HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1225 and receiVed her early education in the public schools. Her parents were Martin and Matilda (Peters) Husan, who were married in Noble County, Ohio, February 11, 1864, and soon afterwards moved to Vinton County, establishing their home on a farm in Jackson Township. Both of them died there when about three score years of age. They were members of the United Brethren Church, and Mr. Husan was a democrat and at one time filled the office of justice of the peace in Jackson Township. Into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kruger have been born three children: Palma Lomax, who was born April 2, 1902, and is now attending the eighth grade of public schools; Gay Willard, born December 1, 1903, is in the, eighth grade; and Viola Fern, born May 3, 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Kruger have usually identified themselves with all communiy and social affairs in their neighborhood. In politics he is a democrat and is affiliated with the lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Allensville. ROY W. HANEY. The popular and capable superintendent of Woodland Cemetery, Roy W. Haney, is well known to the citizens of Ironton, alone in his official capacity, but as a business man, for during several years he was at the head of a contracting business here in which he did some: of the city's best street and sewer work. He is a native son of Ironton, and was born September 6, 1880, his parents being A. Judson and. May (Clarke) Haney, the former a. general mechanic f Ironton, where he Was born in 1860, while the latter is a native of Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, and was born in 1859. There were six children in the family : Roy W., Anna L., Rose May, Edward H., David J., and William C. Roy W. Haney attended the public and high schools of Ironton, graduating from the latter in 1901, at which time he became an assistant to the city and county engineers, as well as to civil engineers in private pracitice, in Lawrence and other counties of Ohio, and in Kentucky:. In the spring of 1910 he engaged in business on his own account, having become an expert on cement and in cement contracting, and during the following four years was extensively engaged in street and sewer work in Ironton, one of his best achievements being the building of the upper end of Pine Street, in 1911. His work was at all times characterized by the utmost thoroughness and fidelity to contracts, and those with whom he was associated in business found him a man of the highest principles. Mr. Haney continued in business as a contractor until August 1, 1914, when he was elected superintendent of Woodland Cemetery. A promising young man of pleasing personality, he is energetic and indus- 1226 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION trious, faithful to his trust and possessed of progressive ideas, and has gained the good will of the people by the admirable manner in which. he has discharged his duties. A republican in politics, he served three years' in the capacity of central committeeman. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and has a wide acquaintance among business men. Mr. Haney. is possessed of some reputation as a fisherman and enjoys frequent trips to the streams of Lawrence County, but his chief pleasure is in his home among his books. He is also possessed of more than ordinary talent as an artist, although he has confined himself in this line to drawing for his own pleasure and that of his friends. Mrs. Haney and children are members of the Methodist Church.. Mr. Haney was married November 4, 1910, at Jackson, Ohio, to Miss Marie A. Simmons, daughter of Peter Simmons, a farmer of Marion, Lawrence County. Two children have been born to this union, namely: Nancy, Mary, and Jack Simmons. SOLOMON A. DEVER. As a farmer and stock raiser Solomon A. Deve is one of the most prominent in Scioto County, with a large estate in Madison Township. He is a successful representative of a family which has been identified with similar interests in this county for several generations. In the fine country district of Madison Township the Devers from the Period of pioneer 'conditions have been noted as skillful managers of the resources of the soil, 'and at the same time have maintained high standards in local society and citizenship. Mr. Dever was for a number of years identified with educational work in this section of Ohio, and is a man of broad interests and thorough education. Though not a regularly admitted lawyer, he has a competent knowledge of law, and in his varied business relations has been intrusted with the management of a number of important estates. Solomon A. Dever was born, on the farm which is now his home on. May 28, 1850, a son of George and Mahala (White) Dever. George Dever was born in Hamilton Township of Jackson County, Ohio, January 12, 1823, a son of Solomon and Chloe (Mault) Dever. Solomon Dever, the grandfather, was a native of Virginia, while his wife was born in Scpraoto County, and both facts attest the pioneer residence of these family stocks in the Hanging Rock Iron Region. Solomon Dever and wife were the parents f nine children, seven sons and two daughters, four of whom are still-living. George Dever was reared in Jackson County, but was married. in Scioto County. He and his wife became the parents f six chil-dren, four sons and two daughters, and one son and one daughter are still living: Solomon A., and Caroline, wife of A. J. Keairns of Jack-son County. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1227 Solomon A. Dever was reared on a farm, received his education in district schools, with one term in, the Jackson City schools, and on reach-ing his majority started out to win success for himself. At that time he married, in September, 1871, Nancy Stockham. By this union there were four children, and the three now living are : William, who is unmarried; Etta, wife of Frank McClintock of Harrison Township, in Scioto County ; and Nellie, wife of Lewis Poll f Madison Township. After the death of his first wife, Solomon A. Dever married in 1883 Cina Dixon. They have a son, Orel, born March 10, 1885. Orel Dever graduated from the commercial schools at Jackson, and on August 12, 1914, married Clara Herman, and they have a daughter, elen M., born January 8, 1916. The Dever family are members of the Hamilton Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Dever is a republican, served a term as treasurer of Madison Township, was president of the township board of education sixteen years, and as already stated was himself engaged in educational work, having spent ten years in the schoolroom as a teacher. His business interests are of a varied and important nature. Mr. Dever is the owner of a splendid farm of 600 acres in Scioto and Jackson counties, and this estate represents many years of quiet but progressive industry, excellent business judgment, and his farm has always been managed to produce the maximum of returns. He is also the owner of valuable property in the City of Jackson. His thorough judgment as a business man and his recognized high integrity have caused him to be selected as administrator for a number of estates, and in that capacity he has disposed of estates ranging in value from $5,000 to $16,000. Mr. Dever has a large law library, maintains quite a business office, equipped with two typewriters, is a notary public, and has adjusted all his business as administrator without recourse to the courts of law. GUILLAUME DUDUIT. A brief space in these pages should be granted to one of the prominent early French pioneers of Southern Ohio, whose name is "still carried and honored by descendants living in Portsmouth and elsewhere in this section of the state. Monsieur Guillaume Duduit, a son of Guillaume and Genevieve Lagro Duduit, wealthy land owners, was born in the Province of Bosse, France, June 15, 1770. He early learned the trade of silversmith in Paris, where after the death of his father he resided at the home of his grandmother Lagro, and assisted his uncle Louis, a rich broker, in business. In 1789, when nineteen years of age, with the assembling of the States General and those political and economic movements which inaugurated the French Revolution, Monsieur Duduit joined the revolutionary party, 1228 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION and served as corporal under LaFayette at the storming of the Bastile He assisted in planting the cannon that was directed against the lock of that famous prison on the memorable 14th of July, 1789. He saw the streets of Paris run with blood deep enough to cover horses' hoofs. To escape the increasing miseries that burdened the unhappy land as the revolution proceeded, Monsieur Duduit and his young wife, formerly Mademoiselle Agnes Desot, sailed from France with a colony to take possession of lands in Ohio. They had paid a high price for these lands to an American agent, named, rather paradoxically, "Playfair," and who had operated in Paris and represented himself as the agent for an Ohio company called the Scioto Land Company. At the end of ninety days' rough ocean trip the colonists landed at Alexandria, Virginia, early in 1790. There they discovered that the entire transaction was fraudulent, and that they had paid for lands to which they could obtain no vafid title. Disappointed, many of the colonists returned. to France at once, others went to various American cities and towns, while about one-half of the company resolved to cross the mountains and make for themselves a home in the western- wilderness of the Ohio Valley. They finally located four miles below the mouth of the Kanawha River, and named their. settlement Gallipolis. The settlement and subsequent fortunes of this colony form one of the most interesting chapters in Ohio history. Here the colonists endured many privations, and eventually by petitioning Congress, through John G. Gervais, man of fine address, were granted tracts f land that to. some degree compensated them for the lands which they had supposedly bought from the American land shark. This grant of lands is historically known as the "French Grant." and the colonists who, with their families, came to locate upon them from March 21, 1797, were : John G. Gervais, Dr. Andre LaCroix (father of Monsieur Duduit's second wife, Zaire LaCroix), Jean Baptiste Bertrand, Charles Francis Dutiel, Guillaume Duduit, Claudius Cadot, Peter Serot, M. C. Avaligne, Doctor Duflingy, Peter Chabot. Antoprane Claude Vincent. Possessing an unusually energetic temperament and a spirit which enabled him to readily adapt himself to circumstances, the young Monsieur Duduit immediately cleared his grant of land, which was lot 6 in the French Grant, and in a few years was able to purchase adjoining land. He became an expert hunter and excellent woodsman—two qualifications almost absolutely necessary to the pioneer. He shot the last buffalo ever seen in the grant according to the Duduit family history. He was one of four scouts appointed by the Government for the protection of Gallipolis against the Indians. Maj. Robert Safford was his companion scout scouring the country between Marietta and the mouth of HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1229 the Scioto, and their Vigilance saved Gallipolis from serious depredations at the hands f the dreaded Indians. West of Portsmouth they (and their horses) found ample shelter in an immense hollow tree on the Moore farm—a tree fabulously capacious, and only recently destroyed. On July 11, 1811, Mme. Agnes Duduit died. She was the mother of thirteen children, four of whom died in infancy. The others were : Agnes, Caroline, Virginie, William, Oyet, Fanny, Frederic, John, and Desot. On July 3, 1817, Monsieur Duduit married Mlle. Zaire LaCroix, daughter of Dr.. Andre LaCroix and Mary Catherine (Avaligne) LaCroix. The children by that marriage were Mary Catherine, Emily Naomi, Eliza, Adaline, Francis Edward, Nancy Maria, Andre LaCroix, and Louis Lagro. Though a Catholic when he left Paris, Monsieur Duduit eVentually renounced this religion and became a Protestant, and in that faith died, April 5, 1836. For Government service as scout and as soldier. in the War of 1812 his widow received a land warrant, which she sold to the late J. O. Willard of Ironton. Her death occurred September 12, 1869, at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Peters of Ironton—Mr. Peters being iron magnate and one of the earliest settlers. of Ironton. His brother Isaac, who married Adaline Duduit, also was an "iron man" of wealth. ANDREW W. PAFFENBARGER, D, D. S. For more than thirty years Doctor Paffenbarger has been engaged in the practice of his profession in his native county and he is known as one of the leading exponents of the art and science of dentistry .in Southern Ohio, his practice being of especially broad scope and importance and his office being of the highest standard in its equipment, facilities and serVice. His patronage is drawn from all parts of 'Vinton County,. with a material support from contiguous counties, and in addition to his prominence in his profession he is known and valued as one of the most progressive, liberal and public-spirited citizens of McArthur, the county seat, where his interests are extensive and varied and where he has been a specially active and influential figure in connection with the development and upbuilding of the large business controlled y the McArthur Telephone Company, of which he is secretary, treasurer and general manager. This company was incor-porated in 1897, and the doctor has been its treasurer from the beginning. In 1905 he became the manager, secretary and treasurer, as well, as the heaviest stockholder of the company, and as an executive he has shown marked aggressiveness and ability in bringing the service of the system up to the best modern standard of efficiency. The company now has a list of 160 subscribers in Vinton County ; its system brings into utilization 1,300 feet f cable, 260 miles f wire, with toll lines aggregating 1230 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION fifty-five miles. Direct communication is maintained with four. county seats, there being a direct connection with Jackson, Chillicothe, Athens and Logan. The month of March, 1915, marked the thirty-third anniversary of Doctor Paffenbarger's reception of the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, as he was graduated in the Ohio College of Dentistry, in the City of Cincinnati, in March, 1885. From that time to the present he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Vinton County, and during all f this long period he has maintained his residence and professional headquarters at McArthur, the county seat, save for an interval of thrte months passed in the Village of Zaleski. He has kept in close touch with the advances made in his profession, which represents both a science and a mechanic art, and brings to bear the most approved methods pran both operative and laboratory work, so that he weil merits the hpragh reputation and marked success which he has achieved in his chosen vocation. Doctor Paffenbarger was born on a farm in Elk Township, Vinton County, on the 6th of August, 1856, and was reared to .the sturdy dis-cipline of the farm, the while he simultaneously developed his mental powers through availing himself of the advantages of the public schools. As a youth he was employed four years as a clerk in mercantile establishments at Zaleski and Southern Illinois, and thereafter he devoted a equal period to effective service. as a teacher in the district schools of his native county and Ross and Pickaway counties. He then began the study of dentistry, and concerning his completion of a full course pran the Ohio College f Dental Surgery due mention has already been made. Initiative energy and progressive ideas have made Doctor Paffenbarger one of the foremost and most potent factors in the promotion an development of enterprises that have done much to conserve material and civic progress in his home city and county. His association wprath the telephone company has already been noted in this context, and he was also one of the incorporators of the McArthur Brick Company, which represents one of the most important manufacturing enterprises in this section of the state. He was the chief promoter of the McArthur Building and Loan Association, in 1889, was treasurer of the same for several years and was its president for ten years. The doctor has been affiliated with the Masonic fraternity since 1878, and he served five years as master of the McArthur Lodge of Ancpraent Free and Accepted Masons. The close of the- year 1915 finds him the valued and honored incumbent of the office of high priest f McArthur Chapter No. 102, Royal Arch Masons which he has several times represented in the Ohio Grand Chapter. He is a member of the Board of HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1231 Education of McArthur, a position which he has held twelve years, and in all things he maintains a lively interest in the communal welfare. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and both he and his wife are zealous niembers of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he is serving as a steward and a trustee, besides which he was for fifteen years the earnest and popular teacher f a young women's class in the Sunday school, many of the young ladies who were members of his class having virtually grown to womanhood under his religious in- struction and personal friendship, a number of them having married and some of the number having removed to other parts of the Union, his. interest in all of them having continued and their appreciative regard having been a pleasing phase of his life history. Doctor Paffenbarger is a son of George Will and Elizabeth (DeMuth) Paffenbarger, the former of whom was born in Ross County, a representative of one of the early and honored pioneer families f this section of the Buckeye State.. The marriage f the parents was solemnized at Adelphi, Ross County, Mrs. Paffenbarger having been born in Pennsylvania, and having been young at the time of her parents immigration to Ohio. George W. Paffenbarger and his wife established their home on a pioneer farm in Elk Township, Vinton County, in 1845, and here he developed one of the valuable farms of the county, the while he ever held inviolable place in the confidence and esteem of his fellow men as one f the sterling, steadfast and loyal citizens of the township that continued to represent his home until his death. He was born October 16, 1813, and passed to the life eternal on the 1st of January, 1888. His wife was born November 14, 1813, and her death occurred April 9, 1886, their marriage having been solemnized in the year 1831. Both were devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics Mr. Paffenbarger was aligned with the whig party until the organization of the republican party, when he transferred his allegiance to the latter, its cause thereafter receiving his loyal support during the remainder of his long and useful life. John Paffenbarger, grandfather of the subject of this review, was :born at Hagerstown, Maryland, in the year 1788, and was one of the sturdy pioneers who did well his part in connection with the social and industrial development of Southern Ohio. At Adelphi, Ross County, this state, he wedded Miss Susan Will, and both continued their residence in this section of the state until their death when venerable in years. The founder of the American branch f the Paffenbarger family was George Paffenbarger, who was born and reared in Germany and who immigrated to the New World in 1733, Doctor Paffenbarger being of the sixth generation in line of descent from this colonial ancestor. The 1232 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION doctor is the youngest in a family of five sons and six daughters, all of whom attained to adult age except one f the daughters, and of the number four sons and one daughter are now living. On the 23d of September, 1885, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Paffenbarger.to Miss Ida P. Seal, who was born at McArthur, Vinton County, on the 14th of June, 1868, her education having been rectpravtd in the schools of this place. She is the only daughter of John and Hannah (Corbly) Seal, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter f Vinton County, Ohio, their marriage having been solemnized at McArthur. Mr. Seal was a tanner by trade and vocation and continued his residence in McArthur until his death—one of the substantial and greatly esteemed citizens and representative business men of Vinton County. He served as a soldier during the Seminole Indian war, and Doctor Paffenbarger retains as prized heirlooms the ancient horse pistol, flint-lock gun and canteen which were owned y the father of his wife, the gun having been manufactured at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1813. Mr. Seal was a vigorous advocate f the cause of the whig party and was' influential in public affairs in Vinton County for many years prior to his death, and both of his children are now living, Mrs. Paffenbarger being the younger and her brother, John E., likewise being a resident of McArthur, he and his wife having no children. Doctor and Mrs. Paffenbarger havt two sons. Ralph was graduated in the McArthur High School and later graduated in the engineering department of the Ohio State Universpraty. He is now a teacher of mathematics and an instructor in athletics at Chillicothe, and is proving most successful and popular in this field of educational service. George, the younger son, celebrated his thirteenth birthday anniversary in 1915, and is a student in the public schools of McArthur, where the family is one of prominence in connection with the representative social life of the community. HON. ROBERT LUCAS. It is tray said that the world today is what the men of a past generation has made it, and this is especially true of those whose influence extended beyond the confines of their own town and county, as did that of Hon. Robert Lucas, who rose to the distinction of being goveror of Ohio from 1832 until 1836. A native of Virginia, he was born at Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, April 1, 1771. His father, Capt. William Lucas, was born in Virginia in 1742, and there spent the earlier years of his life. He served in the Continental army throughout the Revolutionary war, arising to the rank of captain. In 1800. he came to Ohio, where several of his children had previously settled, bringing with him his slaves, and in this state setting them free. Locating in Scioto County; near the present site f Lucasville, he was HANGING ROCK 'IRON REGION - 1233 there a resident until his death, in 1814. His wife, Susanna Lucas, was born in 1745, and died in 1809. They reared five sons and three, daughters, as follows: Joseph, Robert, John, William, and Samuel, and a daughter that married a Mr. Buckles, one that married a Mr. Creamer, and one that became the wife of a Mr. Steinberger. Robert Lucas was nineteen years old when he came with the family to Ohio. He had previously acquired a fine education, and in 1804 was appointed bridge inspector, and given the rank of major. In 1805 he was made surveyor of Scioto County, and the following year was elected justice f the peace. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, Mr. Lucas did not enlist, but went with the army to Canada, and, one account says, surrendered at Detroit with Hull's forces, and was paroled, while an-other account just as positively asserts that he escaped, and showed such marked military ability that he was made a captain in the regular army. Becoming very prominent and influential in public affairs, Mr. Lucas was elected to the State Senate in 1814, and was continued in that position by re-election until 1822. In 1824 he was again honored by ail election 'to the State Senate, and continued in office until 1829, being re-elected each year, and in 1830 was again the people's choice for senator. In 1820 Mr. Lucas was presidential elector on the democratic ticket, and served in the same capacity again in 1828. In 1832 he had the honor of being elected governor of Ohio, and served until 1836, his continuation in the office being a high testimonial to his personal popularity and a tribute to his ability. Mr. Lucas was a resident of Scioto County until 1824, when he moved to Piketon, which was his home for fourteen years. Being appointed governor of the Territory of Iowa in 1838, he held the office until 1841, when he settled on a farm near Iowa City, and there resided until his death, February 7, 1853. He was very active in the public affairs of Iowa, serving as a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1844, and there being one of the committee of the executive department, and of the committee on boundaries. Mr. Lucas was twice married. He married first, April 4, 1810, Eliza Brown, whose father was a tavernkeeper. She died two years later, leaving one child, an infant daughter. Mr. Lucas married second, March 7, .1816, Friendly A. Sumner, a daughter of Edward Sumner, a wealthy farmer, and y that union he reared seven children. While living in Pike County, Ohio, Mr. Lucas purchased a tract of iand lying about two miles from Piketon, and in addition to building a magnificent mansion, made improvements of great value, transforming his property into one of the most beautiful and attractive country estates in the Central West, and naming it, in honor of his wife, Friendly Grove. 1234 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION WILLIAM CRAIG. One of the oldest residents of Clinton Township Vinton County is William Craig, now past the age of fourscore, hi period of activity and observation covering all the years since the earl '50s, when Vinton County was still partially under the dominion of the wilderness. Through fifteen successive presidential campaigns he has been a regular voter in Clinton Township, and was able to cast his first ballot during the' year when the republicans first nominated a presiden-tial candidate. Out of his life and character has flown a stream of beneficent influence, kindly deeds and a constant intention to do justice among his fellow men. His is one of the oldest families identified with the history of Vinton County, the Craigs having settled here more than a century ago. His grandfather, William Craig, a native of Pennsylvania, married in that state, and all his six children were born there, including three sons, William, Thomas and George, and three daughters, Sarah, Phoebe and Jane. They were all natives offashington County, the rugged and picturesque district which has been the scene of so much history in South-western Pennsylvania. In 1814 William Craig brought his family into Southern Ohio and located in Vinton County, where he purchased a tract of wild Government land in Clinton Township, 3 1/2 miles from where McArthur now stands, and about four miles north offamden. William Craig was born about the close of the Revolutionary war, and both he and his wife lived to be about eighty years of age. In the mean. time the wild tract of land in Clinton Township had been converted inprantoultivated fields and was a home of comfort and plenty. He was a Methodist and in politics was a democrat. In that old cocommunithe had six children grew up, all of them married; and most of them lived to be lw people and left dedescendants Thomas Craig, father of the venerable William Craig first inmentione was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1803, and was only eleven years of age when he accompanied the family to Vinton County. He was reared to the vigorous pastimes and duties of a frontier com-munity, and after reaching manhood he secured a portion of the old homestead and there spent all his years from the -age of eleven until his death in September, 1892, when in his eighty-ninth year. He made his success as a general farmer, and was a highly esteemed and much loved pioneer. He was a democrat, and both he and his wife were Methodists. He married, in Vinton County, Mary Brown, who was horn about 1810 and died at the old Clinton Township homestead when past eighty. She was the mother of five sons and seven daughters, and four of the sons and an equal number of the daughters are still living. Two of the family died young. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1235 William Craig, one of the oldest of the children, was born on the old homestead in Clinton Township, December 6, 1832, and at the time of this writing has already celebrated his eighty-third birthday. He has never lost his residence in Clinton Township, and began voting here at the age f twenty-one. Like his ancestors, he identified himself early with agricultural enterprise, and by his thrift and energy has enjoyed a marked degree of success. Since the year 1856 his home has been in section 8 of Clinton Township, and in that locality he still owns 333 acres of the better grade of land, most f it well improved and well stocked for the raising of horses, cattle and sheep. He enjoys the comforts of an attractive 6-room home, beautifully located on the McArthur and Ham-, -den Pike. This is a historic house in some ways, since it was constructed while General Morgan was making his famous raid through Vinton County in 1863, and at the time Mr. Craig was a member of the state militia located at Portsmouth. In 1856, the year he bought his farm, Mr. Craig was married in this township to Miss Mary Newton. She was born in Vinton County in 1830, and died at her home in April, 1899. er parents were David and Julia (Rankins) Newton, who came from Canada, and were early settlers in Vinton County, and died on a farm in Clinton Township, her father at the age f sixty-five, and her mother when in the prime of life. Mrs. Craig was one of four children, and two of her brothers, William and Hiram, are still living. Mrs. Craig was for many years an active member f the Christian Church, and Mr. Craig still attends and is a member in good standing in the same church. In politics he is a demo-crat, having been loyal to the political :tenets of his ancestors, and in the course of his long and active lifetime has filled various. township offices. For a number of years he acted in an official capacity in his home church. Most of his children have identified themselves with churches, some with tile Presyterian and others with the Christian denomination. A brief record of William Craig's children is as follows : Julia, born in 1857, has never married, and lives with her sister at the old home. The son Henry T., born in 1861, had a public school education and for many years has successfully operated the old homestead in Clinton Township, being a competent farmer in general crops and in the raising of stock for the past eighteen years ; he married Nancy A. Roland of Clinton Township, and their four children are : Leo D., who is a farmer in Clinton Township, and by his marriage to Lelah Cox in Washington Township of Vinton County has a son, Harold ; Edna B., who was educated in the grade schools and is still living at home ; Nancy Edith, who for two years has been engaged in teaching, is still living at home ; and William T., now a student in the high school at Hamden, in his freshman Vol. II-38 1236 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION year. Sanford D. Craig, the second son of Mr. Craig, is now living in the State of Utah on a farm, and married Mrs. Sarah (McPherson) Neptune. Susan Olive, the second daughter, is the wife of Frank E. Jennings, a farmer, near Circleville, Ohio, and their children are: Sanford, Howard, Maude, wife of Harry Mace, Harry, Bertha, Leon, Audrey, Earl and Blanch, all the four oldest being married. Newton, the third son, is now living in Texas. Hiram is in the grain elevator business in Illinois and y his marriage to Ora -Monahan of Hamden, Ohio, has two children, named Kenneth and Cree. EZRA Q. TIMMS. For fully half a century Mr. Timms has been identified with the agricultural prosperity of Clinton Township in Vinton County. He came to this locality soon after the close of the Civil war, in which he had made a gallant record as a soldier of the Union army. His home and farm are located near Dundas Village. His homestead comprises 137 acres, nearly all of it improved, and he formerly owned 150 acres more, which he gave to his sons. He comes of old Virginia stock and was born in Wirt County in that section f Virginia which is now the State of West Virginia, on September 19, 1842. Among his native hills he spent the years f his childhood and youth, trained himself as a farmer, and acquired a district school education. He was nearly twenty years of age when he enlisted. in the Eleventh West Virginia Infantry for service in the Union army. This regiment was successively under the command of Colonel Rathbone, Daniel Frost, who was killed in battle, Col. Dan H. Bukey, who resigned, and finally under Col. James L. Simpson, who was a very hive and gallant soldier. In the earlier part of its service this regiment was on special duty in guarding railroads and fighting the rebel raiders. After about two years, when the country had been rid of this guerrilla warfare, the regiment went into the Shenandoah Valley and helped to win the hard-fought battles of Cedar Creek and Winchester. The regiment was a part of the Eighth Army. Corps under the command- of the gallant Phil Sheridan, and Mr. Timms witnessed the dashing ride 'of that general in the Cedar Creek. fight. The regiment was afterwards in the charge on Petersburg, where it lost the greater part of its men in killed and wounded, and very few were fit for duty after the battle. Mr. Timms was in the army nearly three years, and though he endured almost con-stant duty and much 'fighting he was never shot nor in the hospital. a single day, and always ready for any- duty to which he was assigned. For some months. he served as sergeant of his company. On September 2, 1.862, at Spencer in Roane County, Virginia, he was captured, but after being held over night was paroled the next morning, since he was about HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1237 to be retaken by his own men. e received his honorable discharge on June 17, 1865. In the fall of that year, after his return to his native county, his father sold their Virginia home and came to Vinton County, Ohio. His father was Richard Timms, who bought 452 acres of land where the Village of Dundas now stands. Richard Timms died in October, 1875. He was born in 1800 in Prince William County of old Virginia. His wife, whose maiden name. was Elizabeth Biby, was born in Wood , County, West Virginia, of German parentage, and died in March, 1876. Mr. Timns was still unmarried when he accompanied his parents to Vinton County, but after they were settled he returned to West Virginia and on October 26, 1865, married Susan M. Barnett. She was born in Wood County, West Virginia, November 28, 1845. For more than half a century Mr. and Mrs. Timms have trodden together the way of life in harmonious companionship, and all that time they have occupied the homestead where they now live.. Mrs. Timms has been a splendid home maker and housekeeper, and has shared in the credit for the :generous prosperity which has grown up under their united energy and management. Mr. Timms is a very practical farmer and stock breeder and has always kept a large number of livestock, cattle, horses, and hogs, and poultry. He does his stock feeding in the most efficient manner, and one feature of his farm is a thirty-ton silo. Mr. and Mrs. Timms have reared a family of eight children. Any L. is the widow of Willis T. Salts, who was a general farmer, and she Still occupies the old farm and is the mother of nine children. Henry M. Timms is a practical farmer in Clinton Township of Vinton County, is married and has one daughter. James W. is also a farmer in the same township and has one daughter. Anna L. is the wife of Samuel Russel of Clinton Township, and they have a daughter. Charles V. is still unmarried and lives at home, and is a very practical fruit grower. George B. is a railroad man at Freeport, Illinois, and is married and has one daughter. Ida B., who died June 17, 1915, was the wife of Milton S. Cox, whit is general yardmaster for the Santa Fe Railway at Los Angeles, California. Geneva E. is the wife of Earl C. Bay, a farmer in Vinton County, and they have a son and two daughters. Most of the family are members of the Christian Church. Mr. Timms and his sons are republicans. OSCAR S. COX, M. D. Not only in his profession but also as a citizen and a man among men does Dr. Oscar Silas Cox stand exemplar of high ideals, and thus there is all of reason for his having achieved success in his chosen and humane vocation and also that he should have gained 1238 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION impregnable vantage-ground in popular confidence and esteem. He is engaged in the active general practice of his profession at McArthur, the county seat of Vinton County, and is consistently to be designated as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, to which this publication is devoted. In celebrated old Starling Medical College, now the medical department of the Ohio State 'University, in the City f Columbus, Doctor Cox was graduated as a member of the class of 1892 and with the well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine. His novitiate in the prac-tical work of his profession was served at Chillicothe, the judicial center of Ross County, Ohio, where He remained two years. He then removed. to McArthur, Vinton County, where he has continued in successful practice during the intervening period of somewhat more than a score of years and where his success has been on a parity with his recognized ability, the broad scope and importance of his practice likewise attesting his personal populariy. The doctor gives special attention to the treatment of epilepsy, has become an authority on this distressing malady and its treatment and has been able to relieve therefrom many a poor sufferer who had abandoned all hope for improvement. Aside from the regular work of his profession he has served as a member of the Board of United States Pensions Examiners in Vinton County and was for two years the examiner for the Ohio Industrial Commission, besides having been for a time directly connected with the official headquarters of the commission, in Columbus. As medical examiner the doctor is local representative for a number of leading life-insurance companies, and the profession of his choice has been dignified by his character and his achievement. Doctor Cox takes a due measure of satisfaction in claiming Vinton County as the place of his nativity, and he is a scion of a family whose name has been long and worthily linked with civic and industrial affairs in this section of the Buckeye State. He was born on his father's farm. in Richland Township, this county, on the 20th of December, 1865, and here he passed the period of his boyhood and early youth under the benignant influences of the farm, the while he availed himself fully of the advantages of the local schools. the furtherance of his education he was later a, student in the Northwestern Ohio Normal School, at Ada, Hardin. County, where he pursued a course that made him eligible for effective service as a representative of the pedagogic profession. For several years he was numbered among the successful teachers in the rural and village schools of this part of the state, and in the meanwhile he was working forward to the mark of his ambition by giving careful atttntion to the reading f medicine, under excellent private receptor- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1239 ship. He finally completed his course in Starling Medical College, as has already been noted in a preceding paragraph. Doctor Cox came of fine old Revolutionary stock and the ancestral history in America one in which he may well take just pride. He is a lineal descendant of Thomas Cox, who was born in the State of Virginia on the 4th of July, 1776, the date that marked the signing of that immortal document, the Declaration of Independence, and his father served as a drummer in the Continental Line in the War f the Revolution, his having been the privilege to have thus shown his patriotism as a member of the forces commanded by General Washington. This loyal son of the new republic continued his residence in the historic Old Dominion commonwealth of Virginia until the time of his death. James G. Cox, son of Thomas Cox, was born and reared in Virginia, where. his association in the meanwhile was with the great basic industry of agriculture. In Virginia was solemnized his marriage, the family name of his wife having been Bruce, and from the Old Dominion they came to Ohio to number themselves among the pioneer settlers in what is now Vinton County. In Richland Township Mr. Cox obtained a tract of Government land and set to himself the herculean task of reclaiming a farm from the forest wilds, the warrant to his land having been signed by President James K. Polk, a fact that shows that the Cox family was thus founded in Vinton County at a very early date. Mr. Cox developed a productive farm and did well his part in furtherance of the civic and industrial progress and upbuilding of this section of the state, where he bore his share of the vicissitudes that ever fall to the lot of the pioneer and where his original home was a log cabin of the primitive type common to the locality and period. This house he later replaced with one of better order, and the annals of the county record him as one of the strong, resourceful, upright and influential men of this now opulent section of the Buckeye State. He attained to the patriarchal age of ninety-three years, his wife having passed to the life eternal at the venerable age of eighty-five years. They were sterling pioneers who aided in laying broad and deep the foundations on which has been reared the fine superstructure of latter-day progress and prosperity, and their names merit enduring place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Vinton County. They were early members of the Christian Church in this county, and in its faith they carefully reared their children, several sons and daughters having blessed their union and the youngest of the number having been James G., father of him whose name initiates this review. James G. Cox was born in Ross County, Ohio, in the year 1832, and .14$ death occurred at his fine old homestead farm, in Richland Town- 1240 - HANGING. ROCK IRON REGION ship, Vinton County, in the year 1889, virtually his entire life having been passed on this rural estate, on which was erected the first Christian Church in Richland Township, he having been one of the fore-most in effecting the organization of the church and one of the most liberal and earnest in its. support. He. served as an elder of the congregation from the time the church was organized until :the close of his life, and he was known as one of the loyal and public-spirited citizens of the county—a successful exponent of the agricultural and live-stock industries and a man whose entire life was guided and governed by the highest principles and by a deep and abiding Christian faith. Hpras political allegiance was given to the democratic party, and he served with characteristic loyalty and circumspection in various offices of local public trust. As a young man James G. Cox wedded Miss Nancy Graves, who was born .in Vinton County, in 1841, and who survived him y more than a decade, her death having occurred on the 30th of January, 1902, when her gentle spirit was released from the mortal tenement and all who had known her came to the fullest realization of. the gracious benediction which her life had been, her circle of devoted friends having been limited only by that of her acquaintances. She was a daughter of Thomas and Tacit (Darby) Graves, the former of whom was born in North Carolina and the latter in Virginia, and both having been representatives of fine old French Huguenot families that were founded in the Carolinas in the colonial era of our national history. James G. and Nancy (Graves) Cox became the parents of six children, concerning whom brief record is here consistently incorporated : Thomas S. is the owner of a large landed estate in Clinton Township, Vinton Couny, and has achieved special success not only as an agriculturist and stock-raiser but also as a grower of 'small fruits. He and his wife had four children, but one child died in infancy and his wife died in February, 1916. L. Seneca, who now resides in the Village of McArthur, is likewise one of the substantial farmers of Vinton County,. and he and his wife have one son and one daughter. Sanford is a deaf mute and, resides in the home of his brother Oscar S., who is the immediate subject of this sketch. Benson Simon died in infancy. Hon. M. S. Cox, the next in order of birth, is now a resident f the City of Los Angeles, California, where he holds an important executive position with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company: Prior to leaving his native state he has served as a member of the lower house of the Ohio Legislature, in which he represented his district. Martha M. died on the 10th of December, 1903, at the age of twenty-four years, well known for her gracious HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1241 personality and her exceptional vocal talent in the realm of musical interpretation. It is to be recorded that Dr. Oscar S. Cox, notwithkanding his un-qualified personal popularity, still permits his name to be enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors in his native county. He is actively identified with the Vinton County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, is affiliated with the blue lodge and chapter organizations of York Rite Masonry in his home village, as well as with the adjunct chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, and he is affiliated with the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with the Daughters of Rebekah. In the McArthur Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America he has filled each of the official chairs, and he is an earnest and zealous member f the Christian Church in his home town, as well as a popular and efficient teacher in its Sunday school. He is loyal and liberal in his support of all things that tend to further the moral, educational and material advancement of the community, and his status : as a citizen and as a physician is such that is most gratifying to be able to offer even this brief review of his personal and family history. JAMES L. TAYLOR, M. D. In all that represents the highest ethics and most liberal culture in his exacting profession Doctor Taylor has shown forth his strong character, and has been in the most significant sense the friend of humanity. He has passed the psalmist's allotted span of three score years and ten, and is now retired from the active practice f a profession that has been signally dignified and honored y 'his character and services. Not in far away fields where greater self-' aggrandizement and wider distinction might have been his, has this respected physician directed his energies, but he has been content to study, to read. to write and to offer his benignant ministrations in a rural community, his home having long been maintained at Wheelersburg in Scioto County. Here he counts as his greatest possession the esteem and good will of the community, where he has practiced a life time, rather than the more than local fame that has come to him as a representative physician and surgeon of his native state. Doctor Taylor is a scion f a prominent pioneer family in this County, and was born at Franklin Furnace on the first of February, 1840. His father was Landon Taylor who married Jane Vincent in 1837, daughter of the original French settler of that name who located in Little French Grant, and two sons were born to the Taylor family, one of whom died in childhood. The Taylor family were of English lineage, and became established in New England during colonial times, whence they passed from the Connecticut Valley to Chemung County, 1242 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION New York, prior to 1800. This must have been near revolutionary times for it is of record that one, Elisha Taylor, married a Miss Vanavery, a Dutch girl, in Chemung County, New York, who brought him con-siderable money, and a black servant to wait on her. As negro slavery was abolished in New York State by the Act of 1799, it must have been earlier in 1700 that the colored maid was held as property. From hav-ing been pioneers near Elmira (then called Newtown), during the eighteenth century, they migrated to Scioto County in 1818, bought lands and settled on Little Scioto, where Sarah Taylor, who had married Abijah Batterson, lived until a few years ago, her husband, begin-ning in the '30s, having held the position of associate judge of Scioto County for seven years. Some years later Mrs. Batterson's brother James, whose family comprised seven sons and a daughter, also came from New York and bought a Dogwood Ridge Farm located near his sister's. Four of these sons, including Landon who was the doctor's father, afterwards became Methodist ministers, thus following in the footsteps of their father who had preached and helped build up Methodist churches near his old home in Elmira. Soon after his marriage Landon took a position in the office at Franklin Furnace, then running night and day to turn out pig iron at the rate of six to eight tons in twenty-four hours. When iron making ceased to be profitable and the furnace closed, he turned to school teaching at $25 a month as an cx-pedient prior to his ordination into the ministry. During the forty years devoted to ministerial work he held many important appointments in his conference.. After retiring on account of ill health, he published,. in 1883, an autobiography f some 500 pages of which two editions were disposed of, and which was entitled "The Battlefield Reviewed," in which he recounts occasional ministrations at nearly every furnace in the Hanging Rock Iron Region, as an important part of his life work. Life's close came to both husband and wife during the same week in 1885 at the home of Doctor Taylor in :Wheelersburg, and together they lie in the same lot in that beautiful cemetery. Owing to the confirmed invalidism of his mother, Doctor Taylor soon after birth was adopted into the home of his maternal aunt, Mrs. J. S. Baccus, on a farm near Wheelersburg. The country schoolhouse of that district was nearly two miles away, and thither the boy repaired daily during the three winter months, despite rain or storm or roads of unbroken snow, to the old log schoolhouse requiring to be rechinked and daubed anew nearly every, winter. A huge fireplace filled nearly one whole end of the house, and the remaining three sides were occupied by long benches mostly without backs, with just one desk in the room that would accommodate two pupils at a time for writing. No black- HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1243 board, no place for ink, goose quills, nor copy-books, for modern school desks had not yet been invented. A new teacher complained of the lack of conveniences for teaching writing, and a nearby resident volunteered to get a broad slab from a saw-mill close to the school, which he fitted across one side of the room, flat side up, on three long pins bored into a house log. That was a great innovation, and the whole school was very proud f its slab. For back logs to burn in the fireplace, the patrons of the school would "snake in" to the school lot long logs without limbs, and the large boys would take turns in chopping them into back logs. At that time the State of Ohio had not yet enacted the organiza-tion of a township school system, and there was very little puhlic money available to pay teachers, who had to depend on rate bills assessed on the parents of the attending pupils. The teachers themselves, many of them were of extremely limited attainments, very few being competent to solve average examples in partial payments, or even intricate propositions in common and decimal fractions. Their outfit comprised a spelling book, and a reader for the small children, and for the older ones a writing book, an arithmetic, a ruler, and in most cases a hickory whip behind the door. But notwithstanding the early la& of educational advantages, Doctor :Taylor succeeded in getting a teacher's county certificate at the age of fifteen, and at sixteen taught his first school in the Kettles District in a log house the old type, equipped only with long benches, but without even the flat side of a slab to accommodate writing books. For several years he taught school and went away to school alternately, until he secured a diploma from the University f Michigan in the class of 1863, being the first Scioto County man to obtain a bachelor's degree from that institution, where students now congregate for an education from ail parts of the world. For a time the doctor held a position on the county board of school examiners with Dr. Erastus Burr and John Bolton, being appointed by Judge A. C. Thompson to fill the vacancy caused by Capt. N. W. Evans' resignation. After attending courses of medical lectures at Ann Arbor and Cincinnati, he graduated at the Medical College of Ohio in 1872, and succeeded Dr. A. Titus in his Medical practice and property at Wheelersburg, Ohio. For thirty-three years he stood faithfully at his post, dispensing his professional skill alike to all who came, whether the cases promised big fees or no fees. and many, many accounts were never presented for collection. He was An close affiliation with the local medical societies, the state and national associations, the American Academy of Medicine, of which he was vice president from 1901-2, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His strictly medical papers appeared from time to 1244 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION time in the Journal of the American Medical Association, while those pertaining to sociology were published in the Bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine. He wrote widely on medical, agricultural, educational, financial and scientific topics, but it was to his medical calling that he hrought the best products of his labors. On the 26th of December, 1867, Doctor Taylor was married to Miss Melissa Folsom (daughter of James Smith Folsom), who was born at Junior Landing, Scioto County, in 1835, and who completed her youth-ful education at the high school in Ironton, Ohio. She is a member of the widely disseminated Folsom family scattered throughout the United States, all of whom are descended from the progenitor, John, who came From- England to 'Massachusetts in the new world with his wife and servants in 1634, not long after the Mayflower. The family genealogy, a book of nearly 300 pages, printed in 1882, shows her to be number seven in the line of descent from ancestor John, and the hundreds of Fol-som names recorded there clearly indicate that the Folsom family has been highly prolific. While many families tend towards extinction, and finally do disappear altogether, other families tend to multiply so as to re-plenish the earth, and to this latter class the Folsom family evidently belongs. To this one ancestor, John, all the Folsoms of this broad land can look back, much as the Jews look back to Abraham. Already the name Folsom with its combinations, appears in the names of sixteen or eighteen towns, villages, railway stations and postoffices throughout the United States, and it would be extremely interesting to know exactly on what natural endowments this tendency to increase or to become extinct really depends, and why virile tenacity accompanies only some families through many generations. Dr. Wesley Taylor was born and received his early educatpraon at Wheelersburg, Ohio, and is the only survivor of three children, two sons and a daughter, born to James L. and Melissa Taylor. After getting what training the Wheelersburg schools provided, he spent two years in the Ann Arbor High 'School preparatory to entering his father's alma mater, the University of Michigan, where he continued six years longer in obtaining his B. S. & M. D. degrees, graduating in arts and in medicine with the class of 1899. After graduation he secured an interneship on the surgical staff of Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, where he remained for eighteen months as house surgeon in that institution. From Cleveland he went abroad and stopped first at Gottingen, Germany, where He secured quarters in an educated private family to learn colloquial German, and remained there for six months, avoiding the English speaking colony, reading, writing, studying and talking nothing but German. go that when he entered the medical clinics at Vienna 'later, he was HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1245 accounted the best German scholar among all the Americans attending there. After a profitable tutoring from the distinguished medical teachers in Vienna for eleven months, he went to Paris and took a place -on the staff of Doctor Dejerine at the Salpetriere, with a view to specializing in mental and nervous diseases. ere he remained for fourteen months under a master teacher, assisting at the largest and most famous nervous disease clinic in the world. From there he next spent some months in the hospitals of London and Berlin, having remained abroad nearly four years under the instruction of the foremost living teachers of modern medicine. He is now located in Detroit in a lucrative medical practice, is a member of the staff of Harper Hospital where he conducts daily a large nervous disease clinic, belongs to the American Neurological Society, is member f the faculty, and lecturer on nervous and mental diseases in Detroit Medical College, and is recognized as standing in the front ranks of the medical profession in Michigan. WILLIAM ALLEN MCCLURE. An honored old soldier and practically a lifelong resident of Jackson County, William A. McClure is spending the quiet years on his country place in Franklin Township. He was born in Bloomfield Township of Jackson County, September 29, 1842. His father was Arthur McClure, a native of Greenbrier County, Virginia, and the grandfather was Samuel McClure, also a native of Virginia. Grandfather McClure lived in Virginia until about 1830, when he brought his family to Jackson County, Ohio, locating in Bloomfield Township. He bought some land, and lived out the rest of his career in that community. Arthur McClure was quite young when he came with his parents to Jackson County, and subsequently he too bought land in Bloomfield Township and took up the work of general farmer and stock raiser. That was his home and his occupation until his death at the age of forty-five. He married Jane Stephenson, also a native of Virginia, who survived her husband many years. She reared nine children. William Allen McClure grew up in his native township, had the benefit of the local schools, and was about eighteen years of age when in 1862 he enlisted in Company A f the One Hundred and Seventeenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This regiment was subsequently made the First Ohio Heavy Artillery. During a part of his service he was on detached duty, but he was in the army until after the close of the war. Upon getting his honorable discharge he returned home and applied :his energies to general farming. For nine years he was in the mercantile business at Rocky Hill, but with that exception farming has been his :regular pursuit ow for practically half a century. About 1880 he 1246 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION bought the attractive place which he now owns and occupies in Franklin Township. Mr. McClure married Miss Emily Jane Hanna. Th.ey have reared a. family f three children. SAMUEL PRICHARD FETTER, M. D. Engaged in the practice of medi-cine and surgery at Portsmouth since 1908, Doctor Fetter is one of the well established physicians of that city, has an excellent practice, and has won his place in professional life. He comes f a family of professional men and educators. Samuel Prichard Fetter was born at Garysburg, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His father was Rev. Charles Fetter, who was born in Chapel Hill in Orange County, North Carolina, August 6, 1845. The grandfather, Manuel Fetter, was a native of New York City, was reared and educated there, and at the age of twenty-six removed to Chaptl Hill, North Carolina, to accept the chair of Greek and mathematics in the well known college of that city, the University of North Carolina. He was one of the useful and esteemed instructors in that college for thirty years. His death occurred at Pulaski City, Virginia, in his eightieth year. Manuel Fetter married Sarah Cox, who was born on Staten Island, New York, and died at Chapel Hill. She reared four sons and three daughters, namely : Frederick, Charles, William, Harry, Susan, Catherine and Martha. The late Rev. Charles Fetter was educated in the University of North Carolina and for twenty years was associated with his brother Frederick in conducting a preparatory school known as the Fetter School of East Carolina. Both the brothers then entered the Episcopal ministry, being ordained at Greensboro y Bishop Lyman. Charles Fetter after that was assistant rector at St. Andrews Church at Greensboro for a time, following which he had charges in North Carolina and Kentucky. He returned from Mount Sterling, Kentucky, to North Carolina, to become rector of Calvary Church at Wadesboro, and died there in 1908. The Rev. Charles Fetter married Elizabeth Prichard. She was born in Petersburg, Virginia, in June, 1846, a daughter of William I. Prichard, also a native of Petersburg, and a granddaughter of John Prichard, a native of the same city and of old Virginia colonial ancestry. John Prichard was a tobacconist and spent all his life in Petersburg,. He married Elizabeth Conway, of another old Virginia family. William Irwin Prichard was for forty years a banker in Petersburg, where he spent his life, dying at the age of seventy-six. He married Mary Hammett, who was born in Petersburg, daughter of Abraham Barker and Annie (Stokes) Hammett, who were New Englanders in lineage. Mary HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1247 Hammett Prichard died in her eighty-first year. She reared a family of eight sons and four daughters, namely : William Bend, John Hammett, Charles Everett, George Bond, Nathan Brooks, Elizabeth, Ruth C., Mary S., Anna M., Samuel J., Robert White, and Irwin S. Most of these children married and reared families and their descendants are now widely scattered. Rev. Charles Fetter and wife reared five children : Charles M., who is now in business at Hamlet, North Carolina ; Clinton and Robert, both in the lumher business in Texas ; Samuel P. ; and Elizabeth C., the only daughter, died at the age of twenty-six as the wife of Dr. Walter Ruffin Ashe of North Carolina. Samuel P. Fetter was educated at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, and early determined upon medicine as his profession entered the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, graduated in the class of 1904, and for the following four years was attached to the medical staff of the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics at Gallipolis. Since then he has been in active practice of medicine and surgery at Portsmouth, and has established some excellent connections. For the past five years he has been local surgeon for the Cincinnati & Ohio Railway, and is local medical examiner for Scioto County of the State Industrial Commission. For the past four years he has served as president of the city board of health. Doctor Fetter is a member of the empstead Academy of Medicine, of the Ohio State Medical Society and the Ameri-can Medical Association. His fraternal affiliations are with Aurora Ledge No. 48, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Mount Vernon Chapter No. 23, Royal Arch Masons ; Solomon Council No. 79, Royal & Select Masters ; and Calvary Commandery No. 13, Knights Templar. He is. unmarried and his mother presides over his household. They are members of All Saints Episcopal Church, and he is vestryman and was senior warden in 1914. AUGUST ADOLPH BOGGS. The awards which may he attained by the following out of an honorable purpose with firm determination and manly self reliance, are well illustrated in the career of August Adolph Boggs, the well known wholesale lumber merchant of Jackson, Ohio. His only resource when he began active life at the age of fourteen years was natural ability, but he possessed also immense will-power and was enabled to make the most of every opportunity that arose. His home training had been an admirable one, and very early in life he learned the value of self-help and the virtues f frugality, sobriety and industry. He set himself a high ideal and in a practical, common-sense way has directed his every effort toward its attainment, with the result that he has 1248 - HANGING ROCK IRON REGION achieved a most gratifying. success in his chosen field of endeavor and occupies a high position in the esteem of those among whom he has labored. Mr. Boggs was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, March 14, 1856, and is a son of Horace and Margaret (Gorden) Boggs. His father was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1830, and as a youth of seventeen years went to Maryland, where for many years he was engaged in laboring, but in 1875 returned to Jackson. County, and here passed away July 27, 1888. Mrs. Boggs was born in the eastern part of Pennsyl-vania., in 1822, and died in 1899. August Adolph was their only child. The public schools of his native county furnished Adolph A. Boggs with his education, and when he was fourteen years f age he embarked upon his business career, securing employment with a leather concern. His fidelity, ability and energy earned him promotion to the position of buyer and for seventeen years he was engaged in purchasing bark and hides in various parts f the country, thus coming into contact with men engaged in the lumber business. On coming to Jackson, Ohio, he accepted work as a laborer for one year, while looking over the field, and then embarked in the wholesale lumber business, in which he has been engaged to the present time with much success. Mr. Boggs has invested extensively in real estate, and in addition to his residence on East Broadway, Jackson, he is the owner of 116 acres of farming land at Vega, Ohio, 110 acres in Vinton County, Ohio, forty acres in Pike County, Ohio, five building lots in Garfield County, Oklahoma, and one lot in the City of Columbus, Ohio. He finds his recreation in travelling in the forests, in the interests of his lumber and timber business, and there has a wide acquaintance and many friends. A shrewd, capable and energetic business man, his operations have been carried on in a manner that has won him the entire confidence of his associates and those who have had dealings with him. He has taken a keen interest in the welfare of Jackson, and is one of the most enthusiastic members and zealous workers of the Boosters' Club. Mr. Boggs is an ardent adherent of temperance and a member of the Keeley League of Dwight, Illinois. His political connection is with the republican party-, and his religious faith that of the United Brethren Church. Mr. Boggs was married August 12, 1895, at the home of the bride in Maryland, to Miss Florence L. Duckworth, daughter of Horace Duck= worth, and to this union there have been born eleven children : Matilda, Daisy Pearl, erbert, Johnnie, Daniel, Florence, Dorothea, Harrison, Margaret, Lavenia Alien Hays, and a child who died in infancy. HANGING ROCK IRON REGION - 1249 HILLBORN C. MILLER. With the exception of three years, during which period he wore his country's uniform and participated as a brave and faithful soldier in the great struggle between the North and South, Hillborn C. Miller has spent his entire life in Jackson County, Ohio. Since 1870 he has been engaged in the insurance business at Jackson, excepting six years spent as probate judge, and for a long period he has also acted in the capacity of pension attorney. Whether as soldier, citizen or business man he has ably and conscientiously discharged every duty devolving upon him, and his long and honorable career has established him firmly in the esteem of his fellow-townspeople. Hillborn C. Miller was born in Bluefield Township, Jackson County, Ohio, May 18, 1841, and is a son of Dr. James H. C. and Azuba (Carpenter) Miller. Hls father, born in Massachusetts, in 1800, was educated for the medical profession and when he attained his majority came to what was then the Western Reserve, DoW Medina County, Ohio. There he was engaged in practice until 1838, when he removed to Jackson County, and here was not only prominent in his profession; but took an active and leading part in the affairs of the republican party for Many years. He died in 1880, respected and esteemed by all who knew him. Mrs. Miller was born in Vermont, in 1803, and died in 1877, in Jackson County, Ohio. There were six children in the family, as follows: Dr. Orlando C., who adopted his father's profession, practiced for many years, and died at Jackson; Dr. Sydenham F., also a physician, who removed to Iowa and there passed away; George W., a printer by vocation, who died at Jackson; Oliver S., who passed his life in mercantile pursuits and died at Jackson; James A., who is now retired frorn active life and a resident of Denver, Colorado; and Hillborn C., of this review. Hillborn C. Miller attended the public schools of Jackson and remained under the parental roof until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he enlisted in the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, being corporal of Company E. After four months of service he was captured y the enemy, and when he was paroled and exchanged regiment had disbanded. In 1863 he again enlisted for service, this time in Company D, of the First Ohio Heavy Artillery, of which he was orderly sergeant until transferred to Company G, of the same regiment, were taking rank as second lieutenant. He continued to serve with this organization until the close of the war. Returning to the vocations of peace after securing his hoorable discharge, Mr. Miller engaged in the printing business for two years, and then received the appointment to the position of assistant inspector of United States Revenues, being thus connected unil 1870; when he em-