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A. K. SCHAAF - 449 450 - BLANK WAYNE COUNTY - 451 handed from her door. Like her husband, she was all her life a member of the church, and was a good ChriStian woman. .Mr. and Mrs. Schaaf were parents of eight children: Rosanna, widow of Jeremiah Stutsman, of Wayne County ; Caroline, wife of Jacob Walters, of Mansfield, Ohio; Mary, wife of Victor Gallagher, of Wayne County; Adolph K. ; Edward C., also of Wayne County; Elizabeth, wife of Allen Schaffer, of Orrville; Michael M., in Wayne County, and one who died in infancy. Adolph K. Schaaf, the subject of this sketch, has been a resident of Wayne County all his life. In his youth he helped his father in the shop, and had charge of the forty-acre farm when they lived there. At the age of twenty-two he entered Fredericksburgh Academy, which he attended for three terms, subsequently attending for a term the school of James B. Taylor, in Smithville. Then he began teaching, following that profession for eleven winters. On giving up teaching he gave his entire attention for a year or two to farming, but his wife, to whom the property belonged, subsequently sold it, buying the place of about twelve acres in the corporation of Smithville, where they now live in a comfortable and commodious home. January 22, 1868, Mr. Schaaf was married to Mrs. Mary Greiner, widow of Jacob Greiner. Her maiden name was Bollinger, and she was born in Ashland County, Ohio, December 10, 1827. Her parents emigrated from Dauphin County, Penn., to Ohio in 1827, removing thence to Huntington County, Ind., where they died. Her father was a distiller in the East, but after coming West he gave his entire attention to farming. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church, of which for many years he was a deacon and elder. He bore an unblemished reputation, and was highly esteemed for his charity and other estimable qualities. Among both whites and Indians, who were numerous then, he was universally known as "Uncle Bollinger." In politics Mr. Schaaf is a Democrat. He has held the office of justice of the peace for three years, and has been notary public for the past three years, and is now in his second term. He is a member of the Knights of Maccabees, and is held in high esteem by his fellow-townsmen. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church. FREDERICK RICE, retired farmer, Chester Township, was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., in 1815. His grandfather, Frederick Rice, was also a native of. Pennsylvania, born in 1760, and for five years was a soldier 452 - WAYNE COUNTY. in the Revolutionary War, serving under Washington at Valley Forge and Trenton. Re married a Miss Lauffer, of Westmoreland County, Penn., and to them were born ten children, all of whom have been dead for many years. In 1812 he moved with his family to Wayne County, Ohio, and settled on a tract of wild land south of Wooster, where he improved a good farm, making it his home forty years. His death occurred in 1850. His son, Christian Rice, was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., in 1793, making that county his home until 1819, when he followed his father to Wayne County, Ohio. He located near Tylertown, settling on a tract of land his father had entered, on which he lived a number of years, when he purchased and moved to the farm now owned by his son Frederick. Christian Rice married Charlotte Hine, a native of Westmoreland County, Penn., and to them were born ten children, three of whom are now living. Frederick Rice, subject of our notice, as has already been seen, is a representative of one of the earliest pioneer families. He was early inured to the work of the farm, his education being only such as was obtained at the log school-house. He has been successful in the vocation of his choice, and now owns 400 acres of valuable land, which is divided into several farms, all being under cultivation. He is one of the prominent citizens of Chester Township, and is now enjoying the rest from labor and the esteem of numerous friends which his early life of usefulness so much merits. He was married in 1840 to Diana Firestone, daughter of John Firestone. They have had twelve . children, eleven of whom are living: Margaret Ann, Elizabeth, John, Charlotte, Simon, Rachel, Frank, Lydia, Jane, Frederick and Ann. Mr. and Mrs. Rice are members of the Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Democrat. JACOB SCHMUCK. This well-known citizen of Wooster has been a resident of Wayne County for about fifty-five years. His grandfather, also named Jacob, a German by birth, came to America with his parents when nine years old, settling in Pennsylvania ; his son, Henry, born in that State, was married in the Keystone State to Elizabeth Hymiller, who was also born there, and they became the parents of our subject. Seeking a better opportunity to acquire a home, the parents decided to take advantage of the rich soil of Wayne County, and came here in 1834, with a family- of eight children, viz.: Margaret, Henry, Jacob, Emanuel, Leah, Samuel, Elizabeth and Fanny, four of whOm are deceased; WAYNE COUNTY - 453 one is living in Indiana, and the remaining three in Wayne County. The parents settled on a farm in Plain Township, and . there spent the remainder of their lives, the father dying in 1860, aged seventy- four years, and the mother in 1875, at the ripe age of ninety-three years. After locating here Henry Schmuck had to clear his land, living in a log cabin until able to build a better house. At his death he left a finely improved farm. For some time after coming to this county he also followed his trade of a weaver. The subject of this sketch was born in Lancaster County, Penn., September 14, 1818, and, for his times, had good educational advantages in German. His father taught him his own trade, of weaving, in his boyhood, and after coming. to Wayne County he worked hard through the day, and at night attended school, to learn to read and write the English language. In 1843 Jacob Schmuck was united in marriage with Miss Catherine Reiner, a native of Wooster, and six children were born of this union: Reason A., one of the leading farmers of Stark County, Ohio; Solomon Henry, manufacturer of an adjustable chair, at Cleveland, Ohio, having in his employ over thirty hands; Jacob F., manufacturing and retailing furniture, and also engaged in the undertaking business, under the firm name of Landis & Schmuck, Wooster ; Harriet, de- ceased, was the wife of David C. Herr, a dealer in real estate and insurance, Cleveland, Ohio; Catherine, deceased, was the wife of Stephen Day, formerly dealer in stoves and tinware, Wooster, but now a farmer of Wayne County; Ethelinda is the wife of D. Y. Landis, of Wooster. In 1856 the mother passed to her last sleep, at the early age of thirty-five years, and Mr. Schmuck was subsequently married to Miss Rebecca Moon, a native of Stark County, Ohio, who is the mother of two children: Wallace Emmet and Amelia Jane, both living with their parents, and attending school. In 1869 our subject gave up farming and came to Wooster, where he built his present fine residence on North Bever Street, where he is now enjoying the results of a long life of industry and thrift. He began poor, and worked in Wayne County often for twenty or twenty-five cents a day. By enterprise, hard work and economy, he has reached a place where, in his declining years, he can enjoy an ample competence, the legitimate reward of his industrious life. He still owns his fine farm of over 200 acres, in Franklin Township, besides other property. He is a Republican in his political belief, but is invariably guided in his action by his mature judgment as to both men and measures. Himself and part of his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 454 - WAYNE COUNTY. and to-day he is probably as well and favorably known by its people as any citizen of Wayne County. ISAAC MILLER, farmer, Chester Township,was born in Wayne County, Ohio, August 8, 1834, a son of Abraham and Sarah (Rough) .Miller. Abraham Miller was born in Berks County, Penn., in 1803, and in 1805 his father, Jacob Miller, m oved to Columbiana County, Ohio, where he was reared. In 1829 he moved to Wayne County, and settled in Chester Township,where he bought eighty acres of land, to which he subsequently added until he owned 240 acres. He was by trade a blacksmith, at which he worked in connection with farming twenty-five or thirty years. He was twice married; first to Sarah Rough, and to them were born thirteen children, viz.: William, Jacob, Abraham, Mary, Isaac, Sarah, Samuel, John, George W., Daniel, Franklin, Amanda Jane and Benjamin N. Four of these children are deceased. After the mother's death the father married Lizzie Shenberger, and they have had four children: Matilda and Malinda (twins), Rebecca and Mathias. Isaac Miller was reared in his native county, receiving fair educational advantages. When seventeen years of age he learned the blacksmith's trade, following that vocation three years. He is now one of the prominent farmers of Chester Township, where he has a good farm of sixty-eight acres, all under cultivation, with good building improvements. He was married, in 1864, to Sarah Gaerte, daughter of Henry Gaerte, of Stark County, Ohio, and they have a family of four children, viz.: Ella J., David F., Zeno A. and Anna Z. (twins). In politics Mr. Miller is a Democrat. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. DAVID Y. LANDIS. This well- known business man of Wooster is a native of the Keystone State, born in Lehigh County, January 10, 1840. His father, William Landis, was also born in the same county, and was of Swiss extraction, his forefather having come to this country to escape religious persecution in his native land, where two of the family had been burned at the stake as heretics. They were believers in the Mennonite faith, and besides being a farmer, William Landis was until his death a preacher of that denomination. His wife was Mary Young, daughter of Peter and Susan Young, all natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Landis were blessed with eight children, of whom WAYNE COUNTY - 455 six are still living, three, Peter Y., William Y. and David Y., in Wayne County, and three, Enos Y., Owen Y. and Nathan Y., in Philadelphia, Penn. In 1848 the husband and father was called to his last home, and his widow continued to live in Pennsylvania until 1858, when she removed to Wayne County, and is still living here, aged eighty-two years. David Y. Landis, the subject of this sketch, received his education in the common schools of his native State, and at fourteen years of age began life for himself by learning the trade of cabinet-making and carving at Allentown, Penn. In 1860 he followed his mother to this county, and worked at his trade in Wooster until 1869, when he formed a partnership, and has ever since been engaged in business in Wooster. His present partner is Jacob F. Schmuck, and they carry on the furniture and undertaking business, having the largest stock of goods in their line in Wooster. In 1873 Mr. Landis was united in marriage with Miss Linnie Schmuck, a sister of his partner, and a native of Wayne County. Two children have been born to them: Lillie Belle and Daisy Dell, who are still under the parental roof. Mr. Landis has had to make his own way in the world, and the success he has achieved is due to his energy and industry, backed by good judgment, and made more certain by the reputation he has justly acquired of being a thoroughly honest business man, whose word can at all times be relied upon. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the I. 0. 0. F. He was a member of Capt. James H. Robinson's Company I, One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, enlisting August 5, 1862, and served for three years. He is now a member of Given Post, No. 133, G. A. R. ADAM FOREST JOHNSON, a well-known farmer of Wooster Township, was born in Salt Creek Township, Wayne County, Ohio, March 19, 1856. His grandfather, James Johnson, a native of Pennsylvania, married Mary White, and in 1816 they came to Wayne County, settling in Salt Creek Township on a piece of wild land, where the sound of the white man's ax had never been heard. Here they died, the grandfather in 1869, at the age of seventy years, and the grandmother in 1884, at the age of eighty-four. Four children, three sons and one daughter, were born to this couple, two of whom are yet living: St. Clair Johnson, in Salt Creek Township, Wayne County, and Mrs. Ruth Grant, in Stark County, Ohio. One son, William Johnson, father of Adam F., was 456 - WAYNE COUNTY. born in Fayette County, Penn., in 1815, and remained on the home farm until he was twenty-one years of age, at which time he married Mary Hatfield, a native of Wayne County, and daughter of Robert and Nancy Hatfield. In 1868 our subject's parents removed to Wooster Township, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of ten children, as follows: James W., who was for three years a soldier, and is now living in Salt Creek Township, this. county; Nancy M., deceased; Ruth E., residing in Wooster; Margaret L., now Mrs. Robert Mackey ; Catherine, now Mrs. B. C. Smith, of Fredericksburgh ; Jennie, living in Wooster; Adam F.; Lucinda B., a teacher in Wooster ; Homer R., deceased, and Ezra D., a resident of Indiana. The parents of this family died, the father in 1873, at the age of fifty-eight years, and the mother in 1883, at the age of sixty- two; both members of Apple Creek Pres,byterian Church, then of Fredericks- burgh, later of Wooster, of which church the family are also members. William Johnson passed a busy life, and did much toward the development of the county. He won success solely 4oy his own exertions, and without help from any adventitious circumstances. Politically he was first a Whig, and afterward, on the formation of the party, an active Republican. Adam F. Johnson has most of his life made his home near his parents' place, his sister keeping house for him part of the time. After some five years' residence on the "lower farm," he removed to the parental homestead, where he has since remained. In 1885 he was married to Miss Laura J. Searight, a native of Fredericksburgh, Wayne County, and a daughter of Gilbert and Matilda J. (McCullough) Searight. Mr. and Mrs. Adam F. Johnson have one child, named Adam ForeSt. The parents are members of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics Mr. Johnson is a Republican. He has met with success in life, and socially is highly esteemed and warmly beloved by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Gilbert Searight, father of Mrs. Adam F. Johnson, was a native of Salt Creek Township, Wayne County, Ohio, and was born on the farm on which he died. Here he grew to manhood, and in 1849 was married to Matilda J., .daughter of James and Sarah (McCall) McCullough, natives of Holmes County, Ohio. December 2, 1879, Mrs. Gilbert Searight died, aged nearly forty-seven years, and the mother of ten children, viz.: Ohio J., living in Fredericksburgh; William A., in Carlisle, Penn. ; John F., deceased; Leonard M., in Cook City, Montana; Laura J., now Mrs. Adam F. Johnson ; Lucinda F., now Mrs. H. C. Bishop, in Mount Vernon, Knox County; Sadie M. and Frank D., at home; WAYNE COUNTY - 457 Annie D. died in 1875; Gilbert S. died in October, 1888. For his second wife Mr. Gilbert Searight married, June 30, 1885, Miss Nancy Haley, and on July 7, 1888, he departed this life, at the age of sixty-nine years. He was a stanch Republican, and a member and deacon of the Presbyterian Church of Fredericksburgh. Before there were any churches in the locality services were held in his house, and he gave the land for the church. His widow, Mrs. Nancy Searight, continues to live at the old home place, at Fredericksburgh. William Searight, father of Gilbert Searight, was a native of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Penn., born October 17, 1779, the son of a Revolutionary soldier, who came from Ireland in about 1760, settling in Carlisle, Penn. William Sea- right married, in Carlisle, Miss Jane Johnston, and in 1811 they removed to Salt Creek Township, this county, where they settled on the 460-acre tract he had entered shortly before, and which now constitutes the home farm of the family. Here they endured all the trials and hardships of pioneer life, and for a long time were the only family in Salt Creek Township, their nearest neighbors being residents of that part of Holmes County now known as Prairie Township. William Searight built, in 1813, the first saw-mill On Salt Creek, a short distance from the residence of Gilbert Searight. William was a man of large physical proportions, weighing 300 pounds. He died July 16, 1846, and his wife in February, 1848. The paternal and maternal grandparents of Mrs. Adam F. Johnson came to this country together (from Pennsylvania), her maternal grandparents settling in Holmes County, becoming the nearest neighbors of William Searight, and the first blockhouse in the country was built there. CHARLES A. LERCH, M. D., was born in Plain Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, .in 1852, one of four children born to Philip and Margaret Lerch, namely: Luther, born in October, 1847; Eliza Jane, born in 1849; Charles A.; and Laura H., born in 1855, and died in 1862. The family moved from Pennsylvania to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1850. The subject of this biographical memoir attended Smithville High ,School three years, entering in 1870, and then engaged in teaching and studying medicine for several years, pursuing a course at Cleveland (Ohio) Medical College, from there going to Cincinnati, where he graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1877. The Doctor then located at Burbank, Wayne Co., Ohio, where he practiced medicine 458 - WAYNE COUNTY. for about two and a half years; thence moved to Huntington, Ohio, remaining for about the same length of time in the practice of his chosen profession, and then located in Blachleyville, Plain Township, Wayne County, and from there moved to Wooster, Ohio, January 3, 1889, where, as a successful medical practitioner, he enjoys, both in the town and a wide country ride, unqualified confidence and respect. Dr. Lerch was married, in 1874, to Jennie Fish, of New Brighton, Penn., by whom he had the following-named children: William L., born November 19, 1876; Ethel Annie, born March 13, 1879, and an infant that died in 1882. The Doctor and family are members of the Lutheran Church of Wooster. CHARLES GASCHE. This old and honored citizen of Wooster has been a resident of the place for more than half a century. He was born in Wetzlar, Kingdom of Prussia, June 10, 1810, and is now, therefore, well advanced in years. His father, also named Charles, was married to Catherine Eisengarth, and came with his family to America in June, 1833, locating first in York, Penn., but moving later to Wooster, where they arrived October 13, 1835. He was a physician and surgeon in his native land, being for thirty years connected with a hospital there, and he continued the practice of his profession in this country. He was a man of wide experience and of great skill, particularly in surgery. His wife died in Holmes County in 1842, aged fifty-eight years, and he in 1862, in Fulton County, Ohio, at the ripe age of eighty-three years; both were members of the Lutheran Church. They were the parents of eight children, one of whom died in the old country, the other seven accompanying them to America. The subject of our sketch was educated in his native land, and when a boy was apprenticed to the trade of a carpenter and cabinet-maker. He also served his allotted time of three years in the Prussian army. After his immigration to this country he worked at his trade in York, Penn., and in Wooster, Ohio, he continued actively engaged in same until 1884, when he retired to enjoy a well- earned repose. April 7, 1835, in York, Penn., Mr. Gasche was united in marriage with Barbara Minich, a native of Bavaria, who when seventeen years old came to this country with her parents, who settled in Pennsylvania, where both died. Of this union seven children were born (six of whom are still living) : Catherine, wife of Ernest Thomen, in Wooster; Anna, wife of Frederick Aumann, living with her parents; Charles C., a resident of WAYNE COUNTY - 459 Wooster ; Frederick W., in Millersburgh, Holmes County ; Julius, a farmer in Holmes County, Ohio; Nettie M., wife of Prof. Collins, of Oxford, Ohio. where lie is professor of mathematics and astronomy, and Oscar Theodore, who died in infancy. Our subject has always been interested in political affairs, but has in the exercise of his suffrage been guided by his judgment rather than by party dictation. He was always a friend of freedom, and abandoned the idea. of settling in Missouri because it was a shoe State. For eight years he was a member of the town council of Wooster; for two years was township trustee, and for eight years was a director of the infirmary. He is affiliated with the Temple of Honor and of the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are respected members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. When he first came to Wooster it was but a small place of about 1,000 inhabitants, and had but poor school facilities, but Mr. Gasche identified himself with those who favored better educational advantages, and, although opposed by some, they succeeded in their object. When the Wooster University project was started he took a warm interest in it, contributing liberally toward its building, and has been a warm friend of the institution. He is really the father of the Children's Home, as it was mainly through his efforts the project was submitted to the people and carried by a majority of 2,300. Mr. Gasche is self-made in the best signification of the word. He was enterprising, and started with a determination to succeed. Soon after coming to Wooster he was afflicted with rheumatism, and while yet compelled to go on crutches, often hobbled before daylight to his bench, working all day, with sometimes but a scanty dinner. But he struggled on, and, encouraged and aided by his devoted wife, he made a marked success, and stands to-day one of- the best known and highly respected citizens of Wayne County, in whose advancement he has been a potent factor. J. R. WACHTEL, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Riddle) Wachtel, was born in Plain Township; Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1834. Jacob Wachtel came from Virginia, located in Wayne County, Ohio, and was married in what is now Ashland County. He was a farmer, and located on what is known as the Ball farm. After making several purchases and sales he finally settled near Mohicanville, where he died. Elizabeth, his widow, moved to Iowa, where she died in 1866. They had two children: Elizabeth, the late Mrs. A. D. Robison, of Lynn County, Iowa, who 460 - WAYNE COUNTY. died in September, 1865, and the subject of this memoir. J. R., however, had two half brothers and one half sister: Jacob, deceased; Henry, in Mohicanville, engaged in mercantile pursuits, and Catherine, deceased. J. R. Wachtel was reared in Ohio, and in 1852 went to California, arriving at his destination August 17, where he remained engaged in mining for a period of thirteen years, returning August 17, 1865. In 1867 he married Laurenza, daughter of John and Sarah Finley, located at Mohicanville, and removed to Shreve September 2, 1879, where he has since been engaged in the dry goods trade. To them one daughter was born, Clara, who died when eleven years of age, and they have since adopted a child, Lula, now (1888) a girl of twelve years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Wachtel are members of the Disciples Church. Politically he is an ardent Democrat. MRS. M. J. McBRIDE, widow of John K. McBride, is a native of Wooster, born in the house where she now lives April 23, 1823. With the exception of eight years her entire life has been passed in Wooster, where she was educated in a select school taught by Mrs. McKee. In 1844 she was united in marriage with Mr. John K. McBride, who was born in Westmoreland. County, Penn., in 1809. His parents, Alexander and Anna J. (Kelly) McBride, were also natives of that State. When Mr. McBride was a small boy his parents decided to come to Ohio, and on arriving here settled on a farm three miles from Wooster. In 1863 the mother passed away, at the age of seventy-five, and in 1869 the father followed her to the grave; aged eighty-four years. He had farmed until too old for active labor, when he retired to Wooster. The early life of John K. McBride was passed upon the farm, and his eduCation was obtained at the country schools. When about eighteen years old he began learning the trade of a chair-maker, but later entered mercantile life, continuing therein until 1863, in which year he was elected probate judge of Wayne County, which position he filled for two terms. This decided him to enter the profession of law, and the rest of his life was passed in its study and practice, and he was very successful and prosperous. He was elected a member of the constitutional convention of 1872, which drafted the present constitution of the State. November 6, 1886, Mr. McBride was called to his last rest, at the age of seventy-seven years. He had been twice married, and by his first marriage became father of two chil- WAYNE COUNTY - 461 dren, one of whom is yet living, Harry, a commission merchant in New York City. Of his marriage with the estimable lady whose name heads this sketch one son was born, Thomas A., who became a physician, and practiced in New York, where he attained considerable eminence. He died in August, 1886, while returning from Europe on the steamer " Aller," and was buried at sea, having been for the benefit of his health to the Carlsbad Springs, Germany. This blow was a heavy one for the parents, and undoubtedly hastened the death of the father. Dr. McBride was a graduate of Kenyon College, Ohio, and had also graduated in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. John K. McBride occupied a prominent position in the business and social circles of the county. He was a member of the Odd Fellows order, of the Knights of Pythias, and in his earlier life became a Freemason. He was truly a self- made man, who by his own energy and close application won the large measure of the success which he achieved. He was universally respected in the commu, nity, andhad the entire confidence of every, one who knew him. He and his estimable wife were both active members of the Episcopal Church in Wooster. Since the death of her husband, Mrs McBride has resided in her childhood's home in Wooster with her widowed sister, Mrs. M. A. Shively, and is calmly awaiting the summons which shall reunite her to him who has gone before. All of the family are well known in Wooster, where they are held in the highest regard. MARTHA A. SHIVELY is the widow of A. R. Shively, one of Wooster's formerly well-known citizens. She was born in the house where she now lives, in Wooster, May 5, 1831. Her family history is more fully given under the name of her brother, Dr. James D. Robison, on another page. On May 15, 1856, she was united in marriage with A. R. Shively, a native of Pottsville, Penn., and later a resident of Reading, Penn. At the age of twenty- two he came to Wooster, and embarked in the foundry business, which he had learned in his native State, carrying it on in connection with an uncle. Here he lived the rest of his life, dying in February, 1870, when but thirty-nine years of age. By this marriage Mrs. Shively became the mother of six children: Ellen D., wife of Rev. W. S. Cochran, of Caryopolis; John McB., a resident of Montana; Ann, Mrs. Hugh M. Annat, of Wooster ; Edward, living in Cleveland, Ohio; and George I. and Martha L., with their mother. Mr. Shively was one of Wooster's progressive business men, and his loss was felt in the community, where he was esteemed as an upright man and a good 462 - WAYNE COUNTY. citizen. Since her husband's demise, Mrs. Shively has continued to live in her old home. She is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Wooster, and is much respected. REV. ELIAS SCHROCK. Peter . Schrock came to Wayne County in 1818, bought 120 acres of land in Greene. Township, and there remained until he died. He was born in Somerset County, Penn., in 1795. His father, Casper Schrock, was a native of Germany, and came to America at an early period, and settled in Pennsylvania. Nine children were born to this pioneer, of whom Peter was the youngest, and was reared in his native county, and remained there until 1818. He married Sarah Miller, daughter of Yost Miller, of Holmes County, Ohio, formerly of Pennsylvania. Three sons and five daughters were born to Peter and his wife. He was a well-to-do farmer, having f011owed farming throughout life, and was also a minister in the Amish Church. Elias Schrock was the second son and fifth child of his parents, and was born in 1829. He was educated in the common schools, and has principally followed farming. He was married in 1853 to Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Stutzman, formerly a resident of Somerset County, Penn. They have no children living. Mr. Schrock has been a minister of the gospel for twenty-five years in the Church of the " Brethren in Christ." In 1859 he purchased his present farm of eighty- four acres, formerly the Landis property. CAPT. HORACE N. CLEMENS was born September 18,1854, on a farm near the village of Etna, Licking County, Ohio, and is the first born and only son of David L. and Urania (Knowles) Clemens. Until arriving at the age of twenty he worked with his father on the farm, attending the village school during the winter seasons, thus acquiring a fair common-school education. During the school year of 1872-73 he attended the high school at Ashtabula, Ohio, taking a course in some of the higher branches of study. In the fall of 1874 lie came to Wooster and entered the senior class of the preparatory department of the University of Wooster. He pursued his course of study in this institution without interruption, graduating in June, 1879, with the degree of A. B., being the third honor man in a class of thirty-one. During his college course he displayed marked talent as a writer and orator, being awarded the first . WAYNE COUNTY - 463 prize in the junior oratorical contest in ' June, 1878. In 1881 the University of Wooster conferred upon him the degree of A. M. After graduation he entered the law office of Downing & Yocum, in Wooster, as a student of law, but in November, 1879, he was called upon to temporarily take a position as local editor of the Wooster Republican,* owing to the protracted illness of Mr. J. G. * The Wooster Republican bears the distinguished honor of being the first newspaper ever published in Wayne County. In the earlier part of the year 1817 the late Judge Levi Cox established and began the publication of a weekly paper, called the Ohio Spectator, in the village of Wooster. In a few months Judge Cox took into partnership with him Samuel Baldwin, and the publication of the paper continued under the proprietorship of Cox & Baldwin. At the end of the first year Judge Cox retired from the firm, Mr. Asa W. W. Hickox taking his place. Mr. Hickox, however, left at the end of a year's connection with the paper, and Mr. Baldwin continued its publication alone, but being bodily infirm, he soon fell a victim to that dread disease, consumption. Dr. Thomas Townsend, a relative of the deceased, assumed the control of the paper and closed out the remainder of Mr. Bald- win's year. At the end of the year the paper became defunct. Judge Cox having a lien upon the office resumed the possession of it, and soon thereafter issued proposals for a renewal of the 6pectator. He finally sold the fixtures, etc., of the office to Mr. Benjamin Bently, of Wooster, who took into partnership with him a Mr. Clingan. The new firm accordingly revived the. defunct paper, and on the 13th of January, 1820, began its issue under the name of the Wooster Spectator. This firm continued the publication for two years, when Mr. Bently withdrew, selling his interest to Mr. Clingan, who conducted the paper himself for five years longer. In the spring of 1826 Col. John Barr, of Hagerstown, Md., bought the office, and for about four years issued the paper under the title of the Ohio Oracle, devoted to the support of Gen. Jackson for president. Col. Barr sold his office to David Sloane, of Wooster, who issued the paper under the name of the Wooster Journal and Democratic Times. After issuing this paper for four years he transferred it to his brother-in-law, J. W. Schuckers, who published it for a like period. Mr. Schuckers disposed of the concern to Daniel Sprague, who took charge of it June 23, 1836, conducting it under the same caption, the Wooster Journal and Democratic Times. On September 16, 1840, he changed the title of the paper to the Wooster Democrat. After conducting the paper in a most successful manner for over sixteen years he disposed of it, his successors, H. C. Johnson and Enos Foreman, assuming control of it August 5, 1852. On May 12, 1853. its managers resolved to change the name of the paper,and thereafter it was published under its present title, the Wooster Republican. On August 12, 1858, Mr. Johnson retired from the management of the office, Mr. Foreman becoming both sole proprietor and editor. On July 25, 1861, Mr. Foreman issued a daily from the Republican office, which was continued without intermission until November 30. 1861. This was the first daily ever published in Wayne County, and was devoted almost exclusively to war news. Mr. Foreman sold the paper, August 4, 1870, to Capt. A. S. McClure, Joseph G. Sanborn and L. Jeff Sprengle, who at once assumed the proprietorship of the Republican, under the firm name of McClure, Sanborn & Co., Capt. McClure taking charge as editor, and Mr. Sanborn as business manager, Mr. Sprengle simply holding his interest as a silent partner in the concern. In November, 1879, Mr. Sanborn was stricken down with a protracted spell of fever, and Mr. H. N. Clemens was called in to temporarily take the business management and act as local editor. About the time Mr. Sanborn had recovered his health sufficiently to resume his work, Capt. McClure was nominated for Congress, being elected in the fall of 1880. In the meantime Mr. Clemens was retained in the employ of the firm, being permanently employed as city editor of the paper upon Capt. McClure's retirement to take his seat in Congress, Mr. Sanborn taking McClure's place as editor. On August 1, 1882, Mr. Clemens purchased the one-third interest of L. Jeff Sprengle, and became an active partner in the concern. Mr. Sanborn conducted the paper as its editor until January 1, 1884, when Capt. McClure returned and resumed the editorial management. On April 1, 1885, Mr. Sanborn sold his one-third interest in the paper to Peter C. Given, who did not actively become connected with the paper. At the same time the firm name was changed to McClure & Clemens. Capt. McClure retired from the editorial management of the paper, Mr. Clemens assuming both its editorial and business management, which position he still fills. On June 27, 1887, Mr. Clemens purchased Mr. Given's interest, thus becoming the two-thirds and controlling owner of the Republican. On this date also the style of the firm was changed to H. N. Clemens & Co., Capt. McClure still retaining his one-third interest in the concern. On October 27, 1887, Mr. Clemens began the publication of a five-column, four-page daily, under the name of the Wooster Morning Republican. On June 3, 1889, the daily was changed to a six-column, four-page afternoon paper, and has since been published under the name of the Wooster Daily Republican. Both the daily and weekly Republican are now in a flourishing condition, the daily being the only daily paper published in Wayne County. The Republican is the only Republican paper published in the county, and is the official organ of the party in Wayne County. 464 - WAYNE COUNTY. Sanborn, one of the proprietors of that paper, and its local editor. Mr. Clemens continued to fill this position until April, 1881, when he was offered the position of book-keeper and local editor by the proprietors of the paper, which he accepted. In the summer of 1882 he purchased an interest in the Republican, and in 1887 became the business manager and editor of that paper. As editor and manager of the Republican he has been very successful, and, though yet young in years, has already taken rank with the recognized leaders in the editorial profession in Ohio. In 1881 Capt. Clemens enlisted as a private in the Wooster City Guard, Company D, Eighth Regiment of Infantry, Ohio National Guard, and was soon pro-. moted to the rank of fifth sergeant. From time to time he was promoted from one grade to another until he was made the first sergeant of the company May 30, 1883. At the expiration of his first term of service he re-enlisted, and June 30, 1886, was elected and commissioned second lieutenant of the company. A vacancy occurring in the captaincy of the company, he was elected captain by an almost unanimous vote of the company, and received his commission from Gov. Foraker November 23, 1886. Capt. Clemens has ably continued the work begun by his predecessors, and has the honor of commanding what is recognized as the crack company of the Ohio National Guard. On Aligust 5, 1885, Capt. Clemens was married to Miss Flora Elizabeth Kauke, the youngest daughter of John H. Kauke, one of Wooster's oldest and wealthiest citizens. WILLIAM DEXTER TYLER, an esteemed young business man of Wooster, Ohio, was born in Herkimer County, N. Y., in 1853, of Scotch-English extraction, his ancestors having come to America at an early date, the paternal grandfather having served in the Revolution. The grandparents all died in the East. William F. Tyler, the father of our subject, married Miss Hannah Pratt, a native of Connecticut, who bore him four children, of whom William D. is the only son. In 1859 the parents came to Ohio, and have since made their home in Mansfield, the father having retired from business in 1877. William D. Tyler, or " Dex. .Tyler," as he is more commonly called, received a practical business education, and while yet but a boy began clerking. Some years later he became a traveling salesman, in which capacity he continued for several years. In 1881 he was united in marriage with Miss Melissa A., daughter of WAYNE COUNTY - 465 Jacob and Elizabeth Frick, of Wooster, and they have two children, Frick and Walter. In 1882 Mr. Tyler came from Cincinnati to Wooster, since which time he has been engaged in the grain busi. ness as a partner with his father-in-law. He later became, and still continues, a stockholder and director in the Wayne County National Bank. Politically Mr. Tyler is a Republican, a most earnest worker in the cause, and liberal to every public good. In acknowledgment of his interest and liberality the Wooster Hook and Ladder Company, one of the swiftest and most efficient in the State, now bears the name "The Dex. Tyler." Mr. Tyler is a member of the Royal Arcanum and Knights of Honor, and is a Knight Templar. JOHN ELEY. This well-known resident of the city of Wooster comes of German ancestry, and was born in Franklin County, Penn., in July, 1803. His grandfather, Christian Eley, came from Germany, and settled in the county and State above named, where his son John, the father of our subject, was born. John Eley, Sr., was a Revolutionary soldier, was in Washington's army, and died in Franklin County in 1835. His widow, who was a Miss Mary Neff, afterward moved to Indiana, where she died. She bore her husband seven children, of whom the subject of this sketch and his brother David are the sole survivors. John Eley, whose name heads this sketch, had the advantage of the old-time pay school, and when a boy began learn-. ing of his father the trade of coopering, which he followed for forty years. In 1825 he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Dice, a native of Franklin County, Penn., with whom he lived in happy wedlock for nearly sixty years. She died in January, 1883, aged seventy-three years. Seven children were born of their union, as follows: Margaret, now Mrs. Enoch Smith, in East Union . Township, this county; John, in Toledo, Ohio; Stephen, living near Toledo; Sarah, wife of George Winters, of Toledo; Samuel, Elijah and an unnamed infant (deceased). Mr. Eley has been the architect of his own fortunes. He started in life without a dollar, his only capital being the trade taught him by his father. A long life of industry and thrift brought its fitting recompense, however, and to-day, in his old age, he is in possession of a hard-earned and well-deserved competence. He and his faithful wife reared their children to be good men and women, and before the mother's departure the parents had the happiness of 466 - WAYNE COUNTY. seeing their offspring all well settled in life, and occupying honorable positions in society. In his political convictions Mr. Eley has always been a Democrat, but liberal in his ideas, and tolerant of the opinions of others. He and his beloved wife were for many .years members of the Lutheran Church. He has spent many years in Wayne County, where his worth as a man and a citizen has always been recognized and appreciated, and where he has ever borne an honorable name and repute, and he has done his share to promote the prosperity of his adopted home, His children established in homes of their own, and his devoted wife gone to her reward, the venerable father and widower, now in his eighty-sixth .year, ris living alone,calmly awaiting the summons which shall reunite him to his long-loved companion on the other shore. SAMUEL WHITMORE was born in Franklin County, Penn., February 3, 1816, a son of Samuel Whitmore, who was native of Virginia, and married to Susan Over, of Lancaster County, Penn. Samuel, the subject of this memoir, came to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1846, and hired to work on the farm he now owns. His parents came in 1851, and located on an adjoining farm,where the father died in 1867, and the mother in 1884. They were prominent members of the United Brethren Church. They reared eight children, all of whom are dead except Ephraim, in Congress Township, Wayne County ; Hiram, in Westfield Township, Medina Co., Ohio; E. D., in Wooster, Ohio; Rebecca, wife of George Ogler, of Wooster, and Samuel, the subject of this sketch, who is the eldest living, and a farmer by occupation. He married, in Franklin County, Penn., in 1845, Miss Catherine, daughter of Thomas McCracken, and by this union there were five children, two of whom died in infancy. The living are Thomas, a farmer of Medina County, Ohio, married to Calista Bessey, of Medina County, and has four children: Charles, Margaret, Mary and Russell; Samuel, a farmer of Medina County, married to Jeanette, daughter of John Kinney, of Creston, Wayne County, and has four children: Maud, Mary, Frank and Paul; Loretta Jane, wife of John Slutz, of Buena Vista County, Iowa. Mr. Whitmore lived in Medina County, Ohio, for thirteen years, and while there he served as school director of Westfield Township. He is a prominent and stanch supporter of the Republican party. He is a consistent member of the Burbank United Brethren Church. SAMUEL WHITMORE - 467 468 - BLANK WAYNE COUNTY - 469 D. C. KEAN. About the time of the Revolution there came from Ireland to this country Neal and John Kean, brothers, who settled in or about Harrisburgh, Penn., John at one time keeping store in Harrisburgh, and Neal residing on a farm in Mifflin County, Penn. There were born to him and his. wife, whose maiden name was Patty Reiden, nine children: George, Charles, William, Joseph, Elizabeth, Catherine, Polly, Margaret and Rebecca. Of these, Joseph married Sophia White, and about 1800 moved west to the Ohio River, where a family of eight children were born to them, as follows: William, Elizabeth, Joseph, John, Ann, Catherine, Sophia and Kearns. William Kean came in 1818 to Wayne County, Ohio, and settled with his father, Joseph Kean, on a farm in Plain Township, where were born to him six children, viz.: Dewitt C., sketch of whom follows; Sophia, wife of E. G. Ebright, near Shreve, this county; Anner, with her sister near Shreve; Augustus C., now on a farm in Clinton Township, this county; John, who died in the army during the Rebellion, and Tamar, wife of A. B. Oldroid, near Shreve. D. C. KEAN, a prominent farmer of Plain Township, was born on the farm whereon he now resides, April 14, 1832, a son of William Kean, who came from Pennsylvania about 1818, and settled in Plain Township. He was reared in his native township, and, being of a literary turn of mind, acquired a good education, then began teaching when a young man, a vocation he pursued until about five years since. He has also been successfully engaged in farming, owns a beautiful home, and is one of the well-to-do farmers of the township. Mr. Kean was married in 1854 to Mary Elizabeth Brubaker, of Ashland County, Ohio, and they have seven children: William F., born February 9, 1855, an attorney, of Wooster; George E., born August 12, 1856, a farmer and school-teacher near Springville, Plain Township, having been educated at the University of Wooster; Olin L., M. D., born December 22, 1858, practicing his profession at Creston, this county (is surgeon for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, and is patentee of a local anaesthetic for the painless extraction of teeth.) ; Gertrude, born January 12, 1860, residing at home ; Orange J., born September 18, 1864, on the farm ; Lura B., born March 5, 1866, at home, following the profession of teaching, being a graduate of the University of Wooster; and Estella, born June 8, 1874, at home. For eighteen years Mrs. Kean has been unable to attend to the cares of her home, being disabled by rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. Kean are members of the Methodist Epis- 470 - WAYNE COUNTY. copal Church, and are among its most liberal supporters; he is a Republican. W. F. KEAN, a well-known young lawyer of Wooster, is a native of the county, born in Plain Township February 9, 1855, on a farm which had been taken up by his great-grandfather, Joseph Kean, one of the pioneers of the county. His father now owns and lives upon that farm, which was his birthplace also. The grandparents came from Pennsylvania at a very early day, and both passed the remainder of their lives in this county. The grandfather, William Kean, grew to manhood on the home farm, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Jane Case, both of whom are deceased. Dewitt C. Kean, father of our subject, has made the farm his life-long home. His wife is Mary, daughter of George and Elizabeth Brubaker, of Pennsylvania, she having come to Ashland County with her parents when three years old. The subject of these lines made his home on the farm until he was about twenty-one years of age. He was edu.cated in the Smithville Academy and in the school at Shreve, and later in the University at Wooster, whence he graduated in 1881. Deciding on entering the profession of law, he studied in the office of McClure & Smyser, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1886, since when he has been practicing in Wooster. In 1883 Mr. Kean was married to Alice A. Smith, of Ashland County, Ohio, born in 1855, at Hayesville, where she received a good education, particularly in music. Three children came to our subject and wife, two deceased in infancy, and Clara E., born January 29, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Kean are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is associated With the Knights of the Maccabees. He is justly regarded as a rising young citizen of the county, of irreproachable character &lid habits, and one who has a bright future before him. WILLIAM W. WELDAY is a. son of Abraham and Mary (Foster) Welday. Abraham Welday, the grandfather of William W., and who was a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, settled in Milton Township, Wayne County, at an early day, where he lived until his death. The father of William W. was born in Milton Township, Wayne County, in 1831, and after his marriage purchased a farm near Amwell, afterward engaging in farming in Medina County. In 1883 he moved into Seville, where he com- WAYNE COUNTY - 471 menced the business of buying horses and tobacco. His family consisted of six children, viz. : Frank, in Burbank, married to Miss Alice Heywood (they have three children—Orin, Mary and Ellen) ; William W. ; Charles, living with William W. ; Leslie, Effie and Roy, at home. The subject of this biographical memoir was born in Milton Township, Wayne County, Ohio, May 4, 1860, and in 1881 was married to Miss Clara, daughter of Alfred Glesner, of Sterling. Mr. and Mrs. Welday have two children—Lula and Bessie. In 1887 Mr. Welday purchased a farm of forty-two acres in Canaan Township, this county, where he lived two years, and then sold, he and his brother Charles buying the old homestead in Guilford Township, Medina County, where they carry on farming, and pay considerable attention to the raising and breeding of Percheron-Norman horses. William W. Welday is a Democrat. THEODORE A. KRYSHER, retired merchant, Smithville, Wayne Co., Ohio, is the only son of Daniel and Cassiah (Bowman) Krysher, natives of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Krysher's father went from his home in the Cumberland Valley to Lexington, Ky., to purchase a tract of several hundred acres of land, but was there taken ill, died and was buried. His wife, Anna Bowman, lived to the extreme age of ninety-four years and one month, dying at the home of her daughter, mother of our subject, in Smithville, May 16, 1868. Daniel Krysher was born in Cumberland County, Penn., January 8, 1801. He was educated to mercantile pursuits, and first embarked in business for himself in Mechanicsburgh, in that county, in partnership with David Bernheiser. On the dissolution of their partnership he removed to Kingstown, in the same county. From there he went to Churchtown, where he built a fine brick residence and a large stone building, where for eighteen years he carried on a successful business. He was married while in Mechanicsburgh, and his wife's relatives being mostly settled in Wayne County, Ohio, he removed here, buying a farm adjoining Smithville. He also bought out the general store of Paul & Zimmerman, in Smithville, and taking his son Theodore into partnership, under the firm name of D. Krysher & Son, they there conducted a successful business for five years, the management of the concern being entirely in Theodore's hands. The father died in the house where the son now lives, December 6, 1885, aged eighty-five years. Mr. Krysher never sought office or notoriety, but was postmaster at Churchtown, 472 - WAYNE COUNTY. Penn., for eighteen years. He was of a quiet disposition, honest and trustworthy, beloved and respected by all who knew him, and his death was sincerely mourned, although he had reached a ripe old age. His marriage took place in 1828, Miss Cassiah Bowman becoming his wife. She was born August 20, 1806, in York County, Penn., on a farm close to the lines of Cumberland and Dauphin Counties. She died June 23, 1885, a few months prior to her husband, and their remains are laid side by side in Oak Hill Cemetery, at Wooster, Ohio. Mrs. Krysher was a woman of a very lovable character. She was a bright example of a Christian lady, kind, generous and hospitable, always ready to help the poor, the unfortunate and the distressed, relieving their wants and speaking kind words of comfort and hope. She had hosts of ,friends, and not an enemy in the world. A faithful wife and devoted 'mother, her decease was mourned not only by her relatives, but also by a large circle of friends, to whom she was greatly endeared. Daniel Krysher and wife had one son, Theodore A., and two daughters, Mary Ann (wife of Cyrus Bowman, who owns the Cedar Valley Distillery, at Wooster, OhiO) and Adeline Elizabeth (wife of Moses Morrett, who is connected with the Snow Flake Mill, at Wooster). Theodore A., the subject of this sketch, was born in Mechanicsburgh, Penn., March 15, 1829. When of suitable age he entered his father's store, at Churchtown, as salesman, in which capacity he remained until he was twenty-one years old, and in 1851, when twenty-two years of age, came with his parents to Smithville. As stated, he was in business, in partnership with his father, for five years. Selling out in 1856, he and J. S. Paul bought the property in Greene Township known as the old Ruble farm. Farming that year was not profitable, owing- to the weevil, which eat up the wheat, and he sold out to his partner, one year's experience of agricultural life satisfying him. He then engaged in dealing in horses and other stock, having a partner in Cincinnati. While in this business he spent five years in Kentucky, and during the Civil War sold many horses to the Government. Here he met the great misfortune of his life. In Lexington he was attacked by a drunken man, who stabbed him in the left eye, and also in the back of the head. The latter wound was thought to be very dangerous, but it healed all right; the cut in the eye, however, caused loss of sight in that organ. His other eye troubling him, on his return to Ohio he consulted an oculist, in the hope of getting relief. He was advised to have the eye extracted, but instead of bettering the other eye, total blindness was the result. Notwith- WAYNE COUNTY - 473 standing this affliction, Mr. Krysher has preserved an equable frame of mind, and bears his misfortune uncomplainingly, being more cheerful than many who have much less cause to repine, and he attends personally to all his own affairs, besides taking a somewhat prominent part in public matters. Mr. Krysher has always been a stanch Democrat, and both before and since his loss of sight has been a valuable worker for his party. Though often urged, he would never consent to hold public office, but his party associates have insisted on his being a delegate to almost every convention in the district, State, congressional, senatorial, judicial, etc., where he made his influence largely felt, and he has always been active in advocating his party's principles. A man of much more than ordinary intelligence, and uncommonly well read, of keen and shrewd judgment, Mr. Krysher is constantly consulted by his neighbors, who have come to rely upon his advice in all complicated matters, the position of adviser being one for which his early reading of the law eminently fits him. He continues to live in the old home in Smithville, and to-day takes as much interest in the welfare of the country as before his loss of sight, having the leading journals read to him, and keeping well posted as to all public affairs. HENRY C. TEAGLE, son of William and Ruth (Porter) Teagle, was born in Franklin Township, Wayne County, Ohio, in 1851. William Porter, his maternal grandfather, was a native of England (where he married Deborah Salster), and from there came to America, locating in Canaan Township, Wayne County, Ohio, where he became a farmer and lived the remainder of his life. He had one son who died in the English army, and three other children, who came to America with him, viz. : Sarah, Ruth and Charles. Of these, Sarah (now deceased) married Thomas Cary, of Defiance County, Ohio, a prominent farmer and representative man; Charles began life in an humble way, but by integrity, ability and perseverance acquired a handsome competency (he died in 1875) ; Ruth married William Teagle in 1849, and they located in Franklin Township, this county, where he followed his trade of mason. He acquired his education in England, by attending night schools, married in America, and reared a family of six children: Henry C. and Lavina (twins), George, William, Eliza Anna and Maggie Bell. Of these, George married Artilla Stanford, and removed to Michigan, where they now live; William married and located at Creston, this county; Eliza Anna is now Mrs. Daniel Mahony, also of 474 - WAYNE COUNTY. Creston; Lavina married John Zimmerman, and now lives.at Tate, Pickens County, Ga., where he is superintendent of a marble quarry. Henry C., the subject of these lines, received a rudimentary education in the schools of Wayne County, and when ten years of age went to live with William H. Keys, with whom he remained until he was twenty-one years of age. He afterward embarked in the business of photography, and March 10, 1875, he married Louisa J., daughter of Elias Stone, of Red Haw, Ashland County, Ohio. In 1876 he located in Shreve, this county, where for some time he was engaged in the retail trade; in 1884 he accepted a position with the well-known house of George W. Cady & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, of Cleveland, Ohio, and by application, industry, perseverance and sterling integrity he now receives a handsome salary; in fact he is on the highway to unqualified success. Social and genial, Mr. Teagle partakes largely of the pleasures of life, and he finds pre-eminent pride and pleasure in his family circle, where he is joyfully welcomed home from his trips (for his position is that of traveler for the firm) by Minnie and Hattie, his only children. He is a Republican in politics, a public speaker of no little note, and during political campaigns his services are in much demand. The Grand Army of the Republic, in their choice of Mr. Teagle, give evidence of their appreciation of his wit and ability. Mr. Teagle is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of Garfield Lodge, F. & A. M., of Shreve, and the Commercial Travelers' Association of Cleveland. RICHARD PARKER REDICK, a resident of Wayne County since 1819, was born in Beaver County, Penn., August 24,1809,to John Hoge and Eliza (Forbes) Redick, former of Scotch descent, and a native of Washington County, Penn., a teacher and hatter by occupation, latter a daughter of Thomas Forbes, and born near Carlisle, Penn. Their wedded life was blessed with seven children, of whom four now live, as follows: Richard P., Maria (now Mrs. John Nagle, in Wayne Township, Wayne Co., Ohio) ; John Irving (born July 29, 1828, now president of a bank at Los Angeles, Cal.),. and William (in Montana). The mother of this family passed from earth in Wayne Township, this county, about 1829, the father, September 13, 1857. They lived the lives of hardy pioneers, and from a dense forest hewed out for themselves a comfortable home. When our subject was a small child his parents removed to New Lisbon, Columbiana Co., WAYNE COUNTY - 475 Ohio, where they resided six years, and then in 1819 moved to Cadiz, Harrison County, same State, and here lived two years ; then came to Wayne County, where they spent the remainder of their days. Their son, whose name heads this memoir, received but a meager education, and for a time worked in his father's printing office. His mother dying when he was about nineteen years of age, and his father being of a weakly constitution, almost the entire charge of his brothers and sisters fell upon him, he being the eldest of the family ; so at home he labored hard and kept the family together until he was twenty-eight years of age. One bitter cold winter evening, when the snow lay deep upon the ground, they ran out of provisions, and our subject started off with two bushels of buckwheat, on an old horse, to have it ground at Millbrook, six miles south of Wooster. Reaching the mill, he found he could get no grinding done, so had to take his grist to a new mill, one-half mile farther south. On his way thither the bag-string came off, letting the buckwheat run out on the road, and he had to gather it up as best he could, although his hands were nearly frozen. Having once more got his grist into the sack, Mr. Redick had to carry it to a stump from which to mount his horse. Reaching the mill without further mishap, he had it ground, but was unable to get it bolted at that mill, so had to ride back to another one at Wooster, where, being by this time about frozen through, he had to stand on the top of a flour barrel and bolt it by hand, in order to get home in time for breakfast. He finally reached home at daylight on the morning after he had left home for the mill. When about twenty-eight years of age Mr. Redick became united in marriage with Catherine Cresler, a native of near Shippensburgh, Penn., but she died after two years of married life, leaving one child, Catherine, who lived to be thirty- three years old, when she too passed to her long home. Mr. Redick took for his second spouse Maria Cresler, a sister of his deceased wife, who bore him three children, viz. : John and Henrietta, living on the home farm, and Richard Parker, a minister in the Lutheran Church, who died at Mansfield, Ohio, in 1884, leaving a widow and one child, who now reside near Millbrook, Wayne Co., Ohio. March 29, 1877, Mrs. Redick departed this life. For several years Mr. Redick resided in Wooster, engaged in the dry goods trade, but this he sold out and retired to the farm. His success in life is due entirely to his own individual energy and assiduous application to business, and his health and strength have never been impaired by the use of either tobacco or liquor. He cleared almost 476 - WAYNE COUNTY. his entire farm of 250 acres, and to-day, at the age of about eighty years, is still able to do a good day's work. In 1852 he took a contract to build three miles of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was the first work to be commenced on the road and the first to be completed. He sold to the.city of Wooster the land where the West Dam is situated, and in 1852, at a cost of $10,000, constructed the dam. Politically Mr. Redick was originally a Democrat, his first vote being polled for Andrew Jackson, but he has been a Republican since the formation of that party. SIMON LEHMAN, the youngest son in the family of David and Susan (Kintner) Lehman, was born in 1849. He received his education at Smithville, this county, and when twenty- two years of age commenced contracting for buildings, teaching school during winters. He thils continued nine years, and then came to the old homestead in Wayne Township, where he at present resides; his aged mother (now seventy- nine years old) making her home with him. At the age of twenty-two Mr. Lehman married Emily Speicher, who has borne him seven children, as follows: Eldo, Oscar, Stella, Mabel, Boyd, Jessie and Beulah, all at home. Mr. Lehman is a Prohibition-Democrat, and is at present township clerk. Both he and his wife are members of the U. B. Church. JAMES L. GRAY was a native of Milton, Northumberland County,. Penn., born in 1832, of parents who immigrated to that State many years ago. His father was of Scotch and his mother of German ancestry. The mother dying while he was quite young, James L. was brought up by his uncle, Samuel Blain, on a farm near Milton, Penn. At the age of sixteen he began life for himself, first obtaining a position as clerk on a Mississippi River steamboat. He followed steamboating for about three years, sailing on all the navigable rivers tributary to the Mississippi, during which time he made a trip to the Yellowstone Valley, in quest of furs. Returning to Milton, Penn., he served an apprenticeship at the saddler's trade, after which he located at New Brighton, Penn. Here he met and afterward married Miss Eunice Magaw, a talented young lady of Beaver County, Penn., and soon after his marriage removed with his wife to Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio, where he engaged in business. In 1864, responding to his country's call for aid, he enlisted in Com- Ol^ WAYNE COUNTY - 477 pany E, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Army of the Potomac, being a part of the time in the quartermaster's department. Returning to Wooster after the war, he was for a time here engaged as superintendent of the Home Mills, and in 1875 established himself as a dealer in coal, lime, cement and builders' supplies, which business he carried on successfully up to the time of his death. He died June 8, 1886, at the age of fifty-four years, highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was a Republican in politics, and took a great interest in all political questions. He served for a number of years as a member of the volunteer fire department in his adopted city; was also a member of the I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R., and a leading member of the English Lutheran Church, serving as one of the building committee in the erection of the English Lutheran Tabernacle at Wooster, Ohio. His widow, since his death, has resided in Wooster, where she is favorably known as a member of the English Lutheran Church, and of the Woman's Relief Corps. James L. Gray left five children—two sons and three daughters— all of whom reside in Wayne County. The eldest son, Charles M. Gray, after receiving a liberal education in the schools of his native city, engaged in business with his father, at first as an assistant, and finally as a partner. In 1885 he went to Galion, Ohio, where he established himself in the milling business, in which he remained until recalled to Wooster by his father's death. Since then, in partnership with his mother, Mrs. J. L. Gray, he has carried on the business established by his father, under its original name—Gray & Son. He is also manager of the Standard Oil Company's supply depot at Wooster. He is a F. & A. M., and a member of the Royal Arcanum ; he is a Republican. WILLIAM V. ARMSTRONG, a son of Thomas and Nancy (Thomas) Armstrong, was born in Burbank, Canaan Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, July 22, 1844. His father died in Burbank, where he was one of the prominent old settlers. The family of Thomas and Nancy (Thomas) Armstrong consisted of eight children, viz.: Julian, Grace J., David, Delia, William V., Lorette, Caroline and Alice M., of whom David and William V. are the only ones living ; Grace J. died in 1857; Delia, in 1866, and Lorette, Caroline and Alice M., later. During the War of the Rebellion Mr. Armstrong enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, and served three years under Gen. Grant. Since his return home he 478 - WAYNE COUNTY. has engaged in farming, and now owns a good farm in Plain Township. He was married in 1867 to Miss Vanluah Brandt, and to them have been born six children, as follows: Zoe Geraldine, Calvin, Jennie B., Maud. Lenore, Don Cameron and Leo Tru. Mr. Armstrong and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; in politics he is a Republican. JAMES B. TAYLOR. Perhaps in no business or profession is a man more conspicuous or better known, or more popular or unpopular, as the case may be, than in the law. His talent soon is recognized, and he rises to distinction in the ranks of men, if by zeal and perseverance he merits it. James B. Taylor was born in Fredericksburgh, Wayne Co., Ohio, August 24, 1840. His father, who was a native of Virginia,married a Quakeress, also a native of that State, and together, in 1825, they came to Wayne County, and Mr. Taylor became a member of the Wooster bar. In 1873 he departed this life, at the age of seventy-two years, and in 1878 his widow followed to her long last sleep. Their home was blessed with the birth of nine children, of whom James B. was the youngest. James B.. Taylor, at the age of sixteen, became a school-teacher, in which profession he continued in Wayne County during the winter months, attending to his own studies during the summer, at the Fredericksburgh (Ohio) Academy, until the fall of 1859, when he entered the junior class of Westminster College, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in June, 1861. The following fall he organized and opened the Smithville Academy, which he carried on until August, 1862, when, responding to his country's call, he formed a company of all the able- bodied students under his charge, and prepared to go to the front, the remaining portion of the academy passing to the care of J. B. Eberly. Mr. Taylor entered the service as second lieutenant, and afterward was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant; still later he was made captain of Company H, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving until 1865. In that year this regiment, which had seen active service, was consolidated with the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and as only one of six captains could remain, the lot fell upon Capt. Speer, the remaining five being mustered out. The regiment went to the front over 1,000 strong, and returned with less than 300 men. The Captain was with his command in nearly all the battles fought for the opening of the Mississippi, from December, 1862, to 1864, under Gens. Grant and Banks. WAYNE COUNTY - 479 During the latter years of his military service Mr. Taylor read medicine and studied surgery, and in the spring of 1865 he entered the office of Dr. Martin, at Fredericksburgh, Ohio, where he continued until the fall of the same year, when he went to the University of Michigan, there to attend medical lectures. Soon after his arrival, however, he changed his life's plans, and matriculated in the law department, graduating in the spring of 1867. He then returned to Wayne County, and opened a law office at Orrville, where he practiced until the spring of 1882, when he finally located at Wooster. In February, 1888, he formed a law partnership with ex-Probate Judge Isaac Johnson, which still continues. In 1868 Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Emilie Emmitt, daughter of John Emmitt, and a native of Pennsylvania. To this union six children have been born, of whom three are now living. Mr. Taylor is a F. & A. M., and a member of the Presbyterian Church ; he is a Republican. WILLIAM H. H. SICHLEY, dealer in clothing, hats, caps and gents' furnishing goods, Wooster, is a well-known merchant of Wayne County, of which he is a native, having been born in Plain Township, June 5, 1837. His parents were Elias and Fannie (Schmuck) Sichley, the former born May 18, 1812, in Dauphin County, Penn., and the latter near Mannheim, Lancaster County, same State, December 15, 1813. The maternal grandfather, who came to Wayne County from Pennsylvania in 1829, had been enrolled as a soldier in the War of 1812. When Elias was one year old his parents removed to Ohio, and there he was reared and educated. In 1829, when seventeen years of age, he attended a camp-meeting, where he was converted and embraced religion, joining the Evangelical Association. His whole heart was enlisted in the cause of the Master, and he soon felt a call to preach the gospel, to which he resolved to dedicate his life. Preparing himself for his chosen work, he was assigned first to the Sandusky Circuit, and afterward to the Lancaster Circuit. His last appointment was to the Wooster Circuit, and here the zealous preacher of the Word labored until he was called to the reward which awaits those who do His will. In Wooster, Rev. Elias Sichley met his future wife, then Miss Fannie Schmuck, to whom he was united in marriage February 12, 1836. She was, like her husband, a member of the Evangelical Association,with which she had united in early youth, and was in every way a fitting helpmate for her worthy husband. 480 - WAYNE COUNTY. Of their union seven children were born, four of whom are now deceased. Rev. Mr. Sichley labored faithfully and successfully in the cause of Christ until his death, which occurred February 9, 1874, and was perhaps hastened by his arduous labors, which had weakened his constitution. He was sick only five days, the immediate cause of his dissolution being pneumonia. On his death-bed he exhorted his children to be faithful and firm in the cause of religion, speaking of the reward of those who endure to the end, which reward he was himself soon to partake of. To his sorrowing life-companion he spoke words of wisdom and consolation, and his last breath was exhaled in prayer. Thus passed to the eternal life one who was a faithful worker in the Lord's vineyard—who had fought the good fight and endured to the end, and who entered into the presence of his Master bearing his sheaves with him. His life had been full of good works, and his death was, that of the true Christian. On his death-bed he had expressed a. desire to donate money to worthy objects which he had at heart, but was too weak to make a will. The family respected his wishes, and shortly after his death they gave, as was his desire, $1,000 to the cause of home missions, $1,000 to German missions and $1,000 to foreign missions, the funds to be permanently invested and only the interest to be used. His widow died in Chester Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, May 11, 1887. For two years prior to her death she had been g great sufferer, but bore her afflictions with Christian fortitude. The immediate cause of her death was heart trouble. When her true position was explained to her on her deathbed, the good Christian, viewing death but as the beginning of a better life, exclaimed, " It will be soon over. Glory! Glory! Glory!" She was buried from the Sichley Church, on Lafayette Circuit, of which she had so long been a devout member, and her funeral sermon was preached from Psalm cxvi: 15. The services were largely attended by those who knew and loved her. Mr. and Mrs. Elias Sichley had seven children born to them, three of whom are now living, all in Wayne County; the others are deceased. Two daughters are living in this county—Elizabeth Ann, wife of Ephraim P. Keck, and Melvina Malinda, now Mrs. Breidenstein, of Chester Township. William H. H. Sichley, the subject of this memoir, whin some three years of age was; out of respect to the Whig candidate for the presidency, Gen. William H. Harrison, named for him. His early life was spent upon the farm, and he received the advantages of the common schools of the day. He remained at WAYNE COUNTY - 481 home until he was of age, and then turned his attention to the cooper's trade, at which he served an apprenticeship, and which he subsequently followed for about twenty-one years, during which time he resided upon the farm in Chester Township. In 1878 he embarked in the sawmill business, at which he continued for some time. June 23, 1885, Mr. Sichley moved from the farm to Wooster, embarking in the business which he is now successfully conducting. He keeps a fine stock of goods, comparing favorably with those to be found in large cities, and is prospering. William H. H. Sichley and Elizabeth Ann Wyckoff were united in marriage, in Plain Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1860. She was the daughter of Peter and Maria Wyckoff, natives of New Jersey, where she also was born. The family came to Plain Township in 1849, and there the father died; the mother still resides there. Our subject and his wife have had four children (of whom three survive) : Elmer W., on the home farm ; Ora D. and Delphia Florence, at home, and Lillie May, who died when five months old. Mr. Sichley commenced comparatively poor, but his life of industry, honesty and frugality has brought its own reward, and to-day he is in possession of a competence, and with all the material comforts of life around Whim. He owns two finely improved farms in Wayne County, besides other property, and a flourishing business in Wooster, and is one of the best known citizens of the county, having the confidence of all with whom he has been brought in contact. He and his wife are respected members of the Evangelical Church ; he is a member of the K. of P. and the I. 0. 0. F. ; politically, a Republican. The twenty-third day of the month seems to have been marked in his calendar for several remarkable coincidences. He was married on August 23, 1860; moved on October 23; his first child was born on May 23, 1861; he entered into his store, on South Market Street, June 23, 1885; removed his store into Frick Memorial Block October 23, 1886; and removed his family to Wooster March 23, 1887—a really curious chain of coincidences. HIRAM F. S. SICHLEY, a brother of William H. H., was born September 20, 1841, and at the age of thirteen received religion, and early resolved to devote himself to ministerial work. He studied at Greensburg Seminary, and in 1862, at Sandusky, was received into the itineracy, in the Ohio Conference, and was sent to the Tuscarawas Circuit; the second year be was transferred to the Richland Circuit, and the third year to the Pickaway Circuit. He lost faith in his ability, and left the circuit, coming to his home in Wayne 482 - WAYNE COUNTY. County. His father said to him, on his arrival: " Hiram, hitherto when you have come home you have been welcome, but this time you are not," words which sunk deep in the young preacher's mind. The following winter he taught school, but soon, with renewed faith and zeal, returned to his ministerial labors, to which he dedicated himself anew, and in which he was remarkably successful. His first appointment now was to the Wayne Circuit, and from there he was transferred to the Bristol Circuit. At Akron, Ohio, he was engaged in missionary work in South Akron, and from there was transferred to the English mission at the city of Cleveland. That dread disease, consumption, had fastened upon him, but as long as strength lasted he was zealous in his Master's service. Hiram F. S. Sichley was married March 7, 1862, to Miss Sarah Walkey, who preceded him to the grave one year and fourteen days. On March 1, 1873, the summons came for him to join her on the other side. On the day of his death lie was up and about as usual. At supper his father said to him: " Hiram, your end is probably nearer than you think it." He answered: "May be it is, I did not think God would answer my prayer so soon ;" and in a few minutes thereafter the good and faithful servant had entered into his reward. He was an earnest and consistent Christian in life, and death found him prepared. His means he devoted to church and charitable work ; $4,000 was given for mission work in Europe; $4,000 for heathen missions; $2,000 for the support of missionaries; $2,000 for the erection of churches; $4,000 for home missions; $4,000 for the Ebenezer Orphans' Home, at Flat Rock, Ohio; $4.000 for the Union Biblical Institute, at Naperville, Ill. ; the interest of $2,000 to educate poor young men for the ministry, and $2,000 for churches near his father's home. KARL MERZ, MUS. D. There is no more prominent figure in the educational field of music than the gentleman of whom we now write. He is a native of Germany, born September 10, 1836, at Bensheim, of musical and literary ancestry. His father being a public school-teacher as well as an accomplished musician, young , Karl naturally enjoyed a liberal education, both in literature and in the " Art Divine," and in 1852 he graduated from a literary institution. He inherited clove for music, and his musical education commenced at an early age, but was somewhat limited and irregular. After graduation Mr. Merz moved to Bingen on the WAYNE COUNTY - 483 Rhine, where he filled a government position as teacher for awhile. Soon realizing, however, that he had no opportunities there for the development and advancement his spirit longed for, he decided to seek his fortune in the broader fields of America, and accordingly, in 1854, he sailed for Philadelphia, where he arrived in September. Here he was engaged as organist in the Sixth Presbyterian Church, a position he retained one year; then accepted a place as teacher in an Episcopal school for young ladies, in Lancaster County, Penn., acting at the same time as organist in the village church. During his stay in this retired spot Mr. Merz diligently studied and composed. After this we find him teaching in the South, among other places in Harrisonburg and in Hollins' Institute, Virginia. While visiting in the North the Civil War broke Out, and this necessitated another change in location. At this time Mr. Merz occupied a position as teacher of music in the Oxford (Ohio) Female College, where he performed a vast amount of labor during his twenty-one years' incumbency, and here, in Oxford, many of his popular works were composed. At the close of this college, in 1882, Mr. Merz accepted a call from the University of Wooster, Ohio, where he now fills the chair of director of music. In 1859 he was married, in Lancaster County, Penn., to Miss Mary Riddle, of said county, who has borne him three children, viz.: Harry Pinkney (deceased) ; Dr. Charles Hope, now a practicing physician in Sandusky, Ohio, and Bessie C., a teacher in Linden- wood Seminary, at St. Charles, Mo. Mr. Merz's wide reputation is undoubtedly due to his numerous compositions. While he has written a great deal of music of a popular nature, he has produced many pieces characterized by deep sentiment and pure style, among which may be mentioned his " Sonata," " Nocturnes," an " Elegy " and a " Caprice," besides songs, choruses, and his ever popular operettas and waltzes. In 1873 he became editor-in-chief of the " Musical World" (his first connection with that journal having commenced in 1868), a position he yet fills, and is eminently fitted for. In connection with his musical work Mr. Merz has also been active as a lecturer on kindred topics, by which he has done much good in setting forth the high mission of his chosen art. Though Mr. Merz was well educated while young, it must be said of him, as a musician, editor, composer and lecturer, that he is a self-made man, who, through much study and patient labor, has developed his powers and attained the high degree of honor and esteem which he now holds in the world of music. He is in the prime of life, an active and indefatigable worker. In dispo- 484 - WAYNE COUNTY. sition he is kind, charitable and generous, and has formed many lasting friendships wherever he has lived. HENRY MUNSON, the youngest surviving son of Henry and Mary (Cutter) Munson, was born on the homestead which he now owns in Franklin Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, February 15, 1837. He received a district school education, and has always been engaged in farming. In 1861 he married Miss Rebecca, daughter of John Jones, of Holmes County, Ohio, and she died in 1874, leaving four children, viz.: John, living at home; Ellsworth, in Nebraska, and James and William, at home. Mr. Munson was again married, on this occasion, in 1876, to Miss Martha McCartney, daughter of Craig McCartney, of Holmes County, Ohio, and to this union has been born one child, Maud, who is still at home. Mr. Munson was drafted in 1862, and taken as far as Mansfield, Ohio, where he hired a substitute. Like all of his family, he is a Democrat, and has held the office of trustee and supervisor of his township. Our subject and family are members of the Fredericksburgh Methodist Episcopal Church, he holding the office of trustee at the present time. WILLIAM W. BROWN, son of John Buckner and Mary (Morgan) Brown, was born on the farm now owned by Ralston B. Brown, in Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, March 23, 1815. Thomas Brown, his grandfather, a native of Virginia, was a soldier during the War of the Revolution. His children were Elizabeth, John B., George, Lydia, Samuel B., William, Mary Ann and Thomas F., all now deceased. John B. was reared and educated in Loudoun County, Va., where he-Imarried Mary Morgan; they then located in West Virginia, where two children were born to them: Ann, born November 28, 1811, died August 12, 1812, and George H., born April 4, 1813, died in 1844. In 1813 J. B. Brown removed to Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, and purchased the southeast quarter of Section 20, Township 18, Range 14, where the rest of his children were born, named: William W., Hugh M. (born October 14, 1816, and married to Margaret Neely, in 1839, both deceased), ThoMas A., born June 22, 1818, and married to Mary Bird, residing in Clinton Township, Wayne County; Rebecca Ann, born February 25, 1820, died in infancy ; John, born October 25, 1822, married to Rhoda Newkirk, died in Shreve,. April 19, 1889; Mercy, born December 19, 1823, died in infancy ; Stephen, born August 8, 1826, WILLIAM W. BROWN - 485 484 - BLANK WAYNE COUNTY - 487 married to Martha M. Riffle, who has since died, he is still a resident of Clinton Township; Mary Ann, born August 25, 1828, now Mrs. James K. Campbell, of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio; Isaac, now a resident of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, married to Elizabeth McConkey, deceased, and Samuel E., a resident of Firth, Neb. William W. was raised and educated in Clinton Township, and April 6, 1837, he married Phebe, daughter of James Lee, of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio. They located on the farm he now owns in Clinton Township (his present residence) and engaged in farming. To them ten children were born: Elias, born December 2, 1838, married to Sarah J. Numbers, October 2, 1862, is now a farmer of Kidder, Mo.; James, born April 13, 1840, married to Mary J. McCleve, and died June 23, 1869; Hugh M., born September 18, 1841, married first to Elmira Merkle, and next to Agnes J. Barcus, he died November 1, 1887; Caroline, born March 23, 1843, married to John H. Batdorff, who is engaged in the saw-mill business at Liberty Center, Henry Co., Ohio; William Wesley, born March 2, 1845, died July 25, 1877; Mary M., born October 20, 1846, now Mrs. James Kerr, of Clinton Township; Millard Fillmore, born November 12, 1848, married to Hadessa McMillen, and died November 9, 1879, she died December 31, 1886; David, born September 21, 1851, married to Effie McFadden, is now a farmer of Clinton Township; Stephen, born February 2, 1854, married to Mary Keiffer, is now a farmer of Clinton Township; Phebe E., born July 25, 1857, now Mrs. Melvin Richey, of Clinton Township. Mr. and Mrs. Brown lived together on the old homestead until her decease, July 17, 1886; she was a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Brown is a m'ember of the Disciples Church; political honors have been thrust upon him ; he was justice of the peace fifteen years; trustee of the township nearly one-fourth of the time, and, what is most of all remarkable, school director fifty successive years. Mr. Brown" is now seventy-three years of age, and has witnessed the growth and development of the county from a wilderness, there being but six log cabins in Clinton Township on his arrival here. He is a stanch Republican, having voted for Harrison in 1840, and the grandson in 1888. BROWN FAMILY. In tracing the genealogy of the Brown family of Wayne County, Ohio, we find that the first of whom we have any record was William Brown, who was born in Prince 488 - WAYNE COUNTY. William County, Va., in 1722, of Irish parentage, and died in 1806. He married a widow, Sealthy (Asher) Buckner, who had two children, John Anthony, and one whose name we are unable to ascertain. To Mr. and Mrs. Brown were born three children, John, Thomas and Rebecca. John died unmarried; Rebecca married a man named Cornell, and moved to Frederick County, Va., and there closes the record we have of her. Thomas Brown, the second son, was born in Prince William County, Va., in 1760, married, October 20, 1785, Nancy Ash, and in 1805 moved from Fauquier County, Va., to Monongalia (now Preston). County, W. Va., where. Mrs. Brown died soon after, and Mr. Brown in 1844. They had a family of eight children, the record of whom as we give it was furnished by W. T. Brown, of Grafton, W. Va., and was copied from an old book of his grandfather's, owned by his aunt, Betsey Cartwright: Elizabeth, was born August 11, 1786; John Buckner, January 28, 1788; George, November 14, 1789; Lydia, October 22, 1791; Samuel Byrne, October 24, 1793; William, March 6, 1796; Mary Ann, October 26, 1797, and Thomas Francis, May 4, 1801. Elizabeth Brown, the eldest of this family, died June 23, 1867. She was twice married, her first husband being ___ Stevens, and to them were born two children: Marry B., born November 10, 1811, in Monongalia County, W. Va., married Susan Foster, and died December 16, 1844; Anna M., born June 15, 1813, married ,Thomas. Protzman, and died March 21, 1887. Her second husband, Isaac Cartwright, was born in Morgantown, W. Va., and died March 5, 1865. They had four children, as follows: William B., born January 1, 1823, married Margaret Mourton, September 4, 1846, and now lives at Flatwoods, Braxton Co., W. Va. ; Thomas F., born October 17, 1825, was married September 26, 1854, to Rebecca Cortlo, and died April 16, 1879, in Howard City, Elk Co., Kas., at the age of fifty-three years, five months, thirty days, his wife having preceded him September 9, 1878, at the age of forty- seven years, eleven months, twenty-four days; Mary M., born January 2, 1827, was married to A. C. Hill, February 1, 1849, and now lives at Golden, Barry Co., Mo. ; Marinda R., born November 10, 1831, was married May 22, 1873, to Wilson Darling, in Stewardtown, Monongalia Co., W. Va. The record of the children of Thomas F. Cartwright is as follows: Marinda C., born November 2, 1855, died November 2, 1858; America A., born January 10, 1856, married -- Fitts, died February 24, 1888; John E., born December 19, 1859, died December 8, 1883; James E., WAYNE COUNTY - 489 born October 12, 1861, died September 26, 1862; Elizabeth L. V., born March 12, 1864, in DeKalb County, Mo. ; Permelia M., born June 4, 1866, died November 2, 1867; Lee E., born March 14, 1868, lives in DeKalb County, Mo.; William C., born March 13, 1870, died August 30, 1870; Mary Frances, born March 13, 1870, died September 14, 1870. The record of the children of Alexander C. and Mary M. (Cartwright) Hill is as follows: Joseph Elara, born November 26, 1849, married Esther Hurst March 28, 1879, lives in Livingston County, Mo. ; Elizabeth Lowery, born April 5, 1851, married George W. Davis April 24, 1873, lives in Barry County, Mo.; Sarah Anna, born November 30, 1852, married Edman T. Taylor, February 6, 1878, lives in Livingston County, Mo. ; Isaac Scott, born June 14, 1857, died December 13, 1857; Benjamin F. W., born December 3, 1858, married Ledonia J. Houff, October 12, 1882, lives in Barry County, Mo. ; Isadora Amberzine, born June 30, 1863, married C. E. Freeman, September 26, 1886, lives in Carroll County, Ark. ; Mary Esmarelda, born April 15, 1866, lives in Barry County, Mo. JOHN BUCKNER BROWN, the eldest son of Thomas and Nancy (Ash) Brown, was born in Loudoun County, Va., and moved from there to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1813, in company with Jacob Funk and family, arriving in Clinton Township September 17. He located on the farm now owned by Ralston B. Brown, where he died September 25, 1855, and was buried in the Baptist cemetery, near the James Campbell farm. He married Mary Morgan, who died in July, 1850, and was buried beside her husband. They had a family of twelve children: Ann, born November 28, 1811, died August 12, 1812; George Harrison, born April 4, 1813, died in 1844; William W., born March 23, 1815; Hugh Morgan, born October 14, 1816, died June, 1868; Thomas A., born June 22, 1818; Rebecca A., born February 25, 1820, died in infancy; John, born October 25, 1822, died April 19, 1889; Mercy, born December 19, 1823, died in infancy; Stephen, born August 8, 1826; Mary Ann, born August 25, 1828; Isaac, born April 3, 1831, and Samuel Ellery, born August 12, 1833. GEORGE BROWN, the second son of Thomas and Nancy (Ash) 'Brown, married, and had five children: John and Bailey, two sons who were killed by Confederates at the -outset of the Civil War- Bailey while guarding a bridge near Grafton, W. Va., the first Union man killed in West Virginia, in 1861; Mary married a man by the name of James Funk, residence, Newburgh, W. 490 - WAYNE COUNTY. Va. ; Anna, married, but history not furnished; Ellen, married William Bartlett, residence, Point Pleasant, W. Va. SAMUEL B. BROWN, the third son of Thomas and Nancy (Ash) Brown, married Termeline Zinn, and to them were born ten children: Ashford, of Webster, Taylor Co., W. Va. ; Lycurgus, of Gladesville, Preston Co., W. Va. ; William B., of Lyon, W. Va. ; Granville, of Halleck, Monongalia, Co., W. Va. ; Marciatious J., of Gladesville; Clarissa B., wife of George Stoyer, of Oakland, Garrett Co., Md. ; Anna Melia (or Anamela), Elizabeth, Loretta and Sarah Anne. THOMAS FRANCIS BROWN, the youngest son of Thomas and Nancy (Ash) Brown, married Elizabeth Zinn, and to them were born six children: Adaline, born July 9, 1831, married W. J. Morgan, of Hillsboro, Ohio, and died June 13, 1868; Buckner B., born November 6, 1832, lives at Reedsville, W. Va. ; William T., born January 7, 1835, near Gladesville, W. Va., lives at Grafton, W. Va. ; Charles M., born January 28, 1837, married Harriet Fairfax, and died November 26, 1868 ; Virgil S., born October 15, 1838, in Preston County, W. Va., and lives at Garrison, Mo. ; Chloe N., born August 15, 1841, died October 5, 1865. The three members of this family who have died are buried at Independence, W. Va. The family history of Lydia, William and Mary Ann, three of the family of Thomas and Nancy (Ash) Brown, has not been furnished us. [We have thus briefly sketched three generations of the Brown family as far as able to ascertain facts, and this brings us to the fourth generation, which we are able to give more at length.] GEORGE HARRISON BROWN, eldest son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, married Rebecca Hull, and to them were born two children: Lucy Ellen, wife of Johnson Battles, of Nokomis, Ill. and Mary Esther, wife of Dr. Ferrell, of Columbus, Ohio. After the death of Mr. Brown his widow married Uriah White. WILLIAM W. BROWN, second son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, lives at Shreve, Ohio. He was married April 6, 1837, to Phebe Lee, who died July 17, 1886, and they had a family of ten children: Elias, of Kidder, Mo., born December 22, 1838, and married October 2, 1862, to Sarah J. Numbers ; James, born April 13, 1840, married Mary J. McCleve, and died June 23, 1869; Hugh M., born September 18, 1841, and married Elmira Merkle, who died and he afterward married Agnes J. Barcus"; Caroline, born March 23, 1843, married September, 1865, to John Batdorff ; William Wesley, born March. 2, 1845, died July 25, 1877; Mary Margaret, born October 20, 1846, married James Kerr; Millard Fillmore, born November 12, 1848, married Hadessa McMillen; David, born September 21, WAYNE COUNTY - 491 1851, married Effie McFadden; Stephen, born February 2, 1854, married Mary Keiffer; Phebe E., born July 25, 1857, became the wife of Melvin Richey, December 3, 1878. James, son of William W. Brown, married Mary Jane McCleve, and has three children: Hugh M., born September 22, 1862; James W., May 8, 1865, and Dolorous Elva, October 19, 1868. Hugh M., son of William W. Brown, died of lock-jaw at Liberty Center, November 1, 1887. He was twice married, first to Elmira Merkle, and second to Agnes J. Barcus. To his first marriage was born one daughter, Minnie. Caroline, daughter of William W. Brown, married John Batdorff, September 24, 1865. Mr. Batdorff was a member of Company A, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Infantry, and was a prisoner at Camp Ford, Texas, one year and twenty-four days. Mr. and Mrs. Batdorff have had three children: Russell B., born December 12, 1867; Mahlon, born October 18, 1871, was killed by an accident in a saw-mill at Damascus, Ohio, May 20, 1887; Viva Blanche, born January 29, 1886, in Liberty Center, Williams Co., Ohio. Mary M., daughter of W. W. Brown, married James Kerr ; to them were born two children : Icy and John. Millard Fillmore, son of W. W. Brown, married Hadessa McMillan; to them were born two children: Nellie, now deceased, and Harry, the only one of the family now living. David, son of William W. Brown, married Effie McFadden; to them were born two children: Anna Gertrude and Maud. Stephen, youngest son of W. W. Brown, married Mary Keiffer; to them were born five children: Frankie, William, Allie, Love and Benjamin Harrison. Phebe E., daughter of W. W. Brown, married Melvin Richey; to them were born three children: Artie May, Clyde and Roice Clare. HUGH M. BROWN, third son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, was married February 21, 1838, by Rev. James Porter, to Margaret Neely, who was born June 25, 1819, and to them were born ten children: John B., born January 31, 1840; Martha Ann, March 5, 1841; Joseph N., December 3, 1842; William Wesley, November 5, 1844; Francis Marion, January 26, 1847; Mary Ann, February 21, 1849; Samuel E., January 6, 1851; George Albert, April 6, 1853; Lorena, July 17, 1856, and Lotina. John B. Brown, eldest son of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, is a farmer, his post-office address being Nashville, Ohio. He married Margaret Ellen Lee, and they have had six children: James M., born October 13, 1865; Alda 492 - WAYNE COUNTY. J., May 22. 1867; an infant, deceased; John Carlton, July 2, 1871; W. Walter and Effie May. Martha Ann, daughter of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, married William Imhoff, and to them were born five children: Albert Roswell, William Wesley, Della S., Maggie Mattie and Elvero; they reside at Ashland, Ohio. Joseph N., second son of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, resides near Ashland, Ohio. He was married, December 6, 1864, to Sarah King, and they have had four children: Arbie M., born December 19, 1866; Murtie M., March 28, 1869; Edgar A., March 10, 1871, died March 29, 1871, and Emery E., born May 30, 1875. Francis Marion, fourth son of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, married Belle Ekey, and resides near Ashland, Ohio. Mary Ann, second daughter of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, was married, December 22, 1870, to Jacob W. Weiler, and they have had four children: Ina May, born November 5, 1871, died September 6, 1873; Zetta L., born September 26, 1873; Daisy 0., born April 19, 1875, and Harvey B., born July 23, 1879. Samuel E., fifth son of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, is a merchant at Oakland, Ohio. George Albert, youngest son of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, was married September 7, 1875, to Laura Ferrell, who died October 28, 1882, leaving two children: Orra, born December 10, 1877, and Lorena, born May 11, 1880, died February 20, 1883. August 20, 1885, Mr. Brown married Mary Hinkle, and they have one child, Lolo Ursel, born Novem¬ber 28, 1887. THOMAS A. BROWN, fourth son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, resides at Shreve, Ohio. He married, March 5, 1845, Mary Bird, and they have had seven children: Ralston B., born June 24, 1846, married to Sarah J. Gill; Bird A., born February 25, 1848, died April 29, 1877; Selina J., born September 12, 1849, married to J. J. Sullivan, September 27, 1877; Ludema, deceased; Mina I., born July 23, 1853, married November 27, 1873, to W. A. Craig; Aurelia M., born August 29, 1855, married October 6, 1876, to Lucurtus Sidle; Elmer, born August 8, 1857. Selina J., eldest daughter of Thomas A., and Mary (Bird) Brown, married Hon. J. J. Sullivan, now United States Bank Examiner, and resides at Cleveland, Ohio; to them were born three children: Selva V., Colis E., and Nellie Pauline. Mina I., married W. A. Craig, who resides near Shreve, Ohio; to them were born three children: Brown T., Paul S. and Ruth S. WAYNE COUNTY - 493 Aurelia M. married Lucurtus Sidle, who resides near Blatchleyville, Ohio; to them were born two children; Zella and Lula. STEPHEN BROWN, who resides near Shreve, Ohio, sixth son of John Buckner and Mary (Morgan) Brown, married Martha M. Riffle (now deceased). To them were born three children: Herbert B., who married Sidnia Jones; Grear E., who married Avilla C. Bedford; and Allie, only daughter. Herbert B., eldest son of Stephen and Martha M. (Riffle) Brown, grandson of John Buckner Brown, lives near Shreve, Ohio, married Sidnia Jones. and to them was born a son, Felix J. Grear E., youngest son of Stephen and Martha M. (Ripple) Brown, married Avilla C. Bedford, and resides near Shreve, Ohio; to them were born two children: Boyd B. and Glenn W. MARY ANN BROWN, youngest daughter of John Buckner and Mary (Morgan) Brown, married James K. Campbell, now deceased, of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, address Shreve, Ohio; to them were born five children: Marinda now deceased, who married Ozias Fouch; Arthur W. ; Anna E., now deceased, who married P. W. Newkirk; Maggie, who married Fred Wachtel; and Emma, who married Bert Armstrong. Marinda (now deceased), eldest daughter of James K. and Mary Ann (Brown) Campbell, married Ozias Fouch; to them were born five children: James, Lefa, John, Frank and Maggie. Anna E. (deceased), second daughter of James K. Campbell, married P. W. Newkirk; to them were born two children : Mamie, now deceased, and Nellie. Maggie, daughter of James K. Campbell, married Fred Wachtel; to them was born a son, whose name is Grover. Emma, youngest daughter of James K. Campbell, married Bert Armstrong; to them were born two children: Troy and Ebert. ISAAC BROWN (Shreve, Ohio), the seventh son of John Buckner and Mary (Morgan) Brown, married Elizabeth McConkey February 2, 1854, who died August 23, 1887; to them were born a son, Alvin J., who died at the age of seven; a daughter, Clara B., born July 13, 1857, who married Jason Critchfield September 1, 1878. Clara B., daughter and only child living of Isaac and Elizabeth (McConkey) Brown, married Jason Critchfield, who resides in Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, address Big Prairie, Ohio; to them were born five children: Earl B., born August 17, 1879; Louis H., born January 28, 1883; Rob Roy, born May 12, 1884; Exa Pearl, born February 1, 1886; infant son, born February 7, died February 11, 1888; Zella May, born May 16, 1889. 494 - WAYNE COUNTY. SAMUEL ELLERY BROWN, youngest son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, resides at Firth, Neb. He was married' November 4, 1854, to Almira Caldwell, who was born June 8, 1838. They have ten children: Willis Eugene, born September 4,1855; Mary Jane, born June 6, 1857; Kit Carson, August 3, 1859; Leonora. December 28, 1861; Leroy, October 20, 1864; Arthur Ohio, April 16, 1867; Charles Vermont, July 11, 1870; Lena, February 18, 1872, and William Earl and Era, March 14, 1875. ASHFORD BROWN, M. D., eldest son of Samuel B. Brown, was born March 13, 1822, and married S. E. Johnson, December 2, 1849. He began the practice of medicine in 1850, and now has a large practice at Webster, W. Va. He has had six children: Adaline H., born February 14, 1856; Lavina F. (wife of W. D. Prims), born March 11, 1858; D. B., born April 24, 1863; Permelia Eldarah, born March 11, 1866; Charles Newton, born January 16, 1869; Frank C., born June 6, 1873. Adaline H., D. B. and Permelia E. are deceased. BUCKNER B. BROWN, eldest son of Thomas F. and Elizabeth (Zinn) Brown, was born on the old homestead near Gladesville, W. Va., where he lived until 1859, when he moved to Roane County, on the Little Kanawha River, where he was doing well until 1861, when he was broken up by the war. He then returned to Preston County, and in 1863 enlisted in the United States service. He died June 24, 1877. He was married December 29, 1853, to Jane Freeburn, and to them were born twelve children: Leca A., born November 27, 1854, was married April 14, 1881, to H. C. Flythe, of Newburgh, W. Va. ; Thomas F., of Leadville, Colo., was born April 3, 1856, married to I. D. Davis, December 31, 1878; Charles M., of Grafton, W. Va., was born October 16, 1857, and married December 2, 1884, Martha E. Zinn ; Adaline, born August 4, 1859, was married February 8, 1880, to John F. Farrell; Sarah E., born October 4, 1861, was married December 2, 1884, to Jacob Born; Virgil W., born August 26, 1863; Alice M., born July 15, 1865, died October 23, 1869; Robert B., born July 25, 1867; Aura and Edwin S. (twins) born July 16, 1869; William C., born December 9, 1871, died July 8, 1875; Maud, born April 29, 1874. Thomas F. Brown, eldest son of Buckner B. and Jane (Freeburn) Brown, married I. D. Davis, December 31, 1878, and July 9, 1887, moved to Leadville, Colo., where he works at the carpenter's trade. He has three children: Dewitt Cecil, born October 17, 1879; Clarence, born May 30, 1883, and Forest F., born February 14, 1885. Charles M., second son of Buckner B. WAYNE COUNTY - 495 and Jane (Freeburn) Brown, married Martha E. Zinn, and has one child, Bessie, born May, 1886. Adaline, second daughter of Buckner B. and Jane (Freeburn) Brown, is the wife of John F. Farrell, and has four children: Agnes, born January 21, 1881; Charles, born December 20, 1882; Bessie, born August 11, 1884, and John, born September 15, 1887. Sarah E., third daughter of Buckner B. and Jane (Freeburn) Brown, is the wife of Jacob Born, and has two children: Nora,., born October 7, 1885, and Nettie, Born March 17, 1887. WILLIAM T. BROWN, second son of Thomas F. and Elizabeth (Zinn) Brown, was married March 6, 1862, to Sarah C. Hamilton, who died June 29, 1875, leaving five children: Joseph H., born March 14, 1863; Emer O., born March 29, 1866; Adaline, May 8, 1869; Mary E., March 19, 1872; and C. M., born July 19, 1874, died June 7, 1877. Mr. Brown married for his second wife, November 20, 1877, Margaret C. Swindler, and they have three children: Caroline, born June 28, 1880; W. T., September 23, 1882, and Ruby P., April 11, 1885. VIRGIL S. BROWN, fourth son of Thomas F. and Elizabeth (Zinn) Brown, married, October 26, 1870, Sarah Jenkins, who bore him the following named children: Thomas M., born August 14, 1871; Earl C., February 10, 1873; William G., September 29, 1874; Icie Estellie, January 6, 1878 (died March 31, 1878) ; Bessie May, October 23, 1880; Virgil S., November 18, 1886. The father enlisted in the Civil War in 1861, and was mustered out in December, 1864; re-enlisted in the service the following February, and was finally mustered out June 10, 1865, close of the war. THOMAS ASHBEY BROWN, a representative of one of the early families of Wayne County, was born in Clinton Township, June 22, 1818, a son of John Buckner and Mary (Morgan) Brown. His father came from Virginia in 1813 and settled on land he had entered from the Government the year before, on Section 20, Clinton Township, and made this township his home the rest of his life. He died at the age of sixty- six years, and at his death owned 1,300 acres of valuable land. His father was a slave owner in Virginia, and his slaves were divided among his children. John B. was opposed to the institution of slavery, and gave to his their freedom. He was accompanied to Ohio by his wife's parents, who made Wayne County their home the rest of their lives. Thomas A. Brown has spent all his 496 - WAYNE COUNTY. life in the near vicinity of the place of his birth, and has given his entire attention to farming. He received a common- school education, attending the log cabin school's of the pioneer days, and from his childhood has been engaged in agricultural pursuits, beginning by doing the chores on his father's farm, and gradually taking hold of the heavier work. He has been successful in his operations, and now has a fine farm of 656 acres, located on Section 10, Clinton Township. Mr. Brown was married March 5, 1845, in Monroe Township, Holmes County, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Butler and Mary (Williams) Bird, former a native of Virginia, and latter of Pennsylvania; both accompanied their parents to Ohio in their childhood and located in Holmes County, the mother's parents, however, first locating in Licking County, where they remained a short time. Thomas B. Bird was all his life a farmer and at his death left his family. 500 acres of land, having spent all his married life on the same farm. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have had seven children, viz.: Ralston B., Bird A., Selina J., Ludema, Elmina I., Aurelia M. and Elmer. Ralston B. married Sarah J. Gill; Bird A. is deceased; Selina J. is the wife of J. J. Sullivan, of Cleveland ; Elmina I. is the wife of William A. Craig ; Aurelia M. is the wife of Curtis Seidle. The family are all well known in Clinton Township, where all save Mrs. Sullivan have made their home. In politics Mr. Brown is a Republican, but is in no sense a politician, and has never held any public office. He and his family are members of the Disciples Church. RALSTON B. BROWN, son of Thomas A. and Mary (Bird) Brown, was born in Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, in 1846. Thomas A. Brown was a son of John Buckner Brown, and a grandson of Thomas Brown. Thomas A., father of the subject of this memoir, was born June 22, 1818, on the old homestead farm in Clinton Township, where he was educated, and March 5, 1845, was married to Mary, daughter of Thomas Butler and Mary (Williams) Bird, of Monroe Township, Holmes Co., Ohio. They located in Ripley Township, where they remained until 1865, when he sold the farm and purchased the one he now owns and occupies in Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, to which he removed. Their children were Ralston B. ; Bird A. (deceased), who was married to Verne Yarnell, and located in Clinton Township, where he was engaged in farming; Selina J., now Mrs. J. J. Sullivan, of Cleveland, Ohio; Lu- WAYNE COUNTY - 497 dema (deceased) ; Elmina I., now Mrs. William A. Craig, of Clinton Township; Aurelia M., now Mrs. Curtis Seidle, of Plain Township, and Elmer. Ralston B. Brown was reared and educated in Holmes County, Ohio, and lived at home until 1869, in which year he married Sarah J., daughter of George and Anna Gill, of Plain Township, this county, and they located on the farm he how owns in Clinton Township, where he is engaged in farming and stock-raising, and breeding full-blooded English Shire and PercheronNorman horses. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Christian Church of Shreve. Mr. Brown is a member of the order of the Maccabees of the World, and politically is a Prohibitionist.   JOHN BROWN, son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, was born on the farm now owned by Ralston B. Brown in Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, October 25, 1822. Here he was raised and educated, and in March, 1848, married Rhoda, daughter of John Newkirk, of the same township. The young couple then located in Franklin Township, where they remained for a period of thirty years. He then sold his farm there and removed to his late residence in Shreve. John Newkirk came from Washington County, Penn., located in Wayne County, where at his death he was one of its prominent and able farmers. His children were Milton, Elizabeth, Ursula, Newton, Cyrus, George Washington and Rhoda. Mr. and Mrs. Brown had three children : Mary, now Mrs. Henry Sidle, of Franklin Township, this county ; Ella Porte, who died in January, 1887, and Milton N., who died in October, 1864, at the age of seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were members of the Disciples Church. Mr. Brown died April 19, 1889. In politics he was a Republican, and held various public positions. STEPHEN BROWN, son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, was born in Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, August 8, 1826, on the farm now owned by Ralston B. Brown. January 31, 1850, he married Martha M., daughter of Jesse Riffle, and they then located in Franklin Township, where they remained five years ; thence in 1855, they removed to the place Mr. Brown now owns in Clinton Township. Here he built his present residence, made many improvements, and now has a farm of 240 acres. To them three children have been born: Herbert B., who married 498 - WAYNE COUNTY. Sidnia Jones, and has located on the home farm (they have one son, Felix J.) ; G. E., who married Villa Bedford, and has also located on the home farm (they have two children, Boyd B. and Glen), and Emma Alice at home. Mrs. Brown died in 1887, a member of the Disciples Church. Mr. Brown is a member of the same church ; in politics he is a Republican. REV. JOHN C. ELLIOTT, of Rittman, Milton Township, Wayne County, is a son of Thomas and Barbara (Warren) Elliott, natives of Jefferson County, Ohio, who having purchased a farm in Milton Township, in 1828, removed to it a few years later. On this farm our subject still lives. Thomas Elliott was prominent in all local public enterprises and works of benevolence. He was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church, and director of the county infirmary until failing health made it impossible for him to visit it. He died in June, 1871; his widow yet lives on the old farm with her son, John C. Their family consisted of five children: Austin W., Simon P., Warren, John C. and Mary R., and of these there are yet living Rev. A. W. Elliott, of Marshfield, Mo., and Rev. John C. Elliott. The subject of these lines was born July 18, 1839, and was educated at Vermillion Institute, Western Reserve (now Adelbert) College and Princeton Theological Seminary. He was at once called to the Presbyterian Church at Nebraska City, Neb., where he was ordained and installed pastor in 1867. Here he remained till 1870, when he was called home to Ohio by the rapidly failing health of his father. In addition to the pastoral charge in Nebraska, he was active in mission work, organizing the church at Lincoln, the capiital, and in educational enterprises. He was appointed by the governor examiner of the State Normal School and regent of the State University. He also acted for one year as president of Otoe University, a Presbyterial school at Nebraska City. On returning to Ohio he was invited to take charge orthe Presbyterian Church in Seville, which he served as acting pastor for fifteen years, always living, however, on the old farm. In 1878 he gathered and organized the church at Rittman, of which he became the first pastor, and has remained in charge since. Has for years been a trustee of Wooster University. In May, 1866, Mr. Elliott married Miss Nettie M., daughter of Nathaniel Stanley, of Trumbull County, Ohio, and to them seven children have been born : the eldest Thomas S., died in infancy; six yet live: Charles H., Warner W., Mary, Varnum WAYNE COUNTY - 499 N., Ruth and Paul. In 1878 Mr. Elliott built a drain tile manufactory at Rittman, and in 1887 erected his large establishment. JOHN Q. ADAMS, one of the oldest settlers and well-known citizens of Chippewa Township, Wayne County, was born in Anne Arundel County, Md., April 9, 1800, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Zepp) Adams, the former of English parentage and the latter of German. They were pioneers of Jefferson County, Ohio, where William resided until his death ; his widow died at the age of ninety-one years, at the residence of their son, John Q., in Chippewa Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. Our subject was reared in Jefferson County, Ohio, and at the age of eighteen was apprenticed to the blacksmith's trade, at which he served two and a half years, in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1823 Mr. Adams traded a tract of land in Pennsylvania for 160 acres in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, on which he settled the same year, and three days after his arrival he had erected and started a blacksmith's shop, where he worked at his trade steadily for four years. He then gave his attention to making axes and other edge tools, and to the clearing and improving of his farm. In 1835 he discovered coal on his farm, the right of mining which he leased to others, and from which he has received a liberal income. Mr. Adams married, in 1820, Mary Llewellyn, of Washington County, Penn., by whom he had nine children who grew to maturity, viz. : William, Thomas, George, Sarah J., Mary A., Rachel, Adeline, John and Elizabeth. Although Mr. Adams is in his ninetieth year he is remarkably strong and active, and bids fair to live to celebrate his one hundredth birthday. For over forty years he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, though he is not now connected with any denomination. He has held various local offices in his township, and is a stanch Democrat. ROMEO A. RAYL, son of Isaiah and Cynthia (Graham) Rayl, is a native of Wayne County, born in Fredericksburgh,February 28, 1859. Isaiah Rayl was born in. Pennsylvania, June 18, 1818, of English descent, and came to Wayne County with his parents in boyhood. He learned the blacksmith's trade in his youth, and for some years followed it in Fredericksburgh. In March, 1864, he moved to the farm where the subject of our notice now lives, and made 500 - WAYNE COUNTY that his home until his death, which occurred May 22, 1888. He was married February 27, 1840, to Cynthia Graham, a native of Pennsylvania, and to them were born eleven children, of whom only five survive. They were devoted members of the Baptist Church, of which Mr. Rayl was for many years a deacon, and one son, David K., was educated for missionary work. He spent two years in India, when he fell a victim to that dread disease, consumption, and came home to die. His death occurred September 10, 1884, in the thirty-seventh year of his age. His faithful wife, who had shared the cares and trials of a missionary life with him, survived him but two weeks. They left one child, Isaiah, who is now an inmate of his grandmother's home. Mr. Rayl was a strong Prohibitionist, and was anxious to live to see his country freed from the curse of strong drink. He was one of the honored men of his town, and will long be remembered for his many excellent virtues. Romeo A. Rayl was reared on his father's farm, remaining at home, and since his father's death has had charge of the homestead. He was married in,1881 to Miss Jennie Price, a native of Seneca County, Ohio, daughter of Thomas and Matilda Price, still residents of that county. Mr. Price is a native of Baltimore County, Md., but came to Ohio when about fifteen years of age. His family are of English descent, but early settlers of America, and some of its members were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. Mr. and Mrs. Romeo Rayl have had three children: Owen Albert, Mary Etta (deceased) and Eva Maud. Politically he is a strong Prohibitionist, and both he and his wife are active members of the Baptist Church. Mr. Rayl 18 one of the best and most favorably known yo'ung men of the county, a worthy representative of a most worthy father. J. B. SNYDER was born October 8, 1833, on the old homestead on Section 1, Congress Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, and is a. son of an old pioneer of Congress Township, George Snyder. He (George) was a native of Virginia, and came from there to Wayne County, Ohio, in the spring of 1819, entering from the Government the southwest quarter of Section 1. He died . in 1865, in his seventieth year. Mary (Bowers) Snyder, mother of the subject of this memoir, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio. She died in 1875, in 'her seventy-fifth year, the mother by Mr. Snyder of ten children, nine of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. Of these children, J. B., the subject WAYNE COUNTY - 501 of this sketch, was united in marriage, October 23, 1856, with Miss Mary Jane Burns, who was born July 21, 1830, in Congress Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. Her father, Hector Burns, was born in Chester County, Penn., and in the fall of 1822 he came to Congress Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, where he entered the northeast quarter of Section 3. Her mother, Mary (Williams) Burns, was born October 31, 1791, in Lycorning County, Penn. This couple reared a large family, and both lived to a ripe old age, Mr. Burns dying July 14, 1858, in his sixty-eighth year, and Mrs. Burns, September 15, 1872, in the eighty-first year of her age. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have been blessed with eight children, three of whom survive. The parents are both consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Snyder owns and lives upon the old homestead, one mile south of Burbank, where he has made many improvements, and is regarded as one of the progressive farmers of Wayne County. GEORGE HINISH (deceased) was born in Bedford County, Penn., September 2, 1814, and died in February, 1873. He was married in his native county, February 17, 1844, to Mary A. Garman, also a native of that county. To them were born eight children, five sons and three daughters, named as follows: William W., of Chicago, Ill. ; John G., of Kansas; Cora L., now Mrs. Jones, of Toledo, Ohio; George W., of Dakota ; Chester C., Harry W., Mollie S. and Agnes L. L. Mr. Hinish was reared in his native county, attending the common schools, and, on leaving school, began to work at the carpenter's trade, which he followed only a short time. He then began to learn the trade of a millwright, at which he worked a number of years, abandoning it to engage in the hotel business, at Johnstown, Penn., which he continued until 1862, when he left Pennsylvania, and became identified with the interests of Wayne County, Ohio. He first bought 101 acres of land in Plain Township, of Judge Goodfellow, and made this place his home for the rest of his life. His business life had been a series of successes, and, after becoming a resident of Wayne County, he laid the foundation of a beautiful home, which he was not long permitted to enjoy. He was always public spirited and enterprising, and was a firm believer in all methods that tended to promote the welfare of the community in which he lived. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and I. 0. 0. F., in both of which he took a deep interest. In politics he 502 - WAYNE COUNTY. from early life was a Republican, and was a stanch supporter of the principles of that party, being a strong Union man during the dark days of the Rebellion. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and was always ready to do all in his power to aid in its support. He was a man of fine business principles, and was honored by all who knew him for his uprightness of character and strict adherence to his convictions of right, his errors being of the head and not of the heart. JOHN LONGANECKER, farmer, Chester Township, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1817, being one of a family of eight children born to Joseph and Barbara (Mergin) Longanecker. His father became a resident of Ohio in 1800, and became one of the prosperous farmers of Columbiana County, owning at the time of his dedth over 200 acres of valuable land. He died in 1849, aged seventy-five years, John Longanecker left his native county in 1850 and settled on 160 acres of land in Chester Township, Wayne County, which had been entered by his father. In his youth he learned the blacksmith's trade, and has worked at it most of the time, in connection with the regular duties of the farm. He was married in 1841 to Nancy Long. Their only child, Peter Longanecker, enlisted in the army in 1861, in Company D, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Infantry, and died June 15, 1863, aged twenty years and five months, and was buried in Chester graveyard, Wayne County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Longanecker reside on the farm, where they have made their home nearly forty years. They are now well advanced in life, and are enjoying the fruits of their early years of toil. Kind and hospitable, they have many friends in all the walks of life, who honor them for their many virtues. They are members of the Lutheran Church. In politics Mr. Longanecker is a stanch Republican. HARRY E. BAKER barber, Smithville, Wayne Co., Ohio, is one of the live young men of that village. He comes of a family of German extraction, who have for several generations been citizens of America. His great-great-grandfather Baker—the name being then spelled Becker— came to this country before the War of the Revolution. He was a Dunkard, and in accordance with the tenets of that body he was a non-combatant. He was arrested in Philadelphia during the Revolution for refusing to serve in the army when conscripted, JOHN LONGANECKER - 503 504 - BLANK WAYNE COUNTY - 505 and was imprisoned. In jail he thought long and earnestly over the matter, and finally coming to the conclusion that it was his duty to take up arms in defense of his adopted country, he renounced his allegiance to the church, entered the army, and served faithfully until the close of the war, and the securing of our independence. His son, Frederick, great-grandfather of Harry E., was born in Lebanon County, Penn., and about 1832 came to Wayne County with his family, locating in Canaan Township, but later removing to Seneca County, Ohio, where he and his wife both died. They had a numerous family, of whom the following named yet survive: Frederick, a resident of Seneca County ; Peter, in Germantown, Montgomery Co., Ohio (was formerly a Methodist preacher, but is now retired) ; Julia Ann, widow of Charles Betts, in Marshalltown, Iowa, and Abraham, grandfather of Harry E., who is the eldest of the survivors. He was born in Lebanon County, Penn., December 14, 1800. In his youth he began the study of medicine, but gave that up to enter the ministry, becoming a preacher of the Evangelical Association. For a number of years he labored in that cause, but, on account of defective hearing, gave up preaching and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church ; he then adopted the profession of veterinary surgeon. In June, 1834, he came to Wayne County, where he has ever since lived. This was then a comparatively new country, and Mr. Baker has seen it transferred from a wilderness to one of the richest agricultural counties of the great State of Ohio. For three years he kept a hotel in Wooster, and then removed to Jefferson, four and a half miles. west, where he remained until the death of his wife. He was married in Cumberland County, Penn., to Mrs. Hannah (Spangler) Zinn, a native of that county, who had been previously married to William Zinn, by whom she had four children, two of them yet living, George and Elizabeth. She was born in 1797, and died May 9, 1878. Her father when quite young came to America from Zweibrticken, Germany, about 125 years ago. He had learned surveying in his native land, and on arriving in America his entire property consisted of his instruments ; in order to mall the New World he was compelled to sell his services for a certain period to a transportation company, and by hard labor Paid for his passage. At the time of his death he was the owner of four fine farms—two in Lancaster County and two in Cumberland County, Penn. Abraham Baker has all his life been a religious man, and for fifty years has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, there being no Evangelical Society here when he came to Ohio. He is 506 - WAYNE COUNTY. an honest, straight forward man, esteemed by all who know him. He is now living in the city of Wooster, and is the oldest man in the township. He and his wife had four children, all deceased except Yost S., father of Harry E., who was born in Wooster, September 7, 1834, a few months after his parents' arrival in the place. Yost S. Baker learned the trade of shoemaking, at which he worked until July 24, 1862, on which day he entered the Union army, enlisting in Company I, One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was ordered from the rendezvous at Camp Mansfield, before being armed or equipped, to the defense of Cincinnati, then threatened by the rebel Gen. Kirby Smith. They were mustered into the United States service in the streets of Covington, Ky., and were then sent to Newport, same State, where they were kept in line of battle several days. The regiment afterward saw considerable service in the Southwest, in which Mr. Baker participated, serving faithfully until the close of the war; he was discharged May 23, 1865, having served three years lacking two months. 'Though never wounded, the hardships endured in the army. Somewhat impaired Mr. Baker's health, and he yet feels their effects. Returning to the pursuits of peace, he opened a shop in Smithville, where for six months he carried on his trade, then sold out, and for several years worked as a journeyman. In 1877 he again opened a shop in Smithville, to which, in 1885, he added a line of ready made goods. Yost S. Baker was married August 2, 1860, to Miss Fanny Drabenstot, who was born near Smithville, her parents having come from Lancaster County, Penn. She was born September 23, 1840. They have two children : Harry Ellsworth and Edna May. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Smithville. Mrs. Baker's grandfather, Frederick Drabenstot, was married to Peggy Nicolas, and they had ten children, of whom Fanny Drabenstot Wolfe and Frederick Drabenstot still survive. Frederick, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1806, and was married in 1829 to Mary Croft, she being one of four children—two boys and two girls—of whom the two boys yet survive. They came to Wayne County in 1830, and had three children—Jacob, Mary and Fanny-7 all of whom are living. Mary Croft Drabenstot died at the age of forty-eight years, and Frederick Drabenstot married Mary Williams. They had four childrenEm ma, Ida, Della and Hugh--of whom the youngest three are living. In 1865 he sold his farm in Wayne County, and moved to Huntington County, Ind., where WAYNE COUNTY - 507 he purchased two farms, and is yet living on one of them. Harry Ellsworth Baker was born April 26, 1861, while the family was living at Smithville, but his birthplace was Jefferson, where, at the time, his mother was visiting his grandfather. His district school education was supplemented with two years' tuition in Prof. Eberly's High School in Smithville, now the Northern Ohio Normal School. Leaving there, he learned the trade of a barber at Wooster, and returning to Smithville in 1880, opened a shop, in which he is doing a fine trade, being very competent in his business. November 22, 1881, Mr. Baker was united in marriage with Miss Emma Loretta, only child of John H. and Mary E. (Salmons) Myers, of Orrville, this county. Her father was a teacher by profesgion, and had been principal of the high school at Upper Sandusky, Kenton, Wadsworth, Ohio, and for two years preceding his death, of the high school at Orrville, also then holding the position of county examiner. He died September 8, 1875, aged thirty-eight years, and his widow subsequently became the wife of John H. Harter ; she is still a resident of Orrville, and has one child, Mary Alverda Harter. John H. Myers was born in Lancaster County, Penn., his father having come from Germany. About forty- five years ago the family came to Wayne County, and representatives of it are still living here. Harry Baker is a stirring, wide-awake young man, who stands well in the community. He is a lover of good horses, and the owner of a thorough-bred trotting stallion (whose progeny are becoming numerous in this part of the State), and is doing much to elevate the standard mark of the horses of this section of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have one child, Ellis Myers, born August 29, 1882. Mrs. Baker was born in Smithville, Ohio, December 21, 1862, and was three years old when her father accepted the position of principal of the schools of Upper Sandusky, where he stayed three years. She lived with her parents until her father's death, and then made her home with her mother until her marriage. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Emma Baker's great-grandfather, Jesse McKinley, was born in 1794, in Westmoreland County, Penn., and in 1815 married Mary Dugan, who was born at the same place in 1792. They moved to Wayne County in 1817, where they remained until their deaths. Jesse McKinley was a squire and school-teacher, and owned a quarter section of land at the time of his death. They had a family of nine children, of whom two are yet living: Sarah (McKinley) Kennedy, and Catharine (McKinley) Gearard, the eldest of 508 - WAYNE COUNTY the family, and grandmother of Emma Baker, and still living on part of the old homestead. She was married to Charles Salmons, December 13, 1838, and they had two children—Mary Etta, mother of Emma Baker, and Elizabeth Ann, both living in Wayne County. Mrs. Salmons afterward married J. P. Gearard. Jesse McKinley died at the age of thirty-nine years, and his widow survived him about twenty years, she being fifty-nine years old at the time of her death. Emma Baker's great-great-grandfather and great-greatgrandmother McKinley were natives of Ireland, as were also her great-greatgrandfather and great-great-grandmother Dugan. JAMES FLUHART, son of Zacheus and Mary (Robison) Fluhart, was born in Salt Creek Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1825, and has never lived outside of the school district in which he was born. His grandfather, James Fluhart, was a resident of Meadville, Penn., where he passed the remainder of his days. His widow married Phineas First, and they removed to Salt Creek Township, Wayne County. The children of James Fluhart were Zacheus, Henry, Nathan, Sarah, Elizabeth and Mary. Of these, Henry married, and died in Missouri ; Nathan married, and died in Wayne County, Ohio; Sarah married George Robison, and died in Fulton County,Ohio ; Elizabeth is now Mrs. George Sharp, of East Union, Wayne County; Mary was the late Mrs. John Clark, of. East Union, Wayne County. Zacheus was born in Meadville, Penn., and when young removed with his parents to Ohio, where his father purchased a farm, now owned by A. R. Fluhart, in Salt Creek Township, and there he married, and located on the farm now owned by George Moore, in Salt Creek Township, and where James Fluhart was born. Here Zacheus and Mary, his wife, passed their days, having five children, viz. : A. R., married to Margaret Thomas, and living on the old homestead; Samuel, married to Deziah Robison, removed to Fulton County, Ohio, and died; Zacheus, married to Amanda Murray, removed to Illinois; Elizabeth, married to Martin Worley, removed to Fulton County, Ohio; and James, whose name heads this sketch. James Fluhart married, in the year 1849, Margaret Poorman, locating near the old homestead, where they remained nine years; then purchased the farm upon which he still lives. To them two children have been born: Edmund and Nettie. Of these, Edmund married Lucy Graber, and live at the homestead, and have one child, Ida; Nettie married Martin N. Cris- WAYNE COUNTY - 509 well, of Salt Creek Township, Wayne County. Mr. Fluhart is a stanch Republican, having been officially identified with the party in various capacities. W. JAY ASHENHURST, publisher of the Shreve News, Shreve, Wayne Co., Ohio, was born June 10, 1855, in Dalton, Wayne Co., Ohio, a son of Rev. James Y. and Martha Ashenhurst, who removed to this county from West Virginia in 1853. When he was eighteen months old his parents removed to Hayesville, Ashland County, where he resided until he was eighteen years of age, when he moved to Southeastern Virginia, where he remained a number of years, returning to Wayne County in 1883. He was married to Miss Rilla C. Armstrong, of Cleveland, October 4, 1883, and moved to Shreve in December, 1883, since which time he has been engaged in the publication of the Shreve News. Mr. and Mrs. Ashenhurst have one child, Edna Hope Ashenhurst, born August 20, 1887. The name Ashenhurst, or Ashenhust, is formed from Eschen, a kind of wood or timber, in English called ash or ashen when used adjectively. Hurst or hoist, according to Webster, means a wood or grove. The name literally means an ash or ashen grove, and was probably given to a farm or homestead. Hurst is a word frequently used in composition with other words in the formation of proper names, as Hazelhurst, Parkhurst and Barkhurst. Many other names of similar formation might be given. The families emigrating from Ireland to America did not use "r" in the last syllable. Some made it Ashen and others Ashin. Often members of the same family spell their name differently. It would not, therefore, be strange that the "r" should be dropped out of the name in successive generations, especially when literature had not advanced to the degree it has attained at the present time, and when so little care was observed in keeping names pure and so distinct and uniform in their orthography as to indicate closely their origin. The origin of the name as given above is so reasonable and probable, and agreeable to the analogy in the formation of other names, that the "r" has been restored by many bearing the name. In doing this they yielded to an unswerving universal public judgment, which stubbornly persisted in spelling the name Ashenhurst. Besides there is more music in the smooth, euphonious hurst than in the blunt, forbidding hust. According to tradition received from the fathers, which has never been called in question, the name originated in Germany. Several centuries ago some families 510 - WAYNE COUNTY. bearing the name emigrated from Germany to England, and settled near London, and it is probable, from the testimony of those who claim to know, that the name is still common in that part of England. But be that as it may, it is certain that at a later period some families of the Ashenhursts passed over from England to Ireland, and settled in County Tyrone, near Newton Stewart. In Tyrone the name is still common. Their ecclesiastical connection is with the English Church, and some of them have borne Episcopal honors. In the year 1793 there was another exodus. The families of the Ashenhursts set sail from Ireland to America with the purpose of making it their future home. William Ashenhurst and his family settled in Allegheny County, Penn., ten or twelve miles below Pittsburgh. He had an only son, John, who lived on the old homestead after the death of his parents. He died childless, consequently in this branch of the family the name became extinct. Oliver Ashenhurst, a brother of William, came at the same time, and settled in Washington County, Penn., ,near Hardscrabble, now West Alexander. Subsequently he removed to Brown County, Ohio. Oliver had but one son, whom he named John. John married, and after some years removed to Indiana, and settled on the Wabash. He had several sons, one of whom was drowned in Brush Creek, Adams Co., Ohio, in 1830. Others of his sons with their families are probably settled in Indiana and Kentucky. The daughters of Oliver Ashenhurst all married and reared large families. Betty was married to Benjamin Marshall; Nellie was married to James Johnson; Peggy to William Reed, who lived and died near West Alexander, Penn. ; Mattie was the wife of Thomas Robinson. William Ashenhurst and Nancy, his wife, with four children, immigrated at the same time with the families mentioned above, in 1793. The children were John, Margaret, Mary, Nancy. Another son was born to them on their voyage before landing at Norfolk. This was Oliver, the youngest child. William and Oliver Ashenhurst, referred to above, were cousins of William Ashenhurst, the subject of this reference. They were also brothers-in-law, as Nancy, his wife, was sister to William and Oliver. William married his cousin. The daughters of William and Nancy died, leaving no children. Oliver, the younger son, married Euphemia Bishop, when thirty years of age, by whom he had four sons and as many daughters. He lost one son, James D., in the war for the Union. William and Frank both died in 1881, Frank leaving a wife and child, who are now at Londonderry, Ohio. John, the second son of Oliver Ashenhurst, resides in Missouri. WAYNE COUNTY - 511 Oliver's daughters were married, and are living in the West or Southwest. Oliver Ashenhurst was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was a volunteer, going into the service at twenty years of age. He lived, after his marriage, until his family were grown up, on Eagle Creek, Brown Co., Ohio. Thence he removed with his family to Mercer County, Ill., where he died. John Ashenhurst, the elder son of William and Nancy Ashenhurst, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, about the year 1773 and immigrated with his parents to America, in 1793. He had been reared in the Church of England, but having settled, soon after his arrival in this country, in Brooke County, Va., he became connected with the Associate Church at Cross Creek, under the pastoral care of Rev. Thomas Allison. He married, in 1802, Miss Mary Young, and to them were born ten children, first five daughters, and after this five sons, two of the latter dying in infancy. John Ashenhurst enlisted in the War of 1812, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. In 1817 he removed, with his family, to Brown County, Ohio. There he lived for many years, and in 1855 went to Dalton, Wayne County, Ohio, where he died in May, 1856, aged eighty-four years. Nancy, the eldest daughter of John and Mary Ashenhurst, married Valentine Bishop. Their children are in Illinois and Missouri. Margaret married Garret Snedaker. Their children are still in Brown and Adams Counties, Ohio. Esther married William Lane. They are in Illinois. Ella married Stephen Bayles. They had but one son; he lives in Kansas. Elizabeth married Oliver Robinson. They had several sons and one daughter. William Ashenhurst, son of John and Mary Ashenhurst, was born in Brooke County, Va., in 1816, and married Mary Mahaffey in 1843. They had four children born to them. He lived on the old homestead in Brown County, Ohio, but was on the point of moving to Illinois, when, before his preparations were completed, he was murdered by two of his wife's brothers, who escaped punishment by the influence of secret oath-bound fraternities. His wife afterward removed to Illinois with her children, a daughter and three sons. She died in a short time after her removal to the West. The daughter and sons are still living in Western Illinois. Some of them, at least, have families. James Young Ashenhurst, son of John and Mary Ashenhurst, was born in Brown County, Ohio, in the year 1818; was licensed to preach by the Reformed Dissenting Presbytery in 1845. The presbytery uniting with the Associate Synod, he became a minister of that church. The Associate Synod uniting 512 - WAYNE COUNTY. with the Associate Reformed Synod in 1858, and by this union forming the United Presbyterian Church, he became a member of that body. James Young Ashenhurst was married to Miss Martha Johnson, of Belmont County, Ohio, June 6, 1844. He was settled at Short Creek, Va., and afterward in Wayne County,Ohio. He removed to Hayesville, Ashland County, in 1856. After a pastorate there of sixteen years he removed to Mecklenburg, Va., in 1872; from thence to a farm in Belmont County, Ohio, and subsequently to Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio. MICHAEL SHELLY, a prosperous farmer of Wayne County, was born in Cumberland County, Penn., March 7, 1811. His father, Jacob Shelly, was born in Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood. He married Miss Eliza Snavely, daughter of Peter Snavely, and in 1828 came to Wayne County, later returning to Pennsylvania to dispose of his property, and in 1830 located permanently in Wayne County, where they spent the remainder of their lives, Mrs. Shelly dying first, in 1849, at the age of seventy-three years. She was the mother of nine children, of whom Michael is the only one living in Wayne County. Mr. Shelly died in 1853, aged eighty-two years. He was a farmer by occupation, and of German descent. Michael Shelly spent his early years on his father's farm, and in 1828 came to Wayne County with his parents, and purchased land. In 1835 he was married to Elizabeth Houser, daughter of Jacob and Catherine Houser, and a native of Dauphin County, Penn., where she was born January 18, 1815. In 1834 she came to Wayne County, where her parents died. After their marriage Mr. Shelly and his wife made their home in Plain Township, where they have ever since resided. Ten children have been born to them, as follows: Christian, living in Plain Township; Michael, deceased; Jacob, on the home farm; Peter, living in Ashland County; Joseph, in Franklin Township; Eliza, now Mrs. David Mellinger; Sarah, now Mrs. Robert McAffee, living in Wooster; John, in Plain Township; Mary, Mrs. William McQuigg; Susan, Mrs. James Alexander, in Plain Township. Mr. Shelly is a Republican in politics, and both lie and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church. As a pioneer Mr. Shelly has witnessed the growth of Wayne County from a wilderness to one of the fairest spots in the country. By his own industry, intelligence and good judgment, he has not only aided in the development of the community, but he has achieved a substantial MICHAEL SHELLY - 513 514 - BLANK WAYNE COUNTY - 515 success for himself. He has progressed with the country, and is regarded as one of the representative farmers of Wayne County. He has the respect and affection of all who know him, and his circle of acquaintances is a wide one. ADAM D. SCHULTZ is a son of Nicholas and Catherine (Schaffer) Schultz, natives of Germany, who came to America and first located in Apple Creek for some time. They are now engaged in farming in East Union Township, Wayne County, and are prominent members of the German Reformed Church. Adam D. Schultz, whose name heads this sketch, was born in East Union Township,. Wayne County, October 14, 1860. He was sent to the public schools, and afterward learned the blacksmith's trade and carriage manufacturing. In 1880 he established his present business, that of carriage making, in Apple Creek, making a specialty of manufacturing fine buggies, and employing six men, the enterprise completing about sixty contracts per year. In 1880 Mr. Schultz married Miss May, daughter of Charles Boydston, of East Union Township, Wayne County, and by this union they have one child, Belle May. Mr. Schultz is a stanch Democrat; he and his family are consistent and worthy members of the Apple Creek Methodist Episcopal Church. E. P. WILLAMAN, druggist and grocer, of Smithville, Wayne County, Ohio, is a son of John and Mary (Wintrode) Willaman. He was born April 4, 1859, in Smithville, where his entire life has been passed. His primary education was received in the common schools of his native town, and was supplemented by a course in the normal school at Smithville. After completing his education he entered the store of his father, then the leading merchant of Smithville. On the retirement of his father from business, the concern was taken by E. P. and his brother, Lee J., in partnership, they carrying on the dry goods, drug and grocery business in the fine, large, double brick building built by their father, on the southeast corner of Main and Milton Streets, in Smithville. The firm name was John Willaman's Sons. This partnership continued until April 27, 1883, when it was dissolved, the elder brother carrying on the dry goods department for a short time longer, when he sold it out. The drug and grocery department was taken by E. P. Willaman, who has ever since conducted it very successfully, and by energy, strict attention to business 516 - WAYNE COUNTY and good management has built up the best trade in Smithville. On April 8, 1880, Mr. Willaman was married to Anna, daughter of John and Lizzie Dresher, who have been for many years residents of Smithville, but were living in Chicago when Mrs. Willaman was born, on March 4, 1855. They have three children: John J., Glenn Dresher and Mary Edith. Mr. Willaman is a young man of much energy and enterprise. He attends closely to his business, and by watching the wants of his trade and keeping his stock well supplied, and selling for a fair margin, has made a fine trade. He is justly regarded as a rising young man, who is bound to take a leading place in the business circles of his native town. DR. J. II. RUGGLES was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., July 13, 1831, son of H. B. and Elizabeth (Peak) Ruggles, former a native of Massachusetts, and latter of Schoharie County, N. Y. They came to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1837, and located at Jackson, Canaan Township, where the father carried on the manufacture of harness, saddles, trunks, etc. He afterward engaged with Kimble Porter, proprietor of a stage route, acting as his agent, from Buffalo to Detroit for ten years. He then went to Cincinnati, and took charge of a bus line ; also examined all the cavalry horses obtained there for the cavalry service in the War of the Rebellion, his family in the meantime continuing to live in Canaan Township. His wife died in 1862, and he in 1878. Their family consisted of the following-named children: J. H. and one daughter, Julia, now the wife of Lyman Cotton, son of Esquire Cotton (deceased), of Creston, Ohio ; they reside in St. Paul, Minn. J. H. Ruggles came to Wayne County when six years of age, and received his classical education at Seville Academy. He first read medicine with Dr. Moore, of Wooster, Ohio, and afterward with Dr. Robison, finishing with Dr. George, of Jackson, Ohio. He attended the Western Reserve College of Cleveland, and graduated from the Charity Hospital Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1862. Dr. Ruggles began the practice of medicine at Jackson, and remained there five years ; thence moved to Clyde, Sandusky Co., Ohio, for six months, and from there moved to Creston, Wayne County, where e has since been engaged in an extensive practice. He is a member of the Northeastern. Ohio Medical Association, and of Seville Lodge, No. 74, F. & A. M. In 1856 the Doctor married Miss Sarah Jane, daughter of Hollis and Sarah Stebbins, of Lockport, N. Y., and by this union they WAYNE COUNTY - 517 have had four children: Emma A., deceased wife of Casper Johnson; Belva, wife of Hexter Hellinger, of Canaan Township (has two children, Montrood and Fern) ; Ella and Carrie, at home. Dr. Ruggles conducts a farm in connection with his profession. He is a Republican in politics, and a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is treasurer. EDWARD F. KEELING is a son of William and Lucy (Fullard) Keel-J ing, natives of England, who immigrated to America in December, 1833, and in the spring of 1,834 came to Wayne County, Ohio, where they purchased a farm in Milton Township, and here lived until their deaths. Edward F., their only child, was born at Woodhurst, Huntingdonshire, England, December 29, 1823. He accompanied his parents to this county when only ten years of age, and has since been engaged in farming in Milton Township. He erected, and operated for a number of years, the first saw-mill in Milton Township. In 1854 Mr. Keeling married Mary, daughter of Daniel Johnson, of Medina County, Ohio, and two children were born to them, both of whom died in infancy. Mr. Keeling is a member of the Democratic party, and has served as justice of the peace for two terms, notary public for two terms, and in various other township offices. He was active in clearing the township during the War of the Rebellion. JOHN MOWERY (deceased) was born in Greenbrier County, Va., in the year 1800. He was a son of John Mowery, who, with his wife, was a resident of Wayne County. His father's family consisted of himself, one brother and nine sisters, all of whom are dead except two sisters, namely: Mrs. Nancy Fiers, who resides at Stockdale, Ind., and Mrs. Catherine Lowery, who resides in Congress Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, the former being about eighty years of age, and the latter eighty-nine. John's mother died in Greenbrier County, Va., when he was about six years old. When John was fourteen years of age, his father removed to Wayne County, accompanied by his children. He first settled on a farm about two miles and a half west of Wooster. The father, being of limited means, was compelled to support his family by doing labor, in which his son, John also engaged with him. Until over nineteen years of age John's chief employment was the clearing of land and making of rails, in which he was an expert, 518 - WAYNE COUNTY. dexterously wielding an ax weighing nine pounds, made expressly for him by a blacksmith. By his father's permission, after he was nineteen John set out in the world for himself, his only capital at that time being his good moral character, temperate habits, energy and industry. His physical constitution was remarkable. Though not a large or robust man, he was strong, active and vigorous, always enjoying perfect health, never having been confined to his bed by disease until his last illness, which was of but a few days' duration. He died at the residence of John N. Mowery, in Chester Township, Wayne County, on the 3d day of June, 1884, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. When twenty years of age John purchased seventy acres of land in Perry Township, then in Wayne, but now in Ashland County, near the present town of Rowsburgh, and these seventy acres formed the nucleus of the large fortune which he acquired. On the 1st day of June, 1820, he was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Adams, of Congress Township, Wayne County, a very worthy lady, with whom he lived in the utmost harmony until her death, which occurred in 1856. The issue of this marriage was Thomas, Nathaniel, John N., Dr. Michael E., Sarah (Mrs. Jacob Snell), a son who died in infancy, and Rebecca, his youngest daughter, who died in 1879. Early in his history, after marriage, Mr. Mowery became the owner of a quarter section of land in Chester Township. Owing to this land being to some extent overgrown with hard brushwood, and there being several John Mowerys in the neighborhood, he was called Hard John Mowery, by which title he was well known throughout the country. As a leading financier, money loaner, a man of sturdy habits, strict integrity, honesty, great industry and remarkable energy, he had acquired a wide reputation. For forty years previous to his death Mr. Mowery was deeply interested in religious matters. Having no education, and being thus unable to read or write, he was compelled to rely on his wife and other good friends to read to him the truths of the Bible. For two years he devoted the greater part of his time, as a pupil of his wife, in gaining an education and reading and studying the sacred scriptures. By earnest prayer, humbleness of heart and repentance he realized a change of heart to such a degree that he became converted and a full believer in the atonement. After his conversion he became a changed man, and lived a strictly upright life, believing, when death called him .home, his soul would ascend to Heaven, and be with God and Christ forever. Mr. Mowery, at his death, was the owner of 1,100 acres of land in Wayne County, and WAYNE COUNTY - 519 personal property valued at about $125,000, all of which he accumulated by his own industry. As a pioneer he entered the forests, which he leveled with his great ax, making the dense wilderness blossom as the rose, even while the savage Indian's scalping-knife gleamed in the sunshine and moonlight about his cabin. He was domestic in his habits, but a kind neighbor, ever courteous, and sharing the good-will of every one. In politics he was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian school, a supporter and admirer of Andrew Jackson. Calling his children to his 'bedside, bidding them all farewell, his last words were: " Now I will go to sleep." Mr. Mowery made no will for the disposition of his estate, which is enjoyed by his surviving children, consisting of four sons and one daughter. WILLIAM A. RATHBUN was born in Chester Township in 1845, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Edmunds) Rathbun, and is the youngest of a family of nine children. The Rathbun family is recognized as among the most prominent in the county. Samuel was born in Rochester, N. Y., in the year 1800, and all of his life has been spent in farming. He left his native home with his parents when fourteen years of age, and settled in Wayne County, Ohio. William A. now superintends the work on his father's farm, which comprises 165 acres of valuable land. He is among the more intelligent men engaged in farming. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and I. O. O. F., and of the Evangelical Church. He casts his suffrage with the Prohibitionists. d'OHN K. SALTSMAN, son of John Saltsman, a native of Westmore--) land County, Penn., was born September 5, 1825, in Jefferson County, Ohio, whither his father had come with his parents when only twelve years old. The latter married in Jefferson County, and there reared a large family, and died in his seventy-fourth year. The subject of this sketch, after leaving Jefferson County, located in Carroll County, Ohio, for two years, and in the fall of 1866 he and his family became permanent citizens of Congress Township, Wayne County. July 3, 1855, he was united in marriage with Miss Jane Barclay, daughter of Joseph and Jennette Barclay, both natives of Scotland, who in an early day immigrated to America, settling in Carroll County, Ohio, where they lived many years, both dying at an advanced age. To Mr. and Mrs. Saltsman have been born seven chil- 520 - WAYNE COUNTY. dren. They have for many years been identified with the Presbyterian Church of West Salem, Wayne County. Our subject now owns the old home place of John Mosier, who was one of the early comers into Congress Township, and entered the land upon which Mr. Saltsman now lives. The latter has at all tines been deeply interested in the private and public improvements of his township, and stands high in the estimation of the community. M. S. ROBISON, son of John and Evan (Stucky) Robison, was born in Centreville, Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1851. His grandfather, Charles Robison, who was of Scotch descent, and a native of Baltimore, Md., removed to Pennsylvania. Here he married Elizabeth Lickerty, and then located in Centreville, where he spent the remainder of his days. His widow then moved to Shreve, where she had her home until her decease. Their children were John (see below), Margaret (she married David Keggs, and located in Centreville, from which place they removed to California, thence to Pike's Peak, where he died), David (foreman in car-shops at Tiffin, Ohio), James (killed by the Indians on the plains), Sarah (now Mrs. Oliver Bills, of Michigan), Joseph (deceased, his residence having been in Wayne Township), Elizabeth (now Mrs. Henry Snyder, of Centreville, Ohio), Lydia (the late Mrs. Edward Lake, of Big Prairie, Ohio), Charles (foreman in car-shops at Flint, Mich.), Susan J. (now Mrs. John Buchanan, of Flint, Mich.), Cornelius (a resident of Shreve), and Ellen (now Mrs. Peter Housel, resident of Shreve). Simon Stucky, maternal grandfather of our subject, was a native of Virginia, and a soldier in the War of 1812, at the close of which he removed to Harrison County, Ohio, where he married a Miss Baker, and settled in Centreville, being among the pioneers of that village, and where they remained during their lives. To them were born three children: Polly (married Custard Bunting, when they located at Centreville, where he died and she still resides), Lydia (now Mrs. Joseph Geissinger, of Centreville) and EVan (the late Mrs. John Robison, of Shreve). John Robison, the first son of Charles, and father of M. S., was born in Franklin County, Penn., in the year 1822, where he received an elementary education, and remained until 1839, in which year he emigrated to Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, where he married Evan, daughter of Simon Stucky, of Virginia. They then located at Shreve, where he began his business career as a village blacksmith, WAYNE COUNTY - 521 and later became proprietor of a grocery, bakery and retail clothing store, owner of a mill, as well as owner and genial landlord of the Robison House, a hostelry noted for its excellence throughout the county. Mr. Robison has always been a Democrat, and from time to time has been made the recipient of political favors. He was the. first one of his party to be elected justice of the peace in Clinton Township, has held various positions since, and after the incorporation of Shreve he became its second mayor. He has always been one of the able and prominent citizens, identified at all times with its local enterprises; and largely interested in educational matters, having erected several of the school buildings of his township. Ever a man of broad views, he has been just, generous and scrupulously honorable in all business transactions, not given to forcible expression of his sentiments, -thereby rendering his opinion more valuable; a desirable host, a devoted husband," a kind and affectionate father. Mrs. Robison died December 17, 1884, since when he has made his home with his son, M. S. Their family are Jacob H. (who married Eliza, daughter of Daniel Batdorff, of Shreve, where they located; at the beginning of the late war he enlisted, and died in the army), Elizabeth (now Mrs. Matthias Keller, of Millersburgh ; Mr. Keller entered the army, was captured, and died in prison at Andersonville), May Jane (now Mrs. George Gates, of Loudonville, Ohio), Darius (who married Mary Jane Smith, and is now a resident of Mansfield, Ohio), John M. (who married Emma Filby, and is now a resident of Shreve), Almina (now Mrs. John Davy, of Atchison, Kas.), Ellen H. (now Mrs. William Hall, of Shreve), and M. S. The subject proper of this memoir at the early age of twelve years started in life to work out his own destiny. He engaged in various occupations in several States, until, in 1869, he married May C., daughter of John P. Wise, of Clinton Township, this county, and his first business venture was as a blacksmith, in Shreve, in 1870; later he was in the boot and shoe trade, and proprietor of a market, but eventually returned to his former vocation, and in 1879 re-established his blacksmith and carriage works at Shreve, which he conducted successfully until 1888, when fire destroyed his buildings, entailing a heavy loss. Not disheartened, however, he at once became proprietOr of the Robison House, enlarged its capacity, refitted and refurnished it throughout, and under his able management it is rapidly becoming the popular hotel at Shreve. May C., his wife, died in August, 1880. she was a lady who ably filled the position of wife and mother, and one eminently fitted to adorn the position she 522 = WAYNE COUNTY. held, not only in the domestic but social circle. Her children are Bertie, Lulu, Howard M. and Walter. Mr. Robison, in December, 1881, married Almedia, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Shrimpler, of Killbuck, Holmes Co., Ohio, and their home is as stated above. Mr. Robison is a member of Garfield Lodge, No. 528, F. & A. M. of Shreve; Shreve Council No. 27, R. A., and of Killbuck Ruling No. 79, F. M. & C. He is also identified with the Democratic party, and he and wife are members of the Disciples Church. EBER B. CONNELLY was born at '-I Morristown, Ohio, August 12, 1828, and died October 13, 1883. For nearly thirty years he had been a resident of Wooster, the first ten years of thetime working at the tailor's trade. About the close of the war he went into the hotel. business, assuming the proprietorship of the old Washington House, on the corner. of East Liberty and Buckeye Streets. His widowed sister-in-law, Mrs. Linda Connelly,'now Mrs. A. M. Parrish, took charge of his domestic affairs, and became the popular and skillful hostess of the hotel. Together they worked, and by careful and judicious management accumulated means suffi.cient to supplant the old wooden building with a handsome, substantial and well-appointed brick structure, which now occupies the site of the old Washington House. The new hotel was built in 1878, and was named. "The Archer House," in honor of Mrs. Connelly's son Archer, deceased. Mr. Connelly was a successful, accommodating landlord, and was ably assisted in the management of the fine hotel by his sister-in-law. Mr. Connelly died a bachelor. His father died in the prime of life, and his mother afterward married a Mr. Findley, who also died, and after the death of her second husband, found a home with her son. She survived him only about six months, dying in 1884 at the age of eighty-six years. Mr. Connelly was a man of genial and affable manner; of solid and strict business integrity; of a generous, kind-hearted disposition; of determined and settled convictions, and of uncompromising prinleiples. In his business he formed many friendships and acquaintances, and was always well thought of and universally liked. As a citizen he was always public-spirited, and was ever ready to lend a helping hand to aid any enterprise that would contribute to the prosperity and advancement of his city. In politics he was an uncompromising Republican. The remains of Mr. Connelly were interred in the family lot in Oak Hill as farm-