Pleasant Township (part 11 of 18)

DAVID R. LUCAS, fm-mer. P. O West Jefferson, is a son of John and a grandson of Capt. Thomas Lucas. The latter was a native of Ireland, but, prior to the war of Independence, he, with one brother, came to America, and became a patriot in the great conflict that soon followed. His efficiency as a soldier soon gained for him the commission of Captain, in which rank he served through the struggle. He then married and settled in Franklin County. Penn., where he died at an advanced age. During his life, he obtained a grant for a survey of military land in Ohio, but never settled on it. His family consisted of six children, two of whom, one son and one daughter, settled in Sonth Carolina, where their posterity still reside. Three daughters, and John, the youngest, came to Ohio. The girls settled in Franklin County, and John in Madison, about the year 1835. He married Eliza McAfee, a native of Franklin County, Penn., of Scotch parentage. On coming to Madison County, he settled in Jefferson Town- ship, on the military laud of his father. He ever after remained a resident and farmer of this township, and at his death he owned nearly four hundred acres. He was a hardy and well constitutioned pioneer. He and his wife were for a number of years members of the Presbyterian Church . They both died in 1855. They had a family of seven children, three of whom are now living, viz., Anna, wife of F. C Kuaga, of Jackson County, Mo.; James and David R., both of Madison County, Ohio. David li., the youngest, was born in 1836, on the farm he now owns, and where he has ever since resided. He is by occupation a farmer and stock-raiser, and owns 350 acres of good land, under a high state of cultivation and well improved. He is an enterprising citizen, and has officially been associated with the Board of Township Trustees and Board of Education. He is manifesting a special interest in the education of his children, who are six living and four deceased. Mr. Lucas was married, in 1862, to Miss Maria Thompson, of Delaware County, Ohio.

W. T. McCOY, liveryman, Jefferson, is the proprietor of the only livery stable in the village. He keeps a good class of rigs, which are always found in good repair. His business is pleasantly located in the rear of the Mantle Hotel. Mr. McCoy is a native of Harrison County, Ohio, but, since the centennial year, has been a resident of Jefferson, and. since 1878. has carried on the livery business. He was elected Township Assessor in the spring of 1882. His military life amounted to about two years, nine months of which he was a prisoner at Andersonville and other rebel prisons. His wife was Hattie Huggett. of Franklin County, Ohio.

JACOB McNEAL, carriage manufacturer, Notary Public and conveyancer, Jefferson, is a son of Jacob. Sr. , and Matilda (Fought) Mc- Neal. both natives of Pennsylvania, where they matured and married. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and she of German. They came to Ohio an May. 1S:57. with a family of nine children. The great National pike was then completed to about the center of Madison County, Ohio. They had traveled the road many miles, and had not decided where they would settle until they reached Jefferson. There learning that they were nearing the end of the great road, they thought they could not leave such a convenience, and accordingly located a short distance west of Jefferson, where he purchased a well-improved farm of 120 acres. He remained on the farm a number of years, but finally removed to Jefferson and engaged in the grc eery busiuess. which he followed until his death. He was a good citizen, and. at the time of Ids death, was serving his twelfth term as Township Trustee. His widow still survives, at the age of seventy -seven years. Of their nine children, our subject, who was the only son. has now five sisters living. Jacob. Jr., was the second child. He was born in Cumberland County, Penn., December 16, 1825, but, from a boy of twelve years he lived in Ohio. His father, different from some men. regarded ;i trade an indispen Bable possession, and accordingly had Jacob to commence learning the trade of his choice at the age of eighteen years. He served his apprenticeship in Jefferson with John Mc( Yea. and completed his trade in 1846, since which he has conducted a business of his own. and is now the only manufacturer of the kind in the village. He employs usually about seven hands He has served as Township Clerk several terms, and has been otherwise connected with the interests of the township. At present, he is a Notary Public and conveyancer. He and wife have a family of five children living and four deceased. Mrs, McNeal is a daughter of the venerable pioneer, Nehemiah (rates, elsewhere mentioned in this volume

REV. B. M. MULLER, Catholic priest, Jefferson, was born March SI, L850, in Bavaria, Germany, and came to America in May, 1853. Hiear]} training wan in accordance with the Catholic Church, and in L862 he was confirmed, and received his first, communion at St. Francis De Sale's Church, on East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. His college education was acquired at St. Francis Gymnasium, Cincinnati, Ohio. His philosophical and theological education was received in Mt. St. Mary's Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he received minor orders at the hands of the Rt. Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, Bishop of Little Rock, Ark , on September 21, 1S71. He was ordained Sub-Deacon April 5, and Deacon April 6, L872, and priest March 8, 1873, by the .Most Rev. -J. \>. Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio. On the 11th of the same month, he was appointed rector at Jeffer son, Madison Co., Ohio, and, since the 23d of the Bame month, has been a resident of the village of Jefferson. To his labors much is due for the present condition of the church at Jefferson.

JAMES MILLIKIN, hardware merchant, Jefferson, is a son of James and a grandson of James Millikin. The latter was born in Ireland, of English parentage, and came to America in early life, with two broth ers. He settled in Washington County, Penn., where he married Dorotha McFarland, of Massachusetts. Doth died in Washington County, Penn., he aged sixty-five years, and she aged about ninety years. Ten of their children became heads of families, viz., Daniel, Mary, James, John, Jacob (farmer near Plain City, Madison Co., Ohio), Samuel, William, Robert, Andrew and Abel. John, Abel and William were farmers. The latter died in his native State. Nine of the family came to Ohio. John located in Richland County, and Abel finally settled and died in Decatur, 111. Daniel, Samuel, Robert and Andrew all settled in Butler County, Ohio. The three former wore practicing physicians, and Robert, who had, joined with his medical skill, a good general knowledge, was also a politican and legislator. Andrew was a professional stock-dealer. James, the father of our subject, came to Madison County, Ohio, in 1830, and bought 600 acres of land for $400. He subsequently bought 1,600 acres more for less than $2 per acre. He was by occupation a surveyor, farmer and stock-dealer, and was more commonly known as Col. Millikin. His stature was large, and he had a strong constitution. He was frugal and industrious, and succeeded well. He possess d the -porting characteristics of the pioneer in general, and devoted considerable time to hunting. He surveyed the original lots of Jefferson in September, I So 1 , and also laid out the town of Amity, in Canaan Township. He was married, in the year L800, when only eighteen years old, to Elizabeth Cook. He died aged eighty-six, and she aged seventy-five years. They raised a family of nine children, of whom our subjeci was born in Washington County. Penn.. December 22, 1816, but, from fourteen years of age, lived in Madison County, Ohio. He remained on his father's farm in Canaan Township until L840, when he married Rachel Cary, a descendant of an early pioneer family of the county. To this union six children have been ^iven. He owns a good farm in Canaan Township, which he cultivated until L879, when he moved to Jefferson and embarked in the hardware trade. He passed out of the office of County Commissioner in L881, after having served two successive terms, to which he was elected by both parties, although he is a Democrat.

A. C. MILLIKIN, farmer, P.O. West Jefferson, son of James Millikin, whose biography appears above, was born in Canaan Township, Madison Co., Ohio. September 29, 1844. He was raised to farm life, but. from eighteen to the age of twenty-two, was engaged in saw milling. His succeeding occupation for live years was handling stock in Kansas. In 1874, he returned to Ohio, but, one year later, went again to the West. In the fall of 1876, he accepted the position of railroad agent at Plain City, Madison Co.. Ohio, where he remained three years, and, during the same time, was engaged with R. H. Andrews in buying and shipping grain from that point. In 1879, he again engaged in the cattle trade in the West, and in the fall of 1881 returned to Ohio, and. on September 15 of the same year, married Elizabeth (Converse) Smith, widow of Butler Smith. He at once engaged in farming, and feeding and raising cattle, hogs and sheep.

JOHN MILLS, deceased, was born in New Jersey June 24, 1774, and remained in his native State nearly thirty-eight years. On December 28, 1797, he married Sarah Pruden, who was born in New Jersey July 9, 1778. In 1812, they, with four children, emigrated to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he became a land-owner, and where he remained until the fall of 1817, when they sold their land, and with the proceeds purchased a large tract near Jefferson, in this county, on which they settled. He here operated a grist-mill that had previously been built by Nehemiah Gates, on Little Darby, about one mile below the present site of Jefferson. He soon afterward added apparatus for sawing lumber, and, as he was a carpenter, he, in 1818, built himself a frame house, probably the first frame house erected in the township. He sawed lumber for and assisted in building many of the houses in the township. He remained a resident of the county uutil his death, which occurred about 1850, he having previously buried his wife. Their family consisted of eight children, viz., Sarah, Eliza, Hannah, Amos, David, Mary A. , Jedediah and Ruth, of whom three are now living. Mary A., the only one who is a resident of this county, was born in Tuscarawas County November 22, L815, and was two years old when her parents came to Madison County, since which time she has been a resident of this county. She occupies a comfortable home half a mile west of Jefferson, where her parents both died. She and her sister Ruth resided at home, caring for their parents through life, but the latter has since moved to Nebraska. Mary A. was married, June 4, 1854, to William Vickers, by whom she had two children - Charles and William M. Mr. Vickers was born in Dorchester County, Md., April 16, 1796, and, when a child, came with his widowed mother to Clark County, Ohio, where he became a large land -owner. He there married, but, upon the death of his first wife, he was united to Miss Mills, and moved to Madison County, where he died January 9, 1878.

W . I\ OLNET, farmer, P. O. West Jefferson, is a grandson of Jersey Olney, who was a native of Connecticut, where he married, and, about the year 1830. with his family, came to Madison County and bought a farm just east of Jefferson, now owned by James Peene and J. H. Sceva, on which he and wife both died. Of their four sons, Judson, the father of our subject, was the youngest, and a native of Connecticut, but from infancy matured in Madison County, Ohio, where he became a land owner and farmer. He lived about one mile northeast of Jefferson, where he died. His wife, Lydia. daughter of John Ayle. is now residing with Abner Johnson. She and Judson Olney had two children, of whom Webster P., the youngest, was born in L852, in Jefferson Township, Madison County. He was reared to farm life, and enjoyed the common schools only. He owns 175 acres of land, under good cultivation, and utilizes his early established principles in its cultivation. His marriage was celebrated in 1874, with

JAMES PEENE, grain-dealer, Jefferson, was born April 25, 1834, in Kent County, adjoining Sussex, England, forty miles south of London. His parents, William and Mary Ann (Nell) Peene, emigrated to Canada in

1834, and, after remaining there three years, moved to Newark, Ohio, where they remained one year, after which they moved to Columbus. The father died near Mechanicsburg, and the mother at the house of our subject. Mr Peene came to Jefferson Township in 1857, and located on the farm where he now resides. He was occupied by farming until 1878, when be embarked in grain-dealing. He purchased a grist-mill, which he has converted into an elevator, and now devotes his timo almost exclusively to grain-dealing. In 1857, he married Mary Ann Zinn, daughter of Adam Zinn, of North Co lumbus, and by her has had three children - Charlie W. ; Ida, died aged nineteen months; and James, died at the age of three months. Mr. Peene owns eighty-live acres of good and well-improved land.

JOHN W. PENNY, farmer, P. O. West Jefferson. The maternal grandfather of our subject was Reason Francis, a native of Virginia, who came to Ohio about the year 1800, and settled near the present site of Jefferson. About 1805, he moved on the farm one mile north of Jefferson, now owned by James Davis. During the war of 1812, he settled on the farm now owned by George W. Blair, and finally on the National road, in the western part of Jefferson Township, where he died during the fifth decade of the present century, well advanced in years. He was a large, portly inau, jovial, and of many peculiar characteristics. His wife preceded him to the shores of eternal bliss. They had five children who grew to maturity - four sons and one daughter. The latter was born in 1814, and became the wib> of Henry Penny, and died in 1862, the mother of three chldren, all now living. Henry Penny was born July 15, 1804, in Pennsylvania, but in 1810 his parents came to Madison County, Ohio, and settled in Monroe Township, where Henry was left parentless when only eight years old. He was then raised by one of the Johnsons, on the farm where James Peene now resides, near Jefferson. He was the eldest of a family of five children, of whom but one survives. Henry was a pioneer farmer and frontier woodsman. About 1827, he settled on his farm, about one mile due north of where the Urbana road branches off from the National road. There he cleared and farmed until his death, April 6, 1880. Ho was three times married - first to Cynthia Johnson; second, to Elizabeth, only daughter of Reason Francis; and lastly to Mary, a sister to his first wife, and daughter of Jacob Johnson. John W. Penny, to whom this sketch is dedicated, was born September 9,

1835, in Jefferson Township, since which his residence dates unbroken in his native county. Since 1877, he has been a land-owner of Jefferson Township. He was married to Margaret Norris, of Franklin County, Ohio, who is three years his junior. The issue of this union is two children. He is one of the well-to-do farmers, and is now filling the office of Township Trustee, with which he was honored at a recent election.

G. W. PRUGH, farmer, P. O. West Jefferson, is a grandson of George W. Prugh, who emigrated from Maryland to Deer Creek, in Somerford Township, Madison Co.. Ohio, in 1812T where he and wife both died. Of their eight children, Samuel, the father of George W.. was the second, and, from one year old, lived in Madison County, where he now resides. Of his thirteen children, George W. is the fifth, and a brother to S. M. Prugh, County Auditor George W. is a native of Somerford Township,, where he was born in 1842. He matured on bis father's farm, and has through life followed agricultural pursuits, save three years spent in the late war. He enlisted, in 1862, in Company B, Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of Richmond, Ky., Jackson, Miss., Vicksburg, siege of Jackson, and many others, and lastly, in the battle of Guntown, Miss., or, as historically known, Brice's Cross Road, where he was captured, and subsequently lived six months in the Andersonville Prison, and three months in other rebel prisons. He was one of the few fortunate ones who lived and returned home uninjured at the close of the war. He was married, in 1869, to Martha A. Henley, and has two children - Addie and Charley. Mr. Prugh is one of the well-to-do farmers of Jefferson Township, and has 110 acres of well-improved land.

H. S. QUINN, physician, Jeffei-son, is a son of the Bev. Isaac Quinn, who was born of Irish parentage, in Pennsylvania, in 1784. He was raised in his native State, and, early in life, embraced the religion of the Episcopal Church. He received an education, and was licensed to preach in the church of his choice early in the present century, riding a circuit for ten years. In the meantime, he married Cynthia Witten, who was born in Tazewell County, Va., in 1790. During his ministerial labors, he prepared for the practice of medicine, and began practicing in Virginia soon after the close of the war of 1812, remaining in that State until 1830, when he, with his family of six children, settled in Highland County, Ohio, where he continued the practice of medicine until his death, in October, 1843, leaving a widow and nine children. The widow survived until 1867, and five of the children are now living, of whom H. S. is the youngest. He was born February 28, 1839, in Highland County, Ohio, where he received the rudiments of a common-school education. He subsequently attended the Greenfield Seminary, where he took up more advanced studies, after which he read medicine under Dr. John H. Quinn, of Now Vienna, Clinton Co., Ohio. He subsequently graduated at the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, in 1862. The same year, he located at Jefferson, Madison Co., Ohio, where he has ever since resided and attended to the duties of his practice. His political affiliations are in behalf of the Democratic party, and in 1877 he was elected as a member of the Sixty-third General Assembly of Ohio. At home, Dr. Quinn has held many local positions of honor and trust. His marriage with Bettie B. Putnam, a native of this county, was celebrated in 1870.

ABNER A. RIDDLE, farmer, P. (). West Jefferson, is a son of Abner and Sarah Riddle, of Pleasant Township. They were the parents of nine children, of whom the subject of this memoir is the eighth; he was born in Pleasant Township October 16, 1833, and was reared to farm life, which he still practices. He received a common-school education in the winter terms. He was left fatherless at an early age, and was reared by a widowed mother. On November 6. 1869, he married Elizabeth Gilliland, who was born August I. 1849, in Madison County, Ohio. They have had born to them two children, viz., Ella J. and L. Gertrude. When Mr. Riddle started in life he commenced as a farm hand, at $6 per month, at which he worked for nine years at increased wages. By toil and personal energy, he has accumulated a handsome property of 292 acres of land, under good cultivation and improvement. He is one of the well-to-do farmers, willing to assist in all valuable improvements of the country and takes a special interest in the schools of his township, being now a member of the School Board of his district.

JOHN E. ROBERTS, farmer, P. O.'West Jefferson, is a grandson of Thomas and Susan (Prisel) Roberts, the former a native of Virginia, of Irish parentage, and the latter a native of Virgnia, of German descent. They were married in the East, and about 17(J8, they came to Ohio with one child - John. They settled near Martinsburg, now Darbyville, Pickaway County, where they squatted for a short time only, when they pressed on to Franklin County, where he bought a large tract of land, and, in 1812, laid out Georgesville. He iinally bought about 1.500 acres in Madison County, where he subsequently settled, probably about 1843. They had a family of eleven children, viz., John, Margaret, James, Bazel, Elizabeth, Nancy, Sabastian, Elias, George, Mary R. and Edwin E. Nancy and the two youngest are yet living. Thomas Roberts was, when reaching Darbyville, Ohio, destitute of everything save $3 in cash, but he was a wonderful worker, of industrious and economical habits, which soon placed him among the well-to-do citizens. He was a large cattle dealer and drover, taking many trips with stock over the mountains to Eastern markets. In this branch of business, he was eminently successful. In the prime of life, he had a good constitution, but for thirty years previous to his death, he suffered from consumption. In an early day, he operated a still-house at Georgesville, and bought corn for 10 cents per bushel. He and wife both died in Jefferson Township, in the year 1804. aged, respectively, eighty-nine and eighty-five years. Of their children, Sebastian, the seventh, was born in Franklin County, Ohio, September 8,1814. He was raised in his native county, where, in 1839, he married Tacy A. Holt, who was born and raised near Philadelphia, Penn. Two of their sons are now living, viz., John E. and T. B. Sebastian and wife came to Madison County in 1842; subsequently, he became a large land- owner and solid farmer. He was a man of medium size, possessed rather delicate health, and died May 18, 1809. leav ing two sons and a widow, the latter still bearing the name of her departed husband. John E., the youngest of the sons, was born in 1843 in Jefferson Township, where he has always resided, and devoted his summers to farming and his winters attending the district schools, save two years spent in the retail dry goods trade in Jefferson. He now owns a fine farm of 308 acres, one mile west of Jefferson, pleasantly located and under a high state of cultivation. He was married, in 1865, to Clara L. Stutson, a native of Zanesville, Ohio. One son is the fruit of this marriage.

AN . E. ROBERTS, farmer. P. O. West Jefferson, grandson of Thomas Roberts and son of Edwin E. Roberts, was born in Jefferson Township, Madison County. Ohio, in 1853. He received a common-school education, was reared on a farm and has thus far followed rural pursuits. His farm consists of sixt? acres, which he cultivates well. He was married, in December. 1877, to Alice Johnson, a descendant of the pioneer Michael Johnson, elsewhere mentioned, and a daughter of Luther Johnson. By this tmion two children have been born.

THOMAS J. ROBERTS, farmer. P. (). West Jefferson, is a grandson of Thomas and son of Edwin E. Roberts. The latter was born in Franklin County, Ohio, where he was raised. He, as well as the other children of Thomas Roberts, received some land from home, which placed him in fair circumstances to begin life. In early life, he received a common-school education, but his entire life has been devoted to farming and dealing in stock, driving the latter over the mountains before the means of transportation were so rapid as now. He has managed by fair means through life to possess a neat competency, which he has liberally divided with his sev< children. He resides in a beautiful home on the London & Jefferson pike, and is now nearing the allotted time of man. He has always taken an active part in the affairs of the county, and has always voted the Democratic ticket. His first wife was Mary, daughter of John -Thomas, an early tollgate-keeper on the National pike, east of Jefferson. She was born in North Wales in 1821, but from two years of age was a resident of America; she died in 1847, leaving one child, our subject, Thomas J. His second wife was Maria Thomas, a sister to his first wife. She is still living, having raised a family of several children, the most of whom are represented in this volume. Thomas J. was born in 1846, in Jefferson Township, where he has always resided, and followed farming and stock-raising. His farm contains 171 acres under good cultivation. He was married to Matilda, sister of Dr. J. T. Colliver, of Jefferson, by whom he has had three chii dren, all now living.

T. B. ROBERTS, farmer, P. O. West Jefferson. The above gentleman is a son of Sebastian Roberts and brother of John E. Roberts, whose sketch appears in this volume. He was born in Franklin County, Ohio, January 15, 1840, but since two years of age has been resident of Jefferson Township, Madison County. He was raised to1 farm life and acquired such an education as his facilities warranted. His entire life has been devoted to tilling the soil, and now owns 271 acres of good land, which he cultivates and pastures with his cattle; to the latter he devotes considerable time, and also pays considerable attention to the raising and handling of hogs. He has a beautiful home, which is the old homestead of his grandfather. He remained at home until November, 1862, when he responded to the President's call for troops by enlisting in Company K, Ninety-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Capt. Daugherty. and served until almost the close of the war, participating in some of the severest battles. Soon after his return, he married Lucinda H. Zinn, a native of Franklin County, Ohio, where she was born February 20, 1841.

B. F. ROBERTS, farmer, P. O. West Jefferson, is a son of Charles and Harriet Roberts, who are mentioned in Union Township of this volum<\ Of their family, our subject, the fourth, was born near London. Madison Co., Ohio, in April, 1840. His residence in his native county is unbroken, save one year spent in Franklin County. In the fall of 1864, he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Eighty-second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving to the close of the war, and participating in the battle of Nashville, Tenn. After his return home, he engaged in saw-milling and farming, which he has followed to the present. He owns 175 acres of land, which classes him among the well-to-do farmers of the township. He does not indorse the theory of some authors, that " a man unmarried is only a half a man," but has seen fit to thus far live a life of singleness.

LEWIS SIDENER, farmer, P. O. Lilly Chapel, grandson of the pioneer, Philip Sidenor, and a third child of David Sidener, who ai'e both mentioned in the history of this township, was born October 12, 1824, in Jefferson Township, where he matured and now lives. He was raised to farm life, and has always followed that pursuit. His hard work, combined wi lh economy and prudent management, lias placed him in fair circumstances. His educational privileges were very meager, yet his appreciation of the value of au education arc Eully indicated by the interest he takes in the educational welfare of his children. He was married, November 9, I^IS. to Catharine Anderson, by whom he had seven children, five living Mr Sidener has served in several different township offices.

WESLEY SIDNER, farmer, P. O. West Jefferson, is a grandson of Philip Sidner and a son of Jacob Sidner. The latter was born in Kentucky November 17, 1799, and in infancy was brought to Ohio, but his parents returned to Kentucky during the first decade of the present century, and, after a brief stay, again came to Ohio and settled near where Jefferson now stands. Jacob was the second youngest son, and was almost entirely raised in Jefferson Township. In 1817, he bought a farm four miles west of the present town of Jefferson, to which he added until he owned about 900 acres of land. He was twice married - first, to Mary Ewing, who was born May 17, 1804, and a daughter of the pioneer, Charles Ewing, of Deer Creek Township. To this union live children were born. She died in 1888. and he married for his second companion Margaret Erwin, born near Newark, Ohio, in 1813. To this union eight children were born, of whom five are now living. Jacob Sidner and his second wife trod the path of life together until February, 1880, when his death severed the link of earthly relation, and, in August, of the same year, she, too, died. They were both members of the Methodist Church. Of his children, Wesley, the second by the last marriage, was born in 1886 in Deer Creek Township, where he was raised and received a common-school education. He has been a life-long farmer, and now owns 140 acres of good land, in Jefferson Township, where he resides. His marriage with Lydi a, daughter of William Jones, was celebrated in November, 1856. Seven children are the fruits of this marriage. He and wife' are both members of the Methodist Church.

J. J. SIDNER, farmer, P. O. West Jefferson, son of Wesley Sidner and grandson of the late David Sidner, was born in Deer Creek Township, Madison County, iu 1857, but from infancy lived on the farm he now occupies. He received a common-school education, and has devoted some time to teaching. He was married, in 1879, to Mary Roberts, of Jeffersou Town ship, by whom he has had two children.

J. T. SIDENER, physician, Jefferson, son of Lewis and Catharine Sidener, and grandson of the late David Sidener, of Jefferson Township, was born February '27, 1856. He received a common-school education while on his father's farm, and, at the age of nineteen, entered upon a business coarse at the Iron City Commercial College, of Pittsburgh, Penn.. but finding this too confining he returned to the farm. On March '23, 1876, he was married to Mary E.. second daughter of Robert and Ruth Fullerton. of Fairfield Township, and grand -daughter of the late John Johnson, of Range Township. Mr. Sidener followed farming until 1879, when he took up the study of medicine and tin' preceptorship of Dr. John N. Beach, of Jefferson, and, in September. I^SO. he entered the Starling Medical College of Columbus. Ohio, taking a two years' course. He graduated March 23, L882, settled in Jefferson and commenced the practice of his profession April 24, of the same year.

JOHN SILVER, deceased, was a son of Richard and Ann Silver, who were both born in Pennsylvania, where they married and died, having raised a family of six daughters and two sons. One son and one daughter are still living in their native Stair; one daughter, Rebecca, was married to a Mr. Stoockey. whom she buried iu Pennsylvania, she dying in Illinois, leaving a family of eight children. The other four daughters -Sally, Elizabeth, Susan and Hannah - all married in Pennsylvania Sally, to Joshua. son of Rev. Lewis Foster, after whom Foster Chapel is named; Elizabeth, to John Crissman; Susan, to Samuel "Wallace, and Hannah, to Thomas Timmons. QThey all settled in Jefferson Township, and were among the earlv settlers, doing much toward clearing up the country. Thomas Timmons and wife both died in Jefferson, as did Mrs. Crissman also, but the rest all moved to Illinois in the spring of 1849. John Silver, another of the family, was born on the Juniata River, in Pennsylvania. July 1, 1800. He reached his majority in his native State, and, about 1825, he set out in life by conducting a blacksmith and wagon-making shop and tavern. In 1827, he married Mary Koontz, who died October 21, 1832, leaving three sons, two of whom are still living. His second wife was Catharine Speaker, who was born in Bedford County, Penn., February 12, 1809, of German descent. In 1835, he purchased about 800 acres of land in Jefferson Township, Madison County, Ohio, where he settled in 1837, with wife and five children. The first house erected by him in the wilderness serves as a part of their present residence. He improved his farm and added to it until he owned about 1,000 acres, of which 960 are still in the name of the Silver family; he was industrious and frugal and lived to the age of eighty- two years and fifteen days. He was energetic and economical, but above all, his charity was never exhausted. He embraced the religion of the Baptist Church, at Jefferson, in November, 1854, and soon after was elected Deacon, in which capacity he served without ceasing until his death. He grasped every opportunity to promote the interest and welfare of the ch urch, and to his liberality it is indebted for much of its prosperity. He was always ready to personally licpiidate the unpaid salary of the minister, rather than have it unpaid. He was the father of eleven children, of whom five are now living, viz., Richard, Asa, Mary M. , George T. and John W. Richard now resides in Nebraska, and the other four live in Ohio, two of whom are yet single, viz., Mary M. and George T.

G. P. SIMPKINS, harness -maker, Jefferson, is a son of John W. Simpkins. a native of Maryland, who, early in the present century, settled at Franklinton, near Columbus, Ohio, where he commenced his business prior to the war of 1812. While engaged in his trade, Gen. Harrison and his troops were on the way from Sandusky to Marietta, Ohio, and stopped with S< (u ire John Simpkins. using his hatter shop for a barracks. For the intrusion, Harrison subsequently appointed Squire Simpkins Commissary, and henceforward he acted in military service until the close of the war. devoting considerable time with Gen. Gaines, after whom our subject is named. About the close of the war of 1812, he and family settled near London, where, in 1815, he buried his wife. His second wife was the widow of John (ruvnn. While the National roadwasin process of construction, he settled in Jefferson, where the American Hotel formerly stood. Here he bought a lot in the wilds <>f nature, cleared and grubbed it and erected on it a building in which he opened a tavern. The building'was small, and he expected to build an addition, but before doing so, he sold and moved to London and kejii the Cowling House, hut snl >se< | ueiit 1\ returned to Jefferson, where he died in the spring of L861. He served Madisbn County as Associate Judge several years, and Jefferson Township as Justice repeatedly. lie was a man of sound mind ami an esteemed citizen of the county. Of his four children one only is now living, viz., Gaines P., who was horn in July. L815, near London. He in early life went to Springfield, < >hi<>. where he learned his trade, hut since IS35 lie has been a resident of Jefferson, where he has mostly conducted his trade. Soon after coining to Jefferson, he was instrumental in forming the military home company. He furnished two son-, for the suppression of the rebellion, one of which survived. In L836, he married Eliza Sidener, of the pioneer stock elsewhere mentioned in this work.

CHARLES SNYDER, physician, Jefferson, is a son of Gen. Daniel Snyder, who was a native of Virginia and an early settler near Urbana, Champaign Co., Ohio. He was ;i pioneer woodsman and farmer of that county, where he died. His wife was Anna Kiser, who also died in Champaign County, Ohio. Of their fourteen children, thirteen are now living, one a practicing attorney in Chattanooga, Tenn. Dr. Charles Snyder was born in Champaign County, Ohio, in 1848, and raised to farm life, during which time he received the rudiments of a common-school education. Subsequently, he was three years in attendance at the Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. In 1867, he came to Jefferson, and took up the study of medicine under Dr. John N. Beach, of that place, as his preceptor, and graduated from the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, in the spring of 1870. Immediately after graduating, he received an appointment as physician in the State Prison at Columbus, Ohio, but, at the expiration of one year resigned the position and located in Jefferson, where he has ever sinco enjoyed a favorable practice. He was married, in 1873, to Mary, daughter of Moses Heals, of Madison County, Ohio. They have a family of three children.

S. M. STICKLEY, grocer, Jefferson, is a son of Isaac Stickley, who was born in Virginia, where he tnarried Henrietta Beals. In 1819, they, with a family of three children, came to Ohio, and, in 1851. settled in Jefferson Township, Madison County, where Isaac buried his wife in L864, having had by her eight children. He married for his second wife Mary Stutson. and, in the summer of 1882, they moved to the village of Jefferson. To the last union one child is given. Our subject, his father's eldest child, was born on the South Branch of the Potomac River, in Maryland, in the year 1&43, but, since eight years of age, has been a resident of Madison County, wdiere his summers were devoted to farming, and his winters to the district schools. He enlisted, August 7, 1802, in Company K. Ninety fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participating in the battle of Richmond. Ky.. but was discharged in the spring of 1863, and, in 1864, re-enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but. after passing through one battle, he returned home, in the fall of the same year. He devoted some time to clerking in Jefferson, and in 1871 he began on his own account, by opening out his presenl business stand. He has been identified with the interests of this town, and served as its Treasurer live years. He was married, in 1867, to Eliza Garrabrant.

Z. R. TAYLOR, druggist, Jefferson. Among the professional business men of this village we record the name of Z. K. Taylor, son of John Taylor, of Scotland, where the latter was born. When a child, his parents emigrated to the United States, and settled in Champaign County, Ohio, where John has resided lor the past sixty years. He married Miriam Daniels, of Champaign County, about thirty-seven years since. Of their four children Z. R., the second, was born in the last-named county in 1850. His boyhood days were spent on the farm and at the district schools during the winter seasons until 1867, when he entered the t'rbana University. One year later, he commenced a course in the Ohio AVesleyan University at Delaware, where he devoted his time until 1872. at which time he took up the study of medicine under Dr. H. C. Pierce, of Urbana, Ohio, and graduated at the Starling Medical College, Columbus. Ohio, in the spring of 1873. He at once located in Jefferson, and engaged .in the drug business, where be has since remained. He carries a full line of all articles kept in a drug store. He was united in marriage with Miss Clara M. Burrows, by whom he has had two children. Mrs. Taylor is a native of Illinois. She was educated at Peoria, where she subsequently taught two years, and finally tauo-ht one year in the Jefferson schools of Madison County, Ohio.

° DAVID J. THOMAS, farmer, P. O. Lilly Chapel, is a son of Robert and Mary (Lewis) Thomas, natives of Wales, where they matured and married. In 1820, they, with one child, came to America and settled in Oneida County, N. Y., from where they moved to Delaware County, Ohio, in 1831. Fourteen years later they settled in Brown Township, Frankliu County, where she died in 1866 and he in 1877. He was a land-owner and farmer by occupation. They were both members of the Baptist Church. Of their eleven children, nine are now living, of whom our subject is the sixth; was born near Utica, N. Y., May 29. 1828. Since three years of ace he has been a resident of Ohio, save a short interval spent in Iowa and Illinois. Since 1870, he has resided in Jefferson Township, Madison County, where he owns a farm of ninety-nine acres, which is under a high state of cultivation and fairly improved. He received a common school education, and has devoted his entire life to farming. His political ideas are in favor of the Republican party. His marriage with Anna M. Hodg kins was celebrated March 19, 1863. She is a native of Indianapolis. Ind. , where she was born in 1839. This union has been blest with a family of six children, living, viz. : Charlie L., Mary, Elizabeth, Katy, Annie and Robert J.

THOMAS TIMMONS, deceased, was a native of Pennsylvania, where he was born December 9, 1800. He was a son of Peter and Sarah (Taylor) Timmons and in 1833 came to this county and settled in Canaan Township, where he remained until his death, October 5, 1862. On November 27, 1830, he married Mrs. Hannah (Silvers) Peebles, a widow lady, by whom he had eight children, viz.: Rebecca, Richard, Mary, Thomas F.. Laura, Rachael S. , Clay and Winiiold. Mr. Timmons lived a long and useful life. He was a Universalist in belief, and was actively interested in biiildingthe church of that denomination in his neighborhood. He died respected by all who knew him,

A. T. TIMMONS, farmer, P. O. West Jefferson, son of Thomas and Margaret (Alder) Timmons, and a great-grandson of the noted pioneer Jonathan Alder," was born in Jefferson Township in 1857. He is the youngest son and only child of his father now living. He was raised to farm life and enjoyed the common school privileges. In the year 1880, he married Laura, daughter of Andrew Miller, of Jefferson. Her father is one of a family of seven children, and a native of Baden, Germany. He is the only one who came to America, and he settled in Jefferson in 1848. He learned his trade (painting) in Germany, and is a good mechanic. In December, 1849, he married Nancy Francis, of Franklin County. Ohio. Of their five children, two are now living, viz. , Henry and Laura.

ALEXANDER WILSON (deceased), son of William D., and grandson of Valentine Wilson, elsewhere fully mentioned in this work, was born February 22, L831, and died January 29, 1881. He was a native of Canaan Township, where he was raised and acquired a common school education, but he became a very accurate and reliable business man. In 1851, he married Martha J. Millikin and settled near his father. Six years later, he moved to Plain City, and in L863, bought L52 aores of land near Jefferson, and settled on it. Here he devoted bis '^n\<' bo farming, dealing in and rais- ing cattle, sheep and hogs. When he first embarked in this branch of business he drove several times through to Eastern markets, but erelong railroad facilities offered their conveniences close at hand, and he for one was not slow in embracing the privileges. He was successful through life, and gradually added to his original laud until he owned about 3,000 acres at his death. He was a man of six feet two inches high, and weighed about 150 pounds, but with delicate health. He tilled an important position in the social and business circles of Jefferson and vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson had a family of four children, viz.: Henry C, Louvina, Grant (who died in infancy) and Albert W Mrs. Wilson, a daughter of Daniel Millikin, was born in Washington County, Penn. , in 1829, but in infancy was brought by her parents to Ohio. Her father not liking Ohio, returned to the Keystone State and again to Ohio in 1842, settling in Canaan Township, Madison County. About thirty months later, he moved to Iowa, where he and wife both died, leaving a family of five children, of whom Martha J. was the eldest. Soon after their death, Henry Alder, an uncle to the children, went from Madison County to Iowa and brought them to Ohio, where four are still living. Mrs. Wilson is a lady of considerable taste, and is nicely located near Jefferson on the National road.

JASPER N. WILSON, farmer, P. O. West Jefferson, is a son of Michael and Louvina (Henry) Wilson, the former a native of Clai'k County, Ohio, born March 14, 1814. and the latter a native of Kentucky, but from infancy a resident of Clark County, Ohio, where they were married, and where he died February 10, 1879, and where she still resides. He was a man of medium size, quite ambitious and industrious, though possessed with delicate health. His economy, combined with prudence and hard work, gained for him a neat competency. He and wife were of many years members of the Christian Church, of which he was Deacon. Their family consisted of thirteen children, nine of whom are still living, the subject of this sketch being the only one living in Madison County, where he settled in 1866. He was born in Clark County, Ohio, January 5, 1836, and was brought up by Christian parents. On December 29, 1859, he was married to Ellen, daughter of Samuel Prugh, of Somerford Township, Madison County, where the Prugh history will be seen. She was born April 19,1836. In August, 1862, he entered the service in Company K, Forty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, participating in the battles of London, Tenn. , siege of Knoxville, Philadelphia, and Monticello. While engaged at Knoxville, he was slightly wounded. He served three years, when he returned home, resumed farming, and soon after came to Madison County, where, in 1871, he purchased land and now owns 275 acres. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have a family of four children, all living.

(Noble) Beacb, was born in Amity, Madison Co., Ohio, May 10, 1831. He lived in Amity until he was four years old, and afterward on a farm in Darby Township, until he was about twelve, when his mother returned to Amity, where he lived until he was fifteen, w"hen he went as a dry goods clerk for Holcomb Tuller, in Dublin, FraDklin Co., Ohio, and in the same year, in another store, in the same village, for Orange Davis. In the fall he returned to Amity, ill, and was not again able to labor until the following year, when, on the 23d of September, 1847, when in his sixteenth year, he entered the store of George A. Hill & Co., of Pleasant Valley, for the astonishing salary of $36 a year, or about eleven cents a day and board. His second year with them brought him $84, and for the third year was offered $800 in the main establishment - Pinney & Lamson, of Columbus, Ohio. This offer he declined, as the sedentary life, with no leisure for books, was distasteful to him; and at the commencement of the fall term he was a matriculant at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, after the close of which he taught a school in the Crabb District, Brown Township, Franklin Co., Ohio. In the spring of 1850, he commenced the study of medicine at Amity, with Dr. James F. Boal, but suspended through the summer and traveled on foot over nearly all of the counties in Central Ohio, as an agent for the Ohio State Journal Company, of Columbus, Ohio. In the fall of that year (1851), he entered the office of Prof. Samuel Mitchell Smith, of Columbus, as a student; and during that winter attended a course of medical lectures at Starling Medical College - the first course delivered in the new building on State street. He attended his second course there at the session following; and in February, 1853, was graduated as M. D. He located at Unionville Centre, Union Co., Ohio, where he remained two years, when he sold out his property and location to Isaac N. Hamilton, a brother to Prof. John W. Hamilton, of Columbus, after which he spent about four months in the West, prospecting for Congress lands, and upon bis return he settled, in September, 1855, in La Fayette, Madison County. Ohio, where he remained until he was commissioned by the Governor of Ohio - David Tod - Assistant Surgeon in the Volunteer forces of Ohio, in the serviceof the United States. April 3, 1862, when lie joined the army at Shiloh, Tenn., April 12, 1862, the Sunday morning after the battle; he was assigned toduty, temporarily, at the Brigade Beadquarters of Gen. WilliamB. Hazen; and afterward to the Twentieth Ohio Regiment. On the 3d of May. L862, he was further commissioned by Oov. Tod as Assistant Surgeon of the Seventy-eighth Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers, to rank as such from April 20, L862, which position lie held until commissioned by Gov. John Brough as Surgeon of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers, May 19, L864, which commission reached him at Aokworth, Ga., on the Atlanta campaign, on the 9th day of June. 1804, when he was mustered in* and entered at once upon duty with his new command. Tin- position he held until the close of the war. and until his muster out at Saul-bury. X. O, in June, L865. He was with Grant when Holly Springs was sold out: was at Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson,

Champion Hills, and during tho siege of Vicksburg, and his brigade had the honor of being the first to march within its lines on the morning of July 4, 1863. During the Vicksburg campaign he was Division Hospital Director of Logan's Division; and after the surrender, was in charge of the convalescent camp, and also of all the confederate sick and wounded within the lines. He was with Blair on the Yazoo raid, with Sherman on the Meridian raid, and on the raid of Shreveport, La. He re-enlisted or veteranized with his command for the remainder of the war, in the spring of 18()4, when the term of the Seventy-eighth Regiment expired. He was in he Army of the Tennessee under Grant, Sherman, Mc- Pherson, Logan and. Blair until the commencement of the Atlanta campaign, when he was transferred, by promotion, into the Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, under Schofield. He followed the fortunes of that army up until the end of that campaign, and when Sherman started off on that long picnic " to the sea," he came North with Schofield, and was at Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville; and after the ruin of Hood's brave and magnificent army, wras transferred with the Twenty-third Army Corps to Fortress Monroe, thence by sea to Smithville, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, and directly to the four days' siege of Fort Anderson; and then to Town Creek, and then across the Cape Fear at night to the siege of Wilmington, where we forced an evacuation of the works, and entered that long and bloodily disputed stronghold on Washington's birthday anniversary, February 22, 1865. On his way to Raleigh, aft^r the junction with Sherman's "bummers" at Jonesboro, he heard of Lee's surrender, and Johnson's capitulation soon followed. At the close of the war, he was Division Hospital Director of the Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, and one of the three surgeons of that Division that constituted the " Operating Board. ' ' He had campaigned for three years and thre months in six different States: had been a witness to about one hundred and fifty days of carnage; and had traveled, whilst campaigning in the army, more than nine thousand miles. He is a member of the society of the Army of the Tennessee. After the close of the Avar, he settled on this farm, two miles north of London. Madison County, Ohio, but has continued in the practice of his prof ession up to this date. In the fall of 1869, he was elected by the Republican party of Madison County to the State Legislature; and, inthe fall of 1871, was elected to the State Senate l>v tlie counties of Madison. Clark and Champaign. He is a member of the Madison County Medical Society, and has been its President; of the Central Ohio Medical Society, of the State Medical Society, and in the year L881 was elected its First Vice President; and is also a memberof the American Medi cal Association. On the 12th day of April, L860, he was married to Miss Lucy E. Wilson, of La Fayette, Madison County, Ohio, only daughter ol James and Elenor (Smith) Wilson, born in Somerford Township, Madison County, Ohio, March 28, 1MI. .Mary, only child, horn July9, L862, at La Payette, Madison County, Ohio, and graduated as \. B. ai Rutger'B Female College, 189, 490 and liH Fifth avenue, New York City - the Valedictorian of the class in June, 1882.

WILLIAM H. BIERBAUGH, farmer, P. (). London, a native of Madison County, Ohio, horn June 1. L846, is a son of Christopher and Catherine Bierbaugh. he a native of Russia and she of Strasburg, France. They emigrated to America when young and single. Mrs. Bierbaugh came in L831 to her brother in Columbus: he came in IMF They were married in IMF and settled in La Fayette Madison County, and have resided in the county ever since, with the exception of one year's residence in Iowa. In 1862, they located upon the place where they, with their son William now lives ami have since resided. They have now been residents of this county over forty years. They have had four children, one only living - William H., our subject, who was born and grew to manhood in Madison County. He was married, March 25, 1880, to Martha A. Headly. who was born in Pennsylvania, October 2, 1857, a daughter of James and Sarah Headly, he a native Greene County, Penn., born May 28, 1817, and his wife, Sarah Johnson, a native of Pennsylvania. The grandparents, Elizabeth and Isaac Headly, were natives of New Jersey. The great grandfather was Ephraim Headly. who removed from New Jersey to Greene County, Penn., where he lived and died. Isaac Headly and wife spent their lives and died in Greene County. They had three sons and six daughters. James, the second son of his father, grew to manhood in his native State and married Sarah Johnson; they settled in Greene County, Penn., where they resided till the fall of 1867, when they removed to Ohio and settled in Licking County, and resided there till the fall of 1872. when they came to Madison County and bought and located on the place where they now live. They have had ten children, seven now survive - Nicholas L, Malinda (married David Lemley), Benson F. . Lewis, Martha Ann. William Henry and Credola. In 1862, the eldest son enlisted in the war of the rebellion in the Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and served three years to the close of the war. He was taken prisoner and suffered almost starvation in Libby Prison, where he was kept for many weeks, but was finally exchanged, and then served in the army till the close of the war, and returned home, having received but one slight wound in the arm from a stroke of a sabre by one of the rebels. Mr. Headly and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which they have belonged for over forty years. Mr. Bierbaugh and wife have one child - Imo C, born January 14, 1881. He has devoted his life to farming, except three years' clerkship in a store in London dur ing the war. Mr. Bierbaugh has a good farm of forty acres, with good improvements. He has served the township as Trustee for three terms, and is one of the reliable and prosperous farmers of Deer Creek Township.

WILLIAM ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, farmer, P. O. La Fayette, a native of Madison County, born May 6, 1836, is a son of William E. and Sarah Campbell, whose history is given in the sketch of Eli G. Campbell. The subject of this sketch was raised and grew to manhood in Madison County, where he was married, November 21, 1878, to Louisa Dillow, who is a native of this county, born September 9, 1844, and whose ancestors are given in sketch of William Dillow. Mr. Campbell and wife have one child, born September 13, 1879 - Harley Clarence. Mr. Campbell is a carpenter by trade, which business he followed until the spring of 1878, when he located where he now lives, and has since resided, engaged in the honorable occupation of farming. This farm he purchased of his brother Eli; it embraces fifty-one acres of good land, all in cultivation, with good buildings and improvements, and pleasantly situated about one quarter of a mile north of La Fayette.

ELIG. CAMPBELL, farmer, P. O. La Fayette, was born in Deer Creek Township February 16. L838. He is a son of William E. and Sarah Carnpbell, he a native of Maryland and she of Virginia. The grandparents were Hugh and Margaret Campbell. The maternal grandfather was John Moore, who came to Ohio and settled in Madison County, near London - among the first settlers - where he remained till his death, November 10,

1839, aged seventy- seven years. William Campbell, the father of our subject, was bora in Maryland., August 17, 1801, emigrated to Ohiu and settled in. Madison County, in quite an early day, while a young, single man, and here he was married to Sarah Moore, October 20, L831, by whom ho had eight children - seven now surviving - Laura (married John Lucy), James J., William, Alexander. Eli G., Benjamin M., Sarah, John "W (deceased), and Oreighton E. (now a resident of Montana). Of these sons, all but the youngest served in the war of the rebellion. James, Alexander and John enlisted in the spring of 1801, in the Twenty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three years, or during the war. James was taken prisoner and was confined in the Libby and Andersonville Prisons, and suffered untold hardships in those terrible places during a period of eighteen months' confinement: was almost starved to death, and when released was but a living skeleton. Alexander and John saw hard service and had many narrow escapes. John, afterserving nearly one year, was taken sick with camp fever, and returned home on furlough, where, after lingering about three months, on May 19, 1802, died, and his remains now rest in Oak Hill Cemetery, at London. Eli was in the three months' service, but was out about four months. Benjamin enlisted in a company of cavalry in the spring of 1865, and was with Sherman through the South till the close of the war. Mr. Campbell followed farming through life in Union and Deer Creek Townships. In his early life, he was Captain of a rifle company, which was mustered at appointed times, when they would camp out for several days and perform regular drill service; this practice was followed for several years. Mr. Campbell died December 17, 1857, aged fifty-six years. His wife died March 27, 1882, aged seventy-four years. Eli G. , the subject of this sketch, was born, raised and grew to manhood in Deer Creek Township, and has passed the most of his life on the Gwynne farm, where he now resides. This farm consists of 3,300 acres, one of the largest and best stock farms in the county. It is the estate of E. W. Gwynne (deceased), one of the early settlers, which is inherited by two grandchildren - Edmiston and Marie Gwynne. Mr. Campbell has had the entire superintendence of this large farm since the death of Mr. Gwynne - a period of fifteen years. Mr. Campbell married Eliza J. Buntin, March 0, 1807; she is a daughter of James and Catharine Buntin, natives of Ireland. Eliza was born in Deer Creek Township, in February, 1842, and died February 15, 1870, aged twenty-eight years. By her he had twins (deceased). The large brick residence on this farm, an important tavern stand in an early day. where all the stages and passengers used to stop on their journey from Columbus to Springfield, prior to the building of the National road, or the day of railroads, and on a pane of glass still in one of the windows, is engraved the name "George E. Kummer, New York, September, 1830," a passenger, engraved by himself, where it has remained over half a century. Mr. Campbell is one of the active business men of the community, and the position he holds, in charge of this large stock farm, imposes upon him a great responsibility, he having 400 head of cattle to attend to, and 400 acres in cultivation, principally in com.

WILLIAM DILLOAV, farmer, P. (). La Fayette, was born in Madison County January 11, 1833, he is a son of John and Margaret B. Dillow, natives of Virginia, where they were married. About 1825 to 1828, they removed to Ohio and settled in Monroe Township, Madison County, where they resided the greater portion of the balance of their lives. He died in Pike Township, in November. L879, aged seventy two years; and she died in June, 1880, aged seventy years. They had eleven children, seven now survive - Susan, now Mrs. Mayberry; Margaret P., now Mrs. Scranton; Nancy Ann, now Mrs. Campbell; Mary, Hugh, William and James. The subject of this sketch was brought up to farm labor, and was married to Rebecca Chambers, who was born in New Jersey January 6, 1835, a daughter of Samuel and Ann (Simon) Chambers, natives of New Jersey, who came to Ohio and settled in Madison County about 1850, where they have since resided; they are now residents of Jefferson. They have had eight children, four now surviving - James, Samuel, William H. and Rebecca. Mr. Dillowand wife have five children, William B., born December 20, 1856; Wintield Scott, born November 9, i860; Mary Jane, born May 27, 1863; Katie Ann, born February 28, 1866, and Margarei Elta, born November 16, 1869. Mr. Dillow has made farming his business through life, and all iu Monroe and Deer Creek Townships. In the spring of 1881, he purchased his present property in La Fayette, to which he moved and where he has since resided. He is one of the reliable and respected farmers of Deer Creek Township, where he has the general confidence of the people. He served as Township Treasurer in 1881. He is a worthy member of Lodge No. 70, I. O. O. F., of London, to which he has belonged eight years.

A. N. FOX, farmer, P. O. La Fayette, was a native of Madison County, Ohio, born November 7, 1838, and is a son of John and Elizabeth Fox, he a native of New York, and she of Champaign County, Ohio. The grandfather, Daniel Fox, was a native of Germany, who emigrated to America about 1876, and married Abigail Allen, a native of New York. They settled in that State, where they resided till 1813, when they removed to Ohio and settled in Champaign County ; they afterward removed to Madison County, where he remained till his death. John, the father of our subject, was born in 1801, and was twelve years of age when they settled in Champaign County, and there grew to manhood, and married Elizabeth Jones, a native of that county, born in 1805. In 1836, they removed to Madison County and settled in Pike Township, where they lived till their death; she died May 11, 1846, and he July 28, 1868. They had eight children, six now survive - Rudolph, William R., John N., A. N., Alma (wife of Thomas Cantrall), and Henry C. Rudolph (resides in Marion County, Ohio). and the others all reside in Kansas but our subject. Mr. John Fox, after locating in Madison County, entered upon the mercantile trade at Bosedale, where he continued several years, also serving as Postmaster during thi-, time. He then sold out his store and purchased a farm, and for twent} -five years devoted his attention to farming. Then he again entered upon mercantile trade at Liverpool, where he continued business till bis death. He was also Postmaster while in business in Liverpool. Mr. Fox was an enterprising, thoroughgoing, business man. He started in life without capital, and by his own industry and good business management he accumulated ;i good property. At his death he owned 136 acres of land, besides quite an amount of personal an< I other property at Liverpool. His character and integrity were undoubted; he was a member and an earnesl worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church from his early manhood, and was a Steward and Elder in the church for many years. Our subject was raised to farm labor, and in his early life taught school for several years. He was married, November 27, 1862, to Clarinda J. Baker, who was born in Delaware Counts. Ohio, November 30, 1843. and was a daughter of Hiram E. and Margaret J. (Wilson) Baker, he a native of New York, and she of Ohio. They had nine children - eight now survive - Clarinda J., Ellen M (wife of

L. G. Huff),. Lester, Oscar, Sallie (wife of Christian Kaufman), Eugene, Etta and Edgar. Mr. Baker and wife now reside in Morrow County, Ohio, where he is engaged in farming, abusiness which he has followed the greater part of his life, and is one of the prominent leading men of that county. Mr. Fox and wife have live children - Edgar B., born October 2, 1863; Gertrude, born December 30, 1865; Grace, born January 13. L869; Eva, born October 19, 1870; and Ross, born December 3, 1878. Mr. Fox. after his marriage, settled on the old home place near Liverpool, where he lived two years; then he purchased a farm on Barron Run, where he resided till 1873, when, in February of that year, he located on the farm where he now resides. He served Pike Township as Clerk several years.

JAMES B. GARRETT, farmer, P. O. London, a native of Madison County, born January 15, 1830, is a son of Alfred and Jane Garrett, natives of Virginia. The grandfather, Benjamin Garrett, also a native of Virginia, married in that State, and soon after, probably about 1805-6, removed to Kentucky, remaining there but a short time, when he moved with his family to Chillicothe, Ohio, which was about 1800-8. He there left his family for safety from the Indians, which were then very troublesome, and came to what is now Madison County, selected his location, and for protection erected a block-house on Coniac Run, after which he brought his family here. Subsequently he moved their house a short distance south of the London & Jefferson pike, where he remained till his death. He was buried on his farm, in a lot set off for a family burying-ground, and it is believed he was the first person buried there. Alfred Garrett, the father of our subject, was about ten years old when brought to this county by his parents, and here grew to manhood, fully inured to the trials and dangers of those early days. He was married to Jane Boggs,- a native of Virginia, and settled and spent his whole life in Deer Creek Township, with the exception of one year's res idence in Somerford Township, and nearly his whole life, to the time of his death, was spent on the old farm of his father, where they first located in 1808 - a period of about seventy years. He was one of the true pioneers, and with his father, ranks among the first settlers of the Township. He died December 14, 1878, aged seventy-nine years. His wife died in March, 1858, aged forty- five years.' They had eleven children, three now survive - James B., our subject, Alfred, Edward and Solomon. The subject of this sketch was born, raised and grew to manhood in sight of where he now lives. He was married, February 26, L852, to Elizabeth Flight, who was born in Pennsylvania October 7, L832, a daughter of Nicholas and Barbara Flight, natives of Pennsylvania, who removed to Ohio in the fall of 1836, and settled in London, and then located in this township, where he died October 11, 1862, aged sixty-live years. His wife died November II. L869, aged seventy-seven years. They had but one child - Elizabeth. Mr. Garrett and wife have had ten children - Mary C, born December L6, 1852, and died October 2, L862; James Manuel, born December 12. L854, died November 14, 1876: Barbara Jane, born May 6, 1857; William Henry, born October 11, 1850. died September 29,1862; Edward Smith, born May 28, 1862. died October 8, L862; John Marrion, bom March 21, L864; Benjamin Wilson, born December I. L866, died February 21. 1868; Earnest Linwood, born July 31. 1869, died February 21. 1870; Pearl Wilbert, born January 7, 1871; and Harrison Jefferson, born December 13. 18/3. and died April 18, 1878. Mr. Garrett, after his marriage, located in the north part of Deer Creek Township, on the Wahoo Plains, where they lived about five

ALFRED KILGORE, farmer, P. O. La Fayette, a native of Madison County, born October 24, 1824, is a son of James and Sarah Kilgore, natives of Kentucky. The grandparents were John and Lydia Kilgore, who were very early settlers of Kentucky, and endured terrible hardships and run many risks and narrow escapes from the hostile savages. They finally removed to Ohio and were among the first settlers of that county. He was in the war of 1812, and died while in the army. The maternal grandfather was Skinner Hutson, a native of England, who became an early settler of Kentucky. Sarah Kilgore, the mother of our subject, was born in Bourbon County, Ky., in 1789. She married Jonathan Denton in 1806. Their lives were full of suffering and danger. They settled near Vincennes, Ind., and were often driven to take refuge in the fort by savage Indians. Their eventful lives were continued but a few ' years together, as Mr. Denton fell in the war with the savages, under Gen. Hull, and she was left alone with three small children to care for. Her circumstances were such that she was compelled to return to her parental roof in Kentucky. But in her eventful career during the few years she lived in Indiana, she proved herself to be a brave woman. AVhile her husband was in the war, she would leave the fort every day at the risk of her life to attend to the stock they left on their farm. On one of these occasions, in company with her sister-in-law, they saw, on approaching their cabin, that Indians had taken possession of the house. They came out and demanded the horse they were riding, and finding them inexorable, they told the Indians if they must give up the horse they must first feed him, as he had not been fed that day; so on pretense of feeding the horse, the Indians left them and returned into the house; then they turned their horse and made for the fort as rapidly as possible. Subsequently, Mrs. Denton's sister-in-law and all their family were murdered by the Indians, it was believed in revenge for not obtaining that horse. Such brave. Christian patriots deserve to be held in everlasting remembrance. In 1814, she married, for her second husband, James Kilgore, the father of om subject, who was born in Bourbon County, Ky., in 1791. They settled in Fayette County, Ohio, on the home place with his mother and her family, and there resided till 1824, when they removed to Madison County and settled near Midway. Subsequently, they became residents of the James Rankin farm near London. He and his wife lived very happily together for nearly fiftyeight years, and until death removed her from all earthly relations, November 3, 1872. She left eight children, thirty-eight grandchildren, forty-nine great-grandchildren, and one of the fifth generation. She had consecrated herself to Christ at the age of sixteen, a few years after the beginning of the present century, when the war-whoop was common. Many good sermons and many class meetings did she enjoy in the primitive houses. She was an active class-meeting Methodist Christian, having for a long time performed the duties of an assistant class-leader. Mr. Kilgore survived her till April 10, 1870, and his remains were interred in the Paint Township Cemetery, in the presence of a large concourse of friends and acquaintances. In his earlier life, for ten years he was Captain of a company of militia, and was ever afterward known as Capt. James Kilgore. He was Justice of the Peace for many years; an excellent neighbor and a most worthy citizen. Five children now survive - Deborah, Isaac, Alfred. Henry and Martha. The subject of this sketch married Margaret Dougherty, September 10, 1 849. She was born in Fayette County, Ohio, February 3, 1828, and a daughter of James and Susanna Dougherty, natives of Virginia, who came among the early settlers of Highland County, Ohio, when young, and were married there. Subsequently, they removed to Fayette County, where she died October 1, 1852, aged sixty-sis years. They had fourteen children, four now living - Andrew, Henry, Mary Jane (wife of Jacob Young), and Margaret. Subse quentty Mr. Daugherty removed to Indiana and married Mrs. Scott. Afterward they removed to Minnesota, where he died. Mr. Kilgore and wife have had four sons and four daughters, seven now surviving - John O, born July 3, 1850; Amanda Jane, August 12, 1854 (wife of William Corson); Ella, February 26, 1859; James S., Nov. 19, 1864; Edith B., November 24, 1868; Minnie, January 21, 1872, and Bruce, born January L6, 1876. Mr. Kilgore has devoted his life to farming, and all in Madison County. He and wife were raised to pioneer life. They started out in life with no means, and although Mr. Kilgore, at one time suffered much from an affection of his hip, yet, by their combined industry and economy, they have accumulated a good competency; have a good farm of 112 acres, with good buildings and improvements, constituting a pleasant home and farmer's residence.

JOHN LOHR, farmer, P. O. London, was born in Shenandoah County. Va., April 1, 1816; he is a son of Michael and Mary Catherine Lohr, natives of Virginia. The grandfather was Michael Lohr, who, it is believed, was born in Virginia, where he lived and died. He was one of the early settlers of that State, and a farmer by occupation. It is believed he was the father of six children, of whom two yet survive - Catharine, who was never married, and resides on the old home place in Virginia, now aged ninety years; and what is remarkable in her history has never paid but $1.50 in doctor bills during her whole life, and Henry, the other child, who resides in Madison County, Va., past eighty years of age. Michael Lohr, father of our subject, the second child of his father, grew to manhood and married Mary Catharine Miller, a native of Virginia. They settled in his native county, where they resided till his death, February 26, 1819, aged thirty- two years. He was the father of four children - Margaret Ann. born May 7, 1812 (now widow Chapel); George W., born December 4, 1813; John, our subject; and Mary born March 27, 1818 (now Widow Carr). Mrs. Lohr married for her second husband Samuel Messmore, a native of Vir ginia, born August 18, 1798; by him she_ had three children - Elizabeth, born April 9, 1821; James M., born November 17, 1823, and Isabel, born October 29. 1830. Mr. Messmore died September 18, 1852; bis wife survived till December 29, 1864. John Lohr, the subject of this sketch, was but three years of age when his father died; when four years of age, ho was brought by his mother and step father to Ohio in the fall of 1820, and here he grew to manhood. On December 12, 1844, he married Ann Noteman, who was born in Madison County, Ohio, August 1, 1823, a daughter of William and Ann Noteman; he was born on the ocean and she in Virginia. He was principally raised in Madison County, and was married September 28, 1817. He was the father of four children, all now deceased but Ann. Mr. Noteman died January 14, 1827; his wife died July 12. 1826. Mr. Noteman was one of the earliest settlers of Madison County, and owned the farm where Mr. Lohr now lives. Mr. Lohr first located in London, and there followed his trade as a saddler till the spring of L848, when he removed to the farm where he now lives and lias since resided - a period of thirty four years. They first lived in a primitive log cabin, since which they have erected all the buildings and made improvements, till now he has a pleasant home with all necessary comforts, and a good farm of 300 acres, more than 200 of which are in pasture and cultivation. Mr. Lohr and wife have had ten children, eight now living - Thorressa, born December 19, 1845 (married Robert Moore) ; Berthier, born November 13, 1847 ; Clara, born March 22, 1851 (now Widow Pierce); Angenette, born October 10, 1853; Smith, born November 29, 1856; Ella, born October 4, 1859; Charlie S., born January 29, 1862; Flora, born November 30, 1868. Mr. Lohr is one of the prominent and reliable farmers of Deer Creek Township. He has held the office of Township Trustee several years, and that of School Director for many years. He and family are members of the Presbyterian Church of London, to which he has belonged many years, and in which he has been Elder more than twentv years.

-ALEXANDER B. McMURRAY, farmer, P. O. La Fayette, was born in Westmoreland County, Penn. , August 3, 1820. He is a son of Alexander and Ellen McMurray; he was born in Cumberland County, and she in Allegheny County, Penn. The grandfather, John McMurray, was a native of Scotland, and when a young single man emigrated to America about 1774. and served in the war of the Revolution, after which he married and located in Pennsylvania, and finally died in Westmoreland County. Alexander, the father of our subject, married Ellen Simpson and located in Westmoreland County, where they lived till 1826, when they emigrated to Ohio and located in Highland County, where they lived two years; after which they lived two years in Ross County, and in January, 1830, they removed to Madison County and located in Deer Creek Township; here his wife died May 9, 1854, aged seventy-three years. He died October 5,1867, aged ninety-six years. They had eight children, six now survive - John, James, Ellen, Isabel, Sarah and Alexander, our subject, who was ten year9 of age when they came to Madison County, and here grew to manhood, fully acquainted with the early pioneers and the hardships and trials of those days. He was married to Mary Houser, who was born in Fairfield County. Ohio, October L6, L838; she was a daughter of George and Barbara i .Miner) Honser, he a native of Virginia and she of Ohio. Their marriage was celebrated July 4, 1854. Mr. Houser and wife had rive children, four now living - Dorotha. Jane, Elizabeth, Mary and Ann .Maria. Mrs. Houser died in 1840; he still survives and resides in Indiana, aged seventy years. Mr. McMurray and wife have had ten children, seven now survive - Alex ander, born March 18, 1855; Louisa. April 16, 1859: George November 17, 1863; Ella, July 17. 1868; Robert, February 4. 1870; Sallie, March 22, L877; and Florence, born June 26, 187(.». Mr. McMurray has made farming his occupation through life, and all in this township, but three years, from the fall of 1855 to the fall of ls5\ during which he lived in [owa. In September, 1861, he bought and located on the place where he now lives and has since resided. This farm consists of fifty-two and a half acres, which he purchased of Mrs. Rogers. Mr. McMurray has served his Township as Trustee, and is one of the early settlers of this county.

JOHN MINTER, farmer, P. O. La Layette, was born in Harrison County, Va., October 12, L804; he is a son of William and Mary Minter, natives of Virginia. The grandparents were John and Elizabeth Minter, also natives of Virginia, who removed to Kentucky, and were among the early settlers of that State; they located on military lands, which, from the uncertain and imperfect titles which thru existed, he subsequently lost. About 1802, they removed to Ohio, and were among the pioneers of Dela- ware County, where they lived and died. William Minter married Mary Stevenson, and resided in Kentucky till the spring of 1829, when they removed to this county and located in Deer Creek Township, on the tract of land still owned by his son John, our subject, at a point about one mile north of La Fayette. This tract of land he obtained on a military claim, which called for 6,666f acres, of which he obtained about one-third; the balance being absorbed by fraud and expenses of surveys, and in locating the lands. This land was then all in its natural state, with no improvements, and here Mr. Minter spent the active portion of his life; thence he removed to the town of LaFayotte. where he passed the last years of his life. He died in August. L858, aged eighty -two years; Lis wife died in February. 1868, aged eightyseven years. Mr. Minter was one of the active, leading men of this community, and held many offices of trust in the township, and as stated in the history of Deer Creek Township, he was the founder of the town of La Fayette. He was always ready with his means and influence to aid in all public improvements for the general good of the community; and many of his neighbors and acquaintances were the recipients of his kindness and financial aid, even to the great injury of himself, and in his death the community lost one of her kindest and best citizens. He was the father of nine children - four now surviving - John, Sallie (now Widow Quinn). William. Crawford and Ann (now Widow Rogers). Our subject grew to manhood in Kentucky, and was in his twenty-fifth year when he came to Madison County with his father. He was married, September 7, 1887, to Mary Delaney. who was born in Urbana, Ohio, November 18, 1818, a daughter of David and Sarah Delaney, a native of Champaign County, Ohio. ' They had but one child - and wife have had six children - Salome and Saline (twins) born April 12, 1839; the former died January 12, 1857; the latter June 2, 1857; Walter, born April 12, 1842, died June 15, 1844; Sallie Ann, born October 11. IS |f». married W. H. Jones: Lewis K., born June 25, 1852; and Benjamin Franklin, born April 9, L855. Mr. Minter resided upon the old home place of his father till about 1N57, when he moved to La Fayette for the purpose of convenience to school, to educate his children. He Las now lived fiftvthree years in Deer Creek Township.

REV. SETH NOBLE,* deceased. Respecting the question of the early ministers of the Gospel in tLe county, 1 believe my grandfather- my mother's father - Rev. Seth Noble, was the first Presbyterian. I have in my possession a book of " uotes " of his sermons, in Lis own handwriting, together with the dates and places where some of his sermons were delivered - about fifty in all during the years of 1806 07. He was Lorn in \\ est field, Mass.. April 15. L743, and died in Frankhnton - aqw embraced in the corporation of Colni nl n is. Ohio September 15. 1807, aged sixtv four years. His genealogy, as tar as known, is as follow-: Thomas Noble was admitted an inhabitant of Boston, Mass., on the 5th day of January, L653. He was probably a native of England. In the year 1653, he moved to Springfield, Ma>s.. and in about 1669, to Westfield, Ma>s. He married, November 1. L660, Hannah Warrinor, Lorn in Springfield, Mass.. August IT, 1643, only daughter of William and Joanna (Scant) Warriner. To them were Lorn eleven children, the third one of whom was Thomas XoLle (" Deacon % Thomas), born in Springfield, Mass.. January 1 I. L666, and died in Westfield. Mass. July 29, 17-")". aged eighty-four years. He married, December 19, 1695, Elizabth Dewey, born in Westfield, Mass., January 10. 1077. daughter of Thomas and Constant (Hawes) Dewey, and was ordained as Deacon in the Congregational Church May 25, 171'J. They had eleven children, the first of whom was Thomas Noble, born in Westfield, Mass., September 10. 3696, and there died February 18. 1775, aged seventy-eight years. He married (first). September 1, 1722, Sarah Root, born in Westfield, Mass., March 9, 1702 daughter of John and Sarah (Stebbins) Root. To them were born ten chil dren. the youngest of whom being Rev. Seth Noble.

Rev. Seth Noble, was bprn in Westfield, Mass., April 15, 174M. He married (first), November 30, 1775, Hannah Barker, who was bom in Rowley. Mass., February 19, 1759, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Palmer) Barker, of Rowley, Mass., and Maugerville, N. S. She died in "Kenduskeag Meadow," (Bangor) Province of Maine, June 16, L790, He married (second), April 11, 1793, Mrs. Ruhama Emery, of Bangor, Maine, who died in Montgomery. Mass., in October or November, 1805. He married (third), Mrs. ' Mary Riddle, in June, 1807. He joined the Congregational Church at Westfield, Mass., May 5, 1770. His first settlement in the ministry was on the 15th day of June, 1771. over the Congregational Church in Maugerville, N. S., and the descendants of that society say that he was ordained at Newburyport, Mass. In 17S4. New Brunswick was separated from Nova Scotia, and in 1789 the meeting house in which " Parson " Noble had preached was removed to that part of the town which is now Sheffield, and on the 13th day of July, 1876, Rev. Joseph Barker, a grandnephew of Mrs. Noble's, was settled as their pastor. Rev. Seth Noble's ministry at Maugerville continued until 1777. when upon the arrival of an armed British schoonor, which had come to enforce the oath of allegiance to King George, he fled, narrowly escaping with his life, as he was an ardent advocate of the cause of the Colonists He became, for awhile at least, a soldier in the Revolutionary army. On the 7th day of June, 1780, he was engaged as the first settled religious teacher and preacher by the citizens of Kenduskeag Meadow (Bangor) at an annual salary of £70. He was inducted into office September 10, 1786. He was not only the first settled minister, but in 1790 he was deputized to go to Boston and procure from the General Assembly an act of incorporation, undei the name of Simfield; but being a teacher of sacred music, and passionately fond of the solid old minor tune of " Bangor," he erased " Sunfield " and inserted Bangor in the petition. The field over which Mr. Noble presided included Bangor, Brewer, Eddington, Hampden, Holden and Orrington. He added to these duties the instruction of youth in English branches, a iid also in singing. Deacon William Boyd, of Bangor, says "he was a good singer and had a clear and pleasant voice. He tauglrl those who were natural vocalists to sing by note, and was the first teacher of Bacred music in the place." During the Centennial exercises at Bangor in L876, a brother of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin's was the orator. In his oration, he presents the foregoing facts, dwelling upon them at length In 1797 he left Bangor and returned to New Market. \. H., where he had previously ministered to some now extinct Presbyterian congregations, and in L799 went to Westfield, Mass., the place of his activity, where for two years he supplied vacant pulpits in Beoket, Blanford, Feeding Hills. Ireland. Montgomery, Russell and Springfield. From the 1th of November, L801, he was the first settled pastor of the church at Montgomery, Mas- . up until his removal to Ohio in the spring of 1806.

June 26, L802, and published by T. M. Poineroy, of Northampton, in L804. I have in my possession a lengthy letter written me in 1870, by Rev. Elisha D. Barrett, of Assumption, III., who was, at thai, time, the oldest living Alumnus of Williams College, in which he says: "I well remember llev. Seth Noble as the first pastor at Montgomery. He was tall and slim, but very active and energetic. His stop was quick and firm, and his gait graceful. He wore a white wig, which he used to powder. His complexion was ruddy." "As a preacher he was sound and able; and his sermoDS were scholarly, unique, systematic and evangelical. On one occasion, a child by the name of Bartholomew was killed by a falling tree, and Mr. Noble preached the funeral discourse over the open grave from Ecclesiastes ix, 12. The effect was electrical, and proved the most dramatic scone [ have ever witnessed.'1 The Congress of the United States gave public lands to the Nova Scotia refugees. The refugee lands extend from the Scioto, at Columbus, Ohio, to the Muskingum, at Zanesville. Mr. Noble's share - 320 acres - fell where Columbus now stands. In the spring of L806, he came to Ohio anil settled in Franklinton. He built a house on his land, which Mr. Albert Bartholomew, now of Detroit, Mich., a grandchild, revisited and recognized about thirty years ago. His first recorded sermon preached in Ohio was at J. Andrus', at Worthington, April 9, 1806, He preached at Granville, Licking County, August 17, L806; at Franklinton, August 24, 1806; " Derby " (Big Darby) September 22,' 1806; Bixby's (Delaware), April 1 1, 1 S07, and at Berkshire. Delaware County, May 24 and '27, 1807. In 1847, whilst I was a dry goods clerk in the store of George A. Hill & Co., in Plain City (then Pleasant Valley), James Ewing. the first white settler of what is now Union County, told me that Mr. Noble had frequently been a guest at, his house, and had preached there a number of times. There were a number of Presbyterians along Big Darby, north of Ewing's, and among his other preaching places were the houses of the Mitchells ami Woods, the father of the late banker. William Wood, of Marysville, Ohio, and also at a point or points on Little Darby, over about the Fullington settlement. Mi'. Wood was himself ordained in 1807 or 1808, as is shown by letters now in my possession. Mr. Noble had not infrequently ministered to Presbyterian con gregations in Now Hampshire, in and around New Market, both before and after his settlement at Bangor, Maine; and it is presumable that he fell into the Presbyterian ways of his congregations in Ohio with but little embarrassment. History is history; and Mr. Noble was not only the first pastor at Maugervillo, at Bangor, and at Montgomery, bul he was doubtless the first preacher to the Presbyterians at Franklinton, where he was on a salary and preached regularly, twice on each alternate Sunday, in L807, where he had a church organization of fourteen members, of which Mrs. Lucas Sulli vant was one. I saw, when a boy, among my mother's papers, the list of names of these fourteen members; and these fourteen persons were undoubtedly the persons who, in L808, composed the " Firsl Presbyterian Church," at the time of the ordination of the Rev. .lames Hoge.

Mr. Noble's last recorded sermon was preached in Franklinton, August '.). 1 S07, from Matthew, xi. 28 - "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will gi ve you rest." He died on the 15th day of the follow ing month (September), ami was buried in the old b'ranklinton Buryingground; but the "march of empire," sweeping over and beyond, has left no token or sign of the exact spot where his body was laid to rest. His children by his first wife were as follows: Seth. born August -*>. 1777. at Maugervill S., was lost at sea off the New England coast, October 20. 1798, aged twenty-one; Joseph, born at New Market, N. H., June 13, 1783, died about 1869, at Brighton, N. B., aged about eighty-six; Sarah, born June 1, 1785, and died in Montgomery, Mass., November 15, 1836, aged fifty-one; Benjamin, born June 25, 1787, died in Brighton, N. B., April 12, 1860, aged seventy -three; Hannah (my mother), born in Kenduskeag Meadow (Bangor), Maine, September 11, 1789, died in Amity, Madison County, Ohio, November 17, 1854, aged sixty-five. The children by the second marriage were Betsey, Thomas, Polly and John Adams, all of whom are now dead.