MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 875 activity in New York, he renounced that party. He was a merchant in New York City until 1868 when he came west and located in Madison county, settling near Plain City on a farm, and in this county he lived the rest of his life. Mr. Flannagan was a representative Irish gentleman and in many ways a remarkable man. He had a fine education, which was rare for the Irishmen of his time. The latter part of his life was spent near London, during part of which time he lived in Clark county. He died in London. He and his wife were the parents of six children, five of whom are living. His wife died on August 10, 1894, at the age of eighty. Mrs. Durflinger, the widow of Judge Durflinger, is prominent in .the literary and social circles of her home city. She has been a prominent member. of the Woman's Relief Corps for thirty years and is one of the leading. spirits in the High Street Club and the Women's Federation. It would seem that this cultured woman is, in a way, continuing the life work of her husband and no, doubt she still feels the uplifting influence of his strong personality. Returning to the organizations with which the judge was actively affiliated, perhaps the one closest to his heart was the Grand Army of the Republic, he being a member of Lyon Post No. 121. Next in importance was the college fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, membership in which is a distinct honor, as it indicates a high degree of scholarship. The esteem in which he was held by his fellow citizens may be partially indicated by the fact that for twenty-five years Judge Durflinger was on the board of .county school examiners. He was also a member of Chandler Lodge No. 138, Free and Accepted Masons. Judge Durflinger was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died in April, 1913. Judge Durflinger was a man of many estimable qualities, one of the most prominent of which was his hospitality. He was unusually fond of people, and was never so 'happy as when surrounded by his friends and loved ones the home of the judge and his charming wife became a real social center, rad ing joy and good cheer to all who came within its beneficent influence. Judge Durflinger was the type or man who, by sheer force of character, inspired confidence and respect. Such .are never wanting in public honor, and his section of the state showered. upon him nearly all of the honors which it had to give. Nor was its trust betrayed. This distinguished man discharged every public duty with fidelity and courage, and lived. the life of a private citizen with that integrity which endears a man not only to those who know and love him but to the whole community affected by his life. JAMES T. AND MARY ANN (HARRINGTON) BLACK. The Black family, of Madison county, Ohio, came to America about the time Washington was first inaugurated President and settled in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. The late James T. Black, one of Madison county's noted citizens, was of this family. He was the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Ozborne) Black. His father was but one year old when his parents came to this country and was of Covenanter ancestry, his family being of the early, hardy Scottish Covenanters who crossed over from Scotland into North Ireland and helped to make up the Presbyterian community of Ulster. Daniel Black and family came, at an early date, from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled in Madison county. Hon. James Thomas Black, named for two paternal uncles, was born on August 28, 1831, in Huntingdon county. Pennsylvania, and died at Plain City, Ohio, March 6, 1913. In early life he came with his father's family to Ohio, where they located on a farm just east of Plain City. In 1863 Mr. Black removed to Plain City where he 876 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. became one of the most progressive citizens. His efforts in building up his home community and surrounding country made for the betterment of the entire county. He was a worker for good roads, one of his last acts being the signing a petition for a macadamized road past the old home farm, an earnest advocate of efficient drainage and ditching, an ardent believer in good streets and sidewalks, and ever presented the beautifying and refining influence of shade trees upon the folks who lived in their neighborhood. An amusing incident is recalled in connection with his interest in shade trees. The town council had by ordinance made the planting of shade trees compulsory. Once when he and a fellow member of the council were superintending the placing of trees along a certain sidewalk, an irate lady, the owner of the abutting property appeared with a kettle of boiling water and threatened to scald the last man of them.. Mr. Black was almost continuously giving his time, means and talents as village, township and school district officer, but was once defeated as a member of the board of education because he advocated a more than four-room school building, the majority saying that four rooms could never be filled, whereas in twenty years the development justified his foresight in that the schools were filling a twelve-room building. He was a member of the General Assembly of Ohio, having conferred upon him the rare compliment of being elected as a Democrat from a Republican county, and here as elsewhere he was a valuable public servant, being greatly interested in whatever touched the farming element and being a foremost champion in preserving the canal systems of the state from spoilers and grabbers for the time when these rights-of-way will be expanded into noble water courses for carrying all kinds of heavy and nonperishable freight, to the great saving to the people. Mr. Blace was—in early life a farmer, but ill health forbade his following this occupation. After coming to Plain City he became a successful merchant in the hardware and furniture business, but he always also conducted operations on the farm. In these pursuits he acquired a modest competency, besides giving all his childred college educations. He himself was a finely educated man, having attended Pine Grove and Juniata Academies, then as now, leading Presbyterian institutions of learning in western Pennsylvania. For a time he taught school but he preferred a more active, out-door life. He was a very popular man, had a pleasant word to everyone, was generous to a fault, and kindly in his home. No worthy person was ever turned from his door; he never counted charity. Mr. Black held membership in Urania Lodge No. 311, Free and Accepted Masons; Adoniram Chapter. Royal Arch Masons; London Council, Royal and Select Masters and Mt. Vernon Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, at Columbus, Ohio. He was for many terms worshipful master of his lodge. He was the founder of Avery Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Hilliards, Ohio, and by request became its first worshipful master. James T. Black was united in marriage on January 6, 1857, with Mary Ann Harrington, daughter of Alvin and Elizabeth (Beach) Harrington. Mary Ann Harrington was born on April 2, 1834, near Amity, Madison county, Ohio, lived practically her entire lifetime within the borders of her native county, and departed this life on December 15, 1912, at Plain City. Mrs. Black's father, descended from Revolutionary War stock, came from Vermont, a Yankee school teacher, to the then wilds of Ohio, settling in Madison county. Her mother's people came to Madison county but little later than 1800. Some of them were refugees from the Canadian colonies, having been exiled and their property confiscated by the British government on account of their sympathies being with the southern colonies in their struggle with the mother country. These, together with those in the New England colonies, were in the Revolutionary War. MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 877 Mrs. Black's people were active in community upbuilding. Her grandfather operated mills and factories at Amity. She had two uncles who were members of the General Assembly of Ohio and a brother, one of the great lawyers of the South, who was speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives, and at the time of his death at the early age of thirty-nine years was commissioner from his state to the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. Mrs. Black attended Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio. She was one of Madison county's early school teachers. A notable happening was that in one district fathers and mothers came to school to her father, their children to her, and their grandchildren to her son. She was of a wonderfully cheery disposition, always looking on the bright side of things and was one of her county's most intellectual women. She was a brilliant writer, often contributing to home and foreign papers and frequently being called upon to prepare addresses for church and school. She was a lifelong, devout and active member of the Methodist Episcopal church and an earnest and intelligent worker in all its departments. She served as corresponding secretary of her church's branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society from the time of its founding until her death, a period of over thirty-five years. She enjoyed the friendship and esteem of Ohio's leading Methodist women. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Black were Howard C., a graduate of the University of Wooster and a law practitioner; Lizzie, graduated from Shepardson College of Denison University. now deceased, who was married to Judson L. Philips, also a graduate of Denison University ; Jennie, who attended Ohio 'Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and who now resides in Plain City, and Olive, who was graduated -from the Plain City high school, a member of its first class, attended Ohio Wesleyan University, was married to J. F. Feather, who was a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and who died in August, 1910. To Mr. and Mrs. Feather was born a daughter, Elizabeth. who graduated with high honors from the Plain City high school and is now a student at Ohio Wesleyan University. The two daughters, Lizzie and Olive, were organists in the Plain City Methodist Episcopal church almost continuously for a period of over forty years. PAYTON RANDOLPH EMERY. For many years the name Emery has been indissolubly associated with the best life of Madison county. Benjamin Emery, a substantial farmer of this county, served the public very acceptably for two terms as sheriff of Madison county and later served with equal acceptance two terms as county treasurer. His son, P. R. Emery, one of the best-known lawyers in central Ohio, junior member of the distinguished firm of Murray & Emery, attorneys, at London, the county seat of Madison county, served his country as a lieutenant in one of the regiments which Ohio sent out during the Spanish-American War and from the time of his entrance at the bar of the Madison circuit court took a position at that bar which grew in strength as he grew in favor with the people until now that position is recognized as firmly fixed, Mr. Emery occupying a station in legal circles throughout this section of the state which might well be envied by many lawyers of much more than his years. Payton Randolph Emery was born on a farm in Range township, Madison county, Ohio. on September 1, 1867, son of Benjamin and Caroline (Chrisman) Emery, the former a Virginian and the latter a native of Range township, member of one of the best-known pioneer families of that section of Madison county. Benjamin Emery was a farmer until the time of his election, in 1890, to the office of sheriff of Madison county, at Which time he moved to London, the county seat, which ever since has been 878 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. his home, he and his wife still living there in quiet and comfortable retirement, their home the scene of much genial hospitality, for they have a very large circle of friends, all of whom hold them in the highest regard. Following his service as sheriff, Benjamin Emery was elected, in 1894, to the office of county treasurer and served so faithfully in that important position that he was re-elected for another term. He is a Republican and for many years has been regarded as one of the leaders of that party in this county, a man of much influence in public affairs. To Benjamin and Caroline (Chrisman) Emery seven children have been born, all of whom are still living, namely : Payton Randolph, the immediate subject of this sketch ; Annette, who married Edward F. Baird, of South Charlestown, Ohio ; Frances, who married Walter Converse, of London, this county ; Louise, who married Calvin Davidson, of Columbus, Ohio ; Angus, who resides at Lincoln; Nebraska ; Maud, who married Angus Bonner, of London, this county, and Richard, who also lives in London. Reared on the paternal farm in Range township, P. R. Emery received his elementary education in the district schools of his neighborhood after which he entered the high school at London, from which he was graduated in 1888. He then entered Ohio State University, from the law school of which fine old institution he was graduated in June, of 1893. Returning to London he was admitted to the bar of the Madison county court immediately thereafter and entered upon the practice of his chosen profession, as a partner of Judge S. W. Durflinger. This partnership was maintained until January, 1904, at which time Mr. Emery formed a partnership with Michael S. Murray, one of the best-known lawyers in this part of the state, which mutually agreeable and profitable partnership has been continued to this time, this firm having a. wide practice in the courts of this section. On May 9, 1907, Payton Randolph Emery was united in marriage to Anna Gould, of London, this county, daughter of E. J. Gould, and to this union two children have been born, Georgiana and Theodore Kellogg. Mr. and Mrs. Emery are members of the Methodist church and take an active part in the various beneficences of that church, their efforts in behalf of all good things in this community being well directed. They also are prominent in the social affairs of the county seat and are held in high esteem by their large circle of acquaintances, their engaging qualities firmly cementing many close ties of friendship. P. R. Emery is a Republican and takes an active part in the political affairs of the county, being looked upon as one of the leaders, of his party hereabout. During the Spanish-American War he enlisted in the United States volunteer army and saw service in that brief but conclusive struggle as a lieutenant of Company E. Third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and is now one. of the most active workers in the ranks of the Spanish-American War Veterans. He is a Mason of high degree, past master of Chandler lodge, at London, and a Knight Templar. He also is a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge at London and in these several organizations takes an active and influential part. Mr. Emery also gives considerable attention to the business and financial affairs of his home city and is a director of ,the Madison National Bank, of London. Active, energetic, enterprising and. public spirited, P: R. Emery is doing well his part in the social, moral and professional life of his home county. A profound student of the law, he has brought to his professional services both intellectual vigor and moral courage and in consequence has attained a high place in legal circles in this section of the state, having gained the entire confidence of bench and bar alike. Affable and courteous in his intercourse with his fellow men, he has a very large following of personal friends hereabout and no one in the county possesses in greater measure the confidence and esteem of the entire community. MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 879 FRANK GALLAGHER Frank Gallagher, who was a well-known farmer in Oak Run township, where he owned about four hundred acres of land (a part of which extends over into Union township), is now living retired in London. He is the eldest of five living brothers, the children of John L. and Anna (Dean) Gallagher, both of whom were natives of County Sligo, Ireland. John L. Gallagher's brother, Frank, also came to America. 'AS a boy, John L. worked in the harvest fields of England, cutting the grain with a sickle. After coming to America he sent for his brother, Frank, .and sister, Bridget. After they had arrived the three sent for the remainder of the family, including their parents, Patrick Gallagher and wife. The father died at Newport. Kentucky, at the age of nearly one hundred years. His Wife died in Madison county. Frank Gallagher, the brother, died in London in the early seventies. He operated a boarding-house on the present site of the. Enterprise office. At his death he left nine children, one of whom, Daniel, still lives in London. After landing at New Orleans in 1848, the late John L. Gallagher came on to Cincinnati, Ohio, where, about 1855, he met the young woman who was later to be his wife. Anna Dean had come to America about 1850. They' were Married; at South Charleston, Ohio, and after their marriage settled in Stokes township. In 1867, they removed to Paint township, Madison county, and there they cleared a farm. John I,. Gallagher had had but one shilling when he landed in New Orleans. Before settling in Madison county he had worked on a steamboat on the Mississippi river and on the railroad which was then being built out of Cincinnati. After spending seven years in clearing a tract of land in Madison county, he spent five' years on a similar tract which was leased. He had purchased land in Paint township at fifty dollars per acre, and this was one of the best improved farms of the time. He there owned one hundred and fifty-three acres, to which he added until he owned seven farm in Paint and Union townships, comprising eight hundred and fifty-six acres. He paid fifty dollars an acre for most of the land, but as low as forty-three dollars an acre for some of it. In addition to farming his own land, he also rented land and, with the able assistance of his sturdy sons, was able to save a great deal of money. He became one of the largest farmers and cattle feeders in the township. His idea, ultimately, was to get one hundred acres of land for each of his children. Before his death he divided his farm by deeds, equalizing the distribution as near as possible. If 0136 of his children received more land than another, the Second. would receive the better land. The youngest daughter received the old home place, and now lives on it. The other Children still have the home's given to them by their parents, but some of them do' not live on their farms. Each has kept the land received from his or her parents, and expects to hold it indefinitely. During the last two years of John L. Gallagher's life he lived retired in London. He died on March 25; 1911, and his wife died the next year, January 23, 1912. Although he always kept high grade stock, John L. Gallagher did not especially place any great emphasis on the necessity of keeping purebred stock. He never held office in his life, and in politics was not a partisan in any sense of the word. He always cast his vote for the man he believed to be best fitted for office. The Gallagher school was located near his home and he was director of this school for some time.. One son, Peter, is a college bred man. He is a resident of London. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Gallagher had twelve children, of whom William died at the age of twenty-four, and Edward died at the age of thirty, April 28, 1911. The living children are as follow Frank: Anna, who married Jerry Deneen, of Springfield ; John 880 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. P., a retired farmer, living in London; Mary, who married John Murray, a grain and lumber dealer of West Jefferson; Peter A., of London; Catherine, who married William A. Dunn, a retired farmer of London; Margaret, who married Thomas Moore, now living .retired in Columbus; James F., of the Thomas-Armstrong Company, of London; Thomas A., a merchant of London; Ella, who married Thomas Enright and who lives on the old home farm. From 1867 until the time of their death, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Gallagher were identified with St. Patrick's Catholic church. The remains of all the deceased members of the family are interred in the St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery at London. Born in Stokes township, near Charleston, April 1, 1857, Frank Gallagher lived at home until twenty-four years old, when he began life with a team of horses and his household goods. Mr. Gallagher was married at the age of twenty-four to Mary Hearley, who was reared in Stokes township, daughter of Patrick and Catherine Hearley. Until 1888 Mr. Gallagher rented one of his father's farms. In that year he removed to West Jefferson, where he engaged in the lumber, grain and coal business for two years. Later John Murray became a partner, and the arrangement continued until 1902. In the meantime, Mr. Gallagher had operated a yard at London in 1885. In 1902 Mr. Gallagher took charge of the London yard and Mr. Murray the West Jefferson yard. Mr. Gallagher continued in business until 1912, when he sold out to the present proprietor, and retired. Altogether, he had twenty-four years' experience in the grain business. He received eighty-six acres of the old home place, to which he has added until he now owns about four hundred acres, comprising three farms. He is a stockholder in the Peoples Commercial Bank and also in the Exchange Bank of London. Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher have had five children, as follow: Anna married P. J. Kirwin, of London; Catherine is the wife of John J. Mooney, who lives on the Oak Run township farm; Robert L. lives at home; Chester Augustine is operating one of the farms and lives at home, and Florence, who also lives with her parents in London. Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher are members of the Catholic church. Mr. Gallagher is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Order of Foresters. CHARLES C. CRABBE. It would be impossible to estimate the far reaching influence of the Crabbe family in Madison and adjoining counties. Of the thirteen children of John and Ellen (Min-shall) Crabbe, of Fairfield township, eleven of whom are still living (two dying in infancy), all became teachers save one, some of these following the profession for years. During this time hundreds of the youth of this community came under their excellent ministrations, with consequences for good which no man dare attempt to estimate, for the work of the conscientious teacher does not end when the actual physical labors of such a term of service are ended, but goes on and on, its beneficent influence being extended to remote generations of those who shall follow them. Neither John Crabbe nor his wife were favored by educational advantages in their youth, but they entertained the highest possible respect for education and all it means, believing in the statement of Holy Writ that "Wisdom maketh the face to shine." All their children were given such educational advantages as were possible of attainment in their neighborhood and, as noted above, of their eleven children all became teachers save one and several of these are still faithfully engaged in their noble work, there being no more devoted members of Madison county's noble band of teachers than they. Charles C. Crabbe, present prosecuting attorney of Madison county. was born on a farm in Range township, this county, on November 1, 1878, son of John and Ellen (Minshall) Crabbe, both of whom also were born in this county, members of pioneer families. John Crabbe, who died on April 13, 1909, was one of the best-known men MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 881 in his section of the county. For many years he was active in the civic affairs of Fairfield township and held several positions of public trust and responsibility, it being undoubted that his sound judgment and sober common sense had a large influence in the way of creating better conditions thereabouts. His widow is still living and enjoys many and constant evidences of the high esteem in which she is held by all who know her. She is the mother of thirteen children, eleven of whom are still living, as follow : George W., former county clerk of Madison county, who is now the state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of West Virginia ; Madie, wife of T. H. Wheeler, of West Mansfield, Ohio ; Charles C., the immediate subject of this sketch ; J. C., a well-known farmer of this county ; J. B., superintendent of schools of Laramie, Wyoming ; Fred L., a teacher and lawyer, of Mount Sterling, Ohio ; Goldie, wife of W. C. Horton, of London, this county; Harvey, a teacher in the schools of Williamsport, Ohio; Frances, a teacher in the common schools near Mount Sterling; Fay, a teacher in the schools of Big Plain, and Earl, a teacher in the public schools of Pickaway county, this state. Charles C. Crabbe was reared in Fairfield township, to which his parents moved when he was one year old. He received his elementary education in the district schools of his home neighborhood, the same being constantly supplemented by home training of the highest character. For seven years he taught in the common schools of this county and then took a course in the Ohio Northern College at Ada. During his long term of service as a teacher, Mr. Crabbe had been a close and attentive student of the law, and upon the completion of his law course at the college at Ada, he came to London, and in 1904 began the practice of law in that place. He formed a partnership with Hartford Welch, and for six years the firm of Welch & Crabbe was maintained, in that time becoming one of the best known law firms in London. On January 1, 1911, Mr. Crabbe formed a new partnership with E. W. Johnson, under the name of Crabbe & Johnson, and still continues under that name. In the campaign of 1912 Mr. Crabbe was nominated by the Republican party as it§ candidate for prosecuting attorney of Madison county. He was successful in the ensuing election and so satisfactory did his services to the public prove that he was renominated and re-elected in the fall of 1914 and is now serving his second term. During his incumbency of this important office Mr. Crabbe has been active in prosecuting offenders, and he has made a most excellent record. The firm of which he is the head has an extensive civil practice and is held in the very highest repute throughout this section of the state, its practice extending far beyond the borders of this county. On September 22, 1904, Charles C. Crabbe was united in marriage to Isa Roth, member of an old family in Range township, and to this union one son has been torn. Roth. Mr. and Mrs. Crabbe are active and earnest members of the Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Crabbe long has been one of the trustees. He is assistant superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday school and is recognized as one of the most earnest, active and influential church workers in his home city. He and his wife are also devoted to other good works in this community and are diligent in their efforts to promote the best interests of the commonwealth in every way. As intimated above, Mr. Crabbe is a Republican and is looked upon as one of the leaders of the party in Madison county, his influence in local politics ever being exerted in behalf of good government. He also takes an earnest interest in the general affairs of the city of London, and is an active and influential member of the London Board of Trade and of the London Club. He also is a Mason and is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and of the Modern Woodmen, to all of which organizations he gives his close (56) 882 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO personal attention. As a lawyer Mr. Crabbe stands high at the bars of his home and neighboring counties, and enjoys the full confidence and respect of bench and bar alike. As a public-spirited, enterprising and energetic citizen, he is recognized as a strong force for good in the community, and is held in high regard by all within the very large circle of his acquaintance. PROF. ORRIS E. DUFF. With a record of nearly a quarter' of a century spent as an instructor of the youth of this county behind him, there are few men in Madison county better known than Prof. Orris E. Duff, who held for some time the important and responsible position of tax commissioner for this county. During his long service as a teacher in the public schools, Professor Duff made many warm and firm friends in this county and no one in this entire section is held in higher esteem on the part of the people generally than he. This was amply demonstrated at the time of his memorable race for Congress in 1908 against the veteran congressman, Gen. Warren J. Keifer. In that year Professor Duff was the nominee of the Democrats for Congress from this district—then the seventh Ohio congressional district, and overwhelmingly Republican—and he made so vigorous a campaign that, despite the numerical party odds against him and the long service and popularity of his opponent, he succeeded in cutting the normal Republican majority in half. Orris E. Duff was born in Fayette county, Ohio, on March 24, 1871, the only son of William M. and Eliza J. (Creamer) Duff, both natives of the same county. who moved to this county when the subject of this sketch was a mere lad, settling on a farm in Stokes township, where they lived until about 1900, at which time they retired from the farm and moved to South Solon, this county, where the mother is now living at a ripe old age, the father having died on May 10, 1915. William M. Duff was born on December 25, 1840, and his wife on April 30, 1843. William M. Duff was a of exceptionally vigorous physical constitution and strength of intellect and always took an active stand for the right on all moral issues. To him and his wife there were born but two children, Professor Duff having a sister, Tella, who married W. L. Drury. living near Newport, in this county. Reared on the farm, Orris E. Duff received his elementary education in the district schools and in the Stokes township high school, upon completing which course he entered Ohio Normal University at Ada, later attending Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio, and Lima College, from the latter of which excellent old institutions of learning he was graduated with the class of 1908. In the meanwhile he had been teaching in the public schools of this county and had taught for two years in Greene county and for one year in Pickaway county. Upon leaving college, he resumed his teaching service, which he followed, all told, for twenty-two years. In 1913 Professor Duff was appointed tax commissioner for this county and served in that important public capacity until April 1, 1915. In November, 1894, Prof. Orris. E. Duff was united in marriage to Lora L. Gossard, who was born at Grassy Point, this county, on March 7, 1871, daughter of Robert and Barbara (Huffman) Gossard, prominent residents of that section, and to this union two sons have been born, William Robert, born on August 20, 1896, who died on January 10, 1914, and Edwin Brooks, September 4, 1899, who is now a student in the London high school. Professor and Mrs. Duff are members of the Methodist church at London, the professor holding the position of clerk of the official board of that church for some time, and they are looked upon as among the most earnest leaders in all movements having as their object the advancement of the best interests of the community, being held in the very highest esteem in their large circle of friends and acquaintances. MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 883 Professor Duff is a Democrat and his prominence in the party is indicated in the reference in a preceding paragraph to the fact that he was his party's nominee for Congress in 1908. His prominence in educational affairs is attested by the active part he takes in the deliberations of the Ohio State Teachers' Association, the Western Ohio Superintendents' Round Table and the Central Ohio Teachers' Association, of which bodies he is an influential member. He is a member of the popular London Club and is a Mason, a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the Modern Woodmen of America. In his long service as a teacher and in all his relations in life, Professor Duff has given of the best of himself to the advancement of the public welfare and is very properly looked upon as one of the leading citizens of this county, his influence ever being exerted on behalf of those things that are true and of good report; and he has ever been a true friend to young people; in consequence of which he has well earned the confidence and the respect of all classes throughout this entire section of the state. WILLIAM MORROW BEACH, M. D. Success in what is popularly termed the learned professions is the legitimate result of merit and painstaking endeavor. In commercial life one may come into possession of a lucrative business through inheritance or thrift, but professional advancement is gained only by critical study and consecutive research long continued. Proper intellectual discipline, thorough professional knowledge and the possession and use of qualities essential to success. made the late Dr. William Morrow Beach one of he eminent physicians of Madison county. Ohio. At the time of his death, he stood among the scholarly and enterprising physicians in this section of Ohio. He was descended from a long line of distinguished ancestry. and he, himself, a surgeon in the Union army during the Civil War, gave his best efforts in behalf of preserving the integrity of the American Union. William Morrow Beach, was born in Amity, Madison county, Ohio, May 10, 1831, the son of Uri and Hannah (Noble) Beach. Dr. William Morrow Beach died, May 5, 1887, at the age of fifty-six years. The Beach family has enjoyed a long and interesting history in the annals of this country and dates back to colonial times. Uri Beach was born on December 7. 1789, at New Haven. Vermont. He moved to. Worthington, Ohio, in 1812, and two years later removed to Darby township, Madison county, bringing with him apple seeds from Marietta, Ohio, which he planted here, becoming the first nurseryman of the county. In 1820 he built a saw-mill, and, five years later, a woolen-factory near the saw-mill in Canaan township. He was married on September 1, 1816, two years after removing to Madison county, to Hannah Noble, who was born on September 11. 1789, and who died at Amity, in Madison county, in 1854. Uri Beach died at Amity. a village of which he was one of the proprietors. January 11, 1832, at the age of forty-three years. Uri Beach was the son of Obel and Elizabeth (Kilbourne) Beach, the former of whom was born at Goshen, Connecticut. in 1758. He served in the Revolutionary army for three years and witnessed the surrender of Burgoyne. Two years after his discharge from the Revolutionary army. in 1780, Obel Beach removed to Poultney. Vermont, and, in 1788, to New Haven. Vermont. and in 1817, he removed to Darby township, Madison county. Ohio. where his sons, Uri, Lorenzo. Ambrose and Amos had preceded him. His wife, Elizabeth Kilbourne. was born in .1765, and died in Canaan township, Madison county, Ohio, in 1826. Obel Beach died at the home of his son, Dr. Lorenzo Beach. at Pleasant Valley, Madison county, in 1846. Six of his brothers were in the Revolutionary army. Ambrose died in the hospital at Crown Point, Vermont, and Abraham died at Milford. Connecticut, on his return home from a prison 884 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. ship stationed at Long Island Sound. Obel Beach was the son of Amos Beach, who died about the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Amos was the son of John Beach, Jr., familiarly known as "Deacon Beach," who died at Goshen, Connecticut, in 1773, after reaching the age of eighty-three years. John Beach, Jr. was the son of John Beach, Sr., who died at Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1709. John Beach, Sr. was the son of Thomas Beach, who died at Milford, Connecticut, in 1662. Thomas Beach was one of three brothers, the others being Richard and John, who signed the New Haven, Connecticut, Covenant in 1638. Hannah (Noble) Beach, the wife of Uri Beach, was the daughter of Rev. Seth Noble, who served for a time in the Revolutionary War, and who, in 1806, came to Ohio and took up the ministry at Franklinton, now Columbus, where he died in 1807. The Rev. Seth Noble was the son of Thomas Noble, who died at Westfield, Massachusetts, at the age of seventy-eight years. Thomas was the son of Deacon Thomas Noble, of West field, Massachusetts, who died there in 1750, at the age of eighty-four. He was the son of Thomas Noble, of Boston. William Morrow Beach was only five months old when his father died. He was educated in the district schools of Madison county, and later clerked in a store at Dublin, Plain City and Amity.. He spent one year at Ohio Wesleyan University, although his education did not end there for he was a close and earnest student all his life. In 1851 he entered the office of Dr. Samuel M. Smith, of Columbus, Ohio, as a student of medicine, and the same winter attended a course of lectures at the Starling Medical School, graduating with the class of 1853. Until 1855, he practiced his profession at Unionville Center, Ohio, and then removed to Lafayette. Madison county. During the winter of 1857-58, he was located in New York City, where he was a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He returned to Lafayette, however, and remained there until the beginning of the Civil War. On April 3, 1862, Dr. William Morrow Beach responded to a call from Governor David Tod for one hundred surgeons and immediately left for the front, arriving at Shiloh just after the battle. He was assigned to duty with the Twentieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and later, May 2, 1862, with the Seventy-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as assistant surgeon. He was commissioned surgeon of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, on May 19, 1864. During his three-year service he was frequently on detached duty, the character of which indicated his standing in the army. In the Vicksburg campaign he was the hospital director of Gen. John A. Logan's division, and, after the surrender, was placed in charge of all the Confederate sick and wounded. At the close of the war he was division hospital director of the Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps; also one of the surgeons constituting the division operating board. He was an intimate friend to many officers in the Union army, including Col. M. D. Ligget, with whose command he was detailed for about two years. He was at Port Gibson, Jackson, Champion's Hill, Vicksburg, and with Frank P. Blair on the Yazoo raid. He was also with Sherman on the Meridian raid, and served under Gen. Lew Wallace, Grant, Sherman and McPherson. During his service, he traveled more than nine thousand miles. Upon the close of the Civil War, Doctor Beach settled on the farm but continued his practice until his death. In the meantime his practice grew amazingly. On June 12, 1860, Dr. William Morrow Beach was married to Lucy E. Wilson, the daughter of James and Eleanor (Smith) Wilson, who was born on March 28, 1844, and who has lived all her life in the vicinity of London, Ohio. She comes from the hardy, pioneer farmers of Madison county, who were far-seeing enough to acquire much of the fertile lands of this county, and from whom she inherits her taste and MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 885 love for the farm, and farming. Mrs. Beach owns and successfully manages "The Cedars," which farm now contains eleven hundred and forty acres. The home was built in 1903, on the site of the old home and a part of the old house was incorporated in the new. Besides "The Cedars," Mrs. Beach has other farm lands, amounting in all to about eight hundred acres located south of London. She was educated at Esther Institute, Columbus, Ohio, which had upon its rolls many of the social leaders of the city .and state. She was also a student at the old Methodist Female Seminary at Springfield, Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Beach. had one daughter, Mary (now Mrs. Bedwell) , who is a graduate of Rutgers Female College, where she finished the course in 1882. She was the valedictorian of her class. In 1869, Dr. William Morrow Beach was elected as a Republican to the state Legislature and in 1871, was elected to the Ohio state Senate, where he served with distinction and where he was instrumental in framing much of the important legislation during his term of office. As a physician. Doctor Beach was industrious and conscientious. A sense of duty always prompted him to give his time and best thought to his patrons to a degree rarely seen in the profession. No summons to the home of the poor was ever neglected for fear there would be no compensation. He was an honored member of the medical societies to which he belonged; was the first president of the Ohio Sanitary Association and president of the State Medical Society in 1885. He served in this capacity for the County and District Medical Societies and was a prominent member of the American Medical Association, before which he read a paper on the subject of "milk sickness" which excited great interest in the profession, being copied in medical journals in Europe as well as in America, and which was purchased for the Reference Hand Book of Medical Science in 1886. Fraternally, he was a member of the Masonic lodge; of the Grand Army of the Republic and also the Society of the Army of the Tennessee. Doctor Beach was fond of agriculture and devoted to landscape gardening as well as his profession. He was fond of classical literature and read only the best books. He was the editor of the medical department of the old history of Madison county, and in his later years, being possessed of rare conversational power, was a delightful entertainer. He possessed social qualities of high order. Mrs. Lucy Beach is one of the ablest women in Madison county. She has added to the Beach estate since her husband's death by successful farming and careful management. In 1895, when Ohio women were for the first time voted for as members of school boards, she was elected a member of the board of education of Deer Creek township, and was twice re-elected, serving in that capacity for sixteen years and was president of the board for six years. She was active as a member of the Woman's Club of London for fourteen years and has served as its president. As a member of the executive board of the Farmers' Institute she was for several years a valued helper in contributing to the success of the Institute. She is a member of the county board of visitors for the charity and corrective institutions, and an enthusiastic member of the Woman's Elective Franchise Association, having been one of its charter members and for three years its president. She was a state delegate to the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which was held in June, 1905, in Portland, Oregon. Ten years previously, in 1895, she was honored by William McKinley, then governor of the state, by an appointment as delegate to the Atlanta, Georgia, Exposition, at which time she also represented the Woman's Club of London as delegate to the convention of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs. "The Cedars," where Mrs. Beach now resides in her beautiful country home, extends 886 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. three miles along the National road. Hogs, cattle and horses are raised in great numbers on the farm, the labor alone costing twenty-five hundred dollars a year. At "The Cedars." Mrs. Beach has extended her most genial and generous hospitality to her friends and the members of the various clubs with which she had been identified. She is a woman of rare business ability and social charm and has proved, as one interested in public affairs, a successful business manager, an efficient home keeper and a hospitable hostess. She is perhaps the best-known woman in all Madison county. PIERCE M. GREGG. Son of one of the most substantial and energetic men in the history of Madison county, Pierce M. Gregg, county commissioner of this county, president of the Commercial Bank of West Jefferson, and owner of two of the best farms in the county, has profited largely by the fine inheritance of energy, enterprise and industry which came to him from his father and is regarded as one of the most substantial and influential men in Madison county today. In both his private and his public relations with his fellow men, Mr. Gregg gives the best service at his command and his influence in many ways has been helpful, not only in the community in which he lives, but throughout the county at large and no one hereabout is held in higher esteem than he. Pierce M. Gregg was born on a farm, which he now owns, in Jefferson township, Madison county, Ohio southwest of West Jefferson, on March 5, 1860, son of Ashton A. and Mary (Pierce) Gregg, prominent residents of that section of the county, the former of whom was a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of whom was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Ashton A. Gregg was twelve years of age when his mother brought him and his two brothers from Pennsylvania to Madison county, his father but shortly before that time having died in Pennsylvania. This pioneer mother, with her sons, rode all the way here. on horseback, their small possessions being brought in packs strapped on behind. Upon arriving in this county, Mrs. Gregg bought three hundred and thirty-three and one-third acres of land in Jefferson township, and there she spent the remainder of her life, becoming known as one of the most useful persons in that section of the county. As her sons grew to manhood she .divided her land holdings among them, giving to each one hundred acres, reserving for herself only the small plot surrounding the home she had erected in the wilderness. On the three farms thus created these three brothers settled and all prospered. Ashton A. Gregg, in particular, by reason of the exercise of great natural talents and his energy and industry, grew in wealth and in the substantial character of his position in the community, gradually increasing his land holdings until presently he was the owner of •two thousand two hundred acres of choice land in that section of the county., He was a progressive farmer and an extensive dealer in live stock and as he prospered largely, so he gave largely, being recognized in his day as one of the most liberal supporters of benevolent institutions and all good works in Madison county. To Ashton A. Gregg's union with Mary Pierce eight children were born, five of whom are still living, John T., of Columbus, Ohio; Arabella, of West Jefferson, this county; Pierce M., the immediate subject of this sketch; T. C., of West Jefferson, and Arkansas, wife of John R. Engle, of West Jefferson. Reared on the home farm, receiving his education in the district schools of that neighborhood, Pierce M. Gregg grew up to the life of the farm and remained on the home place until he was forty years of age, at which time he moved to his present fine home. "Hillside Farm," one and one-half miles southwest of West Jefferson, though MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 887 still retaining the ownership of "Oak Grove Stock Farm" of three hundred and twenty-five acres, on which he formerly lived, .three miles southwest. of. West Jefferson. "Hillside Farm," consisting of seventy-two acres of choice land, is one of . the most attractive small farms in that section of the county and, is an ideal spot. for a home,. Mr. Gregg and his family being very comfortably and pleasantly situated there. In addi tion to his large farming and stock raising. interests, Mr. Gregg has devoted no small share of his attention to other matters of a ,business nature and for some years has been president of the Commercial Bank of West Jefferson, a sound financial institution which owes much of its present secure position in financial circles in this county to the energy and enterprise which Mr. Gregg has brought to the conduct of its affairs. In 1884 Pierce .M. Gregg was united in marriage to Margaret Roberts, who was born in Jefferson township, this county, daughter of Edwin Roberts, a prominent citizen of that township, and to this union seven children have been born, namely: 'Matthew, who married Ethel Roberts and is a well-known farmer of Jefferson township; Ashton, a graduate of the West Jefferson high school and of .Bliss College at Columbus; Earl, a' graduate of the same schools, married Emma Olney and is a farmer in Jefferson 'township; Charles, also a Jefferson township farmer ;. Herbert, a graduate. of the West Jefferson high school, also a farmer; Helen, a graduate of the high school, living at home with her parents, and Lemuel. Mrs. Margaret Gregg died, on October 22, .1903. She was a member of the Methodist church at West Jefferson, of which Mr. Gregg is also a member and one of the trustees of the church, and their children have been reared in that faith, the entire family being devoted to the good works of the community, all being held in the very highest esteem thereabout. Pierce M. Gregg is a Republican and for years has been actively concerned In the county's political affairs. For years he served as land appraiser in Jefferson township and has been a member of the township's board of education for the past twenty-four years, his energetic services in that connection undoubtedly having been productive of great good to the schools of that part of the county. In 1912 he was honored by the people of Madison county by being elected to the important and responsible post of county commissioner and is now faithfully serving the county in that honorable capacity. Enterprising, energetic and public spirited, Mr. Gregg is bringing to his public service the same degree of energy which has made his personal affairs so eminently successful and it is but proper to say that he enjoys the entire confidence and regard of the whole community. EDWARD J. ROBISON Though it has been a quarter of a century since Edward J. Robison passed from he scenes of worldly activity, his memory still is cherished in Madison county and particularly in the city of London, where for years he was one of the county seat's most popular merchants, and it is but fitting that in this history of the county some slight, tribute should be paid to his memory. Edward J. Robison was born in Pickaway county, this state, on September 7, 1850, son of Samuel and Margaret (Fitzgerald) Robison, who moved to this county when their son, the subject of this sketch, was a small boy, and the latter was reared here, receiving his education in the schools of this county, supplementing the same by a course of five years spent at Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware. Upon completing this course he returned home and entered the drug business in London, and was thus engaged until a short time before his death, he having sold his store not long before the final summons came. During. the period of his connection with the mercantile interests of the city he had several different partners, the firm name at 888 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. the time he sold out having been Robison & Riddle. Mr. Robison also had extensive farming interests, operating the same in connection with his brother-in-law, William H. Riddle. On November 20, 1878, Edward J. Robison was united in marriage to "Sallie" K. Riddle, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Warner) Riddle, both of whom were natives of this county, the former born at Mt. Sterling and the latter at London. Elizabeth Warner was a daughter of Henry and Keturah Warner, the former of whom was the son of Joseph Warner, who came to Madison county from Virginia or Maryland in 1802 and was among the real pioneers of the London neighborhood, he having been a man of large influence in the early days of the county seat. Joseph Warner was born in Maryland in 1738 and was a soldier in the patriot army during the Revolutionary War. When one hundred years of age he moved from London to Illinois, where he died in 1842, at the age of one hundred and four. Further details regarding the Warner family in this county are set out in the biographical sketch relating to Henry Warner, presented elsewhere in this volume. To Edward J. and Sarah K. (Riddle) Robison were born three children, namely: Margaret Clifford, who married Warren B. Sisson, of Columbus, Ohio, to which union one child has been born, a son, Warren Robison; Samuel Edward, of Columbus, and Richard Harrison, who married Haysel Jones, youngest daughter of Senator William M. Jones, and lives in London, this county. All are associated with Bruce Tanner in the lumber business at Columbus and London. Edward J. Robison died on April 27, 1891, and was widely mourned throughout this county, for he was a good man and an excellent and public-spirited citizen, who was performing a large work in his community. He was a member of the Methodist church, as is his widow, and their children were reared in that faith. He also was a member of the Masonic fraternity and was very popular among his lodge brethren, all honoring and respecting him for his many fine qualities of head and heart. ORMOND MASTERSON BRYAN. Ormond Masterson Bryan, the eldest son of Marcellus Leroy and Martha (Masterson) Bryan, was born in Columbus, this state, March 15, 1858, and came to London with his parents when but a few months old. Here he grew to strong manhood and lived to be a prominent citizen until called by death, September 7, 1908, aged fifty years and six months. In 1874 he was graduated from the London high school in a class of six. After this he devoted several months to work in the Democrat office, at that time owned and controlled by his father, M. L. Bryan, and then took a year's course of study in the Ohio State University at Columbus. He then returned to London and resumed his work in the Democrat office, where he continued as local editor until his last illness and death. Nine years before this event he formed a partnership with his brother, Chester E. Bryan, and they purchased the newspaper under the firm name of C. E. & O. M. Bryan. The plant was greatly improved and the business enlarged, and the partnership was continued profitably until his demise. After his death, his interest in the business was purchased by his brother, Chester, who has continued as editor and sole proprietor up to this time. Ormond M. Bryan became a member of the fraternal order of Knights of Pythias soon after he reached his majority. A few years afterward he joined the Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities. He was a consistent member of these three organizations and in good standing at the time of his death. Ormond M. Bryan was united in marriage to Almeda Shepherd, daughter of Nathan Shepherd, of Fayette county, March 28, 1889. Nineteen years of marital bliss and MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 889 happiness resulted, when the dread summons came for the separation. Four children were born to this happy home, and the first cloud of sorrow which marred its joy was the death of Omar, the first-born. The early death of this bright and promising youth, cut down at the age of fourteen, was a severe shock to these loving ones, yet has added another link which binds them to the other world. Three children remain: Dana C. Bryan, the proprietor of the London Auto Inn; Ruth and Albert Strain, the last two at home with their mother. THE WILSON FAMILY. From a sketch written by Dr. William Morrow Beach, December 20, 1882, and revised by the Editor of this Volume. Jacob Wilson, the earliest ancestor of the Wilson family in Madison county, Ohio, so far as known, was an Irishman, who had married a German wife. In the year 1790 he left the south branch of the Potomac river in Virginia, not far from Harper's Ferry and emigrated to Kentucky, to what is now the county of Clark. In the year 1802, after having lived twelve years in Kentucky, he came to Ohio and settled on the headwaters of Beaver creek, Bath township, and county of Greene, near the present site of the village of Fairfield. Jacob Wilson was the father of thirteen children .or of twelve, as some of his friends believed. Their names, although probably not in the order of their births, were as follows: Jacob, William, Michael, John, James, Valentine, Jeremiah, Isaac, Daniel, Mary, Eleanor, Elizabeth and Rachel. Some of the friends have .believed that there was not one by the name of Rachel. Jacob Wilson, the first born of Jacob, the first known ancestor, remained in Kentucky until the time of his death, which was at a ripe old age. He became very wealthy. He became the largest holder of slaves in that portion of the state. He enjoyed the uneviable notoriety, also, of being the heaviest man in that part of the state, weighing at one time over four hundred pounds. He and his wife together weighed seven hundred pounds. He became the father of eight children; one of whom, probably, remained in Kentucky. William Wilson died during the War of 1812, at Fairfield, Ohio, of "cold plague" or cerebro-spinal meningitis. He left three children, Susannah, Elizabeth and William. Michael Wilson died in 1813, at Fairfield, Ohio, leaving three children, Washington, Josiah and Michael. Josiah is said to have been the brightest and handsomest man ever born into the Wilson family. He died at an early age. John, Wilson emigrated from Kentucky to Putnam county, Indiana. James Wilson emigrated from Kentucky to Indiana, settling in the vicinity of Wolfe Lake. He became the father of five children. Valentine Wilson, son of Jacob, the first known ancestor, came to Ohio with his father in 1802. He was born near Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, October 1. 1785. and moved to Kentucky with his father in 1790, when five years of age. He was seventeen years old when he came to Ohio, in. 1802. In 1806 he was married to Eleanor Judy of Greene county, Ohio, daughter of John Judy, a Swiss, and Phoebe (Lamaster) Judy, his wife a woman of French parentage. To them were born six children: William D., born on February 27, 1807; James, December 20, 1808; John, October 19, 1810; Eli, July 12. 1812; Matilda, October 12, 1814; Malinda, January 12, 1817. Eleanor (Judy) Wilson died in 1819 and Valentine Wilson was next married to Susan Humble, who was born in Ohio, in 1799. To this marriage was born one son, Washington Wilson, September 7, 1821. On August 18, 1825, Susannah (Humble) Wilson died. On June 18, 1827, Valentine Wilson was married to Nancy Roberts, who became the mother of nine children. 890 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. Caroline M., born on June 28, 1828;. Alexander Hamilton, February 7, 1830; Emeline, September 12, 1831; Mary Ann, October 1, 1832 ; Valentine C., January 19, 1834 ; Margaret, May 5, 1835, who Abed in infancy. on June 3, 1835;- Jacob W., April. 29, 1836; . Daniel Boone, December 4, 1837, and Nancy Frances. October 26, 1840. By the three marriages he became the father of nineteen children, seventeen of whom became heads of families. Margaret died in infancy and Daniel Boone died, unmarried, at the old homestead, April 26, 1860. That Valentine Wilson was a man of no ordinary gifts, both mental and physical, seems to be a fact of general acceptance among those who knew him the most intimately. He was a man of great presence of mind which gift stood hint. in good stead on more than one occasion. Once, when riding after night, he was halted by highwaymen who suspected him of having money in. his possession, and when he completely disarmed by answering in a calm and unruffled tone of voice: "Wells well, boys, you have got me this time; I have twenty-five cents in my pocket, and if you will go back to the tavern with me we will take that out in a treat all round." They then let him pass without a search or further parley, without suspicion of the fact that he had upon his person, in "genuine coin of the realm" more than seven thousand dollars besides his twenty-five cents. He was also an unconscious psychologist. He could divine a man's errands when approaching him, when a long distance off, forming an opinion which was seldom founded in an error, as to whether he was coming to buy, to sell, or to borrow money, and he often robbed a refusal of its poignancy from this latter class by forestalling them with the question if they knew of any of their neighbors who had two hundred or three hundred dollars that they would loan for a few days. He died of dropsy, July 2, 1855, on the farm where he settled in 1816. From the small beginning of one hundred and sixty acres, his first purchase, in the thirty-nine years of his after life he accumulated about seven thousand acres of land besides over sixty thousand dollars in personal property, and died the wealthiest man who- had ever been a citizen of Madison county. Having come to Ohio with his parents in 1802 and settled on the headwaters of Beaver creek, Bath township, Greene county, where he remained until 1816, when he removed to Madison county, Valentine Wilson began his career on the headwaters of Deer Creek by buying one hundred and sixty acres. He added to the tract until he had at the time of his death nearly ten thousand acres of land, a thousand head of cattle and sheep. Nancy (Roberts) Wilson survived her husband more than a half century. After her husband's death, she continued to live for many years on the old homestead on the banks of Deer creek. She was a devoted member of the Christian church, and died at Summerford in 1912. Jeremiah Wilson, another son of Jacob Wilson, remained in Kentucky until the time of his death in 1864. Isaac Wilson came to Ohio with his father in 1802. He remained at Fairfield, Greene county, Ohio, until his death in the spring of 1859. He was a short, heavy, very fleshy man who, in walking, stepped out a little more than the length of his feet. Mary Wilson married Daniel Funderburg, of Greene county, Ohio, but died early in life. Eleanor Wilson married John Bradley, of Greene county, Ohio, but subsequently came to Madison county and both lived and died one mile north of Summerford, where Washington Wilson later lived. Elizabeth Wilson married Charles Heffley, of Greene county, Ohio, but afterward came to Madison county, and settled near Summerford, where both died advanced in years. MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 891 No information is available about Daniel and Rachel except what has already been stated. William D. Wilson, the "land baron" of Madison county, was the first born of Valentine and Eleanor (Judy) Wilson. He was born in Bath township, Greene county, Ohio, February 27, 1807, and died of erysipelas at his homestead on the Darby Plains, March 25, 1873. In 1829 he married saucy Moore, of Madison county, Ohio, who died at the old homestead in September, 1882. Her father was killed by the Indians in the War, of 1812. By this marriage there were born to them eight children: Alexander, Ellen, James Monroe, Lafayette, William M., Sarah, Washington and Taylor. William D. Wilson was no ordinary man. Those who knew him intimately and well related that in many respects he was the most remarkable man they ever knew. There is no photograph or other likeness of William D. Wilson left, while living. There was a post-mortem photograph taken, but it is not a true likeness. He stood six feet in his boots. He was straight and with well-rounded and comely proportions, up until late in life, when he inclined to corpulency. His hands and feet were, small and short; his hair dark brown, thick and oily; his head large—number seven and one-half hat—well rounded, and well balanced phrenologically; his complexion clear, and slightly florid; his lower jaw strongly set; his teeth short, even, pearly white, and without signs of decay up until the time of his death. His face was full, and his cheeks full, round and solid, like Bob Ingersoll's. There was an irresistible charm in his full, round, Saxon face—the honest inheritance from his Saxon grandmother. If one was, at first sight, when his face was severely in repose, impressed with the idea that he was somewhat gross and sensual, the varied expression of his wonderful eye, when he became animated, soon set that illusion aside. He was a good and entertaining talker, with an inclination to ask more questions than he was called on to answer. If you were not on your guard, he would cautiously and quietly pump you dry, without giving back an equivalent, unless it was in the pleasure of his company. In conversation, his voice was agreeable and pleasing, but when it was raised to a high pitch, one would be reminded of the fable of the lion and the foxes—"One, but a lion.” In the race of life William D. Wilson commenced as his father before him had done—single handed and alone. He served his father faithfully and well up until he was twenty-one years of age. He then hired as an ordinary farm laborer, for three mouths "wet and dry," at seven dollars a month, to. Judge John Arbuckle, a near neighbor. Shortly after this term of service, he married and bought two hundred acres of. land, out on the Darby Plains, at eighty cents an acre. This was bought with borrowed money, his uncle Daniel going on his notes. The Darby Plains were mostly under water in those days during the wet season of the year; but they grew a rank, coarse kind of wild grass, which, if cut and .properly cured, contained just enough nourishment to keep cattle from starving to death. As it had been with his father before him, when a boy at home, so it became with him now. They were not raisers or breeders of cattle. They bought them when two or three years old, and then kept them .until fat enough for market. Sometimes a seven-dollar steer brought from the timber laud in Indiana in the winter or spring and put On the open grass laud of the Darby Plains, would bring 'twenty-five or thirty dollars in the fall of the year. These fatted cattle passed into the hands of another class of dealers, of which the Renicks, of Pickaway county, were the originators—the class of dealers who took them on a six weeks' slow journey over the mountains, to the Baltimore or Philadelphia markets. The motto of Mr. Wilson became like that of Emperor Constantine—"By this sign ye conquer." Money began to grow. Each year his herds. grew larger, and soon he began to add new acres to his first purchase, His first cabin stood over across the 892 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. road from where he died, in a cluster of apple trees that are still standing. About a year before he died he was at the home of Doctor Beach, and on being questioned as to his mode of accumulating so much property, his answer was: "Easy enough, easy enough. No mystery about it. Gather in and spread out. Gather in and spread out." It probably seemed easy enough to him, for he was not a common or ordinary man. But if it was all so easy and simple, how did it happen that he absorbed nearly a half township of improved farms, whose tenant houses, or solitary chimneys, scattered for miles across his possessions, looked like a vast and limitless harbor, with fleets lying dreamily at anchor? The free turnpike leading from London to Plain City passes for nine miles through his farm ; and within three years he paid twenty-eight thousand dollars in taxes for free turnpikes alone. His farm begun on the west, adjoined "Dun Glen," the farm of John G. Dun, in Deer Creek township, and stretched continuously to where he was buried on his own farm, in the old Baptist burying ground, on Big Darby. Mr. Wilson was social and convivial in his habits, fond of good company and plenty of it—upon all of which occasions he was the central figure. He did nothing by halves; it was either all work or all play. He was a natural-born wit, and when in a merry mood kept everybody around him in a roar, excepting himself. He was never boisterous; never off his balance in any direction. His wit was keen, original, and generally practical, with a vein of philosophy running through it. He never indulged in any repartee that was bought second hand. He was original or nothing. He was never profane. On one occasion, while a fiddler was tuning up and resting his arm, "Uncle Bill" reminded him of the prodigal waste of time, by saying, "Mr. Tucker, Mr. Tucker, you must remember that every time a sheep stops to bleat it loses a mouthful." He was never quarrelsome or contentious. Neither he nor his father before him were ever engaged before any court, either as plaintiff or defendant, and he never spoke ill of any man. Like his father, William D. Wilson had great presence of mind; and like, as it was with him, it stood him in good stead on many occasions. His nearest bank, seventy years ago, was at Columbus, twenty miles away. Sometimes it required a large amount of money to carry on his business, and he was often suspected of having money upon his person or about his house. Once, when traveling at night, not many miles from home, he was halted by highwaymen, and with the muzzles of some old-fashioned. brass-mounted horse-pistols in unpleasant proximity to his head, was ordered, peremptorily, to hold up his hands. He suspected the identity of the parties and jocularly called them by name. The question with them then was, either cold-blooded murder or joining in the laugh, as if the whole thing had been intended for a joke. This they did. They wilted, and allowed him to pass on home. It was generally his custom to not go out after night without company. One of these protectors, not infrequently, was Ira Kilbury, an infant who kicked the beam at two hundred and forty pounds, and who could "whip his weight in wild cats." Returning from Plain City after night on one occasion, his carriage was flanked by highwaymen, who began to close in on either side; but his coolness saved him then. He spoke very loudly, and in a peremptory tone: "Ira, Ira, my boy, whip up, whip up, or we wont get home before midnight." Visions of the bodyguard who could whip his weight in wild cats struck terror to the heart of the footpads, and they gave a wide berth and a fair field, when Ira, in reality, was snoring away in the quiet and security of his own cabin home, more than five miles away. William D. Wilson has been spoken of as a "land baron." In 1870, the state of Ohio contained fifty-six cultivated farms of over one thousand acres each. Of these fifty-six, thirty-six were in Madison county. William D. Wilson, in 1870, owned the MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 893 largest improved farm in Ohio. He had twelve hundred acres in one pasture, upon which one could not find a bush large enough for a riding whip. There were giant burr oaks in clusters or groves, but no brush. And in all the fifty or more miles of fence on his farm there was no one rod that did not look like it had been. put .up for corraling mules or wild deer. His farm had a capacity for more than two thousand head . of cattle, but he usually had a. variety of stock. Before the Civil War he was in the habit of "turning off" .about ten thousand dollars. worth of mules. of his own raising annually. Once, since the war, in a time of depression in that line, he .sent down. among the hills of southeastern Ohio, and bought about eighteen thousand head of sheep at about one .dollar a head. Times soon changed for this class of stock, and when the boom reached . seven or eight dollars a head, he sold out and changed to something else. Mr. Wilson amassed a great fortune. Is this the story of his life? Not at all. He was a remarkable man aside from his fortune ; he could as easily and would have as surely attained to great responsibilities and honors, had his great genius been early directed in the channels that led that way. He had natural capacity .enough to have been a railroad magnate, like Vanderbilt, a financier like Alexander Hamilton or Chase, or a general of an army, for he was naturally a leader, and never a follower of men. But was this fortune accumulated without fraud, misrepresentation, treachery or the oppression of the poor? Every dollar of it was. William D. Wilson was an honorable and an honest man. James Wilson, the second child born to Valentine and Eleanor (Judy) Wilson, and the grandson of Jacob Wilson, the first known ancestor, was born in Bath township, Greene .county, Ohio, December 20, 1808, and came to Madison county with his father in 1816, when eight years of age. He, like his brother, William D. Wilson, remained in service with his father until he was twenty-one years old. In 1832, when he was twenty-five years old, he went to Kentucky and bought, at two dollars an acre, of a man named Morgan, four hundred acres of land out of the Darby Plains, this county, and which is now a part of the Taylor Wilson estate. Of this he kept one hundred and sixty acres, sold fifty acres to his brother, John, and the. remainder to his brother, William D. In June, 1833, James Wilson was married to Lucy Ballou, of Milford Center, Ohio, a daughter of Martin Ballou, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, and the grandniece of Hosea Ballou, the Boston publisher. In September, 1833, three months after his marriage, his wife died of "milk sickness," just as he had a cabin on his farm on the plains nearly ready to commence housekeeping. The associations connected with his tenantless cabin were unpleasant to him and, in 1835, he sold his Plains farm and bought the John Scott farm, in Somerford township, where Uncle Sammy Prugh later lived. He boarded with the Scott family, and raised a large crop of corn, which he fed to the hogs, but this class of stock ran so low that year that he lost all his summer's work. On October 2, 1836; James Wilson was married to Eleanor Smith, who was born on June 20, 1818, near Granville, Ohio, the daughter of John and Sophia (Bond) Smith. Her father than lived two miles east of Lafayette, on the farm later owned by Jonathan Booth. At the time of her marriage she was teaching the distant school in Valentine Wilson's district. They went to housekeeping on the john Scott farm, and there John C.. the first child, was born. To this marriage there were also born three other children, Valentine H., Thomas B. and Lucy E. Mrs. Wilson possessed to a marked degree those homely but enduring traits of character that make ideal womanhood, as wife, as mother, as help-mate, as neighbor, as friend, as a model of industry, as a worker in the church and as a companion in every walk of life. On all occasions she excelled. 894 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. Her intellectual gifts .and accomplishments were many as well as entertaining. Her love of reading was great; her memory was remarkable; her knowledge of the bible and her familiarity with its grand, true and great characters made her personality at all times instructive as well as charming. The recollection of her broad charity, her sympathetic quality and her tender impulses for the needy or distressed still survive, and will outlast the marble monument erected to mark her last resting place. In 1837 James Wilson bought two small parcels of land; one of which was where his brother, Eli, died. In 1838 he sold out in Somerford township ; he had lost faith in raising hogs to make a fortune out of and preferred risking in cattle and grass. He went back to the Darby Plains and bought the Charley Arthur farm of four hundred acres, which was later a portion of the John Price farm. He moved there and lived on it for five years. Two of his children, Valentine Henry and Thomas Bond, were born there. In 1838 he bought . fifty acres of the MacCumber farm ; and in the fall of 1841 bought three hundred acres of the Russell Bidwell farm, at an administrator's sale. In the fall of 1842 he left the Darby Plains and moved over to the Christman farm, one mile south ofSummerfordd, and entered into a partnership with his father, as a general trader and business manager, On this farm, on March 28, 1844, his only daughter,. Lucy Eleanor, was born. In 1846, his half-brother, Jackson, being old enough to take his place as a partner with his father, James Wilson moved back to the Darby Plains; and settled on the Russell Bidwell farm; but in that same year he-bought the Paul Adler farm of three hundred and ten :acres, where his son, John, later lived, and then moved on it. In this same year he also bought fifty-seven acres of Nathaniel Sawyer. In 1847 he bought the. Paul Smith farm of one hundred and seventy-five acres. In .1854 he sold the Arthur farm to his brother, William D., and bought the Stanley Watson farm, of four hundred acres, adjoining the village of Lafayette, where he moved, and where he lived at the time of his death. He paid sixteen thousand dollars for this farm and it is believed that it was the first forty-dollar farm sold in the county. In 1855 he fell heir, by the death of. his father, to three hundred and eighty-one acres adjoining the Watson frm,, and in 1856 he bought the Carter farm of four hundred acres, where his son-in-law, Dr. William Morrow Beach, later lived. In 1860 he bought his half-brother, Hamilton's, share of his father's estate, comprising four hundred and sixty.-three acres, adjoining his home farm, while Hamilton bought his brother, William D. Wilson's, share adjoining the village of Lafayette, on which stood the old Anderson tavern. For more than thirty years James Wilson was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. The seventy-fourth anniversary of his birth found him a hale and vigorous old man, in full possession of all his faculties, and the owner of twenty-three hundred and fifty acres of well-improved land, with accompaniments, a part of which he had passed over to the control of his children.. He was then the patriarch of the Wilson family, having attained a greater age,. it was believed, than any other one ever born into the family. He was far famed for his charity, honesty and agreeable personality. He died on June 12, 1886; in his seventy-eighth year; full of honors and beloved by all who knew him. His beloved Wife survived him many years. After his death she resided with her daughter, Mrs. Lucy E. Beach, until her death, on February .15, 1904. Washington Wilson, a son of Valentine and Susan (Humble) Wilson was born on September 7, 1821, in Madison county. Ohio, and when twenty-one years old, began working by the month and thus continued for three months, as he wanted to get money enough to get married. At the expiration of the period he had twenty-seven dollars, and was then united in marriage with Linnie West, .the daughter of Edmund and MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 895 Margaret (Shaw) West. After their marriage, he began farming as a renter and continued for four years, when he purchased sixty acres of land, to which he added until he owned about eight hundred acres altogether. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and served as township trustee of Somerford township for fourteen years. Washington and Linnie (West) Wilson were the parents of eight children, of whom only two, Valentine and Caleb Griffin, survive. Caleb Griffin lives on a part of his grandfather's original estate. Jackson spent his life in Clark county, but died in Summerford, in 1914, at the age of seventy-two. Alexander, a farmer and merchant at Summerford, died in 1900, at the age of sixty. Charles inherited his father's old homestead and spent his whole life on the farm, dying at the age of thirty. Belle married John Potee, the scion of an old family of Madison county. They lived on a part of her father's estate. She died at the age of fifty, in 1911. Alexander Hamilton Wilson, son of Valentine and Nancy (Roberts) Wilson, married Isabella Parsons Koogler, the daughter of Simon Koogler, of Greene county, Ohio. He was a justice of the peace, and an influential citizen of Lafayette, Ohio. He died at Summerford, in 1895, at the age of sixty-five. His wife died in 1900. They had five children: Charles A., Walter A., Lamar P., Laura B. and Alice C. Valentine C. Wilson, the son of Valentine and Nancy (Roberts) Wilson, was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, with the class of 1860. the firs classical graduate in his father's family. He died on August 23, 1861, of epidemic dysentery. Jacob W. Wilson; son of Valentine and Nancy (Roberts) Wilson, resided at Summerford, Ohio. He was a man of great inventive genius, his latest invention being a twine grain binder which promises great success. Of the daughters of Valentine Wilson, only the names have been given, but they must have inherited something of the sagacity and psychological characteristics of their father. They all married poor boys. But the names of such men as Robert Boyd, Hiram W. Richmond and Thomas John Stutson, who all married into the family, offer a sufficient evidence of the soundness of their judgment. PETER PEARL McKINLEY. It would be difficult to estimate the beneficent influence which the infusion of Scottish blood has had on the social, commercial and political life of this country. Some of the greatest financiers, the most successful farmers, the ablest writers and thinkers of the present generation are descended from stock of Scottish origin. In many cases the people of the beautiful highlands transplanted to homes in our broad and fertile prairies have made magnificent successes of agriculture. Peter Pearl McKinley, an enterprising farmer of Union township, is descended from Scotch stock, his grandfather having come to America when a lad of twelve years. Peter Pearl McKinley was born near Amesville. Athens county, Ohio, February 28, 1871, the son of James and Rosanna (Hale) McKinley. They were both born in Athens county. The father of James McKinley came to the United States when a lad of twelve, and eventually settled in Athens county. James McKinley was both a mason and blacksmith, and followed these trades during the early part of his life. In later years he was engaged in farming. James and Rosanna (Hale) McKinley had fourteen children, ten of whom are living. Mary died in 1914 at Columbus. John lives at Amesville in Athens county. Frederick lives in Poplar Bluff. Missouri. Louisa died at Newcastle, Ohio, in February, 1914. Peter Pearl is the subject of this sketch. William lives at Seattle, Washington. Mattie is the wife of Lyle Yocum, of Plain City, Ohio. Bruce lives at Amesville, Athens county. Lillie is the wife of John McKee, of Goodland, Kansas. Tillie 896 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. is the wife of Earl Hayes, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Cora is the wife of Wiley Hayes, of Homer, Ohio. Frank lives, at Columbus; Two died in infancy. The mother of these children died in June, 1908, and the father less than. a year following; January, 1909. Reared on the farm. and educated. in the common schools of Madison county, Peter Pearl McKinley assisted his father on the farm from the time the was thirteen years of age. .He was compelled to assist in the caring of the family, and remained at home with his parents until twenty-six years of age On March 14, 1897, Peter P. McKinley was married to Anna Highfield. a daughter of James, and Louisa Highfield, born near Waverley in, Pike County, Ohio. James Highfield was a laborer who died about 1895. His wife, the mother of Mrs. McKinley, still living in Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. McKinley have had eight children, seven. of whom are living. Raymond, the fifth born, died at the age of two. The living children are Helen, Edith, Cecil, Robert, Roy, Howard and Dorothy.. Mr. McKinley farms two hundred acres of land east of London. He does his farming. with horses. He is keenly interested in stock raising and has his farm well. stocked. He votes the Republican ticket. BEN EMERY. The venerable Ben Emery, a retired citizen of London, Madison, county, Ohio, is a veteran of the Civil War, who has lived a long and useful life and who has filled many positions of trust and responsibility within the gift of the people of this county. He served two terms, a period of four years, as sheriff of Madison county, and was then elected to the important office of county treasurer, in which he served another period of four years, retiring from the latter office in 1898. During his entire life he has been active in the councils of the Republican party and is known as: one of the leaders of the party in. this section of the state. Born near Wheeling, Virginia, October 6, 1839, Ben Emery, at the age of eight years, came with his parents to Warren county, Ohio, 'where they both died. They were Benjamin and Ellen (Nevitt) Emery, the former, of whom was born and reared in Virginia, the son of John Emery, who immigrated to Virginia from Maryland. He was the son of William Emery, a soldier in the Revolutionary army from the state of Maryland. His record as a soldier has been supplied to the Emery family by the United States commissioner of pensions. John Emery, the son of William, was married in Virginia. Benjamin Emery was a carpenter by trade and died in Warren county at the age of eighty-three or eighty-four years, leaving three sons, who came to Madison county : Perry, who was a farmer in Range township for several years, but who left the county before the Civil War ; William, who also lived in Range township, but who left before the war, and Ben, the subject of this sketch. Ben Emery came to Madison county to join his brothers when a lad of about welve years. He lived with I. B. Fisher, in Range township, for ten years and kept himself on wages of ten to fifteen dollars a month. Ever since Mr. Emery was a lad he has saved money. During the time he lived with Mr. Fisher, he completed his education in the common schools. Remaining in Madison county until his brothers had left the county, Ben Emery enlisted in April, 1861, at the first call of President Lincoln for volunteers for three months, in the Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and became a private in Company C. He saw scouting service in West Virginia and, at the expiration of his term of service in 1861, re-enlisted in Company D, Fortieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This company was recruited in Madison county and was commanded by Capt. James Watson. It was recruited for three years' service. Mr. Emery was with the command during this entire period. He served for one year in Eastern Kentucky and, after the battle of Murfreesboro, the regiment was sent into MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 897 Tennessee and took part in the Chattanooga campaign. Later it participated in Sherman's campaign against Atlanta. Mr. Emery was discharged after the fall of Atlanta. From the time of his enlistment until his discharge, he was promoted from corporal to sergeant and was constantly with his regiment. During this period he was often in command of scouting squads. Subsequently he was employed by the government as a teamster and sent to Missouri. Here he was crippled, discharged and sent home. Mr. Emery returned to Madison county, Ohio, and resumed farming near London, in Union township, farming there until his election to the office of county sheriff. On May 1, 1867, two years after the close of the war, Ben Emery was married to Caroline Chrisman, the daughter of Peyton and Clara (Kenton) Chrisman, and a native of London. Mrs. Emery's father was, at one time, auditor of Madison county. He was the son of Isaac and Martha Caroline (Evans) Chrisman, the latter of whom was born in Rockingham county, Virginia. After giving birth to one son, she passed away early in life. Peyton Chrisman was a farmer near London. He lived on the old Kenton homestead, eight miles south of London, a farm which is still held by his heirs, including Mrs. Emery, who was the eldest of four children. Peyton Chrisman died on April 19, 1878, at the age of fifty-three years. He had spent practically all of his life in the state of Ohio. having come from his old home in Rockingham county, Virginia, with his parents. Peyton Chrisman's wife, who before her marriage was Clara Kenton, was born in 1829, in Range township, Madison county, on the old Kenton farm and died on October 16, 1889. Her whole life was spent on the farm where she was born. She was the daughter of Simon and Phoebe (Baker) Kenton, the former of whom was a nephew of the noted Indian fighter and hunter, Simon Kenton, of Kentucky. He was probably born in Kentucky and came to Madison county when a young man. The old Kenton home is a double log house of two stories. Simon Kenton was a well-known cattle drover during his day and generation, and drove cattle over the mountains to Philadelphia. His home, in fact, was a station for drovers. It is said that even turkeys were driven over the mountains to Philadelphia, and Simon Kenton's house was a stopping place for the drovers. He obtained a tract of four thousand acres of land and here he spent practically all of his life. His wife was accustomed to gather up the stock in his absence and, on his return, he would find a sufficient number gathered for the market. Mr. and Mrs. Emery have had seven children, namely: Peyton Randolph, who is an attorney at London, and an account of his life history is found elsewhere in this volume; E. Annette, who is the wife of Edwin Baird. of South Charleston, Ohio; Clara Frances, who is the wife of Walter Converse, of London; Helen Louise, who is the wife of J. C. Davidson, of Columbus; Maud H., who is the wife of Angus Bonner, of Madison county; Angus B., who is a merchant at Lincoln, Nebraska, and Richard Kenton, who is at home. The latter spent two years on a sugar plantation in Cuba and also some time in Santo Domingo. Mr. Emery is known as one of the most successful citizens of Madison county. Mr. and Mrs. Emery own a considerable part of the old Kenton. estate and have a comfortable competence. Aside from the positions of trust and responsibility which Mr. Emery filled as a Republican, he has been active in the conventions of the Grand Army of the Republic and has served as senior vice-commander. He was one of the committee of veterans to locate the lines of his regiment at Chickamauga for the erection of the monument. He attended the dedication of the monument. The Emery family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. In the early days, Mr. Emery enjoyed fox hunting and kept a pack of foxhounds. This was a sport which Mr. Emery thoroughly enjoyed, but one which he abandoned many years ago. (57.) 898 - MADISON COUNTY, OHIO. HENRY WARNER. The events of modern life are so absorbing in their interest and so rapid in succession, that it is well, now and then, to pause and consider the labors of preceding generations, and to spread a garland at the feet of those who have made the way more easy, or at least, to hold such in grateful remembrance. Those sturdy, farseeing ones of other years who sowed and planted and builded for future generations "builded better than they knew," for upon their work and sacrifice has modern civilization grown. One of the goodly company who converted the waste places of this county into beauty and usefulness was Henry Warner, a man of great force of character and rugged patriotism. The gentleman whose career is here considered was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, nine miles from Alexandria, in a beautiful place on the Potomac river, the date being June 1.5, 1795. He came of fine old Southern stock, being. the son of William and Betsy (Denty) Warner, both natives of the state in which Henry was born. Mr. Warner came of a long-lived family, his grandfather having attained the age of one hundred and four years, his father, eighty-eight, and his brother, the late William Warner of London,. ninety-four. Coming to this state with his parents and grandparents in 1805, he settled in Belmont county, removing to London in 1812, and lived here until his death, a period of sixty-four years. During this time, unlike the average American; he never lived in any other place. At the time Mr. Warner came here, London was only a collection of less than a dozen huts, and with faith in the future, he and Judge Patrick McLane laid out the town. During his day Henry Warner was a prominent merchant, surveyor and dealer in real estate and 'besides these personal interests he held several county offices. He was for four years sheriff of Madison county, for fourteen years county treasurer, being elected in 1834, and for a number of years was county surveyor. He retired from business more than twenty years prior to his death. By industry, frugality, sound sense and force of character, he became possessed of a considerable fortune. Many anecdotes are related by old citizens of his rigid honesty and eccentricity—for honest he was, and eccentric to a marked degree. Kind of heart when convinced of duty, or when charity deserved, he was, nevertheless, one of the most sarcastic of men. Mr. Warner exhibited remarkable will power and fortitude during the latter part of his life, for he was an invalid for thirty years before his death. during which time he was patient and gentle. On February 27, 1823, Henry Warner was married to Keturah H. Gosslee, a daughter of Richard Goslee, who was born in Sussex county, Maryland, in 1781, and who died in London on November 26, 1872, at the age of ninety-one. Mr. Goslee emigrated to Ross county, Ohio, in 1804, and to Madison county in 1816. Before his death he represented the oldest of five generations living in London. He was married three times and left fourteen children, thirty grandchildren, more than thirty great-grand children, and two great-great-grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Warner became the parents of eleven children, six of whom are now living, as follow: Mrs. R. A. Harrison, of Columbus, Ohio, who is now in her eighty-seventh year Capt. James R. Warner; Genl. D. B. Warner, United States consul at St. John. New Brunswick ; Mrs. Eliza Baker, of Chicago; Mrs. Ara Myers, of New York City, and Miss Mary Warner. The late Mrs. William Riddle, of London, was another daughter. Mrs. Riddle died at the age of eighty-five. Mrs. Warner, the mother of these distinguished children died at the age of ninety-four in London. Mr. Warner found expression for his religious faith in the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he and his family were devout and helpful members. In politics he was a Whig until the Republican party came into existence, and with the latter party MADISON COUNTY, OHIO - 899 he was afterward affiliated. This worthy gentleman of the old school, a man who, without seeking, would have found prominence in any community, passed away on Friday, January 31, 1879. It is impossible to estimate the good achieved and the wide influence of such a man as we have here briefly portrayed. His brilliant mind made association with him a rare pleasure. In both his public and private life Mr. Warner was a benefactor to his kind. As public official he was conscientious, fearless, and faithful to every trust. As a private citizen, he was loyal and sought ever to realize the highest ideals. As a husband and father, he was kind and devoted. To such men, the following generations owe a debt of profound gratitude. HARLAND E. PARRETT. The pioneer farmers of Ohio command a secure place in popular confidence and esteem, not only on account of the courage and fortitude which prompted them to brave the dangers of primeval forests, but because of their ability to convert such tracts of wilderness into lasting places of social activity. Among the farmers of the present day who have merited distinction in Madison county, is Harland E. Parrett, whose ancestors were among the early settlers of Ohio. Harland E. Parrett was born on the 9th of January, 1866, in Fayette county, Ohio. After attending the public schools of Madison Mills, Ohio, he remained on the farm until he was twenty-two years of age, when he rented a tract of land from his father and began farming for himself. The farm proved to be a success under his management and after seven years Mr. Parrett was able to buy one hundred acres of land near Florence, Alabama. On that farm he raised a crop of corn and cotton, then availed himself of an opportunity to sell the land and went back to Ohio, where he located for a time at Mt. Sterling. One of the interesting facts regarding the return trip from Alabama is that Mr. Parrett drove his own team all the way. On his arrival in Mt. Sterling, he worked as a laborer, putting in the waterworks. Three months later he rented a farm in Fayette county, Ohio. At the end of a year's work on the farm, he became interested in a tract of land in Pleasant township, Madison county; this resulted in his renting the land for eight years. His satisfaction regarding the richness of the soil and the desirable lay of the land in Madison county, led to the establishment of a permanent residence in this locality. Before buying the Joe Robison farm, where he lives now, Mr. Parrett sold six acres of land in McClimansville, Ohio. On the former place he has made some very extensive improvements, including the laying of four hundred rods of tiling. He has confined his land purchases exclusively, of recent years, to Pleasant township, where he owns three hundred and fifty-four acres of land. Aside from raising all especially fine quality of corn, which he has exhibited at Mt. Sterling, Mr. Parrett is a breeder of Jersey cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs. Harland E. Parrett is the son of George and Amelia (Bush) Parrett. His father was born on the 19th of January. 1835, in Fayette county, Ohio, and enjoyed many years of agricultural life. He was a stockman and farmer until his death, which occurred on July 4, 1913. His wife is the daughter of Jacob Bush, a native of Indiana, who had the experience, not uncommon to many of the earliest settlers, of being pursued by Indians. The Bush family finally settled in Ohio. Amelia (Bush) Parrett, who was the mother of twelve children, is living at Madison Mills, Ohio. She was born in 1839. The father of George Parrett was a native of Tennessee. In Fayette county, Ohio in 1887, Harland E. Parrett was united in marriage to Minnie Puckett, who was born in Fayette county on the 17th of April 1871. She is the daughter of William and Maria J. (Riggen) Puckett, both identified with the early history of Madison county, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Parrett nine children were