Washington Township (part 3 of 16)

SIMON HUEY, farmer and blacksmith, P. 0. Georgetown, bom in Fayette County, Penn., August 27, 1810, the son of George and Margaret Huey. They were natives of the Keystone State, of Irish and German descent. He learned the blacksmith trade, and has followed it all his life. In 1838, he moved to Brown County. Id connection with his trade, he has carried on farming for a few years, and owns 104 acres of good land. Mr. Huey has twice entered the connubial state, but both his consorts are deceased. He has three children - George, Margar. t (wife of Perry Dye, of this township), and James A. Mr. Huey is a member of the Christian Union Church. His politics are Democratic, but he does not hesitate to vote for the man he regards best, irrespective of his party affiliations. He is a man of strong will-power, and boldly advocates what he deems right. To his family he is kind and indulgent, to his fellow-man generous, and to the needy liberal. During his long residence in Brown County he has made many warm friends and few enemies, and none of his neighbors can say aught against him.

W. J. JACOBS, Auditor of Brown County, Georgetown, was born in Pleasant Township, this county, October 8, 1846. His father was Alfred Jacobs, a life resident of Brown County, and a farmer by occupation. He married Rebecca Ellis, who departed this life January 16, 1853, aged twenty-eight years and eight months. He was subsequently joined in marriage to America Ellsberry, who is also deceased. His present wife was Amanda Wrastler. Three sons and three daughters were born to the first union, two sons and two daughters to the second one, and five children to the present union. Of these, eleven are now living. The subject of this notice was reared on the home farm, attending the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, where he took a six months' business course. He was book-keeper in a woolen mill in Clermont County during 1869, and in the Georgetown Woolen Mills for three years. From May, 1874, to January, 1878, he was employed as clerk in the grocery of Adam Stephen. In the latter month, he was appointed Deputy to E. E. Roney, Auditor of Brown County, which position he acceptably filled till October, 1880, when he was elected Auditor on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Jacobs is a member of Confidence Lodge, No. 307, I. O. 0. F. He was married, January 2, 1877, to Lucy, daughter of N. A. Watterman, of Pleasant Township. They have two children - Anna and Nellie. Mrs. Jacobs is a member of the New Light Church.

CAPT. F. R. KAUTZ, farmer, P. 0. Higginsport. Prominent among the enterprising farmers of Pleasant Township is Capt. F. R. Kautz. He was bom in Baltimore, Md., November 6, 1829. He is the son of George and Doratha (Lalwing) Kautz. His parents were natives of Germany, and emigrated to America two years before our subject was born. He is the second of a family of six children, and had four brothers and one sister. The boys of the family were all of a military turn. His oldest brother is Maj. Gen. A. V. Kautz, of the regular service. He is a graduate of West Point. George, another brother, was in the war of 1861 as a volunteer from Illinois. Albert, the youngest, is a commissioned officer in the naval service. Capt. Kautz, in 1862, volunteered in the Fifty-ninth Ohio Infantry, Company G. He raised the Company, was elected Captain, and was discharged in 1864 at the expiration of his term of service. F. R. Kautz received a common school education in Georgetown, Brown Co., Ohio. He began traveling in 1850, going to California. He also was , through Oregon and Washington Territory, and returned in 1859. The same year, he was married to Lucinda Hill, a native of Brown County. They have two children - Louisa and Phillip Sheridan. Mrs. Kautz is a member of the Christian Church. In business, Mr. K, has been eminently successful. He is the owner of 163 acres in this township, and a farm in Lewis Township. He is an extensive tobacco raiser, and deals in it somewhat. He is a Republican in politics, and has been for two terms Trustee of Pleasant Township. He does not desire office, but prefers giving his attention to business.

WILLIAM KERR, farmer, P. 0. Georgetown, born in Pennsylvania, August 2, 1823, the son of David and Elizabeth (Pangburn) Kerr. His parents were natives of New Jersey and of English descent. Mr. Kerr received a common school education in his native State, and in 1849 married Josephine Lytel, who is also a native of Pennsylvania. Their children, five in number, are Elizabeth (wife of Newton Smith), Martha C. (deceased), David, Margaret and Samuel. In 1859, they emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio and settled in Brown County. Both are members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Kerr has made farming his life occupation, and in it has been moderately successful. He is the owner of a farm of one hundred and twenty acres of good land, which he has secured by his own exertions. In politics, he is a Republican.

GEORGE W. KING, deceased, was born near Gettysburg, Adams County, Penn., October 15, 1797, and was the sixth of ten children born to Hugh and Abigail (Voorhees) King. His father was an Ensign in the Revolutionary war, and, being taken prisoner by the British, was kept in confinement about four years. George W. was reared on his father's farm and received a classical education in Gettysburg and Dickinson College. He studied law for a period of three years in Gettysburg ; was admitted to the bar in November, 1817, and in the following December moved to Ripley, Ohio, where he commenced the practice of his profession, he and his father-inlaw, John S. Wills, being the first resident lawyers of the newly formed county of Brown. In 1818, he was appointed the first Prosecuting Attorney of Brown County, and served in that capacity for eight consecutive years, when he resigned. In 1831, he removed to Georgetown, where he continued to reside until his death. In 1832, he was appointed Clerk of the Supreme and Common Pleas Courts of Brown County, and served eight years. He was an able lawyer and a highly respected citizen ; in politics, he was a Republican, and in religion a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1818, he was married to Elizabeth M. Wills, a native of Chillicothe, Ohio ; eight children were born to them. He died in September, 1879.

JOHN LAFABRE, Georgetown, Attorney at Law, and ex-Clerk of the Courts of Brown County, was born in Franklin Township September 9, 1830. His father was John Lafabre. who was born in Lower Oxford, 56 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1794. He was a carpenter by trade; and in 1819 located in Ohio. Soon after, he purchased a farm in Franklin Township, this county, between Russellville and Arnheim, when he was engaged in agricultural pursuits till the date of his death - 1873. Mr. Lafabre's mother was Elizabeth Thompson, born on the top of South Mountain, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Alexander Thompson, a native of Scotland. Mrs.

Lafabre is still living, and at present resides at Russellville. Ten children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lafabre, only two of whom survive - our subject and sister Belle, who resides with her mother at Russellville. The subject of this notice received his early literary education at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, where he remained one year, and subsequently attended school at College Hill, Hamilton Co., Ohio, where he remained two and a half years. He studied law at Dayton for fifteen months, from the fall of 1853, and then attended a course of lectures at the Cincinnati Law School. He was engaged in the milling business at Ripley for six or seven years, and subsequently " farmed it " for five or six years. In 1875, he was nominated for Clerk of Courts of Brown County, on the Democratic ticket, and was duly elected. In the fall of 1878, he was re-elected, his second term expiring February 9, 1882. Since that time, Mr. Lafabre has been engaged in the practice of his profession. Mr. Lafabre has always been a Democrat in politics, and in 1856-57, was editor and publisher of the Brown County Democrat. Mr. Lafabre is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, at Georgetown, being Master of the former body. He was united in marriage, in 1858, to Sallie A., daughter of George D. Evans, of Georgetown. Three children have been born to them, one of whom survives - Elizabeth, wife of C. H. McRibben. Mr. Lafabre's father never knew a sick day from three years of age, till the time of his death, a period of seventy-seven years. In 1812, he assisted in building, at Pittsburgh, the first steamboat to run on the Ohio River. Mrs. Lafabre is in her eighty-fifth year, and still enjoys good health. Charles H. McKibben, who married Mr.[Lafabre's daughter Elizabeth, was born in Lewis Township, December 5, 1853. He is a son of Henry McKibben (deceased), who was an early Clerk of the Courts of Brown County. His mother was Mary J. Young, a sister of W. W. Young. Mr. McKibben was reared and educated in Georgetown, and for twelve years assisted his father in the dry goods business. In 1874, he secured a position in the wholesale dress goods department of John Shillits's mammoth store at Cincinnati, where he remained two years. He then returned to Georgetown, and in 1876 engaged in the grocery business. The date of his marriage was February 2, 1881.

J. H. LAW WILL, of Lawwill & Inskep, grocers, Georgetown, was born in Huntington Township, Brown Co., Ohio, April 17, 1852. His father is J. K. Lawwill, a native of Huntington Township, and a shoemaker by trade ; he still resides there. He married Amanda Shelton, also a native of Brown County. Our subject is the fifth child and second son of a family of thirteen children ; he was reared in his native township, and, when seventeen years of age, went to Maysville, Ky.; he had obtained a fair literary education in this county, and after locating at Maysville engaged in teaching school. He subsequently clerked1 a short time, and then engaged in mercantile pursuits, remaining at Maysville six years. In March, 1879, Mr. Lawwill came to Georgetown, mOYing his stock of goods from the former to the latter place ; he immediately commenced business in his new location, and in September, 1880, George Inskep was admitted as a partner in the business. Both members of the firm are young in years, but by strict attention to the wants of their customers, coupled with a large amount of industry and perseverance, have succeeded in building up the largest and most remunerative trade, in their line of goods, in the village. Mr. Lawwill is a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge, and Republican in politics. He was married, in September, 1874, to Jennie Holmes, a native of Adams County, Ohio. Of their three children, two are living - Gertrude and Edna. Mr. and Mrs. Lawwill are members of the M. E. Church, the former being a tenor singer in the choir.

J. W. LAYCOCK, farmer, P. 0. Georgetown, was born in Jefferson Township, Brown Co., Ohio, May 25, 1822, son of Levi and Mary (Washburn) Laycock. Levi Laycock is a Virginian, and moved to Jefferson Township in 1798 or 1799 ; he was under Gen. Hull when he surrendered to the British in 1812, and still lives in Jefferson Township, an honored and respected citizen at the age of eighty-nine years. The mother of the subject of this sketch was a native of this county, and died in 1832. She was distantly related to Senator Washburn. J. W. was raised on his father's farm, and from the age of sixteen years has made his own way in life, and has accumulated a competency to support him in his declining years. For two years, he worked by the month ; he learned the cooper's trade at Cincinnati, and followed it six years. In 1846, he married Elizabeth Shields, daughter of William and Mary (Ramey) Shields. William Shields was a native of Kentucky, and, from 1843 to 1847, was Sheriff of Brown County ; his wife, Mary, was a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Laycock have four children living - John W., married and farming in Pleasant Township ; Mary K., wife of C. C. Jones, of Clark Township ; L. C., a physician, practicing in Highland County, and E. F., at home. All are doing well, and have profited by the habits of industry and strict integrity, which they acquired at home. All the members of this family have united with the Disciples' Church, of which the parents have been members, the father for nearly thirty years and the mother for a longer period. Our subject is, at present, the Superintendent of the Sabbath School of the Disciples' Church at Georgetown, which is in a prosperous and flourishing condition.

ROBERT SCOTT LAYCOCK (deceased) was born in Brown County April 23, 1824, the son of Peter and Sarah (Woostrel) Laycock, both natives of Ohio, and both of English descent. His life was spent in farming, and in his youth he received a good education in the common schools. In 1849, he was joined in marriage with Caroline Waterfield, who was born in Lewis Township in 1827. They had two children - Sarah Ellen (the wife of Columbus Phillips) and Peter W. (a farmer of this township). Mr. Laycock was a member of the M. E. Church, a Democrat, a successful farmer, owning 323 acres of land, and died in 1870. His widow is a member of the Christian Church, and resides in this township. Her farm is operated by Joseph F. Rubenaker, a native of Germany, who, in 1881, married Anna Florence Hubbard, Mrs. Laycock's adopted daughter.

P. W. LAYCOCK, farmer, P. 0. Georgetown, was born in Brown County December 20, 1851. He is the son of Robert Scott Laycock, and attended the district schools of his neighborhood. He adopted the occupation of his father - farming - and has applied himself to it with energy and enterprise. His farm consists of 127 acres. In politics, he affiliates with the Democracy. His life companion is Mary Evans, daughter of W. J. Evans, of this county. They were married in 1866, and have three children - William Scott, Lottie Florence and Wilber Austin. Mrs. Laycock is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

LEARNER B. LEEDS, editor and printer by trade, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, July 20. 1817, of mixed English and German ancestry, his father's side coming from Leeds, in England, and his mother's side coming from Germany. He was born on a farm, and lived a farmer's life till about seventeen years of age. He knew not what ease or idleness or plenty signified, but was inured to poverty and toil. His means of education were a country school, and two or three months a year thereat. Most of his education was obtained at home of nights and at leisure hours, and his schoolmaster was his own will and determination to acquire an education. In the fall of 1834, he was apprenticed to the printing business to the late Gov. Samuel Medary, who then published the Ohio Sun at Batavia. During his apprenticeship, he served as assistant editor, and part of the time, when Mr. Medary was absent at Columbus as Senator, he had the sole control of the paper, both mechanical and editorial. After completing his apprenticeship, he went to Cincinnati, and first worked in the Daily Gazette office when the late Charles Hammond was its editor ; and afterward he worked in the Philanthropist office, edited by the late Gamaliel G. Bailey. In 1840, he purchased the Ohio Sun printing office, and soon after changed its name to Clermont Sun , which name it stiil bears. He continued its editor and publisher, with a brief interregnum, until 1864, when he sold out to the late Hon. H. V. Kerr. While living in Batavia, he was frequently elected to local offices, such as the School Board, Town Council, etc., and twice as County Recorder, serving as such for six years. His efforts for his party and political friends have no bounds. While he stood at the editorial helm the Democratic party succeeded uniformly, and was only beaten when a political revolution swept over the country, such as in 1854-55, when Know-Nothingism succeeded by 1700 in the county, and the war demoralized parties in 1861. In 1864, having sold the Sun , he purchased the Southern Ohio Argus at Georgetown, Ohio, of

John G. Doren. Soon after, he changed the name of the paper to Brown County News. In Georgetown, he was often member of the Town Council, and other local positions were conferred upon him. In 1869, he was elected to the State Senate, and re-elected in 1871, serving four years as State Senator, representing the Fourth District, composed of Brown and Clermont Counties. While member of the Senate, he never missed a roll-call, and was only absent a part of four days when the Senate was in session, making the best record for punctual attendance of any man who ever occupied a seat in that honorable body. In every position in which he was placed, his highest ambition was to do his full duty. Though not an orator, and never having practiced public speaking, he never failed to carry any measure through the Senate to which he set his mind and efforts to carry. He spoke short and to the point, and his presentation of his measures were plain and simple, and had the effect to make them succeed. He belongs truly to that class denominated self-made men. In 1838, he married Harriet Smith, by whom he had four children, three of whom are still living. In 1860, his wife died. In 1864, he married Miss Rachael A. Millspaugh, of Newtown, Ohio.

COL. D. W. C. LOUDON, Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Georgetown, was born in Georgetown, Ohio, May 29, 1827. He is a son of Gen. James Loudon, prominent citizen of Brown County, now deceased, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. Judge Loudon's mother was Elizabeth Chapman. She is still living, in the enjoyment of good health, and resides in Georgetown, an honored and highly esteemed pioneer of Brown County, and a lady of culture and refinement. When five years of age, Judge Loudon accompanied his parents to a farm in Pleasant Township, where he passed his boyhood days. In early life, he attended the district schools of the neighborhood, but a desire for a better education induced him to attend the Ohio University, at Athens, from which he graduated in 1850. In 1846, he enlisted in the First Ohio Regiment Volunteers to the Mexican war, serving one year, and being mustered out as Quartermaster Sergeant. In 1852, he purchased the Democratic Union , of Georgetown, of which he was the editor and publisher for two years. He studied law with Lot Smith, of Athens County, Ohio, and David G. Devore, of Georgetown. He was admitted to practice in the courts of Ohio in November, 1851, to the United States Circuit Court in 1860, and the United States Supreme Court in January, 1868. He has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1861, Judge Loudon assisted in organizing the Seventieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, accompanying it to the field as Lieutenant Colonel. He was subsequently promoted Colonel, and served in the Fifteenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee, uuder Gen. Sherman. He was discharged, on account of disability, in August, 1864; he returned to Georgetown, and resumed his practice. In 1857, he was elected Probate Judge of Brown County, to fill a vacancy ; he resigned this position in November, 1858. In the fall of 1881, he was elected Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Brown County for a term of five years, commencing February 9, 1882. Previous to the war, Judge Loudon was a Democrat, but at that time joined the Union party ; he voted with the Republicans till the Greeley campaign of 1872, when he became associated with the Liberal party. Since 1876, he has been a member of the Greenback party ; he is connected by membership with the Association of Mexican Veterans, Post of Ohio, and the Society Army of the Tennessee. In his legal practice. Judge Loudon has met with very fair success. He was united in marriage, in April, 1852, to Hannah W. Bowles, a native of Southbridge, Mass. They have five children - Fannie, Betty (wife of John M. Markley, an attorney of Georgetown), James, Anna P. and Julia B. Mrs. Loudon and two older daughters are members of the Presbyterian Church. Judge Loudon is modest and retiring in his manner ; a thorough scholar and an earnest student. He is distinguished for his scholarly attainments, and his kindly manners endear him to all who know him.

CAPT. THOMAS J. LOUDON (deceased) was born in Pleasant Township, Brown County, Ohio, November 15, 1839, and died while in the service of his country, September 28, 1863, in the twenty-fourth year of his age. He was the son of General James and Elizabeth Loudon, the seventh of a family of nine children. He spent his boyhood days on his father's farm, and was just attaining manhood when the war of rebellion opened. He was impetuous and fetrless in nature, and in the early days of the great national struggle entered the army and served on the staff of Gen. W. S. Smith ; at the time of his death, he held a Captain's commission. His early military experience was had in Virginia, where he participated in the battle of Carnifax Ferry and other engagements. His bold, dashing spirit admirably adapted him to the dangerous duties of the various expeditions which his position required him to make. He at one time was with a train, which was captured some distance out from Memphis, Tenn., plundered, and the soldiers aboard taken prisoners. Capt. Loudon and Capt. Lilley, of Columbus, Ohio, were the only two who eluded their captors and escaped. The former climbed a tree in the adjoining woods and was a spectator of the rifling and burning of the train and baggage, including all his own effects. With the assistance of some friendly negroes, he succeeded in finding his way back to the Union lines. He -was drowned in the Mississippi, at Milliken's Bend, at the burning of the steamer Robert Campbell, Jr. Gen. W. S. Smith, in describing the catastrophe of the burning, says : "I looked for Capt. Loudon, my Assistant Adjutant General, confident that he had escaped, as he was an expert swimmer. I knew the noble fellow would be looking for me, but he was nowhere to be found. The last I saw of him, he was standing on the very point of the bow, fully dressed and perfectly cool. He afterward aided all he could in getting planks and staging overboard. To Capt. Rose, who asked him if he could swim, he replied : ' Oh, yes, don't give yourself any trouble on my account.' On inquiry, I learned from an acquaintance of his that he had swam out to the Captain, who was clinging to a trunk to which another man also clung, and endeavored to help him, but found him sinking. The two rolled the trunk, and I presume the Captain was rolled under. May kind Heaven grant him its sweetest rest from the stormy scenes of his brief life. A gallant, noble spirit was his."

V. M. LOUDON, farmer, P. 0. Higginsport, was born in Union Township October 14, 1822, and is the son of Charles and Ellen (Sells') Loudon. His father was born in Kentucky, of Scottish parentage, his mother in Pennsylvania, of Dutch parentage. He received no other education than what the common schools afforded, and early turned his attention to boating and farming, and has since usually spent his summers on the farm and his winters on the river. His farm consists of 125 acres, well improved. While boating, he buys and sells plantation supplies in the South. His political faith is in the Democratic party. The year 1845 dates his marriage with Louisa Jordan, the daughter of James Jordan of this county. Their children are Mary F., Lucy (wife of George Gardner, of Higginsport), John, George (now living in Kentucky), Lida (wife of O. P. Waterfield), Frank, Emma, Charles B. and Stella (deceased).

ROBERT LYON (deceased) was born in Pleasant Township in 1803 ; the son of William and Anna (Brown) Lyon, who were early pioneers of this township, and a sketch of whom is given in the history of Pleasant Township. William Lyon came to this township in 1796. Robert was raised on his father's farm five and one-fourth miles south of Georgetown, attending school in the rude log cabins thereabouts. He selected farming as his occupation, and became an extensive land-holder, at one time owning 921 acres. He died in 1854. In 1841, he married Rachel, daughter of Jesse and Mary (York) Printy. Jesse Printy's father was a native-born Irishman, who served in the Revolutionary war; his (Jesse's) mother was a native of Sweden. Jesse emigrated to Pleasant Township in 1810, and died in 1882 at the advanced age of ninety-eight years. He had seen Pleasant Township converted from a dense wilderness into a prosperous and bounteous country. His wife was a Pennsylvanian by birth. The union of Robert Lyon and Rachel Printy was blessed with a family of six children, four of whom are living. The eldest child, William, was born April 5, 1842, received his education in Pleasant Township and engaged in farming six miles south of Georgetown. His farm is beautifully located on a rise of ground, and from his residence he has a view of the Ohio River for a distance of ten miles. He is a Democrat. He was twice married, first to Evaline Chapman, daughter of Isaac Chapman. By this marriage he has five children - Ada, Lola, Robert, Edward and Gillian. Mrs.

Lyon died in 1876, and, in 1879, William married Mary, daughter of John Kuntz. One child, Alfred, is the fruit of this union. Robert Lyon's second child, Louis, born in 1845, is the present manager of the old homestead of 310 acres. He received his education at the Western Union College and Military Academy in Whiteside County, 111. He also attended the Ohio University one year. He was married, in 1868, to the daughter of Rev. J. P. Daugherty, Rachel A., by whom he has one daughter, Jessie. The remaining children of the subject of this sketch are Mary (wife of Capt. Charles D. Thompson, of Georgetown), Dan (deceased), Anna (deceased), and Ruth (wife of U. G. Rees, a Georgetown merchant).

GEORGE LYON, farmer, P. 0. Higginsport, was born in Pleasant Township, Brown County, Ohio, September 13, 1826. He was the oldest son of Robert Lyon, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. George was reared on a farm and lived with his father till 25 years old. He received a common school education, and also attended college, at Cincinnati, for a short time. He attended school one term in Georgetown, while Gen. Grant was in school. He says that the General was a bad boy to play " teeter" with; for when Grant would be down, and the other boy up, Graut would get off to see the other fellow "caplunk," as he called it. That might have been fun for Grant, but Esquire Lyon says it was hard on him, for he had received two or three bumps in that way. He has given his attention to farming and is the owner of 97 acres of land. Mr. L. is a Republican in politics. He has served as Justice of the Peace for twenty years in Pleasant Township. He was married, in 1856 or 1857, to Harriet Dillman, a native of Brown County, Ohio, daughter of Conrad Dillman, of German descent. This union has been blessed with a family of six children, all of whom are living - Charles D. (a farmer in Pleasant Township), Anna, Lucy, W. H., Minnie and Emma. W. H. bought a farm of 20 acres, when he was in his seventeenth year. Mr. L. is a kind father and has the good will of all his neighbors.

JOHN MARKLEY, P. 0. Georgetown, one of the most prominent retired farmers of Brown County, was born in Maryland January 8,1803. His father was John Markley, also a native of Maryland, and a saddler by occupation. He removed to Wellsburg, Brooke County, sixteen miles above what is now Wheeling, W. Va., where he resided till his death, in 1828. Mr. Markley's mother was Susan Ridenhour, a native of Hagerstown, Md. She departed this life April 12, 1848. They were the parents of twelve children, the subject of this sketch being the only surviving member of the family. Mr. Markley was reared and educated in West Virginia, and in early life engaged in running a flat-boat from Wellsburg to New Orleans. He remained at this business the greater part of the time for twenty-six years, and on March 1, 1846, he came to Brown County, Ohio. He first located on 353 acres of land in Pleasant Township, one and one-half miles north of Georgetown, where he resided till 1854. He then disposed of his farm, and removed to Georgetown, residing there ten years. He then purchased 299 J acres of land in Pleasant Township, east of Georgetown, where he was engaged in farming till November, 1876. Having possessed enough of this world's goods to pass the remainder of life in peace and quiet, and, believing he had toiled enough in his seventy-six years of active life, Mr. Markley sold his farm and once more removed to Georgetown, where he now resides. He purchased a block of land near the school building, where he has a large and comfortable residence. Since removing to the village, Mr. Markley has dealt largely in real estate, at present owning a good share of village property. He was reared in the doctrine of the " Jacksonian Democrats," and has firmly adhered to the principles promulgatad by that body. Mr. Markley was married in 1853, to Lucy Marshall, who was born December 17, 1828. Eight children were born to this union, seven of whom are living - John M. an (attorney at law, in Georgetown), Susan M. (wife of Frank Swope, a grocer), James H. (in the hardware trade), Albert G. (also in the hardware business), Sarah E., Ida C. and Etta. Mr. Markley was reared in the faith of the M. E. Church, and has always been connected with that denomination.

JOHN G. MARSHALL (deceased). This soldier and lawyer was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, May 3, 1823 ; he was the fourth of six children born to John and Margaret M. (Grant) Marshall, the latter being a sister of Jesse R. Grant, an early pioneer of Clermont County, and father of Gen. U. S. Grant. She was born in Pennsylvania ; her husband, John Marshall, was a native of Virginia, who settled in Trumbull County at an early day, and through life followed agricultural pursuits and trading. Our subject was early trained to industry, and from the age of nine until he was fourteen years of age, worked in the tannery of his uncle, Jesse R. Grant ; he then entered a printing office, where he learned the mysteries of that art, at which he worked in Ohio and Kentucky until 1845, when he commenced the study of law under Grafton B. White and Hanson L. Penn, at Georgetown. He applied himself to his studies with great assiduity, and on April 1, 1846, having passed the necessary examination, was admitted to the bar. During his first year, his receipts from his professional labor were actually less than $1 ; but his practice increased and he continued to reside in Georgetown until his death, being constantly occupied with his professional duties, except when in the service of his country as a soldier in the field. In June, 1847, he joined the Fourth Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and accompanied that command to Mexico, where he was an active participant in numerous skirmishes and minor engagements. Shortly after his enlistment, he was promoted to a Second Lieutenancy in Company G. He served about thirteen months, until the close of the war. In 1862, he was commissioned Colonel of the Eighty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and, after serving about three months with his command in Kentucky, he resigned and returning to Georgetown, resumed the duties of his profession. He was Prosecuting Attorney of the county for two years, and a member of the Lower House of the Legislature for a like period. As a general rule, he neither sought nor accepted public offices of a political or partisan nature. He was a Whig until the disintegration of that party, after which he co-operated with the Democratic party. He was enthusiastic in his admiration of, and in his friendship for, Stephen A. Douglas. He was agreeable, affable and courteous in manner, and of unimpeachable honesty and integrity. He was married in 1849 to Ann B. White, sister of Hon. Chilton A. White. She died in 1863, and in 1864 he married Amanda Jenkins, a native of this county. He died April 28, 1878.

PATRICK McGROARTY, attorney at law, Georgetown, was born in Ireland June 21, 1824. In 1831, he emigrated with his parents, Neil and Catherine (Bonner) McGroarty, to America, coming directly to Cincinnati. Remaining there only a short time, Neil McGroarty moved his family to the farm on which Fayetteville, in Perry Township, this county, now stands. In 1835, he returned to Cincinnati, and was a contractor in the construction of turnpikes and the Little Miami Railroad until his death in 1839. His widow, Catherine, still resides in Cincinnati. Patrick attended school there, and completed his education at St. Mary's College. Lebanon, Ky., graduating in 1841 ; he then entered the law office of Timothy Walker, of Cincinnati, and pursued the study of law. In 1845, he was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court, sitting at Urbana. He began practice in Cincinnati, and in 1848 moved to Georgetown. During the winter of 1848-49, he reported the debates and proceedings of the Lower House of the State Legislature for the Ohio Statesman , and, at the same time, reported for the Cincinnati Enquirer , being the first regular correspondent for the latter from the State capital. At the close of the session, he returned to Georgetown, but the same year he removed to Cincinnati, where he continued in the practice of law until 1863, when he moved again to Georgetown, and has been engaged in his profession at this place since. While at Cincinnati, he was Assistant Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton County two years. During his term, he prosecuted the Nancy Ferrer murder case, in which ex-President Hayes appeared for the defense. He was also City Solicitor. At the Democratic primary, he won the nomination over E. A. Ferguson, who built the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, and at the election defeated the Whig candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes. He is the oldest of eight children. In the order of their ages, his brothers and sisters are Mary Ann (deceased, who was the wife of Dr. D. A. Doniphan, of Tensas Parish, La.), Susan (now Sister Julia, Superior of the Convent of Notre Dame, Philadelphia), Stephen (a General in the late war, who was elected Clerk of Hamilton County, but died before entering upon bis duties from the effects of a wound received in service), Letitia (deceased), William (a Captain in the late war. killed at the battle of Wausatchie, on Kenesaw Mountain), John G\ (accidentally killed at the Neil House, Columbus, Ohio), and Ellen (wife of R. C. Rogers, of Cincinnati). The subject of this sketch was married, October 29, 1850, to Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Philip J. Buckner, an eminent physician of Georgetown, afterward of Cincinnati. They have four children - Charles N., Stephen, William and Alma (wife of I. L. Ronsheim, of Georgetown). Charles N. became editor of the Augusta (Ky) Chronicle in April, 1874, and conducted the paper nearly two years. In April, 1877, he purchased the Georgetown Sentinel , and has been its editor and proprietor since. He was married, October 6, 1874, to Evangeline, daughter of the late Dr. T. M. Tweed. They have two living children - Catherine Elizabeth and Lucina Frauces.

IRVING McKIBBEN (deceased) was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in 1818. His father died when he was quite young and he grew up under the kind care and attention of his mother, whose maiden name was Mary Linn, a native of Pennsylvania. Mr. McKibben was reared at Augusta, Ky., where he resided till twenty years of age. His mother then removed to Feesburg, in Lewis Township, this county, where our subject soon after engaged in the dry goods trade. While living in this village, he became a member of the Know-Nothing party, and by them was elected Clerk of Brown County. He served three years in this position, and at the expiration of his term of office engaged in the dry goods business at Georgetown. He was a well known and prosperous merchant of Georgetown for many years. He was a Republican in politics, and in the latter part of his life was Postmaster of the village. He departed this life in June, 1879, and was tenderly laid at rest by a large concourse of sympathizing friends and acquaintances. He married Mary J., sister of W. W. Young, of Georgetown. Nine children were born to this union ; seven are living. George L., the fifth child and third son, was born near Feesburg June 7, 1860. He was educated in the public schools of Brown County, and at Miami University, Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio. During his attendance at the latter institution, he made a specialty of civil engineering and on January 1, 1882, was appointed by Judge David Tarbell as Surveyor of Brown County for a term of three years. Mr. McKibben is Democratic in politics. He resides with his mother in Georgetown.

JAMES M. McMICHAEL, farmer, P. 0. Higginsport. He was born in Mason County, Ky., November 17, 1823, and is the son of William and Agnes (Kerr) McMichael His father's nativity was in Ireland ; his mother was born in Pennsylvania, but of Irish ancestry. The common schools of Ohio and Kentucky afforded him his education. His father removed to this county in 1839, and James M. has pursued the farmer's calling since, and now owns a pleasant little farm. He is a Democrat, and his wife a Methodist. Mr. and Mrs. McMichael were married on New Year's Day, 1857. Her maiden name was Hannah Staton. She was a native Kentuckian, of English extraction. Their four children are all living and are named Martha Ann, Mary E., William and Eliza.

L. B. MILES, M. D., D. D. S., one of Georgetown's most enterprising citizens, was born at Baltimore, Md., July 26, 1832, of Scotch and Welsh parentage. His ancestors and many relatives have been participants in the several struggles of our country, usually in high military positions. His grandfather, Aquilla. Miles, was a Colonel through the war for American Independence. His father, Aquilla Miles, Jr., was a native of Maryland, of Scoth and Welsh extraction, and was a saddler by trade. He was engaged in the war of 1812, and in September, 1814, participated in the defense of Baltimore under Gen. Winder, when the British forces marched through that city, and suffered the loss of their commander, Gen. Boss, returning from the destruction of Washington. Aquilla, in the fall of 1838, removed with his family from Maryland to a farm in Knox County, Ohio, and subsequently to near Columbus, Ohio, where he died in August, 1858. He had married Elizabeth Hughes, a native of Maryland, and of Welsh descent, and they had a family of four children, a daughter and three sons The subject of this sketch was the second child and eldest son. He passed his boy hood days at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, preparing for college. He entered the Freshman Class at the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, and subsequently the Sophomore Class of Oberlin College, graduating from the latter institution in 1849. In early life, Dr. Miles studied for the ministry, but afterward abandoned his theological studies and began his medical education. He first placed himself under the tuition of two eminent physicians of Mt. Veruon - Drs. Russell and Thompson, remaining with them four years. He then attended a course of lectures at the Cleveland Medical College, practiced one year at Lexington, Richland Co., Ohio, and subsequently graduated in 1857. After graduation, he returned to Cleveland, and there commenced active practice, also purchasing an interest in a drug store. Dr. Miles remained at Cleveland till the commencement of the war, enjoying a very lucrative practice and trade. He then disposed of his drug stock, and started for St. Louis, Mo., via Cincinnati, with the intentions of practicing surgery. While waiting a few days in the latter city, he attended lectures in the Ohio Dental College, and became so favorably impressed with this branch of medical science, that he resolved to adopt it. He therefore continued in attendance at the college, and was duly graduated in 1862. He followed his profession about one year, and on March 28, 1863, located at Georgetown. His knowledge of his profession, coupled with his kind and courteous manners, soon won for him a large custom, and his practice attained a value of $6,000 annually for several succeeding years. During this time, Dr. Miles erected two large and handsome brick residences in North Georgetown, among the finest in the village, one of which is well-known as Fair View Place. He owns over six acres of land just within the village limits, and has lately constructed another fine residence for his own use, which he has named Bellevue Place. Dr. Miles has been in constant practice since his location in the village, and has made many warm personal friends. He was united in marriage, October 11, 1854, to Harriet C. Abbey, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and a daughter of Perley Abbey, a prominent architect and builder of that city. She is a great niece of Samuel Goodrich, the widely popular author - a Peter Parley." They have three children - Lulu C., Clarence D. and Perley A. Dr. Miles and. family are members of the Good Templars Lodge, of Georgetown, his wife, daughter and son, having been charter members. He is also connected by membership with Confidence Lodge, No. 307, I. 0. O. F., of Georgetown, and is a regular attendant to the services of the M. E. Church. In 1873, a meeting was called at Cincinnati to devise means to construct the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Railroad. Dr. Miles was made Chairman of the Executive Committee, and afterward worked up a large interest in Georgetown, and Bethel, Clermont County, in favor of the road. In 1876, this interest was revived, and at this second called meeting, the Doctor was again appointed to fill his former position. This time he determined that "success" should be his motto, and he labored day and night, in season and out, for the success of this enterprise. Within six months' time the road was constructed to Hamersville, and there stopped for the want of money to bridge across White Oak Creek. Dr Miles personally solicited over $53,000, while also holding the office of both Chairman and Secretary of the Executive Committee. He was also Superintendent of the Georgetown Division for some time. Realizing the efforts of Dr. Miles in their behalf, the people of Georgetown in convention assembled, passed a resolution thanking him for his labor in this enterprise, and asked the railroad company to name the engine which should draw the first passenger train to Georgetown, the "Dr. L. B. Miles." This resolution was favorably received by the board, and no doubt will be favorably acted upon. It is safe to say there is no man in Brown County who has labored so energetically and unceasingly for the success of the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Railroad as Dr. L. B. Miles.

CHARLES MILLER, farmer, P. O. Higgiusport, was born in Germany April 7, 1850, the son of Saul and Catherine (Ruck) Miller. In 1866, he emigrated with his parents to America and settled in Brown County. For six years, he work by the month on farms, receiving from $8£ to $18 per month. In 1873, he was married to Mary, daughter of Peter and Mary Ann (Jenika) Hartmetz. Mary was born in Brown County, but her parents were both natives of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have three children - Emma, Louisa and Edward. Both are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Miller has been Trustee. He owns a farm of 128 acres.

JOHN B. MOORE, Prosecuting Attorney of Brown County, G-eorgetown, was born at Russellville, Jefferson Township, September 2, 1846. His grandfather, James Moore, was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and located in what is now Jefferson Township. Brown Co., Ohio, in 1796 or 1797. He was an Associate Judge of the first court in Brown County, held at Ripley, in 1818. Mr. Moore's father was James B. Moore, born in 1800, and a farmer through life. He was a Whig politically, and died in May, 1868. He married Mary A. Eyler, of Winchester, Adams Co., Ohio, a daughter of Joseph Eyler, who lived to a ripe old age. Mr. Moore grew up on the homestead farm, and received a good literary training in the Miami University, at Oxford, Ohio; he remained there three years, graduating in the class of 1869. Soon after leaving college, he commenced the study of law with J. R. Cockerell, of West Union, Adams Co.. Ohio, with whom he prosecuted his studies till his admittance to the bar, at Columbus, in the spring of 1871 ; he also taught school a short time during this period. The same year he was licensed to practice, Mr. Moore came to Georgetown and opened a law office, remaining alone in his practice until November 3, 1879, when a partnership was formed with A. E. Moore and George W. Harding, under the firm name of Moore, Harding & Moore. In November, 1881, A. E. Moore retired from the firm (removing his practice to Cincinnati), and the firm has since been Moore & Harding. In the fall of 1878, Mr. Moore was elected to his present office. He is a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias Lodges. He was married, May 10, 1871, to Lizzie McKibben, a native of Georgetown. They have two children - Mary and Nellie. Mrs. Moore is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

C. P. O'HARA, buyer, shipper and dealer in leaf tobacco, Georgetown, was born at Russellville, Jefferson Township, this county, April 28, 1827. His father was Arthur O'Hara, a native of Pennsylvania, and of Irish descent. He removed to Brown County with his family at an early day, beiug the second family to locate at Russellville. He was a school teacher by profession, and a pioneer in the early educational history of Brown County. He married Sarah Lane, a native of this county, whose parents came to Ohio from Kentucky. Our subject is the youngest of eight children, six of whom are living. Mr. O'Hara never obtained much schooling, but at an early age learned the cooper's trade, working at it about eight years ; he was a clerk in the general store of Nolant & Devore, at Russellville, for one year, and, in 1849, came to Georgetown ; he soon after secured a situation as clerk in the general store of W. G Galbreath, remaining there two years he clerked for G. D. Evans one year, and subsequently, in company with A. Applegate, engaged in the dry goods trade, the firm of O'Hara & Applegate, doing a good business for six years; he afteward farmed it awhile, and then clerked in a dry goods store owned by Cyrus Newkirk, now a banker of Sedalia, Mo. In 1864, he commenced the manufacture of plug tobacco with J. P. Kimball, continuing at that business only six months ; soon after, he commenced dealing in leaf tobacco, and has since continued in that business. In this, he has been moderately successful, and now ranks among the largest shippers in Brown County. In politics, Mr. O'Hara was formerly a Republican, but of late years has placed himself among the Prohibitionists - the party that is striving to suppress the whisky traffic - that most cursed American evil. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has officiated as Trustee and Class Leader in the Georgetown denomination ; he is also connected with the Masonic fraternity. Mr. O'Hara was married, April 14, 1852, to Lydia Stableton, a native of Brown County. Of the eight children given them, three are living - R. Amanda, John W., an attorney at law of Georgetown, and Eliza. Mrs. O'Hara, daughters and sons, are also members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. O'Hara is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Georgetown. A brother of Mr. O'Hara, Presley, now a resident of Rome, Adams Co., Ohio, was the first white child born in the present corporate limits of Russellville.

Pangburn was born July 26,1821 , and is the son of Lewis and Rebecca (Applegate) Pangburn. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and of English extraction. He was reared on a farm, and received the education afforded by the district schools of Brown County. He commenced preaching the Gospel at the early age of eighteen years, and for thirty-five years has labored faithfully in the cause of Christ in the Christian Church. For twentyfive years he labored in Huntington Township. A number of religious societies and churches owe their existence to his efforts in organizing or erecting them. Among them we mention Miller's Chapel and Dallas Church, of Highland County, Oak Grove, in Adams County, and Hiatt's Chapel and Emanuel Chapel, of this county. His health failing, he is recuperating it on his well-improved farm in this township. Politically, he is a Republican. Mr. Pangburn has twice married. His first wife, whom he married in 1840, was Melissa Mefford. They had two children - John and Alexander. Mrs. Pangburn died in 1846, and the following year he again united in marriage with Mary, daughter of John Mitchell. His children are John H., a farmer, of this township ; Alexander B.s deceased, who enlisted for three months in 1861, then re-enlisted for* three years in the Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B ; James, who served in the Fourth Ohio Cavalry ; Rebecca, deceased ; Ellen, deceased ; Minerva, the wife of Philip Moore, of this township; Nathaniel; Elmore C. ; deceased; Charles G., U. S. Grant, Molly, William S. and George W.

JAMES NEWTON PARKER (deceased) was born in Pleasant Township, two miles south of Georgetown, October 23, 1831. His parents, John and Anna (Evans) Parker, were of Scotch-Irish parentage. He emigrated here from the Sunny South, and she a native of this county. Mr. Parker was a life-long farmer and resident of this township. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Georgetown, and a Deacon of it. He was devoted to the Sunday school work, and superintended a school in his district. He was a member of the Republican party. His death occurred in 1881. In 1859, he was married to Lucinda Salsburv, a daughter of James and Martha (Martin) Salsbury, of Scotch and English descent. Their marriage was blessed with five children - Charles L. (deceased), Edgar G., Harry E., Elmer E. and John N.

HON. ELI B. PARKER, Mayor of Georgetown and attorney at law, Georgetown, was born in Jackson Township, Brown County, Ohio, March 27, 1845. He is a son of Stephen Parker, who died when our subject was but four months of age His mother was Elizabeth Dunn, whose father, Henry Dunn, came from Virginia to Washington Township at a very early date. He died a few years ago at a very advanced age. Mr. Parker went to live with his Grandfather Dunn when quite small, remaining with him till fourteen years of age. His literary education was obtained in the public schools of Brown County, and subsequently at the National Normal University of Lebanon, Ohio, where he remained four years altogether. During this time, he taught school in Brown County. In 1870, he was appointed Deputy to his brother, A. J. Parker, Treasurer of Brown County, filling that position three years. Mr. Parker's political views' have always been Democratic, and, in 1873, he was nominated and elected to represent Brown County in the State Legislature. He served a term of two years, and, in 1878, was re-elected to the same position. During his first term as legislator, Mr. Parker studied law, and since then has engaged in its practice, meeting with very good success. On April 3, 1882, he was elected Mayor of Georgetown, which position he now holds. Mr. Parker is a member of Confidence Lodge, No. 307, I. 0. 0. F. He was married, December 15, 1870. to Ella, daughter of Prof. Ellis, then Mayor of Dayton, Ohio, and since Principal of the Harrison School in Hamilton County, Ohio. Mrs. Parker departed this life in October, 1871. Mr. Parker w^ again united in marriage in June, 1874, to Mary, daughter of A. C. Peddicord, of Scott Township. They have one child - George. Mr. Parker and wife are members of the M. E. Church.

DAVID V. PEARSON, attorney at law, Georgetown, was born near Decatur, Byrd Township, this county, July 1 1 , 1833. His grandfather, Jonas Pearson, a farmer by occupation, started for this county in a family boat, coming from Pittsburgh, Penn., to Levanca, in Union Township, where he landed. He resided in Union Town- ship some time, and then removed to Jefferson ; there he lived till his death. He is buried on the old homestead farm, on Eagle Creek. Charles Pearson, the father of our subject, was born in Vermont ia 1807. He accompanied his parents to this county at an early day, and where he resided until 1863, when he removed to Adams County. He now resides there. He married Nancy Ewing, a native of Brown County, who bore him six children, four of whom are living. Mrs. Pearson departed this life in Adams County in 1877. David V. was the second child and oldest son of the family, and was reared on the farm in Union Township, and, in 1853, went to the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, remaining there three years. Previous to this, he had prepared for college at Woodlawn Seminary, Maysville, Ky., where he attended six months. After leaving college, he taught school in Mason County, Ky., and Brown County, Ohio, for about four years. He read law with Col. John 0. Marshall, of Georgetown, and was admitted to the bar three years later (September, 1859). Soon after, he formed a law partnership with G. W. King, the firm doing business till April, 1861. Mr. Pearson then enlisted in Company I, Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving four months. He then assisted in raising Company C, of the Eighty-ninth Regiment, and accompanied them to the field as Second Lieutenant. He was subsequently promoted as First Lieutenant, and finally Captain, resigning the latter position in June, 1863, on account of sickness. Mr. Pearson has since suffered very much from inflammatory rheumatism, caused by exposure while in the service. Returning to Georgetown, he resumed his practice, and, in October, 1863, David Thomas was admitted as a partner. The firm of Thomas & Pearson enjoyed an extensive law practice for seven years, at the end of which time the firm was dissolved. Mr. Pearson has since been alone in his practice, in which he has met with fair success. Mr. Pearson was a "War Democrat," and since that period has remained with that party. He has been a member of the Odd Fellows for twenty years, and of the M. E. Church for twelve years. In the latter body, he officiates as a Steward, also being Vice President of the Sunday school. Mr. Pearson is a member of the Board of Education of Georgetown. He was united in marriage, in 1863, to Eva Walker, a native of this county. They have four children - Charles, Elizabeth, Belle and Medora. Mrs. Pearson is also a member of the M. E. Church

HANSON L. PENN (deceased) was born on Indian Creek, Clermont Co., Ohio, September 16, 1313. His father was engaged in milling and farming. He resided with his parents until near his majority, employed in active manual labor, or in securing such elementary education as was obtainable at that time in the common schools of the county. During this period, he acquired the habits of industry and of promptitude and energy, which were his chief characteristics in after life. In 1835, he settled in Georgetown and began the study of law under the guidance of George W. King, a prominent and able legal practitiooer. While thus pursuing his studies, he supported himself by writing in the Clerk's office. At the April term, 1837, of the Supreme Court for Brown County, he was admitted to practice law in the various courts of the State. Immediately after his admission, he engaged in the practice of his profession, in partnership with Martin Marshall, of Augusta, Ky., who at that time attended the various courts of this county. On him then devolved the labor of preparing cases andtransacting the entire office business, a task which he performed with admirable exacte itude and ability. To the investigation of his cases, he brought a thorough knowledge of legal principles, a clear and discriminating judgment, and indomitable energy. Thi, partnership continued five or six years, until Mr. Marshall, owing to age and infirmity was compelled to relinquish his attendance at court. From this time until 1855, he continued in active practice, part of the time alone and part of the time in partnership. He was then controlling an extensive business in the different counties of his judicial district. Subsequently, his private business having become so extensive as to require a great deal of attention, he retired almost entirely from practice, appearing only iu important cases, and for his former clients. As the result of his assiduous devotion to his profession and business, he amassed a handsome fortune. As a business man, he had few equals, and in every public improvement he was ever foremost, while his means and his influence were never withheld from any undertaking calculated to advance public morality, or to promote the general welfare. No enterprise in which he once heartily engaged ever failed to ultimately achieve success, while to him more than to any other man in Brown County are the people indebted for the public improvements which have been there carried to completion. "In him the needy and unfortunate ever found a friend, and the poor man a benefactor. His ear was ever open to hear the tale of want and woe, and his purse to relieve suffering and distress." Strong in will, resolute in purpose, he was true in friendship, loyal even as an enemy. Beginning life without means, and without the influence of powerful friends, he won for himself not only a valuable estate, but a high position among the professional and business men of the community which honored and loved him. Until the disintegration of the Whig party, he was intimately identified with its organization, and labored zealously to insure its success. He was the President of the Whig State Convention, held in Ohio in 1855, and when the Know-Nothing organization came into being and absorbed so large a portion of the Whig party, he refused to countenance the movement, and constantly expressed his opposition to the new principles advaeated. In the great issue presented to the country by the Nebraska bill, he took from the first a decided stand in favor of its principles. He refused to participate in the fusion which resulted in the formation of the Republican party. In the Buchanan and Breckenridge campaign, his party being disorganized, he attached himself to what he believed to be the party of the Constitution and the Union, and labored earnestly and efficiently to secure the success of Democratic measures. During the canvass, he traversed the several counties of his Congressional district, and also various counties in the adjoining State of Kentucky, in all of them advocating his views with ardent fervor. " No man in Southern Ohio did more for the triumph of Democratic principles and the success of the Democratic candidates than he. The effect of his labors was seen in the result of the election. This Congregessional district was redeemed, and the Democratic candidate returned by a triumphant majority." He died of erysipelas, at Georgetown, June 29, 1857, in his forty-fourth year. He married Mary W. King. Their son, Hanson L., bearing his father's name, is probably the most prominent breeder and dealer in blooded stock in Brown County. He was born at Georgetown in 1857. In early life, he commenced taking an active interest in fine stock, and by devoting his energy, ability and a liberal display of money, has succeeded in placing himself among the more enterprising breeders in Southern Ohio. He owns a fise farm of 280 acres, a quarter of a mile east of Georgetown. This farm is intended for a breeding and stock farm, seeded down with grass, and on which is a smooth half-mile track, where his horses receive an excellent training. He is also an extensive breeder and dealer in Alderney cattle. Among his horses are the following : Blennerhassett, by Abdallah Messenger; he by Alexander's Abdallah (sire of Goldsmith Maid - time, 2:14) ; first dam by Kinkead's St. Lawrence ; second dam, Imperial Trustee ; third dam, Diomede - valued highly. Andy Peddicord , black colt, by Mambrino Patchen ; dam Orleans, by a son of old Abdallah, a three-year-old, with a record of 2:42 J. Donna Mercedes , a fouryear-old filly, sired by Strathmore; first dam by Lightning; second dam, by Joe Patterson; a sure trotter. Grey gelding, Jim Dunn; a fast pacer ; sired by Mambrino King, the finest stallion in the world, sold to a party at Buffalo, N. Y., for SI 5, 000 ; this colt paced a mile in 2:37, at a two-year-old race. Tillie Herr , by Mambrino Abdallah; first dam by Harold, the sire of Maud S. - record, 2:101; a very promising trotter. Bay gelding, Lexington , by Mambrino Patchen ; this colt is a full brother to London, a five-year-old, with a record of 2:28. Among Mr. Penn's horses may be found descendants of the following blooded stock : Mambrino Patchen , Mambriao Abdallah, Abdallah Boy , Harold , Strathmore , Alexander s Abdallah, and Coleman s Abdallah Messenger . Mr. Penn deserves great credit for introducing such a display of fine stock in Brown County, and in bettering the condition of the Brown County stock. He is a man of great energy and perseverance, and his labors in behalf of this department of stock of Brown County are truely commendable. Mr. Penn was united in marriage, in 1879, to a daughter of Capt. C. P. Kendall, a native of Cincinnati. They have one living child. Mrs. Penn is a member of the M. E. Church at Georgetown.

COLUMBUS PHILLIPS, farmer, P. 0. Georgetown, was born in Kentucky, March 28, 1844, the son of P. T. and Susan (Kendrick) Phillips. His father is a native of Virginia, and is of English descent ; his mother a native of Kentucky, and of German descent. His parents came to this county in 1844, and are now living in Adams County, Ohio. Mr. Phillips has always pursued the even tenor of a farmer's life, except the time spent in his country's service. He enlisted in 1863, in the Eleventh Ohio Cavalry ; was a non-commissioned officer, and remained till the close of the war ; he now possesses a well-improved farm of 140 acres. In 1868, he married Sarah Ellen Laycock, a native of this county, and daughter of Robert Scott Lay cock. They have five children - Carrie, Peter K., John E., Nellie May and Louella. Both are members of the Christian Church, of which he has been Deacon, Trustee and Treasurer. He has also been Trustee of his township for two terms.

GRANDISON PINCKARD, saddler, Georgetown, ex-Recorder of Brown County, was born in Mason County, Ky., April 10, 1813. His father, William Pinckard, was a native of Loudoun County, Va., who located in Mason County, Ky., in 1806. He married Elizabeth Duff, a native of Fauquier County, Va., who departed this life in 1815, leaving ten children, five daughters and five sons. Of these three are now living, Mrs. Donavin, of Bracken County, Ky.; William Pinckard, of Lewis County, Ky., and our subject. After seven or eight years, Mr. Pinckard again married a widow Mrs. Estep. He removed to Cincinnati, where he died a few years later. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm in Mason County, and early learned the saddler's trade, at Washington, in his native county; he served a four years' apprenticeship, then worked as a jour three months, and finally commenced in business for himself, at Germantown, Ky. In 1859, he located at Higginsport, in Brown County, Ohio, where he carried on his business for fifteen years. Mr. Pinckard was raised a Whig, and voted with that party until 1852 ; he then became a Know-Nothing, and was subsequently an Abolitionist, and connected with the Union party. In 1875, he was elected Recorder of Brown County, and re-elected in 1878, his second term expiring in January. 1882. Of late years, he has been a Republican, and, at present, is connected with the stalward branch of that party. While a resident of Kentucky, he was a Magistrate of Germantown, previous to 1852, and under the old Constitution of the State. Mr. Pinckard commenced life without a dollar, but by energy and economy, has succeeded very w#ll in life ; he is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Higginsport, and for five years has been the Agent in Georgetown of the Masonic Mutual Benefit Association of Maysville, Ky. Mr. Pinckard has been connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church for fifty-two years. He was united in marriage, November 3, 1836, to Sarah P. Downing, a native of Mason County, Ky. They had six children born to them, all natives of Bracken County, Ky., and three of whom are living - Sarah E. (wife of J. H. Chandler, of Georgetown), Hattie I. (wife of R. J. Bancroft, of Batavia, Ohio), and Joseph W., a blacksmith of Higginsport. Mrs. Pinckard departed this life December 28, 1880, after a union of forty-four years. She was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and on the birthday of the New Year, 1881, was laid at rest by a large circle of mourning friends and acquaintances.

JACOB POBST, farmer, was born in Bavaria, Germany, and is a son of Lewis and Susannah (Zeik) Pobst, also natives of Bavaria, who came to America in 1858. They located in Pleasant Township, of this county. They had two children - Charles and Jacob, both living. Our subject was reared in this township, receiving a good education in the common schools. He chose the occupation of a farmer, and has followed that through life ; he has been fairly successful, owning at present a farm of ninety-five acres, the result of his own toil and labor. Mr. Pobst was married, in 1875, to Mary Warner, a native of Brown County, and a daughter of Philip Warner, of German birth. They have three children - Lewis P., Nellie aud Flora. Mr. Pobst is Republican in politics, and has served his district two terms as School Director.

W. H. PRENTICE, school teacher, Georgetown, was born in Ripley, Ohio, May 13, 1846. His parents died when he was in his infancy. At the age of four years, he was adopted by William Lake, and remained with him till he was twenty-five years old.

At the age of seventeen, he commenced teaching school, working, in the meantime, for his adopted parent, under whom he obtained a good education at Oberlin, and at the Union Christian College in Indiana. He read law, and was admitted to the bar, but before he had built up a practice his health failed, and he abandoned it. In all, he has taught thirteen terms of school in Brown County. Recently, he has accepted a position in a Southern Railroad office, and, at this writing, expects to leave Brown County soon. In 1870, he was married to Fannie Drake, a native of this county.

JOHN W. PURDUM, deceased, was born in Brown County March 29, 1821, son of Jeremiah and Sarah (Wright) Purdum, who emigrated to this county from Kentucky. The common schools afforded John W. his education, and during a number of years in his early manhood he taught school. His politics were Democratic and during his life he was honored with an election to several offices of responsibility and trust. He served two terms as Auditor of Brown County, and among other offices was elected County Clerk. Mr. Purdum was successful in business, and, at the time of his death in 1866, was the owner of 250 acres of land in Pleasant Township. Much of his time and attention has been devoted to agriculture and kindred pursuits. In 1844, he was married to Mary J., daughter of John Mefford. She was born in Mason County, Ky., of German and English descent. Her grandfather was born on the ocean. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Purdum consists of seven children - Sarah, wife of Charles W. Willis, Jennie B., John M., Clarrie M., W. M., Roberta and Elizabeth. Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Purdum has had charge of the farm. He had been a kind father, a faithful husband and a successful business man.

A. G. QUINLAN, farmer, P. 0. Georgetown, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, September 29, 1835. His father, Benjamin, was a native Pennsylvanian of Welsh ancestry; his mother, Margaret (Davis) Quinlan, was born in Ohio of Irish parentage. A. G. was educated in the Georgetown schools and his early life was devoted to school-teaching for ten years. He read law, and in 1864 was elected Auditor of Brown County, serving four years and eight months. He was then appointed Deputy Sheriff and performed the duties of this office two years and again served two years as Auditor. Since 1871, he has engaged in agricultural pursuits. He has been a member of the Board of Education, and served served two terms as Trustee of this Township. He was married to Miss Mary S. Jacobs, a native of this county, and daughter of William and Zoa (Wilks) Jacobs. Their children are Abina, Flora (wife of Joseph E. Dunn, of Washington Township), Ida, John, Edgar, Bertha and Wilber. Mr. Quinlan is a member of the Democratic party, and himself and wife have both united with the Disciples' Church of Georgetown.

S. W. REES, farmer, P. 0. Georgetown, was born in this county July 11, 1828, the son of Abel and Elizabeth (Purdum) Rees, both natives of Kentucky and of English descent. He received what education the school of this township afforded, and began farming. He was married in 1847 to Mary Calvin, the daughter of Amos Calvin. They had two children - Ulysses Grant, now in business at Georgetown, and Warren C., a music teacher. He lost his wife by death, and in 1853 married Matilda, daughter of Samuel Blair. They have a family of three children - Mary E., J. B. (of Clermont County) and James S. Mr. and Mrs. Rees are members of the M. E. Church. He has been Steward and Trustee of the church and Township Trustee for several terms, and is imbued with the principles of the Democratic party. His farm comprises 130 acres of land, and its possession is enjoyed by him from the fact that it represents his own hard toil and labor.

A. W. REES, P. 0. Georgetown, a prominent young farmer of this township, was born in Brown Co., Oct. 4, 1842. His father was Abel Rees, a native of Brown County, and of English descent. He was born Dec. 24, 1810, and died July 5, 1846. Mr. Rees' mother was Elizabeth Moore. She was born May 19, 1811, and departed this life in April, 1858. They were the parents of six children - our subject being the only survivor. He was reared to manhood on his native place, and received a good education in the public schools at Georgetown and Russellville. He has been engaged in agricultural pursuits all through life, and now owns the old homestead farm of 130 acres. Mr. Rees is a Republican politically, and at present is a School Director of Pleasant Township. On July 9, 1861, he enlisted in the Fourth Independent Ohio Cavalry, and, under Gen. Pope, participated in the battles of Silver Creek, Blackwater, and under Gen. Hartwell, in the seige of Corinth, and in Tennessee took a conspicuous part in the battle of Britton's Lane. They were subsequently at the siege of Vicksburg, in the battles of Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson and Champion Hills, and while in North Georgia Mr. Rees was captured by the rebels. He was holding a flag of truce, and was captured by mistake. He was released after about one hour's imprisonment. This event occurred January 4, 1863. Mr. Rees was finally mustered out at Cincinnati July 16, 1864. A brother, Theborns, enlisted in Company C, Eighty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was made a Corporal ; captured by the enemy, and died at Andersonville Prison, Georgia, July 3, 1864. Mr. Rees was married in 1874. to Emma L., daughter of Lewis W. and Matilda (McMurchy) Winter, the former a native of Ohio, the latter of Scotland. They have one son - Henry L. Mrs. Rees is connected by membership with the M. E. Church.

HENRY REMLEY (deceased) was born in Kentucky in the year 1828, where he received a good common school education. He was a farmer and moved across the Ohio River into Brown County in 1861. December 29, of that year, he married America Ellis, born in 1821, daughter of Samuel Ellis. Their one child is Samuel E., born June 11, 1863. Mr. Reinley 'died June 11, 1868. He had been a Democrat in politics, but never let his political views produce any ill feeling between himself and his fellow-men. He was respected by all who knew him. Mrs. Remley still lives on the farm in the southern part of the township.

FREDERICK RISCH, blacksmith, Georgetown, was born in Germany October 12, 1852. He is a son of William Risch, also a native of Germany, and a baker by trade. He came to America in 1855 or 1856, locating in Cincinnati, where he departed this life a few years later. Mr. Risch's mother was Julia Risch, who was accidentally shot on the Fourth of July, 1858. She was the mother of five children, three of whom are living, one son serving in the Union army during the civil war. Mr. Risch resided in his native land till fifteen years of age. He then accompanied his grandmother to America, first stopping at New York, and subsequently in Cincinnati, where he learned his trade. He remained there about eighteen months, and then engaged to work on a farm near Delhi, Ohio. On May 1, 1868, he came to Georgetown, and was employed at his trade for Jacob Lyman, and afterward for James Wilson for five years. Mr. Risch then opened a shop for himself. He has succeeded in building up a remunerative trade, and at present owns both a blacksmith and carriage shop, and employs three men to carry on his business. He has toiled early and late, and well deserves the success which has attended him. Mr. Risch is a member of the Masonic Lodge, Chapter and Council, and connected with the Presbyterian Church. Politically, he is neutral, always voting for the man who will best subserve the interests of the people, but on National elections, usually casts his vote for the Democratic nominee. He was married, January 9, 1873, to Charlotte Hurst, a daughter of Christian Hurst, a prominent German, of Georgetown. Mrs. Risch departed this life, February 11, 1879, leaving one daughter - Anna L.

S. W. SHEPHERD, physician, Georgetown, was born in Pleasant Township, Brown Co., Ohio, December 28, 1828. His father, Joseph Shepherd, was a native of Kentucky, whose parents died when he was quite young When twenty years of age, he came to Brown County, locating on the Ripley pike, not far from Georgetown, where he ramained fifty-one years. At the time of his death (March, 1881), he owned two farms. He married Mary Marlatt, who was born near North Liberty, Adams Co., Ohio. Our subject is the oldest of eight children, six of whom are living. Mrs. Shepherd died in the winter of 1867. Dr. Shepherd was reared on the home farm, attending the district schools during the winter months. He farmed for five or six years, and then commenced to read medicine with Dr. James Sid well, of Georgetown, with whom he remained three years. He subsequently attended the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, graduating in the class of '57. He first located at New Hope, in Franklin

Township, where he remained two years ; thence to Manchester, Adams Co., Ohio, where he engaged in the drug business two years, and subsequently purchased a farm, on which he lived four years. He then returned to Georgetown, where he has since resided, and, being the only physician of the Eclectic School in the village, has succeeded in building up a fair practice. Dr. Shepherd is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Republican party. He was united in marriage, in 1853, to Elizabeth M. Rees, a native of Feesburg, Lewis Township, this county. Her grandfather, Abel Rees, was a Kentuckian, and came to Brown County at an early day. He was a blacksmith by trade, and in " pioneer times " made all the axes for Adams, Clermont and Brown Counties Dr. Shepherd and wife are members of the M. E. Church.

GEORGE R. SHIELDS, retired farmer, P. 0. Georgetown, was born in Byrd Township, Brown County, Ohio, December 4, 1817. His father, William Shields,- was a native of Kentucky, and came to this county about 1815. He was a farmer of Byrd Township, till 1828, when he removed to Pleasant Township, and there resided till his death, in May, 1867. Mr. Shield's grandfather, William Shields, Sr., lived and died in Byrd Township, at age of ninety-four, and his great-grandfather, on his mother's

Shields' mother was Mary Ramey, a native of Pennsylvania, whose father, Lawrence Ramey, removed to Byrd Township at an early day, and there resided till death. Mrs. Shields died in 1875 or '76. She was the mother of five children, three daughters and two sons, only two of whom are living - our subject and sister, Elizabeth, wife of J. W. Laycock, of Pleasant Township. George R. Shields was reared in Byrd and Pleasant Townships, and was married, June 24, 1838, to Sarah Purdum, who was born in Jefferson Township November 27, 1818. After marriage, Mr. Shields engaged in farming in Pleasant Township. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1879, when he sold his farm of 187 acres, and removed to Southwest Kansas, where he resided eleven months. Not being pleased with his new location, and desiring to pass the remainder of life among the scenes of his boyhood, he returned to Brown County and located at Georgetown, where he now resides. Politically, Mr. Shields has always been an earnest advocate of Democratic principles, and, in 1866, was elected Sheriff of Brown County ; he was re-elected, in 1868, serving two terms. While a resident of Pleasant Township, he was elected Constable. Mr. Shields is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and connected with the Georgetown Lodge and Chapter. Eight children have been born to him, only two of whom are living - Frank P , the eldest living child, was married, December 29, 1881, to Bridget Burke, a native of Maysville, Mason Co., Ky., and of Irish parentage. The other child, Sarah, is the wife of A. M. Crum, of Wellington, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Shields are well known throughout J Brown County, and highly respected by all.

FREDERICK SHUSTER, miller, P. 0. Georgetown, born in Germany July 12, 1825, the son of J. F. Shuster. He received his education in the common schools of Adams County. At the age of twelve years, he concluded to learn the tanner's trade, and left home to find a place. Arriving at Georgetown he engaged himself to Jesse R. Grant, father of Gen. Grant, and remained with him a year, when Mr. Grant sold out, and the subject of this sketch turned his attention to milling, and has followed it ever since. He worked by the month for ten or twelve years, and since that time, has owned and controlled a mill of his own. He is the proprietor of the " Tunnel Mill," about a mile west from Georgetown, erected in 1843 at a cost of $2,500. The mill is propelled by both steam and water, and has four run of buhrs. He also owns twenty acres adjacent, the total value of the property being $5,000. Mr. Shuster was married, in 1850, to Jacobina Kohler, a native of Germany. They have six children - William J., John G., Frederick, Elizabeth, Mary and Maggie. Mr. and Mrs. Shuster are both members of the Georgetown M. E. Church, of which he has been Class Leader, Steward and Trustee. His politics are Republican.

CHRISTIAN SINGLE, proprietor Georgetown Mills, P. O. Georgetown, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, January 2, 1842. His parents were Gotlieb and Katrina fScherle) Single, both natives of Wurtemberg. The father worked in a salt factory thirty-two years, and died in Germany, April 21, 1874. Mrs. Single departed this life July 25, 1855. They were the parents of seven children, one daughter and six sons, four of whom are living. Mr. Single received but a limited education in Germany, and early learned the miller's trade. He came to America February 28, 1865, and at Cincinnati joined his brother John, who had come over a year previous. Mr. Single was first employed in Fagan's Mill on Locke street, where he remained eleven months. He then went to Lexington, Ky., and was there engaged in milling, partly for himself, for some time. He subsequently came to Georgetown, and, with John Armleder, purchased the "old John Thompson Mill," in Lewis Township, on White Oak Creek. Two years and a half later the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Single rented the mill for one year. At the expiration of this time, he came to Georgetown and built the Georgetown Mills (in 1873). These mills are built on the site of the old tannery formerly owned and worked by Jesse Grant, father of Gen. Grant. Mr. Single has met with very good success in his milling operations, and is considered one of Georgetown's best citizens. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., and Confidence Lodge, 307, I. 0. 0. F. Politically, Mr. Single is Democratic, but rather liberal in his views. He has been Councilman of the village four years, and in the spring of 1882, was elected a member of the Board of Education. Mr. Single has a very neat frame residence near his mill, located on an excavation of a hill side. He was married September 16, 1866, to Margaret Effenigere, also a native of Wurtemberg. They had two children, one living - Julia. Mrs. Single and her daughter are members of the Catholic Church.

JACOB SNIDER, P. 0. Georgetown, a successful farmer of this township, was born in Pennsylvania in December, 1830. His parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Shilp) Snider, were natives of Bavaria, Germany. They came to America in 1826, locating at Ironton, Ohio, where they resided until 1846, when they came to Brown County. They then settled on a farm on Straight Creek, in Jackson Township, where our subject was reared. He early chose farming for his future life-work, and rented some land giving a third of the grain for rent. He next purchased a threshing machine, which he operated some time, also dealing in stock. He subsequently purchased a farm of 223 acres in Washington Township, where he resided many years, and sold to purchase his present farm in Pleasant Township. Mr. Snider has been a hard worker, but has been careful with his earnings. Politically, he is a Democrat, and while a resident of Washington Township served as School Director. He was married, in 1852, to Mary, daughter of Anthony Shaw, of Franklin Township, in this county. They have six children - William A., Daniel, Michael, Adam, Sarah E. and Emma. Mr. Snider and wife are members of the Christian Church.

TIMOTHY STEELE, blacksmith, Georgetown, was born in Canada May 24, 1846. His father was Timothy Steele, a native of Ireland, who came to America many years ago. He was a carpenter by trade, and died when our subject was but a few months old. Mr. Steele's mother was Mary Woods, also a native of Ireland. She now resides in Wentworth County, Upper Ontario. Mr. Steele was reared in Canada, and there learned the blacksmith trade. In 1863, he went to Rochester, N. Y., where he remained till the spring of 1865. He then went to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, locating at Titusville, and subsequently to Cincinnati. After some time, he went to Memphis, Tenn., where he remained three years ; thence to Selma, Ala., one year ; Mobile, one year; New Orleans, six months; Meridan, Miss., fbur months; thence to Memphis, where he remained till the yellow fever scourge of 1877. He then located at West Union, Adams Co., Ohio, where he married Elizabeth Shuster, a native of that county. After living another six months at Memphis, Tenn , he came to Georgetown, where he has met with very good success, Mr. Steele is a member of the Carriage Maker's Union of Cincinnati, and of the Catholic Church. Mrs. Steele is a member of the M. E. Church. They have two children - Mary E., aged six, and Timothy G., aged two years.

ADAM STEPHEN, Georgetown, one of the most prominent grocers of the village, was born in the kingdom of Bavaria June 12, 1829. His father died when our subject was quite young. His mother was Mary (Baker) Stephen. She was the mother of two children - our subject, and a sister Sarah (now the wife of Jacob Kancher, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Stephen accompanied his mother and sister to America in 1830. The three located on a farm in Franklin Township, near Arnheim, this county, where Mrs. Stephen died in 1850. Mr. Stephen was reared on a farm, and when fifteen years of age went to Dover, Ky., where he remained some time. In 1847, he worked on a farm in Mason County, Ky., for $6 per month, and soon after volunteered to go to the Mexican war, but the company was full and his services were not needed. In 1849, he removed to Georgetown, where he resided till 1853. He had learned the cooper's trade, and in the latter year went to Quincy, 111., where he worked at his trade six months. He then went to Aurora and Peoria, in the same State, and thence to Georgetown, where he has since resided. He worked at his trade for eighteen years altogether, and then engaged in the saloon and boarding house business, which he followed for five years. In 1872, he engaged in the grocery business, and has succeeded in building up a large and profitable trade. Mr. Stephen owns a very nice two-story brick residence on North Main street, the " old George Shields farm," of 187 acres ; the " old Thomas L. Hamer and Devore peoperty," the " old Hamer homestead " of eight acres, and many village lots. Mr. Stephen has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since 1856, and is a charter member of Confidence Lodge, No. 307, I. 0. O. F., of Georgetown. Mr. Stephen was united in marriage, in 1854, to Elizabeth Reohm, a native of Wurtemberg. She died in 1863, Mr. Stephen was again married, in 1865, to Sarah Clump, a native of Wurtemberg also. Seven children have been given them, six living - Frank, Elizabeth, Albert G., King William, Charlie and Hattie. Mr. Stephen and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. S. is also connected with the K. of P. Lodge.

Y. STEPHENSON, Georgetown, a prominent physician of Georgetown and Brown County, was born in Union Township, Brown County, Ohio, April 19, 1834. He is a son of R. P. Stephenson, who was also born in Union Township in 1801. His father was Mill Stephenson, probably a native of Delaware, and from whom Fort Stephenson was named. He located in what is now Union Township, Brown County, Ohio, about the latter part of the eighteenth century, and there lived till his death. His son, R. P. Stephenson, the father of our subject, was a boat-builder : also ran a saw-mill in early life, but has mainly been engaged in farming. He married Elizabeth Wallace, a native of this county. Nine children have been given them, seven living. Both parents are living, and each in their eighty-first year. Dr. Stephenson was the fifth child and fourth son of these parents, and was reared on the homestead farm. He received a liberal education at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, remaining there four years. At the commencement of the civil war, he returned to Brown County, and soon after obtained a situation as teacher in a district school. He followed the profession of teaching probably sixteen years altogether. He read medicine with Dr. Beasley, of Bipley, remaining with him two years. He attended a eourse of medical lectures at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, and subsequently at the Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, graduating from the latter institution in the spring of 1865. He first located at Benfconville, Adams County, Ohio, and a year later at Georgetown, where he has since resided. Dr. Stephenson has met with very good success in his practice. He has always evinced considerable interest in educational matters throughout the entire county. He was Principal of the Georgetown Public Schools for three years, and the Higginsport Schools two years. He was President of the Brown County Teacher's Insritute for four years; has been a member of the Georgetown Board of Education ten years, and is its oldest member in point of service. He is also connected with the Brown County Academy of Medicine ; of the Knights of Pythias, and the Lodge and Encampment of Odd Fellows. Politically, he is a strong and earnest Democrat. Dr. Stephenson was married, in the fall of 1856, to Susan Vananda, a native of Ohio. Both are members of the M. E. Church.

R. J. STEVENS, of R. J. Stevens & Co., photographers, and workers in India ink and water colors, Georgetown, was born in Mason County, Ky., April 4, 1845. He is a son of Samuel Stevens a native of Kentucky, and a farmer of Mason County. He married Jane Lane, also a native of Kentucky. Mr. Stevens is the fourth son and fifth ; child of a family of eight children, and received a good education in private schools at Maysville, Ky. When twenty-seven years of age, he learned the photographer's art, at Maysville, and first commenced in business for himself at Ripley, Brown County, in May, 1872. He remained there three years, and then removed to Maysville. In May, 1881, he came to Georgetown, and, in connection with his brother, opened a gallery, where he is meeting with splendid success. While at Maysville and Ripley, he suffered the loss of his gallery and fixtures by fire. Although, but a citizen of Georgetown a short time, Mr. Stevens enjoys an excellent trade, and is recognized as an artist of superior taste and education. He is neutral in politics, and has never been an aspirant for political honors, but has devoted his entire time and attention to his business. He was married, in 1871, to Lizzie Ort, of Maysville, Ky. Both are earnest members of the M. E. denomination.