Springfield Township (part 28 of 69)

Probate Law and Practice. This came from the press in 1903, and is the leading book in Ohio on this subject. In 1905 he was engaged by the American Law Book Company to assist in the preparation of an article on Mechanics' Liens, which ap^ pears in Volume 27, CYC. In 1906 his guide to school officers was issued, and in 1907 a guide for executors and administrators.

He became a Master Mason in 1883, and the Knights of Pythias in 1886, going through the chairs, etc., and in 1896-90 served as judge advocate general on the Ohio Brigade of the Uniform Rank.

In 1896 he became a member of the First Lutheran Church, of Springfield, and is now an elder of that organization. From 1897-1903, during the period of the erection of the first Y. M. C. A. Building, ,he was a director in that organization.

In 1896 he was united in marriage to Miss Nettie Grace Curly, who then lived in Beatrice, Nebraska. Miss Curly was the daughter of Isaac L. Curly, and was born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Of this union there are three children: Peter Curly Rockel, aged ten; William M., Jr., aged seven, and Margaret, aged four years.

In 1904 Mr. Rockel moved to his farm south of the city, near Possum Schoolhouse, where he built a modern residence, in which he now resides. On retirement from the probate judge's office, 1897, he opened a law office in the Bushnell Building, which he still occupies.

JOSEPH H. STAFFORD, owner of sixty acres of farm land on the west boundry line of Clark County, in Pike Township, has been, up to date, a life resident of that community. He was born October 3, 1848, on the home farm, and is a son of Finley and Catherine (Mitchell) Stafford.

Finley Stafford was born on the old home place, on which his son, Joseph, now lives, in 1818, and was a son of George Stafford, who came from Virginia at a very early day and entered 219 acres of land. He had a large family of children, of whom Finley was the youngest son. The latter was born in the old log house on the farm, and during his younger days assisted greatly in clearing the land of its heavy timber. In his later days he erected a good substantial brick house on the place, the one in which his son, Joseph H., now lives. He was joined in marriage with Catherine Mitchell, a native of Miami County, Ohio, and a daughter of Howard Mitchell. They lived on the old Stafford farm until 1887, when he retired from business activity and located at New Carlisle, where his death occurred in 1894. They were parents of seven children, as follows: Loretta, who died young; Joseph Howard, whose name heads this biography ; Edwin, who died in childhood ; Albert, who owns a farm of ninety-eight acres adjoining that of Joseph H., and lives at New Carlisle with his mother; Clara, who died young; Laura Cecil, who is the wife of Tully J. Scarff, of Clark County; and Charles Pence, who lives in Ilhnois.

Joseph H. Stafford was reared and educated in Pike Township, attending the common schools. He was born in the old log cabin which stood on the home place for many years, and has lived on this farm all his life except two years spent on his Grandfather Mitchell's farm after the latter 's death. He has followed general farming, raising some stock, and has met with good success.

Mr. Stafford was married July 3, 1874, to Miss Laura B. Black, a daughter of Eobert and Ann (Wallace) Black, and they have five children - Florence ; Carrie F. (wife of Charles C. Wilson, by whom she has a son - Allen S.) ; Ross G. ; Walter T. ; and Grace. Fraternally, our subject is a member of Lodge No. 505, I. 0. 0. F., at New Carlisle, and also belongs to New Carlisle Encampment No. 222, I. 0. 0. F.

GEORGE K. ERNST, trustee of Moorefield Township, is a leading citizen and resides on his valuable farm of fortyfive acres, on which he was born, October 3, 1865, and is a son of Noah and Mary (Maxwell) Ernst.

Noah Ei-nst, father of George K., was born in Virginia and was a son of Jacob Ernst, who came to Moorefield Township, Clark County, Ohio, when the former was two years old. Noah Ernst was married twice, first to a Miss McKinnon, who left two children, namely : Martin Luther, who is deceased ; and Mrs. Emily J. Kiplinger. The second marriage was to Mary Maxwell, and the following children were born : Jacob, who is deceased; Mrs. Frances Ellen Maxwell ; Mrs. Sarah Hyle ; John L. ; George K., and Noah F.

George K. Ernst was reared in Moorefield Township and after completing his early education in the coimtry schools, he entered Wittenberg College, where he remained one year and then spent one year at Antioch College. When he returned home he engaged in farming, and this has been his main occupation ever since. It is one to which many intelligent, educated men have devoted their attention, and the time has come when agriculture is numbered with the in'ofessions.

Mr. Ernst married Elizabeth W. Wilson, who is a daughter of Justus S. and Louisa (Bains) Wilson. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Ernst, Horatio Bains, was born in Berkley County, Virginia, and in boyhood accompanied his parents to Warren County, Ohio. He was born in 1791, and came to Clark County in 1811, settling in Moorefield Township. There he married Mary Miller, a daughter of Rev. Ralph Miller, who came to Clark County from Kentucky, and in addition to becoming a large landowner, was a pioneer preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church. For many years Mr. and Mrs. Bains lived in Moorefield Township, where Mrs. Wilson was born. Justus S. Wilson was born in Champaign County, Ohio, and was a son of Reason Z. Wilson, of Virginia. Justus S. Wilson spent the greater part of his life in Champaign County, lea^^ng there and moving to Moorefield Township in 1878, where he died eleven years later. He was a Knight Templar Mason. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson had five children. She survived her husband and was a beloved member of the household of Mr. and Mrs. Ernst at the time of her death, March, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Ernst have three children: Jennie Irene, who is a student in the Springfield High School; John Wilson, and Sarah Frances.

which general!}' goes Republican. He has also served three terms as township assessor. Fraternally he is connected with the Junior Order of American Mechanics.

AARON T. ALLEN, a well known educator of Clark County, who at present is performing the duties pertaining to the office of mai'ket master, at Springfield, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856, and is a son of Dr. Aaron and a grandson of the Aaron Allen, who built the first steamboat to ply on the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Pittsburg.

Aaron Allen was one of the energetic, progressive, far-seeing men of his day. He brought the first steam-power mill into Clark County, and he located it at what is now Allentown. He sawed in his mills the rails used for the Pan Handle Railroad, at a time when the rails were of wood construction, covered by strap iron. His son. Dr. Aaron Allen, who was a graduate of the Cincinnati Medical College in 1849, first practiced at Frankfort, Kentucky, later moving to Cincinnati, and then practiced for four years at Springfield. Following these changes, he then located at Catawba, where he continued in the practice of medicine for twentyeight continuous years.

Aaron T. Allen was liberally educated, completing his studies at Wittenberg College, and at Lebanon, Ohio, after which he devoted himself to teaching, and for eighteen years taught school in Spring-field Township, and for eight years longer in different parts of the county. When he retired from the educational field he interested himself in an insurance and collection business. On February 1, 1908,

In 1886, Mr. Allen was married to Hattie C. Bustrum, and they have five children, namely: Inez 0., Beatrice E., Vivian, Bernice and Livia. Mr. and Mrs Allen belong to the Luther Church. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fellow.

Pleasant Township's representative men, whose valuable farm of seventy-one acres is situated on the Ellsworth turnpike, three miles from Catawba, was l)orn in Clark County, Ohio, December 21, 1851, and is a son of Abraham Stipp.

Abraham Stipp was born in Virginia, in 1818, and came to Champaign County, Ohio, in 18-19. He rented a farm there upon which he resided until 1851, when he moved to the farm now occupied by his son, Martin Luther, in Pleasant Township. His wife died on tliis farm in 1893 and his death took place in 1896. They had two sons and one daughter, namely: Martin Luther; Elizabeth, who is the widow of T. N. Davisson, their one child dying in infancy ; and Henry M., who resides in Champaign County. He married Belle Hardman and they have one child, Essie K., who was born in 1891.

Martin Luther Stipp grew to manhood in Pleasant Township and has always followed agi'icultural pursuits. The farm he owns was left jointly to him and his brother. In 1898 he purchased the latter 's interest and has carried on general farming here ever since, meeting with very satisfactory success. He is a man of practical but also . progressive ideas,

On October 25, 1877, Mr. Stipp was married to Arabella Bumgardner, who is a daughter of Abraham Bumgardner and wife, the former of whom is deceased. Mrs. Bumgardner was born January 31, 1826, and she resides with Mr. and Mrs. Stipp. There were nine children in the Bumgardner family, as follows : George, who married Emma Vanskiver; Eli P., who was married (first) to Mahala Climer, and (second) to Maggie Yeazell; J. N., who married Sarah Stypes; J. R., who is serving in the honorable office of mayor of Catawba, married Ella Earuhart; Arabella, who became Mrs. Stipp; Marietta, who married T. M. West, who is township trustee, has five children ; Clara, who married Thomas Castello, resides at Springfield; A. L., who married Sadie Neer, resides in Greene County, Ohio, has had three children ; and Charles V., residing at Springfield, who married Jessie Garrett and has two children. '

Mr. and Mrs. Stipp are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Pleasant Township. He takes a good citizen's interest in pulilic affairs, and has served for upwards of fifteen years on the School Board.

SCIPTO EUGENE BAKER, president and general manager of the Foos Gas Engine Company, of Springfield, Ohio, the largest and most important plant in the United States for the exclusive manufacturing of Internal Combustion Engines, has been a resident of Springfield since 1876 and is one of the most prominent citizens and leading business men of the city. He was bom June 12, 1860, in Donnelsville, Clark County, Ohio, a son of Dr. A. A. Baker, a native of Enon, and one of the leading pioneer physicians of this county. Ezra D. Baker, grandfather, came from New Jersey in 1805, and laid out the village of Enon, Clark County.

Scipio E. Baker was reared and received his primary education in this county, later graduating, in 1881, from Wittenberg College, after which he engaged in the newspaper business and read law in Judge Mower's ofiSce for some time. He then formed a partnership with his father and D. E. Hosterman and established the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, of which he was general manager until 1890. In 1887 Mr. Baker promoted and organized the Champion Chemical Company, of which he is president and principal stockholder. The company started with a very small capital and has grown to large proportions and is the largest and most important concern of its kind in this or any other country. One of the principal products of the Champion Chemical Company is the Baker Burglar Proof Metallic Grave Vault, an invention of Mr. Baker. In 1890 Mr. Baker became general manager and for fourteen years has been president of the Royal Salt Company, miners and shippers of rock salt, the mines being located in Central Kansas, where they have an output exceeding 100.000 tons annually. He is also director of the Western Salt Company, of St. Louis.

In 1897 Mr. Baker headed the corporation which purchased the plant of the Foos Gas Engine Company, a co-partnership consisting of John Foos and P. P. Mast, who sold out their entire interest and retired from the company, the new corporation retaining the old name, however. When Mr. Baker and partners assumed charge of the plant, the volume of business being done by the concern was very small, and not over a dozen men, ineluding office and factory force, were employed. The Foos Gas Engine Company now has a world-wide reputation, employing several hundred men, and carry on an extensive foreign as well as dodoestic trade. Mr. Baker, who has been president and general manager of the corporation since its reorganization, has been largely instrumental in building up the plant from a small concern to the largest plant in the United States for the exclusive manufacturing of Internal Combustive Engines.

Mr. Baker was united in marriage June 25, 1895, to Jessie Foos, a daughter of John Foos, one of the pioneer manufacturers of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have one daughter, Margaret. Mr. Baker is one of the foremost men of Springfield, enterprising and public-spirited, and is held in highest esteem by his fellow-men. Fraternally he is a Mason, having attained the degree of' Knight Templar. Religiously he is affiliated with the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Baker reside in the elegant old Foos homestead, which is one of the finest residences in Springfield, and is situated on the comer of High and Syca more Streets, having been purchased in July, 1904, from John Foos.

SAMUEL J. KISSELL was born at Beatty, Clark County, Ohio, February 4, 1876, and is a son of Silas G. and Margaret (MeClure) Kissell. Silas G. Kissell, the father, was born in Maryland and came to Clark County when he was nineteen years of age. He died in Mad River Township, Clark County, in 1905. He and his wife, Margaret, were the parents of eight children.

When Samuel J. Kissell was two weeks old his parents set out with their family to Mad River Township, where the father owned a farm of 100 acres, on which Mrs.. Silas G. Kissell still lives. He attended the country schools during boyhood, and imder his father's training and with his mother's encouragement, he developed into a capable farmer, and has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits entirely, with the exception of three years, when he traveled. He married Zella B. Rice, who is a daughter of William and Matilda (Gowdy) Rice.

William Rice was born in Clark County, Ohio, February 17, 1833, and died in April, 1907. He was a son of Edward and Lucy (Pool) Rice, natives of Vermont, who came to Clark County at an early day. On January 3, 1856, William Rice was married to Matilda Gowdy, who died July 10, 1906. She was a daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (McBeth) Gowdy. They came to Springfield Township in 1826 and settled on the farm which later passed into the possession of William Rice, and still later into that of his daughter, Mrs. Samuel J. Kissell. Mrs. Kissell was born on the farm on which she still lives and on which she was married to Samuel J. Kissell on December 31, 1902.

Mr. And Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Weigel And Reprpjsentattve Citizens

Mr. and Mrs. Kissell lived in Mad River Township for three years following their marriage, coming to their present .farm in the fall of 1906. Mr. Rice had lost his wife and desired to have his daughter near him. He lived but a few months longer, his last, hours being soothed by the tender care of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Kissell. The latter have two children, Ruth Lamora and Esther Lorena. In politics Mr. Kissell is a Republican.

JOHN R. ELVIN, rural mail carrier, and the owner of 106 acres of fine farming land in German Township, was bom in Hardin County, Ohio, November 7, 1850, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Copeland) Elvin.

John Elvin was born in England, where he lived until he was forty years of age. His first wife died there, leaving no children. He was married a second time, in Richland County, Ohio, to Elizabeth Copeland, who was of English ancestry, but of American birth. John Elvin settled permanently in Hardin County, and there both he and wife died. Their four children all survive, namely: John R. ; Sarah A., who resides in Hardin County; Mary Elizabeth, who married George Hafer, residing in Hardin County; and James W., who is also a resident of Hardin County.

John R. Elvin was reared and attended school in Hardin County. He followed farming there until he was thirty years of age, but in 1881 he came to Clark County and purchased a farm in German Town.ship, on which he resided until October 17, 1902, when he moved to Tremont, having taken the rural mail route out from Tremont some six months previously. He found it more advantageous to rent out his farm and remove to Tremont. Mrs. Elvin for the past two years has l)een compiling an exhaustive history of the Methodist Episcopal Chui-ch of this section.

Mr. Elvin has been married twice, first on August 10, 1872, to Mary E. Pence, who died in Hardin Count}', and secondly to Eva J. Pence. Both ladies were daughters of the late Samuel and Lucy (Swearingen) Pence, old and respected farming people of Clark County for many years. Mr. Elvin is prominent in the order of Knights of Pythias in this section, having passed all the chairs in the Tremont lodge, and at present filling the office of prophet and also serving as one of the trustees.

Benjamin Franklin Weigel

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WEIGEL, justice of the peace and prominent citizen of Moorefield Township, residing on his valuable farm of fifty acres, and engaged in general agriculture, is a veteran of the Civil War. He was born in Urbana Township, Champaign County, Ohio, Sptember 23, 1842, and is a son of Peter and Louisa Jane (Nitchman) Weigel.

On both sides of the family the grandfathers of Mr. Weigel were born in Germany, Grandfather Weigel near the storied Rhine. Many of the name live in York County, Pennsylvania, where they gave the name of Weigeltown to a village of some importance. The parents of ]Mr. Weigel were both born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio prior to their marriage.

Benjamin F. Weigel has practically taken care of himself since he was nine years old. For two years he worked for a Mr. Pierce, near Taylortown, and for two more years for the widow of Captain Lindell, who resided on the corner of Limestone and Rice Streets, which then marked the corporation limits of Springfield. Mrs. Lindell owned thirty acres of land, which she used as a garden farm. After Mr. Weigel left that place he engaged with J. S. Kitchen, in Green Township, and he continued to work for the Kitchen family until September, 1861. He then enlisted for service in the Civil War, becoming a member of Company F, Fortyfourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He engaged for three years, but was discharged in August, 1862, on account of trouble with his throat, which caused him to lose his voice. During his term of service he was with the army under General Rosecrans, in Virginia. Mr. Weigel did not recover the use of his vocal chords until April, 1863, and in the following June he reentered the army, enlisting in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to serve six months. He was honorably discharged March 4, 1864.

While still in the army, Mr. Weigel rented a farm of 240 acres from J. S. Kitchen, but after his return Mr. Kitchen was called out on the 100-day service as a member of the National Guard, and Mr. Weigel volunteered to take his place, while Mr. Kitchen started operations on the farm. Thus, for the third time, Mr. Weigel's name was enrolled on the roster of his country's defenders, tliis time in Company D, One Hundred and Forty-sixth

Regiment, Ohio National Guards, and he was again honorably dischai'ged, in September, 1864. When he enlisted the second time, the regiment started out with Captain Howard D. John in command of his company, who was later made colonel of the regiment, and Richard Mont joy, later treasurer of Clark County, was promoted to be captain. During this enlistment, Mr. Weigel marched with his regiment through Kentucky, then on to Cumberland Gap, where, in September, 1863, the Confederate commander, General Frazier, surrendered the Gap to the Union forces under General Burnsides, with 2,250 prisoners. As a treasured trophy of the occasion, Mr. Weigel displays the sword that General Frazier carried on that day. Mr. Weigel 23articipated in several battles, more or less severe, and encountered all the hazai'ds of war, on all occasions doing his full duty, but he escaped all injury except the trouble with his throat above mentioned.

Mr. Weigel then began farming operations on the Kitchen farm. In February, 1872, he moved to Springfield and went to work in the old Champion shop, which stood on the present site of the Arcade, where he remained until the fii'st Monday in April, 1881, after which he served for two years as constable of Springfield Township. In 1884 he began work at the East Street shop, which was conducted by Mr. Whiteley, and he remained there as an employe until the business went into the hands of a receiver, some years later. For several years afterward, Mr. Weigel was variously employed - at laying street car tracks, at driving a car on the old Green line, and afterward, for five years and two months, he worked as a motoiinan.

During the last year of service lie had the relief run, working every day on a different line, his duties being to take note that the regular motorman kept his car appliances in first-class shape. In March, 1898, he came to his present farm, which he had purchased from his father-in-law in the previous month. He does general farming and also raises horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. Seemingly, Mr. Weigel possesses the capacity to bring success out of almost everything to which he turns his attention. In March, 1906, he was appointed a justice of the peace, and in the fall of the year he was elected to the office for a term of four years, on the Republican ticket.

On November 10, 1864, Mr. Weigel was first married to Ann Jane Elder, who died April 30, 1871. She was a daughter of John and Phoebe Elder. They had three children, namely : Samuel E., John C. and Finley E., the last mentioned of whom died in infancy, two months before the death of his mother. Samuel E. Weigel, the eldest son, developed a liking for the sea, and left home when fourteen years of age and shipped on a vessel on which he sailed to many parts of the world. He lost liis life in the shipwreck of the "Neva," in East Indian waters, when he was almost twenty-one years old. The second son, John Charles, grew to manhood and married, but developed eonsumption and went to Prescott, Arizona, in hope that the climate would restore him to health. He died there and is survived by a daughter, Effie Mabel, who resides in Springfield.

(Riegel) Wolfe. Both parents were born and reared in Pennsylvania, came as children to Clark County, Ohio, and later settled near Springfield. The old Wolfe homestead farm is now Calvary Cemetery. In March, 1881, John R. Wolfe purchased and settled on the farm on which Mr. and Mrs. Weigel reside. The latter have had four children, namely : Annie J., Matilda F., Mary Josephine, and Nicholas R. K. Annie J. resides at home, Matilda Frances Weigel was married November 27, 1907, to Ira M. Mumper. She is a lady of superior education, and from the age of seventeen years has enthusiastically devoted herself to teaching, frequently taking schools eight miles from home and driving back and forth each day, her final day of school work being the very one on which she was married. Mary Josephine, the third daughter, died aged twenty-two months. Nicholas R. K. Weigel, in 1901, married Ida May Isabelle Hazlett, and they have three children - Ruth Esther, Ida Frances and Katherine Margaret. Mr. Weigel 's family belong to the Moorefield Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is a trustee. He belongs to the Moorefield Township Soldiers ' Burial, and also to the Soldiers' Relief Associations. Until within the past three years, the township had no Memorial Day services, although Mr. Weigel and many others belong to Mitchell Post, Grand Army of the Republic ; but since then he, in association with Captain McConkey, have provided for this sacred day ceremonial and each occasion has been more enjoyed than the previous one. These veterans receive the honor to which they are entitled from their fellow-eiti-

JOHN H. GOWER, a general farmer who owns fifty acres of very fine land in Harmony and Springfield Townships, belongs to a family that was established in Clark County in 1850. Mr. Gower was born in Pleasant Township, Clark County, Ohio, May 23, 1852, and is a son of James Z. and Eliza C. (Yeazel) Gower.

James Z. Gower was born in Maryland and was a son of George Gower. In 1850 he came to Clark County and taught school and studied medicine, remaining until after the birth of his son, when he moved to Michigan, where he lived one year, and from there to Indiana, where he continued to practice medicine until his death, October 9, 1875, at the age of forty-five years. He married Eliza C. Yeazel, who was born in Moorefield Township, Clark County, April 24, 1834. They had two children: John H. and Elizabeth. The latter died in infancy.

John H. Gower has lived in Clark County almost all his life, and has followed agricultural pursuits. In 1878 he purchased his present farm, on which he has continued to make excellent improvements. He carries on general farming and handles thorough-bred stock. For about twenty years he dealt in imported stallions. On February 16, 1871, he was married in Clark County, to Mary E. Me- Clellan, and they had the following children: Maurice H., Lottie A., Orrie L., Richard, Stuart M., Mary A., and James L. Maurice H., born October 26, 1873, married (first) Lillian E. Poffenberger, and they had three children: John M., Isabel and Harriet. He married (second) Ella Eaton, and they reside at Springfield. Lottie A., born October 11, 1875. married John L. Tuttle, and they have two children, John H. and Helen, and they live at Mansfield, Ohio. Richard, born April 1, 1883, ched December 6, 1888. Orrie was born May 5, 1877. Stuart M., bom December 12, 1884, married Emma Burkhardt, and they have one child, John Ernest, and they reside on the homestead. Mary A., born April 4, 1887, married Harry Nicklen, and they live at Springfield. James L., born October 17, 1889, is a student in the High School at Plattsburg, class of 1908.

Mrs. Gower is a member, on the maternal side, of the prominent Tuttle family. Her father, Jacob McClellan, was born May 4, 1830, and died in 1892. He married Rachel Tuttle, who still survives. She was born September 29, 1832. Mr. and Mrs. McClellan had five children, namely: Isabel, Mary E., Emma, Alice and William L.

NATHANIEL M. CARTMELL, member of the Board of County Commissioners, is one of the leading citizens of Clark County, and represents one of its oldest pioneer families. He was born on a farm in Pleasant ToAvnship, Clark County, Ohio, in 1848, and is a son of Thomas J. Cartmell.

Thomas J. Cartmell (now deceased) was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and came to Clark County, Ohio, in 1805, with his parents, Nathaniel and Eliza Cartmell, who made the entire trip on horseback and located in Pleasant Township.

gaged in farming. He is at present a resident of the village of Catawba, but continues to carry on his farming interests in Pleasant Township. He was first married in 1871 to Sally L. Ropp, who came from Loudon County, Virginia, with her parents, and they had one child, which died an infant. Mr. Cartmell's second marriage took place in September, 1906, to Louise Borger.

Mr. Cartmell is a man of public spirit and has always taken an active interest in politics. He has served on the Board of Agriculture of Clark County for about twenty-one years, and was elected a member of the Board of Coimty Commissioners of Clark County in November, 1905. He is a member of the order of the Knights of the Golden Eagle.

ORSON D. ESTLE, one of the trustees of Green Township, Clark County, Ohio, is located on a farm of 197 acres one mile north of Clifton and is extensively engaged in farming and stock-raising. He was born three miles east of Clifton, March 4, 1857, and is a son of William H. and Eachel Ann (Farrow) Estle. William Estle, his paternal grandfather, was born in New Jersey, living near Shrewsbury until he was grown. ITpon coming west to Clark County, Ohio, at an early date, he located east of Clifton on a part of the farm now owned Ijy his son. He followed farming here until his death.

William U. Estle, father of our subject, was born September 3, 1828, on the place he now owns, three miles east of Clifton, and there grew to manhood. He attended the early district schools and then took to agricultural pursuits, farming the home place until 1880, when he retired from business activity and moved to Clifton. He and his wife are surrounded by many friends of life-long standing, and are held in the highest esteem by all who know them. He was united in wedlock with Rachel Ann Farrow, who was born near Maysville, Kentucky, May 15, 1832, and came to Clark County at an early age. Six children blessed their union, four of whom are now living.

0. D. Estle was reared on the home place and during his boyhood days attended the district schools. He remained at home and assisted in the farm work until the spring of 1878, when he rented the Peter Knott's place, farming it for two years. Then he retuimed to the home ]:)lace, remaining there until the spring of 1888, when he moved to his present farm in Green Town-ship, occupying this as a renter until 1906, when his wife acquirec* the property as a devisee under the will of her deceased ITncle, James Anderson. He has been active and energetic in his farm work, following modern methods of agriculture and has been more than ordinarily successful. He followed general farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of Aberdeen Angus cattle, and having a herd of registered stock.

Mr. Estle was united in mai'riage with Harriet A. Anderson, on February 4th, 1880. She was born in Greene County, Ohio, on November 7th, 1855, and is a daughter of the late John Anderson, who was born in Milnacraig, Scotland, in 1807, and who at the age of thirteen years emigrated with his parents, James and Elizabeth (Ogelvey) Anderson, settling on Clark Run in Greene County, Ohio, and died in that county in 1855.

Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Estle, namely: Fred, who married Bertha Rife and lives in Green Township; Rachel intermarried to Fred Stewart, who also lives in Green Township ; Bessie and Ellen. The two last mentioned are at home; Ellen is in attendance at school. Politically a Republican, Mr. Estle is serving as township trustee and is a member of the school board. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, whilst in religious attachment he and his familv are Presbyterian.

ALF JONES, a representative citizen of Pleasant Township, who resides on his well cultivated farm of twenty acres, belongs to one of the old settled families of this section. He was born May 27, 1860. in Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Z. B. and Mira Jane (Ferguson) Jones.

The family was established in Clark County by the great-grandparents, George and Eva Jones, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. They had the following children : Mira, Nancy, Elizabeth, Catherine, Uriah, John and Josiah. John Jones, the grandfather of Alf Jones, was born in Pleasant Township, Clark Coimty, Ohio, February 27, 1814. On January 1, 1835, he married Mary B. Bodkin and they had three children born to them, as follows : George F., born in 1835, married Elizabeth Neer and they had three children ; Lydia, born in 1836, married Samuel Melvin, had tive children and died in March, 1906; and Z. B., who survives.

Z. B. Jones, father of Alf Jones, was born December 27, 1837, in Clark County, where he owns farming land and has in his possession a deed which bears the signatures of President Madison and his secretary, under the date of December 4, 1811. The first marriage of Mr. Jones was to Mira Jane Ferguson, who died February 18, 1885. She was a daughter of William and Margaret Ferguson. Of their four children the two survivors are : Alf, residing in Pleasant Township, and Bert, who was born in 1869, married Lillian Bratton and has one son, Howard. Z. B. Jones was married a second time, the lady being Ellen C. Ward, the ceremony taking place March 14, 1895. Mrs. Jones is a daughter of Josiah and Rebecca (Veasy) Ward, natives of Maryland.

Alf Jones attended the schools of Pleasant Township through his boyhood and since then has devoted his attention to farming. He manages and operates both his own and his father's land. On November 26, 1882, he married Anna Tavenner, who was born October 9, 1860, and is a daughter of Benjamin and Emma (Cook) Tavenner, the former of whom was born in 1830 and still survives, and the latter in 1834. Mrs. Jones is one of a family of nine children, the names of the others being: Charles, Effie, Harry R., Albert S., William, Amelia, Arthur and Lillian, all of whom survive, with the exception of the youngest, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have one son, Harold F., who was born July 6, 1889. Mrs. Jones is a member of the M. P. Church at Catawba. Mr. Jones is one of the influential men of his community and has frequently been elected to office. He served three years as a justice of the peace, for a number of terms as a trustee of the township, and the excellent condition which is remarked concerning some of the ]mblic highways in his neighbor-

And Kepeesentative Citizens

HENRY L. SCHAEFER, funeral director and prominent business man of Springfield, Ohio, enjoys the distinction of being the oldest man now resident in the city who was born here after its incorporation. He was born in 1850, and is a son of Leonard and Rosina D. (Essliuger) Schaefer, both natives of Wuerttemberg, Gennany.

Leonard Schaefer was reared in the Kingdom of Wuerttemberg and received a liberal education in the schools there. In June, 1849, he came to the United States to seek his fortune in the New World, locating at Springfield, Ohio, where he was married in August of the same year. He engaged in general iron work for many years and made this city his home until his death in May, 1895. He survived his wife many years, she dying in June, 1869.

Henry L. Schaefer was reared in Springfield and after completing the prescribed course in the common school, went to Germany, where he attended a technical college at Stuttgart. Returning to Springfield, he worked in a maehiuo shop until he was twenty-six years of age, then was employed as foreman and technical draftsman for a period of eighteen years. Deciding to turn his energies in a new direction, in 1893 he took a course in the Chicago School of Embalming and returned to Spring-field to follow that profession. His undertaking establishment is located at No. 226 West Main Street, and he carries on a verv successful business. He also has been identified with other important business interests in the city, and is now a stockholder in the Clark County Building and Savings Association. Mr. Schaefer was married July 30, 1872, to Miss Bertha C. Orthmann, a daughter of Dr. Frederick Orthmann, and they have three children, as follows: Katheryn S., wife of Henry S. Carpenter, of Hamilton, Ohio ; Bertha C, wife of William S. Wead, of Springfield; and Theodore F., a graduate of Springfield High School and Wittenberg College, is associated in business with his father. Mr. Schaefer has taken an active interest in local i3olitics, and served two terms as county coroner; he is now serving his third term as a member of the Board of Education. He is a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, and has served as president of the official board. He is a thirtysecond degree Mason, a member of the Shrine, Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and other fraternal orders. Mr. Schaefer also is an active member of the Springfield Commercial Club.

EARL ELLIOTT CALLISON, a general merchant in tlje village of Northampton, who owns a farm of forty acres in Pike Township, and also rents a tract of 112 acres, was born March 17, 1878, at New Carlisle, Clark County, Oliio, and is a son of David F. and Mila (Burns) Callison, and a grandson of Robert Callison.

Robert Callison, who now lives retired at the home of his grandson, owns a farm of thirty acres in Pike Township, in which he has spent the greater part of his life, following farming. He was born December 21, 1823, in Pike Township, Clark

County, Ohio, a son of Arthur Callison, a native of Virginia, who came to Ohio at a very early day and settled in the woods in Pike Township, where he died, aged sixty years. Robert Callison married Alice G. North, who died November 7, 1901, aged seventy-six years, and to them were born five children, two of whom died infants. Those reared were as follows: William A., David F., and Verlem 0. ; David F., being the only survivor. He was born on his father's farm in Pike Township, December 10, 1858, and remained at home until the age of twenty-one, when he went to Columbus and engaged in the sewing machine business, and later moved to Philadelphia, where he continued in the same line, thence to New York City for a time, and at present is engaged in the real estate business at Brookl}ai, New York. David Callison was married in 1876 to Mila Burns, who was born at Medway, Clark County, Ohio, and died May, 1907, aged forty-seven years. She was a daughter of Jacob Burns, who was one of the early settlers of that locality. Two children were born to David and Mila Callison: Earl E., and Ora C, the latter of whom is a resident of Dayton, Ohio, where she is assistant cashier in the Pan Handle Freight office. Earl Elliott Callison was an infant when his parents moved to Medway, where they remained several years, and then located at Dayton for a short time. Earl E. then came to Pike Township and made his home with his grandfather, spending most of his boyhood days on the farm. His educational training was received in the common schools of Columbus, Ohio, and Philadelphia. In 1894 he entered a dry goods store at Brooklyn, New York, where he continued for three years, and then returned to the farm, where he remained until September, 1907, when he purchased the A. W. Ryman general stoi'e at Northampton. Mr. Callison carries a complete line of dry goods, notions, hardware, and groceries, and conducts his business enterprises along modern lines. On October 24, 1901, Mr. Callison was united in marriage with Hetty B. Stephenson, a daughter of H. G. and Anna E. (Dillahaunt) Stephenson, and to them have l)een born two children : Robert, and Harold. In politics Mr. Callison is a Republican, and his fraternal connection is with the Knights of Pythias, the Junior Order of American Mechanics.

JOHN S. SWAIDNER, a representative farmer of Springfield Township, who owns sixty-five acres of valuable land situated on the Columbus Road, is part owner also of another farm of 280 acres which is situated in Moorefield Township. Mr. Swaidner was born in Allen County, Indiana, November 12, 1856, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Raby) Swaidner, l)oth of whom are now deceased.

John S. Swaidner was reared in Allen Covmty and remained on his father's farm until he was seventeen years of age, when he attended the township high school. When nineteen years old he began tO' teach, during the first year in DeKalb County, and for six years more in Allen County, Indiana. Mr. Swaidner completed his education at Adrain College, Adrain, Michigan, and it was during his college life that he met the lady who subsequently became his wife, she being a student of the college at the same time. They were married on March 23, 1882. Mrs. Swaidner was formerly Emma F. McKillip. She is a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Mc- Killip, people of substance and prominence in Mooretield Township. Mr. Mc- Killip died May 12, 1904, but his widow survives and resides on the old homestead.

After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Swaidner took up their residence with Mr. and Mrs. McKillip, where they remained for ten years, Mr. Swaidner teaching school in Moorefield Township for several years. In 1892 they settled on the present farm in Springfield Township, on which Mr Swaidner carries on general farming. Mrs. Swaidner inherited the second farm from her father, and it is under rental. Mr. Swaidner fell heir to a third interest to 160 acres of his father's estate in Indiana in 1908. He and his wife have had three children, namely: Daniel B., who died aged five months ; Emma, Laura, and Jessie B.

Mr. Swaidner is a Eepnblican in his political views. He was elected township trustee of Moorefield Township and served on the Springfield Township School Board for eleven years, during five of which he was president of the board. While thus serving he perfoi'med a useful and important work, as it was through his persistent efforts that music and school libraries were installed in the township schools.

CHARLES E. PATEIC, who may justly be termed the father of those agricultural implements, the Superior Drills, which have carried the name of Springfield all over the United States and to remote foreign lands, came first to this city in 1867, and has made it his permanent home since 1883. Mr. Patric was born at Poughkeepsie, New York, September 6, 1837, and is a son of Eichard F. and Bethia (Patric) Patric.

The fovmders of the Patric family in America were born in Scotland, and settled in Connecticut about 1635. Abel Patric, the paternal grandfather, served in the Eevolutionaiy War and had many thrilling adventures, through which he lived, and died in his peaceful home in Eastern New York. His son, Eichard F. Patric, father of Charles E., was born in Connecticut, but later moved to a farm near Poughkeepsie, New York, and still later to Wayne County, in the same state. He was engaged in a lumber business during his active years. His death took place in Monroe County, New York, in 1855. His widow survived him until 1863. They were zealous and worthy members of the Baptist Church.

Charles E. Patric was the ninth child in his parents' family of ten children, and with his brothers and sisters he enjoyed the same educational advantages in the district schools. Later he had academic training at Hornellsville, after which he returned to Wayne County and for a time, prior to starting out independently, he was associated in business with his father. He was connected subsequently, until 1864, with manufacturing and milling interests at Victor, in Ontario County, and then entered into manufacturing, at Shortsville, New York. In the meanwhile, Mr. Patric had been quietly developing a natural talent for invention, one that in the course of time has closely approached genius. After many experiments and innumerable valuable inventions, in 1865 he succeeded in completing what is known as the "double force feed grain distributor for grain drills." In the fall of 1866 he moved to Macedon, New York, where he was able to secure better facilities for perfecting his great inventions. In May of the following year, Mr. Patric came to Springfield, and here he set forth the merits on his inventions before capitalists of this section, who quickly recognized their merits and lost little time in organizing for their manufacture.

In 1878 Mr. Patric retui-ned to Rochester, New York, where he had established a foundry and machine works, and while experimenting, he succeeded in making an entirely new drill, one which was superior in every way to the former inventions, and this fact naturally suggested the name of the "Superior Drill." In the fall of 1883 Mr. Patric came back to Spring-field, and here he organized The Superior Drill Company, which was then incorporated with a capital stock of $250,000. Mr. Patric has continued as a director and one of the heaviest stockholders of this company, which, with the exception of one industry, controls the largest business done at Springfield. His brain is still active, although he has taken out more than forty patents on grain drills and seeding machines.

His latest invention consists of a Seed Planter, adapted to the use of the gardener, florist, nurseryman or seedman. It plants perfectly all kinds of seeds, from the finest seeds to and including the wrinkle peas and lima beans, either in drills or hills. It is constructed upon thoroughly scientific principles, using an absolute "force feed," insuring absolute control of the quantity sown, and will sow exactly the quantity it is set to sow, and without injury to the seed. It opens the furrow, plant the seed, covers it, and presses the soil over the seed, all at one operation, and as fast as the operator can walk. It is a model of simplicity and will last for years. It weighs but nineteen pounds, and a boy can operate it with ease. A great deal of time and money have been expended in perfecting this little machine, on which patents are pending.

Mr. Patric 's other business connections include the vice presidency of The Foos Gas Engine Company, the presidency of The Springfield Metallic Casket Company, and a directorship in the Springfield National Bank. His name stands ever for business integrity and personal honor.

In 1907 Charles E. Patric was married to Mary Jane Veazie, who is a daughter of Judge Veazie, of Natchez, Mississipjii. They reside in an elegant home at No. 1314 East High Street, Spring-field.

In political sentiment Mr. Patric is a Republican, but his aims and thoughts have always been far removed from political office. He has been an active promoter of Spring-field's commercial interests ever since making this city his home, and as such is one of her most representative men.

FRANK H. ROLFES, city treasurer, and a life-long resident of the City of Spring-field, Ohio, where he was born March 20, 1877, is a son of Frank H. Rolfes, Sr., and INIary (Storeh) Rolfes.

country in about 1854, locating in Springfield, Ohio, where he followed his trade as machinist with success for many years. Mrs. Rolfes preceded her husband to the by several years.

Frank H. Rolfes, Jr., was reared in Springfield, and early in life left school to learn the tool-maker's trade with the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, with whom he remained for a period of twelve years, after which he was engaged with the Foos Manufacturing Company for two years. He then accepted the position of secretary of the Springfield Water Works, serving in that capacity for two years, and on November 5, 1907, was elected city treasurer of Spring-field. Mr. Rolfes has always taken an active interest in politics and his popularity among his associates was duly attested by his election as city treasurer, he being one of the only two Republicans elected to city office at that election.

Fraternally, Mr. Rolfes is a member of the Knights of Pythias order and the B. P. 0. E., and is religiously affiliated with St. John's German Lutheran Church.

JOHN H. BECKER, general farmer and stock-raiser, residing on his well-cultivated farm of ninety-three acres, which is situated to the east and south of Tremont, in German Townshii), was bom in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. January 1, 18-11, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Beckex".

John H. Becker accompanied his parents to Clark County in 1848, and although he was then a small boy, he remembers the long wagon journey and many of its hardships. For one year the family lived near the present site of the Children's Home and then settled in German Township, near Eagle City, the father purchasing a farm at this point. This was the home of John H. Becker until he i-eached manhood. He attended the country schools and assisted in the management of the farm. On February 22, 1862, Mr. Becker enlisted for service in the Civil War, entering Company E, Sixtieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and remained in the service for one year. At Harper's Ferry, following the battle of Antietam, Mr. Becker, with his whole regiment, was captured by the enemy, but was paroled two days later and was sent to Chicago, where he was finally discharged.

In 1864 Mr. Becker was married in German Township, to Elizabeth Neff, who is a daughter of Christian Neff, who was a pioneer and prominent citizen in the neighborhood of Tremont City. Mr. and Mrs. Becker have two children : Iva, who married J. E. Armstrong, a farmer of Logan County, Ohio, and has one daughter, Elizabeth; and Carrie, who married Irvin Ilges, and has one son, John Edmund. Mr. and Mrs. Ilges reside with Mr. Becker, Mr. Ilges operating the farm. This was formerly the old Christian Neff farm. Mr. Becker is not actively interested in politics. He is a member of the fraternal Order of Red Men.

SETH W. SMITH. Among the men who have helped lay broad and deep the prosperity of the community in which he lives is the subject of this review, who was bom on the farm where he now lives, January 24, 184.3. His parents were

Seth and Deborah (Wildman) Smith. His father was born in Eastern Tennessee, where they were temporary sojourners, as the grandfather, Seth Smith, was born in Pennsylvania, and had gone thence to Virginia. Having lived fourteen years in Tennessee, they removed in 1800 to Highland County, Ohio, and in 1811 settled upon the farm where Seth W. Smith now resides. At this early day the grandparents were among the first pioneer settlers of this part of Ohio, and the country was in an undeveloped state. The experiences which they encountered were varied and interesting. Indians were plentiful, but were peaceably inclined.

The grandfather purchased the Fitzhugh survey, which was suj^posed to comprise 1,000 acres, but proved to contain 1,120 acres. On the land was a primeval log house, which they occupied until 1817, when they manufactured brick on the farm and constructed a substantial two-story brick house, which stood for many years, or until 1899, when the subject of this record had it torn down and erected his present commodious and modern residence. The grandfather resided in his home in Clark County, until he was an old man, honored and respected by all who knew him. He had come to Ohio when it was but a territory, landing at Paint Falls, Ross County, to which his elder brother, Jacob, had come in 1796. Of the brothers left in Tennessee, some of their descendants removed to Vermilion County, Illinois, whence some members of the family removed to Oregon. In the pioneer spirit which caused the grandfather to seek a home amid the wild scenes of Ohio, may 1)e traced with interest those sturdy qualities inherited from hi.'; ancestor, the great-greatfather of the subject of this review, who was born in England about 1680 and was one of those who, actuated by their Christian faith, became a follower of WUliam Penu, and with him, accompanied by two other brothers, came to America. One of the brothers settled in New York, or one of the New England states, and one in the Carolinas. There has been no reliable account of the descendants. One son, the great-grandfather, Joseph Smith, was born about 1720. He was educated and reared in the Quaker faith, as was also his wife, who in her maidenhood was Rachel Bales. After his marriage he settled in Maryland, near Bladensburg, and rented a farm and conducted a mill on Permugen Creek. He finally removed to a farm five miles from Winchester, Maryland, where they remained for a number of years on rented land. After a few years they decided to make a change and accordingly drove across the mountains to where Brownsville, Pennsylvauia, now stands, but not liking the location they returned without unloading their goods. While crossing the mountains they were attacked by robbers, but drove them off. They returned to the farm they had occupied near Winchester, and there spent their remaining days.

Among their many children was Seth, the grandfather of Mr. Smith, the name being thus handed down to the third generation - the subject of this review. In the grandfather's family were the following children - Jacob and Samuel, who died in early childhood; Mary, who mar- 7'ied David Littler; Rachel, who married Nathan Linton; Ruth, who married

Seth grew to manhood in Clark County, receiving a good education for the period. The country was still new at that time and the educational advantages enjoyed were not those of the present time, but the brave and energetic spirit inherited from his forefathers and cultivated by his own efforts was his, and he did much toward promoting the growth and development of his community. He inherited about two hundred and sixty acres of land from his father, which he cultivated and improved, adding to it until he became the owner of considerable land and in time gave each of his children a good farm. In his remembrance Indians were very thickly settled around the locality in which the family lived, but they were friendly inclined and made very little trouble. While the family lived in Highland County one evening they had been away from home and on retuniing found the house lighted up, and on looking in they foimd the floor covered with Indians, who had come in and built a fire in the wide, open fireplace, desiring to warm and rest themselves. On receiving their supper they departed in peace. On one occasion a young Indian became enamored of his sister, the aunt of the subject, and desired to make her, as he termed it, his "pretty squaw." As the recipient of this adoration did not favor his suit, he showed his disfavor by taking a lump of charcoal, chewing it, spitting it in his hands and rubbing it over his face. Seth Smith, the father, was born July n, 1798. He was an anti-slavery man. a great temperance man and earnestly did he advocate the principles in which he believed. He was a birth-right Friend, being a direct descendant on both sides of the family of members of that sect.

He was married February 25, 1824, to Deborah Wildman, daughter of John and Elizabeth Wildman. To them were born seven children, three of which died in early childhood. The eldest son, Samuel, married Esther Cook, who died in September, 1885, leaving three children. He died in February, 1901. Ruth married Samuel Hadley, of Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio. Oliver married Margaret Negus and to them were born .six children. After living for several years in Clark County, they moved to Kansas and thence to California, where he died in 1896. The mother, Deborah W. Smith, departed this life January 2, 1858. In 1860 Seth Smith, the father, married Anne Hollingsworth, with whom he lived until his death in 1876, being buried at Selma, Ohio.

The boyhood days of Seth W. Smith were spent on the home farm. He received a good common school education and after teaching a few years attended Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, for two years and one year in the Agricultural College, at Lansing, Michigan, thus being well fitted for the practical duties of business life in after years. In 1872 he married Marion Griffith, of Alliance, Ohio, and they took up their residence on the home farm, this union being broken by her death in just one year. In 1878 he married Hannah Lewis of New Vienna, Ohio, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Hoskins) Lewis. They were blessed with five children, namely : Oscar L., Lewis H. and Mary Emma D., while two died in infancy.

Ervin, of Cedarville, Ohio, where he is now engaged as Cashier of the Exchange Bank. Lewis H. Smith was born January 30, 1880. In 1905 he married Eula Elder of Selma, Ohio. They wow reside on the old home farm. In 1906 there was born to them a son, Lewis Elden.

Mr. Smith has been identified with agricultural interests here and with banking interests in Cedarville, Ohio, and his individual interests have been blended with the welfare and improvement of his county and township.

FREDERICK FISSEL, general farmer, residing on his farm of fifty-one acres, situated in Section 17, on the National Road, about three miles east of Springfield, was born in Prussia, Germany, December 5, 1840. His parents were Charles and Susanna (Dihme) Fissel, both of whom died in Germany.

Frederick Fissel grew to manhood in Germany, where he learned the tailor's trade, after which he served for two years and two months in the German army. Wlien released, after performing the military service demanded by the laws of the Fatherland, he sailed for America, landing at the port of New York, July 1, 1867. He worked at his trade in that city for one year and, July 1, 1868, reached Springfield, Ohio, where he continued to work at his trade until 1881.

In 1869, Mr. Fissel was married to Amelia Vollmer, who is a daughter of John and Susanna (Eberle) Vollmer. John Vollmer was bom and was reared in Wittenberg, Germany, and came as a young man to Reading, Pennsylvania, later coming to Springfield. He was a shoemaker by trade and he acquired thirty-five acres of the farm on which Mr. Fissel resides. Mr. and Mrs. Vollmer had nine children, the four survivors of the family being: John, who lives with Mr. Fissel; Jacob, who resides in Harmony Township ; Mrs. Mary Kemler, and Amelia, Mrs. Fissel.

Mr. and Mrs. Fissel moved to their own farm in 1874, and to his brother-in-law's farm in 18S1, and have been engaged in agricultural pursuits since that time. They have seven surviving children, namely : Emma, who married Conrad Gerliardt, and has four children - Agues, Mary, Frederick and Catherine; Charles, residing in Florida, who has no family; Minnie, who married William Gebhardt, and has two children - ^Charles and Edward; Mary, who married Thomas Dowden, and has three children - William, Edith and Hazel; Frederick, who resides in Springfield; Augusta, who married Henry Dersch ; and Henrietta, who mari-ied Wilbur Hoyle, and has two children - Elizabeth and Paul, the fourth born child wlien two years old. Mr. Fissel is a member of the Fifth Lutheran Church at Springfield.

OLIVER J. MILLER, a well known resident of Bethel Township, who is engaged in general farming on a tract of fifty-five acres, situated about ten miles west of Spring-field, on the south side of the Valley Pike, was born on the old home farm in Bath Township, Greene County, Ohio, April 12, 1846 and is a son of Samuel and Mary (Warner) Miller.

ter County, Pennsylvania, and when just a boy his father, Samuel, Sr., packed his household goods in a wagon and brought his family over the mountains to Ohio, where he settled on a tract of timberland in Bath Township, Greene County, and resided there the remainder of his life. Samuel, father of Oliver J., was reared on this farm and assisted in clearing the land. He married Mary Warner, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, whose parents came to Ohio when she was eight years old and settled in Bath Township, Greene County, on a farm adjoining that of Samuel Miller, and the two children were reared together, and became lifelong companions. Samuel Miller's death occurred first, when seventy-one years of age, his widow surviving him ten years. They were the parents of twelve children: George W., who enlisted in the Fortyfifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, died in the army: Harrison, member of the One hundred and tenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died in the army; Henry, who served in the army, enlisting in the One hundred and fifty-fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; Christenia, widow of John Shrodes; Oliver James; William, who died young; Leah C, who is the widow of Elias Trubee, who was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic; Martha J.; Eliza Ellen; Reuben A.; Mary Alice, deceased, who was the wife of Andy Miller; and John C.

Oliver James Miller was reared to manhood on his father's farm, devoting his time to agricultural work and to his education, which was received in the district schools of the township. In 1862, after the outbreak of the Civil War, although a mere lad of sixteen vears, he decided to give his services to his country, and was twice accepted as a recruit, but was each time compelled to withdraw, by his father, who considered him too young to enter the army. His third attempt was successful, he enlisting on his eighteenth birthday, April 12, 1864, in Company K, One and fifty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, remaining in service 120 days, and was mustered out in September, 1864. He participated in several skirmishes and the ))attle of New Creek, Virginia. He then returned to his father's farm and on October 20. 1868, was united in marriage with Susan Kreider, a daughter of Henry and Susan (Kirkwood) Kreider. Mr. Miller and family continued their residence in Greene County until 1900, when he came to Clark County and purchased his present farm of fifty-five acres, the old Reuben Harnish farm in Bethel Township, where he has since been engaged in general farming. Mr. Miller grows about three acres of tobacco each year. The greater part of the improvements, including out buildings, the commodious house, etc., were on the land at the time of his purchase.

Ten children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Miller, namely: George W., married Sadie Turner and has a family of six children ; Susan, married M. Welter, and has four children ; Olympia ; Mary wife of Lewis Grindle, has two children ; Gertrude ; Myrtle, married W. B. Kauffman : Harry, died aged eight years ; Orey 0.; Grace, and Sarah.

Politically Mr. Miller is an adherent of the Republican party. Fraternally he is associated with the I. 0. 0. F. of Fairfield, Ohio, being a luember of the Encampment.

EDGAR W. ALBIN, superintendent of the Clark County Infirmary, and a lifelong resident of Clark County, is recognized as one of the leading and representative citizens of this community. He was born April 27, 1854, in Mad River Township and is a son of George and Mary (Martin) Albin.

George Albin was born January 2, 1790, in Clarksburg, Virginia, and was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving with Duncan McArthur, and was in active service at the time of Hull's surrender. In 1810 he came to Ohio and located on a farm in Mad River Township, being one of the most prominent pioneer settlers in Clark County. The site of Springfield was then covered by timber, and when the streets were laid out Mr. Albin assisted in clearing off the trees and hazel brush. He continued occupied in farming here until his death in 1872 at the advanced age of eighty-two years. He was buried in the old Knob Prairie Cemetery near Enon. Politically he was a Republican.

Edgar W. Albin was reared in Mad River Township, receiving his primary education in the district schools later attending Wittenberg College for two years. After leaving school he spent some time in traveling, after which he engaged in farming in Green Township with much success for a period of thirty-one years. On February 1, 1907, he assumed the duties of superintendent of Clark Coimty Infirmary and has since served very efficiently in that capacity.

In 1874 Mr. Albin was united in marriage with Miss Martha J. Ross, a daughter of E. A. and Elizabeth (Wright) Ross of Mad River Township. Mr. and Mrs. Albin have five children living, namely: Daisy Maude, wife of Walter K. Weimer of Moorefield Township; Evangeline, wife of Jacob Milton Goghenour of Montgomery County, Ohio; George C, who is engaged in the experimental rooms of the National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio ; Earl, who is employed as inspector of the National Cash Register Company of Dayton; and Rosa, who is attending Willis University at Springfield, Ohio.

Mr. Albin is a man of public spirit and enterprise and for over thirty years has taken a jirominent part in politics, having served for many years on the Board of Education and in many other minor offices in Green Township. Fraternally he is one of the most prominent members of the Knights of Pythias, and has filled all the offices of that order and was a Representative to the Grand Lodge. He is also a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics. Mr. Albin is an active member of the Bethel Lutheran Church.

JAMES M. COLLINS, who resides on his well-improved farm of eleven acres or more, which is situated one-half mile north of Tremont, on the Valley Turnpike Road, Clark Coimty, owns another farm of thirty-six and one-half acres in Mad River Township, Champaign County. Mr. Collins was born in Orange County, Virginia, July 26, 1838, and is a son of Jerome B. and Jane (Burruss) Collins.

James M. Collins was reared in Virginia, and in his boyhood attended the country schools and worked on his father's farm. In August, 1860, he accompanied his father to Ohio. They set- tied first in Cliampaign County, where the eldest son, Tandy Collins, had already made his home. For a few years James M. Collins resided with his brother, the father dying there soon after coming to Ohio. The mother survived to the age of eighty-eight years. In 1866, James M. Collins came to Clark County and in 1870, he was married, at Delaware, to Rosanna Frey. Her father, John Jacob Frey, was lost on the Isthmus of Panama, when on his return trip to Ohio, having been a successful miner in California.

Mr. and Mrs. Collins have seven ehildi'en, namely: Clement V., an attorney at law, with offices in the Bushnell Building, Springtield, who married Nora Woodard and has one child, George C. ; Carrie Anna, who married Joseph N. Pence, and has two children, Ethel Irene and Josephine; Isabel, who is a school teacher in the Northern School building at Springfield; Mary, who teaches in the public schools at Columbus; Martin S., who is a student in the Baltimore Medical College, at Baltimore, Mar^^land; Maude, who married Dr. Nevin Sandow, of Columbus ; and Jennie T., who is a student at "Wittenberg College. The present pleasant family home was erected in 1888. Mr. Collins and family belong to the Baptist Church.

REV. HARv'EY H.TUTTLE,pastor of Sinking Creek Baptist Church, Springfield Town.ship, also one of the leading farmers of Clark County, is a scion of one of the mo.st prominent families of this section cf the state. He was born September 20, 1842, his parents being John and Margaret (Prickett) Tuttle, and he is a grandson of Sylvanus Tuttle, one of the notable pioneers of the county.

The history of this pioneer ancestor of the Tuttles is so typically representative of that of the best class of early settlers in this section that a sketch of it may be here given, condensed slightly from an historical article written by the subject of this notice, Mr. Harvey H. Tuttle.

' ' Soon after the glad ending of the long struggle for liberty in America, a stalwart young man decided to try his fortune in the new west. He had seen service as a New Jersey 'm.inute man' at the battle of Monmouth, and no doubt at other places. It was his duty as a 'minute man' to be ready to respond to any call the cause of liberty might make on him within the limits of New Jersey colony. . He had three older brothers, two of whom, at least, were with the patriot army under General Washington. One lost his life while crossing- the Hudson River above the city of New York while in the service. The other served in the army seven years and received a pension of $60 per annum during life.

"But the subject of our sketch, a rugged young man, six feet in height, thought of the western country. He loved a comely maiden named Mary Brown. She was of medium height, with dark eyes and hair, and rosy cheeks, the very picture of endurance and hardihood. She too was inclined to tempt fortune in the wilds of the west. So Sylvanus Tuttle and Mary Brown were united in marriage about the year 1784.

town, New Jersey, they would cross the iipper Delaware River, and most likely go to Harrisburg, at which point they would intersect the great wagon road from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. This route was a veritable thoroughfare for the multitude of emigrants to the West. Probably the young wife rode the single horse they owned, the same horse carrying a few articles of clothing and some cooking utensils. They may possible have had a second animal which served to carry the young husband. However this may be, we may be quite sure that only the veriest necessities would be carried with them, since neither of these young people had much of worldly goods. We can be sure of but one article, viz: the rifle which young Sylvanus carried at the battle of Monmouth. This heirloom has been kept in the family, and is now in the possession of James T. Tuttle, a great grandson. At what point in western Pennsylvania the first home was built we do not know now, nor do we know the exact period of time spent here. But while here Thomas Tuttle, the father, visited them, and remained with them until they decided to go down into Virginia, when he returned to Morristown, New Jersey.

"The new location was in the vicinity of Clarksburg, Virginia, now West Virginia. Here they remained for fifteen or sixteen years. Here most of their children were bom. Here the older children received their education, for all of them could read and write, and the boys, at least, were very apt and skillful in arithmetic. But here also they were trained in industry and frugality, in hardihood and self-reliance, acquirements that became exceedingly useful in after life. Here also in some quiet fertile valley, the family gradually accumulated something of this world's goods. In those times the clothing and food were all prepared in the home, the clothing from the wool of a little flock of sheep and from flax which they grew. The men would shear the sheep, then the mother and girls would manufacture the wool into clothing, often displaying much skill and ingenuity in the colors and patterns of the flanuel cloth. In like manner, after the flax was pulled and broken and skutched to remove the outer bark, it would be turned over to the women for manufacture. Thus we can easily understand how the oldest, a girl named Eunice, became exceedingly skilful at the spinning-wheel and loom, not only in duplicating a pattern of cloth she might chance to see, but even in inventing new ones.

"But here in their quiet home in Virginia, the rumors of the rich valleys and fertile lands of the Ohio country reached them. Perhaps some adventurer who had been there would tell of its beauty and fertility in such glowing terms as to awaken a desire to find a home there. Most probably they were renters of a farm from some large land-holder in Virginia. Then in the ordinance of Congress, passed in 1787, by which all the country northwest of the Ohio was admitted to the Union, ample provision was made for free public schools in setting apart section 16 in every township for school purposes. These advantages, with the growing needs of their now large family, induced Sylvanus Tuttle and his wife to again try the fortunes of the Ohio country where the government was selling such beautiful and fertile lands at a merely

"December 22, 1803, the eldest daughter, Eunice, was married to a man named Morris Reece. When gTandfather and grandmother decided to emigrate to Ohio, Mr. Reece and his young wife decided to be of the company. So the preparations for the journey went fonvard. * * * Grandmother did not forget that they were going to a new wild country, so she took with her all kinds of garden seeds, apple seeds, and peach seeds to plant at the new home. The trees in the old orchard, now cpiite gone, were grown from the apple seeds brought from Virginia. There were, besides the Tuttle and Reece families, two other families, by name Robey, who made the journey together.

"There were in the Tuttle families the father and mother, six boys, two girls, besides Mr. and ]\Irs. Reece. They brought a flock of eighteen or twenty sheep and two or three cows. The sheep were in the charge of the seven year-old boy Caleb. * * Their course would bring them through Marietta, Ohio, a distance from Clarksburg of eighty or ninety miles. The road would be over rough mountain trails called roads. The roads were so steep that often it would be necessary to chain saplings or small trees to the rear axle of the wagons to hold them back so the teams could guide the wagons down the steep inclines. All the way they camped out along the roadside. At Marietta one of the older boys, Thomas, took sick with a malignant fever,, and the journey was delayed two weeks, the families encamping and the sick boy and his nurse finding accommodation with some hospital)le settler. It was necessary for the little seven-year-old Caleb' to go a few miles in advance to find accommodation for his flock. Here he stayed with the sheep until the journey was resumed. After a sickness of two weeks Thomas died and was buried among strangers in some lonely spot not far from Marietta. Then with sad hearts the parents, brothers and sisters resumed their journey. The next town of any importance would be Athens, the seat of Ohio University, and the next place would be Chillicothe, then the capital of the new state. Then from Chillicothe to the vicinity of Springfield, over the old Chillicothe road, now the South Charleston pike. When they reached the vicinity of Springfield, they encamped the first night on the spring branch in front of the old Reid homestead, not far from Reid's schoolhouse.

"The arrival in what is now Clark County was probably about the last of October, 1806. They finally located along Buck Creek, about six miles east of New Moorefield, and near Catawba Station on tlie Delaware branch of the C. C. C. & St. Louis Railway. The Tuttle and Reece families located near each other on lands belonging to Mr. Van Meter, a large land owner in this region. Here they spent about a year and a half. The first winter would be the hardest. They had no wheat and only what corn and other provisions they could buy, and we may be sure that money was a scarce article with these new settlers and must be carefully husbanded to secure land from the government on which to build up the new home. But they would not lack for meat. Morris Reece was a marksman of wide repute in his old Virginia home, and as game was quite plentiful, he .was able easily to provide both families with abundance of meat. It was an understanding between the two families that whenever Morris Reece's ritle was heard to crack there would be meat to be had, generally bear meat or venison. Grandfather and the two older boys would possibly find some employment with the rich Van Meter, in flailing out his crop of wheat getting their wages, it may be, in corn or sometimes wheat.

"To get the meal or flour they would probably have to go to the little grist mill of Simon Kenton, at what is now the Lagonda suburb of Springfield. This mill probably passed into the hands of Nicholas Prickett a year or two later.

"Mrs Van Meter was a kindly disposed woman, and would bring her coffeegrounds to grandmother that she might get a mild sort of coffee from them for her family. Grandmother would quietly take them, but her pride of independence would not suffer her to use them when there was not special need or benefit to be derived. So when Mrs. Van Meter was gone she would throw out the grounds. They contented themselves with mush and milk, corn pone, bear meat, and venison, and towards spring they could have a refreshing drink from the tea of the fragrant spice bush, and the sassafras root. As the spring drew on they would be busy making a little sugar from the sugar tree, for they lost no opportunity to provide the necessaries and as many of the luxuries of life as their own labor could secure.

"The spring would find all busy. Grandfather .and the boys getting in a crop of corn and flax from which to manufacture tow and linen garments. The potato crop, too, would not be forgotten. We can readily imagine that as soon as possible a garden would be planted under the care of the women and younger boys. Then as soon as the sheep were shorn would come a busy time for grandmother and the girls. The wool must be scoured, carded into rolls, spun into yarn, dyed and woven into cloth to make garments for the family. The previous winter may have been long and tedious, but the summer was busy and fleeting.

"However busy they were, grandfather did not forget the one object they had in view in coming to the wilds of Ohio, viz., to secure a home. He selected a quarter section of land on the Sinking Creek, about one and a half miles above its mouth. Here was water for the home and for cattle, and yet only a small part of the land was crossed by the stream. Here, too, was a fine sugar bush, so fine a.^ to attract the attention of some wandering tril)es, who came every spring in Febraary and ]\farch to make sugar, encamping along the creek.

"Others, however, looked with longing eye on this fertile quarter section, and grandfather and grandmother soon decided that if they secured the land they would have to use strategy. Grandfather and the older boys were busy at home. Who then should make the journey to Cincinnati, where the nearest government land office was located, and enter the land"? The lot fell upon Caleb, the eight-year-old boy who had shown himself so efficient and self-reliant the previous year in caring for the sheep throughout the long journey from Clarksburg. Secretly he was equipped for the journey. Plain and explicit instructions were given him as to the nnmbei' of range, section, etc. Fifty dollars in gold were seciu'ely fastened to his sturdy little body. Thus equipped he set out on one of the old horses for Cincinnati. In a few weeks he returned, having correctly entered the land, and bringing a receipt for the first payment, which also described the land. It is not difficult to imagine that our grandparents were exceedingly relieved of anxiety and much gratified at the result of their scheming. Another winter was passed in the Van Meter cabin. Then, when the winter began to wane, the two older boys were sent to the future home to cut the timber for the log cabin, and to clear some land for the next season's crops. They built a sort of tent or hut for a temporary shelter, and for weeks spent their entire time at the work of chopping, burning brush, etc., returning home Saturday evening to spend Salibath with the family. Soon the Indians came for their usual spring sugar-making. Sometimes the boys would go down to the Indian camp in the sugar bottom to while away an evening with the Indians and engaging in their pastimes.

""Wlien the early spring came, the logs for the cabin were all ready and at an appointed day the neighbors came from far and near, and by sun-down the cabin was up and under roof and chinked, ready for a mud plaster on the cracks between the logs. Then a capacious but rude chimney was built, the lower part of nigger-heads or boulders laid in clay mortar, the upper part of clay and sticks.

"In a year or two a new house was built. This one is hewn of logs, and two stories high, with two large rooms on the ground floor. This house, when completed, was a palace compared with the cabins in which they had found shelter hitherto. Here were celebrated weddings and iufairs - as receptions were then called - and here the young people gathered for merrj'-making, such as husking-bees, etc.

"In 1812, October 30, the eldest son was married to a Miss Ellsworth; one of a family in the settlement ; and on December 31st of the same year the second daughter married Aquilla Ellsworth of the same family. October 7th, 1813, the remaining daughter married Charles Botkin, and settled a few miles east of the homestead. In the meanwhile the eldest daughter, Eunice Reeee, had buried her husband, and with her two children, found a home with her parents. During the War of 1812 with England, the two oldest boys were in the service for a short time, guarding a suj^ply train which brought provisions for the army under General Hull."

February 23, 1815, John Tuttle married Margaret Prickett, a daughter of Nicholas Prickett, who some years before had brought his family from Clermont County and settled at Lagonda. He purchased the grist-mill of Simon Kenton, which he improved and ran as long as he lived.

In the spring of 1816 a Baptist Church was organized in the community, one mile south of the Tuttle homestead. Nicholas Prickett was one of the founders. From the records we learn that Sylvanus Tuttle was received into membership in this church in October, 1816, and in November Marv Tuttle became a member. Tliev could have i^reacliing service but once each month, and at these services, which were held both Saturday and Sunday, one or more were received into the little church. A few years later Sylvanus Tuttle was elected to the office of deacon in this church, in which capacity he served until his death.

In the year 1821 the present brick dwelling-house was built. The bricks were made and all the material for the house was gotten from the farm, except the hardware and lime for the mortar. As the years went on, one by one the children, as children will, formed homes elsewhere. Then came grandchildren to live with and help the grandparents in their old age. In these early years all the wheat or rather the flour must be hauled all the way to Cincinnati for market. To get a little money was very difficult and money was very scarce. The people lived in a plain, simple manner. Salt was one of the most difficult articles to obtain, and had to be hauled from Cincinnati or Sandusky. There were no roads at that time worthy of the name, and bands of hostile Indians were ready to shoot any white man who might unwarily fall in their way.

Sylvanus Tuttle died on January 1, 1843, at the good old age of eighty-one years, seven months, and nineteen days; and Mary Tuttle, his wife, died May 26, 1848, aged eighty years, eleven months, and nine days.

John Tuttle, son of Sylvanus and Mary Tuttle, was born in Virginia, and accompanied his parents in their journey to Ohio, as above recorded. He shared in the pioneer hardships experienced by the rest of the family, and on one occasion, in company with some neighbors, made the long and dangerous journey to Cincinnati, for salt. His marriage to Margaret Prickett, on February 23d, 1815, has been already recorded, as likewise the birth of their son Harvey H., -whose name begins this article.

The latter was reared in Spring-field Township, attending the school known as Congress Hall. Afterwards he was graduated from Wittenberg College, Springfield, in the class of 1867, and three years later was graduated, in the class of 1870, from the Theological Seminary at Upland, Pennsylvania. Previous to that, on September 2, 1861, at the age of nineteen, he' had enlisted in Company F, Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a corporal, and served with that company seventeen months. AVhen a baby, about twenty months old, he had met with an accident by which he had lost two fingers; and in the war he had another finger on the same hand shot off, while on picket duty near Georgetown, Kentufcky. He was discharged for that reason December 27, 1862. He then re-enlisted in the 100-day seiwice as second lieutenant in Company D, One hundred and forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until September 7, 1864, when he received an honorable discharge. He then returned to Wittenberg College, which he had left to enter the army. His mental equipment was completed at Crozer Seminary, on leaving which, he was married June 14, 1870, to Laura J. Luse, daughter of John Luse. He then took the pastorate of two churches - one at Bradford Junction and one at Covington, both in Miami Coimty, Ohio., He remained thus occupied - for about two years, when his health failed and he quit pastoral work.

and took up his residence on his present farm, which was then owned by his fatherin-law, his advent here being in January, 1874. In the spring of 1888 Mr. Tuttle went to Granville, Ohio, where he lived for sixteen years, returning to his farm in Clark County in 1904. For a number of years he was librarian for the Dennison University at Granville. On the reorganization of the Sinking Creek Church in 1883 he became the pastor, which position he still holds. While a resident of Granville he frequently returned to officiate as pastor of this church.

The family of Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle numbers nine children, all of whom are married but two. They have twelve grandchildren. Their children are as follows: Laura May, wife of Professor Price, principal of the Pillsbury Academy, Owantonna, Minnesota; John Luse, who married Lotta Gower; Martha Byrd, wife of Professor E. J. Owen, also of Pillsbury Academy; A. J. Tuttle, who married Frances Davidson, a missionary in Assam, India; Margaret Ann, wife of Edward H. Jesson, Y. M. C. A. secretary at Berwick, Pennsylvania; Harvey Wallace, single, who is now preparing for evangelistic work ; George Clyde, who married Catharine Evans, and is a reporter on the Columbus "Citizen;" Mary Catharine, a music teacher in an academy at Toulon, Illinois ; Alice, wife of Oscar Laybourne, who resides at home with her parents.

Mr. Tuttle is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a man of much force of character, an able and faithful minister of tliC Gospel, having much persuasive force in the pulpit, and is also a ready and capable writer. His two hundred and fortv-five acre farm is one of the most valuable in Clark County, and is kept by him in fine condition. As a grandson of one of the most conspicuous among the pioneers of this section, he is especially well-informed in regard to local history in which he takes an intelligent and patriotic interest. He and his family are as highly esteemed as they are well known in every part of the county.

CHARLES BAUER, a member of the city council of Springfield, has been successfully engaged in business here for many years. He was born at Springfield, Ohio, in 1869, and is a son of Jacob Bauer.

Jacob Bauer, father of Charles, was born in Germany and was an early settler at Spring-field. He worked in the Ross Mitchell flour mill, which then stood on the site of the International Harvester plant. Later he conducted a dairy and operated a milk wagon through Springfield, although his patrons were few because the population was limited at that day. He died in 1899.

Charles Bauer was educated in the schools of Springfield, and while still a boy went to work for the Warder. Bushnell &: Glessner Company, with whom he remained for fifteen years. He then embarked in a feed, flour and grain business, to which commodities he later added coal and cement, and has been so engaged ever since.

On December 23, ]905, Mr. Bauer was married to Vinnie Peden. He has taken a verj^ active part in city politics. For five years he served as a member of the scliool board from the First Ward, during two of which he was its president. His present standing in the council is that of a mem- ber at large. His business judgment is valued on the boai'd and bis integrity and efficiency as a citizen is very generally conceded. He is a popular member oi a number of fraternal orders, including the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Red Men, and the Knights of Pythias.

ERNEST BFRKHARDT, a leading farmer and dairyman of Springfield Township, residing on his farm in Section 17, on the old Columbus road, two and a half miles from Springfield, was born in AVittenberg, Germany, November 27, 1847.

Ernest Burkhardt was reared in Germany, where he learned the cal^inet-maker's trade and after coming to America, in 1867, he worked at this trade at Cincinnati for a year. His elder brother, Ludwick Burkhardt, was engaged in a butchering business in that city and Ernest learned that trade with him, after which he carried on a butchering business of his own and owned two markets in Cincinnati. In 1884 he moved to his present home, purchasing at that time seventeen acres of land, on which stood a fine brick house and a barn. He built on his land a frame slaughter-house, which subsequently burned down. He then replaced it with a brick one and continued in the meat business until 1898. To his original purchase he added more land, and his farm in Springfield Township now contains thirty-eight acres. He owns also a farm of eighty -five acres in Moorefield Township.

of Frederick OeJiler. Mr. Oehler was born in Germany but his daughter is a native of Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Burkhardt have seven children, namely: Lula, Emma, who married Stewart Gower, residing in Cincinnati ; Elma, Alice. Ernest, Bertha, and Ruth, all residing at home. Another daughter, Clara, died at the age of two years. Mr. Burkhardt is considered one of Springfield Township's prosperous citizens. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias. In polities he is Independent.

MICHAEL B. WILSON, a representative citizen of Harmony Township, where he owns one hundred and twelve acres of valuable land which he devotes to general farming, was born in 1845, in Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Michael and Lavina (Henry) Wilson.

The Wilson family is an old one in Harmony Township, the grandparents, Michael and Temperance Wilson, having had their home here and reared a large family. One son, Michael, was born in the same township and when he attained maiihood, he married Lavina Henry. They had a family of thirteen children born to them, to whom they gave the following names : Jasper, James T., Temperance, Elizabeth, JetTerson, Johnson, Michael B., Lavina, Washington, Emma, Anna, Fremont and Skillman. Jasper married Ellen Prugh and they had four children: Wilburt H.. Charles, Samuel and Elesta. Jasper Wilson served in the Civil War. James T. married (first) Abigail Turner and they had five children : Temperance, Nora, Samuel, Ada and Anna T. He married (second) Ida Tingley, and they had one daughter, Bessie. Temperance, daughter of James T., married Edgar Sweete, and they have one son, Chandler. Nora Wilson is deceased. Samuel married Dollie Tingle}' and they have five children, namely : William, Carl, Delma, Horace and Gltnna. Ada married Chance Mahoney and they have three cl^ldren: Maud, Nellie and Edna. Anna died aged fifteen years.

Temperance Wilson, eldest daughter of Michael and Lavina Wilson, died aged two years. Jefferson, the next son, was killed while serving as a soldier in the Civil War. Johnson married Jiilia West and they have the following children: Howard, Effie, Alta, Walter, Mary and Floyd. Johnson Wilson served in the Civil War. The three brothers were brave soldiers, but only two lived to reach home. Lavina married Edmund West and at death left one child, Lillie. Washington Wilson married Frances Porter and they have four children : Porter, Charles, Nina and AVashington. Both Emma and Anna are deceased. Fremont Wilson married Minerva Sharj) and they have the following children : Mary, Lavina, Clara, Boss, Wealthy and Methia. Skillman, the youngest of the family, married Lida Sidebottom.

Michael B. Wilson has lived in Clark (-oimty all his life and since boyhood has followed agricultural pursuits. His land was purchased from his father by himself and wife and is divided into two tracts, one containing fifty-five acres and the other fifty-seven acres. It is as good land as can be found in Harmony Township. Mr. Wilson was married in 1871, to Estella Boberts, who was born in Madison County, Ohio, but who has lived in Clark