Wayne Township (part 8 of 15)

County, the latter liaviug been an ensign with Commodore Perry in his famous battle on Lake Erie, and the fourth man to board the British fleet. Mr. McElheuie lived for fifteen years on one of the many farms owned by James Duncan, in Penn's Yalley, and in the winter season was one of the many who carried on trade between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia by teaming across the mountains. To him were born nine children, sis sons and three daughters. Two sons died in infancy, and the rest of the children were as follows: "William, John, Margaret C, Elizabeth K., James E., Thomas J. and Jane. In 1833 Mr. McElhenie made a prospecting tour to Ohio, and in May, 1834, he purchased eighty acres of land near Easton, in Chippewa Township, on the bank of the Big Chippewa Creek, and opened a tavern, which he kept several years. In 1814 he sold his farm, and located in Easton, where he built a large house, at the east end of the village, now owned and occupied by his youngest son, Thomas J. Before he left Pennsylvania he had held the office of Justice of the Peace, his commission from Gov. Gregg being still in the possession of his son, Thomas J. Soon after coming to Ohio he was elected to the same office, which he continued to hold for several terms. As a magistrate he always endeavored to induce litigants to compromise rather than to go on with a suit.

Upon his first election his wife's nephew, John Eaken, then a cabinet-maker in the neighborhood, said: "Now, uncle, you must have a chair and desk in keeping with the dignity of your office," and made the same, which are still in possession of the son, who for many yeai-s used them in his administration of the same office (as will be mentioned farther on). Mr. Mc- Elhenie was a man of sterling character, one of the sturdy yeomanry who braved the trials of pioneer life, and out of the wild chaos forged the chain of civilization which brought the great State of Ohio to its present proud position in the galaxy of States. Some time after moving over to the village Mr. McElhenie opened a store, afterward taking his youngest son, Thomas J., into partnership with him, and they continued in business there until a short time before the War of the Eebellion, when they were overcome by the effects of the panic of 1857. Mr. McElhenie afterward lived the quiet life suited to his years, and on April 23, 1871, he died, at the age of eighty-four years. His wife, Margaret, born July 12, 1793, survived until November 22, 1874, when she died at the residence of her youngest daughter, Mrs. Jane Brattin, near Easton. Of their children, William, I who was a tailor by trade, was twice married, and died at Mendota, 111. (a portion of iiis family now reside at La Salle, 111. ) ; John married Sarah Brouse, and reared a large family (they uow reside iu Steiibeu County, Ind. ) ; Margaret C. married Ephraim Martin, and became the mother of four children (he is dead, and she lives with a daughter at Mogadore, Ohio) ; Elizabeth K. married Michael D. Dague (they live in Doylestown, Oiiio, and are referred to at length elsewhere in this work); James E., who was twice married, and reared a large family, is uow a resident of Steuben County, Ind. ; Thomas J. ; Jane, the youngest, married George W. Brattin (they now live in Williams County, Ohio). Thomas J. McElhenie was born iu Centre County, Penn., July 4, 1826, the day iipon which ex-Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, and was named in honor of the latter. He was reared iu Chippewa Township from eight years of age, and his education was obtained at the district schools, the famous McGregor Academy, at Wadsworth, and under "Priest" Abbott, the Presbyterian minister at Doylestown. Like his father, he taught school for some time, then went into the store with his father. March 22, 1848, Mr. McElhenie married Sarah B., daughter of Abram Van Emau, a stanch Presbyterian farmer of Lawrence Township, Stark Co., Ohio. Upon the failure of the firm, iu 1859, and during the auction sale which followed, he kept a restaurant, which grew through several stages until by 1872-73 (at tlie time of the building of the railroad through the village) he was occupying the old storeroom, greatly enlarged, and doing a large business. For several years he held the office of Justice of the Peace, and was also Constable and Township Trustee. In 1874 he was elected to the office of County Auditor, in which capacity he served with credit to himself and the county for four years, or two successive terms. After retiring from office he engaged in the grocery business at Wooster, Ohio, but sold out the next fall, and returned to Easton, where he had invested his means in land adjoining the village, which he still owns and cultivates. After returning to Chippewa Township he was elected Constable until the office of Jiistice of the Peace became vacant, when he was again chosen to that office, holding the same until 1888, when he declined to serve longer, saying that, as he had held the office seven terms, or one term longer than any other man in the township, he felt that his ambition ought to be satisfied. His children were nine in number, of whom four grew to maturity, viz. : Thomas D., James V., Mary B. and Lillian M. Of these, Thomas D. learned the drug business in Wooster, graduating at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1872, and is now a prominent druggist of Brooklyn, N. Y. He married Miss Belle Osborne, of Wooster. Ohio. James V., the second sou, was brought up behind the counter in his father's store; attended Smithville High School a few terms; taught school one term ; occupied various clerical positions, including about two j-ears' service in the County Auditor's office with his father, and upon the retirement of the latter he jDurchased the office of the Journal newspaper at Doylestown from its founder, G. W. Everts, which he conducted until 1883, in which year, on account of ill health, he sold out to G. A. Corbus, of Wooster. March 29, 1881, Mr. McElhenie married Miss Laura J. France, of Wooster, one of whose grandfathers was John Lehman, who died in Wayne Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, in 188(1, at the age of ninety-four. She died October 27, 1883, leaving one child, Paul. After a variety of experiences, six months in Nebraska, two years of farming, and the establishment of the Sim newspaper at Fredericksburgh, together with its management for nine months, Mr. McElhenie again found himself, in October, 1887, in charge of the Doylestown Journal, under a lease. In March following he purchased the office outright, and continues in charge at this writing. On December 13, 1888, Mr. McElhenie again entered the marriage relation, his wife being Miss Anna Hawkins, of Fredericksburgh, a granddaughter of Joseph Hawkins, one of the early settlers of the county. Her father was chief musician of the One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the War of the Rebellion, and was confined in Libby and Camp Ford (Tyler, Tex.) prisons. Mary B. and Lillian M. remain at home in Easton with their parents.

MRS. MARY JANE MYERS. This well-known lady has been a resident of Wayne County all her life, having been born in Wooster Township, May 22, 1824. Her father, John Kauke, a native of Holland, came to America with his parents when a small boy. They stopped for a time in Pennsylvania, when Christopher, grandfather of Mrs. Myers, came to Wayne County, in which he passed the remainder of his life. The family made the journey in covered wagons. John Kaukegrew to manhood in Pennsylvania, and there learned the trade of shoe-making. He was married to Miss Mary Hoover, who was born about seven miles from Wilkes Barre, Peun., in which State both her parents died. John Kauke and his wife came to Wayne County about 1816, and he there engaged in the manufacture of brick, making some of the first ever burnt in

AVhen she was seventeen years of age Mary Jane Kauke was united in marriage with John Myers, a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, whose father, also named John, was born in Pennsylvania, and came as a pioneer to Wayne County. The latter was a wagoner, and teamed between Baltimore and Pittsburgh when goods were transported altogether by wagon. John Myers, husband of our subject, learned the trade of carpentering in his native county, and worked at it after coming to this county. For three years after their marriage the young couple lived in what is known as the haunted house, in AVooster Township. On the death of his mother they went to live with his father, staying with him two years, and then removing to a farm in Chester Township, remaining on it for twelve years. His father dying, they again went to the old homestead for three years, after which they returned to their own farm. In 1870 the family removed to the house the father had Imilt in Wooster, which is Mrs. Myers' present home, and lived there five years, but in the fall of 1873 death took from the family circle two sons and a daughterin-law, and the afflicted parents again returned to their farm, trying by active labor to assuage their grief. In the spring of 1884 the grim reaper again invaded their hearthstone, this time taking away the husband and father, at the age of sixty-seven years. -John Myers was a prominent man in the county, and exercised a considerable influence in its affairs. He was well known and much respected by those who knew him, and left behind not only a competence, but the better heritage of a good name. In politics he was a stanch Republican, and while a resident of Chester Township was for many years township assessor and township trustee.

By her marriage with Mr. Myers our subject became the mother of eight children, of whom we make the following record: John H. died in childhood; Walter M. entered the army during the Civil War, in the 100-day men, and died while in the service, of typhoid fever; Samuel B., or " Doc," as he was familiarly called, is also deceased, he aud his wife dying a few hours apart, of typhoid fever, leaving two children, Sydney D. and Laura B., who are being reared and educated b}' Mrs. Myers; the next in order of birth is Mary Ellen, who is now Mrs. Snyder, of Chester Township; Charles is deceased; Brown is living in Nebraska; Grant is a book-keeper, and makes his home with his mother; aud an infant, who died unnamed, comj^letes the list. The fall following her husband's death Mrs. Myers came back to Wooster, ami has since made her liome in her pleasant house ou Saj-boklt Aveuue. For fortyeigbt years Mr. Myers has been a member of the Baptist Church, and his widow Las now been a member for the same number of years. All the children who grew to maturity also became members of the same church. The family is one of the oldest and best known in the county, and will long be remembered as among its worthy pioneers. They are esteemed and respected by every person with whom they come in contact.

ILLIAM B. TAYLOR, a son of /If/ Josspl' Taylor, and grandson of John Taylor, was born in Canaan Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, August 18, 181:9, and grew to manhood ou the old home place in Canaan Township, which was entered by his grandfather, John Ta3'lor. The latter was a native of Crawford County, Penn., and came to Wayne County, Ohio, in an early day, being among the early settlers of the county. He died aged ninety-four years. Joseph Taylor, father of William B., was a native of Wayne County, born in Canaan Township in 1814, and died May 18, 1870; his wife was Lucinda, daughter of Jacob Hartman, and was born near Troy, Ashland Co., Ohio. In his father's will William B. Taylor was named as the executor of the estate, and this trust he fulfilled with admirable satisfaction to all the heirs. The subject of this memoir received a common-school education, and was brought up to farm life.

December 7, 1871, he married Miss Jane, daughter of William Kiser, one of the first settlers of Congress Township, Wayne County, and to this union four children were born: Kiser W., born March 14, 1875; Nellie M., March 23, 1877; Norah A., January 12, 1879, and Clyde E., July 15, 1886. Mr. Taylor is at present a member of the Board of Trustees for Congress Township, and is serving his third term. He and his wife are prominent members of the United Brethren Church. They own between them 262 acres of as fine land as can be found in the State of Ohio.

QEORGE STROCK, son of Conrad ' and Mary (Wyrick) Strock, natives of Dauphin County, Penn., was born in that county and State September 22, 1825, in November of which year the family moved to Wayne County, Ohio, first locating on what is now known as the Smith farm, in Plain Township. After remaining there four years, they moved into Wooster Township, where the parents spent the balance of their lives. They were prominent members of the German Lutheran Church. Conrad Strock was in early days an active Democrat, but later became a member of the Whig party, and held several township offices. Four of the children of Conrad and Mary Strock are yet living, viz.: Catherine, wife of Abraham Bechtel, in Plain Township, Wayne County; George; Jacob, in Holmes County, Oliio, and Daniel, on the homestead.

Of these, George was reared on the farm, receiving an ordinary education, which he obtained by attending the winter terms of school, working during the summer months. In 1848 he married Miss Mary A., daughter of Peter Baumgardner, of Wooster Township, Wayne County, and four children have been born to them, as follows: James Finley, in Plain Township, Wayne County, married Elizabeth Lowe, daughter of Benjamin Lowe, of Plain Township, and has five ciiildren: Ira Benjamin, M. Lunettie, M. Luella, George O. and Bessie; Daniel W., in Wooster Township, Wayne County, married Addie Troutmau, daughter of Philip Troutman, also of Wooster Township, and has four children: Franklin, Jay, Earl and an infant; Leauder C, of Lake County, Ohio, has been twice married (his first wife died without issue; his present wife was Flora Cook, of Lake County, Ohio, and by her he has one child, Wilber Conrad) ; George B., living at home, married Kate Moore, daughter of Bryson Moore, and has one child, Genevieve B. Mr. Strock moved to his present farm of 165 acres, in Plain Township, Wayne County, in 1864. He has held the office of trustee of Clinton Township, Wayne County, also several offices in Plain TownshijD. He is identified with the Republican party. He and his wife are prominent members of the Milll^rook Baptist Church.

diOHN LONG, JR. This well-known I native citizen of Wayne County, -^ now residing in the city of Wooster, was born in Wayne Township, four miles north of Wooster, on September 12, 1818. His father, John Long, Sr., was born neai' Coleraine, County Derry, Ireland, and when fourteen years of age came to America with his parents. They landed at New Castle, Del., and making their way into Pennsylvania, located at Carlisle Barracks, in Cumberland County, removing two years later to Westmorelantl County, Penn., where they settled upon a farm which is yet in possession of the family, a period now of over ninety years. There the grandparents of oxir subject died, and there his father grew to manhood. The latter was twice married, his first wife being Miss Phoebe Baylis, who died, leaving one child, Ellen, who subsequently became the wife of George Keck, and removed to Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio, where she died in Novembei', 1887. The second wife of John Long, Sr., was Huldah Bird, daughter of William and Sarah (Randolph) Bird. Her mother was a descendant of a family of wealthy Boston merchants, whose property was confiscated by the British during the Revolution, because of their loyalty to the cause of the struggling colonies. John and Huldah Ijong became the parents of eleven children, of whom six still survive: John, whose name heads this sketch, is the eldest of the family; Mary is the wife of James T. Atkinson, and lives in Wooster; Nancy, now Mrs. Litchfield, has been twice married, her first husband being Robert De Vinnie; William is living in Clinton Township, this county; Margai-et has also been twice married, her first husband, T. Bayliss, having been killed by Indians, and she is now the wife of a cousin, Robert Long, and lives in Pennsylvania; Abalona, the last of the survivors, is wife of Champion Kinney, and lives in Canaan Township, Wayne County.

within its borders, and the whole county was covered with a dense forest. He cleared a small place, and remained here until some two years after the birth of our subject, to whom succeeded a girl, and then the father and mother took their two children and all their household goods on two horses, and removed to Armstrong County, Penn., where tbey stayed for two years, and where one more child was born to them being Mary, now Mrs. Atkinson, of Wooster. In Armstrong County the family had hard times, and while still a child our subject was often carried by his mother two miles, together with a bushel of corn, which she ground in a hand mill, and then carried back again for the family use. About the year 1823 the parents again came to Wayne County with their children. The journey had to be made on horseback, as there were no roads through the forest, and their only guide was a "blaze" on the trees. The father bought a farm in Congress Township, and to that place they came. There wei'e many maple trees on the place, and the father made a sugar camp at once, as it was in sap season, and the sugar he obtained he traded for meat, pound for pound. The poverty of the family was a great bar to their early success. The father had no team, and got his laud plowed by working for neighbors, who in turn would come and help him with their oxen. After much hard labor, the sturdy pioneer, who had wrought manfully in the face of many discouragements, brought his laud into something like a cultivated farm, and then sold it for $-400. With this he was enabled to buy a better place of eighty acres, within six miles of Wooster. The land which he sold has since become valuable, as it adjoins the now flourishing village of Burbank, some of it, indeed, being within the corporation limits, and the railroad station is built upon it. On the new farm to which Mr. Long had removed thei"e was an unfinished log house, and in that the family lived for a time, having only a blanket for a door. This farm was also sold after a time, and the next four years were spent upon a rented farm, when the family removed to Wooster. Extreme hard toil, with the many deprivations and anxieties he endured, told upon the pioneer, and he became insane, thus putting another burden upon the brave mother and her young children. Still she fought the battle of life nobly, and in Wooster worked hard to support her young children. Our subject was the eldest, and at twelve years of age began to contribute to the family support, earning at first eighteen cents a day, every cent of which he gave to his mother. He was continually on the lookout for work, never refusing anything by which he I'ould honestly earn a penny. When he found nothing else to do he would go into the woods in the season and gather nuts to sell. In this way he soon became known as a bright and industi-ious lad, and work came to him more easily.

The progress of John Long was slow and tedious, but was certain, as he made no backward steps, and his faithfulness and the manner in which he labored to assist his mother and his helpless father and yoiinger brothers and sissters were generally known, and inclined people to assist him. He finally secured employment with John Slone, at $8 per month in summer, doing chores in winter for his board, and attending school as much as possible, and on Saturdays drawing wood for his mother, to add to whose comfort was his greatest desire. She was still struggling along, but as her children became older her burdens gradually became lighter, and like her sou she was held in higrh respect, and procured work easily in the best families in Wooster. Mr. Slone, for whom our subject was at that time working, was one of the best known men of the county, and often had business away from home, at Columbus and elsewhere. In his absence he intrusted everything to young Long, in whose capacity and fidelity he had absolute faith, which was not misplaced. The land upon which Mr. Long's house stands was, at that time, the pioperty of Mr. Slone, and young Long bought of him the lot on whicli he meant to erect a home for his parents - a brave determination for a boy, but one he successfully executed. He was to pay for this land $300, and liad the privilege of fifteen years' time in which to pay for it, but in three years he had it paid for. He drew stone in the evenings for the foundation, after working all day for others; dug his cellar in the same way, and after great exertions succeeded in making for his parents a home free from debt. After getting the house finished and his parents in ]iossession of it, he went to Cincinnati, where he was em])loyed in a commission hovise, and there he remained from October until the following June, when he returned home, and after woAing there for some time by the month, then undertook the task of driving a drove of cattle to Pennsylvania, which consiimed the summer and the early fall. For a short time he was again in Cincinnati, and then returned to Wooster, where he has since made his permanent home. His father had been for nine years in an asylum for the insane, but he brought him home, and after four years in his son's house he died, in April, 1867, at the age of eightyfive years. The devoted mother, whose memory is sacred to her children, died in June, 1875, aged seventy-five years.

The life of Mr. Long had been too busy and filled with too much labor and anxieties to leave him time for social intercourse, and he remained single until he was thirty-three years of age. His marriage took place April 20, 1853, when he was united in wedlock with Miss Nancj-, a daughter of Benjamin Miller, and a native of Westmoreland County, Penn. Of their union six children were born: George K., the eldest, is a resident of Wooster; Hezekiah H. and Eliza are deceased; Martha is the wife of J. W. Smith, of East Union Township; Mary Etta was accidentally killed on the railroad, and Lewis is a resident of Wayne County. Since his marriage Mr. Long has lived in the house which he built for his mother, which he has enlarged and partially rebuilt. He and his wife are sincere members of the United Presbyterian Church. When Mr. Long first attended school it was to study his a, b, c's from a "paddle," on which the letters were pasted. He kept an account of his income and expenditures on a stick, on which a certain notch meant a certain amount of money. In this way, before he had learned to read or write, he kept all his transactions, and never made a mistake. The characteristics which distinguished him as a boy remained with him in his manhood, and were the principal factors in h is success. Honest beyond question, he always paid promptly all he owed, and never was sued by any person, and has always stood as a "mau

A mau of large humauity, party, aud is scliool director of his towubis own early trials have made him considerate aud generous to others, aud he

June 27, ISJrO, in Stark County, Ohio, a son of Solomon Richwiue, who was born in Lancaster County, Peun., March 14, 1801, and grandson of Henry and Catherine (Rhodes) Richwine. In 1827 Solomon Richwine married Miss Eliza Oberly, of Lancaster County, Peun. In 1837 they came to Wayne County, Ohio, and in 1842 they moved into East Union Township, Wayne Count}', Ohio, where the wife died in 1887. Their family consisted of seven children, two of whom died in infancy; the others were Lewis, who died in 1880, at the age of thirty-five years ; Rebecca, a maiden lady, at home; Isaac; Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Ames, of Williams County, Ohio, and George W.

The last named, the subject of this memoir, was married in 1869 to Miss Martha C, daughter of Jacob Bonewitz, and to tills union were born six children, five of whom are now Hying: Joseph, Lewis, Rebecca, Nettie and Eliza. Mr. Richwine is a member of the Democratic djOHN DURSTINE, farmer, is a representative of one of the old German " - families of America. Jacob Durstine, the pioneer of the family in this country, settled in Pennsylvania, and in that State, in Westmoreland County, his son Abraham was born. Abraham married Catherine Sherrick, and in 1826 moved to Holmes County, Ohio, aud settled on a quarter section of wild land, on which he lived until 1857, when he came to Wayne County, and bought 185 acres of land in Wayne Township, where he lived until 1868, when he moved to Smithville, making that his home until his death; he died in 1878, at the age of seventy-eight years. His family consisted of six children, John being the second.

John Durstiue was born in 1825, and was but three months old when his pareuts moved to Holmes County, Ohio. His education was limited to that obtaiuable in the old log school -house. Like his father, he has followed agricultural pursuits, and is now one of the prosperous farmers of the township. His borne farm contains 418 acres of land, 188^ acres in Paint and 229^ acres in Wayne Township, and it has been secured mainly by his own efforts. He was married February 28, 184:7, to Elizabeth Freed, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Newcomer) Freed, of Holmes County. Mr. and Mrs. Durstiue have had eight children, viz. : Mary, an infant (deceased), Adaline, Cyrus, Lyman, Ellen, Clark and Catherine. Their son Cyrus lives on the portion of the farm Ij'ing in Paint Township, and Mr. Durstine and the rest of his family live in Wayne Township. Mr. Durstiue casts his suffrage with the Prohibition party.

ISRAEL GRADY. This gentleman is i a well-known native citizen of Wayne - County, Ohio, having been born in Greene Township April 28, 1828. His paternal grandfather was a native of England, and immigrated to America at any early day, settling in Pennsylvania, in which State he died. John Grady, father of Israel, was born in that State, and tJiere learned the trade of coopering. In early manhood he married Elizabeth Odenkirk, a native of the Keystone State, of German ancestry. They were the parents of eight children, three of wdiom are now living. In 1818 John Grady brought his family to Wayne County, settling on a farm in Greene Township. This was then a wild, unsettled place, and the farm had to be cleared from the forest. They had to endure all the discomforts and hardships of early pioneer life, but as the farm grew in beauty and value as the result of their toil, the hardy pioneer and his wife felt themselves amply rewarded by having a good home in which to rear the children rapidly growing up within their cabin walls. Mrs. Grady Avas the first to hear the summons of the angel of death, passing awa}' at the age of sixty-five years. Her husband survived her until 1864, when he died at the ripe age of nearly four score. Both were sincere members of the Baptist Church of Wooster.

Israel Grady lived with his father until he was twenty-seven years of age, and in his youth took his share of the labors of the pioneer. At the age of twenty-four he was married to Miss Sophronia, daughter of Josiah and Eunice (Pratt) Milbourn, and born in East Union Townshi[) May 13, 1828. In 1858 Mr. Grady bought a farm in East Union Township, on which were but a few improvements, and here he and his faithful wife toiled to make for themselves and family a comfortable home, and so industriously and intelligently did they labor that their farm became known as the finest in the township. The first work ou tlieir farm vriis the planting of eighteen acres of fruit trees. Mrs. Grady's father was also one of Wayne County's pioneers, coming here from Virginia with his mother at an early day, and settling in East Union Township. In IS 19 he was married to Miss Eunice, a daughter of Oliver Pratt, who came to this county in l8l4:. Her father died in December, 1S80, aged eighty-one years; the mother j died in 1889, at the age of eighty-five years. Mrs. Grady was brought up as pioneer's children were in those early days. She learned to spin and weave, was instructed in household work, and often worked in the fields, at such labor as she was equal to. She remained at home nutil her marriage. She and Iier children are members of the Baptist Church. Tn 1881 Mr. Grady and his wife left the farm which had for so many years been their home and came to Wooster, settling on a piece of land in the edge j of the city, forty and a half acres of it being within the corporation limits. To get possession of this tract he had to purchase from seventeen different owners. The place was wild and barren, but he set i to work to improve it with the same untiring industry which had hitherto characterized his labors. One of the attractive features of the place is a fish pond, in the excavating and preparing of which two years were spent. This, when finished, he stocked with carp, which are in a thriving condition, and on its surface a graceful swan floats. To-daj' this place is one of the most attractive homes in Wooster, and many visitors are drawn thither by its beauty and the attraction of a boat ride on the glassy surface of the lake. In the summer as many as 1,500 persons have visited it in a month.

Mr. and Mrs. Grady have two children: the. eldest, Huldah (Mrs. Isaac H. Odenkirk), lives with her parents; Josiah M. lives on the home fai'm, in East Union Township. The life of Mr. Grady has been one of labor, and the honorable position he has attained is altogether due to the industry of himself and his capable wife. He has alwaj's been in favor of all projects whose object was to benefit the county, and he will long be remembered as one of its public-spirited and enterprising citizens.

JAMES MARTIN, son of John and > 1 1 Ruth (Moore) Martin, was born on ^^ Martin's Creek, Holmes Co., Ohio, October 20, 1824. His grandfather, Edward Martin, was a native American, born in Essex County, N. Y., near the New Jersey line. He removed to Beaver County, Peun., where he married Catherine McCready (also native born, but of

Scotch descent), and after some years moved to New Lisbon, Columbiana Co., Oliio, and in 1810 to what is now Holmes County, Ohio, where he was a farmer, and owner of one of the important industries of that time - a saw-mill - which supplied the surrouniliug county with lumber. There they both died,leaving six children: Catherine, John, Abigail, Joseph, Naomi and Elizabeth, all of whom are deceased except Joseph, who is now a resident of Keokuk County, Iowa. John, first-born son of Edward and Catherine Martin, was born in Beaver County, Penn., in 1795, and with his parents moved to Ohio. In 1S23 he married Kuth, daughter of John Moore, of Salt Creek Township, Holmes County, and they located iu Wayne County, near Shreve, in what is now Clinton Township, where they carried on farming until the fall of 1837, when they removed to Middletowu, Holmes County, and later to Salt Creek Township, same count}', where they remained until their decease. Their chikh'en were James, Joseph W., John H., Mary, Susan, Sarah, Nancy J. and Edward. Of these, Joseph TV . mcirried Sarali J. Hayes, and occupies the old homestead iu Salt Creek Township, Holmes County; John H. married Mary Hayes, and resides in Salt Creek Township, Wayne County; Mary died in 184'J ; Susan is now Mrs. William Moore, of Salt Creek Township, Wayne County ;

Sarah died in 1841); Nancy J. is now Mrs. E. L. Caseveer, of Auburn, Ind., and has a family of four sous; Edward died when three years of age.

James, the eldest of this family, with the exception of six months, lived in Wayne County until he was thirteen years old, attending the common schools of both counties, also an academical institution in Fredericksburgh. He taught during winters and worked in summer time until his education was completed. Having chosen a professional life, he read medicine with Dr. Abbott and Dr. Bowen, both of Massillon, Ohio, and attended a course of anatomical and physiological lectures, as well as dissections, under Dr. Sheldon, at the medical college at Cleveland, entering Jefferson Medical College, from which he graduated in 1861. During the war he was manager of the aid society, and contributed largely to the siipport and care of soldiers' families. In 1852 the Doctor married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Craig, of Columbiana County, Ohio, and located at East Rochester, iu that county, where he first began the practice of medicine. He removed to Fredericksburgh in the fall of 1854, where he has since practiced medicine, and is now the oldest practitioner in that portion of Wayne County - a prominent and able man. Dr. and Mrs. Martin are the parents of seven children: Florence Virginia, who died when a child; Orra, wife of John M. Kyle (they are uow missiouaries at Eio, Brazil, and have one child - Jessie) ; Jessie Fremont, now Mrs. William H. Redett, of Fredericksburgh (has had two children: Alice (deceased) and Orra); Frank H., now of Washington Territory, married to Rose Tanner (they have two children: Derwood and Frank Roderick) ; Mary Josephine, at home with her parents; an infant, deceased, and James Sherman, uow in Cincinnati, one of the editorial staif of the Posi of that city.

The Doctor, realizing that "knowledge is power," gave to all his children the most reliable inheritance a parent can bestow - a thorough, to some a collegiate, education. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, in the Sabbath-school of which he is an earnest worker, and for the better part of thirty years has been a teacher. He is an active Republican and a Prohibitionist, but not a third party man.

J (AMES A. HAMILTON, editor of the Crescent Orrville, Ohio, is a native - of the State, born at New Lisbon, Columbiana County, September 10, 1841. Like so many of the descendants of the early settlers of the State, he is of Pennsylvania stock. His father, William M. Hamilton, who for almost half a century was a well-known resident of this part of the State, was born in Juniata County, Penn., in 1817, and died in Wooster, this county, March 8, 1875. In the vigor of young manhood he went to New Lisbon, where he learned the trade of wagonmaking, at which he worked a number of years. Giving up his trade, he entered the hotel business, which he carried on at New Lisbon for many years. Here he became a leading member of the Democratic party, and for a long time was justice of the peace. In 1862 he removed to Wooster, Wayne County, and became proprietor of the United States Hotel. In this county he was also elected justice of the peace, and filled that office for nine years. He was also elected county auditor; was renominated, but defeated, again renominated and again elected. He served but four montlis of his last term, dying at the age of fifty-eight. A man of undoubted integrity, highly respected in his community, and of great decision of character, he was possessed of much influence, and had his life been spared he would have been one of the foremost citizens of the county. His wife, Isabella McKuight, came of a family well known among the early settlers of Columbiana County. She was born in New Lisbon September 10, 1813, the dav on which Perrv won his

James A. Hamilton, the subject of this sketch, was one of a family of nine children. At the age of fourteen he began learning the trade of a printer, at which he soon became an expert. He has worked at his trade in various cities. In ISSn he was employed in Cleveland, then in Pittsburgli, Cincinnati, again in Pittsburgh, in Chicago, Memphis, and again in Chicago, whence he went to St. Louis, where he was employed on the Missouri Repuhlican at the time of the strike of the printers of that city, in 1864. This caused him to return home, and in February, 1865, he enlisted in the Fifth Ohio Cavalry, and joined his regiment at Durham's Station, N. C, just before the surrender of Johnston. He was subsequently detailed as clerk at Gen. Schofield's headquarters at Raleigh, and served several months, and was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio, in November, 1865. The following year he was employed in the county auditor's office at "Wooster, and in the spring of 1867 resumed his trade on the Wayne County Democrat. Going to Cleveland, for nearly a year he worked on the Leader, and on the establishment of the News in that city accepted the position of foreman, filling it until the paper was iiurchased by the Leader. After that he worked on the

Cleveland Herald until his father was elected auditor of Wayne County. His previous experience in the office here became valuable, and he was appointed deputy auditor, serving two years and eight mouths. His experience was next brought into use in the office of W. D. Morgan, auditor of Licking County, where he served two years, and upon the re-election of his father as auditor he again became the latter's assistant until his death. Having acquired a valuable knowledge of the business of the county auditor's office, he was offered and accepted for a short time a position in the office of J. J. Sullivan, auditor of Holmes County, and upon the election of Thomas J. McElhenie as auditor of Wayne County, returned to his Wooster home, and was that gentleman's deputy for two years. Like most men brought up in the newspaper office, he again returned to liis first love, and for a year and a half Mr. Hamilton became a partner iu the Leetonia Reporter office, where he acquired a flattering reputation as an editor. Selling out his interest, he was for about two years employed in the office of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, whence he retired to purchase, in October, 1879, his present paper, the Orrville Crescent, Avliich he has since conducted with ability and success.

of Greene Township, and has frequently represented his party as a delegate in conventions, and while in Leetonia was nominated for auditor of Columbiana County bv both Democrats and Greenbackers. Tliough defeated by a small majority, he ran considerably ahead of his ticket. From the inception of the Knights of Labor movement Mr. Hamilton has taken a warm interest in its affairs, and upon tiie issuing of a call by Local Assembly No. 1, of Philadelphia, in the fall of 1877, to all assemblies in the country to send delegates to a convention to be held at Reading, Penn., on January 1, 1S78, f(n' the purpose of uniting all local assemblies in one national body and creating a national head, he was selected as their representative by the local assembly of Leetonia, and had the honor of being the second presiding officer of the first national assembly of K. of L., and was likewise selected a member of its official board for the first year. He has also for years been a member of the I. O. O. F., K. of P. and G. A. R., and is a past officer in all these orders.

Mr. Hamilton has been twice married, first to Hattie, daughter of Alanson Ney, of Perrysburgh, Ohio, who died, leaving one child. Harry Given. In October, 1878, Mr. Hamilton was married to his present wife, Lucy, daughter of Christian Silver, of near Wooster, Ohio, who has borne him three children : Gail, Georgia and Jimmie, Jr. In all the relations of life Mr. Hamilton has ever maintained an honorable reputation, and for his uprightness and manly character, and many fine social qualities, is justly held in esteem by the people of Wayne County.

y JIfRS. ANNA JACKSON, widow of \r| the late Robert R. Jackson, of Wooster Township, now resides in the city of Wooster. She was born in AVestmoreland County, Penn., April 10, 1815, on the farm where her father, John Gourley, was born, and where his entire life had been passed. Her grandfather was of Irish birth, and on coming to this country settled iu the county named, and at the time of the Revolution owned 300 acres of land there. He was married to Ann Rowlson, a native of Scotland. John Gourley, father of Mrs. Jackson, was married to Margaret Stevenson, who bore him twelve children, of whom seven are now living, Mrs. Jacksou, who was the eldest of tlie family, being the only one in Wayne County. In 1846 the father died, the mother in 1885, at the extreme old age of ninetysix years. The mother of Robert R. Jackson also lived to an old age, being ninetynine years old at the time of her death.

William Stevenson, an uncle of Mrs. Jackson, was a major iu the Continental army during the Revolution, and another uncle, David Gourley, was also a Revolutionary soldier.

Mrs. Jackson, the subject of this sketch, grew to womanhood on the farm where she was born, and in 184:0 was united in marriage with Robert R., son of Richai-d Jackson, who died when his son Robert was but ten years old. All were of Pennsylvania birth. The young couple remained in Pennsylvania until 1860, when the family came to Wayne County, settling on a farm iu Wooster Township, where the husband died, July 25, 1875, aged sixty years. Of their union ten children were born, viz. : Richard, living in Canton, Ohio; John, in Toledo, Ohio; William Riley, in Van Wert, Ohio; Robert Wright, in Pittsburgh, Penn. ; George, in Washington, Ohio, and Anna E., in Wooster; Samuel. Obadiah, James and Margaret are deceased. Of these, Samuel removed to Clinton, Henry County, Mo., where he purchased 300 acres of land. In September, 1884, while taking home a load of lime, which was required in an elegant new house he was building, he fell and was instantly killed, leaving a wife and three children. Obadiah died of quick consumption, at Denver, Col., August 7, 1887, having been confined to his bed but four days; his remains were interred in the cemetery at Wooster. Anna E. was born iu ] 859, and on April 2, 1882, was united in marriage with Robert S., son of Hugh M. Culbertson, who was born in Wooster Township in December, ISfiO. Since their marriage they have lived with her mother, in Wooster. They are the parents of three children: Hugh Jackson, Right Gourley and Elizabeth Anna. Mr. Culbertson is employed as letter carrier in Wooster.

Robert R. Jackson was a stanch Republican, and for three years was township trustee. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Apple Creek. He was a man of sterling integrity of character and blameless life, and he and his wife and all of the family were held in high esteem by all who knew them. Mrs. Jackson was formerly a member of the Presbyterian Church at Apple Creek, and since her removal to Wooster has become a member of the Presbyterian Church at that place.

i|p\^ OBERT S. MAJOR, farmer, Chesr^f ter Township, is a native of Ire- Jj - land, born in County Down in 184:0. His parents, John and Sarah (Black) Major, had a family of eleven children, Robert S. being next to the youngest. In 1856 the family left their native country and moved to the United States, coming direct to Wayne County, Ohio. The father was a day laborer, but bought ten acres of land, which he cultivated and made his home until his death ; he died in 1882, at the age of eighty-four years. The mother is still living, and is eighty-one years of age.

Kobert S. Major was reared and educated in "Wayne County, attending the common schools as he had opportunity. He learned the cooper's trade in his youth, at which he worked five years. In 1888 he bought the farm where he now lives, which contains 100 acres of choice land, finely located, and he is making of it one of the best farms in the township. Mr. Major was married in 1873 to Susan McAfee, daughter of Samuel McAfee. They have a family of four children: Rosa, John, Walter and Frank. In politics Mr. Major is a Republican, but of late has affiliated with the Prohibition party. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

n( BRAHAM HERSHEY was born in /L\\ Milton, Wayne Co., Ohio, Novem- Jf- ber 21, 1842, and is a son of Benjamin and Susannah (Wellhouse) Hershey. His paternal grandfather, Abraham Hershey, was a native of Lebanon

Coixnty, Peun., and an early settler of Baughman Townshij^, Wayne Co., Ohio, where he cleared and improved a farm, on which he resided for many years ; in later life he removed to Richfield, Summit Co., Ohio, and died there. He had ten children, named as follows: Jai^ob, Lydia (Mrs. David Errick), John, Rebecca (Mrs. Hoover), Benjamin, Polly (Mrs. Isaac Wenger), Henry, Sarah (Mrs. Abram Young), Abram and Samuel. The paternal great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch was Benjamin Hershey, a native of Lebanon County, Penn., and a son of Benjamin Hershey, who was born in Switzerland in 1704, and who on account of persecutions immigrated to America in 1734, settling in Lebanon County, Penn., three brothers coming with him, one of whom settled in Canada, and the others in Pennsylvania. His sou Benjamin was the father of four sons and two daughters, viz. : Barbara, Eliza, John, Christian, Jacob and Abraham.

Benjamin Hershey, father of our subject, was born in Lebanon County, Penn., October 15, 1820, and came with his parents to Baughman Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1830. He was respectively a farmer, drover and miller, and during his lifetime resided in Baughman, Milton and Chippewa Townships, Wayne County. He died in Chippewa Township, January 10, 1875, aged fifty-five years. In 1841 he married Susannah, daughter of George F. and Elizabeth (Neiswanger) Wellhouse, of Chippewa Township, Wayne County, and by her he has had seven children who grew to maturity, as follows: Abraham, George W., Simon B., William O., Mary C. (Mrs. Wesley Heuueberger), Edward A. and Ella S. (Mrs. D. C. Leonard). Our subject's maternal grandfather, George F. Wellhouse, a native of Germany, born April 17, 17S9, was reared in Washington County, Md., and became an early settler of Wayne County, Ohio. He was elected commissioner of Wayne County in 1829, and served six years ; was in the State Senate from 1836 to 1838, and in 1838 was elected by the Legislature one of the associate judges of Wayne County. He died August 9, 1860. Abraham Hershey, whose name heads this memoir, was reared in Wayne County, Ohio, and received a common-school education; has always been a farmer, and has resided on his present farm in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, since 1866. He was in the late War of the Kebellion, enlisting August 13, 1862, in Company G, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the battles of Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss., Arkansas Post, Ark., Magnolia Hill, Miss., Snaggy Point, La., the sieges of Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss., and Fort Blakely, Ala., and was honorably discharged from the service October 13, 1865. He married, December 31, 1865, Clara E., daughter of John F., ami Catherine (Schrantz) Sheets, of Chippewa Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. Mr. Hershey is a member of the United Brethren Church. In politics he has always been a stanch Republican.

born in Allegheny County, Penn., ^ in 1808. His father, William Burns, came to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1837, where he entered one tract of land, and purchased two others in Canaan Township. Edmin was reared in Allegheny County, Penn., and March 30, 1S37, married Martha Jane McCrearv, who was born in New York City in 1810, and reared in Washington County, Penn. They accompanied William Burns to Wayne County, and settled on the farm entered by him in Canaan Township, where they lived and died. Mr. Burns was a member first of the Whig and afterward of the Republican party, and served as justice of the peace for over twenty years. He was a man whose judgment was considered first class, being often called upon to act as administrator, and to transact various other business for his neighbors. He and his wife were among the first seven members who organized the Jackson Presbyterian Church, and he served the same as elder for twenty-four years. He departed this life October 20. 1880, and his widow April 25, 1884, having reared six children (five of whom are still living), viz.: William, married to Sarah A. Norton, of Canaan Township; John Harvy, married to Florence C. Houghton, of Medina Couutj', Ohio; Mary Jane, married to Hiram Falter, of Medina County: Martha Ann; Adaline, deceased in 1870: Harriet, married to John A. Cover, of Westmoreland County, Penn.

r ICHOLAS SCHULTZ was born in Leutershauseu, Baden, Germany, August 2, 1828, and in 1849 immigrated to America, first locating in East Union Township, AVayne Co., Ohio. He learned the blacksmith's trade in his youth, at which he worked thirty years, and in 1866 bought the farm where he now lives, which contains eighty-two acres of valuable land. Mr. Schultz was married, in 1853, to Miss Catherine Schaffer. a native of Wurteraberg, Heimerdingen, German}', born March 9, 1831. They have a family of six children: Sarah, wife of George Leiner, of Wooster Township (they have four children, Charles, John, Edwai-d and Anna) ;

George, in Dalton, married to Ella Saurer ; Adam, in Apple Creek, married to Mary Boydston (they have one child, Delia); John, in Wooster, married to Sarah Johnston (they have one child, Clarence), and Anna and Viola, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz are members of the Reformed Church ; in politics he is a Democrat.

fOHX SNYDER. This well-known >> I old resident of Wayne County, now ^^ living in the city of Wooster, was born in Union County, Penn., February 14, 1820. His father, Jonathan Snyder, was born in Berks County, in that State, and was married to Sarah Huffman, a native of the same county, a daughter of Nicholas Huffman, who was of German extraction, and served in the ranks of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War, and died in Dauphin County, Penn. Jonathan Snyder and wife settled in Union County, Penn., and there remained until 1838, when they came to Wayne County in search of a home in which to rear their children. They settled on a farm in Franklin Township, where they spent the remainder of their lives. The father was a shoemaker by trade, as well as a farmer, and worked at that in winter. In those days slioemakers went from house to house of the people

Jonathan Snyder was a poor man, and in Wayne County, as well as in Pennsylvania, had to work hard to make a living for himself and family, enduring many privations and hardships, in which his family shared. His wife and himself, however, were blessed with rugged constitutions, and notwithstanding their arduous labors lived to an advanced age, each dying when eighty -two years old - the mother in 1875 and the father in 1877. Both were sincere members of the Lutheran Church, and were people held in high esteem by their neighbors for their trustful, honest and industrious lives. They were the parents of ten children, as follows: Catherine, now Mrs. Amos Herr, living in Knox County, Ohio; Rebecca, deceased wife of Samuel Miller; Sarah, wife of Anthony Stahl, of Knox County, Oliio, died in November, 1888; Mar}-, married to William Patton, and living in Wooster; John; Daniel J. and Joseph, now residents of Madison Hill, Ohio; Jonathan and Jacob, farmers in Wayne County, Ohio, and George (deceased).

The subject of this sketch passed his early years in the county where he was born, and was early made to earn his bread by the hardest kind of labor. When but nine years of age he was put to plowing, being the oldest boy of the family. His first plow had a wooden mold-board, and the ground being rough and stony the lad had a hard time of it, especially as he had to plow barefooted, in order to save his shoes, of wliich he had but one pair each year. On cold mornings the barefooted boy used to warm his feet by standing in the place where the horses had lain over night. Threshing at that time was done by the horses treading out the grain and clover seed, and the boy often was compelled to ride the horse in that work from daylight until dark. This was the early life of our subject, and this was the training he received to fit him for the stern duties of life. His educational opportunities were limited, being given the opportunity of going to school only a short time each winter, but, by improving every opportunity, he succeeded in getting a rudimentary education, and by reading and close obsei'vation in his later j'ears has made himself a well-informed man. He was eighteen years of age when he came to Ohio with his parents. Here for six years he worked on his father's farm, enduring the hardships which fell to the lot of the early settlers in this region, where homes could only be made by literally hewing them out of the dense foi-- est witli which it was tlien covered.

for himself, ami in that year, as the first step toward that desirable object, was united in marriage with Miss Eliza Troutman, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Keim) Troutmau, and a native of Berks County, Peun. On her father's side she was of German descent, and on her mother's of English. Her mother died in Henry County, Ohio, when Mrs. Snyder was quite young, and her father later removed to Wooster Township, in this county, where he passed the last years of his life. After this marriage Mr. Snyder settled upon a partially improved farm, which they worked on shares. Accumulating some means in this way, by hard work and rigid economy, he was al)le in 1853 to purchase a farm in Franklin Township, which he sold to his brother Jacob in 1878. He next bought a farm in East Union Township; subsequently he purchased another in Chester Township, and still later one in the southeast part of Frankliu Township, which he still owns. In 1878 he gave up farm life and removed to the city of Wooster, where he now resides in the pleasant home he owns in that place. The family of four children, which came to our subject and his estimable wife, are all living, and are located as follows: Keasin B., residing in the city of Wooster; Sarah Jane, wife of William Bentz, also in Wooster; Alice Alaura, wedded to Horace Boydson, in Lyons,

Mr. Snyder is a Republican in politics, but has been too busy a man to give much time to public matters, and the only office he has held has been that of supervisor of Fi'ankliu Township. He and his worthy wife are esteemed members of the Lutheran Church of Wooster. Starting in life in poverty, he has achieved a marked success, and he is to-day one of Wayne County's well-to-do citizens. This result has been obtained by a life of unremitting industry and perseverance, united with frugal habits, and to the estimable lady who has so long aided and counseled him in all his praiseworthy efforts, much of his success is due. The family is well known in Wayne County, and as early settlers and as valuable members of the community are highly respected and will long be remembered.

HOMAS ARMSTRONG, one of the earliest jnoneers of Wayne County, was born in Northumberland County, Penn., August 22, 1770, of Irish parentage. In his boyhood he accompanied his parents to Columbiana County, Ohio, where, in 1801, he married Jane Cook, a young lady descended from Scotch ancestry. She possessed a finely cultured mind, refined manners and a genial dis- position. Her daily religious life made a deep impressiou on the members of her family. The good seed thus sown by a mother's love is even yet bearing its fruits in the third and fourth generations of her offspring. Mr. Armstrong and his wife were living in Columbiana County, Ohio, at the breaking out of the War of 1812. After Hull's surrender he volunteered, and was commissioned captain, serving under Gen. Buell. At the close of the war he returned to his home, and in the spring of 1815 with his family moved to Wayne County, settling on Clear Creek, four miles north of Wooster, in Wayne Township.

In the spring of 1817 he removed to a farm seven and a half miles north of Wooster, ou the Lodi road, in that part of Wayne Township which was in 1819 organized as a separate township and named Canaan. This farm is now the property of Thomas Armstrong, one of his grandsons. Mr. Armstrong was of iron nerve and indomitable courage, over six feet in height, large boned and of great physical strength. He had a genial disposition, was generous and kind-hearted, and was loved by all for his many virtues. The neighbor in need who called upon him was never sent away empty-handed. He was considerate of young men who were struggling with the privations of the times for a foothold in life. Many, now old men, remember with gratitude the assistance rendered just when assistance was most needed. He was a positive man. None could be mistaken as to which side he took on any question that agitated the public mind or aifected the interests of the community in which he lived. He was a Whig in politics, and always active in political circles. He took a very active part in the campaign of 1840. In his family he was a kind hiisband and an indulgent parent. He trained his children to industry and economy, and cultivated in them habits of sobriety, honesty, integrity and virtue. He was among the foremost in securing educational privileges for his family and the neighborhood. His place at church was never vacant without substantial reason. Nor was his purse closed when pecuniary aid was required. The influence of this man and of others, his neighbors, men like himself, is still felt in the neighborhood in which they lived. It has been remarked by observers that the thrift, the industry, the morality and intelligence of the Armstrong neighborhood is not surpassed in any other locality in the county. Truly the memory of such men is blessed.

Mr. Armstrong was the first justice of the peace in Wayne Township, and married the first couple in the township. When he moved to Canaan Township there were but thi-ee families within a radius of three or - four miles. James

Rose, a Scotchman aud a uoblemau, lived on the west, James Glass on the south and William Ewing about two miles north. The first school-house in the township was built on the farm of James Rose, by the early settlers. It was of the primitive style, about sixteen feet square, with puncheon floor, clapboard door and roof, greased paper for windows, and a large fire-place occupying nearly the whole side of the room. The chimney was made of clay aud sticks, aud was on the outside of the building. The seats were benches of split logs, and the writing desks were of split slabs. The first teacher was James Buchanan, a Scotchman, who afterward lived and died near Dalton. The pioneer wife and mother had many hardships to endure, and toils aud perils to undergo. Their small cabins had no floors but puncheons, and seldom a door except a quilt, which was poor protection against the prowling savages and the wild animals. Bears and wolves made night hideous with their howling, but the brave mother quieted her children, smothering her own fears to reassure her family. The mother was the provident overseer of the little home; kind aud hospitable, no one ever left her home hungry if she had the food to give them. Strangers and neighbors were alike welcome. Wolves and bears were the source of great annoyance to the early settlers on accoiant of their thievish propensities, often coming to the lieu and killing a hog. But they sometimes paid for the theft with their lives, the settlers tracking them with the stolen property and making their life the ransom.

Mr. Armstrong died March 2, 1842, aged sixty-six years, aud his wife April 14, 1856. Both were buried in the Wayne church-yard. This church Mr. Armstrong helped to build in 1840, and he was the first person buried in the church yard adjoining. He and his wife had a family of six sons and four daughters, the sons ranging from six feet to six feet four inches in height, and the daughters being large,robust women. Following is their record:

William, the eldest sou, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, November lo, 1802. His early life was spent amid the privations of a forest home. He was thus deprived of the early advantages of schools, but made up the deficiency in a later period of youth. He was fairly well educated, and a steady friend of the people's schools. When the primitive school-houses were passing away, the best school-house in the township was built on his farm, he generously giving the lot for the purpose. Wlien funds failed to complete it, as he was desirous it should be finished, he generously stepped forward and furnished what was required from his own resources. The Presbyterian congregation of Wayne are indebted largely to his efforts for their first church building. He was untiring in his efforts to secure funds for the work, and gave without compensation much of his valuable time in superintending the construction until it was finished, and thus was laid the foundation for the large and influential society, who have lately erected on the site of the old building a new church, fully up to the requirements of the times. He mai'ried Mary Rose, by whom he had six children. She died in 1851, and he then married Catherine McPherson, by whom he had two children. He was a farmer, and accumulated a large landed estate. His children nearlj' all reside in the neighborhood of the old homestead, on farms acquired by the father's aid. These farms are [u-ovided with valuable farm buildings. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church all his long life, taking a great interest in all religious and educational matters. He died January 30, 1887, respected and honored by all wlio were acquainted with him.

John was born January 19, 1801. In 1828, times being hard, William and John went to McKeesport, Penn., to work on a canal. William had liis foot hurt, and was obliged to return home, and after his return John was taken sick with a fever, and died and was buried before his

Thomas was born February 21, ISOd Ho learned the tanner's trade under David Robisou, of Wooster, and afterward went to Michigan, but returned to Wayne, and died near Burbank in 185G. He married Nancy Thomas, and they had a large family, only two of whom are living. David and William Vincent, his sons, each served a full term of three years in the Union army during the Civil War.

Harrison was born November 25, 1810. He studied with Dr. Day, and located at Hayesville, where he built up a good practice, and died in the prime of life. He married Margaret Cox. Their children all reside in the vicinity of Hayesville. Their eldest son, Thomas, died after he had been promoted to a lieutenancy, of camp fever, at Vicksburg, during the siege of that place. Jared, another son, served rxnder Gen. Sherman on his march from Atlanta to Savannah.

Eliza was born August 11, 1813, married J. P. Smurr, and they had three children: Elinor, Thomas A. and Jennie. Of these, Elinor married J. G. Hower, and lived in Cleveland ; Thomas A. is an eminent physician, living in Ottawa. I!!., and Jennie married John Blocker, and is living in Wooster. Mr. and Mrs. Smurr lived for a time in Wooster, then moved to Canaan Township, and finally to Wayne

Township, where they both died within a few months of each other. They were both members of Wayue Presbyterian Church, and led a consistent Christian life.

Jalia Ann and Hannah Maria, twin sisters, were born October 15, 1816. Julia Ann married Neal McCoy, and died leaving two children, one of whom, James A., is living. Hannah Maria married John McCoy, who died, and she afterward married Robert Taggart. They moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where her husband died and she still lives. She has four children.

David was born December 18, 1818. His early youth was devoted to study, mixed with short intervals of farm life. In person he was tall and well formed, possessing an easy address and a commanding presence. His intellectual powers were of the highest order. His moral qualities forbade his stooping to any pursuit or amusement that was gross or degrading. AVith a high sense of honor, he yielded to others what was due them, and secured for himself the respect and esteem of all who knew him. At school he was t respectful to his teachers and thorough in I all his attainments. He was a universal favorite among his schoolmates, and none knew him but to love him. He studied medicine with his brother at Hayesville, finished his course at Cincinnati, and became an eminent physician. He acquired a large and lucrative practice during the few years that he lived, an ornament to the medical profession. He married Matilda Scott, of Hayesville, who died a short time after their marriage, he surviving her but a few years.

Calvin, the only representative of the family now in Wayne County, was liorn June 3, 1820, and September 5, 18-47, married Mary McKee. Thej- have two sons and two daugliters.

ALVIN ARMSTRONG, farmer, Wayne Township, is prominent among the most intelligent and well-to-do farmers of AVayne County. He was born in Canaan Township, June 3, 1826, the youngest of ten children of Thomas and Jane (Cook) Armstrong. His early life was spent on his father's farm in Wayne Township, receiving his education in the common schools. He chose the occupation of his father, and has been successful in his calling, having from his youth had habits of industry and thrift. In all his undertakings he has been assisted by bis faithful wife, and their home is now one of the pleasautest in the township, where hospitality abounds and good cheer and freedom reigu. Mr. Armstrong has always taken an interest in politics, and was present at Buffalo when the Free Soil and Abolition party was organized. He has held many public positions of trust, which he has filled with the faithfulness characteristic of the man. Public spirited and generous, he has always been foremost in every good work, and was one of the organizers of the Children's Home of Wayne County, and served as a trustee of the home six years. Mr. Armstrong was married September 5, 1847, to Mary McKee, of Congress Township, and they have four children: Thomas A., David C, Jennie A. and Ida M. Of late years Mr. Armstrong has cast his suffrage independent of party ties. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.

Ml ES. CATHEEINE FEEMAN, of the city of Wooster, is a native jj -* of Sugar Creek Township, Wayne County, born December 30, 1816. Her father, George Harman, was a native of Pennsylvania, and while still a young man he came to this county, where he married Elizabeth Keister, also born in the Keystone State. Of their union eleven children were born, Mrs. Susanna Hummer and our subject being the only ones now residing in Wayne County. In 1855 Mrs. Harman passed to her long last sleep, and the husband and father followed her to the grave in 1865. Both were well known and highly respected in the county, and more especially among the early settlers, with ^yhom they were numbered. He had been a farmer by occupation, and both were members of the Lutheran Church.

Our subject was truly a pioneer's child, born in a log cabin, and made familiar with the hardships and trials of a pioneer's life, which were by them accepted as a matter of course. Upon reaching womanhood she was united in marriage with John Feeman, who had come here from Pennsylvania with his parents when a boy. All this family were born in Pennsylvania. The father was a shoemaker by trade, and when a boy John helped him; later, however, he learned the trade of a stone-cutter. In those days the shoemakiug was done by the knight of the last going from house to house, wherever he was wanted, staying usually in one house until the whole family were shod. It was while on one of these trips with his father that John Feeman made the ac([uaintance of his future wife. Both families attended the same church, and.

the acquaintauce ripening into love, the young people were in dxae time married - May 31, 1S38. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Feemau removed to Wooster, where he had found work at the trade of stone-cutting, which he had mastered in the meanwhile. This trade he followed until the angel of death claimed him, in 1858, in the prime of a vigorous manhood, at the age of forty-one years. He fell a victim to that dread disease, consumption. John Feemau was a good man, and was very highly esteemed. He was an active member of the German Keformed Church, and an earnest worker both in the church and in the Sabbathschool, and was for years superintendent of the latter. For fifteen years he gratuitously took charge of the church buildine. He was also a member of the I. O. O. F. He began life poor in this world's goods, but full of determination to make for himself an honorable place in the community, and to create for himself and family a comfortable home, and gain the good-will and esteem of his fellow-men. In these laudable objects he succeeded, and his widow and children were not the only ones who mourned his loss, cut off, as he was, in the zenith of his usefulness. Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Feeman the following eight children were boi'n: Levi, who was a Union soldier, was wounded at Jacksonville, Miss., and died at Vicksburg, Miss., where he was buried : Eliza, wife of George W. Clark, of Kansas City, Mo. ; William, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Ashtabula, Ohio; Sarah, living with her mother; Mary, deceased wife of Harvey Schwartz, of Wooster; John, Matilda and an unnamed infant are also deceased. After the death of her husband Mrs. Feeman tried in every way to keep her children together, no labor being too hard or sacrifice too great, if only she might keep the home and her family about her. But death came, and marriage ties scattered the once happy family. For a number of years Mrs. Feeman and her daughter Sarah have lived together at the old homestead on Pittsburgh Avenue. The mother is a member of the Lutheran Church, and the daughter of the Baptist Church. The whole family stand high in the community, and are greatly respected by all who know them.

FjREDERICK HOEGNER was born October 4, ISIS, in Berks County, -" Penu., a son of John William Hoegner, one of the early settlei's of Congress Township, Wayne Co., Ohio. The father of our subject was born and reared in Germany, and in 1814 he immigrated to the United States, locating first in Philadelphia, Penn., and afterward in

Berks County, same State. June 15, 1838, he and his family (including Frederick) came west to AYayne County, Ohio, settling in Congress Township, where he bought a farm of Daniel Tarnall, and here reared his nine children, five of whom are now living. He died in 1858, aged seventy-eight years.

Frederick Hoegner, whose name heads this sketch, was married February 22, 1848, to Miss Sarah, daughter of George Emrich, who was a settler of Wayne County, of much earlier date than the Hoegners, and to this union were born four children, all living: William F., Lewis P., Lovina and Albert. Mr. and Mrs. Hoegner have long been members of the Lutheran Church; in politics he is a stanch Republican. Their excellent farm of 260 acres of highly improved land is the result of assiduous and honest toil, and good management on the part of both.

djUDGE EDWARD S. DOWELL. At the age of thirty -two there died, B. C. 323, the master of an empire - conquered by himself, covering two and a half million square miles - in the full vigor of his faculties, at the time his brain was teeming with macfiiificent schemes of assimilating the populations of Europe and Asia, and of re-making man after his own image, by stamping the nature of Alexander on the mind and feelings of the world. The type of his career is best illustrated by one incident which long since matured into a familiar proverb. During his invasion of Asia, and upon his arrival at Gordium, he was seized by a powerful superstition, which, for a time, overcame him and arrested his movements. Here lived Gordiiis, a husbandman, but afterward king of Phrygia, remarkable for tying a knot of cords on which the Empire of Asia depended, and, to him who could unravel it, its mighty and undisputed scepter belonged. After fruitlessly manipulating and seeking vainly to master its complexity by the tact and dexterity of his hand, with his sword he impatiently cut it, whereupon, the mystery having been solved, the multitude rejoiced and applauded, and soon by valorous deeds he verified the forecast of the oracle. Hence, in action and resolution the young men of history have exhibited their ability, as well as their judgment, capacity and vigor to combat and annihilate apparently hopeless perplexities by cutting Gordian knots and proving themselves equal to, and the masters of great emergencies.

A recent writer groups together five names of historic significance: Goethe in poetry, Newton in science, Bacon in philosophy, Columbus in discovery, Watt in mechanics, and says substantially, that the greatest works of Goethe were conceived and partly executed when he was a young man. Newton discovered the most universal of all natural laws, the law of gravitation, before he was twenty-five. Bacon had " taken all knowledge for his province," and was devising new, and doubting old methods, before a beard had yet appeared on his chin. The conceptions of Columbus originated in the thoughts and studies of his younger years, and Watt had invented the steam engine before he was thirty. Hamlet was written when the author was btit thirtysix, and Grant was commander of one of the largest armies of the world when he was forty. The history of the human intellect will confirm the assertion that the power in which great natures culminate, which fuses force and insight in one executive intelligence, matures between thirty -five and fifty. Subsequent achievements organize themselves around the younger conceptions. Stepping from the line of the earlier to the middle life, the subject of this sketch was exalted to the judiciary of his State.

Hon. Edward S. Dowell was born in Middletown, Holmes Co., Ohio, March 28, 1847 - the month of the return of the sun, the awakening of the world, and when the scent of the soil is in the air. His parents, Thomas and Mary (Pfouts)

Dowell, were also natives of Holmes County, whither, from Maryland, in 1820, the paternal grandfather removed, and where he settled and reared his family. He was an able, devout and pious minister of the Methodist Church, and was married to Elizabeth Harrold, a lady of most estimable virtues and sincere piety, and who, after the death of her husband, continued the exercise of an active and earnest spiritual control over the family, permitting no stone to be removed or shaken in the altar of prayer, around which the home group had so often knelt in worship.

Thomas Dowell, the father of the subject of this sketch, pursued the vocation of a carpenter, and was united in marriage with Miss Mary Pfouts in 1845. Four children were the result of this union, two of whom, in infancy, passed to the glory of the coming world, and sjjeak not to us. In 1852, and when Judge Dowell was but five years old, his parents went to California, going by way of the Isthmus of Panama. There being, at that time, no inter-oceanic railway communication, the mode of transit was of a more primitive character, and the youtliful hero of this narrative was borne along the banks of the Chagi-es and the tropical jungles of the Isthmus on the shoulders of an escort. During his passage across this narrowed spine of the two continents, as a result of exposure to tbe coutagious poisons of that sectioi), lie suffered from an attack of measles, which, without the aid of saffrou, giuger, spearmint, or other aromatics, disappeared and made uo sign. But a sadder and more painful visitation was in reservation for the adventurous and ambitious family. After taking apartments on the steamer for their destination, the mother of Judge Dowell, having contracted that malignant disease, the Panama fever, after a brief illness passed away, no more to look u[)on the freshening sea, or sport upon its breast, but in its depths, like a drop of rain, to fall without the memory of a grave. As if a triple fate hung over the little circle sosadly torn and rent, upon their arrival at San Francisco, Alice, the onlj- daughter, sank to the "dreamless sleep that lulls the dead, where all have gone and all must go." Of the happy and harmonious quartette that, with full hopes and anticipations, went in quest of gold, like the Argonauts who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, now none were left but the father and son. The first labor in which they engaged was cutting, making and bailing hay for shipment, on the Montezuma Hiils, in Solano County, a region well adapted to stock-raising, and especially for agriculture, for which its climate and soil were peculiarly adapted. It was originally noted for its luxuriant growth of wild oats. After having a large quantity of the grasses cni'ed and prepared for shipment, it was destroyed by fire, and their residence, likewise, perished in the flames. This sudden and temporary frown and reverse of fortune diverted the attention and industry of the father in a different direction. He began work in the mines of Nevada City, where gold at that time was the chief product. In this enterprise he met with gratifying success, but indications of declining health made it pi'udent for him to abandon further work in the mines, when he returned to Montezuma Hills, and went to raising sheep. During his residence in Nevada City, his son, Edward, was enjoying, at Marysville, some of the first reflective hours of life and study ; but when he returned to Solano County the youthful student accompanied him. Here they remained for four years. A more serious and alarming state of health, on the part of Mr. Dowell, made it advisable for him to return to his home in Ohio, which he did in 1S59, bringing his son with liim. He died in August, 1860, at his home in Paint Township, Holmes Co., Ohio. In his experiments and speculations in sheep husbandrj^ in California, that "wonderful piece of the world," the Fates had been propitious, as if to compensate him for the adverse winds that had blown against his hand of toil. He accumulated money rapidly, and made, as he thought, judicious investments of it in the interest of his son. After the death of Thomas Dowell, it became necessary to obtain the money through the courts, and a decree was rendered in favor of the son, to the amount of $34,000, when it was discovered that the title to the land on which the mortgage was placed was defective. The catastrophe which followed entailed an almost penniless condition' upon Mr. Dowell.

After his mixed, varying and checkered experience in the Golden State, returnine to the rich vallevs and fertile hills of his native State and coiiuty, he at once entered the common schools, and at the age of sixteen became a student at Berlin Academy, in Holmes County, and afterward at Fredericksburgh, in Wayne County. It is the old story so often told and written, and that must be applied to him, of teaching in the winter to procure funds to defray academic or collegiate expenses in summer. It has been given to the cold type a thousand times iu regard to the self-taught, self-educated man, in the legal profession and out of it, from the days of the first law-giver to those of Chief-Justice Marshall. In 18f>7 he put a period upon his educational pursuits, and having fixed upon the law as his profession, he entered the office of Critchfield & Uhl, at Millersburgh, Holmes Co.,

Ohio, where he remained for two years, when he determined upon going to California again to try, if possible, to make further investigations in relation to the property out of wliicli he had been most palpably defrauded. Foiled and disappointed in this adventure, he returned to Ohio,and commenced anew and vigorously his studies in the office of Lyman R. Critchfield, who in the meantime had gone to Wooster. His course of legal reading was completed here, which eminently fitted him to unravel the gnarled and knotty problems, the Gordian knots, which fall to the lot of the disciples of Coke and Littleton. In 18()9, at the December term of the supreme court of the State of Ohio, he was admitted to the bar, and without any delay opened an office in the old court-house in Wooster, Ohio. In 1873 he formed a partnership in the practice with the late Hon. John K. McBride. In 1874 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Wayne County, and re-elected two years thereafter. In the autumn of 1887 he was elected judge of the common pleas court for the third subdivision of the Sixth Judicial District, embracing the counties of Wayne, Holmes and Coshocton, and was installed in office on February 9, 1888.

Avherein Cupid was enthroned as first to be crowned after the dignity of the judgeship was conferred. The fortunate lady to whom the bias of the court was evident was Miss Rolla Z. Eiffil, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Taylor) Riffil, and who is a native Wayne Countiau, to the manner born. On December 14, 1888, a son was born to Judge and Mrs. Dowell, whom they have named, after his father and grandfather, Edward Samuel Dowell. Judge Dowell became a member of the x\neient Oi'der of Free Masons in 1878, joining Ebenezer Lodge, Wooster, Ohio, and December 4, of the same year, a Master Mason, and a Royal Arch Mason in 1879. In 1880 he was added to tlie membership of Wooster Council of Royal and Select Masters, and in 1881 took the Templar degrees at Massillon, and is a member of Massillon Commanderj No. 4. He is likewise a member of the commandery recently established in Wooster. He is a charter member of Wooster Council No. 13, Royal Arcanum, organized September 5, 1877, and assisted materially in preparing, correcting, etc., the by-laws of the oi'der. He is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, Uncas Tribe No. 57, instituted May 20, 1871, having passed through all the chairs of the lodge, and has been for 3'ears and now is past sachem. In 1888 he joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,

The career of Judge Dowell, as will be seen, in its earlier features, at least, is invested with many of the sorry experiences of life, as well as some of the perfumes of its romance. The loss of father, mother and sister at his tender age was a sad and irreparable one. The additional misfortune which swept away the capital of his father, and to which he was the only and rightful heir, looked like the cruelty and savagery of fate. He was left a child, parentless and alone in the world, so far as those who were closest and nearest to him in nature were concerned. But he had friends, true ones, of kindred and blood. The battle of life he had, however, to fight for himself. His home was a pleasant one, a residence in the country, in the midst of an industrious and frugal people, with the same habits and generally the same employments. An atmosphere of religion pervaded it. It matters little on what j3oor above the street or of what size in the fields the domestic hearth is, provided it be the asylum of love, integrity and those family affections which it perpetuates. In this circle is predestined the child, and his very soul is molded from the impressions which he remembers. The glance of a mother's eye is a part of our soul, which penetrates into us through our own eyes. Where is the per- sou who, when he sees or remembers that glance, in imagination or a dream, does not feel something not wholly of the earth descend into his thoughts, which intensifies their serenity and tranquilizes agitation. The battle being left to him, he fought it to an issue, and successfully. In private life he is a courteous, affable, well-bred gentleman, and marked in all contacts with him by the strictest integrity and action. His temper is j)lacid and usually tranquil, though liable, at times, to be ruffled, when the resistance is measured in proportion to the exigency, though he possesses an inborn, kindly joyoiisness of nature. He is cautions in disposition, and somewhat sensitive; but this is perfectly compatible with courage, strength and mental firmness. Coleridge, in speaking of this mental quality, says: " Sensitiveness is not only a characteristic feature of, but may be deemed a counterpart of, genius." There " must be delicacy with firmness," writes Ruskin. The white skin of Homer's Atrides would have felt a bent rose-leaf, yet subdue its feeling in the glow of battle, and it would behave like iron. He is characterized by a stern independence, has great intelligence and decision of character, prefers to deal with facts and princi2:)les, has little use for theories, unless they explain their own phenomena, and that without contradicting themselves, and when, upon reflection and investigation, he has arrived at a conclusion, it would be as useless to undertake to change the result as to attempt to remove a stone from one of the pyramids.

In politics he is a Democrat, au active and capable defender of the principles of his party, and upon the public platform their conspicuous and eloquent champion. As a lawyer he rapidly grew and strengthened in his practice, and soon achieved popularity in the courts and reputation as an advocate. He prosecuted unremittingly the study of his books, "scorning delights and living laborious days," believing that no sphere of life or refinement of society was desirable which could not be connected with toil. He was honest, exacting sincerity from his clients, conscientious and diligent in his conduct of causes on trial, courteous to adverse counsel, circumspect to the court, logical, clear, compact and convincing to the jury ; and in his discussion and analysis of questions of law to the court, he was sound, forcible and cogent, not aiming to be dazzling or brilliant, or seeking to flounce propositions in meretricious ornamentation. His remarkable success in his chosen profession demonstrates that he did not mistake his path, or miscalculate his own fitness for the law. As a judge he has acquired a just and enviable popularity, second only to the esteem in which he is held as a citizen and mau. He possesses that skillful geueralizatiou which readily seizes upon the strong points of a subject; that happy condensation of thought which, at once, extracts the substance of an argument, and that ingenuous foresight and comprehension which immediately grasps the angularities of the most intricate legal problems. Whether he be enunciating a principle of law or exploding a sophism, or gently, and with skill and courtesy, recalling a wandering disputant to the point at issue, perpetrating a joke, or launching an epigram, or charging a jury, he not only makes manner subservient to matter, but subdues that manner to an e(juable and delightful speech, transposed to a pleasant and fluent conversation, free from the methodical stiffness of modern Oxonian tribunes, and exempt from the prosaic drawlings of the conscript fathers, or the bench of a century gone.

JACOB SHELLY, son of Michael and Elizabeth (Houser) Shelly, both natives of Pennsylvania, was born on the farm he now owns, in Plain Township, Wayne Co., Ohio, January 15, 1843. Michael Shelly was born in Cumberland County, Penn., in 1811, and came to Wayne County, Ohio, in 1828, with his parents, Jacob and Eliza Shelly, who purchased IGO acres of laud in Plain Township. Jacob Shelly, the grandfather of our subject, was a hard-working, industrious man, and by his industry and perseverance accumulated about 900 acres of land. He never aspired to political honors, and never held any offices. He died in 1858, a member of the Mennouite Church. Several of his children grew to be men and women, but all are now dead except Elizabeth, wife of John Yocum, of Mercer County, Ohio, and Michael.

Michael Shelly was married in 1835 to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Catherine Houser, and located on 160 acres of land in Plain Township, which is now owned by his son Jacob. Here he lived for many years, and then jjurchased the farm he now occupies, in another portion of Plain Township. He is well and favorably known, and at one time owned nearly 800 acres of land. He has always been a member of the Republican party, and takes an active interest in township affairs. Michael Shelly has reared ten children to be men and women, viz. : Christian, in Plain Township, Wayne County ; Michael, deceased ; Jacob, on the home farm ; Peter, in Ashland County; Joseph, in Franklin Township, Wayne County ; John, in Plain Township, Wayne County ; Eliza, wife of David Mellinger, of Jefferson, Wayne County; Sarah, wife of Eobert McAffee, in Wooster, Ohio; Mary, wife of William McQuigg, in Plain Township, Wayne County, and Susan, wife of James Alexander, also in Plain Township.

Of these, .Jacob attended the township schools until the breaking out of the war, he enlisted in Company C, Sixteenth Ohio Yoluuteer Infantry, serving three years. In 1866 he married Miss Harriet, daughter of Alex. Culberson, an early settler of Wayne County, who afterward moved to Ashland County, Ohio. By this union have been born three children: Charles C, Ella T. and Jennie V. Mr. Shelly is prominently identified with the Republican party, and has held several township offices; at the present time he is serving as trustee. He is a member of Wooster Lodge, No. 42, I. O. O. F., and of Gibson Post, No. 133, G. A. E. He and his family are members of the Plain Lutheran Church, of which he has been deacon.

Alex. Culberson, the father-in-law of Jacob Shelly, was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., and came in 1814 to Wayne County, Ohio, where he purchased a tract of land in Plain Township, near IMillbi'ook. Here he lived for several years, and finally moved to Ashland County, Ohio, where he died in 1869. He was twice married, and by the first wife he had two children: Lucretia Nelson, in Illinois, and Abraham, in Mansfield, Ohio.

His second wife was Nancy Beard, by whom he had two children: Harriet, wife of Jacob Shelly; Margaret, wife of J. H. Wilhour, of Wooster, Ohio. Mr. Culberson was a Eepublicau in politics, and held several township oflices.