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In May, 1903, he married Abbie Stocking. Their one child is Mildred, now attending school. Mrs. Murray is a daughter of the late C.D. Stocking, who was born in Brighton Township. November 17. 1840, a son of Jonathan S. Stocking, who was one of the first pioneers in this section of Northern Ohio. Jonathan S. Stocking was born in Massachusetts in 1810 and was brought to Ohio by his parents when a child. His father had visited Northern Ohio in what is now Cuyahoga County during the years 1811-12. He came west with his family with ox teams and wagons and after six weeks arrived in Cuyahoga County in 1815. At that time there was-only one frame building on the present site of Cleveland. His father was a man of prominence in his part of Ohio and it is an interesting fact of his political record that he cast his first vote for Thomas Jefferson and voted for every presidential candidate for seventy-six years, having voted for R. B. Hayes a short time before his death, on February 23, 1877. Jonathan Stocking married Sabrina Lilly and they had six children, among whom was Conant D., father of Mrs. C. D. Murray. In 1836 the Stocking family moved to Brighton Township. C. D. Stocking, father of Mrs. Murray, spent nearly all his active career on the old homestead, and acquired one of the largest farms in Brighton Township. On January 7, 1874, he married Ann Eliza Fish, who was born in Ashland County, Ohio, in 1838, a daughter of Daniel Fish. Mrs. Murray was one of their two daughters, the other being Jennie, who is the wife of Walter C. Day, and they have one child, Donald. Mrs. Stocking resides with her daughter, Mrs. Murray, in Brighton Township.

JoHN G. Parsons. One of the oldest and best known family names in Lorain County is that of Parsons, one of whose representatives is John G., a highly successful farmer in the vicinity of Oberlin.

It was in the early '30s that the Parsons family was established in this section of Ohio. Lott Parsons, father of John G., was born in England in 1828 and was brought to America when four years of age, his parents locating in Lorain County, where Lott Parsons was reared and where in time he became a prosperous farmer of Russia Township. He died in 1892. He married Catherine Kendeigh, whose father, John Kendeigh, established his home in Lorain County in the period of pioneer settlement. Catherine Kendeigh was born in Lorain County in 1833 and died in 1893. She was an active member of the Congregational Church, and Lott Parsons was a prominent republican. They were the parents of six children and the five now living are: Frank S., a retired farmer; William, who is also a Lorain County farmer but spends his winters in Florida; Viola, of Oberlin; Clayton, of Oberlin; John G.

John G. Parsons was born on the old homestead in Russia Township January 4, 1864. His early education came through the country schools and he gained a practical vocational training by assisting on his father's farm until the age of twenty-one. He and his brother, Frank, then bought a farm together and they were associated in its management for five years. John G. Parsons then became conductor on an electric ear line in Cleveland for three years, after which he returned to the old home place and continued its management for nine years. He then removed to his present farm, on which he lived 214 years, had his home in Oberlin for two years after that, but since 1904 has given all his time to farming and development of his 145-acre place, which is regarded as one of the best rural estates in the neighborhood of Oberlin. Under his management the buildings have all been improved or remodeled, and he added a great deal of value to the land by laying approximately 100,000 tile. One of his chief crops is hay, and during the year 1915 his meadows produced about 135 tons. He also raises the different staple grains, and keeps about fifteen head of live stock.

On December 1, 1884, Mr. Parsons married Miss Mary Collins, a daughter of Ransom and Christiana (Packard) Collins. Both parents were born in Ohio and the mother at one time lived in Cleveland in a house occupying the present site of the courthouse. Both the Collins and Packard families were early settlers in Northern Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Parsons have two sons. Clarence, born March 18, 1886. married on April 26, 1912, Lottie May Horning and they have one child, Tharon Eugene, who was born November 30, 1915. Albert, born May 12, 1891, married Ada West on September 18, 1910. Tlise sons conduct a prosperous automobile trucking business in Cleveland, and operate about twenty-seven motor trucks, employing a large force of men as well as having a big investment in the business.

Mr. Parsons is affiliated with the Masonie Order in Oberlin, and both he and his wife take a very prominent part in the Grange. which he has served as master for eight years and for two years was the' state delegate. In politics he is republican. Mrs. Parsons is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and her people were directly descended from John Alden, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. While Mr. and Mrs. Parsons were comparatively poor people when they were married, they have prospered and at the same time have gained the esteem and good will of hundreds of loyal friends.

JAMES A. Murray has reason to be especially satisfied with his position and accomplishment, since his prosperity is the direct result of his individual work and carefully laid plans. He has one of the fine farm homes of Rochester Township and is one of the substantial citizens of that locality.

He has all the hardy qualities of the Scotch people and was born in Aberdeenshire. Scotland, September 25, 1867, a son of James and Isabelle (Monroe) Murray. His father was born in Scotland in 1827 and died in 1899. This is a well known family in Lorain County. and James A. Murray is a brother of Charles D. Murray, whose career is sketched on other pages.

Brought to this country when a boy, James Murray received most of his education in the local schools of Rochester Township. He then started out to make his own way in the world, and for three years worked on the farm of C. F. Emery. He then went to Cleveland, and from 1896 to 1907 was an employee of the street railway system of that city. His next location was in Russia Township, and he was employed most of the time while there driving horses on the track. After 31% years he came to Rochester Township, and settled down to an independent career as a farmer. Mr. Murray now owns a fine place of 148 acres, and carries on general farming together with some dairying.

On January 7, 1902, he married Nellie Currey. who was born in Rochester Township September 23, 1871, a daughter of John Currey, who for many years was a leading merchant at Rochester. Mr. and Mrs. Murray have four children: John Murray, born December 29, 1902; Russell, born August 4, 1904; Corrine, born March 8. 1906; and Donald, born April 22, 1911. Mr. Murray is an active member of the Baptist Church and politically is an independent republican. He has held some of the township offices and has also served on the village council at Rochester.

CHARLES S. JONES, whose home is at Wellington, has for a number of vears conducted the elevator at Brighton. and is one of the leading dealers in grain and hay and other supplhes in that section of Lorain County.

His father. Ezekiel Jones, is now living retired at Wellington. after a long and active career which included service in the Civil war and many vears of activity as a farmer and business man. Ezekiel Jones was horn in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1841. the only child of his parents. His widowed mother, Margaret Jones, married for her second husband Roswell Lewis and there were four children by that union: Lydia, widow of George Williams, living at Meadville, Pennsylvania; Jerry of Meadville; Hattie, widow of Mr. Van Horn; and William, who is a farmer three miles from Meadville.

Educated at Meadville, Ezekiel Jones came to Brighton Township in October, 1859, and from early in the following year he was employed on the farm of William Battle, until he enlisted August 15, 1862, in Company F of the 103rd Ohio Infantry. While in Kentucky with his command he was taken sick of typhoid, was sent to Lexington and afterwards to Franklin, and spent so much time in the hospital that he was finally sent to Columbus and discharged unfit for service. He suffered from the illness a long time after returning home, and on resuming employment was in the planing mill at Wellington. Then in 1864, having recovered his health, he again enlisted, this time in Company C of the 176th Regiment. He was in the great battle of Nashville, and in some other minor engagements, and was finally given an honorable discharge. On returning from the war he bought land in Brighton Township, comprising 150 acres, and besides farming he was also in the cheese and butter business for a number of years, conducting several factories. He left the cheese business in 1907 and has since lived practically retired. On January 15, 1867, Ezekiel Jones married Agnes Whitney, who was born in Pittsfield Township of Lorain County in 1843, a daughter of Sever 8. Whitney, who came to Pittsfield Township in 1832 and cleared up a farm out of the wilderness. He acquired large land holdings and was one of the influential men in that section of Lorain County. Ezekiel Jones was a member of the Grand Army Post at Wellington until its charter was surrendered. He and his good wife have lived at Wellington since October, 1915, and they reside with their son, Charles, and family.

Charles S. Jones, the only one living of his parents' two children, was born in Camden Township of Lorain County March 29, 1870, and received his education at Kipton and Oberlin. He left high school to eo to work and for nine years was associated with his father in the creamery business at Fostoria, Ohio. He then moved to a farm in Brighton Township, was a progressive farmer fourteen years, and for the past eight years has been proprietor of the elevator at Brighton, conducting a general elevator business, handling grain, hay and coal. He also owns a farm of seventy-five acres. Mr. Jones is a republican in polities, and by strict attention to business has long been a useful factor in the community.

In 1891 he married Laura Button, who was born in Michigan. Their four children are: Tressie, wife of Carl Webber, a farmer in Brighton Township; Carl, on his father's farm; Artie, at home; and Hazel, wife of Harry Hall, a farmer in Brighton Township.

Onis J. Wurtney. It is now almost three score and ten years since Otis J. Whitney started out on the journey of life, and he first saw the light of day on the farm which is his present home in Pittsfield Township. He belongs to some of the substantial older stock, of sterling New England antecedents, which was most closely identified with the settlement and development of Lorain County in the early days. His own career has been consonant in its activities and influences with those of his ancestors. As a farmer and stock breeder Mr. Whitney's name is widely known not only in his home county but in many sections hio. : Be was born June 26, 1846, a son of Mark and Cordelia K. (Gifford) Whitney. His grandfather, Joseph Whitney, was a native of Rutland,

Vermont, and was one of the early settlers in Lorain County, coming to this section about 1836 and taking up a tract of government land in Pittsfield Township. The maternal grandparents were Cornelius and Hannah (Nye) Gifford. Cornelius Gifford was born at Lee, Massachusetts, and died at a great old age November 13, 1900. His wife was born November 17, 1782, at Columbus, New York. Cornelius Gifford settled in Pittsfield Township in 1833, and built himself a home in the midst of the woods, and a number of years were devoted to clearing up the land as a farmer. The Nye family was among the early settlers in the New England states, and some of that name became prominent in politics and church affairs.

Mark Whitney was born in Rutland, Vermont, in 1818, and died in 1882. His wife was born in Lee, Massachusetts, April 5, 1825, and made her home with her son, Otis, and though ninety years of age at the time of her death was in splendid health and in full possession of her mental faculties. She died March 10, 1916. Mark and Cordelia Whitney were married in Pittsfield Township April 27, 1848. He had come to the county at the age of eighteen and afterwards became known as a man above the average in education and reading and as one of the banner farmers of the township. He was a republican and filled all the township offices. Having little to start with in the way of capital he built up a good estate, and on the old homestead he constructed a two-story brick residence which was one of the best in Pittsfield Township. He also put up a good home at Oberlin and lived there until his death. He left an estate of about 240 acres. Mrs. Mark Whitney had for years been an esteemed member of the Second Congregational Church at Oberlin. They were the parents of six children, and the four now living are: Otis J.; Mark A.. in the grain elevator business at Oberlin; Frank S., a Pittsfield Township farmer; and Flora, wife of A. M. Hall, a retired resident of Cleveland.

Otis J. Whitney received most of his early education in the common schools of Pittsfield Township and spent three terms at Oberlin public schools. Reared on a farm, he has always been a farmer, and to that vocation he has brought unusual energy, thrift and business management. His specialty is the breeding and raising of registered Holstein-Friesian cattle, and at the present time he has about fifty head of this fine stock. He has shipped a great many of these cattle and takes his stock to public sales all over Ohio. His farm comprises 150 acres, and it is thoroughly improved. and he and his family still reside in the comfortable two-story brick house erected by his father many years ago.

On February 14, 1883, he married Miss Ann Rogers. Mrs. Whitney was born March 25, 1860, a daughter of John and Fannie Ann (Burrows) Rogers. Her parents came to this country from England, where thev were born. and they located in Pittsfield Township in 1870, where Mr. Rogers died. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Whitney have heen born four children. Clara is the wife of Levi Worcester, who is connected with the Electrie Light Company at Oberlin. Alice is the wife of Arthur Mills. and they live on her father's farm. Charles is also a farmer on his father's estate. Jessie is still at home.

Mrs. Whitney is an active member of the Congregational Church. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of the Maccahees and in politics a republican. He has filled all the township offices with credit. and the quality of his public spirit has been on a par with his individual

Cleveland at the carpenter's trade, but for many years has operated one of the well equipped and well managed farms of Rochester Township. His influence has extended beyond his own place, and he has aided in every constructive movement for the benefit of the community.

He was born in Berlinville, Erie County, Ohio, July 1, 1870, a son of Edwin and Mary E. (Eddy) Dimick. His father died soon afterwards, and C. J. Dimick grew up in the home of his mother and his stepfather Cephas Myers. Mr. Myers, who was a very liberal and kind hearted man and a successful farmer, moved to Rochester Township in 1878 and died in 1902. Mrs. Mary (Eddy) Dimick Myers was an active worker in the Free Will Baptist Church, and she represented one of the very old and prominent families of Northern Ohio. Her great-grandfather, Caleb Eddy, was born in 1754 and about 1790 moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania. In 1807 he moved from Pennsylvania to Euclid Township in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and was one of the earliest pioneers in that section, where he died in 1819. He was a blacksmith by trade. David Eddy, grandfather of Mrs. Mary Dimick, went from Pennsylvania to Northern Ohio about 1806 and erected a log house for his father, Caleb. On March 4, 1814, David Eddy married Elizabeth Sherdine of Pennsylvania, and in 1815 they moved to Columbia Township in Lorain County, where he lived until his death on October 21, 1853. His wife passed away October 6, 1854. Their four children were: Jesse; Enos, born December 1, 1816; Susanna, born March 24, 1820; and Eunice, born February 22, 1822. Jesse Eddy, father of Mary E. Eddy, was born December 15, 1814, and on January 30, 1837, married Caroline Chamberlain. For two years after his marriage he rented a farm and his father then gave him twenty acres of land, which he increased by the purchase of ten acres. This he traded for sixty acres of woodland, where he built a log cabin, and after clearing up his tract he lived on it until 1870, when he moved to Rochester Township. His wife died February 5, 1855. Jesse Eddy held various positions of trust, having served 414 years as postmaster of Rochester, and during that time he registered 900 letters, the smallest amount being for fifty eents and the largest $7.000 in bonds which were sent to Fort Collins, Colorado. Jesse Eddy, in 1843, joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and in politics was a whig and afterwards a republican. .

(. J. Dimick grew up in Lorain County, learned the carpenter's trade, and worked at it for eighteen years. Since then he has given his business energies to the management of his fine farm of 100 acres, and has made improvements which classify it among the best places in Rochester Township. He has constructed a number of buildings and a fine two-story residence. A profitable enterprise which Mr. Dimick conducts on his farm is the raising of ferrets, and at this writing he has about 175 of these animals. which are shipped to all parts of the United States.

In 1900 he married Sadie Biddinger, who was born in Ashland County. Ohio. They have one son, now sixteen years of age, and attending the Wellington schools. 4

Mr. Dimick is a republican, though inclined to independence in local affairs. He served as township clerk nine years, as president of the school hoard. and a member of the village board. He was trustee of the township two years, declining a second term. One of the accomplishments of his official work which brought him a high degree of eredit was the improvement of the local cemetery, one of the best now in the county. He has taken infinite pains in making this burial place of the dead a place of beauty, and he now has a complete record of every grave in the cemetery, recorded on blue print. This record extends back to

Lewis Barnes is one of the substantial farmer citizens of Rochester Township. He has lived in that locality all his life, and has discharged the responsibilities of the individual worker, the home maker and the citizen with credit and usefulness.

- He was born in Rochester Township September 11, 1849, a son of Moses and Eliza (Stone) Barnes, both of whom were natives of Berkshire County, Massachusetts. His father was born in 1803 and died in 1889 and his mother in 1813 and died in 1889. They were married in Massachusetts and afterwards came to Lorain County, settling in the woods of Rochester Township. Both were charter members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in that township, and the father was a republican and a successful farmer. On coming to Lorain County they established their home in a log cabin, and lived to prosper and enjoy many of the good things of life. Of their twelve children Lewis Barnes is the only survivor.

Lewis Barnes is a grandson of Nelson Barnes, who spent his life on a farm in Massachusetts. One of the sons of Nelson was Almon Barnes, who became quite a prominent man in Massachusetts and served as a member of the Legislature. Mr. Barnes' maternal grandfather, Lewis Stone, spent his life in Massachusetts.

Edueated in the old red schoolhouse of Rochester Township, Lewis Barnes took up farming at an early age, and he now has the old homestead of sixty acres. He has lived there for many years, has made many improvements, and still carries on the farm in connection with some dairying and the raising of good livestock.

In 1888 he married Elizabeth Colgrove of Pike County. Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Barnes have no children. She is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically he is a republican, but rather independent in local affairs and has served as a member of the town eouncil.

Frep C. Branpt. In his native county Mr. Brandt has found the best of opportunities for the achieving of definite suecess in connection with the basic industries of agriculture and stock growing. under the influence of which he was reared, and on his admirably improved farm, in Pittsfield Township, he now gives special attention to the dairy business. He is one of the vital, progressive and popular citizens of the county and is well entitled to specific recognition in this publication.

Mr. Brandt was born in North Amherst Township, this county. on the 12th of September, 1873, and is a son of William and Mary (THasselman) Brandt, both natives of Germany, where the former was born in 1847 and the latter in 1845, their marriage having been solemnized in North Amherst Township, Lorain County. Mr. Brandt passed to the life eternal in 1895 and his widow now resides in Pittsfield Township. William Brandt was reared and educated in his native land, whence he immigrated to the United States in 1870, after having served his allotted time in the German army. After establishing his home in Lorain County he was employed for eight vears in a stone quarry at North Amherst, and he then purchased a farm in Russia Township and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. Later he sold this property and bought another farm, in Pittsfield Township, where he continued to reside until his death. - an industrious, substantial and upright citizen who ever commanded unqualified popular esteem and good will. He won success entirely through his own efforts and his life was guided and guarded by the principles of integrity and honor. He was a son of Lewis Brandt and his parents passed their entire lives in Germany. William and Mary (Hasselman) Brandt became the parents of four chil- dren, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest; Minnie C. is the wife of Isaac Bricker, a prosperous farmer in Camden Township ; Carl G. 1S a progressive farmer of Pittsfield Township; and Henry L. resides at Shelby, Richland County, in which city he is engaged in the milling business. The father was a zealous communicant of the German Lutheran Church, as is also his widow, and his political allegiance was given to the republican party. Mrs. Brandt is a daughter of the late John Hasselman, who came with his family to the United States when she was a girl, both he and his wife passing the closing years of their lives in Lorain County, where he became a successful farmer.

Fred C. Brandt duly profited by the advantages of the public schools and also a German school at North Amherst, and from his youth to the present time he has not wavered in his allegiance to the agricultural and live stock industries, of which he has become one of the progressive and representative exponents in his native county. He was formerly the owner of a farm of 130 acres in the western part of Pittsfield Township, and in 1913 he sold this property, after which he purchased his present well improved place of 108 acres in Pittsfield Township. He has made many improvements on the farm, has erected a number of buildings and made repairs and alterations on others, has installed an effective system of tile drainage and has brought his homestead up to the best modern standard. He raises thoroughbred Holstein-Friesian cattle, of which he maintains an average herd of about twenty head, and he has made dairying one of the most important and successful departments of his farm enterprise. He began his independent career with very limited financial resources and his independence and prosperity thus represent the results of his own efforts and excellent business ability. He is aligned as a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party and both he and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church.

In 1899 was recorded the marriage of Mr. Brandt to Miss Margaret Williams, daughter of Florus and Abbie (Whitney) Williams, a substantial farmer near Wellington, this county, and they have four children: Harold F., Silas W., Evlyn W. and Frances, the elder son being a member of the class of 1918 in the high school at Wellington.

C. G. ASCHENBACH has been one of the capable figures in Lorain County business circles for a number of years. His present position is the more noteworthy because of the fact that he has been entirely the architect of his own destiny. He started without money or influential friends and when there were no opportunities he made them, and as he is still only forty years of age the promise for his future is very bright.

He was born at Amherst, February 12, 1876, a son of George and Martha (Huessner) Aschenbach. Both parents were natives of Germany. His father was born in 1833 and died in the fall of 1915. His mother, who was born January 21, 1840, is still living. She was brought to Lorain County when a child of six years. George Aschenbach was seventeen years old when he came to Lorain County with his mother, Elizabeth (Gerlach) Aschenbach. After coming to Lorain County George Aschenbach spent a time in the shipyards at Lorain, and afterwards was a contractor and builder in Amherst for a number of years. He was a democrat, and his wife is an active inember of the German Evangelical Church. They had nine children, and the four living are: Bertha Brown, wife of a machinist at Amherst; George, of Amherst; Lizzie, who has charge of her brother C. G. Aschenbach's dry goods store at Amherst; and C. G.

ness, and that threw upon him unusual responsibilities for his years. He went to work and afterwards completed his education in the school of experience. His first employment was on a farm, and later he became clerk in a grocery store. He conducted a store at the quarries, and then was in the employ of the Lewis & Company store of Elyria. When he began his independent business career at Amherst it was in a small store 18x20 feet, handling a stock of dry goods, and he now has an entire twostory building 25x65 feet, and completely stocked with all the wares required of a store in a city like Amherst. He is also a director of the Aiherst Park Bank Company, and a member of its finance committee.

Jn 1911 at Amherst he married Miss Louise Plato whose father, H. A. Plato, an old time dry goods merchant of Amherst, is living in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aschenbach. They have one child, Conrad Girard, born April 12, 1916.

Mr. Aschenbach is a member of the German Evangelical Church while his wife is a Catholic. He is a past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias and is also affiliated with the Royal Arcanum and the Woodmen of the World. For a number of years he served as village elerk and has always shown a public spirited attitude toward his coinmunity, though the requireinents of his own business success have demanded so much of his time and energies that he has found lttle opportunity for public service or fraternal participation. In November, 1915, Mr. Aschenbach, leaving his store at Amherst in charge of his sister, became assistant general manager of the well known dry goods establishment of the Lewis Company at Elyria, a place in which he formerly worked as a clerk.

A. K. JENNE has been closely identified with the business enterprise at and around Amherst for twenty-five or thirty years. Much cf his time is now given to the Amherst Cold Storage Company, of which he is treasurer, with W. H. Schibley president and Joseph Wesbecher vice president. He is general manager of this company, which is capitalized with a stock of $25,000 and since its establishment in 1914 has been highly prosperous. The company has in operation a very complete and modern plant and at this writing they are building an ice plant in connection with the main building.

His is one of the old families of Lorain County. Mr. Jenne himself was born in Amherst Township on a farm, August 18, 1867. That old farm is still owned by the family. His parents were Ansel and Phoebe (Wing) Jenne. His grandfather was also named Ansel Jenne and brought his family to Amherst Township in 1840, when there were only eight or ten families in the entire township. He cleared up a farm and was one of the industrious and honored citizens. Ansel Jenne, Jr., was horn in Orange, New Jersey, August 27, 1825. and was fifteen vears of age when he came to Lorain County. He soon had an opportunity to test his strength and endurance in competition with the tasks of clearing up and developing a tract of land, and he lived and prospered on his farm for fifty years. He died February 7. 1907. He was a democrat in politics and for many years was a loyal member of the Grange. In 1860, in Amherst, he married Miss Phoebe Wing. who was born in New York State September 1. 1837, and died December 14, 1914. She was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh. Of her five children four are now living: Sarah E., wife of Bird Richmond, a gardener in Amherst Township; William H.. a farmer in Amherst; George B., who is custodian of a large business block at Elvria; and A. K. Jenne.

After attending the district schools, A. K. Jenne followed farm work for several years, and after his marriage he bought a truck farm, and by hard work and close attention to business made a success of that industry, which he followed for twenty-three years. He still owns this farm. In 1913 he removed to Amherst, and after a brief retirement was for two years real estate and personal property appraiser. He then became secretary and general manager of The Amherst Cold Storage Company.

Mr. Jenne is also secretary and treasurer of the Amherst Supply Company and is a director in the U. 8. Automatic Company, a corporation capitalized at $100,000 and doing a large and prosperous business in the manufacture of automobile parts. He is also a stockholder in the Amherst German Bank Company.

His part in public affairs is also worthy of special record. For a number of years he was township treasurer and is now president of the local school board. Politically he is a democrat, and he and his wife are very prominent in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Amherst, he being superintendent of the Sunday School, while Mrs. Jenne is chorister and a worker in all the church movements.

On September 10, 1889, he married Mary E. Giltner, who was born in Wayne County, Ohio. Her father gave the better part of his active career to the ministry of the Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. Jenne have three children: Bert, who is a carpenter at Amherst, married Gertrude Heathcote, and they have one child, Foster; Lucile, wife of Ray Hearn, in the grocery business at Amherst; and Merle, still attending school.

Jacop H. Scuistey, Among the various successful business enterprises located at Amherst, one that is deserving of special mention is the Grain, Elevator and General Supply establishment conducted by Jacob H. Schibley, one of that town's most progressive and energetic citizens. Mr. Schibley is the type of man who makes his own opportunities in life. He has never been discouraged by obstacles or diffculties, and has made a steady progress from a young man of no capital or influential friends to a place among the highly respected citizens of one of the best towns in Lorain County.

IIe was born in Amherst Township of Lorain County November 23, 1869. His people on both sides were from the German fatherland, and both his grandfathers fought with the army of Napoleon and participated in that ill-fated campaign into Russia. His paternal grandfather died in 1839 and his maternal grandfather in 1840. Michael Schibley, father of Jacob H., was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in 1826 and died in 1907. He came alone to Pennsylvania when a young man in 1853 and from there went to Huron, Ohio, where he met and married Miss Catherine Brandau, who was born in Hesse, Germany, in 1836 and died in 1914. For several years Michael Schibley paid his way by day labor. and was employed in the construction forces building some of the New York Central lines through Northern Ohio. Afterwards he took up-farming and lived on his farm until a few years before his death, which occurred in Amherst. His wife also died there. They were members of the Evangelical Association and he was a democrat in politics. There were five children: George is a farmer in Amherst Township; Christian is also a farmer there; Anna Goll lives at Lorain, Ohio: W. H., a banker in Amherst; and Jacob H. |

The educational equipment of Jacob H. Schibley before he started his active career comprised the advantages furnished by the district schools and one course in the Ohio Northern University at Ada. Going to Cleveland. he found employment as a fireman and then as a stationary engineer, and was in that city for six years. Returning to Amherst, in July, 1898, he and his brother, W. H. Schibley, built a large grain elevator and they soon had built up one of the most sue- cessful concerns of the kind in the county. Some years ago the business was incorporated, and Jacob H. Schibley has been its active manager. Besides the general grain business the firm handles farm implements, builders supphes, fertilizers, and it is now conducted under the name Amherst Supply Company, Incorporated, and with a capital stock of $20,000.

In 1891 Mr. Schibley married Catherine Schott. Their seven children are: Hazel, wife of James Grapes, a cabinet maker at Cleveland; Ethel, at home; John, who has been well educated and is already self supporting; Ruth, living in Cleveland; Emery, at home with his father; Dorothy and Blanche. Jn the fall of 1912 Mr. Schibley married Elizabeth K. Stine. who was born in Amherst Township and prior to her marriage was a very successful teacher of music, having studied both at home and abroad in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Schibley attend the Congregational Church at Elyria. Politically he is a democrat, and for four years served as a member of the city council.

H. A. CAMPBELL, whose home is near New London, is one of the industrious and reliable farmers of Lorain County, classed with the modern agriculturists who are acknowledged to be as broad and scientifie in their methods and as fruitful in valuable results to the community as the workers in any other branch of modern industry. Through his well directed efforts he has accumulated a farm of 100 acres, the possession of which stamps him as one of the substantial men of this county.

Representing some of the older stock of Lorain County, he was born in Camden Township November 18, 1862, a son of Frank and Hannah (Lewis) Campbell. His father was born in New York State in 1835 and died in Lorain County in 1910, and his mother was horn in New York in 1838, a daughter of Harry Lewis, who came to Camden Township in the early days and spent his last years in Rochester Township. She died in 1910. They were married in Michigan. For a number of years Frank Campbell followed his trade as a wagon maker at Camden Center, and spent his last years asa farmer. He started with little, but by industry and thrift accumulated a good estate of 100 acres which is now owned by his son, H. A. Campbell. During the Civil war he served a short time in the 196th Ohio Regiment of Infantry and was afterwards a member of the Grand Army ot the Republic. His wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh. The Campbells are of Scotch-Irish stock. Frank Campbell and wife had seven children, and the three now living are H. A. Campbell; Inez, who married Lenn Brumby and she lives in Wellington; and Frances. wife of Dr. R. A. Garrison of Sullivan, Ohio.

H. A. Campbell started life with a district school education, grew up and had the experiences and discipline of the home farm. but started his career in other lines of emplovment. For two years he was a locomotive fireman, then spent two vears with a bridge construction gang, and another two years as a stationary engineer. Since then he has given all his time and attention to farming, and in 1909 he bought out the interests of the other heirs in the homestead and is doing a very successful work as a general farmer. He has his land well tiled, and is constantly making improvements.

In 1888 he married Alta Williams, who was horn in Huntington Township of Lorain County, a daughter of Edwin Wilhams. Of their three children Effie is now deceased. Albert married Jennie Grime and has one child. Lenora, and he is a farmer in Rochester Township. Rov. who lives at New London, married Zelma Rhoerback. The mother of these children died in 1898. She was a member of the Universalist

W. B: Lixpstey.. Of W. B. Lindsley it can be said as an expression of the general esteem in which he is held by his neighbors and fellow citizens that he is an industrious and successful farmer, a citizen who looks well after the interests of his own home and family, and not without regard for the benefit. and welfare of the community in which he lives.

On the farm that he now owns and occupies, with many improvements representing his own labor and management, W. B. Lindsley was born in Penfield Township of Lorain County, March 6, 1859, a son of A. D. and Abigail (Baird) Lindsley. His parents were both natives of Delaware County, New York, where they were married. The father was born in 1818 and died in 1886, while his mother was born March 2, 1821, and died in 1873. Her father was Daniel Baird. On June 1, 1847, the family came to Penfield Township, where A. D. Lindsley took up a farm, and at the time of his death he owned over two hundred acres. He cleared up the land and his first home was a small house, but five years later he built a commodious residence and that with some changes is still on the place. He was a republican in politics and held various township offices and was a man of high character. During the war he belonged to an organization known as the Squirrel Hunters, and trained many soldiers for the army. His wife was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. There were four children, three sons and one daughter: Alphonso, a farmer in Penfield Township; Allie, wife of Charles Cragin, a retired resident at Seattle, Washington; W. B.; and Clifton.

W. B. Lindsley had a very good education in preparation for the serious responsibilities of life. having attended the district schools, an academy at Oberlin and the Ohio Northern University at Ada. After some years of hard work and careful saving he made his first purchase of ninety acres, and afterwards traded with his brother for a portion of the old homestead. His farm now comprises 10914 acres, and he has remodeled all the buildings and has constructed some very substantial barns. He does general farming and dairying, and keeps some registered Holstein cattle.

In 1882 Mr. Lindsley married Carrie Hart, a daughter of Willard Hart, a native of Penfield Township, and a granddaughter of Hawley Hart, who was one of the first settlers of Penfield Township. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsley have two children: Marion, who married Clarence Dixon in the hardware business at Wellington, is the mother of three children, Robert, Russell and Ralph Eugene; Dorothy is the wife of Mack Smith, a farmer in Penfield Township, and they have one child, Leonard W. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsley are active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is a republican in politics. He has served as a member of the school board.

ALFRED B. Evans. In that fine and fertile agricultural district around Oberlin, one of the most substantia] farmers is Alfred B. Evans, who is a native son of Lorain County and whose family has been identified with this section of Ohio for more than fifty years.

Born at Oberlin October 22, 1859, Alfred B. Evans comes of some of the substantial Welsh stock which has permeated the life of Lorain County. His parents, William and Mary (Griffith) Evans were both born in Wales, the father in 1825 and the mother in 1826. All the grandparents died in Wales. William Evans and wife were both long lived, sturdy and industrious people, and they lived to a good old age, the father dying in 1904 and the mother in 1906. They were married in their native country and coming to the United States they located at Oberlin in 1854. William Evans. was a stonemason by trade and for thirty years was employed in that capacity by the Big Four Railway Company. They were members of the First Congregational Chureh at Oberlin, and he had become affiliated with the Manchester Unity Order of Oda Fellows before leaving his native land. In politics he was a republican. William Evans, "though poor when coming to America, made an enviable success and in his later years he bought a farm and at the time of his death owned fifty acres.

The only survivor of four children, Alfred B. Evans, grew: up in and around Oberlin and gained his education both in country schools and in the town schools. He learned his father's trade and for four or five years was associated with the older Evans in that work for the Big Four Railroad Company. He then took the management of his father's farm, and -has lived on it ever since. He now owns ninetyeight acres of well improved and valuable land, and has prospered as a general farmer and stock raiser. In 1880 Mr. Ev ans erected a fine brick home, one of the best in the rural districts surrounding him, and in 1913 he remodeled and effected many other improvements on his barn and other outbuildings.

In 1886 he married Miss Mary Z. Cole, daughter of (:eorge W. Cole, an early settler of Medina County, Ohio. They have three children, Marjorie, Mildred and William. The daughter, Marjorie. married Cecil Grills, a Lorain County farmer, and they have one child, Raymond Eugene. Mildred is now attending Dean Academy at Frankln, Massachusetts. William is a student in the schools at Oberlin. Mr. Evans is a member both of the subordinate and the encampment degrees of Odd Fellowship, and has filled all the chairs in the local branch of the order. In politics he is independent.

M. L. Dissrow, Sr., has been closely identified with the farming enterprise and good citizenship of Penfield Township many years. He has a record of distinctive accomplishment, and his name is one of the most honored in that section of Lorain County.

He was born in LaGrange Township of Lorain Gouna' April 13. 1832, a son of Perry and Clarissa (Langdon) Disbrow. Both parents were natives of Jefferson County, New York. The paternal grandfather, James Disbrow, came to LaGrange Township in 1825 and located on what was then almost the frontier of civilization. Perry Disbrow was born July 13, 1814, came to Lorain County at the age of eleven, and he contributed his youthful strength to the clearing up of his father's farm until he was twenty-two years of age. On September 4, 1836, he married Clarissa Langdon, who was born in Jefferson County. New York, in 1814 and who died in 1893, being a member of an old French Huguenot family. After their marriage Perry Disbrow and wife bought land in Lorain County, and lived there until 1857. Then as his father before him had pioneered from east to west, he also set out for what was then the Far West, beyond the Mississippi River. and with wagon and team crossed the intervening country to the new state of Iowa, where he acquired 160 acres of land near where Atlantic City now stands. In 1881 he sold that farm and he lived in Lewis, Iowa, until the death of his wife, when he lived among his children. He and his wife were active members of the Baptist Church and at different times were connected with the churches at LaGrange, Ohio, and at Atlantic and Lewis, Iowa. He was a sterling and upright citizen, and wherever he lived he enjoyed the complete confidence of his community. He filled only one office, that of township trustee of Turkey Grove Township in Towa.

Politically he was a republican. Perry Disbrow and wife had eleven children, and the four now living are: Mdgar, a retired farmer at Arapahoe, Nebraska ; Hannah, widow of Benton Morrow and living at Atlantic, lowa; M. L. Disbrow, Sr.; and Elnora, wife of Ben Howell, who lives at LaPorte, Texas.

uate L. Disbrow, Sr., spent his early youth in lowa, gained his education in the district schools there, and in 1882 returned to Lorain County and bought thirty-four acres in Penfield Township. He purchased twenty-three acres more in 1888 and has since made a good farm home and has all the improvements and comforts of a good home. He does general farming together with some dairying. He is a republican, and for about eighteen years filled the offices of school treasurer and township treasurer.

On December 29, 1874, Mr. Disbrow married Floretta Langdon, a daughter of William and Margaret (Denham) Langdon, Mrs. Disbrow being of the same ancestry as Mr. Disbrow's mother. William Ff'. Langdon, father of Mrs. Disbrow, was born November 16, 1819, in Schoharie County, New York, a son of Forester, who was Mr. Disbrow's maternal grandfather, and a grandson of Lewis Langdon. Forester Langdon was married in New York State to Hannah, daughter of Moses Frederick Delos LaDernier, who came from Nova Scotia. Her ancestors were French Huguenots who settled in Nova Scotia, where they acquired a patent to government land, but on account of the subsequent activities of the family in behalf of the American Revolutionists they came to the colonies, and several members of the Langdon family served in the Revolutionary war and one of Mr. Disbrow's paternal ancestors was also in the revolution and another was in the War of 1812. The first child of Forester Langdon and wife was Clarissa, who married Perry Disbrow, and became the father of M. L. Disbrow, Sr. The second daughter, Matilda, married Samuel White and died in Michigan, February 7, 1890. The third child was William F. Langdon, father of Mrs. Disbrow. The other children were Hiram A., who became a physician ; Maria. who married Lyman Webber; Orilla, who married Samuel Disbrow ; Lucinda, who married Horace Cragin; Washington L.; and Lionel. Forester Langdon brought his family to Ohio in 1834, driving the entire distance and arriving in LaGrange Township after twenty-one days. His wife died in this county April 21, 1835. William F. Langdon grew up in Lorain County, and learned the carpenter and wagon maker's trade. In 1846 he went to Louisiana and was employed in the lumber regions for a time. On January 22, 1850, he married Margaret Denham, who was born November: 9, 1825, in Scotland, a daughter of Peter and Margaret (Lyle) Denham. The Denhams were also early settlers in Penfield Township of Lorain County. After his marriage William F. Langdon bought on credit fifty-seven acres of land in Penfield Township, and for twenty-five years worked at his trade and acquired a comfortable competence. He and his wife had only one child, Margaret F., who became the wife of M. L. Disbrow, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Disbrow are members of the Methodist Church and both are affiliated with the Grange.

Their only son, M L. Disbrow, Jr., was born in Penfield Township June 9, 1878, was educated in the district schools and at Oberlin, has a farm and is one of the successful agriculturists in Penfield Township. He married Clara May Barbour, a daughter of H. O. Barbour of Wellington Township. To their union has been born one son, Herbert Myron.

Ww. J. Kress is one of the most highly respected citizens of Penfield Township, where through his business activities, his varied service to the people in a business and official capacity, he has made his life count

A native of Ohio, he was born in Orange Township of Ashland County, December 13, 1846. His grandfather was Christian Krebs. His father, Daniel G. Krebs, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, July 14. 1814, and was married in Orange Township of Ashland County to Catherine Rickett, who was born at East Bethlehem, Washington County, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1818, a daughter of Christopher Rickett and Marvy (Horn) ) Rickett. The Riekett family went to Ohio in June, 1823, and was the third family to locate in Orange Township of Ashland County. Daniel G. Krebs was a farmer, was a democrat in polities, and died when still young of typhoid fever on January 19, 1857. He was laid to rest in St. Luke's cemetery in Orange Township. His widow survived him many years until her death on November 9, 1902, and in that year the body of Mr. Krebs was removed and lays beside his wife in Lawnwood cemetery, Lodi, Ohio. After her husband's death she was left with the care of seven children, and in very limited circumstances. She had learned the trade of weaver, and spent most of the summer months in making homespun cloth.

W. J. Krebs was about ten vears of age when his father died, and he soon left home and worked for Peter Snyder, a farmer, getting wages of five dollars a month during the summer and half of this amount went to his widowed mother. During the winter seasons he continued his education in the local schools. He saved every penny he could and in the spring of 1864 moved to Rochester Township in Lorain County where several years later he and his mother and one brother purchased a small farm.

On November 17, 1872. Mr. Krebs married Sarah H. Andrews, who was born August 4+, 1850, in Wiltshire. England, daughter of Thomas Andrews, who came to the United States in 1852, locating in Spencer Township of Medina County.

After his marriage Mr. Krehs moved to a farm in Rochester Township. renting from A. B. Stroger for three years. Then having sold his third interest in the homestead of 140 acres, where the family had located in 1867. he bought a place of his own of ninety acres, but after a year sold out. On March 1, 1877, he moved to Penfield Township and with his brother R. B. engaged in the mereantile business which he conducted successfully for twelve vears. During the administration of President Hayes he served as postmaster of Penfield. and was reappointed by both Cleveland's administrations, serving altogether ten years. For thirty-three vears Mr. Krebs was justice of the peace, and finally retired from that office on January 1, 1916. He also held the office of township clerk fourteen vears and was real estate assessor one vear. He has been a trustee of the Children's Home of Lorain County ever since it was organized in 1900.

His chief business for several vears has heen clerk at sales, and his services have been much in demand for clerking for thoroughbred sales all over the state, and during a recent season so many demands were made upon him for this work that he could not fill all his engagements. He now handles real estate and is guardian and executor for a number of estates and individuals. He is a stanch democrat. and has always been temperate in hahits and a man of absolute integrity in all his dealings. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he has served as trustee and in other offices and was secretary of the Sunday School for several vears.

and their three children are Gladys, wife of Royal Waltz, a teacher in Spencer Township; Doris and Robert, both at home. Carrie May married A. J. Andrews, a farmer of Penfield Township, and their three children are Howard, Illa and Karl.

GrEoRGE W. HoLuincswortH. A resident of Lorain County from the time of his birth to the present, Mr. Hollingsworth is one of the successful farmers and stock growers of the county and is a steadfast, sincere and loyal citizen who commands the respect and good will of community, his well equipped farm being situated in Pittsfield Township and one of his important departments of enterprise being that of conducting a successful dairy business, his products from the dairy farm being shipped principally to the city of Cleveland. He raises thoroughbred cattle and his fine little farm of forty acres also yields excellent returns in the field of diversified agriculture.

Mr. Hollingsworth was born in Lorain County on the 12th of November, 1861. and is a son of George and Sarah (Oxby) Hollingsworth, both natives of England, the former born in the year 1832, and the latter in 1833. Their marriage was solemnized in Lorain County, Ohio, where their acquaintanceship was formed. George Hollingsworth was reared to manhood in his native land, where he received a common school education, and he was twenty-one years of age at the time when he established his home in Lorain County, Ohio. Here he was employed for a number of years in connection with the operation of a stone quarry and he then purchased a farm of fifty acres, in Pittsfield Township, where he continued to devote his attention to agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred on the 18th of February, 1915, his devoted wife having passed away in September, 1912. Of the seven children the subject of this review is the elder of the two now living, and Richard resides in the city of Oberlin, where he is a carpenter by trade and vocation. (ieorge Hollingsworth gave his allegiance to the democratic party until the campaign that resulted in the election of President Cleveland, and thereafter he was a supporter of the cause of the republican party until the time of his death. His wife had been in her native land a communicant of the Chureh of England, but in Ohio she united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she continued a zealous member until her demise. fa sa

George W. Hollingsworth gained his early education in the district schools and has been identified with farming from his early youth, his success having been won through industry, close application and good management. He takes a lively interest in community affairs and is progressive and publie-spirited as a citizen, with his political predilections indicated by his alignment as a supporter of the principles of the republican party. He has passed the various official chairs in the lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is affiliated also with the ancient-craft body of the Masonic Fraternity and with the local Grange z In 1885 Mr. Hollingsworth wedded Miss Ella M. Keihl, who was porn in Stark County, this state, where her. paternal grandparents settled in an early day, both having been natives of Germany. Mr. and

Hartey O. Becxiey of Rochester Township has lived at one home in that locality forty years, and is accounted one of the most successful citizens in Lorain County. He represents some solid old American stock in Northern Ohio, and his family have lived in this part of the state fully a century. The Beckleys were New England people. Selah Beck- ley was born in Connecticut in 1767, and in 1812 came to Ohio, locating in Summit County. In 1787 he married Caroline Beckley, who was born in 1768. Their children were: Hepzibah, Noel, Lotan, Hepzibah second of the name, Rowena, Elnathan $8., Lois, Edwin, Ahira and Sally. Selah Beckley was a blacksmith by trade, and died in 1817.

Elnathan S. Beckley was born in Berlin, Connecticut, April 2, 180U1, and was eleven years old when the family came to Ohio. He grew up on a farm and spent his life as an agriculturist. On June 1, 1820, he married Polly Wilcox, who was born in Berlin, Connecticut, in 1805. Of their two children Eloise is now Mrs. Madison Andrews of North Aimherst, Ohio. Elnathan 8. Beckley and wife lived for some years near Cuyahoga Falls, but in 1842 moved to Huntington Township, Lorain County, and lived in the southwest part of that township for a number of years. In 1863 they moved to Rochester Township, where Elnathan died December, 1872, his widow making her home with her son Lyman until her-death in May, 1890. Both parents were members of the Universalist Church and in politics he was a democrat.

Lyman Beckley, only son of this pioneer couple, and father of Harley O. Beckley, was born April 5, 1827, in Stowe Township of Summit County, Ohio, was educated in the district schools and was fifteen years old when his parents moved to Lorain County. For a time the family lived with an unele in a single room cabin and experienced all the primnitive hardships of the time. October 26, 1848, Lyman Beckley married Mary J. Sage of Huntington Township, where she was born October 16, 1831, a son of H. P. and Susan (Mallory) Sage, who came froin New Haven, Connecticut, to Ohio about 1825. H. P. Sage was a man of culture and great influence in the new country, and taught public school and also taught a class of music and in higher mathematics. and at one time assembled in his home some students of theology. He held several offices of trust and was especially a leader in religious worship, being a minister of the Universalist Church. He died in Huntington in 1887 and his wife in 1870. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Beckley settled on a farm he had toiled to improve, but in 1863 moved to Rochester Township, where he spent most of his time in dairying. In 1869 in partnership with a neighbor he built what was known as the Beckley Cheese Factory. In 1876 he sold his farm to his oldest son. and then bought a farm in Huntington Township. He and his wife were active members of the Universalist Church and he was a democrat. Their four children were: Alma R., who was born September 13, 1849. and died at the age of fourteen months; Harley O.; Ellis S.. who was born in 1848 and died in 1861; and D. I., born May 26, 1861. died July 10, 1900.

Harley O. Beckley was born in Huntington Township of Lorain County, June 6, 1851. Besides the district schools he attended the Wellington High School for two terms. In addition to working on the farm. he occupied himself with dairying, and then entered the Beckley Cheese factory under George Bush. This factory was located near the old home, but after two years in the factory he returned to the farm.

On October 4. 1871, Mr. Beckley married Miss Mary A. Peet. who was born in Rochester Township, a daughter of Homer and Charlotte (Kelsey) Peet. Mr. and Mrs. Beckley began housekeeping in a little house on his father's farm, and subsequently he hought that little place and it was the nucleus of his extensive operations as a farmer and land holder. Mr. and Mrs. Beckley have one daughter, Chloe A., the wife of Henry Laughery, a carpenter, and they live with her parents.

ship. Since then he has operated extensively as a dairyman, although his operations also class him as a general farmer. In 1892 he built a large barn at the cost of $2,000 which is considered one of the most substantial structures of the kind in the county. He and his wife are members of the Universalist Church, and he was a church trustee a number of years and also superintendent of the Sunday School. Mr. Beckley is a trustee of Rochester Township, an office he has filled six or eight terms. His good judgment in business affairs has brought him a generous prosperity, and he is now reckoned as the heaviest tax payer in Rochester Township and one of the largest land owners. He owns over four hundred acres of highly improved and well cultivated land. For two terms he was township real estate assessor. Mr. Beckley is a democrat in polities.

GEORGE F'. BursLey is a citizen of Lorain County who has made farming pay by the exercise of the same qualities of business enterprise which makes a successful merchant, manufacturer or professional man. His home is in Rochester Township, and his farm comprises 238 acres of improved land, which is devoted to mixed farming. He has a flock of thoroughbred Delaine sheep, and formerly raised some fine Holstein full blood cattle, and still keeps a registered Holstein bull. He has built a large barn, and has made many other improvements to increase the value and productiveness of his place.

13, 1862, a son of Israel and Susan (Fletcher) Bursley. Both parents were natives of New York State, and came to Huron County when quite young. His father was born in 1826 and died December 28, 1888. His mother was born in 1824, a daughter of Wiliam Fletcher, who came from Pennsylvania to Huron County and spent his active career as a farmer there, and the Fletcher family was represented in the Revolutionary war by William Fletcher's father, who was a gallant soldier in the war for independence. Mrs. Susan Bursley did in 1884. She was an active member of the Congregational Church. Israel Bursley, who was a republican in politics, followed a career as farmer, and made a success, leaving an estate of 157 acres. Of eight children born to their union five now living are: Elvira of Kipton; Melvina is the wife of S. M. Hanes, a farmer in Camden Township, and they have three children, Albert, Iva Effie, Everett; Lovina lives with her brother; George F.; and Henry, a farmer in Camden Township, married Gertrude Tillinghast and has two children, Charles and Harold. The three children -who are deceased are Dennis, Ellen and Milo. Ellen married J. D. Bates and left two children, Earl and Lynn. George F. Bursley grew up on a farm, attended the Wakeman schools, and also had a course in the Northern Indiana University at Valparaiso. He made his start as a farmer in his native county, and in 1893 came to Rochester Township, where he bought 115 acres, and has since more than doubled his landed possessions.

In 1886 Mr. Bursley married Ida Lang, a daughter of John B. and Ruth (Boone) Lang. The father was a well-to-do farmer of Huntington Township. Mr. and Mrs. Bursley have one daughter living, Neva May, who is still at home with her parents, and a daughter, Edna, died aged six vears. The family are members of the Methodist Church, and politically Mr. Bursley is a republican. He has shared his time and work for the community benefit, and for fifteen years served as a trustee of Rochester Township, his official service being represented by many

FRANK S, Wuirney was born in Pittsfield Township, this county, on the 24th day of June, 1871, and his paternal grandfather, Joseph Whitney, was numbered among the sterling pioneers who played a large part in the civic and material development and upbuilding of Lorain County. Joseph Whitney was born in the state of Massachusetts and became a farmer in Vermont, where he remained until 1837, when he came with his family to Ohio and settled on a tract of wild land in what is now Pittsfield Township, where he reclaimed a productive farm and where he continued his residence until his death, at the exceedingly venerable age of ninety-four years. :

He whose name initiates this article is a son of Mark and Cordelia (Gifford) Whitney. the former of whom was born at Peru. Vermont, in 1818, and the latter of whom was born in New York State in 1825. Mark Whitney acquired his early education in his native state and was about seventeen vears of age at the time of the family removal to Lorain County, Ohio. Mr. Whitney was about eighty-eight years of age at the time of his death, in 1906, and his loved wife passed away in 1916. He was one of the representative farmers of the county for many vears and was the owner of a large and valuable landed estate at the time of his demise.

Frank 8. Whitney was reared to manhood in Pittsfield Township and after duly availing himself of the advantages of the public schools he further fortified himself by the completion of a course in a business college at Oberlin. From his vouth to the present time he has been a loyal and effective exponent of agricultural and live stock industry in his native county, and he established himself on his present homestead in 1892. Here his original farm comprised ouly forty-six acres, but he has added to the area of his estate until he now has a fine demesne of 259 acres. In addition to the many other substantial improvements he has made on his farm he erected his attractive and modern two-story frame residence, which is one of the pleasant and hospitable rural homes of the county. In connection with his general agricultural operations Mr. Whitney gives special attention to the dairying and the raising of high-grade Holstein-Friesian cattle, of which he is a successful breeder from blooded stock. His landed estate is divided into three separate farms. and on each of them he has fine herds of cattle. the milk and other products from his dairy being shipped principally to the city of Cleveland.

Mr. Whitney accords unwavering allegiance to the republican party and has served long and efficiently as a member of the school hoard. of which he was president for ten years. He is secretary of the Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company of Lorain County and has been influential in the developing of its substantial and prosperous business. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and they are popular factors in the representative social life of the community.

In 1892 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Whitney to Miss Lou Emma Green, daughter of William Green. a venerable and honored c¢itizen of whom individual mention is made on other pages of this volume. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mfr. and Mrs. Whitney: Herbert, who continued his studies in the pubhe schools until he had profited duly by the advantages of the high school at Wellineton, also spent two terms in the Oherlin Business College. and owns a farm in Pittsfield Township; Roena is the wife of James M. MceConnell, and they reside on their farm in Pittsfield Township. she heing a graduate of the Wellington High School: Perry is a member of the class of 1916 in the high school at Wellington, as is also Eva: Blanche is

_ WILLIAM GREEN. Though he has been a resident of Pittsfield Township, Lorain County, since his boyhood days, Mr. Green has the distinction of claiming the ''right little isle'' of England as the place of his nativity. During the period of more than sixty years of his residence in Lorain County he has been unwavering in his allegiance to the basic industry of agriculture, of which he has been a prominent and successful exponent, and he still resides upon his fine homestead farm, his landed estate comprising 250 acres of most productive and well improved land. Mr. Green is one of the honored and influential citizens of the county and is entitled to definite recognition in this history, for he has lived and labored to goodly ends and made his life count for good in all of its relations.

William Green was born near Lincolnshire, England, on the 4th of October, 1848, and is a son of William and Mary (Marshall) Green, representatives of staunch old English families. William Green, Sr., was born in 1805 and thus was nearly eighty years of age at the time of his death, in 1884. His wife was born in 1809, and was summoned to eternal rest in 1873. Of their three children the subject of this sketch is now the only survivor. Soon after immigrating with his family to America Mr. Green came to Ohio, and in 1854 he established his permanent home in Lorain County, where he purchased fifty acres of land, in Pittsfield Township. He reclaimed and improved this farm, and with increasing prosperity he added to the area of his landed estate and became one of the substantial agriculturists of the county, even as he was one of its honored and public-spirited citizens. He was a man of superior intellectual force, and kept himself well informed concerning the questions and issues of the day, besides having always manifested studious proclivities and having been an earnest and appreciative reader of the Bible, both he and his wife having been zealous members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and his political allegiance having been given to the republican party.

He to whom this sketch is dedicated was a lad of about six years at the time the family home was established on the pioneer farmstead in Pittsfield Township. There he was reared to maturity in a normal and benignant atmosphere of work and play, and his early educational advantages were those afforded in the schools of the township. As previously stated, his entire career has been one of unwavering association with agricultural pursuits, aud the concrete results of his long, faithful and well ordered labors are shown forth in his ownership of one of the valuable landed estates of the county. He still gives personal supervision to his large and well improved farm, which is devoted to diversified agriculture and to the raising of excellent grades of live stock. His political support has ever been given to the republican party and he has been influential in community affairs of a public order, as shown by the fact that he served for some time as township trustee. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1871 Mr. Green married Mrs. Roana Probert, who was born at York, Sandusky County, Ohio, and she was called to the life eternal in 1876, her only child being Lou Emma, who is the wife of Frank S. Whitney, individually mentioned on other pages of this work. In 1878 Mr. Green wedded Miss Anna Jordan, who was born in Pittsfield Township, this county, and who died in 1881. without issue. In 1884 he wedded Miss Kate Rogers, who likewise is a native of England, and

STEWART McCoNnNnELL. This is a name bespeaking a large family relationship with pioneer settlers in Lorain County. The MecConnells came here more than ninety years ago, had their share in pioneer things, with agriculture as their chief vocation, and an examination of the records shows them to have been stanch defenders of their country, upholders of morality and religion, and people of the finest qualities of neighborliness and usefulness.

The success of Stewart McConnell, who represents the third generation in this county, has been due to hard work and an unusual degree of ae in managing his affairs. Born in Rochester Township February 2, 1852, a son of W. R. and Lovina (Carvey) McConnell. His paternal gr and father, James McConnell, was of Irish stock, and was born in Ireland or his father before him was a native of that country. About - 1824 he brought his family out to Rochester Township, when only two families lived in the entire Township. He married Elizabeth Roorback and had five children, all of whom have passed away. Mr. McConnell's maternal grandfather, William Carvey, was also an early settler in Rochester Township. W.R. MeConnell was born at Onondaga Lake in New York in 1816, and was eight years old when his parents brought him to the locality near New. London, Ohio. His father acquired a tract of land from the Connecticut Land Company. W. R. McConnell was a very influential and successful man in Lorain County, and at the time of his death possessed an estate of 500 acres. He had begun housekeeping in a log house with only one room, and after three of his children were born he built a large frame house in 1861. As a republican he filled many offices of trust in his township and was well educated and well read. He died in December, 1914. Huis wife was born in Rochester Township in 1823, a date which indicates the early settlement of the Carvey family in this county, and she died in 1904. Of her six children the four living are: Stewart; Edward, a farmer in Rochester Township ; Ettie. wife of Jacob Motter, llivi ing near New London; and Nellie, wife of A. E. Sellers, a farmer on the old McConnell home farm in Rochester Township.

Stewart McConnell grew up on his father's farm. His education came from a small district school in the corner of Rochester Township, and most of his training was by practical experience on his father's farm. He went to work with a will, was thrifty and intelligent in the use of his resources, and had acquired 100 acres of land before his marriage.

In 1879 Mr. McConnell married Augusta Close of Sullivan. Ohio. She died in 1904, leaving one daughter, Letha Beattie, who is the widow of Frank Beattie, and is living at New London. She has three children, Frances, Mary and John. In 1905 Mr. MeConnell married Ida (Miller) Stevens of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania. Mrs. McConnell is a member of the Lutheran Church.

For thirty-six years Mr. McConnell has been one of the leading stock buyers and wool buyers of Lorain County. He has 100 acres of well improved land in his homestead and owns fifty-six acres in another place. He also has. property in New London, and owns a considerable part of the stock in the Third National Bank of that city, in which he has been a director since its organization. He now rents most of his land, and in 1904 he built a comfortable residence and has all the improvements and conveniences which make country life enjoyable. Politically he is a republican.

Henry W. Manuey, In speaking of the old time families of Lorain County that of Manley is one that frequently comes into the record both as substantial farmers and as citizens, beginning nearly a century ago and from that time down to the present. Lorain County had only a sprinkling of pioneer population when the first of the Manleys arrived, and they were practically the first to inhabit the wilderness of Wellington Township.

Now living retired from his business as a farmer, but still active in business affairs, Henry W. Manley, who was born at Wellingon, March 27, 1861, is a grandson of Josiah B. and Betsey (Webster) Manley, who caine trom the State of Massachusetts to Ohio in 1821. Their journey made by primitive means of transportation occupied forty days and forty nights. They located in Wellington Township and opened up a brand new farm in the forest. Josiah B. Manley had only a brief period of activity in this new country, since his death occurred August 22, 1824. His was the first death in Wellington Township. After his death his widow showed herself a brave and self-reliant woman, and in order to support her family she taught school for three successive seasons in her log cabin, and also taught two terms in the regular district school. She died at the home of her son, Frederick B., at the advanced age of eighty-three. Frederick B. Manley, father of Henry W., was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, March 10, 1817, being the oldest son of his parents. He was four years of age when brought to Lorain County and was only seven when his father died. He received most of his early education from his mother, and grew up in the midst of privations that were common in this section of the West eighty or ninety years ago. For a time he attended a select school, but early took up the task of farming, to which he devoted the best years of his life. He also became well known as a stock man, buying and selling and raising much livestock on his own place. By dint of hard labor and good management he brought his farm into an excellent state of cultivation, and constructed many useful buildings. One feature of the old home which helped to constitute it a landmark was a splendid elm tree in the dooryard known far and wide as Manley's famous elm.

On March 10, 1847, Frederick B. Manley married Mary L. Wadsworth, a daughter of Major Judson and Lucinda Wadsworth of Wellington. Frederick B. Manley lived a long and useful career, and was honored as one of the best of the old time citizens when he passed away April 9, 1900. In fact he was the oldest surviving early settler of Wellington Township for some years before he died. He cast his first presidential vote for the whig candidate, William Henry Harrison, and was afterwards a loyal republican. During the war he was enrolling officer. He served his home township as constable one term and as assessor eight consecutive years, and for seven years was president of the agricultural society.

Hee W. Manley is the only son and child of the late Frederick B. and Mary L. Wadsworth Manley. He grew up in his home town of Wellington, attended the public schools, and early adopted farming as his permanent vocation in life. In 1903 Mr. Manley removed from his farm to Wellington, but he still owns his beautiful homestead of 224 acres. For a number of years he has been in the fertilizer and silo business, has sold fertilizer to the farmers of Lorain and adjoining counties for the past twenty years, and has been agent for various silo manufacturers for the past fourteen years. Thus he has been instrumental in carrying modern improvements to the farming district of this section. In politics he is a republican, Mrs. Manley belongs to the Congregational Society.

In 1879 Mr. Manley married Adele Hawkes, a daughter of Frederick KE. and Mary Jane. (Broome) Hawkes. Her father was a native of New York State, moved to Huron County, Ohio, in an early day and vas a tinsmith by trade. He died in 1911. He served during the Civil war _ with an Ohio regiment, was in many engagements, and was captured and was a prisoner in Libby and Andersonville. While in prison he applied his art as a tinsmith in making tin cups and other tin vessels. and exchanged these for beans, a much prized article of diet to these prisoners. Frederick E. Hawkes was a son of B. F. Hawkes, who served with the rank of colonel in the Civil war. Mrs. Frederick E. Hawkes is still living.

Mr. and Mrs. Manley have one son, Floyd D., who is now engaged in the automobile business at Lorain. He married Elizabeth Matt of Cleveland, Ohio. .

Satonas A. Wituiims. In recent years Salonas A. Williams of Wellington has given his mature experience and ability to public service as State oil inspector. With the exception of a portion of his boyhood, which h> spent in the Union army during the Civil war. the career of Salonas A. Williams has been identified with Lorain County practically all his life. He has worked hard and done well every task assigned him by destiny. Oftentimes he has worked against the current rather than with it, and has made himself worthy of the success and esteem which belong to him in the later vears.

He was born in Eaton Township of Lorain County May 2. 1849, a son of Alanson and Elizabeth (Jay) Williams. His mother. who was born in Broome County, New York, was a granddaughter of John Jay, one of the most conspicuous characters in early American national history. Mr. Williams' paternal grandfather, Nathan Williams. came out of New York and bought a farm in LaGrange Township in the very early times. Later he moved to Iowa, where he died at the age of ninety-five. He acquired extensive holdings in the new lands of that then western state and was a-man of considerable influence and was considered wealthy for his time. Alanson Williams was born in Binghamton, Broome County, New York. in 1818 and died in 1851. He did what many boys of spirit and adventure do. ran away from home, and at the age of eighteen came to Lorain County. He lived the life of a farmer, was a quiet and well esteemed citizen, and at the time of his death left a small farm in LaGrange Township. He married his wife in Lorain County. They were the parents of three children: Lorinda married Philander Nichols, who was a carpenter and died at Wellington, and she now lives with a daughter at Creston in Wayne County. Ohio; Caroline, the other sister of Mr. 8S. A. Williams, is now living in Kansas City, Missouri, the widow of Demetrius Johnson, who was a soldier and afterwards a stonemason. and died in Kansas.

Salonas A. Williams was twelve vears old when the war broke out. Most of his education was received after the war and he attended the public schools only a few terms prior to his enlistment on August 17, 1864, in Company A of the Sixty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He reached the front in time to participate in some of the most striking campaigns of the war, and was with Sherman on his march from Atlanta to the sea and up through the Carolinas, and was granted an honorable discharge at the close of hostilities. After the war he attended Oberlin College two terms, and has been a resident of Wellington almost continuously since 1868. For a time he worked as clerk in the Bending Works for W. R. Santley. and after two years transferred his services to D. L. Wadsworth in the latter's planing mill, where he remained five years. He then assisted Mr. Wadsworth in constructing a planing mill and had charge of its machinery five years. Again he was in the employ of the Santley Works for Mrs. Santley. For ten years Mr. Williams was elected and served as marshal of Wellington.

On September 18, 1872, he married Frances Avery, daughter of Lewis B. Avery, who was an early settler in Pittsfield Township and also owned a farm in Wellington Township and a sawinill. He was killed while working in the sawmill. Mr. and Mrs. Williams had seven children. Myrna B. is the wife of Elmer Kissinger, a farmer at Creston, Ohio; Lewis Archie lives in the West; Gerald Avery conducts an automobile line and has an establishment near Kent, Ohio; Maude is the wife of Jud Jackson, a farmer in Penfield Township; Beulah married Archie Davis, a railroad man at Columbus; Ward is a granite cutter living at Ashland, Ohio; Russell M. is in the railroad service and lives in Columbus. Recently Russell Williams was given an award by the commission who have charge of the Carnegie hero medal fund of $2,000 for having saved some boys from drowning, and he is at this writing preparing to spend this money wisely, or a portion of it at least, in taking up a technical course. The mother of these children died in June, 1909. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Williams has been very prominent in fraternal affairs and particularly so in the Grand Army organization. He is now serving his third term as chairman of the Sailors' and Soldiers' Relief Commission. He has served as commander of the Grand Army Post. He is a member and was state organizer for the Knights of the Maccabees. He has been through all the chairs of the subordinate and encampment degrees of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and for six years served as district deputy grand master. He is also affiliated with the Masonic Order.

Politically Mr. Williams is a republican. He was appointed and on July 1, 1915, took charge of the office of oil inspector, having charge of the fifteenth district, including Lorain County and parts of Cuyahoga and Huron counties. He and his family occupy one of the pleasant homes of Wellington.

Frep A. Davcuerty. A resident of Wellington for forty years, Fred A. Daugherty has been known in that village and over a wide stretch of surrounding territory as a merchant. He is also known as a man who has been the architect of his own destiny. His start was in the humble capacity of a clerk and general utility boy around a Wellington store, and by making himself master of detail and showing himself fit for increased responsibility he finally acquired a partnership, and for a number of years has directed a very profitable and excellent business.

He was born at Spencer in Medina County, Ohio, September 21, 1863, and was brought to Wellington in 1875 at the age of twelve, by his parents, Z. H. and Hattie ( Sawyer) Daugherty. His father was born in New York State, a son of Charles Daugherty. Z. H. Daugherty was only six months of age when his family moved to Medina County, where he grew up and received his education, and he died when still a young man. He was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church and a demoerat in politics. He and his wife left four living children: Estella, now Mrs. Pittinger, a widow of Portland, Oregon; Fred A.; Bert, a traveling salesman at Cleveland ; and Carl, a telegraph operator at North Olmsted, Ohio.

Fred A. Daugherty completed his education in the Wellington schools and after some experience as a farm hand became clerk in a store at the age of seventeen. Twelve years matured his abilities and made him com- peteut for independent business, and he then bought an interest in the business conducted by Chapman & Robinson, and since then the firm name has been incorporated with a capital stock of $18,000. as the Daugherty-Robinson Company. This is the leading clothing house in the City of Wellington. Mr. Daugherty really has all the active responsibilities of the business.

In 1890 he married Ada Linder, who was born at Wellington, a daughter of Edward Linder, who for a number of years was a general mechanic at Wellington. Mr. and Mrs. Daugherty are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and he is a republican in politics. Their three children are: Louise, a kindergarten teacher; Margaret, who is attending the Ohio State University at Columbus, 'Ohio; and Albert, now a senior in the Wellington High School.

HerBert E. ARNOLD. One of Oberlin's substantial business men, proprietor of the chief laundry establishment of the town, Herbert E. Arnold has had a wide and extended business experience, having spent a number of vears as a traveling salesman.

He comes of old New York State stock, and was born in Otsego County of that state June 4, 1863, a son of Alfred and Abigail (Bundy) Arnold. His grandfather, Elias Arnold, went from Connecticut into New York State about 1835 and took up his home in a sparsely settled district where he carved a home out of the wilderness. On the maternal side Mr. Arnold is descended from a still older family of New York State.

Alfred Arnold was born in Connecticut in 1820 and died in 1889. His wite was horn in New York State in 1826 and died in 1910. They were married in Otsego County, where Alfred Arnold followed farming for a number of years. He was an active republican in polities, holding several local offices, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Four children were born to their union, and the two now living are Darwin. a farmer in Otsego Souk New York, and Herbert E., who was the third in age.

Herhert E. Arnold grew up on a farm in New York State, attended one of the little red schoolhouses and also a union school in the town. His early experiences were those of a farmer until nineteen years of age. and after that he taught school two years and for eight years was a traveling salesman. He first engaged in the laundry business at Cleveland, and remained there for fifteen years. In June, 1905, he bought the laundry at Oberlin, and has since completely remodeled and rearranged the service and has made it second to none in quality in Lorain County.

In 1891 he married Miss Emily Sessions, who was born in Otsego County, New York. They have three children: Fannie, who is now student in the Conservatory of Music in Oberlin College; Rossleene, a senior in Oherlin College, and Herbert S., now a student in the second grade of the public schools. Mr. Arnold is a member of the First Congregational Church, and is a member of the Masonic order. In politics he is a republican and since coming to Oberlin has heen chosen to serve on the school hoard. In 1916 he was appointed on the Board of Trustees of the Lorain County Children's Home.

JoHN Westey Hoveutror. While the Houghton family has been identified with Lorain County since early times, its associations with the American states and colonies go back to almost the first years of New England. Probably every one in that section of Lorain County tributary to the V illage of Wellington knows and esteems the kindly and genial

Dr. John W. Houghton, who has lived a long life, is now past four score, has practiced medicine and has been engaged in business at Wellington, and is one of the best known older citizens in the county. The interest and value of this publication will be increased by the presence of the following record concerning Doctor Houghton and the various branches of his ancestry.

Born in Batavia, New York, November 24, 1834, John Wesley Houghton is in the seventh generation from the original American settler. For nearly six centuries the family lived in England before one of its representatives crossed the ocean to the New England colonies. The earliest Houghton ancestor went with William the Conqueror from Normandy to England in 1066. His Norman name was '«Herverus.'"' In the distribution of the territory among his followers King William gave to Herverus large possessions in Norfolk, Suffolk and Lancashire, in which last place he settled. The land being somewhat more elevated and hilly than the surrounding country, the natives came to call the family *'Hoctunes'' (Hightown people), which name as the years went by was changed in spelling to Hocton, Hogton, Hoghton, Haughton and Houghton. In New England the name is pronounced as though spelled '"Hoton,'? while in New York and many other places as though spelled Howton. From the original Herverus there were descendants in direct line down to the present owner of Houghton Tower in Lancashire, England. This tower is said by travelers to be the finest remaining example of Norman architecture in England.

The founder of the family in the United States was Ralph Houghton. He was born in 1623 in Laneaster, England, and came to America in 1645-47. After a temporary settlement in Watertown, Massachusetts, he removed to Laneaster in 1650-52. He was a farmer, surveyor, selectman. was a beautiful penman, and was the first clerk and served continuously in that office at Lancaster for twenty-six years. After the massacre of inhabitants and burning of Laneaster by the Indians under King Philip he moved to Milton, which later became a suburb of Boston, and is now a part of that city. His farm was made into a park and cemetery where he and his family are buried. Ralph Houghton was a Puritan in religion and is said to have left England in order to obtain religious freedom. The records show that he joined a church in Milton June 18, 1682, and no doubt it was of the Congregatioual form. With nine others Ralph Houghton bought a tract of land from the Indians which was incorporated in 1652, but in which a settlement had been made a little previous to 1650, it having been a trading station as early as 1643. Ralph Houghton was well educated for his day, and was a strong character and leading man in the settlement. His wife was Jane Stowe. and the tradition is that she came from England with her husband. Nothing is known of her life or character, but as she reared a family of nine children, all of whom reached maturity and filled honorable places in society, it is proper to eonclude that she filled a not unimportant place in the world.

In the second American generation the lineage is carried by James Houghton, who was born about 1650 and died in 1711. He married Mary Sawyer, who was born February 14, 1653. His home was in that part of Lancaster later set off and named Harvard. On land given him by his father he built what is known as a garrison house, the walls being lined with brick and stone as protection against the Indians. This is still standing, having been handed from father to son through five generations. The last owner was Edward Warren Houghton, and he and an only child, an unmarried daughter, were for many years the sole occupants. This daughter, Anna, died in March, 1911, and Edward