550 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. ber of young ladies in attendance having steadily increased, and their relative standing in the classes proving their entire ability, in all respects, to master the difficulties of the college course." Doctor Taylor (writing about 1878 in Douglas' History of Wayne County) says of the young women of Wooster : "They are prepared for teachers or for an adequate appreciation of literature, science and life in general, and are enabled to reason for themselves and act with superior judgment, moving without embarrassment in the most cultivated society and fitted to adorn the highest walks in social life." Forty years of experience have only accented the accuracy of these assertions. It might be surprising to some people if the records of these later years were examined to note the number of instances in which the "honors" have gone to those "quick, flashing womanly minds" which President Lord foresaw. Co-education prevails in thirty-nine out of the fifty-three colleges which are recognized as, in one degree or another, attached to the Presbyterian faith and order. There has inevitably arisen the social question, however, and the temptation to excessive engagement in various social activities. But this yields to sensible rules founded upon the usages of good society and restricting social privileges only in the degree necessary to secure the quiet which conditions at the same time health and success in meeting the requirements of the curriculum. 14. It would be of interest and value if a study of the expenses accompanying an education at Wooster could be made. The original purpose included, beyond doubt, the "plain living" as well as the "high thinking," because Wooster was designed for efficiency in connection with the rank and file of its first, though not its only, constituency—the Presbyterians of Ohio. But that study is now impossible for this sketch. Suffice it to say that it has been steadily endeavored to hold the university, with all its increasing advantages, open to those of limited means and to those who must provide for themselves. From these classes have come the vast majority of Wooster's students and from among them have emerged those by whom its records are most adorned. The students have never paid the entire expense of their education, of course, and the most liberal arrangements have been made in aid of various classes of students. While expenses have increased it cannot be said that this increase has been in proportion to the additional advantages offered or beyond the unavoidable increment due to higher prices in all departments of life. This reasonable adjustment, it is hoped, will be maintained, since nothing in splendor of equipment could compensate the university for a loss of accessibility to those of whom we may speak as "the middle class," the "bone and sinew" of every democracy. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 551 15. There remains but one thing more in this miscellany and that may be styled the department of propaganda, which has been inaugurated in the administrative offices. The resources of ingenious statement, adapted to many classes and communities, have been taxed for the presentation of Wooster's claims to consideration, patronage and contributions. Space will permit the quotation of only a few titles, such as : "Why Go to College ?" "Why Go to the University of Wooster ?" "Education from the Christian Point of View" ; "Why Should the Denominational College Live ?"—which query is answered in twenty-two brief sentence suggestions ; "From Farm to College" ; "An Ideal Place for Self-Discovery," are other titles in this most persuasive literature. It unfolds the lines of opportunity in modern education and the demands these create which an institution of the first class—Wooster's class—must prepare to meet. It is a literature full of information, stimulus and broad outlook. It demonstrates plainly with what ease and certainty our constituency—aided by friends of education everywhere—can build upon the ample foundations laid by forty years of experience and the marvelous development of the fourth decade. May it penetrate homes and hearts without number. CHAPTER XXIII. TOWNS OF THE COUNTY. Aside from the city of Wooster, the chief metropolis of Wayne county, there are several good-sized towns and villages which have been mentioned incidentally in the various township histories, but in this chapter a more extended account will be given of them. DOYLESTOWN VILLAGE. This prosperous village was laid out by William Doyle, after whom it was named, on December 9, 1827, and it was incorporated August 6, 1867. The first house was erected in the village on a vacant lot standing between what was afterwards Mrs. Diebel's and Mr. Shondel's grocery. It was a log house, built by William Doyle, vv ho occupied it as a tavern, sold whisky and allowed dancing. The first doctor was a Mr. Pierpont, who stole a horse while on a visit in the East and was sentenced to the penitentiary. The first election was held in December, 1866, for municipal officers. The mayors who have served this incorporation are as follows : 1866-8, A. H. Purcell ; 1869, Moses Bugher ; 1870, J. B. Weaver ; 1871, J. B. Weaver ; 1872, A. H. Purcell ; 1873, A. H. Purcell ; 1874, W. J. Bigelow ; 1875 to 1877, W. J. Bigelow ; * * * 1886 to 1890, Allen Hassing; 1890 to 1902, G. W. Barkhamer ; 1902 to 1903, John Whitman ; 1903 to 1905, G. W. Barkhamer; 1906 to 190, B. R. Tagg. The present officers are. Mayor, B. R. Tagg; clerk, O. B. Heffleman ; treasurer, N. R. Zimmerman; marshal, Levi Whitman ; fire chief, Henry Roth; health officer, E. Dannemiller; Councilmen, A. Gantes, J. A. Myers, William Jenior, A. Flath, M. S. Fleck, David Beal. The village owns a large two-story town hall, and at present the public schools are in session in it, while the new school building is being completed. The present physicians of the town are Dr. A. E. Stepfield, homeopathic; Dr. E. R. Spencer, Dr. E. H. McKinney, allopathic ; W. A. Pursell, dentist. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 553 THE POSTOFFICE. The following have served as postmasters at Doylestown : William G. Foster. from 1828 to 1847; Angus McIntire, 1848 to 1852; Samuel Rouston, 1853 to 1856; Orrin G. Franks, 1857 to 1859 ; Samuel Blocker, 1860 to 1867; H. A. Soliday, 1868 to 1872; Henry S. Deisem, 1873 to 1877. The list from 1877 is as follows : H. S. Diersem; 1883, E. S. Nichols ; 1885, C. D. Gardner; 1889, George Jackson; 1893, J. V. Hartel; 1897, George Jackson, who is still serving in an acceptable manner. The present office is kept in a new building erected by the postmaster and it was first occupied on the morning of June 5, 1909. The first rural free delivery route was established out from Doylestown in December, 1904, and the second route started in May, 1905. The length of the former is twenty-three and one-half miles, while the latter is twenty-four miles in length. At first the office was at Chippewa, south of town, and was removed in 1874. CHURCHES OF DOYLESTOWN. That Doylestown is a worshiping people is seen by the presence of four neat church edifices—the Methodist Episcopal, built in 1885; the Evangelical Lutheran, built in 1867; the Catholic, built in 1877, and the Presbyterian, a frame building, and the oldest of all edifices in the town. For more in detail concerning these churches, the reader is referred to the chapter on Churches of the county, elsewhere in this volume. LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Doylestown is the home of the following fraternities : The Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, instituted about 1880, the Royal Arcanum, Maccabees, Foresters, Sons of Herman. The Odd Fellows own a fine block and lease to the Knights of Pythias order. Odd Fellowship was first established here in August, 1854. The lodge now numbers one hundred and twelve members. At one time there existed a flourishing Grand Army of the Republic post, known as J. Galehouse Post, No. 227, but owing to the death of all but four or five comrades of the Civil war who belonged, the post was abandoned in 1904. INDUSTRIES AT DOYLESTOWN. From an early day, for a town of its size, Doylestown has ever been a lively manufacturing place. It still holds good that early-day reputation. Among the institutions worth mentioning here, may be named the Empire 554 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. Mower and Reaper Works, established in the fifties. Its present condition seems flourishing for a small factory. Its president is Samuel Miller. Of the more modern factories, may be mentioned the Buckeye Aluminum Company, established in 1903, coming from Quincy, Massachusetts. Their specialty is making communion sets, which are of a rare and beautiful design and find a ready sale in various parts of this country. W. H. Huffman is the president; W. R. Miller, secretary and treasurer, with Leon Ward as its manager. They employ about twenty-five men. Another aluminum industry here is the comb factory, in which a number of skilled workmen are employed and they produce a fine grade of combs for the hair. This was established by home capital in 1903-4. J. A. Myers is the manager of the stock company. A new concern, starting up in the fall of 1909, is the second comb factory, which produces from a Doylestown invention a superior article in way of a fibre comb. It is dark, like rubber, but very tough and flexible. It is operated with home capital and is incorporated for twenty-five thousand dollars. Its president is Bert Myers. BANKING. The banking business is well taken care of here by the Doylestown Banking Company, with D. J. McDaniel, president ; J. W. Zimmerman, vice-president George Landis, cashier, The capital of this banking company is fifteen thousand dollars, while its deposits were, in 1909, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. TOWN OF CRESTON. This was formerly known and platted in 1865 as Saville, but when the railway company established a town by that name elsewhere—over the county line—this place was, for a time, called Pike Station, it being situated on the old Cleveland pike road. But in 1881 it was changed to Creston. It is situated in Canaan township, near the north line of Wayne county, and now has a population of about twelve hundred. It has the following transportation lines: The Wheeling & Lake Erie line; the Erie, Baltimore & Ohio line and the Cleveland and Southwestern. which is the electric interurban road, built about 1901, from Wooster to Cleveland. The present professional men of Creston are Doctors T. D. Hollingsworth, J. W. I rvin. A. C. Kenestick, William Orr, Van I. Allen, R. J. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 555 Baird and G. H. Smith, dentist; Price Russell, attorney ; J. E. Elliott, real estate, loans and notary public.. The present day industries here flourishing are The Buckeye Concrete Company, manufacturing, in the largest plant in Wayne county, fence posts, hitching posts, arbor posts, porch posts, water troughs, building blocks, etc.; Pickle and Preserving works, which is doing a good business, the owners being Messrs. Lutz & Schramm; Creston Hoop and Stave Company, the most extensive works of the town ; the Creston Wood Handle Company, who make all sorts of tool handles from the native timber of the immediate vicinity; the White Rose Creamery ; D. G. Hay's roller flouring mills, etc. The hotels of the town are the Arcade and the Hotel Creston. The newspaper of the place is the newsy, independent paper known as the Creston Journal, established in 1880 and now edited and printed by its owner, F. M. Sulliger. The schools of the town are held in a. fine two-story frame school building. There are the following civic societies represented in this place : The Masonic, Odd Fellows and Maccabees orders. The churches are the Methodist Episcopal and the Presbyterian, of which mention is made fully in the church chapter. POSTOFFICE. At an early day the postoffice was kept at old Jackson, but in about 1864-5 it was established at what is now Creston. The postmasters from the first have been as follows : Elmer St. John, serving at least eight years; Phillip Baum, serving four years; G. W. Littel, four years; J. T. Miller, four years; C. P. Smith, four years; N. I. McGlenn, from 1893 to 1897, and John McGuff, from 1897 to the present time. There are now two free rural delivery routes out from this town. INCORPORATION. Creston was incorporated June 2, 1899 ; the following have served as mayors : The first mayor was Warden Wheeler, who served until April 10, 1900, when he was followed by Price Russell, who served until April 9, 1902. Mr. Russell was succeeded by William B. Jordan, serving until January 31, 1906, and he was killed on the Wheeling & Lake Erie railway. February II, 1907. W. H. Peters took Mr. Jordan's place and is the present (1909) mayor. 556 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. Two great farming industries must not be omitted in the history of this place. The onion farm of one hundred and thirty acres, near the town limits, the property of Wean, Tenney & Company, where immense quantities of best grade onions have been produced for many seasons in succession, and where are employed scores of men and women in planting, cultivating and harvesting. crating and shipping onions to far and near markets. Then the Jordan Brothers immense celery farm, embracing one hundred and fifteen acres and on which land is produced the finest variety of table celery, which also gives employment for many persons and has come to be sought after at far distant points, and is very profitable. BANKING. Creston has a good banking house, known as the Stebbins Banking Company. Its president is W. P. Stebbins ; the cashier is C. A. Stebbins, and assistant cashier, E. D. Arthur. Its capital is ten thousand dollars, while the deposits are sixty-five thousand dollars. The bank occupies a fine, modern-style banking house, constructed of stone and brick. TOWN OF ORRVILLE. Orrville is located in Green and Baughman townships and has a population of something over three thousand. The town owns its own water plant and electric light plant and has recently put in a sanitary system of sewerage. The place was incorporated in 1864 and the following have served as its mayors : William Gailey, 1865 ; William M. Orr, Alexander Moncrief, Dr. A. C. Miller, Mahlon Rouch, J. F. Seas, S. D. Tanner, G. W. Barrett, N. L. Royer, Warren Ramsey, Levi Neiswanger, J. M. Fiscus, Dr. Faber, George Starn, D. F. Griffith. The present town officials are : D. F. Griffith, mayor, Charles Arnold, marshal ; A. L. Reed, clerk ; E. M. Tanner, treasurer ; board of public service, Frank Reichenbach, E. C. Bowman and Ralph Kinney ; councilmen, John Kropf, Adam Fogel, H. P. Shantz, E. E. Schrantz, E. P. Willaman, H. P. Leickheim. Orrville was named in honor of Hon. Smith Orr. The town has an excellent town hall, a brick building, of two stories, with town offices and engine rooms attached. The accompanying reminiscences will give the reader a fair comprehension of the way this place was started and will prove interesting, as well. There are four churches in Orrville and the Catholics expect to build soft. The present churches are the Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal, Reformed and English Lutheran denominations (see church chapter elsewhere for this and other towns in Wayne county). WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 557 The fraternal societies of the town are the Masonic, Odd Fellows, Royal Arcanum, Knights of Honor, National Union and Maccabees orders. The physicians are Doctors Blankenhous, Brooks, Campbell, Grady, Irvin and Shie. A postoffice was established at this point in 1863-64 and the postmasters who have served came in the following order : Alexander E. Clark, J. F, Seas, David L. Moncrief, Henry Shriber, J. W. Hostetter, Proctor Seas, Henry E. Taylor, G. D. McIntyre. In 1902 there were two free rural delivery routes established out from Orrville, and in 1905 two more. There are two excellent school buildings—one erected in 1860 and one dedicated in 1908, a fine structure. The town has the distinction of owning its excellent equipped electric lighting plant and its water works, which were installed in the nineties. The water works were put in in 1897 and derive the best quality of drinking water in Ohio from four tubular wells sunk to the great depth of eight hundred feet. Drinking fountains for man and beast are found on the principal streets. With paved streets and good sewers, electric lights and an abundant supply of the purest water, the place is fast putting on "city airs." The town is well advertised and is served with the latest news by two good local newspapers, spoken of in the Press chapter—the Crescent and Courier. The attorneys of Orrville at this date are S. N. Coe and Ryer & Starn. The commercial hotel of the place is an excellent one and is styled The Hurd. A Board of Industry keeps seeking out additional business firms and factories for Orrville. Its secretary is now Charles Craft. The railroad interests are very extensive at Orrville. The companies here represented are the Pennsylvania lines ; the Wabash ; the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus of the Pennsylvania system. The latter road has its division and machine shops at this point and it is rumored that soon a great enlargement of the Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & 'Chicago, will be made here, in way of shops and division interests. ORRVILLE'S INDUSTRIES. Orrville is the home of the following factories and industrial interests : The Orrville Milling Company's roller mill, in which the daily capacity is about eight hundred barrels. This -m's established in the early seventies as a buhrstone mill, but was later changed to a full roller-process flouring-mill. Other 558 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. industries are the mattress factory ; the Champion thresher factory ; Cottage Creamery, a branch of the Sugarcreek Creamery, established here in 19o9; the Cyclone Drill Company, that manufactures many kinds of drills and coal mining and well machinery and employs more than forty men; the C. C. Haffner harness factory ; Orrville Bed Spring Company; the Iron Hand and Power Pump factory, a new concern that promises much in the near future to Orrville; the Gemill phonograph factory, making an invention of the place a profitable industry, and many lesser factories. The first move toward putting in electric lights was by the ordinance passed February I, 1892, when the scheme of providing for light, heat and power was inaugurated. The Orrville board of water-works trustees was organized April i6, 1894. as follows : D. F. Griffith, A. H. Postlewait and C. C. Davidson. It may be well to give a list of some of the more important factories that have from time to time been located here—in fact the citizens here have always tried to keep a line of paying industries going. Many have long since dropped from the list, moved elsewhere or gone out of businesS entirely. January, 1877, a patent was granted to Mr. Askins for a glass coffin ; a joint stock company was formed to make the same and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars was subscribed. Five men were employed. The president of the company was William M. Orr, D. G. Horst, treasurer, and Jacob L. Askins, superintendent. The Orrville Planing Company was organized in 1867 with a joint-stock of twenty thousand dollars; it finally passed to Joseph Snively. A hand-rake and fork manufactory was established here by Boydston & Ramsey, in 1.871, and did a splendid business. The Orrville Pottery was established in 1862 by Amos Hall and Robert Cochran, who sold it in 1877 to Eckert and Flickenger, who made immense quantities of crocks, jugs, fruit jars, etc. The Orrville Tannery was established in 1864, by Ludwick Pontius. and was the first industry of its kind in Orrville. BANKING. The Exchange Bank was established here in 1868, by Jacob Brenneman and David Horst. It was later styled Brenneman & Horst's Bank. The Orrville National Bank was organized with forty thousand dollars capital, and now has deposits amounting to three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Its present officers are H. H. Strauss, president ; Isaac Pontius, vice-president ; F. L. Strauss, cashier. WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 559 ORVILLE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR. [Note—In the year 1890 two citizens, J. F. Seas and D. G. Evans, were conferring on the matter of holding a reunion of those who were residents of Orrville in 1860. W. S. Evans happened to drop in from Michigan, enroute to Tennessee, while the matter was being considered, and was asked to prepare a paper on his recollections to be read at the proposed meeting. The reunion did not materialize, but the paper was later published (Courier, July 22, 1890) and reads as follows :] The spring of 1860 found Orrville a small unincorporated village with a population of probably five hundred inhabitants. As nearly as I can recollect the business. interests of the place were represented as follows : Fischer Bros. and M. Whitmyer, groceries ; Bailey & Evans, drugs and groceries; David Mast, dry goods; Reaser, Skelton & Burkholder, dry goods; J. F. Seas, postmaster and hardware; D. L. Moncrief, drugs; Fletcher Brothers, harness ; Philip Krick, shoemaker; Mr. Hart, shoemaker; Reaser Brothers, blacksmiths ; Munn & Lefever, cabinetmakers and furniture; Kirk Johnson, miller ; Jerome Ammann, cooper; S. K. Kramer, grain dealer ; Gailey & Herr, grain dealers ; George Brown, tailor ; James Postlewait, wagonmaker ; Joel Levers, cabinetmaker; J. B. Heffleman, tinner ; Hy Smith. tinner ; Joseph Snavely, saw-mill ; J. C. Speicher, American House, with the characteristic Joseph Wiley as chief clerk and guest solicitor at all passenger trains; A. E. Clark, physician. At that time we had two railroads, the Pittsburg & Ft. Wayne and the Cleveland, Zanesville & Cincinnati, now the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus. John McGill was the agent for the Adams Express Company, as also for the Union Express on the Cleveland, Zanesville & Cincinnati railroad. C. N. Storrs was agent for the Cleveland, Zanesville & Cincinnati road, with Patrick Quinlan as baggage master. Henry McGill was baggage master for the Ft. Wayne road, with Thomas McGill as night watch. The switch engine for transferring cars from one road to another in those busy days was a yoke of large oxen engineered by "old Kennedy," whose highly musically toned voice could be heard incessantly, "Git up Buck, go on Berry." One day one of the oxen became sick and John McGill telegraphed to the master of transportation at Alliance that there would be some delay in handling cars, because the switch engine burst a flue and wanted a man sent clown at once to repair it. Mr. Kennedy also controlled the draying business and carried the mail. John D. McNulty was telegraph operator in the office opened by the Ft. Wayne railway during the latter part of the year 1859, and W. S. Evans was a student and messenger boy about the office. At that time Orr- 560 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. ville enjoyed a train service on its two roads which was exceedingly convenient and accommodating to the citizens of the place, and in one respect more seasonable in hours than at any other station point on the road between Pittsburg and Chicago. in the fact that at any other station on the road there were no more passenger trains earlier than 7 A. M., nor later than 9 P. M., affording good opportunities to go to Wooster and return twice or three times a day, and to Cleveland and return between 7 A. M. and 7 P. M. The whistle of a locomotive engine on Sunday- would have been as much of an innovation as the opening of business houses on that day would at present. The American House was the only hotel in the place, and in consequence enjoyed a prosperous patronage under the management of mine host, Jacob Speicher, who frequently entertained his guests with vivid tales of valorous deeds and singular experiences in good old Pennsylvania style, amongst which was the unparalleled feat of taking up a well and moving it across the road. The American was a popular house. In 1860 there were but three brick buildings in the embryonic city of Wayne, and they were the residences of John McGill, Brenneman & Horst's store building and the residence of C. N. Storrs, south of the town hall. There were no buildings south of the Ft. Wayne tracks. except a few Irish shanties and an old warehouse, and the residence of Kinney Harris, a small opening in the woods, about where the fine residence of Mrs. Jacob Brenneman now stands. East of Main street was a body of woodland, which came up as near the village as the present location of the coffin factory.• West of that street and south from where the tracks and depot of the Wheeling railroad now are, was a stumpy pasture field so swampy in the spring time that a cow could not pass through it without becoming mired. From Church street north and east of Main street, the only buildings between the first-named street the C. Z. & C. railroad were the school house between the present site of the Methodist and Presbyterian churches and the residence of Mr. Postlewait on the hill. In the spring of 1860 there was not a foot of stone or brick sidewalk in the entire village, D. G. Evans putting down the first stone walk in front of the present Boiling bakery building (now the Orrville National Bank). There was only one church building in the place. The present Reformed church was known as the Union church, and was used on alternate Sundays by the Methodists and Presbyterians, the ministers coming from Dalton to conduct the services. There was no resident minister in the place during that year, although there had been one or more previous to that time. The school was about the same as any ordinary district school. There was no bakery, WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 560-1 planing-mill or factory of any kind, no dentist, lawyer or photographer, no regular saloon, no mayor, council, marshal, yet there was very little rowdyism or unlawful disturbance in the absence of these minions of the law. We had no bank to take care of our money- for us, and in fact none of us were very much burdened with the safe-keeping of the filthy lucre ! Neither did we have the advantage of that great leverage which booms the wonderful future of a western town before an astonished public, and today proclaims a prosperous city, where yesterday stood and howled the coyote and prairie wolf—the printing press and newspaper. If we wished to make our greatness known, it had to be done by word of mouth from stumps or housetops, and the stumps were more plentiful than housetops in those days. In the summer of 1860 we had the memorable campaign which preceded the great Rebellion and made Abraham Lincoln President. Our Republican Wide-awakes, under the command of Captain Gift, with their torches and oil cloth capes, with a spread eagle painted on the back (humorously dubbed a mad goose by Father Seas), divided the honors of displaying their patriotism with a singularly uniformed company of Democratic sprouts who marched as proudly and shrieked as loudly for their candidate, Stephen A. Douglas, the little giant of the West. Although the campaign was an unusually hot one, it was passed through without much bitterness or personal animosity. One day during a Republican meeting, a bombastic telegraph repairer from Mansfield was brought up from the station by McNulty and Henry McGill, given a few drinks, and urged by them to deliver an opposition speech. He accepted the invitation with alacrity, rolled a drygoods box into the street, mounted it and began his harangue. Engineer Brown coming along at that moment, listened a minute to what the spouter was saying, concluded that his utterances were not in strict accord with the spirit of Republican meetings, calmly walked up and knocked the fellow off the box, which seemed to put a decided damper on whatever aspirations the embryonic political speaker had previously entertained. The occurrence amused the Democratic people as much as it did the Republicans. Thirty years ago there was not a pound of coal burned in Orrville except that used by the blacksmiths. Even the engines on the railroads burned wood, and Orrville was one of the most important points on the line for supplying fuel. Thirty years has wrought many changes in our town and its people. Many of our friends and acquaintances have scattered to various portions of this and other countries, and many, yea, very many, have been called to (35a) 560-2 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. their last resting place and final reward. What the next thirty years will bring to probably a majority of us is not a matter of conjecture, and it behooves us to prepare for that greater and final reunion where there will be nothing but pleasant reminiscences to recount. AN ORRVILLE REMINISCENCE. The following was extracted from the Orrville local newspaper at the time Father James Taggart had just passed his ninetieth birthday, in 1907: James Taggart passed his ninetieth birthday Tuesday, October 1, 1907. He is no doubt the oldest resident born within the sound of the workshops of Orrville. His father, Samuel Taggart, located on the quarter section of land now occupied by the southeast part of Orrville, April 9, 1815, where James Taggart was born in a log cabin October 1, 1817. In an interview with Mr. Taggart he gave the following history of his ancestry, in which he stated that John Taggart, William Taggart and James Taggart, three brothers, came from Antrim, Ireland, just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, in which war they all enlisted and served the whole seven years. James, the grandfather of the subject of this thrilling reminiscence, was too young to enlist as a soldier when the war first broke out and so for a time he served as a: wagon boss. His grandfather built a log cabin in the fall of 1814 and came out from Pennsylvania the next spring, together with a number of other families, and James' father occupied the cabin. At That period a good many emigrated to this neighborhood and located between here and the state road, among them being the Harrises, Careys, Thompsons and Adamses. Rev. Adams was the first preacher, and a church was built on what was formerly known as the Samuel Snavely farm, three miles to the south. There was then only a path through the woods and every man who attended church or went away from home carried a trusty rifle to protect himself from wolves, bears, wild cats, wild hogs and other wild beasts. The government paid a premium of two dollars on wild hogs, two dollars on wolves and four dollars on bears, and the farmers clubbed together to kill them. The state road those days from Massillon to Wooster was scarcely more than a narrow wagon road through the woods. The nearest mill was two miles west of Canton, until the Beason Stibbs mill was erected at. Wooster. When Mr. Taggart's father located here there were Indians of the Wyan- dot tribe in this neighborhood. Punch and John Jonneycake and one other, WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 560-3 Johnny Appleseed, a noted character in those days, who planted appleseeds all over the country and from which the first orchards were obtained, traveled through this section of the country. Punch was a vicious Indian and he suddenly disappeared one night. His bones were afterwards found and it is supposed he was killed by one of the settlers. The marks of his tomahawk were visible on numerous beech trees for many years. He gave an account of a thrilling fight between a man and a bear in which his father was a participant., A man named Clouse was a tenant on the Taggart farm and lived in a log cabin situated at a spring now known as the mill pond on Paradise street. He was a tanner by occupation and a fearless hunter and tanned the hides for all the farmers far and near. In the fall of the year Samuel Taggart went to Wooster to pay his taxes and during his absence two bears came into the yard and carried off a hog. On returning home Mr. Taggart consulted with Mr. Clouse and they started out with the dogs in search of the bears. They came across one of them near the site of the Orrville flour mill. Mr. Taggart wanted Clouse to shoot the bear, but he wanted to kill it with the dogs. He always carried three butcher knives in his girdle and in the midst of the fight between the dogs and the bear Clouse rushed in and stabbed the bear until it fell dead, Mr. Taggart in the meantime holding the animal by the ears. The first house built. in Orrville was erected by William Bowman, who came to the vicinity with a saw-mill about 1851 or possibly 1852. It was located west of the mill about 1851, perhaps on the corner where the office now stands. William Gailey built the second house on the corner of Walnut and Market streets on the site of the one built later by Stella and Nettie Gailey, and the original building stands on the north part of the lot. Then old Mr. Seas' father became a resident of the little hamlet and built a house on the Beckley & Strauss corner. He was followed by Clark & Hoover, of Dalton, who opened up a store on the Evans lot, now occupied by Dr. Shie. From that time on Orrville continued to grow and grow and grow, until now we are able to say we are some, and some day we may be the county seat of Wayne county. Who can tell ? Mr. Taggart is getting quite feeble and suffers from infirmities received in his younger days, but he has a remarkable memory and is a quiet and inoffensive citizen. At one time he was quite wealthy, but lost his means many years ago through his generosity of heart to friends. VILLAGE OF SHREVE. Shreve, incorporated in December, 1859, is located in the southeast part of Clinton township and was originally known as Clinton Station, but when incorporated the name was changed to Shreve. It was named in honor of 560-4 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. Pioneer Thomas Shreve, who came to the county in 1817 and settled in Clinton township in 1821. Shreve was made by the coming of the railroad. and has always been a good town or village. The north portion was laid out by D. Foltz and George Stewart and the south part by Thomas McConkey and D. K. Jones—ten acres on each side of the track, but it has long since extended far beyond these limits. It now has a population of about fourteen hundred. The first sale of lots was in March, 1853. The first lots in the village were purchased by D. K. Jones and on them he erected a store room and residence. The first building built in the place was a two-story frame house, erected by Neal Power in 1853. D. K. Jones was the first postmaster after the office was moved to the new village, but Thomas Shreve had been postmaster some years before while the office was at his house in the country near by. D. K. Jones also had the first dry goods store. Christian Roth had the first hotel. The first doctor was W. Battles, M. D., who located here in 1853. James Number's was the first child born in the place, and the first woman that died was Miss Barbara Muterspaugh. VILLAGE OFFICERS. The following have served as mayors of Shreve, the first election being held at the old hotel March 0, 1860, resulting as follows : Mayor, V. D. Manson ; recorder, William M. Knox ; trustees, D. K. Jones, John Robison, Joseph Dyarman, James Taylor and William Johnson. 1861, mayor, Abraham Tidball; 1862, Henry Everly ; 1863, William J. Bertolett, M. D. ; 1864, Z. Lovett ; 1865, V. D. Manson ; 1866, V. D. Manson ; 1867, Elmer Oldroyd ; 1868, John Pomeroy ; 1869, J. H. Hunter; 1870, W. J. Bertolett ; 1871, C. M. Kenton ; 1872, John Robinson ; 1873, John Robinson ; 1874, John Williams ; 1875, John Williams ; 1876, Daniel Barcus ; 1877, Daniel Barcus ; 1878, Michael Boothe; 1879, John Hughes ; 1880, William Barry ; 1881, John Williams ; (record lost by fire for few years) ; 1894-96, Charles Wilent ; 1896-98, E. G. Oldroyd ; 1898-1902, E. D. Bruce ; 1902-03, John M. Moore ; 1903-06, G. Critchfield ; 1906-08, A. P. Merkle; 1908-0, O. D. Bruce. The present town officers are : Mayor, O. D. Bruce; councilmen. Frank Denny, Arthur Campbell, Joseph Biggs, Julius Gleitzeman, David Cornelius. P. E. Miller ; clerk, James H. Bonham ; marshal, William Priest ; treasurer, Wiley Miller. Shreve has had a good system of water works since 1893. The tubular well system is employed and the water is now being pumped to a reservoir on WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 560-5 the hill to the north of the town. The quality of water is excellent and in abundance for both fire protection and domestic uses. Electric lights have been the illuminating process in the village since 1895, when E. K. Gardner installed a plant and conducted it as the only one there until about 1891, when a company of citizens formed a stock company and installed a new plant, and both are now operating. Quite a local fight was gotten up over this new plant, and Mr. Gardner persisted in running and is today furnishing light for the streets of Shreve at a mere nominal sum. THE POSTOFFICE. As already noted, the postoffice was at first in the country and known as Clinton, but with the building of the village it was transferred to Shreve. The postmasters serving have been as follows : Thomas Shreve, D. K. Jones, Albert Richardson, William Knox, Peter Housel, W. W. Wise, S. M. Robinson, Peter Housel, R. S. Critchfield. The rural free delivery system was put in operation from Shreve in 1902 and now four routes run out from the place. CHURCHES AND LODGES. Shreve is well supplied with churches and lodges. There are lodges of the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Maccabees and Modern Woodmen of America, all thriving at this date. See Lodge chapter in this work. The churches, which are spoken of at length in the Church chapter, are the Methodist Episcopal, Christian and Presbyterian. The professions are represented in Shreve as follows : Attorney, L. G. Cornell; physicians, I. H. Hague (retired), R. C Paul, H. B. Bertolett and E. M. Funk. The dentist of the place is Dr. H. C. Graham. The banking is well cared for by two substantial banks, the Farmers' Bank and the Citizens' Banking Company. INDUSTRIAL CONCERNS. While Shreve has never laid claim to being a factory village, yet one finds a lively interest in the following producing plants : The roller flouring mills of D. E. Foltz & Son ; two grain elevators ; one creamery; one newspaper, the News; one boot and shoe store ; two drug stores ; one. jeweler ; five groceries; 560-6 - WAYNE COUNTY. OHIO. one general store ; one exclusive dry goods store ; one exclusive clothing store: one commercial hotel, the Carr ; two millineries ; one photograph gallery ; one monument work shop ; one livery ; one auto livery ; one harness shop; two blacksmiths ; two furniture stores ; three hardwares ; two meat markets ; one barber shop. VILLAGE OF WEST SALEM. West Salem was platted by Peter and John Rickel, June 14, 1834. It was incorporated in 1868. It is situated in the extreme northwest corner of Wayne county, in Congress township. It now has a population of seven hundred within the limits proper and about seventy-five just without the corporation limits. It is lighted by a system of gasoline lamps that are almost if not equal to electricity in illuminating power. This plant was put in in 1909. The place is served by a semi-volunteer fire 'department, of which the twenty-six, members, all business men, receive the nominal sum of five dollars per year. The water is secured from fourteen large street cisterns ; .the apparatus for fighting fire consists a hook and ladder trucks, one thousand feet of hose and chemical fire extinguishers. About 1900 a fine large brick "city hall," two stories high, was erected by bonding the city. The debt is now about all paid. This building cost about fourteen thousand dollars and the upper story is used for opera hall purposes, under a local manager. MAYORS AND TOWN OFFICERS. Since the village was incorporated, the mayors have been as follows : D. H. Ambrose, 1868 ; David Mitchell, 1869 ; E. McFadden, 1870;. John Shank, 1871 ; John Shank, 1873 ; John W. Read, 1874, John W. Read, 1875 ; James Jeffrey, 1876. Then came E. W. .McFadden and D. C. Eckerman ; John Wiley, 1898-90; Eli Rupert, 1890-93 ; J. H. Wiley, 1903, and still serving. The town officers in 1909 were : Mayor, J.- H. Wiley ; clerk, John Patterson; treasurer, F. L. Berry ; marshal, John Rhodes ; councilmen, O. I. Wiley, E. B. Hostetler, William Taylor, L. V. Patterson and William Salem. POSTAL HISTORY. There were established two rural free delivery routes out from West Salem in 1902 and three more added in 1904. The length of each route is twenty-five miles. From the time the office was established, in Civil war days, John Henny was postmaster for many years. Following him came the following gentle- WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 560-7 men : 1882-86, James Stephenson ; 1886-90, Joseph Kipinger ; 189o-94, James Stephenson ; 1894-98, Captain Mitchell ; 1898 to present date (1909) Tom J. Smith. The professional irven of the village at this time are : Drs. J. W. Ferguson, E. C. Radebaugh and G. C. Smith, medical doctors ; Dr. R. C. Wallace, dentist ; S. T. Topper, veterinary surgeon ; attorneys, J. V. Keller and Grant Goshorn ; real estate dealer, I. N. Mann. VARIOUS INDUSTRIES. The Greeley Milling Company does an extensive flouring business, being located just outside the town corporation limits. This mill was originally an old-fashioned buhr-stone mill, but was later changed to a roller mill and in 1903 was equipped with the latest flouring-mill process of roller milling, since which time it has been doing an excellent business. The retail trade of West Salem is represented as follows : One dry goods and furniture store, one dry goods and millinery, one general store, three shoe stores, two exclusive grocery stores, one clothing store, two hardware stores, two drug stores, one meat shop, two harness shops, two restaurants, one hotel, two liveries, two exclusive millineries, one grain elevator, one jeweler, one lumber dealer, one coal dealer, one tile factory, one pool room, one bakery and two barber shops, one newspaper, the Reporter. CHURCHES AND LODGES. The churches are the Presbyterian, worshiping in a neat brick, modern-built edifice, with a membership of about fifty. The Methodist Episcopal still worship in the frame building erected in 1871, but which was remodeled in 1907. The other church is the Evangelical, an account of which will appear in the Church chapter in this volume. The lodges of a secret order are as follows : The Masonic, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Maccabees. OTHER INTERESTS. The schools of West Salem have long been the pride of the place. In 1878 a large brick building was constructed at a cost of thirty-five thousand dollars, which with some repairs is still doing good service. When built it was known as the best school house in Wayne county, save the ones at Wooster. The town is supplied with two good banks and is on the Cleveland & Southwestern electric railway line, as well as on the Erie steam railroad line. BIOGRAPHICAL. HON. LYMAN R. CRITCHFIELD. Hon. Lyman R. Critchfield, ex-attorney-general of Ohio, who forms the subject of this notice, was born May 22, 1831, at Danville, Knox county, Ohio, son of Reuben Trautman Critchfield, a native of Virginia, and Nancy Caroline Hardesty, a native of Maryland ; his great-grandfather, Nathaniel Critchfield, who was in the Revolutionary war, and his maternal grandfather, Henry Hardesty, were farmers. His father moved from Danville to Millersburg in 1834, where he served as justice of the peace several years. Mr. Critchfield was educated in the Millersburg public schools and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, from which institution he graduated. receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. At the age of twenty-one years he entered the law office of. Hon. George E. Pugh, Columbus, Ohio, who was at that time attorney-general of the state. In 1853 he was admitted to the bar by the supreme court and immediately. thereafter began practicing at Millersburg. He practiced six years in Cleveland and for the last eighteen years has been practicing in Wooster, Ohio. His brother, Leander Jerome Critchfield, was an eminent lawyer of this state and was for a time reporter to the supreme court. Besides- practicing in the supreme courts of Ohio, Mr. Critchfield practices in the federal, district and circuit courts and supreme court of the United States at Washington. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Holmes county, Ohio, in 1859, and reelected in 1861, resigning in 1862 when he was elected attorney-general, serving one term from 1863 to 1865 and was nominated for a second term in 1864, but was defeated with the party ticket. In 1865 he was elected to the state senate, served one term and resigned. Among other public offices he has held are, school director of Millersburg and also president of the council of the city of Wooster. Politically, Mr. Critchfield is an ardent Democrat, and gives most thought to the strict construction and practice of the federal and state constitutions, and especially to the rights of the people reserved in these instruments. In 1868 he was nominated for Congress by the Democrats in the district com- 560-10 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. posed of Holmes, Wayne, Ashland, Lorain and Medina counties. In 1887 he was nominated for judge of the supreme court of Ohio by the Democratic party in convention at Cleveland; in 1888 he was again nominated for the same position at the convention held at Dayton. On October 2, 1854, Mr. Critchfield was married to Adelaide Margaret Shaffer ; their children are : Edith ; Grace ; Henry, the doctor ; Mary ; Blanche; Lyman, Jr., the lawyer; and Nellie. He of whom this is written is a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the Methodist Episcopal church at Wooster, Ohio, where his law office is also located. In Ben Douglas' "Wayne County Lawyers," a volume published recently, the author pays this tribute to Mr. Critchfield : "As one of the leaders of the Democratic party and foremost thinkers in that organization, he has fought congressional battles, handicapped from the outset with disaster-boding majorities, which, however, never abated his ardor or enthusiasm in the conflict. * * * Whether in county, judicial, congressional, state or national campaigns, he is ever ready with his service for his party organization. Wherever he goes he is greeted with enthusiastic audiences as an attractive, aggressive, fluent, logical and masterful champion of the principles of his party. "To the active practice of .the law, when he entered upon its complex duties and responsibilities, he brought the qualifications and forces of a drilled, disciplined and brilliant intellect. He did not enter the list unarmed, or ill equipped, to be battered,. bruised and mangled in an unequal contest with the grim old veterans of the then Wooster and northern Ohio bar.. His force and effectiveness is strongly- emphasized, in his .arguments to the jury, as he seems not so much to look at. them, as to look through them, less for the purpose of seeing how they feel, than to rivet their attention,— as it were to grasp their minds by the compass of his own. The calm and masterly. manner in which he disposes of the preliminary considerations, is the reminder of the experienced general, quietly arranging his. forces and preparing to press down in overwhelming force upon a single point: His manlier becomes aroused ;his action animated. In the careful construction of sentences,. nice choice of words, musical balancing of phrases and marshalling of arguments, he has no superior, if indeed an equal, in Ohio." Mr. Douglas further says, in illustrating his subject : "These qualities greatly aid the speaker in winning his way at the outset in the hearts of those whom he is addressing, and. in preparing them to receive his ideas and argu merits. :When arguments are flounced in scholarly language such as Mr. Critchfield seldom fails to employ and illustrated by beautiful figures of WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 560-11 speech, the impression produced is apt to be as deep and enduring as that made by a more phosphorescent, florid, fervid and tempestuous style of oratory. Stepping aside to the consideration of him outside of his profession, he has an imagination of distinctly diversified and comprehensive acquisitions; as was said of Whipple, the prince of our American essayists,. 'he is an encyclopedia individualized and is familiar with history, science, art, agriculture, geology, theology, poetry, and what is desirable to know.' "To whatever subject his attention may be called, though it be one which you would suppose to be utterly strange to his thoughts, he is enabled upon the slightest meditation to impart an interest, a glow of life, a surprising illumination ; in this respect Mr. Critchfield's intellect is similar to that of Guizot, of whom it was said : 'No one could surprise him, but from whom you never failed to receive instruction.' "With his legal learning, his accurate conceptions of the law, his power and supremacy as an advocate, his adroitness in argument, his incisive logic, his tact and foresight in the examination of witnesses and the analysis of testimony, his historical equipment and classical style, his measured sentences properly emphasized to give the intended force to his language, he rapidly rose to be one. of the formidable, forensic gladiators of .the Ohio bar. To the court he is ever courteous, respectful and dignified ; in contentions with opposing counsel, cautious without being timid, resolute, but not rash, firm, but not obstinate; to the jury he administers a common sense philosophy of the law, the simple deductions of reason, a harmonious and symmetrical array of facts, and this in a brilliant, rapid, piercing way ; not like the eye of Cyclops, letting in a flood of rushing and furious splendor, but a Drummond light, illuminating without impairing what it shines upon. He has philosophy, the faculty and facility of presentation, volume and elasticity of expression, picturesqueness of imagination, and almost poetical brilliancy, which invests his qualities with width and breadth and fascination peculiarly his own. He collects his illustrations from the fields of nature and art, and levies contributions on literature and science. Everything in his manner and matter betrays the sinew and strength of the orator, the tone of his voice, the curve and sweep of his arm, the splenetic glance of his eye, the burning scorn, the blazing indignation ; the cogency and force of his arguments, the inevitable force of his retortion and .the nervous vigor of style of a Canning. "His prepared orations, addresses and readings are completed with severest care. As a sculptor chisels down and finishes his statue, chipping and clipping away the stone to find within his beautiful ideal, so it is he elaborates his thoughts until they assume the shapes he would give them. His 560-12 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. literary tastes are pure and their products rank with the most finished emanations of Whipple. Everett, Sumner, Wirt or Curtiss. They might be entitled to the appellation of prose poems, for he has the poet's divine insight. He has a ready appreciation of the proprieties of language, thought and manner, as established by the usages of society, and a refined sympathy with the sentiments of the purest intellects. In him we see the human mind in many of its exalted aspects ; there is so much of man forced into it that it appears in fine proportions. He is the kindest and tenderest of men ; loved his wife, and in his memoriam of her is the passion of Petrarch and the consuming love of Abelard. He is attached to his family and friends, and loves his country with an affection that is felt in his heart, and which dilates his individuality to the size of a national individuality. "Upon all appropriate occasions he champions not only the noble, but the noblest of principles within his knowledge. Mr. Critchfield not only possesses the endowment of superior mental qualities, but of the heart equally and assuredly so. In this connection, the sentence of St. Beuve, in one of his memorable essays on Pascal, may with appropriateness be quoted : 'He is good, and great in heart and' mind, which strong minds not always are and all he did in the sphere of the mind and the sphere of the heart, bears the stamp of invention and originality, which attests the force, depth and an ardent mind, so to speak, ravenous in pursuit of investigation and truth.' "He is an admirer of the elegancies of art. This passion is innate with him, and it is a child of his religious instinct; because the highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music have been derived out of an imagination of nature at whose shrine he is a worshipper." MRS. ADELAIDE M. CRITCHFIELD. The beautiful subject of this sketch, the wife of Hon. L. R. Critchfield, departed this life October 6, 1895. As of all beautiful women, the elegance of her personality is indescribable,—a composite glow of vital forces. All her sacred vitality, so beautifully manifested, so lovely to contemplate, flashed its last electric grace, beamed its last auroral flushes, and one more of the reproachless, innocent martyrs of earth, an adornment of her race, returned to the God who gave her, in a last and crowning act of sacrifice. Around such a life, so terminated, there were exceptional manifestations of public regard ; eulogies, both public and private, were spoken of her, as a lady of rare WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 560-13 attainments and attraction in society ; as a leader in benevolences, and in religious influences, and as an advanced advocate of the high prerogatives of women. The Wooster Daily Republican, the Wayne County Democrat, the Wayne County Herald, the Century Club, the Women's Foreign Missionary Society: her personal friends among the professors of Wooster University and the State Agricultural Station ; teachers in the public schools, physicians and citizens of Wooster, and many ladies of Wooster, and her friends in other places, gave her many commendatory eulogies. The funeral services took place at two o'clock of Tuesday, October 8th, at the family residence on North Market street, Wooster. The courts adjourned in honor of her memory, and the judges and members of the bar and the officers of the county and of the city attended the funeral in a body. The tribute of flowers, by the Century Club, was large and beautiful, in memory of her who was so pleasant a friend, and whose sad and untimely death brought profound sorrow to the hearts of numerous friends in the city of Wooster and elsewhere. She died as a martyr. Possessed of remarkable courage, seeing the home on fire, and attempting to extinguish it, she received her fatal injuries. Mrs. Critchfield was a daughter of Dr. Moses Shaffer, and his wife, Margaret McClure, daughter of Matthew McClure, Sr. She was born in \\rooster, May 12, 1834, making her age, at her death, sixty-one years, four months and twenty-four days. On October 2, 1854, she married Hon. L. R. Critchfield, by which union were the following sons and .daughters : Edith, Grace, Mary, Blanche, Henry, Nellie and Lyman R., Jr. The character of the deceased was, in many respects, a public one. She was born and reared in the city of Wooster and was intimately associated with the old families whose descendants constituted the society of the city. Her vivacity, her beauty and genial disposition, and the high standing of her family, made for her a ready welcome. Her grandfather, Jacob Shaffer, was a soldier of the war of 1812 ; her uncle, Hiram Shaffer, was an eloquent Methodist preacher her father, Dr. Moses Shaffer, practiced medicine in Wooster for fifty years; he was a remarkable man for energy and courage, and this oldest daughter, Adelaide, became his companion in his professional visits, and her acquainatnce became general in every section of the county ; her brother, Dr. Hiram M. Shaffer, was celebrated for his genius and skill as a physician and surgeon; her brothers, Hiram, James and Horace, were soldiers in the Civil war ; her mother, Margaret McClure, was one of a large and noble family of the early settlers ; her grandparents, the McClures, were a saintly couple of high and spotless character. The deceased had all 560-14 - WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO. the splendid virtues and splendid courage of her family so widely known, and she enjoyed in an eminent degree the popularity of the family descent and standing. She knew many of the distinguished men in public life, and was familiar with public thought and, public matters. She was a practical woman of great attractions in manners and geniality ; well educated and thoughtful, she had a fine faculty of sociability in a public way; she was winning with her smiles and genuine womanly greetings ; she loved and attended public meetings, religious, literary, musical, dramatic and political. With a number of the leading ladies of Wooster, she attended a school of parliamentary teaching and became a parliamentarian. She was not a woman of no politics, but had views on the rights of women, and of the people ; she had' inherited anti-slavery principles ; she was wholly on the side of temperance and temperance organizations ; she had more than ordinary public spirit. In the University of Wooster, in the State Agricultural Experiment Station, in the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, in the acquisition of manufactures, in the beautifying of the city, she manifested the greatest pleasure. In her life with her neighbors, she was winning in her address, and in her last repose there lingered upon her countenance the expression of the lovely nature that was at peace with all the world. In person she was esteemed as the most beautiful of women. Being five feet seven inches in height, and her development large and symmetrical, of beautiful face, dark, hazel eyes and dark hair ; swift and agile in motion, tasteful in dress, she reminded one of the Miltonian Eve, "Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eyes, In every gesture, dignity And love." She was the offspring of magnificent parentage. The fine muscular perfection of her father, the healthy grace and elegant form of her mother, and the cultivated moral sensibilities of both, invested this first child of their love with the warmth and brilliancy of a beauty, and a purity of heart, that gave her a rivalry of charms over her generation ; she was radiant without exertion, and the electric bloom of her exuberant health was in beaming and beautiful repose. There was royalty in the pulsations of her blood, and in the radiations of her graces, in the nobility of her delicacy and perfections of form, and in the persistent magnanimity of her nature. She was loftier and WAYNE COUNTY, OHIO - 560-15 more queenly endowed than common life, classed with the now hundreds of American women who are subverting the depreciated lines of the aristocracy, and that transcend the Greek female of the magnificent reign of Pericles, or the dignity and beauty of the Roman matron whose splendor was deemed necessary to be suppressed by a decree of the Roman Senate. How beautiful she was! Look at her picture and see that admirable expression, that symmetry of head and neck and shoulders. She speaks her words of love with carmine lips; the bust significant of a form of beauty, graceful, open faced, beaming and reflective. They bespeak for her the admiration spontaneously given to superior personality ; the splendid evidences of the American woman. Mrs. Critchfield's home was one of plenty and fashion. Her father was gentlemanly, refined, eminent as a physician, easy in his finances, and noted for his fine carriages and blooded horses; her mother was distinguished for her beauty, and both were in the social current of Wooster, then the most fashionable of towns, and noted for its expensively equipped and fashionable ladies and gentlemen. Of all was Adelaide the most admired, and the most loved for her gracious and gentle disposition and manners. For all the members of her family circle she was endowed with personal regard. Love of her native place of Wooster and the nearby country life of her friends was characteristic, and she often expatiated on the beauties of nature, and revisited the scenes of her childhood, and often related her pedestrian. and equestrian exploits that developed her wealth of muscle and limb: She was a lover of ancient trees and country landscapes. Her public. spirit, the consciousness of her own graces ; her spirit of family love, and love of all sublime things of nature, mingled in poetic enthusiasm in her domestic labors and pleasures. In the conditions of life she was a creative artist. To have singing birds and flowers and gold fish, to hear the twitter of a canary, and feel the flutter of the flowers as she lifted their heads with dewy fingers; to see her gold fish rush, with burnished scales, to meet her approach, were her daily enjoyment. The family life was constantly adorned with the versatility of her domestic genius, and sanctified by her elegant goodness and kindness 'that in a long life was never known to degenerate into anger. Taste in dress and beauty of conduct reigned supreme in her household. Upon the harp of domestic life, she played soft melodies by her magnetic presence. With her children she was like the deer with her young in the covert. The noises of -Row 1, Cell 1-