Wayne Township (part 5 of 15)

Such is in brief the record of the life of one who bore no insignificant part in the history of his times. A man of ability and of undoubted integrity, he left his impress on the community in which he lived, and in the guidance of whose public affairs he took a leading part, and his death was regarded as a public loss. [ native of Chambersburgh, Franklin Co., Penn., born in 1803. He grew to mauhood in his native county, where he learned the trade of shoemaking, and in 1824, when twenty-one years of age, was united in marriage with Nancy Ann Eodocker, a native of York County, Penn., who had been reared near Massillon,Ohio, where her parents had settled when she was but six years of age. Of their marriage eleven sons were born, of whom there are now surviving but our subject and one brother, Isaiah B., of Sugar Creek Township, in this county.

Peter Shilling and his family decided to make Wayne County their home, and here the father cultivated a farm, and for a number of years carried on his trade in connection therewith. In 1879 the last summons came to the mother, who passed away at the age of seventy-eight years, having been born in 1801, and in 1881 the husband and father followed his life's partner to the grave, aged seventy-eight years also. Mr. Shilling was one of the founders of the Reformed Lutheran Church at West Lebanon, in Sugar Creek Township, and always remained a pious and consistent member. He and his wife enjoyed the esteem of the community, and were universally respected for their good qualities and upright lives. The paternal ancestors of the family were of English - German origin, ami on the maternal side

S. S. Shilling, the subject of our sketch, was reared upon the farm, and received his education in the log school-house of the period. At the age of seventeen he was hired out to a neighbor to work for seven mouths for §50 and his board. The following June he attended school at Massillon, Ohio, and the ensuing winter he began teaching. This occupation he followed for four winters, and in 1849 learned the new art of daguerreotyping, and opened a gallery at Massillon. Two years later he removed to Canton, Ohio, and the following year, 1852, was united in marriage with Miss Allatha Cole, daughter of Joshua and Caroline (Armstrong) Cole, a native of llichmond, Jefferson Co., Ohio. Her paternal ancestors were of English lineage, and her grandparents were natives of Maryland. On her maternal side her ancestors came from Ireland, at a very early day in the history of the country. When Mrs. Shilling was but eight years of age her parents removed to Stark County, Ohio, where the husband and father went to his last sleep in 1881, at the age of eighty-two years. The widowed mother still lives on the home farm, and is now (1888) aged eighty-six years. To this worthy couple had been born eight children, of whom but three now survive, and Mrs. Shilling is the only one in Wayne

County. Mr. Cole, by reason of his unfailing good nature, was familiarly known by all who knew him as " Uncle Josh," and was noted as a fine marksman, a desirable accomplishment in those times. He was strongly attached to the Kepublican party from its formation; was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Cliurch; was in every way highly esteemed by all who knew him, and was greatly missed.

After his marriage our subject moved to West Lebanon, where he encjajjed in mercantile business, which he carried on there until 1801, when he removed to Wooster, and built the house wliicli has since been his home. He was engaged in McDonald's foundry at Wooster. He was a member of the Wooster National Guards, and in 1864 was called out, and went with his company to Washington, whence they were sent to man Fort Ethan Allen, near Georgetown, on the Potomac. The guards were discharged in Se])tember, and on his return to Wooster Mr. Shilling resumed his employment in the iron works, where he continued until 1874, when he purchased the Newman Bus Line, which he ran for twelve years, when he retired from the more arduous labors of life, and has since been engaged in business as a broker, taking life more easy.

aud the other iu infaucy, uuuamed. In every particular Mr. Shilliug is a selfmade man, aud lie and liis wife have labored together, thereby secui-ing the competence of which they are now iu the enjoyment. Although now past sixty vears of age, he is well preserved and in good health, the result of a well-ordered aud temperate life, he never having used intoxicating liquors or tobacco iu auy form. Iu his political views he is strongly Republican, aud he is a member of the I. 0. 0. F., belouging to the Encampment. Himself and his esteemed wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and both are held in high regard by everyone who kuows them.

kj Chester Township, was born in Chester Towuship, Wayne Co., Ohio, December 17, 182G. His father, Adam Rumbaugh, was a native of Northampton County, Penu., born April 22, 1793, aud March IG, 1815. married Elizabeth Lauffer, and to them were born eleveu children: Isaac, John, Maria, Henry, David, Solomon, AYilliam, Sarah, Hannah, Jacob and Elizabeth. The family is of German ancestry, three brothers at a veiy early day immigratiug to America, aud settling iu Pennsylvania, Virginia and Canada. The great-grandfather of our subject chose Pennsylvania as his abiding place, aud at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War was one of the heroes to volunteer in the defense of his adopted country. He was thrice married, and was the father of twenty-five children, eleveu born to the second aud fourteen to the third marriage. In the early days of Wayne County, Ohio, Adam Rumbaugh became one of its pioneers, locating on a tract of 160 acres of timber-laud, for which he paid §300. He preceded his family to the county, and before their coming cleared some of the land and built a log cabin. Although a poor man when he came to Wayne County, he, bj- industry and energy, became oue of the most wellto-do citizens of his towuship, aud at his death left a large property, which was divided among his children.

Solomon Rumbaugh made his home with his father until twenty-nine years of age. He has made agriculture his lifework, aud is one of the most enterprising and progressive citizens of his towuship. His fiue farm of 100 acres, which was a part of his father's estate, is among the most fertile aud best improved farms in the county.

seiitative citizens. lu politics lie is a Democrat, and, while in no sense a politician, is one of his party's most ardent supporters. He was married, August 21, 1^55, to Mary, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Rouch) Miller. They have six cli ildreu : Philena Jane, born November 12, ls.jt>; Sarah (now Mrs. Wile), born in lsr,0: Miller I., born March 13, 1862; Ninnie E., born February 24, 1869; Clialmer A., born October 4, 1872, and Lydia M., born May 5, 1875. Mrs. Rumbaugh and her eldest two daughters are members of the Lutheran Church, and her two sons and her youngest two daughter.s are members of the Reformed Church.

1831), in Lancaster County, Penn. Christo[)her Brenner, his father, was born December 17, 1810, also in Lancaster County, and was the only sou of John Adam and Elizabeth (Hubley) Brenner. Christopher was married Decembe]- 3, 1^35, to Catherine, daughter of Jacob and Barbara Schock. Five children, two sons and three daughters, were born to them, as follows: Sarah S., born August 18, 1888; Elizabeth, November 26, 1840;

Benjamin, October 24, 1839; Christian. August 5, 1849; Catherine, in 1855. Christopher Brenner was a shoemaker by trade. In 1855, with his wife and four children, he came to Wayne County, where he purchased 118 acres of land in Greene Township, and remained there until he died. In 1872 he retired from farming, and purchased seventy-three acres of land in Wayne Township, which is now in the possession of his eldest daughter, Sarah S. Mr. Brenner was a very successful farmer, and left his children in comfortable circumstances at his death. He died in 1886, and his wife in 1879, aged sixty -one years. Sarah S., the eldest daughter, now resides on the home farm, where her father died, and is a highly respected lady.

Benjamin Brenner was educated in the common schools in Lancaster County, Penn., and also in Wayne County. In 1863 he was married to Elizabeth Lougenecker, daughter of Samuel and Magdaline (Brubaker) Longenecker, the former of Lancaster County, Penn., and the latter of Lebanon County, same State. One child was the result of this marriage, Eleanora, born in 1865. One hundred and eleven acres of the land where Mr. Brenner now lives was his father's property, and originallj' that of Joseph Lauk. Since twenty-one years of age Mr. Brenner has been a minister, having been ordained at that age.

r/ IDEON SMOKEK, farmer, residiug on Section 15, Greene Township, Wayne Co. , Ohio, is the representative of a family well known in the history of the county. They were of German extraction, and the ancestors came to America prior to the War of the Kevolution, and settled in Pennsylvania. Christian Smoker, grandfather of Gideon, lived originally in Lancaster County, Penn., and from there removed to Mifflin County, and thence emigrated to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1828, over sixty-one years ago. He was twice married before coming: here, his first wife being a Miss Stutzman, and the second Fanny Livengoot. When he came to Ohio he had several grown-up children, and in this county two more were born. They located first on Section 16, Greene Township, afterward removing to Wayne Township, near Madisonburgh, where the father died in 1851. His wife, Fanny, survived him nearly thirty years. By his first wife Christian Smoker had the following children: John, Christian, David, Isaac, Elizabeth, Barbara, Nancy and Fanny. Of these, Isaac is living in LaGrange County, Ind. ; Elizabeth is the widow of Christian Augsberger, and lives in Lancaster County, Penn., not having come to Ohio; Barbara is the widow of David Kauffman, autl is in Kansas ; Nancy is the widow of Joseph Kauffman, and is a resident of Indiana. The children of the second wife were Joel, now living in Fulton County, Ohio; Jonathan, deceased: Jacob, a resident of Elkhart County, Ind. : Joseph, living in Noble County. Ind. ; Catherine, wife of Joshua Toder, in Madisonburgh, this county, and Lydia, wife of Samuel Slyock, of Greene Township, this county. The honored pioneer, the father of this numerous family, lived in Wayne County more than a quarter of a century, and had hosts of friends here.

David Smoker, a son of the first wife, was the father of Gideon. He was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1805, and died here on March 3, 1879. In Pennsylvania he had learned the trade of a cooper, but after his marriage gave all his time to farming. , He was married to Anna, daughter of Christian and Catherine Brant, natives of Switzerland, and early settlers in Wayne County. David Smoker and wife bad eight children: Christian, who died in childhood; Elizabeth, wife of J. S. Burkholder, of Greene Township; Sarah, wife of Samuel Hartzler, now in Noble County, Ind. ; Gideon. David J., and Jonas, who live in Greene Township; Nancy, wife of J. K. Burkholder, also in Greene Township, and Catherine, deceased wife of Jonathan Hostettler. The father of this family was a pious, conscientious man, of pure character, and was for many years a member of the Amish Mennouite Church, which he had joined iu Peimsylvania. Temperate, frugal and iudiistrious, he accumulated a competence, and gave each of his children a good^start in life. When he bought the farm on which his sou Jonas now lives he liad not a dollar to pay on it, but he soon paid for it out of the land, then bought another, which he paid for in tlie same manner - a fair indication of the habits and character of the man.

Gideon Smoker, our subject, was born in Greene Township, November 8, 1835. His life-long occupation has been farming. When of age he rented his father's second farm, on which he lived until 1862, wlien he bought the place which has since been his home. On March 11, 1858, he was married to Magdalena Zook, who was born in Greene Township, December 30, 1837, and died October 3, 1876, aged thirty-eight years, nine months and five days. She was a piovis woman, a member of the Amish Mennonite Church, a faithful wife and devoted mother, who instilled into the minds of her children, by both precept and example, true Christian principles. She was the mother of nine children, of whom the youngest died February 211, 1876, aged five months. The eldest daughter, Catherine, is the wife of Jacob Hooley, of Greene Township; the rest are unmarried. Jerome, David and Samuel carry on the Wayne County Creamery, and live on the premises ; Mary

Ann, Amos, Elmer and Emma live with their father. Mr. Smoker has led a quiet, uneventful life, doing his duty well in the sphere into which he has been called. He is a successful farmer, and has also given considerable attention to raising and fattening stock, and keeps a fine stallion on his premises. He belongs to the Oak Grove Amish Mennonite Church, and among the people with whom his whole life has been spent he is esteemed as an honorable, upright man and a good neighbor.

'pN B. WASSON, treasurer of Wayneff^ County, Ohio, is one of its sons, Jj -^ being born in Wayne Township March 28, 1883. His father, named David, was a native of the Keystone State, and came when young to Ohio, being one of the early settlers of Wayne Township and County. Joseph Wasson, grandfather of our subject, was an Englishman by birth, and immigrated when young to this country, settling iu Pennsylvania, where he was united in marriage with Miss Jane McConaha. David Wasson spent his youth on his father's farm, and on reaching manhood was married to Margaret, daughter of Thomas Beall. Of this union seven children were born, two of whom survive: Mrs. Lydia C. Collins, living ou the homestead iu Wayne Township, and R. B. In 1845 death entered the household of the Wassons, claiming the wife and mother, who was then but thirty-five years of age. Her husband survived her many years, dying in 1882, at the age of seventy-seven years. He was one of the stanchest Republicans of his township, and had held various offices of trust and responsibility, those who knew him having unbounded confidence in his ability and integrity. He and his wife were both members of the Presbyterian Church.

R. B. Wasson spent his earlier years on the home farm, getting his education in the log school-house of the period. In 1852, when eighteen years old, he joined a party going to California in search of gold. For six months he drove oxen, sheep, etc., across the plains, and finally reached the haven of his desires. For eight years he followed mining iu California, with the exception of one summer, he spent upon a ranch. In 1860 he returned to Waj'ne County, and the following year he passed as clerk in a dry goods store at Doylestown, giving that up to become a farmer in his native township. Marclj 23, 1861, Mr. Wasson was married to Miss Liicetta Franks, daugliter of Abraham and Lyilia (Blocker) Franks, and a native of Doylestown. Eisht children came to bless tiieir union

(seven of whom are now surviving) : Abraham, the eldest, is deceased; Amanda is wedded to Mr. C. Zimmer, of Wooster; John, Mattie B., Richard, Kate, Thomas and Louis F. are still under the parental roof.

In 1865 Mr. Wasson began dealing extensively in lumber, shipping from Canada to the United States. Later he engaged in the saw-mill business in Western Ohio, and a year thereafter established a saw-mill at Nashville, Mich. In 1876 he withdrew from the lumber business in Ohio and Michigan, and the following year shipped lumber from Virginia to New York, finally retiring from the business in 1878, and going onto his farm in Wayne Township, where he has spent most of his time since. Politically Mr. Wasson was classed as an independent until 1872, when he identified himself with the Democratic party, with which he has since continued to act. He has held many positions of trust and responsibility. He has Vieen a member of the school board, township trustee, and member of the village council, and was elected to the first council of the village council. A number of times he has been a candidate for the office of county treasurer, to which he was elected in 1887, and is now filling ] that responsible position. In every office ! that he has been called iipon to fill he has (liscliarged its duties with fidelity and

ISOcare, aud has wou the highest regard of all who know him. Socially he is identified with the Masonic fraternity and with the Knights of Pythias.

a native of Wartemberg, Germany, and his wife, Elizabeth, a native of Alsace, France (now Germany), immigrated to America with one daughter in 1755. On their voyage to this country, October 25, 1755, a son was born, and named Philip. They settled in Philadelphia, where the father died in 1757. Philip learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed until the beginning of the Revolutionary War, when he enlisted, aud served three years. He was with Washington at the capture of the Hessians posted at Trenton, and gained the rank of lieutenant as a reward of bravery. After the close of the war he migrated to Fayette County, Penn., and was soon afterward married to Catherine, daughter of Nichola.s Fast, of Pfalz, Germany. In ISOti they removed from Fayette County, Penn., to Mahoning County, Ohio, and settled in Greene Township. Their family consisted of twelve children, all of whom are dead.

The eldest, John Jacob, was born November 23, 1779, and married, October 31, 1803, Charlotte, daughter of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Hogmire) Stough (the first Lutheran minister to cross the Alleghany Mountains), and they settled and died in Columbiana County, Ohio. Tlieir family consisted of Jonas, Elizabeth, John, Philip, Samuel and Joshua. Jonas Bowman was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, November 17, ISOi, and was married to Margaret, daughter of Leonard Richards, of Steubeuville, Ohio,, and entered a tract of 320 acres of land in East Union Township, Wayne County. He died March 8, 1869, a prominent member of the Lutheran Evangelical Church. His widow yet lives on the homestead with her sou. Nine children were born to them: Elizabeth, wife of Peter Mowrei-, of East Union Township, Wayne County ; John, also in East Union Township; Leonard R. ; Sarah, the late Mrs. Levi Daniels; Wesley, in Medina County, Ohio; Samuel, deceased; Harrison, in Orrville, Ohio; Mai-y, wife of Jacob Kesslar, of East Union Townsliip, and Joshua, on the homestead.

Leonard R. Bowman was born November 18, 1831, married November 6, 1855, to Isabella Agues, daughter of Moses Cherry, and then located on his present farm in EastUuionTownship. Their children were Keller Cherry, who died May (>, 1857:

Samuel Baltzly, who died April 8, 1858; Jonas, born April 5, 1859, and is engaged in mercantile business in Wadswortli, Ohio; May Ida, at home; Williard Grant, at home; Elmina Belle, at home; L. Vernon,who died March 21, 1880. The mother died December 4, 1880. Mr. Bowman is one of the thorough representatiA'e farmers of East Union Township. He votes the Kepublican ticket; lias been an elder in the East Union Lutheran Church for twentj'-seven years.

jjOHN C. SIDLE, son of John and >, I Joanna (Carson) Sidle, both natives - of Pennsylvania, was born April 25, 1859, in Plain Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. His father was one of the pioneers of Plain Township, coming here from York County, Peun., in 1828, and settling on the farm in that township now occu- [ pied by his son, John C. He was mar- ' ried March 30, 1843, and became the father of four sons and three daughters, viz.: W. H., born October 22, 1845, now living in Shreve, Wayne Co., Ohio; James C, born February 13, 1850; L. P., born March 14, 1852; John C. ; Mary Ellen, , wife of S. P. Burnett, of Shreve, Ohio; i Lucinda Jane, born November 12, 1847, married I. H. Aylesworth. of Big Prairie,

Of these, John C. was married June 29, 1884, to Isa Palmer, of Jeromeville, Ohio, and their children are Nina Maj-, born April 27, 1885 ; Edna Vera, born March 11, 1887, and Benjamin Harrison, born April 14, 1889. Mr. Sidle has been engaged in teaching for the past ten winters, attending the duties of the farm during the summer. He has paid considerable attention to the breeding of and dealing in fine-blooded stock, and has at present on his farm some full-blooded Hereford cattle and Shropshire sheep. His success at different county fairs in 1887 and 1888 prove the quality and breeding of his stock to be the best, having taken twenty first and five second premiums. In politics Mr. Sidle is a stanch Republican.

JjACOB HOLMES was born in Westj moreland County, Penn., April 2, - 1814, son of Daniel Holmes, also a native of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio, settling in Congress Township, Wayne County, in 1820. Near Congress Village, he (Daniel) leased a farm of Henry Trauger, on which he lived nine years; then purchased a farm on Section 14,

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he reared a family of sixteen chilvheu, twelve of whom are yet liviiif^. He died iu his sixty-ninth j-ear. The first Christmas eve Mr. Holmes was in Wayne County his house and its contents were destroyed by fire, the family barely escaping with their lives, and the snow was six inches deep. Thej- were taken to the house of George Poe, a half a mile distant, remaining there one night. The following Monday the neighbors cut logs and built another cabin, and Wednesday they moved iu. There was no fioor, and a fire was built iu the center of the room. There they lived, more like Indians than white folks, almost destitute of clothing, and for foiir or five years had neither shoes nor stockings. Their clothes consisted of buckskin pants, linen shirt, coonskin caps and deer-skin moccasins. The best dressed men of those days wore buckskin suits.

Jacob Holmes, the subject of these lines, was educated in the common schools, and brought up to farm life, which he has followed all his days. He was united in marriage February 5, 1837, with Miss Christiana, a daughter of David and Eva Weaver, and born April 2, 1817. This union has been blessed with eight children, seven of whom are still living, all married and away from home, doing for themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes have for many years been consistent members of the German Reformed Church. For sixty-seven years he has been a continuous resident of Congress Township, and is probably the oldest resident settler in the township. Mr. Holmes is hale and hearty, and remarkalily vigorous for one of his advanced years, managing his own affairs with keen intelligence and remarkable success; and "Uncle Jacob," as he is familiarly known, is highly respected by all who know him. He is owner of 123 acres of good farm land, three miles south of West Salem, in Wayne County.

W. EICKEL was born in West Salem, Wayne Co., Ohio, May 24, 1838, and is a son of Peter and Nancy (Rickel) Rickel, natives of Bedford County, Penn., who came to Wayne County iu 1824, and entered a tract of land iu Congress Township, a part of which is now occupied by the village of West Salem, which was laid out by him, as well as several of its streets ; and manj' lots were sold by him. He was a prominent member of the old Albright Evangelical Association, and of the Republican party. He died in 1865, his widow surviving him until 1888. They reared nine children, viz. : Sophia, wife of Michael Shaffer, of Mahoning County, Ohio;

Joseph, Michael and Levi, in West Salem, AVayue County; Mathias, in Ashland County ; Catherine, deceased wife of Peter Ball ; G. W. ; William, who was a member of Company E, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and died from the effects of wounds; Alexander, in AVest Salem.

G. AV. Rickel received his education at the township schools and Hayesville Academy. In I860 he embarked in mercantile business at West Salem, which he continued for about three years. In 1806 Mr. Rickel married Miss Mary E., daughter of Benjamin Hill (deceased), of Canaan Township, Wayne County, and by this union there are four living children, viz.: Cora, wife of R. W. Pinkertou, of AVooster; Carrie, wife of Rev. A. A. Ball, of Chicago Junction, and Annie and Josephine, at home. Mr. Rickel is a member of the Canaan Grange, No. 1280, P. of H. He and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Cliurch of Burbank, of which he is a trustee. Politically he is a Republican.

Benjamin Hill (deceased) was born in Washington County, Peun., June 29, 1807, son of Joseph and Margaret (Joy) Hill, who immigrated from Ireland. Benjamin was reared on a farm, and learned the tanner's trade. In 1829 he married Miss Delilah, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Harsh) Notestine, of AA'ashington County, Penn., and in 1833 they came to Wayne County, where they moved on the farm in Canaan Township, where he died in 1880. Mr. Hill was a prominent member of the Republican party, and filled various township offices; was also class-leader and exhorter in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Burbank for many years. He died in 1880; his widow still survives him, now aged seventy-six yeai's. Three of their children are still living: Sarah H., wife of Henry Hay, of Seville. Ohio; Samantha, wife of C. C. Clay, of Sedalia, Mo., and Mary E., wife of G. W. Rickel.

ir^ EA^ PHILO M. SEMPLE was born l^l' near Darlington, then in Beaver, Jj -^ butnow in Lawrence County,Penn., July 7, 1810. His grandfather was a native of Scotland, and was married in America to a lady of Irish birth. Botb died in Beaver County, Penn. Their son Robert was a native of North Carolina, removing to Pennsylvania with his parents. His boyhood was spent upon the farm, and when seventeen years of age he entered an academy at Darlington, Peun., with a view of qualifying himself for ministerial work. Completing his academic course, he began the study of theology with Rev. Thomas E. Hughes, aud was later liceused to presich by the Presbytery of Kedstone. He was soon after called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of New Castle, now the county seat of Lawrence County, Penn., being their first pastor, and continuing to serve that church twentyeight years. For twenty years of the time he also had charge of a church at Slippery Rock, Beaver Co., Penn. Rev. Robert Semple was united in marriage January 5, 1808, with Miss Annie Kirkpatrick, a native of Beaver County, Penn., and to them were born three sons and seven daughters, of whom two sous and one daughter are living - Philo M., Dr. Kirkpatrick Johnston, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Zenista, wife of David F. McCready, of New Wilmington, Penn. The mother died at the age of Mty years, the father surviving her several years, his death occurring in 1847, at the age of seventytwo years. He was a faithful minister of the gospel, and died in the sure hope of a happy immortality.

Philo M. Semple is the second son of Robert and Annie Semple. His full baptismal name is Philomathis, and very properly, for he has proved himself a " seeker after knowledge." He was about eighteen mouths old when his father became pastor at New Castle, Penn., and spent his youth on a small farm near that city. In his boyhood he has gathered hazlenuts on the site of New Castle, now a city of 35,000 inhabitants. When twentyone years of age he was given the opportunity of attending Bassenheim Academy, a manual labor school at Zclienople, Butler Co., Penn., of which he gladly availed himself, and here was begun the study of Latin. In the spring of 1832 he left home for Cannonsburgh, the seat of Jefferson College, traveling on foot, and making the distance, sixty miles, in less than two days. Here he spent five years of college life. During his first term the college was blessed with a revival of religion, and he was hopefully converted. August 5, 1832, he united with the Presbyterian Church of Cannonsburgh, of which Dr. Matthew Brown was then pastor. His standing in his class was reputable, and in the literary society, high. In 1837 he would have been the debater for the Franklin Society but for the famous quarrel of the societies with the trustees, which suspended the contest for this year. At the time of the commencement, in 1837, he was prostrated with typhoid fever, and was unable to turn his head on his pillow when he graduated. During the winter of 1837-88 he taught school in New Castle, Penn., and in the spring of 1838 entered the Western Theological Seminary, at Allegheny, where he spent two j'ears. His health failing, he returned home, and after rusticating a few months and partially regaining his health he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery o£ Beaver, at the church of Westfield, Penn., June 24, 1S40. In compliance with the advice of some of the older members of the same presbytery, he was on the 5th of October, 1841, ordained as an evangelist, expecting to go to Illinois, then a new State, as a home missionary. Circumstances, however, beyond his control prevented the carrying out of this plan, and in the spring of 1842 he was called to the united congregations of Mount Eaton, Wayne County, and Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, preaching his first sermon at Mount Eaton the first Sabbath in June. He labored in this field pleasantly and successfully for sixteen years, both churches being much increased during his pastorate. In the fall of 1858 he received an urgent call to the church at Dalton, Wayne County, and, in view of the existing division in the church, felt it his duty to accept the call, and in so doing unite the two factions. Both congregations he was serving sent a unanimous protest to the presbytery against the dissolution of the pastoral relation, but the presbytery accorded with his views, and on the first Sunday in October, 1858, he commenced his labors in Dalton, and was installed the following mouth. After serving the church in this place nine years, liis health became comjiletely broken down, so that bv the advice of distinguished physicians he gave up preaching, and during the summer spent the time in traveling in Missouri and Kansas. His health not improving, and concluding that he would be unable to resume pastoral work, he tendered his resignation, but his congregation, being unwilling to accept it, granted him a year's leave of absence, kindly continuing his salary. At the end of the year, his health still being infirm, he again tendered his resignation, which was reluctantly accepted.

In November, 1870, he removed to the city of Wooster, influenced mainly by the desire to educate his son and daughter at the university, and here he has since lived. For four years he was engaged in collecting the endowment fund of the university, which had been subscribed some years before. Although Mr. Semple has for many years been unable to have the care of a church, he still preaches occasionally. When he began studying for the ministry he was obliged to rely on his own exertions to secure his education, and was carried through by his strong determination to succeed. He has ever taken a warm interest in pulilic affairs, and can always be found on the side of justice and right. For years before the abolishment of slavery he was a strong Abolitionist, aud on the formation of the Republican party he joined its ranks to fight the bat- tie of freedom for all, aud uow is equally determined in his opposition to the gigantic evil of drinking intoxicating liquors, and is an ardent advocate of the cause of prohibition.

July 29, 1846, Mr. Semple was married to Miss Sarah Jane Davis, a native of Shippeusburgh, Penn., daughter of Robert Davis, Esq., who at the time of her marriage was a resident of Stark County, Ohio. Her parents died in Bucyrus, Ohio, the mother aged seventy-four years and the father ninety-five 3ears. Mr. and Mrs. Semple have reared two children to years of maturity. Their sou, Eugene Payson, graduated from Wooster University in 1873, and has been for several years professor of English in Biddie University, at Charlotte, N. C. Their daughter, Laura Annie, graduated from Wooster University in 1875, and is now the wife of Eev. W. M. Pocock, a Presbyterian minister at Waverly, Kas. A zealous pastor, consistent Christian, and a faithful counselor aud frieud, Mr. Semple is held in esteem by all who know him.

DAM BRENNER. The Brenner family is one of the most numerous in Wayne Township, Wayne County. At a very early day in the history of America three brothers by the name of Brenner immigrated to the United States from Germany. John Adam Brenner, who was born in Lancaster County, Penn., was a descendant of one of these brothers. He was a farmer in his native county, aud was twice married, John being the name of the eldest child born to the first marriage. John Brenner was born in 1799, aud in 1849, with his wife aud eight children, he moved to Wayne County, Ohio, and settled on a small farm. He married Susan Redfind, who died in 1870, aged seventy-seven years. Five of their eight children are living: Margaret (Mrs. Hartz), Susan (Mrs. Brown), Mary (Mrs. Ihman), Adam and Catherine (Mrs. Hartzell).

Adam Brenner was the youngest son and next to the youngest child of the family. He was born in Lancaster County, Penn., in 1830, and was nearlj' twenty yeai-s old when he accompanied his parents to Wayne County. The first winter he worked in Wooster, and then followed his trade of shoemaking in Smithville for three years, and after that engaged in farming. Since 1885 Mr. Brenner has lived on his present farm, which was formerly owned by his father-in-law, Peter Eberly. He is now well-to-do in a financial sense, and has an enviable reputation for honesty aud integrity in the community where he lives. Mr. Brenner was married in 1851 to Miss Cath- erine Eberly, who, as already stated, is a daughter of Peter Eberly, of Wayne Township. They have had three children: John E., born May 28, 1852; Sarah E., January 13, 1856, and Alvin, March 5, 1859. Mr. Brenner is a Republican.

born in Wadsworth Township, Medina Co., Ohio, February 21, 1850, and is a sou of Michael D. and Elizabeth (McElhenie) Dague. His paternal grandfatlier was Gabriel Dague, son of Michael Dague, a native of Germany, and a pioneer of Washington County, Peun. Gabriel Dague, who was a native of Washington County, Penn., in early life taught school, and settled in Milton Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1820. Here he cleared and improved a farm, on which he resided until 1843, when he moved to Chippewa Township, Wayne County, and in 1849 located in Wadsworth, where he died. He had two brothers, also pioneers of Milton Township, viz. : Frederick, who settled there in 1819, and Michael, who settled a few years later. The last named in his day held the office of justice of the peace the longest term of anyone in the State. The children of Gabriel Dague were nine in number, as follows: Archibald, Michael, Joseph, Elizabeth (Mrs. Joseph Starn), Gabriel, Andrew Hiram, Ephraim, Samuel and Cyrus. The latter died in the service of the United States, at Vicksburg. Miss., during the War of the Rebellion. The maternal grandfather of William Carman Dague was Thomas J. McElhenie, a pioneer of Chippewa Township, Wayne County.

Michael D. Dague, father of William C, was reared in Wayne County, Ohio, and in early life was a farmer in Wayne. Summit and Medina Counties, all in Ohio, and for fifteen years was proprietor of a general store at Western Star, Medina County. He removed to Doylestown, Chippewa Township, Wayne Co., in 1878, and has here since resided. He reared a family of six children, viz. : Gabriel, a merchant in Western Star, Medina County; Thomas J., a Presbyterian clergyman in Caldwell, Ohio; Rebecca J. (Mrs. Theo. Eberhardt), in Western Star; William C, James AV. and Joseph M., in Doylestown, Wayne County.

The subject of this biographical memoir received an academic education at Western Star, and in 1873 embarked in mercantile trade in that place. In 1874 he located in Doylestown, where the firm of Dague Bros. <fe Co. was established, the largest house dealing in genei'al merchandise in Wayne County, William C. Dague being the senior memlier. Mr. Dague married, March 30, 1871, Melissa, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Hoover) Duley. of Western Star, Ohio, and to this union have been born four children, viz.: Harry, Metta, Nellie and Bessie. Mr. Dague is one of Doylestown's most prominent citizens and merchants, and is enterprising and public-spirited. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, of the Odd Fellows order and Royal Arcanum. In politics he is a Democrat. He served for nine jears as a member of the Board of Education of Doylestown, and is at present sei'ving his second term as township treasurer.

Township, November 29, 1854. His father, Abram Franks, was a native of Fayette County, Penn., where he grew to manhood, and at the age of twenty-eight he migrated to Wayne County, where in 1848 he was married to Amanda Franks, daughter of Abram Franks, Sr., a second cousin. His education had been that of the common schools, and for a time he occupied himself in teaching, and then engaged in mercantile business at New Geneva, in his native count}-. On coming to this County he opened a store in Doylestown, but later was engaged in wholesale business in the city of New York. In 1848, soon after his marriage, he was elected to the State Legislature by the Democrats, and re-elected, serving two terms with credit to himself and the satisfaction of his constituents.

On leaving the Legislature Mr. Abram Franks established himself for ten years on a farm which he had bought. In 1861 he removed to the village of Doylestown, and was there engaged in mercantile business for some sixteen or seventeen years, at the end of which time he retired from active business life. December 3, 1877, Mrs. Franks was called to her rest, at the age of fifty-eight years. Two children were the result of her union with Mr. Franks: Jennie, wife of Rev. J. W. Low, of Richland County, Ohio, and L. K. The elder Franks is one of the early settlers in Wayne County, and aside from his legislative honors has been one of the prominent citizens of the county, and was for many years justice of the peace here. He was an able and intelligent man, and wrote much for the papers, but his lack of power to express his ideas orally has been soiuewhat of a bar to his public advancement. Now, at tiie advanced age of eightytwo years, he retains his mental vigor unabated, although his physical powers are wauiiig. His home is now with his sou. As au old settler, and a man who has done his full share in advancing the prosperity of the county, he is much respected by his fellow-citizens.

L. K. Franks, the subject of this sketch, obtained most of his education in the public scliools of the village of Doylestown. He was early inducted in mercantile business, and for three years was junior partner in the firm of Charles McCormiek & Co., in Doylestown. August 1, 1883, he was united in marriage with Miss Linda V. Wharton, daughter of James and Nancy (Williams) Wharton. Politically Mr. Franks has always affiliated with the Democratic party, and has been prominent in public affairs. He has been township clerk, and also township treasurer, resigning the latter office to accept his present position. He and his wife are both members of the Presbyterian Church at Doylestown, and he is a member of the Odd Fellows order and of the Knights of Pythias. He has the confidence and esteem of all who know him, as an upright man and faithful official.

The Franks family are of mixed German and French blood, and their ancestors cnme to this country long prior to the War of the Eevolution. Michael Franks, the grandfather of L. K., died in Pennsylvania, and was the father of sixteen children. His maternal grandfather, Henrj-

Franks, took part in the War of 1812, and was captured by the Indians at Sandusky, Ohio, and compelled to run the gauntlet, but fortunately escaped.

its oldest born native citizens, havingf first seen the light of day in Salt Creek Township, May 22, 1817. His parents, Robert and Nancy (Richey) Hatfield, were natives of Pennsylvania, and were married in Beaver County, that State. In 1815 they migrated to AVayne County, locating in Edinburgh, in East Union Township, but the following year 2)urchased the farm in Salt Creek Township on which the subject of this sketch was born. Here they spent the remainder of their lives, the father dying in June, 18-41, aged fifty-four years. His widow survived him many years, dying October 19, 1865, in her eightieth year. They were the parents of eight children who grew to maturity (of them four still survive). The eldest, Margaret, is wife of Thomas Dunham, of Salt Creek Township; William died in 1865, in his sixty-third year; Adam died in the fifty-fourth year of his age; Catherine is now Mrs. W. Cunning- ham, of Wooster, Ohio; George D. ; Mary, who was the wife of Mr. Jolnisou, of Salt Creek Township, and is now deceased; Sarah, who is Mrs. James Truesdell, of Nevada, Mo., and Cyrus, who died in Salt Creek at the age of twenty-six. Both the parents were members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Hatfield was one of the first elders of the church in Salt Creek Township. This worthy coui)le were real pioneers of Wayne County, which at the time of their coming to it was covered with a dense growth of timber. In the woods tJiey made their first humble home, cheerfully enduring the hardships of a pioneer life, and were rewarded by seeing their home gradually growing in beauty and value, and a sturdy family springing up around them. Mr. Hatfield was an active and industrious man, in his political sentiments was a Whig, and took an active part in public affairs. He was well known and much respected by the old residents of the county.

George D. Hatfield received his education in the typical log school-house of the period, with its puncheon fioor, slab seats, and greased paper windows. At the age of twenty-three he was united in marriage with Miss Matilda R. Patterson, a daughter of William and Rebecca (Finley) Patterson, natives, respectively, of Fayette and Westmoreland Counties, Penn., and who were among the early pioneers of Wayne County, having settled in Franklin Township in 1816. In 1852 her father passed from earth; her mother survived him many years, dying in 1888, in her ninety-third year. Mrs. Hatfield had two sisters and one brother: Margaret is the widow of Jacob Reaser, of Wooster; Rebecca (Mrs. Willetts), of Fredericktown, Knox Co., Ohio, and James P. Pattersou, of Ap{)le Creek. To our subject and his estimable wife have been born seven children, of whom we record the following: Margaret is deceased; St. Clair J. is an attorney in Sidney, Shelby Co., Ohio; James is deceased; Robert is a farmer in Wayne Township, this county; William is a resident of Chicago; Rebecca A. and Sarah Adelaide are living at home. In 1878 Mrs. Hatfield died, at the age of fifty-nine years. She was a woman of most estimable character, and a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church of Apple Creek.

In the fall of 1870 Mr. Hatfield removed from his farm to the city of ^\ ooster to give his children the opportunity of better educational advantages, but his life, once settling there, has been a busy one. For a number of years he was engaged in collecting money for the University of Wooster. In his early life he was a Whig, and cast his first i)residcntal vote for Gen. William H. Harrison. On the formation of the Republican party he joined its rauks, aud lias ever since acted witb it, faithfully doing his duty as a citizen at the polls, having voted at every election since reaching his majority, and he takes an active interest in all public matters. He contributed his share to the cause of the nation during the Rebellion, and was a member of the Union League. When a boy he became a member of the Presbyterian Chiarch, and has always remained an active member of that denomination. He is now connected with the First Presbyterian Church of Wooster.

Mr. Hatfield is wonderfully well preserved for a man of his age, and he attributes his good health to his uniform habits of temperance, he never having used tobacco or intoxicating liquor, although in his youth the use of spirits was almost universal. He is spoken of in terms of respect by all who know him, aud will long be remembered as one of Wayne County's most worthy pioneers.

son of Elijah Pocock, who migrated from Harford County, Md., in 1820, and settled in Wayne County, Ohio. His mother's maiden name was Grace Smith ; she emigrated from Beaver County, Penn., in 1822, and settled in Wayne County, where, September 1, 1825, she was united in marriage with Elijah Pocock. Eli's earlier years were spent in the vicinity of Shreve, where he received an academic education. At his country's call, during the great war for the Union, he responded, and spent the last years of the same in its service. He enlisted in June, 1862, at the age of seventeen years, in the Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served his full time, after which his name appeal's for two years on the rolls of the One Hundred aud Sixtysixth and One Hundred and Eightysixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Since the war he has been identified with the movements of the Grand Army of the Republic, and in the same has ever been an ardent and zealous worker, while his force of character has made him a leader among his comrades.

In 1866 he began the study of medicine, and graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, in February, 1870. He began the practice of his profession the same year, in the city of Mansfield, and in 1873 removed to Shreve, where ever since he has maintained a successful aud lucrative practice. In recognition of his ability he maintains the highest respect of his competitors and of the medical fraternitv at Iju-ije. Soon after his majority be became an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, and has advanced to and received the Templar orders. He is ever considered a zealous and well-qualified worker, and in recognition thereof has filled many important positions in the different branches of the order through which he has passed. Zeal in this, his chosen fraternity, has made him one of its brightest lights, and he takes his place among its leaders.

On October 18, 1870, the autumn after his graduation in medicine, he was married to Miss Loell B. Foltz, daughter of David Foltz by a marriage with Miss Susan Kimmerer, who had migrated, respectively, from Pennsylvania and Virginia in 1813 and in 1816 to Wayne County. Ohio, and settled in Clinton Township. Both were of German descent. The fruit of this marriage is one son, Elijah Foltz Pocock, born September 7, 1878.

been engaged in pursuits wherein success depends upon the matured judgment and practical conception that come from experience, observation, reading and reflection. Upon these pursuits he entered, not with the impulsive or capricious flight of genius, but under the firm and steady propulsions of sound, practical common sense. He is a native of Wayne County, one of her healthiest products, and a type of her most vigorous creations. His father, John Funck, was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., January 30, 1788, and was of German extraction, as was his wife, Maria, daughter of Christian Fox, with whom he was joined in marriage January 3, 1811. She, also, was a native of the Keystone State, and was born November 13, 1787. The result of this imion was thirteen children, all, save two, of whom are living. The register of births is here introduced: David, born November 8, 1811; Aunie, January 2, 1813; Catherine, October 26, 1814; Maria, December 21, 1810: Henry, January 10, 1818; Samuel, June 19, 1819; Martin, November 13, 1820; Barbara, October 16, 1823; John, December

23, 1831; Elizabeth, August 29, 1831. In 1853 Aunie and Magdalena passed through nature to eternity, stricken down by the " Reaper whose name is Death."

In 1824 Mr. John Funck removed with his family, then consisting of his wife and eight children, to Wayne County, and what, at that time, was familiarly known as the far West, purchasing a farm iu Chester Township, where he resided for a quarter of a century, and where five more chiklreu were added to the issue of his mai-riage. A farmer by occupation, as was his father in Pennsylvania, he entered upon agriculture as a pleasant and profitable vocation. But being a man of warm, i-eligious feeling, and possessed of a highly spiritual nature, and, withal, equipped with the requisite education, he became a teacher and minister in the Mennonite Church, and in conjunction with his labors on the farm he proclaimed from the pulpit the plain and practical piety of its illustrious founder. This was in his earlier years, as subsequently he identified himself in active membership with the Church of God, and for fifty years consecrated himself to its ministry. As was characteristic of all of the early settlers, Mr. Funck and his family encountered many hardships, made sacrifices and endured embarrassing privations. In process of time, however, these obstacles were subdued, and a better and more prosperous condition of society appeared, accelerated, in a large measure, by their own active, patient and persevering efforts. In 1849 Mx-. Funck, then having attained three score years, abandoned the farm and removed to Wooster, where he remained, with the exception of about one year, until his death, which occurred April 2, lStV2.

His wife survived him nearly a score of years, dying February 22, 1879, in her ninety-second year, at the home of her son, Daniel, with whom she had lived fi'om the death of her husband, and who suri-ounded her with every comfort and bestowed upon her the tender care of a thoughtful and dutiful son.

Daniel Funck first opened his eyes upon the lights and shadows of this world July 27, 1829, in a primitive log cabin on his father's farm, iu Chester Township. Here his earlier years were spent, and until he attained the age of twenty, in felling timber, hewing and chopping, grubbing and splitting rails, plowing and sowing, flailing buckwheat and husking corn, attending apple cuttings and rushing the rustic belles, and was happy as a bee upon the clover blossoms. The opportunities for education at the rustic schools of that period were not so attractive and valuable then as now, but, such as they were, it was the privilege of Mr. Funck to avail himself of their advantages. He attended the old log schoolhouse of primordial construction, with puncheon floor, greased paper windows, sitting on a rude bench with a slab pinned or spiked to the wall for a writing desk, and imbibed the waters of knowledge from the " master," who was frequently a " down east Yankee," and who could not only quote but set to music the multijili- cation table. His educational advantages were necessarily limited, and facilities for any achievements in tbe higher branches of study were extremely meager and few. He, however, received a fair commonschool education, much of it having been acquired by the light of the candle or hearth, after the day's labor had been completed. No college opportunities were opened to him, nor a chance to study the languages or the higher branches of English education. His energy, close application, force of character and persistent industry have assisted largely in neutralizing these disadvantages. At the age of twenty he determined to step out and meet the current of the world for himself and shape the venture to his purpose and ambition. He concluded to learn a trade, which, to a young man, is supposed to be the equivalent of a cash capital of §1,000. In 1849 he went to Asiiland, Ohio, as an apprentice in a carriage manufactory, where he remained until 1851. He then traveled as a journeyman carriage maker in the Eastern States, returning home again in 1853, when he was seized with a quenchless thirst for California gold. The wand of the yellow enchanter was upon him, and the spell could not be broken. A steamer soon landed him on the Pacific slope, where he remained for five years. He located at Springfield, Tuolumne County, operating his trade as manufacturer, and engaging in mining enterprise;;. Here he had to confront the catastrophe of fire, as his ! entire investments in stock and property were consumed by conflagration. But lie was not of the metal to be daunted by tlie fire-fiend, or crushed by the devastations of calamity. He at once addressed himself to the work of rebuilding, and this accomplished, he sold out and went to San Francisco, where for a year he was engaged in various projects, chiefly of a mining character. In 1859 he returned to Wayne County and " the scenes of his childhood," and for a period was employed in book-keeping, meantime completing a course of training at a commercial college. He soon thereafter purchased a carriage manufactory in Wooster, and for a series of years conducted that business, but in 1866 the demon of fire, which in its cruel jaws had crushed his substance in the Golden State, revisited him and swept away his investments. Twice did ill fortune lay her apparently revengeful finger upon him, and twice did he sound his bugle in renewal of the conflict, for he knew the race was not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, and he again fought for success over the unmacadamized thoroughfare of perseverance and industry. And he has achieved it.

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Republican party in 1860, casting his ballot for Abraham Lincoln, who, while he was city marshal, appointed him United States marshal under Earl Bill, he having jurisdiction over the northern district of Ohio. When Johnson succeeded to the control of the Government, Mr. Bill was removed, and consequently the official ax fell upon his neck. He had no compromises to make with official renegades, and maintained his allegiance to his party and its principles. July 29, 1863, Mr. Funck joined, as private. Company D, Fifty-second Regiment, Battalion of Ohio National Guards, under Capt. Hughes, in which he served honestly and faithfully until May 1, 1866, when, by virtue of an act of General Assembly passed April 2, 1866, he was "honorably discharged from the military service of Ohio and the United States, except in case of insurrection or invasion. By order of Gov. Jacob D. Cox ; B. R. Cowan, adjutant-general of Ohio."

He afterward, for about a year, clerked in the hardware store of the late R. R. Donnelly, and then, in 1868, set sail on the broad, safe sea of insurance, to which he has ever since closely and assiduously applied his energies and talent. He repsents a dozen of the leading and reliable five and life companies, and has the agencj' for the Mutual Life of New York, the oldest company in the United States, and the largest in the world, its assets aggregating

$126,000,000. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the Blue Lodge and the Chapter; is active in the circles of the Knights of Honor, and is a charter member of the Grand Lodge of the Royal Ai-canum of Ohio (and which he aided in establishing in Wooster), and was one of its first grand trustees. He was chosen as first president of the Wooster Co-operative Foundry Association, and two years thereafter re-elected, which position he still holds. He is a member of ! the Wayne County Pioneer Association, and one of its active, inflexible fi'iends.

He was married, in 1859, to Miss Matilda, daughter of William and Susan Imhoff, of Ashland County, who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio in pioneer days. The result of this union was six children: Ross W., Alice M., Earl B., Frank, Harriet Lucretia and Chloe Devona. Earl B. and Frank are numbered with the dead; Harriet L. is in the university, class of 1891, and Chloe D. in the high school, class of 1890; Alice M. graduated at the university, class of 1887, and is the wife of Orin C. Baker, editor of the Home Weekly, published at the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. Xenia, Ohio, and Ross W. is a member of the Wooster bar. He was born January 11, 1861, and graduated at the high school and university, at the latter, in the class of 1883. He studied law with Hon. John

McSweeny, and then went to the law college at Cincinnati, entering the senior class and graduating therefrom. He was elected city solicitor in the spring of 1887, a ])osition which he now holds; is president of the Wooster High School Alumni Association ; vice-president of the University Alumui Association; secretary of the Wayne County Republican Executive Committee; regent of the Royal Arcanum, and a Chapter Mason. He is a young man of fine education and abilities, excellent character and the strictest honesty. Mr. Daniel Funck, the subject of this sketch, is in the prime of life, in good health, vigorous in action, and has many years of usefulness and activity befoi'e him. His temperament is of the sanguine, vital order; his nature is buoyant and joyful, and life to him is a boon indeed, for he appreciates its privileges and pleasures. He is full of jest and humor, enjoys a good story as well as a breakfast, and will never grow old if he can wheedle Old Time with a California anecdote. He is singularly fortunate in his domestic relations, and has reared a family reflecting tine accomplishments and culture. That he is a champion of education is demonstrated by the manner in whicli he has directed and controlled the intellectual necessities of his children. He is publicspirited and enterprising, and readily endorses any project calculated to stimulate the development and prosperity of his city and county. He is generous and aifable, his sympathies expressing themselves in kindness to friends and charities, where they are merited. It may be said of him, in all the relations of life in which he is summoned to act, that he is trustworthy, constant and honest, with wellsettled habits of industry and application. His wife is a member of the English Lutheran Church, \>diikL_ather membersof his family are Presbyteriabe. Mr. Funck is an attendant upon church service, though not a member of any ecclesiastical organization. He believes that religion is a matter of conscience, and therefore should not be interfered with,, as he believes that politics is a matter of principle, in which men honestly diffei-.

f WILSON DAGUE was born in A^ I Norton Township, Summit Co., ^^ Ohio, June 29, 1854, and is a sou of Michael D. and Elizabeth (McElhenie) Dague. He was reai'etl in his native township and educated in the common schools and Western Star Academy (Ohio). In 1874 he located in Doylestown, Cliippewa Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, and entered the employ of Dague Bros. & Co. as clerk, serving in that capacity until 1S7S. wbeu lie was admitted as a partner into the above-named firm, in which he still continues. May 10, 1876, he married Lucretia, daughter of William and Mary A. (Frederick) Turner, of Doylestowu, Ohio, and by her he has two children: Mattie M. and William M.

William Turner, the father of Mrs. Dague, was born of Pennsylvania stock, January 23, 182".', and was a resident of Wayne County, Ohio, as early as 18-10. He learned the carriage maker's trade at Doylestown, where he carried on business for several years. On account of ill health he spent three years in California, and on his return engaged in the coal business in Doylestown. In 1859 he commenced farming, which he continued until his death, which occurred in September, 1869. He had six children, of whom four are yet living, viz.: Matthew E., William H., Lucretia I Mrs. J. W. Dague) and Elias G. The maternal grandparents of Mrs. Dagu? were Thomas and Elizabeth (Shawk) Frederick, natives of Pennsylvania, who were the sixth family to settle in Chippewa Township, Wayne County. They located in 18 li on Section 10, one-half of which Mr. Frederick purchased from the Government, and of which he cleared 200 acres, planting the first orchard in the township. He reared a family of fourteen children, named as follows: Jacob, Harriet (Mrs. John Brouse), Margaret (Mrs. Isaac Middleton), Sophia (Mrs. Charles Wall), Reason, Dolly (Mrs. Samuel Galehouse), Rachel (Mrs. Samuel Young), Matthew E., William, Henry, Catherine A. (Mrs. William Basinger), Sarah A. (Mrs. Joseph Watts), Elizabeth (Mrs. William Johnson) and Mary A. (Mrs. William Turner). Mr. and Mi"s. Frederick lived to see all their children married, and all the latter lived to attend the funeral of their mother, whose death was the first to occur in the family.

Mr. Dague, whose name heads this sketch, is a leading citizen of Doylestown, and an enterprising business man. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Chiirch since fifteen years of age; in politics he is a Democrat.

f^ rON. ADDISON S. McCLURE, atrp-|| torney at law. was born at Woos- Jj ^ ter, Ohio, October 10, 1839. His paternal grandparents, Matthew and Margaret (Brandon) McClure, natives of Pennsylvania, came with their family to Ohio in 1823, locating in Wooster, where he (Matthew) embarked in the hardware business, being a tinner by trade. They had a large family of children, all born in Pennsylvania. Their eltlest, Charles McClure, who was a boy when his parents moved to Ohio, married Lncetta Rogers, and to them were born three sons, Addison S. being the only one now living; William H. was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion, a member of Company E, Fourth Ohio, and was shot through both legs at Chanceliorsville (he never fully recovered, and died from the effects of his wounds in 1886) ; Matthew, tlie second son. died in 1877.

Addison S. McClure was from childhood an apt scholar, and in 1853 was ready for college, entering the junior preparatory year at Jefferson College, from which he graduated in 1859. In college he was studious, standing at the head of bis classes, and distinguishing himself for his proficiency in some branches. After leaving school he went South, where he taught one year; then began the study of his chosen profession, his preceptors beinir Hon. Levi Cox and Judge Martin Welker. He was admitted to the bar in March, 1861, and a few weeks later, in April, enlisted, at the call of President Lincoln for men to suppress the Rebellion, as a private in Company E, Fourth Ohio Infantry, becoming afterward sergeantmajor of the regiment. In June, 1861, he re-enlisted in the same company and regiment for three years, or during the war, and in October following was transferred to tlie Sixteenth Ohio, and promoted to ca])taiu of Company H, serving with this regiment until his discharge, in August, 1864. He participated in the Vicksburg campaign under Gen. Grant, and in Texas and the Red River campaigns under Gen. Banks. He was captured near Yicksburg December 29, 1862, and was held a prisoner until May, 1863, in the prisons at Vicksburg, Jackson, and Libby, at Richmond. After his discharge he returned home and resumed the practice of law. He was appointed postmaster at Wooster in May, 1867, and held the office twelve successive years. He was a delegate to the National Rejjublican Convention held at Chicago in 1868, when U. S. Grant was nominated for the presidency; and again, in 1876, to the convention at Cincinnati, when R. B. Hayes received the nomination. He has been a member of the Republican State Committee at different times, and for several years has been chairman of the Republican Central Committee of Wayne County. He was elected to Congress in 1880, by the Eighteenth Congressional District, composed of Lorain, Medina, Summit and Wayne Counties, and was nnaninunisly renominated, in 1882. by the Twentieth District, but lost the election by 110 votes. Since his return from Congress, in 1883, he has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. His coun-

I sels are always the result of careful deliberatiou, his client feeling that his cause is just when it is advocated by Mr. Mc- Clure. His pleas are terse and to the point, and are devoid of mucli that so often is heard in the court-room. A gentleman of the highest type, he never forgets to be a gentleman, and always wins the respect of judge and jury. Wayne County bar is honored by having so distinguished a member as A. S. McClure.

Capt. MeClure was married September 26, 1866, to Miss Mary L. Brigham, a native of Monroe County, Mich., born February 13, 1841, a daughter of Eldridge G. and Mary L. (Mitchell) Brigham. Mr. Brigham located in Monroe, Mich., in 1832, where he was a manufacturer of and dealer in furniture. He was one of the most prominent citizens of the place, and held various official positions, among others those of supervisor, alderman, treasurer and mayor. Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Clure have one sou, Walter C, who was born in August, 1880. They are descendants of old Puritan families, their ancestors being members of the Presbyterian Church, and in the doctrines of tiiis church they were educated, Mrs. McClure being a member of same. They have a beautiful hom(> on Beall Avenue, where hospitality reigns supreme, and they are never so happy as when ministering to the comfort and enjoyment of their friends. Capt. McClure is never wearied! in telling, or in listening to his comrades tell, of the trials and privations of their army life. He is thoroughly patriotic, a true American citizen, and is an activemember of Given Post No. 155, G. A. R.

DR. JOE H. TODD. Among the successful specialists of Wayne - ' County ranks high the physician whose name heads this biographical memoir, and who is a native of the county. His paternal great-grandfather, who was of high Irish blood, and married to a Welsh woman, came with his son James, (grandfather of our subject) to America, and located at Baltimore, Md., where he followed boating. He also ran a coasting vessel, sailing as far south as the West Indies, his son being engaged with him until, overtaken by misfortune, they lost their all. The son was then appointed by the Government to a squireship, which liontinued for life. The maternal grandparents of Dr. Todd came from Holland about the year 1780, settling near Philadelphia. The parents were both natives of York County, Penn., and came to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1828, then unmarried and strangers, but " met by chance, the usual way," and were herft

The subject of this biographical memoir attended the academy at Hayesville, aud later the one at Fredericksburgh, Ohio, aud commenced the study of medicine in 1861, finishing in 1865. He was a student of the celebrated Frank H. Hamilton aud Stephen Smith, and graduated in March, 1865, from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Locating at Shreve, Wayne Co., Ohio, the Doctor here first began the practice of his chosen profession, remaining in the town some twelve years; then moved to a farm which it was his intention to superintend, but, changing his mind, he came to Wooster in 1876, and purchased a home on West Liberty Street, where he now resides. While on the farm he visited, in 1870, New York, where he was assistant (1870-71) in the j)hysiological laboratory of Austin Flint, Jr. The Doctor's practice was at first a general one, but having made a special study of surgery, he has gradually almost exclusively confined himself to that branch of the profession and chronic diseases, where exactness in diagnosis is required, which keeps him and an able assistant fully occupied. His chief art in the science of surgery lies in the successful treatment of deformities; and in this specialty his skill is known tliroughout

Wayne and adjoining counties, many patients coming considerable distances to consult him. The Doctor paid a great deal of attention to the study of microscopy, which at present is one of the branches to which he gives much attention; aud differential diagnosis is one of his greatest delights, receiving at his hands a large portion of his time.

In 1872 Dr. Todd married Ophelia, daughter of James Campbell, and a native of Pennsylvania, of Scotch extraction, a scion of the celebrated Campbell family, one of whom, the Marquis of Lome, is married to a daughter of Queen Victoria. Our subject and wife have one son, James Campbell Todd, born March 17, 1874. The Doctor aud his estimable wife attend the services of the Methodist Church; in politics he is a Republican.

July 26, 1854. His father, Aaron K. Nice, was a native of Pennsylvania, and when a young man removed to Ohio, where he married Sarah Lesher. The mother passed from earth in 1871, aud in 1877 the father followed her to the grave. David Nice is a self-made man. He first worked at farming, and afterward for two years was employed as newsboy on the Baltimore <& Ohio Railroad. In 1873 he came to Wooster to learn the trade of book-binder, at which he worked for seven or eight years, and then turned his attention to mercantile pursuits, for which he has shown himself eminently qualified, and in which he has been very successful. After giving up book-binding, he embarked in the hat and cap business, to which he afterward added gents' furnishing goods, and has built up a fine trade, which is steadily increasing in magnitude. In 1886 he moved to his present quarters, adding boots and shoes to his already large stock. He keeps a full line of these goods, and of the kindred articles usually found in first-class stores of the kind, doing the largest business in the county in this line, and much greater than is to be found in many larger cities than Wooster. He keeps a full line of domestic and foreign goods, carrying a stock valued at 820,000. May 22. 1S79, Mr. Nice was united in marriage with Miss Alice, a daughter of Samuel and Susan (Albright) Taylor, natives of Wayne County, and they have three children: Mabel, Walter and Mary. David Nice is prominent in the social as well as the business circles of Wooster. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of the Knights of Honor, and of the Odd Fellows order, lodge and encampment.

The success Mr. Nice has met with in business is due to the energy and tact he has always displayed. He knows the value of reputation to a merchant, and always aims to do a little better than he promises, and his stock is always kept up to the demands of his patrons. He is universally recognized as one of Wooster's enterpris- ' ing and progressive young business men, and has undoubtedly a bright career before him.

Mrs. Isaac Eaiuey, of Ashlaud County, Ohio ; Harry, who is married, and lives in Wooster, Ohio; Franklin, in Minnesota; John, in Iowa, and F. Merriam, who died in Nebraska. Mr. Baumbardner died at Findlay, Ohio, and his widow then married America Funk, and located on the farm now owned by William Griffith, in Clinton Township, Wayne County. Mr. Funk was one of the representative men of his locality, was a successful farmer, and died in 1873, leaving three children: Emma T., now Mrs. Irwin Tyler, of Indiana; Alice, since deceased, and Rebecca, now Mrs. Addison Cushman, of Chicago. Mr. Funk had previously been married, and was left with three children, of whom one was killed in the armj', and the other two are still living. Mrs. Funk is now a resident of Shreve, and in her declining years, although separated from her children, is surrounded by life-long friends. She is a member of the Disciples Chiirch, and takes an active interest iu it as well as in social matters.

JACOB MONGEY. In 1828 Xavier Mongey came from France and settled in America, remaining for a time iu New York, where he married Catherine Icherd, also a native of " La Belle France," and together they came to

Wayne County, Ohio, where they began farming. To their married life four children were born, all of whom live in Wayne County, Jacob, whose name heads this sketch, being among the number. In 1869 the mother passed from earth. The father, who is a well-preserved man of seventyfive years, still resides in Wayne County. Jacob Mongey remained on the farm until twenty years of age, when he learned the trade of a carpenter, and at the age of twenty-two he was married to Miss Mary Graber, a native of France, who had come to America with her parents when she was four yeai-s of age. Only two years of wedded life, however, were granted to them, for then death claimed the wife, who had become a mother; she left one child, Albert, who now resides in Wooster, this county. In the fall of 1873 Mr. Mongey took for his second wife Fannie Graber, a sister of his former wife, and to this union two daughters and one son have been born. For several years Mr. Mongey was a brewer, also dealing iu live stock. He is a stanch Democrat, all his life having given considerable time to politics, and has filled various positions of trust in his county. In 1884 he was elected sheriff of the county, and in 1886 was re-elected to the same position. Mr. Mongey is a man of liberal ideas, one who at all times extends the rigid hand of friendship to every deserving man.

T JrON. E. B. ESHELMAN, editor, f'^ and a member of the firm of H. Jj ~ P. Gravatt & Co., publishers of the Wayne County Democrat,* is a uative of Mount Joy, Lancaster Co., Peun., a sou of Peter and Mary Eshelmau. His father carried on, in a small way, the business of chair-making and turning, and, being in limited circumstances, his son began when but a boy to work to assist iu his own maintenance. He was for a time errand boy and chirk in a store, and then went into a printing office at Lancaster, Peun., as an apprentice, to learn the trade. After working for a short time as journeyman he turned his attention to editorial work, and, with the exception of four years' editorial connection with the Daily Ohio Statesman, from January, 1865, to February, 1869, has given his attention to editing and publishing Democratic county papers, the most of the time being connected with the Chillicothe Adcrliser and the Wayne County Democrat. As an editor he understands fully the entire mechanism of a paper, and his editorials are well written and forcible. His influence in favor of Democrac)' is not confined to the limits of his own county, but extends throughout tlie State, the prominent part he has taken in politics making him well known in political circles. His name, contrary to his wishes, has been brought before the people by his friends in the Seventeenth-Twenty-eighth District as a candidate for the nomination of State senator, which represents the four counties - Holmes, Knox, Morrow and Wayne. The pi'ess of the various counties speaks favorably of him for this important position, and we quote the foUow-

*In September, 1836. Mr. Joseph Cling.m issued the first numlier of the Itepublicnn .-iilrwate, whose partial mission was the support of Gen. Jaclison for the Presidenc}-. This journal continued some twelve years, wlien Mr. Clingau sold out to Samuel Littell, who bought Ihe Western Teieyraph. which had been estaldishtd by Martin Barr. These two papers, their politics being identical. Mr. Littell consolidated, and he then issued the Demorratie Republican. This sheet, after a three years' existence, was leased to Miller & Carpenter, who published it for a year and thi'U abandoned it. Its successor is the Wayne Ouunty Democrat, the recognized official organ of the party whose interests it supports, and first published by Isaac N. Hill for a few years, after wliicli Mr. Lillell sold the office to Messrs. C'arn)' & Means, who coutiiuied the publication until the decease of the latter, when Hon. John Larwill secured proprietorship of the paper. This gentleman sold the office to .lacob A. Jlarcliand. who owned the paper up till Ids death, in 1802. The ne.xt ]iurchaser was. in 18(i;i. .lohn II. Olierly. who. in 1804. sold to Col. Benjamin Eison. who, two years later, sold to lion. John P. Jelfries. who edited the paper for a year and then transferred it by sale to Benjamin Eason and Asa G. DimmocU. In 180T Mr. Eason sold his interest to Mr. DimmocU. who received Lemuel Jeffries into partnership, under the firm name of Dimmock & Jeffries, and they subsequently sold tlie paper to James A. Estill, who took charge in April, IMOH. Some ten months later, Mr, Estill retiring, Hon. E. B. Esljelman, of the Columbus Statexuian. purchased his interest, tlie Deiiiorrat being conducted by Messrs. Eshelman, Franklin, Harry and John J, Lemon, Mr, Eshelman being the editor. In 1872 the last n nned sold his share to John H. Boyd. who. in 1876, transferred his interest to Thomas E. Peckinpaiigh. Ihe business department of the paper bi ing managed by him for several years, when he sold out. Mr. H. P. Gravatt purchased, in July, 18X1, Mr. Eshelman's half interest in tlie paper, the latter wilhilrawing. but in 1886 returning to the partncrsliip by jiurchasing the fourth interest belomring to the late Dr. L. Firestone, and resuming its editorship. The firm name now is H. P. Gravatt it Co., Mr. Gravatt attending to the business of the firm.

iiig from the Columbus Pos/; "He has had legislative experience, has ability of a high order, and his industry and push are immeasurable. He would be a credit to the district in the Ohio Senate, as well as a credit to that body." Mr. Eshelman's popularity is not confined to the borders of his own State, as the following from the Miami County (Ind. ) Sentinel will show: "We notice that the name of Hon. E. B. Eshelman, editor of the Wayne County (Ohio) Democrat, is mentioned in connection with the nomination for senator in the Seventeenth - Twenty-eighth (Ohio) District, composed of the counties of Wayne, Holmes, Knox and Morrow. No better man and no purer Democrat than Mr. Eshelman can the Buckeye State boast of. We say to our old friends in that district that if Mi'. E. will consent to accept the nomination to give it to him by a unanimous vote. Mr. Eshelman would take a front rank in the Senate, and the Democracy of Ohio would have a representative of whom they would justly feel proud. 'Old Figures' to the front." Mr. Eshelman has been first assistant clerk of the Ohio Senate, and for a time was clerk in the treasui-y department at Washington. While living in Chillicothe . he was postmaster over four years, and president of the Chillicothe City Council. In 1874-75 he represented Wayne County in the Ohio House of Kepresentatives, and was chairman of the finance committee. In 1888 he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at St. Louis from the Twentieth District. In April, 1889, he was elected, against his wishes, a member of the city council of Wooster, and is now chairman of the finance committee of that body.

HI ON. JOHN BEINKEKHOFF, residing in Bloomington, Wayne County, was born near New Kingstown, Cumberland Co., Penn., June 9, 1813, the eldest son and second child of Daniel and Rebecca (Frazier) Brinkerhoflp. He was educated near Dillsburgh, Penn., at a private academy, under James O'Hail and John Jones, both men of marked ability. Mr. Brinkerhoff at eighteen began teaching at Roxbury, where he remained one year, when he removed with his parents to Wayne County, Ohio. Upon his arrival in Wayne County he began teaching in Canaan Township, where the village of Golden Corners now stands, and where he taught school thirteen consecutive year's.

1817, a daughter of George and Barbara (Harsh) Sommers, natives of Washington County. They moved to Wayne County in 1819, and settled in Canaan Township, near what is now Golden Corners. Mr. and Mrs. Brinkerhoff had three children: George S., Daniel V. and Joseph W. The mother died September 2^ 1851, a member of the United Presbyterian Church. The two eldest sons served in the Union army, George in the Fortyseventh Indiana Regiment, and Daniel in the Fourth Ohio. After a service of nine months Daniel V., being prostrated with fever, was brought home, where he died. Joseph W. is a graduate from the Wooster High School in the class of 1869, and of the medical department of the Wooster University at Cleveland, Ohio, and is at present practicing medicine at Burbank, Wayne Co., Ohio. November 17, 1852. the father married Miss Mary Robinson, who was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., November 25, 1819, a daughter of William and Isabel (Eaton) Robinson. In September, 1845, Mr. Brinkerhoff removed to Wooster, and became one of the managers of the Wooster Academy, and one of the principals of the Wooster graded schools, under the Aki'ou, Ohio, system. He has almost exclusively devoted his time and attention to some educational enterprise of the people, either as school examiner, superintendent, teacher, trustee or committeeman. Mr. Brinkerhoff is one of the substantial and intelligent residents of Wooster and Bloomingtou ; strictly upright and honorable, he is one of the honored men of Wayne County and of Ohio. He was county surveyor of Wayne County in 1844, and has served officially at different times in that capacity for eighteen years. His labors in this respect continue whether in or out of office, and his lines, angles and corners are trusty landmarks. His valuable services rendered as engineer in the construction of the Wooster Water Works, and his remarkable fertility in delineation of plans, contributed largelj' to the consummation of that splendid enterprise of the citizens of Wooster. He planned the arrangements of the Wooster High School building on the principle of the division of labor, while the details were drawn up by a Cleveland ai'chitect. He was selected by the county commissioners to organize and place in working condition the Wayne County Infirmary, and was afterward elected a director by the citizens of the county. He was elected to the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio, serving from January 4, 1864, to January 1, 1866. He proved himself to be a working, vigilant member, promptly at his post of duty and keenly alive to the interests of his constituents and the welfare of the public. While Mr. Brink- erhoff has passed his seventy-sixth year, by a life of the strictest sobriety and temperance, of great evenness, moderation and method, not yielding to mental or physical excitement, unsapped by excesses, unvisited by the assaults of destructive passions, he is to-day, in almost the prime of manhood, the possessor of a sound mind in a healthy body, with every faculty susceptible of its strongest tension and activity.

He and his wife belong to the United Presbyterian Church, of which he has been a life-long and prominent member. He was elected an elder in the Killbuck congregation of that church at the early age of tweuty-foul", and has served in that capacity ever since. He was a member of the first general assembly immediately after the union of the Associate and Associate Reformed branches, in 1857, and again at the general assembly in Philadelphia, Penn., in 1873; he also represented his church at the Synod of the Reformed Chin-ch held at Utica, Ohio. He was also selected to represent the good-will of his church at the general assembly held at Springfield, 111. He was frequently employed as peacemaker between contending brethren, and rarely failed in attaining the object of his mission. He is fcrequently selected to settle the estates of deceased persons, and is the guardian of minor children, some of whom he took into his own family and educated. The action of the trustees of the Wooster University in relation to Mr. Brinkerhoff was communicated by their secretary, as follows:

Wooster, Ohio, June 25, 1886. Mr. John Brinkerhoff - Dear Sir: - It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Board of Trustees of the Univcrsit}- of Wooster, at their last annual meeting, held June 23 and 33, 1886, unanimously and cordially conferred upon you the honorary degree of A. M. Congratulating you upon the studious habits and scholarly attainments which have entitled you to this honor, and with best wishes for your continued health and usefulness, I am. Very respectfully yours,

EORGE LAWRENCE (deceased) was born in Middletowu, Penn., in 1818. His father, Christian Lawrence, was also a native of Pennsylvania, born in Lancaster County January 25, 1779, and married Magdalena Ettele, daughter of PhilipEttele. In May, 1823, Christian Lawrence came with his family to Wayne County, Ohio, and settled on forty acres of land, building a log house for his family. Of a family of six sons and four daughters, but three sons are now living. He and his wife were members of the first church (Lutheran) organized in the city of Wooster.

George Lawrence was five years old when his parents moved to Wayne County, and here he was reared and educated. He became one of the successful farmers of Chester Township, owning at the time of his death 400 acres of land, which was divided equally among his children. He began life poor, and his success was due to his own energy, assisted by his noble and faithful wife. He married Julia Yetter, daughter of Philip Yetter, of Penusjdvania, and to them were born ten children, eight of whom are living: Elizabeth, born in 1844, married H. Hemperly in 1868; Catharine, born in 1846, was married in 1872 to J. Killiuger; Mary A., born in 1847, was married in 1882 to S. Zimmerman; Maggie, born in 1849, was married in 1868 to T. O. Bechtel; Emeline, born in 1851, was married in 1879 to I. Smyser; Nancy, born in 1854, married G. Winter in 1882; G. W., born in 1856, and Martin, born in 1859; Daniel and Samuel are deceased. The sons, George and Martin, reside on the old homestead, and both are intelligent and enterprising young men. Martin was married in 18S6 to Miss Sarah E. Eyman, and they have one child, Emmett. George is unmarried. This is one of the highly respected families of Chester Township, Wayne County, which the father and grandfather in times past have done so much toward building up, assisting materially in its advancement to its pi^esent place among the best counties of the State. They are members of the Reformed Church; in politics they support the Democratic party.

was born in 1744, and whence, when two years old, he accompanied his parents to America. He was reared in Berks County, Penn., where he was married to F. Christina Speck, who was born in Alsace, Germany, in 1751; her parents were sold to pay their passage to this country. Martin Lehman remained in Berks County until 1796, when, with his wife, he removed to Lancaster County, in the same State, settling on a small tract of land, where he died in 1801 ; his widow survived him many years, her death occurring in

1822. They had a family of seven childi"en : Catherine, Henry, Christian, George, Mary, Martin and John, all of whom reached years of maturity.

160 acres of lautl in ^V^ayne Township, for which he paid §800. He was a miller liy trade, which he carried on until he moved to "Wayue County, Ohio, from which time he followed farming, and by hard labor and good management he acquired a competency. Public-spirited and enterprising, he was not only ambitious to obtain property for his own use, but was also interested in the material welfare of his township and county, and always gave lilierally of his means to all enterprises |5romising to advance, either financially or morally, the prosperity of the community. He occupied various official positions of trust and responsibility; was justice of the peace a number of years; was township clerk, trustee, treasurer and overseer of the poor. He was twice married, liis first wife being Christina Smith, who bore him five children: Benjamin, Mary Ann, Catherine, Eliza and Nancy. His second wife was Nancy Bair, and by her he had a family of twelve children : Sarah, Ephraim, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Susan, John H., Caroline, Martin, Maria, Christi Ann. George D. and Cyrus E. Mr. Lehman lived to see his land cleared of primeval forest, and the wilderness become the home of a civilized and prosperous community, being at the time of his death one of the oldest citizens in AVayne County. Ephraim Lehman, the second child and eldest son of John and Nancy (Bair)

Lehman, was born August 11, 182B, in Wayne Township. He has all his life followed farming, and now owns the land purchased by his father. In 1852 he married Miss Susan, daujjhter of Jacob and Saloma (Billman) Freese, of Wayne Township, and by her has had seven children, viz.: Luther V., born November 29,1854; Cecelia Odessa, born in 1856; John E., in 1859; Franklin F., in 1861; Cora Bell, in 1864; Herman L., in 1871. and Floyd V., in 1874. Mr. Lehman has served his township in the varied capacities of trustee, clerk and treasurer, having held some official position for the past twenty-two years. He is recognized as one of the most prominent and publicspirited citizens of Wayne County, and is highly esteemed and cordially liked by all who know him. Like his father, he is a Democrat.

native of Wayue County, Ohio, a son of Solomon and Luthena Baxighman. His paternal grandparents, John and Elizabeth Baughman, were natives of Washington County. Penii., where they were married, and in 1810 they moved with their family to Wayne County, Ohio, locating in what is now Baughmau Township, which was named in honor of John Baughman. He was elected justice of the peace a number of terms, and his commissions are still in the possession of his grandson, John W. He was a well-educated man for his time, and was a leader in his township. He died in 1837. He was an old-time Democrat, voting for Thomas Jefferson, the party's candidate for President. He and his wife were members of the Lutheran Church. They had a large family, of whom only the youngest, David, survives, at present a resident of Chippewa Township.

Solomon, the eldest of the family, was born March 20, 1800, and when ten years old his parents moved to Wayne County. He served an apprenticeship at the carriage and wagon - maker's trade, and opened the first factory in Dalton. He was a successful business man, and was elected to fill various official positions in the township, among others that of treasurer and trustee. His wife, 7iee Luthena Black, was a native of Maryland, and when a child accompanied her pai-ents, James and Rosanna Black, to Stark County, Ohio. Her father was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving under Gen. Harrison. Solomon and Luthena Baughman had a family of four children: John W., Elizabeth, James and Jacob. The father died March 18, 1887.

John W. Baughman is the only member of his father's family now living. He was educated at the public school and the academy at Dalton, which was then under the supervision of the United Presbyterian Church, attending school until about seventeen years old, when he began teaching in the winter, alternating with work in his father's shop. In 1855 he was elected to the Legislature by the Democratic party, serving one term. In 1868 he was elected clerk of the courts, and removed to Wooster, being re-elected in 1871. In 1886 he was again elected by the Democratic party to represent Wayne County in the Legislature, and was re-elected in 1888.

Mr. Baughmau was married January 1. 1857, to Miss Charlotte Barkdull, a native of Wayne County, daughter of Peter and Sarah Bai'kdull, and they have two children, Luthena and Emily.

JOHN McCLELLAN, of AYooster, is one of the oldest living settlers of ^^ Wayne County, Ohio, and was born ixi Beaver County, Penu., in 1810. His father, also named John, came with his wife and two children, John and Rebecca, to the then wild county of Wayne in