Springfield Township (part 26 of 69)

James T. Garlough was bom on the Jacob Garlough place, north of Pitchin, his parents, who were natives of Maryland, having come to Ohio at an early period and settled on the farm now owned by B. F. Garlough. His parents died on this farm and were buried in the old cemetery just across the road from the home place. James T. Garlough was one of seven sons born to his parents and remained at home until after his marriage to Sarah Jane Hause, who was born in Virginia and who, when four years old, came to Ohio with her parents, who located in the Buff settlement. James T. Garlough, who always followed farming, died in March, 1904. He is survived by his widow and by the following children: Mrs. C. F. Stewart, with whom the mother of our subject resides ; A. T. Garlough; S. G. Garlough ; Jesse E., the subject of this article; W. F. Garlough, and R. C. Garlough.

Jesse E. Garlough grew to manhood on his father's farm and after attaining his majority worked out on various farms for five years. Subsequent to his marriage he farmed the home place for six years. He then purchased and located on his present farm, which was previously owned by John Otstot, and here he has since followed general farming and dairying.

Mr. Garlough was joined in marriage with Cora May Hess, a daughter of T. M. Hess, who resides on the farm adjoining our subject's. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Garlough, namely: Nellie and Eobert, who are attending

In politics, Mr. Garlough is a Republican and served one term as a member of the School Board. He is a member of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield.

GEORGE W. DAVISSON, whose fine farm of one hundred and fifty-nine acres is situated in Pleasant Township, is one of the representative citizens of this section. He was born in 1843, near Nation Chapel, Pleasant Township, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Lemuel and Susan A. Davisson.

The Davisson family was established in Pleasant Township by the grandparents, Isaac and Sarah (Curl) Davisson, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio on horseback, at a time when the present beautiful city of Springfield was but a collection of log huts. Lemuel Davisson, father of George "W., was born in Clark County, in 1811, and died in 1862. His wife was bom in 1812, and died in 1903. They had the following children : Isaac, Elizabeth, Elijah, Mary A., George W., Daniel, Isaac (2) and Thomas W. Of the above family, the two eldest children died in infancy. Elijah, born in 1840, is a prominent citizen of Pleasant Township, where he resides as do his three sons, Clifford, Clarence and Harry. Mary A., born in 1842, married (first) John Hendricks, who left one son. Wilbur. She married (second) Eli Adams. Daniel, bom in 1845, died September 9, 1860. Isaac (2), born December 31, 1848, died in 1860. Thomas W., born in 1851, died in 1902. He wa.s married (first) to Lizzie Stipp, who died

George W. Davisson spent the entire period of his life until 1882, on the farm on which he was bom, coming then to his present place, which he purchased from J. W. Ropp for the sum of $12,000, and here he has made many improvements. Mr. Davisson has turned over the larger amount of responsibility to his son, who carries on a general agricultural line here. The property is one of the most valuable in this section.

On October 24, 1865, Mr. Davisson was married to Elizabeth J. Jones, who was born July 6, 1845, and died March 22, 3906. She was a daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Ropp) Jones. To this marriage eight children were born, namely: Ida M., Lawrence E., Minnie, Myrta, Lunetta, Elmer, Francis W. and Forest O. Ida M. Davisson was born in 1866 and married Charles Bumgardner. Their oldest child died in infancy, but they have three left. Minor, Willard and Evlyn M. Lawrence E. Davisson was born May 10, 1869, and on December 6, 1893, married Jessie Tarbutton. They have four children: Edwin, Florence, Eustace and Emily. Minnie Davisson was bom in 1874 and in 1896 was married to Charles W. Ropp. They have one son, Robert. ^lyrta J., who was born March 12, 1876, resides at home; Limetta, who was born March 11, 1878, also resides at home ; Elmer H., who was bom November 5, 1879, resides in Champaign, Illinois. Francis W. Davisson, who was born September 17, 1882, was marled, in 1901, to Millie West and they have three children, Marion L.,Phylis and Marjorie. Forest 0., residing at

Mr. Davisson has taken an active interest in public affairs in Pleasant Township and has served in the office of road supervisor and as a member of the Board of Education. He has long been a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Catawba, a class leader and was superintendent of the Sunday-school at Nation Chapel. He united with the church when twelve years old and has been an official since 1872.

ELIJAH GODFREY COFFIN, a retired citizen of Springfield, who has been identified with this city and its interests for the past forty years, was born November 27, 1830, in Harmony Township, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Philander Coffin.

Philander Coffin was born in 1811, in Waterbury, Vermont, and in 1818 he accompanied his parents to Clark County, Ohio, New England contributing largely to the early settlement of this section. Philander Coffin lived in Clark County until 1835, when he moved to Allen County, later to Shelby County and, in 1845, to Stark County, Indiana, where his death took place.

Elijah G. Coffin worked on the home farm in Clark County and attended the district schools until he was eighteen years of age. He then learned the shoemaker's trade at South Charleston, which he followed there for fifteen years, becoming a prominent citizen of the place, and serving as justice of the peace and also as mayor. In 1868 he was elected sheriff of Clark County and was subsequently re-elected to the same office, serving four terms in all. In 1868 he located at Spring-field and in 1880, he was elected mayor of the city, and served for two years with marked efficiency. He was then engaged in a real estate business and in farming until 1886, when he was appointed warden of the Ohio penitentiary for four years. In 1896 he was re-appointed for four years more. Since the expiration of his second term, Mr. Coffin has lived retired in some degree, although he still is interested in the buying and shipping of horses. He is a man of ample resoui'ces, owning two of Clark County's finest farms. His public career was one of continued efficiency and his record is that of an honest, faithful and thoroughly capable public servant.

In 1852, Mr. Coffin was married to Mary Haley, who was born and reared in Ireland. They have three surviving children, namley: Olive, who is the wife of James J. Kinnane, of Kinnane Brothers ; Florence, who is the wife of W. A. Biddie, of Springfield ; and Cora, who resides at home. For more than fifty years Mr. Coffin has been a member of the Masonic fraternitv.

CHARLES H. PIERCE, president of the Springfield Building and Loan Association, has been a resident of Springfield for a period of fifty-one years, having come here in 1857 from Massachusetts, where he was born in 1840.

Mr. Pierce was reared and educated in Massachusetts and at the age of seventeen came to Springfield and was for some time engaged as a clerk in a gi'ocery store, later entering the employ of E. A. Neff, a news dealer. In 1862 he bought the business from Mr. Neff and conducted the same in the lobby of the postoffice for a time, later moving to King's Corner, now known as Main and Limestone Streets. In the summer of 1863, having employed a man to conduct the business for him, on July 4 he enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into service at Cleveland for a service of six months. He was with the company on the march through Kentucky and Tennessee to Cumberland Gap, participating in the siege and capture of same, after which the company was attached to the Army of the Cumberland and were also participants in the siege of Knoxville, Tennessee, after which Mr. Pierce returned to Cleveland, where he was mustered out, after an absence of nine months. Upon his return to Springfield, Mr. Pierce again took charge of his news stand for some time, later buying out Gillette Brothers News and Book Store, which he operated for many years, and which has ever since been known as the Pierce Book Store, being now under the management of his son.

In 1885 Mr. Pierce, with other enterprising citizens of Springfield, was instrumental in organizing the Springfield Building and Loan Association, of which for the past twenty years he has been president. He is also a director in the Lagonda National Bank. Mr. Pierce is a man of great business ability, judgment and integrity and has settled numerous estates as administrator and guardian.

in journalism; Roscoe, who operates the Pierce Book Store; and Bertha F., who IS the wife of Frank Sawyer, a partner with Roscoe Pierce in the Pierce Book Store.

Mr. Pierce has served as a member of the city council, is a member of the Mitchell Post, G. A. R., and is an attendant at the Congregational Church. In politics, Mr. Pierce is a Republican.

CYRUS SHEIRICH HELMAN, a prosperous farmer of Pike Township, Clark County, Ohio, residing on a farm of thirty-three acres, located about ten miles west of Springfield on the north side of the Valley Pike, was born December 30, 1847, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of John and Mary (Sheirich) Helman, and a grandson of John Helman, who followed farming throughout his life in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died there at an advanced age.

John Helman, father of Cyrus H., was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was one of seven children born to his parents, all of whom are deceased, except David, who is still a resident of Lancaster County. John Helman was a weaver by trade and followed his occupation the greater part of his life. His death occurred in Pennsylvania, at the age of seventy-one years, and his widow died at the age of seventy-five years. He married Mary Sheirich, a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Jacob Sheirich, who was both a farmer and tailor. They had nine children, namely: Catherine, wife of Benjamin Minick; Elizabeth, widow of M. Steffey;

Cyrus S. Helman grew to man's estate on his father's farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and previous to coming to Ohio engaged for a short time in grist milling. At the age of twenty-two, in company with Tobias and Jacob Crider, he came to Ohio and located at Dayton, where for six months he drove one of the first horse street cars of that city. From there he came to Medway, Clark County, and worked for two years for Henry Harnish, who later became his brother-in-law, and was the owner of the farm adjoining Mr. Helman 's present one, and then spent one year following painting for Amos Harnish. On January 23, 1873, he married Emma Harnish, a native of Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio, and a daughter of Rev. John and Esther (Bowman) Harnish. Rev. Harnish, a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, followed farming some years in his native community and was ordained a minister of the Mennonite Church. In 1840 he brought his wife and family to Ohio and settled in the woods of Bethel Township, near Medway, where the family subsequently became quite prominent, and owned a large tract of land. Mr. Harnish was one of the first to establish a Mennonite Church in this vicinity and during his pastorate here extended a powerful influence for good. Rev. Harnish married Esther Bowman, also a native of Pennsylvania, and to them were born the following children : Henry, deceased ; Mary, married Jacob Neff, both deceased ; Esther, wife of J. M. Zeller; John, deceased; Anna, married Levi Kautfman; Amos, a resident of Dayton, Ohio, and Emma. The sons all served in the Civil War and were stationed at the Block House settlement in the Cumberland Valley. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Helman, namely: Henry, a resident of Osborn, married Estella Weinland ; Mary, who is the wife of Edgar McDonald, lives near her father ; and John, who is unmarried, lives at home.

Mr. Helman does general farming and also grows three acres of tobacco each year. He has made many improvements on the place, which is part of the old Harnish home property, having erected substantial buildings and planted two rows of shade trees along the drive to the house, adding much to its tasteful appearance. Mr. Helman and wife are both members of the Reformed Mennonite Church, in which he is deacon and of which he has been a member for twenty

JOHN GERMAN, owner of a fine farm of one hundred and eighty-two acres, situated about seven miles northwest of Springfield on the Clark and Miami Pike, has been a resident of German Township since the spring of 1897, having purchased the land in the fall of 1896. He was born September 22, 1864, in Springfield Township, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Peter and Margaret (Geron) German.

Peter German was born and reared in Germany and at the age of sixteen came to America with his brother Balse. They first located in Pittsburg, where they remained for one year, then came to Clark

Couiit.y, Ohio, and worked for some time ou a farm, subsequently buying a farm of ninety-four acres in Springfield Township on the National Pike, where Peter German and his wife both passed the remainder of their days. The latter, in maidenhood Margaret Geron, was also a native of Germany who came to this country after reaching womanhood.

John German was reared in Springfield Township and has always followed farming, also operating a dairy until he came to his present farm. Here he has been engaged in general agriculture since 1897 and also sells milk to the Pure Milk Company of Spring-field, keeping about sixteen cows. He is also extensively engaged in raising horses, making a specialty of the Belgian breed, and is a member of the Christianburg Horse Protective Association. Mr. German has made numerous improvements on his farm, having erected a fine seven-room frame house in the fall of 1902. He has also made an addition to his barn, which is now 114 by 36 feet in dimensions.

Mr. German was married in 1888 to Mollie Ellinger, who died three years later, leaving no children. His second marriage was with Mary Rader, a daughter of Philip Rader, and to them have been born five children - Henry, Margaret, Balse, Minnie and Helen. Mr. German belongs to the Knights of Pythias at Springfield.

WILLIAM M. YEAZELL, one of Spring-field's most esteemed retired citizens, residing in a pleasant and comfortable home at No. 905 East High Street, was one of Moorefield's successful farmers and stock dealers for many years. He was born in Moorefield Township, Clark County, Ohio, June 24, 1835, and is a son of William and Eliza (Foley) Yeazell.

The Yeazell family originated in Germany and the characteristics of the family have been those which mark that sturdy race. The first of this family to settle in Clark County was Abraham Yeazell, the grandfather, who came to Moorefield Township from Virginia. William Yeazell, father of William M., was born in Virginia, and he accompanied his parents to this section, where he spent a long and useful life which he mainly devoted to agricultural pursuits. He died in 1862, at the age of sixty-one years. He married Eliza Foley, whose death took place in March, 1881. They were most worthy people, members of the Presbyterian Church, kind, helpful and efficient m every relation of life. They had eight children born to them, William M. being the fourth in the order of birth.

Wilham M. Yeazell was educated in the district schools of Moorefield Township and in the Springfield High School. He was about twenty years of age when he began to assume many of the duties pertaining to the management of his father's large property, and after his father's death he acquired the farm which he continued to operate, together with considerable activity in buying and selling stock, until 1871, when he retired with his wife to Springfield. He still retains his valuable farm of over 200 acres in Moorefield Township and he has also a large body of land in Illinois. Mr. Yeazell belongs to that class of citizens who, after setting an example of useful industry for many years, in their ripening age retire from

On December 11, 1866, Mr. Yeazell was married to Anna E. Clark, who was born in Moorefield Township and is a daughter of John D. and Susan (Foley) Clark. John D. Clark was born in 1805 and from boyhood lived in Moorefield Township, where he died in May, 1886, aged eightyone years. The mother of Mrs. Yeazell died in 1876. Both the parents of Mr. and Mrs. Yeazell rest in the quiet shades of Springfield's beautiful Ferncliff cemetery. Of their four children, Mrs. Yeazell was the youngest born and the only surviving daughter. She is a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church at Springfield, which Mr. Yeazell also attends, taking a practical interest in its various benevolent agencies. In his political preference he is a Republican.

LEWIS SKILLINGS, a i)rominent farmer of Clark County, Ohio, is the owner of three hundred acres of land there, one hundred and twenty-five acres forming the home place in Green Township, while the remainder is located in Springfield Township. He was born in the house on the farm now owned by his brother Eben, on July 24, 1831, and is a son of Lewis, Sr., and Anna (Craig) Skillings.

Lewis Skillings, Sr., was born in Maine, where he lived until he was twenty-two years old, then left home and came to Ohio, where he spent the rest of a long life. He first located in Cincinnati, where he worked on the river for some years, and by hard work and careful saving, accumulating a sum sufficient to give him a start, then came on to Clark County, and bought a farm in Green Township. This first farm is now owned by a grandson, and the one he later bought his son Eben now lives on, and a part of it is owned by Lewis Skillings. There he lived until his death at a good old age. He married Anna Craig, who came from along Onion River, in Connecticut, and they were parents of four sons and three daughters.

Lewis Skillings was born on the old home place and received his educational training in the district schools. He lived on the home farm and followed farming until he was twenty-five years old, when he purchased his present place for $30 per acre. This price was considered enormous at that time, and thei'e were some who thought his bargain a poor one. Time has justified him in his purchase, and today his farm is considered one of the most valuable in this vicinity. He has given his exclusive attention to farming and has met with success.

Mr. SkilUngs was united in marriage December 13, 1855, with Miss Martha Hammond, who was one of eleven children born to Calvin and Laura (Bennett) Hammond, of Vienna, Ohio. They are parents of seven children: Fremont, deceased; (,)uincy, deceased; Laura, who lives at home with her parents; RoUey; 'Autice; Carrie; and Nora, deceased. December 13, 1905, Mr. and Mrs. Skillings celelii'ated their golden wedding anniversary at their home, when one hundred and ten of their friei^ds were present to congratulate them and fittingly observe so uncommon an event. Although work, and hard work at that, has formed a large part of their lives, Mr. and Mrs. Skillings have not shut out the pleasures of life, a fact to which may be attributed much of the happiness of their long union. In 1902 they made a trip back to the home of his ancestors in Maine, going over the ground where they had lived and toiled, and viewing the grave of his grandfather, who had been buried just one hundred years before. However he was not favorably impressed with Maine as a farming or stock-growing state. Mr. Skillings is a Republican in politics and served for a time as school director, although he never desired public oflfice. He is a member of the Baptist Church.

mand, in the southern part of the islands, during the time the treaty was made with Chief Sulu. He participated in numerous skirmishes, but was never injured and in July, 1901, he returned to Springfield. In a short time he was made deputy county surveyor of Clark County, and two years later, in 1903, he became assistant city engineer at Springfield, an office he filled for five years, following which came his appointment as city engineer on January 1, 1908.

Mr. Bahin is a member of St. Raphael 's Catholic Church. He belongs to the Knights of Columbus, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Eagles.

MICHAEL J. BAHIN, city engineer of Springfield, was born in this city, in January, 1876, and is a son of Cornelius Bahin, a native of Ireland, who came to Springfield in 1857.

Mr. Bahin has had thorough training and much experience in his profession. In 1897 he was graduated from the civil engineering department of the Ohio State University. In the following year he went into the Spanish- American War, going as second lieutenant of Company B, Third Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was stationed in the various camps through the South until the issues of the struggle had been settled and the soldiers had an opportunity to return to their homes. He was mustered out October 28, 1898. In Jime, 1899, Mr. Bahin enlisted in Company K, Thirty-first Regiment, United States Regulars, which was almost immediately sent to the Philippine Islands. During his two years of service there he was with General Bates' com-

CAPTAIN ALEXANDER McCONKEY, a prominent citizen of New Moorefield and a veteran of the Civil War, has been a resident of Clark County, Ohio, through nearly the entire length of his long career. He was born in Pleasant Township, December 5, 1832, and is a son of Daniel and Matilda (Neer) MeConkey, and grandson of Archibald MeConkey.

Archibald MeConkey, the gi'andfather, was born in Belfast, Ireland, and came to America, settling in Kentucky, where he lived until some years after his marriage. In May, 1805, he came to Clark County, Ohio, and settled in Pleasant Township, then practically a wilderness, where he purchased 300 acres of land, paying $1.25 per acre. Indians, sometimes hostile ones, were common there at that time, and wild game abounded. The family erected a cabin in the woods and set about clearing the land and placing it in tillable shape. The father lived there until his death.

Daniel McConkey was bom in Kentucky and was about six months old when brought by his parents to Clark County, and here he was reared. He married Matilda Neer and they became parents of eleven children, namely: Nathan M., who was captain of Company G, Ninetyfourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War; Hiram, who was orderly sergeant in the same company and regiment; Enos, who was a wagon-master in the Eighth Regiment of Ohio Cavalry ; Alexander ; Archibald, who died before the Civil War; Mary Ann (Ellsworth) ; Sarah Jane (Rimy an) ; Margaret E. (Baldwin); Nancy E. ; Lucinda C. ; and one who died unnamed.

Alexander McConkey was reared on the old home place, and was one of a large and happy family, of which he is the sole survivor. He attended the district schools and assisted in farm work, with his brothers. On September 14, 1861, "he enlisted as a private in Company F, Forty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was, subsequently promoted to the rank of sergeant, serving as such until the end of his first term of enlistment. The company was veteranized and was returned to service as a company in the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, in which Sergeant McConkey was first commissioned second lieutenant, and later, first lieutenant. In June, 1865, Lieutenant McConkey tendered his resignation to the War Department, and with its acceptance he received a commission as captain as a reward for faithful service. Although he never served in this capacity, it was gratifying to have his soldierly qualities so recognized, and he left the army as Captain McConkey. He participated in some of the most important engagements of the war, chiefly those in West Virginia and Eastern Tennessee. Upon returning from the army he again located at his old home at Catawba and resumed farming, which has been his life work. He has lived in Clark County ever since, except for two years spent on a farm in Goshen Township, Champaign County. In 1900 he sold his farm property and moved to New Moorefield, his present home. He is now serving his sixth successive term as assessor of the east district. .

In 1857, Captain McConkey was joined in marriage with Emeline Cartmell, a daughter of Thomas J. Cartmell, and they became parents of two children, Emma and Gilbert, the latter of whom died at the age of nine years. Emma, who is the widow of S. J. Wilkerson, has four children : Nellie C, wife of Frank S. Wade ; Charles Mack; Florence Goode, wife of George Fay; and Howard. Mrs. Mc- Conkey died in October, 1901. Captain McConkey is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church at Catawba, and was a '.^lass leader until his removal from there. His brother, Nathan M., his father and his grandfather, had in turn served the church as class leaders. He is a member of N. M. McConkey Post, G. A. R., at Catawba, which was named in honor of his brother, Captain Nathan M. McConkey.

HON. AMAZIAH WINGER, who until his recent death, August 14, 1907, was a prominent retired citizen of Springfield, and formerly superintendent of the Superior Drill Company, Springfield, was identified with the business interests of this city during the whole period of his mature life. Mr. Winger was born September 13, 1835, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Jacob and Catherine (Trout) Winger.

In 1837 the parents of Mr. Winger came to Springfield, where the father followed the trade of carpenter and builder for many years. He died in this city in 1886. and was survived by his widow for four years. All of their ten children, with the exception of a daughter who died in infancy, and Amaziah, subject of this memoir, were born in Spring-field. The survivors now are, Mrs. Catherine Ramsay, Mrs. John A. Sites, George W., and John M. Three of the sons, Amaziah, Hezekiah and George, served in the Civil War.

Amaziah Winger acquired his education in thp jrablic schools of Springfield and began to earn his own support as an employe in a lumber yard, where he received the training that prepared him to enter into the lumber business for himself. In 1858 he became a member of the lumber manufacturing and jobbing firm of Simpson, Yarnell and Company, and so continued in business imtil 1862, when he entered the Union Army. He enlisted in Company A, Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from which he was honorably discharged in June, 1865. Although he took part in a number of the most important battles of the war and endured innumerable hardships, he was never wounded and never so incapacitated that he was unable to be \xt the post of duty. He faced the enemy on many fields, including Perryville, Stone River and Chickamauga, and was in both the Atlantic and Carolina campaigns.

the lumber business as junior member of the firm of Hayward and Winger. In 1885 Mr. Winger became superintendent of the Superior Drill Company, which conducts one of the most important industries of this city. He was a member of the Springfield Board of Trade, a director of the Springfield Savings Bank, and had been identified with numerous business combinations of high commercial standing. His death deprived the community of one of its most worthy and honored citizens.

Mr. Winger was married, first, to Mary Cr others, who died in 1872, leaving two daughters, Frances and Laura. He was married, secondly, in 1876 to Mrs. Mary (Barr) Torbert, who was born at Lebanon, Ohio, and is a daughter of Amos Barr, formerly of Springfield and Cincinnati. Mrs. Winger's mother was Martha H. Smith before marriage. Mrs. Winger is very prorninent in charitable and philanthropic work and is a member of the board of managers of both the Clark Memorial Home and of the Young Women's Christian Association in this city. She has a very attractive home at No. 733 South Limestone Street.

Politically, Mr. Winger was affiliated with the Republican party, and served on the city council. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was deacon and trustee. Fraternally, he was a Mason and belonged to Clark Lodge No. 101, F. & A. M. ; Springfield Chapter, R. A. M. ; Springfield Council, R. & S. M.; and Palestine Commandery, K. T. He belonged also to Mitchell Post No. 45, Grand Army of the Republic, and to the Commandery of the Loyal Legion of Ohio. Like his wife, Mr. Winger was deeply interested in philanthropic work and he was liberal in giving support to the Clark Memorial Home, the Young Men's Christian Association and to other benevolent objects and enterprises.

WILLIAM HAEDMAN, owner of two hundred and sixty-seven acres of valuable farming land, situated in Pleasant Township, on the London and ITrbana Road, three miles south of Catawba, was born in Clark 'County, Ohio, February 28, 1831, and is a son of Jonathan and Mary (Arbogast) Hardman.

Philip Hardman, the great-grandfather of William, was born on the River Rhine, in Germany, and came to America, expecting to sell himself to an employer, in order to repay the sum of $35, which had been advanced for his passage. He was bought in the port of New York by a resident of New Jersey, and worked tive months for his purchaser. This was no unusual transaction at that time. He subsequently made his way to Virginia, and at Clarksburg, in that state, his son Petpr was born.

Peter Hardman learned the trade of gunsmith. He was twice married, his first wife being a Miss Hacker and his second wife, a Mrs. Edge, a widow. From Clarksburg, Virginia, Peter Hardman and wife came to Ohio, in 1803, and settled about one mile soiith of Osborn, Greene County. There was a law that prevailed at that time that some improvement had to be made on land in order to hold it. and after Peter Hai'dman had paid the sum of $1.25 an acre to the Government, he borrowed an ax, cut down a small tree, split it into rails and stood them over a stump, this being the sum of his improvements, but sufficient to protect his property. He then returned to Virginia, where he followed his trade for two years longer and then came back and settled on his land, on which he passed the remainder of his life. He was accompanied by his first wife, who lived to the age of about fifty years. When she was a girl of twelve years she was scalped by the Indians at the time all the other members of her family were killed, and she was left supposed to be dead. She finally recovered and lived to become the mother of ten children. There were three children born to Peter Hardman 's second marriage : Peter, William R. and Jane.

Jonathan Hardman, father of William, was born at Clarksburg, Virginia, in 1803, and spent the remainder of his life in Ohio, dying at London, Madison County, in 1876. He married Mary Arbogast, who was born in Clark County, and was a daughter of Peter and Sarah Arbogast. They had nine children, namely: Sarah, who died in 1863; Peter, who married Lucia Lauman, of Chillicothe, was a soldier and died after being brought home from Harper's Ferry; Otho, who married Eliza Weaver, of Madison County, has had five children; William; Henderson, who died unmarried at the age of twentytwo years; Mary, who also died immarried at the age of twenty-two years; Charlotte Ann, who died aged three weeks; Martha, deceased, who married John Sayers, now a resident of Iowa, but formerly of Logan County, Ohio, left two children ; and Wesley, who resides at Cable, Champaign County, Ohio, where he operates several grain elevators. He

William Hardman was reared on the home farm and attended the country schools when he could spare the time. He assisted his brothers in clearing and cultivating the farm and later, becoming interested in growing sheep, he went into partnership with J. R. Ware, of Mechanicsburg, following this business until 1863, when he became a member of the One Hundred and Sixty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for service in the Civil War. He was with his company in camp at Urbana, when he received a note from his partner which asked him to turn over his gun to the messenger, a man by the name of Thomas Cartmell, as the latter was <villing to take his place and was an unmarried man. Mr. Ware knew that Mr. Hardman 's absence from the sheep farm would be a sad loss to their business, and as soon as Mr. Hardman recognized this fact, he made arrangements by which he could turn over to Mr. Cartmell his equipments, after which he returned home.

On October 29, 1856, Mr. Hardman was married to Margaret Ellen Bireley, who was born March 11, 1838, in Maryland, and is a daughter of Lewis and Sarah Bireley. They came to Clark County in 1839 and settled for a short time in Springfield Township, and in 1840 came to Pleasant Township, where they lived during the remainder of their lives. They had nine children, namely: Philip W., who was born February 15, 1826, died November 3, 1903; Rebecca, who was born September 16, 1827; Lewis, who was born September 28, 1831 ; Charlotte Catherine, who was born November 14, 1833; EUzabeth Ann, who was born December 7, 1835 ; Margaret Ellen, who is Mrs. Hardman ; Sarah Jane, who was born May 23, 1841, died August 20, 1907, at Danville, Illinois; Eliza Henrietta, who was born May 24, 1842; and Henry Clay, who was born February 10, 1846, there having been but two deaths in this family.

Mr. and Mrs. Hardman have four children, namely: Minor, Belle, Eddie and Ella, the latter being twins. Minor Hardman was reared in Pleasant Township and in 1886 he married -Hattie Runyan, who is a daughter of Thomas W. and Phebe Runyan, and they have three children : Omer, born November 19, 1882 ; Anna, born in December, 1893, and Ralph, born December 25, 1895. Belle Hardman, who was born August 8, 1867, married Milton Stipp, who is an extensive farmer and stockman, owning two hundred and fifty acres in Champaign County. They have one daughter, Essie Catherine, who was born Januaiy 3, 1891. Eddie and Ella Hardman were born May 25, 1877. The former was married November 28, 1906, to Effie Marsh, of Madison County. They have a son, William Marsh, born May 10, 1908. The daughter was married April 7, 1898, to P. M. Wilson, who conducts a store at Brighton, Clark County, and they have three sons, William W., born October 12, 1900; Paul W., born December 31, 1902; and Orrin H., born August 12, 1905.

On October 29, 1906, Mr. and Mrs. Hardman enjoyed the celebration of their golden wedding anniversary and it was an occasion that will long be remembered by all who were permitted to participate in it. Friends and relatives were in attend- ance from Madison, Clark and Champaign Counties and also from Columbus, numbering four children, seven grandchildren and eighty-eight other relatives and near friends, many of whom had never before found an opportunity of becoming acquainted. With their expressions of interest, good-will and affection, they each brought an appro])riate present, which serves to recall the givers to Mr. and Mrs. Hardman every day of their lives. The banquet, of which ninety-five guests partook, was probably the most elaborate one ever served in Pleasant Township. Two presents which are highly prized are admirable pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Hardman, the first having been taken fifty years before this anniversary, and the second, about this period.

Although Mr. Hardman has reached his seventy-seventh birthday, he still takes an active interest in his farm and looks carefully after his valuable Delaine sheep. In politics he is a Eepublican and has served three terms on that ticket as township trustee. Mr. Hardman was reared in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but his religious views at present are in accordance with those of the ITniversalist Church.

0. C. CLARKE, secretary and treasurer of the Springfield Abstract Company, has spent his entire life up to date in the City of Springfield, with the exception of a few years spent in Kansas and Missouri. A native of this city, he is a son of Charles E. and Mary C. (Christie) Clarke, who were bom I'espectively in Decatur, Ga., and Springfield, Ohio. " Charles E. Clarke, the father, came to Springfield when a child of six or seven years, and here grew to manhood. He began business life in Dayton, Ohio, where he engaged in book publishing. Thence he went subsequently to Minnesota, where he was interested in real estate operations for a short time. At the end of that period, or about the commencement of the Civil War, he returned to Springfield. He next went to Missouri, where in 1862 he became a member of the State Militia, entering with the rank of captain and being later promoted to that of major. He resigned his commission in December, 1864, and again returned to Springfield. Here he remained but a short time, when he again took up his residence in Missouri, entering into the lumber business at Independence, of which place he was a resident for about five years. He then engaged in the real estate business at Fort Scott, Kansas, and was thus occupied for three years. While there his health failed and he once more returned to Springfield, Ohio, where he died March 12, 1876.

His wife, Mary, was a daughter of James S. and Laura (Beardsley) Christie, natives of New Hampshire and New York, respectively, who were married at Springfield, Ohio, in 1824, where they resided continuously until their decease, in 1884 and 1888, respectively. Mr. Christie, who was by trade a carpenter, engaged here in contracting and building, and also conducted a saw and planing-mill for a number of years. He and his wife were the parents of five children, who attained maturity, namely: Sarah, Mary, Edward, Harlan and James. All are now deceased, with the exception of Mary and Harlan. The father was a Republican politically, and a member of the Presby-

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Clarke had two children, Frances and Oliver C, the last mentioned being the subject of the present article. Mr. Clarke was a Democrat. His wife was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Springfield.

Oliver C. Clarke acquired his elementary education in the Springfield schools, and later became a student at Wittenberg College, from which he was duly graduated. He then began business life, entering the office of the Springfield Machine Company, in the employ of which concern he remained for some ten years. In 1895 he became interested in the abstract business, and subsequently organized, with others, the Springfield Abstract Company, which was incorporated, and of which Mr. Clarke has since been secretary and treasurer. He has also other business interests in Clark County, and is a member of the board of directors of the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Association. He takes no active interest in politics. Religiously he is connected by membership with the First Presbyterian Church, Springfield.

GOLD WAITHE ZINN, one of the trustees of Pike Township, who is engaged in general farming and stock-raising on the Robert Black farm of two hundred acres, is one of the progressive young agriculturists of this section. He was born on the family homestead in Pike Township, Clark County, Ohio, February 26, 1874, and is a son of Peter S. and Elzina (Smith) Zinn, and a grandson of

Peter Zinn was born in 18-11, in Clark County, Ohio, one of a family of seven children, David, Aaron, Edward, Richard, William, Peter, Sarah (Mrs. Jolm Freeze), and Mrs. C. Smith. Peter Zinn grew to manhood on the farm and assisted his father in clearing the land. He later operated a stone quarry for about fifteen years, and furnished a great deal of the stone used in the bridges, turnpikes, culverts, etc., in this part of the county. He is a substantial citizen, owning two fine farms in Pike Township and resides on one of them. He was united in marriage with Elzina Smith, who was born and reared in Pike Township, Clark County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Peter Smith, who came here from Pennsylvania. Nine children were born to Peter and Elzina Zinn : Jennie, wife of James Greer. ; Willard ; Etta, wife of John Funderburg ; Ella, wife of Clark Overholtzer; G. Waithe; Lydia, wife of Clyde Leathly; AVarren K. ; Everett; and Ivy, wife of Byres.

G. Waithe Zinn was reared in his native section and in youth spent much of his time at work in his father's stone quarry. Ho remained at home until his majority, after which he worked out by the day for several years. After his marriage he conducted the home farm for two years, then rented the Black farm of two hundred acres in Pike Township, and since then has successfully engaged there in general farming and stock-raising.

County, New Jersey, and when a child of three years- was brought to Clark County by her parents, John and Laura (Eeed) Hunt, who live on a farm near Mr. and Mrs. Zinn. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are the parents of nine children, Mary E., Jennie, Ida May, Ura Ann, Theodore, Walter, Delia (deceased), Nellie, and John.

In politics Mr. Zinn is a Democrat and was elected trustee of Pike Township in 1907. Fraternally, he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, belonging to White Star Lodge No. 192, of Northampton, and the Jr. 0. U. A. M., No. 195, of New Carlisle.

CHARLES H. HISER, superintendent of the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, with business quarters on the corner of Columbia and Center Streets, Springfield, was born at Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, October 2, 1861, and is a son of Daniel B. and a grandson of Henry Hiser.

Henry Hiser was a manufacturer and inventor and his son, Daniel B., came naturally by his remarkable inventive talents. The latter invented the metallic casket that is now manufactured by the Springfield Company. This business was started on a small scale, but it has so expanded that now it is one of the most important of its kind in the country.

Charles H. Hiser obtained his education in his native locality. When he was fourteen years of age he went to work in a planing mill for a short time and then entered a tin ship, where he worked for two years. The family then moved to Urrville, Ohio, and he was employed for three years thereafter in the works of the Orrville Burial Case Company, subsequently returning to Wooster and entering the employ of the Wooster Burial Company. He had been with the latter company for four years, when his father started the present business at Springfield with which he has been identified ever since, for the past fifteen years having been its superintendent. He is also interested in the Reeser Floral Company at Urbana. Mr. Hiser is a 32nd degree Mason, is a member of the Spring-field Commercial Club, of which he has been treasurer, and belongs also to the Country and the Lagonda Clubs. He is one of the Masonic Temple trustees and has been vice president of the Masonic Club since its organization. He is also secretary and treasurer of the Springfield-Urbana Shrine Club. Mr. Hiser is one of Springfield's acknowledged capitalists and owns a large amount of valuable city real estate. He is one of the company of twelve investors that bought the old West property on the corner of Fountain and High Streets.

AMOS SEITZ, proprietor of the Tremont City Mills, and one of the leading business men of Clark County, was born in German Township, this county, December 21, 1842. He is a son of Andrew and Mary Ann (Circle) Seitz.

Andrew Seitz, the father, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Henry Seitz, who came to Clark County in 1831, accompanied by his sou Andrew. Andrew Seitz married

Ann Baker, who was a daughter of Rudolph Baker. She was born in Virginia and in infancy was brought to Clark County. After the War of 1S12, Rudolph Baker settled on what is now known as the Valley Turnpike Road, near the Springfield Base ball Park, in German Township. In 1845 Andrew Seitz bought the Tremont City Mill and in 1859 he erected a new mill, which stands on the site of the old one. His son, Henry Seitz, began to work in the first mill in 1849 and ran the new- mill until 1873, when Amos Seitz took charge, Henry retiring to his farm. In 1883 Amos Seitz bought the mills and has been conducting them ever since. These mills are equipped with the Barnhard & Lee roller mill machinery and a large amount of first-class flour is manufactured, the special brands being "Silver Spray" and "Fancy Family."

Amos Seitz married Dora Belle Martin, and they have had three children, namely: Charles, who is engaged as a stenographer with the Big Four Railroad; Emma Elmira and Mattie Belle, the last mentioned of whom died November 8, 1907, aged twenty-two years. Mr. Seitz is a member of the order of Knights of Pvthias.

HARRY W. RUBY was born in Spring-field. Ohio, and is one of the city's most prominent and successful young business men. He is the son of G. F. Ruby, who also is a resident of Springfield, but with manufacturing interests in Dayton, Ohio.

After leaving the Springfield High School. Harrv W. Rubv entered "Wittenberg College and upon the completion of his course in that institution went through Nelson's Business College. He then entered the University of Michigan and finished a special law course in preparation for the business life which he began immediately upon his return to Springfield.

Mr. Ruby's alile and energetic dealings in stocks, bonds and real estate soon identified him with the handling of many important interests, both local and foreign, and won for him a prominent place in the front rank of Springfield's business men. The financial ends of numerous projects have been developed by, and owe their success to, his ability. Among these may be mentioned the Ruby Lumber Company, with which he has maintained an active connection as president. This concern owns large tracts of timberland and operates mills throughout middle and western Tennessee. The exceptional progress Mr. Ruby has made as a young business man may be read in his close connection with numerous projects and commercial institutions of imi^ortant financial influence.

Mr. Ruby is a member of the Second Presbyterian Church and belongs to the Commercial, Country and other leading clubs and oro-anizations of the citv.

JOHN H. WILSON, a prominent and substantial citizen of Moorefield Township, residing on a valuable farm of 360 acres, which is situated in Section 32, on the Urbana Turnpike Road, four miles from the center of Springfield, was born February 18, 1850, in Couutj^ Down, Ireland, within sight of the spires of the city of Belfast. He is a son of Robert H. and Mary (Hamilton) Wilson.

Until he was ten years of age, John II. AVilson attended a local school and was then apprenticed to a tailor, with whom he served for seven years, after which, according to the law, he traveled as a journeyman. In this way he visited the leading cities of England and also worked in Wales and Scotland. This taste of travel made him anxious to see America and as he was well equipped with his selfsupporting trade, he crossed the ocean with no apprehensions of failure in a strange land. He landed in the port of New York on June 21, 1870, and took little time to get acquainted with the wonders of that great metropolis, accepting work at his trade on the very day he arrived.

- Mr. Wilson remained in the city of New York until 1872, when he came to Springfield, Ohio, and until 1877 worked for leading tailoring firms in that city as a cutter. He then embarked in business for himself, opening a tailoring establishment at No. 26 East Main Street and subsequently, as his business increased, took in the premises at No. 28 East Main, and he continued in the same line for twentytwo years, dui'ing this period enjoying the largest trade in the city. In 1882 he bought 320 acres of land, which was the old Jacob Thomas farm, to which he sul)- sequently added forty acres, but parked with ten acres to the railroad running through his property. He has given tlie pleasant name of Spruce Lawn Farm to

Prior to "1899, when Mr. Wilson sold out his tailoring business to Thomas Hack and retired to his farm, he had lived on the place even while carrying on his business at Springfield. Since that time he has devoted himself closely to his large interests here and to improving this property. He has spent some $15,000 in improvements, has built several residences and other substantial buildings and has his own water system and electric light plant. His home is fitted with every modern convenience and probably has not its equal in any other rural district in this section of Ohio.

Mr. Wilson was married (first) to Emma Lohner, who died June 4, 1880. She was a daughter of John Lohner, who came from Germany to Springfield with his wife before her birth. There was one son born to this marriage, Robert J., who was born at Spring-field, March 19, 1878. Robert J. Wilson was educated in the Spring-field schools and Wittenberg College and attended Starling Medical v^ollege at Columbus for one year. He then became interested in stock-raising and in raising and dealing in horses. He is widely known over the United States as a judge of horses and as a starter of races. He owns four valuable stallions - Atlantic King, with a record of 2 :0934 ; The Jester, with a record of 2:19i/4, 'with a trial record of 2 :lli/4 ; Con Bell, with a record of 2:24i4, and a registered Norman draft stallion named Phidias. Robert J. Wilson married Leah Dalie, who is a daughter of John Dalie, of Springfield, and thev have one son, John L. Robert J.

John H. Wilsgn was married (second) August 15, 1889, to Martha E. Mowatt, who died February 19, 1892, leaving one son, James M., who was born at Springfield, at the home of his grandmolher, September 5, 1890. He resides with his father in Moorefield Township.

John H. "Wilson has been an active citizen and has always done his duty in regard to public responsibilities. He has never been particularly active in politics and has never consented to serve in any official capacity except as a member of the School Board. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church and is a liberal supporter of its many benevolent enterprises.

JOHN S. CROWELL, president and general manager of the Crowell Publishing Company, of Springtield, Ohio, until February, 1906, when the business was sold to others. Mr. Crowell was the founder of that business in 1877, and has been one of the city's most active and progressive men since that date. A man of recognized business ability, he has been exceptionally successful and become widely known among publishers and advertisers throughout the United States as the founder and president of the Crowell Publishing Company, owners of the "Woman's Home Companion" and the "Farm and Fireside," two periodicals with over a million subscribers. '

John S. Crowell was born in Louisville, Kentucky, January 7, 1850, and was the seventh child born to his parents. His father, S. B. Crowell, was a member and one of the founders of the Walnut Street

Presbyterian Church, at Louisville, of which he was elected a deacon for life. John S. Crowell attended the public schools of his native city, and showed such aptitude in his studies that he was placed in classes with older pupils, among whom he ranked first. He completed an eight-year course in six years. Ajnbitious and self-reliant even in his boyhood days, at the age of eleven years, contrary to the wishes of his parents, he became a newsboy, his original capital invested being five cents, which he obtained in 1861, by holding a soldier's horse. For two years he sold papers in the early morning and attended school during the day. At fifteen years of age he secured a situation in a small printing office at $2.50 per week. This was a short time before the close of school, and so desirous was his instructor that he should take his final, or public examination, that he organized a posse of older scholars, who by force of arms conveyed him to the school-room m his work clothes, where he acquitted himself with credit. Contrary to the wishes of his parents and the advice of teachers, he refused to enter college and continued in business. Within six months a lai'ge job printing office offered him $12.00 per week, and he was soon made assistant foreman, and at seventeen years made foreman. His energy, industry and ability were so marked that his fellow-workmen at that time predicted that in the future he would have a large publishing house of his own. That he possessed rare presence of mind and was capable of quick thought, enabling him to grasp a trying situation on the spur of the moment, was demonstrated while he was employed in this printing office. A workma'i was caught by the arm and held between the ceiling and a pulley making 150 revolutions per minute, and while others were looking on in horror, expecting to see him crushed, young Crowell grasped a belt with one hand, was instantly hurled to the ceiling, where, securing a footing, ho released his companion, who fainted in his arms. Early in the year 1868 Mr. Crowell became foreman of the Louisville Courier-Journal job printing establishment, and so continued until October, 1869, when he met with an accident which incapacitated him for work for a time. About an inch of his right thumb was mashed oflF while he was attending a power paper-cutting machine ; he quickly adjusted the severed portion of his thumb while the man who had caused the accident shut his eyes and called for help, bat young Crowell was able to go alone in search of a doctor. While thus disabled he invented an elastic hand stamp, and the rubber-like material out of which It was made, and while he deemed the invention scarcely worthy a patent, commenced their manufacture. He employed his three brothers in the work, and did a very prosperous business until the panic of 1873. Then, after a visit to a ievi states and the Northern Lakes, he entex'cd the office of B. F. Avery & Sons, the well known plow manufacturers, of Louisville. He conducted the publication of their agricultural journel, "Home and Fr.rni," which prospered under his management. On a trip in the interest of "Home and Farm" he first met Mr. P. P. Mast, of Sjiringfield, Ohio, to whom he afterward suggested the idea of publishing an agricultural journal, with the result that in August, 1877, Mr. Crowell being twentyseven years of age, moved to Springfield and established the "Farm and Fireside," which has had a long and prosperous career, and was probably the first cheap periodical, or publication, to prosper and obtain a national circulation and reputation. He may feel a just and pardonable pride in the success attained by this publication, as it was probably the pioneer to demonstrate that newspapers and magazines could be made profitable when sold at a price one-third to onefourth the price charged previous to 1877.

The publishing house was known as Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick for many years. Early in its career they purchased "The Home Companion" from Cleveland parties, and changed the name or title to "The Woman's Home Companion," imder which name it grew in size and influence until it reached a circulation of nearly six hundred thousand copies.

At an early age John S. Crowell became a member of the Walnut Street Presbyterian Church', at Louisville, and during his residence there, was active in church and Sabbath-school work. At the age of seventeen years he was elected ]il)rarian, at twenty became assistant superintendent and at twenty-one years became superintendent of the Sabbathschool. At twenty-five years of age he was chosen a deacon for life of the Walnut Street Church. He and his wife are now, 1908, members of the First Presbyterian Church, of Springfield, which they joined in November, 1877. Our subject, at the age of twenty-seven, was joined in marriage, November 20, 1877, with Miss

Since coming to Springfield, Ohio, on August 17, 1877, Mr. Crowell has beer actively identified with many religious, educational, charitable and business oi*- ganizations, and also has been an active advocate of the improvement and betterment of Springfield. His activities have resulted in his being chosen to occupy many positions of trust and honor, such as director of the First National Bank, of Springfield; also a director of the Columbia Life Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, and president of the board of trustees of the Western College lor Women, at Oxford, Ohio; also president of the board of trustees of the new Cily Hospital, of Springfield; elder of the First Presbyterian Church, and director of the Y. M. C. A., all of the foregoing positions being held by him at this time, 1908. He has also been president of the Springfield Board of Trade, and a director of the Associated Charities, and fir five years was president of the Springfield College and Seminary, and for two years president of the Young Men's Christian Association, and president of the Men's Literary Club. He was also elected superintendent of the Sundayschool a number of times, for a term ot one year each, and for nine successive terms of three years each, to the position of elder of the First Presbyterian Church, and is elder of the First Church at the present time, 1908.

for fifty years without an endowment, and no effort was being made to secure an endowment, therefore the college labored under many disadvantages. At the suggestion and earnest solicitation of Mr. Crowell, the board of trustees decided to employ a financial secretary or agent, whose duty it would be to give hi.s entire time and attention to the subject and work, solely and only for an endowment, and present the merits of the Western College to philanthropists, and others, interested in educational matters. Up to the present time over $260,000.00 has been subscribed, or pledged. This includes two gifts of fifty thousand dollars each from Andrew Carnegie and the General Education Board, which was founded by John D. Rockefeller. These two latter gifts are endorsements of the highest character of the "Western College for Women" and its trustees, as Mr. Carnegie and the General Education Board do not give such large amounts withoiit careful investigation of the merits and standing of an institution.

In 1887 Mr. Crowell instituted an investigation of the Presbyterian Board of Publication, which is located at Philadelphia, Pa. This resulted in learning that the board was paying far more than it should for much of its printing, binding, folding, stitching, etc. When a report was made to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, of the United States, it ordered a change in the methods of the Board of Publication, as suggested by him, which resulted in a saving of over fiftv thousand dollars each year, for many years, to the Presbyterian Church. The Presbytery, of Dayton, sent Mr. Crowell as a delegate to the General Assembly four years in succession, in order that he might attend to and report upon the investigation which resulted in such a great benefit to the Presbyterian Church.

Stephen B. Crowell, the father of John S. Crowell, was a mechanic of more than ordinary ability. When he first came west, about 1825, he settled in Lexington, Kentucky, and became superintendent of his Uncle Joseph Bruen's Foundry and Machine Shop. In 1828 parties in Lexington requested Joseph Bruen to devise, or invent, some method to carry freight on land, so that Lexington, which was an inland town, could compete with river and seaport cities. Joseph Bruen turned the whole matter over to his nephew, Stephen Bruen Crowell, who designed the plans and made the drawings, and also the difficult parts of the patterns and eastings and machine work, and built a locomotive, a train of three cars, also a track in the form of a circle, on which the train traveled round and round. This train carried ears, passengers and freight, and was able to ascend an incline having a grade of eighty feet to the mile. The histoi'ian says, "The railroad and cars created the belief that carriages and heavy freight could be drawn as easily and certainly by steam power upon railroads as boats could be propelled by steam power through water." The whole outfit was exhibited in Lexington in 1829, and in Frankfort in ^[arch, 1830. and afterwards in Louisville, and it was so convincing to those who saw it, that the full amount of the estimated cost of a railroad from Lexington to Louisville, one million dollars, was soon subscribed and the building of the railroad commenced, with great military pomp and civic and religious ceremony. It is now a part of the Louisville and Nashville system. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad used horse power until 1832, which was four years after Stephen Bruen Crowell decided that steam was the proper power for railroads. A study of the history of railroads will not leave any doubt that Stephen Bruen Crowell, the father of John S. Crowell, was the first man in America to invent, design, build and operate a complete steam railroad, with locomotive, cars and track, that carried passengers and freight.

W. 0. PADEN, owner of eighty acres of farm land in Green Township, was born November 29, 1848, in German Township, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of James and Catherine (Whitmer) Paden, and a grandson of James and Nancy (Beard) Paden.

James Paden, grandfather, was a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and after coming to Clark County, he operated a woolen mill near Lagonda until his death, which was caused by accidental drowning while crossing Buck Creek, on a foot log. He married Nancy Beard, who married (second) William Overpeck, a life-long resident of German Township and one of the largest landowners in this locality. She died at the advanced age of ninetv-four vears. Her marriage with

James Padeu resulted iu the birth of three children, of whom James, the eldest, was born near the present site of Lagouda. After the death of his father he went to live with Peter Sintz, by whom he was reared and for whom he worked until the time of his marriage. He then settled at Springfield, where he conducted the Western Hotel and livery barn for some time, it being the best hotel the city then afforded. He subsequently located on Market Street and operated the Union Hotel, and he opened the first ice-cream parlor in the city of Springfield, and later built an ice house in Springfield, another innovation. His death occurred shortly after the completion of that building. He married Catherine Whitmer, who was born and reared near Tremont and was a daughter of Jacob Whitmer. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Paden. One daughter, Susan, died in young womanhood. David, the eldest of the family, was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War. After his return home he bought a farm in Shelby County. Ohio. In 1875 he was accidentally killed while fighting a fire, a burning tree falling on him.

W. 0. Paden was reared in German Township and at the age of fourteen started out in the world for himself. He worked on farms by the month for two years, after which he attended school at Lebanon, having ol:)tained his primary education in German Township, and after completing his higher course he taught school for eighteen years. Mr. Paden then went to the South, where he engaged in the lumber business for twenty years. Upon his return to Clark County, Ohio, he purchased his present farm in Green

Mr. Paden was united in marriage with Laura J. Garlough, a daughter of W. H. Garlough, a life-long resident of Green Township. Mr. and Mrs. Paden have had two children : Gertrude and Jimis P. The former married Irvin G. Hamma, who was born and reared in Green Township and is a son of Andrew Hamma. They have three children: Clarence, Thelma, and Gretta. Mr. Hamma formerly followed farming, later conducted a restaurant, after which he was proprietor of a hotel m Kentucky until his removal to St. Louis, where he at present resides and owns a hotel. Junis P. Paden died aged fourteen months. The 'mother of Mrs. Paden is still living at the advanced age of eightyfour years, making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Paden.

In politics Mr. Paden is a Democrat, and although an active worker in the interests of his party, has never cared to hold office. He is a Mason and an Odd Fellow and also belongs to the Grange. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

LUCIUS M. HARRIS, city auditor of Spring-field, Ohio, was born in 1849 in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, and has been a resident of this city since 1885. He is a son of Sullivan D. and Marian Harris. Mr. Harris was reared and educated in Columbus, Ohio, where his parents moved when he was a small child. Early in life he entered his father's office, the latter publishing the old "Ohio Cultivator," and later went to Cleveland, where his father iniblished the "Ohio

Farmer." Soon after locating at Cleveland, Mr. Harris learned telegraphy, and in 1864 enlisted in Company A, Sixtyninth Pennsylvania Regiment, and was immediately transferred and assigned to duty in the telegraph department. After the war he was engaged as operator in the train dispatcher's office at Meadville, Pennsylvania, for two years and was then employed for one year in the Western Union offices at Savannah. After returning north he became chief train dispatcher for the Pennsylvania Railroad lines, being located at Logansport, Indiana, for twelve years, and from there he went to Chicago, where for a short time he was in the employ of the Chicago and Atlantic Railroad. He then became trainmaster of the L. N. A. & C. Railroad, being located at LaFayette, Indiana, for three years. In 1885 Mr. Harris came to Spring-field and engaged in the wholesale and retail tobacco and news business, in which he continued with success for about eighteen years, when he disposed of tho business and assumed the city agency for the traction line. In November, 1904, Mr. Harris was elected auditor of Springfield and was re-elected to that office November 5, 1907. He is now serving his second terms therein and has proved a faithful and capable officer and enjoys the hiab esteem and good will of his fellow-citizens. Mr. Harris was trustee of the water works, but had only served one year when the new code was enacted.

In 1870 Mr. Harris was joined in marriage with Miss Frances E. Gardner, and they have one child, Carlton G. Harris, who is em]iloyed in the engineering department of the city of Spring-field. Fraternallv Mr. Harris is a member of the

JOHN N. GARVER, a business man at Springfield, is a crtizen well known in journalistic and political circles and has been identified with various important interests in this section. Mr. Garver was born in Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio, September 28, 1858, and is a son of Benjamin C. and Ruth A. (Rohrer) Garver.

Benjamin C. Garver was born near Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His grandfather, Christian Garver, emigrated from Germany and settled in Washington County, Maryland, where his family of eighteen children were reared. Abraham C. Garver, father of Benjamin C, was born in Marjdand but became a resident of Jefferson County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in 1819. In 1831 he came to Clark County with his wife and six children, and settled in the forest in Bethel Township, where he had purchased a farm. Later he acquired land aggregating 700 acres. He married Elizabeth Rice, who was born in Maryland. He died in 1857, his wife surviving him several yearSij Benjamin C. Garver was two years old when his parents came to Clark County. At the death of his father he inherited a portion of the land, on which he continued to reside for some years and then moved to Kansas. The closing years of his life were spent as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife Ruth, who was born in Springfield, was a daughter of John A. and Susan (Thrall) Rohrer, who came to Clark Countv from Pennsvlvania, in 1840. Benjamin C. Garver and wife had eleven children, the following nine reaching maturity, John N., Abraham R., Frank R., James L., Walter B., Edward M., George G., Clara E. and Arthur C.

After an academy preparation, John N. Gai-ver entered Wittenberg College and continued his studies there from 1876 until 1878, and then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he was graduated in the class of 1882. He was then engaged as traveling representative of the Superior Drill Company, of Springfield. He later turned his attention to the study of law, reading for about one year at Emporia, Kansas, and then drifted into newspaper work, for which he had acquired some earlier training as a reporter on the Springfield Republic and as business manager of a college publication. He became editor first of the News and later of the Globe at Emporia. In 1885 he filled the same position on the staff of the Sioux City Tribime. In the fall of 1886 he was appointed land inspector for the New England Trust Company, for Missouri and Kansas, and late in 1887 he went to Lincoln, Nebraska, where, associated with A. D. Hosterman, now a resident of Springfield, and a number of promine'^it business men of Lincoln, he established a publishing house known as the Lincoln Newspaper Union. This venture proved a great success and in 1888 they disposed of this business advantageously. Returning to Springfield, Mr. Garver, as a member of the Hosterman Publishing Co., became interested in. and the advertising manager of, the Republic Times, then one of the leading Republican newspapers of southern Ohio. In 1892 Mr. Garver became one of the owners and the business manager of the Peoria, 111., Transcript, which he conducted successfully for five years, after which, in 1898, he became sole owner of Farm Neivs, which he published with splendid success until 1905, at which time he sold it in order to give his entire time to his western land and local real estate and business interests.

In 1888 Mr. Garver was married to Anna Geiger, a daughter of the late Dr. H. R. Geiger, and Nancy (Hartford) Geiger, of Spring-field. Mr. and Mrs. Garver live in a beautiful home at No. 619 Wittenberg Avenue and are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. In his i^olitical affiliation Mr. Garver has always been a staunch Republican and has taken an active part in public affairs wherever he has been located. He is an alumnus of the Phi Kappa Psi, a college fraternity. He is a member of the several Masonic bodies, including the Knights Templar and the Mystic Shrine. During 1898 he was president of the Springfield Commercial Club, the city's leading commercial organization. He is interested in several business concerns in Springfield and elsewhere.

REUBEN M. ROBERTS, who operates a valuable farm of 190 acres, which is advantageously situated within two miles of South Charleston, owns the finest herd of registered Holstein cattle in Clark County and carries on a large stock business. He is one of the substantial citizens of Madison Township and was born on September 26, 1850, at Alexandria, Virginia. His l^arents were Reuben and Hannah (Roberts) Roberts.

Enoch Roberts, the grandfather, was a native of New Jersey, and Reuben Roberts married Hannah Roberts, a daughter of Josiah Roberts, of Moorestown, New Jersey. They had eight children, five of whom survive. Reuben Roberts died in 1855.

Eeuben M. Roberts was educated in the neighborhood of Moorestown, New Jersey, and later worked as a farmer there before coming to Ohio in 1886. He engaged in agriculture on the Merritt farm, having previously married Susan M. Merritt, who was born April 4, 1852, in Spring-field, Clark Coimty. She is a daughter of Edward Merritt, who was born at Mt. Holly, New Jersey, in 1820, and who, in 1832, accompanied his parents, Thomas and Jane (Gaskill) Merritt, to Madison Township, Clark County. Thomas Merritt was a cabinetmaker and followed farming on the present Roberts farm after coming to this section. He had four children. Edward Merritt was married twice and had two children born to his first marriage, and four by his second, Mrs. Roberts being of the second family. Her early home was near the site of the present water works at Springfield. She was educated in the district schools and remained at home until her marriage, September 16, 1886, to Reuben M. Roberts. They have one son, Merritt E., who is a student in the George School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In political sentiment, Mr. Roberts is a Republican. He is a member of the Societv of Friends.

business men, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 29, 1865. There he was reared and received his educational training in the public schools and in the civil engineering department of the University of Cincinnati. At the age of nineteen Mr. Sieverling became a member of the engineering staff of Anderson & Hobby, civil engineers, and of the Cincinnati Southern Kailway, and remained in Cincinnati engaged in civil engineering for a number of years. He then went to Anderson, Indiana, and engaged in preliminary survejiug for traction lines for about a year and a half. In 1895, at the solicitation of John H. Thomas, he came to Spring-field, but after reaching the city entered the engineering department of the Ohio Southern Railway, remaining with that company for over two years, when he surveyed the extension of the Findlay, Ft. Wayne & Western Railway to Kankakee, Illinois. One year later he became chief engineer of the Detroit & Lima Northern, which subsequently consolidated with the Ohio Southern under the name of Detroit Southern, with which company he remained as chief engineer for two years. On July 17, 1901, he was appointed city engineer of Springfield, which position he held until February 1, 1908. While employed by Anderson & Hobby, he acted as engineer in charge of numerous large projects, notably the building of a town. Grand Rivers, Kentucky, with two 60-ton blast furnaces, opening twelve coal mines and building numerous coking ovens ; the building of Ivorydale - Proctor & Gamble 's great soap works ; the Addyston Pipe & Steel Co.'s plant at Addyston. Ohio; the Anniston Pipe & Steel Co. at Anniston, Ala., and the government post of

On February 15, 1908, he took service with G-ould & Wright, contractors of Toledo, Ohio, su]Derintending the construction of the main high level sanitary sewer and other sanitary sewers of the sanitary system he designed while city engineer in 1904, the estimated cost of which was $981,000.

Mr. Sieverling is a member of the Ohio Society of Engineers, and is serving on the board of trustees of that society. He is a Master Mason, belonging to Anthony Lodge, No. 455, Clark County, Ohio. Religiously, he is affiliated with the Center Street Methodist Episcopal Church, being one of the trustees.

JAMES O. TUTTLE, general farmer and stock-raiser in Harmony Township, where he owns ninety-seven and one-half acres of valuable land, was born in Clark County, Ohio, October 26, 1847, and is a son of Sylvanus and Jane D. (Garlough) Tuttle.

The Tuttle family belonged to New Jersey prior to settling in Clark County, Ohio. In 1806, the great-grandfather of James 0. Tuttle brought his family from that State and settled in Spring-field Township and spent the remainder of his life here. His son, John Tuttle, was born in New Jersey and married in Ohio, in 1815. His wife was Margaret Prickett, who was a daughter of Nicholas Prickett, and to them were born fourteen children.

Sylvanus Tuttle, of the above family, was born in Clark County in 1820, and in early manhood he married Jane D. Garlough. They had six children, namely: Margaret, John, James, Marion, Tabitha and George H. Margaret is deceased. Her husband, Charles Holland, died in Hardin County, Ohio. They had the following children: Robert, William, Charles, Harry, George and an infant daughter. John died in infancy. Marion resides in Clark County. Tabitha is the widow of John Blee. George probably resides in Arizona.

James 0. Tuttle attended the district schools during his boyhood and grew to manhood on the home farm. When his father died the property was left to five heirs and subsequently James 0., together with his brother Marion, purchased the interests of the three others. He carries on general farming successfully raising the usual grains of this section, and gives considerable attention to producing fine stock, his land being well adapted to both industries.

On November 6, 1870, Mr. Tuttle was married in Green Township, Clark County, to Catherine Todd, who was born August 4, 1848, in Madison County. Ohio, and is a daughter of Samuel and Salome Todd, both deceased, who had eight children, namely: Margaret, Elizabeth,, Thomas, Sarah B., Catherine, Samuel, Nancy J. and Jacob. Margaret Todd, deceased, married Thomas Baker and they had four children : Elma, who is the widow of Wesley Clark, has three sons, Ernest, Clay and Wesley A. Orval, who married (first) Lottie Blackburn and (second) an Eastern lady, is a professor in a college in the State of New York.

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Leonard, who lives at Dayton, has three children. Louise died young. These were the children of Margaret. Elizabeth Todd, deceased, married William Billby and left one son, Charles. Thomas Todd served through three enlistments in the Civil War from Indiana. He has married twice (first) Anna Graham, who left two children, Minnie and Harley, and (second) Anna Stillwell. Sarah B. Todd, now the wife of Alfred Stanton and residing in Kansas, was married first to Theodore Brawley. Samuel Todd married (first) Nettie Billby, who left one child, Oliver, and (second) Cynthia Shurett. They have one daughter, Sarah E., who married Albert Welder and they have two children, Waldo and Kenneth. Nancy J. and Jacob Todd both died when small.

Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle have had two daughters, Leona, who was born July 2, 1876, died aged twenty-eight days; and Mabel, who was born January 3, 1879. In 1900, she mari'ied William Nave and they live in Pleasant Township. Mrs. Tuttle is a valued member of the M. P. Church at Harmony. Mr. Tuttle is identified with the Grange.

W. F. TUTTLE, secretary, treasurer and manager of The W. F. Tuttle Hardware Company, has been a resident of Springfield for the past twenty-six years and was born in Springfield Township, Clark Coimty, Ohio, in 1863. His father, John J. Tuttle, was a leading farmer in the township. At the age of seventeen years, W. F. Tuttle came from his country home to Springfield, where he became a clerk in the hardware store of W. W.

Diehl, with whom he remained about four years, later going to the firm of Elder & Tuttle. With the exception of four years, during which he was engaged in a grain business, Mr. Tuttle has continuously devoted himself to the interests of the hardware trade. In 1904 his present enterprise, the W. F. Tuttle Hardware Company, was organized, and a large and constantly expanding business has followed. In 1887, Mr. Tuttle was married to Florence Otstot, who is a daughter of William Otstot, a member of an old pioneer family of this section. Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle have one son, Carl.

JAMES H. BABBITTS, postmaster, oldest son of the late Charles and Margaret (Eobison) Babbitts, was born at Springfield, Ohio, April 1, 1853. He completed his public school course in his native city, and then entered the University of Wooster, Ohio, from which institution he was graduated in 1874. He then took up the study of the law under the supervision of General J. Warren Keifer and Hon. Charles E. White. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar, and later entered into partnership with his preceptors. In this engagement he continued until 1881, when he was elected clerk of the courts of Clark County.

During the seventeen years following he was actively engaged in political life. He was chosen chairman of the Republican Connty Central Committee in 1883, and 1884, and again in 1889 he served in the same position. In 1884 he was reelected to the office of clerk of the courts, and was again re-elected in 1887, and served in that position until January 1, 1890, when he resigned to take the position of managing editor of the Daily Republic-Times, the leading Republican journal of Clark County.

In this engagement he continued for eight years, when he resigned his editorship to serve as postmaster of Springfield, to which office he was appointed by President McKinley, May 1, 1898. In 1902 and again in 1906 Mr. Rabbitts was reappointed by President Roosevelt. During Mr. Rabbitts' incumbency the rural delivery service was established, and the volume of the business of the Springfield post office, its gross receipts and the number of its employes have all increased more than one hundred and twenty-five per cent.

Mr. Rabbitts was married December 7, 3882, at Indianapolis, Ind., to Miss Cornelia Burt, who is a daughter of Rev. N. C. Burt, D. D., who was formerly pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, at Springfield. Of the three children born to Mr. and Mrs. Rabbitts, a son and a daughter survive, viz : Burt and Frances. The family home is at 652 North Limestone Street.

In 1898 Mr. Rabbitts was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Merchants' and Mechanics' Building and Loan Association and served continuously in that position. Following the death of the late Edward C. Gwyn, Mr. Rabbitts was elected president of the association January 1, 1908. Mr. Rabbitts is an active member of the Spring-field Commercial Club and contributes his willing effort in the discharge of all the duties incident to public-spirited citizenship.

MARTIN FRANTZ, who is engaged in general farming on a fine farm of 336 located about ten miles west of Springfield, in Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio, was born October 2, 1857, near his present farm, and is a son of Benjamin and Mary Ann (Leedy) Frantz.

Daniel Frantz, great-grandfather of our subject, came from Virginia to Ohio at a very early period and settled west of Spring-field, where his death occurred some years later. His son, Benjamin Frantz, Sr., came to Ohio at the same time, but settled in the wilds of Bethel Township, on a large tract of land, residing in that locality for over fifty years, and passing out of this life at the age of seventy-seven.

Benjamin Frantz, Jr., father of the subject of this sketch, with the exception of two years spent on a farm in Wabash, Indiana, has passed his entire life up to this time in Bethel Township on the old homestead, to which he has at times added more land, having acquired about 600 acres. He was first married to Mary Ann Leedy, of Wabash County, Ohio, who died in 1897, aged fifty-seven years. Eight children were bom of this union, namely : Martin, whose name appears at the head of this article; Joseph; Elizabeth, wife of A. Detrick; Emma, who died aged seventeen years; Charles, and three children, who died in infancy. He subsequently married Mattie Binkley and they are at present spending the winter in California.

- Martin Frantz was born in the old stone house on the farm where his brother Charles now lives, and there grew to manhood, occupying his time with farm duties and attending the district schools of the township. Being the eldest son, a large part of the work fell to him, and he cleared about thirty acres of land, remaining at home until after his marriage. He then bought the John Garver farm, which he carried on for two years, when he returned to his present farm, buying the land from his father. Here he has since been engaged in general agriculture, and has spent considei'able time and money in improving the land, remodeling the old brick house and other buildings on the f ann.

Mr. Frantz was married October 14. 1879, to Dora Markey, of Preble County, Ohio, and thirteen children have been born of this union, namely: Verna, wife of J. Aukerman, who has one child - Forest ; Benjamin A., who married Dora .Brubaker; Edith, who married James Shoup; Maude, wife of E. Onkst; Markey, Anna, Emma, Evelyn, Martin, Pauline, and three others who died in infancy.

Mr. and Mrs. Frantz are members of the old Grerman Baptist Brethren Church, in which IMr. Frantz 's father is an elder and preaches in the Honey Creek Church.

MICHAEL RADER, township trustee and owner of a farm of ninety-five and three-quarters acres, located about six miles northwest of Springfield, on the Eureka Road, just off the Troy Turnpike, is one of the enterprising and influential agriculturists of German Township. He was born December 9, 1868. on a farm in Springfield Township, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Philip and Margaret (Sultz) Rader.

to Clark County worked for a time on the farm now owned by William W. Hyslop. While visiting his sister in St. Louis, Missouri, he met and married Margaret Sultz, who was born in Germany and came to America with her parents, who settled in St. Louis. Mr. Rader and wife began housekeeping on a farm just opposite the Hyslop farm, which was then owned by Michael Shafer, an uncle of Mrs. Rader, and they have resided on farms in Clark County ever since. For a number of years Mr. Rader rented land and operated the Sintz farm in Springfield Township for six years ; then became a resident of Pike Township for seven years, after which he returned to Springfield township and rented for two year.-, when he bought a little farm there which he conducted for nine years, tlien sold and bought a tract of sixty acres in Mad River Township, which he also sold, after which he bought the farm on which he and his wife began housekeeping, where he has since continued to reside. Ten children were born to Philip and Margaret Rader, nine of whom are living: Michael, Philip, who lives with his brother Michael; Henry, who died aged twentyeight years, left one child, Augusta: Mary, who is the wife of Jolau German; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Louis Foster; Adam, who lives on the farm of sixty acres in Pike Township, which was formerly owned by Philip Moruingstar; :\finnie, who is the wife of Charles Lelmard; Kate, who is the wife of Emmard Lehnard; and Maggie, who married Ralph Saunders.

marriage. With the exception of two years sjDent in working in the quarries, lie has always followed farming, and after his marriage located on the Cold Springs Farm in Mad Eiver Township. One year later he moved to the Susan Sintz farm, which he conducted for seven years with much success, then bought and located on his present farm of ninety-five and three quarter acres in German Township. Here he is successfully engaged in general farming and has made numerous improvements. There are two barns on the place, one of which was built by Mr. Rader in 1903.

On February 26, 1895, Mr. Rader married Kate Kaffenberger, who is a daughter of Conrad and Barbara (Schafer) Kaffenberger. Mrs. Rader 's mother died when she was but four years old, and she was reared until eleven years of age by her step-mother, after which she went to live with her grandparents, Adam Schafer and wife, both of whom were natives of Germany, but residents of German Township, Clark County, for many years. The grandmother died January 31, 1908, aged seventy-five years, and the grandfather's death occurred in July, 1905. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rader, namely: Harry, William, Bertha, Albert, Paul and Gertrude.

Politically Mr. Rader is a Democrat, and was elected trustee of German TowTiship on the Democratic ticket. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, of Northampton.

Leffel Company, of this city, has been a resident here for the past forty-two years, and was born in 1837, near Rob Roy, Indiana, where he was reared and educated. Early in life he engaged in milling and farming, which occupation he followed until 1866, when he came to Spring-field and was here engaged in milling for one year. In 1867 he entered the em^jloy, as clerk, of the James Leffel Company, of this city, and has gradually advanced to his present position as vice president and treasurer of that company. Mr. Bookwaiter is also a director in the Citizens' National Bank, of this city.

In 1867 Mr. Bookwalter was joined in marriage with Mary E. Cr^oft, and to them have been born two children - John A., who is secretary of the James Leffel Company, and May L., wife of George Richmond Prout, who is associated with the American Seeding Company. Socially, Mr. Bookwalter is a member of the Commercial Club and the Lagonda Club, of this city, and is fraternally a thirtysecond degree Mason, a member of the Scottish Rite, of Dayton, and of the Shrine, of Cincinnati.

PERRY HERBERT STEAVART, residing on a farm of 135 acres, located eight miles southeast of the city of Springfield, in Green Township, comes of one of the oldest and most representative Clark County families. He was born in Green Township, one-half miles south of his present home, December 12, 1862, and is a son of Oscar Nesbitt and Rachel (Nicholson) Stewart.

5, 1833, and was one of ten children born to John Templetou and Ann (Elder) Stewart. He was reared on the old Stewart liome place, and when twenty-two years of age began life on his own account, having inherited one hundred and fort}' acres upon his father's death. This he set about improving and devoted his attention exclusively to farming until the outbreak of the Civil War. Upon the first call to arms he responded, enlisting April 23, 18C1, in Company E, Sixteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Captain Philip Kershner. He was in the army about four months with the division that was at Phillippi and Carrick's Ford. After his return from the front, he was soon married, and with his wife lived on the farm in Green Township until 1884, when he removed to his farm in Harmony Township, wliere he erected a fine home. A successful farmer and business man in every way, with the assistance of his faitliful wife, he accumulated some eight hundred acres of land.

Oscar N. Stewart was married January 28, 1862, to Miss Rachel Nicholson, who was born in Harmony Township, and is a daughter of Andrew and Rachel (Hammond) Nicholson. They became parents of three children: Perry Hex'bert; Ralph Nicholson, who is secretary of the Mutual Aid Society, and lives in Springfield ; and Frank, who lives on the home farm. Fraternally he is a member of Wilson Post No. 602, G. A. R., at Vienna. He is a member of the Christian Church, at Plattsburg, of which he is a deacon. Politically he is a Republican.

year and Lebanon College a few terms. Returning home he took up farming as his life work, operating the home place until 1895, when he moved upon his present farm, which he had purchased the previous year from the David Elder assignees. He erected outbuildings and made other substantial improvements, and in 1899 built a commodious house, which, with the fine lawn and shade trees, makes one of the most attractive country homes in this section of the county.

January 24, 1889, Mr. Stewart was joined in the bonds of matrimony with Miss Ermina Tuttle, who was born in Green Township, December 29, 1862, and is a daughter of Isaac and Fannie (Eichelbarger) Tuttle. Four children were born to them: Ira E., bom August 14, 1891 ; Roy Levon, October 5, 1893 ; Walter Nesbitt, October 26, 1895 ; - and Elmer Arthur, born November 28, 1900. Politically our subject is a Republican, casting his first presidential vote for James G. Blaine. He has served fourteen years on the school board, but has never been an office seeker. With his family he attends the Methodist Episcopal Church.

F. 0. JONES, head of the firm of F. 0. Jones & Company, which is extensively engaged in sheet metal work, roofing, etc., has been a prominent citizen and business man of Springfield, Ohio, since 1894.