, to Logan Co., in what was then Perry Tp.; his family consisted of Polly, John, Cynthia, Andrew, Rosanna, Catherine, Anderson, Nathaniel and Alexander, Jr., now deceased. Nathaniel Ramsey, the subject of this sketch, married Ann Sidney Starbuck, a resident, born in Logan Co., Ohio; the family are Clarissa (now dead), Sarah Ann, John (deceased), Jane and James, twins; James is now deceased, William now in Kansas, and Abraham; Sarah Ann married Leonard Hogle, of Iroquois Co., Ill. It was in the wilderness that Nathaniel Ramsey reared his cabin, which was ofttimes visited by prowling wolves; his recollection of this and other pioneer reminiscences is vivid; he names the first settlers with alacrity and precision; in him are found the genial spirit of the pioneer and the courteous and hospitable disposition of the people of his native State; age has not impaired his vivacity, nor labor bowed him down; like all the early settlers, when accosted regarding the history of the past, his soul takes fire and youth seems again to be ' his; as an honest son of toil he farms for a livelihood; raises good horses, hogs and cattle, and leaves this record of himself for Iris children and children's children to rally by, when he shall go hence to be seen no more. CHARLOTTE STRINGFELLOW ROBERTS, widow, P. O., Harper; is the relict of the late Jesse Roberts, the preacher and historian, who was born Nov. 27, 1816, in Clinton Co., Ohio. John Roberts was the father of James Roberts, of Tennessee, and James was the father of Rev. Jesse Roberts. The father of Lawson Rudasill was from Germany; but Lawson was born in Rappahannock Co., Va., east of the Blue Ridge, Jan. 4, 1798, and July 20, 1876, at the age of 78 years, 6 months and 16 days, died. On the 10th of September, 1840, Jesse Roberts, son of James and Mary Roberts, married Charlotte Stringfellow Rudsill, who was born May 15, 1822, the daughter of Lawson and Harriet Rudasill. The family record runs thus - Isaiah Allen, born 700 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. Aug. 7, 1841; Lawson Leander, Oct. 6, 1842; Milton Wellington, Aug. 2, 1844, died Aug. 8, 1849; Mary Ann, born Sept. 7, 1846; Harriet, July 7, 1848; Calvin, Aug. 8,1850; Jesse Fulton, Jan. 29, 1852; Barclay, Jan. 28, 1854; Judson, Dec. 11, 1855; the twin brothers, Johnson and Jonathan, were born Nov. 25, 1857; Johnson died March 18, 1859, at the age of 1 year, 3 months and 23 days; Lucy Jane, born Jan: 17, 1861; Franklin, Dec. 27, 1862, and Lottie Ida, Oct. 28,1864. The Rev. Jesse Roberts was one of the early ministers of the gospel in Rush Creek Tp. In rudely constructed churches and cabin school-houses here he preached to audiences clad in the homespun garb of the pioneer. He was the parish minister and the historian as well, with capabilities which lacked but development to place him on a plane with Bennett, or Headley, or Twain. He attempted poetry with a degree of success. His writings are familiar in every household in this community. Many were the marriages he solemnized, the funerals he preached, the words of consolation he uttered. For thirty-eight years he labored as a minister of the Disciples' Church, and on the 24th of March, 1879, his lifeless remains only were left, to be soon consigned to the tomb. Mrs. Roberts survives him, together with a large family, who are scattered in different localities, one being_ in Harper, one in Rushsylvania, one near Hopewell, one in Missouri, two in Iowa, and a daughter married in this township, whilst over the four youngests he has yet to exercise a mother's care. CONNER ROLLINS, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. Virginia, which has very appropriately been called the mother of Presidents, has furnished, also, many of the pioneer families of Ohio and other States; the history of Logan Co. is rich with memories of Virginia, and the Rollins family, like many others there, commence their history in Culpepper Co. John Rollins was born in Culpepper Co., and removed to Ohio, arriving at Zanesfield Dec. 25, 1833, and after staying in that place over night, he started the next morning for Rush Creek Tp., where he settled, and where, Feb. 17, 1861, he finished his course at the age of 82 years, 7 months and 17 days, and was gathered to his fathers; his widow, who had borne life's burdens and cares with him, still survives him, at an age far more advanced than that at which her husband ceased his labors. John Rollins was twice married; his first. wife was a descendant of the Monroe family of Virginia, by whom he had six children- John, Catharine, Sarah, James, Mary and Elizabeth. His second bride was Matilda Golden, the mother of Conner Rollins, Fanny, Ashbay and George Washington, four in all; Ashbay and George Washington are ministers of the gospel, Ashbay in the Disciples' Church, and George Washington in the j Protestant Methodist Church. Conner Rollins was born in Culpepper Co., Va., Sept. 1, 1830, and came to Logan Co. with his parents in 1833. On Aug. 15, 1861. he married Miss Anna Musselman, daughter of Michael Musselman, of Rush Creek Tp.; his daughter Jane constitutes his entire family, and her birthday was Oct. 22, 1866. Conner is a farmer, well-to-do, but who knows the value of his property, haying acquired it all himself by honest. industry; of steady and industrious habits, he lives contentedly by stock and farm products; now directing all his energies and bending all his purposes toward sheep husbandry for future operations; he reads for himself, and draws his own conclusions; he is sober, honest, truthful and industrious. ALDRIDGE RUDASILL, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. The Rudasill family carne from German, and settled in Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley: Lawson Rudasill was born in Rappahannock Co., Va. After his marriage with Harriet Odor, he came to Ohio, and settled in Logan Co. The family were - Charlotte S., James Wesley, John Winfield, Jerome, Amanda, Aldridge, Louisa and Harriet by his first wife; and by his second wife, Mary who was the daughter of James Dobie; she had four children. Aldridge Rudasill, born June 22, 1837, in Logan Co., and married to Samantha Stephenson, the daughter of William and Louisa Stephenson, on the 11th day of October, 1860, and who was born July 20, 1837. His children are-Louis Henry, born Dec. 16, 1861; Kenneth, Jan. 13, 1864, died Sept. 21, 1870; Lorena, born March 22,1869: Leona, Nov. 5, 1872, and Elkin Jerome, Jan, 10, 1875. Aldridge Rudasill is a farmer who is more of an agriculturist than a stock-raiser, He largely cultivates the cereals usual to the RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 701 country, and is one of those reading, thinking men who must have a reason for everything before arriving at conclusions. In his church connections he is a member of the Christian Church. In the fall of 1861, at Bellefontaine, he enlisted in the 1st Missouri Regiment, called at that time Birge's Sharpshooters, which was intended as a body-guard for Gen. John C. Fremont. With the regiment he went to Missouri; then from Missouri to Tennessee as a musician in the regimental band. He received his discharge at Ft. Donaldson, and camp home in April, 1862, re-enlisted the next year, and served until July, 1865. JOHN PHILANDER RUDASILL, farmer; P. O. Rushsylvania. Lawson Rudasill's father was a native of Germany and settled in Eastern Virginia in Rappahannock Co., where, on the 4th of January, 1798, Lawson was born, and on the 20th day of July, 1876, he died, aged 78 years, 6 mouths and 16 days. His son, John Winfield Rudasill, was born in Rappahannock Co., Va., also during the month of August, 1825, His wife was Lydia Ann Sutton, daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca, Sutton, of the State of Kentucky, who, prior to the birth of Lydia inn, on the 3t11 day of June, 1828, had removed to Rush Creek Tp., Loan Co., O. The marriage of John Winfield Rudasill and Lydia Ann Sutton occurred Feb. 8, 1846; two years thereafter he removed to Missouri, and died Feb. 5, 1865. His family are-Jonathan Sutton, born Jan. 26, 1848, married Agnes Lampson April 6, 1869; Harriet Summerville, horn June 4, 1848, and died Aug. 24, 1862; Mary Dilly, born Jan. 26, 1850, and married William B. Wallace, Sept. 27, 1871; George Dowling, born Feb. 20,1852, and married Emily Torbert, of Illinois, in April, 1876; John Philander, born June 27, 1854; Elizabeth Jane, Feb. 21, 1856, and married Albert G. Day in December, 1878; Leah Rebecca, horn April 23, 1858; Llewella Olive, Feb. 20, 1860, died Sept. 2, 1862; Florence flay, born Sept. 21, 1862; Winfield J., Jan. 8, 1865, died Feb. 18, 1878. By occupation, John Philander Rudasill is a farmer and stock-raiser. He is also a gentleman of line mechanical talent, who lacks but culture in that direction to develop ability rarely manifested. Like many of the farmers of Rush Creek Tp., he evinces a. decided preference for the handling and sale of hogs, and to this end his energies are mainly directed. In early life, the fates decreed that he should assume the responsibilities of his deceased father, and his fidelity to his widowed mother and the other members of the family, who have. been dependent upon him for support, have enabled him to manifest to the world the true principles of manhood and call forth the admiration of all who have been witnesses of his very amiable demeanor, as he has thus been the support of the widowed mother in her declining years. SAMUEL STANFIELD, farmer; P. O., Harper. Thomas Stanfield, Jr., was born the 9th month, 26th day, 1790, in the State of Tennessee; Margaret Reamer, wife of Thomas Stanfield, Jr., was born the 9th month, 9th day, 1790, in South Carolina; they were married on the 30th of the 6th month, 1814. Thomas Stanfield, Jr., departed this life the 11th month, 12th day, 1839, aged 49 years. His children were-Lydia Stanfield, who was born 11th month, 24th day, 1814, married to George Parker the 1st month, 9th day, 1834. Sarah Stanfield was born 5th mouth, 21st day, 1817; died 6th month, 6th day, 1828, aged 12 years. Mary Stanfield was born 10th month, 2nd day, 1818, and died 8th mouth, 10th day, 1876; was married to Isaac Ray in 1837, but her husband dying, she married William Reamer; she left, five children. John Stanfield was born the 8th month, 10th day, 1820, and died the 2nd day of the 5th month, 1861. William Stanfield was born the 6th Month, 26th day, 1822, and died the 8th month, 11th day, 1853; was married to Mary Jane Milligan the 10th month, 14th day, 1849. Thomas Stanfield, 3rd, was born 8th month, 13th day, 1824; was married to Sarah E. Littler 5th month, 30th day, 1847. Jesse Stanfield was born 8th month, 31st day, 1826, and died 11th month, 9th day, 1863. He was in the Union army and fell in the battle of Carrion Crow on the date above given. Naomi Stanfield was born the 8th month, 1st day, 1829, and died the 9th month and 10th day, 1855; she was twice married, her first husband being Thomas Richards, and her second husband James Cummins. At her death she left three children. Samuel Stanfield, the subject of this sketch, was born the 11th month, 23rd day, 702 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 1832, and was married to Martha Douglass, daughter of Samuel ana Rebecca Douglass, the 11th month and 9th day, 1853. David Stanfield was born the 8th month, 11th clay, 1836; died the 11th month and 11th day, 1855, aged 19 years and 4 months. Martha Douglass, wife of Samuel Stanfield, was born Jan. 2, 1837. The family of Samuel are- John W., born Oct. 18, 1854; Margaret Alice, born Feb. 25, 1857, and married George W. Ensley, Feb. 21, 1878; Franklin E., born July 1, 1859. Margaret Stanfield, wife of Thomas and Stanfield, Jr., died 7th month, 4th day, 1859, aged 68 years. Sarah Rebecca, born Jan. 4, 1864; Samuel Ewing, Sept. 27, 1868, and died July 19, 1876; Charley Oscar, born Sept. 3, 1874; Arthur Harold, Jan. 8, 1880. This sketch which embraces the first and the latest periods of the history of Rush Creek Tp. holds in its records a voice from the bast. It claims the first church (or an interest in it), the first school, the first cabin and the first graveyard. The representative of this ancient family, Samuel Stanfield, still holds the name, and makes a manly effort to hand it down to his descendants untarnished. A sturdy son of toil, a farmer, and a man devoted to stock-raising, he trusts the patient hands of industry for a livelihood, and, like his ancestors, lives in the non-resistant faith of the Quakers, that he may die like them and be gathered to the venerated burial-place of his fathers. JOEL THOMAS, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. Joel Thomas was a native of Wales, who emigrated to America, and died in the city of Detroit, Mich., and Joel Thomas, his son, was a native of New York, but who, emigrating to Ohio, was one of the earliest settlers of Champaign Co. He settled on "Pretty Prairie,'' in said county, and, with his father, followed driving cattle to Detroit during the war of 1812. Joel Thomas, son of the latter and grandson of the former Joel Thomas, was born Dec. 25, 1811, on "Pretty Prairie," Champaign Co., Ohio. On the 1st day of July, 1838, he joined bands with Rachel Leonard, born May 26, 1816, in Washington Co.. Pa., and these pioneers have passed through forty years of their country's history together. They have had the following .children, who were born as follows- Phebe Jane, born May 10, 1839; Mary Ann, Nov. 3, 1840, died when11 months old; Sarah Ellen, born Jan. 17, 1843, died Jan. 8, 1866; George Washington, born July 17,1845; William L., Sept.14, 1847; Elizabeth, April 9, 1853, died Sept. 12, 1879; John B., born April 6, 1853, and Angeline, Aug. 12, 1855. Our subject was one of the pioneers of Logan Ca., and of Rush Creek Tp. He settled on the head waters of Miami, which was then a wilderness, and what is called Miami farm was paid for with money earned at the rate of three shillings per day. The head spring of the Miami was on his farm. He heard George McCulloch preach his first sermon, and heard Dr. Gray Eyes, the Indian preacher, preach in the cabin of his father-in-law, Ebenezer Zane. He was an eye-witness to the terrific tornado of 1827, and has eaten bear meat in the cabin of Ebenezer Zane. Although bowed with the infirmities of age, his memory is still rich with pioneer reminiscences, which he relates with the vigor of youth. Of this family, three are dead and the balance, all save one, are married and settled in different sections of the country. Two reside in Hardin Co., one in Sandusky city, one in Livingston Co., Ill., and one, a son, remains at home. Farming pursuits and stock-raising, especially horses, engross his attention in his declining years. SAMUEL TREECE, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania, The Treece family came from Germany originally, and settled in Pennsylvania. Peter Treece, one of the first American born of this family came, was horn in Beaver Tp., Union Co., Penn. Samuel Treece was the son of Peter Treece, and was born on the 11th day of December, 1806, in Beaver Tp., Union Co., Penn. On the 6th day January, 1846, Samuel married Jane Cram, who was born Nov. 11, 1827, in Clarke Co., O.; the children of this family are - Eliza Ann, born Jan. 3,1849, William Lyman, Dec. 25, 1852, and Mary Ellen, Jan. 11, 1858. Samuel Treece came from Columbus, O., to his present location in 1844, and settled in the wilderness; he was one of those sturdy Pennsylvania Germans who came to subdue the wilderness and make it to blossom with the fruits of industry and the reward of labor; he was a blacksmith by trade, and for nine years prior to his arrival in Rush Creek Tp., followed that business in the city of Columbus; his neighbors were few, as Daniel RUSH CREEK TOWNSHIP. - 703 Vassar, Jacob Kearns, Peter Bowers, Jacob Bowers and Joel Thomas constituted all of them. There were no roads near him easy of access, and his home was like a "lodge in some vast wilderness." When in Columbus, Samuel saw the train which removed the Sandusky Indians to the western reservation. The train consisted of more than 200 wagons, in which they and their effects were being transported. He has helped to open the roads of the township, and, as is the case with all pioneers, bore his part in the necessary improvements of the county; iris only son, William Lyman Treece, who married Sarah L. Nash, daughter of Samuel Nash, of Logan Co., on the 23rd day of November, 1875, extends the family line. Yet one remove in the person of his son, Frank Wilbur Treece, born Sept. 6, 1876. William is naturally industrious and frugal, a farmer in the true sense, who, provided with stock scales and the necessary means for business purposes, turns in an especial manner to the raising of hogs, in one instance producing one that weinhed 903 pounds, the acknowledged champion of his species; the improvement of his farm stock is his constant aim, and devotion to business is his passport to success. WILLIAM WHITE WATKINS, farmer; P. O., Rushsylvania. James Watkins Sr., was an Englishman, who came to the united States about the middle of the eighteenth century, settling in Sussex Co., Va. His family consisted of John, Reuben, James, Benjamin and Robert, sons; the daughters were-Sarah, Susan and Winnie; all of whom emigrated to Ohio at different periods, excepting Robert, who went to Indiana. James Watkins, Jr., emigrated to Belmout Co., Ohio, in the beginning of the year 1809, and, after remaining about a year, he returned to Sussex Co., Va., and married Nancy Ann White, of Sussex Co. Their marriage occurred April 10, 1810. James Watkins was born June 6, 1786. His wife was born March 11, 1785, both in Sussex Co. There were six children by this union - Polly, born March 10, 1811, in Sussex Co., Va.; Henry, May 2, 1813, in Belmout Co., Ohio; Harriet, in September, 1816, in Belmont Co., the same year in which the family removed to Logan Co.; Elisha, Oct. 9, 1819, in Logan Co. The last child horn in this family was William White Watkins, Oct. 13, 1825, in Jefferson Tp., near Zanesfield. William W. Watkins married Rebecca J. Elliott, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Elliott, of Stark Co., Ohio, April 22, 1847. William W. Watkins' family are ten children in all, nine of whom are living. Their names are William Jasper, born April 10, 1848, in Jefferson Tp.; Charles Wesley, May 2, 1849, in Jefferson Tp.; Nancy Elizabeth, Dec. 22, 1850, in Perry Tp., James Hamilton, Oct. 24, 1852, in Perry Tp.; Joseph Milton, April 25, 1854, in Rush Creek Tp.; Mary Melissa, June 9, 1856, in Rush Creek Tp.; Eliza Jane, Feb. 18,1858, in Rush Creek Tp.; Isaac Newton, Nov. 14, 1859, in Rush Creek Tp.; Harriet Adeline Dec. 2, 1861, and died Jan. 3, 1862; and Aaron S. Watkins, born Nov. 27, 1863, in Rush Creek Tp. William Jasper married Mary O. Robb, of Logan Co., for his first wife; his second wife was Sarah Kelly. Charles Wesley married Irene Wickersham; he is now au attorney at Huntington, Iud. Nancy Elizabeth married David Harriman, of Logan Co. James H. married Martha Kelly, of Logan Co. Joseph Milton married Mary E. Kearns, of Loan Co. Margaret M. married Spain. A. Skidmore, of Union Co., Ohio. By occupation, William W. Watkins is a farmer, handling in a business way horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, latterly turning his attention to sheep more particularly. He has paid special attention to family education, eight of his family having already been teachers, and a ninth member of the family now holds a certificate of qualification; one is already noted as an attorney at Huntington, Ind. Mr. Watkins settled in the wilderness, cleared his farm, assisted his neighbors at raising cabins and log-rollings where were 3,000 acres of almost unbroken wilderness, save two squatter improvements. His church connections embrace both the Protestant and Methodist Episcopal Churches. PROF. JOSEPH HARVEY WYLIE, professor and teacher; Rushsylvania. The history of this important family commences with the removal of William Wylie from Perry Co. to Muskingum in 1823, and where he remained until his death in 1875, in his 77th year. William was married three times; there were two children by his first wife, none by the second, and six by the third. The Rev. Preston H. Wylie, his son, was 704 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. born in April, 1822, in Perry Co., O., and, when something over two years of age, he and his infant brother James were left motherless. He remained in Muskingum Co. until 1842, when he married Mary A. George, who was born in 1820, and who died in February, 1861; he afterwards removed to Northwood, Logan Co., O. His family consisted of two children-Martha Rachel and Jarnes Renwick. Prior to his removal to Northwood, he was engaged in farming and teaching, and at Northwood commenced a course of study preparatory for the ministry; he was licensed as a minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1853, and in 1854 removed to Lake Co., Ind., where he remained until 1860 as Pastor of Lake Eliza Church, in that county. In 1860 he became pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Churches of Rushsylvania and Macedon, the latter being in Mercer Cu.. O. In February, 1861, his wife, whose death we before alluded to, was buried in Northwood cemetery. In 1862 he married Rebecca Adams Hayes, of Greene Co., O. At this time he was a resident of Rushsylvania, and after his marriage he removed to Northwood, where he remained until 1864. In the winters of 1868, '69 and '70, he was a professor in Geneva College at Northwood; in 1876, he resigned his pastoral charge at Rushsylvania, and removed to Macedon, Mercer Co., O., where he at this writing resides. His family are Martha Rachel, born in 1846, and who, graduating at Geneva College, in 1875, left the land of her nativity in the fall of that year, and embarked as a missionary to Latakiyeh, in Syria; William Melancthon, born in 1848, entered Geneva College in 1863, and died in 1867, in his senior (college) year; James Renwick, born November, 1850, entered Geneva College in 1867, and was teacher at the Orphan's Home at Dayton, Pa., during the school year of 1871-2; he entered Geneva. College again and graduated in 1813; he was licensed as a minister in 1876, and made Pastor of three charges in Mercer Co., Pa., in 1877; in December, 1879, he married, at Parnassus, Pa., Miss Nettie Armstrong, of that place; he now resides at Mercer, in Pennsylvania. Thomas Alexander Henderson, born November, 1854, entered Wright's Normal School in 1871, and Geneva College in 1872, and graduated in 1875, and was made Professor of Morning Sun Academy from 1875-6; he was licensed to preach in 1879, and for six months was Pastor at St. Johns, N. B.; in 1880, he was appointed as missionary in a Western work at Burlington, Ia. Prof. Joseph Harvey Wylie, a young man of sterling qualities, was born in Lake Co., Ind., on the 13th day of November, 1858; he entered Geneva College as a preparatory student in 1875, where he remained three years, completing the Sophomore course, when he taught for a year and a half, anti, returning to college in 1879, completed his junior year in 1880, and, upon the resignation of Prof. Galbraith, succeeded to the Superintendency of the Public Schools of Rushsylvania. John Henry is the only child of the last marriage, and was born in 1864, and is the only member of this intellectual family remaining; at home. 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