Columbus City (part 23 of 57)

John J. Eakin

One of the prominent business men of Franklin township. Franklin county, Ohio, wdio is the proprietor of the Midland dairy, is John J. Eakin, the subject of this :sketch. He was born in Venango county, Pennsylvania, December 11, 1834, and w^as a son of William and Isabella (Kelly) Eakin, natives of Pennsylvania, of Irish descent. They engaged in farming in their Pennsylvania home and died there at about the age of eighty-seven years. They were parents' of eight children and our subject is the oldest chil 1 of the family.

Mr. Eakin was reared on the farm, but early manifested a desire for an education superior to that of the district school. He was accordingly sent to school in Pittsburg, and later finished a course in the Pittsburg Commercial College and then he engaged in teaching. For three terms he rema'ned in his native state, but then came to Ohio and located in Franklin county, in 1858. Here he began to teach again and so well did he please the patrons that his services were required in the same school for six years. In the meantime he had been purchasing land and after eight years of the life of the teacher he began farming. In 1888 he made his first trial as a dairyman, naming his place of business the Midland dairy, and so generous' has been his patronage that he now supplies a great portion of the city with milk and cream.

Mr. Eakin was married, October 13, 1864, to Miss Ellen Chambers, a native daughter of Franklin county. Her parents are William and Elizabeth Chambers, who were early settlers in the township. Mrs. Eakin is the oldest in a family of seven children. She was reared in Franklin township, receiving her education in the city of Columbus and at Westerville, Ohio. Like her husband she engaged in teaching school for some years and is a lady of intelligence. Mr. and Mrs'. Eakin are the parents of five children : William, who married Elizabeth Thomas, has three children, - Ray, Evart and Esther; Marion, the w'ife of \\\ R. Hamilton, has two children, - Glenn and Lee ; Edwin D., who married Alma Watts and has one child; Bessie; and Dr. Stanley W., a dentist in Zanesville, Ohio.

In his political faith Mr. Eakins is a Republican, and has been called upon to accept many of the local offices. He has been township trustee and clerk, always taking an active part in public affairs, possessing a large amount of civic pride. The family are consistent and valued members of the Methodist church, wdiere Mr. Eakin is steward and trustee. He has taken much interest in all things pertaining to the good of the church. The early life of our subject was often one of difficulty on account of limited means, but he has accumulated a competence, and lives in comfort upon a fine farm of eightyseven acres of well cultivated land. His handsome brick residence was erected in 1887. Honesty, energy and perseverance have been with him the levers of success.

Charles J. Leap

Charles Jackson Leap follows farming in Norwich township, Franklin county. He is of English lineage. His great-grandfather, Gabriel Leap, was an English soldier, but not relishing military life he deserted, shot a guard and took passage on a boat bound for free America. His name was originally Lowden, but to escape detection he changed it to Leap. On reaching the new world he took up his abode at Mill Creek, Virginia, where he died. His son, Thomas Leap, the grandfather of our subject, was born at Mill Creek, whence he removed to Ohio, where he met and married Katie Harvey, a native of this state. They returned to the Old Dominion, and the grandfather served as sheriff of his county for twenty-one years. He w'as a very prominent and influential citizen and took an active part in religious work as well as' political affairs. An eloquent and convincing speaker, he many times filled the pulpit of the Christian church, in which he held' membership. He afterward removed to Carroll county, Kentucky, where he owned and operated a farm, but he now lives in the city of Carrollton, at the very advanced age of ninety-two years. There he served as jail warden, for some time. His wife died in 1898, at the age of eighty-six years.

Gabriel Leap, the father of our subject, was born in Carroll county,. Kentucky, reared upon his father's farm, and acquired a common-school education. In Franklin county, Ohio, he married Susan Wooley, a sister of S. J. Wooley, of Columbus, on whose farm in Brown township they located, building a log house on the western portion of the farm. There they lived for several years, and then returned to Carroll county, Kentucky, where Mr. Leap died in September, 1865, at the age of thirty-five years. His widow afterward became the wife of Guy Van Horn, with whom she removed to Van Wert county, Ohio, where she died in 1874. By her first marriage shehas three children : Elizabeth, who died at the age of eighteen years ; Sanford T., of Brown township, this county; and Charles. The children of the second marriage were Alice, Isaac and Fanny.

Charles Jackson Leap was born December 12, 1865, on the farm in Browntownship owned by his uncle, S. J. Wooley. His father died three months before his birth. He spent the first nine years of his life in his native township and attended the Helser school. He then accompanied his mother and stepfather to Van Wert county, where he remained until fifteen years of age, but his mother died and he was not kindly treated by his stepfather. Hehad few school privileges and owing to unkindness he ran away from home. One morning he arose to build the fire and on being severely scolded by his stepfather he went out of the house and ran away, going to the home of Peter Menser. He there agreed to remain until he was twenty-one years of age, but his uncle, Joseph Leap, of Jackson county, West Virginia, came to Ohio to take the children back with him to his home, though his sister had died and his brother had married. Our subject, however, accompanied himto West Virginia, living with him for eighteen months, during which time he aided him in cutting stays and sawing logs. He then went to his grandfather in Carroll county, Kentucky, where for eighteen months he worked on the farm raising tobacco. On the expiration of that period he joined his brother in Van Wert county, Ohio, continuing with him for two years, after which he worked for his uncle, S. J. Wooley, in Brown township, Franklin county, until 1888.

On the 4th of July, of that year, Mr. Leap was united in marriagfe to Miss Marilla Grace, of Norwich, daughter of F. L. Grace, marshal of Hilliard. Their union has been blessed with two children : Frank Cecil Jack -on, born October 11, 1890; and Ferd McKinley, born May 8, 1896. Aft;r his marriage Mr. Leap rented the Jacob Hart farm for a short time and then removed to Brown township, where he rented the David Hamilton farm for two years, subsequently spending two years on the William Jones farm. His next homC' was in Jackson township, where he operated the S. J. Wooley farm for nearly five years and then purchased sixty acres of land in Norwich townsbin. t'^ which he has since added twenty acres. He carries on general farming and stock raising and deserves great credit for the success he has achieved, for- since an early age he has depended entirely upon his own efforts. At the age of eighteen years' he joined the Christian Union church in Kentucky and at the age of twenty-three joined the Methodist Episcopal church in Hilliard. In his political views he is a stanch Republican, but the honors and emoluments of public cfihce have had no attraction for him, as he prefers to devote his attention to his business affairs, in which he is now meeting with creditable and well deserved success.

James J. Tilton

James J. Tilton, who is now living a retired life at his home at No. 608 East Third avenue, Milo, Ohio, was born in Newberry, Essex county, Massachusetts, August 13. 1830. His father, Josiah Tilton, was a native of Massachusetts, became a blacksmith by trade, and also followed the occupation of farming. He died November 17, 1830, when only thirty-eight years of age, while his wife, Mrs. Mary Tilton, passed away in November, 1867, at the age of sixty-four years.

James J. Tilton was their only son. He acquired his education in the public schools and left home when in his' twenty-second year, going to Canton, Ohio, where he became connected with railroad service by building the first depot platform at that place for the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad. That was in the year 1852. He afterward worked at grading on that road for two years, and in 1854 he began running on a construction train for the company west of Crestline, Ohio. In 1856, however, he left the employ of that road and began work on the Wabash road. He has at various times been employed by different railroad companies on construction- trains in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan. In 1861 he entered the service of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company and took up his abode in Fort Wayne, Indiana. In 1869 he was yardmaster for the road at Logansport, Indiana, and the following year he went to Kentucky. Later he was in West Virginia, Indiana and Michigan, being employed in those states until 1889, when he returned to Kentucky, where he remained until he retired from the railway service in 1896. He is now living retired at his home in Milo, enjoying the benefits of a well spent life, the competence which he has acquired supplying him with all life's necessaries and many of its luxuries.

Mr. Tilton was married, November 28, 1861, in Columbus, Ohio, to Miss Olive Foss, a native of Massachusetts, who in 1853 came to the west with her parents, locating in Crestline, Ohio. Her father, J. B. Foss', was master mechanic for the Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company in 1853, and in i860 he removed to Columbus, where he held a similar position until his retirement from business cares'. He died in the capital city in 1893, at the age of seventy-eight years, and his wife passed away in 1859. They had three daughters:' Mrs. Tilton; Mrs. Martha F. Wolf, wife of John P. Wolf, a cabinetmaker of Columbus; and Josephine, wife of Charles

Karsh, a dealer in coal and lime in Columbus'. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Tilton has been blessed with two children: Mary, who was born January I, 1865, and died in June of the same year; and Edith F., who was born in 1869 and was married, in October, 1889, to W. M. Williams, a carriagemaker of Columbus. Their children are: Edith F., born July 16, 1890; and Alice, born in 1899. Mrs. Tilton is a member of Dr. Rextord's church in Columbus. For forty-seA^en years the subject of this review has been connected with the Masonic fraternity, having been initiated into the mysteries cf the order in a lodge at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1853. He has since been loyal to its principles, exemplifying in his life the teachings concerning mutual helpfulness, charity and kindliness. In politics he has been a lifelong Democrat.

Henry A. Goad, who resides at No. 106 West King avenue, Columbus, is of EJnglish lineage and birth. He was born in Cornw^all, England, in 1 84 1, arid his parents always remained in that country. His mother is still living, at the very advanced age of ninety-one years. JNIr. Goad received a professional education and was graduated' in the Royal Agricultural College, at Cirencester, England, on the 5th of October, 1872. The following year he crossed the Atlantic to the new World, believing that he would have better business opportunities in this country, and took up his abode in Columbus. Here he engaged in the practice of veterinary surgery and was also connected with the dairy business for a number of years, but for the past tw^o years he has been unable to engage in active business affairs on account of ill health.

In 1893 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Goad and Miss Lucy Jane Waterman, a daughter of Joseph and Fanny Waterman. They resided at the old Waterman homestead on Shepherd street until July, 1900, when they sold that and moved to the property Mr. Goad had purchased. Mrs. Goad can relate many interesting incidents of the early days in Franklin county, having a vivid recollection of the pioneers of Franklinton. She engaged in teaching 'school on the west side of the city and for several years was an active worker in the Trinity Episcopal mission. Both Mr. and Mrs. Goad have a large circle of friends in Columbus and enjoy their warm regard. Through a long period he was an active, honored and valued factor in business circles, bearing an unassailable reputation, and to-day he enjoys the unqualified confidence and respect of his fellow men.

Russel B. Demorest

The subject of the present sketch was born in Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, February 9, 1835. and died, October 19, 1896, lamented by a devoted family and a circle of friends. He was a son of Isaac Demorest, who had renioved to FrankHn township early in Hfe. His death occurred when our subject was but ten years of age, after which event the family removed to Illinois, but later returned to Franklin county, Ohio. Here Mr. Demorest attended school, his education, however, being interrupted by the necessity which required him to assist in the support of his mother and four sisters. He fulfilled this duty, caring for his sisters until they married and obtained homes for themselves.

Mr. Demorest was married September 25, 1867, to Miss Harriet N. Buckbee, who was born in Delaware county, Ohio, August 25, 1848, a daughter of Theodore and Martha (Sackrider) Buckbee, natives of New York. Immediately after his marriage Mr. Demorest located upon the farm. He successfully engaged in general farming, and now the land is well cultivated. At the time of his death, Mr. Demorest was possessed of this tract of one hundred and eighty acres, the accumulation of a life of industry.

The family of Mr. and Mrs. Demorest consists of four children, - Lawrence W., who died at the age of thirty years; Frank B., who is at hom.e ; Herbert R. ; and Mattie, who died at the age of fifteen years.

John Short

The biographical sketch which follows will be found somewhat out of the ordinary. A history of the successful career of John Short, a born business man, alone would be interesting from any point of view. To that must be added some account of the lives and achievements of his three soiis, each of whom became conspicuous in his chiosen field, and one of whom died just as his success was bringing brilliant promise for the future. That these sons inherited their great natural ability in no small measure from their aide and successful father no student of heredity can doubt.

John Short was' born in Cornwall, England, April 26, 1826, a son of John and Jane (Glassen) Short, and came with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, in 1838, when he was twelve years old. The elder Short had prosleered in his native land and brought with him sufiicient means to give him rank as a capitalist. He located on a farm near Millwood, Knox county, Ohio, and lived there, active as a farmer and as a business man, until his death, which occurred about 1855. He was a lover of liberty and an advocate of public education and national progress, and allied himself with those who later organized the Republican party, of which he was a devoted member from its inception until his death.

The subject of this sketch had an innate desire for education and strong inclination for a business career. His' father sympathized with him in his desire_ for knowledge and permitted him to enter the preparatory school at Gambler, Ohio, but wanted him to isettle down as a farmer on the" homestead and strongly opposed him in his ambition to become a man of affairs. Results prove that what is born in a boy will surely come out. Young Short went to Gambier and entered school, but he also secured an interest in a drygioods store and assisted in its management and participated in its profits while pursuing his studies. In 1848 he located in Granville, Licking county, Ohio, with a stock of goods, but soon sold out and went to Galena, Delaware county, Ohio, where he merchandised successfully until, in 185 1, having sold his store in Galena, he was induced to go to Columbus to look after the interests of David Hayden, a wholesale grocery merchant, whose store w'as in the Buckeye block, during Mr. Hayden's absence in Maine, to visit his old home. On account of an epidemic of cholera, Mr. Hayden did not return until irt the fall and Mr. Short was consequently at the head of his business for some months. While thus employed he was appointed secretary of the Ohio Tool Company, the oldest machinery concern in the city and for a year after Mr. Hayden's return he gave his energies entirely to that business. He gave up the position to accept the agency for Peter Hayden's rolling mill at a larger salary. About twelve months later he was the successful one of about seventeen applicants for the position of paymaster and purchasing agent of the Columbus shops of the Little Miami, Columbus and Xenia Railway, then employing about five hundred men. For fourteen years he retained his connection with this road, a part of the time as paymaster for the entire system, and had charge of its' shops at Columbus, Dayton, Xenia, Springfield and Richmond. When he resigned one hundred and nine officials and employes of the road, representing the whole body of men with w^hom he had had to do, either as superiors or subordinates, during his' official connection with the company, waited upon him at his home at the corner of High street and Fifth avenue, and presented him with silver plate valued at six hundred and fifty dollars specially imported from London by William Savage.

Mr. Short now bought the Franklin Machine Works, of Columbus, which after three years' successful operation he sold to a stock company. He then bought tw^enty-eight hundred acres of timber land on the Ohio river, near Vanceburg. Lewis county, Kentucky, and, going to Cleveland, contracted to deliver to the Standard Oil Company one million 'staves for thirty-two thousand dollars. While filling this contract he put on the market fifty thousand feet of poplar lumber for chair bottoms, and a large amount of car lumber and a good quantity of wagon stuff which he sold in Chicago, and during the same time he opened a freestone quarry on his land and took out and sold to the United States government, for the old Chicago postoffice, six hundred and seventy-three blocks averaging fifty-one and one-half cubic feet, at sixty cents a foot for the first quality and fifty cents a foot for the second quality, delivered at Cincinnati, Ohio. He bought a steamboat to transport his own freight and carried passengers as well.

N'ow Mr. Short engaged in a successful real estate speculation at A^anceburg, buying six hundred and fifty acres at different points aronnrl and adjacent to the city. He had already had some satisfactory real estate experience at Columbus. He remembers well the old wooden depot of forty years ago where he had his first office, and the raih-oad shop just north. A't that time and for years after, where the High street viaduct now stands and all the country north and west of it was woods and corn-fields, Neil and Dennison owned the ground, but about that time platted and sold it in lots at from three hundred to three hundred and fifty dollars each. The lots sold r?pidly and were soon disposed of. The strip of ground west of the viaduct, between High and Park streets, was purchased by the railroad company, now the Panhandle road, for ten thousand dollars. From the railroads to the market house was the old cemetery, every vestige of which disappeared many years ago. Still north of the Capital University, now^ known as the Park Hotel, on the east side of High street were corn-fields' owned by William A. Neil. This land was platted by the owner and Mr. Short sold the lots to railroaders, principally, at from three hundred and fifty to four hundred dollars a lot. The land north of Russell street, east of High, was owned by William A. Gill. The tract was platted into lots and Mr. Short sold them at six hundred dollars for corner lots, five hundred and fifty for inside and three hundred and seventy-five to four hundred for rear lots. This was about 1856. Lots as far north as Fourth avenue brought less. The land on the west side of High street as far north as First avenue was owned by William A. Gill, but was afterward purchased by William B. Hubbard and w^as known as the Hubbard estate. North and west of First avenue was what was known as the Starr farm, wdiich was sold in four and five-acre tracts, afterwards subdivided and sold in small lots. The land between Fourth and Fifth avenues on the east side of High 'Street was owned by William G. Deshler and was laid out into acre lots and sold by Mr. Short at from five hundred to eight hundred dollars each.

Just north of Fifth avenue on the same side of the street Mr. Short purchased from William A. Neil a four-acre tract for twenty-five hundred dollars. Here Mr. Short built a residence and lived for twenty-seven and onehalf years. Shortly after his purchase, how^ever, he sold one-third of this' tract to Charles Shewery for twelve hundred dollars. That was in 1858. In 1883, twenty-seven years afterward, he sold his homestead to D. E. Sullivan for twenty-five thousand dollars. Mir. Sullivan erelcted three brick houses on the rear lots and was' shortly afterward offered eighty-one thousand dollars for the property and later has refused one hundred and forty thousand dollars for it. In the rear of the Short homestead was seventy-one acres which an old gentleman named John Hyer, who resided in the east, purchased for fifteen thousand dollars and made a cash payment of three thousand dollars, all the m'oney he had. He gave a mortgage to William Armstrong, trustee, for twelve thousand dollars. When the note came due the old gentleman asked Mr. Short if he could save his farm, as he was unable to raise the money. Mr. Short took hold of the matter and advanced the money out of his own pocket to subdivide and improve the tract. He succeeded in selling twenty-five acres for twelve thousand dollars, with w^hich he lifted the mortgage. He cut the balance into one-acre lots and sold them for enough to pay Mr. Hyer the three thousand which he had invested, and to himself aU the money he had advanced in the improvement of the grounds and a commission of twenty-five dollars an acre besides. And above all this' he turned over to Mr. Hyer eighty-five hundred dollars more in cash. It is' unnecessary to say that the eastern gentleman was highly pleased with Mr. Short's services. On the west side, between High street and Neil avenue, the land was owned by the Dennison heirs and was subdivided and sold in lots. North of Sixth avenue on each side of High street the land was owned by the Fisher heirs and was subdivided and sold for six hundred to seven hundred dollars a lot.

Mr. Short was successful in his real estate deal at Vanceburg, cutting his holdings up into lots and selling them advantageously; but his steamboat was sunk one night and was a total loss, the only losing deal, however, that Mr. Short had in connection with his Kentucky enterprise, and that loss resulted from an accident and could not have been foreseen. He clos'ed up all his Kentucky interests successfully in twenty-one months, which may be taken as a sample of the energy with which, all through life, he has prosecuted every enterprise which he has undertaken. Before this he had, with Ed. Eaton, cleared nine hundred and sixty acres' in Delaware county, Ohio, taicing off of the land six thousand cords of railroad wood and working day and night to carry out his contracts. In 1886 he went to Marietta, Ohio, and bought the Marietta Spoke Works of General Warner, a concern which was producing five thousand spokes each working day and which he managed from then until 1891, when he returned to Columbus, where he has since lived and given his attention chiefly to real estate. His home on west Broad street, where he has lived since 1891, is one of the most homelike and hospitable in the city. For eight years he was a member of the city council, representing the old "bloody" ninth ward, and while so serving his fellow townsmen was instrumental in securing a franchise for the first street railway on the north side, from the viaduct up High street. North High street was then known as the Worthington plank road. Every time a rain fell the planks floated upon the water and it was impossible to drive over it without being covered with mud. At that time there were no buyers for north High street property at thirty dollars a front foot; now it is worth four hundred and five hundred dollars. In 1871 Mr. Short anl E. L. Hinman were members of the council from the old "bloody" ninth ward and were instrumental in introducing an ordinance for the improvement of north High street by asphalting. Property owners' along the street made a great fight, as they believed it would take all the property was worth to improve the street. Mr. Hinman desired the street preserved as a fine driveway, while Mr. Short wanted the street railway extended north and introduced an ordinance in council to that effect. This so enraged the north side residents that'those who had elected Mr. Short called upon him in a body to demand his resignation as a member of the council. He told them that he would resign after he had secured the street railway, and not before. A street railway company was then organized with

John R. Hughes, John H. Winterbottom, John Smith, John Evans and Mr. Short as principal stockholders. A twenty-five-year franchise was secured by the aid of the south end German councilmen and the road was built from the tunnel to north Columbus. The rolling stock consisted of one car and a horse supplied the motive power; one man constituted the entire running force and cost the company one dollar and a half a day. The road did not pay, but the old down-town company was forced to buy it by the new C(jmpany putting on a chariot from the court house to the tunnel, making the entire trip from the court house to north Columbus for five cents. These improvements doubled the value of north High street property and caused the first big real estate boom the north side had known. At this same time Mr. Short introduced an ordinance in the council for the widening of north High street to the same width south of the tunnel, but there was such great opposition that the matter was dropped. There were only two small houses to be moved, and had the street been widened at that time, it could have been done at comparatively 'small expense and would to-day have been worth over two million dollars' to the city.

May I, 1848, Mr. Short married Elizabeth L. Co wen, who was born in London, England, opposite Hyde Park, and came to America when about eighteen years of age. She received a good education in England and was a woman of great force of character and strong convictions and impressed all with her forceful, masterful disposition. Her sons never thought of disobeying her. She aided many young men in getting an education, her great idea being education for her own family and also for others as far as her means and influence extended. Her father, Robert Cowen, was of Scotch-Irish ancestry and in his day did a large stock business at Dublin, Ireland. Mrs. Short, who was a model wife and mother and an active Methodist, was highly esteemed in society. She died at Columbus, in 1896, aged seventy-two years. She bore Mr. Short four sons and two daughters. The daughters and one son died when young.

Professor John T. Short, Mr. Short's eldest son, was born at Galena, Ohio, May i, 1850. At eleven he entered the preparatory department of the Capital University, at Columbus, and at fourteen he entered the freshman class of the same institution. At the end of the second year he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, to prepare for the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was graduated at seventeen and in 1869 entered Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, New Jersey, where he was graduated in 1871, having completed the three years' course in two years. Before he was twenty-one years' old he had published "The Last Gladiatorial Show," an account of Roman life and manners. He took notes of the lectures of Dr. McClintock which formed the basis of the "Encyclopaedia and Mythology of Theological Science," and so well did he do this work that after President McCHntock's death, at the request of his executors. Professor Short published them in a book of two hundred pages which was immediately upon appearance prescribed by the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church for perusal by young mniisters. In 1872 he l>ecame pastor of Davidson Chapel of his donomination at Dayton, Ohio, and later for three years preached m C ncinnati. His health failed gradually under stress of this work and he spent a year at Leipsic, Germany. Soon after his return to. America he published 'The North Americans of Antiquity," an archeological work on which hr. reputation might safely rest had he done no other work for humanity, in reLgnition of that great literary and scientific achievement the degree o Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him by the College of Hi.tory of Leipsic, and he was elcted corresponding delegate for Ohio to f^- - ^^^^ l^ Ethnographique, Paris, France. Hon. George Bancroft placed the first ^olume of hTs History of the United States in Professor Short's hands for cnticiTm and revision Delaware College called Professor Short to its faculty anTprofessor of English language and literature, and in 1879 he was m^de a mender of he faculty of the Ohfo State University at Columbus, as professor member o the faculty of the Ohio State University at Columbus, as professor ??hort was a member of the American Antiquarian Society of the Societe Ethno-raphique, Paris, France, and of the American Historical Society. He wal chosen o write the history of Ohio for the Encyclopaedia Britannica fnd ; nt 3. time and labor oi^ "A Sl.ort History of the United Stat^ similar in plan and scope to "Green's History of the English People, but did not ivi to complete it. Professor J. T. Short wrote many articles or reading magazines and "Ohio," a sketch of industrial --^ P-|-f '^^^f^ "Historical Reference List" for classes m history, adopted by Yale, Cornell and Ha vard He died November 11, 1883, in his thirty-fourth year, haying Hved a life pure and lofty, devoted to work for God and man which will bear fruk to the^end of time."^ He married Miss Ella Critchfield daughter o the late Hon L. T. Critchfield, for forty-five years a prominent lawyer ot Columbus who worked with him in all his literary labors. His widow, a son_ and two' daughters survive him. His -son, John Bancroft Short, is now acquiring an education. His daughter Florence married Pro essor Bohannan, of the Ohio State University, and his younger daughter, Clara, married H. i . Aic- Cleary, secretary of the Columbus, Ohio, Coffee and Spice Factory.

Sidney Howe Short was born in Columbus, Ohio, October 8, 185 1, and was graduated from the Ohio Statd University in his native city m 1884, and immediately thereafter was called to the Denver University at Denver, Colorado of which Bishop David H. Moore, who recently went to a mission field in China, was president, and remained there five years as vice-presiden and professor of science. During this period he not only took an active mterest in educational matters, but was enterprising and prominent otherwise esoecially in the field of electrical development. He discovered a deposit ot cement near Denver which proved so valuable that it was adopted by the United States government for use in all its hydraulic works m the west, and with a son of ex-Governor Evans, of Colorado, as a partner, established a cement works at Denver. He also built the first electrical railway in Denver and took out many patents on electrical devices. About 1889 he returned to

Columbus and built a short electrical line to the fair grounds, the first electrical road in the city. Then at Huntington, West Virginia, he built a five-mile line to Grandot. From there he went to East St. Louis, Illinois, and built the East St. Louis electric railway. About that time a company und'er the style of the Short Electric Railway System, was organized at Cleveland, Ohio, and incorporated with a capital, of one million dollars. This' concern was placed under Mr. Short's management and he was allowed a salary of eight thousand dollars a year and given a large bonus in cash and stock for the use of his system and inventions, one of which was the armature axle now used by all electrical companies. Li association with the late Governor Roswell P. Flower, of New York, Professor Short bought the Walker Works at Cleveland, and Professor Short managed the concern as well as its eastern branch at New York, until, in 1888, the enterprise was sold to the Westinghouse Company. Professor Short has constructed more that fifty electric railways in the United States and at New York and Boston has built the largest dynamos in the world, one of which is in operation at the Brooklyn bridge. He has taken out one hundred and two patents in England. In 1898 he went to Great Britain and was given a large bonus to erect, at Preston, England, the English Electrical Works, the largest concern of its kind in the world, embracing two immense shop buildings each covering a ground space of nine hundred by one hundred and twenty feet, filled with the best machinery, mostly of American manufacture. This great plant, which is revolutionizing electrical business in Europe, was fully described and illustrated in the London Engineer of June 22, 1900. By his inventive genius, his thorough knowledge of electrical construction and great business capacity, inherited from his father. Professor Short has not only accumulated a large fortune, but has' placed himself at the head of electrical construction, now one of the world's most important interests. He married Miss Francis H. Morrison, of Columbus, a graduate and valedictorian of the Ohio State University, a fine scholar and chemist, who for a year before her marriage was a teacher in the University of Cincinnati. Mrs. Short has given much attention to electro-chemical experiments and has rendered no small service to her husband in the development of his ideas. They have three sons and a daughter, named Henry Morrison, Sidney Albert, Frank and Jennette.' Professor S. H. Short now has an office at 112 Cannon street, London, England.

_ Mr. Short's third son is Major Walter Cowen Short, of the Thirty-fifth United States Infantry, now stationed at San Gucld, sixty-five miles from Manila, and acting as governor at that point. Major Short was born at Columbus, Ohio, April 2, 1870, and after acquiring a primary education in the public schools, was for a year a student at Marietta College at Marietta, Ohio. From childhood he manifested a marked interest in military matters and it is not strange that at Marietta he should have become a member of the Third Battalion, Ohio National Guard, or that on returning to Columbus he should have been attached to the staff of General Axline, under Governor Foraker. Two years later he was transferred to the governor's staff and given the rank com, fnded of Professor Short's drill and d.scplme and when, sZ" V aftervvard a vacancy as second lieutenant occurred in the S.xth Reg - r^^en United Staes Cavalry, stationed at Niobrara, Nebraska he was, on the rommendation of Colonef'Heyl, inspector gene.-al °f '^e epar men, wo had seen his work at Orchard Lake, appomted to the P'^^' '^"' '^J^, eighteen hundred applicants for it and he was not one °f /hem. He saw some active service, however, before he pmed that command After havmg sue S fulH pa d a six d^ys' examination at Washh,gton, he w_as fven a leave of Xsence for thirty days. At its expiration he reported at Fort Sam Houston San Antonio Texas. The officers were busy with a court martial and he was liven charge of the drill work of the post. Within a week the Garcia rouble broke oS on the Rio Grande and he was ordered to duty there with und^r Command of a captain. Within a f-^night he was gtven onrfl h wound in the arm'and another wound m 'he wrist he pre .edfor^ ward over the breastwork and then fell. A picture m the London IHutrated News of August 20 1S98, shows Lieutenant Short being carried off the field by comradeT who did not believe he would recover. He was sent to Key

West, Florida, but in ten days he was well enough to :;teal away from the hospital and rejoin his command at Santiago, Cuba. His three wounds healed up nicely. He was not sick a day, and when the regiment reached New York he was about the only officer who was in good health. He attributes his rapid and almost phenomenal recovery to the fact that, while he is a lover of a good cigar, he never drinks intoxicating liquors, and it may be added that he is an abstainer from coffee also. He w-as' promoted to be first lieutenant and a little later was brevetted major for bravery at San Juan. He was sent to Fort Reilly, Kansas, thence back to San Antonio. Texas, and thence to Santiago, Cuba. In command of one hundred men of the Tenth Cavalry, he went a hundred miles up the Cuban coast and was soon ordered to take his troop fifty miles inland to the interior at Beymer. He was' appointed governor of that district and captured and drove out the gangs of robbers who had long infested it, hanging and otherwise killing thirty-seven of them, cleaned up the capital city, established schools for four hundred and fifty children, put up telegraph lines and otherwise improved the road to the coast. He believes Cuba a country of the greatest promise and predicts for it a wonderful future, now that it has been emancipated from Spanish tyranny and robbery. After the successful performance of thi's; service be was ordered to Vancouver Barracks, in Washington, as major of the Thirty-fifth United States Volunteer Infantry. He took over to Manila, in three ships, twenty-one hundred men, thirteen hundred and twenty-five men and officers formedi the Thirty-fifth Regiment and the remainder were assigned to other regiments to fill vacancies. He has been in several engagements in the Philippines and has acquitted himself gallantly and been fully equal to all responsibilities that have devolved upon him. One of the most expert swordsmen in the army, he has met and vanquished all the professional saber fighters' who have appeared in the United States in his time, including the famous Captain Duncan Ross, and in every combat he has faced his opponent without a mask, and has never yet faced one who would meet him with face likewise unprotected. He has a national reputation also as a rough rider and polo player.

Mr. John Short is' now in his seventy-fifth year and is so well preserved that he does not appear to be more than 'sixty. He has recently returned from a visit to his son in England and is hoping for his younger son's early return from the Philippines. He takes a lively interest in all public affairs and gives all necessary attention to his important business interests and is held high in the esteem of a large circle of acquaintances.

William B. McCormick belongs to a family that may be said to be distinctly American, both in its lineal and collateral branches, for, through many generations, his ancestry have been residents of the new world. The first of the name in America was George McCormick, who served as an officer in the British army many years prior to the war of the Revolution. He was of Scotch ancestry, but was a native of, the north <.f Ireland. "^^^^S^^ h s commission, he located in northern Virginia, and when the financial standit of the country was at low ebb he loaned money to the contmenta congress but when fire destroyed the capitol at Washington, m 1812 evidences of the loan were lost and the family were, therefore, never reimbursed.

Hi^s son George McCormick (2d), was the great-grandfather of our subiect He' was born in the Old Dominion and served m the continental line in "the war for independence, holding the rank of major. His native state at an early period of the Revolutionary war, raised two descriptions of tmops, state and continental, to each of which bounties m lands were oromised The lands within the limits oi the charter of Virginia, situated to the northwest of the Ohio river, were withdrawn from appropriation on treasury warrants, and the lands on the Cumberland river and between the Green and the Tennessee rivers, on the southasterly side of the Ohio were appropriated for these military bounties. Upon the recommendation of cono-ress Virginia ceded her lands north of the Ohio upon conditions, one ot which was that in case the lands south of the Ohio should be insufficient for the legal bounties to her troops the deficiency should be made up from lands north of the Ohio, between the rivers Scioto and Little Miami. Major McCormick was entitled, under these laws, to about four thousand acres, which he located and for which he procured patents, in Fayette and Madison counties, Ohio, but after paying taxes' on the lands for several years they were forfeited and never redeemed. , , . ^ -r , j .^

He was twice married. After the death of his first wife he removed to Kentucky residing for some time on Bear Grass river. His death occurred, according to the federal records, at Harrodsburg, fiercer county, Kentucky,

'''' "^MaToTM^Corrnkk's son, George McCormick (3CI), was the grandfather of our subject. He was born in 1769 near Battletown, Clarke county, Virginia of his father's' first marriage. After the father's second marriage George McCormick. the third, went to live with an uncle named Burns, who resided on a farm on the Bear Grass. He was then apprentice! to the carpenter's trade, and subsequently served as a soldier under General bt Clair. Afterward, about 1802. he went to Washington, D. C, where he worked at his trade on the capitol. He had married, in Kentucky, Miss Anna ^lariah Belt, who died at W^ashington. leaving two daughters' and one son. ^ , .

The distinguished English architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, had designed, and at this time was constructing, the old house of representatives at Washington. McCormick and Latrobe came in contact and became well acquainted, and when Governor Worthington. then a senator m congress from Ohio engaged Latrobe to design and construct, near Chilhcothe, the mansion called Adena the architect selected McCormick to superintend the mechanics eno-ae-ed on the wood-work of that building. Accordingly McCormick arrived at Chilhcothe in the autumn of 1805, or spring of 1806, with his three orphaned children, and set about his work. It was not long after he reached

Ross county until he formed the acquaintance of the Armstrong family, who had come from the Wyoming valley in Pennsylvania and who had suffered in the military operations and massacre there during the war for independence, and distinguished themselves in the greater movements in the Revolutionary war. Miss Fannie Malone Armstrong became McCormick's second wife, and they^ continued to reside at Chillicothe until the following year after the site called Columbus was decided upon as the future seat o"f state government. At Chillicothe two daughters were born to them.

Having secured the contract to do the carpenter work on the first statehouse, a brick building, at Columbus, McCormick and his family of five children removed to the embryo capital city in 1813. He acquired the original in-lot, sixty-two and one-half by one hundred and eighty-seven and one-half feet, at the southeast corner of High and Chapel streets, now occupied by the imposing business block known as Nos. 116-118 South High street, on the rear end of which he proceeded to erect a log house, which he and his increasing family occupied until they removed, some years afterward, to their small farm on the north side of Town street west of Parsons avenue.

The religious trend of the, McCormicks for generations had been Calvinistic; but at this period the Methodist Episcopal church was aggressive in the propagation of its faith, through the agency of missionaries who were the most zealous and able in the ministry in the United States. George McCormick, a man of thought and action, had embraced the faith, but at the cost of serious estrangement between him and a much esteemed sister who lived at Mount Vernon, who was a stanch adherent to Presbyterian teachings and who denounced the apostasy. The records show that George McCormick and his wife Fannie, her sister Jane, and George B. Harvey, who, in February, 1 814, married Jane, which wedding was' the first to take place at Columbus, formed the first Methodist Episcopal church at Columbus in the fall of 181 3. In December of that year, the membership having increased, a board of trustees, with McCormick as president, was .'selected, and early the following year the proprietors of the town site donated and conveyed to George McCormick, George B. Harvey and others as trustees, the lot on Town street where the Public School Library building now stands, for church purposes. In July, 181 5, the "meeting-house," a small hewed-log building, was completed, at a cost of $I57.53>^ "for material." In September, 1817, George McCormick and John Cutler were appointed a committee to have the "meetinghouse chinked, daubed and underpinned, and to appoint a suitable person to keep it in order." In 1818 the house was enlarged by Michael Patton, under the direction of McCormick, at an expense of three hundred and sixty dollars, and from that time on various improvements were made, culminating in the commodious brick building which was' finally purchased by the city. The church edifice of this congregation is now located on Bryden Road and is known as the First Methodist Episcopal church, its members having recently cast off the historical title of Town Street IMethodist church.

He left the impress of his individuality upon many public movements and measures which contributed to the general welfare, and his wife, a woman of refinement and character, performed her whole duty to her family and community. He died at Columbus on March 21, 1854, aged eighty-one years and six months'. His remains were buried in the North graveyard alongside his wife Fannie, who had passed away on Christmas day, 1843, ^it the age of fifty-eight years. _When the burying-ground was abandoned a few years ago the remains of the pioneer couple were removed to Greenlawn, where they now rest, marked by the original stone.

By his first wife his children were: Mary, who married Hosea High and died at Columbus in 1891, aged ninety-three years and three months; Clarissa, who became Mrs. Turner and died at Zanesville, Ohio: and Middleton, who married Miss Fox, of Clark county, this state, and died there. By his second wife they were : Eliza, wife of Francis Asbury Crum, died at Columbus ; Nancy, wife of William Grant, died at Springfield, Ohio ; Francis. A., father of our subject; William McKendry, married Margaret Martin, died at Columbus ; George, married Sarah Barrett, died at Columbus ; Martin, unmarried, died at Columbus ; Jane, wife of David Ball, died at Columbus ; Fannie, wife of Benjamin Kelley, died in Iowa.

Francis Asbury McCormick, the father of the subject of this sketch and first son of George McCormick and Fannie Malone Armstrong McCormick, was born January 22, 1814, in a log house at the southeast corner of South Hig'h and Chapel streets, Columbus. He w^as the first white male child born at Columbus. Inspired by the teachings of Bishop Francis Asbury, his parents named the boy in honor of that divine. Young iMcCormick's education, like that of all those born in Ohio ninety years ago, was limited, and his schooling was confined to what he secured at home and at the subscription school of the village. At a very early age he was apprenticed to his maternal uncle, William Armstrong, to learn the tailor's trade, and when scarcely more than nineteen years old he set up in that business for himself, and in a few years carried on the leading tailoring establishment of the town.

When he had not yet reached his majority he was joined in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Harriet Crum, a lady aged seventeen, seventh child of C'lristian and Hannah Barr Crum. The wedding occurred on September 16, 1834, and the ceremony was performed by Rev. Edmond W. Sehon, of the Methodist Episcopal church. She was born near Winchester, Virginia, April 7, 181 7, and died at Columbus', Sunday, March 3, 1895, aged seventy-seven years, ten months and twenty-six days. All but one of this generation of the Crum family were born in Virginia, all reached mature years and were married at or near Columbus, and all early in life became members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

ginia, who was the son of a Lutheran minister, with his wife and nine children, bade good-bye to their home in the Shenandoah valley and journeyed westward. They tarried at Wheeling, Virginia, then at Lancaster, Ohio, and lived for a time at Franklinton, but finally located on South High street, Cclumbus, on the lot now the site of the Great Southern Hotel. Soon after Christian Crum had established his family in their new home he and his wife united with the Town Street Methodist Episcopal church, and from that time until their death both were consistent members thereof, the father for many years officiating as a class-leader. His death occurred October i, 1851, when he was aged seventy-one years and eleven months. His wife died July 5, 1850, aged sixty-five years and eleven months, and both are buried in Greenlawn cemetery.

The children of this couple were: Francis Asbury, the eldest, married Eliza McCormick, died at Columbus ; Sarah Ann, wife -of Samuel Thompson, after his death married Dr. Thomas Towler, died at Columbus: James died unmarried; Robert, married Miss Frank Seney, died at Toledo; Mary C, wife of William Searles, buried at Fostoria; Rachel Jane, wife of Joseph Fitzwater, died at Columbus; Elizabeth H., mother of the subject of this sketch; Martha Linda, wife of Augustus S. Decker, died at Columbus; Mahala Margaret, wife of George W. Howell, died at Columbus; Henry Delano, married Matilda Seney, died at Tiffin.

Mr. McCormick continued in business at Columbus for a number of years' and then removed to the Yazoo valley, Mississippi, where he carried on the tailoring business, but soon returned to Ohio because of his, hatred of the institution peculiar to the southern states. About 1838 he removed to Illinois, then to Iowa City, Iowa, and then again returned to the place of his birth, and in 1848 w^as conducting a tailor shop on South High street. The Ohio State Journal was located in the building adjoining him. A young man named Legg, who spent his leisure hours at McCormick's store, was the foreman of the Journal composing room, and when news of the finding of gold at Sutter's fort reached, the newspapers in the east McCormick and Legg read it all and were fired with ambition to participate in the search for the yellow metal. Forthwith they set about to find a way to reach California. Both succeeded in being appointed members of a United States surveying partv bound for the coast, but before the appointments came they had assisted successfully in the organization, in February, 1849, o^ ^^ association called the Franklin California Mining Company, into the treasury of which each member paid two hundred dollars. Legg withdrew from the company and accompanied the surveying expedition and died of fever on the isthmus of Panama. McCormick, having been elected treasurer of the company, continued with it. At this time he had grown to be a man of financial standing in the community, being the owner of various fine pieces of property. He sold all but a home. On April 12, 1849, the Franklin Company, with Joseph Hunter, captain ; John Coulter, lieutenant ; J. H. Marple. secretary ; Francis A. McCormick, treasurer, and twentv-five others, left Columbus via the National road for Cincinnati bound for the gold fields. Their route was by water to St. Joseph, Missouri, then by wagon to the coast. The story of the ocmpany is one of disaster and failure, a;s an association, but full of dramatic situations and thrilling adventures.

Mr. McCormick tinally arrived at Sacramento City, after having walked the entire distance from St. Joseph. He was without a coat, barefooted, and had twelve dollars in silver on his person. On the first day at Sacramento he fell in w'ith his former friend, Ebenezer Barcus, who had gone to the coast with another company, which had started later and reached there first. Mr. Barcus', on the occasion of the reunion, was attempting to yoke 1 pair of cxen, w'ith no success. McCormick, whose experience had been - greater, proffered assistance and succeeded, and they immediately entered into a limited partnership with the purpose of merchandising at the mines on Feather river. They prospered, and subsequently associated J. C. Lunn with them. These three men, Messrs. Barcus, McCormick and Lunn, are probably the only members of either of the California companies of Columbus now living. They made money rapidly, and then lost their profits by a Sa.n Francisco bank failure; then prospered, and lost by robbery; and so. on until McCormick, having had enough of California experience, retj^irned to Ohio, in 1852, via the isthmus and the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

On his return to Columbus he engaged in the brokerage business, and in i860 retired to Prairie township, mainly because of the failure on the part of the contractors' for one of the new railroads then being built into Columbus, Mr. McCormick having heavily endorsed their paper.

In California Mr. McCormick had walked thirty-five miles in one day to the polls in order to vote against admitting the territory as a slave state. In Ohio he voted the Republican ticket. During the war he was an inspector of clothing for the war department. When Horace Greeley ran for president he voted for him because he believed Greeley to represent Republicanprinciples. Although Prairie township had long been Democratic as two is to one, he was elected justice of the peace. Among the many cases disposed of by him was one which gave him considerable fame. Two young men, whose parents had died, had divided all the inheritance, without a jolt or a jar, except a well worn copper kettle. Both claimed the article. The result was resort to the law. Justice McCormick patiently listened to the testimony and the arguments, and at the close of the trial reflected a few minutes. He then said that the costs in the case would be assessed equally against the litigants, and directed the constable to take the kettle to the village blacksmith and have it cut as equally as possible into two parts and give each of the brothers one part; that was done. The case was not appealed.

The spirit of unrest was in McCormick from youth until long after mature years. A continuous quiet life at Columbus \vould have made him a millionaire. Fortune ever pursued him; he as persistently, seemingly, evaded it,, but it never forsook him !

Their marriage was blessed with the following children: Elizabeth, who died in infancy; Fannie Frances, who became the wife of J&mes E. Sehon and died June 12, 1871, at Columbus; Charles A., who died at Farmington, Iowa, March 27, 1842; Mary Iowa, who was born at Iowa City, Iowa, and is the wife of Westley O'Harra, of Columbus'; William B., who is the subject of this review and the next of the family; Eleanor, who married D. M. Brelsford, of Columbus, and died in that city; Kate, who married Edward H. Clover and died at Alton, Ohio, April 9, 1880; Jane, who died in infancy; Jane Delano, who is the wife of George U. Harn, of Columbus; and Mahala Margaret, who is the wife of William S. Sheehan, and resides near Alton, Ohio.

From the foregoing it will be seen that William' B. McCormick is a representative of one of the oldest families of Franklin county. He was born October 10, 1843, i^^ Columbus, on East Gay street, between High and Third streets, and resided in Columbus until seventeen years of age, during which time he pursued his education in the public schools. He then accompanied his parents on their removal to a farm near Alton, Prairie township, Franklin county. During the Civil war he enlisted as a private at Columbus for three months' service on the 27th of May, 1862, under command of Captain H. Burdell, of Company H, Eighty-fifth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At Camp Chase, on the 23d of September, 1862, Mr. McCormick received an honorable discharge and then returned to the home farm, where he remained until March 3, 1863, when 'he re-enlisted as a member of the Twenty-second Independent Battery of Ohio Light Artillery for three years or during the war. When again mustered out at Camp Chase, on the 13th of July, 1865. he held the rank of sergeant. He continued with his battery, which was attached to the Army of the Cumberland, from start to finish.

Mr. McCormick was united in marriage, at Columbus, on the 2d of September, 1880, to Miss' Louisa D. Koerner, who was born in New York city May 10, 1856, and spent the first seven years of her life in New York, and then became a resident of Columbus, where she was reared to womanhood. Her father, John George Koerner, was born in the town of Wilhelmsdorp, Bavaria, Germany, May 30, 1823, and was a baker by trade. In early life he came to the United States and was married, in New York city, to Kunigunde Hoffman, who was born in Bavaria, about 1820, and came to the new world with her brother Frederick. She died in New York city in 1859, and after her death Mr. Koerner married Miss Elizabeth Hoover. During his' life he was a Mason of high standing. He died at Columbus in 1879, leaving one child, who is the wife of our subject.

Mr. and Mrs. William B. McCormick have three children, viz. : Frederick Koerner, born March 20, 1883; Lena Dorretta, born December 2, 1884; and Ella Nora, born April 27, 1888. After his marriage Mr. McCormick located on a farm in Prairie township. Franklin county. Ohio. He cleared much of it and the place is now well improved and is devoted to general farming and stock-raising. He is a member of W. H. Elliott Post, Xo. 420, G. A. k., Department of Ohio, Alton, Ohio, of which he was the first commander, and he belongs to Encampment No. 78, of the Union Veteran Legion, of Columbus. In politics he is a Republican.

John F. Haynes

Among the old and well known railroad men of Columbus, Ohio, none is held in higher esteem inside or outside of railway circles than John F. Haynes, whose 'residence is at No. 36 East Seventh avenue and who was born in Chilicothe, Ohio, September 24, 185 1.

John Haynes, father of the subject of this sketch, was a prominent citof Chillicothe, Ohio, where for many years he held the position of freight agent. He was married in Trenton, New Jersey, and when comparatively young came to Ohio. His ancestors were English and lived in England far beyond the point in time to which he was able to trace his genealogy, and his father came to this country in early manhood. Mrs. Haynes is descended from old families in northern Ireland in the paternal line. Her grandmother in the maternal line was a native of Ireland, but her mother was born in the United States, Mr. and Mrs. Haynes died at their home in Chillicothe, Ohio, the former in 1870, aged forty-seven years, and the latter in 1897, aged seventysix years. They had eight children namely: Hiram L., Priscilla, Raymond and William, all deceased; Edward J., train dispatcher at Chillicothe, Ohio, Nellie and Anna, both residing in Chillicothe, and John F.

John F. Haynes was educated in the public schools of Chillicothe, Ohio, and was married to Miss Alma Thompson, of that city, August 17, 1871. Their eldest daughter, Ira, was married in 1896 to George C. Blankner, formerly assistant attorney general of the state of Ohio and one of the most prominent young lawyers at the Columbus' bar. Carrie was married, in 1895, to Logan McCormick, who is engaged successfuly in the portrait business on Broad street, Columbus. Their only child, Howard Haynes McCormick, was born August 26, 1897. Hattie is at home, and Dora was married to Walter Drayer, November 8, 1900. William Haynes, Mr. and Mrs. Haynes's youngest child, was born July 17, 1889, and is now in school. The family are highly respected by all who know them.

Mr. Haynes took up his career as a railroad man in 1866, and learned the machinist's trade. His first employment as a fireman was in 1822. A year and a half later he was promoted to engineer and he has been in continuous service in that capacity ever since. For twelve years he was employed on the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad, now a part of the Baltimore & Ohio system, and for a year after that he was employed on the Cincinnati & Co\- umbus Midland Road which was also merged into the Baltimore & Ohio lines. Since then he has been in the service of the Norfork & Western Railroad Company.

Mr. Haynes has been a passenger engineer for three years. He becamea member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1875, and for the past five years he has been chief engineer of division number seventy-two of that order. Mr. Haynes is a RepubHcan and is a citizen of much progressive spirit. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes and members of their familv are communicants of the Methodist Episcopal church.

George Scott

Of the members of the facuhy of Otterbein University at \Vester\ille, Frankhn county, Ohio, none is more efificient in the work of the class room than Prof. George Scott, Ph. D., some account of whose usieful career it will be attempted here to give. Prof. Scott was born in New York city May 10, 1849, a son of John Scott, who was a native of the north of Ireland, and was. there reared and married. His wife was Sarah Brown, a native of Londonderry, who died in Canada, aged about seventy-five years. This worthy couple came to America in 1848, and located in New York city. From there the family removed to Ontario, Canada, where the father died at about theage of seventy-two years. Early in life Mr. Scott was a Baptist and Mrs. Scott was a Methodist, but later they attended the services of the Tinted Brethren church, with which their children were identified.

Prof. Scott remained at home with his parents until hz was about sixteen years old and attended school with such good reS'Ults that he was at that early age able to take up the work of a teacher. As opportunity offered he was a student at the high school and later he was prepared for college at the Canadian Literary Listitute, at Woodstock, Ontario. In 1875 he entered Alfred University, a Seventh Day Baptist college in Allegany county. New York, where he was graduated in two years and wasi almost immediately thereafter elected first assistant professor of Latin and Greek. Later he was made professor of Latin in the same college, where he taught until 1888, except during one year while he was at Yale. In 1888 he came to Otterbein University as' professor of Latin. He got leave of absence in 1890 tO' spend' another year at Yale, where he received his degree of Ph. D. His progress in his studies was so rapid that he was permitted to leave Yale before theexpiration of the year and he went to Athens. Greece, and studied there for several monthsi. From there he returned to Otterbein University, where since that time he has filled the chair of Latin until elected president of the institution July 23, 1901. During two summer vacations he has had charge of Latin classes at the Chautauqua assemblies.

Prof. Scott married Miss M^iry J. Erb, of Berlin. Ontario, Canada, who died in December, 1896, leaving a daughter, Leona, who is- a graduate of Otterbein University. Mrs. Scott was a devoted member of the United Brethren church. In 1898 Prof. Scott married Miss Isabel Sevier, of Knoxville, Tennessee. They are helpful members of the United Brethren church.

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In politics Prof. Scott is independent, liberal in his views on political questions' and tolerant of the views of others. His public spirit impels him to take a helpful interest in everything that pertains to the advancement of Westerville.

Among- those who in early days represented professional life in Franklin county was Dr. William Galbraith, a medical practitioner of Columbus. Few men in this section of the state were more widely known. He traveled throughout the country, ministering to the needs of those who suffered from ill health, and his devotion to his patrons and his labors in their behalf won him the love and gratitude of many a household. There is no more important factor in society than the family physician, and Dr. Galbraith enjoyed the esteem and confidence of all who knew him, and his acquaintance was extremely wide.

He was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1827, and was a little lad of eight summers when his parents took up their abode in Perry township, Franklin county, upon a new farm. The father erected a cabin and began the improvement of his little tract of land comprising twenty acres. Both parents, Samuel and Elizabeth (MacMinima) Galbraith, were of Scotch- Irish descent, and the sturdy characteristics of their ancestry enabled them to bear with fortitude the hardships and trials incident to establishing a home upon the frontier. Upon their farm they resided until death, the father passing away in the seventy-second year, the mother in the seventy-third year of her age. They were the parents of ten children, namely: Martha, who married William Hannon, now deceased; Eliza, who became the wife of Rudolph Pheneger; Margaret, who married Albert Hard; Jane, wife of John Bacon; William, of this review; Mary, who became the wife of John Legg; Sarah, wife of Alanson Perry; James, who resides in Stockton, California; Samuel, who married Amy Josephine Huntley; and Robert, who died in childhood, The parents w^re both exemplary Christian people, holding membership in the Presbyterian church, and the lessons of industry and honesty which they mstilled into the minds of their children bore rich fruit later.

Dr. Galbraith acquired his literary education in the public schools and after putting aside his text-books was thrown upon his own resources. He made his way through college without financial aid from his family, pursuing a course in Central College, near Westerville, Ohio. He thus fitted himself for teaching, and in that profession he met with excellent success, performing the w^ork of an educator through the winter months, while in the summer season he worked at farm labor. At an early day he did much to advance the intellectual improvement of this section of the state, but preferring to make the practice of medicine his life work, he began reading under the direction of Dr. Goble, of Worthington, who remained his preceptor until he was prepared to enter medical college. He was one of the first students to matriculate in the Starling ^Medical College, where he pursued the full course and was graduated with the class of 1855. He then opened an office in Perry township, his old home, and devoted himself to the demands of a large and constantly increasing country practice, which extended over a radius of at least twenty miles. He was a faithful follower of his calling, kept well informed on materia medica and in touch with the most advanced thought and discoveries connected with the profession. He was very successful in combating with diseases prevalent at that day. He possessed a social, genial nature, which was of great assistance to him in his work, for one of the most important elements in the sick room is cheerfulness. His cordial disposition won "him friends by the hundreds and a large practice brought to him a handsome competence, which he judiciously invested in land, placing the same under a high state of cultivation.

Dr. Galbraith was united in marriage to Miss Georgiana Umbaugh on the 27th of November, 1856. To them were born three children, but the eldest, Margaret Alice, is now deceased. The others are John Howard and George Calvin. The former is a graduate of the Ohio State University, of the class of 1883, was formerly editor in chief of the Daily Times and is now connected with the Columbus Dispatch. He is a fluent writer and is a frequent contributor to a number of the leading publications. George Calvin has charge of the home farm.

In the latter part of his life Dr. Galbraith became connected with the Reformed church. He was a Democrat in politics, and for eighteen years was treasurer of Perry township, in spite of the fact that the township is strongly Republican, his election coming to him as a well merited compliment, indicating his ability and the trust reposed in him by those who knew him best. He passed away March 26, 1899, respected by all who knew him, and thus ended a career of great usefulness, but he left to his family an untarnished name, and the memory of his upright life is, in many respects well w^orthy of emulation. His wddow^, who still survives him, is also a member of the Reformed church, with which she has been connected through many years. She takes a deep interest in all that pertains to its work and upbuilding, and is also a leader in the work of the Sunday-school.

Mrs. Galbraith is a daughter of George Umbaugh, who was one of the early settlers of Franklin county, coming to Ohio when this section of the state was upon the western frontier. He was born in Frederick county, Maryland, and was married in Washington, D. C, to Elizabeth Gregory, of his own state. In 1834 they came to Ohio, making the journey in a one-horse wagon. They first settled in Circleville, Ohio, and there Mr. Umbaugh followed his trade of carpentering until 1842, when he came to Columbus, settling on the commons near Fifth street. He then became identified with the building interests of the capital city, but later purchased a farm of sixty acres in Perry township and devoted a portion of his time to its cultivation and improvement.

Charles Henry, now deceased; Georgiana, widow of Dr. Galbraith; ^^'illiam H.; Alary Jane; Margaret E., who died at the age of seven years; John W.; Ellen C. ; and Ann Eliza. The eldest son served as a soldier in the Civil war and was wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro, the injuries there sustained causing his death. The father of this family died in August, 1886, at the ripe old age of eighty-four years. He held membership in the Evangelical church and did all in his power to promote the temperance and spiritual welfare of the people among whom he lived. His wife still survives him and is now in the ninety-fourth year of her age. Mr. Umbaugh was a man of sterling purpose and upright character and passed away after a useful and honorable career.

Joshua Griffith

Joshua Griffith is the oldest engineer now in active service on the Penn- S3'lvania road, having for twenty consecutive years been in charge of the train between Columbus and Dennison, while for thirty-nine years he has been a representative of the railroad service, winning the commendation and approval of his superiors by his faithful service and his capability.

Mr. Griffith was born August 15, 1837, in Remsen, New York, but his' parents were natives of north Wales whence they came to this country with their respective families in early life. They were married in New York in 1830 and in 1842 became residents of Newark, Ohio. Joshua Griffith, Sr., the father of our subject, died October 12, 1877, at the age of eighty years and the mother passed away April 14, 1888, at the advanced age of ninetythree, both being residents of Newark, Ohio, at the time of their demise. Joseph, the oldest child, was born June 6, 1831, and was married in 1856 to Miss Elizabeth Woolett at Newark, Ohio; Benjamin, born August 7, 1833, is married and resides in Athens, 111., John, born June 13, 1835. is married and lives in Newark, Ohio, and for twenty years prior to 1888 he was an engineer on the Panhandle railroad; Joshua is the next one of the family; and Eleanor, the one daughter, was born August 15, 1839, and was married February 22, 1859, to James Vandigriff at Newark, Ohio. Her death occurred in that place November 3, 1897.

At an early period in the development of the Buckeye state Joshua Griffith, of this review became a resident of Ohio, and before the public school system had been established he pursued his education in a log cabin situated two and a half miles north of Newark. He was afterward a student in the McKinney school. His father was a farmer and he too was early trained to the work of the fields and meadow. On one occasion he was given the task of removing a fence from corn stalks and set corn on fire from which the fence caught fire. For this act his father attempted to punish him, and Mr. Griffith feeling the injustice of the act, left home, going to Utica, Ohio, fourteen miles north of Newark. There he secured employment in a gristmill, in the capacity of fireman, remaining there for sixteen months. About that time he became acquainted with some raih-oad men, and beUeving that he would prefer railroad service he went to Newark, Ohio, where he obtained work at wiping engines, receiving a dollar for every engine for wiping. He was thus employed for a year and a half. Next he was employed at Newark by what is now the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad. In September, 1855, he was engaged in digging ditches for the railroad and afterward was again engine-wiper and then night foreman. In September, 1857, he was made fireman on an engine. He served in that capacity for some time and during the period made many trips to the state-house up Third street, hauling stone to be used in the construction of the capitol building. In September, i860, he was promoted to the position of engineer and continued as such until July, 1861. Thus he was forty-five years in the railroad service.

Feeling that his duty was to his country, Mr. Griffith then enlisted as a member of Company C, Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but was in Camp Chase until September, 1861, when the regiment, under command of Colonel Fuller, proceeded by steamboat to St. Charles and thence by rail to Missouri. He participated in numerous engagements, and in October. 1861, was made engineer on a Missouri river boat. Later he was returned to his regiment, which was badly cut to pieces in its attempt to relieve Colonel Mulligan at Lexington, Missouri. Mr. Griffith had many exciting and interesting experiences in the army. The following account appeared in a newspaper many years later: "Away back in 1862, while Joshua Griffith of this city, an old time locomotive engineer, was in the army, the Confederates, in order to prevent the Unionists from obtaining possession of a locomotive, piled cord-wood around it and burned it until it was unfit for use. Mr. Griffith, who saw the engine, looked it over and gave the opinion that he could put it in running order. He was told to go ahead, and in short time he had the old engine in good running order and it was the means of performing valuable service for the north. About nine years ago Mr. Griffith put in a claim for his work on the old engine, and on Monday of this week he received a check from the government for one hundred and six dollars and fifty cents. Thus, after a lapse of thirty-eight years does Mr. Griffith receive his reward."

After being wounded Mr. Griffith was discharged and returned to Newark, Ohio, where he resumed work as an engineer; but in September, 1862, he re-enlisted as a member of Company I, of the One Hundred and Twentyninth Ohio Infantry, in which command he participated in several battles at the front. He was again discharged on account of wounds, but for the third time enlisted and became the color-bearer of his regiment, the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Ohio Volunteers, his place being in Company C. During the time of this third enlistment he was in West Virginia, and the last battle in which he participated occurred in Maryland Heights, near Harper's Ferrv, that state, on the 6th of July, 1864, after whicli he returned to Newark, Ohio.

in continuous service in the capacity of an engineer on the same raih'oad, now called Pan Handle Railroad. He runs a local freight engine ; he has run this train twenty years, from that time to the present. He can relate many interesting experiences in his life upon the road, and no man in actve railroad service on the Pennsylvania line is more widely or favorably known. He is indeed popular and extremely trustworthy. For a pastime he indulges in hunting and fishing, in which sports he has superior skill. He is sixty-four years old, but looks much younger.

On the 2d day of November, 1870, in New Philadelphia, Ohio, he then being a resident of Dennison, he was united in marriage to Miss Ella Marsh. He resided there for many years, but for the past twenty years has been a resident of Columbus. He has two children, the elder being Harry Benjamin, who was born October 4, 1871, and is a telegraph operator residing in Dennison. He was married August 9, 1898, to Miss Eva Mears and they have a little daughter of a few months. The other child, Grace, was, married November 21, 1898, to Fred Stocker, a telegraph opreator residing in Dennison, Ohio.

There is in the life of every man who has been faithful to duty through a long period a lesson of great value which should serve as an incentive to others, and in this regard the history of Mr. Griffith is not lacking. His has indeed been an honorable career characterized by fidelity to every trust reposed in him.

Frank L. Oyler

A new chapter has been added to the history of America within the last two years ; again the historian has been called upon to relate the deeds of valor and of bravery of the loyal sons of the nation. The Spanish-American war was unique in history on account of the spirit which prompted it. Not in America and probably not in the world had there ever been before a war waged in the interests of humanity by a people who had no connection with those for whom they fought, save the human tie of brotherhood. Lieutenant Oyler was among those of Ohio's sons who, at the president's call, joined the United States army and went forth to battle for humanity and the right. He was born December 4, 1868, in Columbus, where he yet makes his home, and his parents, Samuel and Lucinda Oyler, are still living in this city, both being natives of Newark, Ohio.

The subject of this review acquired his education in the public schools of Columbus, and on the 26th of November, 1886, he became connected with the military service of the state, enlisting as a private in Company B, Fourth Regiment of the Ohio National Guards. He was afterward made corporal and later sergeant. On the 2d of August, 1892, he was commissioned second lieutenant of Company B, and on the 23d of May, 1893 ^^'^s made fits'f lieutenant. With his command he served throughout the Spanish-American war. On the 15th of May, 1898, he started for Chattanooga with his regi- ment, which remained in camp at that place until July 22, when it was ordered to Newport News. After five days there passed the regiment embarked for the front on the transport St. Paul, ari-iving at Porto Rico after two and a half days, although the troops did not disembark until five days after leaving the American port. They landed at Orroyo and remained in camp for one day and two nights when, under the command of Brigadier General Haynes, they marched to Guayama, five miles distant. There they fought the Spaniards for one and a half hours and only five of the American troops were wounded. The Spaniards were driven from the place into the mountains and when they returned were again pursued. Company B* was the only company that marched across the entire island. After the termination of the war the command returned to New York, arriving on the 29th of October and landing on the morning of November 3d. On the evening of that day they left for Washington, where the troops were reviewed by the president on the following day. They then proceeded to Columbus, the city assuming its gala dress to welcome home the heroes who were received amid'st general rejoicing and were banqueted by the ladies of the city at the Auditorium. The regiment was then placed on w^aiting orders, and was mustered out January 5, 1889.

Lieutenant Oyler was married in 1893 to Miss Martha J. Howard, Their only child. Belle, was born January 5, 1894. Mrs. Oyler is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Howard, both of whom were natives of Ohio. Her father was a lieutenant in the Civil war, and her mother had a brother who also aided in the preservation of the Union.

Lieutenant Oyler is a Republican, giving an earnest support to the party. His entire life has been passed in the city which is yet his home and he made a wide acquaintance. That many of his w^armest friends h^ve known him from boyhood is an indication that his career has been in every respect worthy of respect and confidence.

Jacob Bird

Jacob Bird has for more than half a century been a resident of Franklin county, whither he came in 1849, taking up his abode in Sharon township, where he purchased sixty-nine acres of land and began farming. He was born in Pennsylvania, February 22, 181 5, his parents being Albertus and Rebecca (Woolever) Bird, who had a family of nine children.

The subject of this' review spent his early life in his native county of Northumberland, and when a youth accompanied his parents to Knox county, Ohio, the family locating upon a farm, where he grew to manhood. After arriving at years of maturity he wedded Miss Kesiah Craig, who was born in that county December 3, 181 7, their marriage being celebrated on the 9th of March, 1836. She is one of the oldest living of Ohio's, native citizens. Her parents were both of Knox county. Her father, James Craig, was born in the Keystone state and came to Ohio when the Indians were yet numerous. He built a loe cabin, which was the first home erected in Mt. Vernon. The journey from Pennsylvania had been made with a team and wagon, and he also brought with him a drove of sheep. He was a farmer by occupation, and in Knox county he entered large tracts of land, which he afterward developed and improved. There he made his home throughout his remaining days, taking an active part in reclaiming the wild country for purposes of civilization. He had been one of the founders of the Republic, for after the inauguration of the war of the Revolution he unhitched his horses from the plow where he was working in the fields and went at once to the seat of war, taking part in many engagements which resulted in winning independence for the American people. His wife, prior to her marriage, bore the name of Esther Ann Cavin. They became the parents of ten children, two of whom were born in Pennsylvania, and came with the parents, to Ohio. Mrs. Bird, however, is now the only surviving member of the family.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bird continued to reside in Knox county for a number of years', and in 1849 came to Franklin county, securing a tract of wild land in the midst of the forest, where there were no roads and where the w^ork of progress and improvement had not yet been begun. Mr. Bird at once erected a log cabin, into which he moved his family, then consisting of his wife and four children, namely : James, who died when five years, of age ; Phebe, who became the wife of Walter Burwell ; John ; and Jemimah, wife of William Stevens, who is now in Indian Territory, After the arrival of the family in Franklin county the following children were born : David ; Mary, who wedded Presley Field and is living in Abilene, Texas ; Lavina, wife of Benjamin Spengler, of Columbus; Jacob, who died when eighteen months old; Nancy J., wife of John L. Ballinger, of Columbus; Chauncey, who resides in Goff, Kansas; William M., who is living on the old homestead ; and Martha Ellen, widow of Silas Dague.

After coming to Franklin county Mr. Bird engaged in the operation of a sawmill for a time, but later cleared his farm and made his, home thereon throughout his remaining days. He was a member of the Methodist church and took a very active interest in religious work. As a citizen he was' interested in everything pertaining to the welfare, promotion and progress of the community and heartily co-operated in all measures for the general good. His death occurred May 26, 1886.

Samuel Burwell

In pioneer days, when Ohio was just emerging from its primitive condition to take on the equipments and adornments of civilization, when its wild lands were being transformed into richly cultivated fields and the domiciles of the red men were being replaced by the cabins of the early settlers, Samuel Burwell took up his abode in Franklin county, becoming one of the pioneers of Mifflin township in 1833. There he secured one hundred acres of land and became identified with agricultural pursuits. His, father. John P. Burwell, was a native of Connecticut, and in 1833 came with his familv from Wavne county, Ohio, to Franklin county. He had six children, four of whom became residents of this county, and one son, Daniel Burwell, resided in Columbus for some years before the father located in the county in 1833. He was a tinner by trade. The other children who came to this locality were Samuel, Joseph and Elizabeth, the last named becoming the wife of Christopher Robbins. All are now deceased, however. Samuel Burwell was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, born in 1802, and was married in Ohio to Nancy Davidson, a native of Marietta, this state. They became the parents of the following children, wdio reached years of maturity, namely: Walter; Eliza, who is the widow of Michael Osborn; Armstrong, who died about ten years ago ; William, of Blendon township ; and Rebecca. The father of this family and his wife have also departed this life.

Walter Burwell was born December 4, 1825, in Wayne county, Ohio, and on the 5th of September, 1858, he married Phoebe Ann Bird; thus uniting two of the old pioneer families of the community. They had three sons,, - John P., James S. and Jacob, but the last named died October 19, 1900, at the age of twenty-seven years.

The acquaintances of Dr. Meyer - and the circle is an extensive- one - speak of him as a physician of marked ability, worthy of the trust and patronof the public. He is a native of Covington, Kentucky, born March 21, 1864. His parents were Bernard H. and Lima (Midden) Meyer, natives of Hanover, Germany, whence they came to America in 1850, locating in Cincinnati, Ohio, where their marriage was celebrated in 1853. Mr. Meyer was was a merchant tailor by trade and followed that business in pursuit of a fortune for many years. By his marriage he had nine children, seven of whom are yet living.

The Doctor spent his boyhood days in his native town until his twelfth year when his parents removed to Delaware, Ohio, where he continued his studies in the public schools and was graduate! in the high school of that town under the tutelage of Professor Campbell, a popular and prominent educator of the central portion of the state. During his high-school days he also studied German and subsequently received private instruction in that tongue from Professor Davies, a teacher of languages in the Ohio Wesleyan University, so that he is now proficient in the language of his ancestors. He was eighteen years of age at the time of his graduation after which he began working at the tailor's trade and followed that without interruption until he began reading medicine in 1890, his preceptor being Dr. Z. Movn, a prominent physician in Columbus. Subsequently he matriculated in the Ohio Medical University in 1893, pursuing a three-years course, the year of his graduation being 1897. He then opened an ofihce in Cynthiana, Kentucky, where he remained for a year and a half. In 1899 ^^ came to Columbus and established himself in practice on Mount Vernon avenue. He remained at that place until

fall of 1900, when he removed to the corner of Fifth and Cleveland avenues. While practicing in Kentucky he was a member of the Kentucky Midland Medical Association. He is a physician of excellent standing, a conservative, practical practitioner, who is in close touch wuth the best thought of the day in systematic and therapeutical knowledge. He is devoted to the medical science as a life work, having had a strong predilection for it from early boyhood. Dr. Meyer enjoys the respect and esteem of his fellow men in social life as well as in professional circles and is well worthy of mention among the representative citizens of Columbus and Franklin county.

Christopher Shoemaker

Christopher Shoemaker, deceased, was for many years a prominent business man of Clinton township, and one of its most highly respected and influ- -ential citizens. A native of Ohio, he was born in St. Albans township. Licking county, July 30, 1820, and was a son of Christopher and Barbara (Keller) Shoemaker, the former of French, the latter of German descent. The family came from Pennsylvania to Ohio at a very early day and were among the first to make a settlement in Licking county. The father, who w^as one of the heroes of the Revolutionary war, and a millwright by trade, spent his last days in Franklin county.

The early hfe of our subject was spent under the parental roof and he received a common school education. On the 7th of April, 1844, he w^as marlied in Licking county, to Miss Sarah Belknap, who was born in Washington county, this state, April 13, 1825, a daughter of Forace and Salhe (Bateman) Belknap, the former a native of Connecticut, the latter of Chenango county, New York, both being the youngest child of their respective families. On the maternal side she is related to Lewis Cass and General Buell. Her Grandfather Bateman was a college-bred man, and a descendant of a Mayflower family. Mrs. Shoemaker now has in her possession a sugar bowl, whicTi was brought to this country on that famous ship by her ancestors and w^hich is still in a fair state of preservation. Her parental grandfather, David Belknap, was also a well-educated man, and served in the Revolutionary war, under Paul Jones. On first coming to this state the Belknap family settled in Marietta, but later removed to Licking county, where they were numbered among the pioneers. Forace Belknap was an expert woodsman, swift of foot and a great hunter. He traded largely with the Lidians, and was very popular with them. He died on a farm in Licking county at an advanced age.

To Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker were born eleven children, six sons and five daughters, namely: Elias F., born January 5, 1845, is the eldest; Lenira A., born April 10, 1846, is the wife of Dr. Sherman, of Columbus; Mary Rosella, born December 9, 1847, died in 1872; De voice, born February 20, 1850, is a resident of Clinton township, Franklin county; Seth S., born October 5, 185 1, is also a resident of that township; Franklin P., born September 15, 1854, lives in Kansas; Eva L., born September 14, 1856, is the wife of George W.

Williams, Esq.; William D., born September 19, 1858; Charley, born June 24, 1861, is also a resident of Clinton township, this county; Stella M., born December 20, 1864, died February 22^, 1884; Amberetta, born July 19, 1866, died Easter morning, April 25, 1886.