Winchester Township (part 22 of 30)

Anderson Nelson I\llis. A. M., M. I)., son n( Washington and Aris ICllis. was horn at h'Jlis Landing, Sprigg Township, Adams County, Ohio 1 Hreniher K), 1840. In his twelfth year, he entered the public schools of Ri]>lev where he remained six years, and durinq: which times, those schools maintained a very high standard of excellence under such well known Hlicient instructors as Captain F. W. Hurth, Rev. \V. H. Andrews. Prof. I'lysses Thompson and Ctvn. Jacob .Animen. He then entered the Freshman class at the Ohio Weslevan University at Delaware. Ohio, where he remained until the breaking t)Ut of the War of the Rebellion, when he went to the tn>nt as a volunteer aide-de-camp on the staff of the late Major Cicneral William Nelson, and remained with him until his death. Subset|uentl\. he was attached to the staff of his old teacher. Gen. Ammen. then coinnunulinv;' the fourth divisic^n <^f the Army of the Ohio under Gen. Hon Tailos l>nell. ( >n the e'ixhteenth (^f March. 1862. he was appointed Second l.ientcnant v>t the 4i)th ( )hio Rci^iment, Colonel William H. Gibson, which commissuHi he resigned September 2S>, 1863. on account of failing health. Returning home, he at once entered Miami University and graduated the following year. In 1885, his Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. ,

In the Spring of 1865, he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. A. G. Goodrich, of Oxford, Ohio, and afterward attended medical lectures at Ann Arbor, Michigan ; Pittsfield, Mass. ; New York City and Cincinnati. . At the Berkshire: Medical College, he was assistant to the chair of Chemistry and graduated with the valedictory. Subsequently the board of trustees of that institution elected him Demonstrator of Anatomy. In March, 1868, the Ohio Medical College gave him an addendum degree. After some little private practice in Ohio and Kansas, Dr. Ellis entered the Ohio Regular Army as a medical officer, and spent five years on the plains and mountains of the Southwest. To one who had as yet known nothing beyond the haunts of civilization, the nomadic life of an army officer presented many attractions. While in New Mexico and Arizona, the Doctor became much interested in the history of the Pueblo Indians - that last remnant of the Aztec population of the days of the Spanish conquest, who present the pathetic spectacle of a civilization perishing without a historian to recount its rise, ruin and fall, its art, poetry, sorrow and suffering - a repetition of the silent death of the Mound Builders. He sf)ent much of his time while off duty in exploring those ancient ruins that lie all over that interesting land. After leaving the service, he delivered many lectures and published a number of magazine articles on "The Land of the Aztec." From the very day of his graduation in medicine. Dr. Ellis had cast longing eyes at the admirable teaching and superior clinical advantages of the great European hospitals. In 1878, he resolved to realize this day dream of his life. He then went abroad and spent eighteen months in Heidelberg, Vienna and London, and afterward made p. journey through Italy and France. While absent from the L^nited States, he published many letters in the press, of his observations and travels in those countries, the most notable of which was "Pen and Ink Pictures of Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Leghorn and Genoa." Shortly after his return home to Cincinnati, he received the appointment of Assistant Physician at Longview Asylum, a position which he soon found irksome, but which led to an intimate acquaintance with nervous diseases and his appearance in many of the Courts of the State as a medical expert in insanity cases. In September, 1882. he was called to the chair of Laryngology in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, which position he took and held until the close of the session 1890, and found himself to be an efficient and popular teacher. On December 10, 1893, Gov. Charles Foster appointed him Captain and Assistant Surgeon oif the First Regiment. Ohio National Guards, Col. Charles B. Hunt, commanding, and on the thirty-first day of July, 1888. Gov. J. B. Foraker promoted him to the surgeoncy with the rank of Major, the vacancy being made by the promotion of the lamented Dr. E. A. Jones, to the position oit Surgeon General of the State of Ohio.

In the Spring of 1894, Dr. Ellis determined, on account of faihn^: health, to leave Cincinnati and go to his ancestral acres at Ellis Landing and devote his entire time and energy to the calling of the farmer. He had scarcely settled himself in the old homestead before patients came to his door in great numbers. Not wishing to return to Cincinnati, he has

<Jt} t>>e thirtkth of iJtomibtT. 1891. Dr. Ellis was married to Mi&s Ij^y^r^a hi'^rjAiy, daui^ter of James Murphy, a prominent farmer and stockraiiMrr ^/f l^titler O^unty, <'>hjo- She is a graduate of the Oxford Fexnaik Oy)k^<r </f the class of 1873. ^^^ ^'^^ '^^ many years the Lady President </f th^ Alumnae Associati^yn of that institution. One child, a boy now in hi« Afth vesir, has blesved their union, who bears the name of William NVIvyfi, in hfmffT of ^^e of the heroes of the war.

cMtn*: i tmt X^/rthumfjerland County, Pennsyh-ania, to the mouth of Brush C><tr<rk, in A^iams O^nty, fxrtween 1795 and 1797. So far as we can learn n^/w, iUtt family wan cr>mpf>sed of the mother, Elizabeth Grimes, and her cUiUlnm, a» follows; S'>ns, Xol>le, Thomas, and Richard; and daughters. Hannah, Hartiara, Mary, and Effa, Noble Grimes appears to have been tUtr mtM prominent amrjng the sons, and was probably the oldest of the rliildren. The family is said to have come from Ireland prior to the Revoluii'^nary War. \ol>lc Grimes procured a patent to one thousand acres of land on the ^)hio River, just west of the mouth of Brush Creek. The l>atent to hi(> Hiirvey was elated October 28, 1799. Xoble Grimes never married. Hi* was apfxiinted by Gov. St. Clair one of the Judges of the Court of CrifnnuKi Pleas of Aclams County in December, 1799, and served inilil 180J. He was evidently a Federalist of pronounced type. In 1800, lie laid mit the town of Washington at the mouth of Brush Creek. It was conijxised of eighty- four lots, eight of which were reserved for public hiiildingK. He cxiwcted it to be the county seat and become a great city. A K)g rotirthoiise and jail were erected there and were used from March, I7<>8, until West Tnion was selected as the county seat. Among the IKTscnis residing in the town of Washington were Gen. David Bradford, Major John lU'lh. William Faulkner and Henry Aldred. All three of the last named were Revolutionary soldiers. After the selection of West I Inion as the county seat, Washington began to go down, and not a vestige remains. 'I*he Grimes family purchased all the lots.

Nohle Grimes was one of the assessors of Iron Ridge Township in Adams (*ounty. He died in 1805, and was buried on the river hill on the (irimvs farm. \\y his last will and testament he provided for his mother, h*li/alKili. and his sister Hannah, who never married, and gave all his other estate, real and personal, to his brother Thomas. He seems to have been a successful man for his time. Richard Grimes, his brother, never married. Thomas Grimes, a brother of Xoble Grimes, married Miss Mary r»t(»vvn. lu'bruary 10, 1801. and had three sons, Xoble, Greer Brown, and Rich.ird C He died shortly prior to SeptemlxT 28, 1807.

r»aib.ira (irimcs. the sister of the first Xoble Grimes, married Gen. l\i\i(l l^radford alnnit I7(K^. They had two sons, Samuel and David. S.uun^l l(vst his life in the War of 181 2, and David was at one time famous .ib«»ni \\\'st I 'iiion. Mary Grimes, sister of the first Noble Grimes, married Moses Smith, of Kentucky, as her second husband. Her daughter Sarah uMii it'll (lONcith^r Thomas Kirker, and her daughter Mary married John lhii:i;s Slu^ had a daui^hter Uetsey who maried Samuel Davis, and a

Effa Grimes, a sister of the first Noble, married John Crawford, a brother of Col. William Crawford, November 30, 1797. This is the same William Crawford who was burned by the Indians at Tymochtee. John Crawford had four sons and two daughters.

Noble Grimes, the son of Thomas Grimes, was born July 7, 1805, and died May 31, 1868. He married Harriet Briggs, a daughter of John Briggs, above mentioned. She was born September 6, 1806, and died February 8, 1874, without issue. Richard Grimes married Charity Grimes of another family, but a distant kinswoman, and died without issue. Greer Brown Grimes, the son of Thomas, was born October 23, 1803. He was married in 1827 to Miss Sophia Smith, of Cape Girardeau, Mo. Her father, John Smith, was from Maryland, and was a farmer and surveyor. Mrs. Sophia Grimes was born April 7, 1805. Greer B. Grimes died on the eighteenth of February, 1888, and his wife, April 18, 1893. Greer B. Grimes owned four hundred acres of fine land at the mouth of Brush Creek. He was a successful farmer, and made and saved a great deal of money. He was in the banking business at West Union with his son Smith and the late Edward P. Evans from 1865 to 1878, but gave it no personal attention. He lived a quiet and retired life on his farm devoted to his family. He and his wife had the following children who lived to maturity :

Smith Grimes ; Louis A. Grimes ; Sophia, who married Frank C. Williams ; Adelaide, who died unmarried ; Byron Grimes ; Blanche, who married John Perry, and Grace Grimes.

Dr. Louis A. Grimes was born November 6, 1839, ^^^ sixth child of his parents, the two preceding him having died in infancy. He attended school at the Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio, in 1855 and 1856, and in 1857 and 1858 he attended the Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind. He studied medicine under Dr. David Noble a^t Sugar Tree Ridge, in Highland County. He attended lectures and graduated at the Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, in 1863, and at the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in 1864. He began the practice of medicine at Ronne, m Adams County, in 1864 and 1865. In 1866, he located at Concord, Kentucky, where he has since resided. He was married October 10, 1866, to Miss Amanda T. Stout, daughter of James A. Stout, of Kentucky. There were two children of this marriage : a son, Claude B., lately engaged in gold mining, and a daughter, Mary. The mother of these children died September 14, 1879.

Dr. Grimes married a second time, June 27, 1883, Miss Mary Magruder» of Baltimore, Maryland, a daughter of Dr. Archibald Magruder. There is one son of this mariage, Archibald Greer Magruder, aged fifteen years. Dr. Grimes was a pension examining surgeon in Lewis County from 1884 to 1894. He has been a surgeon on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for three years. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. In politics he has always been Democratic.

He was a friend of the late Governor Goebel, of Kentucky, who referred to him in all matters relating to Lewis County. He is a member of the Board of Election Commissioners for his county, and of the County Board of Health.

Aftor tlie death of his father, he bought out the other Grimes heirs, and is tiie owner of 282 acres of fine land at the mouth of Brush Creek, in Monrtii* Township. He has established a reputation as an able physician and burgeon, and as such commands the confidence of the community.

A brother physician says of Dr. Grimes: *'He is a man of ability and research, and (Kcupies the first rank in his profession. He has been a f^eneral practitioner of medicine in the full sense of the term, and has successfully taken care of all kinds of cases both medical and surgical. He is a gentleman of cultivated tastes, and his home is a social and intellectual center. He is an Odd Fellow. Knight Templar, Mason, and a member of the Elks. He is a memlHrr of the American Medical Association, State Medical St>ciety. and International Railway Surgeons' Society."

Cieorge Hollingsworth Puntenney. was a son of Joseph Puntenney, whose father was a French Protestant, and was compelled to leave his native home in France on account of his religion. George H. Puntenney brought his family to the West Indies to an island called Eustatia, intending \o make that his lK>me, but In-'ing dissatisfied with this place, he embarked for Tihent in Holland, and from there went to Oxford, England, where his siMi, Jt^^eph Puntenney, married Mar>' Hollings worth. After remaining siMue >ears in England, the whole family emigrated to .\merica, and settled at Kittle (umjxnvder Falls, in Mar\'land. At the breaking out of the Revolutionar> War. Crt\^rge IMntenney was fourteen N-ears old. His father dieil in the secontl year of the war, and his property was sold by the administrator for Sjj.ooo.oo, which was paid in Continental money, which MX>n iKvame worthless. The familv then moved to Braddock's old iiattlefield in Pennsylvania, and George H. Pimtenney became an Indian scout anil a trader witli the l\*laware Indians, and fubsequemly he was engaged \\n!i A >iirvoMnc partv in tl^e lireen RiviT ciuntrv. Keiiiuckv. In coine vk>\\n the V Miio Kiver he passed the preseni site oi Cincinnati twice bet\>re the virgin timber on that site had been loiiched hv the white nian.

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nery for a number of years on Stout's Run. He went to Colorado in 1886 and died there in 1899, in his seventy-seventli year. Mary J. was married October 4, 1864, to Hon. Andrew C. Smith. She and her husband own and reside on the James Puntenney estate on Stout's Run. Elizabeth married Henry Ousler, November 7, 1850, and died at her home on Stout's Run, May 15, 1891, in her seventy-first year. James H. Puntenney, the youngest of the family, was born October 10, 1848. In his childhood, he showed great fondness for music, and as a youth, he became a violoncellist in a string band. As he grew older, he became a skilled pianist, and cultivated his voice to a great extent. He was bright, quick, and disposed to study and learn all within reach of him. Until fourteen years of age, he attended the district schools, and at the age of fifteen, he attended the North Liberty Academy, then under the supervision of the Rev. D. Mac- Dill, D. D. He spent two years at this academy, and in the Fall of 1886, entered Miami University and graduated in June, 1871. It was his father's idea that he should study for the ministry, but the son preferred a business career.

In the Fall of 1871, he located in Cincinnati. He obtained a position in the music store of D. H. Baldwin & Co., and in the course of time, he became the book-keeper of the firm and held that position for ten years. In the year of 1882, the firm of D. S. Johnson & Co. was organized and Mr. Puntenney became a member until the business was closed. At that time, he located in Columbus, where he has been engaged in the piano business ever since. Mr. Puntenney is now the senior member of the well-known house of Puntenney & Eutsler, of Columbus. They have built up a large and prosperous business, in their line, in the center of the State.

On April 25, 1876, Mr. Puntenney was married to Miss Eliza Love. To them were born two children : Harry, who died at the age of four years, and Mary Martha, who resides with her father in Columbus. His first wife lived but four years. He was married to Miss Belle Love on December 21, 1882, and to them two children have been born: Belle, aged sixteen, and James Hollingsworth, aged twelve years.

In politics, Mr. Puntenney is a Republican. He and his family are members of the United Presbyterian Church. He is an elder in the Neil Avenue U. P. Church. He is a genial, courteous gentleman of the strictest integrity, and highly esteemed for his sterling qualities as a business man. He is firm in his attachments and conscientious in all his dealings. He has always identified himself with any and every movement for the uplifting and betterment of mankind. He is known as a liberal-minded, largehearted citizen, whose soul is concerned in the welfare of humanity. He is not devoted solely to his own affairs, but is known as thoroughly unselfish, with the disposition of a true philanthropist.

John Treber, one of their descendants, moved from Maryland to Lancaster County, Pa., where he married a Miss Campbell. In 1784, he moved to Alleghany County, Pa., and located on the Monongahela River, at or near the mouth of Peters Creek, where he remained working at his trade, that of a gunsmith. In 1794, he, with his family, descended the

Ohio River in a flat-boat in company with Christopher Rowine and others, and after some adventures with the Indians along the shores, arrived at Limestone (now Maysville), Ky. At that time the landing at Maysville was so overcrowded with flat-boats that it often became necessary to set many of them adrift. Soon after the arrival of the Treber family at Limestone. Mrs. Treber died and was buried in the cemetery at that place.

In 1797, lie married the widow Earle. and soon aften^'ard moved with his family to what is now known as Adams County, Ohio. He purchased one hundred and thirty-six acres of land about twelve miles east of Maysville. In 1798, he built a two-story, hewed log house, which in later years was weatherboarded and a stone foundation built. It stands to-day in a gix>d, habitable condition and is occupied by one of his grandsons. About the same time, Mr. Treber built a gunsmith shop, where he made from the raw material, every part of a gun, and did such smith work as was needed on the farm.

This house being located on Zane*s Trace, the only thoroughfare between Wheeling, Va., and Limestone, Ky., and being large and com- UKxIious for that day, many travelers found food and shelter there, and the place soon l>ecame known as **Travelers* Rest."

.All the noted ix>liticians of the day from the Southwest traveled over this road t>n their way to and from Washington; the Wickcliffs, the Shelbys, Henr>^ Clay and Andrew Jackson were often patrons, and many times for brief seasons, sojourners and guests at the noted place, where they were always sure to find the best entertamment for man and beast the country afforded. Tlie principal meats were venison and turkey.

The children of his first marriage were Jacob: Elizabeth, who married Simon W'lxxl, oi Scioto County, Ohio; John, who located in Butler County. Ohio, and married Klizaheth Crawford; Marion, who died unmarried: Anna, who married Oliver Thoroman, of Adams County. Ohio: Sarah, who marrieil Isaac Fisher, of lUitler County, Ohio: Henr\\ who located in HntliT Cinnily, and Josej^h. who Kxrated in Pike County, Ohio.

In John Trelvr were omKxlied all the characteristics of his Holland anvesti»rs in a marked dej^rec. His coniplexio»n was fair, his eyes blue, and hi.N hair brown. Ho was stronij of stature and physically ver>- powerful. IK- oouKl lioKl at anns* length a forty-five ptnmd weight suspended on his litilc tinv^cr, and at the same time, with a piece of chalk in his hand, write ]n> nanu- on ihe wall with fXTfect ease.

In iSj>, hv ixohanijed his home on Zan» "s Trace with his son Jacob tv^r .inx^iluT tann aKnit two miles west where he dieil a few years later.

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In 1833, hse married Mary Ann, daughter of Jesse and Rachel Freeland, of Adams County, and of this marriage there were three children, LaFayette, Wilson and Louisa J.

Shortly after he became the owner of the homestead, he added to it another one hundred acres by purchase. Here he continued to live until the date of his death, January 4, 1875, leaving surviving him, his widow, twelve -children, sixty-four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. His widow died at Manchester, Ohio, October 30, 1892. In 181 1, Mr. Treber, with George Sample, made a trip to New Orleans on a fiat-boat loaded with produce for that market. On their way, they, with others, bound on a like voyage, tied their boats at New Madrid, Mo. At this time occurred the terrible earthquake at that place, a short description of which is here given in Mrs. Trebier's own language :

**The first shock took place while the boat was lying at the shore, in company with several others. At this period there was danger apprehended from the Southern Indians, it being soon after the battle of Tippecanoe, and for safety several boats kept in company for mutual defense in case of attack. In the middle of the night there was a terrible shock and a jamming of the boats so that the crew were all awakened and hurried on deck with their weapons of defense in their hands thinking the Indians were rushing on board. The ducks, geese, swans and various other aquatic birds, whose numberless flocks were quietly resting in the eddies of the river, were thrown into the greatest tumult, and with loud screams expressed their alarm and terror. The noise and commotion was soon hushed, and nothing could be discovered to excite apprehension, so that the boatmen concluded that the shock was occasioned by the falling in of a large mass of the bank near them. As soon as it was light enough to distinguish objects the crew were all up making ready to depart.

"Directly a loud roaring and hissing was heard, like the escape of steam from a boiler, accompanied by the most violent agitation of the shore and tremendous boiling up of the waters of the Mississippi in hugh swells, rolling the waters below back on the descending stream and tossing the boats about so violently, that the men with difficulty could keep on their feet. The sand-bars and points of islands gave way, swallowed up in the tremendous bosom of the river, carrying down with them the cottonwood trees, cracking and crashing, tossing their arms to and fro, as- if sensible of their danger, while they disappeared beneath the flood. The water of the river which the day before was tolerably clear, being rather low, was now changed to a reddish hue and became thick with mud thrown up from its bottom, while the surface, lashed violentlv by the agitation of the earth beneath, was covered with foam, which gathering in masses the size of a barrel, floated along on the trembling surface. The earth along the shore opened in wide fissures, and, closing again, threw the water, sand and mud in huge jets higher than the tops of the trees.

"The atmosphere was filled with thick vapors or gas, to which the light imparted a purple tinge, altogether different in appearance from the autumnal hues of Indian summer or that of smoke. From the temporary check to the current, by the heaving up of the bottom, the sinking of the sand-bar and banks into the bed of the river, it rose in a few minutes five or six feet ; and as if impatient of the restraint, again rushing forward with redoubled impetuosity, hurried along the boats now set loose by the horror-stricken boatmen, as in less danger on the water than at the shore, where the falling banks threatened at every moment to destroy them, or carry them down in the vortex of the sinking masses."

They reached New Orleans in safety, and after disposing of the boat and cargo they returned home on foot, going by the way of Lake Pontchartrain, Mussel Shoals,Nashville and Limestone.

Mr. Treber was a private soldier in the War of 1812, enlisting in a company commanded by Captain Dan Collier, recruited at Chillicothe, Ohio. He was Justice of the Peace of Tiffin Township from 1828 to 1831, and County Commissioner from 1833 ^^ 1836. He was a man of unimpeachable character and integrity, universally respected and esteemed by his neighbors, who not infrequently sought his advice on questions of public and private import. He was an extensive reader, and probably no one in the county was better versed in history or the topics of the time. He was a lifelong, active and earnest Democrat of the Jefferson school, and for that statesman cast his first vote for President. While he was never a member of any church, yet he observed the Sabbath and often attended religious services, and while he was well versed in Scriptures, he disputed with no one on questions of faith or belief.

He was a man of remarkable personal appearance and vigor - more than six feet in height, slender and lithe - features sharp and angular, eyes blue and piercing, nose slightly Roman. He always stood erect, even in old age.

Sometime after the removal of the brothers to other parts of the country, they changed their names to Traber, but how or tmder what circumstances is not known. It is supposed that the "a" was substituted for the "e," because the German *'e" is pronounced in German "a" as in "day ;" hence, a German would pronounce "Treber," "Traber," and so they came to spell it as it was pronounced.

Several of Jacob's children after leaving Adams County weit to Butler County, and engaged in business in the neighborhood of their uncles, and to avoid explanation and confusion they wrote their names **^raber," like their uncles and their cousins, and it would seem that in no distant time that must become the family name, however, much it mav be regretted by many members of the family.

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of Seaman, Adams County, Ohio, is one of the most progressive and suo cessful farmers of Scott Township. He is a man whose excellent judgment, strong common sense and good business qualities are recognized by all. He comes of an old and prominent Pennsylvania family, and was born in that State on the second of October, 1831. His father, David Allison, as well as his mother, whose maiden name was Lucette Andre McKibben, were natives of Pennsylvania. They reared eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom our subject was the third. David Allison was a farmer all his life and lived to a ripe old age.

James Allison received his early education in the district school in the primitivie school building at Cedar Springs, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. He early turnted his attention to farming which he had determined should be his life work, and ever since, he has been active and energetic in this occupation, etxcei>t two years in which he was engaged in the mercantile business.

On October 14, 1861, he enlisted in Company E, Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, as a Private, and was afterwards promoted to Second Sergeant of his company, and in May, 1862, was promoted to First Lieutenant. He served with distinction and participated in the battles of Lebanon, Tennessee, and of Stone River, at Murfreesboro. In the latter battle in the cavalry, his horse fell and disabled him so he was sent to the hospital, and while there, was stricken with typhoid pneumonia, and as a consequence, was discharged for disability, May 3, 1863. In one of the charges made by his regiment there was captured a Confederate flag, which Mr. Allison obtained and keeps as a trophy.

He has always been a Republican in his political views, but has never sought or held any office, either in township or county. He is an earnest thinker, however, on political questions, a strong advocate of advanced political thought, and is alive to the interests and welfare of his county and community.

On the tWrcmty-eighth of November, 1865, he was married to Miss Sarah E. McDowell, of Centre County, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Allison is a woman of many fine qualities and ably performs her duties as wife and mother. She is an earnest, consistent. Christian woman, and a faithful worker in the Presbyterian Church of Seaman. She" was bom in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1845, ^^e second daughter of P. W. and Kathrene McDowell, the latter of whom died NovemS^r 5, 1897, at the age of sevetnty-eight. Her father is living and well at the age of eighty-

Mr. and Mrs. Allison resided in Pennsylvania for three years after their marriage, and then removed to Adams County in 1869, where he purchased a farm on the West Fork of Brush Creek in Scott Township, which is the very best in the township. It is bountifully supplied with running water and everything about the place indicates that the owner is a man of enterprise and progress. They lived on this farm from 1869 until 1896, when they purchased a home in the village of Seaman, which they remodeled and beautified and reside there in great comfort Mr. Allison owns another farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Oliver Township. Their children are Kate Conley, wife of Dr. John S. Montgomery, of Huntsville, Logan County, Ohio; David M., who is in the hardware and implement business at Seaman, a very industrious and energetic young man; Nettie Andre, wife of Oscar McCreight They reside on the home farm. Mrs. Montgomer)' has two sons, Willard Allison, and John McDowell.

born June 24, 1814, in Washington County, is a son of Isaac and Dorcas Adams. He graduated at Marietta College in 1842. For two years after this he engaged in teaching school. In 1844, he entered Lane Seminary, then imder the presidency of Rev. Lyman Beecher. He studied here two years, but was unable to complete his course on account of poor health. In 1846, he went to Helena, Kentucky, fifteen miles from Maysville. and taught a school there until 1859. On July 2, 1846, he was married to Martha Slack, daughtefr of Col. Jacob Slack, of Mason County, Ky. He had two children of this marriage, one died August 20, 1853. and its mother ten days later. The remaining child died January 15, 1858. He was ordained by Harmony Presbytery in Kentucky in 1853. On March 19, 1856, he was married to Miss Lucy A. Bartlett, of Marietta, Ohio, the daughter of a prominent Congregational minister, a lady eminently fitted for the difficult position of a minister's wife. Of this marriage there were eight children, six sons and two daughters. One son, William N., died in childhood. The others are living. Francis Bartlett Adams is a druggist in Perry, Rolls County, Mo., and Isaac Watts Adams is a farmer in the same place. Gilbert Purchas Adams is a farmer near Vanceburg, Ky., and Charles Baird Adams, a physician at the same place. Elizabeth Loughry Adams, a daughter, was a teacher at Vanceburg, Ky. She was married November 5, 1896, to Scott McGovney Foster, of Sandy Springs, Adams County. Alfred Hamilton Adams, a son, lost both his feet alighting from a freight train. Rev. Adams' daughter, Margaret Alice, lived until June 6, 1886, when she was drowned in the Ohio River by falling from a steamboat. She was then in her twenty-eighth year. She had a lovely Christian character and was her father's right hand in church and Sabbath school work. She had been a teacher of music for several years and was most highly esteeryed by all who knew her.

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churches until 1873, when he was called to Hanging Rock for two years, and for three years he resided on his farm beiow Vanceburg, Ky. He returned to Sandy Springs in 1878 and continued his work there until 1895 when the infirmities of age compelled him to retire. In January, 18^, he was taken with what proved to be his last illness. He survived till March 15, 1899, when he passed away in peace. He realized that this sickness was his last. He said his work was done and only regretted that it was not better done. His faith was firm and his hope assured. He was beyond all troubles and his last hours were in the Peace of God. 'His life had been one of trial and privation, of many disappointments, and of much affliction and sorrow, but in the midst of all of them, his Christian virtues shone out with a resplendence which called forth the admiration of all who knew him. The memor}^ of his labors should be preserved to all who follow him, and while remembered, will be a Beacon Light pointing to the Savior of Mem as his Guide and Master.

One who was his pupil for two and a half years, and who is a man well adavnced in life, says of him that he had a fine tact for instructing others, occupied the first rank as an educator, and as the principal of an academy of Kentucky, did much to fit young persons for a college course and impress his own well rounded Christian character upon their minds.

A clergyman who knew him, says he was of a quiet and retiring disposition, but under pressure of duty and in behalf of right, was persistent and unflinching. He was a Christian man, well versed in the Bible. His piety was scriptural, enlightened and stable. His life was pure and honest, characterizfed by uniform gentleness and kindness. As a preacher, he was thoroughly orthodox and his sefmons were instructive.

a resident of Clyde. Ohio, was born August 7, 1845, ^^ West Union. His father was James Anderson, who has a separate sketch herein. Irwin Anderson went to school at West Union in the old stone schoolhouse which stood where the house occupied by John Knox now stands.

In June, 1863, he enlisted in Company G, 129th O. V. I., and served until the eighth of March following. He enlisted August 25, 1864, in the Seventh Ohio Cavalry, and was mustered out with the company, July i, 1865. In both services he was in the campaigns about East Tennessee. He was in the affair at Cumberland Gap on September 9, 1863 ; in Bumside's campaign against Longstreet that fall and winter. He was engaged in the siege of Knoxville in the Fall of 1864, and was in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, Tennessee; Pulaski, Tennessee; Plantersville and Selma, Alabama, in 1865. After the war was over, he went to school in Xenia, Ohio, in 1865 and 1866. He then located in Mexico, Missouri, and was in the west and southwest from 1866 to 1870. In the latter year, he located in Camden, Ohio. He was married October 14, 1873, *o Miss Emma J. Smith, of Oxford, Ohio. He resided there until 1877. In that year, he located in Mansfield, Ohio, and worked for the Aultman-Taylor Company. He resided in Marion from 1880 to 1883, when he located in Clyde, Ohio, which has since been his home. His wife died May 10, 1895. He has six children, five sons and a daughter. His son, Carl J., is an artist in Springfield, Ohio, and illustrates the "Woman's Home Companion."

His daughter, Stella, lives in Chicago with ber brothers. Sherwood is a bookkeeper in Chicago, as is his son Irwin. His son, Ray, is a student, and his son, Earl, is in an art school there. They all reside at No. 1036 Adams Street, and the sister keeps house for them.

Mr. Anderson takes a great interest in army organizations. For four years he has been engaged in preparing entertainments for various Grand Army Posts. He possesses considerable dramatic talent, and has been ver>' successful in his work.

of Eckmansvilk, was bom on the farm where he now resides, June i, 1852. His father was Samuel Alexander, a son of James Alexander, a native of Fincastle. Virginia, who first came to Lexington, Kentucky, in the early days and afterwards to Adams County. He married Mary John, a member of an old Virginia family. James Alexander was bom June 22, 1791, and died March 3. 1871. His wife was born January 10, 1792, and died March 12, 1852. Their son, Samuel, was bom in Virginia, April 3, 1815, and came to Adams County with his parents making the trip overland in wagons. He married Miss Elizabeth Robe daughter of David Robe, of Scotch ancestry, of Hills Fork. She was born February 14, 18 19.

Carey C. Alexander was reared on a farm, but having a natural talent for music has g^ven much time to the cultivation of that faculty. He has taught vocal and instrumental music for many years with great success. He is particularly successful as a bandmaster and leader of choirs. He married Miss Mary Allison, a daughter of Jcrfin Allison, of Cherry Fork, February 26, 1877. Their children inherit musical talent, and with their father maintain a fine orchestra. They are Roscoe, Bessie, Ralph, Florence, Charles, Delbert and Lester.

Mr. Alexander is a member of the Presbyterian Church and an elder in that organization. He is Sunday school superintendent and choir leader at Eckmansville. He is also a member of Sunbeam Lodge, No. 631, K. of P., at Cherry Fork.

was born at Greenfi^'ld, Ohio, September 3. 1841. He served seventeen months as an enlisted man in Company E, 91st O. V. L He was made Second Lieutenant of the 19th U. S. Infantry, December 18, 1863, and was afteirwards promoted to First Lieutenant and Adjutant of his regiment. He was badly wounded at the- battle of the "Mine" in front of Petersburg, Virginia, July 30, 1864. He resigned January 23, 1866, and at once moved to Brookfield, Missouri, and engaged in farming. He studied law in the office of Judq^e W. H. Bromler and Hon. S. P. Huston, of Brookfield, Missouri, and since his admission has been engaged in the practice of his profcssicrti except from 1883 to 1885, when he was postmaster at BrookfieUl. He was elected Representative from Linn County, in the Thirtvfoiirtli Crcneral Assembly of Missouri in 1866 as a Republican when the county was stroii.q^ly Democratic. He served three terms as City Attorney of Brookfield. at the time the city was establishing electric lights and waterworks. In 1882, he organized a company of National Guards at Brook-

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In 1891, in the organization of the Fourth Regiment of Missouri National Guards, he was elected Colonel and held that position until he resigned. The regiment he organized \yent into the service of the United States during the Spanish War.

On the third of July, 1867, he was married to Sarah E. Beemer. He has been for thirty-two years a member of the Presbyterian Church at Brookfield, Missouri, in which his wife and five children are all members.

He is an intelligent and high-minded man of unusual attainments and breadth of knowledge. He has taken, and takes, an active interest in public affairs and is a walking encyclopedia of political and military information. He was the most perfect type of an officer and soldier in the Civil War. He was never known to use an improper or profane word. He was always ready for any emergency. In the presence of the enemy, he was as brave as the best soldier or officer who ever adorned the pages of history. With the battle once over, he was as tender and symapthetic with the wounded, friend or foe, as any woman. He was honorable in all his dealings with his fellow officers and scorned all intrigues and subterfuges so common in the army. He never failed in the performance of any duty assigned to him. He was gallant, brave and honorable, with emphasis on all the terms. The qualities of his soul were tested severely and many times in his army service and the qualities ascribed to him always appeared. As he was in the army, so he has been ever since, and the people of Adams County can always feel proud of the life record Colonel Arbuthnot has made.

farmer, of Locust Grove, was born December 23, 1833, near Locust Grove, in Adams County, Ohio, the son of Josephus Arnold and Kate Pemberton, his wife. Josephus Arnold was bom in 1788, on Long Island, in the state of New York. He learned the trade of shoemaking. He was in the War of 1812, having enlisted from New York City. He served there, and directly after the war came to Adams County. He married Kate Pembcfton on July 16, 1828, the daughter of William Pemberton, who was bom in 1750, in Culpeper County, Virginia. Josephus Amold and wife had three children, Ezekiel and Mansfield, sons, and Indiana, a daughter, all of whom are living at or near Locust Grove. Ezekiel, our subject, was bom December 23, 1833, near Locust Grove, and has resided there ever since. His mother was bom January 10, 1795, and died September 30, 1889.

He attended the common schools, and was trained to be a farmer, which occupation he has followed all his life. His father, Josephus Amold, died on April 10, 1858, at the age of sixty-nine years. On August 30, 1862, our subject enlisted, at the age of thirty, in Company E, 117th O. V. I., Captain James A. Murphy, and served until the twentieth of July, 1865. June 10, 1885, he was married to Miss Mary Tarlton, and has two sons, Josephus A., aged eleven years, and Jehu, aged nine years. His first wife died and he married Miss Cvnthia Garmon, June 10, 1896. She was born June 5, 1859. Mr. Amold has a tasteful and pleasant home in Locust Grove. He takes great pride in the fact that he was a soldier of the Civil War ; also, that his father was in the War of 1812 ; but most of all that his grandfather, William Pemberton, was in the War of the Revcdution. The latter was bom in 1750, in Culpeper County, Virginia, on Stanton River. He served in the Revolutionary War in Captain Thomas Meriwether's Company, First Virginia State Regiment, Colonel George Gibson. He enlisted in September, 1777, for three years, and was at the siege of Yorktown, where he had |&rt of an ear shot away by a shell. He was a successful hunter and farmer. He married Rhoda Luck, bom October 24, I755i and had a family of nine children, five sons and four daughters. His sons were William, Nathaniel, Fountain, James, and Ezekiel. His daughters were Anna, married Thomas Murfin ; Joyce, married Isaac East ; and Kate, born January 10, 1795, married Josephus Arnold.

William Pemberton came to Kentucky just at the time of the Indian massacre at Crab Orchard, and reached Boonesboro the next day after that evTjnt. Kate Pemberton was then a small girl, but remembered see^ ing the bodies of the victims of the massacre. Her father remained at Boonesboro nearly two years. In that time he was lost in the forest for several days. He shot and wounded a buffalo and it rushed at him. His dog seized it by the nose and saved Pemberton's life, but the dog lost his. Pemberton killed the buffalo and subsisted on its meat for sc^reral days. His friends had given him up as killed or captured by Indians. He returned to Virginia, but soon came back to Ohio and settled in Adams County, near Locust Grove, in 1808. He died, about 1823, of rheumatism. He is interred on the farm where Miss Indiana Arnold now resides. The spot is known, and will soon have a suitable mark. His wife died January I, 1845, at the age of ninety, and is buried beside her husband. A prominent characteristic of Mr. Arnold is his industry and frugality. He made his start in life by traveling and selling clocks. He is the owner of about eight hundred acres of land, and has acquired a competence. He is noted for his integrity, and for living up to any obligations which he may assume. lie is a free thinker of the Robert Ingersoll school. He is a Republican and a good citizen.

is a native of Meij^^s Township, in Adams County. He was born March 30, 1837. His father was Samuel Allison, a native of Hancock County, Pennsylvania. lie came to Carmel, in Highland County, and located there. His mother was Elizabeth Bratton, a sister of John Bratton, for whom liratton Township was named. Her father, Jacob Bratton, was one of the first settlers of Adams County. His widow, Elizabeth, died April 19, 1836, in the ninety- fourth year of her age. Samuel Allison had six children: one son, our subject, and five daughters, who lived to maturity. Two children died in infancy. R. H. W. Peterson married Elizabeth Allison, the youngest one of the daughters. Dick Thompson married Mary Jane, another daughter; and Susan, the third daughter, married Joseph Andrews. Aniline, the second daughter, married Jacob 0.q:K\ of Illinois. Evaline, the eldest daughter, married Jeremiah M. llihhs. and moved to Missouri in i8=;2.

Our subject received a common school education, and none other. In 1841). ho Ix^gan to learn the tanner's trade with Townshend Enos Reed, and remained with him until March, 1835, at Marble Furnace. In 1855, he went upon the farm which he now owns and on which he now lives, and worked for his uncle, John Bratton, who then owned the farm, as a hand at thirteen dollars per month, until 1859. In that year, on November 3, he married Miss Hannah S. Hughes, daughter of Peter Hughes, and continued to reside on the farm of his uncle, John Bratton. In 1876 he purchased the farm, 260 acres of the estate of John Bratton, for $6,860, and has resided there ever since. From 1859 to 1876, he had the farm rented. There have been three sons of this marriage. John F., the eldest, attended the St. Louis University in 1878 and 1879. He afterwards engaged in the hardware business at Hillsboro from 1888 to 1892. Since the latter date he has been a farmer in Hardin County, Ohio. He married Miss Lizzie Kennedy, of New York. Charles C, the second son, graduated in the college course in St. Mary's school, in Kansas City, in 1884, and taught in the vicinity of his home for two years. He read medicine with Dr. Berry, at Locust Grove, who pronounced him one of the best students he had ever known. He graduated from the Louisville Medical College in 1888, with highest honors. He won several medals, notably the gold medal in surger}'. He took a post-graduate course at the Bellevue Medical College. He then took employment on the steamer Obdam, plying between New York and Amsterdam, and made several voyages. He, however, resigned this in a short time, and located as a physician and surgeon at Omaha, and has attained a high position in his profession. He fills two chairs at the Omaha Medical College ; he also has a chair and is a lecturer at Creighton Medical College. He has had charge of the Presbyterian Hospital there; and has been connected with St. Joseph's Hospital, in the same place. He married Miss Catharine Creighton and is now one of the leading physicians and surgeons in Nebraska.

James B., the third son, graduated at St. Mary's School, in Kansas City, in 1888; after that, he was in the clothing business in Hillsboro from i88q to 1891. In the latter year, he went to Helena, Montana, and engaged in the same business. While here, he acted as Deputy United States Marshal part of the time : and on one occasion took seven Chinese prisoners to California. He settled in the year 1894 at Chinook, Montana, and from there went to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he now resides and is engaged in the mercantile business. He married Miss Mary Inglebrand, of Hillsboro.

Mr. Allison, our subject, was County Commissioner of Adams County from 1872 to 1875, during the famous county seat contest, and stood for West Union as against Manchester. He has been a township trustee and a school trustee for many years. He has one of the best cared for and most valuable farms in Adams County. It is a delight to look upon. Mr. Allison is a man agreeable to meet. He is very tall, with a large frame and commanding presence. He carries his years lightly, and looks several years voune^er that he is.

was born February 17, 1824, in Wayne Township, Adams County. Ohio, and lived there all his life with the exception of a year and a half in Brown County. His father was bo'rrf in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1783, and his mother, Mary McGary, was a daughter of Wil-

He was married October 23, 1845, first, to Phoebe Patton, a daug^hter of Thomas Patton, a native of Rockbridge County, Virginia, who settled on the West Fork of Brush Creek. Of this marriage there were three children: Mrs. Mary J. Foutts, of Elsmere, Missouri; Thomas Albert, who died at the age of two years, and an infant. His first wife died August 3, 1850. He married for a second wife, in 1861, Sarah Russel. Her mother was a Puntenney, of Stout's Run. His son, Taylor R.', is a well known physician and surgeon in Dayton. His second son, by his second marriage, Talma E., after having completed his studies as a physician and married, di^ d suddenly in the year 1896. ^

Our subject has been an elder in the U. P. Church at Cherry Fork for thirty years and has been Clerk of Wayne Township for twenty-four years. He was a Free Soiler during the existence of that, party and afterwards a Republican. He died the eighth of June, A. D. 1899.

Mr. Baldridge had taken quite an interest in this work and had anticipated much pleasure in its publication, but he was never to read its pages. Those who knew him best say that his passing was the beautiful completion of a finished work. His hold on this world was greatly loosened by the sorrow on account of the untimely death of his son. Talma. His life was a finished example of purity, fidelity and piety. He was a true friend, a wise counsellor, an unselfish man, and a noble citizen. He left a memory which his family, his church, and his community can reflect upon with pleasure and pride.

son of James and Maria Brown, was born in Adams County, Ohio, on the banks of the Cherry Fork about two miles eastwardly from the town of North Liberty, on October 19, 1828.

He received a common school education and for a while taught in the county schools. He afterward embarked in the mercantile business in North Liberty in a small building adjoining the site now occupied by Kleinknecht Bros. In i860 he erected the commodious building now occupied by this firm. He was doing business in this house during the Civil War and at the time when the Confederate General, John Morgan, and his troops passed through on their famous raid. They broke into his store, robbed and despoiled his goods, stole his horses, etc. He formed a partnership with Wm. McVey.and after continuing same for several years, he sold his interest in the store and bought the North Liberty Flour Mills He successfully operated these mills until 1876. when he exchanged them, together with his handsome brick residence and a farm lying northeast of the town, for a large tract of Arkansas land. He then became connected with the Southern Immigration business and as agent of the Little Rock & Ft. Smith R. R.. and afterward as Immigration Agent of the Cincinnati Southern R. R.. which placie he held at the time of his death. In 1881. in connection with J. Frank, in Cincinnati, he established an office in Chattan(K)c:a. Tcnn.. which he afterward sold to his son C. V. Brown and S. W. J^ivine, but retained his office in Cincmnati in connection with the Cincinnati Southern R. R. He was one of the pioneers in Southern Im- migration work, and hundreds of Northern families now living in the South were located through his influence. He was indefatigable in his efforts to promote Southern immigration.

He retained his residence at North Liberty until about 1883, when he removed his family to Cincinnati and there resided until his death, January 2yy 1892. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church and a man of strong convictions, always on the side of right, and an upright and worthy citizen in every way.

In 1852, he married Sarah McCutcheon of near Manchester in this county and seven children w^re bom to them, to-wit : Nancy J., now the wife of Dr. E. M. Gaston, of Tranquility; Maria M., wife of S. G. Glasgow, of North Liberty; Ella, wife of William Kennedy, living near Youngsville: Mary E., deceased; Ida V., wife of William Kleinknecht, of North Liberty, and C. V. and B. G. Brown, of Chattanooga, Tennessee. His widow, Sarah Brown, died in North Liberty on August 3, 1899.

Jacob N. Brown was in many respects a remarkable man, but the world never knew of it from him, and what he had achieved would never have been known except the writer of these lines discovered it in a business way. W^hen Mr. Brown left North Liberty, he had a mountain of debt which he was carrying and of which the public or the world had no idea. To the world he was and had been a success, but to retrieve his losses, he went away from the home of his lifetime, went into a new and untried business and made large sums of money. He paid off his entire indebtedness with interest and died without the world ever knowing that he had almost been overtaken by financial disaster. There is not one man in a thousand who would have undertaken, and not one man in ten thousand who would have succeeded in paying the immense debt he owed, but he did it and the world never knew and has not known it until the publication of this book, and it would not now be made public but that the lesson of his life was most valuable and might encourage some one overwhelmed with adversity to bear it without murmuring and to conquer it with that power of will and tireless energy which overcomes all difficulties. Mr. Brown never knew that the writer was informed of his financial condition, but the writer knew why he left North Liberty and went elsewhere to work with that remarkable application which characterized him and the end he had in view, and therefore takes pleasure in making this tribute to his manly qualities. In all the years in which he was working to discharge his great debt, he supported and educated his large family, lived honorably in the world and took prompt care of every current obligation. In all that time, he never complained of or alluded to his burden, and to the world he was the same as if he had not owed a dollar and had thousands ahead. How many men can do that? How many men have done that ? It is the aggregate of such lives as that of Jacob N. Brown which makes our people the most energetic on the face of the earth.

merchant tailor, of Manchester, Ohio, and ihe subject of this sketch, is a descendant of pioneer ancestry in Adams County. The family name on the old records is Boldridge, and its members were here at the time of the organization of the county.

The piilijrrf of our sketch worked as a farm hand in Ross County, r;hiM, ill hi«j ycitith. and in 18O2, vohtntccred in the Seventh Ohio Cavalry, (^ll. hrarl (ifirranl. and ncrvrd until the close of the war, taking part in f'Vf'tv inipnii,<fit lifilllr in which his rcj^iment engaged.

fn fM^o, hr was married to Mary K. Trotter, daughter of James TrnWcy, »if mar Wr«i{ Uninn. After the war, he kept a small store at Killin!;lM\\ti. nn'l in 1S08 rcMnhieled a f^rneral store at Clayton, moving to Mani lw'«5lrr in )Sp>. where f'>r twenty years he has been in the hotel biisinr'«;«;. iMnini: lhi»; time lie has handled live stock and produce, and for pj^ c.a^inn'; «smM li|::htnin)t^ rods thnnij^hout the country. He is at present int«Me«;<r i] in (he httyitijt: Jnid shipping of leaf tobacco.

In 1SK4. he was tiominated <>n the Domocratic ticket for the office of Shenfl nf \iiains County, hut was defeated by a few votes through the l!inrhtt\ of votne ]>ersons who should have been his staundi supporters if fi«1rht\ to ]>aity and partv principles count for aught. By bis energy and nurt:nt\ he hav ac<pnreii a com]vi^tency to support himsdf and wife in

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Our subject attended the District school at Edgerton, and graduated in the High School there in 1892. He taught sdiool for four Winter terms in Williams County, and in the same period attended the Ohio Normal University at Ada for two years. In May, 1894, he began the study of dentistry at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, and pursued his studies until 1899. In April, 1899, he graduated, and from that time until March, 1900, he was located in Edgerton. He was married on the tenth of March, 1900, to Miss Nina Marshall, daughter of John Marshall, Esq., of Edgerton. He located in Manchester on the twentieth of March, 1900, having purchased the dental practice and business of Dr. R. M. Prather.

Dr. Bratten is a young man of high character. He is a great student in his profession, and is very ambitious to succeed. He has already won the confidence and esteem of the citizens of Manchester and vicinity, and has shown that he has rare skill in his profession. In his political views he is a Republican. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Manchester, Ohio. His wife is an attractive and accomplished woman and is highly esteemed in society. She possesses remarkable talent as a public reader.

The grandfather of our subject was Thomas Berry, of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. He was married there in 181 2 and was one of the famous defenders of Baltimore in the War of 1812. He was in the fight at Bladensburg and about Washington City. After the War of 1812, he went to Rockingham County, Virginia, and from there, in 1818, he removed to near Greenfield, in Highland County, Ohio. In 1832, his wife died, and in 1840, he removed to Delaware County, Indiana, and married a second time. He died there at the age of eighty years. By his first wife, he had six children, four sons and two daughters. He had a daughter by his second marriage. John, his eldest son, born in Baltimore in 1816, was the father of our subject. When at the age of sixteen years, he learned the tanner's trade at Leesburg, Ohio. He was married at Leesburg, Ohio, to Miss Mary E. Stewart, daughter of James and Phoebe Stewart. Soon after this he bought a farm on Sugar Tree Ridge in Highland County, and resided there, carrying on a farm and tanning until his death. April 4. 1888. In his religious faith, he was a Friend.

His son, James S., one of the eight sons and daughters, was bom April 26, 1844. He learned the tanner's trade of his father, and worked at it until he was eighteen years of age. Then he taught school five or six years. He began the study of medicine in 1867 at Sugar Tree Ridge imder Dr. Henry Whisler. He graduated at Starling Medical College in 1870 and began the practice of medicine at Locust Grove the same yean He practiced there until 1888, when he removed to Peebles, where he has since resided and practiced medicine.

On October 7, 1873, he was married to Miss Sarah A. Murphy, of Locust Grove. He has five children : Charles, bom September 25, 1875 ; Anuna, born March 29, 1877 ; Mary E., Thomas Alfred and Beatrice. In politics, he is a Democrat. He was Township Clerk for seven years and

Treasurer of Franklin Township four years. He has al^ been a member of the Town Council and Board of Education in Peebles. He has never sought office, but in 1895, he was the candidate of his party for Representative to the Legislature, but was defeated by the Hon. A. C. Smith. After removing to Peebles, he was associated with Dr. J. M. Wittenmeyer. When the latter was elected Auditor in 1893, he formed a partnership with Dr. George F. Thomas, which still continues.

Dr. Berry perhaps is the most unique character living in Adams County today. As a professional man, busines character and student in almost all branches of learning, he has few equals in this part of the State. ' Senator Brice once speaking of him declared that he was qualified to fill almost any position involving business transactions. He is a many-sided man. His inquisitive disposition has given him an insight into almost everything. Besides his thorough medical education, he possesses much legal knowledge and is frequently consulted by men in all professions involving matters of great importance. His judgment is unerring and is followed whenever he is called upon to decide. He is modeled somewhat after Benjamin Franklin. When a subject is presented to him, he at once becomes interested whether in nature or in the affairs of men. As a physician, he stands high. He is temperate in habits, abstaining entirely from the use of intoxicating liquors and tobacco. Possessing a strong mind, in early life, he mastered the science of medicine and from the day that he began to practice in the village of Locust Grove, the people about him have recognized his worth and have trusted him implicitly. Unlike most men, he interests himself in other things besides his profession. He is engaged in the banking business, solicits pensions, oversees a large farm, deals in stock, is interested in the sale of farming inplements, and gives much attention to educational matters. If he has nothing else to do, he will engage his mind in solving some abstruse mathematical problem. A great mind, like a healthy body, requires food. He engages in all these lines of business and study seemingly to satisfy his wonderful active mind. While other men are day-dreaming, he will be found thinking about several things at the same time. Although a man of dignified bearing, and serious w hile engaged in business, he possesses the faculty of seeing the humorous side of a situation. He is a good story teller and can make a dying man laugh. He is always found in a good humor and selfpossessed. He attracts people to him and has few if any enemies. He lias acquired a great deal of property, yet he believes in living well. His home is not exclusive. Guests are always welcome. He has a good wife and an interesting family.

In 1870, the people c>f Bentonville and vicinity, feeling the need of better e<lucational advantages than the township schools afforded, petitioned ft>r a special district to be organized from sub-districts No. 13, No. 9 and Xo. \(\ Sprigg Township, Xo. 13. schoolhouse stood at Union; No. o,*near the northern limit of Bentonville. near where William West now resides, and Xo. iT) stix^d on the land of Dr. John Gaskins, east of Bentonville. now the farm of Mrs. X. (i. Foster, of Manchester. Ohio. The petition lK*ing granted. Dr. John Gaskins, William T. Leedom and

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Joliin V. Adamson were elected directors. These gentlemen remained in office for several years and the success of the school from the first was largely due to their efforts in organizing and conducting it. The contractors who erected the building were Rev. B. F. Rapp and Rev. J. F. McColm. The present building, a substantial four-room schoolhouse, was completed in the Winter of 1870, and on January i, 1871, school began with Rev. J. F. McColm, Principal; I. N. ToUe, Intermediate, and Miss West, Primary, teachers. There were nearly two hundred pupils in attendance at that time. The following is a list of teachers since the organization of the school; the first name for each year being the Principal, the second the Intermediate, and the last, the primary teachers:

The present Board of Directors is composed of J. H. Waldron, Isaiah Shipley and J. A. Hahn. The course of study adopted in 1896 includes three years' work in the Primary department, three years in the Intermediate, and the Principal doing the two years' in the Grammar grades and one year of High School work.

was born in Newcastle County, Delaware, on the bank of Brandywinc Creek, near the Dupont mills, on the seventeenth of April, 1833. His father was Robert Bratten, whose grandparents came from the North of

Ireland. His mother was Hannah Maria Carr, a descendant of the early Irish and Swedish settlers in Delaware. Some of her near relatives in the ancestral line fought in the Revolutionary War. His parents removed to Philadelphia when he was but two years old, and at the age of eight years, he went to work in the woolen mills and worked there until he was fifteen. At that time, his parents moved to a farm on the Schuylkill, which is now a part of the city of Philadelphia. The son accepted a position as toll-gate tender near the city limits where he worked for a year. During the time from his eighth to his sixteenth year, the only schooling he received was when the mills in which he was engaged had to close for repairs, and during this time he attended school. He was taught to read by his mother before he attended school. His father, at this time, took the Western fever, and emigrated to Highland County, Ohio, in 1850, locating near Sugar Tree Ridge.

Our subject located in Adams County in 1854 in Locust Grove and served a four years' apprenticeship at the blacksmith trade, at which he has worked ever since at the same place.

In 1859, ^^ married Caroline Leedom, daughter of Thomas Leedom, who at that time kept the old tavern which stood in the north end of Locust Grove. They have four sons and three daughters, all of whom are living and have reached maturity.

When the Civil War began, our subject joined the home guard, and on September 15, 1861, he enlisted in Battery F, First Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. He remained with the battery until July 22, 1865. This battery was engaged in the battles of Corinth. Stone River, Perryville and Chickamauga and Shiloh. After the war. he returned to Locust Grove, which has been his home ever since.

Mr. Bratten is a voluminous reader, and in that way has acquired a great deal of information. He is a radical Republican, and has been since the foundinp^ of the party, but never sought office. He is an excellent mechanic and ix)ssesses no small amount of inventive genius Three or four years before the Civil War, he and James McCrum, the old gunsmith of Locust Grove, conceived the idea of putting rifles in cannons to increase their effectiveness. Having some doubt as to the success of their proposed invention, Mr. McCrum suggested that they write to Gen. Scott for his opinion of its probable success. They did this and Gen. Scott expressed the opinion that it would not work, so they dropped it. But to their surprise, they learned that in a short time that Hotchkiss had patented the very thing they were at work on. They sometimes thought that General Scott had given the idea to Hotchkiss. They claim that the idea was original with them, though an European had invented a cast iron breech-loading rifled cannon in 1846.

Mr. Bratten is noted for his integrity and is adverse to going into debt. It has been his aim to give his children what was denied to him in his childhood, a common school education. In his early manhood, he was a giant in strength, being five feet ten and a half inches high, and weighing over two hundred pounds, with a symmetrical build. He has no tolerance for dishonesty. He is a man highly respected for his sterling qualities.

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was born March 21, 1824, in Wayne Township. His father was James Brown, who came from Pennsylvania, as well as his grandfather of the same name. The latter was the second person interred in the Cherry Fork U. P. Cemetery. Our subject had two brothers and one sister. Jacob N. Brown was his brother. His other brother, Jamies Reed Brown, died in Illinois at the age of thirty. His sister, Jane, married Samuel Mc- Clanahan, a nephew of the Judge. Our subject's mother's maiden name was Baker. Her father, Frederick Baker, came from Germany.

Mr. Brown obtained his education in the Public schools. As a boy, hei was apprenticed to Samuel Clark to learn the tannery trade, and he worked at it for three years. He completed his apprenticeship and worked four years at the trade, between West Union and Unity, on the Samuel Clark place.

He was married on the twelfth of April, 1848, to Ellen Ralston, the adopted daughter of Thomas Huston. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have had seven children, of which six grew to maturity. Hermas C, the youngest, died in infancy. His children are as follows : James W. Brown, hardware merchant, residing at Washington C. H. ; Henry H., a traveling salesman of the same place; Louis R., who resides in Starkville, Miss.; Newton Monroe, who resides at Unity ; Margaret, who resides with her father, and Carey H., who resides in Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Ellen Brown died January 29, 1883.

Mr. Brown went to Unity and started a store in 1850, also operated a grist and saw mill. In 1870, he left the store to his sons, James and Henry. He operated the mill till 1880, when he removed to West Union. His son, Carey H., is interested in a gold mine in New Mexico, but resides in Kansas Citv, Mo. Mr. Brown was elected Treasurer of Adams County in 1879, defeating Lily Robbins. In 1881, he was elected to the same office, defeating John Cluxton. In 1887, he was elected to the same office, defeating Stewart Alexander. He was renominated in 1889, but withdrew and P. N. Wickerham was elected. Mr. Wickerham, though of opposite politics, had Mr. Brown appointed Deputy Treasurer and he served as such under him from 1890 to 1894. From 1894 to 1897, he served as Deputy Treasurer under John Fristoe. In 1898, he was employed in the Auditor's office, and in September, 1899, he became Deputy Treasurer under H. B. Gaffin. He was Treasurer of Oliver Township from 1853 to 1876, continuously. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church at Unity from 1850 and was made an elder in 1880. He has always been a Democrat. Mr. Brown is a man of the very highest integrity and enjoys the confidence, esteem and respect of all who know him.

son of William Baker Brown, was born October 6, 1849, "^^tr Unity. He obtained his education in the District schools and at the North Liberty Academy. He was raised in the store at Unity. He and his brother Henry took the store in 1870, under the firm name of J, W. and H. H. Brown, and continued it until 1881. At that time he went to Georgetown 44a aiwl engSLfftd in the harrfware business for three years with his brother Henry. They went to Washington C. H., in 1884, the day of the cyclone They were in partnership there in the hardware business tmtil 1899, when Henry retired from that business.

James W. Brown was married to Mary Dill, whose home was near Bainbridge. They have one daufi^ter, Mabel, twelve years of age. Mr. Brown is a Democrat politically, and a Presbyterian in his religioas faith. He is one of the very best business men of Washington C. H. As a boy. he was honest ami straightforward and upright in all his dealings, and the same qualities are intensified in him as a man. There is no man who stands higher in the business community where he is known than he.

physician and pharmacist. West Union, was bom at Sugar Tree Ridge, Ohio, February 11, 1842. His father, John Bunn, who married Miss Jane Thompson, a native of Ireland, came from the State of Pennsylvania to Concord Township, Highland County, Ohio, in 1829, where he purchased 220 acres of land and laid out the town of Sugar Tree Ridge, naming it from its elevated position and the forest growth upon the plat. Our subject in youth was a diligent student. He attended the country schools, and later the old North Liberty Academy and the High Schools at Georgetown and Winchester, Ohio. He taught school from his aeventoenth year until after his majority, when he began the study of medicine with his brother-in-law, Dr. F. J. Miller, of West Union. He attended Starling Medical College. Columbus, Ohio, in 1865-6, and in the latter year located at Harden, Scioto County, where he practiced his profession until 1868. when he removed to Latham in Pike County, at which place he rcniaiiivd until 1870. when he formed a partnership with his brother. Dr. John lUimi, at Jacksonville. Adams County. In 1872-3, he again attotidcd Starling College, where he graduated with high honors, after wliioh he came to West l^nion and entered into a partnership with Dr. Millrr, where he is now actively engaged in practice.

Ho enlisted in the i82(l (). \'. I. during the Civil War, and served as Hospital Steward of the regiment with much credit. He had full control of the Medical Dispensary, and kx)ked after the wounded and sick. His brothers Joseph and Dr. John were also members of that regiment. His youngeist brother, Lewis, died at Bowling Green, Ky.. while a member of the Second Ohio Uatterv.

Dr. lUinn married Miss Annie Hood, a daughter of John P. Hood, of West UniiMi, Se]>teniber 19. 1877. They have two children living: Miss Irene, an intelligent \*oung lady, a graduate of the West Union Hij;h SeluH^l, and at j^resent a Sophomore at Oxford College, and lui^ene H., a lad now a member of the West Union High School. A son died in infancy.

l>r. Uinin is one of the most prominent physicians of Adams County. He served with niarkvd ability as a member of the United States Pension Htxud. at West Union, for a j>erio(l of ten years, being Secretary of the l^t\u<i. He rtvently resipied, with the respect and confidence of all with

In politics, Dr. Bunn is a staunch Democrat of the Jactcsonian type, although he has never sought political honors. He is a prominent member of the Christian Union Church at West Union.

merchant, Hills Fork, was born in Neiderhofen, Germany, July 4, 1824. His father, Jacob F. Bissinger, and his ancestors had resided on the same place, and followed farming back in "time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." The subject of this sketch attended the public schools from the age of six to fourteen years, completing the regular common school course. A Mr. Hull, the schoolmaster, had been the teacher of his father and mother before him. From fourteen to sixteen years of age, he was free from obligations of the Government ; but upon arriving at the age of sixteen, he, as was the law, took the oath of allegiance. At the age of twenty-one, he luckily drew a number that freed him from entering the army, and he immediately embarked for the United States of America. He was accompanied by Christian Helmley, John Wagner and Christian Stahl, each of whom brought his family and settled in Adams County, Ohio. They were forty-five days on the ocean, a passage that is now made in less than six days. When Mr. Bissinger embarked for America, he had forty-five five-franc pieces in money in a belt in a chest. When he arrived in New York thirtv of those had been stolen. His destination was West Union, where his cousin, Conrad Pflaumer, then resided. He came to Philadelphia by water, and to Pittsburgh by rail and the Harrisburg Canal. While boarding the canal boat at Johnstown, Pa., he discovered scwnething in the water between the wharf and the boat, which on investigation proved to be a little g^rl about ten years of age, apparently drowned. She was a daughter of a member of his party, and was resuscitated and made the voyage to Adams County. At Pittsburg, he took steamboat for Manchester. He was told that there was no such town on the Ohio between there and Cincinnati. That if there was any such town it was below Cincinnati. So he took passage for the latter place. The river was low, it being in the month of July, and near Maysville the boat grounded on a bar. The emigrants were ordered to carry the coal on the boat to a barge to lighten the craft so it could be floated off the bar. Some refused, and the crew tied ropes about their bodies and threw them into the river. Mr. Bissinger concluded to carry coal in preference to being ducked, when a well dressed young woman remonstrated with the officers of the boat and the emigrants were relieved of the duty imposed upon them, and at Cincinnati the officers and crew were put under arre'st. Upon arrival at Cincinnati, Mr. Bissinger and his companions, while going up street, heard some persons singing songs with which he was familiar, and on entering the place found some of his country people who directed him to West Union. He and his fellow emigrants again took a l)oat for Manchester, and arriving there in the night, they were put off on the bar, and when morning came, they jooked about for the town.

This was August i. 1846. All there was of Manchester was Andrew Ellison's little frame store, and about a dozen log houses. When Mr. Bissinger and his party landed at Manchester they were without a cent

Sfoce then Mr, Bissit^ier hat beoome one of the ptoouiieat ^iiiinis oC AdafflA Coimty, He has been ei^^agcd in the goieral mnilmnfaaig business at H9Is Fork for a great many jears, where he has ammmlated a competency for himself and familj. He is the po^nmiter tiicfc; which position he has held for many years.

farmer, of West Union, was bom February 6, 1856, on the old Borr homestea/1 near Oidar Mills in Jefferson Tofi-nship. He is a son of Frederick Burr and Caroline Bicber. Frederick Burr was a native of Alsace'I»rraine, France, and was bom in 1816. He emigrated to Pennsylvania when a young man, where he married Caroline Bieber, a native of Ckmnany. In 1850, he came to Adams Count}' and settled on the /arm abr^ve mentioned, where he reared a family of six sons and one daughter, Jacob, the subject of this sketch, married Jennie M. Piatt, slaughter of James Piatt, of near the Stone Chapel, in Tiffin Township. One son, Stankry, was Ix^rn to them. After her death, he married Mrs. Uzzic McKcnzie, widow of Peter McKenzie and daughter of John (T!immi<- and Hannah Collier, his wife, of Cedar Mills. Peter McKenzie was killed in West I'nion by his horse running away with him. He left four interesting children : Susie, a bright and talented Miss of fifteen years; Henry \)., twelve years; Mary E., nine, and Frank P., six. Peter McKcmzif was a son of Peter McKenzie, Sr.. who married Susan Bayless, aiul wlir>se father was Duncan McKenzie, a native of Scotland and a piriueer of Adams County crmtemporaneous with Massie, Donalson and J/<-edorn. He? married Jane Ellison, a daughter of John Ellison. Sr. 1 fe died on the farm selected by him as his future home while the Indians yet laid claim to the country on September 19, 1832, in his seventy-eighth year, llis wife died February 10, 1855, in her eighty-third ydar. Their Hon, iVter McKenzie, was born January 14, 1811. and died May 4, 1881. Susan, llis wife, was born January 11, 1815, and died in July, 1895. Peter McKenzie, son of Peter McKenzie, Sr., was born August 16, 1849, ^^ dic/I December 31, 1896.

'J'he subject of this sketch, Jacob Burr, is a prominent farmer and stock raiser, lie reside<l on the old Duncan McKenzie farm. He is a member of the Independent Order of Red Men, of West Union.

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the veteran editor and publisher of the West Union Scion, was bom in West Union, November 20, 1822, the son of Nicholas Burwell and Sarah Fenton, his wife His father has a separate sketch, and no notice of his ancestry will be given herein. Samuel Burwell was bom with a good constitution, the best capital which can be given a boy for a start in this life. He attended the schools of his district and was just as mischievous and devilish as most boys are, only a little more so^ His boyhood was under Leonard Cole and Ralph McClure as teachers. They were firm believers in the doctrine of King Solomon as to the use of the rod, and ihcy practiced their belief with emphasis, and Sam and the other boys of his time got the full benefit of it. Sam was one of the early suffeters from that custom instituted by Leonard Cole, of whipping every boy in school whenever one or more (always more) were detected in any mischief. The writer was one of the later sufferers from that same custom, though under different teiachers from those who administered the birch to Sam. Both Sam and the writer attribute the regularity of their lives to their early discipline in the West Union schools.

Sam Burwell was a boy left much to his own devices. He was very mquisitive and very fond of the society of those older than himself. He very naturally drifted into a printing office as early as the age of thirteen, and the year of 1835 found him at work in the Free Press office in West Union. When the Free Press suspended, he went to Hillsboro and worked in the News office, and while there attended the Hillsboro Academy, but his real work in learning the trade of a printer was with Robert Jackman in the office of the Intelligencer, from 1844 to 1846.

In 1848, Sam, while working for Judge John M. Smith, committed the ver}' rash act of marriage. His bride was Miss Margaret Mitchell, daughter of Alexander Mitchell, who had died of cholera in 1835. However, much of a risk it was for the young printer to get married, (and the risk was entirely on the wife's part, for Sam was a Mark Tapley kind of a young man who could have gotten on anywhere,) the marriage turned out happily.

On the seventeenth of February. 1853, the Scion was born. The writer remembers one evening shortly before that date, when he was a boy of ten, Samuel Burwell, a young man of thirty, came to his father's house to consult about starting a newspaper. In the same evening, the enterprise was* determined on and it was named. E. P. Evans suggested the name, the Scion of Temperance. It was thought best to start it as a Temper* ance paper, and hdnce its name. The *'of Temperance" was dropped after two years, and it became a purely political newspaper. From its first issue, February 17, 1853, until the present time, the history of the paper and that of Sam Burwell have been identical. From that date the history of the Scion is a sketch of Mr. Burwell, and a sketch of Mr. Burwell is the histor>' of the Scion. Not only that, but from 1853. the history of the Scion is an account of Sam Burwell's family. When he first began, he was full of enthusiasm, and he made the Scion a success from the start. Even his wife helped him on the paper in the early years of the enterprise. But he brought his family up on the paper and he brought others up. On the Scion he taught Henry Shupert and made him a printer. He died in Cincinnati six years agpo and left a handsome estate. Sam Burwell taught Col. John A. Cockerill the printer's art and the latter became the most distinguished journalist in the United States. Orlando. Burwell, Mr. Bur^vel^s eldest son, was brought up a printer in the Scion office. He has been employed on the Times Star, as one of the best workmen, for twenty-seven years, and is one of the best printers in Cincinnati. Clay, his fourth son, has been employed on the Neiv York World for nine years. He learned his trade in the Scion office. His son, Bickham Burwell, was employed in the same New York office for four years and might have continued, but became tired of the work and secured an appointment in Washington. His son, Samuel Burwell, who died in 1891^ aged thirty-six years, learned the trade in the Scion office and did his father good service for many years before his untimely death. His son, Cassius M., is with him in the business. He too was brought up and reared in the Scion office and has been a partner since 1887. When friend Sam "shuffles off this mortal coil" and takes up his residence in the old South Cemetery, doubtless **Cash,'' as he is l)est known, will continue the business. But the boys of the Burwell family are not the only ones who have been brought up in the Scion, Mr. Burwell's daughter, Ella, is the mailing clerk of the office and keeps the books. His daughter, Mararget, is an expert compositor and has worked in the office for fourteen years. Bickman Burwell, his son, is also a compositor in the office and foreman. So that the Scion is strictly a family newspaper edited and published by the Burwell family. The Scion never published less than 720 copies and its circulation is now 1,104. From the time the paper started, until the present time, it has been true blue Republican, and yvill so continue so long as the Republican party and the Burwell family survive.

The writer proposes to tell the truth about Sam Burwell. This article is not written for the present generation in Adams County. They have not taken much interest in this book, but this article and this book is written for posterity. In fifty or seventy-five years from now, the people living in Adams County will prize this work as a precious relic, and the>' will want to know aU about the man who could publish the same newspaper for forty-six years. Sam Burwell's career wall be a wonder in a hundred years from now, and hence it is important that the truth be now told and recorded for the benefit of unborn posterity. So here goes. Sam Burwell is a born exaggerator. Some uncharitable people have accused him of plain l>'ing, but as that charge has been laid to ever\' editor from King Solomon to the present time, w^e shall not notice it, and the most remarkable thing is that Mr. Burwell is not conscious of the fault. He will know it for the first time when he reads this book. But understand, Sam Burwell neve^ told a lie in his life, either in the Scion or out of it, but he can no more help exaggeration than water can help running: down hill. It was born in him, inherited, and could not be eradicated. With him. everythinjT^ is the very best or the very worst. The villajije statesmen whom he admires are all Websters and Clays. His enemies arc the \v<^rst people in the world. The Devil himself, with his cloven feet. Ills dart tail and spouting brimstone, is a saint compared to them. The writer has fully teisted Sam Burwell on this and knows whereof he speaks. Once he rode twelve miles with him and Sam began telling him what a wonderful young man his brother, then living, but since deceased, was. The writer undertook to disparage his brodier and tell what an ordinary young man he was, but it was of no use. Mr. Burwell had fixed his standards and no argument could avail. The young tnan, in his estimation, was the brightest and most talented who had ever lived, and no disparagements affected Mr. Burwell in the least. But, after all, this habit of thought and expression is valuable in a newspaper man. People like condiments in the columns of a newspaper as well as in their food. It may be Mr. BurwelKs peculiar traits have made the Scion what it is and kept it up.

Mr. Burwell is not a religious man, nor is he irreligious. From his father's standpoint, he is not religious, but, in sentiment, he respects religion, and has as much of it as is safe for a newspaper man to have. The writer has always held the view that a newspaper man is not capable of being religious to any extent, and Mr. Burwell is much better than the average of them. Mr. Burwell has always made money but never saved it to any great extent. He has kept the Scion going as a newspaper for forty-six years. He has kept it to a high standard of journalism. He has kept his political faith all the time. He has reared a large family and has done it creditably. He has always paid his debts. There are people who say of him that if he had a million dollars income each year, he would spend a little more, but at the same time, there is no one" who would do more good with the money than he. He has lived so long io Adams County that he has become one of its institutions and we do not know of another newspaper in the State which has remained for forty-six years under one management, nor do we know of an editor in the State who has conducted the same newspaper over forty-six years. He stands as a remarkable instance of a man who has followed' the printer's trade for sixty-three years and yet is hale and hearty ; who has written editorials for forty-six yfears and yet can tell the truth, and does it once every week.

Mr. Burwell's friends are almost all in the cemetery south of town, but the younger generation respect him for his sterling qualities. He has been industrious and energetic. He has persevered and made his chosen occupation a success. He has kept ahead of the Sheriff at all times and been honest and honorable in all his dealings, and when Gabriel foots up his account in the ledger of life,he will find the good qualities will overbalance all those faults and sins his enemies attribute him, and he will receive his pass which St. Peter will honor at the wicket gate, and all we wish is that it may be a long time before he will have to apply for it.

William Edgar Bundy was bom in Jackson County, Ohio, on the site now occupied by the city of Wellston, October 4, 186(5. His father, William Sanford Bundy, was wounded while in the service of his country, near Bean Station. Tennessee, as a private soldier, and died from the effects of his wound, January 4, 1867. His mother, Kate Thompson Bundy, was killed in an accident two years later, and their young son was raised and educated by his gramlfather, Hon H. S. Bundy.

and has since attained the degree of Master of Arts. For two years he was editor of the Wellston Argus, and then came to Cincinnati, attended the Ivaw School, and was graduated therefrom in 1890. During the years 1890 and 1 89 1 he was Secretary' of the Board of Elections of Hamilton County. He has been four times elected Solicitor of Norwood, and has a beautiful home in that thriving suburb. He was married May 8, 1890, to Miss Eva E. Leedom, daughter of the late Ex-Congressman, John P. Leedoni, of Adams County, and they have one son, William Sanford Bundy (named after the child's martyred grandfather).

Mr. Bundy was Commander of the Ohio Division, Sons of Veterans, in 1890, and was Commander-in-Chief of that order for the United States in 1894-5. He has always taken an active and practical interest in politics. In 1898, he was President of the Ohio Republican League, and during that year was appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, for a term of four years. Through his own efforts and industry he has attained a lefetding position at the Hamilton Covmty bar.

was born in Huntington Township, Brown County, Ohio, April 6, 1863, on the farm now occupied by Rev. T. J. Bowman. George Bowman, great-grandfather of our subject, was a native of Pennsylvania, and came down the river in the old keel-boating times, settled on the same farm, which, in turn, has been occupied by Benjamin Bowman, grandfather, and Patrick Bowman, father of our subject. Benjamin Bowman married Mary McElwee, a woman of more than ordinary intelligence, and a lifelong advocate of the cause of temperance. His mother's name is Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Rachael (Housh) Senteny, of Virginia stock.

Our subject attended school until he was fifteen years of age, then went to the Lebanon University. In 1880, he began teaching in Lewis and Mason Counties, Kentuckv. He attended the Southwestern Normal School at Georgetown, in 1883, and 1884, ^nd taught in Brown County, Ohio, till 1894. when he located at Youngsville, and taught at that place in 1894 and 1895. From 1806 to 1899, he occupied the position of Principal of the Bentonville schools.

He was married March 21, 1887. to Laura E. Johnson, daughter of William and Cindora (Shaw) Johnson, and great-granddaughter of Russell Shaw, the founder of Russellville, Brown Countv, Ohio. Thev have had four children. Frank died at the age of two years; William, aged seven years ; George, aged four years, and Idella, the baby.

From April, 1899, to October of the same year, he was engaged in canvassin.qf for and writing sketches for this work, the History of Adams County, Ohio. He is highly este^emed as a citizen, and is regarded in music and the common branches, as a teacher of more than ordinary ability, and he has broujo^ht the Bentonville scliools into a high standing in the period in which he has had charge of them.

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was bom December 24, 1855, in the same house in which he now resides. His father was James Wilson Baldridge, and his mother, Margaret McVey. For furthef information as to his ancestry, we refer to the sketch herein of his brother, James W. Balbridge.