Fairfield County, Ohio - Chapter 20: Conclusion, 1912 (part 8 of 12)

the canal, making trips from Lancaster to Zanesville, both of these busy cities of the present day then being little more than villages. He was married in Fairfield County to Jane Rank, and secondly to Ann Kraner, the latter of whom was born in Virginia, a daughter of Thomas Kraner, an early settler in Fairfield County. She died in 1899, aged 80 years, leaving but one child, Milton Filmore. To the first marriage four children were born : Sarah, who is the widow of I. W. Holt; William, a veteran of the Civil War, who died in 1895 ! David, who enlisted at New Salem, O., served in the Civil W^ar as a member of the 126th Regiment and was killed at the battle of Pittsburg Landing; and Adeline, who was the wife of Solomon Watson, both now deceased. Jesse Taylor died in 1878. He was a highly respected man and had been a successful farmer.

Milton Filmore Taylor has spent his long and bu.sy life in farming and stock raising. He attended the country schools in boyhood and later was a student for three terms in the Fairfield Union Academy. In 1887 Mr. Ta3'lor bought 85 acres adjoining the old home place on the east, and the family took up their residence here in April. 1887. The residence has been remodeled and made more comfortable and attractive. On November 9, 1878, Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Ella Mc- Naghten, a daughter of David Y. McNaghten, and they have three children : Adria L., who is the wife of Bryant Hawke, cashier of a bank at Hebron, O., and has one son, Lester Eugene; James D., a resident of Philadelphia, who married Zella Goss; and Bessie D. Mr. Taylor and daughter are members of the Primitive Baptist Church at Thurston, O. He is a Republican in politics and has served two terms as township trustee. The family is one of the best known in Walnut Township.

FREDERICK MONDHANK, a well known farmer and stockraiser in Greenfield Township, resides on a farm of ninety acres, owns an additional 120 acres in the same township and manages a fine farm of 115 acres, also in Greenfield Township, which belongs to his wife. He was born December 10, 1849, at Portsmouth, O., and is a son of William and Nettie Mondhank.

The parents of Mr. Mondhank were born in Germany and from there emigrated to the United States in 1846. For several years after reaching Ohio, they lived at Portsmouth, whence they came to Fairfield County, settling in Berne Township. Many years later they removed to Pleasant Township and from there to Lancaster, O., where the mother still lives. The father died in February, 1908. Ten children were born to William and Nettie Mondhank, namely: William D., of Lancaster, O. ; Frederick, of Greenfield Township; Mary, wife of Albert Alspach, of Liberty Township ; Caroline, of Lancaster, O. ; Molinda, wife of Wesley Ackers, of Lancaster; Agnes, wife of Edward Miesse, of Celina, O. ; Catherine, wife of Edward Baugher, of Greenfield Township; Albert, residing in Pleasant Township; Nettie, wife of Hiram Baugher, of Mercer County, O. ; and Sophia, wife of Albert Bachman, of Canal Winchester, O.

Frederick Mondhank was mainly reared in Berne Township and there obtained his schooling and afterward engaged in farming and stock-raising. On November 24, 1874, he was married to Miss Sarah Kratzer, who was born in Madison Township, Fairfield County, O., and is a daughter of Jacob and Margaret Kratzer. Jacob Kratzer was born in Wertemberg, Germany and his wife was born in the same neighborhood. He was about twenty years of age when he came to America and his first work was on the old Ohio Canal which was then in process of construction, and during this time he lived at Lancaster. Later he settled in Madison Township and lived there for over a half century becoming one of the well known and highly respected farmers of that locality, his death occurring when he was eighty-one years of age. His widow survived him by a few years. Of their eight children the following survive : Catherine, who is the widow of George Neubauer, late of Berne Township, she being now a resident of Pleasant Township ; Louise E., who is the widow of William Wolfinger, of Marion County, O. ; Barbara and Susan, both of whom live at Lancaster; Sarah, who is Mrs. Mondhank; and Toratta, who is the wife of Henry Meister, of .'Kmanda Township.

Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Mondhank, namely : Walter J., who lives at Butler, Ind. ; Charles F., who lives at Lancaster; Ethel M., who resides at home; and Nettie, who is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Mondhank are members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church at Lancaster, of which he is a trustee. In politics, Mr. Mondhank is nominally a Democrat but he frequently exercises his own good judgment when he casts his vote.

H. S. SMITH, a well known citizen of Fairfield County, who, for over a quarter of a century has been successfully engaged in farming and stock raising in Bloom Township, Fairfield County, O., for many years was an equally successful school teacher and served also as justice of the peace for two terms. He was born in Bloom Township, one mile west of his present farm of 160 acres, near Lithopolis, January 22, 1840, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Runkle) Smith.

of his life was passed in Fairfield County but the last five years were spent on the farm on which his son, H. S. now resides. He married Elizabeth Runkle, who w-as born in Fairfield County, January 28, 1821, and died July 10, 1901. Her father, John Runkle, was one of the earliest settlers in tliis section and was a farmer and blacksmith. To Henry Smith and wife the following children were born: H. S., subject of this sketch; Andrew Jackson, born September 28, 1841; Sarah Elizabeth, July 17, 1843; Jacob Jerome, March 25, 1845; John Calvin, February 21, 1847; Joseph Nelson, April 26, 1849, died September 6, 1850; Samuel Caleb, born March 2, 1851; Anna Mary, October 10, 1854; Elenora Belle, born November 20, 1857, died January 8, 1859; ^"'^ I'^T Alberta, born March 22, 1859.

H. S. Smith attended the country schools and spent two years in school at Lithopolis and afterward had educational advantages at Findlay and also at Columbus. For some twenty years he devoted himself closely to school teaching and thus became well and favorably known at Lithopolis and Royalton and also through the eastern part of Pickaway county and while residing at Royalton, served two terms as a justice of the peace. In 1883 he retired from the educational field and since then has been interested in farming.

Mr. Smith was married first, August 25, 1868, to Miss Mary Ann Homrighous, who was born June 2y, 1840, and died March 19, 1895. She was a daughter of John and Magdalen Homrighous, of Royalton. Mr. Smith was married secondly, January 6, 1898, to Miss Mary Ann Heim, a daughter of Daniel and Susan (Spade) Heim. The father of Mrs. Smith was born in Pennsylvania and was brought to Pickaway County, O., when nine years of age, and he became a farmer and sawmill man. His birth took place April 21, 1832, and his death February 2, 1905. He married Susan Spade and they had three children: Mary Ann (Mrs. Smith); Emanuel, residing at Amanda; and Mrs. Iva Cole. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Lutheran church. Politically Mr. Smith has always been identified with the Democratic party.

P. S. BONE, M. D., physician and surgeon, who has been located at Royalton, Fairfield County, O., for four and one-half years, during which time he has built up a satisfactory practice, was born in Vinton County, O., and is a son of Samuel and Sarah (Jordan) Bone. The father of Dr. Bone was a farmer in Jackson Township and he and wife died when their son was small.

P. S. Bone was reared in Jackson Township, Vinton County, where he attended school, and later spent two years in the Ohio University. He then turned his attention to the study of medicine and received his degree in 1903 from the Oliio Medical University at Columbus. He is a member of the Fairfield County and Ohio State Medical Associations, as well as the American Medical vVssociation and keeps fully abreast with the times in medical science.

Dr. Bone was married to Miss Emma Puffinbarger, who was born in Pickaway County, a daughter of John Puffinbarger, a representative of an old settled family there. In politics Dr. Bone maintains an independent attitude. He is identified with the Masonic lodge at Lithopolis, O. Edna PufTinbarger was adopted in 1900 by P. S. Bone and wife and her name changed to Edna Bone.

M. M. MIESSE, proprietor of the White Post Farm, which is situated one mile north of Lancaster, O., on the Baltimore & Lancaster Pike within a period of less than twenty years has developed a business from very small beginnings into one of the largest in this section of Ohio. He was born in Greenfield Township, Fairfield County, O., August 20, 1853, and is a son of Solomon and Mary (Keller) Miesse.

The parents of Mr. Miesse were both born in Fairfield County, where the grandparents had been early settlers, coming from Pennsylvania on foot and horseback and both living to advanced age. Solomon Miesse was a leading man of his township and served as a school director and as township trustee for many years.

M. M. Miesse obtained a district school education and since then has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He settled on his present farm in 1892 and when he started his first greenhouse it was in the nature of an experiment. Having a natural bent in the direction of truck gardening and possessing excellent judgment and untiring industry, Mr. Miesse has succeeded in building up a large and important business, the White Post Farm being known all over this part of Ohio. For some years before establishing himself on his present farm he lived three miles northeast, where he had a hot bed ninety feet in length, which was heated by a furnace. He found this profitable and then built a greenhouse 20 X 52 feet in dimensions and started into a still larger business, raising early vegetables for market and gradually expanding until he found it necessary to get larger accommodations. He has eleven greenhouses on White Post Farm, and nine of these are 15 x 202 feet and are heated by hot water, the Skinner irrigating system being in use, and all are fitted with modern appliances and improvements. Mr. Miesse is a grower and shipper of fine lettuce, melons and tomatoes and is a breeder also of R. C. Rhode Island Red chickens. He is the originator of the Banner potato, the Cannon Ball watermelon, the Evergreen cucumber and the Royal Red, Aristocrat, Maule's Enormous, and Maule's Success Magnificent tomatoes. He has a ready market at Lancaster, O. but also ships to Columbus and to many points in the Hocking Valley. His business has been developed by himself and has required long years of the closest care and attention and much study of varieties and their habits and the result has been the introduction of some of the finest and most succulent vegetables ever put on the market.

On October 5, 1876, Mr. Miesse was married to Miss Mary A. Feeman, a daughter of John L. Feeman, an old resident of Pleasant Township, and they have had three children: Harley T., who lives in Greenfield Township; Daisy A. and Robert R., both of whom are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Miesse are members of the Evangelical Association. In politics he is a Republican but takes no very active part, his large business absorbing the most of his time. White Post Farm is an interesting place to visit at any time of the year but particularly so during the summer season, when all the industries are in active operation.

DAVID E. CUNNINGHAM, whose excellent farm of ninety-nine and one-half acres is situated in Clear Creek Township, was born on this farm November 15, 1859, and has always resided here. He is a son of David and Christina (Boreaugh) Cunningham. The parents of Mr. Cunningham were both born in Berks County, Pa., and both died and were buried on this farm.

David E. Cunningham was his parents' only child and he remained with them and gave them filial care as long as they lived. Mr. Cunningham's interests have always been along agricultural lines and he has been a busy man but not too busy to also take an interest in public affairs in his township and perform his duties as a citizen. For seven years he has served as a member of the school board and perhaps no township in the county has better regulated schools than this. He was elected a trustee of the township, on the Democratic ticket, and was reelected and served in that capacity for six years.

Mr. Cunningham was married in 1878, to Miss Christina Ochs, who died March i, 1909, and her burial was in the Amanda Township Cemetery. Mr. Cunningham has one son, Frank E., who is attending Crawfis College, in Fairfield County, where he is a very satisfactory student. Mr. Cunningham belongs to the Knights of Pythias, Uniform Rank, at Lancaster, O., and to the Modern Woodmen, and is also a member of the American Insurance Union. He attends the Lutheran church.

ten years at Basil and other points. He then became connected with a basil business house with which he remained for twenty-seven years. In April. 1909, he embarked in business for himself, in the grocery and meat line and has a large and well equipped place of business. He is a public spirited citizen, a member of the school board, a ready contributor to local charities, and gives political support to the Republican party.

Mr. Laver married ISIiss Sarah Sriner, who was born in Fairfield County, and they have two children, namely : Guy, a motorman on the street railway at Delaware, O., who married Edna Knight, and has four children : Carroll, Louise, and Donald and Doris, twins; and Goldie, now Mrs. Cheney, who has one son - Roslyn Vance. Mr. Laver and family are members of Trinity Reformed Church. He is identified with the Knights of Pythias.

J. A. LAVER, who conducts the only combined grocery store and meat market at Basil, O., is one of the leading citizens in the town's afifairs. He was born in 1850, in Fairfield County, and is a son of John and Anna (Roley) Laver.

John Laver was born in Pennsylvania but spent the larger part of his life in Fairfield County, O., where he was well and favorably known and lived to the age of eighty-two years. He was a carpenter and general mechanic. He married Anna Roley, who was born also in Pennsylvania and died in Fairfield County, in her eighty-sixth year. They had four children : William, who lives at Basil ; Sarah, deceased, who was the wife of Thomas Smurr; Angeline, who married B. F. Harner; and J. A. Laver.

JOSHUA CRUMLEY, one of Hocking Township's well known citizens, a member of one of the old settled families of Fairfield County, O., was born in Bloom Township, October 13, 1837, and is a son of Conrad and Magdalena M. (Feller) Crumley, who were natives of Pennsylvania and early settlers in Fairfield County.

Joshua Crumley obtained his education in the district schools but had few advantages as compared to those afforded the young people of the present day. Farming and stock raising have mainly engaged his attention and he owns a valuable farm of about eighty acres, on which he has lived for many years.

Mr. Crumley married Miss Susanah Coffman, a daughter of John Coffman, of Hocking Township, and they have had eight children: Emerson L^., who lives at Columbus; William S., Wallace M.. Oril D. and Harry E., all of whom live in Hocking Township; Mellie E., who is the wife of Wallace Strode, of Lancaster, O. ; Zernah A., who is the wife of C. F. Van Dyke, of Lancaster; and John C, who is deceased. The mother of the above family is deceased. Mr. Crumley is a member of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church situated four miles west of Lancaster.

ISAAC G. HOY, whose valuable stock and general grain farm of 159 acres is situated in Bloom Township, Fairfield County, O., two and one-half miles south of Lithopolis, O., was born in this township in 1864, and is a son of Abraham and Maranda (Custer) Hoy.

The Hoy family is one of the old and substantial ones of Bloom township, the first of its members coming from Pennsylvania and in the house that the great-grandfather built, several generations were born. Abraham Hoy was a farmer all his life and was a well known and highly respected man. His death occurred in his seventy-second year. He married Maranda Custer, who was born in Hocking County, O., and they had three children, namely : Isaac G. ; Emma, who is deceased ; and Joshua, who is also deceased.

Isaac G. Hoy has been a farmer, as was his father and grandfather, and has spent his life on his present well improved property. He married Alice Rainey, a daughter of William G. Rainey, the latter of whom came to Fairfield from Guernsey County, when a young man. He married Caroline Alspach and they had four children : John, Addie, Alice and William, the eldest being deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Hoy have had three children : Harold, Marie and Hubert. Both sons are yet at home giving their father assistance, but the daughter is deceased. Politically Mr. Hoy is identified with the Democratic party and is now serving in the office of township trustee. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias and attends lodge at Canal Winchester. With his family he is a member of the Evangelical church, in which he is a steward and a member of the board of trustees.

CHARLES S. BRANDT, building contractor, at Bremen, O., was born on his father's farm in Rush Creek Township, Fairfield County, two miles southwest of Bremen, July 30, 1876, and is a son of C. C. and Ellen ( Westenbarger) Brandt. He is one of a family of thirteen children, ten of whom are living and eight of these are residents of Fairfield Coutny.

Charles S. Brandt obtained his education in the district schools in Rush Creek Township, after which he learned the carpenter's trade, with D. S. Hufford and C. W. Ricket. Mr. Brandt then went into contracting for himself. He buys his supplies by wholesale and constructs buildings from foundation to roof. During the first year that he was in business he did one-fourth of the entire volume of building that was done at Bremen, including the erection of the Primary School Building, and during the second year did fully one-half of all the town building. He is an energetic and progressive man in whatever he undertakes.

Mr. Brandt was married March 23, 1905, to Miss Essie Blanche Young, who was born in Rush Creek Townshio. one of nine children born to H. W. and Matilda Young, of whom three reside in Fairfield County. Mr. and Mrs. Brandt are members of the U. B. church, in \\hich he is a steward and trustee. He is not a politician but takes an interest in public matters and votes the Democratic ticket. He erected his comfortable residence on Marietta Street, Bremen.

CHARLES M. SMITH, who is a member of the board of trustees of Hocking Township, carries on general fanning on his excellent farm of seventy-two acres and is one of the representative citizens of his section. He was born January 17, 1859, in Hocking Township, Fairfield County, O., and is a son of Bartholomew and Mary E. (Eversole) Smith.

The parents of Mr. Smith were also mainly reared in Fairfield County, although the father was born in Frederick County, Virginia, a son of Michael Smith, who was born in what is now West Virginia. He was an early settler in Fairfield County, coming with his family from West Virginia when his son Bartholomew was about eighteen years of age. They resided at Lancaster for a short time and then settled permanently in Hocking Township, where Bartholomew subsequently married and lived until his death, September 11, 1891. The following members of his family still survive : William H., of Wells County, Ind. ; Jacob J., of Ashtabula County, O. ; George W., of Pleasant Township; Theodore F., of Hocking Township; Benjamin E., of Lancaster; Virginia E., wife of John D. Shaw, of North Berne, O. ; and Charles M. Four children are deceased : John T., Margaret A., Mahala J. and Isaac N. Bartholomew Smith was a lifelong Democrat and he and wife were members of the U. B. church.

The boyhood of Charles M. Smith was spent happily on his father's farm and with his brothers and sisters he attended the public schools of Hocking Township. Farming and stock raising have been his main interests and he has made both profitable.

Mr. Smith was married April 19, 1891, to Miss Isabel S. Coffman, who was born in Hocking Township, Fairfield County, a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hughes) Coffman, the former of whom was born in Fairfield

County, a son of Martin Coffman, a native of Virginia and one of the early settlers in Hocking Township. The mother of Mrs. Smith was born in Hocking Township and her father was Jesse Hughes, one of the substantial early settlers here. Mrs. Smith is one of the survivors of a large family born to her parents, others being : David L., of Columbus, O. ; Charlotte, widow of Solomon Hunter, of Lancaster; Rebecca A., w-ife of B. E. Smith, of Lancaster; Carpenter L., of Amanda Township; and William R., of Columbus. Benjamin S. Coffman was a Republican in politics and he and wife belonged to the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have had three children: Sema M., who is deceased; Benjamin G., who resides with his parents; and a babe that died in infancy.

In his political views Mr. Smith is a stanch Democrat. He is an earnest and fair-minded citizen and was elected a trustee of Hocking Township in November, 1909, for a term of two years. He was reelected trustee, for his second term, Nov. 7, 191 1. He is also a trustee of the East Union U. B. church and for some years has been treasurer of the parsonage board and takes a deep interest in the Sundayschool.

PHILIP F. BENADUM, a highly respected citizen and prominent man in Richland Township, \\ho is president of the board of township trustees, now lives retired from active business and occupies a comfortable residence at Rushville, O. He was born in Pleasant Township, Fairfield County, O., in 1854, and is a son of James K. and Sarah (Miller) Benadum.

James K. Benadum was also born in Fairfield County, where he died at the early age of twenty-eight years. He was a blacksmith by trade but had been reared on a farm. He married Sarah Miller, a daughter of William

Miller, of Fairfield County, and they had four children born to them : George W., who died in 1884, married Elizabeth Rudy, who survived with three children - May, Eva and Harry; William S., who died in infancy; Mary L., deceased, who was the wife of J. W. Keller and had two children - Hardy and Harry; and Philip F.

Philip F. Benadum was reared by a careful mother and obtained his education in the district schools. Farming and stock raising engaged his attention for many years and he still owns several valuable farms, together with town property. He has been an influential man in his neighborhood and has served with efficiency in public office, elected to the same on the Democratic ticket. He married Miss Allie B. Stith and they had three children born to them, namely: Ode S., who lives in Richland Township, married Ethel Lee Middleton, and has one son, Frank D. ; Etta Lee, who is the wife of Jacob C. Elder, and lives at Rushville; and Ada J., who died in 1880. Mrs. Benadum had three brothers and three sisters - Addie, John M., James William, Clark, Dora J. and Sarah. Addie married R. M. Turner and they live at Rushville. John M. married Chloe Hutches and they also live at Rushville. The others are deceased. Mr. Benadum and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is a steward and class leader and a member of its board of trustees. For many years he was also superintendent of the Sunday-school and at all times has been one of the dependable members of his church and community.

CLARENCE MARION CRUMLEY, a representative business man of Lancaster, O., where he is engaged in the fire insurance business was born January 22, 1861, in Hocking Township, Fairfield County, O., and is a son

The Crumley family was established in Ohio by the great-grandfather, Christian Crumley, who was probably of German parentage but was born in Pennsylvania. He was accompanied by his son, Conrad Crumley, in 1802-3 and they settled near Greencastle, in Bloom Township, Fairfield County. Conrad Crumley married Mary Fellers and they had six sons and two daughters, as follows : David, who is a farmer residing in Hocking Township ; John, who died on his farm in Hocking Township; Mary, who died in the summer of 191 1, the widow of Daniel Hoffman ; Elizabeth, who is the widow of Amos Graham, and resides at Lancaster ; Peter G., who is the father of Clarence Marion Crumley ; Joshua and Daniel, both of whom are farmers in Hocking Township; and George, who is a farmer in Amanda Township, residing near Cedar Hill.

Peter G. Crumley was born in Bloom Township, Fairfield County, July 11, 1834, and was young when the family moved to Hocking township, where he still resides. With his brothers Daniel and Joshua, a nephew, who is a son of John Crumley, he owns the original Crumley estate of over 600 acres. He married Catherine Strode, who was born July 6, 1837, a daughter of George H. and Rebecca (Arnold) Strode. George H. Strode was a tanner by trade and formerly owned a tannery on Wheeling Street, Lancaster, afterward moving to a farm in Hocking Township. He was born in Virginia and his wife was a daughter of Daniel and Catherine Arnold, pioneers in Pleasant Township, Fairfield County.

Clarence Marion Crumley is an only child. He attended District School No. 3 in Hocking Township and during the summer of 1879, a select school at Lancaster, conducted by Prof. William Wolf, in the basement of the Court House. Afterward he spent two years at the

Ohio State University. After completing his studies there, he returned home and was engaged in farming and stock raising until April, 1892, when he was appointed to a position in the Boys' Industrial School, which he continued to fill until January, 1894. He then returned to the farm on which he remained until 1898, when he began soliciting insurance for the Ohio Farmers' Insurance Company and continued to make his home there until October, 1900, when he moved to Lancaster, having satisfied himself that he could make a success in that line of work. He was associated with John D. Jackson as a solicitor until August, 1 90 1, when he purchased the former agent's business and since then has been conducting a general insurance business of his own and has met with gratifying success. For about seven years, Mr. Crumley was a member of the Ohio National Guard and for several years was second lieutenant of Co. I, 14th Infantry. Mr. Crumley was married July 24, 1907, to Mrs. Emma D. White, a daughter of Joel B. and Emma (Hunter) Swartz. Mrs. Crumley has one son, J. Edward White, who was born March 18, 1900. Mr. Crumley is a member of St. Peter's German Lutheran Church, while Mrs. Crumley was reared in the Methodist faith. Politically he is a Republican.

CHARLES F. HOFFER, justice of the peace in Pleasant Township, Fairfield County, O., and a well known and reliable contractor and builder, was born in Switzerland, August 17, 1849 and is a son of Jacob and Maria (Maderia) Hoffer, both natives of Switzerland.

Charles F. Hoffer was four years old when his parents emigrated to America, coming directly to Lancaster, O., shortly afterward moving to Hocking County and then to Pleasant Township, Fairfield County. Here he was reared and obtained his education in the district schools and Pleasant Township Seminary. When eighteen years of age he learned the trade of a carpenter and builder and has been in business along this line ever since. He takes contracts for barns, houses and bridges and affords employment to from three to fifteen men according to the season. In politics he is a Democrat. For three years he has been superintendent of roads in Pleasant Township and looks after twenty-six miles and it may be remarked that the highways in Pleasant Township are in fine condition. For seventeen consecutive years he has served in the office of justice of the peace.

Mr. Hoffer married Miss Nancy D. Boyer, a daughter of John Boyer, formerly of Walnut Township, and six children have been born to them: Charles F., of Pleasant Township; Harold L., of Chillicothe; Ida O., wife of Clark Sites, of Pleasant Township; Carrie E., wife of John Grube, of Liberty Township; and John C. and Minnie, both of whom are deceased. Mr. Hoffer and family are members of the Lutheran Church, in which he has been a deacon for thirty-seven continuous years. He is identified with the Masons and the Odd Fellows, both at Pleasantville, O.

J. H. FULTZ, a well known member of the Rushville bar and a substantial and public spirited citizen of Fairfield County, O., was born in 1867, in Richland Township, and is a son of David and Margaret (Brinkley) Fultz.

David Fultz was born in Pennsylvania and came to Fairfield County, O., locating in Richland Township, in 1855. Here he followed the carpenter's trade to which he later added the undertaking business, but now lives retired. In 1864, during the Civil War, he enlisted for service, entering Co. K, 159th O. Vol. Inf., and saw service in Maryland and Virginia.

He still retains his farm in Richland Township and passes his summers there, going to Florida for the winters. He married Margaret Brinkley, whose death occurred in 1901, and they had nine children born to them, as follows: Charles E., who lives at Charleston, W. Va. ; J. H. ; Owen, who is a cornet soloist and travels with a concert company ; Minnie, who married Bert Lyon, superintendent of the K. & M. Railroad; Rhoda, who married William Stimble, of Newport, Ky. ; Elizabeth, who is the wife of W. Wiseman, of Columbus; Hattie, who resides at home; Frank, who is in business at Middleport as train dispatcher for the T. & O. C. ; and Delia, who is the widow of Charles Dyarman, formerly a newspaper man.

J. H. Fultz was educated in the public schools and Dennison University and later completed a course in law, being admitted to the bar in 1903. For some years he was engaged also in railroad work. He maintains his law office at Rushville, of which place he has been in the past and still continues a leading citizen. He served two terms as mayor and for sixteen years was a member of the Board of Education, its clerk for seven years and its president for one and has acceptably filled numerous other local positions. He is the candidate of the Democratic party for representative and in all that goes to make good citizenship, he is well equipped for the race and has both personal and political friends by the score. Mr. Fultz has traveled is almost every part of the country and is an unusually intelligent, broad-minded man. He is a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church. For a number of years he has been identified with the Masonic fraternity. He has numerous business interests and is a stockholder in the Rushville Bank.

of John and Jennie (Withrow) Combs. John Combs, who was a native of Perry County, Ohio, took up his residence in Rushville, this county. He was a carpenter and also an inventor of note, inventing many useful devices, which, however, he did not have patented. He and his wife, who was a native of Virginia, had a family consisting of Melpha, now Mrs. Fultz; Otto C, Charles E., Telia, wife of Thos. G. Anderson; Mabel, wife of John Morehead; and Jessie C, wife of G. C. Warner.

CHARLES H. CHRISTY, who is a prominent farmer in Amanda Township, of which lie has been township trustee since January, 1908, is a native of Fairfield County, born October II, 1852, one mile south of his present farm, on the Amanda and Circleville turnpike road. He is a son of Joseph and Hannah (Steward) Christy.

John Christy, the paternal grandfather, was a son of John Christy, who was a native of England. Grandfather Christy was an early settler in this part of Fairfield County and owned a farm two miles west of Amanda. He probably married in Ohio and became the father of eight children, as follows : Peter, Jonas and Nicholas, all of whom died in Illinois; Henry who spent his life on the old home place in Amanda Township; Joseph; Catherine, who was the wife of a Mr. Collins; Susan, who married a Stout, and a babe, all the family being now deceased.

Joseph Christy was a well known man in his day in Fairfield County, having some 600 acres of land in the County and many men in his employ. During the Civil War he bought horses for the Government and all his active life he was engaged to a large extent in stock dealing. In politics he was a stanch Democrat but the only office he ever accepted was that of land appraiser, in which he served two terms. He married Hannah Steward, who was born in Pennsylvania and came to Fairfield County when six years old. She was a daughter of Charles Steward, and they had the following children born to them : Nancy A., who is the wife of Amos Aldenderfer, of Amanda Township; Charles H., our direct subject; Lewis, who lives in Hocking Township, Fairfield County; Jemima, who is the wife of Eli Aldenderfer, living in Amanda Township; Mary Alice, who is the wife of Frank Wilson, living in Amanda Township; Emma, who is the wife of John Myers, living on the Circleville turnpike road ; Minnie, who is the wife of Albert Marion, living on the Circleville turnpike; James, who is a resident of Kansas City, Kan. ; Sherman, a twin brother of whom died in infancy; and Lucy, who is the wife of Charles Barr, residing in .\manda Township. The father of the above family died February 12, 1907, and two days later his burial took place in Dutch Hollow Cemetery. The venerable mother survives, being now in her eighty-second year, and her home is with a daughter, Mrs. Aldenderfer.

Charles H. Christy was reared on his father's farm and remained at home until he was twenty-six years of age, when he married and then located where he now lives, purchasing it on easy terms from his father. The latter left all his children well provided for, his widow still owning the homestead. Mr. Christy made all the improvements here and later bought an adjoining farm of 133 acres and also owns a farm of eighty acres on Clear Creek in Amanda Township. He carries on general farming and stock raising, in late years having shifted the greater part of the responsibility to the shoulders of his sturdy sons. He is interested in the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Amanda and also in the Amanda Telephone Company.

On January 17, 1878, Mr. Christy was married to Miss Martha Griffith, who was born in Amanda Township, a daughter of Samuel P. and Elizabeth (McKinley) Griffith, the former of whom was born on the old Griffith homestead north of Amanda, a son of James Griffith, a pioneer. Mrs. Christy has two sisters and three brothers: Joseph, who lives at Kokomo, In(l. ; Simon, who lives two miles south of Amanda; J. Harvey, who lives on the Circleville turnpike road; Mary, who is the widow of Daniel Miesse, and lives in Columbus; and Elizabeth, who is the wife of Henry Reber. Seven sons and two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Christy, namely : Joseph Milton, who lives on an adjoining farm, married Carrie Phillips and has four children - Helen, Emmett, Glen and Rose ; Samuel Kirby, who lives on his grandmother's farm, married Ida Walker, and lias three children - Ivy, Edith and Grant ; .Albert, who resides at home ; Alpha, who lives two miles north of Cedar Hill, married Blanche Kiger; Orpha, who is a teacher in the Amanda High School ; Willard and Millard (twins) both of whom live at home ; John, who is a teacher ; and Mary, who resides at home. Mr. Christy and family belong to the Lutheran church. He is a Democrat in politics and is looked upon as one of the representative men of the township.

ORRIN FRIEND, one of the excellent farmers and enterprising and successful stockraisers of Pleasant Township, resides on his valuable farm of 100 acres. He belongs to a prominent and substantial family of this section and was born in Pleasant Township, May 25, 1857, a son of William and Sarah A. (Peters)

Friend. His father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother in Ohio. WilHam Friend was one of the representative men of Pleasant Township. His death occurred in 1899 and that of his wife one year later.

Orrin Friend attended school in Pleasant Township and at Fairfield Union Academy at Pleasantville, of which he was a trustee for a number of years and was president of the board. He has given much careful attention to raising fine cattle and in the fall of 1903 at the Fairfield County Agricultural Society Fair held at Lancaster, O., he won several first prizes and several second ones by his exhibits of Aberdeen-Angus cattle.

Mr. Friend married Miss Laura S. Hempy, who was born in Fairfield County and is a daughter of Christopher Hempy, the death of the latter occuring in 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Friend have had five children, the three living being Edwin S., Carrie F. and Mabel D. Mr. and Mrs. Friend are members of the Pleasant Run Baptist Church as was his late father, and is clerk and trustee of the same. Mr. Friend is a Republican in politics.

HENRY F. ANESHENSLEY, general farmer, residing on the excellent farm of 105 acres, situated near Rushville, Fairfield County, O., and belonging to his father-in-law, Jacob Bauman, is one of the leading citizens of Richland Township, of which he is a trustee. He was born in this county in 1853 ^"*^ i^ ^ ^'^^ of Adam and Phebe Aneshensley.

To the parents of Mr. Aneshensley nine children were born, six of whom survived infancy - Henry F., Benjamin, Samuel, Joseph, Adam and John. Of these Samuel married Allie Mathias and they live at Sugar Grove, O. Joseph married Mary Court, and they live at Lancaster, O. Adam is a resident of Los Angeles, Calif. After the death of his first wife, the father married Mary Mathias and five children \\ere born to this union, four of whom survive : Seymour, who lives at Lancaster, married a Miss Kuhn; Homer, who lives in Berne Township, Fairfield County, married a Miss Gabeline ; Harvey, who lives at Lancaster, married a Miss Yountz ; and Irvin, who is also a resident of Lancaster.

Henry F. Aneshensley was reared on the home farm and obtained his education in the district schools. Farming and moderate stock raising have engaged his attention since he entered into business and through his industry and thrift he has become practically independent. He has always been actively interested in the welfare of his section and enjoys the confidence of his fellow citizens as is evidenced by their electing and reelecting him a trustee of the township. He was married in early manhood to Sophia Bauman, daughter of Jacob Bauman, and they have two sons : Charles, who married Mabel Shafer and has four children - Raymond, Helen, Dwight and Loren ; and Edward, who resides in Richland Township, married Anna Crist and has one daughter, Gertrude. Mr. Aneshensley and family are members of Grace Lutheran Church and for twenty years he has been a trustee of the same. Politically he is a Democrat. The family is one well known and very much respected in Richland Township.

J. T. HUFFORD, M. D., who for forty years has been engaged in the practice of medicine, has been a resident of Madison Township, Fairfield County, O., for thirty- four years of that time. He was born in Rush Creek Township, Fairfield County, May 5, 1844, and is a son of Casper and Jeanette (Turner) Hufford.

Magdalena Hufford, early settlers in this section of Ohio. He married Jeanette Turner, who was a daughter of James and Susan Turner, who were of Scotch extraction. To Casper Hufford and wife the following children were born : J. T. ; Christian, who is deceased; Mary, deceased, who was the wife of Rev. J. M. Mills, a minister in the Methodist body; and Lafayette, Finely, Joseph, George, Elizabeth and Casper. The Huffords have been prominent people in the county for many years and ha\e been particularly well known in the medical profession, Dr. N. D. Hufford, an uncle of Dr. J. T. Hufforil having been one of the old practitioners.

J. T. Hufford in his youth attended the village schools at Bremen and the old Academy at West Rushville, and also, just after the close of the war. a term of select school taught by Prof. Parsons. In September, 1861, when in his eighteenth year, he enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering Co. H, 62nd O. Vol. Inf., and served continuously until December 20, 1865. Returning home on the close of his military service, he entered the office of his uncle. Dr. N. D. Hufford with whom, and with Dr. E. A. Frampton, he studied medicine and was subsequently licensed to practice by the Fairfield Medical Society, an accredited authority in that day. Since then Dr. Hufford ftas been engaged in practice in Madison Township, in which section he is widely known, respected and beloved.

Dr. Hufford was married first to Miss Violet McClannahan, a daughter of Joseph and Catherine McClannahan, and to this marriage the following children were born : Cora, who is the wife of William Fosnaugh; Nettie and George, both of whom are deceased; Casper Burton ; and Henrietta, deceased, who was the wife of Joseph Stebelton. The second marriage of Dr. Hufford was to Miss Zelda Sisco, a daughter of Aaron and Catherine Sisco, and three children were born to them: Elizabeth, James F. and Leslie. Dr. Hufford and family attend the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a Republican in his political views and fraternally is identified with the Masons. Although not a college graduate. Dr. Hufford has demonstrated medical and surgical skill on a thousand occasions. He was trained in the early school where lives were saved and suffering alleviated through the care, ability and devotion of the physician, entirely without the modern aids of antiseptics and the appliances which these same physicians and surgeons, through their wonderful experiences, have succeeded in inventing. He is an honored and valued member of the Fairfield County and the Ohio State Medical Societies.

W. H. KELLER, who is serving in his third term as a member of the board of trustees of Pleasant Township, Fairfield County, O., is one of the enterprising farmers of this township, in whicli he was born on October 30, 1872. He is a son of John and Sarah J. (Nisley) Keller.

John Keller was born in Fairfield County and his wife in Licking County, O. The former was a son of Henry Keller, who was born in Pennsylvania and came among the early settlers to Pleasant Township. John Keller followed farming until his death in 1893. He was twice married and his children who still survive are William H., Edgar H., Myrtle C, Charles M.. Lambert L. and Walter L.

W. H. Keller obtained his education in the public schools of Pleasant Township and has devoted himself to farming, owning a well cultivated tract of forty-nine acres. He is a Democrat in politics, as was his father, and is serving as local superintendent of the Pleasantville turnpike road in Pleasant Township.

Mr. Keller married Miss Anna M. Willis, who was born in Hocking Township, Fairfield County, a daughter of the late John T. Willis, and they have three children : Jacob H., Luther B. and Annabelle Marie. Mr. Keller is a member of the U. B. church at Pleasant Hill, which he joined at the age of 25 years, while Mrs. Keller is a Lutheran. He is identified with the Improved Order of Red Men at Thurston, O., joining that order at the age of twenty-two years. Mr. Keller is a good citizen in every sense of the word, taking an interest in all that concerns the welfare of his section and setting an example of industry and wholesome living.

W. C. McCANDLISH, whose valuable farm of 176 acres, lies in Rush Creek Township, one and one-quarter miles north of Bremen, O., was born on his father's farm, four miles east of Bremen, in April, 1850, and is a son of George V. and Brittanna (Kaufman) McCandlish.

George V. McCandlish was born in 181 2, at Baltimore, Md., of Scotch parentage. When twenty-two years of age he came to Fairfield County, O., and located on the R. J. Black farm, east of Bremen. He devoted all his subsequent life to farming and stock raising and died on his place south of Bremen, when he was aged sixty-seven years. He married Britanna Kaufman, who was born at Brownsville, Pa., and they had three children: Martha, who is deceased ; W. C. ; and John V., who resides at Van Wert, O.

W. C. McCandlish had the usual school advantages that boys in his day enjoyed and like the larger number of his school-mates, left school in order to begin work on the farm. Fanning has been his business ever since and he has cultivated land in different sections of Fairfield County but has never regretted making choice of his present place as a home, which he did in March, 1897. He found the property greatly in need of improving and the substantial buildings of all kinds have been placed here under his direction. He raises all kinds of stock but makes a specialty of horses and besides having a financial interest in several Percherons in the county, he owns three widely known imported English horses - Carlton Hills, Oliver Cromwell and Willes Will.

Mr. McCandlish married Miss Sarah Anne Stuart, and they have had seven children, namely : George, who is deceased ; Wesley, who lives south of Bremen, married Jennie Adcock, and has two children ; Mary Ann, who married John Friezner, and has two children ; Lottie E., who married James Kenny, of Detroit, Mich., and has one child ; Mertie, who married Otto Trout, and has two children; Carl, who is deceased ; and Bessie, who married J. Siefert, of Bremen, and has two children. Mr. McCandlisli and family enjoy what is probably the finest residence in the township. They are members of the Presbyterian church at Bremen and he has served at times as a church trustee. In politics he is a Democrat.

CHARLES D. MARTIN. - Ohio's early claim to fame throughout the Union was owing to the commanding character of its bar, and the Lancaster bar was distinguished as being the home of its greatest lawyers. When the subject of this review was received into its ranks it was then in the full tide and splendor of its renown - a most auspicious circumstance for the beginning of a career which for brilliancy of achievement as well as for length of service has been declared exceptional in the annals of the profession.

Charles D. Martin was born at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, August 5th, 1829, and died at Lancaster, Ohio, August 27th, 191 1. His record as a practitioner covered an unbroken period of 6i years. This was inclusive of his two years of judicial service as the litigation which he had on hand at the time of his appointment made it necessary that he appear from time to time at the bar. He was the son of Joseph Sinton and Susan Armstrong (Thomas) Martin. His paternal ancestry was Scotch- Irish, and on the maternal side Welsh-English. The Martin and Thomas families came to America in colonial times, the former locating in Pennsylvania, and the latter in Maryland. In 1806 the paternal grandfather located in Kno.x Co., Ohio, wiiere Joseph Martin was reared. He married Miss Thomas, whose family in the beginning of the nineteenth century removed from Kentucky to Delaware County, Ohio.

Charles D. Martin received his early education in the schools of his native county, which was supplemented by a course at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. He was unable to continue at college owing to limited means when the faculty offered to relieve him of all pecuniary responsibility that he might complete his course to graduation. This offer he declined. On invitation of his cousin John D. Martin, a ])rominent practitioner at the Fairfield Co. bar, he began the study of the law at Lancaster in the year 1848. Even after he had taken up his residence in Lancaster the Gambier faculty requested that he take the examinations there that they might award him a diploma ; but this he too declined. They beheld in him the prospects of the great career that was his destiny and were anxious to enroll his name among their graduates. After a year and some months study of the law he was admitted to the bar in 1850 at the age of 21, and at once was received into partnership with his preceptor which continued until the latter retired from the forum a few years later. He tlien became associated with Gen.

Newton Schleigh, a noted jury advocate of that day, under the style of Martin and Schleigh. Subsequently Hon. John B. Mc- Neill became his partner. The firm of Martin and McNeill continued with great success for more than twenty years.

Charles D. Martin was elected to the United States congress on the democratic ticket in the fall of 1858, and took his seat in that body the following year when but 29 years of age, and was at that time reputed as being the youngest man ever chosen to the National House of Representatives from this state. He represented the nth district then comprising the counties of Fairfield, Hocking, Perry, Athens, Vinton and Meigs. Mr. Martin's campaign for election was celebrated. He won distinction in his replies to the world renowned orator ex-governor Thomas Corwin who had been imported into the district for the sole purpose of bringing about his defeat upon the refusal of his opponent Nelson Van Voris to meet him in debate. He became a member of the 36th congress where his youth and light hair caused him to be called, "The White Headed Boy." His contest for reelection was also e.xciting and distinguished. The republicans were slow in bringing out a man against him. The \eteran politician Valentine 1'. Horton, a wealthy manufacturer who employed a great number of men, was called from political retirement and induced to make the race against him. Horton declined Martin's challenge to debate. Corwin was again sought but failed to respond. Although defeated for reelection he more than held his party's strength in that memorable campaign. At the close of his career in congress Geo. H. Pendelton and Geo. E. Pugh, late United States senators from Ohio, invited him to become their partner in the practice of the law in Cincinnati, but he preferred to remain in Lancaster. All who speak of Mr. Martin in congress speak in terms of praise. President Hayes in a speech delivered at Lancaster referred to his able and patriotic course in terms of eulogy. We find in "Ohio Centennial Celebration," published in 1903, an address "Ohio in National House of Representatives" by Gen. Grosvenor, which reads of him : "Charles D. Martin with Vallandingham and Cary A. Trimble were members of the 36th congress, all young men full of life, vigor and great ability. Vallandingham made a career; Trimble served with ability, and it has always been regretted that Chas. D. Martin who gave assurance of great ability did not continue longer in the House of Representatives. He had the conspicuous ability which makes leadership possible." Colonel William A. Taylor in a work of like character speaks of him as being one of the brilliant members and also of the great merits of his judicial decisions when he was an Ohio judge. His speech on "The Slavery Question" gave him rank as a statesman and immediate prominence. Its peroration was one of patriotism, so eloquently spoken of by one of his biographers as being "eternally true and eternally beautiful." It is as follows: "Gentlemen may speculate about the right of secession and indulge in visions of Empire securely erected over the fragments of the constitution; but the stubborn truth recurs. This incomparable system of government is not fragile that it may be broken at pleasure ; nor is it iron or adamant that it may be crushed by physical power. It is an inviolable trust, committed to each passing generation for their enjoyment on the sacred condition that it shall be transmitted unimpared to their latest posterity. It is a trust consecrated by the most imposing sanctions of history, which patriotism will execute at every peril."

Mr, Martin was chosen a member of the committee on resolutions at the democratic state convention in 1872. In 1880 he was made a delegate to the democratic national convention that named Gen. Hancock for president. The most important event of his public career was his appointment as a member of the Supreme Court Commission of Ohio, by Gov. Chas. Foster in 1883, for a term of two years. The duty of the Commission was to assist the Supreme Court in clearing the docket which was in arrears some twelve years. Reluctant were the profession and his party to dispense with his eminent services as a judge of the highest court of the state, and twice was he the democratic nominee for judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, in the years 1885 and '86. For the third time - in 1902, he was renominated for congress of the i ith district of Ohio. This honor he declined.

Unsuccessful were the efiforts of his legal friends to gain for him a place on the federal judiciary by reason of his residence. The elevation of Howell E. Jackson of the sixth judicial circuit, to a seat on the United States Supreme bench made vacant a seat on that high court, comprising the states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Mr. Martin was nominated by John Sherman and Calvin S. Br ice, then United States Senators from Ohio, and endorsed by leading lawyers throughout the judicial district, but as there was no judge south of the Ohio river southern claims were respected and Chief Justice Lurton of Tennessee was named by President Cleveland. In 1892 he was made a member of The Ohio State Hospital Board by Gov. McKinley, and served for five years.

morials on Thomas Ewing and John S. Brasee, and reception speech on the return of Dr. Olds from The American Bastile are esteemed among the most classical of his literary efforts. In the last mentioned address, which was delivered at Lancaster before an audience of twelve thousand persons in 1862, in speaking of the public welcome accorded Dr. Olds on his return from his unjust incarceration, he said: "It is the spontaneous and generous greeting with which a magnanimous people welcome the deliverance of their friend and representative from the odious thraldom of a political Bastile. It is, sir, the token and memorial of the fixed and unalterable determination of the sovereign people that such insufferable wrongs shall not be perpetrated with impunity."

Charles D. Martin practiced largely in the state and federal courts, and upon more than one occasion, the Supreme Court of the United States has paid high tribute to his ability as a lawyer. He was a successful counsellor in the great McArthur will case - an estate of millions which for many years occupied the attention of the courts of Ohio. One side of this litigation, came before the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Horace Gray delivered the opinion, and cited the case Holt versus Lamb, tried years prior in our State Supreme Court, which in certain particulars was parallel, and referred to Mr. Martin's brief in the Holt vs. Lamb case as being "learnedly and elaborately argued." One of the most important trials, in which he appeared with the Hon. R. A. Harrison of Columbus, was that of Samuel C. Shaffer versus John I. Blair the railroad magnate of New Jersey, which grew out of a land deal in Kansas City, purchased by Mr. Blair ; engineered by Mr. Shaffer. At the time of the original suit

Mr. Blair won the case and it was carried up to the Supreme Court. Judge Martin argued the cause for Mr. Shaffer and the Supreme Court reversed the decision and ordered a settlement.

He was married at Lancaster, Ohio, in 1873, to Miss Anna Mithoff, daughter of the late Geo. .\. Mithoff, a banker, who with their three children, survives.

Of the true excellency he attained in the law those learned in the profession are best able to judge. We will conclude this sketch by appending extracts from several of the magnificent memorials on his life, delivered in the Fairfield County courthouse, Oct. 30, 191 1, by his brethren at the bar - opinions of those most qualified to speak.

"The living members of the Lancaster bar, without intimate personal acquaintance with those of their departed brethren who adorned and honored it in their day and generation by their lives and deeds, do not assume to institute comparisons among the honored dead, but it is significant that, if those who now can speak were permitted to fix the rank and station of him, to whose memory we bow today, with entire unanimity they would bestow upon him the first and foremost place. . . . Although in the length and continuity of his professional activities commencing in 1850 and ending only with the termination of his life in 191 1, the history of the Lancaster bar has no parallel, yet his fame and distinction as a lawyer rests upon a more permanent and solid foundation than the unconscious flight of time. They are securely grounded in his professional life of 61 years radiant in brilliant achievement, a bright, untarnished and spotless page.

in the most animated forensic conflicts, the example of which might well become a model of professional decorum forever. . . . To the Lancaster bar which he so long and so conspicuously honored, upon which he shed the luster of his illustrious genius and the fame of which was so greatly exalted by him, the recollection of his character, his life and his accomplishments will be cherished forever, as a proud and venerated heritage."

It was as a lawyer that he stood distinguished and pre-eminent. Nature endowed him with a genius for the law and all the powers of his great intellect responded to its call and were dedicated to its service.

His brief in a noted case so completely met the approval of the Supreme Court of the United States, that the sanction of that august tribunal was not confined to the most complimentary allusions to it, but was emphasized by the rare distinction of incorporating his argument into its reported opinion.

Hocking H. Hunter, who met and contested with greatest lawyers of the land, both in State and Federal Courts, frequently said of Charles D. Martin, that he possessed the finest legal mind of any lawyer of his acquaintance in the United States.

His understanding of the exact meaning of words was only equalled by his power of illustration. Once asked to state the disstinction between talent and genius, he promptly answered, "Talent is strong right arm ; genius, wings."

Many lawyers grow gradually and steadily into the public confidence and win their way to success, distinction and fame by long, laborious and assiduous toil and struggle.

L'pon his first appearance in this legal arena, he met and measured legal swords with the then giants of the Bar, and he was never found a riderless foe.

He came to this forum at a time when it enjoyed a reputation both state and national, when it was in the very zenith of its glory, when there were upon its rolls names, now historic, of celebrated lawyers, who were then in the very vigor and prime of all their intellectual and professional greatness, and from the very beginning he proved himself to be the equal of any of them.

He was an active participant in all the famous causes tried in this tribunal in sixtyone years and the history of his triumphs is second to none.

He outlived and was the last of that galaxy of brilliant lawyers of a former generation, whose achievements crown The Lancaster Bar with imperishable glory and unending renown.

He was both intellectually and morally honest; his integrity was perfect. Falsehood could not stand before him ; it withered away and crumbled to dust in his presence before his assaults upon it, while the truth assumed majestic form and beauty when he played upon its chords and touched the springs of its life.

Though a contemporary of all the great Lancaster lawyers, we who know him personally believe he was the greatest lawyer of his time. This estimate is not invidious. It does not dim the halos of others living or dead. Our greatest pride is our identity with the Lancaster Bar whose fame we know is due to the greatness of many. But the distinguishing genius of Charles D. Martin so transcended the ability of all others that instinctively we give him place in a rank that admits no others.

As time elapses, the forty-first Ohio State will be more and more distinguished among the Supreme Court Reports as containing the Martin Legal Classics.

It was mentally that he was superlatively great. I have known him since the spring of 1865, and have never met a man in all my life who was his equal mentally.

In an attack upon a great legal question - unlike other lawyers - he did not strike at it in a half afraid fashion - he swooped down upon it like an eagle. He seemed to approach a legal proposition from above, instead of climbing up to it. He dwelt upon the upper portions of the legal plateau, above the clouds of doubt and uncertainty, in which so many - I may say most lawyers, live and grope and have their being, and it was only while talking to Charles D. Martin that they got a glimpse of the azure and the sunshine of clearness in which he seemed to be at home.

The classical studies, so appalling to duller minds, were music and romance to him. He acquired with ease a most extraordinary knowledge of literature, and formed a style of thought and expression which was equal in beauty and strength to its great masterpieces. In even the extemporaneous addresses of subsequent years could be observed the rhythm and elegance of classical diction.

He was admitted to the bar at a time when Lancaster was a place of relative prominence in the middle west, before the growth of the great manufacturing cities, and when the Lancaster bar was one of the foremost in the nation. He was immediately accorded a leading place in that great array of lawyers whose names now belong to the history of the country. A lawyer of national reputation then said of him that he possessed the finest instinct for the law that he had ever known. At once he stood in the foremost rank of his profession with a splendid name and great practice.

No man ever listened to Judge Martin talk who was not benefited thereby. But it was on his feet that he was at his best. Then and there it was that you saw and heard the orator. He was Ciceronean in style. His voice was tenor and full of music. His phrases rhythmic and poetic. And I heard his own voice say, "For myself, I confess to a fondness for the classic touch." Who can beat that? And for myself, I con- fess that he, when speaking, came nearer putting the right word in the right place than any man I ever heard talk. His rank as a lawyer was at the very top, and when that is said it is all said.

His powers of analysis and of differentiation were superb. He was equally the skilled logician and the polished rhetorican. In the conduct of a case he was a strategist and kept opposing counsel ever wakeful and alert.

His was a long life of well rounded usefulness and credit; a life crowned with the laurels of enduring fame and wreathed in the garlands of domestic virtues.

For two full working years in the same room I had the most ample opportunity to learn Judge Martin's qualities on the bench; and I have no doubt about them. His mind was emphatically a legal mind: remarkably able ; to him the study and solution of legal problems was natural and very easy. His clear perception and sound reasoning almost instantly separated every immaterial word or matter from the exact facts that made the case ; and his full knowledge of the branches of law governing the dispute, enabled him without the use of an unnecessary word, to plainly, briefly and most satisfactorily, state why the case under review should be reversed or affirmed. * * * Xo read one of his opinions was always for me an intellectual pleasure of high order.

He did not seem to depend upon his memory of what had been said or done on a given question, but he used to say: "What is the logic of this"? His knowledge of the English language was broad and thorough. His knowledge of the law was a knowledge of its principles and not a load carried in his memory. He had little patience with long, rambling opinions. He used to say that "The less a judge knows about the case he decides, the longer it takes him to tell it." His skill as a lawyer consisted in the expert and logical application of the science.

C. D. HOSKINS, vice president and superintendent of The Bremen Manufacturing Company, of Bremen, O., was born at Middlefield, O., August I, 1877, and is a son of E. C. and Carrie A. Hoskins, who still reside at Middlefield, the father being a retired farmer. They have four children: C. D., C. Glenn, Fern and Glade E.

C. D. Hoskins attended the common schools in Geauga County, afterward the Mesopotamia High School in Trumbull County and later the New Lyme Institute in Ashtabula County, subsequently completing a very liberal education in the Boston Commercial College at Cleveland, O. Mr. Hoskins then taught stenography and typewriting in the New Lyme Institute for a time and then became stenographer for the Cleveland and Chagrin Falls Electric Railway Co., of Cleveland. He was assistant treasurer of the Middlefield Banking Company of Middlefield for four years and during most of this time was also treasurer of the village of Middlefield Corporation, and Middlefield Village School. Then for five years he was secretary and treasurer of The Middlefield Manufacturing Company, which moved to Cleveland in 1909. From Cleveland he came to Bremen, after buying the interests of the Middlefield company and here founded and incorporated The Bremen Manufacturing Company of Bremen. Mr. Hoskins is an astute business man and in politics is a Progressive Republican.

At Cleveland, O., Mr. Hoskins was married to Miss Georgia Johnson, a graduate of Middlefield High School and a student at Lake Erie Seminary, at Painesville, O., who was born at Middlefield, O., February 22, 1878. She is a daughter of Webster O. and Hortense Johnson, the father being a retired farmer at Middlefield, O.

CHARLES E. LAMB, a well known resident of Pleasant Township, Fairfield County, O., where he owns 120 acres of valuable land which he devotes to farming and stock raising, was born in Richland Township, Fairfield County, August 23, 1857, and is a son of Jacob and Nancy (Hunter) Lamb.

Jacob Lamb was born also in Richland Township but for many years previous to his death, July 18, 1892, he had resided at Lancaster. He was a soldier in the Civil War, raising a company for the service in Richland Township, and he participated in many of the most important battles of the war, including the battle of the Wilderness. He married Nancy Hunter, who was born in Hocking County, O., and of their children three are yet living : Charles E. ; Judson H., who is a farmer in Alberta, Canada ; and Ida M., who is the wife of D. F. Smith, of Lancaster. O.

Charles E. Lamb was reared mainly at Lancaster, his parents having moved there in his boyhood, and there he attended school. He has been engaged in farm activities ever since and owns land that shows careful tillage. He is a Republican in politics and has served as a school director in his district. He married Miss Josephine Caldwell, who was born in Illinois, a daughter of John B. Caldwell, who now resides in Pleasant Township, Fairfield County. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb have had two children : Durald, who is deceased ; and David K., who is a student at Pleasantville. Mr.

CHARLES E. BEERY, whose finely improved farm of 167 acres, lies four miles south of Lithopolis, O., is one of the enterprising and progressive agriculturists of Bloom Township, where he was born in 1872, a son of Ezra F. and Elizabeth (Courtright) Beery.

Ezra F. Beery was born in Pickaway County, O., a member of an old and substantial family of this state, and from there came to Fairfield County, in 1856, locating on the present farm, on which he died. May 14, 1896. By his marriage with Elizabeth Courtright, he united with a prominent family of Fairfield County, and a family of eleven children was born to them, namely: David N., Parthenius, Albert (deceased), Sallie, George, Samuel, John, Charles, Maggie, Annie and Florence, all of whom survive except George, Albert and Florence. Ezra F. Beery was a man of influence in Bloom Township and stood high in the church and community. Politically he was a Democrat and served as constable and as assessor, while in his religious faith he was a Lutheran. His widow survives.

Charles E. Beery was educated in the county schools and was graduated from the Lithopolis High School, after which, for some fifteen years, he taught school, having only four different schools in all that period. As an educator he was well and favorably known all through Fairfield County and there are many of his students who have moved to other sections where they have gone into business and reflect credit on the thoroughness of the instruction imparted by Mr. Beery. In 1910, after retiring from the teaching field. Mr. Beery came to his present farm and has made many substantial improvements, including the erection of a handsome modem residence. He devotes his attention to general farming, along the most approved lines, and to stock raismg, keeping only high grade stock. He keeps fully abreast with the times as an intelligent agriculturist and is a valued member of the Grange. Mr. Beery has always been a stanch Democrat, one from principle. He is a Knight of Pythias and a Mason and belongs also to the auxiliary of the latter fraternity, the Eastern Star. Mr. Beery is unmarried.

THOMAS M. SPANGLER, county surveyor of Fairfield County, O., has served in this office continuously since 1901 and is numbered with the county's most efficient officials. He was in Pleasant Township, Fairfield County, O., November 29, 1862, and is one of a family of eight children born to his parents who were Solomon and Mary (Macklin) Spangler, who live retired at Lancaster, O.

Thomas M. Spangler was educated in the public schools and at Pleasantville Academy, being a graduate of that institution. Later he took a special course of study in civil engineering in the Ohio State University. In 1887 he began to teach school and continued in professional work along this line until 1899, in the meanwhile perfecting himself in various higher branches. These made him eligible when the Democratic party sought a skilled and reliable man for the position of county surveyor, in 1901, and approbation has been shown by his subsequent re-elections. The work in the surveyor's office is carefully and accurately carried on by Mr. Spangler with the help of one assistant. He has served also as township assessor.

Mr. Spangler was married to Miss Carrie M. Wilkins, a daughter of Isaac and Anna (Hart) Wilkins, of Liberty Township, and they have two children : Rodney W. and Dollie M. Mr. Spangler and family are members of the English Lutheran church. He is a prominent Odd Fellow, belonging to the lower branch and also the Encampment and is also a Knight of Pythias, while both he and Mrs. Spangler are members of the auxiliary orders of Pythian Sisters and the Rebeccas. The attractive family residence is situated at No. 244 E. Sixth Avenue, Lancaster.

J. FRANK TAYLOR, a prominent citizen of Violet Township, now serving in his second term as township trustee, being president of the Iward, was born in Franklin County, O., April 19, 1 85 1, and is a son of James and Rebecca A. Taylor.

James Taylor was also born in Truro Township, Franklin County, O., and was a son of ^Matthew Taylor, who came to Franklin County from Truro, Nova Scotia, being one of the earliest settlers in what it now Truro Township. He was accompanied by four of his brothers and they settled together and gave the name of their old home to the township which was soon after organized. David Taylor, one of the brothers, subsequently became a man of consequence in that section and was elected to the state legislature, and one of his grandsons, Hon. Edward Taylor, Jr., is serving in his third term as a member of the U. S. Congress. James Taylor, father of J. Frank Taylor, spent his entire life in his native township, where he served in the office of justice of the peace for thirty-five years and held other offices of responsibility. His wife was a native of Missouri. They had three sons, one of whom died at Vicksburg, during the Civil War, shortly after the surrender of that city to the Union forces. The two survivors are J. Frank and Harvey M., the latter of whom is a resident of Columbus, O.

farming on the homestead and has devoted himself more or less to agricultural pursuits all his life. He owns a valuable farm of i6o acres, carries on general farming and is numbered with the successful stock raisers of this section. In politics he is a Democrat and is active in furthering the interests of his party and frequently takes part in party councils. As trustee of the township he has proved honest and capable and his judgment is valued by the other members of the board.

On December 7, 1876, Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Emma J. Dovel who was born in Violet Township, Fairfield County, a daughter of Andrew J. Dovel, who formerly was a prominent citizen of Violet Township, where he died. March 8, 1888. His father, Peter Dovel, was a native of Virginia. Mrs. Taylor has one sister, who is the wife of Col. A. M. Whims, of Violet Township. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have two children ; J. A. and Louise D., both residing in Violet Township.

J. A. Taylor is a graduate of the literary department of the Ohio Northern University at .\da, O., where he also secured his degree in law. He is a Democrat in politics and is a member of the Board of Education, is township clerk and for a number of years has been a memljer of the Violet Township Democratic Committee. Fraternally he belongs to Violet Lodge, Odd Fellows, at Pickerington, while his father is identified with the Masons at Reynoldsburg, O. Both father and son are representative men of the township, taking a manly and public spirited part in all that tends to its progress and development, thereby assisting their fellow citizens to the extent of their power, and adding to the general welfare of all.

owns 216 acres of fine land situated three miles southeast of Lithopolis. He was born on this farm, in 1879, a son of John and Sarah (Weist) Sitterley.

John Sitterley was born in Ross County, O., but the greater part of his life was passed in Fairfield County, where he followed an agricultural life and became widely known through his business connections. His death occurred in Bloom Township, June 15, 191 1. He married Sarah Weist, who was born in Greenfield Township, Fairfield County, O., where her family had settled early.

\\'illiam E. Sitterley oljtained his education in Fairfield County and afterward taught school for about four years prior to taking charge of the home farm, which he has owned and operated for some years. He carries on general farming and stock raising and has reason to take pride in his productive fields and in his herds and stock. The farm buildings, including one of the finest residences in the township, were erected by his father, but Mr. Sitterley has been concerned in keeping up the improvements.

Mr. Sitterley was married to Miss Alice Haas, a daughter of Benjamin Haas, who was a leading man in this section for a number of years and for a time one of the directors of the Fairfield County Infirmary. He was born in Pickaway County, O., but later moved to Amanda Township, Fairfield County, where he died in October, 1910, at the age of seventytwo years. He married Louisa Bright and they had four children: Leota, Etta, Alice and Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Sitterley have two sons, John H. and Kermit C. Mr. Sitterley and family are members of the Evangelical church. He is a Republican in politics, and belongs to the Knights of Pythias and also to the local Grange.

C. C. BRANDT, a prominent farmer and stock raiser of Rush Creek Township, Fairfield County, O., whose valuable 200-acre farm lies in Sections 27 and 33, was born in Perry Coimty, O., July i, 1851. His parents were Elijah and Barbara (Kagy) Brandt.

Elijah Brandt was reared in the town of Somerset, O., and he was probably born in Perry County. He married Barbara Kagy, who was born in Pennsylvania and was brought to Fairfield County, O., by her father. Christian Kagy, when she was four years old. Five children were born to Elijah Brandt and wife: David, Mary, Martha, Christian and Lewis. Mr. Brandt subsequently sold his farm in Perry County and moved to Rush Creek Township, Fairfield County, living on the farm now occupied by David Stewart, and he died at the age of thirty-nine years. His widow bought a small farm that is now owned by Ira Morris, situated west of Bremen, and there her death occurred when she was aged eighty-two years. She was a member of the Presbyterian church and her burial was in Grand View Cemetery, in Rush Creek Township. The burial of her husband had been at Columbus, O., he having died in a hospital in Columbus, many years before, as mentioned.

C. C. Brandt obtained his schooling in Rush Creek Township and as soon as he was old enough began to be self supporting, working by the day and on farms in the neighborhood, and having the reputation even then of being a reliable and industrious youth. For twelve years after he married he resided on rented land and then bought a farm of eighty-five acres, which he sold at a later date and purchased his present place. The land was somewhat run down and had to be enriched and carefully tilled and many improvements had to be made before Mr. Brandt was satisfied with his home. He carries on general farming and

Mr. Brandt was married to M. Ellen Westenberger, who was born in Rush Creek Township, a daughter of Noah and Mary Westenberger, and the following children have been born to them : Charles S. ; Nellie ; Leefe, now deceased, who was the wife of John Winters, and left three children - Charles, Mary and Florence; James, who lives with his family in Arkansas; Mary, who is the wife of Vernon Voris, lives in Rush Creek Township and has one son, Donald ; John and Isaac, both of whom are unmarried; Cora, who is the wife of W^illiam Scholl, of Hocking County, 0., and has one daughter, Esther ; Clarence and Clara, both of whom died at the age of four years of scarlet fever, neither ever previously having been sick; and Martha, Frank and Neil. Mr. Brandt and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has never been anxious for any public office and votes independently.

GEORGE \A'. SITES, a highly respected citizen of Pleasant Township, a retired farmer and a survivor of the great Civil War, was born in Rush Creek Township, Fairfield County, O., September 17, 1844, and is a son of Emanuel and Fannie (Beery) Sites.

Emanuel Sites came from Pennsylvania to Rush Creek Township when eighteen years of age, married there and afterward settled on land in Pleasant Township, a part of which George W. Sites still owns. His death occurred in 1899 and for many years he had been a faithful member of the U. B. church. Of his children the following are living: Henry C. of Fort Wayne, Ind. ; George W. ; Joseph S., a well known attorney at Lancaster; Edward F., of Fort Wayne, Ind. ; Charles E., of Swayzee, Ind. ; Elizabeth G., wife of Lewis C.

Miller of Greenville, O. ; Catherine, wife of John E. Miller, of Lancaster; and Emma, wife of Frank S. Beery, of Pleasant Township, Fairfield County. When Emanuel Sites died he was a man possessed of large estate, although he had entered the county with but fifty cents in his pocket, having walked the distance from York County, Pa. He was a man of prudence, forethought and good judgment and although throughout his whole life he never engaged in any speculating, through his industry and thrift became a man of ample means, all of wliich was honestly earned. In his death Fairfield County lost a worthy man.

George \\\ Sites was about two years old w hen his parents moved to Pleasant Township, where he obtained his education in the district schools and afterward engaged in farming. In January, 1864, he enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering Co. A, 17th O. Vol. Inf., and was one of the brave soldiers who accompanied General Sherman on that memorable march to the sea, and saw service in Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and Kentucky and was honorably discharged at Louisville, July 16, 1865. He participated in the noted battles of Resaca. Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, siege of Atlanta and in that campaign was under fire for 120 continuous days. He then returned to peaceful pursuits and now resides on a well cultivated farm of thirty-five acres. He was a school director of District No. 6, Pleasant Township, and served on the school board for eighteen years.

Mr. Sites married Miss Almeda C. Graham, a daughter of Abraham Graham, of Pleasant Township, and they have four children : Lulu A., who is the wife of Dr. John Neeley, of Paulding County, O. ; Homer F. and George C, both of whom live in Pleasant Township; and Judson K., who resides in Paulding County. Mr. Sites is a Republican in politics.

ALEXANDER E. HUSTON, a well known resident of Richland Township, where he owns and operates 137 acres of fine land, is a veteran of the great Civil War and a sur- \ivor of the great battle of the Wilderness. He was born in Pickaway County, O., in 1843, and is a son of William Huston, who was born in Ireland and came to America in 1836. After spending one year in Canada, William Huston crossed the border and located in Pickaway County, O.. where he married and afterward moved to a farm in Richland Township, Fairfield County. Of his four children but one survives - ^Alexander E., the subject of this sketch.

Alexander E. Huston was reared on his father's farm until the age of eighteen years, when he enlisted for ser\-ice in the Civil War. The colonel of his regiment was B. F. Smith and the commanding general was U. S. Grant. .\t the battle of Martinsburg, Va., the young soldier and the captain of his company were both taken prisoner and in a short time were sent to Belle Isle and from there to Andersonville. Mr. Huston rejoined his regiment just in time to participate in the battle of the Wilderness, and in that great struggle of seven days was again captured, with the officers of his company and they all were sent to Libby Prison, at Richmond. Mr. Huston suffered 325 days of imprisonment and under such terrible conditions that his survival and subsequent usefulness as man and citizen was no less than remarkable. He returned to his old home and has been engaged in general farming and stock raising until the present, residing on his beautiful farm on which he placed the improvements. He owns a second farm, containing sixty-six acres, \\ hich lies in Pleasant township. Mr. Huston married Miss Sarah Murphy, a daughter of Theodore Murphy and a sister of Henry and Alfred Murphy, both of whom reside near Rushville, O. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Huston, namely: William, who married Lizzie Black, and lives near West Rushville ; Margaret, who is a resident of West Rushville ; Theodore, who is deceased ; Arlie E., who married Ethel Lewis and resides at Amanda, O. ; and Arthur, who married Catherine Upp, lives on the home fann, and assists his father. Mr. Huston and sons are Democrats in politics and all are men of reliability and good citizenship. The family belong to the Presbyterian church.

JACOB ERNST, an honored veteran of the great Civil War,. who resides in his comfortable home at Stoutsville, 0., where he has two and one-half acres of valuable land, was born in Berks County, Pa., September 30, 1830, a son of Daniel and Sarah (Mohn) Ernst.

Daniel Ernst was born in Berks County, Pa., of German parents, in 1808, and died in 1843. He was a farmer all his life and in 1837 came with his family to Ohio, locating in Washington Township, Pickaway County. He was a member of the Lutheran church. He married Sarah Mohn, who was born in 1806, in Berks County and died in 1873. She belonged to the Reformed church. They had five children, namely: John; Jacob; Margaret, wife of Jesse Brown; Sarah, wife of William Upp; and Mary M., wife of M. Van Buren Lothouse.

Jacob Ernst was seven years old when his parents brought him to Ohio and still recalls some of the events of the long and unaccustomed journey. During boyhood he went to school in Washington Township when he could be spared, the early death of his father throwing many responsibilities on his shoulders. He was a hard worker all through his active years, for twenty-five of which he followed threshing and also worked as a farmer and stone-cutter. He assisted in the erection of many buildings, especially the schoolhouses in Clear Creek Townsliip and several dwelling houses at Stoutsville. Politically he is a Democrat and for fifteen years served as a trustee of Clear Creek Township and for twelve years as a member of the school board. His service in the Civil War was a member of Co. I, 159th O. Vol. Inf., and in 1864 he was honorably discharged and mustered out at Zanesville.

In 1853 Mr. Ernst was married to Miss Catherine Stout, a daughter of Jonathan Stout, an old settler in Clear Creek Township. Mrs. Ernst died July 10, 1909, and her burial was in Maple Hill Cemetery, Clear Creek Township. They had two children : Amanda, who is the wife of L. F. Crites; and Noah A., who is a traveling salesman. Mr. Ernst has been a member of the lodge of Odd Fellows at Tarlton, O., since 1863, and has always been active in fraternal work. He is a member of the Reformed church, in which he has served as an elder and he helped to build the present church edifice at Stoutsville.

DANIEL FAUBLE, clerk of court, Fairfield County, O., and a justly popular public official, has been a resident of Hocking Township since 1892 and owns a valuable farm of sixty acres. He was born August 28, 1859, at Sugar Grove, O., and is a son of Christopher and Catherine E. (Martin) Fauble.

The parents of Mr. Fauble were born in Germany and came from there in the forties. Christopher Fauble was a tailor by trade and for a number of years carried on a tailoring business at Sugar Grove. He became a foremost citizen who, at times, was called on to take an important part in township affairs.

serving on tlie school board and as trustee. His death occurred in 1892 in Hocking County, to which he moved about 1862, setthng in Good Hope Township.

Daniel Fauble was reared from the age of three years in Hocking County and after attending the public schools in Good Hope Township, became a student in the Fairfield Union Academy at Pleasantville, and later came under the instruction of Prof. Holbrook in his Normal School at Lebanon, O. Mr. Fauble there prepared himself for teaching school and for twenty-three consecutive years continued in educational work, but for some years has been interested in farming. He settled on his present place in Hocking Township, Fairfield County, in 1901, where he continues his agricultural activities and also looks carefully after his public duties.

Mr. Fauble was married first to Miss Frances L. Alfred, of Hocking Townsihp, and secondly to Miss Elizabeth Shaeffer, of Clear Creek Township. Two children w'ere born to the second union, Virgil H. T. and Verna L. Mr. Fauble has a wide circle of appreciative friends and prior to being elected clerk of Courts of Fairfield County, in November, 191 o. had served four years as clerk of Hocking Township. With his family he belongs to the Lutheran church.

L. V. GUYTON, the mention of whose name in Rush Creek Township, Fairfield County. O., recalls to the minds of a large majority of the residents, one of the most successful and popular teachers of this section, one whose educational efforts covered a long period and brought wide acquaintance through this part of Fairfield County, now resides two and one-half miles northeast of Bremen, O. He is a native of Rush Creek Township, born

William Guyton was bom in Ferry County, O., a son of Harry Guyton, who was an early settler there. He bought 120 acres of land in Fairfield County, on which William Guyton settled in 1864 and remained during the rest of his life, engaging in farming and stock raising until his death, when aged fifty-two \ears. He married Mary Catherine Lemon, who was bom in Perry County and still survives, residing on her farm in the northeastern part of Rush Creek Township. Seven children were born to them, as follows: Isaac W., who is a resident of Michigan; Mrs. Alpha Retta Huntwork, who lives in Perry County, near Rushville ; L. V. ; Henry and Alice, both of whom are deceased ; Mrs. Callie M. Young, who lives in Rush Creek Township; and Mrs. Annie Maud (Geiger) Garrison, who resides at Columbus, O.

L. V. Guyton easily recalls the old pioneer log house in which he was born and the first school he ever attended. He was an ambitious boy and as he was not satisfied with the rather meager opportunities offered by the local schools, his parents permitted him to attend the High School at Canal Winchester. For some years he divided his year between farming in the summer time and teaching school in the winters. Later he gave the larger part of his year to educational work and taught the Purvis School, the Fair\-iew School and others in Fairfield County and also the Frog Pond School in Perry County. After his marriage he resided with his father-in-law for one year and then bought twenty-five acres of land in Redding Township. Perry County, and greatly improved his property. He continued to teach in Perry County l)etween 1892 and 1900. having charge of the I'ike, Otterbein, Perry's swamp and Petty (then Pisgah in Perry County) and Dead Man Schools. In 1900 he came back to Rush Creek Township and located on his present home place of twenty-two acres, which he has so improved that it is one of the most attractive and well kept properties in this whole section, and he also owns a second farm of thirty acres situated to the east of his present home. Mr. Guyton was soon prevailed upon to resume teaching and since then has taught the Cross Roads School for four years, the Beach Hill School for one year, and the Locust Grove School for six years, after which he retired from professional work. He devotes his time and attention to his agricultural interests and on his second farm has a productive oil well.