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In his political faith, Mr. Hughes is a Democrat. In his religion he is a communicant of the Mother Church of all, the Roman Catholic. His wife and children are Methodists. Mr. Hughes possesses the confidence of all his neighbors and well deserves it. One of the best evidences of it is, that he was President of the School Board of the Township for twelve consecutive years. He was a Commissioner of the county from 1890 to 1893. He is strictly honest, honorable, and upright. He attends strictly to his own business, and does unto others as he wishes to be done by. As a public officer, he was capable, honest, and efficient. He is an honor to himself, to his family, and to the community, and his character estimate was furnished by one of his neighbors who knows him so well that he could not possibly be mistaken about him.

Albert Clinton Hood, the ninth child of John P. and Sarah J. Hood, was bom in West Union, Adams County, Ohio, February 28, 1858. He attended the Public schools of West Union until the age of seventeen, at which tinje, 1875, he began teaching in the country schools of Adams County. He followed this business for several years, teaching in the Winter and going to school in the Summer. He afterward attended the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, and later the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, and besides, he has accomplished much by home study.

He filled the following positions in Adams County : Superintendent of Rome schools, Principal of Manchester High School, Superintendent of Bentonville schools, of Peebles schools, and of the West Union schools. Besides, within this period, he taught several Normal schools during the Summer months. He was County School Examiner from September I, 1888, to August 31. 1891, having been appointed to the position by Judge I. N. ToUe.

Since leaving Adams county in 1892, he has superintended the schools of Aberdeen, Brown, County, Ohio; Shiloh, Richland County, Ohio; New London, Huron County, Ohio, and Reynoldsburg, Franklin County, Ohio. On retiring from the New London schools in '98 he was invited back to take charge of the Shiloh schools, but declined the offer to accept the superintendency of the schools at Reynoldsburg. At this place he also conducted a Summer school for the especial training of teachers. In the year jqoo he accepted an appointment as teacher in the Central High School, Cleveland, Ohio.

Albert C. Hood was married November 28, 1889, at Peebles, Adams County, Ohio, to Susan Annabel Nixon, daughter of David and Mary Ann Nixon of that place. Three children, two boys, Edwin Nixon and Glenn Mack, and one girl, Pauline, have been born to them, all of whom are living. He has been somewhat active in lodge work, having become a member of the L O. O. F. Subordinate, Encampment, and Rebekah Lodges, and of the Masonic Blue Lodge, Chapter, and Order of Eastern Star.

In June, 1893, Mr. Hood obtained a High School Life Certificate from the State Board of School Examiners of Ohio. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and also that of Master of Arts, was conferred upon him in 1899, by Mount Hope College.

Mr. Hood is truly a school man. He entered the profession of teaching when quite young. He began in the country schools and has adhered to the work, being gradually promoted until he has held several responsible positions as Principal and Superintendent. As a teacher, he is rigid in discipline and thorough in instruction. He has high ideals and strives to bring his pupils up to them both in education and in conduct. He has made a careful study of the art of teaching, having given much time to educational associations and is able to discern the best points of the work. He does not like sham in any sense nor those who try to practice it. After leaving the High school as a pupil, he steadily advanced in education until he was qualified for the degree of Doctor 02

Philosophy. In addition to the Public school work, he has been connected with private Normal schools where teachers have been trained for examinations and for better work as teachers. His influence is toward the elevation of the lives of the pupils who come to his schools and in this way his work has been especially successful. He is industrious, painstaking and careful in whatever he endeavors to do, and this makes him a most useful teacher, inspiring his pupils to be careful in thought and neat in execution. Even people who do not like him say that he is a good teacher. As a man, he is thoroughly honest and upright and his character is above reproach. He belongs to the conservative class. Of a nervous, sanguine temperament, he is quick to judge and strong in his convictions. He is not the "first to lay down the old nor the last to take up the new." His strong point is in counsel and he is a steadfast friend to those whom he chooses as friends. As a citizen, he takes a quiet but positive interest in public affairs, makes up his own opinions on public questions and exercises the right of franchise in accordance with free convictions.

is one of the earnest settlers of Meigs Township, having resided there for sixty-four years. He is the son of Matthew and Sarah Jones, and was born December 2, 1825, in Tiffin Township. His father was one of the early farmers of Adams County, and raised a family of seventeen children of whom Samuel was the tenth child. His parents being poor and having so large a family, it was necessary for the children to "work out." His father sold the farm- of two hundred acres when Samuel was ten years old and moved to Meigs Township where he bought another. Samuel remained with his parents until he was seventeen years old. He then hired himself to Wm. Metz, a thrifty farmer on the Ohio River, and worked for him a year at eight dollars ^ ei nonth. Later he was employed by Samuel Breadwell on a farm at thirteen dollars per month, by James Moore at sixteen dollars per month, and by John Gorman at eighteen dollars per month. In each case his earnings went to his parents, except what was necessary to buy clothing, which was never expensive.

The iron furnaces of Lawrence and Gallia Counties, and the coal pits necessary to supply them, offered better wages to young men and Samuel sought employment at Mt. Vernon Furnace, where he received twenty dollars per month cutting wood, hauling wood and working in the coal pits. Here he saved his money and purchased forty-nine acres of land on Turkey Creek, Meigs Township. He gradually added to this until he owns two hundred and fifty acres, and on this farm he has reared a large family.

His education was limited to the country schools of that day, although his good judgment and general information made what learning he had very useful to him. His school teachers, as he remembers them, were Hannah Irvin, Dorcas Taylor, L. D. Page, Benjamin Black, Samud Thoroman, Henry Williamson, John Williamson, and he says they were all good teachers. His mother was Sarah Thoroman, who was a daughter of Samuel Thoroman and Ann Crawford. The latter was a relative of Col. Crawford, who was burned at the stake by the Indians. The Thoromans are of Scotch ancestry.

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In 185 1, he married Sophia Clark, daughter of James and Jane Clark, residents of Meigs Township. They settled on the land spoken above, and there reared a family of eight children, five sons and three daughters, all of whom, with the exception of one daughter, are living. In 1868, his wife died of typhoid fever, leaving him a baby ten months old, Edward, who is now Superintendent of the Public schools at Nelsonville, Ohio. In 1869, he married Mrs. Margaret Callaway, who had four sons. Six children, two sons and four daughters, were bom to the new marriage and all are living.

Mr. Jones has always taken a deep interest in public aflFairs. In politics, he has been a Republican since the organization of that party. During the War of the Rebellion, he enlisted in the 141st O. V. I., and was a member of Company K.

In church matters he holds liberal views and is a member of the U. B. church. He has never united with any secret orders except the G. A. R.

For the past twenty years his health has been impaired and he has left off the hard manual labor necessary for a successful farmer and has devoted his time to the duties of a notary public, giving special attention to pension claims in which he has met with great success.

The leading traits in the character of the subject of this sketch are his sturdy honesty, sympathy and liberality. He believes in his own rights and will contend for them, but he recog^zes the rights of others. He loves frankness and practices it. He despises deception of any kind. The writer of this sketch knows from an every-day intimacy with him for twenty years that he would not practice a fraud nor cheat a neighbor even though he knew the wrong would never be discovered. The latchstring has always been on the outside of his door. Neighbors, friends and relatives have been welcomed and urged to remain. He loves friends and companions. His conversational powers are good and he is always a welcome visitor among his neighbors. He has lived an exemplary life before his large family of children. Owing to lack of means, he could not offer more than a common school education to his children. Three of his first family became teachers ; two of these have attained success as superintendents of schools. One has already been referred to> and the other now holds the responsible position of Superintendent of the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, at Columbus.

was bom January 25, 1861, near Mineral Springs, Adams County, Ohio. He was reared on a farm and attended the Public Schools in Winter until seventeen years of age, when he began his career as an educator. After having taught five terms in the country school and having raised his grade 0* certificate to the first class, he was elected Principal of the Village schools of Rome, Ohio. After serving here for one year, he relinquished his position in order to enter the Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio. In 1885, he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and in the Fall of the same year, was elected Superintendent of the Manchester schools, where he remained for ten years, being elected each successive time without ever having a vote cast against him. During the tenure of his position as superintendent of these schools, Prof. Jones spent his vacations teaching Normal schools, preparing teachers for their work, and fitting pupils for college. These schools were first conducted at North Liberty, and afterwards at Manchester. He also spent a portion of his vacation instructing in the Teachers' Institute. In 1888, he went before the Ohio State Board of School Examiners and was granted a high school life certificate, having successfully passed in twenty-three branches of study. In 1893, ^^ received the degree of Bachelor of Pedagogy from the Ohio University at Athens, at which institution he had taken a post-graduate course. Prof. Jones was re-elected, in 1895, to the Superintendency of the Manchester schools for a period of three years, hut before entering upon this term, he was called to his present position. Superintendent of the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, assuming the duties of his office in September, 1895.

Prof. Jones was a man of high standing and influence in school circles, being recognized as one of the progressive educators of the State. He has been untiring in his devotion to the interests of the institution since assuming the reins of authority, and has given much prominence to the work being accomplished by the Ohio School for the Deaf. Being of a sympathetic disposition, he is well qualified for his present position. He is a member of the First Presbvterian Church, of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1885, he was married to Miss Cora A. McPherson, of Mineral Springs. They have three daughters, Marjorie McFerran, Carrie Louise and Rela Pauline.

was the son of Mathew and Sarah Jones, born September 4, 1819. His youth was spent on the farm. At the age of nineteen, he began teaching in the Public schools of Adams and Scioto Counties. He traveled extensively through the West, over the greater part of Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. He returned to Ohio and married Elizabeth Clark, daughter of James Clark, of Jefferson Township, Adams County. They located neat Des Moines, Iowa, where he was engaged in teaching, but after a residence of five years in that State, they returned to Adams County. He afterward purchased a farm just across the line in Scioto County, on which he continued to reside until his death.

Mr. Jones was a man of very strong convictions. Early in life he became an Abolitionist, his attention being first called to the subject by a party of slave hunters passing through, where he was teaching. They returned with the fugitives manacled and driven before them. This object lesson made him the strongest kind of an Abolitionist. He engaged in many prominent debates on the slavery question. At the breaking out of the war, he felt that the result would be the abolition of slavery and that it was his duty to do all that he could to bring it about. He therefore enlisted in Company B, of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, en the fifteenth A'^^r of C)ctober, 1861, for a period of three years, at the age of forty-three, within three years of the limit. He served his three years and served ^is a veteran, and was discharged August 14, 1865. He was in all the battleand engagements of his company, and during that time acted also as a corresi)ondent for several Northern newspapers. His stories of army life were read with great interest by all those within the circulation of the journals he represented. At the end of his military service he resumed the occupation of teaching. He was a man of high moral principles, of the strictest integrity, honorable in all his dealings with his fellow men, and he was respected by all who knew him. He was a model citizen in every respect. He died in March, 1S74, and is buried in the cemetery near Wamsleysville, Ohio. His son, Lafayette Jones, the present Surveyor of Scioto County, is sketched in this work.

was born on Blue Creek, December i, 1858. His father was Oliver Jones ; his mother, Elizabeth Caraway. Our subject was the second child. He has a sister, Annaleva, wife of John Calvin, and a brother, Albert. He attended the District school in his vicinity and lived on his farm until he was twenty-four years of age. He engaged in the merchandise business in 1882 at Blue Creek and remained in that until 1885. He then went to Meade County, Kansas. He remained there a year. He then went to Colorado. He married Miss Isa McCall, daughter of Henry McCall. Coming from Colorado, he went to Blue Creek and engaged in farming. In 1898, he moved to McGaw and engaged in the merchandising business for a few months. He then returned to Blue Creek and went to farming. In politics, he is a Democrat. He is a Mason and a member of the West Union Lodge.

was born October 13, 1813, son of John and Sarah Kincaid. He worked on his father's farm and attended the Public schools in his vicinity. He was twenty-one years of age when his father, Judge John Kincaid, died, and was one of ten surviving children, yet he bought out his brothers and sisters and paid them $1,100 for their interests. He was married August 7, 1834, to Barbara Lawrence, a native of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He began his married life without a dollar of money, but he had a capital of energy, will and industry that served him well. He became one of the principal farmers of the county. January 10, 1865, his wife died, and on December 23, 1867, he was married to Jane McNeil, who survived him. He took an active interest in politics, was a Whig and Republican and very strongly anti-slavery. He always attended the county conventions of his party, usually as a delegate and so often was this done that the wags gave him the name, in sport, ^'Liberty Township." What they said in sport was sober reality, for, in many respects, he was "Liberty Township." In his interest in political affairs, he was a model citizen. He believed every man should take a continuing interest in political affairs, and, as a consequence, he never missed a primary or political convention. He often attended the District and State Conventions of his party. In political affairs he was always consulted and great weight given to his advice. He was a man of fine personal appearance, very tall and very erect in his carriage. His physical appearance would attract attention in any company or public assemblage. No man enjoyed a hearty laugh more than he, and he was full of fun and humor, but whenever he undertook to do anything, no man was more fixed or set in his purpose. He had an expression of firmness about his mouth when his lips were closed that was emphatic and im- pressive. It dominated all other expressions of his features. It was a pleasure to hear him converse and he enjoyed the company of good conversationalists and could carry his part among that kind of social companions. He was a great friend of the lawyers and physicians of West Union of his own age, and especially of E. P. Evans, J. R. Cockerill, J. M. Wells and Dr. David Coleqian.

When the underground railroad was in operation, he was one of the directors and conductors. As his name indicates, he was of Scotch descent and by birthright a Presbyterian, and a believer in that faith, but never became a member of the church. This was largely due to the breach between his father and the Rev. Dyei Burgess on the subject of Masonry in 1830. In 1868, he united with the M. E. Church and died in that faith on October 10, 1887. His life was full of good deeds and acts of charity. He was a good citizen, a good neighbor, and undertook to and performed all his duties as man, citizen, husband and father as he understood them. He has gone to his reward and the world is better that he lived. He left the memory of an example of \^hich his children, his township and county may be proud. His children were: George Lawrence, born May 15, 1835; John Williamson, bom March 29, 1837; Wilham Nelson, born March 20, 1839, died December 3, 1852; Sarah Margaret, bom May 16, 1842; Mary Anne, bom January 27, 1847; Adaline Jane, bom May 2, 1849; Martha Alice, bom October 29, 1851 ; Thomas, born November 12, 1854; Quincy Adams, bom December 15, 1858; Winfield Scott, born July 9, 1861.

Sarah M. married Joseph B. Matthews, and lives near Eckmansville, Ohio. They have two children. Adaline Jane married John G. Kleinknecht, and resides at Hills Fork, Ohio, and she has four children.

Captain George S. Kirker, the youngest son of Gov. Thomas Kirker, was born on the old Kirker homestead in Liberty Township, Adams County, Ohio, February 7, 1813. He was married in 1840 to Mary M. Cunningham, daughter of William and Ellen Doak Cunningham, of Virginia descent. Their children living are Sarah Ellen, unmarried and residing at the old home; Charles E., Mary F., wife of A. P. Mclntire; William C. who resides on the old homestead ; Ora, wife of Edwin Morrison, of Pawnee City, Neb., and India A., residing at Axtell, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Kirker lost six children in infancy. Mary M. Kirker was born March 17, 181 7, and died at Manchester, Ohio, April 13, 1887. George S. Kirker lived his entire life on the farm in Liberty Township except the last four years, in which he made his residence in Manchester. He died September 15, 1879. He was highly respected wherever he was known. He was a man of great public spirit. If any measure was proposed or projected for the public benefit, he was always favorable to it and always supported, it with great enthusiasm. He was a manly man. Whatever was just, whatever was upright, whatever was for good, he was for. He was the means of having the pike from Cherry Fork to Bentonville built, and but for his influence, its constmction would have been delayed for years.

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From 1863 to 1871, he, Crockett McGovney and Dr. D. M. McConaugh engaged in the pork packing business at Manchester. It required a great deal of nerve and capital to go into that business and carry it on, but Kirker had both. It was the largest and most important business carried on in Adams County while it lasted, and its being carried on was a great public benefit to the county. True, the partners lost money, but the people who dealt with them did not.

George S. Kirker was a prosperous and successful farmer and stock raiser. No man in the county took more pride in fine stock than he did and those who knew him in his prime knew that he never was happier than when riding a fine horse. He was always fond of horseback riding and usually had a saddle horse with a fancy gait. At fifty years, he was a large man, with very black hair and a full black beard. He had a fine presence and impressed strangers as a man of importance. In his business dealings, he was direct and straight to the point and was the soul of integrity and fair dealing. His industry and energy were untiring.

When there was any business to be done, Mr. Kirker never rested until it was done. He was a most jovial, agreeable companion. He was full of humor and liked to give it play. He was fond of a good story. He was one of those whom others like to ask to take the lead and when his judgment approved, he never hesitated to take it. When he did take it, the business went forward to a conclusion and usually to a successful one. He was always in good spirits and his presence and manner put those about him in good spirits. He was always inclined to take a cheerful view of things and to believe that a poor or bad condition of affairs could be bettered. He was plain in his dress, in his speech and in his manners, but he believed in getting at the substance of things. He was a man of strong will power and great tenacity of purpose. He would not undertake any matter or enterprise unless it was within reason that it could be carried through and that he could bring it to a successful issue. He had excellent judgment, and if it ever failed him, it was because of the influence of matters upon which he had not calculated.

In the period of his business activity, he was a most valuable element in the community. If any one was to lead in any project, he was usually selected as the one, and he never failed, when called upon, either to undertake the work placed upon him or to bring it to a fortunate conclusion. He was a natural leader in the circle of his acquaintances. It was this fact which made him a Captain in the 141st O. V. I. He was a strong Republican in his political views and could not have been anything else. He, however, unlike his distinguished father, had no taste for political office, and he never held any but that of Infirmary Director from 1863 to 1866. He accepted this because his name added strength to the ticket on which he was and because he lived in the same township in which the infirmary was located. His known sympathy for the poor and needy urged his candidacy and induced him to accept the office. Then again, his contest was made in the middle of the war when patriots were discouraged and when strong men needed to come forward and encourage the war. There is no man risen up in Mr. Kirker 's place with all his sterling qualities. He set the world an example of life and character which ought to be remembered and perpetuated, and an example which, if followed, would increase the sum total of pleasure and contentment here, and happiness and hope for the future.

of Blue Creek, was born near Arnheim, Brown County, Ohio, October 7, 1839. I^is father was Simon Kratzer, whose ancestors came from Pennsylvania, and his mother was Elizabeth Lindsey, a descendant of an old and respectable family of Brown County. Our subject was reared on a farm and had the advantages of the country schools. He enlisted from Georgetown, Ohio, August 18, 1862, and was mustered into the service of the United States at Camp Dennison as a Private, Company D, Captain Higgins, 59th Regiment, O. V. I., Colonel Fyffe, for three years. Joined regiment at Cave City, Ky., and there promoted to Corporal. Served in Nelson's Brigade, Wood's Division, Fourth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and took part in all the battles in which his regiment participated, including Stone River, Lookout Mountain, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Siege of Atlanta, and was wounded at Mission Ridge. He was transferred to Company K, October 24, 1864, and served balance of time, and was honorably discharged June 28, 1865.

Our subject was first married January 18, 1865, to Miss Mahala Sta)i:on, of Brown County, by whom he had four sons and four daughters: Robert, Rosetta, Jesse Lee, Stella, John F., George E., Emma and Nellie. Mr. Kratzer's second wife was Matilda J., daughter of Levi and Cynthia Lafara.

Philip Kratzer is one of the substantial citizens of Churn Creek Valley. He is a faithful member of the Christian Union Church, and in politics an old-fashioned Democrat, and is an ardent admirer of that leader of Democracy, William J. Bryan.

of Blue Creek, was born May 14, 1848. His ancestors were among the first of the pioneers in Blue Creek Valley, settling there when the region abounded with bear and deer, and when bands of marauding Indians paid occasional visits to the settlements along Scioto Brush Creek. The parents of Mr. Knauff, Michael and Mary Wolfe KnauflF, came from Germany to Butler County, Pa., where Frederick was bom, and thence to Adams County. Mary Knauf? died April 7, 1892, and is buried at Liberty cemetery. Michael Knauff is yet living at the age of eighty-three years.

Our subject was educated in the country schools in which .he has always taken much interest, being at present a member of the Board of Education of Jefferson Township.

He was married March 30, 1869, to Elizabeth Lamb, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Boehm Lamb, by whom he has had eight children: John H., Luella A., William D., Wylie C, Anna R., Mary A., Harry J., and Roy A. He is a Republican in his political opinions, but very tolerant in his views. He was raised in the Lutheran Church, but is not a member of any denomination at present.

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of Cherry Fork, is a son of Alexander Kirk, who was bom in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, in 1808, and Mary Reighle, of German descent, from the same State. Alexander Kirk was a son of John Kirk and Jane McKinney, natives of Scotland. In 1845, Alexander Kirk came from Cincinnati to Youngsville, Adams County, where he followed the trade of tailor. In 1850, he removed his shop to Cherry Fork, where he resided until his death. He was a jovial, lighthearted man, a fine performer on the violin, and was loved and respected by all who knew him. Albert D. Kirk, the subject of this sketch, was bom in Youngsville, in 1848, and was brought up to be a tailor in his father's shop. He was educated in the common schools, and in the old academy at Cherry Fork, under Profs. McClung and Chase. When a lad, he was a member of the old militia, and in 1864 was called in the service of the United States, Company G, I72d O. V. I. In 1865, he again volunteered as a member of Company D, 191st Regiment, O. V. I., and was honorably discharged at the close of the war.

April 13, 1869, he was married to Phoebe Mclntire, a daughter of General William Mclntire, who bore him four children : William O., Luna E., Blanche and Grace. March 23, 1884, she died, and December 25, 1890, he married Minnie Wickerham, a daughter of Jacob Wickerham, of Peebles, Ohio, a most estimable woman, by whom he has had born to him three children: Albert DeWitt, Kathleen and James. Besides his reputation as a fashionable tailor, Mr. Kirk is a fine musician and was the organizer of "Kirk's Band," in 1870, a reed and cornet organization, the oldest in the county, and one of the most excellent.

was bom October 23, 1841, in Greene Township, Adams County. His maternal great-grandfather, Aaron Stratton, was a native of New Jersey, where he grew to manhood and married. About 1790, he removed to Lewis County, Kentucky, and settled near Vanceburg. He was a man of enterprise and engaged in the manufacture of salt, which he followed for a number of years, and by which he made a considerable fortune. He owned many slaves. He bought Steele's Survey, a body of some seven hundred acres of land on the Ohio side of the river, known then and now as Irish Bottoms. He reared a family of ten children, one son and nine daughters. He made it a rule, upon the marriage of each child, to present him or her, among other things, two negro slaves, a man and a woman. His second daughter, Sarah, married Jonathan Kenyon, a native of Vermont. This daughter declined any present of slaves, and her father gave her instead one hundred and thirty acres of Irish Bottom land, now known as Sandy Springs. She and her husband settled on it, cleared it, and lived and died there. Mr. Kenyon was a regularly admitted lawyer, though he did not practice his profession. He was able to properly draw instruments of writing and discouraged litigation. He reared a family of seven children, all sons, namely, Aaron, Samuel, Thompson, Daniel, James, William and Benjamin. These sons all grew to manhood, married and reared families. James and Benjamin went to California, where they engaged in farming, and now reside there. Wil-

Ham lived and died near Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio. Samuel and Thompson removed to Andrew County, Missouri, where they died. Daniel, the fourth son, was born October ii, 1811, and departed this life November 5, 1885. He became the owner of the old homestead in 1834, to which he added one hundred acres, part of the Carrington Survey adjoining.

In 1832, he married Miss Rebecca Zorns, born August 18, 181 1, in Lewis County, Kentucky, and who departed this life January 4, 1895. They reared a family of seven children : Martha Jane, Artemisia, Cynthiana, James R., William Franklin, Samuel F., and Mary Olive. The parents were members of the Methodist Church for over thirty-five years.

William Franklin, the second son, and subject of this sketch, was educated in the Public schools and at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio. He graduated at the Nelson Business College at Cincinnati. He served as Township Trustee from 1893 to 1899; as School Trustee for twenty years, and as Voluntary Meteorological Observer, U. S. Weather Bureau, for seven years. His political views are Republican.

At the age of twenty, he became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sandy Springs, and has served it as steward for twenty years, and also as a trustee. He was married April 5, 1864, to Miss Louise McCall, who was born in Scioto County, Ohio, December 7, 1845. Her parents were early settlers near Buena Vista, Ohio, and dealt in lumber and stone.

Our subject has reared a family of seven children, two sons and five daughters. Lena, Theresa, Peninah, Mary Olive, Rosa Blanche, Daniel Austin, and Earl Franklin. Lena married Dr. D. E. Sample, of Vanceburg, Ky., and is now residing at Huntington, West Virginia ; Theresa, Peninah and Earl F., are at home with their parents ; Mary O., married Mr. E. L. Fulkerson, of St. Clara, Missouri, and. they now reside at Texarkana, Ark.; Rosa B. died December i, 1890; Daniel A. married Miss Mary M. Lawill, of Manchester, Ohio. They reside on the home farm.

Soon after Mr. Kenyon's marriage, he purchased a part of his father's farm on the banks of the Ohio River at Sandy Springs. Since then he has added many acres, principally hill land which is used for orchards. After his education was finished, he engaged in the nursery business with his father under the style of "Daniel Kenyon & Son's Ohio River Nursery and Fruit Farm." He continued in the business for twenty years. His farm is neatly cultivated and tastefully adorned, and surrounded by all the comforts man can desire. Mr. Kenyon and wife are now quietlv living on their beautiful fruit farm and enjoying the fruits of industrious and well spent lives.

was born December 18, 1856, in Wayne Township. He wen*: to school in the District schools and the North Liberty Academy. He began the study of medicine in 1883 under the instructions of Dr. Carboy, of Winchester. He attended Miami Medical College from 1884 to 1886 and graduated in the latter year. He took a post-graduate course at New

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York in 1896 at the Polyclinic Hospital. He located to practice medicine at North Liberty in 1886 and has been there ever since. He was married November 13, 1886, to Miss Mary Bell Patton, daughter of the late George A. Patton, of Harshaville.

He is a man of high character and an excellent citizen and a very successful physician. He is very highly esteemed in the community in which he resides and wherever he is known.

was born December 31, 185 1, and named after his maternal uncle, Rev. Robert Stewart, for nineteen years pastor of the U. P. Church at North Liberty. He attended the District schools and the North Liberty Academy, and finished his education at the latter place in 1871. He went to clerking in 1868 for George A. Patton, at Harshaville, and worked for him for about three months. Then he clerked at North Liberty for his brother, John P. ICirkpatrick, in 1870. He went to Illinois in March, 1871, and staid there a few months, and was engaged in farming. He returned to Wayne Township in the Fall of 1861, and then clerked for George A. Patton until February 26, 1873, when he was married to Sarah Agnes Laird, daughter of Captain Samuel Laird. After his marriage, he farmed his father's farm until August, 1873, ^^^ then removed to North Liberty, and engaged in the produce trade until March, 1875, and in that year and for about two months afterwards, he clerked for his brother, John P. Kirkpatriek. Then he removed to Mattoon, 111., and lived there until 1876, but came back that Fall to North Liberty, and went to clerking again for George A. Patton, and staid there until March 3, 1882. Then he removed to North Liberty and ran a huckstering wagon until December, 1882, when he started the general store where he is now and has been ever since.

Mr. Kirkpatriek has always been a Republican, and in 1883, was a candidate for Clerk of the Courts of Adams County, but was defeated b> George W. Pettit. He is a member of the U. P. Church at Cherry Fork. He has a son, Charles E.. who conducts a store at Harshaville, under the name of Charles E. Kirkpatriek & Co., composed of his father and himself. That store was opened May 19, 1897. His daughter Mayme married P. K. Phillips, who works for her father. His second son, Earle, is at home and assists in running the store. His daughter, June Bell, is a student of Monmouth College, one of the brightest girls of her community, and bids fair to accomplish much in the school she attends.

John Williamson Kincaid was born March 29, 1837, in Sprigg Township, near the Col. Hugh Means residence. He received his first Christian name for his grandfather. Col. John Kincaid, Associate Judge and the second for the Reverend William Williamson, who died in the same year in which he was bom. His father, John H. Kincaid, was at that time a staunch Presbyterian. When he was but three years of age, his father removed to the home in Liberty Township where he resided until his death.

Our subject obtained such schooling as the District schools afforded and has been a farmer all his Hfe. On the twenty-eighth of March, i860, he was married to Esther J. McConnell, daughter of Alexander McConnell. The writer remembers the marriage. They began life together with great hopes and enthusiasm and with a world erf love, and their happy relations continued until her death on April 24, 1891.

John W. Kincaid volunteered in the service of his country on the eleventh day of August, 1862, in Company E, 91st O. V. I. He was made a Corporal of his company August 12, 1862. He is proud of his record as a soldier and has every reason to be. The regiment was in fifteen battles and engagements with the enemy and he was in every one of them. The first was October 26, 1862, and the last November 18, 1864. Men were wounded and killed by his side but he escaped unscathed, and was able at all times to keep right along with his command. This is a remarkable record for a service which continued almost three years. He was honorably discharged June 24, 1865. The children of his marriage are Oscar B., a farmer living in Greene County, Ohio; Sarah H., married to John Beheimer, and residing in Bethel, Clermont County, Ohio ; Hattie M., married to Franklin Robe, and residing near Hills Pork in Liberty Township, and Minnie Bell, who married Walter Riffle, and keeps the home for her father and her own family.

Our subject has always been a Republican. He has held the office of Assessor and Trustee of his Township, and in 1891 was elected Infirmary Director for three years. In 1894, he was re-elected and served the full term. Of all the votes he ever cast (and he never failed to vote), he is proudest of that cast in 1864 for Abraham Lincoln for President, which was cast in front of Gen. Tubal Early's arm. Mr. Kincaid is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of a long line of ancestry noted for their interest in public affairs and in the welfare of the country, he has aimed, in all his life, to act well his part, and it is the vedict of all who know him that he has succeeded. He is respected by all as a model citizen and an honorable and upright man.

son of John H. Kincaid and Barbara Lawrence, his wife, was born in Liberty Township, Adams County, on the ninth of July, 1861. He was the youngest of his father's family. He had the opportunity to become a physician, but preferred to be a farm.er. He was married August 12, 1882, to Miss Mary L. Robe, daughter of David L. Robe, Jr., of Liberty Township. The Robes were among the first settlers in Liberty Township. The first election in Liberty Township was held at the house of David Robe, Sr., his wife's grandfather, in April, 1818. He resides on the old homestead, which has been in the same familv over one hundred years. Mr. Kincaid was elected Clerk of Liberty Township in April, 1S84, and served one year. He was appointed a Trustee of the Wilson Children's Home, March 7, 1898, for a term of four years, and was reappointed for a like term March 7, 1898. For three years past, he has been President of the Board. He is a member of the West Union Lodge, No. 43, Free and Accepted Masons, and was Master of that lodge in

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Mr. Kincaid is an enthusiastic Mason and is much attached to the order. He is one of the founders of the Adams County Argicultural Society and has been one of its twelve directors since its organization. He is now President of the Board of Directors of the Society. He is a Republican and has been active in politics since his sixteenth year. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Liberty Chapel and a class leader. Mr. Kincaid is an honorable and useful citizen. He possesses the confidence and esteem of all his neighbors. He is active, energetic, and enthusiastic in anything he undertakes to do and is regarded as a model farmer and citizen.

farmer, residing near Manchester, was bom March 24, 1831, near Russellville, Brown County, Ohio. His father, George Adam Kress, was bom in Bamasants, Rhine, Bavaria. His mother, Katherine Miller, was born in the same place. There they were married, and five of their children were born in Germany. In 1828, they came to the United States and located near Russellville, Brown County. They had seven more children in this country, four of whom died in infancy.

Our subject was the sixth child of his parents and the first born in this country. When he was of an age to attend school, the nearest school was so very far awa}*^ and held such a short time, and the need of the boy's work was so strong that he was not sent to school, and he obtained no education. He worked on his father's land until he was twentyone years of age ; and from the age of twenty-one to twenty-seven, he worked out as a farmer. From 1854 to 1858, he worked for Luther Pierce on his farm; and on February 17, 1858, he was miarried to Miss Mary Jane Colbert, at Manchester. He went to housekeeping in Sprigg Township, where he still resides.

He remained working on the farm until the seventeenth of October, 1861, when he enlisted in Company G of the 70th Ohio Regiment. At the battle of Shiloh, he was the first one of his regiment wounded. He was shot through the left shoulder, and was so disabled that he was discharged on the twenty-sixth of September, 1862. He was unable to work any for two years after his wound; and for seven years after his return from the army, he kept toll-gate near Manchester.

He and his wife have had sixteen children born to them; five of whom died in infancy or early childhood, and eleven of whom are still living. His eldest daughter, Kate Kress, was born March 15, 1859, and is the wife of N. B. Francis, at Mt. Sterling, Nebraska. They have one child. His daughter, Margaret A., was born December 30, 1863, ^^d is the wife of E M. Burnett, a watchman at Manchester. They have three children. Linnie J., his third daughter, was born November 30, 1865, and is married to Mack Pence, a farmer near Manchester. His fourth daughter, Sarah B., born March 28, 1867, was married to Thomas Dawley in 1890. They live near Seaman, Ohio, and have one child. His fifth daughter, Lida E., was born September 21, 1868, and was married to C. A. Leedom. She resides with her parents. Josephine Irene Kress was born January 25, 1872, and is married to L. J. Kuntz, a farmer residing near Bentonville, Ohio. They have one child. Julia E., was born October 29, 1873, and was married to Will H. Lang, a farmer, in 1893. They have one child. His son, Fred N., born August 16, 1875, is single and lives in Nebraska. His son, Harvey Garfield, bom May 10, 18&), and daughters, Cora A., born April 26, 1882, and Louella, bom June II, 1886, are still at home with their parents.

Mr. Kress was raised in the Lutheran Church. He has always, been a Republican. While he is always very prompt in the payment of his obligations, unlike the typical German he is not afraid of being in debt. No more honorable citizen lives in the country, nor any more patriotic. While Mr. Kress never obtained any learning, he has a great deal of philosophy, which serves as a substitute for the learning. At the same time, he insists that his children should be educated, and all of them have a good common school education.

farmer, student, teacher, soldier and merchant, was bom near Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, February 24, 1843. His mother, Drusilla Davis Smashea, was born in Maryland. His father, William Kennedy, was bom in Pennsylvania, but removed to Brown County when a child and spent the remainder of his life there as a teacher and a farmer. He was a Justice of the Peace for many years and never had a decision appealed from. He died in 1864.

As his name would indicate, Mr. Kennedy is of Scotch-Irish descent on the paternal side; on the maternal side, he traces his ancestry to the Burbage family, a sketch of which is found in this work. His grandmother, Dolly Smashea, was a Burbage from Maryland. Mr. Kennedy's mother died when he was but two years old, and he was brought up by his aunts, Mrs. Sarah W. Bradford and Mrs. Mary M. Williams, of West Union. He attended the Public schools of West Union and the North Liberty Academy, spent two years as a teacher and about the same period as a student at Miami University. In June, 1863, he assisted in recruiting Company G, 129th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at its organization was appointed its First Sergeant, which office he held during his term of service with the company. In the Summer of 1864, he attended Military school ^t Philadelphia, and was afterwards commissioned a First Lieutenant of colored troops and assigned to the Eighth Regiment, United States Heavy Artillery, then stationed at Paducah, Kentucky. He was given command of Company I, and held that position until the mustering out of his regiment in April, 1866, having seen service in Kentucky, about Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia, and lastly in Texas. His regiment was in Washingtcm at the time of President Lincoln's funeral and was at the station as part of an honorary guard at the time the body of the lamented President left Washington.

After leaving the army, he took a course in Nelson's Commercial College at Cincinnati, and engaged in the book and stationery business at Gallipolis, Ohio, with the Hon. S. Y. Wasson, now of Hamilton, Ohio. He continued in this partnership for six years, when he removed to Zanesville, where he has been engaged in the same business to the present time.

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He was married September 13, 1871, to Miss Emma Caroline Hartwell, of Groton, Massachusetts. They have only one child, a son, Harris Hart well Kennedy, born September 29, 1873, a graduate of Kenyon College at Gambier, and is at present a bookkeeper of the American Encaustic Tiling Company, of Zanesville, Ohio.

Mr. Kennedy is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and has been Post Commander at GallipoHs and Zanesville. At the latter place, during his administration, the membership of the Post increased from 140 to 444, and its finances were increased from nothing to over five thousand dollars. He has been a delegate for both State and National Encampments of the order.

He has always been a Republican in his political views. He was brought up in the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a member of it, but is broad and liberal in his views. In personal appearance, he is tall slender, and of elderly bearing, and is courteous and cordial in his manners. He is devoted and constant to his friends and charitable and considerate for the rights and prejudices of others.

Mr. Kennedy has a remarkable vein of humor, which makes him an entertaining companion to all with whom he associates. He has a fund of humorous stories which would do credit to Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, or any other of our celebrated humorists, and it is to be hoped that his collection will be preserved and published. He takes life easy, and while he has his troubles, as all persons in active business have, he does not let them worry him to any great extent, but takes it for granted that he must endure, suffer, and make the most of them. His career as a student and teacher, soldier and merchant, has been creditable in every way, and when he is called to give an account of the deeds done in the body, he hopes he will not be required to make any apologies, but that his record will commend itself.

Nelson Barrere Lafferty, M. D., was born in West Union, "Ohio, January 6, 1840. He was the son of Joseph West Lafferty and Elizabeth Burwell Lafferty. Nelson Barrere was at that time a practicing lawyer in West Union and the father of the Doctor was an admirer and friend. Hence the Doctor received the name of the distinguished lawyer, afterwards Congressman, and Whig candidate for Governor of Ohio.

The writer became acquainted with Dr. Lafferty when he was seven years of age, and if he was ever a boy after that date, the writer has no recollection of it. The Doctor always wanted to be with men, to listen to their conversation and to learn all he could. While he enjoyed the sports of boyhood, his consuming ambition, and one which was always gratified, was to be with men and learn of them. He received a common school education prior to 1858, and in that year began to read medicine in the offices of Drs. Coleman and Coates, in West Union, Ohio. He read for two years and a half and attended his first course of lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in the Winter of i860 and 1861. When he returned home in the Spring of 1861, the tocsin of war had sounded and he enlisted in Company D, 24th O. V. L, on May 27, 1861, and on the twenty-seventh of June, 1861, was mustered into the U. S. service for three years. As the result afterward demonstrated. Dr. Lafferty could not stand the hardships of the service, but he never stopped to consider this. It was a question of patriotism only with him. If the Government would take him, he was bound to go, He did go, but was physically unable to stand the strain of the service and was discharged October 13, 1862, on surgeon's certificate of disability. Company D, 24th O. V. I., was the first oflFering of Adams County in the Civil War, and to have been a member of that company is, in Adams bounty, better than a patent of nobility. Of all the heroes of the Civil War, the members of Company D were and are always the foremost. But because he was sent home from the army, Dr. Laflferty did not repine. He resumed his medical studies, took his second course of lectures at Starling Medical College and graduated in the Spring of 1863. He at once determined to re-enter the army as a medical officer as soon as his health would admit. In August, 1863, he passed the necessary medical examination required for a Surgeon in the Volunteers. November 10, 1863, he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the First Ohio Heavy Artillery for three years and served as such until January 9, 1865, when he resigned owing to ill health and started for home. On his way home, he stopped at Nashville, Tenn., where he unexpectedly met the Medical Director of the Army of the Cumberland, who insisted on him entering the Hospital Service, and on February 3, 1865, he ag-ain entered the service as an Acting Assistant Surgeon of the Army and continued as such to the close of the war. In May, 1865, he returned home and located at North Liberty, Ohio, in the practice of his profession, and here he continued to practice for twenty-one years. On February 4, 1880, he was married to Miss Kate Holmes, of Hillsboro, Ohio. There are three children of this marriage, Louise, Fred and Alice.

During his residence at North Liberty, Ohio, he was U. S. Examining Surgeon for a period of fourteen years. In politics, he has always been a Republican. In 1886, he removed from North Liberty to Hillsboro, Ohio, where he continued the practice of medicine until 1895, when he voluntarily retired on account of physical infirmities.

As a physician. Dr. Laflferty is thoroughly read and informed and is among the leaders of his profession. In medical ethics, he was the most fully informed, and believed in and maintained the highest standing for his profession. In whatever he undertakes, he is an enthusiast and is bound to his friends by hooks of steel. He is in favor of high standing in every avocation of life ; his interest in the aflfairs of the county and State are as intense now as that May day when as a youth he went into the army, and he still believes in that pure and good manhood to which he so early aspired in childhood.

His grandfather, William Leedom, emigrated from the State of Virginia in company with Israel Donalson, Isaac, Asahel and John Edgingtcm. who were with the first white mem who located at Manchester. They assisted in making all the surveys between 1790 and 1795, when they might expect the crack of an Indian rifle at any time. They fought the Indians so long as the Indian w^ar lasted and Asahel Edgington was one of their victims.

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Lcodom left Manchester and located on the Trace just below Bentonville. There he built the Leedom Tavern, which became a celebrated hostelry in its time. The innkeepers were the aristocrats of those days. They obtained about all the silver and gold in circulation and the old time taverns were the headquarters for all news and for the consummation of all important trades. William Leedom enjoyed an extensive acquainance up and down the river and throughout the country. He traded on the river with keel-boats much of his time, and made a number of trips to New Orleans. In his day it was fashionable to have large families and William was in the fashion. His wife died in 1824. He had twelve children, eight sons and four daughters. His sons were: John, Elijah, Joseph, Asa, Aaron, Thomas, William and George Washington. His daughters were : Tacy, Sarah, Nancy and Mary. His first wife died and he married in 1826, a second time, to Mary Rogers. Of this marriage there was a daughter, Telitha, now the wife of John Watson, of Bentonville, and she is the only survivor of the twelve.

William Leedom prospered in his trading and tavern keeping. He gave each one of his children one hundred acres of land, or the equivalent of that in money. He had 275 acres of land left after the distribution among his children and he died seized of this in 1849 ^t the ripe age of eighty-eight. His second wife died in 1865. He was a man among men, a natural leader, and his characteristics were improved in some of his children.

His son Joseph was born in 1797. When the latter was eighteen years of age, his father put his in charge of the old Andrew Ellison home on Lick Fork to run it as a tavern, and, assisted by his sister, Nancy, conducted it until 1817. Joseph and his sister, Nancy, then conducted the Rose Hotel at the foot of the hill, west of West Union, on the old Maysville road, for some time. Joseph Leedon was born a politician, but somehow he mistook his calling and became a Methodist minister. He was a circuit rider for five years. Two years of this time he was a preacher .in the State of Virginia and while there his son, John Meek Leedom, was bom November 3, 1827, and was named for that famous Methodist minister, John Meek. Joseph lycedom was not pleased with Virginia and returned to Ohio to become a farmer. He would preach from time to time as opportunity oflFered. He was a great traveller. He made twentysix trips to New Orleans, eight of which were with horses and nuiles driven through by land. His son, John Meek, went with him in 1840, when only thirteen years of age, and rode all the way on horseback. Joseph Leedom represented Adams, Brown and Scioto Counties in the House of Representatives in the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth General Assemblies, 1838 to 1840. During his first session, Benjamin Tappan was elected United States Senator, and the celebrated Ohio Fugitive Slave Law was enacted and he voted for it.

Joseph Leedom was fond of young men. and he took a fancy to Joseph McCormick and made him Prosecuting Attorney of the county. He formed a friendship for Joseph Randolph Cockerill and made him Surveyor of the county. Col. Cockerill laid out the town of Bentonville for Jesoph Leedom in 1841. In 1847, Joseph Leedom went to Carroll County, Mis- souri, and died there in July, 1867. He was married four times. His first wife was Ann, daughter of David Cox. He married her in 1822. She had two children and died. In 1825, he was married to Elizabeth Hopkins, a native of Snow Hill, Maryland. She had four sons and two daughters. The sons were John Meek, William Thompson, Greenbury Jones and Martin Herri ford, and the daughters were Elizabeth Ann and Virginia H. His third marriage was in November, 185 1, to Nancy Matheny, daughter of. Rev. Charles Matheny. In 1853, he was married to Mary Burgess, in Ray County, Mo., and two children were bom of this marriage, Sallie B. and Samuel B. Sallie B. and John Meek are the only ones of Joseph Leedom's family surviving, and she resides in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Joseph Leedom was a man of public spirit. He gave the ground for the Methodist Church in Bentonville and donated the material for the first building in 1841. The home was logs replaced by a frame in 1851 and which stood till 1899. In his later life, in 1852, Joseph Leedom left the Methodist Church and connected with the Cumberland Presbyterians. John Meek Leedom was bom in Kanawha County, Va., was reared in Ohio, and resided in the State till 1847, when he accompanied his father to the State of Missouri. He returned to Ohio in 1853 and drove a stage from Maysville to Chillicbthe. He went to Kentucky and drove a stage from Maysville to Paris for four years. During the cold Winter of 1856, he drove the round trip from Maysville to Paris every day for two weeks.

He afterwards drove on other routes in Kentucky and then returned to Bentonville and opened up a general store. September 17, 1861, he married Jane L. Francis, and in 1863 he bought a half interest in the Bentonville Mill. In 1865, he bought the John D. Francis farm in Liberty Township. His wife died April, 1866, leaving one child, Margaret, now Mrs. James Dunkin. November 15, 1866, he married Mary A. Brookover, daughter of John Brookover, and of this marriage there is a son, Shilton A. White. In 1885, lie bought the flour mill at Manchester and conducted it for a short time. In 1890, he purchased the farm originally located by the Rev. William Williamson and by him named "The Beeches," and since 1892, he has resided on \t. Mr. Leedom is a Democrat in his political faith. He is not a member of any church.

was the son of John Loiighry and Elizabeth (Cunning) Loughr>% bora at Circleville, on May 2, 183 1, When he was nine months of age, his father removed to Rockville, Adams County, where he spent his subsequent life. In the forties, he attended Carey's Academy at Cincinnati. Afterward, he engaged in steamboating, owning and commanding the steamer **Jefferson,'' in 1852. In the Fall of 1855, he assumed his father's business. He was married to Miss Sallie Brown, daughter of Captain Wash Brown, in November, 1857. They took up their residence at the present homestead in Rockville, where he resided until his death on the ninth of October, 1894. He united with the Sandy Springs Presbyterian Church, September 20, 1873. He was a trustee of the church for many years, and was an elder in 1887. From 1891, until his death he was Superintendent of the Sunday School of Sandy Springs Church.

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He was a good neighbor, an ideal gentleman, generous, gentle, hospitable, and refined. He was a constant and generous friend, and in his 4)assing away the community lost a man faithful to every duty.

farmer and President of Manchester Farmers' Bank, was bom in Greene Township, Adams County, Ohio, June 23, 1833. His father, Robert E. Lockhart, came to Adams County from Kentucky when a young man and married Sarah Hemphill, a daughter of Edward Hemphill, of Pleasant Bottoms, and settled on Ohio Brush Creek, where Albert G. Lockhart now resides. The children of the family are: Andrew and Elisha, deceased; Elizabeth, who married Samuel Stevenson; Sarah, who married John Campbell ; Irene, who married Reuben McKay ; Albert, living on home farm ; Ann, who married William McCormick, and Robert E., our subject, who married Alice A. Stevenson. His family consists of Sarah, who married T. F. Norris, of Irish Bottoms ; Miss Flora, and Albert G., remaining ^ at home with their parents.

Robert E. Lockhart is one of the leading Democrats of Adams County. He was elected Decennial Appraiser for Greene Township in 1880, and has held the office of Township Treasurer almost continuously from the period of his majority. He is a Past Chancellor of Triangle Lodge, No. 477, Knights of Pythias, at Rome, Adams County.

As a farmer and financier, Mr. Lockhart has been very successful. He owns twelve hundred acres of land in Greene Township, a large part of which lies along the fertile valley of the Ohio River. He has been a stockholder in the Farmers* National Bank at Manchester since its organization, -and President of that institution since 1896.

of Blue Creek, was born July 31, 1842, at Wilmington, Indiana. His parents were Hugh S. and Sarah J. Lightbody, the former having come from Ireland to the United States in t8i6. He lived in New York until 1835, when he located in Georgetown, Ohio, where he clerked in a store. Later he peddled clocks throughout the country for Pittinger & Eckman. Then he went to Wilmington, Indiana, where he married Miss Sarah J. Wright, by whom he had thirteen children, John W. being the oldest.

John W. Lightbody enlisted at Manchester, Ohio, where his father then resided as a Private in Company D, Captain Patterson, 24th Regiment, O. V. I., Colonel Ammon, for three vears. May 3, 1861, and was mustered into service at Camp Jackson, June 13, 1861. He re-enlisted as a veteran at Whitesides Station, and was transferred to Company D, 18th Regiment, O. V. I., June 12, 1864, to serve balance of term. He was captured twenty miles below Florence, Ala., on the Tennessee River, September 9, 1864, and held a prisoner at Anderson ville and Cahaba prisons for ten months and twenty-two days. Was sent North on the steamer Autocrat, just six hours in advance of the ill-fated Sultana. He was at Cheat Mountain, Greenbrier, Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Stone

He is a Republican and is at present Postmaster at Blue Creek, where he conducts a good hotel and livery stable. On June 5, 1875, he married Miss Mary F. Bascom, daughter of G. W. and Elmira Bascom, of Henderson, Kentucky.

of Blue Creek, is a son of William Ivewis and Nancy Ann Lanthom, and was bom on Scioto Brush Creek in Adams County, March 22, 1841. His grandfather was Philip Lewis, who came to Scioto Brush Creek Valley in 1795. He was a wagon-master in the Revolutionary War. He first married Betsey Wasson, by whom he had two sons, Philip and Thomas. His second wife was a widow McBride nee Anderson, a native of Ireland. By his second wife, Philip Lewis had four sons: William, bom 1804; Lot, in 1806; Elijah, 181 1, and Enoch, 1813. Of these, William, the father of our subject, had eleven children, six sons and five daughters, George W., our subject, being the seventh child. He married February 28, 1864, while at home on a furlough, Miss Martha A. Brooks, daughter of Leonard and Jane Ousler Brooks, who has borne him ten children; Rosa B., Sewell E., Alvie T., Myrta E., Arvada A., William R., Arville, dying in irtfancy ; G. Blaine, Iva V., and Harriet J. George W. Lewis enlisted in Company D, 24th O. V. L, at West Union, May 27, 1861, and also belonged afterwards to Company D, i8th O. V. L He was mustered out at Augusta, Ga., October 9, 1865. He was wounded at Shiloh, and took part in the great battles of the war, such as Cheat Mountain, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and others. He is a staunch Republican, while his father was a Whig. He was for many years the leader of his party in Jefferson Township. He is not a member of any church, but leans toward Methodism.

was born near Russellville, Brown County, Ohio, December 28, 1852, son of William Johnson Lindsey and Lucinda Eliza (Gardner) Lindsey. The grandfather of our subject came from Scotland in about 1810 and settled in Kentucky near the \'irginia line. In a few years afterward he returned to Mason County, Kentucky, where William Johnson, the father of our subject, was born October 14, 1821, William Johnson Lindsey married Lucinda Eliza, daughter of the Rev. Mathew Gardner. She was bora ^t Red Oak in Brown County, March 23, 1823. The children bom to them are Barton B., of Portsmouth, Ohio ; George, living somewhere in the South ; Charles, deceased ; Frank, of Cincinnati, Ohio ; Sarah Belle, wife of Nathan Fo^er, of Clarence, Illinois, and John Gardner, the subject of this sketch.

John G. Lindsey obtained a common school education in Manchester, Ohio, and engaged in farming until 1893, when he engaged in the liver>' busmess in Manchester and continued in that business until September. 1899, when he sold out to Messrs. Perry and Swearingen. He now gives his entire attention to the fertilizer business, being employed by the Ohio Farmers' Fertilizer Company, of Columbus, Ohio.

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He was married March 25. 1880, to Dora Amelia, daughter of James and Morello Holmes. James Holmes was bom December 22, 1814, and Morello, his wife, was born March 12, 1823, both in Adams County. The children of Mr. and Mrs, Lindsey are Byrdie Pearl, bom October 2, 1882, and Bruce Emerson, bom May 22, 1886.

Mr. Lindsey is a member of Hawkeye Tribe, Red Men, No. 117, and I. O. O. F., No. 827, of Manchester, Ohio. He is a Republican from principle, but takes no active part in political affairs. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is Superintendent of the Sabbath School in Manchester. As a member of the Board of Education, he takes an active part in educational affairs. Mr. Lindsey is a successful business man and renders valuable service to the company which employs him. As a citizen, he stands high in the esteem of his fellow townsmen, and is known for his integrity and his interest in church and educational affairs.

James Lang, grandfather of our subject, came to Manchester in 1793, and joined Massie's colony. He had a land warrant which he placed on Isaac's Creek, the farm still owned by our subject, but owing to the hostility of the Indians at that time, he was compelled to remain under the protection of the Stockade at Manchester until peace was declared in I795» ^t which time he removed to his farm, where he reared a family of four sons : James, John, Thomas and Barton S.

Barton S. Lang, the father of our subject, was born September 22, 1815. Melinda Parks, his wife, was born February 27, 1814. They were married December 15, 1836. Their family record of births is as follows: James M., May i, 1838; Jeremiah, October 5, 1839; Lucinda, March 14, 1841 ; Margaret Jane, November 23, 1842; Martha Ann, October 8, 1844; M. Lafayette, October 7, 1846; Amanda Melvina, October 29, 1848; Francis Marion, April 25, 1850; Columbus Clay, April 2, 1852, and Walter Corwin, March 26, 1854. Barton S. Lang died August 8, 1879; his wife died in 1855.

Francis Marion Lang, the subject of this sketch, was reared on his father's farm, receiving such education as the common schools of Sprigg Township afforded. He remained with his father until the age of twentythree, at which time he assumed control of the home farm and resided there with the exception of part of one year, till 1891, when he removed to Manchester to take advantage of the educational advantages for his children and to look after his business interests at that place. While on the farm, he engaged in the dairy business for eighteen months. From 1885 to 1895, he was engaged in the livery business in Manchester, now conducted by Mr. Erdbrink. For several years he handled leaf tobacco on an extensive scale, and at the same time engaged in packing pork in partnership with S. R. Monteeth.

From 1884 to 1886, he was President of the Ohio Valley Fumiture Company at Manchester, and is now Vice-President of the same concern. In 1891, he was engaged in the coal business, which business he conducted till 1897, when Charles Lang, his son, was taken in as a partner. The firm is now styled F. M. Lang & Son. In 1897, the firm of Lang Bros., stoves, hardware, machinery and farm implements, was organized by Charles, Walter and Aultman Lang, sons of F. M. Lang. Charles withdrew from the firm shortly after to give his entire attention to the coal business.

Mr. Lang is a business man of more than ordinary ability. Although he has engaged in several diflferent kinds of business, he has always been successful and at present is the owner of more real estate than any other person in Manchester. His success is due to his honorable dealings, together with good judgment and strict attention to business.

of Manchester, Ohio, was bom March 3, 183 1, at Parkersburg, West Virginia, son of Daniel C, and Emiline (Lockhart) Lovett. Daniel Lovett, his grandfather, was a native of Loudon County, Virginia. His son emigrated to Adams County in 1835, and engaged in teaching until 1838. In that year he returned to Virginia and married Emeline Lockhart, daughter of Jonah Lockhart, and sister of Judge T. J. Lockhart. He and his wife located at Parkersburg, where they reared a family of seven children, to-wit: our subject and his twin sister Nannie, who married Mathew H. Hale, of Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Lucy, deceased; Daniel C, Jr., of Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Harry, deceased; Gertrude, deceased, and Emma C, wife of E. M. Lockhart, of Neodesha, Kansas. Daniel C. Lovett was a miller in Parkersburg, and in 1848 was elected County Surveyor of Wood County, West Virginia. He held that office continuously until his death, February 22, 1859.

Our subject received his education in the academy at Parkersburg, conducted by John C. Nash. At the age of sixteen, he entered the drug store of A. N. Williams, and remained there until his majority. From 1862 till 1881, he was a steamboat clerk on the Ohio River. From 1881 until 1888, he was a clerk in the Kanawha Valley Bank in Charleston, West Virginia. In 1888, he removed to a farm in Monroe Township, Adams County, and remained there until 1891. While a resident of Monroe Township, he served as Township Clerk a number of terms. In 1891, he removed to Manchester, where he has resided ever since. He is now bookkeeper for the C. Roush Flour Mill.

He was married to Miss Jane Stevenson, November 3, 1872, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Halbert) Stevenson, of Monroe Township (See sketch of Capt. Samuel C. Stevenson). The children of this mar- riage are David, in the mercantile business in the Indian Territory; Gordon Dickey, clerk in the Farmers* Bank of Manchester; Richard Stevenson, Lewis Riiffner, Harry Putney and Edward Craig.

of Manchester, is a son of James Lang and Sarah McHenry, his wife, and was born at the old homestead in Sprigg Township, January 9, 1854. He spent his youth on the farm and was educated in the common schools and in the graded school at Bentonville. He has always taken an active part in county and township political affairs, and is recognized as one of the shrewdest politicans in the Republican party in Adams county. The success of the Republican county ticket in the very close county of Adams has frequently hinged on the clever work of Mr. Lang. Recognizing this fact. President McKinley, February 15, 1899, appointed Mr. Lang Postmaster at Manchester, the highest salaried office in Adams County, although he was a resident of Sprigg Township at the time, and there were many prominent applicants for the position, residents of Manchester. On February 6, 1889, Mr. Lang was united in marriage to Miss Lena Kirschner, a daughter of Godfried Kirschner, of Vineyard Hill, and there has been born to them two daughters, Martha and Lillie.

physician and surgeon, West Union, Ohio, was born on a farm near North Liberty, Knox county, Ohio» June 25, 1864. In early manhood, Dr. Loney came with his parents, J. J. Loney and Ethalinda Loney, to West Union, where they conducted a hotel, now the Downing House, and formerly the Crawford House, for several years. During this period our subject was variously engaged to earn the means to assist him in attaining the ambition of his life. He clerked in his father's hotel, solicited for a publishing house, conducted a livery stable, and performed any kind of physical labor that would earn him money. Finally he acquired means sufficient to take a course in Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, from whence he graduated in 1892. He practiced his profession first at Cedar Mills, and afterwards at Dunkinsville, where he was most successful. In 1897, he gave up his office and entered the Chicagx) Polyclinic, where he took a post-graduate course. He then returned to Adams County, locating at West Union, where he enjoys a large and lucrative practice. Dr. Loney is recognized as one of the best read physicians of the county. In politics, he is a staunch Democrat,, and has often been requested by the leaders of that party in Adams County to stand as a candidate for the Legislature or other county office, but he is too closely wedded to his profession to give his time to the duties of political office. In his religious views, the Doctor is strictly orthodox, yet he has never been connected with any church organization. He is a member of several fraternal societies.

was born March 27, 1824, at West Union. His father was Absalom Lafferty and his mother's maiden name was Margaret McDaid, a sister of Col. John McDaid. Her father was Robert McDaid. Absalom

Laflferty was a native of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, and settled at West Union prior to 1820. He had the trade of shoemaker, which he carried on for a lonj^ time in West Union. While a resident of West Union, he manufactured shoes for Ohio and Union Furnaces. He also conducted a general store at West Union. He died July 13, 1848, aged fifty-four years. His wife, Margaret I^fferty, died September 9, 1859, aged fiftyfour years. Our subject was the eldest son. He attended school at West Union under Ralph McClure, Leonard Cole and Thomas Hayslip. He was apprenticj^d to the trade of cabinet maker under Peter B. Jones ; of Maysville, Ky., in the years 1838 to 1840. In the latter year he went into partnership with Joseph Hayslip, of W^est Union, in the cabinet making business, under the firm name of Lafferty & Hayslip, which continued several years. In 1852, he removed to Rome, Ohio, where he engaged in the mercantile business and continued in that until 1897. Since that time he has made his home with his children.

He was married first to Jerusha Jones, widow of Hamlin Jones, in 1852. She died in 1854. He was married in 1856 to Miss Ann M. Cox, daughter of Martin Cox, and she died in 1875.

His son, Charles M. Lafferty, engaged in buying ties at Rome. His second son, George W., was formerly a buyer of tobacco but is now engaged in conducting the New Commercial Hotel at West Unicm. His son, Henry B., resides at Carrollton, Ky. His daughter Anna is the wife of George Carey, residing near Washington, Pa. Two of his children died in infancy.

of Greene Township, was born September 19, 1839, ^^ the farm on which he now resides. His father, Robert E. Lockhart, was born in Kentucky, October 18, 1793, and was a private soldier in the War of 1812. He was married to Sarah Hemphill, a native of Pennsylvania, on September 17, 1818. They had ten children, five of whom are living and five deceased. The living children are our subject, his brother, Robert E. Lockhart, Ann, wife of W. F. McCormick; Irene, wife of Reuben McKay, of Portland, Ohio, and Sarah, wife of John Campbell, of Cedar Mills, Ohio. Our subject's father died August 31, 1858, and was buried on his farm, Robert E. Lockhart was a prosperous farmer, and owned six hundred acres of land east of the mouth of Brush Creek in the Ohio Valley. His wife was born September 17, 1795;, and died September 18,

Our subject was reared a farmer and never had any other occupation. He had a common school education. He was married October 20, 1897, to Miss Ida Stephenson, daughter of Isaac Stephenson. She was bom August 26, 1872. They have two children. Alberta, aged two years, and Albert G., Jr., aged five months.

Mr. Lockhart owns eight hundred acres of land, the patent to which was signed by President George Washington. His valley land is very productive under his excellent management. He is not a member of any church, but his religious belief is expressed in the doctrines of the Presbyterian Church. In his political views he is a Democrat. He has always been active in his party, but has never sought any public office.

William Leedom, the grandfather of our subject, came from Virginia. He landed at Manchester in 1795, and settled near Bentonville, where the old Leedom Tavern now stands. He was the father of twelve children, six boys and six girls. He erected the celebrated Leedom Hotel, a portion of which is still standing, tailed the Farmer's Inn. He was a very popular landlord, as he fed well and charged moderately. He entertained Gen. Jackson when he was on his way to accept the Presidency. Joseph Leedom is sketched under the title of John Meek Leedom in this work. William Leedom*s son George was a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church. His other sons were farmers.

His son Aaron was the father of our subject, and located north of where Bentonville now stands. Aaron Leedom was a large dealer in horses and mules, taking many droves to New Orleans by land. He was quarantined in New Orleans seven months on account of yellow fever and cholera, in 1832. He also loaded may flatboats with flour and bacon, floated them to Natchez, and sold them to the planters. He was bom in Sprigg Township in 1803, and married Miss Henrietta House in 1824. To this union were born five sons and seven daughters. There are three sons and four daughters living. David C, the oldest son, settled in Thayer County, Nebraska, where his sons are representative members of society; two of them having been elected to county offices several times, while another owns and edits the leading journd of the county. Shannon W., went to Pike's Peak during the gold excitement, and has been in the mining business ever since. He is at present part owner and manager of a silver mining company near Monterey, Mexico. Their son, Elijah D. Leedon, our subject, was born near where Bentonville now stands, in 1832. He was educated in the common schools until he was seventeen years of age, when he attended the select school of Prof. Miller for two years. He then began teaching and taught five years. In 1854, he was married to Miss Eveline Watson, by Rev. W. J. Quarry, then Methodist minister on the West Union Circuit. He had th^-ee daughters and one son. His son, William A. Leedon, died at Osgood, Indiana, in 1874. Frances, the oldest daughter, married W. L. Yates, a real estate dealer of Cincinnati. His daughter, Nora A., married H. B. Andrews, a hardware dealer of Osgood, Ind. His third daughter, Ella B., is still single. She studied music at the Cincinnati College of Music.

Our subject was elected Township Trustee of Sprigg Township for four terms, and Township Treasurer for two terms. He was Postmaster of Bentonville, Ohio, under President Buchanan from 1857 to 1861. On September 20, 1864, he was appointed First Lieutenant of Company I, i82d O. V. I. He was appointed Adjutant of the Regiment November 29, 1864, and mustered out July 7, 1865. He was elected County Treasurer of Adams County in 1867 for two years, and re-elected in 1869. His term expired in 1872, and he removed to Osgood, Ind., in November, 1872. He was in the mercantile business there for ten years. He removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was in the wholesale boot and shoe business there under the firm name of Butterworth & Company for three years. At that time his health failed to such an extent that he withdrew as a partner and took a position as travelling agent for the firm until 1891, at which time he entered into business at Young's Station, Scioto County, Ohio. He was appointed Postmaster at Young's under President Harrison in 1891, which position he still holds.

He has always been a Democrat, prominent and influential in the councils of his party. He h^s been a member of the Christian Disciples Church since 1867, and has been a consistent member and hard worker in the church. He holds the position of elder in the church.

of Wamsleyville, son of Charles McCormick and Rebecca McCali, was born in Lewis County, Kentucky, November i, 1847, and afterwards came with his parents to White Oak, Adams County, Ohio. In 1862, his father removed to Scioto County and resided there until 1874, when he returned to Adams County.

Our subject taught school in Scioto and Adams Counties from 1869 until 1878, and then clerked for S. B. Wamsley at Wamsleyville, in the building which he now occupies. In 1881, he formed a partnership with George and Shannon Freeman and carried on a general store. In 1887, he disposed of his interest and began the same business with his brother, Dr. G. W. McCormick, which they continued until the Summer of 1898. He is now engaged in the bicycle trade at Wamsleyville.

He married Miss Mary Weaver, daughter of Henry Weaver, of Scioto County, April 6, 1871, by whom he has had four children: Clarence E., Icie Florence, James C, and Charles, who died October 3, 1891. Mr. McCormick is an active, prosperous business man with the confidence and respect of patrons and acquaintances. He is a member of the Christian Union Church, but was reared a Methodist. He also belongs to Wamsleyville Lodge, No. 653, I. O. O. F. He has always affiliated with the Democratic party.

a son of James Myers and Salina Howard, his wife, was born in Union Township, Brown'County, Ohio, March 25, 1855. The paternal grandfather of our subject, John Myers, came from Pennsylvania to Brown County in pioneer days and settled on the old McClain farm near Ripley. Here James Myers was born in August, 1819. He grew to man's estate and married Salina, a daughter of Abner Howard, a prominent farmer of Union Township. James Myers was an industrious and frugal husbandman, and became one of the wealthy men of his community. He died July 2, 1892, his faithful wife having gone before, April 11, 1890. On January 24, 1876, Alfred B. Myers was united in marriage to Miss Melissa Tumbleson, daughter of Abel and Mary Higgins Tumbleson, of Sprigg Township, Adams County. Mr. and Mrs. Tumbleson were devout and earnest members of the Christian or "New Light"

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Church, and their home was the stopping place for Elder Mathew Gardner, Rev. William Pan^burn, and other fathers of the church. To Alfred B. Myers and his wife were bom James W., deceased, a son who died in infancy, and Clifton G., a bright young man now at home with his mother, the father having died in Brown County, November I4» 1883. In 1886, his widow removed to Sprigg Township, Adams County, where she now resides.

of West Union, was born March 6, 1824, near Belfast, Highland County, Ohio, son of William and Esther (Ellison) Mehaffey. The father of our subject was born December 12, 1797, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. On February 9, 1820, he married Esther Ellison, daughter of Arthur Ellison, of Gift Ridge. She was born July 8, 1801, and died February 2, 1885. William Mehaffey came with his parents from Pennsylvania to Adams County in 1799. They settled at Hills Fork on the farm now occupied by Frank Williams. John Mehaffey, grandfather of our subject, was a native of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. His wife was Rachel Gordon, of the same place. He was born August 31, 1757. Rachel Gordon was born August 30, 1763. John Mehaffey died in Highland County, August 20, 1848, and is buried in Ebenezer Cemetery near Mowrystown. Rachel, his wife, died May 30, 1844. John Mehaffey was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His record as such will be found in the Revolutionary War article in this work, entitled "Revolutionary Soldiers." He served four years as a scout and Government spy among the Indians on the frontier in Western Pennsylvania and along the Ohio River. He was a personal friend of General Anthony Wayne and was detailed by him on many perilous and important undertakings. In the War of 1812, being too old to enlist, he went as a substitute for William Pilson. He was a Private in Lieut. Banet Ristine's Company, Col. Edwards' Regiment, First Ohio Militia. He enlisted July 29, 1813, and served until August 22, 1813. He was also a Private in Captain Robert Morrison's Company of Keys' Regiment, Ohio Militia. In this organization he served as a substitute for William Mclntire until September 8, 1813. He took part in the campaign at Lower Sandusky. He served as a guard for the wagon train in the expedition to Upper Sandusky and was delayed on duty six weeks after the principal would have been discharged from service.

The children of John and Rachel (Gordon) Mehaffev are Robert, who died in Vigo County, Illinois: Joseph, who died in Peoria, III.; Samuel, who died in Wapello, Iowa; William, father of our subject; John, who died in Highland County, Ohio; James, who died at Unity, Ohio ; Nain, who died at Peoria, Illinois ; Nancy, who married a Sterling, of Illinois, and Jane, who married Hiram Silcott, of Peoria, Illinois. Two sons and daughters died young.

Our subject lived in Highland County, Ohio, until 1830, when he removed with his parents to Hills Fork. He attended school under the teaching of the Hon. John T. Wilson, in Highland County, at the age of five years (in 1829). He resided on the farm at Hills Fork from 1830 until 1844, when he began teaching, which occupation he followed until 1872. On February 9, i860, he was married to Mary L. Saylor, daughter of Jacob Savior, who was a veteran in the War of 1812, being a member of the Seventeenth Regulars, serving under General Scott at Lundy's Lane. The children of John Riley and Mary L. MehaflPey are Ann Eliza; wife of W. J. Shuster ; Esther Elizabeth ; Laura Ella, w^ife of John S. Patton ; Mary Bell and William Saylor, who live on the farm.

Mr. Mehaffey enlisted in Company I, 141 st O. V. I., and was made a Sergeant. He served five months, stationed at Barboursville, West Virginia. He lived on his farm until 1893, when he removed to West Union. He is a member of the regular Baptist Church at West Union, becoming such at the organization of that church, April, 1840. He and Mrs. Mosier, his sister, are the only two living of the original number. He served as Township Clerk two terms; as Township Trustee for several years, and as Justice of the Peace for five terms, 1861 to 1870 and 18;^ to 1884, in Liberty Township.

Mr. Mehaffey is regarded as a model citizen, sober, honest and industrious, and in pttblic affairs is a man above the average in judgment. The foregoing sketch was written, submitted to Mr. Mehaffey, and approved as to the facts. He died on the twentieth of February, 1900, of a stroke of paralysis. He believed that every duty in life should be well done and lived up to that principle. As a result he has left a memory of a life well spent.

was born June 11, 1828, at Buford, in Highland County. His father was Andrew Murphy and his mother, Mary Chapman. His father died when he was only two years of age. At the age of ten years he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. Jack McQuitty, at Buford. and served until he was eighteen years of age. At that age, he went to High school at Greenfield, Ohio. He studied medicine with Dr. Higgins, in Buford, and completed his medical course in 1850. He located in Rarden, Scioto County, and practiced medicine there until 1852. He then gave up the practice of medicine and began keeping a store at Locust Grove. January 19, 1854, he married Miss Eliza Ann Crabb, at her father's (Alexander Crabb) home, near Locust Grove. Her mother's maiden name was Sarah McCutcheon. Our subject and his wife began housekeeping in the Grove and resided there until 1857, when they renx)ved on the Crabb farm row occupied by George Murphy.

In November, t86i, Mr. Murphy returned to merchandising in Locus Grove and continued it until August 19, 1862, when he became Captain of Company E, it 7th O. V. I., afterwards Company E. First Ohio Heavy Artillerv, and served with this company until) the twentyfifth of July, 1865. Captain Murphy was a brave and a patriotic citizen and he induced his neighbors and friends very generally to enter the service. He certainly did his full share by influence and example in the suppression of the Rebellion. Wlien he returned from the army, he resumed the business of merchandising and conducted it until 1872, when he sold out his stock of goods and purchased the Platter farm, to which he removed, and on which he continued to reside until his death. He conducted his farm from 1872 until 1884. In the latter year his health g^ave way and he was unable thereafter to farm or attend to any active business. From that time until his death on September 2, 1893, he was an invalid. He died of pulmonary consumption brought on by the hardships and exposures of his service in the Civil War. His life was undoubtedly shortened many years on account of his army service, and of him it may be truly said his life was a sacrifice to his country. Captain Murphy was a large man of powerful physique and commanding presence. His personal appearance would attract attention anywhere. He was of a pleasant and courteous disposition and very well liked by his neighbors. In his own business he was a good manager and he v/as a forceful man in the community. He was a Whig and a Republican. At one time he was a Trustee of his Township. He was a candidate for County Treasurer on the Republican Ticket, in 1869, but was defeated. He was a member of the Masonic order and was always a good citizen. His widow still survives. His eldest daughter, Sarah Ann, is the wife of Dr. James S. Berry, of Peebles. His second daughter, Mary A., is the wife of William Custer, of Peebles. His son, John Andrew, is at home with his mother. His son, Canova Vandexter, resides in Clinton County and is a farmer. His son. George Washington, lives on the home farm north of Locust Grove. His son, William David, is a physician in Fayette, Fulton County, Ohio.

His birth was November 12, 1853. He was the son of James Morrison and Mary J. Cobler. his wife. His grandfather, William Morrison, married a daughter of Ralph Peterson. Our subject was educated in the common schools and was a farmer all his life. His father was a member of Company K.. i8rst O. V. I. He enlisted October 7, 1864, and died March 16. 1865, while home on furlough, from the results of the service, when his son, our subject, was but twelve years of age. He was left the eldest of seven children, with his widowed mother, to face the world and hold the family together, and right nobly did he bear his burden. These children ranged from twelve to one year of age, three brothers and three sisters, whose care, support and education devolved almost wholly on him. That they have taken their places in the world in honorable positions is largely due to the example and force of character of their elder brother.

Our subject was married October 29, 1884, to Miss Margaret E. Carson, daughter of James Carson and Eleanor Greathouse, his wife, a woman of a most lovely and lovable disposition. The marriage was a very happy one. He and his wife located near Peebles. His domestic happiness was not, however, to last long. In June, 1896, he was taken with a catarrh of the bowels and the disease steadily progressed till the sixth of July, 1897, when he passed from Earth to Heaven.