Pickaway County, Ohio - Chapter 31: Some Representative Men of the County, 1906 (part 16 of 17)

When he was six years of age, the parents of our subject located in Circleville, where the boy was reared and educated. [For Io years after leaving school, he was employed as a clerk in a grocery store, and in 1870, under the firm name of Neuding & Christy, entered the field as a proprietor. The association continued for about two years, when the senior partner purchased Mr. Christy's interest, and has since conducted and developed the business alone. Besides having firmly established himself as one of the leading grocers in this section of the county, Mr. Neuding is an influential factor in several important industries. He is secretary and treasurer of the Circleville Sealing Wax Company, and is one of the directors. of the Circleville Ice Company and the New Home Building & Loan Company.

In fraternal circles Mr.. Neuding has acquired an especially high standing, being a Royal Arch Mason. He also has an honorable identification with the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order-of. Foresters, and is banker of the Woodmen of the World, his high standing, as well as executive force of character, being recognized by his service on the board

In his relation to the public affairs of his township and county, Mr. Neuding has shown the same adaptability and ability which have marked his management of all interests entrusted to him. Politically he is a Democrat. He served as treasurer of Circleville township from 1893 to 1go1 and his record in that capacity was so generally satisfactory that he was advanced to the county treasurership, where he served two terms of two years each, having been elected in 1900 and 1902.

In 1891 E. S. Neuding was united in marriage with Mary H. Jones, daughter of Nathan Jones, deceased, formerly a well-known business man of New Holland, Ohio. They are the parents of two children - Helen and Lucile. Mr. Neuding has long been a pillar of the United Brethren Church. In the local organization he is trustee, general steward and superintendent of the Sunday-school, and during the erection of the new church in 1898 was a member of the building committee, of which he was treasurer and also general church treasurer. In the broader affairs of the denomination, he served as a delegate to the general conferences held at Frederick, Maryland, in 1901, and at Topeka, Kansas, in 1905. He was also a delegate to the national tri-council of the United Brethren, Congregational and Protestant Methodist churches, held at Dayton, Ohio, in February, 1906.

M. GOLDFREDRICK, dealer in fancy and staple groceries at Circleville, and one of the city's representative business men, was born in this city in 1864, and is a.son of C. R.

Goldfredrick. The latter was born in Germany and in 1862 he located at Circleville where he was engaged in a grocery business for almost 40 years. In 1goo he retired and is now enjoying a life of ease, having reached the age of 70 years. He married Cecelia Stelzig, who was also born in Germany, but who has now passed away.

H. M. Goldfredrick was reared and educated in Circleville. After leaving school he entered his father's grocery store, in which he later became a partner and assumed full control when his father retired in 1900. He is a very enterprising and progressive young man and is highly considered in the city's commercial circles.

In 1887 Mr. Goldfredrick was married to Alice Dunkle, a daughter of George S. Dunkle, of Yellow Bud, Pickaway County. One daughter, Clara, has been born to this union, a talented young lady who will graduate at the Everts High School in the graduating class of June, 1906.

Mr. Goldfredrick is interested in various business enterprises here, owning stock in the Circleville Savings Company and being one of the promoters and organizers of the new artificial ice plant.

AIELVEN HINSON, a capable and successful farmer who _ operates the Millar farm of 650 acres in Harrison township, was born in Ross County, Ohio, March 12, 1849. He was reared on a farm and with the exception of a short period of work in a tannery he has followed agricultural pursuits his entire life.

Mr. Hinson's ancestry is of the South, his grandfather being a Virginian and his grandmother a native .of Scotland, who came to South Carolina when quite young. While they were still children, their families migrated to Ohio, and they reached maturity, met, married and finally settled at Richmonddale, Ross County, Ohio. Their homestead still remains as one of the old landmarks of that section. It was at this place that the good old couple passed their last days, the husband dying at the age of 80 years, and the wife when 84 years of age.

The father of our subject, who died in 1885, at the age of 75, and the mother, who passed away in the same year at 76, were the parents of. 12 children, the following six of

' whom are still living: Allen and Titus, who are residents of Illinois; Emza who resides in Ross County, Ohio, on the old home place; Melven; and Marvin and Raymond, who both live in Ross County - the latter near Richmonddale.

Our subject passed his earlier years in Ross County, and after leaving Richmonddale resided two years in Pike County. For the succeeding Io years he was a substantial farmer citizen of Scioto County, this State, and in the fall of 1887 located permanently in Pickaway County. Mr. Hinson was associated with Charles Frye for about three years, and in 1892 moved to the Millar farm of 650 acres, upon which he resides and which he has operated with great success. He has 125 acres in wheat, 215 in corn and 30.in grass. Considerable live stock is raised and fed. In 1905 Mr. Hinson grew 8,000 bushels of corn and about 1,800 of wheat, and in his various agricultural operations employed seven teams constantly. He raises on an average 60 head of hogs and feeds 30 head of cattle.

Melven Hinson's wife, to whom he was married December 25, 1869, was formerly Nancy Darr, daughter of Jacob Darr. They have the following 10 children, all living: Carrie Belle, wife of James Shook, a successful farmer in Nebraska; Charles, who married Daisy Miller, daughter of John Miller and resides on the farm with his father; Effie, living at home; Andrew, a resident of Chicago, who married Nettie Wellington; Alfred, also living on the home farm; Harmon, connected with the United States Navy; Emery E., a resident of Indiana; Maria Jane and Mary Frances (twins), the former of whom is the wife of Albert James and a resident of Columbus; and Bessie, who lives at home with her parents.

Mr. Hinson has been a member of the Knights of the Maccabees since 1895, and three of his sons are identified with the same order. He has been a consistent Republican, but neither politics nor fraternities have drawn much of his attention from his lifelong avocation of husbandry, in which he has been so successful and continuously progressive.

OBERT C. HILL, a prominent resident and a trustee of Muhlenberg township, where he owns a farm of 50 acres, was born on this farm on September 8, 1851, and is a son of Thomas and Julia A. (Sharp) Hill.

Capt. William Hill, the paternal grandfather, was born in Virginia and came in 1815 to Pickaway County, Ohio, where he died in advanced age. He was the first magistrate in Muhlenberg township and was a man of prominence and substance, owning some 700 acres of land which in 1847 he divided among the six of his eight children that grew to maturity.

Thomas Hill, father of our subject, was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, February 21, 1807, and came here with his parents in 1815, where he spent the rest of his life, dying here September 10, 1885. He owned an estate consisting of about 215 acres of land and for about a quarter of a century was trustee of Muhlenberg township. Politically he was a Whig and later a Republican. Both he and his wife were Baptists. He married Julia A. Sharp, who was born in the State of New York, July 1, 1813, and came with her parents and a sister, to Westerville, Ohio. She died in Muhlenberg township May 16, 1895. Nine of their 10 children grew to maturity and are still living. The record is as follows: Mrs. Margaret Darst, of Muhlenberg township; Mrs, Elizabeth Whiteside, of Darby township ; Mrs.' Mary Bolin, of Darbyville; Mrs. Ellen McKinley, of Franklin County; William C., of Jackson township; Mrs. Matilda Wilson, of White County, Indiana; Robert C., of this sketch; Ezra Florence, of Darbyville; Mrs. Sarah Stiverson, of Columbus; and Marcus, who died aged three years.

Robert C. Hill is one of the best known residents of Muhlenberg township, having spent his whole life here, one of activity and usefulness. In addition to farming his own land, he operates a farm of 97 acres adjoining his own, which belongs to an aunt. For the past 28 years he has practiced veterinary surgery, although he never attended any school, doing all his reading by himself. He has filled a number of the important township offices and served one term as a justice of the peace. As a Republican he was elected assessor of the township for three terms and after 1886, when he became identified with the Democratic party, he continued to be elected to office. He was reared a Republican, his father having voted for Lincoln in 1860 and supported the principles of the Republican party until his death.

On May 10, 1893, Mr. Hill was elected trustee of the township and served as such for nine consecutive years. In the fall of 1905 he was again elected to this office. He has been a member of the School Board for six years, and for three years has been road supervisor. For 27 years he has been officially connected with Muhlenberg township.

In 1874 Robert C. Hill was married to Mary E. Wilson, who was born in Scioto township, Pickaway County, Ohio, Apri! 11, 1854, and is a daughter of James and Anna (Hite) Wilson. Her paternal grandfather served in the War of 1812 and she has one of the old camp kettles he used when campaigning. One of her uncles, Hon. John Sites, was a member of the Ohio State Senate and she had the pleasure of hearing him make a memorable speech in 1896, at Columbus, being then in his 8oth year. Her mother died when she was four years old and she was reared in the family of an uncle. Mr. and Mrs. Hill have four children, viz.: Thomas, born November 20, 1874; Harry M., born December 29, 1876; Clarence V., born September 2, 1881, who died June 10, 1905; and Addie R., born August 14, 1891.

Mr. Hill gave liberal assistance in the building of Florence: Chapel Presbyterian Church and was one of the trustees. Recently he has united with the Darbyville Methodist Episcopal Church.

BOHN W. WOLFORD, a prosperous farmer and stock-raiser of Pickaway County, whose well-improved farm of IQI acres is favorably located in Jackson township, on the old Columbus road, six miles northwest of Circleville, was born near Marietta, Ohio, January 11, 1856,

Isaac Wolford and family moved from Marietta to a farm in Ross County about 1868, living there until 1873, when removal was made to a farm in Harrison township, Pickaway County, on which Mrs. Wolford died, at the age of 58 years. Mr. Wolford has reached his 80th birthday and now lives retired at Ashville. Until within a few years he followed agricultural pursuits. His children were: Mrs. Mary Jane. Green, of Ashville; Mrs. Sarah Ann Barkley, of Hardin County; James Wesley, deceased; Mrs. Martha Ellen Dixon, of Chillicothe; John W.; of this sketch; Charles, of Columbus; Jared, of Harrison township; Mrs. Susannah Margaret Hoffman, of South Bloomfield; and a child that died in infancy.

John W. Wolford was 12 years old when his parents settled on the farm in Ross County, some 10 miles east of Chillicothe. He accompanied them to Harrison township and remained on the home farm until his marriage, assisting in the work. Following this event, he rented a farm in Scioto township and later moved to other farms in the county, in the meantime making preparations to purchase when the land he desired came into the market. In 1901 he bought his present farm which was then totally unimproved but otherwise was very desirable. Mr. Wolford has made all the improvements now to be seen, erected buildings, made fences and set out orchards, in fact converted the farm into one of the most valuable properties in his docality. He devotes his attention to the growing of grain and to the raising of stock.

In 1880 Mr. Wolford was united in marriage with Mary Crowman, who was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, and died on March 17, 1904, aged 49 years. Her parents were William and Nancy (Hershaw) Crowman. Mrs. Wolford left five children at death, namely: Isaac, Samuel, Ethel, James and John. Ethel married Wales Florence, of Jackson township and they are the parents of one child - Nelson.

He is a self-made man. When he looks over his fine farm, notes its improvements and counts his sleek cattle in many fields; he has the proud satisfaction of knowing that every dollar represented he has laboriously and honestly earned. He has always been frugal and industrious and is now in a position to enjoy the fruits of his labor when he desires.

Mamuel Harvey Ridgway

MAMUEL HARVEY RIDGWAY, whose two fine farrhs in Pickaway County aggregate 308 acres of excellent land, is a highly respected and substantial citizen of Darby township. He was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, June 8, 1857, and is a son of Thomas D. and Rebecca A. (Smith) Ridgway.

years old. He settled near Chillicothe and reared a large family, among whom were: Samuel H., who organized a company and served. through the Civil War; Alexander; Kane; Mary; and Thomas D.

Thomas D. Ridgway was reared in Ohio and when he reached maturity married Rebecca A. Smith, the ceremony taking place on the old Smith farm, in Darby township, which now belongs to Richard N. Dick. She was a daughter of Sampson B. and Margaret (Hill) Smith, who shortly after their marriage came to Ohio from Maryland and settled in Pickaway County. The larger number of their children were born in Ohio. The eldest was Rebecca A., mother of our: subject, and the others were: Martha, who married Woodson J. Shockly; Elizabeth, who married (first) Lewis Ballah and (second) Martin Bailey; Editha M., who married Richard N. Dick and died February 24, 1905; Polly, who died in young womanhood; George, who married Ellen McGillen; William, who married Nancy Polson; Isaac, deceased; and Samuel, who married Martha M. Dick and now resides

After marriage, Thomas D. Ridgway bought the farm in Darby township now owned by T. Stanton Ridgway, and there the larger number of his children were born, these being: Sarah, deceased, who was the wife of J. T. Smith, also deceased; Smith, who died in February, 1906; George W., who married Mrs. Amanda Shriner and is in business at Columbus; Alice, formerly postmistress at Derby, who was married in the spring of 1906 to A. E. Brown and died soon after her marriage, on June 9, 1906; Newton, who died aged 20 years; T. Stanton, one of the trustees of Darby township, who married Margaret Bauhan and owns and operates the old home farm; and Samuel Harvey, of this sketch, who is the youngest of the family.

Samuel Harvey Ridgway was reared in his native township and was educated in the local schools. He remained on the home farm until his marriage in 1884 and was engaged in farming on the homestead until after the birth of his first child, moving then to Derby, where he embarked, with his brother, in a general mercantile business. This enterprise was conducted for the succeeding 11 years, although during all this period Mr. Ridgway was also engaged more or less in agricultural pursuits. Subsequently he purchased a farm near Era, on which he lived for three years and then purchased his present property. In 1898 he bought the home farm from A. L. Linebaugh, and the rest of his land from different parties - Henry Sterns, Hannah Mc- Kinney, G. M. Starks and Martha Holtz. The home farm had a comfortable residence on it and this Mr. Ridgway has remodeled and improved so that it is very attractive and makes an excellent home.

In 1884 Mr. Ridgway was miarried to Clara K. Caldwell, who is a daughter of John H. Caldwell, an old pioneer of the county. She has two sisters and three brothers, namely: Jennie, wife of William Huffvines; Cynthia, who married Simon Girton - both now deceased ; James, who married Susana Huffvines;

Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway have two sons - Harry R. and Ray C., both of whom reside at home. Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway and their two sons accompany this sketch.

Mr. Ridgway was one of the founders of the old Renick Church which has been recently torn down. He is a director of Pleasant Cemetery, at Palestine, has served as president of the School Board and for many years has taken an active part in everything calculated to promote the welfare of the community. He belongs to the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.

ie 3) HOMAS BLACKSTONE, M. D., who iy fo for 27 years has been one of the leading medical practitioners at Circleville, was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1847, and is a son of Thomas Blackstone, also a native of Ross County, where he was an extensive farmer for years. The subject of this sketch was reared in his native county and his early education was secured in the public schools. The higher branches were pursued at the Ohio University at Athens, where he was graduated in 1871, with the degree of B. S. Immediately afterward, he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, probably one of the best training schools in the world. Here he was graduated and received his medical degree and then accepted the position of medical assistant in the Athens Hospital for the Insane, where he remained for four years. Dr. Blackstone then took a trip to Europe, in the interests of his profession, and spent three months in the great schools at Vienna, four months walking the London hospitals, and when he returned to his native country he had had experiences which he could have scarcely found in any other way and additions to his medical knowledge which have resulted to the benefit of his many patients. He has been located at Circleville ever since and is

Dr. Blackstone is one of the trustees of the Ohio University at Athens, is vice-president of the Public Library Board and is deeply interested in the progress and development of his city and country along educational lines. Politically he is identified with the Republican party and on several occasions has been put forward as his: party's candidate for high State offices. He is a very popular man - but Pickaway County has a very large Democratic majority.

Dr. Blackstone is prominent in Masonry in Ohio, being a Knight Templar and for four years was district lecturer for the fraternity. He stands deservedly high in both fraternal and professional life and numbers his friends among the best citizenship of Circleville.

sy HTARLES PIERCE REAY, a leading farmer and citizen of Darby township, and one of the oldest members (in length of service), of its School Board, is the owner of. 53% acres of farm land on the Columbus and Washington turnpike. He is a grandson of John Neff, of Virginia, the father of a large family, whose daughter Elizabeth married John Otho Reay, the father of our subject. Before her marriage, her parents came to Ohio, making the journey from their native State in a covered wagon. The family settled on a farm of 113 acres in Pickaway and Madison counties, the county line running through the farm. Here John Neff lived to the end of his life, and at his death left the property to his son Peter. It was while living here that his daughter Elizabeth was married to John Otho Reay, whom she had met in Virginia and who had also come to make his home in Ohio. After a brief married life, his first wife had died in the former State. He was a shoemaker by

When John O. Reay, the father of our subject, came to Ohio he purchased a tract of brush and swamp land, partly from Michael Collins and partly from Joseph Bridges. This was the foundation of the nice homestead now occupied by Charles P. Reay, who since it came into his possession (in 1884) has cleared 25 acres of the land and radically improved it, making it both attractive and productive.

To John Otho and Elizabeth (Neff) Reay were born seven children, viz.: Mary, who died when an infant; George, who died at the age of seven. years; Jane, deceased at the age of five; John W., who married Sarah Elizabeth Wickell; Charles P.; Henry Thornton, who married (first) Ina Ketchem and (second) Mrs. Elliott Davis, a widow; and Sarah, who became the wife of James Hughes. Both parents of our subject are dead. The father was born January 23, 1799, and died on the 26th of February, 1884; the mother was born December 24, 1818, and passed away June 26, 1902. Both died in Darby township.

Charles P. Reay was born on the farm where he now resides, on September 22, 1852. On January 22, 1873, at Mount Sterling, Ohio, he married Jennie Lyons, daughter of James and Mary (Justice Lyons, of Ohio). The other members in the family of Mrs. Reay's parents were: Terry, who married Araminta Johnson and is now deceased; Stephen J., who died unmarried at 44 years of age; Ella, who married Samuel Bennett and died in Missouri; Nelson, unmarried; Benton, who married the late Mrs. Neff, the widow of Charles P. Reay's first cousin; George, whose wife; Nancy: Richardson, is deceased; William, who married (first) Anna Shade (deceased) and (second) Elizabeth Pemberton; John, who married Mary Weir; and Alice, who lives with her mother at Derby. Mrs. Reay's mother is still living; her father died at Newport, Madison County, Ohio, on the 3rd of June, 1901.

Eight children have been born to the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Reay, as follows: Bertha, who became the wife of William A. Johnson; Mary, who became the wife of Harold Winfough; Elta, who married John Tracy and became the mother of three children - Ray, Harold and Gwynette; Minnie, who maried Elmer Stuckey and is the mother of a son - Charles, the namesake of our subject; John, who married Estella Collopy, and Ursula, Velsa and Emory, who live at home.

Mr. Reay's standing in the community and the township may be partially indicated by the fact that he has served for a period of 20 years on the School Board, a record which is excelled by few in the county. He has also been township trustee for six years. His fraternal connections are confined to membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while his church identification is with the Methodist Episcopal denomination.

moi, Monroe township, a_ representative citizen and successful farmer and stock-raiser, resides on his farm of 51 acres, which is situated on the Lester mill road. Mr. Long is a member of a well-known family of this vicinity. He was born on his father's farm in Monroe township, April 8, 1853, and is a son of James Maloid and Mary Ann (Hunter) Long.

The Long family came from Maryland to Ohio in 1816.. James M. Long, father of our subject, was then four years old. The family set out in a wagon and when they reached the Ohio River went on board a flatboat; while floating to their landing, the mother died. It was impossible to return to the old home and thus the mortal remains of the grandmother rest in an unknown spot. The grandfather kept on his way and settled with his children ona farm in Ross County, Ohio, but only for a short time. Grandfather Long soon removed to Pickaway County and rented a farm in Monroe township, not far from Five Points, on which stood an old log cabin, and in this he died. The remembered names of his children are: Mrs. Hand, Kendall, Coleman and James.

was cheap. He possessed considerable business foresight and, although he could only manage at first to take care of the interest, he believed that by industry and good management he could clear off the principal in the time required by the party from whom he purchased. It was a pretty large undertaking for a poor man, but he succeeded in doing it without ever placing a mortgage on his property, of which he was always proud. When he died he left an estate of 400 acres, which represented years of honest industry. Mr. Long realized a great deal of money from the raising of cattle and hogs, particularly the latter. In 1865, just at the close of the Civil War, when prices were inflated, he was fortunate:enough to have a fine lot of hogs and these he shipped to Cincinnati and sold them for $16 a hundred weight and for one dressed hog he received the sum of $75. From this industry he realized enough to complete the payments on his farm bought in 1852. When he first took possession, the country throughout this section was all wild, turkeys and deer being yet plentiful and there was no difficulty found in filling the larder with game. He died in 1891, at the age of 79 years and was laid away to rest in Pleasant Cemetery at Palestine. He was a man of business uprightness, one whose word, at all times, was as good as his bond.

James M. Long was married (first) to a Miss Wilkins. They had one son, William, who married Mary Briggs and settled in Ross County, Ohio. Both William Long and his wife are deceased and. they are'survived by one son, John B. Long, who is clerk of Concord township, Ross County.

After the death of his first wife, James Long married a Miss Maddox, and two children were born to this marriage, Hester Ann and Wesley. The latter died aged 27 years. The former married George Ridgway, and she now resides with her daughter, on the home place. ,

After the death of his second wife, Mr. Long married (third) Mary Ann Hunter, and nine children were born to this last union, as follows: Mary V., widow of John W. Puckett, living in Darby township; James R., who married Elizabeth Worth, now deceased, living on the home farm; Ellen, who married John White and lives in Muhlenberg township; Margaret, who married Daniel Boisell and lives in Madison County, Ohio; Kendall and McCury (twins), the former of whom married Elizabeth Upperman, moved to the Indian Teritory. and died there while engaged in constructing a bridge - the latter, McCury, became the wife of Samuel Boyd, reared a large family and finally died on her farm in Madison County, Ohio; Edward J., who married Emma Kelly and lives on what is known as the lower farm on his father's old estate; Benjamin Brough, named in honor of Hom John Brough, Governor of Ohio, who is a justice of the peace in Oak Run township, Madison County, Ohio - he married Rose Rector; and Lewis Judson, of this sketch, who was born on his father's birthday.

Lewis Judson Long obtained his early education in an old log schoolhouse in the neighborhood of his home and sat on a rough slab bench while he studied his spelling and learned the elements of arithmetic. At home there was always plenty of farm work and after finishing his schooling he worked for his father until 1880, living at home until his marriage. He then settled on his present farm, a part of which he purchased from the Clifton estate and a part of which he inherited. An old house was standing on the property when he came here, but arrangements were soon in progress for the erection of the elegant new home, which was completed in 1903. It is a frame structure and is built in a most substantial manner; it i$ surrounded by beautiful shade trees and presents a most attractive appearance. The old orchard, which Mr. Long preserves by replacing worn-out trees, stands to one side and, even when it is not in bloom or in fruit, still looks thrifty and homelike. His land is favorably located near the Era and Williamsport turnpike, on the Lester mill road. He carries on general farming and _ stockraising.

On January 28, 1880, Mr. Long was married to Jennie Winfough, who was _ born August 21, 1858, at Colton, Jackson County, Ohio. She is a daughter of John and Phoebe (Leach) Winfough, the former of whom was a son of Frederick Winfough.' On the maternal side, the grandparents of. Mrs. Long were Ambrose and Tabitha (Westfall) Leach. Ambrose Leach was born in Virginia and was an early settler in Jackson County, Ohio. The parents of Mrs. Long had eight children, as follows: William R., who married Mary Wehe and lives at Five Points; Ambrose, who married Nancy I. Crawford and lives at Five Points; Lyla, deceased, who married Ira Gulick; John, who married Mary Anderson and lives at Five Points; Maggie, deceased, who was the wife of Smith Castle; Anna Eliza, who died aged two and a half years; and Jennie (Mrs. Long).

Mr. and Mrs. Long have had three children, namely : Harry, born September 19, 1880, who married Gertrude Atkins and is the popular teacher of the home school in District No. 8; Pearl, born June 28, 1884, who assists his father on the home farm; and Clyde, born August 11, 1889, who was killed by a runaway horse on August 10, IgOI.

Mr. Long is one of the leading Republicans of Monroe township and has held a number of the local offices. He has served as school director for a long time, elected first when but one was required for District No. 8, the number now being three. He has always taken a deep interest in the township schools and has done all in his power to make them effective. Since 1901 he has been township trustee, he being the first Republican to be elected to the office in his township for a number of years. When he was elected the second time. he was on the ticket with President Roosevelt, who, according to his political sentiments, was pretty good was born at Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine, in 1858, and is a son of James Dunton, Jr., a sea captain and shipbuilder. Captain Dunton was a descendant of an_old French Huguenot family (pronounced Duntin), of whom six brothers came to America back in the colonial cays, driven from France at the time of the Huguenot war, and were associated with much of this country's history in her struggles for independence in 1776 and 1812.

James Dunton, Jr., grandfather of Dr. O. H. Dunton, married Polly Patterson, a daughter of Capt. Andrew Patterson, mariner, of Hampden, Maine, whose wife was Sarah Ropha, a descendant of an old English family (titled). She (Sarah Ropha), when 14 years of age, in 1749, came with two brothers from London, England, to Bristol, Rhode Island. Later 'she received a legacy from the heirs in London, but before she had an opportunity to obtain possession of the estate, the title, together w.th the coat of arms, was destroyed by fire at Casco (now called Portland), Maine.

Dr. Dunton's mother was Dorothy Ann Weeks, daughter of John Weeks, of Tamworth, New Hampshire - a lineal descendant of an old English family, early domiciled in New England.

Oscar Howard Dunton was reared in his native State, his early boyhood being passed on: his father's farm, and was educated at Hampden Academy and the University of Maine. At the age of 16, without the consent of his parents, he shipped as a sailor on a merchant vessel from Bangor, Maine, to Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he experienced the hardships of a coasting vessel. One trip sufficed to cool his ardor, aiter which he settled down to educate himself for his chosen profession. _

As there was a large family (he is one of a family of nine children, three sons and six. daughters, most of whom reside in Maine and Massachusetts) the means with which to secure his education were obtained from teaching school, working on the farm and conducting night schools in penmanship, at the same time assiduously employing all his leisure hours in study. Those strong qualities of determination and perseverance, early developed in his character, nurtured by that New England atmosphere, were potent factors in the achieve- ment of his aim to obtain a higher education and fit himself for a profession. He was for one year associated with Prof. A. R. Dunton (originator of the "Duntonian System of Penmanship," which for years was the leading system taught in the public schools of New England), as instructor in penmanship in the public schools of Camden, Maine. This position he resigned to enter the University of Maine, from which he was graduated in the department of mechanical engineering in 1882. He followed this profession, being employed by some of the largest engine and steam-pump builders of New York and New England as designer and draughtsman. As an inventor, he has added quite a number of practical inventions to the mechanical world.

After some eight years of successful engineering, followed by a six-months trip to the Argentine Republic, South America, for study and recreation, he decided to take up the study of medicine under Dr. J. R. Buchanon, of Boston, Massachusetts, and later entered the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended lectures through the sessions of 1891-92. Following this came attendance at Rush Medical College, Chicago, where he was graduated in 1893.

Until he came to Circleville in 1894, Dr. Dunton practiced his profession in Champaign County, Ohio. He has built up a large and satisfactory practice in Circleville, and stands as one of the city's reliable professional men. He is known to the community at large as a zealous, upright and indefatigable promoter of the public welfare. As the president of the County Board of Visitors, he has taken great interest in the work of charities and corrections, and several times has been the delegate from Pickaway County to the National: and State conferences of charities and corrections.

Dr. Dunton was married June 14, 1888, to Lizzie M. Adams, of Providence, Rhode Island, who died in August, 1889; their baby daughter, aged three days, died a few days before the mother. Dr. Dunton was married September 1, 1892, to Florence Nightengale, a daughter of Sewell and Ellen (Marlitt) Nightengale. Mrs. Dunton's father was one of the early pioneers of Circleville and operated the stage route from Portsmouth to Columbus. Dr. and Mrs. Dunton have had five children, namely: Dorothy Ellen, born October 23, 1893, deceased May 30, 1899; Sewell Nightengale, born December 9, 1894; Florence Nightengale, born February 11, 1897: James Gerald, born November 10, 1899; and Sidner Howard, born January 14, 1903, deceased March 2, 1903.

Dr. Dunton is a member of the Pickaway County Medical Society, the Columbus Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medica! Society. Fraternally, he belongs to the Knights of the Maccabees.

able land, all in one body, is situated on the Federal road, on Darby Creek, in Muhlenberg township, was born near Cook's Station, Fayette County, Ohio, May 13, 1845, and is a son of William and Harriet (Crab) Graham.

William Graham was born in Delaware, and his wife in Ohio. They were married in Fayette County, Ohio, later came to Pickaway County and still later moved to Benton County, Indiana, where both died when about 8o years of age. They were worthy members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They had 1t children, all of whom lived to maturity, the youngest death being at the age of 21 years. The children were: John, deceased, who fought for the Union {in the Civil War; James, deceased; Mrs. Nancy Lamb, deceased; George, deceased; Mrs. Ann Hogg, deceased; Thomas L., of Muhlenberg township; Mrs. Mary Self, of Madison County, Ohio; Benjamin, deceased; Nelson and Mrs. Cordelia Bowman, both residents of Benton County, Indiana; and William M., of this sketch.

William M. Graham was seven years old when his parents came to Pickaway County, settling in 1852 in Monroe township. Later removal was made to Darby township, where our subject lived until he was 19 years of age.

He then accompanied his parents to Franklin County, Ohio. After living there one, year, he enlisted in the Union Army, on August 5, 1864, entering Company K, 176th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf., the commanding officers of company and regiment being Capt. Arthur W. Chenoweth and Col. E. C. Mason. The regiment was sent to Nashville, Tennessee. Six weeks later Mr. Graham became so violently ill that he was placed in a hospital at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, remained there from December 1, 1864, to March 31, 1865, when he was discharged and he returned to his home.

After his return from the army, Mr. Graham engaged in work by the month, mainly in Fayette County, and also attended school in that county during the winter of 1865-66. In 1869 he married and rented a farm in Monroe township, Pickaway County. Within a year his wife died and he gave up farming for a time. During one summer he engaged in clerking in a country store and during this period he made his home with his brother. After his second marriage, in 1875, he resumed farming, again renting for some years, but in 1888 he purchased a well-located tract of 4914 acres, that being his first purchase of the property included in his present farm. Subsequently he added to it until he now has 90% acres, and as all of it is in one tract it makes a valuable, easily managed farm. It is well watered by Darby Creek and has proved a profitable investment.

Almost all of the improvements which add to the value and appearance of his farm, Mr. Graham made himself. He dug wells, erected a number of the buildings and set out a fine orchard. When he first located here, he had little capital but he invested it carefully. and wisely and it has many times doubled itself since then.

Mr. Graham was married (first), December 29, 1869, to Elizabeth Satchel, who was born in Fayette County, Ohio. His second marriage, in 1875, was to Hannah Gilliland, who was born in Darby township, Pickaway County, Ohio, September 18, 1850, and died on the present homestead on March 20, 1898. She was a daughter of Samuel and Malinda (Alkire) Gilliland, the former of whom was born in Logan and the later in Pickaway County. Samuel Gilliland lived in Pickaway County from the age of five years.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. Graham were: Mary Lizzie, for nine years a school teacher in Pickaway County, who is the wife of M. C. Edwards, of Derby; Samuel Ross, deceased at the age of nine months; Thomas, a rural mail carrier, who lives at Orient; May, living at home; Warner T., a farmer of Muhlenberg township; Walter G., of Orient, also a rural mail carrier; George, a farmer of Darby township; and Brough, Pearl and Nellie, who live at home.

Mr. Graham has been a lifelong Republican, casting his first presidential vote for Gen. U. S. Grant. He served one year as supervisor of Muhlenberg township, for three years as school director and at present is one of the township trustees. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Darbyville.

y| Circleville's most highly esteemed citizens and for many years a leading practitioner of medicine, was born in this city, December 22, 1840, and is a son of Isaac Hammel.

The father of Dr. Hammel was born in Fairfield Counfy, Ohio, and came to Circleville in 1832. He became one of the leading contractors and successful business men of the city and is recalled as a valued citizen. Isaac Hammel was united in marriage in 1837 to Mary Funk, daughter of Abraham Funk. They had seven children, as follows: Catherine, Madison, Mary E., Edson, Caroline, Martha and Daniel.

Madison Hammel attended the schools of Circleville and had completed his majority but a short time before, when he entered the Union Army in 1862, enlisting in Company A, 114th Reg., Ohio Vol. Inf. He was mustered into the service just prior to being sent to the front, where he took part in the campaigns around

Vicksburg, Mississippi, and participated in many of the great battles in that section, among these being all the leading ones in which his regiment was interested.

After his return from the army, the young scldier began the study of medicine under Drs. Griswold and Wilder, at Circleville, and in 1866 and 1867, was a student in the medical department of the University of Michigan. In 1868 he was graduated and received his degree from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. Dr. Hammel located for practice at Five Points, Pickaway County, and later at Waterloo, but in 1869 he came to Circleville, selecting his old home town as the field of his endeavor. Here he built up and carried on a very extensive practice for many years, only restraining his activities of 'late years, on account of ill health. He has been president of the Pickaway County Medical Society and is z member of the Ohio State Medical Society. l'or seven years he served as physician to the County Jail and for eight months to the County Infirmary, resigning the latter position because he could not approve of the manner in which the institution was then managed.

On June 25, 1868, Dr. Hammel was married to Martha A. Summers, who died December 28, 1894. She was a daughter of Henry and Lucy Summers. Mrs. Hammel was a noble, Christian woman who was sadly missed by her family, church and community.

Dr. Hammel is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Circleville. He is a Knight of Pythias and a member of Groce Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Circleville.

of the Circleville Business Men's Association, is one of the leading and representative citizens of the town. He was born at Circleville in 1863 and is a son of Dr. G. A. and Martha (Wilkes) Wilder.

manhood he came to Circleville and entered a drug store, the one now owned by his son. Subsequently he returned to Massachusetts and was graduated in medicine at the Pittsfield Medical College, at Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He then returned to Circleville and engaged in the practice of medicine with Dr, Wayne Griswold and attained professional eminence. After a practice of 35 years he passed away in 1808, sincerely mourned by the community. He served as postmaster at Circleville during President Cleveland's first administration, was for some 25 years connected with the public schools as a member of the Board of Education and was prominent in all that served to develop and upbuild the city. Mrs. Wilder died May 22, 1906,

J. G. Wilder was reared and educated at Circleville, being graduated in 1880 from the He immediately entered the drug store of W. W. Ballard and remained there for three years. In 1887 he became proprietor and has continued the business ever since.

In 1904 Mr. Wilder was married to Mary Evans, daughter of Samuel B. Evans, who for years was in a drug business, a member of the firm of Evans & Kimmel. For a quarter of a century, Mr. Evans was identified with educational matters in Circleville, serving on the Board of Education, and also served several terms as county treasurer. He was prominent in Masonry, having taken the 32nd degree.

J. G. Wilder is president of the Business Men's Association, which organization is a very important factor in the city's progress. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

MD\VIN NEWTON, a prominent citi- "4; zen and substantial farmer of Walnut township, where he owns. 290 acres of excellent farming land, was born in Circleville township, Pickaway County, Ohio, December 16, 1845, and is a son of John D, and Laura A. (Peters) Newton.

Residence And Barn Of Andrew Hoffman

John D. Newton was born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, and was nine years old when, with his half-brother, Richard Coakley, he came to Pickaway County, Ohio. From the age of nine years he was reared in Walnut 'township where he attended school. After his marriage he lived for a number of years in Circleville township, engaged in farming, but later he returned to Walnut township, where he died March 4,°1895. He was a man of excellent judgment and business perception and was a leading citizen of Walnut township. He married Laura A. Peters, who still survives. She is a daughter of Absalom Peters, a member of a very prominent Walnut township family. To this union 11 children were born and nine of these survive.

Edwin Newton was reared a farmer boy and attended the district schools of Circleville township. He continued working on the home tarm until December 24, 1863, when he enlisted in the Union Army, for a period of three years, although he served only until October 3, 1865, on account of the closing of the war. He was only 18 years old when he entered the army, but no soldier of the 45th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Inf., more bravely bore the" necessary hardships or more cheerfully performed his tasks than did this young farmer youth. He was with General Sherman during the Georgia campaign and later was with General Thomas, at Nashville, Tennessee. He was with his regiment also at Peach Tree Creek and Atlanta and other historic spots, and at Nashville was in the thickest of the fight. Despite all these dangers and most especially

On July 30, 1868, Mr. Newton was married to Susanna H. Peters, who is a daughter of Gershom and Ann (Walcutt) Peters. Their children were seven in number and all are living but the eldest, a son, who died in infancy. The others are as follows: Clinton Elmer, who married Tillie Ann Crites, is in a grain business. at Circleville and Columbus and has had one child, now deceased, and resides in Walnut township; Etha Florence, who married Calvin May, and has two children - Frances Erma and Edgar Newton; Urban J., who lives at home; and Eugene Walter, who married Mertie Hoffman, is in the poultry, grain and feed business at Circleville, anc has two children - Mary Irene and Meda FElizabeth.

Mr. Newton devotes his large estate and his main energies to the cultivation of wheat and corn, his land responding to his careful cultivation very satisfactorily. In 1880 he erected his present commodious frame dwelling, which is attractive, comfortable and convenient. His other buildings all go to show the presence of a good manager and sensible, thrifty farmer. Mr. Newton, while a Republican, does not take any active interest in political matters; he is always ready to discuss various movements for local imptovement.

~e - aINDREW HOFFMAN who owns and | } operates a farm of 382% acres in | J- | Wayne township, was born April 6, pees! 61858, at Chillicothe, Ohio, and is a

Henry Hoffman, who was born in Germany, came to America when a young man and located at Chillicothe, Ohio, where he was married. After his death, which occurred in Madison County, Ohio, his widow moved to Columbus, where she passed the remainder of her life.

Andrew Hoffman was reared and educated at Chillicothe and at the age of 21 moved to his present home in Wayne township, which his father was at that time renting. He afterward moved to Madison County and lived' for five years on a farm which he rented. He then moved to Clark County and rented a*farm of 600 acres, where he remained for nine years engaged in farming and in raising hogs and cattle. He then moved to his present home, where he had previously lived and which he had always hoped some day to be able to purchase, which he was able to do upon léaving

Mr. Hoffman married Helen Cute, a daughter of Patrick and Catherine Cute, of Pickaway County. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman are the parents of five children: Ilorence, born in Pickaway County, who married Earl Tootle, a son of Wilson Tootle, a resident of Ross County, Ohio, and has one child - Geraldine Helen; William, born in Madison County, who lives at home; John, also born in Madison County, who lives at home; Kathleen, born in Clark County; and Anna, born in Clark County.

Mr. Hoffman is a member of the township Board of Education and is also a township trustee. He and all the members of his family are members of St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Circleville. Views of Mr. Hoffman's residence and barn appear on a page in proximity to this.

A) established business men, a_ large dealer in staple and fancy groceries, was born at Circleville, December 10, 1845, and is a son of John and Susan (Landis) Sapp.

Both the Sapp and Landis families came to Pickaway County from Pennsylvania. Jacob Landis, the maternal grandfather of Jerome Sapp, was prominent in the business life of Circleville for a long period. John Sapp settled at an early day at Circleville, where he Was a pioneer in the bakery business and continued the same for an extended period.

Jerome Sapp spent the larger part of his time in school, until he was 13 years of age, when he became self-supporting, working first on a farm and then learning the carpenter's trade. After working at this for eight years, he became a clerk in the grocery store of D. 3. Wagner, with whom he remained 14 months, and then entered the employ of Amos Beach, in the same line, with whom he remained something like two years, going then to *. M: Shulze, in the queensware line. After some six years with this employer, he became -cmnected with the firm of Lynch & Weaver i te wholesale and retail grocery line, remaining with them for 10 years or until the firm was dissolved and then continued with Mr. Lynch two years longer: In 1891 he embarked in the grocery business for himself, his many years of training serving to make him an excellent judge both of commodities and their handling and also the demands of the public. The latter he has been able to anticipate and to supply. as his abundant returns testify. His business is a leader in the line of staple and fancy groceries at Circleville and he has maay country customers whom he has known and served for years. Mr. Sapp located in his present quarters, the Pythian Castle, in 1893.

Mr. Sapp was married June 19, 1880, to Alice Howard, who for nine years was a school teacher in Pickaway County. She is a dauzhter of Thomas Howard, who was one of the early settlers of Pickaway County. Mr. Howard was born in Ireland and emigrated from his native land in the days when vessels speut many weeks in crossing the Atlantic.

Mr. and Mrs. Sapp have these children: Ilizabeth M., who is living at home with her parents; Nellie, who married Dennis Phillips and lives on a valuable farm on the Pickaway Plains, in Pickaway township; Fannie, who is employed by a telephone company; Margz ret, who is her father's bookkeeper ; and Howl ard, who is his father's right-hand man in the business.

As one of the city's reliable, dependable men, Mr. Sapp has long been more or less prominent in public affairs. in city and county and on one occasion was brought forward by the Republican party as its preferred candidate for sheriff. Fraternally he is a member of the Foresters and of the Knights of Pythias and has been master of exchequer of the latter organization at Circleville, for the past six years.

a}RANVILLE MOODY BULEN, who has resided upon his present farm in Harrison township since 1885, has one of the most valuable and attractive homesteads in Pickaway county, being the owner of 340 acres of land, originally known as the Lincoln Goodale farm. The property has been in the possession of the Bulen family for 28 years. Mr. Bulen is both a large grain producer and an extensive raiser of livestock. About one-third of his land is given over to the cultivation of corn, his crop averaging 6,500 bushels, and an equal area to wheat and grass, his wheat crop amounting to some 2,000 bushels per annum. His live-stock operations are chiefly in cattle and hogs. He raises and markets about 200 head of hogs per season, and feeds from two to three carloads of cattle in winter. In rgo1 Mr. Bulen erected the residence which he now occupies, which is one of the most attractive in Harrison township and adds greatly to the modern and prosperous appearance of the entire homestead. In the agricultural operations on his farm 12 horses are constantly employed, about four teams being used in the direct cultivation of the farm.

Granville M. Bulen was born in Franklin County, Ohio, January 3, 1862, and is a son of William and Mary A. (Thompson) Bulen. The father, a native of England, came to America with his parents when I1 years of age. They lived in Canada for one year and then came to the States, settling at once in Frariklin County, Ohio, where William Bulen resided until his death, March 10, 1899, at the age of 77 years. Throughout life he had been engaged in farming. His widow, now in her 82nd year, still resides on the old homestead near Columbus.

On October 3, 1883, Granville M. Bulen was married to Anna M. Barlow, daughter of John Barlow, of Franklin County, Ohio. Three daughters have been born to their union, namely: Grace E., wife of Vause Blake, residing on the farm with her husband and their one child - Lucile Fay Blake; Myrtle-M., unmarried, who lives with her parents, and Ada M., deceased in infancy.

In politics our subject is a Republican from the standpoint of national affairs, but in local matters he supports the most honest and capable man, irrespective of party. Since he was 17 years of age he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, being at present identified with the organization at Lockbourne. ; rea ILDINE SNYDER, son of one of the ]) early pioneers of Pickaway County 3 6 A) and himself a resident of it for threequarters of a century, is the owner of a fine homestead of about 350 acres in a compact body, situated in section 23, Walnut township. He was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1828, and is a son of Daniel and Catherine (Solt) Snyder. In 1831, when he was three years of age, his parents with their family removed to Pickaway County, coming from Pennsylvania in covered wagons, and for years after their settlement experiencing all the hardships of pioneer life with the brave spirit which was general in those days, and enjoying also to the utmost its rugged and healthful pleasures. Mr. Snyder has therefore been reared from infancy in this county. He was educated in its log schoolhouses, passed through all the primitive stages of agricultural development, and emerged a thorough, intelligent farmer. He was married in 1855 to Syrena Walters, daughter of Daniel Walters, and became the father of nine children, six of whom are living. A brief record of the family follows: Sarah, the eldest, who married Daniel Stein, and died when her daughter, Myrtle, was quite young, the latter being adopted by her grandfather (our subject) with whom she still resides; Mary, who became the wife of William May,' and is the mother of one son - Roy; Jane, who married Lyman Reigel and has two children - Clarence and Ruth; Emma, who married John May and is the mother of four sons - Ralph, Walter, Alva and Virgil; Clara, who maried William Hall and has three children - Ruth, Esther and John; Edson Jerome, the only son of the family, who married Sallie Courtright, and died in 1899; Ada, who married David Belong and has one daughter - Alice; and Ella, who lives at home with her father. The mother of the family died March 21, 1904, and with her passed away one of the noble, pioneer women of the county. Her religious faith was that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the members of Dildine Snyder's immediate family, three are still living - two brothers - William H. and Wilson - and a sister - Mrs. Delilah Brown. It may be added that he is a member of the Lutheran Church, and has always been a Democrat. In public affairs he has taken the legitimate interest of a faithful, intelligent citizen and at various times has served as township trustee.

a] a fine farm of 153 acres in Salt Creek township, for many years was a leading business man at Tarlton, where he conducted a tannery. He was born March 28, 1836, in a small German principality bordering on the Kingdom of Saxony, Germany, and was a son-of Frederick William and Christiana (Neumeister) Joch.

The father of Mr. Joch was an educated man and followed the profession of teacher in his native land. Although Henry Gustav Joch was afforded a good, public school education, he did not adopt his father's calling, his inclinations leading him to learn the excellent trade of tanner and currier, at which he served three and a half years as an apprentice under the instruction of his maternal uncle, Ernest Neumeister. He then traveled as a journeyman for some years through his own country, Austria and Russia, until 1867, when he emigrated to America. He took passage on a steamship at Bremerhaven and within two weeks was landed at the port of New York. He proceeded immediately to Zanesville, Ohio, and found work there at his trade and subsequently married in that city. In 1872 he came to Tarlton, where he operated a tannery for some years and then took charge of his excellent farm in Salt Creek township. He still resides, however, in the village of Tarlton, where he has a handsome home.

At Zanesville, Ohio, on November 7, 1870, Mr. Joch was united in marriage with Johanna Ditmar, who was born in Germany, May 16, 1838. They have four daughters, namely: Anna J., wife of H. E. Defenbaugh; Mary E., of Zanesville; and Sophia P. and Edith F., living at home.

are well known and enjoy the esteem of many friends and the regard of all who know them. Mr. Joch is a very intelligent man, having traveled extensively in his youth, and has taken an active interest in public affairs and local concerns ever since becoming a respected resident of Pickaway County.

J. BREHMER, florist, at Circleville, has been a resident of this city for the past 20 years and stands high in the estimation of his fellow-citizens. He was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, in

1854, and is a son of Jacob Brehmer, who was born in Germany in the neighborhood of Wittenberg. By trade he was a cooper. He emigrated to America and his first work was in connection with the construction of the old canal at Chillicothe.

J. J. Brehmer was reared and educated at Chillicothe, and as soon as he was able started out to learn a self-supporting trade. He found work with William C. McKellar in the "Rose Grove Nursery." Mr. McKellar was one of the largest rose growers in the United States. Mr. Brehmer was trained in the propagation house and remained there for nine years; during all this period he lost but one week, which was the result of illness caused by vaccination.

Mr. Brehmer then went to Cincinnati and during his two years there had charge for a time of the greenhouse of S. S. Jackson. He visited a number of places, in all of which he studied details of the florist's business and then went back to Chillicothe for a short time. He was then called to Adelphi, Ohio, to take charge of the Reigel nursery, in which he worked for two years and then became a partner in the business. After 12 years there, he came to Circleville in 1886 and located on 11 acres of ground in the east end of the town, where he carried on a combined florist and nursery business for four years. His next change. was to the old Fair Grounds on the

Folsom place, and there he carried on a florist business for 13 years. In 1902 he bought his present place where he has a fine plant and has some 12,000 square feet of glass. He also owns a fine nursery in connection with his greenhouse and does an extensive business in that line.

In 1901 Mr. Brehmer was maried to Minerva Sherburn, of Bremen, Ohio. By a previous marriage, Mr. Brehmer had three children, namely: Pearl R.; Robert Lewis; and Hazel, the wife of Oliver Fellows, of Columbus.

of the Pickaway County Children's Home, located in Washington township near Circleville, was born in Walnut township, Pickaway County, Ohio, November 21, 1859, and is a son of Daniel and Passy (Swoyer) Runkle.

Mr. Runkle was reared and educated in Pickaway County and until he accepted his present position had always followed agricultural pursuits. He is known as a man of sterling character and no better selection could have been made for the responsible position in which he is serving his second term.

The Pickaway County Children's Home is under the direct supervision of Mr. Runkle and Mrs. Runkle is its efficient: matron. It is under the management of a board of trustees which is composed of the following prominent and responsible men: H. V. Johnson, John Courtright, M. B. Radcliffe and E. E. Winship, Sr.

In 1887 Mr. Runkle was married (first) to Elizabeth Bownocker, a daughter of Michael Bownocker, of Fairfield County, Ohio. At her death in 1894 she left two children, Olive and Roland, both of whom live in Walnut township. On December 29, 1898, Mr. Runkle was married (second) to Carrie Talbut, a daughter of Alphonse Talbut. ; of the Children's Home on September 18, 1905, for a term of one year and his administration gave such satisfying results that his re-appointment followed. In all his work he is ably assisted by his excellent wife and both are much beloved by their charges.

Mr. Runkle is a member of the beneficiary society known as the Court of Honor, of Springfield, Illinois. Both he and his wife belong to the Lutheran Church.

A) HARLTON A. VALENTINE, who ]} resides upon a farm of 81 acres situated in section 5, Circleville township, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, February 14, 1847, and is a son of Henry and Sarah (Eccard) Valentine and a grandson of Henry Valentine, who. was a prominent farmer in Frederick County, Maryland.

Henry Valentine and his wife, both of whom were natives of Frederick County, Maryland, came to Pickaway County in 1851, at which time their son, Charlton A. Valentine, was but four years old, and settled on a farm east of Circleville where Henry Valentine devoted his time to agricultural pursuits until the time of his death in 1857. His widow survived him many years, dying in 1895.

Since his 10th year, Charlton A. Valentine has lived in Circleville township with the exception of two years spent in farming in Tennessee. For a considerable period Mr. Valentine was a breeder of thoroughbred horses, but now devotes his whole time exclusively.to farming. He was at one time interested in selling farm implements through the country. He was married in 1876 to Sallie Morrow, a daughter of Robert and Mary Morrow, both well-known citizens of Pickaway County. Mr. Morrow died in 1884 and his wife died in April, 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Valentine were married in the same house which they now occupy. They have had three children as follows: Ella and Robert, who live

BIAMUEL H. RUGGLES. The late @| Samuel H. Ruggles, who was one of the old and esteemed residents of Circleville, and one of the city's most ingenious and _ successful business men, died at his home, April 18, 1904, about the close of his 83rd year. Mr. Ruggles was born June 8, 1821, at Brownville, Jefferson County, New York, and was a son of Samuel and Anna H. Ruggles, who were natives of Boston, Massachusetts. In the early years of his life Samuel Ruggles was engaged in commercial shipping in Boston, but after the capture of his vessel by the British, in the War of 1812, he moved to the northern part of New York State, where he engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits. He died at Lowville, New York, in 1834, leaving a widow and five children.

Before his father's death, Samuel H. Ruggles attended Lowville Academy, but afterwards, on account of his mother's limited income, he was obliged to leave school. He came to Circleville, Ohio, where his uncle, Gen. Hoel Lawrence, then a prominent business man, had secured for him the position of junior clerk in the mercantile house of Rogers & Martin. Although he started here with a very small salary, even for those days, at the end of eight years he had saved enough to justify his admission to a partnership in the firm. This advancement meant a one-fourth interest in all the business, including the grain trade and pork-packing, the latter an industry then in its infancy. In 1845, when the firm opened a commission business in New Orleans, Mr. Ruggles took charge of this branch house. In a very few years, he bought out the interests of his partners and became head of the firm, himself.

In 1852 he disposed of his mercantile and grain interests and for the next 20 years devoted his attention to pork-packing, owning one of the largest pork-packing houses in Ohio.

Mr. Ruggles organized the first canning factory at Circleville and from this have emanated 15 busy canneries in the vicinity. In fact the number of prosperous business concerns in the city with which he had some connection is surprisingly large.

He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Circleville and was one of its directors before he became connected with the Second National Bank. In 1863 he became a director of the Second National Bank and was made its president on January 12, 1882, which position he filled with rare judgment and success for 21 years, until his death.

On February 15, 1859, Samuel H. Ruggles was united in marriage with Catherine Osborne, daughter of Ralph Osborne (at one time prominent in the affairs of this State) and granddaughter of Gen. James Denny, of the War of 1812.

Of this union were born four children: Samuel T.; Elizabeth Joslin (who resides with her mother in the old home at Circleville) ; Nelson J.; and Fanny M., the latter of whom died in 1873.

In bringing this brief record of one of Circleville's most valued citizens to a close, mention must be made of his wide-spread charities. His benefactions were not distributed with any ostentation, but they were constant and liberal.

He was a forceful and evenly balanced man and although public life had no attractions for him, he possessed just the qualities needed in the successful management of the country's affairs. His life was exemplary and its influence will long be felt.

SAMUEL. TURNEY RUGGLES, president of the Second National Bank of Circleville, is one of the best known men of this city, where he has lived all his life. He is a son-of the late Samuel H. Ruggles, who for a period of nearly 60 years was intimately connected with the most important business enterprises of Circleville.

tion in Eastern schools where he was trained in business methods. For 10 years he was engaged in the pork-packing business with his father, and for six years under the firm name of Ruggles & Morrow. Upon the death of his father in April, 1904, he became president of the Second National Bank of which he had previously been one of the directors. In addition to the banking business, he is largely interested in farming and other pursuits, and is the manager of the Marshall Anderson estate. Like his father, he possesses remarkable business ability and is looked upon as one of Circleville's most enterprising and successful men of affairs.

Mr. Ruggles was married to Maude Richards and they have two children - Catherine Osborne and Miriam J. They reside in one of the city's most beautiful homes, located on South Court street. Mr. Ruggles and family attend the Presbyterian Church. Politically, he is identified with the Republican party.

BIEORGE W. ALKIRE, one of the @ prominent agriculturists of Madison and Pickaway counties, belongs to one of the old pioneer families of this section of Ohio, and is the only surviving son of Isaac and Mary (Graham) Alkire.

The Alkire family is of Scotch extraction and many members of it still reside in old Scotland, where the name is spelled Alkirk. The founder of the Alkire family in America was a member of the colonizing expedition of Lord Baltimore, which crossed the Atlantic Ocean and made the first settlement in Maryland in 1634. Evidently this early settler was a man of virile strength as his descendants have increaseC_and multiplied, their lives and histories being more or less interwoven with the annals of a number of the States of the Union. From Maryland the name is traced to Virginia, thence to Kentucky and about 1800 it became known in Ohio.

William Alkire, the eldest son of the above family, was born and probably reared in Virginia and there married Elizabeth Moore, for his first wife. Subsequently he removed to Kentucky but no records are at hand to show whether the following children were born in Virginia or Kentucky. They were: Mary Ann, born October 5, 1781, who married Courtney Tanner; Robert, born October 3, 1783, who married Elizabeth Douglass; John, born December 17, 1785, who died in infancy ; Margaret, born in 1786, who married James Denison; Jacob, born April 1, 1787, who married Mary Phebus, who died March 20. 1842, his death following on June 5, 1847; Isaac, the father of our subject; Abraham, born August 6, 1790; Lydia, born January 3, 1792, who married John Graham; Harmon, born February 10, 1794, who never married; John (2), born October 15, 1795, who married Susan Mantle; Delilah, born in 1796, who married John Metz; and William, born 1797, who married Hannah Osborn. After the death of his first wife, William Alkire married Temperance Clay, who was a sister of the distinguished statesman, Henry Clay. 'Pwo children were born to this marriage, viz.: Henry Green Clay and Joseph. The former was born May 25, 1807, in Ohio, and died July 23, 1863. His wife was Elizabeth Neff, of a well-known Ohio pioneer family.

Isaac Alkire, son of William and Elizabeth (Moore) Alkire, and father of George W. Alkire, was born October 12, 1788, probably in Kentucky. His death occurred May 16, 1877, on his farm in Darby township, Pickaway County, Ohio, where he owned 500 acres of land. He inherited 100 acres of land from his father, who came to Ohio about 1800. His whole life was devoted to agricultural pursuits. He married Mary Graham, who became the mother of eight children and died November 14, 1862. The two living children of Isaac Alkire are: George W., of this sketch; and Cynthia, the wife of F. O. Bostic, of Mount Sterling.

ship, Pickaway County, Ohio, on January 4, 1836. He was educated in the district schools and was reared a practical farmer on the old homestead, where he remained until he was 38 years of age. He owns 807 acres of excellent land in Pickaway County, as mentioned above, and also 75 acres in Madison County, on which he lives. Formerly the family owned the present site of Mount Sterling, which town was originally laid out by Mr. Alkire's uncle, a Mr. Smith.

George W. Alkire was united in marriage with Katherine Smith, who was a ward of Dr. Whitford, of Circleville. They have had four children, viz.: Martha, who died aged 18 years; Nella, who lives at home; Katherine, who also resides at home; and William, who married Bessie Snyder.

Mr. Alkire is a charter member of the Mount Sterling lodge of Odd Fellows and is one of the oldest members of the fraternity in his section. He has been identified with the improvement and growth of Darby township since his earliest days and no citizen is held in higher esteem.

'| ber of the 76th General Assembly of Ohio - State Senator from the roth Senatorial District - is one of the men of prominence in Pickaway County, where he was born October 21, 1872. He is a son of Nelson J. and Elizabeth (Bell) Dunlap, and a grandson of John and Mary (Minear) Dunlap.

The Dunlap family can justly lay claim to be one of the old pioneer ones of this section of the State. As far back as traced, its ancestry belongs to Virginia, and it was from that State that the great-grandfather of our distinguished subject came to what was then the wilderness of Ohio, and established his family among the first in Ross County. He had married a native of Maryland, and at least one son was nine years old when the settlement was made. John Dunlap, the son mentioned, served in the War of 1812, and lived in Ross County until his death in 1878.

Nelson J. Dunlap, father of Renick W. Dunlap, was born in Ross County and was educated in the early schools of the neighborhood, having better advantages than many of his comrades, through his parents' care in sending him to an excellent private school at Chillicothe. Had the Civil War not come upon the country, it is probable that his life would have been entirely confined to agricultural pursuits in his native county, but in November, 1863, he enlisted in the United States Navy, in defense of his country. He was attached to the Mississippi squadron and for more than a year took part in the general warfare along the river. Prior to entering the navy, he had been a volunteer in the defense of Cincinnati and thus became somewhat acquainted with the hardships of a soldier's life, proving his brayery by acting as a scout under Colonel Reed. The life on the water was scarcely less exciting and hazardous, but Mr. Dunlap returned home without serious injury.

After his return from the army, Mr. Dunlap resumed farming and in 1868 settled in Pickaway County, near Kingston, where he remained until 1905, when he removed to Kingston. He still retains his cultivated farming lands, which aggregate some 1,100 acres, and also gives attention to the business enterprise known as the Kingston tile factory, of which he is the proprietor. He has also long been prominent in county politics and served two terms as township treasurer and had the honor of being the first Republican ever elected in Pickaway township.

On December 10, 1867, Mr. Dunlap was married to Elizabeth Bell, who was born in Ross County, Ohio, December 25, 1846, and is a daughter of Hugh and Lovina (Renick) Bell, the former of whom' was born in Pickaway and the latter in Ross County. Hugh Bell was a son of Thomas Bell, who was an early settler in this part of the State. To Mr. and Mrs. Dunlap were born the following children: Mary E., wife of Amos Leist, of Kingston, Ohio; Renick W., our subject; Nellie T., wife of Dennis Dreisbach, of Pickaway County; and Alice J., who resides with her parents at Kingston.

having always been an earnest advocate of public education. He is an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic post at Kingston and for years has been one of the leading members of the Patrons of Husbandry and has served as master'of the Scioto Grange. He is a member and one of the trustees of the Presbyterian Church at Kingson.

Renick W. Dunlap passed his boyhood on his father's farm and secured his early education in the local schools and completed his course at the Kingston High School. In 1895, after a thorough course of agricultural training, he was graduated at the Agricultural College of the Ohio State University. His tastes have always been in the direction of agricultural pursuits and, although public affairs have claimed a part of his time, his greatest pleasure is found on his beautiful farm, where work is carried on systematically and scientifically, with the most satisfying results. For some time he has been interested in the breeding of Shorthorn cattle and owns some _ valuable herds.

From his youth up Mr. Dunlap has been an intelligent student of public affairs and has been more or less prominent in the councils of the Republican party, for an extended period. He belongs to the younger body of political workers and was elected to his present honorable and responsible position by a very flattering vote. In September, 1906, he received the Republican nomination for the office of State dairy and food commissioner.

Mr. Dunlap was married June 9, 1897, to Maxie E. Cummins, who was born at Columbus, Ohio, and is a daughter of Edward W. Cummins, of that city. They have one son, Nelson H., who was born February 16, 1902.

Fraternally Mr. Dunlap is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and with the various Masonic bodies. He has always been notably public spirited, has always worked for the welfare of his township and county and has testified to his interest in educational and religious. enterprises by liberally contributing to their advancement.

BEL SEYMOUR GULICK, whose name unites two old and honorable family names of this section of Ohio, is a representative farmer and stockraiser of Muhlenberg township. He

The Gulick family is of Welsh descent and came to Ohio from Virginia. The Seymour family came from the North of Ireland, was well established in Virginia, coming to the United States at the same time as did the Renicks, and settled in Ohio at a very early day.

Jesse Gulick was a son of William Gulick, who came to Ohio from Virginia in 1818. The former was born in Virginia and was about three years old when his parents settled in Muhlenberg township. He died here in 1878, aged 63 years, and was buried on Decoration Day. His whole life after marriage was spent in Muhlenberg township, where he owned a farm of 150 acres. He was a stanch Democrat. He married Elizabeth Seymour, who was born near Waverly, Pike County, Ohio, and died at Mount Sterling, Madison County, Ohio, in February, 1903, aged 80 years. She was a daughter of Aaron Seymour; her mother dying when she was 12 years old, she was reared by her cousin, Abel Seymour.

The fine farm now owned by our subject is known as the old Seymour farm, its original owner having been William Seymour. It is situated on the old Federal road and its location and value have been known to the people of this section for generations. Mr. Gulick utilizes it mainly as a stock farm, raising many sheep. There are several old mounds on the farm which scientists are of the opinion were constructed by another race, for burial places for their dead. From a valuable gravel pit which is on one portion of the farm, a proof that at a remote period water covered this territory, Mr. Gulick has removed many human relics. Portions of skeletons have been found, which, when exposed to the air, fell to pieces, and a number of teeth imbedded in skulls which indicate that once a race of giants lived and died here. All trace of that civilization seems to have passed away.

Our subject is one of a family of ro children and the eldest, the others being: Mrs. Mary Merrill, deceased in 1892; Minerva, who is the wife of William C. Hill, of Jackson township; Augustus P., of Darby township; Elizabeth Sidney, wife of Elmer Strader, of Darby township; Margaret, widow of Alexander McCord, of Grove City, Ohio; Jonathan Renick, of Darby township; Rachel, wife of L. C. Closan, of Mount Sterling; Fannie, wife of Nelson McKinley; and Josephine, a resident of Columbus.

Mr. Gulick was married (first) on December 6, 1877, to Anna B. Carpenter, who was born in Fleming County, Kentucky, January 25, 1854, and died October 26, 1886. She was a daughter of John R. Carpenter. The children of this union were: Milward N., born December 8, 1878, who lives in Darbyville; Elizabeth C., born September 16, 1880, who married William McGuire; John R., born September 29, 1882, who died aged one year; Harry, born November 6, 1884, who died aged four years; and Anna Belle, born October 5, 1886, who resides with her grandfather in Kentucky. Mr. Gulick was married (second) on August 8, 1889, to Mrs. Matilda Strader, who was born in Knox County, Ohio, November 17, 1854, and was the widow of Jesse Strader and a daughter of Abner and Anna (Gorrel) Wade. She had four. children by her first marriage, namely: Effie, Isabel and Claude, all deceased, and Pearl, wife of Russell Hill. To her marriage with Mr. Gulick have been born three children, viz.: Ursil Irene, born May 25, 1890; Guy Bryant, born January 20, 1892; and Nolo Wade, born April 27, 1894. A group picture of the Gulick family accompanies this sketch.

In political sentiment Mr. Gulick has always been identified with the Democratic party. He has taken an active part in public matters in the, township and has served two terms as township trustee. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

ILLIAM FORESMAN, vice-president of the Second National Bank of Circleville, is the senior banker of this city, and for years has been one of the prominent business

The Foresman family is of Scotch-Irish descent, its founders in America being the great-grandparents, who came from the North of Ireland. They settled in Virginia and there William Foresman, the grandfather of the present William, was born, and from there, in boyhood, he accompanied his parents to Wayne township, Pickaway County, Ohio. He accumulated land to the amount of 520 acres, not far from the present city of Circleville, and when it was proposed to construct the Ohio Canal he gave the right of way through his farm. He built a mill here, on Darby Creek, which he carried on until 1849, establishing what has become one of the largest milling industries of this part of the State. In religious observance he was a Presbyterian. Of his five children, Philip, father of our subject, was the second eldest.

Hon. Philip Foresman was born on the present site of Foresman's Milt and learned the milling business. Soon after his marriage, he moved to Lafayette, Indiana, where he purchased a large tract of land, comprising some two sections, where he was extensively interested in farming and where he also built the first as well as the largest mills in that locality. These he operated in.connection with a large grain business for many years. He was a very prominent political factor, a Whig in politics and served two terms in the Indiana State Legislature. His death took place in 1847, when a comparatively young man, being but 45 years of age; at that time he was considered one of the largest capitalists of his county.

Hon. Philip Foresman married Elizabeth Bennett, who was born in Deer Creek township, Pickawav County, Ohio, and was a daughter of George and Margaret Bennett, natives of Virginia, who were early settlers in Deer Creek township. After the death of Mr.

Foresman, Mrs. Foresman returned to Circleville, with her three sons, Bennett (who is a resident of Lafayette, Indiana), William and George P.

William Foresman obtained his early education at Circleville and then graduated at a commercial college at Cincinnati. Returning then to Lafayette, he followed farming until 1869, when he 'came back to Circleville, and, with his brother George P., purchased the mill property, which continued in their possession until 1900, and on which were operated mills having a capacity of 150 barrels of choicest family and baker's flour per day. The location, at the junction of three thoroughfares west of the city with superior railroad connections, gave the best imaginable facilities for transportation. They manufactured several special brands, all of which commanded an immense sale. Shipments were made all over the country. The equipments of the mills were o: the most modern description, every invention of approved utility having been introduced. In connection with their large milling interests, the Foresman Brothers owned and operated a farm of 225 acres of valuable land adjoining the mills and were also large cattle feeders. It was in 1900 that Mr. Foresman disposed of his milling interests and has since been engaged in looking after his farm lands, which consist of about 700 acres.

Mr. Foresman was elected a director of the Second National Bank of Circleville, on January 9, 1883, and upon the death of Samuel H. Evans, he was elected vice-president of this institution, on January 10, 1893. At present he is the senior banker in Circleville, having survived all the members of the board in office at the time he was chosen as vice-president. ;

William Foresman was married (first) to Mary Millar, a daughter of Adam Millar. She was born at South Bloomfield, Ohio, and died at Circleville, leaving one son, Adam, also deceased, who inherited his grandfather Millar's farm of 640 acres of land, near South Bloomfield, the finest in the county.

daughter of E. E. Winship, Sr., of Circleville, now living retired. Mrs. Foresman has one son by first marriage, Elton Winship Partridge, who resides in Columbus. Mr.' Foresman resides at No. 239 South Scioto street, where he located in 1849 and which has continued to be his home ever since.

Politically William Foresman was a Republican for some years and under the administration of President Grant served four years as postmaster of Circleville. Mr. Foresman

D. HESS, manager of the Pressing & Orr Company, a business concern of magnitude which has been established at Circleville since 1901, is one of the experienced cannery

Mr. Hess was reared and educated in his native place. He came to Circleville in 1885 and was identified with C. E. Sears & Company until 1897, next was for two years with Sears & Nichols Company, of Chillicothe, and then was manager for four years with the Winorr Canning Company at Circleville. The business underwent reorganization and the firm name became the Pressing & Orr Company. Mr. Hess has entire management of their plant at Circleville. They are extensive canners of corn, tomatoes, beans, spinach and beets and packers of pickles, and have firstclass facilities and an annual capacity.of some 150,000 cases.

In 1887 Mr. Hess was united in marriage with Etta M. Ashworth, who is a daughter of the late William Ashworth, of Kingston, Ross County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Hess have two children: Blanche M. and Malcolm C., the former of whom is a member of the graduat-

Mr. Hess is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is one of the leading members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Circleville, in which he is a steward and a member of the board of trustees.

Circleville's representative business men, a director in the Sears & Nichols Company, of Chillicothe, and also one of the managers and part owner of C. E. Sears & Company, of Circleville, belongs to one of the pioneer families of Pickaway County, Ohio. He was born in Salt Creek township, Pickaway County, in 1844, and is a son of Samuel Reichelderfer.

The family was established in this county by John Reichelderfer, who was a native of Berks County, Pennsylvania, and who came here when this whole extent of country was one vast wilderness. Here he reared a Jarge family, one son, Henry, becoming the grandfather of our subject. Samuel Reichelderfer, son of Henry and father of our subject, was born in 1813 in Salt Creek township and became one of the locality's extensive farmers.

James Reichelderfer was reared in Salt Creek township and went to school in the little log structures then used for educational purposes. He continued on the farm until 1876, when he moved to Circleville where he embarked in a grain and milling business with William Heffner, under the firm style of William Heffner & Company. About 18 months later he became associated with the firm of Heffner & Company and continued interested with this firm from 1879 until 1897, when he sold out his interests to the Heffners. Subsequently in partnership with his brother, Francis Reichelderfer our subject engaged in a grain business and in connection with their elevator they built a canning factory. After operating it for some time, they sold to the Sears & Nichols Company, of Chillicothe, but Mr.

Mr. Reichelderfer was married (first) in 1864 to Maria Westman, who died in 1886. In 1889 he was married (second) to Julia M. Work, of Lancaster, Ohio. They have two children, Evan W. and Ruth M., both bright students in the Circleville High School. The family belong to the Presbyterian Church. Fraternally, Mr. Reichelderfer is a Royal Arch Mason.

SAa)ORBAN GRANT ALKIRE, a well- 9]; known resident of Mount Sterling, Ohio, and a member of one of the old and honorable families of Pickaway and Madison counties, was born on his father's farm in Madison County, Ohio, May 26, 1863, and is a son of Abraham Reid and Mary Jane (Tanner) Alkire, grandson of Abraham and Jennie Martin (Creath) Alkire and great-grandson of William and Elizabeth (Moore) Alkire.

The Alkire family in America was established by Almonas Alkire, who in the time of James. I., of England, was a member of Lord Baltimore's colonizing expedition, which settled in Maryland. Old records demonstrate the fact that in 1626 there lived in Holland a noble family by the name of Algire, which had originally come from Scotland where the family name was Alkirk. From Maryland the Alkires passed to Virginia, thence to Kentucky and finally to Ohio, where the family has been established nearly 100 years. The early family history has been given at length in the sketch of William Harvey Alkire, brother of our subject, which appears elsewhere in this book.

Abraham Reid Alkire was born on the old Alkire homestead, in Pleasant township, Madison County, Ohio, on February 27, 1830, and died February 12, 1902. He married Mary Jane Tanner, who was born February 22, 1839, and died October 10, 1886. They reared five sons and one daughter, as follows: William Harvey, vice-president of The Citizens' Bank at Mount Sterling; Charles Francis; Abraham Scott; Corban Grant; Tully Smith and Lillie Annie, wife of Charles Edgar Zahn. Abraham Reid Alkire was president of The Citizens' Bank at Mount Sterling from the date of its organization to his death. He married for his second wife Mrs. Flavilla (Coalton) Tenny, January 29, 1889. She died January 16, 1899, aged 66 years, 9 months and 15 days.

Corban G. Alkire was mainly educated at Columbus and is a man of solid intellectual attainments. At the death of his father he came into possession of land amounting to 273 acres, in Madison and Pickaway counties, and owns an elegant home at Mount Sterling.

Mr. Alkire was married at Columbus, Ohio, June 29, 1898, to Clara Liggett, who was born April 22, 1868, at Baton: Rouge, Louisiana, and is a daughter of the late Col. John B. Liggett. Mrs. Alkire has two sisters, Georgia and Kate.

The late Col. John B. Liggett was born at Smithfield, Jefferson County, Ohio, November 25, 1839. Like many other men who have reaped success in other fields, Colonel Liggett was reared on a farm and had only the educational advantages offered by the public schools. On leaving the farm he engaged in a mercantile business in various places until the outbreak of the Civil War. During the war he had a contract with the United States government to supply coal and for some time he followed the river in fulfilling his contracts. At the close of the war he went to Louisiana and for a time was engaged in a coal business there, later removing to New Orleans,' where he was very successful in the same line.

Colonel Liggett then came North, established his home at Toronto, Jefferson County, Ohio, and there became connected with the sewer-pipe industfy and continued in that business for several years. He then became interested in the Bell Telephone Company and was soon recognized as one of the company's most valuable employees in this whole section. Important interests were soon placed in his hands and they were managed with skill and efficiency. He became general :nanager of the Central at Toronto and was noted for his promptness as well as his courtesy. Personally he was held in the highest esteem and many expressions of intense regret were heard at the time of his decease. The mother of Mrs. Alkire still survives and resides with her two daughters at Toronto,

A visitor to Mount Sterling could not help but admire the beautiful home of Mr. 'and Mrs. Alkire, situated as it is in a wealth of flowering loveliness. Winter is turned into summer with them, for flowers bloom for these true lovers of the floral kingdom, within doors as well as out. They have a fine collection of palms and ferns, among which may be seen many fine*specimens. Mr. and Mrs.. Alkire are both deaf mutes, but with such beautiful surroundings and with congenial tastes, the affliction seems a light one. Mrs. Alkire was born thus but Mr. Alkire sustained his loss from a severe attack of fever in his childhood. Both enjoyed the educational advantages afforded at the Deaf Mute College at Columbus and are highly educated and also variously accomplished. The atmosphere of their quiet home, with its refined influences, is very attractive.

Peas HOMAS WHITE BROWN, a wellfo), known business man of Wayne town- 'ship and Circleville, who has been identified with many interests in Pickaway County for some years, was born in Deerfield township, Ross County, Ohio, in 1869, and is a son of Ambrose White Brown,

The father of Mt. Brown was also born in - Deerfield township, Ross County, Ohio, where his parents had settled at an early date. In 1876 he removed to Pickaway County, where he died in the following year.