Wayne County, Ohio - Chapter 26, 1878

Chapter 26

Greene township was organized February 5, 1817, and took it name from Major-General Nathaniel Greene, a revolutionary sol dier, and a native of Warwick, Rhode Island. The population ir 1870 was 2,715. The following is the official record of the town ship since its organization :

The early inhabitants of this township observed one peculiarity in the first occupancy of it. It was a wilderness, overgrown with timber, with the exception of about twelve acres on the south-west quarter of section three, which was clear of trees, stumps, and even roots, and was called by the early settlers " the Indian's Field."

A tradition runs, that, as early as 1802, a party of four young men, who hacS passed from Pennsylvania to Cleveland, and leaving the latter place for " Tuscaravira," now Coshocton, were attacked by the Indians and one of their number killed, when the remaining three retreated by the line of trees they had blazed. The bullet that killed the young man entered a small oak tree, which the Indiansnotched high above the ground. A few years thereafter two of these young men^ accompanied by others, returned to the spot of the murder, discovered the notched; tree, but saw no remains of the dead comrade. This would be the first death in the township.

The first settlement made within its present limits was in i8ii^ by Michael Thomas with his wife and seven children. He emigrated from Washington county, Pa., and settled upon the southwest quarter of section 33, now known as the Bechtel farm ; and was followed by Thomas Boydston and his wife, who came from Pennsylvania, and who settled on the north-west quarter of the same section. For three years these were the only settlers in Greene township. In 18 14 Lorenzo Winkler and family came from Virginia, and settled on section 22. The emigration was meager until 181 5. Among other of the early settlers of the neighborhood, were, George Boydston, David McConahay, David Boydston, Thomas Hayes, David Antles, Thomas Dawson, John Wade, George Smith, Benjamin Boydston, Thomas Smith, Jacob Breakfield, John Harris, Douglas Wilford, Barter Harris, James Sparks, John Hobbs, Francis Shackler, Isaac Robbins, Phineas Burrwell, Thomas Johnston, John Bigham, Robert Calvins, Jacob Cook, Charles Kelley, Will Ruffcorn, George Carson, Jacob Breakbail and Thomas Alison.

In 18 17 the population was 147, of which 26 were legal voters^ and on application the township was formed. April, 1817, the electors convened at the residence of William Barnett, on the northeast quarter of section 21 to choose their local officers. David Boydston, Thomas Hayes, David McConahay and Thomas Dawson were appointed Judges, and Thomas Boydston and Jacob Breakfield, Clerks.

Martha, daughter of Michael Thomas, was born September 25, 18 12, the first birth in the township; the second, that of Richard Antles, February 3, 18 13. The first marriage was that of Liverton Thomas to Anna Wade, by "Priest" Jones, in 1815. In iSip. the first saw-mill was put up, and built by Thomas Smith, on the site of the present grist-mill, at Smithville. The first frame building was erected in 1822, on the present farm of Cyrus Hoover. In the fall of 18 1 5 John Wade built a hand-mill to crush corn for fam-

On section 21 were visible remains of an Indian village as late as 18 19. The first State's warrant was issued April 5, 18 18, by George Boydston, for the arrest of John Treasure, for assault and battery, upon complaint of Cephas Clark. Treasure was a " fortune teller," and Clark had his fortune told " on tick ; " the " teller" proved to be a liar, and Clark " bucked" and wouldn't pay, whereupon Treasure got him " in chancery" and drafted "sirloins" on his "frontispiece." Both were citizens of East Union township.

In 1 8 12 the first sermon was preached in the township by Rev. Gray, at the house of Mr. Thomas. In 18 18 the first school wa& taught by Peter Kane, a student of Oxford, England, and the first school-house was built upon the north-west quarter of section 23 - a log cabin 18x22. The second was taught by George Boydston, on the farm now owned by George Freeman ; and the third wastaught by Adam Kieffer, in 1824.

The first death in Greene township, after its settlement, was December 27, 1817. It occurred at a raising on the old Ruble farm, now owned by G. A. H. Myers, the victim being Christian Partshie, a stick of timber falling upon him.

Smiihville took its name from Thomas Smith, who, in 18 18, erected the first house in the neighborhood, a cabin, located on the north-west side of the Portage road, in the vicinity of which he afterward, in 183 1, laid out a village. But on account of low grounds the site was vacated ; and on May 25, 1836, David Birney, Sr., Joseph Musser, John Shroll and Luther Carey laid out a new village of forty-one lots, survey and plat made by Campbell Bell, being flie central part of the present town of Smithville, David Brenizer, who is still living in Smithville, put up the first building, on the corner now occupied by John Willaman's brick store ; the second was built by Jacob Musser, near the present residence of Jacob Stutz, and the third was " Widow Johnson's tavern." The first store in the original settlement was opened in 18 18, by Reasin Beall, in one end of Thomas Smith's cabin. The first Postmaster was Thomas Smith, under the first administration of Andrew Jackson. The first store in the present village was opened by Judge Smith Orr and Jonathan Casebier, in the spring of 1837.

There are nine different church organizations in this township, to wit ; Metho -dists, Amish, German Baptists (Dunkards), Presbyterians, Winebrenarians, Lutherans, River Brethren, Brethren in Christ and the United Brethren. The first was -organized in 1814, by the Methodists; the second in 1816, by the Amish; the third in 1826, by the German Baptists; the fourth in 1830, by the Presbyterians; the fifth in 1839, by the ^Vinebrenarians; the sixth in 1843, by the Brethren in Christ; the seventh in 1844, by the Evangelical Lutherans ; the eighth in 1845, by the United Brethren ; and the ninth in 1S67.

Jacob S. Paul, a native of Cumberland county, Pa., was born May 22, 1820. The self-reliant and resolute disposition of Mr. Paul developed itself quite prematurely, as at the age of twelve years he entered upon a clerkship in the store of Robert Sturgeon, of Churchtown, in his native county. With him he remained for seven years, when a change of firm took place, Mr. Paul, however, remaining a similar period under the new management, meantime obtaining an interest in the same. At the end of two years he disposed of his share in the establishment, and sought a wider sphere for the exercise of his commercial genius. Having some acquaintances in SmithviUe, in 1848 he removed there, soon thereafter embarking in business with John Zimmerman, remaining with him three years, when for three years he gave his attention to farming. For a period, he was variously engaged, but in 1862, resumed his mercantile pursuits in SmithviUe, where he continues in business.

Mr. Paul has imparted to SmithviUe its reputation as a vital business center. By fair dealing he has won the respect and confidence, and hence the patronage of the surrounding country. In 1873 the business of his firm amounted to an excess of ^115,000. In 1873 he established a branch house at Shreve, under the style of Paul, Bricker & Co., which suddenly sprang into a deserved popularity. His education was limited, receiving most of it from Jacob, son of Joseph Ritner, at one time Governor of Pennsylvania. He is an earnest, wide-awake man, possessed of sagacity, shrewdness of calculation, business fidelity and stubborn adhesion to business honor. He is of retiring disposition and covets no undue notoriety. Thrown upon the world at an early age, he acquired habits of industry and self-dependence, which invariably insure success. He has remarkable organizing and executive ability, and this, combined with his discretion and sound judgment

Thomas Boydston settled in Greene township as early as the spring of 18 1 1. He was born in Green county, Pa., in December, 1786, and married Emily Burress, of Monongalia county, Virginia, the following children resulting from this first marriage : Boaz, Mary, Charles, Behnda, Presley and Enoch. His wife Emily dying May 24, 1824, in East Union township, he was married a second time to Mary Brakefield, of Greene township, who died without issue. A third time he was married to Elizabeth Steel, of East Union township, of which union the following children are living: Solon, Sarah, Emily, Minerva, Eunice. He died in Orrville, August 22, 1863, his wife still surviving him.

Johti Winkler, the oldest living pioneer in Greene township, and first son of Lawrence Winkler, was born April 22, 1799, in Burke county. North Carolina, and came with his father to Greene township, Wayne county, Ohio, in the spring of 18 14, to prepare the way for the rest of the family, who came in the fall. In 1820 he married Miss Dorcas Wade, who died July 17, 1826, leaving one child. November 22, 1827, he married Miss Margaret Wilford.

Thomas Smith, after whom Smithville was named, was born May 14, 1788, in Washington county, Pa., and on January 9, 1815, was married to Miss Jane Wiley, of the same county. In the spring of 18 18, with his wife and two children, he immigrated to Greene township, and settled on the east half of the south-west quarter of section 18.

Smithville High School. - This excellent educational institution was established in Smithville in August, 1865. Professor J. B. Eberly was the first teacher, and now is the popular Principal. The school first commenced in the old Presbyterian church, better known as the Synagogue. About two years afterwards money was subscribed by the citizens of Smithville and vicinity to the amount of $5,000, to build a suitable building, which was erected, and, with the grounds, is valued at $10,000, and the boarding halls about the same, making a capital of about $20,000. The average yearly attendance has been about 275 students of both sexes. A large majority of the present teachers of Wayne county have been educated here, and many from other counties, especially Stark. The school has no endowment, nor has it received any gift at any time, except as above mentioned.

'Officers of the 5.r/^w/. - President - Rev. D. Kosht, of Smithville; Secretary - B. Musser ; Treasurer - Rev. James Baldwin ; Board of Trustees - Benjamin Herschey, of Canton ; D. B. Hotchkiss, of Limaville ; David Shisler, of North Lawrence ;

Instructors. - J. B. Eberly, M. A., Principal, and Professor of Normal Department; Leonard Huber, M. A., a graduate of Munich University, Germany, Professor of Ancient and Modern Languages; Benjamin Musser, Principal of Mercantile Department ; Mrs. Eugene G. Grenamyer, Principal Instrumental Music ; Mrs. Sarah Isiphine Eberly, Assistant Teacher Instrumental Music ; Joseph Corbett, Teacher of Vocal Music ; Julius E. Henderson, Assistant Teacher Scientific Department.

John Jacob Kieffer, among the first emigrants to Milton township, was born October i6, 17S9, in the Provisdiction of Zweibricken, Europe. His great-great-grandfather, De Wald Kieffer, was a native of Paris, and of wealthy and noble ancestry. He was the fifth child and oldest son of Michael Kieffer, and left Europe with his parents on April 15, 1773. They first settled in Bedford county, Pa., and lived there for about eight years, then crossed the Allegheny mountains and settled in Somerset county. Here, on September 2, 1787, he was married to Anna Eva Fritz, by whom he had nine children, viz: Michael, Margaret, Elizabeth, Adam, Mary, Jacob, Susanna, Joseph and Eva, who were all born in Somerset county, Pa. In the spring of 18 15 he, with his family, immigrated to Wayne county, Ohio, and settled upon the northeast quarter of section 35 of Milton township, there being but few settlers in advance of him. He died there February 23, 1828. His wife died September 29, 1843, aged 75 years.

D. L. Kieffer, second child and oldest son of Adam Kieffer, who was one of the earliest pioneers, was born in Greene township, Wayne county, Ohio, May 12, 1829. In the summer of 1854 he was married to Miss Rebecca Spangler, of Wayne township, by whom he has one son, George, a promising lad of twelve years. From his youth up Squire Kieffer showed an ardent desire for mental culture. After going through the common-schools he attended Canaan Academy, under Professor Notestine; also Prof. Foster's school of Seville, and the College at Edinburg, under Prof. Hill. He is an architect of ability, a noted master of civil engineering, a man of considerable literary acquirements, and we are indebted to him for the material facts in relation to Greene township.

John B. Eberly, son of Peter and Sarah Eberly, yet living in the vicinity of Smithville, was born in Cumberland county. Pa., February 5, 1837. With his father he removed to Wayne county in 1840, and remained with him until the age of 19, when he resolved, come what would, to devote himself to the first ambition of his life - to be a scholar and a teacher. For three years he attended the Fredericksburg school, under Prof B. C. Smith. In 1862 he entered Mt. Union College, remaining there three more years, from which, in June, 1865, he graduated with honor in the classical course. In August of the same year he organized the Smithville High School, since which over 4,000 students have attended it.

The Smithville High School is a creation of Prof. Eberly, although it may be said to have sprung from the wants of the community ; hence there was correspondence in the popular demand and his comprehension of it. Its very life and its boldest features are original with him, and the powerful and stimulating effect it has had upon the young men and women who have patronized it has largely shaped the educational character of the entire community.

Professor Eberly is opposed to an education that crams with theories, languages and words, and does not unfold faculties or develop forces. The ancient languages are to be perused rather as a means than an end ; either for the knowledge that is locked up in them, or the disciphne which their study affords the mind, or for the entire mastery which the acquisition of a foreign language compels us to obtain of the whole compass of our own. For these purposes he yields to no man in his esteem for the ancient languages. His advice to the students is that of Horace to the Pisos:

He recognizes the central and seminal fact, that the county asks for scholars, not scholastics ; practical men, not perambulating abstractions ; men whose minds have been strengthened, not overwhelmed by learning. He has an agile, quick, mechanical mind ; loves order because he was born to love it, and out of the harmonious play of his faculties springs the government of the schoolroom. His mind is intuitive, grasping, productive, re-productive ; e sees an idea, comprehends it, then pounces on it like a falcon, when he forever holds it. He has, morever, the capacity of not simply understanding things, but of making others understand them. He is a thinker and worker. There is no emotion or gush about him. His mind moves in a region of realities, facts, figures and objects. In conversation he is fluent, elastic and sarcastic. As a public speaker he ascends to the regions of thought, divesting himself of all badinage and the gallantry of declamation. He is one of the foremost educators of Wayne county.

Orrville, a creation and product of the railroad, and the inevitable genius which surrounds and pursues such corporations, is fast approaching the proportions of cityhood. Concerning her enterprise, sagacity, foresight and quick identity with what best promotes her welfare, we need distill no pen-praise or eulogy. She has two railroads - one more than Wooster - and has petitioners for other ones, and as petitioners always should, she " will ever pray." Her people are wide-awake, gritty, self reliant, and full of life. Despoil her of her energy, if you please, and her situation renders her existence and success compulsory. A junction, crossway and point of distribution of railways, she must thrive. With communication direct to Cleveland, and her proximity to the coal regions, both east and south, she combines the elements that insure her permanence and stability and impart to her the qualities of a rival.

Surrounded by excellent farms, carefully cultivated by the most frugal and industrious farmers in Wayne county, she is girt with a zone of wealth, the central figure of which she is to stand.

Her commercial population is progressive, alert and enterprising. Her massive and beautiful business blocks will challenge comparison with any town of its age and size in the State. Her churches are solid and substantial structures, and some of them, in point of design are architectural beauties. Her hotels are commodious and in their appointments surpass those of older villages. Her school building is a capacious and costly edifice, and with the additions and improvements recently made, and which are largely due to the action of Hon. William M. Orr, it has become in its appointments and accommodations the equal of any in the county. In general manufactures she has taken the lead of Wooster, and in the course of twenty-five years, estimating from her past rapid growth, she will rival the county-seat in population and in trade.

Orrville is situated partly in Greene and partly in Kaughman township, the dividing line of which runs through, but east of, its center, and was named in honor of Hon. Smith Orr. The lands on which the town was located in 1852 belonged to Robert Taggart, C. Brenneman and C. Horst. Mr. Orr, then living a mile south, got the railroad company to establish a water-tank, and prevailed on Robert Taggart to lay off ten acres into town lots. He then bought out C. Horst, David Rudy and Peter Perrine. Jesse Straughan made the first plat of the town, and named it Orrville, in honor of Judge Orr. The first house built in the village was jointly by William M. Orr and William Gailey, and which was intended for a saw-mill, and to do work for the railroad company. William Bowman was the mill-wright. The lots on the Taggart ten acres were principally the first upon which buildings were constructed ; they lay north of the railroad, east of Main street, and were all located in Baughman township. Meantime some houses were being built across the line in Greene township. Judge Orr purchasing some land south of West Market street from Christian Brenneman, and some north of West Market street from C. Horst and William Vankirk, laid out a number of lots. Her population at this time borders closely upon 2,000.

Its incorporation was granted by the Commissioners of the county May 9, 1864, and the first election held was at the office of William M. Gailey, February 22, 1865. The following are the officers since that date :

Judge Smith Orr was born in Tallord, near Strahan, in County- Tyrone, Ireland, on the 23d of November, 1797, and was the youngest child of Samuel and Sarah Orr. He had five brothers and two sisters, all of whom are dead. His mother died on the day of his birth, and his father landed, with the other members of Tils family at New Castle, Delaware, in the month of August, 1801. After a residence of a few years in the East, they removed to Applecreek, East Union township, Wayne county, in the spring 1812.

There Mr. Orr continued to live until the death of his father, in 1818. He then had but the choice of meeting the world for himself without means, assistance or friends. From that time until about the age of twenty-five he labored at grubbing and railsplitting for others, when, having accumulated a small sum, he married Maria, youngest daughter of David Foreman, a soldier of the Revolution, who settled in Wayne county at a very early period, and who died there.

After their marriage they purchased and settled on a half- -quarter of land in the woods on Apple creek, where they lived about three years, and then bought and removed to within one-half mile south of Orrville, and there resided over four years, and then purchased and removed to the tract of land known as the "Home Farm," one mile south of Orrville, and owned by him at his death. There he continued his residence until 1850, when the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad being located, he purchased land in and around where the village of Orrville is situated, and whither Tie immediately removed and continued to reside until his death, which occurred April 23, 1865.

His wife, Maria Orr, was born in Ligonier Valley, Pa., March 10, 1799, and when a small girl immigrated with her father, David Foreman, grandfather of Enos Foreman, former editor of the Wooster Republican, to the neighborhood of Economy, on the Ohio river, from which place she came with her father to what is now known as Baughman township. Her mother having died a very short time before their immigration to the country, she assumed entire household management of her father's house in the thirteenth year of her age. On the ist of February, 1821, she became the wife of the subject of this memoir, residing with her husband from that time in East Union, Baughman, and from the spring of 185 1 until her death in the village of Orrville, Greene township. During her married life, in addition to her own son, Hon. William M. Orr, she became the foster-mother of ten orphan children, four boys and six girls. She was plain in her manners, kind and affable, and but little disposed to visit or leave home ; her greatest enjoyment consisting in receiving and entertaining friends and neighbors at her own house, where she was almost constantly to be found. It may be said of her, as Logan said of himself, " Who ever entered her cabin hungry and she gave him not meat? "

In the fifteenth year of her age, she embraced religion and united with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which she remained a member until about one year after her marriage, when she united with the Presbyterian church, at Applecreek, of which her husband was a member. From that congregation they were transferred by certificate to the Presbyterian church at Dalton. She died as she had lived, a believer in revealed religion, expressing a firm and unfaltering hope and confidence in Jesus, her Savior.

Our pen has neither the cunning nor the ability to describe or analyze the parts which entered into the mental and physical composition of Judge Orr. Entering the county, then a dense wilderness, when he was but fifteen years of age, he became, like the oaks surrounding him, a very child of the woods.

Then he could love "nature more," if "not man the less." The approach of the bear, the howl of the wolf, the alarm signal of the rattlesnake, the yell of the wild Indian, constituted the sources of his early fears. Nature, however, may have tried to delight and instruct him, and if the barn was not built for the swallow and the hedge-row not set for the thrush, the wild singers of the woods serenaded him with music. He could watch the lithe deer bounding through the thickets, catch design and beauty in the woodland blossoms, and take lessons in philosophy, as nature, blending storm and sunshine, drew God's promise on the cloud.

margins of poetry, it was filled out to the rim in solid and serious prose. There were no school laws in Ohio then, and schoolhouses and school-teachers but faintly glimmered in dream-land. He may have learned the alphabet in the old family Bible, and studied his arithmetic leaning over his knees at the cabin-fire. Under the circumstances which did exist he acquired an education, not such as is'attainable at the college or university ; but his heart, feelings, soul, mind, brain, susceptibilities, all were disciplined in the school of self-denial and experience. It drilled and fitted him for a useful life, made him a benefit and blessing to his fellow-men, who turned to him in adversity for help, and who also sought his counsel and advice when "the winds down the river were fair.''

Such a man as Judge Orr could not well have grown up in any country but his own. He was made what he was under divine guidance, solely by his own irresistible will and the inexorable circumstances surrounding a pioneer. He was an original, modeled himself after no pattern, imitated no man's manners, but with strong practical common sense convictions of what a high-minded Christian gentleman should be and do, he struggled perseveringly with fearless, unquailing, mighty will and arm and a warm, heroic heart and faith to be it and to do it. With an ear ever inclined to hear a tale of sickness, suffering or misfortune, and a hand and head ever ready with aid and counsel in need, his purpose was to do everything well that he undertook, however humble the task.

He was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace at an early day, and repeatedly re-elected, through all party malignities and asperities, holding the position for over a quarter of a century. He was elected in the year 1846 by the General Assembly of Ohio as one of the Associate Judges of the Common Pleas Court, which place he honorably and with signal ability filled until the adoption of the new Constitution in 1853, which abolished the office. Besides many other public positions which he occupied with credit, it may be mentioned that he was many times chosen by his political party - the Clay Whigs - as a candidate for election to responsible public positions, when the party in his locality was in the minority.

He was a member of the Union Convention which met in Baltimore in 1864 and renominated Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency, casting his first vote for him, and upon the vote for Vice-President in the convention Judge Orr and the Hon. Harrison G. Blake, by their votes, decided the vote of the Ohio delegation in favor of

He was Land Surveyor for forty years, and throughout the entire eastern part of the county his services in this respect were of incalculable value to the citizens. During the war of the rebellion he held no middle ground, but was decided, outspoken and pronounced in his sympathy and support of the Government. When Cincinnati was threatened by the Confederate forces he placed himself at the head of a company (being then sixty-six years of age) of Squirrel Hunters, and succeeded in reaching the city, an achievement of which a majority of the companies could not boast.

His patriotism was intense, ardent and glowing. Convince Judge Orr that he was right, and legions of armed men could not prevent an effort to perform it. Stir up the lion in the old man's breast, and the hot blood which he imported from the rarest island of the seas rose to its ebb, and if it was to smite a wrong he would dash forward^ regardless of opposition. What he undertook to do he did with all his might.

Yesterday is past, to-day we will be wiser, and if to-morrow comes, better. He had an indomitable perseverance and will, and believed, with Richelieu, that -

He was possessed of a wide benevolence, a clear and comprehensive understanding, and an unflinching persistency and tenacity of aim. He was a thoughtful and discriminating student, an excellent historian, and with the political literature and transactions of the country, enjoyed the utmost familiarity. He was a fluent and convincing speaker, indulging in fact, detail and narration, sel; dom ornamental and never speculative.

He was a Presbyterian of the old school and faith, and belonged to the class of which Rev. T. A. McCurdy speaks in his history of the Wooster (Pres.) church, who ' 'had in them the ring of the true metal, and blue was their color. " Aside from his pubHc duties and labors Judge Orr, by his own unaided individual energy and skill, out of nothing acquired, built up and managed an estate sufficiently large to gratify any ordinary and reasonable ambition.

But that which he acquired in his life, above all things to be admired and emulated, was the good name he left among men. To merit this in a sincere, earnest and Christian-like way was, whilst he lived upon earth, his chiefest ambition.

He died in the full faith of the resurrection and the eternal morning after the night of the grave, "sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust " in Him whose death was not only the world's example, but its sacrifice and life. Of his own issue surviving him are one son and three grandchildren.

Orrville contains quite a number of industrial establishments and other enterprises, of which we note a few of the most prominent. Askins' Glass Coffin Company - This is a joint stock company, with a capital of $210,000, engaged in the manufacture of Askins' glass coffins, a new and superior article, patented January 22, 1877. Fifty operatives are employed. Directors: C. Brenneman, William M. Orr, Joseph Snavely, Joseph Askins, James Buttermore, James A. Taggart. Officers: President, William M. Orr; Treasurer, D. G. Horst ; Superintendent, Jacob

Champion Thresher and Agricultural Implement Shops. - Work in these shops was commenced in Orrville in the spring of 1875, by W. M. Koppes & Co., employing from ten to fifteen hands, and were not able to fill half their orders for the thresher last year Hand Rake and Fork Manufactory, Boydston & Ramsey, proprietors, was founded in January, 1871, manufacturing hundreds of these implements annually Orrville Pottery was established in 1862, by Amos

Hall and Robert R. Cochran. Peter Eckert and Jacob Flickinger purchased the pottery in 1877, and manufacture an extensive variety of crocks, jugs, fruit jars,

The Central Ohio Fair, held annually at Orrville since 1867, is the best in some respects of any in all the surrounding counties. The grounds contain forty acres. Thousands attend it every year, until the " Orrville Fair " has become a popular institution with the masses. Present officers : President, Hon. John Ault ; Vice President, Daniel Holzer ; Treasurer, Joseph Snavely ; Secretary, H. M. Wilson ; was organized in Orrville, on June 5, 1876, and is a fine military company of fortyfive members. Officers: Captain, A. H. Postlewait; First Lieutenant, T. B. Myers ; Second Lieutenant, Thomas Carney ; Orderly Sergeant, John A. Wolbach . . . . . The First Fire Company was organized in 1873, with a hand engine called "Dot," and in 1874 this company merged into anew organization of sixty-four members, with another engine called " Monitor; " Foreman, E. Fogle.

Exchange Bank. - This monetary institution was organized in 1868, by Jacob Brenneman and David G. Horst, the former retiring from it in April, 1877, since which time Samuel and Levi Brenneman have taken interests, the style of the bank being Brenneman & Horst.

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/. O. O. F. - Orrville Lodge, No. 4go, was instituted July 26, 1871. Charte members: H. P. Hugus, A. W. Bombarger, A. E. Clark, Isaac H. Krieble, Hai rison Bowman, John Dunn, J. C. St. John. Present officers : R. Chaffin, N. G. A. Arich, V. G.; Jacob Holzer, R. S.; A. Gift, P. S.; John Miller, Treasurer; J H. Krieble, P. G.

D. L. Moncrief, M. D. - The grandfather of the subject of this sketch was born in Scotland, his father in Carlisle, Pa., from where he removed to near Cannonsburg, Washington county. Here the Doctor was born, September 23, 1823, and lived on the farm until fifteen years of age. He attended Jefferson College, and af twenty-two began the study of medicine with Dr. Israel Moore, of Cannonsburg, with whom he remained three years a student and then removed to Western Ohio. In 1853 he concluded his medical course at Cincinnati. From Mercer county, Ohio, he came to Orrville in March, 1857, at once entering upon a success ful practice of his profession, residing there until the present time. He was thrice married, the last time on March 20, 1876, to Miss Marian Morton, an English lady, who accompanied Dr. A. C. Miller on his return from England. He is a member of the Wayne County Medical Society, and was made Postmaster ol Orrville in i860 by Abraham Lincoln, serving eight years. He is a member of the United Presbyterian church at Dalton.

Dr. Moncrief is a sqholar in his profession, and the best type of a refined and cultivated gentleman. Truthfulness, energy, tenacity and firmness in conviction of right are special traits of his character. A man of enlightened mind, he appreciates the value of education, and as a consequence encourages and aids its general promotion. He is ever identified with the best interests ol his town. He has carved out his own destiny ; acquired competence and wealth, and by his worth, stability and courtesy, has won the deserved confidence and respect of all good men.

Hon. William M. Orr. - William M. Orr, only child of Judge Smith Orr, deceased, was born in Baughman township, January 7, 1826. He was raised on the farm, and with his father remained until he was sixteen years of age, when he commenced teaching school. He attended the Dalton and Wadsworth Academies, and in the year 1846 entered the junior class at Washington and Jefferson College, from which he graduated in 1847.

In this class were John LeMoine, now member of Congress from Chicago ; W. S. Moore, late member of Congress from Washington, Pa. ; James G. Blaine, member of Congress for many years, late Speaker of the House of Representatives, and present United States Senator from the State of Maine, and other men of mark.

At the annual contest of 1846, between the literary societies of the College, he took the highest honor in debate and was valedictorian of the class of 1847.

He commenced reading law with Hon. T. M. T. McKennon, of Washington, Pa., once Secretary of the Interior of the United States, concluding his elementary studies with Hon. R. P. Spaulding, of Cleveland, Ohio.

He was admitted to practice by Judge Peter Hitchcock, and opened an office in Wooster in 1849, where he remained until 1865, when he removed to Orrville, his present residence.

He was married on the 4th of July, 1849, to Charlotte McFarland, of Baughman township, a niece of Major McFarland, who distinguished himself at Lundy's Lane. Mr. Orr has had four children. Smith, John, William and Maria. William Orr, his third son, died August 3, 1877. His oldest son is practicing medicine in Lasalle county, 111.

A Methodist Society was organized in the district in which Orrville was embraced as early as 1853, by Rev. Joseph Hayes, and services were held in a school-room in the western part of the village. Among its first members were, David Huston, leader, Mrs. Joanna Hayes, Daniel Hoover and wife, Mrs. William Vankirk, Mrs. Joseph Vankirk, Father Wilford, a local preacher, Mary Walters, and Mr. and Mrs. William Skelton. They completed their church edifice in 1868-69. Rev. Alfred Wheeler dedicated it and preached the sermon. The succession of pastors since 1869 has been as follows: Rev Chilton- Craven, N. J. Close, A. E. Thomas, Philip Kelser, J. L. Sanford, J. T. McCartney, W. Reese and J. F. Brant, present pastor.

English Lutheran Mission Church was organized January 6, 1877, with ten members, and was incorporated January 31, 1876, with the following trustees: Jesse Good, A. W. Bombarger, Otho Miller, G. G. Wear and A. McGriffin. March 28 A. C. Miller, M. D., of Cleveland, and J. H. Stoll, M. D., and wife, in April, deeded grounds to the Trustees, thus securing to the church the entire block lying on the south-east corner of Vine and Water streets, for a consideration of $1,900. July 18, 1876, on these premises the society began the erection of a church. The corner-stone was laid September 3, Rev. H. L. Wiles, D. D., preaching the sermon. By October 13, 1877, the house was ready for occupancy. The church membership now numbers twenty, and with a flourishing Sabbathschool recently organized the work in the new church begins under favorable auspices. Rev. J. C. Kauffman is present pastor.

Presbyterian Church. - Prior to the organization of the Presbyterian church at Orrville services were held occasionally. Rev. Archibald Hanna preached the first sermon in the interest of Presbyterianism in 1852, in an old school-house, now the home of Mr. H. M. Wilson and family. No further record of any services until July 9, 1854, by Rev. John E. Carson, held in the Union church. Here they henceforth worshiped until the basemement of their own house was fit for occupation. Services were held by the following named persons ; Rev. Carson, Rev. J. W. Hanna, son of Archibald Hanna, Rev. Marshall, Rev. Barr, Rev. Semple. During the close of Rev. Semple's ministration in this place, the church was organized July 25, 1865. The committee appointed by the Presbytery of Wooster for the work consisted of Rev. Philo M. Semple, John E. Carson, Andrew Virtue, ministers ; Elders James McClure and Joseph Potter. The original membership consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Gailey, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Reaser, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Johnston, James A. Taggart, Sarah J. Taggart, Margaret F. Crites, Rebecca Wilson, Lydia Wilson, Mary L. Wilson, Mary J. Ewmg, Delilah McFarland, Sarah A. Orr, Rebecca M. Storrs, Catharine Schriber, Sarah J. Taggart.

Soon after the organization of the church, Mr. Semple held a communion here, the first ever held in Orrville. His labor ceased September 16, 1866. October 21 witnessed the advent of Rev. M. L. Anderson, who continued as stated supply of the church, in connection with Holmesville, to March 21, 1869. Rev.. Dunlap began his services June 6, 1869, but his ministry was short. He died October 3, 1870. The church was dedicated February 19, 1871, when a sermon was delivered by Dr. Lord, of the University of Wooster. Rev. A. Dilworth began his services August 27, 1871, and was installed November 10, thus securing the title of first regular pastor of this church. Rev. J. M. Jenkins preached his first sermon April 26, 1874, and was installed, September 24, by a committee of Presbytery, consisting of Rev. A. S. MulhoUand and Dr. Taylor, of Wooster. D. G. Horst, H. H. Strauss and J. H. StoU, M. D., were elected Elders at a meeting held May 19, 1876. A summary of the work of the church from its organization shows that ninety have united with it from other churches. Total number ever connected with it, 257 ; present membership, 170.

David G. Horst was born in Lancaster county, Pa., June 26, 183 1, and came to Wayne county, Ohio, with his father, with whom he remained until [860, when he settled in Orrville, and engaged in the dry goods and general merchandising business, in which he continued for eight years, when he went into the banking business. He was married February 16, 1853, to Elizabeth Martin, of Baughman township. He is a member of the Presbyterian church ; is a man of sound, solid sense, a benevolent, liberal, upright, and a consistent Christian gentleman.

successful and wealthy farmer, until he was sixteen, when he attended the Smithville Academy, and thence went to Savannah, Ashland county, where he remained two years. At the age of twenty he began reading medicine with L. Firestone, M. D., LL. D., of Wooster. After successive courses at the best medical colleges of the United States, he graduated in 1871, and immediately entered upon practice at Marshallville, where he remained eighteen months, when he went to London, England, and received lectures at Kings College, but on account of sickness was compelled to return home, when he located in Orrville. He was married June 26, 1871, to Belle A. Jeffreys, of Savannah. He is surgeon of the C. Mt. & C. R. R. and the Ninth Ohio National Guards.

Adam Brenneman, a native of Pennsylvania, immigrated to Ohio in 1 83 1, located in Sugarcreek township, two miles south of Orrville, where he died February 10, 1869. His son, Jacob Brenneman, was born in Lancaster county. Pa., February 28, 1822, removed to Wayne county with his father, where he remained until he was twenty-six years of age. He then began selling goods one mile south-east of the present site of Orrville, where in 1859 he removed and continued his mercantile business, with D. G. Horst as partner. In 1867 he relinquished commercial pursuits and went into the banking business. In 1872 he completed the splendid brick building on Market street, 100x50 feet, three stories high, and at a cost of ;^ 12,000. It fronts on the street, with five ample and capacious rooms, an ornament to the town and an honor to the genius and enterprise of Mr. Brenneman, than whom there are no better citizens in the county.

The Graded Schools of Orville, organized in 1872, are among the very best conducted in the county, having a fine school building, and using all the improved methods of instruction, and are a highly creditable institution to the growing little railroad city. The present instructors are : Superintendent and Principal of the High School, J. W. Dougherty; Teachers: Grammar School, Sarah Mc Williams ; Intermediate, Martha J. Gailey and Ida Clark ; A Primary, Rettie Weirich ; B Primary, Lois Steel.

The Orrville Crescent. - This newspaper was established in January, 1870, by John A. Wolbach. The paper is a five-column quarto, 26x40. The office has three job presses, two of which are

Steam presses, and employs four hands. The Crescent is well managed, has a good advertising patronage, and is settled on a solid foundation. John A. Wolbach, the editor and publisher, was born in Greene township, April 6, 1849, and learned the printing business in the office of the Wooster Republican. In 1867 he worked on the Medina Republican, and after a short experience there went on the Akron Beacon, where he remained two years, until he established the Crescent. He was married September II, 1869, to Miss Sarah J. Homer, of Medina county.

Evening at Home and Words of Cheer are the titles of two worthy journals published in Orrville by H. A. Mumaw since the spring of 1875. They are very readable family papers, conducted with good literary ability, and are publications of the highest moral character.

Daniel Sckriber, a native of Pennsylvania, and for seventeen years a citizen of Wayne county, died February 2, 1852. His son, Henry, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, September 4, 183 1, and with his father's family, in 1833, removed to Wayne county, his father soon purchasing a tract of land in Greene township. Henry worked on the farm till he was nineteen years old, when he learned a trade, to which he applied himself for seven years, when he went to school at Fredericksburg and prepared himself for teaching, which vocation for a number of years he pursued. In 1859 he embarked in mercantile business in Orrville, where he has since continued. He has been twice married; first, to Elizabeth Galley, who died September 27, 1872;. second, to Sophronia Orr, January 15, 1875. He is the present Postmaster of the town, and has been for a number of years ;. was elected Justice of the Peace of Greene township in 1872, and re-elected in 1875. He is a member of the Presbyterian church. Isaac Schriber, son of Daniel, was born in Greene township,. June 29, 1834. He was married to Catharine ZoUars, and is an active, enterprising man. He was appointed Commissioner of Wayne county, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of John McGill, and was elected and re-elected thereafter to the same office. Under his administration occurred the completion of the county buildings, and the improvements and additions made to the County Infirmary. He has held various minor offices.

This township was named after John Baughman, grandfather of John W., of Wooster, who was the first white settler in the township. It was organized March 5, 1816. Its population in 1870 was 2,067. The list of township officers on the record is as follows:

Reminiscences Concerning John Baughman, by his Son Solomon, of Dalton. - VLy father was born on Ten Mile, Washington county, Pa. His father, whose name was John also, removed to what is Baughman township now, with his wife and family, in l8lo. He settled on the east side of the township, on the farm known as Baughman Hill. My father, by way of explanation, once said to me, "When you buy a farm be sure to get one that has sugar trees and a spring on it." We had, however, been out before the family was brought, and built a cabin 12x12, but which had no chimney, and a roof made of chestnut bark. We came on horseback, bringing some clothes, tools, etc., though father walked most of the way. The second time they came out they hired a pair of horses and wagon to bring the family, riding and packing their own ponies. Father entered the land, 160 acres, in connection with John Weygandt, father subsequently owning all of it. His farm was an excellent one, and it had thirty-seven springs on it, and apples when there were none anywhere else. We lived in the two cabins for about eight years, when we erected a house twenty or thirty rods north of them. Here father lived and died. Times were pretty hard then, and the country wild, but not as wild as now, I believe; there were fewer fusses then, and less "stagger juice" consumed. "For years he was a member of the Presbyterian church, but latterly joined the United Brethren. He had ten children, seven sons and three daughters, but three of whom are living. Indians, bears and wolves were plenty when we came out. Some of the Indians could talk English, and told us that a big war was coming, and a part of the family, out of fear of the Indians, went toward Canton. We had a good many Indian scares, but managed to get through without personal harm. When the Indians got drunk they were dangerous. Whisky was sometimes carried in deer skins.

Reminiscences of Andrew Ault. - I was born in York county, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1797 ; was the son of Valentine Ault. When three years old I was taken to Washington county, Pennsylvania ; worked on a farm till I was 18 years of age, when, with my uncle, Frederick Ault, I came to Wayne county to see the country. The first night I grew alarmed at the presence of wolves, and " left the world and climbed a tree '' - actually climbed a sapling and stayed on it all night. I went back to Pennsylvania, but returned in March, partly on a sled and partly not. I made sugar a while, and went back to Pennsylvania and remained a few years - long enough to get married, in 1822, to Elizabeth Weaver. I returned to Wayne county in 1823 with a bran new wife ; took three days to make the trip; located finally on the north-east quarter of section 8, in Baughman township, and purchased land from Malachi Fiester. I had trouble getting the girl I wanted when I was married, but was bound to have her ; had a child in twelve months to a minute from the day I was married - kept strict count. I have held all the township offices ; first office was Justice of the Peace, in 1835 ; wanted to resign, but didn't know how; visited my old friend, Jacob Ihrig, and asked advice; he said, "You must not do it," but I said, " I can't attend to it, can't read and don't know enough;" " But," said Ihrig, "your wife can read and help you through." Iconeluded to stick, and held the office 29 years. Though a Democrat, in a Republican township, I never was defeated. I have settled up more estates than any man in the township; but three appeals were taken from my docket; one was settled, judgment in one was confirmed, and the third dismissed. I served twice as Commissioner of Wayne county. Frederick Ault's wife was the first white person who died in the township, and Peter Walters the first born, I think. John Baughman was the first Justice.

David Foreman emigrated fromi reland, and settled on a farm near Philadelphia, Pa., about the year 1745, where he resided until 1808, when the family moved to Baughman township, Wayne county, Ohio, in 181 1. His death, and that of his wife, took place prior to the year 1820. They were Protestants in religious faith. The family consisted of the father and mother ; three daughters, Sarah, Margaret and Maria ; and three sons, John, Alexander and Hugh. Sarah married John Henry, who lived in Baughman township many years, then moved to Beaver, Pa., where descendants of the family still reside. Margaret married William Montgomery, living in Baughman many years, and died without children. Maria was married to the late Judge Smith Orr, and resided until her death in the same neighborhood. Hugh, the youngest of the sons, never married. Having learned the trade of a cabinet maker, with Thomas Robison, of Wooster, he spent most of his life traveling in foreign lands, visiting almost every country on the globe. When last heard from by his relatives, in 1830, he was in South America. Alexander married Martha Gardner, and resided for many years near the old Foreman homestead, when he moved with his family to Hancock county, Ohio, where some of his descendants still reside.

John Foreman, the eldest of the family, owned and improved the farm known in later years as the " Vankirk farm," where he resided until 1829, when he moved with his family to Nottawa, St. Joseph county, Mich., where he died in 1846. He was a man of more than ordinary energy, industry and enterprise, took a leading part in all measures for the welfare and prosperity of the early settlers. He commanded a company of militia, and was always among the first in defense of the safety and peace of the neighborhood and county. Of an ingenious turn of mind, his mechanical skill made him very useful, at that early day, to his neighbors, and often to others in distant parts of the country. A member of the Seceder church, of strong convictions, he read much, and was ready in debate and conversation. His first wife, a sister of the late Judge Orr, died soon after their marriage, leaving no children. His second wife was a daughter of John Glasgo. She died within two years after their marriage, leaviog one child, Enos Foreman. The third wife was a daughter of William Johnston, an early settler, living in Sugarcreek township. Eight children survived the last wife, two of whom have since died, the others being residents in several different Western States.

Enos Foreman, son of John Forenman, and grandson of David Foreman, was born August 9, 1820, in Baughman township, on the place known now as the " Vankirk farm." When nine years old he had enjoyed the usual advantages of education then furnished in country district schools. With his father's family he went to Nottawa, Michigan, in 1829, where he worked on a farm., going to school in the winter months, until 1838, then entered White Pigeon (now Michigan State) University, and pursued the usual classical course until December 1840, when he returned to Wadsworth, Ohio, and spent the next four years under the instruction of John McGregor, a highly educated Scotchman, a graduate of Edinburg University, and a most successful teacher. He went to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in 1844, and read law three years with the late Judge Hurd, teaching school winters in Fredericktown to defray expenses. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1847, and settled in Wooster, occupying the office and having the use of the library of the late Judge Avery, who was then a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio. In 1852, with H. C. Johnson as partner, he purchased the Wooster Republican, and continued its publication until July, 1870, when he sold out to McClure & Sanborn, and removed to Cleveland where he has since resided.

Hugh Harkins. - The parents of this honored pioneer were natives of Ireland, where the family, by a record kept since 1693, is shown to have been cloth-weavers and possessors of real estate. His father's name was William Harkins, who, in 179 1, married his cousin, Margaret Harkins. In 1793 they emigrated to America, accompanied by nearly all the connections - his mother, brothers and sisters, and his brother-in law, Patrick Porter and his family. The little colony landed at Newark, New Jersey, being deterred from disembarking at Philadelphia on account of yellow fever then prevailing there. They made their way to Lancaster county. Pa., but in four years afterwards removed to Westmpreland county. Pa., where the subject of this sketch was born in 1805. After living in Allegheny county five years, his father and Patrick Porter and his sons Richard and John, with their families, removed to Ohio, settling in the then untamed wilderness of Wayne county, on April 19, 18 14. There were but few settlers ahead of them, one being John Baughman, after whom the township was subsequently named. Here they lived and prospered the remainder of their lives, his mother dying in 1843, aged seventy-five years, and his father on November 19, 1845, at the age of eighty-five. Patrick Porter died in July, 1825 ; his wife in 1837. Hugh Harkins was married November 2, 1826, and from the date of settlement lived on the same farm until the day of his death, January 15, 1874.

Robert Taggart was born 1796, in Washington county. Pa., and came to Baughman township in 18 17, and located where John Taggart now lives. He died July 27, 1873, his wife surviving him. He had ten children. Upon the one hundred and sixty acres of land which he entered a part of Orrville is built. He was a member of the Presbyterian church at Dalton. His son John was born October 6, 1825, in Baughman township, and is married to Sarah J. Carlile. He is an industrious man, devoted to agricultural pursuits.

Samuel Taggart ^SlS born December 17, 1790, and died April 24, 1853. He was married to Catharine Morrow, February 16, 1815, who died July 2, 1861. He came to Wayne county, April 9, 1815, and settled on the quarter section of land now owned by James and Morrow Taggart. He had twelve children. His father, James, was a native of Antrim, Ireland, and came to America prior to the Revolution. James A. Taggart, one of his sons, owns a splendid farm near Orrville.

Lewis McKean, Sr., was born in Center county, Pennsylvania, October i, 1797, and January 6, 1825, he was married to Margaret W. McCalmon, of the same county. The spring of that year they moved to Wayne county, where he had been the year before and put up a cabin on the farm now owned by Joseph Amstutz. He died there May 11, 1861 ; his wife dying May 11, 1867. They had five children - Sylvester, William, Thomas, James and Lewis.

John Campbell was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1 8 10, and came to Wayne county with his father, George Campbell, in 1822. His father dying three years thereafter, John virtually became the head of the family, and worked on the farm until the youngest child was twenty-one years of age. January 21, 1842, he was married to Matilda Ervine, of Baughman township. His only son, John H. Campbell, is a lawyer, in practice in Akron, and is married to Carrie Oswalt, of Wayne county.

Valentine W. Ault, son of Andrew, was born in Baughman township, one-fourth mile from the old Andrew Ault farm, on March I, 1828, and was married on April 12, 1851, to Mary Ann Anderson, by whom he had eight children, three of whom are dead. He devotes his attention to farming and milling. He is a straight Democrat, and by his party was elected Commissioner of Wayne county two terms, serving six years. His life has been a busy and useful one, and his career characterized by intelligence and strictest probity, and he enjoys, to a broad extent, the respect and esteem of all who know him.

John Sickman was a native of Washington county. Pa., where he was born March 23, 1800. He came to Wayne county in 1820, and settled in 1822 on land his father, Barnhart Sickman, had entered from the Government some years prior to that date. On this farm, now owned by his son, W. K. Sickman, he lived until his death, March 4, 1872.

John Wilson, father of Arthur M. Wilson, of Baughman township, was born February 22, 1790, in Allegheny county. Pa., and emigrated to Wayne county in the fall of 1827. His father, William, a Revolutionary soldier, had entered three quarter-sections - two in Baughman and one in Sugarcreek township - and John squatted on the quarter now owned by his sons, Arthur and William. He was married October 29, 18 12, to Catharine Morrow, of Allegheny county. Pa., by whom he had seven children. He died on Arthur's place, July 21, 1874.

Benjamin Westheffer was born in Lancaster county. Pa., January 6, 1825, and when five years old came with his father, William Westheffer, an itinerant preacher, to Wayne county, settling on the place where he died, January 5, 1877. He was married July 27, 1849, to Susanna Wenger.

Benjamin Weygandt was born February 10, 1826, on the old homestead in Baughman township. His father, Conrad Weygandt, was a native of Northampton county. Pa. , his ancestry emigrating to America, from the German Rhine provinces, about one hundred and sixty years ago. He came to Baughman township in the spring of 1815, accompanied by his wife (Sarah Barkhammer) and one child, Jonathan, and settled on the farm now occu- pied and owned by his son Benjamin. The subject of this sketch was twice married, first to Sarah A. Ault, on June 14, 1849, ^""^ who died April 13, 1854, leaving two children; second, to Catharine Cunningham, June 24, 1858, by which union there are five children. Mr. Weygandt was elected County Commissioner in 1873, re-elected in 1876. He is a member, with his wife, of St. Michael's church. He is a successful farmer, and in the office of County Commissioner is the right man in the right place. He is a man of sterling integrity, exemplary life, firm and decided character, and held in high esteem by all who know him.

John Douglas was born in Scotland in 1790, immigrated to America, and settled near Fairfax Court-House, Va., where he worked a short time, and married Miss Mary Early, a native of County Tyrone, Ireland. From Virginia he came to Baughman township in 1825. He died here November 27, 1844, his wife still surviving him, as do also four children, James, John, Sarah and Wilson.

Marshallville was laid out by James Marshall, surveyed February 7, 1817, plat and certificate recorded February 27, 1817, record to be found on page 184, vol. i, and is, we believe, the first town laid out in the county after Wooster. Mr. Marshall is represented as being an excellent citizen, and a member of the old Seceder church of Dalton. The town was surveyed by and for Mr. Marshall, and named Marshallville (not Bristol). In 1834, when Martin Weimer came to the village, there were but ten houses there, occupied by Elijah Dancer, Calvin Brewster, James and Joseph Hogan, Enoch Moffit, James Marshall, John Rech and a Mr. Ellingham and a Mr. Scotton - the two latter shoemakers. A Doctor Comstock was the first physician. Marshallville was incorporated February 10, 1866. The following is the list of town officers since 1867 :

A. A. Mclntyre, a native of Edinburg, Scotland, and who immigrated to Canada in 1826, and to the United States in 1829, was the first ticket agent at Marshallville for the C, Mt. & C. R. R., then known as the C, Z. & C. R. R. He came to Marshallville in 1854, when he was appointed to the road, then completed as far as Millersburg. His son, G. D. Mclntyre, is ticket agent at present, and is a popular and enterprising young man.

W. B. Hyatt, M. D., first got aboard the globe, March 29, 1829 - studied medicine, practiced in Marshallville - was in the army two and one-half years - had his face mashed with a shell, receiving other bodily injuries which produced atrophy of the muscles and anchylosis of the left shoulder joint.

Wehe &" Co.^s Carriage Manufactory was burned down August II, 1877, commencing about three o'clock, A. M. Loss $8,000; insurance $1,700. The misfortune, however, did not exhaust the industrious and enterprising members of the firm, for they are now erecting new buildings, and expect soon to conduct carriage manufacturing in all its branches on a larger scale than ever.

man township in 1821, settling on the farm now owned by Valentine Ault. About 1847 he purchased a farm and gave his attention to tilling the soil until 1868, when he removed to his present residence near Marshallville. June 17, 1830, he was married to M. C. Yohe - had three children. His son Joseph is one of the Justices of Baughman township.

David Gensener, father of the Gensener Brothers, dry goods merchants of Marshallville, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, January S, 18 13. He was a hatter by trade, and after working at this occupation for several years came to New Berlin, Stark county, where he established a shop and lived about three years, there marrying Esther Ann Feather, February 28, 1837. In the spring of 1838 he removed to Marshallville, where he has since continued to reside, where he has been successful in business pursuits. He has six children - two sons and four daughters - all born and all living in Marshallville.

Henry Winger was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1824, and came with his parents to Greene township in 1837, removed to Baughman township in 1847, and two years thereafter into Marshallville. In December, 1846, he married Nancy Hawk, of East Union township, and has had five children. He is a good business man, and has been Justice of the Peace four terms,

John Weimer, a native of Alsace, where he was born April 3, 181 3, immigrated to America in 1833, landing at New York after a thirty days' passage, coming to Xjreene township immediately, and stopping near Smithville with Martin Shoemaker, where he remained a year, when he removed to Marshallville, then called Bristol. Mr. Weimer was married in 1836 to Susanna Holser, of Baughman township, but a native of Westmoreland county, Pa., and has had seven children, Susanna, Martin L., John, Jacob, Eliza and Ida, four only of whom are living. Mr. Weimer and wife are members of the Reformed church. His occupation has been chiefly that of cabinet maker and joiner. He has made his life a success and is an earnest Christian man. His sons John Weimer and Jacob Weimer are in business in Marshallville and are fair dealing, upright and honorable men.

March 7, 1846, and began reading medicine with Dr. Firestone in 1868, and graduated at the Medical Department of the Nortl: western University at Chicago. He was married April 20, 1871 to Miss Martha Crosier, of Napierville, 111. Dr. Strayer is a youni man of skill and education, and destined to make a mark in hi profession.

Fairview was surveyed by John Brinkerhoff, December iz] 1850; plat recorded January 28, 185 1, and found on page 18, vo ume I. A tradition has it that an old lady named Gailey conferre upon it the title of Fairview. The name of the postoffice is Burto City, it previously being called Baughman.

Burton City Flouring Mills. - These mills were built in 1858, by Benjamin Co< and have a capacity of forty barrels per day. Does a large home trade, and shif surplus to Philadelphia, Pa. G. W. Herschey is the present proprietor. He is th second son of Benjamin Herschey, of Chippewa township, and March 28, 1874, ws

June 9, 1874, the steam grist-mill of C. G. Binkley was blown up, killing sue denly George W. Henshaw, of Wooster, and causing the death of Mr. Binkley i a few hours.

Rev. John Andrews was the first preacher, in 1843 i ^^ ^^^ followed by Rei R. M. Finley ; then came H. H. Hennigh ; then John E. Carson, C. G. Gould an Rev. Gillem, the present minister.

St. MichaePs (Catholic) Chtirch was built by Ambrose Halter, 1849, and the fin priest was P. Morat, Rev. Wattman, of Canal Fulton, being the present ministei

Evangelical Association. - The first church of this denomination was built abov 1848, and was dedicated by Bishop Seibert, with a membership of 40. In l83( when Daniel Gensener came to Marshallville, there were but three families men bers of this church, to wit : Simon Smith, wife and family, Michael Strayer, wil and family, and John Stroh, wife and family. Revs. Samuel Baumgardner an Long were preachers. The new church was built in 1874.

Reformed Church of Marshallville was built in 1874, under the management of a building committee, composed of Martin Weimer, John Ault and William Etling^ at a cost of $7,000. Rev. F. Strassner® was the first minister. The one prior to. this was erected in 1836, on joint property across the street, and east of the new one. The first German Reformed families in the neighborhood were Jonathan Pontius, Mr. Holmes and his family, Tobias Gindlesperger, Martin Weimer and hisbrother-in-law, Joseph Musser. Revs. Sonnedecker, Monosmith and Swissler were among its earliest ministers, and after them. Rev. Lewis Edmonds, Cyrus H. Reiter, H. B. Sandal, T. J. Seipel. The membership is 112. The joint service wasabandoned, because the Reformed desired a church in the village, as it was more central. The New Lower Church was built in 1875, solely for the Lutherans, and is not joint property.

John Ault was born in Baughman township, Wayne county^ September 8, 1825. He remained with his father on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, and was married October 29, 1846, to Catharine Young, of his own township. He began life as a farmer and still adheres to his first occupation. Whatever is profitable in the management of his farm Mr. Ault devotes himself to, whether it be producing corn and wheat, or raising hogs, sheep or cattle. His father was a farmer and business man before him, and instilled into his son those inchnations of industry and aptitudes of speculative enterprise so characteristic of the man. He is energetic and imp,ulsive, and whatever he turns his attention to he proceeds to perform, and will not ordinarily allow himself to be thwarted by impediments or baffled by opposition. Adroit and shrewd, he takes a square view of things, believing that through the advancement of the agricultural, mechanic and industrial arts the best civilization of the world can be achieved. The farmer is the rightful lord and monarch of the soil, and the mechanic his co-partner, co-adjutor, and needful counterpart. He

* Rev. F. Strassner is the present pastor of the Reformed Church at Orrville, a notice of which was inadvertently omitted in its proper place. This congregation was organized and incorporated January 20, 1869, the following being the incorporators : J. Wert, J. Frey, M. Gruger, P. Krick, A. Wirth, J. Speicher, J. Hurni, G. Yeakley, Benjamin Eyman, Z. K. Long, F. Piens, and C. Albright. The present pastor. Rev. F. Strassner, began his ministry April i, 1872. The services from the beginning of the pastorate was one service in the English language each Sabbath, either in the morning or evening, and every alternate Sabbath morning service in the German. He conducted the exercises in the church at Marshallvilleduring his pastorate, until October I, 1877. Rev. Strassner is a native of Bremen, Germany, where he was born, February 22, 1831, and came to America in 1848. He entered the ministry in 1859, his first charge being in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He wasmarried to Mary G. Gleim, of Lebanon county, Pa., March 28, 1861, and has had six children. He is an eloquent speaker and a learned divine.

In politics Mr. Ault is a sound Democrat, and exceedingly popular with his party, to the extent that when he is in the can vass he is the winning man. He was a member of the Ohio Legis lature from January i, 1866, to January 6, 1868, and served in th( Senate of the State of Ohio from January i, 1876, to January, 1878 In his official capacity he advocated reforms of all beneficial char acter, and a return to the thrifty and prosperous days of the Re public. His official career is one of which he may well feel proud As a citizen he is devoted to agriculture, the propagation of anc traffic in fine breeds of cattle, always and strenuously insisting upor public improvements, more railroads, fixed values, steadier price! and cheaper transportation.

While he is much abstracted in business, his private walk i; signaHzed by the strongest social and domestic attachments. H« is kind-hearted, charitable, companionable and liberal to a fault He owns one of the finest and best improved farms in Wayne county, and attends to the management and supervision of it him self. We regard him as a representative man in his sphere of life. His punctuality, straight-forwardness and unimpeachable private deportment have won him hosts of friends and lasting friendships,