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822 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: WAYNE TOWNSHIP. JOHN WESLEY BORDEN, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in New Jersey Sept. 14, 1812; is a son of Anthony and Mary (Grover) Borden, natives of New Jersey; the grandparents were Thomas and Elizabeth Borden, also natives of New Jersey, and lived and died in their native State. Thomas was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. Although he was a member of the Society of Friends and was from principle opposed to war, yet he was compelled to take some part in that sanguinary conflict. Anthony Borden was raised to manhood, married and resided in New Jersey till 1818, when he emigrated with bis family to Ohio and located at Centerville, Montgomery Co., where they resided many years; thence moved into Greene County, near Bellbrook, where he died Jan. 11, 1856, aged 82 years; his wife died July 9, 1849, aged 68 years; they had four sons and four daughters; three now survive--John Wesley, Asher and Margaret, now Widow Fleming. Mr. Borden came to this State in quite an early day and endured many hardships; opened right out in the woods; started in life a poor man, and, by his own labor and industry became possessed of quite a competency. The subject of this sketch was 6 years of age when the family arrived in Ohio and here grew to manhood, fully inured to the hardships of this then new country; was married, Feb. 18, 1840, to Elizabeth M., daughter of John and Amy Ward, natives of Indiana; issue, four children; three now survive-Jacob A., born Jan. 18, 1841; Sarah Ann, Aug. 27, 1842; John Wesley, Aug. 31, 1845, and William P., born Sept. 4, 1848; died April 12, 1851. Mrs. Borden died Dec. 5, 1852, in her 34th year of age. On Dec. 8, 1853, Mr. B. was again united in marriage with Rebecca, daughter of Christian and Lucinda Miller, he a native of Virginia and she of Warren County. Mr. Borden first settled in Montgomery County, residing there twelve years; thence in Greene County twelve years; thence bought and located where he now lives and has since resided. Mr. Borden started out in life with little means, but his own industry and good management has brought him a good competency; he now owns 200 acres of good land and has assisted one of his sons to a good farm of 100 acres. Mr. Borden's life has been one of active industry, and whose labors have been well rewarded, and now he is one of the substantial farmers of Wayne Township; is a worthy member of the M. E. Church, a kind neighbor and a good citizen. ROBERT S. BRADDOCK, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Warren County Sept. 4, 1844; is a son of Robert and Grace (Slack) Braddock, he a native of New Jersey and she of Warren County. The grandfather, David Braddock, was probably a native of New Jersey, but emigrated to this county about 1842, where he resided a few years; thence removed to Nauvoo, Ill., where he died. Robert was married in the fall of 1843, and located at Cross- wicks; thence at Ridgeville; thence back to Crosswicks and here at Waynesville he passed most of the balance of his life. Mr. Braddock was a tailor by trade, which business he followed for several years, but, during the last fifteen years of his life, he gave his attention to farming; he died at Crosswicks in February, 1880, aged 62 years; his wife is still living at the home place at Cross- wicks. They had six children, four now surviving-Robert S., Rebecca Jane, Sarah Amanda and Charles. Our subject remained with his father until 22 years of age; was married, Nov. 23, 1865, to Eliza, daughter of Stephen C. and Sarah Smith, he a native of New York State 'and she of Virginia, but who WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 823 became settlers of Warren Co., Ohio, in 1860; thence, about 1867, removed to Preble County, where, Oct. 4, 1871, he died aged 62 years, after which she returned to Warren County and died, Sept. 7, 1879, aged 69 years; they had nine children; four now survive-William, Elizabeth, Eliza and Harvey. Mr. Braddock and wife have three children-Arthur, born Sept. 6, 1867; Lilian, born Nov. 15, 1868, and Frank, born Feb. 21, 1874. Mr. Braddock has always followed farming as an occupation; ho bought and located upon his present place in the spring of 1879, where he has since resided. Mr. Smith, the father of Mrs. Braddock, was a devoted member of the Old.-School Baptists, and was a minister in that denomination during the most of his married life. BENJAMIN BROWN (deceased) was born in Gloucester Co., N. J., April 24, 1798; was a son of Asher and Mary (Ward) Brown, natives of New Jersey. The grandparents, Samuel and Ann Brown, whose ancestors were natives England, emigrated to America at an early period, prior to the Revolutionary war, and lived and died in New Jersey. Asher Brown was born, raised and married in New Jersey, where he lived till, in 1804, he, with his family, emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County, being one of the early pioneers. He first took up his abode in a log cabin, which had been occupied as a resting-place for hogs during nights; it had no floor and no doors. They, however, soon split out puncheons and laid a floor and made other improvements, so as in that day they called it quite a comfortable home. Mr. Brown shortly after his arrival, entered 500 acres of land in Clear Creek Township, upon which he located and resided the balance of his life. To pay for his land, Mr. Brown bought a large lot 'a hogs and drove them over the mountains to Philadelphia and sold them, by which he realized quite a large profit. He experienced the real hardships of pioneer life, such as the rising generations know nothing of, only as they hear of them or read of them from the pages of history. They were parents of twelve children; three now survive-John, Asher and Allen. Mr. Brown was an earnest and consistent member of the Society of Friends-distinguished for his love and liberality to the poor and needy and to all mankind. He died March 4, 1832, aged 71 years 5 months and 21 days. Benjamin, our subject, was 6 years of age when brought to Ohio and located in Warren County, where he was raised and grew to manhood, accustomed to log-cabin life, with all the attendant hardships of pioneer life; was married Nov. 7, 1821, to Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Mercy Chapman, whose ancestral history is fully given in the sketch of Charles F. Chapman. By this union they had five children-Esther married Sidwell Taylor, by whom she has one child-Anna C., born Feb. 20, 1860; Charles F., deceased; Mary; Benjamin and Sarah (twins) and Benjamin, now deceased. Mr. Brown, after his marriage, located upon a part of the large tract of land which his father entered from the Government, and opened out a farm right from the woods, and here he resided until 1836, when he bought and located upon the place where his daughters, Mary and Sarah, still reside. and here he died Sept. 22, 1873, aged 75 years and 5 months; his wife died Jan. 26, 1873, aged 73 years. Mr. Brown was a member of the Society of Friends--a man whose whole life was characterized by honesty, integrity and kindness; whose religion was prac- teircaatli,oennsd. endeavoring to practice all and more than he professed; kind and generous, yet firm and unyielding, clinging close to principles, and his acute sense of what was just and right, and as such was a worthy example for the rising generations. WILLIAM G. BURNET, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Warren County June 25, 1819; is a son of Daniel and Ann (Gause) Burnet, he a native of New Jersey and she of Pennsylvania; the grandfather was Stephen Burnet. Daniel, with his family, emigrated to Ohio, and located at Waynesville about 824 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: 1801, being one of the early settlers of this township. He was a shoemaler by trade, but, after arriving in this county, he gave his attention to farm They had a family of three sons and two daughters; two sons now survive' Stephen and William G. Mr. Burnet was a man of good education, and, in his early life while in his native State, taught school; was a devoted member et the Society of Friends-a man who never held or sought office; a very industrious man, prompt and exact in all his dealings; a good neighbor and a worthy citizen. Our subject grew to manhood, was married, Aug. 8, 1840, to Elizabeth 8, daughter of John and Rachel (Proctor) Sinclair, natives of Pennsylvania, who first emigrated to Maryland; thence, in 1834, came to Warren County and lived and died on the place where their son Jacob now lives, at Waynesville, They had four sons and four daughters; three now survive-Rebecca P., Jacob and Elizabeth, who was born in Maryland June 25, 1818. Mr. Burnet and wife have had seven children; six now survive--Rachel. born May 4, 1813: Matilda, June 12, 1845, now Mrs. Elias Slack, living in Indiana; Eli D., Jam 12, 1847; Martha R., Dec. 13, 1850; Mary J., Sept. 14, 1852, and Sarah E. born Sept. 12, 1855; Charles S: (deceased) was born Nov. 27, 1841, grew to manhood, and, on the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion, enlisted, in November, 1861, in Company F, 34th 0. V. I., and served nearly three years. when he was killed in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864. Mr. Burnet first located on the place where his son Eli D. now lives, and resided there five years; thence bought and located upon the place where he now lives and has since resided. This place he purchased of the heirs of Noah Haines; it consists of 94 acres, which he took right in the woods; has cleared and brought most of it into cultivation; has erected good substantial buildings and made improvements until now he has a fine farm and a pleasant home and farmer's residence; and this he has accomplished mainly by his own labor and that of his family. Mr. Burnet and wife, like their ancestors were, are devoted members of the Society of Friends, and are among the best citizens of Wayne Township. EDWARD B. BUTTERWORTH, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born in Clermont Co., Ohio, July 14, 1827; is a son of Samuel and Hannah L. (Taylor) Butterworth, he a native of Campbell Co., Va., and she of Chester Co., Penn. The paternal grandparents were Benjamin and Rachel Butterworth, natives of Virginia, who emigrated to this county in 1812 and purchased land in the southern part of the county, near Clermont County, where he was among the early settlers, and resided and died on the same place where he first located, aged about 65 years. Samuel was 14 years of age when they located in Warren County; here he grew to manhood and was married and became the father of six children--three sons and three daughters, two now living- Jessie T. and Edward B. Mr. Butterworth bought a farm in Clermont County, where he resided until 1848; thence removed into Warren County, where he purchased the farm known as the Benjamin Evans farm, and here resided till his death. Feb. 21, 1872, aged 74 years; his wife died Sept. 5, 1850, aged 47 years. Mr. B., as were his ancestors, was a devoted member of the Society of Friends. He was a man of great energy and industry, and, as an early pioneer, did a vast amount of hard labor, having cleared with his own hands and labor, 100 acres right from the woods, which was seldom, if ever, equalled by the labor of one man; the town of Loveland is now built upon a portion of the land he cleared He was a man of undoubted integrity, of firm principles and correct and just in all his dealings, and, in his death, the community lost a worthy citizen and his family a kind father and husband Our subject was brought up to farm labor; was married, March 28, 1849, to Hannah, daughter of Josiah and Abigail Rogers, whose ancestors are given in the sketch of Samuel W. Rogers; by WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 825 this union, they had six children; four now survive-Samuel, born Dec. 12, 1851; Ellen B., March 6, 1856; Mary, Sept. 11, 1858, and Josiah, born Oct... 3 1861; his wife died May 1, 1873, aged 48 years. On July 7, 1875, he was vain married, to Percilla, daughter of John W. and Sophia Wroten, natives of Baltimore, Md., who became residents of Warren County in 1846, where they have since resided; they have had ten children; five now survive- Percilla, Mary F,, Martha L., Henry H. and James H. Mr. Butterworth first located upon the old home place of his father, having erected new buildings, and there and at the old homestead place he remained until 1874, when he accepted the position of Superintendent of the Agricultural Department of the Miami Valley Institute, which position he filled for one and a half years; in the spring of 1876, he bought and located where he now lives. This place he purchased of Stephen Burnett, being the property formerly owned by Samuel Gause; it consists of 44 acres of good land, with good buildings and improvements, constituting a pleasant home and residence. Mr. Butterworth has entered quite extensively upon the culture of small fruits, which he intends to make his leading business. SEPTIMUS L. CARTWRIGHT, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in the District of Columbia Jan. 9, 1808; is a son of Seth and Mary (Levering) Cartwright, he a native of Nantucket Island and she of Philadelphia, the ancestors of the Cartwright family being from England. The maternal ancestors we are able to trace to their progenitor, Rosier Levering, who, it is said, was a native of France, born about the year 1600, and who, during the early persecutions for religion, fled from France and took refuge in Germany, and there married Elizabeth Van de Walle, of Wesel, in Westphalia. They had two children-Wickard and Gerhard; the former was born about 1618, in Gamen, Westphalia, Germany; in 1671, married Magdalena Boker, and, in the summer of 1685, emigrated to America with his family and first settled at Germantown, Penn; in 1692, removed to Roxboro, and bought a plantation of 500 acres of land; his wife died in 1717, aged 68 years; he died in February, 1744 or 1745, aged 97 years; they had twelve children; seven the to maturity and married and settled in life, of whom Jacob Levering, the great- grandfather of our subject, was born at Roxboro, Penn., Jan. 21, 1693; married Alice Tunes, when about 24 years of age; in 1717, his father granted him 85 acres of land on the Schuylkill River; here he had a distillery and a sawmill, and, it appears, was a very active and prominent business man and accumulated a large amount of property. The inventory of his personal estate, in 1753, was nearly $3,000, which, in that early day, was a very large amount, and owned a great quantity of real estate; he died in October, 1753, aged 61 years. Mrs. Levering died between 1750 and 1753. They had eight children, who married and had families, of whom Septimus, the youngest and the seventh son, was the grandfather of our subject, and was born at Roxboro about, 1731; he inherited the old homestead on Green Lane, Roxboro; removed to Philadelphia some time prior to 1761, and carried on a brewery; was married to Mary Thomas; both were members of the Great Valley Baptist Church, Chester County, and were dismissed to the Philadelphia Church Sept. 7, 1761; on Feb. 6, 1775 received from the church, by request, a letter of recommendation, and removed to Loudoun Co., Va., where he carried on a distillery; but it seems,-after a time, returned to Pennsylvania, where, prior to 1794, he died; his wife died June 16, 1794, aged 64 years. They had five Children, three sons and two daughters, of whom Mary, the mother of our subject, was born in Philadelphia in 1771, and married Seth Cartwright as mentioned above. Mr. Cartwright was for many years a Captain on the seas, but later in life engaged in mercantile trade in Alexandria, where he lived till his death, aged 52 years. In the fall of 1839, 826 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Mrs. Cartwright, with her son Seth and his family, emigrated to Ohio and located near Waynesville, where she died Oct. 24, 1862, aged 93 years. They had nine children; three now survive—Thomas, Seth and Septiruus; the latter, our subject, was two years of age when his father died and was raised by his mother; was apprenticed to an older brother, Jonathan, in the sail-making business. After the expiration of. his apprenticeship, he entered into a partnership with his brother Seth in the mercantile business in Washington City, in which he continued about nine years. In the fall of 1839, he emigrated to Warren Co., Ohio, and here he and his brother Seth bought a tract of land, which they farmed till 1851, when they made a division of property, and to the part which Mr. Cartwright had after the division, he has added more land, by purchase, till now he has 175 acres of land, upon which he has erected good substantial buildings and made other improvements, having now a fine home and farmer's residence. Mr. Cartwright was united in marriage, April 28, 1857, with Mrs. Elizabeth Bone, a daughter of Aquilla and Nancy (Oglesbee) Hardacre, natives of Virginia. The paternal grandparents were John and Barbara Hardacre, natives of Virginia; the maternal grandparents were Aaron and Susannd Oglesbee, natives of Virginia. Aquilla and Nancy Hardacre emigrated to Ohio and located in Greene County, where they lived and died; he died Nov. 24, 1854, aged 66 years; she died Jan. 23, 1864, aged 75 years. They had two sons and Ave daughters, two now living—Elizabeth and Susan. Mrs. Cartwright, by her first husband, Mr. Jacob Bone, had one child--Sarah Samantha, now Mrs. Watson. Mr. Cartwright and wife by their union have one child—Emeline Ellis. CHARLES F. CHAPMAN, Waynesville. Few, if any, of the heads of families of Wayne Township, whose histories are embalmed in these pages, can boast as clear a descent through eight generations to as honorable source as can Mr. Charles French Chapman. The writer expresses the emphatic opinion that in the whole of Warren County there are not a half dozen others who can trace their genealogy in an unbroken line back to the early part of the seventeenth century, and produce documents in attestation of their claim. This fact must be the apology—if, in the seeming interests of modesty, apology were necessary—for this biography appearing here in its somewhat expansive form; this, and the additional fact that Mr. Chapman is the only surviving member of his father's family now living in Warren County. In order to present in a systematic manner the history of the Chapman family, it is extremely gratifying to be able to refer to a quaint, curious and ancient manuscript, yellow and stained with age, and the very penmanship of which, even were there no dates, proving it to be a product of "The olden time, long ago." From this venerable manuscript, written in beautiful legibility by John Chapman, son of the first settler of Wrightstown, Penn., we quote as follows: " John Chapman, who was the first settler in Wrightstown, was born in Stan- haw, in the county of York, in Old England, of honest and godly parents. His father's name was likewise John Chapman, but there is no account readily to be had of his mother, and he himself is said to have been, even from his youth, of a very laudable deportment, and, when grown up to maturity, to have been always taken for a very honest, creditable man, and one of repute amongst men for his honest, chaste, sober and godly life, and not in the least found anything inclinable to or conversant with any but honest and godly people, living with them in great unity. The above written account of John Chapman was transcribed from his certificate, which he brought with him from Old England, given and signed there by divers friends at their monthly meeting at Stanhaw. Moreover, by an account given of him in other manuscripts, he suffered con- WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 827 siderably for his Profession (being one of the people called Quakers), as Anno Domini 1656, when he was at Sunderland, and went to see some friends who were put in the stocks, he, likewise, was commanded to be put there, and there remained all night, but, not opening his mouth to speak a word to his opponents, he was sent the next day to Durham Gaol, and there kept prisoner nine Weeks, and then he was released by the Judge and grand jury, there being nothing that could be said against him. Anno Domini 1660, he was carried to York Castle, and there kept prisoner about eight weeks, together with some other friends, because they would not swear. Anno Domini 1666, he had goods taken from him by a Bailiff for a clerk's wages, being but threepence, to the value of 3 shillings and fourpence. Anno Domini 1670, upon the 15th day of the 7th month, the Constable went with a warrant from a certain Justice, upon an information given by one Lover Wood and Ralph Smoithwait, that Philip Scarth did teach or preach at a seditious meeting, who spoke only to one of the informers. The Constable went, I say, and laid £4 of the above-said Scarth's fine upon said John Chapman, besides 5 shillings for his own fine, as they called it, and for the said fines the Constable took from him five kine which cost him, about three months before, £10, and appraised them at £4 10 shillings, and sold them at that rate. Likewise, in the same year, the Constable went with a warrant, upon an information given by the aforementioned informers, that he was at a seditious meeting, as it was called, for which they fined him 10 shillings and took from him for that 10 shillings, goods to ye value of £1 8 shillings. On the longest day in the year, 1684, John Chapman (being a mariner by occupation), with all his family, set out from Stanhaw, in Yorkshire, in order to come to America. They took ship at Newcastle, upon the River Tyne, and came by the way of Scotland, and, on the 12th day of September, in the short, it first carried away their boltsprit (sic) and afterward, their three masts, flagstaff and all, by the board, before the sailors were able to get them cut. It aforesaid year, they had a mighty storm, which blew so tempestuously that, in likewise took the awning above their quarter-deck, and left not so much as a yard of rope above their heads; all which was done in the space of half an hour, and they lay thus distressed like a pitiful wreck all that night (they having lost their masts about 12 o'clock in the day), and two days after, at the mercy of the seas, the waves being mountain high, occasioned by the great storm of wind. Thus they lay, I say, without hopes of recovery, being then about 200 leagues from the land of America, but, through God's mercy, they got in sight of the capes of Virginia within fifteen days after or thereabouts, by reason of a fair Virginia. They thus being arrived in America, came and settled at Wrightstown, having had a passage of about nine weeks from Aberdeen to the capes of town, in the county of Bucks and Province of Pennsylvania, about the 10th month, Anno Domini 1684, where they lived until the 5th month, A. D. 1694, about which time John Chapman died and was buried. Likewise, Jane Chapman, his wife, died and was buried by him, about the 9th month, A. D. 1699. The following epitaph on John Chapman is in the handwriting of his son Joseph: "Behold John Chapman That good man, Who first began To settle in this Town, From worldly cares And doubtful fears And Satan's snares, Is here laid down, His soul doth rise Above the skies In Paradise, There to wear a lasting crown.” 828 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES : Dr. Charles W. Smith, in a sketch of the Early History of Wrightstown Penn., published in the Bucks County Intelligencer, of April 3. 1855, says: "The first settler was John Chapman who, with his wife and their children - Mara, Ann and John, removed from Yorkshire, having previously purchased of Daniel Toaes, in England, a tract of over 500 acres of land, on which he settled.” Up to at least 1855, a great portion of this was still in possession his descendants, it having never been sold out of his family. "He built a cave," Dr. Smith continues," for his habitation, in the side of a bank, some remains of which. were visible as late as 1768. At this time, Chapman's place was the farthest back in the woods of that of any English family," and the Indians were plentiful, but exceedingly kind to him and his family. Nearly the whole province was then a wilderness, and not an inhabitant in the township. About one year after arriving in the township, his wife, then in the 50th year of her age, gave birth to twins—Abraham and Joseph, whence, it is said, he called the place Twinsboro. These children lived and died there. They received an education which qualified them for much usefulness. Abraham married Susannah Olden. He was a Justice of the Peace and for twenty years, a member if the Legislature. He had eight children, of whom Joseph the youngest, born in 1733 was the great-grandfather of our subject. He was a man of high standing, great moral worth and integrity of character. He was a Justice of the Peace, and, at the time of his death, in 1790, was Treasurer of the county. He married Ann Fell and had thirteen children, among them Benjamin, the grandfather of our subject. He was born in 1775, and, in 1797, married Mercy G. Gilpin, by whom he had three children - —Joseph, Sarah and Benjamin; he died, Oct. 23, 1802, of yellow fever, contracted from nursing one of his apprentices, aged 27 years. His widow afterward married Charles French. Joseph B. Chapman, the eldest son and father of our subject, born in Philadelphia in 1798. In 1818, he emigrated with his mother and step-father (Charles French) to Warren Co.. Ohio, and began the general mercantile business in Waynesville, being assisted by Williams & Black, of Philadelphia, who became partners in his first venture. Such was his business ability that, in the course of a few years, he was enabled to buy out his partner's interest, when he continued to conduct the business successfully until his retirement, in 1845. In 1825, he was married to Estheret Walraven, in Wilmington, Del. She died in 1828, leaving one daughter --Ann W., who died in 1845, at the age of 18. His second wife was Charlotte, second daughter of Noah and Anna Haines, which event took place at Miami Monthly Meeting, in Waynesville, on the 16th of the 6th month, 1832. The earliest ancestor of the Haines family, of whom we find record, emigrated also from England same time as did John Chapman, and, like him, to escape religious persecution. Robert Haines, a grandson of the emigrant, was born near Philadelphia about 1750. While yet a lad, his mother emigrated with him to what afterward be came Frederick Co., Va. Here he grew to be a useful man, both in the religious society and in the business world—in one owning much property and carrying on many enterprises, and in the other, a zealous minister. Near him lived Lord Fairfax, the eccentric English nobleman, by whom George Washington, when quite a young man, was employed to survey a vast tract of land. Lord Fairfax and his nephew, Col. Martin, extended many courtesies and kindnesses to their Quaker neighbor, who always cherished warm feelings of friendship for both. At the beginning of hostilities in the war for independence Lord Fairfax returned to his native land, while his kinsmen espoused the side of the colonies. Robert Haines married Margaret Smith, who was born in Wales in 1755, and emigrated to Ohio in 1809. She died in Waynesville in 1835, aged 81 years. They had six children—Noah, the eldest, married WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 829 Ann Silver, by whom he had nine children, the third of whom, Charlotte, was the mothe of Charles F. Chapman. Joseph B. and Charlotte Chapman had four sons and two daughters, viz., Mary, born July 10, 1833, died June 18, 1851, aged 17; Noah Haines, born Jan. 24, 1836; Joseph .B., born Fob. 24, 1838; Charles French, born July 6, 1840; Mayaretta, born Dec. 20, 1844; died July 18, 1856, aged 14; James Haines, born 1843; died 1844, aged 4 months. Noah Haines, the eldest son, is now a merchant in New York City. Joseph B. is an extensive lumber dealer in St. Paul, Minn. Of Joseph B. Sr., his son, Joseph B., affectionately writes: "He was a leading bCuhsairesasn m'an of the section, doing a larger business in the succeeding years than was ever done before or since. His transactions were not confined to buying and selling of goods, but he also dealt in real estate, and bought and shipped large quantities of pork to Baltimore, New Orleans and elsewhere. After the death of his wife, which occurred on the 13th of 6th month, 1844, and in the height of his prosperity, he gave more attention to the closing up of active business relations, and was very watchful and thoughtful of everything pertaining to his family. His health, too, was gradually giving way. Surrounded by a, young family of children and a host of warm and admiring friends, he thoughtfully prepared for the life to come; and, when the summons came, "sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust," he breathed his last on the morning of the 31st of August, 1817, aged 49 years 7 months and 3 days. " B is life appears to have been one in which both much of good and ill fortune was mixed. He was ever of a religious cast of mind, and cheerfully accepted his lot, however heavy the burden. Industrious, frugal and benevolent—of pleasing appearance and address, he possessed many friends. His life was a good one—an example worthy of being followed. Besides bequeathing to his children a no inconsiderable estate materially, this good man addressed them the following letter, abounding in parental affection and godly counsel: MY DEAR CHILDREN —From an impression of duty and under a tender concern for your everlasting welfare, as your dear mother has been taken from you in your tender age, and as in all probability I shall not be spared long to have an eye to you, I have felt that what I have to say to you may be of service, if you attentively heed it, as my experience of the tender dealings of a gracious God, extended in mercy to me, and who is willing and waiting to extend the same and more of His goodness to you. Seeing that our stay in this world is at most but very short, and that as we live in the love of our Heavenly Father, we shall, and only can live in love and peace with all men ; and that this love and peace is that which can make us happy here and hereafter ; I want you to cultivate it more than anything else, and endeavor after it in secret prayer to your Heavenly Father, and He will, if you are sincere after it, confer it upon you as well as every other good and desirable thing to make you happy. Let not your minds go out after dress or much company, neither after any of the things of this world, as they are all perishable, and cannot long,continue to please, but must soon pass away ; and if your delight is in them, they must leave you miserable, What company you must have, let it be of a sober, serious kind, who are good examples in word and conduct. Such may be profitable to you ; but, above all, seek the Lord, and often hold secret, sweet communion with Him, by meditating upon His goodness, His mercy, extended to you for your acceptance and preservation. Be not slothful or idle in business, as it is your reasonable duty to procure sufficient of the good things of this world for the use of the body ; but set not your minds and affections upon them, but to use them thankfully as trusts from your bountiful Creator. Give Him all the thanks and praise, and while your hands are employed in lawful pursuits, let your hearts be ascribing high praises to His great name, for He is worthy. Endeavor to keep as much about home as possible, and out of the confusion and spirit of the world as you can ; not mixing with its policies and associations, as they are most generally out of the truth, and of that spirit of peace that is of God. The way to peace, here and hereafter, is a narrow way, and a way of much self-denial. It may appear hard at first to deny ourselves many of the things of this world, but it will become easy and pleasant by use, when we feel that our peace is in it ; and as your affections are placed above, your desires will be on heaven and heavenly things ; it will then be a pleasure to deny yourselves all that your peace of mind is not in. 830 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Your dear mother was favored to see her way clear to a mansion of rest in a marvelous degree, so that time and the things of time had no power to interest or hold her affections here, but anxiously waited and quietly hoped for her change to come. under a full persuasion and assurance that all would be well with her in her sweet Savior's rest. So clearly did she see it, that she was not willing to take any medicine that would tend to prolong her stay on earth. Yet, in the forepart of her last sickness, she had hard strug gling and conflict of spirit to arrive at this desirable condition and to give up you, her dear children, and other near and dear outward ties to life ; and realizing our blessed Lord's assurance, that every one that " forsakes houses, lands, brethren, sisters, father, mother, wife and children for His sake, should receive a hundred-fold more in this world, and in the world to come eternal life." This, then, being the greatest possible blessing that we poor mortals can obtain, every effort of spirit, every energy of mind should be directed to it, that, under the blessing of the Highest upon our endeavors, we may happily obtain it in this our short pilgrimage on earth. And I can in some measure assure you, my precious ones, that as you endeavor after it with full purpose of heart, you will find the way more and more prepared for you ; you will find an increase of the "love of God" in your spirits, and that in this love you will be gently drawn by it into those paths that lead to peace, and into that which will preserve you from every evil way and thing. My desire is that when the boys have obtained a good share of schooling to qualify them for business, they should learn the business of farming, and reside in the country, and not associate with young, gay and volatile company, as the example and association of the towns are very corrupting to the young and tender mind—it being much easier to avoid than to correct contracted evil habits. Agriculture is honorable, healthful and innocent in its associations, much more so than trading, or town trades than their associations of young people. The girls I should wish accustomed to industry and the actual duties of housewifery. All to dress plainly, and to use the plain language—the simplicity, frugality and orderly deportment of Friends ; and to be placed with orderly Friends, whose example and orderly walking may conduce to their preservation from the abounding liberties, extravagances and excesses of this age and time. And I desire and would impress it upon your minds deeply, as a solemn truth, never to forget or lose sight of, that your Heavenly Father is always in spirit with you, knows all your thoughts, words and acts ; and that you will, in the great day of account, when you leave this world, have to account therefor ; therefore, be diligent and watchful, that you say nothing that would grieve His Holy Spirit, as it will tend to destroy your peace of mind here, and separate you from His love ; and if not atoned for before you leave this world, will tend to your everlasting misery. Let your reading be of a solid kind, and do not indulge in light fiction or novels ; even i the tales in the newspapers of the day, as there is nothing profitable or good in them, but much to corrupt and draw you away from that which is good. Neither mix nor take part with the political affairs of the day, of any kind or character. Let your reading and religion be that of the Bible, and especially of the precepts and example, and inward teaching in spirit, of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as it is sufficient for all things ; and if you have this, you need not desire any other. I should wish you to continue members of the Society of Friends ; not because I think they are the only Christians, or good people, in the world, but because I think their doctrine, example and life, when they are lived in and up to, is the best I know of. and is better calculated to keep you out of the extravagances and excesses of the world than any other. Yet, even this, lived in and up to, in its purity, can be only a hedge about us, and as a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, the head of all, whom alone we will have to learn, and whose cross we will have to take up and follow Him, if ever we become members of the true Church of which He is the head and high priest, let our names and associations be what they may with men. And to Him, and to the word of His power, I commend you in all godliness, and in all things, who is able to keep you now and preserve you from all the defiling things of time, and to give you an inheritance in His everlasting kingdom, where He is set down i with the Father, in His Kingdom, in eternal glory. Your father who loves you more than pen can write, 12th Mo., 20th, 1846. JOSEPH B. CHAPMAN. How manly in its integrity, yet how childlike in its simple, unquestioning faith in the mercy and goodness of the Divine Being, must have been the heart of the man who penned that letter. Reading, we exclaim to ourselves, " Surely here was one who kept himself 'unspotted from the world' uncontaminated by its defilements, proof against its temptations, unyielding to its allurements —a stalwart Christian, a man of God, living day by day and hour by hour in sweet and sacred communion with his Lord and Master. To have had a father WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 831 if a mother of such lofty Christian character is a legacy of more value than countless earthly treasure; and the epistle quoted, though couched in no high-sounding, pretentious rhetoric, yet so full of wisdom, affection and truth, is worthy of being handed down to the latest descendant of him whose hand, now long since mingled With its native element, traced it in letters of living light. From both the Chapman and Haines sides, Mr. Charles F. Chapman inherits naught but pure English blood--no admixture of that of any other race entering into his composition. And, without boasting or vain self-congratulation, it may be added that his blood is of the same quality as was that which long ago coursed through the veins and inspired the souls of " the noble army of martyrs." John Chapman, like St. Paul, was "in prisons often," "in perils by sea, in perils by land," on account of his faith, yet he. like Paul. was unmoved thereby; he swerved not from the line of duty; he was willing to suffer, nay, be would have died, in defending and maintaining his faith, had the sacrifice been of more avail than his escaping to a laud where he could plant the germs of religious liberty and establish an asylum to which other persecuted ones might flee for refuge. His posterity should for evermore picture him with an aureole of glory encircling his head, for 'tis ecstacy and inspiration to think of such moral heroes and a heritage of which kings might be proud to have sprung from such a source. In this connection, it is only in verification of Scripture promise to add that the descendants of this moral hero have thus far proved worthy of their ancestry, very few, if any, of the succeeding generations having been at all recreant or failed to live up to the traditions of their forefathers. The days have passed, it is true, when men are persecuted in just, the same manner as of old—" for righteousness' sake," but to depart not in these latter days, when infidelity is rampant, from the faith and admonitions of godly parents, is no small credit to any one; and, sere the exigency to arise, the same spirit and fire, 'doubtless, would be found latent and ready to suffer and do battle for the right, albeit not with carnal weapons, but with the more effectual " sword of the spirit." Mr. Charles F. Chapman's name appropriately heads this sketch, he being the only (although the youngest child) representative of the family now living in his native State and township. He was, born in Waynesville, and, at the age of 4 years, was left motherless, and. three years later, his father died. Then, with his two brothers, he was placed by their guardian, in charge of a farmer in Clark County,- a farm life being considered conducive to the boys' muscular development and general health. We pass briefly over the years thus spent by these sensitive and tenderly-reared orphan boys, who, however, look back to that part of their life as the darkest they ever knew. Alone among strangers, all their sorrows and trials were mitigated only by being mutually shared and confided to their pillows at night in copious showers of tears. Here Charles remained four years, when he was sent to Greenmount College, at Richmond, Ind., where he studied during winter and returned to his toil on the farm in summer He afterward entered Wittenberg College, at Springfield, Ohio, where he became proficient in mathematics and the German language, besides the other more practical branches of a liberal education. He did not graduate, however, the ambition firing his youthful mind to become a farmer on his own responsibility. He therefore, in 1859, bought the beautiful country seat where he now resides, overlooking the fertile vale from the east of the Little Mitsui River, and went to work with his characteristic enthusiasm, becoming a sturdy yoeman before he was 19. In 1864, in partnership with his uncle, the Hon. S. S. Haines, and his brother, Joseph B., he embarked in the wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati, which he followed successfully for two years, but was admonished, by some severe hemorrhages of the lungs, to close his connection there and return to country life. On the 2d of June, 1874, he married Miss Elizabeth Matilda, daughter of Jo- 832 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES : seph and Catharine A. Stanton, of Springboro, Warren Co. (whose history may be found elsewhere in these pages).and by whom he has had three children— Margaret C., born Nov. 20, 18 . ,; Joseph B., born Feb. 6, 1877; James Albert, born Sept. 18, 1879. In 1876, with health re-established, Mr. Chapman entered the grain and commission business in Chicago, but, after a successful career of Lee years, he was warned a second time, by the return of his former malady, that a city was no place for him, and he fled to the refuge of his farm, forever abandoning any desire for distinction in the commercial world. He has ever since employed himself in the cultivation and beautification of hie broad acres and enjoys the reputation of being a model farmer, which the appearance of his estate abundantly justifies. Personally, Charles F. Chapman is somewhat above medium height, rather inclining to slender than full habit, erect and dignified in movement and deportment—a splendid physique being surmounted with a fine intellectual head. In short, from youth to maturity, we have always regarded him as an exceptional instance of handsome manhood a manly man. His tastes being rather for business than literary pursuits (his being what might be termed "a mathematical mind"), he is, nevertheless keenly susceptible to all the refining influences of culture in its broadest sense, and his tasteful suburban home is made a fit abode for a wife who is a rare combination of all womanly virtues and three cherub children, whom to see is to love. Neither going to extreme in luxury nor its opposite, he perceives with an eye and instinct of a true philosopher whatever is useful and beautiful, whether in art, literature or material things, and brings all under contribution for the formation of his children's character and for making home happy. Finding the life of a city, with its increasing whirl and exhausting cares jeopardizing to his health, he flung ambition for commercial eminence to the winds, and wisely and unrnurrnuringly accepted the situation, resolving thenceforth, with his dear ones, to retreat to his rural abode, there to live in Arcadian simplicity and devote himself unreservedly to the well-being of his family, in all his relations to which "Tender and True" may justly be applied to him. But not uninterruptedly is Mr. Chapman permitted to enjoy the life of a recluse. His business abilities are too well known and appreciated for that to be practicable. For years, therefore, he has been a director of the Waynesville National Bank and one of the trustees of the Miami Cemetery Association, two of our most important local enterprises. Other dignities, political and otherwise, might have been his, but for his preference for a quiet life and non-self-assertive disposition. And his neighbors and friends, when in extremity, are always glad to appeal to him in any case where sound, far-seeing discretion and judgment or financial accuracy are essential. Goethe says, "They know not men who fear them." To the class who do fear men they do not understand, Mr. Chapman may seem inaccessible upon first approach, but, upon closer acquaintance, this coat of mail, which is, in reality, but the veil of diffidence, or mental absorption, rather than studied reserve or misanthrophy, melts into thin air, and underneath is found a warm, congenial nature; not, indeed, one of that vulgar kind which requires a legion of indiscriminate acquaintances to occupy its own emptiness and make life endurable, but one satisfied with friends few but true--tried and found worthy of deepest esteem --he who finds in his home an earthly paradise, and whose greatest joy and care is to make it to those who share it with him the shrine about which all their dearest affections revolve. With such a nature, happiness is easily possible; and when, as in Mr. Chapman's case, all the material accessions are at his command, his future and that of his beloved ones, is surely bright with promise. That they all may live long years to enjoy, unmarred by discord, unclouded by sorrow, the horoscope thus cast for them, is the sincere wish of the writer. DREW SWEET. WAYNESVILLE, OHIO, April 24, 1882. WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 833 JAMES M. CHENOWETH, farmer; P.O. Waynesville; born on the place where he now lives, Oct. 25, 1813; is a son of John and Elizabeth (Chenoweth) Chenoweth, natives of Virginia. The paternal grandfather was William Cheneweth, a native of Virginia, but emigrated to Ohio, and located near where our subject now lives, in 1812; opened out right in the woods, and endured the trials and hardships of those early days, an1 here he resided till his death. The maternal grandfather was William Chenoweth; was also a native of Virginia, but became a resident of Ohio and died near Lima. John and family came to this county about 1811, and spent his entire life on the farm where he first located; they had thirteen children; two only now survive--James M. and Rachel, now Mrs. Tamsett. Mr. Chenoweth died Jan. 11, 1862; his wife died in December, 1855. James M., our subject, was raised to manhood upon the old home place, where he still resides and has passed nearly all his life; was married Aug. 1, 1850, to Cynthia V., a daughter of Robert and Magdalena Sale, whose history and that of the ancestors is contained in the sketch of George Sale in this work. Cynthia V. was born Sept. 5, 1823. By this union, they have had five children; three now survive—Geo. D., born May 8, 1851; John E., born Jan. 9, 1856, and Samuel James, born Feb. 15, 1866. Mr. Chenoweth has spent all his life but five years on the old home place; said five years were spent on an adjoining farm. The Chenoweth families are especially noted for their continuity of residence, believing in the old adage "A rolling stone gathers no moss." They are substantial farmers, kind neighbors and good citizens. JOHN D. CLEMENTS, farmer ; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Wayne Township Aug. 11, 1825; is a son of John and Catharine (Dutterow) Clements. The paternal ancestors were of Irish descent, the original ancestors coming from Ireland, emigrating to America prior to the Revolutionary war, locating first in Pennsylvania. The grandfather Clements, who, it is believed, was named Greer, became a resident of Ohio, near Cincinnati, in an early day, where he was shot by the Indians. The maternal ancestors were from Germany. John, the father of our subject, was raised and grew to manhood near Cincinnati; was married and located in Warren County; he, with his family and mother, settled in Wayne Township, it is believed, about 1804; here they lived and died; they had six sons and four daughters—Henry, Jesse, Samuel, Cynthia, Margaret, Forgus, John, Isaac, Elizabeth and Mary C. John was a farmer and a pioneer, and remained on the place where he first located till his death. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Our subject remained with his father till after his majority. In the spring of 1855, he went to Illinois, where he resided until the winter of 1858, when he returned to Ohio. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the war of the rebellion, in Company H, 79th 0. V. I., and served through the war; was with Sherman in his great march through the South to the sea; was engaged in the battles of Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, Averysboro and others, but escaped without a wound and was mustered out at Camp Dennison June 5, 1865. He entered as First Duty Sergeant and was promoted to First Lieutenant. On Jan. 3, 1867, was celebrated his marriage with Elizabeth V., daughter of Hiram and Rachel Ann Taylor, whose ancestral history will be found in the sketch of Hiram Taylor. Mr. Clements and wife have two children----Charles H., born Jan. 15, 1868, and John Howard, born April 6, 1879. Mr. Clements after his marriage located on the place where he still resides; this place he purchased. of Newell Brown's heirs; it consisted of 105 acres of land, from which he has sold 25 acres; it has good buildings and improvements and is located two and a half miles southwest of Waynesville. JOHN H. COLEMAN, of the firm of Elliott & Coleman, stoves and tinware, Waynesville; born in Miamisburg, Ohio, Fob. 21, 1846; is a son of 834 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Washington and Eliza (Barnhart) Coleman: he was probably a native of Miamisburg and she of Maryland. Mr. Coleman was a tailor by trade; was married in Waynesville and located in Miamisburg. where he followed his trade till the fall of 1849. In the spring of 1849, he lost his wife by death, and, in the fail following, he went South and located in Mississippi, where he carried on his trade eleven years till the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion--when he returned to Ohio and enlisted in the defense of his country, and served in the army under Gen. Buell till prostrated by sickness; he died at Murfreesboro, Tenn., April 23, .1863; he was the father of six children; four now survive - George W., Alfred, Harriet and John H. Our subject, who was but 3 years old at the death of his mother, was taken and raised by his uncle, John Baru_ hart, with whom he remained till 19 years of age, when, in January, 1865, he enlisted in the war, in the 184th 0. V. I., and served till the close of the war; was discharged at Camp Chase, Columbus, Sept. 27, 1865. In January, 1866, he engaged with his brother at Springboro to learn the tinner's trade; remained with him about two years; thence came to Waynesville and continued at his trade till in March, 1872, he formed a partnership with Samuel E. Elliott, and purchased a stock of goods and opened out a stove and tin store, where they have continued business to the present time. Mr. Coleman was married April 16, 1874, to Miss Ida, daughter of Daniel and Louisa Crane; issue, two children -Harry C. and Ephraim. His wife died Oct. 22, 1878 JAMES C. COLLETT (deceased) was born in England June 12, 1823; was a son of Thomas and Susan (Carpenter) Collett, natives of England; who emigrated to America and located in New Jersey in 1833; thence, in 1837, they came to Warren County and located in Waynesville, where he died Aug. 23, 1851, aged 62 years. Mr. Collett was possessed of a good education and followed teaching as a profession; was an earnest Methodist and a local preacher in that church for many years. He was the father of eleven children; eight grew to maturity; five now survive -Thomas; Emma (now Mrs. Philip Hawke), Amelia (now Mrs. Hammel), Joseph B. and John W. James C. was but a child when they arrived in America, and was raised in New Jersey and Warren Co., Ohio, and grew to manhood, receiving a good common-school education; was married, Feb. 22, 1860, to Ruth Ellen, a daughter of Jonathan and Ruth (Elmore) Clark, natives of South Carolina, who emigrated to Warren County with their parents respectively in 1805 and 1804; they located on the same tract of land where Mr. Collett lived and died, being among the early settlers of this township; they opened out their farms right from the woods. Mr. Clark was married, in 1810, and here they lived till their death; he died Jan. 18, 1848, aged 64 years; his wife died Oct. 5, 1866, aged 76 years. They had eleven children; four now survive-Sarah, Rebecca (now Mrs. Stiles), Mary and Ruth Ellen. Mr. Collett and wife had two children -Mary E., born April 7, 1861, John C., born June 21, 1864. Mr. Collett, when 21 years of age, was elected Justice of the Peace and served fifteen consecutive years while residing in Waynesville. In the fall of 1863, he removed to the farm, where he resided till his death. After locating on his farm, he resigned his office of Justice of the Peace and would not serve longer. He died Aug. 17, 1874, aged 51 years; his wife and children still reside upon the home place, where they have a fine farm and good improvements. constituting a pleasant home and residence. LEVI and ELISHA COOK, farmers; P. 0. Waynesville; are sons of Abraham and Ruth (Hawkins) Cook, natives of South Carolina; the paternal grandfather, Amos Cook, a native of South Carolina, married Elizabeth Townsend, and, with his family, emigrated to Ohio and located in this county and township on the place where Elisha Cook now resides in 1803, and here opened WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 835 out right in the woods, experiencing their full share of the trials and hardships of pioneer life, the settlers being then few and far between; no roads but paths or trails through the unbroken forests, and here they toiled and labored to make a home and a farm, and here they died; they had eight children who grew to maturity, married and raised families, but have all now departed this life, except one daughter-Ruth, now Widow Cook, residing in Indiana. Abraham, the youngest son, was 11 years of age when they arrived in this county, and here. grew to manhood accustomed to all the deprivations of those early days; was married, Sept. 10, 1812, and became the father of ten children ; eight grew to maturity ; seven now survive-Sarah, Levi. Stephen, Dinah. Elisha, Lydia and Elizabeth. Mr. Cook located upon the home farm, where he resided till his death, July 9, 1862, aged 70 years: his wife died February, 1863, aged 70 years. He and family, as was his father. were devoted members of the Society of Friends. Levi, the eldest son, was born on the old home farm Dec. 4, 1819; was raised and grew to manhood and remained with his father till 30 years of age; was married, in the spring of 1850, to Ellen, born in Maryland Jan. 2, 1821. a daughter of Arnold and Hannah Boone. he a native of Maryland and she of Pennsylvania. who moved to Ohio and settled in Warren County in 1836. and here lived and died; they had nine children; two only now survive-Elizabeth, now Mrs. Davis, living in Virginia, and Ellen. Mr. Cook and wife have three children-Samuel B.. born Jan. 10, 1851; Ruth, born Aug. 8, 1854, and Hannah, born April 13. 1S61. Mr. Cook after his marriage located upon the farm where he now lives and has since resided; has erected nearly all the buildings on the place and made improvements until now he has a very pleasant home and residence. Elisha, the youngest son, was born where he now lives, May 28, 1829: was married, Nov. 19. 1868, to Anna B. Lyden. who was born in Ireland Aug. 20, 1843, and emigrated to America with a brother and sister when 10 years of age, or in 1853, and here she grew to womanhood; she was a daughter of Patrick and Margaret Lydon. Mr. Cook and wife have five children-Mary E., born Oct. 5, 1869; Lizzie, born Oct. 22, 1870; Levi Parry, born Feb. 27, 1873; Amos, born Aug. 18, 1874, and Maggie Anna, born Nov. 8, 1875. Mr. Cook located upon the old home farm. where are associated all the scenes of his childhood, and where he has made a continued residence from his birth-a period of fifty-two years, and the farm has been in possession of the Cook family since its first purchase and occupation in 1803-a period of seventy-eight years. Ruth Hawkins. the mother of our subjects, was a daughter of James and 'Sarah Hawkins, who settled in Warren County about 1804 or 1805. WILLIAM H. DUKE saw-mill and farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Virginia Oct. 30, 1833; is a son of William and Rebecca (Roland) Duke. natives of Virginia. The grandparents were Richard and Elizabeth Duke. natives of Maryland, but became residents of Virginia when he died, when William was 8 years of age. who, with his brother John, 2 years older, was raised by their mother; William married and became the father of five sons and five daughters; all grew to maturity; six now survive-Elizabeth. now Mrs. Compton, living in Indiana; George, also in Indiana: Martha. now Mrs. Corron, residing in Dayton; Richard M., William H. and Rebecca (now Mrs. Sides. residing in Dayton). Mr. Duke with his family and his mother emigrated to Ohio in the fall of 1839 and located and spent the winter at Rushville. and, in the spring of 1840. came to Warren County and located on the place known as the Ichabod Corwin farm, where they resided six years; thence to the Arnet farm, near Ridgeville, where, in September. 1869, his wife died; his mother died in June, 1810. In the spring of 1870, he made a sale and moved to Raysville, where he has since resided with his son, our subject. Mr. Duke 836 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: made farming his business and met with lair success. He began in life with no capital, and, by his own labor and industry. raised a large family and obtained a good competency. He is now in his 80th year, is quite spry and active, and says he has never paid $10 for a doctor bill in his entire life: Oar subject was about six years of age when he came to this county with his parents. and here grew to manhood: was married, Jan. 8, 1857, to Anna Eliza, daughter' of Moses and Sarah (Eulas) Crosley. natives of Kentucky, whose families were among the first settlers of Warren and Montgomery Counties. Moses was a son of William Crosley, who was one of the leading and prominent men of that day. Moses and Sarah were parents of eleven children, eight now survive-Marion, Anna Eliza, Jacob, Luken, Powell, Jane, Milton, Fremont. Mr. Duke and wife have had nine children, eight now living--Marion, born March 18, 1860; Elmer, born June 26, 1862 (deceased); Jesse. May, March 25, 1864; Frank H., Aug. 12, 1865; Etta Adelia, March 8, 1868; Polka Evalenia, June 17, 1871; Jennie, Aug. 5, 1873; Clara Charlotte, June 7. 1876, and Anna Zoe Ella, born Oct. 8, 1879. Mr. Duke followed farming in Wayne and Clear Creek Townships till 1866, when he located at Raysville, and entered upon the saw-mill and lumber-business, which, in 'connection with farming, he has since followed; he has also dealt extensively in fruit and other products of- the country-in fact, has been a luau of general business; a man of great energy and activity, and a leading spirit in all the public progress and improvements of Raysville and vicinity. The present good roads and pikes, the schools and churches have been established through his aid, energy and efforts more probably than by any other one man. And his last great effort has been to obtain the building of a railroad. which is acoomplished, and is now constructed, connecting the village of Raysville with Cincinnati and Dayton. And, in conclusion, we may hope that Mr. Duke's labors and efforts for the public interests may be duly appreciated, and that in both time and eternity he may be duly rewarded. SAMUEL DUNWIDDIE, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Greene Co., Ohio, May 27, 1806; is a son of John and Ruth (Betts) Dunwiddie, natives of the State of Delaware. The grandfather was Samuel Dunwiddie, native of Ireland, but who, with two brothers, emigrated to America some time prior to the Revolution and were all engaged in that sanguinary conflict; the two brothers were killed at the battle of the Brandywine; Samuel survived the conflict and settled in the State of Delaware, where he resided till his death. The maternal ancestors were from Wales. John Dunwiddie with his family emigrated to Ohio and settled in Greene County, where he died March 16,1829. aged 49 years; his wife died in 1834, aged 52 years; they had ten sons and one daughter; eight now survive--Samuel, John, James, Susan (now Mrs. Haines), Peter, Brooks, Daniel and David. Mr. Dunwiddie was strictly a pioneer of Greene County, opening out right in the woods and experiencing all the hardships of those days; he began in life a poor man, raised a large family of children and secured 80 acres of land. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 for a few months. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood in the wilds of this then new country, fully accustomed to all its deprivations; was married. in April, 1836, to Sarah, daughter of Joshua and Jane (James) Carman, natives of Virginia. The Carman family emigrated to Kentucky, and, in 1802, became settlers of Warren County; the James family emigrated direct to this county in 1801, being among the first settlers of the county. Mr. Carman died in the summer of 1859, aged 66 years; his wife still survives, residing on the old home place, now in her 89th year. She is a remarkable woman in possessing a very retentive memory of all the scenes and events of the early settling of this county. Mr. Dunwiddie's wife died Aug. 28. 1836, a few months after WAYNE TO W N SHIP - 837 their marriage. On May 27, 1862, he was married to Mrs. Mary Jane McClure, daughter of John R. and Jane Dunwiddie, whose history is in the sketch of A. Haines; issue, one child-William H., born Sept. 8. 1863. Mrs. McClure had one child by Mr. McClure James S., born Jan. 8. 1846. Mr. D. was raised a farmer; at 21 years of age, learned the wagon-making trade: followed this business for several years; then became a carpenter, which he continued until 1854; then entered upon farming. which he has since fol lowed. The farm upon which he now lives he purchased in 1853 of Jarvis Stokes; it now consists of 130 acres of good land. with good buildings and improvements, and is a pleasant home and farmer's residence. JOHN M. EARNHART. farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in this county May 3, 1846; is a son of William and Hannah (Wills) Earnhart, he a native of Luzerne Co., Penn., and she of this county. The grandfather, Jacob Earn-hart, was a native of Pennsylvania, but emits emigrated to Warren County in 1812. and located in Clear Creek Township, where he resided till his death, in 1821. The maternal grandfather, James Wills, was a native of New Jersey and married Hannah Turner; they had ten children; six grew to maturity, one only now living--Hannah. James Wills and family emigrated to Warren County and located in Clear Creek Township in 1798, being one of the first settlers of that township; he opened out right in the woods and began in true pioneer and log-cabin life; experienced the very roughest of the rough and the hardest of the pioneer trials and hardships, and here on the place where he first located he passed his entire life; he died Feb. 7. 1847, in his 80th year; his wife died Aug. 5, 1846, in her 80th year; thus they traveled life's journey together. bearing its burdens and enjoying its pleasures, so near the same age, and passing from the stage of action only a few months apart. Mr. Wills was one of the reliable and substantial men of his township, and held many of its offices: was Township Trustee and Township Treasurer several years. William Earn-hart was 8 years of age when brought to this county by his parents; here he grew to manhood and married Hannah Wills, who was born Feb. 19, 1808, by whom he had nine children, seven now living--James, Charles, Joseph, David. Abby Ann, John Milton and Clara. Mr. Earnhart located upon the old home place of his father, where he resided twenty-six years; thence located upon an adjoining farm, where he lived till his death, July 22, 1813, nearly 69 years of age; his widow is still living and resides with her children, who are all married and settled in life. Our subject was brought up to farm labor. and remained with his father until after his majority; was married, Dec. 24, 1868. to Elizabeth, daughter of James and Caroline (Stokes) Graham, he a native of this county and she of New Jersey; they had ten children; five now survive-Euphrasia, William, Dallas, La Fayette, Elizabeth and Caroline M. Mr. Earnhart and wife have three children-Emma Viola, born June 19, 1870; Estella F., born April 2, 1873, and Florence I., born Nov. 28, 1875, Mr. Earn-hart's life has been that of a farmer, most of which has been in Clear Creek Township. In 1879, he exchanged his farm there for the one upon which he now resides; has a good farm with good improvements and very pleasantly located. PETER EBERLY, blacksmith, Waynesville ; born in Lancaster Co.. Penn., April 5, 1826; is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Sullenberger) Eberly. natives of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents were Michael and Ann (Morton) Eberly, natives of Pennsylvania, their ancestors being natives of Germany. Michael was a millwright by occupation. which, with the milling business, he followed most of his life. The maternal grandparents were Peter and Barbara (Bruner) Sullenberger, natives of Pennsylvania, who lived and died in their native State; he died in the spring of 1845, aged 77 years; his 838 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 839 wife in 1858, aged 91 years. Henry, the father of our subject, was a miller by trade, and followed that business principally through life. He died ill Pennsylvania about 1851, aged 52 years In 1865, his widow came to Ohio, and lived with our subject, where she died Nov. 1, 1865, aged 75 years. They had four children, two sons and two daughters--David, now a resident of Indiana; Ann Elizabeth; Barbara, now Widow Bowman, and Peter (the two daughters reside in Dayton). The subject of this sketch was raised and grew to manhood in Pennsylvania, and learned his trade in Lancaster County. Mr. Eberly has been twice married, first, to Susanna Keene, Feb. 4, 1847, a daugh_ ter of Daniel and Elizabeth Ann Keene, natives of Pennsylvania; by her he had four children-Elizabeth Ann, born May 21, 1848, died in Ohio ;Tune 18, 1878; Emma Frances, born Sept. 16, 1850, died Oct. 9, 1878; Mary Jane, born Feb. 8, 1853, and Sarah Adelaide, born Jan. 21, 1856. Mrs. Eberly died March 5, 1857, aged 28 years. On Dec. 1, 1859, he married, for his second wife, Susanna Kreider, who was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Jan. 19, 1831. She is a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Kreider, natives of Pennsylvania; he died in his native State on March 1, 1868, aged 77 years; his wife came to Ohio and died at the home of her daughter May 19, 1877, aged 73 years; they had six children; three now survive-Isaac, Martha and Susanna. Mr. Eberly by his last wife had two children-Susanna Catharine, born Oct. 30, 1860, and Martha Effie, born April 24, 1864; died Dec. 22, 1879. Mr. Eberly worked at farming one year after he came to Ohio; then entered upon his trade of blacksmithing, which he has since followed; has carried on business in Waynesville where he is now located fourteen years; has done a large and prosperous business, and is one of the leading blacksmiths of Waynesville. JOHN EDWARDS, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born on the farm where he now resides, Jan. 24, 1811; is a son of Nathaniel and Mary (Hadley) Edwards, natives of North Carolina; the grandfather, Joshua Hadley, was a native of North Carolina, and lived and died there; he was the father of sixteen children, fourteen of whom grew to maturity, married and settled in life, most of them in Ohio, Indiana and Iowa; but all are now deceased. Nathaniel Edwards was raised and grew to manhood in his native State, residing there till December, 1804, when he, with his family, emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County, on the place where John now lives; here he commenced right in the woods to make a home and a farm, and here he lived and labored for sixty-one years-over threescore years when, on March 2, 1865, he departed this life, aged nearly 91 years; his wife died March 27, 1853; aged 77 years; they had ten children; seven now survive-Joshua, Mary, John, Sarah, David, Jonathan and Hadley. Our subject, from infancy, grew to manhood on the old home farm; was married, Nov. 13, 1856, to Charlotte, daughter of William and Anna Mc- Bryant; by this union they had seven children; six now survive-Mary, born March 10, 1859; Anna, born Jan. 23, 1861; Elwood, born Jan. 1, 1863; Lydia, born May 13, 1865; Athelia and Evalena (twins), born Jan. 31, 1868. Mr. Edwards located upon the old home place, where he has continued to the present time, having made a continued residence here from his birth, a period of seventy years, and the farm has remained in the Edwards family since its first occupation in 1804, when it was all in the woods-a period of seventy-seven years. SAMUEL E. ELLIOTT, of the firm Elliott & Coleman, stove and tin store, Waynesville; born in Waynesville Dec. 15, 1845; is a son of Samuel W. and Rebecca (Evans) Elliott, he a native of Pennsylvania and she of this county. Samuel W. was a son of James and Hannah Elliott, who had seven children- John, now President of First National Bank of Shelbyville, Ind.; Samuel W., WAYNE COUNTY - 839 deceased; Evans, deceased; William and Marshall, now in the milling business at Shelbyville, Ind.; Jesse, employed in a bank at Danville, Ill.; and Mary E., now Mrs. Powell, of Shelbyville. James Elliott and family became residents of Warren County at quite an early day; removed to Shelbyville, Ind., about 1841. and engaged in the milling and mercantile business, and there continued till his death. Samuel W., the second son, was raised in Warren County, and married Rebecca Evans, whose ancestral history is given in sketch of Joel Evans; she was born Aug. 15, 1823; was married April 25, 1843. Mr. Elliott located and entered upon business with his father in Shelbyville, Ind.; on Dec. 25, 1845, he was called to mourn the death of his wife. enjoying less than three years of companionship; she bore him two children-William, de-, ceased, and Samuel E.; in August, 1848, he was united with Miss Mary J. Powell, of Shelby County, Ind. ; then he located atThlarietta and entered vigorously upon the milling business; in 1855, he erected a large flouring mill at that place, and about the same time opened a dry goods store and carried on an extensive business; in 1860, he returned to Shelbyville and opened a boot and shoe store, to which, soon after, he added a stock of dry goods, and for four years, during the war, did a large and successful business; in 1865, he formed a partnership with John Blessing and Morrison G-add in the dry goods business in Indianapolis; not being successful there, in 1867 he moved to Independence, Mo.; thence to Ft. Scott, Kan., where he was engaged in the queensware trade, in which he continued till his death, Aug. 4,1879; by his last marriage he had three children, one now surviving, William P., now in the grocery and queens- ware trade in Shelbyville, Ind. Mr. Elliott was recognized as a man of superior ability and business tact; was first and foremost in all public enterprises; was one of the incorporators of the First National Bank of Shelbyville, and also gave aid and influence to build many of the turnpikes and other public improvements of the county; and for his many good works will ever be kindly remembered as one of God's noblemen. Our subject, who, when but 10 days old; was l6ft motherless, was raised and grew to manhood under the watchful care of his Grandmother Evans; in 1866, Mr. Elliott located in Danville, Ill., in the dry goods trade, and continued there two years; then located in Edwardsville, Kan., in same business; in the fall of 1869, returned to Waynesville, and, in spring of 1872, formed a partnership with John Coleman in the stove and tinware trade, which business they have successfully followed to the present time. Mr. Elliott was united in marriage, March 27, 1873, with Miss Mary E., daughter of Empson A. and Martha Rogers; Mary E. was born Aug. 31, 1851; they have one child, Rachel Abbie, born April 20, 1874. JOEL EVANS, Waynesville, was born near Waynesville Jan. 23, 1816. The name of the first American emigrant with whom this record begins was William Evans, who was born in Wales, and, while a young man, settled in Guynedd, Penn., about the year 1696, and died in 1747; how many children he had is not known, but it is conceded that he had a son, Owen Evans, who was born about 1699, and died Nov. 28, 1754; he was a Justice of the Peace under the Crown or Proprietary of Pennsylvania; he had at least two sons-Thomas and David; the latter was born Jan. 11, 1729 or 1730; the former, from whom those hereafter mentioned have descended, was born July 23, 1737, and died March 13, 1810; his wife, Hannah, was born Oct. 23, 1727, and died April 25, 1813; they had six sons and four daughters, of whom Benjamin, the second son and fourth child, and the grandfather of our subject, was born Oct. 12, 1760; he married Hannah, daughter of David and Hannah Smith, in South Carolina, about 1790; she was born in Bucks Co., Penn., July 3, 1767; in October, 1803, they emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County, at Waynesville, among the early settlers of this place; Mr. Evans was an auger-maker by 840 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: trade; he died July 10, 1830; his wife died Sept. 19, 1853; their children were Thomas, born Dec. 12, 1791, died May 11, 1852; David, born June 30, 1793- died Nov. 19, 1861; Elizabeth, born Feb. 6, 1795; Owen, born Jan. 30, 1797, died Feb. 21, 1798; Owen, the second, born March 16, 1800, died July 2, 1827; George, born Feb. 25, 1802. The above were born in South Carolina, and these following in Warren Co., Ohio: Sarah, born March 6, 1804, died June 24, 1851; Mary, born Feb. 22, 1806, died Aug. 18,1830; and Jason, born Nov. 25, 1807. David Evans, the second son of Benjamin and Hannah Evans and the father of our subject, married Rachel Burnett June 2, 1813; their children were John, born March 9, 1814; Joel; Seth, Oct. 21, 1817; Evan, July 1, 1820, died Oct. 21, 1821; Owen, Aug. 17, 1821, died Jan. 29, 1823; Rebecca, Aug, 15, 1823, died Dec. 25, 1845; Benjamin, Dec. 16, 1824; Mary, July 27, 1826, died April 9, 1850; Hannah, April 3, 1829; Ann, May 1, 1831; and Jason, born March 31, 1833. Mr. David Evans was for many years a prominent man in the business interests of Waynesville; was for a considerable time engaged in mercantile business, and attended largely to the execution of wills and the settlement of estates, and frequently served as guardian over minors, and was an influential and much-esteemed citizen; he died Nov. 19, 1861; his wife is still living in the house they built and moved into in the spring of 1836. Of the sons of David Evans, all that are now living have become active business men and useful members of society; John studied medicine and became prominent as a physician in Indiana; was instrumental in securing the erection of the Insane Asylum in that State; was subsequently appointed Professor in the Rush Medical College at Chicago, and, still later, was Governor of Colorado Territory under President Lincoln; he now resides at Denver; Seth is a prominent pork-packer in Cincinnati; also served several years as President of the Second National Bank of that city; Benjamin and Jason are also engaged in ^ pork-packing in Cincinnati. The subject of this sketch grew to maturity, re- I ceiving only a common-school education, such as those early days furnished; on Nov. 30, 1837, he was married to Susan R., daughter of William and Elizabeth Sharp, of Medford, N. J. ; Miss Sharp was born May 24, 1815; in the spring of 1840, Mr. Evans went to Jay Co., Ind., where he located in the woods, erected a log cabin and commenced a true pioneer life; but his plans and prospects were soon prostrated by the early death of his wife; on the 30th of November, 1840, just three years from the date of their marriage, she was taken from him by death, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth S., who died in Waynesville, Aug. 30, 1861, aged 22 years 7 months and 10 days. Soon after the death of his wife, Mr. Evans returned to Waynesville, where he has since resided. On Oct. 3, 1844, he was married to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth Satterthwaite, whose history is given in sketch of Abel Satterthwaite; she was born June 20, 1820; by this marriage, Mr. Evans has had two sons and one daughter-R. Carrie, born June 6, 1845, married Seth W. Brown Feb. 11, 1864; John S., born July 31, 1849, died July 31, 1873; and David, born Dec. 4, 1851; his second companion died Dec. 4, 1872. About the year 1844, Mr. Evans commenced the business of surveying; from 1851 to 1861, he was engaged as a carpenter and builder; in 1866, he was elected Surveyor of Warren County, which position he held six years; from the fall of 1871 to the fall of 1874, he served as County Commissioner; while acting as such, being a practical builder, he drew up the plans and specifications for and was appointed Superintendent of Construction of the Warren County Orphan Asylum and Children's Home, and, upon its completion, was appointed one of the Trustees of that institution for six years by the Court of Common Pleas, at the expiration of which time he was re-appointed for a similar term, and has served as Clerk of the Board of Trustees since its first organization; in the spring of 1873, he WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 841 was placed upon the Board of Education of Waynesville, and was elected as Clerk of the same; at the opening of the Waynesville National Bank, Feb. 1, 1874, Mr. Evans reluctantly accepted the position of its Cashier, as also that of Director of the association. Mr. Evans, though reserved in his manners, is pleasing and congenial in his nature, and is held in high esteem throughout the county, where he is so well and favorably known. DAVIS FURNAS, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville. In the settlement of Wayne Township, we find the Furnas family among the early pioneers, and we are able to trace the ancestors to one John Furnas, born at Standing Stone, Cumberland Co., England, June 5, 1736; his wife, Mary, was born in same county, Sept. 12, 1742; they were married March 24, 1762, and emigrated to South Carolina the same year; they had four sons and three daughters; Robert, next to the youngest child of .John and Mary Furnas, was born at Bush River, S. C., June 27, 1772, and there grew to manhood and married Hannah Wilson, June 6, 1796; she was born in South Carolina July 28, 1778; in 1802, Mr. Furnas made a prospecting tour to Ohioo making the round trip on horseback, a great portion of which was through an unbroken forest; after examining several localities, he selected the tract of land to which, in 1803, he removed his family and commenced to open out a farm, amid all the many trials and deprivations of pioneer life of that day and locality, often compelled to subsist for days on hominy and venison, being unable to get his grain manufactured into flour and meal, the nearest mill being thirty miles distant through the forest, the roads to which were mere paths that could only be traveled on horseback; in 1812, as there was no market nearer, he drove a large lot of hogs to Baltimore, Md.-no small undertaking; but he lived to see those vast forests give place to waving fields of grain and thriving towns; instead of the plodding ox team hauling heavy loads over the mud roads, the rushing locomotive passed his door, transporting immense trains of the products of the country to the principal markets of the world; the speedy and daily mails and the telegraph conveying news over thousands of miles with the rapidity of thought. Mr. Furnas was an earnest Christian, a devoted member of the Society of Friends; a man of undoubted integrity, of strong and superior judgment, and universally esteemed by all who knew him; he departed this life Feb. 16, 1863, aged nearly 91 years; his wife died Feb. 17, 1864, aged 88 years; they had traveled the journey of life together sixty-seven years, almost " threescore and ten;" they had eleven children, of whom Seth, the last child, born in South Carolina and the father of our subject, was born March 26, 1803, being 6 weeks old when his parents started for their new home in the wilderness of Ohio; in this county, then, he was raised and brought up to manhood, inured to the sturdy influences of pioneer life; was married, Nov. 1, 1826, to Dinah, daughter of Edward and Margaret Kinley, natives of North Carolina, who emigrated to Warren County in 1801, being among the earliest of the settlers; by this union, Mr. Furnas and wife had three children-Davis, Robert and Mary, now Mrs. Mosier. Mr. Furnas, about 1836 or 1837, purchased and located upon the farm where Seth W. Furnas now lives, and there he resided till his death, Aug. 24, 1878; his wife died Aug. 5, 1880; they had traveled together and borne the hardships of life and enjoyed its pleasures for over half a century. Mr. Furnas was a firm and devoted member of the Society of Friends, and the general firmness of principles and nobleness of character which made his father pre-eminently beloved and respected seemed to be possessed by him to a high degree. Our subject, the eldest son, was born Jan. 25, 1829, and grew to manhood, and married, Sept. 1, 1852, Jane S., daughter of John and Elizabeth Satterthwaite, by whom he had six children: five now survive-Seth, born July 1, 1853; Elizabeth, born Aug. 10, 1855; 842 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Anna D., Jan. 27, 1858; John D., Feb. 15, 1861; and Edwin S., born April 18, 1868. Mrs. Furnas died April 19, 1868, aged 40 years. Mr. Furnas, after his marriage, located upon the place where he now lives and has since resided; has a fine farm, with good improvements, constituting a pleasant home and residence. Mr. Furnas possesses many of the characteristics of his noble ancestors, is a man of good education and literary taste and shrewd business tact; is a friend of progress and education, and is giving great attention to the education of his children and the general welfare of his family. ROBERT F. FURNAS, physician, Waynesville; born in Wayne Township, Oct. 10, 1830; is a son of Seth and Dinah Furnas, whose ancestral history is given in sketch of Davis Furnas. The Doctor was raised and brought up to farm labor, and received a good common-school education, remaining with his father till 22 years of age; was united in marriage, Sept. 23, 1853, with Bethia, daughter, of Robert and Edith (Nichols) Mosier, he a native of Massachusetts and she of New York State; they emigrated to Ohio and located in Morrow County in 1812, being among the first settlers of that county, opening out in the woods, and combating with and enduring the many trials and hardships of those early days, the Indians plentiful and the howling wolves a nightly sound; wild game of all kinds in abundance, which in that day formed a great source of sustenance, and sometimes formed the main provision for saving many from want and starvation; there Mr. Mosier and family have remained through all the changing scenes of nearly threescore years and ten, witnessing the growth of civilization and the vast improvements made by the hands of those honest and sturdy pioneers; the forests disappear, and waving fields of grain in their stead; the railroads and telegraphs traversing the country in all directions, transporting the products of the country to distant markets, and carrying- news to all parts of the world with the rapidity of thought; all these Mr. Mosier has witnessed in the progress around hrm; in the meantime, he has not been idle; his hands, industry and good management have wrought wonderful changes on his premises; from his small and rough beginning in the log cabin in the woods, he now has a beautiful farm, with good buildings and all modern improvements; has accumulated a large amount of wealth by hiss own honest efforts, and is one of the prominent farmers of that county, beloved and respected by all who know him; he is now 81 years of age, and his wife 79 years, and they have traveled the journey of life together, sharing its hardships and its pleasures for fifty-four years; they have had two sons and nine daughters, eight of whom now survive-Phoebe, Gideon, Nathan, Bethiah, Rachel, Peace, Eunice and Cynthia. The Doctor and wife have had eight children; five now survive-Mary, now Mrs. Frame, residing on the farm on which his Grandfather Kinley settled in 1804; Seth W., Eunice, Phoebe and Robert H. The Doctor, after his marriage, engaged in farming and raising and dealing in stock for about twenty years, during which time he has been a great reader, keeping himself thoroughly posted in general matters of science, literature and the general progress of events; in 1873, he turned his especial attention to the study of medicine, attended the Pulte Medical College at Cincinnati, and graduated in spring of 1877, and has continued the practice of his profession at Waynesville since, with a good and growing business. The Doctor is an earnest and devoted member of the Society of Friends, having been a birthright member, and from the early age of 17 years commenced speaking in their meetings, and for the last twelve years or more has been a regular recorded minister in the Society; he is a man of more than ordinary activity and depth of mind and thought, with good versatile powers, expressing himself with force and ease; in all public enterprises of the day, he takes an active and leading part, and in the general progress and advancement of all matters of public in- WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 843 terest in Waynesville and vicinity, is always a leading, active spirit, wielding his influence for the best general public good. SETH W. FURNAS, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born on the farm where he now lives Aug. 19, 1857; is a son of Dr. Robert and Bethiah (Mosier) Furnas, whose history is given in sketch of Dr. Robert Furnas in this work. Our subject was raised and grew to manhood, and was married, Dec. 18, 1877, to Emily, daughter of Alfred and Letitia L. (Brown) Moore, he a native of Indiana and she of Ohio; the grandfather, John Moore, was a native of North Carolina, but emigrated to Indiana about 1820 or soon after, and located near Richmond, where he resided till about 1837, when he removed to Huntington Co., Ind., where he died in 1871-72; he was the father of eight children; six now survive-Elizabeth, Samuel, Joseph, Sarah, Alfred and Jane; Alfred, the youngest son now living, married and located in Huntington County, where he still resides, engaged in the honest occupation of a farmer; they have had seven children, five now living--Emily, Oscar, Margaret, Phoebe Ann and Sarah Elizabeth; the Moore family were among the first settlers in that part of the county, opening out in the woods, doing a great amount of pioneer work, bearing their full share of hardships and deprivations; now Mr. Moore has a fine farm of 280 acres, well improved, and is one among the best farms in the county. Mr. Furnas and wife have two children-Oscar M. and Edith. Mr. Furnas has wisely adopted farming as his occupation; he located where he now lives in 1879; he owns a farm of 100 acres adjoining the one upon which he lives, upon which he is erecting buildings and making improvements, where he intends to locate and make his permanent home. SAMUEL C. GARD, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Warren County Nov. 6, 1829; is a son of John and Hannah (Hisey) Gard, he a native of Hampshire Co., a., on the Big Capon, born June 7, 1803; she was also a native of Virginia. The paternal grandparents were Samuel and Sarah (Candy) Gard, he a native of New York State and she of Virginia; Samuel was a son of John Gard; Sarah was a daughter of David Candy, who was one of the early settlers of Hampshire Co., a.; Samuel left his native State when a young man, with one of his uncles, and located in Virginia, and there was united in marriage, and resided on the place where he first located till his death; he was the father of eleven children; ten grew to maturity; two only now survive-John and Sarah, now Mrs. Pugh, living in Iowa; John was raised on his father's farm in Virginia till 23 years of age; in the fall of 1825, he emigrated to Ohio, and, after prospecting over quite a portion of Ohio and Indiana, finally stopped in Waynesville, and worked at the tanning business here and other places, and running saw-mills several years; in spring of 1833, he bought and located upon the place where he now lives, and has since resided, a period of nearly half a century; he was married, Nov. 9, 1828, to Hannah, daughter of Jacob and Millie (Williamson) Hisey, natives of Shenandoah Co., a. ; issue, nine children; seven now survive-Samuel C., Joseph Daniel, John, David, Hannah S., William H. and George. Mr. Gard is now 78 years of age, and his wife is 71 years, they have traveled the journey of life together, bearing its sorrows and enjoying its pleasures, for fifty-three years. Our subject grew to manhood, brought up to farm labor, and remained with his father till about 25 years of age; he then went to Indiana, St. Joseph County, where, on March 2, 1854, he was married to Eliza Barrett, by whom he had two children -Mary H., born Nov. 26, 1855; and John Albert, born March 4, 1858; his wife died May 5, 1864; soon after his wife's death, Mr. Gard returned to Warren Co., Ohio, where he has since resided; on Nov; 29, 1866, he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Cresswell, who was born in Virginia Dec. 27, 1840; by this union they have two children-Wesley E., born Dec. 3,1867; and Charles 0., born April 13, 1871. 844 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: CLARKSON GAUSE, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Pennsylvania March 11, 1814; is a son of Samuel and Mary (Pierce) Gause, natives of Penh, syivania; the grandfather, Solomon Gause, as far as known, was also a native of Pennsylvania, but emigrated to Greene Co., Ohio, in spring of 1814, being one of the early settlers, and there resided till his death; Samuel and family came to Ohio at the same time of his father, and located in Warren County, and here resided the balance of his life, engaged in farming; he commenced almost entirely in the woods; he died in April, 1865, aged 83 years; his wife died in the winter of 1867, aged 87 years; they were parents of ten children; three now survive-Clarkson, Martha and Richard. Mr. Gause was a devoted member of the Society of Friends, and was an Elder for many years. Our subject was an infant about 3 weeks old when brought to this county by his parents; was raised and grew to manhood here; was married, Aug. 27, 1842, to Sidney, daughter of Calvin and Elizabeth Thomas, natives of Pennsylvania, by which union they had two children--one son, deceased, and one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. born May 31, 1843; his wife died Aug. 5, 1853; in August, 1856, he married Mrs. Elizabeth Sherwood, daughter of Henri Smith, by whom he had one child, Anna R., born Sept. 27, 1858; his second wife died Feb. 3, 1866; for his third wife he married Ruth, daughter of Isaac and Ann (Carter) Richardson, natives of Pennsylvania, Sept. 22, 1869; Isaac and Ann Richardson had four children; three now survive-Ruth, Hannah .(now Mrs. Richard Gause) and Caleb. Mr. Gause has made farming his business through life, all in this county, except about five years in Clinton County; in the fall of 1858, Mr. Gause located upon the farm where he now lives and has since resided; he and family are members of the Society of Friends. Mr. Gause, from principle, desires no office, but he has served as Director in the Miami Cemetery Association for twelve years. JESSE GIBBS, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Franklin Co., Penn., June 10, 1819; is a son of Joseph and Rachel (Wood) Gibbs, he a native of New Jersey and she of Pennsylvania; they lived and died in Pennsylvania; they had five children -William, Elizabeth, Alexander, Jesse and John. The subject of this sketch, when 12 years of age, came to Ohio with the family with whom he was living, by name of Deffendall, and they located in Montgomery County and lived three years, thence moved to Preble County and lived two years; at 17 years of age, Jesse started out into the world for himself, working here and there as he could find work; in 1839, he came to Warren County and worked for Ellis Ward, and has remained in this vicinity since. On Sept. 3, 1840, he married Hannah, daughter of Ellis and Mary E. Ward, he a native of New Jersey and she of Tennessee; he came to Warren County with his parents in 1804; his father, Isaac Ward, bought a section of land where Mr. Gibbs now lives, being a pioneer, and here he lived and died, and here Ellis grew to manhood, accustomed to the hardships of those times; Mary E., with her father, Jonathan Newman, and his family, came from Tennessee and located at Waynesville about 1805, where they lived and died; Ellis Ward and Mary E. Newman were married and located on the place where Mr. Gibbs now lives, and here resided till their death; he died Aug. 25, 1875, aged 77 years; she died Nov. 7, 1880, aged 83 years; they had six children; four now survive-Hannah; Lydia, now Widow Medennall; Asenith, now Widow Printz; and Cyrus Milton; Hannah was born on the place where they now live June 17, 1824. Mr. Gibbs and wife have had nine children; six .now survive-Rebecca Ann, born June 24, 1842; Caroline, Sept. 16, 1848; Elizabeth, Aug. 16, 1850; Jason, Mares 1, 1853; Oscar, May 14, 1856; and William S., born Sept. 9, 1866. Mr. Gibbs located on the place where his wife was born and raised, this being a part of the section of land of the original purchase of Isaac Ward, and here has con- WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 845 tinued his residence to the present time; this place has now been in possession of the Ward family for over three-fourths of a century. On Aug. 14, 1862, Mr, Gibbs and Cyrus M. Ward enlisted in the war of the rebellion, in Co. H, 79th 0. V. I., and served till the close of the war; Mr. Gibbs was with Sherman in his great march through the South to the sea, and received his discharge at Washington City, June 6, 1865; Mr. Ward was wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, June 24, 1864, and was in the hospitals at different points till May, 1865, at Camp Denison, he was discharged, but, from his disabled condition, has since drawn a pension; is now drawing $12 per month. Mr. Gibbs' son, Joseph E., also enlisted, at the same time and in the same regiment, and served through the war, but, during his service, he contracted the camp diarrhoea, from the effects of which he died April 17, 1875. Mr. Gibbs' daughter, Lydia, married John T. Davis, of Middletown, Penn. ; they moved to Texas, where, April 19, 1879, she died, in her 33d year of age, far from her native home and kindred, but possessing fully the Christian's hope; her remains were brought home, and now rest in the Miami Cemetery, near Waynesville; she left an infant child, Lydia, born April 19, 1879, which Mr. Gibbs has received into his family to raise. HON. SETH SILVER HAINES, President of Waynesville National Bank, was born in Waynesville, Warren Co., Ohio, Feb. 1, 1824, and was the son of Noah Haines, who came from near Winchester, a., in 1807, and settled at Old Town, in Greene Co., Ohio, whence he removed to Waynesville; he was Postmaster at Waynesville from 1817 until his death, in 1834; he was County Commissioner when the present court house was built, which edifice was approaching completion at the time of his death. Noah Haines was married, in 1808, to Miss Anna Silver (the mother of S. S. Haines, who, with her father, Seth Silver, and her sister, Leatitia (afterward Mrs. David Linton), came from Salem, N. J., in 1806, and settled at Waynesville. Noah Haines was highly esteemed as a man of entire probity, and possessed of eminent business ability, and his death was universally regretted; his widow survived him fifteen years; she was esteemed as a woman of eminent virtue. Seth Silver (for whom the subject of this memoir was named) was one of the early merchants of the village, and was also held in great esteem; he died in 1811. S. S. Haines was the youngest of a family of four sisters and three brothers, all of whom lived until they arrived at their majority, but all of whom have long since passed from this life. S. S. Haines was thrown on his own resources at an early age; in October, 1841, at the age of 17 years, he entered as clerk in the village store of Joseph B. Chapman, on the southwest corner of Main and North streets, where he remained until he came of age; the circumstance that he worked in this store the first six months for $4 per month is still vividly remembered by him, and the fact that, even at that low salary, he came out ahead at the end of the half year specified, was but the foreshadowing of the successful career which followed, and of which it was the happy beginning. In December, 1845, at the age of 21 years, young Mr. Haines felt himself in position to buy out his employer and embark in business on his own responsibility. Soon after attaining his majority, he served one year each as Clerk and Treasurer of Wayne Township. On the 1st of June, 1847, Mr. Haines was married, in Xenia, to Miss Eliza F. Hinchman, daughter of Griffith Hinchman and Mary B. Hinchman, who came from Gloucester Co., N. J., in 1832, and settled in Warren County; the latter died in 1874; she was a woman of sterling good sense and possessed of eminent Christian virtues; her husband survived her but four years, dying in 1879, at the home of his affectionate daughter; he was a hearty specimen of a jovial, warm-hearted man, with a pleasant word for every one, and his memory will long be fondly cherished by a large circle of friends. Mr. Haines 846 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: continued in business in Waynesville until Jan. 1, 1850, at which date he disposed of his business to Thomas L. Allen and Benjamin Evans, and engaged in the wholesale dry goods business in Cincinnati, becoming a member of the firm of Wynne, Haines & Co. ; under careful management, the business of this firm increased until its annual sales amounted, in 1864, to $1,250,000; at this time, Mr. Haines disposed of his interest in the house and retired, with a de_ sire to enjoy a quiet home; but he was not long permitted to indulge in his dolce far niente; " Noblesse oblige" might as well have been the legend upon his crest; he was importuned to do for others what he would have preferred not to do for himself, and in 1866 the wholesale grocery house of Haines & Chapman was established in Cincinnati, in which he remained two and a half years, when this partnership was dissolved, and the firm of Chapin, Sampson & Rogers formed, with Mr. Haines as special partner; two and a half years later, he retired from business in the city and confined himself to his agricultural interests at home, four large farms affording, as it would seem, abundant occupation for even the busiest brain or most methodical manager; yet, such are the possibilities of systematic and diligent application that, in addition to this, and as if to demonstrate the axiom that the more a man has to do the more he can do, Mr. Haines has, since his retirement from mercantile life, enjoyed but brief cessation from labor in one public enterprise or another. In 1856 and 1857, Mr. Haines represented the people of Warren County in the Ohio House of Representatives; and for many consecutive years he was a School Director in his native town, always performing the thankless yet onerous duties of that position willingly and faithfully. It was by his efforts that the first newspaper. the Miami Visitor, was established in Waynesville; this was in January, 1850; the same is true of the first telegraph office, which was established in Novem- ber, 1849. In later times, Mr Haines being placed at the head and front of two important local enterprises, and retained them through a long series of years, demonstrates beyond question his popularity at home and his recognized fitness for positions of trust; these are the Presidency of the Miami Cemetery Association, and of the Waynesville National Bank, in both of which he was the leading spirit, and has ever since been the controlling influence. Miami Cemetery Association was organized in 1866; the National Bank was established in February, 1875; in the latter, Mr. Haines was much the largest stockholder; that both enterprises have been successful—one in a financial as well as artistic sense, and the other in a purely business regard---is not a question susceptible of debate; the cemetery, especially, being closely identified with the people's interests, is the pride of the community near and far, and is acknowledged without a superior, and with very few, if any, equals in natural and artificial advantages; and no one will deny that the great success of this undertaking is largely due to Mr. Haines' personal supervision and sagacious management. In 1874, Mr. Haines projected the Miami Valley (now the Cincinnati Northern) Railway, and in 1876 procured from the city of Cincinnati very valuable franchises and rights of way; after investing largely of his own private means, and working earnestly and unselfishly in the undertaking for some time, the company became financially embarrassed and its property changed ownership; the enterprise was happily conceived and one of great value, and its failure of immediate success was in no sense due to any want of judicious management or foresight on the part of Mr. Haines, but was owing to bad faith and want of support on the part of those who were to be benefited by it, and whose co-operation he had every reason to expect. Mr. Haines was in earnest; he threw his whole soul into his cherished plan, and worked indefatigably for its accomplishment, and those who, in after years, receive benefit from the success of this new thoroughfare, will owe Mr. Haines a debt of gratitude they WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 847 never can repay. In the annals of Warren County, S. S. Haines will occupy an honored niche as one of her worthy representative men; when he was born, his native village was yet in her infancy, and her ie extremely meager; yet, such as they were, they were made tributary to his mental development; a little polishing, afterward acquired by a course at R. M. Bartlett's Commercial College at Cincinnati, may be mentioned as all the school he received; but his education did not stop there; with such as he, schooling education goes on until the craving and receptive mind forever ceases its activity; a youth who, at the age of 20 years, could satisfactorily transact the whole business of selling a farm; who, at $4 a month, could save money; who, at 21, could buy and conduct the principal business in the place of his birth; who, at his majority, could be intrusted with the funds and the records of his township; and who, when arrived at man's mature age, could be chosen to represent his county in the Legislature, preside over a bank, inaugurate enterprises that were destined to endure through future ages, and conceive one of the most important railway lines in the great West—is he not appropriately singled out as a representative man? Not only so in a merely local sense, but, passing beyond the environment of township or county, the career of such a man illustrates the splendid possibilities open to young American manhood everywhere; thrift, prudence, integrity, with a well-directed purpose, are as sure of their grand results to others as they have been in Mr. Haines' experience; and of such a man his fellow-citizens have just cause to be proud. Personally, Seth S. Haines is a " gentleman of the old school;" tall, slender and erect, a finely developed head surmounting a graceful form, the intelligent observer scarcely need be reminded of the fine Old Virginian blood coursing through his veins; blood will tell in carriage as well as conduct; and Mr. Haines, both in manners and morals, has long been a model by which the rising generation in his community have considered it the correct thing to fashion their characters; possessing a keen insight into the subtle operations of the human heart—in other words, being a good judge of human nature—Mr. Haines is seldom at fault in his measurements of men; he can fell at a glance, as if by instinct, what to expect, what to require, from those whom it may be his pleasure or business to meet; doubtless this faculty, inherent and fostered, has been one important factor in his success in life; quick to perceive, ready to adopt or reject, and a perfect diplomatist in the management of men and affairs, the busy brain of the man whose salient characteristics we are imperfectly limning, has been and is worthy of a far wider field for its powers of usefulness than its modest master has been content to occupy during all these years: and this fact suggests another and an admirable trait, namely, Mr. Haines' attachment to locality, his constant affectiqn for the place of his birth, the beautiful hills and dales of his native heath, where his home has always been, and where, in all probability, his earthly abiding-place will ever be; in this restless, migratory age, it is comparatively rare to find one so fondly endeared to the place of their birth, and who would toss aside the allurements of social or political preferment and be contented—nay, supremely happy—in the, enjoyment of home in the place which b ad been their honored parents' dwelling-place before them; to the writer, this phase of Mr. Haines' life is as beautiful in all its meanings as it is unusual, and is one of the many evidences of the delicate sensibility and innate refinement of his nature. Mr. Haines is still in the vigor of a well-regulated manhood, and, if so much had not already been received of him by community that it would seem ungenerous to expect more, it might be said his best work still lay before him; whether this be the case or not, his hosts of friends and the people who revere him for his many noble and genial qualities will be more than gratified if their wishes for his long continuance in his stately 848 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES; home, presided over by the kindly and gracious lady who so worthily bears his name, and surrounded by all that a cultivated taste and ample fortune can pro_ cure to make existence happy, are answered by a kind providence. Mr. Haines has but one child--Dr. James W. Haines, now practicing his profession in Cincinnati; although a young man, his versatile talents and engaging manners have already won for him enviable distinction as a theologian and a practitioner of the healing art; a favorite in whatever circle he chooses to move, with splendid talents and liberal culture, supplemented by the systematic diligence inherited from his ancestors, 'there is no reason, if life be spared him, why the world should not expect great achievements from him as the years come on; that the mantle of exalted merit so long and worthily worn by his father may descend by rightful heritage to him, when cast aside for the brighter robes of immortality, is a hope adundantly warranted by what young Dr. Haines has already accomplished. ALLEN HAINES, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born on the farm where he now lives, July 5, 1824; is a son of Jonathan and Naomi Haines, natives of New Jersey. The paternal grandparents were Jacob and Sarah Haines, natives of New Jersey, who lived and died there; the maternal grandparents were Jonathan and Sarah Stratton, natives of New Jersey, who also lived and died in their native State. Jonathan Haines, with his family, emigrated to Ohio and located in Wayne Township in 1811, on the place where Allen now lives; here they opened out in the woods and endured the hardships and deprivations of those early days; and here they lived till, about 1846, they moved to Waynesville, where he died June 5, 1851, aged 65 years; his wife died Dec. 27, 1855, aged 70 years. They had eight sons and four daughters; nine now survive- Ezra; Jacob; Sarah, who married Adam Gaskill; Prudence, who married George Smith and resides in Indiana; Jonathan; Eunice, who married Peter Dunwiddie, also residing in Indiana; Job, who lives in Indiana; Allen; and Mary C., now Widow Satterthwaite. Mr. Haines was a very industrious man, giving his entire attention to the business of farming; never held or desired office or public notoriety, but a man of undoubted integrity and a good neighbor, and a worthy citizen and a devoted member of the Society of Friends. In his death, the community lost a worthy citizen, and his family a devoted husband and a kind father. Our subject was raised and brought up on the old homestead place; was married, Sept. 17, 1846, to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Eleanor Smith, natives of Virginia, who became settlers in Greene County in quite an early day, and lived and died in that county. By this union, Mr. Haines and wife had six children ; two now survive-Jonathan and Naomi, now Mrs. A. Wright. His wife died Dec. 1, 1853, aged 32 years. On June 22, 1854, he was married to Cynthia Ann, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Starkey) Myers, who had four sons and two daughters; four now survive-Andrew, now living in Iowa; Cynthia Ann; Jacob; Sarah Ann, now Mrs. Davis; David died in the army, at Knoxville, Tenn., in March, 1865, having served nearly through the war; Joseph died when a child about 3 years of age. Cynthia Ann was born in Ohio, Aug. 25, 1832. Mr. Haines located and has always remained upon the old home place, where he has erected good, substantial buildings and made improvements, and now has a very pleasant home and farmer's residence. This farm has now been in possession of the Haines family for sixty-nine years, and it is expected and hoped that it will continue in their nam 4 for many years to come. NER HAINES, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born on the place where he now resides, April 19, 1837; is a son of Wesley and Susan (Engle) Haines, natives of New Jersey. The grandparents were Ner and Elizabeth Haines, natives of New Jersey, who emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 849 about 1819, where he lived and died on the farm where our subject now lives. Wesley was 14 years of age when his parents came to Warren County; here he was raised and grew to manhood; was married and became the father of six children ; three now survive-Hannah, now Mrs. Charles Janney ; Ner, and Prudence, now Mrs. Amos Sides. Mr. Haines was raised to farm labor, and, after his father's death, took the old home place, where he resided till after the death of his wife in the summer of 1848, when he moved to Waynesville and resided six years; was again married to Mrs. Prudence Haines, a daughter of Isaac Engle; thence he located again on the farm, where he resided a few years, and again returned to Waynesville, where he has since resided; his second wife died in the summer of 1872. Mr. Haines is now 75 years of age; be commenced in life with but limited means, and, by his own labor and industry has accumulated a good competency; has never held or desired office, but has devoted himself industriously to his business interests, and has been well rewarded for his labors. Ner, the subject of this sketch, was raised to farm labor; was married, April 5, 1860, to Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Mary Sides, natives of Lancaster Co., Penn.; Sarah was born May 6, 1842; their issue has been six children; five now survive- Wesley, born Jan. 4, 1861; Daniel Albert, born July 28, 1863; Samuel K., Nov. 22, 1869; Elsworth, Oct. 21, 1871; and Ner W., born Feb. 15, 1874. Mr. Haines located upon the old home place of his father's, where he has since resided. This place has been in the possession of the Haines family since their first location here-a period of sixty-six years. ALBERT D HAINES, farmer; P.O. Waynesville; born in Warren County Nov. 10, 1846; is a son of Daniel and Prudence (Engle) Haines, natives of New Jersey. The paternal grandparents were Ner and Elizabeth Haines, natives of New Jersey, but who became early settlers of Warren County, locating here about 1817, and lived and died here. The maternal grandfather, Isaac Engle, was a native of New Jersey; also became a settler of this county, where he died. Daniel, the father of our subject, was a young single man when he came to this county; married here and became the father of one child, Albert D. Mr. Haines died Jan. 14, 1852, aged 48 years ; his wife died, July 20, 1872, aged 64 years. Albert D. was but 5 years of age when his father died, and was raised by his mother; was married, April 5, 1870, to Susanna E., daughter of John R. and Jane Dunwiddie, he a native of Pennsylvania and she of Ohio; he came to Ohio a young man; was married in Greene County, and became the father of nine children; seven now survive-Mary Jane, (now Mrs. Dunwiddie); Samuel G., James, John A., Francis, Sarah M. (now Mrs. John Holmes, Jr.), and Susanna E. ; the latter was born Sept. 4, 1849. The grandfather of Samuel Dunwiddie was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to America in 1803, and settled in Greene Co., Ohio, and, later in life, in Preble County, where he resided till his death. Mr. Haines and wife, after their marriage, located on the place where they now live and have since resided. This place was formerly known as the James Chenoweth farm; it consists of 57 acres of good land, with good buildings and improvements, and constitutes a pleasant home and residence. ISRAEL HOPKINS HARRIS, banker, Waynesville, was a sop of James Harris and his wife, Rebecca Clark Jennings; the latter was born in New Jersey, and was a daughter of John and Sarah Jennings, two of the pioneers of Waynesville, she being a sister of Samuel Heighway's wife. James Harris was a son of Israel Harris, and was born near Rutland, Vt., March 31, 1801; when he was 5 years old, his father moved to Ohio and settled on the farm near Centerville, Montgomery Co., now known as the Milton McNeill farm; at an early age, he engaged in mercantile pursuits, clerking several years in the store of 850 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: John Satterthwaite, in Waynesville; after his marriage, he removed to Centerville, Ohio, and opened a dry goods and variety store on his own account; his trade rapidly increased; and in time he established branch stores in Waynesville and Bellbrook, and engaged extensively in pork-packing; in the fall of 1844, he returned to Waynesville, continuing his business here on a large scale. In May, 1849, after a return from Cincinnati, where cholera was at that time epidemic, he was attacked with that disease, and died May 31, 1849. He was a man of indomitable energy and perseverance, and of the strictest integrity; few persons have lived in the county who have contributed more to its material interests than he, and few whose loss has been more widely felt. His wife survived him for more than a quarter of a century, living a part of the time at Waynesville and a part at Centerville. Finally, at the ripe old age of nearly 75 years, Mrs. Harris died, at her son's home in Waynesville, Ohio, Sept. 9, 1879. She was a woman of strong individuality, a sincere Christian and a noble example of true womanhood; she left an impress for good upon her posterity and upon society such as only a woman of exalted attributes can. Israel Hopkins Harris was born in Centerville, Montgomery Co., Ohio, Nov. 23; 1823; he was the eldest of a family of five children; was fitted for college, partly at Centerville, under David Burson, and completed his preparation at Franklin, Warren Co., under W. C. Gould; he entered Yale College at the beginning of Junior year, 1844; after taking his degree in 1846, he returned to his home in Waynesville, and became, at his father's desire, his assistant in the dry goods business. After his father's death, in 1849, he continued the business with his brother Joseph until 1855, when he became a private banker in the firm of Stokes & Harris; this partnership continued till the death of Mr. Jarvis Stokes, in 1868, since which time Mr. Harris has conducted the business alone. In November, 1848, he married Esther Ann, daughter of Jarvis Stokes, of Warren County. In November, 1849, Mrs. Harris died, leaving an infant daughter, named Mary, who survived her mother only six months. In November, 1852, he married Carrie E. Bunnell, of this county, daughter of Mr. Merritt Bunnell; by her he had three children—Emma, the eldest, died in her 8th year; Jimmie, the second, at the age of 16 months; the third and surviving child is named Laura. Carrie E. Harris died in Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 15, 1873, of pulmonary consumption, whose ravages her husband sought in vain to arrest by a sojourn in a Southern clime. On the 31st of December, 1874, Mr. Harris was married to Edith Mosher, daughter of Nathan and Sarah Mosher; by her he has had two children, one of whom survives, Minnie Mildred, now (January, 1882) in her 5th year. Mr. Harris is now at the age of 58 years, and appears in the very prime of life, the luster of his eye undimmed and none of his natural force abated; his New England progenitor imparted to him the purest of Green Mountain blood, and the son illustrates by his character and .physique the inestimable value of such transmission; born in affluent circumstances, Mr. Harris made good use of his opportunities; he was studious and industrious by nature; manly, honest and frank in conversation; bright and vivacious as a companion, and just and true in all his dealings; the boy was " father to the man," and he I as proved himself a faithful steward, improving the talents with which by nature he was endowed, instead of squandering his inheritance because the work of cultivating and increasing was not all done for him. In all his business enterprises, Mr. Harris has been successful. Graduating with ,all the honors at one of the proudest seats of learning in the United States, his energies were at once judiciously directed by his sagacious father, and since then his life has been one uninterrupted career of industry, his willing hands doing with all their might whatever they found to do; only one change—that of banking succeeding mer- WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 851 —has marked his busy and successful business life. With perfect integrity in all his business transactions, Mr. Harris finds himself one of the wealthiest, as well as one of the most widely known and esteemed citizens of his county. Notwithstanding the active business life of Mr. Harris, he has also devoted much trme to the pursuits of the natural sciences, particularly archaeology and geology; in these departments he has amassed a collection which is probably not excelled, if equaled, by any similar private collection in the United States. his vast and varied accumulation has attracted and charmed visitors from all parts of the globe, and journalistic representatives from the East and West have from time to time gone through his museum and written it up for the benefit of the public. Especially is this remark true, " treasury of pearls," of which, perhaps, no other man living has a larger or finer assortment. Mr. Haines gave the original impetus and has ever been the sustainer of the Little Miami River Pearl Fisheries, which became so famous a few years ago; he fostered this industry by purchasing all the pearls found in the river, continuing the traffic until the supply seemed exhausted; in his treasure house are thousands of dollars' worth of these irridescent jewels, all more or less valuable and rare, from the " Kohinoor pearl " down to the finest seed pearl; the "Kohinoor" is the only agatized pearl upon record, and is regarded by intelligent scientists as a jewel of nameless price. In person, I, H. Harris is of medium stature, slender, very erect and agile; his step is quick and buoyant; his eye, black, brilliant and piercing, though full of humor and kindly light, and that unmistakable expression denoting the possession of intellectual powers which it cannot conceal; straight as an arrow and rapid in movement, his physical characteristics are but a reflex of his mental processes; talented, educated, accomplished,, with a beautiful home and charming family, with all the good things of life within his grasp, yet without vain self-assertion or pretension, accessible to all and meeting every man as a member of one common brotherhood. Mr. Harris is the "patron saint" of Harris Guards, Co. F, 0. N. G., one of the finest companies in the 13th Regiment; the company having been named for him voluntarily, as a tribute to his worth and popularity. He has had nearly, if not all, the local dignities laid at his feet, from Alderman to Treasurer and School Director; for many consecutive years he has been dragooned into this service for the public good, much against his own inclination. It its annual convention in Cincinnati last summer, Mr. Harris was elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, being proposed as eligible by Prof. R. B. Warder, of the University of Cincinnati. Waynesville is justifiably proud of Mr. Harris as one of the few really representative men of Warren County. Long may he live to inspire and encourage succeeding generations to become the artificers of their own fortunes, as he is so admirably qualified to do, whose good deeds will live long after the active brain and busy hands which conceived and executed them have mingled with their native dust. AMOS HARTSOCK, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Greene Co., Ohio, Jan. 19, 1821; is a son of William and Elizabeth (Phinkbone) Hartsock, natives of Maryland; the grandmother was a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of John Harding; the paternal ancestors being of German descent and the maternal of Welsh descent. Mr. William Hartsock emigrated to Ohio and located in Greene County in 1810, being among the early settlers of that county, and there followed his trade, that of brick-layer, for many years, and is said to have built the second brick house erected in Xenia. In 1831, he removed to Warren County, near Waynesville, and here he entered upon farming, where he continued till his death, in April, 1860, aged 76 years; his wife diedin the fall of the same year, aged 73 years. They had twelve children; four now survive- 852 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Jesse, Levi, Amos and Mary, now Mrs. Parkins, living in Milton, Ind. our subject remained with his father till 24 years of age; was married, March 19, 1845, to Mary Ann, daughter of John and Rachel Archer, natives of New Jet' sey. They became settlers of Ohio in 1819, remaining near Cincinnati a short time, thence located in Warren County, where they resided till her death in December, 1867; he is still living, and resides with Mr. Hartsock, now 84 years of age. They had four children; three now survive-Mary Ann, Samuel and John. Mr. Hartsock and wife have four children--John W., born March 15, 1846; Mary Malinda, born March 28, 1849: Charles Edward, born Sept. 2, 1854; and Ephraim Allen, born July 2, 1857. Mr. Hartsock, after his marriage, resided for a few, years on three different farms in Wayne Township; then, in 1868, bought and located upon the place where he now lives and has since resided; has a good farm of 120 acres, with good buildings and improvements, constituting a pleasant home and farmer's residence. Mr. Hartsock has been Township Trustee five years, and Assessor one term. PHILLIP HAWKE, farmer, P. 0. Waynesville; born in England Nov. 4. 1828; is a son of Phillip and Ann Hawke, natives of England. The grandfather was Phillip Hawke, who was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a cotemporary of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, and was frequently associated with that eminent divine. He, as well as his son Phillip, lived and died in England. Phillip and wife, the parents of our subject, had nine. children; four now survive-John, Phillip, Mary Ann, now Mrs. Mount Joy, and Margaret, now Mrs. Humphreys. Phillip, the subject of this sketch, emigrated to America when about 18 years of age, and located in Warren County. On Nov. 15, 1848, he was united in marriage with Emma Collett, whose ancestors are fully written of in sketch of James Collett (deceased). By this union, they have had seven children; four now survive-Joseph Henry, born Aug. 25, 1849; George W., Oct. 20, 1854; John C., March 17, 1860; and Alice Amelia, born Aug. 26, 1865. Mr. Hawke has always followed farming as his occupation, and all within this township; he has resided where he now lives for fourteen years, and is a man who gives close application to his business, whose integrity is undoubted; is a kind neighbor. and one of Wayne Township's most worthy citizens. WILLIAM H. HEIGHWAY, retired, Waynesville; born in Cincinnati Feb. 5, 1817; is a son of John and Eliza (Mercer) Heighway; he was born in 1785, in England, and she was born in Cincinnati, March 18, 1791; she was the first female child born in Cincinnati. The paternal grandfather, Samuel Heighway, was a native of England, and emigrated to America about 1795 and came to Cincinnati; was one of the surveying party who came up the Little Miami Valley to survey the lands under the Symmes contract, and, reaching where Waynesville is now located, they surveyed and laid out the town. He afterward returned to England, and again came to America, and died at Cincinnati in 1815 or 1816. The maternal grandfather, John Mercer, was a native of New Jersey, and his ancestry from Holland. About 1790, he emigrated to Ohio, locating at Cincinnati, where he died about 1802, being one of the earliest settlers of that place. John Heighway was about 18 years of age when he came with his parents to Cincinnati. There he married and settled, and became one of the leading and prominent men of Cincinnati; he built the first bank vault ever erected in that city, and was President and Cashier of the United States Branch Bank first established there; he died in 1827, aged 42 years; his wife died Jan. 10, 1866, aged 72 years. They had four children-- Samuel M., William H., Archibald E. and Mary E., the eldest and youngest of which are deceased. Our subject grew to manhood, remaining with his mother after his father's death till his majority; was married, April 22, 1851, to Julia, WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 853 daughter of Ulysis and Charlotte Sal is, natives of Germany, who emigrated to America in 1835 and located in Medina Co., Ohio, where his wife died Aug. 12, 1835. About six weeks after their arrival, Mr. Salis became a resident of Waynesville, in 1866, and died here May 11, 1870, aged 82 years. They had two children-Charlotte, now Mrs. Cadwell, residing in Cincinnati; and Julia, born in Germany April 4, 1826. Mr. Heighway and wife have four children -John M., born Jan. 25, 1852; Charlotte E., Jan. 30, 1854; Emma, April 8, 1857; and Annette, born Jan. 22, 1861. Mr. Heighway carried on a brass foundry in Cincinnati some years; then engaged in the grocery and rectifying business several years, since which his principal business has been in managing the estates of his mother and the family, the whole care of which has principally devolved upon Mr Heighway. In 1866, he bought his present property in Waynesville, where he located and has since resided; here he has a fine property and beautifully situated, where he now lives retired from all active business. Prior to embarking in the grocery and foundry business, Mr. Heighway was one of the first to cultivate flowers in Cincinnati, and for several years was engaged as a florist; he has now in his possession a fine specimen of the India crape myrtle, which he has grown from a cutting of the first plant brought to New York from India, forty-five years ago. REV. JOHN HISEY, farmer and minister; P. 0. Waynesville; is a son of Jacob Hisey, who was a son of Christian Hisey, a native of Germany, who settled in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., in an early day. Jacob Hisey was born and grew to manhood there, and there married Emiline Williamson. In the year 1816, he moved with his family to Ohio and settled in East Wayne Township, Warren Co., where he purchased a small tract of land, which he cultivated in connection with working in and carrying on a blacksmith shop for many years. He raised a large family of children, and lived to see all those who survive well settled in life. By the industry and frugality of himself and wife, besides raising his family he acquired a considerable amount of property. He was for many years a member of the Free-Will Baptist Church, and was a worthy and exemplary member, and contributed liberally for the support of the church of his choice. In October, 1854, his wife, the partner of his younger and advanced years, departed this life. He was again married, and at his death left a widow. He departed this life May 6, 1870, aged 84 years, at peace with all mankind, and in full hope of a blissful immortality- the noblest work of God, an honest man. JACOB R. HISEY, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville ; born on the farm where he now lives, April 3, 1850; is a son of Joseph and Maria (Herr) Hisey, he a native of Virginia and she of Maryland. The grandfather, Jacob Hisey, was also a native of Virgina, and was a son of Christopher Hisey, who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution. The maternal grandfather, Abraham Herr, was a native of Lancaster Co., Penn., and was a son of Rudolph Herr. Abraham first moved into the State of Maryland, thence emigrated to Ohio and located in the south part of Greene County in 1836, and in 1837 moved into Warren County, then to the State of Indiana, and, about 1867, became a resident of Miami Co., Ohio, where he died in 1873, aged 73 years. The grandfather, Jacob Hisey, emigrated to Ohio in 1818 and located on the place where our subject now lives. This land was then all in the woods, and he began in a true pioneer and log cabin life, and here he labored and toiled, and before his death was permitted to see a good, cultivated farm, with good buildings and improvements, and to enjoy the general comforts of life. He died in 1869, aged 84 years. Joseph, his son, was 4 years of age when brought to this county, and here was raised and grew to manhood, accustomed to the hardships of those early days; was married, and became the father of two children- 854 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Jacob R. and Jemima E. Mr. Hisey bought the old home place of his father and there hipe resided till his death, April 14, 1878, aged 64 years; his wife died Dec. 28, 1874, aged 50 years. Our subject, born and raised where he now lives, was married; April 19, 1877, to Miss Amanda Jane, daughter of John T. and Eliza English, natives of Ross Co., Ohio. The grandfather, John English was a native of Virginia, but emigrated to Ohio about 1810. John T. and Eliza English had six children; four now survive--Amanda June, John Milton, Henry and Charles. Mr. English now resides in Dayton, Ohio, where he has lived the last seven years; he is a carpenter by trade, and is now 67 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Hisey have by their marriage two children--Joseph Milton and John Curtis. Mr. Hisey resides on the old homestead farm, which he has taken since his father's death, and has bought the interest of his sister, the only heir. This firm has now been in possession of the Hisey family for sixty-three years. WILLIAM H. HOBLIT, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; was born in Greene Co., Ohio, Feb. 13, 1834; is a son of Meritt and Anna (Sacket) Hoblit, natives of Ohio; the paternal grandparents were Boston and Elizabeth Hoblit, he a native of Maryland and she of Virginia; they emigrated to Ohio and located in Greene County between 1790 and 1800, being among the first settlers of the county; opened out right in the woods, braving all the trials and dangers of those early days, and remained and died on the farm where he first settled, living to a very advanced age; he died about 1850; he was a soldier in the war of 1812; was quite a prominent man in his day, and held several offices; was Constable and Township Trustee. The maternal grandparents were Cyrus and Nancy Sacket, natives of Pennsylvania, but came to Greene County very early, about the same time of the Hoblit family, and settled near them, and lived and died there. Meritt Hoblit was born, raised and grew to manhood in the wilds of this new country, accustomed to the scenes of pioneer life; was married and became the father of twelve children, six now living: Sarah, now Mrs. Hagerman, residing in Auglaize County; Nancy, now Mrs. Bowman; Boston, William R, David and Benjamin. Mr. Hoblit died in July, 1877, aged 77 years; his wife is still living on the old home place, now 80 years of age, and has made a continued residence there of sixty years. Our subject was raised in Greene County, remaining with his father till after his majority; was married, July 19, 1863, to Rebecca M., daughter of Edward P. and Abigail Thomas, he a native of Ohio and she of Pennsylvania; Abigail was a daughter of James and Lydia Benham, James being a brother of Robert Benham, of historic fame, who, with his companion, were shot by the Indians and suffered so long in the wilderness before being rescued from their perilous condition. Edward and Abigail Thomas had seven children; six now survive: Julia Ann, Eliza Jane, Benjamin, Joseph, Rebecca and Charles Franklin. Rebecca Thomas was born December 18, 1837; Mr. Hoblit and wife have two children, Luvillie Magruder and Valentine Monterville (twins), born May 29, 1864; Mr. Hoblit, after his marriage, resided on a place adjoining where he now lives till 1879, when he bought and located where he now lives and has since resided; here he has erected new and substantial buildings, and now has a very pleasant home and farmer's residence. MRS. ELIZABETH HOEL, Waynesville, was born in Barnesville, Belmont Co., Ohio, July 9, 18 42; is a daughter of Samuel P. Hunt, M. D., and Elizabeth (Thomas) Hunt, he a native of Pennsylvania and she of Belmont Co., Ohio. The grandfather, Seth Hunt, was a native of Pennsylvania, and a prominent and popular man of that day, and one who accumulated a large property, being quite wealthy at one time. Dr. Samuel P. was born June 4, 1802, and when young became a resident of Belmont Co., Ohio, where he read medicine WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 855 under Dr. Hoover and became a practicing physician of high character and popularity. He wa ; a member of the convention called by Dr. Awl for the organization of the Ohio State Medical Association, which was ultimately merged with the " Ohio Medical Society," of which he is still a member; was elected one of the Vice Presidents of the society in 1860; was appointed a delegate to the American Medical Association at its meeting in Cincinnati, and again to its meeting at Louisville, in 1859. The Doctor was also appointed by the Legislature of Ohio as one of the State Medical Examiners to attend the commencement of the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, in March, 1862; and during the war, by order of the Sanitary Commission, went on board the steamer to Memphis. Dr. Hunt located in Warren County in 1843, near where town of Morrow now stands; was engaged as surgeon for the Little Miami Railroad Company, and performed the first case of surgery before the road was finished as far as Morrow, and retained this appointment till 1866, when he retired from practice and removed to Sterling, Ill., where he resided some eight or ten years; thence located in Richmond, Ind.; thence at Cincinnati, where he now resides, with two single daughters, in quiet retirement—now 79 years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt were parents of eight children; six now survive--Thomas, Local Agent of the Canada Southern Railroad at Cincinnati; Eberle, Local Agent of same railroad at Lexington, Ky.; Elizabeth, Martha, Kate and Samuel (Assistant Superintendent of the Canada Southern Railroad). The subject of this sketch, the eldest daughter of Dr. Hunt, was united in marriage, Feb. 11, 1869, to Capt. William R. Hoel, a son of Edmond and Emiline Hoel. The father, Edmond Hoel, was an old and well-known Ohio River pilot. William Rion Hoel was born in Sharon, Butler Co., Ohio, March 7, 1824; after a short term at St. Xavier's College, in Cincinnati, he, at a very young age, went on board the steamer Congress to " learn the river," under instructions of his father. " The boy was father to the man" in this as in other instances, and such was his application and assiduity, that in the remarkably short time of eighteen months he was " standing watch " for himself. Young William followed the vicissitudes and hardships of piloting in those early days of Ohio River navigation with a persistence and continuity characteristic of him until he was complete master of his profession, and there was no break between him and his career a, pilot until 1861, at which time the war began, and he entered the service, still a pilot, at St. Louis. This position was soon resigned for that of First Master on the iron-clad gunboat Cincinnati; then he became Executive Officer on the flagship Benton; then, when the Eastport was built, he became Executive Officer of that vessel; then took command of the Pittsburg, and after this commanded the ram Vindicator, as A. V. L. Lieutenant Commander. For gallantry at Island No. 10, he was promoted to Lieutenant, and after the fight at Grand Gulf Lieut. Heel was made Lieutenant Commander, an honor never before conferred upon a volunteer in the whole previous history of the U. S. Navy. While in command of the Pittsburg, he gallantly led the fight at Grand Gulf. He afterward was assigned to the Vindicator, of which he retained command until the close of the war. It was at the famous running of the blockade, at Island No. 10, however, that Commander Hoel won his most conspicuous laurels for dauntless daring and executive ability. Those who were cotemporaries with the occurrences of those days will readily recall the heroic action; but later generations may require a brief description: On the morning of April 4, 1863, Commodore, Foote began making preparations for running the blockade, and Commander H. Walker's vessel, the Carondelet, was chosen for the important duty. At that time Capt. Dick Wade was Executive Officer of the Carondelet, but Capt. Hoel volunteered to act in his stead on this occasion, saying to Capt. Wade, "You have a family, while I have none," and 856 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: his offer was accepted. The vessel was at once defended as much as Possible on its exposed side. A barge containing bales of hay was lashed to its side. coils of chain plank of a dismantled barge, cord-wood, etc., were also used for protection against the possible attacks of the enemy. An eleven-inch hawser was coiled around the pilot-house as high as the windows, and other precautions suggested by the circumstances were taken to guard the vessel during her perilous trip past the fortress. Mr. C. B. Boynton, in his sketches of " Service of the Navy," speaks of this remarkable achievement, which he styles, " a work which only bold and brave men could perform," as follows: "At 10 o'clock the moon had gone down and the sky, the land and river were alike hidden in the black shadow of the thunder-cloud, which had now spread itself over all the heavens. The time seemed opportune for starting; the order was given; the lines were cast off, and, with her barge of hay on one side and another with coal on the starboard side, the gunboat rounded out heavily and slowly and laid her course down the river. In order to avoid the puffing sound of the high- pressure engine, the escape steam was conducted into the wheel-house, where its harsh voice was muffled—a device which probably led to their discovery by the fire from the chimneys. For half a mile everything went smoothly and quietly, and all thought they might succeed in passing the batteries unobserved, when suddenly a bright steady flame rose several feet high from both chimneys, and for a moment the steamer appeared to be carrying aloft two immense torches to light her on her way. Her upper decks and all about her brightened for a moment in the red glare. Strange as it appears, what was deemed by all a very serious accident, which would bring upon them at once the enemy's fire, caused no movement in the hostile batteries. When nearly opposite the upper fort the chimneys again took fire, and then at once the sentinels there gave the alarm to the fort below. Signal rockets were sent up both from the mainland and the island, and a cannon shot came from Fort No. 2. It was evident that the alarm was now general. Not a shot, however, came from the upper battery, and this showed how thoroughly its dangerous guns had been silenced by the bold men who had landed and spiked them. This and the drifting away of the floating battery had much to do with the safety of the Carondelet. But one course was now possible for the officers of the gunboat. The vessel was at once put under a full head of steam, and was urged on at her utmost speed, for the rebels were now making swift preparations at every gun which could be brought to bear. She was exposed to the fire of forty-seven guns. The storm was then at its height, and its fearful character, which would have been dangerous at any other time, was welcomed as increasing the chances of escape. The darkness was so intense as to shut out earth and heaven alike, except as lighted for an instant by the lightning's glare, or the flame of the cannon. The gleam and roar of the guns of the batteries could scarcely be distinguished from the flash and the thunder of the cloud. The fires of heaven and earth were so mingled that none could tell whether the deck was shaken by the explosion above or the cannon below. The rain fell in the sweeping torrents of a summer shower. Shot and shell, and rifle and musket balls, sang, shrieked and roared around them, so as to be hear! above the storm. Each flash of lightning revealed the rebels, loading, training and firing their guns as the boat came within range. The steamer could also be seen for a moment, but as she was moving swiftly with the current, it was nearly impossible to get her range, and it was evident that only a char.ce shot would strike her. Most of the shot and shell flew high above ner, oecause the alterations of light and darkness were so rapid as to deceive the gunners in regard to the gunboat's position. She was much nearer to them than they thought, and they fired, therefore, at a wroLg elevation. The boat was kept as close to the shore as she WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 857 could safely run, where, indeed, it would have been difficult to depress their guns so as to strike her, even had she been plainly seen. At this point their greatest danger was not from the batteries. The current was not only rapid, but it shifted from side to side with the sharp curves of the stream, and bars ran out from either shore. The intense darkness prevented the pilots from knowing, the exact position of the boat, and they could learn it only as they caught glimpses of the shore by the flashes of lightning. On the forecastle the lead as kept going and the depth of the water was constantly reported. Yet with every precaution, and in spite of watchfulness, the steamer was often in peril. It contributed largely to her safety that she had on board Capt. Hoel, First Master of the Cincinnati, who had been engaged in navigating the Mississippi for more than twenty years. This gentleman stood on the deck, exposed to the double shower of rain and bullets, and watching for each momentary revelation which the lightning made, gave directions for steering the boat. The gleam of the lightning, the frequent report of the soundings, and his intimate knowledge of localities, enabled Capt. Hoel to judge correctly, in the main, of the gunboat's position. Once, however, during the passage, she was in imminent danger of beine. lost. The steamboat and her barges presented, of course, a very large surface to the current, and this gave her occasionally a heavy sheer. In the darkness and the blinding rush of the storm, these could not always, on the instant, be noticed. Caught at one time by the swift stream. she was drifting toward a dangerous bar, where she would have grounded under the guns of the batteries, when a broad flash lit up the river, and it had hardly faded before the sharp, twice repeated, " hard-a-port " rang through the boat.. She obeyed her helm and regained the current just in time to save her. Three miles below, the floating battery, which had grounded there, fired a few harmless shots, and then the peril was over, and exulting cheers burst from the crew and the soldiers, signal guns were fired announcing their safety to the fleet above, and soon the gunboat rounded to at New Madrid, and was welcomed by cheers and bonfires, and every possible demonstration of joy." Capt. Hoel was first married to Miss Mary Riley, daughter of Mr. Daniel Riley, of Cincinnati;. the offspring of this marriage, which, although brief, was an exceedingly happy one, was one child, which died in infancy. In 1855, Capt. Hoel made a balloon ascension with Mons. Godard. The aerial excursion started from Cincinnati and terminated at night, three miles south of Waynesville, on the farm of George E. Smith. Mr. Smith extended the hospitalities of his mansion to the stranded and more or less damaged sky navigators. Capt. Hoel, becoming infatuated with the beauty and fertility of the Little Miami Valley, bought a farm two, miles east of Waynesville, which he christened " Kildere." In 1867, he formed. one of a party who visited Europe and the Holy Land in the Quaker City.. Capt. Hunt, by his last wife, Miss Elizabeth Hunt, had two children, Sarah Elizabeth, born Dec. 18, 1869, and Rion, born Sept. 15, 1871. For several years after the war he abandoned the river and devoted his time to improving and beautifying his home, which he spared neither care nor generous expenditure of money to render such a place as his best conception of a home should be. Yet his active temperament could not endure the uninterrupted seclusion of rustic life for many years with out, at times, pining for the bustling career- he had left behind him, and in 1877, being tendered the command of the Lighthouse Service, he accepted and was put in command of the Light-house steamer Lily. At first his duty lay from Pittsburgh to New Orleans; but when the service was revised he plied between Pittsburgh and Cairo. Faithful service characterized his command in this as in all previous positions, and a material reduction in the expenses of the Government was made by his judicious and economical management. This engagement was only terminated by death 858 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: He died May 23, 18'79, from the effects of a pistol shot. His home was a beautiful place; and there, in the smiles and caresses of his children, the austerities of his aquatic career dissolved as snow in the presence of sunshine; and no children were more fondly beloved and tenderly cared for than those who brightened and made merry his hilltop retreat. Capt. Hoel perished while yet in the prime of vigorous manhood, when it seemed he could have defied death in its most resistless form, while all his faculties and forces were at their zenith, and he will continue to be mourned as only heroes and kindly hearts can be lamented, by hosts of friends who honored him while living, and cherish and keep ever green by their tears the laurels that bestrow his untimely grave. nib dust lies beside that of his youthful bride and that of their infant child, in Spring Grove Cemetery. A handsome memorial window in St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Waynesville, bears this inscription: " In memory of a noble man: William Rion Hoel, one of the founders of this Church; died May 23, 1879." Mrs. Hoel still resides upon the home-place, where she has a beautiful location, on a high and pleasant elevation, with all the comforts and conveniences constituting a pleasant home and residence. REEVE HOLLAND, retired carpenter and builder, Waynesville, was born in New Jersey, Jan. 24, 1808; is a son of James and Hannah (Reeves) Holland, natives of New Jersey. The grandparents were John and Jane Holland, natives of New Jersey, the ancestors being of Scotch-Irish descent. James and family emigrated to Ohio, and located near Waynesville in 1817, being among the early settlers of this county.. He was a weaver by trade, and soon after he came here located in Waynesville, where he followed his trade the most of his life; he died in Waynesville about 1857, aged 85 years; his wife died about 1861, aged 85 years. They had ten children, six now survive--Reeve, Franklin, Wesley, Maria (now Mrs. Parker, residing at Camp Dennison), Ruth Ann (now Mrs. Bodine, residing at Madisonville), and Emiline (now Mrs. Leatcham, residing in Iowa). The subject of this sketch was but 9 years of age when their family came to this new county, and here he was raised and grew to manhood, fully accustomed to all the rough scenes of those early days; was married, Jan. 21, 1835, to Sarah, daughter of Abraham and Ellen Bowman, natives or Virginia, but who emigrated to Kentucky, where they resided till 1817. when they removed to Warren County and located near Waynesville, where they lived and died; they had eleven children; five now survive-John, living in Indiana; Didema, now Widow Carr, living in Iowa; Sarah, and Mary Ann, now Mrs. Retallick. Mr. Holland and wife have had four children, all deceased; the youngest Joel Marshall, grew to manhood and gave promise of becoming a prominent man. During the administration of President Lincoln, he was appointed United States Mail Agent, on the C. C. R. R., which office he filled about one year; thence assumed the duties of the Distributing Department in the Post Office at Cincinnati, where, after a few months' service was prostrated with sickness and returned home, where he died, Sept. 26, 1862, aged about 24 years, his young, promising life being thus early cut off. Mr. Holland when sixteen years of age learned the carpenter trade, and became one of the best and most prominent builders of that day; erecting a large number of the buildings in Waynesville and vicinity. In 1863, Mr. Holland retired from all active business, having acquired a good competency. He has resided on the property where he now lives for forty-five years; has erected a good substantial frame house, and has everything comfortable and convenient around him; where he and his companion have lived for almost half a century, and can now enjoy the fruits of their labors under their "own vine and fig-tree." WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 859 JOSIAH HOUGH, tile manufacturer, Raysville; born in Lancaster Co., Fenn., Oct. 5, 1823; is a son of Townsend and Catharine Hough; he was a native of Peach Bottom, Penn., and was a descendent of John Hough and his wife Hannah Janney. Townsend Hough married Catherine McCurdy, and came to Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, June 23, 1838. His paternal grandparents were Jonathan Hough, of New Jersey, and Ann Michner, his wife. Jonathan Hough's great-grandfather was the John Hough above mentioned of Penn's Colony, who was drowned in attempting to swim the Delaware, to meet the Provincial Assembly, of which he was a member. The subject of this sketch was in his 15th year, when his father's family came to Warren Co., Ohio; here he grew to maturity; was married Oct. 1, 1843, to Miss Phebe, daughter of Amos and Margaret (Blackford) Kelsey, natives of Kentucky, but who came among the early settlers of this county; the Kelsey family located near the north line of Clear Creek Township, and the Blackford family near Ridgeville. Amos Kelsey was a son of Daniel Kelsey. Margaret Blackford was a daughter of Nathaniel Blackford, who settled near Ridgeville about 1797, one of the first pioneers. Amos and Margaret Kelsey were parents of eleven children; five now survive-Phebe, Amos, Albert, Jane and Mollie. Mr. Hough and wife have had twelve children; six now survive-- Amos, Catherine (now Mrs. Thomas Johns), William, Charles, Ida (now Mrs. Charles Hosier), and Nettie. Mr. Hough first located in Clear Creek Township, and engaged for several years in farming. About 1869, he removed to Raysville and engaged in the mercantile trade, till the spring of 1874, when he formed a partnership with Mr. Edwin Sweny in the manufacture of tile, which business he has since followed. They are devoting their whole attention to this business, and are doing an extrensive trade. They manufacture the best of tile, and have a sale for all they can make. Mr. Hough is a very active, industrious man, and takes great interest in all public improvements and progress of his community. He has been Assessor and Trustee of his township, and is one of the substantial citizens of this community. WILLIAM HUMPHREYS, cooper; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Washington Township, this County, Dec. 13, 1829, is the son of James and Elizabeth (Long) Humphreys, natives of New Jersey, who emigrated to Ohio and located in this county in 1815, and here opened out a farm from the woods, and passed through the trials and deprivations of pioneer life, and died on the same farm where he first located, departing this life Feb., 9, 1879, aged nearly eighty-seven years; his wife died Jan. 31, 1855. Of the thirteen children born to them, eight now survive, viz., John L., Lewis, David L., Tamson L., William, Elizabeth, James and Sarah E. Mr. Humphreys was thrice married; first to Phebe Rose, by whom he had two children--one now surviving- Hannah, now Mrs. Stearns, residing in Illinois. His third and last wife was Sarah Riley to whom ho was united in marriage March 12, 1856, and with whom he lived till his death. Mr. Humphreys made a continued residence on his farm in Washington Township of sixty-three years a period of time equaled by but few even of the pioneers. He was one of the permanent and prominent farmers of that township, and was Township Trustee for many years. Our subject remained with his father till his majority, brought up to farm labor; then he worked at sundry places for wages for a time, when he finally learned the cooper trade; was married, June 22, 1854, to Margaret, daughter of Phillip and Ann Hawke, natives of England, who were parents of thirteen children, of whom three now survive -Philip, Mary Ann and Margaret. Mr. Hawke was thrice married. By his first wife he had two children, both now deceased. By his second wife be had two children--one surviving-John. Mr. Hawke departed this life in England. Oct. 8, 1848, aged 71 years. In 1853, his widow 860 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: and her family emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County. sh died at Waynesville, Nov. 4, 1858, aged 69 years. Mr. Humphreys and wife have had five children, all deceased but one—Ann Elizabeth. Mr. Hutuphreys has followed coopering and made that his principal business for thirty years. He located in Corwin in April, 1872, where he is still carrying on the cooper business. JOHN HUNT, farmer; P. O. Dodds. We find that the Hunt family descended from two brothers, who came from England to America prior to the Revolution and settled in New Jersey, when these States were colonies of England, and of their descendants, Ralph Hunt was the grandfather of our subject and was born and raised in New Jersey and married Rachel Campbell, a lady of Scotch descent, but born and raised in New Jersey. In 1765, they removed into Pennsylvania; thence about 1772, removed to Union District, South Carolina, where he died in 1803; his wife died several years prior to his death. They had six sons'and four daughters, all now deceased, of whom John, the second son and third child, was the father of our subject, and was born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 27. 1768; henca., was four years of age when they moved to South Carolina, and there he grew to manhood and married Jane Little. In November 1805, they came to Ohio, crossing the mountains to Kentucky, thence to Ohio and located on Sec. 15, Wayne Township, Warren Co., making the entire trip with wagons. They arrived here Dec. 3, and opened out right in the woods, and at once erected a temporary structure in shape of a shed for immediate shelter; then as soon as possible cut down timber and erected a primitive round-log cabin with puncheon floor, and thus commenced in true pioneer style to make a home and a farm. Here they toiled and labored, gradually opening out the forest and making visible some degree of progress, when in July, 1811, Mr. Hunt was called to mourn the death of his wife. By her he had five children—three grew to maturity—all now deceased. Rebecca, and Rachel died in childhood; Ralph married Mary Wolf, had five children, all deceased; Jane married Vatchel Tharp, both deceased; and Anna married Thomas Wilgus—left two children, who married and resided in Miami Co., Ohio. On Jan. 15, 1815, Mr. Hunt married for his second wife, Mrs. Rachel Morey, whose maiden name was Jones, a native of Pennsylvania and came to Ohio in 1798. She, by Mr. Morey, had one son, Carpenter, who was twice married, first to Amy Kirby, who died in 1835; his second wife was Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins. He died in 1856, leaving five children. One son and one daughter reside in Iowa, one daughter in Indiana and one daughter, Mary Harford, in Morrow, Warren Co., Ohio. Mr. Hunt by his second wife, had three ,children, Mary, Sarah and John. Mr. Hunt died July 20. 1855; his wife died Sept. 5, 1858. Mr. Hunt was one of those noble pioneers whose life was made up of honesty and integrity of character—one who did a great amount of hard pioneer work, the fruits of which his children and future generations may continue to reap and enjoy for years to come. He had the full confidence of his community and held several offices in his township; was Township Trustee and School Director. He lived and died honored and respected by all who knew him. Mary, the eldest of his last children, and John, the youngest child and only son, were born and raised on the old home place, where they still reside unmarried. Mary was born Nov. 9, 1815; John was born Dec. 5, 1819; Sarah, the second daughter, was born Oct, 5, 1817, married Thomas B. Elsey, by whom she had one daughter and one son who grew to maturity, George and Eva. Mr. Elsey died Aug. 28, 1858. Our subject, like his father, is modest and reserved in his habits, never desiring office, but has by the wishes of the people, served as Township Trustee and School Director; is an excellent neighbor and a good citizen. WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 861 CHARLES L. JANNEY, farmer and horticulturist; P. O. Waynesville; was born in Loudoun Co., Va., Feb. 22, 1831; is a son of James M. and Sarah A. (Lupton) Janney, natives of Virginia. The grandparents were Abel and Lydia (Mendenhall) Janney, also natives of Virginia. Abel was a son of Jonas Janney, who lived and died in Virginia, the ancestors of whom trace back to their originator in this country, Thomas Janney, and his wife Margery, who emigrated from England to Pennsylvania in 1683; he died Dec. 12, 1696. His descendants came among the early settlers of Virginia, and most of them, from Thomas down to the present generations, were and are members of the Society of Friends, and as such have possessed the principles of good-will and peace to all men; opposed to war, and strong advocates of the Anti-Slavery cause. Abel and family, in 1833, emigrated to Ohio, and located in Springboro, Warren Co.; here he resided about four years; then moved into Greene County, and purchased three farms about six miles east of Xenia; there he died in fall of 1848, aged about 75 years; his wife survived him about twenty years, and died near Waynesville, having moved with her son Jonas to Warren County in spring of 1853; she reached nearly 91 years of age. They had three children—Nancy, James M. and Jonas; the latter the only one now living. James M., the father of our subject, with his family, in company with his father and family, at above date, came to Warren County and located at Springboro, where James M. entered upon mercantile trade till 1838; he retired from that business, and purchased the place known as the Edward Thomas farm, in Wayne Township, where he resided till his death, April 10, 1864, aged 60 years; his wife survives him, and now resides in Waynesville, aged 76 years. They had seven children—Charles L., William P., Edward E., Samuel L., Lewis W., Mary, and Louisa, now Mrs. Walter Zell. Mr. Janney in many respects was a remarkable man; was an earnest and ardent supporter of the Society of Friends, with whom he was identified all his life; a man of undoubted integrity, very just and exact in all his dealings with his fellow-men; a careful and correct business man; a good financier, and successful in all his undertakings. He had a great taste for and devoted himself largely to writing, being an extensive contributor to many of the papers of the day; and his poetical productions are numerous and extensive, and of a high order, many of which have never been published, but are held as valuable mementoes in possession of his family. Our subject was in his 3d year when brought to this county, and here grew to manhood; was married Nov. 15,1855, to Hannah B., daughter of Wesley and Susan Haines (whose history appears in sketch of Mr. Haines); issue, one child—Walter H., born Dec. 3, 1858. Mr. Janney first located where he now lives, and has now resided for twenty-five years. This place was known as the Thomas Thomas farm; it consists of 60 acres of good land, good buildings' and improvements; the dwelling is built of stone, and was erected in 1806, having now withstood the elements of time for three-quarters of a century, and its walls are still as substantial as ever. Mr. Janney is an enthusiastic horticulturist, and has devoted his main energies in this field of labor. He has cultivated and prepared the grounds and surroundings of his home with Care and taste, being ornamented with evergreens, ornamental trees, flowers and shrubbery, constituting a beautiful home and residence. His green-house is filled with flowers and plants of new and choice specimens, and is now giving special attention to the cultivation of palms Thus Mr. Janney has attached to his farm and home an interest which is ennobling and beautifying in its nature, and from which he is enabled to derive the greatest pleasures of his life. NATHAN JONES, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born in Wayne Township, June 21, 1831; is a son of Nathan and Margaret (Hawkins) Jones; he a native of New Jersey and she of Ohio. The grandparents were Samuel and Drucilla Jones, 862 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: who, it is believed, were born in New Jersey, and he died in his native State; the ancestors were of Scotch descent. Nathan, the father, about 1820, then a young man, emigrated with his mother and her family to Ohio, and located in Warren County; here his mother died May 9, 1847, aged 87 years. Mr. Jones married Margaret Hawkins, by whom he had ten children, two now survive—Nathan and Benjamin F. Mr. Jones was a farmer by occupation, a very unassuming man, never holding or desiring office, but a man of strict integrity, careful, just and exact in all his dealings; commencing in life a poor man, by his own labor and industry he obtained a good competency; was a good neighbor and a worthy citizen. He died July 31, 1865, aged 68 years, his wife is still living, and resides with her son, at Mooresville, Ind. Our subject was married April 29. 1852, to Mary Jane, daughter of Seth and Sarah Cartwright, whose history appears in sketch of Septimus Cartwright in this work; issue, four children, three now survive—Samuel T., born Oct. 12, 1853; Laura J., Oct. 2, 1855, now Mrs. Frank Zell, and John W., born Aug. 29, 1866. The maternal grandparents were Isaac and Mary Hawkins, natives of South Carolina, who were among the pioneers settling here in 1803. Mr. Jones has spent his life in this township, devoting his attention to farming as a business; has been a resident on the farm where he now lives about twenty-three years; has erected and remodeled the buildings and made improvements till he now has a very pleasant home and farmer's residence. CAPT. JAMES A. KEARNEY. druggist and Postmaster, Waynesville; born in county of Kerry, Ireland, Jan. 24, 1846; is a son of Patrick and Sophia (Apjohn) Kearney, natives of Ireland. Mr. Kearney was a civil Engineer in his native country, which business he followed till 1849, when he with his family emigrated to America, and soon after located in Cincinnati. In the building of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, Mr. Kearney entered into contract and built several miles of the road, and like hundreds of other contractors and stockholders, sank thousands of dollars, as the company broke up and paid but little of its indebtedness. In 1865, Mr. Kearney came to this county and located on a farm near Waynesville, for the improvement of his health, which seemed to be in a decline; here he died Jan. 10, 1874, 'aged 74 years; his widow is still living, now residing with our subject in Waynesville. Their children numbered seven, of whom six now survive—Dr. Thomas H., Anna 0., Sophia; Mary, now Mrs. Sweet; Kate, now Mrs. Egan; and James A. Our subject was 3 years of age when brought to this country, and here was raised and brought up under American institutions, and in this noble " Buckeye" State, and it seems imbibed the true spirit of our free institutions, for at the trial of our Government's strength in the war of the rebellion he came forward to her support by enlisting Aug. 8, 1861, in the naval service, being at the time in his 16th year of age. He served about two and one-half years and resigned, returning to Cincinnati; after which he was engaged in various capacities in the employ of the Government, till the close of the war, after which Mr. Kearney engaged in mercantile trade at sundry places in the States of Alabama and Arkansas; thence for a time engaged in the employ of railroad companies in the South. In the fall of 1877, Mr. Kearney returned to Waynesville and engaged as a clerk in the drug business; and in the spring of 1880, he purchased a new stock of drugs and entered upon trade on his own account; and April 22, 1881, received the apppintment as Postmaster of Waynesville. SAMUEL KELLY, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in South Carolina Nov. 17, 1798; is a son of Samuel and Hannah (Pearson) Kelly, natives of South Carolina. The grandfather was John Kelly, born in Ireland, who with one brother Samuel and one sister Abigail, were brought to America by their WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 863 father ̊about 1750. Samuel married Ann Belton, whose daughter married Hugh O'Neall (see sketch of Abijah and George O'Neall); Abigail married a man by the name. of Millhouse, a native of Ireland; John married Mary Evans of peunsylvanta, had six sons and one daughter—Isaac, who married Meths Gaunt; Anna, married Abijah O'Neall; Samuel (our subject); Timothy, who died at 16 years of age; John, who married Amy Devenpore, and lived and married died in South Carolina; Robert, who married Sarah Paty; and Moses, who married Mary Teager. John, the grandfather, located in South Carolina, and like most of the people of that day become a slave-owner. Having one slave peculiarly attractive and interesting, he promised him if he would be good and faithful he would make him free; this pleased the slave very much, but finally he became so anxious to gain his freedom, that he concluded to try and expedite the matter by bringing about the death of Mr. Kelly; so this plan was carried out, and Mr. Kelly was poisoned by a fatal dose administered by the slave. Isaac, being the eldest of his sons (who are above mentioned), according to the custom of that time, came in possession of the property of his father, and at his death Samuel succeeded in possession of the estates. After getting the estate settled, he moved with his family further up, into what was ''known as the " Newbury District" on the Bush River. During the war of the Revolution his father had lost a great deal of property, taken from them by the Tories. Mr. Kelly continued to reside in the Newbury District, till in the year 1800. he with his family emigrated to Ohio, and located in Warren County. But prior to leaving their native State, he freed all his slaves, but two old and feeble ones, whom they brought with them, and kept them as long as they lived; they were provided with a cabin by themselves, and one night the cabin took fire, and the wife was burned to death. In 1798, prior to above date, Mr. Kelly and Abijah O'Neall left South Carolina on horseback, and visited this county prospecting for a home, having previously purchased 3,000 acres of land in this county, as they determined to get clear of slavery. They returned to South Carolina, and Mr. O'Neall returned with his family to Ohio; but Mr. Kelly had to dispose of his property and settle up his affairs, and having accomplished this, as stated above in 1800, he with his family removed to Warren County, and located on the place where Samuel now lives; here he commenced in true log-cabin and pioneer life, being one of the first settlers of the township. But they could never find the full 3,000 acres of land; some fraud was perpetrated upon their titles, but finally scattered here and there in various counties they obtained titles of about 2,000 acres. Here Mr. Kelly lived till his death, having performed his alloted pioneer work; he died Feb. 4, 1851, aged 91 years; his wife died July 26, 1839, aged 74 years. They had eight children—Mary, Isaac, John, Timothy, Samuel, Moses (died in infancy), Moses and Anna—all now deceased but Samuel, our subject. Mr. Kelly was a true pioneer and remarkable for his kindness and hospitality; as he was one of the first settlers in this neighborhood, many who came later found shelter and welcome under his roof; "the latch-string of his door" was always out, and the cold and hungry, or weary traveler, or emigrant, ever found succor and relief at his friendly hands. He was also the leading, active spirit in establishing the first Society of Friends at Waynesville, the meetings being frequently held at his residence, prior to the erecting of the house of worship; and during his life he was a devoted and diligent attendant of their meetings, and took great delight in reading the Scriptures. His upright lire was lengthened out to many years; and when the frosts of fourscore and ten years had whitened his locks, the true beauty of his Christian character shown forth more brightly, his very countenance beaming with the joy within him; his cheerfulness and child-like simplicity won the esteem and respect of all, and even his chil- 864 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES drens's children arise up and call him blessed. Our subject was 2 years of age when brought to this county; here was raised and grew to manhood, inured to the roughness of log-cabin life. Mr. Kelly has been thrice married; first to Aschsah Stubbs; issue, four children, three now living—Isaac, Anna and Hannah; second, to Ruth A. Gause, May 3, 1843; issue, two children (deceased). third, to Sarah Pine, April 30, 1868, with whom he lived till April 27, 1877 when she died. Mr. Kelly first located in Salem Township, where he resided eighteen years; thence, by request of his father, returned to the old home place, where he has since resided, and where are clustered all the fond reminiscences of his early childhood. He is now in his 83d year; has lived in this county over fourscore years; has seen vast changes take place; forests have disappeared; log-cabins supplanted by fine frame and brick houses, and such general improvements that comfort and plenty now prevail, and future generations may reap the benefits arising from the vast labors of these noble and worthy ancestors. LEVI H. KELLY, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born on the farm where he now lives, Aug. 27, 1853; is a son of Moses and Ann (Hatton) Kelly; he was also born on this same farm, and she was born in Massie Township. For the ancestral history, see sketch of Samuel Kelly in this work. Moses was burn Sept. 25, 1803; was raised and grew to manhood in this then wilderness of a country, fully inured to the deprivations and hardships of those early days. Mr. Kelly was twice married; first to Abigail H. Satterthwaite, by whom he had five children, two now survive— Ethan C. and Sarah S., who married Everard D. Roberts, Nov. 2, 1865, by whom she has three children—Abigail, Mary E., and Bertram K. Mrs. Kelly died Feb. 26, 1843, aged 37 years. On May 1, 1850, he was united with Ann. daughter of Edward and Rachel (Lukens) Hatton, who were parents of eleven children, six now survive—Ann, Levi, George, Jervis, Mary and Deborah. Ann was born Sept. 4, 1819; by her Mr. Kelly had one child— Levi. Mr. Kelly passed his entire life upon the old homestead place where he was born and raised; was a man of firm principles and undoubted character; a good citizen and neighbor, and a devoted member of the Society of Friends. He departed this life July 19, 1878, aged 75 years. Our subject grew to manhood, brought up on the old homestead place; was married Oct. 12, 1876, to Harriet C., daughter of Arnold and Harriet Sabine, whose history, and that of the ancestors, is given in sketch of Arnold Sabine, in this work. By this union they have had two children, one now surviving—Alice Hortense. Mr. Kelly located upon the old home farm, and since his father's death the farm has been divided between the three children, Levi taking that portion embracing the buildings and improvements of the old homestead, where his grandfather first located and began to open out in the unbroken forest. This farm has now been in possession of the Kelly family for fourscore years; is very beautifully located on a high elevation, giving a fine view of the surrounding country and of the town of Waynesville. JUDGE JOHN W. KEYS. This gentleman was born at Hulmeville (Old Milford) in Bucks Co., Penn., on the 28th of August, 1814. His father was of Irish and Scotch extraction, and was born and partly raised in Philadelphia, and his mother was of German and Welsh origin, and was raised in Salem Co., N. J. In 1819, his father, a tanner and currier by trade (which trade he learned at Attleboro, Penn., serving as an apprentice nine years eleven months and fourteen days), emigrated to Ohio with his family, consisting of himself, wife and three children, and located at Waynesville, arriving there in October. This was his residence until the time of his death, which occurred in January, 1830. This event left the family, comprising his wife and seven children—five sons and two daughters—with no pecuniary resources whatever. WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 865 The oldest child, the subject of this sketch, was then only 15 years old. But Keys was a woman of rare executive ability, and proved herself amply equal to the situation, in which the most of women could have failed. She inspired children with the same self-reliance, courage and hope that dwelt in her, and procured for them such employment as they were able to discharge thus early initiating them them into the stern realities of life, and developing in them the elements of a substantial manhocd and womanhood. That this mother has lived to see her children all useful and respected members of society is a matter of special congratulation. She still resides in Waynesville with her daughters, her health fair and mind good. in the 94th year of her age, at which place also resides three of her sons, with their families—John W., Joseph G. and Isaac E. The second son, William, served in the war of the rebellion, and died at Chattanooga, in January, 1864. The third son, Thomas J , settled in California in 1850; he has served in both branches of the Legislature. besides filling other positions of importance and honor. Her father was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. The first sixteen years of the life of the subject of this sketch, his labors were upon a farm; he then went to Lebanon, where he served over three years as an apprentice at the cabinet and undertaking business, and subsequently served about the same length of time as a journeyman. In 1836, he commenced the business of his trade in Waynesville, which he continued until 1876, and during that time there were preparations made at his shop for the burial of about two thousand persons. In February, 1842, he was married to Miss Sarah B. French, a native of New Jersey, and by this union there were born unto them six children, three sons and three daughters, but one daughter and one son, and two grandchildren of a deceased daughter, only, survive them. Judge Keys' facilities for acquiring an education were quite limited; the circumstances of the family after the death of his father prevented him from attending school, with the exception of fourteen days, but by a faithful improvement of occasional periods of leisure, he acquired quite an extensive fund of general information, which qualified him for various positions of honor and influence, which he has since filled. In 1839, he was honored with the office of Mayor of Wavnesville; in 1842, he was elected a Justice of the Peace, which office he filled for thirty years, with the exception of a single term, during which time he served one year as Township Clerk, one year as Corporation Recorder, several years as Village Councilman, and about twenty years as a Notary Public. One thing especially characterized his administration as a Justice of the Peace, and exemplified to a great degree his natural kindness of heart and magnanimity of nature. In numerous instances where complaints were laid before him, arising from petty differences between neighbors, he exerted his influence to have them amicably settled without a resort to litigation, and thus many a wrangling law-suit was prevented by his timely counsel, evincing a less desire to pocket a fee than to secure and preserve the peace of the community. This liberal course, continued through a justiceship of upward of a quarter of a cen- tury, secured for him a host of friends. In the fall of 1872, he was elected Probate Judge of the county, which position he held from the last of October of that year until the 9th of February. 1879. and therein rendered himself very acceptable to the people by the efficiency, promptness and fidelity with which he discharged the duties of the office. He is a man of more than ordinary natural ability, and possessed of a very discriminating judgment, a remarkable memory, and of perceptive faculties of unusual acuteness and activity; hence his conclusions, which are quickly reached, are safe and sound. The Judge is a genial gentleman, modest and unassuming, and though firm and decided in his opinions, and bold and fearless in expressing them upon proper occasions, he never seeks to intrude them upon others. He carries a heart big with benev- 866 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: olence and liberality, and is very warm in his attachments to the neighborhood in which he has so long resided. He began life without position or fortune, but by frugality, industry and strict integrity, has acquired some property, and now enjoys the fruits of his toil, together with the esteem of his fellow citizens. HIRAM KILBON, general store; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Waynesville Sept. 19, 1840; is a son of John T. and Julia Ann(Appleton) Kilbon. He is a native of Worcester Co., Mass., and she of New Jersey. The maternal grandfather, Jesse Appleton, was born in New Jersey, March 22, 1799, grew to manhood and married, and became the father of five children, of whom only one now survives, Andrew Mode. In 1836, Mr. Appleton with his family emigrated to Ohio and located at Waynesville, where for a time he ran a woolen factory. In 1849, his wife died. In 1851, he married Mrs. Maria Braddock, daughter of Josiah and Mercy Steward. Mrs. Braddock by her first husband had six children, two now living-Martha Jane, now Mrs. Thompson; and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Dunham. About 1849, Mr. Appleton purchased a woolen factory on Ceasar Creek, which he ran about twenty years; then he engaged in fanning for a few years, when from advanced years, he retired from all active labor, and has since resided with Mr. Kilbon; is now in his 83d year, having greatly surpassed the " threescore years and ten," the allotted age of man. John T. Kilbon, born and raised in Massachusetts, was brought up to the boot and shoe manufacturing business. About 1837, he emigrated to Ohio and located at Waynesville and here carried on the manufacture of boots and shoes; was married Dec. 17, 1839. In 1849, he moved to Illinois. first to Greene County, thence to Mason County, thence to Scott County, where he died, Dec. 31, 1863, aged 52 years; his wife died July 31, 1865, aged nearly 46 years. Of six children born to them, all died in infancy but two-Hiram, and Julia Ann, now Mrs. James -A. Lloyd, residing in Clinton Co., Ohio. Mr. Kilbon carried on the boot and shoe business but a short time, then entered upon the grocery trade, which business he conducted with success for many years and accumulated a good competency, after which he entered upon some speculations which proved unfortunate, and he met with heavy losses. Our subject remained with his father, assisting him in the grocery business, till 18 years of age; then he labored on a farm till the war of the rebellion. On Aug. 20, 1862, he enlisted in the 129th Ill. V. I., and served through the war; was discharged at Washington, June 8, 1865, having been engaged in the battles of Buzzards' Roost, Resaca, Nashville, Decatur and others, and fortunately escaped without a wound. Mr. Kilbon was married, April 19, 1866, to Miss Rebecca M., daughter of Charles and Maria Braddock, natives of New Jersey; had one child, Ola M.; his wife died Sept. 23, 1870, aged 24 years. On April 11, 1872, he was married to Miss Sarah I. Braddock, by whom he has three children, viz., Walter J., Sarah Etta and Julia M. In August, 1866, Mr. Kilbon located at Corwin and opened out in the grocery trade, and from year to year has increased his stock and business until he now has a large stock of goods embracing everything usually kept in a general country store; has now been in business here fifteen years; has established a trade and a character for fair and honest dealing second to but few in the county; and, as is usual with that class of business men, has made a financial success. Mr. Kilbon's children were born as follows: Ola May, May 26, 1867; Walter J., April 14, 1873; Sarah A., May 5, 1875 and Julia M., born April 18, 1878. DAVID LASHLEY, farms r; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Warren County, June 8, 1829: is a son of John and Grace (Borton) Lashley, natives of New Jersey, but who emigrated to Ohio and were among the early settlers near Waynesville, locating here when there were but a few houses in the town, and WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 867 here they resided the balance of their lives. Mr. Lashley died very suddenly; was working in his field or burning up log-piles in the evening, and about 9 or. 10 o'clock was found dead; his wife died in December, 1863. They had five children, three sons and two daughters; four now survive-Job, Lydia, David and Elizabeth. David, our subject, remained at home with his father till after his majority; was married, April 27, 1856, to Sarah, daughter of Job and Rebecca Slack, natives of Pennsylvania, but who became settlers of.Warren County in 1820, and here they resided till their death; he died in August,1827, aged 35 years; his wife died June 3, 1868, aged 78 years. They Au la six children; three now living--Ann Eliza. Grace and Sarah; the latter was born July 2, 1826. Mr. Lashley and wife had seven children. Six now survive, Rebecca, born Sept. 17, 1856; Alfred, Nov. 26, 1857; Sylvester, Nov. 23, 1859; William. May 20, 1861; Eugene (deceased), March 23, 1863; Florence, Jan. 16, 1865: and Robert, Sept. 10, 1867. Mr. Lashley has always followed farming as an occupation and has resided all his life within three miles of Waynesville. He bought and located on the farm where he now lives in spring of 1860, where he has since resided. His farm consists of 69 acres of land, with good buildings and improvements and is situated about one-half mile northeast of Waynesville. JOHN R. LINCOLN, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born on the place where he now lives, June 10, 1831; is a son of Isaac and Eliza (Robertson) Lincoln, he a native of Philadelphia and she of Stafford Co., Va. Isaac was a son of Abraham Lincoln, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Eliza was a daughter of John Robertson, who was a Scotchman by birth, and had set sail from America on his return home to his native land, and as he was never heard of afterward, it is supposed perished in the ocean. Isaac Lincoln emigrated to Ohio and located at Cincinnati in 1822; in 1828, he removed to Warren County and located on the farm where John R. now lives; here he did a great amount of labor and pioneer work in opening out his farm from the woods, and here he resided till his death, July 8, 1857, aged 70 years. Mr. L. was twice married; first to Margaret Smith, issue, two daughters-Elizabeth and Jane. His wife died in March, 1829. By his second wife he had one child-John R. ; she died Aug. 3, 1849, aged 58 years. Our subject was raised and grew to manhood on the farm where he now lives; was married March 24, 1870, to Miss Harriet, daughter of George and Eunice Zell, whose ancestral history is given in sketch of George Zell in this work. By this union they have three children-Eunice E., born July 22, 1872; Grace A., born March 10, 1876, and Isaac W., born Oct. 12, 1877. Mr. Lincoln, after his marriage, located on the old home place, where he still resides, and has made a continued residence from his birth, a period of half a century. Thus the farm upon which his father first located still remains in the ownership of his son. JOHN W. MARLATT, grocery, milling, etc. ; P.O. Spring Valley, Greene Co.; born in this county May 22,1831; is a son of John and Mary (Jennings) Marlatt, he a native of Virginia and she of England. The ancestors of the Marlatt family were of French origin. John, the father, was born and raised in Virginia, and followed teaming for several years; was married and emigrated to Ohio, and located near Springboro, Warren Co., about 1830, where He continued teaming, in connection with farming, till his death; making several round trips to Baltimore and the East with his. team, his life doubtless being shortened by his hard work and exposure; he died in the winter of 1833, aged 43 years. They had two children--John W. and Joseph. His widow has been twice married since. First, to Timothy Brelford, by whom she had five children, two now survive– Mary, now Mrs. Brandon, residing at Franklin, and Fanny, now Mrs. James Brandon, also of Franklin. Mr. Brelford died with cholera in 868 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: 1849. Second, she married Alexander Brandon, by whom she had three chin dren-Roxanna, now Mrs. Sylvester; Rebecca, now Mrs. Thompson, and Alex. ander. Mr. Brandon died, and she is again a widow, and resides with her son on the home place, near Springboro. Our subject, who was under 2 years of age when his father died, was raised by his mother till 12 years old, then he started out in the world and worked here and there for wages; then learned the cooper trade, which business he followed for several years. About 1854, he opened a grocery store in Mt. Holly, employing a clerk to attend to the store, while he continued the cooper business. Mr. Marlatt has been an active business man since his first locating at Mt. Holly, branching out in business interests till now he is proprietor of a grist-mill, saw-mill, grocery, and owns a faun, carrying on at the present time the principal business interests of the place. Mr. Marlatt was married, in 1851, to Miss Ellen, daughter of John and Elizabeth Buckles, natives of Virginia, by which union they have had twelve children, eleven survive-Timothy, Mary, Florence, Isadora, Anna, Joseph, Jefferson, Eva, George, Edward, Ora and Burt. Mr. Marlatt has been a resident of Mt. Holly most of the time since 1845, a period of thirty-six years. DAVID MASON, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born in Belmont Co., Ohio, Dec. 8, 1822; is a son of John and Mary (Bevan) Mason, natives of Virginia. The paternal grandfather was a native of Wales; the maternal of Virginia. John Mason with his family, emigrated to Ohio and located in Belmont County about 1814, and there resided till, about 1833, they removed to Greene County. where they died. He died in June, 1880, aged 85 years; his wife died March 4, 1877. They had eight children, seven now living-Stacy; David; Lydia Ann, now Mrs. Jacob Ellis; Gideon; Catharine, now Mrs. Beal; John B., and Susan, now Mrs. J. Simmons. Mr. Mason was in the was of 1812, and in consideration of which he was drawing a pension at the time of his death. Mr. Mason and his wife enjoyed the remarkable long period of sixty-three years of married life. David, our subject, remained with his father till 18 years of age, when he started out into the world for himself, and for a few years was engaged in various kinds of business; then he entered into a general merchandise trade with his brother Stacy, at Paintersville, Greene Co., where he continued about thirteen years; then located in Warren County and engaged in farming and a general trading business, and has thus continued to the present time. He was married in December, 1849, to Miss Susan, daughter of Peter and Charlotte Dutterrow, he a native of Warren County and she of Pennsylvania; they had two children, one now survives-Susan, born June 16, 1828. Mr. Dutterrow died March 5, 1850, aged 63 years; his wife is still living, now 94 years of age, and resides with our subject, and is probably the oldest person in Wayne Township. Mr. Mason and wife by their union have had ten children--eight now survive-Emily Jane, born July 22, 1850; Lydia Ann, born June 30, 1852; John, April 7, 1856; Emerson, Aug 2, 1860; Clement, May 16, 1863; Elvira, Oct. 9, 1864; Lee, March 16, 1869, and Alice, born April 9, 1874. ACQUILLA C. McCOMAS, grocer, Waynesville, born in Waynesville Dec. 16, 1839, is a son of Thomas B. and Julia A. (Cummings) McComas, he a native of Maryland, and she of Waynesville. The grandfather, Daniel McComas, was a native of Maryland, and lived and died there; he married Elizabeth Scott, of a prominent family who are at present, as their ancestors were before them, prominent office-holders in Harford Co., Md. Thomas B. was raised in Maryland till sixteen years of age, when in 1827, he with his brother emigrated to Ohio, and located in Xenia, Greene County, where he served several years at the blacksmith trade, with Samuel Harry; thence he located in Waynesville, and worked at his trade as journeyman a short time; then set up in the business on his own capital and account, which business he WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 869 carried on through his life with fair success; he died Dec. 27, 1878, aged about sixty-seven years. He was the father of fifteen children, nine now survive - L., Aquilla C., Julia A., Sarah P., Thomas B., Mary Elizabeth, Eliza, Margretta C. and Ella J. The eldest Jasper L., is now a resident of California; all the others reside in this county. Our subject remained with his father till 25 years of age, brought up to his father's trade. On Sept. 5, 1864, he enlisted in the defense of his countru, in the war of the rebellion, in the 180th O. V. I., and served till the close of the war; was mustered out at Charlotte, N. C July 13, 1865, having passed through without a " scratch," and returned to his home and friends; then entered again upon his trade with his father. On January 1, 1866, he formed a partnership with his father which continued several years; then he engaged in a variety of businesses, such as presented itself for his best interest, till April 21, 1876, he opened a blacksmith shop upon his own account, which he has carried on to the present time. In February 1881, Mr. McComas left his shop in charge of his workman, and opened his present store in the grocery trade, in which he is now devoting his time and attention. Mr. McComas was married April 3, 1866, to Kate E., daughter of Benjamin and Annette Fahnestock, he a native of Pennsylvania, and she of South Carolina. Mr. Fahnestock was educated in Baltimore, Md., and then became a resident of Xenia, Ohio, and for many years carried on the foundry business in that city; he is now a resident of Newtown, near Cincinnati, living retired from all active business. Mrs. McComas is a teacher of music, in which occupation she has been engaged since her residence in Waynesville. thus helping to build up the musical talent with all its pleasures and elevating influences in Waynesville. JOSHUA. C. McKAY, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born on the place where he now lives, Jan. 21, 1837; is a son of Jonas T. and Matilda (Ferguson) McKay, natives of Virginia. The paternal grandfather, Moses McKay, was a native of Virginia, and cnUrried a Miss Shinn; they emigrated to Ohio in 1818; they came by wagons to Wheeling, Va.; thence by flat-boat to Cincinnati; thence by their wagons to Warren County, and to Wayne Township, and located on the place where Joshua now lives, residing here till their death. They raised a family of twelve children, six sons and six daughters, all of whom came to Ohio, but the eldest son, who remained in Virginia, and lived and died. there. When Mr. McKay came to Ohio, he brought twenty or more slaves with him, who of course were all set free. The maternal grandfather, Samuel Ferguson, was a native of Virginia, and married Mildred Garrison, and emigrated to Greene Co., Ohio, about 1824; he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, for which services he obtained a land warrant, and drew a pension. The ancestors of both the McKay and Ferguson families, were of Scotch descent. James T. the father of our subject was five years of age when brought to this county, and here grew to manhood under the sturdy influences of pioneer life; was married and became the father of seven children--Emma; Sarah C., now widow Allen; Joshua C.; Harriet E., now Mrs. O'Neall; M. Horace; Eusebia, now Mrs. Welch, and Letitia. His wife died June 1, 1855. On May 24, 1864, he married Matilda Brown; by her he has two daughters Lida and Belle. The second son, M. Horace, was in the war of the rebellion; enlisted in the 79th O. V. I., and served about two and one-half years, until discharged for disability, and has since drawn a pension. Mr. McKay has been actively engaged in business most of his life; he dealt extensively in stock and also in pork, and. was in the mercantile trade in Waynesville for a considerable time. Our subject was brought up to the honest occupation of farming; was married Sept. 11, 1861, to Victoria, daughter of Henry and Ann (Antrim) Clark, he a native of South Carolina, and she of Virginia. The Clark ancestors were of English 870 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: descent, and we trace their genealogy to Henry Clark, born in England in 1715, and he was a son of Jonathan Clark. Henry is supposed to have emigrated to America and located in Pennsylvania, where his son John was born and raised to manhood, and married Mary Campbell, and in an early day emigrated with his family to South Carolina, where they lived and died. Their son Henry was about 2 years of age when taken to South Carolina by his parents, and there grew to manhood and married Elizabeth Alexander, who was born in South Carolina, and whose father was killed in the war of the Revolution. After their marriage they resided in that State till 1805, when he with his fain_ ily emigrated to Ohio and located on the same tract of land where Frank Clark now lives, opening out his farm right from the woods, and here they lived till their death. They had four children, who grew to maturity-Jonathan, Henry, Cornelius and Elizabeth; the latter now Widow Antrim, is the only one now surviving. Henry was born in South Carolina Nov. 14, 1800; hence was about five years of age when he came with his parents to Warren County, and here was raised to manhood, accustomed to the scenes and trials of pioneer life; was married to Ann, daughter of Daniel and Jane Antrim, natives of Virginia, but who came among the early settlers of this county, locating here in 1804. Mr. Clark and wife had four children who grew to maturity-Franklin, Eliza, Hannah and Victoria. Mr. Clark located and remained through life upon the old home place of his father; was a man of firm principles and undoubted integrity; a representative of a type of independence of character, yet kind, social and genial in his nature, and was a citizen highly esteemed in his community, and one in whom the people placed implicit confidence; he served as Township Trustee many years; he raised a very interesting family of one son and three daughters, and their loving family circle remained entire and unbroken for over half a century; when on May 14, 1.880 the grim messenger death suddenly and almost without warning snatched in his cold embrace, her who had been his companion and support for fifty-three years; and in less than twelve months, on May 5, 1881, death again visited their family circle in a like sudden manner, and deprived him of his beloved daughter Eliza. This double affliction so sudden and unexpected, was more than his aged and shattered frame could endure, and in just nine days after the death of his daughter his spirit took its flight to that realm where sorrows and death never enter; he died May 17, 1881. But the remaining members of his family, in the midst of these afflictions, have the consolation that theirs was a life well spent, their reward sure, and their lives and good deeds will long be cherished by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Mr. McKay and wife have three children- Henry C., born June 21, 1864; Anna Cora, born Oct. 20, 1868, and Robert C., born June 26,1876. Mr. McKay after his marri age located upon the old home place upon which his grandfather located, and lived, and died and here has resided up to the present time; has a fine farm of 261 acres, with good improvements constituting a pleasant home and residence. HENRY McKINSEY, stock and grain dealer, Waynesville, born in this township, March 17, 1840, is a son of Patrick and Elizabeth McKinsey, he a native of South Carolina and she of Virginia. The grandfather, George McKinsey was also a native of South Carolina and emigrated to Ohio, locating in Warren County in 1806, boing one of the early pioneers of the county, opening out right in the woods and enduring all the deprivations and hardships connected with such early settlers, and here he resided till his death. Patrick McKinsey was 1 year old when brought to this county, and here he was raised and grew to manhood accustomed to the hardships of pioneer life; was married and became the father of ten children; eight now survive, viz., George, Mary Ann, Ellen, Abraham, Henry, Nehemiah, Joseph and Madison. Mr. McKinsey followed WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 871 farming as his occupation through life and resided on the old homestead place of his father; was a very industrious and prosperous farmer, accumulating quite an amount of property; a man of undoubted integrity and well and favorably known throughout his community, holding many of the offices of his township; was Township Trustee many years; and an earnest politician, first as a Whig then as a Republican; a constant reader and well posted on the general affairs and events of his country and the best interests of his community. Our subject remained at home with his father on the old home farm till his majority; was married Feb. 24, 1869, to Lydia Alice, daughter of Joseph and Mary Nedry, and located at Corwin, where he had previously established himself in the business of stock and grain dealer, which business he has now carried on very successfully fifteen years. Mr. McKinsey by his marriage has two children - Joseph and Mary. MADISON McKINSEY, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born on the farm where he now resides, Dec. 18, 1849: is a son of Patrick and Elizabeth McKinsey, whose history appears in sketch of Henry McKinsey in this work. Mr. McKinsey was raised and grew to manhood, brought up to farm labor; was married, March 7, 18'76, to Ella, daughter of Gideon and Anna Leak, by whom he has one child, Edna, born Dec. 21, 1880. After his marriage, Mr. McKinsey assisted his brother, Henry, in the grain and stock business one year at Corwin; then he located on the home farm, which has been divided into two shares, his brother Nehemiah taking the old homestead part, and the other part Mr. McKinsey has located upon, where, in 1879, he erected a fine large frame house and in the spring of 1880 occupied it with his family; has a beautiful locality and a fine residence. ABRAHAM MENDENHALL (deceased); was born in Knox County, Tenn., June 16, 1816; was a son of Samuel and Sophia (Ghants) Mendenhall, natives of Tennessee. During the war of 1812, he started for Memphis, but was never heard from, and it is believed he was killed or met with death in some form. His. wife subsequently moved to Brown Co., Ohio, where she married Mr. McCoy, by whom she had one child, Lydia. By her first husband, she had three children- Mahala, Samuel and Abraham, all now deceased. She again married for her third husband, John Hatfield, by whom she had two children, Luhania and Alphonzo, both deceased. She died in Indiana, and was buried at Lafayette. Mr. Mendenhall was but an infant when his father died; and his mother with her family moved to Brown Co., Ohio, and there he remained with his mother several years; then was placed with a man by the name of Howland, with whom he lived till 17 years of age, then came to Warren County and here resided till his marriage, Sept. 23, 1847, to Lydia Ward, whose ancestral history is given in the sketch of Jesse Gibbs. Lydia was born Jan. 20, 1826, By this union they had eight children, six now survive, viz., Ellis W., born Oct. 9, 1848; Jason, Jan. 23, 1850; Ulysses 0., Oct. 19, 1851; Hannah, Sept. 9, 1856, now Mrs. Cox; Amos Lindley, Aug. 13, 1864; and Narcissa Jane, June 5, 1867. Mrs. Mendenhall died Dec. 7, 1880, aged 64 years 5 months and 21 days. In 1842, he learned the auger-making business of David Burnett, with whom he served two years. This business he followed about twelve years; then he engaged in farming and fruit culture. He purchased the farm where his widow still resides, in 1854, and here he resided till his death. In November, 1880, he went to Indianapolis to visit his sisters and his son who were residing there; was taken with apoplexy and died at above-mentioned date. His remains were brought home and interred in the Miami Cemetery near Waynesville. Ellis W., the eldest son, on March 13, 1872, was married to Lydia Mason (see sketch of David Mason), by whom he has three children -Lee, born Nov. 18, 1873; Lucy, March 16, 1877; and Harry, Aug. 12, 1878. 872 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Ellis is a carpenter by trade, but has given his main attention to dealing in fruit, residing in Warren County and at Dayton. with the exception of one and one-half years' residence at Indianapolis; was residing at the latter place at the time of his father’s death: then he returned to the farm and has sine, resided with his mother in charge of the farm.  GEORGE MYER. farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Newark, N, J. Oct. 21, 1799; is a son of Isaac and Phebe (Riggs) Myer, natives of New Jersey, the paternal ancestors being from Germany and the maternal from Scot. land; Isaac and family emigrated from New Jersey to Ohio and located in Warren County in 1809; they journeyed through in one wagon with all their effects, over the mountains to Pittsburgh, having a very laborious and tedious journey; thence they came by flat-boat to Cincinnati, arriving there about the 1st of July; thence by wagon to Lebanon. over the then terrible mud roads. After a short time prospecting for a location, he purchased and settled on the place where George now lives; here he commenced right in the woods in company with his brother-in-law, Gabriel Crane; here they toiled and labored in their pioneer work. They were shoemakers by trade, and followed that business many years. often exchanging works with their neighbors—making shoes for them. and they. in return, doing work for them in opening out the farm. Mr. Myer continued to live on the place where he first located till his death, Nov. 13. 1845, aged 76 years: his wife died Jan. 13. 1861, aged 85 years: they had six children: Jabin, born 1794: Charles, born 1797: George: Julia, born 1801: Louisa, born 1805; and Esther, born 1809,the latter born just after their arrival at their new home in this wilderness; all are now deceased but George, our subject, who was in his 10th year when brought to this county. and here was raised to manhood and made fully familiar with the trials and hardships of pioneer life. He was married, May 11. 1826, to Lucretia, daughter of David and Sarah Cleaver, natives of New England, but who became residents of Clinton Co.. Ohio. Mr. Myer and wife, by their marriage, had five children, three now living: Carrie, born Jan. 7, 1827; Chesterfield. born Nov. 5. 1829; and Lucretia A.. born Oct. 8, 1833. Emily, now deceased, was born March 10, 1828; was married twice, first to William F. Thompson, by whom she had four children. all deceased except Carrie M.; her second husband was John McBryant, by whom she had one child, Effie; Emily died Jan. 30, 1869. Their other child, deceased. Francis, born Aug. 25, 1831, died in the army, at Charleston, W. Va., Nov. P, 1864; was married to Hannah Dudley, by whom he had four children: Florence E., George D., Ernestine and Ruby C. Mr. Myer obtained a good education, and taught school many years in this and adjoining counties, being one of the pioneer teachers; in the meantime he gave his attention to the study of law, and in 1829 was admitted to the bar, passing an examination under the celebrated Thomas Corwin, Phinneus Ross. A. H. Dunlevy, and others. After a short time of practice of law, and after the death of his wife, Feb. 13, 1834. he returned to the old homestead farm where he was brought up. and here settled down with his remaining children, and has since devoted his attention to his farm; has now made a continued residence of forty-six years, and the farm has always remained in possession of Mr. Crane and the Myer family since its first purchase, in 1809, a period of seventy-two years. ISAAC MICHENER, deceased. Information of this family extends to John Michener, who, with his two sons, William and Thomas. emigrated from England to America with William Penn; of William's family, his son, Mordecai, was born Jan. 30, 1723, and died Sept 25. 1795; of his family, his son John was the grandfather of our subject, who married, and his wife Martha bore him five sons and five daughters: John and Martha lived and died in Pennsylvania. The maternal grandparents were Benjmain and Abigail Stanton, natives. WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 873 of North Carolina, but who became residents of Jefferson Co., Ohio, where they died; they had five sons and six daughters, of whom Benjamin was the father of the late Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; the five sons were all practicing physicians. Benjamin Michener the father of our subject, with his family, came to Harrison Co., Ohio in 1821; in 1832, they removed to Logan County, where he in 1854, aged 71 years; his wife died about 1838, and about 1840 he married for his second wife Sarah Canby, who departed this life about 1863 Mr. Michener was the father of six sons and four daughters; four now survive - Susanna, now Mrs. Jehu Brown, residing in Logan Co.. Ohio; Lydia, now Mrs. Graves, living near Richmond, Ind.; David; and Martha, now \irs. Dr. Allen Williams. residing in Kansas. Mr. Michener was a man of firm principles and unflinching character, an earnest Abolitionist and a devoted temperance man; opposing the use of tobacco and intoxicating drinks, and whose whole life was devoted to reform and justice to all men. His devoted wife, Abigail, was known as a woman of extraordinary talents and possessing a noble Christian character. Some of her children possessed, in a marked degree, her superior abilities, and were men and women of influence, and noted for their temperate, honest; Christian lives. Isaac Michener (deceased), the subject of this sketch, was born in Jefferson Co., Ohio, July 10, 1820; was married, Oct. 27, 1842, to Martha Gause, who was born May 3, 1821, whose ancestral history is given in the sketch of Clarkson Gause; by her he had five children; four now survive-Mary Ann, born June 12, 1847; Edwin B., March 11, 1851; Samuel K., June 10, 1855; and Richard J., born Sept. 11. 1558. Mr. Michener, after marriage, resided in Logan County till 1855; then in Union County till 1865, when he removed to Warren County, where he died June 22, 1869. Mr. Michener was a man of firm principles, an earnest advocate of temperance, and, practicing what he professed, used no liquors or tobacco, neither tea nor coffee; was prompt and exact in all his dealings, and whose life was a model of uprightness, and a remarkably kind and affectionate husband and father, thus being an example worthy of all imitation. It is generally expected in every numerous family to find some whose characters are more or less tainted, but of Mr. Michener it is said, that, of one hundred first cousins with which he was favored, not one was known to commit a disreputable or disgraceful act, which is certainly a great honor to the family name: and it may be hoped their descendants may keep up the glorious name and character of their 'noble ancestors. JOHN F. MISSILDINE, merchant, Waynesville, born in Greene Co., Ohio, Sept. 21, 1839; is a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Kenton) Missildine, he a native of London, England and she of Maryland. The grandfather, George Missildine, was a native of England, and lived and died there. Robert was raised and educated in England, and became a more than ordinary scholar, and resided London till about 48 years of age. In 1832, he emigrated to America, landing at Charleston, S. C.; then, or shortly after, he emigrated to Ohio, and located in Greene County, where he resided the balance of his life. As stated above, he was a man of good education, and after settling in Ohio he adopted the profession of a teacher, which business he followed most of his life; he was also an active Christian worker, and a preacher in the Baptist Church. Mr. Missildine was twice married; first, to Miss Mary Griffin, in 1806, by who he had seven children, five now living; his second wife was Elizabeth Kenton, by whom he had two children-John F. and Benjamin. Mr. Missildine departed this life Aug. 6, 1850, aged 66 years; his wife died in March, 1863, aged 65 years. Our subject was about 11 years of age when his father died: his mother with her family then located at Waynesville, where John was raised and grew to manhood, receiving a good education; he then 874 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: labored on the farm during the summer and taught school in the winter for, several years; was married in June, 1865. to Miss Jemima, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Burnett; she died in September, 1868. In February, 1870. he was married to Druscella McLary, by whom he has six children—Oliver. Oscar Ella J., Howard, Mary Etta, Cecelia and John Henry. In February. 1873. Mr. Missildine entered into partnership with John Funkey, and purchased the stock of goods of J. M. Hadden, one of the longest established merchants of Waynesville, and commenced his mercantile career; this partnership continued with a successful trade till March, 1881, when by mutual consent the partnership was dissolved and the stock divided, and Mr. Missildine opened out in trade at his present location: has a good stock of goods, a pleasant room, and is doing a, successful trade, with good future prospects. BENJAMIN MORRIS, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in New Jersey, July 23, 1814; is a son of Adam and Lydia (blathers) Morris, natives of New Jersey. The grandfather was Benjamin Morris, who, it is believed, was born in New Jersey and lived and died in his native State. Adam with his family emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County in the fall of 1817, and here resided till his death. They had three sons and one daughter—William, Benjamin, John and Abigail. The latter married William Lewis of Lebanon. She died in July, 1881, aged about 60 years. Mr. Morris, when he came to this county, started out as a poor man, but was a man of energy, and by his own industry and by applying his hands to all kinds of work, he being a natural mechanic, was able to make most of the articles of utiltity of those days, and by economy he become possessed of about 300 acres of land, and in his last days was able to enjoy all the general comforts of life. Benjamin, the subject of this sketch, was a little past 3 years of age when they came to this county, and here was raised and grew to manhood accustomed to the rough fare and hardships of those times; was married, July 2, 1840, to Cynthia, daughter of John and Catharine Clements, natives of Pennsylvania, whose history is further given in sketch of John D. Clements. Mr. Morris and wife have had three children; only one now living, William H., born March 26, 184'7; the two deceased were Lydia and Susan; the latter married Eugene Evans, by whom she had one child, Lydia Esther. William H. married Lucinda Davis on Sept. 30, 1879, and resides on the home place with his father. Mr. Morris after marriage, located on the place where he still lives, having made a continued residence here of forty-one years; he has erected all the buildings on the place, which are now good and substantial with good improvements; he now owns 225 acres of good land, and is one of the substantial farmers of Wayne Township, and is one of the few pioneers still residing in this vicinity, and who experienced and remembers distinctly the rough fare and hardships of pioneer life of which the rising generations know so little about and of which by experience have no knowledge. JAMES O'NEALL, farmer; P. 0. Oregon; born in Wayne Township Dec. '7, 1816; is a son of William and Martha O'Neall, whose history is given in sketch of Abijah P. and George T. O'Neall in this Work. The subject of this sketch was raised and grew to manhood on the old home farm, and remained with his father till 2'7 years of age. On March 24, 1844, was united in marriage with Martha S., daughter of Joseph A. and Judith (Hampton) Salee, he a native of Virginia, and she of Kentucky. Issue, eight children, six now linng--Joseph W., Mary J., Willis H., Martha J., Anna B. and Lennis E. His wife died Jan. 25, 1859; on July 3, 1861, he was married to Isabel, daughter of George and Elizabeth Longstreth; he is a native of New Jersey, and she of Warren County; by her he had one son, Abijah T. His second wife died Sept. 24, 1863; and Sept. 7, 1865, he married for his WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 875 third wife Mrs. Olive Daniels, a daughter of John and Rebecca Hazzard; he a native of Dutchess Co.. N. Y., and she of Connecticut. Mr. Hazzard became a resident of Ohio about 1814, and Rebecca about 1816, and were married in Clinton County; they were parents of seven children, four now survive—James, Thomas, Olive and Anna. Olive was born in Clinton County, July 18, 1827. Mr. O'Neall, after his marriage, resided four years on the old home place with jiis father. In May, 1848, he located where he now lives and has since resided. This farm consists of 192 acres, of which 150 acres are now in cultivation; when he came upon the place, there were about thirty acres cleared; thus is shown the vast work that has been accomplished by Mr. O'Neall, in bringing the wilderness into fine cultivated fields; he has also erected all the buildings on the place, and brought everything into its present state of improvement. This sketch is another link of the pioneer history of the O'Neall family, who have performed so extensive a part in the early settlement of this township, in reducing those primeval forest, and makino. these fine fields and farms. Mr. O'Neall is now in his 65th year of age, and his entire life has been spent in Wayne Township; being perhaps the longest life spent from birth, without living any part of it elsewhere, of any resident in the township. A. P. &. G. T. O'NEALL, farmers; P. 0. Waynesville. In the early settlement of Wayne Township, among the first and most prominent of the pioneer families, we find the .O'Neall family demands an extended and especial consideration. The genealogy of this family we are able to trace to early in the eighteenth century to one Hugh O'Neale, of Irish birth, born at Shane's Castle, County Antrim, Ireland, who was a midshipman in the British Navy, and was in service in the American colonies, but became dissatisfied with the service and determined to leave it, and, in pursuance of this resolve, while in the Delaware River, he jumped overboard and swam to the shore. From this time he had no communication with his family; he altered the spelling of his name by changing the last letter (e) at the end of his name to “I." He settled in Maryland and married Ann Cox, whose father was a Captain in King William's army at the battle of the Boyne. His son William married Mary Frost, who, as well as himself, was a member of the Society of Friends. He moved from Virginia to South Carolina and settled on Mudlick Creek, Laurens District; thence he moved to Bush River, Newbury District. He was the father of six sons and one daughter, the eldest son, Abijah, being the grandfather of our subject; he married Anna Kelly. About 1797, he made a visit to this Western country, on horseback, prospecting for land and a location; there were then seven families in Waynesville, and while here one of his horses was stolen, as is supposed, by a half-breed Frenchman; he returned home and he and Samuel Kelly purchased 3,000 acres of land to be located in Warren County, situated on the east side of the Little Miami River, immediately north of Caesar's Creek. In 1799, Mr. O'Neall, with his family, left South Carolina and came to this county to occupy his land; he settled where Mr. Graham now resides, his tract embracing a large scope of land where the village of Corwin is now located, he being the first settler east of the Little Miami River. The next year, or in 1800, Mr. Kelly came and located where his son Samuel still resides. Mr. O'Neall remained where he first located till his death, May 19, 1823, aged 61 years; his wife died April 21. 1831, aged 73 years. They had eight children; seven grew to maturity; all married and raised families except one--the eldest--who died soon after his marriage. leaving no issue. Mr. O'Neall was a more than ordinary man, firm and unyielding in his principles, yet kind-hearted and free almost to a fault—giving a helping hand to every neighlior who needed assistance. He was the leading spirit in the business community, and, being a good surveyor, he had much of that work to do. and bought and sold large 876 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: amounts of land for himself and others; and, as he was the first settler in this neighborhood, so he was first in activity and first as a useful and worthy eiti zen. William O'Neall, the father of our subject, was born in South Carolina in 1791; hence was about 8 years of age when brought to this county by his parents; here he was raised, inured to the scenes and hardships of pioneer life. was married, Jan. 11, 1816, to Martha, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Porter) Smith, natives of Powhatan Co., Va., by whom he had four children- James S., John N., Abijah P. and George T.---all married and residents of this county, and all prominently and favorably known. Mr. William O'Neall was in faith and principle a Quaker, being born and raised in that Society; he seemed to possess all those firm and excellent principles of his father, embodied fully in his nature; kind and generous, energetic in all his undertakings, and whose life was a success to himself and family, and an ornament and a credit to his community; he lived to the advanced age of 83 years, and enjoyed the companionship of his noble wife for fifty seven years. He departed this life July 18, 1874; his wife, Jan. 18, 1873, aged nearly 82 years. The subjects of this sketch, the two youngest sons of William and Martha O'Neall, were raised and grew to manhood upon the old homestead farm, Abijah remaining with his father till his death; was married, Jan. 4, 1875, to Anna C., daughter of Dr. Elias and Letitia (Haines) Fisher; by this union they have one child-- Margaret, born March 28, 1877. In the summer of 1875, Mr. O'Neall erected a fine large frame house upon the eastern portion of the home farm, where he located and has since resided; has all good improvements, constituting a pleasant home and residence. Mr. O'Neall is one of the directors of the Waynesville National Bank, having been such since its organization; is also a Trustee of the Miami Cemetery Association, in which capacity he has acted since its first organization, in the spring of 1866. George T. O'Neall was united in marriage, Jan. 24, 1860, with Harriet, daughter of Jonas T. and Matilda(Ferguson) McKay. Mr. O'Neall located upon the eastern portion of the old home farm, where his parents spent many years of the prime of their life; here he has erected fine and commodious buildings and every comfort and convenience constituting a very pleasant farmer's residence. HENRY PRATER, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Wayne Township Sept 8, 1840; is a son of William and Ann Eliza (Slack) Prater, he a native of this county and she of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents were Zachariah and Elizabeth (O'Neall) Prater, natives of North Carolina; emigrated to Ohio in 1810 and located in Wayne Township, being among the early pioneers, and here they resided till their death; he served in the war of 1812. William, the father of our subject, was born in 1812, two years after their location in this then wilderness of a country, and here was raised and grew to manhood, inured to the scenes and hardships of pioneer life; was married and became the father of seven children--Henry, Elizabeth Ann, Job, Rebecca, Emiline (now Mrs. Sylvanus Hartsock), Mary and Alice (now Mrs. William Hawke). Mr. Prater was a farmer through life and passed his entire life in this township; he died April 27, 1855, aged 12 years; his wife is still living, now a resident of Waynesville. The subject of this sketch was 15 years of age when his father died, and, being the eldest of seven children, great care devolved upon the mother, but she faithfully did her duty and raised them all to maturity. Henry was married, Dec. 10, 1863, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Matilda Sands, whose ancestral history is given in Jonah Sand's sketch in this work. Isaac and wife had two children-Mary Elizabeth, born Dec. 11, 1846, and Laney Jane, now Mrs. William Thompson, residing in Clinton Co., Ohio. Mr. Prater and wife have had five children; four now survive-Harry C., born Oct. 3, 1866; Walter, April 17, 1868, died in August, 1868; Lee and Stella WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 877 (twins), born April 27, 1873; and Isabella, born March 28, 1875. Mr. Prater served two years in the war of the rebellion; enlisted June 10, 1862, in 84th 0. v. I., and served three months, the term of his enlistment; on Dec. 18, 1863, he again enlisted in the 34th 0. V. I., and served till the close of the war; was with Sheridan in all his campaign up the Shenandoah Valley, and was in nineteen marked battles, some of which were hard contested conflicts; was once taken prisoner, but made his escape; was mustered out July 27, 1865, having passed through the war without receiving a wound or scratch. Mr. Prater has devoted his life to farming, and all within Wayne Township; takes great interest in the subject of education, and has been School Director for nine years and is a member of Township Board of Education. JESSE PUGH, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in this county and township April 4, 1831; is a son of Jesse and Mary (Woodruff) Pugh, he a native of South Carolina and she of New Jersey. The paternal grandparents were Ellis and Phebe (Coppack) Pugh, natives of New Jersey, who emigrated to South Carolina, and thence to Ohio and settled in Warren County about 1800, being among the pioneers; at or about the same time, his brother, David Pugh, also settled here, having purchased two sections of land direct from the Government, and here they commenced their great pioneer work of opening out their farms and making homes. After more than thirty years of hardships and labors, the grandfather passed away, dying about 1836. Jesse Pugh was twice married, his first wife dying after several years' residence in this county; they had seven children-all deceased except Elizabeth, who married Joseph Young and moved to Illinois many years ago. By his last wife, Mary Woodruff, he had eight children;, three now•survive -Samuel, James and Jesse. Mr. Pugh died in the fall of 1842, aged 68 years; his wife died about 1871, aged 77 years. Mr. Pugh was a very unassuming man, never holding or desiring office or notoriety, but even refused them and paid his fines rather than serve. He was a hard-working, industrious farmer; and one whose word was as good as his note; was just and upright in all his dealings -whose integrity yips undoubted, and, like many others of those noble pioneers, were examples worthy of all honor and should be imitated in their pure, honest and upright lives. The subject of this sketch was married, Feb. 20, 1868, to Jane Alan, daughter of Thomas and Sudan (Carpenter) Collett, natives of England, who emigrated to America and resided in New Jersey several years, and, about 1839, came to Ohio and died in Warren County; his wife still survives and resides in Waynesville; they have five children still living-Emma, now Mrs. Hawke; Thomas; Amelia, now Mrs Hammel, of Cincinnati; Joseph and John W. Mr. Pugh and wife have had three children, only one surviving-Walter, born Oct. 5, 1868. Mrs. Pugh died July 14, 1873, aged 32 years. David Pugh, mentioned above, was the father of Lot Pugh, who was prominently known as a large and extensive pork-packer and dealer in Cincinnati in former days, and the Hon. George E. Pugh, of political fame and notoriety, was a son of Lot Pugh. Our subject has always followed farming as a business; purchased the place where he now lives in March, 1863, it being a part of the land of the original purchase made by David Pugh mentioned above; this farm consists of 158 acres, mostly in cultivation.. Mr. Pugh moved on to the place in 1868, where he has since resided. SAMUEL PUGH, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Wayne Township May 15, 1826; is a son of Jesse and Mary Pugh (see sketch of Jesse Pugh). Our subject was about 16 years of age at the death of his father, but remained with his mother until after his majority; was married, April 23, 1861, to Asenith Ward, whose ancestors are given in the sketch of Jesse Gibbs. Mr. Pugh was married to his second wife, Rachel Joseph, June 26. 1877, a daughter of 878 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Clement and Martha (Pugh) Joseph, he a native of Virginia and she of this county. The grandparents were John and Elizabeth (Fields) Joseph, natives of Virginia, but who emigrated to Ohio and settled in Brown County in quite:, an early day, where they lived and died. Clement Joseph was a small boy when his parents located in Ohio, and was raised and grew to manhood in Brown County, thence came to Warren County, where he was married and resided here a few years; thence returned to Brown County, thence removed to Indiana, where they resided till their death; he died Nov. 3, 1877; his wife died Sept. 27, 1872, aged 60 years. They had thirteen children; nine now survive-James A., Nathan B., Samuel F., Mary M., Hannah, Rachel, Minerva, Sarah E. and Melvina. Rachel was born in Brown Co., Ohio, Oct. 24, 1842. Mr. Pugh and wife have two children-Vain Victor, born Feb. 18, 1878, and Mary Minerva, born Nov. 27, 1879. Mr. Pugh has made farming his main business of life. On March 10, 1879, they located where they now reside; this place now consists of 115 acres, 72 of which are in cultivation, with good buildings and improvements. Mr. Pugh has never held or desired office, but has devoted himself exclusively to his farm and business interests. JOHN T. ROBERTS, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Bucks Co., Penn., May 2, 1800; is a son of Edward and Ann (Trump) Roberts. natives of Pennsylvania, who were raised and grew to maturity and were married in their native State. Mr. Roberts was for many years a teamster over the mountains in Pennsylvania in an early day. About 1805 or 1806, they emigrated to Ohio, and located at the mouth of the Little Miami River, at Jarrett's Station, where he lived till about 1811; thence he moved to the American Bottoms, twelve miles below St. Louis; here his wife died in the fall of 1811; thence moved to Six Mile Prairie, above St. Louis, and, in 1812, when the war broke out, they came back to Ohio and again located at Jarrett's Station, where he resided till about 1816; thence he removed into Clermont County, near Richmond. While at Jarrett's Station, Mr. Roberts married for his second wife, Mrs. Rachel Mills; they resided at New Richmond until about 1820; they removed to Warren County and located on the place near Harveysburg, where Edward Roberts now lives; here he resided till his death, at the advanced age of 93 years. Mr. Roberts was a remarkably strong and healthy man, and a great worker; a man of good habits, and when he died passed away with but little sickness or pain. By his first wife, he had six children, two now living-Charlotte, now Widow Tetterrow, aged 94 years, and John T., who, when a young man, learned the cabinet-making business in Cincinnati, serving an apprenticeship of five years; this business he followed till about 23 years of age; was married, in the fall of 1822, to Hannah, daughter of Jesse Pugh, by whom he had eight children; six now survive-Adolphus D., Elizabeth, Jane, Benjamin D., Everard D., Amanda M. and John A. G. Mr. Roberts' wife died May 5, 1846. On Aug. 14, 1862, he married Lydia H., daughter of Archibald and Ann Edwards, natives of North Carolina, but who became settlers of Ohio in 1806. Mr. Roberts has followed farming and the carpenter trade most of his life, the former having been his principal business. He bought and located where he now lives about 1837, where he has now resided forty-four years; has a fine farm of 119 acres, upon which he has erected good buildings, and now has everything comfortable and convenient around him, constituting a very pleasant home and farmer's residence. Three of Mr. Roberts' sons-Everard D., Benjamin D. and John A. served through the war of the rebellion, and all escaped without a wound except Everard D.; who was severely wounded and is now drawing a pension; he married Sarah Kelly, whose ancestors are given in the sketch of Levi Kelly. By this union, he has three children-Abigail Hannah, Mary Ethol and Bertram. WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 879 SAMUEL W. ROGERS, retired merchant, Waynesville; born in New Jersey March 29, 1814; is a son of Joseph and Margaret (Peacock) Rogers, natives of New Jersey. The grandfather, Joseph Rogers, was also a native of New Jersey, and was a son of Abner and Hope Rogers, who lived and died in New Jersey, and, on their old homestead place, still stands the brick house which built by him in 1776, which was visited by our subject in 1876, just one century after its erection. The grandfather, Joseph, married Esther Atkinson, by whom he had four sons and one daughter; he resided in his native State till in the fall of 1813, when he emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County; there he lived till his death. Joseph, the father, in 1812, walked the entire distance from New Jersey over the mountains to Warren Co., Ohio; here he bought a horse and returned to his native State on horseback. In the fall of 1815, he emigrated with his family to this county, where he settled and has since resided, with the exception of two and one-half years' residence in Indiana, between 1823 and 1826. He served in his native State a long apprenticeship in the carpenter trade; thence became a manufacturer of the Peacock plow, and when he came to Ohio, he brought the patterns for making the cast mold-beard plows-something then unknown west of the mountains; here he gave almost his exclusive attention to the manufacture of those plows for several years. At that time there was no foundry in Cincinnati, and he obtained his castings at a foundry about fifty miles southeast of here. This was in that early day a great improvement to their plows and made quite a revolution in the work of farming. Mr. Rogers is the father of eight children; four now survive-Samuel W., Esther Ann, Hope and Lydia; his wife died in 1837. In 1840, he was married to Rebecca Lippincott, with whom he is still living. Mr. Rogers was born Oct. 30, 1789, and is now in his 92d year, and is still quite a spry, lively old gentleman, and we may wish for him yet many happy years. Our subject was but 18 months of age when brought to this county; here he was raised and grew to manhood, accustomed to the scenes and trials of those early days; was married, April 13, 1837, to Lydia Ann, daughter of Isaac and Hannah Engle, natives of New Jersey. Lydia Ann was born in New Jersey Feb. 23, 1814• Mr. Rogers followed farming till 1848; thence entered upon mercantile trade in Waynesville, which business he conducted for thirty-one years-till May, 1879, when he sold his stock of goods and retired from all active business. Mr. Rogers started in life a poor man, but, by his own industry, business tact and economy, has accumulated a sufficiency, and now in his later years is able to enjoy the fruits of his own industry and labor. Mr. Rogers has held the offices of Township Treasurer and Trustee, and is a Director and Vice President of the National Bank of Waynesville. EMPSON A. ROGERS, farmer ; P. 0. Waynesville ; born in Massie Township May 26, 1819; is a son of Josiah and Abigail Rogers, whose history is given in sketch of Samuel W. Rogers. The subject of this sketch remained with his father on the old home place till 33 years of age; was married, Sept. 19, 1840, to Martha T., daughter of David and Priscilla Braddock, natives of New Jersey. David was a son of Daniel Braddock, who lived and died in his native State of New Jersey. David Braddock with his family emigrated to Ohio and located in Waynesville in May, 1839, a further history of whom is given in the sketch of Robert S. Braddock. Daniel and wife had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters-Reuben, Jacob B„ Martha T. and Joseph J. Martha T. was born March 20, 1819. Mr. Rogers and wife have two children-Amanda H., born Jan. 20, 1844, married John C. Ridge; Mary E., born Aug. 31, 1851, married Samuel E. Elliott, whose sketch appears in this work. When Mr. Braddock and family came to Ohio, they moved over the mountains in wagons. Martha T. was then about 20 years of age, and she 880 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: and her brother Robert bantered each other on which could walk the farthest; they walked day after day, and both walked the entire distance-600 miles, with the exception of one-half day's ride taken by Martha, from sickness she had caused by drinking sulphur water--a feat but few young ladies in this day could accomplish. Another instance of the remarkable endurance of those pioneer women was the case of Abigail, the mother of our subject, who, when about 16 years of age, rode on horseback from Waynesville to Baltimore, Md., to attend Friends' Yearly Meeting, and back again, which but few, if any, could now endure. Mr. Rogers has devoted his entire life to farming, with reasonable success, and is considered a model farmer. He has been Street Commissioner of Waynesville eight or ten years and served as Township Trustee several years. His daughter, Amanda H., married John C. Ridge, a son of Jacob and Mary Ridge; by him she has three children-Carrie A., born Oct. 16, 1865; Harrie E., born Oct. 6, 1869, and Clifford S., born June 15, 1873. GEORGE S. SALE, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born on the place where he now lives, March 27, 1818; is a son of Robert and Magdalene (Smith) Sale; he was born in Amherst Co., Va., Feb. 3, 1784; she was born in Powhatan Co., a., June 13, 1789, and were married Nov. 10, 1808. The grandfather, John Sale, also a native of Virginia, married Miss Frances, daughter of Philip Sanders, of Caroline Co., a., and had eleven children --Mary, Anthony, Thomas, John, Ann, Cornelius, Samuel, Elizabeth, Alexander, Robert and Martha. The great-grandfather, Anthony Sale, was born in Essex Co„ Va.; he was the father of eight children-Leonard, Robert, Thomas, Cornelius, In_ thony, John, Richard and Elizabeth. Mr. Sale was a soldier in Washington's Regiment at the time of the defeat and death of Gen. Braddock in the French and Indian war of 1755, and was wounded in the hip, from which he was a cripple the balance of his life. Robert, the father of our subject, remained with his parents in Virginia till 22 years of age, and, about 1806, emigrated to Ohio and located with his brother, in Greene County, who had settled there some time previously as a Methodist minister. After his marriage, in 1808, he located in this county on the farm where George now lives, and here resided till his death, Oct. 1, 1823, in his 40th year of age; his wife died Aug. 5, 1889, aged 50 years. They had seven children, viz., John Fletcher, Elizabeth, Minerva, Thomas Coke, George Smith, Caroline Matilda and Cynthia Virginia. Our subject when his father died was 5 years of age, but his mother being a woman of remarkable energy and ability, managed to raise her children till they grew to maturity. Mr. Sale was married, Dec. 31, 1845, to Miss Mahala, daughter of Job and Ann (Fitzpatrick) Martin, natives of Virginia, who had six children; two now survive--Mahala and Nancy (now Mrs. Thornburg, residing in Iowa), Mr. Sale and wife by their union have three children-James C., born Nov. 11, 1846; Mathew Job, born April 18, 1848, and Mary Elizabeth, born April 10, 1850. After their marriage, Mr. Sale located upon the old homestead place, where he now lives and has made a continued residence of sixty-three years, and the farm has been occupied by the Sale family for seventy-three years. This is the genealogical history of one of the true pioneer families of Wayne Township, who have borne their share of the hardships of pioneer life; now they have a fine farm with good improvements and all the comforts and conveniences of life. And their descendants in the future may well and gratefully remember their ancestors for the great and noble work they have accomplished in bringing from the wilderness these fine farms and homes with all their comforts for their enjoyment. JONAH SANDS, druggist, Waynesville; born in Loudoun Co., a., June 10, 1822; is a son of Abijah and Elizabeth (Grady) Sands, also natives of Virginia; he lived and died in his native State, was a soldier in the war of 1812 WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 881 and a farmer by occupation; was the father of eleven children, eight daughters and three sons, and two only now survive-Susanna, now Mrs. John Whinery, residing in Clinton Co., Ohio, and Jonah. In the fall of 1832, Mrs. Sands with her family emigrated to Ohio and located in Greene County, where she raised her family and resided till her death; she departed this life in December, 1840, aged 64 years. Our subject was 10 years of age when brought to this State; was raised and grew to manhood in Greene County, receiving a good common-school education, and his physical strength well developed by manual labor on the farm, till 18 years of age; thence he learned the cabinet trade, which business he followed till 1850, in Waynesville, Warren Co.; thence entered upon mercantile business, in Spring alley, Greene Co., continuing there until in the spring of 1855, when he located in Waynesville in the same business, under the firm name of Sands & Klein, which thus continued till 1860. Mr, Sands bought Mr. Klein's interest and then continued business two years mid sold out, shortly after which he and Mr. Sweet became proprietors of the Miama Gazette, a weekly paper of Waynesville, in which he has since been identified; also carried on a general trading business, buying and selling whatever presented itself in a business way for his financial interests. About 1872, he purchased the drug store of Dr. Cary, in Spring alley, which he conducted about four years and sold; thence, in the spring of 1876, he opened out in the drug trade at his present locality, under the firm name of Sands & Janney, which continued thus two years, and Mr. Sands bought Mr. Janney's interest, and has continued the business in his own name to the present time. His store is now the oldest established in the town, has a good complete stock in his line of trade, and, by his long and extensive acquaintance and upright dealing, his general business tact and ability, has established a good prosperous trade. Mr. Sands' life has been one of activity and general prosperity, and, in the business interests of Waynesville, has been a prominent and active man: public-spirited and interested in the general public welfare of his town and community. In Greene County, was Treasurer of Sugar Creek Township; has been Mayor of Waynesville and filled ether minor offices. ABEL SATTERTHWAITE, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; was born on the place where he now lives, Oct. 24, 1824; is a son of John and Elizabeth (Linton) Satterthwaite, natives of Bucks Co., Penn. The paternal grandparents were William and Mary Satterthwaite, natives of Pennsylvania, and who lived and died in their native State. They had eight sons and two daughters, all now deceased. William was a very successful and prosperous farmer, and provided each of his children with a farm near Philadelphia. The maternal grandfather was Samuel Linton, who was probably a native of Pennsylvania, but became a resident of Warren County in June, 1802, and died in Clinton County. John Satterthwaite emigrated to Ohio about the same time, or soon after, the Linton family came; here he married and became the father of seven children; two now survive-Mary, now Widow Bailey, and Abel. These were true pioneer families, opening out right in the woods and experiencing all the roughness of those early days. When the Linton family settled in Clinton County, there were no roads-nothing but blazed paths through the unbroken forests. John Satterthwaite was one of the active prominent men of his day; he engaged in mercantile trade in Waynesville for several years; thence engaged in the milling business at what is now Mt. Holly, and started that town; he also established and run a line of stages from Cincinnati to Columbus for many years, and was the contractor and builder of the Old Friends' Meetinghouse, and erected a great many houses in Waynesville-in fact, was the leading active spirit in the business and progress of this community; he died in June, 1837, aged 51 years; his wife died Dec. 25, 1871, aged 85 years. The 882 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: subject of this sketch was raised to manhood on the place where he now lives• was married, in April, 1864, to Lydia, daughter of Abraham and Ruth Cook whose history is given in the sketch of Levi Cook; issue, four children, three sons and one daughter-Israel, born March 3, 1867; Henry, born Aug. 29 1869; Sarah, born Aug. 2, 1871; died Sept. 23, 1880, aged 9 years, and Willie born Jan. 29, 1874. Mr. Satterthwaite has given his main attention to raisin; and dealing in stock, and has always resided upon the old homestead place' This farm has now been in the possession of the Satterthwaite family for three-quarters of a century, and a part of the brick house now standing on the place was erected in 1812. Mr. Satterthwaite is a man of firm principles and integrity of character; a strong advocate of temperance and moral reform, and is one of the substantial and most worthy citizens of this community. HENRY SHERWOOD, retired farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born at Columbia, near Cincinnati, July 13, 1807; is a son of Thomas and Dorcas-Sherwood, whose history is contained in the sketch of Jonathan Sherwood, of Massie Township. The paternal grandparents were Henry and Elizabeth Sherwood, natives of Maryland, and their ancestors, it is believed, came from Wales. The grandparents lived and died in Maryland. The subject of this sketch was a child 3 or 4 years of age when brought to the then wilderness of Warren County, and here was raised and grew to manhood; was married, June 9, 1833, to Hester A., daughter of Francis and Eleanor Jeffry, natives of New Jersey, by whom he had six children; four now survive-Elizabeth, born June 17, 1834, now Mrs. G. W. Terry; Thomas, born Dec. 8, 1835; Sarah, born June 10, 1837, now Mrs. George W. Elbon, and Francis, born June 8, 1839. Two deceased were Mary and SamueTrThe latter enlisted in the war of the rebellion in the 79th 0. V. I., in the summer of 1862, and was accidentally shot by one of his comrades at Lavern, Tenn., living but a few hours, and died Aug. 9, 1863. Mrs. Sherwood died May 20, 1863. On March 15, 1866, he married Mrs. Malinda H. Campbell, a daughter of Eli and Ann (Hadley) Hale, natives of South Carolina, but who emigrated to Ohio and settled in Clinton County about 1808 to 1810. The grandparents were William and Sarah Hadley, natives of South Carolina, and settled in Clinton County, in 1816, both these families being pioneers of Clinton County. Mr. Sherwood by his last wife has one child Anna, born Jan. 24, 1867. Mr. Sherwood, in 1833, located on a farm he purchased of Noah Haines, where he resided nearly half a century. In February, 1880, he removed to Waynesville, where he has since resided, retired from all active business. Mr. Sherwood has been one of the prominent farmers of Warren County - an active, industrious man, whose labors have been crowned with success; he held many of the offices of the Township and was County Commissioner from 1851 to 1868 inclusive, a period of eighteen years; was a Justice of the Peace, Appraiser,.and held the office of Township Trustee for many years, and whose official work and active useful life will be found more fully written of in the history of Washington Township in this work. AMOS B. SIDES, dealer in grain and agricultural implements, Waynesville, born in Warren County Sept. 5, 1839, is a son of Samuel and Mary (Rutter) Sides, natives of Lancaster Co., Penn.; they emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County in 1837, about three miles north of Lebanon, and here they spent the balance of their lives; he died June 23, 1854, aged 55 years; his wife died Nov. 22, 1858, aged 57 years. They were parents of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters; eight now survive-Samuel, John R., George W., Henry IC., Amos B., Sarah (now Mrs. Haines) and Martha M. (now Mrs. Dunwiddie). Mr. Sides, when he arrived in this county, was a poor man; his capital consisted of two $10 gold pieces, one of which he gave WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 883 for one barrel of potatoes, the largest of which was not larger than a walnut. He rented land for or several years. In 1849 or 1850, he purchased a farm of 50 acres, upon which he lived two years, when he sold this place and bought 120 acres upon which he lived till his death, at which time he was worth $8,000 - the fruits of industry and energy. The subject of this sketch was 15 years of age when his father died, after which he worked from place to place by the month till 20 years of age; thence he entered upon farming, which business he month about ten years. In the spring of 1870, he, with his brother, John R., entered upon the lumber trade at Corwin, at which they continued three years; thence he formed a partnership with his brother, George W., as dealers in grain and agricultural implements, in Waynesville, where they have continued to the present time. They have established a good trade and are doing a very prosperous business, second to but few in the county. Mr. Sides is not only an active business man, but has filled many of the offices of his township, having served as Assessor, Township Trustee and a member of the Council of Waynesville. On April 11, 1861, he was married, to Miss Prudie E., daughter of Wesley and Susan Haines, whose history is given in the sketch of Ner Haines. By this union they have one child-Susan F., born Jan. 30, 1862. ALBERT STACY, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in the State of New York Sept. 4, 1819; is a son of John and Mary (Wilson) Stacy, he a native of Vermont and she of the State of New York. John Stacy grew to manhood in his native State; was married and emigrated to the Western part of the State of New York; in 1832, emigrated to Ohio and located in Wayne County; in 1836, removed to Mercer County, where he died in 1846, aged 56 years; she survived him about two years and died, aged 58 years; they had four sons and three daughters; three now survive-Albert, Henry and Phoebe Jane (now Mrs. Blue, residing in Champaign Co., Ohio). Mr. Stacy was a soldier in the war of 1812; was one of the pioneers of Mercer County and there performed much hard labor in opening out a farm, right from the woods. The subject of this sketch was about 17 years of age when they located in Mercer County, and there remained with his father till his death; was married, in May, 1844, to Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Harper and Catharine Martin, Harper, natives of Jefferson Co., Penn.; they had eleven children; six now survive-Elizabeth; Mary, now Mrs. Robert Dill; Catharine, now Mrs. J. Austin; Caroline, now Mrs. Harb; Daniel Wesley and William. Mr. Stacy and wife have had eight children; five now survive-Joseph Milton, Henry R., Elizabeth Ann (now Mrs. Taylor), William H. and Sabina Jane, now Mrs. Lamb. In 1856, Mr. Stacy moved from Mercer to Warren County, and, in 1857, located at Raysville and entered upon the mercantile trade; also ran a saw-mill in partnership with Mahon and Owen Mills; thence the firm changed to Mahon & Webster Mills; thence, in 1860, Mr. Stacy bought out the interests of his partners and carried on a successful business till 1866, when he sold out to George Sides, since which he has devoted his attention to farming, with the exception of two years of mercantile trade with Josiah Hough as partner. Mr. Stacy has been a man of great energy and industry, and, as he expresses it, has seen many " ups and downs," but his life has been one of success and usefulness. He served as Justice of the Peace in Mercer County and has been one of the substantial citizens of his community. DREW SWEET, editor Miami Gazette, Waynesville; born in Tyrandreath, Cornwall, England, Feb. 24, 1839; emigrated to the United States in the fall of 1851, with his mother and sister, and with them settled in Waynesville, in December, of the same year. The sister, Anne Drew, died in the March following, in a house which stood where now the Episcopal Church stands; her age was nearly 15 years. Thomisine Sweet, the mother (whose maiden name 884 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: was Kingdon), married James Sweet, who died in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, in 1843, he being at the time engaged as Inspector of Mt. Vernon Mine in that island. The youngest child of this marriage, Kingdon Drew, died at the age of 5 years at the place of his birth. The only remaining offspring Drew Sweet, the subject of this sketch, has been, since 1865, the founder and editor of the village paper of Waynesville, the Miami Gazette, and had pre_ viously been joint publisher of the Miami Visitor of Waynesville, and the Herald of Astoria, Long Island. Of th - Drew and Kingdon antecedents, both belonging to Mrs. Sweet's maternal side, we quote from Chambers' Encyclopedia " Drew, Samuel, 1763-1833-a native of Cornwall, England. In 1799 published some 'Remarks on Tom Payne's Age of Reason.' This was followed by Remarks on Payne; Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul; E-say on the Identity and General Resurrection of the Human Body;' a ' History of Cornwall," and 'An Attempt to Demonstrate from Reason and Revelation the Necessary Existence, Essential, Perfection and Superintending, Providence of an Eternal Being, Who is the Creator, the Supporter and the Governor of all Things ' " The founder of the Kingdon family " came over with William." Loyson's History of Cornwall, speaks of the family thus: "Kingdon, of Trehunsey, in Quithock and Trenouth, in St. Cleer, an ancient family, the present representative of which is William Kingdon, Esq., of St. Cleer. There are several clergy in the northern part of the county descended from a younger branch of this family, settled in Devon. Arms of Kingdon: Arg., a chevron sable, between three magpies proper." Drew Sweet was married, July 2, 1874, to Mary Agnes Kearney. Of this union, two daughters were born-Anne Kearney, May 29, 1875, and Sophie Kingdon, born Dec. 31, 1877; died Aug. 13, 1878. EDWIN SWENEY, tile manufacturer, Waynesville; born in Clear Creek Township, Warren Co., Oct. 14, 1827; is a son of James and Clarissa (Coffeen) Sweney, he a native of Pennsylvania and she of Jefferson Co., N. Y. The paternal grandparents were William and Sarah Sweney, he a native of Pennsylvania and she of Virginia; they emigrated to Ohio, landing at Cincinnati in 1799; thence into Warren County, and settled four miles north of Lebanon, and here spent the balance of his life, performing his full share of pioneer life. He was a natural mechanic and in that day made himself very useful in manufacturing shoes, chairs and articles of general utility and demand in that day. James Sweney was 3 years of age when brought to this wilderness, and here was raised to manhood, inured to the roughness and deprivations of those early days; was married and became the father of five children; four now surviveD. Clinton, Edwin, Monroe and Helen (now Mrs. Dr. Thomas G. Farr, residing at Selma, Greene Co., Ohio). Mr. Sweney located upon the part of the section of land which was purchased by his father when he first located in this county,. and here he resided during his entire life; he died in January, 1879, nearly 83 years of age; his wife still resides on the old home place, now 80 years of age. This land, their first purchase, has now been in possession of the Sweney family for more than fourscore years. Mr. Sweney devoted himself exclusively to farming-a very unassuming man, not courting or desiring public office or notoriety, but a kind neighbor and a good citizen; served one term as County Commissioner. The maternal grandparents were Goldsmith and Reform Coffeen, natives of Vermont, who first emigrated to Jefferson Co., N. Y.; thence to Warren Co., Ohio, where they lived and died near Red Lion. The subject of this sketch was raised to farm labor, and remained with his father till 1850, when he emigrated to Iowa, where, on Feb. 18, 1851, he was united in marriage with Dorcas F., daughter of Solomon and Rebecca Redman, natives of Kentucky; Solomon was a son of Thomas Redman; Rebecca was a daughter of WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 885 James Williams, of Kentucky. Solomon and family emigrated to Iowa about 1837. In 1849, he went to California, where he died about one year after leaving home; his wife died in Iowa about 1871. They had ten children; five now survive--William, Elijah, Martha (now Mrs. Smith), Dorcas and George, all of whom reside in the West, except Dorcas; she was born Dec. 28, 1833. Mr. Sweney and wife have three children-Clara, born Nov. 10, 1851; Arthur g. and Ella I. (twins), born June 16, 1867; Mr. Sweney was a carpenter by trade, and after his marriage followed that business in Iowa till 1855; thence he moved to Wisconsin; thence in the winter of 1859-60. removed to Warren Co., Ohio, and here carried on his trade till in 1869, when he engaged in the business of manufacturing tile at Red Lion. In 1874, he formed a partnership with M. Josiah Hough, of Raysville, where they have continued the business to the present time. Mr. Sweney is one of the pioneers in the tile manufacturing business, and we may safely say, in the quality of their tile, they are probably not excelled by any and equaled by very few. HIRAM C. TAYLOR, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born in Frederick Co.. Va., Feb. 19, 1832; is a son of Hiram W. and Rachel (Morgan) Taylor, natives of Virginia. The grandfather, Abraham Taylor, was also a native of Virginia, and lived and died in his native State. Hiram W. was raised and grew to manhood in his native State, and married and became the father of eleven children; seven now survive-Morgan, James, John, Hiram C., Martha, Edna and Elizabeth. Mr. Taylor resided in Virginia till 1856, when he emigrated to Ohio and settled in Wayne Township, Warren Co., and engaged in teaching school, which, with the mercantile trade, he followed for the balance of his life. He lost his wife in Virginia, who died June 9, 1856. He married for his second wife Mary Ann Chenoweth, by whom he had one child (deceased). Mr. Taylor died Aug. 11, 1868. The subject of this sketch was raised in Virginia. and married Margaret Lloyd, Jan. 28, 1858, a daughter of James and Sarah Lloyd. natives of Virginia, who, with Mr. Taylor, emigrated to Ohio in November, 1860, and located in Wayne Township. Mr. Taylor and wife have had six children; five now survive Rochell, William, Charles, Lizzie and John. Mr. Taylor followed milling about four years in this county; the balance of his life has been devoted to farming; he bought and located upon the place where he now lives in March, 1880, where he has since resided and has a very pleasant home and good farm. ANDREW J. THORPE, retired merchant, Waynesville; born in Kentucky Dec. 7, 1814; is a son of John and Mary (Hall) Thorpe, he a native of Kentucky and she of New Jersey. The grandfather, Andrew Thorpe, was born in Virginia, and emigrated to Kentucky, where he lived and died. Mr. John Thorpe married his wife in this county about 1811, and located in Mason Co., Ky., where he resided till 1820; he located in Cincinnati and entered upon mercantile trade, which business he carried on for about thirteen years; he died in 1833, aged about 52 years; his wife died in December, 1878, aged 81 years. They were the parents of six children; three now survive-Ann, now Widow Johns, living in Indiana; Andrew J. and Thomas W. Our subject remained with his father till his death, being then about 19 years of age, and brought up and educated to the mercantile trade, which business he followed and prosecuted with vigor at various points in Ohio and Indiana, until aliont 1850, when he entered upon trade in Cincinnati, where he continued an active successful business man till 1873, when he sold out and retired to his present place of residence, in Waynesville. Mr. Thorpe's life has been one of great activity, conducting business with energy, tact and ability, which has been crowned with financial success, and now is living at his fine residence in Waynesville in his advancing years, in the quiet enjoyment of the fruits of his 886 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: past labors and industry. Mr. Thorpe was united in matrimony, in 1836, with Mirriam Fallis, daughter of Isaiah and Elizabeth Fallis, natives of Pennsylvania; issue, two children—Mary Elizabeth, born Aug. 26, 1838, and William. H. H., born June 7, 1841. J. WOODROW WARNER, retired, Waynesville, born near Chillicothe, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1823, is a son of Levi and Elizabeth (Winder) Warner, natives of Pennsylvania. The grandfather, Levi Warner, was also a native of Pennsylvania, and lived and died in his native State; he married Lydia Woodrow, who lost her life by being burned to death in the house of a neighbor, which took fire, the roof falling in upon her, from which she could not be extricated. The father, Levi, was raised in Pennsylvania, and when a young man emigrated to Ohio and settled near Chillicothe in a very early day, when there was but one cabin where now stands the flourishing town; here he remained a short time, and returned to Philadelphia and resided about three years, employed in the custom house; thence he returned to Chillicothe, was married, and settled on a farm, and engaged extensively in stock-raising and as a dealer in the same, driving through to Philadelphia large droves of cattle every year; he resided in Ross County till 1852, when, to be convenient to meeting—as he was a member of the Society of Friends—he moved into Clark County and there resided till his death, which occurred March 9, 1853, aged 76 years; his wife died April 8, 1844, aged 57 years; they had two children—J. Woodrow and Levi. Mr. Warner was thrice married—first, to Massey Winder; issue, six children; five now survive—Annie, Massey, Lydia, Simeon and Abner; his last wife was Mrs, Margaret Smith, daughter of a Mr. Wilson; she by her first husband had two children—Margretta and Mahlon. Our subject remained with his father till his majority, brought up on the farm; thence he engaged as clerk in a general store, and for several years remained engaged in a store and on the farm; was married, March 22, 1849, to Mahala, daughter of John and Ruth (Hale) Hadley, natives of North Carolina; the maternal grandparents, Jacob and Martha Hale, were among the pioneers of Ohio, locating near Cincinnati when there was but one house on this side of the river; Mahala was born in Clinton Co., Ohio, Feb. 25, 1827; the paternal grandparents were William and Sarah Hadley, who were also pioneers, and settled in Ohio only one year after Mr. Hale and family. John and Ruth Hadley were parents of six children, who grew to maturity; four now survive--Maria, Mahala, Julia and Eli. ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born in Highland Co., Ohio, Sept. 10; 1830; is a son of Alexander and Mary (Gordon) Williams, he a native of New Jersey and she of Virginia. Mr. Williams, when a small boy, was stolen from his home by the Indians and carried away and kept in captivity nearly four years, when, fortunately, a white trader happened among them, observed the boy and succeeded in capturing him, and brought him to Cincinnati and put up at the tavern where the landlord was an uncle to the child; he recognized the child by a small hone or whetstone which had his father's name engraved upon it, and which the child had with him when taken from his home, and which the child had carefully treasured and kept all that time; the child was now with his friends, and remained with his uncle, who, it seems, not only kept the tavern, but ran a boat across the river for the transfer of persons from Ohio to Kentucky, and vice versa; one morning very early, a man called to be transported across the liver, and the uncle sent .the boy to take him over; when a short distance from the shore, some men came hurriedly to the river and demanded the boy to return with his man, but the stranger presented a revolver to the boy's head and forced the boy to row on; at this instant, one of the men on the shore drew up his rifle and shot the stranger in the boat dead on the spot, who, it seems, was WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 887 a criminal of some kind; this was a trying ordeal for the lad, and so frightened him that he was not fond of rowing any more strangers across the river. The child grew to manhood; was a soldier in the war of 1812; was married and became a resident of Warren County, locating near Springboro, where he resided till his death, about 1852, aged 65 years, his wife having died many years previously. They had twelve children; eight now survive--William, Catharine, Robert, Thomas, Samuel, Alexander, Amanda and Richard. Our subject was very young when his mother died, but remained with his father till the acre of 14 years, when he received a home with James 0' Neall, where he lived till his majority; was married, Aug 12., 1855, to Miss Mary, daughter of Israel and Lucy Ann (Thompson) Venard, he a native of Kentucky and she of Ohio; Israel was a son of James and Nancy Venard, and was born Nov. 21, 17and when about 6 weeks old was brought to Warren County; located in Deerfield Township, where they resided several years, and where James Venard died; Israel grew to manhood; was married, Jan. 20, 1828, and, after several years' residence in Deerfield Township, he removed to Butler County; in 1850, returned to Warren County and located on the place where Mr. Williams now lives, and here resided till his death, Nov. 6, 1880, aged 84 years; his wife died in 1844; they had three children; two now survive—James Harvey and Mary; she was born in Deerfield Township July 31, 1835. Mr. Williams and wife have had eleven children; seven now survive —Harry Edgar, Anna Laura, John M , Martha Jane, G. Wilbur, Maggie May and Catharine Amanda. Mr. Williams, in 1859, located upon the farm where he now lives and has since resided. FRANCIS A. WILLIAMSON, M. D., deceased, (late of Waynesville), was born Nov. 14, 1812, at Manney's Neck, North Carolina, near the line of Virginia; was a son of Francis and Elizabeth (Worrel) Williamson, natives of Virginia, his ancestors being of Scotch descent. Mr. Williamson was possessed of a large estate, which was located partly in Virginia and partly in North Carolina, being at one time a large slave-owner, and was a very prominent man of that State—a man of good education and high intellectual attainments, a devoted Christian gentleman, and a minister in the Christian denomination for twenty years; a liberal thinker and progressionist, far ahead of most of his cotemporaries of that day, and convinced of the evil of slavery, he gratuitously liberated all his slaves; he was the father of six children; three now survive—Elijah, James, and Mary, now Mrs. Bryant, residing in Virginia. Our subject, at quite an early age, was sent to school and acquired a good education under the instructions of the teachers of Murfreesboro, N. C.; he early acquired a taste for literature, and about 1832 taught a classical school in Hanover, a., after which he read medicine with Dr. Trezvant, of Jerusalem, Va.; thence attended two courses of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and thence two courses at Cincinnati, and received his degree of M. D. in 1845. In 1837-38, he traveled over the Western States, lecturing on one of his favorite themes—phrenology; he visited jails, asylums and penitentiaries, traveling over twenty States of the Union, and occasionally delivering lectures before literary institutions. In December, 1839, was celebrated his union with Miss Miriam Pierce, who was born in Wilmington, Ohio, in 1822; she was a daughter of Richard and Mary (Fallis) Pierce, he a native of Wilmington, Del., and she of Virginia; the great-great-grandmother, Miriam Pierce, was a physician and nurse in the Revolutionary war, for which services she received $700 per year. The ancestors of the Fallis family were of English descent, and became early settlers of Virginia, and were among the most prominent families of that State; John Fallis, the father of Mary, became Very wealthy, owning large tracts of land in Pennsylvania, and later in life he 888 - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: owned 3,000 acres of land in Clinton Co., Ohio. Dr. Williamson and wife, by their union, had six children; four now survive-Mary, now Mrs. Cadwallader; Agnes E., Frank F. and Charles G. The Doctor was a successful practitioner of medicine and surgery forty years. In 1862, he entered into the exciting arena of the war as a Surgeon, and shortly after was, by Gen. Rosecrans, promoted to a Surgeon on his own staff. He was passionately devoted to his profession, and to the very last was a close student, ever keeping pace with the onward march of science and the unrestrainable progress of events. After the war; he settled down to the practice of his profession at his chosen home, leading a scholastic and domestic life, suited to his nature-fond of home, family, friends and books; and in their enjoyment he passed the early evening of his life, which ended before the night of old age and infirmity darkened down upon him; he died of paralysis, July 15, 1878. His widow, Mrs. Williamson, is very pleasantly situated, having a beautiful home and residence, with the society of a loving daughter and son; she was a faithful and devoted wife, and upon whom the Doctor relied to a great extent for his impulses of strength in his later years; she is also a physician of thirty years' practice or more, and has a noted reputation over a large extent of country for her magnetic powers and skill in the treatment of disease, her field of practice reaching to the large cities of Dayton, Cincinnati, Richmond, Chicago and others. ANDREW H. WILLIAMSON, farmer; P. 0. Waynesville; born near Trenveton, N. J., Sept. 4, 1819, is a son of John and Ann (Hagerman) Williamson, natives of New Jersey. John Williamson was a farmer in his native State, and lived and died there, departing this life in the spring of 1820, aged 35 years, leaving his widow with five small children, viz., Permelia, Eliza Sophia, Cornelius, Andrew H. and John, the latter being born six months after Mr. Williamson's death; two of the children, Andrew and Eliza, were taken and raised by their uncle, Andrew Hagerman, and the others Mrs. Williamson managed to keep and raise to maturity. About 1831, she, with her family, emigrated to Ohio and located in Warren County, where, the next year, she bought a farm in Clear Creek Township, and there resided till her death; she departed this life Dec. 6, 1859, in her 78th year of age. Our subject was about 16 months of age when his father died, and, as stated above, was raised by Mr. Hagerman, who emigrated to Warren County a few years prior to Mrs. Williamson and family. Andrew was married, Feb. 6, 1849, to Matilda, daughter of James and Catharine Boyle, he a native of Kentucky and she of New Jersey; they had nine children; five now survive Matilda, Amanda Jane, Achsha Anna, Joseph and James. Mr. Boyle came to Warren County when a boy; was raised and married here, and has always remained a resident of this county. His wife died Aug. 21, 1877. He is a resident of Lebanon, where he has lived thirty-three years, and is now 79 years of age. Matilda was born in Warren County July 6, 1827. Mr. Williamson and wife have had six children-Sylvan S., born March 18, 1850; Luella B., March 10, 1853; Florence Rosaline, Sept. 25, 1856; Harry H., April 4, 1860; Clifford Wade, March 8,1868; and Mary Maree, born Feb. 3, 1872. The eldest daughter, Luella B., was married, March 10, 1875, to Marion F. Ramsey, a native of Montgomery Co., Ohio, born Dec. 14, 1848, a son of Bloomfield and Matilda Ramsey, by whom she had one child, Ernest Waldo, born Dec, 29, 1876; Mr. Ramsey was killed by being kicked by a horse Aug. 13, 1880, aged 32 years. Mr. Williamson, after marriage, located on a farm near Lebanon, where he remained two years, thence moved to the old homestead place, the Williamson farm, near Ridgeville, where he resided twenty-four years. In February, 1876, they located upon their present farm. where they have since resided. This farm is known as the old Good farm, and beautifully located on a high elevation one mile east of Corwin. and constitutes a very pleasant home and farmer's residence. WAYNE TOWNSHIP - 889 GEORGE M. ZELL, undertaker and furniture-dealer, Waynesville, born in Harrison Co., W. Va., Oct. 8, 1814, is a son of John and Mary (Tyson) Zell, be a native of Pennsylvania and she of West Virginia; the grandfather, Jacob Zell, was a native of Pennsylvania, his father being born in Germany; Jacob Zell lived and died in his native State. The maternal grandfather, Enos Tyson, was born in Baltimore, Md., and eminent in the Quaker Church, as were also his ancestors, and noted for their philanthropy and the great aid and influence they gave to the anti-slavery cause in this country. About 1787, Mr. Tyson moved into Virginia and entered a large amount of lands under Gov. Lee, of that State, and there resided till his death, which occurred about 1820: their children grew to maturity, and most of them located in Ohio, and their mother, then a widow about 75 years of age, felt a great desire to go to her children, and though in the middle of the winter of 1829, she, aged as she was, started on horseback to make the entire journey, which she accomplished nicely ----a remarkable feat for a woman of her age; thence she resided with her children till her death, dying in Warren County in 1839, aged 86 years. John Zell, when but a boy, his mother having died, left his native State with the family who had raised him and settled in Virginia about the year 1800; there he grew to manhood and married, and became the father of twelve children-nine sons and three daughters of whom eight now survive--George M., Ruth H., Olive, Oliver, Edgar, Jacob, James Harvey and Benjamin Franklin; the first six mentioned were born in Virginia, and the last two in Ohio. Mr. Zell was a farmer by occupation; in the fall of 1828, he emigrated to Ohio and located in Clinton County; thence, in spring of 1836, located near Waynesville, where they resided till their death; she died in the summer of 1845, aged 50 years; he died in 1851, aged 60 years. Our subject, the eldest of his father's family, remained with his parents till of age, and rendered them great assistance when often they needed it in support of their large family. Mr. Zell has been twice married-first, in 1836, to Miss Eunice Kelley, a descendant of the old Quaker family from South Carolina who settled here in an early day; issue, three children-Harriet A., Cicero and Calvin. His wife died in the summer of 1845. In the spring of 1849, he was married to Mrs. Grace Hendley, daughter of Paul and Naomi Huston, natives of New Jersey; issue by this marriage, three children--Walter, Lola and Della; Mrs. Hendley had one child, William, by her first husband. Mr. Zell has spent his business life mostly in Waynesville; has done much for the public interests of this town and its surroundings; has been a great friend of schools and education; he took an active part in getting the system of graded schools established in Waynesville, and has been a member of the School Board twenty years; has held many offices of the village and township, as Constable, Assessor, etc. Mr. Zell is now in partnership with his son, Walter, and George W. Hawke, in the manufacture and sale of furniture and the undertaking business, which they have successfully carried on for six years.