50 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF letts may find their genealogical record for many generations. The mother of our subject, whose maiden name was Sarah Nickols, was born January 7, 1819, in Loudoun county, Virginia, the daughter of Nathan and Sarah (Thomas) Nickols, who were Friends, the former haying been born November 30, 1780, and the latter, who was the daughter of Owen and Martha (Davis) Thomas, haying been born June 13, 1782. They came to Morrow county (then Marion county,. Ohio, and settled just to the south of Mt. Gilead. He entered a tract of 960 acres of land here in 1824. He returned to Virginia. where he died March 21, 1827. Before his death he gave his slaves deeds of manumission and they were afterward brought with the family to Belmont county, Ohio, where they settled. The widow and her family came to what is now Morrow county in 1827 and settled on a quarter section of land, a part of which tract is now included in the county fair ground, the old homestead being located on the hill where the residence of Philip Wieland now stands. Sarah Nickols died June 23, 1839. Her children were fourteen in number, namely : John, born October 4, 18o2, died in Missouri; Mahala, born July 25, 1804, died in childhood; Ruth, born November 3, 1805, married Alban Coe and died in this county; George, born May 24, 1807, died in Morrow county, in September, 1885; Albert, born June 28, 1808, died in Missouri, having been a soldier in the Mexican war, as was also his brother John; Harriet, born March 3o, 181o, married Robert F. Hickman and died in Perry county, Ohio; Massey, born December 13, 1811, died in Morrow county; Margaret. born August 4, 1813, became the wife of Abraham Coe and died in this county; Martha. born April 26, 1815, married Preston Friend and died in Iowa; Ann, born July 13, 1817. married Jacob Painter and died in Morrow county; Sarah, was the mother of our subject; Mordecai, born May 22, 1820. died in Virginia; Mary E., born May 11, 1822. married Joel R. Bartlett and died in McDonough county, Illinois; Nathan, Jr., born May 11, 1826, died in the same county. All of these children were natives of Loudoun county, Virginia, and twelve of the number grew to maturity. The marriage of our subject's parents was solemnized in Marion (now Morrow) county, November 9, 1637, and they settled at Mt. Gilead where the father was engaged at his trade as a blacksmith and maker of edged tools. In 1847 he moved out to a farm in Congress (now Gilead) township, in the vicinity of the present county infirmary; in 1868 he removed to North Bloomfield township, where he remained for ten years, after which he returned to Mt. Gilead and took up his abode in the old Hahn homestead, where he lived until his death. August 31, 1885. His wife had passed away many years previous, March 27, 1856. They were the parents of eight children, namely: Robert F., subject of this review; Wesley Clark, born September 24, 1842, died December 7, of the same year; John Oscar, born January 24, 1844, was a soldier in the late war, participating in the battles of Shiloh and Stone River. and being killed in the battle of Chickamauga, September 19, 1863: he was a member of Company D, Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was Corporal of his company: after the battle in which he met his death the Union forces retreated, leaving their dead unburied for days, and his body reposes among the unknown dead in the national cemetery at DELAWARE. UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES - 51 Chattanooga, Tennessee; Julia E., born December 8, 1845, is the wife of John B. Gatchell, of Marysville, Kansas. a veteran of the late war: they have two children, Fred Burns and Frank Paul; Althea, born June 7, 1848, married George W. Montgomery, who is now deceased, having left one son, George H.: Mrs. Montgomery subsequently married John Bortner and now resides near Mt. Gilead. this county, haying one son by her second marriage, namely, Clarence; Sarah M., born October 1. 1850, is the wife of William A. Braden. of Washington township, this county, and they have six children: Ida, Charles, Homer, Ray and Ralph (twins , and Arthur: Albert \V. born February 22, :854, married Anna, daughter of the kite Thomas: Graham, of North Bloomfield township. and is a resident of .Marysville, Kansas: they have two children, Bessie and Thomas; Nathan Herbert, born January 22, 1856, married Cora Bartlett, daughter of Dwight Bartlett, of Cincinnati, Ohio. and they have tin ee children, Helen Genevieve. Oscar, and Ernest: he is a graduate of Lebanon College, this State, is a man of scholarly attainments, and is principal of the public schools of Mt. Healthy, Hamilton county. The parents were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the father had held official positions in the same, being an earnest worker in the cause of religion. Politically he supported the Democratic party until 1852, when he transferred his allegiance to the Republican party, to which he ever after gave an unqualified affirmation. He served as Justice of the Peace in North Bloomfield township for a period of six years. He eventually consummated a second marriage, being united to Eliza Annette Adams, January 4. 1857. She was a native of Livingston county, New York, and her death occurred in July, 1873. They were the parents of five children, namely: Charles Wilbur, born October 14, 1857, died February 16, 1865; Fred Willis, born May i 5, 1859, married Ella, daughter of Sheridan Cox, of Canaan township, and they reside in Oketo, Kansas, having one daughter, Blanche; Elmer Ellsworth, born October 28, 1861, died October 8, 1865; Annette May, born June 20, 1863, graduated at the Mt. Gilead high school in 1882, and the Normal College at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1883, and in 1887 she graduated at the State Normal School, at Oswego, New York, and since April, 1887, she has been the principal of the Normal Mission School for young women of the Presbyterian Church in the city of Mexico: in her graduation at Oswego she bore away the highest honors of her class: at the present time, September, 1894, she is taking advantage of a year's vacation granted her, by pursuing a course of special study in Wellesley College, Massachusetts; Alice P., born August 31, 1867, is a teacher in Marshall county, Kansas. Abner Matthews Bartlett married for his third wife Emily Helt, widow of J. C. Helt, this union being solemnized October 14, 1874. By her marriage to Mr. Helt she was the mother of four children, namely: Manilla. wife of Lemuel Wright, resides near Fredericktown, Ohio; Winfield Helt, a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church; Legrand Helt, recently deceased, and Nellie, the wife of Henry R. King, resides at Miles City, . Montana. Robert Franklin Bartlett, the immediate subject of this review, was born at Mt. Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, April 8, 1840, receiving his preliminary education in 52 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF the district schools and thereafter attending the public schools of Mt. Gilead, fur two years and then the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, for two years. At the close of the college year of 1862 he enlisted, August 2d, as a private in Company D, Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Upon the organization of his company he was made Second Sergeant, and January 26, 1863, he was promoted to Orderly Sergeant. He participated in the battles mentioned below : Chickasaw Bayou; Arkansas Post, at which place he was wounded in the head by a shell; the campaign and siege of Vicksburg, having been present at the first attack, December 28, 1862, at Chickasaw Bayou, and for the six intervening months (except seven weeks in March and April when he was sick with typhoid fever at Milliken's Bend) he was continuously with his regiment and on duty, until the surrender of Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) with its munitions of war and over 30,000 prisoners. The regiment was present thirty-five days of the siege and was under fire almost constantly, night and day. At Grand Coteau, Louisiana, he received a gun-shot wound in the left fore-arm and elbow and was taken prisoner. With other wounded, both Union and Confederate, he was left at a mansion about three miles inside the Confederate lines and located about fifteen miles from La Fayette. The lady of the house, a Mrs. Rogers, accorded the wounded of both sides a most kindly solicitude and careful attention, doing all in her power for their comfort and relief. Within the evening of November 4, 1863, the wounded prisoners of both armies were exchanged and our subject was returned to the Union lines and was then removed to St. James' hospital, New Orleans, where his arm vas amputated, near the shoulder joint, this operation being performed December 3, 1863.. He was discharged from the service January 25, 1864. After his discharge Mr. Bartlett returned home and gave his attention to reading law and teaching school. He was Deputy Clerk of Courts until the fall of 1866, when he was elected as Clerk of the Morrow county courts, being re-elected to this office in 1869 and again in 1872, by a majority of 737, serving in this capacity until February 14, 1876. He then resumed the study of law with Thomas H. Dalrymple, Esq., of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and, June 24, 1878, was admitted to practice, at Mt. Gilead, where he appeared before the district court for examination. He took up his residence in Cardington in October of the same year, and has since continued in the practice of his profession at this point. April 8, 1867, Mr. Bartlett was united in marriage to Miss Martha M. Miller, who was born. in Mount Gilead, December 2, 1839, a daughter of Nehemiah Miller, concerning whom individual mention is made elsewhere in this volume. Mrs. Bartlett was educated in the public schools and in the select school conducted by Mrs. Spalding in Mount Gilead. Our subject and his wife have no children, but have a foster child, Mary F., who was born in Cincinnati September 9, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett are members of the Presbyterian Church and our subject is an Elder in the same. Fraternally, he is a member of both lodge and encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having passed all its chairs. He is also identified with the Knights of Pythias and is Past Chancellor of his lodge. He also retains a membership in James St. John Post, No. 82, G. A. R., and from the DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 53 same has been a delegate to several State encampments, and in 1889 to the national encampment at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a member of Encampment No. 89, Union Veteran Legion, of Mount Gilead. Politically Mr. Bartlett is an uncompromising Republican and he has been a most active party worker, having been chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Morrow county in 1893. and having been a delegate to various conventions of his party. He has been for many years the incumbent as permanent secretary of the reunion association of his regiment. a preferment to which he was called by his old comrades in arms. Mr. Bartlett is a man whose life has been ever in accord with the principles of right, justice and honor, and it is needless to say that he holds a place in the confidence and respect of the people. HON. SAMUEL LEWIS, a prominent farmer and stock-raiser living near Radnor, is the present Representative from Delaware county in the State Legislature of Ohio. He was born in South Wales, and when a child of three years was brought by his parents. John and Sarah (Hughes! Lewis, to the United States, the family locating first in Licking county, Ohio, where they made their home for fifteen years. When Samuel was a young man of seventeen he apprenticed himself to a man in Columbus, Ohio, to learn the trade of plastering, and after serving for a period of four years, during which time he thoroughly mastered the business, he formed a partnership with a Mr. Williams, with whom he carried on operations for three years. Their connection was then dissolved and Mr. Lewis was then alone in the plastering business for nine years. When that period had passed he abandoned his trade and removed to Radnor township, Delaware county, purchasing a farm near the banks of the Scioto river, directly west of the village of Radnor, then called Delhi. On Christmas day of 1856, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Lewis and Miss Mary J. Gallant, daughter of Elisha and Eleanor (Moore) Gallant. Her father was killed by being kicked in the head by a colt. For one week he lay unconscious and then passed away. on the twenty-sixth of November, 1871. To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have been born five children: S. Ella, who was born November 28, 1857, and was married November 5, 1878, to E. E. Jones; E. Judson, born December 25, 1859; E. Minnie, born April 5. 1863; M. Adel, born January 19, 1869; and Lizzie, born February 17, 1873. The family circle yet remains unbroken by the hand of death. Mr. Lewis is now the owner of 360 acres of rich and arable land which is under a high state of cultivation and well improved with all the accessories of a model farm. Its neat and thrifty appearance indicates his careful supervision and tells to the passer-by the story of his enterprise and progressive spirit. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lewis and their family are members of the Baptist Church. In his youth our subject received but limited educational privileges but in later years has read and studied quite extensively and is now one of the best informed men in his town.,hip and county. He has held the office of Justice of the Peace for more than twelve years, discharging his duties with commendable promptness and fidelity. He 54 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF is a warm advocate of the Republican party and its principles and in the fall of 1893 was elected on that ticket to the House of Representatives, receiving a majority of 888 votes, the largest ever given to a candidate for that position for twenty-five years. Soon after taking his seat in the Assembly, he was made chairman of the committee on the Girls' Industrial Home and became a member of the committee on public lands and public buildings and the deaf and dumb asylum. He introduced into the House a bill changing the commissioners' pay from a fee to a salary, thus saying to his county considerable expense. Mr. Lewis labors for the best interests of the people, and during his career as a member of the Legislature has shown that the confidence the people placed in him has not been misplaced. His public and private life are alike above reproach and we take great pleasure in presenting his biographical record to our readers, knowing that it will be received with interest by many. WATERMAN HILL, whose magnificent farmstead, in Union township, Union county, Ohio, lies just contiguous to the thriving village of Milford Center, stands as the representative of one of the prominent pioneer families of the Buckeye State and as one of the must successful and substantial farmers of the county, being most clearly entitled to specific mention in this connection. He was born in Union township and his entire life has been passed therein, but, unlike the prophet, he is not without honor in his own country. Aaron Hill, father of our subject, was a native of Windham, Connecticut, a son of John Hill, the family being one of much prominence and long residence in that State, his mon being loyal and honorable both in times of peace and war. The brother of Aaron was Captain Abel Smith Hill. who was a commissioned officer in the war of 1812, and participated in the most decisive actions of that conflict. The latter died October 9, 1840. aged forty-seven years and nine months. To those of the present end of the century period the tales touching the old pioneer days read like a romance. Time has placed its softening hand on the records which told of privations, hardships and vicissitudes, leaving a picture strongly linned, but with an obscurity of detail like that of the mellowed toes and misty atmosphere of the canvas of one of the old masters. Those who can give reminiscent glances into the remote past, which marked the formative epoch of our commonwealth are fast passing, with bowed forms and silvered heads through the gate of eternity, and with avidity should thci1 utterances be treasured, for in their words lies the deeper history of the pioneer days,—the individual history which is the veritable nucleus of all. In 1830, more than an half century ago. Aaron Hill left his home in Connecticut and started on that long and tedious journey to what was then the practical Western frontier, arriving in Ohio without money and yet determined to win success, even against great odds, and to make for himself a home. He located in this county and here remained for three years, when he returned to the old home in the East and made ready to bring his wife with him on his return. The equipment for the journey was a slight variation from that most in favor with the emigrants who were traversing the weary stretch of DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 55 country. He manufactured with his own hands a one-horse wagon and this unpretentious vehicle served as the means for transporting himself, his wife, and their worldly possessions to the sylvan wilds of their new home, where, in a primitive domicile, they installed their household gods and prepared for the battle of life on the frontier. The wife of Aaron Hill was Lucinda, daughter of Andrew Robinson, and, like her husband, she was a native of Windham, Connecticut. She was a lineal descendant of Rev. John Robinson, from whom a genealogical tracing has been prepared as follows, by Rev. William Allen, of Northampton, Massachusetts: Rev. John Robinson, born 157.5, was graduated at Cambridge University, England, in 160o; was pastor with Pilgrim Fathers; died March 4, 1625. He is one to whom history refers as the pastor of that colony, originally from England, known by the name of Puritans.- He is spoken of as an able and pious man, whom his congregation loved and who with them disposed of their property and prepared for their removal to Holland, which at that time granted a free toleration of worship to different denominations. This was in 1607. After a number of years had passed here, becoming dissatisfied, the pilgrims went to I)elftshaven, in the south of Holland, where they were to embark for the New World. To this port they Were kindly attended by many of their brethren and friends from Amsterdam and oth placei, and, on August 5, 162o, the pilgrims went on board the Mayflower and Speedwell, sailing from Southampton on that memorable voyage for the New World. As already stated, Rev. John Robinson (lied in 1625, and in 1629 his wife came over to the colony of Plymouth, accompanied by her children, by name as follows : John, Isaac and Fear. Isaac settled near Plymouth and had a son, Peter, who was one of the original members of the church in Scotland Parish, Windham, Connecticut, 1735. He had nine children, namely : Peter, Israel, Thomas, Simeon, Isaac, Benjamin, Joseph, Elizabeth and Martha. Peter had twelve children, as follows : Samuel, Experience, Peter, Elizabeth, Jacob, Nathan, Abner, Ruth, Eliab, Rachel, I3athsheba, and Joshua. The children of Experience, son of Peter, were by name as follows: James. Tryphena, Elias, Elethia, Lydia, and Andrew. Peter, the father. died at 'Windham, Connecticut, in 1849, aged eighty-five years. Elisha, son of Andrew, had nine children, as follows : Hovey, Mary Ann, W. D., Olive, Simeon H., Augustus, Samuel M., Frederick and Elisha. The father died in October, 1875, aged eighty-five' years. Andrew was twice married; by his first wife, Olive Hovey, he had nine children, as follows : Albigence, Ebenezer, Elisha, Permelia, Triphena, Lucinda, Dorcas, Urban, and Darius. By his second wife he had four children : Newton, Lydia, and the twins, Augustus and Harriet, who were drowned when young, having gone onto the ice, which gave away beneath them. Dorcas married Archibald L. Bates and became the mother of three children, namely : Andrew, who died at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, April 1, 1853, aged twenty-four years, ten months and twelve days; Amelia, who died at the Delaware, Ohio, Seminary, July 30, 1852, aged nineteen years, ten months and ten days; and Asa G., who died near Irwin Station, Union county, April 8, 1894, aged fifty-eight years and six days. 56 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Lucinda, daughter of Andrew, has been already mentioned, and she was the mother of the subject of this sketch. She was born in Windham, Connecticut, July 22, 1798, and remained in the East until June 3, 1833, when she married Aaron Hill and came with him to this part of Ohio to encounter the experiences of the new-country life. Faithfully she upheld him in the discharge of his duties and was ever a true helpmeet in times of prosperity and adversity alike, leading an humble Christian life, exemplary in her sweetness of spirit and kindly influence. She died near Irwin Station, August 31, 1883, in the eighty-sixth year of her age. The farm upon which Aaron Hill and his wife located was yet a portion of the unbroken forest, but, nothing daunted, they set valiantly to work to improve the same and to reclaim from nature's hand the benefices she had in store. Coming here a poor man, Mr. Hill was enabled, by industry, frugality and good management, to develop a fine farm and to attain a high degree of incidental success. He was a man of broad intelligence and in a sense was one far abreast of his time, for while the avarage farmer of the locality and period was content to follow the drudge-like work so essential, and to give no thought to the ultimate conditions which would maintain, Mr. Hill's ken far transcended this narrow and sordid limitation, and his aim was not only to keep pace with improvement and progress, but to anticipate them. Thus it is not strange that he was found ever in the lead, nor that, as the years went by and children were gathered about the old hearthstone, he determined that these, his cherished offspring, should be fortified by wider educational opportunities than those afforded by the district schools. To them came by inheritance the sterling principles of honesty and integrity and a wholesome respect for the dignity of labor, but, beyond th's, the parents, with self-abnegation, removed to Yellow Springs and there remained for a considerable length of time, in order that the children might take advantage of the educational opportunities afforded be Antioch College, one of the earliest institutions of the sort in this section of the State. The parents lived in Union township until they were summoned into eternal rest, the father's demise occurring November 24, 1862, and that of the mother on the 31st of August, 1883, as already noted. Mrs. Hill was an earnest Christian woman and a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her life was one of signal purity and beauty and her death the consistent merging into immortality. The father was distinctively prominent ill the community and was progressive in his methods and honorable in all his dealing with his fellow men. In connection with the general work of the farm he engaged quite extensively in the manufacture of cheese, and the —Hill cheese" had an enviable reputation about the State fully fifty years ago. Aaron and Lucinda Hill reared three children, namely: Waterman, subject of this review: George, now a resident of Colorado: and Aaron Augustus, who resides at Irwin Station, this county. Waterman Hill was born on the old homestead farm in this county, November 5, 1834, and there passed his boyhood days, attending the district schools and finally completing his educational discipline at Antioch College, which institution he was one of the first students to enter after its doors were thrown open. He has been intimately associated with the noble art of DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 57 husbandry throughout his entire life and in this field he has attained success and honor. Some years ago he purchased the Hiram Stokes farm of 333 acres, and this remains his home, having been, under his effective management, developed into one of the most productive and most thoroughly improved places in the county. A thorough system of drainage has been perfected and there are miles of tile drains ramifying throughout the farm; the many fields being fenced in approved style, and communication to all parts of the place being afforded by a series of gates, more than fifty in number. The family residence is a fine modern structure of spacious order and the accessories and substantial improvements about the farm also include commodious barns and out-buildings, a model windmill, which furnishes water for stock and culinary purposes; and numerous other appurtenances which serve to facilitate the work of the model farm, which everywhere gives evidence of the substantial prosperity of the proprietor. The marriage of our subject was celebrated December 9, 1857, when he wedded Miss Susan E. Bennett, a woman of education and gentle refinement. She was born in Vermont. February 1 2, 1837, the daughter of William and Experience Bennett, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. Hill was reared by her aunt, Mrs. John Smith, of Union township. and received her education at Granville and Antioch, this State, having been for several years an efficient and popular teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are the parents of four children: Anna L., who is a successful teacher in the public schools of Milford Center: Ollie, who is the wife of J. Leny Boerger, who conducts the leading clothing establishment at Marysville, this county: Mattie C., a graduate of the Milford high school, class of 1887; and Blanche M., who is a student in the same school and a member of the class of 1895. In politics our subject is a stanch Republican and has taken consistent interest in local affairs of public nature, but has never consented to accept political office, finding his chiefest pleasure and satisfaction in the management of his farm and in the enjoyment of his cultured and happy home. CARY B. PAUL, president of the First National Bank of Delaware, Ohio, and one of the representative business men of the county, must be accorded specific recognition in a work of this sort, not alone by reason of the prominent position which he maintains, but also with ulterior view to the incentive which the record of a success attained by personal effort may prove to those who in time to come may peruse these pages. Nathan and Henrietta (Bell) Paul, both of whom were natives of Washington county. Pennsylvania, early identified themselves with the pastoral life and enterprise of the Buckeye State, and on a farm in Knox county, Ohio, their son, Cary B. Paul, was born, the date of his nativity being April 2 1, 1832. The lineage of our subject traces to Scotch and Irish sources, and certain of his maternal ancestors are recorded, in the annals of the period, as having been active participants in the war of the Revolution. Nathan Paul was a man of quiet and domestic tastes, a Democrat in his political views, a man of strong convictions and unswerving integrity. He had been reared on a farm, and to agricultural pursuits he devoted his attention 58 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF until the time of his death, which occurred in Delaware county, in July, 1846, while he was still a young man and while his son, our subject, was but a boy. His widow survived him for a number of years, passing away in the year 1879, at the home of her elder son. These worthy and honored parents bequeathed to their three children not a rich heritage of pecuniary sort, but the nobler one of sterling character, correct principles and honest industry,—the best of equipment for the competitive struggle of life. The subject of this review was the oldest of the three children, and upon him devolved much of the responsibility of maintaining his widowed mother and his brother and sister. His boyhood days were passed in the free and untrammelled life of the farm and his education was secured in the common schools. He had pursued his studies with avidity and was preparing himself to enter college when the death of his father rendered it practically necessary for him to subordinate his personal ambitions and wishes for the sake of those nee." and dear to him. He assumed the burden cheerfully and without reservation, at once turning his attention to the work of the farm and thereafter continuing to manage the old home place until he had attained the age of thirty years. His labors in this regard were not directed in a blind or careless manner, but natural characteristics and an aptitude for affairs of greater breadth soon made themselves manifest to the extent of yielding consistent results. He turned his attention specially to stock raising and dealing and to the wool business. It is interesting to note, in this connection, that in the latter line of enterprise he has ever since continued, having for many years handled the greater part of the wool product of Delaware county, and operated quite extensively in other wool-growing counties of the State. Thus it may be seen how Mr. Paul's efforts were early directed toward the goal of eminent success. When but twenty-three years of age and while residing on his farm, Mr. Paul was elected County Commissioner,serving in this capacity for two terms. The confidence in which he was held in the county was placed in still further evidence in 1861, when he was elected Treasurer of Delaware county. In the fall of 1862 he removed to the city of Delaware for the purpose of entering upon the discharge of his official duties. He held the responsible office for two terms, after which he retired from the political field and once more turned his attention to his private business, which had grown to be one of quite extended scope,—in the way of conducting his farm and dealing in wool and live stock. The First National Bank of Delaware was organized in February, 1863, and was duly incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. In the organization of this well known and important monetary institution Mr. Paul took an conspicuous part, being one of the original stockholders, and being soon thereafter chosen as one of the Board of Directors. He held the position of vice-president of the bank for several years, and, in 1878, he was elected president of the institution, having ever since continued as chief executive of the same. The old home farmstead, in Harman township, comprised 250 acres, and this tract is still owned by Mr. Paul, who has added to the same by successive purchases until he now has a magnificent place of some 800 acres. As prosperity attended his efforts Mr. Paul continued progressive in his attitude and methods, seeking to widen his DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 59 field of operations as rapidly as consistent with conditions. He has handled valuable real estate in the county and also in the capital city of the State, Columbus, where he has erected certain buildings which are numbered among the finest of the modern structures in the city. To all enterprises which have conduced to the public welfare he has ever been ready to extend influence and substantial aid. He was one of the promoters of the Electric Light Company of Delaware, and is president of the organization. A man of notable capacity for affairs of breadth, with a most discriminating judgment in regard to the conduct of business, it collies in natural sequence that our subject has attained a representative position in the community, being one of the county's most substantial and public-spirited capitalists. In politics he is identified with the Republican party and maintains a consistent interest in local and general affairs touching public polity. The much abused phrase, self-made man, applies with peculiar distinction to Mr. Paul, who has been the architect of his own fortunes, who has builded upon sure foundations, and who has not been narrowed into selfish confines by his application. To his brother and sister lie appeared in the dual capacity of father and brother, showing a constant solicitude in affording- them advantages which he himself had been denied. He has been alive to progress and to human sympathy and thus his character has rounded itself into symmetrical proportions, —a life well worthy of study and emulation. His brother, Benjamin, is a resident of Sunbury, Delaware county, and his sister Hannah, is the wife of Simon Thompkins, of Columbus, Ohio. Turning in detail to the domestic life of our subject we find that in the year 1856 he was united in marriage to Miss Jerusha Roberts. They became the parents of three children: Frank C., who is a farmer in Delaware county; Edwin N., who resides on the old homestead; arid Daisy L., who is the wife of J. M. Jones, of Cincinnati. Mrs. Paul died in 1864, and in 188o our subject was united in marriage to Miss Stanza M. Hunt, of Columbus, two children being the issue of this union, namely: Henrietta B. and Florence G. Mr. Paul suffered a second bereavement in the loss of his wife in 1889, and in 1891 he was married to his present companion, Sarah C., nee. Brown, of this county. The family home is a pleasant and attractive place, located on West William street. It will be apropos in this connection to briefly revert to the history of that institution at the head of which our subject presides. The First National Bank of Delaware, Ohio, was organized, as already stated, in 1863, with a capital stock of $100,000 and a charter to lapse in twenty years. The first president of the institution was Benjamin Powers, the others of the original executive corps being Cary B. Paul, vice-president, and William E. Moore, cashier. In 1883 the charter of the bank was renewed, the capital stock being retained at the same figures as before. During its existence the bank has had only two presidents, our subject succeeding Mr. Powers in 1878, and having held the position since that time. There have been three incumbents in the office of cashier: Mr. Moore, John E. Gould, and George W. Powers, the last named being the present cashier and a son of the first president of the institution. The banking office was 60 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF first opened in the Hotel Delaware building, and shortly afterward the building at present occupied was erected by the bank, the quarters being commodious and convenient. Mr. Paul is a thorough business man and his position in the community is one in which the highest respect and popularity are marked. It is particularly consonant that in connection with a review of the life history of the leading citizens of Delaware county this attention be accorded him. JOHN M. BRODRICK.—Generic history in every instance must trace back to its essence in the specific and this specific essence in the history of human life and human achievement is ever sprung, root and branch, from some objective prototype, some individual or class of individuals, whose actions and efforts have formed the background of the general history, which can be but the reflex of the individual, with incidental reference to environment with its modifying or broadening influences. It is in this sense that biography becomes the nucleus of all history, making clear beyond peradventure the progress, the opulent achievement which stand as composite entities whose basic elements must ever remain obscure unless cognizance be taken of the individual accomplishment and the individual life. In rendering then the history of any people or nation there is a scientific historical necessity for biography, and in tracing the growth and development of any institution the impression must be deepened and the salient points emphasized by tracing simultaneously the life history of those whose efforts have conserved this advancement. In the case at hand we find one whose name has been most intimately and conspicuously identified with the history of Odd Fellowship in Ohio; one who has gained the highest State preferment in the order and one, who, as an honored resident of Union county and a man of excellent professional attainments, can by no manner of means be passed with mere cursory mention in a work of this nature. John Morral Brodrick may well claim a distinct identification with Union county, Ohio, for in this county was he born and in it has his life been passed. The place of his nativity is the present farmstead of his father, Isaac Brodrick, in Allen township, and the date thereof May 19, 1854. From infancy until that proud moment when he looked forth upon the world from the proud eminence of a legal majority of years our subject remained upon the old home farm, attending the district schools during his boyhood years and incidentally gleaning valuable instruction from his environment, for nature of course hath schools; men all may read from alphabets around them." During the years of his Ininority. then, he remained vith his father, but he industriously improved every moment afforded him for the acquisition of that broader education which he had firmly determined should be his. That his studies represented to him something more than mere theoretical knowledge was early brought into practical evidence, for in 1873 he appeared in the capacity of teacher of the school in his home district, continuing such incumbency for three terms. By natural temperament the young man was not vascillating but was peculiarly reliant and decisive. It is then to be taken as granted that he early formulated plans for his future, and while teach- DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 61 ing he had reached an ultimatum and had decided to prepare himself for the legal profession. Accordingly, when the new year of 1874 was ushered in, he celebrated the event by entering the office of the then prominent law firm of Porter & Sterling, of Marysville, and under their effective preceptorage taking up the study of Kent and Blackstone. That he was a close student and an avidious and determined one is made most clearly manifest in the fact that within but little more than eighteen months after he began his course of reading in law he was admitted to the bar. Since November 14 of the Centennial year Mr. Brodrick has been in the consecutive practice of his profession in this city, and December 7, 1886, he was admitted to practice in the United States courts. He has retained a large and distinctively representative clientele and at the present time he stands forth as one of the most able, popular and successful attorneys in the county. Though devoted to the work of his profession, our subject has not escaped public preferment. having taken a consistently active interest in the political affairs of the county and city and having been staunchly arrayed with the Republican party. In 1881 he was elected, without opposition, to the office of Prosecuting Attorney of the county, and his incumbency in this position covered a period of six years, his dispensations meeting with general approval and support from all classes. In 1878 he was elected City Clerk and served in this capacity four years. He was chosen as a member of the Common Council in 1889, and filled the office for one term, declining a re-election in consequence of having been selected as attorney for the Marysville Light and Water Company. It is with particular gratification that we revert to that phase of our subject's career which has to do with his connection with that noble fraternal organization, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, for, by reason of his connection therewith and the high preferments which have come to him in the gift of the fraternity, his name has become familiar to residents of all sections of our favored commonwealth. On the night of June 12, 1875, Mr. Brodrick received his initiation into the mysteries of the order, becoming a member of .Marysville Lodge, No. $7. He had at the time but passed his twenty-first .birthday anniversary, and yet within three years he had passed all the chairs in his lodge. Within the winter of 1875 lie was admitted to membership in Marysville Encampment, No. 114, and has since passed the chairs in that branch of Odd Fellowship. His executive ability and his unswerving fidelity to trusts already reposed in his keeping resulted in his appointment as District Deputy Grand Master, and lie has also served several times as District Deputy Grand Patriarch. In 1886 he was representative of Union county in the Grand Lodge of Ohio, continuing in that capacity for a period of four years and being appointed to a membership in the committee on appeals, whose functions are the most important in connection with the work and jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge. In the matter of effecting the codification of the laws of the Grand Lodge Mr. Brodrick was most conspicuously identified, his work in the connection standing in lasting evidence of his ability to bring to a thorough system matters involving great breadth and multitudinous details. He was a member of the special committee appointed for the performance of this arduous task, his asso- 62 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF ciates being Judge J. W. O'Neall, of Lebanon, now Past Department Commander of the Ohio G. A. R., and B. S. Dryfus, Past Deputy Grand Master, of Zanesville. By these official confreres to our subject was delegated the work in hand, and the by-laws drafted by him have gained recognition as model documents in their province, having been adopted by many of the Grand Lodges throughout the Union. This excellent service naturally brought Mr. Brodrick into a position of no slight prominence before the fraternity and his subsequent progress in official preferments in the Grand Lodge of the State was brilliant and rapid, eventuating in his being called to fill the office which represents the ultimate honor which that body has in its gift to confer. In 1891 he was elected Grand Warden and his installation occurred at Cleveland in May of the following year. Within the time of his service in this capacity he was elected Deputy Grand Master, being installed at the annual session of the Grand Lodge, held at Put-In-Bay, in May. 1893. In November, 1894, he became a candidate for Grand Master, the highest office of the order in Ohio, and was elected unanimously and without opposition, receiving five more votes than did the next candidate who had no opposition. The celebration of installation to this honorable and distinguished office occurred at the meeting of the Grand Lodge, held at Cincinnati, in May, 1894. Mr. Brodrick is also prominently identified with other secret fraternal orders: In the Masonic lodge he is Past Master in high standing, being also a member of Marysville Chapter, No. 99, R. A. M. He is Past Chancellor of Marysville Lodge, No. too, Knights of Pythias, and is also a Past District Deputy Grand Chancellor of the same order. He is a charter member of time Magnetic Lodge, Daughters of Rebekah, and also of Mary Chapter, No. 9, Order of the Eastern Star, in which connection he has had high honors conferred upon him by the Grand Lodge, haying served for one term as Associate Grand Patron and being at the present tune incumbent as Grand Patron, which represents the highest preferment any man can hold in the order. In conclusion we turn briefly to the domestic life of our honored subject, finding that on April 16, 1878, were celebrated the nuptials of himself and Miss Narcissa M., daughter of Benjamin T: and Mary K. , (Newhouse) Benton, prominent residents of Delaware county. Mr. and Mrs. Brodrick an! the parents of three children: 'William Floyd, who was born May 7, 1879, and who is now a member of the junior class in the Marysville high school; Ferne, who was born August 31, 1882; and Adda, born March 23, 1887. The family residence is pleasantly and eligibly located on Ash street, Marysville. No more fitting close to this brief review can be offered than in the reiteration of the following sentences which appeared in a recent edition of the Marysville Tribune: —Our people are justly proud of Mr. Brodrick's record, both in civil life and in the orders in which he is interested. It is by a faithful performance of the duties which his various offices have imposed that he has gained the confidence of his brethren and fellow citizens. He has earned the prominence he thus gains and deserves the support of all who are in any way interested in the town or the secret orders to which he belongs." DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 63 HENRIE E. BUCK, who is intimately concerned in a line of industry which has important bearing upon the progress and stable prosperity of any section or community,—that agency which implies operations in the way of real-estate transactions and the negotiating of financial loans,—occupies a distinctively representative position among the business men of Delaware, Ohio, and for this reason, as well as that of the wide range of his operations, it is eminently befitting that he be accorded due recognition within the pages of a volume whose province is the consideration of the lives of the representative citizens of the section with whose interests he is closely identified. Reverting in brief to the more salient points in the early life of Mr. Buck, we find that he is a native of Delaware county, Ohio, where he was born March 1, 1849, the son of Israel E., who died August 30, 1854, and Sarah W. :.Van Deman) Buck, who is now living. The father, Israel F. Buck, was a prominent member of the bar of Delaware county. Our subject was educated in the common schools of the city of Delaware, and was enabled to supplement this preliminary training by a course of study in the Ohio Wesleyan University, located in the same city. Attaining maturity, and being of active and alert nature, he was not long in identifying himself with local business interests, engaging in the enterprise of coal dealing, and thus continuing for a period of three years. At the expiration of this time he became intimately concerned in railroading operations, serving in various capacities about fourteen years. In this line we may note that he was in turn conductor on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (the Big Four route), the Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo, and the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw; later he was superintendent of construction on the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway, and also the New Orleans & Northeastern (now the Cincinnati Southern, or Queen & Crescent), and finally became trainmaster on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Returning to Delaware in 1887, Mr. Buck identified himself with that line of enterprise in which he is now engaged, soon developing a fine business, with a representative clientage. By his progressive methods, his discriminating knowledge of real-estate values, and his marked fidelity to the interests of those represented upon the books of his agency, he has brought the enterprise to a point where it stands in position scarcely subordinate to any of like order in this section of the State. The agency gives special attention to the reliable and facile discharge of all its functions, in the way of negotiating loans, collecting rents, exchanging of property, buying and selling of mortgages, placing of insurance, conveyancing and making abstracts of title, and the management and administration of estates. Real estate and business property in divers sections of the Union are represented, and the agency affords a wide range for transfers in all lines. Mr. Buck platted an addition to the city of Delaware in 1891, and at successive intervals has platted three additions to the city of Toledo, one each in the years 1889, 1892 and 1893. The confidence in which our subject is held in the community has been clearly shown on several occasions, though he has been in no sense an office-seeker. He served one term (1887-1888) as Mayor of the city of Delaware, and in 1892 was Presidential 64 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Elector on the Democratic ticket, representing the eighth Congressional district of Ohio, maintaining at all times a consistent interest in the political affairs of the city, State and nation. In his fraternal relations Mr. Buck is identified with the Masonic order, Knights Templar degree; with the I. O. O. F., being a Past Grand; is also a member of the Encampment; of the Knights of Pythias, in which he is Past Chancellor; and of the Elks. He at present holds the preferment as secretary of the Delaware County Agricultural Society. Mr. Buck was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Glenn, of Urbana, Ohio, September 20, 1876, and they are the parents of three children: Anna D., aged fifteen years (1894); Clara G. , aged thirteen; and Joseph Henry V., aged eight. DR. WILLIAM FREDERICK WHITE.—Holding marked prestige among the professional men of Union county, enjoying high popularity, and maintaining a representative position as identified with the business life of Marysville, it is manifestly consistent that in this connection attention be directed to the more salient features in the life history of him whose name initiates this review. Dr. White is a native of Toronto, Canada, where he was born November 1, 1855, a son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Hull) White, the former of whom was born in Germany, the latter in the Dominion of Canada. The mother is deceased, but our subject's venerable father is still living,.his home being near London, Ontario, where he conducts a fine farm. In his early manhood he studied the science of architecture and became quite renowned ff.r his ability in this line. He was a child of about twelve years when his parents came to America and took up their residence in the New World province of the English throne. They came from Nurtlingen, Germany, having a large family of boys, most of whom now reside in the vicinity of Niagara Falls. The father of our subject has been a man of no little prominence in the Canadian dominion, being a staunch Reformer and having taken a somewhat active part in public and semipublic affairs. His children were nine in number, of whom two died in infancy and of whom six are still living. We offer the following brief record in regard to those who lived to attain maturity: Tillie, who became the wife of Dr. G. H. Gilbert. of Cleveland. Ohio, is deceased; David is a resident of Canada, where he is engaged in farming: Anna is the wife of Dr. Ira Patterson, of Detroit, Michigan; William F. is the subject of this review; Charles A. is a physician of Cleveland; Carrie remains at the old home; Addis is she wife of Dr. D. C. McTaggert, of Bryan, Ohio. Our subject was reared on the paternal farmstead and received his literary education in the public schools of Canada and in the normal school at St. Thomas, Ontario, where he graduated in 1871, the youngest member of his class. He at once turned his attention to teaching in the public schools, which vocation he followed successfully about three years, when, in 1875, he went to Ann Arbor, Michigan. where he matriculated in the medical department of the famous university of that State, remaining one year, after which he entered Pulte Medical College, at Cincinnati. Ohio, where he graduated with the class of 1877. This professional training had been but the prac- DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 65 tical carrying out of plans which the Doctor had formulated in his boyhood days, and he thus realized his ambitions. Indeed, he began his medical studies when but sixteen years of age, pursuing a course of reading under the direction of Dr. Leonard Luton, of St. Thomas, Ontario, one of the distinguished physicians of the dominion. The ambition and enthusiastic energy of our subject is shown in the fact that this line of study was followed in connection with the onerous duties incidental to his work of teaching. After his graduation at Pulte, Dr. White located at Nevada, Wyandot county, Ohio, where he displayed his shingle with due solemnity and entered upon active practice, remaining there for a period of six years and securing a representative support in his professional efforts. Within this time there entered into his life a new element, and one that was destined to have a marked influence upon his career in the way of devotion and encouragement. He met, wooed and won Miss Lula Agnew, the daughter of J. K. and Jennie (Bibbler) Agnew, their nuptials being celebrated October 1, 1878. James K. Agnew, father of Mrs. White, was an attorney by profession, but never followed this vocation by reason of enfeebled health. He was for some years cashier of the Nevada Deposits Bank, receiving this official preferment at the time the bank was organized. He served during the war of the Rebellion and was retired with the rank of Lieutenant. He enlisted with the Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was subsequently consolidated with the Fifty-first regiment. He was in active service during the entire term of conflict and was mustered out, at Columbus, as First Lieutenant. He died February 12, 1874, being at the time only thirty-eight years of age. He left surviving him a widow and four daughters. The eldest daughter, Lula, is the wife of our subject; Nina is the wife of J. A. Williams, cashier of the Nevada Deposits Bank; Esther is at home with her mother, as is also the youngest daughter, Marie. Mr. Agnew was an active worker in the ranks of the Republican party, and had served as Mayor of the city of Nevada. He was intimately identified with the Presbyterian Church, with which his widow, who is still a resident of Nevada, is still connected. Mr. Agnew was a cousin of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, of Philadelphia, one of the most celebrated physicians in the Union. Reverting to the fact that Dr. White remained in practice at Nevada for about six years, we find that at the expiration of this time he removed to Marysville, leaving a large and lucrative business, which he established by reason of his high professional ability, his honor and his fidelity,—attributes which never fail of objective appreciation. During- these years of active labor the Doctor had been devoting himself to special study and investigation in regard to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and to the most approved methods of treating such disorders. This special work had never been made to take the precedence of his general practice, however, until he located in Marysville, when he announced himself as ready to give special attention to such classes of disease. The propriety of specialism in medical practice has engrossed the attention of many of the greatest minds in the profession, and to-day this phase of practice is recognized as expedient and as ultimately imperative. Dr. White has been particularly successful in his special work, has studied carefully and conscientiously and finds that in connection 66 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF with his general practice this special feature comes in for manifest appreciation on the part of those afflicted. With a view to keeping fully abreast of the advances made in this particular branch of the medical science, he has taken special post-graduate courses of study in the Eye and Ear Polyclinic, at Chicago. Our subject was alone in his professional work until 189o, when he associated with himself Dr. H. A. Rodebaugh. This association continued until May, 1891, when Drs. White and Rodebaugh became identified with the introduction of the Keeley cure for inebriety into Ohio, the third coadjutor in this enterprise being Mr. S. N. McCloud, the present postmaster of Marysville. An institution for the treatment of dipsomania, according to the Keeley method, was opened in Marysville, and for some time our subject and his associates gave their attention to carrying on this creditable work. Dr. White finally resigned his active connection with the operation of the institution and resumed his general practice in partnership with Dr. C. D. Mills, with whom he is still associated. Aside from his professional endeavors, the Doctor is identified with certain important enterprises of Marysville, being a stockholder in each the Davis Chair Company, the Robinson & Curry Manufacturing Company, and the Bank of Marysville. In 1892 he disposed of his interest in the Keeley institute, and in September of the following year lie became greatly interested in a new method of treatment for tuberculosis; finding, upon careful investigation, that the method had pronounced and unmistakable merit, he identified himself with the enterprise and fitted up suitable quarters in Columbus, for the bringing of the same before the public and for the treatment of consumption and allied disorders. The treatment has proved its efficiency in cases where the test has been of the severest order, and the results have transcended the most sanguine expectations of the promoters. Satisfied of the wide field of benefice and usefulness which the treatment would fill in the behoof of suffering humanity, Dr. White effected the organization of a stock company in June, 1894, and this company has been duly incorporated under the title of the Pulmonary Chemical Company, the official headquarters being located on North High street, Columbus, where our subject has the general superintendence of the operations. Some marvelous cures have been effected, and the projectors have unlimited confidence that their method offers a permanent cure for the dread disease, consumption, in a large proportion of cases. To enter into details concerning the treatment would be both incongruous and impossible in this connection, but a few words as defining the natural and scientific methods employed may not be malapropos. The specific remedial agency is that offered by a continuous inhalation of an antiseptic, balsamic atmosphere, which brings about an inhibition of the growth, propagation and dissemination of the bacillus tuberculosis, and which, being taken into the circulation through the medium of the lungs, ramifies into all parts of the system, reaches diseased tissues wherever located and aids nature in regaining control and perfecting a cure,—all that any system of medication can claim to do. The salutary change- effected in patients undergoing treatment is evidenced in many symptomatic indications: a marked increase in appetite, cessation of enervating perspiration, allaying of cough, restoration of refreshing slumber, ease of expectoration, alleviation of chest pains, DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 67 and the resumption of deep and grateful respiration, etc. All this is 'attended with a gradual disappearance of the bacillus from the sputum. Dr. White visits the institute about twice each week. For the benefit of those who are unable to attend the sanitarium, from financial or other reasons, a home treatment has been prepared. Our subject is an ardent Republican and is at the present time a member of the city Common Council. Fraternally, he is identified with Palestine Lodge. No. 158, A. F. & A. M., and with Marysville Lodge, No. too. Knights of Pythias. In the Masonic order he has advanced to the thirty-second degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He is also a member of the Musical Society of Marysville. of the Married People's Choral *Union. and of the Literary Society. Dr. and Mrs. White have two children: Carroll aged fourteen, and Rietta aged nine (1S94). In 1892 the Doctor erected a very handsome modern residence on West Fifth street, and here he and his wife dispense the most grateful hospitality to their large circle of friends. GEORGE W. JONES is one of the representative and leading citizens of Delaware county. Ohio, having in many ways been identified with its interests and with those enterprises which are calculated to prove of public benefit. He now owns and occupies a fine farm near Radnor, and two of his most noticeable characteristics arc made manifest in his care for the same, industry and enterprise. As he is so widely and favorably known in this community, we feel assured that this record of his life will prove of interest to many of our readers, and gladly give it a place in the history of his adopted county. Mr. Jones was born in Licking county, Ohio, August 24, 1839, and is a son of David and Elizabeth (Evans) Jones, natives of Cardiganshire, South Wales, the former born in 1808, the latter in 1807. The father was a blacksmith and followed that trade in his native land for some years, when he determined to try his fortune in America and sailed with his family for the New World. The year 1836 witnessed his arrival and he located in Albany, New York, where he followed blacksmithing two years and then removed to Newark, Ohio. In that place he carried on a smithy until 1849, when with his family he became a resident of Delaware county, Ohio, and purchased 200 acres of land near Radnor, operating the same for thirty years in connection with blacksmithing. During the war he served as a regimental blacksmith in Company E, Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In politics, he was a Democrat, and was a man whose worth and -ability won him many friends. In 1879 he returned to his native land on a visit, and while there departed this life on the it th of August, 1885. His wife passed away in August, 1878. She was a member of the Congregational Church. Their family numbered eleven children, eight of whom grew to mature years and became heads of families. In the usual manner of farmer lads George W. Jones spent the days of his boyhood and youth, aiding in the labors of the field through the summer months and attending the schools of the neighborhood during the winter season. He was still at home when the civil war broke out, but on the 8th of November, 1861, he responded to the 68 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF country's call for troops and joined the boys in blue of Company E, Sixty-sixth Ohio Infantry. He took part in thirteen of the most severe engagements of the Nvar, together with many skirmishes, and was promoted to the rank of Sergeant. Thrice was he wounded, being struck by Rebel lead, in the battle of Cedar Mountain, in the calf of the right leg, and just above the left knee in the battle of Antietam, while at Gettysburg he was wounded in the left foot. From the effects of these injuries he has never fully recovered and in consequence the Government has granted him a pension. He continued in the service until March 14, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. The Union army had no more loyal soldier and the old flag no more valiant defender than Mr. Jones, who, ever true, was always found at the post of duty. On the 25th of February, 1869, Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Humphreys, who was born August 13, 1838, and is a daughter of Humphrey and Margaret (Griffiths) Humphreys, natives of Montgomeryshire, North Wales, who, with their respective families, came to America in early life and were married in this country. For several years her father was one of the leading farmers of Radnor township. He passed away in 1845, and his wife, who survived him many years, was called to the home beyond in 1882. With the Congregational Church they held membership, as do Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Our subject and his wife have traveled quite extensively in Europe, visiting many points of interest and becoming familiar with the noted sights and scenes of the Old World. They hold an enviable position in social circles where true worth and intelligence are received as the passports into good society, and in the county which has so long been their home have many warm friends. Socially, Mr. Jones is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic and belongs to the U. V. L. In his political affiliation he is a Democrat, and in 1883 was elected on that ticket as County Commissioner, receiving a very flattering majority, and so well did he discharge his duty that on the expiration of his first term he was again chosen for the position. He is now successfully engaged in farming, and his business ability and good management have made him a prosperous agriculturist. Public-spirited and progressive, he manifests a commendable interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of the community, and withholds his support from no enterprise calculated to promote public prosperity. JAMES K. NEWCOMER, of Delaware, Ohio, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, August 1833. In 1837, when four years of age, his parents, who were farmers, left their Pennsylvania home and removed to Ohio, settling on a farm in Holmes county, where they lived seven years. In the spring of 1844, when the subject of this sketch was eleven years old, his father and mother, with a family of six children, moved to what was then the western part of Lucas county, but which afterward became Fulton county, Ohio. Here they entered upon pioneer life, built the cabin, felled the forests and hewed out a farm in the sylvan wilds of western Ohio. The educational advantages were very crude and our subject attended district school in the winter and labored in clearing land and farm work in summer. DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 69 Having formed a taste for reading and a desire for the acquirement of information and education, on the 22nd day of May, 1852, he took leave of the home of his parents, and with a mother's blessing he walked eight miles to the village of Delta, in Fulton county, where he apprenticed himself in the office of the Fulton County Democrat and learned the art of printing. The printing office and paper having afterward been moved to Ottokee, the new county seat of that county, material was purchased by the citizens of Delta, and in partnership with W. T. Stumm he published the Independent. Subsequently, in 1857, he was elected Recorder of Fulton county, being the only Democrat elected upon the ticket. In 1861 he purchased and published the Ottowa County Democrat, of Port Clinton, Ohio. He . was twice rejected, from physical causes, on application to enter the war of the Rebellion. Early in 1864 he returned to Fulton county and located at Wauseon, a town that had been located on land he had helped to clear a few years before. He engaged in the dry-goods business, and also took an interest with his father in platting what is known as Newcomer's addition to Wauseon. In the years 1868-69 he was one of the clerks of the Ohio Senate. In 1869, he leased the Democratic paper at Elyria, Ohio, and published this for upward of one year, and in October, 1870, he purchased of T. H. Hodder the office of the Democratic. Mirror, at Marion, Ohio, where he remained eight years, greatly advancing the newspaper business of that county. While connected with the Mirror he was nominated, in 1873, for Comptroller of the Treasury, by the Democratic State convention which nominated Hon. William Allen for Governor, Governor Allen being elected by a small majority only, while the balance of this ticket was defeated by a few hundred votes. Governor Allen, however, in 1874 appointed Mr. Newcomer as a member of the.Board of Trustees of the Girl's Industrial Home. In 1878, he purchased the Champaign Democrat, at Urbana, and published that paper for four years. In 1882, he was appointed to a clerkship in the office of the Secretary of State, under Hon J. W. Newman. In 1884, he came to Delaware and purchased the office of the Delaware Herald, the Democratic paper of the county, which he conducted for ten years. In 1887 he was elected Mayor of the city of Delaware by a good majority, although there was a political majority of nearly two hundred against him to overcome. He filled the office of Mayor with credit and satisfaction. He brought to the office a power of force, the application of which found a wider range than is implied in the determining of petty offenses, made the office really what it is intended to be, the chief executive office of the city. His formal messages to the City Council were able papers on the public affairs of the city and gave the office the distinction of dignity. Under his administration as Mayor, the fine system of water works for the city was constructed. Maintaining a great interest in the substantial improvement of the city, he took the first step for the construction of an electric street railway for the city. All the preliminaries of the enterprise were pushed by his perseverance, and a franchise was granted to him individually, as but few had any faith that such an improvement could be secured. For nearly one year he labored unceasingly, until finally a home company was organized and the plant established. The enterprise is due to 70 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD the persistence and indomitable push of Mr. Newcomer. Mr. Newcomer is an able editor, a ready writer, and deals in facts and statements. As a politician he is astute and wary and willing always to advocate and defend his Democratic faith, and while he is a strong partisan he is not offensive as a party man. He has spent his life doing for others, but has a weak faculty, politically, in accomplishing for himself. He hates double dealing and insincerity and is outspoken in denouncing party trickery and party combinations for selfish ends. As a citizen, he is honorable and is respected for his integrity, enterprise and moral standing. JOHN L. PORTER —It is not an easy task to describe adequately a man who has led an eminently active and busy life, and who has attained to a position of high relative distinction in the more important and exacting fields of human endeavor. But biography finds its most perfect justification, nevertheless, in the tracing and recording of such an life history. It is, then, with a full appreciation of all that is demanded and of the painstaking scrutiny that must be accorded each statement, and yet with a feeling of much satisfaction, that the biographer essays the task of touching briefly upon the details of such a record as that which has been the voice of the character of the honored subjezt whose life now comes under review. A native son of the Buckeye State, John L. Porter was born in Delaware county, October To, 1828, the son of 'William and Eleanor (Lawrence) Porter, both of whom were natives of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and of Scotch-Irish extraction, with a strain of Welsh blood in somewhat; remode ancestry. William Porter came to Ohio with his parents, and the family of his future wife also emigrated here about the same time, both families locating in Delaware County, where they became prominently identified with agricultural operations. The Lawrence family was one that had long been one of considerable prominence, in which connection it may be incidentally noted that the material grandfather of our subject was for many years a member of Pennsylvania State Legislature, while his nephew, George V. Lawrence, was for years a member of Congress William Porter continued to abide in Delaware county until 1848, when he came to Union county, where he continued to reside until the hour of his death, which occurred March 15, 1868, at which time he had attained the venerable age of seventy-two years. His widow survived to attain more than three-score years and ten, which have been held as man’s allotment, her death occurring June 11, 1886, in the eighty-sixth year of her life. The father of our subject ardently espoused the cause of the Free Soil party, and became an active worker in its ranks, being also prominent as a radical and uncompromising abolitionist, and one of the most enthusiastic supporter of the famous ''underground railway'' system, through which so many slaves were assisted to freedom. He was for a number of years superintendent of the Union county Infirmary. Religiously, he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was an active worker in the Sunday-school. William and Elnora Porter became the parents of five children, of whom we are enabled to offer the following epitomized record: Jane, who became the wife of L. Weld, died in 1875; Rosanna, married J. DELAWARE, UNION ANDMORROW COUNT1ES, OHIO - 71 D. Sharp, and her demise occurred in 1877; Eleanor is the wife of Thomas E. Bowen, of New Dover, Ohio; William C. enlisted for service in the late war and met his death on the field in 1862; our subject was the third in order of birth. John L Porter, was reared on the paternal farmstead, assisting in the work thereof during the summer months and attending the district school during the intervening winters until he attained the age of seventeen years. He then entered Central College, in Franklin county, Ohio, where he completed a four years' course of study, and in the spring of 1849 he came to Marysville, where, in pursuance of long cherished plans, he e-tered the office of Cole & Winter. under whose effective preceptorship he began reading law, completing his legal studies with Cole & Coats, and securing admission to the bar in June. 1851. It is worthy of particular note that in his examination at this time he appeared before the Supreme Court, which was then holding its last term under the old time, or itinerant system, which provided for the holding of sessions in different counties in turn. The session at whose holding our subject was admitted to the bar was held at Marysville, and his examination was conducted principally by Judge Joseph R. Swan, other members of the committee being Otway Curry, C. W. B. Allison and P. B. Cole. While he was prosecuting his preparatory legal studies. Mr. Porter gave his attention to school teaching during three successive winters in order to secure funds with which to defray his necessary expenses. Having passed a satisfactory examination and been granted the privilege of practicing, for some three years he was associated in partnership with P. B. Cole, when he opened an office alone and forthwith exposed his professional “shingle " to the admiring gaze of passers-by, possessing his soul in due patience and humility as he waited for the eligible clients upon whom to begin his practice. The initial phases of any professional career are not usually typical of flowery beds of ease, but our subject was qualified, was energetic, was ambitious, and above all, was determined to succeed. The budding professional prestige was carefully nourished, and its expansion into the full bloom of success was consistently rapid. Mr. Porter soon formed a professional partnership with P. B. Cole, an association which continued for a period of nearly three years, after which our subject was alone in his practice for a short time and then formed a partnership with Mr. J. B. Coats, which association prevailed, with slight intermissions, until August, 1862, when patriotic ardor determined Mr. Porter upon contributing his quota to the defense of his country, and the upholding of the eternal principle of right which was indisputably involved in the great fratricidal conflict which ensued. He ac. cordingly enlisted as a member of company A, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and remained in the service until the close of the war, being mustered out at Columbus as. First Lieutenant, receiving his discharge at the national capital, in 1865, and participating in the grand review. His military record is one of which he may well be proud, his service on the field being valiant and his incidental labors arduous. He was appointed Sergeant of his company before leaving Delaware, in 1862, and during the latter half of his service he acted as Sergeant Major, his superior in that office having been killed. During the last half of his service he held commission as 72 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPRICAL RECORD First Lieutenant and as such was mustered out. It is possible in this connection to revert in only a cursory way to our subject's military career, but the same can scarcely be passed without more definite mention than has been thus far accorded. His command was first engaged in following the famous raider, Morgan, and after a time they proceeded to Nashville, Tennessee, remaining in that State about ten months, within which period Sergeant Porter was appointed First Assistant Provost Marshal, in which position he served two months. The principal engagements in which he participated may be enumerated as follows: Perryville, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost Gap, Atlanta, Jonesborough and Bentonville. While on their way to Savannah, they had several light skirmishes with Wilson; at Kenesaw Mountain, our subject relates that he was so close to the rebel lines that he could feel the heat of the fire from the guns of the enemy. At Peach Tree Creek there was a call for volunteers to relieve the picket line, and Mr. Porter was one of the first to respond, taking eighteen men under his command and all being compelled to make a run of several hundred yards under open and constant fire in order to make the post. This one service is indicatory of the courage, brilliancy and dash which were characteristic of our subject during his military career. He was also at Chickamauga, but here he was left on detail to guard the commissary's stores, at Bridgeport, Tennessee. This battle (that of Chickamauga,) was the only engagement in which his regiment participated that he did not take an active part. At the battle of Bentonville he was wounded in the right arm while making a guard detail. After the close of the war Mr. Porter returned to Marysville, and formed a professional partnership with Colonel James Sterling and this association was not dissolved until our subject was elected to the bench, as will be noted later on. This firm stood as the representative law firm of the county, and in the work of securing extra bounties for soldiers it undoubtedly did a larger and inure effective service than all other lawyers and agents in the county rendered in conjunction. In 1855 Mr. Porter had been elected Prosecuting Attorney of the county, was chosen as his own successor two years later, and was again elected to the office in 1865, succeeding himself in 1867, and being again chosen in 1873, serving in all ten years, his last nomination and election having been brought about almost without his knowledge. In the fall of 1876, he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and served on the bench until February 12, 1882. In this exacting office he was eminently judicial, seeing all sides of a question at once, and selecting the right side with a promptness that indicates intuitive wisdom. His rulings were at all times just and impartial. A man of inflexible principles, he was never known to sacrifice what he considers right to any rule of expediency. Other honorable official preferments have come to Judge Porter in more specifically a local sense: he was Mayor of the city in 1854; has twice served as member of the Common Council, and for a time was a member of the County Board of School Examiners. In his political proclivities and adherency the Judge is a stanch Republican and one of the leaders in local political affairs. Touching the present business association of Judge Porter, it may be said that in 1882 he admitted to partnership DELAWARE, UNION AND MORROW COUNTIES, OHIO - 73 in his legal practice his son, Edward W., who had pursued the study of law under the preceptorship of his father and secured admission to th9 bar ;n 188r. He is a young man of much natural talent, conspicuous professional ability and devoted to his work. The firm of Porter & Porter stands forth most unmistakably as one of if not the strongest of legal associations in the county, retaining a representative clientage, and holding marked and recognized precedence. The marriage of Judge Porter was consummated in Delaware county, April 11, 1852, when he was united to Miss Anna R. Benton, daughter of the late Edward Benton, a prominent resident of that county. Judge and Mrs. Porter had three sons who lived to attain mature years, and one daughter, who died in infancy. Edward W. is associated with his father in the law practice, and whose history is given in another place. Deruelle S., who has been connected with the Pension Department in a clerical capacity for the past twelve years, having, during the past three Congresses, been assigned to detail work with the Committee on Invalid Pensions. In 1888, at the request of the chairman of the Pension Committee of the lower house, he was delegated by the Secretary of the Interior as advisory clerk to said committee, and afterwards was one of two chosen to codify the pension laws: he married Miss Mattie P. Bethel, daughter of Union Bethel, of Evansville, Indiana, and they have two children. Dana the Judge's youngest son, died August 19, 1889, at the age of twenty-four years; he was a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, class of 1884; taught in the public schools of Marysville for about two years, after which he went West for the benefit of his health, accepting a position as assistant superintendent of the public schools of Pueblo, Colorado, and remaining there one year, after which he returned home to soon after meet an untimely demise. In his fraternal relations, Judge Porter is prominently identified with the Grand Army of the Republic, being a member of Ransom Reed Post, No. 113, of Marysville. Touching in conclusion points that have more particular reference to the subjective characteristics of the Judge, we may say that he is exceedingly quick, seeming never to hesitate in judgment, and always ready in argument or repartee. He is genial, urbane and large hearted, has an irrepressible spirit of camaraderie, a pleasing raconteur, seldom failing to win the regard of any person who conies in contact with him, and always ready to do a kindness for a friend or stranger. ELIAS HATHAWAY.—It is now privileged the biographist to offer a resume of the life of one who stands forth as an honored native resident and a representative citizen of Union county, and as one whose ancestral history has been conspicuously identified with that of the Buckeye State since the early pioneer days when were essayed the initial steps looking to its reclamation from the sylvan wilds; one whose patriotic service to his country has been unstinted, and whose position in the respect and esteem of his fellowmen is assured beyond peradventure. He whose name initiates this review was born on the farm where he now abides, in Union township, January 26, 1844, the son of Ebenezer P. Hathaway, who in turn was a son of Dr. Nicholas Hathaway, a man of high professional attainments and one of 74 - MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF much prominence in public and private life during his long residence in this county. He was one of the first Associate Judges of the Union County Court of Common Pleas, which held its initial session at Milford, on the 14th of April. 1820, this being a special term prior to the first regular term, which convened on the i5th day of the succeeding month. Dr. Hathaway was a native of Massachusetts, and was a representative of one of the leading. Colonial families in New England,—that cradle of our national history. Ebenezer P. Hathaway. father of our subject, was born in the old Bay State, but was a mere boy when his parents removed to Ohio and took up. their residence in the forest wilds of Union township. this county, where he grew to maturity, received his education and eventually to;l: unto himself a wife, in the person of Mary A. Hopkins, who was born in Pennsylvania, but who was reared and educated in this county. whither her parents, Benjamin and Elizabeth Hopkins, came in an early day, the former being a native of Rhode Island and the latter of England. Ebenezer P. Hathaway settled on the paternal farmstead after his marriage and devoted himself to its cultivation and improvement until 1850, when he became imbued with the gold fever," whose ravages in that memorable year sent so many enthusiastic men across the weary stretches of plain and mountain to the new El Dorado,—the gold fields of California. The long and perilous journey across the plains was not completed by Mr. Hathaway until six months had elapsed, and his quest was fruitless, for he died in that distant land in the year succeeding his departure from home, and his mortal remains lie buried there, where the sunset gates open wide, far out in the crimson West. Such was the fate of many a brave and adventurous spirit who sought fortune during that period of excitement. Though his death was an irreparable loss, still he left to his widow and children a competence, represented by his real-estate interests in this county. The children of Ebenezer P. and Mary A. Hathaway were eight in number, and of them we leave the following record: Anna is the wife of Dr. D. W. Henderson, of Marysville, concerning whom an individual mention is made elsewhere in this volume; Maria is the wife of Crawford Reed, of Des Moines, Iowa; Helen is the deceased wife of Nathan Howard, a prominent farmer of this county; Martha is the wife of Charles McMullen, of Woodstock, Ohio; Elias is the subject of this review; Benjamin met his death in a railway accident, in 1865; Mary is the wife of David Kimball, of Champaign county, and Ebenezer P. is a resident of Darby township, this county. The mother is still living, at the venerable age of eighty years, and is a resident of Champaign county. The father was a successful farmer, in politics was an ardent Whig, and was a man honored and admired by all who knew him. In religion he was a zealous supporter of the Christian Church, of which his widow has long been a devoted member. Elias Hathaway was reared to man's estate on the paternal homestead, and was but six years of age when his father died. He was granted the best educational advantages which the place and period afforded, attending the district schools, and then pursuing a course of stuffy in the old academy at Marysville. In August, 1862, rendering loyal response to President Lincoln's call for 300,000 more