100 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF zens of the commonwealth, irrespective of political affiliations. Among the measures introduced and successfully carried through by our subject may be mentioned the act providing for the refunding of the State debt, reducing the rate of interest from six to three per cent; the act providing for the redistricting of the State for Congressional purposes; and the law defining the province and regulating the operations of insurance companies doing business in the State. He also secured the necessary legislation authorizing the building of Union county's magnificent new court house. Colonel Robinson was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the State insane Asylum, at Columbus, in 1888, said appointment coming through Governor Foraker and being renewed in 1893 by Governor McKinley. Of this board the Colonel has been president for the past two years. Politically, he is stanchly arrayed in the support of the Republican party and its principles, and religiously he and the members of his family are devoted adherents of the Presbyterian Church. The attractive family home is located on \Vest Fifth street, Marysville. As a man, Colonel Robinson is whole-souled, genial, generous and sympathetic, and his friends are in number as his acquaintances. His face is one indicative of strength of purpose, but of utmost kindliness, and his life has ever been as an open book from which all might read, and by reading learn of the noble character represented. May 12, 1868, Colonel Robinson was united in marriage to Miss Keziah Wilkins, daughter of A. F. and H. J. Wilkins, prominent and honored among the early pioneers of this county. Colonel and Mrs. Robinson have four children, namely: Harriet E., wife of Dwight Edwards; E. Gertrude, wife of Mr. Harry E. Smith, of Marysville; Martha C.; and Alfred James. STEPHEN BURKAM, M. D. , a prominent physician and surgeon of livhalia, claims West Virginia as the State of his nativity. He was born at Triadelphia, on the old national road, east of "Wheeling,” March 30, 1830, and is a son of Isaac and Nancy (Kiggin) Burkam. The paternal grandfather, Stephen Burkam, was a native of Ireland, but was reared in England, and came to America at the time of the Revolutionary war as a member of the English Cavalry. After the Colonies had achieved their independence he located in Virginia, where he reared a family and spent his remaining days. He served his adopted r:ountry as a soldier of the war of 1812, and was a close friend of Simon Gerty. On the maternal side the Doctor is of German descent. His grandfather, John Kiggin, was a native of Germany, and also came to this country with the English army to take part in the Revolutionary war. He located first in Washington county, Pennsylvania, but afterward removed to West Virginia, and subsequently to Virginia, where his death occurred. The parents of our subject both died in \Vest Virginia. The father was a farmer. Dr. Burkam is the eldest in a family of nine children, six of whom are yet living. He was born and reared on the old homestead where his father's birth occurred, and in the public schools of the neighborhood he began his education. His early privileges, however, were supplemented by study DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 101 in the college in Athens, Athens county, Ohio, where he remained for two terms. He then spent two terms as a student in Concord, Muskingum county, Ohio, and completed his literary education in Bethany, Virginia, in the year 1852. Wishing to enter the medical profession, Mr. Burkam then began study with Dr. Gilfillin, of West Alexander, Washington county, Pennsylvania. The following year he was a student in the office of Dr. Craycroft, of Triadelphia, West Virginia, and later spent two years with Dr. Connelly. He then attended lectures at the Rush Medical College, of Chicago, and was graduated at that institution in the class of 1855, after which he at once entered the marine service of the United States Army as hospital steward. After seventeen months he was promoted to the position of Lieutenant in the medical department and sent to the frontier. While on that trip he visited Florida, New Orleans, Jefferson Barracks, near St. Louis, and many other points. He was on the first Government boat that went up the Mississippi river, and in his official and professional capacity visited all of the main places on the frontier. After being mustered out at Fort Scott. in 1859, he returned to West Virginia. It was at this time that the Doctor was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca J. Maple, a native of the Old Dominion. To them were born five children, but one of the number, Perry B., is now deceased. The others are Letha V., wife of Clinton Higby, of Indianapolis, Indiana; Cobah, wife of Charles Watt, of York Center; Arizonia, wife of George Wells, of Galion, Ohio, and John W., who is employed as telegraph operator and station agent on the Hocking Valley Railroad at Lovell, Ohio. After his marriage Dr. Burkam removed to Osage county, Missouri, and opened an office in Chamois, where he engaged in practice until the early part of 1862, when he enlisted in the First Virginia Infantry. After serving for three months as a private he was mustered out, but at once re-enlisted, becoming a member of company D, First Virginia Infantry, with which he continued until the close of the war, when he was mustered out at Wheeling. He took part in the battles of Stonewall and Port Republic, where he was wounded in the hip, after which he was transferred to the medical staff and did service in the Shenandoah valley until 1864, when he was sent to St. James. He was a second time wounded at Cedar Creek on the nineteenth of October, 1864, being surprised by a guerilla, who struck him over the head with a carbine, fracturing his skull, cutting his face and otherwise badly bruising him. He continued on duty all through that day and on into tin night. He was a gallant soldier, possessed of a spirit of bravery and courage that never faltered, no matter what his service. He acted as Brigade Surgeon with General Sigel, was then detailed to take charge of the field hospital, and at length was mustered out with the rank of Major. On the twenty-seventh of July, 1865, Dr. Burkam came to Union county, locating in Newton, where he remained until the following March, when he went to Broadway. He there made his home during the greater part of the time until 1884, engaged in active practice. During that time he did the largest business of any physician in the county. On leaving Broadway he removed to Harpster. \Vyandot county, where he continued until 1891, in which year he became a resident of Vanlue, Hancock county. 102 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Since the twenty-second of August, 1894, he has resided in Byhalia, and has already built up a good practice. The Doctor is a member of Robins Post, No. 96, G. A. R., and in his political affiliations is a Republican. He has always been an enterprising and progressive man in whatever community he has resided, and is recognized as one of the leading citizens of Union county. WILLIAM BRUNDIGE, a farmer of Westfield township, is a son of Nathaniel Brundige, a native of Connecticut. He moved to New York State when about fourteen years of age, locating near Newburg, on the Hudson river. He came with his family to Ohio about 1806, and made a permanent settlement in Marlborough township, then Delaware county, where his death occurred at the age of eighty-four years. His wife, Annie Brundige, died there at about the same age. They were the parents of six children: Stephen, Nathaniel, Thomas, John, Annie Wyatt and Sarah Bush, all now deceased. The mother of our subject was Elizabeth Kniffen, a native of New York. The parents were married in that State, and came to Ohio in 1806, locating in the same township as his father. He cleared 160 acres of land. In political matters the father was identified with the Whig party, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Brundige were the parents of nine children, namely: Mary was the wife of Reuben Drake; Annie married James Trindle; Levina was the wife of Samuel D. Wyatt; Elizabeth was the wife of David Mitchell; Rachel was the wife of Luff S. Hull; James married Levina Bush; Sarah was the wife of Evan Norris; William is the subject of this sketch; John married Harriet Taylor. The father died in 1825, aged fifty-four years, and the mother departed this life at the age of seventy-five years. They were Baptists in principle, but never united with any church. William Brundige, the only one of his father's family now living, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, Deceruber 3, 1808, the first male child born in that county. After the death of the father, the three sons remained on the old homestead with the mother, and William remained there eight years after his marriage. He then purchased and located on his present farm in Westfield township. then Delaware county. He now owns 425 acres, most of which is under a fine state of cultivation, and is engaged in general farming and stock raising. In an early day he was identified with the Whig party, and has since cast his vote with the Republicans. He has spent nearly his entire life in this county, and has been an active worker in its growth and development. July 1, 1830, our subject was united in marriage with Philura Smith, a native of New York, and a daughter of Elijah W. Smith, one of the early pioneers of this county. To this union were born four children, the two eldest dying in infancy. Bennett S. married Jane McLead, resides in Delaware county, and they have two children: William, who married Mary Price, and has four children; and Josephine, wife of Andrew Hushea, and they have one son. The second child of our subject, Harriet, is the wife of John C. Lewis, and resides in Bennington township, Morrow county. Our subject made for his daughter, Harriet, a good provision, giving her $Soo in cash, a team, three cows, and a large outfit of household DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 103 goods. They also have two children,—Bryant and Philura Victoria. The eldest is married and has one child. Mrs. Brundige departed this life August 3, 1888. NEWTON E. LIGGETT, who holds distinctive prestige as one of the most enterprising and successful young business men of Marysville, Union county, Ohio, must assuredly be accord:2d representation in this volume. He traces his ancestral lineage, in the agnatic course, back to the Old Dominion, that cradle of much of our national history, that section so opulent in romance and in memories of the chivalric days when the first families of Virginia were in the height of their gentle and stately glory. From records extant we are enabled to follow the genealogy of our subject back to the original Virginia ancestor, noting briefly, in passing the prominent part each generation has taken in contributing to the development and prosperity of the sections of the Union with whose interests they have been identified. Luther Liggett, of Mill Creek township, Union county, Ohio, was born October 11, 1836, a son of Absalom and Millie (Carr) Liggett, the former of whom was born in Ross county, Ohio, Oct ober 9, 1810, the so:i of James Liggett, who was a native of Hardy county, Virginia (now West Virginia), where he was born in 1778. In 1810 James Liggett left his native State and emigrated to the wilds of Ross county, Ohio, where he remained for a period of seven years, when he removed to Delaware county, this State, and settled in that locality of which the village of Ostrander now forms a part; here he remained until the time of his death, which occurred in 1864. Absalom Liggett was the fourth of a family of ten children, whose names are here given, in the order of their birth: Job, Joab, Abner, Absalom, William, Millie, Conrad, Susan, James and Gideon,—all of whom have now been gathered to their fathers. Absalom was married in 1833 to Millie Carr, who bore him ten children, eight of whom lived to attain maturity, Luther being the eldest of the family. He was married, in 1857, to Maria, daughter of James W. and Laura R. (Kinney) Wilkinson, and they became the parents of seven children, one of whom (a daughter) died in infancy; the remaining six still survive, namely: Newton E., who is the immediate subject of this review; James A., Louisa A., Mayne L., Clara M., and Henry C. After his marriage Luther Liggett rented a farm and lived thereon until 1869, when he effected the purchase of ninety-six acres, which nucleus was subsequently enlarged by successive increments until he ultimately found himself the possessor of 300 acrse of most valuable land. He gave special attention to the breeding of short-horn cattle and conducted extensive operations in this branch of his farming business. He served for four successive terms as a member of the Union County Board of Agriculture, having held the preferment as vice-president of the organization for two years. Trusted implicitly by his fellowmen, and held in the highest esteem, he was called upon to render service to the local public in numerous offices of trust and responsibility, having served as Township Clerk, Treasurer and Trustee. In October, 1882, he was elected a member of the Board of County Commissioners, and in this, as in all other offices which he had filled, he was faithful to the trust reposed in him, his efforts meeting with 104 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF appreciative favor. In politics he was a stanch adherent of the Democratic party, and was an active worker in its cause, having been a delegate to State and county conventions on many occasions. He was distinctively one of the public-spirited men of the county, progressive and possessed of an intellectual individuality which enabled him to readily determine as to the merits of any cause or the expediency of any action looking to the benefit of the public. He continued to reside in Mill Creek township until his death, which occurred August 2, I892. Within the latter years of his life he met with reverses, which seriously impaired his finances, but such was the intrinsic honor of his character and such the strength which enabled him to always live four square to his convictions, and such his fine appreciation of justice, that he liquidated all the claims against him at much personal sacrifice. He continued to take an active interest in the Agricultural Society of the county until his *death, and when he was summoned across the great divide " his friends, his neighbors and all who had known his honest worth mourned the loss of a true and good man, to whom most fitly might be given the "grand old name of gentleman." Luther and Maria (Wilkinson) Liggett were the parents of six children, to whom we now call attention by a brief record: Newton E. is the immediate subject of this review; James A. is a resident of Watkins, this county, where he is engaged in the agricultural implement business; Louisa is the wife of G. C. Shields, agent of the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad Company at Marysville; Mayne L., who passed an examination before the State Board of Pharmacy in '893, having also taken a course of instruction in chemistry, under the preceptorage of Pro fessor Young, of Ada, this State, DOW acts as assistant in the drug store of his brother, our subject; Clara M. and Henry C. are at home with their widowed mother, who resides one mile east of Marysville. Maria (Wilkinson) Liggett, mother of our subject, was born in Marysville, December 17, 1836, her parents having come hit her that year. Here they continued their residence until 1857, when they removed to Butler county, Nebraska, where they both died—the father March 25, 1882, and the mother March 7, 1875. Mr. Wilkinson served as Probate Judge of Butler county for two years, and while a resident of Marysville had held preferment as justice of the Peace. Newton E. Liggett was born on the old home farm in Union county, June 21, 1857. He passed his boyhood days in assisting with the work of the farm and attending the district schools, thus continuing until 1876, when he entered the Marysville high school, where he remained for two years, and then secured a position in the employ of McCloud Brothers, who were at that time engaged in the drug business in this city. With this firm our subject remained until 1890, with an intermission of only two years, one of which was passed in the employ of Charles Huston, a druggist at Columbus, and the other with the Marysville drug firm of Anderson & Son. In 1890 Mr. Liggett succeeded to the drug business conducted by john F. Zwerner, and since that time he has been carrying on the enterprise most successfully; his salesrooms being the most attractive in the line that the city affords, while the stock carried is of representative order, complete in all staple and fancy lines. Special care DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 105 and attention is given to the compounding of prescriptions, for which the facilities are unexcelled. Mr. Liggett is a member of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical association. In politics he espouses the cause of the Democratic party, and is now serving his second year as member of the City Council. Fraternally, he is a member of Marysville Lodge, No. loo, Knights of Pythias. His marriage was celebrated in this city September 10, 1890, when he wedded Miss Anna Gibson, daughter of George and Angeline Gibson, and a native of Marysville. They have two children, Luther and Eugene. Mrs. Liggett is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and also of the King's Daughters and the Rebekah Lodge. Their attractive home is located on East Fifth street. WALTER W. RHOADES, who is one of the representative agriculturists of Union township, Union county, Ohio, and who has a record for loyal and valorous service in the late war of the Rebellion, is a native of the Buckeye State, having been born in Muskingum county, near the city of Zanesville, August 15, 1835, the son of William Rhoades, a native of Pennsylvania, and of German lineage. The mother of our subject, the Margaret Irwin, was born in New Jersey, and her ancestral line traces back to bonnie old Scotland. Representatives of the family participated in the war of the Revolution, as well as in that second notable conflict, the war of 1812. The venerable father of our subject died July 27, 1894, at his residence in the vicinity of Marysville, this county, having attained the age of eighty-five years. The mother died at the age of seventy-one. William Rhoades was a Republican in his political belief, and religiously was identified with the Presbyterian Church, retaining his latter days the honor won by a long life of activity and unimpeachable integrity. His children were six in number, five sons and one daughter, of whom we make mention as follows: The eldest, Walter, is the immediate subject of this review. Orville was a soldier in the late Nv ar, was taken prisoner and expired in the wretched prison at Andersonville; at the time he was incarcerated he weighed 190 pounds, but the confinement and the hardships endured caused him to waste away, so that at the time of his death he weighed only sixty-three pounds; he was a member of the Eighteenth regulars, and was taken prisoner at Resaca, Georgia. Jacob M. also went out in the nation's defense, enlisting in the wo days' service: he died at Newton, Ohio. Horatio J., who was also in the same service, is now a resident in the vicinity of Broadway. this county; Cassius V. is a resident of Newton, this State; also Marian F., the only sister, died years ago. Our subject was reared to work on the farm, but was afforded the best educational advantages which were available, receiving a good education in the district, select and graded schools in Franklin county, and the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, and later on putting his acquirements to practical test by teaching for a time, proving a capable and successful instructor. At the time of the outbreak of the Civil war he was residing in Delaware county, this State, and in the hour of his country's need for valiant men and true, he was not found wanting, but enlisted August 9, 1861, 106 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF as a member of the Eighteenth Regulars. His regiment proceeded at once to the front, and the record shows that it participated in not a few of the most 'desperate battles of the war, among those in which Mr. Rhoades took part being the following: Mill Springs, Petersburg, Corinth, Shiloh, Stone River, Chickamauga, the siege of Atlanta, and then back to combat General Hood's forces at Nashville, Franklin, Fort Fisher, Bentonville, and Goldsboro. He then returned by railroad to New York, and thence to Ohio's capital city, Columbus, where he received his discharge in June, 1865. After the war Mr. Rhoades resided for some time in Delaware county, and thence removed to Union county, having secured possession of his present fine farmstead in 1890, the place comprising sixty-nine acres, unsurpassed in fertility and well improved, the location of the farm being about midway between Milford Center and the county seat, Marysville. The residence is commodious and substantial, and there are all necessary outbuildings essential to facilitating the work of the farm. Mr. Rhoades was married at the age of twenty-six years, being united to Miss Rebecca Johnson, the daughter of Levi and Margaret (Livingston) Johnson, both of whom were natives of the old Keystone State. The father died in 1872, his wife having passed away ten years prior to his demise. They had six children: Rebecca, wife of our subject, who was reared in Delaware county, receiving a thorough education and being for some time engaged in teaching, in which line of effort she met with pronounced success; George W., who participated in the late war as a member of the Eighteenth Regulars, and is now a resident of Prospect, this State; Margaret, now residing in Cleveland, Ohio; Mattie, at the close of the late Rebellion, was married to Captain E. Hicks, now a resident of Grant City, Missouri; and Allie, wife of Dr. H. E. Hyatt, of Delaware, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Rhoades became the parents of six children, namely: Maude, who was a successful teacher, is the wife of L. F. Wood, of Manchester, Tennessee; Claude O. is at home: Laud C. is a resident of Akron, Ohio: Zella, who died at the untimely age of eighteen years, was the wife of J. Harney, and her only child, Cassius, is now cared for by his maternal grandparents; Mattie and George Y. are at the paternal home. All of the children received good educational advantages, by which they duly profited. Mr. Rhoads is a stanch Republican and has been an active worker in the ranks, having been a delegate to the County Conventions of the party on numerous occasions. Fraternally he retains a membership in Ransom Reed Post, No. 113, G. A. R., of Marysville, which city is his postoffice. D. S. TALMAGE. — We now direct attention to one who stands conspicuous as one of the oldest and most honored pioneer residents of Morrow county; one whose identification with the history of the Buckeye State has been one of ancestral as well as individual order, and one who, after days of ceaseless toil and endeavor, is now passing the autumn of his life in retirement and gentle repose as a patriarchal citizen of the flourishing little city of Mount Gilead. A resume of such a life can never fail to offer both lesson and incentive. DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 107 D. S. Talmage is a native of Morris county, New Jersey, where he was born on the twenty-third day of April, 1814. His father, David Talmage, was likewise a native of New Jersey, and was a shoemaker by trade, following this honorable vocation during his entire mature life. He came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1816, his son, the subject of this review, being but two years old at that time. In 1836 he located in that portion of Marion county which is now incorporated in the county of Morrow, and here purchased a small piece of land, upon which he made his home, devoting himself to the support of his family by working at his trade. Here he continued to abide, a simple, noble, honest man, until death came to him at the venerable age of seventy years. He was of English extraction, having been a descendant of one of three brothers who left the mother country and took up their abode in America at an early day. The mother of our subject, net Ruth Whitehead, was a native of New Jersey, where she lived until she had attained mature years. She entered into eternal rest at the age of fifty-nine years. David and Ruth Talmage became the parents of three children, of whom we make record as follows: Nelson is deceased; D. S. is the subject of this review, and Maria is the wife of Elias Cooper, of Mount Gilead, this county. As has already been stated, our subject was a child of but two years at the time when his parents left their Eastern home and located in the pioneer frontier settlement in Knox county, Ohio. His scholastic discipline was of necessity very limited in scope, for the pioneer locality had its educational advantages as yet confined to the primitive log school houses, with their meagre accessories. Such advantages as these little schools afforded, however, our subject was permitted to enjoy. At the age of sixteen years he apprenticed himself to learn the carpenter's trade, and served in this way for a period of four years. Being then twenty years of age, he began operations as a journeyman and was thus employed for one year, after which he determined to put his mechanical acquirements to a practical test by engaging in business upon his own responsibility. In 1834,—two years prior to the removal of his father to this locality, —he came to Marion (now Morrow) county, and located in Mount Gilead, which has continued to be his home during all the long intervening years from that time to the present end of the century period. At the time of his arrival here the town's population was summed up in the aggregate of 150 individuals. He became a prime factor in the substantial up-building of the village, and in conserving its general advancement to its present position of importance and prosperity. There are still extant not a few houses of the large number which were erected by him in the village and neighboring townships. Two years after his arrival in Mount Gilead,—that is, in 1836,—he was united in marriage to Miss Susan Snyder, who was born and reared in Washington county, Indiana. The union thus cemented continued for more than an half century, fifty-six years, and was one of mutual devotion, unwavering sympathy, and earnest co-operation, -- a union in the higher and truer sense. In September, 1893, came to our subject the great loss and bereavement of his life, for then it was that she who had been his cherished companion during all the long years, with their varying lights and shadows, who had been a tender mother to his children, and who had stood tenderly by his side 108 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF while the years left their impress in silvered hair and bowed form, was gathered home to the life eternal. Hers was a life which left a benediction to those who mourn her loss, and was one which bequeathed its own measure of consolation. Our subject and his wife became the parents of three children, namely: John, who was a brave and gallant soldier in the late war of the Rebellion, and who is now deceased; Sarah, who is the wife of James Albaugh, and Nelson, who died at the age of sixteen years. Mr. Talmage is one of the oldest settlers now living in the county, and is one to whom is not denied the full measure of respect and veneration due to the man who has lived an honorable and useful life, and whose days have been prolonged to the limit of the unwonted four score years. For a number of years he was quite extensively engaged in the buying and selling of live stock, and he also owned a farm and operated the same successfully, notwithstanding the old saying that, He who by the plow would thrive, himself must either hold or drive,- the simple fact being that our subject never gave a day's time to following the plowshare as it turned the willing soil. Though he has never sought public preferment, yet Mr. Talmage served his county capably and acceptably for six years as Commissioner. He is an old-time Mason, having been identified with the various bodies of that noble fraternal order since 18—. BOLAND H. B. GRISWOLD. — Among the most prominent and most highly honored of the pioneer residents of Union county, Ohio, must the subject of this review be given a foremost rank, for not only is he a native of the State, but with its history has that of his ancestors been identified from a very early day, when they left their old home in New England and made their way across the weary intervening leagues between that section and the forest wilds of the Buckeye State. Our subject, who is one of the substantial farmers of Allen township, was born in Goshen township, Champaign county, April 1 9, 1816, the son of James Griswold, who was a native of Vermont. and who came from a very prominent old family of New England, — one of English extraction. James was the son of Esuriah Griswold, who married a Miss Boland, who was of Scotch ancestry. They both died in their native State. James Griswold grew to man's estate on the paternal farm in Vermont, and finally was united in marriage to Polly Beal, who was a native of Vermont, as were also her parents, Obadiah and Rebecca (Moodie) Beal. His parentage is not known. Obadiah Beal was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and he came to Ohio early in the present century, locating in Champaign county, where he died. In 1812 the parents of our subject left their native State and came through to Ohio, locating at Marietta, Washington county; subsequently they came to Champaign county, and settled on the white oak plains, two miles north of Mechanicsburg,—this being a portion of the Galoway land tract, where Obadiah Beal, the maternal grandsire of our subject, had also located. James and Polly (Beal) Griswold subsequently removed to Union township, this county, where they passed the remainder of their lives, the former dying in the village of Irwin Station, at the age of seventy-seven years, and his widow at the age of eighty-four. DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 109 Of their eight children we make record as follows: Melona Tarpning, deceased; Sarah, wife of Samuel Harris, died in Texas; Boland H. B., subject of this review; Hosea died at Loda, Illinois; Phedora died in early life; Sylvia M., wife of William Brown, died in Union county, Iowa; Rebecca is the widow of Ira Jones, and is a resident of Van Buren county, Iowa; Obadiah E. is a resident near Fountain Park, Champaign county, this State. In religion the parents and their children have been identified with the Universalist Church. Our subject was reared in Champaign county, lending an effective aid in its cultivation as he waxed strong in years. His educational discipline was confined to a few weeks' attendance in the log school-house of the district during the winter months, but this was sufficient to serve as the groundwork of the broad information which is now his, for his was an alert and receptive mind, and he was ever an avidious student and reader. At the age of fourteen years he assumed the responsibility of his own maintenance, hiring out to work on a farm and receiving on the start $7 per month for his services. He was thus employed for seven years, and in 1838 he came to Union township, this county, where he rented a dairy farm, known as the Gabriel farm, and gave his undivided attention to its operation for three years. At the age of nineteen years, with true filial solicitude, he purchased twenty-three acres of land in Champaign county, giving the same to his parents for a home. In 1850 he made the original purchase of eighty-four and one-half acres of his present farm in Allen township, making subsequent purchases until he had acquired a fine place of 151 acres. The same is under effective cultivation, and has buildings and other permanent improvements of excellent order. Mr. Griswold took unto himself a wife in the person of Miss Amanda Melvina Peck, their marriage being solemnized in Champaign county, October 29, 1837. Mrs. Griswold was born in the vicinity of the city of Cincinnati, the daughter of Thomas Peck, one of the early settlers in that section. Our subject and his wife became the parents of two daughters, namely: Cerepta J., who died March 10, 1849; and Cynthia Altina, who was a successful teacher in her early womanhood, and who became the wife of E. C. Marsh, who resides near her father's home ; they have one daughter, Lotta M., wife of E. M. Coe, of Union township. Grevious was the loss which came into the life of our honored subject February 24, 1874, when she who had been his devoted and faithful wife and cherished companion was called to enter into the life eternal. She had been his solace and comforter during thirty-seven long years, with their varying lights and shadows, and as the days fast lapsed into the realm of yesterday, and age left its imprint on their brows, they depended vet the more on each other, and found their thoughts, their hopes and their fears the more unified. But it has ever been that one should be taken, the other left, and the consolation is not lacking when a noble and consistent life is rendered into the hands of death, who opens wide the door of eternity and blessedness. Mrs. Griswold was a woman of gentle, kindly nature, and was loved by all who came to an appreciation of her unassuming worth. She was a devoted member of the Universalist Church of Woodstock. Mr. Griswold has rendered a most active 110 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF support to the Republican party ever since the same was organized, and has been called upon to serve in offices of public trust and responsibility. He was Trustee of his township for several terms, and was Justice of the Peace for two terms. Though now seventy-eight years of age, he preserves intact his mental faculties, and has retained much of the virile vigor of his early years. In address he is frank and genial, and he is held in the highest esteem as one of the pioneers of Allen township, and as a man whose character is above reproach. JOHN ELLSWORTH GRIFFITH. who has attained a marked prestige in a professional way, as one of the most capable young lawyers of Union county, Ohio, merits specific recognition in the list of those able professional men whose life histories are incorporated in this volume. He was born in Delaware county, this State, October 24, 1864, son of William H. and 'lane (Lodwig) Griffith, both of whom were born. in Radnor township, Delaware county. The father died in February, 1886, at the age of forty-nine years. He had passed his entire life in Radnor township and had been an agriculturist from his youth, save for a period of six years, during which time he worked at the carpenter's trade, following this vocation while a young man, but eventually resuming his allegiance to the art of husbandry. He was a man of broad intelligence and upright character, having been very actively identified with the Prospect Baptist Church. His parents were Owen and Catherine (Lewis) Griffith, who were natives of Wales and who came to the United States when about twenty years of age, their marriage being consummated in this country. They possessed those traits of character so characteristic of the Welsh type,—were industrious, frugal God-fearing people, intelligebt and ambitious. Our subject was the eldest of a family of four children, the following being a brief record concerning the other three: Mary R. died at the age of sixteen months; William H. died in 1891, at the age of seventeen years: Jennie E. resides with her widowed mother in Marysville, where our subject also maintains his home. John Ellsworth Griffith was reared on the old homestead farm in Radnor township, the place being still in the possession of the family, and comprising 240 acres of fine land. Here he passed his boyhood, assisting in the duties of the farm and attending the district schools during the winter months. When he had reached the age of fifteen he attended a select school for one term, and . two years later matriculated at Dennison University, Granville, Ohio, where he graduated in the preparatory department, having completed a prescribed three years' course of study in eighteen months,—a fact that is significant as indicatory of his native ability, his determination and his power of application. He then passed a short interval at the Ohio Normal School, in the city of Delaware, dividing his time between study and teaching. He then secured the preferment as teacher in the school of his home district, remaining in -charge of the same for a period of five months, after which he went to Cleveland and passed the summer in attending the Spencerian Business College, at which he graduated as a me.nber of the class of 1885. He had simultaneously devoted careful attention to the study of elocution under the efficient precep- DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 111 torship of Professor John W. Rusk, having manifested a marked talent for dramatic and character delineations and having profited much from the finishing discipline thus secured. After his graduation Mr. Griffith went to Prospect, Marion county, this State, where he assumed charge of the business department of a normal school that had been established at that point, also teaching in the literary department. He retained this position for nine months, when owing to the death of his father and his appointment as administrator of the estate, he was compelled to resign his pedagogic work and to return home and give his entire attention to the operation of the farm and to settling up of the business of the estate. He remained upon the old homestead for two years, and entered into the work with characteristic vigor, not only successfully cultivating the home place, but also operating for one year a farm of too acres, belonging to an uncle. While on the farm and encumbered with duties that would demand the undivided attention of the average man, he still found time and opportunity to continue his literary and scientific studies, being still imbued with the determination to secure a fully rounded education. In 1888 he went to Fostoria, this State, and entered the North American Normal School and Business College for the purpose of making a general review of his past work. Here his ability gained recognition, and he was soon called upon to teach in the institution, and within three months was honored with a professorship in the same,—teaching civil government, political economy, natural philosophy, physiology, physical geography, etc. He retained this professorship for one year, and then, in the fall of 1889, resigned the same in order to prepare himself for that profession to which he had determined to devote his life, for in early youth one of his limbs had been so badly mangled as to make it impracticable to long continue the active duties of the farm, in which he took great illterest. He went to Cincinnati and entered the law college, where he completed the prescribed course and graduated in May of the following year, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, being admitted to the bar of the State on the twenty-ninth day of the same month, and soon after to practice in the Federal courts. While in the Cincinnati Law College he was given distinctive precedence by being chosen as president of the senior class, which comprised 106 members; he was also president of the Mansfield Club, and was one of six chosen by the faculty of the institution, after a preliminary contest, to represent his class in forensic debate upon graduation day. Quick in intuition, and with a mental breadth which enabled him to judge and decide as to mooted points more readily than many who gave mature deliberation. he naturally came to the front in his class, and his powers of oratory also conserved this distinction, which he has been enabled to maintain when brought into practical forensic debate. August 4, 1890, Mr. Griffith took up his residence in Marysville, where he displayed the -shingle,- which denoted his vocation, and where he has since remained in the active practice of his profession, having gained a representative clientage and an enviable reputation. Politically, he is an ardent Republican, and is an active worker in the cause, haying been Chairman of the County Convention in 1894. He was appointed in 1894 by the Secretary of State, as a member for two years, of the Board of Supervis- 112 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF ors of Election, and for two years prior to that time was Clerk of that body; he is now serving his third year as secretary of the Union County Agricultural Society, and his second year as clerk of the Board of Health, of which he was a member for the year prior to his present incumbency. Fraternally, Mr. Griffith is identified with Palestine Lodge, No. 158, F. & A. M., of which he is Master at the present time; with Marysville Lodge, No. 87, I. O. O. F. ; with Marysville Lodge, No. too, Knights of Pythias; and with the Order of the Eastern Star, Mary Chapter, No. 9. He was married, September 19, 1889, to Miss Hannah E. McMillen, daughter of John P. and Belinda McMillen, and a native of Muskingum county, Ohio. They have one child, Lena Estelle. Mr. and Mrs. Griffith are members of the Congregational Church of Marysville, in which he holds official preferment as president of the Board of Trustees. He has also been superintendent of the Sunday school for the past three years. JOSEPH DAVIS, JR. - That honored resident of Union township, Union county, Ohio, whose life history now comes under review, is of ancestry tracing its lineage back to the Old Dominion, and of a family whose men have been loyal and valorous, having served their nation faithfully in time when war has reared its horrid front, he himself having left a military record which has added new honors to the name. He was born in this county December 3, 1837, his father, Michael Davis, having been born in Virginia, December 24, 1788, a son of George, who was a son of Michael, the original American ancestor. The father of our subject, Michael Davis, came to Knox county, Ohio, when he was a young man, and here he was later united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Shinaberry, who was born in Pennsylvania, October 18, 1798. They came to Union county in 1822, and at once took up their residence on what was known as Buck Run, in Union township, where they cleared up a tract of wild land and there passed the residue of their days. The father participated in the war of 1812, and was an honorable and loyal citizen. In politics he was originally a Whig, but united with the Republican party at the time of its organization. He died at the age of eighty-four years, and his widow lived to attain the venerable age of ninety-two years, her death occurring April 2 1, 1890; she was a worthy and zealous member of the Presbyterian church. Michael and Elizabeth Davis were the parents of eight children, namely: Catherine, William, Alexander, Mary, George W., Harrison, Nancy, and Joseph, the immediate subject of this sketch. Harrison Davis was one of the brave boys who went forth in defense of the Union at the time of the late war, and his life was sacrificed to the cause. He volunteered in Champaign county, in 1861, as a member of Company H, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served for four years. He went out as a private and arose by successive promotions to the full rank of First Lieutenant. He was killed at Missionary Ridge, and his remains were brought back to his old home for interment, his remains being laid to rest in the same county from which he went forth so bravely as a volunteer soldier. Joseph Davis, Jr., was reared on the old homestead farm and did his share of the DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 113 arduous work, assisting in felling the forests and in the work of cultivating the fields for which they made place. His education was confined to the district schools, but in the practical experiences of life his information has broadened out, giving him an intellectual grasp more potent than that which can be claimed by many a man to whom has been given the privilege of acquiring what is known as a higher education. In 1864 our subject enlisted as a member of Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in the vicinity of Alexandria, Virginia, for a period of four months, after which he received an honorable discharge and returned to his home in this county, where he has ever since remained. He has 115 acres of excellent land, which has been brought to a high state of productiveness under his careful and effective management, and which shows excellent improvement in the way of buildings. The marriage of Mr. Davis was celebrated August 24 of the centennial year, when he wedded Miss Rozalia DeHaven, who was born in Knox county, this State. the daughter of James and Elizabeth De-Haven, both of whom were natives of Knox county, Ohio, but who took up their residence in this county many years ago. The niotia died July 16, 1888, at the age of fifty-seven years. They had four children: Rozalia, wife of our subject; Joseph S., deceased; Michael, and William Shannon. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have five children. namely: Etta E., Lotta May, Bessie Ora, William B., and Joseph, Jr. In his political adherency our subject is a Republican, and fraternally he is identified with Silas Kimball Post, No. 570, G. A. R., of Milford Center.   JAMES EVANS FINLEY, who is one of the prominent and successful farmers of Union township, Union county, Ohio, is a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, the date of his nativity having been September 5, 1831. His father, James V. Finley, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1801, the son of Joseph Finley, who also was a native of the old Keystone State. The mother of our subject, m'e Elizabeth Williams, was born in Pennsylvania, coming from an old and prominent pioneer family. James V. and Elizabeth Finley took up their residence in Union county in 1845, and here the father passed the remainder of his days, his death occurring March 3, 1893. The mother died April 4, 1886. James Finley united with the Methodist Episcopal Church early in life, and for more than an half century remained a zealous member of the same, his life being in perfect consonance with the faith which he held. He was a class-leader in the church for many years. Politically, he voted with the Republican party, and his life was one characterized by honest endeavor, unimpeachable rectitude and unblemished honor,—attributes which gained to him the respect and confidence of his fellow-men. His children were eight in number, namely: Margaret, Joseph, James Evans, Robert, John, Frances (deceased), Mary and Alfred. Three of the sons were active participants in the late war of the Rebellion: Joseph, who was a member of the Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, is now a resident of Milford Center, this county; Robert, a member of the same company, resides at Peoria, this county; and John, who was in the 1 oo days' service, now lives in Auglaize county, this State. On the paternal farmstead, in Allen 114 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF township, our subject passed his youthful days, assisting in the work of the farm and being trained by both precept and example to honesty, industry and unselfishness. He received his educational training in the district schools, and when he had attained the age of twenty-three years he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Davis, daughter of Michael and Elizabeth Davis, pioneer residents of the township, the issue of this union being two children, Laura and Clara. Mrs. Finley was called to the life eternal August 28, 1875, and July 6th of the centennial year Mr. Finley consummated a second marriage, being then united to Miss Margaret Watson, daughter of William and Nancy (Mitchel) Watson, the former of whom died at the age of sixty-seven years, his widow still being a resident of Union township, where her daughter, Mrs. Finley, was born. They had six children, namely: Margaret, Isabella, Samuel, David, Metho, and Cornelia. Our subject and wife have one adopted daughter, Hattie. Mr. Finley has a finely equipped and highly cultivated farm of 111 acres, with a commodious and attractive residence and substantial outbuildings, all of which bespeak the home where prosperity and happiness find an abiding. place. In politics our subject renders an unswerving allegiance to the Republican party, and he has his opinions in this line, as in all others, well fortified, being a man thoroughly in touch with the progressive spirit of the day, and one whose fund of general informtion is large. His popularity in the community stands in evidence of his upright character and of his kindly and genial disposition. Concerning the daughters of our subject, we record that: Laura wedded William De Bolt and they reside in Union township, having two sons, Alvah and Rowley; and Clara is the wife of Edwin Osborn, of Union township, and they have one son, Johnnie. W. SHANNON DAVIS, who is recognized as one of the most prosperous and representative agriculturists of Union county, has his postoffice address at Milford Center, and his abiding place is the old homestead in Union township, where his honored parents located as early as 1854, the place being known as the McDonald farm. He is a native son of the Buckeye State, having been born in Clinton township, Knox county, August 6, 1839. The father of our subject was Joseph Davis, who was born in the Old Dominion State, the son of George Davis, who was the son of Michael, who was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Joseph was a mere lad when his parents removed to Pennsylvania, and was but fifteen years of age when they again sought a new home and a fresh field of endeavor in Knox county, this State, where they took up their abode in a primitive log house located in the woods. On this pioneer farm, to whose reclamation and cultivation he lent effective aid, he grew up and eventually assumed a personal responsibility and dignity by leading to the hymeneal altar Miss Lydia Shenaberry, who was born in Pennsylvania. They continued their residence in Clinton township, Knox county, until 1854, when they came to Union county and established themselves upon the farm now occupied by our subject. They became the parents of twelve children, namely: Mary, Michael, Nancy, Margaret, Elizabeth, Joseph, George, W. Shan- DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 115 non, Lydia Ann, deceased; Catherine, William, deceased; George (second), deceased, —the last three being deceased and one child having died in infancy. The mother died at the venerable age of eighty-five years, and the father lived to attain the remarkable age of ninety-eight years, being the oldest man in the county at the time of his death. It is interesting to note that they had forty-seven grandchildren, thirty-four great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Joseph Davis was a man of strong and athletic physique, standing six feet and two inches in height, and possessing great strength and endurance,—a constitution which conserved his phenomenal longevity. He was an honorable and industrious man, possessed of marked intelligence and ability, and became one of the prominent citizens of the county, where he was respected by all who knew him. He was a stanch adherent of the Democratic party, and religiously was a member of the Presbyterian Church, his wife having been identified with the Christian denomination. Our subject, W. Shannon Davis, was reared to farm work, and received his theoretical education in the district schools. The paternal homestead, which came into his possession in 189d., by the purchasing of the interests of the other heirs, is recognized as one of the best farms in Union county, being situated one and one-half miles northwest of Milford Center. The landed estate of our subject now comprises 360 acres, and all is under a most approved system of cultivation, yielding extensive crops and proving an excellent place for the raising of all kinds of live stock. The permanent improvements are exceptional in character and extent, the family residence being a substantial and commodious brick structure of modern and attractive architectural design, having fourteen spacious rooms, inviting verandas, cupola, fine landscape windows, etc., and standing as one of the most elegant homes in the county. The house is most eligibly located as to site, and can not fail to attract the admiring attention of passers-by. A barn 60x80 feet in dimensions, a granary 25x50 feet, and other substantial outbuildings acid to the equipment of the magnificent farmstead. Mr. Davis has a fine orchard of sugar maples, the same comprising fully 1,000 trees. Mr. Davis was united in marriage December 22, 1864, to Miss Caroline L. Ewalt, a lady of much intelligence and refinement. She was born in Knox county, March 4, 1844, the daughter of Richard D. and Phcebe (Douglass) Ewalt, who were natives respectively of Bedford, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The latter was the daughter of Captain William Douglass, an officer in the Revolutionary war. He built the first flouring mill in Knox county, Ohio, and established the first banking institution. Captain Douglass also built the first distillery in county, was recognized as the wealthiest man in this section, and his residence was the finest the county could boast in the early days. Richard D. Ewalt died at the age of sixty-three years, and his widow at the age of seventy-three. They were the parents of twelve children, namely: Camilla, Sarah, William, Simon, Catherine, Sophia, Rebecca, Henry, Emily, John, Caroline, one died in infancy. The father was a Democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. • The son John was was a soldier in the late war, serving three years, and is now a resident of Jay county, Indiana. W. S. Davis and wife are the parents of 116 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF five children, of whom we offer the following brief record: Charles V. married Nancy B. Dines and has one son, Raymond; Lydia A. is the wife of Aaron Gabriel and has one daughter, Nellie D.; and Joseph Richard, who is at home. The dead are: Nellie, who died September 13, t 89o, at the age of fourteen years; Maude, who died in March, 1888, aged three years. In politics Mr. Davis is firmly arrayed in the support of the Democratic party and its principles. Mrs. Davis is a devoted member of the Christian Church. Our subject is a man of marked intelligence and discrimination, has been an indefatigable worker, and has attained not only a high order of success in temporal affairs, but the respect and confidence of all who have had the privilege of appreciating his honorable and upright character. S. J. BRODRICK. ---The subject of this review is one who is to be individually considered as one of the representative citizens and business men of Union county, and as a representative. in a more abstract sense, of a family whose history has been honorably linked with this section of the Buckeye State for many decades. The genealogy of the family and other points of pertinent order are outlined in the sketches of our subject's father and brother, appearing elsewhere in this volume, and it is scarcely necessary to again cover the ground in this immediate connection. Mr. Brodrick is one of the leading business men of Pottersburg, Allen township, where he is conspicuous as a member of the firm of Brodrick, Spain & Irvine, manufacturers of drain tile and paying brick. The enterprise is one which in character of output and scope of operations compares favorably with any other in this section of the State, and it has been pushed forward to such a point as to render it one of the noteworthy industries of Union county. The plant was established and for some time operated by L. M. Crary & Company, as whose immediate successors the present firm figures. The output of the manufactory is second to none in finish and durability, and the business of the firm will reach an average aggregate of $3,000 each season. The firm are fortunate in their source of supply, securing clay of unexcelled quality, while they have access also to valuable deposits of white clay. The store-houses utilized are 260 feet in length, while the kiln is fifteen feet in the clear and twelve feet in height. Mr. Brodrick was born on the old homestead farm, known as the Brodrick farm, in Allen township, April 22, 1856, the son of Isaac and Sarah (Poling) Brodrick, concerning whom specific mention is made elsewhere in this volume. He was one of a family of eleven children,—seven sons and four daughters, and grew up on the farm, assisting in the work thereof and attending the district schools. He profited by the educational opportunities which were afforded him, finishing his education in the High School of North Lewisburg, Champaign county, Ohio, and was ultimately so far advanced as to be able to teach, which vocation he followed for some little time, proving a capable and acceptable instructor. He was a young man of good judgment and early manifested that practical ability which has stood him so well in hand throughout his entire life. For a time he worked at the carpenter's trade, and later on devoted DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 117 his attention to wagon and carriage work, at Pottersburg, where he still has a shop. The marriage of our subject was consummated February 23, 1877, when he was united to Miss Nancy Irvine, daughter of Leckey and Nancy "Maxwell” Irvine, honored residents of Allen township, this county, the latter being now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Brodrick have two children, Alpha and Myrtle E., and each one of the little family circle is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the local organization our subject has been a most zealous and active worker, having been devoted to the church and un d ay school and being the efficient and earnest superintendent of the latter. In politics Mr. Brodrick believes that the policies and principles advocated by the Populist party are best intended to conserve the interests of the nation, and he accordingly gives his hearty support to that organization, in W hose ranks he stands forth as a strong and courageous worker and one of much prominence in a local way. He is a delegate to the Congressional convention of his party this year (1894). Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, retaining a membership in Darby Lodge, No. 636, of Milford Center. As a man Mr. Brodrick is genial and courteous and enjoys a marked popularity and that respect which is ever accorded to one who directs his life along the line of unquestionable honor and integrity. JOHN B. MILLER, of Irwin Station, Union county, Ohio, is distinctively one of the representative farmers of this section of the Buckeye State, and one who holds conspicuous official preferment as Township Trustee of Union township. Mr. Miller is a native son of Ohio, having been born at Rosedale, Madison county, July 20, 1850, the son of James C. Miller, Jr., who is now a resident of Champaign county. The latter was born at Homer, this State, the son of James C. Miller, Sr., who was a native of the State of New York, where he was born in 1797, coming to Ohio when a young man of seventeen years. He married Zelenda Burnham, and they became the parents of seven children, namely: Harriet, James C., Zelenda, Lyddart, Eliphas, William Harrison and Rebecca. They both passed their declining days on the o!(1 homestead in Champaign county, where they died, the father living to attain the venerable age of ninety-four years. James C. Miller, Jr., father of our subject, was reared and educated in Madison county, where he remained until he attained maturity and where he married Miss Emeline Burnham, a native of Pike township, that county. She was the daughter of Darius Burnham. The issue of this union was three children, namely: Annette, wife of A. G. Hopkins, of Champaign county; John B., subject of this review; and Frank C., who is also a resident of Union township. James C. Miller, Jr., was engaged at the blacksmithing trade for many years, but eventually turned his attention to farming and stockraising. He has been an honorable and successful business man, and is held in highest esteem in the community where he lives, at the age of seventy years. John B. Miller grew to maturity on the farm and assisted in the work incidental to its cultivation. He was afforded excellent educational advantages, attending the public schools at Irwin Station, and then pur- 118 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF suing a course of study at Antioch College, this State. In 1890 he took up his residence on his present farmstead, comprising 166 acres, and recognized as one of the finest farms in the township. The place is particularly well adapted to stockraising, as it has several fine springs and brooks. The family residence is a modern frame structure of pleasing architectural design, erected at a cost of $2,000, while the place is well equipped with excellent barns and other outbuildings. Mr. Miller was united in marriage in 1871 to Miss Mary E. Hopkins, daughter of George and Sarah Hopkins, and four children were born to them: Louis B., Annette M., Harry R., and Pearl. Mrs. Miller was called into eternal rest April 8, 1883, and in 1884 our subject consummated a second marriage, being united to Miss Anna B., a daughter of Michael and Catherine (Hooven) Conner, of Union township. In politics Mr. Miller exercises his franchise in the support of the Republican party, and he has been an active worker in the ranks of that organization. He was elected as Trustee of his township in the present year (1894). He is a man of much intellectual force, is well informed upon current events, and is enterprising and progressive in his methods. A man of unimpeachable integrity, he retains the respect and confidence of his fellowmen and stands as one of the leading citizens of the community. JOHN WILLIAMS CROSS, a prominent citizen of Ostrander, was born in Union county, January 4, 1859, and is a member of an honored pioneer family of the Buckeye State. His great-grandparents, Robert and Naomi Cross, emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1812, bringing with them their household goods and two children,—Jane and Daniel. The journey was accomplished on horseback. They settled in Licking county, near Chatham, where Mr. Cross engaged in farming and also served as minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church of that neighborhood. Five children were born to them in Licking county: Mack, John, Nelson, Duncan and Ruth. Daniel Cross, the grandfather of (Mr subject, was married October 7, 1832, to Phoebe Howell, the second daughter of Hon. Elias Howell, and to them were born four sons and four daughters: George, Robert, John, Charles, Elizabeth, Sarah, Marietta and Harriet. This family removed from Licking county to Union county in 1857, and located a few miles north of Marysville. Before the removal, however, George Cross had married Margaret Patience Williams, a highly educated lady who graduated from the Granville Seminary, April 12, 1855. She was the sixth child in a family of ten children, and was born August 3, 1833. The others wc re Evan, Thomas, David, Jane, Benjamin, Benjamin, (the second of that name), Mary, Ann and John. Two of the number, Thomas and Benjamin, died in Wales, whence their parents, John and Mary Williams, emigrated to America in 1831. Mr. and Mrs. Cross have the following children, namely: David, Daniel, Howell, John, Charles, James, Edward, Anna and Frank. John W. Cross remained on the home farm until twenty-one years of age, during which time he attended the common schools and spent two years as a student in the high school of Marysville. He then turned his DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 119 attention to teaching, which profession he has followed continuously since with the exception of two years spent as a student in the Northwestern University, at Ada, when he was graduated in the class of 1888. He then came to Ostrander, and has since been Superintendent of the schools at this place. The schools rank among the best in the State for scholarship owing to his able and efficient management. In 1888 he was granted a teacher's life certificate by the Ohio State Board of Education, and in 1890 he was appointed County Examiner of Delaware county, which position he has since creditably and acceptably filled. In 1882, Mr. Cross joined the Methodist Episcopal Church of Marysville, but in 1893 withdrew his membership and united with the Presbyterian Church of Ostrander. For four years he served in the Fourteenth regiment of the Ohio National Guards, having joined the same only a short time before the regiment was called out for duty at the Cincinnati riots. In 1887, he became a member of Marysville Lodge, Knights of Pythias, with which he is still connected. Mr. Cross is recognized as one of the able educators of the State, and a high testimonial of his ability is his long continued service in Ostrander. JOHN W. LOCKWOOD, Raymond's, Ohio, is one of the substantial farmers of Liberty township, and a member of one of the best families, as well as one of the earliest, in the township. The Lockwoods are of Scotch extraction, and possess to a marked degree the sterling characteristics of their ancestors. John W. Lockwood was born on the old Lockwood farm, near Newton, or Raymond's, as it is now called, in Liberty township, Union county, Ohio, November 20, 1826. His father, Israel Lockwood, a native of Connecticut, went with his parents and family to New York State when he was a boy and settled on a farm, and when the war of 1812 came on they moved over into Canada and located near Quebec, where he grew to manhood. He came to Union county, Ohio, in 1816 and settled in Union township, and about 182 t he came to Liberty township and took up his abode here in the dense forest. He was the third settler in the township, the Carters and Culvers having located there before him. In due time he cleared and developed a fine farm of 226 acres, one of the best farms in all the country round. Israel Lockwood was twice married. 13v his first wife, nee Marie McCloud, he had one son, Ed, who died while in the service of his country during the late war. His second marriage was to Angeline Culver, a native of Vermont, and they had ten children, namely: Oliver, John Wesley, one that died in infancy, Amanda, Erastus, George, Melinda Malvina, Harrison, French and Israel. Three of the sons, Oliver, Erastus and Israel, were soldiers in the late war. The father died at the age of fifty-seven years, and the mother at eighty-two. Both were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and, politically, he was a Whig. For many years he was one of the most prominent and influential men of the township, well-known by all the early settlers. John W. Lockwood was reared on his father's frontier farm. His education was received in the log schoolhouse near his home, and later, in the practical school of experience. When he was twenty-three he 120 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF married and settled down to farming on his own account, and subsequently he removed to the farm upon which he has since lived. Here he has 310 acres of choice land, used as a stock and grain farm, and well improved with good buildings, everything conveniently arranged for carrying on farming operations in the most improved manner. Like his father before him, he has been uniformly successful. Mr. Lockwood's first marriage was to Miss Mary Ann Gray, a native of Livingston county, New York, and a daughter of David Gray, of that State. She died January 5, 1866, leaving an only child, Elizabeth Eveline. January 10, 1867, he married Sarah P. Walker, his present companion, who was born in Marlborough, Stark county, Ohio, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Pierce) Walker, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Maryland. Mrs. Walker's father was a cousin of President Franklin Pierce. Her parents were members of the Disciple Church, and by occupation her father was a blacksmith. He died at the age of eighty-two years. Her mother was fifty-seven at the time of death. They had twelve children, two of whom died young, the others being as follows: Mary Jane, Isaac P., Samuel F., Rachel Ann, Elizabeth, John Henry, Sarah P., Hannah Maria, Curtiss H. and Ellen Malissa. Three of the sons, Isaac P., Samuel F. and Curtiss H. were soldiers in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood have three children—Willis A., Carl P. and Arthur Wayne. Willis is married and settled in life, and has one child, Wesley Avril. The other two are at home. Mr. Lockwood is a member of the Freewill Baptist Church, and his political affiliations are with the Democratic party. LAFAYETTE THOMPSON, one of the respected farmers of Union county, Ohio, was born on the farm in Liberty township, where he now lives, March 21, 1854. His father, Andrew H. Thompson, deceased, was for many years a prominent citizen of this township. He was born in Lewis county, Kentucky, October 2, 1810, the son of a gallant soldier of the war of 1812; was reared on a Kentucky farm, and was married in his native State to Harriette R. Thomas, who was born and reared in Lewis county, daughter of George Thomas. Andrew H. Thompson and his wife came to Union county, Ohio, in 1838, and settled in Liberty township, and in 1842 they located on the farm where their son Lafayette now lives. At the time they took up their abode here a few acres of the land had been cleared and a log cabin had been built upon the place. They continued to dcselop the farm, reared their large family here, and here spent the rest of their lives and died, the mother being sixty at the time of death and the father seventy-eight. They were members of the Church of Christ, and were people of the highest integrity of character, honored and esteemed by all who knew them. Of their twelve children, eight reached maturity, namely: George T., I). W., Mary L., Rachel A., Napoleon B., Lafayette, Alice J., Cynthia E. Two of the sons, George T. and D. W., served in the Union army during the late war: both are now residents of Kansas. Lafayette Thompson was reared on his father's farm, and was early taught those lessons of honesty and industry which have formed the foundation of his character. He now owns the old home place and is successfully carrying on agricultural pursuits. This DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 121 farm comprises 200 acres of rich land, is watered by Mill Creek, and is well improved with good buildings, etc. The residence is a two-story one, 24x30 feet, with an L, 16x18 feet, and is located on a beautiful building site. The barn, 40x50 feet, has a basement for stock.. And the whole premises have an air of thrift and prosperity. Mr. Thompson was married at the age of twenty-three to Miss Sarah C. Smith, daughter of George and Hannah Smith. She died in April, 1893, leaving a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters, viz. : Andrew H., Olen B., Cloey E., Bessie S., Charlie L., Robert and Lloyd. In December, 1893, Mr. Thompson married Eva L. Shirk, his present companion, daughter of Job and Sarah Shirk, of Paulding county, Ohio. Her mother is now deceased. Like his honored father, Mr. Thompson is a Republican in his political views, and his religion is that of the Church of Christ, to which church his wife also belongs. Fraternally, he is a member of Raymond's Lodge No. 657, K. of P. JAMES OUSEY, proprietor of a finely appointed livery, feed and sale stable of Delaware, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, on the 30th of April, 1847, and is a son of Edward and Ann Ousev, the former a native of England and the latter of New Jersey, That worthy couple were the parents of six children, four sons and two daughters. The father was a farmer, and followed that occupation throughout his entire life. In 1851 he emigrated to Ohio, and the following year was joined by his family. During the late war he entered the Union army, serving as one of the boys in blue of the Twentieth Ohio Infantry. On his return he resumed farming in Delaware county, where he made his home until his death, which occurred April 28, 1888. His widow is now living with her son James. When Mr. Ousey, of this sketch, was quite young he started out in life for himself, and has since made his own way in the world. He was first employed as a farm hand, and for his services received only $7 per month. When only sixteen years of age he, too, entered the army, joining the boys in blue of Company K, Second Ohio Artillery, with which he continued from January, 1864, until August, 1865, when, the war having closed, he was honorably discharged. His school privileges were quite limited on account of the necessity for him to provide for his own maintenance. In 1884, Mr. Ousey bought out the livery business of John Sanderson, of Delaware. For twelve years previous, however, he had been engaged in railroading in the employ of what is now known as the Big Four Railroad company. He continued to carry on his first livery stable for four years, and then embarked in the restaurant business in Delaware, which he continued for two years, meeting with fair success in the undertaking. On the expiration of that period, with the capital he had acquired, he erected his fine livery barn at the corner of North Union and Water streets, at a cost of $5,000. He has probably the finest accommodations along his line in Central Ohio, and is now doing a large and constantly increasing business, which yields to him a good income. Mr. Ousey was united in marriage in 1830, with Miss Catherine Leibendenfer, and they have an adopted daughter, Emma. The lady is a member of the German Reform Church. Mr. Ousey holds member- 122 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF ship with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Whatever success he has achieved in life is due entirely to his own efforts, and is certainly well deserved, for he has led a busy life, working untiringly from early boyhood. THOMAS REED, an attorney at law, Marysville, Ohio, was born in Darby township, Union county, this State, June 20, 1840, son of William and Elizabeth (Sager) Reed. His grandfather Reed, also named William, was born in Armagh, Ireland, in 1733, and when forty-one years of age came to America. During the Revolutionary war he was a member of a Pennsylvania regiment and was all through that struggle, being at Valley Forge during the memorable 'inter recorded in history. After the war he married a Miss Battus, and for his second wife he chose Miss Martha Hinton. His children were as follows: Isaac, Allen, 'William, Thomas, Deborah, Rebecca and Mary. He lived to the advanced age of 105 years and four months and his remains are buried at Versailles, Darke county, Ohio. William Reed, the father of our subject, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in the year 1801, and came with the family to Delaware county, Ohio, in 1811, where he was reared and remained until 1838. That year he came to Union county. He was married in 1825 to Elizabeth Sager, who was born in Loudoun county, Virginia. She came with her parents to Union county, Ohio, when she was nine years old and, with the exception of nine years spent in Delaware county, she has since lived in Union county, still on the old home farm, and now being ninety-two years of age. Her father, George Sager, was Torn in Virginia and died in Ohio. William Reed died in 1874, at the age of seventy-three years. His whole life was passed on a farm, and financially he was successful. Religiously he was identified with the Christian Church. He and his wife were the parents of eleven children, record of whom is as follows. George, a wealthy fanner of Kansas; Margaret, deceased: William, a farmer of Woodson county. Kansas; Allen, a fanner of Cherokee county, Kansas; James, at the old homestead in Union county, Ohio; Thomas, whose name appears at the head of this article; Joseph, a prominent physician of Springfield, Missouri; Elizabeth, of Marysville; Lovinia, a resident of Union county, Ohio; and Mary and Susanah, deceased. Thomas Reed was reared on his father's farm, and received his early education in the district schools. He spent two years as a student in Marysville Academy and one year at Antioch College. At the time the war broke out he was engaged in farming on the old home place. In October, 1863, he enlisted as teamster for service in the Union army, and served six months as wagon master, returning home April 16, 1864. On the 2d of the following month he re-enlisted, this time in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Volunteer Infantry, and as wagoner of his company. He was mustered out, with the rank of sergeant, August 31, 1864. During his service he was twice wounded in the right leg, from the effects of which he suffered greatly for years, and finally, in 1884, had his limb amputated. After the war Mr. Reed went to Iroquois county, Illinois, where he improved 160 acres of wild land, and where he remained two years. In 1869, he moved to Wilson county, Kansas, and took claim to 160 DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 123 acres of government land. There he settled down to farming, and resided sixteen years, after which he spent six years in Woodson county, Kansas. Next, we find him in Denver, Colorado. In March, 1890, after one year spent at Denver, he returned to his native county and located at Marysville. Up to this time he had been engaged in farming and stock raising: In May, 1890, he entered the office of J. M. Kennedy, attorney at law, and began the study of law, and in March, 1894, was admitted to the bar. He has since been engaged in the practice of this profession, and thus far has met with success. Naturally quick in thought and forcible in speech, he is well adapted for the legal profession. Politically, he is a .Populist. He stumped the State of Kansas four years with Major Morrill and others, and in Union county he is the leader of the Populist party. He is identified with the G. A. R. Mr. Reed is a man of family. He was married January 6, 1860, to Miss Susan Shirk, who died in 1887, leaving five children, namely: Orintha, wife of F. M. Johnson, Denver, Colorado; Flora B., wife of Alva Traxwell, Denver. Josephine, wife of H. Cruze, Denver, Orras, a stone mason and bricklayer of Denver; and May, wife of Grant Asbury, Butler county, Kansas. D. C. FAY, one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Ostrander, was born in Union county, near Plain City, Ohio, August to, 1843, a son of Ben A. and Hester (Robinson) Fay, the former born near Burlington, Vermont, and the latter in Indiana. The paternal grandfather of our subject was David Fay. D. C. Fay, the subject of this memoir, was reared in Union county, Ohio. In 1862 he began the study of medicine under Dr. J. M. Southard, a prominent and well-known physician of that county. He graduated in 1868, and the same year located at Ostrander, where he has ever since followed the practice of medicine. In his political relations, Dr. Fay affiliates with the Republican party. He has served as a delegate to county and State Conventions, was Clerk of the Corporation for nearly a decade, was a member of the City Council for nine years, and has been a member of the School Board. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic Order, No. 158, and of the I. O. O. F., No. 467, and of the County and State Medical societies. In 1871 the Doctor was united in marriage with Mary Liggett, and they have one daughter, Monna L. JOSEPH M. KENNEDY.—The identification of the agnatic line, in which our subject is a descendant, with the history of our nation, dates its inception from early Colonial days, and the genealogy of the family is one whose tracing from that period offers an interesting record as bearing upon respective general history as one generation succeeded another in the field of activity and accomplishment. With the annals of the history of Union county, Ohio, has that of the Kennedy family been intimately connected from the beginning of the present century, the first representative in the county having been Joseph Kennedy, grandfather of our subject. He came hither in 1805, accompanied by his wife and three sons. He was a native of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, the son of William and Mary Kennedy. 124 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF As the name indicates, the family is of Scotch origin, and as early as 1732, three brothers, John, Thomas and William, left their native heath and took up their abode in the north of Ireland, where Thomas passed the Jesidue of his life. Soon after this, however, John and William determined to continue their pilgrimage still farther, and they accordingly set sail for the New World; arriving here, John located in Charleston, South Carolina, where he reared a family, which, in the course of time, became scat tered throughout the South. William, who was the original American representative of that branch to which our subject belongs. landed at Baltimore, Maryland, and thence passed up the Potomac river and settled in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where at least one of his descendants still lives. William Kennedy was a prominent man in his section, and records in the possession of the present generation show that he served as Colonial Judge, under the regime of George III. , prior to the war of the Revolution. He was the great-great-grandfather of the immediate subject of this review; was engaged in farming, and was a local preacher in the Presbyterian Church. Tracing along the direct line we find that the next in order was William .Kennedy, a son of Joseph. who was reared and passed his entire life in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where he was engaged in tilling the soil, as had been his father before him. He had a family of six sons, of whom four emigrated Westward, one settling at Steubenville, Ohio; one at Dayton, same State; one near Richmond, Indiana; and the last, Joseph, in this county, as already noted. He located in that section where the thriving village of Milford Center now stands, the place at the time comprising only three or four primitive log cabins. Here he erected a smithy and began operations at his trade of blacksmithing, which he followed as a vocation during the remainder of his life. He was a man of intelligence and sturdy rectitude of character, and attained prominence in the little pioneer community, having held various offices of public trust in the gift of the people. We can scarcely fail to chronicle the fact that he was elected County Recorder of Union county, being the first incumbent in that office after the organization of the county. Joseph Kennedy reared a family of nine children, concerning whom we are enabled to offer the following record, given in the order of their birth: Hezekiah, a blacksmith; John; Oliver C., who was for many years a merchant at Milford Center, where he also held preferment as Postmaster; Ellen; James; Joseph, who died in early childhood; Eliza; William, who was a banker at Bellefontaine, this State; and Mathias. The children all retained a residence in this State, save James, who located in the far West, where he attained a position of no little prominence, being a Whig and an active public-spirited man, large of physique, jovial in manner, and unmistakably popular. John Kennedy, father of our subject, was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1802, coming with his parents to this county when a mere child, and in time learning the blacksmith trade under the direction of his father. He was employed at his trade until he had attained the age of forty years, when he purchased a farm and. devoted the remainder of his life to agricultural pursuits, meeting with success and attaining a competence before his death. He was a man of broad intelligence and much force of character, and had held several of the public offices of local order. He was married in 1825