Wayne Township (part 2 of 15)

dfAMES L. ZAEING, principal of the public school, Smitliville, Wayne -^^ Co., Ohio, is the eldest son of Eli Zaring, clerk of courts of the county, under whose name, on another page of this Yolume, is given the family history. His mother's maiden name was Mary Stevic. They are now residents of Wooster, where Mr. Zaring's official duties demand his presence. The siibject of this sketch was born in Plain Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, December 4, 1859. He attended the district school near his home, and when of suitable age learned the trade of shoemaking in summers in his father's shop. He, however, never followed this trade regularly. His common-school education was supplemented by a thorough course at the Normal School in Smitliville, then conducted by Prof. Eberly. At the age of eighteen he was examined and obtained a teacher's certificate, but being of a youthful appearance did not obtain a school until he was twenty years old. His first school was in Chester Township, where he taught three terms, constituting a full year. The succeeding two years he taught in District No. 3, in Plain Township, and then one year in District No. 4, in the same township. The following two years he taught in District No. 1, his home school, in which all his common-school education had been obtained. Each move was a step upward, and each position more responsible and more lucrative. Ever since he began his chosen career his course has been steadily onward. After leaving his home school he taught for a year in District No. 4, in Wooster Township, and was then offered and accepted the responsible position of principal of the public school at Smithville, which he still holds. This was a merited as well as gratifying tribute to his faithful and successful work as an educator. June 3, 1883, Mr. Zaring was married to Wessie Eeamer, a daughter of Jacob and Sophia Reamer, of Smithville, where she was born January 25, 1803. Her parents came to Ohio from Mechanicsburg, Penn., many years ago. Her father was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, and was killed in the battle of Chancellorsville, May 2, 1803. Her mother is now living in Smithville. Mr. and Mrs. Zaring are the parents of two children: Ethel and Walter. Mr. Zaring is a member of the order of the Knights of the Maccabees. He is uuiversally recoguizecl as a gentleman of bigli principle, of unquestioned integrity, and as one of the most capable and successful educators in the county.

married in 1819, and located in Franklin Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, on the place now owned by John Sanderson, it then being a wilderness. This couple were natives of Westmoreland County, Penn., were married here, and were residents of Franklin for forty-eight j'ears, then removed to Nashville, where Mr. Thomas died. The record of their children is as follows: Esther married E. G. Jack, and now resides in Lafayette, Ind. ; John C. married Lottie Davis, and now resides in Shreve, Wayne County; William married May Kobison, and now resides in Fulton County ; Elizabeth married Josiah Yoter, and now resides in Shreve, Wayne County; Cyrus S. married Alvira Carr, and now resides in Michigan; Ebenezer married Elizabeth Moore, and now resides in East Union, Wayne County; Joseph died in 1869; and Margaret married A. E. Fluhart in 1850, and located April 10, 1867, on the farm he now occupies. Their children are Zacheus E., John Y., Elizabeth, Cyrus M., Anna May, Harry C, Howard H., Ella M. and Jessie M. Zacheus E. married Emma, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Jane Martin, of Holmes County, and located in Wooster Township, Wayne County; they have three children: Edna M., Jennie Mabel and Florence Moore. John Y. married Mary, daughter of Elias and Sarah Stuckei', and moved to Missouri; they have four children: Edward E., Johnnie, Sadie and Ella M. Cyrus M. married Emma, daughter of John and Jane Eichards, and located in Salt Creek Township; they have one daughter, Carrie Edith. Ella M. was married in 1888 to A. A. Geitgey. The other children are at the homestead, which is situated in a delightful valley. Mr. Fluhart is one of the progressive farmers of his township, and, with his sons, is a strong Eepublican. Mr. and Mrs. Fluhart and their entire family are members of the Presbyterian Church.

OLOMON E. BONEAVITZ, one of the best known and most prominent lawyers in Wayne County, is a native of the same, born November 28, 1820, and is a son of John and Margaret (Eider)

Bonewitz, both of whom were natives of Berks County, Penn.,he comino; in 1815 to Wayne County as a pioneer. In 1853 he moved with his wife and all of their children, excepting Solomon K., to Wabash County, Ind., where he died in February, 1885, aged ninety-two years, and his wife in 1860. They were the parents of eight children, three of whom are yet living, our subject being the only one now in Wayne County. One son resides in North Manchester, Ind., and one in Omaha, Neb. Solomon K., subject of this memoir, received his school training at what jubilated in its day in the high-sounding title of "Hayes' College," which in reality was only a log school-house. His life was spent on a farm until he was eighteen years old, when he commenced a clerkship in his father's dry goods store, at what was then known as Naftzger's Mill, near Burbank, in Wayne County, and later at Mechanicsburgh, same county, until 1844. He had married, in the meantime, October 14, 1841, Miss Louisa Booth, of Medina County, Ohio, a lady of good education, who at one time was a teacher in the public schools, and who after marriage became in part her husband's instructor, stimulating him to a higher education. Her father, Hilen Booth, of Medina County, Ohio, was married to Sarah McCleod, and died in 1870, his wife having preceded him in 1860.

Mrs. Bonewitz has one brother in Akron, Ohio ; another brother, who had been prominently identified with the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad Company, having control of all the telegraph lines, died in 1883; one sister is the wife of Dr. M. K. Hard, of Wooster, Ohio, and another sister is Mrs. Monosmith, of Jay County, Ind. In 1844 Mr. and Mrs. Bonewitz came to Wooster, Wayne County, and here he finished his law studies, which he had taken up and prosecuted while engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1845 he was admitted to the bar at St. Clairsville, Ohio, f)racticed his profession in Wooster up to 1865, in which year he formed a partnership known as the Bonewitz, Emrich & Co. Banking House, in Wooster, with himself as cashier. Later it became the Commercial Bank of Wooster, which merged into the National Bank of Wooster. In 1871 Mr. Bonewitz severed his connection with this institution, and devoted his entire time to the practice of law. For two terms, commencing in 1853, he was mayor of Wooster, and has been a member of the council for four years; he was also a justice of the peace six years, and filled all of the incumbencies with credit to himself and satisfaction of his constituents. He was appointed United States commissioner by the circuit courts of the United States, as recorded in the "Blue Book" at Washing- tou, iu 1818, which office he has coutiuuously held through all political phases. For the past four or five years he has given his time and attention to the pension business. Politically he is a Democrat. He and his wife have been members of the Episcopal Church since 1864. On January 8, 1882, Mrs. Bonewitz was afflicted with a severe attack of nervous prostration, from which she was recovering until May, 1887, when she met with an accident, which deprived her partly of the use of her limbs; in all her affliction she is a patient, uncomplaining sufferer.

t--^ AMUEL SCHMUCK was born in Lancaster County, Penn., July 9, 1822, a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Hymiller) Schmuck. In 1832 his parents came to Wayne County, where the father died, aged seventy-three years. Samuel Schmuck was reared in Wayne County frorri the age of ten years, remaining with his parents and assisting iu the cultivation of the farm until his marriage, in 1847, with Miss Sarah Geitgey, daughter of John Geitgey, who died, leaving one child, James Henry. This son died in 1880, aged thirty-two years, leaving a widow and two children. January 27, 1854, Mr. Schmuck married Mary Myers, daughter of Daniel and Martha Myers. They have four children: David Edwin, Sara, Ida May and Annie Mary. In 1847 Mr. Schmuck settled on his present farm, which he has improved, and now has one of the pleasantest homes in Franklin Township. He has been a successful man, his prosperity being due to his untiring energy and good management. In politics Mr. Schmuck is a Republican. Mrs. Schmuck's father, Daniel Myers, was a native of Germany, born in 1814. At the age of seventeen years he came to the United States. He was on a sailing vessel three mouths, being in the meantime shipwrecked twice. He located in Pennsylvania, where he learned the cooper's trade. He married Martha (Deweese) Shively, and to them were born eight children, all of whom except one are living. They finally settled on a farm iu Wayne County, Ohio, where both died.

Penn., was born December 5, 1820, in Sugar Creek Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. His parents came to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1819, and entered a tract of land (one quarter) in Sugar Creek Township, where they lived and died. John McDowell built a saw and grist mill, which he conducted for many years. He voted first with the Whig and afterward with the Eepublican party, and held the office of justice of the peace for many years ; he was also an elder in the Seceder Church. He died January 2, 1872, and his wife November 25, 1873. Their family consisted of eleven children, and of them the only ones now living are as follows: Elijah, in Indiana ; Luther, in Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County; David; Sarah, wife of Samuel Anderson, of Dalton, Ohio, and Mary, wife of John Porter, residing near Fulton, Ohio.

David McDowell, whose name heads this sketch, received his education in the log schoolhouse of his day. In 1847 he married Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel Bell, of Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, and they remained on the homestead until 1868, in which year he purchased his present farm of 200 acres, in Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, where he has since been engaged in farming and stock raising. Eight of his children are living, as follows: J. Marshall, in Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County; Samuel A., in Nebraska; Nathaniel C, in Sugar Creek Township; Gibson and Edwin, at home; Laura, now Mrs. Fred Ammann, of Orrville, Ohio; Violet, now Mrs. Clark Stuck, of Mount Eaton, Ohio, and Emma, now Mrs. Albert Arnold, in Sugar

Creek Township. Mr. McDowell is a Republican, and has held the office of school director. He and his family are members of the Dalton United Presbyterian Church.

EV. JOHN K. YODEE, bishop of ^ the Amish Mennonite Church, -^ lives on Section 22, in Green Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, his postoffice address being Orrville, Ohio. He comes of a family who have been residents of this country since before the Revolutionary War. His grandfather, who was brought to this country by his parents when quite young, was the oldest of the family, and to help his parents and pay for his passage he was bound out to a farmer in Berks County, Penn., serving until he was twenty-one years of age. He married Magdalena Yoder, who, although of the same name, was not a relative, and afterward removed to Mifflin County, Penn., where he died. His wife survived him many years, reaching an advanced age, and her descendants at the time of her death numbered nearly 200. Their children were three sous and five daughters, none of whom are now living. The father of John K. Yoder, also named John, the eldest of this family, was boru in Mifflin County, Penn., in 1786, and died in the house of our subject in 1855, in his seventieth year. He was a farmer in Pennsylvania, but retired from active life a few years before coming to Ohio, to spend the remaining years of his life with his son. He was married to Mary King, a native of Berks, but reared in Mifflin County, Penn. She was born in 1790, and died in 1866, in her seventy-seventh year, having survived her husband eleven years. John Toder had always borne the character of an upright and honest man, a useful member of the Amish Mennonite Church, and of the community in which he lived. He and his wife were the parents of four children: Jacob, who was married to Annie Yoder, removed from Pennsylvania to Mahoning County, Ohio, and from there to Michigan, where he died, his wife dying in Missouri; Magdalena is the widow of John Plank, who removed first to Logan County, Ohio, and thence to Michigan, where he died, and where his widow yet lives; Christian K. is married to Catherine Plank, and is a farmer and a minister of the Amish Mennonite Church of Logan County, Ohio; John K., who was the third in order of birth, was born in Mifflin County, Penn., January 21, 1824. He was brought up on the farm, and lived with his parents until after his marriage.

when he removed to another farm in the same county. There he lived for ten years, until 1855, when he removed to Ohio, buying the farm which has ever since been his home. May 5, 1850, while still in Pennsylvania, Mr. Yoder was selected by lot as a minister of his church. He discharged his duties with such zeal and fidelity that in October, 1859, he was elected by ballot by the congregation to the high and holy officeof bishopof the church, having oversight of the churches of the district, and also preaching regularly. In Mifflin County, Penn., on January 9, 1845, Mr. Yoder was married to Lydia Zook, who was born there March 18, 1827, and died at their Ohio home September 20, 1887, after a long and serious illness, which she bore with the patience and resignation of a Christian, hoping for immortality. She was a faithful wife and devoted mother, and discharged with fidelity her duties in all the relations of life. She passed from this life to the reward which awaits those who faithfully believe in Him " who doeth all things well." Mr. and Mrs. Yoder were the parents of three children who lived beyond infancy. They are Christian Z., of whom further mention is made below; Mary Z., deceased, who was the wife of Jacob N. Yoder, of Green Township, and David Z., married to Mary Ann Smiley, a farmer in the same township.

The Oak Grove Amish Menuouite Church, for which Mr. Toder has preached so long, is the first of the denomination organized in this part of the country. At first services were hekl in private houses, the present church edifice being built in 1862. It has now a membership of between 400 and 500, which is about the seating caj)acity of the audience room, which is 43x55, with two rooms attached which can be used as an addition. Sunday-school services are held every other Sunday, the alternate Sundays being devoted to the Sunday-school of Pleasant Hill Church, in the adjoining town of Milton. The services of Mr. Yoder have been very acceptable and of great benefit to the people under his spiritual charge. We are pleased to record this tribute to the worth of one whose life for many years has been spent in the service of the Master, and whose walk and conversation have ever been blameless and worthy of praise.

Christian Z. Yoder, the eldest son, was born in Mifiliu County, Penn., November 28, 1845, and was therefore in his tenth year when his parents came to Ohio. He has followed farming all his lifetime. He was married in October, 1808, to Lydia, daughter of John and Mary Smiley. She was born in Elkhart County, Ind., December 5, 184(5, and came with her parents to Wayne County in 1867. They settled on a farm adjoining Mrs. Smiley's home, and there her father died, and there her mother yet lives. Mr. and Mrs. Yoder are the parents of eight children, all yet under the parental roof. They are named John Smiley, David Amasa, Rufus Melviu, Menno Simon, Ora Christian, Mary Emma, Joseph Daniel, and an infant yet unnamed. Since the organization of the Sunday-school attached to the Oak Grove Church Mr. Yoder has been, with the exception of one term, its superintendent, and has taken a very warm interest in its affairs, and has been unceasing in his efforts for its advancement and for the religious growth of its attendants. To him much credit is due for the flourishing condition of the school. Its attendance at times is as high as 300, averaging about 250, and never, recently, has fallen as low as 200, a truly gratifying reward to all who have labored in the cause.

UGENE GROSJEAN, son of John P. and Frances Grosjean, was born in Switzerland, in 1824. His parents immigrated to America in 1883, and located in Paint Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, where they were engaged in farming. Their family consisted of ten children: Frances, Frederick, Ferdinand, Ellen, Mary, Sophia, Julia, Eugene, and two that died in infancy. Of these, Frances married Jacob So3'er, and died in Wayne County; Frederick is a resident of France; Ferdinand located in Indiana, where he died; Ellen died at the age of nineteen years; Mary married A. Flory, removed to Indiana, and is now deceased; Sophia is now Mrs. Vol Steinmetz, of Coshocton County, Ohio; Julia was the late Mrs. John Webber, of Indiana.

Eugene was reared in Wayne County, and in 1840 married Eugenie, daughter of Charles E. Grosjean. He located in Paint Township, Wayne County, where he remained until 1854, when he came to Salt Creek Township, Wayne County, and purchased a farm, which he disposed of, and in 1861 bought the property he now owns. Here he and his wife reared a family of eight children: Albert, Julia, Mary, Charles, Louis, So[)hia, Eugene A. and Ellen. Of these, Albert married Ellen, daughter of William Sauers, and is a farmer in Salt Creek Township, Wayne County, near Maysville ; Julia is now Mrs. Merian Winn, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mary is Mrs. John Mackey, of Salt Creek Township, Wayne County; Charles is at present a resident of San Francisco, Cal. ; Louis is married to Elizabeth Leper, and settled in Holmes County; Sophia died when a child of nine years of age; Eugene A. is a resident of San Francisco, Cal., and Ellen remains at home. Mr. and Mrs. Grosjean are members of the Congregational Church. In politics he is a Democrat. His life niav fairly be said to have been a success, and he is justly recognized as one of the able, representative men of the township.

j -^ Wayne County is the subject of this sketch, although yet but a young man. He was born in Wayne County, Ohio, April 3, 1851. His father, Emanuel Smyser, who was of German extraction, and spent his life as a farmer, came to Wayne County in 1832, from York County, Penn., and in 1875 he passed from eartli. He married Catherine Albert, who bore him eight children, of whom seven still live, six in Wayne County and one in Detroit, Mich. He was an active Republican, and held the offices of assessor and township trustee.

M. L. Smyser, the subject of this biographical memoir, spent his early life upon the farm until fourteen years of age, when he was sent to Wittenbei-g College, at Springfield, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1870. Returning to his native couuty, be began reading law in tbe office of Lyman E. Critcbfield, and in April, 1872, be was admitted to tbe bar at Columbus, by tbe supreme court of Ohio, and immediately opened an office in Wooster. In tbe fall of 1S72 be was elected prosecuting attorney of Wayne County; in 1873 be formed a partnership with Capt. A. S. McClure, which partnership still continues. He has always been a stanch Republican; in 1884 he was an alternate delegate to the Chicago Republican Convention; in 1888 be was sent as a regular delegate, and tbe same year received tbe nomination for Congressman in the Twentieth District, and was elected to the List Congress by 2,000 majority. In 1881 Mr. Smyser was united in marriage with Miss Alice A. France, daughter of J. B. and Amy France, and a native of Wayne County, of which her father had formerly been sheriff. She is a graduate of tbe Delaware Female College.

birth an Englishman, and came to America in 1847. The paternal grandfather also came to America, tbe grandmother having died in Europe. The father of our subject was by trade a miller, which be learned in England. Before starting to America he was wedded to Elizabeth Adams, and together they came to the New World. In 18(31, at Monroeville, Ohio, where they had settled, the father passed to bis last sleep. Of their wedded life only two children were born, John A. and Lizzie (Mrs. Durbin Metz, of Wooster, Ohio).

At fourteen years of age the subject of this biographical memoir left the common schools which he had been attending, and engaged as a clerk, in which capacity he continued four years, and then entered tbe Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where be graduated in 1871. He then became superintendent of tbe public schools at Shelby, Ohio, and remained four years, when be turned bis attention to tbe study of medicine at Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College, graduating from there in 1877. He practiced a short time in Berea, and then came in March, 1877, to Wooster, where he has since made his home. In 1884 tbe doctor was united in marriage with Anna Metz, daughter of Jacob and Susan Metz, and a native of Wooster, Ohio, where she graduated from the high school in 1870. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Dr. Gann is president of the State Medical Society and lecturer on physiology at the Cleveland Ilomoeopathic College; is a member of the Odd Fellows order, Independent Order of Red Men, Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum and Chosen Friends. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Wooster. His home is on North Market Street, where his aged mother resides with him.

IDNET J. FRYER, son of William and Elizabeth Fryer, was born in 1862, in Scott Township, Allegheny Co., Penn., where he received the chief portion of his education. His father died in 1868, and his mother in 1874, when he was but twelve years of age, leaving him heir to a fine estate, and practically the arbiter of his own destiny. There were two others in his parents' family besides himself: William, who resides on the old homestead, and Jonathan, now deceased. The grandfather, William Fryer, who was a native American, and pioneer of Western Pennsylvania, purchased the old Bower Hill farm at a very early time, and here lived until his death, which occurred in his ninetieth year. This farm was prominent as being the battle-field during the "whisky insurrection," and there is to be found an old still-house yet standing. This was heavily undermined with coal, which the subject of this sketch sold, retaining the farm. With the proceeds of the sale of coal he purchased two large farms in Clinton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, one of 137 acres, and one of 111. In 1884 he married Laura Hastings, of Holmes County, Ohio, and settled on the farm where he now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Fryer are members of the Methodist Church. Politically he is identified with the Republican party.

JLLIAM J. LANCE is a son of Henry and Elizabeth (Hoffstat- - ' ter) Lance, and was born in Milton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, December 10, 1834. Christopher Lance, his grandfather, a native of Germany, married in New Jersey, wliere Henry Lance was born, and afterward settled in Jefferson County, Ohio. In 1819 Henry and James Lance came to Wayne County, Ohio, and entered a tract of land in Milton Township, where they engaged in farming, and in connection operated a distillery. Henry Lance married for his first wife Lucy Lee, and by her had five children, three of whom are liriug: Christopher, Catherine (widow of Isaac Wekly), Jane (widow of Henry Zeigler), all in Milton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. By his second wife, nee Elizabeth HofPstatter, he had children, as follows: William J.; John and Abraham, in Milton Township, Wayne Co. ; Elizabeth, wife of Allen Walker, in Michigan, and Teressa, wife of Isaac Grossman, also in Michigan. Henry Lance died April 21, 1862.

William J. Lance, our subject, was educated in the schools of his township, and has always followed farming, having lived on his present farm in Milton Township since 1864. In 1862 he married Miss Clara M., daughter of Daniel Johnson, of Milton Township, Wayne County, and she died in ISS-l, leaving seven children, one of whom has since died. Those now living are Alfred D., married to Miss Hannah Chatman, and residing in Michigan; Edwin R., married to Sarah, daughter of Johnston Swagler, and residing in Milton Township; Medwin H., Winfred, Daniel Dewitt and Viva Mabel, all at home. Mr. Lance took for his second wife Mrs. Annie Swagler, widow of Jonathan Swagler. He has since served as constable for one year, trustee for five years, also school director, supervisor, etc. He is a member of Sterling Lodge No. 1818, Royal Arcanum, and is a trustee and deacon in the Baptist Church.

fii NTHONY WRIGHT. This re- \\ spected citizen of Wayne County -^ was born in Loudoun County, Va., June 26, 1S15. His father, also named Anthony, was of English extraction, and died in 1818, at the age of seventy-five years. He was a member of the society of Friends, or Quakers, and was married to Elizabeth Harper, also a native of Virginia, who died in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1864, aged eighty-eight years.

John Harper, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was a patriot soldier during the Revolution, and died in Virginia about the year 1828; his widow came to Wayne County, where she died about 1843.

The subject of these lines had but limited opportunities for education, and when eighteen years old was ajjprenticed to learn the trade of brick-laying. When about twenty years of age he came to Wayne County, and for a time worked in different places as a clerk. In 1850 he removed to St. Louis, where for three yeai's he was engaged in the banking business, returning to Wooster in 1853. Two years later (in 1855) he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah Walter, and a native of Berkeley County, now a part of West Virginia. When she was two years old her parents came to Wooster, where they passed the remainder of their days. Her father was a German by extraction, and was born on the high seas. Mr. and Mrs. Wright had two children, twins, one of whom died unnamed; the other, Sarah Elizabeth, is the wife of J. M. Quiuby, of Wooster. The mother of these children died in 1881, aged fiftysix j'ears.

Anthony Wright was by inheritance a slave-owner, but upon leaving Virginia set his one slave free, telling him he was a free man. The law of Virginia at that time said that any person desiring to manumit a slave must give security for his good behavior. Not being of age he could not do this, but his slave lived and died a free man, nevertheless.

Mr. Wright is in politics a Eepublican, and has been elected to various positions of trust in the county. He has been county treasurer, was mayor of the village of Wooster previous to its becoming a city, and has several times been a member of the council. He is a member of the K. of P., and for forty-two years has been prominently identified with the I. O. O. F., having held offices in that body which, taken singly, would aggregate over 100 years. He was for thirty years secretary of his lodge ; for fifteen years treasurer of the Grand Encampment of Ohio, a position he still holds, and has been representative to the Grand Lodge a number of years, besides holding other positions in the order. His success in life is solely

,ILLIAM WILSON, son of James and Jane (Fife) Wilson, natives of Allegheny County, Penn., was born on the homestead in Sugar Creek Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, January 24, 1830. His parents came to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1822, and settled on the farm now owned by their son William, which land was entered by William Wilson, the grandfather of our subject. James Wilson died in 1872, and his widow in 1874. Five children were born to this coiiple, viz. : John, who was murdered in Kansas; Isabella, who died in 1847; William; Mary, wife of John AVeaver, of Richland County, Ohio; Sarah Jane, wife of Jonah Creits, of Ashtabula, Ohio.

Of these, William, whose name heads this sketch, attended the common schools, and has always followed farming in Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County. In 1864 he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served one hundred days. In 1874 he married Miss Letitia, daughter of Jonah Fife, of Columbiana County, Ohio, and they have one child, Emerson S., residing at home. Mr. Wilson is a member of the Republican party, and has served as school director, supervisor, etc., of the township. He and his wife are members of the Dalton Presbyterian Church.

M. OHL, grocer and dealer in hardware and queeusware at Smithville, Ohio, is a native of Manchester, Summit Co., Ohio, born May 9, 1862. His grandparents on the paternal side, Henry and Susannah Ohl, came fi-om Pennsylvania to Summit County at an early day, and were among the pioneers of that county, the men and women who reclaimed the land from the wilderness and helped to place Ohio iu the proud rank she holds among the most prosperous and influential States in the Union. Henry Ohl was a resident of Summit County for more than sixty years, and died there at the age of eighty-two years; his wife, Susannah, also lived to an advanced age. With the single exception of his father all of Mr. Ohl's ancestors were long-lived people. On his maternal side his grandparents were also from Pennsylvania, and they too were of these sturdy pioneers of Summit County, where both are yet living, each being ninety years of age. They had nine children, and had lived in Manchester more than fifty years, and had celebrated their golden wedding some years before a death had occurred in their family.

The father of A. M. Ohl, and who was named Solomon, was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, August 26, 1828. After his marriage he moved to Manchester, where he lived the rest of his lifetime, dying January 19, 1869, when but forty years old. He was a carriage builder, and carried on that business in Manchester until his death. He was a man of strict religious principles, a member of the German Reformed Church, in which he was both deacon and elder. He was an honest and upright man, and had the ! respect of every one who knew him. Mrs. Ohl was born in Summit County, January, 13, 1832, and is still living iu Manchester, and is now the wife of Jacob H. Myers, of that place. The only child of Solomon and Anna Ohl was the subject of this sketch. He was but five years ohl when his father died, and he continued to live with his mother until he was twenty-one. He learned and worked at many trades. Fii'st he tried blacksmithiug, which he gave up to become a teacher of penmanship. He next tried painting in oils, and afterward house painting, then butchering, and next kept a grocery. His next venture was in keeping a dry goods store in Orrville, this county, for more than a year ; then sold out and moved to Smithville, April 1, 1888. There he has the largest and best stocked grocery and hardware store in the town, carrying a full stock of all goods in this line.

December 17, 1885, Mr. Ohl married Miss Mary J. Fike, daughter of George and Catharine Fike, of Greene Township, Wayne County. Mrs. Ohl was born in Wayne County, October 14, 1865. Mr. Ohl is an enterprising young man, of much push and energy and much versatility, who can turn his hand to almost anything and has always been successful. He bears an excellent reputation for honesty and trustworthiness as a business man and citizen.

ANIEL LANGELL is a son of Leonard and Catherine (Ehinehart) Langell, and was born July 9, 1832, on the homestead in East Union Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. Casper Langell, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of Berks County, Penn., and a settler in Columbiana County, Ohio. He came to Wayne County about 1815, and purchased a one-half section of laud, which is now occupied by the town of Apple Creek. He was an active business man, and prominent in the interest of the Lutheran Church. He gave the land and helped to erect the Presbyterian Church of which he afterward became a member. Returning to Columbiana County, he there died. Leonard, his sou, was born in Berks County, Penn., in 1800. He was brought to Columbiana County when three years of age, and came to Wayne County with his parents. He remained on the homestead for some years, but finally moved to another farm one mile southwest, where he died in 1859. In many ways he was a prominent man. He erected the first grist-mill in this portion of the county, which was afterward converted into a woolen factory. A Democrat in politics, he took an active interest in the affairs of the party. He was an elder in the Lutheran Church of Franklin Township for many years. His family consisted of five children: J. Casper was killed by a runaway team of horses in 1882; Susanna is also deceased ; Elias lives in East Union Township; Henry lives in Franklin Township; and Daniel.

The subject of these lines was reared on the farm, and followed that occupation until failure of his health, in 1864, when he moved into Apple Creek. He was troubled with asthma, and in 1867 die- covered the medicine which he has since manufactured, and is now widely known as " Lansell's Asthma and Catarrh Kemedy." December 3, 1857, he became united in marriage with Miss Margaret, daughter of Andrew Sloan, of Salt Creek Township, Wayne County. Sis children have been born to them, as follows: Leonard, who died in 1884 at the age of twenty -four; Esther, Mrs. Frank S. Logan, of Ashland County, who has two children - Leonard and Grace; Charlotte Elizabeth, William Carl, Carrie Lavenia and John Truesdale, at home. Mr. Laugell is a Democrat, and has held several township offices; at the present time he is notary public and mayor of the village of Apple Creek. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church.

F. MOWERY, M. D., was born in Chester Township, Wayne County, Ohio, in the year 1860, and is a son of David R. and Mary Ann (Churchman) Mowery, the former of whom was born January 8, 1828, also in Chester Township, Wayne County, and the latter near Wooster, November 2, 1828. They were married in 1840, and were blessed with four sons: William H., A. F., L-vin Q. and H. N. The parents of this family are still living in Chester Township, engaged in agricultural pursuits. The subject of this biography attended the Northern Ohio Normal School at Smithville, and, graduating from there entered Ada Normal School, where he studied one year, taking courses in music and literary branches. From Ada he removed to Wooster University, in 1882, where he took a general scientific course for one year, after which he entered the office of Dr. Leander Firestone, with whom he studied medicine two years. The Doctor graduated from the medical department of Wooster University, at Cleveland, Ohio, March 16, 1886, and located at Eeedsburgh. Plain Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, May 18, 1886, and has since here successfully practiced medicine and surgery. The Doctor was married, November 29, 1888, to Miss Edna L. Mowery, of Reedsburgh, Ohio. In politics he is a Democrat. He attends the services of Grace Reformed Church.

JOHN A. DYER was born in Massachusetts, October 5, 1832. In 1853 he moved to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and engaged in milling, afterward acting as agent for the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad for thirteen years, when he located at Creston, Wayne County, and embarked in the warehouse business, in which he continued until 1883. In 1882 the Creston Milling Company was organized and incorporated, with J. H. Freeman, president; W. B. Stebbins, treasurer, and John A. Dyer, secretary and general manager. The wife of Mr. Dyer was Emeline, daughter of S. S. Hastings, one of the early settlers of Medina County, Ohio. Mr. Dyer is a member of the Republican party, and was elected justice of the peace of Canaan Township, but after serving two years he resigned. He is a member of Cataract Lodge 295, 1. O. O. F., of Newburgh, Ohio, and is an elder in the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Dyer stands high in the estimation of the community in which he lives, and enjoys the confidence of the people.

manufacturer of agricultural implements, Doylestown, Ohio, was born in Northampton County, Penn., May 28, 1889, a son of John and Susan (Bauer) Miller, natives also of Northampton County, his father born November 15, 1802, and his mother born October 29, 1798. In May, 1843, his parents moved to Summit County, Ohio, and settled in

Norton Township, where his father still lives. His mother died March 7, 1886. They had a family of twelve children, eight of whom - three sons and five daughters - are still living. Samuel H. Miller was reared in Summit County, Ohio, and was given good educational advantages, attending the district schools, and later the Akron High School. He remained on the farm until twelve years of age, and then obtained employment as clerk in a dry goods store at Akron, which he followed sis years, and in 1857 returned to the farm in Norton Township, where he remained about six years. December 15, 1863, he came to Doylestown, and for two years was employed as clerk by Cline, Seiberliug & Hower, manufacturers of i-eapers and mowers. September 1, 1865, he became a member of the firm of Cline, Seiberliug & Co., which was subsequently changed to Seiberliug, Miller & Co. This is one of the largest manufacturing establishments of the kind in the county, and they employ a number of hands, and in connection with J. F. Seiberliug & Co., of Akron, Ohio, have entire control of the manufacture of the Empire mowers, reapers and self-binders, which are sold in every State in the Union. Mi*. Miller was married August 29, 1867, to Ella L. Schneider, who was born in Montgomery County, Penn., January 27, 1847, a daughter of Alfred and Clarissa (Clewell)

Schneider, both natives of Pennsylvania, her father of Montgomery County, born March 1, 1813, and her mother of Northampton County, born September 14, 1820. They moved to Norton Township, Summit Co., Ohio, in 1852, and still reside there. Of a family of seven children, six daughters are living.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller have had a family of eight children, of whom four - Alfred J., William E., Sydney L. and Lucile M. - are living. In politics Mr. Miller is a supporter of the principles of the Republican party, but is in no sense a politician or office seeker, the only public office he ever held being that of member of the Board of Education, and village treasurer. He was reared in the faith of the Lutheran Church, but is not a member of any religious denomination.

OLOMON S. FIRESTONE is a representative of one of the most prominent families of Wayne County, Ohio. His parents were David and Elizabeth (Rice) Firestone, the latter being a daughter of Christian and Charlotte (Hine) Rice. The family of David Firestone consisted of eight children, viz. : Lydia, John, Rice, David R., Simon B., Solomon S., Jacob H. and Peter C. The father was a farmer, and at his death owned a valuable farm of 130 acres, which is now the property of his youngest son, Peter C. He was a representative citizen of Wayne County, but died before his fond hopes for its future were realized, his death occurring September 25, 1851, when in the pi'ime of his vigorous manhood, being only forty-two years of age. He left a large family of children (the eldest, the only daughter, being but fifteen years old ) in care of the devoted wife, who with the love of a faithful mother cared for the children and lived to see them all arrive to the years of majority, married and comfortably located on valuable farms of their own. The wife remained a widow, and died March 24, 1884, aged seventy-three years.

Solomon S. Firestone, the subject of our sketch, is a native of Wayne County, and in the common schools of the county of his birth received his early education, supplementing it by attending the academies at Hayesville, Smithville and Fredericksburgh. For twelve years he devoted the greater part of his time to school-teaching, and, by an economical use of his earnings and with what he inherited from his parents' estate, became the owner of 130 acres of valuable land, to which he now gives his attention, and, under his skillful management, it is becoming one of the best farms in his township. Mr.

Firestone is one of the respected citizens of Chester Township, and has served a number of years as justice of the peace, although he has no aspirations for political honors. He has been a faithful servant for his fellow-townsmen, who regard him with the esteem he justly merits. He was married in 1878 to Miss Alice Mc- Fadden, daughter of William McFadden, of Chester Township. To them have been born two children, John A. and Luther Z. Mr. and Mrs. Firestone are members of the Lutheran Church. In politics he affiliates with the Democratic party.

ll If ENRY BAUM, one of the successful rpl practical farmers of Wayne Town- J) -" ship, is a native of Berks County, Penn., where he was born in 1823. He is the son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Van Reed ) Baum, who were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are living. Daniel Baiim was a farmer in Berks County, and later in life engaged in merchandising. He was pronounced an honest and vipright man by all who knew him. Henry Baum was educated in the public schools of his native county, and has followed the vocation of a farmer ever since he left his father's home. In 18-K) he was married to Elizabeth Zacharias, daughter of

Daniel Zacharias, of Pennsylvania. Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Baum, as follows: Mandilla, William, Daniel, Charles (deceased), Henry, Maberry (deceased), Emma, Kate and Mary Sarah.

Mr. Henry Baum came to Wayne County in 1863, with his wife and family, and bought 160 acres of land in Wayne Township. He has since made several additional purchases, and now owns 179 acres of land. He once owned the farm now occupied by the Children's Home of Wayne County, which he sold to the count}' commissioners. Mi'. Baum has been successful in business affairs, and is now the owner of as fine and comfortable a home as any farmer in Wayne Township. He is a member of the Reformed Church, and in politics is a Democrat. He possesses the esteem and cordial goodwill of all who know him.

Jj\ Switzerland, September 27, 1825, son of John and Elizabeth (Plucks) Saurer, who immigrated to America in 1828, being sixty days on the ocean. From New York they went to Cleveland, Ohio, and from there by wagon to Wayne County, where they located on a farm in

Sugar Creek Township, and there lived the remainder of their days. Samuel Saurer, the subject of this biographical memoir, was reared on this homestead, and was early put to hard work. His education was conducted in German, and he was unable to read or write English. In 1868 he purchased his present fine farm at Moscow, on the State road, where be has since resided. In 18i9 he married Miss Gertrude Cooper, of Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, and by this union there are four children, viz. : John, in Orrville, Ohio, married to Marj' Graber; Josephine, now Mrs. John Lugenbiihl, of Dalton, Ohio; Ella, now Mrs. George Shultz, also of Dalton, and Minnie, now Mrs. Melviu Bechtel, of Orrville, Ohio. Mrs. Saurer died April 10, 1889. Mr. Saurer and family are members of the Orrville German Reformed Church; politically he is a Democrat.

Wayne Co., Ohio, December 3, 1817. In the old log school-house, and by the old-fashioned tallow dips, his rudimentary education was received, and of such a primitive nature was it that he never saw the inside of a grammar or geography until he was seventeen years of age. As

Mr. Albert McFadden quaintly expresses himself, he was " born in a log cabin, rocked in a sugar trough, clad in linseywoolsey, and schooled in the old log schoolhouse. " He was brought up entirely to farm life, and at the age of twenty -one began for himself on the old homestead.

When twenty-six he took to himself a life partner in the person of Sarah Notestine, only daughter of Jonas and Elizabeth (Sumner) Notestine, of Canaan Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, and to this union have been born three children, Nancy, Mary and Laura, the latter now Mrs. Newton P. Garrettson, of Topeka, Kas. About 1865 Mr. McFadden moved into tlie city of Wooster with his family, in order to have his daughters educated there, and after four years they returned to the farm. In the spring of 1881 he purchased his present pleasant home near Wooster, having retired from active Life, and here in the bosom of his amiable family he has since dwelt. Mr. McFadden's success in life is due entirely to his assiduous application to work and untiring energy. When a young man he studied so closely that, in spite of the many obstacles he encountered in his efforts to obtain a good education, he made himself competent to fill the position of schoolteacher. He was Wayne County's corresponding secretary of the Ohio Centennial Celebration, a position he filled

Albert McFadden is the oldest pioneer member of the Lutheran Church at AVooster, except his wife, who became identified with it one year before he did, having joined in 1840. Politically he was originally an Abolitionist, and has since been a strong Republican, having voted for both of the Harrisons - in ISiO and 1888, respectively. He is a strong advocate of the temperance cause, though not a member of the Prohibition party. His mind has ever been as active as his body, and since passing the age of three score and ten he has learned to play the flute, not by any means the simplest of musical instruments. He was one of the organizers of the Pioneer Association, having written the first notice; was four years president of the same, and at present is corresponding secretary and treasurer. In his leisure hours Mr. McFadden has designed a genealogical tree, giving the family data for one hundred years back, by which we find that grandfather McFadden came to America in 177-1, and that our subject's parents both died on the old homestead, the father in 1849, at the age of seventy-five years, the mother April 7, 1874, when ninety-six years old; she had lived on the homestead sixty years, and for over eighty years was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

AMUEL SNYDER was born in Washington County, Md., October 9, 1820, a son of Anthony and Rebecca (Newman) Snyder, who were natives of Franklin County, Penu. They moved from Washington County, Md., in 1836 to Stark County, Ohio, thence in 1844 to Knox County, Ohio, where the father died April 10, 18(37, and the mother in March, 1875. They reared nine children, eight of whom are still living: Samuel ; Daniel, in Allen County, Ind. ; Elizabeth, unmarried, residing in Champaign County, Ohio ; Rebecca, wife of Dr. Ayres, of Horner, Knox Co., Ohio; Jonathan, in Mount Liberty, Knox Co., Ohio; David C, in Kansas City, Mo.; and William B. and Franklin, in Knox County, Ohio.

Of these, Samuel was reared on the farm and attended the district schools of Stark County, Ohio. At an early ago he learned the trade of a carriage maker, which occupation he has since followed. He has lived in West Lebanon since 1838, and in 1842 he established his present carriage manufacturing business. In 1841 Mr. Snyder married Miss Catherine, daughter of Robert Thompson, of Stark County, Ohio, and six children have been born to them, viz. : William H., of Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County; Mary R., deceased wife of Eli Bradeu; Martha Jane and Francis, at home; Sarah E., wife of Lewis Brenner, of Brookfield, Ohio; and Letitia C, wife of Jacob Eby, in Michigan. Mr. Snyder has always voted the Democratic ticket, and has served his township as school director for several years, and as justice of the peace since 1864.

ffOHN W. McVICKEK was born K I February 2, 1816, in Bedford County, ^^ Penn., a son of David and Eve (Wortze) McVicker, former of whom was a native of Bedford County, Penn., and died in his sixty-first year; latter died at the age of seventy-four years, eleven months and twenty-two days, and is buried in the old cemetery grounds near Congress Village, in Wayne County, Ohio. John W., their son, can truthfully be classed among the old settlers of Wayne County, coming here as he did with his widowed mother October 14, 1832. They first resided in Chester Township, but in the following spring moved onto a farm near Congress Village, in Congress Township, where was quite a settlement of pioneers living in the primitive log cabins of the times, and enduring all the hardships and privations incidental to early life in the then comparative wilderness. At that time nearly all the land subject to entry had been taken up, but large quantities of school land were still in the market. Here in the vicinity of Congress our subject grew to manhood, working: on the farm throughout the year, with the exception of two or three months' schooling in winter time. September 18, 1838, he was married to Miss Catherine Garver, daughter of David Garver, who beyond doubt was one of the first settlers of Wayne County, and in 1815 one of the pioneers of Congress Township. To Mr. and Mrs. McVicker were born the following-named children: Martha Jane, born May 9, 1839, died November 4, 1875; Sarah, born June 6,

1841, now the wife of Thomas Henderson, an old soldier and industrious blacksmith, living in West Salem, Ohio; Jasper, born January 16, 1842, married, and living foiir miles south of West Salem on a farm; Marion, born September 12, 1844, died August 4, 1845; Elizabeth Ann, born January 15, 1846, now the wife of Barton Ginter, and living on the old homestead, five miles south of West Salem, in Congress Township; William C, born March 27, 1847, died March 28, 1876; Catherine, born November 14, 1848, now the wife of William Rumbaugh, also living near West Salem; John, twin brother of Catherine, died September 19, 1858; Mary Ann, born March 17, 1851, died May 16, 1873; Lydia, born March 16, 1853, died July i, 1873 ; Jesse, born April 1, 1855, is married, and living on a farm in Medina County, Ohio; Harmon, born November 7, 1856, is married, and is at present the courteous and popular landlord of the McVicker Hotel, in "West Salem (they had four children that died in infancy). Thus is to be found a large family reared and cared for, clothed and educated, and now industrious and useful citizens, all living in the immediate neighborhood of where they were born and brought up. The mother of this family died September 18, 1858, and in the fall of 1877 Mr. McVicker married Lavina Bitzer Lemon, a native of Lancaster County, Penn., born April 9, 1811, and who came to Ohio with her parents in 1836. She died January 20, 1887, in her seventy-sixth year.

Mr. John W. McVicker has by his frugality, industry and good management accumulated a handsome competency, and he is now owner of 500 acres of land, highly cultivated and well improved. For twenty years he was identified with the business interests of West Salem, and successfully conducted the hotel business of the place, erecting for that purpose a commodious and excellently appointed building, costing upward of $5,000. Although retired from active life, Mr. McVicker is not an idler, and he seems to retain all the keen vigor of his youth in business affairs, taking a deep interest in politics and the general topics of the day. He is a veterinary surgeon of excellent ability, and has successfully practiced since 1853, having performed many surgical operations of a very difficult nature; has never failed in removing tumor, curing ringbone or removing spavin. He is proprietor and manufacturer of the Green Mountain Liniment.

dfOHN VAN NOSTEAN. Among the most widely known and highly es- - ' teemed citizens of Wayne County ranks the subject of this sketch. He was born upon a farm in Wayne County, Ohio, September 14, 1847, and continued as a farmer boy until about twenty years of age, receiving the advantages of the common country schools until about nineteen, when for two summers he attended the academy at Smithville, Wayne County. The winters he spent in teaching, while fall and spring found him laboring by the month on the farm. In 1871 he determined to turn his attention to the study of law, in which direction, he felt, lay the field of his usefulness. Accordingly he entered the office of L. R. Critchfield, and for one year studiously applied himself to his choseu work. But the path of a poor young lawyer is not strewn with roses, and, feeling himself financially in need of a change, he, in 1873, formed a partnership, under the name of Bowman & Van Nostran, in the insurance business in Wooster. This he continued until January 1, 1876, when he entered the county clerk's office as deputy clerk, and there remained until October, 1880, when he was elected clerk of the courts, to which, for efficient services, he was re-elected in 1883, retiring from said office in 1887. On October 20, 1880, he left the state of single blessedness and became one of the vast army of benedicts by marrying Miss Linda M. Atkins, daughter of David Atkins and a native of Wooster, Ohio, where her life has all been spent and where her parents still reside. Two children have come to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Van Nostran, viz. : Lillian Kuth, born December 20, 1881, and Ethel, born July 20, 1885. Politically Mr. Van Nostran is an active worker iu the Democratic ranks, and has displayed such marked ability that lie has been chosen repeatedly to represent his party; for three years he has been chairman of the County Democratic Committee ; is also a member of the State Central Democratic Committee for the Twentieth Senatorial District. In the city council of the spring and summer of 1884 he was an active worker, ever firmly standing for his convictions, and often fighting against overpowering opposition. His popularity was shown by his re-election, in the spring of 1888, as a member I for the third term by the largest majority he had as yet received. He still continues a member of that honorable body, and doubtless will be therein retained as long as his ward needs an earnest and reliable representative. Mr. Van Nostran is a member of the Royal Arcanum, Knights of Honor and the Improved Order of Red Men. In the latter order he ranks as past great sachem of Ohio.

df P. VAN NEST. Success in any of the pursuits of life usually cbal- "-' lenges the world's admiration. It was the motto of the first Bonaparte that " nothing succeeds like success." It matters not whether in the profession of law or medicine, or in the theological domain, in the military or civil life, or mercantile pursuits, it is the one distinguishing and distinctive characteristic of all business transactions, and which, above all things, the world emphatically recognizes. The subject of this biography, while not a member of any of the acknowledged professions, has, nevertheless, in his sphere of labor and activity distinguished himself as an active, energetic business man.

J. P. Van Nest, the subject of these lines, was born in Rowsburg, Asliland Co., Ohio, August 6. 1841. His father, John Van Nest, who is living to-day, was one of the early settlers in that section of Northern Ohio; has held many offices of public responsibility and trust, and is highly esteemed by all who know iiim for his business capacity, integrity, honesty and sound judgment. His son received the benefits of the ordinary country and village school education, of which facilities he availed himself, and these, combined with the practical supervisory tutorage of his father, developed him into a methodical, intelligent, successful man of business. His grandfather, John Van Nest, died in Millbrook, Ohio, in the fall of 1862, at the age of eighty-seven years, and is buried at Moorland, Wayne County ; his wife, the grandmother of our subject, died at Tiffin, Seneca Co., Ohio, when seventy-five years old. The subject of this sketch was married October 3, 1861, to Miss Mary E. Gardner, of his native village, a lady of fine accomplishments, who bore him eight children, seven of whom are yet living, all at home except three. August 22, 1862, Mr. Van Nest, disregarding the Mosaic prerogative of one year's exclusion from military service, after the union of wedlock, enlisted as a private in Company F, One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was soon thereafter promoted to orderly sergeant, and soon after the consolidation of the One Hundred and Twentieth and One Hundred and Fourteenth Ohio Regiments, November 27, 1864, was commissioned second lieutenant of Company D, and was with his regiments in all the vicissitudes of their numerous campaigns - during the long and perilous siege at Vicksburg, participating in the battles of Arkansas Post, Thompson's Hills, the storming of Fort Blakely, opposite the City of Mobile, etc., etc.

After his return from the army, in the summer of 1865, he engaged in the general insurance business, which vocation he persistently and lucratively pursues. During this period he has traveled about eleven years as special agent for two prominent fire insurance companies, and was recognized as one of the most courteous, industrious and efficient agents on the road. Having bestowed upon the siibject the proper reflection and consideration, and having the fullest faith in the purity of the objects and beneficent results of all well-ordered secret societies, in the autumn of 1870 he resolved to identify himself in membership with some standard organization, which he did in that year by uniting with Ashland Lodge, No. 151, F. & A. M., located at Ashland, Ohio. Upon his removal to Wooster, Ohio, he united with Ebenezer Lodge, No. 33, F. & A. M., and also joined Wooster Chapter, No. 27, E. A. M., Wooster Council, No. 13, R. & S. M., all of Wooster, Ohio, and Wooster Commaudery, No. - , Knights Templar, also of Wooster, Ohio, of all of which he is an active member. In September, 1877, he became a member of Irene Lodge, No. 64, K. of H., and soon thereafter united with Wayne Council, No. 13, Royal Arcanum, as a charter member. He occupied the chairs of regent and past regent, and was elected a representative to the Grand Council meeting held in Columbus, Ohio, in March, 1879. In 1879 he became a charter member of Ohio Council, No. 1, Order of Chosen Friends, located in Wooster, Ohio, and has the distinguished honor of being the first Chosen Friend in the State of Ohio. He has been a member of the Supreme Council ever since its organization, and at each session has been placed upon its most important committees, those of laws and supervision and finance and accounts. He has held the positions of supreme trustee two years, svipreme warden two years, and supreme marshal six years, which position he still holds.

March 28, 1881, he was commissioned a deputy supreme justice, and on the evening of May 8, 1881, organized Local Branch No. 2 of that order in Wooster, with seventy-five charter members. He was also a member of the Supreme Sitting for a period of six years, during which time he held the offices of supreme watchman and chairman of the Board of Supreme Trustees. In September, 1881, he assisted in organizing Given Post, No. 183. G. A. R., of Wooster, Ohio, and was elected past post commander, and represented the post at the Department Encampment held in Cincinnati, Ohio, January 17 and 18, 1882. In the spring of 1879 he was chosen a member of the city council of Wooster, Ohio, for two years, and in 1881 was re-elected for a corresponding period, when he was unanimously elected president of the council, the duties of which responsible position he discharged with executive and parliamentary ability and skill. He served as chairman of the fire and finance committees and several others of commensurate importance. His present and permanent home is Wooster, Ohio, whither he removed in 1874. In politics he is a Democrat of the Jacksonian stripe, and has always taken an interest in all the campaigns since he has been a voter.

society man, a worthy, honorable and intelligent member of many of the most noble orders of the country, possessing the confidence to that extent of their bestowal of honors and dignities upon him, but a man of public enterprise, comprehensive and liberal views, exemplifying character, position and influence in the great, jostling thoroughfare of the world.

dfOHN B. ODELL. Lorenzo D. Odell was born in Adams County, Ohio, - October 29, 1810. His father removing to Wayne County the ensuing year, he became a citizen of the county in infancy. The earlier years of his life were spent upon the farm and assisting his father in the mill. His opportunities for procuring an education were of a limited character, consisting chiefly in selfinstruction in spare hours. When quite a boy he visited Michigan, and became associated with the corps of surveyors who were running off government lands, and with them he remained a period of six months. After his return, in the fall of 1829, he began teaching, an occupation he continued until 1832, and in 1833 he purchased a part of his father's farm, where he devoted himself to agriculture and surveying. Mr. Odell was justice of the peace in 1836, and held the position for twelve yeai's, being elected the last two terms without opposition. He acted in the capacity of county surveyor from 1847 to 1850, and was elected to the Leerislature of the State of Ohio from Wayne County, serving in that honorable body two terms, from January 7, 1856, to January 2, 18*30. He took an active part in the construction of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Eailroad, and was instrumental in procuring the station at Big Prairie. Mr. Odell had been a member of the Baptist Church since 1841. He was married July 12, 1832, to Annie Gibbon, of Lycoming County, Penn., by whom he became the father of five children: Ophelia, deceased wife of Robert C. Jones, of Shreve; Tobias G., who married Martha J. Bell, and they are now residents of Lakeville, Holmes Co., Ohio; Therrissa; Pemptos R., who married Mary Haslen (now deceased), and is now a resident of Richmond, lud. ; and John B., whose name heads this sketch. The father died April 6, 1883.

John B. Odell was reared and educated in the schools of the county, and has assumed general management of business affairs since the decease of his father, occupying the old homestead. He has been justice of the peace for tlie last twelve years, and is engaged in agricultui'al pursuits. Mr. Odell is a member of

K. GRIFFITH, banker and miller, Orrville, Ohio, comes of Welsh ancestors on liis father's side, who immigrated to America at an early day, settling in York County, Penn., where the family lived for several generations. His grandfather, Joseph Griffith, was born in that county, living all of his lifetime on his birthplace, dying at the age of eightyseven. He was a Quaker in religion. There his son. Mode, father of O. K., was born in 1805. He learned the trade of a plasterer, which became his lifelong occupation. He lived in his native county until 1839, when he removed to Indiana County, Pean., remaining there four years, when he went to Boiling Springs, Cumberland Co., Penn., where he and his wife both died, he at the age of seventyseven, and she aged sixty-two. Mr. Griffith was an industrious man, of a remarkably upright and conscientious character, who regarded a promise as sacred; outspoken in the expression of his opinions; an ardent advocate of protective tariff, and an Abolitionist, when to be one was to be unpopular, and an agent for the " underground railroad," who often helped runaway slaves. He was married in 1830 to Eliza Kaufman, a native of Boiling Springs, of a well-known family. One of her brothers, D. S. Kaufman, was for many years a Congressman from Texas, elected several times without opposition; another, Abram Kaufman, was a prominent minister of the Episcopal Church of Charleston, S. C, who was honored at his death by interment in the body of the church. Mode and Eliza Griffith were parents of ten children: D. S., who is now living in Colorado; William C, A. K. and Levi, in Lincoln, Neb.; O. K., our subject, and Jennie, at Boiling Springs, Penn. ; four are deceased, viz. : Harriet, Benjamin, Joseph and an infant.

O. K. Griffith, the subject of this sketch, was born at Dillstown, York Co., Penn., April 28, 1831. Through the influence of his uncle from Texas, he secured a clerkship in the United States Treasury Department, which he held until a change of administration threw him out. He then stayed at home for awhile, and in 1853 came to Wayne County, where he had several acquaintances. Here for three years he worked at plastering in summer and taught school in winter, and in the winter of 1856-57 taught in Illinois, going to Kansas the following spi-ing, and taking up some land there. In 1858 he returned to Wayne County, and getting married bouglit some timber land between Wooster and Smithville, wliicli he cleared. On this place he lived \intil 1878, when he removed to Smithville, where he stayed for a year and a half. In October, 1874, he removed to Orrville and bought the Orrville Mill, iu co-partnership with John Willamau. This firm existed until 1880, when new partners were taken into the concern, and the name changed to the Orrville Milling Company. Great improvements were at once begun, a fine new mill being built while the old one was running, and when the new mill was running the old one was moved into it. To-day the mill runs night and day, except Sundays, and has a daily capacity of 500 barrels. The mill is operated solely by Mr. GriflSth, its product being all engaged beforehand, the flour having a high reputation. This result is due to its being located in a firstclass wheat-raising section ; to their having their own warehouses, and being able to select their wheat, and iu an eminent degree to the able and careful management of Mr. Griffith. In addition to his milling business Mr. Griffith is engaged in banking, being president of the Orrville Banking Company, started by him and some other gentlemen, and of which he was and is the leading spirit. This is an individual liability bank, the stockholders each being responsible to the full amount of their property, giving ample security to customers. During the War of the Kebelliou Mr. Griffith enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteers.

Mr. Griffith has been twice married; first in March, 1858, to Miss Jane Wasson, daughter of David aud Margaret (Beale) Wasson, old settlers of Wayne Township, in this county, where she was born in 1836. To this union five children were born: Frank, who is married to Eva Blackmore, of Orrville, and is living on a large farm in Colorado, owned by his father; Mary and John, living with their father; Charles, who died in 1883, aged niueteen, and Alice, who died in childhood. The mother of this family died December 3, 1870. She was a woman of a rare Christian character, truly pious, a member of the Presbyterian Church. A faithful wife and devoted mother, her loss was sincerely mourned by her bereaved husband and children.

In March, 1874, Mr. Griffith was married to Mary, daughter of John and Nancy Heinemau, of Wooster. She was born in Wayne County. The issue of this union was two children, one of whom, Edwin Fay, died iu childhood; the other, Grace, is now (1888) eleven years of age. Mr. Griffith has never been an aspirant for public office, but was once elected justice of the peace, which office he gladly got rid of by removing from the township. He is a member of the G. A. R., of the Knights of Honor, and of the I. O. O. F. In politics he is a Republican, and a protective tariff man. A straightforward, enterprising and stirring man, Mr. Griffith is an important factor in the growth and prosperity of Orrville, and a central figure in the business circles. He is known as a thoroughly upright man and a valuable citizen.

CHRISTIAN M. BALMER is of German and Swiss extraction. His grandfather, Jacob Balmer, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., December 4, 1771. Late in life he I'emoved to Cumberland County, Penn., where he died in 1836. His wife was Elizabeth Hanck, born in Lancaster County, November 23, 1780, and died in Cumberland County in 1865. Her father had emigrated from Switzerland at a very early day. They were the parents of eleven children, three of whom are now living: Samuel, in Daxiphin County, Peun. ; Lydia, wife of Daniel Graybill, of Akron, 'Ohio; and Levi, in Wood County, Ohio. Those deceased were named George, Jacob, Andrew, Christian, Susan, John, Elizabeth and Daniel.

The father of Christian M. Balmer was also named Christian, and was born in Lancaster County, Penn., May 28, 180-4, and was eight years old when his parents removed to Cumberland County. There he lived with his parents until his marriage, at the age of twenty -seven, when he moved to Shiremanstown, in the same county, working at his trade of carriage making until 1851, when he immigrated to Smithville, Ohio, where for a short time he worked at his trade, removing in the spring of 1852 to the farm where our subject now lives, which he previously purchased, and which comprised 183 acres. Here he lived until the marriage of Christian M., when he retired and removed to Smithville, where he died July 5, 1884. While living in Shiremanstown Mr. Balmer was licensed to preach, in 1844, by the Quarterly Conference of the United Brethren Church, and later joined the Annual Conference, by which he was also licensed. He preached for that church until the separation of the German and English branches in Ohio, when he united with the River Brethren, and preached for them until bis death, his last sermon being delivered but two weeks before his demise, thus devoting the greater part of his life to the service of his Master. He was a man of truly religious principles, and lived up to all his professions ; was scru- pulously honest in all his dealings, cautious in his conversation, never speakincf aught to the detriment of his neighbors, and much respected by all who knew him. He was married in September, 1833, to Annie, daughter of Christian and Barbara Musser, of York County, Penn., where she was born May 5, 1811. Her parents were old residents of that part of Pennsylvania, and the family is very numerous there yet. She died on the Wayne County farm, March 24, 1867. They had eight children: Christian M. was the first born; Elizabeth, who was twice married, is now wife of Gottlieb Bitser, and lives in Huron County, Ohio; Susan, widow of Joseph Musser, lives in Cleveland, Ohio; Annie, also twice wedded, is wife of Cyrus Stratton, of this county; Barbara died unmarried iu March, 1805; Mary is wife of Daniel Stauffer, and lives in St. Joseph County, Mich. ; Sarah Catherine is wife of Daniel Davidson, of Canaan Township, this county; and Esther S. is wife of W. S. Sage, of Huron County, Ohio, and she and her husband are both missionaries at Kotafunk, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Christian M. Balmer was born near Shiremanstown, Penn., October 5, 1834-, and was in his seventeenth year when the family came to Ohio. He had helped his father in the shop during his boyhood, but on the removal to the farm he became a farmer, and has followed that occupation ever since. He was married May 9, 1880, to Miss Matilda Oyler, daughter of John P. and Mary (Miller) Oyler. She was born in Lawrence Township, Stark Co., Ohio, June 17, 1852. Her parents were Pennsylvanians, the father born in Franklin County and the mother in Lancaster County. The mother died iu April, 1888, and the father is now living in Canal Fulton, Stark County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Balmer have one child, Mary Etta. Christian M. Balmer and wife are members of the United Brethren Church, in which he has been a class leader, and he also holds a license as an exhorter in that denomination. He has the reputation of a strictly upright man, possessing many of the good traits of character of his estimable father, and rightly is held in esteem by his fellow-citizens.

1 B. PINKERTON, superintendent i^ I of the Wayne County Children's ^^ Home, comes from a family whose name was known in America as early as the year 1700. Near that date eleven brothers, natives of the north of Scotland, left the land of their birth and settled in different parts of this country, and it is a known fact that all of this name now liv- iug in the United States are descendants o£ these pioneers. Benjamin Pinkerton, great-grandfather of our subject, was born in Franklin County, Penn., and was married to Catherine Hansel. Jacob, an only child, was born to this couple, and at the early age of nine was left an orphan by the death of both of his parents. When he was ten years old he was taken to Lancaster County, Penn., by relatives of his mother, and there grew to manhood. He followed farming and distilling in that county until 1837. In 1816 he had passed through the State of Ohio, and, being much attracted thereby, in 1837 settled in East Union Township, Wayne County. He was married to Elizabeth Stauffer, who became the mother of three children, their names being Reuben, Rudolph and Elizabeth. When he arrived in Wayne County Mr. Pinkerton purchased a farm, where he resided until his death, in 1881. Reuben, the eldest of the children, was born in 1816, and is now a resident of East Union Township. He was married to Susanna Brenner, daughter of Adam Brenner. Eight children were born to this union, of whom but four are now living: J. B., Elizabeth (Mrs. Hoffman), Delilah (Mrs. Liphart) and Catherine (the latter at home).

J. B. Pinkerton, our subject, the only son of Reuben and Susanna (Brenner) Pinkerton, was born in Lancaster County, Penn., and was six weeks old when his parents immigrated to Ohio. He was educated in the academy of Edinburgh and Fredei'icksburgh, and at Mount Union College, Ohio. He has made school-teaching and farming the businesses of his life. In 1862 Mr. Pinkerton enlisted in the One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Infantry, and was a soldier until the close of the war, in 1865. In the latter year he was married to Miss Rachel B. Carey, daughter of Stephen Carey, of Salt Creek Township, Wayne County. Three children have been born of this union, as follows: Penola, now living, and William and Emma, deceased. In 1882 Mr. Pinkerton was appointed superintendent of the Wayne County Children's Home, which position he now holds. He is a courteous gentleman, reliable, and highly respected by all who know him. Mr. Pinkerton's family are members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a Republican.

EO. H. KEPPEL was born in Chester County, Penn., July 11, 1845. His parents, who are still living in Chester County, Penn., are John and Barliara (Weaver) Keppel. Geo. H. was reared on the homestead farm, attending the district schools, and when eighteen years old left home, and learned the car- I^enter's trade in Philadelphia, where he remained six years. In 1868 he came to Wayne County, Ohio, and worked at his trade in Wooster for about one year, then moved to New Pittsbui"gh, where he lived until 1875, iu which year lie moved to Apple Creek and established his present warehouse business. In 1875 Mr. Keppel was united in marriage with Miss Selaca E., daughter of Philip Spotts, of Keedsburgh. Mi\ Keppel is a prominent member of the Democratic party. In 1887 he was elected the first mayor of the village of Apple Creek, and is also a notary public. He is a member of Ebenezer Lodge, No. 33, F. & A. M., of Wooster, and Wooster Chapter No. 27, E. A. M., also a charter member of Apple Creek Lodge No. ()7-t, I. O. O. F.

,ANIEL C. MARTIN was born in Ximberland County, Peun., April 1826, and died May 3, 1889. He was a son of David and Elizabeth (Coble) Martin, the former of whom was born in Lancaster County, Penn., iu 1795. The parents were married in February 1819, and had a family of six sous and three daughters, as follows: Sons - John,

Jacob and Levi, who died iu infancy; Daniel C, our subject; David, who now lives in Stockton, Kas., and Abraham, who died in the Union army during the war of the Eebellion. Daughters - Martha, who married John Irwin, now living in Dalton, Ohio ; Elizabeth, who married David Miller, now living in Kansas, and Mary, who died in infancy. David Martin, the father of this family, moved from Cumberland County, Penn., to Wayne County, Ohio,in 1832, when Daniel C. was a six-year-old boy.

The subject of this biographical memoir attended the public schools in Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, but when nineteen years of age he was disabled by hip disease. He then taught school for two years, and afterward entered mercantile business at Reedsburgh, Plain Township, Wayne County, continuing in the same six years, during which time he read and practiced law, being admitted to the bar of Wayne County in 1857. In 1853 Mr. Martin was elected a justice of the peace, which office he held three years; was also appointed notary public, holding that office at the time of his death. For ten years from 1876 Mr. Martin was a licensed minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. February 20, 1849, he was married to Cordelia Goudy, of Dalton, Ohio, who bore him four children, viz. : Clara, who married W. R.

McClellan, and now living in Urbana, Ohio; John, who married Isabella, daughof Jacob Hess, living in Reedsburgh, Wayne County ; Ida, who mai-ried George W. Obenour, of Plain Township, Wayne County, and Flora, who died when three years of age. The mother of this family died in 1865, and in February, 1884, Mr. Martin married Julia Fornshell, of Wooster, Ohio.

TAMES F. BRITON, son of Robert k, I and Margaret (Finley) Briton, both ^^ natives of Ireland, former from near Londonderry, was born on " Deer Lick Farm," in Congress Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, November 7, 1826. Robert Briton immigrated to America in 1824, located in Congress Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, and leased a farm on Section 9. He died February 14, 1827, and his widow then returned to her father's family, also residents of Congress Township, where she died March 2, 1874, at the age of seventy-four years.

James F., their son, received a common-school education, and at the early aee of sixteen commenced school -teaching, which profession he followed successfully for some time. In 1850 he made an overland journey to California, taking ninety-five days to reach Sacramento, arriving there July 24, that year. Locating in Campo Seco, Township No. 4, in Calaveras County, Cal., lie remained there nine years, engaged in mining. Here he was elected a justice of the peace, and was foreign tax collector, and afterward he served as deputy sheriff. From California Mr. Briton moved, in 1859, to Chili, South America, where he was engaged in railroad building, remaining for a period of fifteen years. Then, after an absence of twenty-four years, in which he met with varied success, he returned to his old home in Wayne County.

Mr. Briton was united in marriage in 1874 with Miss Asenath Stanley, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Stanley, who were among the early pioneer settlers of Wayne County. Our subject and wife have two sons, Ernest A. and Charles G., and are comfortably surrounded with all home comforts in their residence at Deer Lick Farm. It may be mentioned that upon the breaking out of the war between Peru and Bolivia against Chili he returned to his old home in the latter country. This was in 1879. His sympathies were very naturally with the Chilian people and government. He remained there three years. During a term of thirteen months he was a successful manager of " The Guano Loading Com- pany," of P. A. McKellar <fe Co., of Valparaiso, Chili. This was ou the coast of Peru. Mr. McKellar fi-ecjuently acts as American cousul, anil is a gentleman of wealth and character. Politically he is a Republican.

n\ NICHOLAS RUEGSEGGER was I \J born in Switzerland, May 1(5, 1834, JJ ^ son of Nicholas Ruegsegger, who was born in 1785, at Rothenbach, Canton Bern, Switzerland, and married Elizabeth Forni,who died in 1831, leaving the following-named children: John, in Stark County, Ohio; Christian; Samuel, ill Stark County; Frederick; Ulrich, in Paint Township ; Annie ; Elizabeth, widow of Daniel Olmstead, of Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Bai-bara, widow of Jacob Olmstead, of Tuscarawas County, Ohio; Susanna, wife of Christian Blasser, of Paint Township; Magdalene, and Margaret, wife of Joseph Krespach, of Paint Township. Christian, Frederick, Annie and Magdalene are now deceased. For his second wife Mr. Ruegsegger married Barbara Berger, by whom he had the following-named children: Nicholas, in Paint Township; Mary, deceased, and Rosana, wife of Alex. Meyers, of Isabella County, Mich. In 1835 the father.

with his large family of wife and twelve children, eleven by first marriage and one by second, immigrated to America, locating first in Stark County, Ohio, for six months, then settling in Paint Township, Wayne County. They were prominent members of the German Reformed Church. The father died in 1860, and the mother in 1870.

Nicholas Ruegsegger, whose name heads this sketch, came to Wayne County with his parents when a mere child, and was reared on the homestead, attending the township schools. He has always remained ou the homestead, and followed farming. In 1861 he married Miss Lena, daughter of Samuel Graber, of Paint Township, Wayne County, and they have six children, as follows: Lucy Ann, wife of John J. AVefler, of Stark County, Ohio ; Aaron W. ; Clara R. ; Ida L. ; Elma L. and Cleveland AVilson. Nicholas Ruegsegger is a prominent Democrat, and has held the offices of trustee, supervisor, clerk of the school board, etc. He is an elder in and trustee of the German Reformed Church, and one of the building committee of the new church at Mt. Eaton.

Ulrich Ruegsegger, his brother, was born in Switzerland, June 19, 1828. In 1857 he married Catherine, daughter of Jacob Intermill, of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and they have seven children living:

Fi'ank, a telegraph operator at Dalton ; All>ert, in Colorado ; Charles ; Daniel ; Mary, wife of Frederick Frederick, of Stark County, Ohio; Callie and Ella. Mr. Ruegsegger is an elder in the German Reformed Church.

i,R. G. W. LITTELL is a son of William and Cynthia (Smith) Littell, of Beaver County, Penn., where he was born August 19, 1840. He came to Wayne County in 1857, and located at Jackson. Our subject was educated at the township schools of his native place and the Canaan Academy in Wayne County. He read medicine with Dr. J. H. Ruggles, of Creston, and graduated from the medical department of Wooster University in 1874. The Doctor practiced his profession at Creston about two years, and then established a drug store, which he conducted until 1886, and then for a time he was engaged in farming; he is now in the furniture and undertaking business.

In 1868 he married MattieE., daughter of Robert and Mary Lusk, of Canaan Township, and they have two children, as follows: Miss Eva E., attending Wooster University, and Robert Willis, at home. In 1861 Dr. Littell enlisted in Company

K, Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served as fife-major until 1864. He was postmaster at Creston from 1880 until 1885. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Chui'ch and leader of the choir. He is a member of Arthur Stronsr Post, No. 170, G. A. R.

d I AMES H. SEIBERLING was born in Norton Township, Summit Co., '~~^ Ohio, November 25, 18535, and is a son of Nathan and Catherine (Peter) Seiberling, natives of Lehigh County, Penn., and pioneers of Norton Township, Summit Co., Ohio, where the father, with the assistance of his sons, cleared and improved a farm, on which he still resides. Their family consisted of thirteen children (eleven of whom grew to maturity) : Kittie A. (Mrs. Paul Wall), John F., James H. (our subject), Sarah (Mrs. Jacob Harter), Monroe, Mary (Mrs. Jonas Beavy), Eliza (Mrs. Sherman Baughman), Franklin, Charles, Septimus, Columbus, Milton and Gustavus. Subject's paternal grandfather was John F. Seiberling, a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent, whose grandfather was one of the early pioneers of Pennsylvania.

ship and county in Ohio, and assisted his father in clearing up tlie homestead, carrying on the farm and operating a sawmill, and became himself operator of the mill, which he successfully conducted for five years. In the fall of 1863 he located in Doylestown, Wayne Co., Ohio, and was one of tlie hands in the shops of Cline, Seiberling & Co.. two years. In 1865 he purchased an interest in the business, which was established by the above firm in 1860, and which, since 1865, has been carried on under the name of Seiberling, Miller & Co., Mr. Seiberling assuming the superintending of the works. The firm makes a specialty of reapers, mowers and binders, and their establishment is the leading manufacturing industry in Wayne County, and a valuable acquisition to the business interests of Doylestown, to which the town is largely indebted for its present prosperity.

In 1860 Mr. Seiberling married Elizabeth, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Blocher) Baughman, of Norton, Ohio, and by her had six children, as follows: Allen B. (deceased), Mattie J., Albert F., Olive M. (deceased), Robert W., and George W. (deceased). Mi-. Seiberling is one of the most prominent and enterprising citizens of Doylestown, and has always taken an active part in public aifairs whicJi tend to promote the Avelfare of the town. He is a member of the Odd Fellows order. Politically he has always been an ardent Republican. He is an active member of the Lutheran Church.

one of the well-known and prosperous physicians of Wooster, Ohio, was born in Flemington, N. J., December 8, 1838, of English and Dutch extraction. He is a son of Amos V. and Susan Hunt, former of whom died July 81, 1884, latter October 12. 1881. Obediah Hunt, the maternal great-grandfather of our subject, was a commissary in the War of the Revolution ; the maternal grandmother died in New Jersey, at the age of one hundred and one years. The subject of this biographical memoir was educated at the high school of his native town, and studied medicine in the office of Dr. T. H. Baker, of Wooster, Ohio, at the University of Buffalo and at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., graduating in 1862. He first located at Wooster, Ohio, where, in 1863, he entered the service of the United States Army, having been commissioned assistant surgeon of the Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. At Mount Sterling, Ky., June 8, 186i, the Doctor was taken prisoner by John Morgan, but released tbe following day. He was with Stoneman and Burbridge in the East Tennessee and West Virginia raids; was present at the attack on Saltville, W. Va., and volunteered to remain with the wounded; was taken prisoner and taken to Libby prison. The doctor was honorably discharged from the army March 28, 1865, and transferred by special order of the War Department of date March 20, 1865, to the United States Navy, as acting assistant surgeon; then was ordered to the United States steamer " Mound City " under Rear Admiral S. P. Lee, of the Mississippi squadron. Resigning August 18, 1865, he received his dischai-ge from the uavy in August, 1865. He then located at Fort Wayne, Ind., and entered into partnership with Dr. Wood worth in the practice of medicine. In 1866 he removed to Blachleyville, Wayne Co., Ohio. In 1874 he renewed his partnership with Dr. Wood worth, of Fort Wayne, where he resided two years. In the organization of the Fort Wayne Medical College the Doctor was appointed adjunct professor of the theory and practice of medicine. After spending one winter in Tampa, Fla., he returned to Wayne County, Ohio, locating in Shreve in 1877, and finally in Wooster in 1879.

bless their union, named, respectively, ; Anna E. and Ethel, both at present at home. The pleasant home of this highly respected family was purchased by the Doctor on his finally settling in Wooster in 1879. He is a member of the K. of H., R. A., G. A. R. and K. O. T. M. Politically tbe doctor is a Republican. He is a member of the Disciples Church.

T 1i ARRY McCLARREN. Prominent \^^ among the highly esteemed citizens Jj -^ of Wayne County is Mr. Harry McClarren, who in his social and public life has proven himself in all respects worthy of the good name he bears. He was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., in the year 1840, and his early life was one common to boys brought up on the farm, his education being obtained at the common schools of those early days. He is a son of James and Jane ( Curry ) McClarren, former of whom died in Wooster, Ohio, in 1883, at the advanced age of seventy-eight years. He had made Wooster his home since 1855; his widow, now in her eightieth year, is calmly awaiting the final summons to tbe great reunion.

a clerk in a grocery store in Wooster, Ohio, thus continuing for three years, and then went to Pittsburgh, Peun., where he completed a business course at the Iron City Business College, receiving his diploma in 1800. He then returned to Wooster and engaged for a time in the hai-dware trade with E. K. Donnelly. April 17, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, a company known as " Col. Bayley's Compajiy," and went at once to the front, in time to participate in one of the first battles of the war, at Phillippi, W. Va. On the 8th of August, 1861, his term of enlistment having expired, he was discharged and returned to Wooster. October 5, the same year, he re-enlisted in Company H, Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was appointed second sergeant. He served his country until his discharge, October 31, 1864. At Chickasaw Bayou he was wounded by a piece of shell above the knee, and he passed through the Vicksburg campaign, participating in the retreat from Cumberland Gap. Returning to Wooster, he engaged in the grocery trade, in which he has since continued, having built up a large and prosperous wholesale and retail trade. Politically Mr. McClarren has always l)een a stanch Republican, and a man of such extensive popularity that he has been repeatedly chosen to various positions in a county whose plurality has always been Democratic. In 1883 he was elected county treasurer, and, having filled the office with satisfaction to all, he was reelected to the position in 1885, serving until September 1, 1888.

On August 12, 1868, he was married to Miss Sarah J. Funk, daughter of Samuel Funk, and born in Chester Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. She is a lady highly esteemed, a prominent member of the Ladies' Relief Corps and the Baptist Church. To our subject and wife have been born seven children, all of whom still surround the hearth-stone at home. Mr. McClarren is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the G. A. R., Knights of Honor and Improved Order of Red Men.

DR. DAVID HAWK was born in East Union Township, Wayne Co., - ' Ohio, July 28, 1845, and is a sou of Michael and Sarah (Bechtel, nee Rhodes) Hawk, the latter of whom was the widow of Jacob Bechtel. His father, who was a native of Cumberland County, Penn., became one of the earliest settlers of Wooster, Ohio. Afterward he purchased a farm in East Union Township, Wayne County, where he lived for many years, and finally he moved to Smithville,