Clark County Ohio Biographies

GEORGE W. DALIE, Springfield; has for a number of years been a member of the department of justice. He was born in Brunswick, Me., April 18, 1814; his father was a ship carpenter, and resided in Boston and vicinity during George’s youth. The subject of this sketch learned the carpenter’s trade, and continued to work at his trade until about 1848, when his health would no longer permit it. He came to Ohio in 1831, and made Cincinnati his home, but worked at different points several years, during which he spent a short time in New Orleans. In 1838, he located in Clermont County, and there married his first wife, Miss Abigail Fowler; she bore him three children, two of whom, a son and a daughter, are living; his wife having died, and he broken down in health, Mr. Dalie came to Springfield in 1848, and, after recruiting his health, engaged in merchandising; subsequently kept a hotel a short time, then became interested in a sash, door and blind factory here. In 1862, he was elected Constable, and has served so acceptably as to be re-elected at each subsequent election period, and still continues in the acceptable discharge of the Constabulary duties. His present wife was a Miss Elizabeth Croft; their marriage was celebrated in Centerville, Ind., in 1855; she was a native of England, and has borne him one child, a daughter—Mrs. John P. Allen. Mr. Dalie is one of the old reliables of Springfield, and respected as a useful citizen.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 816

GEORGE C. DAVIDSON, farmer; P. O. Catawba. He is a son of Lemuel Davidson, a native of this county; was born Nov. 23, 1843, in this township; was raised and educated as a farmer, and has always been engaged in that way. He was married, Oct. 24, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth J. Jones; they had six children—John M., Lawrence K., Minnie, Myrtie, Lou, Nettle and Elmer. He owns a good farm in the eastern part of the township, containing 75 acres under good cultivation, with good improvements upon it.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 974

CHARLES A. DAVIS, decorative painter and dealer in artists’ supplies, Springfield. He is a son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Thomas) Davis, and was born in Cheltenham, England, near the old city of Gloucester, Jan. 1, 1826. At the age of 15, he began the trade of house and decorative painting with his father, at which he worked until 1850, when he embarked for America; on his arrival on this continent, he pushed Westward, arriving in Cincinnati, Ohio, the same year, where he immediately began to ply his trade, carrying on quite extensively; in 1867, he removed to Springfield, this county, and located at his present place of business, No. 142 West Main street, where he still continues trade, and, in connection, keeps a full line of artists’ supplies. He was married, Sept. 7, 1850 (just before taking passage for the New World), to Mary A. Taylor, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Jones) Taylor; of their six children, but four are now living—three boys and one girl; Thomas A. is at present a student in the Cincinnati Art School. Mrs. Davis was born May 16, 1823, in Clifford, Herefordshire, England, near Clifford Castle. Mr. Davis, at the age of 18, was initiated into the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows; the law in England was that the son of an Odd Fellow could join the lodge at the age of 18; after locating in Cincinnati, he was instructed in the mysteries of the Independent Order, and is a Past Grand of Springfield Lodge, No. 33, I. O. O. F.; he is also a Master Mason of Clark Lodge, No. 101. He is one of the Vestrymen of Christ’s Church, Episcopal, of this city, having held said position for the past ten years; he was one of the Building Committee of said church.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 817

EMORY F. DAVIS, M.D. In extent of practice Doctor Davis is one of the busiest physicians and surgeons at Springfield, where he has performed his professional work and has been active in the affairs of citizenship for over twenty years.

Doctor Davis was born at Centerville in Montgomery County, Ohio, June 27, 1870, son of Edward H. and Martha Jane (Fallis) Davis. His father was a native of Salem, New Jersey, and his mother of Richmond, Virginia. Edward H. Davis was a stock raiser and farmer in New Jersey, and at the beginning of the Civil war he became a captain in the Ninth New Jersey Infantry. He was wounded by gun shot in the right knee at the battle of Roanoke, Virginia, while serving under General Burnside. He was also taken prisoner, and for some time endured the evil conditions of Andersonville Prison. Later he was exchanged and put in charge of the exchange train. Subsequently he moved to Montgomery County, Ohio, and there re-enlisted in the One Hundred Thirty-first Ohio Infantry. He was the first lieutenant of Company I in that regiment. Edward H. Davis was in the Ford Theatre the night that President Lincoln was shot. Eight of his brothers were soldiers in the Confederate Army. After the war he owned and operated a farm at Centerville, but he died at Springfield in August, 1911. His widow survived him until July 22, 1920. They had two children, Doctor Davis and Nellie, wife of John E. Wamer, of Detroit, Michigan.

Emory F. Davis grew up at Centerville, attended grammar and high school there, and graduated in medicine from the University of Ohio April 9, 1897. Prior to locating at Springfield Doctor Davis practiced two years at Celina and one year at Lancaster, and in 1900 moved to Springfield. Since 1914 he has maintained a fine suite of offices in the Fairbanks Building.

In October, 1898, Doctor Davis married Miss Fannie N. Hutsler, a native of Jamestown, Greene County, Ohio, daughter of John W. and Ruth (Evans) Hutsler, natives of Virginia. Her mother was a first cousin of “Fighting Bob Evans,” one of America’s foremost naval heroes. Mrs. Davis’ parents were early settlers in Greene County, and her mother, who was born in 1831, is now living at Springfield, past ninety. Doctor and Mrs. Davis have a modern home at 103 North Western Avenue. Their only child is Lawrence H., born in September, 1899. He married Elizabeth Carr, and they live with Doctor Davis. Lawrence Davis is a partner in the Crescent Casket Company, manufacturers of high grade children’s caskets.

Doctor Davis and family are members of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church. He was for several years a member of the Clark County Blind Committee, is a republican, a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Belongs to the Clark County, Ohio, State and American Medical associations, and is physician to the Ohio State Knights of Pythias Home.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 397

GOLDEN CLYDE DAVIS. While disturbing elements have in recent years undoubtedly made law enforcement a matter of grave corncern in many communities, there has, perhaps, been less trouble at Springfield than in other cities of its size. Without question the reason of this is that here the law is really upheld, and no infraction of it will be countenanced as long as public officials of Springfield are men of such sterling, well balanced character as Hon. Golden Clyde Davis, municipal judge in this city. While Judge Davis is not a temperamental man, he knows how to soften justice with mercy on occasion, but he takes his official duties in all seriousness and with the result that he commands the respect and full confidence of his fellow citizens, irrespective of political affiliation.

Judge Davis was born at Springfield, Ohio, January 1, 1882, and is a son of Asa and Elizabeth (Miner) Davis. The Davis family is an old pioneer one of Ohio. Asa Davis was born in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1826, and died at Springfield in 1910. He was a son of William Davis, a very early settler in that county, to which he came with several brothers from Virginia. In 1872 Asa Davis came to Springfield, and during the rest of his active business life was engaged in the real estate brokerage business. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The mother of Judge Davis was born in 1830, in Athens County, Ohio, and died at Springfield in 1917. She was a daughter of Joseph K. Miner, who was born in Athens County, where his parents, New England people, were early settlers.

Judge Davis attended the public schools and Wittenberg College, from which institution he was graduated in 1904 with the degree of A. B. He then entered the University of Missouri, where he completed two years of his law course, then returned to his native state and finished his course and received his LL. B. degree in the Ohio State University in 1908. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, opened a law office at Springfield and entered upon the practice of his profession. There was no mistake made when he was appointed in May, 1913, and in the fall of that year was elected city judge to fill out an unexpired term, for so admirable had been his decisions that in 1915 he was elected judge for the full term of four years, and in 1919 he was re-elected for another term of four years. His whole course on the bench has been one of sustained efficiency, and he well deserves the high esteem in which he is held by all law-abiding citizens.

Judge Davis was reared in the Lutheran Church. He is a member of the Clark County Bar Association, is connected to some extent with other organizations, and still retains membership in his old college fraternities, the Alpha Tau Omega and the Phi Delta Kappa.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 44

JACOB G. DAVIS, farmer; P.O. Osborn. Mr. Davis is the son of Samuel and Anna Davis, who were pioneers of what is now Clark Co., Ohio, coming from New Jersey in the year 1803, and settling in what is now the west part of Mad River Township. The implements of farming in those days were very rude, the plow having a wooden mold-board, and the harrow a fork of a tree with wooden teeth, and plenty of wild animals, such as deer, bears, wolves, wild-cats and porcupines were to be found; also Indians were quite numerous. The subject of this sketch was born in Mad River Township, Clark Co., July 11, 1818, and was rocked in a sugar-trough for the want of a better cradle. He received a limited education in an old log schoolhouse, which was so common in those days. He assisted his father on the farm until 1837, when he went to Shelby Co., Ohio, and there learned the milling business with his brother Daniel. He purchased one-half interest in the mill, which was known as the Davis Bros.’ Mills, where he remained for five years; then selling his interest to his brother, returned to Clark Co., renting the old home farm for eight years. At the expiration of his lease, he purchased the farm, containing 104+ acres, to which he has added 10 acres; making 114+ acres of Mad River bottom land, in a high state of cultivation. Mr. Davis married Miss Amy Lippincott, of Franklin Township, Licking Co., Ohio, and their family consists of six children, viz., Clarinda G., born Nov. 11, 1840; Mary R., born June 3, 1843; Anna F., born May 18, 1845; Elthia, born March 31, 1847; William T., born March 7, 1853; George S., born June 3, 1865, died Feb. 25, 1866.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1040

JOHN H. DAVIS. In Moorefield Township, four miles north of the City of Springfield, is to be found the well improved and ably managed farm homestead of Mr. Davis, the total area of his landed estate being 202 acres, of which his residence place comprises sixty acres. He has proved his resourcefulness and energy as a vigorous and successful exponent of farm industry, is progressive and liberal as a citizen, is a republican in politics, is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he is an active member of the Pleasant Hill Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife.

Mr. Davis was born in Greene County, Ohio, October 10, 1873, and is a son of John W. and Priscilla (Davis) Davis, both of whom were born in the vicinity of Columbus, the capital city of Ohio, the former on the 1st of April, 1849, and the latter on the 30th of August, of the same year. After their marriage the parents remained several years on a rented farm near Columbus, and they then came to Greene County and located on a farm near Cedarville. In 1874 they removed to Greene Township, Clark County, where John W. Davis purchased a farm of 126-1/2 acres. Later he bought as a little homestead a tract of four acres, and on this place he remained until the death of his wife in 1915. He is now venerable in years and is one of the highly respected citizens of Clark County. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also his wife, and in politics is a staunch republican. Of their ten children all but one survive the loved mother: Cora B. is the wife of F. A. Johnson, of Greene Township; William F. resides at Beatty, Clark County; John H., of this review, is the next younger; Asa B. is a farmer in Greene Township; Edith is the wife of John H. Martin, of Greene Township; Warren E. is a farmer in that township; Maude is the wife of W. A. Wornstaff, likewise of Clark County; Floyd resides at Villa, this county; and Oliver maintains his residence at Springfield.

The old home farm in Greene Township figured as the sage [stage?] of the rearing and early activities of John H. Davis, and in the meanwhile he did not neglect the advantages offered by the public schools. After attaining to his legal majority he was employed five years at farm work by the month, and in his later independent activities as a farmer he has achieved substantial success, as shown by his ownership of a well improved and valuable farm property.

In 1900 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Davis and Miss Bessie P. Kiser, who likewise was born and reared in Clark County, and who passed to the life eternal in February, 1920. She is survived by five children: Florence H., Ralph, Ruth, Wilma and Marjorie. Miss Florence H. Davis graduated from one of the Ohio State Normal Schools and is a successful and popular teacher. Ralph is a graduate of the Springfield High School and also of a business college, and the younger children are still attending school.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 87

MARY A. DAVIS, farmer; P. O. Dialton. Mrs. Davis is the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Littlejohn, natives of Berkeley County, Va. They were the parents of six children, viz.: Morris, Jonathan, Edward, Mary A., Margaret J. and Elizabeth. In 1824, Mrs. Littlejohn was left a widow. She managed to keep the family together, and emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Pike Township, Clark Co., Ohio, in 1834, where she died at the advanced age of 73 years. Mary, the subject of this memoir, was united in marriage with Joseph Davis, June 16, 1833. In the spring they came to Ohio and settled in Pike Township, where he resided until his decease, Oct. 6, 1863. By occupation he was a millwright, which he followed several years. In 1848, he purchased the farm where our subject now resides with her only son. Mr. and Mrs. Davis were the parents of eleven children, of whom five are now living, viz.: Phoebe J., Amanda, Mary V., Sarah E., and Josiah L., with whom Mrs. Davis now resides. On the 4th of September, 1873, Josiah celebrated his marriage with Sarah, daughter of Jacob and Matilda Shaffer, of Champaign Co., Ohio. This union was blessed with four daughters, viz.: Minnie B., born July 20, 1874; Theressa A., born Aug. 14, 1876; Margaret A., born April 12, 1878; Grace G., born Aug. 21, 1880.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1015

WILLIAM T. DAVIS, teacher; Osborn. Wm. T. is the son of Jacob G. and Amy Davis, of Mad River Township, Clark Co., and was born March 7, 1853. He received his education in the common schools of the county, with the exception of one year at the Normal school, at Lebanon, after which he engaged in teaching. He holds the highest grade certificate issued in the county, and commands the highest wages. He has taught five winters in one district, and is engaged for the sixth. He married Miss Mary Purdy, and accomplished young lady of Indianapolis, Aug. 19, 1874. She has taught school six years, and is also a music teacher. They have one child, Olive, born March 31, 1878.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1041

WILLIAM DAVISSON, retired farmer; P. O. South Charleston; one of the respected pioneers who are still living in Madison Township, is the man whose name heads this sketch. He is so well-known throughout this vicinity that his name is familiar to all, and his life has been of that energetic sort that was characteristic of the first settlers who have contributed the best years of their lives to the development of this country. His parents, Isaac and Sarah Davisson, were natives of Virginia, he being born May 9, 1790, and his wife, Oct. 18 in the same year; they came to Ohio at an early day, locating on “Todd’s Fork,” in Warren Co., where they were married Oct. 4, 1808. About 1810, they came to what is now Madison Township, Clark Co., and entered a quarter-section of land north of the Little Miami River, on which they settled; and here they suffered the privations and hardships incident to pioneer life, Indians being numerous and troublesome at that time. To Isaac and Sarah Davisson were born fourteen children, viz., William, Obediah, Lemuel, Mary, Elizabeth, Daniel, Nancy, Lucinda, Sarah I., Margaret, Julianna, Maria, James G. and Daniel D., all growing to maturity except Daniel and Sarah I., and seven of whom are still living. Isaac Davisson and wife were energetic, economical people, who, by dint of hard labor, coupled with frugality, converted the forest into well-cultivated fields, and added much to their possessions. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was identified with the principal township officers, although never seeking preferment. He was a prominent member of the M. E. Church, and for many years his house was the regular place for preaching. He died full of honors, Aug. 29, 1851. His widow is still living, and although her 90th birthday was celebrated by her children and friends, on 18th of last October, she yet enjoys good health, and frequently walks a half-mile to church, from her son’s home, with whom she resides, into South Charleston. “Aunt Sallie,” as she is familiarly known, has been for many years an earnest worker in the M. E. Church, and her ardent zeal is yet unabated; known far and wide for her simple, unaffected piety, her good offices have been constantly sought, and she is looked up to as “a mother in the house of Israel.” May her life and character, as a striking example of motherly love, be imitated and followed by the budding womanhood of this and future generations. The subject of this sketch was the eldest in the family, and was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 15, 1809, and was reared a farmer. He was married March 8, 1832, to Emmerine Adams, daughter of Eli and Elizabeth (Beaks) Adams, he a native of Maryland, and she of Virginia. Mrs. Davisson was born in Greene Co., Ohio, May 12, 1813; and three children are the fruits of this union, viz., James C., Sarah E. and Eli A., all of whom are living. Mr. Davisson, although retired from active farm life, is yet in partnership with his son in the stock business, the latter having charge of the farm. Politically, a “dyed-in-the-wool” Republican, he was a firm upholder of the rebellion, and, for forty years, he and his wife have been members of the M. E. Church, and every public measure found in him a hearty supporter. He is one of the oldest settlers living to-day in his township, and is honest and upright in all his affairs, and is trusted and respected by all who know him.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1064

JESSE OTIS DAVY, M. D. In the death of Dr. Jesse Otis Davy, on June 23, 1922, the City of Springfield, Ohio, not only lost a citizen of great worth, but the medical profession one of its best exemplars of all that medical science stands for. He was of old Ohio stock and all his life took pride in his native state.

Doctor Davy was born in Delaware County, Ohio, October 18, 1840, and was a son of Rev. Henry Dorsey Davy, born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and Elizabeth (Leatherman) Davy, born in Maryland. His father was born May 4, 1811, united with the Dunkard Church body in 1838, and was called to its ministry in 1845, in which he continued until within a few years of his death in 1893. The mother of Doctor Davy was born March 11, 1809, a daughter of John Leatherman, who also was a Dunkard preacher. After their marriage the parents of Doctor Davy packed their household belongings in a one-horse wagon, and in that way journeyed into what was then the wilderness of Delaware County. The father, who was of sturdy stock, coming from Welsh ancestors, cleared a farm in addition to looking faithfully after his church flock. He was twice married, and ten children were born to his first union, Doctor Davy being the sixth in order of birth, and four children being born to his second marriage.

Jesse Otis Davy spent his boyhood on the home farm, attending a select school in 1858, and later in 1860, went to Navarre, where he read medicine with Dr. J. D. Otis. He remained there until 1861, when he came to Springfield to attend Wittenberg College. He was at college when Fort Sumpter was fired on, and with four of his fellow students he enlisted for military service on April 23, 1861, entering Company C, Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which they served in the battles of Phillipi, Laurel Hill and Garrick’s Ford, and were honorably discharged in August, 1861.

Doctor Davy returned to his studies at Wittenberg, but on October 23, 1863, re-enlisted, entering Company B, Fifty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Department of the Cumberland, and took part on the first line in the battle of Missionary Ridge. Soon after that he was transferred to the medical corps, and served in that department until his second discharge, August 16, 1865. He once more returned to Wittenberg College, from which he was graduated in 1868, with the degree of A. B., then entered the Cincinnati Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1869 with his medical degree. He was engaged in practice in Miami County until 1882, when he came to Springfield and continued active in his profession here until the close of his useful life.

Doctor Davy was one of the first physicians to use Gimming in the practice of medicine, its use being especially efficacious in the treatment of typhoid fever during the frequent epidemics of that period, and he was famed far and wide for his skill in treating such cases. This was a forerunner of the use of antitoxin in present day medicine.

Doctor Davy married in June, 1868, Miss Susanna A. Hopper, of Springfield, who died here without issue on September 8, 1891. On October 18, 1898, Doctor Davy married Miss Clare Snyder, who was born at Springfield, a daughter of John J. and Josephine C. Snyder, the former a native of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Madison County, Ohio. Doctor and Mrs. Davy had one son, John Henry, who was born September 3, 1901, and resides with his mother at Springfield.

Doctor Davy was widely known in his profession, and belonged to such representative bodies as the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was considered a man of sound judgment on public questions, and for many years was influential as an advocate of absolute temperance. He was a member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church at Springfield. He gave generously to charity, and no call for his professional ministrations was ever unheeded, no matter what the circumstances might be. His greatest memorial is in the hearts of those he so faithfully served.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 78

JOHN WILLIAM DEAM. One of the most important features of the educational system in all large cities of today is that which has to do with the business management. Modern educational methods demand a large and constantly-growing income to keep pace with the advancing standards as to equipment, etc., and it is necessary that the affairs of this matter be handled with the most scrupulous care and trained ability in order that the schools receive the greatest benefit in this direction. The business manager of the Springfield Board of Education, John William Deam, has been identified with school work for nearly thirty years, and is a man of much experience and specialized training. His discharge of the duties of his office has been commended by those who have watched educational affairs during the past two years.

Mr. Deam was born at Springfield, May 5, 1871, and is a son of John Peter and Catherine (Keopge) Deam. Mrs. Deam, who still survives as a resident of Springfield, was born in 1847, in Prussia, Germany, a daughter of Andrew Peter Keopge, a stonemason by trade, who brought his family to the United States in 1864 and settled at Springfield, where he rounded out his career. John Peter Deam was born at New Bremen, Ohio, a son of John Andrew and Elizabeth (Garvey) Deam. John Andrew Deam was born in the United States, of German parentage, and as a youth learned the blacksmith trade, but later in life was the proprietor of a hotel. He was an early resident of Springfield, where he became well known and highly esteemed. John Peter Deam was six years of age when brought to Springfield by his parents, and here acquired a public school education. During the Civil war he enlisted in an Ohio volunteer infantry regiment, with which he served bravely and faithfully, and following the war returned to Springfield, where he followed blacksmith and steel forging work. When he died, in 1916, his community lost a good man and public-spirited citizen.

John William Deam is indebted to the graded and high schools of Springfield for his educational training. As a youth he was apprenticed to mechanical work in the foundry and pattern department of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company (now the International Truck Company), and remained with that concern until 1894, at which time he first became identified with public school work. During the next quarter of a century he was variously employed in the public schools, and thus became fully familiar with all branches of their management. On January 5, 1920, he was made business manager of the Board of Education, a position which he has filled with much ability to the present. He has the full confidence of his associates and has proven himself capable, trustworthy and energetic in the discharge of his important duties. Mr. Deam is a member of Moncrieffe Lodge No. 33, Knights of Pythias, and of Commercial Camp No. 3347, Modern Woodmen of America.

He was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Kelso, who was born at Cumberland, Maryland, a daughter of John and Mary F. (Carter) Kelso, well-known and highly esteemed residents of that city. To this union there have been born the following children: Charles Henry; Esther May, who married William Newcomb and has two children, Paul and William R.; Ethel Florence, who married Paul Nagel and has two children, Billy and Betty; and John Walter.

Mr. and Mrs. Deam occupy a pleasant home at Springfield and have a large circle of sincere friends. They are faithful members of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, and are willing and generous contributors to all movements pertaining to charity, education and better citizenship.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 61

JOHN S. DEAR, farmer; P. O. Bowlusville. Born on the farm where he now resides Aug. 4, 1844; is a son of John and Rebecca Dear, whose history appears in his full in the sketch of Henry Boosinger, in this work. Mr. Dear remained with his father till 18 years of age, when, on Aug. 13, 1862, he answered to the call of his country during the war of the rebellion, and enlisted in Co. I, 44th O. V. I., and served through the war in this regiment and in the 8th O. V. C.; was in many hard-fought battles, but escaped without a wound, and returned safely home. Was married Sept. 16, 1867, to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Eva (Maggart) Sides; he a native of Pennsylvania, and she a native of Ohio. Issue, four children—Warder, Ottwa, and Grace and Mabel (twins). Mr. Dear, after his marriage, still remained upon the home farm, till the fall of 1868; thence to Wabash Co., Ind., where he resided till the spring of 1872; thence returned to the old home farm, where he has since resided. This farm consists of 46 acres of good land, mostly in cultivation, with good buildings and improvements. John and Eva Sides were parents of nine children, four now survive—Mary Ann, Elizabeth, John Henry and Ellen.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1000

EDWIN PEARL DEATON, the efficient superintendent of the Clark County Infirmary, is giving a most careful and effective administration and has brought this institution to high standard in all departments of its service, his regime having made it specially creditable to his native county.

Mr. Deaton was born on the old homestead farm of the family in Bethel Township, one mile distant from the county institution of which he is now superintendent, and the year of his birth was 1874. On the old home place his venerable father, N. E. Deaton, eighty years of age at the time of this writing, in 1922, still resides, and when it is stated that this honored citizen likewise is a native of Clark County it becomes evident that the family was here founded in the pioneer days. N. E. Deaton is a son of Andrew Deaton, who was born in Pennsylvania, and who came in an early day to Clark County, where he reclaimed and developed a farm in Bethel Township, and where he died at the age of eighty-five years. N. E. Deaton married Miss Catherine Confer, who was born at Yellow Springs, Greene County, this state, and whose death occurred in 1916, she and her husband having continued their devoted companionship until they were able to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, and the gracious ties having been severed only when the loved wife and mother passed to the life eternal.

Edwin P. Deaton was reared on the old home farm, which only recently passed out of the possession of the family, through sale of the property, and in the meanwhile he profited by the advantages of the local schools. He has been continuously associated with farm enterprise in his native county from his boyhood, and he had charge of the old home place until the same was sold. His secure place in popular confidence and esteem became especially evident when he was selected superintendent of the County Infirmary, after the former incumbent, Jesse Pence, had dropped dead while at his home. Mr. Deaton assumed the duties of this important office on the 1st of January, 1919, and his administration has fully justified his appointment to the office.

The Clark County Infirmary and Farm are situated in Bethel Township, nine miles west of the City of Springfield. The main building, standing on a slight elevation, is constructed of brick and is three stories in height, as are also its two wings, each of which has a porch and balcony at the front. The county farm comprises 156-1/2 acres, and was purchased about eight years ago, the place having been the old homestead farm of the late Martin Snyder. The infirmary buildings are of modern design and facilities, and the main building was erected at a cost of $100,000. The infirmary has accommodations for 175 inmates, and the average number is about one hundred, women being in the minority. The farm is maintained at a high standard, has fifteen dairy cows of the purebred Holstein type, and the fine orchard on the place gives ample crops of peaches, apples, etc. The institution is largely self-supporting, and each year records an advance toward making the place entirely independent of extraneous financial support on the part of the county. The superintendent believes that after the nation has maintained its prohibition laws twenty-five years there will not be need for institutions to care for the indigent. In politics Mr. Deaton is a republican, but in local affairs he supports men and measures meeting his approval rather than being constrained by strict partisan lines.

Mr. Deaton married Miss Blanche Ione Snyder, who was born and reared in Bethel Township, she having been ten years old at the time of her mother’s death and having then been taken into the home of her maternal grandparents. She is a daughter of John Snyder, who died at the age of sixty years, he having been for a number of years engaged in the grocery business at Donnelsville, this county. John Snyder was a son of Samuel Snyder and a nephew of Martin Snyder, the names of both of whom are honored in connection with civic and industrial development and progress in Clark County. Samuel Snyder died at the age of eighty-five years and his brother Martin at the age of eighty-eight. The Snyder family had owned a landed estate of 400 acres, extending from the National Road to the present county farm, which was a part of this original Snyder landed estate. Mr. Deaton has found his wife an able and popular coajutor in carrying on the affairs of the County Infirmary, of which she is matron. They have one daughter, Lucille, who is now the wife of Roy Free, of Springfield. She was educated in that city and is still numbered among the successful and popular teachers in the public schools of the county seat.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 219

NATHAN E. DEATON is one of the well-known and highly respected residents of Springfield, who, after a very active life, is now enjoying comparative leisure which he is devoting to his music, in which art he is very proficient, playing with equal facility the piano, auto-harp or any other stringed instrument. He was born in Bethel Township, Clark County, May 27, 1842, a son of Andrew J. and Catherine (Brandenburg) Deaton, he was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, along the Roanoke River, and she on Jackson Creek, Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio. The paternal grandfather, George Deaton, died in Virginia, and his widow, whose maiden name had been Ream, with nine children, traveled overland with a four-horse wagon to what is now Pike Township, Clark County, Ohio. The maternal grandfather was Henry Brandenburg, a native of Germany, married Lucretia Slusser, and they were among the very early settlers of the Jackson Creek District in Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio, where he became the owner of 300 acres of land.

After their marriage Andrew J. Deaton and his wife commenced life in a log cabin. In 1844 he rode to Cincinnati, Ohio, and bought 175 acres of virgin forest land in Pike Township, four miles north of New Carlisle. Cutting down the trees, he cleared a small space and built a log cabin and otherwise improved the place and in 1853 sold it and moved on the National Road, in Bethel Township, where he bought a farm, and there he lived until his death, which occurred in 1889, when he was seventy-three years old, as he was born May 11, 1816. She died in 1892, aged seventy-three years, as she was born May 6, 1819. Their children were as follows: Nathan E., who was the eldest; A. H., who lives in Bethel Township; Grover, who lives at Muncie, Indiana; and Albert, who lives at Dayton, Ohio.

On March 22, 1864, Nathan E. Deaton married Catherine Confer, born near Yellow Springs, Ohio, a daughter of Francis and Magdalena (Wolf) Confer, natives of Ohio. After his marriage Mr. Deaton lived with his wife’s mother near Donnelsville and began teaching school. His peaceful activities were interrupted by the outbreak of war, and he enlisted in April, 1864, in Company E., One Hundred and Fifty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and he did guard duty on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad near Cumberland, Maryland, until he was discharged in September, 1864. On July 4, 1864, he was in the Battle of Imboden and August 2, 1864, in the Battle of Oldtown, Maryland. His command was in several battles and minor engagements. After the termination of his 100 day enlistment, and discharge, Mr. Deaton returned home, and continued to reside on the farm for about eighteen months, and then moved to a house his father had built for him on one of his farms. There he spent eight years, and then became a resident of Donnelsville, first living in a house his wife owned, but soon erecting a house on his wife’s portion of her mother’s estate, which comprised fifty-five acres. To this Mr. Deaton added fourteen acres by purchase, and he conducted this farm until 1897, when he placed his son in charge of it and bought a residence at Donnelsville, and here Mrs. Deaton died May 13, 1911, aged sixty-seven, as she was born May 23, 1844. Following her demise Mr. Deaton spent two more summers and one winter at Donnelsville, then sold his property and came to Springfield, where he made his home with his son until his second marriage, which occurred June 19, 1917, when he married Mrs. Mary A. (Limson) Blessing, born in Madison County, Ohio, a daughter of Jesse and Mary A. (Slaughter) Limson, natives of Madison County, Ohio, and widow of John M. Blessing, born in Fayette County, Ohio. Mr. Blessing died January 7, 1911, leaving no issue. Mr. Deaton had the following children born of his marriage: Florence, who died at the age of five years; Lizzie Verena; who died at the age of fifteen years; Oliver, who lives at Springfield; Edwin, who is superintendent of the Clark County Infirmary, married Blanche Snyder; Floyd G., who lives at Toledo, Ohio; and E. P., who lives at Springfield, married Birdie Swaney, and they have one son, Wilbur S.

Mr. Deaton attended the district schools, Linden Hill Academy at New Carlisle, Ohio, a select school of Valley Pike, under Professor Harrison, Wittenberg College, and has studied a great deal by himself, especially along musical lines, completing his musical education by attending Professor Large’s classes. His musical talent is a source of great enjoyment to him and his friends, and he is often called upon to delight others both in public and private. In politics a republican, he has been very active, and has served on the School Board of Bethel Township, was mayor of Donnelsville, and always interested in public affairs. He belongs to Mitchell Post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Springfield.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 387

JOSEPH E. DEITRICK, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Springfield, Ohio, lock box 923; was born Nov. 15, 1842, in Montgomery Co., Ohio. The father of the subject of this sketch (Joseph D.) was for a number of years, a leading distiller of Montgomery Co., Ohio. Joseph E. came to Clark Co., Ohio, in 1871, and located in the Harmony Township. May 17, 1880, he was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Baird, a daughter of the late Peter C. Baird, one of the early pioneers of the county, having been born in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1792 (Sept. 16). His father, William Baird, having emigrated to Clark Co. and settled in what is now Harmony Township in the year 1808. The Baird family is one of the prominent and wealthy families of the county. Joseph E. Deitrick and the family are owners of some 223 acres of fine land in Harmony Township. Mr. D. is engaged in stock-raising. They are very pleasantly situated, surrounded with the comforts of life, as the result of their economy and industry.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 958

JOSEPH E. DEITRICK has been a prosperous farmer of Clark County for a long period of years, and, while he has turned over the responsibilities to others, he still lives on his fine farm on the National Road, six miles east of Springfield.

Mr. Deitrick was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, November 13, 1848, son of Joseph and Rachael (Armstrong) Deitrick. His father was born six miles northwest of Dayton, in Montgomery County, where his father had settled on coming to this country from Switzerland. Joseph Deitrick had a common school education and became a carpenter and contractor, and through that business amply provided for his family. He was a republican. His wife was born at Brownsville, Indiana, but from early girlhood lived in Montgomery County. They had a family of seven children, three now living, Joseph E., and two sisters: Elizabeth, widow of William Stutz; and Mrs. Sarah Riley, also a widow.

Joseph E. Deitrick was four years old when his mother died and eleven when his father passed away. After that he lived until he was grown in the home of George and Mary Cleppinger. He acquired a common school education, though he had to work for a living even as a boy. After leaving the Cleppinger home he worked on a farm in Champaign County, and from there came to Clark County. For seven years Mr. Deitrick managed the Baird farm, where his wife was born and reared and where they now reside.

May 13, 1880, Mr. Deitrick married Carolina E. Baird, and she has lived in this community all her life. Mr. and Mrs. Deitrick are members of the Methodist Protestant Church, and he has been very active in that church.

Peter C. Baird, father of Mrs. Deitrick, was born in Maryland, in 1792, while his wife was born in 1802. The Baird family moved from Maryland to Flemingsburg, Kentucky, and in 1807 came to Clark County, Ohio. Peter C. Baird entered the land comprising the farm where Mr. and Mrs. Deitrick reside. The farms owned by Mr. and Mrs. Deitrick comprise 300 acres in their home place, 165 acres adjoining Vienna, 110 acres at Brooks Station, and still another place of 174 acres. For a number of years they have rented these farms, and have taken life in comfort, spending much of their time in travel.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 71

DAVID W. DELAY, Principal of the South Charleston Union Schools. The subject of this sketch was born April 12, 1835, about one mile east of the town of Jackton, the county seat of Jackson County, and when about five years old, his father moved into the village where he resided one or two years, and from thence the family moved onto a farm about six miles from Jackson, on the road leading to McArthur, Ohio. His father’s name was James the eldest son of the Rev. Jacob DeLay, who was extensively known as one of the early pioneer preachers of the M. E. Church, and who was remarkable for great decision of character, as well as for his forcible and positive manner of preaching the Gospel. He was the father or eleven sons and one daughter, and as Methodist preachers were not generally noted for their abundant wealth of this world’s goods, James, the father of D. W., received but little as his share of the estate, and, as a consequence, was not able to give his children the best advantages of a good education. David was the fourth in a family of six children; his mother was an excellently good and hopeful woman, who made the impress of her own character upon those of her children, when they were very young, and to her early pious training, they all, no doubt, owe much of whatever success they may have had in life; for if any one is destitute of a moral training, lie can lay claim to but little of success in life. While living on the farm before referred to, and on another farm to which his father afterward moved, in the same vicinity, he received his first rudiments of an education while availing himself of the advantages offered by the district school; these advantages were meager indeed—far inferior to those enjoyed by the youth of these later days. The old log schoolhouse, which all have so often heard described and read about, was the kind in which he received his first schooling. The length of the term was generally from three to four months in the winter season, taught by male teachers, who usually received about $15 per month; though these advantages were poor, they were sufficient to create a desire for something higher in the way of an education. In early life, he was particularly fond of reading biographies of great and good men; these had a good influence, and created in him an ambition to arise to something honorable, and at the same time to do good in the world. At the age of twenty, having acquired a little money by his own exertions, he entered the preparatory department of the Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio; his department was at that time taught by Prof. W. H. Young, a very excellent teacher; Dr. Solomon Howard was President of the college, supported by an able corps of teachers; here Mr. DeLay continued to prosecute a course of study, occasionally dropping out to teach a district school, to recruit his finances; at one time while in college, a vacancy occurred in the principalship of the Ewington Academy, in Gallia County, Ohio, and application was made to the Vice President of the college to send them a suitable man to take charge of this institution; Mr. DeLay was recommended and employed; here he taught for a number of terms very successfully. In June, 1863, he assisted in recruiting a company for the 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery, and entered that regiment as a Second Lieutenant in August of that year; a few months later, he was appointed as Aid-de-Camp and Quartermaster on the staff of Gen. Jacob Ammen, who was commanding the 4th Division, 23d Army Corps, with headquarters at Knoxville, Tenn., with whom he served till the spring of 1865, when, Gen. Ammen resigning, Mr. DeLay returned to his regiment and remained with it till mustered out at the close of the war. On June 3, 1862, about one year before entering the army, he was married to Miss Cynthia Rowley, whose parents lived at Porter, Gallia Co., Ohio. Immediately on arriving at home after the close of the war, his services were sought in a high school near Gallipolis, Ohio, where he taught successfully several terms; but a vacancy occurring in the principalship of the Ewington Academy, where he taught before the war, the Trustees again applied to him to take charge of this institution; he accepted the position, and taught here another year; during this year, the attendance was unusually good, and the school flourished as it had not done for many years; at the close of this year, Mr. DeLay was elected to the principalship of the South Charleston Union School; he took charge of this school in September, 1869, as Principal and Teacher of the High School, which position he has filled until the present time, being now engaged in his twelfth year. It should have been said before, that at the close of the war, Mr. DeLay sought and obtained the privilege of finishing his course of study in the Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio, which he did, passing the required examinations and graduating with the class of 1868, receiving the degree of A. B. and the degree of A. M. four years afterward; he also holds a State certificate, which was granted him after a thorough examination by John Hancock, A. J. Rickoff and T. C. Mendenhall, whose names his certificate bears. He is still, as he always has been, a diligent student, constantly seeking to give his pupils all the benefit of diligent research, and the thorough preparation, which he makes previous to hearing his classes recite. Since his connection with the schools of South Charleston, forty-one pupils have graduated from the High School; of this number several have engaged in teaching, generally with good success; several of these have, from time to time, been employed in our public schools; a number of the young men have gone to college and finished a classical course, after graduating in the High School. Mr. DeLay is now in the prime of life, and bids fair to do good work for many years to come.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1065

E. G. DIAL, attorney, Springfield; is a native of Clermont Co., Ohio. His parents emigrated from the State of Maryland and settled in Clermont County in the year 1805, and continued to reside there during their lives. He was educated at Miami University, and graduated at that institution in 1843; was teacher and member of the Faculty of the Ohio Wesleyan University, and, after one year, resigned, and came to Springfield, Ohio, in 1845, and taught in the high school several years, and was afterward President of the Springfield Female College four years; studied law in the meantime, and was admitted to the bar; had an interest in and was editor of a new paper published in Urbana, but continued to reside in Springfield; was chosen Elector on the Presidential Electoral ticket of this State in 1852; was a Democrat in politics up to 1860, when he united heartily with the Union Republican party, and is still conscientiously devoted to the principles of that party. In 1869, he was elected Probate Judge of Clark County, and in 1872 was re-elected without opposition, but declined a candidacy for a third term; in 1879, he was elected a member of the State Legislature, which position he holds at this time; being appointed Chairman of the Committee on Schools and School Lands in the House of State Representatives, he gave himself to a careful study of the school legislation of Ohio, and, on the first day of the adjourned session, introduced a bill to abolish the subdistrict system and to establish the township system, the schools of each township to be managed by a Board of Education elected by the people thereof; also a bill providing for county superintendence. This proposed legislation met with universal approbation by the leading educators and educated men of the State, and generally by the press, but, encountering decided opposition among the smaller politicians and press, the bills failed to pass. Judge Dial has been thoroughly identified with the educational interests of the city during his entire residence here, and for many years was a member of the Board of Education; he is a quiet, unassuming gentleman, but a popular and highly esteemed citizen.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 817

GEORGE SABIN DIAL. In the person of George Sabin Dial, who has practiced so long and so ably at the Springfield bar, is linked the Springfield of the past and the present. A native of this city, both he and his pioneer father, the late Judge Enoch George Dial, have been parts of its progressive life, and in the law, in education, in business and in politics have contributed to the development of the city’s institutions and the furtherance of its welfare and prestige.

Mr. Dial was born at Springfield, August 2, 1861, a son of Enoch George and Emeline (Sabin) Dial. His father was born in Clermont County, Ohio, October 16, 1817, a son of Shadrach and Susanna (Reed) Dial. Shadrach Dial, the son of Robert Dial, was born in North Carolina, in 1758, and in 1803 was married, two years after which event he came to Ohio and settled in Clermont County, where he spent the remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits and died in 1843. Enoch George Dial graduated from Miami University in 1843. Following his graduation he was for a year a teacher and member of the faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University, but resigned from that college in 1845, and, coming to Springfield, for four years was president of the Springfield High School and Female College. In the meantime he studied law and was admitted to the bar, and also, although continuing to reside at Springfield, was interested for a time in a newspaper at Urbana, Ohio. He was a democrat in politics up to 1860, in which year he became a staunch member of the republican party. In 1852 he was chosen an elector on the democratic electoral presidential ticket in Ohio. In 1869, as a republican, he was elected judge of the Probate Court of Clark County, and was re-elected in 1872 without opposition, but three years later refused a third election. In 1879 he was elected a member of the Ohio State Legislature, and served as chairman of the committee on schools and school lands of the House. While in the Legislature he introduced a bill to abolish the sub-district system and to establish the township system, the schools of each township to be managed by a board of education elected by the people thereof. He also introduced a bill providing for county school superintendence. The proposed legislation met with universal approbation by the leading educators and educated men of the state, and generally by the press, but, encountering decided opposition among the smaller politicians and press, the bills failed to pass. However, the ideas embraced in those measures were later adopted by the Legislature and became laws. He also served as a member of the Springfield Board of Education and was always interested in the cause. He died at Springfield in 1896. Judge Dial married Emeline Sabin, who was born at Troy, Miami County, Ohio, in 1827, and died at Springfield in 1882. She was a daughter of Dr. Roswell Sabin, of Troy, and to this union there were born four children: Mary, deceased, who was the wife of Charles D. Hack; Annie C., of Springfield, who is unmarried; George Sabin, of this review; and Morris Roswell, of LaGrange, Illinois.

George Sabin Dial attended the city public schools, after which he spent three years, from 1878 to 1881, at Wittenberg College, and then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the class of 1882. He read law in the office of the Hon. Thomas J. Pringle, of Springfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1885, since which time he has been in the active practice of his profession at Springfield, of which city he served as prosecutor from 1895 to 1897. Mr. Dial has been interested for a number of years in city planning and park extension, and during his administration as president of the Springfield Commercial Club the campaign was inaugurated for the successful raising of the money for the purchase of the land which became Cliff Park, a campaign which was the beginning of the movement to bring Snyder Park up to the city. Mr. Dial was assistant attorney to the city solicitor in the condemnation of park land along the creek, by which proceedings the city acquired about forty acres of land for park purposes.

During the World war Mr. Dial was active as a “Four-Minute Man,” and took part in all the various campaigns for raising war funds. He is active in church work and is a member of and secretary to the Official Board of High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Springfield National Bank. Mr. Dial is a member of the Clark County Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, successor of the Springfield Commercial Club, of which he was president in 1908.

On February 12, 1890, Mr. Dial was united in marriage with Miss Louise Baldwin, who died January 30, 1897, leaving one daughter, Mary Louise, who married Louis P. Kalb, of Detroit, Michigan. On March 8, 1913, Mr. Dial married Clara Eugenia Crane, daughter of J. W. Crane, of Springfield, Ohio. Mr. Crane was a prominent manufacturer, for many years being secretary and general manager of Mast, Foos & Company works.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 185

JOHN DICK, landscape gardener, and Superintendent of Fern Cliff Cemetery, Springfield. John Dick, son of David C. and Jessie (Charles) Dick, was born Jan. 14, 1834, in Ayrshire, Scotland, near the birthplace of Robert Burns; he first attended school in the Kirkcudbright Academy, and received his professional education, that of landscape gardener, in the Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh, Scotland, under the tutorship of Prof. Balfour, Professor of Botany, and Prof. James McNab as Curator. Mr. Dick emigrated to America in 1854, and settled on Long Island, where he remained nine months, following his profession; from there he went to Philadelphia, Penn., and stayed two years, and from there to Cincinnati. In 1863, he was elected to his present position, being the first Superintendent of said cemetery; therefore, the beautiful appearance and convenient arrangement of the grounds are due to the artistic skill and good management of Mr. Dick. He was married, in July, 1863, to Catherine Fitzsimmons; of their four children, but two are now living, viz., James and Jessie; the eldest and youngest, Charles and Mary Ellen, have gone to the spirit land, and, Oct. 17, 1879, their mother went to meet them in that beautiful home where sin and sorrow never enter. Mr. Dick is a member in good standing of Springfield Lodge, No. 33, also a patriarch of Mad River Encampment, No. 16, I. O. O. F.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 818

JOHN LINCOLN DICKEY. The career of John Lincoln Dickey, one of Springfield’s well-known and highly esteemed citizens, has been one in which he has followed a number of vocations and out of which he has gained wide experience, much contentment and a fair share of worldly goods. He has been soldier, teacher, office man, traveling salesman and dairyman, in all of which occupations he has demonstrated versatile ability, and wherever he has resided has merited the respect of his fellowmen.

Mr. Dickey was born near Bloomingburg, Fayette County, Ohio, September 11, 1864, and is a son of Rev. John Parsons Alexander and Hannah Caroline (Peterson) Dickey, natives of Ross County, this state. Rev. John P. A. Dickey, who was a Presbyterian preacher, but who also ministered to congregations of other faiths during the early days when ministers were few in this region, was a son of Alexander Brown and Jane (Henry) Dickey, who were born in Hardy County, Virginia, now West Virginia. The great-grandparents of Mr. Dickey, Robert and Mary (Henry) Dickey, were born in Virginia, and Robert Dickey was a light horseman in Capt. Thomas Kirkpatrick’s Company and Col. William Bratton’s Regiment in South Carolina during the Revolutionary war, according to Book P. page 647, of South Carolina, in the custody of the Historical Commission at Columbia, South Carolina. He was also a member of the second South Carolina Provincial Congress in 1775 and 1776, as shown in the Journal of the General Assembly of South Carolina, September 17, 1776 to October 20, 1776, edited by A. S. Salley, Jr., page 161; and also the South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Volume VII, page 107. He was born in Virginia, in 1745, and died in 1817 at South Salem, Ross County, Ohio, being buried on the James Dean farm, now owned by a Mr. Stimson. After coming to Ohio he assisted Gen. “Mad Anthony” Wayne in driving the Indians from the Miami Valley. The history of Fayette County, page 980, states in the biography of Rev. William Dickey: “His father, Robert Dickey, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and removed to Kentucky at its close.” Perhaps the best-preserved history of the Dickey family is found in the Presbyterian Almanac of 1864, pages 112 to 132. In 1780 Robert Dickey married Mary Henry, who was born in 1750 and died in 1812. Alexander B. Dickey, the grandfather of John L. Dickey, was born in 1783 and died in 1851, being buried at South Salem, Ross County.

Rev. John Parsons Alexander Dickey was born May 5, 1828, and in early life was a school teacher, subsequently adopting the profession of minister of the Presbyterian faith. A man of sterling character and the utmost probity, although rather careless in his habits of dress, he ministered to the spiritual needs of the people all over this country, of whatever religious faith. His wife, who owned the home at Bloomingburg, would have preferred a more settled existence, and for a number of years would not accompany her husband on his peregrinations, but eventually allowed herself to be convinced of the worth of his work and his need for her assistance. Mr. Dickey was a republican in his political views. He died February 5, 1899, his wife, whom he had married in 1852, passing away June 5, 1893. They were the parents of the following children: Jane, who is deceased; Martin Luther, of Bloomingburg; Edith Eliza and Hattie May, who died in 1882, at college; John Lincoln; and Nellie Josephine, who died April 11, 1910, as the widow of Charles Sturgeon, leaving four children.

The maternal grandparents of Mr. Dickey, Col. Martin and Elizabeth (Coyner) Peterson, were born in Virginia, the Petersons being of Swiss descent and the Coyners being of Holland origin. Col. Martin Peterson was a wagonmaker and farmer at Austin, Ross County, this state, a colonel in the Ohio Militia and a soldier during the War of 1812. John Martin Peterson, the maternal great-great-grandfather of John Lincoln Dickey, was supposed to have had a Revolutionary record. With two sisters he was captured by the Indians, and was confined for several months, but, being put in charge of the ammunition of the band, managed to make his escape. His sisters, however, were taken to Upper Sandusky, where one of them married a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

John Lincoln Dickey attended the public schools of Bloomingburg and in 1882 entered Delaware (Ohio) College. In November, 1884, he was stricken with an attack of erysipelas and compelled to return to his home, but April 30, 1885, went to Xenia to take an examination for appointment to West Point. In the same year he went to Washington Court House, where he began the study of law with Hon. A. R. Creamer, but after two weeks read in the list of appointments that he had passed the examinations with a percentage of 7½ higher than any of his competitors, and accordingly was appointed to West Point, June 14, 1885. He remained there nineteen months, leaving in January, 1887, when he returned to Washington Court House and again took up the study of law, this time with Robert C. Miller, prosecuting attorney, in the meantime teaching school. In 1889 he attended Ann Arbor Law School, Michigan, and in 1890 was appointed adjutant to the Ohio Military Academy at Portsmouth, Ohio, under Col. A. L. Bresler. He held the rank of captain of Company E, Sixth Ohio National Guard, at Washington Court House, which was later transferred to the Fourteenth Regiment, under Col. A. B. Coit. At this time Captain Dickey was teaching mathematics, etc., at Portsmouth, and as he could not keep up with his company, resigned in the fall of 1890. In 1891 he was appointed commandant of cadets at Griswbld College, Kemper Hall, Davenport, Iowa, under Bishop Perry, and was holding this position June 9, 1892, when he was admitted to the Ohio bar.

On June 22, 1892, Mr. Dickey married Mary Katherine Evans, of Adams County, Ohio, daughter of Edward Patton and Amanda Jane (King) Evans. Her brother, Capt. N. W. Evans, was a member of the Constitutional Convention, and during the Civil war commanded a company of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Following his marriage at Portsmouth, Ohio, Mr. Dickey removed to Davenport, Iowa, where he served for a time as aide-de-camp on the staff of Horace E. Boies, going then to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced law until October, 1896. He then accepted a position as traveling collector for the Deering Harvester Company, remaining therewith three and one-half years, after which he formed a connection with the Plano Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Illinois, and engaged in the same kind of work until October 1, 1907. Resigning his position, he returned to Columbus, Ohio, where he was engaged in the life and accident insurance business until moving to South Charleston, where he practiced law for two years. Mr. Dickey then decided to go to Denver, but when he had gotten as far as Springfield allowed himself to be persuaded to remain in this city as manager in charge of insurance, credits, collections and general correspondence for the Foos Gas Engine Company. After seven and one-half years he severed his connections with this firm and became a traveling salesman for the National Equipment Company, selling automatic sprinklers. He resides at No. 1515 North Belmont Avenue, where he has a comfortable home, and maintains an office at No. 703 Fairbanks Building. He is the owner of a thirty-Jersey dairy, one of the leading establishments of its kind in this section of the state, and one that will stand comparison with the best in Clark County. Mr. Dickey is a member of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. He is not a politician and takes only a good citizen’s interest in public matters. Fraternally he is affiliated with St. Andrew’s Lodge No. 619, F. and A. M., of Springfield, and Antioch Shrine, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Dayton.

Mrs. Dickey died February 28, 1909, leaving two children: John Evans of Los Angeles, California, and Jane King, who resides with her father and stepmother. On April 12, 1910, Mr. Dickey married Helen Gertrude Breedlove, of Urbana, Ohio.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 384

WARREN W. DIEHL. In the mind of every resident of Springfield the name Diehl at once suggests the attainment of prestige in the hardware business, owing to the intimate connection of three generations of the Diehl family with this line of trade, as well as with its inception and development in the city. The present representative of the family in the business is Warren W. Diehl, president of the Diehl Hardware Company and one of Springfield’s most forceful and capable business men.

William Diehl, the grandfather of Warren W. Diehl, was born in Germany, and in his native land learned and followed the trade of coppersmith. On immigrating to the United States, many years ago, he located at Springfield, where he opened a small shop for the following of his vocation on East Main Street, a few doors east of where the Hotel Shawnee now stands. In 1870 he entered the hardware business under his own name, establishing the industry which is still in existence. He married Catherine Frankenberg, who was also a native of Germany.

William Wallace Diehl, son of William Diehl, and father of the present generation, was born at Springfield, March 8, 1846. He was reared and educated at Springfield, where he learned the trade of furniture finisher, at which vocation he worked for a time, spending a few years at Philadelphia. He was also in the feed store industry for a time at Springfield, but finally entered his father’s hardware business and in 1885 purchased the elder man’s interest. From that time forward he conducted the enterprise until in January, 1920, when he sold out to his sons, Warren W. and Carl H. Diehl, and H. B. Nelson. He then lived retired from active business until his death, which occurred December 8, 1920. During the Civil war Mr. Diehl served with Company F, 152nd Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and saw active service at the front. He was a member of Mitchell Post No. 45, Grand Army of the Republic, and as a fraternalist held membership in Springfield Lodge No. 51, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Diehl belonged to the First Congregational Church and lived his faith daily, being a man of the highest integrity and probity of character. In 1883 he married Miss Henrietta Zammert, who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Albert Zammert, a native of Germany, for some years a resident of Cincinnati, and later an early merchant tailor of Springfield. To Mr. and Mrs. Diehl there were born five children: Warren W., Carl H., Howard F., Helen Catherine and Glenna Lucille.

Warren W. Diehl, son of William Wallace Diehl, was born at Springfield, December 9, 1886. After completing his course at Wittenberg Academy he attended Yale University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1910. He then entered the Cincinnati Law School, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1913, although he had been admitted to the bar in the previous December. Mr. Diehl embarked upon the practice of his profession at Springfield at the time of his graduation, and continued to follow his calling until he entered the service of his country during the World war. On March 4, 1918, he entered the service as sergeant of the first class in the Medical Corps, and July 10 of the same year sailed for France, where he was detailed to Base Hospital No. 53 at Langres, France. There he remained until March, 1919, when he returned to this country and was mustered out and honorably discharged at Garden City, Long Island, New York. After his return from the war Mr. Diehl gave up the profession and entered his father’s business, and subsequently, in 1920, with his brother Carl H. and H. B. Nelson, bought the business. He is now president of the concern, which was incorporated in 1902 as the Diehl Hardware Company, and which is a large and growing concern.

Mr. Diehl is a member of George Cultice Post No. 6, American Legion, of which he served as commander from June 1, 1921, to June 1, 1922. He is also a member of St. Anthony Lodge No. 455, Free and Accepted Masons, and of Springfield Chapter and Council. He is also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Phi college fraternities.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 38

JACOB DINGLEDINE, farmer; P. O. Tremont City; born in Virginia July 13, 1810; is a son of Philip and Mary (Barrington) Dingledine, natives of Virginia. They became residents of Ohio, locating in Champaign Co., in 1844, where they resided till their death. His wife died in October, 1860; his death occurred Aug. 9, 1872. They were parents of twelve children, five now survive—Margaret, Jacob, Elizabeth, Mary and Sallie. Our subject remained with his father till 22 years of age, in the fall of 1832, he came to Ohio, and located in Clark Co.; thence in Champaign Co., where he resided about twenty-seven years; thence back to Clark Co., where he has since resided, and upon his present farm, where he now lives, he has resided about three years. He was married Sept. 29, 1836, to Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Mary Baker, natives of Virginia, but who came among the early settlers of Clark Co. By this union they had seven children, three now survive—Samuel, John Emery and Rachel Ann. His wife died Jan. 18, 1858. His second wife, Sallie, daughter of Martin and Elizabeth Baker, natives of Virginia, he married April 12, 1859. Mr. Dingledine has held most of the important offices of his township, having been Assessor one term, Township Trustee eight or ten years, and Township Treasurer for three years. Has been a prominent member of the Reformed Church for twenty-five or thirty years. He has a fine farm of 103 acres, mostly in cultivation, with good improvements, constituting a very pleasant home and farmer’s residence.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1000

LEMUEL N. DOOM is known and valued as one of the most loyal and progressive business men and influential citizens of New Carlisle, where he is cashier of the New Carlisle Bank, a member of the firm of Doom Brothers, engaged in the undertaking business, and president of the Board of Education in a vital little city that has provided one of the most modern and attractive school buildings to be found in places of similar or even much greater population in the entire State of Ohio.

Mr. Doom was born in the picturesque little mountain City of Staunton, Virginia, in the year 1875, and is a son of John Doom. He was six years old at the time of the family removal to Kentucky, and two years later removal was made to Troy, Miami County, Ohio. He was sixteen years old when he came with his parents to Clark County, where the family home was established on a farm near New Carlisle. He remained on the farm nine years, and later gave effective service as clerk in hardware and drug stores at New Carlisle. In 1910 the former cashier of the New Carlisle Bank prevailed upon Mr. Doom to assume the position of bookkeeper in that institution, and eventually, in 1913, he was chosen cashier of this bank, in which executive office he has since continued his able and popular administration. The bank bases its operations on a capital stock of $30,000, has a surplus fund of $10,000, and the institution has paid regular dividends to its stockholders. Frank E. Thompson, of Miami County, is president of this strong and well ordered bank, which owns the building in which its business is conducted.

Mr. Doom received his early education in the public schools and has taken deep interest in the schools of New Carlisle during the period of his residence here. He has served eight years as a member of the Board of Education, of which he is now the president, and was a vigorous supporter of the progressive movement which resulted in giving to New Carlisle one of the finest school buildings in the state, the same having been erected in 1921. Mr. Doom is independent in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. Mrs. Doom is a charter member and is a past worthy matron of the local chapter of the Order of the Eastem Star, is an influential and popular member of the Progress Club and is a prominent figure in the representative social and cultural activities of her home community.

Mr. Doom married Miss Maude Smith, of Tippecanoe. Miami County, and they have two children: John Howard and Mabel Virginia.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 221

ROBERT R. DORY, gardener, Springfield. He was born Nov. 20, 1838, in a log cabin which stood near his present beautiful residence, and is the son of James and Elizabeth M. (Cosway) Dory; they were natives of England, where James learned the culture of vegetables, serving seven years as an apprentice. He emigrated to America in 1834, coming direct to Springfield. In 1836, he began raising vegetables for market, but his sales were quite small in comparison with the market now; the people then depended more on their own gardens than the market. Robert, was taught gardening from his youth up, and at present engages quite largely in the production of vegetables, which he sells both at retail and wholesale. He was married, Feb. 15, 1878, to Mary E., daughter of Robert and Mary E. Cole; they have but one child—Mary E., who lightens their home and makes glad the hearts of father and mother. Robert’s mother died July 15, 1870, and his father July 14, 1880. Of James and Elizabeth’s four children, three—Robert R., Mrs. Jacob Gram and Mrs. George McClure—still reside in Clark County, and Charles C. in Kansas.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 818

WILLIAM C. DOWNEY, of P. P. Mast & Co., manufacturers, Springfield; is a native of Virginia, born in 1835; came to Ohio when a young man, and became a resident of Springfield in 1855; he connected himself with the firm of Thomas & Mast in 1862, having charge of the outside trade, doing the entire traveling business until the growth required additional help, and he now has general supervision of this department in the South and Southwest trade. Mr. Downey began business for himself as a clothing merchant; subsequently became a traveling salesman, in which capacity he developed those peculiar qualities and acquired the varied business knowledge which enters into the make-up of a successful business man, and thus laid the foundation for the successful career which he has thus far had in connection with Thomas & Mast, and also as member of the firm of P. P. Mast & Co., organized in 1871.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 818

JOHN A. DOYLE has maintained for fully a quarter of a century a place of prominence in connection with commercial floriculture in his native county and in addition to conducting his large and well-equipped greenhouses in Springfield, he is the owner of several valuable farm properties in Clark County. Mr. Doyle was born on his father’s farm in Springfield Township, this county, in the year 1865, and is a son of the late Patrick Doyle, who was born in Ireland and who came to the United States prior to the Civil war, he having become one of the substantial farmers of Clark County and having continued to reside on his homestead place in Springfield Township until his death, when seventy years of age. Patrick Doyle and his wife were charter members of St. Raphael’s Catholic Church at Springfield and it is pleasing to note that their son John A., of this review, is likewise an earnest communicant of this parish, besides which he maintains affiliation with the Knights of Columbus.

John A. Doyle passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the home farm and gained his education in the district and parochial schools of his native county. Before instituting his independent career in connection with the florist business he had gained six years of practical experience while in the employ of Peter Murphy and the McGregor Brothers, well known florists and nurserymen of early days. Twenty-five years ago, to meet a local demand for bedding plants, Mr. Doyle established a small greenhouse twenty by eighty feet in dimensions, on North Limestone Street, his capital at this time having been summed up in about $1,000. The enterprise prospered and each successive year he added to its scope and facilities, and the greenhouses were of large area and the best of equipment when, at the expiration of ten years, Mr. Doyle sold the plant and business to the Springfield Floral Company, there having been at that time fifteen greenhouses under glass, with an area of about 35,000 square feet. The annual business had attained to an average aggregate of $15,000 and the number of employes was twelve. After selling his original business Mr. Doyle instituted the development of his present fine plant, the offices of which are at North Fountain Street, Ridgewood. The twelve greenhouses of this modern plant have 40,000 square feet under glass and an average of twelve employes is retained in the operation of the plant. Here Mr. Doyle makes a specialty of the propagation of roses of the finest type and he has a wide sale of both plants and cut flowers in this line. He has fully 200 varieties of roses and sells rose bushes on an extensive scale to nurseries and jobbers in all parts of the United States. In addition to maintaining a characteristically effective personal supervision of this large and prosperous business enterprise Mr. Doyle also finds time to direct in a general way the improvement and operations of his valuable farms in Clark and Champaign counties. He is a progressive business man and a loyal and public-spirited citizen, his name being still enrolled on the roster of eligible bachelors in his native county, where his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 143

THEODORE THOMAS DRAKE. Evidences abound in Clark County of the skill and capability of Theodore Thomas Drake, whose memory will be perpetuated in concrete and steel composing the numerous bridges which he has erected and is erecting in all parts of the county. Mr. Drake has been engaged in bridge construction as a contractor ever since coming to Springfield, a number of years ago, and has worked his way to a prominent position in business circles.

Born June 21, 1871, in Madison County, Ohio, Mr. Drake is a son of Sanford and Mary (Rainbow) Drake, natives of Jefferson County, Ohio. Sanford Drake, who was a contractor in the building of covered bridges, located at South Charleston, Ohio, in 1873, and there spent an active and successful career, dying in 1894. His widow survived him a number of years, passing away December 26, 1916. They were the parents of the following children: Lewis W., who died in 1893; John W., a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio; Samuel C., who died May 1, 1922, aged forty-three years; William Allen, a resident of Jefferson County, Ohio; Mary Elizabeth, who is the wife of Todd Buffenbarger, of South Charleston, Ohio; George, a locomotive engineer, who was killed in 1895 in a railroad accident at Spokane, Washington; Hiram, whose present whereabouts are unknown; Cassius M., of South Charleston, Ohio; and Theodore Thomas.

Theodore Thomas Drake received his education in the graded and high schools of South Charleston, where as a youth he learned the trade of carpenter. After working at his trade for fifteen years at South Charleston he joined the National Cash Register Company at Dayton, Ohio, where he was foreman of construction for ten years, and then came to Springfield and established himself in business as a contractor in the erection of steel and concrete bridges. He has done much county work, as well as work of a private character, and is accounted one of the most skilled and capable men in his line in the state. Since October 1, 1920, Mr. Drake has occupied a house of the semi-bungalow type, at No. 1801 South Fountain Avenue, which was designed and built by himself, and is composed of natural cut stone. It is modern in every particular and is one of the show places of his part of the city.

On October 15, 1915, Mr. Drake was united in marriage with Miss Margaret Griffin, who was born at Ironton, Ohio, October 13, 1882, a daughter of John and Ellen (Rhoades) Griffin. John Griffin was born in Ireland, and as a young man immigrated to the United States, where he met and married Miss Rhoades, a native of this country. Later they moved to Ironton, Ohio, where Mr. Griffin was employed in the nail factory, and that community is still their home. Mr. and Mrs. Drake have no children. Mrs. Drake, a woman of superior attainments, is an artist in oils and water colors, and their beautiful home contains numerous specimens of her talent in this direction. Their religious connection is with the Third Lutheran Church, to the work of which they contribute generously. Mr. Drake is a stanch republican in politics, and during his residence at South Charleston served two terms as a member of the City Council. Since coming to Springfield business duties have occupied his attention to the exclusion of other matters, but he takes a good citizen’s interest in civic matters, and is always ready to give his support to movements that his judgment tells him are worthy of his cooperation. As a fraternalist he belongs to Springfield Lodge No. 51, B. P. O. E., South Charleston Lodge No. 166, I. O. O. F., in which he has been through the chairs, and Moncreiffe Lodge, K. of P., in all of which he is very popular.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 390

WILLIAM MILLER DRAKE had the good fortune to live out his life at a farm and country home in Clark County which had been the home of his parents before him. He was one of the most substantial representatives of the agricultural interests of the county and he proved himself a sterling friend of education, religion and every matter connected with the fundamental progress and prosperity of the community. His home in Mad River Township, eight miles southwest of Springfield, is still occupied by Mrs. Drake and her children.

The late Mr. Drake was born April 29, 1856, and died November 29, 1920. His death occurred in the old house, still standing, erected by his grandfather, William Drake. It was the home of his own parents throughout their married lives, Cyrus E. and Martha Ann (Miller) Drake. Cyrus Drake was born March 17, 1824, and died April 16, 1901. Martha Ann Miller was born October 3, 1826, and died March 20, 1892. Cyrus Drake was a successful farmer and stockman. The old farm comprises two hundred and seventy-two acres. He was a charter member of the Mud Run Presbyterian Church while it existed and later he attended the Yellow Springs Church four miles away. The children of Cyrus Drake and wife were: Albert I., a farmer in Greene County, living at Yellow Springs; William M.; Margaret E., who lives at Yellow Springs; Ida, wife of Charles Weaver, of Greenville, Ohio; and John W., who left home as a young man and is a hardware merchant at Toledo.

December 15, 1898, William Miller Drake married Sarah A. Keifer, daughter of Benjamin F. Keifer and a niece of Gen. J. Warren Keifer. An account of her father, Benjamin F. Keifer, appears on other pages. Mrs. Drake was born at the old Keifer home.

The late Mr. Drake remained with his father and eventually bought out the interest of the other heirs of the farm and until his death continued the stockraising feature of the homestead. He kept good horses and other livestock. He also served on the Election Board and was a member of the School Board when the new schoolhouse was erected. He was a trustee and elder in the Presbyterian Church at Yellow Springs and seldom missed attending worship there. He was affiliated with the Junior Order United American Mechanics of Enon.

Mrs. Drake, who carries on the business of the home farm, has two children: Marie Ione, a student in the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, and Warren Keifer, a student in Antioch College at Yellow Springs.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 144

JAMES DRISCOL, carriage manufacturer, Springfield. The Driscols are a representative Western family; the converse of the old adage, “Jack of all trades and good at none,” is aptly illustrated by this family, who have through life adhered to one line of business and made a success of it; they have been for over forty years identified with the carriage and wagon trade, doing, up to the present time, the leading business in that line. Elias Driscol was born in 1814, and James the subject of this sketch, Jan. 9, 1817, in Greene County. In his early infancy, his parents moved to within a few miles of Springfield. Twoscore years ago, he commenced business as a wagon-maker, and, five years afterward, formed a co-partnership with a Mr. Beal, under the firm name of Driscol & Beal, so continuing for two years, the firm then changing to E. & J. Driscol, this co-partnership of the two brothers continuing for twenty-two years; ten years ago, E. & J. Driscol sold out their business, Elias retiring and James going West to Kansas to embark in the stock-raising business; after eighteen months’ trial, however, he concluded he could do best at the old place and business, and, returning to Springfield, bought out his successors, Whitehead & Cushman, and again opened the Driscol concern, taking in as partners his three sons, George, John and Charles, who are respectively body-maker, painter and boss trimmer; these sons, with Mrs. Miller, the book-keeper of the house, are children of Mr. Driscol’s union with Miss Abergast, a native of this county, whom he married in 1842, Feb. 20. Constituted as this firm is, each of its members being an experienced workman in his particular line, its success is not to be wondered at, especially as they have made it their invariable rule to use nothing but first-class material in every part of their work. Mr. James Driscol thinks he has driven more spokes than any man in Ohio. He has a half-brother, Josiah Driscol, in the livery business in this city. His first son, George, was a soldier in the Union army, first going out with the 100-day volunteers, then enlisting in Co. E, 58th O. V. I. Mr. Driscol is known in the community as a man of strict and undeviating integrity and business honor, and his sons are “chips of the old block.” But, with his ready wit and pleasant humor, the father, with his 63 years, does not appear greatly the senior of his sons; he says when he came to Springfield, a little frame Methodist Church was the only house of worship in the village. He has the faintest recollection of his mother, and his father died forty-three years ago.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 818

JOHN E. DRISCOL, farmer; P. O. Springfield. Mr. D. is the son of Elias and Nancy (Mullholland) Driscol, and was born in Springfield July 23, 1843; he learned the trade of carriage and buggy trimming with his father, at which he worked until his marriage with Emma A. Perrin Nov. 13, 1867, when he moved to the farm where he now lives. She is the only child of Joseph I. and Abigail E. Perrin, and was born Oct. 8, 1847. John and Emma have six children—Julia O., Eddie, Nannie E., Johnie, Elias and Emma. They live in a large brick house (on Yellow Spring Pike), which was built by her father in 1851. Her father died Dec. 30, 1866. Mr. D. is an industrious man, and has an excellent wife.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 819

JOHN H. DRISCOL, carriage manufacturer, Springfield. Mr. John H. Driscol is a native of Springfield, and everybody in Clark County knows him and all favorably. He has grown up in the carriage trade—painting being his branch. In 1873, he married Miss Emma Kennedy, of Dayton, three years after his admission to partnership into the reliable and well-known “Driscol” firm, now one of the important institutions of this city and county. Mrs. Driscol is the daughter of the Rev. George H. Kennedy, and is an esteemed and charming woman. The fact that their family consists of four boys puts their patriotism beyond question. Mr. John H. Driscol is too well known to require extended personal notice here, and it need only to be added that he is a member of the Royal Arcanum, one of Springfield’s solid young men, and essentially “one of the boys.”

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 819

MRS. E. B. DRUM, widow, Springfield. Mrs. Drum (widow of Capt. Simon H. Drum, deceased), was born in Bellfount, Center Co., Penn., June 27, 1809, and was married to Capt. Drum Dec. 20, 1832.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 819

SIMON H. DRUM, deceased. Born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., in 1807; graduated at West Point, and promoted Brevet 2d Lieutenant, 4th Artillery, July 1, 1830; 2d Lieutenant, July 1, 1830; Assistant Instructor of Infantry Tactics Military Academy, from Aug. 30, 1830, to June 18, 1832; 1st Lieutenant, Aug. 31, 1836, Captain staff, June 29, 1846; Captain 4th Artillery, Aug. 18, 1846; vacated staff commission, Aug. 18, 1846; killed Sept. 13, 1847, in the assault of the city of Mexico (within the Belen Gate), while directing the fire of a captured nine-pounder that he had added to the battery of heavy artillery which he commanded throughout the action with consummate skill, indomitable energy and most conspicuous gallantry. Capt. Drum also served in the Seminole war in Florida; his remains rest in Fern Cliff Cemetery, near Springfield.

William F. Drum, son of Capt. Simon H. Drum, 4th Artillery, born in Fort Columbus, New York Harbor; lived in Springfield, Ohio, from 1845 to 1855; served as private in 2d O. V. I., July, 1861; appointed 2d Lieutenant, 2d U. S. I., Aug. 5, 1861; promoted 1st Lieutenant Oct. 9, 1861, and Captain May 1, 1863; breveted Major U. S. Army “for gallant service during the campaign of 1864, before Richmond, Va.,” and Lieutenant Colonel U. S. Army, “for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Five Forks, Va.” Received leave of absence from the regular army in 1865, to accept command in the volunteer service. Mustered in as Lieutenant Colonel 5th N. Y. V. I., April 1, 1865; and Colonel of the same regiment May 29, 1865. Mustered out of the volunteer service Aug. 21, 1865. During the war of the rebellion, Capt. Drum participated in most of the engagements of his department. Since the war, Capt. Drum has served in the following States and Territories, viz., Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Idaho, Oregon, Massachusetts and Washington; his present station is Fort Colville, Washington Territory.

Simon Henry Drum, son of Capt. Simon Henry Drum, was born in Fort Gratiot, Michigan, but lived in Springfield, Ohio, from 1846 to 1859. Since the last date he has resided in Minnesota.

Andrew B. Drum, son of Capt. Simon H. Drum, was born at Madison Barracks, New York, but has resided almost continuously in Springfield, Ohio, since 1846. Served three months in 16th O. V. I., in 1861, and fifteen months in the 5th O. V. C, from which regiment he was discharged on account of disease contracted in line of duty. During the war of the rebellion, he participated in the campaigns of West Virginia, 1861, and Army of the Tennessee in 1862 and 1863.

Thomas L. Drum, son of Capt. Simon H. Drum, was born in Fort Maryland, but resided since 1846 in Springfield, Ohio, until recently. Served one year in the 60th O. V. I.; three years in the 11th O. V. C. He participated in the battle of Harper’s Ferry, where he was taken prisoner, and in a number of skirmishes with the Indians on the plains. He now resides in Minnesota.

Mrs. Agnes Drum Rinehart (widow of Capt. Levi M. Rinehart, deceased), was born on Governor’s Island, New York Harbor, Oct. 7, 1835. She was married to Capt. Rinehart Oct. 7, 1856. Their children are two daughters, viz., Maria E. and Effie R. The following is a copy of the tribute of respect by the officers of the 11th O. V. C, for their late comrade, Levi Monroe Rinehart, presented Feb. 15, 1865, at Fort Laramie, Idaho Territory:

“God in the manifestation of His all-wise providence has taken from our little band Capt. Levi M. Rinehart, and, while we bow in humble submission to His will, we still sincerely feel that the void thus created in our little circle will remain long unfilled. His manly form no longer moves among us; but in the greenest spot of our memory will long live the remembrance of the honorable uprightness of his character, and the frank, open generosity of his society. As a patriot, as a warm loyal Union-loving man, we knew him brave to a fault. His character as an officer and a soldier is best expressed in his last telegram to his commanding officer. This telegram was written upon the eve of his departure upon the expedition which ended in his death, and concluded thus: ‘If you have any other duty for me to perform, please command me.’ And those words, so characteristic of him, were perhaps the last he ever wrote—a noble sentence, emanating from a noble, brave and generous heart.”

Signed, George C. Underhill, Surgeon; Thomas P. Clarke, Captain; and Henry E. Averill, 1st Lieutenant; Committee 11th O. V. C.

“Capt. Rinehart was killed in a skirmish with some Cheyenne Indians on the North Platte, near Deer Creek, on the morning of the 13th of February, 1865, meeting his death as becomes a brave soldier in the lead of his party.”

Signed, William O. Collin, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding, President; and Capt. Thomas P. Clarke, Secretary.

Capt. Rinehart was born in Cambridge, Ohio, Aug. 9, 1835. In 1861, he answered his country’s first call for men, and enlisted in the 16th O. V. I. for three months. In February, 1862, enlisted in the 60th O. V. I. for one year; he was taken prisoner at Harper’s Ferry, Va. After being held as a prisoner of war some three months, he was exchanged. In the spring of 1863, he raised a company of cavalry and was assigned to the 11th O. V. C., sent out on the frontier.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 819

SAMUEL DRUMMOND, deceased. This gentleman came to this township in 1807. He was born near Cincinnati, in Hamilton Co., Ohio, in the fall of 1804, and was the son of George and Rosanna (Thompson) Drummond. His father was a native of Scotland, and his mother of Ireland. They settled in New Jersey, close to Pennsylvania, and about 1800 came to Ohio. In 1807 they came to Clark Co., and settled in Sec. 17, Mad River Township, where they died. They had seven children, viz., William James, Mary, Sarah, John, Samuel (our subject) and Nancy. They are all now dead but John and Nancy. Two of them died in infancy. Samuel grew up on the home farm, attending the early log schoolhouse, and affording such assistance on the farm as his tender years would admit. He was married, Feb. 28, 1833, to Ruth Beeth, a native of Greene Co., by whom he had nine children, viz., William T., George T. (deceased), Sarah J., Mark, Nile (killed in the rebellion), Emily, Melissa, Stephen and Caroline (deceased). Mrs. D. died in November, 1852, and on April 19, 1853, Mr. D. married Mrs. Mary Ann Schrock, widow of Francis Schrock, and daughter of David and Lydia Miller, natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in 1843. Mrs. D. was born in Franklin Co., Penn., Aug. 15, 1823, and by her first marriage had five children, viz., Winfield S. (killed in the rebellion), Harrison, Benjamin (deceased), Lydia J. and Mary E. By her marriage with Mr. D., she had Anzonetta (deceased), Rosella, Miller, Goyne, Adele and Ulysses. Politically, Mr. D. was a Republican, and a firm defender of the Union. Three of his sons, and one of his wife’s sons fought for their flag in the war of the rebellion. He died May 3, 1869, leaving to his family a pleasant home, and a spotless reputation. Mrs. D. is a member of the Christian Church, of which denomination his first wife was a member.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1041

WILLIAM H. DUGDALE, attorney, Springfield. Mr. Dugdale is a native of Clark County, and belongs to a line of early residents of Madison Township. His parents, Charles and Mary (Howell) Dugdale, were married in Madison Township, and his mother still resides there, his father having died a number of years since. The subject of this sketch was born in 1843, and remained on the farm with his parents until he entered the army in April, 1861, when he became a member of the 16th O. V. I., in which he served to the expiration of his term (three months); after which he re-enlisted for three years, and became a member of the 44th O. V. I., which afterward veteranized and was transferred to cavalry service, becoming the 8th O. V. C, with which he served for the remainder of his three years, he having been rejected for the veteran service by the Examining Surgeon, on account of disabilities received during his former service. After his return, he farmed on the old homestead about four years, then went West and spent about four years in Southwestern Kansas, during which he was elected Probate Judge of Marion Co., Kan. Subsequently went across the plains into Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, returning to Springfield the spring of 1875. After which he read law in the office of Spence & Arthur; was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1877, and has since been engaged in active practice here. Mr. Dugdale is a Democrat in politics, and somewhat prominent as a politician; has been Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of the county a number of years, and was a delegate from the Eighth Ohio District to the National Convention at Cincinnati, which nominated Gen. Hancock for President. He is thoroughly identified with his party in local and State affairs, and enjoys a good legal business. He married, in 1877, Miss Ellen Carmine, a native of Illinois, at the time of their marriage a resident of Dayton. They have one child—Martha.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 821

JOHN DUKE, farmer; P. O. Springfield; born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Nov. 9, 1809; is a son of John and Abigail (Kline) Duke, natives of Pennsylvania, who lived and died there. They were parents of twelve children; eight now survive—Betsy, Sarah, Benjamin, John, Adam, Mary, David and Margaret. Our subject was raised to farm labor till about 17 years of age, when he left home to learn the shoemaker’s trade; after learning which he returned home and lived with his father till of age. Was married, Jan. 10, 1836, to Jane Mary, daughter of William and Elizabeth Parkes, natives of Pennsylvania. They had eight children; five now survive—Jane Mary, Eliza, James, William and Sarah Ann. Jane Mary was born June 26, 1810. By their marriage they have had eight children; four now survive—Wm. K., Sarah E., Rebecca Ann and Adeline. After their marriage, they remained in Pennsylvania till the fall of 1853, when they removed to Ohio and bought and located upon the place where he lives, and has since resided, a period of twenty-seven years. Mr. Duke has a good farm well improved, constituting a pleasant home and residence, and is now able to enjoy the comforts of life for the remainder of his days; and this has been accomplished by his own labor and industry. Has always been a man of good health and great activity; a man of positive character and determination, who carried out all his undertakings, and hence his financial success. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, to which she has belonged for nearly half a century, and he for one-third of a century; and they have had the pleasure to see their four surviving children grow to maturity, and all become members of the church and doing well.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 985

J. K. DUNKEL, retired; P. O. Enon; is the son of John, Sr., and Susan Dunkel, of Lancaster Co., Penn., where J. K. was born Dec. 15, 1818. He acquired a limited education in his early life, and judiciously applied himself to labor in his father’s behalf until 20 years of age, at which time he started in life as a farm laborer. In 1849, he married Catharine Shertzer, of his native county and State. He has since become a resident of Ohio, and at present is a citizen of the village of Enon, where he is identified with its interest; also takes an active interest in the cause of education, and at present is a member of the School Board of that place, which office he duly fills. Mr. and Mrs. Dunkel are the parents of four children, viz., Aaron, Fronna, Henry, and Lucinda.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1041

JOHN B. DUNKEL, merchant, P. O. Enon. Among the representative business men of Enon we mention the name of John B. Dunkel as grocery merchant. He is the son of John and Elizabeth Dunkel, and was born Nov. 20, 1847; obtained his education in the common schools, and remained his father’s assistant on the farm until 1870, when he married Rebecca, daughter of Reuben Shellabarger, whose biography appears in this history. After his marriage he followed farming one year, then located in Enon, where he purchased a large grocery store, carrying a full line of goods, and through his correct business habits has established a reasonable patronage and obtained the public feeling of the citizens of his township, until he now holds the offices of Treasurer of said township, which he fills with honor and credit to himself and party. One child, Clara May, has been given to this union, born Nov. 2, 1873.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1041

ALEXANDER DUNLAP, A.M., M.D. physician and surgeon, Springfield; is a native of Ohio ; a son of William and Mary (Shepherd) Dunlap, both of whom were natives of Virginia. His father was a farmer and one of the pioneers, having removed to Kentucky about 1782, and thence to the Northwest Territory in 1796. His mother’s family came from Shepherdstown, Va., of which place they were the founders, and also became pioneers of Kentucky, and, subsequently, of what is now Ohio. The subject of this sketch was born in Brown Co., Ohio, Jan. 12, 1815; he passed the Freshman and Sophomore years of his college life at the university at Athens, and his Junior and Senior years at the Miami University, and graduated in 1836; he began the study of medicine under the direction of his brother at Greenfield, Highland Co., and attended lectures at the old Cincinnati Medical College, where he graduated in 1839; he practiced with his brother in Greenfield until 1846, then removed to Ripley, Brown Co., from whence he removed to Springfield in 1856, and has continued here ever since, having established a merited and extensive reputation and practice. In 1843, he came in collision with the fraternity by venturing to remove an ovarian tumor. Although this operation had been performed, in a few cases, as early as 1809 with some success by Ephriam McDowell, of Kentucky, it had been denounced by the profession and characterized as “unjustifiable butchery,” and for more than thirty years had been abandoned as an element of medical and surgical art. Clay, of England, had performed the operation in 1842, and Atlee, of Philadelphia, in the summer of 1843. Two months after Atlee’s operating, he not then having any knowledge of these two cases, and following only the traditional report of McDowell’s case, ventured, at the earnest and repeated request of the patient, who was apprised of the risk, to undertake the operation. Surrounded by a few country physicians, he successfully removed a tumor weighing forty-five pounds. A few weeks later the patient died, and the operation was denounced as altogether unwarrantable on the part of a “country surgeon,” while the medical journals refused to report the case. The woman’s death had, however, not been the direct result of the operation, and, though frowned upon in many quarters, he persevered in his studies and practice until brilliant success dispelled the clouds of prejudice. To-day his reputation as an ovariotomist is co-extensive with the circulation of medical literature, while his practice extends throughout the central and western portions of the United States. Down to the present time, he has performed 152 operations, 80 per cent of which were a complete success—a higher estimate than may be awarded to any other man, either in Europe or America, with the one exception of Prof. Keith, of Edinburgh, Scotland. He outlived the denunciation, and, in 1868, received from the Faculty of the State of Ohio the compliment of an election to the Presidency of the Ohio Medical Society. He was twice elected one of the Judicial Council of the American Medical Association, which position he resigned in 1877 to accept the Vice Presidency. He was elected a Fellow of the American Gyneocological Society, of which there can be no more than sixty members, at one time, in the United States. He was, in 1875, appointed to the Professorship of “Surgical Diseases in Women,” in the Starling Medical College of Columbus. In Gross’ “System of Surgery,” Vol. II, he is reported under the heading “Lithotomy,” as “having successfully removed a stone weighing twenty ounces,” the largest ever removed from a living person. In the volume of Transactions of the International Medical Congress of 1876, of which Congress he was a member, he is quoted on the subject of “Fibroid Tumors of the Uterus.” In the volumes of the Transactions of the American Medical Association of 1876, he is quoted on the subject of “Ovariotomy.” Among exceptional cases, he has three times removed the under jaw, once ligated the common carotid artery, once removed the clavicle, and stands second in the United States in the number of operations in Ovariotomy performed by a living surgeon, and is quoted as authority on this topic by all modern medical works. He married, March 27, 1839, Miss Maria E. Bell, of Highland County. From this union are two surviving children—Charles W., now associated with his father in practice; and Mary E., now Mrs. William H. Hamilton.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 821

ALBERT W. DYER It has been claimed that no one who has once entered the newspaper business is ever satisfied outside of it; that there is a fascination in the work which cannot be resisted. Certain it is that its followers work harder for less substantial retum than almost any class, receiving as their reward the satisfaction in having borne a part in shaping public policies and advocating in popular form improvements. Upon the shoulders of the conscientious newspaper man rests heavy responsibilities, and if he is faithful to high ideals he is certain of effecting much good and accomplishing constructive work of a high order. Albert W. Dyer, proprietor and publisher of the South Charleston Sentinel, is a man whose experience in newspaper work is a wide and comprehensive one and whose efforts have been principally expended in this line of endeavor. He was born at Springfield, Ohio, March 8, 1882.

The parents of Albert W. Dyer, John and Mary (Hunt) Dyer, are natives of Taunton, England, where John Dyer was born October 29, 1853. They were reared and educated in their native place, he attending the public schools and she a private one. In 1880 John Dyer came to the United States and located at Springfield, Ohio. Engaging with the William M. Whitely Company, he has continued with this concern and its successors ever since as an experimental man. Mrs. Dyer was born March 6, 1861, and she came to the United States about 1879. She and her husband were married at Springfield, Ohio, where they have since maintained their residence. Originally Church of England people, they are now communicants of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Dyer belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Order of Ben Hur, and in politics he is a republican. He and his wife had three children born to them, of whom two now survive, Albert W. and his brother, Clifford J., a high-school graduate, now teller for the Farmers National Bank of Springfield, Ohio.

The boyhood and youth of Albert W. Dyer were spent at Springfield, where he attended the public schools and where he took a commercial course in the Willis Business University, being one of its graduates. His first position was that of stenographer with the Floral Publishing Company, and he held it for three years. For the subsequent three years he was stenographer for the Evans Manufacturing Company, and then, leaving that concern, he went to Toronto, Canada, and for a time was with the ad department of the Montreal Star. Severing these connections Mr. Dyer returned to the United States and became ad manager of the Chautauqua publications at Chautauqua, New York. After two years in that position he came back to Springifield, Ohio, and became manager of Floral Life. Subsequently he went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as circulation manager of Suburban Life. Once more he returned to Springfield, and for four years was with the American Seeding Machine Company, but then returned to newspaper work as editor and publisher of the Mayville, New York, Sentinel, continuing with this journal for six years. It was at the termination of that period that he came to South Charleston and bought the South Charleston Sentinel, and entered upon his present field of usefulness.

On October 10, 1906, Mr. Dyer married Augusta Ehrle, born at Springfield, a daughter of Fred and Katherine (Kohler) Ehrle. Mrs. Dyer attended the common and high schools of Springfield, and the Willis Business University, of which she, too, is a graduate. For a time she was with the Floral Publishing Company of Springfield as stenographer, and later with the Crowell Publishing Company in its advertising department. Mr. and Mrs. Dyer have three children, namely: Dorothy, Marjorie and John F. The Dyers are communicants of the Episcopal Church. A Mason, Mr. Dyer belongs to Anthony Lodge No. 455, F. and A. M. He is a strong republican, but has never cared to make the race for public office. Both he and Mrs. Dyer are the center of a congenial circle, and their pleasant home is the scene of many delightful gatherings. As a citizen Mr. Dyer stands exceptionally high in popular esteem, and he is making his one of the best country papers in Ohio.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 168