Paint Township (part 13 of 14)

The issue of March 18, 1852, chronicles the death of Robert R. Lindsey, on Sabbath, 7th day of that month, at Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where he had been engaged in publishing a paper styled the W/iii/. He published the Herald here during 1834. In the same issue is also announced the marriage, at Ripley, Ohio, by Rev. "W. I. Fee, of Robert Cissna, ex-sheriff' of this county, to Miss Mary W. Courtney, of that place. The Ripley Bee says "the printers were handsomely remembered." At the spring election that year, Z. W. Ileagler was elected mayor, B. Thompson recorder, and M. Blackmore, G. B. Gardner, and L.,Campbell trustees. J. M. Bell, in making his return as clerk, says: "The Mormons are again gloriously triumphant."

About noon of April 1st, 1852, "the great fire in Chillicothe" commenced to burn and lay waste the then most compactly built part of that city. It was caused by the bursting of a' stove in a cabinet shop in rear of the Clinton House. The account, (published in the New Era,) written by Seneca W. Ely, editor at that time of the Chillicothe Daily Gazette, for the Ohio State Journal of Columbus, says that "fully one-fourth of the taxable property in Chillicothe, including all the buildings on the two most valuable squares - stores, hotels, dwellings and warehouses - was destroyed. * * * It is impossible to arrive at a correct estimate of losses. Old Chillicothe has received a blow from which she cannot recover in years. * * * Two thousand of our population are houseless. From six to eight hundred thousand dollars' worth of property consumed. All our principal warehouses, with their stocks of groceries, pork, bacon, etc., are burned."

The first sewing machine brought to Washington was by Clarence Parvin, tailor, in May, 1852. It was of the Wilson make. Mr. Parvin purchased the right to use and sell it in Fayette County. Yeoman & Finnigan, (S. N. Y., and Thomas,) were merchandising here, in June, 1852. Sabbath, June 13, 1852, John Durham, aged ninety-two years and two months, died at the residence of Joseph Bloomer, in this county. Elizabeth McCoy, wife of John McCoy, sr., aged about ninety years, died on Friday, 18th of same month.

The issue of July 1, 1852, chronicles the death of Henry Clay, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, at Washington City, on Tuesday, June 29, preceding, at 11:20 a. m., after protracted illness. At the time of his death, he was serving as United States Senator from Kentucky.

In the issue of August 26, 1852, announcement is made of the death, on Sabbath, 22d of that month, of Samuel McLean, in the forty-second year of his age ; and that journal, of date September 9, 1852, contains an obituary notice of the death, August 28th preceding, of Maria Louisa, consort of Henry liobinson, then auditor of this county, in the thirty-second year of her age, of consumption.

In the issue of October 28, 1852, is published the death, at Marshfield, Massachusetts, of Daniel Webster, at three o'clock on the morning of the 24th of that month. The Cincinnati Gazette, in alluding thereto, says : " A great man has indeed fallen - one who lias rendered varied and most important ^services to his country - whose fame is world-wide, and whose loss will be felt and lamented by the whole country." Mr. Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, January 18, 1782. At the time of his death he was Secretary of State, in the cabinet of President Fillmore.

The issue of November 4, 1852, by special telegram from " Bascom," its Columbus correspondent, indicates briefly the result of the presidential campaign of 1852, thus: Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York gone for Pierce. Massachusetts and Vermont only certain for Scott. Used up badly." .

The issue of December 16, 1852, contains editorial mention of the death of Robert Robinson, in the sixty-second year of his age, of asthma. He was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, April 11, 1791, and died at his residence here December 11, 1852. He emigrated to Ross County, Ohio, from his native state, in 1809, and thence moved to this county, in 1813. While serving as sheriff of this county, he was elected to the Stale Legislature, in 1822, which caused him to resign the sheriiFalty. He studied law under Wade Loof bourrow, and was admitted to practice here, in 1826.

At a meeting of the bar here, held in the law office of Willard & Jones, Samuel F, Kerr being called to the chair and D. M. Jones appointed secretary, Alfred S. Dickey and B. V. W. Pugsley were appointed a committee to prepare resolutions expressive of the feeling and sympathy of his brothers of the legal profession, with reference to his demise. One of the series of resolutions, as indicative of the sentiment pervading the whole, we reprint, as follows :

" Resolred, That in his death his family have lost a faithful, kind and affectionate head, the community a useful and trustworthy citizen, the church a living example of moral worth, and we of the bar our senior brother, whose talent and experience we revered, whose integrity we loved, and whose social virtues we admired."

The issue of December 30, 1852, contains tidings of the death of Samuel McElwain, on the 5th of that month, at the California House, Panama, where at the time he was sojourning, on his way to California. Nicholas Hay was engaged in tailoring here, in December, 1852, on Court Street, under the New Era office.

In January, 1853, Messrs. Ogle k Robinson, (Captain John and Alf.,) advertised that they had determined to fit out another (the third) overland train to California, having previously crossed the plains with trains, in 1850 and 1852.

Robert Stewart and A, S. Ballard also advertised in the New Era that they, too, would fit out a train for the same destination, and would go west about the first of the month then next following to complete arrangements for starting. They would take passengers through from St. Joseph, Missouri, for |200 cash, or $250 at the end of twelve months. They would furnish a good physician for the company, and a riding horse or mule for each mess, and their "wagons and teams would be well fitted up." Messrs. Stewart & Ballard had previously been in California.

The building of a railroad from Columbus to Masj^sville, by "Washington and Hillsboro, was enthusiastically talked of here during 1853; and so, also, was the building of the Dayton, Xenia and Belpre Railroad.

Mention of the death of William Rufus King, thirteenth Vice- President of the United States, appears in the Nrw Era of April 28, 1853. According to the published account, he died on Monday, the 18th of that month, at his residence in Alabama, a short time after returning from Havana, Cuba, whither he had gone during the January preceding, with the view of benefiting his health, lie w^as born in North Carolina, on the 6th of April, 1786, and had served three terms in congress from that state. He moved to Alabama, in 1818, from which state he subsequently served five terms as senator in congress. In 1844, he was appointed Minister to France by President Taylor. After the death of President Taylor, in July, 1850, and the accession of Vice-President Fillmore to the presidency, he was elected president of the senate. When Franklin Pierce, in 1852, was elected president, he was elected vice-president of the United States; and by special act of congress, he being in Cuba at the time when he should take the oath of office as vicepresident, the American Consul-General at Havana, at the time, was empowered to administer the oath in this case.

It is stated in the Ncii- Era above mentioned that George Washington Parke Custis, (grandson of Mrs. Washington,) of Arlington, Virginia, had attended the inauguration of all our presidents, from Washington to Pierce included. He was born at Mount Airy, Maryland, April 30, 1781, and died at Arlington House, Fairfax County, Virginia, October 10, 1857.

The marriage, on Tuesday, May 3, 1853, by Rev. B. Lowe, of George B. Gardner, editor of the New Era, to Miss Maria Amanda Robinson, of Washington, is announced in the issue of that journal of Ma}^ 5th. In consequence of the event, the readers of the paper were requested to excuse all lack of editorial matter that week, as the editor and his bride had " started away on a rural jaunt." In the issue of the Neii^ Era, of May 19, 1853, is published the marriage, on the 18th of that month, of Hugh F. Kemper, of Walnut Hills, Ohio, to Miss Mary Jane Miller, daughter of the officiating clergyman, Rev. S. J. Miller, then pastor in charge of the Presbyterian Church of Washington. D. A. Harrison was practicing law here then, and A. S. Dickey and Robert M. Briggs were partners in the practice of the same profession. C. H. Bell was postmaster here, in 1853. July 2d, of that year, by a vote of 247 ballots in favor and 41 against, the citizens of Union Township, this county, instructed the township trustees to subscribe $15,- 000 stock toward the building of the Dayton, Xenia and Belpre Railroad. It cost "the dear people," however, about $30,000 before they got through the grubbing process; and the road - well, it wasn't built !

From the same paper we learn that Wilmington, Clinton, County, was placed in railroad communication with Cincinnati on the 11th of August, 1853, by the Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville Railroad, which thoroughfare now forms part of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad system. The celebration of the event, according to the published account, brought together about nine thousand people at Wilmington. Speechmaking on the occasion was indulged in by Dr. Griswold, of Circleville; Colonel McVay, of Lancaster; William Neil, of Columbus ; Judge McKay and Isaiah Morris, of Wilmington ; and A. De GraiF, contractor, then known as " the railroad king." In connection therewith, it was mentioned that Mr. Ashmead, the contractor for laying down the iron of the road, had been engaged, twentysix years before, on the Liverpool and Manchester (England) Railway, "the first road constructed in the world (as was stated) for general travel and tratfic." Frank Corwiu was then president of the C. W. & Z. R. R., and E. W. Woodward chief engineer. Trains commenced running from Washington to Cincinnati on the 24th of November, 1853. In November, 1855, trains were regularly run through to Zanesville.

Washington Register

George B. Gardner commenced the publication of the Fayette New Era in Marcli, 1^49, anrl continued to issue it until March, 1855, when he and his brother, Thomas F., who had for some time held a partnership interest in the journal, disposed of the office and business interest to Elgar B. Pearce and J. C. D. Ilanna, who, on the 15th of March of that year, issued the initial number of the Washington Register, with E. B. Pearce as editor. In his salutatory the editor says: "The Register, untrammeled by the chains of party influence, will go forth free to condemn the evil and approve the good, whether in high places or low - it will go forth invoking the spirit of truth to guide its voyage. The platform we stand upon is projected of good, substantial material - independent in all things, neutral in nothing. * * * We wish it to be distinct!}" understood that the Register is not a neutral paper. Of all things, we most detest a sluggish neutrality."

The leading feature of the Register was the giving of special attention to the publication of home news, for which purpose a " local department " was immediately created by its editor - a new departure in journalism here - a field, in fact, until that time sadly neglected.

September 10, 1857, Mr. Hanna disposed of his interest in the establishment to Mr. Pearce, who, as sole proprietor, continued to publish the Register until near the close of April, 1864. He died at. his residence here, June 8, 1864.

Ohio State Register

A short time afterward Samuel Pike effected arrangements whereby he procured and took control of the office, and commenced the publication of the Ohio State Register, a Democratic journal. After a six months' probation, he was succeeded in the proprietorship and management by W. C. Gould, who caused the Register to do service for the Democracy until April 24, 1873. . During 1871 Mr. Gould changed the title of the paper to Register and Peo-ple's Advocate, with the motto : " That nation is most pros- " perous where labor commands the greatest reward." Its hobb}" was opposition to "monopolies" and "middlemen."

April 24, 1873, Simmons & Beaslcy (II. II. Simmons and W. A. Beasley) succeeded W. C, Gould in proprietary interest. They revived the title of Ohio State Brylstcr, and continued to promnlgate Democratic doctrine and theory. March 25, 1875, Mr. Beasley assumed entire control of the establishment, by arranging for the purchase of Mr. Simmons' interest therein, and continued to publish the paper until October of that year. He died here, at the Shaw House, on the 24th of that month. D. I. Worthington (who had in the meantime caused the publication of the journal to be continued), as administrator, a short time afterward sold the office and business interest to II. V. Iverr, who issued his commencement number December 9, 1875. At the time of purchase Mr. Kerr was Democratic state senator from the district composed of the counties of Brown and Clermont. He died suddenly, of neuralgia of the heart, at his home in Batavia, Clermont County, March 27, 1881. At the time of his death he was state librarian. He was a man of fine social qualities - one who, in deportment, was remarkably courteous and gentlemanly. J. D. Kerr, his son, has, as proprietor since his father's death, conducted the affairs of the paper. Since Mr. Bike's advent, in June, 18G4, to the present time, that journal has been the Democratic organ here.

The publication of this paper was commenced here December 11, 1858, by William Millikan. November 26, 1868, W. W. Millikan, son of the. former gentleman, was admitted to partnership in its management and editorial conduct.

It was the first journal to espouse the cause of Republicanism in this county. In that field, as well as encouraging the upbuilding of our business and local interests, it has done, and will continue to

The News

Gould k Jones (W. C. Gould and Frank M. Jones) commenced the publication of the News in the second story of McLean's block, opposite the court house, June 3, 1874. As briefly expressed by its publishers, it was a journal " independent upon all subjects - opposed to all monopolies." I^ovember 28, 1874, the interest of Mr.

Gonlfl ill the paper was purchased by Mr. Jones, who continued its publication until March 18, 1876, when he moved the otiice material to Mount Sterling, in the adjoining county of Madispn, where for a time (about four months, as we are informed,) he still further contini>ed its publication. Mr. Jones subsequently sold the material to A. Voigt, who removed it to Bainbridge, Ross County, where he published a paper for a season. Mr. Voigt afterward shipped the material to Jefferson ville, this county, where, on the 16th of October, 1880, he commenced (and still continues) the publication of the Jeffersonville Chronicle, the pioneer journal in that village. It is "devoted to Jeffersonville and vicinity, the farmer, mechanic, and business men, local and general news," etc. Office over Howard's harness shop.

Wednesday, September 17, 1879, T. F. Oardner commenced the publication of the Fayette Republican. In his initial number Mr. Gardner says : " The Republican will advocate the principles of the party whose name it bears. * * * As a journalist, it shall be our aim to chronicle all the local events of town and county, of which we may become cognizant, be they good or bad." And the woefully bad he with gall-tipped pen doth flagellate, to the intense edfication of the truly good.

As indicative of the business changes which have taken place within the interim, we give below the names of those engaged in mercantile pursuits here during 1855, together with the amounts by them invested in business operations, and returned for assessment purposes, as shown by the books of the county auditor. We take the statement from the Washington Register of July 12th, of the year mentioned.

In the Register office, (the Register office that was, but which years agone ceased to be,) there stood for some years, after Elgar B. Pearce took editorial control of that establishment, the first printing-press brought to "Washington. It was shipped here from Chillieothe, to which point it had years before been transported from Philadelphia. Its history was known to an old employe of the Franklin Type Foundry, of Cincinnati, who, in 1858, happened to see it here while engaged in business pursuit. It was afterward shipped to that establishment, and is no doubt yet to be seen in the queen city, among the many rare and well-kept relics which there have an abiding place. It was a very quaint-looking institution. Its frame was of mahogany. On it. Judge Bereman printed and executed for the time, much artistic work, and from its bed there rose and spread thoughts caustic and severe; and many truths which bore good fruit sprung therefrom. Glad tidings, and sad as well, emanated from its platen impress - yea, much of joy and woe, of mirth and sorrow, through its lever power, was scattered.

On that, the first printing press used here, it required two pulls to complete the impression of one side of the j)aper, each page of the form being run under the platen separately. Then two hundred and fifty to three hundred sheet impressions per hour was eonconsidered quite rapid work, but to-day, in the Herald office, with power-press facilities, one thousand sheets per hour can be printed. Then the size of the newspapers published here was 18x26 inches; to-day they are 28x44. Of reading matter one paper of to-day will contain as much as six did then ; yet the subscription price then was greater than now.

Woolen- Manufactories

In the early settlement of this county the work of manufacturing woolen goods was all done by hand, hand-cards, the common spinning wheel, and the loom; and if any fulling, it was done by the feet on the floor.

The first of the advance was said to have been a set of rollcards, propelled by horse power, introduced about the year 1814 by a Mr. Lupton, from Clinton County, Ohio. This manufactory was located in the eastern part of Washington. The business was

In the year 1825, Dr. Tliomas McGarraugh and Josepli Elliott erected a building in the most central part of town for the same purpose. It was limited in capacity, and continued for some three years, when it was sold to Andrew Holt, who purchased a lot near the old grave-yard, and erected a large frame building in which to carry on the business. After running it two or three years, in about 1830 he sold to Eber Patrick, who continued in the same place - with the exception of one or two years, while it was in the hands of J. Webster - until the year 1843, wdien he sold the premises and entire machinery to John and .William Robinson, who immediately introduced steam power. They also added fulling, dyeing and finishing.

In 1832, Judge D. McLean purchased a full set of cards, with an outfit for dyeing, fulling, and finishing. His building was on lot number five, Court Street. He continued the business for five or six years, and then sold out to Mr. Walker, formerly of Washington, who removed the machinery to Indiana.

Samuel Lydy bought one set of cards of E. Patrick, and introduced steam power - having purchased boiler and engine from Y. Green - probably the first brought to this county. In a short time it was purchased by Robert Robinson & Son (Henry)', and was controlled by them until 1845, when the building and power were sold to Weller & Mizer for a blacksmith shop, and the niachinery was abandoned and sold for old iron. Soon after this, J. & W.Robinson purchased the premises of Eber Patrick, and added some spinning machinery, yet on a limited scale. In 1848, James Pursell and J. Bohrer bought the interest of William Robinson. Again machinery was introduced for carding, and also a new jack for spijining.

In 1850 the firm was known as Pursell & McElwain. They added to the machinery, and by procuring skilled workmen kept, or rather increased, the home manufacture. But with the improvements necessary for the development of the county came the railroad from Cincinnati to Zanesville, and compelled its removal.

In 1855 it passed into the han<ds of B. Pursell and George Wherritt, and was removed to a school building on lot number twentyone. In 1856 it was purchased by B. Pursell and George Easterbrook. In 1857 it was sold to George Price, an experienced manufacturer, who anticipated an improvement, but for want of means only added a small twister for making stocking yarn. He continued the business until the close of the year 1860.

In 1861 it passed into the hands of I. C. Van Deman. The home manufacture had been, largely diminished by the introduction of foreign ready-made goods, but that dark year, when all home productions were at extremely low prices - corn as low as fifteen to sixteen cents per bushel, and wool twenty -five cents per pound - attention was turned somewhat to home work. By securing competent workmen, the business was again increased, and soon it became necessary to enlarge the building. In 1864, D. Clark, a former manufacturer in London, whose mill was destroyed by fire, became a partner. The improvements began were completed, and more macliinery purchased. Another set of machines, with eight power looms and a larger twister, was added. In the early part of 1866 J). Clark sold his one-half interest to J. Dews. He also was a practical manufacturer. The increase of business under his persevering and skillful management, necessitated the introduction of the latest improved machinery, in order to manufacture the finest class of wool grown in the county. To this end, the large brick building, first built for a distillery, and afterward used for a hub and spoke factory, was purchased, and the machinery moved into it in the winter of 1867-8. More machinery was added as means could be procured. An eftbrt was made to secure a compaii}' for the purpose of increasing the facilities for manufacturing, but capital seemed to be otherwise directed.

In February, 1872, Mr. Dews died, and his interest was immediately withdrawn. Not only his capital, but his skill was missed, yet the business continued.

In the summer of 1875 more capital was procured, and the business increased. This firm was known as J. C. & E. B. Van Deman, and in 1876 Van Denian & Jones. Water Street being dedicated to two railroads - the Dayton k Southeastern and the Springfield, Jackson & Pomeroy - communication was cut ofl:" for retail trade, and not having sufficient capital to increase to general wholesale trade, in 1880 the machinery was sold and removed to Fort Scott, Kansas. At this time 'there is not a woolen mill in the county for general manufacture.

Biographical Dr. 0. A. Allen

Dr. O. A. Allen, druggist, Washington, was born in New Jersey, July 1, 1825, and is a son of John P. and Jane (Adams) Allen, both natives of New Jersey. The family, consisting of live sons and three daughters, immigrated to this state in 1831. Our subject was married in March, 1852, to Jane Jenkins, of this county. Two children have been born to them : Lucy, now Mrs. E. A. Ramsey, and William J. The doctor is a member of Temple Lodge No. 227, I. O. 0. F., and also a member of the Baptist Church, being at present clerk of the organization. At one time he was clerk of the village of Washington. He studied at Granville College, and completed his medical education at the Cleveland Medical College, graduating in 1854, and commencing practice in the spring of that year. He has continued as a druggist and physician to this day.

Joel Barrett

Joel Barrett, painter and paper-hanger, Washington, was born April 14, 1843, at Newmarket, Highland County, Ohio, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah Barrett. His father is a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother of New Jersey. Their family consisted of four children.

Joel, our subject, was married June 26, 1866, to Miss Mary E. Johnston, daughter of Samuel B. and Rebecca Johnston, of Highland County. They are blessed with seven children: Lizzie, Ellen, Nettie, Jennie, Ralph, and Ida, living, and John, who died some years ago. Our subject enlisted in Company B, 60th O. V. I., and served one year, when the whole regiment was captured at Harper's Ferry, and subsequently paroled, when he re-enlisted Company B, 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery, and remained with them until the close of the war. He was mustered out in 1865, came home, and engaged in painting and paper-hanging alone until 1880, when he formed a co-partnership with Mr. Curtis; and since that time, under the lirm name of Curtis & Barrett, they have been doing an extensive business. He is an Odd-fellow, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Received his education in Highland County,

George J. Bailey

George J. Bailey, liveryman, Washington, was born in Newport, Khode Island, December 8, 1848. He is a son of James E. and Harriet Bailey, natives of Rhode Island, where they still reside. They have two children : Joseph H. and George, our subject, who was married October 2, 1873, to Miss Elizabeth Hathaway, daughter of John and Ann Hathaway, of Clarke County. They have two children: Joseph P. and Charles S. Mr. Bailey served one summer's cruise on board a government steamer, under the command of Lieutenant Miller. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He received his education in his native place, leaving there at the age of thirteen years, and clerked in Boston and Xew York City for three years, when he came West and engaged in the livery business, which he has followed since.

Charles C. Blakemore

Charles C. Blakemore, sewing machine agent, Washington, is a son of William H. Blakemore, wdio was a native of Virginia, but came to Ohio about the year 1824, and bought and settled on a farm in this township, where the village of Culpepper now stands. He married Miss Ann Millikan, daughter of Captain John Millikan, who died at Chillicothe, of cold plague, during the year 1812. They were the parents of ten children, live sons and live daughters, three of whom died in infancy. Frank L. and Wyatt D. both went West at the close of the war, being single at the time, but married and settled in Taylor County, Iowa, and are engaged in farming, occupying positions of honor and respect in their county. Keziah C. is the wife of Colonel II. B. Maynard, whose biography appears in this work. Amanda J., married to C. A. Beery, of Chillicothe; Emma, married to W. E. Bonfoy, of East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati; Anna M., married to Nathan Snyder, wdio is now deceased. She remains a widow, and lives in Xenia.

Charles C. Blakemore, our subject, was born in 1839, and is a native of this county. He spent his lirst years with his parents on the farm, but removed with them into Washington at the age of ten, and has been a resident of the town ever since. For more than twenty years M.r. Bhikemore has been engaged in the sewing machine bnsiness - indeed, he is the pioneer sewing machine agent in the county. He married his first wife, Miss Jenny Cox, daughter of Isaac Cox, of Hamilton County, in 1865, with whom he lived nine years, when she died. Mr. Blakemore remained single three years, when he married Mrs. Phcube J. Haus, daughter of John Mallow, Esq., of Hoss County. They are residing in Washington, on Main Street, in a nice residence of their own, and are without children. Mr. Blakemore has been quite successful in the selection of amiable wives. He is a man of some peculiar traits of character, possessing an inherent love for fine horses, which seems to have been a trait of character possessed to a great degree by his father. Few men in the county are so fond of a good horse as is he, and but few men are capable of handling one so skillfully. He is a straightforward, honest, upright man. In politics, he is a Republican; in religion, a Methodist. His father served the county as coronor and sheriff, and died July 20, 1870. His mother died May 3, 1874, at the house of Colonel II. B. Maynard, in Washington. The Blakemores are regarded as one of the prominent families of the county.

John Sargent Burnett

John Sargent Burnett, farmer and stock-raiser, Seldon, is a son of liobert and Susanna Burnett, who were natives of Virginia, came to Ohio in 1810, and settled for the winter on the waters of Herod's Creek, in Ross County, where they remained until the spring of 1811, when he removed to this county, and settled about half a mile east of Sugar Creek, where Henry Bush now lives, on the south side of the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad, remaining here for some two years, when he removed to a farm about one mile northwest from Jasper Station, where he remained until his death, which event occurred December 9, 1878, in the ninety-first year of his age. His wife died in 1839. He married his second wife, Catharine Caylor, in 1844, who died in 1876. By his first wife he had eleven children, six sous and five daughters. Sidney died when a young woman; Harry married, and lives in Clinton County, near Sabina; Rebecca is the wife of Jacob Mark, Esq., living near Jasper Mills; NaQroa was married, but is now dead ; Thomas married, lived in Wasliington, and died in 1870, and his widow and children still remain in the same place; Catharine, wife of Joseph Plum, lives in Washington; Elihu married and removed to the State of Iowa a few years ago ; Absalom married, and lives in Peru, Indiana; Susanna married, moved to Allen County, and died: Jesse was a twin brother to John S., and died in infancy.

The subject of our sketch was born October 21, 1817, and married Sarilda Feagins in February, 1846. She is the daughter of Richard Feagins, who is one of the pioneers of the county, being in his eighty-fifth year. He lives with Mr. and Mrs. Burnett, who now own and occupy the old homestead, where Mr. Feagins has lived for so many years. Mr. Feagins has been much of a man in his day, but now is becoming quite feeble, both in bod}' and mind.

Mr. and Mrs. Burnett are the parents of three children, two daughters and one son. Mary Catharine married David Toops, and is a widow. They had but one child, Oliver Edwin, a sprightly lad, eleven years old, living with Mr. and Mrs. Burnett, who are much delighted with him. Richard Henry married, and lives on his father's tarm, and is without children. Susanna married Barton L. Stevenson. They live in the house with Mr. and Mrs. Burnett, and have one son, Alonzo Edgar, four years of age, a child of superior intellectual development for one of his years.

In 1849, Mr. Burnett was elected to the office of county surveyor, in which official capacity he served for fifteen years. He was elected justice of the peace for Jasper Township in 1846, and served for three years. He taught school for a number of his earlier years. Was educated at Athens, in this state, and is an intelligent, wellinformed man, being more than an average in this respect with the men of his age. He owned and lived on a farm but a few miles north of Jasper Mills most of his married life. In the year 1876 he disposed of it, and purchased his father-in-law's farm, on the east bank of Sugar Creek, in Union Township, a little north from the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad. This farm contains one hundred and twenty-one acres of choice land. The family moved here in the spring of 1876. Mr. Burnett is a Republican in politics, a Christian gentleman, kind and affiible, and much interested in the Sunday-school, education, etc.

Abraham Bush

Abram Bush, farmer and ex-county commissioner, was born in Fayette County, Ohio, November 10, 1816, and is a son of Abraham and Phoeba Bush, both natives of Virginia, who immigrated to Ohio, in the year 1810. He came to Fayette County, in 1811, and cut the road through the wilderness from Washington Court House to. Sugar Creek, and the original farm still remains in the Bush family ; they had a family of seven children. Abraham the subject of our remarks was married, in 1839, to Miss Catharine Bush, daughter of Daniel and Susannah Bush, of Fayette County. They have four children: Annetta, Gilbert L,, Charles F., and Serepta. He was elected county commissioner, in 1871, and held the office six years, and was, also, township clerk for eighteen years of Jefferson Township, and two years a trustee. He is now farming three hundred and fourteen acres of land, in Jefferson Township, and raises a great many cattle and hogs. He received his education in Fayette County, where he has lived from his birth.

Cismore Carr

Cismore Carr, fai-mer and stock raiser, Washington. His parents were Joshua and Susy Carr, who came from Virginia, to this county, in 1814. They are both dead. Mrs. Carr survived her husband many years. They were the parents of four children : two girls and two boys. Jason. M., married and moved to the State of Missouri, and died there. Mary Susy was married to Captain E. Henkle, and died some years since. Their biography appears in this work. Mary Jane was married to Henry Baughn, and lives in the neighborhood. Cismore, the subject of this sketch, was born October 28, 1818, on the very spot of ground where he now resides. He spent his earlier years in the vicinity of his residence. Mr. Carr remained unmarried until February 23, 1870, when he married Miss Margaret Jane Isgrig, daughter of Madison Isgrig of Missouri. They were married in Missouri, but came to his home in this county at once. They have four children : Christine Jane, Mary Susy, Wilber Jason and Harman. Mr. Carr owns and lives on a number one farm, containing three hundred and ten acres, situated three miles west from Washington, midway between the

Wilmington and Plymouth pike. His house is built on a hill or elevation one hundred or more feet above the town of Washington. This is one of the most beautiful locations for building purposes in the county, being on the divide between the waters of Paint and Sugar creeks. Mr. Carr, all his life, has been a very active, energetic industrious man ; but few men in the county have performed so much hard labor as Mr. Carr. For a number of years past, he has devoted much time and energy in the late fall and early winter in the purchasing and shipment of hogs on commission for Cincinnati parties and elsewhere. Mr. Carr, for years, has had certain interests which has called him west. He has been west thirtyeight times. All of these trips may not have been very remunerative; but some of them most assuredly proved very profitable, for it was thus that Mr. Carr secured a most estimable wife, which certainly is no small thing, especially for an old bachelor to do. In politics he is a Republican.

Jacob Carr

Jacob Carr, farmer and stock raiser, Washington, is a son of Joab and Elizabeth Carr, natives of Virginia. They immigrated to Ohio, on horseback, in 1815 ; came to Fayette County and settled where the subject of this sketch now lives, in 1818; where the father died in 1824, and the mother in 1832. They were the parents of four children - three sons and one daughter : George, married, and living in Clinton County; Joab, married, and living in White County, Indiana; Mary Susan, died in 1832.

Jacob, our subject, was born October 7, 1817, on the spot where he now lives. January 22, 1842, he married Miss Polly Herrod, daughter of Samuel Herrod, of Madison County, Ohio, who raised a large family, all of whom, including the father and mother, are now dead, except Mrs. Carr and one sister.

Mr. and Mrs. Carr have had iiine children - four sons and five daughters - born unto them : Matilda A., wife of William Thornton, of Madison County; Salathiel H., married, and living on the home farm; Elijah Scott, married, and living in Millidgeville, this county. Ellen A., married to Elam Thornton, and living in the neighborhood ; David M., married, and living in the vicinity of his father; Amanda Jane, married, and living in Clinton County; Angeletta, married, and living in the neighborhood, and Susan and

June 2, 1881, the entire family, consisting of father, mother, and nine children, appeared before an artist in Washington, and had their negatives taken for a family pictm^e.

Mr. Carr owns and lives on a most excellent farm, containing one hundred and thirty-one acres, located two miles west of Washington, between the Wilmington and Palmer or Jamestown pikes. Here he has lived all his life, raised his family, and expects to remain the balance of his days. Mr. Carr has never had a law suit, and has never paid a dollar as fees to a lawyer. Was elected assessor of his township in 1855, and has assessed the township fifteen times, and assisted to do the same work five times. Sold pork in the early part of his farm life at one cent per pound, and delivered corn in Washington at ten cents per bushel. In politics he is a Republican, and is a straightforward, honest, truthful man. The family are well-to-do, and much respected by all who have to do with them.

Key. George Carpenter

Rev. George Carpenter,' pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Washington, was born May 9, 1826, near "Carpenter's Mills" on the Olentangy River, Delaware County. His father, Nathan Carpenter, was born in New York, but in 1801, when eleven years of age, the family immigrated to this state, and settled in Delaware County.

In 1811, he was married to Miss Electa Case, whose father's family came originally from New Haven, Connecticut, with the " Worthington colony," in 1803. They had eleven children, three sons and eight daughters.

When the subject of this sketch was eleven years old, his father removed to a farm near Worthington, Franklin County, and his youth was spent in alternately working the farm and attending school. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, in 1851, and in his theological course at Cincinnati, in 1853. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Columbus at Kingstown, Ross County, in the same church where he afterwards ministered as pastor. He served for several months the churches of Tarlton and Amanda; but being laid aside b} sickness for a year, afterwards accepted a call to Kingston, where he was ordained and installed pastor October, 1855 ; he remained there twelve years, when he received and accepted an invitation to Washington where he is still pastor.

Mr. Carpenter was marriod August 10, 1852, to Matilda, daughter of Eev. James Gilruth of Davenport, Iowa ; but formerly a pioneer in this state of the Methodist Church. They have seven children, of whom two daughters - the oldest and the youngest - ^have been called to their rest : Hattie Gilruth, aged twenty-one, and baby Maud, only five months. The eldest son, Willard Bryant, is married and is a practicing physician in Columbus, Ohio. Two sons, George Haywood and Charles Ivynett, and two daughters, Mary, Lisle and Alice Boone are still at home.

Mr. Carpenter has always been prominent in Christian and temperance work. His wife was one of the leaders in the memorable " crusade" against the rumseller.

Albert W. Clouser

Albert W. Clouser, clerk in grocery, was born September 14, 1852, in Ross County, and is a son of David and Eliza Clouser, both natives of this state. They had a family of four children, two sons and two daughters.

Albert, the subject of our sketch, was married the 26th day of November, 1879, to Miss Ida May Stingle, daughter of Robert Stingle, of Washington. He received his education at country schools. His youth was spent in this county, and has lived on a farm all his life until two years ago, since which he has followed civil engineering until about four months ago, when he went into Mr. Millikan's grocery as clerk. In politics is a Republican.

L. C. CofFman, lumber dealer, son of Nathan and Sarah CofFman. Born in this county, January 25, 1840. His parents were natives of this state. They had a family of eight children.

Our subject was married April 4, 1861, to Miss Alsina, daughter of Jackson and Nancy Rodgen, who lived near Good Hope, this county. Mr. Cotfman has a family of six children : Elmira B., Nathen J., Grant, Elwert, Alberta and Lewis C. He be- longs to lodge ISTo. 107, F. A. M. He received his education in Delaware, Ohio, and Washington. He was reared in this county, and w^hen nineteen years of age taught school. At the end of two years he went on his farm and remained there some ten or twelve years, then came to Washington to engage in the pork business. After being in that business for three years he went into the lumber business, in Avhich he still continues successfully. Politically he is a Republican.

Dr. Henry C. Coffman

Dr. Henry C. CotFman, druggist and physician, was born in Ripley, Brown County, Ohio, on the 4th day of August, 1823, and is a son of Henry and Margaret Cotfman. His father is a native Kentucky, and his mother of Pennsylvania. They came to this state about the year 1800, with a family of seven children, four sons and tnree daughters, Henry, the subject of our remarks, was married in 1846, to Miss Mary J. Harlow, daughter of Jonas and Nancy Harlow, of Dublin, Franklin County, Ohio, and have been blessed with a family of eight children, six of whom are living: Jeanette, Marilla, Virogua, Tasso, Harry and Charles, and the two deceased are Angeline and Margaret.

He is a member of Temple Lodge, No. 107, F. A. M., and also of Fayette Lodge, No 227, Odd-fellows, and has been a practicing physician s®me thirty-five years, twenty-five of which has been at Washington, and is extensively engaged in the drug business, and one of the finest in the country. '

He graduated at Columbus, in the year 1850, at the Starling Medical College. He first commenced the practice of medicine at Good Hope, Ohio, without horse, saddle or bridle, with but twentyfive cents in his pocket ; and through his indomitable perseverance and hard work he made some thirty-five thousand dollars, and in one swoop had i| all taken from him; but being a man of perseverance and an iron will, has again gained enough of this world's goods to be easy in life, and to-day does not owe a dollar of personal debts, and is now doing a business both in his store and practice second to none in the county.

James F. Cook

county, October 19, 1854. He is a son of Isaac and Betsey Cook, the former a native of Ohio, and the latter of Virginia. They had a family of nine children - six sons and three daughters, James, the subject of our remarks, was married in 1864 to Miss Mary A. Myers, daughter of John L. and Catherine Myers, of this county. They have a family of five children: Katie M., Lizzie L., Isaac T., James F., and John W.

Mr. Cook enlisted, July, 1861, in the three months service, and went to Camp Chase, where the command was disbanded. In 1862 he enlisted in Company K, 90th O. Y. [., and was commissioned first lieutenant. In 1864 he was promoted to captain, and in 1865 was commissioned as major. Was mustered out of the service, June 13, 1865, at Camp Ilarker, Tennessee. He was at the battles of Stone Biver, Chickamanga, and all the engagements of the Atlanta campaign. He then came back with General Thomas, and was engaged in the battles of Franklin and Nashville.

He returned home and engaged in farming, until 1880, when he was elected sheriflt" of the county, which office he still holds. He is a member of Mount Sterling Lodge No. 269, 1. O. O. F. He received his education in Madison Township, where he was born and raised. His father came to Fayette County in 1814, where he remained until his death, in 1876.

Eli Craig

Eli Craig, county treasurer, Washington, was born in Wajnie Township, Ofiio, January 10, 1833. He is a son of David and Sarah Craig, the former a native of New Jersey, and coming to Ohio about the year 1815, and the latter a native of this state. They were blessed with ten children, six of whom are living.

Eli, our subject, was married June 17, 1858, to Miss May Ann Burnett, daughter of Thomas Burnett, of this county. They have two children, Thomas II. and David S., both grown to manhood.

Mr. Craig is a member of Temple Lodge No. 227, I. O. O. F., and also of the Methodist Church. He received a common school education, and may be classed among the self-made men of our county. He commenced in the mercantile business when but a boy, remaining with his father (who was a cripple) until 1869, since which time, in connection with his brother, he has carried on business very extensively in the I. 0. O. F. building, on Court

Street. He was appointed treasurer in 1872, to fill the unexpired term of John Sayers, and in 1877 was elected to the same office, and re-elected in 1879. His ^^outh, with the exception of some five years, was spent in this county.

Andrew Dewitt

Andrew DeWitt, raiser of fine stock, Washington, was born in Fayette County, August 23, 1813. He is a son of John and Polly DeWitt, the former a native of Kentucky, and the latter of Pennsylvania.. The father came to Ohio about the year 1808, and the mother about the same time. They had a famil}^ of twelve children, ten of whom are living.

Andrew, our subject, was married April 19, 1842, to Miss Elizabeth Hire, daughter of George and Catharine Hire, of Ross County, this state. Twelve children, all living, is the result of this union : Mary C, Samantha, Thomas H., Harvey, Elizabeth E., Joan, John, Hannah B., Martin L., Jennie, Almeda, and George C.

Mr. DeWitt is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He received his eduoRtion in Washington and in Ross Count}", and has spent his whole life in this county. For thirty -five years he has been engaged in raising the Rose of Sharon, Young Mary's, Filicies, Jantha's, and Flora stock of cattle. He is the owner of the horse that produced Ben Hamilton. He is from Alexander Norman and a Denmark mare.

Mr. DeWitt's farm consists of eight hundred and fifty-six acres,, and he is one of the most extensive stock raisers in Ohio. In the pioneer days many wild animals, especially the black bear, inhabited the forests, and on one occasion when on his way home from the Rock Mills, in August, 1822, Mr. DeWitt treed two bears in one tree.

C. L. Curtis

C. L. Curtis, painter and paper-hanger, Washington, was born July 15, 1846, and is a son of Charles and Rachel Curtis, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio about the year 1800. They had a family of four children, two sons and two daughters. Our subject was married, in 1874, to Miss S. J. Kern, daughter of Jeremiah Kern, of Franklin County. The}' have one child, John Clyde.

Our subject enlisted in Compauy A, 3d O. V. L, in 1861, when only fifteen years of age, and remained with it a few weeks, when he was wounded in the hand, on the 6th of April, 1862, at Pittsburgh Landing, and went home on a furlough. When his hand got well he returned to his regiment, and remained until the close of the war. He then went to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and worked at his trade for about six years, when he came to Washington, where he is now permanently located with a partner, doing business under the firm name of Curtis & Barrett. They are both firstclass workmen, and command a large share of the work in the county. He received his education in Pittsburgh, graduated at Dufi;*'s Commercial College, and his life was principally spent in the coal city.

Solomon Walker Ely

Solomon Walker Ely, gardener, Washington, was born in Ross County, October 1, 1825; was married August 23, 1849, to Miss Mary Cory, daughter of Israel Cory, near Frankfort, Ross County; lived in Ross County nineteen years; moved to Washington in 1857, and has remained here until the present time. They were the parents of six children, two of whom died in infancy, and two sons and two daughters living - Joseph N. married, and lives in Missouri; Anson I., whereabouts not known, most probably in Alaska Territory ; Sarah E., single; Nora, married. His wife died -in 1863, and he married for his second wife Mrs. H. A. Atkinson, of Madison County. They have by this marriage one son, twelve years of age, a sprightly lad.

Mr. Ely is a man of intelligence, and possesses a well-stored mind. He has read and thought much. In politics, he is a Republican ; in religion, a Baptist. He owns and lives on a lovely little farm, containing four acres, on the Palmer pike, but a short distance from Washington.

Fred C. Foster

Fred C. Foster, books and stationery, Washington, was born in Butler County, December 29, 1845, and is a son of Adam and Hannah Foster. His father is a native of Germany, and his mother of Ohio. The}' had a family of nine children, four sons and five daughters. Fred C. was married July 15, 1875, to Miss Francis A. Greene, daughter of" Patrick Greene, of Hocking County. They have two children : Mabel C. and Dane D. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He received a common school education in Butler County, where his life was spent until he was twenty-one years of age, when he came to Washington, where he embarked in several different kinds of business, until he finally settled down to the book and stationery business, in which, .with all his opposition, he is doing a flourishing and profitable trade. His place of business is just below the post office, oil Court Street.

John S. Foster

John S. Foster, liverj'man, born in Clermont Count}', Ohio, on the 16th day of June, 1822, and is a son of Thomas and Sarah Foster. His father is a native of Virginia, and his mother of Pennsylvania. They immigrated to this state, in the year 1800, with a family of eight children, two sous and six daughters.

John S., our subject, was married in 1848, to Miss Margaret C. Thompson, daughter of Edward and Susan Thompson, of Thompson's Mills, Brown County, Ohio. They have a family of six cliildren, five of whom are living : Susan T., Sarah B., Kate J., Mollie V., and John K., and one dead, Edward T.

Our subject enlisted as a captain of Fourth Ohio Independent Cavalry, and stood highest of any volunteer cavalry captain in tlie United States service. He has thirty-two regular battles inscribed on his banner; and his company was body guard of General Mc- Pherson for nearly two years, until his death, and in all his battles never witnessed a single defeat. He was mustered out and received an honorable discharge on the 22d of July, 1864. He is a member of Georgetown Lodge, No. 172, F. A. M., also a member of the Methodist Church, and was elected sheriff of Brown County, Ohio, in 1854, and served two years; received his education in Clermont County and at Granville, Ohio. He is now engaged in the livery and sale business at Washington, and has followed auctioneering some twenty years of his life, making a wide-spread reputation and a host of friends, as may be seen from the very extensive business he is engaged in.

J. S. Goldtrap, supervising agent Singer Manufacturing Company, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, July 13, 1844, and is a son of Thomas and Mary M. Goldtrap, both natives of this state, and who had a family of twelve children, all of whom are living but two.

John S., our subject, was educated in Clermont County, where his youth was spent. lie was inarried, February 22, 1873, to Miss Emma B. White, daughter of Dr. R. P. White, o^ Cincinnati; she Avas born May 22, 1854. They have had one child, Bessie May, born April 29, 1878. Mr. Goldtrap is a member of Temple Lodge, No. 227, I. 0. O. F. At present, he is engaged as supervising agent for the Singer Manufacturing Company', with his office on Court Street, opposite the Arlington House, where he is doing an extensive business; his sales amounting to fifteen hundred dollars per month. He handles only the genuine Singer Machine, whose merits are well known all over the Avorld. The sales of the company which he represents, during the year 1880, amounted to 538,609, being two thirds of all the machines sold in the United States, and an increase over their sales of the previous year of 107,442. Mr. Goldtrap keeps a full line of machine attachments, needles, etc., at his office.

Redick Thomas Goodson, farmer and stock-raiser, Washington, is a son of James Goodson, who was a native of North Carolina, but came to Clinton Count}', Ohio, and settled on a farm a short distance north of Sabina,*where he lived and died. He was the father of five children, four sons and one daughter: Ozias, married and moved to Missouri; Elizabeth, twice married, and lives in Greene County ; Belshazzar, married, and lives in Highland County; Everett, died at the age of twelve.

The subject of this sketch was born October 3, 1818, and married Sela Sharp, daughter of John Sharp, who resides near Sabina, Clinton County. Eleven children have been born to them, three sons and eight daughters: Martha Jane, married, and lives in Indiana; John, married, and lives on the home farm; Dicy A., unmarried, and died at the age of twenty-five; Mary, married, and deceased; Keziah, married, and lives in the neigliborhood; Belle, married, and lives near her father's residence; Lydia, Rebecca, Moab, and Rosetta, single, and remain at liome with their parents. Mr. Goodson owned and lived on a farm in Clinton County for some twentj^'-tive years, situated two miles south from Sabina, on the Greenlield pike. Kine years ago he disposed of that farm, and purchased the one where he now resides, known as the Fultz farm, being three miles west from Washington, on the south side of the Plymouth pike. This farm contains one hundred and nineteen acres, in a good state of cnkivation, and is one of the many excellent farms of this township. He paid eighty dollars per acre for this farm, and considers it a bargain at that price. In politics he is a Republican, and in religion a Methodist. A well-to-do and much-respected family. He is without an early education, but a man of sense and excellent judgment,

Thomas F. Gardner

Thomas F. Gardner, editor, Washington, was born in Newmarket, Ohio, February 18, 1832, and is a son of Beth and Elma S. Gardner, natives of Ohio, Avho had a family of three sons: George B., Mills, and Thomas F., our subject, who was married August 4, 1852, to Miss Susan Evans, daughter of Richard and Isabella Evans, of Washington. They have three children : Nannie B. and Charles F., living, and one who died in infancy.

Our subject enlisted in the 1st Ohio Cavalry, and after getting his hand broken was discharged, and afterward re-enlisted in a company of sharpshooters in the 60th Regiment, in front of Petersburg, where he remained until the close of the war, then he received an honorable discharge at Cleveland, in 1865, when the general discharge was made.

In 1849, he. and his brother published a paper, the present Register, and when he was away he left his brother in charge of it. He afterward sold out to Pierce, who died, when the paper went into the hands of Samuel Pike, and he sold to W. G. Gould, and he to Beesley & Simmons, when Beesley died, and the administrator sold it to H. V. Kerr, who has since departed this life, and the paper is still continued by his son.

resigned on going into the army. After returning home he engaged in different kinds of mercantile business, until he started the paper of which he is now the editor. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Received his education while working at his trade, not having the advantages of the schools, and stands to-day among our self-made men, an honor to any one. His youth was spent at Newmarket. In politics he is a staunch Republican.

Ace Gregg

Ace Gregg, judge common pleas court, Washington, was born October 4, 1845, in Jefferson Township, and is a sou of John F. and Mary J. Gregg, both natives of Ohio, who have a family of six children, three sons and three daughters.

Ace, the subject of our sketch, was married, in the year 1871, to Miss Amelia J. Jones, daughter of Reuben and Matilda Jones, of Bloomingburg. He is a member of Temple Lodge No. 227, I. O. O. F., Washington, and also a member of the Royal Arcanum. He received his education in the Normal School at Lebanon, and his law lectures at Ann Arbor, Michigan University. Read law at Washington, with Hon. M. J. Williams, and commenced practice in the year 1870, under the firm name of Gregg & Corcoran, until 1880. During his practice he was prosecuting attorney for six years. He was elected judge of the common pleas court in the fall of 1880, and went on the bench on the first Monday in November, 1880, where he now presides.

0. M. Grubbs, blacksmith, Washington, was born August 30, 1823, in this county. He is a son of Stephen and Diana Grubbs, - both natives of Ohio, - who were the parents of eight children, seven of Avhom are living: Sarah, Oliver, Lorena, Harriet, Eliza, Manford, Louis, and Thomas, deceased.

Oliver, our subject, was married May 14, 1856, to Mary Jane, daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth Patton, of this county, who has borne him three children : Henry, Percival, and Jessie R.

M. B. Grubbs, contractor and builder, Washington, son of Stephen and Diana Grubbs, was born in Washington C. H., February 21, 1838. His father was a native of Virginia, and his mother of Ohio. They had a family of eight children.

Manford, our subject, was married, July 31, 1860, to Miss Ella D., daughter of Moses and Rebecca Adams of New Holland, Pickaway County. Five children are the fruits of this union : Werter, Charles, Stephen, Bessie, and Mamie. Mr. Grubbs was reared in this county, and taught school for ten or twelve years. In politics he is a Republican.

Horace L. Iiadley

Horace L. Hadley, attorney at law, Washington, was born in Sandwich, N. H. His father and mother, Withrop and Sybil Hadley, were natives of New Hampshire, where they still reside. They had a family of ten children, eight of whom are living.

Horace L., the subject of our remarks, was married September 1, 1868, to Miss S. Lizzie Emmerson, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Emmerson, of Massachusetts. They have one child, Olivia B. H. L.

On the 26tli of August, 1862, Mr. Hadley enlisted in Company C, 5th Massachusetts, Col. Pearson commanding, and was mustered into the service on the 16th of October, following. This was a nine months regiment, but they were in the service nearly a year before they were mustered out, which was in the middle of July, 1863.

He read law with the Hon. Sidney C. Bancroft, until he went into the army, and after his discharge he went to Salem, Massachusetts, and linished his studies with Perry and Endicut. Mr. Endicut is now Supreme Judge of Massachusetts, and Mr. Perry, author of the celebrated law book, " Perry on Trust," is now dead. Mr. Hadley was admitted to the bar on the 16th of September, 1863, the year following his enlistment, at Newburyport, Massachusetts. He first located and commenced practice, November, 1863, at Daufers, Massachusetts, where he continued until April 1, 1870. He then came to Ohio, and since October 1, 1874, he has been .practicing in Wasliington, under the firm name of Maynard & Hadley, a firm well known in Fayette and surrounding counties as one which stands at the head of the profession. In 1881, was elected representative from Fayette County.

E. C. Hamilton

E. C. Hamilton, dentist, was born in Springfield, Ohio, December 23, 1836, and is a son of Henry A., and Sarah A. Hamilton, of Greene County, Ohio, who had a family of six children, and were natives of Maryland.

1862, to Miss Amanda Wright, daughter of G. W. Wright, of Xenia, Ohio. She died in December, 1864, leaving one child, George E. He was again married, in 1869, to Miss Lucy E. Stoddard, of Wooster University, by whom he had four children: Mary L., Grace M., Stodard C, and Karl M.

1863. He then went to Cincinnati where he remained practicing dentistry until 1865, when he came to Washington where he has remained. He has been a practicing dentist for twenty-three years, enough to speak for his proficiency in the business. He is a member of Temple Lodge No. 227, I. 0. 0. F., also of the Presbyterian Church.

William H. Hammer

William II. Hammer, carpenter, a son of George and Mary Hammer, uatives of Virginia, was born October 12, 1840, and is one of a family of twelve.

He was married January 19, 1871, to Miss Mellie, daughter of James G., and Telithe Jolly, of Lomberton, Clinton County, Ohio. Mr. Hammer is the father of five children : Howard E., Pearl B., Leota, Georgianna, and Claud H.

He enlisted in the 25th ISTorthern Virginia Kegiment, C. S. A., under Generals Lee and Jackson, and was engaged in thirty-two battles; some of the most important, of which, were Ridge Moun- tain, Alleghany Monntain, Winchester, etc. At Spottsylvania C. H., Virginia, after having been three years in the confederate army, he was taken prisoner, and was coniined at Point Lookout three months, and Elmyra, Xew York, twelve months. He was never, wounded or sick while in the army.

He is a member of the Masonic Order, and of the Presbyterian Church. He was reared and educated in Virginia, where he lived until his removal to Ohio, March 20, 1867.

Joseph S. Harris

Joseph S. Harris, Washington, was born in Clinton County, March 11, 1849. His father, James Harris, is a native of Ohio, and is now living with his second wife, in Clarke County. He had eight children by his first wife, two of whom died in infancy: Aman J., married, and lives in Yellow Springs, Greene County ; Anna, married, and lives in Clinton County; George H., single, and lives on a farm in Missouri ; Arthur W., single, living near Yellow Springs.

The subject of this sketch was married to Miss Lucinda Wright, daughter of Merritt Wright, of Xenia, September 28, 1871, and soon after their marriage commenced house-keeping in Xenia. They have three children, two sons and one daughter : Edgar W., John McCling, and Clara A. At the age of sixteen Mr. Harris commenced to learu the marble and monument business with Mr. Dodds, of Yellow Springs, in the year 1863. In 1864 Mr. Dodds moved to Xenia, where he opened up a more extensive business. Mr. Harris remained in his employ until 1866, when he enlisted in the regular army for three years, served out his time, and was honorably discharged. He at once returned home, and resumed his place with Mr. Dodds in the monument business, continuing with him until 1876, when he set np in business for himself at Xenia, and continued until March, 1880, when he returned to Washington, and opened a marble and granite establishment, which has steadily increased until the present time.

D. M. Hays, agriculturist, Washington, was born in Ross County, August 1, 1824, and is a son of James, jr., and Margaret Hays, and grandson of James Hays, sen., who was grandfather to President

Hayes. Grandfather James jr's father was a native of Kentucky, and his mother of Ohio. They had a family of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, all living.

The subject of our sketch is the eldest of the family, and was married, in 1848, to Miss Rebecca Mann, daughter of David and Harriet Mann, of this state. They have a family of six children living: Harriet E., Joseph A., Addison N., Margaret M., John B., and Alice D.; and six dead: James D., John W., George W., and two who died in infancy.

Mr. Hays is a member of Bloomingburg Lodge N'o. 449, F. & A. M., and also a member of the Grange, l^o. 599 ; he is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife was called from him by death last August, after living together for thirty-three years. He now owns a farm of one hundred and twenty-four acres in this township, well cultivated, and is one of the thorough-going and enterprising farmers of the county. He received his education in Pike County, where his youth was principally spent. He is now extensively engaged in the agricultural implement business, and is doing his full share of the business in Washington.

Bomen Hess, undertaker, Washington, was born in Clinton County, August 20, 1838, and is a son of Fuller and Mary Hess, natives of Pennsylvania, who immigrated to Ohio in the year 1833, with a family of one child, Bomen, our subject, who was married in January, 1860, to Miss Sarah C. Cochran, daughter of Robert and Sarah Cochran, of Adams County. They are blessed with three children : Mary, Robert, and Elvira.

Mr. Hess is a member of Temple Lodge No. 227, I. O. O. F,, and of Fayette Lodge No. 107, F. & A. M. He received his education in Washington, where the principal portion of his youth was spent. He has for the past six years been engaged in the business of undertaker at Washington, and is doing the principal portion of the business. He is a man generally known and well beloved by all who know him, hence his extensive business.

Ephraim Henkle

parents were natives of Virginia. Thej came to Oliio in an early day, and located on the waters of main Paint Creek, one mile and a half above Washington. Here the subject of this sketch was born, April 23, 1818. At the age of ten his mother died, and from that time up to the present, Mr. Henkle has had to care for himself (the father abandoning the family).

He married Miss Mary S. Carr, daughter of Joshua Carr, March 12, 1840. In 1848 he bought seventy-eight acres of land in this township, some three miles west from the town of Washington, paying eight dollars per acre for the same. He at once removed to this farm, and has remained there until the present time.

Mrs. Henkle died March 4, 1871. They were the parents of ten children, live sons and iive daughters: Ellen, died when a young woman, in the twenty-second year of her age; Mary Jane, married James A. Bush, and lives on her ftither's farm; William L., married, and lives on his farm in the neighborhood; Jason F., is thirtyfour vears of age, married to his second wife, and living in the town of Jasper. He is an ordained minister of the gospel in the Methodist Protestant Church, has been in the regular pastoral work for nearly six years, and is now serving his church in that relation at home, where he was born and raised. Noah S. is single, remaining at home with his fatlier, and cultivating a portion of the home farm, Joel E. is married, and lives on his" own farm in the neighborhood. Jesse C. is married, and lives in Madison County. Catharine J. is married, and lives in Jasper Township. Amanda S. is married, and lives in Bainbridge, Boss County. Almeda Lorena is single, and keeps house for her father.

Probably no man in the county has been more successful in the raising of a good family of children than Mr. Henkle. He has seen them all grown up to manhood and womanhood, kind, honest, industrious, religious (all being members of the Methodist Protestant Church). He has always been a public-spirited man, a man of enterprise and activity. For many years he served the county as infirmary director, giving the most perfect satisfaction, and for four years acted as assessor of the township. Although over age, yet at the earnest request of his many friends, he served as captain in the hundred days' service, and was taken prisoner at Cynthiaha, Kentucky. He owns a most excellent farm of one hundred and sixty acres, where he resides, paying as high as one hundred dollars per acre, without any buildings, for a portion of it. This is one of the best farms of its size in the county.

Michael Herbert

Michael Herbert, banker, Washington, was born near the city ©f Limerick, Ireland, September 25, 1829. As regards his genealogy, he has learned sufficient to know that it is considerably mixed, composed of various fonts, consisting of German-English and Spanish-French blood. On his father's side the former prevails; on his mother's, the latter. He received his school education in the "Emerald Isle." With his father's family he emigrated to Canada in 1840. He was early " thrown upon his own resources." He commenced the study of the printing business at London, Canada West, in 1842. In May, 1850, he left Canada, and migrated to Cincinnati, where he remained, pursuing his studies of "the art preservative," until November, 1855. He then came to Washington, this county, and accepted the foremauship of the office of the Washington Register. He had previously, during his sojourn in Cincinnati, become intimately acquainted with the editor of that paper, Mr. Elgar B. Pearce, they having "set 'em up" on various journals during their stay in the Queen City, and at case they did labor together.

In April, 1861, he dropped "the stick and rule," and "fought, bled, and died for his country" during the three months' "sojer" campaign, as many great heroes have done in cases of similar " unpleasantness," and long afterward partook of regular rations ! At the close of that ever-to-be-remembered, though brief campaign, owing to physical disability under which he then labored, he abandoned "the profession of arms," and again resumed the duties of his position on the Begisfer. During his connection with that journal in the capacity mentioned, he performed considerable dut}^ in the chair editorial, - wrote for and contributed largely to its columns.

In January, 1866, he commenced to act as clerk (book-keeper) in the First National Bank of Washington (which corporation became a private banking institution, styled and known as the Peoples and Drovers Bank, in April, 1878). In 1868 he was appointed teller of the bank, and at present writing (September, 1881,) still officiates in that position. He states that though he has handled millions of cash, he yet finds dollars of 1804 very scarce !

As a voyager on life's stormy sea, Mr. Herbert " pursues the even tenor of his way" in the endeavor to discharge, as best he can, and as seems to him right and proper, the various duties devolving upon iiim, feeling that "Time will make all things right," e'en though -

Thomas Hildenbrand

Thomas Hildenbrand, farmer, Washington, was born in Jackson County, Ohio, March 13, 1847. He is a son of George and Rachel Hildenbrand, both natives of this state. They had a family of ten children, all living but three.

Thomas, the subject of om- sketch, enlisted in September, 1864, in Company E, 179th O. V. I., and was mustered out June 17,1865, at Columbus. He came here from Jackson County, in tlie year 1879, and is now living on his farm some three miles north of Washington.

Joseph Hidy

Joseph Hidy, attorney-at-law, Washington, was born in this county, August 23,1854. He is a son of Urban and Mary A. Hidy, natives of Ohio, who reared a family of five children, two dead and three living.

Joseph, the subject of our sketch, is a member of the Jefl'ersonville lodge of Freemasons. He received his education at the common school, and then took a philosophical course, receiving the degree of bachelor of philosophy at Buchtel College, Akron, this state. He then went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, and t9ok a collegiate course, graduating in the spring of 1878. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1878, and commenced practice the following May, under the firm name of Savage and Hidy.

and is a son of Jeffrey and Catherine Ilorneri He was a native of North Carolina, and immigrated to this county, in 1805, she of Virginia, and came here in 1815. The family consisted of nine children.

W. J. Horney, onr subject, was married, in 1853, to Sallie A. McMillen, daughter of John and Martha McMilleu, of this county. The marriage has been blessed with four children: Edwin E., Ida F., Eugene W., and Mary C, all living, two others dying in infancy.

He, during the "late unpleasantness," assisted in driving Morgan back to Kentucky. He was first lieutenant of Company G, 168th O. V. I., and is a member of Pleasant View Baptist Church. He received his education in this county, where his youth was spent, and is now serving his second term as count}^ commissioner, and owns three hundred and twenty-five acres of land near Jetfersonville. (See JefiPerson Township.)

R. C. Hunt

R. C. Hunt, civil engineer, was born, December 1, 1851, in Warren County, Kentucky, and is a son of Weldon and Nanc}^ Hunt. His father is a native of Korth Carolina, his mother of Kentucky. They had a family of nine children.

E. C. Hunt was married, the 16th of February, 1881, to Miss Lida Saxton, a daughter of George Saxton, of Washington. He has been a civil engineer for ten years, and still holds that position. He received his education at Cave Springs Academy, in Logan County, Kentucky; studying civil engineering at the same place. His office is located on Court Street, Washington.

George C. Jenkins

George C. Jenkins, grocer, was born in Franklin, Eoss County, Ohio, i^ovember 13, 1842, and is a son of James M. and Sarah Jenkins. His father is a native of Ohio, and his mother of Pennsylvania ; they had a fiimily of four children.

Our subject, the only son, was married December 14, 1869, to Miss Mary E. McLean, daughter of Joseph McLean, of this county ; they have four children : Mertie M., Dio L., Lucy D., and Harvey G., all living.

the 21st Illinois Infantry, and served with this regiment some two months, and then was attached to the 2d Illinois Light Artillery, where he served two and a half years ; when he was promoted to second lieutenant in 1st Alabama cavalry, U, S. V., and was again promoted to captain ; when on the 10th of March, 1865, he w^as wounded, in the battle of Monroe's cross roads, in the left arm and right instep, which kept him off duty some three months'; when he returned to his command on the 3d of July, 1865. This was the last regular engagement he was in, and after serving four years, five months and one day, he was, on the 20th of October, 1865, honorably discharged. He was in twenty-seven regular engagements, besides hundreds of minor battles. He is a member of the Methodist Church, also of the Grand Army of the Republic. He received his education at Washington, where his youth was spent. He is now engaged in the grocery business, of which he has his full share of patronage.

Solomon F. Johnson

Solomon F. Johnson, coal dealer and farmer, is the son of Thomas T. and Mary Johnson, who were natives of Virginia ; but came with their parents to this state, in an" early day, when they were quite young. His father first settled in Greene County, and his mother in Warren County. After their marriage they removed to Springfield Illinois, where they remained some three years ; when they removed to the State of Indiana and remained a short time, then they returned to Ohio and settled in Fayette County, where the mother died, at the age of seventy-two, and the father at the advanced age of eighty. They were the parents of seven children, four daughters and three sons. Anna, married to Simeon Creamer, now deceased. She remains a widow and lives near the line of Clinton and Fayette counties. Rachel died at the age of tw^elve. Amos Thornburg, married and lives in Jacksonville, Oregon. Martha was unmarried, and died in Springfield, Illinois, at the age of eighteen. Lj'^dia married for her first husband Wesley Creamer, and after his decease, she married Mathias Sheeley for her second husband. She is a resident of this county. William Todd married and moved to the State of Iowa some years ago.

Mary Creamer, July 19, 1846, daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth Creamer of this county. The mother died in 1842, and the lather in 1865. Mrs. Johnson descends from a most excellent family. Mr. Johnson was engaged in the mercantile business in Jamestown, Greene County, Ohio, from 1846 to 1849, when he sold outhismerr cantile business and moved to tliis county, where he has continuously resided until the present time.

Mr. Johnson spent several years, after his removal to this county, in farming, and selling goods and groceries in JeiFersonville and West Lancaster.

In 1857, he moved to Washington, and was engaged in the grain and grocery business until April, 1858, when he became deputy sheriff of the county, which otSce consumed his time up to August, I860,* when on the third day of that month, he was appointed station agent for the the town of Washington, by the Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville. Railroad Company, now known as the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Eailroad. In a very short time after his appointment as railroad agent, he was appointed agent of the Adams Express Company, which position he held for some fourteen years. Mr. Johnson held the position of railroad agent, at Washington, for seventeen years ; resigning August 3, 1877.

In 1862, he commenced the selling of coal in Washington, and has continued in the business up to the present time. For many years he was the only dealer in coal in the town, and few men here handled so large an amount of coal as has Mr. Johnson. The year previous to Mr Johnson's commencing the coal business, only forty five car loads of coal were required to supply the trade of the town. Mr. Johnson has seen such an increase in the coal demand, that more than one thousand car loads have been disposed of in a single year. Mr. Johnson has always been considered a safe, honest and reliable business man ; giving strict attention to business, and as a result, has accumulated quite an amount of valuable property. He owns a fine farm of one hundred and fifty acres adjoining the town, west, on the C. & M. V. Railroad. Also, a very fine new brick residence, where he resides, on North Street, between Court and East streets ; also, quite a number of valuable pieces of property in the town ; as well as some fifty-nine hundred dollars of bank stock, in the Peoples and Drovers Bank of the town.

whom are deceased: Theresa and Willie died in infancy, Clara Bell at the age of twelve, Laura at the age of fifteen, and !N"ellie at the age of twelve.

Theodore Frank is a young man of much promise. He remains single and takes good care not to leave his mother's bed and board. He has been connected with the Peoples and Drovers Bank of Washington for a number of years, and is regarded as a safe, upright business young man. He received his education in the schools of the town.

Lucy May and Emma Gary, arc young ladies, both single and at home with their parents; both being graduates of the high school of the town, and much respected by all.

Felix H. Knott

Felix H. Knott, physician and surgeon, Washington, was born in Fayette County, February 21, 1851. He is a son of Ananias and Mary Knott, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio about the year 1845, with a family of five children, two sons and three daughters.

Felix, our subject, was married in 1871, to Miss Samantha De- Witt, daughter of Anderson and Elizabeth DeWitt, of this county. They have a family of two children, Lulu and Wallace.

Mr. Knott received his education in Cincinnati, at the Eclectic Medical College, where he graduated in 1871. He commenced practicing in 1869, and practiced at Monticello, Illinois, for some three years and a half. After this he settled in Washington, where he has since resided. He commenced reading medicine at the age of twelve, with his father, who was also a physician, at Monticello, Illinois. He had accumulated quite a nice property, and had money upon which to live comfortably, but upon account of his wife's health was compelled to leave there at considerable of a sacrifice. At one time he lost $7,000, going security. By faithfulness to business he has gained a practice and reputation second to none.

Shep. Logan, deputy clerk, Washington, was born in Washington, October 21, 1853. He is a son of Wilson B. and Mary V. Logan, both natives of this state. They had a family of four children, three sons and one daughter : James W., Sina V., Clayton C, and Shep.

Shep., our subject, has been deputy county clerk some four years, and now tills that position. He received his education in Washington, where the principal portion of his life has been spent. His father was captain of Company D, 175th O. Y. I., and was, killed at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, on the 30th of November,' 1864, after passing through all the hard-fought and bloody battles up to that time.

Martha E. Long

Mrs. Martha E. Long, daughter of George and Mary Bohrer (whose biographies appear in the history of Marion Township), was born May 1, 1821. Her father, wiien she was three years of age, removed to Washington, where the family resided until 1828. They then removed to New Holland, Pickaway County, where Mr. Bohrer died.

August 5, 1846, she was married to Alexander Long, of Chillicothe, (born January 26, 1818,) and soon after began house-keeping at j^ew Holland, where her husband followed his trade of harness-making for twenty years. They afterward kept hotel at that place for several years. They were blessed with four children: Alice, born January 18, 1848; George A., born July 25, 1850; Sallie L., born December 8, 1854; and Lucy J., born October 11, 1860. Alice died April 24, 1849, at the age of fifteen months. Sallie L. died January 1, 1878.

After her husband's death, Mrs. Long remained in jSTew Holland five years, when she removed to Warsaw, Indiana, where she engaged in the hotel business. She remained in that state till 1870, and then returned to Ohio, and again opened a private boardinghouse, which she still continues on West Court Street.

Mrs. Long is widely known throughout the eounty as an exemplary lady, and her generosity has become proverbial. No weary, destitute traveler goes from her door unfed ; and, although having a family of her own to provide for, yet thirteen homeless children have found an asylum beneath her hospitable roof, several of whom have grown to maturity and married.

Mrs. Long's latter days have been saddened by the death of her son George, who departed this life February 7, 1881. He was educated at New Holland and Bloomingburg, and afterwards followed the trade of blacksmithing, and later that of sign painting. He belonged to Company B, 6th regiment Ohio National Guards, and was a member of the I. 0. O. F., by which order he was buried.

We append the resolutions of respect to his memory from both of these orders, with an obituary notice from the Fayette County Repuhllcav, which show the esteem in which he was held by those who knew him best :

" On Monday morning George Long breathed his last, after suffering long with consumption. George was a good-hearted young man, who possessed many excellent qualities, and while his health permitted was industrious to a great degree. And could he have lived in the enjoyment of good health, his genius would have secured for him a reputation as an artist to which but few attain. George was in the thirty-first year of his age, and until the last three or four years his prospects for a long life were as flattering as those of any young man in our city. George had many warm friends, and was universally respected by our citizens. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd-fellows, and by which order he was buried, in the family cemetery at New Holland, Pickaway County, Thursday afternoon."

Resolutions Of Respect

At the meeting of the committee appointed from Company B, 6th regiment O. N. G., to prepare resolutions relative to the death of Corporal "George Long, the following were offered by Orderly Sergeant Maynard, and adopted :

Hesolved, That an escort of a non-commissioned officer and twelve privates - as prescribed by regulations - be sent with the remains of the deceased.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be given to the Washington C. H, papers for publication, and a copy of the same transmitted to the family of the deceased.

Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in his providence to remove from earth our friend and Brother, George A. Long, at Washington C. H., February 7, 1881, aged thirty years; therefore, be it

Joshua Mahan

Joshua Mahan, county commissioner, was born in Boss County, Ohio, December 18, 1836, and a son of Joshua and Sophia Mahan. His father is a native of Virginia, and his mother of Maryland. They came to this state about the year 1813, with a family of three children, one son and two daughters.

He is a member of Bloomingburg Lodge, No. 449, F. A. M., and also a Granger. He received his education in Ross County, where his youth was spent. He was elected county commissioner last fall two years ago, and still fills that office. He has one of the many fine farms in Madison Township, and is one of the best and most enterprising farmers in the county. He is a very social, pleasant man, and one who is well qualified to fill the responsible position he now holds. (See Madison Township.)

C. H. Mark

C. H. Mark, principal of the high school, was born in this county, November 13, 1852. He is a son of Thomas H. and Sina Mark, natives of this state, who have a family of three children.

C. H. Mark, the subject of our sketch, was married, October 7, 1875, to Miss Mary E. Guthrie, a step-daughter of Dr. McAfee, of Staunton, this county. They have one child, Ernest G.

Our subject is a member of the Methodist Church. He received his education in country schools, but attended the National Normal School at Lebanon two years, in 1872 and 1873.

When but sixteen years of age he commenced teaching school, and is now the principal of the high schools of Washington. He is a self-made man, and by his genial disposition has endeared himself to all who know him.

Henry Mark

Henry Mark, farmer and stock raiser, is a son of Henry and Naoma Mark, who came from Pennsylvania, in 1815, and settled on the west bank of Sugar Creek. They were the parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters. Cynthia A., married and lives in Leesburg, Highland County, this state. Anthony W., married and lives in Edgar County, Illinois. Mary, married to Stephen Stafi:brd and lives near Staunton. Harriet, married but is dead. Lewis H., married and resides in the neighborhood. Hulda Jane, married and lives with her father. Rachel, married to John Conner and lives in the neighborhood.

Henry, our subject, was born November 29, 1834, and married Amanda A. Eoue, daughter of Martin and Sophia Rone, (whose biography appears in this book,) April 15, 1857. 'Soon after their marriage, they commenced house-keeping on the farm, located on the east side of Sugar Creek, where they have continuously resided until the present time.

They have had ten children born unto them, three sons and seven daughters': Alice, Joseph E., Eliza J., Ada S., Annie, died in infancy ; Naoma J., Charles E., Miriam, died in infancy ; Frederick M., and Mary E. The children living are all at home with their parents except Joseph E., temporarily absent, attending school at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio.

Mr. Marks owns a very valuable farm of one hundred and fiftyone acres where he lives. A short time since, he erected a residence, which he occupies, at a cost of more than four thousand dollars. He owns a valuable farm of one hundred and twenty-six acres, on the south side of the Wilmington pike, about one mile west from Sugar Creek, in Concord Township. Also, another farm of eighty-one acres on Sugar Creek.

Our subject has been remarkably successful in all his efforts of life. He has attended to his one legitimate business, that of farming and stock raising, through high and low prices, used good judgment and practiced economy.

Horatio B. Maynard

Horatio B. Maynard, attorney at law, Washington, was born in Holden, Massachusetts, October 12, 1826. He is a son of John P. Maynard, born in Westborough, Massachusetts, 1792, (his father, Benjamin, was born in 1761,) and Roxy, born in Holland, Massachusetts, 1798. They had a family of five children, and still live in their native state.

Our subject was married at Washington, in 1856, to Miss Kesiah Blakemore, daughter of William H. and Ann W. Blakemore. They have a family of seven children : Hulbert B., John P., Wal-

In August, 1862, Mr. Maynard enlisted in the 114th O. V. I., and resigned in February, 1863. He was in the battles of Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas Post, etc. He was prosecuting attorney of Fayette County in 1868-9, and is now a member of the legal profession under the firm-name of Maynard & Hadley, He was educated in Ludlow, Vermont, and passed his youth in New Hampshire. Was for two years assistant superintendent of the Black River Academy, of .Vermont.

Thomes McElwain, attorney-at-law, is the son of William and Maria C. McElwain, ?iee Nye, who were born in Kentucky. Our subject was born July 24, 1843, in Washington. He attended the public schools of that place nntil the war broke out, when he volunteered as a private in Company A, 1st Ohio Cavahy, served three years, and was honorably discharged. After his return home, he was married to Miss Lydia K. Davis, in 1867, since which he has continued in the practice of law in the place of his nativity.

Joseph McLean, farmer, Washington, was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, June 21. 1803, and came to Ohio in 1806, locating in Ross County with the family, where they remained till February, 1810, when they came to this county and township, where he has since lived, save three years, when he served an apprenticeship with a cabinet-maker. He was married, March 5, 1829, to Lucinda Shobe, who has borne him five sons and three daughters. Four of the sons have passed to a better land.

Mr. McLean was a cabinet-maker until seventeen years after his marriage, when he removed to his farm. He has served as fund commissioner, infirmary director, township trustee, clerk, and treasurer. His official career was honest, upright, aud public-spirited. He was reared in the Presbyterian faith, being a member of that denomination until 1849, when he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he has since been associated. He was a member of the Sons of Temperance during the existence of that organ- ization. He is one of Fayette's pioneers, and has many warm friends and a respected family. Mr. McLean has contributed largely to this work, for which he will be held in grateful remembrance by the compilers and patrons.

Judge Daniel McLean, banker, Washington, is a son of Duncan and Elizabeth (McGarraugh) McLean, and was born October 3, 1805. His father is a native of Scotland, his .mother of Pennsylvania. They came to Ohio in 1805, accompanied by three children, He died when Daniel was but three years of age.

On the 20th of E"ovember, 1829, our subject married Helena Boyd, daughter of John and Macy Boyd, of Highland County. The family consists of four children : John, Duncan, Joseph M., and Mary; Elizabeth, Sarah, and Mary J., deceased.

He is a member of Fayette Lodge 'No. 107, and Chapter 103, F. & A. M., and Ely Commandery No. 28. He received his education in a log school house. Was appointed associate judge by the governor, and afterward by the legislature. He was regarded as an honest and upright judge, and his decisions gave general satisfaction. He was county surveyor for a period of ten .years, and has filled other offices of public trust. He is now president of the Peoples and Drovers Bank (formerly First National Bank), and can generally be found in the bank during banking hours. The judge is a self-made man, closely identified with the progress made by the community, and beloved and esteemed by all who know him.

To the generous contributions of Judge McLean, his uniform courtesy, and vast fund of information, which under all circumstances he was ever ready to give, we are indebted for the greater part of the pioneer history of this county.

Hon. John L. Myers

Hon. John L. Myers, farmer. Homer, Champaign County, Illinois, was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, on the 7th of August, 1803, being a son of Samuel and Ehzabeth S. Myers. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and was born June 11, 1776, just twenty-two days prior to the Declaration of Independance. His mother was born in Shepherdstown, Virginia, in the Shenandoah