Prospect Township (part 2 of 5)

ROBERT CRATTY, pioneer farmer, is the oldest person now living in Marion County, and was born August 24, 1784, at Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn. His parents' names were Thomas and Jane (McKinney) Cratty, the former a native of Ireland and the latter born on the same farm as our subject. His maternal grandparents were natives of Ireland. The father of Robert came to America as a soldier in the British Army about 1750 to 1755, and married his wife in Franklin County, Penn. They had ten children, our subject being next to the youngest. The family moved to Westmoreland County, Penn., in 1786, and in 1797, to Butler County, Penn. In the latter county, Mr. Cratty was married to Elizabeth English, a daughter of Samuel English. He. with his wife and family of seven children - Samuel, Thomas, William, Robert, James, Jane and Eliza Cratty - came to Ohio in 1817 and located near Ostrander, Delaware County, where they remained three years. In the fall of 1819, he purchased, at $3 per acre, 114 acres of land, one mile east of Prospect Village, joining the boundary line. The folllowing winter, he built on this land a round log house, 18x20 feet in size, and March 3, 1820, took up his residence in it, with his family. The neighbors were mostly Seneca Indians, only three other white families living near; they were tbe families of Thomas Pugh, one mile north; Ephraim Markley, one and a half miles northwest; and Elijah Adams, about three miles southeast. The first season the family were much afflicted with chills and fever. Mrs. Cratty died in the fall of 1820, leaving seven children. In tbe fall of 1821, Mr. Cratty was married at Milford Center, Union County, to Ellen Porter. By this marriage there were twelve children, as follows: Mary, John, Harvey, David, Hiram, Madison, Jane, Harvey W., Joseph and three died at birth. December 24, 1844, Mr. Cratty's second wife died, and in October. 1845, he was married to Sarah Bur rell, who died May 26, 1860, leaving no children. He was married the fourth time, July 23, 1861, to Mrs. Sarah W. Kilburn, now eighty-six years old, daughter of Ezra and Mary Wyatt. Mr. and Mrs. Cratty are now living on the old homestead that Mr. Cratty bought in 1819, and where be has continuously resided. This land was originally covered with a heavy growth of white oak, hickory, walmit. ash and beech timber. For many years after bis settlement here, his taxes were only about $2.50 per annum, having as much or more stock tban he has ever had since, though no stock at that time was taxed until after three years of age; now on the same property the taxes amount to $130 or $140 yearly. But he adds that it was as hard to get the $2.50 then as it is to get the $130 or $140 now. Then he was obliged to haul his wheat over dreadful roads to Delaware for 37£ cents per bushel, and the best of pork for $1.50 per hundred pounds, and has hauled loads of forty bushels of wheat to Sandusky City, getting 62 cents per bushel, starting Monday morning and arriving home Saturday or Sunday night, at times bringing back a load of salt, leather, etc., for merchants. He has in fine cultivation eighty acres of the homestead, principally cleared through his own exertions. Mr. Cratty is now in his one hundredth year, and is exceptionally hale and hearty for a man of his age. He served as an Ensign at Fort Erie in the war of 1812, and four of his sons and two grandsons served in the war of the rebellion. Mr. Cratty was Supervisor of the township for several years, and supervised the clearing up of many milee of the present township roads. Since the age of twentyone, he has been a member of the Presbyterian Church, and in politics was formerly a Whig, and of later years a Republican.

JOSIAH T. DAVIS, residence and post office address, Prospect Village, was born at Port Byrou, Westchester County, N. Y., December 27, 1815. His youth was spent in farming, and at the age of eighteen years he commenced learning the carriage-maker's trade at Unionville, Broome Co., N. Y. When twenty-one years of age, in company with his parents, one brother, Hubbard, and three sisters, Eliza, Sally Ann and Mary Jane, he came to Ohio and located at Sunbury, Delaware County, December 2, 1836. He was married September 2, 1845, to Cathrine Gast, born February 12, 1822, a daughter of Christian Gast, the original proprietor of the plat of Middletown, now Prospect. From this marriage there were five children; two died in infancy unnamed. Lafayette, born June 26, 1853; and died November 14, 1863; J. Albert, born September 26, 1849, is now residing at Prospect with his parents, and is a teacher of instrumental music; E. Eugene, born November 14, 1858, married Mary A. Kelly and now resides in Cincinnati, where he is the proprietor and director of the musical school known as the " Cincinnati Grand Conservatory of Music." Our subject was actively engaged in the carriage-making business at Prospect Village, but has now retired from active business, his time being mostly occupied in looking after his real estate interests. He has made two additions to the village plat. The lots extending from the old town nearly to the depot on Water street were nearly all laid out and sold by him - about thirty-six lots. The other addition was eighteen lots on North street. Mr. Davis has erected four dwelling houses in Prospect Village, one of which he occupies as a residence; it is one of the neatest and best residences in town, and cost about $2,000. Mr. Davis has been a life-long Democrat, taking at times an active part in politics. Himself, wife and children are members of the Lutheran Church. His father was Daniel Davis, a native of Horseneck, Conn, who was a son of Thomas Davis, a native of Wales. The latter during the reign of King George II, bought the township of land in which the city of Norwalk, Conn., is now located, and was the original proprietor of the first village plat of the present city of Norwalk. His mother's name before marriage was Priscilla Belden. Daniel Davis died March 31. 1855. and his wife Priscilla October 5, 1866, both deaths occurring at their son's, Hubbard's, house, who then resided three miles southeast of Prospect, on a farm now occupied by William Ludwig, the first aged seventy-nine years, and his wife aged eighty-one years.

ELIJAH DIX, farmer, Prospect Township, has been a resident of Marion County for thirty-eight years. His first visit to the county was as a teacher, a calling which ho followed for some ten years. He was born in. Troy Township, Delaware County, Ohio, August 6, 1822, and was a son of David Dix, a native of the State of Vermont, and the first settler in Troy Township. Our subject's mother's maiden name was Mary Main, a daughter of Peres and Rebecca Main, natives of Connecticut, and also early settlers in Troy Township. Elijah Dix was married July 2, 1848, to Phebe Biggerstaff, a daughter of Friend Biggerstaff. They have the following named children: Medill M., Charles S., William Warren and May. Mr. Dix is the owner of a valuable and highly improved farm of P25 acres nearly adjoining the corporate limits of the village of Prospect. He purchased this property in 1846, then all wild land; now 100 acres are subject to the plow. He is a Democrat in politics and has served the county and township in various official positions, among which were County Surveyor for two terms of three years each, Justice of the Peace for six years, Township Trustee repeatedly, and at different times nearly all of the township offices. He is one of the most substantial and best respected citizens of Prospect Township. Himself and wife have been members of the Baptist Church for upward of thirty years.

DIX BROTHERS, clothiers, Prospect Village. The members of this, firm are M. M. Dix, C. S. Dix and W. W. Dix. They opened up their clothing establishment, consisting of a fine stock of clothing and gents' furnishing goods, on the 15th of March, 1883. It is the only store in Prospect that deals exclusively in men's furnishing goods They carry a choice, selected stock of upward of $5,000 worth on their shelves, and buy their goods direct from the largest manufacturers and dealers of Eastern cities. The firm are also operating a store at Paulding, Ohio, which is doing a prosperous business under the management of C. S. Dix. M. M. Dix, of the firm above, was born December 24, 1855, in Prospect Township, fol lowed the life of a farmer until 1882, since which time he has been connected with mercantile pursuits in Prospect Village. He was married, July 27, 1882, to Miss Ella Wottring, a daughter of Philip Wottring, of Delaware. C. S. Dix, of this firm, was born September 8, 1858, in Prospect Township. He graduated at the Normal Department of Denison University in 1881, and since that time has engaged in mercantile pursuits. W. W. Dix, also of this firm, was born in Prospect Township. May 17, 1861; is first leader of the Prospect Star Band, He is junior partner of this firm, and is living at home with his father.

JAMES L. FARNUM, M. D. This gentleman is one of the oldest practicing physicians in Prospect Township. He was born in Pleasant Township, Marion County, September 28, 1825, and is a son of Erastus and Nancy (Robinson) Farnum. Two months before he was twenty-one, by agreeing to pay his father 50 cents a day for all the "fair days" in these two months, he was permitted by him to leave home and strike out for himself. He immediately took a job of cutting and putting up hay, which, when completed, averaged him $1.06 per day for his labor, the amount earned being $25.84. Of this money he paid his father $12, being part of the amount due him for the two months. Thus he had P13.84 left. With this money he paid for three months' board and schooling at Marion, and the following winter he taught school in Wyandot County at $10 per month and his board. At the close of his school, he returned to his father's and worked for him one month as final payment for the month lost before of age. He then attended school at. Millville, Delaware County, for three months, worked at harvesting after his school ended, and in the fall attended another term of three months at the Millville School, and in the winter taught school four months, in Radnor Township, Delaware County, at $15 per month. The next summer he commenced reading medicine in the office of J. P. Blake, M. D., at Prospect Village, and taught another term of school in Crawford County in the winter at $15 per month. On the completion of his medical studies in 1850, he became a partner in the practice of his preceptor, Dr. Blake. At this time Dr. Farnum was in debt for his education $200, with only 25 cents assets, which it took a couple of years to pay off. With very brief intermissions, the Doctor has practiced his profession in Prospect Village up to this date. He was so afflicted with rheumatism at one time as to be obliged to give up his practice, when he taught school one term in the village, and afterward removed to Richwood and taught a spring term of three months and a winter term of four months' school; this was the last school the Doctor taught. Having regained his health, he returned to Prospect and again commenced the practice of his profession, to which, in connection with farming, he has given strict attention up to this time. The first seventeen years of his practice through the country was attended to wholly on horseback, his rides extending fifteen miles north and west of town, through a newly settled country, especiallv toward the north, which was dense woods for miles. He would frequently be called on dark and stormy nights to ride through these woods several miles away, with nothing but a bridle path to follow, over great logs three feet through, which his horse would be obliged to leap. In 1861, the Doctor bought his first piece of land, sixty-six acres in Pleasant Township, for $2,000. He now owns 321 acres of land, its average value being about $100 per acre. A portion lies within the corporation of Prospect Village. He made an addition to the village plat that was recorded in the spring of 1883, on the west side of the Scioto River. He owns a fine residence in the village where he resides, as well as some other property. He is one of the wealthiest men of the township, as well as one of its most enterprising and honored citizens. Be is a Democrat, and has filled various offices in the township, among which was Township Clerk for several years. Dr. Farnum was married in March, 1850, to Ann Eliza Wottring, daughter of Jacob J. Wottring, an early settler. The Doctor and his wife have three children - M. Ellen, Samuel J. and William H. Samuel J. was married June 3, 1881, to Miss Addie Davis, daugther of David J. Davis, of Union County, Ohio. He is a farmer, residing half a mile north of Prospect Village.

JACOB F. FOX, Sr ., farmer, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, March 4, 1812. His parents were born at the same place and left Germany January 28, 1834, and the same year in the fall settled in Prospect Township. Jacob F. was next to the oldest child. The names of his parents were Christian and Magdalena Fox. His father bought ninety-seven acres of wild land, which he and his boys cleared up. Himself and wife are deceased. Mr. Fox was married, in November, 1841, to Mary Ann Sells; by this union there were six children - Jacob F., Jr., Eliza Jane, Caroline, Mary, Martha Ellen and John. His wife died and he was married to Catharine Engelhardt. by whom there were six children - Sophia, Joseph W.,

William, Susannah, Samuel and Rachel. This wife also died, and he was married again, to Mary Anna Sintz; by her there were three children- - Herman, Elizabeth M. and Philip H. This wife died, and he was married October 3, 1879, to Elizabeth C. Milhaus, widow of John Milhaus. Her maiden name was Loebrich. Mr. Fox owns 149 acres of land, on which he resides, 100 acres of which he has cleared. It was formerly covered with heavy timber, some oaks measuring six feet in diameter.

JACOB F. FOX, Jr., farmer, was born in Prospect Township, and is a son of the above mentioned. He enlisted, August 15, 1864, in Company I, One Hundred and Seventy- fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a soldier in the civil war, and served to the close, being mustered out of service at Camp Tod, Columbus, Ohio, in July. He was present at the following battles: Averill's Creek, the Cedars, Tennessee, and of Wise Forks, N. C. He was married, March 3, 1867, to Maria Ludwig, and they have had six children - John Harvey, Flora Mertie May, Carey Elmer, Elsie Ellen, Kelsie and Minnie, the last two being twins; Kelsie is deceased. Mr. Fox is the owner of forty acres in the northwest part of Prospect Township, where he resides.

CHRISTIAN OAST, bom April 23, 1726, and his wife Christina, born in 1729, were both natives of Wurtemberg, Germany. About the year 1750, immediately after their marriage, they emigrated to America, first settling in Maryland, not far from Philadelphia, Penn., and subsequently moving to Center County, Penn., where they passed the remainder of their lives. They had two sons and one daughter who grew to maturity and raised families. Their names were John, Nicholas. Catherine and Christian. The last mentioned bought a farm on the banks of the Juniata River in the town of Frankstown, Huntingdon Co., Penn., where he and his wife both died, he at the advanced age of about eighty years. They rasied a family of ten children, who grew to be men and women. Their names were as follows: Catherine, born February 12, 1789; Christian, August 9, 1790; John, November 13, 1793; George, February 8, 1796; Jacob, March 24, 1798; William, March 15, 1800; Mary, March 21, 1803; Margaret, December 15, 1805; Sarah, December 17, 1807; Samuel, January 19, 1810.

CHRISTIAN GAST, one of the children last mentioned, was married in Huntingdon County, Penn., about the year 1813, to Elizabeth Moyer, a daughter of Philip Moyer, and settled on a farm in Greenfield Township, Bedford County, Penn. The y emigrated to Ohio in 1832, bringing with them a family of nine children, who were named as follows: Margaret, born March 3, 1814; Elizabeth, March 14, 1816; Philip, February 24, 1818; Christian, November 10, 1819; Catharine, February 12, 1822; George, November 16, 1823; Sarah, April 1, 1826; David, December 17, 1828; Mary, November 25, 1830; the next and youngest child was Abigail, born in Marion County, May 23, 1833. On the arrival of the family in Ohio they located in what is now Prospect Township, Mr. Gast buying 600 acres of land at $4 per acre. It was then a wilderness, only fourteen acres having been improved at all. On this clearing there was an old round-log house, into which the family moved, April 27, 1832, and occupied as a residence until 1840, when he erected a stone house on nearly the same site. In this house he and wife passed the remainder of their lives. His son David now owns and occupies this bouse as his residence. It is situated on the eaBt side of the road and is the first house going south from Prospect Village after crossing the bridge that spans Battle Run. The 600 acres of land that he purchased was on the east side of the Scioto River and in- first church built in the village a ^T^^^^t^^ £" site of the present brick schoolhouse. was built princtalh bv trUZ^ from him; he afterward contributed largely in the erec L J ?n tnbutlons brick Lutheran Church. In politics belt ^l"TgjL^ ^ vote being cast for Gen. Jackson for President- he snLnZ, L Whig, and in the latter days of his life a Ke'publi"n ^Wh^ h W te Pennsylvania, he served his community as Justice of the Peace WLr mg his residence m Prospecr, Township served in many of its lo^f offl He was a man of sterling wor^h a symnathi^ncr a^i 7 i k, ?ffices" forty-hve years, and now lie side by side in the village cemeterv nlJi Z mg the waters of the placid Scioto.7 At the funera of M Ga7 a stmt . was preached m the German language from the fourteenth 'chapl eZt John, hrst and second verses; also in the English lauo-uao-e from f hi end epistle of Paul to Timothy, fourth o^9U^d^^d^^rZ Mr. Gast in his early years learned the trade of a wao-on- maker and during bis residence in Prospect followed that business to aCator Lss extent, in connection with his farming and other interests. It a meet W held m Prospect a year or two since, there were thirty-six iamuL Z g, who lived within two miles of Prospect Village tha t^ SSt some degree of relationship of the pioneer Christian Gasl ffis descend Township.110" am°ng ^ bGSt ^ - Respected citizens of "t

CHRISTIAN GAST, born November 10, 1819 and a son rf Ph.- an Elizabeth (Moyer) Gast, before mentioned pa'ed hT ylth on! Z father s farm, and lived with his parents until twenty-three /ears of a^e During this time he learned the wagon-maker's and carpenter's trade K« £ 7« February 17. 1842. to Miss Mary with whom he lived seven years, when he was on the 20th of Juoe 184^ ch IT:" a id wn * ^ ' ^1? ""^ ^Toho^l TohnTi I ^i?^ Wllham W" born September 2, 1843° John M., November 16, 1845; and Mary Ellen, Mav 12 1848 Tha f 11 ing year, on July 5, 1849, Mr. Gast was married a sist^of his Sr wife, Miss Jane Cratty, who was born January 1 1833 rJ fh? there were three children-Philip M.,born vSSuZi llL^tmL^T^ camber 28, 1855 and now deceased; and Ida L., November 28 1^' ' Mr Gast is one of he most substantial .and respected citizens of Prospit Township, and all those enterprises that advance the prosperity ami enlightenment of the community he is ever ready to promote and LT I personal influence and liberal 'donations. Himself Z ? wife are members 0?

the Lutheran Church, in which he has held some office, such as Trustee, Deacon, etc., for many years. He has made farming the business of his life; in this calling he has been successful, and now owns 100 acres of valuable land with tine improvements, adjoining the corporation of the village of Prospect. In politics he is a Republican.

DAVID GAST. This gentleman is one of the leading citizens, financially and socially, of Prospect Township. He is a son of the original proprietor of Prospect Village mentioned above, and was born in Frankstown Township, Bedford County, Penn., December 17, 1828. He was married at Circleville, Ohio, May 9, 1852, to Miss Catharine M. Row, a daughter of David and Catharine (Hoffman) Row, of that place. From this marriage there were seven children, only two of whom are living, as follows: George F. , who married Mattie Boxwell, is a farmer and resides in Prospect Township, and Samuel, who lives at home. Mr. Gast has lived on a farm since infancy, and has been engaged in farming pursuits all his life, and, as he was the youngest son, always resided with his parents at the homestead, where they settled in Prospect Township in 1832, and of which he is now the owner, including 180 acres of land, mostly adjoining the corporation of Prospect Village. In connection with his farming and other interests, for the last thirty years he has devoted much of his time to the study and treatment of diseases of horses and stock. In the treatment of these diseases he has been eminently successful, and he is known as a successful veterinarian over a wide extent of country. He has for the last few years devoted much time to the successful treatment and cure of cancers, his method being by outward appliances and internal remedies, but in no case using the knife. His treatment in many cases has proved a cure, restoring the patients to perfect health. Mr. Gast is a Republican in politics, and although the Democrats are in the majority in Prospect Township, he has been elected to many of its local offices. He was Justice of the Peace nine years, Township Trustee three years, and Township Super visor for many years. He has been a member of the Lutheran Church for thirty-eight years, and his wife thirty. five years. He has held the office of Deacon of this church for about eighteen years, and some kind of church office continuously for thirty years. In all matters pertaining to the welfare of the church and Sunday school, he takes an active part, and for the past four years has acted as Superintendent of the Sunday school, a position he had previously filled for several years. As a representative citizen of this township, we give the portrait of Mr. Gast in this work.

GEORGE GAST is a son of Christian and Elizabeth (Moyer) Gast, and was born November 16, 1823, in Pennsylvania. He passed his youth and early manhood on the homestead with his pareuts, during this time following the vocation of a farmer and also learning the carpenter's and wagon-maker's trades. "When about thirty-three years of age, he was married to Miss Margaret Edelman, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Edelman, of Marion County. The marriage ceremony was performed January 1, 1856. From this union five children were born, as follows: Arthur L., Mary Elizabeth (who is now the wife of Dr. G. H. Masters, a practicing physician at Prospect Village, and they have one child - Emma); Eva and Amelia - all living with their parents except the married one. They lost one child, an infant, named Jesse Raymond. Mr. and Mrs. Gast are members of the Lutheran Church. He has officiated as leader in the Lutheran Church choir continuously for nearly thirty years, and also as Sunday school teacher and librarian for several years. Mr. Gast has an excellent farm of 100 acres adjoining the village of Prospect, on which he has a large and commodious residence, with other line impi*ovenients. A fine barn was destroyed by tire, supposed to be the work of incendiaries, who were enraged at the very decided stand he took against intemperance and the traffic in spirituous liquors in the vicinity. He is a firm advocate of temperance, a good citizen, and a liberal, conscientious Christian gentleman, and a worthy descendant of his pioneer father. He has in his possession an Indian relic which he found near Battle Run many years ago. It is an Indian tomahawk of fine make, inlaid with six pieces of silver, the hammer end beiug made hollow for use as a pipe. From its fine workmanship it is inferrable that it once belonged to a chief.

G. F. GAST, a native of Prospect Township, was born August 25, 1856, a son of David and Catharine M. (Row) Gast. This gentleman has always followed farming, and now resides one mile west of Prospect Village, adding to his farming the raising of fine poultry. He was married, January 2, 1881, to Mattie A. Boxwell, daughter of Titus and Lucetta Boxwell, of Pleasant Township.

JOHN B. GAST was born September 18, 1827, and is a son of William Gast, who was born March 15, 1800; his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Lingerfelter. At the age of sixteen he learned the tailor's trade, and afterward learned the cabinetmaker's trade, which business he carried on in Prospect Village for eighteen years, when he bought sixty-six and one- half acres of land west of the village, where he has ever since resided. He was married, January 1. 1832, to Miss Sarah Smith, a daughter of Jacob and Frances Smith, who came to Ohio about 1839. Mr. and Mrs. Gast have two children - Elizabeth Frances, born March 16, 1853; and Candace Ann, born August 5, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Gast are members of the Lu theran Church.

JOHN M. GA.ST, teacher of vocal and instrumental music, was born on November 16, 1845, and is a son of Christian and Mary (Cratty) Gast. He passed his youth and young manhood at the homestead of his father near Prospect Village, during this time acquiring a good literary education at the Prospect Schools. Exhibiting a decided taste and talent for music he early applied himself to its study, under some of the best teachers of vocal and instrumental music in the country, among ttiem Prof. Minelli of Delaware, when attending the Academy of Music at Xenia, Ohio, and Dr. George F. Root, of Chicago, 111. For the past eighteen years, Mr. Gast has been a successful and popular teacher of vocal and instrumental music in this county, and is at present teaching six different classes in vocal music, besides having thirty-six pupils in instrumental music. He has a fine farm of eighty-five acres adjoining the corporation of Prospect Village, valued at from $100 to $150 per acre, on which he has an elegant residence, within a few rods of the corporation line and near the railroad depot. Mr. Gast was married, December 15, 1872, to Mellusina Leist, born January 5, 1849. a daughter of C. B. and Isabel Leist, natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Gast have a family of three children - Cora Estella, born August 11, 1877 - "William A., born September 25, 1880; and Carrie Belle, born March 20, 1882. Mr. Gast is a member of the Lutheran Church, and in politics is a Republican.

REV. PHILIP GAST (deceased), was a son of Christian Gast. the proprietor of the original plat oi Prospect. He was a Lutheran minister, coming to Prospect in 1832. In 1857, he became the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at this place, where he preached about nine years, when he was prostrated by the typhoid fever and died October 20, 1865; about the same time, two of his sons fell victims to the same disease. His widow, whose maiden name was Lucy A. Dressier, was a native of Pennsylvania and a daughter of Samuel Dressier. She diod in Prospect in 1881, and both are buried in the village graveyard on the banks of the Scioto River. They had nine children, live sons and four daughters, two sons and four daughters living; one died when an infant. Matthias and William both died of typhoid fever, aged respectively nineteen and eight een years Samuel H. is living in Prospect Tillage, a partner in the hardware business with B. K. Herbster, the firm being Herbster & Gast. He has been Mayor of the village one term, member of the Council. School Board, etc. In politics, he is a Republican. The other son, Edward C. Grast, is now living in Fremont, Ohio, following the hardware business. Samuel H. Gast was married, May 24, 1883, to Miss Louisa C. Herr, of Gallon, Ohio; they reside in Prospect Village.

PHILIP M. GAST is a son of Christian and Jane (Cratty) Gast. and a grandson of Christian Gast, the original proprietor of Prospect Village. He was born February 2, 1854. When twenty-four years of age he engaged at clerking in Prospect Village, a business he followed the greater part of the time for live years. He owns sixteen acres of valuable land, in and adjoining the village corporation, on which there is a fine residence, wherein he lives with his family. He is now engaged principally in farming, and has charge of the homestead, 100 acres, owned by his father. Mr. Gast was married, March 11, 1877, to Miss Hattie C. Jelley, a daughter of John H. Jelley, of Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio. She was born November 24, 1859. Thev have three children - Metta Gertrude, born February 11, 1878; Christian Scotfc, May 10, 1880; Robert Roy, May 18, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Gast are members of the Lutheran Church.

WILLIAM W.GAST is a native of Prospect Township, and was born September 2, 1843. He is a son of Christian and Mary (Cratty) Gast; he lived at the homestead of his parents until twenty-one years old, meanwhile receiving the advantages of a common school education. At this age, he commenced business for himself by buying forty-eight acres of land a half mile east of Prospect Village, for $2,300, which ho sold in 1870 for $3,600. He subsequently bought 110 acres one and a half miles east of Prospect Village, for $5,000, which he still owns, and is valued at $100 per acre. In the fall of 1882, he bought live-eighths of an acre of land just east of the railroad depot in Prospect Village, for building purposes, on which he has erected a large and commodious brick house for his residence, at a cost, with outbuildings, of nearly $3,000. In addition to his farming business, he has for the past five years been successfully engaged in the sale of agricultural implements. He is of an energetic disposition, enterprising and progressive, and is known and respected as one of the best citizens of the township. He was married January 3. 1867, to Esther G. Grigsby, of this township, and a daughter of John Grigsby They have a family of three children - Elida, born February 22, 1871; Clara M., born December 20, 1875, and Mary Jane, born December 2.1880. Mr. Gast is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

T. J. GLIDDEN, M. D. Dr. Glidden is a native of Westfield, Morrow County, Ohio, and was born in June, 1836. His father, T. P. Glidden, was a physician and practiced at Cardington, Morrow County, for many years. T. J. commenced reading medicine in the office with his rather in 1857; after reading with him four years, he entered Starling Medical College at Colum- bus, Ohio, as a student and graduated in 1865. On finishing his medical course, he began practicing in Radnor, Delaware County, remaining there until 1872, when he removed to Prospect Village, continuing his practice there until the present time. He has a practice extending for miles around Prospect, and owns and operates a drug store in the village. He has retained the most of his old patients in Radnor Township, where he first commenced, they having followed him. He was married, at Cardington, Ohio, to Miss Millie Liggett, daughter of Alexander Liggett, of that place. They have three children - Nellie M., Edna V. and Anna A. - all living at home except Nellie, who is now the wife of Dr. Gorslene, of Radnor. The Doctor is a Republican.

HENRY HAIN, Esq., Notary Public at Prospect Village, was born in what is now Liverpool Township, Perry County, Penn , August 2, 1812. His parents' names were Daniel and Elizabeth (Young) Hain, both natives of Pennsylvania, and mentioned elsewhere in this volume. Henry Hain was raised on a farm and worked out at different kinds of labor until twenty-one years of age, his father receiving the proceeds. When he became of age, he was working at a steam mill, and remained there until December 23, 1833, when he obtained a position as clerk with T. M. Sloan, of Marion, with whom he remained three years. During this time, January 31, 1835, he was married to Hannah Noble, of Pleasant Township; by this marriage there were two children. He lost his wife by death, September 25, 1843; one child had preceded her, and the other child died June 25, 1844, aged about four years. He was married a»ain, November 14, 1844, to Susannah Barnhart, who died in Clay County, Ind., June 30, 1872. For several years after 1835, he followed clerking at various places - some fifteen months at Norton, Delaware County, and six months at Letimberville. His health having failed, he followed farming three years, living in the house where he was married. On regaining his health, he returned to Marion, and commenced clerking for T. Search & Son; while with them in 1844, he was elected Recorder of Marion County, which office he filled for nine years, also attending to his duties as Clerk at the same time. In 1853, he was elected Auditor of the county, serving two years, and in 1859 was elected Infirmary Director, which office he filled for six years, and since his residence in Prospect Township has acted as a Justice of the Peace for twelve years and a half. He is now a Notary Public, this making the fourth year that he has filled that office. Since 1830, Mr. Hain has, with the exception of three years spent in Indiana and fifteen months in Norton, been a continuous resident of Marion County up to this time. He is very popular in the section where he resides, and is honored and respected by all who know him. He has been fairly successful in a financial sense, having a comfortable fortune for his support and enjoyment, and follows out the maxim " to live and let live," both in theory and practice.

L. D HARSHBERGER, farmer, was born October 31, 1845; his parents were Leonard and Margaret Barbara (Snider) Harshberger; the father died in June, 1845, about four months before L. D. was born; his widow afterward married C. F. Hopkins and died in May. 1875. The subject of this sketch was married, April 4. 1866, to Elizabeth Andrew, born August 25, 1845, a daughter of Peter and Mary (Hopwood) Andrew, the former a native of Maryland, and the latter of Fairfield County. Ohio. They were married July 10, L842. Peter Andrew Bettled in Green Camp Township at a very early date, wheru he served as Justice of th^ Peace for many years. He was a man of good education and greatly rpspected for his many excel- lent qualities. He died June 9, 1863; his wife died February 10, 1861. L. D. Harshberger and wife have five children - Maggie Lillian, born January 17, 1867; Jennie Leora, Julv 19, L870; Daisy I.. October 31, 1873; Dora H., June 2, 1876; and Hattie May, born March 30, 1879. Mr. Harshberger has always been a farmer, and now owns 120 acres of excellent land, two and a half miles north of Prospect Village, on Section 31, Prospect Township. The farm is finely improved, lying along the east side of the Scioto rtiver. A few rods from its banks is Mr. Harshberger's residence. Its site is one of the prettiest locations in the county. Mr. Harshberger is a member of Prospect Lodge, No. 444, F. &. A. M., and has served as its Treasurer for several years. He has resided where he now lives since April 4, 1857, and is one of Prospect Township's most substantial men. Mr. Harshberger enlisted, August 8, 1864, in Company I, One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Iufantry, and served until the close of the war, and was honorably dischai'ged at Charlotte, N. C. , June 28, 1865. He was present at the battle of Averill's Creek, December 4. 1864; the Cedars, December 7, 1864, where he was in the skirmish lino all day; the evacuation and burning of Decatur, Ala., November 27. 1864; Kingston. N. C, and at the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army, in 1865.

BENJAMIN K. HERBSTER, merchant, was born in Albany Township, Berks County, Penn., December 6, 1843; his parents were Benjamin and Lydia (Kumrer) Herbster; the father of Benjamin was John. The Herbsters came from Wurtemberg, Germany, at a very early date and settled on a farm in Pennsylvania, where our subject was born, he being of the fourth generati on born on this farm. He was reared to the life of a farmer; at the agH of twenty-one years, he commenced learning the trade of a mil ler in Schuylkill County, Penn. ; after remaining there eighteen months, in the spring of 1866, he came to Ohio and worked as a miller in Delaware, Prospect and Marion until 1871, when he formed a partnership with William Reeser, under the firm name of Herbster & Reeser, and bought the Prospect mill, which they operated until 1877, when they sold the mill to Morrow Brothers. In 1878, the firm built the two large brick dwelling houses where they now reside, at an expense of about $10,000. They were then the best private dwellings in town. The first bank ever started in the village was the Prospect Bank, organized in 1880, by B. K Herbster and W. H. Mohr, with Mr. Herbster as President. It was then a private bank. Its establishment proved a great convenience to the business community, and on March 8, 1882, it was re-organized into a stock company, Mr. Hersbter still acting as its President, In 1882, Mr. Herbster became a stockholder in the Richwood Importing Company, which has been the means of introducing some of the finest stock horses from France into this and adjoining counties. In February, 1882, in connection with his other interests, he formed a partnership with S. H. Gast in the hardware business at Prospect, under the firm name of Herbster & Gast, which business is still continued. They carry a full line of all kinds of hardware and agricultural implements. In politics, Mr. Herbster adheres to the principles as represented by the Democratic party, and has served in various/ official posi tions, among which were Village Cou cilman six or seven years, Township and Village Treasurer two years, and Township Trustee two years. He takes an active and leading part in the politics of his vicinity. He was married, in 1868, to Miss Henrietta Wottring, a daughter of Philip Wottring. They have had three children, only two living - Richard and Mary.

The one deceased was named Raymond, and died in infancy. Mr. Herbster is one of the most substantial and enterprising business men of Prospect Village.

JOHN H. HO WISON was born near Brentsville, Prince William Co., Va., August 9, 1880; his parents were John and Louisa (Cornwall) Howison, who came to Muskingum County in 1838, remained two years and returned to Virginia; came to Ohio again in 1847, locating on land in Delaware County in 1850, where his youngest son- Stephen G. Howison - now lives. He died in April, 1865; his widow now resides with her son, John H. In 1S53, John H. Howison, in partnership with his brother, Charles O, bought 212 acres of wild land on Survey 6,162, Prospect Township; the same year they divided this land, each taking 106 acres; here Mr. Howison has lived ever since. He has cleared sixty-five or seventy acres of this land and still owns seventy -soven acres of the original purchase. In addition to the home farm, he has cleared some forty acres of land once owned by him, but now by Simon Rogers, in Claibourne Township, Union County. He was married, March 28, 1861, to Mary A. Adams, born in Sussex County, near Brighton, England, October 2, 1840, and was brought to the United States by her father, Robert Adams, when she was but two and a half years old Robert Adams was an early settler in this neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Howison have had eight children - Amanda J., born January 10, 1863; Henrietta L., January 25, 1865; Thomas E., February 16, 1867; Angelina A., December 26, 1869; Walter G., November 12, 1872; Sarah E., March 1, 1875; Alfred K, May 19, 1877, and died July 31, 1877, and Ivy D., March 28. 1881, and died June 9, 1883. Mr. Howison is a Democrat, and has served the township as Trustee two years, Justice of the Peace six years, and is now serving his third term. Esquire Howison and wife are both members of the Methodist Church and are among the best respected citizens of Prospect Township.

EVAN HUGHES, farmer, was born December 9, 1837, in Montgomeryshire, North Wales, and is a son of David and Mary (Evans) Hughes, who emigrated from Wales and located in Radnor Township, Delaware County, in 1838; they were the means of a large colony emigrating from Wales, who settled in that township. Evan Hughes has always followed the calling of a farmer. The first land that he bought was 130 acres, one-half mile south of Richwood, Union County. Two years afterward, he sold this farm, when he bought the farm of 201 acres where he now resides, in Prospect Township. He has since added to this so that he now has 217 acres. His father died when Evan was but eleven years old, and he was left the chief support of his widowed mother. When he was fourteen vears of age, his mother died, after a sickness of eighteen months, during which time she was confined to her bed. and cai*ed for by her son Evan. To his good mother and her guidance in his youth he ascribes much of his present success in life. When he was eleven years of age, in order to keep him from idle company in town, she hired him out to a farmer, at $2 per month for six months, thus teaching him the habits of industry and frugality. The Evans family in Wales was a very nncient one, and the farm called " Nant J. Deflaid," belonging to the family in Wales, has been handed down from father to the eldest son for the past 500 years. Evan was married, March 12, 1859, to Sarah Kyle, daughter of David and Margaret Kyle. The former is deceased and his widow is now the wife of Adam Dilsaver, of Union County. Mr. Hughes lost his wife by death, January 9, 1874, leaving to his care six small children, the youngest only two years of ago and the oldest thirteen. Their names are as follows: Mary Florence, now the wife of James F. Decker, of Prospect Township; Margaret Ellen, David, Kate, Orrel, Lee and Sally.

JAMES JOHNSON was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, September 16, 1814; his father's name was James Johnson, a native of the North of Ireland, who located in Pleasant Township, Marion County, about the year 1820. Hie wife Elizabeth was of German origin and died in Fairfield County, Ohio. The subject of this sketch was married September 9, 1834, to Catharine Clay, born March 9, 1820, a daughter of John and Mary Ann (Heiser) Clay, all natives of Pennsylvania. The family of the Clays lived near Carlisle, Penn., and emigrated to Ohio about the year 1832. Their means of conveyance for the family and household goods was a heavy wagon drawn by one team Mary Ann Heiser Clay, the mother of Mrs. Johnson, died in Pennsylvania, leaving three children. Her father married his second wife, and when they started for Ohio the party consisted of her stepmother and her three children, Mrs. Johnson and her brother, George Clay. They were four weeks on the trip, and Mrs. Johnson walked the whole distance except one day that she rode in the wagon. Her father and the family located on a farm in Prospect Township, where Mr. Komoser now lives. It consisted of seventy-three acres. Her father was of fpeble health and died on this farm. James Johnson and his wife, in the spring of 1848, bought a farm of twenty nine acres in Prospect Township, mostly wild land, located near where Mr. Dunbar now lives. The farm was increased to forty-two acres, and in the fall of 1857 they moved to Thompson Township, Delaware County, where they bought a farm of fifty acres, but remained there only until 1864; they then returned to Marion County and bought the farm of 100 acres in the northwest part of Prospect Township, where the family now reside. Mr. Johnson died on this farm in 1876. During his life, he took an active and prominent part in the affairs of the community where he lived. While in Delaware County, he served two years as Justice of tiie Peace, and for ten years in this county he acted in the same capacity. One of his sons, Peter S. Johnson, was a soldier in the cavalry service of the Union during three years of the war of the rebellion, and in an engagement was wounded severely in the head. James Johnson and Catharine (Clay) Johnson had a family of the following named children: John O, born June 23, 1835; Naomi, March 13, 1837; Nathan C, April 30, 1838; Susannah C. , September 13. 1840; James W., November 4, 1842; George W., June 25, 1844; Peter S., March 16, 1846; Tabitha E., January 24, 1848; Eliza J., December 3, 1849; Samuel L., March 23, 1851; Mary C. M. E., February 21, 1853; Ammi Cassius, January 8, 1855; Jessie F., May 6, 1856: Lewis Olney, March 29, 1858; Andrew J. F., Februarv 25, 1860; William Theodore, March 30, 1863. The widow still lives a"t the homestead with several of her children, genial and happy in her declining years. She has sixteen grandchildren living, and five great grandchildren.

WILLIAM KIRTS, farmer, was born in Prospect Township, March 5, 1827; his parents' names were Michael and Elizabeth (Simpson) Kirts, natives of Pennsylvania, near the Maryland State line. They were of Scotch and German parentage; are both now deceased and buried in the Otterbein graveyard in Prospect Township. They came to Marion County in 1826, locating near Prospect Village, and subsequently bought the farm now owned and occupied by William B. Thomas and cleared it up. The buildings on this farm were erected by them. They had ten children - Mary

Ann; George; Henry, deceased; Julia Ann, deceased; William; Daniel, deceased; David and Jane (twins), Matilda and Isaac. Himself and wife are members of the United Brethren Church and were much respected. William Kirts, the subject of this sketch, lived with his father until twenty-one years of age, when he went to Upper Sandusky and worked at making rails and gathering cranberries for two years. During that time he made 28,000 rails and helped to clear 100 acres of land. He then came hofne and farmed his father's place for three or four years, when he bought 106 acres of land, at $0 an acre, where he now resides. The land was then covered by a dense forest. He immediately made a clearing and erected a log cabin; the same year (1853) he was married to Ruth Ann Williams, a daughter of John Williams, one of the early settlers of the county. They moved into the log cabin February 27, 1854. He has since added to the home farm, so that it now consists of 230 acres, of which 190 acres are cleared. He has 110 acres in Union County, fifty [of which are cleared. The old log cabin has b^en superseded by a fine frame residence, surrounded by convenient barns and out-buildings, with a tine well of water. This last was very expensive to obtain, as Mr. Kirts dug seventeen different wells before securing a good one; and, as he says, among all of his improvements it has cost as much as any one of them. He has assisted in rolling logs at thirty-one places in one spring. Mr. Kirts is one of the self made men of the county; he acquired all his home farm by hard work and industry, though afterward he received a legacy of $2,500 and forty acres of land from his father's estate. Mr. and Mrs. Kirts have the following children: Mary Ellen, AJbin D., Elizabeth Sivonia, John Michael, Silas Spencer, Eva, Ada Thalia, Thomas Edwin. Mary Ellen, who married Frank Butts, lives with her husband on her father's farm in Union County. Elizabeth married Samuel Johnson, and lives on the home farm; Eva Florence married Fuller Johnson; the rest of the children are living with their parents.

EMMANUEL KNACHEL, meat market, Prospect Village, was born June 22, 1830; his parents were George and Maria (Aulsebouse) Knachel, who came to this county in 1841 and settled on wild land in the woods, one and a half miles west of Prospect. The father died in the spring of 1879, aged seventy-seven years: the mother is still living, aged seventy-eight years. Our subject passed his youth on his father's farm. In 1850, he went to- California, where he prospected and mined for gold, meeting with fair success. He returned in 1852, and in 1853 was married to Rosina Tyler, a daughter of Richard Tyler, of this county and formerly of Virginia. From this union there are three children - Bertha R.. born March 28, 1858; Wilson F., October 24, I860: Jennie P., August 9, 1866. Mr. Knachel enlisted as a soldier in 1864, in Company I, One Hundred and Seventy -fourth regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry to serve in the war of the rebellion, and took part in the battle of Kingston, Tenn. , August 26, 1864. At the close of the war in 1865, he was honorably discharged and mustered out of service. He is a Republican.

DAVID D. LITTLE, drayman and carpenter, was born in Union County, Ohio, February 23, 1843. and is a son of Simon Peter and Mary Magdalene (Shafer) Little, both early settlers in Union County. The latter was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., in 1808, and came to Harrison County, Ohio, with her parents when she was but eleven years old. Simon Peter Little was born in Maryland in 1807, and was the son of Adam and Mary (Hendrickson) Little, he of New England parentage, and the latter of

English origin. Simon Peter Little died in 1857; his wife is still living, and resides with her son, David D. Little. The latter, in the spring of

1864, enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Seventy- fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Inf a ntry for three years, and was present with his regiment at the battles of Murfreesboro, Stone River, and in a number of skirmishes in Tennessee. He went with Gen. Sherman's army on his famous march to the sea as far as Columbia, Ala., where, being taken sick, he, with some 200 others, was returned to Franklin, Tenn. Here they lay two weeks awaiting transportation. Owing to the hurried movements of the army, sufficient rations had not been furnished to these invalids, on account of which they suffered considerably, especially as the country was swarming with bushwhackers and guerrillas. Mr. Little was finally sent to Harwood Hospital, at Washington, D. C, where he remained until the war ended, during the latter part of his stay there acting as hospital steward On his return home, he engaged in farming for one year. The succeeding years up to 1870, he was engaged as contractor in the grading of graveled roads in Marion, Delaware and Union Counties. Mr. Little was married, March 10, 1870, in Radnor Township, Delaware County, by the Rev. Mr. Lyons, a Baptist minister, to Mary J Kyle, daughter of James and Elizabeth Kyle, old residents, Mr. Kyle being the second white child ever born in that township. Mr. and Mrs. Little have three children - Mary E., born July 10, 1871; Arlington D., March 8, 1873, and Gracie B., November 7, 1882. From about the date of his marriage Mr. Little followed farming for six years, when he moved to Prospect Village, since which time he has been principally engaged in the drayage business and in contracting for and building grades for gravel roads. He is a Republican in politics and since his residence in Prospect has served the village as its Marshal for three years. Himself and wife are members of the Baptist Church.

BRYAN MALONEY, farmer, was born June 13, 1835, in the parish of Kilgobbin, County Kerry, Ireland. The names of his parents were John and Mary (Shayhan) Maloney. The mother died in Ireland: subsequently the father, with his five children, emigrated to America, landing at the port of Quebec, Canada, July 4, 1847. The names of the children were Bridget, Bryan, Mary, Patrick and Julia. From Quebec the family passed to Kingston, and thence to Syracuse, N. Y., where they located, and in 1852 the family moved to Delaware County, Ohio. Bryan Maloney was married in 1858, at Delaware, Ohio, to Margaret Deen, a daughter of John Deen, now of Galion, Ohio. Seven years after his marriage, on April 5,

1865, he came to Marion County and bought 110 acres of land in Prospect Township, where he now resides. It was then mostly wild land. He has since added to his farm »o that the homestead now consists of 196 acres. Of this farm, Mr. Maloney has cleared of its timber 125 acres. December 15, 1874, Mrs. Maloney died, leaving six children, named Mary E., Josephine, Julia, James, Margaret and Bridget. Mr. Malony was married the second time May 2, 1876, to Johanna Tobin, a daughter of William Tobin, and by this marriage there are two children - William and Bryan. The subject of this sketch is one of the foremost farmers of Prospect Township and enjoys the respect and esteem of its citizens in a high degree. He is a member of the Catholic Church.

C. L. MOHR, senior partner of the firm of C. L. & J. F. Mohr, general merchants, of Prospect Village, was born in Macungie Township, Lehigh County, Penn. , August 13, 1838. When fourteen years of age, he learned the tailor's trade at Delaware, Ohio, where he remained two years and re- turned to Prospect; for the following four years he was engaged in that business, and in 1859 he removed to Esses, Union County, Ohio, and started a general store; this proved a success. In L862. he returned to Prospect Village, since which time he has been engaged in general merchandising there. Politically, he advocates the principles represented by the Democratic party, in the affairs of which in his section ho takes an active and influential part. He has served his fellow citizens in various offices, among which was Township Treasurer for several years. City Clerk, Councilman nine years, and as a member of the School Board for the special district, which he helped to organize, for fifteen years, a position which he also filled while living in Union County. Mr. Mohr has always taken a deep interest in the educational and religious matters of the township, freely contributing of his time and means for the support of institutions of the kind. He was one of the Building Committee of the Reformed Church of Prospect, in the erection of which he contributed largely. He has been a member of the church consistory and has filled other offices in the service of the church at different times. Mr. Mohr was married February 26, 1863, in Prospect Township, by Rev. J. H. Stepler, pastor of the Reformed Church, to Miss Mary H. Adams, a native of Delaware County, Ohio, and of English descent. There have been four children born from this union, only two of whom are living - Lydia C. and Eliza C. The deceased were Charles F. and Edwin V.

DAVID MOHR. Prospect Village, was born in Upper Saucon Township, Lehigh County, Perm., May 19, 1804. He was reared to the business of a miller, commencing as helper in his father's mill at the age of eleven years, where he remained until nineteen years old, when he contracted to pay $10 and work nine months as pay to learn the tobacconist's trade. He worked at this three years; the following seventeen years he worked at farming and milling, a part of the time on his own account. In 1848, he bought fifty acres for $3,300, on which he lived some four years, and in the spring of 1852 came to Ohio and located with his family on a farm north of Prospect Village, adjoining the corporation, where he remained until fall, when he moved to Prospect Village, where he has resided ever since. He has been engaged as miller at Marion and Prospect Village at different times, and in 1858, in company with his son, W. H. Mohr, entered into trade in a general store at Prospect Village, under the firm name of W. H. Mohr and Co. This firm continued till 1862, when C. L. M ohr bought out W. H. Mohr's interest and the firm became D. Mohr & Son. This was continued until 1869, when David Mohr sold his interest to his son, James F. Mohr, and the firm has ever since been C. L. & J. F. Mohr. Mr. David Mohr has now retired from active business and still resides at Prospect Village. The ancestors of Mr. Mohr were all of German origin and very early settlers of Pennsylvania. His father and grand father Mohr were both named Frederick, and were also natives of Pennsylvania. His farther was a miller by trade, and also carried on farming; he died in Pennsylvania. His mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Eckel, a native of Pennsylvania; her father's name was Henry Eckel, a native of Germany. David Mohr was married, October 12. 1834. in Macungie Township. Lehigh County, Penn., by the Rev. Daniel Zeller, of the Reformed Church, to Miss Catharine Neimeyer, born May 8, 1817, a daughter of Conrad and Lydia (Diefenderfer) Neimeyer, all natives of Lehigh County, Penn. The father of Conrad Neimeyer, above mentioned, was also named Conrad, and was born on the Atlantic Ocean while^his parents were emigrating from Germany to America. His father died on the voyage. The father of Lydia (Diefenderfer) Neimeyer was named Henry Diefenderfer; his wife's name was Susannah J arret. He died in Macungie Township, and she in Berks County. Penn. "When David Mohr came to this county in 1852, he brought with him his wife and family of five boys, as follows: William H, Charles L., James F., Mandes M. and Alvin D. The first two were born in Miicungie Township, Lehigh County, Penn., and the others in Upper Milford Township. One son - Albert C. - was born in Prospect, Ohio; all are now living.

JAMES F. MOHR, merchant, Prospect Village. Mr. Mohr enlisted in the war of the rebellion in 1861, at Marion, Ohio, in Battery H, Fifth United States Artillery. He served in* various engagements with his battery, among which were the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and in other minor engagements. His term of enlistment having expired, he was honorably discharged from the service at Nashville, Tenn., October 24, 1864. Mr. Mohr is a son of David Mohr and was born in Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, Penn., September 12, 1840. He has been a member of the firm of C. L. & J. F. Mohr, general merchants of Prospect, since 1869. He was married at Marion. Ohio, by the Rev. A. D. Matthews, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to Miss Ann Eliza Gooding, of Marion. They have a family of three children - Ivy Dell, Paulena R., and Mary E.

ADAM T. MORROW, miller at Prospect, was born June 14, 1844, in Washington County, Penn., and is a son of Joseph and Julia A. (Jump) Morrow. He followed the occupation of a farmer till twenty-seven years of age, when he and his brother, Joseph K., formed a partnership and established a carriage and wagon-making shop at Prospect. This business continued for seven years, when they, in 1877, traded their shop as part payment for and bought the Prospect mill, since which time he has been engaged in the milling business. The firm is known as Morrow Brothers. Mr. Morrow was married, December 20, 1877, to Miss Araminta F. Beem, daughter of Jacob Beem, of Claiborne Township, Union County. They have two children - James L. and Earl S. Mr. Morrow is a Prohibitionist and a member of the Baptist Church.

JOSEPH MORROW , farmer, was born in Washington County, Penn. He, with his wife, Julia A. (Jump) Morrow, and family of three children, came to Ohio in 1853, locating on i seventy-five acres of land in Pleasant Township, where Mr. Morrow died. September, 1855, a member of the Baptist Church; his widow now resides in Prospect Village. , They had four children - James M., Adam T., Joseph K. and Sarah A. The last was born in Marion County; the three first in Pennsylvania.

MORROW BROTHERS, proprietors of the Prospect Mills. This mill has 'three run of stone for wheat and one run of stone for corn. It is otherwise fitted with modern mill improvements, and has a capacity for giinding eighty barrels of flour every twenty- four hours. The firm buys wheat for grinding purposes only, and also do a general custom business; they grind annually 35.000 bushels of wheat and 10,000 of corn.

JOSEPH K. MORROW, of the firm of Morrow & Brothers, was born August 27, 1850, in Washington County, Penn., and is the son of Joseph and Julia A. (Jump) Morrow. Mr. Morrow is a member of the Baptist Church, and in politics is a Prohibitionist. He has served as Village Councilman two terms, and is much esteemed as a citizen.

JAMES M. MORROW, the eldest son of Joseph Morrow, resided on the farm nntil the fall of 1862, when he eDtered the ranks of the Urion Army as a member of Company D, Sixty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He rendered his country gallant service for nearly three years, and fought in several hard battles. He was killed in an engagement on Rocky Face Ridge, near Atlanta, and now sleeps with the many fallen heroes of the civil war, covered with the laurels of a faithful soldier.

CONRAD NETMEYER, hardware merchant, Prospect Village, was born in Prospect, August 24, 1853, and is a son of Reuben Neimeyer, mentioned elsewhere* He learned the carpenter's trade from his father, with whom he remained until the age of twenty-two years. He was married to Sarah Lake, of Richwood, a daughter of Isaac Lake; subsequently he followed carpentering and building, and in 1880 he entered in the hardware business, and in 1881 formed a partnership with W. H. Lake in the same business at Prospect, which continued until January, 1883, when it was dissolved, Mr. Neimeyer, howevei*, continuing the business alone. He is still engaged in building. During the past four years, he has erected five fine buildings, costing from $1,000 to S3, 500 each. The best one he now occupies as a residence. His sales in the hardware business average about $6,000 annually. His success is somewhat remarkable, as four years ago he commenced with a capital of only $20. His prosperity is wholly due to his own energy and business tact. In politics, Mr. Neimeyer is a Democrat.

REUBEN NEIMEYER, carpenter and builder, was born in Macungie Township, Lehigh County, Penn., January 27, 1823. His parents' names were Conrad and Lydia (Diefenderfer) Neimeyer, both natives of Macungie Township. The grandfather of our subject was born on the sea while his parents were emigrating from Germany. They settled in Pennsylvania prior to the Revolution. The parents of our subject died on the old farm in Pennsylvania where he was born. They had twelve children, as follows: Charles, George, Jacob, Isaac, Reuben, John, Henry, Andrew, Susannah, Catharine, Lydia and Elizabeth. The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm; at the age of twenty yeai's he went to learn the carpenter's trade, and has been engaged at that business ever since. He came to Prospect Village April 8, 1S53, bringing his wife and children, and has continued to reside here ever since. He is a member of the Lutheran Church and a greatly respected citizen.

DAVID PENRY, farmer, Radnor Township, Delaware County, was born November 4, 1806, the first white child born in that township. His parents were David and Mary (Pugh) Penry, the former a native of Breckenshire, and the latter of Radnorshire, Wales. Our subject's parents came to Ohio in 1806, settling in Radnor Township, bringing one child with them to America, who died in Baltimore, Md. They had twelve children born in Radnor Township, as follows: David, Mary, Hannah, Walter, William, Jane, John, Edward, Thomas, Evan, Amelia and Margaret. Our subject was married, November 14, 1833, to Joanna Jones, who was born iu Radnorshire, South Wales, May 20, 1812, and came to Radnor Township with her pai'ents, John P. and Mary (Penry) Jones, in 1818. From this marriage there were ten children, five now living, as follows: Thomas L. , John P., Mary M., Hannah J. and Amelia D. ; those who died were Reuben, aged eight years; Margaret Ann, aged sixteen years; Ann, an infant, and two infants not named. Our subject has lived on his present farm in Radnor Township since 1833. When he purchased it, it contained 130 acres; for this be paid $1.50 per acre, and split rails at 50 cents a hundred to get money to pay for the land. He still owns this farm. Our subject's father was a soldier under Gen. Harrison, in the war of 1812. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and his wife of the Presbyterian Church.

THOMAS L. PENRY, son of the preceding, was born in Radnor Township, Delaware Co., Ohio, August 7, 1838. January 1, 1862, he married Lucinda A. Arnold, who was born in Perry Township, Licking Co., Ohio, December 3, 18-43, a daughter of John H. and Elizabeth S. (Yates) Arnold, formerly of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Penry have five children - Elizabeth Joanna, born September 8, 1863; Harvey O., 'April 19, 1867. William Henry, December 11, 1869; John Q., November 10, 1873; Wat kin D. , September 3, 1877. Mr. Penry has always followed farming, and now resides on and owns 151| acres of land, one and a half miles east of Prospect Village. The farm is improved with a tine brick residence, built by himself, in which he lives with his family. The farm was known as the " Thomas Cratty Farm. " Mr. Penry is a straight Republican in politics.

JOHN P. PENRY, farmer,is a native of Radnor Township. Delaware County, and was born July 19, 1840. He is a son of David and Joanna (Jones) Penry. John P. Penry enlisted at Delaware, Ohio, October 2, 1861, in Company D, Twentieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was a soldier in the war of the great rebellion. He served until the close of the struggle, having re enlisted as a veteran in 1863, in the same company and regiment. He was present at and par ticipated in the following battles: Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, Middleburg, Iuka, Miss., the second battle of Corinth, Holly Springs, Vicksburg, Little Kenesaw Mountain, Big Kenesaw and Atlanta, where he was wounded through the right shoulder and chest by a musket ball July 22, 1864. He still carries the rebel lead in his body. This wound disabled him from carrying a musket in after service. When he had sufficiently recovered, he was detailed as an Orderly for Dr. J. W. Guthery, at the headquarters of the Seventeenth Army Corps. In that capacity he went through with Oen. Sherman's army on its march to the sea. He was in the charge at Pocatalgo, N. C. , and at the burning of Columbia, S. C, and was present at the surrender of Joseph E. Johnston's army at Durham Station, N. O, and was finally present at the grand review of the army at Washington, D. C, in 1865, and was mustered out of the service with his company; July 15, 1865. He now receives a small pension from the Government on account of disability, which pension should be quadrupled at least. Mr. Penry has a farm of fifty acres in Prospect Township, where he resides. He was married, July 2, 1871, to Augusta G. Fleming. They have four children - Myrtis, born October, 1873; Henry C, born March 23y 1876; Charles, March 3. 1877, and David, April 12, 1878.

THOMAS PHILLIPS, pioneer farmer, was born in Radnor Township, Delaware Co., Ohio, February 22, 1810. He passed his youth on his father's farm, amidst the early scenes and customs of pioneer times. Cloths of all kinds, for wearing apparel, were difficult to obtain and expensive. The winter clothing for the men and boys was mostly made of buckskin. Tea and coffee were 75 cents to $1 a pound, and other luxuries in proportion. He was a child three years old at the time of " Drake's defeat," and was in the wagon from which, according to accounts published heretofore, a boy - one Robert Penry - was lost; but Mr. Phillips says the boy was not lost, but on falling from the wagon was picked up by a young man and carried to a house near by. where his parents stopped to pick up another family. Mr.

Phillips' father was obliged to go forty miles to mill, and when short of flour were sometimes obliged to live on " roasting ears " for a week at a time. His market for wheat was principally at Portland, now Sandusky, on Lake Erie, requiring a week to make the trip. As a boy, our subject at tended the old-fashioned subscription school, in a log house on his father's place. The windows were greased paper, and the chimney made of mud and sticks; and when about twenty years of age Le attended two terms of the common or free school. This was all the schooling he ever received. His father helped to build the first church edifice erected in Delhi; it was made of logs. In this house our subject went to the first religious meeting he ever attended. In 1832, Mr. Phillips bought 125 acres of land, on which, in 1833, he set out an apple orchard - some trees still living - where he now resides, for which he gave two horses, valued at $200, making the cost per acre $1.60. It was "Virginia Military lands, and had no improvements of any kind, not a stick having been cut on it by white men, unless for hunting purposes. No roads passed near it in any direction, aud there was not a house between it and the present village of Prospect. In January, 1838, he built a log house, 18x20 feet in size, and on February 8, 1838, was married to Margaret Maize, born June 9, 1818, a daughter of Francis and Margaret Maize, who were both natives of Frankstown, Huntingdon Co. , Penn. On the 5th of April, 1839, himself and wife took up their abode in this cabin. That spring, he cleared five acres of this land and planted it to corn. His horses and other stock ranged the woods for their feed, and had to be hunted up every night and morning. The meat used by the family for a long time was principally game - turkeys and deer being very abundant. Of the last-named. Mr. Phillips has killed a great many. The nearest mill was at Millville, Delaware County, fifteen miles distant. In 1854, he burnt a kiln of brick and built a brick residence near the site of the log cabin, but on the 6th of October. 1871. the brick residence was destroyed by fire, and the family were obliged to return to the old log cabin. Eighteen months afterward, he re-built on the same site, and moved into the large brick residence where he now resides. Mr. Phillips is the second oldest freeholder now living in Prospect Township, and is one of the township's best citizens, having always assisted, by influence and means, the educational and other interests of the township. He subscribed and helped pay for the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Lutheran Church buildings at Prospect; he furnished all the brick from which the last-named was built, donating to the church 2,000 brick. In 1833,Mr. Phillips,with three other men, erected, for Obadiah Taylor, in Kenton, Hardin County, the first house ever built in that town. He relates that in May, 1834, he went for a neighbor to Detroit with a drove of cattle. They started to return home the 16th of May, by boat to Portland, and that during a storm they were almost wrecked, being anchored some hours. It had turned very cold; wave after wave washed the deck, the water freezing to everything it touched. They finally arrived safe in port, after considerable suffering. This same season, the wheat and crops were killed throughout Ohio Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have a family of eight children - Sarah E., born December 9, 1838; John F., October 23, 1840; Eliza J., December 31, 1842; Ellen J., March 31, 1845; Zenas L., August 17, 1850; Emma V., April 8, 1855; "Wilhelniina I., November 15, 1858, and Hattie V., March 15, 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips state, what few other families of the same size can say, and that is, they have never had but three professional visits from a physician to their family during their married life. The parents of our subject were John and Han nah (Pugh) Phillips, both natives of South Wales. They emigrated to the United States, and settled in Delaware in 1806. He died in 1849, and his wife in 1863. They had eight children.

THOMAS PUGH, deceased, pioneer farmer of Prospect Township, was born August 18, 1784, in Montgomeryshire, North Wales. He emigrated to the United States in 1802, landing at the port of New York. He came to Ohio subsequently, and was married, in Wayne County, Ohio, November 7, 1805, to Elizabeth Smith, a daughter of Samuel C. and Sarah (Bishop) Smith. Thomas Pugh, with his family, located in Radnor Township, Delaware County, in 1810, and in 1810, bought 122 acres of land, well timbered, at $2.50 an acre, on Section 6 of what is now Prospect Township. Not a stick had been cut on this land by white men, except for hunting purposes. He cleared about forty acres of this land, and died only four years after making it his place of residence; his death occurring September 27, 1824. He left a widow and six children - Sarah, born October 22, 1806, who married Samuel Martin, both deceased; Jane, born July 21, 1809, and married Samuel Cratty, both deceased; Lucinda, born June 17, 1815, and married John Hughes, she is deceased; Phoebe, born December 2, 1817, and married the Rev. Samuel Allen, became a widow and married the Rev. Samuel Gossard, and now lives in Iowa; Wesley, born March 18, 1820; Mary, born March 26, 1822, and married William A. Palmer, and died in Montgomery Couuty, 111. The subject of this sketch was a soldier of the war of 1812.

WESLEY PUGH, retired farmer, Prospect Village, is a son of Thomas Pugh, a pioneer, and was born on the old homestead iu Prospect Township March 18, 1820. He was reared a farmer, and has followed that occupation all his life. He bought the old homestead from the other heirs and lived there until thirty-seven years of age, when he sold the place and bought a farm one mile north of Prospect Village, on the east side of the Scioto River, where he lived for twenty-five years. He then removed to Prospect Village, where he now resides, with his wife. Mr. Pugh was married March 31, 1846, to Martha Welch, a daughter of Solomon and Lavina Welch. They have had a family of five children, all of whom are deceased; two died when infants; Thomas died aged three years; Martha Jane died aged nine years, and Lucinda died March 3, 1879, aged sixteen years. Mr. Pugh has been a member of the Church for forty years, and in politics has been a life- long Democrat. He has served his township in various local offices. He is an earnest advocate of temperance, and for the past two years has acted with the Prohibition party. He is one of the old est residents of the township now living, and one of its substantial and best respected citizens.

JOHN RANDALL, deceased, was a farmer and early settler in Prospect Township, coming to this county in 1833 or 1834 and locating on 100 acres of wild land one and a quarter miles west of Prospect Village. This land he mostly cleared. He sold it, and bought a farm on the Greenville treaty line, in the west part of the township, which he has also cleared. He lived on this place from 1839 to 1853, when he sold again and moved to the farm of 186 acres on the Marysville & Marion State road, where his son Keisey E. now lives. This was partly improved, but John Randall improved about ninety acres of it. This place he owned at the time of his death, which occurred October 11, 1880. John Randall was a native of Vermont, where he was born February 12, 1803. He was married to Jane Hoskins, a daughter of John Hoskins, of Delaware County, Ohio. From this union there were four children, nanielv, Charles, born April 23, 1839; Emma, March 6, 1844; Morris F* September 2, 1848, and Kelsey E., August 13, 1851. Mr. and Mrs. Randall were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The widow of John Randall is still living, and resides with her children.

KELSEY E. RANDALL, farmer, is a son of John and Jane (Hoskins) Randall, is a native of Prospect Township, and born August 13, 1851. He now owns sixty and one- half acres of the old homestead where his father died. He has bought other land adjoining, so that his farm now embraces 12 1^ acres. With the exception of two years spent in working at and learning the har ness-maker's trade, he has always followed the vocation of a farmer. He was marriod, April 1, 1873, to Hester A. Couch, of Harrison County, Ohio. They have had a family of four children, two living - John E., born January 17, 1874, and Lida A., born January 29, 1879 Mr. R. is a member of the Baptist Church, and in politics is a Republican

M. F. RANDALL, farmer, was born in Prospect Township September 2, 1848, and is a son of John and Jane (Hoskins) Randall. He was reared on a farm, and has always followed the vocation of a farmer. He was married, November 13, 1873, to Miss Elizabeth Black, a daughter of Christian and Phoebe (Elliott) Black, of Marlborough Township, Delaware County. From this marriage there are two children - Clara, born June 26. 1875, and an infant. Mr. and Mrs. R. are members of the Baptist Church. They reside on a fine farm of their own, near the old homestead of Mr. Randall's father.

WILLIAM REESER, retired, was born in what is now Perry Township, Berks Co., Penn., and is a son of Abraham and Elizabeth (Sells) Reeser, who were natives of Pennsylvania, where they are also buried. Mr. R. passed his youth on a farm. At the age of nineteen, he learned a trade, and on coming to Ohio carried on the business of builder and contractor for several years at Delaware, whence he removed to Fayette County, 111., and followed the same business. He returned to Ohio, and lived one year at Delaware, and located at Prospect Village in 1875, where he became a partner with B. K. Herbster in the flouring mill, continuing some years. He has been very successful, in a financial sense, the result of his own efforts, as all that he has was acquired by himself. He has been twice married, but is now a widower, and has one child by each marriage, as follows: Canty Reeser, who married Charles E. Herr, they reside with Mr Reeser; Etty, his youngest child, lives with her grandparents at Delaware. Mr. R. lives in one of the finest residences in town, built some years since by himself, and is one of the solid citizens of Prospect Village. He is a member of the German Reformed Church.

JOHN REILEY (3d), farmer, was born in Pickaway Count}r, Ohio. August 23, 1818. His parents. William and Love (Vezy) Reiley, were from the State of Delaware, and settled in this county about the year 1823; they both died in Marion Township. Mr. Reiley is one of the few early residents of this county still living who remembers the Indians who inhab ited this region. He was married, March 19, 1840, to Miss Nancy Ann Fouty, a native of Mason County. Va. , where she was born, near the mouth of the Big Kanawha River. April 16, 1S20, a daughter of Stephen and Drusilla (Biggerstaff) Fouty. Mr. Reiley bought his present farm, in the north part of Prospect Township, in 1853; only twelve acres of it was cleared land, while now, principally by his own labor and industry, there are sixty-five acres in excellent coudition. The fine property that he now owns was acquired by the industry of himself and his good wife; as when they were married they commenced with very little means. Mr. and Mrs Reiley have had six children, two of whom are living, as follows: Love J., born October 9, 1842, now the wife of David Cratty. and Nancy A., born May 29, 1861, and now the wife of Edwin L. Butler.

JACOB C. RINGER, retired farmer, was born in Franklin Township, Westmoreland Co., Penn. The names of his parents were Christian and Mary (Ringer) Ringer, the last named being a daughter of Michael Ringer. When twenty years of age, Mr. Ringer commenced learning the carpenter's trade. He came to Ohio in 1850, and located near Marion, and followed carpentering and house-building exclusively until 1864, when he bought a farm of 100 acres on Section 33, Marion Township, which he still owns. After the purchase of the farm, he still continued at house-building, attending to his farm interests at the same time, and in 1877 erected a comfortable residence in Prospect Village, where he now resides, having partial ly retired from business. He was married, in 1853, to Catharine Unca pher. by whom he had two children, both deceased. Mr. Ringer was again married December 3, 1868, to Jane Williams, born January 31, 1841, a daughter of John T. and Kittie E. (Berry) Williams, who were early settlers in this county. By his last marriage there are two children - Mary E., born June 18, 1870, and Perry W., born January 1, 1872. Mr. Ringer is a Prohibitionist in politics, and has served as Village Councilman for three years. Himself and wife and daughter are members of the Baptist Church.

JOHN Q. ROADS, farmer and sheep-raiser, was born four miles southwest of Newark, in Licking Co., Ohio, August 17, 1828. When he was fifteen years of age, he was hired out for two years and nine months to learn the milling business, for which he was to be paid $100. From the expiration of this time until 1847, he worked as a journeyman miller. At the date last mentioned, he started on a trip West, where he remained several months, and on his return, in the spring of 1848, he took charge of and operated a mill at Chatham, Ohio, for one season, and in September, 1848, took charge of the old " Summit" mill, three and a half miles southwest of Newark, Ohio, where he learned his trade; here he remained until 1850. During this time - in 1849 - he was married to Margaret Ann Arnold, who was born in Fauquier County, Va., August 6, 1828. She was a daiighter of John H. and Elizabeth S. (Yates) Arnold. John Q. Roads first came to Marion County on a visit October 18, 1849, and returned in March, 1851, when he bought 150 acres of land where he now lives, for a little more than $9 per acre. All except thirteen acres of this land was then covered with heavy timber; 115 acres of the tract is now improved and well cultivated. Mr. Roads and his wife took up their abode on this farm November 14, 1851, in a log house some distance south of their present residence, and have continued to reside there to the present time. Mr. Roads subsequently purchased twenty-five acres adjoining, for which he paid $70 per acre; so that the homestead now consists of 175 acres, and is valued at from $90 to $100 per acre. The farm is located one and a half miles east of Prospect Village. Besides his farming interests, Mr. Roads has been interested in other enterprises at different times. In 1873, in company with A. J. Blake, S. M. Blake and T. P. Cratty he organized the Union County Bank, at Richwood, Ohio. Mr. R. is now a stockholder in the Prospect Bank. He is a man highly esteemed by all who know him, as an enterprising citizen aod Christian gentleman, Himself and wife are members of the Baptist Church. In politics, he was formerly what was known as a " Free-Soil Democrat," but since 1854 he has been a Republican. He is a member of Prospect Lodge, No. '444, F. & A M. Mr. and Mrs Roads have had three children, only one of whom is living, whose name is Benjamin Jay Witter Roads, born March 30, 1809. We give on another page a portrait of John Q. Roads. The Roads family are originally of German ancestry, and were early settlers in Lancaster County, Penn., and afterward of the Shenandoah Valley, Va. John and Margaret (Winegardner) Roads were the parents of John Q. Roads; the father born in Page County, Va.. March 22, 1803, and the mother in Loudon County, Va., in July, 1807 They were married. May 25, 1825; she died in Licking County, Ohio, August 14, 1835; he is still living, and resides in Prospect Township. John Roads was a son of John and Catharine (Brubaker) Roads, and came with his parents to Licking County, Ohio, in 1814. His wife, Margaret (Winegardner) Roads, was a daughter of Herbert and Margaret f Jordan) Winegardner, both natives of Virginia, and their parents were natives of Germany.

J. J. ROBERTS, Postmaster at Prospect Village, is a native of Radnor Township, Delaware County, and was born April 7, 1852. His parents' names are IsaixC and Lettis (Jones) Roberts; the first a native of Denbyshire, Wales, and the latter of Delaware County, Ohio. During youth Mr. Roberts received the advantages of a good English education, and for several years followed the occupation of teaching during the winter months and working at carpentering and farming during the summer. He was married, in the fall of 1870, to Miss Bertha R. Knachel, daughter of Emmanuel Knachel, of Prospect. The following year, he entered the store of P. C. Sells, as clerk, where he remained until 1881, when he formed a partnership with his father-in-law, Mr. Knachel. in a general store. He was appointed Postmaster October 25, 1881. July 15, 1883, he sold out his interest in the store, and is now, in connection with the post office, handling books, pictures, stationery, etc. He is a Republican.

DANIEL T. ROBINSON, farmer, was born in the town of Newport, Herkimer Co.. N. Y. August 30. 1815 His parents, James and Mary (Brown) Robinson were natives of Massachusetts, and lived near Lowell. They settled in Radnor Township, Delaware County, in 1830. Daniel T RobinsoD was reared on a farm, and March 18. 1841, was married to Nancy Phillips, a daughter of John Phillips, In 1851, he bought sixty-five acres of land, where he now resides, in Prospect Township. All of this land was entirely wild, except four or five acres partly cleared, on which was an old log cabin, unfit for use. ' In the fall of 1851, he built a log cabin, into which he moved with his wife and five children on Christmas Day. Since th6n, he has made an addition to the homestead, which now consists of 100 acres, sixty acres of which he has cleared himself. His wife died in April, 1877, a member of the Baptist Church, as also is Mr. R. They had the following named children: William PL, John A. (who was killed on the steamer " Sultana"), Hannah M. (now the wife of Leroy Tyler, of Richwood), Martha (deceased), Sarah Ann (now the wiEe of Douglass Lynn, and resides at the homestead), Lydia (now the wife of E. E. Hazen, of "Union County) and Charles A. (of Marion County).

WILLIAM A. RUSSELL, retired farmer, Prospect Village, was born in Thompson Township, Delaware Co., Ohio, December 12, 1S27, and is a son of Joseph and Betsey (Edmunds) Russell; the former a native of Vermont, and the latter of Connecticut. They came to Ohio in 1819, and settled in Thompson Township. He was a blacksmith by trade, but always followed farming after coming to Ohio. All their children but the oldest were born in Ohio. Their names are Edmunds, Daniel M. , Mary B. , Joseph B., William A., Sarah A. (who died, aged three years) and Elmira. Five of the children lived to have families. The mother died December 29, 1856. and their father died four hours later, December 30, 1856. Mr. Russell was married, December 27, 1849, to Susan M. Fleming, who was born October 12, 1831, a daughter of Henry C. and Susannah (Jones) Fleming, early settlers of Delaware County. Henry C. Fleming was of Irish descent, and his wife was a native of Wales and a daughter of John Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Russell have had eight children - Lucina, born Octo ber 12, 1850, married, and died May 14, 1873; Cynthia, born January 4. 1852; William M., August 29, 1855; Elmira J., February 15, 1858: M. I., October 7, 1851, and died January 18, 1864; Carie D., June 7, 1867; Hosea L., September 7, 1870, and Corda A., March 14, 1872. Our subject owns a farm of 150 acres in Prospect Township, but he has partially retired and lives in Prospect Village. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist Church. He is a Republican.

^ WILLIAM M. RUSSELL, farmer, is a native of Prospect Township and was born August 29, 1856. He is a son of William A. Russell, of Prospect Village. He was married, September 9, 1880, to Clara Baruuin, a daughter of Charles Barnum, and they have one child - Lida May, born January 24, 1882. Mr. Russell now has charge of his father's farm in Prospect Township. In politics, he is. a Republican.

ORSAMUS RUTTER, farmer, was born November 8, 1832, in Amanda Township, Fairfield Co. , Ohio; parents were Martin and Mary (Garber) Rutter, who came to this county about 1850. Martin Rutter owned 227 acres of land, just north of Prospect Village, now owned by Dr. Farnum; also 200 acres in Delaware County. He was a native of West Virginia, and his wife of Stavinton, Penn. At the age of seventy years, lie died on a farm owned by bis wife, and now owned by William A. Russell. His wife died on the same place, aged seventy- four years. Mr. Orsamus Rutter has always followed farming. He was married, September 21, 1851, to Mary A. McCloskey, and their children, since born, are Barbara A., Melinda E., Rosina and Benjamin G. Mrs. Rutter died March 24, 1877, and he was married again, July 5, 1881, to Miss Linnie Ginder, a daughter of David and Catharine (Shoff) Ginder; the former a native of Germany and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mr. R. owns 101 acres of land, on which he resides, and 100 acres of land in Labette County, Kan., besides presenting to bis sons-in-law 200 acres of land in the above county in Kansas some years since. Mr. Rutter enlisted, August, 1864, in Company I, One Hundred and Seventy -fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was in the last battle of Nashville, at the engagement of Wheat Swamp, N. C, and one near Murfreesboro. He was honorably discharged at Charlotte, N. C, June 28, 1864.

P. C. SELLS, merchant, is a native of Waldo Township, this county, and was born September 28, 1840. He is a son of Peter and Catharine (Stambaugh) Sells, both natives of Franklin County, Penn. They after ward moved to Claibourne Township, Union Co., Ohio, where Mr. Sells still resides, his wife having died. P. C. Sells lived on his father's farm until twenty -five years of age, when he opened a general store at Prospect, Ohio. The first year's sales amounted to about $1,000, and the taxes were 15 cents. He started with a capital of $250, at the same time buying on credit, for $600, the building and lot in which he commenced business. In