Troy Township (part 11 of 12)

Charles Tilson Grant was reared on his father's farm in Brown Townshp, which he helped to clear. He attended an old log school, taught by Cynthia Finch, two miles distant from his home. He followed farming on the home place, having bought out the other heirs, and lived there until in the nineties, when he retired from active business and located in Ashley. He sold the farm in 1903.

February 17. 1861, Mr. Grant married Diana Hibbard, who was born January 6, 1X42. in Morrow County, and was a daughter of Lucius Hibbard. She died July [2, 1905. leaving two children - Horace Plum and Mary Emma. Horace Plum, horn April 8, 1862, lives in Ashley. He married May Perfect and had a son, I. eon, and formed a second union with Daisy Gano ; Mary Emma, second child nf Mr. and Airs. Grant, horn July 12. r866 married Eugene Watters and has a daughter Shirley. I'< litically, Mr. Grant is a Democrat and served as infirmary director three flOHX WASHINGTON NASH, who was, for many years, one of Delaware County's substantial men and honorable and upright citizens, acquired and left intact a valuable farm of 148 acres, situated in Berkshire Township, and adjoining- the city of Galena, on the west. Mr. Nash was a Virginian and was born in the capital city of Richmond, September 14. 18,7. son of John W. and Martha (Green) Nash. His grandparents were natives of England.

The parents of Mr. Nash both died when he was about 10 years of age. but he continued for about seven years longer to reside at Richmond, and then accompanied a family named Shaffer, to Delaware County. For some time he continued to live with this family, and assisted them in getting settled. but later engaged in farm \v< irk throughout 1 Delaware County. After his marriage, in 1 84 1. he rented a farm for one year and then bought what was known as the Williams farm, containing 148 acres. This property he always retained and continued to improve it as long as he lived. He also acquired other farms and became known as a capitalist and financier. He owned stock and was a member of the Board of Directors of both the Sunbury and Westerville banks. During the larger part of his life he was engaged in general farming and stock-raising. Mr. Nash was a man of exemplary life and he was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. At various times and when his fellow citizens demanded it. he accepted the duties of public office, and he ever proved a faithful, efficient and valuable official. In his political views he was a Democrat.

On September .21, 1841, Mr. Nash was married to Sarah Ann Rose, who was born near Galena. Ohio. February jo. 1820, and who died Jul\ 9, [897, surviving her husband from March 30, [893. She was a daughter of

James and Elizabeth (Slosson) Rose, who were natives of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Nash had four children, two of whom died in infancy. The two daughters who reached maturity were Ann Eliza and Mary Oliver. The former was born February 27. 1845. and married Samuel Fancher. She died August 21, 1898. and was laid to rest in Grundy County, Illinois.

Miss Mary Oliver Nash was born on the old home place, in the old log house. July 25, 1850. In 1855 her father built the present frame residence, a commodious structure of ten rooms, and he made all the other improvements which have served to increase its value. Mi-- Nash rents the farm of 148 acres, it being her own property. She is interested also in several local enterprises, owning stock which has proved excellent as an investment. Miss Nash was educated at Galena and completed the High School course there. She is a valued member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Galena, with which she has been identified since 1866.

Arles C. Cowgill

ARLES C. COWGILL on a well-appointed farm near the city ot Delaware, in Brown Township, comes of a prominent old family of Delaware County. His grandfather. Daniel M. Cowgill, Sr.. was born in Connecticut and was the first of the family to come to Ohio, settling in Delaware County in 181 1. His father was of English birth, and came to the I nited States with his two brothers. He acquired several hundred acres of land south of Delaware, in Delaware Township, and in the following- year joined the American army for service during the War of 1812. He later sold that farm and located on one of j^ acres across the line in Brown Township. His wife's maiden name was Finley, and she died very young.

Daniel M. Cowgill. Jr., father of Charles C, was born in Delaware Township. November 7. 1827, and has lived in Delaware County all his life, except the pasl twelve winter-.

which he has spent in California. While here he resides among his children. Upon first leaving his father's home lie was for three years located on a farm east of Alum Creek in Berlin Township, after which lie purchased what has since heen his home place, a tract of 130 acres on the Sunbury mad. He also purchased the farm on which Charles C. Cowgill now lives, the latter having bought it of him in 1903. He had other tracts which have heen divided among his children. He married Eliza Allgire, who was born near Canal Winchester, in Fairfield County, Ohio, and they became parents of six children : William L.. win) died at the age of 21 years; John M., of Delaware; Charles C. ; Alary Louisa, wife of David Lackey, residing near Cheshire; Celina Cora, was the wife of Frank Ferguson, who died in 1907, and lived in Van Wert County; and Clara J., wife of Wallace Ferguson, who lives on the old home place. Politically. Mr. Cowgill is a Republican. In 1864 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fortyfifth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Delaware, and was in the too-day service.

Charles C. Cowgill was horn one mile south of his present place, in Berlin Township, Delaware County, Ohio, March 31. 1856, and received his educational training in the district schools and at the Delaware high school. He remained on the home place until he was 23 years of age. In [879 he came to his present farm which he rented until 1903, when he purchased it as mentioned above. It contains 1 15 acres, on which he has erected a comfortable residence and made most of the improvements. He follows general farming and dairying and has always met with satisfactory result-.

October 28. 1X7(1. Charles C. Cowgill was united in marriage with Maggie Darrah. who was horn three miles east of Sunbury, in Delaware County, and is a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Young) Darrah. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Cowgill : Herbert R., horn July 3. 1884. who is a machinist in Delaware; Homer F... born February 15, 1886; and Paul S., horn April 1. [889. Mr. Cowgill casts hi- vote for the candidates of the Prohibition party. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Delaware. His fraternal connection is with the Patrons of Husbandry.

During his active years the father of Dr. Cowles engaged in farming. He is now a resident of Pittsburg. For some fifteen years he was clerk of Concord Township and served as a justice oi the peace. He is a member of Edinhurg Lodge. Odd Fellows, of Ostrander, being past grand of the same. The mother of Dr. Cowles was a daughter of Hiram Bean, a resident of Scioto Township, who was a son oC George Bean. The latter was born in Virginia and settled in Scioto Township in 1 81 7. He founded this pioneer family in this section. The parents of Dr. Cowles had nine children, eight of whom grew to mature years, as follows: Samuel J., residing at Findlay, Ohio; G. E.. residing at Ostrander; Olive S.. who is deceased; Orva A., who married X. H. White, residing at Delaware: Fr; nk H. residing at White Sulphur, Ohio; Ora V... who married J. C. McCrea, residing at Delaware; Fred H.. residing at Dayton; and Oma A., who married William H. Miller.

Dr. Cowles belongs to a pioneer family of Delaware also on the paternal side. His grandparents were Samuel J. and Parthenia (Ackerman) Cowles. The grandfather was born in Xew York and he was brought to the Western Reserve by his parents who were among the earliest settlers of Concord Township. He acquired a part of the old farm and lived in Concord Township until his death, when almost 01 years of age. His father at one time owned the property on which the old Mill Creek mill stood.

Field, a well-known practitioner of Ostrander, after which he attended lectures at the Columbus Medical College, where he was graduated in 1889. He located at Ostrander, where he enjoys a large and lucrative practice. He keeps closely in touch with the advance of medical science and is a member of both Delaware County and Ohio State Medical Societies. He has taken a more or less active interest in count}- politics and in 1907 he was elected township treasurer. For three years he served as a member of the School Board of Ostrander village. He belongs to Lodge No. 348. Knights of Pythias. at Ostrander.

Dr. Cowles married Hattie, daughter of James S. and Rehecca A. Seymour, residents of Findlay, Ohio, and they have one son, Dorence S. Dr. and Mrs. Cowles are members of the Baptist Church, of which he is treasurer and a trustee. He occupies a leading place among the representative citizens of Delaware I nntv.

large and well-kept farm is situated in Thompson Township, resides in a comfortable home at Pichwood, which he has occupied for the past six years. He was born near Sunbury, in Trenton Township. Delaware County, Ohio, November 13. 185 1. and is a son of Jesse N. and Emily ( Gildersleeve) McAllister.

Mr. McAllister is of Irish-Scotch ancestry. His grandfather. Abdul McAllister, was horn in Pennsylvania and was one of the pioneers of Delaware County. Jesse X. McAllister was born also in Pennsylvania and was 11 years old when he accompanied his parents to Trenton Township. Delaware County, where he was reared and where he subsequently married. When his son Coridon was two years old he moved to Thompson Township, where he bought a farm of 72 acres, on which he lived until within 18 or 20 years of his death, when he moved to Claybourne T' iwnship, in Union County, wdiere he owned two farms. He died August 3, 1901, in his 81st year. In politics he was a Republican and he served as trustee of Thompson Township. Of his three children, two grew to turity, namely: Coridon and Henrietta, the latter of whom married George Hancock Richwood.

and then moved back on the farm, where he remained until 1900, when he moved to Delaware, for two years, hut later returned I Richwood. Mr. McAllister makes a specialty of sheep-feeding on his large farm of 450 acres, 400 of which he has under cultivation. He buys in the fall, feeds and sells in the spring-, his dealings reaching from 1.200 to 1300 head. He has a sheep barn with dimensions of ^2 by 120 feet with 18-foot posts, which he built in 1893. and another barn 44 by 84 with 25-foot posts, and this barn has a wing 24 by 48 feet, and he has a 300-ton silo. He also feeds some cattle and hogs and gr corn, hay and wheat.

Mr. McAllister married Jennie E. Adams, who is a daughter of Simeon and Elizabeth Adams, of Richwood. They have a family of six children, as follows : [Margaret, who is a teacher in the Akron. Ohio, public sch John, residing at Richwood ; Frederick, residing- at Delaware: Leah, who is a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware: and Timothy and Helen, at home. Mrs. McAllister is a member of the Presbyterian Church, to which Mr. McAllister gives liberal support. He is a man of public spirit and g 1 ell, was born in New Jersey and came to Ohio at an early day. settling at Utica, in Licking County, where he acquired farm property and became a man of substance. Warren S. Jewell was born on this farm, in 1842, completed his education in an academy at Granville, Ohio, and then engaged in a mercantile business in Hilliar Township, Knox County, for a few years, but in 1865 purchased and moved on a farm of 300 acres in Porter Township. For years he has been extensively interested in the Delaine sheep growing industry, keeping 300 head and taking pride in having one of the finest flocks in the State. In politics, Warren S. Jewell is a Republican and he has served in township offices for years, fie is a member of East Liberty Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He married Laura M ly, who is a daughter of Rev. William Moody, who was one of the pioneer preachers of the Christian Church in this section. They have had five children, namely: Eva, who married Levi Blacklidge of Porter Township; Harry W. ; Walter M., residing in Knox County; Mary, who married Charles Lone, of Licking County; and Clifford W., residing in Porter Township. Mr. and Mrs. Jewell are leading members and generous supporters of the Christian Church in Centerburg, Ohio.

Harry W. Jewell attended the district schools of Porter Township until he was fourteen years of age and then entered the Centerburg High School in Knox County and went from there to Hiram College, where he was graduated in 1895, w'tn tne degree of B. \. lie then entered the law office of McElrov & Carpenter, and be was admitted to the Bar in [897. Lie practiced alone until March u, iqoj. when he formed a partnership with B. P. Benton, of Delaware, and the firm has forged rapidly to the front, at present occupying a leading place in the profession at Delaware. In politics. Mr. Jewell is a Republican and ever since attaining manhood he has taken a deep and intelligent interest in public matters, lie has been a prominent factor in his party, exerts a wide influence, and in [908 was put forward by his party as its nominee for Congress, lie i- largely identified with business interests in this section, is vice president of the Cook Motor Company and is one of the directors of the First National Bank.

Mr. Jewell was married in 1895 to Mamie E. McGuire, who is a daughter of John Mc- Guire, of Centerburg, Ohio, and they have one son, Arthur Raymond, who was born July 7, 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Jewell are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Jewell being a member of the board of trustees. He is senior warden of Hiram Lodge. No. 18, F. & A. M., at I )elaware.

been a resident of Concord Township for the past 45 years, was born July 11, 1850, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a son of Vincent and Isabel Staler.

The parents of Mr. Staley were both born in German)'. The mother, while still Miss Isabel Smith, came to America and to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, with her sister, Mrs. Hartkorn. The father accompanied bis parents to Muskingum County. Ohio, and later became a clerk in the Gait House, at Cincinnati. He was married in that city and moved to Delaware in 1857, and became manager of the Wilson Hotel at Sulphur Springs, where he remained until his death in 1861. His widow subsequently married John Sutley, who died some 13 years ago. since which time she has resided at Columbus. She is now 87 years of age, and comes of a long-lived family, her father living to be 90 years old and her grandfather, to be 95 years. Vincent Staley and wife had three children, two sons and one daughter, namely : Charles H. ; Josephine, who married Michael Moran, is a widow and resides with her mother: and Frank, residing at Ostrander, who married Elizabeth Chambers.

Charles II. Staley has given his main attention through life to agricultural pursuits. He has lived 51 years in Delaware County, six of these in Liberty and the remainder in Concord Township.

In [872, Mr. Staley was married to Marel Lorvery. They have had seven children, namely: Frank, who married [dajones; Mary, who married William Hannah, and resides at Indianapolis; Harry, who married Laura Seller, and resides in .Marion County, 1 )hio; Minnie, wife of Clarence Smale. residing in Delaware County: Eve. who married Burton Andrews, and resides in Union County; Edward, residing at Zanesville, where he married Rose Huff (he served in the Spanish-America War and spent three years in ( ulia 1 : and Josephine, who resides at home.

Mr. Staley is affiliated with the Democratic party and has been active in township and county politics. He has served two terms as township trustee and two terms as township treasurer. He is a representative citizen of Concord Township and few are better known.

ILLIAM H. McWILLIAMS, a leading citizen of Berlin Ti iwnship. resides on his farm of 82 acres on the Cheshire turnpike road, was born in Washington, Xew Jersey, and is a son of Marshall and Clar- ( Smith ) McWilliams. The father of Mr. McWilliams was horn in Xew Jersey, and when he took possession of the land which his son now occupies, in [840, it was covered with a dense forest. His original purchase was of fifty acres and he erected the first board house in this section. He added to his land until he owned 1 jo acres. Until the issues of 1861, he was a strong Democrat, but after that year he was identified with the Republican party until his death, which took place in 1N70. at the age of 74 years. His father. John McWilliams. was horn in Ireland and he founded the family in Xew Jersey. Marshall McWilliams married a daughter of Rev. Jonas Smith, who was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mrs. McWilliams was horn and reared in Xew Jersey. The children of Marshall McWilnd wife were as follows: Smith, residing in Berlin Township; Henry. John. Lydia J., who married Edgar Gregory, residing m Berlin Town-hip: William H., Ann. who married a Mr. Moore, residing in Michigan; Marshall G., residing at Urbana, Ohio; one other that died in infancy.

William II. McWilliams remained at home giving assistance to Ins father until he was 22 years of age, when he enlisted in Company G, Forty-fifth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1862 he was taken prisoner and was confined on Relic Isle for 14 months, finally being paroled and subsequently exchanged. Ikreturned to his regiment and was honorably discharged at Camp Harker, East Tennes-ee. near Nashville, after three years of military life. He then returned home after his marriage in 1868. and engaged in farming a shorl distance from the home place, coming to the present farm after his father died, where he has resided ever since.

In 1868. Mr. McWilliams was married to Prudence Mcintosh, of Champaign County. Ohio, who is a daughter of John Mcintosh, a pioneer wagon-maker in Champaign County. Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams have three children - John Stanley. William Edward and Emma Grace. Mr. McWilliams is a stanch Republican and has been active in public matters in his township. He has served as township treasurer. He is a member and liberal supporter of the Presbyterian Church.

SAAC MARION FREESE, one of Concord Township's most respected citizens, residing on his farm of 33 acres, has been a resident of this township all hi- life with the exception of two years. He was born in Delaware County, Ohio. July 17. 1844. and is a -on of Isaac Hester (Gates) Freese.

The grandparents. John and Mary Frees, came- from Pennsylvania to Ohio at an early date, settling first in Pickaway Count}', and coming thence to Delaware Count}' about 1838. John Freese purchased a farm of acres on the east hank of the Scioto River, one-half mile south of Bellpoint, for which he paid SO. 25 an acre. Isaac Freest-, father of Isaac M.. later acquired one-half of this land. At that time it was all covered with timber and the family endured many pioneer hardships before their wild surroundings were changed. John and .Mary Freese had the following children: Jacob, who died after settling in Illinois; Isaac, father of Isaac M.; John, who died in Concord Township and left four children; Abraham, who died in Concord Township, leaving seven suns and two daughters: Henry, who died in Concord Township, leaving one child; Mary, who married Henry Oiler and removed to Illinois; and Annie, who married Henry Black, and died in Scioto Township. The grandparents lived to old age and they now rest in the Oiler cemetery, on the banks of the Scioto River.

Isaac Freese, father of Isaac M., was born in 1803 and lived to the age of 88 years. On his land he built a comfortable log cabin and there all his family were reared, enjoying all the necessities of life even if they had but few of the luxuries. He was a man of sterling character and lived respected and esteemed. He married Hester Gates, who died in 1870, aged 62 years. She was a daughter of Nathaniel and Nancy (iates. who came to Concord Township, Delaware County, from Marietta, Ohio. There were seven children born to Isaac and Hester (Gates) Freese, namely: Loretta, Lavinia, Perlina, John, Isaac M., Annie, and Catherine. Loretta. who married Ni irmari Collins, moved to Moultrie County, Illinois, where both died. They are survived by one of their four children - Lewis Collins, now of Delaware; Lavinia married J. N. Sager, of Liberty Township, and moved to Kingman, Kansas, where she died, leaving five children. Perlina, who married Stephen Freshwater, of Concord Township, is survived by her husband and four children. John, who married Jane Hamilton, died in Moultrie County, leaving three children. Annie is the wife of Joseph Evans, and resides in Liberty Township; she has eight children. Catherine, who was married (first) to John Gamble and (secondly) to Charles B. Johnson, of Concord Township, had one child - daughter - by her first marriage and seven children by her second.

Isaac M. Freese in his boyhood, attended the district schools and was reared on his father's farm. At that time the township and even the county was but sparsely settled and he enjoyed few of the social advantages winch his grandchildren have in abundance. lie did much hard work and assisted in improving the home place until he turned his attention to other pursuits. He has owned his present farm since 1865, on which he has made all the improvements, but during the greater part of his life he has been engaged in a mercantile business, spending two years in Illinois.

Mr. Freese was married (first) in 1863, to Susan Watson, who was a daughter of W. T. and Jane (Beckley) Watson. The children born of that marriage were : Mary, who died aged sixteen months; Lavinia, who married Frank McKinnie, of Delaware, and has eight children - Blanche, Rusk, Chester, Elizabeth, Ray. Nona, Ivalon and Clinton; Cora Irene, who married William Engard, resides in Delaware, and has four children - Peter, Marion, Walter and William; Martha Jane, who married William Reese, residing at Delaware, has three children - Marguerite, Frank and Marion ; Susan, who married Frank Reese, resides at Delaware and they have five living children - Arthur. Clifford, Ralph, Lawrence and Dorence; and Walter Isaac, residing at Delaware, married Augusta Berlett and they have four children - Anna Maria, Donald, Ruth and Roy. In May, 1880, Mr. Freese was married "(secondly) to Mrs. Sarah Jane Warren, wdio is a daughter of Nelson R. and Eliza (Edleman) Talley. They have two children. Iva and William Andrew, the latter of whom resides at home. The former married William Webster. Jr., of Concord Township, and they have three daughters: Berenice. Marian and Florence. By her former marriage, Mrs. Freese had two children. Frederick Raymond, who is a prominent citizen of Montana, where he was elected a member of the State Legislature, in 1906; and Frank D., who is the wife of George McKetrick, resid- ( Columbus, Ohio. Fur many years, probablj over a half cen- Mr. Freese has been a member of the United Brethren Church. Formerly he bed ti the Republican party, but in late - he has thrown his influence in the direction of the Prohibition party.

OHX H. WARREN formerly treasurer of Delaware County and longidentified with the agricultural interests of Scioto Township, has been a resident of Delaware since 1906. He 1 in Radnor Township, Delaware Count}'. Ohio. October 20. 1833, and is a son of William M. and Mary (Jones) Warren.

Thomas Warren, the grandfather of John H.. was one of the hard}' pioneers of Radnor T wnship, Delaware County, where he cleared land and erected a log house in the wilderness. He was born in Pennsylvania and was of So itch-Irish extraction.

William M. Warren, son of Thomas, was born in 1802, in Pennsylvania, and died in Ohio in 1882. He accompanied his parents to Delaware County and grew to manhood on the h< mie farm near Radnor. A few years after In- marriage, he moved to what was then the village of Millville, the name of which was later changed to Warrensburg, he being the first of the family to locate there; and for many years following he was a justice of the peace for Scioto Township. He was active in public affairs and was frequently sent as .1 delegate to important part}- councils and was the member from Delaware County in the Ohio Constitutional Convention. Like many other strong men of high character of his day, he was prominent in Masonry and belonged to Hiram Lodge. Xo. 18, E. & A. M., at' Delaware. He married Mary Jones, who was horn in that part of Radnor Township which is now included in Scioto Township. Her father, John Jones, was horn in Wales. Four of their -ix children reached maturity, namely: Robert W. and Benjamin !-'.. both now deceased; and John II. and William M.. the latter residing at Warrensburg. The parents of the above family belonged to the old stone Presbyterian Church of South Radnor.

John H. Warren was about three year-, old when his parents moved to Warrensburg. He can recall the first school he attended, which was held in a log house furnished with slab seats. When 18 years old he came to Delaware and for a few years he worked as a clerk, the city being then of so insignificant a size as to enable him to know personally every resident. After gaining some mercantile experience, he returned to Warrensburg, where he opened a general store and built a brick store building, his brother. William Warren, entering into partnership with him. They continued the business for eight years, under the firm name of J. II. Warren & Company, when John H. sold his interest to his partner and retired from the firm. Shortly afterward, in 1876. he was elected county treasurer, a responsible office that he filled very efficiently for four years, and during this period he resided at Delaware. Upon the expiration of his term of office. Mr. Warren engaged in farming in Scioto Township, and he continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1906, when he retired to Delaware, making his home in a comfortable residence on the northwest corner of Liberty and Griswold Streets. During his life on the farm, he was also engaged for some years in operating a flour mill. His rural industries are continued by his sons.

Mr. Warren married Annie E. Austin. who is a daughter of John Austin, a resident of Scioto Township, and they have had nine children, namely: Harry G., residing in Scioto Township; Mary Belle, now deceased, who is survived by her husband. William Sipes; Nellie, residing at Mt. Gilead. Ohio, who married Sherman Jackson: Charles F., a resident of Columbus; Eugene A., residing on the home farm: Caroline M., residing in Scioto Township, who married Ernest Decker: Miller M.. residing in Scioto Township; Fannie, who is now deceased: and Louise, residing in Thompson Township, who married Merlin Stults. Mrs. Warren is a member of the Presbyterian Church and a sympathetic worker in the field of charity. In politics, Mr. Warren has always been a Democrat and he has been an influential member of his party in this section. He is a Mason, belonging to Hiram Lodge at Delaware.

[LBERT W. LAIRD, general farmer. residing <m his valuable estate of § I 166 acres, which is situated in Scioto Township, was born May 17. 1846, in Oxford Township, Butler County, Ohio, and is a son of Henry Wolcott and Susanna Martha (Brown) Laird.

Tracing the Laird family as far back as the grandfather of Gilbert \\\. who was Glover Laird, it is found that he was born in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, where he was probably educated well and before he came to America learned the trade of shoemaker, a valuable one in the section in which he subsequently settled. He was married (first) to a Miss Wolcott, who was born in Vermont, ami they started west as pioneers, he purchasing a farm in Michigan, from the government. Glover Laird was residing in St. Joseph County when the government shipped the Indians from Detroit across the river. He built a log cabin on his land and lived in it until be was ready to build a substantial frame house, lie reared a large family by bis firsl marriage, no children being burn of bis second union. He was first a Whig in politics, and later a Republican, and he was connected with the Free Masons, which, in those early days, was a very strong bond.

Henry Wolcott Laird was bum in Notaway Township, St. Joseph County, Michigan, in 1812. and died October i. [881. He was 1 If-educated man. like many of the leading men of our land, studying at night by the light 1 the fireplace and working by day as a carpenter and house painter. When bis mother died he bought tin- home farm and lived there through the remainder of his life, liis wife

Susanna, was a daughter of William Brown, who was once a slave-owner in Maryland, where she was born, and who subsequently gave his slaves their freedom and moved to ( Ihio. Mrs. Laird lived to lie more than 86 years old, her death taking place May 11. 1 003. During her long life she remained a true gentle woman, having come from a distinguished ancestrv which included the Webster family of New England. Although conditions in Michigan, in 1852. after she had accompanied her husband there, prevented the habit of lavish hospitality that came to her alnii >st as an inheritance, she made welcome all who came to her home and until the close of her life turned a ready ear to every one in sorrow, distress or need. She became the beloved and honored mother of nine children, seven of whom grew to maturity, namely: William Henry, residing at Sandusky; George C, residing at Menden, Michigan; Gilbert W.. a resident of Scioto Township. Delaware County. Ohio; James M., residing at Vicksburg, Michigan: John Marion, who resides a.t Menden, Michigan; Charles W.. who resides at Leesburg. Union County, Ohio; and Caroline, who married William Reinhardt, re ing at Sandusky. Ilemw W. Laird was prominent in Michigan political life, was a great campaign speaker, and on one occasion was the chosen candidate of his party for the State Assembly. He belonged to the Masonic lodge at Centerville, Michigan.

Gilbert W. Laird was eight years old when bis parents moved to Michigan. He attended school in St. Joseph County and continued on the home farm until 1878. when he purcha bis present land. He engages here in general farming and stock raising and uses for all the grain he grows with the exception of wheat.

On December 12, 1878, Mr. Laird was married to Maggie K. Bird, who is a daughter of Oliver Terry Bird, a leading citizen of Scioto Township. Mr. and Mrs. Laird have had four children, namely: Myrtle M.. is now deceased; Merle M., who married B. \l. Huff, residing at Massillon, Ohio; and Maude B. and Claude C, who are twins. Mr-

Laird is a member of the Christian Union Church ami is active in benevolenl work. In politics, Mr. Laird is identified with the Republican party, but has no political ambition. lie performs all the ordinary duties of a good citizen, but has always declined to accept public office.

ETH GARDNER, a prosperous agriculturalist and representative citizen ef Troy Township, who has resided on his excellent farm of 71 acres, since the fall of 190O. was born in Berkshire Township, Delaware County. Ohio, January 23. 1851, and is a son of Reuben C. and Lydia (Rolloson) Gardner.

Reuben G. Gardner was burn in New Jersey, but 61 years of his life were passed in Delaware County, Ohio, and for 50 years he was a prominent farmer of Berlin Township. His death took place in Eebruary, 1905. He married Lydia Rolloson, who was born in Delaware County and who is also deceased. Of their children, the following' survive : Phebe I., who married William B. Shaw, of Berlin Township; John M., residing at Van Wert, Ohio: Harriet, who married Nathaniel Perhamas, of Van Wert, Ohio; Seth. residing in Troy Township; Eunice, who married Charles U. Hall, of Berlin Township; Ciers, residing at Van Wert; Lemuel J., residing in Berlin Township; and Martin L.. residing in Nebraska.

When Seth Gardner was about four years old, his parents moved from Berkshire to Berlin Township, and he resided there until he reached manhood, in the meanwhile securing a common school education. He then started - nn fi >r himself, for in all essentials he is a self-made man. After learning the carpenter's trade he engaged in work in Delaware, and for twenty years was occupied there as a carpenter and contractor, remaining in that city until he retired to his farm in [906. His land is well located and is capable of a high state of cultivation.

near New Madrid. Missouri, and is a daughter of Luke ami Anna ( Black) Davisson, both natives of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner have had five children, of whom the only survivor is a daughter, \daline. who married Arthur Dennis. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis have one daughter, Lena. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner are members of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, at Delaware. Politically, the former is a Republican. Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the Improved order of Red Men, having passed all the chairs in both lodges.

OHN W. W ATKINS, general agriculturist, owning 131 acres of valuable land situated in Radnor Township, was born on this farm. June 24. [843,, ami is a son of Watkin and Mary (Jones) Watkins.

The paternal grand father was Evan Watkins, who died in Wales, and bis widow subsequently emigrated to America with her six children. Watkin Watkins was born in Llanervill, Wales, in [809, and died in 1844. He was about 12 years old when his mother came to America and settled in Radnor Township, Delaware. County, where he attended the early schools. He remained on the farm until he was approaching manhood, when he went to Buffalo and shipped as a fireman on a steamer, later becoming an engineer. He continued to live at Buffalo but purchased the present farm when it was practically all forest. He engaged in farming for several years before his death. Lie married Mary Jones, who died in September, 1905, aged 87 years. She was a daughter of John P. Jones, who came to Radnor Township from Wales, in 1820. Later Mrs. Watkins contracted a second marriage, be coming the wife of Richard Bunford, of Radnor Township. To her first marriage were born two children. Dates, residing at Wellsville, Kansas; and John W. To her second marriage two children were born. Philip and Alary A. She was a member of the Congregational Church.

|..hn W. Watkins was reared in Radnor Township, where he attended the country schools and worked on the home farm. In [864 lie enlisted in Company A. One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was honorably discharged in the following September. His service was guarding the defenses of Washington City, He is a member of Mounts Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Prospect. After his return from the army he remained at home, farming during the summers and teaching school during the winters, until 1870. when he married. He then purchased the home farm of 86 acres and to that has added 45 acres. He devotes his land to corn, hay, oats and alfalfa. He has 15 head of cattle, 15 of sheep. 60 of hogs, 12 of horses and raises from two to four horses every year. He is a first-class, practical farmer and he enjoys the prosperity which results from industry and good management.

.Mr. Watkins married Mary Jones, who is a .laughter of Evan Jones, a resident of Scioto L vvnship. Of their six children, five survive, namely: Watkin. residing in Thompson Township; William, residing in Radnor Township; Lida, who married Emlin Jones, residing in Radnor Township; and Delia and lzates (i., both residing at home. The family belong to the Congregational Church, in politics, Mr. Watkins is a Republican and has served as assessor and land appraiser. He was his party's candidate on one occasion for county treasurer and was defeated by a very small majority, lie is a member of the National Union and also of the Odd Fellows belonging to Radnor Lodge since 1S67. of which he is past grand, lie is a representative citizen 1 if this sectii >n.

HEODORE F. BLAKELEY, senior member of the general mercantile firm of Blakeley & Williams, at Sunbury, Ohio, vvas bom in Lincoln Township, Morrow County, Ohio, Maj 20,

The grandfathers of Mr. Blakeley, on both sides of the family, came from other points. but were early settlers in Ohio. The paternal grand lather, Thomas Blakeley, was born in Ireland, where he married Rosina Richards. They emigrated to America and settled first at Reading, Pennsylvania, later coming to Ohio. He acquired much land and was considered a successful business man. He met his death by accidental drowning in Walnut Creek, in Franklin County. He had six children. The maternal great-grandfather of Mrs. Blakeley, Alexander Kingman, was a Revolutionary soldier. Grandfather Joseph Kingman was born in Vermont, served in the War of 1 81 2 and came to Ohio from Xew York. His first wife was Susan Woods and his second Sarah Harendine. He was a farmer in Morrow Count}*, where be died.

Robert Blakeley was born in 1818, in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio, in 1820, with his parents. He lived in Franklin County until 1834, and from that time until his death he resided in Morrow County. He married Hannab Kingman, who died in 1900, aged 80 vears. In early life she united with the Methodist Church, but later became a Presbyterian. Robert Blakeley survived his wife until August 28, 1905. He also belonged to the Presbyterian Church. Their family consisted of five sons and three daughters.

Theodore F. Blakeley was reared on the home farm in Morrow Count}', and was educated in the district schools and the Card'ington High School. He was 18 years of age when he left home and became clerk in a store conducted by James S. Trimble, at Mt. Gilead. and he resided in that town for eight years. He then moved to Cameron, Missouri, where he embarked in business for himself, conducting a general store for three years, after which lie was in business at Olive Green or Kingston. Delaware County. Ohio. In 1873 he came to Sunbury and went into partnership with his brother, Perry Blakeley. They were associated in a general mercantile business until [885, when Perry Blakeley sold his interest to the firm of Kimball & Williams, the style then becoming Blakeley, Kimball & Williams.

In [890, Mr. Kimball retired and the present firm name of Blakeley & Williams was adopted. This firm does a very large business, occupying two floors and basement, which are well stocked with seasonable goods. The trade rating of the firm is very high, and the confidence inspired by their honest methods of dealing extends all through this section.

( In April J4. 1870. Mr. Blakeley married Anna Mosher, who is a daughter of David and Phebe (Buck) Mosher. Mrs. Blakeley is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Fraternally. Mr. Blakeley is a 32nd degree Mason and belongs to Sparrow Lodge No. 400. F. & A. M., and Delaware Chapter, and to Alt. Vernon Commandery at Columbus. He takes no very active part in politics, but is identified with the Democratic party.

E LACY WALDRON, a representative and prominent citizen of Brown Township, tormerly count) commissioner of Delaware County, for two terms, was born in Kingston Township. Delaware County. Ohio. July 25, 1833. and 1- a son of William and Mary (Wheeler) Waldron.

William Waldron. the father, was horn in New York. 40 miles south of the metropolis. January 25, 1804. and he died in Kingston Township. Delaware County. Ohio, June 29, 1883. He married Mary Wheeler, who was born April 26, 1808, and died October 10. 1871. She was horn and reared in Luzerne County. Pennsylvania, a daughter of Thomas Wheeler, who settled in Berkshire Township. In 1816, the paternal grandparents of De Lacy Waldron, Cornelius and Nancy Waldron, came with their children to Kingston Township, Delaware County, and the grandfather built the log house that stood so long'. It was then surrounded by forest, there being very few other settlers in the township. The children born of the two marriage- of Cornelius Waldron have all passed away. The three children born to William and Mary Waldron were: De Lacv : Maria, who died aged

De Lacy Waldron was reared on the farm on which his grandfather settled in 1816. His father added to the original tract, making" it over 300 acres, 190 of which the present Mr. Waldron owns. He was educated in the district schools, at Olive Green, and at Westerville College. When he married he settled on the home farm and there carried on general farming ami stock raising until 1896, with the exception of three years, during which he was engaged in a hardware business at Magnetic Springs, and a short period spent at Sunbury. Since 1896 he has been a residence of Kilbourne. Lie has witnessed many changes during his long residence here and has been identified with much of the progress which has civilized the country and brought prosperity to it.

Mr, Waldron was married January 1. 1863. to Angeline Stark, who is a daughter of Oliver and Elizabeth (Patrick) Stark, and a granddaughter of John Stark, who died in Luzerne County. Pennsylvania. Oliver Stark came from that locality on horseback, when 21 years of age. He settled in Kingston Township and became a man of wealth and prominence, serving six years as county commissioner and lor j^ years as a justice of the peace. He died in 1880, aged J J years. His wife, Elizabeth, who died aged 85 years, was born in Kingston Township, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah 1 Taylor) Patrick, who came to that town-hip from Pennsylvania, being among the very first settlers there. Joseph Patrick was one of the leading men of his day in this section. It is related that the forest was so dense and entirely pathless, when he first settled here, that on one occasion he was lost within a short distance of his home and after much wandering approached it and did not recognize it until hi- wife called his name. He acquired a large ami unit of land and each one of his children were given property. Three daughters and two sons were born to Oliver Si ark and wife, namely : Septer, Sarah. Mary,

Angel hie and John Joseph. Septer Stark became the largest land owner in Delaware County, at the time of death, owning 3,000 acres. He was married (first) to Sylvia Benton and (second) to Maria Ross. Sarah Stark married Samuel Wilcox and died in Porter Township. Mary married James Sherman and died in Porter Township. John Joseph, who resides on the old Stark homestead in Kingston Township, married Anna Robinson.

Mr. and Mrs. Waldron have one son, Homer, who was born July 9, 1865. He resides at Lewis Center, where he is manager of a creamen- plant, lie married Emma Owen, and they have one daughter, Christovel, a beautiful girl of [5 years. In politics, Mr. Waldron is a stanch Republican and he has held many offices of responsibility. In 1894 he was first elected county commissioner and assumed the duties of this office in September. 1895, and was re-elected in 1897, his official life closing in the fall of 1901. In young manhood he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church and he has been very active in forwarding its interests, serving in many 1 tfficial positions. Mrs. Waldron also is active in church work.

DAM S. SHOEMAKER, of Ashley. Delaware Count}-, Ohio, is a minister of the Primitive Baptist Church and has three charges - at Ashley, Pleasant Run in Fairfield County, and Rock}- fork, in Marion County. He is .1 veteran oi the Civil War. and for many years was honored with the office of mayor of the village in which he resides.

Elder Shoemaker was born north of Ashley, in that part of Morrow County which was then Delaware County, .March 9, [832, and is a son of Daniel and Harriet (Smith) Shoemaker. Daniel was a young man when in 1820, he came with his father. Adam Shoemaker, from Somerset County, Pennsylvania. They stopped at Zanesville a short time, then came to Delaware County, locating a half mile north of Ashley. Daniel later left that place and bought a farm half a mile east of Ashley, in Oxford Township, on which he lived until his death in 1842. He married Harriet Smith, a daughter of Elijah Smith, who came with his family from New York State at about the same time that the Shoemakers did. He located one-half mile east of Aside}-. The following children were born to this union: Adam S. : Adelia, now deceased, who was the wife of T. M. Seeds; Milton B.. who was fi >r man}- years a prominent citizen of Ashley, where he erected the first flour mill and was identified with important business interests, and who died in tyo(>; and Adeline, who died of typhoid fever in 1867. Mr. Shoemaker and his wife were members of the Primitive Baptist Church. She died in 1890 at an advanced age.

Adam S. Shoemaker was reared on the old home place and attended the schools of this vicinity. Ashley was at that time an uncleared timber tract. He remained on the home place and farmed until 1859, when he sold his interest in the farm and bought a place one mile south of Ashley, where he remained ten years. He sold out there, then lived in Lincoln Township, Morrow County, for seven years, after which he moved to Clark County, Iowa, where he farmed for five years. He returned to \shlev in 1SS1 and has lived here continuously since. He operated a saw mill a few- years, and during the past nine years has been writing fire, tornado and lightning insurance.

In January, 1865, Mr. Shoemaker enlisted in Company G, Eighty-eighth Regiment, O. V. I., and served until the war closed, being mustered out July 3, 1865. He was located at Camp Chase, where they guarded 30,000 prisoners, and he will newer forget the rejoicing of those men when news reached them of the end of the war and their early return home. Elder Shoemaker began preaching in the Primitive Baptist Church in 1863 and has had care of churches most of the time since. His ministerial work has carried him extensively over the states of Ohio, Indiana and Iowa,

Man \nn Smith, who was born in Morrow ( '. iunt) . ( >ln> 1, and w In 1 w as a daughter oi Nehemiah and Experience (Carpenter) Smith. She died in 1894, having been the mother of eight children, namely : Daniel X.. now residing in Missouri, who married Lizzie Dixon and has two children - Lloyd and Grace ; Wellington M., who married Lucy Sherwood and has three children - Lewis, Blanche and Laura; .Millard A., now of Topeka, Kansas, who married Ann Bishop, and has six children - May, Walter. Edna. Hazel. Wilma and Zelda: Lester E., who married Mary Sherwood and lives in Ashley; Adeline, wife of Elmore Coomer and mother of a daughter - Flossie Marie; Harriett, who died in 1890; Emma, wife of Orrie G. Benedict, who has a son. Murray, and two daughters - Buelah Dawn and Thelma Gertrude; and Milton Henry, who is a druggist in Dayton. Elder Shoemaker formed a second marriage April 3. 1898, with Airs. Mary J. Ogden. nee Thomas, who died suddenly in November, 1907. Mr. Shoemaker is a Republican in politics and cast his first presidential vote for John C. Fremont. He served on the School Board 13 years and as mayor of the village 1 1 years.

IOMAS MERCER SEEDS, for many years a prominent business man of Ashley, Delaware County Ohio, is now living in retirement. He has re- -ided here almost continuously since he was 19 years of age and is widely known ami mg the people of this vicinity. He was horn in Chester County. Pennsylvania. November 8, [835, and is a son of Job and Mary 1 Mercer ) Seeds.

Job Seeds was born and reared in Chester County. Pennsylvania, and during his younger days taught in the public schools. Lie then followed surveying for some years, and then engaged in farming.. He was first located on Brandywine Creek, where the famous battle of that name was fought during the Revolution, but moved from there to Columbiana County, Ohio, where he lived until his death. He married Mary Mercer, a native of Chester County, and they became parents of the following children: Edward, deceased; Thomas Mercer; Paschal, who now lives in California; Hannah, deceased; Margaret, wife of William Brown, deceased, resides in ( olumbiana County. Ohio; and Mary, deceased. Thomas M. Seeds was reared in his native count}- and there learned the trade of shoemaker. He was 19 years old when, in 1854. he came west alone, and began working at his trade in the establishment of Aaron Morehouse, near Ashley. After one year he moved to Stantontown and continued his trade for a like period, then returned to Ashley. In 1862 he formed a partnership with M. B. Shoemaker, and under the name and style of Seeds & Shoemaker conducted a general store, including hardware and groceries, until 1879. 'n the meantime he also engaged extensively in buying and shipping grain. Then in partnership with his son. under the firm name of T. M. Seeds & Son. he conducted a general hardware store, including a stock of farming utensils, general hardware and builders' supplies. In connection with this enterprise they operated the only lumber yard in the village. Finally Mr. Seeds and his son dissolved partnership, when he took the hardware and his son the lumber business, and he continued in the hardware line until 1896, since which time he has lived in retirement. About 1873, be erected a modern brick residence on a tract of four and a half acres he owns, adjoining the village, and resided there until 1904. when he moved to his present location. On July 26, [856, Mr. Seeds was married (first) to Adelia Shoemaker, who was born and reared in Delaware County, and was a daughter of Daniel Shoemaker. She died October 10, 1903. having given birth to nine children, the record being as follows; Rosa married Robert Sherman of Dayton. Tennessee, and have the following offspring: Blanche, wife of John Reidy, has three children: Dawn, wife of Ray Sperry, has three children. Lillian and Edwin Sperry. and a daughter, Julia Mc- Gough by a first marriage; Walter. Bessie and

Belle. Edward Seeds, second child of Mr. Seeds, married Lillian Baumbarger and has one sun, Cyloneous. Weston, residing at Columbus, married Kitty Gilbert and they have one son. Gerald. Etta married Melvin Mc- Conbrey of Algier, Ohm. and the}' have a son, Ray. Myrtie married Frank VVigton, and they have a son, Harry Seeds Wigton.

Mr. Seeds was married (second) November 23, 1904, to "Mrs. Elizabeth (Laughrey) Waugh, who was horn in Knox County, Ohio, September 9, 1840, and is a daughter of Samuel and Julia Ann (Harris) Laughrey. She first married Samuel Waugh, by whom sinhas four children living: William E., who resides in California; Samuel Charles, who lives in California; Elizabeth Viola, who is the wife of Josephine Doty, of Leonardsburg, Ohio; and Nancy Rosella, who is the wife ot Wilber Wandell oi California. Religiously, both Mr. and Mrs. Seeds have been Spiritualists for nian_\- years. Mr. Seeds served for years as township and village treasurer .and is a Democrat in politics.

S. CRUIKSHANK, who is a leading general farmer and fruit grower of Liberty Township, owns and resides on a very valuable farm of 22] acres, this being a part of the farm of 500 acres originally secured by his grandfather, George Cruikshank, soon after the War of [81 2'.

George Cruikshank was a native of New York and belonged to a family that came to America in [760. He married Elizabeth Conway, who was born in Ireland, and they came to Delaware County from Salem. Washington County. New York. The property that George Cruikshank secured had been obtained from the Government prior to this, by ' reneral Stansbury. No improvements had been made. but a few of the trees had been slashed to mark a pith through the forest. The children of George and Elizabeth Cruikshank were: Alary, who married John Dutcher; William. I (avid ( I., w hi i was b irn in

1808. married Eliza Eaton; Jane C. who was born November 2, 1814, married Joseph Leonard; William (2), who was born in 1816, married Cynthia Fisher: Elizabeth, who was horn in 181 9, died in 1820; George H.. who was born Apirl 4. 1821, was the father of A. S. Cruikshank; and James, who was born in 1823. married Lucia Kenyon.

Of his father's estate, (ieorge H. Cruikshank owned 221 acres. He followed agricultural pursuits until his children were old enough to require educational opportunities, when he moved to Delaware tp give them the benefits of excellent schools and resided there for about 2^, years. He died at the home of his son. A. S.. on the present farm. January 10, 1902, aged 81 years. George H. Cruikshank was married. June 5. 1850. to Augusta cember 25. iSyj. The children of (ieorge H. Cruikshank and wife were as follows: Harriett Jane, who was born May 4. 185 1. died in 1854; Alwood Smith; George Thompson, who was born October 23. 1854, died in October. 1835; Frederick W, who was born August 10, 185(1. died August 2j. 1856; Mary Augusta, who was born June 25, [858, married Rev. Edwin Brown. June 18. 1884. and they reside at Lawton. Oklahoma; Martha Elizabeth, who was born October [6, [860, died April 9, 1875; Peter, who was born July 22. 1862, died September 2^, 1862; Lucy Joy. who was born September 2. 1803. married Newton II. Fairbanks and they reside at Springfield. Ohio; and Dora, who was born February 4, 1866, died July 8, [866.

Alwood Smith was born December 25, 1852. He obtained his education in the sch ols at Delaware and the Wesleyan University, and was about 21 years old when he adopted farming as his life work'. After his marriage he located on his present farm and here he has engaged in general farming and has given 0 nsiderable attention to growing tine fruit. In [878 he married Viola J. Pollock, who is a daughter of S. D. and Mary (Taylor) Pollock, of Delaware County, but formerly ol I.odi, Medina County, Ohio.' Mr. and Mrs.

Cruikshank have had four children: Alwood Pollock, Mabel Janett, .Mary Augusta and George Harvey. The eldest son was born January 25, 1880. lie was educated in the common and High School at Delaware and served in the Spanish-American War in Porto Rico, as a member of Company K. Fourth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He is now engaged as one of the engineers at the Stratford power house, for the C. D. M. Company. He married Gertrude Snyder. The eldest (laughter, Mabel Janette, was born March jo. [885, and died while a student at the Wesleyan University, July 15. 1906. The passing away .if this daughter was a grevious affliction t" the family. Mary Augusta, hum 1 let iber 28, 1887, is now a student of the ( Ihio Wesleyan University, and ( ieorge Harvey. born March 6, 1891, is a student in the Delaware High School. The family residence was built stout and strong by the grandfather of Mr. Cruikshank. Idle stone house on the farm, just south of the residence, was erected by the father of Mr. Cruikshank. and in it the latter was horn.

In political views, the Cruikshanks have been identified with the Republican party since its formation hut in addition to this they have 1 ecu zealous prohibitionists and to such an extent that the late George H. Cruikshank was at one time the candidate for the State Assembly on the Prohibition ticket. Like his father. Mr. Cruikshank is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Delaware, in which he is an elder. He has been active in all movements designed to promote agricultural interests ami for a number of 3'ears was a member 1 if the < iranee.

APT. J. F. CURREN, whose period I of residence at Delaware covers almost half a century, is one of the city's reliable business men. as well a- a deservedly honored veteran of the Civil War. He was born September 10. [839, in Delaware County, Ohio, and is a son of Stephen Curren.

Joseph Curren, the grandfather, located in Delaware County in [808, coming from Washington County, Virginia, and was one of the pioneer teachers in this section, lie went on horseback to East d'ennessee. where he married, and brought his bride back with him in the same way, and settled permanently in Delaware County, where his son, Stephen Curren, was horn in 18 16. The latter became a man of substance and prominence in Delaware ( ounty, For a number of years he was engaged in a general mercantile business at Norton, Waldo, Leonardsburg and Ashley.

J. F. Curren was 18 years of age when he came to Delaware, and his education was obtained entirely in the schools of his native county. In [861 he enlisted as a private in Company D. Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into the service at Camp Chase, Columbus. He participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, Shiloh, Bolivar, and luka, and in those which occurred daily while the army was getting in the rear of Vicksburg. The Twentieth Infantry on every occasion gave a good account of itself. It went to Memphis and then to Yazoo Bend, through Louisiana, and took pari in the battle at Port Gibson. In the engagement at Raymond. Tennessee, the regiment lost heavily and went thence to Jackson, Champion Hill and Black River, and came up in front of Vicksburg mi May 18, taking part in the charge on the city on May _'jd. Captain Curren, during all these movements, was ever at the post of duty. After the fall of \ icksburg he accompanied the regiment to Mechanicsburg, and later back to Vicksburg, and on November 10. 1863, he was sent home on recruiting service. On the 18th of April, following, he was made regimental adjutant o( the Sixtieth Regiment, ( >. V. I., which was assigned to the Ninth Corps, and on May 5, 1 part in the memorable battle of the Wil ness. Here, with his comrades, he was for five hours under fire. At Nye Run they were again in battle for five hours, and out of three companies of 200. 98 were killed and wounded. On May 12th. came the terrible battle of Spottsylvania, and later that of Cold Harbor.

Following that came 36 hours of marching before the regiment was halted in front of Petersburg, where, after a rest of -'4 hours, these brave men were again called into action, and made that fierce charge which opened the siege, 17th June, [864, and in this Captain Curren was wounded and lost his right arm.

Here it may be mentioned as a curious coincidence that Captain Curren's mother's greatgrandfather lost his right arm, June 17. 1775. at the battle of Bunker Hill. Captain Curren's injury necessitated his being taken to a hospital at Washington, D. C. and he soon went Ik ime on furlough. In October, [864, he rejoined his regiment in front of Petersburg, and was then transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, .subsequently being sent to the Resen e garrison on Galloup's Island, Boston, where he remained until the close of the war. llis service was of long- duration and filled with severe hardships, but he emerged from all dangers with but one serious wound and had been gradually promoted to high rank.

Shortly after his return to Delaware, Captain Curren became an agent in the Refugee Bureau, under General Howard, and served at different places in North Carolina, until December 31, 1868. Subsequently, he served as postmaster at Delaware for twelve years and a half, later entering into a manufacturing business at Columbus, in which he continued for but a short time. In 1885 he opened a tire insurance office at Delaware, located at j,j> _. North Sandusky Street, where he has carried on business ever since. In [895 Captain Curren established the Citizens hire Insurance Association, of which he has been secretary since its organization.

Captain Curren was married February 1. [866, to Mary A. Gavitt, and they have three children: Lena O, who married John W. Roby, a proniinent attorney residing at Lima. Ohio; Arthur J., residing- at Elyria, Ohio, where he is manager of the Citizens' Telephone Company; and Marie, who resides at home. Captain Curren is a valued comrade in the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Union Veteran Legion, lie is a member of the Methodist Episcopal ( Ihurch.

ILLIAM HARRIS, A. B., a leadingcitizen of Ostrander, is cashier of the Ostrander Banking Company and is identified with cither successful enterprises of this section. Mr. Harris was born at Victoria, in Monmouthshire. Wales, November _>_-, 1870, and is a son of Edwin M. and Elizabeth ( Watkins) Harris.

Victoria, the birthplace of Mr. Harris, has been the family home for generations. The grandfather was a sailor and like many others who have followed the sea, made one voyage from which he never returned. Edwin M. Harris was born in 1840 and was a child when his father was lost. He learned the trade of molder. which he followed in his own country until 1880. when he came to America and resumed work at his trade in Cleveland, Ohio, which he has but recently given up. He is a member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, having joined the order in Wales. He married Elizabeth Watkins and they have three surviving children : William, residing at Ostrander; Cyrus M., residing at Cleveland; and Elizabeth, who married John Mosely, residing at Cleveland. The family was reared in the Ci ingregational Church.

William Harris was ten years old when his parents came to America. He was educated in the public schools of Cleveland and at Hiram College, graduating from the latter institution in 1897, having taken the theological course. In June, 1897, lie was ordained to the ministry of the Christian Church. Prior to this he had taken charge of the Christian Church on West Madison Avenue, Cleveland, where he continued for three years, removing from there to West Mansfield, Logan County. He remained in this charge for two years and his last settled pastorate was in Paulding County, where he was stationed for two or more years.

In the spring of 1905, Mr. Harris came to Ostrander and entered into business, on the first of the following July assuming the duties of cashier of the Ostrander Banking Company. He has been interested in the organization of several telephone companies and is secretary and a director of the Crooksville Company. The Ostrander Banking Company was or- department. The bank has proven very popular and profitable, its deposits now being some Si 1 5.1 Kin. while the total resources of the bankare $150,000. The president of the banking company is W. II. Carr, its vice-president is I. C. Maugans, while the following capitalists make up its board of directors: W. 11. Carr, J. C. Maugans, Marion Kirkland, H. \Y. Rittenhouse and J. 1. Adamson.

Mr. Harris married Ethel M. Carr, who is a daughter of S. T. Carr. a prominent resident of Ostrander, and they have two children, namely: Helen Elizabeth and David Carr. The family attends the Baptist Church.

In political sentiment, Mr. Harris is a Republican and in 1907, he was elected to membership on the School Board, although the township is strongly Democratic. He is a member of both the Masons and Odd Fellows, being connected with Ostrander Lodge, No. 594. F. & A. M., and the Chapter at Delaware, in the former fraternity, while in the latter, he is a member of Edinburgh Lodge and is past grand of White Lodge at West Mansfield and belongs to the Encampment at Middleburg. Mr. Harris is an esteemed citizen of Ostrander. a man who exercises a strong and helpful personal influence in the community.

OHX RICHEY XEWHOUSE, one of Scioto Township's most honored citizens, who has spent almost the whole of his long and useful life on his present farm, is a worthy representative of two of the pioneers of Delaware County and can claim a Revolutionary ancestor in the person of his great-grandfather. Mr. Newhouse was born in Union County. Ohio, Augusl 27, [829. His parents were William and Annie (Richey) Newhouse.

The history of the Newhouse family is very interesting. The family is of English origin and the first members came to Loudoun County, Virginia, prior to 1740, in which year the great-grandfather of John Richey was born. When be attained manhood, he married a lady who wa^ also of English extrai I and they reared the following children: Jona than. Isaac. Anthony. Ettra and David. He died of camp fewer, when forty years of age, having served in the Patriot army from Loudoun County, from 1776 to 1780.

Anthony Newhouse. the third son of the above family, became the grandtather of John Richey New house. He was eight years of age when his father died in the army, and with bis older brothers he was forced to assist his widowed mother in providing for the needs of the family. He remained closely at home until 1704. when General Washington called for soldiers to assist in suppressing what is known to history as the "Whiskey Insurrection." Anthony Newhouse responded and remained in the service for six months, or until the insurrecti' nists had been subdued, accompanying the command of General Lee as far as Fort Pitt, where the city of Pittsburg now stands. He returned to his home in Virginia and remained there, following his former pursuits, until 1798, when he visited Wheeling for six months and went from there to old Red Stone Fort, the site of which is now included in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

At that place. Mr. Newhouse became acquainted with Nancy Coons, to whom he was married. June 28, I7<)<). and through this marriage the Newhouse family became established in Ohio. His father-in-law. John Coons, had decided to become a pioneer and settled in the rich country offered to those who sought permanent homes, in Pickaway County. Ohio. Early in the year 1800, a party consisting of John Coons and family, Henry More and family and Anthony Newhouse and family, started on what was then a long and perilous journey, for which they made great preparation. They journeyed to Wheeling. Virginia, on the Ohio River and there the men put their wives aboard an old-fashioned keel-boat which plied up and down the river, by which route they were to reach the mouth of the Scioto River. When their families and possess were safely started, the men set out for the same point, along what was called "Zane's

Trace," being really the first road in the State of Ohio, covering the distance to Chillicothe. When the "house-boat" party, as we might term it in modern days, reached the mouth of the Scioto, it was necessary to take a still smaller vessel in order to ascend the narrower stream. They boarded what was termed a "pirogue," which was the Indian name for a primitive boat, sometimes consisting of several caimes fastened together and sometimes of a kind of flat-boat with a sail, and by this means they safely reached Chillicothe and joined their husbands. A still further journey had to be made up the Scioto Creek until they reached some land that had been previously cleared ami partially cultivated by the Indians, and here they stopped and built log cabins very close together, mainly for protection, as the)' were daily visited by the Indians and they were far from civilization, the nearest settlement being Chillicothe. thirteen miles away, while Lancaster was eighteen miles distant. At this time all the land in this vicinity belonged to the Government, the county not having been yet surveyed. Luring the first year, the little colony subsisted on corn which was brought from .Marietta, either by way of the river or on horseback, and on game, there being an abundance of deer and wild turkeys, while bears were often killed. There was thus no danger of hunger, and the wild berries and wild honey found in the forest, gave variety to the fare. During the residence of the family in Pickaway County the following children were born; William. Sarah, Elizabeth, John, [saac, Margaret and F.ura.

In [812 Anthony Newhouse had his second military experience. He enlisted from I'ickawaj County in John Boggs' company, under the command of General Tupper, who was sent to Fort Defiance to fight againsl the Indians. Mr. Newhouse was discharged at ITbana, Ohio, but before he reached there, his faithful horse had been so disabled b) the tomahawk of an Indian, that it was almost worthless. In 1N14 Anthony Newhouse sold In- farm of [60 acres in Pickaway County and bought 200 acres in Scioto Township, from Henry Massie, oi Chillicothe, paying for it at the rate of two dollars an acre. In May of that year he started with his family for Delaware County, bringing with him three cows and three horses. John R. Newhouse has now among his stock, descendants of the horses his grandfather brought from Pickaway County.

William Newhouse, father of John R., was born March 11. 1800. He was married to Annie Richey, January 6. 1823, and they settled on the bank of the Scioto River, near Bellpoint, from which place they removed, in [825, to Union County, but in the fall of 1829 they returned to Scioto Township and settled on the farm now owned by John R. Newhouse, who was then six months old. Here the father died December 6, 1842. His occupation was farming but he was possessed of so much mechanical skill that he constructed a large number of the necessities of the household, including furniture, utensils and shoes. He built the first wagon that was ever made in this section.

The children born to William Newhouse and wife were the following: Mary K., born January 2, 1825, married Benjamin T. Benton, August 13. 1840. and died January 19. 1901 ; David Emery, born August 26, 1826, died in Wapello County. Iowa, February 20, 1856; Belinda, who was married November 15. 1849. to Washington Jones Warren, died at Ashland, [1 wa; John R.; Catherine, born January 22. 183 1. was married in 1855, t0 Abner Johnson Bird, and died in [885; Nancy Jane, born June 30. [832, was married in 1857 to Levi Hart, and died in 1901 ; Adam, born January 30. 1X34. resides in Scioto Township; Joseph, born in 1836. lives in Buffalo, Missouri; William Lafayette, born June 12. [838, died June 30. [855; James 11.. born in 1840. died in 1899; and Isaiah died in infancy.

John R. Newhouse has engaged in general farming and stock-raising and has raised many horses. His farm contains 82 acres and be has all but 15 under cultivation. lie cast his first 1 'residential vote for Zacbary Taylor, and all through the period of the Civil War he was identified with the Republican party, 'out since then his interests have centered more in the Prohibition party which he is happy to see is winning consideration all over the land, the people beginning to value its principles and aims as he has done for many years. In many respects. Mr. Newhouse stands alone, being the oldest school-teacher living in the western part of Delaware County, having out-lived his co-workers and many of his pupils; is the oldest member of the old Stone Church of Radnor and the oldest Sunday school superintendent in Delaware County, and- the oldest elder in the Presbyterian Church, in point of service, in the Marion Presbytery, which includes Marion. Delaware. Union and Morrow Counties. He is also the oldest justice of the peace in the count}'. He has held all the township offices and has been at the head of all public-spirited movements. Since December 10. 1853. he has been a Mason, belonging first to Fidelity Lodge at Bellpoint, later demitting to Hiram Lodge, at Delaware, and is the oldest member of the fraternity in the countv.

On April 6. 1858, Mr. Newhouse was married to Jane A. McClure, a daughter of James McClure. She was born April 1. 1831. Of their seven children, six reached .maturity.- Emma, born February 7. 1859, married D. E. Hughes. December 15, [881, and they reside at Delaware. They have one daughter, Harriet, who was born November 7. 1884. David Emery, born July 26, r86l, died November 22. 1884. Nellie, born June ] _\ 1865, married A. H. Fawcett, June 11, t8go. and they have four children: Clyde, born March 31, 1891 ; Fern, born February 9, [893; Edgar, born November 2j. 1894; and Guy II.. born October 11. 1905. Annie Olive, born November 12, 1870, married Harry S. Britton, September 14. 1890, and died at Chicago, Illinois. April 22, 1898, leaving two children: Corinne, born August 24, 1891 ; and Pauline, born September 19. 1893. Mary lata, born December 13. 1872. married William Brown, February 1. [893, and they have one child, Chester Dean, lorn May 20. [897. Chester P.. bom November 21. 1N74. married Mary K. Oiler, April 21,- [898, and they have one child. John R., born February 11. [899

)N. THOMAS P.. POWELL, for many years numbered among Delaware's most prominent citizens, lias been a resident of Columbus, Ohio, since 1SS7. A lawyer by profession, his successes have been such as to gain for him a prestige not only throughout the State of Ohio, but in the industrial and financial centers of the country as well, and it has been his fortune to represent many of the largest corporate interests of the United States in a legal capacitv. He comes of a distinguished family of Delaware county, the name of Thomas W. Lowell, his father, being inseparably linked with the history of the city of Delaware and institutions, as its guiding genius during its constructive period.

Thomas L. Lowell was born. February 20. 1N42. in the old family home located on what is now the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, a building which subsequently served as the residence of the incumbent presidents of the University for many vears. He is a son of Thomas Watkins and Elizabeth (Gordon) Lowell, and paternally is descended from the Ancient Britons, the Lowells and Watkins, the latter being the family name of his grandmother, tracing their lineage back to ancestors who were in the Saxon invasion of (ireat Britain, in the Fifth Century of the Christian Era. These names are contained in the earliest year-books and literature of the Saxons, adorning the pages of the history of their country and race.

Thomas Watkins Powell was born near Cowbridge, Montgomeryshire, in South Wales, in November, 1707. mid was four years of age when brought to America by his parents. He was reared at Ltica. New York, in the beautiful Mohawk Valley, where he attended the Academy, availing himself of the limited advantages at hand for the procurement of an education. An insatiable thirst for km wledge could not be denied, and through self instruction and individual research he in time became one of the most scholarly of men. Upon leaving school lie read l;i\\ al Ltica until [819, then went to Canton, Ohio., where hi- p aration for the legal profession was continued under the preceptorship of Hon. James \Y. Lathrop. In 1820 he was admitted to the bar at Wooster, Ohio, and duly licensed to practice by the Supreme Court of the Circuit. He immediately after located at Perrysburg, Ohio, where he engaged in practice about 10 years, and while there served as prosecuting attorney, auditor and clerk of courts of Wood County, discharging the duties of these various offices at the same time. He moved to Delaware. Ohio, about 1830. and soon after purchased the land surrounding Sulphur Springs, now a part of the Ohio Wesleyan University campus, and erected the Mansion House, which is now used as Elliott Hall, one of the University buildings. He built, also, cottages, bath houses and bowling alleys, this being for some years a fashionable resort patronized by those in search of health and pleasure. Numbered among his guests at different times were men who occupied high stations in life, notably William Henry Harrison. President of the United States. Judge Campbell of the United States Court died there in 1832. Air. Powell erected a cottage on the ground, in which he and his family resided, and in which our subject and his wife were both born. He finally disposed of this property to the University. He was in the active practice of his profession in Delaware during this time, and for a period of [5 years was Probate Judge of the county. 1 le refused such offices as were not in line with his professional work, and twice refused the nomination for Congress, in 1840 and in [846, at a time when the nomination of his party meant almost certain election, lie was originally a Whig, in politics, then a Republican during the Civil War and until i,X-_>. when he withdrew his support from that party because of its reconstruction policies.

- Mr. Powell was ever foremosl in the public enterprises of Delaware, lie was influential in bringing the first railroads into the city; built the 'ild flax-mill, now in use as the chair factory; and assisted in establishing the foundry on East William Street. A man .if intellectual attainments and literary ability, with a masterly grasp of the subjects at hand.

as the author of "Powell's Analysis of American Law." a work on "Appellate Jurisdiction" and "'The History of the Ancient Britons and their Descendants," he erected a monument to his name which will endure. As to Mr. Powell's career, his ability and achievements, and the attributes which went to make his character, a more comprehensive account is given elsewhere in this volume.

Thomas E. Powell was reared in Delaware and attended Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated in 1863. He then read law under the direction of his father and was admitted to the liar in 1866. Immediately thereafter he formed a partnership with Mr. W. P. Reid, an association of legal talent which continued under the firm name of Reid & Powell, until the senior partner's death in 1879. During this time they had erected the Reid & Powell Block, a threestory brick building situated on the southwest corner of Sandusky Street and Central Avenue. Our subject continued in practice in Delaware until 1887, a greater part of the time as senior member of the firm of Powell, < iill & Kauffman, his partners being Judge J. S. Gill and Frank Kauffman. The latter subsequently withdrew from the firm, but Powell & dill continued until 1887. At that time Mr. Powell moved to Columbus, and the firm nf Powell, Owen, Ricketts & Black was formed. Hon. S. X. Owen had but recently retired as Judge of the Supreme Court, and was the first to sever his connection with the firm, retiring from practice some eight or ten years later. Upon the elevation of Mr. Blackto the bench as Probate Judge, the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Powell has since continued alone in practice. He has had connection with some of the must important litigation in the Ohio Courts, a notable case, in which he represented the plaintiff, being the Deshler Will Case, involving more than a half million of dollars. The successful prosecution of this case, which was before the courts for nearly 12 years, brought him a fee of $60,- 000. He has been attorney for the American Sugar Refining Company of New York, The Standard Oil Company, the Ohio and Western

Coal Company, The National Cash Registei Company, and mam other large corporations of New York and Ohio. During his practice in Columbus, his tecs from New York have exceeded those from Ohio, notwithstanding the fact he has tried cases in near]}' every count} in the State. lie has tried cases in nearly one-half the states of the Union, and appeared in all the courts, from the Common Pleas to the United States Supreme Court. Ik- has. without doubt, tried more cases than an_\- other lawyer in Ohio now living. The extent of his practice bespeaks his ability, his comprehensive knowledge of the law. his forensic ability, and his rank among the luremost of his pn rfession.

Mr. Powell was a Republican in politics until 1872. since which time lie has been most active in the affairs of the Democratic part}', being a prominent figure at count}. State and national conventions. He served as presidential elector from his district in 1872, and two years later was nominated for Congress in that district, which was strongly Republican. Although he met with defeat there was much glory in the fact that he was the first Democrat to carry Delaware G unity in a Congressional race. In 1873 he was the party nominee for attorney-general of Ohio, and in 1 878 was presidential elector at large for Ohio ; in 1887. he was nominated for governor of Ohio against Senator Foraker; he was delagate-at-large to the Chicago convention which nominated Cleveland for President, and placed in nomination the name of Governor Hbadley. Of commanding presence and pleasing voice, employing the choicest diction in his speech and appealing to the better judgment and reason of man. he is gifted beyond measure with the power to sway an audience, and has many times been called upon to place the name of a friend before a convention, lie presented the name of Allen C. Thurman at the St. Louis Convention in 1888: the name of General Thomas Ewing for governor in [878; and the name of Durbin Warren for governor in 1885. Fraternally. Mr. Powel] is a member of Hiram Lodge. No. [8, F. & A. M., at Delaware. He helped to organize the Delaware Chair Company in 1N70, and has been a director of it ever since.

Our subject was joined in marriage with Miss Eliza Thomson, a daughter of Bishop Edward Thomson, first president of Ohio Wesleyan University, a sketch of whom appears in connection with the history of the University. Six children were born of this union: Edward T., a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and an attorney at law, who has offices with his father; Maria, wife of Rev. Charles W. Watson, D. D., secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Missions of Philadelphia; Cornelia, who lives at home: Raymond, of Tucson, Arizona: Warren T.. who graduated from Ohio State University with the class of 1907, spent one year in Japan as teacher of English in the University of Tokio; and Harold is a member of the class of [.909, (Him State University. Religiously. Mr. Powell is a member of the Broad Street M. E. Church, tn the support of which he has contributed liberally.

AY \\". BARTON, a prominent citizen, large landowner and successful farmer of Berkshire Township, was born at Columbus, Ohio. March 4. 1861. and is a son of William and Sarah ( Inks ) Barton.

The parents of Mr. Barton were natives of Niagara Count}-, Xew York. The}- were married at Columbus, Ohio, in 1850. The father, William Barton, was a prosperous real estate dealer at Columbus for a number of years and continued to reside there until his death, which took place April 7. 1Q05. his wife's death having occurred in the preceding month! The}- had four children, namely: Mar}-, who died aged sixteen years; Helen, who married John Braddock, residing at Newark. Ohio; Clay \\. : and Nellie, who died aged seventeen years.

Clay W. Barton was educated in the schools of Columbus and prior to going the real estate business with his father, was a clerk for two years in the office of the C. II.

B. & T. Railroad. Under his father's supervision, Mr. Barton developed into a successful business man. and continued his residence at Columbus until 1886. He then bought 150 acres of farming land adjoining Sunbury on the south, where he has since carried on general agriculture. In April. 1906. he purchased a second farm of 116 acres in Geneva Township, which he rents. He is identified with many of the leading business concerns of this community. He owns considerable stock and is a director in the Sunbury Farmers' Bank and has other interests. He also owns valuable city realty at Columbus and is interested in the Smith Chemical Company, manufacturers of fertilizers in that city.

In [888 Mr. Barton was married to Anna Moore, who was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and who died at Sunbury. Ohio. April 1. 1895. She left one child. Ethel, born in February. 1890, who died October 7. 1902. Mr. Barton was married, secondly. May 13, [907, to Mrs. Ella (Mains) Ford, widow of the late Benton Ford and daughter of John Mains. Mrs. Ford had three daughters - Catherine. Estella and Ruth, all attending school. In politics, Mr. Barton is a Republican, and since 1897 he has been a trustee of Berkshire Township. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has served on its Board of Trustees.

The ancestors of the subject of this memoir, both paternal and maternal, lived in South Wales, and they trace their lineage back among the \ncient Britons, to the Saxon invasion of Great Britain, in the Fifth Century of the Christian era. The names of Powell and Watkins can be found in the earliest vear-

Tin imas Watkin Powell, lawyer, legislator and author, and in his day widely known to his brethren of the bar, and literary circles, was born in Wales in the latter part of the year 1797. In the early part of the year 1801, his father, Watkin Powell, with his young family immigrated to America and settled in the upper part of the Mohawk Valley, in the State of Xew York. The name of bis maternal grandfather was Watkins.

Utica at that time was a small village, compared with its present magnificence and grandeur, and the country around it was new, the population sparse, and as a matter of course, the means for the education of the young men of that day were limited. Young Thomas sought and obtained such an education as the opportunities afforded.

During the second war with Great Britain, then a mere youth, he drove his father's team with the baggage of a regiment, in the spring of 1813, to Sackett's Harbor, and entered the place at the close of the battle.

In September, 181 4, he was appointed by the military authorities to a post of great trust and responsibility - the bearer of dispatches to Plattsburg; and at the close of that battle he entered the town with dispatches to General McCombes.

Thirst for knowledge was the ruling passion of young Powell's life, and after the War. of 1812. for about two years he was favored with the privilege of attending an academy in Utica. where he studied and mastered such branches as are taught at such institution-, including the higher branches of mathematics, for which he had a taste, and great genius to excel.

It was ever with him a subject of regret, that bis opportunities in early life to obtain a more thorough education were so limited, lint such was the order of Providence. Had he been indulged in the natural bent of his mind, he would have devoted his life to literature. and undoubtedly acquired fame in the Republic 1 if letters.

as a law student, when about the age of 20. Jn the year [819 he came to Ohio, and he passed his quarantine as a law student in the office of Hon. James \Y. Lathrop at Canton. In the year 1820 at Wboster, Ohio, he was duly licensed by the Supreme Court' on the Circuit, to practice in the several courts of record of the State; and he immediately located at Perrysburg, on the Maumee. in the practice of the law. But the country being new and the business insufficient to occupy his time, he accepted both the offices of county auditor and prosecuting attorney of Wood County. At that time under the law, the count}' commissioners appointed the auditor, and the Common Pleas Court appointed the prosecuting attorney, and Mr. Powell held these two offices in Wood County for a period of 10 years consecutively.

In the year 1830, the Maumee Valley not growing in population and not meeting with tlie commercial and business success that was anticipated by the first settlers, in order to obtain a wider held for the practice of his profession, he removed to Delaware, where he resided for more than 50 years, and until his death. He immediately entered upon a lucrative and extensive practice, and from the very outset, his business proved to he commensurate with his abilities and integrity. For more than 30 years, he was regarded by the bar in Delaware, and throughout the counties in Central Ohio, as a strong and successful lawyer. In special pleading and equity to which be devoted special attention he excelled. His industry was untiring both in his profession and as a student. Law. history and literature remained his constant attention, when not occupied with the cares and duties "i" his business, ami pn fessional engagements. He was noted for his zeal for his clients" interests and welfare, in both civil and criminal cases. Politic and intelligent his society was courted by his lirother lawyers at the bar. and in whatever circle he entered he was always welcome.

students than Mr. Powell. Among the lawyers who acquired celebrity in professional or political life, or both, we can name among his students. Hon. C. Sweetser, who was a successful lawyer and a member of Congress from 1849 to I8S3; subsequently Edward Jones, Esq., who died young, and who at the time of his death was prosecuting attorney of Delaware County. Mr. Jones had acquired so much reputation as a lawyer and publicspeaker, that it was thought that if he had lived, he would have reached the very highest round in the ladder of fame. His brother, Hon. Thomas C. Jones, scarcely less distinguished, was both State Senator and Common Pleas and District Judge for 10 years. Hon. Royal T. Wheeler, Chief Justice of Texas. General J. S. Jones, a member of the Forty-fifth Congress, and others making a 1' >ng roll, were among the number of his law students.

The bar in Central Ohio when Mr. Powell entered upon the practice in Delaware was distinguished for its ability. Gustavus Swan and Ovis Parish of Columbus, Ewing and Stanbury of Lancaster,' William Sanbury of Newark, Delano and Curtis of Mt. Vernon, Godman and Bowen of Marion, Stewart and Bartlv of Mansfield ami others with whom he was frequently associated as co-counsel, or pitted against in the trial of causes, were able lawyers. In this brilliant array. Mr. Powell stood abreast with the foremost as an advocate and trial lawyer.

Painstaking and laborious in the preparation of his cases, he was never taken by surprise by his adversary in the trial of a cause. His earnest and persuasive style of elocution was entertaining and instructive, to both Court and jury. Punctilliously honest, he was the very soul of honor, and his earnest manner impressed the Court and jury with the sincerity of his convictions.

To his industry in his profession and letter^, Mr. Powell added great enterprise in all matters of interest to the public. He projected and prosecuted to completion the improvements at the Sulphur Springs, at Delaware. known as the "Mansion House," which in its early history was a fashionable resort as a watering place; and which subsequently secured to Delaware, the "Ohio Wesleyan University." He built the flax-mills at Delaware, and thereby secured the extensive chair factory upon the same site, now known and patronized in every State in the Union; and by his enterprise and patronage, greatly aided in the establishment and success of the foundry and machine shops of that city, lie had an exquisite taste for horticulture and -the arts - especially architecture. His knowledge of the arts by study and cultivation, was of a high order. All his life he was free from very vice of dissipation. To billiards and cards he was a stranger.

Although he took a lively interest in public affairs he was never partisan, lie believed in the brotherhood of man and sympathized with the afflicted, either in mind, body or estate - it made no difference to him whether the sufferer was white or black, degraded or virtuous, his hand was ever ready to extend him relief. His whole life was signalized with acts of charity, and he was never known "to turn the poor away unalmsed."