Springfield Township (part 60 of 69)

Joun R. HINKLE. In a pioneer log house that stood on the site of his present attractive residence in Springfield Township, three miles south of the county seat, Mr. Hinkle was born August 26, 1847, and the record of his mature life has been one of close and effective identification with constructive farm industry. He is a son of John and Mary Ann (Way) Hinkle, both natives of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where the former was born October 19, 1811, and the latter on the 20th of November of the same year. The parents were reared in their native county, where their marriage occurred, and they were ambitious and self-reliant young folk themselves for the labors and responsibilities of pioneer farm life. It is interesting to record that Mrs. Hinkle was presented with a fine oil landscape painting, the work of Edward C. Lewis, the day before she left the old home in Pennsylvania, and that this interesting family heirloom is now owned by and lends to the attractions of the home of her son John R., immediate subject of this sketch. The Otstot family came to the county about the same time as did also John Hinkle, Sr., father of John, Jr., he having here purchased 700 acres of timber land, his four sons, Henry, Samuel, Joseph and John, Jr., having aided in the reclaiming of the land and all having become substantial farmers here, though Samuel later moved to Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life. Henry likewise eventually removed to Indiana, but his death occurred while he was visiting the old home in Clark County. Joseph continued his farm activities in Clark County until his death, at the age of sixtyfour years.

John Hinkle, Jr., father of the subject of this review, reclaimed his farm from the forest, his first clearing having been made to provide a site for the pioneer log house in which his son John R. was born. He developed one of the excellent farms of Springfield Township and erected the present commodious house in 1857, hé having here lived until his death, at the age of sixty-five years, and his widow having been in her ninety-fourth year when she passed to the life eternal. By purchasing land inherited by his sisters, John Hinkle increased the area of his farm estate until he had more than 300 acres. He was liberal and loyal as a citizen, a stalwart republican, and had varied financial investments, including stock in the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad. He and his wife were earnest and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their eight children John R. is the youngest; Michael, born in 1833, died at the age of seventy-four years; Rebecca J., eighty-six years of age (1922), is the widow of Elijah Karne and lives on a farm near that of her youngest brother; Mary P., who married Nathan Lightner, died in middle life; Ellen became the wife of Daniel Ault and remained in Clark County until her death, at the age of seventy-five years.

John R. Hinkle has never found it expedient or a matter of desire to leave the fine old farm on which he was born and raised. His early education was acquired in the common schools of the locality and period. December 23, 1875, recorded his marriage to Miss Mary Jane Stratton, daughter of Isaac Stratton, of Greene Township, where she was born January 14, 1852. The maximum loss and bereavement in the life of Mr. Hinkle came when his loved and devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest, after an ideal companionship of forty-three years, her death having occurred January 8, 1918. She is survived by four children, Bertha, Isaac Pearl,, Rebecca K. and Ethel May, all of whom remain with their father on the old home farm except Rebecca, who is the wife of George Hirtzinger, likewise a resident of Springfield Township. The daughters all hold membership in the Lutheran Church at Springfield. Their mother was raised in the Methodist belief.

Mr. Hinkle's farm is one of 120 acres, and is maintained under effective cultivation, besides being the stage of successful livestock enterprise. He is a republican and has served as judge of elections, road supervisor and school trustee.

Mrs. SARAH OTSToT, who resides in Springfield Township, on the old Columbus Road, was born in this township, not far distant from the City of Springfield, August 29, 1855, and is a daughter of William A. and Ellen (Way) Kershner, whose marriage was solemnized in this county. Jacob Kershner, grandfather of Mrs. Otstot, came with his young wife from Maryland to Clark County in the year 1825, and on their pioneer farm in Springfield Township their son William A. was born in the year 1828. Jacob Kershner was sixty-five years of age at the time of his death, and his widow, whose maiden name was Sarah Marble, was venerable in years at the time of her death, passing away at the age of seventy-nine years. The father of Jacob Kershner likewise came to Clark County, where he conducted a blacksmith shop for a number of years, he having been a skilled workman at his trade. He was also a large farmer and a veteran of the War of 1812. William A. Kershner here gave his entire active career to constructive farm enterprise, reclaimed much of his land from the forest and continued as one of the substantial farmers of Springfield Township until the death of his wife, at the age of sixty-nine years, when he left the farm and finally removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he died in 1900, at the age of seventy-two years. He was a veteran of the Civil war. Of their two surviving children Mrs. Otstot of this review is the elder, and Anna is the widow of Frederick Kurtz, of Indianapolis, Indiana.

Sarah Kershner was reared on the home farm and was afforded the advantages of the public schools. In 1876 was solemnized her marriage to John Otstot, who was born in Springfield Township, this county, near the old home of his wife, the date of his birth having been March 27, 1847. He was a son of William and Rebecca (Knaub) Otstot, who were born in Pennsylvania, but whose marriage occurred in Clark County. Ohio. William Otstot came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and his wife from York County, Pennsylvania. The mother of Mrs. Sarah Otstot was likewise born in Lancaster County of the old Keystone State.

After his marriage John Otstot farmed on rented land for seven years, and he then purchased a farm in the northeast part of Springfield Township, on Grant Road, this old homestead of 104 acres being still owned by his widow. He improved this place into one of the model farms of the township and gained reputation as one of the most progressive and successful farmers of his native county, where he ever held inviolable place in popular confidence and good will. Eventually he purchased the old home farm on which he had been reared, south of Springfield, and he acquired also a farm near his residence homestead. In his active farm operation he gave much attention to the breeding and raising of excellent types of livestock. He was one of the original stockholders in the Farmers Bank at Springfield, and his stock in that institution is still held by his widow, who has augmented the same by the purchase of additional stock. As a citizen Mr. Otstot was liberal and public-spirited, took a loyal and helpful interest in community affairs, served for many years as a member of the School Board of his district and was a staunch republican in politics, he having been a member of its township committee in Springfield Township for a number of years. The death of Mr. Otstot occurred April 23, 1911, and his remains rest in beautiful Ferncliff Cemetery at Springfield. Since the death of her husband Mrs. Otstot has retired to a small place near the old farm, and her pleasant home continues a center of gracious hospitality of much of the representative social activity of the community. She is a zealous member of the Sinking Creek Baptist Church, as was also her husband. Of her four children the eldest is William; Frederick, who had been in charge of the old home farm, died at the age of thirty-six years; Mabel is the wife of August Getz, a successful is near the home of her mother; and Harry operates the home arm.

Morton S. Titus, a member of the firm of Titus Brothers, representative business men of the younger generation in Clark County, was born in Springfield Township November 26, 1893, the fourth in order of birth of the five children of Harley Titus, who likewise was born in this township, January 14, 1863, a son of James P. and Ellen (Price) Titus. James P. Titus was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was a young man when he came to Ohio and settled in Clark County, where he became a successful farmer and substantial and honored citizen, his death having occurred March 11, 1906, and his wife having died about fifteen years prior thereto. Of their children four attained to years of maturity: Herman, Harley, James and Gustavus. Harley

Titus was reared and educated in this county and here he achieved in the passing years substantial success and prestige both as a farmer and an extensive buyer and shipper of livestock. He married Mary E. Hazzard, who was born at Vicksburg, Mississippi, a daughter of William S. and Mary (Hendren) Hazzard. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Titus had lived for a number of years in the home of an aunt in the City of Columbus, Ohio. As previously stated, Morton S. Titus is the fourth in a family of five children, the others being Lamar C., Homer T., Howard P. and Malcolm.

The firm of Titus Brothers are owners of the old Redmond Mill, now known as the Junction Mill, on Beaver Creek, one-half mile north of the National Road, in Springfield Township, and four miles east of the City of Springfield. In the year 1808 John Foster here erected one of the first grist mills in the county, and he sold the property later to a man named Buckles, who added a distillery to the enterprise. Buckles eventually sold the property to John Rea who, in 1835, sold it to Robert Rodgers, the latter having added a saw mill in 1837. In 1839 the entire pioneer milling plant was destroyed by fire, but in 1840 Mr. Rodgers erected and equipped a new mill on the same site - a four-story brick building that at that period constituted one of the largest flour mills in the state. In 1847 Thomas McCormack purchased a half interest in the property and business. In 1866 Lewis Huffman owned the mill, which he sold to Judson Redmond for $8,000. In 1887 this substantial old mill was remodeled and a full roller process system was installed, with an output capacity of fifty barrels. However, the old buhr stones are still in service, being used for the grinding of feed. Judson Redmond died in 1906 and thereafter the mill was operated by his son until 1919, when the firm of Titus Brothers purchased the plant and business, the enterprise having since been successfully carried on by this progressive firm of young men.

E. J. McCuLLoucH is one of the native sons of Clark County who has here marked the passing years with successful achievement in connection with farm industry. On his present homestead farm, in Greene Township, he has resided all his life, and he has so ordered his course as to retain secure place in the confidence and good will of the community which he has worthily lived and worthily wrought.

Mr. McCullough was born on the old Smith farm, near Selma, Greene Township, and the date of his nativity was April 28, 1854. He is a son of John W. and Margaret A. (Kitchen) McCullough, the former of whom was born in Virginia, December 7, 1817, and the latter of whom, the second wife of John W. McCullough, was born August 27, 1830, in Greene Township. The father long gave his attention to farm enterprise in Clark County, and here his death occurred on the 4th of August, 1882, his widow having survived him a number of years and both having been earnest members of the Christian Church, in which he served as an elder. His political support was given to the republican party. Besides the subject of this sketch two other children are living, Charles W., a resident of Nebraska, and Isaac, who maintains his home i hio. E o Sen of the farm and the discipline of the district schools marked the formative period in the career of E. J. McCullough, and he has been continuously an exponent of farm industry in his native county since the period of his youth. He takes loyal interest in all that concerns the welfare and advancement of his home county, is a stalwart in the local camp of the republican party, and he is a zealous member of the Christian Church. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian Church. i ; ;

As a young man Mr. McCullough married Miss Jennie Grindle, who was born in Greene County, Ohio, near Clifton, on the 16th of April, 1859, and who is a daughter of the late Henry and Sarah A. (Plournan) Grindle. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have two children, Gretta M., who is the wife of Dr. James H. Harris, individual mention of whom appears elsewhere in this work; and A. S., who is now a mining engineer and geologist in New Mexico. A. S. McCullough graduated from the Clifton High School, later attended Antioch College, and in preparing for the profession of his choice he finally entered the great Leland Stanford University in California, in which he was duly graduated and in which he specialized in geology. As a practical geologist he spent one year in exploration work in South America, and he is now engaged in professional work as a mining engineer in New Mexico, where he is financially interested in various mining projects. He married Miss Ruth Stewart, a daughter of Wilmont and Amanda Stewart, and the one child of this union is a son, Joseph, born July 1, 1921.

Jonn CraBILL, who is now living retired on his attractive little farm homestead in Springfield Township three miles east of the City of Springfield, on the National Road, is a representative of one of the oldest and most honored pioneer families of Clark County and with his two sons is the owner of a valuable farm estate of more than 350 acres on Buck Creek Bottoms, this constituting the old pioneer farm of his paternal grandfather and being locally known as "The Promised Land," a title which it has held for many years. For the past six years Mr. Crabill has lived retired on a small farm. In all of his relations of life he has well upheld the prestige of a family name that is one of prominence in the history of this county.

John Crabill was born on the old home place and the date of his nativity was July 5, 1847. His entire active career was one of close and successful association with farm industry, and he has stood well to the front as one of the liberal and progressive citizens of his native township. He is a son of Thomas V. and Sidney (Yeazell) Crabill, whose marriage was solemnized in 1833. Thomas Voss Crabill was born in Moorefield Township, this county, November 21, 1810, a son of David and Barbara (Baer) Crabill, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Pennsylvania. In 1808 David Crabill settled on Buck Creek, in Moorefield Township, where he reclaimed one of the productive farms of the early pioneer period. His children were: Sarah, John, Thomas V., David Jr., James W., Mary, Susan, Joseph, Pierson D., William H. and Eliza J. David Crabill served as a soldier in the War

Thomas V. Crabill was reared on the old home farm and in 1833, as previously stated, he married Sidney Yeazell, she having been a daughter of Abraham and Mary Yeazell, of whose fifteen children those living in 1881 were William, David, James, Thomas V., Milton, Joseph F., Levina and Elizabeth. With 100 acres of land inherited from his father and with the further fortification of $1,000 in cash received by his wife from her father's estate, Thomas V. Crabill initiated his independent career under favorable circumstances, as viewed from the standards of the locality and period. A man of energy, integrity and constructive ability, he eventually accumulated one of the largest and most valuable landed estates in Clark County, the same having comprised 700 acres in Springfield Township and 320 acres in Moorefield Township.

December 19, 1872, recorded the marriage of John Crabill and Miss Barbara E. Zimmerman, a daughter of Isaac and Anna Zimmerman, who came from Pennsylvania to Clark County in 1849 and who passed the remainder of their lives on their farm near Lagonda. Like her husband, Mrs. Crabill received the advantages of the common schools of Clark County, besides which she was for two years a student in the Springfield Female Seminary, a well ordered institution of its day. Mr. and Mrs. Crabill have three children, concerning whom brief record is here entered: Ada Irene is the wife of William Y. Maher, who is engaged in the practice of law at Springfield, as one of the representative members of the Clark County bar; Clark Rodgers, the elder son, has the active management of the old home farm and is one of the progressive exponents of agricultural and livestock industry in his native county; Pearl Preston, the younger son, resides in Springfield and is actively identified in a managerial capacity with leading industrial enterprises there.

WALLAcE G. Birp is known as one of the progressive farmers and representative citizens of his native township, where he owns and resides upon the fine old homestead farm which was the place of his birth, the same being eligibly situated on the Bird Road, one-quarter of a mile north of the National Pike, in Springfield Township, three miles east of Springfield, the county seat. On this farm Mr. Bird was born March 23, 1866, a son of Luke Bird, who was born and reared on the old homestead farm of which the present farm of his son Wallace is a part, his father, Anthony Bird, having been born in Bedford County, Virginia, April 13, 1805, a son of Luke and Elizabeth (Huffman) Bird, who figure as the founders of this representative family in Clark County, whither they came from the Old Dominion State in the year 1816, when their son, Anthony, was a lad of eleven years. Luke Bird, the pioneer, instituted the development of a farm in the midst of the forest wilds of Springfield Township, and here he remained until his death, in 1823, his widow having passed away in 1835. Here Anthony Bird was reared to manhood on the frontier farm, and at the age of twenty-four years he married Miss Jane Snodgrass, daughter of John and Jane (Steele) Snodgrass, who likewise were sterling pioneers of the county. Of the three children of Anthony and Jane Bird the eldest was John S., who continued his residence in Clark County until his death, at the age of seventy-seven years; Luke, father of the subject of this review, was the next younger son; Nancy Jane, became the wife of Arthur Richards, who still resides in this county, at a venerable age, she having died at the age of seventy-five years. After the death of his first wife Anthony Bird married Miss Maria Wallace, and of the children of this union three attained to maturity: Wallace, who was a soldier in the Sixteenth Ohio Battery of Light Artillery in the Civil war, died while in service, at a hospital in the City of St. Louis, Missouri; James, who died in Arkansas, a bachelor, likewise served as a soldier in the Civil war, he having thereafter graduated in a theological seminary at Xenia, Ohio, and having been ordained a clergyman of the United Presbyterian Church, but a disorder of his throat having finally made it impossible for him to continue his work in the ministry; Belle, the only daughter of the second marriage, became the wife of Dr. E. C. Harris, and both are now deceased. After the death of his second wife Anthony Bird contracted a third marriage, and his third wife, whöse maiden name was Mary Cowan, likewise preceded him to eternal rest, no children having been born of their union. Mr. Bird died on the 2d of July, 1882, one of the venerable and honored pioneer citizens of Clark County. He was a staunch republican, a man of high principles and mature judgment, and was a substantial and influential citizen in his community. In 1834 he was elected justice of the peace, and by sixteen successive re-elections he continued the incumbent of this office for a long period of years. He was an earnest and consistent member of the United Presbyterian Church, with which he became actively affiliated in 1837. In 1829 he settled on a pioneer farm of 240 acres in Springfield Township, and of the same the farm now owned by Wallace G. Bird, of this sketch, is a part. Anthony Bird and all of his sons became republicans, his original political allegiance having been given to the old whig party. The son Luke served as constable when the father was justice of the peace. The Bird family did much to further the operations of the historic "underground railroad" by which.many slaves were aided in escaping in the period prior to the Civil war.

Luke Bird learned the trade of millwright under the direction of his uncle, Silas V. Bird, and he followed his trade for a time in both Indiana and Illinois. In 1866 he erected and equipped a hominy mill in Baltimore, Maryland, and he continued his operations in the erection of mills for many years. About the year 1870 he returned to the old home farm, his individual holding having been a small part of the original place. About 1880 he resumed the work of his trade, and for many years thereafter he controlled a prosperous business in the remodeling of mills, installing roller-process systems, etc. He married Margaret Richards, who was born in Virginia, a daughter of Edward and Jane (Benson) Richards, she having been four years old when the family came to Ohio and established a home in Clark County. The death of Luke Bird occurred November 1, 1908, and his widow followed him to the life eternal in April of the next year. Of their four children the eldest is Edward Anthony, who resides at Springfield, and is in the service of the Detroit, Toledo Ironton Railroad; Ida Jane is the wife of Joseph

H. Newton, a substantial farmer and miller of Springfield Township; John S., died at the age of fifty-five years, he having served as township clerk of Springfield Township, as secretary of the Clark County Fair oard, and as secretary of the School Board; and Wallace G., of this sketch, is the youngest of the children. The parents were zealous members of the United Presbyterian Church, though the mother had been reared in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Wallace G. Bird gained his youthful education in the public schools and was but a boy when he assumed unusual responsibility in connection with the affairs of the home farm, he having become its virtual manager when he was fourteen years old, his father having been absent from ome in connection with his business as a millwright. He has thus far passed virtually his entire time on the old homestead, to which he has added until he now has a well improved farm of fifty-four acres, devoted to diversified agriculture and to the raising of livestock. For the past thirty years he has been a wholesale dealer in flour, as a representative of the Moorefield and Mad River mills. During all but two years of this long period he has handled virtually all of the output of these mills, and has sold to grocers, bakers and other dealers and large users. For other mills he has sold to the jobbing trade, and his activities in this line of business have demanded much of his time and attention, though he has always given a general supervision to his farm. He has had no desire for public office, but served four years as township assessor, his political allegiance being given to the republican party. He and his wife are attendants of the United Presbytérian Church, and both were earnest and zealous in the furtherance of local agencies and movements in support of the Government war service in the World war period, Mrs. Bird having been chairman of the local Red Cross Chapter. She is a valued and appreciative member of the Woman's Club in the City of Springfield.

Mr. Bird married Miss Mary W. Russell, a daughter of William Russell, a skilled machinist and a resident of Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Bird have no children. Mrs. Bird is a talented artist, and has been a successful art teacher, besides which many of her fine productions, in oils, water colors and pastel, have won many awards at public exhibitions of varied orders, her work including the most artistic of china painting. Mrs. Anna Russell, mother of Mrs. Bird, was born in 1840 and died in 1918. She was a daughter of the honored and loved pioneer physician Dr. Abel Whipple, of Springfield. Doctor Whipple was born in Massachusetts, in 1804, in 1835 was graduated in a medical school at Staunton, Virginia, and in 1866 he engaged in the practice of his profession at Springfield, where his death occurred in 1876. In 1836 the doctor married Mary Matson, daughter of John Matson, of Cincinnati. Doctor Whipple was a descendant of Benjamin Whipple, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. William M. Russell was born at Yonkers, New York, in 1840, and died at Springfield, Ohio, in 1900. In the period of the Civil war he was Government inspector of arms in the great Colt manufactory at Hartford, Connecticut. In 1866 he was sent to the far West, as a secret-service representative of the Government, and with a companion he was for a time lost in the desert of Death Valley, where he narrowly escaped death by starvation. John Matson, maternal grandfather of Mrs. Bird, was a member of the mili- tary expedition that visited the battle-ground and buried the dead after the defeat of General St. Clair in the War of 1812, and letters which he wrote in description of this event were published in a Cincinnati paper in 1845, a copy of this paper being in possession of Mrs. Bird, who also treasures a number of rare volumes from the library of her paternal grandfather, Doctor Whipple. ie

At the dedication of the new and modern centralized school building three miles east of Springfield Wallace G. Bird read a very interesting historical record which he had prepared and which gave data concerning educational work in the early days. From this address it is learned that the first school in Springfield Township was established in 1806 by Nathaniel Pinkered, a log house on the site of the present Lagonda Bank in Springfield being used for the school. The first school near the present centralized school three miles east of Springfield was taught by a man named Warrington. The school house here erected in the late '50s continued in use until the erection of the present modern building. In the paper prepared by Mr. Bird appear the following interesting records concerning pioneer settlement in this special community of Springfield Township: "James Reid and brother John came in 1802, from Virginia. James Rea came from Pennsylvania in 1802; John Dugan came in 1806, from Pennsylvania, and in the same year John and Jane Snodgrass came from Kentucky. Andrew Benson, of Virginia, came in 1806, and his brother George in 1807, their wives having been daughters of Robert and Mary Renick. In 1810 Mathew and Jane Wood came from Kentucky. In 1812 came Isaac Wood, a native of New York. John Foster came in 1808 and built the original mill on the site of the Junction Mill. Adam and Maria Alt were from Maryland. John Whitely, born in North Carolina, came from Kentucky in 1811, the maiden name of his wife having been Christina Hall. Their son Andrew became a leading citizen. In 1816 Luke Bird, a Baptist minister, came from Medford, Pennsylvania. His sons, Anthony, Herbert and Silas, became substantial citizens. John Stickney landed in New York in 1819 and the next year settled where his grandson, William J. Stickney, now lives, in Springfield Township. Thomas Crabill came in 1833, but was born in Moorefield Township, in 1810. Edward and Jane Richards came from Virginia in 1842. Among early teachers in this community were the following named: Dan Wuthard, Warrington and Humphreys, J. Q. Adams, Merrell Meade, Lanthun, Green, Stephen Hatfield, Nathan Wood, J. L. McClelland, Rachel Baer, James A. Bird, Dr. E. C. Harris, William Forrest, Kate Ruckman, John Wood, Mrs. William Forrest, John Finney, Mrs. Grace Finney, Rebecca May Collier, Doctor Spinning (who is still a resident), and many others."

HERBERT A. LEARN, station agent at Springfield for the Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati & St. Louis (Big Four) Railroad, was born at Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio, on the 27th of January, 1877. His father was a metal manufacturer and proprietor of well established metal works now located at Columbus, the Ohio capital city. The subject of this review was afforded the advantages of the públic schools, including those of Columbus, and he was eighteen years of age when, in 1895, he took a position as messenger in the service of the Columbus,

Shawnee & Hocking Railroad at Columbus. He later entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and remained at Columbus until 1898, when he was transferred to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On January 1: 1900, he entered the service of the Carnegie Steel Company, with which he there continued his connection until March 31, 1904. He then returned to Columbus and became assistant cashier and later cashier in the offices of the Big Four Railroad, a capacity in which he continued his effective services until February 10, 1910, when he was advanced to the post of chief clerk to the superintendent, W. G. Bayley. On the 28th of February, 1917, Mr. Learn was made Big Four station agent an the City of Sandusky, and there he remained until February 1, 1920, when he was transferred to Springfield and assigned to his present office, that of station agent for the same railroad system, a corps of sixty-five employes being here retained under his supervision. The local freight house has a capacity for holding the contents of fifty-two cars, and the freight facilities are of the most approved modern type. Freight shipped from the Big Four station at Springfield averages about 500 cars a month, with inbound freight cars averaging from 800 to 1,200 a month. The business here centered is of broad scope and importance as touching the industrial and commercial activities of this section of Ohio, and average about $250,000 monthly. Mr. Learn is an executive of marked ability, with splendid efficiency in the handling and directing of manifold details, and he is one of the representative and distinctly popular figures in railroad and business circles at Springfield.

GARRETT SHERLO established his residence in Clark County more than forty years ago, and here he achieved substantial success as a representative of farm industry, the while he so ordered his life in all its relations as to merit and receive the unqualified confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He developed and improved one of the fine farms of German Township, and on this old homestead he continued to reside until his death, in 1919, at the venerable age of seventy-nine years. His character and achievement were such as to render most consonant the tribute here offered to him and his memory.

Mr. Sherlo was born and reared in Germany and was sixteen years of age when, after the death of both of his parents, he came to the United States, his tangible possessions being represented in the contents of a small trunk, and he being entirely dependent upon his own efforts in making his way to independence and prosperity in the land of his adoption. He first established his residence in Preble County, Ohio, and his loyalty to his adopted country was shown when he went forth from that county as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war. In that county was solemnized his marriage with Miss Mary Jane Shuey, who preceded him to eternal rest by about three years. After leaving Preble County Mr. Sherlo was for a time engaged in farming in Champaign County, and it was from that county that he came to Clark County and purchased the farm of 130 acres in German Township. He made the best of permanent improvements on this place, including the excellent buildings, and made the farm one of the best in German Township, he having eventually sold a small portion of the land, so that the old homestead now comprises 103 acres. Mr. Sherlo was a loyal and public-spirited citizen, and while he had no desire for official preferment he made a characteristically excellent record during his incumbency of the position of township trustee. He was a republican in politics and was a zealous member of the Dutch Reformed Church at Springfield, as was also his wife. The one child, Delta Ada, was born and reared in Clark County. She became the wife of Samuel Amos Judd, who was born in Virginia, and they thereafter continued to reside on the old home farm of her parents until her death, September 9, 1911, at the age of forty-one years, her husband being now a resident of New Carlisle, this county. Delbert Sherlo Judd, only child of Samuel A. and Delta A. (Sherlo) Judd, now owns and resides upon the old home farm, which he received as heritage from his maternal grandfather and the active management of which is now vested in him, as a progressive young man of twenty-one years (1922).

Evan C. Price has devoted nearly thirty years to one of Springfield's prominent industries, the Indianapolis Switch Frog Company, entering the service of that corporation in a minor capacity and is now its vice president, secretary and treasurer. He is also president and treasurer of the Auto Signal Company.

Mr. Price was born in Champaign County, Ohio, at Powhattan, February 26, 1870. His father, Evan R. Price, as a young man was a clerk in the Baldwin stores in Clark County. He enlisted and served as a Union soldier with the Sixty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and after the war was in the implement business at Circleville and still later was a farmer. He married Mary Jane Wilson, a relative of the pioneer Baldwin family of Clark. County.

Evan C. Price was two years of age when his father died, and after that he was reared in Clark County in the home of his grandfather Wilson. He attended the common schools, had two years in the Ohio State University, and for a time was in the laundry business at Cleveland. He lost all his accumulations there during the panic of 1893, and somewhat later returned to Clark County and in 1894 went with the Indianapolis Switch and Frog Company.

Mr. Price has been very active in civic as well as business circles, and has particularly devoted time and means to the Y. M. C. A. He is a Presbyterian. For two years he was chairman of the committee handling the War Savings Stamps in Clark County. He is a member and director of the Chamber of Commerce.

THE RipceLY TRIMMER Company, of which Jerry K Williams is the active head, is a large and prosperous industry and one of the most distinctive of the manufacturing enterprises centered at Springfield. It is the only factory in the world devoting its energies exclusively to the making of tools and supplies for the benefit of the decorator, painter and paper hanger. These tools, the product of a long line of inventive effort and experience, have served to lighten the burden of the world's work, and at the same time have enabled an increasing proportion of the world's population to secure and enjoy the advantages of the decora- tive arts in their own homes. How the business started is an interesting story. As usual it started with an individual who recognized the need ft finding better methods, and had the inventive skill to devise something better than the tools then at his command.

This individual was Charles T. Ridgely, a paper hanger. When he first started work at his trade, like hundreds of other paper hangers at the time, he used a pair of shears with which to trim his paper. The use of shears continued until he decided that he could work much faster by using a knife. He designed a special knife for the purpose. Then one day while using it the knife slipped and one of his fingers was badly

His wife expostulated with him for using a knife, and said that after so many years of paper hanging he should be able to invent a safe and easy way of trimming paper. A woman's good advice and an accident were the original source of the invention of the Ridgely Trimmer. The first invention was relatively crude, and modern implements manufactured under the Ridgely name have only the basic principle in common with the first trimmer devised by Charles T. Ridgely about 1882.

Shortly after he had devised the invention, Mark Smith, a son of Mark Smith, who was a pioneer of Springfield, obtained an interest in it, and together these men made an exhibit of the trimmer at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. Their trimmer was awarded the only prize given to any device of that kind. This trimmer combined a straight edge and knife, and was used after the paste was applied. The softer the paper became the easier the machine worked and without danger of cutting the hand, chipping the straight edges or snagging the paper. A self-connecting gauge cuts the rotary blade against the straight edge and enables the operator to cut any weight paper without changing the gauge in the least.

It was in September, 1900, that Mr. Jerry K. Williams acquired the ownership of the Ridgely patents and plant. He organized a stock company known as the Ridgely Trimmer Company, and has been actively identified with the concern ever since and is its real directing head. When he took hold of the Ridgely Trimmer Company the output was one wall paper trimmer and one seam roller. The trimmer, which was then the dominating feature of the business, is now obsolete, and subsequent improvements and patents have resulted in a marvelously accurate and efficient machine now known throughout the world. Other devices have been incorporated in the manufacturing until the company now produces every tool known for the use of the decorator, painter or paper hanger. The company even employs experimental engineers whose sole business it is to devise or perfect tools that will relieve the hard work of the trade, produce more work with the same amount of labor and time, and add in general to the efficiency of an important branch of the constructive art.

The Ridgely Trimmer Company has a world-wide business. It owns a warehouse in England, and handles its business in Continental Europe, as it does in the United States, through its own salesmen and through jobbers. The company also has warehouses in Australia and South America. In the United States their warehouses are in New York City

Springfield is the parent office, and the main manufacturing plant is also in this city. In the plant are employed from a hundred to four hundred persons. During the World war this company had on its payroll 1,100 people, and the entire organization was devoted to the making of what is termed technically "Stick Controls" but is known better by the public as steering gears for airships. In the Ridgely factory at Springfield not less than ninety percent of the airship steering apparatus in America was manufactured during that period.

Ethan A. Williams, father of Jerry K., was born in New York State and came to Springfield, Ohio, when a boy. Here he became acquainted with Catherine Schaeffer, daughter of William N. Schaeffer, and they were married. Of their ten children seven died within ten days of each other from black scarlet fever. Ethan A. Williams was a civil engineer and laid out the old Ohio Southern Railroad, being paid for his work in script. Subsequently he branched out in general contracting. He was a graduate of Harvard College, a member of the Episcopal Church, and in an unostentatious way did much good in his community. Many residents of Springfield still recall his kindly character and his acts of substantial charity.

Jerry K. Williams, only survivor of his father's family, was born at Springfield, February 4, 1868. He was not reared in wealth nor, on the other hand, in poverty, but from an early age his independent spirit took him into practical work and he really paid his expenses while finishing his education in high school. He did work at night and also carried groceries to the home of Mr. Prince and others. After completing his education he worked in different lines until he took over the Ridgely Trimmer Company, and in the success of that great enterprise he has been the primary factor.

In 1886 Mr. Williams married Sara A. Stokes, of Bellefontaine, Ohio. Two children were born to their marriage, a son and daughter, the latter dying at the age of three months. The son, Harry S. Williams, died at the age of thirty-three, and at the time of his death was actively engaged in the Ridgely Trimmer Company. He was married and is survived by two children, Sara R. Williams, Jr., and Jerry K. Williams, Jr., aged respectively seven and eleven years.

Mr. Williams is a member of the Christian Science Church, is a republican, belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, Lagonda Club, Rotary Club and Country Club, is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a life member of the Knights of Pythias, and life member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Commercial Travelers.

ALBERT W. Dyer. It has been claimed that no one who has once entered the newspaper business is ever satisfied outside of it; that there is a fascination in the work which cannot be resisted. Certain it is that its followers work harder for less substantial return than almost any class, receiving as their reward the satisfaction in having borne a part in shaping public policies and advocating in popular form improvements. Upon the shoulders of the conscientious newspaper man rests heavv responsibilities, and if he is faithful to high ideals he is certain of effect- ing much good and accomplishing constructive work of a high order. Albert W. Dyer, proprietor and publisher of the South Charleston Sentinel, is a man whose experience in newspaper work is a wide and comprehensive one and whose efforts have been principally expended in this line of endeavor. He was born at Springfield, Ohio, March 8, 1882.

The parents of Albert W. Dyer, John and Mary (Hunt) Dyer, are natives of Taunton, England, where John Dyer was born October 29, 1853. They were reared and educated in their native place, he attending the public schools and she a private one. In 1880 John Dyer came to the United States and located at Springfield, Ohio. Engaging with tbe William M. Whitely Company, he has continued with this concern and its successors ever since as an experimental man. Mrs. Dyer was born March 6, 1861, and she came to the United States about 1879. She and her husband were married at Springfield, Ohio, where they have since maintained their residence. Originally Church of England people, they are now communicants of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Dyer belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Order of Ben Hur, and in politics he is a republican. He and his wife had three children born to them, of whom two now survive, Albert W. and his brother, Clifford J., a high-chool graduate, now teller for the Farmers National Bank of Springfield, Ohio.

The boyhood and youth of Albert W. Dyer were spent at Springfield, where he attended the public schools and where he took a commercial course in the Willis Business University, being one of its graduates. His first position was that of stenographer with the Floral Publishing Company, and he held it for three years. For the subsequent three years he was stenographer for the Evans Manufacturing Company, and then, leaving that concern, he went to Toronto, Canada, and for a time was with the ad department of the Montreal Star. Severing these connections Mr. Dyer returned to the United States and became ad manager of the Chautauqua publications at Chautauqua, New York. After two years in that position he came back to Springfield, Ohio, and became manager of Floral Life. Subsequently he went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as circulation manager of Suburban Life. Once more he returned to Springfield, and for four years was with the American Seeding Machine Company, but then returned to newspaper work as editor and publisher of the Mayville, New York, Sentinel, continuing with this journal for six years. It was at the termination of that period that he came to South Charleston and bought the South Charleston Sentinel, and entered upon his present field of usefulness.

On October 10, 1906, Mr. Dyer married Augusta Ehrle, born at Springfield, a daughter of Fred and Katherine (Kohler) Ehrle. Mrs. - Dyer attended the common and high schools of Springfield, and the Willis Business University, of which she, too, is a graduate. For a time she was with the Floral Publishing Company of Springfield as stenographer, and later with the Crowell Publishing Company in its advertising department. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer have three children, namely: Dorothy, Marjorie and John F. The Dyers are communicants of the Episcopal Church. A Mason, Mr. Dyer belongs to Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M. He is a strong republican, but has never cared to make the race for public office. Both he and Mrs. Dyer are the center of a congenial circle, and their pleasant home is the scene of many delightful gatherings. As a citizen Mr. Dyer stands exceptionally high in popular esteem, and he is making his one of the best country papers in Ohio.

FINDLEY W. Smaw has a record of vigorous and successful achievement as one of the substantial exponents of farm industry in Clark County, has the distinction of being a native son of the Buckeye State and is a scion of a sterling pioneer family of Ohio. His well improved farm estate is situated in Greene Township and his postoffice address is Yellow Springs.

Mr. Shaw was born in Greene County, Ohio, January 11, 1856, and is a son of Robert and Polly (Wilson) Shaw, the former of whom was born near Trenton, New Jersey, in 1804, and the latter of whom was born in Massachusetts, in 1812, both having been young at the time when the respective families established pioneer homes in Ohio. The marriage of Robert Shaw and Polly Wilson was solemnized when they were young folk, and they settled on a farm in Greene County, where their first child was born in the year 1835. Later they removed to a farm two miles west of the original place, and two years prior to his death Mr. Shaw came to Greene Township, Clark County, where he died in 1886, his devoted wife having passed to eternal rest in 1882 and having been an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church. Of their eleven children six are living in 1922, and of the eleven the subject of this sketch is the youngest. Cyrus is a farmer in Greene Township and is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; Margaret is the widow of John Kemp and resides at Hammond, Louisiana; Lydia is the widow of Abraham Rasner and resides near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Horace is a resident of Yellow Springs, Clark County; and John is another of the prosperous farmers of Greene Township, this county.

Findley W. Shaw was reared on the old home farm: in Greene County, where he remained until he had attained to his legal majority, his educational advantages in the meanwhile having been those of the public schools of his native county. He has never found it expedient to sever his allegiance to the basic industries of agriculture and stockgrowing, through the medium of which he has won substantial prosperity. His fine home farm comprises sixty acres of the excellent land of Greene Township, and he is one of the loyal and representative citizens Of that township. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Presbyterian Church at Yellow Springs, of which he is a trustee.

December 31, 1878, recorded the marriage of Mr. Shaw and Miss Anna Patton, who was born May 11, 1858, in Greene Township, and who has lived continuously in this township, where her parents were early settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have a fine family of ten children, concerning whom brief record is given in conclusion of this review: Emerson graduated from Cedarville College and is now principal of public schools in the State of Minnesota: Raymond likewise eraduated from Cedarville College, and later completed a course in the Ohio State University, he being now engaged in the real estate business at Columbus, this state; Wilbur graduated from the law department of Valparaiso

University, at Valparaiso, Indiana, and is now engaged in the real estate business in Baltimore, Maryland; Walter, a graduate of the Ohio State University, is now in charge of the boys' institution known as Welcome Hall, in the City of Brooklyn, New York; Rev. Edward B. is a graduate of the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pennsylvania., and is now pastor of North Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Minnie, who remains at the parental home, is likewise a graduate of the Ohio State University; Paul M., a graduate of the high school at Clifton, is now associated with his brother Raymond in the real estate business in the City of Columbus; John P. was graduated from the Clifton High School and later attended Antioch College, is associated in the management of the home farm; Nettie graduated from the high school, thereafter was for three years a student at Cedarville College, and is now teaching public school; Ruth E. is attending Cedarville College. Paul M. and John P. represented Ohio in the nation's military service in the World war period, Paul having accompanied his command to France, where he twice went "over the top" and where he suffered from a gas attack while at the front. John was in service at Camp Perry, Ohio, and was not called overseas.

Oscar T. AND PauL C. Marrin. The name of Martin is associated with the legal history of Clark County, both Oscar T. Martin, now deceased, and his son and successor, Paul C. Martin, adding distinction to their profession by their own capabilities and actions. The late Oscar T. Martin was born January 25, 1848, and died May 1,1913. He was a son of David M. Martin, who with his family moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Osborn, Greene County, Ohio, about 1854, and became a justice of the peace and a man of considerable local popularity. His wife, the mother of Oscar T. Martin, was Mary Brenneman. Oscar T. Martin was reared in Greene County, where he attended school, and where he taught school for a time. Enrolling at Wittenberg College, he took its regular course and was graduated therefrom in 1868. For some time thereafter he was interested in local newspaper work, becoming a reporter and later editor of the old Advertiser. This was, however, but the preliminary action to his study of the law with Keifer & White, and about 1873 he was admitted to the bar and at once began an active practice that was only terminated with his death.

In 1873 Oscar T. Martin married Mary S. McCoy, and they became the parents of Paul C. Martin. Oscar T. Martin developed into one of the foremost lawyers of his time, and combined with his professional skill he possessed more than ordinary business qualifications. He was a tremendous worker and very industrious and became attorney for some of the great corporations, and was the personal attorney and friend of the late Governor Bushnell. In 1904 he succeeded Governor Bushnell as president of the First National Bank of Springfield, and served as such until his death. He took a keen interest in all local matters, and was a zealous member of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Martin was a loyal friend, and while he never ran for office he sacrificed time in furthering the political ambitions of his associates. In 1901 he organized the law firm of Martin & Martin, the junior member being his son, Paul C. Martin, and the latter, after his father's death, continued alone

Paul C. Martin graduated from Princeton in 1898 and has since then practiced law at Springfield. He married Bessie, the only child of William M. Black, one of the old-time and honored men of Springfield. Mr. Martin has been identified with many of the local industries of Springfield. In recent years, in addition to an extensive law practice, he has aided in the progress of many public and semi-public utilities with which he is connected.

Horatio STRONG BRADLEY. One of the longest records of personal service in the industrial affairs of Springfield might properly be claimed by Horatio Strong Bradley, who came to the city nearly fifty years ago and has long enjoyed a place of power and prestige among local manufacturers and bankers. Mr. Bradley is president of the Lagonda Manufacturing Company, vice president of the Springfield Advance Machine Company, and vice president of the Springfield National Bank.

He was born at Ashland, Ohio, February 4, 1853, son of Rev. Horatio S. and Sarah (Patterson) Bradley. His parents are now deceased. His father for a long period years was an active minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and held charges at many points in the Ohio Conference.

H. S. Bradley lived with his parents in the different towns and cities where his father was a pastor. The longest period of residence during his boyhood was at Delaware, Ohio, where he acquired most of his public school education, and in the same city he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was graduated with the A. B. degree in 1872. The following year Mr. Bradley went to work in a bank at Hartford City, Indiana, but after a short time came to Springfield, in 1873, and here he worked for a time as a bookkeeper in a drug house. His first important position among the manufacturing interests of the city was as cashier for the St. John Sewing Machine Company. He was associated with that old-time industry for a number of years. Later, with Gustavus Foos, he became one of the organizers of the Foos Manufacturing Company, a business now continued as the Bauer Brothers Manufacturing Company. Mr. Bradley organized the Lagonda Manufacturing Company in 1903. This is a local industry for the manufacture of a line of steam specialties, and its output is distributed all over the country. Mr. Bradley has been president of the company from the beginning. This and other connections above noted constitute for him a busy program in the commercial life of Springfield.

However, he has accepted responsibilities in other departments of life, and since 1908 has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio Wesleyan University, his alma mater. He is a trustee of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church and a member of the Y. M. C. A. Socially he belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Lagonda and Country Clubs. Mr. Bradley married Miss Nannie Gunn. Her father, sonal leaders in Springfield industry have likewise been accorded distinction among the industrial leaders of the country, and one of these is W. H. Stackhouse.

His personal career has been closely associated for many years with what was formerly known as the Bettendorf Metal Wheel Company of Davenport, Iowa. This corporation in 1890 established a branch at Springfield. The company manufactured metal wheels for agricultural implements, and the output was sold to implement manufacturers. Some years ago the business was converted into an unlimited partnership, as it is at present, the principal stockholders then being G. Watson French, Nathaniel French and J. L. Hecht, all of Davenport. Nathaniel French is now deceased. W. H. Stackhouse in 1898 became an owner in the business, and has had the complete management at Springfield for the past fifteen years. This is a business employing some four hundred hands, and the product is sold through manufacturers all over the civilized world. On March 1, 1922, he became general manager of the firm, with headquarters at the Davenport, Iowa, plant, though retaining his residence in Springfield.

Mr. Stackhouse was born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1865, son of Samuel S. and Ann (Humphreys) Stackhouse, of English and Scotch lineage. He was educated at Davenport, Iowa, and for twenty-five years has been identified with the French and Hecht business. Prior to that he served under appointment from President Cleveland as collector of internal revenue for the southern district of Iowa.

Mr. Stackhouse has been president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, president of the Springfield Manufacturers Association, and for a number of years has been a member of the National Industrial Conference Board of New York City. He is also a former president of the National Implement and Vehicle Manufacturers Association, and a member of the National Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a national councillor.

Mr. Stackhouse was one of the men invited by President Harding to a conference at St. Augustine, Florida, in February, 1921, relative to the subject of Federal taxation. He made an oral argument on this measure before the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives in August, 1921. President Harding also invited him to participation in the National Conference on unemployment, held in September, 1921, and he was chairman of the Manufacturers Committee. During April, 1921, he was one of the thirty-six men summoned from different parts of the United States to confer with Secretary Hoover on the reorganization of the Governmental departments at Washington and to consider the matter of making the Department of Commerce most beneficial to the public. At this conference an Executory Advisory Committee of five was created to act in an advisory capacity to the secretary, and Mr. Stackhouse is one of the members of this committee. During January, 1922, upon invitation of President Harding, he participated in the National Agricultural Conference at ington, District of Columbia. 2 ; a E is an independent republican, and is a Catholic. He is married and has nine children and two grandchildren.

Epwin L. Suury, Jr. Six miles from the center of Springfield, in Moorefield Township, Clark County, is situated Amedsa Hills Farm, the productive and well-improved property belonging to the Shuey family, and under the superintendence of Edwin L. Shuey, Jr., the only son, an enterprising agriculturist of this region. Mr. Shuey formerly had several important business connections in the larger cities, but has found his chief enjoyment and prosperity in the midst of his farm, where he is operating successfully in the fields of farming and stockraising.

Mr. Shuey was born at Dayton, Ohio, January 3, 1887, and is a son of Edwin L. and Effie (Mitchell) Shuey. Edwin L. Shuey was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 3, 1857, and as a child was taken by his parents to Dayton, where he was reared and where his education was acquired in the public schools. After attending high school he entered Otterbein College, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and subsequently was granted the degree of Master of Arts. A few years ago he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. On August 15, 1882, he married Effie Mitchell, who was born at Springfield, and who had been a student at Wittenberg College. Following their union they settled at Westerville, Franklin County, Ohio, where Mr. Shuey was an instructor in the college for four years. They then removed to Dayton, where they have since resided, Mr. Shuey being connected with several of the largest business enterprises of that city. For many years he has served as a director of the Dayton Young Men's Christian Association and is a member of the International Committee of that organization. He has always been active in the civic and religious organizations of his city and of the country. Mr. Shuey is president of the Board of Trustees of the First United Brethren Church of Dayton. In politics he is a republican. He has served as a member of the School Board, and is now president of the State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (1922). He and Mrs. Shuey are the parents of three children: Amy M., the wife of A. G. Bookwalter, of New York; Sarah Catharine, the wife of J. Bard McCandless, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Edwin L., Jr.

Edwin L. Shuey, Jr., was reared at Dayton, where he was graduated from the Steele High School, following which he entered Oberlin College and was a member of the graduating class of 1909, when he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then took a position with the Delco organization at Dayton as assistant to the treasurer, remaining in that capacity for two years, when he resigned and joined the Berryhill Nursery, holding an active position for one year. He is still assistant treasurer of this concern, which is now located at Amedsa Hills Farm. When he left Dayton Mr. Shuey came to his present handsome property, where he raises large crops of all the standard grains, and makes a specialty of breeding Hampshire hogs. He is a modern agriculturist, stockman and nurseryman in every respect, and during his ten years on his Moorefield Township place has made numerous improvements.

Mr. Shuey is a member of the First United Brethren Church of Dayton and holds an official position and membership in the Young Men's Christian Association at Dayton and Springfield. He is also a member of the State Boys' Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association of Ohio.

GEORGE C. AGLE has been one of the hardest working citizens of Clark County. He toiled during his youth and early manhood to earn his,own living and help support the family. For many years he was a farm renter, and gradually progressed to a point where he was able to acquire land of his own, and he is now dwelling in comfortable prosperity, owner of a fine farm on rural route No. 1 out of South Vienna, in Harmony Township.

Mr. Agle was born in Bethel Township of Clark County, May 12, 1858, son of Philip and Elizabeth (Kriegbaum) Agle. His father was born in Germany in 1832, and was brought to this country in 1835 by his parents, who located near Springfield. Philip Agle was put on his own resources when a boy, worked in brick yards, and subsequently established a brick plant of his own at Donnelsville in Clark County, and lived there until he was accidentally killed in 1867, at the age of thirtyfive. His wife was a native of Germany, came to the United States at the age of nineteen, was married in Springfield and then moved to Donnelsville. The parents were Lutherans, and the father was a republican in politics. Of their seven children two are living: George C. and Philip, the latter a farmer five miles south of Springfield.

George C. Agle was born at Donnelsville, and acquired only a common school education. While in school he worked on holidays and during the summer season, later worked in a brick yard for his board and clothes and for two years was employed in a tile factory. He also did farm work for monthly wages, and later rented and farmed a place three years. He operated a farm of ninety-six acres on the shares, living there with his mother and sister for two years.

January 21, 1886, Mr. Agle married Flora Seifert, who was born in Greene County, Ohio, in October 1861. After his marriage Mr. Agle rented a 170 acre place for two years, then a farm of two hundred and two acres in Madison Township for four years, and subsequently took another place of two hundred and fifty-two acres in Harmony Township. He was located there fourteen years and still later moved to a farm of 306 acres, where he also lived fourteen years. During this time he purchased his present farm. Since then he has lived on his own place of two hundred and fifty-eight acres. Mr. Agle has been very systematic in his farm management, and much of his prosperity has been gained by the growing of hogs. He was at one time a breeder of Poland Chinas, and his present stock is largely Durocs.

While on the farm of two hundred and fifty-two acres his good wife died, in May, 1905. She was the mother of nine children: Glenna E., Blanche E., Edwin C., Ralph N., George J., Clara M., Nettie M., Mary B. and Fannie M. All are living except Mary B. The children are all graduates of the Harmony Township High School, and four of the daughters became successful teachers. The family are members of the Lutheran Church but attend the Christian Church, and Mr. Agle is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Plattsburg Church. He is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and Elks Lodge of Springfield, is a republican, and has taken an active part in public affairs, serving two terms as township trustee, has been a member and former treasurer of the Clark County Agricultural Association, and for twenty-six years was a member of the Board of Education.

Jonn GERMAN is one of the native sons of Clark County who here continues as a progressive and substantial representative of farm industry, his well improved farm being situated in German Township, seven miles west of Springfield, and he is trustee of this township at the time of this writing, in 1922.

Mr. German was born in Springfield Township, this county, September 22, 1864, and is a son of Peter and Margaret (Geron) German. Peter German was born and reared in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, where he learned the trade of miller and where he remained until he was seventeen years of age, when he came to the United States and established his residence in Clark County, Ohio, where one of his sisters had previously located. On his immigration he was accompanied by his brother Baltzer, and they landed at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with their supply of funds entirely exhausted. The two brothers came to Clark County, and here both found employment at farm work. Peter entered the employ of Peter Sintz, of Springfield Township, and this sterling citizen and successful farmer assisted the two young German lads in getting a start in the land of their adoption. Peter German later worked in the saw mill and on the farm of Mark Snyder, and at the age of twenty-four years he married Miss Margaret Geron, who was then nineteen years of age. She was likewise a native of Hesse-Darmstadt and was thirteen years old when she came to America and found a home with her uncle, John Loomis, in Clark County. After his marriage Peter German farmed on rented land for a few years and then he purchased fifty acres on the National Turnpike, in Springfield Township. For this property he paid thirty dollars an acre, and on the same he and his young wife established their home in a pioneer log house. Until he could make his own land available for the raising of crops he rented fields of his former employer, Peter Sintz, and by energy and good management he made each successive year count in progress to the goal of independence and prosperity. He became the owner of an excellent farm of ninetyfive acres three miles distant from Springfield, and on this homestead he continued to reside until his death, in the early '90s, at the age of sixty-one years, his life having been shortened by an injury which he had received while cutting corn. His widow survived him eight years, and was likewise sixty-one years of age at the time of death. Of their children Lizzie became the wife of John Schneider, and she died at the age of fifty-four years; Margaret, wife of Peter Winkler, died at the age of forty-two years; George was fifty-one years of age at the time of his death; Peter is a carpenter by trade and resides in the City of Springfield; John, of this sketch, was the next in order of birth; Adam remains on the old home farm in Springfield Township; Anna is the wife of George Schneider, of Springfield; and Jacob died at the age of forty years.

John German was reared on the old home farm and gained his early education in the district schools. He was associated with his father in dairy farming, and continued his residence on the old homestead until 1896, when he purchased and removed to his present place of 185 acres, known as the old George Miranda farm and situated on the Troy Turnpike. For this property, which has greatly advanced in value under his progressive management. he paid forty-two dollars an acre. The farm was in a run-down condition and he forthwith began the development of an effective system of tile drainage, the place at the present time having 6,000 rods of tile drains, it having been necessary for him to force an outlet through farms owned by others, his example having since been effectively emulated by other landholders of the locality, who have found tile drainage of inestimable value. Mr. German has continued successfully his enterprise of dairy farming, and makes a specialty of breeding Shorthorn cattle and the general feeding and raising of cattle and hogs. He has won through his own ability and efforts a substantial prosperity and is the owner of a farm of 170 acres in Champaign County, this place . being utilized for pasture and being five miles distant from his fine home farm. Mr. German has made the best of permanent improvements on his home farm, including the erection of modern buildings, silos, etc., ` and the place is now one of the model farms of Clark County. In his civic relations Mr. German has shown the same progressive spirit and loyalty that have marked his individual enterprise. He served eight years as a member of the School Board of his district, and was in tenure of this office at the time when centralization of the schools was effected, there being now but three schools in Springfield Township outside of the county seat, and the work of these centralized schools have been brought to a high standard. The secure place which Mr. German has in popular confidence and esteem was further indicated when, in 1921, he was elected trustee of German Township. He assumed the duties of this office January 1, 1922, and is giving special attention to the maintaining of good roads, he being responsible for the upkeep of eight miles of road in his township. He is a staunch advocate of the principles of the democratic party and has been active in its local councils. He is an active member of the Farm Bureau of Clark County, and he and his wife are communicants of the German Lutheran Church at Springfield.

At the age of twenty-four years Mr. German married Miss Mollie Ellinger, who died three years later and who left no children. For his second wife Mr. German wedded Miss Mary Rader, of Springfield, and they have five children: John Henry, Baltzer, Margaret, Minnie anc Helen. All of the children remain at the parental home with the exception of Margaret, who is the wife of Clarence Bishop, a farmer in the vicinity of the old home of her parents.

Rev. Harry TRUST, pastor of the Congregational Church at Springfield, has been a member of this community since 1921, and has already won the love and respect of a wide circle both within his own church, as well as those who have come to know him in his other duties. He has been a faithful pastor to his flock, not only here but elsewhere, and has impressed all with his disinterested work in the cause he serves; he has been a foremost factor in all of the movements for the betterment of the moral standards of the country, and conscientious in the discharge of his manifold duties. He has been fearless in denunciation of that which he thought was wrong, and has preached a gospel of action with power and eloquence. .

Doctor Trust was born of an old Devonshire family at Ivybridge, Devon, England, January 11, 1883. He was graduated from the public schools of England, and for two years was a student of the University of London, and then came to the United States, where he entered the theological seminary of Bangor, Maine, and was graduated therefrom, and from Bowdoin College, in 1916, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His first pastorate was at Winthrop, Maine, from whence he was sent to Biddeford, Maine, and in 1921, to Springfield.

He is secretary of the Clark County Ministerial Association, assistant moderator of the State Conference of Congregational Churches of Ohio, and president of the Boy Scouts of Springfield. He does not confine his work to those duties strictly pertaining to the ministry, but is always seeking to broaden the scope of his influence, and has taught the Bible in the Young Men's Christian Association, is active in the Brotherhood of the Congregational Church, and is a member of the Exchange Club.

On January 3, 1917, Rev. Mr. Trust married Miss Lillian Effie Knowlton, who was born on Deer Isle, Maine, and is a member of a family which traces its ancestry back to the time of William the Conqueror. The Knowltons have resided in this country since its Colonial period and members of it have participated in all of its wars, beginning with the American Revolution. She is eminently fitted for the exacting duties of a minister's wife, and shares with her husband the affectionate esteem of the people of Springfield.

THE Goop Family of Springfield was settled in Pennsylvania long before the start of the war of the American Revolution, its ancestors having come to America from Switzerland during the Quaker immigration of that early period. John Good, grandfather of the present generation of the family at Springfield, married Sarah Singer, like himself a native of Pennsylvania. Samuel Good, their son, and father of the present generation, was born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, August 13, 1826; and married Caroline Fisher, who was born at Ligonier, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1829. Her grandfather, Mathias Fisher, served on one of the Clark expeditions into this part of Ohio, was captured by the Indians at Fort Tecumseh, not far from Springfield, and was held a captive until his escape from them at Fort Niagara, he then returned to his Pennsylvania home.

At about the beginning of the Civil war John and Samuel Good removed their families to Virginia and settled at Cherry Camp, Harrison County (now Bristol, West Virginia), where they engaged in general merchandising and in handling coal, oil and timber land. At that place John Good and his wife died. In 1881 Samuel Good came to Springfield, his eldest son, the late John M. Good, having preceded him here three years. Samuel Good never engaged in business at Springfield, but lived retired until his death, January 25, 1892, his widow surviving him until October 8, 1916. To Samuel and Caroline (Fisher) Good there were born the following children: Alice Mary, born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1852, married C. A. Reese, of Springfield, and died in 1896; John M., born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1853, married Jessie Minnick, and died February 16, 1921; Jessie M., born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, November 2, 1856, was for several years assistant librarian of the Warder Library, Springfield, and in 1908 entered the florist business under the style of "Miss Jessie Good, florist and seedswoman," having since developed a large and very successful plant and seed business and shipping her products all over this country and to other lands; Harry Fisher and Frank Ernest. ¢ Harry Fisher Good was born at Cherry Camp, West Virginia, November 21, 1862. As a lad of ten years he went to live with his maternal uncle, Thomas A. Fisher, M. D. at LeRoy, Illinois, by whom he was reared. He graduated from LeRoy High School, secured a first-class teacher's certificate, and desired to teach, but was prevented by his youth from securing a school. In 1880 he entered Wittenberg College, where he spent one term, and then went to work in a greenhouse, which he left in the spring of 1890 to enter the employ of the Good 8 Reese Company, florists, the firm consisting of his brother, John M. Good, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Reese. He remained with this concern until 1901, in which year he embarked in the same business on his own account at Shreveport, Louisiana, but in the following year returned to Springfield and resumed his connection with the Good & Reese Company. In 1903 this was incorporated and Harry F. Good became a stockholder. At the time of the retirement of Mr. Reese he assumed the duties of secretary and treasurer of the company, but since then has given up the treasurership and now devotes his entire time to the secretarial duties. He is a member of Anthony Lodge No. 445, F. and A. M.; Red Star Lodge No. 205, K. of P.; and the Florists and Automobile Clubs of Springfield. His religious connection is with the Church of Christ. Mr. Good married Josephine Champane, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Davenport) Champane, of Springfield, and they have one son and one daughter: Chester Champane, born September 15, 1887; and Minnie May, born May 19, 1890.

Frank Ernest Good was born at Cherry Camp, West Virginia, December 11, 1864, and there received a public school education. Coming to Springfield in 1880, he went to work for C. A. Reese, florist, and when the company of Good & Reese was organized he became vice president thereof. On the death of his brother, John M. Good, in 1921, he succeeded him as president and so continues. He is recognized as one of the leading expert "rose men" of the entire country, the growing of rose plants having been his hobby as well as his business. He is a member of Red Star Lodge No. 205, K. of P., and a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Good married Miss Elizabeth M. Derr, who was born at Thermont, Maryland, daughter of John W. and Laura Virginia (Creager) Derr, and they have one daughter: Anna Laura, who married Clarence Butcher, of near South Charleston, Clark County.

HENRY-ARBOGAST FAMILIES. These are family names held in high honor in Clark County today, and they were in many ways typical of the sturdy virtues of the pioneers who settled and developed this section of Ohio. The families became related by the marriage of Walter C. Henry with Sarah Eliza Arbogast in the '60s.

The founder of the Henry family was William Henry (1768-1842), grandfather of Walter C. Henry. He came from Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1813, bringing with him his wife, Elizabeth Johnson Henry, (1775-1846) and a family which increased to twelve, all of whom married except the youngest daughter, as follows: Polly, married Jonathan

Jones, and had two sons; John, married Rachel Morris and had three sons and four daughters; Johnson, married Sarah McDaniels, had three sons and five daughters; Nancy (1808-1887), married James Heaton (1804-1887) and had two sons and two daughters; Hamilton, who married Rebecca Dalrymple, had two sons and six daughters; Martha (1804- 1890), married James Morris, and had ten sons and one daughter; Jonathan, married Caroline Chamberlin, and had six sons and five daughters; Sarah, married Amos Wright, and had three sons and one daughter; Benjamin, who was married and had one son; Lavina (1815-1899), married Michael Wilson, Jr. (1814-1879) had eight sons and four daughters; William, Jr., who was the father of two sons and one daughter; and Miss Elizabeth. Altogether there were about sixty grandchildren. Many of these answered the call of the West, and from all the numerous progeny the two little daughters of the late Carlton Henry of Plattsburg, Martha Rice Henry and Carlton Louise Henry are the only representatives in Clark County today bearing the family name Henry. With the exception of the numerous descendants of Lavina Henry Wilson there are today perhaps less than a score of lineal descendants of William Henry and Elizabeth Johnson in Clark County.

The well established tradition exists that there is some relationship between this branch of the Henry family and that of the "immortal Patrick," but no substantial evidence has so far been brought forward to establish proof of such relationship. Without the prestige of descent from such an historical character it should be noted that in this and many different localities a goodly number of ministers, lawyers, doctors, educators, successful farmers and business men sprang from the quiet, unobtrusive man, William Henry, a Christian gentleman, who is mentioned in a former Clark County history as "a kindly man much liked by everyone." He and his wife helped to organize the first Christian Church society at Plattsburg. Later the Christians and Universalists joined with other denominations to build an edifice called the "People's House," which still stands.

Jonathan Henry (1807-1868) married Caroline Chamberlin (1811- 1865) on October 20, 1833. Their old home was famed for its hospitality. In answer to an inquiry about this old homestead Miss Jean Canady of Plattsburg writes: "The main part of the old house is still standing on the Silvers farm. I have not been over to it for years, though as a child I was there every few days. Oh, what happy times we had there!" When the eleven Morris cousins and the twelve Wilson cousins came to visit Jonathan and Caroline and their eleven children 1t made quite a gathering, and several of those old time guests still remain to vouch for "those days of real sport."

The eleven children of Jonathan Henry and wife were: Walter Chamberlin, who married Sarah Eliza Arbogast; Stephen Herriman (1837- 1886) who married Anna Magennis; Mary Elizabeth (1838-1907) ; Hamilton Harrison (1840-1917) who married Amanda Welsh; William Isaac (1841-1863) ; Virginia Caroline (1843- ); Sarah Sophronia Caldwell (1844 ), second wife of J. M. Caldwell: George Washington (1847-1880), who married Elizabeth Lightner; Nancy, who died in infancy; Benjamin Franklin, (1849- ), who married Anna Conover: of Garnett, Kansas. Three of the sons, Stephen, Hamilton and Isaac, enlisted in Company K of the Thirty-first Ohio Infantry during the Civil war. Shephen was wounded at Chickamauga, Isaac, a color bearer, was killed at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, and Hamilton attained the rank of captain. Three of the daughters and three sons became successful teachers early in life. Twelve grandsons of William Henry served in the Civil war.

Walter C. Henry (1834-1913) and Sarah Eliza Arbogast (1839 -1894) were married September 22, 1863. The bride was the eldest daughter of Henry Arbogast (1815-1859) and Susan Climer (1816- A894). She was a granddaughter of Peter Arbogast (1770-1842) who emigrated from Virginia to Clark County in 1812. Born and reared in Clark County, Walter C. Henry and wife received such education as the schools of that time afforded, but both supplemented this early education with wide and varied reading. Walter Henry was a real student of books. With true prophetic instinct and an eager philanthropic desire to help his fellowman, he lived and thought in advance of his time. He was a third party prohibitionist when it took moral courage to be one, and he was equally in advance of the spirit of the times advocating woman's suffrage. He stood for a liberal religion, and he was never afraid to be in the minority.

The three children of this couple were: Caroline, Carlton and May Estelle. The last one of these to live in Clark County was the late Carlton Henry of Plattsburg. The only surviving child is May Estelle, now Mrs. Walter Jackson, of Chicago, who for many years has been a teacher in the Chicago public schools. The parents of these children when in middle life moved to London, Ohio, and spent their remaining years there.

Carlton Henry was reared at London, and as a child took a keen delight in books. Quite early his well trained, brilliant mind had accumulated a wealth of knowledge. The London High School, Ohio State University and Wittenberg College contributed to his education. He taught in both Madison and Clark counties, but after his marriage, in 1909, to Glenna Rice, daughter of the late James S. Rice and Angie (Busbey) Rice, of South Vienna, Located permanently in Plattsburg, where he acted as secretary and manager of the Home Telephone Company. Even after his removal to Clark County he continued for years to hold the position of assistant secretary of the Madison County Fair Association. In these capacities and as principal of the Harmony Township High School over a long period of years he had a wide acquaintance over Central Ohio, and his friends were legion. He was a member of Chandler Post, F. and A. M., of London, and was affiliated with the Universalist Church, as were his parents and grandparents. He was a republican in politics. ;

The Arbogast family had its original seat in the southwestern part of Germany, near Switzerland. They probably were of French Huguenot origin and the name is spelled in many ways. There is record of Balthazar Arngast, who came from Rotterdam to Pennsylvania on the ship Carteret on December 11, 1744; Johannes (1751), on the Edinburgh; and George (1750), on the Anderson. Michael Arngast (Michael Arbogast) took the oath of allegiance to the English Gov- ernment on going aboard the Speedwell, September 25, 1749, at Rotterdam, bound for Pennsylvania. Michael Arbogast (1734-1812) moved to what is now West Virginia, Pendleton County, in 1752. He was naturalized in Augusta County, Virginia, August 22, 1770, and served in the Second Battalion, Augusta County Cavalry troops, under Capt. Peter Hull of Pendleton or Highland County during the Yorktown campaign. The history of Highland County records that he owned 1,037 acres of land in 1800. The following list may not include all of his children: Adam (1760), married Margaret Hull; David, married, July 4, 1785, Elizabeth Fleisher; Mary, married in 1785 James Mullenax ; John (a lieutenant in 1794) married Hannah Davis; George, married in 1791 Catharine Yeager; Michael, Jr., who died in 1813, married Barbara Buzzard; Henry, who died in 1844, married Sophia Wade and, second, Elizabeth Seyfert; Peter (1770-1842), married Sarah Henderson (1781-1850), and was a twin brother of Henry. Several of these sons were with their father in the Revolutionary war and also in the War of 1812. They were all Jarge men, a family characteristic even today. The Arbogasts of Clark County are all descendants of three of Michael's sons, David, Michael, Jr., and Peter, who migrated to Clark County about 1812. David settled later in Madison County, Indiana, where he died. The other two sons both died in Clark County. Peter came to Clark County from what is now Hampshire County, West Virginia, bringing a family of several children. These and the children subsequently born made up the following list: Cornelius (1801-1883) married Sarah Davison and was the father of four sons and four daughters; Priscilla, who married Jacob Smith, and had two sons and two daughters; Otho, who had two sons and one daughter; Margaret, who married William Carl, and had two sons and three daughters; Lydia, (1818-1889), who married William Cheney (1816-1897); Malinda, who married Willis Climer, had three sons and six daughters; Susan married John Wilkinson, and had one son and four daughters; Mary, who married Jonathan Hardman, had three sons and three daughters; and Henry (1815-1859), who married Susan Climer (1816-1894) had four sons and two daughters. Over forty grandchildren are represented in this list, and these may be found in every walk of life, thrifty industrious citizens. The home of Peter Arbogast was used for religious services held by a "New Light" minister named Enoch Harvey. = The story of the coming of this pioneer family is graphically told by a grandson, Albert Arbogast, in a personal letter, used herewith: "In regard to my grandfather, Peter Arbogast, he was born and raised near Romney, Hampshire County, Virginia. He was married to Sarah Henderson several years before he sold his farm and moved to Ohio in 1812, while the war was going on with England. Aunt Priscilla Smith was large enough to walk in the rear of grandfather's wagon and chock the wagon with a forked handspike which she placed against the rim and a spoke in the hind wheel in going up the mountains. Grandfather hired a man named Seebert to drive his six-horse team through to Ohio and to work for him for a year, for which service he was to receive a horse. There were probably some four or five large covered wagons in the party. Grandfather's part seems to have been to keep in hearing of the wagons, and with his trusty gun "Friday" he kept the entire party in the choicest deer and bear meat, such game being plentiful. There seemed to be no trouble with Indians, and the expedition was successful except for a most unfortunate accident. In a sudden lurch of one of tHe wagons a child fell over the side and was seriously injured. All the wagons were halted, and examination showed the injury was probably fatal. A prayer meeting was held and Uncle Cornelius stated it seemed to him that prayers were enough to melt the adamantine rocks of the towering mountains; but all relief was of no avail and the little one passed away. With such implements as they had a grave was hollowed out on a mountain side and with impressive services the funeral was concluded and the weeping party went forward on the long journey. The first people accosted in Ohio by grandfather were two brothers named Ellsworth, whose relatives are still found in eastern Clark County. They told him there was one piece of land left unentered in their settlement; but nobody would have it. After examination Peter Arbogast thought the land worthy of purchase, and his judgment must have been fair, as his great-grandson (Amos Smith), still owns it and lives on the same place. This farm has been in the family one hundred and ten years. The next day, leaving his family in the covered wagon, grandfather on horseback started for the General Land Office at Cincinnati, purchased the land and returned from the long ride in just three weeks. Then grandfather, Seebert and probably Uncle Cornelius, a lad of eleven, went into the nearby timber and soon had the round logs ready for a house. Venison and corn had to be provided for a dinner for the great event of house raising. Invitations were sent out for miles around, and when the day came the Foleys, the Ellsworths, the Coffeys, the Clarks, the McConkeys and the Engles were all there. The strength and skill displayed by those hardy pioneers is something wonderful. By noon the house was up, with a puncheon floor, stone fireplace, stick chimney, properly daubed with clay, as were the chinks between the logs, a door made of split boards, pinned together with wooden pins, leather hinges and a latch string. The roof was made of clapboards held on by logs reaching the whole length of the house. The men came generally on horseback, with their wives riding behind on the same horse. The women were equal to the occasion, as they always are, and a bounteous dinner was ready for the tired and hungry men, consisting of the best venison and corn bread, served 'stand up and help yourself.' Then was held a shooting match with rifles at a white patch one inch square placed on a charred board at a distance of one hundred yards. A marksman named Engle drove center three times offhand at this distance. ;

"Grandmother Arbogast was described as quite tall and straight, with jet black hair, of Irish stock and considered by some to be proud." If Sarah Henderson deserved the reputation which has lived through the years she had reason to hold a certain kind of pride. An efficient nurse and wonderful skill at her loom, were two of her accomplishments. One of her wonderful blue and white coverlids is still in the family, as handsome as it was the day it left her loom. Her handicraft was equaled if not surpassed by the wonderful embroideries and other needlework of her granddaughter, Eliza, whose work has been exhibited and admired by art critics in Chicago and elsewhere.