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School Board for some time and as a member of the City Council, and was also one of the city park commissioners. One of his "hobbies," if it may be so characterized, has been the encouraging of young married people to own their own homes, and many families of today now thank him for his efforts and advice (and often financial assistance) in securing their places of residence. His well-known views on encouraging people to save caused the Merchants and Mechanics Savings and Loan Association to invite him to accept a position on its Board of Directors, and in 1912 he was elected first vice president of this concern, of which he had become a stockholder shortly after it was organized, thirty years ago. © Mr. Netts is also very much interested in educational and welfare work, and has long taken an active part in public affairs. He was a member of the committee which built Memorial Hall, and had much to do with the location of the hall on its present site. He is a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons; Springfield Lodge No. 33, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and the Tiffany Bible Class of the Congregational Church. He is a deep reader of the Bible and is very apt with quotations and translations therefrom. In politics he is a democrat.

In Kansas Mr. Netts married Elizabeth Wood, who was born in Iowa, daughter of Charles Wood, a general contractor. She died in the summer of 1921, leaving five sons: Charles L., who volunteered and served in the Spanish-American war and is now one of the prominent business men of Springfield, the head of the Netts Floral Company ; Robert I., who attended Wittenberg College, enlisted as a volunteer and served during the Spanish-American war, and is now assistant county surveyor of Clark County; Benjamin L., who engaged in the drug business at Cleveland, Ohio; James C.; and Stanley G. James C. Netts attended Wittenberg College, and when the United States entered the World war volunteered for service. He attended the training school at Fort Benjamin Harrison, where he received his commission as second lieutenant, subsequently being promoted first lieutenant, and receiving his honorable discharge with the rank of captain. He is now a member of the firm of the Thomas A. McBeth Rose Nursery Company of Springfield. Stanley G. Netts attended Wittenberg College, where he became distinguished as an athlete, especially in basketball. He volunteered for service in the army during the World war, trained at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Officers' Training School, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant, was promoted to first lieutenant, and mustered out with the rank of captain. On leaving Wittenberg College he entered Princeton University, from which he was graduated in 1921, following which he went on an athletic tour of Europe, playing basketball in France, Belgium

CHARLES L. PETTICREw. Well known in mercantile circles of Springfield is Charles L. Petticrew, the proprietor of the "Walk-Over" Boot Shop at Nos. 3 and 5 East Main Street. He has carried on this business for about ten years, during which time he has built up a large and successful enterprise, and at the same time has established himself favorably in the confidence and esteem of his fellow-merchants and patrons. He is a native of Springfield and was born June 28, 1863, a son of the late John L. and Columbia (Harris) Petticrew, and a member of a family of Scotch and Irish origin.

" The Petticrew family settled at an early date in the wilds of Michigan, where the great-grandfather of Charles L. Petticrew met his death at the hands of the Indians. His son, David Petticrew, the grandfather of Charles L., migrated to Ohio in 1823 and settled first at Springfield. Subsequently he went to near Dayton, but later returned to Springfield, where he died August 30, 1856. For a number of years he was engaged in the wagon-making business, having his shop and residence at the corner of West Main and Wittenberg streets, which shop and home were for many years landmarks in that part of the city. He became a prominent citizen, served in the City Council and was a member of the old volunteer fire department, and his funeral was attended by the City Council and by "Neptune" and "Rover" fire companies in a body. He was a member of the first English Lutheran Church established at Springfield. Mr. Petticrew married Mary Lehman, who was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1797, and died at Springfield, March 12, 1875. She was a daughter of David Lehman, who came to Ohio from Maryland in 1805, and lived for a time on the Cox farm near Dayton, but later removed to Clark County.

John L. Petticrew, father of Charles L., was born at Springfield, February 2, 1827. He was for many years engaged in the quarry business with his brother Ambrose at the foot of Plum Street, and was a man of well-known business integrity. He also took an active part in civic affairs and served as a member of the City Council for several terms. His religious connection was with the First Lutheran Church. His wife, Columbia, was born August 25, 1828, in a log house at the corner of West Main and Wittenberg streets, a daughter of William Morrison Harris, who with his family left Maryland for Ohio between 1816 and 1820 and located at Springfield. He married Lydia Ann Mayne, who was born September 6, 1807, a daughter of John Mayne, of South Mountain, five miles from Frederick City, Maryland. John Mayne served as a soldier during the War of 1812, as a member of President Madison's body-guard, his wife having been a personal friend of "Dollie" Madison, and having, with the President's family, watched the burning of the national capital by the British. John L. Petticrew and Columbia Harris were married in Clark County, Ohio, June 14, 1847, and became the parents of the following children: Albert E., born June 29, 1848, died May 3, 1915, married Louisa Stockford; Orin L., born March 26, 1853, died in January, 1921; Ella A., born April 6, 1858, died September 13, 1921, married Rev. Samuel Schwarm; John W., born November 15, 1860, now a resident of Dayton; Charles L., of this review; Lydia M., born December 4, 1865, died October 28, 1917, married W. W Wittmeyer ; and Flora, born March 29, 1869, unmarried.

Mr. Petticrew married Miss Elizabeth M. Petot, the daughter of Charles and Catherine (Speck) Petot, of Londonville, Ohio, both natives of France. Mr. and Mrs. Petticrew have one son, Ralph A., born September 14, 1890, who was educated in the public schools and at Nelson's Business College, and is now associated with his father in the

GoLDEN CrypE Davis. While disturbing elements have in recent years undoubtedly made law enforcement a matter of grave corncern in many communities, there has, perhaps, been less trouble at Springfield than in other cities of its size. Without question the reason of this is that here the law is really upheld, and no infraction of it will be countenanced as long as public officials of Springfield are men of such sterling, well balanced character as Hon. Golden Clyde Davis, municipal judge in this city. While Judge Davis is not a temperamental man, he knows how to soften justice with mercy on occasion, but he takes his official duties in all seriousness and with the result that he commands the respect and full confidence of his fellow citizens, irrespective of political affiliation.

Judge Davis was born at Springfield, Ohio, January 1, 1882, and is a son of Asa and Elizabeth (Miner) Davis. The Davis family is an old pioneer one of Ohio. Asa Davis was born in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1826, and died at Springfield in 1910. He was a son of William Davis, a very early settler in that county, to which he came with several brothers from Virginia. In 1872 Asa Davis came to Springfield, and during the rest of his active business life was engaged in the real estate brokerage business. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The mother of Judge Davis was born in 1830, in Athens County, Ohio, and died at Springfield in 1917. She was a daughter of Joseph K. Miner, who was born in Athens County, where his parents, New England people, were early settlers.

Judge Davis attended the public schools and Wittenberg College, from which institution he was graduated in 1904 with the degree of A. B. He then entered the University of Missouri, where he completed two years of his law course, then returned to his native state and finished his course and received his LL. B. degree in the Ohio State University in 1908. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, opened a law office at Springfield and entered upon the practice of his profession. There was no mistake made when he was appointed in May, 1913, and in the fall of that year was elected city judge to fill out an unexpired term, for so admirable had been his decisions that in 1915 he was elected judge for the full term of four years, and in 1919 he was re-elected for another term of four years. His whole course on the bench has been one of sustained efficiency, and he well deserves the high esteem in which he is held by all law-abiding citizens.

Judge Davis was reared in the Lutheran Church. He is a member of the Clark County Bar Association, is connected to some extent with other organizations, and still retains membership in his old college fraternities, the Alpha Tau Omega and the Phi Delta Kappa.

WARREN DELL ALEXANDER. In the substantial development of a community the mercantile interests play an important part, and commercial prosperity rests largely upon the financial responsibility of the merchants and the spirit of enterprise that usually permeates this particular business field. Springfield has mercantile establishments that would be creditable in much larger cities, and the annual volume of business in this line is so great that it sets wheels moving in many other directions and thus furthers general prosperity. One of the most impo-tant, largest and best known mercantile houses in the clothing and gents' furnishings line at Springfield is that conducted under the firm style of W. D. Alexander & Company, of which Warren Dell Alexander is the senior member.

Warren Dell Alexander was born at Mercer, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1871, and is a son of George F. and Ann Jeannetta (Dice) Alexander. His paternal grandfather, Elias Alexander, was a leading citizen of Mercer County, served as sheriff for some years and was prominent in other ways. He came from sturdy Scotch Presbyterian stock that settled early in the Keystone State. George F. Alexander was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1834, moved later to Ohio and died . in 1906, and is survived by his widow. She was born at Poland, Mahoning" County, Ohio, the birthplace of William McKinley. Her parents were George and Mary (Phillips) Dice, the former of German and the latter of Scotch extraction.

Warren Dell Alexander attended the public schools at Mercer, New Wilmington and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as the family home changed in his youth, and later had high school advantage at Clifton, Ohio. In 1888, when in his seventeenth year he began his independent career as a clerk in his uncle's general store at Manorville, Pennsylvania, where he had four years of valuable mercantile training. In 1892 he came to Springfield, and this city has been his chosen home for thirty years. After a number of years as a salesman he embarked in the clothing and gents' furnishings business on his own account as a member of the firm Kedel & Alexander. The first business location was at No. 34 East Main Street, but later expansion made removal to larger quarters necessary, and since then the commodious building on the corner -of East Main and Limestone streets has been occupied. In 1918 Mr. Alexander purchased his partner's interest in the business and has since continued under the firm name of W. D. Alexander & Company. Keeping abreast of the times, handling only reliable goods and following honorable methods, Mr. Alexander has built up a great and profitable industry, and no business man of Springfield is held in greater esteem. He is also the second vice president of the Capital Savings Life Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio.

On March 24, 1897, Mr. Alexander married Miss Agnes McCullough, a daughter of the late William McCullough, who for a number of years was a prominent leather merchant and manufacturer of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander have two children: William Warren, who was born in 1900, is associated with his father in business; and Jeannette Elizabeth, who was born in 1909.

Mr. Alexander has taken an active part in civic affairs as he believes it to be the duty of a good citizen. He has served faithfully and efficiently as a member of the City Council and on the city civil service commission, has been liberal in his contributions to benevolent objects and often has given of his time and means to promote movements for the general welfare. With his family he belongs to the Covenant Presbyterian Church. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, being a member of Anthony Lodge No. 445, Free and Accepted Masons; Palestine Commandery ; Dayton Consistory, and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Dayton. Mr. Alexander has long been a valued member of the Chamber of Commerce, and belongs to the Rotary, Lagonda and

Jonn SarLapay HEAUME is owner and proprietor of the Hotel Heaume, one of Springfield's newest and best hotels. Mr. Heaume was educated in Wittenberg College at Springfield, and since his college career has been an active figure in local business circles, and for many years has conducted a high class restaurant service, later amplified into the general hotel business. i er

Mr. Heaume is a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, and is in the fourth generation of a pioneer family in that section. The American ancestor and the founder of the name in Guernsey County was his great-grandfather, Peter Heaume. He was born a British subject on the Isle of Guernsey. He brought his family to the United States in 1832 and settled near Cambridge, among a colony of people who had come from the Isle of Guernsey and had given the name of their old home to this Ohio County. John Heaume, grandfather of the Springfield hotel man, was born on the Isle of Guernsey in 1816, and was sixteen years of age when brought to this country. He became a prosperous

' farmer and esteemed citizen of Guernsey County. In that county he married Rachael Priaulx, also a native of the Isle of Guernsey, and of a family that came in an early day to Guernsey County, Ohio. John Heaume in 1894, at the age of seventy-eight, accompanied by his grandson John S., went back to visit his old home on the Isle of Guernsey, and died while there.

William E. Heaume, of the third generation of the family in Guernsey County, was born on a farm near Cambridge, June 17, 1850. He later became a farm owner, and practiced agriculture until 1910, when he removed to Cambridge. From there he came to Springfield about 1915, and is now living retired. He married Amanda (Salladay) a native of Guernsey County, daughter of George Salladay, whose people were Virginians.

John S. Heaume, whose parents, William E. and Amanda (Salladay) Heaume, are residents of Springfield, is one of four children born to them: Minola is the wife of Rev. C. V. Larrick; Ella, deceased, was the wife of O. B. Drake; Alberta is the wife of Dr. J. E. Secrist and resides in Cambridge, Ohio. Mr. Heaume was born at the old Heaume farm near Cambridge, July 23, 1876. He spent his early life on that farm, and began his education in the common schools of the township. During 1895 he was a student in Wittenberg Academy at Springfield, and from there enrolled in Wittenberg College, where he remained until graduating A. B. in 1900. He was a member of the college fraternity Beta Theta Pi. He also took a course in the old Nelson Business College, and for three or four years was employed as an office man with different firms in Springfield. ;

Mr. Heaume entered the restaurant business in 1905. His place of business was established at the southeast corner: of Fountain Avenue and Columbia Street. He developed and organized a high class service, greatly appreciated and liberally patronized by the public.. For over twelve years he continued his restaurant, and in the meantime he began the erection of his hotel on the southeast corner of Fountain Avenue and

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Columbia Street. This hotel was completed and opened for business in 1917, and it now ranks with the three leading hotels of Springfield. It is a modern fireproof five-story brick building, with eighty rooms, each with private bath, and there are all other departments and features of first class hotel service.

Mr. Heaume is a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, belongs to the Dayton Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Automobile Club and the Fourth Lutheran Church.

June 7, 1903, Mr. Heaume married Julia Douglas Moler, daughter of J. D. and Millie (Oaks) Moler. Her father for twenty-five years was city engineer of Springfield. She attended college at Oxford, Ohio. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Heaume are: Majorie Amelia, Mary Catherine and John Douglas.

JosePH MATHIAS REHE in the twenty years since he began his business career has had many promotions in responsibility with several corporations. He was a railroad man until he came to Springfield, and he is now secretary and treasurer of the Westcott Motor Car Company of this city.

He was born in Cincinnati, April 16, 1884, and represents two wellknown old families in the commercial life of that city. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Rehe, was an early oil merchant there. His maternal grandfather, Mathias Johannigman, was prominent in the coal business at Cincinnati. The parents of Mr. Rehe were John T. and Caroline (Johannigman) Rehe, both natives of Cincinnati. His mother died in 1886 and his father in 1918. Both were devout Catholics.

Joseph M. Rehe grew up at Cincinnati and was educated in St. Mary's parochial schools and St. Xavier's High School. His practical business experience began in 1903, as a salesman for the firm of Chatfield & Woods, paper jobbers and manufacturers at Cincinnati. From 1907 to 1910 he was in the auditing department of the Big Four Railroad Company, and from 1910 to 1916 he was in the auditing department of the Ohio Electric Railway.

- June 1, 1916, Mr. Rehe came to Springfield in the capacity of auditor and assistant secretary of the Westcott Motor Car Company. During the past six years he has had an important share in building up this local industry, and in February, 1922, he was elected a member of the board of directors and secretary-treasurer of the corporation. |

Mr. Rehe is a member of Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E., and for the past six years has been treasurer of the Elks' Club. He is a member of St. Raphael Catholic Church. April 19, 1906, he married Miss Bertha Stall, daughter of Oliver and Julia (Tobin) Stall, of Cincinnati.

Isaac B. Rawrins was a resident of Ohio from his childhood until his death, save for a brief interval passed in Illinois, and he played a constructive part in the industrial and civic progress of Clark County and the City of Springfield. He was born in the State of Delaware, in 1809, a son of Rev. Charles Rawlins, who was a native of England and who became a pioneer clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio and also a successful teacher in the pioneer schools.

Isaac B. Rawlins was reared in Ross County, Ohio, and as a young man he engaged in the manufacturing of pottery at Frankfort. Later he became a farmer in Fayette County, and finally, in order to provide better educational advantages for his children, he came with his family to Clark County and purchased a farm about two miles distant from - Springfield, on the present Urbana Turnpike. From the farm he drove with team to transport his children back and forth from the schools at Springfield, and about 1855 he removed with his family to this city, which was then a mere village. Later he purchased from William N. Whitely a wooded tract at the corner of Gillet and Burnett roads, southeast of Springfield. He cleared and otherwise improved this land, which he eventually sold at a profit. At the same time he was the owner of a farm in Illinois, the same having been in charge of his son Charles. When Charles enlisted for service as a soldier in the Civil war the father assumed charge of the Illinois farm and left his son George in supervision of the farm near Springfield. Within a short time George Rawlins likewise became a soldier of the Union, and the father then returned from Illinois. He thereafter gave active attention to his property interests in Clark County, and engaged successfully in the 'real-estate business as a member of the firm of Middleton Rawlins, which laid out and placed on the market the Middleton & Rawlins addition to the City of Springfield. Mr. Rawlins subsequently platted and developed two other additions that contributed much to the growth of the city. He was a stalwart in the local ranks of the republican party, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His death occurred in 1888, Mrs. Rawlins having preceded him to the life eternal.

As a young man Mr. Rawlins wedded Miss Mary A. Hottsenpiller, and they became the parents of six children: Harriet, Charles F., George C., Mary, Albert M. and Martha. Of the children only Albert M. and Martha are now living. Charles F. Rawlins was a member of the One Hundred and Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil war, and died while in the service, as a result of exposure. George C., who likewise gave gallant service in defense of the Union, became a representative member of the Springfield bar and was One of the leading lawyers of Clark County at the time of his death, July 27, 1921.

Albert M. Rawlins, only surviving son of the honored subject of this memoir, was born at Frankfort, Ross County, Ohio, September 29, 1848, and his early education was acquired principally in the public schools at Springfield, where also he attended Wittenberg College. He was actively associated with his father's business and property interests until 1873, when he engaged in the lumber business, of which he has since continued one of the successful and influential representatives at Springfield. He is a loyal advocate and supporter of the cause of the republican party, but has had no ambition for political activity or public office. He holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

_ HERMAN Jacos Famien. One of the most perfect organizations of 1ts kind in the State of Ohio is the Fahien & Tehan Company, dry goods merchants at Springfield. The president of this business is H. J

Fahien, who has been a resident of Springfield for over thirty-five years, and whose life since early boyhood has represented a complete devotion to the ideals and the practical service of merchandising.

z He was born at Richmond, Indiana. His parents, Jacob and Mary Fahien, were natives of Germany, came to America as young people, were married in Cincinnati and soon located at Richmond, Indiana, where his father spent the rest of his active life in the contracting business.

H. J. Fahien was only 6 years of age when his father died, and when he was 11 he became self-supporting as a cash boy in the dry goods store of George H. Knollenberg at Richmond. His business apprenticeship was served in the dry goods establishment, and before he left there, in 1886, had risen to the responsibilities of head of the silk department.

With this degree of successful experience to his credit Mr. Fahien came to Springfield in 1886 and began work in the dress goods department of the old firm of Kinnane & Wren. When this firm dissolved, Mr. Fahien continued with its successors, Kinnane & Brothers. The business still later was incorporated, the principal members being Edward, John and James Kinnane, while Mr. Fahien and his present partner, Edward A. Tehan, were minor stockholders in the enterprise. Edward Kinnane died in 1899 and his brother in 1907.

Soon after the latter event, Mr. Fahien and Mr. Tehan withdrew from the old house and organized, and in July, 1908, incorporated the Fahien & Tehan Company. They secured quarters for their business ir three floors and basement of the recently completed Fairbanks Building. In this building their store was opened in 1908, and from the first it enjoyed a substantial trade and rapidly built itself into a favored position in the retail business section. In 1914 the Kinnane Brothers Company went out of business. In the meantime, the Fahien & Tehan Company had outgrown their quarters in the Fairbanks Building, and they therefore secured the old location of Kinnane Brothers in the Bushnell Building, and in addition they secured the services of the more efficient salespeople of the old firm, some of whom are still with the Fahien & Tehan Company. The last year Fahien & Tehan were in their location in the Fairbanks Building their business aggregated $286,000. In 1921 the volume of their business reached the imposing figure of $1,250,000.

Mr. Fahien married Carrie Frances Bonner, of Springfield, who came from Maryland. They have one of the very attractive homes of the city, built on a street of fine homes, East High Street. The architectural features of their house may be described as a California bungalow, built of solid concrete, and on a lot 120 by 400 feet, surrounded by 1,000 feet of specially trimmed hedge fence and roses.

GEORGE OWEN COGsWELL, president and general manager of the Cogswell Building Company, one of the important general contracting concerns in the City of Springfield, was born at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 28, 1887, and is a son of Dr. George Elmer Cogswell and Czarania E. (Coman) Cogswell. Dr. Cogswell, now a representative physician and surgeon at Springfield, was born at Towanda, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1849, and is a son of Charles and Lucy (Belden) Cogswell, the original American representative of the family having been John Cogswell, who came from England and settled at Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1627.

Philander Cogswell, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, was born and reared in Pennsylvania. In 1850 Charles Cogswell removed from Pennsylvania to Carroll County, Illinois, where his family joined him in the following year. A mason by trade, he became a successful contractor in that county, and there he passed the remainder of his life. His wife likewise was born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of Dr. Lemuel C. Belden, who went to Illinois in 1851 and became the first homeopathic physician in Carroll County. Dr. George E. Cogswell was an infant at the time of the family removal to Illinois, where his youthful educational advantages included those of Carroll Academy. Later he attended Paynesville Academy, at Paynesville, Ohio, and in 1873 he graduated from Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, one of the leading homeopathic institutions of the United States, his technical studies having been advanced under the direction of several of the leading physicians of Chicago and Cleveland. In the year of his graduation, Dr. Cogswell engaged in practice in the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and in 1889 he established his home and professional headquarters at Mount Carroll, Illinois. In 1892 he removed to Waukegan, that state, and in 1902 he engaged in practice at Champaign, Illinois, where he remained until his removal to Springfield, Ohio, where he has been established in successful general practice since 1918. He is an active member of the Clark County Medical Society. For thirty years Dr. Cogswell has maintained affiliation with the Masonic fraternity, in which his basic membership is in Waukegan Lodge, A. F. and A. M. In the same Illinois city he is a charter member of Long Commandery of Knights Templar, and while a resident of Iowa he served as junior warden of the Masonic Grand Lodge of that state. His wife was born at LeRoy, New York, a daughter of Louvane Coman, and the children of this union are three sons: E. Roy, who is identified with the telephone business at Springfield, Illinois; George O., of this sketch, and Robert C., his twin brother, the latter being now secretary of the Vaughn Building Company, Hamilton, Ohio.

George O. Cogswell attended the public schools of Waukegan and Champaign, Illinois, and in 1911 graduated from the University of Illinois with the degree of architectural engineer. Mr. Cogswell has made a record of distinctive success as a contractor and builder at Springfield, where in 1919 he organized the Cogswell Building Company, of which he is the president and general manager. This company has erected a number of the best grade of modern business and residence buildings in Springfield, as well as school buildings, and the business of the concern, based on effective service, is constantly expanding in scope. Mr. Cogswell is a member of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club and St. Andrew's Lodge No. 619, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.

In 1914 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Cogswell and Miss Katharine Saxton, daughter of Charles Saxton, of Pueblo, Colorado. The children of this union are three in number: -Eveline, Ruth and Charles Saxton.

Jacor P. Nave is a member of a well-known family of Clark County. His own career has been one of progressive industry that has taken him from the ranks of renter to an independent farm owner. His farm is

Mr. Nave was born in the same township, November 23, 1867, son of John G. and Margaret (Gram) Nave. His father was born in Green Township, June 10, 1838, and his mother in the same locality, September 11, 1840, and she is now living, at the age of 82. His father died May 24, 1918. The late John G. Nave spent his active life as a farmer in Greene Township, and he served one enlistment as a Union soldier in the Civil war. He was a member of the Baptist Church and clerk of his home church. These parents had five children: Armenia, wife of William B. Todd, of Springfield; Alfretta, widow of Wiley Howett; J. T., Jacob P' and Charles, all farmers in Greene Township.

Jacob P. Nave, while a boy on a farm, attended the common schools, and he remained at home until he was 24. On December 24, 1891, he married Aurelia Garlough, also a native of Greene Township. Mr. Nave after his marriage rented farms for nineteen years, and he has since lived on his own farm of eighty acres. He has handled much highgrade live stock and is one of the active men in the farming community. He has served as master of Pitchin Grange No. 1649. He is a republican in politics. l

Mr. and Mrs. Nave have had two children: John B., born November 19, 1892, is now deceased. Edgar P., born January 27, 1894, was educated in the common and grade schools and high school of Pitchin, and on June 14, 1921, married Rachel E. Reynolds.

PETER Knorr, who resides on his excellent farm in section 22, Greene Township, is a native of Clark County and a representative of a family whose name has been worthily linked with the history of this county since the pioneer days. Peter and Nancy Knott, grandparents of him whose name initiates this paragraph, came to Ohio from New Jersey and settled near Clifton, Greene County, the grandfather having not only developed a farm but having also operated a tannery at Clifton. His son Peter, father of the subject of this sketch, was born near Clifton on the 2d of February, 1843, and in this locality he was reared and educated. When the Civil war was precipitated on the nation, he manifested his youthful patriotism by enlisting in the Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he saw hard service at the front. After the close of his term he re-enlisted, this time in a regiment of cavalry, and with this latter command he served until the close of the war. He was nineteen years old at the time of his first enlistment, and his active service covered the last three years of the great conflict between the North and the South. At the age of twenty-nine years he married Miss Martha McKeehan, and soon afterward they established their home on the farm now owned by their son Peter, of this review. Here the father continued as one of the substantial farmers and loyal and honored citizens of Clark County' until his death, in January, 1906, and his widow passed to the life eternal in the year 1920, both having been zealous members of the Presbyterian Church in the neighboring village of Clifton and he having long served as an elder in the same. His political allegiance was originally given to the republican party and later to the prohibition party. Of the eight children, seven are living at the time of this writing, in 1922: Mabel E.

is a popular teacher in the public schools of the City of Cleveland; Ella remains at the old homestead, as does also Mary, who graduated from Cedarville College; Bertha L., a graduate of the same college, is a successful teacher in the public schools at Clifton ; Laura died at the age of three years; Paul M., a graduate of the Clifton High School, is now a prosperous farmer in South Dakota; Peter, of this review, was the next in order of birth, and Martha, who graduated from Cedarville College, is the wife of Leo Anderson, of Cedarville.

Peter Knott III., whose name introduces this review, was born on the farm which is his present place of residence, and the date of his nativity was March 29, 1886. In the public schools he continued his studies until his graduation from the Clifton High School, and he then entered Cedarville College, in which he was eventually graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then went to South Dakota, where for twenty months he taught in graded schools. He remained in the West for some time, and after returning to his native county he assumed the active management of the old homestead farm, which has been in the possession of the family nearly eighty years and which comprises 185 acres of most fertile and valuable land, the ownership of the property being now vested in six of the children of the third generation. Mr. Knott is independent in politics and as a citizen is progressive and public-spirited, with deep interest in all that concerns the welfare of his native county. His name is still enrolled on the list of eligible bachelors in Clark County.

James Howard Harris, M. D., one of the successful and representative physicians and surgeons of Clark County, is established in the practice of his profession at Clifton, and has the satisfaction of claiming Clark County as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in the City of Springfield, April 8, 1873. He is a son of Dr. Ezra C. and Marie (Bird) Harris. The father was born in Harmony Township, this county, September 28, 1844, and was reared on the pioneer farm, in the work of which he early began to aid. He continued to attend the public schools of the locality and period until the inception of the Civil war, and though he was but sixteen years of age at the time, he promptly found opportunity to give definite expression to his youthful patriotism by enlisting as a private in Company I, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He proceeded with his command to the front and took part in all of its engagements until the time when he was so severely wounded as to be incapacitated, when he received his honorable discharge. After the war he followed the course of his ambition by preparing himself for the medical profession. He graduated from Starling Medical College, now the medical department of the Universitv of Ohio, and then engaged in practice at Clifton, where he continued his successful service until 1888, when he removed to Springfield, the county seat, in which city he held prestige as an able physician and surgeon and loyal and progressive citizen until the time of his death, April 19, 1920, his wife having passed away in 1882, and both having been earnest members of the United Presbyterian Church, in which he served many years as an elder. Dr. Harris was a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party, was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and in the Masonic fraternity he received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He consecrated his life to his noble and exacting profession, which was dignified and honored by his character and service. Of the children, Dr. James H., of this review, is the eldest; Mabel, who graduated from Monmouth College, is, in 1922, a student in the University of Ohio, and Lucy, likewise a graduate of Monmouth College, is the wife of Rev. Joseph Speer, a Presbyterian clergyman.

Dr. James H. Harris was reared at Clifton and Springfield, and after having attended the high school in Springfield and pursued a higher course in Wittenberg College, he entered Starling Medical College, his father's alma mater, in which institution, now a part of the University of Ohio, he was graduated in 1895, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. From that time to the present, he has been successfully established in general practice at Clifton, and is doing a work that effectively supplements that of his honored father. He has developed a large and successful practice and is one of the representative physicians and surgeons of his native county, within which his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances. He is actively identified with the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church in their home village.

On the 14th of November, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Harris and Miss Gretta McCullough, who likewise was born and reared in Clark County and who is a graduate of the Clifton High School. Dr. and Mrs. Harris have one son, James M., who is, in 1922, a member of the junior class in the Clifton High School.

Davip W. STEWART, a retired farmer residing in the attractive village of Clifton, is a native son of Clark County and a representative of one of its sterling pioneer families. He was born in Greene Township, this county, December 19, 1848, and is a son of Capt. Perry Stewart and Rhoda (Wheeler) Stewart, both likewise natives of Greene Township, where the former was born June 6, 1818, and the latter, December 30, 1824 - dates that show that both families were founded in Clark County in the early pioneer period, when this section of Ohio was little more than a frontier wilderness. Captain Stewart was one of the venerable and honored citizens of his native county at the time of his death, December 29, 1906, his wife having preceded him to eternal rest, and both having been zealous members of the Christian Church.

Capt. Perry Stewart was reared on the pioneer farm and gained his early education in the schools of the locality and period. After his marriage he settled on a farm near Pitchin, in Greene Township, and he continued for many years as one of the substantial farmers of his native county, the closing period of his life having been passed in the City of Springfield. At the time of the Civil war Captain Stewart recruited and became captain of Company A, Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he commanded his company at the front during the greater part of the year 1862 and also until the autumn of 1863, when he, physically incapacitated for further service, resigned his commission as captain and was granted an honorable discharge. Upon his return home he resumed the management of his farm, and he remained on the homestead until well advanced in years, when he removed to Springfield. The captain was a citizen of marked loyalty and public spirit, held secure place in popular confidence and esteem, served as a member of the Board of County Commissioners, and represented his native county in the Ohio Legislature in 1868-9. He was a republican in politics and was affiliated with Mitchell Post No. 45, Grand Army of the Republic. Of the ten children, seven are living at the time of this writing, in 1922: Harriet is the widow of James Hatfield, who was a prosperous farmer in Greene Township; Julia is the wife of R. M. Elder, of Clark County ; David W., of this review, is the next younger; John T. is a resident of Texas; Charles F. resides at Springfield, Clark County; Perry M. is a resident of Yellow Springs, Greene County, and E. W. remains on the old home farm of his father.

David W. Stewart found the period of his childhood and early youth compassed by the influences and activities of the home farm, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the local schools. He was but fifteen years old when he entered service as a Union soldier in the Civil war. He enlisted as a member of Company D, One Hundred and Forty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he served with his command at the front until the expiration of his term in 1864, when he received his honorable discharge, his record having been that of a gallant young soldier of the Union. For many years thereafter, Mr. Stewart continued as one of the vigorous and successful exponents of farm industry in Greene Township, where he had a well-improved farm estate and where he remained until he retired to his present home in the village of Clifton. He lived forty-seven years on his farm, in the northwest corner of Greene Township, and since that time he and his wife have lived in their attractive home at Clifton. Mr. Stewart still retains possession of his fine farm property, which comprises 100 acres. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, he is affiliated with Mitchell Post No. 45, Grand Army of the Republic, and his wife is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

February 12, 1874, recorded the marriage of Mr. Stewart and Miss Amanda McClintick, who was born in Springfield Township, this county, November 8, 1855, where she was reared on the home farm of her parents. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, five are living: P. M., who is carrier on rural mail route No. 9 from the City of Springfield, represented his native county as a soldier in the Spanish-American war; Myrtle is the wife of Herbert F. Cory, of Greene County ; Delmer married Miss Lina Gram, and they reside in the City of Springfield; Ruth is the wife of A. S. McCullough, of Clark County, and Harry M., who graduated from the high school and attended the University of Cincinnati, was a soldier in the World war, in connection with which he was for two years in active service with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, he being now at the parental home.

JoHn H. Martin. Five miles to the south of the City of Springfield, on Yellow Springs Turnpike, is situated the well-improved farm of Mr. Martin, who has here staged his productive activities as a progressive agriculturist and stock-grower.

Mr. Martin was born in the State of Maryland, on the 15th of January, 1869, and is a son of Christian and Sarah (Bowers) Martin, who were born and reared in that state, where they retained their home until March, Y869, when they came to Ohio and settled on the farm which the father purchased in Greene Township, Clark County, near Clifton. Christian Martin gained prestige as one of the most vigorous and successful exponents of farm industry in the county, and accumulated an estate of an approximate value of $65,000. Both he and his wife continued their residence in this county until their deaths, when well advanced in years, and both were earnest members of the Presbyterian Church at Clifton, The political allegiance of Christian Martin was given to the republican Party. Of the children of this representative family, the following are living in 1922: Harvey resides in the City of Springfield; Silas is a farmer in Springfield Township; Emanuel is a prosperous farmer in Greene Township; John H., of this sketch, is the next younger; Mary is the wife of Charles Harland, of Springfield; Albert resides at Springfield, and Jessie (deceased) was the wife of M. Leininger.

John H. Martin was not yet three months old when the family home was established in Clark County, and here he was reared on his father's farm, in the work of which he early began to assist. In the public schools he continued his studies until he had profited by the advantages of the Clifton High School. He continued to be associated with the work and management of the old home farm for a number of years after his marriage. In the year 1905 he purchased and established his residence upon his present excellent farm, his original tract of 124 acres having since been amplified by the purchase of an adjacent 140 acres, so that he now has a large and well-managed landed estate, the very appearance of which shows his progressiveness and well-directed activities in the furtherance of modern agricultural and live stock enterprise. Mr. Martin has proved eminently successful in his chosen field of endeavor and has had no reason to regret having continued his allegiance to farm industry in his native county, where he is known and honored as a liberal and loyal citizen. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Grain Company of Emery ; is a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the Emory Methodist Episcopal Church at Beatty, Springfield Township, he being a member of its Official Board.

In December, 1896, Mr. Martin wedded Miss Edith Davis, who was born in Springfield Township on the 30th of May, 1877, and of this union have been born five children: Edna is the wife of Harry Shank, of Springfield; Alice, a graduate of the Springfield High School and also a graduate trained nurse, is now the wife of Arnold Thompson, of Springfield, and at the parental home remain the three younger children, Earl, Luretta and Oscar.

Jonn C. LirrLeron, who figures prominently as one of the able and successful representatives of farm industry in Greene Township, was born at Clifton, in the adjoining County of Greene, on the 18th af September, 1852, and is a son of Joel and Martha A. (Brant) Littleton, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Warren County, Ohio. Joel Littleton was reared and educated in the historic Old Dominion State, and was a young man when he came to Warren County, Ohio, where his marriage occurred. Thereafter he was for two years engaged in farming in Indiana, and he then returned to Ohio and settled at Clifton, where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife was a member of the Presbyterian Church. At the time of the Civil war Mr. Littleton proved physically ineligible for service as a soldier. He never wavered in his allegiance to the democratic party, in the faith of which he was reared, and he was long and actively affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Of the family of eight children four are living at the time of this writing, in the summer of 1922: Anna is the widow of John W. Randall; John C., of this review, is the next younger; Joel is engaged in the undertaking business at Springfield, and Viola is the wife of Alfred Fry, of that city.

At Clifton John C. Littleton was reared to the age of eighteen years, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the public schools of the village. After his marriage he was for seven years engaged in the general merchandise business at Yellow Springs, and he then sold out and removed with his family to the City of Dayton, where he was engaged in the grain and flour business for the ensuing eight years. He purchased his present farm in 1898, and here established his residence in 1901, the place being well improved and comprising sixty acres.

Mr. Littleton is a progressive and public-spirited citizen, is a republican in political adherency and is serving in 1922 as township trustee. He is a stockholder in the Emery Farmers Grain Company, at Springfield, is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand, and was a charter member of the lodge of Knights of Pythias at Clifton. He and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church.

February 19, 1874, recorded the marriage of Mr. Littleton and Miss Ella Cox, who was reared on a farm in Mad River Township, Clark County, and whose early education was acquired in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Littleton have but one child, Gilbert C., who was born October 18, 1876. Dr. Gilbert C. Littleton was graduated in a leading college of dentistry in the City of Cincinnati, and is now successfully engaged in the practice of his profession in the City of Springfield, with offices in the Arcue Building.

Cyrus SHaw has long held prestige as one of the successful and representative farmers of Clark County, and his well-improved farm estate is situated in Greene Township, where he stands forth as one of the venerable and highly honored citizens of this section of his native state.

Mr. Shaw was born in Greene County, Ohio, on the 30th of October, 1842, and is a son of Robert and Polly (Wilson) Shaw, the former of whom was born in New Jersey, November 29, 1804, and the latter of whom was born in Massachusetts, October 3, 1812. Both families were founded in America in the early Colonial period of our national history. Robert Shaw was a boy of about seven years when he accompanied his parents on their removal to the wilds of Ohio in 1812, and the family home was established in Greene County, where the father reclaimed a farm from the virgin forest and where the family lived up to the full tension of frontier life. Robert Shaw, the fourth in a family of seven children, was reared on the pioneer farm and early proved his selfreliant energy in connection with pioneer development and progress. In Jahuary, 1834, was solemnized his marriage with Miss Polly Wilson, and they reared a large family of children. Robert Shaw and his wife continued their residence in Greene County until their deaths.

Cyrus Shaw was reared on the old home farm and was afforded the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period. He was not yet twenty-one years of age at the inception of the Civil war, but before the close of the conflict he found opportunity to evince his youthful loyalty and patriotism by joining the gallant ranks of the "boys in blue." In 1864 he enlisted in Company F, Eighth Ohio Cavalry, with which he proceeded to the front and took part in a number of engagements. At Beverly, West Virginia, he was captured by the enemy, and thereafter he was confined thirty-five days in the infamous old Libby Prison at Richmond, Virginia. After the close of the war he continued his association with farm enterprise in his native county until 1872, when he went to California. He there remained until the Centennial year, 1876, - when he returned to Ohio, where for many years he has been successfully identified with farm industry in Clark County, his well-improved farm estate comprising 164 acres and devoted to diversified agriculture and stock-raising. In addition to owning this fine homestead farm, Mr. Shaw is a stockholder in the Emery Farmers Elevator Company. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party, and is affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

On the 6th of May, 1879, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Shaw and Miss Sarah E. Baker, who was born in Ripley County, Indiana, April 23, 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have seven children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: George W., February 20, 1880; Charles D. January 15, 1882; Leslie P., October 23, 1884; Ralph L., April 7, 1890; Harvey, January 25, 1892; Henry F., March 28, 1894, and Margaret C., December 30, 1887. The son Ralph was in active service in the World war as a member of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Margaret C., the only daughter, is a graduate of the high school at Yellow Springs.

CHARLES A. ROBERTS. A family that has been long and favorably known in Clark County for its connection with agricultural affairs and its high standards of citizenship is that bearing the name of Roberts. Of Welsh origin, its members have been largely farmers, and all have been of a sturdy, self-reliant type, constructive in accomplishment and permanent in achievement. One who exemplifies the best traits of the family is Charles A. Roberts, who is carrying on extensive operations on his farm in Moorefield Township, on which he was born January 10, 1864, a son of Thomas H. and Mary (Coffey) Roberts.

James H. Roberts, the grandfather of Charles A., was born in Virginia, where he received a practical, common school education and grew to manhood. There he married for his first wife, Jane Wilson, and moved to near Cincinnati, Ohio, where he started a tanyard on the Ohio River. His wife died in that community, leaving seven children. While residing there Mr. Roberts entered 250 acres in Moorefield Township, Clark County, but it was not until 1819 that he moved thereto. There he married, November 22, 1820, Mary Wren, and they lived on the farm during the remainder of their lives. Their ten children, all born there, are now deceased. 2

Thomas H. Roberts, the ninth child of his father's second marriage, was born March 28, 1836, on the farm now occupied by his son Charles A. in Moorefield Township. He was educated in the rural schools, and married, March 26, 1863, Mary Coffey, who was born February 8, 1839, in Pleasant Township. They passed the remainder of their lives on the home farm and were highly respected and esteemed members of their community. They were the parents of six children, born as follows: Charles A., January 10, 1864; James W., March 6, 1865; Anna M., October 20, 1866; Elizabeth A., April 14, 1869; Lucy C., November 21, 1870, and May, November 29, 1878. Of these children four are living at this time.

Charles A. Roberts was reared on the home farm and received his early education in the public schools and at Nelson's Commercial College. Asa young man he became a bookkeeper in hardware and furniture stores at Springfield and Dayton, but eventually tired of city life and returned to the farm. He has been successful in the operation of his property and is now the proprietor of a tract that compares favorably in improvements and productiveness with any others in the locality. Heisa man of ability and has carried on his farming in a modern manner.

On December 24, 1889, at Dayton, Mr. Roberts married Miss Mar-- garet Howard, who was reared at Dayton, and died without issue, July 10, 1895. On August 22, 1898, Mr. Roberts married Josephine Warwick, who was born in Putnam County, Ohio, January 10, 1876, and educated in the graded and high schools. They have had eight children: Agnes, a graduate of high school, who married Oscar Lambert and has two children; Josephine, a high school graduate and teacher in the Springfield public schools, now attending Wittenberg College; Thomas, a graduate of high school, who is assisting his father in the operation of the home farm; Edwin and John C., who are attending high school, and Catherine, James and Lucy, who are attending the graded school. The family belongs to the Baptist Church, in the work of which they have been active. Mr. Roberts is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, in which he is keeper of the records. A republican in his political allegiance, he has the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens, and has served as township trustee and member of the School Board.

WiLBUR TIFFANY, A. B., who for the last six years has been principal of the Springfield High School, was born at Springfield, July 27, 1873, a son of George and Ellen (Neal) Tiffany. George Tiffany was born at Meadville, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1849, a son of Nathan and Abigail (Ross) Tiffany, natives of Connecticut and Pennsylvania, respectively. The Tiffanys are of old English stock, and this branch of the family has been in America for eight generations, the original immigrant having settled in Connecticut upon arriving in this country, from which state later generations moved to Pennsylvania. The Ross family is of Pennsylvania Dutch origin. George Tiffany, the father of Professor

Tiffany and a carpenter by trade, came to Springfield in 1870, and here followed his vocation until his retirement, several years prior to his death in 1908.

' Earl Wilbur Tiffany was educated in the Springfield public schools and graduated from the high school in 1890, following which he enrolled as a student at Antioch College, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts as a member of the class of 1905. He began his independent career as a bookkeeper for the James Lumber Company of Springfield, with which company he remained for one and one-half years, and then turned his attention to teaching. He taught his first school in 1892, when he was in his eighteenth year, and for four Years was a teacher in the schools of Mad River Township, in Clark County. Then he taught at the Northern Building School at Springfield for one year, following which he became a teacher in the high school and remained in this capacity for about twenty years, teaching mathematics. In 1916 he was made principal of the high school, a position in which he has since remained, having established a splendid record for efficiency and popularity. He is a member of the National Educational Association, mathematics section, of which he served one year as secretary and one year as president, and of the Central Ohio Teachers Association, of which he is now a member of the Executive Committee. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons, belonging to Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M., and also holds membership in the Kiwanis Club.

In 1896 Professor Tiffany was united in marriage with Miss Anna M. Schaefer, who was born at Springfield, daughter of Charles H. and Susan (Netts) Schaefer, and to them there have been born the following children: Chester Wayne, who is teaching in the public school at Plumwood, Ohio ; Don Meal, a graduate of Antioch College, Bachelor of Arts degree, and now assistant principal of the high school at Franklin, Ohio; Florence Margaret, a teacher at the Fulton School, Springfield; Lois Elizabeth, who is attending Wittenberg College; Philip Earl, a student at the Springfield High School, and Helen Louise and Normal Stanley, who are attending the graded schools. A little daughter, Dorothy, died at the age of three months.

Joun T. SHumaker. A well-known figure in educational circles of Clark County is John T. Shumaker, principal of the Fulton School of Springfield, who has been identified with school work throughout his career, the last ten years of which have been spent at Springfield. He is not only well and widely known as a teacher, but occupies several important posts in educational organizations and has done much to elevate the public school system standards.

Mr. Shumaker was born near Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio, January 26, 1876, and is a son of the Rev. J. W. and Lydia J. (Webster) Shumaker. His father was born in Virginia, in 1830. He entered the ministry of the Presbyterian Church at the age of twenty-two years, and took his first charge in Adams County, Ohio. After a long and useful career, during which he filled a number of pulpits in Adams, Highland and other Ohio counties, he died in Adams County in 1904, aged seventyfour years. He was greatly beloved by his people in the various sections in which his valuable labors were prosecuted. The mother of Mr.

Shumaker, Lydia J. Webster, was born at Hillsboro, Ohio, March 22, 1833, and was a descendant of the old and distinguished family of which Daniel Webster was a member. She also died in Adams County in 1904, passing away only a few days prior to the death of her husband.

The early education of John T. Shumaker was obtained in the public schools of Adams County, and he was only seventeen years of age when he taught his first school, at Chum Creek, Ohio. Later he taught for eight years in the high school at Stout, Ohio, whence he went to Tremont, this state, and remained five years as a teacher in the high school. Mr. Shumaker was then offered the position of principal of the Fry School at Springfield, which he accepted and held for two years, later holding the same position at the Lagonda School for four years. In 1919 he became principal of the Fulton School, a post which he still retains.

Mr. Shumaker is a member of the Central Ohio Educational Association, the Ohio State Educational Association, the Springfield Teachers Institute, of which he is secretary and treasurer, and the Springfield, Teachers Association, of which he is treasurer. He holds a life certificate in Ohio as a public school teacher. Among his associates he is known as a man of broad and comprehensive knowledge, possessing the enviable faculty of imparting his knowledge to others, and among the student body he is highly esteemed and widely popular. As a fraternalist he holds membership in Clark Lodge No. 101, A. F. and A. M.; Red Star Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and Union Camp, Modern Woodmen of America. He belongs to Covenant Presbyterian Church of Springfield, where he has been a member of the Session for nine years and teacher of the Barraca Sunday School class for fifteen years.

In 1895 Mr. Shumaker was united in marriage with Miss Sally Pitts, who was born at Buena Vista, Ohio, in November 1876, daughter of Oscar and Mary J. Pitts, both of Buena Vista, Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Shumaker there has been born one son, Claude V., born September 22, 1897. He attended the public schools, received instruction at home under the preceptorship of his father and then enrolled as a student at the Cincinnati School of Pharmacy, from which he was duly graduated. He is now securing further practical experience and training as an employe of a pharmacy at Springfield. Claude V. Shumaker married Miss Ruth a Springfield, and they are the parents of two children, Jack and Bob.

JAMES ALEXANDER HAYWARD, whose death occurred in Springfield on the 22nd of May, 1916, was a native son of Clark County, which he dignified alike by his sterling character. and worthy achievement, he having been long numbered among the representative figures in the business life of Springfield.

Mr. Hayward was born on the old homestead farm of the Hayward family, on the present Charleston Turnpike, Clark County, and the date of his nativity was August 16, 1836. He was a son of David Hayward, who was born in the State of New Jersey, in September, 1803, and whose father, Abraham Hayward, was born January 10, 1782. From New Jersey David Hayward eventually removed to Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), and thence he came to Ohio in the '30s and established himself as a pioneer farmer in Clark County.

He became one of the honored and influential citizens of the community, and at the time of his death, July 22, 1867, he was a member of the Board of County Commissioners and a director of the Springfield Boárd of Trade. At the time of his death the Springfield Daily News spoke of him as "an upright, able and conscientious man." David Hayward married Elizabeth Newcomer, and they became the parents of three sons and three daughters.

_ James Alexander Hayward was reared to the sturdy discipline of the pioneer farm, received the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period, and grew virile in mental and physical stature. Upon leaving the farm he established his residence in Springfield and engaged in the lumber business, his first yard, one of modest order, having been on the site of the present office of the Thomas Manufacturing Company, on South Limestone Street. Mr. Hayward continued successfully in the lumber trade until 1892, when he became treasurer of the Hoppes Manufacturing Company, with which representative concern he continued his service in this position until his death. His high ideals were expressed in all phases of his singularly active and successful life, and he commanded inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem, the while he was known for his generosity and consideration and for unostentatious benefactions of many kinds. He was an active member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He found his interests aside from business in the work of his church and the gracious precincts of his home. His first wife, whose maiden name was Harriet Rinehart, was a daughter of Levi Rinehart, another- of the sterling pioneers of Clark County. Mrs. Hayward died in 1886, and is survived by two children, Harry B. and Bessie (Mrs. Guy Coblentz). For his second wife Hayward wedded Mary Thompson, daughter of Christopher Thompson, and she survived him five years, her death occurring in July, 1921. No children were born of this union.

Harry B. HAYWARD, only son of the late James A. Hayward, to whom the preceding memoir is dedicated, was born at Springfield, on the Ist of January, 1868, was educated in the public schools and a commercial college, and he initiated his practical career by becoming associated with his father's lumber business. In 1892, in partnership with his cousin, t. M. Goode, he succeeded his father in this business, at the time of the 4 'ter's retirement therefrom, and the new firm continued the enterprise until 1916, when Mr. Hayward sold his interest to his partner, Mr. Goode. Since that year he has given his attention to the supervision of his various capitalistic interests and private business. He is a director of the Springfield Coffin & Casket Company, and is president of the Vulcan Hardware Company.

On the 8th of June, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hayward and Miss Alice Clifford, of Detroit, Michigan, and their only child, Ethel, is the wife of Charles G. Augustus. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus have one child, Charles Hayward.

Joun Wirriam Deam. One of the most important features of the educational system in all large cities of today is that which has to do with the business management. Modern educational methods demand a large and constantly-growing income to keep pace with the advancing standards as to equipment, etc., and it is necessary : that the affairs of this matter be handled with the most scrupulous care and trained ability in order that the schools receive the greatest benefit in this direction. The business manager of the Springfield Board of Education, John William Deam, has been identified with school work for nearly thirty years, and is a man of much experience and specialized training. His discharge of the duties of his office has been commended by those who have watched educational affairs during the past two years.

Mr. Deam was born at Springfield, May 5, 1871, and is a son of John Peter and Catherine (Keopge) Deam. Mrs. Deam, who still survives as a resident of Springfield, was born in 1847, in Prussia, Germany, a daughter of Andrew Peter Keopge, a stonemason by trade, who brought his family to the United States in 1864 and settled at Springfield, where he rounded out his career. John Peter Deam was born at New Bremen, Ohio, a son of John Andrew and Elizabeth (Garvey) Deam. John Andrew Deam was born in the United States, of German parentage, and as a youth learned the blacksmith trade, but later in life was the proprietor of a hotel. He was an early resident of Springfield, where he became well known and 'highly esteemed. John Peter Deam was six years of age when brought to Springfield by his parents, and here acquired a public school education. During the Civil war he enlisted in an Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, with which he served bravely and faithfully, and following the war returned to Springfield, where he fol- .lowed blacksmith and steel forging work. When he died, in 1916, his community lost a good man and public-spirited citizen.

John William Deam is indebted to the graded and high schools of Springfield for his educational training. As a youth he was apprenticed to mechanical work in the foundry and pattern department of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company (now the International Truck Company), and remained with that concern until 1894, at which time he first became identified with public school work. During the next quarter of a century he was variously employed in the public schools, and thus became fully familiar with all branches of their management. On January 5, 1920, he was made business manager of the Board of Education, a position which he has filled with much ability to the present. He has the full confidence of his associates and has proven himself capable, trustworthy and energetic in the discharge of his important duties. Mr. Deam 1s a member of Moncrieffe Lodge No. 33, Knights of Pythias, and of Commercial Camp No. 3347, Modern Woodmen of America.

He was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Kelso, who was born at Cumberland, Maryland, a daughter of John .and Mary F. (Carter) Kelso, well-known and highly esteemed residents of that city. To this union there have been born the following children: Charles Henry; Esther May, who married William Newcomb and has two children, Paul and William R.; Ethel Florence, who married Paul Nagel and has two children, Billy and Betty; and John Walter. Mr. and Mrs. Deam occupy a pleasant home at Springfield and have a large circle of sincere friends. They are faithful members of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, and are willing and generous contributors to all movements pertaining to charity, education and bétter citizenship.

FRANK D. SAUNDERS. During a period of fifteen years Frank D. Saunders of Springfield has been actively and prominently engaged in institutional work throughout the State of Ohio, and his long and comprehensive training equip him admirably for the discharge of his present duties as superintendent of the Ohio Masonic Home, a position which he has held since September, 1919. Mr. Saunders was börn at Marlborough, Massachusetts, April 3, 1857, and is a son of Dexter B. and Abby E. (Pulsifer) Saunders.

Dexter B. Saunders was born on a farm in Massachusetts, April 17, 1820, and was reared to agricultural pursuits, which he followed during the early years of his life. Later he became identified with manufacturing activities, both in the state of his nativity and in Ohio, to which latter he came in 1875, bringing with him his family. He took up his residence at Cleveland, where he died in 1898. He was a man of much ability and of the strictest integrity and held the respect and confidence of all with whom he was associated. On February 26, 1852, Mr. Saunders married Miss Abby E. Pulsifer, who was born February 6, 1831, daughter of Nathaniel Pulsifer, and died January 12, 1858.

Frank D. Saunders received his early education in the primary schools and the English High School of Boston, and started on his active career soon after the Boston fire as an assistant in his father's factory. Later he joined the organization of D. Appleton Company, publishers, New York City, and was sent to Ohio and was connected with the school book department of the company in the Buckeye state. Later, because of financial disaster, due to the failure of a bank, Mr. Saunders became identified with institutional work in Ohio, his first connection of this character being with the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum. He continued as field agent for thai institution from 1908 until 1910, when he went to Akron, Ohio, as superintendent of the Summit County Children's Home, where he remained until September, 1919, at that time coming to Springfield to assume his present duties as superintendent of the Ohio Masonic Home. In this work he has proven highly capable, and his executive management has served to maintain the institution at a high standard of efficiency.

Superintendent Saunders is a member of Henry Perkins Lodge No. 611, A. F. and A. M., of Akron; Washington Chapter No. 25, R. A. M., of Akron; Akron Council No. 80, R. and S. M.; Akron Commandery No. 25, K. T.; Lake Erie Consistory; Antioch Temple, AeA. O-N.M. S, of Dayton; and Chapter No. 304, Order of the Eastern Star. He has always given his support to worthy civic movements.

On July 12, 1882, Mr. Saunders was united in marriage with Miss Lottie L. Craig, who was born at Olmstead Falls, Ohio, September 19, 1857, a daughter of Henry and Lydia Craig, of Canterbury, England. Mrs. Saunders is matron of the Masonic Home and an able assistant to her husband in his manifold duties. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are the parents of two children: Nellie Craig, born November 1, 1884, who married J. C. Conger, of Peninsula, Ohio, and has one daughter, Charlotte, born April 4, 1921; and Warren Saunders, born April 1, 1886, who died June 10, 1916, leaving a widow and two children, Ruth E., born July 12, 1912, and Frank D., born December 23, 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are faithful members of the Covenant Presbyterian Church, and have always been generous supporters of all enterprises in the way of charity, religion and education. They have made numerous friends since locating at Springfield, and are popular with the inmates of the Home.

FreD WERTZEL WILLIss is the executive head of a splendidly ordered educational institution that contributes much to the prestige of his native county and the City of Springfield, where he is proprietor and director of the Williss Business University. He was born on a farm in Madison Township, Clark County, June 18, 1858, and is a son of the late P. W. and Anna (Williss) Williss. He was reared in the home and on the farm of his paternal grandfather, John Williss, and supplemented the discipline of the public schools by a course in the Ohio State Normal School at South Charleston, this county, in which he was graduated. Thereafter he studied medicine under the preceptorship of his grandfather, Dr. Williss, of Cincinnati, and that of Dr. Buckingham, of Springfield, but he deflected from the medical to the legal profession. He read law in the offices of Keifer & White, of Springfield, and was admitted to the bar in the year 1880. He initiated practice in the office of the late Samuel Bowman at Springfield, but in 1882 returned to the offices of his preceptors, Keifer & White, with whom he continued to be associated in practice during the ensuing twelve years. He was private secretary to General J. Warren Keifer during the latter's terms of service as a member of the United States Congress, including the term when General Keifer was speaker of the House of Representatives. Mr. Williss also gave characteristically effective service as private secretary to the late Judge William White, who was then presiding on the bench of the United States District Court of Ohio.

Mr. Williss learned stenography and typewriting under the direction of Benjamin Gaines, and when he came to Springfield he was the only man in the city at that time who earned his living by stenography. His appreciation of the value of such work and of the desire of many young men to prepare themselves for service as stenographers and typewriter operators lead to his responding to a distinct demand and opening, in 1880, the pioneer school of shorthand and typewriting in Springfield, he having employed competent teachers to conduct the institution. From a most modest inception this school, which originally received only local supporting patronage, has grown into one of the important and well conducted institutions of its kind in the state. The Williss Business University occupies - the entire fourth floor of the Bushnell Building, has students from every state in the Union, as well as from other countries, and it is now one of the largest and most celebrated schools for business training to be found in the entire United States, its facilities being used by the Government in its reclamation service for soldiers of the World war. By 1890 the growth and demands of the school made it expedient for Mr. Williss to retire from the practice of law, and he has given his entire time and attention to its management, his progressive policies having brought its service in all departments up to the highest standard of efficiency and usefulness. Mr. Williss received from Nashville College the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and from the American Institute of Commerce he has received the degree of F. C. I., as has he also from the British Institute of Commerce, of London, England. At South Charleston, Clark County, in 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Williss and Miss Martha H. Sands, who was born in Illinois but who was an infant at the time of the family removal to Clark County, Ohio, where she was reared and educated. Her father, Israel Sands, later removed to Winfield, Kansas. Of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Williss the following brief data are available: Carl L., born in 1883, received his business education in the Williss Business University, the advantages of which have been utilized also by the other children, and he is now manager for the Standard Oil Company at Memphis, Tennessee; Frank S., born in 1885, won the gold medal in typewriting at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904, and at the time of his death, in October, 1920, he was sales manager for the Standard Oil Company at Jackson, Tennessee; Warren K., born in 1887, received from the National Association of Accountants, Washington, D. C., his technical recognition as a certified public accountant, and as an expert accountant he is now engaged in practice at Springfield; Grace A., born in 1889, is the wife of Adolph F. Long, of Springfield; Fred W. died in childhood; LeRoy M., born in 1900, is bookkeeper for a representative business concern at Springfield.

Mr. Williss is affiliated with the Ohio Commercial Teachers Association, the Ohio State Stenographers Association and the National Stenographers Association. In their home city he and his wife hold active membership in St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.

Joun H. GowbY. A typical representative of the best agricultural element of Clark County is found in the person of John H. Gowdy, a well-known butcher and farmer, who lives on his thirty-two acre farm on the line between Springfield and Moorefield townships. He has been a resident of this community for many years, and has various business interests in addition to being a progressive citizen.

Mr. Gowdy was born November 5, 1857, in Champaign County, Ohio, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Swartz) Gowdy. William Gowdy was born as Christiansburg, Champaign County, Ohio, a son of John and Betsey Gowdy, and was reared in his native community. From Champaign County he went to Urbana, Ohio, where he was residing at the time of President Lincoln's call for volunteers for the Union Army for service during the Civil war, and July U 1861, enlisted, becoming a member of Company H, Twenty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was one of those to sacrifice his life on the altar of his country, for at the battle of Chattanooga he was badly wounded, and died in the army hospital October 2, 1863. A man of sterling qualities, he had the respect of his officers and the friendship and esteem of his comrades. He and his worthy wife were the parents of four children, of whom three are living in 1922: Sarah A., wife of Alfred Shaffer, of Dayton, Ohio; Carolina A., the wife of Gus Wiegel, of Tremont City, Ohio, and John H., of this review.

John H. Gowdy was reared in Champaign County until he was seven years of age, at which time he was brought to Clark County. The death of his father had left his mother in straitened financial circumstances, and as a result his education was very much restricted, being confined to several terms of attendance at the district schools. However, he made the most of his opportunities, and as he has been a man of keen observation and a prolific reader he today possesses a practical education that is as valuable as that of many men who have enjoyed far greater advantages in the way of schooling. He was only nine years of age when he began to work on farms, and this formed his vocation until he was sixteen years of age, at which time: he learned the trade of butcher. For about five years he worked for others at various places, but finally, when he had just passed his majority, he embarked in business on his own account, and has continued therein until the present, when he 'is the proprietor of a successful and extensive business, both wholesale and retail. He bears an excellent reputation for industry and integrity, built up through years of honorable dealing with his fellows. i

On June 21, 1881, Mr. Gowdy was united in marriage with Miss Emma J. Fox, who was born on the farm on which she and her husband now make their home, April 6, 1859, a daughter of Simon and Mary. A. (Hause) Fox. They have no children. Mr. and Mrs. Gowdy are people of religious tendencies, but have never made formal declaration of membership in any church, although they attend services regularly. Fraternally Mr. Gowdy is affliated with Lodge No. 455, Free and Accepted Masons, the Chapter and Council of Masonry, Palestine Commandery No. 33, Knights Templar, and Antioch Shrine of Dayton, Ohio. In politics he is a democrat, but only takes a good citizen's part in public affairs, having never cared for nor sought public office. He has various business connections and is a stockholder in the American Motorist, Dayton, Dayton Auditing Devices, and the Springfield Bond and Mortgage Company.

Davin W. TRIMmMER. Agricultural methods have advanced amazingly during recent years, and machinery and equipment considered entirely adequate only a comparatively short time ago are now obsolete. That this is so is due to the progressive ideas and good judgment of such capable and farsighted agriculturists as David W. Trimmer, of Moorefield Township, who has a snug farm of thirty acres in Moorefield Township, on which he is carrying on successful operations.

Mr. Trimmer was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1859, and is a son of Gibson and Catherine (Ulrich) Trimmer. Gibson Trimmer was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, where he grew to manhood and received only meagre educational advantages. He married Catherine Ulrich, who was born in York County, Pennsylvania, and who, like her husband, had only scant opportuni- ties for the securing of an education. They were married in Adams County, where they made their home during the remainder of their lives, devoted themselves to the pursuit of farming and were highl "esteemed members of their community. They belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Trimmer served as a private in a Pennsylvania regiment of volunteer infantry during the Civil war, and during his four years of service established an honorable war record as a participant in numerous hard-fought engagements. In politics he was a republican. Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer were the parents of thirteen children, of whom four are living in 1922: Emma, the wife of Benjamin F. Miller, of Pennsylvania; David W.; Ellen, the wife 7 of Christ Schultz, of Pennsylvania, and Lewis, also a resident of the Keystone State.

David W. Trimmer was reared in Pennsylvania until reaching the age of sixteen years, at which time he came to Ohio. He obtained a common school education, and on coming to Clark County began working on the farm for monthly wages during the summer months, while in the winters he was employed in a factory at Springfield. Mr. Trimmer married Miss Almeda May Buser, who was born in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio in young girlhood, receiving her education in the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer resided at various places until 1900, when they located on the farm and have since made it their home. Their thirty-acre property is highly improved and has been made greatly productive, and the buildings are substantial and attractive. Mr. Trimmer operates as a general farmer, and is thoroughly at home in all departments of his vocation. He is likewise a man of sound integrity, who has the respect of his fellow-citizens because of his straightforward qualities and willingness to lend his aid to worthy community movements.

Of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer six are living in 1922: Catherine, a graduate of the Springfield High School, now the wife of James J. Cliborn, of Kentucky; Gertrude, who attended high school for two years, and is now the widow of James Carnihan; Murial, a graduate of the high school, living at home, who is a teacher in the Springfield public schools; Raymond O., an employe of the railroad, living at the home of his parents, who was married and is the father of one child; George, a graduate of the Springfield High School, and also a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, who is now a resident of Chicago; and Harold, who is single and assists his father in the work of the home farm. Mr. and Mrs. Trimmer are members of the First Baptist Church of Springfield, to the movements of which they are generous donators. Fraternally he is a popular member of the local lodges of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Loyal Order of Moose. He is a republican in his political tendencies, but has never been a seeker of public office.

LUTHER Neer. Included among the men who have assisted Clark County's agricultural development is Luther Neer, now a resident of Catawba and a citizen who is held in high esteem by his neighbors. He is one of the large property owners of Pleasant Township, and is modern in his tendencies and actions.

Mr. Neer was born on a farm in Pleasant Township, Clark County, November 12, 1854, and is a son of Nathan and Mary A. (Hunter) Neer, and a great grandson of Henry Need. His grandfather, Amos Neer, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, near Neerville, named in honor of the family, and was married there to Nancy Cunnard, a native of the same State. Together they came to Clark County, where they passed the remainder of their lives in farming. Their son Nathan Neer, father of Luther, was born in Pleasant Township, October 8, 1822, and passed his entire life within the borders of the county, where he applied himself to agricultural operations. He and his worthy wife, who was born in Pleasant Township, March 1, 1823, were the parents of seven children, namely: Levi, William H., Miranda E., Luther, Charles F., Alonzo W. and Laura J.

Luther Neer was reared on the home farm in Pleasant Township and passed his boyhood and youth much the same as other farmers' sons in his community, attending the district school in the winter seasons and working on the home farm during the rest of the year. Thus he continued until reaching the age twenty-one years, at which time he embarked in agricultural operations on his own account. He has been highly successful in his operations, and is now the owner of 525 acres of land, all located within the boundaries of Pleasant Township. Mr. Neer first married Miss Mary J. Loveless, who died in 1908, having been the mother of five children: Olive L., the wife of Van C. Tullis, and they have two children, Dorothy and Robert; Nathan L., who is deceased; Leonard J., who is a farmer and stock raiser in Pleasant Township, married Crystal P. McClennan, and they have one child, Mary Jane; Gladys R. is the wife of Morris Lellis, and they have one child, Martha; and Emerson J., who is assisting his father in the work of the home place. Emerson J. Neer served in the American Army during the World war, and saw active service Overseas as a member of the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh 'Aviation Corps.

On January 10, 1917, Mr. Neer was united in marriage with Miss Laura M. Baldwin, who was born in Clark County, February 14, 1864, a daughter of George S. and Mary (Neer) Baldwin, the former born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, September 5, 1833, and the latter, in Pleasant Township, August 10, 1839. Mr. Baldwin came to Clark County in 1855, and he and Mrs. Baldwin were married here two years later. They became the parents of three children: Ella F., the widow of William O. Shearer; Laura M., who became Mrs. Luther Neer, and Howard J., who died October 10, 1893. Mrs. Neer, a graduate of the Marysville High School, was a teacher for several years prior to her marriage. Her father was a son of Johnson C. and Hannah (Speakman) Baldwin, and her mother was a daughter of Mahlon and Nancy (McConkey) Neer, the latter being a daughter of Archibald and Nancy (Michey) McConkey and a granddaughter of Archibald and Margaret (McDonald) McConkey, both of whom were born in Scotland and came to the United States as young people.

Mr. and Mrs. Neer are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Neer is a member of the Board of Stewards. Mrs. Neer is a member of Magnetic Rebekah Lodge No. 258, of Marysville, Ohio. In politics both are republicans.

MILTON CHENEY. One of the most substantial representatives of the farming interests of Clark County is Milton Cheney, of South Charleston. He has devoted upwards of half a century to his tasks

responsibilities, has prospered, owns a fine and well developed farm, and has rendered a great deal of community service in the intervals of his business career.

Mr. Cheney was born on a farm in Madison Township, July 7, 1850, son of Jonathan and Matilda (Harpall) Cheney. His father was born near Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio, and his mother, in Greene County. Jonathan Cheney after a common school education came to Clark County, located on a farm, and became z widely known as a cattle man and stock trader. He was very successful and left a large property at his death. He was a member of the Universalist Church, was a charter member of the Madison Lodge of Odd Fellows and is also affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons. He was a staunch republican in politics. His family consists of three children: William, deceased; Rebecca, living in California, widow of Milton Young, and Milton.

Milton Cheney had the training of a farm boy, was educated in the public schools, and was with his parents until the age of twenty-one. On April 27, 1871, he married Addie Sprague, a native of Harmony Township. Five children were born to their marriage: Mollie, wife of G. B. Hicks; Miss Harriet B.; Pearl, who is city manager of South Charleston; Howard L., superintendent and treasurer of a business at Franklin, Ohio; Scott, who lives with his father. The daughter, Miss Harriet B., has for twenty-one years been superintendent and manager of the local Telephone Company, and has proved an exceedingly capable business woman, handling all the buying and other duties of the management.

Mr. Cheney's large and productive farm comprises 350 acres. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is affiliated with Fielding Lodge No. 192, Free and Accepted Masons, is a past grand and past chief patriot in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a republican. His public service comprises thirty-two years of membership on the. School Board of Madison Township. For twelve years he served as township trustee, and in 1894 was elected and served two terms as a county commissioner.

James W. Roserts. The agricultural interests of Clark County are well represented in Moorefield Township by James W. Roberts, a member of one of the old and honored Clark County families, and a capable and experienced agriculturist of modern tendencies. Mr. Roberts is also an active participant in public affairs, and at the present is a member of the Board of Trustees of Moorefield Township.

Mr. Roberts was born on a farm near the site of his present home, March 6, 1865, and is a son of Thomas H. and Mary (Coffey) Roberts. His grandfather, James H. Roberts, was born in Virginia, of Welsh descent, and after receiving a public school education took up farming. In the Old Dominion he married for his first wife Miss Jane Wilson. They moved to near Cincinnati, Ohio, where Mr. Roberts began his career as the proprietor of a tannery, with a tanyard on the Ohio River. His wife died in that community, leaving seven children. While residing there Mr. Roberts entered 250 acres of land in Moorefield Township, Clark County, but did not take up this property until 1819. Not long after settling there he married, November 22, 1820, Mary Wren, and they spent the remainder of their lives on the farm. They became the parents of ten children, all of whom are now deceased.