Warren County, Ohio - Biographical sketches (2 of 2 so headed), 1882 (part 2 of 16)

WILLIAM HOLLCROFT, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Washington Co., Penn., Sept 25, 1807; he is the twentieth child of John Hollcroft, who was twice married and had ten children by each wife, the subject being the youngest child by the second wife; his father was a native of England and his mother of New York. Our subject received a limited education in the subscription schools of his time, and, since he came to Ohio, in 1832, has followed farming up to the present date; he early learned the trade of a blacksmith, but never followed it. He was married, in 1834, to Miss Permelia McCreary, a daughter of James McCreary, of Turtle Creek Township; they have had six children, viz., John, James E. (deceased), William H., Hattie, Laura and Lucy. Mr. Hollcroft has a fine farm of 162 J acres, well supplied with all modem conveniences. He is a successful farmer and a good, reliable citizen; in politics, he is a Republican.

JOSEPH HOLLINGSWORTH, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bom in South Carolina May 25, 1802 : he is the son of Abraham and Eunice (Steddom) Hollingsworth, who emigrated to Warren County in 1804; he was raised on the farm and received as liberal an education as the schools of the township afforded. He was married in 1833, to Miss Sallie Furnas, of Montgomery Co., Ohio, by whom he has had nine children - five now living. He is a Republican in politics, and, with his wife, belongs to the Society of Friends; he owns several farms, amounting in all to 725 acres.

DAVID HOLLOWAY (deceased) was bom on Duck Creek, Hamilton Co., Ohio, Feb. 20, 1799; his parents were Jacob and Hannah (Cory) Holloway, natives of New Jersey, of English descent; the former was born Oct. 26, 1767, and the latter Oct. 7, 1772, and they died April 2, 1852, and Nov. 26, 1862, respectively. The parents emigrated to Ohio toward the close of the eighteenth century, and about the year 1800 settled in what is now Warren County, on the present Shubal Vail farm. Our subject, at the age of 14, united with the Shakers, in company with his father, with which society he lived until about the year 1831. He married Ann, daughter of Thomas and Mercy (Curtis) Nicholson, who was bora in Pennsylvania Nov. 5, 1809, of English descent, Dec. 8, 1835, and to them were born Hannah (deceased), Mary E., Thomas, John, Jacob C. and William. Mr. Holloway died Feb. 1, 1875, having passed his life on a farm, never living out of the sound of the Shaker bell.

CEPHAS HOLLOWAY, Shaker Deacon, Lebanon; was born in what is now Turtle Creek Township Dec. 29, 1800, when all Southern Ohio was in one county, called Hamilton, and Ohio was the Northwest Territory. As he graphically expresses it, he was 4 ' born in a thicket and had to chop his way out/" His father came to the Shakers in 1805, but did not enter the regular organization until 1812. His parents, Jacob and Hannah (Cory) Holloway, were natives of Morris Co., N. J., of English descent. Our subject was baptized in his infancy as a Presbyterian, but united with the Shakers when old enough to act for himself. He learned shoemaking and conducted a shop at the village for ten years; he has occupied almost all of the offices in the society, and is one of the pillars on which the present church has been built; he is a thorough and consistent Shaker, and lives strictly in accordance with the tenets of his faith.

SILAS HURIN (deceased) was born in Morris Co., N. J., July 22, 1774; he was the ninth child of his father, Seth Hurin, and his wife Mary, -formerly Mary Hazen; both Seth Hurin and his wife were natives of New England, but after their marriage removed to Morris Co. , N. J. , where all their children were born. After the birth of their children, he removed to Ulster Co., N. Y., and from thence to Hamilton Co., Ohio. He was born Nov. 22, 1729, and died in October, 1815; his wife was born May 22, 1735, and died June 30, 1794; they had ten children. Silas Hurin came with his father and family to Ohio perhaps about 1795, and settled near Cincinnati. On the 15th of September,

1799, when he was 25 years old, he was married to Agnes, a daughter of John Ludlow, who had removed to Ohio about 1790, and lived near White's Station on Mill Creek, in Hamilton Co., Ohio. By this marriage, Mr. Hurin had the following children, viz., Catharine C., Maria, Susan T., Sarah H., Amanda,

30. 1832; they had the following children, who lived to majority, viz., Samuel, who married Sue McCullugh and now lives at Denver, Colo.; Evalina, widow of Dr. James Findley, deceased, and Baker, deceased; Amanda, the widow of Rev. R. T. Drake, deceased; Mary, who died unmarried, and Henry, who enlisted in the war of the rebellion and died in the service. Silas Hurin removed to where Lebanon now stands in 1799; he was one of the original proprietors; he first occupied a cabin on Cherry street, south of Main; he afterward erected a brick residence near the same place; he was a tanner by trade, his tanyard being situated near his residence; he was an early Justice of the Peace, President of the town of Lebanon and the first Treasurer of Warren County; he was an Elder in the Presbyterian Church at Lebanon from about the time of its organization until his death; he died Jan. 19, 1862, in his 88th year; his wife died Nov. 6, 1831, in her 57th year.

THOMAS P. HUTCHINSON, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Clermont Co., Ohio, July 30, 1808; his father, Silas Hutchinson, was a native of Maryland and a soldier under Gen. Wayne in the war of 1812; he emigrated to Ohio at an early day and located in Clermont County, where he married Miss Margery Paxton, a native of that county, by whom he had eight children, viz. , Joseph, Robert, Eeziah, Elizabeth, Silas, Thomas P., Betsey and a child who died in infancy. Of these, our subject and Silas are the only survivors. Mr. ' Hutchinson died in Lebanon and his wife in Turtle Creek Township on what is called the "Ridge." Our subject received an ordinary education in the schools of his day, and at once commenced life by renting a farm on which he continued until able to purchase a small tract of land; he has followed farming all his life, adding little by little to his estate until now he has accumulated a comfortable competency; he was married in April, 1828, to Cynthia Benham, a native of Turtle Creek Township, and a daughter of John Benham, a Captain of the war of 1812. By this union twelve children were bora, viz. , Margery, the wife of William B. Blackburn, of Lebanon; John, a carpenter in Texas; Narcissus, the widow of Newton Smith, deceased; Ann, the deceased wife of James Bone; Eliza, the widow of John Stowell, of Lebanon; James, deceased; Mary, the wife of John Strickler, of Warren County; Thomas, a farmer; Silas; Madison; Frank, deceased, and Cynthia, deceased. All of the survivors, with one exception, are residents of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchinson are both members of the Baptist Church, of which he has been a member twenty -five years; Mr. H. is a Democrat in politics.

FREDERICK HUTCHINSON (deceased) was bora at Lexington, Ky.; he was the son of John and Catharine (Snyder) Hutchinson, he a native of Lexington, Ky., and she of Fredericksburg, Va. Our subject was compelled by straitened circumstances to begin hard labor at a tender age and received very little, if any, education; he was married, in 1838, to Miss Mary Shawhen, daughter of John and Rebecca (Leggett) Shawhen, who was born in 1820. She emigrated with her parents to Ohio, from the Red Stone country, Pennsylvania, when only four months old. By her marriage to our subject ten children were bora, of whom three are deceased and the following seven survive: Rebecca, born in 1840, wife of Moses Crossley; Frank, bora 1843; John, bora in 1850, now married; Annice, born in 1852, now the wife of J. B. Todhunter; Josephine, bom in 1854, wife of Victor Worley; Laura, bora in 1859, wife of Christopher Stibbs, and William, bom in 1862, now married. Mr. Hutchinson started in life with nothing, but, by industrious habits and close attention to his business, he had accumulated at the time of his death, Dec. 19, 1881, a large property, consisting of farming lands in different localities, amounting in the aggregate to nearly 700 acres; he was a man of indomitable energy and possessed more than ordinary business ability; his life was spent entirely on the farm, but he was an extensive dealer in pork and real estate; the surviving members of his family are all well-to-do residents of Warren County.

THOMAS J. HUTCHINSON, manufacturer, Lebanon. The subject of this sketch is one of the leading manufacturers of Warren County, having a large carriage and wagon shop in Lebanon. He was bora March 22, 1831, in Clermont Co., Ohio; his father, Joseph Hutchinson, was one of the oldest settlers in the State; his mother, Elizabeth Rosa, was a native of Pennsylvania. When but 7 years of age, he came to Warren County and lived with his grandfather, Silas Hutchinson, until 16 years of age, when he began, in Lebanon, the trade at which he has since been engaged. In 1870, his manufactory was destroyed by fire; the present building is the largest carriage establishment in the county; he has attained a competency by his business; he is one of Lebanon's best citizens, has been a member of the Council several years, and is a member cf the School B^ard; is a quiet, unassuming man in manners, and enjoys the respect and esteem of his fellow- citizens; in politics, he is a Republican; in religion, a Methodist In 1854, he was married to Mary Van Note, daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth Van Note, of Lebanon; the children are seven in number, six living and one dead (Daisy). The oldest son, Oswald A., is engaged in busineas as trimmer with his father; was married, in 1878, to Theodosia Braninger; Adelia S., the oldest daughter, was married to Dr. W. M. Harsha, of Illinois, in 1880; at home, are Ella, Lizzie, Albert and Huber.

JOSHUA IORNS, farmer; P. O. Lebanon. This gentleman was born in the State of New Jersey on the 19th of February, 1804; is the son of Samuel and Rebecca (Gibbs) Iorns, of German extraction. Mr. Ioras emigrated to Ohio with his parents in the spring of 1813; he was reared on a farm and received instruction in the rudimentary branches in the schools of the vicinity in which he lived. On the 20th of November, 1826, Mr. Ioms was united in marriage with Eliza, daughter of Eli and Esther (Learning) Foster, natives of New Jersey, but of English descent. The wife of our subject was bora in Warren County Sept. 16, 18 10. To them were born seven children, viz., Hannah, bom June 12, 1830, now the wife of David J. James, to whom she was married July 28, 1853; James T.S., bora Feb. 8. 1832 ; N. S., bora Jan. 6, 1834, and, in 1856, was married to Sarah Dunham; Rebecca W. , born Feb. 13, 1837, who became the wife of Capt. J. W. Martin, of Wheeling, Va.. on the 11th of October, 1854; Henry F., bora Sept. 3, 1839, and married Rebecca Bovey, of Welton, Iowa; Lemuel, bom October 30, 1841, who married Elizabeth St. John, and Charles C., born Sept. 10, 1847, and married Jemima Dim. Capt. J. W. Martin, late husband of Rebecca Ioras, was bora Dec. 19, 1828, and, at the age of 18 years became a pilot on the Muskingum River, and, on reaching his majority, purchased a steamboat and went South and continued in that line of business until his death, which occurred Oct. 12, 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Martin had bora to them a daughter, Eliza L., Jan. 22, 1850; she was married to Joseph E., son of J. M. and Martha (Little) Hayner, Nov. 26, 1870, and to them were bora two children, viz., Bessie L., bora in Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 5, 1877, and J. Mont, born on Red River Dec. 24, 1880.

ELI F. IRONS, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bora in Warren Co., Ohio, Nov. 20, 1830; his father, John Irons, emigrated from New Jersey to Ohio with his parents, Samuel and Rebecca (Gibbs) Irons, in 1816, and located in Warren County about two miles southeast of Lebanon, on the farm now occupied by Samuel Irons, Esq. He here married Abiah Foster, also a native of New Jersey, who emigrated to Ohio with her parents subsequent to 1816. Our subject received his education in the schools of Warren County; he was married, in Warren Co., Iowa, Jan. 29, 1857, to Miss Martha Bovey, a native of Morrow Co., Ohio, by whom he had two children - Abiah, deceased, and Amanda M., who lives on the farm with her parents. In 1875, Mr. Irons was appointed Superintendent of the County Infirmary, and. served in this capacity to the entire satisfaction of the directors and people until 1881, when he tendered his resignation of the office. With the exception of the six years thus spent, he has passed the whole of his life as a farmer, in which he has been eminently successful; he and his wife are members of the Christian Church, in which he is a Deacon.

N. S. IORNS, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bora in Union Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Jan, 8, 1834; he is the son of Joshua and Eliza (Foster) Ioms, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Warren County. Our subject attended the schools of his township, after which he completed his education in Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. He has spent his life on the farm, with the exception of five years, in which he was engaged in business in Lebanon. In connection with farming, Mr. Ioras was, for a period of twelve years, engaged with his brother Samuel in buying and shipping hogs, and at intervals dealt in mess pork, at which he lost everything he had. He was married, in 1857, to Miss Sarah Dunham, daughter of Moses Dunham. She was born in Union Township in 1839; they have had eight children, three boys and five girls. The parents are both members of the Christian Church. Mr. Ioras is a Republican in politics.

G. W. IUTZI, farmer; P. O. Blue Ball, Butler Co. ; bora in Montgomery Co., Ohio, June 13, 1839; he is the son of Jacob and Merie (Holly) Iutzi, natives of Germany, who emigrated to America in 1832, and settled in Butler Co., Ohio; they were married in 1836, and had nine children, of whom three now survive, riz., G. W., Emelie L and Otto, all following the occupation of their father, that is, farming. Their father died April 8, 1858, leaving a farm of 220 acres in Turtle Creek Township; he was a Democrat until 1856, when Fremont ran for the Presidency, after which, until his death, he was a stanch and enthusiastic Republican. He was a chosen preacher for the Mennonite Church for many years. Our subject received a fair education; he received his education in the academy at Monroe. Ohio; he is now conducting a farm with good success.

JOSEPH JAMESON, retired farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bom near Xenia, Greene Co., Ohio, Feb. 13, 1812; when 8 years old, his father, John Jameson, died, leaving three sons and three daughters with their widowed mother; our subject was the eldest son and next to the eldest child; his boyhood was spent at hard labor, assisting his mother in the support of the family. In 1832, he removed to Warren County and located on the farm now owned by Ephraim K. Snook, one mile below Lebanon, but which was then owned by his uncle, Samuel Jameson, for whom he then engaged to work by the month. There he met and wedded Sarah Ann Brown, still living, who also then lived with his uncle. By this union, five girls and three boys were bom, all of whom are now living, the oldest at 41 and the youngest at 19 years of age. Their names and the order of their birth are as follows, viz. , Mary E. , who married James M. Cook Dec. 21, 1858, and now lives near Morrow; John A., who was married Nov. 4, 1869, to Emma, the eldest daughter of James D. McCain; he has been employed as telegraph operator and agent of the P. , C. & St. L. R. R. Co. for sixteen years at their offices at London, Pendleton and South Lebanon; Letitia Dow, who married John E. Dunham, of Warren County, March 13, 1864; Martin A., the present Treasurer of Warren County, who was married Aug. 20, 1868, to Kate M., daughter of John H. Evans (deceased), of Lebanon; five years later, she and his only two children died, and, on the 25th of December, 1877, he was again married to Mrs. Sarah M. Benedict, daughter of Asa Coleman, of Mason, Ohio. Newton, the third son, is a farmer in the vicinity of Lebanon; he married Miss Eva McCain, daughter of J. D. McCain; of the remaining three children, Adda, Kittie and Ella, the second-named was married, on New Year's Eve, 1879, to R. B. Lawler, of Warren County; the other two are living at home with their parents; they have been for some years identified with the teachers of Warren County. Our subject has now living in Warren County all of his eight children and eleven grandchildren, one of the latter having recently married Miss Emma Greely. Mr. Jameson was elected Superintendent of the County Infirmary in 1854, and served in this capacity four successive years; in 1858, he removed to Union Township, near South Lebanon, where he lived seven years, removing, in 1865, from there to Lebanon, where he has since lived. He was a Director of the County Agricultural Society for several years, and has been a member of the Republican party since its inception; he bears a reputation for honesty and integrity second to none in the community.

THOMAS KEEVER, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 2, 1892; his parents were Abraham Keever, a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent, and Margaret (Irons) Keever, a native of Pennsylvania, of Scotch descent; they were among the early settlers of Warren County, whither they emigrated in the year 1802 and settled in what is now Clear Creek Township, and later, the husband served in the war of 1812. Our subject received such education as could be obtained in the pioneer schools of Warren and Clark Counties and early commenced working on a farm, at which employment he has since continued. In 1827, he was married to Mary Ann Perrine, a native of Kentucky, by whom he had nine children, six of whom are now living, viz., John P., Mary E., James M., Margaret Ann, Alvira W. and Martha L. Mrs. Keever died in 1851, aod our subject afterward went to live with his daughter, Martha L., who married James A. Thompson, of Warren County, in i860; the latter was born in Warren County and is a farmer. In the second year of the late war, he enlisted in Company B, 79th O. V. I. ; he has had, by this marriage, two children - Clifford and Charley.

GEORGE KEEVER (deceased) was the son of Abraham Keever, a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in an early day and located in Warren County, where our subject was born May 26, 1812; he received his education in the country schools of Warren County, where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1869; he was a man of much natural ability, and, though a farmer by occupation, could " turn his hand " to almost any kind of work requiring mechanical skill; he was a good Republican in politics, and in religion a member of the Methodist Church. He was married, in 1855, to Miss Eliza A. Lawrence, a native of Butler County, who bore him the five following children: J. E., George E., Warren L., Franz Seigle and William E. Mr. Keever stood high in the esteem of his fellows, and at his death left a record unspotted.

NATHAN KEEVER (deceased) was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Aug. 6, 1818; he was a son of John and Elizabeth (Rogers) Keever, natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent; he received a limited education and spent his life on the farm, where he died Oct. 30, 1880; having been injured in the left arm when quite young, he was unable to do but little of the labor of the farm, but, by his counsel and foresight, the work was prosecuted with considerable success. He was a stanch Republican and held several offices of trust in the county, among which were County Commissioner six years, and Justice of the Peace several years. In the year of his death, he was appointed Receiver of the Miami Valley Narrow-Gauge Railway. He was a man of intelligence and good business qualifications. He was married, Nov. 2, 1858, to Mary J. Monfort, a native of Warren County, and daughter of Arthur Monfort, of New Jersey; they had five children, viz., Elbert M. (deceased), Merrilla (deceased), Hattie L. , Clarence W. and Nellie E.

ABE KEEVER, grocer, Lebanon, was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 10, 1830; he is the son of Anthony and Elizabeth (Swanger) Keever, he a native of Clark Co., Ohio, where he was born in February. 1805, and she a native of Warren County, born Oct. 20, 1807. Our subject received his education in Warren County; his life was spent on the farm mostly, until 1864, when he embarked in the grocery and bakery business, in Lebanon, where he is still engaged in the grocery occupation, having discontinued his bakery. He was married, Feb. 15, 1860, to Miss Sarah E. Lamb, a native of Turtle Creek Township, and a daughter of Thompson and Ann (Benham) Lamb, the former an early settler of Warren County. By this union, six children were bom, of whom three - Solon, Leonidas and Ruth - are the only survivors. Mr. Keever was a Democrat in politics until the formation of the Greenback party, since which he has been identified with the latter party. Mr. Keever's father, Anthony, died in Turtle Creek Township May 14, 1856; he was married in Turtle Creek Township and had nine children, of whom the following three are the only survivors: Abe, our subject; Isaac, a carpenter, of Union City, Ind. , and Samuel W. , a prominent farmer of Union Township, Warren Co. Our subject's wife's father, Thompson Lamb, was bom in New Jersey Sept. 21, 1794, and emigrated to Turtle Creek Township in 1801; he was the son of Joseph Lamb, bom in New Jersey Oct. 20, 1756, and died in Turtle Creek Township Aug. 8, 1828. Thompson was twice married, first, on April 18, 1816, to Caroline Stevenson, who was bora July 18, 1798, and died Nov. 19, 1826, and the second time, Jan, 22, 1828, to Ann Benham, who was bom in Washington Co., Penn., June 12, 1793, moved to Newport,

in 1794, and to Warren County in 1799, where she still lives. Her husband first settled on a farm on Muddy Creek, where he lived until his death, July 22, 1849; he was an Old-Line Whig and a Deacon in the Old-School Baptist Church.

JAMES M. KEEVER, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Jan. 20, 1835; he is the son of Thomas and Mary

A. (Perrine) Keever, whose sketches appear elsewhere in this work; he was reared on a farm and has always followed farming as an occupation. He was married, in 1857, to Rhoda Bunnell, a native of Warren County, where she was born Aug. 29, 1838; they have seven children living, viz., Edward C., Carrie

B. , Lincoln, Marion, Lida E., Walter and Clarence Hayes. Mr. Keever owns a fine farm of 160 acres in Section 22; he is a Republican and has served a term of fourteen years as a School Director, and was, for some time, one of the Board of Directors of the Warren County Agricult oral Society.

WILLIAM OSCAR KEEVER, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bom in Ohio Aug. 20, 1847 ; he is the son of Milton and Lydia (Murphy) Keever, natives of Ohio, she of Irish and he of German descent; they were the parents of six children, viz., Ellen (the deceased wife of John Monfort, Esq.), Elizabeth, wife of Peter Monfort, Eliza W., George (deceased), William O. (our subject), and Albert, all the survivors being citizens of Warren County. William O. attended the Normal School at Lebanon, where he completed his education and then returned to farming; he was married, in 1869, to Miss Ella Monfort, daughter of Stout Monfort, of Warren County; they have four children - Pearl, Milton S., Emma Maud and John M. Mr. Keever is one of Warren County's successful farmers; he owns a farm of 173 acres of land well improved, lying near Lebanon. He is a Republican in politics, but confines himself to simply voting the ticket of his party, never aspiring to any of its official honors.

ALBERT KEEVER, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bom in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Dec. 28, 1849; his father, Milton Keever, was an early settler of Warren, where he followed farming very successfully until his death, in 1869, at that time owning 408 acres of land, which he had acquired by his own industry, aided by the frugality of his wife, Lydia (Murphy) Keever; his son, our subject, has chosen farming for his life occupation and promises to soon reach the degree of excellence in it that his father occupied before him; he now owns 96 acres of good arable land, worth fully $100 per acre. He was married, Oct 8, 1872, to Ella Snook, daughter of E. K. Snook; to this union were born four children, viz., George Raymond, Lesley, Flora and Elva. Mr. Keever is a Republican in politics, and, for four years, served as School Director of his district.

JOHN KNOX (deceased) was bom in Ireland in 1809, and emigrated to America in 1818 with his parents, who settled in Turtle Creek Township in the section where they now live; he obtained his education in the village of Lebanon and followed farming until his death; he was a very industrious and hardworking man, full of the vigor and energy that characterizes the people of his nativity. He was married, in December, 1836, to Miss Mary Jane Cowan, a native of Turtle Creek Township, and a sister of David Cowan, of Warren County; they had four children, three girls and one boy, viz., Margaret J., the wife of James Brown, of Lebanon; Martha, the wife of Dr. Rush Carley, of Butler Co., Ohio; Mary E., the wife of Boyd Forman, a farmer of Turtle Creek Township, and Charles C. , who has attended to the home farm since his father's death. Mr. and Mrs. Knox were both members of the Presbyterian Church.

remained a short time. He then came to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained three years, and then, after six years spent in Philadelphia, Boston and New York, he came to Lebanon, Nov. 13, 1877 ; his primary education was received in the public schools and academies of his native country. In 1871, he commenced reading medicine with Dr. Boylston, of Boston, where he remained two years, after which he attended lectures at the Eclectic Medical College of New York; he then took a course of one year under the tutelage of Dr. Robert 8. Newton, of New York, and three years under Luis F. Sass, of the same city. On the 10th of February, 1876, he graduated at the " University of the City of New York," and, for one year, practiced his profession in that city. Since his removal, he has established an extensive and lucrative practice, which he is conducting with the best possible success. In 1880, he purchased the drug store and stock of W. H. Florer, Lebanon, and has since conducted that business in connection with his practice. On the 24th of October, 1878, he married Miss Fannie Babbitt, of Lebanon. Dr. Krieger is a wiry, energetic, sociable gentleman, well posted in his business, indefatigable in his profession and very social in his manners; he is making rapid strides toward success and promises soon to outstrip many a man much older in the profession.

ENOS LACKEY, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Clear Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Oct. 21, 1802; he is the son of Richard and Sarah (Harlan) Lackey, the latter being a native of South Carolina; his father emigrated to Ohio in 1796, and settled in Clear Creek Township, where he remained until the breaking-out of the war of 1812, when he enlisted and soon afterward rendered up his life - a sacrifice to his country. Our subject received no other education than was afforded by the log schoolhouse and country schoolmaster of pioneer days. He has been a farmer from his earliest days until recently, when he retired from active labor; he commenced life by working out, and was soon enabled to rent a farm, after which he Ixrnght a small farm and continued adding to it until he owned 400 acres; he has amassed a comfortable competency, which he is fully enjoying in his advanced age. He was married, in 1823, to Martha Irvin, who was bora in Hamilton Co., Ohio, Sept. 9, 1806; her father was also a soldier in the war of 1812. They have had fourteen children, who were, at one time, all alive and married, but of whom only nine now survive. Mr. and Mrs. Lackey are both members of the M. E. Church, in which he has for some time been an officer; they are both models of the honest, open-hearted and hospitable pioneer farmers, whose record for Christian integrity is above question.

J. R. LAWLER, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bora March 2, 1838; his paternal grandparents were David and Phebe Lawler, the former born Dec. 15, 1767, and the latter Nov. 19, 1770; his maternal grandparents, Isaiah and Rebecca Ross, were natives of Wales; his father, Moses Lawler, was born in New Jersey Nov. 12, 1797, and, in *1800, emigrated to Ohio, where he married Elizabeth Ro9s. Our subject was married May 6, 1844, to Adrian Dill, a daughter of William F. Dill; she was bora May 6, 1844, and died April 17, 1880; they had three children, viz. , Lizzie E. . Mary B. and Gracie. Mr. Lawler owns a farm, northwest of Lebanon, from which he gains a livelihood; he is a Republican in politics, and a member (as well as his wife) of the M. P. Church.

WILLIAM C. LEWIS, retired merchant, Lebanon. This well-known gentleman is the descendant of a family who came to Warren County in the beginning of the nineteenth century; his grandfather, Paul Lewis, emigrated from Burlington County, near Mt. Holly, N. J., in 1809, and located in Wayne Township, about three miles southwest of Waynesville. He brought with him his wife and a family of four children, named as follows: Nancy, William, Paul, Jr., and John; his wife dying after he settled here, he married a second wife,

Miss Johanna Hunt, by whom he had two children, only one of them now surviving, viz., J ackson, a citizen of Waynesville. Mr. Lewis moved to W aynes - ville in 1825, and, seven years thereafter, died; he belonged to the Society of Friends, and, for several years, served the citizens of Clear Creek Township as a Justice of the Peaca He was a man of more than ordinary natural ability, and was held in the highest esteem by the people of his community; his son, Paul Lewis, Jr., our subject's father, was born in New Jersey in 1797, and was about 12 years of age when his father came to Ohio; he was reared on the farm and continued farming the homestead place until his death, Sept 6, 1832 ; in addition to his farm operations, he teamed between Cincinnati and Sandusky, a distance of over 200 miles, and, owing to the exposures and hardships he thereby had to endure, he contracted a disease which culminated in paralysis, which carried him off in early manhood. He was married, in 1820, to Miss Mary Thatcher, a native of Hunterdon County, near Morristown, N. J., and a daughter of Evan and Nancy Thatcher, who emigrated from New Jersey in 1814, bringing their family of five children - Mary, Naomi, Sarah, David and Amos - and their household effects on a two-horse wagon. By his marriage to Miss Thatcher, Mr. Lewis had four childrerf, viz.: William C., Sarah A., Charles A. and John V. H. After his death, his widow retained the farm until her children were all grown and married. She died Sept. 13, 1877, aged 77 yearn William C., our subject was bom April 20, 1821, on the old homestead, and, until the 25th year of his age, he remained on the farm, in the meantime attending the common schools of his township. On the 26th of August, 1846, he engaged as a clerk in a dry goods store in Lebanon; in September, 1848, he married Caroline Noble, a daughter of Edward Noble, of Lebanon; she died Dec. 30, 1850, and, in 1853, he was again married, to Miss Abigail Morris, daughter of Adam B. and Lydia (Matthews) Morris, natives of New Jersey, from where they emigrated in 1810. By this union, Mr. Lewis had two children, viz., Mary L., the wife of Dr. W. S. Goodhue, of Lebanon, where they reside with their two children, Bessie and an infant son; and Emma G., who lived to be 18 years of age, when she died, Feb. 3, 1878, after an illness of two years. She was an estimable young lady, a general favorite, and, for a long time, a patient sufferer. In 1851, Mr. Lewis engaged in the dry goods business in Lebanon with Edward Noble, under the firm name of Noble & Lewis. This firm continued for four years, when the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Noble retiring and Mr. Lewis' brother John entering the firm, the name being changed to Lewis & Bro., under which title they continued business for several years; afterward, the name as changed to Lewis & Co., and so continued until 1878, when Mr. Lewis retired from business. With a fine physique and perfect health, he is now prepared to enjoy the competency he has accumulated through a life of industry and frugality. He lost his wife on the 28th of June, 1881, after twenty-eight years of married life. He has always been a stanch though liberal Republican, and has served his township and village as Treasurer for a period of ten years, and as a member of the Lebanon Council eight years'. He is a member of no church, but liberal in his religious opinions, with a kindly feeling for all Christian denominations and a will to uphold and quicken the interests of temperance, morality and education in his native county. As a business man, he has been quite successful, as is made manifest by the large property he now possesses. As a citizen, he has always stood in the front rank. Every work of reform finds in him a warm advocate and earnest supporter. We present his portrait on another page of this work.

CHARLES A. LEWIS, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Oct. 28, 1826, of parents, Paul and Mary (Thatcher) Lewis, natives of the State of New Jersey, a full account of whom is given in this work in the sketch of William C. Lewis. Our subject was but 6 years of age when his father died, but, by the thrift and good management of his mother, the family was kept together and Charles given an opportunity to attend school; he was reared on a farm, and has, for the greater part of his life, been a tiller of the soil. In 1852, Mr. Lewis was united in marriage to Margaret E. Jeffrey, who, too, is a native of Warren County, where she was born in 1833, and to them were bom children as follows: Sylvan A., Mary A., Ada V., Jennie M. (deceased), William B., Charles K. and Horace W. Mr. Lewis and wife are members of the United Brethren Church; in politics, he is a Republican. He owns over 300 acres of land in the county.

JOHN Y. H. LEWIS, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bom in Clear Creek Township, Warren Co., Feb. 1, 1833; his father, Paul Lewis, was bom in New Jersey about 1790, and came to Ohio with his parents about 1812; is fully mentioned in the sketch of William C. Lewis; his mother, Mary (Thatcher) Lewis, was bom in New Jersey about 1800. Our subject was reared on a farm, received a limited education in his native township, and, at 20 years of age, went into the dry goods business at Lebanon, which he followed for sixteen years, after which he returned to the farm, where he has since continued. He was married, in 1858, to Sarah Evans, a daughter of Isaac Evans, of Warren County; she was born Dec. 25, 1836, on the farm adjoining where they now live; they have had seven children, viz., Charles E., Eva E.. Frank, William. Hattie, Stanley J. and Laura Ethel.

REY. L. H LONG, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Lebanon, was bom July 1, 1826, near Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Penn., and was the son of Thomas and Rebecca (Fletcher) Long, both of American descent; his father, while he owned a farm, was at the same time a master blacksmith and conducted a large business in that line, working journeymen and always a number of apprentices. There was then no more profitable business than that of blacksmithing. Our subject in his young boyhood spent a great deal of his time in and about his father's shop and acquired a taste for the business, and now, when passing a blacksmith shop is very apt to drop in and spend some time in it. The only common-school education received by him was limited to reading, writing and arithmetic, but he entered, in 1841, the Western University of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, and graduated from it in 1846, being, in his collegiate course, characterized for application in study and thoroughness in scholarship. Upon his graduation, he entered the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, at Allegheny City, Penn., and, after taking a full course in the seminary, was licensed to preach the Gospel and ordained and installed pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Urbana, Ohio. He continued pastor of this church until 1854, when he changed his ecclesiastical connection and connected himself with the then Old- School General Assembly Presbyterian Church, when he was called to and settled as pastor in the First Presbyterian Church of Urbana. In 1801, when the war began, the church voted him a leave of absence for one year, that he might serve as Chaplain of the 20th O. Y. I., to which he had been unanimously chosen by the regiment In 1862, he returned to his pastoral work in the church at Urbana, and, in the fall of the same year, was unanimously nominated by the Republicans of Champaign County and elected by them to represent the county in the State Legislature. In this capacity, he served with entire acceptance to the people of Champaign County until 1865, and, during his legislative term, he continued as pastor of the church and occupied the pulpit regularly every Sabbath. In the spring of 1865, he resigned his pastoral charge, and, not being inclined to settle again as a pastor for a time, he applied to the Supreme Court of the State for admission to the bar, and, having read a course of law while in the university, and having kept up his legal reading in connection with his ministerial and pastoral duties, was, upon examination, readily admitted to practice in the courts of the State, and afterward in the United States District Court at Cincinnati. As a lawyer, he was a success, and continued in the practice in Urbana for some ten years, when, upon the urgent solicitation of his ministerial brethren, he felt it to be his duty to return again to the pulpit, and, deciding to do so, a call for his pastoral services from the First Presbyterian Church of Lebanon was given him, which he accepted, and is at present the pastor of the church, which says of him that he is not only an able preacher, but a faithful pastor. The bar of Champaign County, upon his retiring from it, gave expression to the following sentiment of esteem for him in their intercourse with him while at the bar:

The bar of Champaign County. Ohio, of which L. H. Long was a member, having heard of his intention to resume the pastor work of the ministry, adopted the following :

Whereas, The Hon. L. H. Long is about to retire from the practice, of the law and to sever his connection with us as a member of the bar, and return to and resume the duties and functions of a minister of the Gospel,

Resolved, That in his departure from us he carries with him our fraternal regards and our cordial wishes for his prosperity and happiness. We regret that he ceases to be associated with us as a lawyer, but we commend him as a minister, for his practice of our profession amongst us has not rendered him less fit for the sacred calling to which he now returns.

During his practice of the law, he served two terms as Mayor of Urbana and nearly two terms as City Solicitor, and, upon resigning the latter position, the City Council took the following action:

L. H. Long, City Solicitor, tendered his resignation, which was accepted ; whereupon Mr. Powers, a Democrat, offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted :

Resolved, That in our acceptance of his resignation we feel that we part with a worthy officer, one with whom our relations have been most pleasant and agreeable, both official and social, and in accepting his resignation we accept it with reluctance, and will ever cherish a pleasant recollection of our official connection.

The Western University of Pennsylvania, his "Alma Mater," which is exceedingly careful in bestowing its honors, a few years ago conferred upon him the ecclesiastical honor of D. D., and thus recognized him as one of the able and talented ministers of the Presbyterian Church, and those who know him and have heard him preach readily concede the honor not to have been unworthily bestowed. In a social way, the Doctor is somewhat distinguished for his Humor and vivacity, but yields to no one for his love of truth and principle; and when these are involved, he would suffer martyrdom rather than recant or give them up. He was married, in 1848, to Elizabeth Crumbaugh, of Xenia, Ohio, who has been to him a worthy helpmeet, and has borne him four children, viz., Charles T., now married to Carrie, daughter of Maj. Joseph Budd, of Lebanon, Ohio; Leander H., who died in infancy; Emma C., distinguished as a vocalist, and now married to John M. Maxwell, an attorney of Leadville, Colo., and Bertha, the youngest, a beautiful and intellectual girl of 16 years, who still lives with her parents. Many of the Doctor's sermons have been published and are fully worthy of him.

MICHAEL MAHER, farmer; P. O. Oregon; was bom in Kilkenney Co., Ireland, Oct 15, 1812, of parents Patrick and Catharine (Chail) Maher, and, at the age of 18 years, emigrated to America, stopping at Quebec, where for two years he was engaged at "flat-boating; " thence he removed into the State of New York and remained four years and a half; thence, to Hamilton Co., Ohio, where, for two years, he was employed in constructing pikes; thence, to Warren County, where he has since resided. Feb. 14, 1839, Mr. Maher was united in marriage with Hannah Young, a native of Ohio, but of parents of English and Irish descent. They became the parents of the following-named children: William, bom May 15, 1840; John Y., bom March 4, 1842; Catharine (deceased), bom Sept. 1, 1845; Richard, bom Sept. 1, 1847; Mary, bom Sept. 3, 1849; Lydia, bom June 21, 1854; Anna M., bora April 28, 1857, and Hannah E., bora Feb. 27, 1861. Mr. Maher was educated in his native country. On reaching the State of Ohio, he was among the first to discover stone coal in the county of Trumbull. He was the possessor of one of the first-built houses in the now great Western metropolis of Chicago; he is now residing on his own land - a farm of 60-odd acres lying some miles east of Lebanon, enjoying the hard-earned fruits of the labor of earlier years.

GEORGE R. MARCH (deceased) was bom at Matthews C. H., Va.^ Dec. 15. 1826; his father, John P. March, was bom in Gloucester Co., Va., Feb. 27, 1794; he was a son of John and Elizabeth March, natives of Gloucester County, and both descendants of old Methodist families, who located in Virginia at a very early day. Our subject's father was a coach-maker by trade and worked in Gloucester County until about the year 1818, when he moved to Matthews C. H, and there married, December 23, 1822, Sarah Honley, the youngest of eight children born to Nehemiah and Nancy (Owens) Honley. By this union four children were bora, viz., Willie, Elizabeth A, George R. and J. Wesley, the latter being the only survivor. Mr. March was a private in Capt. Thurston's company, Col. W. Jones' regiment, of the Virginia Militia, in the war of 1812. In July, 1831, he with his wife and three children emigrated to Ohio to avoid the pernicious influences of slavery and located in Lebanon. where he continued working at coach -making until his death, which occurred Oct 16, 1857. Our subject was raised in Lebanon, and, during the whole of his life, was one of its most influential and enterprising citizens. For many years, he controlled and operated a large and prosperous wagonmaking establishment, which was discontinued at his death, May 29, 1865. He was married on the 28th of September, 1848, to Sarah, daughter of Otis W. and Jane Eveline (Bone) Stanford, natives of Vermont, who came to Ohio in 1817. By this marriage, five children were born, of whom the following four survive, viz., Laura B., Wesley S., Charles P. and George O. ; Laura is the widow of James M. Pullen, deceased; Wesley is unmarried and living with his mother; Charles P., a merchant of Lebanon, was bom March 4, 1856, and, on the 27tty of July, 1880, married Miss Kate M., daughter of the late Capt. Lewis Daugherty, of the 35th O. V. I., who was killed at Atlanta July 20, 1864; George O., also a merchant of Lebanon, married Jan. 11, 1882, Miss Emma D. Turner, of Clermont Co., Ohio. Our subject's widow, after his death, married Henry Doebler, a merchant of Lebanon. The whole family are and have been members of the Methodist Church since the first account obtainable of them.

JOHN T. MARDIS, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Jan. 20, 1825; his parents were James and Mary (Terry) Mardis, of English descent. His maternal grandfather settled in Cincinnati in the year 1793, and invested $1.50 in town lots, that sum buying tyro. Later, he owned some 8 acres of land in what is now central Cincinnati. The great-grandfather of oW subject was a native of the State of New Jersey, and was, in his religious views, an Old-School Baptist, and is said to have been the first minister ordained in Ohio. The father of our subject had one brother who served under Gen. Harrison, at Ft. Meigs, in the war of 1812. John T. Mardis was raised on a farm, and received the usual schooling known to boys of his day and circumstances, his father being not a man of wealth. Nov. 7, 1852, he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Ellis and Alice (Goe) Kincaid. To them were bom three children, viz., Mary Alice, bom Aug. 30, 1853; Sylvan E., bora July 25, 1855, and Alvin J., bom June 19, 1857. Mrs. Mardis died May 28, 1868, and, on Feb. 16, 1870, Mr. Mardis again married Mary E. Smith, ' a native of Warren County, and a daughter of Mary (Kell) Smith. Mr. Mardis owns a well-improved farm east of Lebanon; he devotes much of his time to fancy farming and the cultivation of fine fruits and berries. He is also largely interested in the propagation of bees and in extracting honey from the comb. For the past sixteen years, he has been engaged in the manufacture of sorghum molasses, for which he has a full set of machinery. He was, for many years, President of the County Horticultural Society; he is Master of Grange No. 660, and a prominent working member of the order.

A. W. MATHEWS, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bom in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, July 25, 1827; his father, Job Mathews, son of William Mathews, was bora in New Jersey Feb. 16, 1789, and died near Lebanon April 9, 1874; his mother was also a native of New Jersey, born March 17, 1799, and died Dec. 5, 1880. They emigrated to Ohio in the fall of 1817, and located near where our subject now lives; they were parents of the following children: Mary (deceased), John, William (deceased) and Sarah Ann (twins), Catharine, David, Lydia M. (deceased), Ann E., Clara W., David (deceased), Martha, Jane, Job (deceased) and the subject. The latter was raised on the farm, and, on March 4, 1869, married Emma R. Patterson, a native of New Jersey and a daughter of William and Jeannette (Anderson) Patterson. By this union, one child was bom, July 21, 1870, and died six weeks thereafter. Mrs. Mathews died July 6, 1871. Mr. Mathews is a genial gentleman and a good farmer. He owns a nice farm of 100 acres three miles northeast of Lebanon.

A. G. McBTJRNEY, lawyer, Lebanon, was bom in Hamilton Co., Ohio, Nov. 13, 1817; he was the eldest son of James and Magdalene (Felter) Mc- Burney; his father's ancestors were Scotch-Irish Covenanters, who emigrated from Ireland about the middle of the last century and settled in Orange Co., N. Y. ; his mother's grandfather came from Holland, her grandmother from France; both settled about the same time in Orange Co., N. Y. ; Maj. Chronimus Felter, the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, emigrated to the Northwest Territory in 1794, and, after a short stay at Ft. Washington, established himself in the vicinity of what is now Montgomery, thirteen miles from Cincinnati. James McBumey, the father, came from near Newburg, Orange Co., N. Y., in 1814, and settled near Montgomery, Ohio, and, in 1830, removed with his family to Lebanon, where Andrew G. learned the business of cabinet-making, completing his trade in 1836. Prior to this time, he had manifested a strong desire for reading and learning, and, availing himself of such schooling as was within his reach in Lebanon, and, by self-study, he acquired a good English education and also studied Latin and read Caesar's Commentaries in that language. Having had the study of law in view for some time, in November, 1840, he became a student in the law office of Robert G. Corwin, and was admitted to practice in May, 1843. Besides diligently pursuing his law studies, he availed himself of every means within his reach for mental improvement. He participated in the discussions of the Mechanics' Institute, and sometimes, with some young friends, walked a distance of five or six miles from Lebanon to attend a debating society. In April, 1845, he formed a partnership with R. G. Corwin for the practice of law, and, in November of the same year, Gov. Corwin became a member of the firm, which was thenceforward styled T. & R. G. Corwin & A. G. McBumey. This firm was dissolved in lo51, since which time Mr. McBurney has been engaged in the practice without a partner; he is a hard worker; energy is one of his marked characteristics.

and to this trait is largely due the success to which he has attained in his pro- . fession. For many years past, he has been upon one side of almost every important case tried in the Warren County Courts. In politics, he was a Democrat until the commencement of the rebellion; since that time, he has been a Republican. In 1861, he was elected a Senator in the General Assembly from the Butler and Warren District, and was re-elected in 1868. In 1865, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, and served in that office a full term. In 1868, he was a Presidential Elector on the Grant and Colfax ticket. His fidelity and integrity as a public officer, it is believed, have never been questioned, even by bis political opponents. He was married, May 22, 1889, to Hannah M. Tichenor, daughter of Nathaniel Tichenor; their children are two daughters and one son. Gov. McBurney is to-day a leading man in Warren County and a representative of that honorable class who have reached a high position in the community in which they live, by their own energy and untiring industry.

WILLIAM C. McCLINTOCK, publisher and proprietor of the Westeim Star , Lebanon; was born at Newark, N. J., April 21, 1845, and was the fifth of nine children bom to William and Eliza (Eccles) McClintock. William, the father of our subject, was bora in Pittsburgh, Penn., March 6, 1809; was married, in 1886, at New Haven, Conn. ; resided for a time at Bridgeport, Conn., and, in 1858, came to Cincinnati, where he still resides. Joseph Mc- Clintock, our subject's grandfather, also a native of Pittsburgh, was Assistant District Paymaster in the United States Army from July 8, 1814, until the reorganization of the army, June 15, 1815, and afterward a merchant in Pittsburgh; he died on a steamboat on the Ohio River while en route for Cincinnati. The great-grandfather of our subject emigrated to America from the North of Ireland, his wife being a native of Scotland. John Eccles, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was a leather merchant in Liverpool, England, where he was born in 1758 and died in 1826. Edward Foster, a maternal great-grandfather of our subject, was a native of England, born in 1750; was Captain of a uian-of-war under Lord Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, and afterward, had command of the navy- yard at Kingston, Jamaica, where he died; his body was sent home in a puncheon of rum and buried in St. John's Graveyard in Liverpool; his wife, Ann Foster, was born in Liverpool and died in New Haven, Conn., in 1849. William C. McClintock received his elementary education at Bridgeport, Conn. At the age of 10 years, he left school and entered the office of the Bridgeport Farmer to learn the printing business. In 1857, he went to Cincinnati, where he worked as a printer. He set phonetic type for the Phonetic Journal , published by the Longley Bros. ; he worked on the Cincinnati Daily Gazette , and later, in the large book publishing establishment of Robert Clarke & Co. ; at the last named house, he continued for several years. On the 28th of March, 1870, he came to Lebanon to act as foreman of the Star newspaper and printing office. On Jan. 19, 1871, he became one of the owners of the newspaper, and has been its sole publisher and proprietor since Jan. 16, 1878. The old Star , which, for more than three-quarters of a century, has been a welcome visitor in the families of Warren County, under its present management is in a more prosperous state than ever before. The present proprietor has enlarged it until it is now a seven-column quarto and one of the largest weeklies published in Ohio. The first cylinder printing-press was placed in the Star office in 1870, and the present proprietor has since added new and improved presses for book and job printing. Since October, 1874, his presses have been run by steam power. In 1880, he erected, on Mulberry street, a two-story brick building for his printing establishment, having under the same roof editorial, composing, press and engine rooms. Mr. McClintock was married, Sept. 7, 1871, to Emma B., daughter of Jacob and Elva (Evans) Egbert,

ELI McCREARY, retired farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Nov. 14, 1806; he is the son of James and Mary (Daugherty) McCreary, natives of Fayette Co. , Penn. , who emigrated to Warren Co., Ohio, in 1800. They were the parents of nine children, six boys and three girls, of whom three girls and two boys survive, all of them being over 70 years of age; the father died in 1814 with the " cold plague," leaving his widow with her young family to battle alone with the world. Our subject had but few opportunities for obtaining an education, and was early put to work on the farm. He was married, Aug. 29, 1837, to Miss Catharine Hart, a native of Turtle Creek Township, and related to John Hart, of New J ersey, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. This marriage resulted in the birth of three children, Zephaniah, the only survivor, who is now taking charge of his father's farm, and Aletha and Catharine, both deceased. Mr. McCreary was an industrious and hard-working farmer until 1869, when he retired from hard labor and moved into Lebanon, but, after a nine years' residence in town, he returned to the country and is now living with Zephaniah and his wife on the old place. His farm consists of 95 acres of rich, arable, well -improved land, which yields him abundant support for his declining years.

ROBERT T. MoMAHAN was born in Warren Co., Ohio, May 13, 1823; his father, Norman McMahan, was a native of Virginia, of Scotch-Irish descent. His mother was a native of Maryland. Mr. McMahan, our subject, received his education in the subscription and common schools of Turtle Creek Township; he was reared on a farm and has made farming his life occupation. He was married, May 23, 1843, to Roxanna Mahan, a daughter of Hamilton Mahan, a native of Pennsylvania, who moved to Ohio in 1809, where she was born March 26, 1828. Mr. McMahan has been a frugal, industrious tiller of the soil and has met with good success, having accumulated a nice property, consisting of a farm in Turtle Creek Township, Section 3, and a neat and comfortable house and four acres of land within the corporation of Lebanon.

JAMES McMULLEN, Lebanon. Promfnent among the business firms of Warren County stands that of J. McMullen & Co., who occupy a large brick storeroom in Lebanon. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch is the business manager and seniqr member of the firm. It is by his indefatigable energy, his enterprise and shrewd judgment that the business of the firm has been brought to its present dimensions and financial standing. Mr. McMullen was born in the Keystone State in June, 1834; is the son of John and Nancy (Cassily) Mc- Mullen, who were married in Ireland and emigrated to America in 1830; he received his education in the public schools of Warren County, and then commenced his business life as a clerk in Lebanon. In 1863, he enlisted in Company G, 11th O. V. C., and was detailed, with others, to escort the surveyors of the Union Pacific Railroad. While in this duty, he spent some time in and near the Rocky Mountains. After three years' service, he received his discharge, and, returning home, entered the mill of Nelson & Marlatt, where he remained four years. In 1870, he entered the store in which he is now doing business, while it was under the firm name of H. Marlatt & Co., and, by the death of Mr. Marlatt, he became the senior proprietor. He has never taken any active part in politics, though frequently pressed to do so. He has been a member of Council several times, and is a member and officer in the Odd Fellows Lodge.

PETER MILLER, farmer and stone-cutter; P. O. Lebanon; was born in the Province of Bavaria, Germany, March 10, 1826, and, in July, 1850, emi- grated to America. He was the third child of a family of three boys and four girls, bora to John and Christina (Rider) Miller, and the first of his family to emigrate to America. His parents are now both deceased, having both died in the old country. On the 29th of September, 1852, our subject was married, in Cincinnati, to Margaret Elizabeth Koeger, daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth (Hofman) Koeger. By this union four children were bora, viz. , Maggie, bora Dec. 20, 1853, now the wife of David Thompson; Kate, bora Dec. 27, 1855; Peter, bora Jan. 5, 1858, and Charles, bora April 27, 1860. Since his 16th year, Mr. Miller has been working at the trade of stonemason, and latterly as a farmer. In May, 1848, he was drafted and served six months in the royal army, after which he enlisted with the Liberty party and fought against the King. He is a hard-working, intelligent citizen, who has gained his present standing by honesty, industry and sobriety.

A. S. MONFORT, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bora in Warren Co., Ohio, Jan. 24, 1822; he is the son of Elbert and Nancy (Stout) Monfort; he was reared on the farm and attended the school of his neighborhood. He was married, Sept. 20, 1843, to Hannah Murphy, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Jones) Murphy, the former a native of Delaware, and the latter of Pennsylvania. Her father came to Ohio during the first decade of the present century and settled in Warren County; he was a soldier in the war of 1812 and married in 1810. Of the children bora to our subject, the following is a record: Emma, bora Aug. 29, 1844, and married Samuel Keever, by whom she has had eight children, viz., Robert S., Mollie L., Edward, Lizzie, William, Samuel, Henry and Peter; John W., bora July 8, 1846, and married Miss Jennie Cassady, by whom he had four children, viz., Andrew, Elva, Bertha and Hannah ; Ann Elizabeth, deceased; Ella, bora Aug. 20, 1849, married W. O. Keever, and has five children, viz., Pearl, Milton Stout, Maud, John M. and Julia; W. Oscar, bora Jan. 12, 1852, married Miss Sue Ross, by whom he has three children - Carrie, John R. and Madison M. Mr. Monfort is a dealer in fine horses and has owned some very fine and valuable animals, among which we might mention Gen. Ward, Membrinus Chief, Post Boy, Sir Harry and several others. He has a large farm, well improved and successfully managed.

E. B. MONROE, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bora in Hamilton Co., Ohio, May 26, 1820; he is the son of Nathan Monroe, a native of Washington Co., Penn., of Scottish descent, and Jane (Buxton) Monroe, a native of Hamilton Co. , Ohio, of English descent.^ Our subject was raised on the farm and attended school during the winter months. He was married, Dec. 15, 1841, to Miss Hannah Jane Halsey, a native of Turtle Creek Township and daughter of Caleb Halsey, Esq; they had five children, viz], Nathan, Oscar, Hudson B., Lewis R. and John N. Of these children, only two survive. Mrs. Monroe died Aug. 26, 1851, and, on the 2d of June, 1854, Mr. Monroe was again married, to Miss Sarah Parkhill, of Warren County, by whom he had three children, viz., Jeremiah P. (deceased), Frank and Charles E. Mr. Monroe received his start in life by farming on rented land, after which he opened a butcher shop in Lebanon, and, for seven years, followed pork-packing. He then returned to the farm for three years, and then, for seven years, kept a grocery in Lebanon, after which he purchased his present farm and devoted the whole of his time to its cultivation; he now owns 192 acres of highly improved land on which he has recently built a large and costly residence; he is an industrious farmer, a good citizen and an honest man.

JOHN MORRIS, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bora in Monmouth Co., N. J., April 12, 1817; he is the son of Adams and Lydia (Matthews) Morris, natives of New Jersey, who emigrated to Ohio in 1817 and settled in Wayne

Township, Warren Co., where Mr. Morris died in 1859. Mrs. Morris died in Lebanon in 1877. Our subject received his education in the schools of Wayne Township, and, for twelve years, followed carpentering. He was married, in 1848, to Miss Sarah A. Lewis, daughter of Paul Lewis, whose biography appears esle where in this work. By this marriage nine children were born, viz., Mary, Lewis, Oliver, Anna, Eliza, Flora, Emma, Ella and Adam. In politics, Mr. Morris is a Republican. He owns a farm of 217 acres, which he is cultivating in the most successful manner.

ISAAC MORRIS (deceased) was bora Nov. 21, 1800, on the farm he occupied at the time of his death, which was purchased by his father, Benjamin, in 1797, when he came here from his native State, New Jersey. About the same time, his grandfather, Isaac Morris, also settled in the neighborhood, buying a tract of about 400 acres, now owned by the North Family of Shakers. In early life, our subject learned the printer's trade, and worked for a time in the office of the Western Star , of Lebanon, in company with his brother, the late Jacob Morris. This was in the years 1823 and 1824. From Lebanon, he went to Columbus, Ohio, and obtained work in the office of the State printer, Olmstead, where he spent two years, and where he, in 1826, married Miss Margaret Chambers, who died in 1859, leaving five children, three girls and two boys, all now living. From Columbus, Mr. Morris returned to Lebanon, and, for a time, was engaged in job printing. In 1832, in the time of the first campaign that resulted in the election of Andrew Jackson, he made Richmond his home for a few yedrs, after which he returned to the farm, on which his whole life, with the exception of eight years, was spent Mr. Morris was married the second time to Mrs. Leah H. (Walters) Vail, a daughter of David Walters. She was born Nov. 23, 1819, and was first married Dec. 27, 1843, to Moses Vail, a son of William Vail, a wealthy and influential farmer of Warren County. Mr. Morris died at his home in Turtle Creek Township April 5, 1881; he was a man full of good works, energetic, kind-hearted and universally esteemed by all who knew him; he left many mourning friends and a host of relatives, children and grandchildren.

JEHU MULFORD, deceased, was born in the State of New Jersey Oct. 26, 1803; his father was born in New Jersey, of English parents, and, coming to Ohio in 1809, settled in Turtle Creek Township, west of Lebanon, where he lived until his death. Our subject's childhood was spent on the farm, attending the country school of his district when opportunity offered; he taught school for some time and afterward engaged in mercantile pursuits, in which he continued several years, but the principal occupation of his life was farming. He was twice married, first, on the 25th of September, 1827, to Miss Margaret Mc- Carty, by whom he had eight children - three sons and two daughters of them are surviving. His wife died in 1856, and, in the same year, he married Mrs. Ann Monfort, by whom he had no issue. Mrs. Mulford's maiden name was Ann Hall, and Mr. Mulford was her third husband. She was first married to William Dill, by whom she had two children. After his death, she married Peter Monfort, who died, leaving a family of ten children. Mrs. Mulford's two oldest children are living, and, with their families, reside in Warren County. She has lived to see her children all married and settled comfortably around the old home. Mr. Mulford died May 30, 1870, on the farm he had occupied since 1843. He was a consistent member of the M. E. Church and a member of the Masonic fraternity of the Knights Templar degree. At the time of his death, he was possessed of a farm of 150 acres, on which his widow continues to reside.

HENRY MULL, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Warren Co., Ohio, April 10, 1836; his parents, Reuben and Catharine (Spindler) Mull, are spoken of in the sketch of his brother, Benjamin Mull. He was educated in the schools of Turtle Creek Township; in 1862, he enlisted in Company A. 79th O. V. I., and served until the close of the war, when he received his honorable discharge. His regiment was in some of the hardest engagements of the war, and at one time was under fire for ten consecutive days. After the war was over, Mr. Mall returned home, and, on the 4th of J une, 1868, was married to Anna R. Kersey, a daughter of Henry Kersey and a native of Warren County. They have had five children, viz., Viola, Eunice, Waldo, Anna C. and an infant not named Mr. Mull occupies a fine 70-acre farm, with good residence and roomy barn, etc. He is a Republican and a member of the M. E. Church; his wife is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

BENJAMIN MULL, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was born in Turtle Creek Township Jan. 29, 1840; he is the son of Reuben and Catharine (Spindler) Moll, natives of Pennsylvania, of Dutch descent; his father was a wagon-maker by trade and worked at that trade until about 1855; his wagons were of the best and always found a ready sale; he was so careful to have his material of the best quality and his work done in the best manner possible, that he was unable to compete with the men who were then making an inferior and cheaper wagon. Therefore, he retired from the business and devoted his time to farming. in which he was eminently successful, and succeeded in acquiring a fine farm of 152 acres. He had a family of nine children, all of whom reside in Ohio, and all, except one, are married. Our subject was reared on the farm, and, in 1865, married Miss Catharine Hathaway, a daughter of A. B. Hathaway. They have four children, viz., Sarah L., Bertie F., Lelia Pearl and Earnest C. The parents are both members of the M. E. Church, and belong to the best class of the farming community of the county.

HIRAM NELSON, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bora in Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 1, 1838; he was raised on a farm and received his education in the district schools of Turtle Creek Township. Mr. Nelson with considerable pride relates the fact of having attended the second fair held in Warren County; he was but a youth and earned the money admitting him by working for William F. Dill, Esq., of Turtle Creek Township. Our subject worked at farm labor, and, being industrious and economical, soon got a start in life, and, on the 14th of February, 1860, was united in marriage with Rebecca Tremble, who is also a native of Warren County, bora December 10, 1839. She is a daughter of Mosee Tremble, a native of New Jersey, and of French descent. Mr. Nelson owns a well-improved farm of 60-odd acres, upon which is a neat and modernbuilt house and a good barn. He is one of the live and active farmers of Warren County.

W. C. NIXON, farmer; P. O. Lebanon; was bora April 5, 1838; he is a son of Samuel and Rachel (Hatfield) Nixon, natives of Ohio, of English descent; he received a common-school education while living on the farm with his father. He has spent the greater part of his life on the farm, and, by steadiness of habits and close attention to business, he has made farming prove more than ordinarily successful. During the years from 1860 to 1867, he conducted a grist-mill between Lebanon and Morrow, known as the Stubbs' Mill. In 1868, he married Hannah Vandoren, daughter of Peter Vandoren, an old settler of Warren County, who now lives in Sangamon Co., 111. By this marriage, six children were bora, viz., Frank V., John H., Peter E., Amy M., Mary E. and Adolphus. Mr. Nixon is a Democrat and has held the office of Justice of the Peace in Washington Township.

AXiLiEN NIXON, farmer; P. O. Lebanon ; was bora in Turtle Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Oct. 30, 1812; he is one of a family of eleven children, bora to Allen and Margaret (Troutman) Nixon, who settled in Turtle

Creek in the year of our subject's birth; he had every facility offered by the schools of that day to obtain an education, and, for ten years of his early life, made teaching his employment. He was married, in 1846, to Elizabeth G. Hatfield, who was bom in Warren County in 1816. By her he had seven children, viz., Lewis C., a school-teacher; George (deceased), Clark, Emma (deceased), Ida Ann, Linn and Minnie Ellen. Mr. Nixon has devoted the last thirty-five years of his life to farming, and has succeeded in acquiring 409 acres of good farm land. He and his wife are both members of the Christian Church, in which he has been a Clerk and Trustee. His wife died March 2, 1882, aged 65 years and 4 months.

J. KELLY O'NEALL, attorney, Lebanon. Prominent among the legal fraternity of Warren County stands the above-named gentleman, who was born about two miles south of the village of Waynesville, Warren Co., Ohio, Feb. 15, 1820; his paternal ancestors were originally from Shane Castle, County Antrim, Ireland. The first to come to America, according to the family traditions, was a younger son of the house, named Hugh O' Neale, a Lieutenant in the British Army, who, while cruising in the Chesapeake Bay, owing to some difficulty between him and his Captain, left the ship and located at Winchester, Va., changing the spelling of his name to O'Neall. From Hugh is traced in & direct line WTilliam, Abijah, William, and our subject, J. Kelly. Abijah, the grandfather, came to Warren County in 1799 and settled in Wayne Township on land of which a part still remains in the family's possession. The maternal grandfather, James Smith, came from Virginia in the same year, and located on land in the same township, on the banks of the Little Miami River, but he died at Newtown, Ohio, and his family subsequently settled on the lands. The grandparents on both sides left their respective homes, in Virginia and South Carolina, to escape what they considered the evil influences of slavery. Mr. O'Neall's parents were William and Martha (Smith) O'Neall, the former a native of South Carolina and the latter of Virginia. Our subject remained on the farm until 16 years of age, in the meantime attending the common school of his district But sickness at the time retarded his studies for a year or more, after which he began a course of study of the higher branches. In 1840, he attended the Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, where he completed his literary education. In 1843, he returned to his father's house and commenced the study of law, under the instructions of the late Judge George J. Smith. In (the summer of 1843, he went to Montgomery Co., Ind., and read law in the office of Henry S. Lane, Esq. In February, 1844, he took up his permanent residence in Lebanon, and, in May of the year following, was admitted to the bar at Lebanon. He was married, in July, 1848, to Miss Anna M. Skinner, by whom he had six children, four now living, viz., Laura K., Eva S. (the widow of Granville E. Colbert, deceased), William A. and Annie T. Mr. O'Neal! has practiced his profession continuously up to the present, and for four terms served the county as Prosecuting Attorney. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since November, 1864; was made a Master Mason in Lebanon Lodge, No. 26; he received the Capitulary degrees in Lebanon Royal Arch Chapter, No. 5, and was created a Knight Templar in Reed Commandery, No. 6, at Dayton, Ohio, in 1865; subsequently, he became a member of Lebanon Council of Royal and Select Masters; in 1872, was elected Grand High Priest of Ohio, serving three years; in 1875, he was elected Eminent Deputy Grand Commander of Knights Templar for the State of Ohio and served until 1879, when he was elected Right Eminent Grand Commander ; in March, 1871, he received the degrees of the " Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite," in the Scottish Rite Bodies and became a 3 2d Degree Mason in the Ohio Sovereign Qonsistory at Cincinnati. In addition to the time given to the study of the laws of Masonry, and while discharging the duties of his profession, Mr. O'Neall has devoted considerable attention to the natural sciences, especially geology. He has collected a line cabinet of fossils, and it is believed that he understands the Paleontology of his own county better, even, than any teacher of the science. He has discovered some new species of fossils and a beautiful crinoid bears his name. He is a man who takes a deep interest in all matters touching the welfare of his county, and, as a citizen, he stands in the foremost rank.

JOSEPH W. O'NEALL, Probate Judge, Lebanon; was born in Wayne Township, Warren Co., Ohio, April 6, 1846; he is the son of James Smith and Martha A. (Sa Lee) O'Neall, the former a native of Warren County, and the latter of Woodford Co., Ky.; his father is still living and is a brother of J. Kelly O'Neall, under whose name a sketch of the ancestry is given; his mother is a daughter of Joseph and Judith (Hampton) SaLee, of Kentucky. Our subject received a* very limited education, and remained on the farm until 15 years of age, when he enlisted in Company H, 54th O. V. L, at that time being barely able to read and write. He took part in the battle of Shiloh, but was discharged after the battle on account of his youth. On the 12th of August. 1862, he re-enlisted in Capt. Joseph L. Budd's company A, 35th O. Y. I., and joined his regiment at Decherd, Tenn. He was with the regiment and participated in the skirmishes and 'battles at Shepherdsville, Harrodsburg, Perryville, Hoover's Gap, Tallahoma and Chickamauga, in the latter of which he was three times wounded - once in the hand, once in the right shoulder and once in the head. He was left on the battle-field unconscious, and captured by the rebels, who took him to Atlanta, Ga., and thence, via Augusta, Branch Hill, Columbia, Charlotte, Baleigh and Petersburg, to Richmond, Va., where for forty-five days they confined him in Castle Pemberton. He was one of four prisoners detected in digging a tunnel from the prison, which resulted in the famous " Sugar raid," and for this was deprived of all rations for forty - eight hours and forced to stand erect twenty-four hours. He was afterward removed to Danville, Va., where he was confined six months. While here, a general escape, planned by all the prisoners, was betrayed, and the leaders, expecting to be court martialed and put to death, determined to make another and a more desperate effort to escape. Accordingly, our subject and six others concealed themselves in the vault and made their way down the drain as far as possible, and then tunneled out. In this, Mr. O'Neall and two others succeeded, while the rest were recaptured. After three days' wandering through the woods, he was recaptured, but, escaping from the guards, had almost reached the Union lines, when he was captured with blood hounds and taken back to Danville. To prevent his further attempting to escape, he was deprived of all his clothes, and for six months, remained in almost a nude condition, only having part of the time an old shirt given him by a fellow-prisoner; he was then taken to the jail at Greensboro, and from there to the State Penitentiary at Raleigh, S. C. , where, with twelve others, he was fastened to the " Bullring. ' ' He was afterward removed to the penitentiary at Columbia, thence to Macon, Ga., and from there to Andersonville, where he was confined four months, after which he was taken to Charleston, where he was for fourteen days under the fire of Union guns. From Charleston he was removed to Charlotte, S. C. , and, on the 15th of December, 1864, succeeded in again making his escape, and, reaching the Union lines at Savannah, was sent on a Government vessol to Annapolis, Md. Here he obtained a furlough and returned home, much to the astonishment and joy of his people, who had long since supposed him dead, and who could hardly recognize in the wasted and emaciated figure before them the healthy farm boy who left them thirty months before. When capt- ured, he weighed 155 pounds; when he reached home, he weighed 84. While in Andersonville Prison, be had the varioloid and scurvy. He was engaged in digging eight tunnels, and, at one time went nine days without rations. On the 19th of May, 1865, he received a Lieutenant's commission, but was mustered out of the service before being assigned for duty. After the war, he taught school five years, and, after engaging in business in the West three years, he returned to Ohio and taught one year more. He studied law with John E. Smith, and was admitted to the bar April 13, 1877. On the 9th of February, 1879, he became Probate Judge of the county, in which position he is still retained, having been nominated for a second term by an overwhelming majority. He was married, Nov. 25, 1869, to Miss Laura A. Van Home, daughter of Andrew and Sarah (Dilatush) Van Home, and by this union has had five children, viz., M Stella, J. A. Willie (deceased), George A., Eva Belle (deceased) and Joseph Walter. Mr. O'Neall is a Republican in politics, and socially and morally a gentleman. He has served in his present capacity to the entire satisfaction of the people and with honor to himself and credit to his constituents.

JOHN OSBORN (deceased) was bom in Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, in 1805; his father, John Osborn, came to Lebanon in 1796, and settled on a farm adjoining the eastern corporation of Lebanon, where he, in 1808, built a house, which is still standing and which is yet considered a good residence. He was with Daniel Boone when that famous Indian hunter discovered Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, to which state Mr. Osborn had moved from Virginia when very young. Our subject's mother, Mary (Clark) Osbom, was a daughter of Rev. Daniel Clark, a pioneer Baptist preacher, who preached in Lebanon about the year 1800. Our subject remained on the farm until 14 years of age, in the meantime obtaining a limited education by attending the Lebanon schools during the winter months. After leaving the farm, he learned and worked at pottery-making several years, after which he conducted a manufactory of that ware for several years more. At the death of his father, he purchased the interests of the other heirs in the estate and moved to the old farm, which his estate still owns and which he farmed until he retired and moved to Lebanon. He traveled through the West from 1828 to 1854, and also spent eight years in Springfield, Ohio, where he worked at his trade. In 1827, he married Miss Amy Ann Hackney, daughter of Obadiah Hackney, a prominent plow manufacturer of Lebanon. She died in 1855, after having borne him eleven children, four of whom still survive. In 1856, he was again married, to Mrs. Emeline (Dee) Grow, by whom he had no children Mr. Osbom died in Lebanon Dec. 26, 1881. He was a careful, frugal and economical man, and had at his death amassed a considerable fortune. He was a zealous member of the M. E. Church, in which he was for many years and up to the time of his death an officer. His widow and a grandchild are the only members of his family living in Lebanon.

JOHN N. OSWALD, furniture dealer and undertaker, Lebanon, whose portrait appears on another page, was bom in - Hohenzollem, Sigmapngen, Prussia, May 12, 1826, and came to America May 12, 1853, landing in New York; he is the son of Peter and Apolonia (Wetz) Oswald, natives of the above place. The family originally came from Switzerland, but lived for three generations in Prussia. Our subject is one of a family of two children, both boys. The father died in September, 1831, aged 44 years, and the mother died in October, 1845, aged 47 years. Our subject received all his education in the old country, and, for nine years, traveled through Germany, spending seven years in Vienna. He learned furniture-making in his native country, having served an apprenticeship with the dealer who did the work for the royal family. After coming to this country, he worked for a furniture firm in New York, and, in 1854, came to Cincinnati, where he remained a short time. He then moved to Fosters, Warren Co., Ohio, where he lived about nine years and then came to Lebanon, where he commenced the furniture business in which he has since continued. He was married, May 9, 1866, to Miss Fredricka Bobe, daughter of Philip and Mari ah (Weisenbacher) Bobe, natives of Wurtemberg, Germany. They have had five children, two boys and three girls, viz., Maurice H., Louisa F., Marietta, Lena and Lorenz, all now living. In 1868, Mr. Oswald commenced the business of undertaker, and has since then buried 1,700 people, mostly citizens of 44 Old Warren." He was the first in the county to introduce the new styles of caskets and the processes of preserving bodies. He has conducted his business with much success, and, by his untiring energy is constantly increasing his extensive establishment.

DR. J. B. OWENS, physician, Lebanon. This gentleman is the son of John Owens, who was born in Wales in 1771, and came to this country with his parents when 2 years of age; he settled in Trumbull Co., Ohio, where our subject was born, and then moved to Guernsey County, where he died in 1869, at tiie advanced age of 98 years. His wife, Elizabeth (Beaver) Owens, was a native of Sherman Valley, Penn., where they were married. They had thirteen children - nine boys and four girls. Our subject attended the schools of his native county for a short time, after which he taught school to obtain means to complete his education. In this manner he was enabled to attend a select high school, from which he went to Madison College, Guernsey County, where he remained until that college closed. He commenced reading medicine by himself in 1856, reading first the allopathic system. He attended lectures at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery during the terms of 1858 and 1859. In 1865, he again graduated from the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and, after practicing his profession a short time in Cincinnati and Monroe, Ohio, came to Lebanon, where he has since remained, with the exception of several winters spent in the South and in California, Colorado and other parts of the West. He was married, Oct. 4, 1865, to Miss Mary M. Keever, daughter of Aaron and Ann (Longstreet) Keever, of Mason, Warren Co. After thoroughly mastering both systems of medicine, the Doctor has selected the principles originated by Hahnemann, to which he strictly adheres. He has acquired a large and lucrative practice, which he is constantly extending by his industrious habits and close attention. He bears the reputation of being one of the best and most successful homoeopathic physicians of Southern Ohio, and truly his record in the village of Cedars warrants at least the above reputation.

DAVID PARKHURST, Shaker Trustee, Lebanon, was bora in Pennsylvania March 26, 1801 ; his father, Samuel Parkhhrst, was a native of Pennsylvania, of English descent; he married Anna Sutton, a native of New Jersey, of Holland Dutch descent; he came to Turtle Creek Township in 1814, and brought his family in 1815; he was formerly a Baptist, but, on coming to Warren County, joined the Shaker Society, in which he afterward became a Deacon and Elder. He had seven children, of whom our subject was the third. He never attended school more than three months, and obtained what education he has by close reading, He worked at wagon- making one year, but has since farmed for the Shakers with whom he lives. He has been a Deacon since 1823, and, in 1864, was appointed Legal Trustee, in which capacity he still continues.

CLARISSA PATTERSON, Shaker Elderess,, was bom in Butler Co., Ohio, March 12, 1801; her parents, Joseph and Mary (Vankirk) Patterson, were natives of New Jersey, the former of Irish and the latter of Holland Dutch descent They came to Ohio previous to 1795, and, in 1805, entered the Sha- ker Society. They had the following children: Sallie, bom Oct. 22, 1794; Clarissa, Elsie, bom in 1803, and John, bora March 8, 1805; of these, our subject is the only survivor. She received her education in Turtle Creek Township, and, since 1849, has acted as Elderess in the Shaker Church; she has also for several years been in charge of the household affairs of the Center Family. Her parents are both dead, her father dying in 1818 and her mother in 1851.

GEORGE P. PATTERSON, photographer, Lebanon; was bom at Long Branch, Monmouth Co., N. J., June 23, 1844; his father, William Patterson, was a native of New Jersey, of German descent; his mother, Jennette (Anderson) Patterson, was a native of Vermont, of Scotch descent, and a cousin of Maj. Anderson, who was made famous by his heroic defense of Ft. Sumter, when treason's guns first threatened the overthrow of our beloved Government. Our subject received a thorough education in the schools of New Jersey and New York City, and devoted his early life to work in his father's mill, where he remained six years. He then engaged for a short time in mercantile pursuits. In 1861, he enlisted in Company D, 48th N. J. V. I., in which he served three years, receiving eleven different gunshot wounds; he enlisted as a private, and, for bravery and good service, received a Captain's commission, but was prevented by wounds from serving in his advanced position. In 1863, he was married to Miss Emily Higgins, who died during the same year. In 1870, he married Miss Sarah M. Duckworth, a native of Warren County, and the only daughter of Robert Duckworth, with whom Mr. Patterson was some time engaged in the grocery business in Lebanon. Since 1872, he has devoted his whole attention to photographing, in which art he has met with the beet success. He is an enthusiast in his business, uses all new appliances that appear and takes great pains to keep himself thoroughly posted in all the details of that ever- improving art. He has an art gallery situated on East Silver street, which he has fitted up with a true artist's taste, and where he exhibits the work he does by the various modem methods of taking, enlarging and finishing pictures.

SAMUEL PAULY, real estate broker, Lebanon, was bom in Germantown, Montgomery Co., Ohio, Dec. 24, 1804; his grandfather, Andrew Pauly, was a native of Pennsylvania, where he lived and died, being the son of parents who emigrated from Germany to that State at an early day. Our subject's father, John Pauly, was bom at Gettysburg, Penn., in 1767 and emigrated to Kentucky in 1795, but, owing to a strong prejudice against slavery, he again emigrated in 1801, and located in Montgomery Co., Ohio. He married Miss Margaret Panabaker, daughter of a family from Pennsylvania, who settled in Kentucky at an early date. He died in 1822, having been blessed with a family of six boys and five girls, of whom four boys and one girl now survive. Samuel Pauly, the subject hereof, came to Warren County April 1, 1812, with hia father's family. His youth was spent on the farm, while his educational advantages consisted of a few weeks' attendance at a country school during the winter months. He was married, in 1830, to Miss Arminda Snook, daughter of John M and Julia (Kibby) Snook, natives of Hamilton Co., Ohio. Miss Snook's mother was one of the first children at Columbia, Hamilton Co., and daughter of Capt. Kibby, a valiant officer in the Indian war, and one of the first settlers of Columbia By his marriage, Mr. Pauly had ten children - three boys and seven girls, of whom, one son and three daughters are now living, viz., Rebecca C., the widow of Gen. O. C. Maxwell; Phebe A., now living at home with her parents; A. Frances, the wife of E. M. Hale, of Lebanon, and Firman Kibby, of Salem, Montgomery Co., Ohio. Mr. Pauly has spent the whole of his life in farming, with the exception of two years, when he was engaged in the United States Revenue service. He has retired from active farm labor, and devotes his time principally to fancy and ornamental farming and horticulture, in all of which he is an enthusiast. He is also now engaged in buying, selling and renting real estate. Although nearly fourscore years of age, he has a robust constitution, sound health. and a very active disposition, and promises to exceed the allotted age of man by many years.