DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 125 to Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Morse, one of the pioneer settlers in this county, and about five years later he removed to Madison county, Ohio, where he cleared up and improved -a fine farm of 300 acres. John and Elizabeth Kennedy became the parents of six children, namely: Mary Ann, wife of Addison Bidwell, of Darby township, this county; Eliza A., deceased wife of the late Nathan Bidwell, of this county; Matilda. deceased; Oraniell, an influential farmer of Madison county.; Joseph M., subject of this review; and Arritte, deceased. The father died in 1864, at the age of sixty-two years, and the mother in 1883, at the age of eighty-five years. Joseph M. Kennedy, to whom this review is individually dedicated, was born in Madison county, this State, April 12, 1833: was reared on the paternal farmstead and attended the district schools during the winter months. He also studied at home, being avidious to secure a good education, and showing a marked aptitude for and devotion to study while still a mere boy. Later he was enabled to enter the Wilson & Hinkle Academy, at Mechanicsburg, and there he continued his educational discipline for a period of one year. After leaving school he devoted his attention to teaching for three years. February 11, 1855, he was united in marriage to Miss Alma Bradley, after which he resided on his farm in Madison county for some fifteen years, having within this time held office as Justice of the Peace for six years. In 1857 he took up the study of law at home, testing his acquirements in legal lore from time to time by submitting to an occasional professional quiz by Harrison McCloud, of London, this State. In 1869 he disposed of his farming interests in Madison county, and within the succeeding year took up his residence in Marysville, where he was forthwith admitted to the bar and where he has since continued in the practice of his profession. On the start he formed a profeSsional alliance with H. J. King, and this association continued for one year, after which our subject formed a partnership with J. L. Cameron, with whom he was associated three years, after which he was alone for an equal length of time, and then again joined issues with Mr. King for one year. Since that time Mr. Kennedy has been alone in his professional work, which has been one of general practice. He has given considerable attention to pension claim business and has been successful in securing a recognition of the claims of many old soldiers, who served faithfully and well during the late war. Mr. Kennedy has retained a large and representative clientage and has been concerned in many of the important litigations of the county. He is eminently judicial, is strong in his arguments before a jury, and is ever logical and concise in his pleas, being recognized as one of the leading, attorneys of the county. In politics Mr. Kennedy is an ardent Republican, and in 1872 he was the municipal candidate of his party for time office of Mayor of Marysville, being duly elected and serving in that official capacity for .two years, during which the affairs of the city were most capably administered. He has been particularly active in political work and has been a delegate to numerous State and county conventions of his party. By his first marriage our subject had five children: Florence, deceased; Nettie A. ; James W., of Madison county; John C., Deputy County Surveyor of this county; and Elizabeth. Mr. Kennedy's second marriage was consummated February 28, 1886, when 126 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF he was united to Mrs. Permilla Ruggles, daughter of Elijah B. Hubbard, who was a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Albany, New York, where Mrs. Kennedy was born. She has one child by her first marriage, Adolphus. Another son, Frank E., is deceased. JOHN C. ASMAN, one of the leading business men of Marysville, Ohio, was born in Bavaria, Germany, September 30, 1837, youngest of the three children of Samuel and Margaretta (Pelsner) Asman. The other two are Leonard, a resident of Columbus, Ohio; and Charlotte, wife of Leonard Partalt, of Germany. The father was engaged in the grocery business in Bavaria, and both he and his wife died in their native land. John C. Asman spent the first twenty-three years of his life in Germany, where he received a fair education in the common schools and where he also learned the trade of butcher. He then came to America, landing here without money or influential friends and first locating in Columbus, Ohio. That was in 1860. For three years he worked at his trade in that city and in 1863 came from there to Marysville. Here he was employed in the meat market of L. Woods, with whom he remained until the latter's death, after which Mr. Asman and Mike Woods bought out the business. Mr. Asman had saved his earnings while in Columbus and at the time he came to Marysville had $200. With this he started out in business. To-day he is ranked with the most wealthy and influential men of the city, and his success in life is attributed wholly to his own industry and business ability. He remained in partnership with Mr. Woods a little over a year, and after was associated with several others, having a business partner until 1879. From that year until 1889 he was alone in business, and since 1889 his son, William, has been in partnership with him. They now operate one of the finest equipped meat markets in central Ohio, which is known as the Palace Meat Market and which was fitted up by them in the spring of 1894. It has a tile floor and all the latest improved furnishings. They manufacture all kinds of sausage and prepare a large variety of cured meats, and they kill an average of five cattle, seven calves and fifteen hogs every week the year round. Mr. Asman also has other business interests in this city. He was one of the organizers of the Marysville Bank, and a stockholder and director in the same, and when the Union Bank of Marysville was organized he became a stockholder and director in it. In 1892 he was one of four gentlemen who founded the John Rouch Manufacturing Company; at the reorganization of the Robinson Carry Company, of this city, he took stock in it; and in 1894 he was one of the organizers of the Marysville Hotel Company'. Of this last named company he was made a director and treasurer. Indeed, he was one of the main factors in pushing to a decisive issue the formation of the company and the erection of their building. He also erected his own business block and residence. From these brief statements of the important concerns with which he is connected, it is readily seen that Mr. Asman is a public-spirited and progressive man. Indeed, there are few men in the city who have done more to advance its interests than has he. DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 127 Mr. Asman was married in Marysville in March, 1865, to Miss Anna B. Emmert, a native of Paris township, this county, born in 1840, daughter of Michael Emmert, one of the old settlers of Union county, who came here in 1837. Mr. and Mrs. Asman have had eight children, viz.: William, who is in partnership with his father; Charlotte, wife of Rev. William Stillborn, West Alexander, Ohio; George, who was killed on the railroad at Delaware, Ohio, May 8, 1891; Elizabeth, at home; Charles, who is in Chicago studying pharmacy; and Fred, Thomas and Maggie, at home. Mr. Asman and his family are members of the Lutheran Church of Marysville and he is one of the Elders of the church. JOHN P. KRITLINE. A well-known and an honored resident of Unionville, Union county, Ohio; one who has passed the major portion of his life in said county, and one who has long held conspicuous official preferment in a local sense, it is most fitting- that a review of the life of Mr. Kritline be included in this work. He was born November 12, 1831, near Baden-Baden, Germany, coming to America with his parents in 1836 and landing in New York just three months to a day subsequent to the date of embarkation. Shortly afterward they started for Ohio, traveling by canal to Buffalo, thence by Lake Erie to Cleveland, from which city they proceeded by canal to the capital city of the State. From Columbus they came to Union county, where the father purchased land in the “Dutch settlement," in Paris township. About a year after their arrival “milk sickness," a disease familiar to the pioneers of the section, broke out among the settlers and became fatally epidemic. Our subject's father, mother and two brothers were attacked with the malady, and all of them succumbed to its ravages within sixty days. Mr. Kritline was one of eight children, of whom five besides himself survived the epidemic which carried off his parents and brothers. The other five survivors were Margaret, Catherine, Andrew, Mary and Maria. Margaret was married, in Germany, to a man named Hingdefer, and they came to America and to Union county at the same time as did the former's parents; she died more than twenty years ago, at the age of forty-eight years, her husband having died five years prior to this, leaving her with a large family. Catherine married Gottleib Rupright, a farmer residing four miles east of Marysville, in Paris township, Union county, and she died in February, 1891, at the advanced age of seventy-five years, her husband surviving until February, 1893, when he passed away at the age of seventy-nine years. They left a large family, all of whom have attained to mature years. Mary, who is unmarried, resides in Columbus, where she conducts a dressmaking establishment, and where she has lived continuously since 1848. As the result of lifelong industry, she has accumulated a little property, owning a valuable home on Warren street, in that city. Maria, the youngest, was bound out to Mr. Gibson, of Union township, later on married John Wideman, and died several years ago, leaving four children; Mr. Wideman subsequently remarried. At the time of the death of his parents our subject was six years of age, and his sister Mary was two years his senior. The three orphans were placed under the guar- 128 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF dianship of Philip Snider, who is a prominent resident of Marysville, and by him they were bound out, according to the prevalent custom in such cases. Our subject thus entered the home and service of Thomas Robinson, a farmer residing near Unionville, and there remained until he had attained his majority. During the time he was with Mr. Robinson his muscles received better training than his mind. The conditions of his apprenticeship required that he be sent to school three months in the year, but some years he was permitted to attend school scarcely that many weeks. When he became of age, therefore, he had to face the future with the bare rudiments of an English education. It has been demonstrated over and over again, however, in the history of men that education is by no means confined to books or schools. The practical experiences of every-day life more fully equip a man for meeting the duties that each day brings forth than do the mere theories of teachers and of books. What, therefore, Mr. Kritline lacked in the way of education he made up in patient and persevering industry. As a boy he had learned to work, and the result of this healthful discipline had been a rugged constitution and a sturdy independence of character. His active and receptive mind began to assert itself, and he determined to improve every opportunity for bettering himself. At the close of his apprenticeship he hired out by the month. He next entered the employ of a son (also Thomas by name) of Mr. Robinson, and with him remained for a period of seven years, devoting his time to the shipping of cattle, hogs and sheep. In 1859 Mr. Kritline, who has never married, took up his residence in Unionville, and began boarding with Mrs. Sarah Holy-cross, with whom he has continued ever since, with the exception of five months during the late war. In the summer of 1862 he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was made a Corporal. Through the fault of the officer commanding the regiment, he and a number of others were not mustered in, and he was sick in the hospital at Delaware, Ohio, overtaking the regiment at Louisville, Kentucky, and participated in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky. After this battle, when the payroll of the regiment was being made out, the officers decided that those who had not been duly mustered in were not entitled to pay, and that for the service they had given the government they would receive nothing. In other words, it was decided that they were not enlisted soldiers. Upon being informed of this dictum, Mr. Kritline, who regarded it as an injustice to himself and the others similarly placed, left the regiment and returned to his home in Unionville. Shortly after this, at the instance of persons ignorant of the facts, he was arrested as a deserter, and was taken to Cincinnati, where after his case had been investigated, it was decided that as he had not been mustered in he was never in the army, and his release was ordered forthwith. It was brought out in the investigation that he had requested to be mustered in, but that the officer of whom the request was made had told him the matter could be attended to at any time. No blame, therefore, could possibly be attached to him for his action in the premises. After this brief but rather unsatisfactory military experience, our subject resumed his residence in Unionville, devoting his attention to bee-keeping and gardening. For the past nineteen years he has held the preferment as Treasurer of Darby township, and DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 129 has also been the Treasurer of the corporation of Unionville since the time of its organization in 1880. The fact that he has filled these two offices acceptably for so many years is evidence of the trust and confidence reposed in him by his fellow-citizens. It may be safely said of him that no other man in the township is better known or more highly respected. While Mr. Kritline has acted with the Republican party, he has never been regarded as an extreme party man, —while believing in the principles of his party, he has, when it came to a choice of candidates for county and township offices, been guided by a desire to see the offices filled by men best qualified for the position sought. A. B. SWISHER, M. D.—Marysville, the county seat of Union county, Ohio, is favored in having represented in her list of professional men individuals whose endowments fully capacitate them for the discharge of the responsible duties which devolve upon them. In considering the life histories of the leading medical practitioners of the city we would speak of him whose name appears as introducing this paragraph. A native of Champaign county, Ohio, our subject was born September 8, 1854, one of the four children of Joseph and Amanda (Bambarge) Swisher, the nativity of each of whom traces back to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. The mother of our subject died in 1871 at the untimely age of thirty-seven years. The father, who is now a resident of Bellefontaine, Logan county, Ohio, was reared on a farm in the Biackeye State and secured his education in the common schools. Early in life he adopted the profession of teaching school, which vocation he followed for years in connection with farming: He came to Ohio from Pennsylvania in company with his parents, the family locating in Champaign county. When the war of the Rebellion cast its gruesome pall over a divided nation Joseph Swisher promptly made ready to go forth in defense of the stars and stripes, enlisting in the One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a private. He served for three years, participated in a number of the most memorable battles, received successive promotion for meritorious services on the field and was mustered out a Major. The boyhood days of Dr. Swisher, were passed amid the quiet, pastoral scenes of the paternal farmstead in Champaign county, where he remained until he attained the age of seventeen years, devoting his time to attending the district schools .and to such duties as he could perform on the farm. At the age of seventeen he entered the work of school-teaching, devoting himself to this line of work for three winter terms and, meeting with unqualified, success, he then secured a position in the public schools of St. Paris, Champaign county, where he was retained until 1878. During this time he had employed his leisure hours in the careful and consecutive study of medicine, taking up a course of reading under the preceptorship of Dr. W. H. Mcllvain, of St. Paris. Being by this time well grounded in the elemental principles of the medical science, he entered the Miami Medical College, at Cincinnati, where he completed the prescribed course, graduating as a member of the class of 1882, and receiving a diploma entitling him to carry on the general practice of medicine and surgery. The expenses incidental to the 130 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF college course he defrayed through funds gained entirely by his own exertions. After his graduation the Doctor established himself in active practice at Casstown, Miami county, Ohio, where he remained for a period of seven years. In 1889 he came to Marysville, and here 11,: has since continued to reside. By close attention to business and unswerving devotion to his patients, as well as by reason of his recognized professional ability, he has succeeded in building up a large and lucrative practice and in gaining the respect and good will of the community. Arriving in Marysville in June, 1889, at the ensuing fall election he was elected to the office of County Coroner, a position in which he served two terms. In the spring of 1890 he was appointed as United States Examining Surgeon for this district of the pension department and served as a member of the Board of Pension Examiners, at Marysville, until the close of the Harrison administration. In 1892 he was appointed physician to the Union County Children's Home, and he is still the incumbent in this office. During the year 1893, he served as local surgeon for the Toledo Ohio Central Railroad Company, and in the spring of the same year was appointed Health Officer for the city of Marysville, an office which he holds at the present time. He is medical examiner at Marysville for the John Hancock, the New York Mutual, the New York Life, the Aetna Life, and other life insurance companies. The marriage of our subject occurred September loth of the Centennial year, when he was united to Miss Emma Robinson, of St. Paris, daughter of M. G. and Eliza Robinson. Doctor and Mrs. Swisher are the parents of two children: Chester, aged sixteen, and Grace, aged eight (1894). In 1893 our subject erected a modern residence on West Sixth street, and here the family maintain their pleasant and hospitable home. The Doctor is a physician who keeps fully in pace with the advancements made in medical science. is progressive in his methods, and has not been denied that honor and regard which are justly his due. JOHN Q. SOUTHARD, M. D.—Prominent among those honored residents of Union county whose minds bear the impression of the history of pioneer days and trace along consecutively the course of events of the years which mark the end of this glorious nineteenth century, stands the subject of this review, Dr. John Q. Southard, who is a native of the Buckeye State, with whose history that of the family has been linked since the beginning of the present century. Even taken aside from his own accomplishment and his marked precedence as a man and a physician, it is then most compatible that space be given in this volume to a sketch tracing the genealogy of Dr. Southard and to his portrait, as the scion of an honorable and representative family. The Southard family traces its lineage, in both a direct and collateral way, back to English origin, the record extant being clear and unbroken. The first of the family to become its representative in the New World was Thomas Southard, one of the early settlers of Hempstead, Long Island. His name appears in the official archives and shows him to have been one of the prominent men of the locality, also denoting the fact that he was one of the landholders in that colo- DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 131 nial hamlet as early as 1657. The influences which ever tend to broaden the functional province of mankind and lead to the seeking of new fields of endeavor eventuated in the removal of his descendants to New Jersey, where they were settled nearly a century later and where several representatives subsequently attained distinction in professional and official life. Abraham Southard, the grandfather of Dr. John Q. , was a native of Somerset county, New Jersey, and was a relative of the distinguished Henry and Samuel L. Southard. of that State. Attaining maturity he removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he subsequently was united in marriage to Elizabeth Hull, daughter of Francis Hull, who met his death at the hands of the Indians, while on an expedition down the Ohio river, about the close of the last century. In 1805 the grandfather took up his residence in Ohio, becoming the first representative of the family in this State. He settled in Licking county where he established a home for his wife and their several children, among whom was Isaiah Southard, the father of the immediate subject of this review. In early life Isaiah Southard as engaged in the management of blast-furnace enterprises, in Adams county, Ohio, but later he took up agricultural pursuits. February 23, 1825, he married Elizabeth Parnell, who was born February 28, 1807, in Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of James and Achsah (Stockdale) Parnell, who were of stanch old Irish stock. Isaiah and Elizabeth Southard reared to maturity four sons and one daughter, of whom we offer the following epitomized record : James M. became a pivsician and was one of the foremost practitioners of this county and of the State, his death occurring at Marysville, March 16, 1891: a memoir touching his life appears elsewhere in this volume; John Q. is the immediate subject of this sketch; Anna M., who is a woman of noble attributes and gentle refinement, is the widow of U. C. Hall, and resides on the old homestead, in Licking county, secure in the esteem of those who have known and appreciated her sterling worth; Milton I. is an eminent attorney of New York city, and an ex-Member of Congress, in which he represented the Thirteenth district of Ohio for three consecutive terms, attaining much distinction by his labors in the national legislature; Frank H. is one of the distinguished lawyers and statesmen of Ohio, and retains a residence at Zanesville. The father died May 19, 1885, and the mother passed away on the 2Ist of August, 1893. John Q. Southard was born in Adams county, Ohio, November 28, 1829; and grew up on the parental farmstead in Licking county, contributing his share in boyhood to carrying on the work of the farm and imbibing copious draughts of the spirit of independence, which is ever the concomitant of the lite thus closely linked to nature. The discipline was one which also begot a lively appreciation of the nobility of honest toil and of the advantages which stretched far beyond such a narrowed mental horizon. Our subject was granted such educational privileges as the locality afforded, attending the district schools during the successive winters until he had attained the age of nineteen Years. Now the ambition of the youth began to strain at its fetters and he determined to prepare himself for a wider field of usefulness than that which is rounded up by the dull routine of the farm. His ambition was one of effort, and he bent 132 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF every energy toward the accomplishment of the desired ends. When but a child of four years Dr. Southard was sorely afflicted in the loss of his right eye from disease, but this misfortune seems to have not daunted his courage in the least, nor has it interfered with the success of his career. It is an exceptional and noteworthy incident that though fostered under the influences and duties of the farm, not only our subject but each of his three brothers turned to the learned professions in choosing his life work, —two adopting the law and two medicine. Young John early realized that if he attained the height to which his ambition directed him he must secure a broader and more liberal education than the common schools afforded, the educational facilities of the Western States at that time being very meager in scope. He accordingly, after some further academic preparation under select tutorage, began to apply himself assiduously to the study of medicine at home, and by his fidelity and close analytical faculty he succeeded in gaining far more than a superficial knowledge of the science in its various branches, even before he could see his way clear to secure proper preceptorage. He continued this application for three years in connection with other duties and was then enabled to take a course of lectures in the medical department of the Western Reserve University, at Cleveland, Ohio,—said department having subsequently been separated from the main institution and continued individually as the Cleveland Medical College,—one of the strongest institutions in the line that the West can boast at the present time. At this college he graduated with the coveted degree of M. D., in 1856. Immediately after his graduation Dr. Southard located at Frazeysburg, Muskinum county, this State, and there commenced the active practice of his profession, continuing there about one year and then going to Des Moines, Iowa, where he remained but a brief interval, his delicate health rendering it impossible for him to withstand the cold winds and somewhat rigorous climate of that section. He then came to Union county, which has been the field of his operations during all the long years intervening since that time. His ability in a professional way and his earnest and sympathetic devotion to those to whom he ministered soon gained him a practice which ramified into all sections of the county and which placed exacting demands upon his attention,—a professional duty from which he never flinched, standing ever ready to subordinate his personal inclinations and his personal comfort. Coming to the county fully thirty-seven years ago, the Doctor found the conveniences for traversing the same vastly inferior to what they are at the present time, although the population was nearly as dense as it is today. Long, straggling roads, little improved, and at certain seasons of the year almost impassable, extended through the county, and over these, in all kinds of weather, the Doctor made his way, much of the time on horse-back and with saddlebags slung beneath him with his cases of medicines. Through summer's heat or winter's frost; night time or day, he pursued his humane mission, visiting alike the mansion and the cabin. On many occasions he was compelled to let down fences and travel for miles through the fields on horse-back, the roads being impassable. He recalls instances where, the mud being deep and slightly frozen, he would have to walk for miles, driving his saddled horse before him. DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 133 He had ever an exceptional and deep charity for the poor and needy, often returning a portion of his fees to widows and orphans and according his services without reserve where there was an inability to render him any return save that of heartfelt gratitude. A familiar figure this. in days long past, and one viewed with delight by many a poor sufferer at whose bedside he attended This was not the life of a sybarite, but one filled with days and nights of toil and hours of heavy anxiety,---a phase of the healing profession that stands in highest honor to one who has thus devoted himself to the noble work against the greatest odds and with the most marked self-denial. Dr. Southard stands to-day as one who has done more business in the line of his profession than any other physician who lives or has lived in the county, and to-day his face is known and his presence welcomed far and wide throughout this section, where he still continues in active practice from his home and headquarters in the thriving city of Marysville. Skilled, as he is, in his profession, he has reached the point of high attainment by his on efforts. keeping constantly abreast of the advances made in the science and ever maim aining a deep interest in his work, which has become a very part of his life. He has shown a fine executive and business ability and has been prospered in temporal affairs. While still a young man he engaged in sundry land speculations in Kansas and Iowa, aid by a successful manipulation of the properties thus secured in an incidental way he realized good returns. To-day Dr. Southard stands as one of the most substantial capitalists of the county, and one whose success is viewed with pleasure by all who know his honest deserts. He owns 1,300 acres of as fine agricultural land as can be found in the county, the same being comprised in six farms, averaging over 200 acres each, and all under a high state of cultivation. The family home in the city of Marysville is a substantial brick structure of attractive architectural design, beautifully situated on west Fifth street. The place is recognized as one of the finest homes in the city, and is complete in all its equipments. The Doctor is president of the Farmers' Bank of Marysville, which was organized in 1868, with a capital stock of $50,0oo. He has been connected with this financial institution for a number of years and has been its president since 1891. He is a member of the Union County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society; fraternally is identified with the Masonic order, being a member of Marysville Chapter, No. 99; and politically he has ever been found stanchly arrayed in support of the Democratic party and its principles. In his religious views the Doctor is liberal, and there is nothing apologetic in his attitude in this regard. He has a reverence for spiritual realities and not for mere traditional tenets, having a clear apprehension of the fundamental truth and the altruistic element in human life. He is a man of true sympathy, inclined to regard all men at their best and reluctant to inflict pain, being ever tolerant and charitable. He has been signally alive to public interests, and has done much in the way of furthering State, county, and municipal improvements. He was prominently identified with the work of securing to Union county the extensive system of fine pike roads, which have given the county the reputation as the banner one in the State in 134 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF this particular; he was active in securing the extension of the Columbus division of the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad, which ha! proved of much value in affording transpor tation facilities to the county, and has ever stood ready to lend influence and aid to all undertakings which have conserved public prosperity and legitimate progress. He is safely conservative, discriminating in his decisions and views. In addition to attending to his representative practice, Dr. Southard maintains a personal supervision of his farming and other interests, keeping his business affairs well in hand at all times. In mental characteristics he is strongly intellectual, and in his bearing is courteous and genial, though not a. man of many words. The Doctor is now (1894) sixty-four years of age, but enjoys the strength and virile vigor of a man at two score. Turning, in brief, to the more purely domestic pages of our subject's history, we find that, September 14, 1861, in this county, was consummated his marriage to Miss Lucinda M. Green, who was born in Fulton county, New York, October 7, 1836, daughter of Theodorus and Eliza (Stuart) Green. Theodorus Green was a prominent stock-grower and farmer of Liberty township, this county, and was a member of the Christian Church, as is also his daughter, Mrs. Southard. He was born in the State of New York, January 26, 1797, and he married Eliza Stuart, who was born in Saratoga county, same State, June 3, 1811. His death occurred in October, 1875, and that of his venerable widow February 19, 1890. Mrs. Southard's maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Stuart, was the only son of Captain Joseph Stuart, an officer in the war of the Revolution, and of Scotch ancestry. Nathaniel Stuart was born in New York Deember 11, 1786, married Keziah Toby, and in 1836, with his wife and a family of twelve children, emigrated to Union county, when he resided until his death. Theodorus and Eliza (Stuart) Green left their Eastern home in 1839, making the long and weary journey to Union county, Ohio, in the dead of winter and by means of horses and wagon. The distance thus traversed aggregated some 600 miles, am. Mrs. Southard was a child of but two years at the time, being borne in her mother’s arms for the greater portion of the way. hi these latter days, with rapid and comfortable means of transportation it would be deemed fatuous in the extreme to thus attempt such a journey with an infant child to be nourished and cared for. Theodorus Green and his wife lived for more than a half century on the same farm, in Liberty township, this county, the place being now owned and occupied by their son, Stuart Green. Dr. and Mrs. Southard became the parents of five children, three of whom are living at the present time, namely: Frank Stuart. who was born March 1, 1865, was reared at the parental home in this county and received the best of educational advantages, graduating at the Marysville high school, then matriculating at Antioch College, in Greene county, this State, where he completed the classical course, graduating, with honors, in 1887. He then entered the law department of Harvard University, was graduated in 189o, having been admitted to the bar in 1889. He is now engaged in the practice of his profession at Seattle. Washington, retaining a representative clientage and holding precedence as one of the most capable young attorneys in that section of the Union: he was married, September 17, 189o, to Miss Lena Morris, of Greene county, DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 135 Ohio, and a classmate of her husband at Antioch; Homer H. was born June 2, 1868, was educated at Antioch College, but was unable to complete the course by reason of impaired health: he. is now engaged in farming and stock-growing in this county; Harry Green, born January 1, 1878; Otto M., who was born May 26, 1863, died May 6, 1865, and Henry B., who was the twin of Harry G., died November 4, 1881. WILLIAM D. MILLER.—At this point we are permitted to take in cursory review the life history of one who stands conspicuous as one of the most extensive and substantial farmers of Trenton township, Delaware county, Ohio, and as one of the most intelligent, progressive and enterprising men who has ever directed his attention and efforts to the noble work of husbandry. If one is to sojourn for any length of time in that naturally favored portion of the Buckeye commonwealth designated by the title of Trenton township, he is sure to note with appreciation the changes wrought by the hand of man to the end of securing the great fields of waving grain, the undulating meadows dotted with innumerable flocks, the substantial improvements and the various other conditions indicatory of a prosperous agricultural community. He is almost equally sure to forthwith hear specific mention made of one of the show places of the township, Evergreen Farm, the domain of the subject of this sketch. Abiding here in peace, contentment and plenty, honored by those among whom his life has been passed, conspicuous in all that tends to the conservation of the best interest of the community, what more consonant than that the life of such a man be taken under consideration in this connection. Born in Knox county, Ohio, April 4, 1833, William D. Miller is the son of John B. and Cornelia (Clutter) Miller, the former of whom was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, in 1810, being brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his father two years later. The latter, George Miller, was also a native of the old Keystone State, where he died, leaving a widow and seven children. Cornelia Miller was the daughter of Samuel Clutter, a Pennsylvanian by birth. She became the mother of seven children, four of whom are living at the present time, William D., Cinderella, Rachel and Calvin. The mother died at the age of thirty-three years and the father later on consummated a second marriage. William D. Miller was reared in Knox county, receiving a good education in the common and high schools of Utica. He was thereafter engaged in teaching for a period of two years, meeting with success in his pedigogic labors. In 1864 he came to Trenton township, Delaware county, where he purchased a farm, incidentally assuming the burden of a debt of $6,850. He devoted himself earnestly to the work in hand, bending every effort toward freeing himself from the obligation assumed, and in due time cancelled all indebtedness upon the farm. Later on he purchased other farming land in the township, and at the present time he is the owner of 1,000 acres, well improved and under an effective system of cultivation. Three large barns are conspicuous among the substantial improvements of the magnificent farmstead, one being 30x120 feet in dimensions, another 30x64, and the third sixty feet square. 136 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF In connection with his general farming our subject devotes especial attention ti sheep raising, being one of the most eaten sive and successful sheep breeders in the en tire county. For thirty years he has kep the same stock of sheep and has continuously improved the strain in the line of a combined wool and mutton producing merino His success is attested in his large sales o stock for breeding purposes. In his political proclivities Mr. Miller casts his influence and vote with the Prohibition party, being a most zealous worker in the cause and occupying a position of prominence in thE councils of the Prohibitionists of the county. Fraternally he has been identified with thE Masonic Order, having served as Master of Utica Lodge for a number of years. He is also president of the Delaware Mutual Insurance Company, a prosperous and popular organization. Mr. Miller was married at the age of twenty-five years to Miss Melissa King, a native of Licking county, Ohio, and a daughter of William King. The issue of this union was two children: Nettie, who is a resident of Columbus, Ohio, and one deceased in childhood. The wife and mother died in 1861, and three years later our subject wedded Miss Mary, daughter of James and Sarah (Bane) Paul, the former of whom has attained the venerable age of ninety-one years (1894), having been a prominent and honored resident of Morrow county, Ohio, for many years; the mother is deceased. Mr. Miller insists upon giving fully half the credit for his business success to Mrs. Miller, who has been his faithful coadjutor during the years of their married life. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have four sons: Henry P., Fred D., John B. and William E., Henry and William received their education at Antioch College, near Springfield. Ohio, and the latter is now instructor it mathematics in the high school of Portland, Indiana. Upon graduating at college, Henry at once assumed control of one of his father's farms, near Sunbury, and devoted himself to sheep-breeding and to writing upon subjects pertaining to the industry. At the present time he has charge of the sheep department of the Ohio Farmer. Fred and John remain at home, devoting themselves with interest and energy to assisting in the farm work. The only daughter of our subject and his wife, Sarah E., died at the age of three years. Mr. Miller is a Deacon in the Christian Church, is a man of marked intelligence and intellectuality, has attained to a high measure of success in temporal affairs, and lends his influence to all efforts looking to the advancement of education, religion and temperance. Broad in his sympathies, charitable and public spirited, he holds the esteem and good will of all. THEODORE L. MULLEN, who successfully conducts a livery, sale and feed stable, on Plum street, Marysville, Ohio, deserves recognition among the representative business men of the city, and accordingly a place in this volume. He was born in Marysville, October 18, 1843, son of Charles and Sarah (Bancroft) Mullen, both of whom are now deceased, the death of the mother occurring in 1850 and that of the father in 1882. Theodore Mullen passed his boyhood days in his native place, attending the public schools until he had attained the age of fourteen years, when he secured employment in a woolen mill in this place and there con- DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 137 tinued to be employed until the cloud of war darkened the national horizon. His patriotism was fired and he determined to go forth in defense of the stars and stripes. With this end in view he made his preparations, walked from Marysville to Columbus, the capital city of the State, and there enlisted as a member of Company B, Sixty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the date of his enlistment being March 26, 1862. He forthwith went to the front with his regiment, and the records show that he participated in several of the decisive and most hotly contested battles of the great civil war. He served in the Army of the Potomac, and among the engagements in which he took part may be mentioned the following: Second battle of Bull Run, August 30, 1862; Fredericksburg, November 9 to 16, 1862; Gettysburg, July 1, 1863; Mission Ridge, and Lookout Mountain, in November of the same year; and Dallas or New Hope Church, Georgia, where he was wounded in the night and was taken prisoner while being conveyed to the hospital at Chattanooga. He was, however, paroled the succeeding day and sent to Nashville, Tennessee, where he remained until convalescent, when he was transferred to Columbus, this State, and was there discharged, in December, 1864. His wound was a severe one, and he still suffers from the effects of the same, which has never healed. For gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Gettysburg he was promoted to the office of Corporal, and as such was discharged from the service. After the close of the war he returned to his home in Marysville and once more assumed his position in the woolen mill, where he remained for a number of years, the manufactory being operated by James W. and Col. Aaron B. Robinson, who are still honored residents of Marysville. In June, 1881, he engaged in the livery business, in company with J. B. Robinson, and this association continued about four years, when our subject purchased his partner's interest and has since conducted the enterprise upon his own responsibility, giving his entire attention to the same, which is now one of the best in point of equipments that the city can boast, and one whose supporting patronage is of representative order. Politically Mr. Mullen is identified with the Republican party, and fraternally he retains a membership in Marysville Lodge, No. 100, Knights of Pythias, and Ransom Reed Post, No. 113, G. A. R. Mr. Mullen has erected four residences in Marysville, his own home being eligibly located on Seventh street. He was married, in 1867, to Miss Lydia Jewell, daughter of Samuel S., deceased, who was one of the representative men of the county. Our subject and his wife are the parents of one child, Edward A. DAVID H. KYLE, another one of the prosperous farmers of Radnor township, Delaware county, Ohio, was born November 17, 1844. on the farm on which he now lives, and which his grandfather, Hugh Kyle, settled about 1802. Hugh Kyle was a native of Pennsylvania, and was one of the earliest pioneers of this township, he having come here when it was an unbroken wilderness. His wife's maiden name was Sarah McCarthy, and at the time of their removal here they had one child, Polly. His mother, the great-grandmother of our subject, came with them, and she 138 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF was the first person buried in the Radnor cemetery, her tombstone bearing the date of 1807. Four other children were born to them in their frontier home: James, David, Betsy and Sarah,—all of whom are deceased. Both he and his wife lived to an advanced age, and both were members of the Presbyterian Church. James Kyle, the father of David H., was born December 26, i 806; was reared on the old home place and passed his whole life here. He married Elizabeth Boyd, whose parents were among the pioneers of the county. The Kyles were Scotch-Irish and the Boyds were of German origin. James Kyle was the second male child born in the township. He was chosen by his fellow citizens to fill various local offices, the duties of which he performed with the strictest fidelity and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned. He and his wife were members of the Baptist Church at Radnor. She died November 8, 1873, and he passed to his reward May 3, 1879. They were the parents of twelve children, nine of whom are yet living. Three of the sons fought for the Union during the civil war: Elias, Hugh and James B., the last named being killed while in the service. Elias is now engaged in farming in Union county, this State, and Hugh is farming in Kansas. David H. Kyle grew up on his father's farm, and when he reached manhood purchased a farm near Richwood, Union county, where he lived four years. At the end of that time he sold out, returned to the scenes of his childhood and purchased the rest of the old homestead, he already being the owner of one-half of it. This is an excellent farm, and comprises 161 acres. March 21, 1871, Mr. Kyle married Elizabeth Griffiths, daughter of David R. Griffiths, a native of Wales, who came to America in 1833, and became identified with the farming interests of Radnor township, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Kyle's only child, David J., born January 26, 1878, died November 24, 1888, aged ten years, nine months and twenty-eight days. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, and in politics he is a Republican. He has served in various township offices. L. S. CONDIT, owner of the Evergreen Home Jersey Stock Farm, in Trenton township, Delaware county, was born in this township, March 28, 1854, a son of Marvin Condit, a native of New Jersey, and a mechanic and wagon-maker by trade. His death occurred in 1857. Marvin Condit married Sarah Leak, who died in 1882, and they had six children, three now living: Alice, wife of George Simmons, of Licking county, Ohio; D. H., a resident of this township; and L. S., the subject of this sketch. The last named came to the Home Jersey Stock Farm in 1871, to reside w ith his uncle, Ed M. Condit, a prominent and well known citizen of this locality, who died in 1881. His widow still resides on the home farm, aged seventy-nine years. Our subject owns 360 acres. of well improved land. His Jersey butter brings the highest market price. Everything about the Evergreen Stock Farm shows the thrift and prosperity of its owner. Mr. Condit was married in 1880, to Miss Della Conard, a native of Licking county, Ohio, and a daughter of James W. and Nancy (Evans) Conard. They are the parents of two children: Edith M., born in DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 139 1882: and Dane Conard, born in 1891. Mr. Condit affiliates with the Prohibition party. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he is a ruling Elder. ROSEL EDWARDS, proprietor of the Pioneer Stcck Farm, was born in Harlem township, Delaware county, September 12, 1841, a son of John Edwards. a native of Pennsylvania. For many years he was a prominent and well-known citizen of this township. The mother of our subject, nee' Elizabeth Cockrell, was also born in Harlem township, a daughter of Ed. Cockrell, one of the pioneer settlers of this locality. Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards had thirteen children, namely: Minerva, Mary, Rosel, Eli, William, John, Ellen, James Monroe. George (deceased), Nancy, Henry, Martha and Elijah. Eli was a soldier in the civil Nvar. The mother departed this life in 1854, and the father died March 4, 1894, at the age of eighty years. He was a successful farmer, having accumulated much property, and was identified with the Republican party. Rosel Edwards, the subject of this memoir, was reared on the old home farm, and attended a district school near his home. In 1885 he located on his present farm, which consists of 450 acres of the best land in Delaware county, and which is under a fine state of cultivation. In addition to his general farming, he is extensively engaged in stock raising, making a specialty of thoroughbred Percheron horses and Jersey cattle. He keeps an average of seventy milch cows on the farm. Mr. Edwards is a stockholder, director and one of the largest patrons of the Sunbury Creamers' Company. He was married at the age of twenty-one years, to Naomi Jane Barrick, a native of Licking county, Ohio, and a daughter of James and Ruth (Cross) Barrick. To this union have been born thirteen children, viz.: Almeda (deceased), Clara, John, Rosa, James, Emma, Charles, Willie (deceased), Burton H., Orvilla, Dellno, Howard and Frank. In his political relations, Mr. Edwards affiliates with the Republican party. C. N. METZGER, a farmer of Porter township, Delaware county, was born in Monroe township, Knox county, Ohio, June 13, I S60, a son of Joseph Metzger, who was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in June, 1819. His father, Michael Metzger, was of German descent. The family came to Perry county, Ohio, in 1823, where Joseph was born and reared. He was married at Mount Vernon, this State, to Mary Bechtol, and they had five children: John, Henry, Charles, Mary and Catherine. The wife and mother died, and the father afterward married Rachel Houk, ni"e Walker. She had two children by her former marriage—Mary E., and one deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Metzger had six children: James, Joseph M., C. N., George W., Joanna R. and Albert. Mr. Metzger died in Knox county at the age of sixty-six years. His widow still resides in Monroe township, that county. C. N. Metzger, the subject of this sketch, attended the public schools, and afterward entered the National Normal School at Lebanon. In 1882 he located on the farm where he now lives, the place comprising 131 acres, and being then known as the Joseph Mendenhall farm. He occupies a good two-story residence, 24 x 29 feet, with 140 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF an addition 13 x 32 feet, and a rock cellar. The place contains many other valuable improvements. Mr. Metzger affiliates with the Republican party, and is now serving as Justice of the Peace. June 27, 1881, by Rev. A. Hann, a Presbyterian minister, our subject was married, in Delaware, to Ida May Belle, a daughter of B. W. and Eliza (Warner) Belle. The father was a well-known citizen of Berkshire township, this county. Mrs. Metzger received her education at the Sunbury high school. Our subject and wife have five children, viz. : Ralph D., Audley C., Ben Harrison, Johanna R. and Ida May Belle. Mr. Metzger is a Steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Secretary of the official board, and Superintendent of the Sunday-school. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. JOHN LANE, a farmer of Porter township, Delaware county, was born in Devonshire, England, in 1837, a son of John and Maria (Eastman) Lane, natives also of that place. They were members of the Church of England. John, one of eight children, four sons and four daughters, was reared to farm work at his native place. At the age of twenty years he came to Canada, where he found employment on a farm. He came to Ohio in November, 186o, and settled near Olive Green for a time. In 1861 he enlisted for service in the late war, entering Company F, Forty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served for three years with honor and credit. He was under fire at New Madrid, Corinth and Iuka, was for a time under General Pope and General Rosecrans, and was also with General Sherman on the great march to the sea, in the siege of Atlanta and the most famous campaigns. Receiving his discharge at Savannah, Georgia, Mr. Lane engaged in agricultural pursuits in this county. In 1865 he came to his present farm of 102 acres, where he has all the necessary farm improvements. Our subject was married in Devonshire, England, at the age of twenty years, to Susan Spearman, who was born and reared at that place. They have ten children: Mary Ann. Martha Jane, John Thomas, Minnie Grace, George, William, Jesse, Anna Maria, Levina and Albert. Four of the children are still at home. John T. is engaged as a teacher. John Lane is an active and zealous worker in the Republican party, and for five years has served with credit as Township Trustee. The family attend the Methodist Church. Mr. Lane is a man of the highest intelligence, is honest and upright in his dealings, is successful in his business ventures, and is one of the most popular citizens of the county. JOSEPH F. WOODS.--Union county, Ohio, contributed to the Federal army many a brave and valiant soldier during the late Civil war, and among those surviving at the present time when the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic are being disintegrated by the one invincible foe, death, stands the subject of this sketch, who was loyal to his country in her hour of peril, and who now stands as her staunch supporter in these piping times of peace." Mr. Woods is one of the representative farmers of Union township, and is a native son of the county, having been born May 29, 1837, on the paternal home- DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 141 stead, lying in this township, along the course of the Big Darby creek. His father, John P. Woods, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1806, being the son of Rev. Samuel and Margaret (Power) Woods, who came from Pennsylvania in the early pioneer days of 1807, the father having been one of the first Presbyterian clergymen in this section of the State. He was a man of simple piety and marked ability, and his labors must ever be held in lasting regard. He died in 1815, leaving a widow and five children. We are enabled to offer the following brief record concerning the children: John P. was the father of our subject; Eliza, the only daughter, married Rev. Benjamin Dolbear. Samuel was born August 26, 1819, and died March 3, 1880; James F. was born near Milford Center, Ohio, June 21, 1812, was a prominent attorney of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and died December 1o, 1893: Judge William Woods, deceased, was a prominent man in the county, having been Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and having been the founder of the Bank of Marysville. Our subject's father, John P., was reared and educated in this county, and here was consummated his marriage to Miss Jane M. Finly, who was born in the old Keystone State in 1810, the daughter of Joseph Finly, who was a native of Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and who was an early settler in Union county. The maiden name of his wife, who was born in Pennsylvania, was Frances Moore. John P. and Jane M. Woods became the parents of five children, namely: Joseph F., who is the subject of this sketch; Harlan P., who participated in the late war as a member of Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, is now a resident of Plain City, Ohio; Frances is the wife .of S. W. Robinson, of Kenton, this State; Isadore died at the age of fourteen years; and Theodore J., is a resident of Taylor township, this county. The father died March 6, 1851, at the age of forty-four years, and the mother survived to attain the advanced age of seventy-eight years, her death occurring in 1888. In politics, John P. Woods was a Whig and an ardent Abolitionist, and religiously was a leading adherent of the Presbyterian Church, in which he was a most zealous worker. Our subject, Joseph F. Woods, was reared to farm life on the old homestead and received his educational discipline at Bridgeport and Delaware, this State. August 3o, 1861, he enlisted for service in the late war, as a member of Company D, Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he participated in the battles of Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain, besides several other conflicts of minor sort. He was finally detached from his regiment and was placed on duty at Columbus, Ohio's capital city, where he assisted in the taking of recruits to the front. He was honorably discharged from the service, September 14, 1864, as Sergeant of Company D. In 1874 Mr. Woods took up his residence on his present farm, which is known as the old Judge Gill homestead, and which is one of the very best farms in the township, comprising, in Darby and Union townships, 1351 acres and being under a most approved system of cultivation. The family residence, which was erected by our subject in 1882, is one of the attractive rural homes of this section, being commodious and of modern and symmetrical architectural de.- sign. Other permanent improvements on the place are of a character consonant with 142 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF progressive and enterprising methods which Mr. Woods brings to bear in the cultivation and management of his farming industry. The place shows a goodly array of live stock of all kinds, and no little attention is devoted to this department of the enterprise. September 12, 1867, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Belle Martin, a woman of culture and gentle refinement, and one who attained distinctive popularity in Darby township as a successful teacher. She was born in Darby township, this county, May 14, 1841, the daughter of James and Edith (Penrose) Martin, both of whom were natives of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and both of whom are now deceased. They were prominent and honored residents of Darby township, this county, for many years, and were the parents of six children, namely: Amelia, wife of J. C. Robinson, of Darby township; Joseph P., of Darby township; Keziah, who died at the age of eighteen years; Belle, wife of our subject; Mary, deceased; and Maria, wife of James Anderson, of Ringgold county, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Woods have had three children, namely: Zella, who died at the age of two years, three months and five days; Nellie and Carrie. The surviving daughters are both successful and popular teachers and are members of the Presbyterian Church, of which their mother also is a devoted adherent. Our subject lends his ballot and influence to the support of the Republican party. He is a man of marked intellectual power, and in his personality is frank and genial, while his honor and probity are beyond cavil. To him has been accorded the respect and esteem of the entire community in which he lives. W. H. SINGER.—The subject of this sketch is one of the well-known and honored farmers of Cardington township, Morrow county, Ohio. and has gained a certain and peculiar distinction by maintaining his residence on the same farm which figured as his birthplace, the date of his nativity having been November 13, 1840. His father was Samuel Singer, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, and who was a stone-mason by trade. His father, George Singer, was a native of England, and came to America when a young man. The maiden name of our subject's mother was Catharine Valentine, and she was a daughter of John Valentine, a native of Maryland, where his daughter was also born. John Valentine's father was born in England. The parents of our subject were married in Maryland, and in 1827 they came to that part of Marion county, Ohio, which is incorporated in the present county of Morrow. They located in Canaan township, and the father opened the first general store in the little town of Denmark, Canaan township. He continued this enterprise for a period of five years, after which he effected the purchase of the farm where our subject lives at the present time, the land being heavily timbered and entirely unreclaimed. He built a log house and cleared and otherwise improved the farm, remaining there until 1862, when he purchased a farm in Perry township, Morrow county, and made that his abiding place for two years, after which he resumed his residence on the old farm in Cardington township. He served as a private during the war of 1812, was a Democrat in politics, and religiously was identified DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 143 with the Presbyterian Church. He was a man of prominence in the community and was well known throughout the county. He died in his seventy-fourth year, and his widow passed away at the age of eighty-six years. They were the parents of nine children, of whom we offer the following brief record: George M. is a resident of Indiana; Valentine V. is of Cardington. Ohio; Mary Ann is the wife of George W. Bolenger. of Cardington township; Margaret H. is the wife of Jonathan Fester, also of this township; Samuel is deceased, as is also Lovina; John J. is a resident of Van Wert county. Ohio; Thomas J. resides at Logansport, Indiana, and William H. is the immediate subject of this review. Our subject, who was the youngest of the family, was reared on the farm which now constitutes his home, receiving his education in the district schools and in Iberia College., which building is now utilized as the working home .for the blind, in this county. At the age of fourteen he began to work for himself, engaging as a clerical assistant in a produce establishment at Galion, Ohio, where he remained for three months, after which he engaged in the same line of enterprise for himself at Cardington, thus continuing until 1862. In the following year he went to Buffalo, New York, and was there engaged in the same business for six months; then in New York city for another six months, after which he returned to Ohio and opened a similar establishment at Bellville, Richland county, where he continued operations until 1867. May 19, 1867, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Austin, who was born in the State of New York, but who was reared in Richland county, Ohio, being the daughter of Dr. T. T. Austin, a prominent physician of Bellville. Within the year of his marriage Mr. Singer purchased the interests of the other heirs to his father's estate and located on the old homestead, where he has ever since continued to reside. The place, which is one of the finest in the county, comprises 200 acres, and is under a high state of cultivation. The owner has devoted himself to general farming, but has awarded special attention to the raising of potatoes and popcorn. Mr. and Mrs. Singer have had three children, namely: Anna, who is deceased; Mary C., wife of Frank Skinner, of Cardington, and Willie A., at home. In his religious views our subject is charitable and liberal. Politically he is an ardent Democrat and is an active worker and a power in the local ranks of his party, though he has strenuously objected to becoming a candidate for any political office, having declined tht nomination in 1893 for Representative in the joint convention of Marion and Morrow counties, not wanting to be Membered with any office. But finally in 1894 he consented to accept the nomination for Sheriff of Morrow county, because the ticket must be full, and for the good of the party, at the same time feeling quite confident that he would not be elected because the majority was too large against him. He has manifested much interest in the work and efforts made by the farmers of the country with a view to securing a better representation in the affairs of State, and he was president of the Morrow County Farmers' Alliance during the time the organization was retained. He is a member of the Western Farmers' Club and has held all the offices in the same. Fraternally he is a member of Cardington Lodge, No. 194. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. 144 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF FRANCIS A. WELCH.—Among the representative farmers of Peru township, Morrow county, Ohio, he whose name initiates this paragraph must assuredly be accorded place, for his position has been one of prominence in many ways. He was born in Bennington county, Vermont, May 17, 1825, the son of Ebenezer \\Teich, who likewise was a native of the Green Mountain State, where he was reared to man's estate. He was a son of John Welch, who was a representative of one of the early New England families and who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, in one of the battles of which conflict he was severely wounded, receiving a pension from the Government by reason of his injuries. Ebenezer Welch took unto himself a wife in the person of Susan Bennett, who was born in Bennington county, Vermont, and there reared. Her father, Francis Bennett, was a descendant of a prominent family long resident of the New England States, he himself having been a native of Vermont. He was a minister of the old-fashioned Baptist Church, and he lived to attain the age of more than eighty years, the family having been one notable for longevity. The parents of our subject were married in their native county and there passed the span of their lives, the father dying at the age of sixty years and the mother at eighty-eight. The former was an active participant in the war of 1812. They became the parents of eight sons and two daughters, all of whom grew to maturity, but of whom all, save two, are now deceased. Of them we record that Samuel, John, Daniel and Thomas are deceased; Josiah is a resident of the State of New York; Lyman is deceased; Perry is deceased; Francis A. is the subject of this review; Sarah is deceased, as is also Betsey. Our subject was the youngest son, and he remained in his native county until he had attained the age of nineteen years, his mental discipline having been one of practical experience in the affairs of life, rather than that gained from books. At the age of nineteen years he left the parental roof and started out empty-handed to carve out his own fortune. He proceeded to Rensselaer county, New York, where he worked by the month or year for a period of twelve years, receiving wages ranging from eight to twelve dollars per month. In 1848 he was united in marriage to Ann Eliza Lain, who was born and reared in Rensselaer county, New York, being the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Lain. She died, leaving two children: Theodore M., of Richland county, Ohio, who has two sons, Frank and John; and one child who died young. Four years subsequent to the death of his wife Mr. Welch came to Morrow county and purchased a farm of sixty-three acres, in Peru township, taking up his residence on the same. July 22, 1855, he consummated a second marriage, being then united to Samantha (Oliver) Dillingham, widow of Alfred Dillingham. She was born in Peru township and was the daughter of William and Annis Oliver, who were among the early settlers in the county. Our subject and his wife are the parents of two sons and one daughter, of whom we make record as follows: Nettie is the wife of Alfred Finley, of Kansas, and has six children; Emerson E. married Jessie Doty and has two children, Clare and Tacy; Lyman married Delia Rosevelt and has two children, Mabel and Esley. DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 145 At the time of the late war Mr. Welch enlisted as a private in Company G, Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was under detail as a general utility man to Colonel Neff. He served eleven months, after which he returned to his home in this township. He now owns in this township a well improved farm of 110 acres. In politics Mr. 'Welch is an ardent Republican, and he has taken a prominent part in the local councils and affairs of the organization. He served for a full decade as Township Trustee, and in 1887 he was elected County Commissioner, serving in that capacity for three years. He has also served as a delegate to the State convention several times. He is one of the board of School Directors in the township; is clerk of the district and chairman of the School Board. Fraternally he is identified with Ashley Lodge, I. O. O. F., and religiously, he is a member of the Society of Friends. A man of stanchest integrity, and of marked ability, he has long held a high position in the respect and confidence of the community. JUDGE THOMAS E. DUNCAN, the subject of this brief sketch, is an honored resident of Morrow county, where he has attained high distinction and precedence in the line of his profession, in business and social circles, and upon the bench in the exercise of important judicial functions. The subject of this review was born November 21, 1839, in Mechanic township, Holmes county, Ohio, the son of William Duncan, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he was born in the year 1812, as the offspring of Andrew and Jane (Wiley) Duncan, the latter of whom was a sister of Dr. Andrew Wiley, a distinguished Presbyterian divine, as well as Dr. Andrew Wiley, who attained eminence as a physician. The first named brother was for many years president of Washington College, Pennsylvania, which institution was subsequently consolidated with Jefferson College, forming the present Washington and Jefferson College. The ancestral lineage of the Duncan family is highly honorable and dates back to Scotland, where Andrew was born. Andrew Duncan removed from Washington county, Pennsylvania, to Jefferson county, Ohio, at an early day and here he subsequently met his death, receiving fatal injuries as the result of an accident in a clearing, in which a log rolled upon him. The father of our subject was six years of age when his parents took up their residence in the Buckeye State, and he was reared to maturity in Jefferson county, remaining on the farm during his boyhood and early youth, and finally giving his time and attention to acquiring the trade of a blacksmith, but subsequently became a leading farmer and stockraiser. He was an active participant in the Black Hawk war and was a sturdy, loyal and honorable son of the Republic. In Holmes county where he finally settled and there passed the remainder of his days, he was united in marriage to Frances Elliott, a native of the famous old county of Donegal, Ireland, where she was born in 1819, being only a babe of six months when her parents, James and Hester (Stevenson) Elliott, emigrated from the Emerald Isle to America, settling in Holmes county. Here the Elliotts made their permanent home, the father being a stone mason by trade, but eventually engaging in farming. He was a man of literary tastes 146 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF and became one of the prominent and successful men in that section, where he was one of the early pioneers. William and Frances (Elliott) Duncan consummated their marriage in Holmes county, and there passed the remainder of their days, being honored and prominent members of the community in which they lived for so many years. He was killed by a falling tree, in December, 1877, and the mother of our subject entered into eternal rest in 1891. They were the parents of six sons and six daughters, ten of whom are now living. The names of the family are as follows : Thomas E. (the subject of this review), Jane Carr, Mary, Andrew, Eliza, Fannie, Heddington, James, William, John, Emma Chase, Elmira Bickle and George. Emma Chase and George are deceased. The parents were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the mother was particularly active in her devotions to the same. Andrew and James were soldiers in the late war of the Rebellion and the first named was severely wounded while in the service. Thomas E. Duncan, the immediate subject of this biographical resume grew to manhood on the parental farmstead in Holmes county, attending the district schools and subsequently supplementing the knowledge thus acquired in a rudimentary way by a course of study in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware. Within the time that he was pursuing his literary education he devoted himself to school teaching at irregular intervals, thus assisting in defraying the expenses of his own education. After he left college he at once made ready to take up the line of professional study which should fit him for the practice of the law, entering the law office of Barcroft & Vorhees, a prominent law firm of Millersburg, Holmes county; he continued his reading assiduously and, in 1862, was admitted to the bar upon examination at Columbus. Now thoroughly re-enforced in a theoretical way he at once proceeded to Carding-ton, Morrow county, where he proudly displayed his professional shingle and entered upon the active practice of his profession. His technical ability, facility in debate and his judicial acumen in counsel gained him a representative clientage, as his power became known, and there he remained until 1878, when he came to the official center of the county, Mt. Gilead, where he has ever since continued in the practice of his profession, and where he has risen to distinction as the result of the qualifications above noted, as well as the confidence begotten by the integrity of his character. Politically he has always been an ardent supporter of the Republican party, and has ever been active in the support of its principles and its candidates. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Morrow county in 1868 and in 1870 was selected his own successor. In 1873 he was elected representative in the General Assembly of Ohio, and at the expiration of his term was chosen to succeed himself, having proved a capable and discriminating legislator, and one to whose keeping popular interests could be consigned without reference to party or political creeds. Among other positions assigned him while in the Legislature, he was made chairman of the committee on the elective franchise. At this time, 1876, party feeling was at its highest tension, stimulated in part by the DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 147 doubts involved in the result of the presidential election of that year and the charges of fraud upon the ballot box, and believing that the law intended to secure the purity of the ballot was imperfect, and that the public peace and the interests of the State demanded more stringent election laws, he undertook, formulated and introduced into the Legislature, and, after a long and bitter contest, secured the passage of the first registration law in the history of the State. The wisdom of this legislation is shown by the fact that many of its provisions remain upon the statute books to-day. In 1882 our subject was appointed by Governor Foster, a member of the Board of Directors of the Ohio Penitentiary, a position which he held until 1884, when he was appointed by the Governor as judge of the Court of Common Pleas, to fill out the unexpired term of Judge Thomas J. Kinney, deceased. He retained this incumbency for one year.. In 1884 Judge Duncan was elected a delegate from the ninth Ohio Congressional district, as it was then composed, to the Republican National Convention, held in Chicago, and bore an honorable part in the proceedings of the convention, which resulted in the nomination of the Hon. James G. Blaine for President. In 1893 he became the Republican nominee for the important office which he had previously held by special appointment and was duly elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the second sub-division of the sixth Judicial district, receiving a majority of 700 votes in a district which gave a Democratic majority of more than 1,800 the preceding year. This circumstance affords sufficient evidence of his popularity in a pronounced way, and of the confidence in which he is held by his neighbors and the voters of the district. The Judge has served the public in a more local way as a member of the Common Council of Mt. Gilead, and other local offices. In all the public positions which Judge Duncan has been called upon to fill, he has at all times shown himself possessed of marked ability, and has discharged the duties of his various offices with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents. In addition to the business of his profession and the cares of public life, he has found time to devote to commercial enterprises of considerable importance. He was for several years associated with the Duncan Brothers, hardware dealers, in Cardington, and was one of the organizers and principal stockholder in the Cardington Flouring Mill Company, and later on, in connection with Messrs. House & Dawson, built and equipped the Buckeye Flouring Mill, at Mt. Gilead, which enterprise has since been organized into a joint stock company, of which he is now one of the directors and principal stockholders. Judge Duncan is now in the prime of his life, with abundant opportunities for usefulness, and is what you may call a busy man, with health,. ambition and strength to carry forward successfully whatever he undertakes. With a keen sense of honor, social and genial, he never forgets a friend and many can testify to his generous magnanimity in helping them on in the world, and to his potent influence in the support of their cause. At the breaking out of the late war he was connected with the United States Survey Service, in Colorado, where he had been allured by what proved to be extravagant stories of the rich gold find in that Territory. He had left his books and his 148 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF   home in high expectation of becoming rich and enjoying in life whatever aches bring. Reaching Denver, then containing but a few log huts and adobes, he found to his dismay that he had undergone the hardships of a long journey of thousands of miles with ox teams, much of the way over a trackless prairie and desert plain, to find himself deceived and his fond hopes blasted. He could not well return, and having by this time some experience as a frontiersman, well educated, young and active, he applied for and obtained employment as above stated. In July, 1861, he received the first news of the war, and the officer in charge of the surveying party was ordered to report forthwith at Fort Leavenworth. Being again disappointed and out of employment in the western fastnesses of Colorado, nothing remained but to return, so turning his face eastward and with sturdy tread, he reached his home in Holmes county to find his old chums and the boys of his age in the army. So after recruiting his health and strength, now somewhat impaired by the hardships through which he had passed, he resumed the study of the law and the following year was admitted to the bar. The Judge says that this experience while a boy doubtless cured him of a roving disposition, which he suspects he had at that time. Turning in conclusion to the domestic pages of Judge Duncan's history, we learn that on the 14th day of May, 1862, he was united in marriage to Miss Rachel, daughter of Major John and Sophia (Clark) Frew, the former of whom was a prominent dry-goods merchant at Coshocton, Ohio, for nearly a half a century; both parents are now deceased. Mrs. Duncan was born at Coshocton, in September, 1841, and was there reared and educated. Judge and Mrs. Duncan became the parents of seven children, and of this number all are living save one. William F. married Elba Ireland and they have one child; he is a prominent young attorney of Findlay, this State. Seth C. has been admitted to practice law but is now engaged as a traveling salesmen. The other children are Carrie L., Josephine, Mary, Thomas A. and Bessie. Thomas A. met his death at Cardington, Ohio, falling into a cistern and being drowned, at the age of two and one-half years. Josephine is the wife of Wert A. Robinson, a dry-goods merchant of Goshen, Elkhart county, Indiana. All the children were afforded exceptional educational advantages. The attractive family home is located on Court street. Mrs. Duncan is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The family is a Methodist family. JOHN NEWSON, who is one of the prominent pioneer residents and representative agriculturists of Gilead township, Morrow county, has lived on the farmstead which he now occupies since he was a boy of five years, and he has witnessed and assisted in its development from a sylvan wild to its present condition of high cultivation, has replaced the rude forest lodge by a modern and attractive residence, and has attained to marked success in a material way as the result of his own efforts. Such a life history is one which offers the most perfect justification for a work of this nature. Our subject is a native of Washington county, Maryland, where he was born on the 2d day of March, 1820, the son of Abraham Newson, whose place of nativity DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 149 was the same county, where he grew to man's estate, coming to Morrow (then Marion) county, Ohio, in the year 1825, when this section was yet, for the most part given over to the virgin forests and the dominion of the Indians and the wild animals. Abraham Newson located on the farm where his son, our subject, now lives, taking up his abode in a tent until he could complete his log cabin. He secured this tract of wild land from the Government, this tract being 160 acres, and the place has ever since remained in the possession of the family. He afterward purchased 640 acres of school land, and at the time of his death had 1,000 acres. He was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian type, and religiously was a zealous adherent of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a man of gigantic physical proportions, having weighed 448 pounds. His father, John Newson, was of Irish descent. The maiden name of our subject's mother was Lucy Friend, and she was born in Maryland, where she was reared. She died in the seventy-first year of her age. Her father, Jacob Friend, was of English extraction. Abraham and Lucy Newson became the parents of twelve children, two of whom died in childhood, the others living to attain mature years, and seven of the number are living at the present time. Our subject was the second son, and was five years of age when his parents removed from their old home in the East and took up their abode in the Buckeye State. He grew up on the old homestead and received his educational discipline in the old log school-houses of the period,—the same having quaint and meagre equipments and accessories, the seats being rude slab benches, and heat being provided by means of a huge fire in the center of the room. John Newson remained on his father's farm until January, 1847, when was consummated his marriage to Ruth Blakeley, a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, where she was born April 14, 1822, the daughter of John Blakeley, who was also a native of the same county in the Old Dominion State, as was also his father, William Blakeley, who was of Irish descent. John Blakeley came to Belmont cz:unty, Ohio, and there lived for eleven years, after which he came to Morrow county, where he passed the residue of his life, passing away in his eighty-third year. His wife, nc'e Jane Talbert, was born in Virginia, the daughter of Thomas Talbert, who was likewise born in that State. She died in her forty-second year. Mrs. Newson was the eldest of a family of eight children, comprising seven daughters and one son. She was but four years of age when her parents came to Ohio, and was fourteen when they took up their abode in Morrow county. After his marriage our subject located on a part of the paternal homestead and gave himself assiduously to its improvement and cultivation. At that time the nearest point at which groceries could be secured was eighteen miles distant, and for dry-goods they were compelled to go to Mansfield,—a distance of twenty-three miles. All kinds of wild animals native to this section were still abundant, and it was impossible for the settlers to raise sheep, on account of the depredations of the wolves. Mr. Newson's residence farm is distinctively one of the finest in this section of the State, comprising 214 acres. In addition to this place he has another farm of sixty acres, in Congress township. He devotes