Clark County Ohio Biographies

FRANCIS HAGAN, attorney and City Solicitor, Springfield. Mr. Hagan is a native of Clark County, and one of the self-made men of the city; he is of Scotch-Irish descent, and a descendant of a pioneer family of Mad River Township, his grandfather, Denny Hagan, having settled there in 1814; his parents, Hugh and Ann (Furay) Hagan, were among the early residents of the vicinity of Enon, where Francis M. was born in 1844; his father was a farmer of limited means, and hence his education depended almost entirely upon his own exertions. Impelled by a desire for knowledge, his limited opportunities were carefully improved, and, by teaching district and select schools, during which he was a student, gained sufficient education and means to attend Antioch College, after which he began to read law, but was soon compelled to suspend his studies on account of his health. Up to this time, he had maintained the most rigorous economy, boarding at home while attending Antioch College, requiring a walk of eight miles every day, and afterward, when studying law, “kept bach.” The following two or three years was occupied in traveling, and in 1872 he had sufficiently recovered to resume his studies, teaching in the meantime. In the spring of 1873, he was admitted to the bar, and has since been in active practice here. In 1876, he was an independent candidate for the office of City Solicitor, his Republican opponent, A. T. Byers, defeating him by only forty-seven votes. In 1879, he was again an independent candidate, and was elected by a majority of 730 over J. F. McGrew, the regular nominee of the Republican Convention. Mr. Hagan is a Democrat in politics, a strong advocate of temperance, takes an active interest in educational affairs, and is an active, public-spirited citizen.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 832

FRANCIS MARION HAGAN is now rounding out the last year in a half century’s active membership in the Springfield bar. He has been one of the most capable counsellors of the county, and a great and important volume of legal business has been entrusted to his care. He has also served on the bench of the Common Pleas Court, and his long career as a lawyer has been marked throughout by a fine sense of public obligation and public spirit.

Judge Hagan’s people were among the early settlers of Mad River Township and it was in the log cabin home of his parents near Enon that he was born June 10, 1844. His paternal grandfather Denny Hagan was born in the north of Ireland, and his grandmother was also a native of Ireland. His maternal grandfather Peter Furay, was a native of Philadelphia, of south of Ireland extraction. Peter Furay married Mary Ann Arcronche Baubee Duplissy, a native of Canada of French-Irish extraction. Both Peter Furay and his wife lived to be ninety-one years of age. Judge Hagan’s parents were Hugh and Ann Hagan. His father was born in Pennsylvania, and devoted his active lifetime to farming in Clark County. Though he lived in a time of simple manners and in an isolated environment, he kept himself well posted in politics, matters of history and in the Bible. Ann Hagan, his wife, was a native of Ross County, Ohio, and was distinguished for her fine domestic virtues.

Growing up in a community where the schools presented a narrow curriculum. Judge Hagan had to get for himself the opportunities for a thorough education. He attended the common schools, became a teacher, for a time conducted a select school, and with his earnings entered Antioch College at Yellow Springs. He was prevented from graduating by ill health. With a frail constitution in early boyhood and manhood he was unable to enter the military service at the time of the Civil war. However, he was among the home guards called out at the time of the Morgan invasion of the state. Through means acquired as a teacher and farm worker he studied law, completing his studies in the offices of Spence & Arthur at Springfield. He was admitted to the bar in 1873, and in the early years while struggling for recognition he rented quarters on Main Street, with an office in the front room, and had his own living quarters in the rear. Mr. Hagan was satisfied to permit his abilities and character to win appreciation on their own merits and in time he found himself engaged in a growing and prosperous general practice in the local courts and in subsequent years in the State and Federal courts of Ohio. His first important public service was rendered as City Solicitor of Springfield during 1873-74 and 1875-76. He was a very young lawyer at the time, but proved himself equal to every emergency in the office and handled many complicated legal questions at a time when the city government was engaged in two of its most important constructive labors, the building and installing of a waterworks system and a sewer system.

Judge Hagan has been a liberal democrat, and in general has been in accord with the democratic party policy. This has been the minority party in Clark County, the republican majority normally running to several thousand votes. Judge Hagan was twice defeated as candidate for City Solicitor by majorities ranging from twenty-five to thirty votes, and was once elected by 1,200 votes and for his second term by 2,000 votes. He was once defeated for Common Pleas Judge by 160 votes. President Cleveland during his first term appointed Mr. Hagan postmaster of Springfield, and he filled that office during 1885-88. In 1890 Governor Campbell appointed him Common Pleas Judge of Clark County for an unexpired term of three months. The Clark County Bar Association at the end of this brief service by unanimous vote made “record of their high appreciation of the marked ability and absolute impartiality and uniform courtesy with which Judge Hagan has discharged the duties of his office.” Many years later Governor James M. Cox appointed him to the Common Pleas bench to serve during the years 1913-14.

Among the many other honors and responsibilities Judge Hagan has enjoyed in his borne city, should be mentioned his work as president of the Board of Trade of Springfield in 1890, when the board was engaged in a large program of public activity. He was trustee of the MitchellThomas Hospital from 1899 to 1905, for ten years was a trustee of the Associated Charities of the City of Springfield, has been a trustee of the Clark County Historical Association since its organization, served one year as trustee of the Sinking Fund of Springfield, for one year was president of the Clark County Bar Association, and was president of the general committee of the Springfield Centennial Celebration. While he was on the bench as Common Pleas Judge he presided at the trial of Dr. Arthur Smith, accused of putting his wife to death by poisoning. This case was probably the most famous and attracted the most attention of any case ever tried in Clark County. There were two trials, each lasting thirty days, involving a host of expert witnesses, and the jury disagreed in each trial.

Judge Hagan has been a York Rite Mason for a quarter of a century, has been a trustee and president of the Masonic Temple of Springfield for many years, and for sixteen years since its organization has been trustee and president of the Springfield Masonic Temple Company. For a number of years he was a member of the Springfield Country Club and of the Lagonda Club, is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and is a charter member of the Men’s Literary Club, organized thirty years ago. He was active in the Second Presbyterian Church until its consolidation with the First Presbyterian Church under the new title of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. He served as an elder in both churches.

In 1882, at Springfield, Judge Hagan married Miss Justina Fingland Bevitt. Her father was at one time a well-known physician of St. Charles, Missouri. Mrs. Hagan was a teacher for some years, and has long been prominent in the social and religious life of Springfield. Their three children are, Francis Marion, Jr., Hugh and Margaret, who is now by marriage Mrs. Margaret Howard MacGregor.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 431

WALTER HAGER, manufacturer of paper; P. O. Enon; is a son of Isaac and Eunice Hager, both natives of Massachusetts, and was born March 4, 1823, at Newton Lower Falls, Mass., where he was raised and educated. He started in life at the age of 15 years by engaging in the paper mills of his native town, which were among the oldest in the United States; there remained fifteen years, and in the meantime, Feb. 25, 1847, married Martha Fuller, of Weston, Mass. About 1853, he engaged in the mills of Jordan & Co., where his ability and knowledge of the business merited the position as manager, to which he was promoted. Two years later he removed to Frankfort, Ky., where he was also employed as foreman of the Frankfort paper mills. At the expiration of two years he removed to Lockland, Ohio, and became agent for the Hazeltine Turbine water-wheel, and was the first to introduce it into Southern Ohio, Central Kentucky, and Southern Indiana. After being thus engaged for some time he resumed the paper trade as manager of the tower Mills of Lockland, where he remained six years; thence located in Dayton, Ohio, where he took charge of the mills of G. Rutledge, and successfully conducted the same a period of two years. He then located in Clifton, Greene Co., Ohio; engaged in business with Mr. King, the style firm being King & Hager. Six months later he sold his interest, removed to Enon, where he is now in charge of the Republic Mills, and doing a reasonable business. Mr. and Mrs. Hager have had born to them six children—Ellen, Gertrude, Sarah, Mary, Edwin, and Albert, of whom two daughters are deceased.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1042

HENRY HALLENBECK, Justice of the Peace, Springfield. With pleasure we speak of Mr. Hallenbeck in connection with his official position, and also as being one of the elderly and prominent men of Springfield. He has been connected in an official way with the county’s interests for many years. He is native of New York, and was born April, 1815. His parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Haynes) Hallenbeck, were also natives of that State, as were his parents, Matthias and Margaret Hallenbeck, and their parents. The Esquire is a descendant of one of the first settlers of Albany, N. Y., they emigrating from Holland in 1610, bringing their own ships, laden with agricultural implements, and brick to build their houses, and to this day can be seen the piles of brick that were brought from Holland more than two centuries age. Jacob and Elizabeth Hallenbeck were parents of eight children, only two of whom are now living—our subject and his sister, Nancy Currey, who lives near Buffalo N. Y. Henry was wedded to Miss Elizabeth Stewart, of Watertown, Jefferson Co., N.Y., in February, 1836. Their eldest daughter, Julia E., is the wife of Eliphlet Cots, Principal of the Southern Building, Springfield, Ohio. She was born in New York previous to the removal of her parents, which occurred in 1840, they driving in their own conveyance from their home in that State to this beautiful city which, at that time, was a village of 850 inhabitants. From 1842 to 1846, Mr. Hallenbeck served as Deputy Sheriff under Absolom Maddox; in 1848, he was elected Sheriff and served two terms. During the war he was employed in the mail service, and previously engaging in the stock and grocery business. From 1865 to 1870, he was traveling agent for the Springfield Rock Paint Company. He also established the manufactory of Whetstone Bros., manufacturers of colors. In 1870, he started for Missouri determined to open up a farm; he tried valiantly for four years, and finding it a losing business, sold out and came back to Springfield. In April, 1877, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and was re-elected in April, 1880. As an official his judgment is excellent, and his friends are legion: as a public-spirited citizen, he is ever at the front; his integrity is unquestioned, and is one of our practical men—loving right and hating wrong. We are glad to have this opportunity of perpetuating his name in the history of this county, of which he has been so long a resident. Two sons, William H. and John G. Hallenbeck, reside in Kansas City; Augusta Diefendorf and Clara Barker, their two daughters, live near Leavenworth, Kan. Many things of interest to the readers of this history has been gleaned from Esquire Hallenbeck, and we are sure that facts furnished by him extending over a forty years’ residence in Springfield, may be regarded as correct.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 832

JAMES SMITH HALSEY, deceased, was born near Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, Dec. 7, 1804, and was the son of Ichabod Benton Halsey, a native of New Jersey. The family is of English origin, and it is believed that all of the name now living in this country are descendants of two brothers of that name, who landed at Long Island some time near the beginning of the eighteenth century, and the branch of the family to which the subject of this sketch belonged settled near Wheatsheaf Tavern, midway between Rahway and Elizabethtown, N. J., where they lived for a number of generations. Maj. Daniel Halsey, the grandfather of James S., received from the Government a large tract of land near Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio, in consideration of services performed as an officer in the Revolution, which land he presented to his son, Ichabod B., on the condition that he would settle upon and improve it, which he did, becoming one of the earliest settlers of Warren County. He was remarkable for intelligence, energy and great probity of character, and was one of the Commissioners who located the county seats of Green, Montgomery and Champaign Counties. Mr. Halsey became one of the wealthiest and most prosperous citizens of his county, but late in life, through the treachery of a party for whom he had indorsed, the results of a lifetime of industry, was swept away at one stroke. The mother of James Smith Halsey was the daughter of James Smith, a Methodist minister, who came from Virginia to Warren Co., Ohio, about 1790, where he had previously been in company with two or three friends on a tour of observation, abut 1785, his object being to secure for himself and family a home in a land uncursed by slavery. He finally settled on a farm not far from Caesar’s Creek, in Warren County, and it was there that his daughter, Sarah Watkins Smith, was married to Ichabod Benton Halsey, Dec. 25, 1802. At the time of his father’s financial distress, James Smith Halsey was about 18 years of age, had received a fair common-school education, and had become fairly proficient in Latin, with a general fund of information acquired from books for which he had a great fondness. About this time he came to Springfield and secured employment in the office of Saul Henkle, Sr., who was then Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Clark County. The distance of forty miles from Lebanon to Springfield was performed on foot, it being before the time of railroads, and the payment of stage fare would have been too great a strain on his scanty resources. During this period he worked for $6 per month and board, sending to his father at the end of the year the sum of $72. The first official position he held in Clark County was Justice of the Peace, was subsequently elected County Auditor, then appointed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and on the adoption of the new constitution, in 1852, was elected Probate Judge. He was married Nov. 13, 1832 to Catharine T. Henkle, daughter of Saul Henkle who, with his wife, whose maiden name was Van Meter, were Virginians. They had four children who grew to maturity, viz.: Martha A., who died in Springfield; Irving, now an attorney residing in Cincinnati, Ellen Sterrit, deceased, and Sarah L., the wife of Louis W. Bosart, of Springfield. Mrs. Halsey died in 1862, at Lagonda, of softening of the brain; she was a woman of unusual energy, of excellent mental gifts, and thoughtfully devoted to her husband and children; during the greater part of her life she, as well as her husband, was a member of the Baptist Church. After the expiration of his term as Probate Judge, Mr. Halsey removed from Springfield to a place near Lagonda, where he resided until 1865, and after a brief residence on a place about two miles east of Springfield, on the National road, he removed with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bosart, to Jasper Co., Ill., where he lived until the summer of 1875, when he, with his daughter Martha, went to Memphis Tenn., where his son Irving then lived, with whom he resided until his death, which occurred on the night before the seventy-third anniversary of his birthday, in December, 1877. His remains were brought to Springfield and interred in the family lot in Green Mount Cemetery. For several years preceding his death, he was afflicted with symptoms of softening of the brain, and of this disease he finally died. Judge Halsey was of a modest, retiring nature, preferring the seclusion of private life to the conflicts attending a public career, and although a somewhat zealous partisan, he was never prominently concerned in politics; and with the exception of an editorial connection with the Western Pioneer, he probably took no active part in political matters. His talents were those of the student and lover of nature rather than of the man of action, but few men collected and retained more information than he during the period of his mental activity, and before the powers of his mind had been partially paralyzed by disease, and even afterward the singular retention of his memory often surprised his friends. Probably the characteristics by which Judge Halsey was most prominently known were his unswerving integrity and love of truth. In every transaction of his life, his word was his bond; even in jest he never deviated from the right line of truth, and whatever “Smith” Halsey said was known to be the exact truth, and as he never lied himself he had little toleration for falsehood in others. He had an innate scorn of meanness, mendacity and sham, which was as natural to him as it was to breathe the vital air. His charity was large, and while giving unostentatiously, he gave munificently; indeed in everything he did there was an entire absence of ostentation, and next to dishonesty and fraud, it was probably the object of his profoundest contempt. His religion partook, as it always must, of the character of the man; like him, it was unobtrusive and unostentatious, and what Burns calls the “preaching cant,” was never heard on his lips, and instead of talking religion, he tried to act it. Like all strong natures, although sincere in his religion, he had his religious doubts which caused him many melancholy hours, yet in the spirit of “Lord, I would believe, help thou my unbelief,” he struggled faithfully to the end. His character was somewhat marked by the austerity of the Puritan; life to him was no holiday affair, but a time of work and not of pleasure, and it can he said to his credit that he did his work well. He was also somewhat puritanical in his habitual expression of emotion, but that he felt strongly and deeply is certain; men like him always do; but he did not “carry his heart on his sleeve for daws to peck at,” and the many friends whom he has left behind in Clark County demonstrate that he was held in the highest esteem throughout this county, of which he was so long an honored and trusted citizen. Judge Halsey had two brothers and three sisters who lived to maturity: J. B. Halsey, who died in Plymouth, Ind., in January, 1879, and Daniel W. Halsey, who died in Hamilton, Ohio, about 1860, were both citizens of Springfield for many years; Mary E. was married to Gen. Charles Anthony, and died in the summer of 1879; Martha, who married Dr. Isaac Jennings, is now living in Koscuisko Co., Ind., and Cynthia A., who was married to James K. Hurin, is now residing at Wyoming, Hamilton Co., Ohio.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 835

J. W. HANES, grain merchant; P. O. Enon. Enon, like all villages, has its representative business men, and we can say that J. W. Hanes is one of the live and energetic men of this village. He is the son of Jacob and Margaret Hanes, and was born June 25, 1840, in Richland Co., Ohio; received his early education in the common schools, afterward two years in attendance at the Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio. In 1864, commenced work on his father’s farm, and thus continued until 27 years of age, when he commenced life for himself, by commencing in the grain trade in Enon. Here he has, through proper conduct and good business habits, established a favorable and profitable grain market. In July, 1874, married Emma Spangler, an accomplished young lady. The issue of this union is two children, one son and one daughter.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1042

N. HARDMAN, merchant; P. O. Enon; is the son of Peter and Margaret Hardman. Peter was born in Virginia and Margaret in Scotland. Peter Hardman married early in life Miss Margaret Hacker, who ten years previous, when she was 11 years of age, being at the house of her sister, on Hacker’s Creek, near Clarksburg, Va., was tomahawked and scalped by the Indians. It seems that a marauding party of Indians was passing through the neighborhood, and attacked the family with whom she was staying, all the members of which were slain. Young Miss Hacker managed to conceal herself behind a door while the work of death was going on, but was finally discovered by one of the savages, who aimed a blow at her with his tomahawk, which took effect upon the side of her head; she fell and laid as if killed. Thinking their work of death complete, they scalped all the members of the family, and dragged the little girl after them from the house by the hair for some fifty yards, where they scalped her and threw her over a fence; observing that she gave signs of life, one of the savages stabbed her with his knife, which fortunately struck a rib, doing but little harm. She was afterward found and cared for, and recovered, although she suffered greatly, and finally died in her 39th year, from the effect of the tomahawk wound on her head. The subject of this memoir was born in Greene Co., Ohio, Jan. 3, 1813; never received but about three months of schooling. At the age of 18 years, started in life for himself by driving stage from Springfield to Cincinnati, then from Springfield to Columbus, and other lines. Those were days before the use of the powerful and useful railroad engine was seen swiftly passing through our land, and travelers then spent weeks and months to complete a journey that is now made in a few short hours. In 1836, married, abandoned stage driving, and engaged in blacksmithing, which he followed a period of five years in West Union, thence located in Enon, Clark County, where he continued his trade until April, 1870, at which time he was taken severely ill, and remained an invalid for eighteen months; reduced his weight from 176½ pounds to 41 pounds, hence was a mere skeleton of the human being. At the time of his marriage, could neither read, write, or calculate the smallest sum in arithmetic; but since his wife began to instruct him, and through his own energy and industry, and her sincere and earnest efforts, he has learned all this, and now is a fair business man. He has always been an earnest worker in the Republican party from its organization. He is now, and has been for five years, Mayor of his village, and had the honor of being Chief Marshal of the Centennial celebration of the “Battleground of Old Piqua,” on Aug. 9, 1880.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1042

WILLIAM HARDMAN, farmer and stock-dealer; P. O. Catawba. His father, Jonathan Hardman, was a native of Clarksburg, Va., who came to Ohio in the year 1806, and located in Greene Co., near Fairfield; lived there until death. Was a minister of the M. E. Church. He was connected with the military; was Colonel of a regiment. William Hardman was born Feb. 28, 1831, in Pleasant Township; was raised and educated upon a farm; has always been engaged in farming and stock-raising. He was married Oct. 29, 1856, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Lewis Birely, whose biography appears in this work. They had four children, viz., Miner W., Belle, and a pair of twins, Eddie and Ella. He has 94 acres in his farm, under good cultivation.

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

EDWARD HARFORD, Treasurer and Cashier, Springfield. Mr. Harford was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, Nov. 16, 1853; he emigrated to America with his parents, John and Caroline Harford, in 1856, coming to Springfield, Clark Co., Ohio, the same year; he received his education in the public schools of this city; entered Dr. Smith’s drug store as clerk in 1867, where he remained until May, 1876, when he engaged as clerk in the Springfield Savings Bank, and, in July, 1880, he was elected Treasurer and Cashier of said bank; his position constitutes him one of the Board of Managers. To show the importance of his position, we append a statement to the bank. Deposits and surplus fund Jan. 1, 1881, $500,000.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 837

DAVID HARNISH, farmer; P. O. Medway; is the son of David and Elizabeth Snavely Harnish, residents of Lancaster Co., Penn., where they lived and died; they were both members of the Mennonite Church. Mr. Harnish died about the year 1863, aged about 80 years. Mrs. Harnish died July 4, 1878, aged 93 years. The subject of this sketch was born Oct. 12, 1823, in Landcaster Co., Penn., and emigrated to Ohio in 1845, and settled in Bethel Township, where he has since lived. In 1849, he bought the farm where he now lives; on Nov. 20, 1849, he united in marriage with Fanny, daughter of John and Nancy Barr, residents of Richland Co.; by this union have been born to them eight children, two sons and six daughters, viz.: Mary Ann, born Oct. 21, 1851; Elizabeth, Aug. 21, 1853; Samuel, Dec. 27, 1855; Anna, Feb. 5, 1858; Frances, Oct 25, 1860; Susanna, Jan. 21, 1863; Sarah, March 8, 1865; David, Feb. 13, 1868. Mrs. Harnish born Feb. 1, 1826. Mr. Harnish has a beautiful home, pleasantly situated in every respect, and has the respect of friends and acquaintances.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1029

JOHN S. HARNISH, minister and farmer; P. O. Medway; was born in this township May 1, 1843, and is the son of John and Esther Bowman Harnish, natives of Lancaster Co., Penn.; his father was born Feb. 13, 1801, and his mother July 24, 1805. He emigrated to this township in 1840, and followed the pursuit of farming and was also Minister and Bishop of the Reformed Mennonite Church, which offices he filled with credit; his death occurred Aug. 29, 1870; his wife still survives him. The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood days with his father upon the farm until his marriage with Catharine Davis, daughter of Phineas and Eliza Davis, Dec. 6, 1864. Mrs. Harnish was born July 29, 1841. By this union six children have been born, four now living—Albert G., born March 13, 1867; Lizzie C., March 13, 1869, died Dec. 7, 1872; Joseph D., born Feb. 19, 1871; Martha J., April 27, 1873; Henry B., June 5, 1874, died July 25, 1875; Esther B., born July 27, 1876. Mr. Harnish is minister of the Mennonite Church, his wife is a member of the same church; they are very kind and good people, and have the respect of all who know them.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1029

EZRA C. HARRIS, physician and surgeon, Clifton; was born Sept. 28. 1844, in Harmony Township, this county. His father being a tradesman in limited circumstances, his early years were so trenched upon to aid in maintaining the family that his opportunities for education were greatly abridged. In August, 1862, he responded to his country’s call for aid in arms, and enlisted as a private in Company I, 110th O. V. I.; met the enemy at Winchester, Spottsylvania, the Wilderness, and other hotly-contested fields of blood, until April 10, 1865, when, having been disabled by several gun-shot wounds, he was honorably discharged and returned to civil life. Years of his life calculated by nature for education having been spent in arms in the service of his country, he now, on his return, attended a common school, taught by Prof. W. S. Grimm, in what is known as the Reed Schoolhouse. He next, during a period of four years, taught school in this and Champaign Counties, and then entered Wittenberg College, where he pursued his studies until the full expiration of the junior year. His parents having previously removed to Bellefontaine, Ohio, he located there and commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Pratt, under whom he studied one year, then took one course of lectures in Cincinnati Medical College, and completed his professional preparation and graduated in Columbus Medical College in the spring of 1876. He located and opened an office in Clifton, this county, where he has since remained; has built himself a commodious and neat residence and office, which evinces his industry, professional efficiency and success. On May 23, 1871, while a freshman in college, he was joined in marriage to Miss M. Belle, youngest daughter of Squire Anthony and Maria Wallace Bird, of Springfield Township, this county. The issue of this marriage is James Howard and Martha Mabel, aged respectively 7 and 4 years.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1049

JAMES HOWARD HARRIS, M. D., one of the successful and representative physicians and surgeons of Clark County, is established in the practice of his profession at Clifton, and has the satisfaction of claiming Clark County as the place of his nativity, his birth having occurred in the City of Springfield, April 8, 1873. He is a son of Dr. Ezra C. and Marie (Bird) Harris. The father was born in Harmony Township, this county, September 28, 1844, and was reared on the pioneer farm, in the work of which he early began to aid. He continued to attend the public schools of the locality and period until the inception of the Civil war, and though he was but sixteen years of age at the time, he promptly found opportunity to give definite expression to his youthful patriotism by enlisting as a private in Company I, One Hundred and Tenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He proceeded with his command to the front and took part in all of its engagements until the time when he was so severely wounded as to be incapacitated, when he received his honorable discharge. After the war he followed the course of his ambition by preparing himself for the medical profession. He graduated from Starling Medical College, now the medical department of the University of Ohio, and then engaged in practice at Clifton, where he continued his successful service until 1888, when he removed to Springfield, the county seat, in which city he held prestige as an able physician and surgeon and loyal and progressive citizen until the time of his death, April 19, 1920, his wife having passed away in 1882, and both having been earnest members of the United Presbyterian Church, in which he served many years as an elder. Dr. Harris was a staunch advocate of the principles of the republican party, was affiliated with the Grand Army of the Republic, and in the Masonic fraternity he received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He consecrated his life to his noble and exacting profession, which was dignified and honored by his character and service. Of the children. Dr. James H., of this review, is the eldest; Mabel, who graduated from Monmouth College, is, in 1922, a student in the University of Ohio, and Lucy, likewise a graduate of Monmouth College, is the wife of Rev. Joseph Speer, a Presbyterian clergyman.

Dr. James H. Harris was reared at Clifton and Springfield, and after having attended the high school in Springfield and pursued a higher course in Wittenberg College, he entered Starling Medical College, his father’s alma mater, in which institution, now a part of the University of Ohio, he was graduated in 1895, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. From that time to the present, he has been successfully established in general practice at Clifton, and is doing a work that effectively supplements that of his honored father. He has developed a large and successful practice and is one of the representative physicians and surgeons of his native county, within which his circle of friends is coincident with that of his acquaintances. He is actively identified with the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife are active members of the Presbyterian Church in their home village.

On the 14th of November, 1895, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Harris and Miss Gretta McCullough, who likewise was born and reared in Clark County and who is a graduate of the Clifton High School. Dr. and Mrs. Harris have one son, James M., who is, in 1922, a member of the junior class in the Clifton High School.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 52

JOHN K. HARRIS, Springfield; is one of the few men who have combined inventive genius with successful business management; he is a native of Switzerland Co., Ind., born in 1822. At the age of 17, he left the parental roof and began the battle of life without means or influential friends. The latter, however, he soon secured, and through the aid of J. F. D. Lanier, a banker of Madison, Ind., he obtained two years’ tuition at the college then conducted at Madison. During the two years following, by teaching and assisting in the bank, he secured a fair education, and in the meantime, by economy and industry, had repaid his benefactor and accumulated a little surplus capital. About this time he became interested in patents, which led to his experimenting and the development of inventive genius. A mowing machine with adjustable cutter bar, and probably the first harvesting machine to which the adjustable principle had been applied, was among his first inventions, but his principal success was in connection with a hay press, known as the “Beater Hay Press,” which, though originally the invention of a neighbor, subsequently became the property of Mr. Harris, after which he so improved it as to make it more practical and portable, and finally, after years of labor and perseverance, achieved great success in the sale first of the presses and afterward of the patent, by which he realized a clean $100,000. A description of this press may not be uninteresting to the readers. We can give no better than to copy the main clause of the claim upon which the letters patent were issued, viz., “Filling the press-box with the substance to be pressed into bales, by means of a beater or driver raised by machinery and made to descend upon the substance in the box, successively by gravity, whether effected in the manner described or in any other mode analagous thereto.” This press still maintains its standing for excellence, and is in very general use. After the close of the war, Mr. Harris removed to Springfield, having purchased the handsome residence property No. 265 North Limestone street, which has since been his home. During the past year, he has invented a button-hole attachment for sewing machines, which he is now perfecting and which will undoubtedly come into very general use, as it is very simple in construction and can be furnished at a moderate cost, and may be adjusted to any of the standard machines. Mr. Harris is now close to 60, but is still active, and though he has been all his life engaged in the invention, handling and sale of patents, he has never had a lawsuit in connection therewith. He at one time released a square and legal title, which he purchased of an agent handling Howe’s Sewing Machines, upon Mr. Howe’s representation that, while the agent had a legal right to dispose of the “right,” it was by reason of a technical error, the intention being to grant power to sell machines only. Thus he allowed a fortune to pass from his grasp for a nominal sum, out of regard for the rights of a brother inventor. Mr. Harris has always been a reliable temperance man, and for many years a member of the Presbyterian Church, his present membership being with the first church of this city. He has been twice married, his first wife, nee Jane Patton, was also a native of Switzerland Co., Ind., and bore him five children, the youngest of whom, a son, died of accidental injury a short time previous to the decease of the mother, which occurred in 1870. Three daughters and a son survive, viz., Mrs. Charles M. Safford, of Cleveland; Mrs. B. P. Thiebaud, of Mt. Auburn; and Miss Anna M., and John Edward, who are members of the present household. Mr. Harris’ present wife, was Miss Hanna L. Phillips, is a native of Indiana. Their marriage was celebrated at Moore’s Hill, Ind., in 1872.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 837

WILLIAM T. HARRIS, merchant; P. O. Vienna Cross Roads. The subject of the sketch was born in Clark Co., Ohio, Sept. 17, 1826, his father, having been one of the early pioneers of the county. William T. was brought up on a farm and continued to farm until he was 45 years old, when he quit farming and moved to Vienna where he now resides. Mr. Harris commenced mercantile life in 1871, and has continued in the same since. Mr. Harris is the leading merchant of the town; he has a considerable stock of dry goods, groceries, etc. etc., such as is usually kept in a country store. The subject of this sketch was married to Miss Mary C. Forshee, daughter of Dr. Forshee, Nov. 19, 1848. His wife, Mary C., died in January, 1861. He married his second wife Mrs. Rosanna McGarry (nee Marsh) in March, 1863. During his first marriage he had born to him four children, and by their second marriage they had born to them two children—Oliver B., born Jan., 1863, and Manville R., Dec. 28, 1866. Mr. Harris has served two terms as Justice of the Peace in Harmony Township; Mr. Harris is an active member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is also a leading member Christian Church, of Vienna. Mr. Harris started in life at the very “bottom round of the ladder,” but, by industry and economy, he has been, in a measure, successful in accumulating some property, and to-day he is in quite comfortable circumstances.

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

CALEB HARRISON, farmer; P. O. South Charleston; was born in Delaware Co., Penn., July 7, 1830, a son of John F. and Elizabeth Harrison; they were both natives of Pennsylvania, he being born Feb. 2, 1804, and she Dec. 15, 1801. They came to Ohio in 1838, and located in Madison Township, Clark Co., where for several years they rented farms. Finally, they purchased a farm near Springfield, which is still in the hands of the heirs and widow. Their children were as follows: Charles P., Caleb, John F., Eliza, Abagail P. and Rebecca. Charles P. and Abagail P. are deceased. John F. Harrison, Sr., departed this life Feb. 26, 1875. Caleb assisted in the labors of his father’s farm till 26 years of age, when he began life for himself. For several years, he followed farming in this county. In 1865, he moved to Louisa Co., Iowa, and was engaged in the mercantile business till 1869. In 1871, he began in the mail service, which he continued five years, being located at Burlington. In February, 1877, he returned to Clark County, and purchased a farm in Madison Township, where he now resides. He was united in marriage, March 3, 1857, with Catharine A. Foster. She was born in this county March 2, 1839. The fruits of this union were two children, Charles F. and William (deceased). Mrs. Harrison is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1066

CHARLES FOSTER HARRISON. Well known in financial and business circles of Springfield is Charles Foster Harrison, vice president and cashier of the Mad River National Bank and vice president and manager of the Springfield Clearing House Association. He has been identified with the former institution for a period of thirty-four years and is one of the prominent men of Springfield who has worked his own way up the ladder of success.

Mr. Harrison is a product of the agricultural community south of the City of Springfield, where he was born on a farm in Springfield Township, July 31, 1859, a son of Caleb and Catherine (Foster) Harrison. His father was born near West Chester, Pennsylvania, a son of Frederick Harrison, who was the founder of this branch of the Harrison family in Clark County. Catherine Foster, the mother of Charles Foster Harrison, was the daughter of William Foster, an Englishman born in London and an early settler of Clark County. The parents of Charles F. Harrison died the same day, in 1913, and were buried in the same grave.

Charles F. Harrison was reared on the home farm in Springfield Township until he was a lad of seven years, and then, in 1866, his parents removed to Burlington, Iowa. In 1877, however, the family returned to Clark County and to the old farm. The lad was educated in the public schools of Clark County and the high school at Burlington, Iowa. After leaving the latter institution he followed agricultural pursuits with his father until the time of his marriage, then entering the Farmers National Bank of South Charleston, Clark County. Starting with the bank in a minor capacity, at a salary of thirty dollars per month, he was gradually promoted until when he left the service of the bank, three years later, he was filling the positions of bookkeeper and teller. On March 10, 1888, Mr. Harrison entered the service of the Mad River National Bank of Springfield in the capacity of general bookkeeper. Later he was appointed assistant cashier, and in 1910 was promoted cashier. He became identified with the Springfield Clearing House Association in 1906, and has been manager and vice president thereof for ten years. In point of length of active service Mr. Harrison is the oldest banker in Springfield. Much of the prestige that is maintained by the Mad River National Bank has come as a result of his ability, energy and sound practicality, while his courtesy and at all times obliging nature have served to gain many friends for the institution. In banking circles he is accounted able and thoroughly informed, and his associates have the utmost confidence in him. Mr. Harrison is identified with a number of civic bodies, including the Springfield Chamber of Commerce, and, possessing pride in the city of his adoption, is always ready to assist worthy movements pertaining to its welfare and advancement along constructive material lines. While he is an extremely busy man, engrossed in the daily routine of his important duties, he is not adverse to the companionship of his fellows and is one of the popular members of the Springfield Country Club.

Mr. Harrison was united in marriage in Clark County with Miss Lucy Griffith, the daughter of Cyrus and Martha Griffith, of South Charleston, Clark County, and to this union there was born one daughter, Elizabeth, who is now the wife of Charles A. Crummell, formerly a resident of Dayton, but now of Springfield. Mrs. Harrison is a member of the Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Harrison is an attendant.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 197

JOSEPH HARRISON, carriage trimmer, Springfield. Joseph Harrison was born in 1809 in Yorkshire, England; he was the third of six brothers—Robert, John, Thomas, Peter and Richard, all of whom with one sister and their parents came to America in 1833, settling in Waynesville, Warren Co., Ohio. In the spring of 1838, the subject of this sketch having, on the 28th of February previous, married Miss Phoebe Kindle, of Mount Holly, N.Y. To Mr. and Mrs. Harrison were born three sons and two daughters, of whom only two sons are living, one having died of yellow fever in Memphis in 1875. William Harrison, his first son, born in 1840 in Springfield, is a carriage trimmer; was two years in the army as a member of 110th O. V. I. He married Miss Louch and has one daughter. The younger son, Robert, is now 30 years of age, and is living with his father. After coming to this country, Mr. Harrison worked at the harness and saddlery trade several years; then went into the concern of E. & J. Driscol carriage manufacturers, as carriage trimmer and book-keeper, having general charge of their office and remained with them thirty years. Mr. H. has gone on the “slow-but-sure” principle, and owns his own comfortable home No. 146 West Columbia street. His father died in 1854, and his mother near 1856. His brother Richard read law cotemporaneously with Judge White, of this city, under Judge Rogers, and is now practicing law in Columbus, Ohio. One of his sisters died in England, and the other came over and a short time since married the Rev. Mr. Dolby, a Protestant Methodist minister, and died about a year ago. Mr. Harrison was for three years on the School Board; was for quite awhile a member of the City Council from his, the Second Ward, and is now Township Trustee. Mr. Harrison is a man of the massive, ponderous sort, genuine, courteous and square. A temperance man for years, and a worthy citizen in every sense of the word.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 837

SEYMOUR HARROLD, farmer; P. O. South Charleston. Samuel Harrold, the name of the first of the Harrolds of whom we have any record, was born in Normandy, and was therefore a descendant of the Norsemen, those warriors, or “Vikings old,” who became conspicuous by their conquests in Northern Europe, from the eighth to the tenth century. In their exploits by sea they are known to have touched the shores or America in the tenth century, and if, as some archaeologists believe, the old tower at Newport was built by them, who knows but some of our piratical progenitors were at the building of that antique structure. In consulting the old records of my grandfather, Judge David Harrold, who was a careful chronicler, I find the following: “Samuel Harrold was born in Normandy. He held a Lieutenant Colonel’s commission in King William’s army (William III). He was in several battles in England and Ireland. Among other engagements, he was present and active in the famous battle of the Boyne in 1690, where he lost one of his legs by a cannon ball. For his services in the army, King William gave him a grant of land in the county of Cavan, Ireland, where he settled, married, and raised one son, named William, who, when he was grown, married into a family by the name of Eliott.” William had but one child to survive him, named Samuel, born 1728. He came to America at the age of 17; married a lady by the name of Russell, by whom he had five sons. His wife died in the year 1777. He afterward married Rachel Carver, widow, by whom he raised two children, Rebecca (who married Joseph Gillingham, of Philadelphia) and David. David Harrold was born December, 1780. He was married to Martha Wall, July 9, 1811. Martha Wall was born Jan. 7, 1776. David Harrold was born in Bucks County, Penn., where he followed farming and lumbering on the Delaware River. In 1812, he moved to Tompkins County, N.Y., where he purchased 400 acres of land. In the year 1817, he sold his farm at $30 per acre, and moved to Buffalo. In the following spring he moved to Ohio; helped lay out the town of Upper Sandusky (now Fremont). In February, 1820, he moved to Madison Co., Ohio, four miles south of South Charleston, Clark County, but has always been identified with the latter place. He purchased 3,000 acres of land in the counties of Clark, Madison and Fayette, and became prominent among the leading farmers and stock raisers. He was one of the first men in the State to engage in the breeding of thoroughbred cattle, making his first purchases from the importation of “Sanders, Smith and Teagarden, in the year 1817.” I believe he was president of the first agricultural society organized outside of Hamilton Co., Ohio, which was held at South Charleston, in the year 1836. He was a great reader, investigating nearly all subjects of interest, and though raised a Quaker, he was a Liberal in his religious views. He filled the office of Associate Judge three different times during his life. He died at the Harrold homestead, May 13, 1862, a quiet and peaceful death. His wife died July 17, 1858. The following children were born to David Harrold; Solon, who died in infancy; Caroline, who died when a child; Alfred, born May 11, 1815, and died Aug. 17, 1836, not married; William, born Nov, 9, 1818, died March 22, 1861, and Charles, born Dec. 22, 1813. Charles Harrold studied law under Mason & Torbert, in Springfield, Ohio, and was admitted to practice in the year 1836. After practicing law a short time in London, Ohio, he retired to his estate in Fayette Co., Ohio, devoting his time to study, and improving his farm. He never married; was a fine scholar, and collected an excellent library. Many sought him to obtain legal advice, which was always given free. He was found dead in his bed on the morning of June 28, 1873, as though quietly sleeping. William Harrold lived with his father, David Harrold, at the homestead, engaged in farming and stock raising; he died nearly a year previous to his father’s death. He married Margaret Jones in June, 1843. Eight children were born to them—Marcella, died in infancy; Minnie and Olive, died in Chicago, Ill., each at about the age of 18; Alfred, “killed at the battle of Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862, member of Co. C, 74th O. V. I., Col. Moody;” Maria, who married Dr. H. D. Garrison, of Chicago, in London, England, in 1878; Emma, who resides with her mother, at Ellis Park, Chicago; Annie, who married Wells S. Troder, now of Minneapolis, Minn., and Seymour, writer of this article, who married Laura, daughter of Edwin and Frances Pierce. Has three children now living—Ralph, aged 12, who, with his father, are the only male members known to be alive of this family of Harrolds; Bertha, aged 10; Annie, aged 3. As I am writing to interest my own descendants, it may not be out of place to say that I (Seymour), with my mother and two sisters, Maria and Emma, spent the winter of 1878, in Europe, mostly in Rome, whither I went in search of health. My family has always been liberal in religion; anti-slavery; Republican in polities. Respectfully, SEYMOUR HARROLD.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1066

CARRIE M. HARSHBARGER, farmer; P. O. North Hampton. The subject of this sketch is the daughter of Morgan and Mary A. (Barclay) Smith, who emigrated from Greene Co., Penn., to Adams Co., Ind., in 1847. Carrie was born Dec. 13, 1840, and assisted her parents until 20 years of age, when she commenced teaching school, which she continued until she married Abraham Harshbarger, Oct. 5, 1865. Abraham was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Click) Harshbarger, of this county. Abraham was the father of three sons—Frank B., born Oct. 3, 1866; William S., Oct. 26, 1868; Orville G., Dec. 17, 1871. After their marriage they moved to North Hampton and purchased a saw-mill, which he ran until 1872, and disposed of it, and purchased 100 acres of land, and turned his attention to the cultivation of the soil, which he continued at until 1873, when he was summoned out of this world by the messenger of death. Mr. Harshbarger was a gentleman who had been esteemed by his many friends. Mrs. Harshbarger, at the death of her husband, found the estate somewhat embarrassed, but, by her energetic nature and economy, she kept her little family together and paid off all obligations, and is endeavoring to give her three sons the advantages of a good education. She is a member of the Reformed Church and a teacher in the Sabbath school. Thus, while working and accumulating this world’s goods, she is also in the higher and nobler work of life, trying to lay up treasures in heaven by training up those under her charge in the admonitions of the Lord.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1017

MRS. SARAH J. HARSHBARGER, North Hampton. The subject of this sketch is the daughter of George and Mary Stockmyer, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania about 1812. In 1840, they resided in Allen Co., where Mrs. Harshbarger was born. When she was but 3 years of age her father died, and the following ten years of her life were passed with her sister; then she made her home with Jacob Flick, of this county, for a period of eight years, when she was united in marriage with Samuel Harshbarger, of North Hampton, where they now reside. Their children are Almeda, born Aug. 30, 1862; Olga M., Sept. 26, 1865; Alonzo U., Nov. 23, 1867; and Musa, Oct. 17, 1874. The parents are members of the Reformed Church; are exemplary people, loved and respected by the community in which they move. They have adopted and raised several children. The political atmosphere of the household is Republican.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1017

FREEMAN V. HARTMAN, Township Clerk; P. O. Vienna Cross Roads. The subject of this sketch is a native of Harmony Township, Clark Co., Ohio; he was born Feb. 28, 1834. John Hartman, the father of Freeman V., was a native of the State of Pennsylvania, and came to Clark Co. and settled in Pleasant Township at a very early day. He died in Sandusky City, Ohio, of the cholera, in 1835; he left a wife and four children at his death. His widow, Mary Hartman, is still living in Harmony Township; she is in her 77th year; she was born in the State of New York, near Buffalo, in 1804. The subject of this sketch was married, in November, 1851, to Miss Catharine Dynes, a daughter of George Dynes, who was an old settler in Harmony Township; he now resides in Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio. There was born to them three daughters: Mary E. (now the wife of George F. Tavener), Elizabeth (now the wife of J. M. Olinger), and Jennie R. (now the wife of David H. Campbell); Catharine died Aug. 25, 1865. Mr. Hartman was married to his second wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Keyes (nee Dynes, a sister to his first wife), July 11, 1880, at Springfield, Ohio; the marriage was performed by Rev. William A. Robinson, of the M. E. Church. Mr. Hartman has been elected Township Clerk for seven terms; be was appointed Deputy United States Marshal in 1880, and took the census of Harmony Township; he has been a member of the Republican Central Committee of Clark Co. for ten years; he has also served on the United States grand jury for three terms.

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

GIDEON HARTMAN, farmer; P. O. Lawrenceville. Born in Pennsylvania March 6, 1832. Is a son of Peter and Hannah (Myers) Hartman, natives of Pennsylvania. They emigrated to Ohio, locating in Clark Co., in 1837, upon the tract of land upon which his son Lewis now resides. Here he lived till his death, May 31, 1872. His wife is still living at the home place with Lewis, and is now 77 years of age. They have four children—Maria, Amos N., Gideon and Lewis M. Our subject was married, Dec. 24, 1857, to Barbara, daughter of Daniel and Susanna Snell, natives of Virginia; issue, seven children; five now survive—Oscar W., Ella F., Alice Ida, Effie May and Charles Elmer. They at once located upon the farm where they now live and have since resided. His farm consists of 181 acres of land, 125 of which are in cultivation, with good buildings and improvements, constituting a nice farmer’s home and residence. Mr. Hartman and wife are members of the German Baptist Church, to which they attached themselves five years ago.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1001

JACOB B. HARTMAN, dealer in medicines. Jacob B. Hartman is the son of Christian Hartman, who was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Nov. 19, 1798, and died Sept. 19, 1829, having in the meantime married his wife, Anna, a native of the same county, born Feb. 25, 1795, and died April 17, 1861, by whom he had the children following: Anna, born July 11, 1814; Henry, Sept. 8, 1816; Abraham, June 9, 1819; Christian, March 7, 1820 ; Jacob B., Sept. 19, 1822; Elizabeth, July 29, 1824; Harriet, Sept. 19, 1827, and Samuel B., April 1, 1830. Jacob B. came to near Medway, Bethel Township, in the fall of 1839, and has since resided here, having always voted at the same precinct. On the 2d of November, 1848, he married Miss Nancy Neff, and in due time became the father of the following seven children, to wit: Elizabeth, born Feb. 19, 1849; Mary, Jan. 17, 1851; Anna, Nov. 23, 1852; John D., May 19, 1855; Martha Jane, April 6, 1859; Susan N., June 6, 1861; Barbara M., Feb. 17, 1863. The father of these (our subject) commenced business as a carpenter, building some houses and nearly all the barns in the neighborhood. In 1860, he engaged in bridge building as agent for the “Smith Bridge Co.” of Toledo, Ohio. In this he continued until 1877, when he entered the patent medicine business with his brother, Dr. Samuel B. Hartman, of Lancaster, Penn. Having been left an orphan at a tender age, and by that misfortune deprived of the advantages of education himself, he, however, fully realizes its importance and has given his family a thorough course of learning—one son now being a college graduate.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1028

T. EDWARD HARWOOD, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 26, 1846; he resided there until the age of 5 years, when he moved to Newark, Ohio, with his parents, Francis Lee and Mary Harwood, where he spent the greater part of his childhood; his opportunities of attending school were very limited; he worked on a farm in the summer and attended the country school in the winter. At the age of 12 years, he was apprenticed to the Hon. William B. Morgan, publisher of the Newark Advocate, to learn printing. In 1865, after a short residence at Columbus, Ohio, he came to Springfield in search of employment, which he found in the Daily News. He was married, in 1868, to Miss Anna M. Hartstone. Six children are the result of this happy union, four boys and two girls, all of whom are now living. Mr. Harwood is a member in good standing of the Ephraim Lodge, No. 46, I. O. O. F., and the Ohio Editorial Association. In 1873, after working on the Springfield Weekly Gazette about a year, he purchased the paper. In 1879, he started the Springfield Daily Gazette, a four-column folio. A few months afterward it was increased to a five-column folio, and again to a six-column paper. The Daily and Weekly Gazette are both largely circulated, and are in the greatest prosperity.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 838 - Transcribed by Sharon Wick

GEORGE WILLIAM HASTINGS, the President of the Republic Printing Company, was born in Lisbon, Conn., on the 13th of January, 1827. He was the son of Oliver and Lemira (Bushnell) Hastings. He came, at an early age, to Cincinnati, Ohio, and, having been thrown on his own personal resources, for a livelihood, he became the architect of his own fortunes. He was, for several years, in his younger days, a resident of Oberlin, Ohio, where he learned the art of printing in the office of the Oberlin Evangelist, and, in the course of time, met and married Miss Candace L. White, from Niagara Falls, N. Y., in the spring of 1848. He went thence to Cleveland, Ohio, and worked in the office of the true Democratic newspaper, now known as the Cleveland Leader. From Cleveland he went to Cincinnati, and from Cincinnati, in 1852, came to Springfield, purchasing here a printing establishment. In the spring of 1854, he commenced the publication of a journal known as the Dollar Weekly Nonpareil, and during the year following issued the paper as a daily, and it has been so issued, continuously, ever since. Subsequently the paper became known as the Daily News, and Mr. C. M. Nichols became associated with him in its ownership and publication. In February, 1865, Messrs. Hastings & Nichols purchased the Tri-Weekly Republic, and the paper was known as the News and Republic, and afterward and permanently as the Republic, the concern absorbing, in the course of its career and history, successively, the Daily Telegram, the Daily Advertiser and the Daily Times. The firm of Hastings & Nichols was finally succeeded by an incorporated organization known as the Republic Printing Company, which now exists and owns the Republic building on Main street, and carries on a general publishing, printing and binding business, and owns and conducts the business of the Republic Wrapping Paper Mills, at Enon, seven miles southwest of Springfield. Mr. Hastings has three daughters and one son. By industry, honesty, perseverance and close attention to business, he has acquired not only a fair fortune, but an honorable fame. His influence on society has been most wholesome; every just cause and interest has found in him an advocate and supporter.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 839 - Transcribed by Sharon Wick

CHARLES S. HATFIELD, one of the successful farmers of Greene Township, claims Illinois as the place of his birth, but is a representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of Clark County, Ohio. Nathaniel Hatfield, great-grandfather of the subject of this review, came from Kentucky to Ohio in the year 1805, and in 1808 he settled on a frontier farm in Clark County, where he became a pioneer in both civic and industrial development and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. Their son, James, grandfather of him whose name initiates this sketch, married Margaret Kitchen, and the latter’s son James, who was born in Springfield Township, Clark County, April 12, 1844, married Miss Harriet J. Stewart, daughter of Captain Perry Stewart, who was another of the well known pioneer citizens of Clark County. James Hatfield, Jr., father of Charles S., represented Clark County as a gallant young soldier of the Union in the Civil war, his first enlistment having been in the Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he saw active service at the front, as did he later as a member of the Eighth Ohio Cavalry, in which he enlisted after the expiration of his first term. In later years he perpetuated his association with his old comrades by maintaining active affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. His marriage with Harriet J. Stewart was solemnized April 12, 1866, and they removed to Logan County, Illinois, where they remained one year, within which, on the 27th of May, 1867, their son Charles S. was there born. Within a short time afterward they returned with their infant son to Clark County, and here James Hatfield farmed on rented land until 1872, when he purchased the fine homestead farm now owned and occupied by his son Charles S. On this place he continued his activities as one of the enterprising farmers of his native county during the remainder of his active career, and he was a citizen of prominence and influence in his community, as shown in the fact that for five years he was representative of Clark County in the State Legislature, his political allegiance having been given to the republican party. He and his wife were zealous members of the Christian Church on High Street in the City of Springfield. They are survived by three children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest; Jessie R. is the widow of Professor Alonzo C. Stretcher, who was a teacher of science in Antioch College; and Julia M. is the wife of J. Clarence Anderson, a hardware merchant at Yellow Springs, Greene County.

Charles S. Hatfield was reared on the farm which is now his place of residence, and in the public schools he continued his studies until he had duly profited by the advantages of the Springfield High School. Thereafter he completed a commercial or business course in Antioch College, and he showed the good judgment to continue his allegiance to the great basic industries of agriculture and stock growing, to which he has applied careful business methods and progressive policies and through the medium of which he has gained substantial success. He has continuously been associated with the operations of the old home farm, which property he purchased after the death of his father. He is giving special attention to the breeding of fine Polled Jersey cattle, and has the distinction of being secretary of the American Polled Jersey Cattle Club. He is a leader in the breeding of Polled Jerseys in this part of Ohio, and has made the enterprise eminently successful. Mr. Hatfield is a stockholder in the Emery Farmers Grain Company at Springfield, is a director of the Miami Deposit Bank, and his fine farm of 135 acres is situated in sections 27 and 28, Greene Township. He is a stalwart in the local ranks of the republican party and served as vice chairman of the Clark County Republican Committee. He is progressive and liberal as a citizen and has given many years of service as township assessor and real estate appraiser. He is a past chancellor of Clifton Lodge No. 669, Knights of Pythias. The name of Mr. Hatfield still appears on the roster of eligible bachelors in Clark County.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 209

LABAN W. HAUGHEY, dealer in real estate; South Charleston. Among the solid, substantial business men of Clark Co., L. W. Haughey stands deservedly high; a man of enterprising character, whose integrity and honesty in all the relations of life have never been questioned, we are pleased to be able to represent him in the pages of this work. His grandfather, Thomas Haughey, a native of Ireland, came to the American Colonies before the Revolutionary war; settling in Virginia, where he was married, of which union were eleven children—John the father of Laban W., being the eldest. He was born in Grayson Co., Va., Jan. 2, 1787, and was there married to Patience Sturdyven a native of the same county, born in 1792, and in 1810, came to Clinton Co., Ohio, the town of Wilmington, being now partly built upon the land which he owned. Thomas Haughey was a Revolutionary solder, and helped to humiliate the hereditary foe of his native land; and soon after John came to Ohio, he also came, settled in Clinton Co., removing thence to Greene Co., where he resided until his death. In 1818, John and family also removed to Greene Co., settling south of Jamestown, in Silver Creek Township, he and wife spending the balance of their days in that county, she dying in November, 1872, and her husband in April, 1876. The subject of this sketch was born in Clinton Co., Ohio, Oct. 13, 1811, and was the second in a family of twelve children, as follows: James N., Laban W., Sarah J., Ann, Lourenna, Churchwell M., Elizabeth, Nancy, John Q. A., Thomas J., Calvin A. and an infant unnamed; Sarah J. and six brothers are the survivors. Laban W. grew to manhood in Greene Co., receiving a limited education in the log schoolhouse of the pioneer days, and following farming as his general occupation. He was married in that county Nov. 17, 1841, to Cynthia Larkin, a native of the county, born Apr. 2, 1819, and the third in a family of seven children. She is the daughter of David and Nancy (Harper) Larkin, natives of Maryland where he was born Dec. 5, 1787, and she Oct. 7, 1792, both being old families of that State, “Harper’s Ferry” receiving its name from her family. They were married in Maryland Feb. 14, 1810, and soon afterward moved to Ohio, settling finally in Greene Co., coming in 1849 to South Charleston, where he is now residing, with his daughter Mrs. Haughey, his wife having died Jan. 28, 1881, a sincere member of the M. E. Church, after a union of seventy years, eleven months and fourteen days, an event almost unparalleled in the annals of married life. Mr. Haughey began life on his individual resources, and made a success from the first, owning a nice farm before his marriage, which he made by his own industry. In January, 1850, he came to South Charleston, and began dealing in grain and produce, in partnership with his father-in-law, this lasting four years, after which he followed stock-trading and money-loaning. In 1863, he was instrumental in establishing the First National Bank of South Charleston, upon the organization of which he was elected its President, occupying this position until its charter was surrendered, Mar. 24, 1877, the bank continuing as a private institution. For about fourteen years he has been a member of the M. E. Church, of which his wife has been a life-long adherent, and he has taken an active interest in the prosperity of Methodism throughout the county; has been in official position the whole period, and helped all churches regardless of creed. Every public movement found in him an active and hearty supporter, and he is recognized as one of the public benefactors of South Charleston. Politically, a Republican, he was an earnest upholder of the Union cause, giving his time and money to support the Government in that crisis, and to take care of the families of the soldiers in the field. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and was a Director in the School Board for about fifteen years; he is one of the Directors of the Mad River National Bank of Springfield; is the owner of 242 acres of land in Fayette Co., Ohio, and 900 in Indiana, beside property in South Charleston and Springfield, and is one of the wealthy men of this portion of Ohio. Mr. Haughey is a quiet, courteous gentleman, of retiring habits, whose character commands the confidence and respect of all with whom he comes in contact.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1067 - Transcribed by Sharon Wick

CHARLES D. HAUK, Secretary for Mast, Foos & Co., manufacturers of wind engines, lawn mowers and agricultural implements, Springfield; was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1848. His father was a “river man,” having been a steamboat Captain on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers for thirty-five years. The subject of this sketch was trained to business from early boyhood; he came to Springfield first in 1867, subsequently spent three years in Kansas City, and returned to Springfield in 1872, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits until Jan. 1, 1880, when Mast, Foos & Co. was re-organized as a stock company, and he became a stockholder and Director, and was elected Secretary, which position he now holds, having general direction of the business. Mr. Mast’s time and attention being divided with the different interests with which he is connected. He married, in 1872, Miss Mary E., daughter of Hon. E. G. Dial, whose biography also appears in this work. From this union they have two children.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 839 - Transcribed by Sharon Wick

EMANUEL HAUSE, blacksmith, Lawrenceville; born in York Co., Pennsylvania, Aug. 24, 1832. Is a son of John and Margaret (Hartman) Hause, natives of Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents were natives of Germany, the maternal of Pennsylvania. John and family emigrated to Ohio and located in German Township in the spring of 1848, where, in about six months after, he died. His wife died in July, 1877. From an issue of five children, four now survive—Lydia, Aarabel B., Emanuel and Peter J. The mother was married the second time to Emanuel Circle, by whom she had one child—William C. Our subject, at the death of his father; was 6 years of age. The family were left in quite limited circumstances, and the children obtained homes wherever they could be found. Emanuel worked here and there through the summer months, and in the winters remained at home with his mother and attended the district school. In May, 1855, he sought and obtained a position with Joseph Peters, of Springfield, to learn the blacksmith trade; continued with him two and a half years, thence he took a trip West, working at his trade at various points in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana for one year; thence in 1860, he and his brother commenced business on their own account in Lawrenceville, where they carried on black-smithing fourteen years, when his brother retired from the firm, and Mr. E. continued the business till April, 1880, when he sold out and bought a farm two and a half miles north of Lawrenceville. He was married, Oct. 3, 1861, to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Christena Brest, natives of Virginia; issue, eight children; six now survive—Laura A., Clark C., Otilla J., Kit C., Omer P. and Stephen S. Mr. Hause started out a poor boy; obtained but a limited education; learned his trade, and, by industry and economy, has, besides raising his family and meeting the expenses of much sickness, and the death of two children, accumulated a good property; owns 100 acres of good land, mostly in cultivation, with good buildings and improvements, and all paid for but $1,650. He has been a hard-working, energetic man, and is one of those who knows no such word as “fail.”

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1001

EMIN WITHERSPOON HAWKINS. Among the important offices having to do with the conduct of Clark County’s government is that of the county agricultural agent, the duties of which are of a character that necessitate the direction of a carefully-trained incumbent. The present county agricultural agent, Emin Witherspoon Hawkins, possesses the necessary qualifications and equipment for this position and is discharging its duties and responsibilities in a manner that is pleasing to the people and of great benefit to the community.

Mr. Hawkins was born at Fairmount, Illinois, March 23, 1894, a son of William C. and Mabel (Witherspoon) Hawkins. His paternal grandfather, Edmund Hawkins, a native of Ohio, migrated in young manhood to Edgar County, Illinois, where he settled among the pioneers and continued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits during the remainder of his life. His son William C. was born in that county, March 21, 1865, and was reared to agricultural operations, to which he devoted himself for many years. Removing to Fairmount, he became one of the prominent and influential men of his community, and served as mayor thereof for two terms, of two years each. He married Mabel Witherspoon, who was born May 10, 1866, near Fairmount, Illinois, a daughter of William Witherspoon, a native of the Prairie State and an early settler and farmer of Edgar County. She was a member of the old and distinguished Southern family of that name, the most noted member of which was John Witherspoon, the famous American educator, who was born at Yester, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, February 5, 1722. John Witherspoon became president of Princeton College in 1768, was a delegate for six years from New Jersey to the Continental Congress and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He died near Princeton, New Jersey, September 15, 1794.

Emin Witherspoon Hawkins attended the public schools near Fairmount, following which he spent three years at Fairmount High School, and then competed the four-year course at Danville High School. In 1912 he enrolled as a student at the University of Illinois, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1916, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science, after having pursued a full course in agriculture. On the completion of his education he went to Chicago, where he became a sheep buyer for Swift & Company at the Union Stock Yards, but failed to find his work congenial and accordingly went to Mount Prospect, Illinois, where he began teaching agriculture in the high school. He was thus engaged until December 1, 1917, when he enlisted for service in the World war and entered the air service, having been commissioned second lieutenant. He remained in that service and held the same rank until he received his honorable discharge January 7, 1919. In May, 1919, Mr. Hawkins became county agricultural agent for Ritchie County, West Virginia, and February 1, 1920, accepted his present position as county agricultural agent for Clark County, Ohio. Mr. Hawkins is a member of the National Agricultural Association, the Clark County Agricultural Association and the Clark County Grange. He also belongs to the Masonic Order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Alpha Gamma Rho college fraternity.

Mr. Hawkins married Miss Ethel Klophel, who was born at Stratford, Ontario, Canada, daughter of Edward Klophel. They have one child, Marjorie Louise.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 34

JAMES HAWKINS, SR., farmer; P. O. Plattsburg; the subject of this sketch is a native of England. He was born in Yorkshire on the 8th day of May 1808. James and his brother William came to America in 1826, and settled in Harmony Township, Clark Co., Ohio. They walked from the city of Philadelphia, Penn., to Harmony Township. He and his brother John, who resided in Harmony Township, worked at blacksmithing for one year and a half, then he went to Old Town, in Greene Co., and worked a short time. In 1828, he returned to Harmony Township and commenced his trade at Lisbon, where he continued to work until 1840. He was united in marriage to Miss Angelina Ferris Aug. 7, 1828. As a result of this marriage, there were born to them eleven children, all of whom lived until they were married, nine of whom are still living—Nancy F., Emily, Marflitt, Jane, James, John, Sandusky, Angus and William. Mr. H. purchased the farm upon which he now resides in 1840. His wife, Angelina, died Jan. 3, 1871. He was united in marriage to his second wife, Miss Linda M. Malsbury, a daughter of William Malsbury, Oct. 12, 1871. She was born Feb. 22, 1827, in New Jersey. At the time of her marriage she was residing in Hamilton Co., Ohio. Mr. Hawkins started in life a poor man, without any assistance but his energy and industry, and he has accumulated some 1,200 acres of land in Harmony Township, a greater portion of which he has divided with his children. Still he is the owner of 380 acres of land in Harmony Township, where he resides. His son, Marlitt Hawkins, was a private in the 94th O. V. I. He was discharged at the close of the war. He was a prisoner during his term of service a short time. Mr. Hawkins and Homer Allen, Sr., of Bellefontaine, Ohio, made a visit to the scenes of his childhood in England. They left Springfield Jan. 15, 1877, and returned Aug. 27, 1877. Mr. Hawkins and wife are members of the M. E. Church at South Charleston, Ohio, and as a business man he has ever been regarded as upright and honest, and has won and retained the respect of a large circle of Clark County’s best citizens.

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

JAMES ALEXANDER HAYWARD, whose death occurred in Springfield on the 22nd of May, 1916, was a native son of Clark County, which he dignified alike by his sterling character and worthy achievement, he having been long numbered among the representative figures in the business life of Springfield.

Mr. Hayward was born on the old homestead farm of the Hayward family, on the present Charleston Turnpike, Clark County, and the date of his nativity was August 16, 1836. He was a son of David Hayward, who was born in the State of New Jersey, in September, 1803, and whose father, Abraham Hayward, was born January 10, 1782. From New Jersey David Hayward eventually removed to Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), and thence he came to Ohio in the ’30s and established himself as a pioneer farmer in Clark County. He became one of the honored and influential citizens of the community, and at the time of his death, July 22, 1867, he was a member of the Board of County Commissioners and a director of the Springfield Board of Trade. At the time of his death the Springfield Daily News spoke of him as “an upright, able and conscientious man.” David Hayward married Elizabeth Newcomer, and they became the parents of three sons and three daughters.

James Alexander Hayward was reared to the sturdy discipline of the pioneer farm, received the advantages of the common schools of the locality and period, and grew virile in mental and physical stature. Upon leaving the farm he established his residence in Springfield and engaged in the lumber business, his first yard, one of modest order, having been on the site of the present office of the Thomas Manufacturing Company, on South Limestone Street. Mr. Hayward continued successfully in the lumber trade until 1892, when he became treasurer of the Hoppes Manufacturing Company, with which representative concern he continued his service in this position until his death. His high ideals were expressed in all phases of his singularly active and successful life, and he commanded inviolable place in popular confidence and esteem, the while he was known for his generosity and consideration and for unostentatious benefactions of many kinds. He was an active member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. He found his interests aside from business in the work of his church and the gracious precincts of his home. His first wife, whose maiden name was Harriet Rinehart, was a daughter of Levi Rinehart, another of the sterling pioneers of Clark County. Mrs. Hayward died in 1886, and is survived by two children, Harry B. and Bessie (Mrs. Guy Coblentz). For his second wife Hayward wedded Mary Thompson, daughter of Christopher Thompson, and she survived him five years, her death occurring in July, 1921. No children were born of this union.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 60

HARRY B. HAYWARD, only son of the late James A. Hayward, to whom the preceding memoir is dedicated, was born at Springfield, on the 1st of January, 1868, was educated in the public schools and a commercial college, and he initiated his practical career by becoming associated with his father’s lumber business. In 1892, in partnership with his cousin, L. M. Goode, he succeeded his father in this business, at the time of the father’s retirement therefrom, and the new firm continued the enterprise until 1916, when Mr. Hayward sold his interest to his partner, Mr. Goode. Since that year he has given his attention to the supervision of his various capitalistic interests and private business. He is a director of the Springfield Coffin & Casket Company, and is president of the Vulcan Hardware Company.

On the 8th of June, 1892, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hayward and Miss Alice Clifford, of Detroit, Michigan, and their only child, Ethel, is the wife of Charles G. Augustus. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus have one child, Charles Hayward.

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

J. S. R. HAZZARD, M.D., physician and short-horn breeder, Springfield. This county contains few more active men in everything that pertains to its general welfare than the well-known physician and fine stock breeder whose name stands at the head of this sketch; he is recognized by all good citizens as a man of talent and skill in his profession, as well as a valuable help to the farming community by encouraging and stimulating them in the growth and improvement of fine stock, and his efforts in this direction are so well known and appreciated, that it is unnecessary for us in this sketch to say more about them. Dr. Hazzard was born on the eastern shore of Maryland Jan. 21, 1827, and is the son of Cord and Mary P. (Rankin) Hazzard, the former a native of Delaware, and a relative of Gov. Hazzard, of that State; also of Com. Ferry of Erie renown, and his wife of Maryland, where they were married and had born to them four children, viz., Mary, Sally, Theodore and J. S. R. Hazzard. Theodore dying in childhood. Dr. Hazzard’s mother died when he was an infant and he was brought up under the care of his maternal relatives; his father was a wealthy merchant and slave-holder of Maryland, and entering the political arena was elected Sheriff of his county, but, falling a victim to the intemperate customs of that day, he lost all his property, leaving his children penniless. After paying every cent of his losses to the county, he abandoned his intemperate habits, and became a rigid temperance man, liberated his slaves, and was so trusted and respected throughout the county, that he held official position during the remainder of his life, dying Judge of the Orphans’ Court in 1849. The Doctor’s early education was obtained at Snow Hill Academy, Worcester Co., Md., and, in 1843, he came to Clark Co., Ohio, and resided with his uncle, James Rankin, four years, at the end of which time he entered the office of Dr. Solon Curtice, of Vienna, and, in the winter of 1849-50, attended lectures at the Medical Department of the Western Reserve College, Cleveland, Ohio, and, in April, 1850, he began practice in partnership with Dr. Joseph Orr, at Harmony. The Doctor received a diploma from the State Medical Society in 1864; he graduated from the Western Reserve College in 1870, and from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1874, from which can be gathered that his medical training has been extensive and varied, and has well fitted him for the successful practice of his profession, in which he has been engaged since April, 1850, a continuous practice extending over thirty-one years, and he has lived in the same neighborhood the whole period, with the exception of a short experience as a druggist of Springfield in 1866-67. He was married, Jan. 19, 1854, to Mary E. Price, daughter of the Rev. Thomas J. and Julia (Corwin) Price, who was born in Clark County Aug. 12, 1832. Her grandfather, James Price, settled in Harmony Township in 1820, and her father who was a native of Wales, was the well-known Baptist minister who lived on Sec. 4, south of Dr. Hazzard’s present home, and who died in Champaign Co., Ohio, April 15, 1876. Her mother was a sister of Moses Corwin, of Urbana, and she died April 15, 1856. To Dr. Hazzard and wife have been born two children—Frank Corwin and Mary Julia, and he and wife belong to the Presbyterian Church. In 1867, he purchased his farm of 170 acres, remodeled the house, which is located on a beautiful hill overlooking the surrounding country, and here he devotes himself diligently to his profession, and in the growing of thoroughbred short-horn cattle, of which he is a recognized judge and authority, having been President of the Agricultural Society for about seven years. In 1864, he became a member of the Clark County Medical Society, and the same year was one of the delegates sent from Ohio to the Convention of the National Medical Association held at Washington; he was elected President of the society in 1867, and is also a member of the State Medical Society. Politically, a Republican. He is a man well fitted to represent the county in any capacity; of suave, pleasant manners, a well versed and agreeable conversationalist, temperate in all things, possessing a strong, robust physique, a picture of prefect health, no obstacle could successfully intervene between him and his duty. Indomitable courage and industry are also well-known traits of his character, and whatever he undertakes to accomplish he perseveringly pursues with all the energy of a strong nature, which generally leads to success. In all things he is strictly honorable, and is ever a hearty friend and boon companion whom every one admires and respects.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 839

JOHN SALLADAY HEAUME is owner and proprietor of the Hotel Heaume, one of Springfield’s newest and best hotels. Mr. Heaume was educated in Wittenberg College at Springfield, and since his college career has been an active figure in local business circles, and for many years has conducted a high class restaurant service, later amplified into the general hotel business.

Mr. Heaume is a native of Guernsey County, Ohio, and is in the fourth generation of a pioneer family in that section. The American ancestor and the founder of the name in Guernsey County was his great-grandfather, Peter Heaume. He was born a British subject on the Isle of Guernsey. He brought his family to the United States in 1832 and settled near Cambridge, among a colony of people who had come from the Isle of Guernsey and had given the name of their old home to this Ohio County. John Heaume, grandfather of the Springfield hotel man, was born on the Isle of Guernsey in 1816, and was sixteen years of age when brought to this country. He became a prosperous farmer and esteemed citizen of Guernsey County. In that county he married Rachael Priaulx, also a native of the Isle of Guernsey, and of a family that came in an early day to Guernsey County, Ohio. John Heaume in 1894, at the age of seventy-eight, accompanied by his grandson John S., went back to visit his old home on the Isle of Guernsey, and died while there.

William E. Heaume, of the third generation of the family in Guernsey County, was born on a farm near Cambridge, June 17, 1850. He later became a farm owner, and practiced agriculture until 1910, when he removed to Cambridge. From there he came to Springfield about 1915, and is now living retired. He married Amanda (Salladay) a native of Guernsey County, daughter of George Salladay, whose people were Virginians.

John S. Heaume, whose parents, William E. and Amanda (Salladay) Heaume, are residents of Springfield, is one of four children born to them: Minola is the wife of Rev. C. V. Larrick; Ella, deceased, was the wife of O. B. Drake; Alberta is the wife of Dr. J. E. Secrist and resides in Cambridge, Ohio. Mr. Heaume was born at the old Heaume farm near Cambridge, July 23, 1876. He spent his early life on that farm, and began his education in the common schools of the township. During 1895 he was a student in Wittenberg Academy at Springfield, and from there enrolled in Wittenberg College, where he remained until graduating A. B. in 1900. He was a member of the college fraternity Beta Theta Pi. He also took a course in the old Nelson Business College, and for three or four years was employed as an office man with different firms in Springfield.

Mr. Heaume entered the restaurant business in 1905. His place of business was established at the southeast corner of Fountain Avenue and Columbia Street. He developed and organized a high class service, greatly appreciated and liberally patronized by the public. For over twelve years he continued his restaurant, and in the meantime he began the erection of his hotel on the southeast corner of Fountain Avenue and Columbia Street. This hotel was completed and opened for business in 1917, and it now ranks with the three leading hotels of Springfield. It is a modern fireproof five-story brick building, with eighty rooms, each with private bath, and there are all other departments and features of first class hotel service.

Mr. Heaume is a member of Clark Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons, belongs to the Dayton Consistory of the Scottish Rite and Antioch Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Automobile Club and the Fourth Lutheran Church.

June 7, 1903, Mr. Heaume married Julia Douglas Moler, daughter of J. D. and Millie (Oaks) Moler. Her father for twenty-five years was city engineer of Springfield. She attended college at Oxford, Ohio. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Heaume are: Majorie Amelia, Mary Catherine and John Douglas.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 46

JOSEPH HEBBLE, physician; P. O. Enon. Of the medical profession of Mad River Township, we record the following of Dr. Hebble, who was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., where he acquired his early education in the common schools. In 1841, engaged in teaching, and soon became prominently known as a teacher; there he continued in this pursuit until 1846, when he came to Ohio, locating in Greene County, where he pursued the study of medicine until 1851, thence entered the Starling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio. After attending one course of lectures, abandoned the Medical studies, and engaged in teaching until the fall of 1853, when he resumed the study of medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, graduating in the spring of 1855. Soon after located in Miami Co., Ohio, where he successfully practiced four years, thence in Johnsville, Montgomery Co., Ohio, where he practiced until July, 1863, when he was commissioned Surgeon of the 55th, O. V. I. After a service of one year, returned to Ohio, and located in Enon, where he has since resided, and has a successful practice. He married Miss Mary E. Casad, by whom he has had nine children; all but one are now living.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1043

JOSEPH E. HEFFELFINGER, general agent Union Central Life Insurance Company, Springfield; is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Cumberland County in 1844; he early began a business career; was connected with the army as Sutler about three years. After the war he came to Ohio, and, after a short stay at Kenton, removed to West Liberty, Logan Co., where he commenced doing business for the Union Central Life Insurance Company, and continued as local agent there until 1872, when he received the appointment of general agent for Northwestern Ohio, which position he still holds; he removed to Springfield in May, 1876, and this has since been his residence and official headquarters. Mr. Heffelfinger’s insurance career covers nearly fourteen years, and is very complimentary to his ability and energy; he now has about twenty-five agents under his supervision, besides the business of his home office, and has over $4,000,000 of insurance in his territory.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 841 - Transcribed by Sharon Wick

ALBERT D. HEINDEL, who is, in 1922, giving loyal and effective service as township assessor of Moorefield Township, is not only one of the representative farmers of this township but also claims the same as the place of his nativity, his birth having here occurred on the 8th of September, 1858. He is a son of Matthias and Mary E. (Ferree) Heindel, both natives of York County, Pennsylvania, where the former was born in 1818 and the latter in 1824. After their marriage the parents continued their residence in the old Keystone State until 1851, when they came to Clark County, Ohio, and settled on a farm north of Lagonda, where they passed the remainder of their lives and where the father made a record of successful and worthy achievement as an agriculturist and stock grower. Matthias Heindel was a man of sterling character, was one of the substantial and honored citizens of Moorefield Township, was a republican in political adherency, and both he and his wife were earnest members of the United Brethren Church, in which he served as a trustee. Of their eleven children only two are living at the time of this writing, in 1922, the subject of this sketch being the elder of the two, and his sister, Alice, being the wife of A. B. Swartwout, of Moorefield Township.

Albert D. Heindel was reared on the old homestead farm, and after having profited fully by the advantages of the district school he continued his studies in the high school at Urbana, besides taking a normal course at Tremont. His good judgment has been shown in his continuous alliance with farm industry, for in this connection he has achieved marked success and has contributed his quota to the advancement of agriculture and livestock enterprises in his native county. He is a stalwart republican, and his secure place in the confidence and high regard of the people of his old home township is shown in his having served twenty-five years as township assessor and in his having been twice elected land appraiser of the township. He also gave ten years of service as a member of the School Board of his district. He is a valued member of the local Grange, and he and his wife are communicants of the Lutheran Church in the City of Springfield.

November 23, 1893, recorded the marriage of Mr. Heindel and Miss Anna M. Hotz, who was born on a farm north of Springfield, this county, December 20, 1870, and in the summer following their marriage they established their residence on their present fine homestead farm, which comprises sixty acres and which is well improved. Of their six children the eldest is Mary E., who graduated from the Springfield High School and who afterward devoted two years to successful teaching in the public schools, she being, in 1922, a student in Wittenberg College at Springfield. E. Wesley is associated in the operations of the home farm. Emma G., who is a graduate of the Springfield High School, is now a stenographer in the offices of the American Seeding Machine Company at Springfield. Albert D., Jr., is likewise a graduate of the Springfield High School, and he is now at the parental home. Mildred A. is a graduate of the same high school and is now a nurse in the City Hospital of Springfield. William H. is a member of the class of 1923 in the Springfield High School.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 86

D. O. HEISKELL, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. South Charleston. As a resident of the county since its organization, few are more deserving of space in this work than the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. John Heiskell, his father was of German parentage, born in Virginia, where he grew to manhood, learned the hatter’s trade, and married Elizabeth Plummer. In 1818, they, with their five children, emigrated from Virginia and settled in Springfield, where, for several years, he followed his trade. He received 96 bushels of oats for the first hat that he sold in this State. For several years, he kept hotel in Springfield, but, in 1829, he sold to Peter Murray and removed to South Charleston and engaged in the mercantile business with his son-in-law, Absolom Mattox. After a partnership of ten years, Mr. Mattox withdrew and returned to Springfield and became a partner of Pearson Spinning’s; was afterward elected Sheriff of the county. Mr. Heiskell then took his son, D. O., in as a partner, and the business was continued till 1847, when the son purchased his present farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. John Heiskell spent the remainder of his life in South Charelston. The names of his children are as follows: Margaret, afterward Mrs. Dr. Lawrence; Drusilla, wife of Absolum Mattox, Mary D., wife of Rufus Putnam; Adam and Daniel O. The last named is the only survivor; he was born in Virginia May 1, 1817; his education was obtained in the schools of Springfield and South Charleston. He was a member of the Village Council of South Charleston at the time when the cemetery was established; was appointed a committee of one to purchase the grounds for the same; has also served his township as Justice of the Peace, and has been Commissioner of the county two terms. He is an energetic farmer, and pays considerable attention to raising stock; his farm, located in Sec. 16, it is under good cultivation, and is one of the most desirable in the township. He was united in marriage with Mary Paist in the fall of 1839; she was born in this township Oct. 1, 1821; her father, Charles Paist, was for a number of years a very prominent merchant here; he first kept store on his farm in the country, and then in South Charleston; he dealt largely in stock, slaughtered and packed pork in South Charleston. He was a rank Abolitionist, and was connected with the “Underground Railroad.” The children of D. O. and Mary Heiskell were nine in number, five of whom are living—John, Elizabeth, Drusilla, William and Lawrence; Ada, Mary H. and two infants are deceased.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1068

J. B. HELWIG, Springfield. Rev. J. B. Helwig, D. D., President of Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, was born in Dover Township, Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, on Wednesday, the 6th day of March, A. D. 1833. His father’s name was Jacob. On his father’s side of the family, his earlier ancestors were Huguenots. On his mother’s side, they were English people, by the name of Jennings. His father’s ancestors settled in Pennsylvania, his mother’s in New Jersey. His grandfather’s name on his father’s side was George. On his mother’s side his grandfather’s name was Peter. His ancestors were farmers, and prior to his majority the subject of this sketch was engaged in the labors of the farm, the blacksmith shop, and as teacher of a common school. In September, 1855, at the age of 22, he entered the Preparatory Department of Wittenberg College, and was graduated from the college in 1861. He was married, to Eliza A. Miller, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, on the 6th day of July of the same year. He was licensed to preach the Gospel, by the Wittenberg Synod, connected with the English Lutheran Church of the General Synod at its session held at Wapakonetta, Ohio, in 1862, and was ordained the year following at Upper Sandusky by the same Synod. The first churches to which he was called were in Crawford Co., Ohio, at and in the vicinity of Sulphur Springs. He was Pastor of the churches of his denomination successively at Lancaster, Springfield, Cincinnati and Dayton. From the pastoral charge of the Main Street English Lutheran Chinch at Dayton, he was called to the Presidency of the Wittenberg College, at a regular meeting of the Board of its Directors held in same 1874; he entered upon the duties of the presidency of the college at the opening of the collegiate year in the month of September following, which position he occupies at the writing of this brief sketch, October, 1880.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 841

THOMAS B. HENNESSY, undertaker, Springfield. Thomas B. Hennessy is of Irish parentage, they coming from Cork and settling in Ohio; his mother is still living in Greene County. Mr. Hennessy is one of seven children, of whom three sisters and one brother are living; one of his sisters is a resident of Dayton, and two of Cincinnati; his brother John was a member of the 74th O. V. I., and was killed at Atlanta, Ga., in 1864. Mr. Hennessy has fought his way up to his present comfortable position by hard and unaided effort; he was born in Madison Township Dec. 21, 1854; at 17, he left home and worked on the Little Miami Railroad seven months, then entered the manufactory of Warder, Mitchell & Co. at Lagonda, and, during the three years he was in their employ, he worked in every department, from the simplest foundry work to the paint-shop, being in turn under seven different foremen; he then worked for the Driscols as carriage-painter for three years; afterward, in partnership with Peter Hall; bought out Owen Gallagher’s undertaking business. Meantime, he was united in marriage with Miss Julia Hayden, of Springfield, on Jan. 11, 1878, and they have a little daughter, Maggie, of 21 months. In July, 1879, Mr. Hennessy bought out Mr. Hall’s interest in the business, and has since conducted it alone, with good success. He is a member of Father Mathews’ Total Abstinence Society, and of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, for both of which societies he has been Secretary. He is a straightforward, energetic, reliable young man, with excellent prospects for the future—one of Springfield’s solid, self-made young men.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 841

HENRY-ARBOGAST FAMILIES. These are family names held in high honor in Clark County today, and they were in many ways typical of the sturdy virtues of the pioneers who settled and developed this section of Ohio. The families became related by the marriage of Walter C. Henry with Sarah Eliza Arbogast in the ’60s.

The founder of the Henry family was William Henry (1768-1842), grandfather of Walter C. Henry. He came from Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1813, bringing with him his wife, Elizabeth Johnson Henry, (1775-1846) and a family which increased to twelve, all of whom married except the youngest daughter, as follows: Polly, married Jonathan Jones, and had two sons; John, married Rachel Morris and had three sons and four daughters; Johnson, married Sarah McDaniels, had three sons and five daughters; Nancy (1808-1887), married James Heaton (1804-1887) and had two sons and two daughters; Hamilton, who married Rebecca Dalrymple, had two sons and six daughters; Martha (1804-1890), married James Morris, and had ten sons and one daughter; Jonathan, married Caroline Chamberlin, and had six sons and five daughters; Sarah, married Amos Wright, and had three sons and one daughter; Benjamin, who was married and had one son; Lavina (1815-1899), married Michael Wilson, Jr. (1814-1879) had eight sons and four daughters; William, Jr., who was the father of two sons and one daughter; and Miss Elizabeth. Altogether there were about sixty grandchildren. Many of these answered the call of the West, and from all the numerous progeny the two little daughters of the late Carlton Henry of Plattsburg, Martha Rice Henry and Carlton Louise Henry are the only representatives in Clark County today bearing the family name Henry. With the exception of the numerous descendants of Lavina Henry Wilson there are today perhaps less than a score of lineal descendants of William Henry and Elizabeth Johnson in Clark County.

The well established tradition exists that there is some relationship between this branch of the Henry family and that of the “immortal Patrick,” but no substantial evidence has so far been brought forward to establish proof of such relationship. Without the prestige of descent from such an historical character it should be noted that in this and many different localities a goodly number of ministers, lawyers, doctors, educators, successful farmers and business men sprang from the quiet, unobtrusive man, William Henry, a Christian gentleman, who is mentioned in a former Clark County history as “a kindly man much liked by everyone.” He and his wife helped to organize the first Christian Church society at Plattsburg. Later the Christians and Universalists joined with other denominations to build an edifice called the “People’s House,” which still stands.

Jonathan Henry (1807-1868) married Caroline Chamberlin (1811-1865) on October 20, 1833. Their old home was famed for its hospitality. In answer to an inquiry about this old homestead Miss Jean Canady of Plattsburg writes: “The main part of the old house is still standing on the Silvers farm. I have not been over to it for years, though as a child I was there every few days. Oh, what happy times we had there!” When the eleven Morris cousins and the twelve Wilson cousins came to visit Jonathan and Caroline and their eleven children it made quite a gathering, and several of those old time guests still remain to vouch for “those days of real sport.”

The eleven children of Jonathan Henry and wife were: Walter Chamberlin, who married Sarah Eliza Arbogast; Stephen Herriman (1837-1886) who married Anna Magennis; Mary Elizabeth (1838-1907); Hamilton Harrison (1840-1917) who married Amanda Welsh; William Isaac (1841-1863); Virginia Caroline (1843- ); Sarah Sophronia Caldwell (1844- ), second wife of J. M. Caldwell; George Washington (1847-1880), who married Elizabeth Lightner; Nancy, who died in infancy; Benjamin Franklin, (1849- ), who married Anna Conover; and Martha Lavina Caldwell (1851-1882, first wife of Joseph M. Caldwell, of Garnett, Kansas. Three of the sons, Stephen, Hamilton and Isaac, enlisted in Company K of the Thirty-first Ohio Infantry during the Civil war. Shephen was wounded at Chickamauga, Isaac, a color bearer, was killed at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, and Hamilton attained the rank of captain. Three of the daughters and three sons became successful teachers early in life. Twelve grandsons of William Henry served in the Civil war.

Walter C. Henry (1834-1913) and Sarah Eliza Arbogast (1839-1894) were married September 22, 1863. The bride was the eldest daughter of Henry Arbogast (1815-1859) and Susan Climer (1816-1894). She was a granddaughter of Peter Arbogast (1770-1842) who emigrated from Virginia to Clark County in 1812. Born and reared in Clark County, Walter C. Henry and wife received such education as the schools of that time afforded, but both supplemented this early education with wide and varied reading. Walter Henry was a real student of books. With true prophetic instinct and an eager philanthropic desire to help his fellowman, he lived and thought in advance of his time. He was a third party prohibitionist when it took moral courage to be one, and he was equally in advance of the spirit of the times advocating woman’s suffrage. He stood for a liberal religion, and he was never afraid to be in the minority.

The three children of this couple were: Caroline, Carlton and May Estelle. The last one of these to live in Clark County was the late Carlton Henry of Plattsburg. The only surviving child is May Estelle, now Mrs. Walter Jackson, of Chicago, who for many years has been a teacher in the Chicago public schools. The parents of these children when in middle life moved to London, Ohio, and spent their remaining years there.

Carlton Henry was reared at London, and as a child took a keen delight in books. Quite early his well trained, brilliant mind had accumulated a wealth of knowledge. The London High School, Ohio State University and Wittenberg College contributed to his education. He taught in both Madison and Clark counties, but after his marriage, in 1909, to Glenna Rice, daughter of the late James S. Rice and Angie (Busbey) Rice, of South Vienna, located permanently in Plattsburg, where he acted as secretary and manager of the Home Telephone Company. Even after his removal to Clark County he continued for years to hold the position of assistant secretary of the Madison County Fair Association. In these capacities and as principal of the Harmony Township High School over a long period of years he had a wide acquaintance over Central Ohio, and his friends were legion. He was a member of Chandler Post, F. and A. M., of London, and was affiliated with the Universalist Church, as were his parents and grandparents. He was a republican in politics.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 179

ELLIS HENTHORN. Among the older residents of Springfield few are better known and none more highly esteemed than Ellis Henthorn, for many years a leading contractor, and an honored veteran of the great Civil war. He is a native of Ohio, and except during the time when he was serving his country wherever duty called he has practically spent his life in the Buckeye State.

Mr. Henthorn was born in Monroe County, Ohio, April 22, 1838. His parents were James and Eliza (Wright) Henthorn, his father a native of Monroe County and his mother born in 1815 in Greene County, Pennsylvania. His paternal grandparents, William and Fanny (Myers) Henthorn, belonged to Ohio, and his maternal grandparents, Robert and Elizabeth Wright, to Greene County, Pennsylvania. James Henthorn was born in 1812, was a farmer all his life in Monroe County, Ohio, and died there in 1854. His widow survived him many years, dying at Springfield, to which city she had moved when it became the home of her son. She passed away in 1902. Of their nine children but four are living: Ellis, of Springfield; Thomas, of Milford, Delaware; Jane, wife of Joseph Lang, of Springfield; and Andrew, also of Springfield.

Ellis Henthorn was sixteen years old when he lost his father. He attended the district schools during boyhood, but after his father’s death provided for his own needs by working for other farmers, and was so engaged when the Civil war came on. On January 6, 1862, he enlisted for service, entering Company K, 78th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he took part in the battles of Fort Donelson and Shiloh, also Raymond Junction, Jackson, Champion’s Hill and siege of Vicksburg, and was honorably discharged at the close of this enlistment. On January 6, 1864, he re-enlisted in the same company and regiment, being in the 3rd Division, under General Logan, and in the 17th Army Corps, commanded by Gen. James A. McPherson, whose death he later witnessed at the battle of Atlanta. Mr. Henthorn participated in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, marched to the sea under Sherman, fought at Atlanta, then marched back to Petersburg and then to Richmond, and was one of the victorious army that took part in that never-to-be forgotten Grand Review at Washington, D. C. on May 21, 1865, and was finally discharged July 11, 1865.

Mr. Henthorn married on April 10, 1864, Miss Laura Tuttle, who was born at Zanesville, Ohio, August 29, 1847, a daughter of Benjamin and Catherine L. (Trout) Tuttle, and a granddaughter of Solomon and Sarah (Lowe) Tuttle. During the Revolutionary war Grandfather Solomon Tuttle served in the Vermont Dragoons, was captured by the British and kept a prisoner for thirteen months. After his marriage Mr. Henthorn located at Zanesville, and under his father-in-law learned the stone mason’s trade. After the death of Mr. Tuttle in 1879 Mr. and Mrs. Henthorn moved to Springfield, and here he went into the contracting business and for seven and one-half years, in addition to doing a large amount of work for private parties, did all the city stone work for bridge abutments and culverts. For fifteen years and three months also he was contractor for all the stone work for the National Harvester Company at Lagonda, then a suburb but now a part of the City of Springfield. Mr. Henthorn continued active in business until the age of seventy-five years, when failing eyesight compelled him to retire.

Mr. and Mrs. Henthorn had six children born to them: Alice, who died at the age of six years; Augusta and Mary L., both of whom lived to be forty-two years old; William, a soldier during a great part of his life, died in Springfield, Ohio, November 21, 1919; Bessie, who resides with her father; and Charles Foster, who was a soldier in the Spanish-American war, is connected with the International Harvester Company at Springfield. Mr. Henthorn’s son William served three years in the United States Regulars in the Spanish-American war in the Philippines, during the Boxer trouble in China, and on the Mexican border. In the World’s war he served as first sergeant of Company B, his regiment being in the 37th Division, 148th Regiment. Mr. Henthorn belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, is a republican in politics, and is a member of the Church of Christ.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 101

DANIEL HERTZLER was born at Lancaster, Penn., in the year 1800, and moved to this county in 1840, where he purchased what was then known as the Menard mill property, on Mad River,* and in the township of that name. This property was improved by erecting new buildings and machinery, and reconstructing the old, until there was in operation a large flouring mill, a saw-mill and a distillery. In 1853, Mr. Hertzler sold this property and removed to Springfield, where he established the “Old Clark County Bank,” and become associated therein with several well-known business men. As principal owner and general manager of this bank, he became one of the strong moneyed men of the Mad River country. This bank, however, was not of long duration, and the circumstances of its winding up its business affairs are often related as an illustration of Mr. Hertzler’s character as an individual. A certain railroad was in need of funds, and commenced to negotiate with the junior members of the concern, in the absence of Mr. Hertzler, for the purpose of obtaining the money. Now these bank men had more to say than to do, in the way of real capital, and were easily captured by the managers of the railroad. The result was that about $30,000 of the substance of the bank went out, and a like amount of railroad shadow came in to fill its place. Upon the return of Mr. Hertzler, he was met by the information that “we” had made an advantageous investment, etc., whereupon he says: “Gentlemen, you should have consulted with me in this matter; but, as this railroad paper is first-class(?), you can take it as your portion of this institution, and we will stop business.” This was accordingly done, and the business relation of the Clark County Bank (as well as that of some of its former partners) to this community ceased. Mr. Hertzler had purchased lands in Bethel, and in 1854-55 he erected the farm buildings at present held in trust by Leander Baker, and situated on nearly the same ground where the old Indian stockade was located. This was occupied by him as a home, and was the scene of the tragic affair, which resulted in his death. Between the hours of 2 and 3 o’clock on the morning of Oct. 10, 1867, his house was entered by a party of burglars. Mr. Hertzler was promptly awakened, and a conflict ensued, which resulted fatally to him from a gun-shot wound in the leg. Four persons were arrested for this crime—two were acquitted, and two others (Scott and Roberts) escaped through the open door of the jail, and have never been recaptured.

*This improvement is directly across the river from the site of Old Piqua, and was a part of the battle-ground, the ford where Clarke’s men crossed being through the present millpond. The establishment is now known as Snyder’s Station, on the C., C., C. & I. and N. Y., P. & O. Railroads.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1029

JOHN HESS, farmer; P. O. Springfield. He is the son of John and Sarah (Marsteller) Hess; was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Sept. 12, 1813; came to Ohio and located in this county in 1838; his parents were both natives of Pennsylvania. When John was 10 years old, his father died, leaving the mother and nine children. At the age of 12, John went to live with his uncle, where he remained until 18 years old, when he went to learn the carpenter’s trade, at which he worked eight years, but has followed farming since living in Ohio. He was married, Sept. 11, 1839, to Sibbia Mills; their issue was eight children, viz., Sarah J., Thomas M., Martha, Nancy F., Mary J., Maria Ann, Sibbia Ann and John L., all living except Mary J. His wife died April 1, 1861, and in April, 1869, he was again married, this time to Mrs. Frances F. (Maxwell) Knaub, widow of John Knaub, deceased. Mr. Hess started in life with $250, which he received from his father’s estate, and, by his industry and economy, has accumulated property until now he owns over 100 acres of good land. His father’s people were by creed Mennonites, and his mother’s people were Lutherans, but Mr. Hess is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, and has been Class-leader, Steward and Trustee of that church some twenty years. Politically, he is a stanch Republican.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 842

LAWRENCE J. HICKEY, foreman Champion Bar & Knife Works, Springfield; is a native of Ireland, born in 1848; his parents removed to London the year following his birth, and resided there twelve years, then came to the United States and located at Newark, Ohio, where Lawrence J. learned the machinist’s trade, and afterward worked in the shop there a number of years; also worked in Mt. Vernon, having charge of the erection of engines, and was for a time connected with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad shops in Newark, and also with the P., C. & St. L. R. R. shops at Logansport, Ind.; subsequently had the care of the tools and machinery of the rolling-mill at Newark, and later; worked in the shop of H. & F. Blandy, of Zanesville, this State; he had previously worked for a time in the shops at Lagonda, and in 1875 he returned to Springfield and became connected with the Champion shops, assisting in building the “Centennial Machine,” exhibited at Philadelphia in 1876; afterward became connected with the Bar & Knife Works, and in 1877 became foreman of the machine department—a position he still holds. The fact that his management is satisfactory to so able a mechanical engineer as Mr. Bauer, the Superintendent, is evidence that his natural skill and ability was cultivated during the years of his experience with the different large works with which he has at different times been connected, and stamp him as a man of more than ordinary mechanical ability and experience. He is also a member of the firm of Tabler & Hickey. Mr. Hickey married, Oct. 27, 1870, Florence Tidball, of Zanesville; they have four children.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 842

JACOB HIESTAND, farmer; P. O. Springfield; a native of York Co., Penn., born in 1822; when a lad, he, with his parents, went to Lancaster Co., Penn., and in 1875 he came to this State, locating in Madison Township, where he purchased a farm, which he afterward sold, and bought the Jacob Poorman farm, in the west part of this township. His father dying during his infancy, he early learned to provide for himself, and thus was inculcated those lessons of industry and economy that have served him well in after years. In 1853, he married Miss Mary A. Brubaker, of Lancaster, Penn., by whom six children have been born—Henry, Capitola, Vandalia, McLellan, Flora and Lenora. Mr. and Mrs. H. are members of the German Reformed Church, and two of the children united with the Methodist. That Mr. H. understands farming is fully attested by the appearance and yield of his crops of the present year.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1049

GOMER E. HIGHLEY, Cashier, Mast Foos & Co., Springfield; was born in Union Co., Ind., in 1854; he received a rudimentary education during his youth, at the common schools. When 18 years of age, he began teaching, and thus supplemented his early education. In 1874, he became connected with the Hoosier Drill Company as book-keeper, and in 1875 became connected with Mast, Foos & Co. On the re-organization of the company, Jan. 1, 1880, he became a stockholder and Director, and was elected Cashier, which position he now holds. He married, in 1872, Miss Ella, sister of Charles Hauk, whose biography appears in this work.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 842

J. N. HINKLE, JR., teacher; P. O. Enon. Teaching, as well as all other professions, requires due preparation to secure perfect success, which evidently J. N. Hinkle did; he is a son of J. N. Hinkle, Sr., and was born in Union Co., Ohio, June 4, 1854. Spent his early life in the common schools, where he judiciously applied himself until 1870, when he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, in which institution he devoted his time two years; then engaged in teaching one year, entered school at Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio. One year later resumed the profession of teaching, in which he has since been engaged. He is a live and industrious teacher, and commands the best of wages, which his ability merits. His nuptials were celebrated Nov. 1, 1874, with Miss Samantha Kirkland, of Delaware Co., Ohio. This union has been blessed with two children, viz.: John C. and Charles D., both living at the writing of this article.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1043

JOHN R. HINKLE, farmer; P. O. Springfield. John R. Hinkle, son of John and Mary Ann Hinkle, and only brother of Michael Hinkle, was born in this county Aug. 26, 1847, and has always lived on the home farm; he is one of the active young farmers of Springfield Township. He was married, Dec. 23, 1875, to Mary Jane Stratton, daughter of Isaac H. and Sarah (Leffel) Stratton; they have one child—Bertha, a lovely little girl of two summers. Mr. Hinkle is an active worker in promoting the principles of the Republican party. He and his good wife are well prepared to enjoy the rich blessings which this life affords; they are hospitable in their nature and polite in their actions.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 845

JOHN R. HINKLE. In a pioneer log house that stood on the site of his present attractive residence in Springfield Township, three miles south of the county seat, Mr. Hinkle was born August 26, 1847, and the record of his mature life has been one of close and effective identification with constructive farm industry. He is a son of John and Mary Ann (Way) Hinkle, both natives of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where the former was born October 19, 1811, and the latter on the 20th of November of the same year. The parents were reared in their native county, where their marriage occurred, and they were ambitious and self-reliant young folk themselves for the labors and responsibilities of pioneer farm life. It is interesting to record that Mrs. Hinkle was presented with a fine oil landscape painting, the work of Edward C. Lewis, the day before she left the old home in Pennsylvania, and that this interesting family heirloom is now owned by and lends to the attractions of the home of her son John R., immediate subject of this sketch. The Otstot family came to the county about the same time as did also John Hinkle, Sr., father of John, Jr., he having here purchased 700 acres of timber land, his four sons, Henry, Samuel, Joseph and John, Jr., having aided in the reclaiming of the land and all having become substantial farmers here, though Samuel later moved to Indiana, where he passed the remainder of his life. Henry likewise eventually removed to Indiana, but his death occurred while he was visiting the old home in Clark County. Joseph continued his farm activities in Clark County until his death, at the age of sixty-four years.

John Hinkle, Jr., father of the subject of this review, reclaimed his farm from the forest, his first clearing having been made to provide a site for the pioneer log house in which his son John R. was born. He developed one of the excellent farms of Springfield Township and erected the present commodious house in 1857, he having here lived until his death, at the age of sixty-five years, and his widow having been in her ninety-fourth year when she passed to the life eternal. By purchasing land inherited by his sisters, John Hinkle increased the area of his farm estate until he had more than 300 acres. He was liberal and loyal as a citizen, a stalwart republican, and had varied financial investments, including stock in the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad. He and his wife were earnest and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of their eight children John R. is the youngest; Michael, born in 1833, died at the age of seventy-four years; Rebecca J., eighty-six years of age (1922), is the widow of Elijah Karne and lives on a farm near that of her youngest brother; Mary P., who married Nathan Lightner, died in middle life; Ellen became the wife of Daniel Ault and remained in Clark County until her death, at the age of seventy-five years.

John R. Hinkle has never found it expedient or a matter of desire to leave the fine old farm on which he was born and raised. His early education was acquired in the common schools of the locality and period. December 23, 1875, recorded his marriage to Miss Mary Jane Stratton, daughter of Isaac Stratton, of Greene Township, where she was born January 14, 1852. The maximum loss and bereavement in the life of Mr. Hinkle came when his loved and devoted wife was summoned to eternal rest, after an ideal companionship of forty-three years, her death having occurred January 8, 1918. She is survived by four children, Bertha, Isaac Pearl, Rebecca K. and Ethel May, all of whom remain with their father on the old home farm except Rebecca, who is the wife of George Hirtzinger, likewise a resident of Springfield Township. The daughters all hold membership in the Lutheran Church at Springfield. Their mother was raised in the Methodist belief.

Mr. Hinkle’s farm is one of 120 acres, and is maintained under effective cultivation, besides being the stage of successful livestock enterprise. He is a republican and has served as judge of elections, road supervisor and school trustee.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 156

MRS. MARGARET J. HINKLE, Springfield. Mrs. Hinkle is the widow of Joseph Hinkle, deceased; she was born in this county Aug. 9, 1823, and is the daughter of Adam and Maria Alt, and sister to Daniel and George Alt. She was married to Mr. Hinkle Nov. 5, 1840; they had eleven children, who are all living—Maria, Rebecca, John, Henry, Mary, Ann, Amanda, Margaret, Ida Belle, Joseph and James. Maria was married, Nov. 5, 1867, to James McBeth: Rebecca was married, April 18, 1867, to John M. Stewart; John was married, Nov. 3, 1868, to Matilda Miller; Henry was married, Sept. 21, 1871, to Jennie Walters; Mary was married, March 2, 1876, to James Foreman; Ann was married, Jan. 25, 1877, to George Otstot: Amanda was married, Aug. 7, 1878, to George Oates. The rest are at home, Joseph and James carrying on the farm, and Margaret and Ida assisting their mother with the household cares. Mr. Hinkle died Jan. 14, 1878; he was a man of excellent character, and a strong advocate of the principles of the Republican party, and his sons are all active workers in the same party. Mrs. Hinkle is an indulgent mother, and takes great comfort in the welfare of her children; they live in a fine, large brick house, situated two and a half miles south of Springfield, on the old Clifton road.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 845

MICHAEL W. HINKLE, farmer; P. O. Springfield. Michael Hinkle, of John and Mary A. (Way) Hinkle, was born in this county May 29, 1834, was married, April 28, 1859, to Alice S. Dean, daughter of Alexander and Margaret Dean; they have had eight children, viz., John, Elizabeth S., Mary, Alexander D., Susan W., Alice D., Sarah R. and Margaret J., all living except Alice, who died when but 2 years old. Mrs. Hinkle was born in Orange, Essex Co., N. J., Aug. 29, 1835; her parents were natives of New Jersey, and came to Ohio and to Clark County about the year 1847; Alice was left an orphan when about 10 years old, by the death of her mother, and again by the death of her father in ___. Michael Hinkle’s parents were married in Lancaster Co., Penn., Jan. 20, 1832, and came to Ohio and to this county in 1833, with (John’s) parents, and bought and settled on some 700 acres of land, which is now owned by their heirs. Of John and Mary Hinkle’s nine children, but six are now living—Michael W., Rebecca J., Mary P., Ellen H., John R. and Emma S.; the other three, Susan W., Margaret A. and Sarah, have gone to the spirit land—Susan, Oct. 25, 1833; Margaret, Jan. 3, 1839; and Sarah, Jan. 25, 1843. Rebecca was married, May 2, 1858, to Elijah S. Kame; Emma was married, Feb. 28, 1878, to Leslie Stratton, brother of Mrs. John R. Hinkle. Mrs. John Hinkle, the mother of Michael, John R., etc., is the daughter of Michael and Susan (Mayse) Way; they came to Ohio in 1840 and settled in this county. John Hinkle died Feb. 3, 1877; his death was a great loss, not only to the family but to the community. During his life, he made provision for his family, leaving them well-to-do; he not only provided for them financially, but left them rich morally.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 845

DANIEL B. HISER. In the enjoyment of the comforts and luxuries of modern life the ordinary individual may, perhaps, sometimes remember the debt owed to inventive genius. In older days, when many helpful arts had not yet been developed, the inventor had no such general encouragement as at present, and, however, patiently he worked out his ideas, often without proper tools or surroundings very often his completed product would prove a failure, and indifference and even ridicule would be his only reward. This thought carries one backward many years, to the time when the late Daniel B. Hiser of Springfield as a little boy watched his father work out his inventive ideas in his little cabinetmaker’s shop at West Jefferson, Ohio, the most interested of his children because he also possessed inventive genius.

Daniel B. Hiser was born at West Jefferson, in Wayne County, Ohio, July 4, 1836, and was a son of Henry and Martha (Burtnutt) Hiser. Henry Hiser worked at the cabinetmaker’s trade as necessity demanded, but an inventive turn of mind led him to devote every spare moment to the development of his inventive ideas, many of which proved of great utility and brought him local fame and modest fortune. Among his inventions was a beehive, a clover huller and a plow, the latter, known as the Hiser plow, proving of considerable commercial value. His beehive also proved profitable, and his clover huller was in use throughout Ohio for many years. He invented many other things, but the above named were the only ones that proved entirely successful. Henry Hiser and his wife died at Wooster, Ohio, and their burial was there.

Daniel B. Hiser undoubtedly inherited mechanical skill. He had common school privileges, and then chose to learn patternmaking. He married at Wooster, Ohio, Sarah Fickes, and in 1883 removed with his family to Springfield. Here he worked as a pattern-maker under John H. Thomas in the Thomas Manufacturing Company’s plant, but from youth had been experimenting and developing inventions of his own, some of more or less value. It was on this account that he was invited to assist in the organizing of the co-partnership known as the Springfield Metallic Casket Company, and after that he confined his efforts to this enterprise. This company was built around his invention, a sectional cast metal casket made to seal hermetically. Finally ill health caused him to sell his holdings in the above company, and he returned then to the Thomas Manufacturing Company, but during the last fifteen years of life he was an invalid. Of his family of six children all but one are living.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 24

CHARLES HENRY HISER, the eldest born of the above family, bears the name of his two grandfathers. He was born at Wooster, Ohio, October 2, 1861, and attended the public schools there before accompanying his parents to Springfield. For the past thirty-seven years he has been superintendent of the Metallic Casket Company, and in point of service is the oldest employee of the corporation.

Mr. Hiser married, August 23, 1913, Katherine H. Rubsam, who was born at Springfield, and they have two children: Charles Henry and Mary Hertzler. In political life Mr. Hiser is a republican. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine, and is one of the trustees of the Masonic Temple Association. He has always been active in promoting the city’s welfare and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary, Lagonda and Country clubs.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 25

SAMUEL R. HOCKMAN, miller, Eagle City; born in Shenandoah Co., Va., Sept. 26, 1821. His father, Peter Hockman, and grandfather, George Hockman, were born on the Shenandoah River, in Shenandoah Co., Va., and lived and died there. The great-grandfather, Peter Hockman, was born in Pennsylvania, coming to Virginia in his younger days, and lived and died there. Samuel Hockman was raised on the farm and worked for his father till July, 1842; he then engaged with William D. Wright, of the same county and State, to learn the milling business, which he has followed up to the present time. He was married, Jan. 29, 1852, to Ann Eliza, youngest daughter of Christian Gochenour, and granddaughter of John Gochenour, all residents of the Shenandoah Valley, Va.; they had seven children born in Virginia—Milton, Lydia, Mary, John, William, Benjamin and Samuel. In July, 1867, he emigrated to Champaign Co., Ohio, where his two youngest daughters were born—Emma and Bettie. Here he worked at his regular trade in several of the mills on Mad River, until in May, 1876, he purchased the old Baker mill property in Clark Co., now known as the “Eagle City Mills,” where he has since remained, and is doing a good business under the firm name of S. R. Hockman & Son. This is a very fine property, located on the Mad River in the midst of a fine grain-growing country, and is fitted up with the best of machinery, great improvements having been made in the mill since its present ownership, and they contemplate making still further improvements in the way of some new machinery, determined to make it one of the best mills on Mad River. Last year, from July, 1879, to July, 1880, they ground 46,000 bushels of wheat, besides many thousand bushels of other grain. On April 1, 1879, a post office was established at the Mills, called the “Eagle City,” and Mr. Hockman was appointed Postmaster, which position he still holds.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1002

ASA W. HODGE. For a decade more than a century of years the Hodge family has been residing in Clark County, where it is well and favorably known. For the most part its members have followed the pursuits of agriculture, and all have been good citizens, contributing not less to the development of their community than they have to the building up of personal prosperity. A worthy representative of this old and honored family is found in the person of Asa W. Hodge, who is now operating the old Foley farm, situated one and one-half miles east of New Moorefield, in Moorefield Township.

Asa W. Hodge was born on the farm adjoining that which he now occupies, October 3, 1873, and is a son of J. M. and Mary A. (Hunter) Hodge. His great-grandfather, Andrew Hodge, was born in Virginia, whence he went to Kentucky, and finally, in 1810, came to Ohio, where he entered land in Pleasant Township, Clark County, which is still in the Hodge name. Here he rounded out his career as a farmer, developing a good property and winning the respect of his fellow-citizens. His son, James M. Hodge, the grandfather of Asa W., was born in Pleasant Township, where, on attaining his majority, he purchased land and spent his life as a tiller of the soil. He was also a man of integrity and one who had his neighbors’ esteem. He married Elizabeth Sayler, and they became the parents of four children, all of whom grew to maturity, but all are now deceased: Samuel, John, J. Milton and Sallie.

James M. Hodge was born on a farm in Pleasant Township, Clark County, May 2, 1837, and received his education in the public schools. He married Mary A. Hunter, who was born in Catawba, Pleasant Township, Clark County, April 20, 1839, and following their union settled on a part of the old home place, which he increased through industry and good management to a tract of 900 acres. He was honored because of his many sterling traits of character and his integrity in business affairs, and in his death his community lost a good and reliable citizen. In politics he was a republican, and on various occasions he was called to public office, at times serving as township trustee, member of the School Board and justice of the peace. He and his worthy and estimable wife were the parents of eight children, of whom three grew to maturity: Asa W.; Ida M., the wife of H. S. Andrew, of Dayton; and Anna I., a maiden lady, residing on the home farm.

Asa W. Hodge was reared on the home farm and acquired his education in the rural school in the vicinity of his father’s farm in Pleasant Township. He remained on the home place and assisted his father in its cultivation until the time of his marriage, October 3, 1901, to Miss Bertha Page, who was born in Pleasant Township, June 19, 1880, and educated in the public schools, a daughter of Charles B. and Melissa Page. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Hodge settled on the old Foley farm in Moorefield Township, where they have developed a handsome and productive property and have installed many improvements which add to the property’s appearance and value. Mr. Hodge carries on general agricultural work in all its departments, and is also a breeder of registered Poland-China hogs, a field of work in which he has met with much success. His standing in the community is that of a man who is strictly reliable in all his transactions. As a fraternalist Mr. Hodge holds membership in the local lodge of the Junior Order United American Mechanics. He is a republican in politics, and the confidence of his fellow-citizens is reflected in the fact that he has been elected a member of the Township Board of Trustees four times. He and Mrs. Hodge had one child, which died in infancy.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 193

THOMAS DANIEL HODGE. The ordinary layman, engrossed in the business occupation which is his means of livelihood, is representative of the nation’s citizenship. This is the normal type and his life begins and ends, perhaps, with nothing more distinctive than the ripple on the stream when the pebble is cast into the water. It is the unusual type that commands attention, and it is his influence exerted on his community and the record of his life that are valuable and interesting as matters of biography. In the professions, and especially in the law, the opportunities for usefulness and personal advancement depend almost entirely upon the unusually gifted individual and here natural endowment is as essential as is thorough preparation. The bar of Springfield, a representative body of the state, has its full quota of brilliant men, and one of its foremost members among the younger generation is Thomas Daniel Hodge.

Mr. Hodge was born at Yellow Springs, Ohio, November 23, 1892, and is a son of Thomas and Rose (Meighan) Hodge, the former a native of Springfield and the latter of County Donegal, Ireland. The paternal grandparents were John and Elizabeth Hodge, natives of Ireland, who immigrated to the United States and settled at Springfield about the year 1830, the grandfather spending the remainder of his life as a contractor and builder. The maternal grandparents, James and Bridget Meighan, were also natives of Ireland, and took up their residence at Springfield in 1855, Mr. Meighan following the trade of blacksmith. For a short time Thomas and Rose Hodge resided at Yellow Springs, but during the greater part of their lives have lived at Springfield, where Mr. Hodge is employed by the American Seeding Machine Company.

In his youth Thomas Daniel Hodge attended the parochial schools of Springfield and after being fully prepared for his college education entered the Ohio State University, where he completed his law course as a member of the class of 1913. For a time thereafter he furthered his preparation by studying law in the office of John M. Cole, and then took the examination, which he successfully passed, being admitted to the bar in 1915. He then engaged in practice until September 20, 1917, when he enlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to the 324th Field Artillery, Eighty-third Division, with which contingent he was at Camp Sherman until April 29, 1918. He was then sent to a special training school at Camp Johnston, Florida, where he received his commission as first lieutenant and was assigned to the P. S. & T. Division, general staff, at Washington, D. C. On November 2, 1918, he started overseas for active service, but after the armistice was declared entered the Water Transportation Division, general staff, A. E. F., doing duty on a ship plying between England and France. He returned to Philadelphia April 18, 1919, and two days later received his honorable discharge. On his return to Springfield he resumed the practice of his profession at 828-29-30 Fairbanks Building, where he is now in the enjoyment of a large clientele. Mr. Hodge is a member of the Clark County Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Association and stands high in the estimation of his fellow-practitioners as an observer of professional courtesies and ethics. He is a democrat in politics but has not sought public office. His religious connection is with St. Raphael’s Catholic Church, and fraternally he belongs to Springfield Council No. 624, Knights of Columbus; and Springfield Council, Fraternal Order of Eagles. He is on the staff of the American Legion.

On August 13, 1917, Mr. Hodge was united in marriage with Miss Marie J. Garrett, who was born at Springfield, a daughter of William H. and Mary (McCarthy) Garrett, the former a native of Springfield and the latter of Owosso, Michigan.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 370

FREDERICK HOLFORD, Vice President Republic Printing Company, Springfield. Frederick Holford was born near the city of Oxford, England, on May 9, A. D. 1813; emigrated to the United States in 1834, taking up his abode in the city of New York, where he resided one year, then removed to Chicago, remaining in the Garden City—then little more than a quagmire—eighteen months, during which time he attained his majority and voted for the first Mayor of what is now a city of over half a million souls; he then removed to Iowa, following agricultural pursuits until his advent in Cincinnati in 1841; there he became a shoe merchant and manufacturer, continuing in this business until his coming to this city, which occurred in 1874. Here he became largely interested in the Republic Printing Company, being chosen its Vice President, which position he holds now; the important manufacturing interest known as the Republic Printing Company receives appropriate attention in the industrial department of this work. Mr. Holford has been thrice married; first, to Louisa Weismann, in 1843, whom he lost in 1856, and by whom he had one son—George T., now living in Cincinnati; in 1858, he married Margaret Sampson, who died in 1865; by this union he had two children, both of whom he lost; his third union was with Mrs. Harriet Bushnell, in 1866, who is now the loved companion of his declining years. Mr. Holford came to America alone, and has in every sense been the carver of his own fortunes; he is genial, frank, true, and public-spirited—in short, is universally esteemed by all who know him; he enjoys the distinction of having been one the second Trustees of the Children’s Home, and is an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of this city.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 846

BENJAMIN HOLLOWAY, liveryman, Springfield; is a Buckeye, and one, of the oldest continuous residents now living in Clark County; he is a son of William Holloway, who was an early resident of Madison Township. He was a native of Virginia, and there married Martha Branson, whose decease occurred after their removal to Ohio, and while they resided near Chillicothe, where he married his second wife, Phoebe Crispin, who was a daughter of Mathias Crispin, who came from New Jersey and settled in the same neighborhood and about the same time the Holloways settled. Mr. Crispin was about 70 years of age when his last marriage occurred, yet he lived to raise a second family of four children and see all grown to majority, he being 101 years old at his death, which occurred near South Charleston, he having removed there along with the Holloways. Mr. Holloway, Sr., was Justice of Madison Township twenty-two years; he was a member of the Board of Commissioners a number of terms; his first election occurred in 1834. He was one of the most intelligent as well as prominent citizens of his time, and continued to reside in Madison Township until his decease, in 1842. The subject of this sketch was born near Chillicothe in 1812; he remained on the farm, assisting his parents, until 18 years of age, then came to Springfield to learn the carpenter’s trade; after completing his apprenticeship, his “boss” took him into partnership, and he continued in the business a number of years, but his health failed, in consequence of which his accumulations were being consumed. About 1845, very much against the judgment of friends, he engaged in the livery business, and, although in feeble health and in debt at the start, in eight years sold out, having accumulated $10,000, and, what was still better, regained his health. After a short interval, he again engaged in the livery business, and has since continued it, now having his oldest son, Christie, associated with him. Mr. Holloway acted as Deputy Sheriff several years; has been member of Council one term, and made the last assessment of real estate of his ward, having been elected Assessor last October without opposition. His residence is No. 162 South Market, corner of Mulberry. He married, in 1834, Electa, daughter of Dr. Horace Lawrence, of Clifton, by whom he had five children, four of whom are living—Mary A., J. Christie, Harriet (now Mrs. George Tatum, Greenville, Ill.), and Carroll J., of Columbus. His first wife having died, he married, in 1872, Maria (Mitchel) Rodefer. Mr. Holloway is a member of the First Presbyterian Church; has always been a strong temperance man, has never used tobacco in any form, and has always maintained such a course in all relations of life as commended him to the confidence and esteem of his friends and fellow-citizens.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 846

EDWARD P. HOLMAN is half owner of the fine landed estate known as Cedar Lawn Farm, the same being situated on the Urbana Turnpike in Moorefield Township and five miles north of the City of Springfield. He takes pride in maintaining this place of 1 73j4 acres as one of the model farms of his native county, and is known as a specially progressive exponent of agricultural and livestock industry.

Mr. Holman was born in the City of Springfield, this county, on the 6th of March, 1866, and is a son of Robert L. and Martha M.

(Hildreth) Holman, both natives of Cherry Valley, Massachusetts, where they were reared and educated and where their marriage was solemnized. The parents of the subject of this sketch came to Clark County in the early ’50s, and after here being employed a short time by the Dodge Bedstead Company, Robert L. Holman was for a brief period engaged in the lightning rod business. Thereafter he did effective work as a carpenter, millwright and pattern maker, and during the Civil war he gave his attention largely to the manufacturing of hominy for the use of soldiers in the field. After the war he engaged in the grocery business at Springfield, and in the spring of 1875 he removed to the farm now owned by his sons Edward P. and W. H., where he remained until his death, which occurred in 1919, his wife having passed away in 1913 and both having been earnest and consistent members of the Church of God. Mr. Holman was independent in political matters, was affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and became a prominent and influential member of the Ohio State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, for which he served as contracting agent. Of the four children one, Arthur, is deceased; Walter H. is a prosperous farmer in Moorefield Township; Herbert W. is a resident of Salem, Oregon, and Edward P., of this review, is the youngest of the three.

Edward P. Holman was nine years old when the family removed from Springfield to the farm in Moorefield Township, and since completing his studies in the public schools he has been continuously and successfully identified with farm enterprise. In politics he is not constrained by partisan lines but gives his support to men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment. He has served in the past as master of Tremont Grange and is the incumbent of this office at the time of this writing, in 1922. He and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church of Springfield.

June 1, 1893, marked the marriage of Mr. Holman and Miss Eloise Ilges, who was born and reared in Moorefield Township, and they have three children: Thomas, who was born October 31, 1895, is a graduate of the University of Ohio and is now in the employ of the Government at Garden City, Long Island, New York, where he is identified with the aeroplane service; George, who was born October 22, 1897, graduated from the University of Ohio, with the degree of Civil Engineer, and is now connected with the W.est Virginia Inspection Bureau; Fred H., born June 9, 1903, graduated from the Springfield High School and thereafter was for one year a student in Wittenberg College and for a similar period in the LTniversity of Ohio, he being now at the parental home.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 79

ROBERT L. HOLMAN, farmer; P. O. Springfield. Born in Worcester Co., Mass., April 7, 1828. Is a son of Parley and Nancy (Young) Holman, natives of Massachusetts, and whose lives were spent in their native State. He died in the winter of 1849. She died in March, 1845. They were parents of eleven children, four now living—Caroline, now Mrs. Mellen, of Springfield; Robert L., Leonard and Ester, now Mrs. Phelps, of Springfield. Our subject, at 9 years of age, left his home to work his own way through life; working here and there among strangers wherever he could find work and a home, till about 17 years of age, when he went to learn the carpenter trade. Being naturally possessed of mechanical genius, he became a very successful mechanic, and became quite an efficient millwright and pattern-maker. This business proved quite lucrative, and his skill as a workman procured him plenty of business. He was married, May 3, 1853, to Martha M., daughter of Sylvester and Mary Hildreth, natives of Massachusetts. By this union they have four children—Arthur D., Walter H., Herbert W. and Edward P. In the fall of 1854, Mr. Holman removed from Massachusetts to Ohio, locating in Springfield, where he engaged in mechanical business, which he followed during his residence there of twenty years, with the exception of four years, during which he was in the mercantile trade. He was the inventor of the Buckeye Hominy Mill, which is so well known and acknowledged to be the best in use; from which invention he received quite a remuneration, and which has since been sold to a Baltimore firm for $200,000. In March, 1875, Mr. Holman, for the interests of his boys who were then arriving at the age of manhood, bought and located upon the farm where he now lives and has since resided. This farm he purchased from the heirs of James Hawk, which consists of 173½ acres of excellent land on Sec. 34, in Moorefield Township. It has good buildings and improvements, and constitutes a fine home and farmer’s residence. Mr. Holman’s success in life, starting out as he did, a poor wandering boy, has shown a fine ability, which, coupled with industry and economy, has placed him in such favorable circumstances to enjoy for the rest of his days the comforts of life.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 988

JOHN J. HOPPES. Being born and reared on a farm seems to be one of the old-fashioned requisites of the successful career. Innumerable examples exist of outstanding men who, on frosty mornings of boyhood days, had warmed their bare feet on the spot where the cow had lain. Somehow, nature gives the country-bred boy a wider grasp on life’s problems, places upon his shoulders greater care of self-dependence, instills a more developed power of initiative, and assists in the upbuilding of a rugged, strong physique. A product of the farm who has risen to a high place among the Ohio inventors and engineers is John J. Hoppes, of Springfield, who was born on a farm in Pickaway County, Ohio, September 4, 1857, a son of Daniel and Helen (Stanton) Hoppes.

The Hoppes family in remote times lived in Lorraine, in what is now France, but during the Thirty Years’ war removed to Belgium, and from that country immigrated to the United States. In direct line members served in the Revolutionary war and the War of 1812. Daniel Hoppes was a contractor engaged in building operations, most of which were flour mills scattered about central Ohio. At the early age of twelve years John J. Hoppes began to help his father, and four years later, during his father’s illness, took over the contracts. For about two years he was engaged in the contruction and operation of these mills, which were driven by both steam and water. In this capacity he did everything from landscape gardening to engine operating, and later on in life made good use of the diversified experience thus gained. As a young man he was always quiet, thoughtful and studious, and at the age of sixteen years passed a teachers’ examination, although his youth prevented an assignment.

Early possessed of a desire to take up engineering studies, he decided to enter Stephens Institute of Technology, and had some correspondence with Dr. R. H. Thurston with that end in view, but owing to his father’s illness it became impossible for him to carry out his desire. Doctor Thurston, however, had become interested in the youth and offered to help him with a personal correspondence course of instruction, which was gladly accepted. He continued this course for some five years, and attributes much of his success to the fundamental guidance of Doctor Thurston. Very early in life he took up the study of physics, which he has always maintained greatly appealed to him. His copy of Quackenbos’ Natural Philosophy, with its well-thumbed pages, is still treasured on his book shelf.

About this time Mr. Hoppes began to specialize in designing and rebuilding steam plants and acting as consulting engineer in a small way to power users. Soon his inventive and constructive talents became active, and subsequently his attention was directed chiefly to developing steam specialties. In 1882 he designed a feed water heater and in 1885 a live steam feed water purifier. Nature’s phenomena furnished him with his first inspiration in designing the purifier, as, noticing how the drip of water from the roofs of natural caverns caused the formation of stalactites, he conceived the idea of employing this principle in an apparatus for heating and purifying boiler feed water by means of live steam. Later on he applied this same principle to an exhaust steam feed water heater. He also designed a new form of steam separators, employing troughs partly filled with water to intercept the entrainment. This principle he also applied to exhaust pipe heads. The latest apparatus designed by Mr. Hoppes is a V-notch water meter, wherein the height of the water is weighed in the ratio of the rate of flow. This apparatus, although very simple, is a very ingenious device, a good example of the ability of Mr. Hoppes to clearly analyze a difficult proposition. The greater number of these inventions were brought to finition at Springfield, where Mr. Hoppes is a recognized authority on his specialties.

Mr. Hoppes is happily married, his wife having been formerly Miss Hattie Merrill. He is fond of his home, but when he can find the time is also inclined to indulge his favorite recreations of motoring and boating. Back in 1901 he designed and built a 75-foot steel houseboat launch, which included many unusual features new at that time. Civic improvement is another avocation. Springfield, Ohio, in 1915, adopted the commission form of government, and Mr. Hoppes, who had advocated this form some dozen years before, was one of those selected to draft the charter. In 1887 he was elected one of the city commissioners, a position which he still holds. A comprehensive sewage system, repaving of the city’s streets, the elimination of overhead wiring and numerous improvements made by the city have formed a large part of his work in this position. Under the administration of P. P. Mast, and three separate times, he reorganized the police and fire departments of the city. He was the principal organizer in the formation of the National Improvement Association, and was its first presiding officer. Later this association was changed to the National Civic League. For twenty-five years he has been a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and is also a member of the Ohio Engineering Society and the National Association of Stationary Engineers.

In addition to directing the affairs of the concern which bears his name Mr. Hoppes is also president of the Trump Manufacturing Company, which manufactures a new type of super high speed water wheel, in the design of which Mr. Hoppes was largely instrumental; president of the Everwear Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of playground apparatus, also of Springfield; and, since 1886, directing head of the Hoppes Manufacturing Company, which he founded. He helped organize the present Chamber of Commerce and was president of its two predecessors, the Board of Trade and the Commercial Club. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Lagonda National Bank. During the World war he was an exceptionally busy man. As a manufacturer he was called upon to build separators to be used in separating the crude materials from gas for making T. N. T. and other high explosives; the building of water wheels for operating powder mills in France, and the construction of water wheels for nitrate plants in this country.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 136

DAVID R. HOSTERMAN, general insurance agent, Springfield. David R. Hosterman was born April 2, 1837, in Shippenville, Clarion Co., Penn.; came to Springfield in April of 1857, from Shippenville, where he had been teaching. He attended Wittenberg College during several summers, teaching during the winters. On July 1, 1857, he married Miss Harriet A. Chatterton, a native of Dayton, whose family moved to Clark County in her early life. Mr. Hosterman left one brother and sister in his native State; the parents and two other brothers have passed away. He has three sons (one of whom has newly arrived) and one daughter; of the former, the elder is pursuing a collegiate course at Wittenberg College; the second, with his father in his insurance office in the Bookwalter Block; the third has just made his debut on the stage of existence. Our subject is a thoroughly self-made man; has fought his way up to an enviable position in his business, and of affluence, by his own unaided exertions and strength of purpose. He commenced the insurance business in 1865, as Secretary of the Springfield Fire Insurance Company of Springfield, thus continuing until November, 1870, at which time the company closed its business honorably by re-insuring its risks in the Dayton Insurance Company, giving its stockholders in the aggregate some $60,000 for an investment of $20,000 during a period of six years. Since this event, Mr. Hosterman has conducted a general insurance business on his own account, representing, among others, the following companies: Phoenix of Brooklyn; Watertown of New York; St. Paul of St. Paul, Minn.; Mechanics’ & Traders’ of New York; Westchester of New York; London Assurance Corporation of London; Rhode Island Insurance Association of Providence; Miami Valley Company of Dayton; and the Dayton Insurance Company, of the same city; Star of New York; Aurora of Cincinnati, Ohio; and of Mutuals, the Richland, and Mansfield, of Mansfield, Ohio; Buckeye of Shelby, and the Forest City and Van Wert Companies. Mr. Hosterman is a consistent and respected member of the English Lutheran Church, and for fourteen years one of its officers, and was Secretary of the Church Council until he declined re-election. Among other positions, Mr. Hosterman has been Township Clerk, Secretary of the Loan & Savings Association of Springfield, and of the Champion Hotel Company, which he is at present. He has grown to be one of Springfield’s solid citizens, and his successful career is one to be emulated.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 847

EDWARD R. HOTSENPILLER, manufacturer, Springfield; of Boyd, Hotsenpiller & Co., manufacturers of cloth-covered burial caskets, Nos. 66 and 68 East Washington street, Springfield. Among the many manufacturing firms of Springfield who deserve notice is the above, devoted to a sad but necessary calling. Although of recent origin, their goods are noted for elegance and fine finish, and they have already established a valuable reputation, and their trade extends to all parts of the country. Mr. Hotsenpiller is the financial backbone of the firm, and a man of considerable culture and good business ability. He was born in Chillicothe in 1834; his parents were from Virginia, and were among the early residents of Ross County. The subject of this sketch received a rudimentary education in his youth, which was afterward supplemented by high-school advantages and experience as a printer. In 1864, he purchased the Sandusky Register, which he conducted about two years with marked financial success, but, owing to enfeebled health, sold out and came to Springfield, and was engaged in the manufacture of hominy, operating on a large scale, until fire swept away his factories, one of which, since rebuilt, has become the casket-factory. Mr. Hotsenpiller is also proprietor of Wright’s hominy-mill, in which he does a considerable business, and is also owner of several tracts of land in different States, among which is a 700-acre tract of fine land in Missouri, near Kansas City. He is regarded as a careful business man, and is a capitalist of considerable strength. He is a Republican in politics; has been a member of the Masonic fraternity a number of years; was a charter member of Moncrieffe Lodge, No. 33, Knights of Pythias, and is highly respected in the circles in which he moves.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 847

WILLIAM H. HOUCK, brick manufacturer, Springfield; is one of the old reliable citizens of Springfield. He was born in Frederick Co., Md., April 5, 1821; came to Clark Co., Ohio, with his parents, in May, 1836, and settled in Springfield; he is a son of George and Mary (Snyder) Houck; his father, George Houck, opened a brick-yard the same spring that he moved here, and continued the same within four years of his death; he died Jan. 4, 1862, and Mrs. Houck March 26, 1866. William H. is the fifth of ten children, seven of whom are now living. He was married, in October, 1850, to Virlinda, daughter of John and Elizabeth Johnson; she was born in Indiana in March, 1826, but was living in Illinois when married to Mr. Houck; they have five children living; but one married—Emma E., who was married, in 1875, to Rev. W. H. Singley, A. M., a native of Pennsylvania; he entered Wittenberg College in 1868; graduated in 1873; spent one year in Yale College, and then returned to Wittenberg and became a student in the theological department, and graduated in that branch in 1875; he is at present Pastor of the English Lutheran Church at Bellefontaine, Ohio, and editor of the Lutheran Evangelist; also Secretary of the Board of Directors of Wittenberg College. Our subject worked with his father at brick-making until he was 21 years old, when he started a brick-yard under his own supervision, which he has carried on ever since, with the exception of about four years; besides his brick-kilns, he has dealt largely in real estate; he has made five additions to the city of Springfield—three of his own, and two in partnership with others—in all, about 130 lots. He is a member and one of the Trustees of St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church on Yellow Spring street.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 848

MILTON L. HOUSTON, M.D., capitalist, Springfield; is a native of Clark County, a son of Robert Houston, M.D. Both the father and son have been prominent as physicians and capitalists of South Charleston. Joseph Houston was one of the pioneer settlers of Buck Creek Valley; he came from Kentucky in 1809, and settled about four miles to the northeast of Springfield. His wife was a sister of Maddox Fisher, Sr. Robert was born in Kentucky, and was about 9 years of age when his parents came to this county. He studied medicine, and did a quite extensive practice in the vicinity of South Charleston, and accumulated a large property. The subject of this sketch was born in South Charleston in 1830; he received his education at the Springfield High School, and graduated at Starling Medical College in the spring of 1851, being a little less than 21 years of age; he subsequently practiced at South Charleston, and was identified with the business of that place; was proprietor of a drug-store, and for several years Postmaster, and was one of the consistent members of the First National Bank of South Charleston, and remained a stockholder until after the surrender of the charter and its re-organization as a private bank. Mr. Houston owns a considerable amount of real estate in and about South Charleston, and also has a valuable tract of land in Champaign Co., Ill.; is a stockholder in the St. John Sewing Machine Company, and a capitalist of considerable prominence. Having abandoned the practice of medicine, Mr. Houston removed to Springfield in 1870, and has since resided here, his time being occupied in looking after his different property and moneyed interests. His residence is a handsome property, located at No. 155 South Limestone street. He married, in 1857, Miss Mary C., daughter of John A. Bacon; they have three children.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 848

W. L. HOUSTON, farmer and stock raiser; P. O. London, Madison Co. Is a son of Thomas F. Houston, who was born Oct. 7, 1818, in Clark Co., Ohio; was a saddle and harness maker. He carried on the business in South Charleston for twenty-six years; afterward moved upon his lands in the eastern part of Pleasant Township, and lived there five years. He then moved to Springfield and embarked in the harness and collar business, and continued in it until death, which occurred June 28, 1874. Mr. Houston was well-to-do; most of his wealth he made while in business in South Charleston. He was a kind husband and father, and a consistent member of the M. E. Church. Those who knew him longest knew him best, and his death was an irreparable loss to the community in which he lived. W. L. Houston was born Dec. 25, 1843, in South Charleston, this county. Was raised and educated in the town until he was 18 years old, at which time his father moved on his farm. He then began tilling the soil, and has been engaged in that way since. He was married, June 1, 1871, to Miss Jennie, daughter of Colvin Bales, of Madison Co. Mr. Houston, though raised in town, is strictly temperate—never tasted intoxicating liquors of any kind, or tobacco. He has bean very successful in farming and stock-raising; owns a farm of 375 acres, under a high state of cultivation, with a fine residence and other good buildings. They had two children—Lawrence C. and Maurice. Mr. and Mrs. Houston are members of the M. E. Church.

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

DAVID C. HUFFMAN, M.D., physician, Springfield; is a native of Clark County and a grandson of the pioneer Jacob Huffman, who located at what was called New Boston. The subject of this sketch is a son of Jacob and Sarah (Tennant) Huffman. She was a daughter of David and Elizabeth Tennant, who came to Clark County from Lancaster, Penn., about 1830. Jacob Huffman, Jr., was a miller by trade and for a number of years, with his brother, was proprietor of the “Peru Mills;” also operated a stone quarry, and at one time was engaged in merchandising. He died Feb. 3, 1877. His widow and five children survived him, of whom David C. is the oldest son. He was born near Enon in 1855; graduated from the Miami Medical College in 1878, and immediately located here in Springfield and rapidly built up a practice which warranted him in taking Dr. Driscol into partnership. This partnership was formed in 1879, and still exists. Drs. Huffman and Driscol are young men possessed of culture, native skill and energy, as is proven by the extent of their practice, built up in so short a time. Dr. Huffman is the only one now here of six young physicians who located in Springfield in 1878. The fact that he was born and raised here speaks volumes in favor of his character, both as a citizen and a physician, for “A prophet is not without honor save in his own country,” does not apply in his case. He is a member of the Clark County Medical Society, and a member of its Board of Censors.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 849

LEWIS C. HUFFMAN, retired farmer; P. O. Springfield; is one of the old residents of Clark County; he is a native of Virginia, born in 1810. His parents, Herbert W. and Sarah (Arthur) Huffman, came to this county in 1816, and settled in the School Sec. 16, Springfield Township, where they continued to reside until the decease of the father. The mother’s decease occurred in Springfield in 1843. They had a family of six sons and one daughter, of whom five sons and one daughter are living. The subject of this sketch remained on the farm until about 18 years of age, then came to Springfield and learned the carpenter’s trade, in which he was engaged several years. In 1840 he married Elizabeth J., daughter of James Donnel, a pioneer of Bethel Township. After his marriage, Mr. Huffman purchased a farm in the vicinity of the old homestead and engaged in farming, which he continued until 1875, when he returned to Springfield, and in the following year built the handsome residence, corner of South Limestone and Mulberry streets, which has since been his family residence. He still owns the farm where he first began domestic life, but has retired from active labor. Mrs. Huffman was born in this county, and both have resided here from their childhood. They are members of the Trinity Baptist Church. They have three children—Mrs. Thomas C. Ackerson, Mrs. C. W. Morris and J. Donnel. They also raised an adopted daughter, Maggie, who is still with them.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 849

REUBEN HUFFMAN, farmer; P. O. New Moorefield. Among the earliest pioneers of Clark Co. was Jacob Huffman, who located four and one-half miles southwest of Springfield, in Bethel Township, in 1802. At this time it was mostly a wilderness from Cincinnati to Detroit. Mr. Huffman was truly a pioneer, opening out in the forests of Clark Co. with but three neighbors, and comparatively few settlers for many miles in every direction. Here he cleared up and opened out his farm, and spent his entire life, residing here on the same farm some forty years. He died Dec. 1, 1842, in his 71st year. His wife, Catharine Huffman, died Aug. 31, 1866, in her 80th year. Of a family of ten children who grew to maturity, five are now living—Henry, Reuben, Martha, Rachel and Samuel. Our subject, the sixth child, was born upon his father’s home place, May 6, 1818. He lived and grew to manhood inured to the hardship of those early days, and remained with his father till his death. He was married, Oct. 28, 1841, to Ann E. (born in Pennsylvania, March 8, 1822), daughter of David and Elizabeth (Barr) Tennant, natives of Pennsylvania, coming to Clark Co. when Ann was 16 years of age. Of an issue of eleven children, eight now survive—George W., Wm. T., Oscar L., John W., Mary C., and Sallie E. (twins), Reuben and Nettie B. Mr. Huffman remained upon the home farm till the spring of 1869; thence lived six years near Tremont City; two years near Enon, and in the spring of 1877 moved upon the place where he now resides. Mr. Huffman has made farming his business through life, and as such has the name of being one of the best farmers in the community, and may well be termed a model farmer; has always been an industrious and energetic man, one whose character and integrity was never doubted. He has not accepted or desired any office; has strictly attended to his own business affairs; has always lived well and comfortably, and endeavored to enjoy the fruits of his labors, and has possessed the confidence and respect of all his neighbors.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 988

SAMUEL HUFFMAN, coal dealer, Springfield, is the youngest son of Jacob Huffman, a pioneer of Boston neighborhood. He was born in 1832 on the farm which includes a part of the Clark-Shawnee battle-ground. The subject of this sketch learned the milling trade, commencing when only 16 years of age, and continued milling upward of twenty years. He superintended the construction of the Peru Mills when built by Daniel Hertzler, in 1867, and which he subsequently operated several years, and finally became owner. He became a resident of this city about 1867, and has since resided here; he sold his mill in 1873, and engaged in the hardware trade one year, then changed and operated a grocery store; Jan. 1, 1880, his son Stephen took charge of the grocery, and he engaged in the retail coal trade; his office is located at 173 West Main street. Mr. Huffman is personally popular as a trader, and by his energy and business ability, has already established a flourishing trade which is constantly increasing. He married, in 1855, Margaret Helfrey, of German Township, by whom he had three children. In 1865, his wife having died, he married Barbara, daughter of Daniel and Catharine Hertzler, who were natives of Pennsylvania and early residents of Clark County. Mr. Hertzler was a prominent miller on Mad River, and a few years since the victim of a noted murder, an account of which will be found in this work. From this marriage he had three children. Mr. Huffman’s residence is 177 West Main street. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and a worthy citizen.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 849

JAMES HUMPHREY (deceased); born in Virginia Sept. 12, 1891. Was a son of John Humphrey, a native of Ireland, Tyrone Co., born March 6, 1764; he emigrated to America in August, 1780, landing at Philadelphia, and, in October of the same year, he settled in Greenbrier Co., Va. On the 25th of November, 1790, was married to Miss Jane Ward (whose father was killed in an engagement with the Indians at Point Pleasant, Va.) In 1793, he removed from Virginia to Mason Co., Ky.; where he remained till April, 1799, when he removed to Ohio and settled on Mad River, about two and a half miles north of Springfield, on the same section of land on which he breathed out his spirit into the hands of God who gave it, his death occurring March 19, 1857, being 93 years of age, and had been a citizen of Clark Co. 58 years. He was, consequently, one of the pioneers and truly an invader of the forests of Clark Co.; was a valued and highly esteemed citizen, who contributed much by his virtues as such to edify the social and civil interests of the community of which he was a member. But what was better still, he was an earnest, consistent Christian, one about whose memory a sacred unction will abide. He first professed religion in Ireland, as a member of the Presbyterian Church, in the year 1787, and in that church lived and died, having sustained the life of a professor for seventy years. Was one of the two elected to the office of Elder at the organization of the Presbyterian Church at Springfield July 17, 1819, and duly ordained to that office Aug. 19 of the same year. This office he continued to exercise until superannuation disabled him to perform its more active functions. Though very aged, he was free from “grief and labor,” peculiarly cheerful and happy, possessing an unusual amount of vigor and vivacity which he retained until death laid his cold iron hand upon him. He was the father of fourteen children, eleven of whom grew to maturity and became heads of families. He left as survivors six sons and two daughters, fifty-five grand children and thirty-seven great grandchildren; in all, one hundred descendants. Col. James Humphreys was only 2 years of age when his parents removed to Kentucky, and about 8 years of age when they became settlers of Clark Co., Ohio, and here he grew to manhood under the sturdy influences of pioneer life. Was married, April 15, 1824, to Catharine, daughter of George and Margaret Keifer, native of Maryland, who became residents of this county in 1812. Catharine was born March 2, 1804; issue, ten children; six now survive—John A., George H., Charles H., Amanda, Mary and Emma C. Col. Humphreys died June 20, 1858, in the 67th year of his age. He was a man who commanded the high regard of the community of which he had been a member so long, and in which he was so well known; and here his memory will be cherished as an integral part of the history of this community, among whom his remains now lie moldering to dust. He became a member of the Presbyterian Church of Springfield in 1830, and honored that profession by a consistent deportment and diligent attendance upon the various means of grace. He attended public worship on the Sabbath preceding that on which he died, and enjoyed the communion service, which was peculiarly pleasant to him or he would not have endured the suffering he did in his critical state of health to attend this means of grace. He died of cancer in the stomach; and though his family mourn his loss, they grieve not as those without hope, as what was their loss was his eternal gain.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 989

DR. RICHARD HUNT, deceased, was born in Greenwich, Cumberland Co., N.J., in 1780. His father, John Hunt, was one of forty men who, in 1774, took possession of a cargo of tea bound for Philadelphia, which cargo was sent up the Cohonsey River, to Greenwich, where the chests were piled together and burned. This was shortly after the destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor. Dr. Hunt’s mother, Anne Brewster, was a great-granddaughter of Elder William Brewster, who came over in the Mayflower. Dr. Hunt studied medicine in New Jersey and in 1807, he, with some friends, came to Cincinnati, where he learned that there was no physician in Springfield, and that the country was settling rapidly; so in that year he came here and commenced practice; he boarded at Griffith Foos’ tavern, and rode far and near, with no roads but Indian trails or cow paths; in 1812 he was appointed surgeon of the 2d Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Division of Ohio militia, which regiment was commanded by Col. John Dougherty. Dr. Hunt was present at the council with the Indians where Tecumseh refused to disarm the Indians, and is said to have been the one who offered that chief the clay pipe which was so indignantly refused. The grove where this council was held was the property of Dr. Hunt. (It was a little west and south of what is now known as Vone & Blee’s brewery.) He lived to see great changes in the little log towns. In 1818, he wrote to a friend: “Our county last winter was divided into three, and Springfield was made a seat of justice of one, viz., Clark County, though as yet we have no court house. We have four public houses, eleven stores, three physicians, three attorneys, and mechanics of every description; one mill alone in this town manufactures thirty barrels of flour per day; one speculator has sent this season, from this county, 1,300 barrels of flour and 300 barrels of pork to the Orleans market.” Dr. Hunt died in Springfield on the 24th day of January, 1848.

NOTE—This is the Dr.Hunt mentioned by Drake, in his “Life of Tecumseh,” and the same is found in connection with several other historical papers, showing that the subject of the above sketch was a contributor to the collections of his day.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 850

ALONZO HUNTER, farmer; P. O. New Moorefield. Is a native of Moorefield Township, born April 20, 1852; is a son of Lewis and Margaret (Seibert) Hunter, natives of Virginia, becoming residents of Ohio, locating in this township about 1822, where he has since resided, a period of fifty-eight years. Has given his undivided attention to farming, in which business he has made a success, and is one among the best farmers of the township. Has never held or sought office. Has been located upon his present farm about eight years. Has made and accumulated all his property since he came to the county, by his own labor and industry. He is now 79 years of age, and enjoys very good health. Of a family of nine children, five now survive—Samuel, George, Eliza Ann, Alonzo and Bell. Our subject remained with his father until his majority. He was married, Nov. 2, 1876, to Martha Ann, daughter of Jacob and Catherine (Seitz) Beard, natives of Pennsylvania; issue, two children—Marietta and Frank Pearl. Mr. Hunter has always followed farming, and principally in Moorefield Township. Has been on the place where he now resides one year.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 989

CHARLES NEWELL HUNTER was a resident of Springfield forty years, was connected with one of the city’s manufacturing industries, and the latter part of his life was successfully engaged in farming and gardening at his place east of the city, where Mrs. Hunter still lives.

He was born at Otsego, near Zanesville, Ohio, December 28, 1845, son of John and Sarah (Newell) Hunter, his father a native of Ireland and his mother of Pennsylvania, of English parentage. When Charles Newell Hunter was five years of age his parents, in 1850, moved to McArthur in Vinton County, Ohio. In that locality he grew to manhood, attended the public schools there and also completed a business course at Portsmouth, Ohio. After completing his education he clerked in general stores and also became a teacher. His experience as a teacher covered a period of about fourteen years.

In 1873 Mr. Hunter married Miss Emma Winter. She died in 1889, and they lost all their three children in infancy. In the meantime in 1882, Mr. Hunter removed to Springfield, and became an employe of the West End Malleable Works. For nine years he was a foreman in that industry. Having given for many years such faithful service to this business he finally retired and bought approximately fifty acres just east of the city limits. This farm contained a fine home, and the land is now within the city limits of Springfield. Here Mr. Hunter found profit as well as pleasure in truck gardening and general farming, and continued those activities until his death on January 10, 1922.

On August 1, 1894, he married Miss Laura Jane Evans. Mrs. Hunter was born at Cincinnati, July 9, 1858, daughter of Cornelius Springer and Catherine (Ellis) Evans, the former born near Newark, Ohio, and the latter in Ireland. Cornelius Evans was a Methodist minister and was the son of Rev. William B. Evans, one of the pioneer preachers of the Methodist denomination in Ohio. Mrs. Hunter has two children, Ellis Evans, born March 9, 1896, and Ruth, born February 19, 1897, both at home. Ruth is a teacher in the public school. Mrs. Hunter was reared in the various towns and communities where her father had his duties as a minister. For five years she was a student in the Cincinnati Art School, and she was a teacher of art in the public schools of Springfield until her marriage. She keeps in touch with the intellectual movements in her home city, is an active member of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Hunter was for several years on the Official Board of that church. He is affiliated with the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, and is a democrat in politics, while Mrs. Hunter is a republican.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 381

L. HUNTER, retired farmer; P. O. Catawba. Mr. Hunter was born in Pleasant Township, Clark Co., Ohio, Feb. 14, 1814, and is the son of William and Blanche (Hendricks) Hunter, natives of Virginia, he being born in Loudoun Co. Sept. 9, 1777, and died Oct. 4, 1862; and she born in Jefferson Co., Feb. 28, 1787, and died March 26, 1860. William’s parents, Jonathan and Nancy Hunter, were born in Maryland, where they were married, and then moved to Virginia, from whence they came to this county in 1805, settling in Pleasant Township, where both died. They had the following children: John, William, Jeremiah, Jonathan, George, James, Elizabeth, Nancy, Mary and Rachel, all of whom are now dead. Blanche, the mother of our subject, was the daughter of William and Susan (Taylor) Hendricks, natives of Virginia, who settled in Sec. 28, Pleasant Township, in 1804. Here she died, and her husband moved to Champaign Co., where he remained until death. William came with his parents, and here married Blanche Feb. 1, 1807, and had by her the following children: John W. (deceased), William (deceased), James M. (deceased), L. Jonathan, Vincent, Mary Ann (the wife of Nathan Neer) and Miranda (the deceased wife of John Sager, of Union Co., Ohio). Both belonged to the M. E. Church, and died in that faith. The subject of this sketch grew up in his native township, attending the primitive log schoolhouse of early days, farming and using his strength for the work of clearing and breaking the new ground. He was married, March 1, 1838, to Nancy Marsh, who was born on the farm where Mr. Hunter now lives, Oct. 6, 1816. She was the daughter of Israel and Sarah Marsh, natives of New Jersey, who moved to North Carolina where they were married, and from whence they moved to Champaign Co., Ohio, in an early day. They came to Pleasant Township in 1811, where they died, he Sept. 5, 1842, aged 71 years, both being in the Baptist Church until their death. They had five children—Noah, Samuel, Susan, Sarah and Nancy; all are now dead but Samuel and Mrs. Hunter. Mrs. Hunter has had seven children—Mary Ann (the wife of J. M. Hodge), William, Lewis (deceased), Sarah J. (the deceased wife of James H. Yeazell), Eli, Miranda E. (also deceased wife of James H. Yeazell) and Bruce (deceased). Mr. Hunter has always lived in this township. In politics he is a Republican, and has been Township Trustee two years. He owns 700 acres of land in Pleasant Township, and 290 in Moorefield Township. He is an extensive stock-raiser, and the largest portion what he now owns is the result of his own industry, economy and shrewd business sagacity. He is a man of few words, but many deeds. His honesty, integrity and worth are verified by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 975

MILTON R. HUNTER, physician, Catawba. Of the great number who represent some profession, and especially that of the medical, there are comparatively few who, by hard study and constant devotion to their practice, have reached a more perfect degree of security in their profession than that already attained by Dr. Hunter. His grandfather, Jonathan Hunter, was a native of England, who emigrated to Philadelphia, where he learned the tailoring business, afterward moving to Virginia, where he remained until 1805, when he removed with his family to Pleasant Township, Clark Co., Ohio, and entered Sec. 22, in the western part of the township, where he resided until his death. Jonathan, Jr., the father of Milton R., was one of his sons, and was born in Loudoun Co., Va., March 14, 1786; came to Ohio with his parents, and served in the war of 1812, which broke out a few years after their coming to this State. He followed farming all his life; came into possession of the old homestead, and continued to live in the same section until his death, Nov. 18, 1845. Milton R. was born upon his father’s farm, in Pleasant Township, March 24, 1817, and his early life was spent assisting in the farm labors and in attendance at the district school. Upon attaining manhood he began teaching, and in his leisure time read medicine, studying under Dr. J. S. Howell, of Springfield, Ohio. He began the practice of his profession at Catawba, in 1840, and, after attending lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated in 1852. He was married, Dec. 27, 1842, to Miss Nancy J. Goodlove, daughter of C. Goodlove, she dying April 3, 1852, leaving two children—Mary C. and Franklin C. The Doctor was again married, Nov. 6, 1860, to Mrs. Sarah McConkey, the daughter of D. C. and Sarah Skillman, from which union they have had three children born to them, viz., Mary, Frederick M. and Sallie C. Dr. Hunter has now been practicing medicine in Catawba more than forty years, and has always done the biggest portion of the professional work in his vicinity. He is a well-read, well-informed gentleman, courteous and generous toward all with whom he comes in contact, pleasant and affable in his manners, and enjoys the confidence of a large circle of the warmest friends, who respect his ability as a physician, and admire his manly integrity in all things. Has been a member of the M. E. Church for forty-one years; believes in the divinity of Jesus Christ, and that the Bible is a revelation of God.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 975

SAMUEL FRANKLIN HUNTER. Under modern conditions and organization the fire department of a great city like Springfield is one of the most important in the municipal service, and its management requires rare abilities of an executive nature, good diplomatic powers in the handling of a large force of men so that the vast machine may run without retarding friction, the bravery of a fearless soldier and the broad judgment of an able general. All of these traits are possessed in an eminent degree by Samuel Franklin Hunter, chief of the Springfield Fire Department and one of the best known fire fighters in Ohio. He was born on a farm near Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, October 14, 1867, and is a son of Joseph B. and Margaret (Everoad) Hunter.

Joseph B. Hunter was born at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland, March 10, 1834, the son of James E. and Nancy (Morrison) Hunter, natives of Scotland, who came from County Londonderry, Ireland, to America in 1832, landing at Philadelphia and settling first at Hagerstown, Maryland. In 1836 they removed to Bartholomew County, Indiana, making the joumey by stage. When the Civil war came on Joseph B. Hunter recruited, drilled and equipped, at his own expense, a company at Columbus, Indiana, which was mustered into the service June 19, 1861, as Company K, Thirteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, of which he was commissioned first lieutenant. He served until the expiration of his term of enlistment, and July 1, 1864, was honorably discharged and mustered out with the rank of captain. The following December he married and engaged in farming near Columbus, Indiana, which occupation he continued during the remainder of his active life. He died December 17, 1906, leaving his widow and five sons and five daughters. His brother, John G. Hunter, enlisted in 1862 in Company A, Ninety-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was commissioned second lieutenant and served until after the Battle of Vicksburg, when he resigned, but later re-enlisted as quartermaster sergeant in the Tenth Regiment, Indiana Cavalry, serving until honorably discharged.

Margaret Everoad, the mother of Chief Hunter, was born on a farm near Columbus, Indiana, March 20, 1844, the daughter of Charles and Eliza (Boyer) Everoad, who were born near Allentown, Pennsylvania, of Hessian-German parents. They removed to Bartholomew County, Indiana, in 1828, by stage. The widow Hunter now resides at Walesboro, Bartholomew County.

Samuel F. Hunter was reared on the farm and attended the country schools, working on the farm until he was seventeen years of age, at which time he secured employment on telegraphic construction for the Western Union in a district mapped off the Pennsylvania Railway System between Chicago and Pittsburgh, and continued to be thus employed until he was twenty years old. In 1887 he located at Columbus, Ohio, where he was employed as foreman of construction and maintenance from 1887 to 1896 with the old Columbus Electric Light & Power Company, of which company John M. Plaisted was superintendent. It was Superintendent Plaisted who started the first electric lights in Columbus in 1885. Mr. Hunter connected up and installed the first incandescent lights in the Neil House at Columbus, in September, 1887, which were the first lights installed in that city, and in August of the same year assisted in installing the first overhead trolley system in Columbus, which was the first ever connected up in Ohio.

After nine years of service Mr. Hunter resigned from the Columbus Light & Power Company, and under Chief Henry Heinmiller entered the employ of the City of Columbus as general foreman of construction and maintenance of the fire alarm and police telegraph systems, and during his three years in that capacity installed all of the fire alarm and police telegraph wires underground in the mercantile districts of that city. Also he was in charge of all electrical inspection at Columbus. In July, 1899, he resigned the above position to become foreman of construction for the Central Union (Bell) Telephone Company, and was assigned to a district embracing the counties of Clark, Madison, Champaign, Logan and Union, with Springfield as his headquarters. In 1904 he resigned this post and April 1 of that year was appointed chief of the Springfield Fire Department, an office which he has since retained. During his administration he has inaugurated many new ideas in the extinguishment of fires, fire protection and fire prevention. He was one of the first fire chiefs in Ohio to install an automobile pumping engine, and has been a booster for motor-driven fire equipment with the result that his department is equipped with the finest of motor-driven apparatus. During his more than eighteen years as chief the following large fires in Springfield have been successfully handled by the department: May 8, 1906, the Cottage Bakery, total loss, $25,000; April 23, 1907, Indianapolis Frog & Switch Company, total loss, $52,000; September 2, 1912, Cartmell Building, $40,000; December 17, 1913, Springfield Spring Company, $25,000: March 6, 1914, Kerns & Lothshuetz Abbatoir, $22,500; December 12, 1914, Robbins & Myers Fort Pitt Foundry, $101,000; April 21, 1915, Winters Printing Company, $30,000; February 22, 1916, Inskeep Glove Factory, $23,300; August 6, 1916, Hennessy’s Garage, Barrett Building and Fout Candy Company, $21,100; November 25, 1916, O. S. Kelly Company, $67,000; April 11, 1917, Buffalo-Springfield Road Roller Company, $302,000; March 12, 1918, alarm sounded at 1:11 a.m. from box No. 12, County Courthouse, $54,000; January 22, 1921, Kauffman’s Clothing Store and McCrorey’s Five and Ten Cent Store, in Commercial Block, $230,000.

Chief Hunter was one of the promoters and organizers of the Ohio Fire Chiefs’ Association, the first organization of the kind in Ohio, founded in 1904, and was its treasurer until the organization went out of existence. In 1918 he responded to the invitation of Ohio State Chief Fire Marshal Fleming to the fire chiefs of the state to attend a meeting at Columbus for consultation on the safety of industries making war munitions and the protection of all railways in the state, which meeting resulted in the organization of the Fire Chiefs’ Club of Ohio. Chief Hunter was made chairman of that meeting and was elected first vice president of the club. In 1919 he was elected to the presidency, in which he continued for two years, and is now a director. He was one of the organizers of what is known as the Springfield Fire Prevention Club in 1919, and has served as its president ever since. He is a member of the International Association of Fire Engineers, and in October, 1921, was appointed at the Atlanta convention as chairman of the exhibit committee of that organization for its fiftieth convention, which was held at San Francisco, August 15 to 18, 1922. The exhibition floor space covers 20,000 square feet and Chief Hunter allotted the full 20,000 feet. He is an associate member of the International Fire Protective Association and is also a member of the American Insurance Union. The chief of the Springfield Fire Department is fifty-four years of age, a vigorous, wide-awake, capable and experienced man, and promises to maintain indefinitely the service of which he is the head at its past standard of superiority and to continue to incorporate into the system the methods and improvements indicated by the advancement of mechanics and science.

On June 12, 1888, Chief Hunter married Elizabeth Brennan, who was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, daughter of Edward and Mary (Hill) Brennan, who never came to the United States. They have one daughter, Mary H.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 125

WILLIAM HUNTINGTON, retired farmer; P. O. Springfield. Mr. Huntington is one of the few pioneers who have passed their fourscore years; he was born June 15, 1800, in Franklin Co., Penn.; he followed “wagoning” between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia for twenty years; he came to Ohio and to this county in 1835, and purchased and settled on a farm of 160 acres which comprised what is now the “Clark County Fair Grounds,” and some of the adjoining lots. He continued “wagoning” for five years after he came to this county, making four trips across the mountains, once to Philadelphia, and three times to Baltimore; and the remainder of the time between Columbus and Cincinnati; since then has devoted his attention to farming. He was married Feb. 19, 1839 to Martha Kirkpatrick, daughter of Hugh and Rachael (Kelly) Kirkpatrick. They had four children, viz., George W., Ann E., Hugh K. and Rachael C., all of whom are married; George to Annie Swaney; Annie to Arthur Forbes; Hugh to Hannah D. Pierce; and Rachael to Edwin McClintock. Mr. Huntington’s first wife, Martha, died in May, 1862; he was again married in 1864; this time to Ellen Pilkington. Our subject is the son of Nathaniel and Rachael (Kelly) Huntington. There is an incident in the relationship of William that is worthy of notice. As appears, the maiden name of both his and his first wife’s mother was Rachael Kelly, but they were not related to each other. Mr. Huntington was a member of the Presbyterian Church for twenty-three years, and in 1866 removed his membership to the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he is still a member.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 850

DAVID HUPMAN, farmer; P. O. Enon. Mr. Hupman is the son of John and Elizabeth Hupman, both natives of Virginia; they emigrated to Ohio Sept. 28, 1835, locating in Clark County. His mother died Jan. 1, 1856, and his father in December, 1872. Our subject was born in Virginia Jan. 17, 1817, and was educated in the common schools of Clark County. Mr. Hupman assisted his father to clear up his farm, which was among the earliest in this vicinity, and has followed the occupation of farming all his life. He married Miss Maria E. Miller, of Clark Co., Ohio, Nov. 1, 1840. They are the parents of seven children, viz.: Harriet F., born April 5, 1841; Charlotte, born April 8, 1843, died in infancy; Mary E., born Nov. 10, 1844, died May 30, 1870; Jacob, born July 18, 1847; Ellen Ann, born Feb. 26, 1850; Caroline, born Oct. 13, 1853; Martin, born May 6, 1856. Mr. Hupman owns a farm of 80 acres, under good cultivation, but is at present living with his youngest son, Martin.

Source: The History of Clark County, Ohio, W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 1043

STANLEY RICHARD HUTCHINGS, M. D., one of the successful and prominent members of the Clark County medical profession and a progressive citizen of Springfield, was born in the city of Chicago, Illinois, October 28, 1869, the son of Samuel and Demaris (Richardson) Hutchings, the Hutchings being of English stock and the Richardsons of Irish and Scotch origin.

The paternal grandfather of Doctor Hutchings, Benjamin Hutchings, was a pioneer of the Western Reserve of Ohio, he having come out from Connecticut in the early days and settled in the City of Cleveland, where his son Samuel was born in 1842. The maternal grandfather, Jonas Richardson, a native of New York State, became a pioneer of Western New York. Both the Hutchings and Richardson families furnished soldiers to the Revolutionary war. From Cleveland Samuel Hutchings went to Chicago as a young man, and after a few years transferred his activities to a farm in Jefferson County, New York, on account of the ill state of his health. There he died in 1890. When the second call was made for troops during the Civil war he enlisted at Cleveland, but ill health incapacitated him for service and he was honorably discharged before he saw active duty. His widow is still residing on the old home place in Jefferson County, New York, in which county she was born.

Stanley Richard Hutchings was reared in Jefferson County, New York, where he attended the public schools and the Watertown High School, and then became a student at the Adams (New York) Collegiate Institute. He passed the regents’ examination at the last-named college and on the points, or merits, he thus received, entered the University of Vermont, from the medical department of which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1896. He entered the practice of medicine and surgery at Springfield, January 1, 1897, and has since continued therein with deserved success. He is a member of the Clark County Medical Society, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and as a fraternalist holds membership in the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Junior Order United American Mechanics.

On October 19, 1918, Doctor Hutchings was commissioned a first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps, but was not called for duty until a short time before the signing of the armistice. After active service at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, he was honorably discharged the same year. Doctor Hutchings has been a member of the Springfield Board of Education for several years, first by appointment and then by election, and is giving the cause of education his earnest support.

On October 28, 1897, Doctor Hutchings married Hattie Sias, who was born at Henderson, Jefferson County, New York, a daughter of Dr. W. H. H. and Melissa (Tifft) Sias. Her grandmother, Luzina H. Tifft, was the daughter of Thomas Worden, a soldier of the American Revolution and his daughter Luzina was presented with a gold spoon by the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, at the time the society so honored all of its living “real daughters of the Revolution,” this spoon being cherished by Mrs. Hutchings as an heirloom to be handed down to her children. To Dr. and Mrs. Hutchings there have been born two daughters and a son: Florence Christiana, born September 23, 1899, who graduated from the high school at Springfield in 1917, married Hilliard Mulford, of Port Chester, New York; Richard Stanley, born November 21, 1906, in high scool; and Roxana Luzina, born November 4, 1911.

Source: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922, page 40