(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 500 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY was interested in the building of the school house and church in Sparta, Ohio, and he and his wife are popular and highly respected citizens in this section of the county. To them have been born two children, namely, Harry H. and Mary M. Harry H. was born on 7th of September, 1881, was graduated in the Sparta high school and is now engaged with the Van Scoy Chemical Company, at Mt. Gilead. He married Miss Myrtle M. Meiser, of Sparta, Ohio. Mary M.,' born January 16, 1885, graduated in the Sparta high school with the class of 1901, and she attended the musical department of Delaware College, at Delaware. She resides at home with her parents and is considered one of the best musicians and music teachers in Sparta. Mr. and Mrs. Barre are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the various departments of whose work they have been most prominent factors; Mr. Barre was one of the three who built the beautiful Methodist church in this town. Mrs. Barre's great-grandfather, William Evans, was one of the first settlers at Chester, Morrow county, Ohio. He was of Welsh extraction and was instrumental in building the first church at Chester, the same being of the Baptist denomination, in which he was a deacon. Her maternal grandfather, Emness Salisbury, was a relative of Lord Salisbury, of England, and her grandfather Bockoven, held the office of magistrate in Sussex county, New Jersey, prior to his immigration to Ohio, where he settled on a farm in Chester township, Morrow county, being identified with the trade of blacksmith in addition to his agricultural pursuits: In politics Mr. Barre endorses the cause of the Democratic party, and he has been incumbent of many offices of public trust in Sparta. For fourteen years he was a member of the school board and he has given efficient service in the offices of mayor, justice of the peace and post master of this town. In the time-honored Masonic Order he has long been prominent in Ohio and he and his wife and daughter are all valued and appreciative members of the adjunct organization, the Order of the Eastern Star, at Chesterville. He is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, the latter of which he represented in the Grand Lodge of the state at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1896. Mr. Barre is a thoroughly practical business man and because of his courteous manners, genial disposition and genuine worth he has won and retains a host of warm personal friends. FRED W. VINCENT.—Geniality and cordiality of manner are the cardinal characteristics of a successful business man. Mr. Vincent, of this review, the genial and cordial proprietor of The Hotel Vincent, of Marengo, Ohio, is a gentleman who has won the esteem and respect of all who know him and his homelike hotel. He is a native of Franklin county, Ohio, born March 7, 1871, and is the seventh child in a family of eight children, seven sons and HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 501 one daughter, born to Nathan and Loretta (Phelps) Vincent. There are six of the children living at present. Charles, married, and a resident of Mansfield, Ohio, is an agriculturist. He was educated in the common schools. Carrie is the wife of Edwin Linnabarry, a resident of Galena, Ohio, and a successful agriculturist. Joseph, a resident of Westerville, Ohio, is a rural route agent. William, a resident of Westerville, Ohio, is also engaged in the rural mail service. Fred W., the subject of this sketch, is next in order of birth. Walter, the youngest and unmarried one, resides with his mother near Westerville, Ohio. Nathan Vincent was born in 1834 and died in 1878. He was a skilled contractor and builder. He erected the old State Fair buildings and Camp Chase at Columbus, Ohio, and was one of the most skilled workmen in his trade of any in Ohio and his services were always in demand. He was a fine mathematician. Politically he was an old-line Whig, and when the Republican party was founded he advocated its cardinal points and principles until his death. Religiously both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church. He was a gentleman of firm, decisions and character and universally beloved by all. His funeral was one of the largest ever witnessed in Westerville, Ohio. Mrs. Vincent, the mother of our subject, is a native of Franklin county, Ohio, born in 1835, and is still living, at the age of seventy-six years. Her mentality is yet vigorous. She has been a wonderfully industrious woman and a true mother in every sense of the word and ideal in her Christian life. She was a daughter of Edward Phelps, one of the pioneers of Franklin county. The Phelps, Griswolds and Moores were the first three families to settle in Franklin county. 'Mrs. Vincent resides two and a half miles south of Westerville, Ohio, on an estate of one hundred and eighty-eight acres of fine land lying along the Interurban Railroad to Columbus, and the land is valued at one hundred and seventy-five dollars an acre. Mr. Vincent, of this review, traces his lineage to the French, as the early progenitors were De Vincent and came from the "land of the lily." He was reared as a farmer lad until at the age of sixteen he began as a wage earner and acted as field salesman for the well known harvester company "The Plano," and was with this well known firm for four years. He next worked as a carpenter, and remained at that work for two years. He really devoted most of his life to agricultural pursuits until he located in his present calling at Marengo. It was in 1897 when he located in Morrow county—Peru township—and he was there four years. He then purchased a little tract of land, but afterward sold and moved on the Royal Moore farm, where he remained for four years as an agriculturist and stockman. He was then located one year on the Leatherman farm. In 1910 he and his wife purchased the hotel property and livery at Marengo, and his comfortable hostelry is well known by the traveling public. He and his wife endeavor to 502 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY make their home the traveling man's home by cordial and kindly greeting, good table service and comfortable quarters, and with hotel service he has most excellent livery equipment. Mr. Vincent wedded Miss Cora G. Stanton, of Columbus, Ohio, May 20, 1892—four children have been born to them, namely : Josephine L., who has received a good educational training; Carrie M. is a student in the Marengo High School, class of 1913 ; and Donna Bell and Merald H. Mrs. Vincent is a native of Crawford county, Ohio, and was born March 28, 1874, a daughter of Dennis and Florilla (Dart) Stanton. There were nine children but there are only five living at present, namely: Lucy, wife of Frank Grames, a resident of Chicago Junction and employed by the U. S. Government in the mail service ; Chauncey, a resident of Huntington county, Indiana, and an agriculturist ; Josephine is the wife of George Hannum, residing at Cincinnati, • Ohio, where he is superintendent in the C. H. and D. yards; John, a resident of Huntington county, Indiana, is also- a farmer; Mrs. Vincent is the next and the youngest. Her father, Dennis Stanton, was born in Pennsylvania July 6, 1828, and died October 17, 1879. He was of English descent. He died when his daughter, Mrs. Vincent, was a little girl five years old. Florilla Dart Stanton, Mrs. Vincent's mother, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, October 17, 1834, and she is now a resident of Huntington county, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent have located in Marengo and they are citizens who hold a high place in the esteem of all who have had the pleasure of their acquaintance, while their daughters are valuable additions to the young social element of the town. Mr. Vincent is a Republican and cast his first vote for Benjamin Harrison and he has always supported the principles and policies of that party. He is a member of the Marengo Knights of Pythias Lodge, No. 216, and is vice chancellor, Mrs. Vincent being a men. ber of the Pythian Sisters at Ashley, Ohio. We are pleased to present this brief review of this worthy couple and their cozy, homelike hotel is ever open to friends and wayfarer, who will be cordially entertained. MASON W. MCCRACKEN - At this juncture is a volume devoted to the careers of representative citizens of Morrow county, Ohio, it is a pleasure to insert a brief history of Mason W. McCracken, who has ever been on the alert to forward all measures and enterprises projected for the general welfare and who has served his community in various official capacities of trust and responsibility. He has been township assessor of Harmony township, was justice of the peace for one year and is now devoting the major portion of his time and attention to diversified agriculture and stock-raising, his fine little estate of fifty acres being located in Harmony township, seven miles distant from the county seat. A native son of Harmony township, Morrow County, Ohio, HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 503 Mason W. McCracken was here born on the 28th of August, 1862, and he is a son of Charles and Ruth (McCreary) McCracken, the former of whom was born and reared on the Fair Emerald Isle, having immigrated to America from Ireland about the year 18 ??. Charles McCracken was identified with farming during the major portion of his active business career and he was long a representative agriculturist in Harmony township, where his death occurred in the month of May, 1873. Mrs. Ruth McCracken was a native of Ohio and she passed to the life eternal in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCracken were the parents of three children, concerning whom the following brief data are here offered ; Mason W. is the immediate subject of this review ; Wayne is engaged in the agriculture line of enterprise in Morrow county, Ohio ; and Emma died when a young girl.  Reared to the sturdy discipline of the old homestead farm, Mason W. McCracken waxed strong in mind and body and his early educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools, which he attended until he had reached his sixteenth year. After leaving school he assisted his mother in the work and management of the home farm for a time and thereafter he was engaged in farming operations on his own account, settling on a rented farm for ten years, then on his present well improved estate in the year 1901. As a general farmer and stock raiser he has achieved unqualified success and he is held is high esteem by his fellow citizens in Harmony township. In 1884 he was elected township assessor and he has served for four years as a member of the school board. He has also been honored with the office of justice of the peace and in this capacity has acquitted himself most creditably.  On the 24th of September, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCracken to Miss Eva B. Ulery, who was born in Harmony township and who is a daughter of G. W. Ulery, long of this county. Mrs. McCracken received a good education in the public schools of this section during her girlhood days and she is a woman of the utmost graciousness and sincerity. a potent influence for good in the home and community. To Mr. and Mrs. McCracken have been born two children, Brice L., whose birth occurred on the 10th of March, 1894, and Blanche E., born December 17, 1891, both of whom passed the Patterson examination. Blanche E. is now the wife of Harvey Smith, who is engaged as a clerk in a store at Chesterville, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. McCracken are devout members of the Harmony Baptist church in which he is a deacon. In politics, he accords a stalwart allegiance to the principles and policies promulgated by the Democratic party and as previously flirted he has served as assessor and justice of the peace. He is a straight-forward, broadminded man and throughout his life thus far he .has done a great deal toward fowarding the best interests of Morrow county, where he is accorded the unalloyed esteem of his fellow men.  504 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY JOHN DARLING is one of Morrow county's much liked and much respected farmer-citizens and is a veteran of the Civil war, whose semi-centennial has brought back with renewed vividness the events of that great conflict. He was born on the 27th day of August, 1844, near Hedding Chapel, Ohio, the son of Samuel and Mary (Barr) Darling, the former a native of New York and the latter of Pennsylvania. John was one of four children and the eldest, his two brothers and sister being by name, Morgan, Samuel and Rachel Rebecca, Samuel being at the present time a member of the well-known Bishop and Darling Real Estate Company of Centerburg, Ohio. John, like the rest of the children, received his education in the Gardner district school. John Darling was a very young fellow in the early sixties of the nineteenth century. However, when war seemed inevitable he enlisted at the first call for men to go to the front although but seventeen years of age. His enlistment was made at Mount Vernon, Ohio, and he became a member of the Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, thus putting himself in line for eleven dollars a month and much promised glory. He saw much active service and engaged in numerous battles and skirmishes, among them Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Langing. At the latter place, while on picket duty, he was wounded by the accidental discharge of a gun in the hands of a falling comrade. He was accordingly sent to the hospital at Qnincy, Illinois, and in three months had 'sufficiently recovered to enlist again.. This time he became identified with the Second Ohio Heavy Artillery and he remained with this organization until the close of the war, receiving an honorable discharge with the rest of his brave comrades. He returned home and it has been his pleasant fate, as a good and altruistic citizen, to serve his country as well in peace as in war. On December. 8, 1867, Mr. Darling laid the foundation of a happy life companionship by his marriage with Miss Delphina Lanning, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Struble) Lanning of Chester township Their union has been blessed by the birth of one son and two daughters. Emma Dell married Melrose Gat-ton of Richland county, and they now reside at Mount Vernon, Ohio ; Stephen married Miss Retta Hickman of Iowa and resides in Wayne county, Iowa ; Zoa is the wife of Frank Riley of Center-burg. The trio, as well as their mother, hold the Bailes district school particularly dear, for it was there that they received their education. Mr. Darling in his political affiliations is a stanch Republican, having given his support to its policies and principles since his earliest voting days. He is of that sturdy type of character which stands for honesty and uprightness and constitutes the best kind of citizenship He and his worthy wife reside upon their advantageously situated farm between Sparta and Chesterville, their home being one of the attractive ones of the neighborhood. Their HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 505 children have gone out from under the old roof-tree, under their parents' training well equipped to meet the requirements of life They are widely and favorably known in the section in which their interests have so long been centered. REUBEN PACE.—Through his own well directed endeavors Mr Pace has become the owner of a well improved farm of eighty acres in Gilead township, and he is numbered among the successful agriculturists and stock-growers of the county, where he has maintained his home for more than thirty years and where he has forged forward from the position of a farm hand, employed by the month, to a secure place as one of the representative agriculturalists of this section of his native state Mr. Pace was born in Perry county, Ohio, near New Lexington, and the date of his nativity was January 19, 1853. He is a son of Minor and Julia (Drake) Pace, members of sterling pioneer families of this state, where the father continued to be identified with agricultural pursuits until his death. He died in Perry county and his wife died in Marion county, Ohio. Of their children four sons and one daughter are now living. He whose name introduces this review early began to learn the valuable lessons of practical industry, as he began to assist in the work of the home farm When a mere boy. His educational advantages were those afforded in the district schools of his native county and he continued to be associated with his father in the work of the farm until he had attained to his legal majority. He then began working by the month as a farm hand, and as such he came to Morrow county in 1877, dependent entirely upon his own energy and ability for making his way to the goal of independence. He was industrious and frugal and in 1894 he purchased his present farm, which is eligibly located in Gilead township at a point about three miles northeast of Mount Gilead, the county seat.. He has shown distinctive thrift and progressiveness in his farming and business operations and his place is devoted to diversified agriculture and stock-growing, in which latter department he has given special attention to the breeding of registered Merino sheep. He has been very successful in this line of enterprise and the fine sheep raised by him are in much demand for breeding purposes. While loyal to all civic duties and responsibilities and ever ready to lend his cooperation in the promotion of measures advanced for the general good of the community, Mr. Pace has no ambition for public office. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party, and in religion he is a Baptist. His wife holds membership in the Presbyterian church at Mt. Gilead. They are held in high esteem by all who know them and their pleasant home is noted for its generous hospitality. As a young man, while employed on a farm in Morrow county, Mr. Pace was united, in marriage to Miss Rose F. Nellans, daughter 506 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY of the late John Nellans, a farmer of Canaan township. Mrs. Pace was summoned to the life eternal December 31, 1892, and of the three children only one is living—Dora Maude, who is now and has been for six years, a successful and popular teacher in the schools of Gilead township. The other daughter—Jessie U., died at the age of sixteen years, and the only son, John Sheldon, was but eighteen months old at the time of his death. On the 4th of April, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Pace to Miss Angenetta Payne, who was born and reared in Morrow county, and who is a daughter of the late Hiram Payne.. No children have been born of the second marriage. WALTER W. VAUGHAN.—There has been nothing parasitic in the career of Hon. Walter W. Vaughan, who through life and labors has conferred honor upon the county of his nativity. He has not only been an effective and successful exponent of the agricultural and stock-growing industries in Morrow county but has also caused his benignant influence to permeate the sphere of public activity, as is indicated by the fact that he is at the present time representative of his native county in the lower house of the state legislature. He is a man of broad intellectual grasp and well matured opinions as to matters of public polity, so that his value in his present office is of the most definite order, the while his sterling attributes of character have given him an impregnable place in popular confidence and esteem. As one of the essentially representative citizens of Morrow county he is well entitled to consideration in this publication, and he takes pride in being numbered among the sturdy yeoman of the fine old Buckeye commonwealth, his well improved and attractive homestead being located in Lincoln township, about three miles east of the thriving little city of Cardington. Walter W. Vaughan was born on the parental farmstead in Lincoln township, Morrow county, and the day of his nativity was February 7, 1866. He is a son of James W. and Rachel Ann (Wood) Vaughan, the former of whom was born in Stark county and the latter in Morrow. James W. Vaughan was long numbered among representative farmers and stock-growers of Lincoln township and his life was so guided and governed by principles of integrity and honor that he was not denied the fullest measure of popular confidence and esteem in the community that so long represented his home and in which his career was marked by earnest toil and endeavor. He contributed his quota to the industrial and social development of Morrow county and was a man of unassuming, sincere and worthy character, well entitled to the uniform esteem accorded him. Walter W. Vaughan was reared under the strenuous but invigorating disclipine of the farm and through such intimate association with nature in "her visible form" he waxed strong 507 - WILLIAM W. VAUGHAN 508 - BLANK HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 509 in independence and self-reliance. After availing himself of the advantages of the district schools he continued his studies in the public schools of the village of Cardington, and that he made good use of these scholastic opportunities is shown by the fact that after a course in the high school he proved himself eligible for pedagogic honors. When about eighteen years of age he initiated his efforts as a teacher in the district schools of his native county, and for about a decade he thus divided his time between the work of the school-room in the winter terms and that of the farm in the summer seasons, so that there was no possibility of deterioration in either brain or brawn. Through such labors have been developed many of the leaders in thought and action in our great American republic, which affords boundless opportunities for the perpetuation of individuality and for individual accomplishment. Mr. Vaughan has ever appreciated the dignity and value of honest forces or the emoluments derived therefrom. About 1888 he entered into partnership with his father in the live-stock business, in which he eventually gave special attention to dealing in horses, in the sale of which he made large shipments to eastern markets. In this connection he brought to bear excellent initiative and executive powers, and incidentally laid the foundation for definite prosperity and independence. The live stock operations of Mr. Vaughan were conducted in connection with the old homestead farm of his father until 1902, when he amplified the scope of his industrial enterprise by the purchase of his present homestead of one hundred and thirty-three acres, eligibly located on the Cardington and Chesterville turnpike, three miles distant from Cardington. The place had been much neglected, with the result that its fertility had declined and its buildings fallen into poor condition. With characteristic energy and enterprise Mr. Vaughan set to himself the task of improving the farm along all lines, bringing the land under effective cultivation, repairing the existing buildings and erecting new ones demanded in connection with the general operation of the place, which he has brought to a high standard, so that it is now one of the well improved and valuable farm properties of the county,. with every evidence of thrift and prosperity. In 1906 he erected the large and modern barn on the homestead, and the facilities of the same are of the best type throughout, with special provisions for the care of live stock. The place is devoted to diversified agriculture and to the raising of high grades of live stock, and Mr. Vaughan continued to buy and ship horses to a considerable extent, being an excellent judge of values and showing much discrimination in his operations, in which his success has been marked. A man of high civic ideals and well fortified opinions, Mr. Vaughan has naturally shown a loyal interest in public affairs, and he has gained a position of definite leadership in connection with the manoeuvering of political forces in his native county. 510 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY He accords an unequivocal allegiance to the Republican party and has been one of the leaders in its local councils. In 1901 he became a member of the county committee of his party and he had the distinction of serving as its chairman for three years. In 1905 he was made the Republican nominee for representative of Morrow county in the state legislature, and though his defeat was compassed by normal political exigencies he made an excellent campaign and gained a strong hold upon the confidence of the people of the county, so that when he again appeared as a candidate for the same office, in 1908, he was elected by a gratifying majortiy. The best voucher of the popular appreciation of his efforts as a member of the legislature was that given by his reelection in the autumn of 1910, so that he is now serving his second term, which will expire January 1, 1913. Mr. Vaughan has been a zealous and valued worker in the deliberations of both the floor and the committee-room of the house. Fidelity and earnestness have characterized his efforts in behalf of wise legislation and he has shown a broad grasp upon matters of public polity and expediency. He has ably championed the various measures that have appealed to his judgment and has been equally uncompromising in his his judgment and has been equally uncompromising in his work against legislation that he has considered ill advised. Within the compass of a sketch of this order it is, of course, impossible to enter into details concerning his effective labors in the popular branch of the legislature, but it is but consistent that reference be made to certain important measures with the furtherance or defeat of which he was prominently identified. He introduced and put upon its final passage the bill reducing the mileage allowed to members of the legislature from twelve to two cents a mile, the latter being the absolute expenditure demanded for railroad fares. The finance committee of the house recommended an appropriation of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the improvement of the Ohio canals, but mainly through the insistent efforts of Mr. Vaughan this appropriation was reduced to one hundred thousand dollars, which sum appeared, upon close examination, to be entirely adequate for the purpose specified in the bill. An uncompromising advocate of the cause of temperance and the proper control of the liquor traffic, he also exerted much influence in compassing the defeat of the Dean bill, in the lower house, in the session of 1911, said bill having been considered by him and other leading members a matter involving retrogression and the extension of undue privileges. Mr. Vaughan is known as a forceful and eloquent speaker, and elegance of diction and clarity of statement invariably characterize his utterances. He has been assigned to membership in important committees of the house and in the deliberation thereof has shown marked business acumen and maturity of judgment. His integrity of purpose is beyond cavil and he never makes any compromise for the sake of personal expediency. In this attitude HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 511 he exemplifies well the principles of the stanch Society of Friends, the noble religious organization with which the Vaughan family became identified many generations ago. On the 17th of March, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Vaughan to Miss Mina Chase, who was born in Westfield township, Morrow county, on the 16th of November, 1865, and who is a daughter of Daniel L. and Victoria (Bailey) Chase, representatives of honored pioneer families of Ohio. The Chase family was early founded in the state of New York and the lineage is traced back to staunch English origin. Robert Chase, grandfather of Mrs. Vaughan, settled in Morrow county, Ohio, in the pioneer days and was prominent and influential in connection with the affairs of the Christian church in this state. Daniel L. Chase became one of the prosperous and representative agriculturists of Morrow county and ever comamnded sure vantage ground in popular confidence and regard,. He was called upon to serve in various offices of public trust, including that, of county clerk, of which he was incumbent from 1876 to 1882: Both he and his wife continued to maintain their home in this county until their death, and of the children one son and one daughter are now living. Mrs. Vaughan is a woman of most gracious personality and is the chatelaine of a home that is notable for culture and generous hospitality, both she and her daughter being valued factors in connection with the leading social activities of the community. She was graduated in the Mount Gilead high school and for several years prior to her marriage she was a successful and popular teacher in the schools of her native county. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan lave one daughter, Ruth M., who was born on the 26th of April, 1896, and who is a member of the class of 1915 in the high school at Cardington. MARY VIRGINIA FOGLE.-It is most appropriate that when the lifework of one is finished a record should be made of it. It is especially so when that life work was of much usefulness, and the subject promised exalted excellence of character and superior qualities of intellect. Mary Virginia Fogle was the oldest daughter of Benjamin and Ann C. (Kinsell) Fogle, of a family of four children, and both her father and mother were reared at Chesterville, in Morrow county, and her grandparents on both sides were pioneers of that village and township. The maternal grandfather, Enoch B. Kinsell, was one of the first three associate judges of Morrow county, from 1848 until the new constitution of the state of Ohio in 1852, and was a man of high standing in the county. The paternal grandfather, John Fogle, was a substantial farmer of good standing. In religion the families on both sides, father and mother, grandfathers and grandmothers, were Methodists. Vol. II-3 512 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY Benjamin Fogle, the father, was a man of superior intellect and force of character, and while he lived in Mt. Gilead, which was from about 1865 until his death, April 5, 1875, he was the leading Methodist in the church. The family continued to reside at Mt. Gilead for several years after Miss Fogle's death. For several years the family of our subject resided in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was born, and where she had exceptional opportunities for culture, which she improved as she grew up, and her intellectual prospects from early childhood were flattering. She had excellent qualities of voice, which were properly trained, and on nearly all public occasions her talents were in demand both as a singer and player, for she was an accomplished musician. She attended the high school in Mt. Gilead, and later, for several years, became one of the most successful teachers therein. She took a course of study at the State Normal School at Oswego, New York, and was graduated therefrom in the year 1883 Miss Walter, the teacher of the training school said of her : "We rarely had among our students so bright and shining a light as Miss Fogle." Professor Poucher, the president of the Normal School, wrote: "She was a most excellent and progressive student and teacher." Upon her graduation she became supervisor of teachers in the public schools of Trenton, New Jersey, where she took high rank. She may be classed as teacher with Miss Sarah Arnold, of Boston, and Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, now superintendent of public schools of Chicago. For many years she was a supervisor of high standing of teachers. While teaching, or supervising, at Trenton, she made an exhibit of educational work at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, for which she was awarded the first prize. Miss Fogle was noted for unusual strength and clearness of intellect, great self-command and reserve power, keen sympathy, lofty ideals, refined dignity, and the rare ability to inspire in her pupils and associates a desire to attain the same high qualities. At Trenton she fell seriously ill and was removed to a hospital in Philadelphia, where the best skilled specialists and nurses did all that could be done for her. She died January 21, 1895, in the forty-second year of her age, and her remains were brought to. Mt. Gilead and rest in River Cliff cemetery, beside those of her father and mother. This tribute is dedicated to her memory by a pupil who remembers her with deep affection and gratitude. GEORGE W. MYERS.—One of the representative and popular residents of Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio, is George W. Myers, who owns and operates one of the best meat markets in this city. His life history displays many elements worthy of emulation, and HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 513 in the city where he has maintained his home since 1870 he has many friends, a fact which indicates that his career has ever been honorable and straightforward. Mr. Meyers was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of April, 1843, and he is a son of George and Mary A. (Huffman) Myers, both of whom were likewise born in Lancaster county, their ancestry being of German extraction. George W. was a youth of twelve years of age at the time of his parents' removal from Pennsylvania to Ohio, where settlement was made at Springfield, where the father engaged in the hotel business. He received his educational training in the common schools of his native county and in those of Springfield. In 1867 he took up his abode in Morrow county and three years later he established his home in Cardington, where he became interested in the butcher business, in which he has been engaged for fully two score years.. He owns the building in which he maintains his business headquarters and also has a fine residence located on South Marion street. Beginning life with no assets except persistency and a determination to forge ahead, Mr. Myers has wrested prosperity and success from poverty and for that reason his prominent position in the business world to-day is the more gratifying to contemplate. In his political convictions he is aligned as a stanch advocate of the cause of the Democratic party and though he has never been desirous of political preferment of any description he has ever contributed in generous measure to all matters tending to enhance the general welfare of the community. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Knights of Maccabees, in which he carries an insurance. He and his wife are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church and they have been most zealous factors in religious activities. In the year 1889 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Myers to Miss Lucy Kerwicher, who was born and reared in Ottawa, Ohio, and who is a daughter of John Kerwicher, a representative citizen of Morrow county. Mr. and Mrs. Myers have two children, Fannie, who was born in Morrow county, and who was graduated in the local high school as a member of the class of 1908 ; and Frank L., who is attending school. THOMAS E. LONG.—That success is most worthy and most to be valued is won through personal endeavor, and the man who contends valiantly with opposing forces, overcomes obstacles and presses steadily and courageously forward toward the goal of independence and definite prosperity gains an incidental discipline that makes him stronger and better and that gives him a broader comprehension of the realities and responsibilities of life. Among the sterling citizens of Morrow county who have been dependent upon their own resources in fighting the 'stern battle of, life is Thomas E. Long, who is now numbered among the representative 514 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY farmers and stock growers of Cardingtown township, where his finely improved farm of eighty acres stands in tangible evidence of his former years of earnest toil and endeavor. He learned the lessons of practical industry while he was yet a mere boy, and the spur of necessity quickened the laudable ambition that prompted him to labor with all of earnestness and assiduity until he could realize its fulness, in becoming an independent farmer, a successful exponent of the great basic industry of agriculture. With the aid of his cherished and devoted wife he has accomplished this worthy end, and he has so ordered his course as to gain and retain the inviolable confidence and esteem of his fellow men. There have been no dramatic incidents in his career, but it has been marked by consecutive and productive industry and by personal integrity, so that he has contributed his quota to the well being of the world and has not been a parasitic influence, as are many whose early advantages and fortuitous circumstances should have enabled them to become worthy integers in connection with the activities of life. Mr. Long's standing in the county that has been his home from his boyhood days is such as to well entitle him to recognition in this publication. Thomas E Long claims the old Keystone state of the Union as the place of his nativity. He was born near the village of Mapleton, Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, on the 11th of March, 1862, and is a son of James and Catherine Long, both of whom were likewise natives of Pennsylvania, where they were reared to maturity and where they received the advantages of the common schools of the day. James Long devoted his entire active career to agricultural pursuits and continued his residence in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, until his death, in 1865, at which time he was comparatively a young man. He was a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities and was a man of sterling character. He whose name initiates this article was a child of two and one-half years at the time of his father's death, and his widowed mother soon afterward removed to Morrow county, Ohio, where certain relatives had previously established their home. She was in straitened financial circumstances, and under these conditions consulted expediency and made the best possible provision for her little son by placing him in the care of a farmer of Canaan township, in whose home he was reared to the age of twelve years. His mother continued to maintain her home in this county until her death, and was summoned to the life eternal when about seventy-three years of age. Thomas E. Long's early educational advantages were limited to a somewhat irregular attendance in the district schools, and his fellowship with honest toil began when he was a mere boy. He was reared to the work of the farm, and he has had the good judgment never to withdraw his allegiance to the great industry of agriculture, through the benignant medium of which he has gained to himself a position of independence and HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 515 marked prosperity. At the age of twelve years he found a home and employment on the farm of Jasper Bradford, of Canaan township, and he continued to be thus engaged until the time of his marriage, at the age of twenty-four years. When twenty-one years of age he was granted wages of sixteen dollars a month, and for a short time after his marriage he worked by the day, for the stipend of one dollar a day. In the spring of 1887, a few months after he had assumed connubial responsibilities and gained the encouragement of a devoted wife and helpmeet, Mr. Long rented a farm of one hundred acres, in Canaan township, and thus initiated his independent career, though his tangible assets aside from his stanch personal qualifications were exceedingly limited. He was at the time the owner of a little driving mare, and this animal he traded for a heavy work horse, for which he paid an extra sum of seventy dollars, giving his note for the same and assuming the further obligation of interest at the rate of eight per cent. In further necessary preparation for his new enterprise he negotiated a loan of one hundred and thirty dollars, and on this amount likewise he paid interest of eight per cent. He purchased another work horse and set himself vigorously to the work of conducting active operations on the farm which he had rented of Frederick C. Gillson. A cow which he owned, and which was valued at eighteen dollars, he traded for a second hand wagon, and his landlord kindly supplied him with a plow that had likewise seen former service. In addition to these primitive equipments he purchased a harrow for two and one-half dollars and expended fifteen dollars for a corn plow. It will thus be seen that conditions were none too propitious for the young husbandman, but he had strength and health and determination, and thus faced the situation fearlessly with ambition to make the best of the means at hand. Encumbered with debt and working the farm "on shares," meaning that his landlord was to receive one half of the products of the farm each year, he turned his energies into play and soon began the forward march to safe vantage ground of success. The most scrupulous economy on the part of himself and his wife was coupled with their indefatigable industry, and they endured much to gain little in the earlier stages of their married life. But there was an advance, and they never faltered in their efforts or courage. For twenty long years Mr. Long continued to be engaged in farming on rented land, and at the expiration of this period, in March, 1904, he and his wife decided that they were justified in purchasing a home of their own, as they were now free from indebtedness and had a reserve fund of somewhat more than two thousand dollars. After due investigation and consideration, they purchased their present farm of eighty acres, in Cardington township, and the same was secured for the sum of fifty-two hundred dollars, of which amount they paid two thousand dollars in cash and assumed a mortgage for the balance 516 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY The land is of marked fertility and has been brought up to a fine state of productiveness under the able management of Mr. Long, who has made many improvements on the place, including the installation of tile drainage, and the expenditure of fully fourteen hundred dollars in the remodeling of the house and other buildings, all of which are now in fine order and indicate thrift and prosperity. Within the six years that have intervened since he purchased this fine property Mr. Long has freed the same from the burden of the mortgage, and his wife has proved his efficient and valued adviser and coadjutor. Prosperity of established order is now theirs, and none can doubt that it has been most worthily won. It can be a matter of no slight gratification to them that they have thus gained independence and the prospect of the coming years stretches pleasing to their view, as they may well feel that at last their ``lines are cast in pleasant places." Working and planning with all earnestness, Mr. Long has had neither inclination or time to devote to the turbulence of practical politics, but he is a stanch supporter of the cause of the Republican party and ever ready to lend his aid and influence in support of measures and enterprises projected for the general good of the community. He and his wife are appreciative of the value of educational advantages, have given their children excellent opportunities, and are earnest supporters of the public schools. Their labors and accomplishment afford both lesson and incentive to other young couples who are compelled to work out their own salvation, and their success is the logical result of energy, industry, frugality and invincible determination. Both Mr. and Mrs. Long are members of the Methodist Protestant church, in which he is identified with the South Canaan Society and she with a similar organization in Hardin county. They have contributed their quota to the support of religious and benevolent work and have an abiding sympathy for all those in affliction and distress, so that they are ever ready to lend a helping hand to the unfortunate. They have secure hold upon the confidence and regard of all who know them and are popular factors in the social activities of their home township. On the 18th of August, 1886, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Long to Miss Martha Thew Key, who was born in Marion county, Ohio, on the 31st of October, 1861, and who is the second in order of birth of the seven sons and two daughters born to Henry and Mary Thew (Wittred) Key. All of the children are living but one who died in infancy and all reside in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Key were born and reared in Lincolnshire, England, and soon after their marriage they immigrated to America. The voyage was a most tempestuous one and the sailing vessel on which the same was made felt to the full the warring forces of the "merciful, merciless, sea," with the result that the jaded and weary passengers frequently felt that the stanch little craft would not HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 517 weather the storms that assailed it. After six weeks on the ocean Mr. and Mrs. Key landed in New York City, whence they came as soon as possible to Marion county, Ohio. Upon their arrival their financial resources were summed up in the pitiful amount of two and one-half dollars. Mr. Key secured work digging ditches in Marion county, and received in compensation for his arduous toil sixty-two and one-half cents a day. At the opening of the year 1911 he is found as the owner of a finely improved farm of ninety-five acres, in Marion county, and he and his devoted wife have reared their large family of children to lives of usefulness and honor, while now they themselves are enjoying the gracious rewards of former years of toil and endeavor, secure in the esteem of all who know them. Mrs. Long was educated in the public schools of her native country, and is a woman of genial personality —a devoted wife and a loving mother, and has the affectionate regard of all who have come within the sphere of her kindly influence. Mr. and Mrs. Long have two children, both of whom have been accorded the advantages of the excellent public schools of their native county. Burton E. is associated with his father in the work and management of the home farm and proves an able and valuable coadjutor; and Zelda B., who likewise remains at the parental home, has much musical talent. She is devoting careful attention to the study of the "divine art," and her ambition is to become a teacher of both vocal and instrumental music WILLIAM MCCRACKEN.—Among the many representative citizens of the present generation who are devoting their entire time and attention to the great basic industry of agriculture in Morrow county, Ohio, is William McCracken, who owns and operates the old Joseph Sellers farm, eligibly located in Harmony township Mr. McCracken is engaged in general farming and the raising of high-grade live stock and through persistency and well applied endeavor he has made of success not an accident but logical result. He is a loyal and public-spirited citizen and contributes in generous measure to all projects advanced for the good of the general welfare. Mr. William McCracken was born in Harmony township, Morrow county, Ohio, the date of his nativity being the 30th of August, 1873, and he is a son of Isaac and Almeda (Sellers) McCracken, the former of whom was summoned to eternal rest, and the latter of whom is now residing in Crawford county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac McCracken became the parents of three children, concerning whom the following data are here recorded ; Alice is the wife of John George, of Morrow county, Ohio ; George married Miss Anna Stoggle, of Knox county; and William, the youngest in order of birth, is the immediate subject of this review. The father of the above children was born and reared in Morrow county and he was a son of Charles McCracken, while the mother 518 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY was born on a farm on which William McCracken now resides, she being a daughter of Joseph Sellers. Reared to maturity on the old homestead farm on which he was born, William McCracken waxed strong physically and mentally as a result of his strenuous out-of-door life. His early educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools and he remained at home, helping his father in the work and management of the home farm until he had reached his legal majority. Shortly after his marriage, in 1893, he rented a farm in this township, operating the same until 1903, in which year he purchased the old Joseph Sellers estate, the same comprising ninety acres of most arable land. During his residence on this place Mr. McCracken has erected a fine, modern barn and he has remodeled the house so that it is now one of the most spacious and attractive residences in the township. While Mr. McCracken has never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office he is deeply and sincerely interested in all matters which make for progress and development and in politics he exercises his franchise in favor of the Democratic party. He and his family are zealous members of the Baptist church, to whose charities and benevolence he has been a liberal contributor. Mr. McCracken married Miss Ollie Warner, who was born and reared in Harmony township, this county, and who is a daughter of Merrill and Mary (Rolling) Warner, both of whom are deceased. Mrs. McCracken was born on the 17th of July, 1872, and she received her education in the district schools of this locality. Mr. and Mrs. McCracken are the parents of four children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded : Fred, June 26, 1893, is engaged in farming, Morrow county ; Aral, August 2, 1895 ; Iris, October 13, 1898 ; and Bertha, September 4, 1903, the latter three of whom remain at the parental home. Mr. and Mrs. McCracken are popular and prominent in connection with the best social activities of their home community and their comfortable and home-like abode is a recognized center of gracious refinement and hospitality. WILLIAM ELSWORTH WILSON.—In South Bloomfield township, Morrow county, Ohio, William Elsworth Wilson is engaged in diversified agriculture. There in the midst of highly cultivated fields stand good buildings and an air of nearness and thrift pervades the place, indicating the careful supervision of a practical and progressive owner. He represents one of the pioneer families of the fine old Buckeye state and is numbered among the native sons of Knox county, his birth having there occurred on the 15th of August, 1863. His parents, William and Sarah A. (Hayes) Wilson, were both natives of Pennsylvania, whence they came to Ohio about 1850, settling in Knox county, slightly east of Sparta. Location was made on a farm of two hundred and twelve acres, HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 519 where Mr. and Mrs. Wilson reared a family of thirteen children, namely : Elizabeth, Annie, Joseph R., Wesley H., William E., John M., Emma A., Oliver D., Clara, Richard B., Arthur M., Bertha M. and Hattie D., all of whom are living in 1911, except Elizabeth, who was summoned to the life eternal in 1904. The father was a general farmer, was a stanch Republican in his political proclivities and during his life time was connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he was a prominent worker. He died about 1896, and his cherished and devoted wife passed away about 1898. William E. Wilson, the immediate subject of this review, grew up on the old home farm, in the work and management of which he early began to assist his father, and he continued to reside at home until his marriage, in 1888. Immediately after that event he established his home on a farm in Knox county, where the family home was maintained for a period of eleven years, at the expiration of which, in 1899, removal was made to the fine farm of two hundred acres in South Bloomfield township, Morrow county, where he has resided during the long intervening years to the present time. In politics he accords a stalwart allegiance to the principles and policies of the Republican party and he has served with efficiency for eight years on the township board of trustees. His religious faith is ill harmony with the tenets of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he a trustee. Mr.. Wilson has been a cooperant factor in many movements which have been of marked benefit to the township and county. Honored and respected by all, the high position which he occupies in public regard has come to him not alone because of his success in business, but also because of the straight forward, honorable policy he has ever followed. Honor and integrity are synonymous with his name and there is no citizen in Morrow county more highly esteemed than is William E. Wilson. On the 14th of March, 1888, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Wilson to Miss Lulu Mitchell, who was born in Morrow county, on the 12th day of May, 1866. She is a daughter of Lewis and Lenora (Osborn) Mitchell, both of whom were natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell became the parents of six children—Charles M., Ellen M., Lulu M., Wiliam D., Edwin W., Elmer C., all of whom are living. Mr. Mitchell was identified with the great basic art of agriculture during the major portion of his active business career. He and his wife were members of the Disciple church and he was a member of the board of school directors. In politics he was aligned as a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party and he was incumbent of various public offices of important trust and responsibility. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have three children—Hazel G., born on the 9th of March, 1891, as educated in the Sparta high school and she is now residing at home ; Ernest H., born February 8, 1897, is a student in the Sparta high school ; 520 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY and Homer E., whose birth occurred on the 20th of May, 1903, is attending school in South Bloomfield township. Mr. Wilson, is one of the leading raisers of fine Delaine sheep, registered, and he is a regular attendant at the state fair of Ohio and other fairs of prominence. He is a successful and up-to-date farmer, and the pretty homestead of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson is known as the "Idlewild Stock Farm." AMOS RINEHART has a finely improved and strictly up-to-date farm of eighty acres of most arable land in Troy township, Morrow county, where he is engaged in diversified agriculture and the raising of breeded horses. Mr. Rinehart is also the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of splendid farming land in Texas and he is a citizen who has ever manifested a deep and sincere interest in all matters touching the welfare of the community in which he has long resided. In Perry township, Morrow county, Ohio, on the 14th of May, 1866, occurred the birth of Amos Rinehart, who is a son of Michael B. and Margaret (Baker) Rinehart, both of whom are now deceased. The father was born on the 11th of April, 1825 and he was summoned to the life eternal on the 6th of May, 1880. On the 13th of June, 1852, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Michael Rinehart to Miss Margaret E. Baker, whose natal day was the 31st of July, 1834, and who passed into the great beyond on the 30th of March, 1910. The family name in Germany was spelled Reinhardt, but in Morrow county it is spelled Rinehart. The original progenitor of the Rinehart family in America was Jacob Rinehart, Sr., great-grandfather of him to whom this sketch is dedicated. Jacob Rinehart claimed the great Empire of Germany as the place of his nativity and he immigrated to the United States in an early day where he turned his time and attention to farming. He became the father of seven children, whose names are here entered in respective order of birth: George, Conrad, Jacob, Michael, Peter, Betsey and Polly. Conrad Rinehart married and had the following children : Polly, Jacob, Sally, Betsey, John, Yettie, Daniel, Lydia, Susan, Michael and Conrad. Michael Rinehart, father of the immediate subject of this sketch, married Margaret Baker, as previously noted, and they became the parents of sixteen children, concerning whom the following brief data are here recorded: Josiah, born on January 23, 1853, died on the 11th of May, 1854; Almeda, born August 27, 1854, is now the wife of George W. Fringer, of Kansas; Louisa, born on the 11th of December, 1885, married Upton Lucas, of Perry county; Lydia, born on the 24th of February, 1857, wedded R. M. Stull and they maintain their home at Troy ; Mary S., born on the 19th of May, 1858, is the wife of Emanuel Grogg and they reside at North Woodbury; Levi B., born on the 22nd of October, 1859, married Miss Mattie Feigley and they live in Morrow county; Barbara E., HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 521 born on the 2nd of February, 1861, is the wife of J. W. Dukman, of Galion, Ohio ; George C., born on the 6th of March, 1862, married Lydia Lewis and they maintain their home in Perry township ; Sarah A., born on the 13th of July, 1863, became the wife of Daniel W. Feigley, of Perry township ; Charles B., born on the 16th of March, 1865, married Emma Lucas and they live at Troy ; Amos is the immediate subject of this review ; Silas C., born on the 25th of September, 1867, married Della Quay and they are now living at Troy ; Adam B., born January 24, 1870, married Maude Shamble and they reside in Troy township ; Jacob H., born on the 24th of March, 1872, is single and lives in California; Arthur S., born on the 18th of May, 1873, wedded Miss Nevada Carpenter and they maintain their home in Perry township ; and John A., born on the 12th of December, 1874, married Miss Belle Carpenter and they live in Perry township Amos Rinehart was reared to the sturdy influence of the home farm in Perry township, this county, and he early became associated with his father in the work and management of the parental farm. His educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools, which he attended during the winter terms. When he had attained to the age of seventeen years he began to work as a farm hand for different farmers in Perry township and after his marriage, in 1891, he settled on his present splendid estate of eighty acres in Troy township, on which he has continued to maintain his home during the long intervening years to 1911. In addition to his landed interests in Morrow county he is the owner of a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of finely improved land in Texas, and he also has had land holdings in the state of Washington. While much of his attention is devoted to general farming he is also deeply interested in the breeding of high-grade horses and in the same has made a great success. On the 15th of January, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rinehart to Miss Wilda M. Ross, who was born on the farm on which she and her husband now reside, the date of her nativity being the 4th of July, 1867. She is a daughter of Robert and Lydia (Snyder) Ross, the former of whom was born in Troy township and who was called to eternal rest in the year 1895. Mrs. Rinehart was educated in the common schools of this locality and she is a woman of rare charm and most gracious personality. She is deeply beloved by all her friends and acquaintances and her home is a center of most refined hospitality. Mr. and Mrs. Rinehart have two children, Vonnie B., born on the 15th of March, 1892, was graduated in the Lexington high school as a member of the class of 1911; and Robert R., born on the 12th of March, 1900, is now attending the district schools. In his political convictions Mr. Rinehart is a loyal Democrat in all matters of national import but in local affairs he maintains 522 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY an independent attitude, preferring to give his support to men and measures meeting with the approval of his judgment rather than to follow along strictly partisan lines. While he has never been fired with ambition for the honors or emoluments of political office of any description he is most active and sincere in his support of all projects advanced for the good of the community and county at large. In their religious faith Ml-. and Mrs. Rinehart are devout members of the St. Paul Evangelical church and they are interested factors in the various departments of church work. Mr. Rinehart is a man of fine, straightforward conduct, one who is fair and honorable in all his business dealings, and as a citizen he commands the unalloyed confidence and esteem of all with whom he has come in contact. DANIEL BEERS ELDRIDGE, a prosperous farmer residing a short distance north of Pulaskiville in Franklin township, Morrow county, Ohio, was born in this county and, having passed his early life here, returned in later years to renew his identity with the locality He dates his birth in Franklin township December 8, 1828, a son of pioneers of this vicinity. His father, Harvey Perry Eldridge, was a native of New York state, who came in early life to the Western Reserve and made settlement on a section of wild land in Franklin township, Morrow county, which he entered from the government. Here he subsequently married Miss Margaret Beers, whose parents were settlers in the pioneer community. Harvey P. and Margaret Eldridge were the parents of eight children, one of whom, Judson, died in army service at Corinth, Mississippi. The father died at the age of fifty-two years; the mother at sixty-four. Daniel B. Eldridge grew up on his father's farm, working in the fields in summer and during the winter attending school at Pulaskiville. In 1861 he married Miss Mahalia Lovett, of this township, and two children were born to them while they resided in Morrow county, a son and a daughter. The former, Elmer Elsworth Eldridge, a young man of great promise, died in 1898, at the age of thirty-four years, at Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he had gone for the benefit of his health. The daughter, Eva, was born in 1876, and is now the wife of Frederick Owens, a druggist and one of the prominent citizens of Almont, De Kalb county, Missouri. In early life Mr. Eldridge disposed of his holdings in Ohio and moved to De Kalb county, Missouri, where he bought a farm of one hundred and ninety-five acres, near Maysville, the county seat, where he resided for a number of years, and for a time was fairly prosperous. In February, 1889, his wife died and was buried in that county, beside her mother, Sarah Ann Lovett, who had accompanied them to Missouri and whose death occurred some years previous to that of Mrs. Eldridge's. In 1891, two years HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 523 after the death of his wife, Mr. Eldridge came back to the state of his nativity and again took up his abode in Morrow county. Here six years later on the 4th of August, 1891, he married Miss Polly Hart. They purchased a farm of sixty acres, where they now reside in a pleasant country home and where they are sur rounded with all `the comforts of life. Mr. Eldridge prides himself on the fine fruit he raises here, and his Delaine sheep are noted throughout the county. Mrs. Eldridge, also a native of Morrow county, is a daughter of Levi and Leah Hart, pioneer settlers of the county. ORLANDO D. PHILLIPS —The ranks of old patriot soldiers, who were so loyal in the defense of their country in her urgent need, are gradually becoming thinned, and thus it is a matter of special gratification to the publishers of this volume to here accord recognition to one who fought and bled at the shrine of Union. Orlando D. Phillips has passed practically his entire active business career in Harmony township, Morrow county, Ohio, where he is the owner of a splendid farm of three, hundred and twenty acres of well cultivated land. He is engaged in diversified agriculture and the growing of live stock and in these lines of enterprise he has met with unqualified success. Orlando D. Phillips was born at Granville, Licking county, Ohio, the date of his nativity being the 21st of November, 1845. He is a son of Benjamin and Margaret (Johnson) Phillips, both of whom were born and reared in Licking county, Ohio, where was solemnized their marriage. Benjamin Phillips came to Morrow county from Newark, Ohio, in 1854, and he located on a farm in Harmony township, on which he continued to reside during the remainder of his life. With the passage of years he accumulated a large estate, owning at one time as much as four hundred and fifty acres of fine Buckeye lands. He was a well educated man and was widely renowned as an orator of marked eloquence. He was a stanch Republican in his political proclivities and for a number of years served with the utmost efficiency as a member of the board of county commissioners of Morrow county. He was the father of five children, all of whom are now deceased except Orlando D., the immediate subject of this review. Benjamin Phillips was summoned to the life eternal in the year 1891, and his cherished and devoted wife passed away in 1911. Both were highly esteemed in their home township, where they were active factors in progress and development. On the old homestead farm in Harmony township Orlando D. Phillips was reared to adult age, and as a boy and youth he attended the public schools of this section. When but seventeen years of age he became fired with boyish enthusiasm and &listed as a soldier in Company C, Eighty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. the date of the beginning of his military career being the 29th of 524 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY January, 1862. He was in the Eastern army during the first year and a half of his service and during that time participated in the second battle of Bull Run, the battle of Chancellorsville and the conflict at Gettysburg. Subsequently he was with Joe Hooker and took part in the battle of Lookout Mountain. He was twice wounded, at the battle of Resaca in the left thigh, and at Atlanta in the lungs. He was with Sherman on his memorable march to the sea and throughout his military career he saw hard service. Before the close of the war he was promoted to the rank of corporal and he received his honorable discharge and was mustered out of the service on the 3d of August, 1865. One of his brothers, Oliver P. Phillips, gave up his life in the service of his country. Mr. Phillips, of this notice, retains a deep interest in his old comrades in arms and signifies the same by membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he is a valued and appreciative member of Marengo Post. As a reward for his services during the Civil was he receives a pension of twenty-four dollars per month. When peace had again been established Mr. Phillips returned to Morrow county, Ohio, where he worked on his father's farm until his marriage, in 1867. After that important event he began to farm on his own account and he now owns a splendid estate of three hundred and twenty acres, all of which is in a high state of cultivation. The fine substantial buildings, located in the midst of well cared for fields are ample proof of the owner's thrift and industry. In addition to his farming operations he raises high-grade stock and everywhere he is recognized as a farmer and business man of reliable methods and sterling integrity. He and his wife are devout members of the Disciple church at Wildcat and he is affiliated with a number of fraternal and social organizations of representative character. His political convictions are in harmony with the principle promulgated by the Republican party and he is ever on the alert to do all in his power to advance the general welfare of his home community and county. Mr. Phillips has been twice married, his first union being to Miss Mariah Long, the ceremony having been performed on the 19th of January, 1867. To this marriage were born four children, three of whom are living in 1911, namely : Emma, who is the wife of Arthur Hayden ; Eddie B., who is unmarried and who remains at the parental home ; and Starley H., who is engaged in agriculture and who resides in Harmony township. Mrs. Phillips was called to eternal rest on the 24th day of March, 1892, and subsequently Mr. Phillips married Miss Addie B. Turner. The latter union has been profilic of one child; Freddie D., who was born on the 19th of April, 1899, and who is now attending the district schools in this township. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips are popular and prominent citizens in Harmony township and they command the high regard of all with whom they have come in contact. 524 - BLANK 525 - BLANK 526 - ANNETTE BARTLETT SCOTT HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 525 ANNETTE M. BARTLETT SCOTT is the daughter of. Abner and Eliza Annette Adams Bartlett, and was born at the old homestead northeast of Mt. Gilead June 20, 1863. She first attended the country district schools and then the, Mt. Gilead High School from 1878, and in which she was graduated in June, 1882 ; was then one year at the Normal College, Lebanon, Ohio, from which she was graduated in 1883, and the following year was librarian at the Normal College at Lebanon, Ohio. The following year she taught school in Warren county, Ohio, and in the latter part of 1885 she entered the State Normal School at Oswego, New York, and in February, 1887, she was graduated from the same with the highest honors of her class and was made valedictorian. At her graduation she was asked to become the principal of the Normal Mission School for girls of the Presbyterian church in the city of Mexico, Mexico, then vacant. After careful consideration of this call, and with the advice of friends at home, she decided to undertake this work of great responsibility. Some of the pleasant features of the work in this school were the amiability and loving and lovable dispositions of the girls; their instant and unquestioning 'obedience to every requirement of their teachers; their uniform politeness; their brightness of intellect and their success in their studies. She arrived at the city. of Mexico in April, 1887, and took charge of the school, and within one year taught the classes in Spanish, though without knowledge of that language on her arrival. In the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth years of her work classes were graduated, and the standing in scholarship of the young ladies was equal to that of young ladies graduated from normal schools in the United States. This article would be incomplete if no mention were made of Miss Bartlett's rare excellence of character. We strew costly flowers when it is too late, and often withhold words of encouragement and praise that would have strengthened and cheered some fainting heart. Miss Bartlett was eminently fitted for the work she undertook, bringing to it a well trained mind, richly endowed by nature, to which had been added the graces of culture. That she was signally successful was no surprise to those who knew her. Modest and unassuming in a marked degree; shrinking from appearing in public, even when urged to do so, but when speaking of "her girls" impressing her hearers with her deep interest in their welfare and her sincee desire to benefit and uplift them. Gentle and refined in her nature, yet strong and self-reliant when occasion required. Well does the writer recall her feelings when Miss Bartlett left her northern home and friends to undertake grave responsibilities and duties in a distant land and among a strange people—the thought that a young life of much promise would be almost wasted came to her, but she has lived to feel rebuked that she ever enter- 526 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY tained the thought that such strength and purity of character, such steadfastness of purpose and such earnest Christian endeavor could be wasted in any land or among any people. It is a gratification to Miss Bartlett's friends to know that her work was and is appreciated. To many poor Mexican girls her example is a guiding star, leading them to truer and nobler womanhood. Long will she be remembered with gratitude and affection in many an humble home in that distant land. During the more than nine years of her teaching in the Mission School, besides acquiring a complete knowledge of the Spanish language, she also acquired the French language. The year's leave of absence in 1894 she spent at Wellesley College and the Summer School at Harvard University, continuing her study of modern languages and philosophy. The climate of the city and valley of Mexico, in which the city is located, and the altitude of the same, which is 7,435 feet above the level of the ocean, are both trying to the health of natives of the north, and she had repeatedly suffered in her health. In June, 1896, on account of her health and for other good reasons she resigned her position as principal of said school. For nearly five years prior to May 2, 1901, she was professor of music and mathematics in the State Normal School at North Adams, Massachusetts. She went to Europe in the summer of 1889 for a few months of travel and study. On May 27, 1901, she was married to Joseph Scott, of Miles City, Montana, at Trinity church, Chicago, by Dr. William C. Richardson (now of Philadelphia), in the presence of a few friends. For six months they made their home at Berkley, California, but business reasons required a change, and they made their home in Spokane, Washington. He was one of nature's noblemen ; of English and Scotch-Irish descent, and their married life of nearly five years was one of unalloyed happiness. He was taken sick in the fall of the year 1905, from over-exertion and exposure, and after partial recovery his physicians advised a trip to the Mediterranean as a means to complete recovery, and on December 18, 1905, with wife, nurse and physician, the trip from Spokane to New York was undertaken, and after a fortnight of rest from the journey„ on January 9, 1906, the voyage to Naples, Italy, with wife and nurse, was undertaken, and thence to Cairo, Egypt, returning to Naples after a month at Cairo. Though at first he improved with the voyage, all that could be done was of no avail, and he died March 24, 1906, at Naples, Italy. His widow brought his remains to Spokane, and they are interred in Fairmount cemetery. She has yet her home in Spokane, Washington, going across, every few years, to the north of Ireland for a few months with her husband's people at the old Scott homestead. Down to May, 1901, her home was Mt. Gilead. 527 - BLANK 528 - JOHN SELLERS - JANE SELLERS HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 529 JOHN SELLARS —Memory and its one enduring medium of expression, the written word, constitute the only link between past and present, the only tangible earnest of the future. Thus the reminiscences of the pioneer should ever be treasured and perpetuated, that the lessons of the days that have fled may not be lost or left unappreciated. One of the honored and venerable pioneer citizens of Morrow county whose mind holds the gracious heritage of the past and the knowledge of the present, with its opulent prosperity and advancement, is John Sellars, who is one of the best known citizens of Cardington township, where he is passing the glowing evening of his day in that peace and plenty that constitute the fitting reward for past years of earnest toil and endeavor. He is one of those sterling and sturdy citizens who have aided in the developing of this section from the status of little more than a sylvan wild to its present condition, "where every prospect pleases," and where the present generation is enjoying to the fullest extent the bounteous aftermath of the seed sown in arduous toil, in privations and in the- isolation of the pioneer days. In view of the present conditions it seems hardly possible that within the borders of Morrow county are yet to be found those who recall the primitive period through personal memory and association, and when such are found their reminiscences should be given an enduring place through such publications as the one here presented. Thus is offered a brief outline of the career of Mr. Sellars, with such incidental record as he has seen fit to offer concerning the "dear, dead days beyond recall." He and his noble wife remember well the time when the pioneer agriculturists of this section of the state still had recourse to the plow with the wooden mould-board, the sickle, the scythe, the flail, the cradle for garnering the wheat, the while the domestic economies were fostered by the spinning wheels for both wool and flax ; the primitive hand looms, by which were manufactured the fabrics for clothing and for general household use ; the old-time fireplaces, which furnished both warmth and the means, of preparing food ; and other accessories whose crudtiy would utterly baffle successful efforts on the part of the housewife of the present day. It is much to have witnessed the transformation that has been wrought along all lines, the progress that has culminated in the splendid twentieth century- , with greater auguries for the future, and It is a matter of gratification even to revert thus briefly to the labors and methods of those who laid broad and deep the foundations upon which has been reared so grand a superstructure of civilization. John Sellars finds a due meed of satisfaction in that he can claim the old Buckeye state as the place of his nativity and in that he is a scion of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was born in Perry county, Ohio, on the 1st of November, 1827, and thus has passed the eightieth mile-stone on the journey of life. He is the Vol. II-4 530 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY eldest in the family of three sons and one daughter born to Jacob and Effie (Fluckey) Sellars, and of the number two others besides himself are still living. Margaret is the widow of Lewis Queen, of Cardington township, Morrow county, where she still remains on her fine homestead farm. She likewise is an octogenarian and is one of the revered pioneer women of the county. She has two sons and one daughter, and they accord to her the utmost filial solicitude. George, the only surviving brother of him whose name initiates this review, is likewise one of the representative agriculturists and iufluential citizens of Cardington township. Of his children two sons and one daughter are living. Jacob Sellars, who was one of the early settlers of Perry county. Ohio, was a scion of the stanch Pennsylvania German stock and was a man of strong character and unfaltering industry. He took an intelligent interest in public affairs and was aligned as a stalwart supporter in the cause of the Democratic party, as exemplifying the principles of Jefferson and Jackson. He settled in what is now Cardington township, Morrow county, before this county had been erected, and here he purchased three hundred and sixty acres of heavily timbered land, upon which he built his primitive log house—a mere cabin, without even the provision of windows. His son John, to whom this sketch is dedicated, can well remember this rude domicile and he recalls that on various occasions it was necessary to build at night a fire in the middle of the room to keep the wolves from entering the door, whose only protection was a blanket. The land thus secured by Jacob Sellars was purchased from a man named Buzley, and the latter had secured the tract from the government. The Sellars family still retain the original government deed, which is a document of much historic interest as well as a valued family heirloom. Jacob Sellam instituted the reclamation of a farm in the midst of the virgin forest and in this work he was ably assisted by his sturdy sons. He continued to reside in Cardington township until his death, which occurred in the year 1849, and his name merits a place on the roster of the worthy pioneers of this country. His wife was also of German ancestry, and, indeed, her parents were natives of Germany.. Her father, George Fluckey, was a valiant soldier in the Continental line in the war of the Revolution, and in later years often related incidents concerning the days passed at Valley Forge and Trenton and concerning General Washington, under whom he served. The service of this loyal soldier renders Mr. Sellars and his sons eligible for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution and his daughters to membership in the allied organization, the Daughters of the American Revolution. The devoted wife and mother, Mrs. Effie (Fluckey) Sellars, was summoned to eternal rest when about eighty-three years of age, having long survived her husband. She was an earnest and consistent member of the Protestant Methodist church. They lived lives of HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 531 signal usefulness and honor and ever commanded the unequivocal confidence and esteem of all who knew them. John Sellars was a lad of but seven years at the time of the family removal to what is now Morrow county, and here he has maintained his home during the long intervening years, marked by large and worthy accomplishment on his part as one of the world's noble army of workers. Under the sturdy disciplines of the pioneer farm the youth waxed strong in mind and body, and it is worthy of special note that in making the trip from Perry county to the new home in Morrow county the seven-year-old boy walked the greater portion of the distance, driving the cattle and sheep. His early educational advantages were secured in the primitive log school house common to the pioneer days. The building was about eighteen feet square and constructed of round logs. The floor was of puncheon, and slabs served for seats and desks, while the requisite heat for the winter terms was provided by a cavernous fireplace, which belched its smoke through a chimney of sticks and mud. The slab benches had no backs and the smaller boys would be compelled to sit on these rude seats throughout each day's session with their little legs waving in air. The general desk used by the pupils was a wide board running along the sides of the room and resting on pegs driven into the log walls for support. The fire-place, with its giant logs, gave to .the pupils an extraordinary warmth of face and equal chilliness of back. The schools were conducted on the subscription plan and the teacher "boarded around" among the various families whose children gained their instruction in these rude "temples of learning." from which has been "graduated" many a man who has attained distinction in our nation. At the school the teacher would most frequently secure his or her luncheon from the well filled baskets of the pupils, and the fare provided would prove tempting to many a man of even epicurean tastes, as it frequently included corn pone, quail, rabbit hams, venison, etc. Money was a scarce article in the pioneer communities and the emolument of the teachers was correspondingly small. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Sellars applied for the position of teacher in the school in her neighborhood, and while she was well qualified her services were refused because she demanded one dollar a week in "salary," while another young woman accepted the responsibility at a stipend of seventy-five cents a week. Though his early educational advantages were thus limited, Mr. Sellars had an alert and receptive mind and thus profited generously from the lessons gained under the direction of that wisest of all headquarters, experience. He is a man of broad mental ken and through self-discipline and association with men and affairs has gained a large fund of information, so that he has ever been well fortified in his convictions and opinions. He assisted materially in the reclamation and development of the home farm and 532 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY when twenty-one years of age he initiated his independent career by renting one hundred and sixty acres of the same.. Under these conditions he continued his labors for two years, and he had his full quota of perplexities and troubles in guiding the ox team and plow among the stumps of the partially reclaimed fields. In fact, he lived up to the full tension of the pioneer days, and his memory is a store house of interesting reminiscence. He relates that when he was a lad the pioneer farmers of this county would turn their hogs out in the woods to feed on the "mast," a term applied to the indigenous nuts, acorns, etc., to which the ambitious animals would give willing attention. Each owner had a defining mark for his swine and when the animals were properly fattened they were identified by these marks, which were duly recorded at the county seat. The insignia thus used by the father of Mr. Sellars for the identification of his wandering domestic beasts was a V-shaped "crop" in the right ear of each hog. The 'wolves were numerous and it was with great difficulty that the sheep were saved from depredations. On one occasion two wolves killed seventeen sheep owned by the subject of this review, and the bloodthirsty animals were tracked and finally killed. The social diversions of the early days were simple, but genial and kindly, and every pioneer door had its latch-string out, assuring welcome to friends and neighbors as well as to the way-faring man. Spelling matches, corn huskings, and other diversions afforded entertainment to the young and old, and envy, gossip and malice were virtually unknown among those who thus lived and labored under primitive but gracious environments and conditions. It was the privilege of Mr. Sellars to swing the old-fashioned grain-cradle from dewy morn until evening's shadows came, and in this and other arduous toil he justified the scriptural prophesy that "by the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." He was a strong, sturdy and industrious boy and was ever ready to bear to the full the heat and burden of the day, while he gained the reputation of being able with the help of his aged father, to equal in the harvest field in a day the work of two average men. In threshing out the grain he has vigorously swung the primitive flail, and he had recourse also to the use of horses in trampling out or threshing the wheat on the barn floor. All day application in this order of toil caused much "mortification of the flesh," but a night's rest would bring measurable relief to jaded muscles, for there was no shirking or apathy on the part of those who thus "worked out their own salvation." When but twelve years of age Mr. Sellars hauled grain with team and wagon to Sandusky, a distance of one hundred miles, and on the return trip he brought such merchandise as was demanded by the family and neighbors. He made a number of such trips, and when but fourteen years of age he proved himself able to do a man's full work in connection with the arduous operations of HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 533 the pioneer farm. He recalls that the hay was raked up by hand in windrows, and that the pitchfork which he used was a forked stick, carefully selected and cut in the woods—a heavy and awkward implement for a mere boy to handle. Owing to the scarcity of money the neighboring farmers "exchanged work" during the busy seasons and thus no wages were demanded.. Wild game furnished bountifully the larders of the early settlers, and on his own farm Mr. .Sellars has seen at the deer licks across the fields a number of herds of deer.. He has also participated in many of the old-time fox hunts, which were a source of much diversion to the pioneers.. Mr. Sellars was, like Nimrod, a "mighty hunter," and he has tramped many a mile through the dim forest aisles in search of game. He began his formidable executions in this line by means of a primitive flint-lock gun, which he secured by trading a pig for the weapon. With this somewhat recalcitrant gun he would saunter forth in search of conquest, and his boyish ardor was not quenched by such parental admonitions as the following: "John, you will get the buck-ague and you cannot hit a door." The lad was persistent and finally he placed himself in ambush and so effectively used his ancient weapon as to bring home a fine turkey, which evidence of prowess did much to silence the "carping criticism" which he had previously endured in the same kindly spirit in which it was given. There were no matches in those days, and frequently when the fire had died on the hearth Mr. Sellars would replenish the same by shooting into a dry log and thus kindling a flame. Otherwise recourse was taken to flint and steel for this purpose. Coon hunting by the light of the moon was another disgression dear to the heart of young Sellars, and even after his marriage and his attaining to the dignity of a man of family the lure of this sport proved irresistible. His wife would often accompany him on such expeditions and would hold the torch which furnished him the necessary light for him to cut the tree in which his prey had found lodgment. Many a contest was held by the young men of the section in hunting for the birds and animals that devastated the crops, and in this they were encouraged by the farmers. On more than one occasion in such competition the laurels of victory fell to Mr. Sellars, the contest being decided by the number of heads or scalps brought in by the various competitors. The Indians still roamed about their ancient haunts and for some time a band of Wyandots had a camp near the home of Mr. Sellars. They would come each autumn and winter to hunt in this vicinity and often members of the band would call at his door. He has seen the march of progress file triumphantly on—the invention of the telegraph, the incoming railroad and other achievements of his boyhood and youth, and now he is in the era of wonderful electrical facilities, the navigation of the air and other marvels which in his youth would have been looked upon as in the realm of the impossible. All that 534 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY has been compassed in the lifetime of this honored pioneer is difficult to realize in a concrete way, but he has kept in pace with advancement and has been appreciative of the same, even as- he was of the not benignant conditions and influences of the days of primitive things. It is a "far cry" from the lumber wagon as the only vehicle to the rushing, pulsing automobile ; the tardy post, often through stage lines, to the telephone ; the slow-going stage coach to the swift electric interurban service,—yet all these developments have been made within the memory of Mr. Sellars. He and his wife had no buggy or even spring wagon in their early married life, and they many a time made their way in stately dignity to the church three miles distant by means of ox-tram transport. After Mr. Sellars had become a member of the United Brethren church he handled all the logs which were utilized in the erection of the first church building of this denomination in his section of the county, and he and his wife were prominent factors in the work and merriment of the various log-rolling assemblies of the early days, when by this means provision was made for the erection of new cabins for the neighbors. Mr. Sellars was among the first experts in connection with such primitive architectural work, and Mrs. Sellars likewise came actively to the front in assisting in the preparation of the bounteous feast that was spread for the weary but happy workmen who had thus shown both their energy and good will. On the 29th of March, 1849, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Sellars to Miss Isabella J. Curl, and they became the parents of six sons and four daughters. Of the children now living brief record is given in the following paragraph, together with data concerning their children. Selby, was one of the progressive, and successful farmers and stock-growers of his native county, was afforded the advantages of the local schools and became a practical business man and honored citizen. He married Miss Nettie Barry and they had three sons and two daughters, namely : Neva is the wife of Charles Burgraff, a farmer of Cardington township, and the mother of Edith, Estella, and Carl Henry; Arthur, who is engaged in agricultural pursuits in Cardington township, married Miss Roma Gilson ; Hayes, associated in the work on his father's farm, married Miss Florence Grover; Mae is the, wife of Ernest Betts, a farmer of this county; and Clarence remains at the parental home. Selby Sellars was a Prohibitionist in politics and an active temperance worker, as well as a zealous, member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Since the above was compiled of Mr. Sellars he died, and we herewith append the obituary from one of Morrow county papers. "Selby Sellars, son of John and Jane Sellars, was born September 21, 1852, and died January 26, 1911. He was the second oldest of a family of ten children and the sixth to depart. He was united in marriage with Miss Nettie Barry April 3, 1879. To this union HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 535 six children were born, one of whom died in infancy or early childhood. Mr. Sellars was fifty-eight years, four months and five days old when he died. He leaves his aged parents, wife, two brothers, two sisters, three sons, two daughters, two grandchildren and a large company of other relatives and friends to mourn their loss. He was a home lover and here his absence will be most keenly felt. Mr. and Mrs. Sellars united with the Methodist Episcopal church 'at Bethel in 1894. He found real joy in the service of his Master. He was a loyal layman and gave himself with unreserved devotion to the varied duties of Christian manhood. For many years he was a class leader and at the time of his departure was a trustee of church property and assistant superintendent of the Sunday school. As his church was next to his own home in his love and care, so there he will be greatly missed None manifested a keener interest in the welfare of the Kingdom than he." TRIBUTE OF BETHEL SUNDAY SCHOOL. WHEREAS-It has pleased Almighty God to remove from us by death our beloved brother, Selby Sellars, Resolved, that while we deeply mourn the loss of our beloved brother, we bow in humble submission to Him who doeth all things well. Resolved, that in the death of Brother Sellars, our school has lost an efficient officer and a true Christian brother, our loss being his eternal gain. Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and one to the Independent for publication, and that they be placed on the record of our school. IVAH FARLEE C. A. KENNER Committee of Bethel Sunday School Wiley, the second of the living children of Mr. and Mrs. John Sellars, is another of the representative farmers of Cardington township. He married Miss Wealthy Schofield and they have two sons, Bernice, who is a farmer in Morrow county and who married Miss Gladys Clabaugh, and they have one little daughter; and Foid, who wedded Miss Vada Irwin and who likewise is a successful farmer of this county. Amanda, who is the wife of Thomas Underhill, a farmer and carpenter of Union county, Ohio, has one daughter, Ida, a graduate. Thomas Underhill's first wife was Lucinda Sellars, a sister of his present wife, and the two surviving children of this union are Charles and John, both of whom are married. Charles is married to a lady of Union county, and has had a family of eight children, of whom one is dead. John, who graduated in the public schools of Newton, Union county, Ohio, is also married, and has one little daughter. 536 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY Isadora, the next of the children of Mr. Sellars, is the wife of George Van Shiver, a resident of Union county, Ohio. Leamon, who remains with his parents on the old homestead and who has the general supervision of the same, is numbered among the able and popular exponents of the agricultural industry in his native county and is influential in local affairs of a public order. Lovina, the deceased daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sellars, was the wife of Samuel H. Paste. They had one son, M. Guy, who was educated in the common schools and is a farmer. His mother died about 1894. She was a Christian lady, being a member of the church. He Married Miss Anna Key, and they have three children ; Wesley, Inez and Alta, all of whom are students in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Sellars have reared their children to lives of usefulness and honor and all of them accord to the parents the most filial solicitude and affection. Mrs. Sellars was born in Clark county, Ohio, on the 9th of January, 1828, and is a daughter of William and Margaret (Arbogast) Curl. of whose five children all are living except one. The Curl family has been one of prominence in Ohio, to which state the original representatives came from Virginia in the early pioneer days. The educational training of Mrs. Sellars was secured under the same conditions that compassed her husband, and their pioneer experiences have been similar in nearly all respects. It has already been noted that she proved herself eligible for the pedagogic profession when a young woman, but that her terms of one dollar a week in salary were so "excessive" as to give the distinction of one whose demands were less exorbitant. When Mr. and Mrs. Sellars began housekeeping their domestic appurtenances were meager in the extreme, the while their home was a log house of the time common to the locality and period. Side by side they have passed down the pathway of life, enduring their share of vicissitudes and hardships, joys and sorrows, and sustained and comforted by mutual love and sympathy. For more than sixty years has their companionship thus continued, and as the gracious shadows begin to lengthen from the golden west they can but feel that to them has been vouchsafed much of the good and many of the temporal blessings of life. Revered by their children and their children's children and residing in a community endeared to them by the memories and associations of the past, this venerable couple find that their lines are cast in pleasant places and that the gentle aftermath of the goodly harvest bears its own compensation and consolation. A true and devoted housemother has been Mrs. Sellars, and at the wheel and loom she labored, as well as in connection with other household duties, but she found time to inculcate, by precept and example, those high ideals that have found fruitage in the worthy lives of her children, who may, indeed, "rise up and call her blessed." From the estate of his father Mr. Sellars received only thirty- HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 537 two acres of land, but he had previously purchased a tract of forty acres, partially improved, and thus he had ample opportunity to exercise both brain and brawn in the earlier stages of his independent career. Indefatigable industry and good management on the part of Mr. Sellars and his wife enabled them to advance slowly but surely along the course to, the goal of definite success, and eventually they became the owners of a fine landed estate of three hundred and forty acres, all in Cardington township. In 1883 they erected their present beautiful residence, which is one of the best in the township, and the other buildings on the place are of excellent type, giving evidence of thrift and prosperity. In addition to diversified agriculture Mr. Sellars has given attention to the raising of high grade live stock and has made a specialty of the breeding of fine horses. He attained high reputation in this line of enterprise and as a dealer and breeder of horses he was long one of the leaders in this section of the state. Many of his horses have gained wide reputation on the turf, and among the number may be mentioned "Mohawk Jackson," "Pemberton," Coxey Boy," "Hesperus, Jr.," Ravenna Bay" and "Roebuck," all blooded animals and well known. His fine mare, "Leopard Rose," created a distinctive sensation with her record of 2 :15 1/4, and in her day she was pronounced one of the finest standard bred horses in the world. Mr. Sellars also had a pacer, "Charley R.," which made a record of 2 :09, and at the present time he has a fine mare, "Della Rocket," that is bound to become a celebrity on the turf. Mr. Sellars has been a lover of horses from his boyhood days and it has been one of his great pleasures to breed fine types of this noble animal. In politics Mr. Sellars gave his support to the Democratic party until the beginning of the Civil war, when he transferred his allegiance to the Republican party, which represented the principles that most appealed to him at that climacteric period. .When, however, he found that this party would not definitely espouse the cause of suppressing the liquor traffic he showed the earnestness of his convictions by allying himself with the Prohibition party, of whose cause he has since continued a zealous advocate. He takes high ground on the subject of temperance, and believes that the curse of alcohol is a graver menance to the nation than was that of human slavery, taken all in all. He and his wife have been zealous members of the United Brethren church for fifty-seven years, and they have exemplified their abiding Christian faith in their daily lives. They have given their fullest power in the work of the divine Master and have done all they could to aid and uplift their fellow men. He has always made it his duty to attend the quarterly meetings of his church and has been earnest in winning souls to salvation, but the infirmities of advanced age now confine him to his home, where he and his devoted wife find ample opportunity for daily worship and to give thanks for the many beneficences conferred upon them. Tolerant in judgment and imbued 538 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY with deep human sympathy, Mr. and Mrs. Sellars have been appreciative of their stewardships and have been kindly and gracious almoners. They have obeyed the divine behest, " To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to do good to all men," and they have shown compassion upon all those "in any way afflicted in mind, body or estate." The poor and needy have never been turned empty away, and this venerable couple have made their home not only their castle but also a place of generous hospitality. Each has attained to the age of eighty-three years (1911) and each is well preserved in mental and physical faculties, considering the weight of years. Gently and tenderly the days fall into the abyss of time and they find in the passing hours solace and hope and faith, secure in the love of all who know them and revered for their worthy lives and worthy deeds. JOHN R. CARPENTER, B. D.—It is most pleasing at this juncture in the history of the lives and careers of prominent men in Morrow county, Ohio, to accord recognition to Rev. John Randolph Carpenter, a native son of the fine old Buckeye state and a citizen whose interest in the material and spiritual welfare of his fellow men has long been prolific of good. Rev. Carpenter was born on a farm in the vicinity of the city of Cleveland, this state, the date of his nativity being December 29, 1859. He is a son of Charles and Harriet (Bennett) Carpenter, the former of whom was born near Dover, Vermont, and the latter of whom hailed from the province of Quebec, Canada, whence she came to Ohio as a young girl. The Carpenter family is one of long standing in America, the original progenitor in this country having come hither from England in the year 1605, he being one William Carpenter, who settled at Mendon, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in the great basic industry of agriculture until his death. He was born in England in the year 1605. Rev. Carpenter, of this review, is a direct descendant from William Carpenter and is a member of the ninth generation of the family in America. He traces his ancestry from William through Abiah, Oliver, Oliver, Oliver, Barow G., Captain John and Charles, the latter of whom was his father. Captain John Carpenter was a gallant and dashing soldier in the Revolutionary war and the three Olivers were sea captains. The other members of the family have been identified largely with agricultural pursuits. The founder of the family in Ohio was Captain John Carpenter, who came to the Western Reserve, in Ohio, about the year 1830. He was a farmer by occupation and he passed the residue of his life in this state. He married Mis Lucina Thompson and they became the parents of nine children. The captain was summoned to the life eternal on the 29th of January, 1861, and his wife passed away on the 1st of July, 1867. The Carpenters were very religious people and for many generations were stanch adherents of the Baptist church. Charles Carpenter, how- HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 539 ever, transferred his allegiance to the faith, of the Universalist church in his boyhood and to the teachings of that order reared his children. Of the nine children of Charles and Harriet Carpenter four grew to maturity, namely : Rev. B. G. Carpenter, who is a Universalist minister at Peoria, Illinois; Jennie M., who is the wife of Richard Hewitt and who resides near Jamestown, Virginia;. John R., the immediate subject of this review ; and Lydia, wife of J. L. Stetson, died July 25, 1900. The father passed away in 1883 and the mother died in 1906. John Randolph Carpenter was reared on the home farm near Cleveland, Ohio, and he received his preliminary educational training in the public schools of the district. At the age of twenty-one years he was graduated from the high school at LaGrange, Indiana, and thereafter he became a popular and successful teacher in the North Olmsted schools, continuing to be so engaged until he had reached the age of twenty-three years. He then felt a call to the Universalist ministry and entered the theological department of Lombard College, at Galesburg, Illinois, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887, duly receiving the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. He was ordained to the ministry of the Universalist church on the 27th of October, 1887, and thereafter accepted a call to a church of that denomination at Delphos, Kansas, where he was pastor for the ensuing eighteen months, at the expiration of which he assumed charge of a church at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he remained for one and one half years. He then returned to Ohio, where he was engaged in the work of his calling at Newtown, Belpre, McConnelsville and Peru, coming to Mt. Gilead in June, 1904. He has charge of the Universalist churches at this place and at Attica, Ohio. On the 23rd of February, 1888, was celebrated the marriage of Rev. Carpenter and Miss Mary Morecraft, of Woodstock, Ohio. To this union have been born two sons, Loring C., whose birth occurred on the 16th of September, 1890, and who is a student at LeHigh University; and Marvine G., born October 10, 1894, who is a student in the local high school. Politically Rev. Carpenter endorses the cause of the Democratic party and he served as mayor of Mt. Gilead from January 1, 1908, until June 1, 1910, giving a most able and satisfactory administration of the municipal, affairs of the city during his incumbency of the mayoralty. In the grand old Masonic order he is a member of Gilead Lodge, No. 206, Free and Accepted Masons; and Gilead Chapter, No. 59, Royal Arch Masons, in which he is past master and past high priest, respectively. He is also affiliated with the Charles H. Hull Lodge, No. 195, Knights of Pythias, in which he is past chancellor commander. He is also a member of the Lemuel H. Breese Camp, No. 65, Sons of Veterans, of which he is past commander. In his lifework Rev. Carpenter has ever been prompted with a desire to benefit mankind and to devote 540 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY progress wherever possible.   He is a distinctly moral man, of tried integrity and uprightness, and is regarded with marked esteem by all who know him. PROFESSOR BYRAN T. JINKINS.—We look with keenest delight on the work of the sculptor, who with skilled hands moulds from the unsightly piece of clay a work of art. Should we not give far greater honor to him who can take the youthful, untrained mind and character, disciplining them to his will and giving them strength, until their youthful possessor, going out into the busy avenues of life, commands the confidence and admiration of his fellows? Such an artist is the subject of the sketch. Professor Byran T. Jinkins, born February 24, 1855, a son of David and Tryphena Young (Beers) Jinkins, of Morrow county. David was the son of Thomas and Ann (Davis) Jinkins, natives of Wales, who emigrated to the Welsh Hills of Licking county at a very early date. David in his day was a very successful minister of the gospel, his kindness and popularity causing him frequently to be called upon to officiate at funerals and weddings in addition to his regular appointments. He officiated at over two hundred funerals and he never refused a request of this nature, showing equal willingness in-all his ministrations at times of sorrow, no matter what the denomination or the circumstances. He also solemnized over eighty marriages. He and his brother made the first wagon used on their father's farm, the wheels being made of logs, and this rude conveyance was driven to the mill by ox team. Byran was named after his grandfather, Byran Beers, who was so pleased that he gave his namesake fifty dollars in gold. Byran was the fourth in a family of six children, equally divided as to sons and daughters and whose names. were Laura, Zilpha, Bronson, Byran, William and Elma. Professor Jinkins was reared and educated at his birthplace and upon coming to man's estate married Maria J. Evans, their union being solemnized June 16, 1886. Mrs. Jinkins was the daughter of Benjaimn and Hannah P. (Howard) Evans, natives of Chester township. These worthy people were members of the Baptist church, in which the father held the office of deacon for a number of years. He was a man of remarkable industry, and in addition to doing the work on his large farm he was identified with many important interests. He built one of the finest residences in the county, modern in appointment and artistically frescoed interiorly. This stately abode, erected upon the highest point on the farm and surrounded by great shade trees, makes a charming and picturesque place of residence. Mr. Evans was one of the martyrs of the Civil war. When President Lincoln called for volunteers, he was advised by friends not to go, as he was needed at home, having in addition to his family the care of his mother. Some one suggested his hiring a substitute, but he replied : "I am HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 541 no better than any other man." Bidding his family farewell he went to the front, enlisting in the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. While stationed at Fort Alexandria, near Washington D. C., Mr. Evans contracted typhoid fever and died in 1865, at the age of thirty-nine years, thus ending a brave and unselfish life, offered upon the altar of his country that the Union might be preserved. His widow married William Howard, of Chester township, and two children were born : Alpa and Minnie, the former marrying Martha Carpenter, of Shelbyville, Kentucky ; and the latter, Leslie Sears, of. Bloomfield, Ohio. The children of Benjamin and Hannah Evans were as follows : Moses P., who became cashier of the bank at Valley Falls, Kansas, and died in 1879; Ella E., who married Bronson Jinkins, a brother of Professor B. T. Jinkins, and died in 1889 ; and E. Kate, who married A. L. Ferris, of Paxton, Illinois. The latter was a member of the Baptist church and for years was Sunday School superintendent. She was a talented woman and wrote considerable poetry. Some years after her marriage she lost her eye sight, but continued interested in the study of music, in which she was quite skillful. Maria, wife of the professor, received her elementary education in the district school, then attended the high school at Chesterville, then at Mt. Gilead and was graduated from Shepardson's College at Granville, Ohio, in 1879. She taught the Washington school for a term, but impaired health necessitated the discontinuance of this and she assisted her mother in the home duties. At the time of her wedding to Professor Jinkins the old home witnessed A merry gathering, and of the happy occasion the well preserved wedding gown of blue satin and brocaded roses is a rare souvenir. To revert to the history of Professor Jinkins' family, it is noted that his father, Elder David Jinkins, was born in the Welsh Hills settlement near Granville, Ohio, March 7, 1824, and died in Sparta, Wednesday morning, December 3, 1890. He was blind for several years at the close of his life. His last words were, after calling in the undertaker and making all arrangements for his funeral : "Bright angels guard me in this gloom, They're 'round my bed, they're in my room." He married Tryphena Young Beers, daughter of Byram and Elizabeth Beers, and to this union were born six children, namely: Laura, who died in infancy; Zilpha (Ball) 'Bronson, Byram, William and Elma (Salisbury). But two of the family are now living—Byram and William. David Jinkins was converted at the age of sixteen years and joined the Chester Baptist church, beginning to preach in 1860. 542 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY He united with the Mt. Pisgah Primitive Baptist church May 18, 1867, and was ordained as a minister of the same July 26, 1867, and he continued in the ministry for twenty years, eventually losing his sight from overwork on the farm. After the death of his first wife he married Lovina Shaw and purchased property in Sparta, where he lived until his death. The Jinkins country home was noted for its hospitality and none in need of food or lodging was ever turned away. The parents of David Jinkins came from North Wales and landed in New York with only a half dollar. Their names were Thomas and Ann Jinkins, and they at first settled near Granville, Ohio, and united with the Welsh Hills Baptist church. Afterward they removved to Harmony township, Morrow county. There were seven children born to their union : David and Thomas, both Baptist ministers, now buried in the Chester cemetery ; William, buried in Osceola, Iowa ; John, buried at Lacona, Iowa ; Margaret (Peterson) buried in the Chester cemetery ; Mary Ann (Ulery) living in Cardington ; and Sylvester, living in Chesterville. Thomas Jinkins was born November 26, 1792, in Radnorshire, South Wales. He entered the English army in 1810 and served until 1817, and was at the battle of Waterloo. One of his sons once asked him why he was not sent to America in 1812 to fight the American army, and his answer was that they would have deserted to the American army. Ann Jinkins was born June 19, 1802, in Montgomeryshire, North Wales, was converted when seventeen years of age and was baptized on her ninteenth birthday, in the Severn river, near Lanidee. Upon coming to America she united with the Welsh Hills church in Licking county and she was afterwards a member of the Chester, Harmony and Chesterville churches. She died in Chesterville at the home of her son Sylvester. She was married to Thomas Jinkins in the Parish church, Llanidlos, December 1, 1820. They came to America in 1821 and settled near Newark, Ohio. They afterwards entered land in Delaware, now Morrow county in 1830. To this union was born seven children, Thomas, John, ,William, William, Sylvester, Mary Ann and Margaret. Thomas Jinkins died February 14, 1871, at his home in Harmony township. Ann Davis Jinkins died April 15, 1891, at her home in Chesterville. Thomas Jinkins was promoted to ensign for bravery at Waterloo. Like all youths the Jinkins boys of former generations enjoyed an occasional prank. Near their home in Harmony township lived a country veterinary surgeon, one Hiram Hilliard, who had a strain of Indian blood in his veins. At one time Hiram had set the following day to mow a certain meadow adjoining the Jinkins farm and had engaged hands for the work. But it occurred to David, John, William and Thomas to cut the hay the evening before, knowing full well that it would enrange the "cow HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 543 doctor." Accordingly they got their scythes in readiness and spent most of the night cutting hay. The next morning Hilliard started to arrange for the hay cutting, when to his surprise he found the hay all down. Suspicious of the right quarter, he sought the Jinkins home and engaged in conversation with the old gentleman. Hilliard—" Where are your boys, Jinkins?" Jinkins—" They are not up yet." Hilliard, (with fire in his eyes)—"Where were they last night ?" Jinkins—" How do I know ! You tell me where they are every night?" Getting no satisfaction, the doctor went home to finish his haying. At another time the Jinkins boys with other Harmony youths went out on Hallowe'en, and inasmuch as it would be a new experience to John Lewis and his wife, who from their native Wales could have little idea how the night was celebrated in America, they did not neglect to visit them in their rounds. The Lewises lived in a small house on lands now owned by William Baker and also near the home of B. T. Jinkins, the former now using the old house for a barn or shed. It happened that the Lewises had that day sold a horse and had money in the house. The boys had gone five miles from home for this attention, but that was nothing, as most of the travel was on foot in those days and long distances were traversed without much thought. It was late at night when the Lewises heard an awful racket and cabbages, turnips and the like were hurled against the doors and sides of the house, which was on the middle of a large field. The husband did not get out of bed, but Mrs. Lewis asked their business and the reply came in Welsh ; then one of the crowd said something to her in German Mrs. Lewis—"You seem to be here from all countries." The Crowd—"Yes, all nations are represented in this band." At this point there was a lull in the cabbage throwing and the boys heard the following short dialogue from within. Mrs. Lewis—"John, tis give them the money and spare our lives!" John—"Tis give me my breeches and I'll give 'em money !" The Hallowe 'eners well knew what that meant and were soon scrambling over fences hurrying for Harmony township. Professor Jinkins, son of David and Tryphena Jinkins, was born in Harmony township February 24, 1855, on the place now owned by William George, near the Harmony church: Soon afterward his parents removed to the farm now owned by his brother William. Jinkins in Chester township, in southeastern Morrow county. In this place he began his early career in school work, his first term being under Mathias Ewart, of the Ewart Brothers of Iowa. The school house was on the home place, for in an early day, when the board of education was casting about for a school 544 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY site, Rev. Mr. Jinkins donated one, which has given to his children and now his grandchildren easy access to school. Here Byram had such excellent instructors as Mrs. Abigail (Barnes) Sprague, J. W. Evans, Esq., Mrs. Lena (Howard) Semis and others. Here the children from the families of the Meads, the McVeys, the Harrises, the Shoewalters, the Howards, the Beerses, the Thomases, the Jinkinses, and so forth, filled the little old school house and were a merry bevy seated around the room. It must be remembered that a seat started at the northeast corner of the building and extended along the sides around the room to the southeast corner, taking up a part of the east side in fact. Desks of beech lumber were made and put up to this long seat with spaces between for the pupils to enter; these desks were huge affairs some six feet long. In course of time young Byram was sent to the Chester-vine schools and there he had as classmate the boy who was afterward to be world-renowned as preacher and lecturer, Frank W. Gunsaulus, now president of the Armour Institute of Chicago. Subsequently Byram attended the Sparta school in which Judge L. K. Powell was the principal teacher. Through Judge Powell he was influenced to attend college at Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio. However, it occurred to his father, David, that he ought to teach a few terms in the country schools before going to college, and so he hired him out to teach his home school, Bethel, for a term of ,three months. His salary was to be forty dollars for the time, or thirteen and a third dollars per month, and he was to board himself. He remembers that this, the first money he ever earned, looked like a fortune to him. But after teaching in the Washington district, the Salem district and Bethel again, it was decided that he should enter college. Accordingly he was bundled up one cold winter morning, and arrayed in a part of two extra suits of clothes that would not go into the suit case, and getting astride of a, large horse with the suit case on the pommel of the saddle in front of him, he headed for Centerburg, where he was to take the Cleveland. Akron & Columbus Railroad for Westerville, the seat of Otterbein University, the leading school of the United Brethren denomination. As he recalls it now, he started about the middle of one of the courses and he took what studies he thought would be pleasant and practical, for he did not think he would ever graduate. He attended the spring and fall of 1875 and came home to teach in the winter, and he continued this for three years, teaching in the winter to secure the needed funds for his college expenses. He saw he could make little headway by missing so much, and he finally persuaded his father to furnish the funds to complete the classical course, with its four years of Greek and Latin. In fact, in the seven years he took about everything taught at the college, from a review of the common branches on through. He was graduated in 1883, with the degree of A. B., and in 1887 Otterbein University conferred HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 545 upon him the degree of A. M. His class had twenty-one members, the largest in the thirty-five years of the history of the college. Professor Jinkins was superintendent of the schools of Galena, Delaware county, in 1833-4 and then went to his home town of Sparta, where he was superintendent for eight years, and under his tuition twenty-five bright young people were graduated. He was superintendent of the Johnstown schools from 1892 to 1897 and there thirty-seven were graduated under him. It was his constant aim to develop his pupils in all possible ways and to aid the town and community in which he was located. It was in Johnstown that he inaugurated a series of Demorest contests and several of his pupils won silver medals. In a spirited contest in an adjoining neighborhood Miss Ethel Pratt, now Mrs. Frank Simpson, won a beautiful gold medal. Under him the idea of annual banquets and class meetings came into being there and these have ever since been held. It was while he was in the Johnstown school that one of the great whiskey fights of Ohio began. As it was believed that an illicit sale of liquor was being carried on, an anti-saloon league detective was employed and with the assistance of the Kiblers of Newark, one Joseph Friddle, druggist, was arrested. A three days hard fought battle resulted in the defeat of the prosecution by a jury disagreement. Judge Hunter of Newark, was attorney for the defense. Detective, lawyer and jury fees made this pretty expensive for the eight or ten of the prosecution ; then by the defense damage suits were begun against them, amounting to nearly thirty thousand dollars, Professor Jinkins and his wife, who was president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, being sued for six thousand five hundred dollars and interest. However, the prosecution shortly after withdrew these suits. It was at this time that the fight against he liquor traffic in old Licking county had its beginning. During this trial a member of the board of education, who was a great friend of Professor Jinkins and one of his stanch supporters, came to the high school door one morning and calling the Professor outside, said to him, "Now we are more than friends and as a friend I want to say to you that you must quit taking any part in this fight here or your name will be Dennis." After a moments thought the Professor replied, "Well, I recognize that this whole community, drinking men and all, pay my salary but the fight is on and every one will be compelled to take a stand and I think I shall say that you may count me with the temperance people." With a smile the other man replied, "All right,' Professor, we shall know where to find you," and he hurried down stairs. Several years afterward Professor Jinkins was passing through Johnstown when this friend, who was very near death's door, learned of his presence in the village, and although his doctor had forbidden him any visitors, yet he requested : "Let him in. I want to see him." And they had a very cordial little visit. Vol. II-5 546 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY Professor Jinkins removed to the farm and remained there five years, looking after repairs and resting up for six years. Then the people of "Quakerdom," near the old Harkness Academy, employed him to superintend a two room school at ninety dollars a month, and he was here one year and one pupil graduated. He severed this association to become superintendent of the Pleasantville schools, a fine brick and stone building heated by gas, requiring two large furnaces. While here he made friendships that will last as long as life. He remained here four years, graduating twenty-five pupils, who are doing excellent work in various fields, a large proportion being teachers in graded schools and even principals. He had had charge of the destinies of the Pleasantville schools but a short time when they were advanced to first grade. Here he again began the Demorest contests, and seven silver medals, a gold and a grand gold medal, all went to his pupils. Miss Faye N. Daubenmire of the class of 1908 won the last two medals. This lady a great friend of the Jinkinses and a frequent visitor at their home, was killed in a frightful railroad wreck at Middletown, Ohio July 4, 1910, while on her way to Cincinnati to study elocution. This was a great shock to Professor and Mrs. Jinkins, who for some years had been assisting Miss Daubenmire in her excellent work. It was in the spring of 1908 that Professor Jinkins, after graduating a fine class of seventeen, removed with his wife to their farm near Chesterville, where they now reside. Professor and Mrs. Jinkins had one of their pleasantest experiences in attending the Jamestown Exposition as guests of the National Editorial Association. The editor's boat was the one of escort to President Roosevelt on President's day and in Music Hall the President made a speech to the editors alone. They were given free passes to everything on the grounds and were feted by different cities and organizations. The valuable school work of Professor Jinkins is thus ended and he and his estimable wife are now superintending their farm in Chester township, Morrow county, the homestead being known as "Oak Hill." Although Mr. and Mrs. Jinkins never had children of their own, yet they have aided several relatives and friends in securing an education and getting positions. They have been married twenty-five years, and seventeen years of that time, in addition to helping others, they cared for a neice, Jennie Edith Jinkins, an invalid and a great charge. They receive many letters now thanking them for this work. DAVID LOGAN UNDERWOOD, county surveyor of Morrow county, Ohio, was born in Canaan township, this county August 30, 1868, a son of William and Caroline (Shuey) Underwood. His father, a farmer and blacksmith, David L., passed his boyhood days assisting in the farm work and attending district school, and as a young man learned his father's trade and worked with him HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 547 in the shop. Later he studied engineering and gave considerable time to the work of civil engineer. In the fall of 1905 he was elected to the office of county surveyor of his native county. He rendered such acceptable service in this office that in 1908 he was elected to succeed himself, and at this writing, 1910, he has the nomination for a third term. Mr. Underwood has always been a stanch. Republican. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow, having membership in both the Lodge (No. 760) and Encampment, and he is also an honored membcr of the Charles H. Hull Lodge of Knights of Pythias No. 195. His religious creed is that of the Methodist Protestant church at South Canaan. He is unmarried. THOMAS A. HUGGINS, M. D.—During the years which mark the period of Dr. Thomas A. Huggins' professional career he has met with gratifying success and though his residence at Sparta, Morrow county, Ohio, dates back only to 1897, he has won the good will and patronage of many of the leading citizens and families of this place. He is a great student and endeavors to keep abreast of the times in everything relating to discoveries in medical science, being a patron of the leading journals devoted to the discussion of the "ills that flesh is heir to" and the treatment thereof. Progressive in his ideas and believing in modern methods as a whole, he does not, however, dispense with the true and tried systems which have stood the test of years. Dr. Thomas Andrew Huggins was born in Chester Township, Morrow county, Ohio, on the 5th, of March, 1855, and is a son of Thomas and Nancy J. (More) Huggins, both of whom were born and reared in the state of Pennsylvania, whence they came to the fine old Buckeye state of the Union about the year 1844, locating on a farm of two hundred acres in Chester township, this county. In 1864 removal was made to another farm of two hundred acres in the same township, where the family home was maintained until the father's death, in 1893. Thomas Huggins was survived by a widow and five children—three sons and two daughters— Rebecca E. is the wife of George E. McKinney, of Knox county, Ohio ; Margaret J., is now a resident of Columbus, Ohio ; James A., is an agriculturist in Bloomfield township, this county ; Dr. Thomas A. is the immediate subject of this review ; and Edward C., is a business man in Sparta. Mrs. Huggins is deceased, dying about 1903. Dr. Thomas A. Huggins continued to live at the parental home until he had reached his legal majority and his preliminary educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools of Morrow county. When twenty-one years of age he engaged for a time in teaching school and then went to Valparaiso, Indiana, where he pursued a course of study in the Northern Indiana Normal University. Subsequently he was a student in a college at Mansfield, Ohio, and subsequently entered 548 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY the office of Dr. Williams at Chesterville, Morrow county, under whose able preceptorship he studied medicine for two years, at the expiration of which he was employed in a drug store at that place for some five years. In 1885-6 he was a student in the Western Reserve Medical College, in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, and thereafter he passed two years in the Starling Medical College, at Columbus, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1889, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Immediately after his graduation he initiated the active practice of his profession at Cambridge, Guernsey county, Ohio, where he remained for four years, at the expiration of which he went to Chesterville, and there took charge of Dr. Williams' offices. In 1893, at the time of his father's death, he was on the home farm for a time and in the fall of 1897 he came to Sparta, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice and where he enjoys recognition as one of the ablest and most skilled physicians and surgeons in Morrow county. In connection with the work of his profession Dr. Huggins is affiliated with various organizations of representative character and in a fraternal way he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has passed through all the official chairs. In politics he accords a stalwart allegiance to the cause of the Republican party and while he has never had aught of desire for political preferment of any description he is deeply interested in all matters projected for the good of the general welfare, contributing liberally to all philanthropical organizations. He is well read in the science of his profession and is up-to-date in the current literature of medicine and surgery. He was deeply interested in the old railroad survey work in Morrow county, Ohio, in which connection he spent much time and money. On the 19th of August, 1903, was recorded the marriage of Dr. Huggins to Miss Almeda Pearl, who was born and reared in this state and who is a daughter of Peter and Phoebe (Dupy) Pearl, both of whom were likewise natives of this state. The mother was summoned to the life eternal on the 14th of March, 1897, and the father now maintains his home at Centerburg, Knox county, Ohio. Peter Pearl was a farmer and mechanic during the major portion of his active career and his ancestors were early pioneers in Morrow county, having here entered large tracts of government land in the early days. His mother, Nancy (Doty) Pearl, was a Daughter of the American Revolution, her father having been a soldier in that war for independence and she was also a member of the Christian church. When John Doty grew up the country was infested with Indians and early manifesting an interest in their life and habits he became great friends with some of the local chiefs. He was frequently invited to dine with them, but having once seen them prepare a meal he usually refused that honor. Their method of cooking squirrels for dinner was very disagreeable to Mr. Doty ; the young animals were thrown into a kettle without being dressed HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 549 in any way whatever. Dr. and Mrs. Higgins are devout members of the Christian church, in the various departments of which they have ever been active workers. Dr. Huggins is strictly a self-made man, having himself built the ladder by which he has risen to affluence. He made all the money expended on his education and never received so much as ten dollars from any one for school purposes. In no profession to which man gives his attention does success depend more largely upon individual effort than the one which now claims Dr. Huggins as a follower, and it is gratifying to note that he has achieved distinctive prestige and success in his chosen calling, all of which attests his superior ability and close application. Fairness characterizes all his efforts and he conducts his business with the strictest regard to a high standard of professional ethics. WILLIAM BROOKS.—This venerable and honored citizen of Morrow county has here maintained his home for nearly half a century and, after long years of earnest toil and endeavor in connection with agricultural pursuits, he is now retired and is enjoying well earned repose in a pleasant home in the village of Edison. He has ever been accorded that, unqualified popular confidence and respect that are the objective appreciation of sterling character, and he has been called upon to serve in various offices of local trust, including that of county commissioner and also that of township trustee of Gilead township His liberality, loyalty and public spirit were especially shown forth during his incumbency of the office of county commissioner, and in this connection he did much to further the material and social advancement and prosperity of the county. Further interest attaches to his career as one of the representative citizens of this section of the stateby reason of the fact that he is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Ohio, which has been his home since the days of his infancy and in which it has been given him to attain to independence and substantial prosperity through his own well directed endeavors. William Brooks was born in Cayuga county, New York, on the 3rd of March, 1831, and is a son of Jonathan and Rebecca (King) Brooks, both of whom were likewise natives of the old Empire state, where the respective families settled in an early day. The parents of Mr. Brooks were reared to maturity in their native state, where they remained until 1833, when they came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the pioneers of Seneca county. The father purchased a tract of land six miles east of the present city of Tiffin, in Clinton township, and there reclaimed a productive farm from a virtual wilderness. There he and his wife continued to reside for twenty years, secure in the high regard of all who knew them, and they passed the closing years of their lives in Seneca county, Ohio. Their eight children, four sons and four daughters, reached years of maturity and of the number, two sons HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 549 in any way whatever. Dr. and Mrs. Higgins are devout members of the Christian church, in the various departments of which they have ever been active workers. Dr. Huggins is strictly a self-made man, having himself built the ladder by which he has risen to affluence. He made all the money expended on his education and never received so much as ten dollars from any one for school purposes. In no profession to which man gives his attention does success depend more largely upon individual effort than the one which now claims Dr. Huggins as a follower, and it is gratifying to note that he has achieved distinctive prestige and success in his chosen calling, all of which attests his superior ability and close application. Fairness characterizes all his efforts and he conducts his business with the strictest regard to a high standard of professional ethics. WILLIAM BROOKS.—This venerable and honored citizen of Morrow county has here maintained his home for nearly half a century and, after long years of earnest toil and endeavor in connection with agricultural pursuits, he is now retired and is enjoying well earned repose in a pleasant home in the village of Edison. He has ever been accorded that. unqualified popular confidence and respect that are the objective appreciation of sterling character, and he has been called upon to serve in various offices of local trust, including that of county commissioner and also that of township trustee of Gilead township. His liberality, loyalty and public spirit were especially shown forth during his incumbency of the office of county commissioner, and in this connection he did much to further the material and social advancement and prosperity of the county. Further interest attaches to his career as one of the representative citizens of this section of the stateby reason of the fact that he is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Ohio, which has been his home since the days of his infancy and in which it has been given him to attain to independence and substantial prosperity through his own well directed endeavors. William Brooks was born in Cayuga county, New York, on the 3rd of March, 1831, and is a son of Jonathan and Rebecca (King) Brooks, both of whom were likewise natives of the old Empire state, where the respective families settled in an early day. The parents of Mr. Brooks were reared to maturity in their native state, where they remained until 1833, when they came to Ohio and numbered themselves among the pioneers of Seneca county. The father purchased a tract of land six miles east of the present city of Tiffin, in Clinton township, and there reclaimed a productive farm from a virtual wilderness. There he and his wife continued to reside for twenty years, secure in the high regard of all who knew them, and they passed the closing years of their lives in Seneca county, Ohio. Their eight children, four sons and four daughters, reached years of maturity and of the number, two songs