Wayne Township (part 12 of 15)

William Kean came in 1818 to Wayne County, Ohio, and settled with his father, Joseph Kean, on a farm in Plain Township, where were born to him six children, viz.: Dewitt C, sketch of whom follows; Sophia, wife of E. G. Ebriglit, near Shreve, this county; Anner, with her sister near Shreve; Augustus C, now on a farm in Clinton Township, this county; John, who died in the army during the Rebellion, ami Tamar, wife of A. B. Oldroid, near Shreve.

D. C. Kean, a prominent farmer of Plain Township, was born on the farm whereon he now resides, April 14, 1832, a son of William Kean, who came from

Pennsylvania about 1818, and settled in Plain Township. He was reared in his native township, and, being of a literary turn of mind, acquired a good education, then began teaching when a young man. a vocation he pursued until about five years since. He has also been successfully engaged in farming, owns a beautiful home, and is one of the well-to-do farmers of the township. Mr. Kean was married in 1854 to Mary Elizabeth Brubaker, of Ashland County, Ohio, and they have seven children: William F., born February 9, 1855, an attorney, of Wooster; George E., born August 12, 185G, a farmer and school-teacher near Springville, Plain Township, having been educated at the University of Wooster; Oliu L., M. D., born December 22, 1858, practicing his ])rofession at Creston, this county (is surgeon for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad, and is patentee of a local anjesthetic for the painless extraction of teeth. ) ; Gertrude, born January 12, 18()0, residing at home; Orange J., born September 18, 1864, on the farm; Lura B., born March 5, 1866, at home, following the profession of teaching, being a graduate of the University of Wooster; and Estella,. born June 8, 1874, at home. For eighteen years Mi's. Kean has been unable to attend to the cares of her home, being disabled by rheumatism. Mr. and Mrs. Kean are members of the Methodist Epis-

F. KEAN, a well-known young lawyer of Wooster, is a native of - ' the county, born in Plain Township February 9, 1855, on a farm which had been taken up by his great-grandfather, Joseph Kean, one of the pioneers of the county. His father now owns and lives upon that farm, which was his birthplace also. The grandparents came from Pennsylvania at a very early day, and both passed the remainder of their lives in this county. The grandfather, William Kean, grew to manhood on the home farm, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Jane Case, both of whom are deceased. Dewitt C. Kean, father of our subject, has made the farm his life-long home. His wife is Mary, daughter of George and Elizabeth Brubaker, of Pennsylvania, she having come to Ashland County with her parents when three years old.

The subject of these lines made his Lome on the farm until he was about twenty-one years of age. He was educated in the Smithville Academy and in the school at Shreve, and later in the University at Wooster, whence he graduated in ISSl. Deciding on entering the profession of law, he studied in the office of McClure cfc Smyser, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1886, since when he has been practicing in Wooster. In 1883 Mr. Kean was mari'ied to Alice A. Smith, of Ashland County, Ohio, born in 1855, at Hayesville, where she received a good education, particularly in music. Three children came to our subject and wife, two deceased in infancy, and Clara E.. born January 29, 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Kean are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is associated with the Knights of the Maccabees. He is justly regarded as a rising young citizen of the county, of irreproachable character and habits, and one who has a bright future before liim.

WJLLIAM W. WELD AY is a son of Abraham and Mary (Foster) -^ Welday. Abraham Welday, the grandfather of William W., and who was a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, settled in Milton Township, Wayne County, at an early da)', where he lived until his death. The father of William W. was born in Milton Township, AVaj'ue County, in 1831, and after his marriage purchased a farm near Amwell, afterward engaging in farming in Medina County. lu 1883 he moved into Seville, where he com- menced the business of buying horses aud tobacco. His family cousisted of six chihlreu, viz.: Frank, in Burbank, married to Miss Alice Heywood (they have three children - Oriu, Mary and Ellen) ; William W. ; Charles, living with AVilliam W. : Leslie, Effie and Koy, at home.

Thesubjectof this biographical memoir was born iu Milton Township, Wayne County, Ohio, May 4, 18(50, and in 1881 was married to Miss Clara, daughter of Alfred Gleaner, of Sterling. Mr. aud Mrs. AVelday have two children - Lula and Bessie. In 1887 Mr. Welday purchased a farm of forty-two acres in Canaan Township, this county, where he lived two years, and then sold, he and his brother Charles buying the old homestead in Guilford Township, Medina County, where they carry on farming, and pay considerable attention to the raising and breeding of Percheron-Normau horses. William W. Welday is a Democrat.

THEODORE A. KRYSHEE, retired merchant, Smithville, Wayne Co., Ohio, is the only .sou of Daniel and Cassiah (Bowman) Kryshei', natives of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Krysher's father went from his lioiue in the Cumberland Valley to Lexington, Ky., to purchase a tract of several hundred acres of liuid, but was there taken ill, died and was buried. His wife, Anna Bowman, lived to the extreme age of ninety-four years and one mouth, dying at the home of her daughter, mother of our subject, in Smithville, May 10, 1868.

Daniel Krysher was born in Cumberland County, Peun., January 8, 1801. He was educated to mercantile pursuits, and first embarked in business for himself in Mechanicsburgh, iu that county, iu partnership with David Bernheiser. On the dissolution of their partnership he removed to Kingstown, in the same county. From there he went to Churchtown. where he built a fine brick residence and a large stone building, where for eighteen years he carried on a successful business. He was married while iu Mechanicsburgh, and his wife's relatives being mostly settled in Wayne County, Ohio, he removed here, buying a farm adjoining Smithville. He also bought out the general store of Paul & Zimmerman, in Smithville, and taking his son Theodore into partnership, under the firm name of D. Krysher & Sou, they there conducted a successful business for five years, the management of tiie concern being entirely in Theodore's hands. The father died in the house where the son now lives, December 0, 1885, aged eighty-five years. Mr. Krysher never sought office or notoriety, but was jiostmaster at Churchtown,

Penu., for eighteen years. He was of a quiet disposition, honest and trustworthy, beloved and respected by all who knew him, and his death was sincerely mourned, although he had reached a ripe old age. His marriage took place in 1828, Miss Cassiah Bowman becoming his wife. She was born August 20, 1806, in York County, Penn., on a farm close to the lines of Cumberland and Dauphin Counties. She died June 23, 1885, a few months prior to her husband, and their remains are laid side by side in Oak Hill Cemetery, at Wooster, Ohio. Mrs. Krysher was a woman of a very lovable character. She was a bright example of a Christian lady, kind, generous and hospitable, always ready to help the poor, the unfortunate and the distressed, relieving their wants and speaking kind words of comfort and hope. She had hosts of friends, and not an enemy in the world. A faithful wife and devoted mother, her decease was mourned not only by her relatives, but also by a large circle of friends, to whom she was greatly endeared. Daniel Krysher and wife had one son, Theodore A., and two daughters, Mary Ann (wife of Cyrus Bowman, who owns the Cedar Valley Distillery, at Wooster, Ohio) and Adeline Elizabeth ( wife of Moses Morrett, who is connected with the Snow Flake Mill, at Wooster). Theodore A., the subject of this sketch, was born in Mechanicsburgh, Penn., March 15, 1829. When of suitable age he entered his father's store, at Churchtown, as salesman, in which capacity he remained until he was twenty -one years old, and in 1851, when twenty-two years of age, came with his parents to Smithville. As stated, he was in business, in partnership with his father, for five years. Selling out in 185G, he and J. S. Paul bought the property in Greene Township known as the old Ruble farm. Farming that year was not profitable, owing to the weevil, which eat up the wheat, and he sold out to his partner, one year's experience of agricultural life satisfying him. He then engaged in dealing in horses and other stock, having a partner in Cincinnati. While in this business he spent five years in Kentucky, and during the Civil War sold many horses to the Government. Here he met the great misfortune of his life. In Lexington he was attacked by a drunken man, who stabbed him in the left ej'e, and also in the back of the head. The latter wound was thought to be very dangerous, but it healed all right; the cut in the eye, however, caused loss of siglit in that organ. His other eye troubling him, on his return to Ohio he consulted an oculist, in the hope of getting relief. He was advised to have the eye extracted, but instead of bettering the other eye, total blindness was the result. Notwith- stauJing this affliction, Mr. Krysher bns preserved au equable frame of mind, and bears his misfortune uncomplainingly, being more cheerful than many who have much less cause to repine, and he attends personally to all his own affairs, besides tiiking a somewhat prominent part in public matters.

Mr. Krysher has always been a stanch Democrat, and both before and since his loss of sight has been a valuable worker for his party. Though often urged, he would never consent to hold public office, but his party associates have insisted on his being a delegate to almost every convention in the district. State, congressional, senatorial, judicial, etc., where he made his influence largely felt, and he has always been active in advocating his party's principles. A man of much more than ordinary intelligence, and uncommonly well read, of keen and shrewd judgment, Mr. Krysher is constantly consulted by his neighbors, who have come to rely upon his advice in all complicated matters, the position of adviser being one for which his eai'ly reading of the law eminently fits him. He continues to live in the old home in Smithville, and to-da}- takes as much interest in the welfare of the country as i^efore his loss of sight, having the leading journals read to him, and keeping well posted as to iill public affairs.

r JfENBY C. TEAGLE, son of WiUIpI iam and Kuth (Porter) Teagle, 1/ -^ was born in Franklin Township, Wayne County, Ohio, in 1851. William Porter, his maternal grandfather, was a native of England (where he marj ried Deborah Salster), and from there came to America, locating in Canaan I Township, Wayne County, Ohio, wliere i he became a farmer and lived the rej mainder of his life. He had one son j who died in the English army, and three other children, who came to America with him, viz. : Sarah, Kuth and Charles. Of these, Sarah (now deceased) married Thomas Gary, of Defiance County, Ohio, a prominent farmer and representative man; Charles began life in an humble way, but by integrity, ability and perseverance acquired a handsome competency (he died in 1875); Euth married William Teagle in 1849, and they located in Franklin Township, this county, where he followed his trade of mason. He acquired his education in England, by attending night schools, married in America, and reared a family of six j children: Henry C. and Lavina (twins), George, AVilliam, Eliza Anna and Maggie Bell. Of these, George nmrried Arj tilla Stanford, and removed to Michigan, where they now live; William married and located at Creston, this county; Eliza Anna is now Mrs. Daiiiol Maiionv, also of

Henry C, the subject of these lines, received a rudimentary education in the schools of Wayne County, and when ten years of age went to live with William H. Keys, with whom he remained until he was twenty-one years of age. He afterward embarked in the business of pho tography, and March 10, 1875, he mar ried Louisa J., daughter of Elias Stone, . of Ked Haw, Ashland County, Ohio. In 1870 he located in Shreve, this county, where for some time he was engaged in the retail trade; in 1884 he accepted a position with the well-known house of George W. Cady & Co., wholesale dealers in boots and shoes, of Cleveland, Ohio, and by application, industry, perseverance and sterling integrity he now receives a handsome salary; in fact he is on the highway to unqualified success.

Social and genial, Mr. Teagle partakes largely of the pleasures of life, and he finds pre-eminent pride and pleasure in his family circle, where he is joyfully welcomed home from his trips (for his position is that of traveler for the firm) by Minnie and Hattie, his only children. He is a Republican in politics, a public speaker of no little note, and during political campaigns his services are in mucli demanil. The Grand Army of the Kepublic, in their choice of Mr. Teagle, give evidence of their appreciation of his wit and ability. Mr. Teagle is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of Garfield Lodge, F. & A. M., of Shreve, and the Commercial Travelers' Association of Cleveland.

Tchard Parker Redick

L a resident of Wayne County since 1819, was born in Beaver County, Penu., August 24,1809,toJohnHoge and Eliza (Forbes) Redick, former of Scotch descent, and a native of Washington County, Penn., a teacher and hatter by occupation, latter a daughter of Thomas Forbes, and born near Carlisle, Penn. Their wedded life was blessed with seven children, of whom four now live, as follows: Richard P., Maria (now Mrs. John Nagle, in Wayne Township, Wayne Co., Ohio) ; John Irving (born July 29, 1828, now president of a bank at Los Angeles, Cal. ), and William (in Montana). The mother of tliis family passed from earth in Wayne Township, this county, about 1829, the father, September 13, 1857. They lived the lives of hardy pioneers, and from a dense forest hewed out for themselves a comfortable home. When our subject was a small child his parents removed to New Lisbon, Columbiana Co.,

Oliio, where they resided six years, and then in 1819 moved to Cadiz, Harrison County, same State, and here lived two years ; then came to Wayne County, where they spent the remainder of their days.

Their son, whose name heads this memoir, received but a meager education, and for a time worked in his father's printing office. His mother dying when he was about nineteen years of age, and his father being of a weakly constitution, almost the entire charge of his brothers and sisters fell upon him, he being the eldest of the family; so at home he labored hard and kept the family together until he was twenty-eight years of age. One bitter cold winter evening, w-hen the snow lay deep upon the ground, they ran out of provisions, and our subject started off with two bushels of buckwheat, on an old horse, to have it ground at Mill brook, six miles south of Wooster. Reaching the mill, he found he could get no grinding done, so had to take his grist to a new mill, one-half mile farther south. On his wav thither the bag-string came off, letting the" buckwheat run out on the road, and he had to gather it up as best he could, although his hands were nearly frozen. Having once more got his grist into the sack, Mr. Redick had to carry it to a stump from which to mount his horse. Reaching the mill without further mishap, he had it ground, but was unable to get it bolted at that mill, so had to ride back to another one at Wooster, where, being by this time about frozen through, he had to stand on the top of a Hour barrel and bolt it by hand, in order to get home in time for breakfast. He finallj- reached home at daylight on the morning after he had left home for the mill.

When about twenty-eight years of age Mr. Redick became united in marriage with Catherine Cresler, a native of near Shippensburgh, Penn., but she died after two years of married life, leaving one child, Catherine, who lived to be thirtythree years old, when she too passed to her long home. Mr. Redick took for his second spouse Maria Cresler, a sister of his deceased wife, who bore him three children, viz. : John and Henrietta, living on the home farm, and Richard Parker, a minister in the Lutheran Church, who died at Mansfield, Ohio, in 1884, leaving a widow and one child, who now reside near Millbrook, Wayne Co., Ohio. March 29, 1877, Mrs. Redick departed this life. For several j'ears Mr. Redick resided in Wooster, engaged in the dry goods trade, but this he sold out and retired to the farm. His success in life is due entirely to his own individual energy and assiduous application to business, and his health and strengtii have never been impaired by the use of either tobacco or liquor. He cleared almost his entire farm of 250 acres, aud to-day, at the age of about eighty years, is still able to do a good day's work. In 1852 he took a contract to build three miles of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was the first work to be commenced on the road and the first to be completed. He sold to the city of Wooster the land where the West Dam is situated, and in 1852, at a cost of $10,000, constructed the dam. Politically Mr. Redick was originally a Democrat, his first vote being j^olled for Andrew Jackson, but he has been a Republican since the formation of that party.

IMON LEHMAN, the youngest son in the family of David aud Susan (Kintner) Lehman, was born in 1849. He received his education at Smithville, this county, and when twentytwo years of age commenced contracting for buildings, teaching school during winters. He thus continued nine years, aud then came to the old homestead in Wayne Township, where he at present resides; his aged mother (now seventynine years old) making her home with him.

At the age of tweuty-two Mr. Lehman married Emily Speicher, who has borne him seven children, as follows: Eldo, Oscar, Stella, Mabel, Bovd, Jessie and Beulah, all at home. Mr. Lehman is a Prohibition-Democrat, and is at present township clerk. Both he and his wife are members of the U. B. Church.

JAMES L. GRAY was a native of Milton, Northumberland County, Penn., born in 1832, of parents who immigrated to that State many years ago. His father was of Scotch and his motlier of German ancestry. The mother dying while he was quite young, James L. was brought up by his uncle, Samuel Blain, on a farm near Milton, Penn. At the age of sixteen he began life for himself, first obtaining a jjosition as clerk on a Mississippi River steamboat. He followed steamboatiug for about three years, sailing on all the navigable rivers tributary to the Mississippi, during which time he made a trip to the Yellowstone Valley, in quest of furs. Returning to Milton, Penn., he served an apprenticeship at the saddler's trade, after which he located at New Brighton, Penn. Here he met and afterward married Miss Eunice Magaw, a talented young lady of Beaver County, Penn., and soon after his marriage removed with his wife to Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio, where he engaged in business. In 18()4, responding to his countr3''8 call for aid. he enlisted in Com- pauy E, One Huiulied uud Sixt3--i)iiith Ohio Volunteer Iiifautry, and served iu tbe Army of the Potomac, being a part of the time in tlie quartermaster's department. Returning to Wooster after the war, he was for a time liere enjjafjed as sui)erintendent of the Home Mills, and iu 1S75 established himself as a dealer in coal, lime, cement and builders' supplies, wliieh business he carried on successfully \iY> to the time of his death. He died June 8, 1S86, at the age of fifty-four year.s, highly esteemed by all who knew him.

He was a Republican in politics, and took a great interest in all political questions. He served for a number of years as a member of the volunteer fire de^iartment in his adopted city; was also a member of the I. O. O. F. and the G. A. R., and a leading member of the English Lutheran Church, serving as one of the building committee in the erection of the English Lutheran Tabernacle at Wooster, Ohio. His widow, since his death, has resided in Wooster, where she is favoral)ly known as a membei- of the English Lutheran Church, and of the Woman's Relief Corps. James L. Graj' left five children - two sons and three daughters - all of whom reside in AV'ayne County.

with Iiis lather, at first as an assistant, and finally as a partner. In 1885 he went to Galion, Ohio, where he established himself in the milling business, iu which he remained until recalled to Wooster by his father's death. Since then, in partnership

\lp^// of Thomas and Nancy (Thomas) - ' -^ Armstrong, was born in Burbauk, Canaan Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, July 22, 1S44. His father died in Burbank, where he was one of the iironiinent old settlers. The family of Thomas and Nancy (Thomas) Armstrong consisted of eight children, viz.: Julian, Grace J., David, Delia, William Y., Lorette, Caroline and Alice M., of whom David antl William V. are the only ones living; Grace J. died in 1857; Delia, in 180G, and Lorette, Caroline and Alice M., later.

During the War of the Rebel! it)n Mr. Armstrong enlisted in the Sixteenth Ohio Infantry, and served three years undi'r Gen. Grant. Since his return home In^ has engaged iu farming, and now owns a good farm in Plain Township. He was married in IS 67 to Miss Vanluah Brandt, and to them have been born six children, as follows: Zoe Geraldine, Calvin, Jennie B., Maud Lenore, Don Cameron and Leo Tru. Mr. Armstrong and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; in politics he is a Republican.

JAMES B. TAYLOR. Perhaps iu j no business or profession is a man - more conspicuous or better known, or more popular or unpopular, as the case may be, than in the law. His talent soon is recognized, and he rises to distinction in the ranks of men, if by zeal and perseverance he merits it. James B. Taylor was born iu Fredericksburgh, Wayne Co., Ohio, August 2i, 18-40. His father, who was a native of Virginia, married a Quakeress, also a native of that State, and together, in 1825, they came to Waj'ne County, and Mr. Taylor became a member of the Wooster bar. In 1873 he departed this life, at the age of seventy-two years, and iu 1878 his widow followed to her long last sleep. Their home was blessed with the birth of nine children, of whom James B. was the youngest.

James B. Taylor, at the age of sixteen, became a school-teacher, in which profession he continued in Wayne County during the winter months, attending to his own studies during the summer, at the Fredericksburgh (Ohio) Academy, until the fall of 1859, wheu he entered the junior class of Westminster College, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in June, 1861. The following fall he organized and opened the Smithville Academy, which he carried on until August, 1862, when, responding to his country's call, he formed a company of all the ablebodied students under his charge, and prepared to go to the front, the remaining portion of the academy passing to the care of J. B. Eberly. Mr. Taylor entered the service as second lieutenant, and afterward was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant; still later he was made captain of Company H, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving until 1865. In that year this regiment, which had seen active service, was consolidated with the One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantr}-, and as only one of six captains could remain, the lot fell upon Capt. Speer, the remaining five being mustered out. The regiment went to the front over 1,000 strong, and returned with less than 300 men. The Captain was with his command iu nearly all the battles fought for the opening of the Mississippi, from December, 1862, to 1864, under Gens. Grant and Banks.

During the latter years of his military service Mr. Taylor read medicine and studied surgery, and in the spring of 1865 he entered the office of Dr. Martin, at Fredericksburgh, Ohio, where he continued until the fall of the same year, when he went to the University of Michigan, there to attend medical lectures. Soon after his arrival, however, he changed his life's plans, and matriculateil in the law department, graduating in the spring of 1867. He then returned to "Wayne County, and opened a law office at Orrville, where he practiced ixntil the spring of 1882, when he finallj' located at Wooster. In February, 1888, he formed a law partnership with ex-Probate Judge Isaac Johnson, which still continues. In 1868 Mr. Taylor was married to Miss Emilie Emmitt, daughter of John Emmitt, and a native of Pennsylvania. To this union six children have been born, of whom three are now living. Mr. Taylor is a F. & A. M., and a member of the Presbyterian Church; he is a Republican.

Illiam H. H. Sichley

dealer in clothing, hats, caps and gents' furnishing goods, Wooster, is a well-known merchant of Wayne County, of which he is a native, having been born in Plain Township, June ij.

1S37. His parents were Elias and Fannie (Schmuck) Sichley, the former born May 18, 1812, in Dau[)hin County, Penn., and the latter near Mannheim, Lancaster County, same State, December 15, 1813. The maternal grandfather, who came to Wayne County from Pennsylvania in 1821', had been enrolled as a soldier in the War of 1812. When Elias was one year old his parents removed to Ohio, and there he was reared and educated. In 1829, when seventeen years of age, he attended a camp-meeting, where he was converted and embraced religion, joining the Evangelical Association. His whole heart was enlisted in the cause of the Master, and he soon felt a call to preach the gospel, to ' which he resolved to dedicate his life. Preparing himself for his chosen work, he was assigned first to the Sandusky Circuit, and afterward to the Lancaster Circuit. His last appointment was to the Wooster Circuit, and here the zealous preacher of the Word labored until he was called to the reward which awaits those who do His will.

In Wooster, Rev. Elias Sichley met liis future wife, then Miss Fannie Schmuck. tn whom he \V!is united in marriage February 12, 1836. She was. like her husband, a member of the Evangelical Association, with which she had united in early youth, and was in every way a fitting helpmate for her worthy husband.

Of their union seven children were born, four of whom are now deceased. Rev. Mr. Sichley labored faithfully and successfully in the cause of Christ until his death, which occurred February 9, 1874, and was perhaps hastened by his arduous labors, which had weakened his constitution. He was sick only five days, the immediate cause of his dissolution being pneumonia. On his death-bed he exhorted his children to be faithful and firm in the cause of religion, speaking of the reward of those who endure to the end, which reward he was himself soon to partake of. To his sorrowing life-companion he spoke words of wisdom and consolation, and his last breath was exhaled in prayer. Thus passed to the eternal life one who was a faithful worker in the Lord's vineyard - who had fought the good fight and endured to tlie end, and who entered into the presence of his Master bearing his sheaves with him. His life had been full of good works, and his death was that of the true Christian. On his death-bed he had expressed a desire to donate money to worthy objects which he had at heart, but was too weak to make a will. The family respected his wishes, and shortly after his death they gave, as was his desire, $1,000 to the cause of home missions, $1,000 to German missions and $1,000 to foreign missions, the funds to be permanently invested and only the interest to be used. His widow died in Chester Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, May 11, 1887. For two years prior to her death she had been a great sufferer, but bore her afflictions with Christian fortitude. The immediate cause of her death was heart trouble. When her true position was explained to her on her deathbed, the good Christian, viewing death but as the beginning of a better life, exclaimed, "It will he soon over. Glory! Glory ! Glory ! " She was buried from the Sichley Church, on Lafayette Circuit, of which she had so long been a devout member, and her funeral sermon was preached from Psalm cxvi: 15. The services were largely attended by those who knew and loved her.

Mr. and Mrs. Elias Sichley had seven children born to them, tiiree of whom are now living, all in Wayne County; the others are deceased. Two daughters are livins: in this countv - Elizabeth Ann. wife of Ephraim P. Keck, and Melvina Malinda, now Mrs. Breidenstein, of Chester Township.

William H. H. Sichley, the subject of this memoir, when some three years of age was, out of respect to the Whig candidate for the presidency, Gen. William H. Harrison, named for him. His early life was spent upon the farm, and he received the advantages of the common schools of the day. He remained at home until be was of age, and then turned his attention to the cooper's trade, at which he served an apprenticeship, and which he subsequently followed f<ir about tweuty-oue yeai's, during which time he resided upon the farm in Chester Township. In 1878 he embarked iu the sawmill business, at which he continued for some time. June 23, 1885, Mr. Sichley moved from the farm to Wooster, embarking in the business which he is now successfully conducting. He keeps a fine stock of goods, comparing favorably with those to be found in large cities, and is prospering.

William H. H. Sichley and Elizabeth Ann Wyckoff were united in marriage, in Plain Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1860. She was the daughter of Peter and Maria Wj-ckoff, natives of New Jersey, where she also was born. The family came to Plain Township in 1849, and there the father died; the mother still resides there. Our subject and his wife have had four children (of whom three survive): Elmer W., on the home farm; Ora D. and Delphia Florence, at home, and Lillie May, who died when five months old. Mr. Sichley commenced comparatively poor, but bis life of industry, honesty and frugality has brouglit its own reward, and to-day he is in possession of a competence, and with all the material comforts of life around him. He owns two finely improved farms in Wayne County, besides other property, and a tlmuishing business iu Wooster, and is one of the best known citizens of the county, having the confidence of all with whom he has been brought in contact. He and his wife are i-espected members of the Evangelical Church ; he is a member of the K. of P. and the I. O. O. F. ; politically, a Republican. The twenty-thiril day of the* month seems to have been marked in his calendar for several remarkable coincidences. He was married on August 23, 18t)0; moved on October 23; his first child was born on May 23, 1801 ; he entered into his store, on South Market Street, June 23, 1885; removed his store into Frick Memorial Block October 23, 1886; and removed his family to Wooster March 23, 1887 - a really curious chain of coincidences.

Hiram F. S. Sichley, a brother of William H. H., was born September 20, 1841, and at the age of thirteen received religion, and early resolved to devote himself to ministerial work. He studied at Greensburg Seminary, and in 1862, at Sandusky, was received into the itineracy, in the Ohio Conference, and was sent to the Tuscarawas Circuit; the second year lie was transferred to the Richland Circuit, and the third year to the Pickaway Circuit. He lost faith in his ability, and left the circuit, coming to his home in Wayne

Couuty. His father said to him, on his arrival: "Hiram, hitherto when you have come home you liave been welcome, bat this time you are not," words which sunk deep in the young preacher's mind. The following winter he taught school, but soon, with renewed faith and zeal, returned to his ministerial labors, to which he dedicated himself anew, and in which he was remarkably successful. His first appointment now was to the Wayne Circuit, and from there he was transferred to the Bristol Circuit. At Akron, Ohio, he was engaged in missionary work in South Akron, and from there was transferred to the English mission at the city of Cleveland. That dread disease, consumption, had fastened upon him, but as louij as strength lasted he was zealous in his Master's service.

Hiram F. S. Sichley was married March 7, 18G2, to Miss Sarah Walkey, who preceded him to the grave one year and fourteen days. On March 1, 1873, the summons came for him to join her on the other side. On the day of his death he was up and about as usual. At supper his father said to him: "Hiram, your end is probably nearer than you think it." He answered: "May be it is, I did not think God would answer my prayer so soon;" and in a few minutes thereafter the good and faithful servant had entered into his reward. He was an earnest and consisteTit Christian in life, and death found him prepared. His means he devoted to church and charitable work; $4,000 was given for mission work in Europe; $4,000 for heathen missions; $2,000 for the support of missionaries; $2,000 for the erection of churches; $4,000 for home missions; $4,000 for the Ebenezer Orphans' Home, at Flat Rock, Ohio; $4,000 for the Union Biblical Institute, at Naperville, 111. ; the interest of $2,000 to educate poor young men for the ministry, and $2,000 for churches near his father's home.

than the gentleman of whom we now write. He is a native of Germany, born September 10, 1836, at Bensheim, of musical and literary ancestry. His father being a public school-teacher as well as an accomplished musician, young Karl naturally enjoyed a liberal education, both in literature and in the " Art Divine," and in 1852 he graduated from a literary institution. He inherited a love for music, and his musical education commenced at an earlj' age, but was somewhat limited and irregular. After graduation Mr. Merz moved to Bin<ren on the

Soon realizing, however, that he had no opportunities there for tiie development and advancement his spirit longed for, he decided to seek his fortune in the broader fields of America, and accordingly, in 1S5-1-, he sailed for Piiiladelphia, where he arrived in Sejitember. Here he was engaged as organist in the Sixth Presbyterian Church, a position he retained one year; then accepted a place as teacher in an Episcopal school for young ladies, in Lancaster County, Penn., acting at the same time as organist in thevillasje church. During his stay in tliis retired spot Mr. Merz diligently studied and composed, j After this we find liiui teaching in tlie South, among other places in Harrisonburg and in Hollins' Institute, Virginia. "While visiting in the North the Civil AVar broke out, and this necessitated another change in location. At this time Mr. Merz occupied a position as teacher of music in the Oxford (Ohio) Female College, where he performed a vast amount of labor during his twenty-one years' incumbency, and here, in Oxford, many of his popidar works were composed. At the close of this college, in 1882, Mr. Merz accepted a call from the University of Wooster, Ohio, where he now fills the chair of director of music. In 1S50 he was married, in Lancaster County, Penn., to Miss Mary Riddle, of said county, who has borne liim three children, viz.: Harry Pinkney (deceased) ; Dr. Charles Hope, now a practicing physician in Sandusky, Ohio, and Bessie C, a teacher in Lindenwood Seminary, at St. Charles, Mo.

Mr. Merz's wide reputation is undoubtedly due to his numerous compositions. While he has written a great deal of music of a popular nature, he has produced many pieces chai-acterized by deep sentiment and pure style, among whicli may be mentioned his " Sonata," " Nocturnes," an " Elegy " and a " Caprice," besides songs, choruses, and his ever popular operettas and waltzes. In 1873 he became editor-in-chief of the " Musical World "" (his first connection with that journal having commenced in 1868), a position he yet fills, and is eminently fitted for. In connection with his musical work Mr. Merz has also been active as a lecturer on kindred topics, by which he has done much good in setting fortli the high mis- I sion of his chosen art. Though Mr. Merz was well educated while young, it must be said of him, as a musician, editor, composer and lecturer, tliat he is a self-made man, who, through mucli study and patient labor, has developed his powers and attained the higli degree of honor and esteem which ho now holds in tlie world of music. Ho is in the prime of life, an active and inilefatigable worker. In dispo-

V T^ENEY MUNSON, the youngest '^^\ surviving son of Henry and Mary -^ (Cutter) Munson, was born on the homestead which he now owns in Franklin Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, February 15, 1S37. He received a district school education, and has always been engaged in farming. In 1861 he married Miss Eebecca, daughter of John Jones, of Holmes County, Ohio, and she died in 1874, leaving four children, viz.: John, living at home; Ellsworth, in Nebraska, and James and William, at home. Mr. Munson was again married, on this occasion, in 1876, to Miss Martha Mc- Cartney, daughter of Craig McCartney, of Holmes County, Ohio, and to this union has been born one child, Maud, who is still at home. Mr. Munson was drafted in 1802, and taken as far as Mansfield, Ohio, where he hired a substitute. Like all of his family, he is a Democrat, and has held the office of trustee and supervisor of his township. Our subject and family are members of the Fredericksburgh Methodist Episcopal Church, he holding the office of trustee at the present time.

,ILLIAM W. BROWN, son of John Buckuer and Mary (Morgan) Brown, was born on the farm now owned by Ralston B. Brown, in Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, March 23, 1815. Thomas Brown, his grandfather, a native of Aai'ginia, was a soldier during the War of the Revolution. His children were Elizabeth, John B., George, Lydia, Samuel B., William, Mary Ann and Thomas F., all now deceased. John B. was reared and educated in Loudoun County, Va., where he married Mary Morgan ; they then located in West Virginia, where two children were born to them: Ann, born November 28, 1811, died August 12, 1812, and George H., born April 4, 1813, died in 1844.

In 1813 J. B. Brown removed to Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, and purchased the southeast quarter of Section 20, Township IS, Range 14, where the rest of his children were born, named: William W., Hugh M. (born October 14, 1810, and married to Margaret Neely, in 1839, both deceased), Thomas A., born June 22, 1818, and married to Mary Bird, residing in Clinton Township, Wayne County; Rebecca Ann, born February 25, 1820, died in infancy; Jolin, born October 25, 1822, married to Rhoda Newkirk, died in Shreve, April 19, 1889; Mercy, born December 19, 1823, died in infancy; Stephen, born August 8, 1826, married to Martha M. EitHe, who has since dietl, he is still a resident of Clinton Township; Mary Ann, born August 25, 1828, now Mrs. James K. Campbell, of Riplej' Township, Holmes Co., Ohio; Isaac, now a resident of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, married to Elizabeth McConkey, deceased, and Samuel E., a resident of Firth, Neb.

William W. was raised and educated in Clinton Township, and April G, 1837, he married Phebe, daughter of James Lee, of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio. They located on the farm he now owns in Clinton Township (his present residence) and engaged in farming. To them ten children were born: Elias, born December 2, 1838, married to Sarah J. Numbers, October 2, 1862, is now a farmer of Kidder, Mo. ; James, born April 13, 1840, married to Mary J. McCleve, and died June 23, 1869; Hugli M., born September 18, 184:1, married first to Elmira Merkle, and next to Agnes J. Barcus, he died November 1, 1887: Caroline, boin March 23, 1813, married to John H. Batdortf, who is engaged in the saw-mill business at Liberty Center, Henry Co., Ohio; William Wesley, born March 2, 1845, died July 25, 1877; Mary M., born October 20, 1846, now Mrs. James Kerr, of Clinton Township; Millard Fillmore, bom November 12, 1848, married to Hadessa McMillen, and died November

9, 187!t. she died December 31, 1886; David, born September 21, 1851, married to Effie McFadden, is now a farmer of Clinton Township; Stephen, born February 2, 1854, married to Mary Keiflfer, is

Mr. and Mrs. Brown lived together on the old homestead until her decease, July 17, 1886; she was a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Brown is a member of the Disciples Church; political honors have been thrust upon him ; he was justice of the peace fifteen years; trustee of the township nearly one-fourth of the time, and, what is most of all remarkable, school director fifty successive years. Mr. Brown is now seventy-three years of age, and has witnessed the growth and development of the county from a wilderness, there being but six log cabins in Clinton Township on his arrival here. He is a stanch Republican, having voted for Harrison in 1840, and the grandson in 1888.

ROWN FAMILY. In tracing tho genealogy of the Brown family of Wayne County, Ohio, we find that the first of whom we have any record was William Brown, who was born in Prince

William County, Va., in 1722, o£ Irish parentage, and died in 1806. He married a widow, Sealthy (Asher) Buckner, who had two children, John Anthony, and one whose name we are unable to ascertain. To Mr. and Mrs. Brown were born three children, John, Thomas and Rebecca; John died unmarried; Rebecca married a man named Cornell, and moved to Frederick County, Va., and there closes the record we have of her.

Thomas Brown, the second son, was born in Prince "William County, Va., in 1760, married, October 20, 1785, Nancy Ash, and in 1805 moved from Fauquier County, Va., to Monongalia (now Preston) County, W. Va., where Mrs. Brown died soon after, and Mr. Brown in 1844. They had a family of eight children, the record of whom as we give it was furnished by W. T. Brown, of Grafton, W. Va., and was copied from an old book of his grandfather's, owned by his aunt, Betsey Cartwright: Elizabeth, was born August 11, 1786; John Buckner, January 28, 1788; George, November 14, 1789; Lydia, October 22, 1791 ; Samuel Byrne, October 24, 1793; William, March 6, 1796; Mary Ann, October 26, 1797, and Thomas F'rancis, May 4, 1801.

Elizabeth Brown, the eldest of this family, died June 23, 1867. She was twice married, her first husband being Stevens, and to them were born two children: Marry B., born November 10, 1811, in Monongalia County, W. Va., married Susan Foster, and died Decem- I ber 16, 1844; Anna M., born June 15, 1813, married Thomas Protzman, and died March 21, 1887. Her second husband, Isaac Cartwright, was born in Morgantown, W. Va., and died March 5, 1865. They had four children, as follows: William B., born January 1, 1823, married Margaret Mourton, September 4, 1846, and now lives at Flatwoods, Braxton Co., W. Va.; Thomas F., born October 17, 1825, was married September 26, 1854, to Rebecca Cortlo, and died April 16, 1879, in Howard City, Elk Co., Kas., at the age of fifty-three years, five months, thirty days, his wife having preceded him September 9, 1878, at the age of fortyseven years, eleven months, twenty-four days; Mary M., born January 2, 1827, was married to A. C. Hill, February 1, 1849, and now lives at Golden, Barry Co., Mo.; Marinda R., born November 10, 1831, was married May 22, 1873, to Wilson Darling, in Stewardtown, Monongalia Co., W. Va.

The record of the children of Thomas F. Cartwright is as follows: Marinda C, born November 2, 1855, died November 2, 1858; America A., born January 10,

The record of the children of Alexander C. and Mary M. (Cartwriorht) Hill is as follows: Joseph Elara, born November 20, 1849, married Esther Hurst March 28, 1879, lives in Livingston County, Mo. ; Elizabeth Lowery, born April 5, 1851, married George W. Davis April 24, 1873, lives in Barry County, Mo. ; Sarah Anna, born November 30, 1852, married Edman T. Taylor, February 0, 1878, lives in Livingston County, Mo. ; Isaac Scott, born June 14, 1857, died December 13, 1857; Benjamin F. W., born December 3, 1858, married Ledonia J. Houff, October 12, 1882, lives in Barry County, Mo. ; Isadora Amberzine, bor7i June 30, 1803, married C. E. Freeman, September 26, 1886, lives in Carroll County, Ark. ; Mary Esmarelda, born April 15, 1800, lives in Barry County, Mo.

John Buckneu Bkown, the ohloBt son of Thomas and Nancy (Ash) Brown, was born in Loudoun County, Va., and moved from there to Wayne County, Ohio, in

1813, in company with Jacob Funk and family, arriving in Clinton Township September 17. He located on the farm now owned by Ralston B. Brown, where he died September 25, 1855, and was buried in the Baptist cemetery, near the James Campbell farm. He married Mary Morgan, who died in July, 1850, and was buried beside her husband. They had a family of twelve children: Ann, born November 28, 1811, died August 12, 1812; George Harrison, born April 4, 1813, died in 1844; William W., born j March 23, 1815; Hugh Morgan, born October 14, 1816, died June, 1868 ; Thomas A., born June 22, 1818 ; Rebecca A., born February 25, 1820, died in infancy; John, born October 25, 1822, died April 19, 1889; Mercy, born December 19, 1823, died in infancy; Stephen, born August 8, 1820; Mary Ann, born August 25, 1828; Isaac, born April 3, 1831, and Samuel Ellery, born August 12, 1833.

George Brown, the second son of Thomas and Nancy (Ash) Brown, married, ami Iiiid five children: John and Bailey, two sons who were killed by Confederates at the outset of the Civil War - Bailey while guarding a bridge near Grafton, W. Va., the first Union man killed in West Virginia, in 1861; Marj' married a man by the name of James Funk, residence, Newburgh, W.

Samuel B. Brown, the third son of Thomas and Nancy (Ash) Brown, married Termeline Ziun, and to them were born ten children: Ashford, of Webster, Taylor Co., W. Va. ; Lycurgus, of Gladesville, Preston Co., W. Va. ; William B., of Lyon, W. Va. ; Granville, of Halleck, Monongalia, Co., W. Va. ; Marciatious J., of Gladesville ; Clarissa B., wife of George Stoyer, of Oakland, Garrett Co., Md. ; Anna Melia (or Anamela), Elizabeth, Loretta and Sarah Anne.

Thomas Francis Brown, the youngest son of Thomas and Nancy (Ash) Brown, married Elizabeth Zinn, and to them were born six children: Adaline, born July 9, 1831, married W. J. Morgan, of Hillsboro, Ohio, and died June 13, 1868 ; Buckner B., born November 6, 1832, lives at Reedsville, W. Va. ; William T., born January 7, 1835, near Gladesville, W. Va., lives at Grafton, W. Va. ; Charles M.,born January 28, 1837, married Harriet Fairfax, and died November 26, 1868 ; Virgil S., born October 15, 1838, in Preston County, W. Va., and lives at Garrison, Mo. ; Chloe N., born August 15, 1841, died October 5, 1865. The three members of this family who have died are buried at Independence, W. Va. The family history of Lydia, William and Mary Ann, three of the family

[We have thus briefly sketched three generations of the Brown family as far as able to ascertain facts, and this brings us to the fourth generation, which we are able to give more at length]

George Harrison Brown, eldest son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, married Rebecca Hull, and to them were born two children: Lucy Ellen, wife of Johnson Battles, of Nokomis, 111. and Mary Esther, wife of Dr. Ferrell, of Columbus, Ohio. After the death of Mr. Brown his widow married Uriah White.

William W. Brown, second son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, lives at Shreve, Ohio. He was married April 6, 1837, to Phebe Lee, who died July 17, 1886, and they had a family of ten children: Elias, of Kidder, Mo., born December 22, 1838, and married October 2, 1862, to Sarah J. Numbers; James, born April 13, 1840, married Mary J. McCleve, and died June 23, 1809; Hugh M., born September 18, 1841, and married Elmira Merkle, who died and he afterward married Agnes J. Barcus; Caroline, born March 23, 1843, married September, 1865, to John BatdorfP; William Wesley, born March 2, 1845, died July 25, 1877; Mary Margaret, born October 20, 1846, married James Kerr; Millard Fillmore, born November 12, 1848, married Hadessa McMillen; David, born September 21,

1851, married EflSe McFadden; Stephen, boru February 2, 1851, married Mary Keiffer; Phebe E., born July 25, 1857, became the wife of Melvin Ricbey, December 3, 1878.

James, son of AVilliam W. Brown, married Mary Jane McCleve, and has three children: Hugh M., born Septemljer 22, 1862; James W., May 8, 18G5, and Dolorous Elva, October 19, 1868.

Hugh M., son of William W. Brown, died of lock-jaw at Liberty Center, November 1, 1887. He was twice married, first to Elmira Merkle, and second to Agnes J. Barcus. To his first marriage was born one daughter, Minnie.

Caroline, daughter of William W. Brown, married John Batdorff, September 24, 1865. Mr. Batdorff was a member of Company A, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Infantry, and was a prisoner at Camp Ford, Texas, one year and twentyfour days. Mr. and Mrs. Batdorff have had three children: Russell B., born December 12, 1867; Malilon, born October 18, 1871, was killed by an accident in a saw-mill at Damascus, Ohio, May 20, 1887; Yiva Blanche, born January 29, 1886, in Liberty Center, Williams Co., Ohio.

Stephen, youngest son of Vi. W. Brown, married Mary Keiffer; to them were horn five children: Frankie, William, Allie, Love and Benjamin Harrison.

Hdgh M. Brown, third son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, was married February 21, 1838, by Rev. James Porter, to Margaret Neely, tvho was boru June

John B. Brown, eldest son of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, is a farmer, his post-office address being Nashville, Ohio. He married Margaret Ellen Lee, and they have had six children: James M., boru October 13, 1865; Alda

Martha Ann, daughter of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, married William Imhoff, and to them were born five children: Albert Roswell, William Wesley, Delia S., Maggie Mattie and Elvero; they reside at Ashland, Ohio.

Joseph N., second son of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, resides near Ashland, Ohio. He was married, December G, 186-4, to Sarah King, and they have had four children: Arbie M., born December 19, 1866; Murtie M., March 28, 1869; Edgar A., March 10, 1871, died March 29, 1871, and Emery E., born May 30, 1875.

Mary Ann, second daughter of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, was married, December 22, 1870, to Jacob W. Weiler, and they have had four children: Ina May, born November 5, 1871, died September 6, 1873; Zetta L., born September 26, 1873; Daisy O., born April 19, 1875, and Harvey B., born July 23, 1879. Samuel E., fifth son of Hugh M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, is a merchant at Oakland, Ohio.

M. and Margaret (Neely) Brown, was married September 7, 1875, to Laura Ferrell, who died October 28, 1882, leaving two children: Orra, born December 10, 1877, and Lorena, born May 11, 1880, died February 20, 1883. August 20, 1885, Mr. Brown married Mary Hinkle, and they have one child, Lolo Ursel, born November 28, 1887.

Thomas A. Brown, fourth son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, resides at Shreve, Ohio. He married, March 5, 1845, Mary Bird, and they have had seven children: Ralston B., born June 24, 1846, married to Sarah J. Gill; Bird A., born February 25, 1848, died April 29, 1877; Selina J., born September 12, 1849, married to J. J. Sullivan, September 27, 1877; Ludema, deceased; Mina I., born July 23, 1853, married .November 27, 1873, to W. A. Craig; Aurelia M., born August 29, 1855, married October 6, 1876, to Lucurtus Sidle; Elmer, born August 8, 1857.

Selina J., eldest daughter of Thomas A., and Mary (Bird) Brown, married Hon. J. J. Sullivan, now United States Bank Examinei', and resides at Cleveland, Ohio; to them were born three children: Selva v., Colis E., and Nellie Pauline.

Stephen Bnowx, who resides near Shreve, Ohio, sixth son of John Buckner and Mary (Morgan) Brown, married Martha M. Kiffle (now deceased). To them were born three children : Herbert B., who married Sidnia Jones; Grear E., who married Avilla C. Bedford ; and Allie, only daughter.

Herbert B., eldest son of Stephen and Martha M. (Riffle) Brown, grandson of John Buckner Brown, lives near Shreve, Ohio, married Sidnia Jones, and to them was born a son, Felix J.

Grear E., youngest son of Stephen and Martha M. (Ripple) Brown, married Avilla C. Bedford, and resides near Shreve, Ohio; to them were born two children: Boyd B. and Glenn W.

M.\RY Ann Brown, youngest daughter of John Buckner and Mary (Morgan) Brown, married James K. Campbell, now deceased, of Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, address Shreve, Ohio; to them were born five children: Marinda now deceased, who married Ozias Fouch; Arthur W. ; Anna E., now deceased, who married P. W. Newkirk; Maggie, who married Fred Wachtel; and Emma, who married Bert Armstrong.

Anna E. (deceased), second daughter of James K. Campbell, married P. W. Newkirk ; to them were born two children : Mamie, now deceased, and Nellie.

Isaac Brown (Shreve, Ohio), the seventh son of John Buckner and Mary (Morgan) Brown, married Elizabeth Mc- Conkey February 2, 1854, who died August 23, 1887 ; to them were born a sou, Alvin J., who died at the age of seven; a daughter, Clara B., born July 13, 1857, who married Jason Critchfield September

Clara B., daughter and onl}' child living of Isaac and Elizabeth (McConkey) Brown, married Jason Critchfield, who resides in Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, address Big Prairie, Ohio; to them were born five children: Earl B., born August 17, 1879; Louis H., born January 28, 1883; Rob Roy, born May 12, 1884; Exa Pearl, born February 1, 1886; infant son, born February 7, died February

Samuel Ellery Brown, youngest sou of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, resides at Firth, Neb. He was married November 4, 1854, to Almira Caldwell, who was born June 8, 1838. They have ten children: Willis Eugene, born September 4, 1855; Mary Jane, born June 6, 1857; Kit Carson, August 3, 1859; Leonora, December 28, 1861 ; Leroy, October 20, 1864; Arthur Ohio, April 16, 1867; Charles Vermont, July 11, 1870; Lena, February 18, 1872, and William Earl and Era, March 14, 1875.

AsHFORD Brown, M. D., eldest son of Samuel B. Brown, was born March 13, 1822, and married S. E. Johnson, December 2, 1849. He began the practice of medicine in 1850, and now has a large practice at Webster, W. Va. He has had six children: Adaline H., born February 14, 1856; Lavina F. (wife of W. D. Prims), born March 11, 1858; D. B., born April 24, 1863; Permelia Eldarah, born March 11, 1866; Charles Newton, born January 16, 1869; Frank C, born Jime (), 1873. Adaline H., D. B. and Permelia E. are deceased.

BucKNER B. Brown, eldest son of Thomas F. and Elizabeth (Zinu) Brown, was born on the old homestead near Gladesville, W. Va., where he lived until 1859, when he moved to Roane County, on the Little Kanawha River, where he was doing well until 1861, when he was broken \ip by the

Thomas F. Brown, eldest son of Buckner B. and Jane (Freeburn) Brown, married L D. Davis, December 31, 1878, and July 9, 1887, moved to Leadville, Colo., where he works at the carpenter's trade. He has three children: Dewitt Cecil, born October 17, 1879; Clarence, born May 30, 1883, and Forest F., born February 14, 1885.

Adaline, second daughter of Buckner B. and Jane (Freeburn) Brown, is the wife of John F. Farrell, and has four chihheu: Agnes, born January 21, 1881; Charles, born December 20, 1882; Bessie, born August 11, 1884, and John, born September 15, 1887. !

Sarah E., third daughter of Buckner B. l and Jane (Freeburn) Brown, is the wife of Jacob Born, and has two children: Nora, Viorn October 7, 1885, and Nettie, born March 17. 1S87.

Virgil S. Bhowx, fourth son of Thomas F. and Elizabeth (Zinn) Browu, married, October 26, 1870, Sarah Jenkins, who bore him the following named children: Thomas M., born August 14, 1871; Earl

C, February 10, 1>>73; William G., September 29, 1874; Icie Estellie, January 6,1878 (died March 31. 1878); Bessie May, October 23, 1880; Virgil S., November 18, 1886. The father enlisted in the Civil War in 1861, and was mustered out in December, 1864; re-enlisted in the service tlie following February, and was finally mustered out June 10, 1865, close of the war.

rr^HOMAS ASHBEY BROWN, a rep- I resentative of one of the early fani- JJ ilies of Wayne County, was born in Clinton Township, June 22, 1818, a son of John Buckner and Mary (Morgan) Brown. His father came from Virginia in 1813 and settled on land he had entered from the Government the year before, on Section 20, Clinton Township, and made this township liis home the rest of his life. He died at the age of sixtysis j'ears, and at his death owned 1,300 acres of valuable land. His father was a slave owner in Virginia, and his slaves were divided among his children. John B. was opposed to the institution of slavery, and gave to his their freedom. He was accompanied to Ohio by his wife's parents, who made Wayne County their home the rest of their lives.

life in the near vicinity of the place of his birth, and Jias given his entire attention to farming. He received a commonschool education, attending the log cabin schools of the pioneer days, and from his childhood has been engaged in agricultural pursuits, beginning by doing the chores on his father's farm, and gradually taking hold of the heavier work. He has been successful in his operations, and now has a fine farm of 656 acres, located on Section 10, Clinton Township. Mr. Brown was married March 5, 1845, in Monroe Township, Holmes County, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Butler and Mary (Williams) Bird, former a native of Virginia, and latter of Pennsylvania; both accompanied their parents to Ohio ill their childhood and located in Holmes County, the mother's parents, however, first locating in Licking County, where they remained a short time. Thomas B. Bird was all his life a farmer and at his death left his family 500 acres of land, having spent all his married life on the same farm.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown have had seven children, viz.: Ralston B., Bird A., Selina J., Ludema, Elmina I., Aurelia M. and Elmer. Ralston B. married Sarah J. Gill ; Bird A. is deceased ; Selina J. is the wife of J. J. Sullivan, of Cleveland; Elmina I. is the wife of AVilliam A. Craig; Aurelia M. is the wife of Curtis Seidle. The family are all well known in Clinton Township, where all save Mrs. Sullivan have made their home. In politics Mr. Brown is a Republican, but is in no sense a politician, and has never held any public office. He and his family are members of the Disciples Church.

h^ Thomas A. and Mary (Bird) Jj - ^ Brown, was born in Ripley Township, Holmes Co., Ohio, in 1846. Thomas A. Brown was a son of John Buckner Brown, and a grandson of Thomas Brown. Thomas A., father of the subject of this memoir, was born June 22, 1818, on the old homestead farm in Clinton Township, where he was educated, and March 5, 1845, was married to Mary, daughter of Thomas Butler and Mary (Williams) Bird, of Monroe Township, Holmes Co., Ohio. They located in Ripley Township, where they remained until 1865, when he sold the farm and purchased the one he now owns and occupies in Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, to which he removed. Their children were Ralston B. ; Bird A. (deceased), who was married to Verne Yarnell, and located in Clinton Township, where he was engaged in farming; Selina J., now Mrs. J. J. Sullivan, of Cleveland, Ohio; Lu- dema (deceased) ; Elmiim I., now Mrs. William A. Craig, of Clinton Township; Aurelia M., now Mrs. Curtis Seidle, of Plain Township, and Elmer.

Ralston B. Brown was reared and educated in Holmes County, Ohio, and lived at home until ISG'J, in which year he married Sarah J., daughter of George and Anna Gill, of Plain Township, this county, and they located on the farm he how owns in Clinton Township, where he is engaged in farming and stock-raising:, and broeding full-blooded English Shire and Percheron- Norman horses. Mrs. Brown is a member of the Christian Church of Shreve. Mr. Brown is a member of the oi'der of the Maccabees of the World, and politically is a Prohibitionist.

dOHN BROWN, son of John B. and I Mary (Morgan) Brown, was born on the farm now owned by Ralston B. Brown in Clinton Township, AVayne Co., Ohio, October 25, 1822. Here he was raised and educated, and in March, 1848, married Rhoda, daughter of John Newkirk, of the same township. The young couple then located in Franklin Township, where they remained for a period of tiiirty years. He then sold his farm there and removed to his late residence in Shreve. John Newkirk came from Washington County, Penn., located in Wayne County, where at his death he was one of its prominent and able farmers. His ciiildren were Milton, Elizabeth, Ursula. Newton, Cyrus, George Washington and Rhoda.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown had three children : Mary, now Mrs. Henry Sidle, of Franklin Township, this county; Ella Porte, who died in January, 1887, and Milton N., who died in October, 1864, at the age of seven 3-ears. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were members of the Disciples Ciiurch. Mr. Brown died April 19, 1889. In politics he was a Republican, and held various public positions.

TEPHEN BROWN, son of John B. and Mary (Morgan) Brown, was born in Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, August 8, 182t;, on the farm now owned by Ralston B. Brown. January 31, 1850, he married Mai-tha M., daughter of Jesse Riffle, and they then located in Franklin Township, where they i-emained five years; thence in 1855, they x-emoved to the place Mr. Brown now owns in Clinton Township. Here he built his present resitlence, made many improvements, and now has a farm of 240 acres. To them three children have been born: Herbert B., who married

Sidnia Jones, and has located on the home farm (they have one son, Felix J.) ; G. E., who married Villa Bedford, and has also located on the home farm (they have two children, Boyd B. and Glen), and Emma Alice at home. Mrs. Brown died in 1887, a member of the Disciples Church. Mr. Brown is a member of the same church ; in politics he is a Republican.

^jr^ EV. JOHN C. ELLIOTT, of Rittw^^ man, Milton Township, Wayne Jj - ^ County, is a son of Thomas and Barbara (Warren) Elliott, natives of Jefferson County, Ohio, who having purchased a farm in Milton Township, in 1828, removed to it a few years later. On this farm our subject still lives. Thomas Elliott was prominent in all local public enterprises and works of benevolence. He was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church, and director of the county infirmary until failing health made it impossible for him to visit it. He died in June, 1871; his widow yet lives on the old farm with her son, Jolin C. Their family consisted of five children: Austin W., Simon P., Warren, John C. and Mary R., and of these there are yet living Rev. A. W. Elliott, of Marshfield, Mo., and Rev. John C. Elliott.

The subject of these lines was born July 18, 1839, and was educated at Vermillion Institute, Western Reserve (now Adelbert) College and Princeton Theological Seminary. He was at once called to tlie Presbyterian Church at Nebraska City, Neb., where he was ordained and installed pastor in 1867. Here he remained till 1870, when he was called home to Ohio by the rapidly failing health of his father. In addition to the pastoral charge in Nebraska, he was active in mission work, organizing the church at Lincoln, the capiital, and in educational enterprises. He was appointed by the governor examiner of the State Normal School and regent of the State University. He also acted for one year as president of Otoe University, a Presbyterial school at Nebraska City. On returning to Ohio he was invited to take charge of the Presbyterian Church in Seville, which he served as acting pastor for fifteen years, always living, however, on the old farm. lu 1878 he gathered and organized the church at Rittmau, of which he became the first pastor, and has remained in charge since. Has for years been a trustee of Wooster University'.

In May, 1866, Mr. Elliott married Miss Nettie M., daughter of Nathaniel Stanley, of Trumbull County, Ohio, and to them seven children have been born : the eldest Thomas S., died in infancy; six yet live: Charles H., Warner W., Mary, Varuum

JOHN Q. ADAMS, one of the oldest settlers and well-known citizens of ^ Chippewa Township, Wayne County, was born in Anne Arundel County, Md., April 9, 1800, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Zepp) Adams, the former of English parentage and the latter of German. They were pioneers of Jefiferson County, Ohio, where William resided until his death ; his widow died at the age of ninety-one years, at the residence of their son, John Q., in Chippewa Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. Our subject was reared in Jefferson County, Ohio, and at the age of eighteen was apprenticed to the blacksmith's trade, at which he served two and a half years, in Steubenville, Ohio.

In iH'l'ii Mr. Adams traded a tract of land in Pennsylvania for 160 acres in Chipl)ewa Township, Wayne County, on which he settled the same year, and three days after his arrival he had erected and started a blacksmith's shop, where he worked at his trade steadily for four years. He then gave his attention to making axes and other edge tools, and to the clearing and improving of his farm. In 18;5ij he discovered coal on his farm, the right of mining which he leased to others, and from wliich he has received a liberal income. Mr. Adams married, in 1820, Mary Llewellyn, of Washington County, Penn., by whom he had nine children who grew to maturity, viz. : William, Thomas, George, Sarah J., Mary A., Rachel, Adeline, John and Elizabeth. Although Mr. Adams is in his ninetieth year he is remarkably strong and active, and bids fair to live to celebrate his one hundredth birthday. For over forty years ho was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, though he is not now connected with any denomination. He has held various local offices in his township, and is a stanch Democrat.

Fredericksburgh, February 28,185',). Isaiah Rayl was born in Pennsylvania, June 18, 1818, of English descent, and came to Wayne County witli his parents in boyhood. He learned the blacksmith's trade in his youth, and for some 3'ears followed it in Fredericksburgh. In March, 180-t, he moved to the farm where the subject of our notice now lives, and made that his home uutil his death, which occurred May 22, 188S. He was married February 27, 1840, to Cynthia Graham, a native of Pennsylvania, and to them were born eleven children, of whom only five survive. They were devoted members of the Baptist Church, of which Mr. Rayl was for many years a deacon, and one son, David K., was educated for missionary work. He spent two years in India, when he fell a victim to that dread disease, consumption, and came home to die. His death occurred September 10, 1884, in the thirtj'-seventh year of his age. His faithful Avife, who had shared the cares and trials of a missionary life with him, survived him but two weeks. They left one child, Isaiah, who is now an inmate of his grandmother's home. Mr. Rayl was a strong Prohibitionist, and was anxious to live to see his country freed from the curse of strong drink. He was one of the honored men of his town, and will long be remembered for his many excellent virtues.

Romeo A. Rayl was reared on his father's farm, remaining at home, and since his father's death has had charge of the homestead. He was married in 1881 to Miss Jennie Price, a native of Seneca County, Ohio, daughter of Thomas and Matilda Price, still residents of that coun- J ty. Mr. Price is a native of Baltimore County, Md., but came to Ohio when about fifteen years of age. His family are of English descent, but early settlers of America, and some of its members were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. Mr. and Mrs. Romeo Rayl have had three children: Owen Albert, Mary Etta (deceased) and Eva Maud. Politically he is a strong Pi'ohibitionist, and both he and his wife are active members of the Baptist Chui'ch. Mr. Rayl is one of the best and most favorably known young men of the county, a worthy representative of a most worthy father.

JB. SNYDER was born October 8, 1833, on the old homestead on Section 1, Congress Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, and is a sou of an old pioneer of Congress Township, George Snyder. He (George) was a native of Virginia, and came from there to Wayne County, Ohio, in the spring of 1819, entering from the Government the southwest quarter of Section 1. He died in 1805, in his seventieth year. Mary (Bowers) Snyder, mother of the subject of this memoir, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio. She died in 1875, in her seventy-fifth year, the mother by Mr. Snyder of ten children, nine of whom grew to manhood and womanhood.

of this sketch, was united in marriage, October 23, 1856, with Miss Mary Jane Burns, who was born July 21, 1830, in Congress Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. Her father, Hector Burns, was born in Chester County, Penn., and in the fall of 1822 he came to Congress Townsliip, Wayne Co., Ohio, where he entei-ed the - northeast quarter of Section 3. Her mother, Mary (Williams) Burns, was born October 31, 1791, in Lycoming County, Penn. This couple reared a large family, and both lived to a ripe old i age, Mr. Burns dying July 14, 1858, in his sixty-eighth year, and Mrs. Burns, September 15, 1872, in the eighty-first year of her age. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder have been blessed with eight children, three of whom survive. The parents are both consistent members of tlie Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Snyder owns and lives upon the old homestead, one mile south of Burbank, where he has made many improvements, and is regarded as one of the progressive farmers of Wayne County.

QEOEGE HINISH (deceased) was ' liorn in Bedford County, Penn., September 2, 1814, and died in February, 1873. He was married in his native county, February 17, 1844, to

Mary A. Garman, also a native of that county. To them were born eight children, five sons and three daughters, named as follows: William W., of Chicago, 111.; John G., of Kansas; Cora L., now Mrs. Jones, of Toledo, Ohio; George W., of Dakota; Chester C, Harry AV.. Mollie S. and Agnes L. L.

Mr. Hinish was reared in his native county, attending the common schools, and. on leaving school, began to work at the carpenter's trade, which he followed only a short time. He then began to learn the trade of a millwright, at which he worked a number of years, abandoning it to engage in the hotel business, at Johnstown, Penn., which he continued until 1802, when he left Pennsylvania, and became identified with the interests of Wayne County, Ohio. He first bought 101 acres of land in Plain Township, of Judge Goodfellow, and made this place his home for the rest of his life. His business life had been a series of successes, and, after becoming a resident of Wayne County, he laid the foundation of a beautiful home, which he was not long permitteil to enjoy. He was always public spirited and enterprising, and was a firm believer in all methods that tended to promote the welfare of the community in which he lived. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and I. O. O. F., in both of which he took a deep interest. In politics he from early life was a Kepublican, and was a stanch supporter of the principles of that party, being a strong Union man during the dark days of the Eebellion. He was a member of the Baptist Church, and was always ready to do all in his power to aid in its support. He was a man of fine business principles, and was honored by all who knew him for his uprightness of character and strict adherence to his convictions of right, his errors being of the head and not of the heart.

JOHN LONGANECKER, farmer, Chester Township, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1817, being one of a family of eight children born to Joseph and Barbara (Mergin) Longanecker. His fatlier became a resident of Ohio in 1800, and became one of the prosperous farmers of Columbiana County, owning at the time of his death over 200 acres of valuable land. He died in 1849, aged seventy-five years.

John Longanecker left his native county in 1850 and settled on 160 acres of land in Chester Township, Wayne County, which had been entered by his father. In his youth he learned the blacksmith's trade, and has worked at it most of the time, in connection with the regular duties of the farm. He was married in 1841 to Nancy Long. Their only child, Peter Longanecker, enlisted in the army in 18G1, in Company D, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Infantry, and died June 15, 1863, aged twenty years and five montlis, and was buried in Chester graveyard, Wayne County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Longanecker reside on the farm, where they have made their home nearly forty years. They are now well advanced iu life, and are enjoying the fruits of their early years of toil. Kind and hospitable, they have many friends in all the walks of life, who honor them for their many virtues. They are members of the Lutheran Church. In politics Mr. Longanecker is a stanch Republican.

T^ f( ARRY E. BAKER barber, Smith- IpM ville, Wayne Co., Ohio, is one of Jj -^ the live young men of that village. He comes of a family of German extraction, who have for several generations been citizens of America. His greatgreat-grandfather Baker - the name being then spelled Becker - came to this country before the War of the Revolution. He was a Dunkard, and in accordance with the tenets of that body he was a noncombatant. He was arrested in Philadelphia during the Revolution for refusing to serve in the army when conscripted, and was imprisoned. In jail he thought loug and earnestly over the matter, and finally coming to the conclusion that it was his duty to take up arms in defense of his adopted country, he renounced his allegiance to the church, entered the army, and served faithfully until the close of the war, and the securing of our independence. His son, Frederick, great-grandfather of Harry E., was born in Lebanon County, Penn., and about 1832 came to Wayne County with his family, locating in Canaan Township, but later removing to Seneca County, Ohio, where he and his wife both died. They had a numerous family, of whom the following named yet survive : Frederick, a resident of Seneca County; Peter, in Germantown, Montgomery Co., Ohio (was formerly a Methodist jn-eacher, but is now retired) ; Julia Ann, widow of Charles Betts, in Marshalltown, Iowa, and Abraham, grandfather of Harry E., who is the eldest of the survivors. He was born in Lebanon County, Penn., December 14, 1800. In his youth he began the study of medicine, but gave that up to enter the ministry, becoming a preacher of the Evangelical Association. For a number of years he labored in that cause, but, on account of defective hearing, gave up preaching and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church; he then adopted the profession of veterinary surgeon. In June, 1834, he came to Wayne

County, where he has ever since lived. This was then a comparatively new country, and Mr. Baker has seen it transferred from a wilderness to one of the richest agricultural counties of the great State of Ohio. For three years he kept a hotel in Wooster, and then removed to Jefferson, four and a half miles west, where he remained until the death of his wife. He was married in Cumberland County, Penn., to Mrs. Hannah (Spangler) Zinn, a native of that county, who had been previously married to William Zinn, b}- whom she had four children, two of them yet living, George and Elizabeth. She was born in 1797, and died May 9, 1878. Her father when quite young came to America from Zweibriicken, Germany, about 125 years ago. He had learned surveying in his native land, and on arriving in America his entire property consisted of his instruments; in order to reach the New World he was compelled to sell his services for a certain period to a transportation company, and by hard lalior paid for his [)assage. At the time of his death he was the owner of four fine farms - two in Lancaster County and two in Cumberland County, Penn. Abraham Baker has all his life been a religious man, and for fifty years has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, there being no Evangelical Society here when he came to Ohio. He ia an honest, straight forward man, esteemed by all who know him. He is now living in the city of Wooster, and is the oldest man in the township. He and his wife had four children, all deceased except Yost S., father of Harry E., who was born in Wooster, September 7, 1834, a few months after his parents' arrival in the place.

Yost S. Baker learned the trade of shoemaking, at which he worked until July 24, 1862, on which day he entered the Union army, enlisting in Company I, One Hundred and Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was ordered from the rendezvous at Camp Mansfield, before being armed or equipped, to the defense of Cincinnati, then threatened by the rebel Gen. Kirby Smith. They were mustered into the United States service in the streets of Covington, Ky., and were then sent to Newport, same State, where they were kept in line of battle several days. The regiment afterward saw considerable service in the Southwest, in which Mr. Baker participated, serving faithfully until the close of the war; he -was discharged May 23, 1865, having served three years lacking two months. Though never wounded, the hardshijss endured in the army somewhat impaired Mr. Baker's health, and he yet feels their effects. Returning to the pursuits of peace, he opened a shop in Smithville, where for six mouths he carried on his trade, then sold out, and for several years worked as a journeyman. In 1877 he again opened a shop in Smithville, to which, in 1885, he added a line of readymade goods. Yost S. Baker was married August 2, 1860, to Miss Fanny Drabenstot, who was born near Smithville, her parents having come from Lancaster County, Penn. She was born September 23, 1840. They have two children : Harry Ellsworth and Edna May. The parents are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Smithville. Mrs. Baker's grandfather, Frederick Drabenstot, was married to Peggy Nicolas, and they had ten children, of whom Fanny Drabenstot Wolfe and Frederick Drabenstot still survive. Frederick, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1806, and was married in 1829 to Mary Croft, she being one of four children - two boys and two girls - of whom the two boys yet survive. They came to Wayne County in 1830, and had three children - Jacob, Mary and Fanny - all of whom are living. Mary Croft Drabenstot died at the age of forty-eight yeai's, and Frederick Drabenstot married Mary Williams. They had four children - Emma, Ida, Delia and Hugh - of whom the youngest three are living. In 1865 he sold his farm in Wayne County, and moved to Huntington County, Ind., where

Harry Ellsworth Baker was born April 26, 1861, while the family was living at Smithville, but his birthplace was Jefferson, where, at the time, his mother was visiting his grandfather. His district school education was supplemented with two years' tuition in Prof. Eberly's High School in Smithville, now the Northern Ohio Normal Scliool. Leaving there, lie learned the trade of a barber at Wooster, and returning to Smithville in 1880, opened a shop, in wliicli he is doing a fine trade, being very competent in his business. November 22, 1881, Mr. Baker was united in marriage with Miss Emma Loretta, only child of John H. and Mary E. (Salmons) Myers, of Orrville, this county. Her father was a teacher by profession, and had been principal of the high school at Upper Sandusky, Kenton, Wadsworth, Ohio, and for two years preceding his death, of the high school at Orrville, also then holding the position of county examiner. He died September 8, 1875, aged thirty-eight years, and his widow subsequently became the wife of John H. Harter; she is still a resident of Orrville, and has one child, Mary Alverda Harter. John H. Myers wa.s born in Lancaster County, Ponn., his father having come from Germany. About fortyfive j'ears ago the family came to Wayne

County, and representatives of it are still living here. Harry Baker is a stirring, wide-awake young man, who stands well in the community. He is a lover of good horses, and the owner of a tliorough-bred trotting stallion (whose progeny are becoming numerous in this part of the State), and is doing much to elevate the standard mark of the horses of this section of the count}'. Mr. and Mrs. Bakei" have one child, Ellis Myers, born August 29, 1882. Mrs. Baker was born in Smithville, Ohio, December 21, 1862, and was three years old when her father accepted the position of principal of the schools of Upper Sandusky, where he stayed three years. She lived with her parents until her father's death, and then made her home with her mother until her marriage. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mrs. Emma Baker's great-grandfather, Jesse McKinley, was born in 1794, in Westmoreland County, Penn., and in 1815 married Mary Dugan, who was born at the same place in 1792. They moved to Wayne County in 1817, where they remained until their deaths. Jesse McKinley was a squire and school-teacher, and owned a quarter section of land at the time of his death. They had a family of nine children, of whom two are yet living: Sarah (McKinley) Kennedy, and Catharine (McKinley) Gearard, the eldest of the family, and grandmother of Emma Baker, and still living on part of the old homestead. She was married to Charles Salmons, December 13, 1838, and they had two children - Mary Etta, mother of Emma Baker, and Elizabeth Ann, both living in Wayne County. Mrs. Salmons afterward married J. P. Gearard. Jesse McKinley died at the age of thirty-nine years, and his widow survived him about twenty years, she being fifty-nine years old at the time of her death. Emma Baker's great-great-grandfather and great-greatgrandmother McKinley were natives of Ireland, as were also her great-greatgrandfather and great-great-grandmother Dugan.

JAMES FLUHART, son of Zacheus and Mary (Robison) Fluhart, was ^-^ born in Salt Creek Township,"Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1825, and has never lived outside of the school district in which he was born. His grandfather, James Fluhart, was a resident of Meadville, Penn., where he passed the remainder of his days. His widow married Phineas First, and they removed to Salt Creek Township, Wayne County. The children of James Fluhart were Zacheus, Henry, Nathan, Sarah, Elizabeth and Mary. Of these, Henry married, and died in Missouri ; Nathan married, and died in Wayne County, Ohio; Sarah married George Robison, and died in Fulton County, Ohio; Elizabeth is now Mrs. George Sharp, of East Union, Wayne County; Mary was the late Mrs. John Clark, of East Union, Wayne County. Zacheus was born in Meadville, Penn., and when young removed with his parents to Ohio, where his father purchased a farm, now owned by A. R. Fluhart, in Salt Creek Township, and there he married, and located on the farm now owned by George Moore, in Salt Creek Township, and where James Fluhart was born. Here Zacheus and Mary, his wife, passed their days, having five children, viz. : A. R., married to Margaret Thomas, and living on the old homestead ; Samuel, married to Deziah Robison, removed to Fulton County, Ohio, and died; Zacheus, married to Amanda Murray, removed to Illinois; Elizabeth, married to Martin Worley, removed to Fulton County, Ohio; and James, whose name heads this sketch.

James Fluhart married, in the year 1849, Marsjaret Poorman, locatina: near tlie old homestead, where they remained nine years; then purchased the farm ujxm which he still lives. To them two children have been born: Edmund and Nettie. Of these, Edmund married Lucy Graber, and live at the homestead, and have one child, Ida; Nettie married Martin N. Criswell, of Salt Creek To\viisbi[), AVayne County. Mr. Flubart is a stanch Kepnblican, having been officially identified with the party in various capacities.

JAY ASHENHUEST, publisher of the Shreve Xews, Shreve, Wayne Co., Ohio, was born June 10, 1855, in Dalton, Wayne Co., Ohio, a son of Rev. James Y. and Martha Ashenhurst, who removed to this county from West Virginia in 1853. When he was eighteen months old his parents removed to Hayesville, Ashland County, where he resided until he was eighteen years of age, when he moved to Southeastern Virginia, where he remained a number of ytMirs, returning to Wayne County in 18S3. He was married to Miss Rilla C. Armstrong, of Cleveland, October 4, 1883, and moved to Shreve in December, 1883, since which time he has been engaged in the publication of the Shreve Xews. Mr. and Mrs. Asheniiurst have one child, Edna Hope Asheuhurst, born August 20, 1887. The name Asheniiurst, or Asheuhust, is formed from Eschen, a kind of wood or timber, in English called ash or ashen when used adjectively. Hurst or hoist, according to Webster, means a wood or grove. The name literally means an ash or ashen grove, and was probably given to a farm or homestead. Hurst is a word frequently used in composition with other words in the formation of proper names, as Hazelhurst, Parkhurst and Barkhurst. Many other names of similar formation might be given. The families emigrating from Ireland to America did not use '-r" in the last syllable. Some niatle it Ashen and others Ashin. Often members of the same family spell their name differently. It would not, therefore, be strange that the "r" should be dropped out of the name in successive generations, especially when literature had not advanced to the degree it has attained at the present time, and when so little care was observed in keeping names pure and so distinct and uniform in their orthography as to indicate closely their origin.

The origin of the name as given above is so reasonable and probable, and agreeable to the analogy in the formation of other names, that the "r" has been restored by many bearing the name. In doing tins they yielded to an unswerving universal public judgment, which stubbornly persisted in spelling the name Ashenhurst. Besides there is more music in the smooth, euphonious hurst than in the blunt, forbidding bust. According to tradition received from the fathers, which has never been called in question, the name originated in Germany.

beariiig the name emigrated from Germany to England, and settled near Loudon, and it is probable, from the testimony of those who claim to know, that the name is still common in that part of England. But be that as it may, it is certain that at a later period some families of the Ashenhursts passed over from England to Ireland, and settled in County Tyrone, near Newton Stewart. In Tyrone the name is still common. Their ecclesiastical connection is with the English Church, and some of them have borne Episcopal honors. In the year 1793 there was another exodus. The families of the Ashenhursts set sail from Ireland to America with the purpose of making it their future home. William Ashenhurst andhis family settled in Allegheny County, Penn., ten or twelve miles below Pittsburgh. He had an only son, John, who lived on the old homestead after the death of his parents. He died childless, consequently in this branch of the family the name became extinct. Oliver Ashenhurst, a brother of William, came at the same time, and settled in Washington County, Penn., near Hardscrabble, now West Alexander. Subsequently he removed to Brown County, Ohio. Oliver had but one son, whom he named John. John married, and after some years removed to Indiana, and settled on the Wabash. He had several sons, one of whom was drowned in Brush Creek, Adams Co., Ohio, in 1830. Others of his sons with their families are probably settled in Indiana and Kentucky. The daughters of Oliver Ashenhurst all married and reared large families. Betty was married to Benjamin Marshall; Nellie was married to James Johnson; Peggy to William Eeed, who lived and died near West Alexander, Penn. ; Mattie was the wife of Thomas Robinson. William Ashenhurst and Nancy, his wife, with four children, immigrated at the same time with the families mentioned above, in 1793. The children were John, Margaret, Mary, Nancy. Another son was born to them on their voyage before landing at Norfolk. This was Oliver, the youngest child. William and Oliver Ashenhurst, referred to above, were cousins of William Ashenhurst, the subject of this reference. They were also brothers-in-law, as Nancy, his wife, was sister to William and Oliver. William married his cousin. The daughters of William and Nancy died, leaving no children. Oliver, the younger son, married Euphemia Bishop, when thirty years of age, by whom he liad four sons and as many daughters. He lost one son, James D., in the war for the Union. William and Frank both died in 1881, Frank leaving a wife and child, who are now at Londonderry, Ohio. John, the second son of Oliver Ashenhurst, resides in Missouri.

Oliver's daughters were marriuJ, aiul are living in the West or Soutiiwest. Oliver Ashenhwrst was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was a volunteer, going into the service at twenty years of age. He lived, after his marriage, until his family were grown up, on Eagle Creek, Brown Co., Ohio. Thence he removed with his family to Mercer County, 111., where he died.

John Ashenhurst, the elder son of William and Nancy Ashenhurst, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, aljout the year 1773 and immigrated with his parents to America, in 1793. He had been reared in the Church of England, but having settled, soon after his arrival in this countr}', in Brooke County, Va., he became connected with the Associate Church at Cross Creek, under the pastoral care of Rev. Thomas Allison. He married, in 1802, Miss Mary Young, and to them were born ten children, first five daughters, and after this five sons, two of the latter dying in infancy. John Ashenhurst enlisted in the War of 1812, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. In 1817 he removed, with his family, to Brown County, Ohio. There he lived for many years, and in 185,") went to Daltnn, Wayne County, Ohio, where he died in May, 1850, aged eighty-four years. Nancy, the eldest daughter of John and Mary Ashenhurst, married Valentine