Jerome Township (part 9 of 19)

Adrian C. Turner

Among the enterprising and popular business men of Marysville there is none who ranks higher than Adrian C. Turner, whose place of business is at No. 124 East Fifth street. He had somewhat of a varied career in earlier life, starting first as a boy on a farm where he remained until manhood years and acquired those habits of industry that served him a good purpose in later years. The work incident to a farmer boy's life is sometimes regarded as monotonous and irksome, and not infrequently the boy is filled with an eager desire to break away from it and engage in a \-ocation in which the hours of toil are not so long, and in which the duties appear to be less strenuous. As he followed the plow of toil in the harvest field, with the rays of the hot summer's sun beating down upon him, toiling thus from early morn till dewy eve, the farmer's boy may incline to envy the boy whose circumstances in life permit him to indulge in idleness and ease. If such envious comparisons are entertained by the boy on the farm the experience of later life convinces him that they were boyish illusions. The advantages are with the boy trained to industrial habits on the farm.

]\Ir. Turner was born in Liljerty township, Union county, Ohio, September 5, 1S72. He is the son of John and Roxana Jane (Myers) Turner, who were also natives of Ohio. There were three children in this family: Otto F., who resides on the old home farm, about a mile south of Peoria; Adrian C, the subject of this sketch; and Bernice, deceased, who was the wife of William Wood.

John Turner was reared on tlie farm ami followed that occupation for the greater part of his life, tlis farm was in Liberty township and consisted of sixty-five acres of fertile land, which he had improved and on which he established a comfortable home. When the Civil War came on and the call was made for volunteers to defend the flag and suppress the rebellion, he was among the thousands of other young men and boys of Ohio to respond to that call. He enlisted as a private in Company F, Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in 1861, and served in that company and regiment for four years. This was one of the Ohio regiments that saw hard service, having participated in many of the strenuous campaigns and hard-fought battles. To liave ser\-ed for four years in the ranks of that regiment is a record of patriotism and \alor to which the faiuily and succeeding generation may point with pardonaljle pride. A short time before his death in 1898, at the age of fifty-eight years, he remo\ed to Peoria.

The paternal grandfather of Adrian C. Turner was Samuel Turner, and the maiden name of his wife was Scott. Their children were John, Robert, Hull, Frank, Henry, Alary, Ruth, Christine and two others who died in infancy. Besides John, already mentioned, Robert and Hull of this family were soldiers in the Civil War. Both of them died in the service.

The maternal grandfather was Myers; his wife was Catherine Stiiier They were among the early settlers of Union county and contributed their full share in the development of the country. Their three children were Elizabeth, Roxana Jane and Abraham.

Adrian C. Turner, as before stated, worked on his father's farm until he grew to manhood. He attended the district schools, which afforded an education sufficient to qualify him for the business in whicli he engaged in later life. On December 10. 1903. he was united in marriage to Delia Blue, daughter of Josiah and Susanna (Wells) Blue. He then rented his fatherin-law's farm, established a home and engaged in farming on his own account. For seven years he was engaged in this occupation and then decided to abandon this line of work and seek an opportunity to engage in other business. He first moved to Lewisburg where he found employment in a meat market. After working a year at this place he moved to Marysville where he w-as emploved in factories for three years; then he spent four years in the emplov of E. E. Cartmell & Company, grocers. In the two or three years following he made some other changes in location and business employment, and finally he found opportunity to obtain an interest in the grocery business in partnership with E. J. Morris. This partnership continued f<ir two years

Mr. and Mrs. Turner have a nice Httle home at No. 804 West Fifth street, Mar3'sville, and have one daughter, Nelhe. They are members of the Congregational church and take an active interest in church affairs. In fraternal affiliations Mr. Turner is a member of the Odd Fellows, being a past grand of that order : he also belongs to the Encampment and is a member of the ]\laccabees and Eagles. His political affiliations are with the Republican party.

Mrs. Turner was born in Paris township, Union county, Ohio. Her parents were natives of this state and are both dead. Each of her parents were twice married and their children were Lucy, Sarah, William, Viola. David and Delia. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Turner was Josiah Blue, and his wife was Susanna, both nati\es of Ohio.

There ha\e been many citizens of Union county, Ohio, who came here from other states in the Union, and among the citizens of i\Iill Creek township is found William A. Conklin, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania. He was married in his native state and came afterwards to Union county, where he has since resided and now owns a fine farm of one hundred acres eleven miles southeast of Marysville.

William A. Conklin was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania. ]\Iarch 28. 1871, the son of Henry and Eleanor (Hoy) Conklin. His parents' were both natives of Pennsyh'ania, and his father is still living in Jerome tiiwnshi]), Union county, in bis eighty-second year. Eleven children were bom to Henry Conklin and wife, seven of whom are now living: S. M., of Marysville: Rule, the wife of L. L Moore: William A., of Mill Creek township: Melissa, single: Bella, the wife of G. W. Spragg; Emma, the wife of Henry Phillips, and Louis H., of Mill Creek township.

William A. Conklin was reared on his father's farm in Greene county, Pennsylvania, and educated in the district schools of his home township. At the age of eighteen he left school and began farming with his father. After his marriage in Pennsylvania he came to Lniion county, Ohio, and located in Mill Creek township, where he has since resided. He is a general farmer

Mr. Conklin was married in June, 1899, to Mary Delaney, wlio was born and reared in Greene county, Pennsylvania, and to tliis union four children have been born: Charles, aged fourteen; Pearl, aged thirteen; Dale, aged seven, and Gladys, aged nine.

Politicall}'. Mr. Conklin is a member of the Democratic partv, and is now serving as a memjjer of the school board of Mill Creek township. Airs. Conklin is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Jerome, in this county. Mr. Conklin and his wife have always been active in all movements which seek to elevate the general welfare of the locality in which thev live, and all movements looking to this end find ready and willing helpers in them.

Walter B. Dull

The career of Walter B. Dull began in Claibourne township. Union county, Ohio, in 1868, and his entire life since that time has been spent within the confines of this county. He comes from a highly respected and influential family of the county and he is a worthy scion of the family and has reflected credit upon his honored ancestors. He and his wife have reared a large family of children to lives of usefulness and honor and have given them such training that they are becoming useful citizens of the commonwealth.

Walter B. Dull, the son of John and ^Marietta (Tippett) Dull, was born in Claibourne township. Union county, Ohio, December 11, 1868. His father and mother were both nati\'es of Licking county, Ohio, and came to this county after their marriage, where they li\'ed the remainder of their lives. John Dull, wlm died in 1904, sei-ved throughout the Ci\il War as a member of the Seventy-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Lifantry. There were two children born to John Dull and wife: Lottie, the wife of Ira Chandler, a farmer of Allen town.ship, this county, and Walter B., of Taylor township.

Walter B. Dull was reared in Claibourne and Paris townships, and received most of his education in the schools of the latter township. He re- . mained at home until he was nineteen years of age and then began working for himself. After his marriage in 1889, he began farming in Taylor township, where he has since resided, and his efforts have been crowned with sue- cess as is indicated by his well improved farm of one hundred and twentyeight and one-half acres, three miles northeast of Broadway. He has devoted his life to the ordinar_\- duties of the good American citizen and has never failed to measure up to a high standard of good citizenship.

Mr. Dull was married September 17, 1889, to Mary L. Martin, of Taylor township, and to this union fourteen children have been born : Homer, Fenton, Ira, Denver, Kenova, A'erble, Thurston, Lee, Arizona, Winona, \'erniin, Lottie, Berdena and Walter, Jr.

Mr. Dull and three of his sons, Ira, Homer and Fenton, are members of the Improved Order of Red Men, and Mrs. Dull is past district chief of the degree of Pocahontas of Marysville, and Mr. Dull himself is the past sachem of his tribe. He and five of his sons are members of the Patrons of Hu.sbandr^^ Politically, he is a Republican, and at the present time is a member of the board of education of his township. The family are members of the I^niversalist church.

The late William T. Hoopes was for more than thirty years one of the leading members of the legal profession in Union county, Ohio. He came to Marys\ille in the spring of 1881 and was engaged in the active practice of law until his death in the fall of 1914. As a lawyer he was easily among the prominent members of the I'nion count}- bar. and during his long career in this county was connected with many of the most important cases in the local courts. His honestv and integritv were never cjuestioned and his recognized probity made him honored and respected by all who knew him. He was one of the leaders of the Republican party in this section of the state, and was nominated on his party's ticket for Congress, a fact which speaks well for his worth as a public citizen in the eyes of his fellow men.

William T. Hoopes, the son of Xathan and Elizabeth (Todd) Hoopes, was l)orn in Colerain. Belmont count}", (^hio, October 3, 185 1, and died at his home in Mar}'s\ille. September 13, 1914. His father was born in PennsyK'ania. and when a child came with his jiarents to ^Morgan county. Ohio, where he li\ed the remainder of his life on a farm. Xathan Hoopes and wife were the parents of six children, four of whom are living. William T., i-taclu! .M.. Lydia F., C. D., Susanna and Arthur F. Rachel I\I. Hoopes was educated in the ])ul)]ic schools and later attended high school at ]\Ic-

Connellsville and a private school at Bartlett. Ohio. With the intentinn of fitting herself for the teaching profession she became a student in the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. In 1885 she came to Alarysville as a teacher in the public schools and has been in continuous service in this place since that year. Certainly this is a record which speaks well for her efficiency as an instructor. Lydie E. Hoopes became the wife of William Epps and now resides in Marysville. C. D. Hoopes is a farmer of Union county and has a well improved farm near ]\larys\i!le. Susanna died at the age of four years. Arthur F. makes his home in Mar}'sville. Nathan Hoopes was a mechanic and early in life learned the trade of a gunsmith, following this for a number of years. Later in life lie farmed in ]\Iorgan county, Ohio, and in 1885 moved to L'nion county and settled on a farm in Dover township, where he lived until his death, August 7, 1913. His wife had passed away previously, April 27, 1890.

\\'illiam T. Hoopes was educated in the public schools of [Morgan county. Ohio, and then spent two years in the National Normal University at Lebanon, where he was a student in the law department. After leaving the university he was admitted to the bar and began the active practice of his profession in North Lewisburg, Champaign county, Ohio, where he remained for three years. In the spring of 1881 he came to Marysville and practiced by himself until 1901, when the firm of Hoopes, Robinson & Hoopes was formed. This firm was for more than a decade one of the leading legal firms of the county, and had its full share of the legal business which came before the local courts. In 1908, Clarence A. Hoopes entered the firm. Mr. Hoopes was district attorney of L'nion county for two terms, and fearlessly and impartially interpreted and enforced the law. A few years ago he was selected as the candidate of Union county on the Republican ticket for Congress, and as evidence of his personal popularity he was defeated only by one vote.

Mr. Hoopes was married to Lucy Wood and to this union two children were born, Dr. Carl W., a physician of Marysville, and C. A., an attorney of Marysville. C. A. Hoopes graduated from the Marysville high school and after spending four }-ear^ m Ohio .State Uni\-ersity. spent two years in the law department of Columbia University, since which time he has been practicing in Marysville. After his father's death he took his place in the firm under the firm name of Robinson & Hoopes.

William T. Hoopes was reared in the Quaker faith, although in later life he was not an active member of this church. Fraternally, he was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Marysville. Mr. Hoopes was disciplined in hard work, and worked with unceasing energy to accomplish a worthy object. With an indomitable will and irresistible energy he carved out success for himself in a field where many others have failed. He was thoroughly loyal to his clients and never accepted a case which he thought was not thoroughly meritorious. He did what he believed was right, and whenever he accepted a case he spent all of his energies in mastering it in its every detail. He compared the law in the case, marshaled his evidence with good judgment and then entered the contest with self reliance and confidence, with enthusiastic hopefulness and grim determination. He was a public speaker of no mean ability and during his political days campaigned with some of the most brilliant men of Ohio, among them being Governor Willis, Harding, William Gibson, Joseph Cooper and many others of the state's prominent men. He was an able trial lawyer, a safe counsellor, a practical business man, a citizen always interested in the welfare of his community, and a man who was always high minded, h(5norable and true to the best that was in him.

Esau Reed

The most of the citizens of Union county, Ohio, are engaged in farming, and it is safe to say that the largest portion of the bank deposits of the county are tiie result of the busy farmers of the county. Taylor township boasts of many excellent fanners and among them Esau Reed occupies a prominent place. He has lived on his present farm since 1874, and all of the improvements which are now on his farm have been placed there by him since that time. He has taken an active part in the civic life of his community and has served as trustee for several years, filling this important position with eminent satisfaction to his fellow citizens. He is essentially a self-made man and his broad acres are a glowing tribute to his ability as a farmer.

Esau Reed, the son of William and Catherine (Harding) Reed, was born May 29, 1846, in the state of West Virginia. His father was a native of Virginia and his mother of Pennsylvania, and they were married in Payette county, Pennsylvania, where they lived until they came to ETnion county, Ohio, where they settled in Taylor township in 1857. A short time after- wards tliey niuved to Madison county, Ohio, but tliree years later returned to Union county, wiiere they spent the remainder of tlieir days. WilHani Reed and wile were the parents of eight children, four of whom are now living: Harriette, of Union county; Amanda J., the wife of Hamilton Rittenhouse, of Ostrander, Delaware county; Martha, the widow of Le Roy Weaver, of Plain City, Ohio, and Esau, of Taylor township, this county.

The education of Esau Reed was received in the schools of Madison county, Ohio, and also those of Union county. He was eleven years of age when his parents moved from Pennsylvania to Union county, and consequently most of his life has been spent within the confines of this county. He remained at home until he was twenty-three years of age antl then began working for himself. At the age of twenty-six he was married and started to build up a farm of his own. As he prospered year after year he added to his land holdings until he is now the owner of two hundred and three and one-half acres of fine land a little more than a mile from Broadway. He and Mrs. Reed own sixty-three acres of land in Liberty township, and all of his farm is the direct result of his own initiative. He has lived on his present farm since March 3, 1874, and during the long years which have elapsed since that time he has ever been regarded as one of the leadingagriculturists of the township.

Air. Reed was married on the 13th day of February, 1873, to Winnie Smith, who was born in Darby township, this county, educated in the common schools and later became a student of Wesleyan College at Delaware, Ohio. After completing her college course she taught school until her marriage. She is a woman of refinement and culture and has always been interested in cliurch and social service work in her county. Mr. Reed and his wife ha\e no children of their own, but have reared a son. Ernest C. Colby, whom they took at the age of four j'ears from the Orphan's Home at Cleveland, Ohio. They gave him all the tender care they would have given to a child of their own and have the satisfaction of knowing that he has become a useful member of society. He was educated in the common schools and later graduated from the high school at the early age of si.xteen. He then entered the Northern Ohio Normal School at Ada, and graduated from the agriculttu-al course in that s]3lendid school. Since then he has been engaged in farming and with marked success. Ernest C. Reed married Bertha Lash. and has two daughters. Pauline and Ernestine.

Order of Odd Fellows, while, politically, he has been a life-long Republican, and has served for six years as trustee of his township. His son has served as township clerk for two terms and is a Mason. Mr. Reed is a fine type of the splendid American citizen who takes an intelligent interest in the life of his community and always stands ready to help all worthy causes.

Cone Howard

One of the largest and most extensi\e farmers and stock raisers of Union county, Ohio, is Cone Howard, whose whole career of a half century has been spent in this county where he was born. The Howard family are among the pioneers of the county and the father of i\Ir. Howard is the largest land owner of Union county today. He has made his greatest success in the raising of live stock and has found, as ha\e other farmers in this country, that the greatest profits for the farmer are to be found in the stock raising business. While he has been interested in ad\ancing his own interests he has not neglected to take an active part in the civic life of his community, and is regarded by everyone as a man of public spirit, who is always willing to do his part toward the advancement of the general welfare of his county.

Cone Howard, the son of Nathan and Helen (Hathaway) Howard, was born in 1865, in a log cabin in Union township. Union county, Ohio. His father is the son of William and Nancy (McDonald) Howard, pioneers of Union county. His father started in with a team of oxen and by good management and close attention to his business has accumulated a farm of three thousand acres, the largest farm owned by any man in Union county. Nathan Howard and wife reared a family of four children: Helen, who died in infancv; C. M., of Fort Scott, Kansas; Cone, with whom this narrative deals, and O. N., of Woodstock, Ohio.

Cone Howard was reared on his father's farm in this township and received his education in the district schools of Allen township. He then entered the Milford high school and after finishing there, entered Ohio State University at Columbus and took the short course in agriculture. After completing his college education he returned home and became a partner with his father in the management of the home farm. He and his father were in partnership for nine years and he then began working by himself. Since 1901 he has had charge of his own farm of seventeen hundred acres and has made a pronounced success of every phase of farming. His farm is well improved in ever}' way and has every convenience which modern agricuUure demands. He has given particular attention to the breeding of Percheron horses and finds a ready sale for all that he cares to dispose of. He engages in the buying and selling of stock and is one of the most extensive feeders of live stock in the county. His residence is modern in every respect, including electric vacuum cleaner, concrete walks and a driveway from the road to the porte cochere.

Mr. Howard was married September ii, 1895, to Alice Hunt, the daughter of Asa and EHzabeth (Rice) Hunt, nati\'es of Madison county, Ohio, and to this union four children have been born, Ercil, Bethmar, Cone, Jr.. and Verne.

Politically, Mr. Howard gi\es his stanch support to the Republican party, but his extensive agricultural interests ha\'e been such that he has not been actively engaged in political matters. However, he gives his hearty support to all measures which have for their end good government and is frequently consulted by the leaders of his party upon questions affecting local politics. He is a man of genial and pleasing personality and is highly respected by evervone w ith whom lie is acquainted.

Joseph W. Ritchie

A prominent farmer and the present trustee of Taylor townhip, Joseph W. Ritchie is one of the leading citizens of his township. His whole career of more than fort}' years has been siient in Union county, where he has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. Being ambitious from his boyhood days he has resolutely forged to the front and sumiounted all the difficulties in his way and in due course of time arose to a prominent position in the agricultural circles of his community. Besides winning the confidence and esteem of those with whom he has come in contact, he has prospered in a material way as is shown by his well improved farm of one hundred and twenty acres four miles east of Broadway.

Joseph W'. Ritchie, the son of Jerome and Sarah J. (Gardner) Ritchie, was born November 10, 1873, in Leeshurg township. Union county, Ohio. His father was born in Pennsylvania, and his mother in Licking county, Ohio, but they spent most of their married life in Union county, where the father died in 1899. Four children were born to Jerome Ritchie and wife: (47)

Ettie, the wife of Cassius McCollister, a farmer of Claibonrne township; Herbert, of Springfield, Ohio; Joseph W., of Taylor township, and Blanche, the wife of Stanley Bowen, of Richwood.

Joseph W. Ritchie was reared on his father's farm in Leesburg township, and received his education in the public schools of his home neighborhood. He remained at home until he was married and then began farming for himself on the farm where he is now residing, giving due attention to stock raising and general farming, and he has met with pronounced success, and is recognized throughout his township as an enterprising farmer who is thoroughly abreast of the times.

Mr. Ritchie was married January 16. 1896, to Josephine Braithwaite, who was born in Madison county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Milton Braithwaite and wife. Seven children have been born to Mv. and Mrs. Ritchie, Warren, Sophia, Rosella. Cletis, Mary, Jerome and John. Warren and Sophia are twins and are now students in the high school at Broadway.

Fraternally, Mr. Ritchie is a member of the Knights of Pythias and is theN present chancellor commander of his lodge at Pharisburg. In politics he has always given his allegiance to the Republican party and is now serving as one of the trustees of his township.

Otway Curry

Among the literary men and gifted poets who were residents of Ohio in the early days of the nineteenth century, Otway Curry, of Marysville, ranked high. He was, indeed, mie of the sweet singers of that period and excelled as a writer of prose and poetry. No more befitting tribute can be paid the subject than to quote from the writings of Bishop Edward Thompson, who wrote in a biography, among other things, the following:

Otway Curry was a child of the wilderness - a situation not unsuitable to awaken imagination, to cultivate taste and to call forth the love of nature and the spirit of poesy. The approach of the jjear. the rattle of the snake, the whoop (jf the savage were among the sources of his early fears. To observe the swallow build her nest in the barn, and to watch the deer bounding through the bushes were among his early amusements ; to mark when dogwood blossoms and when the north winds blew, to observe how nature mingled stomi with sunshine, and draws the rainbow on the clouds, were riniong liis first lessons in philosophy.

There was tlien no school law in Oliin; the school house was huilt by common consent, usually in the center of the clearings and on an eminence, reminding one of Beattie's lines :

It was constructed of unhewn higs, floored with puncheons, and roofed with clapboards, having at one end a fire-place capable of receiving a twelve-foot back-log, and at the other a door and a latch-string. It was completed by sawing out a log on each side, inserting in the opening a light frame, and stretching over this frame some foolscap paper well oiled ; this served for the transmission of light, which fell with mellow beams upon a sloping board on which the copy books of the advanced scholars were to be placed. In the center of the room were benches without backs, made of slabs, by inserting upright sticks at their extremities. The subjects taught were reading, writing, spelling and arithmetic, as far as the rule of three. Grammar was ranked among the natural sciences, and geography as among the classics.

Happily there were t)ther means uf instruction and mental development - the debating club, the neighborhood meeting, the singing school, etc., but, above all, the home. Our young poet heard his father relate the tale of the Revolution, the wrongs of the Colonists, their determined rebellion, their bloody battles and final triumphs ; he also heard him describe the characters of the leading statesmen and warriors of that period, the organization of the state and national government, the causes and actors and consequences of the War of 1812.

Moreover, the piijus mother hatl her pleasant legends and fairy tales with which she kept down the rising sigh and kept up the leaden eyelids of the little ones as she sat plying her spinning wheel and waiting for the return of her husband fr(5m the mill, when the driving snow storm dela_\-ed him far into the hours of night. She seemed, indeed, to have been no ordinary woman : she was accustomed to relate over and over at her fireside the whole story of "Paradise Lost," as well as many other classic poems, so that young Otway was familiar with their scenes and character long before he could read. She often beguiled the weary hours of summer nights, as slie sat in her cabin door with her young ones, watching for the return of the older from the perilous chase, by naming the constellations as they came aliove the horizon and exi)lained the ordinances of hea\'en.

The school education of Otway was impeded hy the events of the War of 1812. When it broke out the father was summoned to Chilhcothe, as a member of the Legislature; the oldest brother went out with the army. As the young poet grew up he began to read the books of his father's library, which, though very small, was very choice, consisting of ]^Iilton, Locke and other great minds. Moved by romantic impulses, he, in company with a Heiu-v Wilson, made a skiff and launching it at Millville, a small village on the Scioto, when the waters were swelled with rains, and descended that stream to its mouth, safely passing mill-dams, rocks and all other obstructions. He then descended the Ohio to Cincinnati. Here he determined to visit the rice fields and orange groves of the South. Procuring passage on a flatboat for himself and a chest of tools, he proceeded down the Ohio and Mississippi and spent a year at Port Gibson before he returned.

About this time he summoned courage to offer, anonymously, some verses to the newspapers, among which were his sweet poems, "My Mother" and "Kingdom Come." It is probable that he had written poetry long before, but we are not able to trace the progress of his mind from the first rude attempts of versification up to his best original composition.

Mr. Curry's first published poetry was so full of fine sentiment and pleasing imager\" and was withal so melodious in versification that it attracted attention and won admiration at once. On his return to Cincinnati he contributed more freely to the press over the signature of "Abdallah." It was at this time that he fdrmed the acquaintance of William D. Gallagher, who was induced to seek for him by reading his stanzas, "The Ministrel's Home."

Mr. Otway first appeared in public life in 1836, when he was elected a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. In this capacity he won the respect of his colleagues and the confidence and approbation of his constituents, who re-elected him in 1837. In 1838 he became united with Mr. Gallagher in the editorship of the Hesperian, at Coluniljus, a monthlv literar}' journal of high order, which, not l)eing adequately sustained, was discontinued at the end of the third \dlunic. In 1839 he removed to Mar}'sville and commenced the study of law. In 1842 he was again returned to the Legislature ; during that term of service he purchased the Greene County Torch Light, a weekly paper at Xenia. whither he removed in the spring of 1843. He conducted his paper, the name of which he changed to Xenia Torch I-A'^Jil. for two years, when he sold and removing to Marysville, devoted himself to his ])rofession. In 1850 he was elected a member of the second

Ohio constitutional convention and, witli manly firmness and dignity, he resisted some of the principles of the instrument which that able body elaborated. In 1853 he purchased the Scioto Gazette, a daily at Chillicothe, which he edited about a year, when, his wife's health failing, he sold out and removed to Marysville, resuming his legal practice.

Mr. Curry's words, whether written or spoken, were few and well chosen. This is the more remarkable, considering that his early education was so limited. He would allow no thought of his to go abroad in an unsuitable garment, however protracted might be the process of fitting it. When he wrote for the press his first drafts were scanned, laid aside, examined again, altered, and re-written, sometimes often, before they were published. E\'ery word was scrutinized. Hence his poems bear criticism and will be best appreciated by those who most closely examine them.

"Within, the holy fire of poesy burned clear and bright, refining the material man, and lifting the more entherial element of oiu- two-fold nature up to the realms of love and faith and peace, where the indwelling soul preludes the feast of immortal joys. No petty ambitions, no goading desires for name or fame, among the great of earth, ever soiled the bosom of our friend. To move cjuietly in the accustome'd round of his prescribed duties - to enjoy the communion of chosen and congenial minds - to yield himself up to the manifold enchantments of inspiring nature - to utter in verse, smooth and musical as bis favorite streams, the live thoughts of tlie passing moments, made up the sum of his daily happiness ; and if a shade of sadness, as of some secret and acknowledged sorrow, bordered the placid beauty of existence, it only added tenderness to the hearts of those who knew and loved him, and made them more eager to minister to his simple and unadulterated pleasures."

His life began in mel(_)dy, progressed in conflict, but closed in peace. We know nothing in it that might not be written in an epic. His writings are also pure; the\' contain nothing that miglit not safely be read by all men. His mind was in harmony with nature; he had a relish for all lieauty. To him it was not in vain that God painted the landscape green, cast the channels of the streams in graceful curves, lighted up the arch of night, and turned the gates of day on golden hinges annd the anthems of the grateful world.

we not hope that he closed his eyes on earth in full view of heaven and its angels. On the 7th of February, 1855, he was laid in an humble grave, which perhaps may be sought for after the monuments raised to our heroes shall have been forgotten.

Among the manv poems which this gifted Ohio poet wrote, space can onlv be pemiitted for one in this connection, while his 1840 Campaign Song will be found elsewhere in the work :

Henry W. Morey

One of the oldest merchants of Marysville, Ohio, is Henry W. Morey, who has been engaged in the furniture and undertaiiing business for the past thirty-five years. He has always been very active in his support of all publicspirited measures affecting the general welfare of Marysville, and is the kind of a man who stands for good citizenship above all things. In his younger life he was a dentist, practicing for eighteen years in his native town, but in 1880 took over his father's business and retired from the dental profession six years later. The family have been in Marysville for nearly seventy years, his father establishing a furniture and undertaking business in this village in

1846. The family liave always taken a prominent part in the varions phases of the life of the county and for nearly three score and ten years ha\e been prominent factors in its history.

Henry W. Morey, the son of Abraham and Abby B. ( Kinney) JMorey, was born in Marysville, Ohio, September 22, 1849. His father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother in New York. They reared a family of eight children: Henry W., Charles D., William F. and John F. live in Marysville; Dr. Albert H., of Hendersonville, North Carolina: Mrs. Estelle M. Flower, of Albion, Pennsylvania : Carrie, who died at the age of two years.

Abraham Morey was reader in Delaware county, Ohio, from a small boy, and then went to Columbus where he learned the trade of cabinet maker. In 1846 he came to Marysville and established a furniture and undertaking business which he conducted until 1880, at which time he was succeeded by his son, Henry W. He then retired from active business life, and his death occurred June 26, 1910, lacking a few days of being eighty-eight years of age. His wife still survives him and is now past eighty-six years of age. Both were earnest members of the Congregational church. Mr. Morey was a charter member of the Odd Fellows lodge in Marysville.

The paternal grandparents of Henry W. Morey were Jacob and Barbara (Jacobs) Morey, natives of Pennsylvania, of German ancestry, and died at a ripe old age. The}' reared se\'eral children, Abraham, David, Esther, Catherine, Elizabeth, Jacob, William. John and Israel. The maternal grandfather of Mr. Morev was Dr. S. F. Kinne\\ who was twice married. His first wife was Abby Brockway and his second wife was Roxanna Head, the grandmother of Mr. Morey. Doctor Kinney and his second wife were both natives of New York state and early settlers in Marysville, where he practiced medicine for many years. Three children were born to Doctor Kinney and wife, Sarah, Martha and Abby. To his first marriage were born seven children, Maria, Laura, Eliza. Elisha, Lathrop, Mary and John. John Kinney was chief justice of Utah for several years and one of his children was the first white child born in the state of Nebraska.

Henry W. Morey was reared in Mar^'sville and attended the public schools of this place. He then took a commercial course in Cincinnati and entered his father's store, where he worked for some time. He then studied dentistry under Dr. L. A. Powell, in Marysville, and afterwards bought out the business of Doctor Powell. In 1872 he took the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery at the Philadelphia Dental College and practiced his profession in Marvsville until about 1886. In that vear he turned his dental business over to his brother. Dr. A. H. IMorey, and took the management of his father's furniture store which he had previously bought in 1880. He has given all of his attention to the furniture and undertaking business since 1886 and has built up a trade which extends throughout a wide territory surrounding jMarysville. The building which he erected in 1902 has three floors, twenty-eight by one hundred and thirty-five feet, all filled with a first class stock of furniture.

Mr. Morey was married December 31, 1874, to Clara A. Woods, the daughter of Samuel and Mrs. Lydia Ann (Burnham) Hathaway Woods, and to this union two children were born, Dana W. and Lucile E. Dana W. is in the pay department of the United States regular army and has his headquarters at Columbus, Ohio. He married Ethel Cross. Lucile E. died at the age of eighteen. January 2. 1902.

Mrs. Morey was born on a farm seven miles south of Marysville and her parents, both of whom were reared in this county, are now deceased. She has one brother, Leon. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Morey were Rev. Samuel and Margaret ( Power) Woods, natives of Pennsylvania, while the maternal grandparents of ^Jrs. Morey were Eliphaz and Lydia (Smith) Burnham. of Connecticut.

Samuel ^^'oods, the father of Mrs. Morey, married Lydia Ann S. (Burnham) Hathaway, the widow of Elias Hathaway, in 1848. Her death occurred in 1855, and in 1859 he married IMaria Stokes. Her father died in 1880, having spent most of his life and his last years on the original farm of his father, the Rev. Samuel Woods. Leon ^^'oods, the only brother of Mrs. INIorey, is now living on the old Woods farm.

]\Ir. Morey and his wife are earnest members of the Congregational church, of which Mr. Morey is a deacon. He is a member of Palestine Lodge Xo. 158. Free and Accepted Masons: Marysville Chapter. No. 99. Royal Arch Masons; Marysville Council. Royal and Select Masters; Mount Vernon Commandery. No. i. Knights Templar, of Columbus, Ohio, and Aladdin Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Columbus, Ohio. He holds his membership in the Knights of Pythias at Marysville.

In politics, Mr. Morey is a Republican and has been one of the leaders in his party for many years. He was a member of the city council for four years, served on the school board for four years and was count}' coroner for two terms. He was one of the organizers and first president of the board of trade in ATarysville. He was the first president of the ]Marysville Building and Loan Association, and is now president of the board of trustees of the

Mr. Morey has been prominent in the Ohio Embalmers Association and the Ohio Funeral Directors Association. He was one of the men who advocated the union of these two associations, was president of both organizations before their consolidation and the main factor in their consolidation. He has also served as president of the Ohio State Furniture Dealers Association and took an active part in the deliberations of this association for several years.

Tohn W. Kearns

A retired farmer and highly respected citizen of Taylor township, Union county, Ohio, is John W. Kearns, who has been a resident of this county since i860. His labors along agricultural lines have been crowned with success, as is shown by his well improved farm of one hundred and thirtyfive acres in Taylor township.

John W. Kearns, the son of (jideon and Mary (Green) Kearns, was bom in Kno.x county, Ohio, December 20, 1851. His father was born in Pennsvl\-ania in 1825 and his mother in Harrison county, Ohio, on February 26, 1829. Gideon Kearns came to Ohio before his marriage ami after his marriage located in Union county in York township, where he lixed until his death. His widow is still living in this county at the ach'anced age of eighty-five. Gideon Kearns was a member of Company E, One Hundred and Xinety-sixth Regiment Ohio \'ohmteer Infantry, during the Civil ^Var and ser\-ed at the front for nine months. There were born to (lideon Kearns and wife five children, two of whom are living: Sarah, the wife of W. H. Pfouts, of Washington township, and John W., of Taylor townsliip.

John W. Kearns was nine years of age when his parents mo\ed from Knox county, Ohio, to Union county, and consequently his education was received in the schools of both counties. He helped to clear his father's farm in York township, in this county, and remained at home until his marriage at the age of twentv-seven. He then began farming for himself and has accumulated a well improved farm of one hundred and thirty-five acres, on which he has placed many extensive improvements.

]\Ir. Kearns was married December 15. 1878. to Julia Spicer. the daughter of Joseph and Amanda Spicer. Her father gave his life in defense <if his country during tlie Civil War. Mr. Kearns and liis wife are the parents of six children, three of whom are now living: Dora, who is clerking in a store at Broadway. Ohio: James A., who is still single and living with his parents: and Edward C, who married Agatha Amerine and lives in Taylor township. Edward C. has one daughter, Mildred: Ethel and Bertha are deceased.

Mr. Kearns and his wife are both members of the Baptist church. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a past noble granil of his lodge. He also holds his membership in the Patrons of Husbandrv. Politically, he gives his stanch support to the Republican ]3artv and is now serving as one of the trustees of Taylor township.

Richard Saxny Fry

In the spring of 1850 there arrived in Cnion county, Ohio, from England, a young married couple who had come across the broad Atlantic to make their home in this country. Immediately after their marriage in England they had started on their honeymoon trip to America and for eleven long and joyous weeks their sailing vessel was tossed upon the waves of the broad Atlantic. This young couple arrived in Union county full of nope and happiness, coming here with the intention of making a permanent home for themselves, their children and their children's children. This young married couple who arrived in this county in the middle of the nineteenth century, were the parents of Richard S. Fry, who was the first son born to this young English couple.

Richard Sanny Fry, the son of William and Hilary Ann (Parrett) Fry, was born in Jerome township, Union county, Ohio, 'October 19, 1S51. His parents were both born in Somersetshire, England, and reared to maturity in the land of their birth. Immediately after their marriage they came to America and at once went westward to Union county. They had little money, but their hearts were full of hope, and theirs were willing hands. They came here with the intention of making a permanent home, of acquiring an estate, and well did they succeed. William Fry went to work for John Curry and in the fall of the following year bought a farm of fifty acres in Jerome township on which he moved his little family and started in to work for himself. As the years passed by child after child came to bless their home, and acre after acre was added to the farm until at the time of William

Fry's death in 1902 he was the owner of fi\e hundred acres of fine land, all in Jerome township, and he had lived to see seven children gathered about the fireside. The mother died in 19 10. These seven children are as follows: Richard S., of Jerome township: A. \V., of Columlnis; Mary, the wife of John Crees, of Mill Creek township; Rose, the wife of Addison McKitrick, of Columbus, Ohio ; Augusta, who died when about nineteen years of age: Alfred, of Jerome tovvmship; I-enora, the wife of Reed Mav, of Columbus, Ohio. William Fry was a prominent man in his countv for more than half a century. He was Republican in politics, Presb\-terian in religion, and a public-spirited citizen at all times.

Richard Sanny Fry was educated in the public schools of Jerome township and spent a term in the normal school at Worthington, Ohio. He then taught three years in Delaware county, but decided that he would rather engage in farming than follow the profession of a teacher. He returned to the farm in the fall of 1876 and began farming for himself, and has made this his life work. That he has succeeded is shown by his fine farm of three hundred acres. He raises full blooded Percheron horses and high grade live stock of all kinds.

Mr. Fry was married November 10. 1881. to Alice Maria Herriott, a daughter of James and Margery (Cunningham) Herriott, and to this union nine children have been born, eight of whom are living : \\'illiam Richard, Margery, Chorene, Urton Anderson. Augusta Jane, .Alice Herriott, Royal Sanny. Mary Ann, Harold Eugene and Helen. \\'illiam Richard was born August 23, 1882, married Edith Comstock, and is now living in Jerome township. JMargery Chorene was liorn December 20, 1883. and is the wife of Harley Huffman, and lives in Union township. She has one son, Gerald Harley, born April 3, 1913. Urton Anderson, born November 15, 1885, was married to Nannie Orr in 191 2, and he is now living in Madison county. Ohio. Augusta Jane, born August 29, 18S7, is still residing with her parents. Alice Herriott, born September 4. 1889, was married in 19 12 to Kelton jMcKitrick, and lives in Jerome township. Slie has one daughter, Alice June, born June 10. 1914. Royal Sanny, born March 2^. 1891, was married in 191 1, to Hazel Hooper, and to this union have been born two children, James Richard, born in 191 1, and Mary Eloise. born June 23, 1913. Mary Ann, the seventh child born to Mr. and Mrs. Fry, was born March 17, 1893, and died January 25, 1894. Harold Eugene was born December 14, 1895. Helen, born January 12. 1898, is a student at the Ohio \^^esleyan Universitv at Delaware, Ohio.

Mrs. Fry was born in Concord township, Delaware county, Ohio, August 27, 1858. At the age of fifteen she moved with her parents to Jerome township where she grew to womanhood. Her father, James Herriott, was born in Hickory township, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and her mother in Brown township, Delaware county, Ohio. The Herriotts originally came from Scotland and settled in Pennsylvania on coming to this country. James Herriott and wife reared a family of thirteen children, twelve daughters and one son, and all of them grew to maturity, Jane, Joanna, Margery Ann, Mary Travis, Hannah Rachel, Alice Maria, Angeline, Lovina Sophia, James William Butler, Sarah Ellen, Nora Arabelle, Laura ]\Iay and Frances. The parents of these thirteen children are both deceased, the father dying in March, 1882, and the mother in 1889.

James Herriott was a son of Samuel Herriott, and upon leaving school began to learn the blacksmith trade. Later he engaged in farming and followed this occupation for several years. He was only four years of age when he came with his parents from Pennsylvania to Jerome township, Union county, Ohio, and his father, Samuel Herriott, and his sons operated an ashery after coming to Delaware county. He bought a farm of one hundred acres in Delaware county and James helped his father to pay for this farm. Later his father deeded him one-half of the land and on that fifty acres all of the children of James Herriott, excepting the oldest, were born. She was born in Jerome township, LInion county. James Herriott was a stanch Republican and took an active interest in the success of his party. In his early manhood he joined the Free and Accepted Masons, but later in life became a dimitted member. He was reared a Presbyterian and was a great student of the Bible. He was noted for his ability to quote Scripture, and was able to turn to any passage in Scripture which was called for. He was intensely interested in education and served as a school director in his neighborhood. Personally, he was a man of the highest integrity and was always helping those less fortunate than himself. Of the thirteen children born to James Herriott and wife, six are still living. The old Herriott homestead where he died was the first farm his father, Samuel, bought in Jerome township and was kept in the Herriott family more than seventy years. It has now passed into other hands.

Mr. Fry has placed all the improvements on his present farm and now has one of the most attractive places in the county. In addition to his own farm of two hundred acres, he gave and sold one hundred acres to his two oldest sons. The family are all members of the United Presbyterian church at Xew California and have always been interested in its activities. Politically, Mr. Fry is identified with the Republican party and for several years served as justice of the peace of Jerome township. For many years in his younger days he served as a member of the school board of Jerome township, during which time he never failed to give his hearty support to all measures which he felt would benefit the schools.

Sylvfster L. Foughrey

A substantial farmer and sheep raiser of Taylor township, Union county, Ohio, is Sylvester L. Loughrey, who was born in this county seventy years ago. His parents settled in this county about ten years before that and consequently the Foughrey family has been identified with the history of the county for the past eighty years. Air. Foughrey has been eminently successful as a farmer and has one uf the finest farms in the county.

Sylvester F. Foughrey, the son of John and Mahala (Fry) Foughrey, was born in Feesburg township. Union county, Ohio, September 26, 1845. His parents, who were natives of Kno.\ and F^nion counties, respectively, located in F^nion ct)unty in 1835. in Feesburg township, where they lived until their death. John Foughrey was a teamster in the early history lif the county and hauled goods from Columbus overland t(j Union county. He prospered and at the time of his death owned a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, which was the direct result of his unremitting labors. Ten children were born to John Foughrey antl wife, only two of whom are niAv living, William, of Texas, and Sylvester F., of Union county, Ohio.

The education of Sylvester F. Foughrey was received in the subscription schools of Feesburg township. From his earliest boyliood days he was engaged in hard manual labor, and before reaching his majority he started out to work for himself. He was married when he was twenty years of age and with the five hundred dollars which was given him he made his start in life. He has been remarkably successful as a farmer and stock raiser, paying particular attention to the raising of Delaine sheep, making most of his monev in the sheep business. He has a Ijeautiful country home and evervthing on his farm indicates that he is a man of taste.

Air. Foughrey was married October 23. 1863, to June P.elville, of Paris township, and to this union one son, John F., has been born. John is a

;\Ir. Loughrey and his wife are members of the Christian church at Raymond and have always taken a very active part in all church work. Mr. Loughrey has served for twenty-four years as treasurer of the Ohio Central Christian conference, resigning his station in 1914. He has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows for nearly a half centun', and is past noble grand of the lodge at Marysville, and is a member of the grand lodge of Oliii). Politically, he became identified with the Progressive party upon its organization in 1913, and has since been giving this party his hearty support. He has served as trustee of Taylor township and has always taken an active part in the civic life of his community. ^Ir. Loughrey is one of the most highly respected citizens of the county, and during his long career here be has built up a wide circle of friends and accjuaintances who delight to honor him in his declining years.

Jefferson L. Richey

One of the most highly esteemed men of Union county, Ohio, is Jefferson L. Richey, who was born in this county, served in an Ohio regiment in the Civil War, and has made his home here all his life with the exception of about ten years when he was living in Missouri. He has held various official positions and is now serving as county recorder.

Jefferson L. Richey. the son of James B. and Jane (Dodge) Richey, was born in Dover township. Union county, Ohio, Juh- 12, 1846. His father was born in Dover township. December 19, 1823, a son of \Villiam and Alassie (Badley) Richey. She was born in Ross county, Ohio, and his grandfather, William Richey, Jr., was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsyhania, August 10, 1793. The grandmother of J. L. Richey was born September 26, 1804, in Ross county, Ohio, and she was married in 1820 in Dover township. Her people located on the banks of Mill creek in 181 5 and there her parents. William and Sarah (Hurst) Badley, reared their children. The Hursts and Badleys were descendants of English ancestry and were the second white family to locate in what is now Dover township.

J. L. Richey"s great-grandfather, William Richey, Sr., was born in Scotland and came to the L^nited States in the fall of 1757, and settled in Cumberland countv. Pennsvlvania. There he married ]Marv Kin^ and moved to

Cliillicothe, Ohio, and later to what was called Franklinton, now West Columbus, Ohio. The father of William Riche}', Sr., was Adam Richey, who married Agnes Turner. Adam Richey's father was George, who married Nancy Bolton, also of Scottish ancestry. William Richey, Jr., was a self-made man and a member of the Ohio Legislature from 1846 to 1848. He only attended school two months in his life.

Adam Richey's great-grandfather had five sons and six daughters. Four of the sons were in the Revolutionary War. Two enlisted from Pennsylvania and the two who went with General Francis Marion in the Carolinas, located in the South after the close of the war. The other two sons located in Pennsylvania.

William Richey, Sr., the great-grandfather of Jefferson L., was a weaver and school teacher and taught school in Union county in what is now known as Dover township. William Richey first married Nanc\' Bolton, and to them were born two daughters, Nancy and Polly. He later married Mary Kane, and to this union four sons and six daughters were born, among whom were the following: William, Martha, James. Catherine, Anna, Sarah, Margaret, Adam and Joseph.

Jefferson L. Richey's grandfather, William Richev, Jr., married Massie Badley, and to them were born six children, Elizabeth, James, Edward Y., Sarah, Joseph and Calvin. James B. and Jane ( Dodge) Richey, the parents of Jefferson L., had three sons and three daughters: Jefferson L., of ]\Iarysville; Emma, the wife of Elijah G. Bates, residents of Crescent, Colorado; Judha, deceased; Lsabella, the wife of George W. Longbrake, a farmer of this county: Lucilla, the widow of S. O. McDowell, of Columbus, Kansas, and William G., a farmer, living in Kansas. The father of Jefferson L. Richey \\as a farmer, as have been all of the members of the family. He died January 8, iSS'o, near Peoria, Franklin county, Kansas, and his widow died in Salida, Colorado, in 1906. He was first lieutenant of Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio Infantry, having enlisted in 1864.

Jefferson L. Richey was reared amidst the rural conditions peculiar to any new county. He did not have much of a chance for an education in his boyhood days, and only attended school a few months altogether. When he enlisted he bought and took with him his school books and studied during his spare hoiirs all through the war. At the age of sixteen he enlisted for service in the Union army in Company D, Eighty-eighth Regiment Ohio \'olunteer Infantry, as a private and was later detailed as drummer boy. He was at the front until lulv 3, 1865. In the same vear that he returned (48) from the war he married and began farming in this county. He also worked at the carpenter trade. He Hved in Union county until 1884, when he went to Dallas county, Missouri, and there worked at the carpenter trade for four years. He was then elected justice of the peace and took up the collection of accounts in addition to acting as a pension agent. For a time he was also mayor of the town in which he located. He collected claims for the soldiers in Dallas county and lived there until July 24, 1893, when he returned to his home county. Upon coming to Union county he bought stock for shippers and in 1895 engaged in the wool business with Walter Beecher, continuing in partnership with him until 1898. In 1900 he bought a farm of fifty acres in Dover township, and in connection with his farming still carries on a general pension agency. He also has been buying and shipping stock along with his other work.

Mr. Richey was married September 14, 1865, to Idy A. Longbrake, a daughter of Jacob and Susan (Farnum) Longbrake. Her father was born in Clark county, Ohio, and her mother in New York state. Her father came with his mother when a small lad to Union county and located in Dover township about 1835. Mr. Longbrake was born in Clark county in 1808, and Mrs. Longbrake's birth occurred September 17, 181 1. He was a farmer until his death, January 10, 1865, his wife passing away February 5, 1904. ^Ir. and Mrs. Richey are the parents of two daughters. Rettie M. and Emma V. Rettie is the wife of Theodore Weidman, and has two daughters, Jessie M. and Essie Marie. Mrs. Weidman died December 9, 1893. Emma V. is the wife of Pearl Mcllroy, of Marysville.

Mr. Richey is- a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having belonged to this lodge since November 2, 1867. He is one of the oldest Masons in the county. He also holds his membership in the Improved Order of Red Men. He and his wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal church at ]\Iarysville, having joined the church February 9, 1866, at New Dover, and have been members in good standing since that year. Mr. Richey is an active worker in the Grand Army of the Republic post at Marysville, and has been adjutant for the past five years. In politics he has. always been a Republican and has taken an active part in public affairs all his life. He was elected on the 3d of November, 19 14, to the office of countv recorder. He has served as justice of the peace and school director in his township. He was superintendent of the .Sunday school at New Dover for two years, and while in the West was superintendent of the L^nion Sabbath school for one vear, and the ^lethodist Sabbath school for two vears. He was a class leader for many years while living in Dover township. Enough has been said concerning the life of Mr. Richey to indicate that he has taken a prominent part in the life of his county, and is therefore eminently deserving of representation in his county's history.

Charles Rausch

A public-spirited citizen of Mill Creek township. Union county, Ohio, is Charles Rausch, a man who has taken a pr(jniinent part in the various actix'ities of his county for many years. A nati\-e of this county, he has spent all of his life here thus far and is well known throughout the county. He has been serving as county commissioner since 1910, and in this position is rendering faithful and painstaking service to the citizens of the county. He has been active in church work and in all the \-arious phases of community life which affect its welfare.

Charles Rausch, the son of John and Caroline ( Horch ) Rausch, was born in Darby township. Union county, Ohio, September 29, 1863. His father was born in the same township, March 12, 1838, while his mother was a native of Germany and came to the United States with her parents when she was two years of age. After the marriage of his parents, they located in Darby township, where they lived until 1865, at which time they moved to Mill Creek township, settling there on Eebruary 26, 1865. I'"* Mill Creek township John Rausch and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. He was an industrious farmer and accumulated a farm of two hundred and ten acres in Alill Creek tinvnslii]i. John Rausch and his wife were both loyal members of the Gennan Lutheran church, and liberal supporters of all the activities of his denomination. Ten children were born to John Rausch and wife, eight of wIidui are now living : Charles, of Mill Creek township: Amelia, the widow of J. ^L Burger; Anna, the wife of John Mader: Clara, the wife of Philip Casper; Maggie, the wife of C. L. Koerner; Leo P., who married .Anna Wolfe: Pauline, the wife of Peter Renner. and Albert, who is still unmarried.

Charles Rausch was about two years of age when his parents moved from Darbv township into INIill Creek township, and here he has lived since that time. He was educated in the German parochial schools and also in the public schools of his township, remaining in school until he was eighteen vears of age. After his marriaee. at the age of twentv-three. he beo-,nn farming in Mill Creek township, and now has a well improved farm of one hundred and ten acres five miles southeast of Marysville, on the Columbus and Alaiysville pike.

Mr. Rausch was married August 29, 1886, to Anna K. Mader, the daughter of George Mader, a native of Germany, and was born in Darby township, this county, October 27, 1863. To Mr. and Mrs. Rausch have been born six children: Ida, born in March, 1888, the wife of William Casper: Ernest, bom in 1890; Bertha, born in 1893; Martha, born in 1898; Edgar, born July 4, 1900; Hulda, born May 7, 1903.

'Sir. Rausch and his family are earnest members of St. John's Lutheran church of Darby township, and Mr. Rausch was superintendent of the building of the church which was erected in Darby township. He was treasurer of the church for eight years and also trustee for fifteen years. Politically, he has been one of the leaders in the Democratic party in township and countv afl:"airs for many years, and has also served as a delegate to conventions on numerous occasions. His party nominated and elected him to the position of county commissioner in 1910, re-electing him in 1912. He has given this office his careful attention and, as a public official, has served the interests of the people in a very satisfactory manner.

A prominent business man of Broadway, Union county, Ohio, is P. V. Burson, who has been an extensive dealer in hay and straw for the past twenty years in this section of the state. He has been a resident of this county practically all of his life, and has met with marked success as a farmer and business man. He owns a well improved farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Taylor township, but for more than a score of years he has given most of his attention to the buying and selling of hay and straw in carload lots. He is of an inventive turn of mind and has a patent for a road grader which has been pronounced as quite an improvement over anvthing hitherto made in that line.

P. V. Burson, the son of Monroe V. and Martha (Yearsley) Burson, was l)orn in Madison county, Ohio, October 20, 1858. His father was born in L'nion county, Ohio, and his mother in Chester county, Pennsvlvania. -After his parents' marriage they located in Madison countv, but a vear later

P. V. Burson was the only child of his parents, and was reared on his father's farm in Taylor township, and attended the public schools of his home neighborhood. After his marriage in 1880, he took up farming and continued to follow agricultural pursuits until 1894, since which time he has been engaged in the hay and straw business. He makes a specialty of selling hay and straw in carload lots and buys hay and straw in Union county and all of the surrounding counties as well.

Mr. Burson was married on July 15, 1880, to Rena Winter, who was born in Licking county, Ohio. To this union have been born four children, O. AL, E. G., Wave and Martha. O. M. is a resident of Marysville, Ohio. E. G. graduated from the Ohio Normal University at Ada in the civil and mechanical engineering course, and is now with the American Bridge Company, of Toledo, Ohio. Wave graduated from school before her marriage to C. O. Shearer, of Taylor township, in this county. Martha is still living at home with her parents and is now a student in the high school at Broadway.

Mr. Burson has taken out a patent for a road grader which is known at the patent office of the government as the Burson Economy Road Grader. He has devoted considerable time in developing and perfecting his grader and feels that he has an article which will eventually become of wide use throughout the United States and Canada. The patent number of his road grader in the United States is 1069524, while felie patent number in Canada is 15820S. Air. Burson is a stanch member of the Republican party, and was the nominee of his party for the office of county commissioner from the eighth district of his county in the fall of 1914. being elected by the highest vote given any commissioner of the county.

Charles Parrott

Among the enterprising and successful farmers of Leesburg township. Union county, Ohio, is Charles Parrott. who came to this county from England, where his birth occurred, and lias lived here for the past forty-five years. He was about thirteen years of age when his ]Darents located in LTnion county, and after obtaining his education in the public schools of the county, he taught school for several years with marked success. He then engaged in agricultural pursuits, and now owns one hundred and sixty acres of land in Leesburg township about eight miles north of jMarysville. He has been prominent in the civic life of the county and has served two terms as clerk of the court, and in all respects Mr. Parrott has been a good American citizen, taking his part in the everyday life about him in such a way as to indicate that he is a man of worth and character.

Charles Parrott, a son of Charles and Mary (Bown) Parrott, was born in Wiltshire, England, December 26, 1857. His parents, who were born, reared and married in England, moved to Ireland in 1867, ^^'^ lived in Cork county until 1870, when they came to the United States, and for a few months lived near Bellpoint, near Delaware, Ohio. In the fall of 1870 they located in Dover township. Union county, where they lived the remainder of their days. The mother died January 31, 1903. There were nine children bom to Charles Parrott, Sr., and wife: Mrs. Elizabeth J. Meyers, of Delaware county, Ohio; ]\Irs. Lucy Mary Hallett, who came to this country with her parents and later went back to England to take care of her grandmother, and while there was married, in 1873, to Mr. Hallett, and has since made her home in England ; Charles, of Leesburg township ; Mrs. Harriett E. Low, deceased; Mrs. Charlotte L. Rittenhouse, who is living with her son, Frank, a Baptist minister, and now the pastor of the First Baptist church of Middletown, Ohio; William J., a farmer of Leesburg township; Mrs. Emma B. Gibson, deceased ; Mrs. Anna M. Vigor, the wife of Dr. W. C. Vigor, of New California, Ohio: ^Irs. Ellen Matilda Lindville, of Delaware county, Ohio.

Charles Parrott received part of his education in England and completed it in the schools of Union county, Ohio. After finishing his schooling he began to teach and for six years taught in the public schools of Union county. He finally decided to leave the pedagogical profession and engage in farming, and as a farmer he has been no less successful than as a teacher. He now owns one hundred and sixty acres, which is well improved and under his skilful management gives a satisfactory return year after year. He is engaged in a diversified system of farming and pays particular attention to the raising of a high-grade class of live stock.

yir. Parrott was married December 2^:1. 1891, to Clara A. Bonnett, a daughter of William H. and Hannah A. f Scott) Bonnett. Her father was a native of West Virginia and came to L'nion county with his parents when a boy, while her mother was a native of L^nion county. Mr. and ]\Irs. Bonnett were the parents of nine children, all of whom are living: !\Iillard C, a resident of this county; John L., of Licking county, Ohio; Wilham L., of Dover township, Union county; James W., of Licking county; Clara A., the wife of Mr. Parrott; Rose A., the wife of Wilham J. Parrott, of this county; Charles U., of Alanstield, Ohio; May, the wife of William James, of Dover township, and xA.rthur AL, of La Rue, Ohio. The mother of these children died on x^pril 5, 1912. 2\Ir. Bonnett served three years during the Civil War in the One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and is now li\"ing in Dcver township with his daughter, Mrs. William James.

]\Ir. Parrott and his wife are the parents of three sons and one daughter, Charles W., Clarence E., Hannah Ruth and Frank L. Charles W. was born August 4, 1894, and graduated from the Marysville high school. He served as deputy under his father when the latter was clerk of the court of Union county. Clarence E., who was born January i, 1897, graduated from the Pharisburg high schoi)! in the spring of 1915; Hannah Ruth, born July 16, 1901, and Frank L., Ijorn Ma)' 18, 1903, are both attending the public schools at Pharisburg.

Mr. Parrott has always been identified with the Republican party and has taken an active part in its councils. His party nominated and elected him as clerk of the court of L'nion county, and his first term was so satisfactory that he was re-elected. He is a member of the Free and Accepted ]\Iasons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Marysville, while his membership in the Knights of Pythias is maintained at Magnetic Springs. The family are all members of the Methodist Protestant church at Pharisburg, and Mr. Parrott has been superintendent of the Sunday school of this church for several ^'ears.

James W. Haaiilton

The Hamilton family have been residents of Union county, Ohio, since 1839. The grandfather of James \\'. Hamilton settled in Taylor township, in this county, and laought land for three dollars an acre. During all of these years the family ha\'e been interested in the general welfare of the countv and have contributed in no small measure to its present prosperitv and standing among the counties of the state.

James W. Hamilton, a life-long farmer of this county, and the son of James and Elizabeth (Graham) Hamilton, was bom in Taylor township. May 27. 1858. His father was born and lived all of his life in this county.

James W. Hamilton was reared on his father's farm in Taylor township and received such education as was afforded by the district schools of his home neighborhood. He remained on the home farm until his marriage in 1888, and then began farming for himself on his present farm of ninety-six acres five miles northwest of Marj'sville. He has lived the simple and unostentatious life of the good American citizen, doing his duty as he saw it and contributing his share toward the welfare of the community about him. While carrying on general farming he has given particular attention to the raising of high-class horses and has met with good success along this line.

Mr. Hamilton was married October 17, 1888, to Clara A. Bouic, of Mill Creek township, and to this union seven children have been born : James, Mary, Ruth, Catherine, George W., William T. and Clara B. James lives in Patterson, Ohio, and Catherine is now a student in the State University at Athens, Ohio, and Mary is attending the Ohio State University. Ruth was married December 24, 19 14, to Orrin Shaw and resides on a farm in Paris township, while the remainder of the children are still living at home with their parents. Politically, Mr. Hamilton gives his support to the Democratic party. He and his family are members of the Disciples church and are interested in its welfare. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he and his wife are both members of the Daughters of Rebekah. He is a past grand of the Odd Fellows lodge at Broadway.

William H. Goff

A veteran of the Civil War, a large land owner, a successful mill operator, William H. Goff is one of the honored citizens of Union county, Ohio. He enlisted in the Civil War at the age of nineteen, was severely wounded several times, and was on crutches for nearly three years after the war closed. He has taken a prominent part in the life of his community since the Civil War and is one of the largest land owners and most successful farmers of the county. In every respect he has measured up to the highest type of American citizenship, and is eminently entitled to representation in a history of his county.

William H. Goff, the son of Harvey P. and Adeline (Castle) Goff, was born near Concord, Licking county, Ohio, January 23, 1843. His parents were natives of Vermont and early settlers in Licking county, Ohio, coming to that county more than one hundred years ago. Four children were born

Mr. And Mrs. William H. Goff

Harvey P. Goff was reared in Vermont and came to Licking county, Ohio, when a young man before his marriage. He met Adeline Castle in Licking county. They were married in 1840 and in i860 came to Union county. Shortly after his marriage, Harvey P. Gofif was seriously crippled, but despite this handicap he made a good living and acquired a farm of one hundred acres which he improved. He and his wife were loyal and consistent members of the Baptist church. He lived to be seventy years of age and his wife lived to be over eighty. He was a man of considerable education and used to write special articles for the Marysville Tribune before the Civil War. He was postmaster before the railroad was built through Broadway and used to keep the postoffice at his own house.

The paternal grandparents of William H. GofT were Samuel and Betsey (Peck) Gofif. They were reared and married in Massachusetts, where he followed the trade of a shingle maker. Later Samuel GolY and family came to Licking county, Ohio, and in i860 to LTnion county, where they located one mile east of Broadway. They were taken back to Concord, in Licking county, where they were buried, both of them being past eighty years of age at the time of their death.

The GofT family history has a record of a \Villiam Goff, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and William H., with whom this narrative deals, has his old flintlock musket, which he carried throughout that war. It was made in Massachusetts in 1775, and has engraved on it the words, "Liberty or Death." Harvev P. GofY, the father of William H., was born m Topsham, Vermont, July 2-,. 1814, and died December 21, 1884, aged seventy years, four months and twenty-six days. Adeline D. (Castle) Gofif was born in Essex, Vermont, February 12, 1816, and died at Broadway, Ohio, Tune 14, 1900, at the age of eighty-four years, four months and two days.

The maternal grandfather of William H. Gofif was Sanford Castle, a native of Vermont and an earh- pioneer of Licking count)-, Ohio'. He was a deacon in the Baptist church at Gradville, and afterwards a deacon in the same church at Alexandria, Ohio, where he died.

William H. Goff was reared in Licking county, Ohio, and came with his parents to L'nion county, in March, i860, and has since made his home here with the exception of the time he spent in the army. He enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment Ohio A'olunteer Infantry, and served for two vears and se\-en months. He was wounded no less than four times and had many narrow escapes from deatli. While guarding a train at the battle of Chickamauga, between Chattanooga and Bridgeport, he was wounded in the face, made a prisoner and taken to McMinnville, where he recei\-ed hospital treatment. He went back to his regiment in January, 1863, and was wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, and wounded so seriously that he could hardly walk for more than two years, being compelled to hobble around on crutches. He was discharged in March. 1865, and immediately returned to Union county, where he has since lived.

Upon returning to his home he built a sawmill which he still owns, and which is running yet today with a record of half a century of continuous service. He has invested in land from time to time and is now the owner of two hundred and sixty-three and one-half acres of land in Taylor township, and three hundred and nineteen acres in Liberty township. He owns the sawmill, lumber yard and other property in Broadway. He has divided his time for the past half century between his sawmill and his agricultural interests, with the result that he is today one of the most substantial men of his county.

Mr. Goff was married August 16, 1870, to Sylvira J. Watson, the daugh ter of James and Silia (Lane) ^^'atson, and to this union eight children have been born: Alice, Loren B., Lydia O., Oscar W. (died at the age of two vears and ten months). Bertha (deceased), William W., Clarence and \'ernon. Loren B. is unmarried and operates the sawmill for his father. Alice was the wife of \\'illiam S. Fogle, and died, leaving four children, Zula, George and William, twins, Ruth, deceased, and Gerald. Lydia O. is the wife of William' Collins, and has seven children, Harold, Neva, Floe, Mary. Paul, Lonna and Carl, deceased. William W. operates his father's farm and helps to look after the sawmill. He married Ada Blue and has one son, Dwight. Clarence, a farmer, married Mamie Bacon and has one son, Drell. Zula is the wife of Charles Green and has one son, Charles. Vernon died at the age of about seven, and Bertha died at the age of twenty-one.

}.Ir. and Mrs. Goff are members of the Broadway Baptist church, and Mr. Goff is a trustee of his denomination. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is one of the oldest members of the lodge in Broadway. He is a member of the Ransom Reed Post, No. 113, Grand Army of the Republic, at Marysville, and his wife is a member of the \\'omen's Relief Corps, at Richwood. Politically. Mr. Goff 'has long been identified with the Republican party, and has served as justice of the peace and township clerk.

Mrs. Goff was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and Iier parents were natives of Connecticut. Her parents, both of whom are now deceased, reared a famil}' of several children: Sarah, Mary and Julia twins, Sylvira and Elvira.

Mr. Goff is one of the most public-spirited citizens of his community and no measure looking toward the welfare of his community fails to receive his hearty support. He served his country well and faithfully during the Civil War and nearly sacrificed his life for the flag that he loved. His life since that time has been such as to commend him to his fellow citizens.

William W. Goff

One of the youngest fanners of Ta^'lor township, Cnion count\-, is William \\'. Goff, who is now ser\ing as clerk of Ta)'l(jr township. He is a young man of energy- and ability and has already impressed his fellow citizens as a man of influence. He has an excellent education and is well informed on the current issues of the day.

William W. Goff. the son of W. H. and S\'Ivira J. (Watson) Goff, was born Septemljer (S, iy<i^ on tlie farm where he is now li\'ing in Taylor township. His parents, who 7ire now living in Broadway, Ohio, reared a familv of se\'en children, four of wln^m are now living: Loren B., a mechanic at Broadway, Ohio; Lydia O., the wife of W\ F. Collins: William W., of Taylor township, and Clarence H., of Taylor township.

W'illiam W. Goff was reared on the farm where he is now residing, and after attending the public schools of his home township, entered Ohio Northern L'ni\'ersity at Ada, Ohio. After taking the course in that excellent institution he returned home and clerked for two years in a hardware stcire at Broadway, after which he took up farming, assuming the management i;)f his father's farm of one hundred and twenty-seven acres. Fie is a general farmer, devoting his attention tn the raising of grain and live stock with a success which stamps him as one of the coming farmers of the township.

Mr. Goff was married March i6, 1905. to Ada D. Blue, a daughter of Jacob Blue, of Tavlor township. Mrs. Goff was born in Jackson township, in this county, in 1886, and graduated from the Broadway high school with the class of 1904. Mr. Goff and his wife have one son, W'illiam Dwight, who was born June 23, 1907.

Baptist clnircli, ami take a deep interest in all church and Sunday school work. At the present time Mr. Goff is superintendent of the Sunday school of his church in Broadway. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while he and his wife are b(5th members of the Daughters of Rebekah. They have both filled all the chairs in their resijective lodges. ]\Ir. Goff is a member of the Taylor Township Protective Association and the Patrons of Husbandry. In politics, he gives his support to the Republican party, and was nominated and elected by his party as clerk of Taylor township in November, 191 1. At the expiration of his first term he was re-elected and is now filling this position in a manner satisfactory to the citizens of the township, irrespective of their political affiliations.

William Stephen Fogle

For a quarter of a century, ^Villiam Stephen Fogle has been identified with the business life of Broadway, Union county, Ohio. He started in selling buggies, when a young man. He bought two buggies on credit, came to Broadway and for two months, one summer, sold buggies, clearing two hundred and eighty dollars. Thus he made his start in life. He is essentially a self-made man and has met with more than usual success along the pathway of life. He has given his careful attention to his business interests and has had the satisfaction of seeing his business increase from year to year.

William Stephen Fogle, who is the proprietor of a general hardware and implement store at Broadway, Ohio, was born in Leesburg township. Union county, Ohio, February 6. 1866. He is the son of George and Martha (Parr) Fogle, natives of Noble county and Licking county, respectively. George Fogle and wife were the parents of two children, William S. and Adeline, who died in California in December, 1912. She was the wife of John Laughery, and after his death she married John Bowlus.

George h'ogle was reared in Noble county, Ohio, and was a life-long farmer. He served three years in the Civil War as a private under General Garfield, and participated in many of the hardest fought battles of that struggle. After the close of the war, he farmed in Leesburg township, in Ufnion county, on a farm of fifty acres. Later he sold this farm and bought one hundred and six acres in Taylor township, on which he lived for a number i)f years. He then sold this farm, bought one in Hardin county, lived on it for several \ears and finally sold it and bought property in Marion, where he lived for some time. Late in life he moved to Broadway, hought a residence and was living here at the time he was killed by a runaway team in 1903, at the age of sixty-fi\e. His wife still survives him and is now seventy years of age. Both were members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

The paternal grandparents of William S. Fogle were William and Ellen (Gipson) Fogle, natives of Pennsylvania, and early pioneer settlers of Union county, Ohio, where they lived to a good old age. William Fogle and wife were the parents of a large family of children, Eli, Jacob, Rufus, George, Albert. James, Sarah Ann, Mary Elizabeth, Francina, ]\Iary, Lydia and Emma. The maternal grandparents of William S. Fogle were Stephen and descent. Stephen Parr was a blacksmith by trade ; he served in the Civil War and was an influential man in his community. Stephen Parr and wife reared a family of six children, INIartha, Millie, Mary, Flora, Jennie and David.

William S. Fogle was reared on his father's farm in Leesburg township until he was fourteen years of age, and then moved with his parents to Taylor township, where he remained until he reached his majority. He then married and worked for his father-in-law for se\enty-fi\'e cents a day and a furnished house, remaining with his father-in-law for one year. He then went to Columbus, Ohio, where he purchased two buggies on thirty days credit. He started at the four corners at Broadway, and during that summer, sold enough buggies to bring him a profit of two hundred and eighty dollars. With this money he began to buy poultry. He and his wife dressed the poultry themsehes and by the spring of the following year they had five hundred and twenty dollars in the bank, which represented their profits for a few months. He continued in the poultrv business for two }'ears, and then the D. M. Osborn Company wanted him to handle their line of machinery. He signed a contract with them and caiue to Broadwa\- in i88q to put their goods on the market. Here he has remained since and has added a full line of hardware to his buggies and farming implements. He has also engaged in the manufacture of cement products and has built up a considerable business in this line. He is a man of keen business ability and exercises that excellent judgment which has made him so successful.

Mr. Fogle was married on Januarv i, 1890. to Alice Goff, the daughter of William H. and Sylvira (Watson) Goiif. To this union six children have been born, Zula, George, William, Ruth. Dwight and Gerald. Zula married Charles Green and has one child. Charles. George is employed in a milk plant in Pasadena, California. William, who is a twin brother of George, is interested with his father in the cement works. He married Cecil Freeman. Ruth and Dwight are both deceased, the former dying at the age of eight and the latter passing away in infancy. Gerald, the youngest child of Mr. and ^Nlrs. Fogle, is in school at Broadway. The mother of these six children died in June, 191 1, at the age of thirty-eight. She was a loyal member of the Baptist church, and spent her whole life in this county. Her parents were natives of Licking county, Ohio, and are now residents of Broadway. Mrs. Fogle was one of several children born to her parents, Alice, Lydia, Bertha, Loren, William, Clarence and two who died in infancy.

Mr. Fogle was married July 12, 191 2, to Mrs. Laura Freeman, the widow of E. J. Freeman, and the daughter of Parker and Amy fXash) Wyeth. The paternal grandparents of ]\Irs. Fogle were David and Sallie

Politically, Mr. Fogle is an independent voter and casts his ballot for the best men. irrespective of their political affiliations. Mrs. Fogle is a member of the ^lethodist Episcopal church. Fraternally, Mr. Fogle is a member of the Free and Accepted ^lasons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He owns a farm of fifty acres two miles from Broadwav and also a fine home in the village, as well as other property in the town.

For more than half a century Albert U. IMartin has been identified with the agricultural interests of Taylor township. Union county, Ohio. He owns a tine farm of one hundred and eighty acres, two and three-fourths miles east of Broadway, where he has been living since his marriage. He and his wife have taken a prominent part in the life of their community in various ways and have always given their support to all measures of public welfare.

All)ert U. Martin, one of the trustees of Ta_\'lor township, was bom in Leesburg townsbi]). L'nion countN', Ohio, December 3, 1863. He is a son of Charles and Hettie (Slife) Martin, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. Five children were born to Charles Martin and wife, three of whom are still living: Minerva, the wife of David Laughrey, of Crawford county, Illinois; ]\Ionroe, a farmer of Leesburg township. Union county, and Albert I'., of Taylor township.

The boyliood days of .Mbert U. Martin were spent on his father's farm in Leesburg township and in the same township he received a good common scliool education. He remained at home until he was twenty-five years of age and then began farming for himself on his present farm in Taylor township. He has a fine country home, large and commodious barns and a fann which presents an attractive appearance. He gives his attention to general farming and stock raising and by careful attention to his attairs has become known as one of the most progressive farmers of his township.

Mr. Martin was married October 2^, 1887, to Belle Barnett. Mr. Martin and his wife ha\-e no children of tlieir dwu, but are rearing a girl, Agnes Fletcher.

]\Ir. Martin became identified with the Progressive party upon its organization in the summer of 1912 and has since given it his hearty support. An indication of the high esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens is shown by the fact that they selected him as one of the trustees of his townshi]i, a position which he is filling in a very efficient manner.

Fraternally, Mr. Martin is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order oi Odcl Fellows and Improved Order of Red Alen ; while he and his wife are members of the Pythian Sisters, Daughters of Rebekah and Pocahontas. Fie is a past grand of the Odd Fellows and past sachem of the Red Men. Mrs. Martin has passed all of the chairs in the Pythian Sisters and is now a member of the grand lodge of the Pythian Sisters.

Rev. Hexry C. Kxust

The Germans of the southern part of Union count}-, Ohio, are nearly all meml)ers of the German Lutlieran church. The Lutheran church of Chucker}', Darby township, has been in charge of Re\'. Henr_\' C. Knust since 1893. Rev. Knust has been the leader of his peiiple. not (inlv in religious afi:airs, but in educational afi^airs as well since that time and it is safe to say that no man in his community is so highly respected ov has greater influence than his.

Re\-. Henry C. Knust was jjorn in Germany, June 4, 1871, and was the son of Carl and Malusine (Sommer) Knust. His parents came to this country in 1883 and located in Iowa, where thousands of Germans had pre\'iously located. Both of his parents are still li\-ing at Lacona, Iowa, where his father is a prosperous farmer. They have reared a family of six children.

all of whom are living: Rev. Henry C, of Union county, Ohio; Dora, the wife of Albert Bote, of Iowa; Carl, of Iowa; Gustave, who is married and lives in Iowa; Elvina, single; and Theodore, single.