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in behalf of her own children, who owe their eminent success in a large degree to her instruction.
In 1851, after eight years pastorate in Kenton, Ohio, the family removed to Oxford, the same State, and while there Mr. MacCracken visited many destitute places, organizing churches wherever called. They resided in Oxford five years, removing thence to Greene County, and locating first at Cedarville, where father and son taught one year. Then the family located in Xenia, where Mr. MacCracken died. The loss was a grievous one to the family who, however, mourned not alone. The poor, whom he had helped; the sorrowing, to whom he had pointed out the balm for sadness; 'Vie erring, whose footsteps he had guided into the straight and narrow way, all realized that they had lost a true, faithful and generous friend. For many years his widow has walked alone down the pathway of life toward the valley of death. But the loving care and affection of her children have brightened her declining years, and to them she will bequeath a legacy of tender memories, and the heritage of a noble, consecrated life.
WILLIAM HUNTER. An excellent representative of the agricultural class of Pleasant Township, Clark County, is found in William Hunter, who occupies a front rank among the farmers and stock-breeders, his specialty being blooded cattle and hogs. He occupies an estate of two hundred and twenty-one acres and owns one hundred and fifty-eight acres adjoining. He operates both farms in a manner which does credit to his judgment and zeal, every detail of the work carried on being carefully overlooked and managed. The personal character f Mr. Hunter is an upright one, and he is, therefore, regarded with due respect by those about him. He belongs to the social order of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his worthy wife are members of the Methodist Protestant Church.
The natal day of the subject of this sketch was March 8, 1841, and his birthplace the village of Catawba. He was reared on a farm, receiving his education in the common schools and acquiring a practical knowledge of agriculture on the home acres. In September, 1864, he became a member of the Sixteenth Ohio Battery, and served in the ranks of the Union army until June 15, 1865, being mustered out in New Orleans. He returned to his home, resumed his labors upon the farm, and on February 15, 1866, took to himself a wife, re. moving to his present location in the following fall. He is the father of three children—Torrance Milton, Oliver C. and John L., the latter of whom died in infancy.
The wife of Mr. Hunter bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Cartmell,and was born near Mechanicsburg, January 17, 1844. Her father, John L. Cartmell, was born in Virginia, and came to the Buckeye State with his parents, John and Sophia (Lantz) Cartmell. They settled in Champaign County, where John L. remained until after his marriage, when he removed to Madison County. In 185.3 he changed his location to Clark County, purchasing one hundred acres f land in Pleasant Township, where he resided until 1868. He then sold his farm and engaged in business in Marysville as a grocer, carrying on the establishment until his death, November 26, 1876. His wife was Mary Ann Applegate, daughter of David and Martha Applegate, who moved from Cincinnati to Antwerp, Ohio, and thence to Pleasant Township, and who died at Mutual, Champaign County.
To Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cartmell six children were born, namely: Elizabeth; Sarah C., wife of Austin Hanks, of Wilmington; Martha, wife of Nathan Ferguson; Eliza, wife of Lewis Myers, of Cedar Falls, Iowa; Oliver, whose home is in Marysville; and William, of Anderson, Ind. The father was a member of the independent Order of Odd Fellows; in politics he was a Democrat, except during the Civil War, when he was a Republican, voting for Lincoln in 1864. The elder John Cartmell came from Germany to Virginia. His family comprised John, Isaiah, Joseph, Thomas, William, Nathaniel, Margaret, Sarah C. and Nancy, all of whom married and reared families, except Sarah.
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in the third generation from Jonathan Hunter, a native of Virginia, who married a Miss Chance and very early in the present century removed to Ohio. The journey occupied thirty days, being performed by wagons and horses, as was the common method of travel at that early day. Jonathan Hunter had five sons and five daughters, among them being William, who was born in Loudoun County, Va., near Harper's Ferry, September 11, 1777. He accompanied his parents to Ohio, settling with them on section 22, Pleasant Township, where his father took up nn entire section. There William Hunter lived until his death, in 1864, clearing and improving one hundred and sixty acres. He served for a time in the War of 1812. Politically, he was a Whig and then a Republican, and his religious belief was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He married Blanche Hendricks, who was born in Jefferson County, Va., February 28, 1787, to William and Susan (Taylor, Hendricks. The latter removed to Ohio in 1803 or 1804, and settled in what is now Pleasant Township. They died in Champaign County, leaving two sons and three daughters, all of whom married and in their turn left families.
William and Blanche Hunter were the parents f nine children, among whom was a son, Lemuel, who was born two miles west of Catawba, Febru ary 24, 1814. He received a common-school education, and was trained to farm pursuits. Following the example of his ancestors, he became a tiller of the soil, and is now one of the wealthy agriculturists of this county. His home occupies a site on which he has lived since 1840, and the homestead now comprises about seven hundred acres. He also owns two hundred and seventy-five acres in Moorefield Township, all of which has been secured by his labor and prudence. He has served three terms as Trustee, and during the war was liberal in his gifts to the Union cause. In politics, he is a stanch Republican.
The marriage of Lemuel Hunter and Nancy Marsh took place March 1, 1828. Mrs. Hunter was born October 6, 1816, on the farm which her husband now occupies, being a daughter of Israel and Sarah (Marsh) Marsh. This couple had become residents of Ohio early in the present century, in 1811, settling at Catawba on two hundred and twenty-six acres of land. Their family consisted of two sons and three daughters, all of whom lived to mature years. They were of the Baptist faith and reared their offspring with firm principles and useful habits. To Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Hunter seven children were born, the subject of this sketch being the second in order of birth. The other members of the household band were: Mary A., wife of James Milton Hodge; Sarah J., wife of James Yeazell, both deceased; Lewis, who died when twenty years old; Eli; Miranda, the second wife of James Yeazell, both deceased; and Bruce, who died when eighteen years old.
In connection with this sketch are presented portraits of Mr. Hunter and his wife, both of whom are highly esteemed in their community, and are identified with its development.
JOHN H. JOBE. Among the many beautiful country homes in this county, that of Mr. Jobe deserves special mention. The homestead is finely located; and everything which ample Means and cultured tastes can do, has been done in the embellishment of the place where is spent a large part of the proprietor's time, where, it is evident to the beholder, have been expended his best efforts, and where his happiness centers. Amid the busy scenes of life, such a home forms a subject of pleasant contemplation. Both Mr. Jobe and his estimable wife are people of taste and culture, and their mutual efforts have resulted in the building up of a home which reflects great credit upon them, and forms a remarkably pleasant place of resort for their many friends.
The lifelong interests of Mr. Jobe have centered in this county, as he was born in the city of on the 31st of October, 1826, and his home has been within the county since that time. When about eight years old, his father removed to the country, and he remained there under the home roof until a:man of nearly thirty-three years. In the meantime, at the age of nineteen, he learned carpentering, which he followed about five years,
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but with the exception of the time thus spent, he has been engaged steadily in agricultural pursuits. He is now the owner of over three hundred and forty-eight acres, all of which has been brought to a state of cultivation, and embellished with a hahandsomeodern residence, and all the outbuildings required by the enterprising and modern farmer. Everything about the premises is kept in the best order, and the whole forms a picture of neatness, thrift and beauty which the passing traveler invaribly turns to look upon the second time.
Mr. Jobe was married in Xenia Township, August 30, 1859, to Miss Nancy E., daughter of the late Samuel Collins. Mr. Collins was one of the earliest settlers of this county, whence he came from York County, Pa., at the age of eight years with his parents, and in Xenia Township spent his last days, passing away January 4, 1857. He was married in early manhood to Miss Rebecca, eldest sister of Dr. McClellan, of Xenia. Mrs. Jobe was born in Greene County, on the 23d offebruary, 1837, in Xenia Township. She acquired her ededucationn the common school, and made her home with her parents until her marriage. Of this union there have been born seven children, the eldest of whom, a son, George E., is farming in Cedarville Township; Charles L. is a well-to-do merchant of Xenia; John R. follows the same business in the same city; Laura B. and Homer H. remain under the home roof; Samuel died when about sixteen months old; and one child died in infancy.
George Jobe, the father of our subject, was born in Allegheny County, Pa.,and came to this county when a young man. Subsequently he was married near Bellbrook, Sugar Creek Township, to Miss Mary Ann Hutchison. They settled in Xenia, where Mr. Jobe engaged exclusively in wagon-making, until finally turning his attention to agricultural pursuits, he purchased a tract of land in Xenia Township. He still, however, maintained his residence in the city, whence he would go out to his land, and work upon it as opportunity permitted, finally building a house there, and leasing the land to a tenant. At the time of his settlement in this county, deer and other wild game were plentiful. Mr. Jobe continued working at his trade until failing health compelled him to abandon it, when he moved to his farm and there spent the remainder of his life. He passed from earth in the spring of 1867. The mother survived her husband many years, her death taking place at the old homestead, May 24, 1884, when she was quite aged.
To the parents of our subject there was born a family of six sons and three daughters, of whom John H. was the second child and the second son. Five of these are living, and located in this county. The father during his early manhood served in the War of 1812, under the command of Gen. Harrison, and participated in the battle of Ft. Meigs. Politically, he affiliated with the Republican party. John H. is a Republican of the first water, but has had very little to do with political affairs, preferring to give his time and attention to his farm interests. He has, however, served as Township Trustee, and was at one time a Director of the Infirmary. Mr. Jobe and his family are prominently connected with the United Presbyterian Church. It is hardly necessary to say that during their lifelong residence in this county, Mr. and Mrs. Jobe have become widely and favorably known, and enjoy the confidence and esteem of hosts of friends.
JOHN G. WARNER. This gentleman is the owner and occupant offn estate which has been in the possession of the family sixty-eight years, and which comprises a fine tract of land in Madison Township, Clark County. His father, Isaac Warner, was born in this county, February 28, 1809, near where the village of Selma now stands. He was a lineal descendant of William and Mary Warner, who emigrated from England to America in 1754, settling near Redstone, Md., where they died. William Warner having served in the Colonial Army during the Revolutionary War, received for his services a land warrant, and located one hundred and sixty acres where Philadelphia is now built. The ground being of a rough character, was not occupied by him or brought under the plow, although the papers which established the claim were in the possession of the family until the middle of the
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present century. At that time some of the heirs endeavored to make the claim good, but the papers were burned by the father of our subject. In the family of William and Mary Warner was a sou Isaac, who when a young man came to this section of country and who was the oldest inhabitant here, his residence dating from 1798. He married Miss Mary Winder, daughter of John Winder, of English stock and of Quaker religion. This couple were the grandparents of our subject.
The present home of John G. Warner is also his birthplace, his natal day having been January 9, 1842. He was attending Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, when the war broke out, his class containing three young men. Two of these entered the army, they being our subject and Marion A. Ross, who was captured by the rebels at Atlanta, Ga., and hung. Each of the youths had a sweetheart, and the one who did not enter the army told the young lady who was the object of his attentions that the Government would not have him. She scornfully replied that she did not want a man whom the Government did not desire.
Young Warner was not yet eighteen years of age when the war began, but "the shot heard round the world" had not ceased to re-echo over the land when he determined to enter the Union service. It being necessary for minors to have parental consent, and it even then being difficult for them to secure entrance into the army, our subject placed the figures eighteen in his shoes, in order that he coyld truthfully say tnat he was "over eighteen." The 17th of April, 1861, he saw his name enrolled in the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, with which he served three months under the first call of President Lincoln. He was the first to go from Antioch College, which in the months to follow was almost deprived of male students. Young Ross, mentioned above, was the second to enlist from the institution.
Mr. Warner re-enlisted August 3, and three days after his enrollment was at the side of Gen. Lyon when he was killed at the battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo. The young man then served under Gen. Fremont, and in 1862 went with Grant on the Tennessee campaign, taking part in the battle of Shiloh, where he was detailed for service on Gen. Sherman's staff. He continued his services as an aid to the beloved "Tecumseh" until after the evacuation of Corinth, his most important duty being to give the pickets the countersign. On the 3d and 4th of October, 1862, he took part in the battle of Corinth, and in 1863 was present at the taking of Vicksburg, the interval being spent in duties which proved as onerous and hazardous as those of the noted contests of the war, although they do not occupy so conspicuous a place on the pages of history.
After the fall of Vicksburg, Mr. Warner was placed on detailed duty on account of sickness, and ere long was mustered out of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, returning to his home for a time. He then re-enlisted, becoming a member of the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Ohio Infantry, in which he served until September, when he was finally mustered out. During the three years of his army life he had seen some very hard service, but his duties under his last enlistment seemed but play. After leaving the army he entered the commercial business, but not liking it, he sold it out ere long and obtained possession of the old farm, where he has since continued. He is a thoroughbred Republican, his interest in the party not being satisfied with the casting of an occasional vote, but leading him at all times to do all that he can for the good of the organization in whose principles he believes. He has been prominently spoken of for county offices, but has ever refused to run, not being a politician in the sense of desiring office. His personal character is a manly and upright one, and his social qualities are such as to win the good will and friendship of those about him, while in the conduct of his financial affairs he manifests an enterprising and progressive spirit.
The home of Mr Warner is one of culture and refinement, being presided over by a lady who possesses many graces of mind and heart, and having under its roof a band f interesting and talented young people. The wife of Mr. Warner bore the maiden name of Anna Murray, and the rites of wedlock were celebrated between. them in 1865. Her grandfather, Mungo Murray, was bore in Scotland June 3, l775, and was married to
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Catherine McCune in May, 1798. Shortly after their marriage they emigrated to America, spending the remainder of their lives in the Empire State. There their son George, the father of Mrs. Warner, was born July 16, 1807. He came to Clark County, Ohio, in the spring of 1817.
To. Mr. Warner and his estimable wife seven children have been born, two having been removed from them in infancy. Mun go P., who is now in charge of the telegraph office at Selma, is a graduate of Antioch College and a young man of great promise, having mental abilities of a high order, and is already displaying a firmness of character which speaks well for his future; Lydia, a young lady at home, is also a graduate of Antioch; she manifests a decided talent for music, and a speciality is being made of this capability. Isaac, although still quite a young lad, manifests the bent of his mind, and is becoming quite a fancier of horses; Emma is a miss in school; and Angy is the baby of the family.
HON. WILLIAM R. BURNETT, Mayor of the city of Springfield, was elected to this office in the spring of 1889, and is discharging the duties in connection therewith in a manner creditable to himself and satisfactory to the people. He is a lifelong resident of the locality where he now lives, having been born in Springfield Township, August 17, 1846. He has watched the growth and development of the city, which was in its infancy during his boyhood, and no man is more warmly interested in its material welfare.
The father of our subject was John Burnett, a native likewise of Springfield Township and the son of Richard Burnett, who was born in England. The latter was reared to manhood in his native country, and upon emigrating to America settled in Kentucky. Later, he emigrated to Ohio and purchased a tract of Government land in Springfield Township, and for a number of years he en. gaged in farming. Later, he removed to the city and conducted an hotel on the National Pike, at the corner of Main Street and Western Avenue. He remained a resident of Springfield until his death.
The father of our subject learned the trades of millwrighting and carpentering, which he followed many years, becoming an expert workman. He spent his entire life in Clark County and died in Springfield, February 13, 1890. The mother, Mrs. Mary (Jones) Burnett, was born in Virginia and was the daughter of Wesley Jones, who spent his last years in Indiana. To herself and husband was born a family of nine children, viz: Thomas, William R., Theodore, George, Jane, James, Edward, Emma and Lewis. Six of these are living and residents of Springfield.
Young Burnett attended school quite steadily until fourteen years old and then commenced learning the trade of a machinist in the Champion Machine Shops, at Springfield, where he continued until August, 1863. The Civil War then being in progress, he finally resolved in having a hand in the preservation of the Union, and, accordingly, enlisted in the Fourth Battalion Cavalry, 0. N. G., and went with his regiment to Kentucky and Tennessee, serving in these States until the expiration of his term of enlistment. Then, receiving an honorable discharge, he returned to his old place at the shops, continuing there until 1882.
Having now accumulated a fair amount of capital, Mr. Burnett embarked in the grocery business in Springfield, which he has since conducted successfully. Politically, he affiliates with the Democratic party. He served six years as a member of the School Board, and for three years represented his ward in the City Council. He is an enterprising business man, and has -always been found the encourager and supporter of the projects calculated to promote the growth and welfare of the city.
The subject of this notice was married October 19, 1865, in Springfield, to Miss Mary Monahan. Mrs. Burnett was born in June, 1844, in Springfield, and is the daughter of John and Eliza (Tuttle) Monahan. Of this union there have been born two children: Theodore A. was graduated from the American Veterinary College, of New York City, at the age of twenty years, and is now engaged in the practice of his profession at La
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Crosse, Wis.; Levi is a student in the military school at Gambier, this State. Mr. Burnett is prominent in Masonic circles, belonging to Clark Lodge, No. 101, F. & A. M.; Springfield Lodge, No. 33, I. 0. 0. F.; Red Star Lodge, No. 205, K. of P.; Lodge, No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and Mitchell Post, No. 45, G.A.R., at Springfield.
The home of Mayor Burnett is pleasantly located in the central part of the city, and, with its surroundings, indicates cultured tastes and ample means. It is hardly necessary to say, that he is widely and favorably known throughout -Clark County and is regarded as one of its leading citizens, and one who has been no unimpftant factor in advancing its best interests.
ISRAEL EVERHART, a well-known resident of Pleasant Township, has been the occupant of L, his present farm since 1861, when he emigrated hither from the Old Dominion. He was born in Loudoun County, Va., May 6, 1811, and is the son of William and Catherine (Axline) Everhart, the former of whom was born October 15, 1783, and the latter March 21, 1786.
William Everhart was a farmer by occupation and went into the army as a substitute during the War of 1812. He was a man of considerable property in Virginia and the owner of slaves. He was twice married and by his first wife became the father of six children, the eldest of whom, a sonJonathai), was born December 5, 1803; Christina, March 27, 1807; Elizabeth, April 24, 1809; Israel, our subjecrecognizednext cthoroughlomon was born December 19, 1813, and Catherine, March 16, 1816. The first wife died May 3, 1816.
The father of our subject took for his second wife Mrs. Susannah Nicham widow of I. Nicham and the daughter of I. Calb. Of this union there were born the fand is not only recwing children: William N. and Nathaniel W., twins, were born October 24, 1817; Lydia Ann, September 12, 1819, and. died young; Matilda H., was born May 15, 1821; John A., March 21, 1824, and died young; George M., was born February 9, 1826 ; Elijah D., August 27,, 1828. The father died August 6,1835, in Virginia and his second wife died in that State August. 24, 1841. He was the son of Christian and Susan Everhart, who were natives of Germany, and emigrated to America during the Colonial days. They settled first in Maryland and later removed to Virginia. Their family consisted of Lawrence, Jacob, Jasper, Christian, who was killed by a team when young, Philip, Michael, William, Elizabeth, Mrs. Snook, Christina, Mrs. Charlotte; Lawrence served in the Revolutionary War and Jasper and Michael served.in the War of 1812, the latter as a Captain.
The mother of our subject was the daughter of John Axline, a native of Germany and whose family consisted of four sons and three daughters. The Everharts as far back as the records go belonged to the German Reformed Church. The first wife of William Everhart was a Lutheran in religion and his second a Methodist. William Everht, politically, was an, old-line Whig.
The subject of this notice worked on a farm with his father .until a youth of eighteen years and then began learning the trade of a carpenter which he followed until 1860. In April 1861 he came to Clark County and secured seventy-two acres of land south of Catawba where he has since operated to good advantage as a tiller of the soil. He added fifty acres to his estate the following year and later purchasedrty acres more. He has effected good improvements and is not only recogriized as a thorough and skillful farmer but a reliable member of the community.
Miss Maria Ropp became the wife of ourson Jonathanber 1, 1836, the wedding being celebrated at the bride's home in Virginia. Mrs. Everhart is, like her husband, a native of Loudoun County, Va. March 4, 1817 to Nicholas and Lizzie ( Waltman) Ropp, who were also born and reared in that county. Mr. Ropp, like Mr. Everharwas also a slaveholdeNicham,likewise served in the War of 1812.. To him and his good wife there was born a family of ten children, four sons and six daughters, viz.: Samuel, .Jacob, John, Emanuel, Mary, Milly, Maria, Eliza A., Elizabeth and Sarah J. They all lived to mature years, were married and settled comfortably in life. Jacob, John, Eliza,
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Sarah J. and Mrs. Everhart came to Ohio. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Everhart were natives of Germany and of pure German stock as far back as the records go.
Seven children came to bless the union of Mr. and Mrs. Everhart these being named respectively: William C., John A., Elizabeth M., the wife of William H. Grubb, Thomas F., Edgar S., George E., and one who died in infancy unnamed. William and John served in the Union Army during the late Civil War, the former in the Ninety-fourth Ohio Infantry, and the latter in the Second Ohio Infantry. Mr. and Mrs. Everhart are members in good standing of the Methodist Protestant Church, and our subject, politically, affiliates with the Republican party. His property is the result of his own industry and prudence and the family occupies a good position in the community.
DR. JOHN PARKER DUGAN. President of the Springfield School Board,has been identified with the educational interests of the Buckeye State for many years and was selected for the office which he now holds as being a man eminently qualified to fill the position. He is a lifelong resident of Clark County, his early home being on a farm in Shengfield Township and where
he was born July 22, 1859. His early trainings and associations were such as to inculcate in him both the love of truth and the love of learning, and which by years of careful development have constituted him a man of more than ordinary intelligence and one who can always be trusted to perform his duty.
In reverting to the parental history of Dr. Dugan we find that his father, William Dugan, was likewise a native of Springfield Township, and born September 25, 1815. The paternal grandfather was John Dugan, a native of Somerset County, Pa. and the son of Jeremiah Dugan who was born in Ireland. Jeremiah Dugan emigrated to America with his parents. when a small boy and was educated to the priesthood. As he grew in years he renouncd the Catholic faith and threw his books into the mill-race. Subsequently he was married to a Miss Anthony, a lady of German birth and parentage. He remained a resident of Pennsylvania until 1794, then removed to Kentucky and located near the struggling town of Cynthiana. There his first wife died and he was married a second time.
In the meantime the grandfather of our subject found his home rather unpleasant with a stepmother and he left as soon as attaining his majority. He entered the employ of a man named Newell, who was about removing to Ohio, and he assisted in driving the team, the journey being made overland. They arrived upon the present site of Springfield, October 24, 1806, when there were only two families on the prairie east of the infant town. Being, an unmarried man Mr. Dugan sought employment with the heads of the two families mentioned—Mr. Reid and Mr. Snidgrass—with whom he remained for some time. He lived economically and saved his money and in due time bought a six horse team and a wagon and commenced hauling pork and other produce to Cincinnati and what was then Portland, but is now Sandusky. Upon the return trips he transported merchandise, salt and fish for a Mr. Wallace anti Pierson Shinning, the only two merchants in Springfield at the time.
In 1812, Grandfather Dugan volunteered in the service of the United States as a teamster, taking with him his six horses, and served until peace was declared. He received for his services two land warrants, one of which he gave to his youngest son and the other he traded off. He followed teaming for about twenty-five years and in the. meantime purchased a tract of wild land four miles east of the court house for which he paid $10 per acre to Griffith Foos who had entered it from the Government. While he was teaming his family resided upon the farm and improved the land. .Afterward he engaged in farming until 1858, then sold out and purchased a home at the intersection of East Main Street and Burnett Road near the corporation line where he spent the remainder of his days, passing away July 2, 1868. He was married March 10, 1810, to Miss Polly Hall, a native of Harrison County, Ky., and born April
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22, 1792. Her father, John Hall, removed from Kentucky to Clark County in 1808, and located in Springfield Township where he died. Grandmother Dugan departed this life July 21, 1867.
Of the five children born to the paternal grandparents of our subject the record is as follows: Sally married Jacob Pence who is now deceased; William, the father of our subject, was the second born ; Margaret, Mrs. Wood, is living in Springfield ; John resides on East Main Street, Springfield ; James died when a promising young man of twenty-two years. William, like his brothers and sisters, obtained his education in the pioneer schools which were conducted in a log schoolhouse on the subscription plan. The temple of learning was a rude structure, heated by a fireplace and furnished with seats made of split logs ,upheld by wooden pins. Light was admitted through the place made vacant by the removal of a log, over which was pasted greased paper. The chimney was built outside of earth and sticks. The system of education was in. keeping with the surroundings, the principal branches taught being, reading, writing and "ciphering."
At home the father of our subject was reared to agricultural pursuits and worked on the farm until his marriage. He then settled on a part of the old homestead, where he resided until 1857, during which year he removed to the farm which he now owns and occupies. This is located six miles east of the court house, near Oxtobys Station. There he has gathered around him all of the comforts and conviences of modern life. He was married August 19, 1847, to Mrs. Caroline (Harris) McDonald. This lady was born in the eastern part of Clark County, October 7, 1824, to Ezra and Hannah Harris. She was first married to Samuel 'McDonald who died, leaving one child who afterwards died.
To William and Caroline Dugan there were born five children, the eldest of whom, a daughter, Mary, is the wife of Christian Foster and resides in Springfield; James W. is farming in Decatur County, Ind.; John Parks, our subject, was the third child; Sarah A. and Louemma remain at home with their parents. John P. attended the district school during his boyhood and later was
placed in a select school at Springfield, this being taught by Prof. John Rowe. He at an early age decided upon the profession of medicine and commenced studying, when approaching manhood, with Dr. Cyrus D. Richey as his preceptor.
In 1881 young Dugan entered the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, from which he was graduated March 1, 1883. Eleven days later he commenced the practice of his profession in Springfield, of which he has since been a resident and among whose people he has a large number of patrons and friends. He was married November 25, 1887, to Miss Carrie M., daughter of E.N. and Abigail Tibbetts of whom an extended sketch appears elsewhere in this aLBUM. To the Doctor and his estimable lady there has been born one child, a daughter, Grace Vernon.
Dr. Dougan belongs to Clark County Medical Society and the Southwestern Medical Association. In politics he has always been a Democrat. He was first elected a member of the School Board in 1888, and re elected in 1890. Upon its re-organization he was made its President. During the administration of President Cleveland, he was made Secretary of the Board of Pension Examiners and served four years.
The maternal great-grandfather of Dr. Dugan was Lazarut Harris, a native of Virginia, who emigrated to Ohio at an early day and settled in Muskingum County, where he died. He was the father of a goodly family and his son, Ezra, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Virginia, January 22, 1790. He emigrated to Ohio when a young man with his parents and later settled in what was then Champaign County but is now Clark County. He was married April 11, 1813, to Miss Hannah Roys who was born July 3, 1798, near Morgantown, Va. They located on a tract of wild land in Harmony Township where Mr. Harris improved a farm and with his estimable wife spent the balance of his life. They reared a large family of children, who were named respectively, Joana, Phebe, Chipps, Thomas, Eliza, John, Caroline, Foreman, Mary, Susan, James, William, Harrison and Washington. The youngest son measured six feet four and one-half inches in height and was the tallest man serving in the
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Ninety-Fourth Ohio Infantry, which was comprised of one thousand and eight members. He yielded up his life to his country, dying at Murfreesboro, Tenn., from the effects of measles. Ezra Harris died March 12, 1865. Hannah Harris died December 1, 1868; her maiden name was Phoebe Carey.J
JAMES MILTON RUNYAN. An influential, active and progressive citizen, the gentleman above named is honored and respected wherever he is known, and among the farmers of Pleasant Township, Clark County, is ranked as one of the most substantial of their ruiner, and a leader in all matters which will advance their interests. He has a gallant record as a soldier, and as a public servant and business man has shown ability and trustworthiness. He was born in the village of .Catawba, June 20, 1841, and was reared upon a farm, receiving his education in the common schools. The attempt upon the nation's life aroused him, and young as he was when the war began, he determined to give the strength of his arm to his country's cause. He therefore enlisted August 20, 1861, as a private in the Sixteenth Ohio Battery, his campaigning in that regiment being in Missouri and Arkansas.
In September, 1862, young Runyan was sent home on sick furlough and about the 20th of the month was discharged at Columbus, on account of disability. After his health was sufficiently restored he went to Charleston, W. Va.., during the winter following his discharge entering a hospital as a nurse. Following this came a period of home life, and in May, 1864, he again entered the Union Army, becoming a member of Company D,. One Hundred and Forty-six Ohio Infantry. .The regiment served in West Virginia until fall, when its members were .honorably discharged and returned to the duties of civil life.
Mr. Runyan resumed farming, in which he had previously been somewhat occupied, continuing thus employed until 1867, when he purchased and engaged in operating a grist and saw mill. Until 1886, he continued his operations as a miller, since which time he has resided upon his farm of one hundred and eighty-seven acres on sections 15 and 16, adjoining his mill property. He belongs to the social orders of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic, and both he and his wife are identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has served as Township Trustee two terms and has been School Director for twenty-one years. The latter fact indicates the opinion which his neighbors have of his intelligence, good judgment and interest in the future welfare of the section. He has also been before the public for county honors.
The estimable companion of Mr. Runyan was known in her girlhood as Mary J. McClenen and was born near Harper's Ferry, Va., May 22, 1843. She became the wife of our subject March 4, 1866, and is the mother of seven children—J. Arthur, Clarence L., Eddie J., Percy E., Charles G., Maud .R. and Walter, the latter of whom died at the age of four months.
The parents of Mrs. Runyan are. John and Elizabeth (Ropp) McClenen, who were born and reared in Virginia, and who located in Clark County, Ohio, in 1861. Mr. McClenen is a gunsmith by trade and during the war was inspector of arms at Fortress Monroe; he is now engaged in farming. 'He was born the night the British burned Washington, D. C., during the War of 1812. His family includes two sons and three daughters.
The Runyan family is of Scotch-Irish lineage, and the first representatives in this country settled in Virginia. A sister of our subject's grandfather was captured .by -the Indians and never recovered. Abraham and Sophia (Lynch) Runyan, the grandparents of our subject, came to Ohio early in this century and to Clark County. in 1811. The. husband served during the War of 18.12, and was a prominent man in his township, filling various local offices, and both he and his wife were leading members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They settled on eighty-six acres of land which was increased to one hundred and thirty-six. This property had been cleared and well improved by Mr. Runyan prior to his death, which occurred in
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1836, at the age of fifty-six years. His widow survived until seventy-five years old. Their nine children married and reared families. One of these, Henry, was born in Warren County May 15, 1809, and was an infant of less than two years when the family located near Asbury Church in Clark County.
Henry Runyan was reared on a farm , receiving his education in the traditional log school-house with its greased paper windows and primitive furnishings, and after completing his own studies taught in the home district. In 1834, he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Catawba and after ten years thus occupied, turned his attention to agriculture. In June, 1856, he removed to his present home, taking possession of fifty acres to which he has added thirty acres adjoining. He also owns another farm of one hundred and sixty-six acres, also in Pleasant Township. He has made his own way through life and has given his children about $5,000, while rearing his large family well and making preparations for his declining years. The only assistance which he received, aside from his education and training, was $237 which came to him from his father's estate. He has served as Trustee, Appraiser, and in other local offices for many years. For fifty years he has belonged to the Masonic fraternity. His first political adherence was given to the Whig party and he afterward joined the Republican ranks, while during the war he was a strong and active supporter of the Union. He united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1828, and has held offlce in that denomination continuously and to its work has devoted much time and money.
The first wife of Henry Runyan was Rachael Jones, who was born near Harper's Ferry, Va., in 1815. This lady was the only child of John Jones and wife, who settled in Ohio about 1817. Her father had a large family by his second wife. Mrs. Rachael Runyan was the mother of the following named children: Abe, William H., John W., Martin L., J. Milton, Esther A., Francis M., Mahala F., and Susan E.; and two infants who died unnamed. Francis M. enlisted in the fall of 1861, in Company F, Forty-fourth Ohio Infantry. The brave lad, who was but sixteen years old when he joined his country's defenders, was killed in his first battle, at Lewisburgh, W. Va., in May, 1862. The affectionate and devoted wife and mother died October 23, 1853.
The widower subsequently married Mrs. Lucia M. Chapman, who was born in Portage County, June 1, 1819. She is a daughter of William and Lucretia (Sisson) Eaton, who were born in Stafford, Vt., and Wilberham, Mass., respectively, and who came to Portage County, Ohio, in 1818. Thence they removed to Geauga County, and afterward to Missouri. Their daughter, Lucia, became the wife of Enoch S. Chapman, to whom she bore one son, Enoch C. Her marriage to Mr. Runyan has been blessed by the birth of three children—Charles H., Lucretia M., and Cora B. A portrait of Mr. Runyan is presented in connection with his personal sketch.
THOMAS KENNEDY. In summing up the list of the pioneer citizens of Clark County the name of Mr. Kennedy should by no means be omitted. His career, perhaps, is not widely different from that of others who came to the wilds of the Buckeye State during its early settlement and assisted in advancing its growth and prosperity. As the result of his labors, he is now in the enjoyment of a comfortable home on section 5, Moorefield Township, and is undeniably in possession of the confidence and esteem of those around him.
A native of Baltimore, Md., the subject of this notice was born June 19, 1832, and is the son of Thomas and Eleanor (Barker) Kennedy who were likewise natives of that State. In 1835, when Thomas was a lad of three years, they emigrated to Ohio and located for a time at the infant city of Springfield.. It then bore little resemblance to its present condition, being an unimportant hamlet with little indication of its future prosperity. Not long afterward the father purchased a tract of land from which he opened up a good farm and there with his estimable wife spent the remainder of his days.
During his younger years he had been a seafaring
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man and was Captain of an ocean 'vessel. He spent twenty-five years on the briny deep, but after coming to Ohio settled contentedly down to farm life and died in 1868. The mother had passed away in 1856. Of the seven children born to them only four are living, viz.: George F., a physician and a resident of Kentucky ; Thomas, our subject.; Julia, the wife of Daniel Twichell, of Champaign County, this State, and Emma, Mrs. Speck, a widow of Springfield. The deceased are William B., Eleanor E. and James J.
Mr. Kennedy, of whom we write, received a limited education in the primitive schools and assisted his father in the cultivation and improvement f the farm. He learned the art of plowing, sowing and reaping as soon as old enough, and when approaching manhood supplemented his education by an attendance of one year at Delaware University. This and his habit of observation and reading fairly well fitted him for the future duties of life. 11e took the first important step toward the establishment of a home of his own, December 29, 1858, being married to Miss Elizabeth A., daughter of Thomas C. Wilson, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this volume.
Mrs. Kennedy was born March 18, 1834, in Clark County, Ohio, and under the training of a careful mother developed into an intelligent and attractive womanhood. She acquired her education in the common school and remained a member of her father s household until her marriage. Of her union with our subject there have been born five children, the eldest of whom, a daughter, Alice E., is the wife of H. S. Fairchild and they make their home with her father, he occupying himself as a school teacher; Anna B. remains under the home roof, also Mary J. The deceased children, Ella and Frank, died at the age of two years and two weeks.
Mr. Kennedy owns two hundred and ten acres of choice land and avails himself of modern methods and the most approved machinery in the cultivation of the soil. This property has been accumulated by his own perseverance and industry and assisted by his faithful and capable wife. Both are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church attending services at Moorefield Chapel, and Mr. Kennedy officiates as Steward. Politically, he gives his unqualified support to the Republican party. Since his voting days began he has never missed a Presidential election and he keeps himself thoroughly posted upon the leading events of the day. He is a good provider for his family, a kind and hospitable neighbor and enjoys the association f many friends.
GEORGE WATT, M. D. and D. D. S. This gentleman, although still nominally editing the Ohio Journal of Dental Science, has partially abandoned his literary work on that journal, with which he has been connected since its establishment in 1880, and to whose success his own fluent and profound writings contributed so largely. His literary ability and culture are of a high degree of excellence, while his understanding of dental science and of medicine is thorough. Possessing the power to interest those to whom he speaks or for whom he writes, and to place clearly before them his own knowledge and theories, he has been able to do much to advance the sciences in which he is interested.
Dr. Watt is a native of this county, being a son of Hugh Watt, who became a resident here in 1817, coming hence from Western Pennsylvania. The father was born in the North of Ireland, but was of Scotch blood, and emigrated to the United States when a young man of nineteen years. He located in the Keystone State, where in due time he married Miss Isabelle Mitchell, who was born near Pittsburg. He remained for some time in that State, occupied at his trades of a wheelwright and a chairmaker, and also doing agricultural work. Filially with a family of seven children he came to this section, settling in the eastern part of Greene County, near where Cedarville now stands, buying land that had been but slightly improved. There he made his home, and remained until his death in 1857, his wife having preceded him to the tomb, breathing her last in 1847. The land which he occupied was by his exertions and wise management made into an excellent farm, and marked with good
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improvements. The family were members of the Covenanter Church, and as one of the tenets of their faith is freedom to the entire human race, the elder Watt would not take any oath to hold office under a constitution that permitted human slavery. He was a believer in the principles of the Whig and Abolition parties, and his house was one of the depots on the underground railroad route from Maysville, Ky. (then called Limestone), to Detroit, Mich., which is known to this day as the Limestone road.
The eyes of George Watt opened to the light March 14, 1820, and he grew to maturity on his father's farm, receiving his fundamental education in that district, and continuing his studies in the Boys' Academy of Thomas Steele, where he learned to think, and in Ripley College. For a time he pursued the vocation of a teacher in this and in Adam Counties, after which he took up the study of medicine, under Samuel Martin, M. D., who had studied in Londonderry, Ireland. With that physician he read two years, attending lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, in Cincinnati, and receiving his degree of M. D. in the class of 1848.
After receiving his diploma Dr. Watt engaged in the practice of his profession in Xenia, in Fayette County, Ind., at Kenton, Ohio, and in Cincinnati, continuing his labors for a number of yeas. He also made a study of dentistry, being graduated from the Ohio Dental College in 1854, and subsequently occupying the Chair of Chemistry in that institution. He was the first man who adapted a chemical course of lectures to a dental class. He held the Chair in the above college until interrupted by the war, and after his return from fields of battle, was again a member of the faculty as long as he was able to continue the manipulations necessary.
On May 2, 1864, Dr. Watt enlisted in the United States service as Surgeon of the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio Infantry, which acted in West Virginia as a component part of Gen. Kelly's railroad division. While in the service he received an injury from a horse, which has caused progressive locomotor ataxia. His connection with the dental college was resumed when he returned from the field, and continued until 1871. During a portion of this time he practiced his profession in Cincinnati, and he was also the proprietor and manufacturer of dental supplies. The Ohio Dental State Journal was established in 1880, Dr. Watt accepting the position of editor, which, as before stated, he still retains, although on account of paralysis of the hand, of a very recent date, he is partially unable to continue the contributions from his pen, which had so long been a feature of the journal. For twenty years he was connected with the Dental Register, of Cincinnati, and with Dr. Taft, of the University of Michigan, he became a joint proprietor and editor of the Dental Register of the West.
Many positions of prominence in various societies have been held by Dr. Watt, and his name is widely known to the members of the dental profession. He became a member of the Mississippi Valley Dental Society as early as 1852. He was a delegate to the American Dental Convention. held in New York in 1856, and Vice President of it. He has also been President of the A merican Dental Association, of the Ohio State Dental Society, and twice held a similar official station in the Mad River Dental Society. In 1854, the year in which he was graduated from the Dental College, a prize Of $100 was offered for the best popular essay on Dental Surgery, a prize which was awarded to him; and a Philadelphia publisher has since published a collection of Watt's Chemical Essays.
The estimable and cherished companion of Dr. Watt, with whom he was united in marriage April 16, 1845, bore the maiden name of Sarah J. McConnell. Her father, Samuel McConnell, with his family floated down the Ohio River on the same boat with the father of our subject, and the two families lived but nine miles apart. Dr. Watt and the young lady who became his wife, however, never met until the latter was a young lady eighteen years of age. They have one adopted daughter, Mrs. W. S. Sillitto, whose husband is a dentist in Xenia. On her adoption Dr. and Mrs. Watt desired her baptism, but as she was the child of unbelieving parents it was refused by the. United Presbyterian Church. They pressed the matter, and it was then referred to the synod, causing a revolution in the denomination. As the State made
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no provision for legal adoption, it was necessary to get an act passed, and the Doctor therefore was instrumental in revolutionizing the law of the State also.
Dr. Watt, his wife, and their daughter also, belong to the Third United Presbyterian Church of this city. Not only for the work which he has accomplished in the fields of professional science, but for his own upright manhood and personal qualifications and attainments, Dr. Watt is highly respected, and fills a prominent place among the citizens.
JOHN G. MINER, undertaker and dealer in household furniture, has been for some years doing a thriving business in Jamestown, Greene County, where he established himself in 1862. He is one of that class of men who began in a modest manner and who by perseverance and industry have worked their way up to a good position, socially and financially. For many years he carried on the manufacture of furniture and caskets, having turned out of his shop nearly four hundred burial cases, before he could receive his supplies from other markets. Many a lime he worked all night to fill his orders, especially during the times of epidemics and at one time worked five nights and five days without lying down on a bed. He possessed an iron constitution but his long-continued labors had a sensible effect upon his health. He is now taking life more easily, the business being mostly conducted by his son Frank.
Mr. Zeiner was the pioneer in this business in Greene County, having established the first furniture shop in Jamestown and since then has had very little competition. He has always turned out first-class work and is noted for his honesty and reliability. He is the oldest undertaker in the county and keeps a full stock of everything required in this line. Considering the fact that he came to this section without means and $300 in debt, he certainly deserves great credit for the position which he now occupies. He has canceled his indebtedness and acquired a handsome property.
Prior to his removal to .Jamestown Mr. Zeiner was for two years a resident of Cedarville, to which he removed from Lewistown, Pa. He learned his trade there under Anthony Felix, an undertaker and cabinet-maker with whom he served an apprenticeship of three years. Besides his board and clothing, he received the first year $15, the second year $20 and the third year $25. He consequently had nothing saved and it took hard labor and close management in order to gain a foothold after commencing in business for himself. He became a skilled workman, however, and was not afraid to exhibit the product of his handiwork anywhere in the State.
The subject of this notice was born on the other side of the Atlantic in the Kingdom of Bavaria, January 7, 1827. He is of stanch German ancestry, as far back as is known, and the son of John G. Zeiner, Sr., a native of Saxe Coburg, who in early life followed the prfession of a musician, and later, for a time, was engaged as a shoemaker, but finally turned his attention to farming. He married Miss Maria Fink, likewise a native of Bavaria and of German parentage. After the birth of three children they set out in the spring of 1840 for America, taking passage at the port of Bremen on the three masted sailer, "Sophia," which after a tedious and dangerous voyage of two months during which they encountered frightful storms, landed them in the city of Baltimore, thence proceeded to McAlisterville, Pa. Later they removed to Lewistown in the vicinity of which they settled and where the father and daughter Margaret died. The former was seventy-three years old. The daughter had been married and died at the age of thirty years. The wife and mother continued to reside in Lewistown and died in 1883, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. ' She came of a good family and was the daughter of an officer in the German Government. Both she and her husband were consistent members of the Lutheran Church.
The subject of this notice was married near Lewistown, Pa., February 24, 1853, to Miss Mary Bcwer. This lady was born near that place, in 1832, and was a daughter of George and Sarah (Sares) Bower who were natives of Pennsylvania and of Holland-Dutch stock. The parents died in middle life and when their daughter Mary was a small
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child. She was then taken into the home of her uncle, Ira Sares, who is still living in Pennsylvania and is now quite aged.
Mrs. Zeiner was treated like an own child, being well reared by her uncle, and given a good education. Of her union with our subject there have been born six children, the eldest of whom, James O., died at the age of twenty-three years; he was a promising young man, a blacksmith by trade and one in whom his parents took especial pride. In their sore bereavement they were tendered the sympathy of the entire community. The surviving children are recorded as follows: Frank married Mrs. Anna J. Hickson of Jamestown ; they live on Xenia Street and Frank has the management of his father's business in town; Margaret is the wife of C. L. Crain, a saddler by trade and they live in Cedarville; William married Miss Rosa Harness and they reside on Xenia Street, Jamestown; this son is a carriage-maker by trade. Flora is the wife f C. M. Ridgeway, Jr., and they live at Yellow Springs where he is occupied as a druggist; Albert is unmarried and remains with his parents, assisting his father in the store.
Mr. Zeiner, politically, is an uncompromising Democrat. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in Blue Lodge, No. 352 which he joined at the time of its organization.
WILLIAM J. RAMSEY. The farmers of Clark County are generally men of intelligence, good character and enterprise, who manifest their zeal not only in furthering their worldly prosperity but in advancing every worthy cause. They are desirous of bestowing upon their descendants better opportunities than they themselves enjoyed and encourage to the utmost the aspiration of the young toward all that is elevating and progressive. Of this class is the subject of this sketch, who is numbered among the citizens of Madison Township.
The natal day of our subject was September 7, 1842, and his birthplace the City of Brotherly Love. His parents were Samuel and Catherine (Elliott) Ramsey, who came to Ohio in 1856. Here the father died June 16, 1883 ; the mother is still living and is now sixty-six years of age. She is a daughter of George Elliott of Philadelphia, formerly from Ireland, who married a Miss Reid. The gentleman of whom we write received his education mainly in his native city which he left at the age of thirteen years. The first few years of his life in this State were devoid of unusual interest, his time being spent very much as was that of other youths. After the breaking out of the Civil War he desired to assist in the preservation of the Union, but was at first refused on account of an injured arm. He finally succeeded in his desire, and becoming a member of the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Infantry went to Fayette County, W. Vu., where the command did garrison duty. After having served his term and won his honorable discharge he returned to his home and the duties of civil life.
On December 18, 1866, Mr. Ramsey led to the hymeneal altar Miss Jennie Murray, who for nearly a quarter of a century has shared his joys and son: rows and ever shown herself a loving and devoted Wife and mother. She is a daughter of George Murray, one of the old settlers of the county. The young couple settled on the old Murray homestead where she was born. After living there about thirteen years they removed to their present location about a half mile from the village of South Charleston. They have six children: Murray E., George E., Nellie K., Joseph M., Annie Bernice LaFarche, and C. Wilbur.
The oldest son is a physician in South Charleston and now has a fair practice. He was graduated from the High School of South Charleston and afterward took a several years' course at the Ohio Umiversity where he studied civil engineering. He chose the medical profession and after studying with Dr. M. H. Collins, he entered the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, where, after a three years' course he was graduated. He had studied hard to obtain his diploma which he did at the age f twenty-one years, being the youngest graduate from the institution up to this time. The second son is also a graduate of the South Charleston schools, and is at present attending Delaware College. He is now in his Sophomore year and will
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graduate in '92. Already he is a fine linguist, having a natural aptitude for the study of languages. Nellie K. will graduate from the South Charleston schools this year and if she keeps her health will also obtain a college education, as she is very ambitious to excel in mental acquirements. Joseph is now fifteen years old and with the younger members of the family is attending school.
Mr. Ramsey has been a member of the School Board for six years and was President of that body five years. In politics he is a thorough Republican. He belongs to Fielding Lodge, No. 192, A. F. & A. M., f South Charleston, of which he has been Worshipful Master several timed; he is also a member of Adoniram Chapter at London, this State; and the Palestine Commandery of Knights Templar at Springfield.
HON. WILLIAM BALDWIN. This name is familiar to a large portion of the citizens of Clark County as belonging to one of its most prominent and popular men. He has filled many offices of trust and responsibility both here and elsewhere and has made for himself a fine record as a man and a citizen. His home for the last eight years has been on section 5, Moorefield Township, where he prosecutes farming to a moderate degree and also has various other interests demanding his attention. He is looked upon as a representative citizen—one who has been no unimportant factor in promoting the material interests of his township and county.
A native of Champaign County, this State, Mr. Baldwin was born January 11, 1834, and is a son of Judge Samuel V. and Catherine (Van Metre) Baldwin. The father was a native of Berkeley, Va., whence he came to Ohio with his parents at the age of ten years. The father secured a tract of land in Moorefield Township, adjoining that owned by his son, where he opened up a good farm, while at the same time prosecuting the profession of law. The Baldwin family became widely and favorably known in this part of the State. Samuel V. was a man thoroughly educated and one who kept abreast of the times, interesting himself in all that per tained to the welfare and advancement of his adopted State. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Joseph Baldwin, who for many years conducted a tannery in Girardstown, Va. One of his brothers had purchased land in Clark County which he finally traded for the tannery plant in Virginia, and then Joseph Baldwin and his family emigrated to Ohio and settled on this land which has been in the possession of some member of the family up to the present time. Grandfather Baldwin here spent the remainder of his days, dying about 1848 or 1850 in the house occupied by our subject.
Judge Samuel V. Baldwin practiced law the most of his life and for many years was the Prosecuting Attorney of Champaign County. When the office of Probate Judge was created, he was the first man elected to the discharge of its duties which he fulfilled with great credit to himself up to the time of his death. He began his law studies under the instruction of Gen. Israel Hamilton, a noted attorney of Urbana, in whose office he spent two years. He took great pride in his chosen profession, was a close student and an extensive reader and there were few points in common law of which he had not a thorough understanding. To him and his estimable wife there was born a family f seven children only four of whom are living, viz: William, of this sketch; Joseph, a resident of Springfield; Caroline, Mrs. James Anderson, of Urbana, and Frank, a farmer of Moorefield Township. Samuel Baldwin, when first becoming a voter joined the old Whig party and was a warm admirer of Henry Clay. Upon the abandonment of that party he cordially endorsed Republican principles of which he remained a firm supporter. The mother departed this life March 31, 1871, the decease of her husband occurring in September, 1861.
Samuel Baldwin, the father of our subject, had four brothers, namely : William, Joshua, Frank and John. William was a large land owner and was very prominent, being one of the very few who had money at that time; this he often loaned to those whom he considered reliable, and by so doing. assisted many to procure homes for themselves. He remained unmarried, and was a commissariat officer
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in Hull's army. Subsequently he founded the first Western wholesale dry-goods house in New York City under the firm name of Baldwin, Dibley and Work; in this enterprise John and Joshua afterward became partners. The New York house is still extant, operated by Frank Work. The other son, Frank, went to sea early in life and was never heard of afterward. The brothers successfully retired from business, William and John returning to Clark County, and Joshua settling in Columbus, Ohio. The only child of the latter, a daughter, married Thomas Rhinard, of New York City, and removed there, dying some years ago.
Mr. Baldwin, of whom we write, spent his childhood and youth .on the farm with his parents, assisting in developing the land and becoming familiar with the various pursuits of rural life in the pioneer times. He pursued his early studies in the public schools of Clark and Champaign Counties and at an early age signified his intention of following in the footsteps f his honored father, and after due preparation in the office of Ichabod Corwin, of Urbana, he entered the law department of Cincinnati College, where, after completing his studies, he successfully passed a rigid examination and received a diploma. He commenced the practice of his profession in Urbana and followed it until the outbreak of the Civil War, and then upon the same day that Ft. Sumter was fired upon, he determined to respond to the call for troops to assist in the defense of the Union, and enlisting was at once elected Captain of Company K, Second Ohio Militia, and went out with the ninety days' men, doing duty in and around Washington City for about four months. They also went into Virginia at the time of the battle of Bull Run and subsequently Capt. Baldwin was in command of the Post at Camp Upton, which contained large amounts of army supplies.
At the expiration of his first term of enlistment, the Captain re-enlisted as a private in Company G, Sixty-sixth Ohio Infantry, but was almost immediately appointed Second Lieutenant of the Twenty-sixth Regiment, which he soon afterward joined in West Virginia. Later under the command of Gen. Sherman he went with the Atlanta campaign, participating in the famous march to the sea. On the 18th of June, 1864, at Kenesaw Mountain, he was shot in the knee and disabled. While confined at the Cincinnati Hospital he was appointed a member of the Military Commission which tried the Kentucky guerrillas for crimes and misdemeanors committed against Union soldiers and citizens. He served with the Commission nearly one year, then rejoined his regiment with which be remained. Later he was appointed the First Lieutenant of Company C, Third Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, and served for some time after the war had ended. Before finally returning home he was oc- cupied as a clerk in the Paymaster-General's office at Washington, D. C., but finally resigned this position and returned to his native county where he engaged in agricultural pursuits.
The next important event in the life of our sub. ject was his marriage which occurred April 9. 1869, with Miss Emily Read. Mrs. Baldwin was a native of the same county as her husband and was born August 28, 1840. Her parents, Joel and Leah (Weldon) Read were early settlers of Champaign County in 1818. Mr, Read was a native of Delaware while his estimable wife was born in Pennsylvania. They spent their last years in that county.
Shortly after his marriage Mr. Baldwin removed to Kansas and settling in Wichita put up the first dwelling of any importance in that city. He resumed his law practice and sojourned there for a period of eight years. In 1876, returning to Washington, D. C., he was given a position in the War Department, and remained there five years and during the administration of President hayes, remaining until after the incoming of President Garfield. He finally resigned and returned to Ohio. In Wichita he served as City Attorney five years. also as Probate Judge of Sedgwick County one term and as a member f the Kansas Legislature.
In March, 1865, Mr. Baldwin had been commissioned by President Andrew Johnson as a Brevet-Major and after going to Kansas he served as a Colonel in the State Militia on the Staff of Gov. Osborn. While with the Veteran Reserve Corps he was the Commandant f old Ft. Sullivan, at the mouth of the St. Croix River. Old friends and old associations, however, proved a strong attraction and he finds himself nowhere so contented as
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in his native State. He is now serving his second term as Justice of the Peace in Moorefield Township and is also a member of the Township Board of Education. It is hardly necessary to state that in politics he is a sound Republican. He has been for many years identified with the Masonic fraternity and while at the Capital was a Master Mason in the C. B. French Lodge.
Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin, the eldest of whom, William Jr., makes his headquarters in the city of Springfield; Blanche, a well-educated young lady, occupies herself as a teacher; Leah and Read are at home with their parents. Mr. Baldwin has seventy acres of land, where with his family he lives comfortably and enjoys the confidence and esteem of those around him. He is looked upon as a liberal and public-spirited citizen and one who tenders a uniform support to the various projects calculated for the good of the people around him.
VINCENT GLASS. A long course of perse vering industry and prudent management on the part of the gentleman above named, has resulted in the accumulation of a competence which has enabled him to retire from the toils of life, and spend his declining years in ease and en. joyment. For seven years he has been living on a small farm in Silver Creek Township, Greene. County, to which he retired from the larger estate 'upon which he had spent thirty years of his active life. He still owns the farm which was the scene of his long and successful labors, it being located in the southern part f the township, and comprising one hundred and sixty acres. His present home is situated on the Washington and Jamestown Pike, and is supplied with every comfort. Here, surrounded by children and friends, Mr. and Mrs. Glass are passing "gently down the stream of time," their mental faculties unimpaired, and their good temper unchanged by the flight. of years and the struggles through which they have passed.
Mr. Glass was born in Campbell County, Va., June 3, 1815, and remained in his native State until he had entered his teens. He then came to Ohio with his parents, who located in this county. Their journey was made by teams, some four weeks being consumed in travel, during which time they camped by the wayside. The parents being poor and their family a large one, they made their start on rented land, all who were able to work assisting in various ways to build up the family fortune. Our subject, therefore, had no educational advantages, but being by nature endowed with good judgment and a bright mind, he ranks in the scale of intelligence with many who have received good advantages.
In Champaign County lived John and Susannah (Beaver) Stanley and. their family. They were natives of Virginia and South Carolina respectively, were married in the South, and had a family of four children when they determined to make a home north f Mason and Dixon's line. Early in the present century they settled on a new farm in Madison County, Ohio, where on September 15, 1815, a daughter was born that they named Delilah. Some time afterward the family removed into Champaign County, near Mechanicsburg, where the parents spent the remainder of their lives, living to quite an advanced age. Mr. Stanley was a Whig and a Republican, and both he and his wife belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were righteous people in all that term implies, and under their charge their children grew to maturity with a clear understanding of their duties and of the beauty of right living. Their entire family comprised twelve children, the larger number of whom are yet living.
Miss Delilah Stanley having been wooed and won by Vincent Glass, became his wife and true helpmate, sharing in every way possible in his struggles, as she has in his successes. She has borne him ten children, two of whom are deceased. These are, Susannah, who died at the birth of her first child, who has been reared by the grandparents and is called Ida M.; Louisa also left one child, Louisa Jennie, And this little one likewise was cared for by the grandparents. Of the surviving children of Mr. and Mrs. Glass we note the following: James A. married Lottie Stewart, and lives on a farm in Jefferson Township, Fayette
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County ; Elias, who married Lavina Hatfield, is operating his mother's farm in Silver Creek Township, this county ; William married Samantha Creamer, and is farming in this township; Lucinda is the wife of Samuel Tidd, a farmer in Delaware County, Ind.; Emeline is the wife of John Hargrave, whose home is in Jefferson Township,. this county; Flora is the wife of Daniel Bailey, a farmer in this township; Rebecca is the wife of Benjamin Byran, of this township; Charles married Ella Johnson and farms in this township.
In Campbell County, Va., William Glass and Lovina Ross were born, grew to maturity, and began their wedded life, in a farming community. Twelve children were born to them, and one had been removed by death before they came to Ohio, the youngest member of the family being at that time three years old. The subject of this sketch is the fourth son and sixth child. Five sons are yet living, all farmers and residents of the same township. For some time after their arrival in this State, life was quite a struggle to the family, but the father finally secured a home, where he and his good wife spent their last days. Mr. Glass was eighty-three years of age when he breathed his last, and his widow, who survived some time, reached the age of eighty-four- _years. She was a member of the Christian Church. He was a Whig and later a Republican, a man of excellent character and well respected. Although he lived many years he never had the pleasure of riding on the cars.
Mr. and Mrs. Glass, of this notice, are members of the Christian Church, and the husband is a stanch Republican. They have a host of friends in the county, where their reputation for honesty and goodness is unexcelled. The many friends of Mr. Glass*will be pleased to notice his portrait elsewhere in this volume.
LOFTUS W. LINTON. As a member of the farming community of Jefferson Township, Greene County, Mr. Linton has been a decided success. He resides a short distance from Bowerville, and makes a specialty of stock-raising, giving much attention to Poland-China swine. he settled upon his present farm in March of 1887, having removed hither from Clinton County. He was born in Wilmington, that county, March 21, 1864, and is the son of the Hon. Nathan M. Linton, who is still engaged in the practice of law at Wilmington. The father of our subject was also born in Wilmington, and fairly earned his title of Honorable by representing his county in the State Legislature. He was married in Clinton County, to Miss Mary A. Linley, who only remained his companion for about seven years. At her death four children were left motherless, of whom Loftus W., our subject, was then only two and one-half years old, and is the only survivor.
The paternal grandfather of our subject was Seth Linton, a native of Union Township, Clinton County, this State, where he was reared and married, and where he is still living at the age of seventy-four years. His wife, formerly Miss Sarah A. Moore, likewise a native of Clinton County, was a daughter of one of its pioneer families. She is still living, and although seventy-one years old, is active and healthy, and in full possession of all her faculties. Both she and her husband were reared in the Quaker faith in which Grandfather Linton served as an Elder, and the grandmother a preacher. The Lather or Seth was Nathan Linton, a native of Pennsylvania, a descendant of William Penn, and also a Quaker in religion.
Nathan Linton was one of the first settlers of Clinton County, migrating thither about 1800. He was a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and for many years was prominent in local affairs, offs.: elating as County Surveyor and Land Agent for a long period. He was likewise interested in agricultural pursuits, and was the first man to introduce fine wool sheep into Ohio. He likewise established the first nursery in Clinton County, and from it many of the first orchards of that region for miles around, were set out. He put up the first brick house in Clinton County, and this still stands firmly on its foundation as a fitting monument to its builder. He departed this life in 1860, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He was for many years an Elder in the Quaker Church, and one of the chief pillars in the church. Many and great have been
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the changes which he was permitted to witness during the transformation of a wilderness into the homes of a civilized and intelligent people.
Nathan Linton was married in Clark County, this State, to Miss Rachel Smith, a daughter of one of its earliest families. She died at the old home in Union Township about eighteen months after the decease of her husband, and was eighty odd years old. The male members of the Linton family have been members of the Republican party since its organization. Nathan Linton, the father of our subject, was an active politician as were they all, and he with his brothers became well-to-do. Both men and women put their shoulders to the wheel in building up their homes, and maintained an enviable position in their community. They were the warm friends of education and progress, and Seth Linton, like his kinsmen, contributed substantial aid to the establishment and maintenance of Wilmington College.
The subject of this sketch, after the death of his mother, was taken into the home of his grandfather, Seth Linton, with whom he remained until old enough, and far enough advanced in his studies to enter Wilmington College. On account of failing health, however, he was obliged to abandon his studies before being graduated. He then resumed the farming pursuits to which he had been reared, and on the 31st of December, 1885, took unto himself a wife and helpmate, being married at Wilmington, Clinton County, to Miss Cora L. Vanniman. Mrs. Cora Linton was born in Jefferson Township, Greene County, April 14, 1867, and is the daughter of William R. Vanniman. The latter, also a native of Jefferson Township, was born in February, 1840. His father was Benj Vanniman, one of the first settlers of Jefferson Township, a man who became well-to-do, and who was prominent among his fellow-citizens. He there lived and died, passing away when quite aged.
William H. Vanniman spent his boyhood and youth in his native county, and when reaching man's estate, was married to Miss Mary J. Chaney. This lady spent her childhood and youth at her birthplace in Greene County, and after marriage the young people settled in Jefferson Township. After a few years they removed to Bowersville, where Mr. Vanniman died June 26, 1880. His wife, Mary J., who was born October 26, 1845, departed this life at their home in Bowersville, November 24, 1881; both were active members of the Methodist Protestant Church. Of this church Mr. Vanniman was an officer for many years. Politically, he was a sound Republican.
Mrs. Linton received careful home training, and a good education, completing her studies in Wilmington College. She lived with her parents until their death, and is now the mother of two children, Nathan E. and William Noal. Mr. Linton in religious matters adheres to the Quaker faith of his forefathers. Mrs. Linton is a Methodist.
WILLIAM W. LEWIS, who has been for many years closely identified with the industrial interests of Springfield, where he has established a cozy, well-appointed home, hav ing in the pursuits of his calling won on independent competence, is a native of Clark County, and the son of one of its earliest pioneers, who bore an honorable part in developing its agriculture, and so aided in laying the basis of its material wealth.
Our subject was born in Moorefield Township, January 3, 1823, a son of Briton Lewis, a native of Shenandoah, Va. His father, James Lewis, who is supposed to have been a native of that State, removed from there to Kentucky, and there passed the remainder of his life. The maiden name of his wife was Mary Scott, and she was also a:Virginian by birth. She spent her last years in Indianapolis, rounding out a life of ninety-five years.
The father of our subject was a boy of six years whenhis father died, and he then went to live with his maternal grandparents. At the age of fourteen the plucky, resolute little lad struck out into the world for himself, and came to Ohio in 1802, the year that the enabling act was passed, by which Ohio took its place in the Union as a State early in 1803. He was a boy and alone in the world, but was not long in finding employment and friends among the pioneer farmers of the
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sparsely settled territory, where the greater part of the land was owned by the Government, and for sale at $1.25 per acre. He labored assiduously, and when not at work he studiously spent his evenings and spare time with his books, as his school advantages were limited and he was ambitious to improve his education. In 1814, he had laid by money enough to become independent, and he wisely invested some of it in a tract of timber land in Moorefield Township, of which he thus became an early settler. He built a log cabin, cleared twenty acres of land, and then sold it at an advance, and bought another tract of timber land on section 10, of the same township, and four miles north of the Court-house. Ile located there at the time of his marriage, and there his wedded life was passed in the busy labors of the pioneer, in hewing out and cultivating a farm, which under his good management was finely improved, at the time of his death, in 1840. He was an intelligent, wide-awake man, of practical ability, and was of much assistance in developing the township, with whose interests he so early identified himself, and his death, when but little past the meridian of life, was a blow to its interests. The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Sally D. Ward, and she was born in Greenbrier County, Va., a daughter of Col. William and Elizabeth (Anderson) Ward. She resided on the farm some years after her husband's death,. and' then came to Springfield, and was a beloved inmate of the home of a daughter till she died at the age of seventy-five years. She was the motherof six children—James, Rebecca, Mary, Cyrus, William W. and Eliza, of whom William and Cyrus are the only survivors.
William M. Lewis early years of his life on the homestead where be was born in the this, his native county, and amid the influences of pioneer life grew to a stalwart, noble manhood. The present generation can have but little realization of what its ancestry suffered in preparing the way for the coming civilization that was to make this one of the leading commonwealths among the Central Western States, but Our subject can attest to the truthfulness of the vivid pictures of those times drawn by Rufus King, in his "History of Ohio," published in the Commonweath series. Inwriting of the face of the country, he speaks of the "happy intervfing of rivers, valleys and uplands, with a soil nowhere sterile, but generally rich or fertile, covered with forests or open woodlands, spreading out in many parts into savannas or natural meadows, formerly known as prairies." He alludes to the life of sacrifice, toil, and often hardship, which the pioneers were obliged to lead here in the upbuilding of their homes in the primeval wilds; and tells of the rude log cabins that sheltered them, with clapboard roof, with or without a door, as it happened, with a patch of greased newspaper pasted over the hole made by the removal of a part of a log to serve as a window, and often with no floor ftenhe grojind, the whole sgrounde, perhaps, erected in a day, on the spot where the tall forest trees, from which the material was taken, stood in the morning.
He says of the new-comers into the State, "Their first necessity was to girdle the trees and grub a few acres for a corn crop and truck patch, sufficient for a season." After telling of the variety of game that furnished forth the pioneer's table, be speaks of the value of Indif corn as a food, and speaks of the delicious hoe-cake, ash-cake, johnny-cake, etc., which the thrifty housewives made of it, and further says, "This crop, convertible also into converta isk and whiskey, soon became the staple of the country." He says that there was no bread nor salt in those days, excepting that a small and precious supply of the latter was furnished by the scanty salt springs. But the pioneer life had its compensations, it was not all one dismal round of toil. The early settlers had their pastimes and festivities, such as the militia musters, the sugar camp, the bear hunts, shooting matches, the quarter race, house raisings, quilting bees, etc. And their life had its amenities, in that by common experience of hardship and toil they were bound more closely together than otherwise would havotherwise, and by their struggles with the forces of nature they were taught self-reliance, and were better fitted for the responsibilities of after life.
To return to our subject; he received his education in the primitive log schoolhouse of the