Fayette County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 8 of 10)

Our subject was born August 28, 1843, in Ross County, and re- ,moved to this county, when quite small, with his parents, where he has lived to this day, with the exception of seven years, when he resided in Van Wert Count}'. lie was married, July 29, 1866, to Martha E., daughter of Otho Lyons. Their union has been blessed by one boy. Smith J., living at home. He and his wife are active members of the Otterbein Methodist Episcopal Church, and davout Christians. He is a member, in good standing, of New Holland Lodge No. 392, F. & A. M., and is now holding the office of senior deacon. During the late war, he was out (in 1862) as a private in Company F,90th 0. Y. L; was promoted to sergeant, and remained till the close of the war, participating in the battles of Murfreesboro, Chattanooga, and in all* the engagements during the last summer campaign. He was a brave and patriotic soldier, and escaped without injury. Is a Republican, and has held the office of township trustee two years, and is at present pike superintendent of Marion Township. He occupies one liundred and twenty-five acres ou the George McCrea tract, and raises both grain and stock.

Robert W. Vincent. '

Robert W. Vincent, farmer, is a son of Uriah S. Vincent, now living in Washington, and was born December 26, 1839, in Perry Township, Pickaway County, where he remained till 1848, when he came to this township with his parents, locating near New Holland, on a farm now owned by Smith Chaffin. By occupation he is a farmer.

Lizzie, Maria, Earl, Emma (deceased), William Coke, and JSTellie. He is a member of New Holland Lodge No. 329, F. & A, M. About April 20, 1861, he enlisted in Company B, 13tli O. V. L, in the three months' service. On the 6th of August, he re-enlisted in Company A, 1st Ohio Cavalry, with which he remained till September 13, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was at the battles of Winchester, second Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, and Nashville. The last fight occurred on the 17th of April, 1865, at Columbus, Georgia. He did good service during the war, and escaped unhurt. In politics he is a Republican. He owns one hundred and six acres, on the Woods road, three and one-half miles from New Holland. His farm is well improved, and in a high state of cultivation, and farms chiefly to grain.

James F. Avilson

A long, honorable, and useful career was that of the late Dr. James. F. Wilson, of New Holland, Perry Township, Pickaway County, and his name is revered by a wide circle of friends. His face was familiar to almost every inhabitant of the western part of Pickaway and the eastern part of Fayette counties, and there are thousands who can testify to his professional thoroughness and ability, and to his intrinsic worth as a man. His was. a character that won universal respect by its simple dignity, earnestness, firmness, and unvarying integrity. Not a member of any church, he was yet strongly imbued with the faith of Christianity, and his daily life put in practice those principles which are its teachings. He was a liberal supporter of the church, too, and noted for the charity he bestowed on other objects in many directions, being a kind friend to the poor and distressed. One of the most noble of his acts of charity, and one of the strongest indications of his largehearted patriotism, was during the war. Many of the men who enlisted in the companies, which were afterward assigned to the Ninetieth and One Hundred and Fourteenth regiments, Ohio volunteers, were indebted to him for professional services. To all such he gave receipted bills; and to all the members of these two companies, and to other soldiers who went into the war from the vicinity of his home, the doctor made promises, which he faitlifuUy fulfilled, to give their families his services free of charge.

immigrated from Kentucky to Ross County, Ohio, about the year 1802. He was born near Chillicothe, October 5, 1808, and his early years Avere spent upon the home farm. At the age of twenty-one years, he went to Greenfield, Highland County, and there began the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Daniel Robbins. He was finally, after long and careful reading, granted a diploma \jy the medical society of the district, and upon thus being authorized to practice his profession, immediately removed to i^ew Holland, of which place he was the first resident physician.

Although possessing a fair medical education, he w^as not satisfied; and so, after four years' practice, during which time he saved from his accumulated means the sum necessary to pay his expenses, he entered the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati. He graduated from this institution with a good record, and returned to ]^ew Holland, resuming his practice, and following it all the rest of his life. His ride was a large one, and his practice as successful and lucrative as the. country could bestow. His professional reputation be came firmly established early in his career, and he took rank with the best physicians in the county, and was frequently called upon to spare time from his professional duties in the immediate neighborhood, to attend councils of physicians in localities at a considerable distance. Dr. Wilson had an enviable reputation as a surgeon, as well as a physician, being regarded as one of the best in this part of the state. He was for a time, during the war, located at Camp Chase, and in his capacity as surgeon, his services were of great value.

He bought, in 1850, a fine farm, just over the line, in Marion Township, Fayette County, and in the western part of New Holland village, which was cleared and improved under his direction, and transformed from wild wood land into a beautiful agricultural tract. In 1868, he removed to the house he had provided upon this farm - the tasteful home, where his widow yet resides.

Dr. Wilson was, for the last twenty years of his life, afliicted with heart disease, and he died of this malady, January 21, 1875, leaving a wife and one son. Mrs. Wilson's maiden name was Letitia Dunlap, and she was the daughter of James and Elizabeth Dunlap, of Ross County. She was born May 24, 1816, and married August 31, 1837.

1838. Ill his sixteenth year he attended Antioch College, and remained there four years, under the instruction of the famous Horace Mann. After President Mann's death, young Wilson entered Union College, at Schenectady, ]^ew York, where he graduated with the class of 1862. He read law at Columbus, with the Hon. Chauncy N. Olds, and was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Ohio, in 1864, and commenced the practice of his profession that same year, at Cincinnati, as the senior member of the firm of Wilson & Champion. He represented Hamilton County two years - in 1871 and 1873 - in the legislature, and in the latter year, at the expiration of his term, was appointed, by President Grant, as consul to Bremen. He remained there, as the representative of the United States, two and one-half years, and was then appointed to the consulship at Hamburg, where he remained until July 1, 1879. He is at present consul-general to the Colombian States of South America, and is located at Panama. He married, December 25, 1866, Carrie R. Turpiii, of JSTewton, Hamilton County, Ohio.

Madison Township, situated in the northeast corner of Fayette Connt}^, was one of the original townships, established at the organization of the county, in 1810 ; a full description of which will be seen in the general history of the county.

Early Settlement

Samuel Myers was born in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1776. Subsequently, his father moved to Bottetaurt Count}^, Virginia, from which Samuel, then thirty years old, came to Ohio, and settled, August, 1807, on Deer Creek, near the mouth of DutF's Fork, in this township, on land adjoining the northern part of the first survey in the count}', Xo. 463, entered in the name of Thomas Overton, now owned by B. Leavel, then owned by Jesse McKa}'. After remaining until Januarj', 1816, Myers removed to Compton's Creek, in Paint Township, on land then owned by Benjamin Huff, now occupied b}' John Rodgers and Robert Morris, and opened a farm and entered into stock raising, driving his cattle, after fattening them, on the rich grass, to Lancaster and Chester counties, Pennsylvania.

At the beginning of the war of 1812, he was commissioned captain of militia, November, 1811, and responded to the general call. During the siege of Ft. Meigs, and for gallant conduct, was elected major in the field.

Mr. Myers represented Fayette County in the General Assembly of 1813, and again in 1818. He was also a justice of the peace for thirty years, and taught the first school in Madison Township, near the present site of Waterloo, in the winter of 1809, walking two and one-half miles to and from the little hut called a school house.

John Baldwin was born in Virginia, February 21, 1749. He, early in the struggle for independence of the colonies with England, espoused the cause of the patriots, and served during the conflict as captain of a militia company, vhich he himself had raised and eqnipped. He also paid his men for their service dnring their enlistment^ which exhausted all of a large fortune. This was returned in the shape of continental money, but its depreciated value, rendered it almost, if not entirely, worthless.

He received a patent for a large tract of land, in the Virginia military reservation, which he located partly in Madison County, and partly in Madison Township, of this county, and is known as the Wallace-Baldwin survey, No. 9721. In the latter part of 'the year 1811, he left Virginia to locate on this land, and reached his destination the last day of that year.

His wife, whose maiden name was Hannah Simmons, died before he left Virginia. By her he had twelve children : Jonah, William, Thomas, John, Francis, Jachomyer, Betsey, Hannah, Mary, Margaret, Rebecca, and Martha. He was accompanied from Virginia by a few of his sons, and one son-in-law, and his other sons soon followed, all of whom settled on their father's claim, except Francis, who settled near Vincennes, Indiana, where he married, and followed his trade, of carpentering, until his death, which was caused by a wound in the knee, made by an ax.

Jonah settlecl in Madison Township, and built the house now occupied by his son, Jachomyer. His wife's maiden name was Mary Bland, whom he married before leaving Virginia, who was born, August 24, 1783. Seven children resulted from this marriage, whose names, in the order of their birth, were as follows: John, Catharine, Hannah, Margaret, Jachomyer, Joseph, Susan, and Nancy. He died, September 13, 1850, aged seventy-seven years, live months, and twenty-three days. His wife died, October 16, 1856, aged seventy-three years, one month, and twenty-eight days.

William was born in Virginia, and settled on his father's land, in Madison, shortly after his father. He married Catharine Berkheimer, in Virginia, by whom he had six children : Mary, John, Xancy, Philip, William, Thomas, Henry, and Joshua. He died on this land, September 17, 1823, at the age of fifty years, five months, and twenty-six days. His widow afterwards moved to Missouri, in 1840, where she died.

tied on land given him by Ins father-in-law, where Peter Lohrnow resides. His wife, Mary Baldwin, was born, July 26, 1785, and their marriage took place, November 3, 1808. The names«of their children, with the date of their birth, are as follows: John, born September 17,1809; Henry, born November 10, 1810 ; Margaret, born February 14, 1812 ; Hannah, born September 17, 1813 ; Abram, born August 22,1815; Thomas, born April 23,1817; Benjamin, born July 18, 1819; Mary Jane, born August 5, 1821; Martlia, born February 14,-1824; Richard, born May 10, 1826; Elizabeth, born April 13, 1829. Mr. Corson died, October 10, 1838. His wife died in- Missouri, November 1869.

Edmund Clarridge, son of William and Rosaua Clarridge, nee Mace, was born in Maryland, October 2, 1789, and in 1798, moved with his father to Ross County, Ohio. His mother died before he left Maryland, and his father, after arriving in Ross, married Mrs. Mollie Cox, a widow lady. Edmund, on the 20th day of March, 1812, at the age of twenty-two, was married to Eleanor, daughter of John and Eleanor McCatferty, of Kentucky. She was born in 1796. Edmund, in 1814, enlisted, and served through the war of 1812, under Major Dunlap. Shortly before he enlisted in the service of his country, he had removed his family to Madison Township, to which he returned after the close of the war, and spent the remainder of his life.

He served several terms as justice of the peace, and was elected to the office of township treasurer, and clerk also, and the duties devolving on>.him in his several official capacities were faithfully discharged. At his death, which occurred, September 14, 1868, he owned one hundred and sixty acres of highly cultivated land. His wife died, November 10, 1860.

Edmund and Eleanor Clarridge were the parents of sixteen children, nine boys and seven girls, whose names were as follows: Elizabeth, born May 10, 1813; William, born October 7,1815; Mace, born April 13, 1817; John, born March 4, 1819 ; Ann, born December 14, 1820 ; Thomas, born December 8, 1822 ; James, born December 2, 1824 ; Eleanor, born April 9, 1826 ; Edmund W., born October 4, 1827; Rosana, born October 20, 1829; Joseph Hays, born June 19, 1831; Clarinda, born November 29,1832; David, born April 25, 1834; Christiann, born January 5, 1836; Sarah Jane, born August 28,1838; Anthony, born December 27, 1840. Christiann died, August 2, 1836 ; Jane died, January 17,

Colonel Johiel Gregory removed from the State of New York to Athens County, Ohio, at an early day, and purchased property consisting of a grist-mill, saw-mill, and carding machine, situated one mile below the town of Athens. While in Athens, the title of colonel was conferred upon him, as colonel of militia. In 1815 Colonel Gregory disposed of his property in Athens County, and with his wife and family - which consisted of four sons, Xehemiah, Johial, jr., x\ndrews, and Adiy, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Annis - removed to Madison Township, this county. Col. Gregory owned a large tract of land in this county, having purchased the same from Mr. Taylor, of Newport, Kentucky. He divided these lands into such sized farms, between his four sons, as they desired, keeping a remainder for future distribution. He was in the Revolutionary War. - After removing to this county, he engaged in farming and the sale of merchandise. He was elected to the State Legislature for two terms, when that body convened in Chillicothe, and held several minor offices while in Athens County. He died in this county, in April, 1818, aged sixty -five years.

Elizabeth Andrews Gregory was born in New York, in 1757, and died in Yankeetovvn, Fayette County, Ohio, in 1857, aged ninety-nine years, nine months, and twenty-seven days. The last few years of her eventful life she lived with her son Andrews Gregory, on the farm at Yankeetown. Mrs. Gregory's mind was clear, and her memory unfailing, for one of her numerous years. Her reminiscences of the Revolutionary War - such as the throwing over of the tea at Boston, the battle of Bunker Hill, the stirring events of the time of W^ishington - were matters of great interest to her great-grandchildren, who were often entertained by her recitals. As previously stated, she removed with her husband and family from New York to Athens County, and from thence to this county, in 1815. She lived through the great struggles of this country, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War, and to within four years of the great trouble between the North and South. She died at a green old age, venerated and respected by a large community.

During the war of 1812, Nehemiah and Johial, jr., two sons of Col. Gregory, were in the first volunteer company from Athens County. Nehemiah was a lieutenant, and Johial a captain. After servin<>- three months they came home. Nehemiah then enlisted

As previously stated, these sons removed to this county with their father, Col. Gregory, in 1815. ISTehemiah, after serving through the war of 1812, came home to this count}', and engaged in farming and other business pursuits. He was a successful man, and his early death, which occurred February 21, 1817, terminated a useful and prosperous life. He left a wife and two children. His widow - since married - and one child, Mrs. Hawson, both aged ladies, are now living in Tiffin, Ohio.

Johiel jr., owned and managed, with good judgment, the farm assigned him, and died, in this county, in 1822, leaving a wife and four children, who in later years removed to Illinois, and have there. established themselves and their families.

Adly Gregory, the fourth and youngest son, removed from this county, to the state of Iowa, in 1849, where he accumulated a large propert3^ He died in 1879, at an advanced age, leaving a wife and one child, who survive him, and are now living in Washington, D. C.

Elizabeth and Annis Gregory, the two daughters, married two brothers, by the name of Strong. After their marriage they lived in Jackson, and reared their respective families in the vicinity of Jackson and Wilkville.

Andrews, the third son of Colonel Gregory, was born in 1788, and died, in Yankeetown, Fayette Count}^, Ohio, July 21, 1866, aged seventy-eight years.

His public life was brief He was. called out for thirty days, and went with General Harrison, in 1812, at Fort Seneca. In 1828 he was elected captain of the ninth company, first regiment, second brigade, and fifth division, in the militia of the State of Ohio. The paper setting forth this fact, is held by the daughter of Andrews Gregory, and has the signature of Governor Allen Trimble, given January 20, 1829.

Andrews Gregory was not a prominent man, though his character was one of sterling integrity, great decision, and unassuming worth. He was a firm Republican, and an ardent supporter of the late war measures, and labored earnestly to promote the interests of that cause. After residing in this county for fifty-one years, on the farm he received from his father, he died, leaving this farm.

He had three children, two daughters and one son, Adly Gregory, jr., an only son, removed from Fayette County, to the state of Illinois, in 1852, where he continued to reside until the year 1861. At tliat time he enlisted in the army, and served during the w^ar as captain. At the close of the war, 1865, he was mustered out of service, a confirmed invalid, having contracted a disease which so enfeebled him, that he was able to reach his home but three weeks previous to his death, which occurred in July, 1865, at Lovington, Illinois. He died, aged forty-eight years, leaving a wife and five children.

Adley Gregory was a faithful soldier, a true patriot, and an earnest worker in whatever he believed to be a duty. He was greatly esteemed by his fellow citizens, who recognized his eminent services to his country, but beleived them to be the direct cause of his death.

Eliza Ann, the oldest daughter of Andrews Gregory, married William A. Phelps, from Manlius, New York. She lived, after her marriage, in this county, on a farm adjoining her father's, where she died, N'ovember 19, 1857, aged forty-three years, leaving a husband and eight children, to mourn her death. Mrs. Phelps was a lady of a broad and generous nature. She was a loyal wife, a tender and watchful mother, and a kind and benevolent neighbor. Her death was a calamity to her immediate family, and a severe loss to the community in which she was well known, as a woman of marked virtues.

Jane, second daughter of Andrews Gregory, was married to Abner Drierback, of Circleville, Ohio. She survives her husband, who died in London, Ohio, in 1861, leaving her without children.

Mrs. Drierback has lived in London since 1851. In their thirty years residence in London, she has maintained for herself a character eminently esteemed, and respected by all, who are fortunate in her acquaintance.

James Jones, sr., son of Isaac Jones, sr., and Doracy Jones, was born, May 3, 1813, in Pickaway County, two or three miles below N^ew Holland. Early in childhood, he had the misfortune to lose his mother, and his home, after his father's second marriage, becoming unpleasant, he left it, and began work by the month, at low wages, but the small capital thus earned, enabled him, in a limited way, to embark in business, and finally prove the nucleus of quite a fortune. December 15, 1831, he married Sarah White, and settled on land belonging to a Mr. Brown, in eastern Fayette, where he remained until he bought property in Madison, near Yankeetown, to which he shortly removed, and on which he remained until his death, which occurred, October 20, 1871.

As a business man, he was generally successful, though unfortunate in having to pay considerable security money for others, aggregating fifty-three thousand three hundred dollars, besides accumulated interest. Notwithstanding this, he left one thousand three hundred acres of highly cultivated unincumbered land to his sons, Thomas and William, his only surviving children - his daughter dying in infancy - located on Deer Creek, between Waterloo and Yankeetown.

Mr. Jones was a member of the Methodist Church for twentyfive years, and was always a liberal contributor to the cause of Christianity. After a life checkered with a great variety of incidents, he died, in his fifty-ninth year, leaving a large circle of friends, to whom he had endeared himself by the honest, upright. Christian course he pursued through life.

John Leavell, was born in Virginia, and served seven years in the Revolutionary war. In 1786 he started, with his family, from Culpepper County, to remove to Kentucky, but stopped in Greenbrier County, where, in the winter of 1786-'87, he died, and his widow, in the spring of 1787, came on to Morrison's Station, Kentucky, where her boys erected a log cabin, into which they removed. Shortly after this, the unfortunate lady was watching her elder son cutting down a tree, and imagining it would reach the cabin, in her excitement, ran under the tree, and was killed.

There were eleven children : Gabriel, Ezekiel, John, Robert, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Hannah, Malinda, Sallie, Nancy, and another whose name we have been unable to obtain, who scattered at the death of their mother, and began caring for themselves. Gabriel was killed at the defeat of St. Clair, in 1791, and Ezekiel and Robert settled in Henry County, Indiana.

John, our subject, was born in Culpepper County, Virginia, December 27, 1774, and came from Kentucky to Ross County, Ohio, and squatted on congress land, on the east side of the Scioto, at the mouth of Scipio Creek, a short distance above Chillicothe, where he had expected to purchase congress land, but, in the inter- est of speculators, these lands were oftered for sale in such large lots only, that he was unable to buy, and he only remained one year, coming then to near Williamsport, Pickaway County, stopping with Moses Calvin, whose house he made his home for twentyone years, in the meantime, dealing in stock, bought on Green River, Kentucky, and which he grazed in the forest of Pickaway, and the northeastern part of Fayette counties. He also served as tax collector of Ross, from 1816, to 1820. In 1816 he purchased about one hundred acres of land of Jesse McKay, on DuiFs Fork, on which his son, Benjamin, now resides. In 1822, he married Cynthia, daughter of Joshua Hedges, of Pickaway County, by whom he had nine children. At his death, which occurred in August, 1854, he owned about one thousand acres of land. His wife died in July, 1834.

John ]^utt was an early settler of Madison, and came from near Winchester, Virginia. Shortly after their arrival, he purchased two hundred acres of land of a Mr. Taylor, one-half of which he gave to his son James, who, with his family, accompanied him. C. G. Leavell now owns this land. Mr. Nutt died at the age of one hundred and one years. James M., his son, married Rachel Cartnel, in Virginia, by whom he had thirteen children, named respectively John T., Sarah, Elizabeth, Catharine, Nancy, William, Rebecca, James, Hannah, Lucinda, George, Matilda, and Mordecai.

Robert Abernathy was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, in 1786. He married Mary Ann Davis, and emigrated to near Williamsport, Pickaway County, in 1815, and rented land on Deer Creek, near where James Bennett now lives, in what is known as Round Bottom, where he raised two crops, when, in the fall of 1817, he bought ninety-seven acres of land of Andrew Hetrick, in Overton's survey, and occupied a cabin till he completed a log house, which occupied the site of the present brick residence of his son James. By hard work he cleared his land, and at his death possessed quite a competency of this world's goods, owning property at Mount Sterling, where he died, in 1852. The names of his children were Mary Ann, John, Eliza, James, Cynthia, and Marion.

Ephraim Moore was born in Delaware, and came to Ross County in 1805, settling at the mouth of Deer Creek, where he rented land of Colonel Evans. Here he remained perhaps two years, when he moved six miles further up the creek, to near Yates' Mill, in Pickaway County, where he farmed about four years. From here he removed to near Williamsport, Pickaway County, where he remained till the close of the war of 1812, when he went to Shelby County, near Sidney. In 1820, or 1821, he came to this county, and settled on Batteal Harrison's farm, in this township, where he remained five or six years, then went to live with his son Isaac, at Waterloo. He served twelve days in the war of 1812, when he was wounded, and hired a substitute to fill his unexpired time. Priscilla Eyan, his wife, was born in Delaware, and died at her son Isaac's, on Duft''s Fork, December 18, 1848, aged ninety-three years and eight months. Mr. Moore also died at his son Isaac's, at the ripe age of one hundred and one years, six mouths, and twenty days. They had nine children, whose names were as follows : Kellie, James, Hannah, ISTewble, Douglas, John, Ephraim E-., and Isaac, all of whom are dead except the latter, who now resides at Mount Sterling, Madison County.

"William Morgan emigrated from Virginia prior to 1815, and settled on land which he leased, but afterward purchased, on DufiT's Fork, in the Armstrong survey, now in possession of C. G. Leavell. In his day he was considered wealthy, owning at one time eight hundred acres where he lived, a farm on Big Darby, near Harrisburg, Franklin County, and another on Deer Creek, one mile from Yankeetown, now in possession of William Jones. His wealth was made by grazing cattle, which he sold first at home, but later, drove to Baltimore and Philadelphia. His death occurred about 1855.

In 1817, what is now known as the Pleasant Hill, or Yankeetown, Methodist Episcopal Society', was organized at John Thomas' residence, in Pickaway County, about two miles east of Yankeetown, on the Circleville and Yankeetown road.

The names of the first, or charter members of this society, were William Timmons, John Thomas, William Morgan, Leonard Jefferson, and Samuel Bennett. Timmons and Thomas were residents of Pickaway County, but the others were citizens of this township.

ter. Services were held at Mr. Thomas' and at Mr. Morgan's, in this township, during a period of six years, when the society huilt a hewed log church, one mile east of Yankeetown, on the Circleville road.

Benjamin Mouser donated the lot on which the church was built, and it was dedicated by Rev. James B. Finley, as Pleasant Hill Chapel, in 1823, at which time the society numbered thirty-two.

The first five ministers, in the order of their appointment, who preached here after the erection of the church, were Benjamin Lawrence, one year; William Sutton, one year; Peter Sharp, one year; John C. Hardy, one year; and Joseph Hill, six months.

Methodist Protestant

The Methodist Protestant Church Society was organized at White Oak, by Raymouth Hussey, and services were held in a school house till 1858, when a frame church was built, which is still occupied by this denomination.

Baptist Church

The Baptist society was organized by John W. Loof bourrow^ at Isaac Pancoast's house, one-half mile southeast of the present site of Waterloo, July 17, 1813, being the first religious organization within the present limits of Madison Township.

The charter members were Samuel Gaskill, Lucretia Gaskill, Caleb Gaskill, Peter Timmons, Lettie Pancoast, Barzilla Rozel", Polly Rozel and Sarah Vandalar. A man named Oxford, was the first person to whom the ordinance of baptism was adminstered after the organization was effected.

On Saturday, before the third Lord's day, 1813, Peter Timmons, Samuel Gaskill and Caleb Gaskill, were chosen members of the Scioto Association, the first representation the society had in that body. On the third Lord's day, in October, 1818, Thomas Crabb and Catharine Blue were baptized into church fellowship.

The first regular minister of the society was Rev. Isaac McHenry, whose pastorate began in December, 1813, and continued several years, when he moved to some of the northern counties, and the church was without a regular minister for seven or eight years ; but the organization was preserved intact during that time by the periodical meetings of eight or ten ladies, and deacon Thomas Crabb.

In 1826 or 1827, J. B. Moore, of Kentucky, united with this congregation by letter, was chosen its pastor, and continued in this capacity for twenty-five years, when he was succeeded by John Parker, of Hardin County, whose pastorate extended over a period of seven years. He was followed by George Tusing, who remained two years, and was succeeded in 1877 by Thomas Cole, the present incumbent.

After the organization of the society, in 1813, services were held at the dwellings of the different members of the congregation lyitil 1829. From this time until 1844 they occupied a school house in the neighborhood, and an old unoccupied dwelling on the outskirts of Waterloo, when John Messmore erected the present frame church at Waterloo, at a cost to the society of about $800.

Madison Chapel

This society was organized in 1868, by E,ev. David Smith. Prior to this, however, services had been held by the Methodists, Methodist Protestants, and Presbyterians, for ten or twelve years, but no organization had been made until the year abov.e mentioned, when, at a meeting in the grove near where the church now stands, Henry Fulton, W. W. Satchell, and Isaac Jones, were appointed a committee to solicit subscriptions for the erection of a church. The committee went to work in earnest, and by August of the same year |1,772 were raised, which was deemed a sufiicient amount upon which to begin work. A lot was bought of Harper Smith, near where Mr. Crow's store now stands, and just opposite the present site of the school house, and the work was at once commenced. The house was dedicated December 19, 1869; L. Cunningham, of Columbus, preaching the dedicatory sermon. The remainder of the money, |687.73, was raised on the day of dedication, making the church cost when completed |2,459.73. Henry Fulton donated to the congregation one acre of land for cemetery

The first school in the township was taught in the winter of 1809, by Samuel Myers, in a cabin, near where Waterloo now stands, Mr. Myers walking two and one-half miles to and from the hut, called a school house.

The next school of which we have been able to obtain account, was on William Morgan's land, in the Armstrong survey, now in possession of C. G. Leavell. In the winter of 1824, Thomas Johnson taught a term of school here, and also the winter following. He was followed the succeeding winter, at this place, by Edmund Clarridge, sen., who taught a short term each year till, perhaps, 1828, or 1829, when this building was abandoned, and a small house was built one-fourth of a mile west of Yankeetown, on land then owned by Andrew Gregory, now in possession of William McCafferty. James Martin taught the first and second schools in this building, and was succeeded by Edmund Clarridge, sen., who taught three or four terms. Joseph Counts was, perhaps, the next teacher, and was followed by a Mr. McGarry, who taught three or four terms, and was succeeded by Julius Bickuell, who remained one term.

A cabin situated a mile and a half from Waterloo, on the Urbana road, on land owned then by Jesse Barton, now in possession of R. S. Waters, was occupied for school purposes about the time the log school house was built at Yankeetown. Clement Twiford was the first, and, perhaps, only teacher here, as it was used only one winter, when it was abandoned.

In 1829, or 1830, a school house was built on land now owned by M. Rockwell, in the W. Sanford survey, number 13135. Ckment Twiford was the first teacher, and his successor was a Mr. Purdum. The building was burned, with all the books belonging to the pupils, during Mr. Purdum's stay, and the district was divided, one portion attending a term or two of school in an unoccupied dwelling, on land now owned by J. M. Anderson, and then in a cabin, on land belonging to Richard Courson, now owned by William Baldwin.

In 1838, a school house was built at White Oak, and occupied about ten years, when a new building was erected on the site of the old. This was also abandoned in 1877, and an elegant frame school house erected. This is now an independent, or special district.

Madison Grange, 'No. 229, was organized I^ovember 27, 1878, by John Brown, of Clarksburg, Ross County, at James Noble's house, one-half mile south of Madison Mills, on the Waterloo road.

The names of the charter members were as follows : F. L. Smith, Joshua Mahan, William Clawson, J. M. ISToble and his wife, Maggie, Levi Martin, Henry Fulton, his son, Shreve, and two daughters, Maggie and Polly, Libbie Harrison, S. B. Yeoman, T. M. Jones and wife, Lucy, Daniel Wood, James Smith, J. L. Smith, Sarah Smith, Hugh Smith, Caleb Tillet, Joseph Taylor and wife, Mary E., James Abernathy and wife, Lettie, C. W. Jones, William McCafferty and Elizabeth McCafierty.

The original officers were as follows : Master, F. L. Smith ; overseer, James Abernathy ; lecturer, Stephen Yeoman ; steward, F. M. Jones ; assistant steward, Shreve Fulton ; chaplain, J. M. Noble ; treasurer, Henry Fulton ; secretary, William Clawson ; gate keeper, J. W. Taylor; ceres, Sarah J. Smith ; pomona, Maggie P. ISToble ; flora, Libbie Harrison ; L. A. S., Maggie Fulton.

Madison Grange owns an elegantly finished hall over Mr. Crow's store room, at Madison Mills, which was built, in 1874, at a cost of about seven hundred dollars. The Grange was incorporated under the laws of Ohio, January, 1881.

The present oificers are as follows : Master, J. M. Noble ; overseer, James Abernathy; lecturer, E. W. Clarridge; steward, Wilson McCafferty ; assistant steward, S. E, Parrett : chaplain, D. B.Saint; treasurer, Henry Fulton; secretary, R. G. Jefferson; gate keeper, T. P. Noble ; ceres, Emaline Shufllebarger ; pomona, Lillie Pancoast ; flora, Dora McArthur ; lady assistant steward, Duck McCafierty ; organist, Ada Parrett.

Dr. Martin was perhaps the first physician that located in Madison, coming from New England early in the settlement of the township, and opening an ojSSce near Yankeetown. Here he remained fonr of five years, when he removed to Bloomingburg, and continued in active practice till 1854, removing then to McClain County, Illinois.

Dr. J. N. Clark came from Harrisburg, this state, in the spring of 1873 to Buena Vista, Green Township, where he remained till the spring of 1874, when he opened. an otfice at Madison Mills, and now has an extensive practice.

Joseph Withrow, in about 1822 or 1823, started a blacksmith shop, about one-half mile from Yankeetown, and continued till his death, which took place in about 1834, wdien Otho Williams opened a shop here, and carried on the business twelve or fifteen years. Williams was succeeded by Zebulin Fisher, who remained perhaps three years, when the shop was abandoned.

A blacksmith shop was started by Alexander Clark, at Madison Mills, in 1860, in a building erected by David Harrison, which he carried on for two or three years, when he was succeeded by Thomas Scott, who continued one year, the shop then being closed. Some time after this Clark returned and began business, but soon built a shop in which he still works.

The first store of Madison, was started by Adley Gregory, in 1815 or possibly earlier, at Yankeetown, which he kept up till another was opened, in 1825, one-half mile north of Yankeetown,

About the time of this event, perhaps a little later, Robert Leach opened a stock of goods in a frame building erected by himself near Yankeetown, and carried on business two or three years, when the goods were sold to Abner Dressback, who removed them to a room built by Adley Gregory, near the site of the present dwelling of "William McCafferty, where he continued about one year, when the goods passed into the hands of Amos Benton, who removed them to the brick building now occupied by George Emerson. Benton continued in business in this building several years, and those who have occupied this building since are in the order of their succession as follows : Joseph Counts, Cook & Bailey, Gregory & Phelps, Drury Brothers, Clarence Parvin, Gregory & Wichman, and George Emerson, the present incumbent.

Between the years 1864 and 1867, James Graham started a dry goods store, at Madison Mills, in a room on the site of the building now occupied by Peter Dempser as a saloon, where he continued about twelve months, when he sold to George Franklin, who kept one year,when the building was destroyed by the explosion of a keg of powder in the cellar, and the entire stock of goods was destroyed. Evidences that the accident had been pre-arranged were so convincing, that Franklin never tried to collect the ijisurance.

David Harrison opened a grocery at Madison Mills, in 1860, which he kept two years, when he sold to George Ladd, an Englishman, who continued perhaps two years, his successor being George Emmerson, who was followed in about live years by Elizabeth Crow" & Sons, they buying Mr. Emmerson out, and still continue in business, carrying a full line of dry goods, boots and shoes, queensware, groceries, etc., etc.

John Gilmore, prior to 1817, built a water-mill on Deer Creek, one mile north of Waterloo, which he operated several years, when it came into the hands of Samuel Pancoast, who run it about fifteen years. Colonel Sharp then purchased the property and attached a distillery, and after operating both about eight years, he sold to

Samuel Pancoast, jr., who sold to John Messmore the present owner, who in three or four years after, tore down the old mill, and built a three story frame building, and put in two sets of burrs, one for wheat and one for corn. In 1879, he added a puritier and " new process " attachment. It is now being operated by his son, E. W. Messmore, who is doing an extensive custom and merchant business.

Gilmore, in about 1832, after losing the above mentioned mill in litigation with Pancoast, built a mill two and a half miles above, on what is called the Island Branch of Deer Creek, on land now owned by the heirs of Newton Morgan, in the Overton Survey, No. 463. He continued about ten or twelve years, when he was" succeeded by a colored man, named Sylva, who operated the mill only a short time till it was abandoned.

William Harrison built a large steam flouring mil], called " Madison Mills," in 1859, and did an extensive business for four or five years, when ho sold the mill property and about eight acres of ground to Andrew Shriver, of Ross County; who failing to meet payments, was relieved of his obligation by John and Harrison Adams, to whom he transferred the property, they becoming responsible to Mr. Harrison. The Adamses operated the mill about five or six years, when they sold the machinery and apparatus to Robinson and Sims, who removed it to Stuckey's Mill at Washington ; but the grounds and building were sold to Abraham Lindsey. In 1880, John Lindsey and his son, A. C, bought new^ machinery and apparatus at a cost of |5, 000.00, put into this mill, and are now doing an extensive custom and shipping business.

Thomas Lindsey located a portable saw-mill, on the East Fork of Paint Creek, one mile southeast of Madison Mills, in March, 1881, where he continued till May of the same year, when he removed to land owned by Jachomeyer Baldwin, one mile northwest of Whiteoak.

Woolen Mills

Samuel Pancoast started a single carding machine at Pancoastburg in 1822, and continued with the one single set of cards for some six or eight years. In 1828 or 1829 he secured a partner, a

Mr. Muzzy, of Springfield, Ohio, who added fulling and finishing machinery. Soon after, they secured the services of John Messmore, a skilled workman in manufacturing, and he becoming a partner, added another carding machine. About ten years later the}^ procured hand spinning machines, known as "Billie and Ginnie."

Soon after this the business passed entirely into the hands of J. Messmore. Near 1835 he added a condenser and spinning-jack, and thus continued the business of carding, spinning, fulling, dyeing, and finishing, until the year 1860, when, as an addition to the water power, that sometimes failed in a dry season, he added largely to his facilities for increased work, by putting in steam power, so as to run all the year round, and by adding another set of machines and condensers, and four narrow and one broad loom. This he operated for some five years, and then sold to his son, li. W. Messmore, and within a short time he sold to Abuer Mouser, who run only about one year. Mouser sold to Appleton Mowry, who still owns the premises, but finding the property of greater value to be used otherwise, destroyed the larger part ot the machinery and sold it for old iron, reserving a small part to run at intervals for the manufacture of stocking yarn.

Waterloo

"Waterloo, situated in the southeastern corner of Madison, on the road leading from Chillicothe to Urbana, was laid out by Isaiah Pancoast and Jesse Woodson, June 20, 1816, and occu]3ies a part of James' survey, Xo. 470. No lots were sold, however, until 1829, when Mr. Pancoast had the town re-surveyed, and fixed a day of sale in September of that year, on which some eight or ten lots were sold. Nathan Loof bourrow built the first house after the town was re-surveyed, but prior to this, a log house was built, which is still standing. John Messmore built the second house in AVaterloo, in 1833 or 1884. This was a brick structure, and is still standing.

stock of goods in one part of his dwelling shortly after the town was re-surveyed. He continued in business for some five or six years, when he disposed of his goods to Rowland Wilson, and a Mr. Jackson, of Mt. Sterling, Madison County, who continued a short time in the same building, then closing out the stock. But prior to this, Thomas Littleton began business, which he followed until his death, ten or twelve years after, when the goods came into the hands of J. W. Blizzard, who closed out in about 1860. The followihg gentlemen have been in the mercantile business, at Waterloo, at different times, since then : Vance & Bailey, Girton & Phebus, J. W. Moore, Shreve Gaskill, A. P. Littleton, Dani.^ Kelley, J. W. Smith, Wharford Young, J. W. Gaskill, B. T. Corkwell, George D. Ladd, W. H. II. Timmons, James Lewis, Wesley Gooley, li. W. Messmore, Wickman & Leach, and E. A. Peasley. The latter opened a dry goods and grocery store in 1879, and still continues. J. W. Moore is also in the grocery business.

Blacksmithing

The lirst blacksmith shop at Waterloo was started in about 1830, by a man named Tracy, but being at that time about eighty years of age, he continued only a short time. He was succeeded by a man named McClelland, who remained, perhaps, two years, when he also, on account of his advanced age, was compelled to give up the business.

Mahlon Anderson, an apprentice of Bostwick's, bought of the latter, the right to manufacture what was known as the Bostwick plow, and carried on this business, in connection with his blacksmithing, until two years ago, when he closed the manufacturing business, but is still engaged at smithing.

John D. Abernathy

John D. Abernathy, retired farmer. Mount Sterling, was born in Hampshire County, Virginia, December 10,1813. He is the oldest son of Eobert and Mary Abernathy, who came to Ohio, bringing thei^; two oldest children, in the year 1815. The grandfather of this subject was from Scotland; the grandmother from Ireland.

Eobert and Mary Abernathy first settled in Pickaway County, near Williamsport. About the year 1817, he bought a piece of land (one hundred and sixteen acres), where his son James now lives, in this county, on Deer Creek. Here he reared an honored family. His children were Mary Ann, born in 1809 ; John, in 1813 ; Eliza, in 1816; James, in 1819; Cynthia, in 1823; Marion, in 1831.

yer, was bom June 20, 1808, and was the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Smith) Sawyer. Their union took place October 27, 1836. She died April 10, 1868. They had born to them two sons : John C, born October 1, 1837 ; Smith, born June 7, 1840. For his second wife, he married the widow of W. D. Wood. Her maiden name was Lucinda Brown. She w^as born June 22, 1828, and their marriage took place April 20, 1869. The Browns were Virginians, and came to Ohio in 1820.

Mr. Abernathy has been a man of great energy and business capacity. He has dealt largely in live stock, and in the years of his prime manhood, he had an extensive business acquaintance. He was a resident of this township for thirty-five years, and now owms and keeps oversight of a farm near White Oak.

On account of bodily affliction, he retired from the farm a number of years ago. He now resides in Mount Sterling. His father was, at one time, a hotel-keeper of this village, but it was very many years ago. Mr. Abernathy remembers the village of Mount Sterling when there were not more than three houses in it.

James Abernathy

James Abernathy is among the oldest and most substantial farmers of this township. He is the son of Eobert and Mary (Davis) Abernathy, whose biographies appear elsewhere. The family came from Virginia, in 1815.

He was born March 1, 1819, on Duff's Fork, near where he now resides. He was married to Letitia Thomas, January 29, 1846. To their marriage five children hav^e been born : Margaret Ann, born December 9, 1846, died December 5, 1847; Mary Josephine, born October 26, 1848, died July 15, 1851; Cynthia Alice, born May 15, 1850, died July 24, 1851; Mary Augusta, born February 22, 1854, and married A. C. Mace, of Ross County, April 14, 1874; William, born October 15, 1851, died May 4, 1855.

Mrs. Abernathy w^as born July 26, 1826. In the year 1851, he purchased of his brothers and sisters their interest in the homestead of two hundred and seventy acres, to which he has since made some additions. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church, and have, in their past lives, a record of Christian piety. He is an enthusiastic Granger, and one of the most active members of Madison Grange ^o. 229.

Mahlon Anderson

Mahlou Anderson, blacksmith and farmer, is the second of three sons born to Levi and ]N"ancy (Brown) Anderson, of Ohio. His grandparents were from Virginia, but came to Ohio, and settled near Chillicothe, in an early day.

Our subject was born June 13, 1832, and having learned the trade of a blacksmith in the years of his minority, has devoted his life mainly to hard work at the anvil and bellows. He was married, June 8, 1856, to Helen Fulton, first daughter of John W. and Phoebe (Lyons) Fulton, of Ross County. To them ha^'e been born five children : Alfred A., born June 20, 1857 ; JS'ancy Ann, born May 6, 1859; William H., born May 31, 1861; Charlie, born September 30, 1872 ; Clara, born March 25, 1875. All are yet alive, and in good health.

He established himself in Waterloo, in the year 1852, and in all these years has attended carefully to business, and, as a consequence, has prospered. He possesses a nice home in the village, besides some farm lands elsewhere. Their daughter, i^ancy A., married Christopher Hanawalt, in February, 1876. Alfred married Ella Crabb, in January, 1880.

Jachomyer Baldwin

Jachomyer Baldwin, farmer, is the fifth child, and second son, of Jonah and Mary (Bland) Baldwin, natives of Virginia. He was born August 20, 1815, near where he now resides. His parents and grandparents came to Ohio from Virginia, in 1812, and settled on Paint Creek, on what is known as the Baldwin and Wallace survey, and where Jachomyer yet resides.

Our sul)ject is of a family of eight children, three sons and five daughters. The sous were John, Jachomyer, and Joseph. The last-named lives in Adams County, Indiana. John died some years since. Nancy, the youngest daughter, married Benjamin Corson, and died in 1854, leaving four children. The biography of her son, Jonah B., appears elsewhere. Our subject's four sisters still live. He enjoys the reputation of a hard-working, honest man.

This subject is the sou of Joliu aud Meliuda (Mitcliem) Baughu, and was born in this county, February 10, 1858. He was ordinarily educated, and at the age of twenty-two, August 14, 1879, he en- Hsted in the reguhxr army, and was assigned to the First United States Infantry. In a few days after his enlistment, the command to which he belonged was ordered to Fort Snelling, on the way to the Black Hills. lieaching their destination, they were at once assigned to duty, and for two months scouted on the plains with the hostile tribes. They then crossed into Montana, on foot, and for months the command campaigned in the mountains and plains of the great West, traversing Dakota, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and parts of the British possessions northward. Many of the adventures of this command are full of startling facts of romance and adventure.

Mr. Baughn's term of service lasted fourteen months. He was discharged at Fort Meade, near Deadwood, and returned to his native state in August, 1880. He was married, December 25, 1880, to Emma, daughter of John and Siirali Sliough, of this county.

John Baiighn

John Baughn, the subject of this biography, was a native of Virginia, and was born on the 22d of September, 1824. He was the second son, and iifth child, of Moses and Sarah (Yowell) Baughn. The Baughns came to Ohio, from Virginia, in 1832, when John was eight years of age. They settled near Washington.

Our subject was married, December 31, 1855, to Meliuda Mitchem, fourth daughter of William and Catherine (Wort) Mitchem. The nativity of the Mitchems is Virginia. Moses and Sarah Baughn had born to them : Harriet, Joseph, Maria, Catherine, John, Rebecca, Sarah, Matilda, and Mary Ann.

William and Catherine Mitchem were the parents of seven children: Elizabeth, James, Lucinda, Sarah, Meliuda, Mary and William. John and Meliuda Baughn had born to them seven children : Sarah E., born September, 1856, married Joseph S. Baldwin, December 31, 1874; Joseph H., born February 10, 1858, married Emma Shough, December 24, 1880 ; WiUiam Moses, born October

Mr. Baughn, in the year 1868, bought the farm of one hundred acres, on which his family still resides. He continued to improve it until the time of his decease, which occurred, Februar}^ 25, 1875. lie was a man much esteemed for his good qualities, and his death was greatly lamented.

David Beale

Of the substantial farmers of the northeastern part of this county, none are better entitled to favorable mention than David Beale, who lives on his well improved farm of two hundred and sixty acres of land, two miles from Mt. Sterling, on the Columbus road.

He was born, November 1, 1840, in Pleasant Township, Madison County, Ohio, and is the third son, and fourth child, of S. S. and Harriet (Elmore) Beale, both born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. They came to Ohio' in 1832, having been married the year before. Their children were: Charles H., Mary A., Jeremiah, David, John W., George, and Smith.

David gave the years of his minority in assisting his father on the farm, and enjoyed the benefits of the common schools of his neighborhood. He was married, December 30, 1863, to Hannah A., oldest daughter of Dr. William and Hannah (Reeves) McClintock, of Madison County. They have had born to them three children : Flora A., born November 3, 1864 ; Everett, born June 24, 1866, and Ross, born May 6, 1870.

Joseph G. Bloomer

Xehemiah Bloomer, of English descent, a native of New York, and a tailor by trade, married Elizabeth Ketchum, of Welch descent, in the State of New Jersey. The}" lived successively in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio, coming to the latter state in a very early day. Their seven children were : John, Daniel, Benjamin, William. Joseph, Phoebe, and Jesse. The sons were farmers, and more than one of them dealt largely in live stock.

John and Daniel remained in Tennessee ; the remainder of the family are named among the pioneer settlers of this county. The year of their coming to the state cannot be accurately stated.

Phoebe was a pioneer in the millinery business. She married Col. Aaron Johnson, who was sheriff of this county, and who, for a number of years, kept a hotel in Washington. They removed to Indiana.

Joseph Bloomer was born in Virginia, June 30, 178G. He married Mary Robinson, daughter of Nicholas Robinson, a pioneer of Jefferson Township, near Jeff'ersonville. His oldest daughter, Rebecca, was born there, August 27, 1808, the Indians at that time being his nearest neighbors. Two other children were born to them - a daughter and son - both of whom died early in life. The wife and mother died in the year 1822, aged thirty-five years.

He married for his second wife, Mary, the daughter of Captain Thomas McDonald. Captain McDonald was a soldier and spy under General Wayne, in 1794. He was a brother-in-law of General Duncan McArthur, a justice of the peace, and at one time a member of the Ohio Legislature.

Joseph Bloomer was elected sheriff' of this county in 1828, succeeding his brother-in-law. Colonel Johnson. He held the oflice for two terms, and after a retirement of two years, was again elected to the same oflice, and was again re-elected, serving in all, eight years. He was an excellent public oflicer. He died on his farm, five miles above Washington, July 9, 1859, aged seventy-three years, leaving a record of a busy, well spent life. His widow died, January 22, 1852, having been born, August 18, 1803.

They were the parents of nine children : Joseph Gatch, born 1824; William Johnson, born 1826; Allen Trimble, born 1828; EHza, born 1831 ; Thomas Marshall, born 1833 ; Phoebe, born 1835 ; Nancy Ann, born 1837 ; James Ilinton, born 1841 ; Efiie Jane, born 1844.

Joseph Gatch Bloomer, the oldest son, resides with his family in Madison Township, midway between Bloomingburg and White Oak. He has been a resident of the county all his life. He located here in 1867. His education, which is above the average, is the result of a close application, and the careful improvement of the very meagre opportunities of the unfavorable times of his youth. From the year 1845 to 1855, he was an efficient teacher of the county. Since that time, he has given his time to farming and stock raising. At the age of twenty-seven years, he was married to Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Henry and Abigail (Davis) Dewitt, who were the parents of siMeeu children : Benjamin Franklin, born 1810; Catherine, born 1811; Henry, born 1813; Asa, born 1815 ; Sarah, born 1816; John, born 1818; James B., born 1820; Mary, born 1821 ; Abigail and Nancy (twins), born 1824; Elizabeth Jane, born 1826 ; Rebecca, born 1827 ; Allen McArthur, born 1831 ; Mahala, born 1832; Ellison,born 1834, and Lewis, born 1836.

Mrs. Bloomer was a teacher in her early life, and is a cultured lady of the substantial kind. To their marriage eight children have been born - five sons and three daughters. These are all living except one son, Joseph Clinton, who died in the sixth year of his age. In his death the family circle was first broken. His youthful spirit was the first to enter within the vale as the forerunner of the family. May the whole family finally' be permitted to share with him the bliss of immortality.

Note - Joseph Bloomer, it appears from the above, served as sheriff from 1828 to 1830, and from 1832 until 1838, and then was succeeded by Williams. See page 456.

William C. Bostwick

William Clay Bostwick, one of the most energetic farmers in this county, is the third son, and fifth child, of Oliver and Malinda (Thomas) Bostwick, of this county. He was born in Madison Township, near his present residence. May 28, 1844.

William Bostwick, the grandfather of William C, came to Ohio, from Vermont, about the year 1805, settling on lands in the vicinity of Yankeetown, from which circumstance this place took its name. He was the father of Adoniram, Frederick C, Joseph, Sarah, William, Lucy Ann, and Adley Bostwick.

V. I., August, 1862. He served with bis regiment with efHcieiicy, until the close of the war, and was discharged at Columbus, Ohio, July 6, 1865. His regiment campaigned in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and participated in the grand review at the nation's capital at the close of the war.

Mr. Bostwick was married, -N"ovember 6, 1873, to Clara, daughter of Isaac 'N. and Margaret (Hidy) Beatty, of Pickaway County. Mrs. Bostwick was born in Pickaway County, October 22, 1852. She has but one brother, Scott Beatty, living in Pickaway County. A sister died in infancy. Her grandfather, James Beatty, came to this county from Virginia in 1818. He was a son of Charles Beatty, and a grandson of George Beatty. James Beatty was a soldier in the war of 1812, and about the year 1847, served as associate judge. He died, A. D. 1879, at an advanced age.

To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Bostwick have been born two children : Harley Oscar, born October 10, 1875, and Oliver J^ewton, born May 6, 1880.

Mr. Bostwick owns a large farm of excellent land, lying in this and PickaAvay counties, and its condition indicates careful oversight. Mr. Bostwick is a staunch Republican, and is always outspoken and decisive in his views on public topics.

Jasper N. Clark

Dr. Jasper N. Clark, of Madison Mills, is the second son of Alexander and Lydia (Adkins) Clark. His parents were natives of Orange County, Virginia, and came to Ohio in the year 1837.

Our subject was born, October 6, 1843, in Mt. Sterling, Ohio, and in 1859 his parents settled at Madison Mills. He evinced a taste for study at an early age, and by close application to his books, became the leading pupil of his neighborhood and school. He worked for some years at the trade of blacksmithing, but at the age of twenty-eight, he turned his attention to the study of medicine, and began reading with Dr. W. T. Wilerman, of Pickaway County. During 1870-71 he attended the usual lecture courses at Starling Medical College, Columbus, and in March, 1872, graduated from that institution. That same spring he began practicing at Harrisburg, continuing there one year; then at Buena Vista a year, when he located, in 1874, at Madison Mills, where he now has a fine practice. He was married, December 28, 1877, to Ella, second daughter of George and Emily (Bush) Parrot, of Madison Township. To them have been born two children : Mabel, born May, 19, 1879, and Lewis, born February 13, 1880.

Dr. Clark has surmounted many obstacles to attain the position he now occupies in his profession, and he now stands among the first of the medical men of his county, enjoying and dese?i'ving the utmost confidence of his professional and unprofessional acquaintances. He is a member of the Bloomingburg Lodge No. 449, F. & A. M.

Edmund W. Clarridge

Our subject was born in Madison Township, this county, October 4, 1827. (See page 918.) His education w^as somewhat above the ordinary. He availed himself of the advantages of the common schools of his neighborhood, and spent one year at North wood College, in Logan County. He taught school for several years in the counties of Fayette, Ross, Madison, and Pickaway, and in this calling w^as unusually successful. He was married, October 4, 1859, to Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Leavell, nee Timmons, of this county. She was the widow of John B. Leavell, by whom she bore one son, Benjamin, born September 27, 1854. Mrs. Clarridge was born, April 11, 1835.

To Mr. and Mrs. Clarridge have been born tw^o daughters and one son: Liez G., born January 11, 1861; married Benjamin W. Leavell. Alta Errilla, born February 3, 1864. Howard Amasa, born September 6, 1873.

In the year 1860 Mr. Clarridge and his wnfe located on the, farm on which they now reside, and have ever since given their time and efi^orts to honest industry. The farm comprises one hundred and forty acres, and is situated on both sides of the Deer Creek pike. Mr. Clarridge is a man of good judgment and public spirit, having, ever since he became a man, stood in the front ranks of enterprise. He is a leading member of the Republican party in the county, and though residing in a township largely Democratic, he has for many successive years held the ofiice of township trustee, and during previous years was township clerk.

William Clawson

William Clawson was born, May 6, 1836, and is the seventh child, and second son of lYilliani and Tabitha (Chambers) Clawson, of Ross Connty, Ohio, who were married, April 12, 1818, in that connty. Grandfather Chambers was from Ireland.

John, Sarah, Nancy, Richard, Keziah, Ollie, and William, were the sons and daughters of Thomas and Elizabeth Clawson, grandparents of this subject. These were all born in Virginia, and came to Ohio in 1800, settling at Frankfort. William, sen., was the father of Strawder, Eliza, Elizabeth, Leeann, Ollie, Keziah, and William. They were all born in Ross Connty, Ohio, and where our subject lived to the age of nineteen, then he came to this county, near I^ew Holland.

His early education was limited by the disadvantages surrounding his early life, and his qualifications are more the result of business contact with a bus\ world, than of close study. Mr. Clawson was married, October 14, 1863, to Mary McCoy, daughter of James and Sophia (Beck) McCoy, of Ross County. She was born, September 20, 1845, and died, October 25, 1874, at the age of twentynine. She was a woman much esteemed, and her death was lamented by a large circle of friends.

Mr. Clawson has had fair success as a farmer, and by his indomitable energy, has surmounted difficulties that would have overwhelmed the ordinary man. His farm, on the Columbus road, near Madison Mills, shows signs of careful management. He has been a successful stock breeder and shipper.

Benjamin F. Cook

Benjamin F. Cook, farmer, is the son of Isaac T. and Elizabeth (Lewis) Cook, and the grandson of Isaac Cook, sen., who settled in Ross County, in 1804. The grandfather died in that county, and of his ancestry, little more can be said than that they were of Scotch descent.

ary 26, 1879, to Fannie J., dangliter of Levin and Susan Bennett, of Madison County. She was born Januaiy 18, 1856. They have one chihl, Benjamin F., jr., born March 22, 1880.

Our subject gives the principal part of his time to farming and stock raising, in which pursuits he has been reasonably successful. During the late civil war, he did honorable service as a sergeant in Company H, 60th O. Y. I., and participated, with his regiment, in the eventful campaigns in Virginia, during the early part of the great conflict. He was captured and paroled by the enemy, at Harper's Ferry, in September, 1862. In politics he is a Republican. His father, Isaac T. Cook, was born March 6, 1797, and died, April 9, 1873. His mother, Elizabeth L. Cook, was born January 15, 1804, and died November 30, 1872. His brother, John J. Cook, died September 23, 1852.

Matthew S. Cook

Isaac Cook, the grandfather of M. Cook, was a native of Kentucky, He came to Ohio, and located near Chillicothe, before the year 1800. He w^as the father of Isaac, jr., Joseph, Matthew^ S., sen., William, JVIaria, Phfjebe, Luc}', and Margaret.

Matthew S. Cook, sen., was born in the year 1800. In the prime of his life he was surveyor of Boss County. In the year 1837, he married Ellen, second daughter of Edward Tiffin, the iirst governor of Ohio. By this marriage they became the parents of Mary, Margaret, Edw^ard, Thea, Matthew^ S., Lucy Maria, Ellen, aiid William, all of whom are living. The parents are also living, and are residents of Chillicothe. The daughter, Maria, married Br, Webb, of Kentucky, and their daughter Lucy became the wife of R. B. Hayes, twenty-third governor of Ohio, and nineteenth president of the United States.

Our subject was fairly educated, and at the age of twenty-one, assumed the management of a large estate in this township. He is a single man, of steady, studious habits, giving his time to his own affairs - a man of few words, but w^ho impresses a stranger favorably.

Jonah B. Corson

sliip. He is the second son of Benjamin and Nancy (Baldwin) Corson, who were also natives of this township. The edncation of our subject was obtained at the conmion schools of the neighborhood, and is of no inferior kind. He gives attention to farming, and legitimate trading on a moderate scale, and is a young man of good judgment in matters pertaining to his sphere of life. He is a young man of good standing where he is known, and bids fair for a bright future. His mother was the youngest daughter of the family. She died, in 1854, leaving four children : Minerva, Martha J., Margaret A., and Jonah B.

John Cox, the father of this subject, was a native of Maryland, and came to Ohio in about the year 1800. He settled in Ross County, near the present city of Chillicothe. His wife, Isabel Arington, was also from Maryland. They were the pa,rents of. eight children : Sarah, Phoebe, Mary, Joseph, David, Rebecca, Nelson, and Wesley; these wej-e all born in Ohio.

"Wesley, the youngest of the family, was born in Madison County, May 13, 1833. He was married, November 12, 1857, to'Mary^ Catharine Porter, the eleventh child of Robert and Mary (Thomas) Porter, of Madison County. The Porters were Virginians, and immigrated to this county about 1820. The Thomas family came a few years later. To Robert and Mary Porter were born eleven children : John Milton, Robert, Moses, Rebecca, Lucinda, GritHth, William, Daniel, Benjamin, Isaac, and Mary.

In coming to Ohio, Robert Porter started in a two-horse wagon, but one horse failing on the way, the wagon was sold, the goods packed on the stoutest horse, and the mother, with her son Robert in her arms, made the rest of the trip riding upon the same horse which carried the household effects. Mr. Porter died in August, 1851.

Mrs. Cox was born June 4, 1839. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cox have been born three children : A son, born September 16, 1858, died in infancy; Lucinda May, born September 8, 1859, died March 4, 1864; Aimer W., born September 19, 1864. Following their marriage, they spent four years in Madison County, the next four in Fayette, and the next five in Madison. They then came to their present location, near Madison Mills, where they have

Aaron Crispin

Aaron Crispin, farmer, and the subject of this sketch, is a native Buckeye, and was born near South Charleston, January 2, 1825. He is the first son, and third child, of Francis and Fannie (Gaines) Crispin. The father of our subject was a native of New Jersey; the mother of Virginia. They came to Ohio early in the present century, settling first in Ross County. In 1815, they came to Clarke County.

Our subject became a citizen of this county in 1838, and on the 9th of May, 1846, was united in marriage to Maria E., daughter of Isaac and Deborah (Grant) Thomas, of this county. The Thomases were among the early settlers of this township.

This union resulted in six sons aud two daughters : Francis M. (deceased), Marion, Isaac M., Anderson M., Abraham (deceased), William Ervin, Mary Elizabeth, and Eliza Jane.

Our subject has a military record worthy of a place in history. He en'listed in September, 1864, serving in Company L, Fifth Kentucky Cavalry. They campaigned in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, participating in a number of engagements, and were at Fort McAllister, at the taking of Savannah, December, 1864. He was honorably discharged following the grand review at the nation's capital. He is a gentleman of the old, substantial sort, and is one of the few yet alive who has had the experience of driving hogs from Ohio to the markets of the East, returning on foot. This he has done repeatedly. He now carries on a farm three and a half miles from Madison Mills.

Henry Fulton

Henry Fulton, the eighth child, and fifth son, of William and Eliza (Loofbourrow) Fulton, was born in Ross County, Ohio, August 3, 1826. His grandparents, John A. and Lavina (Irwin) Fulton, were of Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1801, settling in Ross County.

Henry, in his youth, enjoyed the meager advantages of the early schools of that time, and the prominent business qualities of the man Fulton, are more the results of practical contact with the world, than of his early schooling.

In ITovember, 1846, he married Lettice, daughter of Shreve Pancoast, To their union has been born nine children : Wade, Shreve, Maggie, William, Polly, EfRe, Franklin P., Harry, and Laban. Franklin P. died August 8, 1868, aged eight years.

Our subject is a man of local prominence, having served his township, either as trustee or treasurer, for the past twenty years, and was land appraiser in 1880. He owns two hundred and fifty acres of choice land at Madison Mills. Is a member of Bloomingburg Lodge, and of the Chapter, F. & A. M., at Washington, and treasurer of Madison Grange I*^o. 229.

Shrieve Gaskill

Shrieve, the subject of this sketch, was the son of Caleb and Elizabeth Gaskill, and was born June 8, 1806. He married Cynthia, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Harve}^) Barton, of Virginia. Their marriage took place January 5, 1827. Mrs. Gaskill was born July 28, 1812. To this marriage was born ten children : Elizabeth, born October 6, 1828, wife of Warford Young ; Harriet, born June 2, 1830, wife of Laban Timmons; Mary Ann, born January 23, 1832, wife of James Young; Lewis, born January 30, 1834, died October 29, 1835; Sophronia, born April 22, 1836, died January 4, 1837; James W., born April 13, 1837, married Mary Lysinger; Orrelius J., born September 19, 1839, died August 4, 1851 ; Vincent H., born August 5, 1842 ; Warford Nilson, born I*Tovember 19, 1844, died August 24, 1861 ; Artie, born June 19, 1846, died August 8, 1867.

Mr. Gaskill accumulated considerable property during a busy life time, and died in 1875, at the age of sixty-three years. He was a man of sterling qualities, greatly esteemed for his character, which was that of an upright, consistent Christian. He was a member of the Christian Church at Waterloo, and in the support of the ministry and other expenses of the church, he was liberal to a fault.

During the years of the rebellion, he was known as a man who stood firm for the right, and in word and deed went in for a vigorous prosecution of the war.

His son, Vincent H., was fairly educated in the common schools, and at an early age evinced a taste for books. He began reading medicine in 1860, completing his studies, in 1863, graduating at the Old Berkshire Medical Institution, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in 'November of the same year.

In the following January, he entered the United States service as assistant surgeon, ranking as first lieutenant. He did duty at Monnd City and Cairo, Illinois, till the war closed. Following this, he engaged in the practice of medicine in Waterloo, meeting with deserved success. His reputation and standing as a physician, place him in the front rank of practitioners of this county.

Dr. Gaskill has been twice married ; his first wife, Frances Messmore, died January , 1876 : she bore one son, Pliny E. To his present wife, he was married March, 1879. To this marriage has been one child, Ralph, born January, 1880.

Levi Griffin

The subject of this sketch gave his life that the country might live. All that was mortal of Levi Griflin fills the grave of a heroic soldier of the Union, and awaits the reveille of the martyr. He was born on the 18th of May, 1828, and was the son of Caleb and Martha (Pliley) Griffin, of Indiana. He came to Ohio with hi« parents when a child, and on the 22d day of October, 1849, he was married to Kebecca V., seventh child of James and Kachel (Cartmill) Nutt, of Clarke County. Caleb and Martha Griffin had but two children : Levi and Harriet. James and Rachel I^utt were the parents of thirteen children : Sarah, John, Elizabeth, Catherine, Nancy, William, Rebecca, James Monroe, Hannah Jan"e, Lucinda, George W., Matilda D., and Madison Willis.

To Levi and Rebecca V. Griffin were born five children: George v., born April 10, 1851 ; Nathaniel Willis, born August 26, 1852; Elizabeth, born August 30, 1855, died August 80, 1856; Laura Jane, born January 3, 1857; John Franklin, born October 22, 1858.

Mr. Griffin answered the country's call for troops by enlisting in Company G, 113th O. V. I., in August, 1862. His regiment was a part of the second brigade, second division, fourteenth army corps, and participated at Chickaraauga, Kenesaw Mountain, Bentonville, and many other hotly contested fields. On the 27th day of June, 1864, while charging the works of the enemy at Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia, Levi Griflin was instantly killed, and Was hurried on the field after the hattle. His bereaved widow makes her home in Waterloo, and by the assistance of a pension from the government lives comfortably. His children are the wards of the nation he died to save.

Alexander Grim

. Alexander Grim, farmer, is the youngest son and fourth child of Jonathan and Betsey (Long) Grim. He was born in Ross County, this state, July 25, 1815. His father's family consisted of four sons and four daughters : John, Jacob, William, Alexander, Polly, Susan, Elizabeth, and Sarah.

Our subject was married in the year 1836, to Elizabeth Cochran, of Ross County. They had four children : Mary Ann, Susan, Margaret, and John. Mrs. Grim died in Ross County, in 1840. Mr. Grim was again married, in the year 1844, to Jane Dick, of this county. By this marriage eight children have been born : William, Charles, Martha J., Ann, Jacob W., James M., Laura Alice and Evan.

Joseph S. Harrison

Joseph S. Harrison, farmer, was born in Madison Township, June 23, 1851, and is the first child of John J. and Cynthia A. (Shuffleberger) Harrison. His father was born in the same township ; his mother was a native of Virginia. Batteal Harrison, his grandfather, was one of the early settlers of Madison Township, and did much in locating land claims for early settlers. The Harrison family are directly related to William H. Harrison, ninth president of the United States.

Mr. Harrison was educated in the common schools of the neighborhood, obtained a fair education, and by years of practical business life, has added much knowletlge to his store of book learning.

Mr. Harrison was elected to the office of justice of the peace, for Madison Township, April 4, 1881. He possesses the proper qualities of a good officer.

John W. Kellough

John W. Kellough, farmer, was born in Indiana, July 5, 1839, and is the only son of John W. sen., and Rebecca (Pummel) Kellough of that state. The Kellough ancestry were from Scotland. Mr. Kellough came to this state, with his parents, at six weeks of age. He has but one sister, Mary Jane, wife of Samuel P. McLean, a resident of Madison County.

Our subject obtained a good education in his youth, and for several years taught school in Ross and Pike counties. He was married, June 5, 1862, to Senith V., daughter of Henry and Mary (Vinsonhaler) Poole, of Ross County.

George Vinsonhaler, the grandfather, of Mrs Kellough, was a native of Virginia, but was among the early pioneers of Ross County, and it is said he assisted in laying out Chillicothe. Mrs. Kellough is of a family of seven children: Martha, Henry, Eleanor, (deceased,) Mary, Senith V., Emma C. and Christina. Mr. and Mrs. Kellough have had born to them ten children : Mary, born June 28, 1863 ; Charles Creighton, born Januarj^ 4, 1865; Anna, born September 11, 1866 ; Nellie Dun, born February 20, 1868 ; Sallie Candis, born January 23, 1869 ; John "William, born March 17, 1870; Claude H., born January 27, 1872, died November 28,1878; Jesse Paul Ross, born April 17, 1874; Christine Kate, born September 20, 1877 ; Guy Robert, born March 2, 1881.

Mr. Kellough owns and occupies a farm of two hundred and four acres, lying partly in Madison and partly in this county. He resides on that part lying in Madison County, but in his business and other relations, he is indentified with the people of this county. He is a man of intelligence, and his children have a taste for books and study.

James M. Noble

21, 1833. He is the third son of James and Jane (Moore) Noble, who came to this state in 1835, settling in Guernsey County, where the father still resides.

The senior Noble was three times married. By the first wife he is the father of William, Samuel, James M., Margaret Ann, Sarah Jane and John Watson ; by the second wife, Mary Elizabeth, Ethalinda, Joseph D., David and Thomas Pollock; by the third wife, Ezekiel and George.

Our subject enjoyed limited means of education, but made snch careful use of his opportunities of study, as to obtain more than an ordinary education. He was a teacher of some experience in the years preceding his marriage. He was married July 29, 1856, to Maggie P., seventh child of William and Phoebe (Mannen) Ingmire, of this state.

Mrs. Noble's father was a native of Maryland ; her mother was from one of the New England States. Her father's family were Snowden, Nancy, George, Martha Ann, Edmond, James, Maggie P., Sarah J., Thomas, (died of wounds received at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,) David, John, Lavina C, William and Mary. The sons all served in the Union army except William. Their mother died from the result of an accident from a runaway horse, in the year 1864 ; the father died six weeks later.

Mr. Noble is practically a lumber and saw-mill man, having managed a saw-mill for more than twenty-six years. For the past years he has given attention to his farm of one hundred and four acres, near Madison Mills, on the nortli fork of Paint. This farm he purchased in 1865.

He has served as trustee of Madison Township for the past eleven years ; is Master of Madison Grange, No. 229 ; represented the county in the State Grange three times ; is a member of Bloomingburg Lodge, No. 449, F. & A. M.; a member of Fayette Chap- ter, No. 108, and of Ely Commandery, ]^o. 28. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church of Bloomingburg ; the four ohiest daughters are Methodists. Mr. Noble is superintendent of the Sabbath-school, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Madison Mills.

James Wilson McCafferty is the second son and fourth child of William and Elizabeth (Mace) McCafferty, of Madison Township. He was born in the above township, March 21, 1853, and had the advantages of a common school education. He applied himself well to his studies, and by so doing obtained a fair education.

He was married Mar.ch 13, 1877, to Mary, second daughter and fifth child of Henry and Lettice (Pancoast) Fulton, of Madison Mills. Mrs. McCafferty was born January 13, 1855. They have had one daughter born to their marriage, Marie, born June 12, 1879.

James M. Nutt

James Monroe Nutt, is the eighth child and third son of his parents, James and Kachel (Cartmill) Nutt, of Virginia, in which state James was born January 1, 1821. His grandparents, John and Elizabeth (Houston) Nutt, came with their family and settled on the lands now occupied by Cornelius Leavell, in the year 1800. The parents and grandparents of our subject, died in the same place. The children of liachel and James Nutt, were John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Catherine, Nancy, William, Rebecca, James M., Anna J., Lucinda, George, Matilda and Madison.

Our subject was married, to Mildred Cline, in the year 1842. Mrs. Nutt is the daughter of Henry and Catherine (Ramsey) Cline, of this county, and was born in 1823. They have had eight children born to them: Joanna, Lafayette, Angeline, Cornelius, James Mack, Serepta, Irvin W. and Elvina. Serepta and Trvin are deceased.

Madison Toavnship

Mr. J^utt began for himself on a capital of eighty dollars, bought some stock, and by successive years of hard labor and careful investment, has obtained a comfortable home near Waterloo. His son, Lafayette, did honorable service as a soldier in the late war. Mr. Nutt v^as educated very sparingly in the schools of the early time; but to this meagre store of knowledge, has added much by observation, reading, and contact with the world.

John Messmore

The parents of John Messmore were natives of Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in the year 1809, settling in Licking County. Our subject was born in 1808. He is of a family of seven children: Susanna, Mary, Laban, John, Eliza, and Rhoda.

Mr. Messmore was brought up to hard labor, and in his youth learned the business of carding and fulling. At twenty-eight years of age he came to the neighborhood of Waterloo, and established himself in the woolen-mill business ; carried it on for forty years, keeping pace with the many improvements that pertained to the trade in that time. In 1866 he sold his factory to his son, and in 1871 bought the Pancoast Mills on Deer Creek, above Waterloo, where he has since carried on the flouring business.

He was married, Deceniber 13, 1829, to Jerusua, daughter of Isaiah and Lettice Pancoast, born June 4, 1805, and fifty years afterwards, December 13, 1879, celebrated, with a multitude of friends, their golden wedding. Just one year later - December 13, 1880 - his esteemed companion died. They were the parents of seven children who grew to maturity : Mariamne, Flavins J., Alvin L., Aurelius B., Otis B., Rienzi W., and Francenia. Of these only three survive. Alvin L. married Evaline Leach, of this county. He served in the war as captain of Company G, llSth'O. V. I., and was an officer of more than ordinary soldierly bearing. He [is now a resident of St. Louis. Aurelius B. married Sarah Lindsey, and resides in Kansas. Rienzi W. married Mary F. Kelley, and resides in Waterloo.

Uncle John Messmore is a man of steady habits, and unswerving Christian character. For the past forty years he has lived a consistent member of the Old School Predestinarian Baptist Church. The society of which he is a member was established at the house of Isaiah Pancoast in the year 1813.

William M. Leach

This subject is the second son of William B. and Mary (Monroe) Leach, of Virginia. On his mother's side, he is related to James Monroe, fifth president of the United States. His grandfather, Colonel William Monroe, after whom our subject was named, served with distinction in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Leach's father served in the war of 1812.

Our subject was born in Frederick County, Virginia, June 9, 1825, and at ten years of age came to Ohio with his father's family. They settled on what is now the land of O. W. Loot bourrow, near Mount Sterling. His father's family were Edgar B., William M., Sarah A., John 'N., George T., Henry C, Mary C, and Benjamin F.

Our subject was married, March 18, 1847, to Clarissa J., daughter of Adoniram and Roxaua Bostwick, of Madison County. She was born July 29, 1827. Her father's children were Sally, Clarissa J., William, Caroline, Eliza Ann, Benjamin F. and Otho W. (twins), and Celesta.

Ralph Peasl}^ son of W. H. and Mabel (Leach) Peasly, lives with his grandparents since his mother's death, which occurred when Ralph was but seven months old.

The Bostwicks were originally from Vermont. Adoniram, the father of Mrs. Leach, was one of the early settlers of this township, and settled near Yankeetown. He now lives in Pike County. His father, William Bostwick, came to Ohio, with a large family, in

1808, or 1810. His children were Adoniram, Sarah, Joseph, Frederick, WilHam, Lucy Ann, Oliver, and Adiey. Adoniram, Sarah, Oliver, and Adley, were long residents of this county.

Cornelius Gaines Leavell, farmer, was born in this township, November 7, 1825, and is the tirst son and second child of John and Cynthia (Hedges) Leavell. His parents came to Ohio in 1797, from Virginia. To them were born Mary Ann, Cornelius G., John Bolivar, Benjamin Franklin, N'ancy, Melinda, and Hannah Elizabeth.

Our subject was married, April 17, 1849, to Emma Harr, youngest daughter of James and Mary Harr, of Ross CDunt3^ She was born in that count}^. May 23, 1829. Her parents had born to them six children : Elizabeth, James, William, Mary, Martha, and Emma.

To this union two children have been born : John P., born March 25, 1850, married Frankie Gamble, of this county, June 16, 1878; Benjamin W., born May 12, 1856, married Inez G. Clarridge, October, 1880.

Our subject has resided in this township all his life, and has given his time and energies to hard work and legitimate trade, accumulating a valuable farm, and other representatives of wealth. He owns one hundred and thirty-five acres of land in Union, and five hundred and seventy-six acres in this township, and is one of the heaviest tax-payers of the township. He has, in years past, served the township as trustee, treasurer, and clerk, and in his ofiicial character was noted for honesty and efficiency. He pays considerable attention to afifairs of a public character, is a constant reader, and for twenty years past has taken a daily paper. His politics are of the staunch Republican sort, a fact made prominent in all the later years ot his life.

John Lindsey

John, sen., and Nancy Lindsey came from Virginia to Ohio, in 1809, and located first in Ross, and subsequently in Pickaway County, where they died. They were the parents of the following children : John, Jacob, Thomas, Abram, James, Doratha, and Sarah and Phoebe (twins).

to Abigail Stewart, and came to Ohio with his parents, and died in Pickaway Connty. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. To him were born the following children: Sally, Thomas, Mary, John, Nancy, Samnel, and Abraham.

John spent the years of his minority in Pickaway Connty. He was sparingly edncated in the common schools of the early times. He Avas married, JSTovember 9, 1839, to Sarah, daughter of John and Barbara (Hedrick) Bouse, of Virginia. The Bouses came to Ohio in 1821 ; they were of Dutch descent. Mrs. Lindsey was born February 17, 1819.

To this union nine children were born: Abraham, born September 11, 1840; Thomas F., born January 6, 1843; Phoebe, born I^obeniber 28, 1845, died July 22, 1863; John Clinton, born July 25, 1848, died Angust 13, 1848; James, born September 9, 1849; Mary J.; born September 17, 1852; Sarah Missouri, born August 12, 1856; Abbie, born September 2, 1859; Charles, born March 17, 1862. Thomas married Marietta Dyer, January 31. I860; Abraham married Catharine Glaze, November 29,1864; James married Elizabeth Taylor, January 18, 1872 ; Missouri married J. W. Long, January 23, 1875 ; Mary J. married Amos Van Pelt, August 23, 1879.

Our subject has seen much of the rough side of life. In 1840, he bought twenty acres of land in this connty, and began housekeeping with a very scanty outfit of household goods. He had no chairs, no table, and scarcely anything but muscle and determination. Little by little, he triura[)hed over the difficulties by which he was confronted, and the rule of his life has been, " No surrender." He delights in recounting the trials and triumphs of his busy life. He tells that he was nineteen years old when he wore his first pair of boots; that he has assisted to thresh wheat with a flail, and then to clean the grain by tossing it into the air, while two persons fanned the chaif from the wheat by means of a sheet. The first fanning-mill he ever saw, was made by Joseph Britton, near New Holland. At one time he owned five hundred and thirty-one acres of fine land, on Paint Creek. This was all swallowed up, to pay another's debts. He began life again, with three horses and one cow% and now owns a fine farm of three hundred and thirty-one acres. He deals largely in hogs and sheep. His wife takes pride in the fact that she has shared, the sunshine and shadow of her husband's eventful life. She tells of hoeing corn, when a girl of fourteen, for twelve and one-half cents a day, and thereby obtain- iiig the cash to bn\' hei" first calico dress, of six yards. ^Sbe has gone to mill many a time, carrying the family grist on horseback. She has in her possession a dinner-pot, in which the venison was prepared for the antecedents of the Lindseys, a century ago.

Peter Lohr

Peter Lohr, farmer and produce dealer, was ])orn in Augusta County, Virginia, near Staunton, May 22, 1819. He came to Ohio, February 24, 1844, and, with his father's family, located near Bloomingburg, this county.

Peter Lohr, the grandfather of this subject, was a native of Pennsylvania, but spent the greater part of his life in Virginia, in which state he died. He never resided in Ohio. His children were Susan, Peter, Polly, John, and Christian.

The sons and daughters of Christian Lohr, were William, Julia Ann, Catharine, Mary Frances, Elizabeth, Margaret, Peter, Sarah, George, and Janet.

Our subject was married. May 22, 1850, to Elizabeth Corson, fifth daughter, and eleventh child, of Richard ana Mary (Baldwin) Corson, of Ohio. The Baldwins settled in Ohio about 1812. To this union were born eight children : Mary J., born February 2, 1853, died March 6,1853; Clara A., born March 2, 1855, married to Wilson Beale, October 14, 1875 ; Richard C, born October 24, 1857, died December 2, 1857 ; Martha A., born September 23, 1858, died October 11, 1858; John R., born April 12, I860; Rosetta B., born March 3, 1865, died April 22, 1865 ; Ardessa M., born March 2, 1866.

In 1862, he bought a farm of one hundred acres, liear the village of White Oak, on the banks of I'aint, where he now lives in comfort. Since 1867, he has been engaged in the produce business, keeping a wagon on the road at all favorable seasons, and exchanging goods for country produce. He has had great success, and holds a large trade.

Madison Loofrourrom'

Madison Loofbourrow, farmer, is the only child of Laban H. Loof bourrow, of this township. (For his genealogy, see his father's biography.) He was born February 28, 1839, and spent tlie years

He was married, September 1, 1864, to Elizabeth Ellen, only child of Benjamin F. and Hannah (Halsted) Alkire, of Pickaway County. The Halsteds were from Kew York. To this union have been born eight children': Frank Lee, born July 31, 1865; Laban Van, born February 15, 1867; Don Juan, born November 3, 1868; Nellie, born March 16, 1871; Lucy, born September 21, 1872; Charlie, born in 1874; infant son, deceased, born September 26, 1878; infant daughter, born March 16, 1881.

Following their marriage, they located on the farm where they now reside, since which time they have given special attention to farming, and in this pursuit have prospered. For a number of years past, during the sunimer and fall seasons, he has been a great suiierer from hay fever, on account of which affliction, he has made frequent trips to the wilds of Michigan and the mountains of Virginia, during which time he gives himself up to the excitement of hunting, trapping, and fishing. He has in his possession many trophies of the chase, which he exhibits to visitors with evident dehght, recounting his hair-breadth escapes and romantic experiences in the forest.

At one time, while in northern Michigan, in company with an Indian hunter, called " Greasy Jim," the two were attacked by a large she bear, whose cub the party had wounded. The bear sprang upon the Indian, felled him to the ground, and was on the point of sending him to the -- happy hunting-ground," when a welldirected shot from the rifle of Mr. Loof bourrow, laid her dead, and rescued the Indian. A moment later, a cub bear, a mate to the wounded one, made its appearance in the bushes, was pursued, captured, and brought home by Mr. Loof bourrow. It became a great pet, but after a few years, fearing it might become vicious, and do some one injury, it was killed.