Springfield Township (part 30 of 69)

In politics Mr. Jones is a stanch Republican and on that ticket he was elected justice of the peace to serve a term of four years, assuming the duties of the office in 1907.

WILLIAM M. DRAKE, whose valuable farm of 272 acres is situated in Mad River Township, belongs to a pioneer family of this section and was born on his present farm, in Clark County, Ohio, April 29, 1856. His parents were Cyrus and Martha (Miller) Drake.

The grandparents of Mr. Drake, William and Ruth (Welch) Drake, came from Pennsylvania to Ohio on horseback. Their log cabin was one of the first that was built in Mad River Township and the land that William M. Drake now owns was then but a great extent of swamp and uncleared forest. They reared a family of seven children, namely: Jacob, John, Thompson, Cyrus, William, Jane and Elizabeth. The youngest daughter married D. Shellabarger. All have passed out of life. Cyrus Drake, father of William M., was born near Enon, Clark County, and he was five years old when his parents settled on the present farm to Avhich he subsequently added until, at the time of his death, he owned 550 acres. He married Martha Miller, who was born in Greene County, Ohio, and died in 1892, aged sixty-five years. Their faniily consisted of six children, namely: Albert, who resides at Yellow Springs, Ohio; Emma, who died young ; William M. ; Margaret; Ida, who married Charles Weaver ; and John W. Cyrus Drake died in 1901, aged seventy-eight years.

William M. Drake attended the district schools and later spent one year at college at Ada, Ohio, that being the only period which he has passed away from the farm on which he was born. The oi'igiual tract of 164 acres his grandfather purchased for $500. Both his father and Mr. Drake have made many improvements here, the former building the commodious brick residence in 1850. William M. Drake carries on general farming and stock-raising and is one of the township 's most substantial men.

On December 15, 1898, William M. Drake was married to Sarah A. Keifer, who is a daughter of Benjamin and Amelia F. (Hinkle) Keifer. They have had four children, namely: Marie lone, William Russell, Warren and an infant, who, with William Russell, are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Drake are members of the Presbyterian Church at Yellow Springs. He belongs to the organization known as the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. In politics he is a Republican.

FRANK M. KRAPP. attorney, a leading member of the Springfield bar, was born at Springfield, Ohio, in 1877, and is a son of Martin Krapi\ who came from

Frank M. Krapp was reared at Springfield, and after graduating from the Springlield High School, in 1895, he taught school for one year and then entered the law department of the University of Cincinnati, where he was graduated with the class of 1899. He immediately entered into practice at Springfield, being the junior member of the law firm of Tatum & Krapp, until Mr. Tatum was elected city solicitor, since which time Mr. Krapp has practiced alone. Professional men in these modern days must be prepared to meet with strong competition, and in spite of this Mr. Krapp has won a recognized place on the Springfield bar and has been elected treasurer of the Clark County Bar Association. For the past five years he has also held the office of referee in bankruptcy for the Springfield District. He is an active Republican and is chairman of the Republican Central and Executive Committees. He is interested in the Yieldable Gear Company, of Spi'ingfield, being its vice president.

In 1900 Mr. Krapp was married to Bessie Wade, a resident of Springfield. They attend the First Lutheran Church. He is connected, fraternally with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias and the Owls, and he is one of the directors of the Young Men's Christian Association.

DR. E. CALVIN MILLER, postmaster at New' Carlisle, Ohio, is also a well known druggist of this village, of which he has been a resident since 1883. He was born April 21, 1848, at Millerstown, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Joseph and Mary Jane (Boyd) Miller. His grandfather, Ezekial Miller, was prominent among the early settlers of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, being the founder of the village of Millerstown, where he owned a large tract of land, and where he died at the advanced age of ninety-six years.

Joseph Miller, father of the doctor, was born in Pennsylvania, his parents' family numbering four children, namely : Mary, McConnel, Joseph and Thomas. Joseph was reared on his father's farm and later engaged in mercantile business at Millerstown, where he was married to Mary Jane Boyd, also a native of Pennsylvania. They subsequently moved to North Dakota, where they remained but one year, then coming to New Carlisle, Clark County, Ohio. After residing here one year they sold their property and moved to Callery, Pennsylvania, where they passed the remainder of their lives, Mr. Miller dying at the age of seventy-eight years and his wife at that of seventy-two. They Avere the parents of the following children: Ellen, who died young; Robert, who lives in the state of Washington; E. Calvin, subject of this article; Melissa Jane, residing at Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania; James, who died at the age of thirty-eight, and was prominent in the oil business; Thomas, who was killed on his first day's run as conductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad; Mary, a resident of Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania; and Benjamin, who is superintendent for the Standard Oil Company in Washington State.

Jerstown, Pennsylvania, and received Ms education in the common schools of that village, later attending Mount Union College, where he was a student at the time of President Lincoln's assassination. He worked as clerk in his father's store until he was twenty years of age, at the agff of seventeen beginning the study of medicine under Di-. C. H. Lee, of Tarentum, a village five miles from Millerstown. After remaining in Dr. Lee's office for three years, he attended a course of lectures at Philadelphia, where he received his diploma. He shortly after embarked in the practice of medicine at Moravia, Pennsylvania, going thence in a short time, however, to West Middlesex, Mercer County, that state, where he was engaged in the drug business for one year. Then, owing to ill health, he removed to Springdale, Pennsylvania, and for nine years operated a drug store in connection with his medical practice. He was also postmaster of that village, the office being one of the fourth class. Dr. [Miller then went to Fargo, North Dakota, but not liking that locality returned immediately to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, where he left his family while he made a tour through many states in search of a desirable location. He finally came to New Carlisle and purchased an interest in the Neff & Son Drug Company, of this village, and operated the business from 1883 until 1895 under the firm name of Netf & Miller. Dr. Miller subsequently carried on the business alone for one year, and then sold out to W. A. Higgins, who has since conducted it.

still serving in that capacity. He is interested in various business enterprises of this locality, is president of the New Carlisle Telephone Company, a stockholder in the First National Bank, president of the cemetery board, was for several years secretary of the New Carlisle Building and Loan Association and was also engaged in life insurance for a time. Fraternally Dr. Miller is a Mason, being a member of New Carlisle Lodge No. 100, F. & A. M., the Chapter at New Carlisle, and Palestine Commaudery at Springfield. He also belongs to the I. 0. 0. F., of which he was financial secretary for seventeen years. Politically he is a Republican.

Dr. Miller was married in 1869 to Nancy Jane Humes, a daughter of James and Mary Humes, of Pennsylvania, and he and his wife have been the parents of three children: Ella, who married W. N. Scarif, and has three children - Max, Howard and Lucille ; C. Bertram, a druggist, of Dayton, Ohio; and Thomas, who is assistant postmaster at New Carlisle.

SIMON MICHAEL, a well known and highly respected retired farmer of the village of North Hampton, and owner of a fine farm of 105 acres in Grerman Town- .«hip, also owns property in the village of North Hampton, and has residence property which is located just at the edge of the village. He has been a resident of Clark County for practically all his life and was born on his father's farm in German Township. January 11, 1839, a son of Adam and Mary (Wones) Michael.

when a boy came to Ohio with his parents, who settled in the wilds of Pike Township, Clark County. Here he was reared and became a farmer by occupation. He was united in marriage with Mary Wones, a native of England, who came to this country with her parents when a girl. Eight children were born of this union, namely: Catherine, Elizabeth, William, Lucinda, Frederick, Ellen, Simon, our subject, and George, who lives in Indiana. The two last mentioned are the only ones now living, Ellen dying in infancy. Mrs. Michael died in 1845 at the age of thirty -five years, and in 1847 Adam Michael married Catherine Welchans, widow of Griffith "Welchans, and a daughter of Mr. Overs. She was an aunt of ex- Judge Overs. Two children were born of the second union - David and Emma. Adam Michael died in 1851 and was survived by his widow until 1902, passing away at the age of seventy-five years.

Simon Michael was a mere boy when his parents moved to Indiana and purchased a farm near Muncie, in Delaware County. His father died there six weeks later, and after remaining in Indiana about five or six years, Mr. Michael ;-eturned to Clark County, Ohio, and worked for his brother-in-law, David Jenkins, who had purchased the old home farm from his father. He remained in German Township with his brother-in-law until after his marriage, September 30, 1862, with Elizabeth Freeze, a daughter of John Freeze. She was born in 1842 and died May ]0, 1904. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael, namely: George Marion, who died at the age of two years and six months, and Cora Irene, wife of Charles E. Ryman, who operates Mr.

Michael's farm and who has two children - Myrtle Beatrice and Clark Roscoe. Mr. Michael purchased a tract of fifty acres before his marriage from George Getz, and having added to this from time to time, now has 105 acres all in one tract. Mr. Michael followed farming in German Township until 1896, when he retired from agricultural pursuits and has since ))een a resident of North Hampton. Politically he is a Prohibitionist. He is a member and elder of the Reformed Church.

HERMAN VOGES, manager and secretary of the Springfield Coal and Ice Company, has been a resident of Springfield since 1875, and is one of the foremost business men of the city. He was I)orn April, 1844, in Germany, and came to America at the age of twenty-one, first locating in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was engaged in the hardware business for five years. He then moved to College Corners, Butler County, Ohio, and there also was engaged in the hardware business, continuing in the same for five years, when he came to Springfield, in 1875. He was for seven years engaged as shipping clerk for the Champion Bar Knife Company, of this city, and in 1882, in partnership with Mr. M. M. Hedges, entered the ice and coal business under the firm name of Voges & Hedges. In June, 1883, in connection with E. S. Kelly, they established the Champion Coal & Ice Company, which was incorporated with a capital stock of *50,000, with E. S. Kelly, president; Mr. Hedges, secretary, and Mr. Voges, as managei- of the company. The Champion Coal and Ice Company con- tinued sueeessfully in business nntil 1888, when it was succeeded by the Spring-field Coal and Ice Company, with the capital stock increased to $100,000. In June, 1890. they began the manufacturing of ice, being the first ice plant to operate in this .section of the country. The present officers of the company are : W. S. Wilson, president and treasurer; George Glessner, vice president; Herman Voges, manager and secretary.

Mr. Voges was married in 1868 to Ida Sattler, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and of their union were born the following children; Herman, now a member of the Webster & Perks Manufacturing Company, of Spring-field, Ohio; Olga, widow of Joseph Beck, residing in Springfield ; Ida, who is the wife of Edward Letzler, of Denver, Colorado; William F., who is traveling auditor for the Diamond Rubber Company, of Akron, Ohio ; Albert, who is employed by the Spring-field Coal and Ice Comi^any; and Flora, who lives at home. Fraternally Mr. Voges is a member of the B. P. O. E., and also of the Lagonda Club.

PETER GERON, general farmer, residing on his well improved property consisting of 167^4 acres, known as "Prairie View Farm, ' ' which is situated in Moorefield Township, was born in this township May 14, 1857, and is a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Reddick) Geron.

Adam Geron was born in Germany and came to American in early manhood, settling in Ohio prior to his marriage. In 1858 he settled with his family in Springfield Township, where he resided for about ten vears and then moved to a farm on the National Turnpike east of Springfield. Peter Geron was a boy of some eleven years at this time and he recalls the family changes of the next few years and remembers the farm in Bethel Township on which his father remained for the following ten years. From that farm Adam Geron moved to Urbana Township, in Champaign County, and there his death occurred in September, 1907. His widow still survives.

Wlien Peter Geron was sixteen years of age he went to work for Henry Snyder, in ]\Iad River Township, and labored as a farm hand for eight years, and also farmed Mr. Snyder's place for six years following his marriage. In 1886 he was married to Elizabeth Kropp, and they have five bright, intelligent children, namely: Mamie, Harry, Efifie, A. J. and Ralph".

In 1900 ]\lr. Geron bought his present fine farm and he has been improving the pro]3erty ever since, in 1904 building his commodious and comfortable frame dwelling and in 1906 putting up his sub-_ stantial barn. His surroundings indicate thrift and good management. Mr. Geron is a man of social instincts and he belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the Maccabees. Religiously he belongs to St. John's Lutheran Church in Springfield. In politics he is a Democrat.

WILLIAM B. TODD, one of Springfield Township's representative citizens and excellent agriculturists, residing on the I. Ward Frey farm of 365 acres, located about two miles east of Spring-field, was born in Green Township, Clark Countv, Ohio, Januarv 7, 1859, and is a

James Todd, the grandfather, came to Morrowtown, Ohio, from Pennsylvania and was the first of the name to settle at Todd's Forks. Later he came to Green Township and settled on what became known as the Todd farm, where he died. He was of Irish extraction. He married a lady at Hagerstown, Maryland, who was of German descent.

Samuel A. Todd was born on the old Todd farm and prior to enlisting for service in the Civil War taught a term of school in Harmony Township. He was commissioned a lieutenant by Governor David Todd and served three years in the army. After he returned he worked a short time as a blacksmith and also eonducted a small grocery business and then traveled for some years as a representative of a business house. He became very prominent politically and for nine years served as county recorder on the Republican ticket. After retiring from office he made his residence at Springfield, and for a time carried on a clothing business at No. 31 West Main Street, He was a man of excellent business faculty and had a wide circle of friends. His death took place December 19, 1899. His widow still survives and lives at Springfield.

William B. Todd attended school in Springfield and when eighteen years of age began to farm, and, with the exception of two years spent in the grocery business, at Springfield, he has given his attention ever since exclusively to agriculture. In 1884 Mr. Todd was married to Armenia Nave, who is a daughter of John G. Nave, and they have had eight children, namely: Daisv E., Samuel Le-

Roy, Bessie, Warren, Edwin Augustus, Eula, Frances and Florence. Daisy E. died at the age of eleven years and Samuel LeRoy at that of six. Mr. Todd has an interesting family and is giving them many advantages. Politically he is a prominent Republican, and fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Junior Order of American Mechanics and to the Eagles.

ANDREW JACKSON BAKER, general farmer and stock-raiser, resides on his well improved farm of eighty acres, lying about three miles northwest of S]3ringfield, on the Valley Turnpike, was born on this farm March 3, 1833. He is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Flick) Baker.

Daniel Baker was born about 1800, in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, whence his father, Rudolph Baker removed to Clark County, settling aboi;t 1820 in German Township, where he died in 1823. Rudolph Baker had then scarcely begun to clear his farm from the forest, a task his sons subsequently completed. Daniel Baker succeeded to a part of the farm and there spent his life. He married Elizabeth Flick, who was born and reared near Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio.

Andrew J. Baker was tliirteen years of age when his father died. He remained on the home farm until he was eighteen, when he went to Springfield, where he learned the carpenter's trade. For fifteen years he worked at his trade, but shortly after his marriage he returned to the home farm and resumed farming. He has the larger part of his land rented out. He made many improvements on the place after coming here and it ranks with the best improved farms of the township. In 1857 Mr. Baker was married to Margaret I. Jones, who is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Weaver) Jones. She was reared in Mad River Township, Champaign Comity, near the Clark County line. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have had three children: Dora, Effie and Minnie, the latter of whom died aged four months. Mr. Baker and family belong to St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. He takes an active interest in the educational advancement of his community and for eight years has been a member of the school board.

STEPHEN KITCHEN, owner of a fine farm of 1.36 acres in Green Township, Clark County, Ohio, was bom June 12, 1877, near his present farm, which is part of the old homestead, and is a son of Erasmus Jones and Matilda (Hatfield) Kitchen.

Abraham Ij. Kitchen, grandfather of Stephen, was a native of Warren County, Ohio, and a son of Stephen Kitchen, who came from Pennsylvania to Ohio at a very early period. Abraham followed farming all his life, and in 18.30 came to Clark County and settled on the farm now owned by the subject of this sketch, building and residing in for the remainder of his life the old log house which is now occupied by our subject's tenant. He married Matilda Jones, who was born near Selma, Madison Township, Clark County, Ohio, and to them were born four daughters and three sons.

house and spent his entire life on the farm adjoining our subject's. He spent four years in the army, enlisting in June, 1861, and serving until the close of the war, after which he returned home and engaged in farming until the time of his death. He married Matilda Hatfield, who was a native of Springfield Township, and to them were born six sons, all of whom are engaged in farming.

Ste])lien Kit(?hen was reared on the home farm and after completing his education, which was obtained in the district schools of the township, he worked for his father until his marriage with Josie Alice Stewart, a daughter of Charles F. Stewart, of Green Township. Mr. and Mrs. Kitchen have three children - Rhoda Alice, Erasmus Jones and Frances. In politics Mr. Kitchen is a Republican. He is a member of the Grange, and the religious connection of the family is with the Presbvterian Church.

PHILIP E. PEMBERTON, a well known citizen and agriculturist of Harmony Township, where he owns an excellent farm of fifty-three acres, which is situated on the Wilson Road, about one-half mile from Brighton, Ohio, was born in ^ladison County, Ohio, in 1857, and is a son of William and Nancy (Markley) Pemberton.

William Pemberton was born in 1821 and in 1846 he married Nancy Markley and they had eight children, namely: Samuel, born in 1847, married Mary Reed and they live in Kansas and have ten children; John, born in 1849, married Susan AVatson and has one child; Mary E., born in 1851, was accidentallv burned to death at the age of seven years; Martha J., born in 1853, married Walter Bennett and they have two children; Frances M., born in 1855, married John Thomas Evans and they live in Indiana and have four children; Philip E. ; Emma L., born in 1859, died aged four years; and William A., born in 1862, married Mary A. Miller and they have one child.

Philip E. Pemberton lived in his native county until he was ten years old and then came to Clark County, where he has resided ever since. He has engaged in farming since he reached manhood. Prior to purchasing his present farm of James Wilson, September 4, 1888, he resided at Brighton, Ohio. He carries on a general farming line and has continued to improve his property ever since settling on it. He takes a good citizen's interest in all that is of public note in the township and does his full share in the general line of progress and improvement through his neighborhood. He has served as school director and several terms as road supervisor.

In 1882 Mr. Pemberton was married to Mary E. Randolph, who was born in 1863 and is a daughter of William P. and Mary (Mincer) Randolph. Her father was born February 20, 1833, and died in 1889, and her mother was born September 2, 1839, and died in March, 1871. Mr. and Mrs; Randolph had the following children : Mary E. ; Nancy L., married James Goings and they have three children; Eliza K., married John Rathburn and have one child; and William F., married Anna Dunn and they have three children.

1883, in 1905 married Lucinda Melvin and they live in Champaign County; Eva, born in 1886, married Elmer Stits, has two children, Ruth M. and Edna P., and lives at Vienna, Ohio ; and Ethel, born in 1888, Harry, born in 1891, and Ruth, born in' 1896, all live at home.

DR. W. Q. STEPHENS, a prominent physician of Catawba, Pleasant Township, who has been a I'esident of Clark County, Ohio, since 1889, was born March 27, 1863, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, and is a son of James D. and Nancy (Grlassford) Stepheus.

James Stephens, father of Dr. Stephens, was the eldest of a family of seven children - four boys and three girls - and during his early manhood taught school for some time. He then devoted his time to farming and milling until his death at the age of fifty-six years. He was united in marriage with Nancy Glassford, who is still living, a resident of Pennsylvania, and they reared a family of three children - W. Glassford Stephens, the subject of this sketch; Alexander, who lives in Pennsylvania; and Sadie, who married John Shillito, of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Stephens was born and reared on his father's farm in Pennsylvania and obtained his education in the district schools of Indiana County. When al)out eighteen years old he began teaching, remaining in Pennsylvania for two years. He then taught for some time in Illinois, after which he returned to Pennsylvania and again taught school, during which time he commenced the study of medicine at the Eclectic Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in medicine in 1889 and that same year located in Catawba, where he embarked in the practice of medr icine and now enjoys a large and lucrative practice. In 190-i Dr. Stephens purchased a farm, to which he had added at varioiis times, now having 214 acres, in different tracts, most of it having been the old Baldwin farm. In addition to his farm the doctor also has a fine residence in Catawba, which he and his family occupy. In June, 1894, Dr. Stephens was joined in marriage with Marion Hunter, a daughter of Dr. Milton E. Hunter, and Sarah (Skillman) Hunter, and to them have been born two children - Helen and Mildred. Fraternally Dr. Stephens is a member of the I. 0. 6. F. Lodge, No. 349, of Catawba.

ers and reapers. In 1890 Mr. Phillips accepted his present jDOsition and since January, 1907, has also been president of the Springfield Pure Milk Company.

In 1876 Mr. Phillips was married to Elizabeth Cathcart and they have one son, Lewis Walter, who has been with the Ford Motor Company, of Detroit, for the past year. With his family Mr. Phillips attends the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Phillips is a thirty-second degree Mason and he belongs to the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Council and Commandery at Spring-field, and to the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. He is a member also of Mitchell Post, Grand Army of the Eepublic, at Springfield.

LEWIS PHILLIPS, secretary and treasurer of the Springfield Breweries, has been a resident of this city since February, 1866. He was born in Jackson County, Ohio. September, 1843, where he was reared and educated and remained until 1861, when he enlisted for service in the Ci'^dl W^ar, entering Company C, Fifty-sixth Eegiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Mr. Phillips remained in the army for over one year and after his honorable discharge he returned to Jackson County and then attended school at Athens, following which he taught school for a season and then took a commercial course at Cincinnati. From his time of graduation until he came to Springfield he was engaged as a tutor at the college and fo]< twenty-one years following his coming he had charge of the office of Whiteley- Fassler & Killev, manufacturers of mow-

ALVAH T. GAELOUGH, a representative agriculturist of Springfield Township, operating a valuable farm of 223 acres in Section 8 of that township, was born in Green Township, Clark County, Ohio, November 28, 1861, and is a son of James T. and Sarah J. (Hause) Garlough.

The father of Alvah T. Garlough was also born in Green Township, where he died March 28, 1905, but the grandfather, Jacob Garlough, was born in Maryland and came to Clark County in 1812, taking up land in Green Township, on which he lived during the remainder of his life. James T. Garlough spent the whole of his long and useful life in Green Township. His occupation was farming and he was ninnbered with the township's substantial men. He married Sarah J. Hause, who was a daughter of William Hause, who came from Virginia to Clark County prior to the birth of Mrs. Gar- lough. The surviving children of James T. Garlough and wife are: Clara, who married C. F. Stewart; Alvah T. and Sheridan G., Jesse Elmer, W. Forrest and Robert Centennial, all residing in Green Township. Those deceased were named: Flora, Mary, Retta and Alice, the latter of whom married Charles Otstott. The mother of the above family still resides in Green Township.

Alvah T. Garlough was reared in his native place and passed his boyhood attending school and learning the first details of farming. He has devoted himself almost exclusively to agricultural pursuits and raises wheat, corn, hay and oats and a considerable amount of good stock.

In 1884 Mr. Garlough was married to Emma J. Crabill, who is a daughter of David and Nancy C. Crabill, who are prominent farming people of Spring-field Township. Mr. and Mrs. Garlough have had two sons: David C, residing at home, assisting in the management of the farm, and Ralph, who died aged three years. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Garlough resided for three years in Green Township and then came to the farm upon which they now reside. It is the David Crabill homestead.

GEORGE W. TUTTLE, formerly a substantial citizen and prominent farmer of Spring-field Township, where he died in March, 1893, was born in Clark Coun^-y, Ohio, July 22, 1823. His parents were John and Margaret Tuttle and his grandfather was Sylvanus Tuttle, who was an early pioneer of Clark County.

known as the old Tuttle home place, which is now owned by Judge Kunkle. George W. Tuttle had twin brothers, David and Jacob Tuttle, and the three brothers married daughters of James Todd, who was a prominent fai'mer of Green Township. George W. Tuttle married Catherine A. Todd and they had five children, namely: Mrs. Ellen Hoffman; John, who died aged nineteen years; James, who is superintendent of schools at Washington Court House, Ohio; William Eugene, who resides at Springfield, and Elma K., who married William G. Otstot.

Mr. and 3Irs. Tuttle were married February 23, 1847, and in the March following they moved to the present farm of Mrs. Ellen Hoffman, a tract containing over 152 acres, on which stood an old log house, which is now used as a stable. In 1865 Mr. Tuttle greatly improved the property by erecting the present commodious brick house, and in 1885 he erected a comfortable frame one, which is now occupied by a son of Mrs. Hoffman. Mr. Tuttle was an excellent business man and was a successful farmer until his health failed, but until the close of his life he continued to manage his affairs, although not able for some time to take any active part in the work. He survived his wife for some seven years.

Mrs. Ellen Hoffman was reared on the farm on which she has always livzxJ, with the exception of siif year, 1872-3, when she accompanied Her husband to Kansas, just after her marriage, which took place February 22, 1872, to Martin C. Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1843, and died Julv 4, 1884. He was a son of Jacob

Hoffman, who came of an old family of Lancaster County. Martin C. Hoffman came to Clark County at the age of nineteen years. Jle served almost three years in the Civil War as a member of the Ninety-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was with the army under Oeneral Sherman on the famous march to the sea, Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman had five children, namely : John, who resides with his mother; Harland and Howard, twins, now deceased; Wilfred, who married Lillie M. McDonald, and has two children - Wilfred Carl and Louis Martin; and Ada Celia, who resides at home.

EDWARD A. HAYS, a representative citizen of Springfield Township, whose fine farm of ninety-eight acres is all in one body and is situated on the Gillett Road, about two and one-half miles south of the city of Springfield, was born May 7. 1859, at Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Samuel and Emily (Otstot) Hays.

The paternal grandfather of Edward A. Hays came to America from Scotland and for some years afterward he lived in Michigan. Later he established his home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and there Samuel Hays, father of Edward A., was born October 9, 1825. He died on his farm in Springfield Township, Clark County, April 23, 1894. "When he came to Springfield in 1842 he had completed his apprenticeship to the trade of cabinetmaker and this he followed until about 1863, when he purchased a team of good horses and rented a fann, that tract of land now being practically a part of the city of Springfield. He followed farming here for five years and then moved to the farm on which Edward A. Hays resides. It was the girlhood home of his wife, the old Otstot farm, and here he continued agricultural pursuits until the close of his life.

Samuel Hays was married at Springfield, to Mrs.' Emily (Otstot) Crossland, who was the widow of Jacob Crossland. She had one son born to her first marriage, Albert Crossland, who resides on his farm in Springfield Township. Mrs. Hays was a daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hinkle) Otstot. She was three years old when her parents left Pennsylvania and came to Springfield Township, the long journey being made in wagons. She was too young to remember the wild condition of the country at that time or to recall the many pioneer privations to which the family was subjected, but learned of these as she grew older and left many stories of the early days with her children. Her father secured 160 acres of Government land for which he paid $5.00 per acre, and he built his first log cabin on the site of the present Hays home. In this little cabin his daughter grew to womanhood and she was quite regular in her attendance at the district school. The log structure used as a schoolhouse stood on the present site of Congress Hall. Jacob Otstot came to Clark County with money amounting to $1,700, which he had earned at the cooper trade. He was an expert workman, but did not follow his trade after leaving Pennsylvania, finding plenty to occupy his time in clearing up his pioneer fann. The death of his wife preceded his own and his last years were spent with his daughter, Mrs. Hays, where he died in

1883, aged eighty-three years. The farm and household possessions came then to his daughter and her husband. Among the latter is a clock that was made by John Hoff, of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, which is over 150 years old, an ancient spinning wheel and many tools and implements. Another relic was a silver dollar that was coined in 1800, the year of Mr. Otstot's birth, which he had always carefully preserved, and it, with all the other objects, are now just as carefully treasured by his gi'andson, Edward A. Hays.

Samuel Hays and wife had two children : Charles 0., who was born in 1857, is engaged in farming in Harmony Township, Clark County, and Edward A. The mother of these two sons died October 6, 1894.

Edward A. Haj^s was four years old when his parents moved to Spring-field Township and almost the whole of his life has been spent on a farm. After his marriage he continued to reside on the home place and from his father he received sixty-one acres of the land that his grandfather had obtained from the Government. In 1902 Mr. Hays purchased almost thirty-eight acres of the old Hinkle land. In 1894 he built his commodious and comfortable frame house and in 1895 he remodeled his barn. The latter building was destroyed by fire in April, 1906, but he lost no time in rebuilding and had another structure ready by the time his crops were harvested.

On March 5, 1889, Mr. Hays was married to Lily Garlough, who is a daughter of Owen and Sarah (Littler) G-arlough. The father of Mrs. Hays died when she was one year old. Her mother subsequently married Benjamin Garlough, a relative of her first husband. Mr. and Mrs. Hays have four children, namely: Glenn Garlough, who is a student in the Springfield High School; Albert Owen, who is also in the High School classes; and Anson Erwin and Chester K. Mr. and Mrs. Hays are members of the Second Lutheran Church at Springfield. Mr. Hays belongs to the Junior Order of American Mechanics.

GARRETT SHERLO, who has resided on his present valuable farm of 120 acres, which is situated on the Troy Turnpike, about five miles northwest of Springfield, since 1876, was born in Brunswick, Germany, in December, 1837. He is a son of Casper Sherlo.

Mr. Sherlo was left an orphan in liis childhood and he was reared to the age of eighteen years by strangers. He then came to America and settled at West Alexandria, Preble County, Ohio, finding farm work in that neighborhood. He enlisted during the Civil War from Preble County in a military organization known as the "Squirrel Hunters" and served 100 days. Just before the close of the war he came to Greene County and rented a farm on which he lived until after his marriage in 1866. He then rented land in Montgomery County, about four miles northwest of Dayton from which he soon moved to a more desirable farm that he rented for three years in Champaign County. Mr. Shgrlo then returned for several months to Greene County and then came to Clark County, and operated a rented farm west of Medway for six vears. He then returned to Greene

County for a residence of three more years, after which he hought his present property. At that time an old dwellingstood where, in 1881. he erected his fine frame *«sidence. In 1904 his barn was burned, but he has replaced it and his surroundings are very complete and convenient. Mr. Sherlo has practically retired from farm work, having placed the operation of his farm in the hands of Amos Judd, his son-in-law, who is a very competent man.

In 1866 Mr. Sherlo was married at Cincinnati to Mary Shuey, who was born in Preble Conntyj Ohio," July 14, 1839, and is a daughter of Adam and Sarah (Nisewonger) Shuey. Mr. and Mrs. Sherlo have one daughter, Delta, who married Amos Judd. Mr. Judd was born in Rappahannock County, Virginia, February 17, 1881, and is a son of Samuel P. and Mary (Bolen) Judd, who came to Ohio from Virginia in 1891. Mr. and Mrs. Judd have one sob, Delbert. The family belong to Grace Reformed Church at Springfield. Mr. Sherlo had many hardships to endure during the earlier part of his life, but he overcome all obstacles, accumulated a fine property by years of earnest effort and has long been considered one of German Township's representative citizens.

EDWARD H. FLORENCE, township trustee and owner of 1,100 acres of valuable farm hmd in Madison Township, was born in 1848 near Lilly Chapel, Madison County, Ohio, and is a son of Obed Florence.

locating in Pickaway County and later in Clark Coimty. He married a Miss Hill, of Vii'ginia, and to them were born five sons, Obed, father of Edward H., being the second eldest. The maternal grandfather was Isaiah Hunt. Obed Florence lived for many years in Madison County, moving to Indiana in 1859, where his death occurred some few years later.

Edward H. Florence was reared on his father's farm in Madison County and received his education in the common schools. After leaving school he operated his grandfather's farm for a number of years, and then engaged in farming for himself, with great success, and he is now one of the largest land owners in the county, owning 1,100 acres of fine farming land. He is politically a Republican and has been for thirteen years township trustee, in which capacity he is now serving. He was also for a number of years a member of the school board. Mr. Florence married Emma Woosley, a daughter of Benjamin Woosley, of Clark County. They have had two children, one now living, Walter, and Keturah, who died in 1888, aged five years.

JACOB TUTTLE, who was once a well known farmer and respected citizen of Springfield Township, was born November 12, 1836, on the old Tuttle homestead, in Spring-field Township, Clark County, Ohio, and died in Clay County, Texas, July 15, 1898. His parents were John and Margaret (Prickett) Tuttle.

Jacob Tuttle was one of a family of eleven sons and five daughters and together they were reared on the old home farm and attended the neighborhood

When Jacob Tnttle reached manhood he married Nancy Todd, the ceremony taking place August 27, 1857. She is a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Garlough) Todd. James Todd was born in Pennsylvania and came to Green Township, Clark County, when a young lad. His wife was born in Maryland and was a daughter of John Garlough and she was seven years old when her parents eame to Clark County. James Todd and wife were married in Green Township, where Mrs. Tuttle was born, being one of a family of nine children, five of whom still live. After marriage Jacob Tuttle and wife settled on the present farm in SjH-ing-field Township, which is located about one mile from Mrs. Tuttle 's old home. When they came to this farm no improving had yet been done, but building was soon commenced and the present fine, large house was erected, together with barns and the other farm buildings. At first Jacob Tuttle owned the place with his brother David, but later bought the latter 's interest. He carried on general farming and also raised stock, particularly hogs.

In 1891 Mr. Tuttle 's health failed and he decided to move to Texas, hoping the change of climate would benefit him. He secured 320 acres of land in Clay County and lived there for seven years, but his health was never entirely restored and his death occurred in Clay County, where his burial took place. After Mr. Tuttle 's death Mrs. Tuttle and two of her sons purchased 320 more acres of land adjoining the other tract and this was managed during the fourteen years that she continued in Texas by her two sons, Louis and Ralph Tuttle. In October, 1904, Mrs. Tuttle and her son Louis returned to the old home in Springfield Township, this farm having been under the management, in the meanwhile, of her son Fred Tuttle. In January 1907, the Tuttles sold their Texas land, it having been a good investment.

Jacob and Nancy Tuttle became parents of eight children, the survivors being: Lelia, who married John Larkins, resides in Greene County, Ohio; Fred, residing at Springfield, a rural route mail carrier, married Elizabeth Hinkle and they have two children. Hazel and Russell ; Clifford, residing in Texas, married Jessie E. Irvine, and they have one child, Ida; Lewis, unmarried, operates the home farm; and Ralph, who resides at Wichita Falls, Texas, married Nora Ramsey. Nina, Etta and Ada, twins, all died within three weeks of each other from scarlet fever, aged, respectively, five ,and two vears of age.

WILLIAM HUNTER, whose magnificent farm of 380 acres, all in one body, lies about one and one-half miles southeast of Catawba, is one of the substantial citizens of Pleasant Township. He was ])orn in Pleasant Township, Clark County, Ohio, on a farm which is now owned by his brother. Eli Hunter, INLirch 8, 1841, and is a son of Lemuel Hunter.

Lemuel Hunter resided in Pleasant Township all his life. His father, William Hunter, came to this section from near Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and built the first mill in Pleasant Township, which still stands. Lemuel Hunter had seven children, namely : Mary Ann, William, Sarah Jane, Lewis, Eli, Miranda and Bruce. Mary Ann mai'ried J. M. Hodge and they lived on the line between Moorefield and Pleasant Townships. Both are deceased. They had seven children, three of whom, Asa, Ida and Anna, are living. Sarah Jane married James M. Yeazell and they died leaving no issue. Lewis died unmarried. Eli, residing on the homestead farm, married Lucinda Mc- Clintock. They have had three children : Cecil, who is assisting his father; Edna, who is a student at Oxford College; and one son died in infancy. Miranda married James Yeazell and they had two children, one of whom died very young. The survivor, Laura, married Dr. V. D. Krout and they live on a farm east of Mechanicsburg and have two children, Elden and Helen. Bruce died at the age of nineteen years.

William Hunter was reared to manhood on the home farm and attended the country schools of Pleasant Township. He was twenty-three years of age when he enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio Battery, in the Federal Army, for service in the " Civil V/ar, and his term of enlistment covered nine months. He was honorably discharged at the expiration of this time, at New Orleans, Louisiana.

On February 15, 1866, Mr. Hunter was married to Elizabeth Cartmell, who is a daughter of John and Mary Ann (Applegate) Cartmell and a granddaughter of John L. Cartmell, the latter of whom was bom in Champaign County, Ohio. John Cartmell, son of John L., was born January 16, 1818, and died November, 1876. The mother of Mrs. Hmiter was born November 28, 1823, and died June 17, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. liunter have had three sons, namely: Milton, Oliver and John. The eldest son, Milton, was born December 16, 1866. Oliver was born August 23, 1872, married Donna Harmison, and they have three children: Clarence, Ralph and Hazel. John, the youngest son of Mr. Hunter, was born April 23, 1876, and died in infancy. Mr. Hunter, in association with his two sons, carry on general farming and stock-raising and make a specialty of raising Duroc hogs. Mrs. Hunter is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Catawba.

ALONZO ADDISON BAKER, M. D., who was formerly in active practice as a physician and surgeon in Clark County, located in Springfield in 1880 and there resided until his death February 5, 1895. He was born in 1831 on his father's farm near Enon, Clark County, Ohio, his parents being Ezra D. and Anne (Morgan) Baker. TJie Baker family has long been one of prominence in Clark County. Ezra Baker, father of the late Dr. Baker, attained a very advanced age, at the time of his death being the oldest living settler of Madison Township. He served four terms as county commissioner of Clark County and during almost all of his active life was a man of public affairs. He survived his wife many years, her death taking place in 1867. They had four children, namely: Cassandra, Leander, Gustavus and Alonzo A.

Alonzo A. Baker entered upon the study of medicine in 1845 and during the two following years attended medical lectures at Starling College, Subsequent- ly lie was gi'adiiated from the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati. Dr. Baker married, and he and his wife became the parents of four children, namely : Annetta M., wife of Dr. E. Myers; Elizabeth A., wife of Edgar N. Lupfer; Scipio E., and Nellie B., deceased. Scipio E. Baker is now one of Spring-field's leading manufacturers. He is president and treasurer of the Champion Chemical Company, and president of the Foos Gas Engine Company. He owns a beautiful home at the northeast corner of High and Sycamore Streets.

Dr. Baker became interested in several large business enterpi'ises, among which we may mention The Champion Chemical Co. and The Spring'field Metallic Casket Co., he having been one of the original organizers of both.

WILLIAM CEABILL, JR., one of Springfield's leading citizens and extensive farmers, owning a farm of one hundred and seventy-eight acres, on which he lives, and a second farm of seventyeight acres, on which a son resides, was bom in Springfield Township, Clark County, Ohio, March 15, 1834, and is a son of Thomas V. and Sidney (Yeazell) Crabill, who were very prominent people in this section of Ohio, at an early day.

William Crabill was one year old when his father moved from Springfield Township, to Homer, Champaign County, Illinois, where the family lived for one year and then returned to Clark County. The parents of Mr. Crabill settled again in Springfield Township, on the farm which is now occupied by Joseph Crabill, and William Crabill lived in the old log cabin home until he was twenty-one years of itge, about which time the present fine brick residence of Joseph Crabill, Sr., was built. On November 1, 1860, William Crabill was married to Sarah E. Wise, who died April 9, ' 1901. She was a daughter of Jesse Wise. Mr. and Mrs. Crabill went to housekeeping on a rented farm in Madison Township, but on April 1, 1863, they moved to Harmony Township. Twelve years later they left that farm and on September 3, 1874, settled on the present farm in Springfield Township. With the exception of one year, in his infancy, Mr. Crabill has lived continuously in Clark County. He has had eight children, namely: Joseph, residing in Springfield Township; William Edgar, living at home; Elizabeth, deceased, married William J. Copeland, also deceased, and their three surviving children, Clarence, Esther May and James, reside with their grandfather; Alice, who married Charles Croutwatter, a farmer of Springfield Township; Elza, residing in a tenant house on the home farm; May, deceased, who married John Stratton, left one son; Hattie, who died in 1900; and John, who died aged four years. Elza .Crabill, who assists his father in the management of the home farm, married Stella J\lay Smith, and they have had three children: Forest, David and Ormas, the latter being deceased.

Mr. (Jrabill owns what is considered one of the best farms in Springfield Township and he makes a specialty of raising Chester White hogs and Delaine sheep. On August 4, 1895, he sutfered the loss of a barn full of hay, and about 700 bushels of wheat by fire, resulting from a stroke of lightning. He has erected all of his substantial buildings and yearly adds to the value of his estate. Having several springs on his farm he has installed a hydraulic ram which forces the water all through his house and barnlot, millions of gallons of water escaping down the road. All the Crabills have been men of enterprise and have acquired property through their industry and good management. The father of Mr. Crabill started out in life with but a pittance, Init owned over one thousand acres of land at his death. William Crabill is a meml)er of the Fifth Lutheran Church at Springfield.

JOHN DAVID SCHAFFNER, a much esteemed citizen of Bethel Township. Clark County, Ohio, who is engaged in general farming and stock-raising on a fine farm of seventy-three and one-half acres, was born April 4, 1860, in Springfield, Ohio, in the Old Pennsylvania House, a tavern which was conducted by his father, Peter Sehaffner.

Peter Schaffner was born at Weisenberg, Germany, and when a boy of eight years accompanied his parents to this. country, they immediately coming to Ohio and settling in Clark County. Here Peter was reared and became a distiller, and at the time was considered the best distiller in the county. He later engaged in milling and after his marriage operated a grocery and tavern at Springfield. He was united in marriage with Caroline Frick, also a native of Germany, who came to America at the age of sixteen years. They became the parents of six children, all born in the old Pennsvlvania House, of whom two died in infancy. The other four were: Lewis, now deceased; Peter, Jr. ; Caroline, who married Thomas Fisher; and John David, the subject of this sketch. In later years Mr. Schaffner purchased the old Miller estate of one hundred and eleven acres in Bethel Township, seventy-three and one-half acres of which, as above noted, are owned by John D. Schaffner, and here he resided until his death at the age of seventy-six years. Mrs. Schaffner died in January, 1892, aged sixty-four years.

John D. Schaffner was eight years old when his parents moved to his present farm, where he attended the district schools of the township, and grew to man's estate. He became a farmer, which occupation he has always continued to follow, and purchased his farm from his father's estate. Many of the improvements made on the farm, including the fine large brick residence, were made by him, and in connection with his farming he raises considerable stock, making a specialty of Poland China hogs.

January 8. 1889, Mr. Schaffner was united in marriage with Delia Thomas, who was ]iorn at New Moorefield, Ohio, a daughter of George D. and Martha L. (Lamar) Thomas, who came from Frederick City, Maryland, to Clark County. Mrs. Schaffner is one of a family of fourteen children, namely: William; Anna, widow of John IHilery: Delia Fletcher, wife of our subject; Sally, wife of B. Shroyer; A. Lowrey, who married Lillian Roll ; Alvin H. ; Frank D. ; Pearl H. ; and four who are deceased. Mrs. Schaffner 's father died February 28, 1889; her mother is still living at the age of sixty -nine

Mrs. Mary S. Turner

EDWIN B. TURNER, superintendent of the Ohio I. 0. 0. F. Home at Springfield, and one of the prominent and representative citizens of the city, was born in Marysville, Union County, Ohio, in 1851. Mr. Turner was reared and educated at Marysville and there learned the carriage-maker's trade, at which heworked for a period of twelve years. In April, 1884, when the Children's Home of Union County was established, he became its superintendent and remained in charge of the same for sixteen years and three months, when he resigned to accept his present position of superintendent of the I 0. 0. F. Home of Ohio, as.suming the responsibilities of that position in 1900.

December 29th, 1874, Mr. Turner married Mary C. Sevirn, a teacher, of Union County, Ohio, and they have one child, Alice, wife of John 0. Parnell. Mrs Parnell's early education was obtained in the public schools of Marysville. She is a graduate of the Marysville High school and also attended for some time the Ohio AVeslyan University. She then graduated in music under Otto Ingurson of Columbus, after which she studied music in London, and is at present an instructor in the School of Music at Springfield.

Mr. Turner is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. Lodge of Marysville No. 78; Marysville Encampment No. 114; Magnetic Rebecca Lodge No. 258 of Marysville, and of the Occidental Canteen No. 21 of Springf.eld. He is religiously connected with the Third Presbyterian Church of Springfield.

JOSEPH HENRY THACKERY, a retired agriculturist residing in Dialton, Clark County, Ohio, and owner of two hundred and sLxty-six acres of fine farming land, fifty acres of which are just south of Dialton and the remaining two hundred and sixteen acres located one mile west of Dialton, was born July 26, 1856, m Champaign County, Ohio, and is a son of Duncan and Susan (Ray) Thackery.

Josepli H. Thackery passed his boyhood days on his father's farm in Champaign County, Ohio, assisting with the work on the place and attending the district schools. He came to Clark County in 1881 with his parents and here his father died in July, 1899, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. His mother, who is' .still living, is one of the oldest women in the county. Mr. Thackery has always followed general farming and is recognized as one of the substantial and leading farmers of Pike Town.ship. Besides his farming interests Mr. Thackery is also financially interested in the Northampton Horse Company.

On January 31, 1889, Mr. Thackery was united in marriage with Sallie Myers, a native of Clark County and a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Overpack) Myers, both of whom were also natives of this county. She was one of a family of five children, namely: Mary, who died at the age of one year; Martha, wife of Dr. A. ^Y. Mitchell"; Dr. J. N. Myers of Georgetown, Ohio; Sallie, wife of the subject of this sketch ; and Emma B., wife of Dr. H. A. Cossler of Fairfield, Ohio. Mr. Myers passed out of this life in February, 1902, at the age of sixty-two years, and Mrs. Myers in February, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Thackerv have one child, Warder M.

WILLIAM T. OTSTOT, a representative citizen and leading agriculturist of Springfield Township, who resides on his home farm of seventy-five acres, which is situated in section 31, owns thirty acres more, just across the road, practically in the same farm. Mr. Otstot was born in the old log house which then stood on this farm, December 19, 1837, and is a son of Daniel and Hannah (Dushane) Otstot.

Daniel Otstot was born in Pennsylvania, in 1795, and died at Springtield, Ohio, in November, 1881, aged eighty-six years. His father, Adam Otstot, was born in Germany. Daniel Otstot was married in Pennsylvania, to Hannah Dushane, who was born in Delaware, of French parentage, and die on the present home farm, in February, 1860. All of their ten children, with the exception of William T., the youngest, were born before the family left Pennsj'lvania. In the spring of 1837 there was a great movement of settlers from the East to Ohio, and among these came Daniel Otstot, wife and seven children, two having died prior to this, and after they reached Clark County, the father secured one hundred and sixty acres of land, sixty of which he soon transferred to a brother. A small clearing had been made, on which stood a log cabin, but all the remainder of the land was covered with forest. Daniel Otstot immediately began to clear up the land and to put it under cultivation. In 1850, he built the large brick house which his son

William T. occupies. He remained active until advanced in years, when he retired to Springfield. His children were: Martha Ann, who married AVilliam Bunvan, both deceased; John Dushane, residing at Springfield, aged eighty-six years; Mary Jane, who married John W. Randall, both deceased; Adam Hunter, Alfred Walraven, Thomas Miller and Sarah Catherine, all deceased ; two children died young; and William T., of Springfield Township.

William T. Otstot obtained his education in the neighborhood schools and grew to manhood on the home farm, twelve acres of which he cleared of timber. Mr. Otstot is a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted first on September 20, 1861, in Company I, Forty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and during his three long years of service, took part in many very serious battles through Kentucky and Virginia. Before the expiration of his first enlistment he re-enlisted in January, 1864, becoming a member of the; Eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and was finally mustered out at Clarksburg, West Virginia, July 30, 1865. Mr. Otstot is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic post at Springfield. After the close of his military service, he returned to Springfield Township and has been engaged in farming here until the present. In 1906 he erected the comfortable frame residence adjoining his own, which is occupied by his son.

On January 2, i868, Mr. Otstot was married to Mary A. Willis, who was reared near Columbus, in Franklin County, and is a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Shanks) Willis. They have had three children, namely: Nellie W. ; Wal- ter W., who was born in December, 1873, and died aged four years ; and Harry M., who was born in December, 1877. He married Bessie Starliey. Mr. Otstot and family belong to the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church at Springfield.

MAJOR HORACE C. KEIFER, member of the well-known law firm of Keifer & Keifer, of Springfield, Ohio, and one of Spring-field's leading and influential citizens, was bora in this city, November 14, 1867, son of Hon. J. Warren Keifer and Eliza (Stout) Keifer.

Mr. Keifer was reared in his native city of Springfield, and received his literary training in Wittenberg College and at Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He subsequently took up the study of law and was graduated in 1892 from the Cincinnati Law School. Since completing his education, with the exception of about a year spent in military service in the Spanish-American War, Mr. Keifer has been a member of the law firm of Keifer & Keifer, the other members of which are his father, J. Warren Keifer, and his brother, William W. Keifer. In May, 1898, he was appointed captain of the Third United States Volunteer Engineers by President McKinley, was stationed successively at Miami, and Jacksonville, Florida, and Savannah, Georgia, and saw service in Cuba from December, 1898, imtil April, 1899. He was present at the evacuation of Havana by the Spanish, January 1, 1899. He served on the staff of his father. Genera! J. AVarren Keifer, and was mustered out April, 1899. He had been Major of the Third Ohio National Guards since November, 1904. Mr.

WILLIAM E. CARTMELL, one of the leading and representative citizens of New Moorefield, Moorefield Township, Clark County, Ohio, and owner of a valuable farm of one hundred and fifty acres situated near Catawba, Pleasant Township, was born May 1, 1851, near Catawba, Clark County, Ohio, and is a son of Thomas and Amanda (Fisher) Cartmell.

Thomas Cartmell was born in Virginia and when a small boy came to Clark County, Ohio, v/ith his father, John Cartmell, who located in Plea.sant Township, where he was reared to manhood and married. Thomas Cartmell married Amanda Fisher and reared a family of thirteen children.

William E. Cartmell was reared near Catawba and received his education in the schools of the county and became a farmer by occupation, which he has since followed with considerable success. He was joined in marriage on February 3, 1874, to Mary Fei-gaison, who was born near Catawba, and is a daughter of Joseph and Jane (Neer) Ferguson, both deceased, the father dying in August. 1849, when she wa>5 but eight months old. Her mother died in 1905 at the advanced age of eighty-five years.

]\fr. and Mrs. Cartmell first went to housekeeping in Moorefield Township, but subsequently moved to Catawba, Pleasant Townshi]i, where they resided for several years, and in 1887 came to New Moorefield, where they had previously bought their property and have resided here coutiuuously since. In 1897 Mr. Cartmell purchased his farm of one hundred and fifty acres in Pleasant Township, but has never resided on it. In 1893 he became superintendent of the Warder farms - 11 farms, then belonging to B. H. Warder of Washington, D. C, and consisting of over two thousand acres of land, ten of which are located in Spring-field and Moorefield Townships, Clark County, and one in Champaign County, Ohio. For a period of fourteen years Mr. Cartmell acted as superintendent of these farms, all of which, but one, have been sold. Mr. Cartmell is a member and trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church of New Moorefield.

JOHN AETHUE EICHAEDS, a representative citizen of Springfield Township, residing about four miles east of Springfield, was born March 6, 1830, in Virginia, and is a son of Edward and Jane (Benson) Eichards.

Edward Eichards was a native of Virginia. He came to Clark County, Ohio, July 2, 1836, where he died in September, 1857. He married Jane Benson and they had eight children, the two survivors being: John Arthur, and Margaret, who is the wife of lAike Bird-

^^^le7l John Arthur Eichards was about sixteen years old he went to live with his cousin, Milton Benson, who was a prominent man at that time, but since deceased. I\rr. Eichards remained with Mr. Benson for twenty years. In 1868 he married Nancy Jane Bird, who is a daughter of Anthony and Jane (Snodgrass) Bird. Anthony Bird was born in Virginia and was twelve years old when he accompanied

Ills father, Luke Bird, to Clark County, in 1817. They settled first on the farm now owned by J. B. Pearson, where Luke Bird died shortly afterward. Anthony Bird became a large landowner, acquiring almost all of the land east of Springfield around the National Turnpike and the Taylor Mill Eoad, the latter of which is now known as the Bird Eoad. At the time of his death, Anthony Bird owned two hundred and forty acres, which was managed and operated by his son John S. Bird for twenty-five years. Anthony Bird died July 3, 1882, his first wife having died in 1836. Anthony Bird was the father of eight children, four by first marriage and four by his second marriage, there being no children by the third marriage. The three survivors are: John S., Luke and Mrs. Eichards.

John S. Bird was born on the old Bird homestead, seventy-eight years ago. In ]872 he was married to Almiua Carson, who died in 1875, leaving one daughter, Almina, who married William Scott, of Newark, New Jersey. Mr. and ]Mrs. Scott have one daughter, Nellie Irene. The Birds have been prominent in the affairs of Clark County for a great many years. The late Anthony Bird was known as Colonel Bird, having been colonel of State militia. He also served many years as a justice of the peace. John S. Bird served one term as constable, but declined all other ofiices. He is an honored member of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Eichards.

Two children were born to John A. Eichards and wife - Anthony Bird and Carrie. Anthony Bird Eichards was married (first) to Lizzie Schooley, of Claremont County, Ohio, who died in 1898, leaving one child, ^liriam. Mr. Eichards was

Formerly, John A. Richards owned fifty-three and one-half acres of land across the road from his present farm, on which he built a fine residence in 1883. In 189-i lie sold that farm and subsequently erected his present comfortable house. Mr. and Mrs. Richards are members of the United Presbyterian Church.

CASSIUS W. MINNICH, owner of an excellent tract of one hundred and twenty acres in Bethel Township, Clark County, situated eight miles west of Springfield on the Valley Pike, was born November 6, 1848, and is a son of John and Caroline (Layton) Minnich.

Michael and Eva Minnich, his paternal grandparents, came to Ohio in wagons when it was practically a wilderness and were among the first settlers of this section, where they silent the remainder of their lives. They had six children - three sons and three daughters.

John Minnich, the father of Cassius, was born here in 1810 and when he grew lip assisted in clearing the land. During his life he acxjuired two Ihmdred and thirty acres of land and held many important township offices, including the superintendency of the construction of the Valley Pike. He married Caroline Layton, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Layton, early settlers of this section, and to them were born the following children : Michael S. ; DeWitt C. ; Cassius W. ; Mary E., who married J. M. Latta (both deceased); and Jessie, who married A. E.

Cassius W. Minnich was born on a farm adjoining his present place and his industrial energies have been devoted entirely to agriculture. His education was acquired in the district schools and at Wittenberg- College. In November, 1872, he was married to Ida C. Higgins, a native of Mad River Township, whose death occurred in September, 1885. They were the parents of three children : Carl ; Kenneth, who married Mary Rogers, is a resident of Springfield, and has two children, Louis and an infant; and Alice.

Mr. Minnich has served on, the school board and for the past twelve years has been a township trustee. He has also for the past twelve years been connected with the Clark County Agricultural Society. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons - Clark Lodge No. 101 of Springfield - and the Knights of Pythias - Mad River Lodge No. 374, at Enon.

JOSEPH F. SNODGRASS, a general farmer in Harmony Township, who was engaged in a grocery business for some five years, during this period being postmaster, was born in Clark County, Ohio, November 27, 1867, and is a son of Andrew and Eliza Jane (Foreman) Snodgrass.

Samuel Snodgrass, the great-grandfather, came from Virginia to Clark County, in 1808, and was married here to Jane Steel, who was born in Kentucky. Their son, William Snodgras.<, was born in Clark County, where he lived until he was forty years old, when he moved to Indiana. He married Sarah Edgar and they had four children: John, born in 1838, died aged thirteen years; Andrew, born in 1840; Nancy J., born in 1842, married David Laybourn, resides in Colorado, and they have seven children, Jennie, William, Harry, Frank, Charles, Andrew and Fannie ; and Margaret, born in 1844, married Tobias Bird, resides in Colorado, and they have four children, Harry, Delia, William and Fred.

Andrew Snodgrass, father of Joseph F., was reared and educated in Clark County. At the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1861, he enlisted from Springfield, in the Sixteenth Ohio Battery, and served all through the dangers, hardships and privations until the close of the war. He participated in a number of important battles, including Vicksburg, Port Gibson and Champion Hill, together with numerous skirmishes and other engagements, and on one occasion on account of injuries was remanded to a hospital, in which he was compelled to remain for six weeks. He is a valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic. When his honorable discharge reached him at Columbus, in 1865, it found a soldier who had ever been at the post of duty. In 1872, Andrew Snodgrass moved with his family from Clark County to Kansas, where he eonducted a stock farm of six hundred acres, for five years, after which he returned to Clark County, which has remained his home until the present. He married Eliza Jane Foreman, in 1867. She was born in Clark County and was a daughter of Harvey and Mary (Jones) Foreman. The four children born to this marriage were : Joseph Forest; Emma, born May 23, 1869, married Mathew Roy Oates, in 1887, who died in 1906; Blanche, who died in infancy; and Finley, born in 1873, in Kansas, died aged seven years.

Joseph F. Snodgrass owns a one-half acre of land and has an interest in other property in Harmony Township. He was married January 18, 1898, to Agnes Ensley, who was born in 1878, in Fayette County, Ohio. Her parents, Evan and Eliza J. (Mooney) Ensley, were formerly of Fayette County, but in 1890 they moved to Clark County. Mrs. Snodgrass has one sister, Carrie P., and one brother, Herman. The former married Samuel Payne and they live at Catawl)a and have six children: Bessie, Glen, Paul, Robert, Helen and Thomas. Herman, born in 1880, married Blanche Fisher and they have two children, Herman and Allegra Wanetta. They reside in Harmony Township. Mr. and Mrs. Snodgrass have two children, namely : Melville, who was born January 20, 1899, and Clark, who was born October 18, 1904. Mr. Snodgrass was reared in the M. P. Church. He has taken a more or less active interest in township affairs for some years.

JAMES J. KINNANE, who has been identified with the business interests of Spring-field for the past thirty-eight years and is a leading citizen here, was born June 22, 1853, at Talbert, in County Kerry, Ireland.

Mr. Kinnane was fifteen years old when he came to America and found employment in the dry goods house of E. B. Nugent, at Louisville, Kentucky, where lie remained for one year. He then came to Springfield, where his brothers were established in business. In 1869 the brothers - James J., Edward, Daniel and John Kinnane - embarked in a dry goods business in Springfield, under the firm name of Kinnane Brothers, founding what is the oldest business house in this section. The business was conducted under that style until 1893, when it was incorporated under the present name, The Kinnane Brothers Company. Edward Kinnane was the first president and was succeeded by John Kinnane, who was in turn succeeded by the latter 's son, John J. Kinnane, Jr. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and is an exceptionally bright young business man. James J. Kinnane is the only survivor of the original firm and still continues his interest in the business, which has been developed into one of the largest dry goods and department stores in Clark County. Employment is given to about 140 people and 64,000 square feet of floor space is utilized. James J. Kinnane was married to Olive Coffin, who is a daughter of E. G. Coffin.

BENJAMIN F. KEIFER, who up to his death on December 5th, 1907, was one of Mad River Township's most respected citizens, was a life-long resident of Clark County, where he was born April 22, 1821. His parents were Joseph and Mary (Smith) Keifer.

Joseph Keifer was born near Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, in 1784. He came to Ohio in 1812 and shortly afterward was married, in Clark County, to Mary Smith, who was born near the site of the present city of Cincinnati. Joseph Keifer secured a farm in Bethel

Township, on which he resided until his death, which took place when he was sixtysix years old. His widow subsequently removed to Yellow Springs, where she died at the age of seventy-nine. Their children who attained maturity were Margaret, Sarah, Benjamin Franklin, Elizabeth, Lucretia Minerva, J. Warren, and Cordelia.

Benjamin Franklin Keifer grew to manhood on the home farm and obtained a district school education in the old log schoolhouse near his father's farm. He resided on the parental homestead until several years after his marriage, and then removed to a farm on the National Road, where he remained two years. In 1852 he bought one hundred acres of the present family homestead from Joseph Sipe, and to this he later added until he had accmnulated almost four hundred acres, which he placed under careful cultivation. His attention was confined almost entirely to agricultural interests, in which line of industry he was very successful. The estate which he thus built up is now one of the most valuable in Mad River Township, and comprises three hundred and ninetyfive acres of well improved land.

On March 22, 1846, Mr. Keifer was united in marriage with Amelia F. Henkle, who died May 1, 1873. Though she herself was a native of Clark County, Ohio, her family came to this state from Virginia. She bore her husband eight children, namely: Silas, born March 27, 1847; Joseph, born March 3, 1850, who died January 27, 1852 ; Mary C, bom August 15, 3852; Erwin, born November 15, 1855; Montgomery, born October 11, 1858; Benjamin, born August 3, 1861, who married Ethel Christ; Sarah A., born April

17, 1865, who married William Drake; and lone, born July 10, 1868. Mr. Keifer had the following grandchildren - Wilbur, Harold and Ruth Ag-nes Keifer and Marie lone and Warren Keifer Drake.

Mr. Keifer 's political affiliations were with the Republican party. He was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a great reader and kept in touch with the general topics of the country.

CHARLES SUMNER BATTIN, proprietor of the largest tin and plumbing establishment of South Charleston is one of the leading business men of the city, and was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1860, a son of Samuel R. and Lydia Ann (Winder) Battin.

Samuel R. Battin is a son of David and Sarah Ann (Reeder) Battin, life-long residents of Columbiana County, Ohio, who were farmers by occupation. He was the eldest of a family of two children, having one brother, Franklin, who is deceased. He was born and reared in Columbiana County, Ohio, and engaged in farming there until 1874, when he came to Clark Coimty, locating on a farm near Selma, where he has since continued to reside. He married Lydia Ann AVinder, a daughter of Joseph Winder of Carrol County, Ohio, and to them were born four children, Charles S., the subject of this sketch, and David, being the only living children.

C. S. Battin was fourteen years old when his parents came to Clark County, where his education was obtained. He remained on the farm near Selma until he attained his majority, when he engaged as a florist and thus continued for seven

Mr. Battin was united in marriage with Mary A. Mather, a daughter of John Mather of Stark County, Ohio, and they are the parents of two children, Leonard, who is an employee of the Springfield Gas Company; and Jessie. Politically, Mr. Battin is a Republican, and fraternally a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church of South Charleston.

EPHRAIM FRANKLIN HARSHMAN, whose valuable farm of eighty and one-half acres is situated in Section 31, Springfield Township, lying four miles south of Spring-field and running to the dividing line of Green TowTiship, was born in Beaver Creek Township, Greene County, Ohio, November 11, 1849. He is a son of John C. and Mary Maria (Miller) Harshman. In his younger years John C. Harshman was a machinist and a distiller, but later acquired three farms in Greene County, and on one of these both he and his wife died.

Ephraim F. Harshman was reared and educated in Greene County and from there moved to Springfield, where he was engaged in the hay and feed business for about eighteen years. He employed from five to six men and ran five twohorse teams during this time. In 1895 Mr. Harshman bought and moved to his present farm, which he had rented for two years previously. He raises corn, wheat, oats and hay and keeps enough stock for his own use.

Mr. Harshman was married (first) to Caroline Kossler and they had two children: Walter, residing at Dayton; and John Lewis, who died aged three months. Mrs. Caroline Harshman died at Springfield in 1881. Mr. Harshman was married, secondly, to Mirtie Sipe and they have had three children : Carrie, Gladys and Elmer, the last mentioned of whom lived only eight months. Mr. Harshman has been bereaved of his second wife, her death taking place in July, 1906.

JOHN M. PERRIN, who is a representative of one of the prominent old families of Clark County, has always lived on the old Perrin farm in Springfield Township, on which he has been engaged in general farming since 1903. He was born on this farm August 30, 1859, and is a son of John and Mary (Dunnroush) Perrin.

The father of Mr. Perrin was born on the present home farm, where he died June 27, 1888. He was a son of John Perrin, who was bom in Maryland and made his first visit to Clark County on horseback in 1803. At that time he returned to Maryland, but he came back in 1806 and invested in a section of land, this farm being a part of the same. His son, John Perrin, also owned a number of valuable tracts of land in different sections and for a number of years entrusted all of his business to his son, John M. He married Mary Dunnroush, who died August 14, 1907, aged eighty-two years. They had the following children : Margaret Amelia; Elnora, who married Dr. Edgar Studebaker ; John M. ; Mary Belle ; Mina: and Lavinia and Katherine, who are now deceased. In 1902 John M. Perrin was married to Minnie Cox, who is a daughter of David Cox, and they have one son, to whom has been given the family name of John. Mrs. Perrin died January 20, 1908. Mr. Perrin is identified with the Knights of Pythias.

ROBERT A. TINDALL, who resides on a part of the old Tindall homestead in Green Township, Clark County, Ohio, comes of a prominent old family of this section. He was bom February 7, 1875, and is a son of Robert and Abia (Hartwell) Tindall and grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Waller) Tindall.

Thomas Tindall and wife were both natives of Yorkshire, England, and after their marriage came to the United States about 1816. After landing in New York they made their way to Cincinnati, also visited in Cleveland a short time, then came on to Clark County, Ohio, where they spent the remainder of their days. They were parents of nine children, as follows: George, who was accidentally killed by a horse at the age of twenty years; Charles; John; Nancy; Susan; Robert; Margaret (Bates), of Louisa County, Iowa; Mary (HoUoway), of Greene County, Ohio; and Ella (Miller), of Yoi-k County, Nebraska. All of this family grew to maturity.

Robert Tindall was born in Green Township June 25, 1825, and as a youth had few educational advantages. At the age of fifteen years he began working out by the day or month, making it a point to save what he could of his wages. At the age of thirty he rented a farm and also engaged in buying and shipping stock, and by economical living was, at the age of .thirty-five years, able to purchase 175 acres of land in Green Township. He farmed extensively and raised a great deal of stock, and as his business affairs prospered he added to his farm until he was possessed of 641 acres of valuable land. In 1879 he built a large and commodious home, in which he lived until his death, which resulted from an accident in which he was trampled upon by a horse, November 21, 1907.

Robert Tindall was married April 12, 1865, to Miss Abia Hartwell, who was bom in Madison Township, Clark County, Ohio, and was a daughter of William and Abia Hartwell, who originally came from Cincinnati. They were parents of the following children: Herbert D., who was born January 5, 1866, lives on the home farm ; Carrie A., born July 7, 1867, died August 16, 1905. She married Joseph Conable, of Memphis, Tennessee, and left two children: Olive, born July 2, 1894, and Abbie, who was born August 16, 1896; Olive, born April 13, 1869, died May 25, 1886; Lucy, born January 18, 1871, died August 11, 1882; William, born November 16, 1873, is an electrician, residing in Memphis, Tennessee; and Robert A. Robert Tindall cast his first vote for Zachary Taylor in 1848, and voted for John C. Fremont in 1856, and thereafter was unswerving in his support of the Republican party.

DAVID EDWARD WEST, owner of seventy-two acres of well improved farming land, situated in Mad River Township, Clark County, Ohio, was born in Springfield, Ohio, September 2, 1877, and

David West, the grandfather of David Edward, came to Springfield from Oldtown, Greene County, Ohio, in 1837, where he opened a carriage shop. In 1885 he built the present twelve-room house now owned by his son, and died there in 1901, aged eighty-sis years. He was married to Mary McClure, who was born in 1829, and died in 1898, and to them were born five children: Louis, deceased, Jefferson, deceased; William, a resident of Springfield ; Edward, deceased. Jefferson McClure was a large landowner, having at one time a tract of 1,000 acres in Clark County.

Louis West, father of David Edward, was born in 1857, on High Street, Springfield, Ohio, when that place was little more than a village. He was married there to Anna Gordon, who was an adopted daughter of Phillip Wooleston, and three children were born of this rmion: Rose, who married William Rich, resides in Cincinnati; Ray, deceased; and David E. Louis West died in 1879, when only twenty-two years of age, and his wife died in the same year, aged twenty-one years. After the death of his father, David E. West went to live with his Grandfather AVest, and at the age of seven years they moved to his present farm, which he subsequently inherited.

Mr. West was married July 4, 1899, to Anna Leffel, a daughter of Fred and Maggie (Ludlow) Leffel. Mr. and Mrs. West have had three children: Lucille, Doris and David. Politically Mr. West is an adherent of the Republican party, and is fraternally associated with the F. O.E.

The late Fred Leffel, father of Mrs. West, was born May 14, 1845, near Springfield, Ohio. His grandfather, Anthony Leffel, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania, in early days, and finally located in Springfield, where he died, aged eightysix years. He had seven children, a number of whom came with him from Pennsylvania. Samuel, grandfather of Mrs. West, was a boy of seven years when he came to Springfield, which was then a small village, and he often told of pulling corn out of the mud, in what is now the Square. He subsequently became a farmer and also worked as a carpenter. Samuel Leffel married Elizabeth Baker, who was born near Enon, and to them were born the following children: Fred; Daniel, deceased; Agnes, who married William Mort, deceased; Abigail, who married Samuel Nye; Samuel; and Josephine, who married J. R. McClure.

Fred Leffel married Maggie Ludlow, who is a daughter of George and Elizabeth (Hammond) Ludlow. They have had seven children: Nellie, who married James Huckins ; Edith, deceased, was the wife of Charles Snyder ; George ; Charles ; Maud, deceased; Anna; and Abraham. Mrs. Leffel mp.kes her home with D. E. West and wife. Mr. Leffel was a member of the order of Foresters, and was a Republican in politics.

James A. Linn was reared and educated in Springfield and early in life engaged in the coal and ice business, beginning at the age of nineteen. In 1894 he became associated with the Hosterman Publishing Company as manager of the advertising department, acting in that capacity until 1898, when he organized the Springfield Publishing Company and bought the Hosterman Publishing Company. He published the Press S Republic and did a job printing business until 1903, when he sold the newspaper end of the business and has since continued the printing business, his firm having been for six years the State printers. Mr. Linn was united in marriage in January, 1893, to Harriet Hosterman, of Springfield, and they have four daughters, namely - Margaret, Harriet, Ruth, and Patti.

Mr. Linn has always taken an active interest in politics and has been on the Republican executive committee for a number of years. He was elected auditor in November, 1905, assuming the office in October, 1906. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order, and is religiously affiliated with the Third Presbyterian Church of Springfield.

JAMES A. LINN, auditor of Clark County and a resident of Springfield since 1872, was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1864 and is a son of the late William R. Linn.

JACOB D. NEFF, trustee of Bethel Township and owner of sixty acres of farm land situated about twelve miles west of Springfield on the Valley Pike, is one of the township's enterprising and substantial farmers. He was born December 20, 1864, on the old home farm in Wayne Township, Montgomery County,

Jacob Neff, Sr., was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1815, and was one of the eldest of a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. His boyhood days were spent in Pennsylvania and in 1835 he accompanied his father, John Neff, across the mountains to Ohio, where the family settled in the wilds of Wayne Township, Montgomery County. Here he assisted in clearing and cultivating the farm which is still in the possession of the Neff family. The father's death occurred in Clark County at the home of his son David. When a young man Jacob Neff spent much of his time during the winter months in teaming, hauling flour from the old Harris Mills to Cincinnati. He married Mary Harnish, a native of Pennsylvania, and to them were born twelve children, as follows: John, who died in infancy; Amos, who died aged sixteen years ; Albert, who died aged twenty-eight years; Hetty, who is the wife of C. K. Brenner; Elizabeth; Frank; MoUie, the wife of Dr. C. A. Herr; Jacob D, subject of this sketch; Emma, who married Jacob Tippy ; Henry ; Christopher ; and one unnamed, who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Netf both died on the old home place in Montgomery County, the latter passing away first, at the age of sixty-five years, the former surviving her one year, his death occurring at the age of eighty-one years.

Jacob D. Neff was reared on the old home farm in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, and his primary education, which was received in the district schools, was supplemented by a course of study at the Miami Business College of

Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Neff remained at home until attaining his majority, when he spent some eighteen months in Osborn, Ohio, working in various stores. In 1890 he went to Columbus, Ohio, where he sjjent seven years in the employ of J. B. Hartman & Son, who operated a grocery and market. Since March, 1898, he has been residing on his present farm of sixty acres, which he inherited from his father, and where he is successfully ep.- gaged in general farming. Mr. Neff grows six acres of tobacco every year.

He was united in marriage June 20, 1897, with Blanche Huffman, a daughter of Charles and Barbara (Flick) Hui¥man, of Hancock County, Ohio, and to them have been born two children - Helen and Orran. Politically, Mr. Neff is a Republican and he was elected trustee of Bethel Township in the spring of 1903, to which office he was re-elected in the fall of 1907. Fraternally he is a member oT the Knights of Pythias, Osborn Lodge No. 379.

LEWIS J. LAYBOURN, residing on his valuable farm of 157 acres, which is situated in Section 7, Springfield Township, was born in Clark County, Ohio, September 15, 1846, and is a son of James and Mary (Skillings) Laybourn.

The great-grandfather, Christopher Laybourn, came to America with his family, from England, settling in Clark County, Ohio, in 1820, and establishing the first nursery in the county. He lived to the age of ninety-seven years, three months and twenty-three days. Joel Laybourn, grandfather to Lewis J., was a young man when his father settled in

Clark County. He engaged in farming in Green Township and there James Laybourn was born and reared and was subsequently married to Mary Skillings-. They had four children, namely: William H., who is deceased; Lewis J.; Zeruiah (deceased), who was the wife of Dr. W. P. Madden; and Sarah, who mari'ied Thomas Nave, who resides at Springfield.

Lewis J. Laybourn has carried on farming ever since he grew to manhood. He began to farm on his own land when he bought 240 acres lying in Madison and Green TownshiiDS, where he lived for twelve years, then moving to his present farm in Spring-field Township. He retains his other land and is one of the extensive farmers of the country. He pays considerable attention to the growing of corn and wheat, rotating those cereals with clover and grass. Mr. Laybourn has a thorough understanding of the principles of agriculture and has an equipment that enables him to carry it on according to the most approved and successful methods.

Mr. Laybourn married Jennie Bird, who was reared in Springfield Township and is a daughter of Herbert H. Bird. They had one daughter, Mary B., who is the wife of Myron Beckman, resi(^ng at Hamilton, Ohio. Mrs. Laybourn died December 24, 1886.

WILLIAM R. GORDON, a prominent citizen and farmer of Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio, has a valuable farm of 184 acres located on both sides of the National Pike about two and a half miles west of Springfield. He was born on his father's farm in that township, in a rude log cabin of the pioneer type, on February 14, 1850, and is a son of William and Delilah (Miller) Gordon. William Gordon, Sr., was born in Virginia and was quite young when his parents moved to Ohio, making the trip in wagons. He was one of seventeen children bom to Richard and Anna (Garst) Gordon, of which large family each member grew to maturity and reared a family except one, a daughter who died at the age of seventeen years. Mrs. Gordon died when the subject of this sketch was a child.

William Gordon grew up on his father's farm in the woods of Bethel Township, and after arriving at maturity bought a tract of timberland adjoining the home place, from which he took hundreds of dollars worth of timber, although it was of little value in those days. He became a prosperous fanner and owned at the time of his death some 216 acres of land. He died in 1890, at the age of eighty-five years, and was preceded to the grave many years by his wife, who died during the war at the age of fifty-two years. In maidenhood Delilah Miller, she was born in Pennsylvania and was a small girl when her father, Daniel Miller, moved to Ohio with his family, locating in Bethel Township. She became the mother of twelve children, namely: Henry, who served in the One Hundred and Fiftythird Regiment, 0. V. I., during the Civil War ; Harrison, who was a member of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment, 0. V. I. ; Ezra, also a member of the One Hundred and Fiftj'-third Regiment, 0. V. I. ; Oliver, a member of the Ninety-fourth Regiment, 0. V. I., who was killed at Chattanooga, Tennessee; Allen, who is now deceased; William Ross, subject of this article; David Scott; Phoebe (Henslee) ; Sarah, widow of Charles Kline, who married, secondly, U. J. Tavorite; Elizabeth; Eliza; and Rosetta. The three last named died in infancy.

William Ross Gordon was reared on the home farm and attended the old log school-house in the home district, and afterwards the brick school-house which replaced it. When about twenty years of age he started out in the world for himself, and it is to his credit that the competency he now enjoys was earned by the sweat of his brow. He first worked in a stone quarry for Albert Holcomb for four years, and by saving his money was able at the end of that time to purchase a tract of seven acres, the foundation of his present fine farm in Bethel Township. He erected a small residence, which has since been replaced by a larger and more commodious one, and as he prospered in his business he added from time to time small tracts of six and seven acres until he had a good-sized farm. In his earlier days he followed truck gardening,selling his produce at the old markefin Springfield, and it proved a remunerative business. Early in the eighties he began dairying and has continued it since with good results, for many years running a wagon in Springfield. He is a successful business man and enjoys the respect and confidence of his neighbors and acquaintances to a marked degree.

On April 15, 1873, Mr. Gordon was united in marriage with Sarah Ann Grisso, a daughter of Christian and Elizabeth Grisso of Springfield Township, and they have four children: Alma Jane, wife of William Pfeifer, who has two children - Harrold and Martha; Tna J., who is in

Chicago being trained for missionary work; George, who married Myrtle Bodkin, and Clinton, who married Sadie Hardacre. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon belong to the Baptist church, of which the former has been deacon and treasurer for eighteen years. He is a Republican in politics.