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He also sold his stock of dry goods, and in 1850 removed to Camden, in Preble County, Ohio, where he again engaged in the mercantile business for several years, returning to Hamilton in 1856, and opening a real. estate office (the first of its kind in Hamilton). This has been his principal business from that time to the present. During this period he was engaged in the lumber and coal trade three years, and was also United States deputy collector of internal revenue in Butler County for three years, commencing in October, 1862. His business and fortune have been somewhat varied. They were generally prosperous, but the change in times caused a large shrinkage in the value of real estate for a number of years, commencing soon after the year 1870, and continuing up to near 1880, and this very materially changed his financial condition.

He has had five children, two by the first marriage and three by the second. Only one of each survives. As to the children of the first, Anna E., the eldest, remains at home with him; Laura died at the age of twenty-three years. As to the children of the present Mrs. Potter, Frank, her first child, died at the age of three years ; her next, Mary P., died in May, 1881, at the age of thirty-two years; and Ellis M., the youngest, is engaged in mercantile business in Cincinnati. Mary P. was the wife of John N. Wyman. He died in Topeka, Kansas, in June, 1879, where they had been living, and she died at the home of her parents, in Hamilton. They were both highly respected and their death greatly lamented by a large circle of relatives and friends.

Joshua B. Emerson was born March 28, 1782, in Vermont, and died September 30, 1863. He married Mary Burnham (widow of Samuel Phillips) born August 14, 1798, in Hartford, Connecticut. She died January 5, 1879. They had five children, of whom two are living. Anna Eliza was born September 4, 1829, in Fairfield Township, and is the wife of Andrew McCormick; Harriet was born November 6, 1839, and is single. The two who died were Mary, who was born November 14, 1832, and died September 28, 1844, and Frances A., born June 22, 1835, who died February 5, 1867. Mr. Emerson came to Fairfield Township in 1830 with his father.

John J. Longfellow was born in Butler County in 1827, and was married in 1850, to Harriet Moudy, born in 1828, in Hamilton County. They have had one child, Othias M. Longfellow.

Stephen H. Elkins was born in Frederick County, Virginia, about 1781, and died about 1846, in Montgomery County, Indiana. He married Abigail Catterlin, born in New Jersey, about 1763, who died about 1850, and had nine children, seven of whom grew to maturity, and two of whom are living. Reuben was born April 28, 1808, and is married, and living at Symmes's Corners; Joseph was born October 7, 1814, and is married, living in Fairfield Township. Mr. Elkins came to Ohio in 1805, and settled in Fairfield Township. He had no capital when he came, and worked on a farm. He was drafted for the War of 1812, but was only out a few days, under Colonel Sigleson. He was discharged at Middletown. He was a member of the Baptist Church. His grandfather on his mother's side, Joseph Catterlin, was a captain in the Revolutionary War.

Moore P. Vinnedge, an old and respected resident of Fairfield Township, was born there in 1807. His parents were John Vinnedge and Rosanna Moore. The former was engaged in the Indian wars of the Northwest, and was married in this neighborhood, which was then a portion of Hamilton County. He settled on the Van Cleaf place, where he lived for over fifty years. His son, Moore P. Vinnedge, was married in June, 1833, to Nancy Kirk, and had by her ten children, eight of whom are still living, five daughters and three sons. He resided upon one farm for forty-seven years, dying September 22, 1882. He was at the time of his death the oldest native resident of the township.

'5. B. Deam, of Collinsville, was born in Jackson Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, September t, 1845. He is the son of Charles Deam, a native of Philadelphia, and Nancy Bachman, of Berks County, Pennsylvania, and both of German descent. He attended the district schools of Jackson Township and the Lebanon Normal School, in Warren County. He was a teacher in the public schools of Mud Lick, Butlerville, Socialville, Westchester, and Wakefield, in the period between 1865 and 1874. In the Winters of 1874 and 1875 he traveled through the States of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky. From 1876 to 1882 he taught school in Milford Township, with great success. He has been a justice of the peace from April, 1880, to April, 1882. He is now the freight and ticket agent of the Cincinnati, Richmond, and Chicago Railroad at Collinsville. He was married on the 12th of November, 1874, to Edna J. Patchell, daughter of James Patchell, of Union Township. They have three children - Ona, Howard, and Warren.

Louis B. Delacourt, editor and proprietor of the National Zeitung, and son of Charles A. W. and Seraphine (Haacke) Delacourt, was born at Colmar, France, January 25, 1830. He is of mixed German and French descent. The family of Delacourt, or, to follow the original orthography, de la Cour, is one of ancient French pedigree, and being royalists in politics, its members fled across the Rhine on the breaking out of the French revolution, and found safety in one of the German states till that terrible epoch was concluded by the triumphs ot Napoleon the First. The parents of Mr. Delacourt removed to Magdeburg, Saxony, the year following his birth, and he received his education at the renowned polytechnic school of that city, graduating from the department of engineering in 1846.

At the age of seventeen Mr. Delacourt came to New York and devoted one year to acquiring a perfect knowledge of the English language, after which he engaged in the tobacco trade, dealing principally in imported cigars. In 1850 he removed to Charleston, South Carolina, where he remained five years in the same line of trade as in New York, and during the last year of his residence occupied the editorial chair of the Charleston Zeitung, the first German paper established in the State.

Leaving Charleston in 1855 he engaged in the dry goods trade at New Orleans till the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861, when he went to Havana, and remained a year, coming in the Fall of 1862 to Hamilton, where he soon afterwards established the National Zeitung. A man of nervous temperament and quick perceptions, with varied experience and an education that gave him perfect command of three languages, Mr. Delacourt was not long in making his paper a power in the community, Being also a good public speaker, he came frequently before the people in the political campaigns, and soon had acquired an acquaintance and an influence second to no country editor in the State. His paper, reaching a large class of native Germans in Butler County and the valley of the Miami who can not read English,-has the advantage of appealing to them in their native tongue, and as an organ of the Democratic party has an influ- ence that is very pronounced. Mr. Delacourt has been a member of the school board for the city of Hamilton for nearly ten consecutive years, and has been instrumental in elevating the tone of the public instruction, and ingrafting some of the most useful features of the German system.

In 1852 Mr. Delacourt was married to Emily Heintz, then of Charleston, South Carolina, but a native of Zweibriicken, Bavaria, in which state her brother, Philip Heintz, a criminal lawyer of great renown, was a member of the landtag. Mr. Delacourt has had five children, only three of whom survive, two sons and a daughter: William C. A., Louise Henrietta (now wife of Louis Sohngen, Jr.), and Edward H. Delacourt.

Mrs. Hannah Davies was born in Virginia, March 31, 1806 or 1807, and was the daughter of Joseph and Rachel (Dunham) Kyle. With her parents she came to Ohio in 1809, settling in Eaton, where her father taught school, arriving at Hamilton in 1810. Mrs. Davies was educated at home, in Hamilton, and there remained until her marriage in 1830 to David Ott. He died in 1831. He was a successful business man, and was engaged in

Mrs. Ott remained a widow for twelve years, but in 1842 was married to Evan Davies, a native of Wales, and a school-teacher by calling. He also conducted a farm. He taught in the city schools, was county examiner of schools, and principal of schools in the First Ward. He was a successful educator, and was justice of the peace for some time, but resigned the position. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church, and also of the Masonic order. Mr. Davies was the father of one son, David W., now a resident of the State of Texas. He died in 1869, in the sixty-ninth year of

~ his age. Mrs. Davies has continued to live in Hamilton. She has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1836, and is a genial and pleasant lady.

Daniel Dunwoody was born in Hanover Township, May 20, 1836, and is the son of Joseph Dunwoody and Sarah Johnson. The father was from Pennsylvania. Daniel attended school and worked on the farm until he attained the age of twenty, when he began learning the carpenter's trade. This has since been his occupation, with the exception of a year in the drug business, and one year in the hardware trade. For the last six years he has been on the police force in the city of Hamilton. He was married at Hamilton, on the 18th of N ovember, 1869, to Clara Ann Lovell, daughter of the Rev. Charles R. Lovell, and Mrs. Harriet V. Lovell, whose maiden name was Pilcher. She was born at Somerset, Hamilton PoHnty, November 10, 1840. They have four children. Charles L. was born August 8, 1870, and died March 9, 1851. Elmer R. was born May 17, 1873; Bessie E., December 28, 1875, and Carl L., January 31, 1878.

woody, were in the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, and one brotherin-law, Isaac L. Fisher, was a member of the Thirty-fifth Regiment. The following is a record of the family: Joseph Dunwoody was born November 1, 1791; Mrs. Dunwoody, October 26, 1800, dying in 1875; Eliza, a half-sister, was born March 1, 1816; Joseph, a halfbrother, May 22, 1817; Nancy, September 23, 1819; Lavinia, September 7, 1821; David, December 23, 1825; Eli, April 2, 1826; Loammi R., July 8, 1829; Robert, October 2, 1833; Daniel, May 20, 1836; and Samuel, August 11, 1839. Those that are living are David, Nancy, Loammi, and Daniel.

John Dillon was born in Trenton, Madison Township, February 14, 1833. He is the son of Samuel Dillon and Eliza Schavier, both now being dead. His parents came to this county at an early day. His grandfather, Samuel Dillon, was the first coroner ever appointed in Butler County. John Dillon was married August 7, 1856, to Martha Jane Hull, daughter of Samuel and Susanna Hull, who are both dead. They came to this county in 1819. Mrs. Dillon was born May 14, 1854. They have had five children. Eliza E. Millspaugh was born June 28, 1857; Mary E., May 27, 1859; Lewis A., April 4, 1866; Martha Jane, December 12, 1864; and Flora May, May 2, 1869. Martha Jane died January 27, 1868.

One of Mr. Dillon's brothers, Samuel P., was in the late war. He was a member of Company D, Thirty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was wounded at Chickasaw Bluff, in the right hand. He now drawsa pension. He is a resident of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and is a minister of the Gospel of the Presbyterian denomination. Mr. Charles Dillon was originally a farmer, but has been a tile manufacturer for the last fourteen years, in which he has excellent facilities. He usually manufactures about one hundred and twenty-five thousand per year, finding ready sale for all he can make.

Mrs. Eve Davis was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1804, and is the daughter of Adam and Mary Miller. She had limited opportunities for education, and came to Ohio with her parents in September, 1816, settling on a place some three miles from Hamilton, on the Springdale Pike. Adam Miller was He reared a family of eleven children, of whom but three survive, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Thompson, and Mrs. Catherine Duke. He died August 27, 1819. Mrs. Miller lived until 1862, and was then in her eightyseventh year. Eve Miller was married February 11, 1844, to James Davis, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1798, and came to Ohio at an early day. He was a farmer by occupation, and owned a farm on the Middletown Pike, living there the remainder of his life. He was an active member of the Methodist Church. He died July 19, 1850. Mrs. Davis continued to live on the farm for six years, when she sold the place, and purchased another near Somerville. She was there four years, and then bought a farm near her old home on the

Springdale Pike. She was engaged in farming all these years, and in 1866 came to Hamilton, where she has since lived. She has built and sold four houses since coming to this place, and is now erecting a handsome residence on Second Street, which she intends to occupy. She has been a member of the Baptist Church since 1832. ; bas,

Godfrey Doeller, druggist, was born in Cincinnati in 1851. He is the son of August and Mary V. Doeller, natives of Germany. The father was out with the three months' men.

Vincent D. Cohee, son of Vincent D. Cohee and Rebecca Moore, was born near Hamilton, February 15, 1825. Mr. Cohee, Sen., was born January 8, 1781, in the State of Delaware, and removed here in 1811. Mrs. Cohee was born May 14, 1786. He died in 1868, and she about 1854. They reared a family of ten children, six of whom are still living. Mr. Cohee was in the War of 1812, and the muster roll of his company is still preserved in the family, as also a government note calling for four hundred dollars. It is now (1881) just one hundred years old, having been issued in WSi, «The present Mr. Cohee has been a resident of Butler County for over fifty-five years, following farming until eighteen years of age, and since then being a carpenter and cabinet-maker. The remainder of his family now reside in the State of Indiana, excepting one sister, the widow of the late Charles Sprague, who lives with him in Hamilton.

James Daugherty was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, near Martinsburg, on September 14, 1814. He came with his parents to Ohio in 1817, and settled in Deerfield Township, Warren County, in 1817. He received his education in the common schools, and was brought up to farming until he learned the cooper's trade. In 1839 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Zina Doty, a former well-known resident of Butler County. She was born in this county in 1817. Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty are the parents of eight children, of whom six are living. Aquila J. was formerly a well-known newspaper man. He was connected with the Cincinnati Knqurer and Gazette, and was with the Louisville Cowrier- Journal four years. He is now general western agent of the Erie and North Shore Railroad, at Keokuk, Iowa. He is a graduate of Miami University. Lissa is now assistant teacher in the high school in Hamilton, and has been engaged in that calling since 1861. In that time she has hever lost but one week, which was when her mother died. Sallie V. and Jennie E. are at home. James N. is a resident of the State of Illinois. Annie B. is a music teacher by profession. Mrs. Daugherty died December 10, 1871. . Mr. Daugherty came to Hamilton in 1847, conducting the coopering business for some years, and employing fifteen or sixteen hands. He was elected a justice of the peace in 1851, holding that position for seven years. He was mayor in 1852, being re-elected for three terms. In 1857 he was elected auditor of Butler County. He represented his ward in the school board in 1858, and was active in educational matters. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

John Decher was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, in Germany, May 20, 1835, and is a younger son of Yost and Elizabeth Decher. He was instructed in the public schools in Germany, and when fifteen began an apprenticeship at the trade of shoemaking, but while doing so, on the 4th of July, 1852, he came to America. He worked in Buffalo, and also in Canada, as a journeyman. In 1857 Mr. Decher came to Hamilton, where he located, and was employed here by Isaac Whistler, till September 13, 1861, when he enlisted in the Seventeenth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, being in the battles of Pea Ridge, Vicksburg, Arkansas Post, Yazoo Pass, and at the siege of Vicksburg. After the surrender of Vicksburg, he was attacked with typhoid fever, and was an inmate of the hospital for eight months. Upon recovering he was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, and was on duty in Virginia for a short time, being then transferred to Elmira, New York, acting as a guard until the conclusion of his term of service, December 18, 1864.

He resumed his former situation with Mr. Whistler, and upon the death of the latter, in 1867 or 1868, he began business for himsélf, at which he has since continued. He is now.at 112 Third Street, where he does a good business in custom work, besides having a well assorted stock on hand of ready-made goods. He was married in 1859, to Miss Kate Vinson, and is the father of seven children. Frederick R. is a shoemaker by trade, and a resident of Kansas. Carrie is the wife of Sidney Snider. George A. is a machinist, and the others are Lizzie, John, Lulu, and Sophia. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and also of the Temple of Honor, and in politics is a Republican.

The Rev. Truman 8. Cowden was born in Gustavus, Trumbull. County, May 11, 1827. He is the son of James D, and Diantha C. (Ostrander) Cowden. He attended the common schools of the neighborhood till 1839, when the family removed to Gallipolis. He went to school there for some four years, graduating in 1845 or 1846. His youth was passed in acquiring an education, and he had decided to adopt the medical profession, but, while reading medicine, he received a license as an exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal Church. This had been entirely unknown and unexpected to him. Three months later he received a license to preach, and a recommendation to conference as a suitable person to preach the Gospel. The presiding elder of the district, Mr. Free, with much persuasion finally prevailed on Mr. Cowden to do so. His first work was as an assistant preacher on Jackson Circuit, upon which he had twenty-four ap-

He entered the Cincinnati Conference in 1852, since which he has labored three years as pastor at Asbury Chapel, Cincinnati; three years at Troy, Ohio, and the same time at Hillsboro. At the request of Grace Church, Newport, he was transferred to the Kentucky Conference, and spent three years at Grace Church. Returning to the Cincinnati Conference, he was then three years at Eaton, coming to Hamilton in the Fall of 1880. Since his arrival here the Methodist Church has shown a material increase in membership, and the two years have been full of spiritual and financial success.

Mr. Cowden was married in 1851 to Miss Romain Rathburn, daughter of Dr. Rathburn, a former wellknown physician of Jackson Court-house. They are the parents of four children, three of whom, daughters, are living. Their eldest child, Edgar H., died in 1877, in his twenty-first year. Mr. Cowden is a member of the Masonic order. While these sheets were passing through the press, Mr. Cowden was made a presiding elder, and has entered upon his duties.

July 16, 1833, being the son of Abraham and Abigail (Phillips) Compton, the former of whom is still living on the farm where he settled in the woods, in Springfield, Hamilton County. He is now in his eighty-first year. He raised a family of five daughters and five sons, of whom three daughters and three sons survive. Alfred was educated in the common schools in that township, and was brought up to farming until he was sixteen, when he began an apprenticeship of three years at the trade of carpenter, in Hamilton. Upon the completion of his term he worked as a journeyman. In 1853 he went to Iowa, where he carried on building and contracting for some three years. In 1854 he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Jane Luckey. They are parents of seven children, of whom four are living - Lester K., Thomas L., John A., and Francis M. Mr. Compton and family are members of the Christian Church. After marriage he remained in Iowa until returning to Ohio in 1863, when he located _at Symmes's Corner. He came to Hamilton in 1872, and organized the firm of Compton & Brother, builders and contractors. That continued till 1875, when he began the lumber business on the corner of Second and Sycamore Streets.

David D. Conover was born in Dayton, Ohio, November 1, 1818, and is the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Deardorff) Conover. The father was a native of New- Brunswick, New Jersey, and came to Ohio in 1802. He first settled in what is now Lemon Township, two miles south of Middletown, afterward removing to Dayton, where he married and remained till 1822. Returning to Butler County, he located at Monroe, where he spent, the remainder of his days. He was engaged in mercantile business, in which he was successful, and reared a family of five children, of whom three survive. Thomas J.

David D. Conover went to the common schools, but improved his education in later years. When sixteen he was thrown upon his own resources, and began an apprenticeship of four years at wagon-making. Upon completing his term, in 1839, he married Mary, daughter of Dr. Daniel Millikin. To this marriage were born two children, of whom one survives, Marietta, wife of Joseph Rodefer, of Hamilton. Mrs. Conover died in August, 1844. After marriage he removed to Hamilton, and in 1840 engaged in wagon-making. He continued in that till 1846, when he confined his attention to spring carriages, at which he remained until 1852. He was then in the grocery trade, on High Street, some two years, and was also in the livery business for two years. He was in Rock Island, Illinois, in the saw manufacture, until 1859. He was then appointed general agent of the Butler County Insurance Company, and on the outbreak of the Rebellion became the commissary for supplying the recruits with provisions. Afterward he was with Job E. Owens, engaged in the purchase of forage for the government and supply of the camp in Hamilton, till the close of the war. He has been engaged in raising broom-corn, and also devotes attention to collections and

In 1847 he was married to Mary Easton, and had by her three children. Ellen is the wife of John Goodman, and Lizzie is the wife of William Long, and is a resident of Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Conover died in 18538, and in 1866 he was married to Miss Mary Corriell, his present wife. He was appointed deputy United States marshall in 1861, and held the place until his resignation about 1867. He was reappointed in 1878, and is still filling that position. He and his wife are members of the Baptist Church. He has been a member of the Odd Fellows since 1850.

Charles M. Campbell, editor and proprietor of the Daily News and of the Hamilton Telegraph, was born in Middletown, Guernsey County, Ohio, January 1, 1852. He is the son of Dr. James Campbell, an eminent physician, who enjoyed a large practice, and Susan Brown. His father died in 1852, and his mother in 1882. ©. M. Campbell was educated in the common schools in his native place, and afterwards went to Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and to the University of Wooster, in Ohio. He learned the trade of a printer, and was engaged as a partner in the publication of the Cambridge (Ohio) News, and the Washington (Pennsylvania) Observer.

C., representing a St. Louis daily. In December, 1879, he purchased the Hamilton Telegraph, and on the 22d of the same month began issuing the Hamilton Daily News, which has been a great success, and at this writing issues about two thousand copies a day. Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Pauline Straub, in Hamilton, on the 2d

" Jonathan Crowley was born in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, about seven miles from Pittsburg, April 26, 1812. His parents were Jeremiah and Johanna (Thomas) Crowley. They were both natives of Pennsylvania and of Irish extraction. When J onathan was three years old the family removed to Pittsburg, where he attended school. In 1827 he removed to Cincinnatl, and began learning the cabinet business. Two years later his father died, and six years subsequent to his death his mother also departed this life. Mr. Crowley remained in Cincinnati until the Fall of 1881, when he went to St. Louis, returning in 1832, during the cholera year. He remained in that city until July, 1833, when he removed to Milford Township, in this county.

In 1838 he purchased the establishment owned by his employer, and in connection with cabinet-making made undertaking a special feature. In 1865 he sold his property and came to this city. He has followed undertaking all this time, forty-eight years. He became a member of the Presbyterian Church in 1832, and for twenty years, while living in Union Township, was a ruling elder. He is a member of the Blue Lodge of Masons, and has taken all the subordinate degrees in the Odd Fellows. He was married July 3, 1834, to Miss Marilla Perry, who was born in Somerville, and was the daughter of Daniel Perry. Thirteen children have been born to them, eight of whom survive. Lorella is the wife of Martin Seward; Emma is married to George W. Dye; and Ella is the wife of Abram Allen; Marietta, Clara A., Laura, George T., and Charles L. are still unmarried, and live at home.

George Hoffman, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1813, was married in 1841, in Pennsylvania, to Mary Barbara Dingfelder, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1819. He had nine children, of whom six are living. Elizabeth is the wife of George Hack; George L. is married, Barbara is the wife of Joseph Malson, and the others are Louisa, Mary A., and Anna E. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1837, and his wife came in 1840. Both settled in Pennsylvania, where they were married in Pittsburg, and eame to Ohio in 1843, settling in Fairfield Township. He purchased one hundred acres from John Lindover, and went to farming, which he has followed ever since. At present he owns three hundred acres and farms about one hundred, renting the rest. One of his: sons was drafted in the late war and sent a substitute. He and his wife are members of the German Lutheran Church. Abraham Huston was born in Greene County, Ohio, in 1804, and was married the first time in 1829 to Elizabeth Hall, born in Butler County in 1810, who died in 1845, leaving six children.

Thomas K. Vinnedge; Sarah Jane is at home; William H. is married, and lives in Champaign County; Susan E. is at home; David B. is married; Luther P. is married and lives in Hamilton. He married in 1854 the second time. His wife was Jane Bell, widow of James Smith, born in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1828. They have five children: Abraham H., Maggie B., Edwin M., and Cora I. Mr. Huston came to Butler County in 1832 and settled in Fairfield Township, on the William Hull farm. His mother's uncle, James Flynn, had command of a company of rangers in the War of 1812, and two of his brothers, Abraham and James Barnet, were also in the War of 1812. His son, Luther P., was in the late war, in the Sixty-ninth Regiment. He enlisted in 1861, and was discharged at Nashville on account of sickness. He afterwards re-enlisted for a hundred days. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and is an elder. Mrs. Huston had by her first marriage two children, James E. Smith and Mrs. Jones.

David Shepherd was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey, September 25, 1802, and died October 12, 1876, in Union Township. He was married in Monmeuth County, New Jersey, in 1835, to Elizabeth Ely, daughter of William Ely and Rebecca (Baird) Ely, who was porn in Monmouth County, July 28, 1810. They had four children. James was born September 7, 1836, in Monmouth County, and is married, living in Liberty Township; William KE. was born Decembér 29, 1838; Mary Ellen, who was born May 1, 1844, died when an infant; and Charles H. was born July 16, 1846. Mr. Shepherd came to Ohio in 1830 overland from New Jersey, bringing his sister and her husband, and his own wife and one child, in a wagon, occupying a month on the trip. He settled in Liberty Township, where he remained a month with his brother Peter, then moving to Union, and purchasing fifty acres, which was his first start. He increased his land until he finally owned six hundred and fifty-six acres, and considerable personal property. His son James was brought here when two years old. He married, June 20, 1867, Laura Ellen Brown, daughter of Nicholas Brown and Mary Ann Waller. She was born April 16, 1845, in Liberty Township. They have one child, Cora, born August 25, 1868. Mr. Shepherd has been a school director in Union Township. He owns and farms one hundred and twenty acres in Liberty, and also has eighty acres in Union, which he rents out. -

Alexander Getz, the county recorder, was born on the ship Havre, at sea, December 21, 1846. He is the son of January Getz, an influential citizen of this town, who was born in Baden, Germany, and Rosina Getz, from the same place. The mother died October 16, 1881. The son received his education at St. Stephen's Catholic School, in Hamilton, and became a clerk in a dry goods and grocery store, at the age of fourteen. He went into business for himself at the age of nineteen, at which he remained for eight years. He then sold out, and again became a salesman. He was elected recorder in October, 1878, and was re-elected in 1881. He is a member of the St. Antonius Orphan Society, the St. Paul Benevyolent Society, and the Catholic Knights of America, Branch 106. He is a Democrat in politics, and is a member of St. Stephen's Catholic Church. He was married April 18, 1869. His wife's name was Catherine Beck. She was the daughter of Charles Beck, Sen. Mr. and Mrs. Getz have had five children - Charles Alexander, January John, Lorenz Jacob, Catherine Theresa, and Henry Edward.

William S. Giffen was born in Hamilton, April 8, 1851, and is the son of Stephen E. and Rachel (Crane) Giffen. He attended the public schools in this city, and graduated in 1867, when he entered the Miami University. He remained there for four years, and was graduated in 1871. He read law in the office of James E. Campbell for two years, during which period he was a student at the Cincinnati Law School. He graduated there in 1880, and was admitted to the bar the same year, immediately beginning the practice of law in Hamilton.

Jacob Galloway, one of the old residents of the west side of town, is the son of Enoch Galloway and Rachel Morris, who came to this county in 1807. He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, on the 2d of October, 1800. His father served in the War of 1812, as did also his brother William. At an early day Mr. Galloway learned the trade of blacksmith and gunsmith, and followed this trade from 1815 to 1830, when he purchased a farm, since having been a farmer. He was married, December 30, 1824, in Hanover Township, to Sarah Brosius, daughter of George Daniel Brosius

~and Elizabeth Yager, who was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1804. They had nine children. Preston R. was born December 29, 1825; Daniel, on the 21st of May, 1827; Jackson, November 15, 1828; William, March 7, 1831; John, December 11, 1882; Elizabeth, March 7, 1836; Henry, March 23, 1838; Catherine, April 2, 1840; and Wilson S., December 21, 1842. Jackson died May 11, 1875; William, September 10, 1841; Henry, June 30, 1841; and Wilson S., February 21, 1877. The oldest son, Preston R., was a captain in the late war. Mr. Galloway has seven greatgrandchildren.

John Gilmore was born in Springdale; Hamilton County, February 17, 1833. His parents were W. S. and Jane (Braden) Gilmore. He came to Butler County with his parents about 1840, and completed his education in Fairfield Township. He was at home till his marriage; November 5, 18538, to Jennie H., daughter of James Hardin. They are the parents of seven children, of whom six are living, four daughters and two sons. They are as follows: Anna, Ida, Clifford, Charles W., Estella, and Nellie. Clifford is a resident of Iowa, engaged in cabinet making and undertaking, and Charles W. is a clerk in Captain Travis's grocery. After marriage he conducted a farm in Fairfield Township some years, engaging in the nursery and fruit business in a successful manner. He came to Hamilton soon after, and has been settled here ever since, with the exception of one year, when he resided in Indiana. He deals extensively in real estate, buying, selling, and exchanging farms and city property. He now owns several farms. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since his marriage. He is a stockholder in the Hamilton and Tylersville Pike, of which he was treasurer for many years, and owning onethird of the stock. His second dauzhter, Ida, has been a teacher in the schools of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mr. Gilmore resides on Ludlow Street, adjoining the Methodist Episcopal parsonage, where he has a pleasant home. He has had the advantages of foreign travel, as he has made a trip to the Old World, and seen many strange things in Paris and Edinburgh. He went across the ocean with Elbert Marshall, and on returning, took charge of his father's business. On his way over he made the acquaintance of a genial Scotchman, James Brown, who bought some property at his suggestion.

Frank Hammerle was born in Bavaria, on Good Friday, 1838, being the son of Johannes and Elizabeth Hammerle, who both died in Germany. Frank came to this county in 1862, and was married October 15, 1863, to Kathrina Meyer, daughter of Henry Michael and Eva Meyer, who came to this county about 1836. She was born in Hamilton, October 7, 1842. They have had four children. Henry was born December 25, 1865; Frank, in 1868; Louisa, in April, 1874; and Fred, in September, 1878. Mr. Hammerle was township trustee from 1872 to 1876, in St. Clair Township, and has been a member of the board of education since 1878, and the treasurer since 1880. He is a gunsmith by trade. Besides his town lots, he owns a farm in Morgan Township.

William R. Eiber was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, February 28, 1852, and was educated in the common schools. When fourteen he began an apprenticeship at shoemaking, in Cleveland, where he worked as a journeyman some ten or twelve years, and came to Hamilton November 25, 1872. Here he worked for John Weidenborner some five years, but in the Spring of 1878 organized the Miami Boot and Shoe Manufacturing Company, composed of Mr. Eiber, W. H. Hurm, and Henry Breide. It now employs from twenty-five to thirty hands, making ladies' fine work a specialty. Mr. Eiber was married, in 1874, to Miss L. Janser, and is the father of one daughter and one son, Hattie and Charles H. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Odd Fellows.

Tra Rensselaer Edwards, of Jones's Station, was born in Warren County, October 17, 1820. His parents were Uzel Edwards and Mary Crane, the former of whom died January 13, 1832, and the latter January 14, 1874.

They came to this county in May, 1805, from New Jersey. He was married May 30, 1847, near Princeton, to Margaret Davison, daughter of George Davison and Elizabeth Beadle. Mr. Davison died in December, 1858, and his wife in March, 1850. They came to this county in March, 1841, from Warren County. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards have three children. Floretta was born July 13, 1848; Mary E. Kirk, February 1, 1859; and Phebe Jane, March 26, 1861. Mr. Edwards has been a member of the board of education for about twenty years; two years he was township clerk ; and two years township treasurer. His grandfather, Moses Edwards, was in the Revolutionary War.

Michael F. Eisle was born in the year 1808, and came to this county in the year 1839. He was the son of George and Mary Hisle. He was married to Mary Brook in the year 1838. She was the daughter of Henry Brook, and had one son, Charles Y. Hisle. The son was drafted into the army, but procured a substitute on account of pressure of business. Mr. Hisle has been a contractor and builder. '

Granville M. Flenner was born in Liberty Township, June 29, 1843. He is the son of John Flenner and Mary Jane Peake, who were natives of this county. He was married on the 29th of November, 1865, in Hamilton, to Anna P. Rust, who was born June 10, 1844, at West Cornwall, Vermont, and who was the daughter of Horatio S. Rust and Caroline D. Long, of Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Flenner have had five children - Edith M., John R., Granville M., Carrie, and Merle D'A. Mr. Flenner is now in the ice business, but was for eighteen years engaged in hardware. He and his wife are members of-the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was superintendent of its Sunday-school for seven years. He was out in the Ninety-third Ohio in the war, for two years and a half. He was wounded at Chickamauga, and was in the battles of Stone River, Liberty Gap, and Asheville.

William Christian Freehtling was born in Hanover, Germany, May 19, 1837. He came to this county in 1855, His parents were Christian and Dorothea (Gahre) Frechtling. He was married August 12, 1865, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Mary M. Freis, daughter of Louis Freis and Margaret Freis. They have four children. Cora was born in 1870, Edward in 18738, Camilla in 1875, and Wilhelm in 1878. Mr. Frechtling went into business in May, 1858, on the north-east corner of High and Second Streets, where he still continues. The beginning was in one room, sixty by twenty, but the business has been enlarged from time to time, until now two rooms, fronting on High Street, are occupied. One, twenty by eighty, is for dry goods, and one, twenty by ninety-two, is for groceries. There is also an L room, eighteen by forty, fronting on Second Street, used for groceries. He is a member of the Lutheran Church. Joseph A. Fromm was born in this city, November 16,

Ann (Bruner) Fromm. The former was born in Wirtemberg, Germany, in 1782, and was a cabinet-maker by trade. He came to America in 1817, first locating in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he remained some ten years. In 1827 he came to Hamilton, and engaged in selling German clocks through this county. His two sons, Joseph A. and John A., are the only survivors of his family. He was active in raising funds to build the original St. Stephen's Catholic Church. His son, Austin S., with his wife and children, were blown up on the Moselle, losing their lives. Sebastian Fromm died December 22, 1859, and his wife died August 16, 1878, in her seventyseventh year. Joseph A. Fromm was educated in the Catholic and public schools in Hamilton, and was employed in various mercantile houses, till beginning business in April, 1865, as a butcher. He soon after took his brother, John E., as partner, the firm being J. A. Fromm & Brother. They are doing an extensive business at 115 Main Street, First Ward.

Mr. Fromm married Miss Emma J. Metcalf. They are the parents of three children, whose names are Austin §., Dora Josephine, and Gertrude Iona. He was an appraiser of real estate one year. In 1881 he was elected to the city council from the First Ward. He is a Knight of Pythias. John A. Fremm, his brother, enlisted in April, 1861, in the Third Ohio, and was discharged for disability after nine months. He then re-enlisted in the Ninety-third, and was at Murfreesboro and Perrysville, and took part in all the battles of the regiment. He was placed on detached duty, and served till the end of the war. He was mustered out at Plattsburg, New York, in the Summer of 1865. Sebastian Fromm, the father, was the first Catholic who resided regularly in Hamilton, and the first member of the Church here.

Dr. Anderson Nelson Ellis is of the well-known family of that name, of Adams and Brown Counties, Ohio, and Mason and Lewis Counties, Kentucky. He is the son of the late Washington Ellis of Sprigg Township, Adams County, and was born at the old family homestead at Ellis Landing, on the Ohio River, four miles above Maysville, Kentucky, on the 19th of December, 1840. Washington Ellis was the son of Jeremiah Ellis, who was the son of Nathan Ellis, who was the son of Colonel James Ellis, of the Continental army. The family is of Welsh extraction, and has been in America about one hundred and fifty years. In 1730 three of the Ellis brothers emigrated from the mountains of their native land and sought homes in the English colonies on the western side of the Atlantic, one of whom settled in Boston, Massachusetts, one in Richmond, Virginia, and one in Eastern Pennsylvania. Religiously the Ellises were Quakers of the strictest kind, and were associated with the colonial history of Pennsylvania in the French and Indian Wars, and later in the Revolutionary struggle, several of the name holding important commands in the Continental army.

In the Spring of 1795 Captain Nathan Ellis, together with his four brothers, embarked on flat-boats at Brownsville, on the Monongahela, and floated down past Pittsburg into the Ohio, looking for homes in the mighty forests and fertile lands of the almost unexplored Northwestern Territory. The Ohio was the great highway over which came much of the tide of emigration which has peopled this section of the Union - a mighty stream hemmed in by a continent of gloomy shade and weird solitude, rolling its unbroken length for a thousand miles - a beautiful stretch of restless, heaving water, that realized to the voyager the ''Ocean river" of Homeric song. Landing at Limestone (now Maysville),- the Ellis brothers were so charmed with the beauty of the region and the productiveness of the soil that they determined to go no further. At that time, with the exception of a few isolated settlements at Marietta, Gallipolis, and Cincinnati, there were but few settlers on the north bank of the river, while upon the south side the country was swarming with emigrants seeking out and appropriating the best lands and most eligible town sites. Like the Jordan of old, the Ohio was a great boundary line. It stayed the incursions of the Indians, and beyond it the wave of emigration had not yet rolled. The very day - April 27, 1795 - that Captain Nathan Ellis landed at Limestone, Kentucky, five hundred red men were encamped on the river bottom just across the river. Finding that the most valuable lands had been taken up, the Ellis brothers determined to push over into the Northwestern Territory. Captain Nathan Ellis laid out Aberdeen, directly opposite Maysville, and his brother Sam the town of Higginsport, eighteen miles below. Each of the five brothers took up large tracts of land, and such has been the staying qualities of the name, that many of the original entries still remain in the possession of the family. As a connection, they have ever been blessed with an abundance of the good things of life, and inherit many of the sterling qualities which distinguished their Quaker ancestors.

Nathan Ellis and Mary Walker his wife, had ten children, all of whom have passed away with the exception of their youngest daughter, Mrs. Elender Higgins - now in her eighty-eighth year - of Johnson County, Missouri. Jeremiah Ellis was born in 1779, and in 1803 was married to Miss Anna Underwood - a daughter of one of the best known and wealthiest families in Virginia. Ten children blessed .their union, seven of whom still survive. Washington Ellis was born in 1804, and in 1832 married Miss Aris Parker, of Mason County, Kentucky. Jesse Ellis was born in 1792, and married Sabina, a daughter of Captain William Burks, of Mason County, Kentucky, a contemporary and warm personal friend of both Boone and Kenton. He and his brother Thomas were captured at Blue Licks, and were prisoners among the Indians for five years. Major John Ellis, of an Ohio infantry regiment in the

War of 1812, married Keziah, a daughter of Thomas Burks. Jesse Ellis died in 1877, in his ninety-fifth year. His wife died May 14, 1882, in her ninetieth year. Nathan Ellis died in 1819, and is buried on the hill overlooking Aberdeen. His mother (died in 1799) rests in the Aberdeen cemetery. John died in 1829, Jeremiah in 1858, and Washington in 1873. The last three lie in the family cemetery at Ellis Landing, four miles above Maysville.

The subject of this sketch entered the public schools at Ripley in his twelfth year, where he remained six years. He then entered the freshman class at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where he stayed until the breaking out of the Rebellion. Shortly afterwards he went to the front as a volunteer aid-decamp upon the staff of the late Major-general William Nelson, and remained with him until his death. Subsequently he was for a time attached to the staff of Brigadier-general Jacob Ammen, commanding the Fourth Division, army of the Ohio. On the 18th of March, 1862, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Fortyninth Ohio Infantry, which commission he resigned on the 28th of September, 18638, on account of failing health. Returning home he at once entered Miami University, where he remained one year. In the Spring of 1865 he became a student of medicine in the office of Dr. C. G. Goodrich, of Oxford, and afterwards he attended medical lectures in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Pittsfield, Ma8sachusetts, and Cincinnati. At the Berkshire Medical College he was assistant to the chair of chemistry, and graduated with the valedictory. Subsequently the board of trustees of that institution elected him demonstrator of anatomy. In March, 1868, the Ohio Mediical College gave him an ad eundum degree.

After some little private practice in Ohio and Kansas, Dr. Ellis entered the United States regular army as a medical officer, and spent a number of years on the plains and mountains of the South-west. To one who had hitherto known nothing beyond the haunts of civilization the nomadic life of an army officer on the frontier presented many attractions. While in New Mexico the doctor became much interested in the history of the Pueblo Indians - that last remnant of the Aztec population of the days of the Spanish conquest, who present the pathetic spectacle of a civilization perishing without a historian to recount its sufferings, a repetition of the silent death of the Mound Builders. He spent much of his time while off duty in exploring many of those ancient ruins which lie all over that interesting land. After leaving the service he delivered a number of lectures and published several articles on ''The Land of the Aztec."

The day of his graduation in medicine the doctor began to cast longing eyes to the superior clinical advantages afforded by the great European hospitals. In 1878 an opportunity was afforded him of realizing this bright day-dream of his life. He went abroad, and spent one year in Heidelberg, Vienna, and London, and besides that made a journey through France and Italy. While absent from the United States he published many letters of his travels and observations. Upon his return home he received the appointment of assistant physician to Longview Asylum, a position which soon proved exceedingly irksome. In February, 1881, Dr. Ellis came to Hamilton, and already enjoys a fine and growing practice.

Ezekiel B. Fisher was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12, 1829, and is the son of Robert and Sarah (Ball) Fisher. Robert Fisher was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in the early years of the present century, with his parents. He settled near Middletown, clearing up a large tract, now known as the Abraham Simpson place. Robert Fisher's wife was the daughter of Judge Ball. She raised a large family of children, thirteen in number, of whom nine are living. By trade Mr. Fisher was a carpenter. He died about 1872. Ezekiel B. Fisher attended the common schools, and was brought up to farming. He was reared by an aunt, Mrs. Mary Squiers, near Trenton, and was with her until he was eighteen, when he came to Hamilton. He began an apprenticeship with George W. McAdams at the trade of tailoring, and continued with him as a° journeyman some two years. He was in Middletown some five years, and in Franklin, Warren County, for fifteen years, as cutter, and in conducting business. He was also at Tiffin, Ohio, as cutter in one house for nine years, coming to Hamilton city in February, 1882, and purchasing the business so long carried on by George W. McAdams. He has an extensive trade in fine custom clothing. Mr. Fisher was married about 1853 to Miss Lydia, daughter of John Webster, of Liberty Township. They are the parents of eight children, of whom four sons are living. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Henry Frechtling, Jr., was born in Cincinnati, June 16, 1850, and is the son of Henry and Wilhelmina (Buck) Frechtling. Mr. Frechtling came to Hamilton with his parents in 1853, where he was a pupil at the common schools until he was fourteen. He received a fair education, and was brought up to mercantile pursuits, entering his father's store at the age of ten. In 1875 he was admitted as a partner in the house of H. & W. Frechtling & Co., and continued there until beginning his present business in 1879. He now deals extensively in dry goods, groceries, and other articles. It has more than doubled in the short time it has been carried on. Mr. Frechtling was married in 1877 to Miss Mary, daughter of Philip Hartman. They are the parents of at me and One daughter - P. H. Paul, born January

, 1879, and Elizabeth Birdie, born January 24, 1881. Mr, and Mrs. Frechtling are members of the Lutheran Church. He is doing one of the most extensive mercantile businesses in Hamilton.

ship, was born in Franklin, Warren County, Ohio, February 2, 1825, and was the third child of Gilbert and Catherine C. Reed. His father, Gilbert Reed, was born in Delaware, in 1800, and was a member of the Reed family of that State that was identified with the Revolutionary movement twenty-four years before his birth. He was but little more than an infant when his parents died, and he was adopted into a Quaker family, living not far from Trenton, New Jersey, where he remained until near his eighteenth year. It was a condition of young Gilbert's adoption that he was to be received into the family as a member, and granted a liberal amount of schooling; but each of these conditions was grossly violated by his guardians, from whom he took his departure, without the formality of an adieu, a short time before the expiration of what was really his servitude.

He went to Philadelphia, and soon caught up in the general western movement, joined an emigrant party, and made his way over the mountains to Pittsburg, and thence by keel-boat down the Ohio to the city of Cincinnati, arriving at the latter place in 1818. He remained but a short time in Cincinnati, going thence to Trenton, Butler County, and subsequently to near Franklin, Warren County, where, in 1820, he met and married Catherine Cummings Stockton, who was born in New Jersey in 1798. She was the eldest daughter of John Robert Stockton by his wife, whose maiden name was Jane Van Schaick, of New York State. John Robert Stockton was the eldest son of Philip and Catherine (née Cummings) Stockton. Philip Stockton was a member of the New Jersey family of that name. His brother, Richard Stockton, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey. . One of his sisters married Dr. Benjamin Rush, and another became the wife of Elias Boudinot, a prominent New Jersey divine. But Philip Stockton, being a clergyman of the Established Church of England, was not as loyal to the American interest as were the rest of his family; he identified himself with the Tory party, and was a zealous supporter of the crown. It is believed that at the conclusion of the war he went to England, where he died, but his family remained in America.

This family consisted of John Robert Stockton, Lucius Witham Stockton, William Tennant Stockton, Richard Cummings Stockton, and Elias Boudinot Stockton. The first named, after his marriage with Miss Van Schaick, near Schenectady, moved to Western New York, and lived for a while near Auburn. He thence started West, and arrived in Ohio in 1816, and located temporarily near Franklin, Warren County, but soon removed to and occupied a tract of land still known as the 'Stockton section," near Pisgah. It was, however, during his stay at Franklin that his eldest daughter, Catherine C., married Gilbert Reed. : ship, Butler County, where he remained until 1832, when, after a few months' sojourn with his father-in-law, he took his family to Montgomery County, Ohio, where he purchased land lying on the National Road and the his death, which occurred in 1860. At eleven years of age R. C. S. Reed left his parents' home in Montgomery County to live with his grandfather near Pisgah. John R. Stockton was a gentleman of the old school, but was a haughty and austere man, who would tolerate no opposition to his authority and allow no dissent to his dictum. It can readily be understood how an example of this kind should, during a period of three years, exert a permanent influence upon a susceptible lad.

During his stay at Pisgah, which lasted until the death of his grandfather, in 1839, young Reed enjoyed the advantage of the neighboring schools. He stoutly demurred upon his return home to his father's proposition to put him at a trade. He carried his point, and was given three more years of coveted opportunities at private schools. At the expiration of this time he secured a certificate as teacher, and began that occupation in Preble County, Ohio. During the tew succeeding years, he followed the calling of a teacher in the counties of Preble, Butler, Warren, and Hamilton. '

While teaching at Sharon, he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Thomas, and prosecuted his studies subsequently with Dr. 8S. P. Hunt, at Morrow, and finally with Dr. Isaac Kay, then of Lewisburg, but now of Springfield, Ohio. In 1851 he attended lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, where he enjoyed the teachings of one of the best faculties ever connected with a medical college. After taking his course at Starling College, he located in 1851 in the practice of ~ medicine at Wolf Lake, Noble County, Indiana.

The next year he married Miss Nancy Clark, daughter of John Clark, of Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio, and began housekeeping at Wolf Lake, Indiana, where in 1854 his first son, now Dr. John G. Reed, of Westchester, Ohio, and two years later his second son, now Dr. C. A. Lee Reed, of Hamilton, Ohio, were born. On July 14, 1856, his wife died - a loss that for a time threatened to completely crush him. With his dearest ties now severed, he abandoned his prosperous practice in Indiana and spent a period in travel. On his return in 1859, he married Mrs. Susan W. McClelland at Hamilton, and returned for a time to Wolf Lake, where his third son, Horace Greeley Reed, was born. In 1860, he removed to Union Township, and has since been a resident of Butler County. In 1860, he accepted the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, with which institution he soon became closely identified.

In 1862 Dr. Reed was elected professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and held that position continu- ously for seventeen years, resigning in 1878, but was immediately elected to an Emeritus professorship. In 1882 he was appointed by the board of trustees, of which he was and is a member, to reorganize the faculty, the former one having resigned in consequence of some internal dissensions. In this task, as in two former instances of a similar kind, he was successful, and the institution, through his instrumentality, was again placed upon a career of prosperity. With the reorganization, however, Dr. Reed again resumed an active connection with the institution, assuming the duties of his old professorship. As a reward for his services, and in recognition, not only of his long connection with the institution, but of his executive ability, Dr. Reed was by his colleagues elected dean of the faculty.

Dr. Reed resides at Jones's Station, Butler County, in the easy enjoyment of a comfortable home. He has for several years been out of active practice, and now attends only such of his friends and neighbors as it may suit his convenience to look after. Of his children but two, Kate and William, aged respectively sixteen and thirteen, remain at home. In politics Dr. Reed is a staunch Republican, and while very liberal in religion, his tendency is toward Presbyterianism. In 1882 he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Summit College, Kentucky.

William H. Millikin was born in this city, July 26, 1844, being the only son of Samuel and Louisa (Halstead) Millikin. He was a pupil at the public schools in the First Ward until the breaking out of the war, in 1861, when, on the 19th of April, he enlisted in Company F, Third Ohio Volunteers. This was the first company raised in Hamilton for the three years' service. Mr. Millikin participated in the campaigns in West Virginia under McClellan, taking part at Rich Mountain. He was transferred to the army of the Ohio under Buell, in Kentucky, going overland to Nashville, being at the capture of Bowling Green, and proceeding to Huntsville, Alabama. There he was engaged on guard duty under General O. M. Mitchell. They went in pursuit of Bragg, and suffered severely at Perryville. He was at Stone River, on detached duty, and the raid under Colonel Straight, near Rome, Georgia. The command was captured and taken to Richmond and City Point, being afterwards exchanged. They again went to the front at Chattanooga, and were on garrison duty until the expiration of their term of service.

With the regiment he was mustered out at Camp Dennison on the 23d of June, 1864. Returning home after an interval of some eight months, Mr. Millikin again entered the service for one year, in the Ninth United States Infantry, under General W. 8. Hancock. He served out this term of enlistment, and was discharged at the end of the war. He was mustered out April 4, 1866. Returning to Hamilton, he entered the employment of the Hamilton Plow Works, with which he has ever since continued, although under different firm names. He first learned the trade of a machinist, which he worked at until 1870. Since then he has been engineer for the company. He was married in 1867, to Miss Amelia J ohnson, daughter of James M. Johnson, a well-known resident of Hamilton. They have been the parents of five children, of whom three are living - Jessie F., Helen M., and Leah M. He is an active Republican in politics, first voting for General Grant.

Franklin W. Whitaker, dealer in groceries, queensware, and country produce, was born in Mason, Warren County, Ohio, December 8, 1849. He is the son of David R. Whitaker and Mary A. Thompson. He was married, in Hamilton, September 3, 1870, to Sowara E. Cassedy, a native of Mason, where she was born October 15, 1851. She is the daughter of Samuel M. Cassedy and Elizabeth E. Meighan. Mr. Whitaker was elected justice of the peace, April 12, 1877, for Lemon Township, and was also assessor for the years 1880 and 1881.

Dr. Alanson Smith was born August 21, 1806, in the town of Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. When but an infant his father traded his farm for three hundred and fifty acres, at the outlet of Cayuga Lake, and then removed to Marlborough, Massachusetts, and began teaching. From him the doctor received his primary education. His father died when the boy was about eight years old, and he soon afterwards went to live with his uncle Jabez, a farmer. At fifteen he began living with his step-brother, Lovel Hartwell. Smith attended the institute in New Marlborough a part of the time, and read much, seeking to improve himself. He began teaching in 1827 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and came to Perry City, Ohio, in 1829, teaching school there, and subsequently elsewhere. He began the study of medicine in the last mentioned place, with Dr. Willard. Soon after he came to Cincinnati, and introduced at the county fair a corn-sheller, now in common use. He then attended Van Doren's Institute in Lexington, Kentucky, and then traveled extensively on business and pleasure.

In 1831 he came to Hamilton and engaged in teaching. He was elected secretary of the Temperance Society, and a member of the Elocutory Society. He was elected superintendent of the public schools, and held that position for a number of years. January 5, 1833, he was married to Nancy Ann MeNiel. In the Spring of 1838 he entered into partnership with Governor Bebb in the morus multicaulis speculation, but it failed. The doctor moved on his farm west of the city seventeen miles, in the Spring of 1841, and while living there frequently addressed public meetings on the subject of temperance. After a while he rented his farm, entered the medical college in Cincinnati, and graduated. Since that time he has been nearly continually in practice.

Newport, Kentucky. He moved to Cambridge City, Indiana, where he was in active practice eight years, at the end of that time coming to Hamilton. Since coming here he has done much speculating in patents. After turned it over to his two sons, Julian G. and Edward A. Smith. He is a member of the Baptist organization, having joined more than fifty years ago. He is a man of excellent character, benevolent, and enterprising, and is in good health and strength. He has had eight children. Louisa Jane was born September 1, 1839 ; Henry McNeil, December 8, 1841; Ellen Maria, March 5, 1844. By his second wife he had Charles Edmund, born July 7, 1848; Julian Gardner, August 1, 1850; Albert Berry, February 2, 1853; Edward Alanson, July 4, 1855; and Walter Ladd, April 25, 1866. Charles Edmund died April 20, 1865, and Walter Ladd, December 25, 1868. Henry M. Smith was under Sherman four years.

Charles Stewart, one of the early settlers of Butler County, Ohio, was born in New Jersey, December 2, 1781. In his early youth he crossed the mountains with his parents, who settled in the Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood, and married Miss Mary Hunter, of Laurel Hill, Pennsylvania, emigrating to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1810, where he remained only a short time, moving to Middletown, Ohio, in 1912:; He bought of the government 190 acres of land in Reily and Morgan Townships where the town of St. Charles now is. 'This place was in after years called St. Charles in honor to Mr. Stewart. Here he erected his log-cabin and settled down, with his nearest neighbors more than three miles away. In this place Mr. Stewart lived with his wife (who survived him several years) until his death, which occurred December 24, 1854. He raised a family of ten children to manhood and womanhood.

Mr. Stewart was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving five months under General Winchester, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. Mr. Stewart was of Scotch descent, his forefathers coming to this country in the days of the colonies, making their voyage in the vessel Caledonia. Mr. Stewart was a pioneer of Methodism, and his house was always open for the weary itinerant minister, as he traveled from house to house through the newly settled regions. He lived a life-long devoted Christian, reaching the ripe old age of seventythree years.

Of ten children who grew to manhood and womanhood but two are now living, Samuel Stewart, of Kingston, Indiana, and Charles J. Stewart, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Two of their sons, John ©. and Charles J., served with distinction in the late war of the Rebellion, both having enlisted. at the beginning of the war, and serving over three years - John C. dying while in the service, from the exposure, haying been promoted from a private to captain of Company I, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. The only descendants of the family now living in Butler

County are Frank P. Stewart, now engaged in the monument business, in Hamilton, and Samuel P. Stewart, monumental draughtsman, both sons of John C. Stewart. Henry Moudy was born in Lockland, Hamilton County, February 8, 1830. He is the only son of Othias and Elizabeth (Hazleton) Moudy. Othias Moudy is a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, where he was born in 1807. In 1812 he came with his parents to this county, settling two miles south of Hamilton. The grandfather was Henry Moudy. Othias Moudy was married in 1826, and reared a family of two children. His daughter, Mrs. Harriet Longfellow, lives on a place owned by Henry Moudy, in Fairfield Township. The other child is Henry Moudy. Othias Moudy was a successful business man and farmer. He died February 12, 1877, and his wife died in 1871. She was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Henry Moudy was brought up to farming, remaining with his parents until their death. Mr. Moudy was married, in 1872, to Miss Hettie J. Morgan, who was born in Delaware. Mr. and Mrs. Moudy are the parents of two daughters. Laura was born June 10, 1874, and Bessie M. May 7, 1876. Mr. Moudy continued to reside in Fairfield Township till the Spring of 1881, when he removed to Hamilton. He is a member of the Masonic order. He is engaged in cultivating his farm of one hundred and sixty acres. George Kramer was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1807, and came out to this county with his parents, George and Barbara Kramer, in 1817, where he has ever since remained. Both his parents were of German descent, but were born in Maryland. They lived on the Monongahela, and when they made up their minds to come out West, built a flat-boat, the whole family embarking with their household goods. ~ One horse only was brought with him, that being all the live stock he then possessed. When he arrived in Milford Township he bought three huiidred acres of as good land as there is in the township, situated north of Darrtown on the pike leading from Hamilton to Richmond. He lived on the farm the remainder of his life, dying at the extreme age of ninety-two years. He was survived by his wife, who lived to see her ninety-seventh birthday. The present Mr. George Kramer has been three times married. His first wife was Eliza Brown, daughter of William and Mary Brown; the second, Eleanor Swan, daughter of Robert and Ellen Swan; and the third is Margaret Hoyt, daughter of John and Mary Hoyt. By them he has had six children. William was born September 18, 1839; George, October 14, 1840; Andrew, July 15, 1842; Mary Elizabeth, J anuary 22,1845; Barbara Ann, June 15, 1848, and Elizabeth, September 4, 1855. Andrew Kramer lives in Centerville, Indiana. Mr. George Kramer owns three hundred acres of land in Wayne County , Indiana, and one hundred and sixty in Milford. He has earned all his own property, and has

Henry Kessling was born in Lunbergen, Hanover, May 27, 1819, being the son of Dederick and Anna Mary (Baerling) Kessling. He was educated in such schools as offered in the vicinity of his father's home, and was brought up to farming, until coming with his parents to America in the Summer of 1836. The family settled on a farm now owned by J. P. P. Peck, joining the corporation of Hamilton. Dederick Kessling raised a family of four children to maturity, of whom three survive - Henry, Catherine, now the wife of John Tabler, and Mary Theresa, now Mrs. Joseph Jacobs. Dederick Kessling was a successful man, and continued to farm until his death, which was about 1860.

Henry Kessling was married in April, 1841, to Mary Catherine Werrike, born in Germany in 1816. They are the parents of six children, of whom only one is living. Four died in infancy. Mary Elizabeth died November 8, 1878, aged thirty-six. Mary Catherine is now the wife of Augustus Soehner. Mrs. Kessling died March 28, 1875. After marriage Mr. Kessling engaged in farming, in the vicinity of Hamilton, for some ten years, when he began keeping the hotel known as the Kessling House. He kept the Schmidtmann House, now known as the Central House, for some five years, during which time he also conducted the marble business, employing some twenty or twenty-five hands, under the firm name of Horssnyder & Kessling. He sold out to Mr. Horssnyder in 1852, and disposed of his city property for a farm two miles west of Hamilton, in Hanover Township, living there some four years. He still owns the same place, which consists of one hundred and fifty acres, well improved. In 1876 he retired from business, and with his daughter made a tour of Europe, being absent four months. He is a member of the Catholic Church. While in the marble business he furnished the stone work of many of the principal buildings of Hamilton.

James L. Kirkpatrick, M. D., was born in North Liberty, Adams County, Ohio, April 17, 1841, and was educated at the academy in that place. After reading medicine one year at Xenia, Ohio, he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati in 1865, and remained through 1866 and 1867, excepting six months of the latter year. He practiced in Celina, Mercer County, Ohio. After graduating at the Eclectic Medical Institute, he came to Hamilton in the Spring of 1867, where he has since continued, and now has an excellent practice. He was the secretary of the State Medical Society in 1874, 1875, and 1876, and is a member of the Miami Valley Medical Society and of the National Eclectic Medical Association. He was married in 1877 to Lizzie, daughter of Theodore Marston, of Middletown, and has by her one son, born in November, 1880. He is a member and an elder in the United Presbyterian Church.

Dr. Kirkpatrick is a large and intelligent collector of Indian and prehistoric relics and curiosities. In pipes his museum is unsurpassed in the United States. From County and the neighboring country, he has gathered axes, knives, clubs, gorgets, preast-pieces, carved work, and ornaments, till his collection is an honor to the city. He is likewise a well-known numismatologist, having a nearly complete array of the coins of the United States, and many foreign and antique pieces. He served in the United States army during the war, and was elected surgeon-general of the Grand Army of the Republic, department of Ohio, in 1869.

John Krebs was born-in Bavaria in 1814, and married Elizabeth Bachman, born in Bavaria about 1826. They had five children: Frank; Clara, wife of Thomas Waltz, of Illinois; Charles, married, lives in Hamilton ; Philip, and Elizabeth, wife of August Schurfranz, lives in Hamilton. Mr. Krebs came to Butler County in 1854, and settled in Hamilton. He was a grinder ina machine shop, and was killed by the bursting of a grindstone, November 11, 1856. His son Frank was born in Bavaria in 1844, and was married in 1866 to Ellen M. Smith, born in Indiana in 1851. They have had five children, three of whom are living: Ernest, Stella, and Daisy.

He enlisted September 25, 1861, in the Thirty-seventh Ohio, Company K, and re-enlisted in January, 1863, in the Marine Cavalry, Company D, and was mustered out March, 1865. He was taken prisoner at Princetown, Virginia, and confined on Belle Isle, Virginia, for five months, when he was exchanged, being one of the first squad exchanged with the Confederate States. He was engaged at Princetown, siege of Vicksburg, Sunnyside, Mississippi, and Rodney, Mississippi. While with the cavalry he was employed mostly in scouting. Since returning he has twice held office in this city. He was on the water-works board and was street commissioner, serving from April, 1877, till April, 1881. He had charge of the works for cutting off the basin from the canal. He is a member of the Knights of Honor and the United Workmen, and is treasurer of the Butler County Democratic Central Committee.

James T. Imlay was born in Jacksonburg, Wayne Township, October 27, 1825, and is the oldest son of William FE. and Helen (Tapscott) Imlay. His father was a native of New Jersey, where he was born about 1796, coming to Ohio about 1820, in company with his sister, afterward Mrs. James Craig. They came from Trenton, New Jersey, to Jacksonburg, Ohio, in a one-horse wagon. He was a cooper by trade, but afterward a merchant in Jacksonburg, and then on a farm. He raised a family of four children, of whom two survive - James T. and Lydia Ann, wife of John Ross, of Colorado. Mr. Imlay died in 1846. His son was educated in the common schools in this vicinity, receiving a fair degree of knowledge. He was brought up to farming, and acting as clerk in a store, and various other occupations at home, until he was of age. He was married, in 1847, to Miss Susannah Look, and is the father of five children, of whom four are living, three sons and one daughter.

He removed to Hamilton in 1857, and entered the employment of Tapscott &*Shaffer, remaining in that capacity for some time. Mr. Imlay had conducted a saw-mill for five or six years following 1850. In 1863 he entered into partnership with Mr. Tapscott in a flouring-mill, now Carr's mill, staying until 1868. He was entering into the grain business in the firm of Weller, Straub & Co. This lasted until 1875, when he acted as clerk in various commercial houses in Hamilton. He was with T. V. Howell & Son and Long, Alstetter & Co., entering into his present position as principal bookkeeper for the Cope & Maxwell Manufacturing Company in September, 1881. He was an officer of the Butler County Agricultural Society for two years, 1875 and 1876, and secretary, treasurer, and president. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1848. In 1864 Mr. Imlay enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio National Guards, and took part in the campaign in Western Virginia. He served out his term of enlistment, filling the position of first lieutenant.

At the time George Isaminger came to Butler County his brother Philip went to Adams County, where he had three children, Philip and Solomon, and one of whom no record is kept. Philip, the younger, married Hannah Hawk, and had by her seven children, of whom five are living. Sarah, the wife of Frank De Marrs, lives in Ironton. Rebecca is single, and lives in the same place. Solomon is married, and is in California. George W. is a resident of Hamilton, and Josephine, who is single, lives in Scioto County. George W. Isaminger is the only one of this branch of the family that ever came to Butler County. He was born August 22, 1836, and was married in Scioto County to Sarah Ellen Robinson, born in Gallia County. They have six children - Georgie A. H., Charles Wilbur, Frank Kynett, Nellie Pearl, Garnett Robinson, and James Edward Campbell.

Mr. Isaminger studied for the ministry in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was graduated at the Ohio University. After leaving college, he taught school for a time, and in 1859 was admitted to the ministry at Columbus, receiving his first appointment in Orange County. He was stationed at Racine when he was appointed chaplain of the One Hundred and Seventy-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving in this capacity until the close of the contest. He remained in the traveling connection until 1870, when, in consequence of his health, to Butler County in that year, and now resides in Hamilton, where he is a practicing lawyer and real estate agent. During part of the day he is in Cincinnati.

Peter Jacobs was born in Germany, April 1, 1826, and received but a limited education. He came to America with his parents in 1834, making his way direct to Hamilton. After getting old enough, he became a clerk in several establishments. He was with McCleary, in his store, and also in Perry G. Smith's drug store, being connected with the latter establishment till the death of Mr. Smith. He then entered the employment of John O. Brown, a prominent druggist, with whom he was in partnership for some time after removing on the east side, when Mr. Jacobs succeeded him in the business. This was in the building now occupied by L. A. Boli. From there he removed to the store now occupied by John C. Schwartz, where he continued until his death. He was a successful business man, doing the largest trade as a druggist of any one in Hamilton. He was a self-edu. cated man, but had acquired a fine knowledge of chemistry. He was a member of the Masons, and had been their treasurer for more than twenty-five years, and was also an Odd Fellow. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

He was married in October, 1848, to Miss E. C. Meyers, daughter of Jacob and Sarah Meyers. Mrs. Jacobs was born in Cincinnati in 1832. They were the parents of the following children:-Sarah Alice, who is the wife of Joseph Morris, is now a resident of Cincinnati; William H. Jacobs lives in Cincinnati; Kemmey, now Mrs. Edward Ratcliff, is in Cumminsville; Flora M. is the wife of Zeller Shanks, of Hamilton; Charles F., Minor M., Jessie B., Edith, and May are at home. Mr. Jacobs died January 4, 1877. Mrs. Jacobs conducted the business - successfully for some two years after her husband's death, selling out to John C. Schwartz in November, 1879. She has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1848, and is a genial and cultivated lady.

Frederick Jacobs was born in Hamilton, Butler County, November 15, 1835, and is the son of Peter and Catherine (Kemeline) Jacobs. Peter Jacobs was born in Prussia in 1800, and was married in Germany. He came to America in 1834, settling in Hamilton, and burned lime and engaged in the ice business until 1859. He reared a family of four sons, two of whom are living, Frederick and Conrad, a druggist of Zanesville, Ohio. Peter Jacobs was one of the organizers of St. John's Church, and died in 1873. Mrs. Catherine Jacobs is still living with her son Frederick, and is in fair bodily health at the age of eighty-two. Frederick was educated in the common schools in Hamilton, and assisted his father in conducting the ice business till 1859, when, in company with his brother Conrad, he engaged in the same occupation for himself. They made an artificial ice pond, and were quite successful.

present location, but closed out after a few years, then leading a retired life for four or five years. In the Fall of 1880 he again began the grocery trade at his old location, doing a nice retail trade. He was married on the 29th of March, 1860, to Elizabeth Kirchort, who was born in Darke County, April 6, 1839. They are the parents of eight children, Kemmie K., Carrie M., Louisa A., Wilhelmina F., Frederick C., Emma B., George, and Susie. Mr. Jacobs is a member of St. John's Church, and belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Knights of the Golden Rule, and Knights of Honor.

Mrs. A. J. Hutchison was born in Morgan Township, May 138, 1828. She is the daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Bell) Abbott. She was educated in the common schools and Young Ladies' Seminary in Hamilton and elsewhere, receiving a liberal education. Her guardian, Ludwig Betz, provided her with a home at his residence in Hamilton until her marriage, December 25, 1845, to Edward Hutchison, a native of Virginia, who was born April 17, 1818. He came to Ohio about 1830, and engaged in wagon making and afterwards in the coal business, which he afterwards conducted alone. He was an extensive dealer in Cincinnati and Hamilton. He was an attendant at the Universalist Church, and a liberal contributor to all worthy objects. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison were parents of six children, of whom four are living, one daughter and three sons. Mr. Hutchison died July 13, 1866. Mrs. Hutchison occupies the former residence on Dayton Street built by Mr. Hutchison in 1848. She isa member of the Universalist denomination.

Gabriel Huber was born in Wirtemberg, Germany, March 18, 1820. He is the son of George and Frances Huber. He learned the trade of weaver, and when sixteen began an apprenticeship of two years at the carpenter's trade. He worked at this until coming to America with his parents in 1842. The family settled in Hanover Township. He was married July 2, 1845, to Mary Seefert, born in Germany, August 18, 1820. Mr. and Mrs. Huber are parents of six children, of whom five are living. Felix is a resident of Hamilton, Valentine is a carpenter by trade, Mary is the wife of John Fisher, and Elizabeth and Josephine are at home. After marriage he worked as a journeyman. He has been for the past sixteen years in the employment of M. F. Eisel & Co. He is a member of the Catholic Church, and an active Democrat in politics.

Isaac Hagerman is a native of this county, having been born in Lemon Township, April 27, 1801. His parents were Michael Hagerman and Margaret Freeman, who came to this county in 1799. He was married in June, 1835, in Fairfield Township, to Maria Reeser, daughter of William Reeser and Molly Skehlen, who came to the county in 1835, both now being dead. Mrs. Hagerman was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1815, and bore her husband nine children.

William was born December 96, 1836; Jane, June 29, 1838; Mary, May 17, 1840; Isaac, June 2, 1842; Francis, May 2, 1848; Sarah, December 20, 18590; Josiah, November 27, 1852; Aaron, July 20, 1857; Michael, July 20, 1857. Isaac died while serving in the Union army in the late war, having contracted camp fever; Josiah died October 15, 1878; and Michael died when eight months old. Mr. Hagerman is one of the oldest persons in the county, having lived here over eighty years, always having followed the calling of a farmer. One of his brothers was in the war of 1812. He now has twenty-one grandchildren.

The Rev. Nicholas Fr. Holtel, pastor of St. Stephen's Church, was born in Cincinnati, April 9, 1853. He is the son of George Henry Holtel and Anna Christine Holtel, née Nélgel. Mr. Holtel was regularly educated for the priesthood by the Franciscans, and fills his charge here acceptably.

James E. Hancock was born in Butler County, June 924, 1839, being the son of Henry G. Hancock and Ella Watson. Henry G. Hancock was born in Kentucky, coming to Ohio in 1889, and settling in Reily Township. He was a farmer by occupation, and reared a family of ten children, of whom six are living. He removed to Indiana about 1840, where he died in 1876. James E. Hancock was educated in the common schools in Indiana, and was brought up to farming. Upon the death of his mother, in his fourteenth year, he left home, and was for five years a resident of Illinois. In 1859 he came to Ohio, locating in Oxford, and entering the employment of GC. F. Billings, a broom manufacturer. He continued with him some four years. In the Fall of 1863 he came to Hamilton, in the employment of Bennett & Caverly, broom manufacturers, and was with them three years. He began business for himself in the firm of Rump & Hancock, in the same line, in 1866. He also engaged in the livery business the next year, and carried on both at the same time. The latter was discontinued after three years. He then engaged in farming and raising broom-corn. He employs in his manufactory from fifteen to twenty-five hands, supplying a demand that exists in Memphis, Natchez, and New Orleans. Mr. Hancock was married in 1865 to Miss Ella, daughter of George W. Louthan. They are the parents of three children, two now being alive, Ida Iola and Lulu May. Mrs. Hancock is a member of the Baptist Church.

Jervis Hargitt was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, on the 24th of April, 1833. He is the fourth child of Robert Hargitt and Jane Palmer. At the age of seventeen Mr. Hargitt entered mercantile life, as salesman and bookkeeper for a dry goods firm in Hamilton. In 1856 he became a partner. This occupation engrossed his attention until 1861, when he engaged in farming near Middletown. Mr. Hargitt was elected clerk of the court of common pleas in 1872, entering on its duties in February, 1873. He was re-elected in 1875, filling that position six years. He was a member of the school board for some of these years, and was president of that body. In the Winter of 1880 and 1881 he was elected assistant secretary of the State Board of Equalization, and served during its entire sessions. He is an active Democrat, and has been chairman of the Butler County Democratic Central Committee for five years. He isa member of the Masonic order, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Knights of Honor. He was one of. the incorporators, and is now secretary of the American Electric Brush Company, of Cincinnati, a prominent and extensive manufacturing concern. Mr. Hargitt was married October 23, 1855, to Miss Martha A., daughter of John Waldron, a resident of Lemon Township. They are the parents of two daughters and three sons, all under the parental roof. Thomas Palmer, his grandfather, was a native of Ireland, and was for twenty years recorder of Dearborn County, Indiana.

Robert Hargitt, mayor of Hamilton from 1854 to 1856, was a native of Yorkshire, England, and came to America with his parents, when a boy, settling in Dearborn County, Indiana. He came to Ohio in 1851, and established the first news depot in Hamilton. He was the first mayor of the consolidated villages of Hamilton and Rossville. He was a justice of the peace and postmaster of Rossville previously. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He had a family of eight children, of whom but three survive.

William G. Jellison was born in Preble County, Ohio, June 17, 1848, being the oldest son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Cassell) Jellison, the former being a native of Pennsylvania, settling in Preble County about 1825, where he is still living in vigorous health. He reared a family of eight children, of whom six are living. William G. Jellison was brought up to farming, remaining at home till he was twenty-one. He continued to work at farming until coming to Hamilton, July 12, 1872, when he engaged to drive the omnibus, following this for some two years, for Davis & Maynard. He then purchased the business from them, conducting it till July, 1881, when he sold out to F. R. Hutchinson. In October, 1881, he began the livery business, on Front Street, but on the 9th-of April, 1882, was burned out, losing severely. His losses exceeded his insurance by more than a thousand dollars. He immediately put up a building opposite his former location, where he now is, and doing an increasing trade. .

He was married April 20, 1876, to Susie G., daughter of Asa Cain. They are the parents of one son, George Earl, who was born October 23, 1880. Mr. Jellison is a member of the Knights of Honor and of the Knights of the Golden Rule. 'In his seventeenth year, in 1864, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Ohio National Guards, and with that regiment participated in the campaigns of West Virginia, Kentucky, Cincinnati, and Maryland, and was in a sharp skirmish near Cum-

Andrew Huber was born in Hohenzollern, Germany, November 30, 1834. He is a son of George and Frances (Herrmans) Huber. He was educated in Germany, and came to America with his parents in 1842. 'The family settled in this neighborhood, where George Huber purchased a farm, and lived upon it till his death. He reared a family of four sons and two daughters, of whom five are living. He died about 1853. Andrew Huber began his education in Hamilton, and was brought up to farming until he was sixteen, when he commenced an apprenticeship at the baker's trade. He worked as a journeyman until his marriage, April 1, 1856, to Miss Anna, daughter of Caspar Hoff. Mrs. Huber was born in Cincinnati, October 17, 1838. She is the mother of twelve children, of whom seven are living, five daughters and two sons. In April, 1856, Mr. Huber began business as a baker and confectioner on High Street, and continued it in a successful manner until 1861.

In that year the: war breaking out, he organized Company K, Thirty-seventh Ohio Volunteers, going out as second lieutenant. He was afterwards promoted to first lieutenant, and was in command of the company. He participated in all its battles to Charlestown, West Virginia, and was in command in seven battles. II] health then compelled him to resign, and he was in the hospital some three months. He returned to civil life, and conducted the home farm some six or seven years. He then engaged in the fruit trade in Hamilton for some two years. He was in the employment of Long, Black & Alstatter in their wood-working department for three years, when he returned to the fruit trade, which he continued until beginning his present business in the First Ward in 1878. Mr. Huber had been a member of the Jackson Guards at the breaking out of the rebellion. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.

Captain Jonathan Henninger was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, May 20, 1829. He is a younger son of John and Elizabeth (Gaumer) Henninger. Mr. Henninger was a turner by trade, and came to Ohio in 1837, settling at Seven Mile. He reared a family of eight children, of whom five are yet living. He died in 1872. Captain Henninger had but limited opportunities for an education, but by study and reading in leisure hours has acquired much. He worked as a farmer until he was seventeen, when he learned the trade of stone mason, and afterwards that of cooper. He worked as a journeyman for three years, until ill health compelled him to abandon the occupation. He then was employed as a carpenter, and gradually acquired a good knowledge of that trade. He worked for others until 1854, when he began building and contracting in Hamilton, continuing in this till August, 1861.

the siege of Corinth. They went back to Louisville, Kentucky, in pursuit of Bragg, then at Perrysville, and were at Nashville and Murfreesboro. He was promoted to be first lieutenant in February, 1863, and the following May was made captain. He commanded the company at Hooven's Gap and Tullahoma, Tennessee, and also took part in the numerous raids and skirmishes. At the battle of Chickamauga he commanded the company both days, going in Saturday morning with thirtyeight men, and coming out Sunday night with eleven. They moved down to Ringgold, where he had several short skirmishes, and remained there until May, 1864. They broke camp then, and accompanied General Sherman on his Atlanta campaign, during which the captain was severely injured by an accident which disabled him for further service. He was in the hospital at Chattanooga for some two months. The time of the regiment having expired they were mustered out at Chattanooga. The officers who had been promoted were retained for some six weeks, but they were finally discharged in November, 1864.

On returning to civil life he resumed his former business in Hamilton, which he still continues. He has also been a member of the firm of Cole, Gehrman & Henninger since 1873. They manufacture sashes, doors, and blinds. He is also engaged in the stove and tin business at No. 106 Main Street, First Ward. Captain Henninger was married in 1854 to Miss 8. E. Ballinger, daughter of Dr. K. H. Ballinger, of Hamilton. To that marriage have been born twelve children, nine liying, five daughters and four sons. tion, are residents of the town. Mrs. Henninger died November 20, 1881. Mr. Henninger has been a member of the Odd Fellows since 1852. The family are members of the United Presbyterian Church.