750 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: was then appointed professor of penmanship and assistant superintendent of the commercial department of the college. May 1, 1873, he married Emma M., daughter of Zachariah and Mary Bertolett, of North Benton, Ohio. They have two children living—Mary I., and Bertolett. Prof. Armstrong has a very commodious home, which he has taken great delight in beautifying, doing all the work himself as recreation in his leisure hours. WILLIAM ARMSTRONG, Mus. B., professor of instrumental music, special vocal culture and musical composition; Mt. Union; was born in Cheshire, England. In youth he was a private pupil of Henry C. Cooper, of the Cobden Philharmonic Society, of London. He was a teacher of music in London for several years, but emigrated to the United States in 1870, and after a short residence in New York, he was associated with Dr. Henry Sutter of Painesville, Ohio, who was formerly "Hofkapell-Meister" ,to the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt—and with him established the Sutter College of Music; and with Dr. Sutter 'he was joint author of the " Grand German Piano Forte Method " and " Classical Method of Voice-Culture." Mt. Union College ratified the degree of Mus. B., in 1872, since which time he has been a member of the Faculty. JAMES A. BRUSH, A. M., professor of mathematics and didactics in Mt. Union College; Mt. Union; was born in Washington Tp., Stark Co., Sept. 26, 1838. His parents were Charles and Fannie (Fitch) Brush, the former a native of Long Island, and the latter of Norwalk, Conn. They were married in New York city, where Mr. Brush was engaged in the boot and shoe business ; several years later, they removed to Lima, in western New York, and in that place continued his business for several years. He, however, disposed of his business there, and they removed to Ohio and located in Washington Tp., Stark Co., in 1835 ; here Mr. Brush purchased a farm, and devoted his time chiefly to that vocation until 1870, when he sold out and retired from business, and died in Mt. Union in 1876, in the 74th year of his age. His widow still survives at the advanced age of 72 years. They reared eight children, viz.—Amanda M. (now Mrs. O. N. Hartshorn) ; Mary C. (now Mrs. Amasa Garwood, near Etna Green, Ind.); Jane A. (Mrs. Daniel Johnson, of Etna Green, Ind.); James A., Charles H. (of East Norwich, Long Island); Fannie A. (Mrs. Leroy Bentley, of Salem); Theresa (Mrs. Chas. Johnson, Beloit, Ohio); and Beckie S., who resides with her aged mother in Mt. Union. James A. was the fourth child and eldest son of the family ; his boyhood was spent on his father's farm and attending the common school in the winter, until he was about 16 years of age, when he entered Mt. Union College, and graduated in classical course from that institution in 1863. In the spring of 1862 he enlisted in Co. G, 86th O. V. I., in the "three months" service, but served considerably over that length of time. He early chose teaching as a profession, and bent all his energy and time in preparing himself for that calling. He frequently taught in the public schools, and was Principal of the public school of Minerva, this county, one year, and accepted a similar position in the Ravenna schools for two years. In 1855 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics and English Classics in Mt. Union College, until 1879, when he was appointed Professor of Mathematics. June 23, 1863, he married Amelia A. McCall. She is daughter of Joseph McCall, of Nelson, Port-acre Co., of which be was a pioneer settler, formerly of Middlebury, Conn. Mrs. Brush also chose teaching as a profession, and prepared herself thoroughly for the work. Before she was married Mrs, Brush had taught several terms in public schools, and was Principal of the Nelson Academy for several years, and was also her husband's assistant teacher in Minerva. In 1880 she began teaching in Mt. Union College, having previously graduated from that institution with the degree of Ph. B., and was elected as Preceptress in the Ladies' Department, and Professor of English Literature and Rhetoric. To Mr. and Mrs. Brush have been born four children, viz.—Harlie W., Walter S., Louis H. and Anna. L. W. BUTLER, farmer; P. O. Alliance; was born in Burlington Co., N. J., Sept. 15, 1797. His grandfather, John Butler, when about 16 years old, in -company with another boy of similar age, left their home in Ireland, unknown to their folks, and emigrated to this continent, settling in LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP - 751 New Jersey. John Butler married and remained there. He had only one son, Benjamin, who lived to .maturity. When he (Benjamin) arrived at manhood, he married Hannah Webster, daughter of Lawrence Webster, of English descent. Of this union, the subject of these notes was first-born of their nine children. About the year 1804, the family moved from New Jersey and located in what is now a surburb of the city of Philadelphia; there they remained until 1811, when they removed to Ohio and settled east of Damascus, Columbiana Co., and the following year located in Goshen Tp., now Mahoning Co., where his parents died; his father in his 66th year, and his mother at 85 years of age. They belonged to the orthodox society of " Friends," as did all the family reared in that faith. His early secular education was such as the ordinary subscription schools of his time afforded. March 20, 1820, he was married to Sarah Votaw, daughter of Moses Votaw, a pioneer of Columbiana Co. Mr. and Mrs. Butler started out on life's " journey" together, in the woods, with very limited means; but although their log cabin was a rude affair, it was surrounded by luxuries which gold can never purchase—an air of contentment and happiness, which caused even the wilderness to smile. In their humble and unassuming way they toiled and prospered, and saw the fruits of their labor accumulate I until they were in good financial circumstances. To them were born nine children, viz.—Moses, now in Cedar Co., Iowa; Hannah, wife of David Tatum, of Cleveland; Mary, deceased; Lewis, now of Toledo, Ohio; Joseph and Benjamin, twins, the latter in Morgan Co., Ind.; Joseph removed to Arkansas, where he died; Eunice is the wife of Flemming Stanley, of Michigan, and John is in Kansas. Mr. Butler succeeded in business, and accumulated considerable property in his life-time, but has of late years distributed it liberally amongst his children, giving each a fair portion to enable them to start for themselves; and was somewhat unfortunate in going as surety for $5,000, which amount he was obliged to settle. When younger and more able to stand the bhuurthenf worldly care, he was energetic and active in business, a ready discerner of character, possessed of good judgment, and was firm in his friendships. His wife died in 1866, and in October of 1868, he married Ann Beck. He attends to, or oversees, the work on his farm, and notwithstanding his advanced age, he is a man of remarkable vital force and physical ability. GEORGE W. CLARKE, A. M., professor of Greek and Latin, Mt. Union College; Mt. Union; was born in North Springfield Tp., Portage Co., now Summit Co., Ohio, July 24, 1825. He is the third child of a family of twelve children born to Robert L. and Nancy I. (De Haven) Clarke. The Clarke and De Haven families were both early pioneers in that section of the State, and were among the most prominent and influential citizens of the Western Reserve, where they located about the year 1810. The parents of Mr. Clarke were farmers, and in the duties consequent upon that vocation, and attending the common school of the neighborhood his boyhood days were spent. He was the third of their twelve children, nine of whom lived to mature years. When about 16 years of age, Mr. Clarke attended an academy at Kent, Ohio, and through the winter months taught school, and worked some on the farm. He entered the Allegheny College, at Meadville, Penn., when about 22, and supported himself throughout his collegiate course by teaching at intervals, as opportunity afforded, and by doing chores for his uncle, who was professor of Greek and Latin in that institution at the time. In July, 1852, he graduated, third in a class of thirty-two, with the honorary degree of A. B. The following August he took charge of an academy at Conneautville, Crawford Co., Penn., where he taught almost two years. On account of the failing of his uncle, Prof. Clarke, in the Allegheny College at Meadville, our subject was appointed for a time in his place as tutor of Greek and Latin, with his alma mater; and while in that place was chosen to the professorship, which he now holds, in 1854, where he has labored continuously ever since. He has frequently assisted in branches other than the languages, viz.: astronomy, botany, physiology, elocution and classic vocal music. He has also served as secretary of the College Faculty for the last twenty years. April 6, 1862, he married Elizabeth M. Hill, of Summit Co. By this union two children were born, viz.—J. Wilbert and Mary Ida. They both graduated at the same 752 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: time; he in the classics, and she in English literature and music. J. Wilbert studied law with W. C. Pippitt about two years; was considered an accomplished scholar and possessed of more than ordinary ability for his time; but he was stricken by cerebro-spinal meningitis, and survived the attack but a short time, dying May 10, 1877, in his 23d year. Miss Clark is a fine musician, and devotes her time principally to teaching that art, and it is generally conceded that she is one of the finest pianists in the State. ELIAS ELLETT, farmer; P. O. Alliance; was born in Salem Co., N. J., Jan. 20, 1812; he was the fourth child of nine children born to James and Catharine (Sickler) Ellett. He was brought up to the various duties of farm life. He married Elmira Sarash in November, 1835, and in 1838 they removed from New Jersey to Columbiana, now Mahoning Co., Ohio; they followed farming in that county until 1843, when they removed to Lexington, Tp., Stark Co., and purchased 90 acres where Mr. Ellett now resides. December 30, 1858, Mrs. Ellett was called away by death, leaving twelve of their thirteen children, ten of whom lived to maturity, viz.—Mary, Catherine, W. K., Sarah A., John E. (deceased), Rebecca J., A. J., S. P., E. J., A. F., and three died in childhood. Mr. Ellett married again, Mrs. R. J. Fogg, in June, 1861; by this union there is one child, Henry B. His present wife was the widow of the late Aaron Fogg, of Alliance, who sustained fatal injuries on the railroad. His oldest son, W. K., enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, in the 115th O. V. I., in the late war, and served three years. Besides attending to his farm, Mr. Ellett dealt in horses for a period of twenty-five years, frequently shipping to the Eastern markets. As stated elsewhere, he is a charter member and President of the Lexington Mutual Aid Association. He has been a faithful member of the Baptist Church these forty-seven years past, both himself and first wife uniting with the church in New Jersey, in 1834, and for the last twenty-five years he has officiated as deacon in the Baptist Church of Alliance, of which his present wife has been a member for the past sixteen years. SHADRACH FELTS, deceased; was born in Sussex Co., Va., May 22, 1794. His father, Jesse Felts, wife and two children, viz.— Shadrach and a sister, constituted one of the seven families who in company, removed from Virginia to Ohio in 1807. The party consisted of about fifty souls, viz.—Jesse Felts, wife and two children ; Charles Hamlin and five children (his wife having died in Virginia); William and John Hamlin, each with a wife and five children ; Joseph Sebrell, wife and seven children ; Thomas Wood, wife and two children ; and Judson Jones, wife and two children, &c. On April 22, 1807, they set out in their wagons to traverse the country and cross into Ohio, in search of a home in the new and unsettled West. They arrived at Salem, Columbiana Co., the following June. There they encamped on a lot which had been partially cleared, and were the recipients of much kindness at the hands of some few settlers at that point. Taking Salem as a basis of operations, they began to look around for permanent locations. Jesse Felts and Charles Hamlin soon set out on a prospecting tour, and wandering into what is now Lexington Tp., Stark Co., accidentally found the "Stanton" settlement, which had been made near the Mahoning, near Lexington village, several years before. The Stantons persuaded Felts and Hamlin to settle in their vicinity, and accordingly each made an entry of land on what is now Sec. 10: Felts 160 acres and Hamlin 320 acres; and to this place they removed their families, from their temporary encampment at Salem, in the "fall" of 1807. Charles Hamlin's son, Stephen, by this time had married the only daughter of Jesse Felts ; they too came to this section, constituting another family. The Joneses and Sebrells moved in afterward, until the settlement was considerably enlarged. After about two years' residence here, business called Charles Hamlin to return to Virginia, and on his way back here he took ill at Salem and there died suddenly. Jesse Felts died here in 1818, his being one of the first interments made in Lexington cemetery ; his wife survived until 1840. January 30, 1817, our subject and Mary, daughter of Charles Hamlin, were united in matrimony, and began the battle of life for themselves on the farm where Mrs. Felts resides to this day. It was a portion of the original entry, and has never been out of the hands of the family. They had nothing to begin with except the homestead and able and willing hands. For several LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP - 753 years the only product which they had for exchange, for any other article they were obliged to have, was sugar made from the sugar-maple. They struggled along and bore many hardships of toil and privation incident to pioneer life, but in their time have seen many and extreme changes. They had five children, viz.—John, Jesse, Charles, Edwin and Richard E. Of these only John and Jesse survive. Charles died here in 1868, leaving a widow and two children. Edwin and Rrchard E. both enlisted in the late war ; the former died at his home, Ft.Wayne, Ind., from disease contracted in the army, and the latter died in Kentucky from a similar cause. In 1850 Jesse, then a young man of 24 years, went with an emigrating party to California, and has been. there and engaged on the frontier as a freighter for over thirty years, at times being years without correspondence with his parents, many of his friends believing he was dead. But Time itself could not shake that maternal faith and desire of Mrs. Felts to see her son once more ; in which she was gratified on a December evening of 1880, when to her, her long-lost boy walked in, not exactly like the youth of twenty-odd summers who left her in 1850, but a man of middle age, of venerable look and whitened locks. As it were, he providentially arrived a few weeks before the demise of his father, which occurred in January, 1881, who had long wished and waited "for to see his boy again." Mrs. Felts is one of the few pioneers of the county who still survive ; she was born in Virginia April 29, 1794 ; now well advanced in her 88th year, she is a woman of remarkable vitality, although of quite slender physique, is possessed of extraordinary nervous force, combined with good common sense and considerable executive ability, and one of those women in whose vocabulary the term "fail" or " can't " never had a place. Her eldest child, John, has always remained single and at home with his parents, and is well advanced in years, not being in a robust state of health. They pass their time quietly on the farm where Mrs. Felts has lived seventy-four years. ELI GRANT, farmer ; P. O., Alliance ; was born in this township, Oct. 9, 1833. He is the third of a family of eight children, born to Stacey and Jemima (Rockhill) Grant. His grandfather, John Grant, came from New Jersey to Ohio with his wife and two oldest children. They located at Salem, Columbiana Co., where the family was increased in due season by six more children; in all there were—Harriet, who married and removed to Indiana; Thomas, to Williams Co., Ohio; Stacey, who remained here and is the father of several heads of families, who reside in the vicinity; Clayton in Indiana; Eliza, Hannah, Ann, and Sarah are the children of John Grant, who came to Lexington Tp., and located on what is now the western portion of Alliance, on what is now the farm of J. R. Haines, in about 1812. He was a wagon maker by trade, and an ingenious wood or iron worker, and many of the first wagons made in this section of the State, were the production of his mechanical skill. Stacey also worked at that business with his father, and together produced some of the first buggies ever manufactured in this part of Ohio. As stated elsewhere, John Grant passed the closing days of his life with his son-in-law (J. R. Haines) on the old homestead. Stacey Grant, the father of the subject of these lines, was born April 17, 1807; and May 25, 1828, he married Jemima Rockhill. She was born in New Jersey, Feb. 6, 1811; of six children of David Rockhill, Mrs. Grant was the only daughter. Previous to their marriage Mr. Grant had purchased some land, all in woods, to which they repaired, and immediately began the necessary improvements, and at intervals, did considerable work at the blacksmith's trade. Thus variously employed, he conducted his affairs successfully, and remained on the same farm on which he began for himself, until his death, which occured, Nov. 1, 1867. They reared eight children, seven lived to maturity, viz.—Juliana Maria, now Mrs. Dr. L. L. Lamborn; Eli, Joseph, Henry (deceased), Annetta and Samuel. Mrs. Grant still survives, and is admirably well preserved, both physically and mentally, for one who has passed " the allotted span" of time. Eli was the oldest son. He received a fair education in the common schools, and spent some time at the Mt. Union Seminary. Aug. 27, 1857, he married Malinda Babb. She was a daughter of Harrison Babb of Chester Co., Penn. They have had three children, one living—Henry E. He engaged in the mercantile 754 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: business with Teeters & Bates, which lasted three years. He then went into the Agricultural Works, through which he sustained some pecuniary loss. In 18187Ie purchased a small farm, having severed all connection with the Agricultural Works Co., for whom he had been traveling salesman for some time. He now owns 52 acres of good land, west of the city, which is underlaid with a valuable vein of coal, which he is working. JOSEPH GRANT, farmer; P. 0. Alliance; was born Jan 29, 1836. He is the second son and fourth child born to Stacey and Jemima (Rockhill) Grant. His early education was that received at the common schools, and a short time at the Mt. Union Seminary He was desirous of obtaining a thorough education, but ill health, induced by sedentary habits incident to constant study, compelled him to return to greater exercise on the farm, to which he has ever since devoted his attention. Oct. 10, 1858, he was married to Mary Keyser, whose father, Daniel Keyser, came from Pennsylvania a young man, and married Maria Bryfogle, and settled in Marlborough Tp., Stark Co. Mr. and Mrs. Grant began for themselves where they now reside, on about 67 acres, which he got off his father's estate; but by their unceasing industry, they have added by purchase, until they now own 130 acres of good land, in an excellent state of cultivation, and with farm buildings not excelled in Lexington Tp. They had two children, both of whom died in childhood. They have one adopted son—Samuel J., whose name they had changed from that of his natural parent to Grant. is natural fatherFry—left.. here several years ago, leaving a wife and several small children, to look out a proper location in the West, but was never more heard of. Mr. and Mrs. Grant are members of the United Brethren Church, of which he has been a steward for some time. REV. ORVILLE NELSON HARTSHORN, LL.D., President of Mt. Union College and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and International Law, whose portrait appears in this work, was born Aug. 20, 18183,n Nelson, Portage Co., Ohio. He is the second child and eldest son of five children born to Norris and Asenath Hartshorn. Mr. Norris Hartshorn was born April 1, 1785, in Torrington, Litchfield Co., Connecticut; and after the close of the War of 1812, in which he was a soldier, he emigrated to Ohio, and located in Portage Co., where he was married to Asenath, daughter of Samuel and Abigail Backus, and died at Mt. Union, at the age of 75. MkrrBackus was born Aug. 20, 1764, in Palmer, Northampton CoCo.,ass.; and, having served as a soldier in the Revolu- tionary War, moved from Massachussets in 1810 with his family to Deerfield, Portage Co., Ohio, and died July 20, 1854, near Alliance, Stark Co., Ohio, at the residence of his daughter, Asenath, at the advanced age of nearly 90 years. The subject of this sketch, President Hartshorn, was brought up o farm life, and there received only a moderate common school education. To his devoted Christian mother, he is chiefly indebted, under a kind Providence, for the normal development of his intrepid and decisive character. He not only inherited from his cultured mother her remarkable and naturally strong straits of character; but, from infancy even to manhood, he daily received from her skilled hand eminently practical, affectionate and positive training. This regular and strict training—embracing religious and systematic home inrnstructioniven by his mother during his first twelve years, not only in the common branches of an English education, but especially in the immutable and eternal principles of truth and right, and in the daily and voluntary practice of stern duty, self-reliance and self-government in strict accordance with the laws of his entire being—laid the solid foundation of his sterling character, and gave an irresistible impetus in the direction of all his subsequent actions and marked achievements. It was also his heroic mother who taught the first public school which he attended, she having taught in the public schools during the ten years preceding her marriage. This salutary home-training thus early received from his devoted mother, supplemented by that of the Sunday School in which she was also his teacher, was the chief means, under Providence, of early leading him to Christ, and of forming correct habits, and subsequently of using patiently and conscientiously the requisite efforts to acquire liberal qualifications for his active life's work. Though most of his youth was cheerfully devoted to physical labor on the farm, and at intervals to car- LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP - 755 pentering, yet he attended district school a portion of the winter months, and for sometime a high-school near his home, at Deerfield. Then he took a further course of three years of faithful study at the Atwater Linnaean Academy in his native county. He then attended Allegheny College at Meadville, Pa., another three years; and after there prosecuting and completing its Classical course of four years' study, he there graduated in the decree of Bachelor of Arts; and, three years later, in the degree of Master of Arts. While a student both at the Academy and the College, he defrayed his entire expenses, partly by manual labor during short intervals, but chiefly by teaching public schools during the winter season. Self-support by honest and thoughtful labor, and self-reliance, with humble yet implicit trust in the infinitely perfect One ; also fidelity to duty and love for his neighbor, have always characterized his generous, positive, enterprising and intensely active life. Oct. 4, 1846, he organized at Mt. Union, Stark Co., Ohio, an institution known as Mount Union Seminary. The surroundings for a school seemed inauspicious, and at the beginning there were only six students; but the number increased until the roll showed the first year an average of twenty students. Under his judicious planning, persevering energy and well directed care, this aggressive institution regularly grew in substantial patronage and favor, even beyond his fondest hopes, thus adding zeal to his well-considered, firm and conscientious purpose to lay broadly the foundation of an educational institution of. national usefulness, based on the principles of truth and right, and the actual needs of our American people, and having as its distinctive object, the rendering of an integral, liberal, Christian education, easily and equally accessible to every honest and enterprising young man and young woman, however lowly or self-dependent. He conducted this progressive seminary with eminent prudence, patience, ability and success until January, 1858, when it was regularly chartered as a college. It had become a college in fact, lacking only the authority to confer degrees, and the accumulation of sufficient funds to place it on a firm basis. However, many intelligent, generous and wealthy persons,—who had observed this institution during its first few years struggling bravely for honorable existence and recognition, now becoming an eligible place of sound learning of no secondary importance,—responded with living sympathy, wise counsel and liberal donations, thus giving it a good, substantial foundation. (See the College History in general chapter). At its opportune and efficient organization in 1858 as a college, Dr. Hartshorn was elected President of its Faculty ; also President of its Board of Trustees. After successfully serving for ten years this college of the people, by the people and for the people, in both these capacities, he resigned June, 1868, in favor of Hon. Lewis Miller, of Akron, Ohio, the Presidency of the Board of Trustees, in order that he might give his whole energies to his increasingly responsible duties as President of the Faculty. Having in his early manhood devoted considerable time to the study of law under the instruction of Hon. Chester Hayden, LL. D., of Cleveland, there have been since then a number of students of Mt. Union College, who have read law privately under Dr. Hartshorn's instruction, and were admitted to law schools for completing their course or graduation, on his examination and recommendation. His earlier impressions had inclined him to the practice of law, but his more deliberate convictions of duty, involving enlarged usefulness to American youth, even to the most lowly and self-dependent, finally induced the settled purpose to study theology in connection with the practical truths of science, and to enter in earnest the united, arduous and self-denying duties of the Christian ministry, and the liberal instruction of youth, being profoundly imbued with the belief that the actual work of the faithful teacher of scientific or natural truth is not only compatible with, but is quite as needed and sacred as are the truly consecrated and responsible services of the devoted teachers of Biblical truth. After due study and preparation he was, in 1852, regularly licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church, and subsequently was properly ordained and elected a member of the Pittsburg Conference of that church, which relations to the church he still retains, except that under a general rule he became a member of the East Ohio Conference, in 1876, upon its or- 756 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES : ganization by authority of the General Conference. In 1868, he was elected by the Pittsburg Annual Conference, a delegate to the General Conference of the church, which in that quadrennium met in Chicago. After visiting and carefully examining most of our American colleges, Dr. Hartshorn was, in 1867, appointed by the College Trustees to visit the various countries of Europe, in order to investigate their educational systems, museums and institutions; also to investigate plans and methods, and secure specimens and apparatus for the Mt. Union College museum, cabinets and laboratories. The Ohio College Association, also the Ohio Teachers' Association, had elected him to procure European educational facts and methods, and to report the result to each of these bodies, which he did. Accordingly, he started July 7th, 1867, on this European tour, and returned in the forepart of the next year, after faithfully and acceptably accomplishing this responsible mission, having visited all the principal countries, museums and institutions in Europe; in the meantime spending a few days inspecting the Paris International Exposition of 1867. It is proper to say, in brief, that this foreign visit was productive of eminently valuable results, in securing not only a vast amount of important and practical information, but especially in obtaining rare and invaluable specimens and apparatus, and in establishing superior methods and means for continuously collecting both natural and historical specimens of rare educational value from all parts of the habitable globe, and thus to accumulate and regularly extend economically and systematically, through the agents established on the plan of the British Museum, in all countries of the world, the museum of Mt. Union College, thereby progressively making this free educational museum of science and art second to none other in this country. In 1855-6, he was chosen to edit the Family and School Instructor, a monthly magazine of forty pages, published by the professors and students of the institution. This educational journal was both ably conducted and well received. To his ready pen we are also indebted for numerous essays and public addresses, and a large amount of valuable contributions to our periodical literature, as well as publications of more permanent form; among the latter there being a treatise entitled " The Supremacy of Law," embodying all that this title implies. As a writer and author, his style is clear and logical; as a public speaker, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, his style is characterized by its force and appropriateness of thought, naturalness, energy and purity of expression, the use of proper words in proper places, and its directness of argument and freedom in delivery. He likewise knows how and where to be silent. But as a teacher of youth, whether in the recitation or lecture-room, all his powers, both natural and acquired, find their freest and fullest play. It is in the school that his great usefulness and influence are most widely and effectively felt. Among his leading traits of character are concentrativeness, simplicity, frankness, animation, magnanimity, courage, force of will, breadth and integrity of purpose. His powers of independent and consecutive thought, discernment of motives and of character, physical endurance, combined with his unswerving attachment to friends and sympathy with needy youth and the masses of the common people, have not only enhanced his effrciency, success and growing usefulness as an organizer, disciplinarian and instructor of youth; but also as a trusted guide and benefactor of society. Besides being actively connected with the educational associations in his native state, he is a member of the American Philological Society; also a member of the American Association for the promotion of Science. Appointed in 1851 by the Stark County Teachers' Institute to represent, with his friend and the eminent teacher, Prof. Lorin Andrews, then superintendent of the Union Schools of Massillon, that body in ,the National Teachers' Association, he was, in this year, elected one of its life members. As early as 1850, he was recognized as a faithful worker in various important reforms demanding earnest attention, among which may be named the cause of Anti-slavery, Sunday Schools, Temperance, Graded and Normal Schools, County and State School Supervision. He has usually participated in the State and National Temperance Organizations, Sunday School Conventions, and Young Men's Christian Associations. Being a member of the National Christian Temperance Association; LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP - 757 he was elected by its annual meeting in the spring of 1875 at Chicago, as one of its two delegates from Ohio to represent that body in the International Christian Temperance Union that met June, 1876, in Philadelphia. Being a member of the first class, which, in 1874 graduated at Chautauqua in the National Sunday School Assembly's. Course of Study. He was at its annual meeting in 1876, elected by its Alumni Association to act in connection with tern judicious representatives appointed from as many evangelical churches, to prepare the Chautauqua Normal Sunday School Course of Study. Though never an active politician, Dr. Hartshorn was urged at the beginning of our late war to accept a position of important trust in the Union army; and later, a responsible service in the civil affairs of his country. Though in no sense lacking in patriotism, nor inappreciative of these honorable avenues to eminence and usefulness; yet he has foregone these and other inviting fields of state and national distinction, from a dominent conviction that his unbroken life's work should be in the direction of humbly aiding to make a thorough, liberal Christian education, economically and easily accessible to every energetic, right minded young man or woman, however poor or neglected. He also sincerely aims to discharge properly all his political and religious duties, with a patriotism above partyism, and with a Christianity above sectarianism. His accurate and practical knowledge of human nature, and especially of the distinctive labors, varying motives and influences incident to student life, and his tested experience with other extensive qualifications, admirably adapt him to the arduous and peculiarly responsible duties of the President of a live, modernized, aggressive college, as actually needed by our American people. Naturally blest with an excellent, physical constitution, as well as with a highly social, cheerful, symmetrical disposition, wrth his simple, genial, systematic habits, he readily forms personal acquaintances, and strong attachments for students and friends; and though in his fifty-eighth year, he seems now in his prime. He has frequently during his life, made as might be expected, serious mistakes; but scarcely would any one question either his willingness to correct them, or the purity of his purpose. By possessing deep and positive convictions, with true teachableness, firmness and well-poised character, his course would inevitably antagonize those of opposite or erroneous purpose and action ; nevertheless, he is accustomed simply to perform his duty, and thus honorably exercise the natural right to think and act responsibly for himself, in strict accord with the nature of things and with his deliberate judgment and conscience—being always equally willing to concede cheerfully the same personal rights and freedom to others. His daily and minutest acts, as well as his more momentous or public duties, being so frequently and intimately in the presence, and thus open to the varying scrutiny and conflicting criticisms of those knowing him from childhood, it might be expected that his motives, plans and actions, however sincere or correct, would be constantly subjected to opposite or diverse opinions and utterances, and that those failing to appreciate or approve them would, at least in some instances, be notedly slow either to condone or forget them. Under these as well as all other circumstances, his favorite motto is : " Take a square view, trust God, then act, leaving to Him the consequences." Impartial and tolerant to all, conservative in retaining whatever is good in the past, and progressive in radically applying the wise and good to new and worthy objects, he has been uniformly accustomed, with head, heart and hand, to go directly for- ward, exercising envy or malice toward none —it being his rule and happiness to cherish for all a charity that is kind, that thinks no evil, and suffers long. His entire life, though characterized by severe conflict, labor and responsibility, has been one of hope, happiness and benefit. Respecting his public life's work, he has, under Providential guidance, been eminently fortunate in his choice of wise, prudent and efficient counselors, associates and helpers. Nor has he been unfortunate in his domestic relations. Nov. 1, 1849, he was suitably married to Miss Amanda Melvina Brush, who, during the three preceding years, had been an apt and faithful student in the Seminary, being one of the first six students in attendance. Mrs. H rtshorn, a daughter of Charles and Fanny Brush, of Mt. Union, was born in New York city, March 13, 1828. To Dr. and Mrs. Hartshorn have been 758 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: born six children, five of whom are living, viz.—Lucetta (now Mrs. Dr. B. U. Jacob, of Chicago); Dora (now Mrs. Otis D. Crocker, of Cleveland); Homer Chase and Emma (twins); and Walter. The State and Union Law College, of Cleveland, in 1860, conferred on President Hartshorn the degree, pro merito, of Doctor of Laws. His whole life and study having been devoted cheerfully, assiduously and unselfishly, to the equal advancement of Christianity and of popular and higher education, he has thereby efficiently promoted the true interests and elevation of the masses, and the free diffusion of knowledge and happiness among the lowly and common people. Mt. Union College, to whose normal growth he has, with right purpose, so unostentatiously yet effectively given his untiring energies, and uniformly has, with many others whose noble acts, cooperation and benefactions form the chief part of its history, only humbly helped to make it an impartial and benefrcent source of continual blessings to self-dependent youth of both sexes, though for years this institution was interposed by stiff obstacles—does now nobly attest that this his life's work of love has not been in vain. HON. EDWIN NORMAN HARTSHORN, A. M., Professor of International and Commercial Law, and superintendent of the Commercial Department of Mt. Union College; was born near Alliance, Ohio, May 27, 1835. His parents, Norris and Asenath Hartshorn, having moved from New England, settled at an early day in Nelson, Portage Co., Ohio. He is the youngest of five children, and was raised to farm life, and eoyed for some years the advantages of the common schools. He received from his parents, especially from his cultured and devoted mother, systematic and affectionate training, until at the age of nearly twelve; and being then put under the care of his older brother, Dr. 0. N. Hartshorn, he entered in the fall of 1846 upon a course of study at Mt. Union Seminary, being one of its first six students. He regularly continued his studies at this seminary until it was, January, 1858, chartered as a college, defraying his entire expenses by doing janitor service during the first four years, and during the next seven or eight years by teaching a part of the time in the Seminary, but chiefly by teaching public schools during the winter season. At the organization of the Institution in 1856 as a college, he was elected one of its Charter Trustees, also Professor of Natural Science, having previously devoted most of his teaching to giving instruction in mathematics. Soon after it was chartered, he regularly graduated at Mt. Union College in both its Scientific and Classical courses, and three years later in the degree of Master of Arts. In the spring of 1862 he was elected Superintendent of the Graded or Union Schools of Brownsville, Pa.; but after faithfully and acceptably conducting for a few months the Brownsville Schools, he accepted the urgent request of the Trustees and Faculty to return and resume his teaching and duties in Mt. Union College. His labors as Professor until 1868 were chiefly confined to Natural Science and Mathematics, though during part of this time he was required to teach Ancient Classics, Logic, Rhetoric, Political Economy and History. In 1868 the Commercial Department being duly organized under the charter of the college, Prof. Hartshorn was elected its Superintendent, and was appointed to teach Book-keeping, International and Commercial Law, and Actual Business. He had a few years before taken a full course in Duff's Commercial College at Pittsburgh; and having there in 1856 graduated, received a Diploma from that Business College. Having been a close student during the preceding fifteen or twenty years, and being an original and systematic thinker, and possessing the physical as well as mental stamina to endure a large amount of consecutive and thoughtful labor, he exerted all his energies to systematize this Commercial or Business Department, and to put it on a substantial basis. He prepared a thorough and systematic course of study, and of actual business, and so organized the department as to reduce all its features to a complete system, probably not surpassed in thoroughness and practical detail by any business college, East or West. 113 has instructed in this department over 2,000 students, who are now occupying responsible and lucrative positions in varrous respectable business houses, where the most thorough and approved modes of doing business are required. Quite a number of the graduates of this department are ladies, who are, by their thorough and practical qualifica- LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP - 759 tion in the Theory of Accounts and Actual Business, making themselves a necessity to their respective employers, and are receiving for their services a salary not excelled by gentlemen of equal experience. Prof. Hartshorn has thus from the first been a member of the General Faculty, and has judiciously borne during this time a responsible part in its general internal management, involving the government, instruction and classification of the students. He has likewise been, from the origin of the college, an effective member of its Board of Trustees and of its Executive Committee; and during the past fourteen years has acted as its assistant treasurer, receiving all the internal funds, disbursing the same and keeping the books therefor. Though his chief labors have been in the college, yet Prof. Hartshorn has also discharged various responsible duties as a citizen. He has from its origin served on the Board of Education for the union schools of Mt. Union; also for several years on the Board of Councilmen for that incorporated village. Having been treasurer of its Board of Education during some ten years, and having taken an active and efficient part in the planning and erection of its new and excellent Union School building, he has also been required to take a responsible share in the selection of teachers; and in the proper management of this union school. In all his duties he trusts nothing to luck, but depends solely on the prompt, honorable and exact compliance with all the conditions of success. In all his plans, duties and transactions with either the public or with private parties, he is uniformly straight forward, decisive, respectful, prompt, temperate, firm, generous, reliable, and faithful. As to church relations, he is a Methodist; as to politics, he is a Republican, and as a neighbor and citizen he has given ample evidence of his enterprise, kindness, honesty and fidelity. During the late war he took with his means and time a highly generous, patriotic and active part, both in raising numerous recruits, and in nobly sustaining our Union soldiers at the front; and, indeed, he would also have eagerly relegated to others these patriotic home supports, and entered the active service in the field, had it not been that his presence and stipulated services were also imperatively needed in the college. He has devoted considerable time to the study of law; also in conducting Teachers' Institutes, and in delivering educational and other public addresses. Both as a speaker and a writer his style is logical, clear and forcible. In 1878, he was nominated and elected State Senator for the Twenty-first District of Ohio, embracing the counties of Stark and Carroll. During his two years of public service in the Senate, he was appointed chairman of some important committees, as " Common Schools and School Lands; " " Universities, Academies and Colleges." He also served on other important committees, as " Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home and Schools for Imbecile Youth ; " " Public Printing;" "Revision." While a member of the Ohio Senate, during the 64th General Assembly, he introduced the following Bills, which passed both Houses, and are now law, viz.—Senate Bill No. 70, amending Section 1,155 (Revised Statutes), providing compensation to county recorders for keeping up general indices; Senate Bill No. 89, dividing Washington Township, Stark County, into two election precincts; Senate Bill No. 144, amending Section 5,251 (Revised Statutes), relating to the demand of witness' fees; Senate Bill No. 158; Senate Bill No. 333, providing for the appointment of an assistant to the Mine Inspector; Senate Joint Resolution No. 39, granting the use of battle-flags, guns, tents and accoutrements to the Reunion of Soldiers and Sailors, held Sept. 1st, 1880, at Canton, Ohio; also a Senate Joint Resolution, providing for admitting Sarah Curan, of Marlborough Tp., Stark Co., into the Cleveland Asylum for the Insane; Senate Resolution No. 14, fixing the pay of the pages. Three other Bills were introduced by Senator Hartshorn (Nos. 110, 426 and 336), and passed the Senate, but did not get through the House. He has recently (1881) been nominated without opposition to serve another term of two years in the Ohio Senate. Mr. Hartshorn was happily married January 1st, 1858, to Miss Elvira, daughter of John and Martha Allerton, of Alliance, Ohio. To Senator and Mrs. Hartshorn have been born six children—Loyal Douglas, Carrie T., Wilber A., Jessie G., Gertrude Josephine, and Florence; all of whom are living except the eldest son, who died at the age of eighteen, and Gertrude 760 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Josephine, who died when four years of age. ELLIS HAZEN, farmer; P. O. Alliance; was born in Mahoning Co., Ohio, April 19, 1824. His father, Daniel Hazen, was a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent. He came to Ohio in 1801, and settled in Columbiana, now Mahoning Co., and was a well-to-do farmer, and a man of considerable influence in the neighborhood in which he resided. He was married to Polly Wood, and to them were born four children, viz.—Ellis, Thomas, Elizabeth and R. J. C. The family removed from Mahoning Co. to Lexington Tp., Stark Co., in 1833, and located on Sec. 16, where Thos. Hazen now lives, and on said location Mr. Hazen remained until called away by death in 1869. He was a man worthy of trust and much respected in his own vicinity, and was almost continuously serving in some township office. After the organization of Lexington was effected, Daniel Hazen was the first Township Treasurer, an office which he held about twenty years. The subject of these notes is the oldest of the family. His early education was received in the public schools, and limited at that, as delicate condition of his father's health, demanded that Ellis' attention and labor should be directed to the care of the farm. Dec. 18, 1845, he was married to Emeline Wickersham. She was born in Columbiana Co., April 20, 1824, and came to Stark Co. with her parents in 1841. Mr. and Mrs. Hazen began on their own account, and farmed in this township ever since, and in this they have been quite successful. They have had eight children, six of whom are living—Almiretta, Lewis (deceased), Curtis (deceased), Eva, Lyde, Edward, William and Adelbert. Mr. Hazen had but little means when he began for himself, but by industry and care, he is now financially well fixed, having a good farm of 226 acres in a high state of cultivation. He was elected to the office of Township Trustee, which he held four years, and in October, 1878, he was elected County Commissioner, which office he now holds. He is in manner unassuming and pleasant, and although holding an office, the gift of the people, he is no politician; but a man who has gained and retains the respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens. HARVEY V. MERRICK, A. B., Professor of the German Language in Mt. Union College; was born in Columbiana Co., Ohio, March 27, 1855, son of Wm. and Jane (Coulson) Merrick, who are both natives of the same county. They reared six children, viz :—Martin, who enlisted for the late war in the 115th O. V. I., and served three years, and returned home and died in 1866 ; Sarah; Lizzie (deceased); Harvey V., Allen and Harper. Harvey V. was the fourth child and second son ; his boyhood was spent on the farm, and in attending the public school ; after he had taught one term, he entered Mt. Union College in 1875, and took a five years' course, employing himself teaching in the winter terms as a means of support during the succeeding college term. During his collegiate course he studied the German language thoroughly, and was appointed professor thereof immediately after his graduation in July, 1880. July 26, 1880, he married Carrie P. Chapman, daughter of John B. Chapman, who was a pioneer-settler and attorney, of Warsaw, Ind. Subsequent to the death of her father, Mrs. Merrick, with her mother, removed to Adams Co., Iowa, and settled near Corning ; there, in early childhood, Mrs. Merrick became familiar with the Icarians, a French-speaking community, of whom she readily acquired the rudiments of the French language; and having access to their libraries, and a natural taste for such studies, she soon became familiar with much of their literature, and a proficient French linguist. She attended Mt. Union College, from which she graduated in July, 1879 ; and in February, 1880, was appointed Professor of the French Language and History. MICHAEL McGRATH, deceased; was born in County Kildare, Ireland, in October, 1826. When about 20 years of age he emigrated to the United States, and spent his first year in this country at Auburn, N. Y. He removed thence to Cleveland, Ohio, and entered the employ of the Cleveland, Pittsburg & Wheeling R. R. Co., as overseer on a portion of that road during its construction.. In March, 1852, he came to Alliance, and engaged with the P., Ft. W. & C. R. R. Co., as overseer of a gang of repairers; this position he occupied until his late illness, which resulted in his death, May 15, 1881. He was quiet, sober and industrious, and al- LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP - 761 though working for nominal wages, he was, through industrious habits, enabled to purchase a farm of 78 acres adjoining the city corporation of Alliance, on the west. On Jan. 22, 1854, he married Phoebe A. Rock-hill. They had nine children, seven of whom are living, viz:— Josephine, John H., Michael D., James E., Ida M., Joseph F., and Ellen 0. In September, 1878, their oldest son George, took his gun and with several others went hunting. When several miles away he stepped to the wagon in which his gun was lying, and while in the act of taking it out it was accidentally discharged; the muzzle being toward him and in close proximity with his body, the load took effect in the upper part of his body, which caused death instantly. He leaves a young wife and one child to mourn their untimely loss. Mr. Michael McGrath leaves his family in very comfortable circumstances, with a good home surrounded by all the comforts necessary. He was through life a consistent member of the Catholic Church. JOHN NEILER, farmer; P. 0. Alliance; was born in Chester Co., Pa., April 3, 1811. His father Samuel, and his mother, Sarah (Evans) Neiler, were both natives of Pennsylvania. His father was a miller and farmer, and from boyhood up, John being the oldest of the family, was kept at the milling business, in which he soon became practical and thorough. He received at intervals, a fair common school education. He conducted the business for some time after the death of his father; and at the settlement of the affairs of the estate he removed to Ohio, and located in Goshen Tp., Mahoning Co., where he began to farm and remained five years; thence to Salem, Columbiana Co., and purchased the Allison Mills, which he ran seven years. He sold out his mill property in Salem, and returned to Mahoning Co., where he resided until 1867, when he sold out and removed. to Lexington Tp., Stark Co., and purchased a farm of 46 acres; on which he has resided ever since. He married Beulah W. Morris, March 12, 1853; she was a daughter of Joseph and Rachel Morris, of Mahoning Co., who with their ten children, emigrated from New Jersey, in a two-horse wagon, and located in Goshen Tp., Mahoning Co., in 1821. Her parents remained in the same place where they settled until she died, many years since. Mr. Neiler is-unassuming and plain in his manner, a man of unquestioned candor, and highly respected by those with whom he becomes acquainted. They had two children, both deceased. JOHN M. PETTIT, grocery merchant, Alliance; was born in New Lisbon, Columbiana Co., Ohio, May 15, 1817; he was the second child and oldest son of Austin and Elizabeth (Middleton) Pettit, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1812, and located in Columbiana Co., where he engaged in farming and stock dealing. When John M. was about 8 years old, his mother died, leaving four children. His father married Elizabeth Schooley for his second wife, and by this union six children were born. Until Mr. Pettit arrived at his 19th year his life was similar to that of most young men reared in the country, variously occupied on the farm and in attending school, after which he accepted a clerkship in a store of general merchandise in Salem, which he retained about six years. In March, 1845, he came to Mt. Union, Stark Co., and in partnership with Isaac Wilson opened a general store; shortly afterward, at the demise of Mr. Wilson, Mr. Pettit purchased the entire business, and conducted it until 1853, when the partnership of Pettit and Park was formed. In 1859 Mr. Pettit embarked in the general produce business with one Nixon, as Pettit & Nixon, which continued until 1865, when Mr. Reed took Nixon's place in the establishment; the latter partnership lasting about five years. In 1870 Mr. Pettit engaged in the fire and life insurance business for about four years, and then in partnership with his son, established his present business in Alliance. Dec. 28, 1843, he married Mary Bean, daughter of Israel and Jane Bean, of Salem, Ohio. They had four children; two died in childhood and two are living, viz:—Presley C., who is Cashier of the First National Bank, and George P., now in Colorado. Although these many years engaged in active business in Alliance, he has always been a resident of Mt. Union since the spring of 1845. He has been in active business since 19 years of age, a man of public spirit and enterprise, and decided business ability. REV. LOUIS PAINE, Minister of Methodist Episcopal Church, Limaville; was born in Salem, Columbiana Co., 0., Dec. 4, 1837. 762 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: His parents were Rufus and Narcissa (Aldrich) Paine. Rufus Paine was born in Smithfield, R. I., Sept. 11, 1793. Narcissa Aldrich was born in Northbridge, Mass., April 2, 1809. They were married at Norwich, Conn., April 27, 1836, and removed to Ohio in the spring of 1837. In 1838 they located in Limaville, Stark Co., where Mr. Paine engaged in the mercantile business; but at the end of two years he disposed of the same, and purchased a farm on the northern limits of the village, which has been the family homestead ever since. To Rufus and Narcissa Paine were born four children, viz: Louis; Rufus Smith, who died at the age of 16; Henry, now in the real estate and banking business, in Decorah, Iowa; and Eva, now Mrs. C. T. Mattingly, of Plymouth, Ind. Louis Paine's primary education was received in the public school, and in a select school in Limavil le, his first teacher being H. M. Lewis, now of Alliance. Afterward he attended the Atwater Academy, and in 1857 entered Mt. Union Seminary, which soon afterward was chartered as a college, and from which he graduated in the classical course in 1862. Jan. 1, 1860, while a student, Mr. Paine was married to Mary E. Cunning, of Shanesville, O., who died April 21, 1861. In the beginning of 1856 Mr. Paine had united with the Methodist Episcopal Church; but up to this event had pursued his educational course, having in view a business life; now, however, his thoughts turned toward the ministry. In the fall of 1861 he was licensed to preach by the Quarterly Conference of the Alliance Circuit. In the fall of 1862, after his graduation, he was appointed by Dr. I. N. Baird, who was the Presiding Elder, to the Marlborough Circuit. In March, 1863, he was received on trial in the Pittsburgh Conference, and appointed to the Columbiana Circuit. In March, 1864, he was appointed to the Elkton Circuit. On the 20th of March, 1865, at the Conference held in Canton, Ohio, he was ordained to the offrce of Deacon, by Bishop Ames. At the close of this Conference, on the evening of March 21, he was united in marriage to Mary E. Lind, who was a teacher in the Canton Union School, and a daughter of John Lind; Esq., of New Berlin, Stark Co., O., this being the second marriage solemnized in the M. E. Church of Canton, O. The succeeding two years, for the purpose of recuperating his health, he took no charge in the Conference, but resided in Limaville, and engaged in mercantile and farming pursuits, At the Conference held in Massillon, O., in March, 1867, he was ordained by Bishop Thompson to the offrce of Elder, and appointed to Rochester, Pa. Here he organized, in the town hall, the first Methodist Episcopal Church, with about 65 members; but the work prospered so successfully that during the three years of his stay as pastor, he received over 300 additional members, and succeeded in erecting their present fine two-story brick edifice.. From the arduous labor of this charge he retired in March, 1870, but his health having suffered thereby, he again retired to the farm for the succeeding two years. In March, 1872, he was appointed to Irondale, O., having in view the liquidation of a debt upon a new church building. In March, 1873, he was placed in charge of the " Centenary Church," Pittsburgh, Pa. Here he completed a church building which had been some years before begun, at a cost of some $22,000. At the expiration of two years, in March, 1875, the Conference having concluded to divide into the Pittsburgh and the East Ohio Conference, he asked to be placed again in the Ohio work, and was appointed to Mt. Union charge, in Stark Co., O. Here he remained during three terms, or until September, 1878; and his labors were eminently successful, receiving, in one revival, one hundred into the church. From September, 1878, to September, 1880, he was pastor of the Wellsville charge, during which time he received into the church about 160 by letter and on profession of faith. In September, 1880, he was appointed to Willoughby, Lake Co., O., where he officiates at this date. Rev. Mr. Paine retains the old lamely homestead at Limaville, O., where his mother still resides, his father having died in 1864, and where his family spend a portion of each summer. To Louis and Mary E. Paine have been born seven children, five of whom are living, viz:—Dellie (deceased when a few weeks old), Bertram Lind, Mary Myrtilla, Lura Bell, Stella Rosalie (died at the age of 2 years), Louis Henry, and Bertha Leona. DAVID ROCKHILL, farmer and proprietor of livery stable ; P. O. Alliance ; was born near the site of Alliance, Stark Co., Dec. 11, 1846, son of David and Hannah (Buckman) LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP - 763 Rockhill. The latter was a native of Pennsylvania, but the father came here at an early date from New Jersey. They reared seven children, six of whom are living. Mr. Rockhill Married Jane E. MbDonald in 1870. They have two children, viz:—Wesley L. and Es- tella May. In 1879 he purchased the livery establishment of Mr. Phillips, and has charge of that business as well as superintending his farm, upon which he still resides, and which is the same farm entered by his grandfather Rockhill, when they first located here. CLEMENT ROCKHILL, farmer ; P. O. Alliance ; was born where he is now residing, Jan. 8, 1828. He is the fifth child and oldest son of eleven children (all of whom lived to maturity) born to Samuel A. and Nancy (Bryant) Rockhill. His parents were natives of New Jersey, and after they were married they removed to Ohio, and settled at Salem, Columbiana Co. in February, 1820. They had stopped a short time when they removed to Stark Co., and entered 160 acres west of Mt. Union, and subsequently purchased the farm which our subject owns, which is all within the corporate limits of Alliance, for the sum of $3 per acre. When quite young, Mr. Rockhill was obliged to work on the farm, as he was the eldest son of a large family ; consequently his early education was rather limited. When he had attained his majority he began to do for himself, and took charge of the homestead. In 1858 he married Sarah Hogate, a d :tighter of John Hogate, of Marshall Co., Ind. She died in November, 1871, leaving three children, viz:—Cassius Clay, Lulu M. and Clarence A. Mr. Rockhill married a second wife, Louisa karnes, by whom he had one child—Charles C. From her he obtained a bill of divorce. His present wife was Sarah Stone, of Ravenna, Portage Co. They own a farm of 49 acres in the corporation of Alliance, which is a comfortable home. Mr. Rockhill is a quiet, industrious citizen and has always been one of those men who attends to his on affairs, and allows others a like privilege. WILLIAM SOULE, M. S., Ph. D., Professor of Physics and Chemistry in Mt. Union College; was born at Dover Plains, Duchess Co., N. Y., Dec. 5, 1834. His parents were John B. and Jane (Tabor) Soule, the former a teacher in his early life, but lat terly turned his attention to farming, and was an influential citizen in his neighborhood. The early education of our subject was that of the common schools, which cost him six miles of travel each day. He subsequently attended the famous " Quintillian Seminary," of Rev. Eliphaz Fay. In 1856, he entered the American Seminary, and was a close student and hard worker, to the serious injury of his sight and general health. He entered the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1858, and graduated from that institution in 1861 ; he took a post-graduate course in chemistry and natural history, and took a second degree. In May, 1862, he married Adelia E., daughter of Eber White, a prominent and early resident of Ann Arbor, Mich. They. have two children—Stella and Marion. Subsequent to his post-graduate course, Prof. Soule returned to New York ; was principal of a school for some time, and was then appointed Professor of Natural Science in CaZenovi a Seminary, where he remained thirteen years. During this time many medical students pursued a regular course of analytical chemistry under his instruction. He is frequently called upon to decide the character of minerals, the purity of drugs, etc. Upon one occasion, a case of supposed poisoning was submitted to him ; the body was exhumed, which he analyzed, and his report accepted as conclusive. In the summer of 1880 he was elected to the professorship, which he now holds in Mt. Union College. The honorary degree of Ph. D. has recently been conferred upon Prof. Soule. HENRY A. SOLIDAY, Limaville; of the firm of Soliday & Sparr, millers, proprietors of the Valley Mills; was born in Blair Co., Penn., Feb. 25, 1837; the third in a family of ten children born to Abraham and Catharine Soliday. His parents were both natives of Pennsylvania, and his father a millwright by trade. In 1845 the family removed from Pennsylvania to Ohio, and settled near Wooster, Wayne Co., where his father engaged in the milling business. Having been brought up to that trade by his father, the subject of these notes followed mill-building until about 28 years old, when he engaged in the mercantile business in Doylestown, where in connection with his business, he was Post Master, and served as a Justice of the Peace 764 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES% about seven years. He removed to Akron in 1873, and continued in the mercantile business until 1879, when he purchased the Valley Mills, at Limaville, and took as partner his brother-in-law, B. F. Sparr. They have refitted and made various important improvements in the mills, they being only adapted to water-power when they purchased; but they have since provided a 35-horse power steam engine and boiler, and are now prepared to do work at any season. In November, 1860, Mr. Soliday married Sarah A., daughter of Elias Galehouse, a pioneer of the township in which he settled, in Wayne Co. By this union there are three children living, viz.—Charles H., George W., and Jessie A. JOSEPH SEBRELL, farmer; P. O. Limaville; was born in Sussex Co., Va., April 15, 1796, the fifth child of Joseph and Rebecca (Jones) Sebrell, who with their six children, were a part of the party of some fifty persons who emigrated from Virginia to Ohio in 1807. Several families came direct to Stark Co., while Mr. Sebrell's family located near Salem, and remained there until 183. His father was a hatter by trade, and during the pioneer days, when it was almost impossible to procure money for produce of any kind, Mr. Sebrell found his manufactured articles a handy commodity to exchange for other necessaries. When he got the hatting business established, his sons also worked at the trade with him, but soon turned their attention to farming. The subject of these notes states that their first few crops of corn were almost all devoured by squirrels, having in his boyhood, day by day paced the field and guarded the seed corn when planted, until it had grown beyond the stage when liable to suffer from the pests; but as soon as it formed " ears," the ravages of these pests were as bad as ever, necessitating the corn to be cut when only in roasting-ear, and gathered near their cabin for protection. His father came to Stark Co., and purchased 160 acres about a mile west of Lexington, and to this location the family removed from Salem in 1823. Previous to their removal, Joseph, the subject of these notes, married Mary Shinn, in 1817. She was born in New Jersey, July 3, 1798, and came with her parents to Salem in 1803. Mr. and Mrs. Sebrell have been familiarized with hardship in pioneer life, which can be real ized only by those who settled in the unbroken forest, where naught of civilization was to be found. They are both hale, and happily passing their declining days with their daughters. Although Mrs. Sebrell has for some time been totally blind, and the organs of hearing somewhat affected, she is otherwise enjoying good health, and is sound of mind, with a wonderful memory of past events. They are parents of nine children, all of whom lived to maturity—Abigail (deceased), wife of Jos. Wiley; Mathews; Rebecca, wife of E. Bennett; Thomas; Mary A. (deceased), wife of J. Kennedy; Elizabeth, wife of Aaron Gibson; Hannah, Joseph and Hulda. ELISHA TEETERS, farmer; P. O. Alliance; whose portrait appears in this history as a representative pioneer of Lexington Tp., was born in what is now Mahoning Co., Ohio, Jan. 11, 1814. His grandfather, Elisha Teeters, emigrated from Germany to this country about the time of the Revolutionary war, and settled in Eastern Pennsylvania, in 1796, finally becoming one of the early pioneers to what was then Columbiana, now Mahoning Co., Ohio. The parents of our subject were John and Mary (Cook) Teeters. His father was a Colonel under Gen. Harrison in the war of 1812; a warm friend to educational and moral reform, and an influential member of the community. He was a "Friend" in his religious belief, a Democrat up to the beginning of the late war, and afterwards a Republican. He died July 25, 1866, in his 85th year. Of a family of ten children, Elisha, the subject of this sketch, is the oldest son. Reared amid the surroundings of pioneer life, he obtained such an education as that early period afforded. On July 16, 1835, he married Eliza, daughter of Richard Webb, an early pioneer to Columbiana Co., and in August following they moved to Lexington Tp., Stark Co., where he began life for himself in the woods in the vicinity of this place, where he has since remained, a lover of agriculture and its kindred pursuits, and now resides near Alliance, on one of the finest farms in Stark Co. Aside from his industry, he has been prominently identified with various local enterprises. Early in the history of Alliance, he was for several years engaged in the dry goods and produce trade. He then engaged in private banking, LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP - 765 which he he carried on for fifteen years, his son, R. W., having been a partner most of the time. He was also for a number of years of this time, treasurer of the Lake Erie, Alliance & Wheeling R. R. Co., and along with this business he was for ten years connected with the manufacturing interests of Alliance, being president of Nixon & Co.'s Agricultural Works. In this enterprise he was the unfortunate loser of about $250,000 surety money, none of the obligations being of his own contracting, For six years he has served as County Commissioner, and is now one of the trustees of the Fairmount Children's Home, situated near Alliance, for the counties of Stark and Columbiana. He is also the owner of Alliance College and Boarding Hall, the original cost of which was upwards of $100,000. Politically, he has been a life-long Democrat, and firm in that faith, and for many years a member of the Christian Church, and an elder in the same. He has long enjoyed the reputation of being a clear-headed business man, honorable in his dealings, firm in his views, and a plain, unostentatious gentleman, possessed of an unusual amount of sterling good sense. He has ever been a warm and zealous advocate of all measures calculated to advance the social and moral welfare of the community, and now being well advanced in years he enjoys the confidence and respect of all good citizens. Mrs. Teeters died in January, 1866, having been the mother of ten children, all living but one. Jesse W. lives on the old homestead, which was cleared by his father; R. W., is a business man of Alliance; Isaac F. and Charles are engaged in stock-raising in western Kansas; E. P. is now mail agent on the Lake Erie & Alliance R. R.; M. Susan, is now Mrs. John Shimp, of Canton; Rachel L.. is the wife of James Amerman, an attorney of Alliance; Rosa J. is now Mrs. C. C. Eddy, of Kansas City, Mo.; and Laura E., now Mrs. George Kay, book-keeper in the bank of Lamborn & Gray. On July 14, 1871, Mr. Teeters married a second wife, Sarah R., daughter of Mathias Hester, whose biography is in this work. JESSE W. TEETERS, farmer ; P. 0. Alliance ; was born where he is now residing, June 5, 1836. He is the oldest of ten children born to Elisha and Eliza (Webb) Teeters. He was reared amid the scenes and circumstances incident to a newly settled locality. He was brought up to the multifarious duties of farm life, and received a fair education in the common schools. June 28, 1866, he was married to Addie Brosius ; she is a daughter of Amos and Esther Brosius, of Washington Tp. Mr. and Mrs. Teeters have one child—Mary Mabel. Mr. Teeters has a good farm of 192 acres, well improved and in a beautiful location, being the old homestead where his father settled when he first came, to this township. He is much interested in good farming and stock-raising, and has taken pains to introduce some excellent short-born cattle, which are beginning to attract the attention of the farmers and stock men of this section, from the grand results produced on his farm. At various times he has marketed steers of this breed, when four years old, weighing upwards of two thousand pounds. Mr. Teeters is a gentleman of no political or office-seeking aspirations; he is a pleasant, unassuming man, possessed of considerable natural ability, excellent judgment, and above all, that rare gift, common sense. He was a member of the Disciples' Church, and at the division of the congregation he united with the Independent faction. JOSHUA WOOD, farmer; P. O. Alliance; was born on the farm adjoining the west of his present home, Dec. 3, 1830. His father, Robert Wood, came with his parents from Virginia when quite young ; they located near Salem, Columbiana Co. He (Robert Wood) married Abigail Gaskill, a daughter of one of the first pioneer families of that section of Ohio. They came to Lexington Tp., and settled in the unbroken forest, and began to clear up their land ; and in which they wade good progress by dint of industry. Mr. Wood became a man of considerable influence in the new settlement, and was sought after by the citizens as a proper person to transact the duties of the township offices, some of which he held almost all his life; he died here about 1862, at the advanced age of 70 years. They had 13 children, of whom six sons and two daughters survive, viz:—Levi, of Lexington Tp.; Joshua; E. J., in Iowa ; E. M., a minister of the gospel, in M. E. Church at Pittsburgh, Pa. ; J. D., of Ma honing Co.; Daniel, in Colorado; Hannah, now 766 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Mrs. E. E. Scranton, of Alliance; and Jane, Mrs. L. J. Kelley, of this township. The subject of these notes began on his own account, in the vicinity in which he lives ; first having acquired a good common school education, and that principally by private study at night, by the blazing torch-light in the old-fashioned fire-place of his father's log cabin, as school facilities were poor and expensive ; and a large family to be cared for, with limited means. Amid such surroundings the family were reared to be industrious and frugal. But above all else, Joshua evinced a strong desire for instruction and a love for knowledge. His scanty stock of books he eagerly perused, and fitted himself for teaching; he taught eleven school-terms—ten of which he was in the same school. December 31, 1854, he married Maria, daughter of George and Eunice Carter, who were formerly of Portage Co. They have five children, viz :—Lorinda O., now Mrs. G. A. 'Winner ; Bell, Edwin G; Ona E., and Artie B. Mr. Wood has always held some township office since he has been of age; and in 1872 he was elected County Commissioner, and held that office six years in succession. He has ever been an industrious, energetic citizen, and a promoter of every measure which proposed general and material development for the welfare of the community. A portion of the old homestead, which was owned and first settled on by his father, constitutes a part of his present farm of 156 1/2 acres, which is a comfortable home—the result of his own and his wife's industry and care. JOSEPH L. WICKERSHAM, farmer ; P. O. Alliance; was born in Columbiana Co., Ohio, Jan. 9, 1833. His father, Ellis Wickersham, came to Ohio from Chester Co., Pa., when a young man. He married Eliza Morgan, and they reared ten children. The family removed from Columbiana to Stark Co., and settled on the farm now owned by Joseph L. in 1841; its improvements were then of little value—an old log cabin for residence, and the greater part of the farm covered with heavy timber. Here the family grew up and spread out over the country, as follows : Mary A. was married to William Angus, and removed to Wood Co., Ohio ; Lydia E. married D. Wood, and went to Indiana ; Emeline is Mrs. Ellis Hazen ; Lewis went to Iowa, thence to Kansas, where he died ; Ellis T., deceased ; Thomas M. deceased ; Joseph L., William Q., went to Kansas; and two died in childhood. Joseph L. was the seventh child. His early education was of the public schools and Marlborough Union School. He taught district school two winters. He has a good farm of 183 acres, on which is found beds of excellent quality of potters' clay, which he furnishes to various manufacturing institutions in this part of the State. Nov. 26, 1859, he was married to Susan Fowler. Her father was a native of New York and came to Pennsylvania a young man; there married and came to Portage Co., Ohio, in 1830. Mr. Wickersham was elected a member of the County Board of Agriculture, which office he has held since 1876. He was prominently instrumental in the organization of the Lexington Aid Association, in 1876—a mutual agreement by several farmers to aid each other in case of fire ; it has given such satisfaction that its promoters were encouraged to organize under the State laws, and apply for a charter, which was duly granted June 4, 1881. The charter members are : Joseph Grant, Joseph L. Wickersham, Joshua Wood, William Hugus, Joseph Kelley, Jacob Butler, Elias Ellett, President of the organization, and others. Mr. Wickersham has been Secretary of the Company since the organization in 1876. LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP - 767 LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP S. M. BUCKMASTER, manufacturer of carriages and buggies and general repairing, Canal Fulton; was born in Jackson Tp., Stark Co., in I840; son of James and Nancy (Miller) Buckmaster. Passing his youth upon a farm, our subject, at the age of 19, commenced to learn his trade in Canal Fulton, under instructions, from William Stam, with whom he continued for eight months, subsequently finishing his apprenticeship in Bath Tp., Summit Co. In I861, he enlisted in the 15th O. V. I., and was soon after detailed for duty as a blacksmith; he remained in the service over three years, and then re-enlisted as a veteran in the 2d Ohio, which was under the command of Sherman; he was soon detailed as a scout, under the command of Harry Kenderdine, of Iowa, and in this capacity entered the rebel lines several times in search of information. Our limited space will not permit of a recital of the many exciting episodes in which he was a participant; his army life continued until the close of the war. In 1865, he purchased from Stam his blacksmith-shop, and commenced business operations, in Canal Fulton, where he has remained an important business factor; his increasing trade has, from time to time, compelled an increase in room and assistance, and at the present time is contemplating still more improvements and enlargements. He manufactures all varieties of wagons, carriages and buggies, and does all manner of jobbing and repairing, his business being one of the leading industries of the community, employing, at different seasons, from nine to sixteen hands. As a citizen, Mr. Buckmaster is prominent and honored; he has served as Councilman for six years, and a member of the School Board six years; he is a member of the Knights of Honor; in the Masonic order he is Master, and for the last fourteen years has been Past Grand in the I. O. O. F. fraternity; he is also a member of the I. O. O. F. Camp and Eureka Lodge, No. 24, Massillon Encampment. He was married, Sept. 7, 1875, to Miss Belle Lambright, of Pennsylvania; they have six children — Hattie, Waldon, Champion, Truman, Franklin and Carrie. BEAR & ARTHER, sash, doors and blinds and planing-mill, Canal Fulton. Franklin Bear, the senior member of this firm, is a native of Pennsylvania; he commenced when a youth to learn the carpenter's trade, which he followed for a few years, and was also engaged in a rifle manufactory, in Pennsylvania, working in that two years; he next engaged in a saw-mill, in Center Co., Penn, and soon after engaged in a sash, door and blind manufactory, in Pittsburgh, remaining there three years. In 1875, he came to Canal Fulton, and entered into partnership with his brother Samuel, manufacturing sash, doors and blinds together nearly three years; his brother then retired from the firm, John Arther becoming his successor, since which time they have been associated together, making sash, doors and blinds; also running a planing-mill and cider press. Messrs. Bear & Arther have excellent facilities for the prompt execution of business, and are reliable and enterprising business men. Mr. Bear was married, in 1876, to Miss Lavina Kissinger, of Indiana; they have one child, Birdie. Mr. Bear is a practical engineer, and has charge of the fire-engine at Canal Fulton. John Arther was born in Canal Fulton in 1853; he is a son of Baltzer and Katharine (Gilcher) Arther; he is a carpenter by trade, and pursued that vocation the greater portion of his time until he became a partner with Mr. Bear, since which time he has devoted his attention to that business; he is a young man, of good business qualifications, and ranks well as a citizen. Mr. Arther was united in marriage, in 1879, to Miss Louisa Ehrett; they have one child, Charles E. J. M. BILLING, dry goods, Canal Fulton; is one of the leading and enterprising business men of Canal Fulton; he is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Mercer County, in 1838. 768 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Mr. Billing has been in the mercantile business for the greater portion of his life, commencing as a clerk when 15 years of age, in his native county, where he remained eight years; he then embarked in a business enterprise in Greenville, Penn., doing a dry goods trade there for five years; he then came to Ohio, and was associated with his father-in-law in the hotel and life insurance business, in Holmes County, for about one year; he then engaged as a salesman for Wesener, Brouse & Co., of Akron, and was in their employ two years; in 1871, he came to Canal Fulton, and established a dry goods trade there, under the firm name of A. W. Miller & Co., continuing for seven years, since which time the firm has been known as J. M. Billing. Mr. Billing carries an extensive stock of dry goods, groceries, hats and caps, etc.; his store is located in the Union. Block, and his business connections are extended and yearly increasing. He was married, in June, 1859, to Miss Lue M. Griffin, of Pennsylvania; they have one child, .Cora May. Mr. Billing was a member of the Board of Education for nine years; served one year as Township Treasurer, and is now administering the duties of that office. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, and also an Odd Fellow, in which he has passed through all of the grades. H. BEVARD, drugs and medicines, Canal Fulton; is a native of Wayne Co., Ohio, born in 1840; he is a son 1 James and Nancy (Kindig) Bevard, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, and located in Wayne County about I831, where they still reside. Our sub- ject commenced a mercantile career at the age of 14, entering a dry goods store in Dalton, where he was employed for five years; in 186I, he enlisted in Company E, 61st O. V. I., and was in active service for three years; he participated in the battles of Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Bull Run, Mission Ridge, Peach Tree Creek, Lookout Mountain and in the battles in front of Atlanta, where he was wounded in the left arm, which crippled it for life; after lying in the hospital for eight months, he was mustered out, at Camp Dennison, in 1865. After his return home, he engaged in the grocery business, in Dalton, remaining there one year; then to Orrville, in the same -business, and in 1869, he removed to Canal Fulton; he was engaged in the grocery trade for over six years, when he disposed of his stock and engaged in the drug business, which he has continued at since; his stock consists of a full line of drugs, medicines and fancy goods. He was married, in 1873, to Miss Sarah Bliler, of Canal Fulton; they have two children---Eve Y. and Ollie B. Mr. Bevard is a member of the Common Council, and a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, of Fulton. A. B. CAMPBELL, physician and surgeon, Canal Fulton; was born in Canada in 1845; he commenced reading medicine in Canada, and in 1869 entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and graduated in medicine and surgery in 1871; he commenced practice in Summit Co., Ohio, in 1871, remaining there two years. In 1873, he located in Canal Fulton, where he has since resided, and where he has established a large and successful practice. In the winter of 1880-81, he attended the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, to perfect himself still more in his chosen profession, and he now ranks as one of the most skilled physicians of Stark County. Dr. Campbell was united in marriage, in I874, to Miss Amelia Upjohn, daughter of Dr.Upjohn, of Kalamazoo, Mich. ; she died in Canal Fulton, leaving a son, Archibald Upjohn. Dr. Campbell is a member of the County Medical Society, and of the Northeastern Medical Association. F. N. CHAMBERLAIN, dentist, Canal Fulton; is a native of Akron, Summit Co., Ohio, where he was born in 1851; he remained upon a farm until 21 years of age, soon after beginning the study of dentistry, at Kent, Ohio, with G. A. Case, remaining with him over two years; he then went to Peninsula, Ohio, where he practiced his profession nearly three years; in 1880, he removed to Canal Fulton, where he has established a successful practice. Dr. Chamberlain is an efficient, skillful workman, and does artistic work. He was married, in 1873, to Miss Demaris Viall, of Summit County; they have one child, Blanche. Dr: Chamberlain is a member of the Knights of Honor. LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP - 769 CHALMERS M. DICKSON, physician and surgeon, Canal Fulton; is a son of Dr. M. M. Dickson, of Norton Tp., Summit Co. ; he began his education in the common schools, and from thence to the high school and business college, of Akron, from both of which he graduated; he also received a practical business education as book-keeper and Cashier of the business house of Samuel Steese, Akron, with whom he was connected two years; having decided upon the profession of medicine for his life-work, he entered the office of his father, under whose tutelage he remained one year, at the expiration of which time he became a student of the Ann Arbor Medical College, and after three years' course, graduated, in July, 1880. Dr. Dickson first located, for practice, at Port Clinton, Summit Co., where be remained only seven months, and in March, 1881, removed to Canal Fulton, where he intends to remain permanently. Dr. Dickson is an educated and genial gentleman, and is a valuable addition to the community in which he has located. He was united in marriage, in May, 1881, to Miss Nannie Payne, of Port Clinton. H. DISSINGER, physician and surgeon, Canal Fulton; is a native pf Franklin Tp., Summit Co., Ohio; he is a son of John and Molly (Saggoner) Dissinger, who were early settlers in that locality; when 10 years of age, his parents removed to Manchester, where his early days were passed; in 1875, he commenced the study of medicine, with Dr. D. Rowe, of Manchester, remaining under his instructions and tutelage for three years, attending, in the meantime, the Medical College of Ohio, located at Cincinnati, where he received his diploma, in 1878; he then attended one course of the Long Island Hospital College, at Brooklyn, N. Y., of which he is also a graduate. He commenced immediately the practice of his profession, at Canal Fulton, locating there in December, 1878, where he has entered upon a successful and prominent practice. Dr. Dissinger was united in mar riage, in October, 1878, to Miss Caroline Sisler, of Manchester, Summit Co. ; they have one child—Earl. Dr. Dissinger is a member of the Knights of Honor. JOHN DAVIS, Postmaster, Canal .Fulton; is one of the early settlers of Canal Fulton, and has been prominent in business associations since his first location there. Mr. Davis is a native of York Co., Penn., where he was born in 1813; he learned, when young, the hatter's trade in Adams County, where he remained for two years; in the fall of 1836, he came to Ohio, and in the spring of 1837, located at Canal Fulton, where he commenced the manufacture of hats; this business he followed for some time, and finally drifted into the hat trade, keeping a store of manufactured goods; this business he continued at until 1860, when he received the appointment of Postmaster, which office he has faithfully administered up to the present time. Mr. Davis was married, in 1843, to Miss Martha Miller; she died in 1853, leaving one child Melissa; he was united to a second wife, Mrs. Mobley, widow of William Mobley, in 1854; she died in 1877, leaving a son, W. Emerson, and two daughters by her former marriage, Missouri and Virginia. J. W. DICKERHOOF, station agent and telegraph operator of the C., T. Y. & W. R. R., Canal Fulton; was born in Pennsylvania, and came, with his parents, to Franklin Tp., Summit Co., in 1848; his father was a farmer, and he remained at home assisting upon the farm until 20 years of age; he then learned the carpenter's trade and followed that trade for about ten years; he came to Canal Fulton in 1872, working at his trade until 1876, when he commenced learning telegraphy at the C., T. V. & W. R. R. ; in 1878, he was appointed agent at Warwick, where he remained until May, 1881, when he was transferred to Canal Fulton, and is now the station agent and telegraph operator there. Mr. Dickerhoof was married, in 1879, to Miss Catharine A. Williams, of Pennsylvania. SAMUEL ESCHLIMAN, fanner; P. 0. North Lawrence; is another representative of the prominent farmers of Lawrence Township, and of the Eschliman family; he was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., in 1833; he was united in marriage, in 1856, to Miss Anna Martin, of Baughman Tp., Wayne Co., and soon after became a resident of the farm upon which he now resides. Mr. Eschliman is largely engaged in farming; he now owns over 350 acres of improved land, and is one of the progressive 770 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: and liberal-minded men of Stark County; his family consists of eleven children—Mary Zimmerman and Fanny Hershey, of Wayne County; Sarah, Anna, David, Susie, Henry, Emma, Elmer, Ida and Samuel. JONAS ESCHLIMAN, farmer; P. 0. North Lawrence; is a prominent farmer of the township, and resident of the Eschliman homestead farm; he was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., in 1834; was married, in 1855, to Miss Fanny Martin, who was a native of Wayne County; she died in 1861, leaving four children—Elizabeth, Jacob, Nancy and Jonas; he subsequently, in I863, married Miss Martha Martin, a sister of his deceased wife, and by this union there have been eight children—John, Abram, Mary, Amos, Ezra, Daniel, Henry and Martha. Mr. Eschliman is an intelligent and practical farmer, and owns about 200 acres of excellent land, which is well cultivated; his buildings are first-class, commandingly located and present a picture of thrift and prosperity. Mr. Eschliman is considered one of the solid, substantial farmers of Stark County. CHRISTIAN ESCHLIMAN, retired farmer; P. O. North Lawrence; is a son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Horst) Eschliman, natives of Pennsylvania. They emigrated from Lancaster County to Ohio, 183e7, locating in Lawrence Township, where they became large and successful farmers and passed the remainder of their days; he died in 1870, aged 70 years; his wife died the same year, aged 74; they were parents of eight children, who grew to maturity--Nancy Showalter, a resident of Illinois; Christian.; Elizabeth Weaver, in Elkhart, Ind.; Susanna Hoover, also a resident of Indiana; Abraham, in the West; David, a large and successful farmer of Michigan, and Samuel and Jonas, farmers of Lawrence Township. Christian is a native of Lancaster Co., Penn; born in 1823; he married, in 1843, Miss Mary Gardner, of Baughman Tp., Wayne Co., and soon after became a resident of the farm upon which he has since resided; he now is the possessor of over 200 acres of superior land in the township, all of which is well cultivated and improved; he is now retired from farming, and is occupying his time in matters of trust, acting as administrator in settling estates, and as collection agent; he has served the township as Trustee, and was, for many years, actively interested in educational matters; is a strict advocate of temperance; a member of the Disciples' Church, and one of the valued citizens of the community. Of a family of four children, only one now survives, Elizabeth Lawrence, living in Wayne Co. CHARLES EASLY, hotel proprietor, Canal Fulton; son of William and Nancy (Carr) Easly; was born in Pennsylvania in 1832, and came, with his mother, to Lawrence Township in 1836, his father having been killed in Pennsylvania by falling from a building. Our subject passed several years in farming, in Lawrence Township; in 1855, he came to Canal Fulton, and engaged in the grocery and butchering business, for about six years; he then disposed of his goods, and for a period of three years, was engaged in buying and selling stock; in 1865, he embarked in the grocery and provision trade, continuing in that line until 1876, when he started the Easly House, and has since been engaged in its management; he has served the township as Trustee two terms; as Township Assessor, one term, and is now Street Commissioner of Canal Fulton. Mr. Easly is a genial and courteous gentleman and deservedly popular as a hotel proprietor; while as a citizen, he ranks among the best; he was united in marriage, in 1853, to Miss Jane 0. Riley, of Wayne County; they have eight children living—Mary, Lizzie, Wallace, of Akron; Jay, a promising law student, Sadie, Charlie, Lavina, Maggie and Willie T. J. B. EASLY, dealer in horses, Canal Fulton; is a native of Pennsylvania, but at the age of 2 years came with his mother to Lawrence Township; in 1847, he went to Navarre, and learned the tinner's trade; in 1851, he commenced in that business, at Canal Fulton, in partnership with. William McDowell, with whom he remained three years; he then continued in the tinning business until 1878, establishing a large and successful business, which was damaged by the loss of his health; since 1878, he has been dealing in horses, which he ships to Boston; he occupied a prominent position at one time among the busi- LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP - 771 ness men, and served in various offices of trust; as Township Treasurer, one term; as Councilman about eight years, and one term as Mayor. JOHN A. FISHER, retired, Canal Fulton; is a native of Germany; he came to America in 1840, and settled in Auglaize County, remaining there a few years, and in 1843 he removed to Canton, making that his home until 1844, when he came to Canal Fulton, and was engaged in conducting a cabinet shop for twelve years; in 1856, in connection with George Wolfsperger, he purchased an interest in a flouring mill property. Wolfsperger died soon after, but his interest was retained by a son. They continued together until 1873, when the property was divided, Wolfsperger retaining the mill, and our subject 60 acres of land, since which time he has been engaged in agricultural life, but at present is retired from active labor. He was married, in 1845, to Miss Christiana Wolfsperger, who died ten years after, leaving two children —Henry and Annie; he married, for a second wife, Widow Housley, in 1856; they had two children—Frank and Mary Sutherland; his wife's maiden name was Annie Machamer, and her people were early settlers of Lake Township, where they came, about 1822, from Pennsylvania, and were residents there the remainder of their lives. Annie was born in Pennsylvania, and married to Levi Housley, in 1838; he died in 1852, leaving eight children, five of whom are now living. Frank Fisher is a member of the milling firm of Harmon & Fisher; he is a native of Lawrence Township; son of John A. and Annie Fisher; he received a good education, and has begun a promising business career in his native township; in May, 1879, he became associated with Daniel Harman in the flouring mill, and they are establishing an honorable and successful reputation as business men. Mr. Fisher also is devoting part of his time to the cultivation of his father's land; he is an intelligent and studious young man, with promising prospects. H. A. FISHER, express and station agent Pennsylvania Railroad; was born in Canal Fulton in 1848; his parents were John A. and Christiana (Wolfsperger) Fisher; they were natives of Germany; married in Stark County, and resided several years in Canal Fulton, where he was engaged in the cabinetmaker's trade; in 1855, his wife died, and he was subsequently married to the Widow Housley; in 1856, he sold out his cabinet-shop to Mr. Tromp and engaged at milling in the township; he is now living in the township upon a farm; by his frrst wife, there were two children—Anna, and H. A., the subject of this sketch; by his second wife, also were two children—Frank and Mary. Our subject commenced his business career as a clerk in the dry goods store of C. W. Robinson, with whom he remained three years; he then engaged in the drug trade in connection with J. F. Zeller, remaining in that line two years; also acting as station agent of the C. & Mt. V. R. R. during this time; he then sold out, and since that time (1873) has been giving his entire attention to railroad business, acting as station agent of what is now a branch of the Pacific Railroad, and as express agent of the Union Express Company. Mr. Fisher has served as Corporation Clerk four years, and is now serving as Township Clerk; he is a member of the Masonic Order of Waynesburgh. He married, in 1875, Miss Flora Porter, of Wayne County; they have two children—Olive and Walter. WILLIAM FINDLEY, merchant, Chapman; is a young and promising business man of Lawrence Township; he is a native of Scotland, and in 1857 emigrated to America with his parents, whom he was soon unfortunate enough to lose. He was then taken into the family of his uncle, Archibald Findley, and reared as if he were their own son. William assisted and worked around the mines, in Lawrence Township and vicinity, until he attained his majority, when he entered into a business partnership with Thomas Masters, of Youngstown Hill, and they are now engaged in the grocery and provision trade there, under the firm name of Masters & Findley. William was married, July 6, 1876, to Miss Annie Rowland, daughter of Edward Rowland, of Lawrence Township; they have one child, Maggie K. ARCHIBALD FINDLEY is a native of Scotland, and emigrated to America in 1855; he located in Wayne Co., Ohio, for a 772 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: short period, but soon after settled in Lawrence Township, where he has since resided and engaged in mining, which business he followed in the old country. He was married, in 1851, to Miss Jane Dougall, also a native of Scotland; they have one child, Jeanette, now the wife of John Street. Mr. Findley has also a small tract of land, which he gives part of his attention to. HENRY GILCHER, lumber, Canal Fulton; is one of the oldest business men of Canal Fulton now living; he is a native of Germany, born in 1804; he emigrated to America in 1833, with his family, which consisted of a wife and one child; he first located in Tuscarawas Township, and engaged at his trade, as carpenter, remaining there about one and a half years; then removed to Massillon, where he remained for three months, and in 1835 came to Canal Fulton, where he has since resided and been identified with its business and social interests; he first engaged as a journeyman, for two years, and then embarked in business for himself, as contractor and builder; about 1855, he engaged in the lumber trade, which has been his chief business up to the present time, for the past eighteen years having been associated with his son David. Their yards are extensive and well supplied, and in connection therewith they run a planing-mill and do a large business in contracting and building. Mr. Gilcher is one of the valued and respected citizens of the township; he has served in offices of trust with honor and fidelity; with the school interest he was identified as Director for ten years, and in 1863 and 1864 served as Township Trustee, and in corporation offices as a member of the Council; he is now serving as Vice President of the Cemetery Association; he was married, in Germany, in 1828, to Catharine Fickisen; she died in Canal Fulton in May, 1878; they had three children--Mary Lambight, who died in 1862; Catharine Utter and David, both residents of Canal Fulton. Mr. Gilcher is now living with a second wife, who was Mrs. Susan Rhoads, of Pennsylvania. David Gilcher was born in Massillon, a few weeks previous to the removal of his parents to Canal Fulton; he has been a resident of the latter place since that time, and one of her practical and industrious business men, during his later years; he learned the carpenter trade of his father when a youth, and was engaged in that calling over fifteen years; in 1863, he became associated in business with his father, which has lasted up to the present time. David has the supervision of the business, which, under his skillful management, has become extensive; he was married, in March, 1861, to Miss Kate Eckroad, of Lawrence Township; they have two children living—Eugene and Henry B., and one deceased, Carrie. Mr. Gilcher has served on the Common Council over ten years; Township Trustee, two years (and is now serving in that capacity again); as Township Treasurer, four years, and as member of School Board one term; he is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. JOHN GESAMAN, farmer; P. 0. North Lawrence; is a son of Jacob and Barbara (Reichard) Gesaman, natives of Franklin Co., Penn.; they settled in Lawrence Township in 1829, and were residents of the township until their death; his mother died in 1847, and his father subsequently married Anna M. Bruch, a widow. By the first marriage there were ten children, seven of whom are now living—Lavina Shilling, living in Indiana; John; Kate Calbeck, of Noble Co., Ind.; Joseph, also a resident there; Sabina Walter, living in Wayne Co., Ohio; Alvira Lawrence and Melinda Linn, residents of Lawrence Township. By the second wife there were three children, two now living--Daniel, living in Michigan, and Sarah Linn, also a resident of Michigan. His father died in 1861. John Gesaman was born in Westmoreland Co., Penn.; he owns 175 acres of improved land, in Lawrence Township, where he has lived since 1 year old; his occupation has been that of a farmer, but he has devoted a large amount of time in traveling through adjoining counties as a lecturer to children in schools, principally; his lecture was, "Morals, Manners and Temperance," and his desire to instill in the minds of the young elevated thought and the use of a good education; he was married, in 1849, to Miss Mary M. Reinoehl, daughter of William Reinoehl, an early settler of Lawrence Township; she is a native of the township. Mr. and Mrs. Gesaman have LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP - 773 had five children, only two of whom now survive—George Q. and Ezra. They are members of the United Brethren Church, and esteemed members of society. J. T. GOUCHER, M. D., North Lawrence; is a native of the Keystone State; he commenced teaching school when 14 years of age, in Michigan, where his parents had removed to from Pennsylvania; his father, C. W. Goucher, is a physician of Lansing, Mich., and has three brothers who are also members of that; profession; a peculiar coincidence in the family is, that each has a son who is a practicing physician. Our subject early began the study of medicine, under his father's instructions, together with his duties as a teacher, at which he continued for eight years: he then became an attendant of the University. of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he graduated in the medical department in the winter of 1872-73; he began the practice of his chosen profession in Inwood, Ind., where he resided for three years, and subsequently removed to Leiter's Ford, Ind., where he remained nearly four years; he then came to Ohio, and after a residence of two years in Orrville, Wayne Co., resumed his practice in North Lawrence, in 1879, where we find him at the present writing establishing a successful practice. Dr. Goucher is an intelligent and cultured gentleman and deserving of success; he was united in marriage, in 1875, to Miss Maggie J. Walter, of Orrville. They have two children-Carl R. and Leonainie. E. R. HELD, grocer, Canal Fulton; is a son of Philip and Philaphina Held, who were natives of Germany; they emigrated to America and settled in Massillon, subsequently removing to Canal Fulton, where they continued residents for the remainder of their lives. Philip Held was a prominent business man, and in Canal Fulton was engaged in conducting a manufacturing business; his connection with Canal Fulton lasted through thirty or forty years of honorable and successful business, in the foundry line, manufacturing stoves, plows, and doing general casting; as a citizen, he ranked high, serving fifteen years as Justice of the Peace; his death occurred in 1867; his wife's in 1869; they were parents of eighteen children, thirteen of whom are now living—Elizabeth, now Mrs. Hess, of Wayne Co., Ohio; Caroline, now Mrs. Ruchti, Massillou; Malvina, uow Mrs. Porter, of Canal Fulton; Emma, now Mrs. Myers, in Indiana; Martin, a resident of Portage Co., Ohio; Philip A., of Alliance; William, in Cleveland; Herman, Robert and Adolf, of Chicago; Ferdinand, in Kent; Charles, in Minnesota, and the subject of this sketch. Ferdinand, William, Charles, Adolf, Herman and Adam were all participants in the late war. Our subject began his business career at the age of 14 as clerk for Lewis Ruch, who was in the grocery business in .Canal Fulton, remaining with him two years; he next became clerk for T. Sullivan in the grocery business, continuing as clerk for him five years, and then became associated with him as a partner, which business connection continued until Sullivan was elected County Treasurer; he then purchased his interest and since that time has continued in business alone, conducting an honorable and successful business, and ranking as one of the progressive and enterprising business men, and one whose career promises to extend into more extended fields. JOB HANEY, farmer; P. 0. Massillon. The mother of our subject, Saloma Yount, was a native of Bedford Co., Penn.; she married there, David Dick, and in July, 1817, they emigrated to Ohio, settling in. Lawrence Township. David Dick, died in 1822, leaving three children—Matilda (deceased), Elizabeth and Catharine. Mrs. Dick subsequently married John Haney, in 1827: he was a native of Bucks Co., Penn., and also a pioneer of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Haney passed the remainder of their lives upon the farm now owned by our subject, in Lawrence Township. The mother died in March, 1866, and the father in March, 1877; five children were born to them—Jacob and Reuben died in infancy; Job ; Sarah Harris, living in Tuscarawas Township; and an infant deceased. Job Haney was born in December, 1830, upon the old homestead farm, in Lawrence Township; his occupation has always been that of a farmer, and at that calling he makes a practical success; he has always taken advanced interests in matters of public importance, and 774 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: is a respected and valued citizen; he was married, in 186I, to Miss Maria Camp; they have had eight children—J. H. Knox (deceased); Ezra D. died at the age of 4 years; Josiah, Coleman, William 0., Orsella Ann (deceased), Sarah C. and Thomas C. Mr. and Mrs. Haney are members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. AMOS J. HERSHEY, farmer; P.O. Canal Fulton; is a son of John and Sabina (Wampler) Hershey, natives of Pennsylvania; his father was a native of Lancaster Co., and came with his father, Jacob Hershey, at an early day, to Stark County; his mother was a native of Westmoreland County, and came with her parents to this county; they settled in Tuscarawas Township, after their marriage, where they remained until 1854, when they became residents of Lawrence Township, living there until 1865, when they returned to Tuscarawas Township, where they passed the remainder of their days, the father dying in 1874, the mother in 1872; they have seven children now living—Mary A. Setterlin and William, residents of Massillon; Eliza Mathie, of Plain Township; Loetta Gesaman, of Noble Co., Ind.; Amos J. Sarah J. Houk, living in New Mexico, and Frank M., living in Massillon. Amos J. Hershey is a native of Tuscarawas Township, and until 20 years old remained as an assistant upon the home farm; he then entered the shops of the Russell manufacturing company, Massillon, where he was employed eighteen months; he was married, in 1870, to Miss M. Mcllvaine, of Sayne County, and in the spring of 187I became a resident of the farm upon which he now resides, in Lawrence Township, which consists of 160 acres of improved land. They have five children—Reuben W., Rose D., Edmond Hayes, Frank and Wright. He is a member of Elliot Lodge, A., F. & A. M., of Fulton and Hiram Chapter, No. 18, Massillon. GEORGE W. HARDGROVE, farmer; P. O. Canal Fulton; is a son of Richard and Rosanna (Martin) Hardgrove, who were among the earliest settlers of the township; they came from Pennsylvania to Lawrence Township about 1811, where the father had erected a cabin the year before, and amidst pioneer times commenced to clear the land and estab lish a home; here this worthy, couple passed the remainder of their days, his death occurring in November, I843, and the mother's in August, I854; he was a prominent citizen, and served as Constable and Township Trustee, also taking an interest in affairs of education. Mr. Hardgrove was a member of the Methodist Church; he had the following family—Robert, a resident of Chippewa Tp., Sayne Co.; Samuel, a resident of this township; Ruth Earl, of Perry Township; Rachel, deceased; Mary Shaffer, of Wayne County; George W. and Sarah Myers (twins), and John and William, farmers in Lawrence Township. George S. Hardgrove was born upon the old homestead farm, in 1821, and upon it engaged in farming, at which he has passed his life; he is one of the respected citizens of the township, and has served as Township Trustee for two terms; he was married, in 1853. to Miss Martha Oberlin, a native of Lancaster Co., Penn.; they have two children living—Sarah A. King, living in Mahoning County, and Martin, at home. DANIEL HARMAN, miller, Canal Fulton; is a son of Frederick and Lucinda Harman, both natives of Holland and emigrants to America in 1836, settling in Lawrence Township. Frederick Harman is by trade a blacksmith, which vocation he has followed a great many years in the township; they are now living in retirement in Lawrence Township. Daniel is the third child of a family of six children; he enlisted, in 1861, in Company G, 1st Battalion, 18th United States Regular Infantry, and remained in service for five years, participating in sixteen of the leading engagements of the late war, and at its close was sent to Dakota Territory. While there, the massacre of Fort Phil Kearney occurred, and he was in three engagements with the Indians; after serving on the border eighteen months, he was discharged, oh Fort Reno, and returned home, walking 800 miles over the plains to reach transportation. Upon his return to Lawrence Township, he engaged at farming for three years, and then worked at mining about five years; in 1876, he purchased an interest in the milling business in the township, and was associated with another gentleman for eighteen months; in 1879, he formed a partnership