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His son. Charles M. LaflFeny. engaged in buying ties at Rooae. His Second son. George A\*-, was formerly a buyer of tobacco bat is r>:w engagevl in conductmg the Xew Commercial Hotel at West Urxoo. His son. Henr>- B.. resides at Carrolkon. Ky. His daughter Astaa :s tr:e wife of Cie'^rge Care> , resi*iing near Washington, Pa. Twd cc hfs children dli^ in infancy.

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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, called 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 ape representative members of society : two of them having been elected to county offices several times, while another owns and edits the leading journal 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. Quarr}-. then Methodist minister on the West Union Circuit. He had three daughters and one son. His son, William A. Leedon, died at Osgood, TncHana, 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 t86i. On September 20, 1864, he was appointed First Lieutenant of Company L i82d O. V. L 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.,

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Church, and their home was the stopping place for Elder Mathew Gardner, Rev. William Panerburn, and other fathers of the church. To Alfred B. Myers and his wife were born 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 14, 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, Augfust 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 "Revolutionarv Soldiers." He served four vears 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 W^ar of 1812, being too old to enlist, he went as a substitute for WilHam 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 ser\'ed as a guard for the wagon train in the expedition to L'pper Sandtisky 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 Febniary 9, i860, he was married to Mary L. Savior, was bom June 11. 1828. at Buford. in Highland County. His iatber was Andrew Murphy and his mother. Mary Chapman. His father died when he was only two years of age. At the age of ten vcars he was

In Xoveml>er. 1861. Mr. Murphy returned to merchandising in L^k:::- Grove and cominiied it until .Au^st lO, 1862. when he became Captain ^'f Company E. 117th ^>. V. I., afterwards Company E, First rijio Heavy Artillerv. and served with this company until the twentyfiv\ -<: T'llv. 1865. Captain Murphy was a brave and a patriotic citizen arr he indii'-^ed hi^ neigrhV^trs and friends very generally to enter the service He certr>inly did hi- full share by influence and example in the « r 'ire--i''n of the Rebellion. When he returned from the army, he - 'h'^ Vi^ines^ of merchandising and conducted it until 1872, v/r^'i: re -''0 ov.i hi- ^tock oi good? and purchased the Platter farm. to whi^h he removed, and ^-n which he continued to reside tintil his death. He cond::ctfd hi^ farm from 1872 until 1884. It^ ^^^ laner year his health grave way and he was unable thereafter to farm or attend to any active business. From that time until his death on September 2, 1893, ^^ 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 perscmal 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 Xcvember 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.. i8ist O. V. I. He enlisted October 7, 1864, and died March t6, 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 nK)ther, 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. Tlie 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.

During the thirteen years of his married life he was blessed with four children : two of these died in infancy and two, a daughter, Mary Ellen, and a son, Alfred Alonzo, survive.

In his political views he was a Democrat. He was not a member of any fraternal organization. He was a member of the Chrisian Disciple Church and lived up to its teachings. In all his tastes he was

(jmtx and unobtrusive in his relations with men, yet he had courage v^ hen arons«-<1 ^nch as mafle him no mean antagonist- An only son. reared to years hevond man's estate un<ler the guidance of a lo\-ing but indi' ion^ father, ^^urrounded with the comforts, but free from the foibles "f hi*:, be het^an his career a^^ farmer, merchant, and ix>litician, evenl\ ]^'3^' d and ueil e«^]uipped f«,»r the work which aftei~wards distinguished ; v. :ti r)v.-< T-^ -vpective <phere«. He was the son of Scott McGo\Tiey and }]:,: T;:j" ]'*-h]. aiK! wa< ]>«'rn and reared on the old homestead on Brush (':<< r IT- NfT^r-on Town^-hip. near the Osman bridge. He received the rrd::i < T:t- < A :in En'di^h ediicati<^>n in the countv schools of that vicinitv.

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In his twenty-seventh year, he married Sophia Phillips, a daughter of Henry Phillips, at the lime one of the largest landholders in Adams County. She died in October, 1896, and her loss saddened the remainder of his life. He had no children. He was prominent in Masonic circles and had served as Master of West Union Lodge, F & A. M., and was at the time of his death a member of Calvarv Commandery, at Portsmouth, Ohio.

On Thursday, December i, 1898, he died at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, from the effects of an operation performed there for cancer of the stomach. His remains were brought to his home in West Union and interred in the new Old Fellows Cemetery. He was in his forty-eighth year at the time of his death, having been born February 10, 1850.

George S. McCormick was born March 2^, 1S22, near Steam Furnace, in Adams County. His father, James McCormick, was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother, whose maiden name was Hannah Hawk, was a \'irginian. They were married in Pennsylvania, and very soon thereafter loaded their household goods upon a flatboat at Pittsburg and floated down the Ohio, landing 2(t some point near Wrightsville in the year 1808

James McCormick was a collier and molder, and soon found employment among the furnaces which were then the principal industry in Adams County. He made his permanent home near (3ld Steam Furnace, where the subject of this sketch was born, never leaving the county except during the War of 1812. when he served with Gen. Wm. H. Harrison at Fort Wayne.

To him and his wife were born nine children, in the order named : Mrs. Jane Page, Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman. Mrs. Mary Wamsley, William, James, Charles, Mrs. Hannah Mitchell and George. Of these only Mrs. Margaret Freeman is living at this time (1898).

James McConnick was a man of magnificent physique, broad-chested, strong of limb and active. He had a firm set jaw, with a double row of teeth above and below, and soon became known as "lUirr" McCormick, a name given him because of the fact that his hair, which was usually cropped close, stuck straight out. and was of a reddish hue, about the color of a ripened chestnut burr.

His advent among the furnace men of course created considerable speculation as to whether or not he was what they termed a "good man." He had hardly taken his place in the foundry before he was challenged bv the "bullv" of the furnace to a test at fisticuffs. McCormick was a strict rVesbyterian, and did not believe in fighting, but when it come to a question of whether he should fight or be whipped, he chose the former, and soon made short work of his adversary.

This established his reputation at that furnace, but it did not end his troubles. Knowledge of his ability s(.x)n sped to rival furnaces, each of whom boasted their best man, and since he would not leave his home, pilgrimages were made to the furnace in which he found employment in order that he might be challenged, and the question of which had the best "bully" be thus settled. It is said that he never met defeat. He was

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He began life with empty hands, a strong will and a clear intellect, and succeeded in leaving behind him ample provision for the wants of those nearest and dearest to him. He loved an honest man, and if there be added to his honesty intelligence, he always strove to make of such an one a friend. It was an impossibility for him to be anything but charitable, and the readiness with which he forgave those who dealt with him imjustly was often a source of annoyance to his friends and business associates. This forgiving spirit cost him many a dollar, but amply were he and his frends repaid when, during his last illness, he rejoiced that he could leave the world bearing malice towards no man.

In those early days Masonry meant much, and he took a very great interest in the work, being at one time an officer in the lodge at West Union, although he lived as far away as Rome. He was also an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Methodist Church. In politics, he was an enthusiastic Democrat but was broadminded enough to recognize merit in any party and often voted for those of opposite party affiliations. He held a number of Township offices as a matter of duty imposed by good citizenship, but declined many honors proffered l)y his party which would have carried him into the arena of active party politics.

He was married in 1847 to Xancy Fleak, of Cincinnati. Seven children were born to them, only two of whom are now living. Charles A., a merchant at lUiena \ ista, and A. F. McCormick, an attorney at Portsmouth, Ohio.

was born June 19, .1825, in Liberty Township, Adams County, Ohio. His father was Thomas Mc(»ovney and his mother's maiden name was Jane Graham. He attended the common schools in Liberty Township, and near his uncle, John Graham, on Ohio Brush Creek. He also took a course of l)ookkeeping at West Union. His wife was Sarah Holmes, the daughter of Thomas Holmes. She was born Xovember 28, 1824. They were married December 20, 1849. Directly after his marriage, he and his wife went to ( )live l^irnace in Lawrence County, where he was the furnace

Storekeeper for two years. From 1851 to J 854, he was storekeeper for Robert Scott & Company at Mt. \'ernon Furnace in Lawrence County. In September, 1854, he made what now appears as a business mistake. He left the furnace region and returned to Adams County. He went into the dry c:<x)ds business at l]entonville, but only remained in it for six months. At the end of that time, he built the flour mill in Bentonville in - coimection with Thomas Foster. He remained in this business until the Spring of 1857, when he sold out and went to Missouri. By August, 1857, he tired of that experiment and returned to Adams County. He established a dry goods business at North Liberty and continued in it six months, when he sold out to William L. Mc\'ey. He bought the flour mill at the same place and operated it until August, 1858, when he sold out. He removed to Manchester and bought the flour mill on Front 51a

In 1863, he, David McConaughy and George S. Kirker, went into the pork packing business as Kirker. McGovney & Company. It proved disastrous and he sunk $4,000. From 1866 to 1872, he and William Henderson, his son-in-law, conducted the dry goods business at Manchester. In 1872, he went into the planing mill business in Manchester and continued it until his death. This business was quite profitable and successful. He had two children, a son and daughter. His son, Lafayette, is a farmer near Aberdeen. His daughter, Caroline, was married to William Henderson, November 16, 1868.

Mr.McGovney had a natural taste and aptitude for business. He would have had success in anv business he undertook unless he labored against conditions he could not control. Had he remained in the furnace region, he would have been one of the principal iron masters of the district. He succeeded in everything he undertook but pork packing, and would have succeeded in that were it not he was subject to conditions he could not control. The chief features of his character were industrv and energ}'. When in a given situation where others were ready to give up and die, he began to work. He was always cheerful. While he was losing money m the f)ork packing business, he never complained. He worked for years under a business adversity which would have discouraged most men and soured them. He gave no outward sign of his losses, but went right along, just as agreeable to the public as though he were making money. He carried a mountain of debt and paid it off, principal and interest. While he lost money in the pork packing business, he made it back in the furniture business.

In politics, he was a Democrat and acted with that party until the sec(Mi(l election of President Lincgln, when he l)ecanie a Republican and remained such all his life. He was a very strong Union man and loyal to the Government in the Civil War. He never held anv office but that of \^illage Councilman and never belonged to any secret society. He was never a member of any church, hut inclined to the doctrines of the regular Baptist Church. He was frequently chosen Councilman of Manchester and fulfilled his duties most acceptably. He dignified the office and was the l^st one the village ever had. He had ti good judgment of all kinds of property. He was relentless and untiring in the pursuit of business. He was the leading spirit among the business men of Manchester for years. His intej^rity was as ^y.Qi\ as adamant. He took sick and died at a time when his life was as full of business cares and responsibilities as it had ever been, but he met the final call with the utmost calmness and philosophy. He took sick August ly, and died September 2, 1890, of Bright's disease. Ten men like him would have made a city of Manchester.

was born l)ece»ilxT 31. 1824, ^^^^^ ^^'^^ reared a fanner's son. He was married first to Caroline Patton, daughter of John and Phcebe Patton. on the third of March, 1852. The children of this marriage were Ambrose Pattun. now living at Lima, Ohio; Ruth, wife of Henry Brown, of Washington C. H. ; Lizzie, wife of J. C*. (*lasgow ; Mary, wife of J. H. Morrison, of Bookwalter, Neb. His first wife died October 28, 1865, and on August I, 1867, he was married to Sarah Marlatt, daughter of Silas and Jane (Cane) Marlatt, of Eckniansville. The children of this second marriage were Pearl, wife of Dr. E. F. Downey, of Peebles ; Jane Faye, Anna C, Wilber, and Andrew Homer, residing at home.

While a young man, S. D. Mclntire taught school until his marriage, and after that was a farmer in Wayne Township the remainder of his life. He was a member of the U. P. Church at Cherry Fork, Ohio, and a ruling elder for many years. He was Justice of the Peace for Wayne Township, 1857 to 1865. eight years. In politics, he was a Republican and antislavery man. His father. Col. Andrew Mclntire, has a separate sketch herein, and is also referred to in the article under the title of "The Cholera of 1849.'' manufacturer and dealer in lumber, of Winchester, Ohio, was born April 13, 1854, at Jasper, Pike County, Ohio, son of H. H. and Nancy (Coulter) Mechlin. William Mechlin, his grandfather, was one of the early settlers of Pike County, having emigrated from Butler County, Pennsylvania, in the twenties. His mother was a daughter of James Coulter, of Irish descent.

Our subject spent his boyhood on a farm in Pike County. He had such schooling as the District school of his vicinity afforded. As soon as he became of age, he became a traveler, visiting nearly every state and Territory in the United States. In 1879, he returned to Pike County, and engaged in the mercantile business for a period of three years* and was quite successful. He then traveled through the Soutli and Southwest until 1885, when he returned to Pike County.

He was married at Waverly, Ohio, to Miss Anna Burns, daughter of Robert lUims, April 18, 1886. After this, he settled at Coopersville, Pike County, and engaged in the timber business. He remained here until 1893, when he removed to Winchester. Adams County, where he engaged in the same business, and has since continued it. He owns and controls the most extensive lumber and sawmill business in the county, using more timber than any mill in the county. Since his location, he has cut and removed more timber- than any like plant in the county. His mills are near the depot and are equipped with the most modem machinery. He uses electric lights, having a dynamo, which furnishes light to his plant and offices. He has six children, five boys and one girl, Rexford K., James C, H. Mark, Russell P., Marjory, and Colin N.

was born January 19. 1857, at North Lil)erty, son of John W. and Mary (Foster) Miller. John Miller, his grandfather, was a native of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and emigrated to this county in 1846, and

Mr. .\fiJ1er'*; public career has lieen alon^ lines perfectly satis&ctor>' to his many friends throujjh^mt the ofMint>'. although political demagogues tried witlvnit avail U^r a time tfi ro>» him of well-earned honors. He is one the pn>jrressive men of the community in \ihich he resides.

ua-- U^rii OctolK-r 2^». i^<.^3. His father \va> Akxamler Mitchell an«I :ri> riv^tlxT wa*- l^l<'anor F<"-ter. They were married in Adam? Count v an<! had <'\x cljil<ln-i) ( >i tho>c' livinir Ix^sidtr our subject are Mrs. Margare: \Un\\(:]]. V if<' of Saimu-l Unrwell. <»f W'e^t L'nion : Mrs. Sarah Barlvr an«: .\lrv Martha Mackay, of Portsmouth. Mr. Mitchell was h<»m on I>ca>- I<'y\ Fork of iirusli (Veek. where his father had a saw and grist mill. flis father died (m jmie 4. 1835, of Asiatic cholera, as related in another pla< <- in this work. After his father's death. William Kirker settled the estat<- ai:d the family nifned to the William Kirker farm, where our suhj<'( t livrrl iniiil 1X52. .\t seventeen, he sen-ed a two years' apprenticeship at the cabiiut making trade with George Lafferty and Joseph Hayslip. In 1X3 J. he u(nt to lroii|on and engage<l in pattern making for the Olive I'omidr*. and M^ichine Works. In 1834. he returned to Portsmouth and < n^^a^^cd in tlit* same (xvupation with Ward, Murray & Stephenson. an<l remained in this business all the time until 1870. At that time, he went into the brick business at Sciotoville under the firm name of McComiick Tortc 1 K' Co. He t'K»k the management of it and remained there for two w-.ii ^. when the business was changed into a corporation under the name oi thr S<ioto i'ire (Jrick Company. He became the manager of that and r< inanied th<*re until July. iHy2, when they .sold tliat and built the Star I/iiil. Works below Scic>toville, under the name of McConnel. Towne &

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Co. It continued under that for five years, when it became the Scioto Star Fire Brick Works. He was manager and stockholder. In 1882, he went to Lc^an with W. Q. Adams, and built a fire brick works. He removed from there to Columbus and engaged in pattern making with the Scioto \'alley Railroad Company and the Columbus Machine Company. In 1884, he removed to Portsmouth and was manager of the Portsmouth Fire Brick Company. In 1886. he wxnt with the Star Brick Works and remained until 1897, and then went into the Portsmouth Planing Mill and was there one year. vSince February, 1899, he has been with the Star, below Sciotoville.

He was first married in J 886 to lane Miller. The children of this marriage were Frank, of Columbus, lately deceased ; Mary, married Frank Brown and lives in Clay City, Kentucky, and William C, who lives in Dayton, Ky. His first wife died on February 11, 1866, and on February II, 1868, he was married in Portsmouth, Ohio, to Miss Maggie Wylie, The children of this marriage are Wylie T., a physician, practicing at Greenfield, Ohio, and married to Miss Minnie Eberhardt, of Portsmouth, Ohio; a daughter, Etta, married to William Mathews: Nellie, Anna Laurie and Robert. There are three children deceased, Maggie, died at the age of eighteen, and the other two in childhood. His mother is still living, past ninety-three years of age, and is remarkably well preserved for her years.

Mr. Mitchell is a man of strict integrity and business honor. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth, Ohio, and has been an elder in that church for five or six years past.

one of the oldest living members of the Ohio Methodist Episcopal Conference, was born at Rapid Forge, Ross County, Ohio, September 22, 1^35. and is the son of William and Mary (Himiller) Middleton, two of the pioneers of the Paint Valley. A year after his birth, his parents moved to a farm, where the village of Fniitdale now stands, and w^here they spent their lives. When seventeen years of age, he entered the old South Salem Academy, and after graduation there, spent three years at the Ohio Weslevan I'niversitv. In the Fall of i8s8, he was examined bv the late Dr. George C. Crum and was licensed to preach. On September 21, 1859, he left his home as an itinerant minister, having successfully passed the examination and being admitted in the Ohio Conference. In the years that followed, he was assigned to various fields of labor, among which \vere Dunbarton, Hanging Rock, Beaver, Waverly, Webster, Hilliards. West Jefferson, Rome and Wellston, at which last place, his throat l>ecame affected and he was compelled to give up his life's work and its ambitions.

On the twenty-eighth day of August, 1861, he was united in marriage to Cyntiiia E. Bailey, daughter of Cornelius W^ Bailey, late of Piketon, Ohio. Two children have been born of this union, William H, and Arthur B. Since our subject retired from the ministry he resides on a farm in Pike County, enjoying the leisure he has so well earned. His son, Arthur B., resides with him, and his son, William H., is one of the Common Pleas Judges of the Second subdivision of the Seventh District.

Rer. Mkkilcton is of a quiet and retiring dispositioo. He is diffidait and unostentatious. He prefers beii^ seen, ratfaier than to be heard, bcr in suf^xHl of his convictions will maintain them in face of the fiercest opposition. He is a student of meo as wdl as of books. In fix iony jears he has spent in the active ministry, he has maintained a nusi ekraievi Christian character. He is held in the highest regard, not oohr br the ministrv of his church, but b\' all who know him.

the second scm of David and Martha { Mitchell i Morrisocu was bcim at Coinngton. Kentuck>\ June i8. 1851. Whtn he was six ytar? -:«*d the family returned to the old >f itchell home in Xile Tom-nship. Scioto Cotmty He attended school at Elm Tree schoolhouse and obtained his edacat>xi there. He is a traveling salesman, and began as such in i£8o for J. L. Hibbs & Company, of Portsmouth, (^lio. He trai^ded for tbem tw? years, then wiiii McFariand. San ford & Company, of Portsroootii. C*hio; for \'orheis. Miller & Rupel. of Cincinnati. C^hio: for Jacofes & Sach5. of Cincinnati. Ohio, and for Sanford. Storrs & Vamer.

On November 3. 1874, he ^-as married to Miss <I>ra D. McCalL daxigbter of Henr>- McCaD. of Xile Tomiship. Scioto County. C^hio. He has two children living. Louise, aged fourteen and James Hines. aged ten. His son. Henr>- McCaD, volunteered in the Spanish War in Aprfl, iSoS. in Company H. Fourth O. \'. I. The regiment was sent to Porto Rice, and when about to return, he was taken sick and died 00 shipboard October 26. 1898, and was buried at sea. He was but nineteen years oed a: the time of his death.

of Seaman, wzs bom Februar>- 4. 1829, in Adams County. ai>f has resfdei at his birthplace ever since. His father's name was John Momgomer}* and his mother's maiden name. Jane Haines. His maiemal ^rar.:- parents came from Ireland in about 17Q0, and settled in Ross Cocnrr. Ohio. They were strict Covenanters, His mother dsed May 2CL 1840. acred sixty-two years, and is interred at Tranquility. His rrsoiber was a \try hard worker and a woman of extraordinary- indT:str\- and energy and an expert spinner and weaver. In her younger days, she inade aZ the clothing for her father's family, and for her own. after marriage. His father died June 16. 1863, at the age of seventy-three years, and is also buried at Tranqiiility. He was bom in Kentucky and removed to A»iain$ County in 1800 uith his parents, and settled on the West Fork of Bmsh Creek. He was one of five brothers, and four sisters, Wlien a yocrii: man. he purchased a tract of land in the old Peyton survey, cleared :: en. bui't a cabin, and then married. He resided there until his death He raised nve children. Hadassah. John Harvey. Andrew H.. Bcn;ainin s.r.d Tames B. Andrew H.. and Benjamin are the onlv ones now Ifvin^. His fa>:her was one of the foremost men of his neighborhood in the erect: r-c c: the pioneer log houses and bams, and in the makitig of rafls. His r2.tern£' erandfarher came from Eneland at an earlv dare.

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Our subject is a farmer by occupation and resides on the same farm that his father cleared. His education was received in the log schoolbouse in the district in which he resided.

Benjamin Montgomery was married to Margaret H. Seaton, January 15, 1859, and to them were born three children, Elmer E., Mary Edith and Charles W. Elmer E., resides with his father and has charge of the farm. Mary Edith married H. R. Clarke, a miller employed at Harsha & Caskey's flour mills at Portsmouth, Ohio. They have one son. Frederick Benjamin Clarke. Charles W., is a physician and is conducting a pharmacy at Bethel, Clermont County, Ohio. He is married and has one son, Benjamin Brooks Montgomery.

Our subject's wife died in June 7, 1897. She was a member of the Mt. Leigh Presbyterian Church for thirty years. She has a brother, John Seaton, living at King's Creek, Champaign County, Ohio, also, a sister, Eliza Clark, living at Harshaville, Ohio.

Mr. Montgomery was a Democrat from the time he became of age until General Morgan with his raiders went through Adams County. He was then converted to the Republican party by that raid and has continued identified with that political organization. We give this statement in his own language. He was raised a Covenanter, but for the last twenty-five years he has been a member of the Mt. Leigh Presbyterian Church. He has a brother, Andrew H., now living in Kansas, a farmer, who, in his younger days, was a tanner and had control of the old tanyard at Rarden, Ohio, with Orville Grant, a brother of Gen. U. S. Grant, as a partner.

Mr. Montgomery is regarded as one of the best citizens of the county and a most excellent neighbor. He. is honest and honorable in all his dealings. He is a model farmer. He is one of the best judges of horses in the county and a great lover of them. He is a man of strong sympathies with those in distress and is ever ready to express his sympathies in the manner in which they will be most appreciated. No man stands higher in his community in public esteem.

of Tiffin Township, was born at Old Kitanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1806. Came with his parents to Adams County in 1814. Was a farmer and shoemaker. His father died when Samuel was nine years old. he being the oldest child, and with his mother and five younger children, without any means, raised the family. He cleared one hundred acres of leases before he ever owned a foot of land. He married Lucinda Smith, and of this union the following children were bom: Mary Ann, Almira, Samuel Smith, William Henry, George Richardson, Sarah Jane, John Wesley and Lewis Hamer. The subject of this sketch was of a military turn of mind. Was for years Captain and Colonel of the Adams County Militia. Raised a Company for the Mexican War, but did not get in. Belonged to the home guards in 1862-3 and was Drum Major. Politically a Jackson Democrat and never voted any other ticket. Had a genial disposition, and was an honest man. Served the people for twenty-four years as Justice of the Peace and one term as County Commissioner. Was a War Democrat, but was defeated bv the soldier vote bv twcntv for a second term as Commissioner, when the county went six hundred Republican. He died April 28, 1878.

physcian and pharmacist. West I'nion, was lx)rn near Sugartree Ridge. (")nio, November 18, 1824. He is a son of Hon. William Miller, who represented Highland County in the Ohio Legislature before the Civil War, and who was one of the leaders of the Democratic party in his county for many years. He died recently at Hillsboro at the age of ninety-one years. H's wife was Mary Igo, of Highland County.

'the subject of this sketch was educated in the Public schools and when a young man taught several terms. In 1845, he began the study of medicine with Dr. David Noble, of Sugartree Ridge, and attended Ohio Medical College in 1848-9. He practiced his profession in Scioto county. OhiQ. then in the State of 111., and lastly in Adams County, Ohio, for a perio<rof*4t!irty year.s. since which he has been engaged in j^armacy and the real e.stafci^i**^*"*^^^*^* ^'^' married Miss Eliza Buiui, January 12, 1851. She was bornafej^^K^rtrec Ridge, October 14, 1831. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have no famMl^ ^^^' Miller, while not a member of any church organization, has done^ta^^^ ^*^ ^^^^P ^^'^ Christian Union Church at West I'nion, where he has ]i^Slte^*^>' y^'^^^- ^^ i^ ^ moralist in the fullest and best sense of the term.^%|W^^^^^^<^^« ^^ ^^ ^" "<^d-fashioned Demo crat.' following the footsteps of a^*""^^"^"^ father. He has accumulated a handsome fortune and is. wfflliJ^is hfe companion, enjoying in decHning vears the fruits of earlv industKI economy.

01 Tranquilitv, was ]>orn on his father's farnif^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^e mentioned village, March 11, 1842. He is a descendant .)K» ^"^ ^'^ Scotch-Insh family of which John McCullough. or X'irginia. isV|^^ progenitor of the ( )hio branch. He was a ne]>hew of -Major SanuiS McCulIougn, who made the (Iarin<i: horseback lean into Wheeling Cr^ , from the bluns

Nancy McCroskcy, shortly after v/hicli event, he came to Ac?I|!^ ^^ He and his wife are buried in the old cemetery at TranqiV. --."' r~ formerly known. HoT)ewell fleeting House. He was a solrl*'' I" .^* War of 1812, and was in the engagement at Sandusky. He hac"^ laniily of 'h^Q children : Sarah, fames, Tilford, Samuel B., who married 5^^

Cumings. and .Vrchib'ild, father of our subject, who was bom s^^5^"^oer lo. 1817. He was a carpenter by trade and lived on a farm. Jai?**"^' ^' 1841. JK" married Sarah Klliott, daughter of Robert Elliott, whc.J?^^^" ried Sallie McTntire. Archibald McCullough's children were. Sa'!*^ ' Robert. Samuel. Xancy, James, Sarah, Addison, Willison, and Ste ."

Sanford A., our subject, received a good common school educi V^" and iin])roved his leisure liours in general reading which has ac largely to his scholastic attainments. He enlisted as a Private in C*'^" pany G, 129th O. V. I., July 2^;, 1863, and was honorably discharged March 8, 1864. In August of that year, he re-enHsted in Company H, 173d O. V. I., in which he was made Sergeant, and served until his honorable discharge at Nashville, June 26, 1865. October 11, 1865, he married Miss Orlena A. McCreight, daughter of Major John McCreight, whose wife was Nicassa Dryden, of Tranquility. Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Cullough have had born to them three children : Spencer E., now deceased ; John E., of Peoria, III. ; and Miss Myrtle May, living with her parents.

Sanford A. McCnllough is one of the most prominent business men, and among the best known citizens of Adams County. Being industrious and frugal, and a man whose integrity has never been questioned, he has accumulated a large estate, and is rated among the most substantial business men of the count v. He served for a number of years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wilson Children's Home, at West Union, and was selected by the late Hon. John T. Wilson, one of the executors of his vast estate. He has been twice elected a member of the Board of Count v Commissioners of Adams Count v on the Republican ticket when the rest of the ticket was overwhelmingly defeated, and is at present a member of that board. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church of Tranquility in which he has held the office of Clerk for many years.

of West Union, is a scion of a pioneer family of Adams County. He was born at the old McClanahan homestead in Liberty Township, now occupied by J. A. McClanahan, June 27, 1846. His great-grandfather, John McClanahan, emigrated from Tyrone County, Ireland, in 1785, and with his familv settled on the lames River in the Old Dominion, after which he removed to Kentucky, settling near Lexington in that State. Being opposed to human slavery, as it then existed in the South, he removed to Adams County, Ohio, and located on the headwaters of the East Fork of Eagle Cre<?k on lands still in possession of his descendants. By his second wife, Elizabeth Thompson, he had four children : William, Martha, Rebecca, and Margaret. William was the grandfather of our subject and was married to Xancv Paul, January 15, 1809. On September 28. 18 1 4. his father deeded W^illiam fifty acres of a tract of one hundred acres bought from General Massie. and which is yet owned by his son, John McClanahan, born there October 20, 1820. William Mc- Clanahan lived there until his decease in 1858. He is buried at Cherry Fork. His son, James McClanahan. father of our subject, was born September 25. t8i.^. He received a good common school education, and when a young man taught school for several years. He became one of the prominent business men of Adams County, and at his death had amassed quite a fortune. April it. 1843, ^^ married Miss Sophia Baldridge, a daughter of John Baldridge and Ada Cole, his \vife, of Lick Fork. They reared a family of seven children.

Samuel A. ^^cClanahan, the subject of this sketch, is a son and second child of James McClanahan and Sophia Baldridge. He received a good education, but has devoted his time to farming and stock raising for many years. At the a^^e of eighteen years, he enlisted as a private in the 141st R^ment O. V. I., and served in the Army of West A^rginia until his honorable discharge with his r^ment in 1864. He is a member of John W. McFcrren Post, G. A. R., West Union, Ohio.

He was married October 6, 1870, to Miss Sarah M. Zercher, a daughter of Jacob and Katharine (Ebrite) Zercher, of Adams County. To them have been bom eight children : Laura E., deceased ; J. Frank, Albert A. ; Robert P. r Nora Helen, deceased ; John B. ; Ralph H., and Margaret May.

Mr. McClanahan owns a fine farm on the Maysville and 2^nesville pike two miles southwest of West Union, and is rated among the most substantial citizens of the county. In politics, he is a Republican, and in religious affairs he adheres to the church of his fathers, the Presbyterian, in which he is an elder.

of West Union, Ohio, was bom January 23. 1864, in Dover, Mason County, Ky. His father is Charles H. Moss, a native of West Virginia. His mother was Ellen D. Byant. His father removed to Kentucky in 1851. and his parents were married there, December 6, i860. They resided there until our subject was fourteen years of age, when they removed to Ohio. He was educated in the common schools. He was married September 29, 1889, to Miss Sophia M. Woods, daughter of Dr. D. H. W(xxls. He has been engaged in business in West Union since 1890, first in dry g(xxls, and since 1893, in the livery business. He is regarded as a good business man and well esteemed by all who know him. His wife conducts one of the most fashionable milliner\' emporiums in Adams was horn October 2, 1849. He went to school at Granville from 1879 to i88j. This included his theological and academical course. In 1872, he was made a minister in the Baptist Church. He was ordained at Rome, in Adams County. He has preached at Winchester, West Union, Hillsl)(^ni. Xew Market. W'hcelcrsburg, and is now in Ashland, Kentucky.

On March 27. 1883, he was married to Miss Fannie Kirkendall. Thoy have three children living, Sarah Kelley, Charles F. and Lou W. fie lost one son at the age of eight years, Hered, who was drowned in the Ohio Canal. He has always been a Republican in his political views. For the past eleven vears, he has been a resident of Rushtown, Scioto Countv. Ohio.

was horn in Greene Township. Adams County, October 16, 1847. ^^n ^^ David Whittaker Murphy and his wife, Cynthia McCall. In 1849, his father ni.ntti to Biiena Vista, in Scioto Countv. He attended the District so!u>^l until he was tifteen years of age, and had the advantage ox the lownsliip library, kept at his father*s home, and all its books he read. In

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185 1, he took his first lessons in merchandising in the store of Major W. C. Henry. In 1862, he worked on a farm for six months. In 1863, he was employed as a foreman by Caden Brothers for six months. On September 16, 1863, he came to Portsmouth and entered the house of C. P. Tracy & Company, wholesale shoe merchants, and for thirty-six years, from that time to the present, has been connected, and since 1868, he has been a partner in the same house.

Mr. Murphy has always been a Republican in his political views, but has steadily declined to be a candidate for any office. He never served in a public appointment, but that of Jury Commissioner of his county from 1894 to 1897. He has been a member o| Bigelow M. E. Church since his residence in Portsmouth. He has been a steward of that church for thirty years and Superintendent of its Sunday School for four years. He was married February 2, 1870, to Mary Katherine, daughter of Daniel Mclntire, who in former years was a prominent contractor and builder in Portsmouth. He has three children, I^ura, wife of Louis D. McCall, of Chicago; Dr. Charles T. Murphy of the same place; Arthur Lee, a student at Penningfton Seminary, N. J., and Julia Alice, residing at home.

Mr. Murphy, while confined closely to his adopted city by his business, yet finds time to read much and keep thoroughly abreast with the times. He is a steady and hard worker in his business and in the activities of his church, but every Summer he takes a vacation of two to four weeks in which he rests himself by following the pursuit of fishing. He is an enthusiastic disciple of Isaac Walton.

Mr. Murphy believes that the highest duty to man is to perform well, every day, and from day to day, the obligations before him in business, in society, in the church and in municipal and State affairs. In following this guiding principle for over thirty years, he has. aided in building up one of the most substantial business houses in the State.

In following up this principle in the church, he has been an important factor in maintaing one of the most flourishing Methodist Episcopal Churches in the countrv. and for himself has established a character in business circles and in the State of which both he and his associates in business, his friends in the church and his fellow citizens may well be proud. In all matters, his word is as good as his bond and the latter is equal to the gold standard all the time.

was born April i, 1849, i" Liberty Township, Adams County, Ohio, near Fairview, on the farm now owned by Jacob Bissinger. In 1855, his father removed to near Decatur, but in the same township.

His father was Andrew Mehaffey and his mother's maiden name was Martha A. Flowers. She was from Muskingum County, Ohio. The Mehaffeys were originally from Ireland. The childhood and youth of our subject were spent in his native township. He attended the District school and the academy at Decatur, in Brown County. Mr. Mehaffey was Township Clerk from 1875 ^^ 1878, Township Treasurer from 1880" to 1883, and a Trustee of the Township from 1886 to 1891 and again from 1893 to 1896.

lie has always been a Republican and it would be a strange matter to fintl a Mehaffey in Adams County who was not one. He was married Koveml)er 15, 1877, to Miss Melissa A. Weeks. Her mother was a Mc- (fovncy. The Weeks family came from New Jersey. He and his wife are lK)th meml)ers of the United Presbyterian Church, at Cherry Fork.

of ( )xfor(l, Ohio, the oldest son of David \W. and Cynthia A. Murphy, was born on a farm at Shamrock, Adams County, Ohio, April 3, 1842. He was married at Portsmouth, Ohio, September 18, 1865, to Miss Jennie M. Hall. #

Army Record: Private, Company H, 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. 1862-4; First Lieutenant and Adjutant, 184th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1865; Actinj2^ Assistant Adjutant General on Staff of Brevet Brigadier (icneral Henry S. Commager, at Bridgeport, Alabama, 1865.

SuiH'rintendent of Construction of U. S. Public Buildings: Frankfort. Kentuckv, i88v5; Jefferson, Texas, 1889-90: Clarksville, Tennessee, 1887-8.

As merry song-birds, its children are free. Happy are the thrifty beneath its flag unfurled, America, (lod's lard, the garden ol the world !

The people their will by ballots decree ; Justice ana good laws the masses guard and control, Freedom, man\s birthright, brooks no tyranny. Homesteads for the homeless beneath its flag unfurled, America, God's land, the refuge of the world!

The Federal Union holds forty- five States. Brotherhood and free speech beneath its flag unfurled, .\nierica, God's land, the Canaan of the world !

wa> lH>rn Aui^iist 3. i>n40. at Dunbarton. Ohio. His father, William Metz, was horn in Kent nek v. Mav 6. i8o(). [acob Metz, the father of William Met?, omii^ratcd tirst to Kentucky from Germany, and afterwards to the State o{ ( >hio. jacv^b ^[etz. the emigrant, by his first marriage had four children, William. Thomas, Elizabeth, and Martha; all boni in the State of Kentucky. Elizabeth married David Sprinkle, and Martha married George Killen. Jacob Metz was married a second time. There were seven children of this marriage, George, Jacob, Frank, Edward, and Michael, sons ; and two daughters, Amanda and Margaret. William Metz, the father of our subject, was reared in Adams County. He married Katherine Thomas, February u, 1826. and she died February 10, 1845. The children of this marriage were Sarah A., married William Anderson; Susan, married Joseph McFarland ; George, married Amanda Warren; Thomas, married Elizabeth Francis: Margaret, married James McGovney ; also William J., married Delia Gregory; and Samuel, two sons. The second wife of William Metz was Hannah Williams. She was a granddaughter of James Williams, a Revolutionary soldier from Washington County. Maryland, born February 22, 1759, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and served ten months; four months in the Maryland Militia and six months in the Pennsylvania Militia : the last four being under Col, William Crawford, who was afterwards burned at the stake by the Indians June 1 1. 1792.

There were seven sons of the marriage of William Metz and Hannah Williams, and no daughters; James G.. David H., Jacob F., Lewis T., Edward C, Frank C, and Uriah H., of whom three are living, James G., David H., and Edward C. Hannah Williams, the second wife of W^iUiam Metz. died August 25. 1888, at the age of seventy years. Her father, James Williams, died September 8, 1873, at the great age of ninety-five years. His wife, Sarah Williams, died March 11, 1862, aged seventyfour years.

William Metz, father of our subject, \vas a resident of the vicinity of Dunbarton, Ohio, until 1856, when he removed to Rome, and continued to reside there the remainder of his life. He held township offices in Meigs and Greene Townships. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was a Whig and Republican in his political views. He was an expert in the buying and selling of live stock. In Rome, he was engaged in the merchandising business with his son William, but gave no personal attention to the business. He was a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a prominent man for years. He died August 7, 1879.

Our subject was educated in the common .schools and brought up on the farm. He enlisted in the Civil War in Company D, 173d O. X. I., on September i. 1864, at the age of eighteen years, and he served with the regiment until the twenty-sixth of June, 1865. ^^ learned the trade of wagon making with J. W. Pettit, at Rockville, Adams County, Ohio. He began as an apprentice in 1865, and bought out l^ettit and carried on the business at Rockville until 1873. He then went to Calloway County, Missouri. He remained there nine months, came back to Rockville, and resumed his former business of wagon making. He removed to Rome in 1875, and went to farming, and continued that for a period of four years. In 1879, ^^^ vvent into the butchering business; and in 188 1 he engaged as a clerk for W. T. McCormick, and remained in that business until the Fall of 1899, when he was nominated by the Republican party of Adams Coimty for Sheriff and elected.

He was married November 7, 1865, to Mary I>evoss, daughter of David and Rachel Devoss. They have had eight children, five of whom are living and three deceased. His living children are Frank C, married Ann Gray, living in Rome and engaged in the timber business. His daughter, Addie Belle, is the wife of E. A. Scott, Superintendent of the Schools at Augusta, Ky. His sons, James F. and George, and his daughter Bertha reside at home. He was elected SheriflF in 1899 by a majority of ninety-one over J. W. McKee, who had been elected on the Democratic ticket two years before.

Mr. Metz has been a Republican in his political views all his life. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was Superintendent of the M. E. Sabbath School in Rome foi fourteen years prior to his becoming Sheriff. He is a Mason, Odd Fellow, and Knight of Pythias. He is a public-spirited citizen, a Christian gentleman, and an able, careful, and painstaking public official.

was born December 11, 1826, on the farm in Greene Township, Adams County, where he now resides. He is a son of Duncan and Mary (Smith) McCall, who were the parents of twelve children, four boys and eight girls : Lydia, married Mr. Woodworth ; Elizabeth, married Mr. Gregory ; Charlotte, died in childhood: Samuel, died young; Rebecca, married ^I^. McCormick ; Abijah, Enoch, our subject ; Harriet, married Mr. Trickier ; Melvina, died young; Abner, killed at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi; Melinda. married Mr. Hayslip ; Francis, married Mr. Wikoff.

The father, Duncan McCall, was born August 8, 1791, at Jacob's Creek, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the son of Solomon McCall, who had run away from his Scotland home in hovhood, and who, after serving for ?[\q years the philanthropist vyho paid the stowaway's fare to America, settle(f in TVnnsylyania, married there, and two of his sons, Duncan and John, were born there. The others vyere born in the neighborhood on the hne between Adams and Scioto Counties, where he had moved late in the eighteenth century. The other children of the senior Solomon McCall were David, William. Moses, Solomon. Millie (Williams), Mary (Anderson), Sallie, and Martha (Tucker), in all, ten. Solomon McCall, Senior, and his boys, with other pioneers, were engaged, during the first twenty years after settling here, in clearing the bottoms of the great forests which covered them from above where Buena Vista now is, to below Sandy Springs. Solomon McCall had early purchased the farm on which our subject resides, which he sold to his son, Duncan, in 1 817. and it was sold to Enoch McCall by his father in 1871. The Mc- Calls built the first stone houses in their neighborhood, two of which are still occupied, one east of Buena Vista, Scioto County, and the other at Commercial, in Adams County. Solomon McCall, Senior, died in the latter.

.Mary Smith McCall, mother of the subject of this sketch, was born in New Jersey on September 9, 1795. She and Duncan McCall were married ( )ctober 7, 1817, at Sandy Springs. Enoch McCall learned cerpenterxwi:^ and worked at that trade until he entered the seryice of his country in the Ciyil War. lie was nnistered into seryice September 18, 1862, as a Private in Company F, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry ; made Corporal, August I, 1863, and Sergeant, June 26, 1865, of his regiment, and was in twenty-four engagements including the battles of Atlanta, Nashville, and Franklin, but was never wounded or captured. He was mustered out at Nashville on July i, 1865. Mr. McCall returned to Adams County, took up farming and shortly thereafter, purchased his father's farm afid on April 16, 1874, was married to Martha A. Pownall, daughter of Joseph C. Pownall and Mar>' McColm Pownall, of Manchester, Ohio. Their children are Mark P., born March 7, 1875; Mary S., born June 30, 1877; Leeds, bom January i, 1882, and Earnest, born May 23, 1884.

Mr, McCall is a Republican politically, but has never held any office. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His memory goes back to the days when wild animals were common in the woods about his early home, but he says even more vivid is his recollection of the hard work incident to clearing the land of the heavy timbers. It is worthy of mention here that m the orchard on his farm are apple trees which were set out by his father in 1817, and which are thrifty and bearing fniit every year. The trunk of one. a bell-flower, measures three feet in diameter at height of a man's heail above the groimd. There are remains on the farm of the work of the mound builders, and many implements fashioned from flint stone are found there.

Recorder of Adams County, was bom March 4, 1864. on the Secrists farm near Tranquility, Ohio, where his grandfather, Jesse McCreight, settled in 1844. Jesse McCreight, grandfather of our subject, was a native of South Carolina, of Scotch-Irish descent. He married a Miss McCul- !ough and emigrated to Adams County in 1830. He was a farmer by oc- 'iipation and followed it all his life. He lived on rented farms until he purchased tlie Secrists farm in 1844, which had not been occupied for thirty years on account of its reputation of being haunted. Mr. Mc- Creight, however, was free from superstitions. He removed into the house and it has been occupied ever since, first by him, and to the present time, by the motlier of our subject, and not an evil spirit has ever disturbed the tranquillity of the family. Jesse McCreight died in 1879 and is buried in the Tranquility cemetery. Alexander McCreight was the only son of Jesse McCreight, and the father of our subject. He received such education as could be obtained in the Public schools. He learned the cabinet maker's trade and later, mechanical engineering and pattern making. He became the inventor of several useful articles, taking out eight diflferent patents, the most important of which was his horizontal portable saw-mill, which patent brought him about $8,000. He was twice married, first to Rebecca Smith, and to them were bom four daughters. Sarah, Jennie, Anna and Irena C. He afterward married Ellen Snedaker, of Decatur, Ohio, whose children were Jesse E., our subject; Frank S., Minnie O., wife of E. F. Elmore, of Tranquility; Maggie M., wife of R. W. Mc- Creight, of Tranquility, and Ella R., who is single and resides with her mother.

of ihc present church. The fine pulpit is his gift to the church and a sample of his handiwork. In politics, he was a lifctong Republican and always took an active part in local and national affairs. He was often one of the sfx^akers of his party in the county canvasses. He was a Justice of tlie F'eace of Scott Township from 1886 to 1889. Prior to the Civil War, his house was one of the stations on the Underground Railroad and many a fugitive slave found shelter and safe conduct to freedom through his friendship for the cause. He enlisted May 2. 1864, in Company G. I72d (). \'. I., and was discharged September 3, 1864. He died December 25. 1 891, and is buried at Tranquility.

Jesse E. McCreight. the subject of this sketch, received a good education at home under the tuition of his father. A stroke of paralysis at the age of six years, disabled him from attending the Public schools and while it left him crippled in Ixxly, his mind was very active. He realized that that would have to be his means of support, and he became a diligent stuclent. While he never attended college or school for a single day. at the age of sixteen, he was prepared to enter on business. He learned the watch making trade, at which he worked until 1883, and from 1883 to 1886. he was in the employ of the Cincinnati & Eastern Railroad Co. in the capacity of agent and operator, which position he was forced to resign on accoimt of his health, and he then engaged in the watch making business at North Liberty until 1887, when he was elected by the Republican party as Recorder of Adams County, which position he occupies at present with great credit to himself and to his party.

He was married April 25, 1889, to Ida M. l>nx)ks, daughter of Jesse r»rooks, of Decatur, Ohio. They have two children. Forrest lycland, aged nnie, and Mabel Carryl, aged seven. Mr. and Mrs. McCreigiit are members of the I . \\ Church of Tranquility.

As an officer. .Mr. McCreight is industrious and painstaking, and tries U) do his duty to the best of his ability. He gives his entire attention to his office.

was born ( )ctol)er 5. 1861, in Xile Tov.'nship, Scioto County, Ohio, son of (leorge v^. McCormick. who has a sketch herein. When old enough to he sent away to school, he spent two years at the National Normal University at Lebanon. Ohio, and afterwards four years at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaw^are, Ohio. After the completion of liis college course, he became a law student of the Hon. Thomas E. Powell, of Delaware, Ohio, and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1886. While studying in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was in the office of Cowen and hV^rris, Attorneys, the Ferris being Judge Howard Ferris, of the r^robate Court of Hamilton Countv.

Mr. McCormick was admitted to practice in 1886, and removed to Indianapolis, Indiana, w^here he became manager of the R. G. Dun & Co., Commercial Agencv. He continued his employment and resided there seven years. He removed to Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, in January. 1895. He was elected, as a Republican, to represent Scioto County in the House of Representatives in the Fall of 1897, and re-elected in iSgt;. In the House, he has served on the Committees on Municipal Affairs, Corporations, Military Affairs, and Public Works.

He was married to Miss Anne Corrille Scarlett, daughter of Joseph A. Scarlett, manager of R. G. Dun's Commercial Agency in Cincinnati, on the thirty-first of December, 1885. They have one daughter, Corrille, a girl of thirteen years, now a student in Columbus.

Mr. McCormick had been a Democrat until 1897, but now is a Republican of the stalwart type. He is a man of liberal views and ideas. He is an excellent lawyer and his friends think he ought to eschew politics and confine himself to the law. However, as a politician, he has been quite successful, and bids fair to be one of the prominent men of the State, if an ordinary lifetime shall be allotted to him.

was born Atigust 8, 1863, at Muscatine, Iowa. His father was John D. McColm and his mother, Lida Edgington, both from Adams County. His grandfather was James McColm, at one time Probate Judge of Adams County. His grandfather, on his mother's side was Oliver Edgington, who resided near Manchester. His mother died when he was but eleven months old. He was taken by his grandfather, Oliver Edgington, and reared in Adams County. He went to school at Manchester. He engaged in the marble business at Manchester when he was but seventeen years of age, and has been there in the same business ever since. He has $10,000 invested in it and employs twenty-five men, including salesmen. He has the largest establishment of the kind between Cincinnati and Pittsburg, and, in his business, he has the latest tools and the most modern and verv latest inventions. He sells monuments in the three States of Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia.

In 1887, he was married to Ida Varner, of Mason County, Kentucky, and they have three children, two boys and a girl. In politics he is a Republican.

He deserves a great deal of credit for having built up the wonderful business he has, and it is demonstrated that he is one of the best business men who ever resided in Adams County. Mr. McColm has the confidence of all his neighbors and acquaintances.

was bom near Cross Plains, Ripley County, Indiana, July i, 1841. In a family of seven children he was the second son. His father was Robinson McMannis, formerly of Winchester, Adams County, Ohio. His grandfather was Charles McMannis, a Revolutionary soldier. He was a private in the regiment of the Pennsylvania Militia. He was a pensioner of the State of Pennsvlvania. He was born in 1754 and emigrated to Ohio in 181 7, settled in Adams County, and died at Cherry Fork in 1840, in his eighty-sixth year, and is buried in the Cherry Fork cemetery. His wife's maiden name was Ellen Spears. He had been a farmer in Pennsylvania and had followed the same occupation in Ohio.

Our subject's mother's m.aiden name was Filner Shaw, a daughter of Russell Shaw, for whom Russellville, Brown County, Ohio, was named. Her mother's name was Reynolds, an aunt of the late Stephen Reynolds, of Peebles, Ohio The parents of our subject both died within a week of each other when he was not yet six years old. At the ag'c of ten years, he made his home with a family named DuflEey, of Winchester, and he remained there until he enlisted in Company C of the 70th O. V. I., as a private, November i, t86i. He was made a Corporal and afterward a Sergeant, February 25, 1863. He was wounded in the right leg at the battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862. He verteranized January i, 1864, and was wounded in both arms in the attack on Fort McAllister, December 13, 1864 barely escaping amputation of the right arm by a reduction of a radius of five inches. He was discharged from the service June 23, 1865. after serving about three years and eight months. After returning home, he served as Deputy Treasurer under J. C. DufTey for two years. He was married January 3, 1867, to Elizabeth Waite, of Blue Creek, Ohio. In the Fall of 1867, he was a candidate on the Republican ticket for County Treasurer, but was defeated by Elijah Leedom on the Democratic ticket. In December, 1867, he removed from West Union to Blue Creek, where he engaged in farming and milling. In the Fall of 1884, he was appointed Deputy Treasurer of Adams County and served two years. In 1886, he was appointed Deputy Clerk under W. R. Mahaflfey and served two years. In 1889, he was elected Sheriff of Adams County by a majority of thirteen, determined after a contest with W. P. Newman, the opposing candidate. He was re-elected in 1891 and served until 1894. The same year he removed to Peebles, wiiere he now resides.

Mr. McMannis is a quiet, modest citizen, very diffident, but possessed of those sterling qualities which make one appreciated. He is noted for his integrity and honor in all the relations of fife. His childrci* are James O. McMannis, lately Probate Judge of Adams County, married to the daughter of Captain L. L. Edg^ng^on, and residing at West Union : Herbert W. McMannis. in the Eleventh Regimental Band in the Recfular Army, now at vSan fuan, Porto Rico; Onania, the wife of P. A. \\'ickerbani, now Chief Clerk to Gen. Howard, in Manilla ; Charles N. McMannis, a graduate of Park College, Parkville, Mo., and now snulvinc: for the Presbyterian ministry at Auburn, New York, in the Theological Seminary there: Allen N. McMannis, in the mercantile business at Greelev, Colorado; Tav Wilbur McMannis, a student at Parkville. Mo., and Stella May McMannis. a student at Parkville, Mo. He lost a son, William, at eighteen months and a daughter, Edna, at eight years of age. All of his children are bright, intelligent and studious : all are ambitious, soiiglit honorable and responsible positions in life, and r.one are more promising. Ke has great reason to be proud of them, and they have just reason to be proud of his record as a patriot, a public C'fticer and a citizen.

was born at Unity (near Wheat P. O.), September i, 1834, the son of lliicfh McSurelv and Marv Clark, his wife. He resided on his father's farm, attending school in the Winter and periormmg farm w^ork in the Siniinier until iS^o. As a child, he was set aside for the ministrv. He \\ris always serioiisl> and deeply religious. In his farm work, he was always honest and conscientious, as he has been in everything he has d(Mie since. In the common schools, he was a diligent and earnest stu- dent and excelled in spelling. In the county spelling matches, he was always chosen first. In 1850, he entered North Liberty Academy at its opening, and spent two years there preparing for college. In 1852^ he entered Miami University and graduated there in the class of 1856. During his college course, he was a lover of books. He maintained a high standing in his class at college. He was a diligent student. Immediately after his graduation, he took up the study of theology at the U. P. Seminary at Oxford and was licensed to preach in 1858 and ordained in 1859. H^ already evinced talents of a high order, as his first call in 1858 was to succeed the very eloquent and learned Dr. Claybaugh of the United Presbyterian Church at Oxford. On November 12, i860, he was married to Hulda Taylor, of Sparta, Illinois, daughter of John K. Taylor and Sarah Wvlie, his wife.

Rev. McSurelv remained at Oxford until 1866. He was minister to a church at Kirkv/ood, 111., in 1867 and 1868, and then for a short time was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Loveland, Ohio. In 1869, he was called to the First Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro, which call he accepted and where he has remained ever since, and where he will remain until he either resigns or dies. His pastorate there will never be given up on account of his congregation, or any of them. He has been a Trustee of Miami University since 1887, and in the discharge of the duties of that office, he has been most conscientious and faithful. He has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Public Library of HilIsf)oro for over twenty years. He has three children, William Harvey, a lawyer of Chicago, who has a separate sketch in this work ; Ella Glenn, a graduate of Oxford College, and a son, James Edwin, who is now a law student in Cincinnati.

Dr. McSurely*s distinguishing characteristic as a preacher is his profound scholarship. The deep study bestowed on the preparation of his sermons make them a delight to his cultivated congregation.

For thirty years, his Hillsboro Church has looked forward with assured anticipation of pleasure and profit to his Sunday morning sermons. He is naturally reserved and retiring, perhaps somewhat timid, in many directions, but in what he believes to be his duty, he is uncompromising, bold and determined. While he has made some antagonisms, he has the respect, esteem and affection of his church and of the community. This tribute is from a layman in his own town.

A clergyman says of him. "that his thirty years* pastorate has proven his wisdom and ability. He is clear in his theological thinking. He is highlv charitable to those who differ from him. His loveliness of character is most appreciated among his parishioners. His pulpit ministrations are clear, spiritual, and well calculated to strengthen the faith and life of his hearers. His fellow ministers estimate him most highly, both as a preacher and a presbyter. They regard him as able, safe and wise. As a student and scholar, he is above the average. His education was not finished at the college or seminary, but having their learned to study he has- continued the habit ever since. In his preaching, he is always instructive and edifying. Endowed with a clear and musical voice, his sermons and addresses are all well delivered. When Moderator of the Synod of Cincinnati, he showed himself well equipped for the place."

- The Interior of Chicago, the leading publication of the Presbyterian Church, in a recent number, said of him : **He has had numerous calls to important churches, hut his idea was the old one of a life work in one place. Xo one who has heard him preach doubts that, if he had been desirous of a change to a metropolitan congregation, he could readily have effected it." On the front page of the same number appeared a fine, full page portrait of Dr. McSurely.

In public reading and in the delivery of his sermons, he has a degree of ability and power ilmost remarkable. With a sure understanding of the thought to be imparted, he has a correct and sensitive taste in gesture, and especially in tone color of voice, which conveys the meaning in an impressive and often striking manner. He has the gift of intuitive elocution in its best sense ; and with a resonant and flexible voice he commands and holds the attention of his hearers.

He is a man of the utmost sincerity. His words are carefully weighed and full of purpose. He has strong convictions of the right and truth, and has the courage of his convictions. At the same time, his manner is mild and conciliatorv. One friend savs of him, that he reminds him very much of the character of the beloved disciple, St. John. While tenacious of the truth, as he sees it, he is liberal of those who see it differently. His life has been full of good works, and in all respects it is an exemplification of his teaching and preaching.

was born January- 27, 1865, in Oxford, Ohio. He went with his parents to Kirkwood, Illinois, in 1867, and returned to Loveland, Ohio, in 1868, and in 1869 went to Hillsboro, Ohio. His boyhood was passed there. He attended the Public schools there. In Januar>% 1880, he attended the South Salem Academy and in the Fall of 1881 entered the Freshman class at Wooster University. He graduated in 1886. After that, he read law in Hillsboro for one year under Hon. Frank Steele. He went to Chicago in 1887 and went into the ofhce of Norton, Burley and Howell, and completed his law studies with them, and was admitted to practice in 1888. He became a member of the firm of Norton & Burley on January I. 1893.

He was married October t8, 1892, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cadman, whose father, now deceased, had been one of the most brilliant lawyers in Chicago. On the death of Mr. James S. Norton, the senior member of the firm of which Mr. McSurely was the junior member, the firm was and has since been reorganized and took the firm name of Burley 5: Mc- Surely. Mr. and Mrs. McSurely have one daughter, and one deceased.

Those who know him best sav of him, he is a Christian gentleman, a man graced with lignity and elevation of spirit, of clear and quick perceptions, of manners frank and affable, of cheerful spirit and benevolent disposition. In his profession, he is prompt, decisive, upright and successful. When b'lt a beginner in the law, he was chosen for merit by the distinc^uished late James Sage Norton to be a partner with himself an<i the talented Mr. Clarence A. Burley, in their firm, and he has won by work and has obtained an honorable standing among that class of lawyers known to be the best in their profession.

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of West Union, was born in that town, September 6, 1867. He received a good common school education, and when C. W. Sutterfield became Postmaster at West Union, tinder President Harrison, he was appointed Deputy, which position he held until appointed Deputy SheriflF during his father's second term as SheriflF of Adams County. He studied surveying under A. V. Hutson, and is an accomplished surveyor and civil engineer. On December 12, t8q4, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Edgington, the only daughter of Capt. L. L. Edgington, of West Union. In January following his marriage, he entered the firm of L. L. Edgington & Sons as bookkeeper. In 1897, he was nominated on the Republican ticket for SheriflF of Adams County but was defeated by a small majority. In March, 1898, he was appointed by Governor Rushnell to fill a vacancy in the Probate Judge's Office, occasioned by the removal of Judge John W. Mason from that office, on charges under the so-called Garfield law. He served until the re-election of Judge Mason. He is now with the firm of L. L. Edgington & Sons as bookkeeper. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

* A summary of the dates and facts connected with the life of Dr. Me- Dill is first presented and compiled mainly from Dr. Scouller's "Manual of the United Presbyterian Church."

"Dr. David McDill was born August 26, 1826, in Preble County, Ohio; was graduated at Centre College, Kentucky, in 1849, ^"^ studied theolog>' at Oxford and Allegheny; was licensed April 7, 1852, by First Ohio Presbytery, and ordained September 8, 1853, ^7 Chillicothe; was pastor at Cherry Fork, Ohio, September, 1853-June i, 1876, and pastor of Henderson, 111., March 3, T877-July t, 1884; was Professor of Philosophy in Monmouth College September i, 1876- 1885; has been Professor of Apologetics and Momiletics in Xenia Theological Seminary since September, 1885. Publications: "Life of Judge Morrison," 1863, "Secret Societies." 1881, "The Bible a Miracle." Recentiv also Dr. Mc- Dill has published two other works, one on the "Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch," the other entitled, "Pre-Millenialism Discussed."

From the above sketch it will be seen how difficult it is to compress all that ought to be said concerning Dr. McDill within the limits prescribed by the publishers of this work. A life so long, useful, and honorable, certainly deserves more than passing notice. In writing of the man one cannot but feel that he would like to be wholly untrammeled both as to space and time, and that this life, so rich in material, is worthy of full biography instead of a brief sketch which must seem too much like dry chronology.

The older citizens of Adams County will remember Dr. McDill as a man of force and endowed with rare qualities of leadership. He was one that "blazed the way" among them, and took the lead then, as he does now, in many lines of reform. He was a pioneer, in his denomination, in the matter of conducting a series of meetings to win men to the church and to Christ. He thought, and rightly, too, that some such preparation was necessary before a pentecost could come. In the days when public debates on religious questions were in vogue, he did his full share of that work and while never seeking a contest of that kind, neither did he run to cover from any adversary. Logic, or clear reasoning, if you will, is one of the Doctor's strong points and that many an opponent living far beyond the limits of Adams County has discovered to his sorrow. In an argument the writer has never known him to be worsted, and yet he never stoops to the tricks of the pettifogger; in all such contests he would rather honorably lose than unfairly win.

In the dark days of the Civil War, Dr. McDill had more than one opportunity to show his loyalty and courage. True, he was not actually on the field, but in another sense he was in the forefront of the battle. He spoke for the Union when it had enemies north of the Ohio River ; he denounced slavery when the system had its advocates and apologists north as well as south of Mason and Dixon's line. When invasion by Southern troops was threatened, he was made Lieutenant of the "home guards" in his community, and when the famous "Morgan Raid*' actually occurred. Dr. McDill was taken prisoner and saved the life of a friend and neighbor at that time by resolutely refusing to disclose his hiding place. The man in question had fired on the advance guard of Morgan's men and if cauerht would no doubt have been shot without trial or ceremony. But neither threates nor cajoling could induce Dr. McDill, while a prisoner, to betray his friend, and "Dick" Morgan found that there was at least one man in Adams County who could keep a secret though that man had never belonged to a lodge. Truth telling is an old and a fixed habit with the Doctor ; but he felt that there were certain questions which he had no right to answer before that court of inquiry. Release followed before he had been long a prisoner and the Doctor came back, with honor unsullied, to gladden the hearts of anxious friends and parishioners.

l)Ut the time came ere long when the people of his community realized that Dr. McDill belonged to the whole church and to the country as well as to Adams County. A man with his gifts could not long keep in hiding even if he desired it ; he found it impossible to hurry his talent even in a country pastorate. So, after more than a score of years spent in his quiet country home and in close application to study, tluTc came, naturally enough, a call to occupy the Chair of Philosophy in Monmouth College. From that intellectual center his fame spread, through his work, and the unassuming "country parson" was by no means a lesser light in the faculty of that justly celebrated school. In that honorable position at Monmouth he served till once more, in 1885. the ciuirch said, "conic up higher," and he was called to the Chair of ITomiletios pud Apologetics in Xenia Theological Seminary. Here he has busied himself in giving seed to the future sowers. The place fits the man. anH it is needless to sav that the man in everv wav adorn*; the ]>lace. Tn liis present position his business chiefly is to defend the Bible. ar.d in that s])here, .-.s all his acquaintances know, the Doctor is quite af home. Xot only (l(X\s he give the students the benefit of his excellent liciurcs upon the subject, but he has lately entered the field of anthor- <h\]) .ilnnu tliat line and we are looking eagerly for other books to follow liiose already pul.lislied. TTis book on the "Mosaic Authorship of the

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Pentateuch" must be a terror to the higher critics, and when one reads his latest work, "Pre-Millcnialism Discussed," he is bound to feel that the time of Christ's appearing is not yet at hand. He is a theologian in every sense of the word and therefore the initial letters that follow his name are more than mere ornaments or props for a reputation which could not well stand without them.

Yet it is as a man, no doubt, rather than as scholar or churchman, that Dr. McDill is best beloved and most honored by those who know him. His character is even above his talent, remarkable as the latter may be. There never was a truer friend. His presence is as sunshine in any home. His disposition is and ever has been not to seek his own but the good of others, and that is why his admirers have become an host and some among them hardly dare say or write all they think of the man, lest they seem to indulge in fulsome praise. Although at the time of this writing Dr. McCall has passed the three score and ten, he still possesses full vigor of mind and body. To those near him the sun of his life appears more glorious in setting than in its rising, and when at last, full of years and honors, he is gathered unto the fathers, there will be many to miss him and to feel more deeply than ever that without the inspiration of his personal presence they must fail of reaching that high mark which in his life he set them. Dr. McDill married Miss Martha E. Gordon, of Xenia, Ohio, in 1853.

of Wamsleyville, is of Scotch-Irish descent, his maternal grandfather having been born in Scotland and his paternal grandfather, Hugh McCormick, in Ireland. He is a son of Charles McCormick and Rebecca Mc- Call, and was born October 5, 1845, ^^ White Oak, Adams County. His parents located afterwards at Locust Grove, where our subject attended the Public schools, and ground tanbark at the old tannery there during vacation. He attended Miami Medical College and afterwards Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, and began the practice of medicine at Wamsleyville, where he has since been located, in 1872. In 1876, March 3, he was united in marriage to Miss Emma R. Wamsley, daughter of S. B. and Anna Freeman Wamsley, and there was born to this union a son, Edgar E. McCormick, March 22, 1878. He is now one of the bright and active teachers of Adams County.

Dr. McCormick stands in the foremost ranks among the physicians of Adams County, and as a citizen is held in the highest esteem by all who know him. He is a member of the Christian Union Church, and of Wamsley ville Lodge, Xo. 653, T. O. O. F. In politics, he is a Democrat of the Jeffersonian type, believing in a "povernment of the people, by the people and for the people." One who has known the Doctor intimately for years says of him: "A more refined and courteous gentleman than Dr. McCormick would be hard to find."

of Winchester, Ohio, son of Edwin and Rachel ( Penny witt) McMillan, was born April 19, 1869, at 302 Linn Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated in the T^iblic schools of the "Queen City," and began his active business career with J. IT. Bromwell & Co., of the city of his birth. He was for a time with Joseph R. Peebles, and later, for ten years, traveling salesman in Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky for Andrews, Bates & Company, of Cincinnati.

On the twenty-second day of November, 1894, he was united in marriage to Miss Lulu Reese, daughter of James M. Reese, a prominent business man of Adams County, who built the first steam flouring" mill at Peebles. Ohio, as well as flouring mills at Buck Run and Winchester. Mr. Reese's wife was Miss Harriet Homer, a member of one of the old and prominent families of Adams County.

In 1897, after the death of his father-in-law, Mr. McMillan took charge of the flouring mill at Winchester, and two years later became sole manager. This is one of the finest and best equipped roller mills in the county with a capacity of one hundred barrels a day. Mr. McMillan, in connection with the milling business, handles all kinds of grains and farm seeds. To him is due the credit of introducing to the farmers of Adams County that valuable forage and food plant, the cowpea.

Mr. McMillan, by his energy and strict integrity, has succeeded in building up a fine business at Winchester, and is looked upon as one of the most substantial business men of the town.

was born October 21, 1842, near Unity, in Oliver Township, Adams County, Ohio. There is a separate sketch of his father, Hugh McSurely, among the pioneers in this work. Our subject was reared on his father's farm and attended the Public schools of his vicinity until 1859. He attended Miami University in 1859 and t86o, and was ready for the Freshman class when he gave up school and went to farming.

When the war broke out. he wanted to enter the service, but his father would not hear to it, and he enlisted himself on November i. 1861. at the age of fifty-five, in Company E, 70th O. V. I. What might have been expected happened, and Hugh McSurely could not stand the hardships of the service. He was discharged December 18, 1862, for physical disability. He went home, and the following Summer, his son, our subject, enlisted in the same company and regiment for three years from June 8. 1863. He served until July 28, 1865. He was never in the hospital until after the close of the war. He never missed an hour from duty in the Atlanta campaign.

After returning from the war, he taught school eight years. On April 20, i8(K), he married Miss Martha Clark, daughter of Samuel Clark, a neighbor. From 1865 until 1873, he taught school and farmed: and from 1873 until 1886, he was a farmer in Adams County. He then removed to Oxford, Ohio. Iu)r two years after his removal, he had no particular occupation. In 1888, he ofx^ned a grocery in Oxford, and has carrier 1 on that l)usiness ever since.

Me is reirarded as one of the foremost business men of that place. He has been a number of the United Presbvterian Church since bovhoixl. Directly after cr)niing to Oxford, he was made an elder in the United Presbyterian Church there, and has served in that office most acceptablv ever

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He has had two daughters : Lora, who died at the age of nineteen, and Mary, who is a graduate of the Oxford High School and of the Oxford College. She also took a post-graduate course at Miami University, and taught in the Oxford College in 1899 ^^^ 1900.

Mr. McSurely is a Republican, and has always been one. Tn the contest for the postoffice at Oxford under President McKinley, in 1897, he was supported by the several institutions of learning and by the old soldiers, as well as by a large portion of the citizens. He is a man of quiet manners, kind, gentle, and very faithful to his friends. In all relations as a business man, a citizen, and an officer in his church, he is trustworthy and conscientious. As a soldier, he was faithful, reliable, and efficient. He is a man of clear head and warm heart, and he is true to his convictions of dutv.

son of the late Hon. Thomas McCauslen, of Steubenville, was born January 26, 1857, at West Union, Adams County. In the same year, his father removed to Portsmouth, where he resided till 1865. In that year, his father removed to Steubenville, which has since been his home. He attended the Public schools in Steubenville and graduated from them in June, 1877. He studied law with his father and was admitted to practice June 17, 1879. He practiced in connection with his father at Steubenville until the latter retired in 1883. Since then he has been in partnership with Dio Rogers, under the firm name of Rogers & McCauslen. He was married December i, 1892, to Miss Winona K. Lowe. He is a Democrat in his political views, but has never sought or held office. He is active in his profession and has a vigorous mind. He is a gentleman of fine presence and is quick and active in the conduct of a case. He is methodical in the transaction of business. As a gentleman, he keeps to the highest standard. He is prompt in the fulfillment of all his obligations. He belongs to a number of fraternal societies, and is popular in all of them. He has a prosperous business.

son of George O. and Mrs. Clay B. Newman, was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, June 14, 1867. He attended the Portsmouth schools for the course of twelve years and graduated from the High school, June, 1884. He then attended Kenyon College and remaind till the close of his jimior year in 1887. He began the study of law in the Fall of 1889 under his father and was admitted to the bar in October, 1891. He began the practice of the law in Portsmouth, Ohio, alone and so continued it until September, 1893, when he formed a law partnership with the Hon. A. C Thompson. This continued until November, 1898, when it was dissolved by the appointment of Judge Thompson as Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. Since then, he has continued his law practice in Portsmouth alone.

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On June i8, 1894, he was married to Judge Thompson's eldest daughter, Charl. In politics, Mr. Newman is a Democrat, and in religion, an Episcopalian. He is highly esteemed as an excellent young lawyer and bids fair to establish a distinguished reputation in his profession.