Harrison Township (part 10 of 37)

Emanuel Wright went to the district schools of his native county, and at the same time learned to be a farmer in a practical way. As a young man he began dealing in stock, and for about twenty-five years was engaged in butchering in West Virginia, but in March. 1909, he came to Harrison County, Ohio, and bought his present farm of 188 acres in Rumley Township, and here he Is carrying on general farming and stockraising, and deals in stock. His residence Is in Rumley Township, along the Jew'ett and Cadiz turnpike For fifteen years Mr. Wright has been a director of the Dunkard Valley Bank of Blaekville, West Virginia, and for six years has been a director of the Jewett Bank. He is otherwise interested in Harrison County enterprises, and never loses an opportunity to advance the welfare of his community.

On March 28, 1888, Mr. Wright was united in marriage with Isophene Berry, a daughter of Solomon and Selina (Stine) Berry, and they have one son, Frank L., who Is assisting his father to operate the homestead. Frank L. Wright was married to Margaret Boyce, and they have a daughter, Helen Virginia. The Christian Church holds the membership of Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Wright.

Solomon Berry, father of Mrs. Emanuel Wright, was born in Monongahela County, West Virginia, but his wife was born in Monroe County, Ohio. He was a wagonmaker by trade, and followed his calling in his native county. He and his wife had the following children: George H., who is deceased; Maria Jane, who Is also deceased; Mary M., who was third in order of birth; Isophene, who Is Mrs. Wright: Ellen, who is fifth in order of birth; and Bell, who is deceased. The entire family belonged to the Christian Church.

John Berry, the paternal great-grandfather of Mrs. Emanuel Wright, was born in England, but his wife, Mary (Huffman) Berry, was bom in Maryland. After coming to the United States he located in West Virginia, where he engaged in farming. He and his wife became

The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Emanuel Wright. Benjamin Stine, married Jemima Birch, and they had the following children: Isaac, an ex-Union soldier; Asbury, an ex-Union soldier; Evander, an ex-Union soldier; Jane, Ellen, Selina, Isophene and Minerva. Early in life Benjamin Stine was a miller, but later became a farmer.

From the above records it is easy to prove that the ancestors of Mr. and Mrs. Wright have been for several generations upright, industrious and honorable, and played their part in a quiet way in the development of this country.

William T. Palmer Is effectively showing his executive mettle and practical resourcefulness in his independent operations as a farmer in his native township, and is a son of Andrew Palmer, who likewise Is a prosperous exponent of farm enterprise in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and who is made the subject of a personal sketch on other pages of the volume, so that a repetition of the family record Is not demanded in the present article.

William T. Palmer was born in Nottingham Township on the 28th of November, 1874, and his boyhood and youth found him not neglectful of the advantages offered In the district schools of his native township, where he was reared on his father's farm. As a young man he found employment as a farm workman, and he continued his effective service in this capacity until in 1901 he engaged in independent farm enterprise in North Township. After having there rented a farm and given his attention to its management for one year he rented a farm In Stock Township, where he centered his vigorous farm enterprise for the ensuing five years. Success attended his determined and well directed efforts, and in February, 1907, he found himself so effectively reinforced as to enable him to purchase his present farm, which comprises seventy-two acres of the fertile and valuable land of Nottingham Township. Here he has gained the real status of independence as a representative of the basic industries of agriculture and stock-growing, and his success has been a fitting reward for his earnest and faithful endeavors. Mr. Palmer gives his political suppoit to the republican party, and he served one term as trustee of Nottingham Township. His wife is an active member of the Christian Church.

On the 20th of March, 1900, Mr. Palmer wedded Miss Celeste Merry man, who was born and reared in Nottingham Township, and who is a daughter of Jeremiah C. Merryman. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have two children - Wilbur Carson and Frances Gayle.

Robert K. Dunlap is a representative of the fourth successive generation of the Dunlap family in Harrison County, with whose civic and Industrial history the family name has been worthily linked for more than a century. He owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm of his father In Cadiz Township, and in addition to this place of 165 acres he owns also an adjoining tract of 158 acres, his effective management of all departments of his farm enterprise mafking him as one of the leaders in this important domain of industry in his native county.

Mr. Dunlap Is a great-grandson of Adam Dunlap, the honored founder of the family in Harrison County, within whose borders he first made his appearance in 1807, long before the organization of the county under the present name. Adam Dunlap was born in Ireland of Scoteh-Irish parents. He married Rebecca Work. They became the parents of six sons and six daughters. Upon coming to America he first settled in Pennsylvania, In which state some of his children were born, and in 1808 he established the family home in what is now Athens Township. Harrison County, Ohio. In the preceding year he had erected a small log cabin on his land and for the purpose had made a clearing in the midst of the forest. With the passing years he brought a considerable portion of his land under effective cultivation, and here he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, with a record of noble achievement under pioneer conditions. Mr. Dunlap died September 20, 1830, and his widow passed away May 20, 1846, both having been devout members of the Nottingham Presbyterian Church, of which he was one of the founders. Adam Dunlap was a leader in community affairs and was influential in the councils and activities of the democratic party in this section of the Buckeye state.

Robert Dunlap, grandfather of Robert K., was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1794, and was a vigorous youth when he accompanied his pa rents to Harrison County, where he assisted in the reclaiming and other work of the home farm. There he remained until his marriage td Mary Pattison, daughter of Hugh and Nancy Pattison, who were natives of Ireland and who settled in Pennsylvania, where Mr. Pattison died soon afterward. After his marriage Robert Dnulap cleared and improved a farm In Athens township, and there he and his wife continued to reside until their deaths, he having become the owner of 363 acres of land in that township, all of which is still in the family. His wife died September 29, 1852, and he passed away March 2, 1860, their remains being interred in the Nottingham Cemetery and both having been active members of the Presbyterian Church. He was a democrat, and as a man of ability and sterling character was called upon to serve in the various township offices. They became the parents of seven children, all of whom are now deceased - Adam, Hugh P.. Samuel. Nancy, Rebecca, Mary and Robert.

Hugh P. Dunlap was born in Athens Township in the year 1822, and there he was reared to manhood. He continued his association with farm enterprise in that township until 1869, when he purchased and removed to the farm now owned and occupied by his eldest son. Robert K. Here he was the owner of a fine farm of 250 acres, and here he and his wife remained until their deaths, he having passed away March 28, 1894, and his wife died May 17, 1919. Both were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, and he held to the political faith of the democratic party. As a young man Hugh P. Dunlap wedded Miss Sarah J. Kennedy, who was bom In Rush Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, a daughter of Napoleon and Mary (Gilmore) Kennedy. Napoleon Kennedy was born in the District of Columbia, a son of Matthew Kennedy, whose wife's maiden name was Hines. They were numbered among the pioneer settlers in Moorefleld Township, Harrison County, Ohio, where their son Napoleon was reared to manhood and whence he removed to Tuscarawas County after his marriage. There he took up Government land and developed the farm upon which he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Their children were seven in number - Samuel G.. Eliza, Sarah J., Martha, Christina, Matthew and Mary. The death of Hugh P. Dunlap occurred March 28, 1894, and his widow passed to the life eternal May 17, 1919. They became the parents of seven children, of whom four are living - Robert K., Joseph B., Samuel P. and Albert C. John A. died in June, 1865, Amanda B. died February 6, 1901, and Mary died in the fall of 1920.

The district schools of Athens Township afforded Robert K. Dunlap his early educational advantages, and from his boyhood to the present time he has been actively associated with the work of the old home farm, of which he owns his relative share in association with the other heirs, besides being the owner of an adjoining tract of 158 acres, as previously noted in this review. He Is a native of Athens Township, where he was born February 24, 1859, and was about ten years old at the time of his family removal to the present farm. He is a progressive and successful agriculturist and stock-grower, is a democrat in his political proclivities, and holds to the faith of the Presbyterian Church, under the influences of which he was reared. His name is still enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors in Harrison County.

William W. Fawcett. Green Township, Harrison County, claims as one of its progressive exponents of farm industry this well known and popular citizen, whose active career has included also effective association with mercantile business, as well as earlier service as a teacher in the district schools. He is a representative of a sterling pioneer family of Carroll County, Ohio, of which he is a native, and thus he is doubly entitled to recognition in this history of Carroll and Harrison counties.

Mr. Fawcett was born in Union Township. Carroll County, on the 24th of July, 1851, and in the same township were born his parents, Charles Wesley Fawcett in 1827 and Esther (Norris) Fawcett in 1830, she having been a daughter of William and Martha (McComas) Norris, the former a native of New Jersey and the- latter of Washington County, Pennsylvania. William Norris was a pioneer settler in Union Township, Carroll County, where he reclaimed and developed a good farm where he and his wife remained until their deaths, both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of six children - David, Sarah, Elizabeth, Elsie, Esther and Nancy.

Charles Wesley Fawcett, whose personal name indicates the religious faith of his parents, was a son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Brooks) Fawcett, both natives of Ireland, where the former was born in the year 1808. Alexander Fawcett likewise was numbered among the early settlers in Union Township, Carroll County, to the development and progress of which he contributed his full quota as a successful farmer and sterling citizen, and there both he and his wife remained until their deaths, both having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of eleven children - Charles Wesley, John W.. Jane, Letitia, Mary, Alexander, Elizabeth, Margery, Thomas H., Nancy and Margaret.

Charles W. Fawcett passed his entire life in his native township, where he became one of the substantial farmers and highly honored citizens of Carroll County and where he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On his old homestead farm of 176 acres he remained until his death In 1010, and his widow passed away in 1914. Of their children William W., immediate subject of this review, is the eldest: James A. resides at Carrollton: Martha became the wife of Cornelius B. Kail, deceased, and her death there occurred In 1877 ; David died at the age of two years; Melville S. remains on his father's old homestead farm in Carroll County: S'nrah is the wife of Emmerson M. Capper, of Union Township, that county.

William W. Fawcett gained his early education In the district schools of his native township and the public schools in the City of Carrollton. That he made good use of these advantages is evidenced by his record of four years of service as a popular and successful teacher in the district schools of Carroll County. His initial business venture was made as an independent farmer In the township which was the place of his birth, and In 1877 he engaged in the general merchandise business at Petersburg, that county. He successfully continued this enterprise nine years and then traded his stock and business for a farm in Carroll County. After operating this farm five years he sold the same and purchased a general store at Conotton, Harrison County, where he continued in business about two years. His store and its contents were destroyed by fire in 1893, in which year he established his residence In Green Township, Harrison County, where he has since continued his active and successful association with agricultural and live-stock Industry. In 1915 he purchased his present farm, which comprises 114*4 acres and which is well improved. A public-spirited citizen of well fortified views relative to political matters, he is found arrayed In the ranks of the republican party, and he is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife, whose death occurred October 4, 1909.

Mr. Fawcett to Miss Nancy Jane Melvin, and thus their companionship continued thirty years - until the gracious ties were severed by the death of the loved and devoted wife and mother, who was born In Washington County, Pennsylvania, a daughter of John and Susanna (Boles) Melvin. Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett became the parents of a fine family of fifteen children, of whom all but four are living: Norris M., now a resident of Canton, Stark County, married Miss Rada McCort, and they have one child, Helen; George I. died at the age of two years; Charles A., a resident of Carrollton, married Miss Rena Stanley, and their one child is a son, Howard; Elsie is the wife of Willard Thompson, of German Township, Harrison County, and they became the parents of four children - Marietta, Francis, Raymond (deceased) and Wilma; John and Howard remain at the paternal home; Elizabeth is the wife of Frederick O. Phillips, of Hopedale, and they have three children - Lester, Laurence and Isabel; Mary is the wife of Frank Rutledge, of Carroll County, and they have two children - Eva and Wilma; Jessie V. remains at the paternal home; Melville died at the age of two years; Carrie resides at Carrollton; William M. and Russell died in early childhood; and Ida and Etta are members of the paternal home circle.

John N. Hinf.s owns and resides upon an excellent farm of eighty-six acres in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, and has Impressed himself as one of the progressive agriculturists and stock-growers of the younger generation in his native county, where he is a scion of a representative pioneer family.

John Newton Hines was born in Cadiz Township, this county, on the ICth of July, 1879, and is a son of James M. and Elmira J. (Carson) Hines, the former of whom died on the 12th of May, 1919, and the latter of whom still resides in the county of her birth, her ancestral record tracing back to an early period in the history of Harrison County.

James McMahan Hines, son of William and Isabella (Hitchcock) Hines, was born in Harrison County on the 5th of March, 1844, and here he received the advantages of the common schools of the period. His father was born in Allegany County, Maryland, March 19, 1800, and was four years of age when his parents, Rudolph and Sarah (Huff) Hines, came to Jefferson County, Ohio, whence about a year later they removed to what Is now the State of West Virginia, where they remained eight years. In the spring of 1814 Rudolph Hines came with his family to Harrison County, where he secured land and began the development of a farm in the midst of the virgin forest. Here he and his wife remained as honored pioneer citizens until their deaths, he having been ninety years of age when he passed away and his widow having soon followed him to eternal rest. They became the parents of twelve children.

cock, and thereafter they remained on the old homestead farm of his father until they both passed away, Mr. Hines having been eightyseven years of age at the time of his death, in 1887, and his wife, who was born January 24, 180p, having survived him by several years. Mr. Hines was prospered in his earnest activities as a farmer and at one time was the owner of 300 acres of land. He was first a whig and later a republican in politics, and he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church. They became the parents of ten children, one son having died in infancy, and the names of the other children being here recorded: John R., Sarah Jane (Mrs. Gillespie Haverfield), Lemuel Browning, William Fletcher, Mary Ellen (Mrs. Joseph McBeth), Samuel Montgomery, James McMahan, Thomas Hogg and Ezra Lawson, the last two sons having died when young.

Rudolph Hines, the founder of the family in Harrison County, was a son of John Hines, who immigrated to America from Germany prior to the war of the Revolution, In which the son Rudolph served as a soldier in the Continental Line, his later career as a pioneer in Ohio having been noted In a preceding paragraph.

John McMahan Hines, father of him whose name Introduces this review, went forth as a representative of Harrison County in the Civil war. On the 7th of August, 1863, he enlisted in Company C, Fifth Independent Battalion of Ohio Rangers, with which he served in the mountains of Kentucky, where he took part in many skirmishes and other minor engagements. After serving about seven months he returned home, but on the 2d of February, 1864, he reenlisted, as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was a part of the Army of the East, with which he continued in service until the close of the war, his honorable discharge having been received July 31, 1866, at Baltimore, Maryland. November 3, 1868, recorded the marriage of Mr. Hines to Miss Elmira J. Carson, a daughter of Elijah and Margaret (Mahaffey) Carson, the former of whom was born in Maryland, of Welsh ancestry, and the latter of whom was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania. John Carson, father of Elijah, was one of the sterling pioneers of Harrison County, Ohio, where his death occurred in Nottingham Township. Elijah Carson was a farmer and shoemaker in Nottingham Township, became one of the staunch supporters of the prohibition party and served many years as justice of the peace. He was born in 1810 and died in November, 1887; his wife was born in 1803, and died in 18S4. They became the parents of seven children. In 1876 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hines established their home on the farm which continued to be his place of residence during the remainder of his life and on which he died May 12, 1919, as previously noted. Mr. Hines was a staunch republican and was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic.

John Newton Hines acquired his early education In the district schools of Cadiz Township, and he remained at the parental home until his marriage, October 26, 1899, to Miss Lida E.

Mallernee, daughter of Lemuel J. and Lida E. (Brown) Mallernee, of Stock Township. After his marriage Mr. Hines began farming in Nottingham Township, where he has since continued to follow this vocation, save for two years during which he was similarly engaged in Stock Township, and two years in Cadiz Township. The names and respective dates of birth of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Hines are here given: Ora O., March 6, 1901; Alma Florence, March 9, 1904 ; Cloyd D., August 8, 1907 ; and Victorine P., February 11, 1919.

Lemuel J. Mallernee, father of Mrs. Hines, was born in Nottingham Township, this county, on the 5th of July, 1851, a son of Levi and Eleanor (Johnson) Mallernee, the latter a daughter of Benjamin and Eleanor Johnson, pioneer settlers in Harrison County. Levi Mallernee was born in Nottingham Township, this county, February 12, 1816, and was a son of Emanuel and Rachel (Matthews) Mallernee, the former of whom was born November 3, 1779, and the latter on the 13th of December, 1788. a daughter of Francis and Mary Matthews. Emanuel Mallernee came from Jefferson County, Ohio, to Harrison County about the year 1804, and became a pioneer farmer in Nottingham Township, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. The names and respective birth-dates of their children are here recorded : William, March 30, 1807 ; Aquilla. January 6, 1909; Mary Ann, August 7, 1811; Matthew, October 12, 1813; Levi, February 12, 1816; Emanuel, November 3, 1818; Lewis C.t May 18, 1822; and Elizabeth, May 25, 1825. After the death of his first wife, June 24, 1828, Emanuel Mallernee eventually married Miss Hannah Eaton, and they became the parents of three children: Benjamin, born October 4, 1830; Rachel Ann, born August 13, 1832; and Jared, born September 10, 1834.

As a young man Levi Mallernee established a livery stable at Cadiz, and this he was conducting at the time when, on the 4th of July, 1840, he met with an accident that caused the amputation of his right arm, which was virtually shot off in the discharge of a gun at the time of a patriotic celebration at Cadiz. A short time thereafter he removed to Nottingham Township, where he continued his association with farm industry during the remainder of his active career. He passed the last few years of his life at Deersville, Franklin Township, where he died on the 1st of June, 1880. December 6, 1838, he married Miss Eleanor Johnson, who was born In Nottingham Township, January 27, 1820, a daughter of Benjamin and Eleanor Johnson, and she passed away December 23, 1863, three days after the birth of the youngest of her nine children, whose names and dates of birth are here noted: David Turner. November 18, 1839: Emanuel, March 22, 1843; Mary Ann, March 25, 1846; Benjamin J., February 10, 1849; Lemuel J., July 5, 1851; Lydia Ann, August 3, 1854; Caroline L., August 26, 1857 ; Eleanor Jeanette. July 18. I860; and Kinsey C., December 20, 1863. For his second wife Levi Mallernee married Mrs. Jemima (Garner) Hines, and they became the parents of three children - James G., born October 10,

1866; Levi E., born October 20, 1868; and Ruth J., born January 6, 1871/ After the death of hi8 second wife Levi Mallernee married Rachel Crabtree on the 1st of June, 1879, and his death occurred exactly one year later. Mr. Mallernee was a republican in politics and was for many years prior to his death a zealous member of the Baptist Church.

Lemuel J. Mallernee was reared and educated in Nottingham Township, and he has to his credit a long record of successful association with farm industry in his native township. In 1878 he purchased and removed to a farm of eighty-three acres in Stock Township, and there he remained until his death on December 24, 1920. In 1869 he married Miss Lida E. Brown, daughter of Elisha Brown, and her death occurred in 1881. Of the two children of this union Mrs. Hines, wife of the subject of this review, is the younger, and Cloyd A., who married Miss Mabel Mount, resides at Dennison, Tuscarawas County. For his second wife Mr. Mallernee married Eleanor Shissler, daughter of David Shissler, and she passed to the life eternal on the 11th of March, 1918. Of the second marriage were born two children : Bertha, who is the wife of William Flaherty, and Estella, who is the wife of Sherman Busby.

David Cunningham. It has been the pleasure of Mrs. Laura Phillips Cunningham, of Cadiz, to commemorate the name of her husband, the late David Cunningham, who from 1850 until his death, December 14, 1917, was a member of the Harrison County bar and an attorney at law in Cadiz. Since the coming of David Cunningham, the grandfather, in 1812, the name has been identified with the history of Harrison County. David Cunningham, the lawyer for so many years, was born March 1, 1837, after the family had lived many years in Nottingham Township, but his father, John Cunningham, was born, October 29, 1808, before the family left Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

The David Cunningham who brought the family name to Harrison County was bom May 6, 1783, in Pennsylvania. On December 23, 1806, he married Mary McLaughlin, and they came from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, to Harrison County on their bridal journey, riding on horse back, and when they located their new home in the forest the trees had to be cut away for their cabin home in the wilderness. He later donated the land and helped build the first church in the community.

On February 23, 1829, John Cunningham married Nancy Sharp in Harrison County. He was a farmer and spent most of his life in Nottingham Township, finally moving to Cadiz, where he died August 17, 1870. The Cunningham home in Nottingham Township was a brick farm house built in 1825, the fresco and wall decorations in it being the handiwork of David Cunningham, senior, who had done something of that line of work In Pennsylvania. Two children were born there to John Cunningham : Mary, who married Eldred Holliday, and David, who spent his years of business activity in Cadiz. Throughout its history the Cunningham family has been identified with the United Presbyterian Church.

While David Cunningham had the common school advantages afforded him in Nottingham Township, he was ambitious and later attended Franklin College, graduating In the class of 1857 from that well known Harrison County educational institution located in New Athens. He was reading law in the office of the Hon. John A. Bingham of Cadiz at the time of the breaking out of the Civil war, and with other young men of the community he enlisted in August, 1861, and when the young men of Harrison County were formed into Company B of the Thirtieth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he was unanimously chosen captain. This regiment became part of the Army of the Potomac, and Captain Cunningham was its commander in some of the hard fought battles - South Mountain, Antietam, the Second Battle of Bull Run, Vicksburg and others.

On November 29, 1862, Captain Cunningham was commissioned a major on account of his bravery and efficient military service. As major he was in command of the regiment at Vicksburg and Jackson, but on account of serious illness caused by continued exposure in the low lands of Mississippi, on September 20, 1863, he was forced to resign and two days later was honorably discharged from the Union Army. However, before his discharge, Major Cunningham was brevetted colonel, a military recognition highly appreciated by him.

When discharged from the Union Army Colonel Cunningham returned to the study of law in Cadiz, and in 1866 became prosecuting attorney in Harrison County. In 1871 Colonel Cunningham was elected to the House of Representatives in the Ohio Legislature by the republicans of Harrison County. In 1876 he was a member of the Electoral College that decided In favor of President Rutherford B. Hayes in a contested election, in 1896 he was a member of the National Republican Convention that nominated William McKinley for president of the United States, and also served as a member of the constitutional convention.

Colonel Cunningham was chairman of the commission named by the United States Government to locate the position of the Ohio regiments engaged in the great battle of Antietam, and to superintend the placing of the monuments to commemorate the bravery of the soldiers who fought in that battle. All of his life Colonel Cunningham was interested in the military affairs of Harrison County. In 1866 he became a director of the Harrison National Bank of Cadiz, and in 1881 became Its president. He filled this position continuously until 1910, when he voluntarily resigned.

On October 13, 1859, while engaged in the study of law, Colonel Cunningham married Laura Phillips, of Cadiz. She is a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Williams) Phillips. Thomas Phillips was born in 1792 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died in 1871 in Cadiz. In 1816 he married Elizabeth Williams and brought her as a bride to Cadiz. His first business venture was to build a brick hotel on the corner of Steubenville and Warren streets.

A few years later Mr. Phillips was appointed postmaster, and served the community sixteen years in that capacity. For twenty years he was a justice of the peace In Harrison County. His wife was a daughter of Bazaleel and Jane (Blair) Williams, and their children were: Adaline, Rachel, Mary, William, John, Caroline, Laura and Martha, all born in Cadiz. It was Laura who became Mrs. David Cunningham, and who now commemorates her relatives in the history. Her father, Thomas Phillips, was a son of William Phillips, whose time of life was from 1763 to 1854, and whose wife was Rachel Hamilton. Their children were: Robert, Jane, William, Mary, Margaret, Eliza, Thomas, John and Martha. They were all born and reared in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

The children born to David and Laura Cunningham are: Mary, wife of John M. Sharon, of Cadiz; John, who married Mary Welch, lives in Evanston, Illinois; Ralph, who married Ada Schreiber, lives in Pittsburgh; Helen is the wife of E. V. Itawn and they live in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Mrs. Cunningham maintains her residence in Cadiz.

John A. McAfee, who is now living virtually retired at New Rumley, Harrison County, proved well his ability and progressiveness during many years of active association with farm industry In his native county, and is a well known representative of a family whose name has been worthily linked with the history of Harrison County for nearly a century.

Mr. McAfee was born in Rumley Township, this county, on the 23d of April, 1856, and is a son of James McAfee, Jr., who was living retired at New Rumley at the time of his death, April 25, 1898. James McAfee, Jr., was born In Washington County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1817. and was a son of James and Mary (Wybel) McAfee, both likewise natives of Pennsylvania, where the former was born in 1785 in Washington County, and where the latter was born in 1790, a daughter of George and Polly (Rummel) Wybel, who came from Germany and established their home in the old Keystone State, whence they later came to Ohio and gained pioneer experience. James McAfee, grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was a son of James McAfee, a native of Ireland and a very early settler in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife remained until their deaths, their children having been three sons and four daughters. The death of James McAfee, the original American progenitor, occurred about 1795.

James McAfee II was reared to manhood in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and received educational advantages somewhat superior to those accorded to the average youth of the locality and period. In 1S23 he numbered himself among the pioneers of Harrison County, Ohio, where he settled on the northwest quarter of section 24, Rumley Township, and instituted the reclaiming of a farm from the forest wilds. In the early days he found requisition for his effective services as a teacher in the pioneer schools of the county, and he was known as a man of fine intellectuality and high ethical standards - one well qualified for leadership in popular sentiment and action. He was a republican in politics, and both he and his wife were zealous and influential members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which they maintained affiliation in Harrison County. In 1832 Mr. McAfee sold his original farm and removed to North Township, where he continued his farm operations until the early '50s, when he purchased the old Custer homestead at New Rumley, and established his residence in the house which figured as the birthplace of Gen. George Custer, the distinguished army officer who met death in the historic Indian massacre which perpetuates his name. Mr. McAfee died in the year 1876, his wife having passed away several years before.

James McAfee, Jr., was about six years of age at the time when his parents established their residence in Harrison County, where he was reared on the old home farm in Rumley Township, and in the meanwhile profited duly by the advantages afforded in the pioneer schools. In 1840 he married Miss Letta Gordon, daughter of David jfnd Libbie (Archibald) Gordon, and they became the parents of three children - Mary (Mrs. Martin Kail), Elizabeth (Mrs. John W. Finnicum), and Letta Manbeck (died in March, 1882). Mrs. McAfee died In the year 1846, and In 1849 James McAfee, Jr., wedded Mrs. Margaret (Hendricks) Ackerson. By her first marriage she had one daughter, Catherine. Mrs. McAfee was born August 6, 1823, a daughter of Peter and Catherine (Webster) Hendricks. Mrs. Margaret (Hendricks) .McAfee was summoned to eternal rest in September, 1878, and was survived by three children - Andrew, who died in 1889; James (fourth of the name), who became a successful farmer in Rumley Township; and John A., who is the immediate subject of this sketch. In October, 1880, James McAfee, Jr., contracted a third marriage with Miss Sarah Jane Gundy, daughter of William and Susanna (Gotshall) Gundy, and she died in 1S92.

James McAfee, Jr., remained on his farm in Rumley Township until 1889, when he retired and established his home at New Rumley, his residence having there continued until his death, on the 25th of April, 1898. He was originally a republican, but his earnest convictions eventually led him to become actively affiliated with the prohibition party, of whose principles he continued a staunch advocate during the remainder of his life. He was a zealous member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a man who ever commanded secure place in the confidence and regard of those with whom he came in contact in the varied relations of life.

John A. McAfee acquired his preliminary education in the district schools of Rumley Township and supplemented this by attending Scio College for two terms. He was a young man when he began his independent career as a farmer in Rumley Township, and a generous success attended his vigorous and well directed enterprise in connection with agricultural and live-stock industry. He continued his active association with the work and management of his farm until the autumn of 1917, when he removed to New Rumley, in which village he has since lived practically retired and in the enjoyment of the peace and prosperity which should ever crown years of earnest and effective endeavor. He is a republican in political allegiance, and he and his wife are earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Rumley, of which he has served many years as a trustee, and is a trustee at the present time.

In 1878 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McAfee to Miss Susanna A. Manbeck, who was born and reared in Rumley Township and who Is a daughter of William and Isabel A. (Miller) Manbeck, the former a native of Rumley Township and the latter of German Township, this county, their marriage having been solemnized June 25, 1849, and both having been residents of Rumley Township at the time of their deaths. They became the parents of fourteen children: John, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Samuel Heidy), Daniel, Charles R., Sarah Margaret (Mrs. Michael B. Boor), Marla Catherine (Mrs. William Long), Marlanda Andora (died in early childhood), Susanna Almira (Mrs. John A. McAfee), Isabel Angeline (died young), Phoebe Jane (Mrs, Reid Arbaugh), Jacob Miller and Thomas Ellsworth (twins, the latter dying in infancy), William Austin, and Omer W. (died in January, 1917). Mr. and Mrs. McAfee have four children : Edward E., a farmer in Rumley Township, married Miss Florence Kohler, and they have four children - Dorothy May, Bertha Marie, Blanche C. and Edna Josephine. Ross S., who resides at Jewett, this county, married first Hattie Kohler, who met her death from a stroke of lightning. This occurred while she and her mother-in-law were engaged in seeding cherries at the McAfee home. A storm coming up, the two ladles went to the barn to put the buggy in its place. On their yray hack to the house, and while under a small apple tree, a bolt of lightning struck the tree and the younger woman was instantly killed, while the older woman was knocked senseless, the bolt having ripped her shoe down the back as though cut with a knife. Ross S'. McAfee's second marriage was with Laura Hall. Eva M. is the wife of Homer E. Sawvel, of New Rumley, and they became the parents of four children, of whom three are living - Ruth (died at the age of seven years), John Leo, Charles E. and Henry Dwight. Margaret Isabel is the wife of Lester G. Amos, of Rumley Township, and they have one child, Coyla.

Alvbed B. Manbdok needs no further evidence than the general appearance of his fine farm estate in Rumley Township, Harrison County, to determine his status as one of the progressive and successful exponents of agricultural and live-stock Industry in his native county, but aside from his achievement in this important field of enterprise he gained distinctive prestige in the pedagogic profession, as a representative of which he gave nearly thirteen years of effective service as a teacher in the schools of Harrison County.

Mr. Manbeck was born at New Rumley in the township which is his present place of residence, and the date of his nativity was January 10, 1876. His parents, Joseph and Bathsheba (Bishop) Manbeck, likewise were born in this township, and the latter was a daughter of John and Naomi (Martin) Bishop. Her father came from Pennsylvania and was an early settler in Rumley Township, where he developed an excellent farm and where he remained until his death, at the patriarchal age of ninety-six years, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest. Their children were eleven in number, namely : Hiram, Frederick Z., Oliver, Susan, Lucinda, Rebecca, Henrietta, Vermelia, Louise, Bathsheba and Bethla.

John Manbeck grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Pennsylvania and became one of the pioneer representatives of farm industry in Rumley Township, Harrison County, where he stood exponent of loyal and liberal citizenship until his death, at the age of seventy-six years. His first wife died when a comparatively young woman. They became the parents of seven children - John, Jr., Samuel, Jonathan, James, Joseph, Mary and Diana. After the death of his first wife Mr. Manbeck contracted a second marriage, and of this union was bora one son, William.

Joseph Manbeck was reared on the pioneer farm of his father and passed virtually his entire life in Rumley Township, his death having occurred in 1901 and his wife having passed away in 1895. Both held membership in the United Brethren Church. Their children were nine in number: Elizabeth (Mrs. John C.

Glover), Mary Edith (died in early childhood), John W., Harry O., Edward O., Alfred B., Della (wife of Ralph W. Riley of Trumbull County), Viola (Mrs. Joseph Croghan), and Goldie A. (deceased).

Alfred B. Manbeck gained his preliminary education in the district schools of Rumley Township, and thereafter attended S'cio College for a short time. His ambition made him an avidious student, and that he profited fully by the advantages that were his is shown by the fact at the age of eighteen years he proved himself eligible for pedagogic service and became a teacher In the district schools. He continued his work as a successful and popular teacher for a period of somewhat more than thirteen years, and in the meanwhile his service and continued study brought to him marked intellectual advancement. During the eight years which he taught In the district schools he gave five years to teaching In the Cole school in Rumley Township. During the last five years of his service as a teacher he held the position of principal of the public schools at New Rumley. At the time of his retirement he held a five-years' certificate as a teacher.

In the spring of 1907 Mr. Manbeck engaged in farm enterprise in Rumley Township, where he Is now the owner of a well improved farm of 200 acres, which he has made a center of successful agriculture and stock-raising, his attention being given specially to the breeding and growing of live stock of high standard. A man who gained his higher education largely through self-discipline, during many hours of earnest application to study, it was to be taken for granted that in connection with farm enterprise Mr. Manbeck should manifest the same fine ambition and progressiveness, and his achievement in the later field, as in teaching, stands to his enduring honor. He is a republican in politics, takes a broad-minded and loyal interest in public affairs, especially in his home community and native county, and he served two years as a member of the election board of Harrison County, besides having been its clerk for one year. He and his wife are zealous and valued members of the United Brethren Church at New Rumley, of which he has been a trustee for several years and In which he is serving also as classleader at the time of this writing, in 1020.

April 27, 1808, recorded the marriage of Mr. Manbeck to Miss Vinnie L. Naragon, daughter of Irvin Naragon, of Miller's Station, Ohio, and of this union have been born six children : Herman W. entered the Students Army Training Corps in preparation for service in the World war, was mustered in October 18, 1918, and received his discharge on the 11th of the following December. He is now associated in the work of the home farm. Marlin N. died at the age of one year. Alton K. is, in 1920, a student in the Scio High School. Lois U. is attending the district school. Francis E. and Venus L. died in early childhood.

John Bbickeb. One of the very earliest families to settle in Harrison County in Green Township was that of Bricker, which has been represented here by members of at least four generations. Of the third generation was the late John Bricker, who recently died at the age of nearly eighty-five, one of the oldest native sons of the township. His great length of years was accompanied by industrious and good management of his landed interests and a stanch upholding of the beet standards of citizenship.

The years of his old age were spent In the same house where he was born December 11. 1835. The Bricker family originated in Pennsylvania, and his grandfather, Anthony Bricker. came with his wife, Margaret, to Harrison County in 1804 and entered a quarter section of Government land in Green Township. Anthony Bricker acquired other land holdings, and was a man of notable business enterprise, operating one of the pioneer mills in the community. He died January 25, 1813, leaving over a section of land to his descendants. His children were George, Henry, John and Elizabeth.

John Bricker, Sr., the third son, was born in Pennsylvania May 9, 1793, and was about eleven years of age when his environment was transferred to the wilds of Harrison County, Ohio. After reaching manhood he took up the Interests to which his early training had qualified him, those of farmer and stock man, and at the time of his death he owned 340 acres. He never neglected the duties of good citizenship, and for many years was a trustee of Green Township. He and other early members of the family were active in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz. On Saint Valentine's day in 1833 John Bricker, Sr., married Anna Busby, who was born in Harrison County February 27, 1812, daughter of John Busby, another pioneer of the county. John Busby, Sr., and wife had three children, David, who never married, John and Elizabeth, the latter becoming the wife of Dr. William Beadle.

The late John Bricker came to manhood at a time when schools were largely of the subscription variety, and his early advantages were chiefiy confined to the fundamentals of learning. He learned industry and the lessons of thrift and self reliance on the home farm with his father, and at the age of twenty-two he and his brother David became managers of the old homestead. Except for a brief residence at Lacey ville John Bricker lived all his life at the homestead where he was bora. He is remembered as a good farmer, a thoroughgoing man in everything he undertook. For a number of years he had 230 acres in use for general farming purposes, and was always interested in livestock and made livestock growing the source of his revenue. He handled sheep and cattle, and at one time raised fast horses and was a lover of good horses at all times. Mr. Bricker died on July 3, 1920, in the same bouse in which he was bora.

The late Mr. Bricker was twice married, and children and grandchildren survive to hold his memory in respect and honor. May 31, 1864, he married Lucinda, daughter of Henry and Mary Bricker. She died May 24, 1879, mother of the following children : Annie Elizabeth, born August 19, 1866, widow of A. W; Laughlin; George Henry, bora December 24, 1866; John B., born September 26, 1869, deceased; William Beadle, deceased, bora April 5, 1872; David E., deceased, bora May 8, 1874 ; Charles E., deceased, born December 27, 1876.

September 8, 1881, Mr. Bricker married Margaret Jane Holmes, who survives him and Is an active member of the Methodist Church at Cadiz. She is a daughter of Robert and Ann J. Holmes. To the second marriage were born two children, Holmes V. on August 10, 1882, and Ralph C., who was bora February 28, 1884, and died February 14, 1896, at the age of twelve years.

Rankin Delmer Lee. Not only has Rankin Delmer Lee been connected with the agricultural interests of Harrison County for a number of years, but he still owns his fine farm in Archer Township, and has been connected with other enterprises of Jewett, where he now makes his home. He was born in Perry Township. Carroll County, Ohio, June 23, 1852, a son of Thomas M. and Mary (McCullough) Lee, and grandson of James Lee, one of the early settlers of Harrison County. For a number of years Janies Lee operated a large4 tannery at Cadiz, Ohio, and there he maintained his home. He married a Miss Crough, and they had the following children: Rankin, Allison and Thomas M.

Cullough. For a few years after reaching man's estate Thomas M. Lee taught school, but later began farming in Perry Township, Carroll County, Ohio, and when In 1862 he moved to Archer Township he continued in that calling until 1803, at which time he moved to Jewett. He died in this city in 1907. His wife died some years before him, passing away in 1893. Their children were as follows: James Allison, Joseph M., Rankin Delmer, Jennie, Emmett C. and Ross. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lee belonged to the Presbyterian Church.

Rankin Delmer Lee went to school in Perry Township, Carroll County, and Archer Township, Harrison County, but did not go. beyond the eighth grade. Having learned farming under his father's supervision, Mr. Lee engaged in farming for himself in Archer Township, and remained on his farm until 1893, when he moved to Jewett. Two years later he went into the milling business, and for the subsequent eleven years opera ted the grist-mill at Jewett. He still owns his fine farm of 140 acres in Archer Township, but continues to reside at Jewett.

On December 31, 1879, Mr. Lee was united in marriage with Anna Smilie, a daughter of Robert and Hannah Smilie, and they have the following children: Jessie, who married O. B.

Groves, of Jewett, now resides in Stephenville, and they have three children, Ralph, Paul and Evallne Jane; Thomas Dewitt, now residing in Steubenville, married Ella Carson of Hopedale, Ohio, and they have three children, Vernon, Louise and Robert; Mary E, unmarried, now teaching music in S'teubbn ville; Anna Ruth, who married Byron Arbaugh, of Jewett, now an attorney of Canton, Ohio; Pauline E., teaching school at Witten, near Wooster; Jean, a student at the University of Wooster, Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee and their family all belong to the Presbyterian Church of Jewett, in which Mr. Lee has been a trustee for a number of years. He Is one of the highly esteemed men of his community, and having spent practically all of his life here, is deeply interested in the progress of this region and willing to do anything within reason to aid In advancing the neighborhood, although he is not in favor of a wasteful use of public funds no matter what the object may be.

Jacob Stahl. Although many years have passed since the late Jacob Stahl was called from the scene of his earthly activities he is still remembered with kindly affection by the older generation, and his children are showing In their upright lives the effects of his example of industrious and thrifty habits and honorable methods of doing business. He was born at Jewett, Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, February 24, 1833, and his farming activities were carried on In his native township.

Jacob Stahl was a son of John and Mary Ann (Condo) Stahl. The birth of John Stahl took place in Maryland, July 16, 1810, and his wife was born In York County, Pennsylvania, February 28, 1813, and their marriage took place at Cadiz, Ohio, March 28, 1832. She was a daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Shuss) Condo. John

Stahl was a son of Jacob Stahl, who was born in Maryland, August 13, 1784, and he married Elizabeth Shilling. In 1816 he brought his wife and children from Maryland to Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and settled in section 36. Here he lived until his death, which occurred in 1845. He and his wife had the following children: William, who married Susannah Carnaga; Elizabeth, who married George Summons; John, who was third in order of birth; Lydia, who married Jeremiah Condo; Margaret, who married Peter Manbeck; Catherine, who married Abraham Gotchall; Susan, who married Abraham Kimmell; Mary, who married Daniel Hilbert; Matilda, who died young; and James, who married Elizabeth Shuss. The Lutheran Church held the membership of the entire family.

Reared in Rumley Township, John Stahl became one of the prosperous farmers of the county and the owner of over 200 acres of land, the present city of Jewett standing on bis old homestead. He laid out the original town of Jewett in 1851, and lived in it until his death, taking an active part in its affairs, especially those connected with the Lutheran Church of the place, which he assisted in organizing, and of which he and his wife were very activemembers. John Stahl and his wife became theparents of the following family: Jacob, whosename opens this review ; Margaret, who married Thomas Lucas, is deceased, as is also her husband; Catherine, who married Arnold Wheeler, and both are deceased; Mary Ann, who is the widow of David Hazellett; Susan, who died In childhood ; Samuel, who also died in childhood ; and Samantha Jane, who was the youngest.

Jacob Stahl went to the district schools of his neighborhood, and grew up to be a farmer. As a young man he began farming on his own account and also dealt in stock, and in March, 1867, he bought the farm in Rumley Township, three-quarters of a mile north of Jewett, on which he resided until his death. His original purchase was 136 acres of land, and on it he carried on general farming and stock raising. His death occurred in 1872, and since then his sons John Thomas and Joseph have been operating the place, doing general farming and stockraising and specializing on sheep. The sons have rebuilt all of the buildings, so that they are now in splendid condition and thoroughly modernized, and have added to the farm until they now have 182 acres. This property is one of the best in the county, well kept and finely cultivated, and the entire premises reflect great credit upon the owners. The two brothers and two sister live on the old place, and they are excellent farmers. The members of the Stahl family belong to the Lutheran Church of Jewett the grandfather assisted in organizing.

Jacob Stahl was married to Catherine Knouff, a daughter of John Knouff, and she died November 21, 1855, leaving one son. John Thomas. After her death Jacob Stahl was married to Elizabeth Kimniel, a daughter of Jonathan and Marla Kimmel, and they became the parents of the following children : Samuel, who was born June 16, 1858, died when small; Martha, who married Samuel H. Mikesell, has three chll- dren; Lena, Lawrence and Anna Maud; Mary, who married M. L. Arbaugh, has two children, Paul and Norris; Catherine, who lives on the farm; Joseph, who married Lillie Shilling, has two children, Margaret Elizabeth and Catherine Marie; Anna Maria, who lives on the farm. Mrs. Stahl survived her husband for many years, but was taken away September 21, 1916.

The history of the Shilling family, with which Joseph Stahl is connected by marriage, is also worthy of preservation. Mrs. Lillie Stahl, wife of Joseph Stahl, is a daughter of Franklin Shilling, and granddaughter of Jacob Shilling, one of the pioneers of Harrison County, Ohio, who was bom in Maryland, as was his wife, Christena Steffln. In an early day Jacob Shilling came to German Township, Harrison County, Ohio, and conducted the mill in the vicinity of Franklin, but later on moved to Rumley Township, where he owned a farm. He and his wife had the following family: John, Ellas, William, Jacob, Martin, Franklin and Mary Ann, who married James Laughlin. Both he and his wife belonged to the Lutheran Church.

Franklin Shilling was bora in Rumley Township, June 8, 1835, and he attended the schools of his native township. On January 11, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, Seventh-Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for service in the war between the states. He received his honorable discharge May 2, 1866. During the intervening ;perfad he participated in the following battles: 33iege of Nashville, battles of Stone River. Hoover's Gap, Tennessee, Dug Gap, Georgia, Chickai manga, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, IMMiaaaxy Ridge, Tennessee, Buzzard's Roost Gap, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro and others of less importance, at all times proving himself a brave man and faithful soldier.

In 1867 Franklin Shilling was married to Margaret Knepper, a daughter of John and Hannah (Custer) Knepper. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Shilling continued to live at Jewett until 1886, at which time they moved to the farm they still occupy. It comprises sixty acres, and on it Mr. Shilling is doing general farming. Mr. and Mrs. Shilling became the parents of the following children: Lillie D., who is Mrs. Joseph Stahl; William Clyde, who married Cora Mack, has a son, William, and they live at Denison, Ohio ; Robert Wilson, who married Emma Boyd, has two children, Robert B. and Helen Louise: Harry Franklin, who is the fourth in order of birth : and Paul D., who married Golda Hosterman, and they have two children, Mary Ruth and Dorcas May.

Robert Wilson Shilling is a physician and surgeon, and during the World war served with the rank of first lieutenant in the medical branch of the service. He was for a year at the Mossley Hill Hospital at Liverpool, England. Upon his return to this country he received his honorable discharge, and he resumed the practice of his profession at New Somerset, Ohio.

first advertised in a business way as Lawlis Brothers, and now that they are farming again they are still Lawlis Brothers and own property together. They are sons of Cyrus W. Lawlis, who lived in Monongahela County, West Virginia. Marion Lawlis was bora February 2, 1866, and John was bora November 18, 1860, in West Virginia. Their parents always lived there.

Cyrus W. Lawlis was bora September 26, 1836, and Sarah A. Brewer, was bora February 15, 1838, in the same community. They were married November 8, 1863, and always lived In Monongahela County. Mrs. Lawlis was a daughter of Enoch and Margaret (Wolford) Brewer, the father a Monongahela County farmer. Her brothers and sisters were: Justice, Ephraim,

The Lawlis family were pioneers in Monongahela County, John Lawlis, father of Cyrus W. and grandfather of the two Harrison County Lawlis Brothers, having been born there February 11, 1812, and the grandmother, Elizabeth Fleming, October 30, 1816, and their marriage day was November 30, 1834. Their children were: Cyrus W., through whom Lawlis Brothers are descended; Melissa, born February 15, 1838; Clara, October 29, 1840; Orlando, December 20, 1842; Mary Ann, In 1845; Evelyn C., May 15, 1847; Lydia C., February 16, 1850; Jerome, April 8, 1854; James L., July 8, 1856, and Victoria A., November 12, 1858, the children numbering as many as most Ohio families of the period. The Lawlis family were members of the Christfhn Church. Cyrus W. Lawlis died June 5, 1872, aged thirty-six years, eight months and nine days. Few families anywhere furnish more exact data than have Lawlis Brothers. Some families do not possess sufficient record to give out any information about themselves.

This West Virginia father died while yet a young man. The Lawlis children are: Rosena, born August 21, 1864; and Marion and John, of Cadiz Township. Their mother now lives with John Lawlis in Cadiz Township. When the father died the mother and sons continued farming in Monongahela County until the sons went to the Pennsylvania oil fields. They were educated in the district schools of Monongahela county and at the school known as Mountain Tea College. The boys worked at home until 1888, when they went to the oil fields and did teaming, taking contracts for oil field jobs. In 1897 they went back to the old home farm in West Virginia. They remained there until March 31, 1903, when they removed to Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio.

Lawlis Brothers had already bought a farm of 157 acres, and they both lived on it and worked together until 1908, when they bought another farm of 145 acres about a mile from there. They have always farmed together. They are breeders of registered Hereford cattle, and combine farming and livestock, making the pennies count in all their dealings.

are: Harry C., bom January 18, 1892; John M., born March 2, 1893, died August 29, 19<)3; Iva Ethel, horn April 6, 1894. The mother died April 29, 1895, and sixteen years later, in January, 1911, Mr. Lawlis married Flora, daughter of William and Mary (Hennls) Medley. At this time Mr. Lawlis removed to the second farm the brothers had purchased. The children of this marriage are: Elmer E., bom March 5, 1912;

On May 7, 1893, John Lawlis married Mary, daughter of J. J. and Rebecca (Lemley) Wharton. On February 5, 1896, was bom a daughter, Claudia Lucile. Mrs. Lawlis died October 21, 1897, and his mother is the home maker there. Lawlis Brothers are good farmers and know how to make the money. They contribute to the Methodist Church In Cadiz, and they are members of the Lodge of the Maccabees. Conditions of agriculture in eastern Ohio are not very different from what they had known In West Virginia.

Geobge McConnell Patton, Civil war veteran and well-known citizen of Harrison County, residing at New Athens, was bora in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, Ohio, April 9, 1844.

The Patton family is of Scotch-Irish descent. Samuel Patton, grandfather of George M., was bora in County Down, Ireland. He was by occupation a sea-trader being part owner of a vessel which traded between Dublin and New York. In early manhood in the above trade he became a citizen of the United States, receiving his papers of citizenship at the hands of President Washington while his family remained in Ireland. He invested his money in flax-seed and sailed for Ireland, but the vessel was wrecked on the coast of Ireland in 1798, and the ship and cargo lost. Samuel Patton saved his life by swimming to shore.

He married a Scotch girl, Jane Friar, of County Down, on May 3, 1803. Samuel and his family sailed for America and landed at Philadelphia on August 1 of that year, and spent the following winter In Wheeling, West Virginia. He took up a section of Government land in Belmont County, and in the spring of 1804 he settled on this land, where he and wife spent the remainder of their lives. He became the father of three sons, James, William and John. James died in infancy in Ireland. John died In his seventeenth year.

William, son of Samuel, was born in Ireland in 1800 and was reared in Wheeling Township, Belmont County, where for many years he was a successful farmer. He died in Belmont County. He married Ann Clark, who was the daughter of Alex Clark, of Belmont County. William Patton and wife became the parents of the following children: Samuel, Margaret, John, Ellen, Alex. C., Carrie, Calvin W., Sylvanus, all of whom are deceased; James B., George M., the subject of this review; William L. and Thomas L., living.

Ninety-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which regiment he served throughout the war, taking part in every skirmish and battle in which the regiment was engaged. In 1862 he was wounded at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, and at the battle of Atlanta, in 1864, he was again wounded, having spent three months in the hospital after each wound. In June, 1865, he was mustered out of the service.

Following the war Mr. Patton returned to his old home in Belmont County, where he continued to reside until 1868, in which year he removed to his farm in Short Creek Township, Harrison County. In 1908 he moved into the village of New Athens, and has since lived In retirement from active business.

On January 1, 1868, in Belmont County, Mr. Patton was united In marriage with M. Louise Campbell, who was born at Unlontown, Ohio, on March 29, 1848, the daughter of Dr. John Campbell. She died in 1904, leaving the following children : Mary Olive, who married Rev. James B. Ely; Carrie Downing? who married Rev. A. A. Giffen; Albert Belmont married Dr. Beatrice Armstrong; Jay B., who married Ella Watson; Margaret Keoka, living with her father; Clark Campbell, M. D., who married Marie Kellogg.

In 1886-7 Mr. Patton served as a member of the Ohio Legislature, he having been elected on the republican ticket from Harrison County. He is a member of James Love Post No. 686, G. A. R., Department of Ohio. He is also a member of the United Presbyterian Church.

Thomas B. Patton. Since April 1, 1816, the name Patton has been in the annals of Harrison County, and Thomas Burns Patton, the hardware dealer in Hopedale, has seen fit to honor his ancestry by causing them to live again in the pages of history. The Commemorative Record says of the founder of the Patton family in Ohio: "In every community are to be found those who are recognized as leaders." M. M. Patton, born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1815, was only a babe when his parents brought him to Harrison County. While there was a family of ten children bom to Joseph and Sarah (Bums) Patton, John, Sarah, Joseph and Margaret are older than M. M. Patton, and there were five children when the family came to Ohio. After the family reached Ohio the following children were bora: James, Mary, Cynthia, David and Ann.

The Patton family located in Rumley Township, and in February, 1851, Joseph Patton died there, his wife having died in September, 1842, and they He side by side in the Rumley Cemetery. When they came they purchased a quarter section of land, and with the help of their children they cleared it. Some of their posterity still live in the community. M. M. Patton and the rest of the family were educated under primitive conditions. The school house of that day was a log cabin with a slab door, slab benches and greased paper windows. In such primitive surroundings, aided by a few wellworn books and a teacher whose muscular development was never doubted, but of whose literary qualifications little should be said, the

On March 3, 1844, M. M. Patton married Sarah Jane, a daughter of Samuel McCullough, a resident of Carroll County. For a time he lived in North Rumley, when he purchased the Pratt farm, remaining there eleven years. After making extensive improvements he sold and bought a place where the family lived many years. His children are: Sarah Margaret, James,

John H., Joseph, Samuel M., Addison, William, Fremont, Ida Fre, and Thomas B. Patton and an infant that was not given a name, horn after Fremont. Thomas B. Patton was bom December 8, 1863, in Rumley Township, where the pioneers of the family had located so many years earlier.

Mr. Patton began life as a farmer, remaining in Rumley Township until October, 1908, when he located in Hopedale. His first business was a livery with a side Investment in hardware, but the "horseless era" had come and he soon devoted himself to the -hardware interests. Mr. Patton owned a half interest In the business with O. E. Miller, but four and one-half years later Mr. Patton bought the Miller interest and later sold that Interest to Charles Hedge, who remained for five years as a business partner. For the next five years Mr. Patton conducted the business alone and then took his son, C. H. Patton, as a partner. They carry a full line of hardware, builders' supplies and furnaces.

On March 30, 1888, Mr. Patton married Hattie E. Finnicum. She was a resident of Rumley Township and a daughter of John Finnicum. Their son, Beryl F. Patton, married Pearl Stringer, and there are two grandsons, Roy Patton, and William Thomas, the latter born January 2, 1921. Carl H. Patton married Etta Nation, and the granddaughter is Alice Louise Patton.

Matthew M. Patton, the father of Thomas B. Patton, had been a democrat, as had been his ancestors until the election of President Alexander Buchanan, when he changed his political relation to the republican party, then embodying the principles he advocated, and while he never sought or held office he was active in the affairs of the republican party. The Pattons today are republicans and Presbyterians. "Worthy sons of a worthy father," describes the family situation, this quotation being taken from The Commemorative Record of Harrison County.

Wilbub Karl Black, M. D. The great Galen boasted "I have done as much to medicine as Trojan did to the Roman Empire in making bridges and roads throughout Italy," thus emphasizing with the then greatest known marvels of accomplishment his own benefactions to humanity. And yet In the light of modern medical science how little Galen did and how radically wrong, remarkable as they were, proved many of his conclusions. To the medical profession the early teachers will ever continue great, but a physician or surgeon of the present day whose professional knowledge is not vastly broader, higher and deeper could not lay much stress upon his dependability or effectiveness, nor could he win or hold the confidence of his community. The members of this learned calling in Harrison County, fortunately for the people and themselves, however, are men of skill, thoroughly trained in modern professional institutions, and abreast of the latest discoveries, and many of the younger ones have seen service during the great war, none of them returning to their everyday practice without acknowledgment of the benefit they received in the broadening of their experience. One of these physicians and surgeons of the county deserving of special mention is Dr. Wilbur Karl Black, one of the active medical practitioners of Freeport and a veteran of the late war.

Doctor Black was born at Freeport, Ohio. October 11, 1880, a son of R. M. and Rebecca Jane (Allen) Black, and grandson of Henry C., and Rebecca Ann (McCarty) Black.

R. M. Black was bom in Guernsey County, Ohio. His wife was boro in Freeport Township, a daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Barrett) Allen. For about twenty-six years R. M. Black operated a general merchandise store at Freeport, but in 1900 he branched out and began handling livestock, which occupied him until 1916, when he was made a member of the Ohio State Food Inspection Board, and the duties of this office are now absorbing his time and attention. He and his wife became the parents of the following children : Cordny A., who is the eldest ;

Sarah, who married D. M. Starkey; Roy A., who married Minetto Mears, lives at Compton, California : Wilbur Karl, whose name heads this review ; Glenn, who married Rebecca Todd, lives at Chicago, Illinois; and Genevive. Mr. Black is a member of Freeport Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Both he and Mrs. Black belong to the Presbyterian Church and take an active part in its religious work.

Wilbur Karl Black attended the public schools of Freeport and Oberlin College, but after a year in that institution he entered the University of Indiana at Valparaiso, and there spent three years. For the subsequent year he was at Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio, and in 1906 entered the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1910. Following that he served as an interne for a year at the Rockford City Hospital at Rockford, Illinois, and then for another year he alternated interneships between the Cook County and Saint Mary's Hospitals at Chicago. Doctor Black still further prepared himself for his life work by taking a year's interneship at Saint Anthony's Tuberculosis Hospital of New York City. He then felt competent to enter upon the practice of his calling and began the practice of medicine at Lima, Ohio.

When the United States entered the great war Doctor Black was one of the men of his profession who offered the Government their services, and he was commissioned a first lieutenant of the medical corps in July, 1917, and was sent without training to England and attached to the English army. He served In an English military hospital for about six weeks, when he was sent to France and attached to the Thirty-seventh Division. Field Ambulance. He saw service In

Flanders, and was gassed in November, 1917, and sent to the base hospital at Havre, France. After a month in the hospital as a patient, he was attached to It for duty and remained there until May 1, 1918, when he was transferred from the English army to the American army and attached to the One Hundred and Twenty- Seventh Infantry, Second Battalion, Thirty- Second Division, remaining with that division oat along the front from Alsace to Belgium. He took part in the offensives of Chateau Thierry, Soissons and the Oise Alsne. In the taking of Juvigny Doctor Black won his Croix de Guerre from the French, with whose forces the Thirty-second Division were operating. Doctor Black was also in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, and after the signing of the armistice he went beyond the Rhine into Germany, where he was on outpost duty until April 18. 1919, when his organization, which had crossed the Rhine on December 13, 1918, entrained for Brest, France. On February 6, 1919, Doctor Black was married to Marcelle Apte of Paris, France. Her father, who was mayor of a French town, was killed in the service of his country. In order to bring his wife along on the same boat with him Doctor Black crossed as a casual, leaving Brest May 14, 1919, on the "Victoria" and arrived at New York City, May 22. He received his discharge from Camp Dix, May 25, 1919. Returning to Ohio, Doctor Black established himself in practice at Freeport, where he has since remained.

War Department

1. I desire to place on record in The Adjutant General's Office, my appreciation of the services of Captain Wilbur Karl Black (Medical Corps, Emergency.

3. He has not applied to me for any letter of recommendation, but nevertheless, I feel it only just to the Government and to himself to have placed with his papers a letter setting forth my estimate of his work while with the 127th Infantry in the American Expeditionary Forces.

4. Captain Black served with the British Expeditionary Forces for several months. In the middle of May, 1918, he was transferred to the American Expeditionary Forces. He joined the 127th Infantry immediately after I took command of that regiment on the 9th of July, 1918. He remained with it while the regiment occupied a trench sector in Haute- Alsace ; throughout its service in Europe and returned with it to the States for demobilization In May, 1919.

5. Captain Black rendered splendid service as medical officer with our regiment in the AIsne-Marne Offensive, the OIse-AIsne Offensive, and the first and last phases of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the march to the Rhine and in the occupation of the Coblenz bridgehead area.

6. He was tireless in his energetic care of the wounded and sick, and worked with such disregard for his own personal safety as to win the respect of all who knew him. I particularly recall how on one occasion during the fighting In the Argonne he showed considerable initiative in seeking out a new location for an advanced regimental aid station in the village of Gesnes, which at the time was subject to heavy artillery fire, but through which our wounded had to be brought from the front line. However, this was only one of numerous examples of courage and initiative displayed by Captain Black.

7. Captain Black throughout his work was always patient and gentlemanlv with all who dealt with him, which made his work as a medical officer all the more valuable.

Grand Quartier General Etat Major

Apres approbation du General Commandant en Chef les Forces expeditionnalres amerlcalnes en France, le Marechal de France, Commandant en Chef les Armees Francalses de l'Est, cite a 1' Ordre de la Brigade.

"Ha 8 shown unusual Initiative and great courage in establishing advanced aid stations in line work. Has shown always great disdain for danger and has been a fine example for his men." of the North and Northeast, being cognizant of the brave deeds on the field of battle of the following soldiers, awards them the Croix de Guerre and cites them in orders.

Rorebt W. Reynabd has been a resident of Harrison County from the time of his birth, is now the owner of one of the fine farms of Cadiz Township, where he is staging his successful activities as an agriculturist and stockgrower, and he is a representative of the fourth generation of the Reynard family in Ohio. His great-grandfather, Marmaduke Reynard, was born and reared In England, where was solemnized his marriage to Mary Shaw, a native of Scotland. In 1817 Marmaduke Reynard came with his family to the United States from Yorkshire, England, and became one of the pioneer settlers in Jefferson County, Ohio, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, both having been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his political allegiance having been given to the whig party. Their children were eight in number: John,

John Reynard, grandfather of Robert W. of this review, was bom in Yorkshire, England, in 1806, and thus was about eleven years old at the time of the family immigration to America. He continued his studies in the pioneer schools of Jefferson County, Ohio, and was a young man when he came to Harrison County, where was solemnized his marriage to Julia Pittls, a daughter of John and Mary Pittls. she having been born on the Isle of Wight, England, in 1817. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Reynard remained one year in Franklin Township, Harrison County, and they then removed to Meigs County, where they purchased 320 acres of wild land and began the reclamation of a farm in the midst of the forest. They there remained seven years and then removed to Jefferson County, but within a short time thereafter returned to Franklin Township, Harrison County, where Mr. Reynard engaged in farm enterprise and where he remained until his death, in 1864. His widow passed the closing years of her life in the home of her daughter Alice in the state of Kansas. Both were zealous members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Reynard was a whig until the organization of the republican party, when he transferred his allegiance to the latter. Of their children the eldest is William, father of him whose name introduces this article: Marmaduke is deceased; Mary D. became the wife of George Moore; Jane married Wesley Cox; Alice E. married Marion Hefling, and after his death contracted a second marriage, the name of her second husband being Watson and she being still a resident of Kansas; John W. likewise resides in the state of Kansas; Hannah is the wife of Worthington McFadden; Julia Josephine died young; Nancy Louis married Marion Tittis; Mrs. Jane Blackwell is the youngest of the daughters ; and Thomas died young.

William Reynard was born in Franklin Township, Harrison County, August 14, 1842, and was four years old at the time of the family removal to Meigs County, as noted in a preceding paragraph. He was about twelve years of age at the time of the return to Franklin Township, Harrison County, where he was reared to adult age and where he continued his association with farm enterprise until the summer of 1864, when he became a member of Company D, One Hundred and Seventieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he continued in active service nearly 150 days - or virtually until the close of the Civil war. Upon his return home he resumed farming operation In Franklin Township, where he developed and improved a fine farm of 225 acres, which he still owns, and when; he continued his vigorous activities as an agriculturist and stock-grower for fully forty years. In the spring of 1908 he and his wife removed from their farm to the village of Deersville, where he still maintains his home, as one of the venerable native sons of the county, and where his devoted wife died on the 31st of October, 1917. In politics Mr. Reynard has always been a staunch republican, and he has served in various township offices, including that of trustee, of which he was the incumbent about eight years, besides which he served four years as member of the Board of Directors of the county infirmary and was for a long period a member of the School Board of his district. He has been a most zealous and influential member of the Presbyterian Church, of which his wife likewise was a devout adherent, and has served as elder and treasurer of the church, as well as superintendent of the Sunday School, which last-mentioned position he held for many years. Mr. and Mrs. William Reynard became the parents of four children: Mary Delpliine, who is the wife of John Lyle Clark: Horace W., who married Miss Marie Markley and is engaged in the drug business at Salem, Columbiana County; Robert W., who is the immediate subject of this review; and Eva Lena, who is the wife of Arthur Wharton.

Robert W. Reynard is Indebted to the public schools of his native township for his early education, and he continued his active association with the management of the old home farm for eleven years after his marriage. In the autumn of 1918 he purchased the John P. Ross farm of 138 acres in Cadiz Township, adjoining the farm of the .county infirmary, and here he is carrying forward his progressive enterprise as one of the representative agriculturists and stock-raisers of his native county. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Cadiz, the county seat.

Cadis Township, a daughter of John and Martha (Irwin) Finical, the former of whom died February 4, 1899, and the latter still resides in Harrison County, at a venerable age. John Finical was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1829, a son of Isaac Finical, and both his paternal and maternal grandfathers were patriot soldiers in the War of the Revolution. Soon after attaining to his legal majority Isaac Finical married Margaret, youngest daughter of Robert Anderson, of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and they continued their residence in the old Keystone State until 1831, when they came to Harrison County, Ohio, where he died in 1854, at the age of seventy-five years, his widow having been eighty-five years of age at the time of her death, and their children having been nine in number. John Finical was reared to manhood in Harrison County and as a young man became a successful teacher in the district schools, to which profession he devoted his attention for a number of years, though the major part of his active life was given to farm industry, in which he was successful. In April, 1856, he married Miss Martha Irwin, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irwin, removed that same year to Iowa, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. and Mrs. Finical became the parents of six sons and four daughters, and Nellie V., wife of the subject of this review, is the youngest of the five now living. Mr. and Mrs. Reynard have one child, John William, who was born April 4, 1914.

Jambs B. Lyons, who lives in Cadiz, has retired from active business pursuits, and yet he superintends his farm and keeps in close touch with agriculture. He w-as born in Cadiz May 12, 1833. Older Inhabitants speak of that period as the year the stars fell, and he has always lived in Harrison County. His father, Robert Lyons, was born December 14, 1803, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and August 7, 1832, he married Ann W. Rowland of the same community. She was a daughter of Robert Rowland, and they located in Harrison County. The grandfather, Mathew Lyons, of Pennsylvania ancestry, was born the year American Independence was declared, 1776, and he died in 1852 in Washington County. His wife was a Miss Kelly. He was a farmer. Their children were Mathew, Richard, Joseph and Robert.

The youngest son, Robert, founded the Lyons family in Harrison County. As a boy of fifteen years he capie to Cadiz, and in partnership with Daniel Kilgore he operated a general store. He is listed among the pioneer merchants of Harrison County.

In 1847 there was a branch of the Ohio State bank organized in Cadiz, the first bank in Harrison County, and Robert Lyons became its first cashier. He remained with this bank until 1855, when he established a brokerage office in Cadiz, and he continued that business the remainder of his days. Of the five children of Robert Lyons, Nancy and Ann Eliza died in childhood. The others are: James B., Martha C., who married Barclay Welch, and she is now

After finishing public school in Cadiz J. B. Lyons entered Franklin College at New Athens. Like his father, he became a bank cashier. For many years he was cashier of the Frst National Bank of Cadiz, and in 1858 went to Cambridge, where he engaged in the brokerage business, and soon after the Civil war he went to Philadelphia, where he engaged in the produce business with William Isham. After a few years Mr. Lyons returned to Cadiz and entered the brokerage business in the office of his father, finally buying a farm in Green Township, and since that time he has given his attention to general farming and the livestock business.

On January 3, 1858, Mr. Lyons married Sallie G. Thomas, who was born April 4, 1838, at Cambridge, Ohio. She is a daughter of Lambert Thomas. Their children are Anna B., wife of Dr. Frank Martin; Catherine G., Robert, deceased, Mary T., wife of Albert Bullock, and Nancy, wife of Jesse Slemons. The Lyons family are communicants in the Cadiz Presbyterian Church.

Thomas A. Palmer has shown no indirection or lack of initiative energy in his long and successful career as one of the representative farmers of his native county, and though now advanced in years he still resides upon hi$ old home farm in North Township, Harrison County, the place having comprised 140 acres until the spring of 1919, when he relieved hiinself of the cares of managing the entire place by selling ninety-two acres, so that he retains at the present time a farm of forty-eight acres and is giving his attention principally to growing apples. He is a man of marked mentality, is genial and affable, has lived a life of uprightness and producive toil, and no citizen of the community commands more secure vantage-place in popular confidence and good will.

Mr. Palmer was born in Archer Township, this county, on the 28th of October, 1849, and is a sou of Adam and Catherine (Shlrey) Palmer, both natives of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where the former was born In December. 1812, and the latter on the 11th of January, 1816, she having been a daughter of John and Rachel Shirey. Adam Palmer's parents, Jacob and Hannah (Archibald) Palmer, came from the old Keystone State of Ohio in the early pioneer days and were numbered among the first permanent settlers in Stock Township, Harrison County, where they established their home in 1814 and where the father reclaimed a farm from the forest wilds. Adam Palmer was about two years old when the family came to Harrison County, where he was reared on the pioneer farm and attended the primitive schools of the period. In his youth lie learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed in connection with farm enterprise in Archer Township until 1860, when he removed to a farm in North Township, this place having been Improved and developed by him and having continued his place of residence until his death, October 15, 1881. His widow sur- vived him by fifteen ''ears and passed to the life eternal on the 29th of February, 1896, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The names and respective dates of birth of their children are here recorded: Jacob G., October 18, 1838; Mary E., July 8, 1840; William, May 21, 1842; Israel A., June 2, 1844; Thomas A., subject of this review, October 28, 1849.

Thomas A. Palmer gained his youthful education in the rural schools of Harrison County and as a youth he learned the carpenter's trade, principally under the direction of his father. After devoting a few years to work at his trade he engaged in farming, with which great basic industry be has continued his connection during the long intervening years, the while he has owned and resided upon his present farm since the time of his marriage, in 1875. He has always been ready to give his support to measures and enterprises advanced for the general good of the community, is a Democrat in politics, and is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Hanover, as was also his wife, whose death, on the 3d of March, 1911, brought the supreme loss and bereavement of his life.

April 29, 1875, marked the marriage of Mr. Palmer to Miss Jennie E. Fowler, who was born and reared in Stock Township, and who was a daughter of James W. and Elizabeth (Crawford) Fowler, who passed the closing years of their lives on their farm in Stock Township, near Scio. Mr. Fowler was bom in Monroe Township, this county, October 12, 1829, and was a son of Benjamin and Jane (Whittaker) Fowler, whose marriage was solemnized in this county. Benjamin Fowler was bom in Pennsylvania October 31, 1802, and was a boy at the time of the removal of the family to Harrison County, Ohio, where his father, John Fowler, became a pioneer farmer and where he himself passed the remainder of his life, in Monroe Township. James W. Fowler married Miss Elizabeth Crawford on the 7th of June, 1852, and in 1861 they settled on the farm in Stock Township which continued to be their place of residence during the remainder of their lives, both having been earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Palmer became the parents of two children: Nellie I. is the wife of Loyd M. Nixon, of North Township, and they have one son, Clyde;. Mary E. is the wife of Rev. Robert M. Albaugh, a clergyman of the Baptist Church, and they reside in Portsmouth, Ohio, their two children being Roberta M. and William Carroll.

Edward L. Garner has achieved marked popularity and success as a teacher in the public schools of his native county, served two terms as clerk of the court at Cadiz, the judicial center of the county, and is now one of the representative exponents of agricultural and live-stock industry in Cadiz Township, where he owns the old James K. Ourant farm of 115 acres, a property which he purchased in 1908, the place being well improved and constituting one of the valuable farms of Harrison County.

Mr. Gamer was born in Nottingham Township, this county, August 6, 1872, and is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of that township, where his grandfather, Hezekiah Garner, settled about the year 1818 and reclaimed a farm from the forest, only ten acres of the tract of 160 acres having been cleared when the property came into his possession, and the original domicile of the family having been a log cabin, which soon gave place to a house that was far superior to the average dwellings of the locality and period. Hezekiah Garner developed a productive farm, and here he continued to reside until his death in 1866. He was born in Maryland about 1780, was there reared to manhood and thence went forth as a gallant young soldier in the War of 1812. By his first marriage he became the father of three children - James, John and Julia (Mrs. Hugh Rose), Julia having been the last to survive and having been a resident of Harrison County at the time of her death. For his second wife Mr. Gamer married Sophia Tippitt, and they became the parents of eight children : Elizabeth, Mary Bell, Susanna, Sarah (Mrs. Titus), Nelson, Amanda (Mrs. Beall), Edward (father of the subject of this sketch), and Thomas. All of these children are now deceased.

Edward Garner was born in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, March 18, 1823, and there he was reared under the conditions of the pioneer days. In his native township he gave his entire active life to agricultural industry as one of the substantial farmers and honored citizens of the county, and he died in February, 1910, only a short time prior to the eighty-seventh anniversary of his birth. He was always a stanch republican in politics, and he and his wife were zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In the autumn of 1866 was solemnized the marriage of Edward Garner to Miss Julia A. Merryman, who was boro in Cadiz Township, Harrsion County, April 3, 1831, a member of another of the representative pioneer families of the county. She passed to the life eternal on the 19th of December, 1886, and of the eleven children the subject of this review is the youngest; Elizabeth and Amos died in childhood; Sophia Rose became the wife of J. S. Rose, of Washington Township; Lucy married J. B. Beall, and they established their home on a farm In Nottingham Township; Merryman and Oliver located on farms in Nottingham Township; Amanda J. married A. W. Yarnall, of Freeport Township; Lavina became the wife of Allen Moore, of Moorefleld Township; Emma A. became the wife of R. A. McKibben, of Moorefield Township; Mary B. became the wife of Albert B. Fulton and continued to reside in her native county until her death, in October, 1918.

Edward L. Garner passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the home farm, and that he profited fully by the advantages afforded in the public schools is indicated by the fact that when eighteen years of age he became a successful teacher in the district schools. After thus following the pedagogic profession a few years he entered Valparaiso

University at Valparaiso, Indiana, in which celebrated institution he completed a course in the normal department. He then resumed teaching in the schools of his native state, and to this important work be continued to devote the greater part of his time until he purchased and established bis home on his present farm in 1908, save that four years of service were .given by him as clerk of the courts of his native county, a position to which he was first elected in 1910 and of which he continued the incumbent two successive terms.

Mr. Garner is found loyally aligned in the ranks of the republican party, is affiliated with the lodge of Knights of Pythias in the village of Adena, and both he and his wife hold membership in the Rankin Methodist Episcopal Church in Moorefleld Township.