(RETURN TO THE TITLE PAGE) 850 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY which ever crowns well directed labor, sound judgment and untiring perseverance and at the same time he has concerned himself with the affairs of his native county in a loyal, public-spirited way. The concern of which he is the head was incorporated as the Buckeye Milling Company, and since 1888, the date of said incorporation, it has undergone many changes. Further mention of the company is made in the historical part of this work. Mr. Cook is a native of Morrow county, his birth having occurred some two and one-half miles southeast of Mount Gilead September 6, 1873, his parents being John W. and Matilda (Mateer) Cook. The family is one well known in this part of the Buckeye state, his father being one of the highly esteemed repre sentatives of the great basic industry in this locality. The head of the house is a native of Gloucester, England, his birth having occurred in 'April, 1834. He was reared in his native land until the age of twenty-two and he was a baker by trade. John Cook is a self-educated, as well as a self-made man. He came to America in 1856 in a sailing vessel, embarking at Liverpool and being six weeks en voyage. When he landed in New York he awakened to the fact that he was a stranger in a strange land and with very little capital. For a while he worked at his trade at Staten Island, becoming associated with an uncle, and in 1858 he came on to Galion, Ohio. As he had no money with which to start in business he secured work on a farm, and it proved so thoroughly congenial that he made it his life work. He is now living east of Iberia on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. The subject's mother was born in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1833, and her maiden name was Matilda Mateer. She was educated in the common schools and she, as well as her husband, was a devout Presbyterian. She was called to her eternal rest November 15, 1889. The union of this worthy couple was celebrated in 1862 and somewhere near that time the father enlisted as a member of Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, receiving his honorable discharge after a term of service. John W. is the youngest member of the family of five children. Alice became the wife of J. W. Walker, of Toledo ; Hariette M. is the wife of J. C. Brown, of Harmony township ; Charlotte E. is single ; and James M. resides at Mount Gilead, where he is engaged with the Hydraulic Press Company. When Mr. Cook was about eighteen months old his parents moved from Gilead township, which had been the scene of his nativity, and took up their residence upon a farm in Harmony township. This valuable tract of seventy-three acres was one of the most valuable and advantageously situated in the county and here were passed the boyhood and youth of the subject. At the proper age he entered the district cshool, which he attended in the winter, in the summer assisting in the various forms of employment to be found upon a farm. When he was seventeen HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 851 years of age he had some idea of taking up the work of telegraphy, and to that end went to Columbus, where he attended for some time a school of telegraphy. Upon his return to Morrow county he resumed farming for a time, his previous training in that line having given him an up-to-date knowledge of this department of activity. However, he was inclined rather toward commercial and industrial affairs, and about the year 1902 he entered the hardware store of A. L. Pipes, at Fulton, Ohio, where he gave efficient service for about a year. His identification with the town of Mount Gilead dates from September 13, 1903, upon which date he accepted a position with the Buckeye Milling Company, as superintendent of the same.. Judging by subsequent events the step was a fortunate and most judicious one, and probably permanently directed the course of Mr. Cook's usefulness. This enterprise, as previously mentioned, was incorporated in the year 1888 by Thomas E. Duncan and others. In 1906 he purchased an interest in the Buckeye Milling Company and still retains the important position of superintendent. The concern, which owes much of its constant expansion to his fine executive force, has gained recognition as one of the finest milling industries in the state. Mr. Cook became a recruit to the ranks of the Benedicts when on April 9, 1908, he was united in marriage to Miss Bertha A. Blyth, daughter of John and Louise (Wittibbslager) Blyth. She was born December 15, 1876, in Galion, Ohio, and received her education in the graded and high schools of that place. In 1892 she, with the rest of the household, removed to Bucyrus, her father having been elected to the office of county treasurer of Crawford county, in which important incumbency he served two terms. He was a stalwart Democrat and was well known throughout this part of the state. In 1898 the Blyth family removed to Fulton, Ohio, where the father was engaged in the stone quarry business under the firm name of Rumer & Blyth. John Blyth was a member of the English Lutheran church of Bucyrus and was also a high Mason, being past grand patron of the Grand Chapter of Ohio, and he was probably more widely known and universally beloved and respected than any other member of the order in the state. He was a thirty-third degree Mason, having taken the last degree in Boston, Massachusetts He was a veteran of the Civil war, his service extending over two years as a member of Company B, of the Thirty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was wounded at Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864, and received his honorable discharge March 14, 1865. He was a native Scotchman, born at Kirkcaldy, county of Fife, August 22, 1841. At the age of fourteen he went to Cornwall, Canada, and his identification with Galion, Ohio, dates from the spring of 1863. He was a mechanic by occupation. This honored and public-spirited citizen was summoned to the life eternal in February, 1906, upon which regrettable occurrence Mrs. Blyth, with her family, removed from Fulton to Mount Gilead, 852 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY where she now resides. She and her husband were the parents of six children. L. W. Blyth resides in Cleveland, Ohio ; T. 0. Blyth is in business in Ft. Wayne, Indiana; Edith became the wife of T. J. Wiseman, of Joliet, Illinois; Ruth L. and Raymond J. still reside at home. Mr. Cook is a very prominent and popular member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Mount Gilead Lodge, No. 169. He has had honors showered upon him in fraternal circles, being past grand and past chief patriarch, and he is also a member of Morrow Encampment, No. 59. Mrs. Cook is a member of Bucyrus Chapter, No. 3, of the Eastern Star, and she is a prominent member of the Fulton Rebekah Lodger in which she has passed all the chairs. The subject gives his heart and hand to the men and measures of what its admirers term "The Grand Old Party." He is, in short, liberal and progressive in his attitude as a citizen and takes a deep interest in all that touches the advancements and prosperity of his native country. Genial and companionable, his circle of friends is circumscribed only by that of his acquaintanceship and he stands as a popular representative of the best type of business man. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church of Mount Gilead and assist with their sympathy and support all the good measures of the church body. Their home is one of the attractive and hospitable ones of the place. HUGH G. ROGERS.—As the years relentlessly mark the milestones on the pathway of time the older generation slowly gives way to the new and gradually there passes from our midst the men who made our country what it is and who built up this great empire of the middle west for the men of today. In every generation and in every community some few men leave an indelible imprint upon the history of that community and upon the memories of those who have known them by their ability to fight and win even against great odds, and by that kind of character which wins lasting friends because of that innate quality which people know as loyalty. Hugh G. Rogers, who passed into the Great Beyond on the 31st of December, 1899, was one of. these. He was a gallant and faithful soldier in the Union ranks of the Civil war, represented his home district in the State Legislature and during the major portion of his life resided in Chester township, Morrow county, Ohio. By reason of his admirable character and exemplary life he is well deserving of representation in this historical compilation. Hugh G. Rogers was born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, on the 15th of August, 1831, and was a son of George and Catherine (Russ) Rogers, both of whom were born and reared in Wales, whence they immigrated to the United States in an early day. Mr. Rogers, of this review, was reared to adult age and educated in the old Keystone state of the Union and at the age of eighteen HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 853 years began to learn the carpenter's trade, later going to Philadelphia to learn stair-making. His great industry and thrift made him an exceedingly good workman. After his first marriage, in 1858, he came to Ohio, settling on a farm in Harmony township, in Morrow county. When the dark cloud of Civil war cast its pall over the national horizon Mr. Rogers responded to President Lincoln's call for volunteers and with a number of other brave young men enlisted as a member of Company C., Ninety-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He entered the United States army at Cardingtcn and proceeded thence to Camp Chase at Columbus. He was sent on with the soldiers to meet General Kirby Smith on his it vasion of Kentucky and later he was with General Sherman at Vicksburg, where he was disabled. He received his honorable discharge and was mustered out of service at Jefferson Barracks, in St. Louis, Missouri, as fourth sergeant. After his military service had been ended Mr. Rogers returned home and subsequently established the family home in Chester township, Morrow county, where he purchased the old Trowbridge estate, the same consisting of some one hundred and twelve acres of land, on which is located a beautiful little lake. Rogers Lake, as this body of water is called, was improved and beautified by Mr. Rogers, who made it an exceedingly popular summer resort, his kind, genial manner winning for him many friends who loved to come here to camp during the warm summer seasons. In his political allegiance Mr. Rogers was aligned as a stalwart supporter of the cause for which the Republican party stands sponsor. In the year 1894 he was honored by his fellow citizens with election to the office of representative from the Marion and Morrow county district in the State Legislature. He served in that capacity during the session of 1894-5 and during his incumbency served with all of efficiency on a number of important committees. He ever manifested a deep and sincere interest in educational matters in this section of the state and served most creditably for a number of years as a member of the local school board. He retained a deep and abiding interest in his old comrades in arms and signified the same by membership in Crayton Orr Post, No. 405, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was commander for a time. He devoted a large portion of his time and attention to agricultural pursuits during the latter part of his life and in connection with that occupation was a valued and appreciative member of the Grange. Mr. Rogers was twice married, his first union having been to Miss Rachel Hayden Evans, the ceremony having taken place in the year 1858. This union was prolific of four children : Thomas and Lewis, both deceased; and George W. and Olive. Mrs. Rogers was summoned to eternal rest in 1870 and subsequently he married Miss Eliza Bruce, who was born and reared in Morrow county, Ohio, and who is a daughter of Joel Bruce,. of Chester township. There were no children born of this marriage. Mr. and Mrs. 854 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY Rogers continued to reside on the old homestead farm in Chester township until his death, which occurred on the 31st of December, 1899. A peculiar thing connected with Mr. Rogers' demise is that he died in one century and was buried in the next. There is no perfection in human nature, yet Mr. Rogers came as near to the most attractive ideal of such perfection as any man who has gathered about him the affection and admiration of his fellow men. He was free from a censorious spirit and he never uttered an unkind criticism of any one. His convictions were as solid as adamant and neither fear nor favor could shake them from him, yet he tried to estimate human conduct in the light of that charity which "hopeth all things, which beareth all things, which is not easily provoked, which thinketh no evil." He was a man swayed by a conscience enlightened by the truth and spirit of God. His ambition to be right and do right was the paramount incentive and he counted not the cost in the attainment of so noble an end. But his most sterling and shining quality was his religious character. He was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he was a member of the board of trustees at the time of his demise. He was a careful student of the history of the great denomination to which he belonged and tried as best he could to glorify Christ through the love and devotion of his individual life. George W. Rogers, the only surviving child of Hugh G. Rogers, was born in Morrow county, Ohio, on the 17th of December, 1858. He was educated in the public schools of his native place and was reared under the invigorating influence of the old homestead farm, in the work and management of which he early began to assist his father. On January 19, 1887, was celebrated his marriage to Miss Blanche Bulyer, of Fredericktown. She is a daughter of David and Amanda (Reep) Bulyer, both natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers became the parents of five children, namely : Hoy G., Dorothea M., Dewey D., Pauline and Hugh. All the children have been afforded excellent educational advantages. After being graduated in the high school at Chesterville, Ohio, Hoy G. was matriculated as a student in the Ohio Wesleyan College, at Delaware, Ohio, in the theological department of which splendid institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1910. He is an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal church and his first charge was at Belleville. He is now a resident of Butler, Ohio, where he has charge of the Methodist Episcopal parish, and where he has just closed a successful revival, in which were numbered sixty-five converts. Dorothea M. is a member of the class of 1911 in the high school at Chesterville, and Dewey and Pauline are attending the graded school.. Mr. Rogers is engaged in farming on a splendid estate of one hundred and fifty acres, the same being located on a pleasant eminence overlooking the town of Chesterville. On one occasion, HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 855 on being asked what his business was, Mr. Rogers replied: "My business is rearing and educating boys and girls. My work is farming to pay expenses." The Rogers family is certainly well deserving of the high place they hold in popular confidence and esteem in this community, where their efforts to promote progress and improvement have ever been of the most insistent order. In politics Mr. Rogers endorses the cause of the Republican party and while he has never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office of any description he is ever on the alert and enthusiastically in sympathy with all projects advanced for the general welfare. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in religious matters is with his family a valued and appreciative member of the Methodist Episcopal church. HUGH A. MCKINNON.—As a member of the firm of McKinnon & Jago, photographers at Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, Hugh A. McKinnon has gained an influential place in the business world of this city. He was born at Atkins, Iowa, on the 2nd of June, 1881, and is a son of Hugh and Elizabeth McKinnon, the former of whom was born on the Isle of Man and the latter at Irvington, Scotland. Hugh McKinnon, Sr., was born on the Isle of Man but was reared and educated in Scotland. He received a good practical education and was a skilled mechanic, being a fine smithy. He worked on the first steel ship which ever was built and launched on the river Clyde. The people were very skeptical as to the floating qualities of steel vessels, claiming they would sink ; but when the day of launching the vessel came, hundreds of people gathered on the wharfs and were nonplussed when it dipped six inches less than a wooden vessel. Mr. McKinnon and wife sailed from Glasgow, Scotland, and landed in Quebec in 1865, the voyage being of six weeks' duration. He came to Montreal to pursue his trade, and went thence to several points in Canada, later to Detroit and Chicago, and worked there some years, trying each time to better his fortune. From Chicago he went to Iowa and thence to Nebraska. He was a great student and reader. Politically he was a Populist, but a great admirer of McKinley Formerly he and his wife were Presbyterians, but in later years they joined the Methodists. There were ten children, seven sons and three daughters in the family, and all are living but one daughter. All the children except Hugh A., the subject of this sketch, are residing west of the Mississippi river. The senior Mr. McKinnon died June 19, 1904. Mrs. McKinnon was a Scotch lassie and was educated in her native land. She resides in Parker, Nebraska. When seven years of age Hugh A. McKinnon accompanied his parents on their removal from Iowa to western Nebraska, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational train- 856 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY ing. In 1904 he was graduated in the commercial course in the Western Normal Business Institute at Shenandoah, Iowa, and immediately thereafter he became principal of the Federal Business College at Bucyrus, Ohio, continuing incumbent of that position for one year, at the expiration of which he took up bookkeeping and became cashier of the Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Company, at Mount Gilead. He was thus employed from September, 1905, until May 1, 1908. In the latter year he organized the firm of McKinnon & Jago and engaged in the photography business. In this line of enterprise his success has been on a parity with his well directed endeavors and the firm of McKinnon & Jago now controls a large and flourishing business. In 1907 Mr. McKinnon was united in marriage to Miss Jane Jago, who was born at Mount Gilead, on the 9th of June, 1881, a daughter of George and Ellen (Cooper) Jago, of Mount Gilead. Mrs. McKinnon was graduated in the Mount Gilead High School as a member of the class of 1898, and she was engaged in the work of bookkeeping from 1901 to 1907. Mr. McKinnon is a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities and he is affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fraternity. He and his wife are devout members of the Presbyterian church, in which he is secretary of the board of trustees. JOSEPH CRIDER.—In Canaan township, Morrow county, art many enterprising agriculturists who bring to their calling good business methods and excellent judgment and whose labors are crowned with success. Noteworthy among this number is Joseph Crider, who for nearly a quarter of a century has been diligently improving his property, continually adding to its value, his present homestead, with its substantial buildings, giving ample evidence to the passer-by of his skill and good taste as a practical farmer and rural householder.. A son of the late Daniel Crider, he was born August 1, 1852, in Crawford county, Ohio, where his early life was spent. Daniel Crider was born, in 1803, in Pennsylvania, and died November 3, 1880, in Crawford county, Ohio, whither he removed soon after his marriage. His wife, Mary Horn, was born in Franklin, Pennsylvania, and died in Ohio April 21, 1895. Eleven children were born of this union, namely Ann, born March 22, 1830 ; Catherine, born August 14, 1831; Barbara, born November 7, 1832; Lydia, born April 29, 1834 ; Elizabeth, born March 16, 1836; John born March 1, 1838 ; Mary, born September 16, 1840 ; Louisa, born June 16, 1843 ; Daniel, born July 11, 1845 ; Adam, born May 9, 1849; and Joseph, with whom this sketch is chiefly concerned. Brought up on a farm, Joseph Crider attended the district school as a boy, gleaning a good knowledge of the common branches of study. At the age of sixteen years he began life for himself, poor in pocket but rich in energy and ambition ; with sturdy indus- HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 857 try and judicial frugality he laboriously toiled onward and upward, rising by slow degrees from poverty to a condition of comparative affluence, since his marriage having had the cooperation of his wife, a woman of ability and judgment. In 1887 Mr. Crider purchased one hundred acres of land in section twenty-one, Canaan township, and in its cultivation and improvement his efforts have been amply rewarded, his farm being one of the most attractive and valuable in the vicinity.. On December 30, 1875, Mr. Crider was united in marriage with Elizabeth Russell, who was born March 1, 1853, in Crawford county, Ohio, on the farm of her parents, Perry R. and May (Gladhill) Russell. Mr. and Mrs. Crider are the parents of five children, namely : Mary, born November 18, 1876, is the wife of John Hardman, of Canaan township ; Bessie, born April 29, 1884, married Glenn Bolinger ; Amanda, deceased ; Florence, born February 10, 1894 ; and Paul, born November 29, 1896, died in infancy. Politically Mr. Crider is a sound Republican and genuinely interested in local and national affairs. Both he and his wife are faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Denmark, Ohio. FRANK B. McMILLIN.—There is ever patent verification of the aphorism of Epicharmus, "Earn thy reward ; the gods give naught to sloth." and the world instinctively pays deference to those who win success through individual effort and worthy means. Judge Frank B. McMillin one of the native sons of Morrow county who has thus been the artificer of his own fortunes and whose success has been of a very appreciable order, the while his course has ever been such as to retain him the unqualified confidence and regard of his fellow men. In his early youth he felt the spur of necessity, and it may well be said that the development of character in strength and resourcefulness is fostered by such conflict with adverse forces. Mr. McMillin is now numbered among the veritable captains of industry in his native county, where his excellent initiative and administrative powers have been brought to bear in a most effective way in the promotion of enterprises that have important bearing upon the industrial and social prosperity of the community. He is one of the most loyal and progressive citizens of Mount Gilead and he has been an aggressive force in supporting all the measures that have tended to advance its best interests. Here he is now secretary and general manager of The Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Company, and he has been specially influential in placing this important industrial concern upon a substantial footing. He has served as probate judge of Morrow county and has been given most unequivocal assurance of popular esteem in the community that has ever represented his home. Frank B. McMillin was born in Mount Gilead, the metropolis and judicial center of Morrow county, and the date of his nativity 858 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY was November 3, 1868. He is a son of Reverend Milton and Mrs. Nancy McMillin, the former of whom was born in Beaver county. Pennsylvania, and the latter in Knox county, Ohio.. Reverend Milton McMillin was graduated in Washington and Jefferson College and the Western Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania, and later was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, in the work of which he continued until death, which occurred at Lexington, Ohio, where he had temporarily located, in 1876. He has held various pastoral incumbencies in Pennsylvania and Ohio and was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Mount Gilead, which he resigned on account of ill health shortly before the time of his death. He was a man of fine intellectuality and his life was one of consecrated devotion to the work of his chosen vocation. His wife, a woman of noble character, had been a teacher in seminaries near Pittsburg and Allegheny, Pennsylvania, prior to their marriage, and she survived him by many years the while she reared her children to lives of usefulness and honor, having assumed in this connection a heavy burden of responsibility when the husband and father was summoned from the scene of life's mortal endeavors. Her financial resources were of the most limited and uncertain order and she was left to care for five little sons, the eldest of whom was but thirteen years of age at the time of the father's death. She continued, to maintain her home in Mount Gilead until her death, which occurred in December, 1908, and she is held in loving memory by all who came within the sphere of her gentle and gracious influence. Concerning the five children the following brief data is given : Walter L. is general manager of the Yeomans and Shedd Hardware Company, a representative wholesale concern at Danville, Illinois ; Reverend Edward M., is pastor of the Presbyterian church at East Liverpool, Ohio ; Frank B. is the immediate subject of this review ; Harry B., of Mount Gilead, is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; and Reverend Frederick N. is pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Walnut Hills, a residential section of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Frank B. McMillin was in his eighth year at the time of his father's death, and the straitened condition of the family rendered it necessary for him and his elder brother to assist in providing for the general support of the family, the loving and devoted mother having been determined to keep her children with her and to rear them according to the principles of uprightness, self-reliance and abiding Christian faith. She was resourceful, self-abnegating, and was sustained by that faith that ever makes faithful in all the relations of life. Mr. McMillin was afforded the advantages of the public schools, which he attended in a somewhat irregular way, and soon after the death of his father he began to earn his own living and also to assist his mother. When but eight years of age he secured employment in a brick yard, and from HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 859 the princely stipend of ten cents a day he was gradually advanced until he received a dollar a day for his services. He continued to be thus engaged for a period of four summers and during the latter part of this time he held the position of Kiln-setter. In the meanwhile he also added to his earnings by cutting wood, mowing lawns, making and selling lamp lighters and straw hats and doing such other kinds of work as he could secure. While attending school he thus employed himself nights and mornings, and during the vacation seasons, assiduous application to work marked his course rather than the play engaged in by the average boy. Thus he was able not only to provide his own clothing but also to contribute to the support of the family while he was yet a mere boy. In the perspective of years he has found nothing to regret in the discipline thus secured, for the same gave to him appreciation of the value and dignity of honest toil and endeavor, and also begot a spirit of self-reliance and a determined purpose to make the most of. such opportunities as presented themselves. After leaving the brick yard Mr. McMillin found employment on a farm, and he was thus engaged for a year, at a compensation of ten dollars a month. Later he clerked in a dry-goods and grocery stores in his native town, and when sixteen years of age he secured a clerical position in the Mount Gilead post office, in which he was eventually promoted to the position of assistant post master, an incumbency which he retained for four years, the largest salary he received being thirty-seven and one-half dollars a month. In 1899 he retired from the post office to initiate an independent business career. Though his capitalistic resources available for investment were summed up in the amount of ninety dollars, he had established a sure reputation for industry, honesty and reliability, and this constituted a most valuable asset. He purchased a shoe store and, as a matter of course, assumed a very appreciable indebtedness, but his reputation gained to him credit, which he was always most careful to protect, and during the thirteen years of his identification with the shoe business his success was cumulative, implying the building up of a large and substantial trade and the securing of a strong hold upon popular confidence and esteem. When he sold his business in 1902, he not only owned the building occupied, but also a large stock of goods and was entirely free from debt, with a number of investments outside of the line of enterprise to which he had thus given his attention. During the greater part of the time he himself did the greater part of the work of the store, besides which he also had charge of bookkeeping for others. The genius of success is work, and it will be seen that in this attribute Mr. McMillin had been in no wise lacking. While serving as assistant post master he became secretary of the Buckeye Building and Loan Association, of which he was one of the organizers and of which he became a director at the time of its incorporation. When the business was reorganized under its present title, 860 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY The Mount Gilead Savings and Loan Company, he continued his identification therewith and has retained the office of director. In 1900 he became a member of the directorate of The Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Company, and since 1902 he has been an active executive of the corporation. In the year last mentioned he was appointed by the directors of the company to the office of special auditor, in which capacity devolved upon him the responsibility of instilling new life and methods into the business, as well as to systematize the affairs of the factory, home office and branch sales offices. He quickly took up and mastered the mechanical details of the business and it has been in a large degree due to his skill as an organizer and to his careful and judicious administration of executive functions that the business has been placed upon a plane of successful operation and constantly expanding ramifications. From the office of special auditor he was appointed to that of assistant general manager, to the duties of which he later added those of assistant secretary, and since 1907 he has held the dual office of general manager and secretary. He is one of the leading stockholders in this corporation and has labored with much of ability and with unflagging zeal for the upbuilding of an industry that has contributed materially to the commercial prestige of Mount Gilead and Morrow county. Mr. McMillin has ever shown most insistent loyalty to his home city and his progressive ideas have been shown in the ardent cooperation which he has given to the initiating and fostering of enterprises and measures tending to conserve the general welfare and prosperity. The cause of religion has enlisted his earnest support and, broad and tolerant in his views, he has done all in his power to aid and uplift his fellow men and to bring about the highest standards of morality and clean social life. He believes in publicity and the judicious exploiting of the advantages and attractions of his city, and he has been active in advertising Mount Gilead as a desirable place for manufacturing and commercial enterprises and as an attractive place of residence. He is the author of a unique and most interesting brochure entitled "Facts About Mount Gilead," and the same has been widely distributed with most excellent results. In politics Mr. McMillin accords an unfaltering allegiance to the cause of the Republican party and he has given efficient service in its local ranks. Though he has had no special predilection for public office, he was appointed in 1900 to fill an unexpired term in the office of the probate judge of Morrow county, the vacancy having been caused by the death of Judge Arthur L. Banker. He retained the office for one year and gave a most careful and acceptable administration. A son of a clergyman of the Presbyterian church, Mr. McMillin was early grounded securely in the faith represented by this denomination, and he has been a zealous and valued factor in HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 861 connection with the various departments of the work of the Presbyterian church in Mbunt Gilead, in which he is an elder at the present time, as well as superintendent of the Sunday school. Mrs. McMillin also is a devoted church worker and is a popular figure in connection with the leading social activities of the community. Mr. McMillin is affiliated with Mount Gilead Lodge, No: 206, Free and Accepted Masons, and is an appreciative member of the time honored fraternity. On the 25th of March, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McMillin to Miss Alice K. Struble, of Forest, Hardin county, Ohio. She was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, this state, and is a daughter of Lafayette and Ella A. Struble, members of old and honored families of this section of the Buckeye commonwealth. Mr. and Mrs. McMillin have one son, Howard, who is now in his fourteenth year and is in the eighth grade at school. THE BENNETT-ROBESON FAMILY.—As the successful growth of vegetation depends upon certain favorable conditions of sunshine and rain, so the growth of a great country's industries depend upon those inherent principles of sturdy manhood and womanhood that the passing years have bestowed with a lavish hand, and which to the one possessing them are a priceless legacy, stamping his life with a pleasing success. Such principles have been largely shown in the honored families of Bennett and Robeson, which enjoy universal esteem in the district in which their interests are centered. A. D. Bennett, deceased, was born in Morrow county January 16, 1834, his parents being Seeley and Lydia (Cook) Bennett, the former a native of New York and the latter of New Jersey. The family consisted of ten children, whose names were: Daniel, Josiah, Townsend, Jonathan, Andrew, Phoebe, Caroline, Sener, Charlotte and A. D. The latter lived at home, assisting his father in farming and stock-raising until the time of his marriage, which happy event occurred May 1, 1878. The lady of his choice was Miss Sarah E. Robeson, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Roof) Robeson, who were descended from good old Virginia ancestry. Joseph Robeson and his wife emigrated from Virginia to Ohio at an early day and located in Knox county, where they reared and educated a fine family of eleven children. Joseph Robeson was born in Frostberg, Virginia, February 3, 1801. He was possessed of those sterling qualities which won for him the highest esteem of the community wherein he spent the greater part of his useful and active life. A man of the highest sense of honor, he was universally respected and he and his good wife exercised a careful judgment in rearing their children—one of the most important duties of good citizenship. He loved the free, wholesome life of the open and greatly enjoyed the sport of hunting in which he was remarkably skilled and successful. His musket brought down the last bear that was ever killed in Knox county. 862 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY He lived ten years longer than the psalmist's alottment of years, his demise occurring August 2, 1881. His wife; who preceded him by some years to the Great Beyond, died in March, 1863. She was born April 6, 1805, at Winchester, Virginia. Their family growing up to be honored men and women of sterling worth, filled numerous positions of trust, and always commanded the respect of the communities in which they moved. Their names were Calvin, Solomon, Thomas and Lyman, the latter dying in 1910, a retired farmer at Seattle, Washington. The next son of the Robeson family was Sherman, who graduated in the study of medicine and became a successful practicing physician of Canton, Ohio. The others were Fletcher, Elizabeth, Matilda and Alonzo, who was a successful horseman of Loudonville, Ohio ; and Angeline, who married Jonathan Bennett, a brother of A. D. Bennett, who was considered one of the most estimable women of Morrow county. The remaining one was Sarah, the youngest of the Robeson family. After her marriage to A. D. Bennett they settled on the old Bennett homestead at Vail's Corners, where they spent their entire wedded life. The husband's occupation was farming and stock-raising. Being a successful business man of fine integrity of character, his judgment was often sought in matters of public and private interest, and his high sense of honor made him a friend to be relied upon. There was born to this worthy couple a son, whom they named Arthur, his natal day being November 26, 1881, and whose presence added greatly to the sunshine and joy of their home. In 1897 Mr. Bennett's health failed and on July 31, of that year his death occurred. His funeral cortege was one of the largest ever witnessed in this section, those who assembled to do honor to his memory attesting to his large circle of friends Among them were the Knights of Pythias, of Marengo, Ohio, of which he was a charter member. Representatives of the same lodge were also present from numerous other towns. Thus bereft, the widow removed from the home for a time with her son Arthur, but when sixteen years of age he longed for the old home, to which they returned. He assumed the management of the homestead, depending upon his mother for counsel. Their friends feared that he was too young for such a trust, but with youthful zeal and determination from year to year he grew more successful and surer of himself. He engaged principally in the handling of sheep and horses, taking especial pride in the latter and making a specialty of the buying and matching of teams. In fact, he has sold some of the finest matched teams which ever went out of this section. Mrs. Bennett and her son are honored members of the Vail's Corners Advent Christian church, and to their liberality the church is indebted for the fine location of ground donated by them. Mrs. Bennett is a most estimable and honored woman, public-spirited HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 863 and a royal hostess, always taking an active interest in every social and religious movement that means an uplift to the community. Her rare good judgment, genial manners and pleasant smile make her one whose companionship is ever sought by those who prize association with this world's truest and best. THEODORE BROWN.—For nearly thirty-six years has Theodore Brown been numbered among the representative and highly esteemed citizens of Mount Gilead where he is engaged in the popular work of photography. Mr. Brown is a native son of the t ne old Buckeye state, his birth having occurred in Cumberland, Guernsey county, Ohio, on the 23rd of February, 1846. He is a son of Moses M. and Eliza (Ebersole) Brown, the former of whom was born in 1815, in the state of Ohio, and the latter in 1817, also in Ohio. The father was a minister of the Presbyterian church, and he was summoned 10 the life eternal in 1853, at the age of thirty-six years, the mother surviving until 1903, when her death occurred at the venerable age of eighty-six years. Of the three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Theodore is the immediate subject of this review; Chalmers is in Indianapolis, president of the railroad brotherhood association ; and Mary is deceased. Theodore Brown grew up on the home farm and was afforded the advantages of the graded schools at Frederick, Ohio, which he continued to attend until he attained to his legal majority. He was a child of but seven years of age at the time of his father's death. After leaving school Mr. Brown went west with a civil engineering corps and he was identified with that line of enterprise in Dakota for the ensuing three years, at the expiration of which he returned to Ohio, locating in Crawford county, where he pursued the profession of photography. He resided at Crestline, Crawford county, Ohio, for two years and thereafter was engaged as a journeyman photographer at different points in Ohio for several years. He came to Mount Gilead, Morrow county, in 1875, and here established himself in the photograph business, in which he has been engaged during the long intervening years to the present time. His finely equipped studio is one of the most attractive in the county and as such caters to and commands a very select trade. He owns .considerable real estate in Mount Gilead and is one of the directors in the People's Savings Bank in this city. At Mount Gilead, in the year 1880, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Brown to Miss Anna Dumble, who was born and reared at Marengo county, Ohio, a daughter of John Dumble. Mr. and Mrs. Brown became the parents of four children, two of whom are deceased. Of the two living, Simms is a mechanical engineer and is in the employ of the Buckeye Traction Ditcher Company, at Findlay, Ohio. He was graduated in Buchtel College, at Akron Ohio, as a member of the class of 1903. He wedded Miss Louise Horix, and they made a trip to Germany in 1910, visiting Switzer- 864 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY land and other parts of Europe. He has traveled twenty thousand miles in 1910. Mrs. Brown was a graduate of Buchtel College in the class of 1903. Albert Brown was likewise graduated in Ruchtel College, class of 1906, and he is now a civil engineer at Medford, Oregon. Mrs. Brown was summoned to the life eternal in 1907, deeply mourned by a circle of loving and devoted friends. Although never an active participant in political affairs Mr. Brown is aligned as a stalwart supporter of the cause of the Democratic party and he has done much to further progress and development in this section of the state. He is connected with the Masonic Order at Mount Gilead. His wife attended and gave her support to the Universalist church. As a citizen Mr. Brown is public-spirited and sincere and he is locally known as a business man of unquestioned honesty and fair and honorable methods. ELWOOD BUNKER.-A representative agriculturist of Morrow county, Elwood Bunker is a well known resident of Peru township and the worthy descendant of one of its early pioneer families. A native of this section of the state, he was born June 15, 1846, in Cardington township, a son of Reuben Bunker Peleg Bunker, his paternal grandfather, migrated from New York state to Ohio in 1803, locating in what is now Peru township, Morrow county. He was a poor man, with no capital save willing hands and a courageous heart. He was a millwright, and followed that trade in conjunction with farming for many years. He married Hannah Benedict, and they reared a family consisting of six sons and three daughters, as follows : Elihu, born March 29, 1807; Lucy, born August 22, 1808; Reuben, born May 1, 1810; Isaac, born August 1, 1813 ; Lydia, born March 6, 1815 ; Mary, born January 16, 1817 ; Silas, born January 31, 1819; Jethro, born August 21, 1821; and David, born March 15, 1824. Reuben Bunker was educated in the typical pioneer schools of Morrow county, and spent his life in Cardington and. Peru townships. He took much interest in local matters, and had the distinction of serving as the first postmaster at Cardington. He married Lucretia White, one of his early playmates, and of the children born of their union six grew to years of maturity, namely: Byron, born July 4, 1840; Elmora, born July 12, 1844 ; Elwood, the subject of this sketch ; Frances, born March 11, 1849 ; Emma, born August 17, 1853; and Eva, born August 29, 1855. After leaving the district schools Elwood E. Bunker continued his studies at Lebanon, Ohio, and at Oberlin, Ohio, acquiring an excellent education. During the progress of the Civil war, his patriotic spirit was aroused, and in June, 1864, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with his regiment participated in several engagements of note. On December 4, 1864, he was wounded at the battle of Overhall Creek, and was taken to the hospital. He subsequently rejoined his regiment, and served until the close of the war, when HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 865 he was honorably discharged. He now receives a pension of twenty-four dollars a month for his brave services during the conflict. Since his return to civil life, Mr. Bunker has been engaged in general farming and stock raising, and has met with encouraging success, his labors being amply rewarded by his abundant annual crops of cereals. On June 13, 1872, Mr. Bunker married Alice Sage, who was born near Mt. Liberty, Knox county, Ohio, April 11, 1850, a daughter of Alvin and Mary (Bishop) Sage. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bunker, namely : Clyde A., born July 10, 1873 ; Mary L., born August 1, 1875, is the wife of Fred B. Reed ; and Edna M., born October 12, 1879, married Webb H. Hubble. Mr. and Mrs.. Bunker have also six grandchildren, in which they take great pleasure. They are most estimable people, highly respected for their many noble traits of character, and are sincere members of the Quaker church. Politically Mr. Bunker is a stanch Republican, and for many terms has rendered efficient service as a member of the local school board. He belongs to Hurd Post, No. 114, G. A. R., and to Marengo Lodge, No. 216, K. of P. For two years he was president of the Morrow County Agricultural Society, and for several years was one of its directors. ADAM CLOUSE.—Numbered among the skilful and prosperous agriculturists of Morrow county is Adam Clouse, who owns and occupies a valuable farm in Canaan township, which is near the place of his birth, the date thereof being March 22, 1855. During his half century and more of life, which has been passed in this vicinity, he has won for himself an enviable reputation as an honest man and a good citizen, and as one who has contributed his full quota towards the advancement of one of the. best counties in Ohio. His father, Peter Clouse, was born in Switzerland in 1814, and when eleven years of age came to the United States with his parents locating in what is now Canaan township, Morrow county, Ohio, where his father took up a tract of government land. Here he grew to manhood and subsequently engaged in farming on his own account. He married Mrs. Nancy (Apt) Garster, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and of the eight children born of their union Adam, the subject of this brief sketch, is the sole survivor. Attending the district school during the days of his boyhood and youth, Adam Clouse obtained a practical knowledge of the common branches of learning and when ready to start in life for himself chose the free and independent occupation of a farmer. Laboring with unremitting industry, he has met with richly deserved success as a general farmer and stock raiser, his fine farm of one hundred and fifteen acres being advantageously located one and one-fourth miles north of Denmark. His homestead is under a high state of cultivation, and with its improvements and appoint- Vol. II-22 866 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY ments is considered one of the choice estates of this part of the county. In 1905 Mr. Clouse added to the value and attractiveness of his estate by the erection of a fine residence, which contains all of the modern conveniences and improvements, and invariably' elicits words of praise from the passing traveler. Mr. Clouse married, in 1877, Martha A. Overly, who was born July 8, 1859, in Ross county, Ohio, and was there educated in the common schools. Her parents, Elisha and Lucinda (Kinnamon) Overly, died in early life, leaving two children, a son and a daughter. Left motherless when but three years of age and fatherless at the age of twelve years, Mrs. Clouse and her brother were brought up by an aunt, who did the best she could for them until they were able to look out for themselves. Mrs. Clouse came to Canaan township when a girl of seventeen years, and a year or so later married Mr. Clouse. Two children have blessed their union, namely : Ada B., born June 20, 1879, is the wife of Charles I. Reed, of Canaan township ; and Elsie May, born February 25, 1895, is a student in the public schools. A Democrat in his political affiliations, Mr. Clouse has served as township treasurer and as road supervisor, and at the present writing is a member of the local school board. Fraternally he belongs to Calanthia Lodge No. 116, K. of P., of Caledonia, Ohio. He is an active and faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal church of North Canaan, of which he is a trustee and a steward and a teacher in its Sunday School. LEE S. CUNARD.—Many of the ablest men in America are ardent devotees of the great basic industry of agriculture and it is well that this is so because the various learned professions are rapidly becoming so crowded with inefficient practitioners that in a few years it will be practically impossible for any but the exceptionally talented man to make good or even to gain a competent living therein. The independent farmer who in addition to tilling the soil cultivates his mind and retains his health is a man much to be envied in the days of strenuous bustle and nervous energy. He lives his life as he chooses and is always safe from financial ravages and other troubles of the so-called "cliff dweller." An able and representative agriculturist who has much to advance progress and conserve prosperity in Morrow county, Ohio, is Lee S. Cunard, who owns and operates a finely improved farm in Lincoln township. Lee S. Cunard was born in Lincoln township, near Fulton, Morrow county, Ohio, the date of his birth being October 1, 1881. He is a son of Alexander H. and Virginia A. (Craven) Cunard, both of whom are now deceased and both of whom were born and reared in Loudoun county, Virginia, whence they came to the old Buckeye state of the Union in an early day. Judge Stephen T. Cunard, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 867 born in Loudoun county, Virginia, on the 3rd of February, 1803. In early life Judge Cunard entered upon an apprenticeship at the carpenter's trade ; his preliminary educational training was of a primitive nature but in due time he supplemented the same with extensive reading and eventually became a learned man He was a son of Edward and Edith (Thatcher) Cunard, both of whom were likewise natives of the Old Dominion state. Edward Cunard sacrificed his life in the war of 1812, in which he was a lieutenant. He witnessed the entrance of the British troops into the national capital and participated in many important battles marking the progress of the war. Prior to his military service he was a civil engineer, in which profession he prosecuted a good livelihood. His father was Edward Cunard, Sr., a gallant soldier in the war of the Revolution. The Cunard family traces its ancestry back to the Hirsts, of Yorkshire, England, the original progenitor of the nafne in America having come to this country in the year 1680, location having been made in the vicinity of Baltimore, Maryland. The paternal grandmother of Lee S. Cunard, of this review, was Vashti B. (James) Cunard, a native of Loudon county, Virginia, born in 1805. She was a daughter of David and Charlotte (Bradfield) James, who came to Ohio at an early day. The marriage of Judge Cunard to Vashti B. James was solemnized in Virginia on the 26th of November, 1826, and they removed to Ohio in 1835, settling in the wilds of Lincoln township, Morrow county, then known as Delaware county. The trip across the mountains into Ohio was made in an old fashioned carry-all, in which were driven the mother and small children, together with such portable goods as the family possessed, the father walking the entire distance. Judge Cunard secured a farm of about one hundred acres near Mt. Gilead and there constructed a rude log house, which was the family habitation for a number of years. He was a Whig in politics originally, but later gave his allegiance to the Republican party. At the time of the organization of Morrow county, in 1848, Stephen T. Cunard was appointed associate judge of the court of common pleas and later he became a member of the state board of equalization for the senatorial district comprising the counties of Knox and Morrow. At the time of the inception of the Civil war he aligned himself as a stanch supporter of the Union cause and he was a man of prominence and influence throughout his entire life in Ohio. He was summoned to eternal rest on the 3rd of March, 1881, his cherished and devoted wife having passed away on the 6th of May, 1871. To Judge and Mrs. Cunard were born four sons and two daughters, concerning whom the following brief data is here incorporated: Marty C., became the wife of Orman Kingman, of Lincoln township ; Captain Ludwell M: was long engaged in farming in Morrow county ; Henry E. is deceased; Thomas C., resides near Fulton, this county ; Alexander H., was the father of 868 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY the subject of this review ; and Amanda E., who married Dr. A. E. Westbrook, of Ashley, is deceased. All of the sons were soldiers in the Union army in the Civil war, Ludwell M. and Alexander H. having been members of the Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Henry E. was a member of Company I, Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he lost his life in the battle of Perryville on the 8th of October, 1862. Thomas C. was a soldier in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Alexander H. Cunard was born on the 22nd of August, 1845, and he was a farmer by occupation. He married Miss Virginia A. Craven and they became the parents of two children : Orria V., who resides with the subject of this sketch ; and Lee S., to whom this article is dedicated. The mother is a descendant of an old Virginia family and she long survived her honored husband and died on the 14th of September, 1909. As previously noted, the father was a soldier in the Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war. From the effects of extreme exposure suffered at the battle of Stone river he contracted pulmonary consumption and as a result of this dread malady he died in 1886. Lee S. Cunard was reared to adult age on the old home farm on which he now resides, and he received his education in the public schools of Lincoln township. He was a child of but four years of age at the time of his father's death and as he was an only son he was early obliged to assume the practical responsibilities of life. He relieved his mother of the management of the old farmstead and he and his sister continued to maintain their home with the aged mother until her death, in 1909 The sister now keeps house and Mr. Cunard works and manages the farm. Orria V. owns seventy-three acres of land in Lincoln township, where they reside, and Mr. Cunard has a farm of eighty-seven acres near Cardington. The sister is a woman of most gracious personality, is prominent in charitable work in this section and is a zealous member of the Baptist church. In his political adherency Mr. Cunard is a stanch advocate of the principles promulgated by the Republican party and while he has never manifested aught of ambition for political preferment of any description he is ever on the alert to help along any measure advanced for the good of the community and the county at large. He is a general farmer and stock-raiser and holds prestige as one of the ablest agriculturists in Lincoln township Fraternally he is affiliated with Bennington Lodge, No. 433. Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Lee Cunard is now a student in the Landon School of Art and Cartooning, at Cleveland, Ohio, and he has been a student therein for two years. He is a man of philanthropical tendencies and he and his sister are prominent and popular factors in connection with the best social activities of the community . They are both unmarried. HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 869 JACOB EKELBERRY.-A native of the old Buckeye state and a representative of one of its sterling pioneer families, Jacob Ekelberry has lived a life of uprightness and usefulness and was long and successfully identified with the great basic industries of farming and stockgrowing, through association with which lines of enterprise he gained distinctive success. He is now living virtually retired on an attractive little homestead of thirteen acres, lying adjacent to the village of Cardington, and in the county that has so long been his home and the scene of his well directed endeavors he is held in unqualified confidence and esteem, his standing in the community being such as to entitle him to representation in this publication.. Jacob Ekelberry was born on a farm in Brown township, Delaware county, Ohio, on the 13th of September, 1841, and is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Whiteman) Ekelberry, both of whom were born and reared in Pennsylvania, where their marriage was solemnized. The father was a son of Jacob Ekelberry, who was of stanch German ancestry and who finally removed from Pennsylvania to Muskingum county, Ohio, where he developed an excellent farm and where he and his wife passed the residue of their lives, honored by all who knew them. He was a man of sturdy integrity and marked industry and he was one of the worthy pioneers of Muskingum county, to whose social and material advancement he contributed his quota. Jacob Ekelberry (II), father of him whose name initiates this review and who bears the full patronymic, remained in Pennsylvania for some time after his marriage and then came with his cherished and devoted wife to Ohio. For a few years he maintained his home in Fairfield county, and he then removed to Delaware county, where he reclaimed a farm and won independence and definite prosperity through his indefatigable industry and good management. On the homestead both he and his wife continued to reside until they were summoned to the life eternal, and their names merit an enduring place on the roll of honored pioneers of this favored section of the state The mother was a member of the Baptist church. They became the parents of eleven children, of whom four sons and five daughters were reared to years of maturity, and of the number three are now living: Sarah, who is the wife of George Ferguson, residing near St. Joseph, Missouri ; Mary, who is the wife of John Heverlo, of Delaware county, Ohio, and Jacob, who figures as the immediate subject of this sketch. Jacob Ekelberry, the only surviving son in this large family, gained his initial experiences in connection with the work of the home farm and the conditions that compassed his boyhood were those of what may be termed the middle-pioneer period of the history of this section of the state. He found his early educational advantages those afforded in the somewhat primitive district schools, but he has profited largely by the lessons gained under the 870 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY direction of the wise headmaster, experience, and is a man of broad mental ken and mature judgment, the while he has exemplified most effectively the wholesome traditions of the family name, which has ever been exponent of integrity, loyalty and unassuming worth. There has been nothing complex or dramatic in his career as one of the world's noble army of workers, but his course has been sincere, sane and earnest, marked by appreciation of the duties and responsibilities that canopy every life, and the result is shown in the impregnable vantage place he holds in the confidence and regard of his fellow men. Mr. Ekelberry purchased his homestead farm in Westfield township, Morrow county, and through his well directed energies he developed the same into one of the valuable properties of the county, making the best of improvements and giving his attention to diversified agriculture and stock-growing. His landed estate, comprising eighty acres, he sold in 1911 and he has now established himself in the attractive home which he has purchased contiguous to the village of Carding-ton, where he is enabled to enjoy the gracious rewards of former years of earnest endeavor. The place comprises thirteen acres, as already stated, and he will thus find oportunity to touch in a moderate way the cultivation of the soil, his love for which has become reinforced by long years of close association. Though never desirous of entering the turbulance of practical politics, Mr. Ekelberry has ever stood ready to lend his influence and cooperation in the support of measures tending to advance the general welfare of the community and he is aligned as a stanch supporter of the basic principles of the Democratic party. Both he and his wife have been for many years zealous members of the Marlboro Baptist church, which is one of the oldest in Delaware county and near which their homestead farm is located. The domestic relations of Mr. Ekelberry have been of the most ideal order, as his cherished and devoted wife has been a true helpmeet as they have passed side by side along the journey of life, sustained and comforted by mutual sympathy and abiding affection. On the 24th of December, 1863, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Ekelberry to Miss Maria E. Redman, who was born in Brown township, Delaware county, Ohio, on the 23rd of October, 1845, and who is the daughter of Aaron and Drusilla (Dix) Redman, the former of whom was born in the state of Virginia, where he was reared to maturity and whence he came to Delaware county; Ohio, when a young man, his marriage being here solemnized. His wife was a daughter of David and Mary (Main) Dix. David Dix was a son of Elijah Dix, who was born and reared in the highlands of Scotland and who immigrated to America about the year 1750. He located about thirty miles north of the city of New York and there passed the remainder of his life. A number of his descendants have attained to distinction in public, professional and business life, including the late General HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 871 John A. Dix, at one time governor of New York, as well as Honorable John A. Dix, the present governor of that state, and Reverend John M. Dix, D. D., a prominent member of the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal church. Elijah Dix, the progenitor of the family in America, married Margaret Clark, who was of English parentage. He was distinctively loyal to the land of his adoption, as is well shown by the fact that he served as a valiant soldier in the Continental line in the war of the Revolution. In this connection he was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown. Later he established his home in Vermont, but he finally removed to Pennsylvania. David Dix, grandfather of Mrs. Ekelberry, was one of the sterling pioneers of Delaware county, Ohio, where he took up his abode in 1808, a few years after the admission of the state to the Union. He secured a tract of heavily timbered land in Troy township, where he reclaimed a farm from the wilderness, besides which he had the distinction of being the first permanent settler of that township. His wife, whose maiden name was Mary Main, was a representative of a family that gave a number of valiant soldiers and at least one officer to the patriou forces in the war of the Revolution. In conclusion is entered brief record concerning the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Ekelberry. Stephen A., Joanna. E., Bertha L. and Kittie M. Stephen A., who was afforded good educational advantages, having been educated in the schools of Delaware, Ohio, and at Kenyon Military Academy, at Gambier, is a master mechanic and resides in the city of Delaware.     He married Miss Sylvia Catherine Jacoby, and they had two children : Glady Marie, who died in infancy, and Jay Redman, educated in the schools of Delaware, who is a promising young man, and a member of Company K, Ohio National Guards. Joanna E., after completing her public school education received training in art and took a course in music in the Ohio Wesleyan University, and was a successful teacher for a number of years. She first married Emmet M. Wickham, and by this marriage has one son, Joy Carrollton, now a veterinary surgeon, who received his education at the Ohio State University. She is now the wife of Frank L. Woods, and resides in Graceton, Texas, and has two sons, Francis Jacob and Joseph Patrick.  Bertha L., who remains at the parental home, was graduated in the high school of Delaware, and also took courses in music and art at the Ohio Wesleyan University; Kittie M., who is also at home, after completing the course in the public schools continued her studies in music and art, and she, like her sisters, is a lady of culture and of most gracious personality, the family having been one of prominence in connection with the social activities of the home community. HARPER FLEMING. When it is stated that this well known and highly esteemed agriculturist and stock-grower of Peru township 872 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY is a representative of the third generation of the Fleming family in Morrow county it becomes evident that he bears a name that has been identified with the history of this favored section of the Buckeye state since the early pioneer epoch, and it may further be stated that on the maternal side also he is of the third generation in Morrow county, within whose borders the respective families settled prior to its organization under the present name. As a citizen of sterling worth and as one who has attained to marked priority in connection with the important industrial lines to which he has given his allegiance Mr. Fleming is well entitled to definite recognition in this history of his native county, to whose civic and material progress he has contributed, even as his father and both his paternal and maternal grandfathers. His fine landed estate, comprising one hundred and two acres, is known as Long View Stock Farm, and the beautiful rural home occupies a site whose eminence is such as to afford a commanding view of the surrounding country within a radius of about three miles. His is one of the model farms of the county and his indefatigable energy and progressive methods have brought to him unqualified success in his various operations, the while he has stood exponent of the most loyal citizenship and of distinctive public spirit. Harper Fleming was born in Peru township, Morrow county, on the 28th of August, 1862, and in the same fine township which is his present place of abode were also born his parents, James and Rachel (Haverlo) Fleming, the respective dates of nativity having been January 27, 1824, and August 15, 1830. The father has given his allegiance to agriculture and stock-growing throughout his entire active career and he and his wife, now venerable in years, live with their children. Both are well known in this section of the state, which has ever been their home, and they have secured an impregnable place in the confidence and esteem of those with whom they have come in contact in the various relations of life. Of their nine children he whose name introduces this sketch was the seventh in order of birth and of the others three sons and one daughter are now living. Harper Fleming was reared to the sturdy discipline of the old homestead farm and is indebted to the common schools of the locality and period for his early educational training, the greater part of which was received during the winter terms, when his services were not in requisition in connection with the work of the farm. He has never wavered in his allegiance to the great basic industry under whose influence he was reared: and through the same he has found ample opportunity for effective enterprise. He has kept in close touch with the march of advancement and has availed himself of scientific methods and progressive ideas in both the agricultural and stock-growing departments of his productive operations, with the result that he is recognized as one of the essentially representative farmers and stock-growers of the county that HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 873 has ever been his home and to whose every interest he is loyal. He initiated his independent career when a young man by teaching school for a number of years, afterward taking up farming, and he has resided upon his present homestead for many years, in the meanwhile putting forth the best effort in developing and improving the place. He makes a specialty of the raising of high-grade live stock and through this medium has gained high reputation for the success of his operations. The buildings and other permanent improvements on his farm are of the best order and everything about the place bears patent evidence of thrift and prosperity. In politics Mr. Fleming is found aligned as a stanch supporter of the cause of the Democratic party and he has wielded much influence in connection with public affairs of a local order. He has exemplified the most progressive ideas and policies and he was the principal factor in securing the petition for and bringing about the construction of the Fleming stone road, a fine highway extending from Ashley to Stantontown, Morrow county—a distance of five and one-half miles. He has served with marked efficiency and acceptability as assessor of Peru township and also as deputy county supervisor of elections, besides which he has otherwise been active in connection with public affairs in the county. Mr. Fleming has been twice married. In 1886 he wedded Miss Jennie Foster and she was summoned to the life eternal on the 26th of August, 1901. Concerning the children of this union the following brief record is entered : Gussie A., who was born on the 23rd of May, 1887, was graduated in the high school at Pleasantville, Fairfield county, as a member of the class of 1905, and thereafter was for two years a student in Shepherdson College, at Granville, Licking county. She is now principal of the high school at Basil, Fairfield county, and is proving a successful and popular teacher. 011ie R., the second daughter, who was born August 15, 1891, was graduated in the commercial department of Oberlin Colege, as a member of the class of 1911, and she holds a lucrative position with a Cleveland business firm. Junia E., was born on the 20th of August, 1895. On the 3rd of August, 1902, Mr. Fleming was united in marriage to Mrs. Gladys (Jenkins) Whipple, widow of Albert Whipple and a daughter of Silas Jenkins, a well known citizen of Ashley, Morrow county, a village about four and one-half miles- distant from the homestead farm of Mr. Fleming. The one child of the second marriage is Wade E., who was born on the 29th of August, 1904. Mr. Fleming and his family are popular factors in connection with the social activities of the community, and the attractive home is known for its cordial hospitality. ORVILLE HULSE.-A well-known resident of Sparta, Orval Hulse occupies an assured position among the substantial sitizens of Morrow county. A son of Reuben Hulse, he was born, Novem- 874 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY ber 16, 1852, in Morrow county, being the descendant of one of its early pioneers. His paternal grandfather, Thomas Hulse, who married Leah Hervey, spent his entire life in New York state, dying at an early age. His widow, with her two children, a son, Reuben, and a daughter, came to Ohio, and settled on a farm in Morrow county. Coming with his mother and sister to Morrow county in the early part of the nineteenth century, .Reuben Hulse assisted in the establishment of a home, and remained with his mother until his marriage, April 2, 1827, at the age of twenty-seven years, to Susan Hewett. She was born in Pennsylvania, and came with her parents, Cyrus and Serena (Sherman) Hewett, to Knox county, Ohio, when a girl. He subsequently located on a farm, and was successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits in Morrow county until 1880, when he removed to Sparta, where he lived retired, enjoying the fruits of his earlier years of labor, until his death, 1889. He was an active member of the Republican party, and served as county coroner, township trustee, and for several years was a member of the local school board. Four children were born to him and his wife, as follows : a child that died in infancy; Amarilla, deceased; Orville, the special subject of this sketch ; and Eva, born April 27, 1859. Until 1909 Orville Hulse resided with his widowed mother and his sister, but since that time has lived in Sparta, where he is held in high regard as a man and a citizen, and enjoys the esteem and confidence of his fellows to a marked degree. A warm supporter of the principles of the Republican party, he has held various township offices, and has served on the village board, filling the various positions to which he has been elected with ability, and fidelity. Mr. Hulse married, in 1885, Amarilla Wheatcraft, who was born October 22, 1860, a daughter of Henry Wheatcraft. Guy Hewett Hulse, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hulse, was born May 9, 1886, and is now residing in Galion, Ohio, where he is agent for the Mutual Insurance Company. He is married, and has one child. THE GROVE FAMILY, Other men's services to the people and state can be measured by definite deeds, by dangers averted, by legislation secured, by institutions built, by commerce promoted. What a minister accomplishes is through the influence of speech and written words and personal character, an influence whose value is not to be reckoned with mathematical exactness but which may be worth more by far than material benefits to the one affected by it. At this point attention is directed to the helpful and inspiring careers of Wilson and Mary Grove, earnest workers and preachers in the Advent Christian church, in which they were ordained in 1887. HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 875 MRS. MARY GROVE 876 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - BLANK HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 877 The original Grove ancestor in America was Hans Graff (John Grove), who was born and reared in Holland, whence he immigrated to America in an early day. He was the father of seven sons, who settled in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio. Prominent among these were Peter and Michael, of Bald Eagle, Pennsylvania. At the time when these boys were growing up the old Keystone state suffered severely from Indian depredations. At one time a company of hunters, returning home, was met by a band of Indians, who, during their absence, had laid waste the settlement. Among the hunters were Peter and Michael Grove, then young men, to whom the Indians showed their parents' scalps, making grimaces of the face to show how they looked while being scalped. The Grove boys, with others, swore 'vengeance on the Indians and for years hunted them like animals. Returning to their home they found it in ruins and with one companion they followed the Indians for three days, eventually finding them in the midst of the wilderness. Creeping upon them at night, while they were asleep on the banks of A creek, where they had stacked their arms, Peter, who could speak the Indian language, called out, "Surround them, boys," at the same time throwing the Indians' arms into the creek. The three boys aimed and fired their guns and the Indians, taken by surprise, were routed and a number slain. It is interesting at this point to note that Grove township, in Pennsylvania, was named in honor of these brave boys, who protected the settlement. Peter Grove's son, John, married Mary Welch, of Pennsylvania, and to them was born a, son, Peter, who was united in marriage to Jane Foster. The children born to the latter union were: Mary, Jennie, Clara, Jane, Henrietta, Alice, Wilson and W. F. Wilson Grove wedded Mary Eakin, a daughter of Alexander McQuistan and Catherine (Pettigrew) Eakin, the ceremony having been performed at Chapmanville, on the 1st of March, 1877. Wilson Grove was born on his father's farm, a farm two miles from Chapmanville, the date of his birth being the 3rd of September, 1849. He was reared to maturity on the old Grove homestead farm near Chapmanville and received his early educational training in the public schools of his native place. Mrs. Wilson Grove was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, on the 1st of March, 1859. Her father, A. M. Eakin, was a soldier in the Civil war, having been enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth New York Volunteer Infantry, in 1862. He participated in a number of important engagements marking the progress of the war and after three years' of faithful and valorous service contracted typhoid fever from too much exposure during the unsanitary conditions of the war, meeting death in a hospital at City Point, Virginia. He passed away at the early age of twenty-eight years and was survived by a widow and two daughters, Mary, now Mrs. Grove ; and Lula, who is the wife of H. A.. Chase, of Youngsville, Penn- 878 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY sylvania. Mary (Eakin) Grove passed her girlhood in the old Keystone state and as a young woman she became a student in the State Normal School, at Edinboro, Pennsylvania. After her marriage to Mr. Wilson Grove, they settled down at Chapmanville, Pennsylvania, where they became the parents of one son, Don Welcome, whose birth occurred on the 7th of September, 1887. With the passage of time Mr. and Mrs. Grove became deeply interested in religious work, their attention being given specially to the Advent Christian church, in which they were ordained as ministers in the year 1887. Thereafter they held several charges in Pennsylvania, namely : Chapmanville, Wallaceville, East Branch, Eldred, Center and Blooming Valley. In 1894 the Grove family removed to Ohio, locating at Sparta, Mrs. Grove's widowed mother, Mrs. Eakin, accompanying them. In the Ohio Conference Mr. and Mrs. Grove had charges at Sparta, Stantontown and East Porter. They also held a number of tent meetings—one at Mount Liberty, lasting two months, where Elder Grove baptized sixty-eight persons and where eventually they organized a church, of ninety-nine members, and erected a beautiful church. The meeting held at Mount Liberty was said to have been the best ever held in that part of the country ; its influence was far-reaching for good. Other tent meetings were held by the Groves, one at Vale's Corners, where they built and dedicated a fine church. Another was held at Claybourn, in Union county, Ohio, where another church stands as a lasting monument of thorough work. Tent meetings were also held at Olive Green, Marengo and Old Eden. During all these years the presence of Mrs. Grove's mother in her home, to cooperate and counsel with, was a source of great comfort to her. Mrs. Eakin was known far and wide as "Aunt Kate" and was deeply beloved because of her kindness of heart and cheery disposition. Although an invalid, she was ever forgetful of herself, always planning for the pleasure and happiness of others. After a brief illness this precious mother, at the age of sixty-four years, fell asleep for the last time, her demise occurring on the 19th of January, 1902. Thus the light of the old home went out. While Mr. and Mrs. Grove were filling a five-years' pastorate at Nevada, Ohio, an incident occurred which changed the trend of public thought in regard to the saloon element, of which the town apparently approved. A little boy, who waited in front of a saloon one cold night for his father, died from the exposure. This occurrence made a lasting impression on the hearts of the townspeople. Mr. and Mrs. Grove began at once to awaken public sentiment for the abolition of the saloons and for the protection of their sons and daughters. Mrs. Grove accordingly issued a call to temperance workers and organized a branch of the Womens Christian Temperance Union, the same consisting of eighty members, of which body she was chosen president. The mayor of HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 879 Nevada, Henry Kingsley, a fine temperance man, the bankers and all the best business men of the village became honorary members of the Union and public sentiment was aroused to a marked degree. Subsequently an election was called and for the first time in the entire history of Nevada, the saloon was voted out. Mrs. Grove received numerous letters of congratulation from prominent state workers for her particular part in the good work. In 1905 Mrs. Grove visited the Pacific coast and falling in love with the majestic scenery decided to establish the family home temporarily at Rosa, Idaho. Later she did Evangelistic work at Seattle, Snohomish and Trafton. While at Seattle she learned of an Advent Christian church in Vancouver, the members of which did not favor women preachers. As their pulpit was vacant, Mrs. Grove decided to visit them for one Sunday and finally at their request remained three weeks longer, at the expiration of which time they gave her an unanimous call for pastor. The trustees reported her visit to the church paper, saying she was the ablest woman preacher they had ever heard preach the glorious gospel of Christ. Following is the letter as it appeared in the Advocate of Oakland, California. "Vancouver, B. C., April 28, 1909. "Dear Brother Young: "We take this opportunity of writing you a few lines. We had the pleasure of a visit from Sister M. Grove, of Ohio. She preached for us for three Sundays. We enjoyed her visit very much she did us good. May God bless her great heart of love. She is the ablest woman we ever heard preach the glorious gospel. She preached one sermon at one of the missions and two young men came out on the Lord's side. May the Lord bless her. "Your brothers in Christ, "Robert A. Muir. " Thomas Lobb, Trustees."' Another article of appreciation concerning Mrs. Grove's services appeared in the Advocate, under date of June 13, 1909, and the same is considered worthy of reproduction in this sketch. "The recent notice in the Advocate concerning the work of Sister M. Grove in Washington brings to my mind the time of her first appearance in Snohomish, where I had the pleasure of hearing her. However prejudiced one might be against a woman preacher, it would be entirely dispelled after hearing one of her sermons. For she presents the Word, modestly but forcefully, in sweetness but convincingly, so that when she has finished her theme the hearer must either receive or reject the message. I wish she might be secured as a permanent worker in the Washington Conference. But whenever the Lord calls her I believe she will do most acceptable work for God. "In the Master's service, "Reverend Charles P. Kittredge, "Pastor of Snohomish A. C. church." 880 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY Mrs. Grove is considered a woman of strong personality and she is everywhere accorded recognition as an eloquent and forcible speaker. While pastor of the John Day Advent church in Oregon, Mrs. Grove edited a little book entitled "Broken Links in Error's Chain," which caused more commotion among the ministry than anything they had heard for years and which was strongly opposed by religious editors and pastors. The work, advocating freedom from traditional errors, by which the human mind has been bound for centuries of tradition and superstition, insists that the Satan, which the human family has been taught is an unseen personality, should be relegated to the realms of oblivion and man made to understand that "Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, etc.," thus teaching the important lesson "Know thyself." After this book was published a number of editors and preachers wrote scurrilous criticisms of it and in reply to them Mrs. Grove issued an open challenge to debate the question openly. In her quest, however, she failed to find a 'single man who was willing to meet her in the arena of fair and open discussion. Many broad-minded men heartily endorsed her work and from Maine to California she received hundreds of congratulatory testimonials. While a resident of Idaho, Mrs. Grove rode her saddle horse a distance of forty miles to vote for President Taft and during the campaign she herself was elected justice of the peace in Bingham. county. Mrs. Grove has acted as delegate to the state convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union both at Cleveland and at Salem, Ohio. In 1911 she was one of Morrow county's delegates to the Ohio State Sunday School Convention, held at Dayton. While a pastor in Ohio, Mrs. Grove has officiated in one hundred funerals and has solemnized a large number of marriages. In connection with Mrs. Grove's work at John Day Advent Christian church in Oregon the following appreciative statements are here incorporated. "In acknowledgement of the services of Sister M. Grove as our pastor for the past nine months, the John Day A. C. church desires to say, that in Sister Grove we found an earnest and congenial co-worker, and an able exponent and defender of Adventual truths, who never presents a theme without being thoroughly conversant with it. As a result our church has been strengthened, and increased in numbers, and we feel encouraged and better equipped for work because of the instructive school we have been attending. "A fine reception was tendered Brother and Sister Grove by their friends before their leaving for their home in Sparta, Ohio. We would have been pleased to have them remain with us, and hope they may return. "For the church at John Day, Oregon, "F. I. McCallum, Trustee, "J. A. Laycock, Trustee, "M. C. Timms, S. S. Supt." HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 881 The entire careers of Mr. and Mrs. Grove have been characterized by deep human sympathy and that innate kindliness of spirit which begets comradeship and cements to them the friendship of all with whom they have come in contact. They are everywhere accorded the unalloyed confidence and high regard of their fellow citizens and their exemplary lives serve as lessons and incentive to the younger generation. RANSOM T. BOCKOVER.—It can not be other than gratifying to note that within the gracious borders of Morrow county there yet remain many of her native sons who are scions of pioneer families of the county and who have found ample scope for productive effort along normal and beneficient lines of productive enterprise. Such a citizen is Ransom T. Bockover, who has maintained his home in Morrow county from the time of his nativity and who has here lent added prestige to a name honored in connection with the civic and material development and upbuilding of this section of the fine old Buckeye commonwealth. To his credit stands a long and active identification with the great allied industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and he continued to reside on a fine homestead of one hundred acres, in Chester township, until impaired health rendered it imperative for him to resign the cares, labors and responsibilities that had so long been his, and he thus disposed of his farm and established his home in the village of Chesterville, where he has lived virtually retired since the opening of the twentieth century. He was one of the loyal sons of Morrow county who went forth to aid in defense of the Union in the climacteric period of the Civil 'war, and in the "piping times of peace"- he has shown the same loyalty that prompted him thus to enter the military service of his country when he was a mere youth. His success in temporal affairs has been the direct result of his own energy and ability and his high sense of personal stewardship has been manifested in a life of signal integrity and honor, so that he has not been denied the fullest measure of popular confidence and esteem in his native county, where his circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances. In his pleasant home, surrounded by friends that are tried and true, he is now enjoying the well earned rewards of former years of earnest toil and eadeavor. Ransom T. Bockover was born on the old homestead farm of his father, in Chester township, Morrow county, Ohio, on the 8th of December, 1846, and is a son of Jonathan And Elizabeth (Adams) Bockover, both natives of New Jersey, where the former was born in the year 1797 and the latter on the 24th of October, 1818, she having been a daughter of Una and Ritta Adams. Jonathan Bockover and his wife were reared to maturity in their native state, where their marriage was solemnized, and they came to Ohio about the year 1835. They numbered themselves among 882 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY the pioneers of Chester township, Morrow county, where he secured a tract of fifty acres of land, two miles south of the present thriving little town of Chesterville. He reclaimed the major portion of this tract from the forest and eventually developed the same into one of the productive farms of the county. He was a man of energy and well directed industry, and he gained independence and measurable prosperity, the while he made the best possible provision for his children and was true to all the responsibilities devolving upon him as a citizen. He was influential in local affairs of a public order and was a man of superior intelligence and broad views. He continued to reside on his old homestead until death, in 1882, at the venerable age of eighty-five years, and his cherished and devoted wife survived him by twenty years. She was summoned to the life eternal on the 17th of April, 1902, at the age of eighty-three years and six months. The names of both merit enduring place on the roll of the honored pioneers of Morrow county, where they lived and labored to goodly ends. They became the parents of eight children, whose names are here entered in the respective order of birth: James, Jacob, Ira, Isaac, Minerva, Rebecca and Ransom T. (twins), and Jason. James, Jacob and Ransom T. still survive. Ransom T. Bockover gained his early experiences in connection with the work of the pioneer farm on which he was born, and in the meanwhile he duly availed himself of the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period. He has profited by the lessons gained through years of active association with men and affairs and is known as a man of broad information and well fortified opinions. At the inception of the Civil war he was too young to be eligible for military service. but his youthful loyalty and patriotism eventually found definite manifestation. In the month of May, 1864, when seventeen years of age, he enlisted as a private in Company F, One Hundred, and Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with this command he served until the close of his one hundred days' term enlistment, his company having been commanded by Captain Meredith. For a considerable portion of this term he was engaged in garrison service, and he was mustered out on the 31st of August, 1864, after which he duly received his honorable discharge. In later years the government has shown recognition of his services as a soldier of the republic by according him a pension of thirty dollars a month. During the major portion of his military career Mr. Bockover was with his regiment in the state of Virginia and after receiving his discharge he returned to Morrow county and engaged in farming on his own responsibility', in Chester township. Here he applied himself with all of energy and zeal, and in the course of years the tangible results of his well directed efforts were shown in his ownership of a well improved and highly productive farm of one hundred acres. He continued there to be actively identi- HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 883 fled with farming and stock-growing until 1900, when impaired health compelled his retirement from active labors. He met this exigency by selling his farm and he then removed to Chesterville, where he purchased the attractive residence property that has since continued to be his place of abode. In all ways has Mr. Bockover shown a deep interest in the material and social progress of his native county, and he has thus given his cooperation and influence in support of measures and enterprises tending to further the well being of the community. In politics he maintains an independent attitude, by giving his support to the men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment rather than by following strict partisan dictates. He and his wife are zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and both have secure place in popular confidence and esteem. He has retained a definite interest in his old comrades of the Civil war and manifests the same by his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. In the year 1871 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Bockover to Miss Mary K Lanning, who was born in Chester township, Morrow county, on the 12th of May, 1851, and who is a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Lanning, who were well known and highly esteemed pioneers of the county, where they continued to reside until their death. Mr. and Mrs. Bockover became the parents of four children, of whom the first-born, Artemas, died at the age of seven months; Carper, the second son, is individually mentioned in an appending paragraph ; Alice is the wife of Charles Fitzgeralds, who is identified with the oil business in Wood county, this state; and Burton, who resides in Chesterville, follows the vocation of an auctioneer. Carper Bockover, the second in order of birth of the children of the honored subject of this review, was born on the 21st of April, 1874, and he was reared to adult age under the sturdy discipline of the home farm. He continued to attend the district schools of Chester township at intervals until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, and he then secured employment for three months on the farm of A. L. Caton, in the same township He continued to be variously employed until he had attained his legal majority, and soon afterward, in the year 1896; he was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Webb, who was born in this county, on the 15th of March, 1876, and who is a daughter of Henry and Lydia (Shaffer) Webb, bath of whom were born and reared in the state of Pennsylvania. After his marriage Carper Bockover engaged in the buying and selling of horses and other live stock, and he built up an extensive and prosperous enterprise in this line, in addition to which he also conducted a well equipped meat market in Chesterville for a number of years. He has recently been giving much attention to the investigating of the agricultural advantages of the northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan, Vol. II-23 884 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY where he has purchased a tract of one hundred and sixty acres of land and in the year 1911 he removed to that section of the Wolverine. state and established his home in Lake City, Missaukee county, where he now resides. He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, in which he held various official chairs in the lodge at Chesterville, and both he and his wife are members of the adjunct organization, the Order of the Eastern Star, in which Mrs.. Bock-over was worthy matron of the Chesterville Chapter in 1910. HARRY S. ANDREWS.—This in an age of bustle and energy and the man who succeeds in any undertaking is the one who has initiative power and general versatility. Harry S. Andrews is naturally a hustler and as optician and jeweler at Mount Gilead he has gained distinctive precedence as one of the most enterprising business men of the younger generation in this city. Harry S. Andrews was born at Hebron, Porter county, Indiana, on the 7th of August, 1882, a son of Stillman F. and Anchor C. (Deathe) Andrews, both of whom were born in the state of Indiana. The father was a man who possessed business acumen in several vocations and seemed to make a success in each venture. He dealt in real estate and was an undertaker, as well as a good mechanic. He was a veteran in the Civil war, member of the Seventh Indiana Cavalry, and served four years. He was severely wounded while in service, and he received his honorable discharge at the close of the war. He was a devoted member of the Christian church and was one of the elders as well as organizer of the church at Hebron, Indiana. He died in 1883. The mother was also a native of Indiana. She traced her lineage to the English, although her early ancestors were of French birth. The name Deathe was spelled "De Athe." She was a devout member of the Christian church and one of its charter members. She died May 15, 1910. To the public schools of his native town Mr. Andrews of this review is indebted for his preliminary educational training, the same including a course in the local high school, in which he was a member of the class of 1900. After leaving school he learned telegraphy and for a time was in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1905 he went to the city of Chicago, where he worked for the Western Union Telegraph Company for one year, at the expiration of which he learned the baker's trade, being identified with that line of enterprise at Hebron, Indiana, for eighteen months. Thereafter he pursued a course of study in ophthalmology in the McCormick College, in Chicago, in which institution he was a student in the class of 1903. He initiated the active work of his profession at Columbia, Tennessee, where he remained for two years and where he began to learn the jewelry business. He came to Mount Gilead in 1905 and purchased the bankrupt stock of A. T. Breese, having as a partner in the business HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 885 his brother, Burton W. Andrews, whose interest he purchased in 1906. In connection with his splendid jewelry establishment he has an optician's department and in both these lines of enterprise his success is of most prominent order. He is also interested in a moving-picture show at Mount Gilead, which is a source of considerable revenue. Altogether he is a man of decided business sagacity and extraordinary energy, one for whom the future has bright promises. At Mount Gilead, March 28, 1906, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Andrews to Miss Zella Livingston, who was born and educated in this county and who is a woman of intelligence and charm. She is a native daughter of Morrow county, and was born near Marengo, where she was a student in the Marengo High School and was also a student in the public schools at Fostoria, Ohio. She graduated from the Oberlin Business College in the class of 1901, and she is a valuable aid to her husband in his business. Mrs. Andrews is a member of the First Presbyterian church at Fostoria, Ohio. They are most popular factors in connection with the best social activities of Mount Gilead. In politics Mr.. Andrews is a stanch Republican and he is a hard worker in connection with all matters tending to advance the general welfare of the community. He was secretary of the street fair in 1910. Fraternally he is affiliated with and is secretary of Mount Gilead Lodge, No. 206, Free and Accepted Masons. THOMAS W. BABCOCK.-" Through struggles to triumph" seems to be the maxim which holds sway for the majority of our citizens and, though undeniably true that many a one falls exhausted in the conflict, a few by their inherent force of character and strong mentality rise above their environments and all which seems to hinder them until they reach the plane of affluence. Such has been the history of Thomas W. Babcock, and in his life record many useful lessons may be gleaned. Mr. Babcock resides at Marengo, Morrow county, Ohio, where he is recognized as a representative and influential business man of the most insistent order. Thomas W. Babcock was born in Bennington township, Morrow county, on the 6th of December, 1882, a son of I. A. and Mary E. (Wheeler) Babcock. The parents are both living and maintain their home at Marengo. They became the parents of six children, namely : Ora, who is the wife of William Blair, of Mansfield, Ohio ; Grace, who wedded H. S. Cruikshank, of Mount Gilead, Ohio ; Lydia, who remains at the parental home ; Robert D., who is a resident of Sunbury, Ohio ; Josephine, of Mount Gilead ; and Thomas W., who is the immediate subject of this review. Mr. Babcock was reared to adult age on the home farm in Bennington township and after completing the curriculum of the district schools he attended and was graduated in the high 886 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY school at Marengo as a member of the class of 1897. For one year thereafter he was engaged in teaching school and in 1899 he turned his attention to the hay and grain business. In the latter enterprise he initiated operations with a team and wagon and a capital of fifteen dollars. With borrowed money he launched into the business world buying and selling hay and grain, and with the passage of years he built up a large and enterprising industry. At the present time, in 1911, he has offices and conducts business at Marengo, Ashley, Sunbury, Johnstown and Peerless, and his annual volume of business amounts to about two hundred thousand dollars. In the year 1907, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, was recorded the marriage of Mr. Babcock to Miss Bessie Groff, who was born and reared in the city of Dayton, Ohio, and who is a daughter of Michael and Minerva Groff. Mrs. Babcock was reared and educated in her native city and she is a woman of most pleasing personality and gracious refinement. To Mr. and Mrs. Babcock has been born one daughter, whose birth occurred on the 18th of January, 1908. Mrs. Babcock is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which institution Mr. Babcock gives a loyal support.. In politics Mr. Babcock is aligned as a stalwart in the ranks of the Republican party, and while he has never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office of any description he gives most freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures and enterprises projected for the good of the general welfare. In 1910 he was appointed guardian of the John C. Lewis estate, one of the largest estates ever taken through the probate court, the bond required of him being one hundred and twelve thousand dollars. In addition to his other interests Mr.. Babcock is a stockholder in the Ohio State Life Insurance Company, of Columbus, Ohio. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with Marengo Lodge, No. 216, Knights of Pythias, and with other organizations of a local character. In view of the phenomenal success attained in just a few years by this representative business man it is interesting to note that he started life with practically nothing except a spirit of pluck and a set determination to succeed. He has led an upright life, guided by honorable principles, and his fidelity to duty is unquestioned. He is a decidedly progressive business man, a genial and considerate friend and an honorable Christian gentleman, who in the community where he makes his home commands the unqualified confidence and good will of all those with whom he has come in contact.. PROFESSOR NATHAN H. BARTLETT.—The subject of this sketch was born on a farm one and one-half miles east of Mount Gilead, Ohio, January 22, 1856. Here he grew to the age of thirteen when his parents moved to a farm in North Bloomfield township, Morrow county, six miles south of Galion. HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 887 He commenced to make a hand on the farm at the age of eleven years and continued to work in summer and go to school in winter for the usual four months until the fall of 1875, when he attended a term of school at Ohio Central College, at Iberia, Ohio, where he won the first honors in arithmetic and algebra. He then returned home and taught the winter school of four months in his own district, and in the spring of 1876 went to Baldwin University, Berea, Ohio, where he spent two years in the classical course. In the meantime he taught a winter school, in what was known as the "Colmery District" two miles south of Iberia. The winter of 1878 and 1879 he taught the Bethel School, four miles northwest of Cardington, and in March, 1879, he went to Lebanon, Ohio, to attend the spring term at the National Normal University. After teaching and going to school by turns, he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science at this last named university, July 30, 1884, and on August 6th of that year was married to Miss Cora A. Bartlett, of Cincinnati, Ohio, also a graduate of the National Normal University. He was granted a Common School Life Certificate by the Ohio State Board of Examiners in 1890, and a High School Life Certificate in 1892. Professor Bartlett was principal of the Germantown High School at Germantown, Ohio, from 1890 to 1892, when he was elected superintendent of schools at Mount Healthy, a suburb of Cincinnati, where he remained for nine years. At Mt. Healthy he established the high school and maintained it on a strong basis. In 1901 he removed to Winfield, Kansas, seeking a milder climate for his wife's health, and for the eight years from 1903 to 1911, he was superintendent of schools at Burden, Kansas. At this place he changed the high school course from two to four years, and raised the school to an accredited high school which secured for his graduates admission into the State University of Kansas without examination. Professor Bartlett is an accomplished scholar, a successful educator, is proficient in vocal music, and is a good singer. Perhaps his character can be well summed up in brief, by quoting what his patrons of Burden, Kansas, have said of him in a printed article : "He is a man of high ideals, laudable ambitions, and rich intellectual endowments. His influence has always been on the side of right, which means much when the moulding of character is considered as well as mental development." The children are three : Helen Genevieve, now a stenographer at Los Angeles, California; Oscar Herbert, at Beatrice, Nebraska; and Ernest Dwight at home. HONORABLE WILLIAM G. SHARP, Representative of the Fourteenth Congressional District of Ohio.—It is true the world over that men refer with pleasant thoughts to the places of their birth, 888 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY and Samuel Woodworth, in that unequalled poetic gem has most beautifully expressed the thought that comes to each of us when he says "How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood When fond recollection presents them to view." The people who remain at the home place of one's birth and childhood feel proud of the success and achievements of a daughter or son who has gone forth and, upon entering life's duties, has "made good." Of the success of such an one the writer is proud to make a record for posterity. While Mount Gilead claims him in his earlier boyhood, Elyria claims him in his successful career and maturer years. Now, however, he not only belongs to Lorain and Morrow counties, but in a political sense to Ashland, Richland, Huron and Knox counties, whose people he represents in the highest legislative body of the Nation.. The subject of this sketch, William Craven Sharp, is the son of George Sharp and Mahala C. (Graves) Sharp,* and was born in Mount Gilead on the 14th day of March, 1859. The maternal grandparents, William Graves and Effee (Shaffer) Graves, came to Mount Gilead from Reynoldsburg, Ohio, in 1840, and were among the most respected and substantial citizens of the village during their residence of more than twenty years among its people, where Mr. Graves successfully conducted a saddlery and harness business. For many years afterwards, reaching over into the beginning of a new century, these early settlers of Mount Gilead paid visits to the former happy scenes of their life and to the birthplace of their three daughters, Mahala C., Orpha and Rosa-line, all of whom are still living. The paternal grandparents were George W. and Caroline Sharp (the latter of whom died on May 24, 1889), who came to Mount Gilead in 1851, though originally natives of the state of Maryland, in whose political affairs Mr. Sharp had been prominent. Here he became the proprietor and editor of the Democratic Messenger, and his son George (father of our subject) on the death of his father on September 17, 1854, assumed editorial management of that paper and continued it for several years. It was during this period that the love ties of our subject's mother and father were formed and welded by marriage on November 28, 1857. After moving to Elyria with his grandparents in the early '60s, William (with his brother George, in later years a state senator in Michigan) attended the public schools in Elyria and was graduated therefrom in 1877, and from the law department in the University of Michigan in 1881, in which latter year he was admitted to the bar as an attorney. Three years later he was elected to the office of prosecuting attorney of Lorain county as a Democrat—the first political event of such a nature that had occurred in that county in a half century. Having filled that position * The writer of the above sketch was the childhood playmate, for a few months, of the subject's mother before midsummer of the year 1847. Editor. HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 889 with credit, he soon afterward became attorney for "a Southern concern, which led him into a career as a successful manufacturer. It is in this field that he has been very active for more than twenty years past, and during which time he materially assisted in building up and developing a large and prosperous iron and chemical business. As a large employer of labor and as an associate with men of important affairs he has acquired a wide range of experience as a successful business man. Though he has never let any political ambition interfere with the management of his business enterprises, he has nevertheless always taken a keen and active .interest in local and state politics ; and, while he has affiliated with the Democratic party, he has the reputation not only of being independent in his views, but also expressing such independence by his ballot when, in his judgment, it becomes necessary to carry them out. The same course has been followed by him since his election to the Sixty-first Congress in 1908 upon all questions which involve the public good. His election to Congress in 1908 and subsequent reelection in 1910 by a plurality of nearly seven thousand in the district has made him a prominent figure in the state. In 1895 Mr. Sharp married Miss Hallie Clough, of Elyria, from which union five children have been born. It is in his domestic relations, surrounded by his family, in one of the fine old homes of Elyria, and in the town's social affairs that he finds his chief delight. EDWIN TAYLOR POLLOCK was born October 25th, 1870, at Mount Gilead, Ohio, and entered the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, May 20, 1887, as a naval cadet, having received the appointment from Colonel W. C. Cooper, representative from the Fourteenth Congressional District. He was graduated from the Naval Academy June 4, 1891, was commissioned an ensign, July 1, 1893 ; a lieutenant, junior grade, March 3, 1899 ; a lieutenant, September 9, 1899; a lieutenant-commander, September 30, 1905 ; and a commander March 4, 1910. He served on the U. S. S. "Lancaster," "Monocacy," "Petrel," and again on the "Lancaster," in 1891-1893, on the Asiatic Station, going out under sail around the Cape of Good Hope on the "Lancaster," and returning across the Pacific by mail-steamer. He was on the "New York" when she first went into commission in 1893 and for over a year thereafter, as well as during the Spanish war, when she was Admiral Sampson's flagship ; was on the "Machias" from '94 to '97, on the Asiatic Station, returning from there on the "Detroit" in 1897; was on the "Alliance," a training ship for apprentices, cruising on both sides of the Atlantic in 1899-1900, then on the "Dolphin" for a few months, and after a tour at the Torpedo School at Newport, Rhode Island, on the "Buffalo," en • route to the Asiatic Station where he was trans- 890 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY ferred to the "Brooklyn" 1901-2. The "Brooklyn" was then sent to Australia to represent the United States at the reception given to the Duke and Duchess of York (the present king and queen of England), on their tour around the world. After a. cruise to all the ports of north China and Japan, the "Brooklyn" returned to New York. The summers of 1903 and 1904, were spent on the "Chesapeake" (now called the "Severn,") and the summer of 1909 on the "Olympia," and that of 1910 on the "Massachusette," all of these summer cruises being for the instruction of midshipmen. Commander Pollock joined the battleship "Ohio" in October, 1904, remaining until May, 1905, when he was made Equipment Officer at the Naval Station, Cavite, P. I., until January; 1906, when he was ordered back to the "Ohio" as Flag Lieutenant on the staff of Rear Admiral C. J. Train, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navel forces on the Asiatic Station. On the death of the Admiral in August, 1906, he accompanied the remains back to thee United States, and was on the battleship "Alabama," as navigator until August, 1907. October 1, 1910, he joined the battleship "Virginia" as Executive Officer. Of these ships, the "Lancaster, '' "New York," "Brooklyn," "Ohio," "Alabama," "Olympia," were flagships. His shore duty has been at the U. S. Naval Academy, 1897-99, 1902-04, in 1907 and 1910, and in 1902 a few months on the receiving ship "Columbia" at the Navy Yard, New York, also occasional minor duties, as in command of the tug "Nina," the torpedo-boat "Bagley," etc., for short times. While on duty at the naval academy he was instructor for four years in mathematics, and three years in electrical engineering. His services at sea have taken him over two hundred thousand miles in all parts of the world, except around South America. He was married, December 5, 1893, at Hale's Rest, Richland county, Ohio, to Beatrice Law Hale, born there July 20, 1873. She was a daughter of Hugh Brisben and Henrietta Melvina (Fox) Hale, of Richland county, Ohio. Beatrice Hale, their daughter, was born June 1, 1901, at Brooklyn, New York. He is a member of the. Sons of the American Revolution, of the Society of Colonial Wars, of the Military Order of the Carabao, and has received from the government the West Indian medal for service on the New York, during the war with Spain, also the Spanish campaign, and Philippine badges, for service during those campaigns, and has a sharpshooter's medal with expert bars for rifle and revolver shooting. During the Jamestown Exposition, while on the "Alabama" he was temporarily of the staff of the German Commodore who representeed the German Emperor, and some months later received from the Commodore and his staff a handsome silver cigar box, in recognition of his services. HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 891 THE WAR RECORD OF THE GARDNER FAMILY OF PERU TOWNSHIP.—John Gardner, founder of one of the well known families in. Morrow county, was born near Paisley, Scotland, August 4, 1756. He came to America as a soldier in the army of King George III during the latter part of the Revolution. It is a tradition in the family that he was impressed, or forced, into his Majesty's army ; but of which regiment he was a member, how long he served, or in what campaigns he took part there is no knowledge except that he was in the army of Cornwallis at the surrender of Yorkstown. He never returned to his native land. At the close of his military servivce he settled in Virginia and soon after married Miss Nancy Musgrove of that state. Of this union there were born two sons, viz : James and Benjamin. Mr. Gardner's first wife died shortly after the birth of her second son and in due time he married Miss Rebecca Marquis, also of Virginia. To these two were born four children, viz : Robert, Sarah, Marquis and William. About the time the present seat of government was established Mr. Gardner moved to what is now the City of Washington where, in 1798, his son William was born and where his second wife died. For the third time Mr. Gardner sought and found a wife ; the last one being Mrs. Elizabeth (Grove) Thomas. The Groves were Marylanders, Elizabeth having been born at Hagerstown, that state, where her parents are buried. Mrs. Grove Thomas was a widow with two children living in Loudoun county, Virginia, when she was married to John Gardner in 1801 at Leesburg, the county seat. .They began their married life in Washington, D. C. It was in that city that two daughters, Rebecca and Nancy, were born. About the year 1805 Mr. Gardner removed with his family to Ohio and settled within what are now the corporate limits of Zanesville. Here two sons and two daughters, John Lewis, Elizabeth, Mary and Washington, were born. In 1814 Mr. Gardner removed from Zanesville to a farm one-half mile east of the village of South Woodbury, then in Delaware, but now Morrow county, Ohio. Here Fanny, the youngest child, was born in 1818, and here Mr. Gardner lived in the house which he built and in which he died on the 6th of March, 1836, at the advanced age of seventy-nine years, seven months, and two days. He departed this life respected by all who knew him. He was a man of the strictest financial integrity, of unblemished moral reputation and of devout Christian character. His wife, Elizabeth, survived him eleven years, dying May 3, 1847, aged seventy-five years. These two pioneers lie side by side in the Ebenezer, "Here We Rest," burying-ground in. Bennington township, this county. Mr. Gardner gave the lot for this purpose and there now representatives of many of the earlier families find a last resting place. * Contributed by Hon. Washington Gardner of Albion Michigan. 892 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY The Gardner homestead, east of South Woodbury, has been held by the family now for nearly one hundred years. Five successive generations have lived in the house which he built and four of the five were Gardner in name ; the place being occupied until the year 1910 by direct descendants. Of the thirteen children, of whom Mr. Gardner was the father, all but two, Sarah and Mary, the latter dying at twenty, lived to a good age. Nearly or quite all lived for a longer or shorter time in Morrow county, where many of their descendants still reside, and constitute some of our most respected and substantial present day families, while others have removed to different states where they and their descendants have made records that reflect credit upon a worthy ancestry Ministers, judges, lawyers, bankers, business men, and farmers are found among them. In so far as is known, not one of the descendants of John Gardner has ever been convicted of crime or ever accused of a serious offence against the law. It is, however, in the patriotic war record of the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of the sturdy old Scotsman that the family take most pride. In this respect it is doubtful if there is another family in the county and indeed but few anywhere that can surpass or even equal it in the number of soldiers furnished or in the quality or length of service rendered the government in its time of stress. So exceptional is the well authenticated family record in this respect and of such historic interest that we give it in detail. Washington Gardner, youngest son of the founder of this branch of the Gardner family in the United States, was born in 1814 at Zanesville, and was enrolled as a volunteer July 25, 1861, at Camp Chase, Ohio, and mustered into service as a member of Company G, Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was discharged from the army June 17, 1862, at Camp Chase on surgeon's certificate of disability. He was the oldest of the connection in the service, being at the time of enlistment forty-seven years of age. His service was of ten months an̊ twenty-two days duration. George C. Gardner was a grandson of John and Nancy (Musgrove) Gardner and a son of Benjamin and Esther (Williams) Gardner. The records show that he was enrolled November 8, 1861, at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and was mustered into service the same day as a private of Company D, 65th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was appointed corporal, November 26, 1861, and was discharged as of that grade on August 30, 1862, in the field near Hillsboro, Tennessee, on surgeon's certificate of disability. September 30, 1864, he enlisted the second time and was enrolled on date named as a private in Company I, 184th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, and as such was mustered into the United States service on the first day of October, 1864. He was appointed sergeant October 5, 1864, and was mustered out with HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 893 his company at Charlotte, North Carolina, July 26, 1865. His total length of service was one year, seven months, and eighteen days. Nelson James Gardner, a great-grandson of John and Nancy (Musgrove) Gardner, a grandson of James and Sarah (Grove) Gardner, and a son of John and Rachel (Moccobee) Gardner, was enrolled September 21, 1861, and mustered into service on the same day as a private, Company B, 8th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He reenlisted January 1, 1864, as a veteran volunteer in the same company and regiment ; was promoted first lieutenant, November 27, 1864 and brevet captain March 26, 1865. He was mustered out April 20, 1866, having served four years, six months and twenty-nine days. Charles H. Gardner, a younger brother of the last above named, was enrolled August 11, 1862, and mustered into service to date from same day as a private, Company D, 20th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was mustered out of service with the company as a private July 8, 1865. His service covered a period of two years, ten months, and twenty-seven days. Melville Gardner, a brother of the two last above named, was born April 6, 1848, and was enrolled March 28, 1865, and mustered into service on the same day as a private, Provisional Company, 9th Illinois Volunteers, to verve one year. He was transferred to Company B of the regiment, September 25, 1865, and was mustered out with the company as a private October 31, 1865. His service covered a period of seven months and three days. The three brothers served an aggregate of eight years, one month and nine days. Wilbur C. Scott, great-grandson of John and Nancy (Musgrove) Gardner, grandson of James and Sarah (Grove) Gardner and a son of Thomas L. and Phoebe (Gardner) Scott, was enrolled February 25, 1864, at Davenport, Iowa, and was mustered into service February 26, 1864, as a private in Company D, 3rd Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, to serve three years and was mustered out of service with the company at Atlanta, Georgia, August 9, 1865, having served one year, five months, and fourteen days. William Percival Gardner, grandson of John and Rebecca (Marquis) Gardner and son of William and Ruth (Wickham) Gardner, was mustered into service September 2, 1862, as second lieutenant, Company K, 97th Ohio Infantry Volunteers,, to serve three years. He died at Scottsville, Kentucky, November 30, 1862, of typhoid fever, after a service of three months and twenty-eight days. Lemuel Gardner, a brother of William Percival, was enrolled September 15, 1862, and mustered into service, October 8, 1862, as a private of Company I, 122d Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was mustered out as a corporal with the company, June 26, 1865. The period of his service was two years, nine months, and eleven days. 894 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY Robert J. Gardner, a younger brother of the two last above named, was enrolled August 4, 1862, and mustered into service, September 2, 1862, as a private in Company K, 97th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years, and was mustered out of service as a corporal, May 9, 1865, at Camp Dennison, Ohio. Robert was wounded in the battle at Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864. He served two years, nine months and seventeen days and the three brothers a total of five years, ten months, and twenty-six days. Calvin Nutt, grandson of John and Elizabeth (Grove) Gardner, and a son of Ashley and Rebecca (Gardner) Nutt, was enrolled May 25, 1861, at Peoria, Illinois, and was mustered into service on the same day as a private in Company K, 17th Illinois Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was detailed within the period of his service as artilleryman in Battery D, First Illinois Light Artillery. He was admitted to Artillery Brigade, 6th Division, 17th Army Corps Hospital, July 16, 1863, with typhoid fever and died of that disease at Clinton, Illinois, September 15, 1863, having served two years, two months, and six days. John Doty, grandson of John and Elizabeth (Grove) Gardner and a son of Steven Doty and Nancy (Gardner) Doty, was enrolled June 2, 1862, at South Woodbury, this county, and was mustered into service to take effect the same day as a private of Company C, 85th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three months. He was appointed sergeant, September 23d, 1862, at Camp Chase, Ohio. He enlisted the second time, August 5, 1864, at Colunbus, Ohio, and was mustered into service the same day as a private of Company I, 88th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve one year. He was mustered out with the company as a private, June 3, 1865, at Camp Chase, Ohio, having served an aggregate of one year, one month, and nineteen days. Isaiah Doty, brother of the last above named, volunteered March 31, 1864, at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and was mustered into service April 13, 1864, as a private of Company B, 37th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. July 27, 1865, he was mustered out with his regiment as a private having served one years, three months, and twenty-six days. George Washington Doty, brother of the last two above named, enlisted June 2, 1862, at Ashley, Ohio, and was mustered into service to take effect the same day as a private of Company C, 85th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three months. He was appointed sergeant June 11, 1862, and was mustered out with the company as sergeant, September 23, 1862. He again enlisted October 16, 1862, at Camp Chase, Ohio, and October 28, 1862, was mustered into service as a corporal of Company C, 88th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was appointed sergeant in August, 1863, and was mustered out as a sergeant February 4, 1864, at Columbus, Ohio, by reason of appointment as second HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 895 lieutenant, 27th United States Colored Troops. June 5, 1864, he was promoted to first lieutenant of Company G of that regiment. He was discharged from the service as first lieutenant on tender of resignation accompanied with a surgeon's certificate of disability, in orders from the War Department dated April 20, 1865. His aggregate term of service was two years, nine months and thirteen days. Harrison Doty, a younger brother of John, Isaiah and Washington, volunteered August 2, 1862, at Cardington, Ohio, and was mustered into service August 19, 1862, as a corporal of Company C, 96th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was appointed sergeant March 1, 1863, taken prisoner at the battle of Grand Coteau, Louisiana, November 3, 1863, was paroled at Stage Station near New Iberia, Louisiana, December 25, 1863, and exchanged at Algiers, Louisiana, December 31, 1863, and was mustered out as sergeant July 7, 1865, at Mobile, Alabama. His term of service covered a period of two years, eleven months, and five days. Josephus F. Doty, a younger brother of the four last above named, volunteered May 1, 1861, at Ashley, Ohio, and was mustered into service to take effect June 15, 1861, as a corporal of Company C, 26th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was appointed a sergeant May 25, 1863, and was mustered out of service as of that rank July 25, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was twice wounded at the battle of Chickamauga. April 11, 1865, at Mansfield, Ohio, he again volunteered and was mustered into service on the same day as a private of Company B, 9th United States Veteran Volunteer Infantry, to serve one year; was appointed first sergeant, May 13, 1865, and sergeant major July 2, 1865. July 17, of the same year he was mustered as second lieutenant, Company B, of said regiment and as first lieutenant, November 8, 1865. He was mustered out of service as first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster, May 2, 1866, at Indianapolis. Indiana. His service in the two regiments covered a period of four years, three months and fifteen days. James M. Gardner, a grandson of John and Elizabeth (Grove) Gardner and the oldest son of John Lewis and Sarah (Goodin) Gardner, was enrolled August 12, 1862, at Marengo, Iowa, and was mustered into service to take effect from the date of his enrollment as a private of Company E, 24th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was promoted to sergeant September 3, 1863, and to second lieutenant, but not mustered, January 1, 1865 ; was wounded at the battle of Champion Hill, Mississippi ; was mustered out of service with his company July 17, 1865, at Savannah, Georgia. His service covered a period of two years, eleven months and five days. Craven V. Gardner, brother of the last above named was enrolled August 7, 1862, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and was mustered 896 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY in to take effect from the date of his enrollment as first sergeant, Company A, 29th Iowa Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was promoted to be captain of the same organization February 21, 1863, and was honorably discharged from the service August 10, 1865, at New Orleans, Louisiana, by reason of The muster out of his company on the date named. His term of service covered three years and three days. Asa A. Gardner, brother of the last two above named, was enrolled October 21, 1861, at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and was mustered into service to take effect from the date of his enrollment, as a private of Company D, 65th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was appointed second sergeant November 26th and first sergeant, November 30, 1861; was mustered as second lieutenant of the same organization to take effect February 8, 1862, and as first lieutenant to date from December 1, 1862.. He was badly wounded in action at the battle of Stone river, Tennessee, December 31, 1862, and again in the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19, 1863. He was mustered as captain, company C, of the same regiment to take effect February 3, 1864, and was honorably discharged from the service in orders from the War Department dated May 30, 1865, on account of his services being no longer required and physical disability from wounds received in action. His service covered a period of three years, seven months, and nine. days. Isaac N. Gardner, brother of the last three above named, was enrolled August 22, 1862, at Camp Chase, Ohio, and was mustered into service August 28, 1862, as corporal, Company C, 88th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was mustered out as a corporal January 20, 1864, at Columbus, Ohio, to accept an appointment as first lieutenant in the 27th United States Colored Troops and was mustered in as captain of the same company June 9, 1864. He was mustered out with his company September 21, 1865, at Smithville, North Carolina, his service having covered a period of three years and twenty-nine days. Washington Gardner, 2d, youngest brother of the four last above named, was enrolled October 26, 1861, at Westfield, Ohio, and was mustered into service to take effect from the same date, as a private Company D, 65th Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to serve three years. He was appointed sergeant November 1, 1863; was badly wounded in action at the battle of Resaca, Georgia, May 14, 1864, and was mustered out with his company at Nashville, Ten nessee, December 14, 1864, by reason of expiration of term of service. He was in the army three years, one month and seventeen days. Carleton F. Gardner, great-grandson of John and Elizabeth (Grove) Gardner ; grandson of John Lewis and Sarah (Goodin) Gardner and son of Washington, 2d, and Anna (Powers) Gardner. served in the Spanish-American War as a private in Company E, HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY - 897 31st Michigan Infantry Volunteers. He was enrolled April 26, 1898, at Lansing, Michigan, and was mustered into service May 8, 1898, at Island Lake, Michigan, and after a service of five months and ten days was honorably discharged October 6, 1898, at Camp Poland, Tennessee, pursuant to orders from the War Department. Elton G. Gardner, a younger brother of the last above named, served as a private in Company A, 32d Michigan Infantry Volunteers. He was enrolled May 12, 1898, at Island Lake, Michigan, and was mustered into service May 14, 1898, at the same place and was honorably discharged November 5, 1898, at Coldwater, Michigan, having served five months and twenty days. Roy Mulvane, great-grandson of James and Laura (Mozier) Gardner and grandson of Joseph and Gardner, and son of William P. and Emily (Gardner) Mulvane, was enrolled as the record shows July 9, 1898, at St. Charles, Missouri, and was mustered into service July 20, 1898, as a sergeant in Company G, 6th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain, to serve two years, and was honorably discharged from the service, as a sergeant, April 6, 1899. His term of service covered eight months and twenty-seven days. Summary. The following brief summary of the above military service shows that twenty-four descendants of John Gardner, founder of this branch of the American family of that name served in war under the flag of the Union; that of these, one was a son, sixteen were grandsons, and seven great-grandsons. The official record shows that they served an Aggregate of fifty-one years, four months, and twenty-nine days; of this forty-eight years, eight months, and one day was in the Civil war. Two of the twenty-three served over four years each, six over three years, while the average for all was two years and two months. Two died while in the service, five were wounded in battle, two, twice ; one was taken prisoner; four were captains, four lieutenants and six were non-commissioned officers. Thirteen served in Ohio regiments, five in Iowa, two in Illinois, two in Michigan, one in Wisconsin, and one in Missouri. EDWIN HOWES.-A splendid representative of the prosperous and respected residents of Morrow county, Edwin Howes has been conspicuously identified with the development and advancement of the agricultural interests of Bennington township for many years, in his undertakings meeting with unquestioned success. He is a man of solid worth, possessing in an eminent degree those traits of character that command the respect of one's associates and win the esteem of his neighbors and friends, and his life record has been such as to reflect credit on the town and county of his birth, A son of the late Francis Howes, he was born Janu- 898 - HISTORY OF MORROW COUNTY ary 29, 1842, on the parental homestead, which includes the farm which he now owns and occupies, in Bennington township. Coming from substantial English ancestry, he traces his lineage back in a direct line to one Thomas Howes, who immigrated to America in 1637 and settled in New England, the line of descent being as follows : Thomas, Jeremiah, Ebenezer, Thomas A., Moody, Samuel, Francis and Edwin. Born and brought up in Putnam county, New York, Francis Howes lived there until 1833, when he followed the march of civilization westward, coming to Ohio in quest of cheap land. In that part of Delaware county now included within the boundaries of Morrow county, he saw country that pleased him, and entered one hundred and twenty acres from the government. Returning then to his old home in New York state, he labored by the month to obtain money enough to pay for his land, and having obtained a sufficient sum came back to Ohio and secured title to his former purchase. Erecting a small log cabin in the wilderness, he began the arduous task of redeeming a farm from the forest, and in addition to carrying on farming with good results did general blacksmithing in his leisure minutes, in the course of years acquiring a good property. He was a quiet, industrious man, a true and loyal citizen, and his death, which occurred February 5, 1888, on his farm in. Bennington township, was a loss to the community in which he had so long resided. He married, in Richland county, Ohio, Ruth Roberts, a daughter of John Roberts, a farmer. She survived him, passing away February 12, 1895. Three children were born of their union, namely : Edwin, the special subject of this sketch ; Isaiah, deceased ; and Andrew J., deceased. Brought up on the parental homestead, Edwin Howes acquired a practical education when young, attending first the district school and later a select school. When about ten years old he met with an accident that crippled him for life, and has handicapped him to some extent. He remained beneath the parental roof-tree until his marriage, but during his entire active career has made farming and stock-raising his chief pursuit. He has title to five hundred acres of rich and fertile land lying in Morrow and Delaware counties, and in the management of his large estate has displayed rare ability and judgment. He has also other property of value, being a stockholder in the Marengo Banking Company. Mr. Howes married, June 18, 1882, Mary Kees, who was born and brought up in Morrow county and educated in its schools. Into the household thus established two children have been born, namely : Alice, whose birth occurred May 21, 1883, married L. Patrick, and has one child, Bailey H. Patrick ; and Francis S., who lived but four short years. JAMES C. LLEWELLYN.—The Olentangy Stock Farm is pleasantly located in Westfield township, Morrow county, Ohio, seven miles distant from Cardington, and it is equal in equipment to any