Jackson Township

Jackson Township

The township of Jackson cannot claim great antiquity, as compared with its older sisters, consequently its history deals more particularly with events more nearly modern, and whose active influence are still being felt.

The northern part is comparatively level, with a gentle slope toward the Mis sissinewa River. The soil is mainly a dark loam, very productive. Though the lands lie low in places, extensive drainage and tiling are rapidly making them available, and in a few years these tracts will have become the garden spots of the township.

The timber in this section is oak, ask, hickory, elm, etc.. with originalh* a fine growth of walnut, of which little now remains. In the central part of the township, the surface is more uneven, but may be characterized as undulating, rather than hilly, with a tendenc}' to clay soil in the more elevated portions. This is the upland section of the township. Beech is the predominating timber in this part of Jackson, followed, in order of abundance, by the sugar maple and shell-bark hickory. Southward, the surface is still more rolling, the soil lighter, warmer and very fertile in the depressions. Originally there was much poplar here, but the demand for this timber for lumber has exhausted the supply, and very few trees now remain.

James Marquis was the first settler in the township. He came in 1830, accompanied by his family, from the Alleghany Ridge, Virginia. He was a stalwart among pioneers, being of powerful frame and of full 300 pounds weight. Uniting robust health with this strong frame, he was the ideal of the pioneer, ranging the wood for game or felling the giant monarchs of the forest with swift and heavy strokes.

In 1831, his brother. William K. Marquis, removing from the old home, joined him in the woods of Jackson, and for two years, or until 1833. these were the only two families in the township, though there were four or five cabins about two miles distant, in the Creviston neighborhood. Washington Township. Kidd Marquis was born in 1794, served during the war of 1812. removed to Jackson, as said, where he died in 1858. His wife, in her eighty-sixth year, is healthy and active, makes journeys of several miles on foot, and possesses her faculties unimpaired. She is a worthy type of the settler's wife, having raised a family of nine children, now grown to maturity and filling honorable positions in life - a marked contrast this to the feeble health of many modern matrons with their one or two children. In 1831. a man named Burns moved in, upon the Reeves Hand place, between Union City and Hillgrove, on the bank of Dismal Creek. In 1833. Frederick Roe came from Fayette County and located upon land adjoining the Marquis clearing on the west, a portion of which is now included in the Union City incorporation.

Pioneer " Jesse Grey settled one and one-fourth miles east of Union City, on the Greenville pike of to-day, at an early da}-, and by some it has been claimed that himself and family were the first in the township, but his original location was just across the line, in Washington Township. Grey was naturally kind of heart, but cherished a deep antipath}* toward the Indians, and it was claimed by others and admitted by himself, that he shot them on sight, whenever possible, in revenge for terrible wrongs inflicted on his ancestors years before.

It is related by Dr. W. J. Stewart, who, while on a journey to Adams County, Ind., in 1859. called at the log cabin of Mr. Grey, who had removed thither and settled near Buena Vista, that he found the old gentleman, now over eighty years of age, living with his third wife, and the father of a bright little lad of some eight years. Conversation turning upon marksmanship with the rifle, the old man spoke of having shot a deer the day before from his cabin door. He then took a target about an inch square, and sent it out by his little boy to a tree just one hundred and ten yards distant. Standing at the cabin door he discharged several balls into the very center of the mark without a rest, a feat for which he might well feel pride.

On one occasion, he came upon an Indian, between whom and himself there existed a special enmity. Neither had the advantage, and they agreed to stand side by side, discharge their rifles and walk to some settlement. On the way to a clearing the Indian spoke of thirst, and both kneeled down to drink. Grey left his companion at the creek, and although he never confessed the murder, it was left to be inferred that he did kill the Indian at the creek.

We are told that about 1833, there were three settlements formed within the present limits of the township, viz. : One about three miles from a road running from Greenville to the trading-posts of one Courier, now known as the Greenville pike, consisting of the families of William Parent. Tobias and Abraham Miller, John Armstrong and George Elston. a single man ; a second was in the southwest portion of the township, and composed of the families of John Woods, Marquis and Roe ; and the third in the northeastern part of Jackson, comprising the families of Richard, John and Jacob Strait, Gilbert Vail and John Wright. These settlements having rapidly increased, the people realized the necessity of some kind of organization by means of which they would be enabled to rule themselves. Therefore, in 1833, a petition was presented to the proper authorities, praying for a township formation. Thereupon the court appointed John Armstrong Justice of the Peace, and William Parent, Constable, to serve until the regular township election, which took place in the following spring, resulting in the election of Armstrong to the office of Justice of the Peace, and, Parent refusing to be a candidate, Samuel Dennison was chosen Constable.

It seems that on organization Jackson Township contained Townships 13, 14 and 15 of Range 1. which were then embraced within the limits of Washington Township. In June, 1836, Township 15 and the north tier of sections of Township 14 were detached from Jackson and named Gibson Township. Three }~ears later, in March, the remainder of Township 14 was formed into Mississinawa Township. Following formation, the settlement of Jackson continued by the entry of lands, and the increase of clearings. In 1834, Hezekiah Fowler arrived with his family from Maryland. He hastily put up a log shed, on the prevailing plan of a " sugar camp," that is, with an open front, and in this rude covering passed the winter. In 1835, Matthias Sawyer entered land where the Archard place now is, north of town. James Marquis, above referred to as the pioneer of Jackson, had three sons, Henry, William and Lewis. The former inhabits the old homestead on Grey's branch. Lewis lives a short distance south of Union City. Ind. William moved to Iowa, in 1858, and died there. The elder Marquis was a Methodist local preacher, and a well-educated man for one who had gained his knowledge by self-application. He gave his attention to medicine, and became in time a very good doctor. Although a Virginian, he was a notable Abolitionist, and spoke upon the subject in both Ohio and Indiana, being at times subjected to vituperation and personal abuse, which he was not backward in resenting.

William Dennison was born in Washington Township, and came into Jackson in 1833; settled four miles northeast of Union City, where he entered eighty acres of the southwest quarter of Section 14. He worked at $7 per month, and split rails at 25 cents a hundred, to secure mone}" to pay for his farm. He had seven children, and died April 19, 1853.

Isaiah Pickett and wife moved from South Carolina to Washington Township, in 1836, and " squatted" on land nearFlory's, on Greenville Creek ; later he moved to Hillgrove, and built a small house just east of the Methodist Church, where he remained a few years, and later, moved to land between Hillgrove and Union City. He died in March, 1850.

When the township was first settled, the country was a dense forest. Wolves began their dismal howling about dark and kept it up for hours. Wild turkeys would come within the clearings to pick up food, and it was a common practice to leave the door of the corncrib open, and sometimes two or three birds would be caught at once in this way.

There was no outlet from the clearings but by blazed paths through the interminable woods. For the accommodation of the settlements, a petition was presented to the County Commissioners, asking for the establishment of a road running from a point on the Greenville and Mississinewa pike in the southwestern part of the township, in a northeasterly direction, intersecting the Greenville and Fort Recovery road, where it crosses the Stillwater, and this road, duly established, was the first highway located and cleared by the people of Jackson Township.

The first church in the township was erected by the Methodists, on the land of* John Woods, now owned by Jacob Darlinger, and is still standing. The United Brethren erected a chapel near the center of the township on the Teegarden pike. It is a frame building in which Rev. Keester holds alternating services, the other point being Union City. The Christian denomination hold meetings in the schoolhouse, two miles north of the Huntsbarger corners. Revs. Alonzo Laten and Smith preach here alternately. The First Christian Church of Union City. Ohio, was organized with about thirty-five members, by Elders Henry Gittinger. Harrison Vinson and C. M. Sharp, in the year 1861. Elder H. Gittinger was the first Pastor of the church. The following named ministers served successively as Pastors of the church, viz., H. Vinson, C. M. Sharp, A. W. Brodric, J. Jacobs. J. Weeks, T. S. Wells and T. A. Brandon. A building was constructed in the eastern part of the city, on two lots on the corner of Oak and Plum streets, at a cost of $1,300. The builder was Jacob Deardorff, and the dedication was by Rev. Joseph Weeks. In 1876, the United Brethren purchased the house and still own it.

Educational interests have not been neglected, as is evidenced by ten school districts, with schools in a flourishing condition. One of the first schoolhouses remembered, stood :t1 the cross roads, one mile east of the " Strait settlement." and one of the early teachers was Richard Butler, from German Township, some time in 1842-43. Another early school building was erected on Section 35, on land owned by John Armstrong. In 1835, the first subscription school was taught by Amos Barrier, in the Marquis neighborhood. Barrier moved here with his family and opened the school the same year. Alem Fowler was also among the earlier teachers. In 1835, a log schoolhouse was put up on the Cruinrine land, hiav owned by George Haas. Michael Spayd taught the first public school in 18.'U>.

The buildings of the present indicate attention to the comfort of the children. Bight brick and two frame houses, nearly uniform in style and size, accommodate the youth of the township. The brick cost $1,200 each, and a tax has been levied to replace the remaining frame with brick structures. Their average seating capacity is sixty ; teachers' wages, $1.50 per day. and two-thirds of the teachers are gentlemen.

It is remembered that in various sections of this country the gravel hills have been used by an extinct race as the depositories of the remains of their dead, and, in excavating gravel for the State line pike, a great quantity of human bones were discovered which may have belonged to those unknown people. One of the earliest deaths known to Jackson was that of Edward Payne, an old soldier of 1812, who had also participated in the battles of the Revolution ; he was buried in the woods under a beech-tree, there being at this time no graveyard. Within a few years, Mr. Galloway took up the remains and buried them in the new cemetery. The original grave here spoken of was the first one made in Union City, Ohio. There is as yet no cemetery in the Ohio portion of the city, but there are graveyards - one on the Marquis farm and one at Hill Grove.

It remains to speak of the mills by whose aid the timber was made a source of wealth and comfort. The Buckthorn mill, on the Teegarden pike, has been running about sixteen years. It was built by John Parent, and still does a large business, turning out a great deal of heavy timber for railroad and pike purposes. At first, a sash saw was used, afterward a muley, and more recently a circular. This is a steam mill. Two miles north of this mill there is another, owned by J. Hayes, and b}r him built in 1875. This is also a steam mill, with circular saw. Formerly, what was known as the Rifle Mill stood three miles north of Hunts* barger Cross Roads. It was run by steam, and done away with several years ago. At Dogtown. three miles east of Union Cit}', on the Panhandle road, Samuel Dennison & Co. put up a steam saw-mill about 1855, which did an extensive business. Much of the lumber used in Union City was obtained from this mill. It changed hands many times, and was last owned b}' Robison, Harlers & McKee.

Politically, for the last ten years the township has been Democratic ; previously it had been Republican and Whig. About one-sixth of the population is German, one-sixth Irish, and the remainder are American. Industry is the common trait, and the township is a satisfactory home for its people.

Union City

This enterprising, dual-State city, situated upon that intangible reality the " State line," contains two village corporations with corresponding sets of officials. The western portion is known as the " Indiana Side " and the eastern as the " Ohio Side," and this designation is convenient in reference to these localities. The former is accredited with a population of 5,000, the latter nearly 2,000, making an estimate of 7,000.

The original plat of Union City, Ind., includes a quarter-section of land purchased by Jerry Smith of Augustus Loveland early in 1852, for $1,200. he having inherited it a few 3rears previously from his father-in-law, Mr. Crumrine. Prior to 1852, no railroads had been completed to this place. The Dayton & Union terminated at Greenville, and there was a sixty-mile gap east and west of Union City on what is now known as the Bee Line road. On December 25, 1852, the former road was completed to Union City, and during the year following the second was finished, and the extraordinary growth of the cit}' is evidenced by the fact of its incorporation. In 1854, the Monroe & Mississinawa Railroad was begun and partially graded, but the enterprise lay dormant until 1866, when, through the energy of Dr. J. N. Converse and others, it was pushed forward, and completed in 1867, under the title of the Union & Logansport Railroad. It was subsequently leased to the owners of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad. Among the first houses erected was a boarding-house by Jacob Livergood for the accommodation of the hands on the Belletbntaine and Cleveland, Columbus. Cincinnati

& Indianapolis Railroads. The first house completed in Union City. Ind., is that now owned by Dr. 5Tergin, opposite the Eagle office. In this structure a saloon was kept, whose baneful influence was attested by the simultaneous discharge of seventeen employes of the railroad shortly after its doors were thrown open. Soon after this, a dry-goods and two grocery stores and a saloon were erected and opened to patronage on the Ohio side. During the years 1853-54. six stores and a number of groceries were opened on the Indiana side. Then a number of saloons were opened, and so apparent were the ill effects of these institutions that a war against them was commenced and kept up until the evil traffic was abolished. From that time until now, not a saloon has had existence on the Indiana side, but there are now (1880) thirteen on the Ohio side.

Growth continued; large mercantile and manufacturing establishments located here ; bank s were chartered ; hotels built and thrown open to the public ; telegraph and express offices were opened. Public interest centered on turnpikes and turned to the erection of water-works. These last were finished in 1S74, and from a well of 20 feet depth 800 gallons of water are furnished per minute, and conveyed by means of two powerful engines and pipes throughout the city for domestic and manufacturing use. Add to these the potential influence of the schools, the press and the churches, and an idea of the factors of progress used in the development of this city may be realized. The first school was opened by Miss May Ensminger in her father's house on Howard street during the fall of 1853. The first public school was held in the winter of 1853-54, in a Bee-Line boarding-car. The first Methodist class here organized was in the spring of 1852. The first meeting-house was erected during 1858-59, and, in November, 1858. the Christian denomination formed a society. A church had been commenced five years earlier, but was not finished till this time. The First Presbyterian Church was organized under the direction of the Presbytery of Miami by Rev. Isaac A. Ogden. Presbyterian missionary, at the house of Martin Cox, Washington Township, on November 8, 1836. St. Mary's Catholic Church was organized in 1854. The first German Evangelical Lutheran Church was formed by Thomas Lacker in 1857. The primary meeting for the organization of the Universalist Church was held January 19, 1860.

Three Masonic, three Odd Fellows, one Rebecca, one Knights of Pythias and one Red Men's Lodges, Young Men's Christian Association, literary, musical, building and other associations, fire department, etc., are of sufficient importance to warrant notice preparatory to an historic sketch of the Ohio side ; if, indeed, not essential to give increased interest to the subject. Union City, Ohio, was incorporated under the laws of the State in 1853. The petition was presented to the County Commissioners and filed in the office of the Auditor of Darke County. September 4. of the year named, and it was heard and allowed. December li. It was filed for record January 5, 1854, and recorded on the 23d following. The certified copy now in the Mayor's office bears date May 13, 1854, and the following are the petitioners' names : S. P. McMillan, B. W. Evans, George W. Inman. E. H. Turpen, Josiah Mongar, David Fruits, F. M. Katsenbarger, John Matins. James Allen, F. Stahl. X.I>. Farrell, H. S. Weinland, J. I. Wolf. R. B. McKee. I. S. Woodbury, Reuben Weinland, John Haas, Z. Brownley, G. R. Dewe}*, William B. Fields. Courtney Hays, R. N. Stevens, I. D. Carter, J.' J. Turpen, R. G. Miller, J. W. Shiveley. J. E. 1'axton, A. Adair, S. C. Miller and William B. Woodbury.

The original plat was made by Josiah Mongar in 1853. Mongar owned forty acres now at the center of the corporation on both sides of the railroad. He donated ten acres to the Bee Line as grounds for shops, switches, warehouses. etc.. and also erected a saw-mill about the same time, opposite where the brewery now stands, thai is, on the corner of Division street and the railroad. The next addition of about ten acres, in the same year, was made by John Haas, soon after which Brownley made an addition. Then Jerry Smith and his brother Oliver. now of Indianapolis, added ten acres. The Fowler Additions, first and second.

The following view of Union City, Ohio, written in 1876, by Alfred Lenox, then and now the oldest living resident, and published in the Times, is appropriate here :

"This portion of the city was incorporated in 1853. The population now numbers about fifteen hundred. There is here a substantial school-building, and the Christians have a commodious frame house for worship. The manufactory of slack-barrels, staves and headings emplo}rs from twenty to thirty hands, and affords a market for a vast quantity of timber, which has heretofore been nearly valueless except for fuel. A planing-mill and manufactory, in connection with a lumber-yard, employs from twelve to fifteen hands. There is a furniture factory, with a running force of several hands (about fifteen), and a hub, spoke and chair factoiy, having about an equal force of employes. All of these industries employ steam to propel their machinery. Besides these, there are two steam saw-mills, a steam flouring-mill with four runs of buhrs, and a furniture manufactory, giving employment to five or six hands. There are, also, five firms engaged in making brick, doing an extensive business in that line, and there is one large tile manufactory. Besides the usual proportion of smaller mercantile and mechanical establishments, there are saloons, billiard rooms and an ale manufactory." We learn that " this portion of the city contains a number of private residences, all the principal streets are well graded and graveled, and all turnpikes leading into the city are free to the public." The history of the mechanical and mercantile interests of the Ohio side, for several years from the first and from the era of small beginnings to the later day of more extensive efforts, is briefly expressed in the following paragraphs. Only those who have attempted similar work can full}" understand the labor essential to these statements.

The first blacksmith-shop was established by F. Roe, in 1853, at the south end of Division street, then in a strip of woods. In the same }"ear, a shoe-shop was carried on by Lewis Willarime between the Bee-Line Railroad and where Elm street now is. A cooper-shop was established and run by P. R. Galloway, in 1855, for a period of eight months. It was located at the corner of Division street and the railroad. The next blacksmith-shop was carried on by Woodbury & Hulse, also on Division street. A shingle-manufacturing machine was set up by David Fruits, in the northeast part of town, during 1853, and was operated till 1855. The next project realized was a saw-mill, built near Division street, on the west side, near the railroad, b}7 Henry Weinland, with one sash-saw. Then, S. P. McMillan and Thomas Workman set to work and erected a steam flouring-mill, having four runs of buhrs, three-stoned, and having a " hip roof." This mill is still running and does good work. The present proprietor is Thomas McFeeley ; capacity is one hundred barrels in twenty-four hours. The machinery is run by double engines of forty horse-power. The initial dry goods and grocery store was that of Morgan & Carter, opposite the flouring-mill built in 1853. Messrs. Brown and Archard opened a wholesale grocery and liquor store in 1856. The next year. P. R. Galloway ran the largest hoop-pole establishment, at the time, in the State of Ohio. It was located by the switch, near the flouring-mill. Shipments for the winters of 1858 and 1859 amounted to over four hundred car loads. Joseph Turpen, in 1855, started a store on the Deerfield road, and, two years prior to this, a little bakery had been opened by Katzenbarger & Stahl, and M. B. Dickey had engaged in tailoring in a shop opposite the flouring-mill.

Manufactures Of Union City

In a brief recapitulation of the business interests of the city in the past, it is well to recur in contrast to the present as illustrative of permanence and progress in these all-important auxiliaries to the prosperity of a municipality. We set out west side of Division street, south of the Dayton & Union Railroad. The first part of this structure was raised in 1870; it is a two-story frame, 40x24 feet, luiilt by Henry Stoner. There were two cribs adjoining, one being 100x10 feet, the other 20x40. In the spring of 1877, Stoner sold to the present firm, by whom extensive additions have been made. The building and machinery, including a thirty-horse power engine, are estimated at $6,500. The grain handled averages about a quarter-million bushels for the year. Next, is the brick factory of Jacob Snook, together with a tile factory and neck-yoke and single-tree works - each end of Kim street, The wood-works consist of two parts - a brick engine and boiler house, and a framed structure for the lathes, etc. The former was built in the summer of 1870 ; the latter was completed in January. 1880. The first is 30x80 feet, and 130,000 brick were required to cemplete the walls and encase the engine and boiler house. The cost of the structure was about $6,000. The brick factory has been turning out 10.000 per day regularl}'. The two establishments are located upon grounds containing five acres. The tile factory has for its site five town lots, situated just west of the other works, but within the corporation. The two kilns produce about $6,000 worth of tile in a season, and have been in opera tion since 1872. George Haas has a large brick kiln about one-fourth of a mile east of town, which he has operated yearly for some time. The Union City Slack Barrel Stave and Heading Works were built, in 1870, by Hugh Wiggins & Son. of Dayton, Ohio. The main building is 30x60 feet. There are seven sheds, whose aggregate length is 1,200 feet, and there are two dry-houses. The cost, including machinery, was some $6,000. The works have been run irregularly for the last five or six years. Amos Wiggins, the junior partner, died in November, 1879. Latterly, the works have been repaired and put in order for running at their full capacity. They are capable of turning out 20,000 staves and 8,000 to 10,000 headings per day. E. H. Kimes has been foreman since the origin of the enterprise. In 1860. Witham & Brother erected a building for the manufacture of clamp-screws, broom handles, trunk slats, handles, and general turning. It was 40x25 feet, two stories, and stood east of State Line street and south of the Dayton & Union Railroad. This structure was destroyed by fire, and early in the spring of 1874 a new building was put up, which consists of two parts, one being 40x80 feet, with an addition 20x50 feet, and the other, 30x60 feet. This building and business belongs to S. L. Carter and George L. Carter. The former is an old resident, who lived in Mississinawa before its organization into a township ; the latter is superintendent. The annual product of this mill is about five hundred dozen clamps, fifty thousand broom handles, over two million trunk slats, and a like number of trunk handles. A saw-mill is in active operation the year round, for their exclusive use. The lumber is dried by a new patent hot-air process invented by the proprietors. The establishment is worth about $10,000. and the manufactured stock amounts to about $25,000 a year. An eighty-horsepower engine is now building by the Smith Brothers, Union City, to l'eplace the one now in use. which has been found too weak to drive all the machinery. Eighteen to twenty hands are employed, and the average running time for the las; two years has been fifteen hours. The furniture factory of John Koontz was built in 1S76. It is 30x50 feet, two stories, with an addition. On the northwest corner of Wall and Walnut streets stands J. T. Hartzells saw-mill, built in December, 1878. It is run constantly, the motive power being a forty-horse-power engine.

William 4. and Charles S. Hook, under the firm name of Hook Bros., commenced the manufacture of butter tubs and pails at Cardington. Morrow County, in 1868. Suitable timber becoming scarce in that locality, after looking the countiyover. they decided to remove to Union City. Ind.. and did so November. 1 S77. Some months later, they decided to locate their factory on the Ohio side, and, in 1S70. built the present works.

The building is a frame, 68x96 feet, and has three stories. It is situated on two acres of land, belonging to the Bee Line Railroad, on Elm street. The building and structure, including, also, the stock, cost $10,000. The works are now running at full capacity, mostly day and night, and average 100 000 packages assorted sizes, per annum. Thirty to thirty-five hands are employed. A considerable share of the stock they work up is furnished from a saw-mill owned and ion nLthem m V^sailles< Township. Their business amounts to about $d0,000 a year. The power is supplied by a very neat, compact steam engine seventy-five horse-power, made at the works of Smith Bros. Their location at this point was the happy conjunction of large quantities of suitable timber and excellent shipping facilities. When it was learned that the proprietors contemplated removal to the Ohio side, a purse of $600 was subscribed by the citizens of the west side to induce them to remain, but they declined, while they appreciated the compliment conferred. The works are a model of machinery and management and employes are promptly paid each Saturday night.

Meanek & Son are proprietors of a furniture factory. The senior proprietor came into Darke County in 1863, from Estell County, Ky. In 1867, he erected a two-story building, 20x40 feet, and, in 1875, doubled the capacity of the rooms by an addition equal in size to the original structure. There are eio-ht or nine hands employed. Furniture in general is here manufactured.

McKee & Robison are engaged in the manufacture of paper bags. They established themselves at this point March 6, 1880, and have been running from five to eight hands on grocery bags, and in connection carry on a trade in old iron and rags. Their present location is in the « Orr Building.'" i dinardT°0d lumbei\Yard was opened by Messrs. Jones & Benner in September, 1879. January 1, 1880, Mr. Ebert became a partner. Shipments are made to various points in this and adjoining counties.

These, the active business enterprises of the day, will soon pass into the history of the past, and in future it will be an easy task to learn from a brief perusal of these pages whence and by whom the early prosperity of Union City was achieved. A city, to prosper, needs a favorable site, good communications with the outer world and citizens of wealth, intelligence and energy, and in these essentials, fully enjoyed, the rapid growth of the town has been found.

The first Justice of the Peace on the Ohio side was Silas P. McMillan He was succeeded by David French. Mr. McMillan was also the first Mayor Anecdotes are current of his peculiar methods of transacting official business! On one occasion he was engaged in a game at cards, when the Marshal brought in a prisoner His Honor requested them to « be seated until the game was over," saying that « if 1 quit now, I will be stuck for the game," and the parties sat down and waited the conclusion of the play, when the case received requisite attention.

The Squire, as well as Mayor, on another occasion, sat in a case wherein two citizens were engaged as counsel. The prisoner had been arrested for petit larceny, lhe evidence was overwhelming, and his counsel taking him into an adjoining room, raised the window and counseled him to go, and he hastened to depart lhe announcement of his escape was followed by prompt pursuit, but terror added wings to the fugitive's feet, and he safely crossed the State line The Court was more amused than offended, and joined heartily in the lauo-h which followed upon the announcement of the culprit's escape.

t ! J?S,q^re Liyei*g°od was also 01ie of the first Mayors and Justices of the Peace in lSo-i-55, and again in 1857-58, ordinances were drafted, but lost or destroyed by interested parties, before they were adopted. Such, too, was the fate of all other records of council proceedings. Just prior to the late war, William A Orr was elected Mayor and took the oath of office, but learning that there were no ordinances in existence to guide him in the discharge of his duties, and that there were no records of council proceedings, he refused to serve. New ordinances were drafted and under consideration, but the outburst of war prevented their passage by decimating the council, so that no progress to speak of was made beyond the mere fact of the incorporation, until 1865, when the ordinances needed were drafted, adopted and published.

The first school after the incorporation was taught in a room on the third floor of the Large building on the corner of Sycamore street and the railroad. Later, a two-story frame schoolhouse was erected on the lot whereon the present brick building stands. The old schoolhouse was replaced in 1870 by the present commodious structure, which, in its turn, is becoming too small to accommodate the ever increasing attendance.

There are two small, neat frame buildings, located near each other, on him street - the one is used as a township house, the other as the city hall. The one which stands farther to the east, was built in 1877, by J. S. Johnson lhe Township Clerks office is in one room of this building, and the law office ol U. A Baker occupies the west end. The other building has also two rooms - one used by the Mayor and Village Clerk as their office, and the other as the office ot L. J .

The following are the present township officers : Trustees, D. W. Sigler ; Jacob Beery and George Dennison ; Justices of the Peace, Joseph Eichelbarger and William M. Grimes ; Constables, Jacob Beery, Jr., and W. R. Gard ; Assessors, James B. Creviston and James Eichelbarger ; Clerk, J. McMahan, and Appraiser, Solomon Young. .

We name, also, the present village officers: Mayor, William M Grimes ; Clerk James McMahan ; Treasurer, H. S. Stocksdale ; Marshal, W. R. Gard and Councilmen - J. J. Norris, James Purcell, James Spanagle, J. Eldridge, Jacob Thomas and Edward Hanhman.

The two named are the only lawyers in Union City. There is one physician, a resident of three years, and there has never been a post office in Jackson Township It would be pleasant could we have known from experience the gradual changes which evolved farm, hamlet and city, from the demands of production, commerce and manufacture, but the foregoing vividly contrasts with the savagery prevalent less than thirty years before, and illustrates the civilizing power of the railway in its course across States as well as counties, and in its bead-like stations along its route.

WM. ARCHARP, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 20 ; P. 0. Union City. The subject of this memoir was born in County Limerick, Ireland, Nov. 12, 1835 ; when 7 years of age, he was left an orphan, and at 10 years of age, he came to America with his uncle. Thomas Hoar, who located in Cincinnati, and placed William at school, where he remained two years. At 12 years of age, he obtained employment in the grocery trade, and followed the same for several years ; in 1851, he went to Piqua, and, after clerking there some four years, he associated with his employer as partner, and located in Union City in 1855. This partnership continued some seven years, when Mr. Archard disposed of his interest and engaged in farming, which business he has since followed, owning 325 acres of land adjacent to Union City ; in 1874, he laid out 40 acres of his farm, now7 known as Archard's Addition to Union City ; in 1877, he was elected and served one term as Trustee of Jackon Township, and in 1878 was elected County Commissioner, which office he now holds ; he is one of the self-made men of DarkeCo.; he commenced life without capital ; upon arriving in Piqua, in 1851, his capital consisted of 25 cents, but he has. since, by his own hard labor and correct business habits, placed himself among the large landholders and successful farmer's of Darke Co. His marriage with Maiy A. Mauzy was celebrated in Union Cit}T in 1857 ; they have one child by thisunion - Josephine, now Mrs. Webster Brandon.

JACOB BEERY, retired farmer ; residence Sec. 15 ; P. O. Union City ; one of the oldest settlers of Jackson Township ; born in Fairfield Co. Oct. 16, 1816 ; at 18 years of age, he commenced in life for himself, and learned and worked at the cabinet and carpenter's trade until 1855, when he came to Darke Co., Ohio, and located in Neave Township, and in 1865 came to Jackson Township and purchased 160 acres of land upon Sec. 13, where he has since lived ; he has now rented his old homestead and is erecting a residence upon Sec. 15, which he intends making his future home ; he is Democratic in politics, but has never been an aspirant for office, and has held none, save the office of Township Trustee ; for three years, he has taken a deep interest in the cause of religion, having, with his wife, been a member of the German Baptist Church for upward of thirty years. His marriage with Esther Voght was celebrated in Fairfield Co. in 1838 ; she was born in the above county ; ten children were the fruits of this union, of whom six are now living, viz., Aaron, Mary, Simeon, Absalom, Jacob F. and Almeda. The deceased were Jemima, Leah, Sarah C. and Isabella.

AMOS COOK, farmer. Sec 3:5 : P. O. Union City ; one of the early pioneers of Darke Co. ; born in Chester Co.. Penn., in 1800 : came to Darke Co., Ohio, in 1849, and purchased his present place of 120 acres, where he has since lived lor a period of upward of thirty years ; upon locating here, his present wellimproved place was a wilderness ; he has since, by his own hard labor, cleared 90 acres, which he lias placed under a good state of cultivation ; at the above date, deer, wolves, bears, wild turkeys and other game was here in abundance ; he hauled his productions to Pickaway, where he disposed of his wheat at 50 cents per bushel.

and loaded back with groceries, salt, etc. He has been twice married, his first wife was Elizabeth Knofsinger ; she was born in Preble Co. ; nine children were the fruits of this union, of whom six are now living, viz., Henry, Eli, Daniel, Amos, John and Mary ; his second wife was Jane Davidson, also a native of Preble Co. ; they have two children by this union, Harvey and Noah. Mr. Cook was a son of Henry Cook, who was born in Germany, and married Catharine Fouch. also of German descent ; they both died in Pennsylvania ; Mr. Cook now owns 200 acres of land in Jackson Township ; commencing with a capital of $35, he has since accumulated all of the above by his own exertions ; the energy and perseverance displayed by Mr. Cook are well worthy of example 1)}- the young men of the present day.

JOSEPH EICHELBERGER, farmer and Justice of the Peace, Sec. 15 ; P. 0. Union City. The subject of this memoir was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Feb. 22, 1820 ; at 13 years of age, he engaged as clerk in the hardware trade at Harrisburg. which position he filled until lie attained his majority ; he then followed farming in Pennsylvania until 1869, at which date he emigrated to Ohio, and located upon Sec. 15, Jackson Township, where he now lives ; he owns 160 acres of land with good farm buildings, which he has accumulated by his own hard labor and correct business habits. Of township and school offices, he has had his full share, having held the office of Township Trustee two years, School Director nine years and Justice of the Peace three years, which office he now holds. His marriage with Caroline Brenizer was celebrated in Cumberland Co., Penn., upon the 12th of November. 1843 ; she was born in the above count}* ; they were the parents of nine children, of whom seven are now living, viz., Mary M., Joseph E., Washington L., Jane A., James B., Laura V. and Cora A.

DR. BENJAMIN W. EVANS, farmer and physician. Sec. 3; P. O. Union City ; one of the early pioneers of Darke Co. ; born in Delaware Co., Ohio, Feb. 28, 1815 ; his father, Montgomery Evans, removed with his family from Delaware to Williams, now Defiance Co., Ohio, in 1817, and was the first white family that settled in the Maumee Valley, and here he took up land, upon which he lived until his decease, which occurred in 1847 ; he suffered all the privations and hardships of frontier life ; his milling at first was done at Pickaway, a distance of upward of 100 miles ; his marketing being done in the same place ; the Doctor lived with his parents until 1843, when he removed to Miami Co., and in 1847 came to Darke Co., and is consequently one of the old settlers of this count}7. In 1846. Mr. Evans commenced the study of medicine in Shelby Co., and was one of the first physicians in the north part of that county, and has always followed his profession, and has not yet given it up ; he was one of the organizers of the first Medical Board of Darke Co., and remained a member for many years. Upon Nov. 14, 1863, he enlisted as a private in the 124th I. V. I., and went forward to battle for the Union ; after serving as private a short time, he was promoted to hospital steward, which position he held until the close of the war ; during his term of service, he was never absent from duty nor received a furlough ; he served in the Atlanta campaign, under Sherman, and was with the above General in North Carolina at the surrender of Johnston ; he, with his sons, are strong Republicans, and, to use the Doctor's expression, he always votes as he fought ; his first vote for President, was for William H. Harrison. His marriage, with Rebecca E. Peters was celebrated May 11. 1848 ; she was born in Hawkins Co., Ohio. Dec. 26, 1826 ; they were the parents of six children, of whom five are now living, viz., Zeletta F., Ida Z., Segisamar L., Aaron L., Mahlon O. ; the deceased, Ella E., died at 3 years of age. The Doctor is a very genial gentleman, and manifested toward the writer a very liberal spirit of hospitality, which is characteristic of his nature as well as of frontier life.

DR. JAMES H. FAHNESTOCK, physician and surgeon, Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Union City. The subject of this memoir was born in Miami Co., Ohio, Feb. 14, 1842 ; he was the son of Ephraim Fahnestock, who was born in Perry Co., Penn., in 1812,

738 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHESand came to Ohio with his parents when quite young, and is now retired from active labor, with a residence at Dayton ; he married Elizabeth Billingsby Jan. 6, 1836 ; she died July 29, 1873. Dr. James H. obtained a common-school education, and. at 13 years of age, commenced the study of medicine, to which he gave his attention for six years ; at 19 years of age, he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, and graduated from the same in 18G3, and, in 1865, he graduated from the Southern Medical Institute, at Memphis, Tenn. ; he then gave his attention to farming until 1874, when he located in Darke County, and, in 1877, commenced the practice of medicine, which profession he has since followed, with a rapidly increasing practice ; the Doctor called the attention of the writer to a curiosity in the shape of an old-fashioned clock, manufactured in Germany in 1753, which has been handed down from generation to generation, until it now has become the property of the Doctor, who places great value upon the same as an heirloom. His marriage with Margaret Benson was celebrated in Randolph Co., Ind., in 1868 ; she was a native of Maryland ; they have six children, viz., Clare E , Dona M., Charles B., Elizabeth A., George W. and Carl.

WILLIAM R. HAND, farmer, Sec. 33 ; P. 0. Union City ; one of the early pioneers of Jackson Township ; born in Somerset Co., N. J., Dec. 6, 1820 ; about the year 1840, he, with his father, Gilbert R. Hand, emigrated to Ohio and located upon Sec. 33, Jackson Township, where he has had a continuous residence of nearly forty years, and is consequently one of the oldest settlers ; about the year 1862. the decease of his father occurred, since which time the subject of this sketch has lived upon the old farm and devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits. He married Mary Bolin, and they have two sons - William, born Sept. 29, 1864, and Joseph, Nov. 30, 1868 ; he now owns upward of 60 acres of land, under a wood state of cultivation.

' ROBERT S. HARTMAN, farmer, Sec. 3 ; P. O. Union City ; born in Clermont Co., Ohio, Dec. 2, 1824; his father, Samuel Hartman, was born in Middlesex Co. N. J., March 19, 1790 ; in 1795, he emigrated with his parents to Kentucky, and in 1801, came to the Territory of Ohio and located in Clermont County ; he died May 13, 1862, upon the old homestead, where he located sixty-one years previous- his first wife was Sarah Dunham ; she died in Brown Co., Ohio, in 1841, leaving eight children, of whom two now survive. The subject of this sketch was raised to farm labor until 1 8 years of age ; the following six years he devoted to farming and carpentering ; in February, 1856, he came to Darke County, and is classed among the old settlers, having been a resident for nearly a quarter of a century. He married Abigail Jones in 1849 ; she died in 1860, leaving one child- Franklin D. His marriage with Mary E. Marsh was celebrated in Darke County Jan. 23, 1862 ; she came to Darke County with her father, William Marsh, in 1853, where her father died after a residence of ten months. The children of Robert S. and Mary E. (Marsh) Hartman were eight in number, of whom four are deceased ; the living are William T., Nancy E., Robert M. and George W. The great-grandmother of Robert S. Hartman, Ann Hutchinson, born March 16, 1700 (old style), was the mother of William Hutchinson, whose daughter Mary married Christopher Hartman in April, 1777 ; William Hutchinson was born Dec. 13, 1724; Catherine (Vohn) Hutchinson, his wife, was born May 17, 1731 ; their children were Mary, born March 24, 1755 ; William, March 12, 1757 ; Hannah, Aug. 9, 1759 ; Robert, July 26, 1763 ; Sylvester, April 20, 1765 ; Aaron. May 17. 1767 ; Ezekiel, Oct. 18, 1769: Ann, July 8, 1772 ; Catherine, Jan. 3, 1775. The grandfather of Robert S. Hartman was Christopher Hartman, born May 6, 1750 ; Mary Hutchinson, his wife was born March 24, 1755 ; they were the parents of eight children - William, born Feb. 17, 1778 ; Isaac, Sept. 2, 1779 ; Rebecca, June 3, 1781 ; Elizabeth, May 22, 1783 ; Katharine, Sept. 27, 1785 ; Samuel, March 19, 1790 ; Fanny. March 5, 1793 - Rachael, Dec. 29, 1796. Samuel Hartman, the father of Robert S. Hartman, was twice married ; his first wife was Sarah Dunham, who was the mother of Robert S. ; she died in Brown Co., Ohio, in 1841 ; of eight children, only two now

JACOB HUNCHBERGER, merchant blacksmith and farmer, Sec. 14; P. 0. Union City ; the gentleman whose name heads this sketch, was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Feb. 8, 1824 ; his father, Jacob Hunchberger, Sr.. was born in the same county in 1784, and is now living in Montgomery Co., Ohio, at the advanced age of 95 years ; he married Mary Dravenstadt who was born in the above county, and died in Fayette Co., 111., at 60 years of age. The subject of this sketch followed farming in Pennsylvania until 19 years of age, when he learned and worked at the blacksmith trade in Wayne Co., Ohio, three years ; he then followed the blacksmith trade for himself in Ashland Co., until 1858, at which date he came to Darke Co., Ohio ; in 1870, he located upon his present place, where he has 66 acres of land, with blacksmith-shop, store and farm buildings ; in 1874, he connected the merchandise trade with his other business, devoting his personal attention largely to this branch of his business, while his son, who is a first-class blacksmith, attends to that branch of his business. He was married in 1851, in Ashland Co., Ohio, to Mary Crouse. They Avere the parents of nine children, of whom three daughters and one son are now living, viz., Cornelius D., Florence, now Mrs. J. C. Boze ; Loa D. and Hattie.

CHARLES NEGLEY, farmer ; P. 0. Union City ; the subject of this memoir is one of the representative men of Darke Co.; he was born in St. Louis, Mo., in 1839 ; he came to Ohio when 6 years of age and located in Jackson Township, Darke Co., and after a residence of two years removed to Preble Co., where he was engaged in the stone-cutting business until he attained his majority ; in 1861, he returned to this county and located in Union City, where he was engaged in various mercantile and real estate speculations until 1875 ; he was then elected by the Senate, Assistant Sergeant at Arms of the State Senate, serving 1874 and 1875 ; he was re-elected to the same office and served through the term of 1877 and 1878 ; in 1877, he was elected Mayor of Union City, Ind., and in 1879 was elected representative to the State Legislatui'e of Ohio, which office he now holds. His marriage with Margaret Gard was celebrated in 1861. in Union City ; they have eight children - Iuka, Frank, Rockey C. Kerby R,, Katie. Charles Webber, Clara. Casshie.

WILLIAM PARENT, farmer,' Sec. 32 ; P, O. Union City. Ind ; one of the early pioneers of Darke Co.; born in Monmouth Co.. N. J., Nov. 15, 1804 ; he emigrated to Ohio, with his parents, about the year 1812, and located in German Township, Darke Co.; in 1824, he entered 120 and purchased 160 acres of land at Hill Grove, in Washington Township ; in April, 1858, he came to Jackson Township and purchased 116 acres of land, where he has since lived. Mr. Parent commenced in life without means ; he purchased his first land from the proceeds of his labor at cutting and splitting rails at 25 cents per hundred ; he now owns upward of 350 acres of land, with good farm buildings, secured by his own exertions ; he has suffered all the hardships and privations of frontier life, has frequently hauled oats, wheat, and pork to Cincinnati, selling oats at 10 and wheat at 60 cents per bushel, and pork at $1.25 per one hundred pounds, loading back with groceries, salt, etc. His marriage with Hannah Elsten was celebrated Feb. 18, 1829 ; she was born in Orange Co.. N. J. and died Oct. 22, 1875, at the advanced age of 64 years 10 months and 22 days ; they were the parents of eight children, of whom seven now survive, viz., John, George, Sarah, Elizabeth. Samuel. Harrison and Ameiy ; the deceased, Accha. lived to grow up and become the mother of three children.

FREDERICK C. SCHNEIDER, car inspector of the G, C, C. &I. R. R. ; Union City, Ohio ; born in Hamburg, Germany, Jan. 30, 1826 ; when 14 years of age, he commenced the carpenter's trade, and followed the same until 1 853. when he emigrated to America, landing in Quebec, thence to Buffalo and Cleveland, where he was employed in the car shops of the L. S. & M. S. R. R. for several months, then to Galion for two years, manufacturing cars, and in 1855, he came to Union City, Ind., and has since been Car Inspector of the C, C, C. & I. R. R. for upward of a quarter of a century ; he attends to the inspection of all of the cars of the above road with the assistance of eight men under his charge. He married Elizabeth Jacoby in October 1855 ; she was born in Prussia Jan. 10, 1837 ; they have two children by this union - Charles, born Dec. G, 1856, now conductor on the Bee Line, and William, born April 21, 1859, now brakeman on the D. & U. passenger. Mr. Schneider was a son of Frederick H. Schneider, who was born in Mecklenburg, Germany ; was a baker and grain dealer, died in 1869, in Hamburg; he married Anna Gotshe, born in Altona, near Hamburg ; she died in 1848 in Hamburg ; they had four sons and two daughters, of whom the subject of this sketch was the oldest son.

DAVID W. SIGLER, Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Union City ; firm of Sigler, Fahnestock & Co., proprietors of the Buck Horn Saw-Mill. The subject of this sketch, though a young man, may be considered an old settler ; he was born in Iowa, near Iowa City, upon the 19th of October, 1840 ; when less than 2 years of age, his father died, and he, with his mother, removed to Preble Co., Ohio, residing seven years. In 1849, they came to Darke Co., his mother died two years later, and he was left an orphan, to carve out his own way in life ; his first employment was at a hotel at Hill Grove, where he remained three }'ears ; he then obtained employment upon a farm until 1863, at which date he was employed in the above mill, and two years later he purchased an interest, and in 1876, the above firm was formed with Mr. Sigler as superintendent ; their mill is one of the oldest steam saw-mills in the county, and has a wide reputation. He married Jarusha L. Benson, in 1865, in Jackson Township, she was born in Maryland, and came to Ohio, with her parents, at an early day ; they have four children now living, having lost one by death ; the living are Effie V., Mordecai 0., Jarusha J. and Mary ; the deceased, Mary, died in infancy.

J. H. SNOOK, brick, tile and wagon stock manufacturer ; Union City ; born in Frederick Co., Md., Jul}' 2, 1829 ; at 19 years of age, he learned the tanner's trade, which he followed for seventeen years in Washington Co., Md. ; he then followed farming several years, and in the spring of 1875 he emigrated to Ohio and located in Union City, where he engaged in the manufacture of brick, and the first two years made upward of 700,000, for which he found a ready sale ; in 1877, he purchased the tile factory of George Dutro and connected the same with his other business ; the quality of his tile is equal to any manufactured in Darke Co., his sales amounting to $5,000 yearly, of tile alone ; he has also erected a building 30x80. two stories high, for the purpose of manufacturing wagon stock, to which he has added an engine room 30x40, with an engine of fifty-horsepower. Mr. Snook is one of the most enterprising and active business men of Union City and gives employment in his brick and tile factories to thirteen men. which will be largely increased when his factory for the manufacture of wagon stock is in full operation. In 1853, he married Sylvia Keyser ; she died in 1803 ; his second wife was Lydia Dutro, a native of .Maryland ; eight children by each union, of whom nine sons and two daughters are now living, all of whom are living at home, except the second son, who is a blacksmith at Hill (irove.

ELIAS !!. STRAIT, farmer and stock raiser. Sec. 13 ; P. O. Ansonia ; one of the old settlers ; horn in Jackson Township. Darke Co.. Ohio. Aug. 1, 1839 ; his father. Richard Strait, was born in Bedford Co., Penn.. Sept. :S. L796, and in 1829 he came to Darke Co. and located upon the very place where Elias now lives and where tie entered land, upon which he lived for nearly fifty years, until his decease, which occurred Oct. 15. 1878; he married Kachael Jennings ; she was horn in Bedford Co., Penn., and died Deed. 1878 ; they were the parents of ten children. The subject of this sketch continued to live with his parents until he attained his majority, and kindly eared and provided for them until their death ; he now lives upon the same place where he was horn, upon which he has just completed a new frame residence ; he also owns 120 acres three-fourths of a mile from his home farm, now rented to a son-in-law. He married Mary Peters in 1859 ; she died in 1865, leaving three daughters - Rachael, Martha and Ellen. In 1866, he married Sarah Boerstler ; they have four sons and one daughter by this union, viz., Ira. George, Amy, Harry and Levi. Mr. S. is a Republican ; has been Township Trustee two years ; has been a member of the Christian Church twenty years ; his wife and three elder children are also members of the same church.

JOEL STRAIT, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 13 ; P. 0. Hetslerville. Among the early pioneers of Jackson Township we find the names of Richard and Joel Strait, who loeated here in 1829. Richard Strait was the father of the subject of this sketch, and was born in Pennsylvania in September, 1796. He married Rachael Jennings in Pennsylvania, and at the early day above mentioned, located in Darke County, where he took up Congress land upon which he lived until his death, which occurred Oct. 15, 1878, aged upward of 82 years. Joel Strait was born in Perry Co., Ohio, upon the 6th of October, 1823; he lived upon the farm of his father until after his marriage, when he located upon Sec. 13, Jackson Township, where he has lived for a period of thirty-seven years ; he now owns 110 acres of well-improved land, with good farm buildings ; his fine brick residence was erected in 1874 ; he is probably the oldest continuous resident of Jackson Township, having lived here for upward of half a century. He is a strong Republican ; has never been an aspirant for office, but has held the offices of School Director, Constable and Township Trustee ; has taken a deep interest in the cause of religion, having, with his wife, been member of the Christian Church for twenty-two years, and has been a Deacon of the same for twenty years. His marriage with Hannah Teeter was celebrated in 1843 in Randolph Co., Ind. ; nine children, of whom five are now living, viz., Francis M., Richard W., Milton 0., Joel F. and Alfred ; of the deceased three died in infancy, and Harvey enlisted in the 94th O. V. I. for three years, and lost his life at Bowling Green while in defense of his countr}' .

MARTIN YANDEN, retired manufacturer, merchant and farmer; P. O. Union City, Ind. ; residence, Union City. Ind. ; one of the old settlers of Darke Go. ; born in Gallia Co., Ohio, Feb. 23, 1809 ; at the age of 18, he commenced to learn the trade of wagon and plow maker, and, after working at the same until 1833. he engaged in the above business on his own account, and continued the same for a period of thirteen years ; in 1846, he engaged in the mercantile trade at Gallipolis, continuing the same until 1858, when he emigrated to Ohio and located at Union City, Darke Co., and has been a continuous resident of Darke Co. for upward of twenty-one years. When Mr. V. located here, there were only two buildings upon Elm street ; he has witnessed the marvelous change of seeing the same become the business street of the place, and his own residence and store are built upon a part of his purchase of four lots, for which he at that time paid $30, now worth $1,000 : at the time of the purchase, however, they were located in a pond of water. Upon the 1st of August, 1833, he was united in marriage with Rebecca Guy ; she was born in Virginia Aug. 3, 1806 ; six children were the fruits of this union, of whom three are deceased ; the living are Margaret A., Sarah J. and Julia M.

THOMAS B. WENRICK, farmer and minister ; P. 0. Union City ; residence Sec. 26. This gentleman was born in Dauphin Co., Penn., upon the 26th of March. 1818 ; at 2 years of age, he removed with his parents to Cumberland Co., Penn.: in 1836, he came to Montgomerj- Co., Ohio, and in 1838 located in Miami Co. ; in 1841, he came to Darke Co., and, after a residence of six years, came to Darke Co. and located in Jackson Township in the year 1847, where he has lived thirty-two years within a distance of three-fourths of a mile ; in 1853, he commenced preaching, and has since continued the same in connection with farming ; he now has 220 acres of land, with good farm buildings. Mr. Wenrick was a son of Thomas and Esther (Brant) Wenrick ; his father was born in Pennsylvania, and died in

SOLOMON yOUNGr, farmer, grain merchant and ice dealer; P.O.Union City j tnd. ; one of the old settlers of Darke Co. ; born in Maryland Feb. 12, 1827. his lather. Joseph Young, emigrated from Maryland to Pennsylvania in 1829, and in 1834 came to Darke Co., Ohio, and located some three miles east of Gettysburg; at 16 years of age Solomon Young obtained employment in the woolenmills in Miami Co.. continuing the same seven years ; in 1852, he built a house in Union City, placing the four corners of the same upon stumps ; he opened the first butcher shop in Union City, Ohio, which he run for several years, a portion of which time he also conducted the grocery and baker trade ; in 1868, he located upon his present place, and for three years engaged in the saw-mill business, in connection with farming ; he has cleared 240 acres of land during the past eleven years ; his home farm consists of 80 acres of well-improved land, with good farm buildings, one-half mile from Union City ; he has held the office of Assessor, and is now Land Appraiser. In 1864, he enlisted in the 152d 0. N. C, under the call for 100-days men ; was elected and served as Second Lieutenant for the full term of service of four months ; in 1877, he connected the ice business, and is now also largely engaged in buying and shipping grain to the Eastern markets, his warehouse being located between the tracks of the C, C, C. & I. and the P. C. & St. L. R. R.'s. He was united in marriage with Hulda Reed, at Versailles, Darke Co. ; she was the daughter of Allen Reed, one of the early pioneers ; they were the parents of nine children, of whom Amanda, William T., Gertrude, Lincoln, Petulia and Solomon F., are now living ; the deceased were John, Mary E. and one who died in infancy.

Union City P. O. Business References

Ansonia Stave Company, Manufacturers of Slack and Tight Barrel staves and Headings, also Crimped and ('oiled Patent Hoops. J. H. Roush, Will A. Roush, Chas. A. Roush.

Bertz, Schlemmer & Co., Dealers in Hardware, Stoves, Tinware, etc. AJso Agricultural Implements, such as Threshing, Reaping and Mowing Machines, "Wagons, Corn Cultivators, and Breaking Plows, Pumps, Windmills, etc., etc. Corner of Main and Canal Sts. George Bertz, Henry Schlemmer, Wm. Baughman.

Carver, L. C, Bakery, Confectionery, and Restaurant. Also dealer in Choice Family Groceries, Provisions, Glass, Queensware and Notions. Special inducements to Cash buyers.

Hostetter, S. A. & T. J., Dealers in Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals, Perfumery, Soaps, Combs and Brushes, Trusses, Supporters, Shoulder Braces, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Books and Stationery, Kerosene Oil, Lamps and Chimneys, Grass and Garden Seeds, Glass, Putty, Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Dye Stuffs, Pure Wines and Liquors for Medicinal purposes, Patent Medicines, etc.