Columbus City (part 7 of 57)

Mr. Andrix was happily married to Miss Carrie F. Poole, of Columbus, a daughter of Middleton Poole, formerly well known as a grocer. Mrs. .Andrix's mother was Nancy H. (Perrin) Poole, who was born in 183 1, near where Mr. and ]\Irs. Andrix now live, and whose grandfather came from England. Mr. and Mrs. Andrix have three children : Iza,^ Edna and Howard. Mr. Andrix is an official member of the ]\Iethodist Episcopal church.

Winfield S. Rochelle

Throughout his entire life Winfield Scott Rochelle has been connected with agricultural interests in Franklin county. He was born September 25, 1847, on the farm where he now resides. His father, John Rochelle, was a native of Sussex county. New Jersey, born in 1S05. There he was reared to manhood and learned the trade of an iron-worker, being employed in the days before the advent of the furnace, when the iron ore was taken from the mines and worked into its various stages from the forge. While still in New Jersey Mr. Rochelle was married, and four of his children were born there. In December, 1836, he came with his family to Ohio and settled on the farm now occupied by our subject, purchasing eighty-one acres of land from a Mr. Mills, who was the original owner after the entry from the government. Later j\Ir. Rochelle added a tract of one hundred and sixty acres in fiercer county and some time subsequently purchased one hundred and twenty-five acres of land adjoining the home farm. There he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred October 26, 1877, He was a stanch supporter of Republican principles and believed firmly in the party, but never sought office. Although a member of no church, he regularly attended the services of the old school Baptist church, of which his wife has been a member for a halfcentury.

Mrs. Rochelle bore the maiden name of Lucinda Search, and was born in Sussex county. New Jersey, her parents being Martin and' Elizabeth (Rorick) Search. Her father was a native of New Jersey and was an ironworker by trade, following that pursuit in connection with his son-in-law, John Rochelle. His wife was born in Holland, and both died in IMuskingum county, Ohio. Mrs. Search came to this state with John Rochelle in 1836 and took up her abode in the home of her son near Zanesville, while her husband remained' in New Jersey and settled up some business affairs there and to attend a lawsuit over some property. As the litigation continued over a period of several yearsi he did not become a resident of Ohio until 1869. He lived to the advanced age of ninety-two years, and his wife passed away at the ripe old age of ninety-three. It will thus be seen that longevity is a characteristic of the family, and their ^^-'Aighter, Mrs. Rochelle, is still living, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. She is one of the remarkable women of the county, retaining her mental and physical faculties to a wonderful degree. Through fifty years she has held membership in the Baptist church, and has been one of its active workers, contributing largely to its support and dwing all in her power for its upbuilding and growth. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Rochelle were born twelve children, six of whom are yet living, namely : William, a resident of Hamilton, Ohio; Dency, the widow of C. H. Barber, of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Mary A., the wife of Daniel Hickman, of Truro township, Franklin county; Martin S., a practicing physician of Wichita, Kansas ; Winfield ; and Phebe C, the wife of W. I. Hempstead, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.

Winfield Scott Rochelle was reared in his parents' home until his sixteenth year, when he ran away in order to enlist in the service of his country. He made his w^ay to Columbus, and on the 28th of March, 1864, joined Company C, of the Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the Fifteenth Army Corps, commanded by General John A. Logan. With the exception of a few weeks in the hospital in Resaca and Marietta, Georgia, he was continuously with his command until the close of the war, and his loyalty and bravery were equal to that of many a veteran of twice his years. He was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 27th of July, 1865, after having participated in the following engagements : Resaca, Dallas, Allatoona, New Hope Church, Congaree Creek, Atlanta, Griswoldville, Savannah, Cl'-irleston and Columbia.

When the war was over and the country no longer needed his services Mr. Rochelle returned to his home and resumed the work of the farm. He was the only son at home and his labors proved an important factor in the operation of the fields. On the 4th of February, 1875, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Samarida E. Hanson, a native of Jefferson township, Franklin county, and a daughter of James E. Todd, who was born in Virginia and belonged to one of the early families of this county.

After his father's death Mr. Rochelle continued the operation of the home farm, and from time to time has purchased the interest of the other heirs until he now owns all but a small portion of the place. His fields are under a high state of cultivation, many improvements having been added, and everything about the farm is in a thrifty condition, showing that the owner is a practical and progressive agriculturist. He votes with the Republican party, to which he has given his support since attaining to man's estate. He is recognized as a leader in local ranks, his opinions carrying weight in party councils. For many years past he has been a delegate to the county and state conventions, and in 1899 he was appointed a member of the county board of election, but resigned the office to become a candidate for the nomination for county infirmary director. He belongs to Reynolclsburg- Lodge, No. 340, F, & A. M., and also to Daniel Noe Post, G. A. R. The patriotic spirit which prompted his enlistment in the army in his youth has been manifest throughout his life in the discharge of his duties of citizenship, and in all life's relations he has enjoyed the confidence and regard of his fellow men.

William D. Simonton is one of the two oldest engineers in years of continuous service in Columbus, running on the Norfolk & Western Railroad. His paternal grandparents, Theophilus and Mary Simonton, were natives of North Carolina, where they spent their entire lives. Their children, all born in that state, were as follows: Alexander, born January 12, 1794; Sally, born November 14, 1796; Adam, born October 8, 1798; Noah, born July 26, 1 801; Elizabeth, born February 19, 1803; Hiram, born June 29, 1805; Theophilus, Jr., born June 29, 1808; Samuel, born July 22, 1810; John, born February 8, 1813; and Mary, born June 10, 1815.

John Simonton, the father of our subject, removed from North Carolina to Ohio in an early day, locating upon a farm in Clermont county. He was there married on the 14th of June, 1838, to Miss Catherine Hess, and they became the parents of six children : Melissa, born December 4, 1839; Franklin, born December 4. 1841 ; an infant son born November 15, 1843; Lyman, born November 20, 1844; William D., born September 4, 1853; ^^'^^ Lulu, born October 16, i860. Franklin, of this family, enlisted for service in the Union army, in Company I, Twelfth Ohio Infantry, and was wounded at Cloyd Mountain, Virginia, in 1864. He was afterward taken prisoner and nothing was ever heard of him from that time, although the greatest efforts were made to ascertain his fate. It is probable that he died in a southern prison and no record was kept of his demise. Melissa Simonton, the eldest sister of cur subject, was married to John D. Carnahan and they now reside at their home in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their children are Franklin N., Charles and Clyde. Lyman Simonton, a brother of our subject, is married and resides at the old home in Blanchester, Clinton county, Ohio. He is a clerk in a store there and has one child, Clayton. William D. Simonton was married, April zo, 1872, to Miss Nettie Baldwin, of Blanchester, Ohio. Lulu Simonton was married to O. Willoughby, of South Lebanon, Ohio, who conducts a meat market there. They have one child, Stanley, who is now in his twelfth year.

AVhen a young man A\^illiam D. Simonton, of this review, learned the blacksmith's trade, but wiching to enter railroad life, he secured a position as fireman on the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad on the ist of January, 1874. On the 24th of December. 1877, he was promoted to freight engineer on the same road, which was afterward absorbed by the Baltimore & Ohio road, and is now a part of the system controlled by that company. IMr. Simonton is now on the Norfolk & Western Railroad, running on the fast passenger from Columbus to Kenova, West Virginia. Since 1874 he has been in continuous service and has never sustained a personal injury in his railway duties. He became a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in 1882, and belongs to Division No. 72.

On the 20th of April, 1872, Mr. Simonton was united in marriage to Miss Nettie Baldwin. Her father, Benjamin Baldwin, was born October 17, 181 5, being the first white child born in Marion township, Clinton county, Ohio. His death occurred October 15, 1897, when he was eighty-two years of age. His w^ife, Martha E. Henry, w^as born January 4, 1829, and died July 17, 1893. In their family were the following: Mrs. Simonton, born March 28, 1854; Lucius, who was born October 25, 1851, and died' October 8, 1884; and Marion A., who was born July 15, 1858, and was married, in 1880, to Miss Ada Byard, their home being now in Blanchester, Ohio. The grandparents of Mrs. Simonton were natives of Virginia, the grandmother having been born in the famous Shenandoah valley. In their family were twelve children, ten of whom are now living, and the youngest is more than three score years of age. All reside in Blanchester. Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Simontpn have one child, Minnie E., born March 20, 1873. She was married, June 6, 1894, to Charles C. Bothwell, who is an engineer on the Norfolk & Western Railroad and resides in Portsmouth. Ohio. Mr. Simonton is a member of the Masonic fraternity, holding membership with Magnolia blue lodge, also wnth Ohio Chapter and Mt. Vernon Commandery. The family are members of the Plymouth Congregational church, of Columbus. His. is a creditable record, characterized by fidelity to duty and his worth as a man and citizen are well known.

John Koebel

Among Franklin county's well-to-do and successful farmers are many who started out in life for themselves without capital, and have worked their way upward through their own unaided efforts. In the subject of this review we find a worthy representative of this class. "He is a man of enterprise and perseverance, and has steadily overcome the obstacles in the path to success by determination and untiring industry.

Mr. Koebel was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, on the 25th of October, 1853, and was twelve years of age when he came to Franklin county with his parents. His father, George Koebel, was a native of Germany, born in 1829, and is now a retired farmer of Marion township, this county. While a resident of Fairfield county he married Mary Sparrow, a native of Virginia, aad to them w-ere born ten children, six of whom are still living, namely: Bari^ara, George, John, Catherine. William and Charles, - all residents of Franklin county. Those deceased are Jacob, Michael, Sarah and Mary.

district schools of Fairfield and Franklin county afforded during his boyhood, and his training at farm work was obtained on the old homestead under the direction of his father, with whom he remained until twenty-three years of age. He began life for himself upon a rented farm in Hamilton township, where he remained two years, and then rented what is known as the Zeb Veasy farm for three years. For thirteen years he made his home on the Louis Zettler farm, and at the end of that time purchased the place in Truro township where he now resides. When it came into his possession it was unimproved, but he cleared away the timber, erected a good residence and substantial outbuildings and now has a well improved and valuable farm of one hundred and eleven acres, all under a high state of cultivation.

On the 24th of February, 1881, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Koebel and Miss Alice Victoria Helsel, who was born in Columbus, Franklin county, June 2, 1861, and is a daughter of John Helsel, also a native of this county. He married Clarissa A. Brown, by whom he had seven children, - Alice v., John E., Matthew L., Laura O., Effie C, Thaddeus B. N. and Fanny E. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Koebel have been born two children: Edith Pearl, born August 30, 1884; and Edgar Leigh, born August 2, 1895. The daughter is now attending the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, this state. The Democratic party finds in Mr. Koebel a stanch supporter of its principles, but at local elections he votes for the men whom he believes best qualified to fill the offices regardless of party ties. Religiously he is a liJ^eral supporter and active member of the Lutheran church. For seven years he has made his home upon his present farm, and is to-day one of the most influential and popular citizens of the community.

The city of Columbus, Ohio, is well represented in professional life, its citizens being known in many states of the Union. Among those whose ability is remembered outside of his own locality is Albert Cooper, a physician of high standing in this city. He is a nati\^ of the state, born in Coshocton county, Ohio, September 24, 185 1, a son of Archibald Wilson and Maria (Blizzard) Cooper. The Cooper family came to Ohio in 1808, the ancestors having immigrated to Pennsylvania with William Penn, being Quakers. The grandfather of our subject was Levi Cooper, l^orn in \^irginia. He there married Margaret Wilson, a daughter of Archibald Wilson, a captain in the Revolutionary war. The father of Dr. Cooper, Archibald Wilson Cooper, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, near Zanesville, in 1810. He later in life made his home in Coshocton county, remaining until 1864, when he went to Illinois and thence to Kansas, dying in Beloit, Kansas, October 8, 1881. The mother of Dr. Cooper was born in Hardv county, West Virginia, in 1814, and died January 6, 1882. They had been the par-

Dr. Albert Cooper passed his first ten years in Coshocton and Licking countii^s. Ohio, removing then with his parents to Illinois. The next family removal was to St. Joseph, Missouri, and in that city he received the greater part of his education. Later he accompanied his father to Beloit, Kansas, and there entered the office of Dr. W. T. Donnell to engage in the reading of medicine. After thorough preparation he entered the medical department of the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery and graduated at that institution of learning June 22, 1875.

The first location of Dr. Cooper was in Kansas, where he spent almost two years in successful practice, after which he came to Columbus and took a course of lectures at the Columbus Medical College, graduating at this institution in T877, following which he entered actively into practice in this city. He was the demonstrator of anatomy at Columbus Medical College from 1882 to 1885. Always interested in education, he served one term on the school board and for four years was elected from the nineteenth ward as a member of the city council. In his political preferences he is a Republican and has taken part in many of the important deliberations of his party.

The marriage of Dr. Cooper took place April 14, 1880, to Miss Jennie McCrum, a daughter of Samuel McCrum, of Belmont county, Ohio. She was an accomplished lady and before marriage a teacher in the schools of Worthington, Ohio. The residence of the Doctor and his estimable wife is at No. 2686 North High street, is in one of the best parts of the city.

Dr. Cooper is a member of Magnolia Lodge, F. & A. M. ; Ohio Chapter, R. A. M. ; thirty-second degree Scottish Rite, Scioto Consistory ; the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, American Medical Association and the Sons of the American Revolution. In his profession Dr. Cooper ranks high, his ability as both surgeon and physician having brought him into prominence. He is a fit representative of the medical profession in his chosen city of residence.

John Samuel Daugherty

The ancestors of the subject of this sketch were Irish, and his grandfather, John Daugherty, came with two of his brothers to the United States previous to the year 1800, landing at New York. The three brothers separated, going to differents part of the country, John coming' direct to Ohio and locating at old Franklinton, now a part of Columbus. He brought his wife with him and she died a few years after their arrival. Their children were Nathan Daugherty, who settled in Preble county and died there; and John Daugherty, who died in one of the Ohio counties lying on Lake Erie. For his second wife John Daugherty, Sr., married Miss Gatton, a native of Richland county, Ohio, who bore him children as follows : James, who mar- riecl Miss Clover and died in Prairie township at the age of ninety-three years; Sarah, who married Jacob Keller and died in Prairie township; Daniel, who married Miss Sills and died at Columbus ; Nancy, who is Mrs. Samuel King, of Norwich township; Mary, who married Joseph Klise and died in Brown township; Chloe, who is Mrs. Orrin Clover, of Norwich township; Benjamin, wdio was the father of the subject of this sketch; and Lovinia, who is Mrs. Chauncey Carter and lives at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

John Daugherty, the pioneer, fought for his adopted country in the war of 1812 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 181 7. He helped build the old national road through Ohio. Some time after his arrival he beo-an clearing a farm in Norwich township, on the Scioto river, where he settled among the Indians in a wdld strip of timber and had many ventures peculiar to pioneer life. Each spring he and his boys would go into a sugar camp on the Norwich township line and, living in a log shanty, would manufacture maple sugar, in the old way, while the season lasted. Wolves and other wild beasts were so numerous all about them that they were obliged to maintain fires at night to keep them at a distance. Mr. Daugherty died about 1847, more than eighty years old, and his second wife died some years earlier.

Benjamin Daugherty, father of John Samuel Daugherty, was born at Franklinton in 181 3, and grew to manhood in Franklin county and assisted his father in clearing and cultivating his farm, receiving a limited education in a small log schoolhouse near his early home. He married Catharine Divelbiss, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1820^ who came to Richland county when a small girl wdth her father, George Divelbiss, who was a pioneer near Mansfield, and in his day was perhaps the most noted hunter and marksman in that part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty were married in Richland county and came immediately afterward to Prairie township, Franklin county, and after living there for a time they removed to Norwich towniship and settled on one hundred and fourteen acres of land, now owned by Jacob Fladt. Mr. Daugherty made a clearing in the woods, in which he built a double hewed-loghouse wnth a ground area of fourteen by sixteen feet, which was the home of the family until after the farm was paid for and money had been saved with which to buy the good frame house now standing on the place. By that time the farm w^as well improved. Mrs. Daugherty died there in August, 1872, and after that event Mr. Daugherty rented his farm for ten yea~rs and lived with the lessees. He then sold the farm and lived with his 'children, most of the time with the subject of this sketch, until his death in 1889. The most of the members of his family identified themselves with the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a man of good ability and was influential as a citizen and as a Democrat. The following items of interest concerning his children will be found valuable in this connection:

His eldest daughter, Elizabetli. married Elijah Scofield, and died in Franklin county; the subject of this sketch was next in order of birth; George

Washington married Caroline Sherwood, and died at Columbus; Daniel, of Brown township, married Miss Minnie Miller; Nancy married Charles Smith and lives in the Shenandoah valley in Virginia ; David married Rachel Clover and lives in Norwich township; Sarah married Orin Gatton and they had one child, who survives them and lives at Galloway, Ohio ; Mary married Edd McGlinchey and they had three children; Benjamin married Sarah Clover and lives at Marion, Ohio; Chloe is Mrs. James Craig, of Norwich township; and Andrew Jackson Daugherty died at the age of nineteen years, after receiving- a fine business education.

John Samuel Daugherty was born in Prairie township, Franklin county, November 14, 1841, and received his first schooling there. When he was eight years old his father moved to Norwich township, where the boy finished his education at the age of seventeen, under the preceptorship of Alexander Jones, whom he often worried by playing truant. While on one of these expeditions he saw the first railroad train in this part of the country, about 1S48. He worked on his father's farm as soon as he was old enough and was thus employed until, at twenty-one, he began to learn the carpenter's trade of John Ro'binson, with whom he remained seven years, afterward working as a carpenter for three years on his own account. During a part of this time he worked for the government, building the officers' quarters, etc., through Kansas and Missouri. During his lifetime he has traveled a great deal, having visited about twenty difi"erent states. On one of these trips he took his eldest son, who was then suffering from that dread disease, consumption.

John Samuel Daugherty was married, November 23, 1869, to Miss Mary Catharine Roberts, a native of Prairie township, Franklin county, born November 16, 1848, a daughter of Lewis and Rachel (Richards) Roberts. Mrs. Daugherty's parents removed from Prairie township to Brown township when she was four years old and she was educated at the Welsh school, which she attended until she was seventeen years old. Her father was born in Wales July 4, 18 18, a son of Ellis and Catharine (Pugh) Roberts, who came with their family to the United States in 1824, landing at New York city, where Ellis Roberts died. In 1835 his widow and her children came to Browm township and located on one hundred acres of land of which her late husband had become possessed some years before his demise, and there she died in 1846. Her daughter Catharine married Thomas Thomas, and after his death Thomas Evans, and died in the city of New York. Her son Lewis was the father of Mrs. Daugherty. David, the next in order of birth, went to some distant part of the country and was never heard of afterward. Ellis, the next younger son, died on the home farm. Susanna married Arthur Arnold and died in New York city. John P. died in Franklin county, Ohio. Lewis Roberts was born in Wales in 1818, came to the United States with his parents at the ac'e of six years, and lived in New York city until he was seventeen years old, and there received a fair educa- tion. He grew to manhood on the family farm in Brown township, and married Rachel Richards, daughter of William and Mary (Williams) Richards, who were born and married in Wales, After his marriage Lewis Roberts located on the home farm of the family and lived there until his death, November 30, 1878, except during five years, when he conducted a hotel at Rome, Ohio. He was a prominent man in the township and held several important offices. In politics he was a Democrat' and in religion he was a Baptist. His wife died June 16, 1889. Following are some facts relative to their children : Their son David William married Rebecca Drake and after her death Minerva Hemrod, and lives at Columbus, Ohio. John Ellis died at the age of nine years. Mrs. Daugherty was the next in order of birth. Lewis died at the age of twenty-six years. Daniel F. married Miss Angeline Carter and lives in Brown township. Richard died at sixteen, Susan at eighteen, John at twenty-six and Margaret at twenty years of age. Sophia and Hannah, twins, died in infancy. Margaret, the second of the name, died at two years O'f age.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty lived for ten years on the Colwell farm in Norwich township, and for two years lived on his fatherin-law's farm. After that they resided for a time on the lower part of his present farm. He was then employed for five years at corporation work in the city of Columbus. In 1896 they returned to their farm and built their present home, and since that time Mr. Daugherty has devoted himself with much success to farming and stock-raising. He is an active and influential Democrat and has been for some time a member of the school board of his township. He is a member of the Christian Union church, and Mrs. Daugherty is actively and helpfully identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. She is an intelligent, well educated woman, well informed upon all topics of the day, kind, motherly, hospitable and an interesting conversationalist. She has borne her husband children as follows : Francis Marion was born September 19, 1 87 1, and died at the age of twenty-one years. Charles William, born December 12. 1872, married Amanda Reed, and is employed as a conductor by a street-car company of Cleveland, Ohio. To them was born one child, Evelyn, a beautiful child of a sweet disposition. Cora A., born February 23, 1876, is a successful school-teacher; and her sister, Bessie Alta, born July 11, 1879, has taught school during the last two years. Each of the latter is well educated, holding diplomas from one of the best schools in the state. John Lewis, born February 21, 1889, died September 22, 1890.

James Savage

The biographical sketch which follows possesses peculiar value for the reason that it not only deals with the careers of men important in their day and generation and prominent in their calling, Imt with facts and interests of historical value in connection with the social, political and business history of

Ohio's capital city. The name of Savage has long been well known at Columbus, where it has stood for important legitimate business enterprise and has represented the highest order of citizenship.

William Montgomery Savage, one of the pioneer jewelers of Columbus, located here in 1838. He was a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, and! was married, at Richmond, Virginia, to Mary Richards, a native of Cornwall, England. He learned his business with his father, John Y. Savage, whc moved from North Carolina to New York city about 1830, and it w^as there that William Montgomery Savage finished the acquisition of a practical knowledge of the jeweler's trade. For two years after he came to Columbus he was employed by Platte, an old-time jeweler, and in 1840 he opened a store on his own account, on the east side of High street, just south of State street, in a small frame building which was mounted on wheels in order that it might be hauled out of danger in case fire should break out near by. In 1843 Mr. Savage moved into the Ambos building, opposite Capitol square, and from there he moved, about 1851, into a building just then completed by himself and his brother John Y. Savage, of New York city, afterward city clerk. Important additions were subsequently built tO' that structure and he occupied it until his death in 1892, when he had been fifty-two years in business in Columbus, and since 1866 the leading jeweler in the city. In 1893 the stock of his establishment was divided between his sons James and E. G. Savage, who had been connected with his business, the first from 1861 to 1884, the second from 1857 to 1892. W. J. Savage, the eldest son of William Montgomery Savage, was also identified with his father's enterprise until he disposed of his interest in it to found the Columbus Watch Company, and now, relieved of business cares, he devotes much of his time to European travel. John Y. Savage, another of Mr. Savage's sons, who died in 1884, was also for a time identified with the business. William Montgomery Savage was regarded as one of the foremost jewelers of his time and he was given charge of the railway clocks and other timepieces of all the railroads centering at Columbus, and regulated them by observations which he took personally and independently along scientific lines.

James Savage, a son of William Montgomery and Mary (Richards) Savage, was born at Columbus, Ohio, in 1844, and was there reared and educated and learned the jeweler's business in his father's store, in which, as has been stated, he acquired an interest, which continued until in the fall of 1884, when he engaged in the same line of business independently, at his well known stand on North High street, where he has met with much success and has made himself known as a merchant of enterprise and of prominence and as a jeweler of skill and reliability.

Following in the footsteps of his worthy father, in politics as well as in business, Mr. Savage is a Democrat. In religious affiliation he is an- Episcopalian. He married Miss Gertrude Aston, daughter of Isaac Aston, of Columbus, long a member of the prominent book house of Randall & Aston, one of the best known in Ohio before and after the war of the Rebellion. He has a daughter named Mary Richards in honor of his mother, and a son named James Aston Ferree in honor of Mrs. Savage's family, her mother having been a Ferree of a prominent French family of that name.

Dr. C. M. Savage, a son of William Montgomery Savage and a brother of James Savage, entered the Union army in 1862, when he was only fifteen years old, and s.aw three years' active service, and was wounded at Shiloh and at Kenesaw mountain. His eminence in his profession was recognized by President Cleveland, who appointed him chairman of the board of examining surgeons of the United States. He is a well known ]\Iason and Knight of Pythias.

Among the several old Muskingum county families represented in Franklin county, Ohio, none is reDresented more worthily or more creditably than the family of Williams, from which came Benjamin Franklin Williams, of Norwich township, whose grandfather, Abraham \Mlliams, was born in Connecticut, about 1809, and married Catherine \\'ooley, a native of Hocking county, Ohio, and a daughter of Elijah and Mary Wooley. Abraham Williams passed his life as a preacher in Muskingum county, and died there in 1854. His wife married Henry Ray in Franklin county, where she became a widow about 1855, and she died in Washington township, in 1881. Abraham and Catherine (Wooley) Williams had the following children: Abraham C, who lives at Plain City, Ohio; Minerva, who married William Carter and lived for a time in Madison county, Ohio, and removed thence to Iowa and from Iowa to Nevada, where Mr. Carter died and where she is still living; Wesley, who died in childhood; Benjamin Franklin, the immediate subject of this sketch ; Susan, who married Asa Davis ; Mary, who married Alexander Walcott; Francis ]\I., who lives at Columbus,_ Ohio ; and E. J., who married Deborah Ramsey and lives at Hilliard's, Ohio.

Benjamin Franklin Williams was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, February 5, 1849, ^n<^l was about six years old when his widowed mother brought him to Franklin county, Ohio, where he passed the days of his youth, chiefly in Norwich township. He first attended school in a log schoolhouse which stood just over the county line near his home in ]\Iadison county, and he went to school with more or less regularity until he was nineteen years old, while in the meantime he received every kind of practical instruction tending to make him a good farmer. Since his marriage he has lived on rented farms. He has proved himself to be a business man of ability, and' as -a Republican is not without a certain local influence, but he has no desire for public oflice. He is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

was born near Duljlin, Franklin county, Ohio, a daughter of Charles and Mary Ann (Beard) Shipman, her father a native of Pennsylvania, her mother a native of Franklin county, Ohio. The children of Benjamin Franklin and Katurah (Shipman) Williams were born in the order in which they are here named : Harry, who lives in Norwich township, married Bertha Wilcox, and has three children, - Oral, Ida May and Mary Belle. Benjamin, who lives on his own farm, married Amanda Davidson and has a son named Irwin. George E. lives in Clinton township, married Sarah Johnson and has two children, - Everett and Guy. Lena died in infancy. Charles died in childhood. Sumner and Ina Belle are members of their father's household. Carrie and Ettie are both deceased.

Mr. Williams is a self-made man who richly deserves the success he has achieved, and his public spirit and generous disposition make him a helpful citizen who may always be safely depended upon to assist every worthy public movement.

David Binns

David Binns, whose name introduces this review, is a prominent resident of Franklin county, Franklin township, Ohio, having resided on his present well cultivated farm near Columbus since 1872. He was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1837, and was a son of William Binns, a native of England, who was born there February 18, 1807, and came to America about the year 181 2, locating in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. His father, David Binns, was a native of Yorkshire, England, where he married and then came to the United States, settling in Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and some years later moved to Harrison county, Ohio, where he died at a good old age. William Binns was reared in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and there married Miss Ruth Gibson, a Virginian by birth. She was a daughter of Amos Gibson, an old settler in Pennsylvania, also a native of Virginia. Mrs. Binns lived to the age of seventy-six years, dying at her home in Franklin township, where the family settled about 1872. A family of thirteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. William Binns, and four members of this family are still living. Mr. William Binns, the father, died at the age of eighty years.

David Binns, the subject of this review, was about five years of age when he was taken to Harrison county, Ohio, and received there his education in the primitive schools of the time. According to the general usage of the locality he remained with his parents until he reached his majority, when he went to Wayne county, Indiana, and engaged in teaching penmanship, remaining in that locality for two years, upon the expiration of which time he returned to Harrison county and began to teach school in the neighborhood of his home. His grandfather had entered some land in Hardin county, and there David Binns spent eight busy years in the lumber business, conducting a sawmill. In 1872 Mr. Binns came to Franklin township and settled upon his present farm, where he immediately proceeded to build and make improvements. He then entered upon a successful career as farmer and dairyman, which occupation he still continues.

'in 1867 Miss Esther Gilbert, the daughter of Hammond Gilbert, of Hardin county, Ohio, became the wife of Mr. Binns, but her death occurred a few years later, leaving two children - John, deceased, and Vienna, who married Thomas Biddle, of Columbus. In 1877 ^I^. Binns married Miss Medora E. Bigelow, a native of Plain City, Madison county, Ohio, the daughter of Timothy and Hannah (Marshall) Bigelow, who were old residents of Madison county. Mr. and Mrs. Binns are the parents of five children: Henry G., who is in the employ of the Norfolk & Western Railroad; Walter B., Emmett H., Mary E. and Allen Jay, deceased, all of whom have received good educational advantages, the older ones being graduates.

Mr. Binns is a Friend in his religious belief, as was his honored father and grandfather, but takes a great interest in public affairs, although not in favor of unnecessary strife. He is a Republican in politics, and has held many positions of authority in the township. He has been justice of the peace, and for nine years belonged to the school board. He has placed his farm of sixty-eight and a half acres in a fine state of cultivation, and his surroundings show the peace and prosperity his life of honest endeavor have made possible,

James W. Barbee

James W, Barbee is one of the most prominent and is also one of the oldest residents of Franklin township, Franklin county, Ohio, and was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, May i, 1817. He was a son of Owen Thomas Barbee, a native of Fauquier county, Virginia, who came to Franklin county very early and remained here until his death, when he was eighty-nine years old. His father was Joseph Barbee, of English parentage. The mother of our subject was of German descent, and was in her maidenhood Miss Mary Whitley. She died at the home of James Barbee Decemiber i, 1854.

James W. Barbee was the third in a family of nine children. He came with his father to Franklin county in 1831, being at that time thirteen years of age. He was sent to the common school of the district, then held in the log cabin so well remembered by the pioneers of every state, and gained the education possible under the circumstances. Until he was twenty-three years old he remained with his father, and then started out to meet the world for himself. He engaged in hauling stone, a large part of it being for the erection of the state house in Columbus, and also a part of his work was put upon the national pike road. His wages were sometimes thirty cents a day. To modern minds this seems a very small compensation, but in forty years, from that beginning, our subject has accumulated a fortune and is now one of the wealthiest men of Franklin township. Ordinary hardships did not dismay Mr. Barbee, for he cleared a farm in Norwich township, where he first located. In 1868 he moved to his present home and proceeded to do the same task in Franklin township, where he now resides. This tract of one hundred and fifty-five acres he bought for seventy dollars an acre, selling forty acres not long since for four hundred dollars per acre, an increase partly explained by the state of cultivation to which Mr. Barbee had broughl it in the intervening years.

The marriage of Mr. Barbee took place December 8, 1842, to Miss Lucinda Keller, who was born in Franklin township December 22, 1823, a daughter of Jacob Keller, a native of Pennsylvania, and one of the early settlers of Ohio. Her mother, formerly Mary Rossman, was a native of New York, and had been previously married to Dr. John Ball, and they had five children. Five children were also born of her second marriage, of whom only Mrs. Barbee and her brother Henry are the survivors. She was reared in Franklin county and enjoyed the best educational advantages possible at the time in that locality. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Barbee eleven children were born: Owen; Thomas; Mary; Eliza; Melville, the wife of J. S. Briton, of Columbus ; Alice ; Florence, deceased ; Lucinda, deceased ; James, who married Helen Legg; Minnie, the wafe of C. M. Rogers, of Columbus; and Laura.

Mr. Barbee has been a very prominent Democrat, and has been called upon to occupy many positions of local importance. In 1850 he was elected the coroner of the county and held the position for two years; was county commissioner for six years in succession, being elected before the war of the Rebellion and held the position at the breaking out of hostilities. For eight years he was a constable, for ten years was assessor and often has been township trustee, filling all of these offices to the entire satisfaction of the community. Both he and his family are members of the Christian Union church, where they are appreciated and have hosts of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Barbee have spent almost fifty-nine years of happy married life, which. they fittingly celebrated December 8, 1892.

A well known and prominent member of the bar of the city of Columbus, Ohio, is Lyman H. Innis, who was born upon a farm in this county' July 16, 1871, and is a son of Robert and Sarah (Longman) Innis, a sketch of the family appearing on another page of this volume.

When a small child Mr. Innis removed with his parents from the farm to the city of Columbus, where he attended the excellent schools and prepared for college, entering later the Ohio State University in that city, at which he graduated in 1893, taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Mr. Innis took a course of study in the law department at the University, which was completed in 1875, and was admitted to the bar before he took his de- gree of LL. C. He then entered into the practice of his profession with John J. Stoddard, with whom he is still associated. He has met with signal success and has become well known in the courts of the city of Columbus.

Mr. Innis was united in marriage in June, 1895. to Miss Belto Osman, of Chicago, Illinois, and their union has been blessed with one son, Alwyn O. Innis.

Politically Mr. Innis is a Democrat, taking a great interest in the affairs of his party and never sparing himself when laboring for its best interests. His many friends find in him a stanch advocate where their well-being is concerned. He is socially connected with the Knights of Pythias organization and is also a member of the Phi Delta Phi Society of the Ohio State University.

Daniel O. Roberts

Daniel O. Roberts was a well-known farmer of Norwich township, and in his death the community lost a citizen of sterling worth. He was born in Norwich township in 1848, and was reared as a farmer boy, early becoming familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. The occupation to which he was reared he made his life work. He inherited a part of his farm from his uncle, Daniel Roberts, and he placed his land under a high state of cultivation, adding many improvements which enhanced the value and attractive appearance of the place.

On the 2 1 St of January, 1875, Mr. Roberts was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Moore, who was born in Union county March 7, 1854, a daughter of Alpheus and Cynthia Ann (White) Moore. She was reared to womanhood in her native township, and pursued her education in the common schools. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts began their domestic life upon a farm, and at his death our subject left to his wife and son a comfortable property. He was a member of the Universalist church, and in politics was a stalwart Republican, strongly adhering to the principles of his party. He was continually in office, and for many years filled the position of trustee, discharging his duties promptly and faithfully. He died July 22, 1892, leaving to his family an untarnished name.

William M. Roberts, his only son, was born December 19. 1876. and his elementary education, acquired in the district schools, was supplemented by study in the Hilliard's high school and in a business college at Columbus, where he remained for two terms. He then accepted a position as bookkeeper for the Eaton Machine Company, of the capital city, but later returned to the farm and has since devoted his time and attention to its' improvement, the fields being under a high state of cultivation, yielding a golden return for his labor. He and his mother have a very pleasant home and enioy the warm regard of many friends in the community. In politics ]\Ir. Roberts is a Republican, and in the success and welfare of his party he feels a deep interest.

Judge T. B. Galloway

There is no other element which comes into such close touch with American people and which affects every individual as does the public policy of the nation. The man of mature judgment, of keen insight into public affairs and of strong mentality realizes the responsibility which rests upon the citizen upon whom has been conferred the right of franchise and who thus gives his support or opposition to measures which affect either the weal or woe of the entire nation. It is a matter for just pride therefore when one becomes recognized as a leader along political lines, and to such a position Judge Galloway has attained, standing foremost among those who give their efforts to the advancement of Republican principles. He is a lawyer of pronounced ability, of keen analytical mind and in his chosen profession he has won creditable prominence.

The name of Galloway has long been actively associated with the public affairs of Ohio, and the Judge has spent his entire life in Columbus, where his birth occurred on the 13th of October, 1863. His father, Samuel Galloway, was an eminent citizen of Franklin county, born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, March 20, 181 1, in a house which is still standing and which, in 1863, was occupied as a hospital. He was educated in the public schools of Gettysburg. About 1828, after his father died, the family removed to Greenfield, Highland county, and he continued his studies in the Miami University, at Oxford, where he was graduated in 1883. He took up the study of law in Hillsboro, but discontinued this, spending one year as a theological student in Princeton, and in the year 1835 was a professor of Greek in the Miami University. Ill health then forced him to resign. Later he engaged in teaching in Springfield, Ohio, and at South Hanover College in Indiana, where for two or three years he was a professor of classical languages. Resuming the study of law, he began practice in 1842 and a year later became a partner of Nathaniel Massie, of Chillicothe.

In 1844 he was elected by the state legislature to the office of secretary of state and removed to Columbus, where he thenceforth made his home. He was a prominent factor in politics and belonged to the anti-slavery wing of the Whig party. In 1848 he was a delegate to the convention held in Philadelphia which nominated Taylor and Fillmore, and a speech which he made on that occasion was long remembered for its thrilling eloquence. In 1854 Mr. Galloway represented his district in the notable thirty-fourth congress, when the reaction against the encroachments of the slave power had fully set in at the north, and the Whig party, on account of its complicity with slavery, had been practically annihilated, the great majority of the members returning from the northern states pledged to resist the further extension of the evil. Congress assembled on December 3d, but the house was not organized until February 3d, when Nathaniel P. Banks was chosen the speaker, on the one hundred and thirty-third ballot. At midnight on February 2d

Tod B. Galloway

Mr. Galloway was aroused from his sleep and summoned to a conference which lasted until daybreak. Mr. Banks was the first anti-slavery member ever chosen as speaker of the house. Mr. Galloway took an active part in the deliberations of this congress and made at least one very trenchant speech upon the contested election case from the territory of Kansas. It was full of the keenest satire and the most vigorous argument. The political feeling in the district was strongly against Mr. Galloway during the next campaign, and upon his second candidacy for congress was defeated by Samuel S. Cox.

On July 13, 1855, a convention was held in the old Town Street Methodist church in Columbus, attended by delegates from all over Ohio, representing anti-Nebraska elements and presided over by John Sherman. Mr. Galloway was one of the delegates at that convention and aided in framing the resolutions which gave the name of "Republican" to thejiew party. And this date, the sixty-seventh anniversary of the adopting of the ordinance of 1787, containing the prohibition of slavery in the Northwest Territory, marks the birth of the Republican party. This convention nominated Salmon P. Chase for governor, and he w^as elected in the November following. On July 18, 1855, a meeting was held in the city hall to ratify the convention of the 13th, and the principal speakers on that occasion were Mr. Galloway, Henry C. Noble and George M. Parsons. For a few years following Mr. Galloway practiced his profession in Columbus, besides which he w^as actively engaged in all religious and philanthropic work, and it was less than two years after he left congress that Mr. Lincoln was engaged in his great debate with Mr. Douglas ; and there is a letter from the former asking Mr. Galloway to come over to Illinois and help him in that compaign. In 1861 President Lincoln summoned him to Washington and made him offers of responsible positions, all of which he refused, contenting himself with the office of judge advocate at Camp Chase.

During the war the services rendered to the Federal cause by J\Ir. Gallou'ay were many and constant, although he was unable to undertake military duty on account of his ill health, and his eloquence contributed as much as that of any other man to inspire people with patriotic ardor and to keep the quota of Ohio always full. After the close of hostilities his professional duties and business cares kept him busy in Columbus, but he w-as always ready for public duties ; and it is probable that few men have rendered a larger amount of unrequited service to their party than has Mr. Galloway, and it was not unnatural that he should expect some recognition of this indebtedness. In 1871 he became a candidate for gubernatorial nomination, and his defeat in the convention was a disappointment from which he never recovered. His health almost entirely forsook him, and although he sought relief in trayel it was in vain, and at last he came home to die. He was at one time a member of the First Presbyterian church, in the councils of which he was an acknowledged leader, was more than once a commissioner to the general assemblv. and in the final reunion of the old and new school bodies he bore an important part. But when the Westminster church was formed he, perhaps, more than anybody else, was the moving spirit, and his loyal love and service were given to that church until his death.

Mr. Galloway was deeply interested in educational matters, and when he came to Columbus in 1844, as the secretary of state, that officer was also, ex officio, superintendent of schools, and he took hold of the interest of public schools with vigor and enthusiasm. The secretary of state who had preceded him had given three or four pages to that department, while Mr. Galloway gave to his first report twenty pages, to his second thirty-two and to his third fifty-six, all of which were full of facts gathered with the greatest industry and patience. Illiterate teachers and slipshod methods w^ere severely criticised and within ten years from the time Mr. Galloway began his agitation the public-school system of Ohio was revolutionized and the schools compared favorably with those of any other state.

Personally the character of Mr. Galloway was of a most admirable kind. He was a genial and agreeable companion, a kind neighbor, possessing generous impulses and true compassion, a loyal and self-denying helper of the church, a stout champion of the freedom of the slave and of the unity of the nation, and a great friend of the free school. His death, which occurred April 5, 1872, was mourned not only by his family but also by hosts of friends, and the state of Ohio suffered a loss that was irreparable.

A son of one of the renowned citizens of Columbus, Tod 13. Galloway entered a profession where family connection, inheritance or influence are of little or of no avail, for in the law success must depend upon individual effort and personal merit. His childhood' days were passed quietly in his native city, his time being largely spent in the public schools until he took up the more advanced studies in Amherst College, of Amherst, Massachusetts, where he was graduated with honors in the class of 1885. On his return to Columbus he began preparation for his life work as a student in the law office of the firm of Nash & Lentz, the senior partner. Judge Nash, being his preceptor. When he had become familiar with many of the fundamental principles of jurisprudence and had gained considerable knowledge of statutory law, he was admitted to the bar in 1888 and entered into partnership relations with the former firm, in whose office he had previously been a student. He .was thus associated until 1896, when he became the candidate for the office of probate judge of Franklin county, winning the election by a very gratifying majority, as he ran far ahead of his ticket, a fact which stand's in unmistakable evidence of the confidence reposed in him and of his personal popularity among the people amidst whom his entire life has been passed.

Political questions have always been of deep interest to Judge Galloway, and few men are better informed on the issues of the day than he. Since age won for him the right of franchise he has labored untiringly for the growth and success of his party, and in 1893 his fitness for leadership was recognized by his election to the office of chairman of the Republican county executive committee. Devoting all his time during that campaign to public work in the interest of the cause he espoused, it was due in a large measure to his earnest and well directed labors that every candidate on the ticket in the county was elected for the first time in the history of the party. In 1893-4 he served as an alderman of Columbus and gave his co-operation to every movement calculated to secure the advancement of the city along substantial lines of progress. He has been the president of the Buckeye Club and is connected with various public and charitable institutions. His administration of the office of judge of the probate court w^on him high commendation from his brethren at the bar as well as from the public. Future successes in the law and in politics may safely be predicted for him, as there is always opportunity for men of ability and discrimination to win advancement in every line.

In a brief sketch of any living citizen it is difficult to do him exact and impartial justice - not so much, however, from lack of space or words to set forth the familiar and passing events of his personal history as for want of the perfect and rounded conception of his whole life, which grows, develops and ripens, like fruit, to disclose its true and best flavor only when it is mellowed by time. Daily contact with the man so familiarizes us with his many virtues that we ordinarily overlook them and commonly underestimate their possessor. Nevertheless, while the man passes away his deeds of virtue live on and will in due time bear fruit and do him the justice which our pen fails to record.

One of the most distinguished representatives of the medical fraternity, Dr. Barnhill, has attained prominence not only by reason of his skill as a practitioner, but also on account of his marked ability as an educator in the department of medical science. He has carried his investigations far and wide into the realm of medical knowledge and he has led the w^ay into new and untried fields wherein his gleanings have proven of special benefit to mankind.

Dr. Barnhill was born October 22, 1853, on a farm near Wattsville, Carroll county, Ohio, and was the fifth child born unto Rev. Williamson and Catherine (Dennis) Barnhill. The blood of Scotch, Irish and English ancestors flows in his veins and many of the characteristics of those people are manifest in his character. His grandprents, Robert and Elizabeth (Carter) Barnhill, joined a company of brave pioneer people who left their homes in Baltimore, Maryland, and southern Pennsylvania to establish a settlement at what is now Bacon Ridge, Jefferson county, Ohio. This was two years before the admission of the state into the Union. Its lands \vere in their primitive condition, the forests uncut, the prairies uncultivated, and through the wooded avenues the Indians stalked in motley garb, having full dominion over the wild game then so plentiful. The Barnhills bore an active part in reclaiming their section of the state for purposes of civihzation, and the grandfather of onr subject was numbered among the loyal defenders of the nation in the war of 1812, thus following the example of his ancestor, James Hall, who was a hero of the Revolution. The maternal ancestor of -our subject was also represented in the war for independence by James and John Dennis.

The Doctor spent his boyhood days upon the home farm, learning many lessons from nature and at the same time mastering the elementary branches of English knowledge in the district school. Later he became a student in the Napoleon high school. His father died in 1868, when the son was fifteen years of age, and for two years he was thrown largely upon his own resources. The necessity for self-help early brought forth the elementary strength of his character, which developed and grew with the passing years and enabled him to press forward on the highway to prosperity where many another falters by the wayside. In his seventeenth year he was employed as a teacher in the Barnhil'l school, in his home district in Henry county, and he was afterward a teacher in the village school in Canaan, Wayne county, and the adjacent district school. The desire for learning led him to prepare for college in the Canaan Academy, under the direction of Professor Wirts Reese, A. B., and Rev. J. W. Cummins, A. ]M., of Wooster. In 1876 he was graduated at the National Normal University, atLebanon, and is a matriculate in the post-graduate course of the University of Wooster. For four years he was the superintendent of the Holgate public schools, resigning that position to enter medical college. He read medicine under the direction of J. J. Stees, ^l. D., of Holgate, a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, and was graduated in 1883 at the Columbus ^ledical College, since which time he has been engaged in the successful practice of his profession in this city. Two months after his graduation he was appointed assistant to the chair of materia medica in his alma mater, and his previous experience as a teacher well qualified him for the duties which therein devolved upon him. Three years later he was made adjunct professor of materia medica, therapeutics and toxicology; in 1891 he was appointed to the 'full professorship of the same chair and was made secretary of the faculty and physician to Mount Carmel Hospital. He has the ability to impart clearly, correctly and concisely to others the knowledge he has acquired, and is peculiarly successful m his educational labors. From 1892 to 1897 he was professor of mental and nervous diseases and clinical neurology, since which time he has filled the chair of obstetrics and clinical obstetrics in the Ohio Medical University. He was the secretary of the medical faculty from 1892 to 1897, and has been vice chancellor since that time. He is also surgeon to the Columbus Hospital for Women; obstetrician to the Protestant Hospital ; a member of the Academy of ]Medicine ; and also holds membership in the Central Ohio ]\Iedical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a valued contributor to various medical publications, is a member of the Columbus Publishing Company and editor of the Columbus Medical Journal. During the administration of President Harrison he served as one of the United States examining surgeons for pensions also as the secretary of the board and holds the same position under President McKinley.

Dr. Barnhill is a man of broad mind, of liberal culture and of humanitarian principles. He takes an active interest in public affairs, especially alongthe line of educational advancement. He served for two terms on the board of education and for one term was its president. He drafted the plan for the oro-anization of the normal school on its present successful basis; was active in securing a public-school library building; in establishing vital relations between the library and schools; and in adjusting the high school curriculum to college courses of study. The article which he prepared on the Columbus schools, embodied in Captain Lee's history of Columlxis, is a valuable contribution to the educational annals of Ohio.

On the 8th of October, 1879. Dr. Barnhill was united in marriage to ]\Iiss Bianca Jane Reese, a daughter of Rush and Matilda (Freeman) Reese, of \\'ooster. She was educated in the public schools and Canaan Academy and Oberlin College, and for three years was a teacher in the grammar grades of the Holgate schools. Two children grace the home of the Doctor and his wife - Eva Annetta and Helen Bianca. The parents are members of the First Congregational church of the city, and occupy an enviable position in social circles where true worth and intelligence are received as passports into good society.

At this point it would be almost tautological to enter inti3 any series of statements as showing the Doctor to be a man of broad intelligence and genuine public spirit, for these have been shadowed forth between the lines of this review. Strong in his individuality, he never lacks the courage of his convictions, but there are as dominating elements in this individuality a lively human sympathy and an abiding charity, which.as taken in connection with the sterling integrity and honor of his character, have naturally gained to him the respect and confidence of men.

The value of a life well spent is appreciated by a man who has lived it when he retires from an active career and considers the esteem in which he is held by his fellow men. The well known citizen of Westerville, Franklin county, Ohio, whose name is above, has no disappointment in this connection, for those who know best how he has attained success in life are enthusiastic in the belief that he richly deserves every good thing which he possesses.

Mr. Knox was born in Frederick county, IMaryland, May 7, 1 821, son of W'illiam Knox, a native of Leesbure, Vireinia. \Mlliam Knox's father died when he was a voung child, and his mother contracting a second mar- riage, the family moved from Leesbiirg to Maryland, where William was apprenticed to a' blacksmith and learned the trade. In early life he married Mary Gertrude Freidinger, a native of Maryland, who was ever prominent in the Methodist Episcopal church,' where her husband was for many years a class-leader. William Knox was an active Democrat, served long as a justice of the peace, and was always honored for his stanch principles. He was the proprietor of a hotel in Burkittsville, Frederick county, Maryland, until 1842, when he caught the migratory fever and started westward with his family. He located for some time in Circleville, Pickaway county, Ohio, then tried several towns in the northern part of the state, remaining but a short time in each place. He then journeyed farther westward, settling for some time in Illinois. He finally returned to Columbus, where he was engaged in farming until several years before his death, which occurred in his eightieth year. His wife also died in Columbus, in 1873.

William and Mary (Freidinger) Knox had eight children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest. All of these except one were born in Maryland. Two are dead - Alary, who was unmarried, and Rebecca, who was the wife of Isaac Ely and spent the greater part of her married life in Paris, Illinois. Joseph F. is a resident of Westerville, Ohio. William and Thomas have retired and are living in Columbus, Ohio. Lewis is a resident of Chicago, Illinois, and has also retired from active life. Harriet is the wife of Andrew Dobbie, a merchant of Columbus.

In his youth Mr. Knox, the subject of this sketch, learned the blacksmith trade, and after his marriage to Sarah Johnson, of Circleville, he moved to Tiffin, Ohio, wdiere he conducted a shop and engaged in various enterprises by which he accumulated some little capital. He soon turned his attention, as a contractor, to the construction of plank roads which terminated at Tiffin, Fremont, Fostoria and other smaller towns. For a time he lived at Fort Seneca and was engaged as a member of the Seneca Company in the manufacture of plow'S, a venture wdiich proved successful. At the latter place his wife died, at the early age of tw^enty-four, leaving- three children, of whom only one is living - Mary A., the wife of Andrew J. W^illoughby, principal in the public schools of Dayton, Ohio.

]\Ir. Knox built the first plank road in Franklin county, from Columbus north to the county line near Westerville. He moved to Westerville in 1852 and engaged in farming. Two years later he became manager of an extensive grist and sawmill. His career from that time until his retirement has been that of a general business man. He has several times established himself as a merchant, has bought and sold town property extensively, besides dealing on a considerable scale in wheat and live stock. For eighteen vears Mr. Knox was treasurer of the People's Mutual Benefit Association, whose offices at that time were- located in \\'esterville. He laid out two additions to the town, and was one of the builders of the first brick block there. For

Mr. Knox's second wife was Susan Berkey, of Seneca county, who died when about thirty-seven, leaving four children. Joseph J. is a lumber dealer of Westerville and Columbus. Letitia is the wife of Oscar Rowe, of Columbus. William Otterbein is engaged in farming near Westerville, and Frank E. is connected with railroading in Columbus. Mr. Knox's present wife was Miss Rebecca Shauck, of Morrow county, Ohio. Their only child, Nellie Shauck, is the wife of Professor Frank E. Miller, of Otterbein University.

In the institution just mentioned Mr. Knox has long taken a deep interest and has in many ways aided in its maintenance and advancement. At one time when Otterbein was crippled by enormous debt, he originated a plan to secure donations, which brought the institution eighty-five thousand dollars without any outlay to the college, and his own contributions were very liberal.

Politically Mr. Knox is a Democrat. He has filled the office of justice of the peace, has been a member of the city council, and was for some years a member of the school board. Since boyhood he'lias been identified with the church of the United Brethren in Christ, and for many years has been prominent in its work, having passed up to the general conference as lay delegate, besides holding many subordinate positions in the service of the church.

Going back to Mr. Knox's ancestors, a noticeable characteristic, both on the maternal and paternal sides, was the strong religious tendency. In the paternal line, Mr. Knox's grandfather, Thomas Knox, was a man of sterling principles and deep religious fervor. Descending from Scotch ancestors who fled from the mother country to the north of Ireland during the persecutions, his high moral character was the natural inheritance of a people suffering tribulations and hardships for the sake of peace and religion.

Thomas Knox was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, about 1770. and while yet a young man his noble character attracted the admiration of youthful Lady Letitia Parker, of the adjoining county, Antrim. Though her parents opposed the intimacy of the young people for reasons of a difference in station, true worth finally prevailed, and Thomas Knox won Lady Letitia for his bride. After their marriage they lived several years in Ireland, where Joseph was born. In 1796 they embarked for America, a daughter being born to them on the ocean. They settled in Leesburg, Virginia, where William (John Knox's father) was born and where Thomas died.

Going still farther back, on the maternal side, was Mr. Knox's greatgrandfather. Christian Kemp, who, with three brothers, John Conrad, Gilbert and Frederick (under sixteen), sailed froni_ Rotterdam for America in the iship "Samuel." August 27, 1733. They settled' in Frederick county. Maryland, where they and their sons became prominent in the political affairs of the colony and were founders of churches and Sunday schools. Some by thrift and industry, and others by land grants, became large landowners and established their estates.

Christian Kemp had eight children. Of these, the two youngest, Susannah and Esther, were bequeathed a plantation in Frederick county, where they resided together, their place being described in Maryland history (western) as "The Two Sisters." They, like their father, were devout church workers. Esther was married in 1796 to Nicholas Freidinger, a youth who had come to America from Germany two years previously. Nicholas and Esther (Kemp) Freidinger were the grandparents of John Knox.

And again, on the Freidinger side were deep religious inclinations. Nicholas Freidinger was born in 1769, in oberamt Zweibrucken, in Verkheim on the Briest, Germany, and came to America in 1794. Diplomas and papers of recommendation which he brought from Hamburg describe him as a man of pious nature and high moral character.

Such were the ancestors of John Knox, whose long, successful life has been the result of those only methods satisfactory to old age - honesty and piety.

John Cummins

The middle portion of the nineteenth century may properly be termed the age of utility, especially in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. The vast regions comprised within those portions of the country were but then opened up to civilization, and the honored pioneers who found homes in this fertile but undeveloped region were men who had to contend with the trials and difificulties of pioneer life. Theirs were lives of toil. They were endeavoring to make homes, to cultivate farms, to establish business enterprises, and often from early youth to old age their lot was one of labor; but their importance to the community cannot be overestimated, and the comforts and luxuries which we to-day enjoy we largely owe to the brave band of pioneer men and women who came to the west during its primitive condition. It is also encouraging and interesting to note that many who came here emptyhanded worked their way upward from a humble position in life to one of affluence ; that as the years passed and the country improved prosperity attended their efforts and wealth rewarded their earnest endeavors.

The Cumminses' were among those who became active in the development of Ohio, and the subject of this review is numbered among the worthy representatives of an honored pioneer family. He was born in Pickaway county on the old family homestead, December 14, 1828, and traces his ancestors back to the Emerald Isle, whence his great-grandfather, a native of Ireland, crossed the Atlantic to Virginia, there spending the remainder of his days. Wilham Cummins, the grandfather of our subject, when a youth came with his parents to America, the family taking up their abode in Virginia, and in the Old Dominion he remained throughout his life. William Cummins, the father, was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, and was reared on a farm, his educational privileges being very limited. He was married in his native state to Miss Mary Myers, a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, and in 1816 he came with his wife to Ohio, the trip westward constituting their bridal tour. The journey was made by wagon, and on reaching Pickaway county they first settled in Harrison township upon a tract of wild land of one hundred and forty acres. ]\Ir. Cummins then cleared a small portion and erected thereon a log cabin, after which he continued to work and improve his farm, becoming one of the enterprising agriculturists of that locality until his life's labors were ended in death. His wife also died in Pickaway county. In politics he was a Democrat, and both he and his wife were members of the United Brethren church. This worthy couple were the parents of eight children : Sydney, who died in Pickaway county ; Mary, the wife of J. ]\I. Spindler, of the same county; George F., of Columbus; William, of Franklin county; John, of this review; James, who died in Galloway; Frances INIarion, of Decatur county, Iowa; and Edward, who is living in Galloway, Ohio.

Amid the wild scenes of the frontier John Cummins was reared on a farm in Pickaway county and received his education in a log schoolhouse, his first teacher being Mr. Harper, who believed firmly in the old adage, "to spare the rod was to spoil the child." He entered heartily into ,the arduous task of developing the home farm, in grubbing up the stumps, splitting rails, plowing and planting, carrying on the work after the primitive manner of those days when improved machinery for the purpose was unknown.

In Pickaway county in 1853 Mr. Cummins was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ellen May, a daughter of Charles May. She was born in that county April 24, 1830, and as a bride was taken to the home of her husband's father, where the young couple remained for a year. Mr. Cummins then purchased a small tract of land at the edge of Madison township in Pickaway county, where they lived for a few years, after which he rented a farm in \\'alnut township for several years. In November_^ 1859- however, he came to Pleasant township. Franklin county, locating upon a farm now owned by his son, J. F. Cummins. It was then but little improved, and with characteristic energy he began the work of its further development. He first owned one hundred and thirty acres and afterward purchased forty acres adjoining the first tract on the west. Later he bought sixty-three acres of D. B. Peters and sold the forty-acre tract, and afterward he bought seventy-seven acres of Mr. Peters. By his' next purchase he became the owner of seventy-seven acres of his present farm, upon which he took up his abode, ultimately adding to it fourteen acres and eighteen acres at different times. He now has fine farming land, having, however, sold a portion of his realty, while to his son, J. F. Cummins, he gave seventy-two acres, to his son George Edward sixtythree acres and to his daughter, Mrs. Marv E. O'Harra, seventv-seven acres.

Four children blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Cummins, who are yet living, namely: James Francis, George Edward, Mary E., and John, the last named residing upon the farm with his parents. One daughter, Martha Alice, and two sons, William and Chester, have passed away. Mr. Cummins is strictly a self-made man, who owes all that he possesses to his own efforts and to the able assistance of his estimable wife. They are people of genuine worth, holding membership in the United Brethren church, of which Mr. Cummins has served as trustee for many years. In politics he is a stalwart Republican, has filled the offices of township trustee and treasurer and has been a member of the school board. To those at all familiar with his record it is; needless to say that his duties have ever been faithfully and promptly performed, for he is a man who in every relation of life has been found loyal and true to the trust reposed in him.

George K. Leonard

The work of an educator requires peculiar talent and ability. Many men are learned, but lack the power of imparting their knowledge to others. There are certain essential elements in the make-up of every successful instructor. These include a ready understanding of human nature, a deep sympathy with the individual, a comprehensive mastery of the subjects under discussion, and a clearness and readiness of expression not surpassed by the minister in the pulpit or the lawyer before the court. Well qualified in all these, Professor George Kasper Leonard occupies a position of distinction in connection with educational interests in Columbus, now occupying a chair in the Capital University of this city.

Professor Leonard was born in Augusta county, Virginia, February 20, 1847, ^"d his youth was passed upon a plantation. His father was John Leonard, his grandfather George Leonard. The latter was born in Switzerland and in colonial days crossed the Atlantic to the new world with his parents, the family locating in Berks county, Pennsylvania. He was only two years of age when the family came to the United States, and after the Revolution he removed to the Old Dominion. At the time of the Revolutionary war he responded to the call of the colonists to aid in the establishment of the American independence, and served under the immediate command of General Lee as a member of the Light Horse Regiment. After the war he married Susannah Wenrich and became the owner of a plantation in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1797, devoting his energies to agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred at the old home in 1837. His wife also died on the old Virginia plantation in 1849.

John Leonard, the father of our subject, was born in 1802 and was the ninth of a family of eleven children, seven sons and four daughters. About the year 1825 he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Harner, and, following in the business footsteps of his father, he became connected with agri- cultural interests, dying at the old home in the state of his nativity hi the year 1877. His widow died in Virginia in 1891, and with the exception of Professor Leonard all of the children are residing at or near the old home, which is located in the Shenandoah yalley, in that district made famous by the great battles of the Civil war. Of the children, Rebecca died in 1849, and "one son, William, died in infancy. The others are: Jacob H., John F., Martin Luther, David E., Susan F., George K., James M. and Mary E. Three of the sons were soldiers in the First Virginia Confederate Cavalry, and one served under John Mosby in the Civil war, while the subject of this sketch remained at home, the chief hand upon the farm, but was compelled to be a refugee three times. - 1 1 -

Professor Leonard, whose name introduces this record, acquired his earlv education in the country schools of Virginia, under the old system of education which prevailed in that state at the time. After the cessation of hostilities between the north and the south he spent about two years upon_ a farm in his native state, and in 1869 he went to Woodford county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming for three years. He afterward entered the State Normal University, where he continued his studies for four years in that institution. On the completion of his course he began teaching in Illinois, following that profession for two years, and in 1877 he came to Columbus.' Not content with the educational privileges he had already enjoyed, he entered the Capitol University and was graduated in 1880. Again he went to the west and taught school, but returned, at the beginning of 1883, to accept the chair which he now occupies and which he has held for the past seventeen years.

Professor Leonard was married in 1892 to ^liss Mary ^largaret Hanger, the wedding being celebrated at the home of the bride in Virginia, of which state she is a native. Three children grace this marriage : Florence Ethel, born October 26, 1893; John Paxton. born in 1895; and George Dana, born in 1897. Professor and Mrs. Leonard have a wide circle of friends in Columbus and occupy a very enviable position in a society where true worth and intelligence are received as passports.

William R. Hunter

The life record of William R. Hunter illustrates most forcibly what may be accomplished in this land of fair opportunity by those of determined purpose, laudable ambition and unflagging industry. He was born at West Jefferson, Ohio, on the 22d of February. 1848. and traces his ancestry back to Solomon Hunter, his great-grandfather. His son. John Hunter, became the grandfather of our subject. He was a lad of twelve years when he accompanied his parents on "their emigration to the United States. The family located in Pennsylvania, where Solomon Hunter died. In the Keystone state John Hunter was reared to manhood, spending his youth in the usual man- ner of farmer lads of that period. He was married, in Pennsylvania, to Miss Rebecca Russell and in 1816 they removed to Ohio, making the journey in wagons. Here the grandfather purchased one hundred acres of timber land from Lucas Sullivan, and of the tract only three acres had been cleared. In the midst of that little clearing a log cabin had been erected and it became the pioneer home of the family. He paid two dollars and a half per acre for his land and increased its value by cultivation and improvement. The sturdy strokes of his ax soon brought low the monarchs of the forest and waving fields of grain were seen where once stood the tall trees. He afterward purcliased a farm of two hundred acres; in Jefferson township, Madison county, on which he erected a brick house, making it his home until his death, which occurred in 1865, when he was eighty-five years of age. He had also erected a brick residence on his farm in Prairie township, Franklin county, and it stood until a few years ago, one of the old landmarks. It was built of what was called slop brick, mixed by oxen and burned by Mr. Hunter, for it was customary in those days for every man to burn his own brick. When the task was almost completed it was found that the supply of wood was exhausted and he therefore hauled rails from the fences in order to complete the burning. His first wife died on the home farm in Madison county and he afterward married again, but had no children by the second union. Those born of the first marriage w^ere as follows: Jame'S ; Park, who was born, in 1806 and died at the home of our subject in 1891, where he had resided for fourteen years prior to his demise; Mary, who became the wife of William Harper and died at her home in Fort Wayne, Indiana ; Russell, who was a government surveyor and died in Wisconsin; Jennie, who became the wife of John Hastings and they spent their last days in Larue, Ohio; a daughter, Matilda, who became the wife of John Plall and died in Prairie township; Betsey was the wife of William Chandler and they spent their last days in California; and Samuel Swan, who completed the family.

The last named was the father of our subject. He was born in the old log cabin on the Hunter farm in Prairie township February 12, 1820, and was reared amid the wild scenes of the frontier, experiencing all the hardships and trials which fall to the lot of early settlers. He pursued his education in a log schoolhouse and as a boy he manifested a special fondness for horses and delighted in horse racing. As he grew this trait developed and he became well known as a trader and dealer in horses. After leaving the country schools his father sent him to college with the hope of having him enter the ministry, but such a life did not prove attractive to him and he abandoned his preparation therefor. He continued dealing in horses and when about twenty-one years of age he went to the west, going to Wisconsin, where he joined his brother, who was a surveyor in that state, and also in northern Illinois, surveying a considerable portion of Chicago. In the early days he purchased much real estate there which afterward became extremely valuable, but the papers showing the real estate transfer were destroyed and he lost all that he had. Samuel Hunter remained with his brother for a short time and then went into the pine forests, where he engaged in cutting lumber and rafting it down the river to St. Louis. He became an expert raftsman and very miich enjoyed life in the wild woods. He possessed a vigorous constitution and great strength and could down almost any one in a wrestling match. After spending three years in the west he returned to his home hi Franklin county. He was a very popular man and one who was not afraid to stand up for his own convictions. He married Miss Ann Smith, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio when six years of age with her parents, John and Rebecca (Bell) Smith. They located in Prairie township and her father worked on the national pike. Later he removed to Iowa, where his last days were passed.

After his marriage Samuel S. Hunter took up his abode upon the old home farm of one hundred acres and as time passed he added to that another tract of three hundred acres. His land was operated by others while he devoted his attention to raising and dealing in fine stock, especially horses. Ultimately he removed to Paulding county, taking up his abode on a small farm, where he spent his remaining days in quiet retirement from the more arduous duties of life. In politics he was a stalwart Republican, but was never an aspirant for office. He died in Paulding county, in 1896, and was survived by his second wife. His first wife, the mother of our subject, died in October, 1875, on the home farm and was there buried. Their children were William R. ; Achilles, who died at the age of two years; Evans, a resident of Illinois ; Jennie, who died at the age of fourteen ; John, who is living in Oregon; Park, of Galloway; and Almira, the wife of Charles Fenner. of Galloway, Ohio.

William Russell Hunter was but an infant when his parents located upon the old homestead in Prairie township. He began his education in a little school at Rome, his first teacher being Ruth Ann Hamilton, and then continued his studies at intervals until eighteen years of age, his labors in the schoolroom being alternated by work upon the home farm. He remained at home until his marriage, which important event in his life occurred on the 6th of September, 1870, Miss Melissa Huddle becoming his wife. She was born in Madison township, Franklin county, October 15, 1850, and spent the greater part of her girlhood days in the village of Lockbourne, where she attended school, her first teacher being Mary Roberts ; and she is a daughter of John M. and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Huddle. Her father was born in Ross county, Ohio, and in Lockbourne,- Franklin county, was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Reynolds, whose father was Jacob Reynolds and whose mother bore the maiden name of Miss Gilman. He was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio at an early day in the development of this state. Mrs. Hunter's father died in Plain City, Ohio, January 3, 1896, and his wife passed away in 1884. His father had come to the Buckeye state from Vir-

After his marriage Mr. Hunter located upon the farm which is now his home. He spent one year in the old brick house and then built his present residence. He also had a road opened by his farm and it was worked and improved a year later. In 1882 he removed with his family to Nebraska and purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Clay county, continuing its cultivation for three years. Within that time he also became the owner of six hundred and forty acres of land in Keith county, Nebraska. In the fall of 1885 he returned to his farm in Prairie township, having sold his quarter-section farm, he still retaining the six hundred and forty acres. His time is given to the further development and cultivation of his land and therein he has won creditable success. In politics he is a Republican, but has never sought or desired office, preferring that his energies shall be devoted to his business.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Hunter have been born six children: William S., who was born May 30, 1872, is now a school teacher; Ira M., born September 2, 1874, married Lestia Spring and resides in Brown township; Annie E., born December 26, 1876. is the wife of Charles F. Althen, of Rome. Ohio; Elva R., born May 4, 1879, James Arthur, born September 20, 1881. and Alta lona, born January 3, 1886, are in school. The family is one well known in Prairie township and the members of the household occupy a leading position in the social circles of the community.

The biographical sketch which follows will be found interesting not alone because it details the leading facts in the career of a prominent citizen of Brown township. Franklin county, Ohio, but because it tells of pioneer days in that part of the country and recalls events of interest connected with the struggle for American independence and others connected with the history of our Civil war.

Alpheus Bigelow Moore was born at Galena. Ohio. August 26, 1830. and died at his ITome in Franklin county, Ohio, November 8, 1898. When he was nine years old his parents removed from Galena to Brown township, settling on the farm noAV owned by Frank Walker. The boy received a good common-school education and married Cynthia Ann White, a native of West Canaan township, Madison county, Ohio, born February 24, 1835, a daughter of William J. and Amelia (Marshall) White. William J. White, of Maryland nativity, came to Ohio when a young man and there married. He settled in Canaan township, Madison county, where he died and where the following children were born to them : Sarah Ellen married Isaac Fisher and died in Madison county, Ohio. Cynthia Ann married the subject of this sketch. William married Harriet Scribner and died in Union county, Ohio.

Joshua lives in Dakota, and Benjamin in Amity, Madison county, Ohio. EHza is Mrs. Stephen Warner, of Plain City, Ohio. Delilah died at the age of six years. William White, grandfather of Mrs. Moore, was born in Maryland, became a general in the continental army under General Washington, and died at Washington, D. C, leaving three children: William J., father of Mrs. Moore; Eliza and Maria. Mrs. Moore's grandfather in the maternal line was Joshua Marshall, who was born in Maryland, was a prosperous farmer, married Sarah Haig and died at Plain City, Ohio.

After his marriage Mr. Moore lived for sixteen years on the homestead of his family. He then bought fifty acres of land in Norwich township, where he farmed successfully until the end of his life. He saw three months' service in the Civil war as a private in the Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and during all his active life was a prominent and influential Republican. The following data concerning his children will be of much interest in this connection: His daughter Minnie is the widow of the late Daniel O. Roberts. Jane married Charles Ritchey, of Franklin township. W. M. P. Moore was born in Amity, West Canaan township, Madison county, Ohio, November ii, 1859, was educated in the district schools of Norwich township, Franklin county, and is now a successful traveling salesman. He married Mary Ann Kiser, who was born near Columbus, a daughter of Nicholas and Margaret (Miller) Kiser. He is the only Democrat in his family. Lenna, Mr. Moore's youngest daughter, married Stephen Ball, of Brown township,

Almon F. Coe

Among the successful agriculturists and highly^ esteemed citizens of Clinton township, Franklin county. Ohio, is the subject of this review, who was born upon his present farm July 22, 1839, and is the sixth and youngest child of Ransom and Elizabeth (Beers) Coe, a sketch of whom is given in connection with that of Alvin Coe elsewhere in this volume.

Almon F. Coe acquired a good practical education in the district schools, which he attended until his sixteenth year, and gained an excellent knowledge of agricultural pursuits upon the home farm. Being the youngest child he remained with his parents, and is now the owner of the old homestead, comprising one hundred and fifty-three acres, which is now under a high state of cultivation and improved with good and substantial buildings.

On the 19th of October, 1865. Mr. Coe led to the marriage altar Miss Elizabeth, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Hindell) Helser, of Brown township, this county, and by this union were born three children: Charles E., who resides on the home farm; and two who died in infancy. Charles E. was born June 11, 1869, married, June 11, 1898, Mabel E. Town, and has one son, born September 6, 1900, and named Almon Ransom. Mrs. Elizabeth Coe departed this life January 30, 1872.